Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 9,144, for Vachel Lovelace, North Carolina
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(3-1776)
SERVICE
N.C.
Lovelace, Vachel
Margaret
NUMBER
W.9.144
CONTENTS
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let 9 June 1840 
 Hon. L. Boyd,

14242
Kentucky
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Vachel Lovelace
of McCracke Co. in the State of Kent
who was a pr in the co commanded by Captain Caldwell of the reg't commanded by Coll. Locke in the N.C. line for 9 mos.
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Inscribed on the Roll of Kent
at the rate of 30 Dollars -- Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
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Certificate of Pension issued the 17 day of Aug't 1833 and John L. Murray Wardsborough [Wadesboro]
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Arrears to the 4th of March  60.--
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sept.  15 =
$75.--

{Revolutionary Claim,}
{Act June 7, 1832.}

Recorded by Dan'l. Boyd Clerk,
Book E Vol. 7 Page 7
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Letter to Hon. Linn Boyd 18 Feb. 1843.

3453
Kentucky
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Margaret Lovelace
widow of Vachel Lovelace, dec'd. 
a pensioner on the act of 1832, 
who died on the 16 January 1837, 
of Graves Co., in the State of Kentucky
who was a private in the Compy commanded
by Captain Caldwell of the reg't. commanded by Col. Locke in the N. Carolina 
line for 9 months.
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Inscribed on the Roll of Kentucky
at the rate of 30 Dollars per annum, to commence on the 17th day of Jan. 1837.
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Certificate of Pension issued the 23rd day of Octr. 1840, & sent to Hon. L. Boyd Belleview, Kentucky
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Arrears to the 4th of Mar 1841 $ 124.00
Semi=annual allowance ending 4 Sep. 41 15.00 =
$139.00
{Revolutionary Claim,}
{Act July 4, 1836,}
{Section the 3d}
Recorded by D. McCurdy, Clerk
Book C. Vol. 1. Page 195.
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The Vachel Lovelace 
And Margaret his 
wife
Vachel Lovelace was 
born june the 12 Day the year 1759 -
Marget Lovelace was Born in March the 14th Day 1757 -
and they was married July 28 1778 -

Vachel Lovelace Departed this
Life January the 15th 1837
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George Adams Lovelace
was Born March 13 1780
William Lovelace was Born 
March the 10 Day 1783
Elizabeth Lovelace was 
William is M. Hill
Born June 25 Day 1785
Elias Lovelace was Born 
April 6 Day 1788 -
Molley Lovelace was Born
February the 19 Day 179?
John Lovelace was Born January the 12 Day 1794
Walter William Adams Lovelace was born July ?? Day 1797
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Vachel Lovelace
Kentucky
from 1777 privit
9 months
$30.
Caldwell
Lock
N.C.

