Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 5028, for William Lomax, North Carolina
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(3-1776)
SERVICE
N.C.
Lomax, William
Tabitha
NUMBER
W. 5028
B.L.Wt. 34,833-160-55
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CONTENTS
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Aermar
207104 Aug't 28/55
______________________
Tabitha Lomax
Widow of 
William Lomax
Pri.
_______________________
Capt. McKee
Gen'l Green

8 mos about 1780

Revol'y War
_______________________
Pensioned set
and Record $40.
N.C. Febý 48 -2973
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Ad: 160 acr. July 22d/56
[Signature]
Boynton
_________________________
Allen Newsom
Jackson Hill P.O.
Davidson Co.
N. Ca.

nun
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Dec. 1/56 - Let. to Agent - Jackson Hill - Nor. Car.
warrant or Mr. Arty - should be surrrendered for cancellation. The one entitled, unless a child of the soldier who was a minor on 3rd Inst. '53 - pr.
Caveat Entered -
Dec. 2/58. Let to Allen Newson Jackson Hill N. C. - notice of the expence his letter of the 26. ult. to Com'r. Gen. Land Office - twp
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Feby. 3 1898. To Miss Theresa S. Porter 1235 Hinman Ave. Evanston, Ills.
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July 1902 to Comm'r Land Office land warrant returns located, when, where & by whom?  m.s.& s.

see Addison and Addisen File Nr. 5428
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died 6th Nov'r. 1835

Letter to Pension Agent
July 5 1834

let 4 April 1835 Hon: A. Rucher.
let 26 Mar '36 H. Allen Newsom
let. 9 July 1836 to Sec. of War do.
let Hon a Rencher Feb. 3. 1838
 let to Sec War Mar. 15 1838 Enclosing of papers under a Resol H. Reps 
do. to Hon. W. S. Morgan at H. R. Mar 24 1838.

Swipe from roll under act of June 1832
was inscribed on roll under that of March 18-1818 - July 5 1831


20.471
North Carolina
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William Lomax
of Rowan in the State of N. Ca.
who was a private in the ---------commanded by Captain --------------
of the Reg't commanded by Colonel Clark in the N. Ca. 
line for the term of 1 year - from 17-- to 17--
Dead
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Inscribed on the Roll of N. Carolina
at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 11 day of February 1834
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Certificate of Pension issued the 3 day of July 34 and Sent to Hon: A. Rincher
M.C. Present
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Arrears to 4th of Mar: ‘34   9.85
Semi=anl. all'ce ending 4 Sept. 48.00 =
$57.85

{Revolutionary Claim,}
{Acts March 18, 1818.}
{May 1, 1820.}
{March 1, 1823.}

Recorded Book D vol. 8 page 35
by Nath. Rice -
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2.973
North Carolina
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Tabitha Lomax
widow of William Lomax
N.C.
who served in the Revolutionary
war, as a private
Increased from $40
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Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 96 Dollars 00 Cents per annum, to commence on the 1st July 1848.
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Certificate of Pension issued the 
7th day of January 1856.
and sent to
G.C. Ames
Present
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Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act February 2, 1848, Page 2[missing]

1859 Apl.
W. Lomax

207104
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Claim of Tabitha Lomax
To Bounty Land

Act of March 3, 1855

War of Revolution
By Wm. Lomax her
husband.

Presented by
Allen Newsom (as
a favor from) "Jackson Hill" P.O.
Davidson Co. N. Ca'a.
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State of North Carolina}
County of Davidson}

On this 7th day of August A. D. one thousand Eight Hundred and fifty-five personally appeared before me, a Justice of the Peace (who is authorized to administer oaths for general purposes) within and for the County and state aforesaid Tabitha Lomax aged about 86 years a resident of Davidson County in the State aforesaid who, being duly sworn according to law declares that she is the widow of William Lomax who was a regular and private soldier in the company commanded by Captain McKee in the    regiment not reattached but in part as she has understood Commanded by General Green in the Revolutionary War with Great Britain by the United States that her said Husband substituted and afterwards continued as she believes for 12 months about 1779 or 1780; and was in service as she understood at the time of the battle at Utaw-Springs [Eutaw] and after his tour of service expired he (as she learned from him) was honourably discharged at Charlotte, N-C-a, the day and year she does not know. She further states that she was married on the 26th day of December 1790 to the said William Lomax by Arthur Harris Esqr. then a Justice of the Peace in & for Montgomery Co. N. C. in which she then resided. She has heretofore applied for a Pension and obtained it and is now in the receipt of it from the United States for Forty Dollars her annum and refers to her papers on file at Washington in support of this claim and that her name before her said marriage was  Tabitha Goodden that her said Husband died at home her now residence in  Davidson County N.C. on the 6th day of November A. D. 1835.
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and that she is now a widow. She makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the bounty land to which she may be entitled under the Act approved March 3rd 1855.
She further states that she was married in the County of Montgomery in which she then resided as aforesaid and that some years ago the Court House and records therein of said County were burnt as she was informed; so that she is precluded from the copy of her marriage license which as she is informed and believes ought to have been on filed; and that no other public record of her marriage with the said William Lomax was kept as she knows of. She states that her son John (the oldest child of hers) kept the record of his age in a Testament and that record with the book was transferred to to the War Department Pension office as she was informed through the agency of Allen Newsom as evidence in support of her pension claim which she obtained, and has not since been returned a she is informed.
[Signature]
Tabitha Lomax X her mark

I John Hannah a resident of Randolph & Butter Taylor a resident of Davidson County both in the state aforesaid whose oaths declare that the foregoing declaration was signed and acknowledged by Tabitha Lomax in our presence, and that we believe from the appearance and statements of the applicant and our personal acquaintance for many years that she is the identical person she represents herself to be and that the marriage of the above applicant with said William Lomax was never doubted as to its legality & that we believe she was married at the time she states.
[Signatures]
John Hannah X his mark
B Taylor
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The foregoing declaration and affidavit were sworn to and subscribed before me on the day and year above written; and I certify that I know the affiants John Hannah and Butter Taylor to be credible persons that the claimant is the person she represents herself to be and that I drew up her husband’s Declaration in 1833 for a pension which he obtained and also for her a Declaration &c and she was placed on the pension list at forty Dollars per annum of which she is now in teh receipt satisfactory evidence by a record as she states with other proofs of her marriage was sent in connection with her former declaration and I well k now several of their contemporaries, that are dead and the the marriage of William & Tabith Lomax were never brought in question & looked on as Bonafide as any other persons whatever and that I have no interest in this claim.
[Signature]
Allen Newsome J. P.

State of North Carolina}
Davidson County} I C. F. Sowe Clerk of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions in and for the County & State aforesaid do hereby certify that Allen Newsom Esqr whose name appears to the foregoing certificate and before whom the within declaration and affidavit were made and executed, and who has hereunto subscribed his name was at the time of so doing an acting Justice of the Peace in and for the county aforesaid, duly commissioned and sworn and that his signature thereto is genuine.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the county court for the county aforesaid this 13th day of August 1855
[Signature]
C. F. Lowe, Clk
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State of North Carolina} Court of Please and 
Rowan County.} Quarter Sessions.
August sessions Anno Domini 1820.
On this 25th day of August, 1820 personally appeared in the Court aforesaid, being a Court of record for the county of Rowan, William Lomax, aged fifty seven years resident in said county of Rowan who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on his oath Declare that he served in the Revolutionary War of the United States, which said services were set forth in his original Declaration under date of May Sessions A. D. 1814 -
And upon which a pension certificate No. -
was granted him: and the said William Lomax does furth solemnly swear that he was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March, 1818; and that he has not since that time by gift, sale or in any manner disposed of his property or any part thereof with interest theirby so to diminish it as to make himself come within the provisions of an act of Congress entitled “An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War passed on the 18th day of March 1818; and that he has not nor has any person in trust for him any property or securities contracts or debts due to him, nor has he any income than what is contained in the schedule which follows and  by him subscribed which is as follows:
155 acres of land worth not more than $100
one mare, on colt & small horse worth 60.00 
carried forward $160
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Carried forward...............................................$160.00
Two cows and two heifers worth ......................24:
Hogs worth not more than ..................................10
Farming implements & cooking utensils worth 10

