Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 4058, for Larkin Reagan, North Carolina
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Service: NC
Reagan, Larkin
Or Reagar
Number S. 4058
Carded
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19039
West Tennessee
Larkin Reagan
Of Franklin in the state of Tennessee who was a private in the company commanded by Captain [illegible] of the regiment commanded by Lt Thaxter on the [illegible] line for five years private

*Larkin Reagan [illegible]

Inscribed in the rlld of West Tennessee at the rate of 50 Dollars __ cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 16 day of July 1833 and [illegible]  Micah Taul Winchester

Arrears to the 4th of March  160.00
[illegible] allowance ending 4 sept 40.00
$200.00

{Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832}

Recorded by Dan Biga clerk, Book C Vol. 7 Page [illegible]

[illegible] letters 13 April 1836 [illegible] and M. Taul
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State of Tennessee, Franklin County
On this 5th day of September 1832, personally appeared before the Worshipful, the County Court of the County & State aforesaid, Larkin Reagan a resident of the County & State aforesaid, aged Eighty five years, on the 17th day of August last, who being first duly sworn, according to Law, makes this following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the pension made by the act of Congress passed June the 7th 1832. He states that he entered the service of the United States, under the following named officers - I first enlisted in the service of the United States in the County of Caswell, State of North Carolina, for the term of nine months, in company commanded by Capt. Robt. Moore. I don’t recollect the state of the enlistment, but do recollect, that the Tour was totally occupied. [marked out] He believes seven in June 1777 - We were called the “near Sevies” were deprived of these Commissions, & we were placed under the Command of officers in the Continental Camp. The Company to which I was Marched was Commanded by Capt Goodman, as or etc as his post lists of the 4th Regiments Commanded by Cols Hoston. Gen Lenerth & Seamster were the general officers. We were marched to Perry’s burgh in S. Carolina, where the army remained some time. He was in the Battle ofStone. He was also in the battle of Brim Creek, in Georgia, in which the Americans Commanded by Ash & Burton
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the epiration of this term of services by Capt. Goodman. The applicant, on the 10th of February 1821, made a Declaration in the Circuit Court of this COunty, to obtain a Pension under the Acts of the 18th of March 1818, & 1st of May 1820. His discharge was filed with his statement & he presumes forwarded therewith to the proper department at Washington, where the same, as he expects is now on file. He was never advised of the results & supposes the application was rejected. If the said statement is in file in the War department, he refers toit, & the papers accompanying the same for greater certainty.
Shortly after the surrender of Charleston in S Carolina, he enlisted under Capt. William Tyke for two years & six months. We were attached to the 3rd Regiments Commanded of the Maryland line, & was in the battle of Guilford, where he was severily wounded in the belly by a canon ball with produced a rupture, which continues to this day. He remained in the Hospital for nearly two months. He served the full term of two years & six months & was regularly discharged. Owing to the disability under which he labored he was not in any other battle. He has but an imperfect recollection of the general officers with whom he served. He has no documentary evidence in his possession or person to produce, as before stated his discharges were sent to the War department in 1821. He is known to the Rev ? Robert Dougan & John Morris of Franklin County, Tennessee, & others, who can testify to his character, [marked out] for asurity & their belief of his services.
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He states that he was born in Caswell County, North Carolina, on the 17th day of August 1757. He continued to reside there [marked out] & in Wake County, until about the year 1800, when he removed to Pendleton, South Carolina, where he resided about 11 years - from thence he removed to East Tennessee, where he resided two years from thence he removed to this County, where he has resided ever since.
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a Pension or annuity except the present and he declares, that his name on the Pension Roll of any agency in any State.
Larkin [his C mark] Reagan
Sworn to & subscribed the day & year aforesaid}
E Russell clerk
In the presence of W B Wagner DC
John Morris a citizen of said County [marked out] aged about 60 years being first duly sworn, saith that he has been acquainted with the applicant Larkin Reagan, as far back as he can recollect; he always understood from his father and a brother in law by the name of William Rowe, who was in the service of the United States as an officer as he believes, that the said Larkin Reagan, was in the service of the U.S. as a Soldier during the War of the Revolution and he has no doubt of the fact.
John H. Morris
Sworn to in open court September the 5th 1832
E Russell Clerk
In the presence of W B Wagner DC
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Mr Robert Dougan a Clergyman, & John Turner both residing in the County of Franklin, & State of Tennessee, hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Larkin Reagan, who has subscribed & Sworn, to the above declaration, that we believe him to be Eighty five years old that he is reputed & believed in the neighborhood, in which he resides, to have been a Soldier of the Revolution, & that we concur in that opinion.
Robt Dougan
John Turner
Sworn to in open Court September the 5th 1832
E Russell Clerk
In presence of W B Wagner D. C.

