Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 6506, for Joel Lucas, Virginia
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( 3 - 1776 ) SERVICE Va Lucas, Joel  NUMBER R.6506
CONTENTS
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State of Tennessee on the 20th of May AD 1836 Monroe County personally Appeared before Me E C  Hoop [page edge missing - E C Hoopper] one of the acting Justices of the peace for sd [said] County Joel Lucas a resident of sd [said] County of Monroe Aged 78 years old who being first duly sworn according to have Daith [doth] on his oath Make the following Declaration in or ['order' edge missing] to obtain the benefit of the provisions Made by the act of Congress passed June the 7th 1832. that he entered into the service of the United Sates army in the year 76 or 77 [1776 or 1777] the prosise [precise] time not being Exactly recollected but he thinks it was about that time he entered the service with Captain John Buchanan and served in he thinks the 15th Regiment so called in Pittsylvania County in Virginia and Marched from there to wilks County in North Carolina and from there to south Carolina to ninety six in South Carolina and Applicant thinks there joined the Main army under the command of General Lincoln [Major General Benjamin Lincoln] and General Green from there we marched to Edgefield we then marched from there to haw river and there jouned [joined] another regiment then commanded by General Pickins from there we marched towards Gilford Courthouse on our way we overtook about three hundred toryes [tories] in a Long Lain [line] which was cut all to pieces by hus [his] cavlry [cavalry] we marched on to Gilford Courthouse where we had a battle with the british I was then commanded by General Green and Colonel Preston [Colonel William Preston] commanding officers recollected at this time we expected another Battle the next morning the British was gone general Green then pursued them three or four days and did not overtake them halted at Zamswerses [maybe Ramsey's] mills for to rest the army -
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from Lamas [Ramsey's] Mills he marched for camden with part the army applicant thinks that part was sent back of the same army and him with them to hold [illegible] Courthouse in old virginia where general Lincoln halted us till we built the fort to keep the prisoners in called Hesions [Hessions] some distance above the town applicant thinks about four miles above Winchester in old Virginia and there we garded [guarded] the prisoners till I got my Discharge in which I served at list too [ at least two] full years My Discharge was sined [signed] by my Captain John Buckanan [Buchanan] which has been lost or Destroyed a long time ago I dont know what has come of it I did not expect that it would ever do me any Good After the revolutionary war applicant moved to Yadsin river and lived too [two] years and then removed to union County in South Carolina and there lived sixteen years then removed to Blunt County East Tennessee and from there to Monroe County where he now lives the claiment made application in 1832 and his papers had got misplaced and lost so that he never could have a oppertunity to send untill now of 
Sworn to Subscribed before me E C Hoopper one of the acting Justices of the peace for said County this Day and Date above written hold E C  Hoopper [illegible] Justice of Peace
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[illegible] Abraham Reed A clergy man residing in the County of Monroe and Joel Lucas residing the same county and [illegible] Sworn to the above Declaration that we belive him to be the age that he states and belive in the Neighbourhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution that we concur in the opinion sworn to and subscribed the Day and Date above written Abraham Reed E C Hooper acting Justice for said County Abraham Reed Minister of the Gosple 
we Henry Monroe and E C Hooper Do certify that we are well acquained with Joel Lucas and believe that what he states is the truth agreeabe to the best of our belief and knowlege Sworn to and subscribed to the Day and Date above written 
Henry Monrow [Signature]
E C Hopper [Signature]
State of Tennessee Monroe County | I James M Broylin County Clerk of the County Court for said County do certify  that E.C. Hooper Esq. whose name is signed to the foregoing is now and was at the time he signed the same and acting Justice of the peace for said County duly comm. aforesaid and
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Sworn and that due faith and credit is to be given to his official as such Given under my hand and private seal of office having never official at office in made with August 22nd. 1836 James M Broyles Clerk [Signature]
[Document Label]
28.797
Joel Lucas
Tennessee
act 7 June '32 [1832]
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Richard Lanning Sevierville Tennessee
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Declaration 
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of 7th June 1832 --- State of Tennessee Monroe County ⎬ ss On this seventh day of November One thousand Eight hundred and forty four, personally appeared in open Court Joel Lucas a resident of the County and State aforesaid aged Eighty eight 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 provisions made by the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832, that he enlisted in the Army of the United States in the year 1779, and served in the fifteenth Regiment of the Virginia line under the following named officers Viz Capt John Bucklyn [illegible], Major Turk and Col. Hall, and served three years as a private soldier in the army of the Revolution and that when he entered the service, he resided in Pittsylvania County Virginia, and March from thence to the State of South Carolina, and continued his march until he reached the Haw river Swamps, and was there engaged in a skirmish with the British and tories from thence he marched to New York, and there took about five hundred prisoners and marched them on to Winchester Court House and forted within three miles of that place and there guarded them until they were released and after which he still remained there until he was discharged. He further declares he has no documentary evidence, and that he knows of no living at this time by which to make any further proof. He hereby relinquishes  every claim whatever to a pension or annuity, except the present, declares that his name is not on the pension Roll of the agency any State.