One Debt due me of $30, but I am owing fully that amount. And the said William Lomax further Declares on oath that he is a farmer, but that owning to his age and infirmity he is unable to pursue his trade and thereby support himself.
[Signature]
William Lomax.
Sworn to and Declared on the 25th day of August, 1820 in open Court before the magistrate presiding.
I John Giles, Clerk of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions of Rowan County do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and schedule 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 is two hundred and four dollars.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at Office on this 18th day of December Anno Domini 1820
[Signature]
Jno. Giles
[Seal]

State of North Carolina,
Rowan County.
I, Moses A. Locke, presiding magistrate of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions of Rowan County do hereby certify that John Giles Esquire who has given the foregoing certificate
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is the Clerk of the Court aforesaid, duly appointed and qualified. That all due faith should be given to his official acts; and that his certificate is in due form of Law.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 18th day of December Anno Domini 1820.
[Signature]
Moses A. Locke C. C. C 
[Seal]
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War Department
Pension Office
Washington City
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2922
Tabitha Lomax
N.C.
widow of William
act 7 July 38
admd
12 mo pri
$ 40

N. C. 2922 Nov. 2
7 July 1838.

Lexington N
act 27

(0)
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State of North Carolina}
Davidson County.}
On this 19th day of October 1838 personally appeared before me Alexander Shemwell one of the acting Justices of the Peace in and for said county Tabitha Lomax, a resident of said County aged 69 years 4th of Nov'r next according to information of her parents who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth on her oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress, passed July 7th 1838, entitled  “An act granting half p0ay and pensions to certain widows "That she is the widow of  William Lomax who was a regular soldier of the  Revolution as is set forth in his Declaration with proof thereunto annexed which is presumed on file in the War Department, Pension office of the United States, which will satisfy that Department of the services of the said Wm. Lomax her only husband who was a resident of Davidson County N. Carolina who renewed his pension certificate through the agency of Allen Newsom in 1834. And she further states that her name was Tabbitha Goodin before she became the wife of said Lomax and that she married the William Lomax at her Father's House in Montgomery County on the 26th day of December at the age of 24 years and little of the rise. She states that she was the best of her knowledge in the latter part of the year 1783 or '84. She sates her marriage took place some few years after the war was said to have broken up in legal bands; of matrimony until his death which took place on the 6th of Nov. 1835 and that she has never married since and that she now remains and continues to remain the widow of the said Wm. Lomas who was in the receipt of a pension of $96.00, when he deceased, her annum: As will more fully appear by Look place on the 6th of Nov.r 1835 and that she has never married since and that she now remains and continues to remain the widow of the said Wm. Lomax he deceased her annum. As will more fully appear by reference to the proof and Declaration of the said Wm. Lomax which is one file in the Department and will explain the whole of his, her husbands, services. She further states that lives about 28 or 30 miles from the Court of record of her county and that in consequence of her inability and infirmity is unable to attend in court to make her Declaration.
Sworn to and subscribed - the day and year above written before me.
[Signatures]
Tabbitha Lomax X her mark
Alexander Shemwell J. P.
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I William Hannah of Randolph County N. Carolina & clergyman do hereby certify that he was well acquainted with the foregoing applicant Tabbitha Lomax before she was married to Wm. Lomax and has been ever since that she was the reputed wife and likewise the widow of the said Wm. Lomax for he states that he knew both parties before their marriage took place and has known them intimately well until his death which took place as his widow has stated; and that he and the neighbourhood concur in the facts as are set forth in the foregoing Declaration. S worn to and subscribed before me.
[Signatures]
W. Hanna
Alex Shemwell J. P. 

I Alexander Shemwell a Justice of the Peace in and for said county as above set forth do certify that the foregoing Declaration was regularly taken and had before me and that I believe the material part are facts that are not to be doubted by any person; And further that William Hannah who deposeth to the above certificate resides in Randolph County near this place and is a clergyman and a credible person and therefore is entitled to credit for what he states &c. Given under my hand & seal the date and year first above written.
[Signature]
Alexander Shemwell [Seal]

State of North Carolina}
Davidson County} I Charels Mock Clerk of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions for and in said County do hereby certify that the signature to the foregoing Declaration and above certificates purporting to be Alexander Shemwell's Esq'r. is genuine and that he is and was at the time and acting Justice of the Peace of said county duly appointed, commissioned, and qualified and as such due faith and credit is entitled to his official acts, and should also be given to them.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said County & office at office The 26th day of October 1838.
[Signature]
Ch's. Mock C. C. C.
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Lexington N. Carolina}
Davidson County}

Dear Sir,
I have herewith annexed the Declaration of Tabbitha Lomax (widow of Wm. Lomax late a pensioner of this county) and do send it on to you in order to review for her an answer. She relies on the claim which was established in behalf of the old man which of course will govern you in making out her claim as may be found on file in your Department &c.
Please to examine this claim and send on her certificate or an answer as soon as possible or without willful delay &c. so that she may obtain it as soon as possible.
Yours with due respect &c.
[Signature]
Allen Newsom

J. L. Edwards Esq'r.
Comm'r. of Pensions
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To the War Department
Pension Office

