Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 6401, for Jonathan Lockling, Vermont
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(3-1776)

SERVICE                                          NUMBER

Continental    Lockling, Jonathan     R. 6401
       Vt.



CONTENTS
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Jonathan Locking
Vermont
Act 7 June 1832
Suspended

Set to Geo. C. Cahoom, May 16" 1836.  
Hon Isaac Fletcher
Feb 19 1838

6401
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[{Acts of July 14, 1832m and March 3, 1973.} crossed out

REJECTED

6401

P.O.  Jonathan Locking

Service:

Enlisted:                           , 18

Discharged:                      , 18


Application filed:              , 18

Alleges:                             

Re-Enlisted:


Attorney:

P.O.

___________ Recognized.    _________ Contract

_____Cert. of Dis.      Searched for __________, 18
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Power of Atty

Know all men by the presents that I Sarah Lockling of Lyndon in the County of  Callidonia [Caledonia] & Hale of Vermont Do hereby irrevocably constitute  &  appoint Charles C Tucker of Washington city D. C. my true and {crossed out] lawful Agent and Attorney to prosecute my claim for a Pension to which my husband Jonathan Lockling was entitled for any amount of Revolutionary Pension that may be due under the provisions of any act or acts law or laws or Resolutions of Congress, and I hereby 
authorize my said attorney to examine all papers and Documents in relation to said Claims on file in the Departments at Washington City or else where to file additional evidence or arguments & to receive the certificates which may be issued for said claim & appoint one or more substitutes for the purposes herein expressed, and to do all things that I might or could do were I personally present hereby ratifying & confirming all that my said attorney may lawfully do in the premises.
Witness my hand and seal this 24th day of January AD 1854 in person of} ss Sarah Lockling
James Steele

Elvira C Lockling
State of Vermont
Caledonia County js} On the 24th day of January AD 1854.

Before me James Steele a Master in Chancery in & for  the County & State above mentioned personally appeared said Sarah Lockling; and acknowledged the foregoing power of attorney by him subscribed to be her act & due for the purpose therein mention
James Steele Master in Chancery

State of Vermont Caledonia County Js}  On this 24th day of January AD. 1854 before me the undersigned a Master in Chancery in and for the County & State aforesaid personally appeared Sarah Lockling a resident of sd [said] County and made oath according to law that she is the identical Sarah Lockling who executed the foregoing power of attorney and that she is directly interested in said claim and make this affidavit to be filed with such additional evidence or arguments as my sd [said] attorney may use in prosecuting sd [said] claim
Sarah Lockling

Sworn and subscribed before me this day and year above written
James Steele
Master in Chancery
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State of Vermont
Essex County js}  I William H. Hartshorn Clerk of the County Court, Supreme Court & Court of Chancery do hereby certify that James Steele before whom the foregoing affidavit and acknowledgement were made and who has hereunto signed his name, is Master in Chancery and was at the time of so doing duly authorized to administer oaths in & for the County & State aforesaid, and that all his official acts as such are entitled to full faith & credit.  In testimony whereof, I have hereunto signed my name & affixed my official seal this 28th day of January A.D. 1854.
Wm H. Hartshorn Clerk

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Act of June 7, 1832
Suspended Claim 
of 
Jonathan Lockling
Vermont

Power of Attorney
to examine claim

Chas. C. Tucker
Present
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33,690
Jonathan Lockling's
Declaration

[Written vertically along right side]

Jonathan Lockling Declarant
Geo. C. Cahoom Esq
Ret
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Jonathan Lockling's Declaration

