Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 9,132, for Blackman Ligon, Virginia
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SERVICE
VA
Ligon, Blackman
Elizabeth
NUMBER
W.9,132
CONTENTS
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1288
South Carolina
Blackman Ligon of Greenville in the State of South Carolina who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Daingerfield in of the Virginia line, for the term of four years.

Inscribed on the Roll of South Carolina at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 4 of November 1818.

Certificate of Pension issued the 5 March 1819, and sent to Maddy Thompson Esquire Laurens C. ld. L. Co

Arrears to 4th of March 1819		$29.56
Semi-anl. all’ce ending Sept 1819	$48.00
$77.56 

{Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818.}
Discontinued
File Sept '19
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See letter April 10. 1829 to J. H. Goodlett. to Hon. W. R. Davis R.R. 22 February 1830
Hon: Ins. Taliaferro
February 6, 1841

Notification by special letter sent 18 July 1891, to the care of 
Geo. W. Earle, Greenville, S. C. 
Rejected see letter to Wm Choice Aug 26 1823 
Under act Mar 1823
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See letter April 10 1829 to J. H. Goodlett to Hon. W. R. Davis H. R. 22 Feb 1830  Hon. Jno. Taliaferro  Feby 6 1841
Notification by special letter sent 18 July 1821 to the care of Geo. W. Earle, Greenville, S. C.
Rejected see letter to Wm. Choice Aug 26, 1823 under Act Mar. 1823
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6321. South Carolina Elizabeth Ligon, Va. widow of Blackman Ligon, deceased, who was a pensioner under the Act of 1818 and who died on the 5th of May 1831 of June of Greenville in the State of South Carolina who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain     of the Regiment commanded by Col. Dangerfield in the Virginia Continental line for 2 years. Inscribed on the Roll of South Carolina at the rate of 80 Dollars Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836. Certificate of Pension issued the 11 day of August 1841 and sent to G. F. Toomes, Esqr. Granville, South Carolina Arrears to the 4th of March 1841 $400.00 {Act July 7, 1838} Recorded by Theodore L. Moody, Clerk, Book A, Vol. 2, Page 194
Let. [letter] to T. B. Thruston 21 Apr. 42
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Washington DC
20 Apr. 1852
Sir,
Inside please examine and inform in the Pension Claim of Blackman Ligon and his wife Elizabeth Ligon from South Carolina, stating that payments have been made to [Illegible]. Blackman Ligon died 3 May 1831. His wife Elizabeth died 15 October 1842. State if the whole amount has been paid due her and the time of her death and if not how much is now is due her representatives and under which act the application will have to be made. 
Resp. &c [unreadable]
Thomas B. Thurston

