Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 12163, for James Lucas, Virginia
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[typed form, with handwritten responses]

[3-1776]

SERVICE
Va
Lucas, James
           Mary

NUMBER
W.12163

CONTENTS 
[blank]

[stamped] 
This Envelope Includes 
FINAL PAYMENT VOUCHER 
Received from GAO
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[typed form, with handwritten responses]

[left side of page] 
W. Selden's certificate copied for 
Mr. A. P. King Feb. 5 1878 
Let [Letter] to Hon. W. R. King June 4 
1841
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Paid at the Treasury under the 
Act of April 6th 1838 from 4th 
Sept 1840 to the 4th March 1841 Agent 
certified May 6th 1842
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[right side of page]
1.701
Mobile Alabama
Mary Lucas

widow of James Lucas dec’d [deceased]
who died on the 8 December 1814
of Montgomery in the State of Alabama
who was a Major in the --- commanded
by Captain  ------  of the Brigade commanded
by Genl. [General] Scott in the Virginia
line for 2 years & upwards

Inscribed on the Roll of Mobile
at the rate of 600 Dollars 00 Cents, per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 12th day of Jany. [January]
1838 and sent Hon. D H Lewis 
Ho of Rep [House of Representatives]

Arrears to the 4th of Sept. 1837 - $3.900.00
Semi=annual allowance ending 4 Mar ’ 38 - 300.00
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$4.200.00 [total]

[right] {Revolutionary Claim}
[right]{Act July 4, 1836}
[right]{Section the 3d [3rd]}

Recorded by HCHL Addison, Clerk
Book A Vol. 2d [2nd] Page 
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[stamped sideways on left side of page] FINAL PAYMENT VOUCHER- Received from GAO 

No 2 2d [2nd] gr. 1848. 
Mary Lucas 
from 4th March 1846- 
To 21st September 1846 
6 months 17 days 
$328 22/100 

1917956 

Mobile Ala 
2 gr. 1848 
Box 9
Chalk 9
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State of Alabama 
Montgomery County

Be it known that before me Henry Clemmons, Justice of the peace in and for Said
County and State aforesaid, personally appeared James D Freeny, and made Oath 
in due form of Law that he is the Executor of Mary Lucas, the identical person who 
was a pensioner, and is now dead. and to whom a Certificate of Pension was Issued 
which is herewith Surrendered.

That the deceased Pensioner resided in Montgomery County in the State of Alabama, 
for the Space of twelve years before her death, and that previous thereto she resided 
in the State of Georgia 

[right] Jas D. Freeny Esqr [Esquire]

Sworn and subscribed this
1st day of April 1848 before me
Henry Clemmons J P 

The State of Alabama
Montgomery County

I Hugh W Watson Clerk of the County Court forsaid [aforesaid] County [scratched out - personally of] do hereby Certify that the above named Henry Clemmons is and was on 
the first day of April 1848 an acting Justice of the Peace for said County duly Commissioned 
& Sworn, & that all his official acts are entitled to full faith and credit.

Given under my hand & seal official 15th day of May AD 1848 H. W. Watson Clk [Clerk]
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Mobile May 22 1848
Recd [Received] of James Perrine agent for paying
pensioners three hundred and twenty
Eight Dollars twenty two cents being for Six months
and 17 days pension due Mary Lucas decd [deceased]
from the 4th of March 1846 to the 21st of Sept 1846,
for which I have signed duplicate receipts, ---
Jas D Freeny, Esq [Esquire]

[letter is stamped]
FINAL VOUCHER PAYMENT
RECEIVED FROM GAO

[note that this is the reverse of image 6 so has the same contents]
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Mobile May 22 1848 
Recd [Received] of James Perrine agent for paying 
pensioners three hundred and twenty 
Eight Dollars twenty two cents being for Six months 
and 17 days pension due Mary Lucas decd [deceased] 
from the 4th of March 1846 to the 21st of Sept 1846, 
for which I have signed duplicate receipts, --- 
Jas D Freeny, Esq [Esquire]

[letter is stamped]
FINAL VOUCHER PAYMENT
RECEIVED FROM GAO
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Know all men by these presents: That we James Lucas and John Lucas, are held and firmly bound unto his Excellency the Governor and his successors in the penal sum of Fifty pounds current money to the which payment, well and truly to be made we bind ourselves, and each of our heirs executors and administrators, jointly and severally firmly by these presents. In witness whereof we have hereunto set our hands and seals this 24th day of March 1779.

Whereas there is a marriage suddenly intended to be solemnized between the above bound James Lucas and Mary Lucas. Now the condition of this obligation is such, that if there be no lawful cause to obstruct the said marriage, then the above obligation to be void, or else to remain in full force [^ Power] and virtue.

