Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 38,913, for William Lingo, Delaware
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Service: Del.
Name: Lingo, William
Number: S. 38.913
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19.747.
West Tennesse
William Lingo
Of Marry 60 in the State of Tennessee who was a private in the county commanded by Captain [illegible] of the regiment commanded by Colonel [illegible] in the Delaware line, for the term of from 1777-1778

Inscribed on the Roll of West Tennessee at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 31 day of January 1827

Certificate of Pension issued the 3rd of March 1827
Arrears to 4th of March 1827 
Semi-anl. all'ce ending Sept 1827
total earning: $57.28
{Revolutionary Claim,
ACts March, 18, 1818,
and May 1, 1820.}
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State of Maryland that he hereby relinquishes my claim to a pension except the present that his name is not on the roll of any state except Delaware unless it may have been transferred to the roll of some other state after he was marched from Delaware to the south. That some years ago he forwarded a declaration for a pension but never received a pension as he was informed in answer some informality or other that he should have made an earlier application for a pension than he did 

...of Maryland that he hereby relinquished my claim to a pension except the present that his name is not on the note of any state except Delaware until it may have been transferred to the mill of some other state after he was marched from Delaware to the south. That some people he forwarded a declaration for a pension but never received a pension as hews informed in [illegible] of some informality or other. That he should have made an earlier application for a pension than he did..
To do without it....
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State of Tennessee
Maury County
Court of pleas and quarter sessions

October Term 1826
On this 1st day of October 1826 personally appeared in
open court being a court of record proceeding according to
the course of the common law with a Jurisdiction [intermediate]
point of amount keeping a record of their proceedings for the County
of Maury and State of Tennessee, William Lingo, resident in said
County aged about 73 years who being first duly sworn according to
law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain
the provisions made by the act of congress of the 18th March 1818 and
 the 1st of May 1820. That he the said William Linge enlisted
during the revolutionary war in the year 1779, that the precise
time of that time he cannot remember, in Louistown in the
State of Delaware, that he was enlisted by Major
Potter and was shortly afterwards put under the command of Captain
Peter Jacquett in the Regiment commanded by Col Vaughan
in the line of the State of Delaware on the continental establishment, 
that after his enlistment he was marched to the south and continued
to serve in the said comp’y under the command of General Gates principally
 until Gates’ defeat, after which time he was commanded by Capt Robert
Kirkwood in Col. Vaughn’s Regiment under the command
of Genl Green until the close of the revolutionary war when he was
discharged from the service by Genl Green in Baltimore on the
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and by me subscribed that all the property he owned on
the face of the earth his necessary clothing & bedding excepted
costs of the following articles [final?] one small one eyed mare
and colt of little value $30. six head of hogs $4.  an old
sadle & bridle and four chairs and a few articles of very indifferent
quality of household furniture and of little value $5 - $39.

That on the 18th of March 1818 all the property he
owned in earth which he does noW own was a sorrel mare
which he has since sold for $50 and has applied the sale
money, exclusively in the payment of debts and procuring
the [necessities?] of life. If he owned any other property at
that time which he did not now own,  he does not remember it.
But if he did it must have been some very small
article of little or no value, but does not think a single other article of
property was then owned by him. That his occupation when
able to labour any is a farming. That he has become old and very
infirm and much afflicted with diseases and in addition to other
diseases his wounded arm often affects so that he is wholly unable to
 labour for a support. His family consists of himself and his aged 
wife Susannah, now about sixty three years old. his said wife
has had one of her wrists broke & is otherwise much affected
and is totally unable to labour any. That she is so perfectly
Helpless and he being not able to support himself, much less to
support herself that he himself as well as his wife
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are now at this time paupers in the County. That he must
in his old age be wholly dependant the benevolence [of] his government
or the charity of individuals for his support.
Signed
William Lingo his mark

Sworn to declared and subscribed before me in open court this
21st day of October, A.D. 1826
Joseph Porter clk