Hon. J. E. Heath
Commissioner of Pension
wish you would give this your immediate attention as I wish to inform [unreadable] much is left
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State of South Carolina
Granville District
Mrs. Nancy T. Moore, daughter of Mrs. Elizabeth Ligon, the widow of Blackman Ligon, being duly sworn deposes that her father Blackman Ligon died about ten years ago. He always stated and was regarded to have been a solder in the Revolutionary War and once received a pension from the Government for his services. I have heard my father say that he served in the Army of the Revolution regularly four years, and that he was in the service as a volunteer after the Expiration of that time, I do not even remember the particular Corps to which the said he belonged, but that he was according to his declarations made since my earliest recollections, in the Battle of Brandywine, Trenton, and Guilford Courthouse, and that he was also at the surrender of Yorktown in the close of the war. My father received a wound at the said Battle of Guilford Courthouse, the marks of which and the effects were apparent to the day of his death. His rank in the Army was not beyond that of a Sargeant during a period of his service.
Elizabeth Ligon, the widow of Blackman Ligon, who is the mother of this deponent is now
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according to the family records and tradition eighty eight years old since the 28th April 1848. There is no family record of the date of the marriage between my father and mother but this deponent satisfied from her knowledge of the ages of her brothers and sisters, and of her own age as recorded and handed down to her by her parents, that they were married near about the year Seventeen hundred and eighty this deponent was born as she is and always was informed in the year of Seventeen hundred and eighty four, in the first day of November of that year, this she has seen in the family Bible now lost. This deponent was the second child of the marriage, there was a sister several years older than herself who has been dead many years. My mother Elizabeth Ligon has been in her dotage for several years, and is now entirely incompetent to make any sensible or connected statements in relation to the application for a pension her condition is that of severe childishness. She has no property whatever and no means of support but from the limited services of myself and brother who both have families in this district. [The word “Guilford” interlined before signing] Nancy T. Moore Sworn to and subscribed before me July 10th 1841. Jno Watson, Judge of the Court of Ordinary
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State of South Carolina
Greenville District
On this Sixteenth day of July A.D. 1841 personally appeared before the undersigned John Watson Judge of the Court of Ordinary for the district in the State aforesaid in open Court John T. Ligon, a resident of the same state and district aforesaid who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain for Elizabeth Ligon his mother who is insane from dotage and loss of memory the benefit of the provision made by act of Congress passed July 7th 1838, entitled “an Act granting Half Pay and Pensions to certain Widows.”
That the said Elizabeth Ligon is the widow of Blackman Ligon who was as this deponent has heard him and others state from his earliest recollections a soldier of the Revolutionary War and that he served in the Continental army regularly four years that at the time he entered the Army said Blackman Ligon was a citizen of [Blank] County Virgina, he filled during a large portion of all the time of his service the rank of Orderly Sergeant. This deponent does not remember to have word as to what particular company he belonged, but that he was in the Battles of Brandywine, Trenton and Guilford, and other engagement. This deponent is informed that Blackman Ligon his father was allowed a pension of eight dollars per month commencing on 12th November 1818 under act of 18th March 1818 for four years service as a Private in the Virginia Line.