Sealed and delivered}
in the presence of}
Wm Nelson}
James Lucas {Seal}
John Lucas {Seal}

I Walter S Booth Clerk of the Court of Surry in the State of Virginia, do hereby certify that the foregoing is a true transcript of the above bond taken from the original on file in the Office of the said County Court.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and annex the seal of the said Court, this 25th day of December 1837. 
Walter S. Booth, CSCC

I, Charles H Graves presiding Justice of the Court of Surry County in the State of Virginia, Do certify that Walter S Booth who has given the preceding certificate is Clerk of the said Court; and that his said attestation is in due form.
Given under my hand this 25th day of December 1837 
Charles H Graves
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Office of the County Court of Surry 

I hereby certify that after the most diligent search I have been unable to find any Certificate of the minister who solemnized the marriage between James Lucas and Mary Lucas, and I further certify that the register of Marriages celebrated about the time of the date of the within bond is very imperfect, and that the record at this day of the Certificates of the ministers of Marriages celebrated by them is equally imperfect. Given under my hand and the seal of the said Court this 25th day of December 1837. 

Walter S Booth Clk [Clerk]
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3080 

admitted Major 3 yrs. $600.-

Hon D. H ---H R
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State of Alabama S.S. 

On this 29th day of August 1837 Personally appeared before Binajah Bibb judge of the County [written again County] Court of the County of Montgomery & State aforesaid.

Mary Lucas a resident of the County of Montgomery and State aforesaid, aged seventy seven years, who being first duly sworn according to Law, doth on her oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress, passed July 4th 1836: That she is the widow of James Lucas who at the time of her marriage, was a Major in the Virginia Continental line, in Gen’l. [General] Charles Scott’s Brigade. That her deceased husband entered the service at the commencement of the Revolutionary struggle, at what precise time she is unable to state, but, that in June 1776 he was appointed an officer in said Scotts Brigade; that he continued in service in said Brigade until some time in the fall of the year 1779 as will more fully appear by the Documentary evidence hereunto annexed; In the fall of 1779 while Gen’l. [General] Scotts Brigade lay at Petersburg Virginia, he resigned his commission in the Virginia Continental line; and immediately repaired to Williamsburg, where he received the appointment of Colonel in the Militia, and was attached to Gen’l. [General] Stephens’ [General John Stephens] Brigade destined for the Southern army; In obedience to orders, he entered forthwith upon the duty of recruiting to fill up his Regiment, and from the time he received his Commission as Colonel he never left the army except on furlough, until the final termination of the contest, always holding himself ready at the command of his superiors to perform any service required of him–. He entered the service as a volunteer & not for a single campaign but during the War. His residence during the whole time, was in the County of Brunswick & State of Virginia. 

This deponent further states, that during the period he served under Gen’l. [General] Scott, he was in the battles of Brandywine [11 Sep 1777], Germantown [4 Oct 1777], and Monmouth Court House [28 Jun 1778], and in various skirmishes incident to the several campaigns,
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that he was encamped with the army at Valley Forge, and remained with it until the fall of 1779. 

In the Southern army while under Gen’l. [General] [John] Stephens he passed through North Carolina, and South Carolina as far as Camden, was in the Battle at which Gates [General Horatio] was defeated [16 Aug 1780]; and shortly after escorted some prisoners to Halifax Court House in Virginia– He then enlisted an additional number of recruits, accompanied the army on its return to North Carolina, and was at the Battle of Guilford [Guilford Courthouse, 15 Mar 1781]; from this time until the Siege of York Town, this deponent does not recollect his being in any other engagement; – 

-The Regiment he commanded was at the capture of Cornwallis [19 Oct 1781], but he, disabled by disease, tho’ [though] in hearing of the cannon, was deprived of the privilege of sharing in the dangers and triumphs of that glorious day. So soon as he recovered he reported himself to his General, and remained subject to orders until 1783 when the army was disbanded.

This deponent further states, that she is unapprized [unapprised] of the existence of any documentary evidence in support of her Statement of Services rendered subsequent to the fall of the year 1779, but supposes there is, if she knew where to find it; but avers upon her oath, that her deceased husband, had in his possession, until within a few weeks prior to his death, his Commission as Colonel, preserved in the same envelope, in which he carried it while in Service; that in her presence, he delivered it with other revolutionary papers into the hands of his eldest son Robert Lucas for safe keeping, that his said son is long since dead, and that the Commission together with the other papers are lost or mislaid so that they cannot be found. 

This deponent further states, that from the great lapse of time, and the death of most of the persons who could have been able to testify to these facts, that it may be difficult to produce direct testimony for their establishment, but the best evidence of which the case admits, is hereunto annexed, and which it is believed, is all which the Law contemplated.
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This deponent further declares that she was married to James Lucas on the 29th day of March 1779, in the County of Surry State of Virginia, and that her husband aforesaid died on the 8th day of December 1814. And that she has remained a Widow ever since that period as will more fully appear by reference to the proof hereunto annexed. 

