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State of Tennessee )
Hawkins County ) On this Twenty seventh day of April one thousand Eight
hundred and forty six, personally appeared before me Nicholas Beckler, a Justice
of the Peace for said bounty, Livy Ann Keele, a resident of the county and state
aforesaid, aged Sixty-Eight years past, who after being first duly sworn according
to law, doth on her oath make the following Affidavit relative to Milly Philips
widow of Gabriel Philips, who is about to make application for a Pension, viz: –
That she was well acquainted with the aforesaid Gabriel Philips and his wife Milly,
now a resident of Hawkins county Tennessee, and an applicant for a Pension. That
she was married to William Keele in Washington County Tennessee, in July Seventeen
hundred and Ninety-three. She is certain as to this date from the fact that her
oldest child Sarah Keele was born after the marriage about fourteen months, which
birth stands correctly recorded in her family Bible, and bears date November the
6th seventeen hundred and Ninety-four, and she is certain that the said Gabriel and
Milly Philips were living together as husband and wife at the last mentioned date.
She is also certain they were living together as husband and wife in Greene and
Washington Counties, Territory of North Carolina, now Tennessee, on the 1st of
January seventeen hundred and Ninety one, 1792, 1793, 1794 and up to the day of his
death which death took place in Hawkins County Tennessee in the fall of Eighteen
hundred & twelve. She further believes that she knew them living together prior to
the first mentioned date viz. 1st Jan. 1791.
She further states that it was generally understood and believed that Gabriel
Philips aforesaid had served as a soldier in the war of the revolution several
years. That she has often heard her own Father Anthony Bewly say that the said
Gabriel, had to his knowledge, entered the service for five years, and that he
knew of the said Gabriel returning from the same.
Livy Ann Keele
Sworn and subscribed this 27th day of April 1846, before me, Nicholas Beckler a
Justice of the peace for Hawkins County. I further cerify that the said Livy Ann
Keele is personally known to me, that she is a resident of said County of Hawkins,
is a reliable and intelligent witness of good character and respectability, whose
testimony is entitled to the highest consideration.
Given under my hand the day and date above mentioned
Nicholas Beckner
Justice of the Peace for Hawkins County
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