This deponent has heard said by the said Blackman Ligon that he served in the Army of the Revolution also nine months in addition to the four years this deponent would refer to the records at Washington for the evidence of the said services of Blackman Ligon and as to his having a pension. This deponent is informed that the pension was discontinued under
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The operation of the law restricting pensions to the institute circumstances, his father Blackman Ligon having been in the possession of a small competency soon after his pensioned commenced.
This deponent further declares that the said Elizabeth Ligon was married as he is informed all sources of information between the year of by one thousand seven hundred and Eighty and the year of one thousand seven hundred and ninety. [Although] [h]e has no precise information of the day and year of the marriage[,] [he believes] the marriage took place several years prior to the year 1790 as to the marriage and its time of happening reference is made to the accompanying affidavit.
Blackman Ligon the husband of Elizabeth Ligon aforesaid died on the third day of May the the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty one. This deponent cannot state Elizabeth Ligon was married prior to his leaving the service or that she was not married to the said Blackman Ligon prior to that time but from information perfectly satisfactory to him, that she was married to the said Blackman Ligon many years previous to the first day of January seventeen hundred and ninety four as to which he again refers to accompanying affidavits.
Elizabeth Ligon, widow of Blackman Ligon and mother of this deponent, remains unmarried.
John T. Ligon
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year above written before
[Illegible] Judge of the Court of Ordinary for the District
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Schedule
District of South Carolina
On the third day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty one personally appeared in Open Court being a court of Record of General Sessions of the Peace, and Common Pleas, held for the District of Greenville in the State of South Carolina by and before Daniel E. Hager, Esquire, one of the associate Judges of the said State, Blackman Ligon aged sixty four years, resident in the said district of Greenville, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary War, as follows.
Enlisted first for two years the 12th February 1776, in company commanded by Capt. Nathaniel Cook, 7th Virginia Regiment commanded by Col. William Dangerfield, in the line of the State of Virginia on the continental establishment, that he served one year of said term, and then enlisted for three years in the same Company, under the command of Capt. William Mosely in the same Regiment commanded by Col. Alexander McClanahan, that he continued to serve in the said corps until the 12th February 1780. When he was honorably discharged from said service at Wilmington in Delaware by Col. Christian Febiger. That he was in the Battles of Brandywine, Germantown, and Guilford Courthouse, at which latter place he was a volunteer and was wounded in the thigh, which has produced a continued lameness; and that he has no other evidence of his said service now in his power except what is contained in his former declaration made on the 14th of November 1818 and on file at the War Office, being already a Pensioner under the said act, as appears from the certificate of the secretary of War dated 5 of March 1819 No 7288.
And in pursuance of the act of May the 1st 1820, I, Blackmon Ligon, do solemnly swear, that I was a resident Citizen of the United States on the eighteenth day of March one thousand eight hundred and eighteen
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and that I have not since that time by gift, sale or in any manner disposed of my property or any part thereof with intent thereby so to diminish it, as to being myself within the provisions of an act of Congress entitled An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and Naval Service of the United States, in the Revolutionary War passed on the 18th of March one thousand eight hundred and eighteen: and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property or securities contracts or debts due to me, nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereunto annexed and by me subscribed And I the said Blackman Ligon, do further swear that my family consists of my wife Elizabeth aged about sixty four years, who is too infirm to support herself, & four children namely Nancy aged about 37 years, John T. aged about twenty nine, Elizabeth aged about 25 years, & Blackmon about twenty two who are all capable of supporting themselves. And two grand children namely James Roseman about 9 years old, & Joseph Ligon about 4 years of age who are incapable of their own support, and dependent on the income of the said Blackmon That he the said Blackman Ligon is by occupation a Farmer, and is from age, his wound & other infirmities, unable to support himself, without the assistance of his Country. Blackman Ligon Sworn to & declared on the third day of April A.D. 1821 Before me Daniel E. Hager.
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Copy
B. Ligon
Schedule &c
7288 Sept 1819
Special letter
Address to
G. M. Earle
Greenville S. C.
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The Schedule of the Property of Blackman Ligon Viz., 150 acres of land, worth about four hundred & fifty dollars 				$450.00 
One Negro woman worth 				$400.00 
One mare & colt worth 				$50.00
Two cows & Calves $20 & 23 hogs, large & small 	$20.00-$40.00
7 setting chairs $2.50, one cupboard $3		$5.50
1 Pot 2 Ovens, one tea kettle, one spider      	$7.50
One axe, one mattock, & 4 hoes.			$4.00
2 shovel ploughs, 1 cotton plough & pr traces	$3.50 
Half (interested in) one riding chair			$12.50
Total    $973.00
Three are outstanding debts which I own (viz.)
John Brown $45.11 Mauldins Esqr $46.00 		$91.11
I. Archer $35.00 Crayton $15.00			$50.00
J&J Maudlin $7.00 Bromberry $5.00		$12.00
J. Easly $4.75 J. Young $2.00 R. Harrison $2.00	$8.75
Jno Towns $56.46					56.46
Besides some not ascertained			$218.32     218.3
							$754.54
Witness my hand this 3rd day of April 1821
[signed] Blackman Ligon
I do hereby certify that I have seen nothing to induce me to doubt the correctness of this Schedule and I do believe the same to be correct.
Daniel E. Hager
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South Carolina 
Greenville District
To wit: At a Court of General Sessions and Common Pleas held for the district of Greenville, I George W. Earle, Clerk of the Court for the district of Greenville a Court of Record, do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and the schedule thereunto annexed are truly copied from the Record of the said Court.
