Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 7,657, for Lot Stricklin, North Carolina
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[8-1776]

Service
N.C.

Stricklin, Lot

Number
S. 7675

Carded
Contents
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North Carolina
Lot Stricklin
Richmond in the State of N.C.
was a private in the company commanded by Captain Kay of the regiment commanded by Colonel Lewis in the N.C. line for 1 year

Reduced from $80
inscribed on the Roll of North Carolina at the rate of 40 Dollars and 00 cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 1st day of April 1836 and sent E. Debeny House of Representatives
Arrears to the 4th of March 1836 $100.00
Semi-Annual allowance ending 4 September
$20.00
$220.00

{Revolutionary Claim}
[Act June 7, 1832}
Recorded by Phil G. Davidson clerk
Book E. Vol. 672 Page 74

Letter to Agent April
Letter to J.P. Leak
1836
do 20 July 18 (remainder of year not legible)
Hon. C. Johns Dist.
R6 Certificate of paper sent to same Dec. 31 1836 W. B. Debury and Pension agent December 12 1838 do to P. Agent & J.P. Leak
April 23, 1839 to Hon. F. Penrose May 25 1840
O.C.
See Ambrose page R 21
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State of North Carolina
Richmond County}  Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions began & held in the Town of Rocking in the County of Richmond on the 17th day of October 1832.
ON this 17th day of October purposely appeared in open court Lot Stricklin a resident of the same county & state aged 73 years who being first duly sworn according to law, doth make on his oath the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress papered 7 June 1832. That he entered the service of the United States under the command of General Rutherford in the year 1776 in a tour of four months there about against the Cherokee Indians in which he served under Colonel David Love in the company commanded by Captain William Hoy of which Edward Davidson was Lieutenant that some  considerable time (precise length of which he cannot now ascertain) often the action of Captain Hoys company form the said expedition against the Cherokee the Tory's were operating in different places & that he served against them in several expeditions under the command of Captain William Hauber who commanded the militia beat company to which he belonged & that he the said Stricklin & others not likiing the movements of the said Captain Hauber determined to form a volunteer company to serve during the war. That a volunteer company was formed according to Captain Hopkin Cole was apprentice to the command thereof & that he served under the immediate command of the said Captain Cole & under Colonels Wade Davidson & Crawford in various tours against the British & Tories in the counties now. Anson Richmond Moore Cumberland Braden and Roberson in the state of North Carolina Marlborough & Chesterfield Districts in the state of South Carolina and in there tours they were employed in watching the movement of the enemy & scouring sustenance to the American troops & procuring supplies of provisions for the
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for the troops & services of the United States under the command of General Gates & Green that the said company was  on stayed in driving back cattle & was a ally on the war at Hailey's ferry on the Pee Dee River under the command of with several of beef cattle for the use of General Gate's serving the time that General was defeated at Cowpens That he was sole prisoner by the Tories under the command of Abram Wilkens a Tory Captain & carried over the Pee Dee River to Mount Pleasant then the county seat of Anson County North Carolina where the British officer is command a Major McCase by as the said militia believes embodied herein to take a protection Captain that in about 10 days thereafter he was again in service against the Tories this was about the tenth of June on first of July 1780 between the time of the capture of Charleston & the descent of Beaty at Camden. That he ascertained the precise length of time that he served in all but that from the time he entered volunteer company of the said Captain Cole as a minute man which was in the late part of the year 1778 or early part of 1779 he held himself completely in record of for service & actually was in service during the greater part of the time from that period to the end of the war that he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever or annuity except the present and declares that his service is not on the reserve roll of the agency of any state sworn to & subscribed the day & year aforesaid. That he knows that he served more than his year he said in an about three years that if nor he served discharges he has lost them.
Lot Stricklin

We  William Dennison a clergyman residing in the county of Richmond & state aforesaid and Elias Sinclair residing in the same place hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Lot Stricklin who has subscribed & sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be 73 years of age, that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolutionary war and that  we concur in that opinion.
William Dennison
Elias Sinclair
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Sworn & subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
M.P. Crawford

And the said court do hereby certify their opinion after the investigation 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 William Dennison who has signed the proceeding certificate is a clergyman resides in the county of Richmond and that Elias Sinclair is a credible person and that their statement is entitled to credit. 

I Marlin D. Crawford clerk of the court of pleas & general sessions of the county of Richmond & State of North Carolina do herby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Lot Stricklin for a pension.  In testimony of which I have hereunto set my hand & seal of office this 17th of October 1832.
M.D. Crawford clerk

Interrogation by the court

1. Where & what year were you born
Answer In Johnson County North Carolina 1759

2. Have you any record of your age and if so where is it?
Answer My age is in my family Bible at home

3. Where were you residing when called into service? Where have you lived since the revolutionary war and where do you now live?
Answer
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I lived when called into the service in the county of Anson now Richmond county a few months since this state of Tennessee and now live in Richmond County where I have lived on since & in that neighborhood.

4. How were you called into service were you drafted and you volunteer or were you a substitute and if a substitute for whom
In the first of my services in 1776 in the Indian war I was drafted afterwards i was a volunteer.

5. State the names of some of the regular officers who were with the troops you served such continental and militia regiments as you can recollect & the your circumstances of your service .