That he left no child under sixteen years of age; his eldest at the time of his death, a son aged [^ Thirty five] years and his youngest a daughter nineteen years of age – he left seven children. 

This deponent further states, that the disease which deprived her of her husband, was what is termed dry mortification [also known as gangrene]; commencing at the Toes it gradually extended itself to the body, with this disease he suffered long and severely, and was supposed to have been indebted as its remote cause to a partial freezing, to which his extremities were subjected while encamped at Valley Forge. All which will more fully appear by the testimony of his attending Physician hereto annexed. 

In the conclusion of this declaration, this deponent begs leave to add, that from the great lapse of time since the events here alluded to have transpired, it is probable that many incidental circumstances have not been recollected which would go to elucidate the subject, but so far as her recollection serves, and to the best of her knowledge & belief, the truth has been fairly stated. One thing is certain, that the little patrimonial estate of her deceased husband, was, in consequence of the neglect incident to a seven years absence almost entirely lost; and that she herself labored night and day with her own hands to sustain her husband in the dignity of his rank, thru indirectly aiding by her patriotic devotion the cause of Independence an object nearest her Heart, an object which her husband pursued with a zeal seldom equalled [equaled] and never surpassed. That at the age of nearly four score, she can expect but little personal benefit from the bounty of the Government, but the duty she owes to her children renders the application imperative. 
Mary Lucas

Sworn to & subscribed before me 
Binajah Bibb JCCUC

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The State of Alabama} 
Montgomery County} I Benajah S Bibb Judge of the County Court of the County aforesaid do hereby certify, that the applicant Mrs Mary Lucas is from bodily infirmity unable to attend in open Court and I have therefore waited on her at her residence for the purpose of taking her declaration and making the necessary proof, and I would further state that from her advanced age that [^ I am satisfied she] is one [of] the remaining few who witnessed the struggle for Independence and from her residence of about fifteen years in the County and acknowledged respectability of character I am fully satisfied that the facts set forth in her declaration in substantially true.

Witness my hand and seal this 29th day of August 1837 
B S Bibb {Seal} J C C M A

State of Alabama}
Montgomery County} On this 29th day of August 1837 Personally appeared before me Benajah S Bibb Judge of the County Court for the County aforesaid Nicholas Childers who being duly sworn deposeth and saith, That he was the attending Physician of Col James Lucas during his last illness, and that he lingered for three or four months under a painful affection of the Toes and feet denominated “dry mortification of the Toes & feet”; which extended to the body & terminated his life; it is difficult to say what was the exciting cause of the disease, but it has been always supposed that the remote cause was the excessive exposer to cold during the encampment at Valley Forge: His death took place on the 8th of December 1814. Sworn to & subscribed before me the date above written 
B S Bibb J.C.C.M.C 
Nicholas Childers
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State of Alabama} 
Montgomery County} On the 29th day of August 1837 Personally appeared Henry Lucas who being duly sworn deposeth and saith that said Mary Lucas is his sister and that he has been intimately in the family of the late Col [Colonel] James Lucas the husband of Mary Lucas for the last thirty nine years; & that he has repeatedly in conversation, heard Col. [Colonel] Lucas speak of his revolutionary services, and fully believes that he served under the Commissions he claimed to bear until the close of the war, tho’ [though] he cannot bear positive testimony of the fact: That since the death of Col [Colonel] Lucas [word scratched out] the most intimate knowledge of the situation of his sister; that he has no doubt of the verity of her statement as to the time of her marriage; and he can positively aver as to the time of the death of Col [Colonel] Lucas, which is correctly stated in the declaration; that the age of her children are correctly stated; and that she has never since married; and that she would not willingly or knowingly make an incorrect statement in her declaration. 

Sworn to and subscribed before me the date above written Henry Lucas 
B S Bibb J.C.C.M.C 

The State of Alabama} 
Montgomery County} I Benajah S Bibb Judge of the County Court of the County aforesaid, do hereby certify that I have been acquainted for several years past with Dr Nicholas Childers and Mr. Henry Lucas (the above witnesses) they are both gentlemen of high respectability and whose testamonys [testimonies] is [are] entitled to full credit and in need as such in this community. 
In testimony
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whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 29th day of August 1837 
B. S. Bibb JCCMC

The State of Alabama}
Montgomery County} I James E. Belser clk [clerk] of the County Court of the County aforesaid do hereby certify that Benajah S Bibb is the Judge of the County Court of said County [word scratched out] and that all his official acts should receive due faith and credit- 

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 30th Augt [August] 1837.