And I do further certify that it is the opinion of the said Court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid Schedule does not exceed nine hundred and seventy three dollars.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of the Office of the said Court this fifth day of April Anno Domini 1821.
George W. Earle, Clerk
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Blackman Ligon
Declaration &c
Admitted
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The State of South Carolina, To wit On this fourteenth day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and Eighteen before me Waddy Thompson one of the Judges of the Court of Equity for the said State, personally appears Blackman Ligon aged Sixty one years, resident in the district of Greenville and State aforesaid, who being by me first duly sworn, according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the provision made by the late act of Congress entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and Naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War”:   That he the said Blackman Ligon enlisted on the 12th of February 1776 in Halifax County in the State of Virginia in the Company commanded by Captain Nathaniel Cock of the Seventh Virginia Regiment Col. William Dangerfield, General Woodfords Brigade of the Continental Line. That he continued to serve in the said Corps in the service of the United States for one year, during which time he was marched to Baltimore where he Reenlisted in the same Company & commanded by Captain Wm Moseley of the said seventh Regiment Col. Alex McClanahan, and that he continued to serve in the said Corps in the service of the United State in the Continental line three years until the 12th day of February, 1780, when he was honorably discharged from service in Philadelphia in the State of Pennsylvania, by Col Christian Febiger, That he was in the battles of Brandywine, Germantown and the affair at Cootes Bridge was a volunteer at the battle of Gilford [Guilford Courthouse] where he was wounded; and that he is in reduced circumstances, and stands in need of the assistance of his Country for support. And that he has no other evidence now in his power of his said services Sworn to & declared before me, the day & year aforesaid W. Thompson     Blackman Ligon
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South Carolina Greenville District } Personally came and appeared before me the subscriber a Justice of the Quorum for the said district Thom Towns Esquire John Towns and Blackman Ligon Jun [Junior] all of the said district, Credible Witnesses, and being severally duly sworn according to law do on their oaths say that they are well acquainted with Blackman Ligon Senr [Senior] of the said district, who makes the within Declaration; that they have been many years acquainted with him, during which time he has always supported the character of a man of honesty and veracity, and is in reduced circumstances & stands in need of the assistance of his country for support, being a Cripple &c and they believe the within Declaration of the said Blackman Ligon to be true in substance and in fact - Sworn to & subscribed this 14th day of November A.D. 1818. 
Before me L. Tarrant J. O. 
Thomas Townes John Townes Blackman Ligon Jun
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State of South Carolina
I, Waddy Thompson one of the Judges of the Court of Equity in the said State as aforesaid, do certify that appears to my satisfaction, that the said Blackman Ligon did serve in the Revolutionary War, as stated in the preceding declaration, in the Continental Line, against the common enemy; and is in reduced circumstances and stands in need of the assistance of his country for support; and I now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me to the Secretary for the Department of War pursuant to the directions of the aforementioned act of Congress in such case made and provided.
In testimony thereof I have signed my name and caused the Seal of Office of the said Court to be hereunto affixed this 14th day of November 1818.
W. Thompson
T. Richardson
C. W. W. Dist
South Carolina Washington Dist}
I do certify the above Seal Washington District is the private Seal of this Office there being no Seal of Office. December 16th 1818.
Richardson
C. W. W. Dist
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Rev. & 1812 Wars Section. March 28, 1927. Mrs. John Latimer Granville, Georgia.  Madam; 
I have to advise you, that from the papers in the pension claim, W. 9132, it appears that Blackman Ligon enlisted in Halifax County, Virginia, February 12, 1776, served as a Private in Captains Nathaniel Cocke and William Moseley's Companies, Colonels William Dangerfield and Alexander McClanahan’s Seventh Virginia Regiment. He was in the battles of Brandywine and Germantown and at the “affair at Cootes' Bridge" and was discharged February 12, 1780, by Colonel Christian Febiger. 
In February 1781, he volunteered and was at the Battle of Guilford [Courthouse], where he received a musket ball wound in the thigh, He was allowed pension on his application executed November 14, 1818, while living in Greenville District, South Carolina, aged sixty-one years. He died May 3, 1831. He married about 1780, Elizabeth, maiden name not stated, she was born April 28, 1753, she was allowed pension in 1841, and she died October 15, 1842.
Colonel C. Febiger did not belong to the 7th Va.  [unreadable] back charge of the Va. 7  could not find “Cootes Bridge
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In 1831, the soldier referred to his children, John T. aged twenty-nine years, Elizabeth aged twenty-five years, and Blackman aged twenty-two years and to his grandsons, James B. Roseman, or Rosamond, aged nine years and Joseph Ligon aged four years. The soldier’s oldest child was a girl, name not stated and his second was Mrs. Nancy T. Moore, or Moon, who was born November 1, 1784, she and her brother John T. resided in Greenville District, South Carolina in 1841. Respectfully, WINFIELD SCOTT, Commissioner.
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1918, March. 20. History to Mrs. W.C. Hudson 1927 March 28. History to Mrs. John Latimer 1929 April 15 History to Rosalie Jones A.D.Y.
Revolutionary Widow, &c.
File No. 9132
Elizabeth Ligon 
Widow 
Blackman Ligon
Private Revolutionary War
Act: July 7 1838
Index:--Vol. A, Page 2136
[Arrangement of 1870.}
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Will Mr. Edwards state to the Committee whether Blackman Ligon, of South Carolina, was allowed a Pension for his services in the Army of the Revolution  -  Under what Act he was  pension, and for what period of service      Respectfully John Taliaferro 
    J. L. Edwards, Esq
To J. L. Edwards Esq
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Elizabeth Ligon
Widow of Blackman
South Carolina
Act July 7 1838
Married 1780
Died May 3, 1837
Allowance Semi-Annual $80.00 per annum.
Virginia Continental Line.