see Elias Lovelace papers
claim admitted
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State of Kentucky}
Graves County} Sct.
On this 16th day of May 1833 personally appeared in open court before Willima Armstrong James Cochrand &  Daniel Cargill Justices of the Graves County Court now sitting Vachel Lovelace a resident of said county of Graves and Commonwealth aforesaid aged seventy five 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 act of Congress passed June 7th 1832 That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated to wit He states that he was born in Frederick County state of Maryland on the 12th day of June 1758/ as appears from the record of his age now in his possession which was many years since copied from his fathers record of his children's age. That he was raised in sd county of Frederick till he was about 16 years of age when he moved to Rowan County North Carolina where he continued to reside till he entered the service for a tour of six months on the 1st of April 1777 as an Indian Spy under Captain David Caldwell Lieut. Richard McGuire Ensign John Knox all of a Regiment commanded by Col. Locke who was under Gen'l. Rutherford He states however that in actual service he had no supervisor officer to his captain in as much as no other than a single company of spies was put out from Rowan. He states that he met with his company at Shells ford on the Catawba River and from thence Marched to Davidson's fort at the
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foot of the blue Ridge on the head of the Catawba  River at which place he remained for the purpose of Ranging the Country round and protecting the Frontier till the expiration of his term of six months when he received a discharged signed by his Capt. David Caldwell which discharge has long since been lost by this applicant He states that he entered the above service as a volunteer in said company of spies. After being discharged he returned home where he remained till, he again entered the service as a volunteer on the 1st of September 1780 under Capt. Robeson Colonel Waid Hampton and Gen'l Sumpter He states that he rendezvoused at Mecklenburg Courthouse from which place he was sent to range and watch the country round Winnsborough to which place Cornwallis had retreated after Ferguson's defeat. He states that a considerable part of this tour's service consisted in watching ferries mills and in cutting off foraging parties of the British He states that he was in a sharp engagement with a part of British at a place called the Fish dam on Broad River and that his party were defeated. He states that a few days afterwards he was in another severe engagement under Gen'l Sumpter at Blackstock’s plantation on Tyger River. Sumpter had near a thousand men but was nevertheless defeated and badly wounded From this place he was marched to Buffington's Iron-works on Pacolet - where he remained but a few days from which place he was marched with the army to Col Watson's plantations when the troops, remained sometime, when he was marched to Mecklenburg Court house having served out his tour of three months at which place he received his discharge signed by Gen'l Horatio Gates
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and bearing date the 3rd day of December 1780- This was his last term of service He shortly afterwards moved to the state of Kentucky (from Rowan County) in which state he has continued to reside ever since. He has no documentary evidence of his services now ha he any better evidence than he here addresses including the certificate of his brother Elias Lovelace but his neighbours to wit Peter Mahan, Samuel Mahan, Lewis Goad, Benjamin Kimel James, Ashley and other who are well acquainted with him will bear ample testimony as to his character for veracity and for his being reputed a soldier of the Revolution He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension Roll of The agency of any State whatever.
[Signature]
Vachel Lovelace
Subscribed and sworn to in open court the day & year aforesaid
attest
[Signature]
Jno. Anderson eqr.

We Lewis Goad a clergyman resident in the said county of Graves & state aforesaid and Walter W. Adams - also a resident of the same county and state hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Vachel Lovelace who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be seventy five years of age that he is reputed and believed in the neighbourhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion.
[Signatures]
Lewis Goad
Walter W. Adams Jr.
 Jno. Anderson esq.

And the said court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by 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 Lewis Goad who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman resident in the said county of Graves and that Walter W. Adams who has also signed the same is also a resident of Graves County and is a credible person and that their statement is entitled to credit.
[Signature]
Wm. Armstrong, J. P.
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James Cochran J. P.
Daniel T. Cargill J. P.

I John Anderson clerk of the court of Graves County do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of Vachel Loveless for a pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of office this 16th day of May 1883.
[Signature]
Jno. Anderson
[Seal]

Personally appeared before the undersigned an acting Justice of the peace in and for McCracken County State of Kentucky Elias Lovelace a Resident of McCracken County aged seventy eight years who being by reason of his great age & bodily infirmity wholly unable to attend court doth upon his oath state and certify that he is an elder brother to Vachel Lovelace who has signed the above declaration, that he resided in Rowan County North Carolina during the Revolutionary warm That he knows that his said brother Vachel Lovelace served as an Indian Spy in the year 1777 under Capt. David Caldwell and that he believes the same was a six months tour. He also states that sd Vachel was in the service against the British in the year 1780 That he knows from circumstances that all his statements contained in the foregoing declaration are true although he does not know positively that they are so-
[Signature]
James Ashley J. P.