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Sworn to and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid Joel  Lucas (x making his mark) We Thomas C Smalling a Clergyman residing in the County of Monroe State of Tennessee and S S Glenn residing in the same do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Joel Lucas who has subscribed and sworn to the foregoing declaration, that we believe him to be Eighty eight years of age; 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 
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid Thos C Smallin --- SS Glenn [2 signatures]- 
State of Tennessee Monroe County And the said Court do hereby declare 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 Thomas C Smalling who has signed the preceeding certificate is a clergyman resident in said County, that S S Glenn who has also signed the same is a resident in the said County, and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit
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State of Tennessee Monroe County, I John A Stephens Clerk of the County ┃ Court of Monroe County do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Joel Lucas for a pension In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of Office at Office in Madisonville, this 7th day of October 1844 John A Stephens Clerk

 State of Tennessee Monroe County
 I John Carson Chairman of the County Court of Monroe County do certify that John A Stephens whose name appears to the foregoing certificate, is and was at the time it bears date, Clerk of the County Court of Monroe ┃ County duly elected and commissioned according to law and due credit should be given to his official acts as such. 
Given under my hand and seal this 7th day of October 1844 
John Carson [signature]
Chairman
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If found [illegible] be to know whether the card is good.
Referred to the Treasy. Dept. [Treasury Department] July 7, 1830
Madisonville Ten [Tennessee] 26th June 1830 Free [Postage Stamp]
of Madison July 7. 1830 
Revolutionary Claim 
Hon John H Eaton
Secretary of War 
Pension Office Dept
Washington City
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RE. 7 July 1830     (1993) [In pencil in a different handwriting]
Made [illegible] on the 25th June 30 The Honr. Secretary of War will please to address any communications necessary to be made to me upon the subject of the Enclosed application to In F. Gilles by my att [attention] at [illegible, possible Maynardville, the county seat of Union County] Union County Tenn the [illegible] a revolutionary Soldier
 Will respect Joel Lucas (made his mark X)
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awRej #6506 [in pencil]
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State of Tennessee Monroe County ⎬ 1888.

 For the purpose of obtaining the benefit of an act for the relief of certain Surviving Officers and soldiers of the army of the Revolution, approved on the 15th of May 1828. I Joel Lucas resident in the County of Monroe in the State of Tennessee do hereby declare, that I enlisted in the Continental line of the army of the revolution for and during the war and continued in its service until its termination at which time I was a private in Capt John Buchannans Company in the 12th Regimt of the line Commanded by Col Hall  I entered the service in Pittsylvania County in the State of Virginia under Capt Love, and was afterwards transferred to Capt Buchannans Company in which I served three years and six months until the end of the war as aforesaid when I was regularly discharged at the Barracks near Winchester in Winchester County Virginia, that I have long since lost the certificate of my discharge I also declare that I have never
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received any reward under a resolve of Congress passed the 15th of May 1778.
and I further declare, that I was not on the 15th day of March 1828 on the pension list of the United States.
