Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 8273, for Micajah Pitman, North Carolina
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State of Kentucky} 
County of Pulaski} Sct. 

On this 11th day of June 1850 personally appeared before the undersigned a justice of the peace in & for the County aforesd [aforesaid] Lydia Pitman a resident of Pulaski County & State of Kentucky, aged ninety-eight 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 4, 1836, and the act explanatory of said act, passed March 3, 1837, and the Acts of July 7th 1838 and February 2nd 1848: That she was married to Micajah Pitman, who was a private in the revolutionary war under Captain George Henry Bargen or Baringer [sic, Henry Barrier] in [a] Regiment commanded by Genl. [General] Rutherford [Griffith Rutherford] of North Carolina. That he served in the North Carolina troops generally through the revolutionary war, was at the battle of Guilford Courthouse [March 15, 1781], and marched through North and South Carolina, and was also in the battle at the Cowpens [January 17, 1781]. He entered the service in the year 1776. Claimant's husband was a resident of Rowan County North Carolina at the time he entered the service. 

She has no documentary evidence of entering or discharge from service and from extreme age has lost memory of the exact periods. The first service was against the Indians at the middle towns on the Tennessee [River]. She further declares that she was married to the sd [said] Micajah Pittman in September in the year seventeen hundred and ninety-one (1771) and that her husband, the aforesaid Micajah Pitman, died on the 25th day of July 1834 and that she was a widow on the 4th of July 1836, and still remains a widow, as will more fully appear by reference to the proof hereto annexed -- she has no record evidence of her marriage. She has not married since the death of her sd [said] husband Micajah Pitman. 

Sworn to & subscribed on the day and year above written before me.
Lydia [her x mark] Pittman
John Wm [William] Eubanks, JP
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I, John Wm Eubanks a Justice of the peace for Pulaski County hereby certify that Lydia Pitman the above declarant is by reason of bodily infirmity unable to attend Court to make her declaration, and that the affiant Daniel Miller is a person of respectability and entitled to full belief. The above interlineation were made before the parties made oath or subscribed thereto.
John Wm Eubanks J. P. 

State of Kentucky} 
County of Pulaski} Sct

I William M. Fox hereby certify that John W Eubanks before whom the above affidavits were made is a Justice of the peace for Pulaski County and duly commission to administer oaths: and that his signature as here given, is genuine. 

In testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand and affix this seal of the Pulaski County Court, this 13th day of June One thousand Eight hundred & fifty - William M Fox Clerk 
Clerk of Pulaski County Court
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Mrs. Lydia Pitman 
Power of atto. [Attorney] to Jno. M. McCalla. 

Certificate of Marriage 

Claim for pension &c as widow of Micajah Pitman. 


Jno. M McCalla
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Pulaski State of Kentucky, and was filed by me in /49- or /51 

Very Respectfully 
Your Obt. Svt. [Obedient Servant]
W J McIntire

Care Wm A. Guest at Liberty St. N. Y.

To Comr [Commissioner] of Pensions
Washington City
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Mrs. Lydia Pitman 
widow of Micaj. [Micajah] Pitman 
Revol. [Revolutionary] Soldier 

Power of atto. [Attorney] to Jno M Mc Calla & proof of marriage & service- 

Jno M McCalla
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[Illegible too light]
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States of Kentucky} 
County of Pulaski} Sct.

I hereby certify that R H Elkin Esq. before whom the foregoing affidavit & acknowledgement was made, and who has thereunto subscribed his name, was at the time of so doing,
I hereby certify that Michajah [Micajah] Pitman and Lydy [Lydia] Morgan were this eighteenth day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy [1770] and in the Eleventh year of his [Illegible] Majesty’s reign King George the Third married according to the Liturgy of the Church of England by me 

Theodorus Swaine Drage 
Rector of St. Luhos Parish [sic, St. Luke’s Parish] 
In Rowan County North Carolina