Commonwealth of Kentucky}
McCracken County Sct.} I Braxton Small Clerk of the County  Court of the County aforesaid do hereby certify that James Ashley whose signature is affixed to the foregoing certificate was at the time of affixing the same and now is an acting Justice of the peace in and for the County aforesaid, he having been duly commissioned and qualified agreeably to the                                                 constitution and laws of this Commonwealth, and that full faith and credit are due and ought to be given to all his acts as such, and that the signature annexed is his genuine signature.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said court this 13th day of May 1833.
[Signature]
Braxton Small
[Seal]
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State of Kentucky}
Graves County Sct.}
 On the 2nd day of June 1840 personally appeared before the undersigned a Justice of the peace for the county and state aforesaid Margaret Lovelace a resident of the said county and state aged about eighty two 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 1886. That she is the widow of Vachel Lovelace who was a private in the militia of the state of North Carolina during the war of the revolution and the state that her said husband Vachel Lovelace to the best of her knowledge & recollection served there several tours of duty in the armies of the United Staes in the capacity of a private in the North Carolina militia during the revolutionary war and after her marriage with her said husband amounting in the whole to at least ten months service - but from age and infirmity of memory she is unable to state either the length of time of each particular engagement or the names of the officers under whom he served but she  knows that he entered the service at each successive time in the county of Rowan and State of North Carolina and that at each time he marched towards South Carolina She has heard her husband  speak of the battle of Hanging Rock & of the skirmish at the fords of the Catawba & she thinks that her husband informed her that he was in both of those engagements - she here states that her said husband Vachel Lovelace was a pensioner under the act of Congress of June 7th 1832 and that his declaration for obtaining the benefit of that act is now on file in the pension office & she
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states to the best of her knowledge he proved his services in the revolutionary war upon that occasion by one or two living witnesses and she here refers to that declaration and the documentary evidence & the affidavits of the witnesses attached to it as a sufficient document to prove the service of her deceased husband & prays that he same may be taken & read with this declaration as a part thereof. She here states that she was married to the aforesaid Vachel Lovelace in the month of July or August 1778 seventeen hundred and seventy eight and that her husband the aforesaid Vachel Lovelace died in Graves County Kentucky on the 16th day of January 1837 eighteen hundred & thirty four and that she has remained a widow ever since that period as will more fully appear by reference to the proof hereto annexed She states that she has no living witness to prove her husband service & no documentary evidence save that mentioned above.
[Signature]
Margaret Lovelace X her mark

Sworn to and subscribed before the undersigned a Justice of the peace for the county of Graves and state of Kentucky this 2nd day of June 1840 and I do further certify that the above named Margaret Lovelace from age and infirmity is unable to attend court for the purpose of making her declaration
Given under my hand the day & date above stated 
[Signature]
Dan'l. T. Cargill J. P.
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I Lewis Goad of Graves County Kentucky do depose and say that the above named Margaret Lovelace is well known to me and so was her husband Vachel Lovelace who died on the sixteenth day of Jan'y eighteen hundred & thirty seven and I do further state that the said Margaret Lovelace is yet a single woman & remains the widow of the said Vachel Lovelace Given under my hand this 2nd day of June 1840
[Signature]
Lewis Goad

Subscribed and sworn to before the subscriber a Justice of the peace for the county of Graves and state of Kentucky the 2 day of June 1840 and I do further certify that I am well acquainted with the above named Lewis Goad & know him to be a respectable person & entitled to full credit on his oath.
[Signature]
Dan'l. T. Cargill J. P.
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I John Anderson Clerk of the county court of Graves County in the state of Kentucky do hereby certify that Dan'l. T. Cargill whose name is signed the two foregoing certificates on page two and three of this sheet is now and was at the time of signing the same a Justice of the peace for the county of Gravers and State of Kentucky duly commissioned and qualified as such and authorized by law to administer oaths and I do further certify that the foregoing signature purporting to be his is Genuine 
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the County court of said county to be here affixed this 5th day of June 1840
[Signature]
Jno. Anderson
[Seal]
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Margaret Lovelace

