Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 41643, Jacob Hickman, N.C.
Page 1

SERVICE                                                
N.C.
                
Hickman, Jacob             

NUMBER
S. 41643

CONTENTS
Page 2

[Left side of record]
18.440  R
North Carolina
________________
Jacob Hickman
[missing letter at left edge] -f [probably meaning "of"] Guilford Cy [County] in the State of NC
who was a Private in the ^10th Regiment commanded by Capt [Captain] [?] Evards of the N [North] Carolina
-ne, for the term of 18 Months [? or] War 
__________________________
_nscribed [Inscribed] on the Roll of NCarolina [North Carolina] at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 22 of May 1821
___________________________
Certificate of Pension issued the 3d of Jany [January] 1822 and Sentto [Sent to] R. M. Sanders [or Landers] Esq [Esquire] H. Reps [House of Representatives] 
___________________________
Arrears to 4th of Sept 1821 [$] 27.64
Semi-anl. all'ce [Semi-annual allowance] ending 4 March 1822 [$] 48.[00]
___________________________
$75.64
__________________________

[Math calculations:] 
3
[x] 8
_____
24

10/31 

6/20

2.58
1._6
_____
[$] 27.64 

(Revolutionary claim)
(Act 18th March, 1818.)
[Squiggle, possibly meaning &]
May 1 [or 6 or 4], 1820

No certife [certificate] Sent
Vol. 9 page 74 

[On right side of record]
[Faint partial impression of what appears to be a round seal of office showing through from other side of the document.]
[Written perpendicularly:] Duplicate certificate Issued Dec 30th 1826 and Sent to I. [or J.] M. Dick [at] Greensboro, N.C.
Page 3

Copy of Record
For 
Jacob Hickman

Admittd [Admitted]
Page 4

[Occasional spacing has been included to make the long text block easier to read.]

State of North Carolina)
Guilford County)

Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions May Term AD 1821

On this 22nd day of May in the year of Our Lord One thousand eight hundred and twenty one. personally appeared in Open Court Jacob Hickman ^ of Guilford County [North Carolina] being a Court of Record for the County aforesaid aged fifty seven Years Who being first duly Sworn According to law Doth on his Oath make the following Declaration in Order to Obtain the provision made by the Acts of Congress of the 18th of March 1818 and the 1st of May 1820 - 

That he the Said Jacob Hickman enlisted under Captain Evans [or Evards] for the term of eighteen Months Sometime in the Fall of 1782 in the County of [?] Pitt State of North Carolina[.]  his Said Company was Attached to the 10th regiment of the North Carolina line and was Commanded by Corpl [or Capt] [either Corporal or Captain] Benjamin [?] Coleman a part of the time [or term] he Served in it -

That he Continued to Serve in Said Corp c [? possibly meaning under said Corporal's command] until the expiration of his above mentioned [time or term] of Service

[Illegible stricken through letters] he was discharged on Hadleys Island near Charlestown in the State of South Carolina. He was in no battles during his Said term of Service - 

And in persuance [pursuance] of the Act of Congress of the first of May 1820 I do Solemnly Swear that I was a resident Citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March 1818 and that I have not Since that time by gift Sale or in any Manner disposed of my property or any part
Page 5

[?] thereof with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an Act of Congress entitled An Act to provide for Certain persons engaged in the land and Naval Service of the United States in the Revolutionary War passed on the 18th day of March 1818 - And that I have not Nor has any person [illegible] for me any property Securitice [? Securities] Contracts or Debts due to me nor have I any income Other than What is Contained in the Schedule hereunto Annexed and by me Subscribed - 

Shedule [Schedule]

I have no property real or personal - I am and also my wife Rhoda Hickman entirely Supported by the Charity of my [hard to read phrase, possibly:] Son in law [name not shown.] 

My trade or Occupation is that of a farmer - my wife Rhoda Hickman is fifty eight Years of Age and is lame in her right foot - we are both unable to Contribute much to Our Support

Jacob Hickman [his mark]

Sworn to and Subscribed [to] in open Court
[illegible]
Jno Hanner CC
Page 6

State of North Carolina

I John Hanner Clerk of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions for the County of Guilford Do Certify The foregoing a True Copy from the Records of said Court and That Jacob Hickman Came into Open Court and made Oath to the foregoing facts Stated in this Record and Schedule -

[Near the left side margin, about mid-way down this record, there is a faint impression of what looks like a round seal of office.  To the right of that image, there is this:]
In Testimony Whereof I have hereunto Set my hand and affixed the Seal of Said Court at office the 25th Day of June A.D. 1821.
John Hanner CCC

State of North Carolina
Secretary's Office 26th Septr [September] 1821.
I William Hill Secretary of State in and for the State aforesaid, do hereby Certify that it appears from the musterrolls [muster rolls] of the Continental line of this State in the revolutionary war, that Jacob Hickman a private in Capt. [Captain] Evans's Company of the 10th Regt [Regiment] was mustered on the [blank] day of [blank month] 1782 for the Term of 18 months - nothing is said of his discharge.