State of North Carolina}
Davidson County}
On this 16th day of January A. D. 1834 personally appeared before me Jesse Hill one of the acting Justices of the Peace of the court of Please and Quarter Sessions in and for said county and state aforesaid William Lomax a resident of the United States in the county of Davidson and state of North Carolina aged seventy years the 12th of Jan'y 1834 who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June the 7th 1832. That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated viz: that he the above named William Lomax, was according to the statement of his parents bourn about 1764 the 12th of January in the state of Maryland Charles County and at about the age of 16 years he moved to Guilfor County N. Carolina and resided there a short time and as well as he recollects in the year 1781 in the spring though he was not on the muster roll volunteered his service as a regular soldier for the space of Twelve months left Guilford County (his residence) and went to  Salisbury N. Ca. Rowan County and as well as he can recollect entered the service on the
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9th of May 1781 under Colonel Armstrong & Capt. McKee who took his name upon the rolls and states that a man by the name of Pervard was ensign not any other officer recollected at that time but he and the other state troops under the controle of Col. Armstrong were in hast to re-enforce Gen'l. Geren and from Salisbury marched towards South Carolina for Ninety Six to fall in under Gen'l. Green He march along in the South and intersected with Gen'l. Green's troops the main army in the South composed of the Continental troops as he was  in his retreat from Lord Rawdon and his reenforcement. He stated that he was then put into the first N. Carolina Regimet under Capt. McKee and the Leutenants name he believes was Alexander the orderly sergeant by the name of Briggs. The two regiments were then under Gen'l Green as Chief Commander in the South with the following officers as well as recollected Col. Hall Dickson, Col. Leightle, Col. Murphy, Major Dunahoo and Col. Armstrong and one Stillwell Phifer Blackston drummer & one Track was a musician and he with the main army marched under Gen'l. Green Commander in Chief to the High Hills of Santee and there stationed some time and after which time marched towards the Utaw Springs but before the army reached the U. Springs he William Lomax states that he was detached as one
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of a guard to convey a number of prisoners into the possession of the Militia which object they done before they reached Camden. After the completion of that object he with the rest of the guard marched back to the main Army and during the absence or recep of them as guard at that period the Battle at the Utaw [Eutaw] Springs was faught between the British and American troops or continentals as well as he the said William Lomax can recollect about the 9th of September 1781. After the battle the army was regulated and his Captain (McKee was promoted to the office of Major and then Elijah Moore was appointed Captain in Capt. McKee place under whom he served the ballance of his time in the first N. Carolina Regiment as a regular soldier. After that change in his Captain he states he marched to a place by the name of Pond Ponds near Charleston and little vilage called Dogester not far from Bacons Bridge where they were mainly stationed that winter and the greater part of the spring of 1782 but he with the other soldiers was frequently out on scouts in pursuit of the enemy of British troops by day and in the night under the controll of our head officers when ever they deemed it necessary. The said William Lomax states that he was not in any regular battle but was in other expeditions under the controll and instructions of his officers. In consequence of his fatiague and exposure he has never
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been a right sound man since. He further states some of the names of the soldiers to wit: Stephen Baley in 2d Regiment and the other following named persons Regiment not all recollected but the most of whom he believes were in the first Regiment to wit: Josep Hall, Moses Hopper, John Conn, Richard Lewis, Nicholas Grindstaff, one Penninger, Stofle Boston, Andrew Boston, George Sommers, one McClarney, Jesse Ashlock and Philip Paul. He states that his tour of 12 months service as he believes expired about the 9th of May 1782 but he was held in service until the 1st June 1782, and from the vicinity of Charleston he marched up to Charlotte N. Carolina and was then released after a service of 12 months & 22 days. He states when the soldiers dispersed in different directions that his discharge was given to another man by the name of Gathro Millteer through a mistake who lived near Halifax N. Ca. and the officer told him to take Millteers discharge so he Wm. Lomax states that he was ignorant without education and in ill health that he could not get his proper discharge (Millteer left the army with his discharge before he knew it) therefore he states that he never received anything for his services as a regular soldier of the Revolutionary war. He states that he sent Millteers
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discharge many years ago to Halifax to get what was due Millteer in the place of himself but never received anything from that time to the present time nor, the discharge. The said William Lomax states that he is unable to appear in Court by reason of bodily infirmity and has not been in a long time and his residence being from Lescenton [Lexington] where his court is held about 28 or 30 miles distance which renders it impossible for him to attend the court. He the said Wm. Lomax further states that he had mad two applications for a pension before the late Act of Congress but being feeble in health and without information and having heretofore to trust to those who perhaps did not take an interest in making out his case. He thinks thange that others have drawn their pension for their services and he being a regular soldier and in indigent circumstances and has not got any thing. He states that a letter from Mr. James L. Edwards to Henry Giles (one of his former agents) "represents that his claim was suspended in consequence of want of proof of identity and that his former declaration did not correspond with the rolls". He states that he will now give as full a declaration as his recollection will enable him to do; but wishes to call
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the Honorable Secretary’s attention to the change of his Captain who was in the out set Capt. McKee, part of the time and then Elijah Moore of which change he did not put in his former declaration. He the said William Lomax states that he will make at this time as strong proof as he possibly can. He states that he returned from his services out of the revolutionary war to Guilford County No. Ca. (his former residence) in the first of the summer of 1782 from whence he volunteered as a regular soldier. He then went into Virginia then returned to Guilford and there resided some few years and then went to Montgomery County N. Ca. and there married and lived some years and then moved into Rowan Co. N. Ca. near Stoke's Ferry where he has resided ever since during 27 or 8 years, the county in which he now resides is Davidson by a division of Rowan Co. He states that according to his account he is now seventy years of age the 12th day of Jan'y 1834.
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state, only that of the state No. Carolina some years ago which was suspended for further proof without his ever drawing one cent.
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Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
[Signature]
William Lomax X his mark
Witness
[Signature]
Jesse Hill J. P.

This day came Martin Penninger of Caarrus [Cabarrus] County N. Ca. before me Jesse Hill one of the acting Justices of the county of Davidson and state aforesaid and made oath that William Lomax who has made and subscribed and qualified to the foregoing declaration was a regular soldier in the Revolutionary war and served in the first N. Carolina Regiment under Col. Armstrong in Cap. McKee's & then in Elijah Moor's company in the years of  1781 & 2 and the said Penninger states that he served with the said Lomax as a regular soldier in the same regiment during the same tour, both entered the service at one time and both were released at the same time and that he believes the sd. Wm. Lomax declaration to be correct as far as he can recollect at this time.
[Signature]
Martin Penninger X his mark
Sworn to and subscribed before me 
[Signature]
Test. Jesse Hill J. P.

This day came Stephen Baley late of Montgomery Co. but now of Davidson County before me Jesse Hill, one of the acting Justices of
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the Peace of Davidson Co. and made oath that he got acquainted with William Lomax who hath sworn to and subscribed to the foregoing declaration at the High Hills of Santee S. Carolina in the first N. Carolina regiment as a regular soldier of the Revolutionary war and that he the said Stephen Baley has been acquainted with the sd. Lomax ever since and that he was a soldier and he believes his declaration is true as far as he can recollect. He the said Baley states that Lomax was in the 1st regiment of the N. Carolina troops and he was in the 2d at the time of the battle at the Utaw [Eutaw] Springs & after that period.
Sworn to and subscribed
[Signatures]
Stephen Baley X his mark
Test Jessee Hill J. P.

State of North Carolina}
Davidson County}

I Jessee Hill one of the acting Justices of the Peace for said county do hereby certify and declare my opinion that the above and within named William Lomax applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states and I further certify that the said William Lomax is unable to appear in court by reason of bodily infirmity of a dropsical nature and that Lexington the county seat is
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28 or upwards of miles from the said Lomax residence.
Given under my hand & seal
[Signature]
Jesse Hill J. P>

From my acquaintance with & information of Stephen Baley & Martin Pennington who have proved the service of Wm. Lomax the within applicant I do hereby certify that they are credible persons and that their statement is entitled to credit.
[Signature]
Jesse Hill J. P.

State of North Carolina}
Davidson County} SS.
I Samuel Gaither Clerk of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions of the county aforesaid do herby certify that Jesse Hill whose name appears to the foregoing declaration probates, and certificate is and was at the time of assigning the same an acting Justice of the Peace in and for the county aforesaid duly appointed, commissioned and qualified and they are his proper name and signatures and due faith and credit are due his official acts as such.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said county at office. This the 11th day of February A. D. 1834
[Signature]
Sam'l Gaither C. C. C.
By David Mock D. C. 
[seal]
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State of North Carolina}
Davidson County} On this 24th day of February 1843 John Lomax personally appeared before me Alexander Oliver one of the acting Justices of the Peace in and for said county and certified and deposed to the following statement of facts as additional evidence of Tabbitha Lomax his mother who is the widow of William Lomax and an applicant for a pension according to the act of Congress for the benefit of certain widows to wit. The said John Lomax certifies that ever since he can remember of recollecting one thing about his own age that his mother Tabbitha Lomax informed him that he was born on the 6th day of November 1794 and that she also informed him that she & his father Willliam Lomax was married on the 26th day of December 1793. He further states that many years ago he recorded his own age according to his parents account that he has it recorded in a Testament, and also in his Bible in the following words (except figures for day & date) "John Lomax was born November the sixth in the; year of our Lord one thousand Seven Hundred and ninety-four". He the said John Lomax further states that as he was the oldest child he, according to his parents account many years ago, recorded the different ages of his brothers and sisters in a book that he owns; to wit, (Murray's Grammar) which are as follow verbatim (except the figures for day & date)
to wit, Amy Lomax was born October the sixteenth one thousand seven Hundred and ninety-six
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Nancy Lomax was born January the twentyeth One thousand seven hundred and ninety nine. Polly Lomax was born June the nineteenth one thousand eight Hundred and one William Lomax was born June the twentyeth one Thousand eight hundred and three. Cornelius Lomax was born March the eight one thousand eight hundred and six. West Lomax was born May the thirty-first one thousand-eight hundred and nine. He certifies the foregoing facts were given him by his parents information before he ever heard of any pension act being passed by Congress. Sworn to and subscribed before me.
[Signatures]
John Lomax
Attest
A. Oliver J. P.