Hon. L. Boyd
HR

5103

Margaret Lovelace 
of Vachel 
Kentucky

5103
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I Anne Lovelace of the county of McCracken and state of Kentucky do solemnly swear that that Margaret Lovelace the same person who made the foregoing declaration is  the widow of the identical same Vachel Lovelace that she mentions in her said declaration she states that she was present and saw the said Vachel & Margaret Lovelace married in the county of Rowan & State of North Carolina in the last of July or first of August in the year seventeen hundred & seventy eight that she was intimately acquainted with them from the period of their marriage as above stated down to the month of January or February in the year eighteen hundred & thirty seven when the said Vachel Lovelace died in Graves county Kentucky during all which time they lived together as husband and wife & she further sates that the said Margaret Lovelace is yet single & remains the widow of the said Vachel Lovelace  Given under my hand the second day of June 1840
[Signature]
Anne Lovelace X her mark


personally appeared before the undersigned a Justice of the peace for the county of McCracken and state of Kentucky the above named Anne Lovelacwe a very old woman and made oath before me that the matters and things stated in her foregoing affidavit are true - and I do further certify that the said Anne Lovelace is a respectable person and is entitled to full credit on her oath Given under my hand this 2nd day of June in the year eighteen hundred & forty
[Signature]
James Ashley J. P.
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I Braxton Small clerk of the County Court of McCracken County in the state of Kentucky do hereby certify that James Ashley whose name is signed to the foregoing certificate on the proceeding page is now and was at the time of signing the same a Justice of the peace for the county of McCracken and State of Kentucky, duly commissioned and qualified as such and authorized by law to administer oaths -
And I do further certify that the foregoing signature purporting to be his is genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the County Court of saic County to be hereunto affixed this 6th day of June 1840.
[Signature]
B. Small 
[Seal]
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I Lewis Goad of Graves County in the state of Kentucky do solemnly swear that I was intimately acquainted with Vachel Lovelace during the last thirty years of his life., I mean the same Vachel Lovelace who was a revolutionary pensioner of the United States under the act of June 7th 1832 and who dies in Graves County Kentucky on the 16th day of January 1837 and do further state that the said Vachel Lovelace kept his family record on the blank leaf of a small horse farmer book - and I do hereby solemnly state that  the annexed leaf containing two pages is the genuine family record of said Vachel Lovelace - that every word letter & figure thereof is in the proper handwriting of the said Vachel Lovelace with the exception of the entry of his death at the bottom of the first page - and that altho the marriage of the said Vachel seems to have been written at a later period & with different ink from the other parts of the record - yet it is in his own hand writing and was there Just as it stands at this time when I first saw the record which was at least fifteen years before Vachel Lovelace's death - that the said record was kept by the said Vachel Lovelace in his own possession until his death when the book fell into the hands of one of his sons (Elias) who has since died and it (the book) then fell into the hands of another of his sons (Walter W.) who has kept it ever since
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up to the present time until it was sent for by Margaret Lovelace for the purpose of sending it to the pension office - (Walter W lives in Illinois) - I do solemnly state that it is the same record that I have frequently seen the same in the possession of the said Vachel Lovelace - so often that I recognized the book in which it was kept the moment I saw it and I am so familiar with Vachel Lovelace’s writing that I would know it wherever I might see it - Given under my hand this 25th day of August 1840 
[Signature]
Lewis Goad