James E Belser C. [Cml  Clerk?]
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August 12, 1936 
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
BA-J/MCS own
James Lucas, W.12163

Mrs. Ellen Lucas Williams 
412 Alabama Street 
Montgomery, Alabama 

Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your request for information in regard to James Lucas who served in the Revolutionary War. 

The data which follow were obtained from papers on file in the pension claim, W.12163, based upon the military service of James Lucas. 

The date and place of birth of James Lucas and the names of his parents were not given. 

While living in Brunswick County, Virginia, James Lucas entered the service at the beginning of the Revolution but his rank and the names of his officers were not given. In June, 1776, he was appointed an officer in Scott's brigade in which he served as captain and major until the fall of 1779 when he was appointed colonel in the Virginia militia in General Stevens' brigade; he was in the battles of Brandywine, Germantown, Monmouth Court House, in Gates' Defeat at Camden and in the battle of Guilford and in various skirmishes. 

James Lucas died December 8, 1814. 

This soldier married in Surry County, Virginia, March 29, 1779, Mary Lucas, the daughter of Captain John Lucas. 

As the widow of James Lucas, Mary Lucas was allowed pension on her application executed August 29, 1837, at which time she was living in Montgomery County, Alabama, and was seventy-seven years of age. In 1841 her post office address was Mount Meigs, Montgomery County, Alabama.
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At the time of his death in 1814, James Lucas was survived by seven children, Robert who was the eldest was thirty-five years of age. The youngest, a daughter, was nineteen years of age but her name was not given nor were the names of the other children given. 

In 1837 Henry Lucas stated that the widow, Mary Lucas, was his sister.

In 1838 Colonel King was referred to as a family connection of the widow, Mary Lucas. 

There are no further data relative to the family of James Lucas.

Very truly yours 

A. D. HILLER 
Executive Assistant 
to the Administrator
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[typed form, with handwritten responses]

O. W. and N. Division                     3-525.

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS,
Washington, D. C.,          , 19  

In reply to your request of        , received     for a statement of the military history of James Lucas a solider of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in [crossed out his (or] his widow’s) application for pension on file in this Bureau. W.12.163

[column headings: DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT.; LENGTH OF SERVICE.; RANK.; OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. Captain, Colonel.; STATE.
1.  Entered the service at beginning of Rev. Rank & officers not stated / Va
2.  June 1776 was appointed an officer in Scott’s brigade
3.  Fall 1779 “ : [was appointed] Col in the Militia, Gen. [General] Steven’s brigade
4.  Service until 1783

Battles engaged in, Brandywine, Germantown, Monmouth Court House, Camden, Guilford and various skirmishes

Residence of soldier at enlistment, Brunswick Co. Va [Virginia]

Date of application for pension, Aug 29, 1837; Her cl. was al. [claim was allowed]

Residence at date of application, Montgomery Co. Ala.

Age at date of application, 77 yrs

Remarks: Soldier married in Surry Co., Va. Mar. 28, 1779, Mary dau. [daughter] of Capt. John Lucas. Soldier died Dec. 8, 1814, leaving several children – Robert, the eldest at thirty-five yrs. The youngest, a daughter as nineteen, names not stated. The above noted is the only soldier of that name of Va. service found on the Rev. War records of this Bu [Bureau]

Very Respectfully,

Commissioner.

31793b5m10-07
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Washington City D. C. Feby 5th 1838 

Record from the Office of Pensions a letter dated June 28 1837 at Chillicothe Ohio by Jas. T. Worthington to Nicholas Childers in behalf of the claim of Mrs Mary Lucas of Alabama 

A P. King
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Mary Lucas wid. [widow] of James Mobile, Ala. Agency 

[written sideways] Certificate jacket torn
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[stamped upside down] FINAL PAYMENT VOUCHER Received from GAO

[stamped] FINAL PAYMENT VOUCHER Received from GAO
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[typed form, with handwritten responses]

Payment to be made at Mobile Alabama
by Geo. S. Gaines Esq. 
Agent for paying Pensioners, in the Agency of Alabama 

Recorded in the Pension Office, in Book A Vol. 2 Page 199 by D D Addison Clerk
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[stamped] 
FINAL PAYMENT VOUCHER
Received from GAO

[stamped] 
FINAL PAYMENT VOUCHER
Received from GAO
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[typed form, with handwritten responses]

WAR DEPARTMENT. REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.

I certify that, in conformity with the 3d [3rd] section of law the United States, of the 4th July, 1836, Mary Lucas of Alabama widow of James Lucas decd [deceased] who was a Major in the War of the Revolution is entitled to receive Six hundred dollars and --- cents per annum, during the time she may remain unmarried, commencing on the 4th of March, 1831 and payable semi-annually on the 4th of March and 4th of September.

Given at the War Office of the United States, this 12th day of January one thousand eight hundred and thirty-Eight.