I certify the foregoing was taken & had before me and that the above transcript of record is true of the age of John Lomax & his other brothers and sisters as was exhibited in said books except the several days and dates which were there inserted in figures (in the original) instead of words as appear in the above certificate I also certify that I was acquainted with Wm. Lomax dec'd & am well acquainted with his Widow Tabbitha Lomax & John Lomax their son & the above affiant and their several characters were and are irreproachable in regard to veracity honesty & virtue. Given under my hand & seal.
[Signature]
A. Oliver J. P.  [Seal]
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We Burrel Wood & John Loflin residents of Davidson County do hereby certify that we have been well acquainted with Wm. Lomax & Tabbitha Lomax for many years, and that their characters for veracity, honesty and truth were irreproachable, and genuine, and they further state that they never heard any thing to the contrary but that they were certainly and lawfully married and that the character of John Lomax the foregoing affiant maintains an unexceptionable character. Sworn to and subscribed before me.
[Signatures]
Burrell Wood X his mark
John Loflin [smudge] his mark
Attest
A. Oliver J. P.

I certify that Burrell Wod & John Loflin the above affiants are persons of high credibility and are therefore entitled to credit the day and day first above written. Given under my hand and seal.
[Signature]
A. Oliver J. P. [seal]

State of North Carolina]
Davidson County} I Charles Mock Clerk of the Court of pleas & quarter sessions for the county aforesaid do certify that Alexander Oliver is an acting Justice of the Peace in & for said county duly commissioned & qualified & that the foregoing signature purporting to be his is genuine. In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said court at office the 28th day of February 1843
[Signature]
Ch's Mock C. C. C.
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August 16, 1934.

BA-J/ILL
William Lomax
W. 5028

Mrs. Ross N. Atkinson
Paoli
Indiana.

Dear Madam:

Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revolutionary War records of Barnaby Davis, Abel Knight, and William
Lomax from Guilford County, North Carolina.
A search of the Revolutionary War records has been made and no claims for pension or bounty land found based upon service of Abel
Knight or Barnaby Davis; similar spellings of the surnames have been searched. The record of William Lomax has been found and is furnished herein as found in the papers on file in pension claim, W. 5028, based upon his service in the Revolutionary War. His name is not shown as William Powlett Lomax.
William Lomax was born January 12, 1764, in Charles County, Maryland; the names of his parents are not shown. He moved when about
sixteen years of age to Guilford County, North Carolina.
While a resident of Guilford County, North Carolina, he enlisted May 9, 1781, served as a private in Captain McRee's and Elijah Moore's
company, under Colonel Armstrong in the North Carolina troops and was discharged May 9, 1782; during this service he was in frequent skirmishes and at the Siege of Ninety-Six.
After his Revolutionary War service, the soldier returned to Guilford County, North Carolina; in the summer of 1782, he volunteered "as a regular soldier" and went to Virginia. He returned to Guilford County, North Carolina, where he lived a few years, then went to Mont
gomery County, in that state, and moved from there to Rowan County, North Carolina, and resided near Stokes Ferry, Rowan County, North Carolina.
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William Lomax was allowed pension on his application executed third Monday in May, 1819, in Salisbury, Rowan County, North Caro-
In 1829, he resided in that part of Rowan County which was then Davidson County,
The soldier died November 6, 1835, in Davidson County, North Carolina.
William Lomax married December 26, 1793, Tabitha, the daughter of Alexander Gooden (Goodin); the wedding took place at her father's home in Montgomery County, North Carolina; the name of her mother was not
shown. Tabitha was born November 4, 1769
Tabitha Lomax, the soldier's widow, was allowed pension on her application executed October 19, 1838, at which time she resided in
Davidson County, North Carolina. She died February 15, 1856, survived by five children, whose names were not designated.
In 1857, John A. Lomax, soldier's oldest child, was administrator of his mother's estate; he resided at Jackson Hill, Davidson County,
North Carolina, where he died some years before 1877. In 1867, Wesley Lomax resided in Troy, Montgomery County, North Carolina.
The following names of children of William Lomax and his wife, Tabitha, are shown:
fund

John............born November 6, 1794.
Amy.............born October 16, 1795.
Nancy.........born January 20, 1799.
Polly.............born June 19, 1801.
William.......born June 20, 1803.
Cornelius...born March 8, 1806.
West............born May 31, 1809.

Very truly yours,

A. D. HILLER,
Assistant to Administrator.

[note - Mrs. Linda O.K.'d this record. I did not use information from Land Office - July 18 - 1902 -; nor the names of heirs in Office letter 1877 - at they were not on early papers - or listed as children.]

2.
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State of North Carolina}
Davidson County}
This day appeared Martin Penninger of Cabarrus County and State aforesaid before me Jesse Hill one of the Acting Justices of the Peace in and for said County and maketh oath that William Lomax now of the county of Davidson did actually serve as a regular soldier in the Revly War under the command of Gen'l Green in the first North Carolina Regiment in Capt. McKee's company part of the time and then in Capt. Elijah Moore's company by Capt. McKee being appointed Major and was in service to the time of the battle of the  Utaw Springs 1781, and the spring of 1782, and served as a regular soldier. In witness whereof he the said Martin Penninger both sworn to the above probate and subscribed to the same and also affixed his seal. This the 16th day of January 1834.
[Signature]
Martin Penninger X his mark [seal]
Test Jesse Hill J. P.

I Stephen Baley of the County of Davidson, but formerly of Montgomery and State of North Carolina do hereby certify that I became acquainted with Willima Lawson now of Davidson County in the Army of the Revolution as a regular soldier in the first North Carolina Reg't.
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Regiment under Gen'l. Green about the years of 1781 & 2 are that I have been acquainted with him ever since and I know that he did serve though I was in the second Regiment I believe that he was under the Captain as Martin Penniner states. Sworn to and subscribed the 9th day of September 1834
[Signature]
Stephen Baley X his mark
Jasse Hill J. P.

On this 9th day of  September 1834 personally appeared before me Jesse Hill one of the Acting Justices of the Peace in and for the County of Davidson State of N. Carolina William Lomax a resident of the county and state aforesaid and made oath in  due form of law that he is the identical William Lomax for whom the Hon. Charles Fisher before Rowan sd. was divided filed his declaration for a pension  as agent for him under the Acts of Congress of 1818 & 1820 and then W. Giles of Rowen. And in fulfillment of the regulations of the Dept. of  War the proof of the above affiants, to wit, Penninger & Baley are both in to redeem his former declaration according to promise, and further states that inability has been the cause of his not doing of it sooner; and that his latter declaration date 16th January 1834 were mostly made out to correct some few errors that was in his former which he though was necessary to be done but did not think it would prevent his pension from the test of his former declaration.
Sworn
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Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
[Signatures]
William Lomax X his mark
Jesse Hill J. P.

He the said William Lomax further stated on oath that the error he first made in his former declaration to wit, he encloses the service under Capt. McKee and then served under Elijah Moore, instead of entering under Moore and instead of Armstrong being Major he was Col. and that he served twelve months or upwards in manner and form and it the date that is stated in Martin Pennegrin’s probate. Sworn to and subscribed before me this the 9th Sept. 1834.
[Signatures]
William Lomax X his mark
Jesse Hill J. P.

I Jesse Hill do hereby certify and declare my opinion that William Lomax who both swore and subscribed to the above was a regular soldier of the revolution and served as he states 12 months or upwards; because I do not believe that he would qualify to any thing that was wrong if he knew it for any pecuniary inclement. And I further certify that he is a diseased man and has been for a number of years so that he could not travel about to transact his own business without great assistance and bodily injury. And I further certify that from correct information Martin Penninger is a resident of Cabarrus County; and from his conversation that he had with me when he qualified to the foregoing affidavit was from
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from my information of him he is a man of credibility and that his statement is duly entitled to credit. And I further certify the Stephen Baley the other affiant of William Lomax is a resident of Davidson County and that he is a man of credibility and that his statement is entitled to credit. Given under my hand and seal Sept. the 9th 1834.
[Signature]
Jesse Hill J. P. 