Lot Stricklin 15825 {written on side of document}

Answer
I was not immediately under any regular officers I was engaged at living in providing provisions for General Gates army and also for general Green's army. I think I was with colonel Haus who if I recollect belonged to General Green's army was also with General Harrington of the North Carolina Militia as to the general circumstances of my service involves no other particulars than that set forth in my declaration

Investigation: Did you ever secure a discharge from the service if so by whom gave a what pay and which officer. Answer, I never received discharge as I recollect.

that the names of those of whom you are known in your present neighborhood and who can certify as to your character for veracity and their belief of your services
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Rockingham N.C.
Free
October 21
The Secretary of War
Washington City

Application for a pension by a True Whig
Oct. 26
N.C.
15825
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As a soldier in the revolutionary war

Answer Matter Liam served John McAllister William Crawford and every man in my settlement

And the said court form this knowledge of the respectability of the applicant and from that of the names he has referred to and from their knowledge of the respectability of Captain Cole and the certificate has been exhibited have not their least doubt of the statement of the applicant.
L. Martindale Chairman
J. W. Covington
R.R. Thomas

I Martin D. Crawford Crawford Clerk of the court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions for the county aforesaid do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court on the matter of the application of Lot Stricklin for a pension. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of office this the 17th of October 1832.
M.D. Crawford Clerk

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To what time and at what rate was Lot Stricklin, N. Carolina act 1832 last paid?
J.L. Edwards
April 23, 1839

L. Stricklin at $80.00 per annum paid to 
4th September 1834.
L. H.H.
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7654
INVALID
Rev. War
File No. 7657
Lot Stricklin
Private Revolutionary War
Act: June 7th 1832
Index:-Vol. 1B, Page 339
[Arrangement of 1870]
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Copy of Stephen Coles opposition
sent to Hon. E. Deberry, January 20 1838
Hon. F. Pearce May 25, 1840
("O,G.")
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Rockingham N.C.
April 28th
May
 Free

J.L. Edwards Esq.
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington

Nelson
in at Lot Stricklin
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Rockingham N.C.
April 28th 1835

Sir

Mr. Lot Stricklin a few days since received a letter from you notifying him that further payments upon his pension certificate would be suspendable  believing that the suspension would not take place but from the date of your letter, or I further from the letter he forwarded a power of Attorney to a friend in Fayetteville to secure his pension up to that time.  He is now advised that payment therein was refused but is not whether the refusal was given in consequence of positive installations not to pay up to that time in case it had not been received or of timed caution on part of the agent. He respectfully requests you to inform him whether such instruction have been given, and if not that you direct the agent to pay up to that time.

Your early attention will oblige him much
I am respectfully your obedient servant
James. P. Leak
J.L. Edwards Esq.
Commissioner of Pensions
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12857
North Carolina
Lot Stricklin
Richmond in the the State of North Carolina
was a Private in the company commanded by Captain Hoy of the regiment  commanded by Col. Love in the North Carolina Militia line for 2 years

Issued received certificate for $100
per annum.

Inscribed on the Roll of North Carolina
at the rate of 80 Dollars -----cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March 1834

Certificate of pension issued the 6th day of June 1833 and sent Clairman Rockingham N.C.
Arrears to the 4th of March 1833 $160.00
Semi-annual allowance ending 4 September 1833 $40.00
$200.00

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

Recorded by George B. Whiting Clerk,
Book E Vol. 6 Page 55

Pay suspended 19 May 25
provision 10 April 11
Lot to J.P. leak May
Hon. P. Duberry 14 June 36
"                        " 14 July
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Dec. 24

To Commissioner of Pensions

Hon. Johns H.R.
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House of Representatives
23rd December

Dear Sir,

I am know of having a copy of the papers of Lot Stricklin that was may present them to Congress if we should think there record to be prospect of success.

Respectfully
your friend
E. Johnson
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January 5
Stephen Cole Tennessee
Lot Stricklin No. 12857

J.L. Edwards Esq
Pension Office
Washington
E. Deberry H.R.


Copy 1
Idh McForendy
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House of Representatives
January 5 1838

J.L. Edwards Esq.

Sir

I am requested by Lot Stricklin of N.C. a soldier of the Revolution and a pensioner whose pension has been reduced some two years ago on a review of his papers at the pension office to ask for a copy of Captain Stephen Coles deposition or affidavit in favor of said Stricklin and also for a copy of Captain Coles Declaration in his own case.

Mr. Stricklin whom I well know to be a very honest man having served all the time under Captain Cole (as he alleges) that Cole served himself think it hard that he cannot be allowed for the same time of service He has therefore been advised by Captain Cole to get a copy of those papers to enable Cole in a more specific manner to make affidavit in favor of Stricklin. (Captain Cole resides in Tennessee) If it be not improper to furnish the papers I would be glad to obtain them believing as I conscientiously do having heretofore examined his claim that his pension ought to be increased. respectfully
E. Deberry
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North Carolina Richmond County

Personally appeared before me the undersigned a Justice of he Peace Lot Stricklin who being duly sworn deposeth and saith that by reason of old age & the consequent lapse of memory he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the period mentioned belong in the following grades viz: for three months (3) under William Hoy Captain David Love Col L. Rutherford Generals  as a common soldier for three months (3) under William Horton Captain Thomas Wade Col. as a common soldier for eighteen months (18) as a volunteer under Stephen Cole Captain making the whole of his service at least two years & for such service he claims a pension 18th March 1833.
H.T. Leak J.P.
North Carolina
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State of North Carolina
Richmond County
I Martin B. Crawford Clerk of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions for the County aforesaid do hereby certify that Francis t. Leak sign before whom the within deposition of Lot Stricklin was proven in an acting Justice of the Peace in & for said county of Richmond and is duly qualified & authorized to administer oaths.
In testimony of which I have hereunto set my hand & seal of office at Rockingham this 18th day of March 1833
MC. Crawford Clerk
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In at Dec 12
N.C.