J R Poinsett
Secretary of War.

Examined and} 
Countersigned.} 
J. L. Edwards 
Commissioner of Pensions. 

600 / 7 / 4300
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[stamped] FINAL PAYMENT VOUCHER Received from GAO
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State of Alabama} 
Montgomery County} Personally appeared before Mr. Henry Clemmons a Justice of the peace of the County and State aforesaid, John A B Clemmons & Charles S Lucas and after being duly sworn, saith that Mrs. Mary Lucas, Widow of Col James Lucas, formerly of the State of Virginia, who served in the any during the Revolutionary war,) in the eighty sixth year of her age, died at Mount Meigs, in the County and State aforesaid on the twenty first day of September, Eighteen hundred and forty six  

J A.B. Clemmons 
Chs. [Charles] S. Lucas
Sworn to and subscribed before}
me, this 3 March 1847.} 
Henry Clemmons J P 

The State of Alabama}
Montgomery County} [words scratched out] Clerk of the County Court of County aforesaid do hereby certify that Henry Clemmons was an acting Justice of the piece [peace] in and for said State & County on the 5th day of March 1847 and all official acts of his are entitled to due faith & credit 

In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of office this the 6 day of March 1847
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John Stith of the County of Warren, State of Georgia after being duly sworn deposeth and saith that he was well acquainted with Colo James Lucas formerly of the County of Brunswick State of Virginia. That he lived (when at home) a near neighbour [neighbor] to this deponent from about the commencement, or prior to the Revolutionary War, up to the year 1785, at which time this deponent, (being about the age of twenty [^two] years) left the neighbourhood [neighborhood] for the South and that according to this deponents recollection & belief accompanied by a train of circumstances & common report of that day, [^Is that] the said James Lucas entered the Continental at an early period of the war & continued in that service to its close & that he bore the title of Colonel some years before that event took place [^ close of the war] but this deponent thinks that he was a supernumerary officer a part of that time, perhaps at which [^ time] the said Col Lucas intermarried with Miss Mary Lucas, daughter of Capt [Captain] John Lucas (his present widow). And although this deponent was at their infare of Complementary dinner given on that occasion, his memory can give no date to that event. But this deponent recollects that when last at Col Lucas in 1785 that they had several children, perhaps three, one of which was a boy called Robert about five years old or perhaps more and for this deponent saith not.

Jno [John] Stith

Sworn to and Subscribed before me this 5 of Sept 1837

Curtis Lowe J.S. C
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I John Moore Clerk of the Inferior Court of Warren County State of Georgia do hereby certify that Curtis Lowe before whom the above and foregoing affidavit was made was at the time a Justice of the Inferior Court as he is there represented, and that the foregoing Signature purporting to be his is genuine.

In testamony [testimony] whereof I have hereunto affixed my seal of office, and subscribed my name this 5th day of September 1837.

John Moore Clerk of the Inferior Court Warren County Georgia
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Council Chamber 20 Feb 1782
I do certify that James Lucas is entitled to the proportion of Land allowed a Major of the Continental line who has served three years.

Thomas Meriwether 

Benjamin Harrison
[Claimant?] No 2,553 for 5333 1/3 acres of Land was issued by Virginia to James Lucas 25 Feb 1782

A Copy from the Records of the Land office of Virginia; as witness my hand & seal of office hereto affixed at Richmond, Virginia, this 2d day Augt [August] 1837

W [Illegible] off Virga [office Virginia]
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Mary Swan widow of James Lucas Alabama admitted Act [crossed out 1838] 1836 supported Papers [Illegible initials] 

Wm H. Lucas
aw 1701
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November 2d [2nd] AD 1846. 
Special Orphans Court 
Present the Honorable Thomas S. Mays Judge 

This day came James D Freeny and applied for Letters testamentary on the Estate of Mary Lucas deceased, and said James D Freeny having entered into Bond in the sum of Twelve Thousand Dollars with Jane W. Freeny and Alexander Carter as securities which is approved and ordered to be recorded 

And said James D Freeny having taken the Oath of Office, it is ordered that Letters issue which is done- 
Thos S. Mays Judge 

The State of Alabama}
Montgomery County} I Joseph D Hopper Clerk of the County Court of said County do hereby certify that the foregoing is a full true and correct transcript from the minutes of the order in the appointment of James D Freeny as Executor of the Estate of Mary Lucas deceased as the same remains of record in my office- 

In witness whereof I hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 6 March AD 1847- J
Jo.s [Joseph] D. Hopper Clk [Clerk]
C.C.M.C. 