State of North Carolina}
Davidson County} I Samuel Gaither Clerk of the Court of pleas and Quarter Sessions of and for said county do hereby certify that Jesse Hill whose name appears to the foregoing testimony  of the affiant (Penninger and Baley) of William Lomax, and the deposition or declaration of said Lomax and the above certificates is and was at the time of signing the same an acting Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid duly appointed commissioned and qualified and that they are his proper name and genuine signatures and due faith and credit are due his official acts as such.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said county at office this the 2nd day of October 1834.
[Signature]
Samuel Gaither C. C. C.
[Seal]
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Free

Hon. J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Pension Office 
Washington 
D. C. 

[stamp - WASHINGTON]

Cole

a.a. 4070

J. S. 
N. C.
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Declaration

In Order to obtain the benefits of the Act of Congress of February 2d, 1848, entitled "An Act making further provisions for surviving widows and soldiers of the Revolution".

State of North Carolina}
Davidson County}
On this, the 23rd day of November 1848, personally appeared before the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for said county Tabitha Lomax a resident of Davidson Couinty, aged 79 years, who, being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on her oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by Act of Congress, passed on 2nd of Feb. 1848, granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary  War, that she is the widow of William Lomax late of said County, who drew a pension and that she under the Act of 17th of June 1844 drew a pension on account of her husband's, William Lomax' Revolutionary services. She further declares that she is still a widow. Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written, before me.
[Signatures]
Tabitha Lomax X her mark 
[Seal]
Alex'r Oliver J. P.

I certify that the above named affiant is personally known to me, and that she is the identical person as represented by her in the annexed declaration.
[Signature]
Alex'r Oliver J. P.
[Seal]
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I Cicero F. Lowe Clerk of the Court of Please and Quarter Sessions, for Davidson County, certify that Alexander Oliver is a Magistrate as above, and that the foregoing signatures purporting to be his are genuine.
In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto affixed my seal of Office and subscribed my name this 12th day of December in the year 1848.
[Signature]
C. F. Lowe
Clerk of the Court of Davidson County
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Jackson Hill P.O.
Davidson Co. N. C. Dec'r. 1st 1848.

Hon. J. L. Edwardes.
Sir,

I enclose you this Declaration of Tabbitha Lomax for your consideration in order to obtain a certificate on her authority to have her pension claim extended according to act of Congress. Pl.ease report to me at htis office Jackson Hill.
Respectfully yours &c.
[Signature]
Allen Newsom


Hon. J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions


Cole  aa 4070

T. S. 

Free
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Certificate 
& Seal of 
 Montgomery Co.
N. C.
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State of North Carolina} I David N. Cochran
Montgomery  County} Clerk of the Court of Pleas & quarter sessions of Montgomery County certify that agreeable to the records of my office that Auther Hamp was an acting Justice of the peace of said county in the year 1773 and agreeable to the then number of marriage License Bonds in my office of about that date, I do not beleave that there is now than one third that ought to be - and I further certify that after making a diligent search amongst the marriage license Bonds filed in my office I have been unable to find one between William Lomax and Tabitha  Gooden.
In Witness whereof I David R. Cochran Clerk of said court have hereunto set my hand and affixed the county seal at Lawrenceville the 24th day of May 1842 and in the 66th year of American Independence.
[Signature]
D. N. Cochran Clerk
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State of North Carolina}
Davidson County}
On this 27th day of May 1842 personally appeared before me, S. G. Miller one of the acting Justices of the peace in and for said county John Hall a resident of Montgomery County and state aforesaid aged sixty-six, years the 28th of last October as appears from a record of his age before me, as follows to wit: "John Hall was born in the year of our Lord Oct. the twenty eighth one thousand seven hundred and seventy five who, being first duly sworn according to law, doth on  his oath depose and make the following certificate for and in behalf of Tabbitha Lomax of this county and the widow of Wm. Lomax (late a pensioner of this county and his widow now an applicant) as additional evidence to her proof now, I suppose, in the Pension Office at Washington City; the said John Hall doth on his oath certify and say that the marriage between the said Wm. Lomax & Tabbitha Gooden did take place at her father's house in Montgomery County on the Twenty six day of December in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety-three, that they were married by Authur Harris then an acting magistrate of said county; he further certifies that he attended on the said Wm. Lomax when he was weded, after marriage, and that from his own age, and a number of other dates he cannot be mistaken in the day and date of said marriage. He states that on the day before the said marriage that his father Joseph Hall sent him to Authur Harris for a gallon of Brandy for Christmas &c. which time said Harris said that on the next day he should marry Wm. Lomax & Tabbitha Gooden & he remarked to him
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that he should be there, apparently, they met at Alexander Gooden's the reputed father of Tabbitha on the next day, the day after new Christmas it being the 26th day of Dec'r. 1793 the said Hall further states that the following record of his age is a true transcript taken from his father’s record of his age & others of the family. Sworn to and subscribed before me the day and year first written.
[Signatures]
John Hall H. his mark
Attest
S. G. Miller J. P. 

I S. G. Miller certify that the foregoing was had before me that John Hall who has deposed to the foregoing certificate an oath is a resident of Montgomery Ciounty and that he is a credible citizen or person and that the  quotation of the record of his age is a true copy, except the day and date which is expressed in fair legible figures to wit (28th Oct. 1775) I further certify that the interlining in the foregoing to wit years in the fourth line and the wards of said marriage
 between the 31st & 32d line were interlined before the execution of the same. Given and certified under my hand & seal the day & year before written.
[Signature]
S. G. Miller J. P. [seal]

State of North Carolina} I Charles Mock Clerk
Davidson County} of the court of Please and Quarter Sessions do hereby certify that Stephen G. Miller whose name appears to the above affidavit and certificate is and was at the time and acting Justice of the Peace, duly appointed, commissioned and qualified, and as such due faith and credit should be given to all his official acts, and the said signatures purporting to be the said S. G. Miller's is his genuine signatures. In testimony whereof I Charles Mock clerk of said court have hereunto set my hand and affixed the county seal at Lexington the 7th day of June 1842 and in the 66th year of American Independence.
[Signature]
Ch's Mock C. C. C.
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State of North Carolina}
Davidson County}
Whereas Tabbitha Lomax widow of Wm. Lomax late of this county as I have been informed hath applied In order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of the 7th July 1838 entitled An act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows." through the agency  Allen Newsome and that there is required further evidence to the war Department therefore on the 17 day of July 1840 personally appeared before me  Jacob Goss one of the acting Justices of the peace in and for said County Dr. William Hanna & John Lomax as affiants for additional testimony in support of her claim for said pension to wit: I William Hann certify that I recorded my son John Hanna's age which was the 11th Aug’t 1794 and that he aforesaid John Lomax son of said Tabbitha Lomax was born some short period after in the same year and that he was well acquainted with the said Tabbitha Lomax & her husband Wm. Lomax both before and after their first child's birth (John Lomax) and that they did prior to that date live together as man and wife and as for the [illegible] of said marriage he never up to the present date heard attached; and from what he understood he believes that the said marriage did take place as she states on the 26 Dec'r. 1793 especially when he never heard her plain statement of an important fact contradicted by any person. And he further states that Authur Harris the magistrate who married the said couple is deceased years ago and that from information of the contemporary citizen well acquainted with the then clerk of Montgomery County Court he was very dissipated & negligent with business. Sworn to and subscribed before me.
[Signatures]
J. Hanna
Jac Goss J.P.

I John Lomax son of said Tabbitha Lomax & Wm. Lomax do herby certify that I have a record of my own age which is as follows: John Lomax was born Nov'r. the 6th 1794 which has been on record in his common house Bible a number of years and was the date and day which he received from his parents Wm. Lomax & Tabbitha in his earlyest recollection and that he has heard his mother speak of her marriage taking place on the 26th day of Dec'r. before he was
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born 1793 and that he heard her speak of it in his early age up to the present date and that there was no variation in her several statements which all was of the above date. Sworn to and subscribed before me the day and year above written. 
[Signatures]
John Lomax
Ja Goss J. P.