In order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7, 1832

State of Vermont

County of Caledonia ps}
At Lyndon April 21st. 1836 Personally appeared before me Benjamin Conner one of the Judges of said Caledonia County Court Jonathan Lockling a resident of Lyndon in said County aged about eight two years, who being first sworn according to law dothe on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress June 7th. 1832.  That he lived in Putney Vermont at the time of Lexington battle in 1775 that he volunteered and marched for the scene of action under Capt. Abijah Moore and was out in service at that time one month.  That soon after this the same year he served two months as a substitute for Moses Johnson at Cambridge Massachusetts, in Capt. Pollard's Company of Artificers in Col. Whitcomb's Regiment.  That in the summer of 1776 he was on duty sergeant in Capt Daniel Jewett's Company of infantry militia in said Putney and was engaged in the service of the States as such at Putney and vicinity to the best of his recollection at least six weeks, said six weeks actual service covering about three months time in the whole a part of which he was not on actual duty that when the troops were unbodied they were under the command of Col. Ethan Allen but tha the Col. was not at that place but a short time.  That in October of the same year at the time of the incursion of the British and Indians upon Royalton he served as a volunteer about a fortnight it might be a few days more or less.  That in July 1777 men were [illegible] from Capt. Jewett's Company, bu not the full company, to march to the neighborhood of Burguoine's  [Burgoyne's] Army, that Capt. Jewett himself volunteered to serve as Lieutenant and that said Lockling went as volunteer in said company armed both as a soldier and fifer and served in both capacities, that said company were commanded by Capt Spalding and marched first from Putney to Manchester and
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was stationed then about two weeks and marched there to Bennington and halted there some days and marched then towards Cambridge New York but halted by the way and threw a breastwork preparatory to a battle with the enemy-that after completing the breastwork they retreated back until night; when he and others returned to guard it during the night.  That in the morning of the next day Genl Starks then Commander of the American troops gave out his orders for battle which immediately ensured and is known by the name of the Bennington battle in which he was actively engages.  That Col. Williams commanded the Regiment to which he belonged.  That his company was retained about a week after the battle in that vicinity and was then permitted to take up a line of homeward march.  That he was out at that time as he judges from the best of his recollection about six weeks but that by possibility it may not have been so long into a few days and it may have been longer.  That altho he is not able in all instances to name the precise number of days in each term of service, yet he is confident and declared it without hesitation that the whole term of his service exceeded six months.  That he was born in Bolton Mass.  August 28. 1754 and shall be eighty two years of age next August.  That he has a small book of family records made by himself many years since, in which his age is recorded that he continued to live in said Putney until he removed to Lyndon except about two years in which he lived in Dummerston and Westminster, and that it will be thirty one years in May next since he moved his family into Lyndon.  That he knows of no person in the vicinity who can testify to his services except Mr. Jacob Houghton whose deposition is annexed and that he would refer to said deposition and the accompanying certificate of the Hon. Isaac Fletcher and Revd Reuben H. Deming to all of whom he has ben known for many years, as to his reputation for truth.  That he is nearly blind and should then be any living who served with him as above ser forth he is wholly unable to go and search them up.  That he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a Pension except the present and that his name is not on the pension Roll of any agency of any state
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Jonathan Lockling

Subscribed and sworn to the day and year aforesaid
Before me Benjamin Conner Judge of Caledonia County Court
We Isaac Fletcher an Attorney, and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Vermont residing in the town of Lyndon and County of Caledonia is said state, and Reuben H. Deming a Clergyman residing in the same Lyndon, hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Jonathan Lockling of said Lyndon and have been personally acquainted with him for more than twenty years, that he is a man of good reputation for truth, that we believe him to be nearly eight two years of age as stated in the annexed declaration- That he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion

Isaac Fletcher
R. H. Deming

Sworn and subscribed this 21st day of April A.D. 1836
Benjamin Conner Judge of Caledonia County Court

I jacob Houghton of Lyndon in the County of Caledonia and State of Vermont aged seventy years the eleventh day of October last depose and say that I was born in Bolton Massachusetts, in 1765 that I have been personally acquainted with Jonathan Lockling now residing in said Lyndon who made the foregoing declaration, from my boyhood up, that I will recollect that the said Lockling [{and he} crossed out] at that time lived in Putney Vermont, called at my Father's house in said Bolton on his way to Lexington as a soldier about the time of Lexington battle and then and ever since have understood that he served some time as a volunteer soldier at that time.  That I also recollect that the said Lockling called again at my Father's house I think the same season on his way to 
Cambridge Mass. to serve in the Army of the Revolution and soon
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after understood that he did serve accordingly, and from recollection should have said that he served then a much longer time than he has set forth in his declaration.  That I was knowing to his being engaged in service as a sergeant in Capt. Daniel Jewett's Company of Putney as he as set forth in his declaration.  That I was not personally knowing to his service at the time of his marching to Bennington otherwise than by report, but have been ever understood it to be the fact.  That the said Lockling is of good reputation for truth.  That I believe him to be about eighty two years of age.  That I have no doubt of the truth of his declaration and believe his services to have been to the full extent of his declaration
Jacob Houghton

Subscribed and sworn to this 21st day of April A.D. 1836

Before me Benjamin Conner Judge of Caledonia County Court

And the said Judge does hereby declare his 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 further that it appears to him that the Hon. Isaac Fletcher is professionally as he states and is also a magistrate and a credible person.  That the Rev. Reuben H. Deming is a Clergyman as he states both of whom signed the preceding certificate and an resident in said Lyndon and that their statement is entitled to credit and that Mr. Jacob Houghton whose deposition is above is also a credible person and that said certificate and deposition are entitled to credit.  And he further certifies that in his opinion the said Jonathan Lockling could not prudently have to appear in open Court to make his declaration by reason of  bodily infirmity.

Benjamin Conner, Judge of C C Court
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State of Vermont}
Caledonia County Js}

I Samuel B. Mattocks Clerk of the County Court of Said County, do hereby certify that the Hom. Benjamin Conner is one of the Judges of said County Court, duly commissioned & qualified that his term of office commenced on the first day of December A.D. 1835 and will expire on the last day of November A.D. 1836; and that his signatures to the annexed certificates are genuine.  In testimony whereof I have hereunto Set my hand & Seal of office this 25th day of April AD 1836
Saml B. Mattocks
Clerk