J. L. Edwards Esq
Pension Office
Washington

E. Deberry H.R.
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House of Representatives
December 11, 1838

Mr. J.L. Edwards

Some few years ago an old soldier by the name of Lot Stricklin of N. Carolina was placed on the pension roll I believe under the act of June 1832 but on reviewing his papers some time afterwards his pension was reduced and the old man and his acquaintances who knew of his services and his merit have been trying to have it enlarged to its former amount ever since; and all I believe who know him well are disposed thus to aid him.
I have to ask the favor of you to review his case and have enclosed the deposition of Captain Cole under whom he served in the Revolutionary war in aid of his claim as well as the certificate of the Hon. W. Chatham who represents the district in which M. Cole lives in Tennessee in support of the good character of Mr. Cole.

Respectfully
Edward Deberry
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Jan 13
January 13 1838
J.L. Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
Pension Office
Hon. E. Deberry H.R.
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House of Representatives
January 13, 1838

Sir

About a week ago I wrote a note to you at the request of Lot Strickling an applicant to have his pension restored to the amount first allowed him & afterwards reduced and at his instance requesting copies of certain papers therein mentioned.
I do not know whether you may think it proper to furnish them but I desire to be enabled to answer him speedily and therefore ask your attention to it.
Respectfully
Edward Deberry
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The undersigned takes pleasure in saying that he is now and has been for many years personally acquainted with Captain Stephen Cole he is now and has been many years a citizen of the county of Robertson Tennessee he is a gentlemen of high respectability fine moral character and i full no hesitation in saying no man stands higher in the estimation of his acquaintances than Captain Cole.

I should myself have unbounded confidence in any statement made by him.
Richard Chatham
Washington 11th December 1838
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March 23
In Attention
J.L. Edwards Esq
Pension Office
Washington
Hon. E. Deberry HR
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House Representatives
March 23 1836

Mr. Edwards

Enclosed I send the former certificate of Lot Stricklin of N.C. whom you have as you informed me lately agreed to replace on the pension roll.  You will please enclose to me his new certificate as soon as convenient.
Respectfully
Edmund Deberry
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Rockingham N.C.
15th May
The Hon. J.L. Edwards
commissioner of pensions
Washington
Lot Stricklin
 May 20
N.C. Line
12857
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Rockingham (Richmond County)
May 14th 1836

Sir,

Mr. Lot Stricklin of this County who it will be recollected was stricken from the Pension Roll some 12 or 18 months since and lately reinstated at a smaller rate, made application by attorney to the agent for paying pensions in Fayetteville and was informed that he was debited by the Department to the amount he had received under his first enrollment ( $80 per annum) and credited by his pension of $40 per annum and consequently he could receive nothing until his present pension should amount to the sum received under the former and which will be if he is correct in his statement in March 1828.  The old gentlemen bring conscious of the fact of his having served his country in the revolutionary conflict through the time of two years however much he may have failed of satisfying the Department of it and being quite poor form age & infirmity unable to earn a support by his labor still looks to the pension act to support him in his declining days.  He has wrote much differently been to see me & requested me to address you upon the subject importantly you in his behalf and has said much to me to relate to you to this end but as it proceeded from a wrong apprehension upon his part I  shall not of course subject myself to such charge by repeating it to you I would however state a few facts in regard to him with a view of getting a favorable consideration of the request which I shall hereafter make and beg to refer to the representative from this district the Honorable E. Deberry for a guarantee of the truth of what will be said.
There can be abundant evidence produced to prove
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the fact of service on part of Mr. Stricklin and I doubt not the Department is perfectly satisfied upon this point. Before 1838 from present appearances he will be numbered with the silent dead and consequently with not be benefited by his reenrollment He has even been since my acquaintance with him which is of long standing a peaceable sober & industrious citizen & respectable member of a church and his house has been the hospitable home of all practitioners & others attending the church near his door to which in a great degree is to be attributed his present dependence upon his person for a support but enough & I have respectfully to request you if not comply in proper to cause Mr. Stricklin's original declaration and the additional or amended ones to be forwarded to me together with such instructions as the Department may be pleased to give in regard to the things to be observed in making further applications for pension and I will pledge myself to return them along with the referred application or declaration which the old gentleman will make an if in the meantime the applicant pension was ordered to be paid herein it would be so much applied upon a worthy subject, and perhaps that course would stop further application since it is such difficult matter for Mr. Stricklin to appear in court.
Sir, it may be held to be presumptuous in me to have addressed you this letter and I confess to have felt it to be a delicate matter taking and would cheerfully have shrunk from it, but being appealed to by Mr. S. in the most feeling and correct manner to aid him in this his struggle to obtain what I have my reason to believe is his just right & which if obtained would go to relieve suffering virtue I have believed it to be my duty to comply and risk the charge of presumption to trusting that you will appreciate my motive and not dispute it.
I am sir very respectfully 
your obedient servant
James P. Leak
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Cert Sent April 7 1836 by J.M.
J.L. Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington
Hon. E. Deberry H.R.
April 1
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House of Representatives
April 1 1836

Mr. Edwards

On your informing me that you had reinstated Lot Stricklin on the pension roll you requested the return of his first certificate before the new one was issued. I returned the old one some two weeks ago but have not received the new one. Will you please inform me whether you have enclosed it to him and if not please send it to me as soon as convenient.
Respectfully
Edmund Deberry
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Payments to be made at 
Fayetteville N.C.
by D. Husk Pres. U.S. B. Bank Agent for paying pensioners in the Agency of North Carolina

c/o Rockingham
Richmond County NC

Recorded in the Pension Office in Book E Vol 6
Page 55 by George B. Whiting Clerk
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War Department
Revolutionary Claim

I certify that, in conformity with the law of the United States of the 7th June, 1832, Lot Stricklin of the State of North Carolina who was a private in the army of the Revolution is entitled to receive Eighty dollars and ______cents per annum, during his natural life, commencing on the 4th of March, 1831, and payable semi-annually on the 4th of March, and 4th of September, in every year.

