____________________________________________________________________________ Bounty Land Claim State of Arkansas, ss. Pike County, On this tenth day of January 1856, before me the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace in and for the county and State above referred to, personally appeared George Hensley who being duly sworn according to law, declares that he is the identical George Hensley who served in Capt. Braden's Company of Militia in the war of 1812, the he received for said services a Bound Land Warrant of 40 acres, which issued under the act of Sept. 28, 1850 and that he has made an application for additional Bounty Land by reason of said services, under the act of March 3, 1855, which application was forwarded to Charles C. Tucker, of Washington, D.C., to procure the Warrant. He further states that he has never applied for, or received, Bounty Land under this or any previous act of Congress, other than the application upon which he received said Warrant, and the one other application above referred to, in which he claims additional Bounty Land under the act of March 3, 1855. George (his x mark) Hensley We, N.N. Kelley and M.H. Carruth, residents of Pike County upon our oaths declare that the foregoing declaration was signed and acknowledged by George Hensley in our presence, and that we believe from the appearance and statements of the applicant, that he is the identical person he represents himself to be, and that we are disinterested in his claim for Bounty Land. N.N. Kelley M.H. Caruth The foregoing declaration and affidavit were sworn to and subscribed before me on the day and year above written; and I certify that I know the affiants to be credible persons, that the claimant is the person he represents himself to be, and that I have no interest in this claim. A.B. Williams, J.P. ____________________________________________________________________________ State of Arkansas, ss. Pike County, I, William R. McFarlin, Clerk of the County Court, in and for the County and State above named, do hereby certify that A.B. Williams, Esq., before whom the foregoing affidavits were made is, and was at the date thereof a Justice of the Peace in and for said county, duly commissioned and sworn and that his signature thereto is genuine. In testimony whereof I have hereunto signed my name and affixed my official seal this 10 day of January, 1856. Wm. R. McFarlin, Clerk. ____________________________________________________________________________ Bounty Land Supplemental Application of George W. Hensley, Act of March 3, 1855, National Archives, Washington, D.C. ____________________________________________________________________________ HTML file and design by David Kelley, 1997. All rights reserved.