Subscribed & sworn to before the subscriber a Justice of the peace for the county of Graves and state of Kentucky this 25th day of August 1840 and I do further certify that I am well acquainted with the said Lewis Goad & do state that he is a respectable citizen of the county and state aforesaid and is entitled to full credit on his oath Given under my hand this 25th day of August 1840.
[Signature]
F. R. Dallam J. P.
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I John Anderson Clerk of the county court of Graves County in the state of Kentucky do hereby certify that F. R. Dallam whose name is signed to the foregoing certificate is now & was at the time of signing the same a Justice of the peace for the county & state aforesaid that is the county of  Graves & state of Kentucky duly commissioned and qualified as such and authorized by law to administer oaths and I do further certify that the foregoing signature purporting to be his [covered]
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the County Court of said county to be hereunto affixed this 25th day of August 1840.
[Signature]
Jno. Anderson
[Seal]
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I Anne Lovelace of McCracken County Kentucky do hereby state that I was well acquainted with Vachel Lovelace formerly of Rowan County North Carolina being the same Vachel Lovelace who died in Graves County Ky. on the 16th day of January 1837 my acquaintance first commenced with him in Rowan County North Carolina during the revolutionary war and I have known him intimately ever since that period up to the time of his death and I do hereby solemnly state that the said Vachel Loelace served at least two tours of duty in the service of the United States as a private in the North Carolina militia during the revolutionary war tours in the year 1780 and 1781 he lived in Rowan County North Carolina during both those years & entered the service of the United States upon both occasions in said County of Rowan North Carolina & marched from thence southwardly against the British = to the best of my recollection one of his tours was for six and the other for three months - I know that he made at least two tours of at least three months each - I did not see him enter the service of the United States but I lived in the same neighbourhood with him & know that he was gone in the army upon two occasions during the above named years and he being my brother in law I was at his place of residence often during his absence and after his return immediately upon both occasions and I do further state that he is the same Vachel Lovelace who was a revolutionary pensioner of the United States under the act of June 7th 1832 & who died as above stated on the 16th day of January 1837 - Given under my hand this 3rd day of July 1840
[Signature]
Anne Lovelace + her mark
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I James Ashley a Justice of the peace for McCracken Ciounty in the state of Kentucky do hereby certify that the foregoing named Anne Lovelace this day personally appeared before me & made oath in due form of law that the matters and things stated by her in the foregoing affidavit in relation to the service of Vachel Lovelace in the revolutionary war are true and I do further certify that I have been intimately acquainted with the above named Ann Lovelace for the last 26 years & know her to be a respectable person entitled to full credit on her oath Given under my hand this 3rd day of July 1840
[Signature]
James Ashley J. P.

I Braxton Small Clerk of the County Court of McCracken County in the state of Kentucky do certify that James Ashley whose name is subscribed to the foregoing certificate is now and was at the time of signing the same a Justice of the peace for the county of McCracken & state of Kentucky, duly commissioned & qualified  as such & authorized by law to administer oaths - and I do further certify that the foregoing signature purporting to be his is is genuine - In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the County Court of said county to be hereunto affixed this 2nd day of July 1840.
[Signature]
B. Small
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5103
Margaret Lovelace 
of Vachel
Kentucky
admitted
Pr. 9 mos. $30.--
Cap. Caldwell Col. Locke
N. C. 

died 16 Jan. 1837

Act 4 July 1836

Hon. L. Boyd
Bellview 
Ken.
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Margaret Lovelace
of Vachel
Kent;ucky
suspended
see let 22 June 1840
Hon. L. Boyd.


Act 4 July 1836
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Vachel Lovelace Ken: Act 7 June 1832
to what time paid?
Pen: Office
Oct. 22. 1840.

$30 died 1837
Died 16 Jan. 1837 p To that period
JH
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Rev'y WIDOW, &c.
__________
File No. 9144
Margaret Lovelace
Wid. of 
Vachel Lovelace 
Prvt. N. Carolina
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Act July 4 "736, Sec. 3d.
Index:-Vol. A, Page 441

[Arrangement of 1870.]
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free
L. Boyd
M. C.

J. L. Edwards Esqr.
Com Pensions
Washington
D. C.

Oct. 12-1840
Ky 
add'l proof
Marg't Lovelace,
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Mayfield 26th Aug. 1840

Hon. Lynn Boyd

I enclose you some additional proof in support of the Claim of Margaret Lovelace widow of Vachel Lovelace dec'd. - will you do me the favor to transmit the same to the pension office
I think that her case is now completely made out
Very respectfully
Your Friend
[Signature]
Jno. Anderson

By request I herewith forward Mrs. Lovelace's papers with the request that you, gave the subject the earliest attention your convenience will allow.
Yours,
[Signature]
L. Boyd


J. L. Edwards Esqr.