Given at the War Office of the United States, this 6th day of June one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three.

Examined and}
countersigned}
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3 months under General Rutherford as a common soldier
3 months under Hunter as private
18 as volunteer under Captain Cole
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War Department
Pension Office
27th February 1833

Sir:

I return herewith the papers in support of the claim of the person whose name is hereto annexed.
These papers are in several respects defective. Each case is accompanied by a brief. The objections are contained in the negative answers, in red ink, given to the questions.
Particular attention should be paid to the accompanying regulations and to the explanatory notes subjoined to the brief.
The extraordinary press of business in this office, arising form the great number of claims under the act of June 7, 1832, has hitherto prevented us from attending to the applications sent by you. The investigation of the cases presented under this law has been difficult and laborious, and notwithstanding the greatest exertions have been made by this Department, an earlier attention to your business has been found impracticable.
The brief has been prepared to meet all cases, and thus to save the excessive labor which would otherwise be imposed upon the office, and which would consume so much time as to render the delay two fold greater than it now is in the investigation of claims and writing letters. Each case is considered correct in all respects except in relation to those questions to which a negative answer is affixed. No other alteration or addition will be required.

I am respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
J.L. Edwards

Lot Stricklin
Rockingham
North Carolina

Lot Stricklin
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[Stamped: Raleigh NC April 15]
Free
Hon. J. R. Tomsitt
Department of War
Washington City D.C.

3
Pension Office
Lot Stricklin
NC.  JM
April 18
L90 April 19 1836
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Rockingham, N.C.
April 10th 1839.

Sir,

Lot Stricklin pensioner, is informed by the Agent for paying pensions in Fayetteville, that the sum of Twenty dollars only is now due him. You will recollect that he was first enrolled at $80, that payment was suspended in 1835 & he was subsequently enrolled at $40. He was of opinion that when payment was resumed he would receive at the rate of $40 per annum from the time of the suspension to the present. He thought it was not the initiation of the Department to make its decision have a retrospective fearing but that what he had received to the time of suspension he would hold on to and would be entitled to receive from that time to the present at the reduced rate. This supposition somewhat reconciled him to the suspension and reduction. But in case the department makes its decision reach back & debits him with the whole amount he has received & credits him with the reduced rates the amount that then he is now entitled to forty dollars instead of twenty Thus .
From 4 March 1831 to 4 Sept. 1834 = 3 1/2 years at $80 is $280. do-due to 4 March 1838=7 due @ $40 is 280. which is the amount he has received as he states. He did not apply for the semi-annual payment in March '35 as he was informed upon coming to this pace to get the necessary writings drawn, that  payment had been stopped.
He trusts you will give your earliest consideration to this subject & give such instructions to the agent in Fayetteville as you decide just. Also inform him of the conclusion.
Very respectfully
your obedient servant
James P. Leak
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Lot Stricklin
Richmond N.C.
Private Militia 2
Copies or 
Capt. Highland
N.C.

Applicant 
Rockingham N.C.
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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  Lot Stricklin which require further proof or explanations. 

I.  Does the declaration show where the applicant resides? Yes

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

III. If the applicant did not make the declaration in the county where he resides, is there any reason assigned for his not doing so? 

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 amount of pension he is entitled? No

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

VIII.  Has the Court given their opinion? Yes

IX. Has the Clerk given his certificate? Yes

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
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2.

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 obtaining 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?
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? Yes
Hs the proper officer certified to the official character and signature of the magistrate as the regulations direct? Yes

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

XVI. Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct? Yes

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

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 recollection 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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3.

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 objectionable. If must in every case be clearly shown 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 employed 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 others must certify to the credibility of the witnesses, and the official character and signature of the magistrate 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 certificate 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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Rockingham N.C.
DW 20th

Free

Hon. E. Deberry
Washington City 
D.C.

Hon. E. Deberry
H.R.
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Rockingham N.C.
December 19th 1835

Honorable E. Deberry

Dear Sir,

At the request of Mr. Stricklin, I enclose you certain papers which you will find to be an application to be reinstated on the pension roll together with additional affidavits. He the old gentleman wishes you to lay them before the pension officers and give him what assistance maybe in your power. Upon examining them I discover that the credibility of the affidavits is not certified to but you know by age of them will remedy that defect if it be and  & informal testimony be accepted There is not any doubt of the side Mr. Stricklin took in the war nor as to actual service and I do know that but for shin massify he would not trouble the Department. He has a poor fierce of land indeed but no promise to till  it for him & too much debilitation himself and unlike many in fact most pensioners is at this time and has never been free of the debasing & immortalizing practice of drain king spy. But I have incautiously stated these facts to you as through his success depended upon convincing you of truth of his declaration. Should any thing further be required of him you will please notify him of it which you may do through me if you see proper with any questions of your own which may deserved in further more of his interest.