I Allen Newsom of the County aforesaid having been called on by Mrs. Tabbitha Lomax the aforesaid applicant to draw up her original Declaration & the succeeding affidavits of hers; and discover in a communication from the Hon. J. L. Edwards stating that she pledged her marriage to have taken place on the 26th Dec'r. 1794 which evidently must have been an error of mine; therefore that the said error may be removed I the said Allen Newsom hereby certify that she made her statements [smudge] that her marriage took place on [smudge] of Dec'r. 1793 in the original [smudge] succeeding statement and that if the date was put down 1794 it was an error of mine and should have been 1793. Sworn to and subscribed before me
[Signatures]
Allen Newsom
Jac Goss J. P.

I certify that the foregoing proceedings were regular had before me and further I certify the foregoing affiants are credible persons and that their several statements are entitled to credit. Given under my and seal the day and year first above written.
[Signature]
Ja Goss J. P. [seal]

State of North Carolina} I Charles Mock Clerk Davidson County} of the Court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions of said County do certify that Jacob Goss is a Justice of the peace in & for said county duly commissioned & qualified & that the foregoing signature purporting to be his is genuine. Int Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office the first day of September A. D. 1840.
[Signature]
Ch's. Mock C. C. C.
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War Department
Pension Office
J. L. Edwards Esqr.
Washington City


Lexington N.C.}
Jan. 22}

FREE

Jan. 27. 1840
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War Department
Pension Office
J. L. Edwards Esqr.
Washington City


Lexington N.C.}
Jan. 22}

FREE

Jan. 27. 1840
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State of North Carolina}
Davidson County}
Whereas I Hirum Ward one of the acting Justices of the Peace in and for said County have been informed that Tabbitha Lomax (widow of Wm. Lomax a late pensioner and resident of said county) Her applicant heretofore through the Agency of  Allen Newsom before Alexander Shemwell one of our acting Justices of the Peace in and for said County for a pension or in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress, passed July 7th 1838, entitled an act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows; Now to the end thereof that her claim may be more legitimately authenticated according to the requisitions  of the War Department on this the 15th day of January 1840 Zachariah Coggan personally appeared before me the said Hiram Ward a Justice of the Peace as aforesaid and certifieth in due form of law that he was present personally at the marriage between the said Tabbitha Lomax (now a widow) and the said Wm. Lomax which was solemnized by Auther Harris a Justice of the Peace then of Montgomery Cty. and to the best of his knowledge and belief said marriage took place on the 24th (twenty-fourth) day of December one thousand seventeen hundred and ninety-three or on Christmas day or the day after of said year. And the said Coggan further states some of the most particular events and circumstances of the cause of his recollection of said marriage; 1st that he the said Coggan was himself married on the 24th day of Janý. 1793 and his first child was borne on the 19th day of Oct'r. following and before the recovery of his wife the said marriage took place at which he was present as above set forth and states. Sworn to and subscribed before me the date and year above written.
[Signatures]
Zachariah Coggan X his mark
H. M. Ward J. P. [seal]

Further Linny Coggan, wife of the said Z. Coggan certifieth that she knows of said marriage taking place though she was not personally present and that the foregoing certificate of her husband is correct & to the best of her knowledge & belief said marriage took place on the 24th of Dec'r 1783 as above stated or the first or second Christmas day and what causes her to recollect the time so well is on account of her own marriage, first child's birth & being at her father's house not well when her husband left to go to the said marriage about the space of one mile off. Sworn to and subscribed before me as above &c.
[Signatures]
Linny Coggan x her mark
H. M. Ward J. P. [seal]
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I Hiram Ward a Justice of the Peace as aforesaid do hereby certify that the foregoing proceedings relative to Tabbitha Lomax's claim for a pension was regularly had and taken before me as aforesaid and that the foregoing affiants Zachariah Coggan and Linny Coggan his wife are credible persons and that their statements are entitled to due credit. Given under my hand and seal the day and year above written.
[Signature]
H. M. Ward J. P. [seal]


State of North Carolina}
County of Davidson} I Charles Mock Clerk of the Court of Pleas & quarter sessions of Davidson County certify that H. M. Ward is a magistrate as above & that the foregoing signature purporting to be his is genuine.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed my seal of office the 21st day of January 1840.
[Signature]
Ch's. Mock C. C. C.
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Lexington Davidson 
Co. N. C. Jan. 21st 1840

Sir,

After some efforts for proof for Mrs. Lomax besides what she had formerly made we found by enquiry two persons of credibility which carry the marriage & time of its taking place to the full satisfaction of the requestion of the Department. I hope therefore that you will no longer suspend her claim but send on her certificate with out delay if you please &c.
Yours respectfully &c
[Signature]
Allen Newsom


Hon. J. L. Edwards Com'r
of Pensions U. S.
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Lexington N.C.
Feb. 28                
free

Hon. J. L. Edwards
Com'r of Pensions
War Deparment
Pension Office
Washington City.

Mar. 5. 1839
Prevelent Sec No. 2922

[underneath]
amed disrip of
Tabbatha Lomax
7 Jany No. 2922
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State of North Carolina}
Davidson County} SS.
On this 23d day of February  1839 personally appeared before me Alexander Shemmwell one of the acting Justices of the Peace in and for said County Tabbitha Lomax a resident of North Carolina in said County who, being first duly sworn, according to law, doth, on her oath make the following additional and supplemental Declaration or as an amendment to an original one previously made and transferred to the War Department through the agency of Allen Newsom in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed July 7, 1838, entitled "An act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows that she is the widow of William Lomax who was in the receipt of a pension at the day of his death and had been for some few years for $96. per annum obtained through the agency of the aforesaid Newsom. She further declares that she was married to the said William Lomax according to her recent recollections and calculations of & from her first child's age on the 26th twenty-sixth day of December seventeen hundred and ninety- three, and her first son was born the 6th of Nov'r 1794 the account of which is kept by her son John for a number of years and that he husband the aforesaid Wiliam Lomax died on the 6th of Nov'r. 1835 and that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place previous to the first day of January seventeen hundred and ninety-four, viz: at the time above stated. Sworn to and subscribed, on the day and year above written before.
[Signatures]
Tabitha Lomax [symbol] her mark
Alex Shemwell J. P

I John Lomax son of the above named Wm. & Tabbitha Lomax aged 44 years the 6th of Nov. 1838 according to an early account given to me by my parents do hereby certify that according to my mother's account at an early period of my life I was born on the 6th day of November 1794 and that she and my father Wm. Lomax was married on the 26th of December 1793 and that there was no record of the marriage between my father and mother belonging to the family to be found to my knowledge sworn to and subscribed the day and year above written.
[Signatures]
John Lomax
Alex. Shemwell J. P.

I Allen Newsom resident of the county of Davidson do certify that I am well acquainted with tabbitha Lomax the above applicant and John Lomaax the above affiant as well as I  was with Wm. Lomax and have been for several years and that they are (as well as the old man was) credible persons and that they are intitled to due repsect and credit.
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for anything that they state. I further certify that the said Tabbitha Lomax and William Lomax her husband appeared to be illiterate and consequently did not keep an original record of things as many others and that she knows of no person now living according to her statement, by whom she can prove her marriage; but by her relating some circumstances she has convinced me beyond a doubt that she cannot be mistaken about her marriage taking place on the 26th of Dec'r. 1793, to wit: she stated that one Jacob Skeen's marriage took place about five weeks after hers and by reference to Wm. Skeen I find by his statement and the record of said Skeen's oldest child's age that the said Skeen was married about the last days of January 1794 which from the 26th of Dec'r. 1793 make the five weeks as Wm. Lomax states so there appears to be no probability of her being mistaken and that I believe after having been agent for her and the old man both that her and her son's statement to be correct. Sworn and subscribed the day and year above written.
[Signatures]
Allen Newsom
Alex'r. Shemwell J. P,

I certify that the foregoing was had before me and that the foregoing affiants John Lomax and Allen Newsom are credible persons and that their statements are intitled to credit and that the foregoing Tabbitha Lomax is a credible person whose statement is to be believed and that and other circumstances have convinced me beyond a shadow of a doubt that her marriage with William Lomax did take place as she has stated in the foregoing Declaration viz: on the 26th day of December 1793. Given under my hand and Seal the day and year first above written.
[Signature]
Alex'r. Shemwell J. P.

