Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 30,868, John Blick, Va.
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SERVICE
Va.

*Blick, John

NUMBER
S. 30,868
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30868
Revy INVALID.
File No. 30, 868
John Blick
Pri Rev War
Act: June 7" 32"
Index:-Vol. 2, Page 42
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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25198
Kentucky
John Blick
of Caldwell Co. the State of Kentucky who was a private in the com commanded by Captain Nicholas of the regt commanded by Col. Jones in the Virginia line for 6 months

Inscribed on the Roll of Kentucky at the rate of 20 Dollars -- Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1834.
Certificate of Pension issued the 9 day of Dec 1833 and Hon C Lyon HR

Arrears to the 4th of Sept                       50.00
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 March      10.00
                                                      [double line]
                                                               $60,00
                                                      [double line]
{Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.}
Recorded by Danl Boyd
Book E   Vol. 7   Page 9
Clerk [stamped]

[opposite page notations]
See letter 17 Dec 1833 to Hon. M. Lyon.
Paid at the Treasury under the Act of April 6th 1838 from March 4th to Sept 8th 1841. Agent notified June 29th 1842.
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No. 28.607
John Blick
Ken

from 1780 [illegible]
6 months
$20

John Blick
Declaration              Kentucky
for Pension

can only allow above for [2 words illegible]

Hon. C. Lyon
H. R.
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Commonwealth of Kentucky }
County of Caldwell                 } ss
On the 21st day of October 1833 personally appeared in open court before the county court of Caldwell County, now sitting, John Blick a resident in the county of Caldwell and state of Kentucky, aged seventy one years who being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832.
That he entered the Service of the United States under the following named officers and served as here in stated. That he is seventy one years of age the 17th day of March last, that he resided in the County of Dinwiddie in the State of Virginia at the time he entered the service and continued to reside there until 1830, That he entered the Service of the United States as a drafted private of a Militia at Petersburgh Virginia early in October 1780 under Captain John Nichols, Lieut. Armstead Goodwin, Col Joseph Jones of the Dinwiddie County Militia command the Regiment and served on a tour of duty of three months, during the said term he marched to within about 18 miles of Norfolk, where they learned the British had evacuated that place; that they then returned to Petersburgh when he was discharged. That he again entered the Service at the same place on or about the 2nd day of January 1780. Under Captain [blank] Gibbs, Lieutenant Armstead Goodwin, and served a tour of three months and was in an engagement with the British at City point and another on James River at the place now called Fort Powhatan, Col John Willis commanded the Regiment and General Barron [sic] Steuben, was commander in chief and was discharged at Jerico Virginia, soon after which the enemy took possession of Petersburgh and he remained
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within the British lines until some time about the last of May or first of June 1781 he again Joined the army at Hatchey [should be Hatchers] Run Church in Dinwiddie County Va under Captain Gillam Boothe, Lieut. Charles Williamson, the Regimental officers was Major David Walker and Col Blount General Lawson commanded the brigade, and was in service until after the battle of York Town and the Surrender of the British forces to the combined army under General Washington in October 1781. That some time in the latter part of that month he was discharged at York Town, that he received no written discharge and that he has no documentary evidence of his Service, and that he knows of no one in this part of the country by whom he can prove his services or any part of them. That he is not person acquainted with any regular Clergyman, as now resides near him, and his age and infirmities prevents him from going much abroad.
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of any state
Sworn to, and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
[signed] John Blick

We Chittenden Lyon residing in the county of Caldwell and Wilie A Jones residing in the Same, hereby certify that we are well acquainted with John Blick, who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be 71 years of age, that he is reputed and believed to be a soldier of the Revolution and that we concur
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in that opinion
Sworn and subscribed to the day and year aforesaid
[signed] Chitt" Lyon
              Wilie A Jones

And the Said Court do hereby their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states, and the court further certifies that it appears to them that Chittenden Lyon who has signed the preceding certificate is a resident in the county of Caldwell, and that Wilie A Jones, who has also signed the same is a resident in Said county and that they are credible persons, and that their statement is entitled to credit
I, Nathan S Dallam, Clerk of the court of Caldwell County, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of John Blick for a pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 21st day of October [year covered] 
[signed] N.  S. Dallam clerk
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TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
Second Comptroller's Office,
June 10th, 1842.
Sir:
Under the date of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled "An act directing the transfer of money unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States," The administrator of John Blick deceased, [es]tate
a Pensioner on the Roll of the Kentucky Agency at the rate of Twenty Dollars and -- Cents per annum, under the law of the 7 June 1832, has been paid at this Department, from the 4th of March, to the 8th Sept. 1841
Respectfully yours
[signed] Albion K. Parris
COMPTROLLER

To the Commissioner of Pensions,
Present.