I Edmond Russell clerk of the court of pleas and quarter Sessions of Franklin County in the State of Tennessee do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the Original proceedings in the matter of the application of Larkin Ragan for a pension
{Seal} In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of Office this 5th day of September 1832
E Russell Cerlk of Franklin County Court
In the presence of W. B. Wagner D.C.

[page torn at bottom left showing text on page underneath]
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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 Robert Dougan who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman resident in the county & State above mentioned and that John H. Morris & John Turner who have also signed the same are residents in the County & State above mentioned and are credible persons and that their Statement is entitled to credit.
I Edmond Russell clerk of the court of please and quarter Sessions of Franklin County in the State of Tennessee do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the Original proceedings in the matter of the application of Larkin Ragan for a pension. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of Office the 5th day of September A. D. 1832
E. Russell Clk of Franklin County Court
In presence of W.B. Wagner D.C.
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L. Reagan
12,484
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State of Tennessee, Franklin County [illegible]
On the 1st day of June 1833, personally appeared before the worshipful the County Court of the County aforesaid Larkin Reagan, a resident of the County & State aforesaid, aged 85 years on the 17th day of August last, who being first duly sworn, according to Law, makes the following amendment or mention to his original declaration, filed in this Worshipful Court, on the 5th day of September 1832, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed June the 7th 1832.
In answer to the 2nd Interrogatory propounded by the War Department, he states, That he has no Record of his age. He has seen the time of his birth, on his fathers family Record, which he presumes has long since been lost or destroyed.
When making his Declaration before the County Court of this County on the 5th day of September 1832 he supposed that his discharges were in the War Office, filed with a Declaration made by him before in the Circuit Court in 1821. He is now informed that it is stated in that Declaration that he had lost his Discharges. That statement was erroneous, the Gentleman who prepared that Declaration had the Discharges. He has lately found the annexed Certificate signed by B. Landers, shewing the settlement of an amount for Military services. He has no other Documentary evidence in his possession of Service. He is old
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Poor & infirm & unable to travel or he believes he could find living witnesses in Kentucky to prove his services. But he does not know in what part of the State they reside.
Sanders whose names is signed to the Certificate was an officer in the Army but of what p[?illegible] he does not recollect. He was acting as Pay Master at the date of the Certificate
He claims a full pension having served two years & upwards, but if his claim to the whole is not supported by sufficient evidence he then claims for at least nine months.
Larkin [his X mark] Reagan
Sworn to & Subscribed in open Court June the 4th 1833
E Russell Clerk
By W.B. Wagner D.C.
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 Robert Dougan who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman resident in the County and State above mentioned and that John H Morris
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and John Turner who have also signed the same are residents in the County & State above mentioned and are credible persons and that their Statement is entitled to credit

I Edmond Russell Clerk of the Court of please and quarter Sessions of Franklin County in the State of Tennessee do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings in the matter of the application of Larkin Ragan for a pension
[Seal] In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of Office at Office this 4th day of June A D 1833
E Russell Clerk
By W. B. Wagner D.C.
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Larkin Regan- Tennessee
Rejected 19. July 1821
[illegible faded writing]
[sideways in middle right] Larkin Regan Declaration & Schedule 18093

Not mustered
Wm. Hill Sury
868E
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State of Tennessee } 
Franklin County } February Sessions 1821
This day personally appeared in open court being a circuit Court of record for the county of Franklin and State of Tennessee Larkin Reagan aged seventy one years [added, & resident of Franklin County] nearly who being first duly sworn according to law On his oath makes the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by Congress of the 18th of March 1818 and the first of May 1820 That he the said Larkin Reagan enlisted in the latter end of the year 1777 or beginning of the year 1788 in the company of Captain William Lytte under Colonel William Moore in the fifth Regiment of the continental establishment in the State of North Carolina for nine months and that he served out that time and at the expiration thereof enlisted in the state of South Carolina for three years in the company of Thomas Goodman under Colol [blank] Thaxton of the fifth Regiment of the continental establishment in the Maryland Troops and states that he was in the battle of Guilford and also in the battle of Stone and also at the battle of Briar Creek in the State of Georgia and was in service at little York in Virginia in said establishment when Cornwallis was captured and was after the taking of said Cornwallis discharged from the army and states that he has lost his discharge, he states that he does not now know any proofs he can obtain of those facts excepting William Lytte his Captains deposition
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and that of his own oath that he has a wife called Betsy sixty three years of age very infirm and decrepit and also one Son named Bayley Reagin who is now in his nineteenth year and living with him that he has sixty acres of poor land and a small Cabbin thereon in the County of Franklin aforesaid and what personal property is contained in a Schedule hereto annexed. And in pursuance of the Act of Congress of the first day of May 1820
I do solemnly sware that I was a resident Citizen of the United States on the eighteenth day of March 1818 and that I have not since that time by gift sale or in any other manner disposed of my propoerty or any part thereof with intent thereby so to diminish it and to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress which is 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 8th day of Marcy one thousand eight hundred and eighteen and that I have not nor has any person for me in trust any propertys or securities contracts or Debts due to me nor have I any other income than what is contained in the Schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed. (here follows the Schedule)
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Schedule
60 acres of land $60
2 head of horses 60
6 head of cattle 20
2 head of Sheep - - 4
13 head of hogs - - - -20
2 Pots 1 Table 5
1 oven 1 Dish 1:75
1/2 doz of plates 1.50
3 knives 3 forks .50
1 Plough & Gears 4
[totaled] $176:75