Given under my hand this 26th Septr [September] 1821
Wm. [William] Hill
Page 7

O.W. & N. Div. 
I.41643
L. W. B. 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS,
WASHINGTON, D.C. 
July 14, 1896.

Sir:  
Replying to your request for information concerning the military record of Jacob Hickman, a soldier of the Revolutionary War, you are advised that the only Jacob Hickman found on the Revolutionary pension records made application for pension on May 22, 1821, at which time he was residing in Guilford County, N. C., [North Carolina] and 57 years of age, and his pension was allowed for eighteen months' actual service as a private in the N. C. [North Carolina] troops, Revolutionary War.  A part of the time he served under Capt. Benjamin Coleman.  He enlisted from Pitt County, N. C.
Very respectfully,
[blank]
Commissioner

Mr. James B. Hickman
203 [or 208 or 206] W. 4th Street,
Wilmington, Del. [Delaware]
Page 8

[Near the left top corner of the record, there is some cut-off text of unknown meaning, located near the margin. The only recognizable part is:] Del. [Delaware]

[In the middle portion of this record:]
41643
Revy [Revolutionary] INVALID.
_________________________________
File No. 41,643
Jacob Hickman Pri Rev War [Private in the Revolutionary War]
_________________________________
Act: 18 March 18 [1818]
Index:-Vol. 3 [or 8], Page 227
[Arrangement of 1870.] 

[On the top right side of this record:]
July 14 '96 [1896] [illegible cut-off word:] Sol- [possibly meaning Soldier, as in Soldier's history had been sent to:] 
W J B Hick- [cut-off word, probably Hickman]
Wilmington [Delaware] 
[?] LWB [or SrB or LrB]
Page 9

[Occasional spacing has been included, to make the text blocks easier to read.]

APPLICATION FOR A NEW CERTIFICATE.

State of North Carolina
County of Guilford ss.

On this 20th day of November 1826, before me, the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace for the said county of Guilford personally appeared Jacob Hickman who, on his oath, declares that he is the same person who formerly belonged to the company commanded by Captain Benjamin Coleman in the Regiment commanded by Colonel - Lytle in the service of the United States; 

that his name was placed on the pension roll of the state of North Carolina [and] that he received a certificate of that fact, under the signature and seal of the Secretary of War; 

which certificate, on or about the 20th day of August 1826, ["at or" is stricken through] in ["near" is stricken through] the County of Chatham[,] State of N [North] Carolina ["the Said Certificate" is stricken through] was ["he" is stricken through] Stolen out of the pocket of him the Said Hickman together with his pocket Book and Some Other papers

Sworn and subscribed to, before me, the day and year aforesaid.)

Jacob Hickman [his X mark] 

Jos.  [or Jas.] [?] Gibson IB [or JB] 
_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________

NOTES: - The last four blanks are left for the applicant to set forth the time, place and manner of the loss or destruction of the original certificate.

The oath to be taken before a duly qualified magistrate, whose official character and signature must be properly authenticated.

[Image of a pointing hand] If the pensioner has never received a formal certificate, but has drawn his pension on a mere notification, as was the case in a few instances many years ago, he should leave out the above words in italics, and insert, in lieu thereof, "but has never received a formal certificate and now wishes to obtain one."

The pensioner's oath must be supported by the evidence of another person as to identity. The person must swear that he well knows him to be the same person described in the above affidavit.  The magistrate must certify that the deponent is a person of veracity.  This oath must also be authenticated by the certificate of the proper officer, under his seal of office, setting forth that the officer before whom the affidavit may be made is a Justice of the Peace, Judge, or Notary Public, as the case may be.

When a person acting as an Agent or Attorney for a Pensioner, loses the certificate, the affidavit of that person is also required, which must be authenticated as above.
Page 10

[Occasional spacing has been included, to make the long text block easier to read.]