G. F. Toomes, Esq.
Granville, South Carolina
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The State of South Carolina
I, J. H. Goodell, Clerk of the Court of Sessions and Common Pleas in and for the district of Granville in said State, do certify unto the Secretary of War that I am personally and well acquainted with Blackman Ligon who has made application to be [Illegible] upon the pension list that I have no kind of hesitation in saying the facts stated in his declaration to be true as therein stated it appears that he has been placed upon the pension list roll and that he was stricken off in consequence of the amount of property in value over reached the act of Congress in that case. I was well acquainted with Mr. Ligon for 10 or 15 years and from my own knowledge do not believe he was lessened his estate in any way whatever so as to diminish it as to bring him within the provisions of the act, but that he was compelled to part with his land to pay his just debts and not being able to labor in his farm which was the only means he had to support himself and that he is now.
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All most helpless and his aged wife and entirely dependent upon the labor of his two daughters and one old negro woman for a support. 
I deem it unnecessary to say anything more as he certainly is intitled to a pension to if it should be necessary, I can get 50 affidavits to this effect. 
The Honorable W. R. Davis is also well acquainted with Mr. Ligon and can give you any information you should require. Given under my hand this 10th day of Nov 1828. J. H. Goodlett [seal] C. P. 
The reason why the matter has lay so long was in order to obtain an affidavit of the persons who Ligon owed who is in the Alabama, and has not returned no is it certain he ever well as he is a very old man. J. H. Goodlett
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The Secretary of War will please examine the papers of Blackman Ligon and send me a return to Granville.
C.H.S.C 12 July 1829
J. H. Goodlett
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Blackman Ligon, died May 1831
Elizabeth, m [married] 1780