[stamped] FINAL PAYMENT VOUCHER Received from GAO
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State of Alabama} 
Mobile County} SS 

I Augustus Brooks Clerk of the Circuit Court of Mobile County holden at Mobile in & for the County of Mobile Alabama, do hereby certify that satisfactory evidence has been exhibited to the said Court that Mary Lucas who was a pensioner of the United States at the rate of six hundred Dollars per annum, was a resident of the County of Montgomery in the State of Alabama and died in the said County State of Alabama on the twenty first day of September, 1846. That she left two Daughters whose names are Jane W Freeny & Mary Holt who are still living 

In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of Office at Mobile Ala [Alabama] this 22d [22nd] day of May 1848. 

Attest 
A. Brooks Clerk 

[stamped] FINAL PAYMENT VOUCHER Received from GAO
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J L Edwards Esq [Esquire]
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House of Reps 
Jany [January] 8th 1838
L Edwards Esqre [Esquire]

Sir – 

Enclosed I hand you certain papers - in relation to the services of Col Lucas, by which his widow wishes under the law to procure half pay for life. You will see that Mrs. Lucas states in her affidavit the date of the Marriage. There is also a copy of the Bond given for marriage license in the County of Surrey, the return of the licence [license] never having been made. I think that this evidence is sufficient to establish the marriage at the time stated by Mrs. Lucas. The within papers establish Col Lucas services as Major during the Revolution. The fact is that after he resigned his office as Major, he was
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afterward appointed Colonel & served in that capacity till the close of the Revolution. If this could be established, Mrs. Lucas half pay would be increased & there would probably be a claim for Commutation Will you be kind enough to inform me, where I could get access to Record evidence of that service, & what evidence would be required to establish it. Also-- what would be the consequences to the widow & heirs in a [word scratched out] primary point of view if that fact was proven.

yr obdt Servt [Your Obedient Servant]
Dixon H Lewis
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[Illegible]}
July 12}
25 

Nicholas Childers Esqr. [Esquire] 

Cuba Hatcher P. Office Macon County Alabama
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Lawrenceville Va July 11, 1837 

Sir,
To wit of the 28th June asking information respecting Mr. James Blick I have just received- Mr. B. [Blick] resides about – 6 six [^miles] east of this place, and is [in] good health for a person of eighty odd years of age.- 

Respectfully
Ro. Kickland PM
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Hicks Ford Va. 9 July 1837 

Sir,

Yours of the 28 June I have just received & I have to say for your information, that Mr. John Goodrum Senr [Senior] lives in a few miles of this place and enjoying as much health as many men of his age which may he long continue [Illegible ink smear] 

I cannot think it a trespass [Illegible ink smear] to convey information when req[Illegible ink smear] but rather a duty to do so when requested.

Very Respectfully yrs [yours] O S [Obedient Servant]
Tim Thorp P.M.
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Richmond June 20, 1837 

Mr. Nicholas Childers 

Sir,

Your letter of May 26th was received sometime after its date. It would give me pleasure to be able to add to the information, which has been already communicated to you by mail respecting the services of Col Lucas in the War of the Revolution. But the army records in this State do not furnish more.

If Col Lucas’ widow is alive, it may be worth while to enquire, whether she is not entitled to something considerable, under an act of Congress passed at its last Session, giving to the surviving widows of certain officers full pay for life &c

I am very Respectfully 
Yr. obt. Sert. [Your obedient Servant]
John H. Smith
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Mary Lucas, Ala. Ml (Mobile) Act July 4. 1836, at [$ Cooper Annum?].

Please say where she resided when she was last paid - and to what time. 

Pension Office} 
June 3. 1841} 

resided 5 May 1841 at Mount Meigs Mobl. Co Ala. [Mobile County, Alabama] 4 Sept 1840.
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Richmond Va April 24, 1837

Mr. Nicholas Childers 

Sir,

Yours of the 14th inst. [institute] came to hand this morning. On examination, I find that an allowance has been made for 5333 ½ acres of land to Major James Lucas, who belonged to Genl [General] Chas [Charles] Scotts Brigade—The services, that allowance was made, in the year 1784. The evidence, on which it was made, was the certificate of Col. Wm Davies, in the following words, to wit - "Major Lucas was appointed an officer in June 1776 and resigned his commission in the Virginia Continental line, sometime in the fall of 1779, while General Scotts Brigade lay at Petersburg, 
Wm Davies " Feby 19th 1784" 

James Lucas received pay as Captain & Major, for a service from January 1. 1777 to October 5, 1779 (more than 3 years) and was allowed bounty land for a service of 3 years, as Major. 

If this officer resigned in our corps for a promotion in another, and in that other served as Colonel to the end of the war, his heirs are entitled to more land, and to his commutation of five years full pay [Illegible] of half pay for life. The widow of this if alive (and provided he served to the end of the war) may be entitled to something under an act of Congress, passed at its last session. 