Larkin [his C mark] Reagan
Sworn to and Subscribed in open Court this 10th Feby 1821
J.N. Robinson DC

State of Tennessee }
Franklin County } I Jonathan Spyker clerk of the Circuit Court for Said County Do hereby certify that the foregoing oath or affirmation and the Schedule thereof annexed are truly copied from the records of said Court and Do further certify that it is the opinion of the said Court that the total amount of the value of property exhibited in the aford. Schedule is One hundred and Seventy Six dollars & Seventy five cents. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & [added, affixed the] private seal of S. Court, there being no seal of office at office
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the 30th day of May 1821.
 Jona Spyker JP
By JN Robertson

Larkin Reagan
Tennessee
Ryeath 12-July 1824
Declaration 
& Schedule
18.093

Not mentioned W. Hill Surg
8686
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from 1777 Private
2 yrs.  $80.
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BRIEF in the case of Larkin Reagan
County of Franklin in the State of Tennessee
(Act 7th June, 1832.)

1.  Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge?  [illegible]

2.  if before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity? 
[left blank]

3.  How old is he?  85

4.  State his service as directed in the form annexed.

Period.
In 1777
Enlisted

Duration of Service.
Years   Months,   Days.
[illegible]

Rank.
As a 
Private

Names of general and Field Officers
under whom he served.
Gen. [illegible]
Capt. Moore
Col [illegible]
Capt [illegible]
Capt William 
[illegible]

5.  In what battles was he engaged? illegible], [illegible], Guilford

6.  Where did he reside when he entered the service?  [illegible]

7.  Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by 
incindental evidence, or by the rolls?  traditionary

8.  Are the papers defective as to form or authentication?  and if so, in what respect?  attached

* Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above
mentioned.
[illegible signature]
Examining Clerk.
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Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873.
Admitted File 4058
Larken Reagan

8686
Larkin Reagan

rvice:

listed:  REJECTED, 18
charged:  REJECTED, 18
plication filed:, 18
eges:
-enlisted:
orney:
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1908 June 4. Hist to David
A Rowl - letter in SF 46,448C

Rev War
4058
INVALID.
File No. 4058
Larkin Reagen
Pvt. N.C. line

Act: June 7th /32
Index: - Vol. A,  Page 311
[Arrangement of 1870.]
* Larkin Reagan.  Records corrected
Apr 2, 18[illegible]
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Hilleb o. 14th August 1792

This Certifies that Larkin Ragan has [illegible] as a Soldier
at Warrenton for 104 35/90 Dollars by John Martz
hol appears by the Warrenton Settement

B Sanders
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In reply to your request of
for a statement of the military history of
Larkin Reagan
a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired
information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pen
sion
on file in this Bureau.
S File 4058
DATES OF
ENLISTMENT OR
APPOINTMENT.
1775
after [illegible]

LENGTH OF
SERVICE.
9 mos,
2 yrs 8mo.
RANK.
Prt
OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED.
CAPTAIN.
Wm Lytle
Robt Moore
[illegible] Goodman
COLONEL.
William Moore
Shafton
STATE.
N.C.
4 N.C.
This request of [illegible] in consideration of the affidavit of Capt.
Wm. Lytle, the date [illegible] other facts of record, in appearance [illegible]

Battles engaged in, Brim Creek, Stone, Guilford, [illegible], & Yorktown
Residence of soldier at enlistment, not stated
Date of application for pension, Febr 10th, 1821   St[illegible] allowed
Residence at date of application, Franklin Co. Tenn
Age at date of application,  71 yrs-
-
Remarks: In 1821 sol [illegible] his wife Betsy at 63 yrs & son Bailey Reagan is 18 - [illegible] 1832 he stated that he was 85 yrs old and 
[illegible]gave the date of his birth as Aug 17. 1757.
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L. Reagan


M Thiel
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BRIEF objections to the admission of Pension Claims, of which those
answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of Larkin Reagan which require
further proof or explanation.