Sergeant H. P. Virginia Continental Line 
Pension, Act 18 Mar 1818
Nancy age 37 in 1821
37
1784
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Granville, South Carolina 
July 30, 1841

Dear sir, 
I enclose you an application for a pension, which I hope you will hand to the proper
officer of your department with the request to examine the same as soon as practical that the party may be answered, as to the claim of Mrs. Elizabeth Ligon. There is no doubt as to its justness and the evidence is the best now to be obtained in this state.
Very Respectfully,
G. F. Toomes

Hon. John Bell
Secretary of War

N.B. The affidavit of the Hon W. Thompson Sr.  and J. Cleveland were taken at a prior date in support of a petition which was sent to ne presented in Congress, and are now attached to this application. 
G. F. Townes
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South Carolina District
Declaration oath and Certificate and Schedule of Blackman Ligon 
To be inscribed on the Pension List of [South Carolina]

Recorded the 17th June 1823 in the Minutes of the Court by William Choice, C. E. G. D.
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South Carolina Greenville District } On this 16th day of June 1823 Personally appeared in open Court before me the Subscribing Judge of the Court of Equity for Greenville District Blackman Ligon Resident in said District aged Sixty Six years and three months who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on his oath make the following declaration that he the said Blackman Ligon Enlisted for the term of two years on the 12th day of February in year of 1776 in the company commanded by Captain Nathaniel Cock of Halifax County Virginia in the 7th Virgina of Regiment commanded by Colonel William Dangerfield on the  Continental establishment that he continue to serve in the said Company untill the 12th of February 1777 that at Baltimore on the march to the Northward he enlisted again in the same Company commanded then by Captain William Moseley in the Same Regiment commanded Colonel Alexander McClanahan for the term of three years that he continue to serve in the Corps untill the 12th day of February 1780 when he was Discharged from the said service by Colonel Christian Febiger In Philadelphia in the State of Pennsylvania that some time In the month of February 1781 he went out a volunteer under Genl Green and at the Battle at Guildford Court house he had a ball that through his thigh which has disabled him ever since from hard labor but more now in Old age     I Blackman Ligon do solemly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States in the Eighteenth of March Eighteen hundred and Eighteen and that I have not since that time by gift Sale or in any
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Manner disposed of my property or any part thereof with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provision of an act of Congress entitled “an Act to provide for certain Persons engaged in the Land and Naval Service of the United States in the Revolutionary War,” passed on the 18th March 1818. That I have not, or has any person in trust for me any property, or securities, contracts or debts due to me nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereunto annexed and by me subscribed.  Blackman Ligon Sr.   Sworn to and declared on the 16th of June 1823 before me William Choice, C.E.G.D. 
State of South Carolina Greenville District }  I, William Choice, Commissioner and Register of the Court, do certify, that the said declaration) Schedule and Oath have been admitted to the record of the said Court, and that the same are truly copied therefrom; and I do further certify, that it is the opinion of the said Court, that the total amount in value, of the property exhibition in the aforesaid Schedule is eight hundred and fifty nine dollars (or four hundred and forty two dollars and eighty seven cents, deducting the sums which he own). In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this seventeenth day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty three. William Choice Commissioner in Equity for Greenville District
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A Schedule of my Property 
150 Acres of Land I have given that to my youngest son Blackman Ligon more that ten years ago but has not made him a deed to it valued to $450.00 One Negro wench $300.00 Two mares $50 one Cow and Calf & and 1 heifer $15.00   $65.00    12 head of shoats $12 Seven Chairs and cupboard $17.00    1 Pot 2 Ovens 1 Tea Kittle and spider   $7.50    1 ax and Grubing hoe and 3 hilling hoes   $3.00   2 Shovel plows 2 Cotton plows 1 pair Traces $4.00 Half of a riding chair $12.50 Whole amount $859.00   
Money that I owe 
John Archer $50.00 and John Easly $36.00    86.00    
John Brown $27.43 and James Roberts $17.00    44.43   
George W. Earles Dec. 12 $20.00 
John Fleming $10 and Thomas Crahn $8.00    18.00    
William Tony $7.00 and William Wickliff $6.00   13.00    
Bevely Thurston $5   and Jeremiah Cleveland $4.00    9.00   
Blackman Ligon  $140.00 and Thomas Row $3.00   143.00   
Jesee Harrison $3.00 and Richard Megall $2.50    5.50   
John T. Ligon $74.20 and Solomon Wade $3.00    77.20   
Whole amount $416.13 Blackman Ligon    
I am a farmer brought up but my old age and other infirmities renders me not able to labor so as to support myself and family. Elizabeth Ligon, my wife aged Sixty Six years, she is not able to labor much from many infirmities.
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Nancy Ligon aged 39 years very unhealthy
Elizabeth Ligon aged 29 years sickly and weak
James B. Rosamond my grandson aged 13 years but expect him to leave me the fall 
Joseph Ligon my grandson aged 6 years
None of my family is able to make any support towards maintaining my family except James Rosamond.
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T. 253. No. 7952 Affidavit of Hon Waddy Thompson Senr and Jeremiah Cleveland Senr On the Petition of J. T. Ligon Elizabeth Ligon application for Pension
