On this 18th day of august in the year 1851 personally appeared John A Debow aged 67 years a resident of the county aforesaid before me William Kearley one of the acting Justices of the peace in and for said county and a Justice of a court of record who being first duly sworn according to law makes the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed July 4th 1851 and for the purpose of recovering under said act The amount of Pension Justly due the heirs of Rachel Debow widow of Frederich Debow deceased. That he is the son and one of the heirs at law of the said Rachel Debow who was a Pensioner of the United States and drew her Pension at Nashville Tennessee. Declarant is informed and believes That the amount of Pension granted to his mother the said Rachel Debow in right of the Revolutionary Services of his father the said Frederick Debow was but a small amount to what she was Justly entitled to. That proof was furnished to Justify the allowance of a Pension equal to that of the pay of a Commisary and Wagon Master and also for the pay of a Captain and other grades of office as well as a considerable amount more than was received as the pay of a Private ensign and Lieutenant. Declarant is also informed and believes that, the reason and only reason why a full Pension was not granted at the time of his mothers being placed upon the roll was that Documentary evidence of his having service as an officer could not be procured and although proof by living witnesses who had a knowledge of the fact was suficient yet owing to the rules of the Pension office a Pension was not granted but for only part of his Services as a private. That this part of the Pension was receved by her and distinctly understood by the Commissioner of Pensions that should hereafter any further documentary proof be discovered that then and in that case a Pension would be allowed in proportion to the grade of the office he Frederick Debow served in during the War of the Revolution. That up to the year 1843 or 1844 It was not known in Tennessee that any of the Militia rolls or evidences of Service in the war of the Revolution existed in North Carolina. That since that time rolls of the Militia and Volunteers of the war of the Revolution has been discovered at Raleigh which shows the services of Frederich Debow as Deputy Commissary and Deputy Wagon Master. Declarant further is informed and believes that payments to a considerable amount has been discovered but he has not seen them nor has any one told him the exac amounts. Declarant is also informed and believes the information to be [illegible] the services for which she drew a Pension was for eight months service under Captain Tilman Dixon to the north and that nothing has been allowed for the volunteer services as Captain Deputy comissary and Deputy Wagon Master or any of the other grades as Lieutenant Ensign 1st Sergeant and private.

That the said Rachel their Mother departed this life on the 6th day of January 1840 and that she left the following named children to wit John Debow, Solomon Debow and Bird Debow and that they are the only legal and surviving heirs. They are also informed and beleve that sufficient proof is already filed in the Pension office to establish their claim.

They Declarant prays therefore that in behalf of himself and the foregoing mentioned heirs that the whole case be taken up together with the allegations and proof already filed and to be filed and such allowance of Pension granted as to Justice belongs and as in duty bound he will ever pray &c