I have given you above, all the information, which I have been able to give, separating the military, revolutionary services of Major James Lucas – 

Respectfully 
Yr. obt. Servt. [Your obedient Servant]
John H Smith
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House of Reps 
Jany 22nd 1838

J. L. Edwards Esqr [Esquire] 

Sir –

I received of you on Saturday last, the certificate of pension for Mrs. Lucas the wife of Major Lucas. The certificate is payable in Mobile, & Col [Colonel] King the bearer of this letter, has in the meantime received a power of Attorney to draw the money here. He is a family connnexion [connection] of Mrs. Lucas & thinks if he could receive the money here in [Eastern?] funds, it might to the extent of the difference in exchange, being - if it the old lady-- I refer him to you, to know, if there is a discretion, by which he may attain his object- 

Yr. obt. Servt. [Your obedient Servant]
Dixon H Lewis
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War Department 
Pension Office 
June 14. 1837 

Sir, 

In answer to your letter of the 4th inst. I have to inform you that if the widow of Col. James Lucas was married to Col. L. before the termination of his service, her case is provided for, if she can produce the requisite proof. Enclosed are instructions for her guidance. 

Bounty Land he was not entitled to; nor did he acquire a right to commutation. 

I am respectfully Your Obt Sert [Obedient Servant]
J L. Edwards

Nicholas Childers, Esqr [Esquire]
Cuba Hatcher P. Office 
Macon County Alabama
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15th Sept 1837

Dr sir [Dear Sir:]

Yours of the 24th inst. came to hand on the first Inst. an opportunity of rendering my old friend Mrs. Lucas a service, was a matter of pleasure; I have tried to do so, but had to call up my recollection for many years, and am sorry that I could not fix [^them] on a more decided point. Such as it is I present enclosed should have written and forwarded this [^ sooner] but I received in my right hand an accidental wound which prevented my writing (the day after the date of the enclosed).

My best respects to my old acquaintance Mrs. Lucas

Most respectfully yours

[Illegible] Jno Smith

P.S. No fees charged
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New Postage as the Postage Paid in His [Illegible] tharefore [therefore] you will deliver this letter without adding of New Postage for forwary [forwarding], & as the letter is entered in my Books you nead [need] not Enter it.}

[written upside down] Nicholas Childers Esq Cuba Hatcher PO Macon County Alabama
[stamped] RICHMOND / APR / 26 / VA

This letter came hear [here] under the envelopes of [Illegible] From Huntsville with other letters.  Tharefore [Therefore] [paper torn] send the way [Illegible] & as the letter was paid at Richmond Va I can’t [Illegible] at my office upon remailing Paid as I was not the receiver of the way & neather [neither] can I ad [add]
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Richmond Va [Virginia] Apr [April] 25 1837 

Sir.

I have duly received your letter of the [Illegible] Mr Smith late Comr [Commissioner] of Revolutionary claims informs me that he has also received one from you which he has answered fully, which [Illegible] the necessity for my saying more. [Illegible] Mr Smiths statement is correct. I have made the requisite examination & find that Major Jas [James] Lucas drew 5333 1/3 acres of Bounty Land - it does not appear that he was entitled to more.

I know of no further provision of law by which the widow of Major Lucas can be benefitted, unless it be the act of Congress of July, 1836 granting pensions to the widows of Officer, whose marriage took place before the expiration of his service.

It will at all times afford me pleasure to render any service in my power to the soldier of the Revolution, the widows or children & so manifest my high respect & grateful attachment to Governor Floyd. Should you meet with him do me the favour [favor] to say that a single line from his hand would be most acceptable & myself this numerous attached friends in this City.

Very respectfully yrobs [your obedient servant] -
Wm H Richardson
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[typed form, with handwritten responses]

[right side of page] 1911 Aug. 25 – Hist. [History] to Mrs. Frances Roney 
1916 May 24 Hist. [History] to Mrs. Leala L. Tinsley
1917 Apr 17 Hist. [History] to Miss A H Geise. Mrs. W S Dozie
1918 Feby [February] 25 [ Hist. [History] to Ruth Trigg
[Ink Smear of year] Aug 12 hist [History] to Ellen Lucas [Illegible] 

Revy WIDOW, &c.

File No. 12163
Mary Lucas
Widow of James Lucas Major Rev. War

Act: July 4th / ‘36
Index: - Vol. A, Page 446

[Arrangement of 1870.]
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Nashville Tenn [Tennessee]

One 3ct. Stamped envelope Rev decd

Mr. G. M. Saltzgaber;
Washington, D. C. 

Dear Sir;

I haven’t heard from you in regard to James Lucas who lived in Halifax County. 
I’m in a hurry for this and wish that
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You would give it your prompt attention. I want the pension record of James Lucas who lived in Halifax County, Va - It is supposed that he enlisted there for the Rev. War.

