Personally appeared, before me the undersigned a Justice of the Peace for Pickens District in the State aforesaid Capt. William Guest of said District, who being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, That he does not know of any living Witnesses who can prove his services except Guest & Epperson, whose affidavit was sent with his application, That he did ^not^ know it was necessary to have a certificate of credibility—That they are credible & respectable & if he was able to go to them again the Magistrate would no doubt certify—That the Certificate for the Clergyman & Citizen is erroneous, in that it States them to reside in Anderson, when Col. Kilpatrick lives in Pickens District—And the Certificate of the Judge is defective as it does not say the Clergyman & Citizen are respectable these omissions were made in the hurry at Court, as the Judge had adjourned all got through all the business and was waiting for the applications & presuming no doubt the Certificates were full signed them in great haste—These explanations are made to shew how the errors were committed—And this deponent can produce any respectable Citizens of the neighbourhood in which he has lived for the last Forty Seven Years to certify to his Credibility & good moral Character—and this deponent doth also declare that; he served not less than Three months in the Year 1775 as it is stated, (only it is said he Enlisted, when the fact w[as] he Volunteered, this was also an error of the man who drew up his application) also

This deponent further saith that he served not less than Two Years and four months in actual service under his Enlistment in March 1779. And was by Col. Cleveland, Ordered to take the wounded man Jos. Reid & nurse him, which deponent did for the space of about Three months—and was discharged as is stated—And further Moses Guest whose affidavit is with his application was for several years a Justice of the Peace until he got too old to serve—And Thompson Epperson was a Captain of the Militia—these matters are mentioned by way of explanation—This deponent cannot write nor can he read writing, otherwise he believes his papers would have been corrected as they were read over to him in haste & perhaps read as they should have been written, which he is sure was neither intended by the writer or directed by this deponent—