State of North Carolina}
Davidson County}
I Charles Mock clerk of the Court of Please and Quarter Sessions in & for said County do hereby certify that Alexander Shemwell whose name appears to the foregoing Declaration and certificates is and was at the time and acting magistrate duly appointed commissioned, and qualified and that the foregoing signature purporting to be his is genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 26th day of February 1839.
[Signature]
Ch's. Mock C. C. C. 
[seal]
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Lexington N Carolina
Davidson Co. Feb. 26th 1839

Dear Sir,

I herewith send the amended Declaration of Tabbatha Lomax who wishes an answer as soon as possible. She has made her case clear & as strong as she thinks is necessary but yet at the same time she does not at this time recollect of a single person as a witness now living who was present at the time of her marriage by whom she can prove the celebration of her marriage and she and her husband being illiterate therefore did not as many others keep a record of their marriage but her testimony and that of her son's cannot be doubted.
Please to send on her certificate if she be allowed it with about two blank Powers of Attorney without delay and you will oblige her &c. to me in Lexington N.C.
Yours respectfully &c.
[Signature]
Allen Newsome

Hon. J. L. Edwards Esq'r.

N.B. please to near to Wm. Hannah's testimony on the original.
A.N.
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STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA,
OFFICE OF SECRETARY OF STATE.
I, WILLIAM HILL, Secretary of State, in and for the State of North Carolina, do hereby certify, that it appears from the muster-rolls of the Continental line of this State, in the Revolutionary War, that  William Lomax a private soldier in Capt. McKee's Company of tenth Regiment, entered the service on the 9th day of May 1781, for the term of twelve months, and left the service on the 9th day of May 1782.

Given under my hand this 24th day of April 1852  1852
[Signature]
Wm. Hill
Secretary of State
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State of North Carolina} To the War
Davidson County} Department Pension Office
of the United States & Congress, if necessary.
On this 9th day of September 1834, personally appeared before me, Jesse Hill one of the acting Justices of the Peace in & of said County, William Lomax, a resident of said County who made his proof, &c. before me, some time about the 16th day of January 1834, and who being duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath depose to the following facts in order to show to the War Department of the United States and Congress if necessary with greater propriety if possible the justness of his claim of arrears of pension, which he thinks that he is clearly & honestly entitled to receive from the United States; to wit.
He, the said William Lomax, states, that while he was a soldier of the revolution that his toil & fatigue were great, that in consequence of which his constitution was so debilitated & fractured that, from the greater part of that time to the present, he has never been a firmly sound & healthy man notwithstanding he has lived to be an old man and was burdened with a large family. But when the original act, or acts of Congress were passed for the relief of soldiers who were in his situation
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he petitioned and laid in his claim as they required which was suspended for the want of a little more proof, but allowed on conditions according to a letter from the War Department to his then agent. And in consequence of his ill health, his being an illiterate man and in very indigent circumstances and thinking that all of the old soldiers who served mainly with him were dead, and not having any competent friend whom he could procure to act for him, nor was he able to obtain one until the last winter therefore his pension has been kept from him in consequence of these and other unavailable circumstances on his part, until his last agent who traveled some distance for him and brought Martin Penninger one of his affiants to his, the said Lomax's residence and there done the balance of his services relative to his claim with out any assistance from him the said Lomax; and by his the said agency and it alone, he the said Lomax states that he was able to fulfill the requisitions of the War Department and in order to correct one or two errors in his former declaration, he the said Lomax though from the advice of his agent best to put it down in another declaration so he thought it would go to establish the former
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Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid 
[Signatures]
William Lomax X his mark
Jesse Hill, J. P.

I, Jesse Hil, do hereby certify that I have been acquainted with William Lomax, the above deponent and subscriber for a number of years and I know him to be a respectable character for truth and integrity, and that I never heard to the contrary and that his statement is entitled to credit and that he has been for a series of years an acceptable member of the Methodist Episcopal church, and that I never have heard or known but there he the said William Lomax has lived consistently and in conformity with his profession. And I do further certify that a great part of the above facts, his inability &c comes within the sphere of my own knowledge. Given under my hand & Seal, this 9th day of September 1834.
[Signature]
Jesse Hill J. P.
[Seal]
To the War Department Pension Office of the United States and Congress if necessary.
I, William Lomax, the under subscriber do most solemnly & gravely petition to the Honorable officers of the War Department to allow me my arrears of my Pension
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as a soldier of the Revolution from the test of the clerk's certificate on my former declaration filed under the act of 1818 and 1820 of Congress, because my claim was recognized about the date of 1822, and was allowed on conditions; therefore I feel that I have an honest right to claim my pension from the time of the test of my former declaration about ' 22 because my being in a condition unable to procure the proof, &c. as was required by the War Department was my personal injury & not any to the United States because if I was entitled to it, then, I am now. And more over unavoidable occurrences, or sore afflictions such as surrounded & seized me are excusable by the law of our land. Had it not been for the foregoing obstacles and causes I should lone before this period have been in the enjoyment of my pension. Though I have suffered for it if you will please to grant it unto me now; it will meet my old age, my feeble and afflicted body and afflicted family with a great deal of Charity as well as Justice.
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Why not grant it unto me from the time above alluded to? I first probated my former declaration and then have since that time proved to you that my services as my former declaration contains were rendered to the United States in the Revolution and were true. Though my pension claim was preticated in consequence of inability &c. I think I ought to be as duly entitled to mine as my two affiants Martin Penninger and Stephen Bayley were to theirs who were fellow soldiers with me and who for a number of years have been drawing their pension. I hope that you will not let me die and leave the United States in debt to me for the loss of the vigorous powers of my youth constitution and health in obtaining the liberty that abounds throughout this happy Republick. Under legal reasons I think I petition and if my case is duly taken in consideration and am treated with Justice, I have not the least shadow of doubt but that I shall experience it by receiving my pension as above suggested,
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and for which I am justly bound to petition &c.
In testiomny of which I have hereunto subscribed to my petition & caused it to be tested this the 9th day of September 1834
[Signature]
William Lomax X his mark

In the presence of
Jesse Hill

State of North Carolina}
Davidson County}
I, Samuel Gaither, Clerk of the Court of pLease & Quarter Sessions of said County do hereby certify that Jesse  Hill whose name appears to the foregoing deposition certificate and the above petition is & was at the time of signing the same, an acting Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid duly appointed commissioned and qualified and that they are his proper name & genuine signatures and due faith & credit are due his official acts as such.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said County at office, this the 2d day of October A. D. 1834
[Signature]
Sam'l. Gaither Clk
[seal]

L S
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State of North Carolina}
Rowan County}
Be it remembered that heretofore to wit at a Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions began and held for the County of Rowan at the Court House in Salisbury on the third monday in May Anno Domini (1819) one thousand eight hundred and nineteen, in the 43d year of our Independence the following record was made to wit.
This day personally appeared appeared in open Court William Lomax who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration to obtain the provision of a late act of Congress entitled an Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and [fold] of the United States during the  Revolutionary war" - that in the year 1781 he enlisted for twelve months in the service of the United States under Captain Ely Moore in the first Regiment of the North Carolina line that during his service aforesaid he was at the Siege of  Ninety Six, and served in the  Campaign of South Carolina under General Green, and that at the end of his term of twelve months he was honourably discharged: that he has now no other evidence in his power of his said services, except the testimony of Stephen Baily. That he is old, infirm and in such reduced circumstances as to need the assistance of his Country for support.
Stephen Baily being duly sworn according to law doth on his oath say that he is well acquainted with Willliam Lomax, that he well
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remember him in the service of his Country in 1781 and 1782 as a common soldier in the first Regiment of the North Carolina twelve months men: That he is in such reduced circumstances as to stand in need of the assistance of his Country for support: now it appearing to the satisfaction of the Court that William Lomax did serve in the Revolutionary war of the Untied States against the common enemy for a longer time than nine months; and that he is in such reduced circumstances, as to stand in need of the assistance of his Country for support it is therefore ordered by the Court that the foregoing be made a matter of record, and that the Clerk certify and transmit the same to the  Honourable the Secretary at War. -