Very respectfully
your obedient servant
James P. Leak
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State of North Carolina
Richmond County]

this day John McCallister came before me Hugh Graham one of the Justices of the Peace of said county, & being duly sworn on the gospel of God; deposeth and saith that he lived in the same neighborhood that Lot Stricklin lived in, perhaps not more than four or five miles apart, that he knows that said Lot Stricklin, was a Whig, that he Stricklin was one of Captain Stephen Coles company of volunteer light Horse for Coles company were all volunteers and that he saw said Stricklin of ten with said Captain Cole & particularly when they met or joined Captain William Walls company of light Horse, apart of which company were also volunteers for he himself was a volunteer in Walls company & some of them  Walls more were called into service by draft of otherwise served for perhaps three months that this deponent knows that the aforesaid Lot Stricklin served constantly in the light horse under Captain Cole, from the time that he  Cole was appointed Captain & afterwards he thinks before the which of the years 1780 & 1781 & apart of the year 1782 this deponent believes that Lot Stricklin served his country as a faithful soldier servicing his country in pursuit of Tories, whilst the British were in South Carolina, & at Wilmington North Carolina, & after they  left Wilmington for there was constant search made after a Col. Taming who commanded the Tories, after the British left North Carolina and that by the light horse of Richmond county & he further believes that the British & Tories would have taken possession of this past of the country of deserve not for the  [illegible] & exclusion of the volunteer companies of the light horse of Richmond County & others & stall the Tories went to Hillsborough North Carolina & took the governor of the state Mr. Burke & others prisoners to Wilmington in this deponent further sayeth not Sworn to and signed before me the 16th of December 1835.
H. Graham
J. McCallister
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State of North Carolina
Richmond County]

I Silas A. Drake clerk of the court of aforesaid certify that Hugh Graham who listed the within deposition is an acting Justice of the Peace of said county and that his signature is genuine given under my hand & seal of office the 19th of December 1825
Silas A. Drake C.C.C.
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State of North Carolina
Richmond County]

This day Walter Leak came before me John McCallister one of the Justices of the Peace of said county and after being sworn on the Gospel of God deposeth and saithe that he believes that in the year 1775 Lot Stricklin of said county went & served with Captain Hugh Davison three or four months after the Indians that he  remembers seeing said Stricklin at his Fathers House on his return home from serving the aforesaid tour that he knew him before & after that time & conclude the personal time & that he knew him the said Stricklin to be a Whig & that he saw him several times in the light horse of Richmond County on time of the revolutionary war that he also believes that said Stricklin stated the truth or meant to as so on his declaration for the waning of the pension from Government for his services in the war aforesaid that this deponent believes that he served in the volunteer company of Light Horse commanded by Stephen Cole & William Wall Captain of the Light Horse of the Richmond County, while the British was in South Carolina & Wilmington North Carolina & purpose of the British took Wilmington in North Carolina that the  courthouse times commenced before Gates defeat & contained under Lord Cornwall was taken & some time after  before these was any changes in the times  but  constant through between the Whigs & Tories & this deponent further says not sworn to & signed before me the 19th day of December 1835
Walter Leak
J. McCallister

State of North Carolina
Richmond County}

I Silas A. Drake Clerk of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions for the County of Richmond do hereby certify that William Poulk and John McCallister before whom the above affidavits were made were at the time acting Justices of the Peace for the County aforesaid. That the signatures purporting to be theirs are genuine and that full faith and credit are due to their official acts. Given under my hand and seal and seal of office this the 19th day of December A.D. 1835
Silas A. Drake C.C.C.
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State of North Carolina
Richmond County
This day Martha Wall appeared before one William Powell as acting Justice of Peace for said county & after being duly sworn in the Evangelist of all mighty God deposith & says
that Lot Stricklin was a solider in the Revolutionary war in company with her two brothers Stephen Cole James Cole & Theo Crawford & William Wall & said Stricklin she believes served as a soldier during said war with her brothers above named.
Sworn to & subscribed before me this 14 October 1835.
Witness
W. Powell J.P.
Martha Wall

State of North Carolina]
Richmond County]

This day Mrs. Nancy Covington came before me John McCallister one of the Justices of the Peace of said county and made oath on the Gospel of God that she was well acquainted with Lot Stricklin before he served a tour under light horse after the Indians & afterwards that she knew the said Lot Stricklin as  a soldier in the North Carolina line in the Light Horse of Richmond County with Captain Stephen Cole & her brother Captain William Wall and Colonel Thomas Crawford her half brother and that she believes him the said Stricklin to have been a Whig and a faithful soldier at the time the British were in South Carolina & Wilmington North Carolina & this deponent further say not.
Sworn & subscribed before me the 19th day October 1835
Nancy (X her mark) Covington
J. McCallister
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Lot Stricklin
Rockingham N.C.
June 26th
July 1
N.C.

J.L. Edwards Esq.
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington
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Rockingham, N.C.
June 25, 1836

Sir:

Yours of 26th last, with the accompanying certified copies of the papers of Lot Stricklin was duly received and I now enclose a satisfied attempt on part of Mr. Stricklin to be restored to a full pension & trust it may meet a favorable consideration.
I had hoped to have found in possession of the old gentlemen the whole correspondence with the Department in regard to this matter, which would perhaps have enabled me to have directed and confined his narration to meeting the objections to allowing him full pension, but I did not. They were either mislaid or in possession of the gentlemen who has heretofore assisted him in this basis. I therefore thought fast to go over the whole ground.
Should the Department decide to restore him
I will upon information, procure and forward the certificate now in his possession.
I am very respectfully
your obedient servant
James. P. Leak

J.L. Edwards, Esq.
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington
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State of Tennessee
Robertson County}

Personally appeared before me the undersigned a Justice of the Peace in and for the county and state aforesaid Stephen Cole a citizen of the County and state aforesaid aged seventy eight years just who being first sworn upon the holy Evangelist of Almighty God depose and say as follows to wit.