Please see to this for me immediately, 
(on the inside for address)

Very truly (Miss) Ruth Trigg-
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21st of Highland Acres 
Newstead Apts 
Nashville, Tenn [Tennessee]

Feb. 25, 1918

[stamped twice] PENSION / FEB /27/ 1918/ U. S. / OFFICE
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Nashville, Tenn [Tennessee]

Mr. G. M. Saltzgaber
Washington, D. C. 

Rev. War

Dear Sir – 

Please give me the pension record of James Lucas, who lived in Halifax Va. It is supposed that he enlisted there for the Rev. War – I Will
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appreciate prompt attention in regard to this.

Very truly, (Miss) Ruth Trigg 
21st of Highland Ave
A.J. Newstead Apts, 
Nashville, Tenn [Tennessee]

[stamped] PENSION / O / FEB /19/ 1918/ U. S. / OFFICE
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[stamped] PENSION / O / APR /9/ 1917/ U. S. / OFFICE

[written sideways] Dozier
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Dawson Ga [Georgia] April 6th 1917

Pension Commissioners Rev. Serv 
Washington D.C. 

Dear Sir,

Please refer to your list of rev [Revolutionary] soldier pensioners on file Mary - Lucas widow of James Lucas of Va [Virginia] – he died in Hancock Co Ga [County, Georgia]. His wife Mary, removed to Montgomery Co Ala. [County, Alabama]. In 1840 June 1st she resided with her daughter Mrs. Jane
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W. Freeney, aged 81. Her name was enrolled on Jan. 12th 1838. Her son James, resided in Hancock Co Ga [County, Georgia] until his death - also had a daughter who married Archibald Hunter, they lived and died in Hancock Co Ga. [County, Georgia] probably other children. Please give us the name of James Lucas wife in full if possible - they were both of Va. [Virginia]. Am seeking this for his great great great granddaughter for a
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supplemental line in the D.A.R. Miss A.H. Geise. The said James Lucas, her rev [Revolutionary] ancestor. 
Very Respectfully 
Mrs. W. S. Dozier
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Rev Sec JDL

Tampa Fla May 18/16 

Department of Interior 
Washington D.C.

Dear Sir:- 

Will you kindly send me a record of Capt. James Lucas of Rev. War. He was my Great Grandfather and come from Va.

Any information will be thankfully received. I am 
Yours Respectfully 
Mrs. Leola (Lucas) Tinsley 

Box 172 -A. Boulevard 
Tampa Fla.

[stamped] PENSION / MAY /20/ 1915/ U. S. / OFFICE
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[stamped] RECORD / AUG/21/1911/DIVISION
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[Letterhead] P.S. WEIR / C.J. MOORE / Chalmers Hudson Hupp Detroit Electric / WEIR-MOORE MOTOR CO. MOTOR CARS AND SUPPLIES 116-118 EAST ARCHER AVENUE 

MONMOUTH, ILL., Aug. 17 – 11

Commissioner of Pensions, 
Washington, D. C. 

Dear Sir:- 

Will you please send me the official record of George Hickman. He was a soldier in the Revolutionary War. I can not tell what company he was in. He lived at Shrewsbury, York County, Penn. If you could give me any information in regard to this I would like it very much. 

Also I would like the Official Record of Captain James Lucas. He was Captain of 4th Virginia Regiment, commanded by Colonel Thomas Elliott, Revolutionary War. I think he was my great great great Grandfather and I am very anxious to find out all I can. 

Whatever the charges are I will remit by return mail, 

Respectfully Yours 

Frances Roney, 

FIRST CLASS GARAGE IN CONNECTION
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[typed form, with handwritten responses]

412 Alabama Street, 
Montgomery, Alabama 
July 28, 1936 

RE: James Lucas 
only Ala

Pension Department, 
Washington, D. C.

Gentlemen: 

Records of the Old State Bank shows that James Lucas received a pension for Revolutionary services. 

If possible, please give service record, place of birth, name of wife, names and ages of children. I would also like to have the names of his father and mother, if shown. Please furnish as full a record as possible. 

Thanking you in advance for this information, I am, 

Sincerely yours, 

Ellen Lucas Williams 
(Mrs.) Ellen Lucas Williams

[stamped upside down [RECEIVED / JUL 31 1936]
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[typed form, with handwritten responses]

TREASURY DEPARTMENT
Second Comptroller’s Office,
April 25th, 1842

Sir:

Under the date of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled “An Act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States,” Mary Lucas, a Pensioner on the Roll of the Mobile, Alabama Agency, at the rate of Six hundred Dollars and  --  Cents per annum, under the law of the 4th July 1836, has been paid at this Department from the 4th of Sept 1840 to the 4th March 1841.

Respectfully, yours,
Albion K. Parris
Comptroller.

To the Commissioner Of Pensions,
Present.