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State of South Carolina Granville District William Pool, a resident of the State and District aforesaid, who states that he is now in his eighty sixth year, being duly sworn deposes that he was acquainted with Blackman Ligon, the late husband of Elizabeth Ligon as far back as about the time of the Battle at Guilford Courthouse in North Carolina. This deponent remembers seeing the said Blackman Ligone in a few weeks after the Battle, he is confident not exceeding two months after that time he had been left after the battle as this deponent understood among the wounded of General Green’s army, to return not for a time thus deponent remembers that the said Blackman was wounded on the thigh when he saw him received in war said by him in the said Battle of Guilford Courthouse. The place where this deponent saw him was in Hallifax County in Virgina, in which was the home or residence of the said Blackman Ligon and his father. This deponent removed to Granville District in this State or what is now Greenville District in the year 1799. Blackman Ligon had removed to the same section of Country many years before and was a man of family when this deponent come here Elizabeth Ligon was always reputed as his wife, and this deponent is satisfied that he had no other Blackman Ligon has been dead several years. William D. Pool Sworn to and subscribed before me July 10th 1841 G. F. Toomes, Justice of the Peace ex officio
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State of South Carolina Greenville District Personally appears before me the subscribing Justice the Honorable Waddy Thompson Senior who makes the following statement concerning Elizabeth Ligon (widow of Blackman Ligon). Elizabeth Ligon is the widow of Blackman Ligon who as this deponent said no doubt was a soldier of the Revolution and must have done considerable service and as such having been as this deponent has good reason to believe in several campaigns and in the different battles mentioned in the petition of John T. Ligon. This deponent prepared the papers, and was the agent of the said Blackman Ligon in procuring a pension for revolutionary services, which pension was procured for the said Blackman about the year the said Blackman Ligon died about eight years ago leaving a widow, Elizabeth Ligon, who is now regarded as entirely non Compos Mentos from extreme age and remains unmarried.  
This deponent was acquainted with the said Blackman and wife at least forty years ago they were then, and to the time of the death of Blackman Ligon, reputed lawfully man and wife. When this deponent first knew the said Blackman Ligon and wife which was about the year 1800 or at least that far back children were nearly of the age of maturity and hence this deponent entertains no doubt that they were married several years prior to the year 1794, The said parties had a large family of children, and from his
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Knowledge of the family he is satisfied that the youngest child is the line of forty years of age, and the oldest more than fifty years of age.
W. Thompson
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 12th January 1841.
George F. Toomes, Justice of the Peace ex officio
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State of South Carolina Granville District Personally appears before me, the subscribing Justice Jeremiah Cleveland Connor, who states he settled in this district thirty six or seven years ago, and was acquainted with Blackman Ligon and his wife Elizabeth Ligon from that time to the death of the former his widow Elizabeth Ligon still lives in this district and remains unmarried    she is regarded as entirely in her dotage.   The said parties (Elizabeth Ligon and Blackman Ligon) were always reputed as lawful husband and wife since his first acquaintance to the death of the husband, as to the ages of the oldest and the youngest of their children he concurs with the annexed statement of the Honorable Waddy Thompson Senior and entertain no doubt from his knowledge of the age of the said Blackman and Elizabeth Lyon that the parties were married some years prior to the first of January one thousand seven hundred and ninety four as stated by the Hon. Waddy Thompson service in his annexed affidavit. Sworn to and subscribed before me this 12 January A.D. 1841 Jeremiah Cleveland Connor George. F. Toomes, Justice of the Peace ex officio
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South Carolina Greenville District } Waddy Thompson makes oath that he is well acquainted with the affiants Jeremiah Cleveland Waddy Thompson Sr. John T. Ligon P. Pool & M. Nancy J. Moore and that say are all persons of respectability and said oath entitled to the fullest credit   Waddy Thompson Jr. 
Sworn to before me July 29. 1841 Geo Watson Judge of the Court of Ordinary for said district 
State of South Carolina  Greenville District }   John Watson Judge of the Court of Ordinary for the district of Granite in the State aforesaid do certify that George T. Toomes  affixed to the affidavit hereunto attached is a proper Magistrate to administer oaths as the signature purports as was such and was at the time the said oaths were administered witness my hand and seal having no official seal of office July 30th 1841     and also that the signature of the said G. T. Toomes signed to the said affidavits is genuine.  
John Watson judge of the Court of Ordinary aforesaid
I do further certify that the persons whose affidavits are hereunto annexed to wit, Jeremiah Cleveland   Hon W Thompson Senior   Jno T Ligon    Nancy T. Moore   Wm P. Pool and Waddy Thompson or are all person of credit and their oath entitled to the fullest belief  July 30th 1841 Jno Watson  July of the Court of Ordinary for said district.
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1802 Main St.
Pine Bluff, Arkansas
Mar. 7, 1918
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington, D.C.