Question, are you acquainted with Lot Stricklin of the county of Richmond State of North Carolina if so what do you know of him and of his services in the Revolutionary war.
Answer I am well acquainted with Lot Stricklin of the county and state above alluded to who is about my own age and I was well acquainted with him in the Revolutionary war he served under myself as Captain he was one of my soldiers and as to the precise time of his service I cannot by reason of old age and consequent lapse of memory and from the long lapse of time state precisely but this much I can state in the most absolute that he did serve more than two years for he served the same length of time I did myself and reference to my declaration on file at the War Office will give a more minute definition of the time than my memory at this advanced age would justify but as above I now again state beyond any doubt whatever that he served for more than two years as a private solder and that faithfully too and further he is a respectable man and of undoubted
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veracity the reason I give reference to my declaration is I was then above to the subject and had whittled up my recollection and had brought the subject to bear more clear and distinct than I could at the present and further this deponent sayeth not. Sworn to and subscribed before me this 24 day of August 1838
Stephen Cole

William Haley
Justice of the Peace

State of Tennessee
Robertson County} I William Haley a Justice of the peace in and for the county aforesaid do hereby certify that Stephen Cole who hath deposed in the foregoing deposition is a citizen of the county and state aforesaid and a respectable person and aged as he states in testimony of the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand at the house of the deponent on this 24 day of August 1838.
William Haley J.P.
Justice of the Peace for County aforesaid.
State of Tennessee
Robertson County}

I William Shelby Clerk of the County Court for the county aforesaid do hereby certify that William Haley whose name purports to be a signed to the foregoing certificate and attested to the foregoing deposition is a Justice of the peace in and for the county aforesaid & that his signatures thereto is genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said court at office this 4th day of September 1838.
W. Shelby Clerk
of Robertson County Court.
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Lot Stricklin
North Carolina
Rockingham
Richmond County
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State of Tennessee
Robertson County
Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions August Term 1832.

Personally appeared Stephen Cole a citizen of the county and state aforesaid in open court who being just duly sworn deposeth and saith that he is in his seventy third year of his age that during the revolutionary war he was a resident of Anson County state of North Carolina. That he was once acquainted with Mr. Lot Stricklin who was then a resident in the county of Anson and state of North Carolina now a resident in Richmond County North Carolina that said Stricklin was called into the service under Captain William Hay, Edward Davidson Lieutenant under Col. David Love Thomas Crawford Adjutant, said Stricklin  & company was called into the service together and all served under the aforesaid and officers the tour was to be at three months sent but all service tour in doth in this year 1776 and [illegible] under the command of General Rutherford, some time after the time I cannot say in the perspective said Stricklin volunteered and he believes as a minute man and served his country as a soldier faithfully at different calls and went against the tories and enemies
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of the country I served some time in the capacity of a Captain of a volunteer company in reconnoitering the country spying the whereabouts of the enemy procuring possessions for the army and giving intelligence of the movements of the enemy and whenever in issued of in with applicant of main or standing army never assumed by our Captain officers should themselves subject and then order and obeyed them in directing its recruits to said Stricklin served as a soldier under me in the expeditions on all these battle detached ranks and said Stricklin continued a volunteer to minute man subject to all legal calls and obeyed all calls and served faithfully at all times and at all calls during the war until war was made & faithfully and factually & resolutely in the faithful discharge of the duties adjoined upon him a further this deponent saith not.
Stephen Cole
Sworn to in open court
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The county court of Robertson County do hereby  certify that Stephen Cole who has deposed to the foregoing deposition is a resident of the aforesaid county of Robertson and has been for many years, he is a man of good  general character that he is reputed in his neighborhood as a man of honesty, veracity and truth and to be believed on in his affirmations for veracity & truth & that we believe him to be of the age he states.
Said court living or court of record

State of Tennessee
Robertson County}

I William Leak Clerk of the county Court of Robertson do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original depositions proceedings of Stephen Cole in court in specifying the services of Mr. Lot Stricklin in the revolutionary war.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said court in the town of Springfield this 16th day of August 1802.
W. Leak
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State of North Carolina
Richmond County}

This day personally appeared before Mr. Erasmus Lose a Justice of the Peace for the county of Richmond & State aforesaid Lot Stricklin a soldier of the revolution who being duly sworn upon the Holy Evangelists of almighty God. Deposeth & saith as follows that in the latter part of 1775 or in 1776 he was drafted and went under Captain William Hall into the company of North Carolina in pursuit of the Cherokee Indians who had become troublesome that he was commanded in person by General Rutherford and actually served four months tracking 4 days, after which he returned to Anson County and in the summer of 17777 he thinks, he was called on by Captain William Hunter a Militia Captain and volunteer his services for the purpose of supporting or capturing the Tories who were quite numerous in the county of Anson [not legible] that he is confident that he served with Captain Hunter 3 months & he honestly believes a longer time that in the last of 1778 or part of 1779 Stephen Cole got the approval of Captain companies by Governor Cardwell whose Lieutenant was Farael McClock & Emigas was John Haut that he again volunteer as a minute man under Captain Cole for during the war & knows that he served at different sentence at least 18 months more he believes but under fix on that time for great certainty Lot Stricklin this affidavit further states that he has made the above declaration in court given as a letter which he received from the pension officer informing him that his name had been Stricklen of the pension Rolls for the same alleged by the Agent that he had only proved 3 months service and for the further  was a given by the department that the bar of his service was not under the authority of the state of North Carolina but was simply in  handling & procuring Tories this applicant states that at this service of time he cannot say doubts by what authority the officer Captain Hunter and Captain Cole were called out or by whom
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But he does promptly undertake to say that he served as before stated & that he never before heard it  when conjectured that he was not regularly acting in ordinance to & under the laws of the Hall admits that the Militia of North Carolina were generally called out for 3 months yet at the same time he positively knows that the minute men were held in constant recons & took short returns constantly engaged and that but for the service of the minute men that this section of North Carolina would have been surrounded by the Tories.
Lot Stricklin further states that his Captain Stephen Cole now living in the state of Tennessee is at this time drawing a pension for the same service performed at the same time & under the same authority and he does distinctly swear that  at the time be long or short he served with his captain the whole time his Captain was in service that he knows Stephen Cole to be a man of undoubted veracity & he refers to his Captain's declaration for his own services for he is now old & infirm & of bad memory sworn to and subscribed before me this 18th day of July 1835.
Witness
E. Love J.P.
Lot Stricklin

