For those interested in the Jennings family of Putnam County. John S. Jennings was a notary public in Putnam County, Indiana. As such, he witnessed affidavits of war veterans who were applying for government benefits. A personal letter of his became intermingled with the application file of a veteran and is now misfiled at National Archives under the name of the other man. Here is Mr. Jennings' letter addressed to the Commissioner of Pensions, Washington, DC : Greencastle Dec 1850 Dear Sir I wish to ask you in behalf of my Mother, if you please, to see if she is not intitled to land under the late law granting land to certain officers & soldiers. My Father was engaged in the wars against the Indians in Tennessee in 1792 his company was raised in Sullivan County Tennessee. John Jennings was the name of my father. Mother thinks he was discharged at Knoxville Tennessee, she has not the proof at hand of the time he was in the service. If the rolls are in the [war] department she can make her declaration. I am perhaps taxing you more than I ought but I hope I shall be able to do a favor for you in return. Yours Respectfully John S. Jennings [witness:] Hon. E. W. McGaughry [On the reverse of Mr. Jennings letter:] No. 39667 Dec 26/50 [meaning 1850] If the Public records afford the information sought to be obtained by the within letter, you will please cause the same to be communicated to me. Your Obt. Sert. [your obedient servant] E. W. McGaughry