...The statement of Mesias Hall, aged fifty-five years, who upon his oath, states that he is a native of the state of North Carolina, Wilkes County. That he recollects many of the events at the close of the revolution. That he lived and was raised a near neighbor to Captain Henry Connelly, Sr. That he always understood from all persons that he served in the North Carolina State Troops in that capacity in which he stated. That he never was doubted by any person. He thinks one of his brother-in-laws served under him in the Revolution. who is long since dead.
(signed) Mesias Hall
Subscribed and sworn to before John Friend. Justice of the Peace, Floyd County Kentucky. who certifies that Hall was a creditable witness. (undated)
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[cos1776 Note of Caution: There is another widely published transcript of this deposition supposedly transcribed by historian William E. Connelly in which Mesias Hall's age is given as "sixty-five". Verification is needed to confirm which transcript is correct.]