State of North Carolina
Richmond County}
I Silas A. Drake Clerk of the Court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions do hereby certify that Erasmus Love before whom the above affidavit was made was at the time an acting Justice of the Peace that the signature is genuine taht full faith & credit are due to his official acts given under my hand & seal of office this 18th day of July 1835.
Silas A. Drack C.C.C.
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State of North Carolina
Richmond County}

Lot Stricklin of said County a pensioner of the United States at the rates of forty dollars per annum, knowing that he actually served his country faithfully in the Revolutionary war more than two years and wishing to satisfy the War Department of this fact, & thus have justice done him, this the 25th day of June A.D. 1836, personally appeared before the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace in aforesaid county, and being duly sworn upon the Holy Evangelists of Almighty God, deposeth & saith: That in the year 1776 he served four (4 months less four days under Captain Hays, Rutherford General, in an expedition against the Indians in the Western part of North Carolina; that in the winter of 77-78 he served under Captain Hunter a tour of three ( 3/ months against the Tories in the counties of Anson Cumberland & Robertson N.C. that some time after this, not liking the movements of said Hunter many of his men concluded to form a Volunteer Regiment company to serve during the war which was accordingly done & Stephen Cole was commissioned Captain thereof by his Excellency Governor Carswell which he thinks was in the latter part of 78 or early in 79 and for this service he furnished at his own expense his horse bridle saddle sword & gun, that short time after organizing  & Captain Cole's company under General Harrington, marched from Pee Dee River to Crop Creek (now Fayetteville N.C.) and after going some distance down the Cape Fear River in the direction of Wilmington N.C. said Stricklin & John Cole, a brother of Captain Cole were sent with dispatches to Colonel Donaldson & Captain Fain of the Whigs service whom they found in South Carolina, & returned joined their company & marched back to Pee Dee , bring engaged in the service three (3 months or more: that they marched to Cahig's Bridge on Downing creek where they had understood was stationed a party of Tories & finding more they proceeded down said creek into the county of Robison & scouring that county pretty thoroughly
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returned to Pee Dee making one (1/month's service at least, that immediately upon reaching Pee Dee they were informed that a small party of Tories under Colonel Farring availing themselves of the absence of Captain Cole's company had made a descent upon that section and were then a four miles above them upon which they  pushed up the river but Farring as he supposes by severe means being informed of their return and approach fled; pursuit was made & continued near to this stronghold on Deep River when it was abandoned & said Stricklin Holis company returned circuitously through the counties of Moore Cumberland being out this tour about three ( 3/4 months/weeks. After this Captain Cole upon such business went over into East Tennessee upon Nole checking placing his men under the command of said Stricklin & was gone as said Stricklin believes about (2/months, during which time he was engaged in routing  & chasing the Tories taking some prisoners & making good Whigs of many of them among whom he begs to name a certain Hugh McDonald, now dead that for many years a pensioner of the United States for service afterwards rendered. After Captain Cole's return he resumed the command and they scoured the countries of Anson, Robeson, Moore & Cumberland & Bladen N.C. & Meadows & Chesterfield Districts S.C. sometimes joining & going under the command of Colonels Donaldson, Wade and Crawford until the summer of '80 making at least four (4) months of actual service during these different routes which is he feels confident placing it under the real time. In the summer of '80 he was engaged as heretofore stated against the Tories sometimes touring at home for a day or two, until he was made prisoner by the Tories under  one Captain Abram Williams & compelled to take protection under the British at Mount Pleasant Anson County but in a short time he absolved himself from such obligation & again shouldered his gear in defense of his country. He as on his way with a drove of beef cattle to the army of General Gates at the time of his defeat at Camden S.C. he made several  passes against the Tories into the counties of Cumberland Robeson & what is now Richmond county and was engaged in getting beef for General Green's army in which time making this relation to extend down to the spring of 81 he is certain he must have been constantly engaged including the short time of his capture, Five (5) or Six (6) months; he afterwards ( he thinks  afterwards perhaps sometime) made two trips with perhaps a month or two interservice in which time he was engaged
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as heretofore stated against the Tories & C. to a place called Ninety Six in S.C. one of which was about six ( 1 1/2 months) weeks need the other one (1) month. He was afterwards engaged in procuring provisions for Green's Army, carrying intelligence excursions against the Tories & c, until the  Battle at Eutaw Springs S.C. which he  feels assured embracing all actual service of time ( 5/months After this he served as heretofore until the close of the war which lasted in this section long after the  surrender of Cornwallis & the reduction of Wilmington N.C. but form old age & the lapse of memory he cannot give a detailed account of the different tours &c. He could however mention several others of two  & three weeks service but he could not give them in the order of their occurrence and is not as certain as he would like to be that those already named are precisely in that  or more He feels confident that he served his country constantly more than two years he could safely say than thus and he trusts that the Department will kin conviction with this examine the declaration of Stephen Cole of Robertson County Tennessee, with whom he generally was in service and refers to the evidence of service he has heretofore produced on file in the Department upon the testimony of said Captain Cole John McAlister, William Leak Mrs. Martha Wall & Mrs. Nancy Covington and hopes he will be reinstated at the rates originally allowed him: in which ever he relinquishes his present claim of forty dollars per annum & declares with that exception that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state.
Sworn to and subscribed, the day and date first above written before me.
J .McAlister J.P.
Lot Stricklin