State of North Carolina)
Guilford County)

On this 11th day of December 1826 Came Robert Hanner before me the Subscriber a Justice of the peace in and for the County aforesaid and made Oath that he is Well acquainted with Jacob Hickman Whose name appears to the above affidavit 

that he Well Knows him to be the indentical Sume [Same] person Who was placed on the pension roll of the State of North Carolina and that he has Several times Seen the Certificate of that fact under the Signature and hand of the Secretary of War; in the possession of the Said Jacob Hickman - 

That Said Hickman was in Company with this deponant [deponent] When his pocket Book and Several Other articles were Stolen out of the Wagon of this deponant at the time and place stated by the Said Hickman in his Affidavit - 
[Signature] Robt [Robert] Hanner

Henry Humphry JP [Justice of the Peace]

State of North Carolina)
Guilford County)
I Henry Hemphrys [Humphry] a Justice of the peace in and for the County aforesaid Do Certify that Robert Hanner [blotted word, possibly the word "Whose" which looks like it had been changed to "Who"] [partially blotted word looks like] Made the above Affidavit before me is a Man Well entitled to Credit When upon Oath and is So understood and believed to be by
Page 11

his acquaintances generally
[Signature] Henry Humphrys JP [Justice of the Peace]

State of North Carolina
I John Hanner clerk of the Court of pleas and Quarter Sessions for Guilford County [North Carolina], Do. hereby Certify that Henry Humphreys Esquire whose signature appears [blotted, possibly "To"] the foregoing probate and Joseph Gibson Esqr. [Esquire] whose Signature Appears to the within Acknowledgment is and were both Acting Justices of the peace in and for said County legally Commissioned and qualified and that due faith and Credit Ever has been given to all their Acts as Such

[There appears to be an extremely faint round impression, probably of a seal of office, to the left near the margin, about mid-way down the record page. Opposite is this:] 

In Testimony whereof I have hereunto Set my hand and Seal of said Court at office this [? on date, blurry, but probably] 11th day of December AD 1826
Jno Hanner CCC
By A E Hanner DC [possibly meaning Deputy Clerk]
Page 12

[Record showing address, with notations written perpendicularly to the left side of the address.] 

Greensboro NC 
Decr. 13 [possibly /26, probably meaning 1826]

Free

The Honorable James Barbour
Secretary of War
Washington City

[Both above and below that address, there are faint impressions of what looks like round seals of office.]

[To the left side of the above address, written perpendicularly to the address, there appears:] 
recd. [received.] 19 Dec. [December[ 1826
Per Office
Jacob Hickman
for new cert [certificate]
I. [or J.] M. Dick
Greensboro', [Greensborough] N.C. [North Carolina]
Page 13

Greensboro [or Greensborough, North Carolina] Decr [December] the 13 [probably 1826]

The Honble [Honorable] James Barbour
Sir,

Enclosed I Send the Affidavits &c [and etcetera] of Jacob Hickman -

You will Observe that the Affidavits of Hickman and Hanner were taken at different time [or times] Which was Owing to my not being able to procure the Attendance of Hanner at the time Hickmans [Hickman's] was taken -

If the papers are in Sufficient [insufficient] [illegible, possibly from] please to enclose the Certificate to me as Soon as may be Convenient

Very Respectfully
Yours &c [and etcetera]
Jno. [Jonathan] M. Dick
Page 14

[Two stamped imprints.]

[Round stamped imprint:] 
U.S. PENSION OFFICE
D
JUL [July] 10 1896

[Perpendicular, rectangular stamped imprint:]
U.S.P.B. 
OLD WAR & NAVY
JULY 13 1896
FILES
Page 15

[Near the top left corner of this record, there are two illegible pencilled notations.]

TADMAN & HICKMAN,
MANUFACTURERS OF ... GLAZED KID...  [notation:] H
208 WEST FOURTH STREET.
Wilmington, Del., [Delaware,] July 9th 1896

[To] The Custodian of Army Navy [and] Old War Records 
Washington DC.
DrSir [Dear Sir]

Will you Kindly give me the War records of the Hickmans on my Grandfathers [Grandfather's] side and the Wilt banks [Wiltbanks] on my Grandmother [Grandmother's] side.  (I am desirous of Joining the Sons of the American Revolution.)

Judging from my Grandfathers [Grandfather's] intense abbolitiinist [abolitionist] principles I cannot help but think his Parents not only were in Sympathy with the Early Patriots but assisted in securing the independence of this  Country.  both families originally Came from Sussex Co in this State.  I think my Great Grand Fathers [Great  Grandfather's] name was Jacob Hickman. Trusting you can furnish me the desired information I am

Truly Yours
Jas [James] B Hickman