Dear Sir,
Will you please send me a statement of the services rendered during the Revolutionary War of Blackman Ligon of the Virginia Line from South Carolina.
Thanking you in advance.
Yours sincerely,
Mrs. W. C. Hudson
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Rev.

Grantville, Ga
Feb. 23, 1927
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington, D.C.

[round black date stamp]
U. S. PENSION OFFICE
F FEB 25 1927
Will you please look through your records and see if you can find the names of Thomas and Blackman Ligon of Virginia and tell me what information you have concerning these men? They were both in the Revolutionary War. Can you give me any dates, who they married, names of their family, and anything that would me to
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2 find out something definite about them - I’ll appreciate this very much and hope to hear from at your earliest convenience.
Thanking you,
Sincerely,
Mrs. Jno. Latimer
Grantville, Ga
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THE PANAMA CANAL
CANAL ZONE
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT
In reply refer to file

Cable Address:
“PANCANAL, PANAMA”


Taylor, Texas
September 1, 1928
Pension Department
Washington, D.C.

Dear Sir,
Can you inform me whether or not George Weatherall or Blackman Ligon, veterans of the American Revolution from Virginia, ever drew a pension?
I am making every effort to obtain a record of the services of these men and would greatly appreciate any information you could give me.
Thank you in advance.
I am, respectfully,
Rosalie Jones
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Rev. & 1812 Wars Section.
April 15, 1929.
Rosalie Jones,
Taylor, Texas.
Madam:
I advise you that from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, W. 9132, it appears that Blackman Ligon enlisted in Halifax County, Virginia, February 12, 1776, served as a private in Captains Nathaniel Cocke and William Moseley’s Companies, Colonels William Dangerfield and Alexander McClanahan’s Seventh Virginia Regiment, he was in the battles of Brandywine and Germantown and at the affair at Cootes’ Bridge and was discharged February 12, 1780 by Colonel Christian Febiger. 
In February 1781, he volunteered and was at the Battle of Guilford Courthouse, where he received a musket ball wound in the thigh.
He was allowed pension on his application executed November 14, 1818, while living in Greenville District, South Carolina, aged sixty-one years. He died May 3, 1831.
He married about 1780, Elizabeth, maiden name not stated. She was born April 28, 1753. She was allowed Pension in 1841. She died October 15, 1842.
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In 1831 the soldier referred to his children, John T., aged twenty-nine years, Elizabeth, aged twenty-five years, and Blackman, aged twenty-two years and to his grandsons, James B. Roseman, or Rosamond, aged nine years and Joseph Ligon, aged four years.
The soldier’s oldest child was a girl, name not stated and his second was Mrs. Nancy T. Moore, or Moon, who was born November 1, 1784, she and her brother John T. resided in Greenville District, South Carolina in 1841. 
The Revolutionary War records of this bureau fail to afford any information in regard to George Weatherall.
Respectfully,
E. W. Morgan
Acting Commissioner.
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In reply to your request of [Blank] received for statement of the military history of Blackman Ligon, a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau.
W.F. 9.132.
DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT: February 12, 1776
LENGTH OF SERVICE: Four Years 
RANK: Private 
OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED: Capt. Nathaniel Cocke Col. William Dangerfield 
STATE: VA 
{Volunteered at Battle of Guilford Courthouse where he received a musket ball wound in thigh.}
Battles engaged in, Brandywine, Germantown, Guilford Courthouse
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Enlisted in Halifax Co., Va.
Date of application for pension, Nov 14 1818. His cl. was al.
Residence at date of application, Greenville District, S.C.
Age at date of application, 67 yrs. died May 1831
Remarks: Elder, Elizabeth - who was born April 23, 1753. She died October 4, 1842.  Children: Elder, a girl, name not state, Nancy T. Moore born November 1, 1784, John T. 29., Elizabeth, 25, Blackman [Jr.] 22 years of age in 1821. Grandchildren referred to referred to in 1821: James B. Rosamond 9 years of age, Joseph Ligon 4 years of age.
Respectfully,
Commissioner