North Carolina
Richmond County}

I Silas A. Drake Clerk of the court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions of the county aforesaid certify that John McAlister is a magistrate as above & that the foregoing signature purporting to be his is genuine. Witness my hand & official seal at office the 25th day of June A.D. 1836.
Silas A. Drake C.C.
by E. Love J.P.
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State of North Carolina
Richmond County} 

This day Lot Stricklin came before me. Ben Holister one of the Justices of the Peace of said county and being sworn on the gospel of God deposeth and sayeth that in  order to receive at the time set forth in his declaration for a pension his first service was in the year 1775 at three months 3 mo. service under Captain Hays after the Indians. That he also served in the year 1779 service was in the  on /only of Richmond county then called Anson County under Captain William Hunter commanded as he belongs by said David Love 3 months commanding to three months service in the term of the  aforesaid year And after that term Stephen Cole of the  same county of Richmond formally Anson attained Captain commission form the Governor of the state aforesaid Richard Carwill it that he Lot Stricklin volunteered his service with him under the command of the aforesaid Stephen Cole as a minute man when and whilst called for that he served under said Cole on the years 1779, 1780 & 1781 that after becoming a soldier under said Cole Colonel Harrington afterwards General Harrington commanded a body of others then mentioned men Haley's Torrie on two sections when the aforesaid Cole joined him and marched with  him to Fayetteville
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Fayetteville then called Cook Creek there this deponent and brother of Captain Cole's were sent with companies to Colonel Donaldson & Captain James Fair of Anson County. Both were found in South Carolina that  he is certain that he served three months 3mo. he above stated before he returned home. That after that time he went with the aforesaid Colonel Donaldson two different times in the state of South Carolina with a body of men to attack the British at Ninety Six as he hereby believes not  each there but returned home which was 2 months right after or near winter on that time after this  Said Crawford who was then a major in a different command in the place of Donaldson and Colonel Rutherford of South Carolina Colonel Baker of Georgia & Colonel David Love of Anson North Carolina joined their forces who proceeded against Colonel Markel who was a Torie Cole who frequented the counties volunteer and & Bladin what he was sent on before the county to provide provisions for them with that he said that he was sent by Colonel Crawford the that day with stated to Colonel Alston of Moore County but his find him at home stationed to the coming year which engaged Captain Fair went down into the East into Dustin County suggested said him again at Elizbeth & two years been west in Kentucky of (illegible) volunteered home whether meeting said McNeil which he was
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1 month at least four weeks an officer became in me of the aforesaid years Captain Cole and his company went into Rowan County near Salisbury were fewer or for weeks from home in that  tour these took of the aforementioned times of six days with separate distant form the time mentioned in his declaration of generally parts and green coming and that the battles of the right term months was served as 1780 & 1781 in tending after the Tories under said Captain perhaps of which order days on the service & two or three days at home until the British withdrew from Wilmington North Carolina the whole of the Tories was defeated and this deponent further says not. Sworn & signed before me the 3rd day of February 1836.
The deponent believes the above to be true statement according to his personal knowledge & testimony.
J. McAlister J.P.
Lot Stricklin

State of North Carolina
Richmond County}

I Silas A. Drake Clerk of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions for the county aforesaid certify that John McAlister is an acting Justice of the Peace for the county of Richmond and the foregoing signature purporting to be his is genuine and that due faith and credit should be given.
12mo.
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to the official acts. Given under my hand and seal and seal of office. January the 5th A.D. 1836.
Silas A. Drake C.C.C.
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a Torey Captain & carried over the Pee Dee River to mount pleasant then the county seat of Anson County North Carolina where the British officers in command a major McCarthy as the said Stricklin believes compelled him to take a protection but that no about 10 days thereafter he was again in arms against the Tories. This was about the last of June or first of July 1780. between the time of the capture of Charleston and the defeat of General Gates at Camden. That he cannot ascertain the precise length of time that he served in all, but that from the time he entered the volunteer company of the said Captain Cole as a minute man which was in the latter part of the  year 1778 or early part of 1779 he held himself constantly in readiness for service & actually was in service during the greater part of the time from that period to the end of the war, that he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state sworn to & subscribed the day & year aforesaid that he knows that he served more than two years he thinks in all about three years that if ever he received discharges he has lost them.
Lot Stricklin

We M.D. Crawford a clergyman residing in the county of Richmond & state aforesaid and Elias Sinclair residing in the same place hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Lot Stricklin who has subscribed & sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be 73 years of age that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolutionary war and that we concur in that opinion.
M.D. Crawford
Elias Sinclair

Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid. M.D. Crawford

And the said court do hereby certify their opinion after the investigation and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states.