Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 41,925, for Malachi Nickens, North Carolina
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State of North Carolina
Hertford County  Court of pleas and quarter
Sessions held for the said County at the Court house in Winton on the 4th Monday of November A.D. 1821.
On this thirtieth day of November AD 1821 personally
" appeared in open Court (being a Court of record for the
County aforesaid and proceeding according to the course
" of the common law with a jurisdiction unlimited in
" point of amount, keeping a record of its proceedings
" and having the power of fine and imprisonment
" Malachi Nickens aged fifty six years resident of the County of Hertford aforesaid, who being first duly summoned according to Law doth on his oath make the following declaration of Congress of the 18th March 1818, and 1st May 1820.
That he the said Malachi Nickens enlisted for the term of twelve months on or about the 19th day of May
1781 in the County of Hartford North Carolina in the
& company commanded by [illegible] or Andrews, and was mustered a few days thereafter at Salisbury, N. Carolina in the Company commanded by Captain William Carter, under whom he served as a private soldier until the 19th of May 1782 and also until the termination of the war, in the regiment at one time commanded by Colonel Shepherd and afterwards by Colonel Armstrong, in the line of the State of North Carolina, on the continental establishment - that he continued to serve in the said Corps, in the service of the United States until the expiration of the twelve months for which he enlisted and also until the termination of the war when he was honorably discharged from the said service, in the town of Wilmington, N Carolina - that he was in the battles at
Eutaw Springs, and at a place called, Ninety Six
in South Carolina, and at a battle, with the Indians, upon
Savannah river - that he has no other
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evidence than that hereto annexed whereby to prove
his said services - and in pursuance of the said act of
Congress of the 1st May 1820 I the said Malachi
Nickens do solemnly swear that I was a resident
citizen of the Hertford County North Carolina
on the 18th day of March 1818 and that I have not since that time by gift sale, or in any manner
disposed of my property or any part thereof with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of the act of Congress entitled an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service " of the United States in the revolutionary War"" passed on the 18th day of March 1818 and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me, any property or securities, contracts or debts due to me, nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed. viz.
1 Pine Chest - 4 sitting chairs - 1 Small table
" 2 axes - 2 Hoes - 1 drawing knife - 1 Hand saw 1 Augur  1 Frow [plow?]1 Iron pot 1 Spidel [spindle?]]-
 a few knives and forks only -  a few earthen plates.
 2 pewter dishes- 1 Feather Bed only  and some necessary wearing apparel. The said Malachi Nickens
further saith that he is a common day laborer
without a trade. - that he is at times afflicted
with the Rheumatism and has a rising upon his
thigh which sometime renders him capable of
of labor - his family is composed of himself his
wife Margaret aged about 21[?] years able to contribute to her support and a child about 17 months named Manuel Merfree - said Malachi saith that he lives in a small and very indifferent log house upon land belonging to Jesse Yates  in the said county of Hertford
Sworn to and subscribed
by the said Malachi Nickens in open Court
" this 30th day of November AD 1821
Malachi Nickens    his mark
Test. (Signed ) Jas. P. Dickinson
By L.M Cowper ⎬