I Joseph B Porter Clerk of the Court of pleas and quarter
Sessions for said County certify that the foregoing transcript
of the oath and the schedule thereto annexed is correct also
that it was the opinion the court present that the amount of
property exhibited is worth $39. In testimony of which I have
hereunto subscribed my name and affixed my
seal of office at office in Columbia in the
County & State aforesaid this [blank] day of January A. D. 1827
Joseph B. Porter Clerk
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Dear Madam:
   Reference is made to your letter in which you request information in regard to your ancestors with the surname Lingo who served in the Revolutionary War.
   The records of only two soldiers with that surname who applied for pension on account of service in the Revolutionary War have been found, henry and William. Their records are furnished you herein as found in those claims, as they  may be of interest to you.
   Henry Lingo - S. 41771.
   Henry Lingo was born in Delaware; the date of his birth and names of his parents were not given.
   He enlisted sometime in 1775, at Red Stone, Pennsylvania, served as private in Captain Van Swearingen's company, Colonel Aenas Mackey's Pennsylvania regiment nine months; he re-enlisted in 1776, served as private in Captain Van Swearingen's company, Colonel Aenas Mackey's and Daniel Brodhead's 8th Pennsylvania regiment, also in Captain John Clark's company in that same regiment and was discharged from service September 29, 1783; during his service, he was in the battles of Bound Brook, Woodbridge, Piscataway and Paoli, and in many skirmishes.
   He was allowed pension on his application executed April23, 1818, at which time he resided in Milton, Trumbull County, Ohio. He was then in the sixty-third year of his age.
   In 1820, the soldier referred to his wife but did not state
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her name, nor the date and place of their marriage. In 1820, he referred also to one child, a boy, Hamilton, aged twelve years, who lived with him, and to a joseph Lingo.
   Henry Lingo died November 9, 1835.
   William Lingo - S. 38913
   William Lingo enlisted in the year 1779, in Lewistown, Delaware, served a private in Captains Peter Jaquett"s and Robert Kirkwood's companies, Colonel Vaughan's Delaware regiment, marched south, was in the battle of Gates Defest, was in the battle of Guilford in which he was wounded in his right arm, was in the battle of Eutaw Springs and was discharged at the close of the war.
   He was allowed pension on his application executed October 1, 1826, at which time he resided in Maury County, Tennessee. He was aged then about seventy-three years; the date and place of hi birth and names of his parent were not given.
   In 1826, William Lingo's wife, Susannah, was aged about sixty-three years; her maiden name and the date and place of their marriage were not given. No reference was made to children. 
   In order to obtain the date of last payment of pension, name of person paid, and possibly the date of death of this pensioner, you should apply to the Comptroller General, Genera Accounting Office, Records Division, this city, and furnish the following:
   William Lingo
   Certificate # 19747
   Issued March 2, 1827
   Rate $8 per month
   Commenced January 31, 1827
   Act of March 18, 1818
   Tennessee Agency.

Very truly yours,
A.D. Hiller,
Executive Assistant to the Administrator.
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38913
INVALID.
Revy

File No. 38.913

William Lingo
Pri Rev War

Act: 18 March 18

Index: -- Vol. 3 Page 295
{Arrangement of 1870.}

1900 Aug 5  History to Mrs. Remer Jones AW
1937. Feb 6 Hist. to Miss Priscilla Lingo, Sec [Cutler] in Rev. Cl.
Henry Lingo S.41771. JRL
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J. L. Edwards Esq
Pension Office
War Department
Washington City

This requires immediate 
attention

Wm Lingo

Hon. J. K. Polk
H. R.
Rec'd 3 Sept. 1827
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Ho. Rep's March 2nd 1827

Sir

A few days ago I forwarded to you
the Declaration of William Lingo for a pension.
If a decision has been made on the application I
desire to be informed of the result, before the
adjournment of Congress.

I Have the honor to be
Very Respectfully
Yr obt Servt
James K. Polk

J.L. Edwards
Pension Office
Washington City
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20,242
William Lingo
Maury Co Tenn.

Hon. J. K. Polk
H. R.

Recd 23 Feb 1827

On final settlements
[pa.] 62 - Vol. 3- Adm’d
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Valdosta Ga
July 9, 1920
Department of the Interior
Bureau of Pensions
Washington D.C.

Dear Miss Wilson
   I see in the July no D.A.R. magazine a chance to fid our ancestors services. I am descended from Elijah Lingo. Can't find his Rev. services. I think he was too young but the older ones claim he had
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a land grant in Hancock Co.
   Possibly he came in possession of land granted his father William Lindo of Delaware. Can you give me information on William or Elijah Lingo?
2    I have a line on Cary Cox said to have received land but I find no record of services or land grant. 
3   S.E Swilley is another that I can't find any record. He was among the first settlers of Lowndes Co. Ga.
4   My Gr. Gr. Grandfather William Calvin Humphries came to Ga from near Lynchburg Va. His mother was Lucinda Sanders Humphries but I  don't know her husbands given
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name therefore I can't look for services.
   You are doing wonderful work and I do hope you may find some of them mentioned.
   Yours sincerely
   Mrs.  Rumer Jones
Box 474 Valdosta Ga.
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REVOLUTIONARY WAR RECORDS SECTION.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR.
BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
Washington, D. C.
….., 19….

S. 38913

In reply to your request of [blank], received [blank]
a statement of the military history of William Lingo
soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired
information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension
on file in this Bureau.
DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT.  1779
LENGTH OF SERVICE. To end of war
RANK.  Pvt
OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED.
CAPTAIN. Peter Jaquett,  Robert Kirkwoord
COLONEL.  Vaughan
STATE. Del.

Battles engaged in, Camden, Guilford, Eustace Springs
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Enl. in Lewistown Del.
Date of application for pension, Oct 1, 1826. His cl. was al.
Residence at date of application, Maury Co. Tenn.
Age at date of application, 73 yrs
Remarks: In 1826, wife Susannah age 63
There is no further data on file as to his family.

Respectfully,
Commissioner.
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