Sworn to before me this 25th June 1830
 Geo C Harris Seal [word seal inside a circle] Justis of the Peace State of Tennessee Mpnroe County
Joel Lucas (by his mark X)
Before me George C. Harris a Justice of the peace duly empowered to administer Oaths in Monroe County in the State of Tennessee personally affirmed this day Ennis Hooper and William Burris of the said County, who did severally make oath that Joel Lucas by whom the foregoing declarations was subscribed is generally reputed and believed to have been a private in the Army of the Revolution in manner as therein stated 
Witness my hand & Seal this 25th June 1830. Geo C Harris Seal [in circle] Justice of the peace of Monroe County 
Ennis Hooper [signature]
William Burris [signature]

Wm S. Callaway Clerk of the County 
County of Monroe County in the State of
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Tennessee do certify that George C Harris before whom the foregoing affidavits were sworn was at the time a justis and duly empowered to administer Oaths
 In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my private seal [drawn seal], having no seal of Office this 25th June 1830 
By Wm S Callaway Clk [signature]
W [illegible] Morrow Clk
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[back of document - address]
Sevier C H Ten [Court House Tennessee] Apl 29th 
May 9 45 [1845?]
Joel Lucas Son
In [illegible]
[addressed to]
J. S. Edwards Esqr 
Commissioner of Pensions 
Washington City in D.C. 
Free
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Swanville Tennessee 25th April 1845 
Sir
In the case of Joel Lucas, you say the alleged service of three years in the 15th Regiment of the Virginia Line, the Rolls of that Regiment afford no evidence of his service or of the designated officers - On calling on him a few days ago and after reading the letter in his hearing, he alleged that he served in the 10th Regiment instead of the 15th The mistake in the number of Regiment might have happened in taking a memorandum of his statements relative to his service previous to writing the declaration. Should his name, and the designated names of the Officers be found on the Rolls of the 10th Regiment it is hoped it will be satisfactory.
 The papers in the case of Elizabeth Ford widow of John Ford which were prepared for her to draw the arrears due her husband at his death, were sent to the agency at Knoxville and after having been rejected there on the account of the length of time which had lapsed from his last draw until his death, and the papers being returned they were afterwards inadvertanly sent on to your office, without an attorney being appointed to draw the arrears there; she therefore requests that her husbands pension certificate be sent back as she has never received any of the arrears yet, and a suitable Blank form for making out her claim, would be thankfully received, there being more than two years pay of arrears due at the time of his death
 I am very respectfully Your Obt Servant Richard Lanning [signature]
J L Edwards Esq.[signature]
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Joel Lucas Tennessee
 See letter 22 Sept 1836 J. M. Broyles let [letter] to Richd [Richard] Lanning Dec 4th 1844, same May 9. 1845. 
In claim of John Ford w.11000
6506
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Rejected
6506
Joel Lucas
P.O. | Service: |  Enlisted: | Discharged: | Application filed: |Alleges: |Re-enlisted: |Attorney: | P.O. |Recognized | Contract |Cert. of Dis. |Searched for
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Revolutionary Claims. - 
TREASURY DEPARTMENT
12 July 1830 
Joel Lucas of in the county of Monroe in the State of Tennessee has applied to the Secretary of the Treasury for the benefits of the act, entitled ""An act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the Revolution," approved the 15th of May, 1828. He states that he enlisted in the Continental line of the army of the Revolution, for and during the war, and continued until its termination , at which period he was a Private in captain Buchanons company, in the in regiment of the Virginia line; and that he received a certificate for the reward of eighty dollars, provided by the resolve of the 15th of May, 1778; and further, that he was not on the 15th day of May, 1828, on the pension list of the United States, and that he has received as a pensioner since the 3d of March, 1826, nothing. 
The Third Auditor is requested to report how far the several statements are corroborated by the records in his office.
By Order of the Secretary. F. A. Dickins [signature]
Rej. File No 6,506 | OK
 TREASURY DEPARTMENT
 THIRD AUDITOR'S OFFICE, 15 July 1830 
It does not appear that Joel Lucas is now on the pension list of any agency and has not been so since the 3rd March 1826 The name of Joel Lucas cannot be found among those of the Virginia line to whom certificates for the gratuity of Eighty Dollars were issued. 
Peter Hagner Aw
Not allowed Act 1828
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General Land Office
15 July 1830
 The name of Joel Lucas does not appear on the List of Warrants issued by the Register of the Land Office at Richmond Va sofar as they have been recd [received]
Jno M Moore Clk [clerk]
War Dept Bounty Land Office Aug. 10th 1830 
The name of Joel Lucas cannot be found on the Records of the Virginia line, among those entitled to Bounty Lands from the U States, nor has a Land Warrant ever issued in his name Wm Gordon [signature]