CRAVEN COUNTY
17 March 1903
On this 17th day of March 1903 personal appeared before me a Notary Public for and within the County of Craven and state of North Carolina,
Robert Dunbar age 56 years old, residents of Bayboro, Pamlico County NC well known to be a respectable and entitled to credit, who being duly sworn
according to declared law as follow:
"I am the identical Robert Dunbar who served as a private in Company B 35th Regiment U.S.C.T. and who was honorably discharged and that while in
said service and in line of duty at Portsmouth VA on about November 1863, I incurred piles by straining and drinking bad water. I also had diarrhea
and measles at the same time and was treated in the hospital there 4 or 5 months for the said disease. I never had piles prior to that time and as to
incurrance of same I herewith forward you the testimony of comrade Salamon Jones a member of my company and regiment and one of Sampson Maclease who knew me from a boy and that he was a member of Company D 35th Regiment U.S.C.T. Both who has a clear knowledge of the incurrence of the piles and have testified to same. I ask that their testimony be accepted as sufficient proof to establish the origin of the piles in service and in line of duty.
I was unable to secure the testimony of another comrade of my company to corroborate the testimony of Salamon Jones by reason that he can’t located
anywhere and I unable to secure another one. Therefore I have forwarded the testimony of Sampson Maclease Company D 35th Regiment U.S.C.T who has known me from a boy and we were frequently together in service and line of duty and who has clear conception of the incurrence of the piles and testified
to same. I ask that his affidavit be accepted in le of the affidavit of another comrade of my company as I unable to secure one. I am now a great
suffer from piles and is frequently sick, confined to my house and bed a month at a time by reason of the piles. I am totally disable to do any
manual labor what so ever. My Post office is Bayboro, Pamlico County NC."
s/Robert Dunbar
Witness:
s/Chas C. Cox
s/Charles Oates
Sworn to and subscribe before me on this 17th day of March 1903 and certified that the statement was read over to affidavit and that he
fully understood the contents of same before me. He signed his name and that he is credible and worthy of belief. I have no interest in
his claim.
S/James M. Harrison
Notary Public
17 March 1903
On this 17th day of March 1903 personal appeared before me a Notary Public for and within the County of Craven and state of North Carolina,
Robert Dunbar age 56 years old, residents of Bayboro, Pamlico County NC well known to be a respectable and entitled to credit, who being duly sworn
according to declared law as follow:
"I am the identical Robert Dunbar who served as a private in Company B 35th Regiment U.S.C.T. and who was honorably discharged and that while in
said service and in line of duty at Portsmouth VA on about November 1863, I incurred piles by straining and drinking bad water. I also had diarrhea
and measles at the same time and was treated in the hospital there 4 or 5 months for the said disease. I never had piles prior to that time and as to
incurrance of same I herewith forward you the testimony of comrade Salamon Jones a member of my company and regiment and one of Sampson Maclease who knew me from a boy and that he was a member of Company D 35th Regiment U.S.C.T. Both who has a clear knowledge of the incurrence of the piles and have testified to same. I ask that their testimony be accepted as sufficient proof to establish the origin of the piles in service and in line of duty.
I was unable to secure the testimony of another comrade of my company to corroborate the testimony of Salamon Jones by reason that he can’t located
anywhere and I unable to secure another one. Therefore I have forwarded the testimony of Sampson Maclease Company D 35th Regiment U.S.C.T who has known me from a boy and we were frequently together in service and line of duty and who has clear conception of the incurrence of the piles and testified
to same. I ask that his affidavit be accepted in le of the affidavit of another comrade of my company as I unable to secure one. I am now a great
suffer from piles and is frequently sick, confined to my house and bed a month at a time by reason of the piles. I am totally disable to do any
manual labor what so ever. My Post office is Bayboro, Pamlico County NC."
s/Robert Dunbar
Witness:
s/Chas C. Cox
s/Charles Oates
Sworn to and subscribe before me on this 17th day of March 1903 and certified that the statement was read over to affidavit and that he
fully understood the contents of same before me. He signed his name and that he is credible and worthy of belief. I have no interest in
his claim.
S/James M. Harrison
Notary Public