I. Does the declaration show where the applicant resides  Yes

II. Did the declarant make the declaration in the county where he resides?  YesI

II. If the applicant did not make the declaration in the county where he resides, is there any reason
assigned for his not doing [illegible]?

IV.  Has the declarant mentioned the period or periods of the war when he served? Yes

V.  Has he mentioned with precision the length of his service, and the different grades in which he
served, in language so definite as to enable the department to determine to what amout of pension
he is entitled?  Yes

VI. Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with the regulations?  Yes

VII. Has he made a relinquishment of every claim to any other pension than the one under the Act of
June 7, 1832?   Yes [faint /faded]]

VIII. Has the Court given their opinion?  Yes [faint/faded]

IX. Has the Clerk given his certificate?  Yes [faint/faded]

X. Is the Clerk's seal affixed? And if so, has it a device or inscription by which it can be distinguished
from any other seal? Yes [faint/faded]
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XI. Has the applicant obtained the evidence of a clergyman and another respectable citizen as to
their belief respecting his age and the general belief in his neighborhood relative to his revolutionary
service?  Yes

XII. If the clergyman's affidavit has not been produced, is there any reason assigned for not obtain
ing it?

XIII. If the applicant has no documentary evidence, and has not obtained the testimony of at least one
living witness, has he stated in his declaration that such proof cannot be had?  Yes

XIV.  If the applicant's name is not found on the rolls of military service, has he produced a witness
or witnesses as to his service?  No
If he has produced direct proof as to service, has the magistrate who administered the oath,
certified to the credibility of the witness or witnesses?
Has the proper officer certified to the official character and signature of the magistrate as the
regulations direct?

XV. Does it appear from any of the papers that the witness was in such a situation, or of such an age,
as to have a personal knowledge of the applicant's service?  Yes [crossed out]

XVI. Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct:  No

XVII. Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily? And,
if not, which of them is not so answered?  2

EXPLANATORY NOTES.
QUERE V. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how
long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words:
"Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A. B. who, being
duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that, by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he
cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service, but according to the best of his recol-
lection he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades; For  ---   year
-- months, and --- days, I served as a --- . For ---months
and ---days, I served as a  ---; and for such service I claim a pension.
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It is important in all cases to determine with precision the period for which each applicant served,
and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the
pensioner and the length of his service. The use of the phrase about three or four months is too indefinite
, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable. Some persons who apply for pensions
merely state they served two years in the militia, &c. without specifying the tours; the names of the
officers, and other particulars respecting their service. This form of a declaration is highly objection-
able. It must in every case be clearly shewn under what officers the applicant served; the duration
of each term of engagement; the particular place or places where the service was performed; that the
applicant served with an embodied corps called into service by competent authority; that he was either
in the field or in garrison; and for the time during which the service was performed, he was not em-
ployed in any civil pursuit.
QUERE XIV. Proof of Service.
In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must
prove his service by two credible witnesses, who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of
the claimants entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the
regiment, company, and line to which he belonged. The magistrate who may administer the oaths
must certify to the credibility of the witnesses, and the official character and signature of the magis-
trate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office.
QUERE XVI. Mode of authenticating papers.
In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticates the papers is not
written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other paper authenticated, the cer-
tificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the ends of which must pass
under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly
attached to the certificate.
In every case where the clerk of the court, or other certifying officer, has no public seal of
office, the certificate of a member of congress, proving the official character and signature of the
certifying officer, should accompany the papers.
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19.034.
Larkin Reagan
Tenn.  Mar 27
Comdr

[Stamp visible]

Edwards Esq.
Commissioner of Pensions
City of
Washington

[wax seal]
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Winchester, Ten, Mar. 15. 1837
JL Edwards, Esq.
Larkin Reagan, a Revolutionary
Pensioneer having failed to draw his pension
semi annually is completed to [illegible]
to you the enclosed  affidavets  he has for
the purpose of being reinstated
Please return the papers soon as can
[illegible]-
Respectfully Yours
W Taul
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Dear Sir
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State of N. Carolina
Orange County }  This day William Lytle appeared
before me Andrew Murdock one of the Justices assigned
to keep the peace of said County, and after being
duly sworn on the Holy Evangelist of Almig=
hty God Soposeth and sayeth that Larkin-
Regan was a Soldier in the Nine monthz
Service from this State under Continental
Establishment, and further sayz that this
Said Larkin Regin Served the Greater
part of that time in my Company, which
appears by a muster Roll now in
my Posession - May 29th 1792
Sworn to Before Me
Andrew Murdock J.P.
Will Lytle