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and upwards and that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where
he lives, to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in
that opinion.

    Among interrogations before court: Where and what year were you born?
I was born in Augusta County, Virginia, September 1761.

    Where were you living when called into service?  Where have you lived
since and where are you now living?  I was living in Lincoln County North
Carolina when I was called into service of the United States, and since the
Revolutionary War I have lived in Hayward County, North Carolina, Franklin
County, Tennessee, Jackson County, Alabama and I now live in Washington
County, Arkansas Territory.

     Have you any record of your age?  I have no record of my age. It was
lost at the time of the sale of my fathers estate.  On the same day Judge
Eskridge certified the hearing for the pension

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     From a book History of Gaston County, North Carolina by Mrs Puitt
printed in 1939. It states that Matthew Leeper born May 27, 1755 was the
son of James Leeper, pioneer and nephew  to Nicholas Leeper . He had two
sons Matthew and James Leeper.