State of North Carolina}
Rowan County}
I John Giles Clerk of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions of Rowan County do hereby certify the foregoing to be a true copy from the minutes of the Court aforesaid
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said Court at Salisbury the 1st day of July anno Domini 1819.
[Signature]
Jno. Giles
[Seal]

State of North Carolina}
Rowan County}
 I Moses A. Locke Chairman of the Court for the time being of Rowan County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions, do hereby
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certify that John Giles Esq. who has given the annexed certificate is the Clerk of the Court aforesaid. That all due faith and credit are due to his official acts; and that his certificate is in due form of Law.
In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and Seal
Salisbury 2nd July 1819.
[Signature]
Moses A. Lock C. C. C. [seal]

State of North Carolina Secretary's office 17th March 1820.
 I William Hill Secretary of State in and for the State aforesaid do hereby certify that it appears from the muster rolls of the Continental line of this State in the Revolutionary war, that William Lomax a private in Capt. McKees Company of the 10th Reg't was mustered on the 9th May 1781 for 12 months and that he left the service on the 9th May 1782.
Given under my hand the date above
[Signature]
Wm. Hill

War Department 16.099
Pension Office Jan'y 10th 1821

 Sir,
You are hereby informed that the Schedule of your property has been examined and the Secretary of War has directed your name to be continued on the Pension Roll.
You will be paid at the ensuing semi-annual payment in March next, the sum that may be then due form the time of suspending
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your pension. Funds for the purpose will be transmitted at that time, but no arrearages will be paid previous thereto.
I am respectfully,
Your obedient servent
(Signed)
J. L. Edwards.

To Mr. William Lomack
Rowan County
N. Carolina.
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State of N. Carolina}
Montgomery County}
This day came Joseph Hall Sen'r before me Wheston H. Chisholm one of the Acting Justices of the above named County and maketh oath that William Lomax now of the County of Davidson did actually serve in the Revolutionary War under the command of Gen'l. Green and was in service at the time of the battle of the Utaw [Eutaw] Springs and served as a regular soldier.
In witness whereof I set my hand and affix my seal This 4th of Feb'y 1829
[Signatures]
Joseph Hall X his mark
[Seal]
W. H. Chisholm J. P.

I Jesse Hill do hereby certify that Joseph Hall was a citizen of Montgomery County of N. Car. of veracity and credibility and that he was entitled to full credit but departed this life a little over two years ago. Given under my hand and seal. January 18th 1834
[Signature]
Jesse Hill 
[Seal]

State of North Carolina}
Montgomery County}

I John B. Martin Clerk of the Court of pleas and Quarter Sessions of the County aforesaid do hereby certify that Wheston H. Chisholm whose signature appears tot he within affidavit is and was at the time of signing the same an Acting Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid, duly ap[pointed that due faith credit are due his official Acts as such
In testimony whereof
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I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at office this 7th day of February 1829.
[Signature]
J. B. Martin Clk.
[Seal]
State of North Carolina
Rowan County
I John Giles Clerk of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions of Rowan County, Do hereby certify that William Lomax who holds this paper is the same Individual who at May Sessions Anno Domini 1819 filed his declaration in this Court for the purpose of obtaining a pension under the Act of Congress of the 18th of March 1818 and who at August Sessions Anno Domini 1820 filed his schedule of property as required by the Act of Congress of 1821.
In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of said Court at office the 28th of May Anno Domini 1822.
[Signature]
Jno. Giles.
[Seal]
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Pension Office
May 20" 1859.

Sir.
Your letter addressed the Post Master General in relation to the Pensions allowed William and Tabitha Lomax has been referred to this office for reply.
[initials]

Lomax was pensioned on the 28" March, 1820 at the rate of $96 per annum from 18" May 1819 to 4" March 1820. He was entitled under this allowance to the sum of $76.64/100 Under the Act of 7" June 1832, he was allowed a pension at the rate of $40 per annum from 4" March 1831 to 11" Feb'y. 1834. The amount he was entitled to under this allowance was $117.55/100.  On the 3d of July 1834, the soldier was pensioned under the acts of 18" March 1818, May 1st 1820 & March 1st 1823, at the rate of $96, per annum to commence February 11" 1834 & to continue during life. He died 6" November 1835. The amount he was entitled to under this allowance was $170.35/100. The foregoing embraces everything allowed to Wm. Lomax the total amount of which is $364.54/100.
[Signature]
Tabitha Lomax was pensioned
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under the Act of 7" July, 1838, at the rate of $40. per annum from 4" March, 1836. to 4" March, 1841. She was entitled under this allowance to the sum of $200. She was pensioned under the Acts of 3d March, 1843. & 17" June, 1844. at the rate of $40 per an: from 4" March 1843, to 4" March 1848. Under this allowance she was entitled to $200. The pension of $40. per an: was continued to Mrs. Lomax under the Act of 2d Feb: 1848. from 4" March, 1848. to 1st July, 1848. The amount of the allowance was $12.89/100. Under the Joint Resolution of Congress of 1st July, 1848. Mrs. Lomax was allowed a pension of $96 per an: from said 1st July 1848. for life or widowhood. If she was alive the 4 "of last March, she was entitled under this last allowance to the sum of $1025. The above embraces every allowance made to Tabitha Lomax the total amount of which is $1437.89/100.
I am unable to inform you at what periods in what amounts, only whom the several allowances made to Wm. & Tabitha Lomax have been received. The Third Auditor of the Treasury alone is able to furnish this information. 
[Signature]
Wesley Lomax Esq'r.
Troy.
Montgomery Co. N. C.
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Westley Lomax
April 2.
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Pension Office,
Apl. 2d 1859.

Sir,

In reply to your letter of the 20' ulto, you are informed that Tabitha Lomax was allowed a pension of $40 her an: from 4" March. 1836, to 4" March, 1841, then from 4" March, 1843 to 1st July 1848, and then a pension of $96, her an: during her natural life or widowhood.
I am unable to say how much of this pension has been drawn or paid to her.

Westley Lomax Esq'r.
Troy,
Montgomery Co.,
N. C.
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Pension Office,
Feb. 27, 1858

 Sir,

I return the pension certificate issued to Wm. Lomax under the act of 7 June 1832, and have to inform you that his pension under the above act would cease when his pension commenced under the act of 18 March, 1818, to wit, on the 11" February, 1834.
As no deductions were directed to be made under the latter act, he was consequently entitled to receieve his pension under the act of 7 June 1832, to the time when it commenced under the act of 18 March 1818.

for

R. J. Atkinson, Esq.
Third Auditor
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TFS  ow & N Div.   JAD
B102961
4-607.
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MILITARY LAND-WARRANT DIVISION.
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Department of the Interior, 
GENERAL LAND OFFICE,
Washington, D. C., June 27. 1892

Respectfully referred tot he Hon. Commissioner of Pensions, and writer so advised.

Therese J. Porter
Evanston Ill.
June 6/02
Asks rel' to as land 
wt issued 15 one" officer
Nelson" &c

Binger Hermann
Commissioner
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2802b1m
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regard Allen Newsom

Widows
_________
File No. 5.028
_________________________________________________
Tabitha Lomax
Widow of 
William Lomax
Pri. Rev. War.
_________________________________________________
Receipt for Bible &c to be filed Sep. 14/77

[illegible signature]
Clk
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N.O.W.& B.L.D.}
Evans}
Department of the Interior.
PENSION OFFICE.
Washington D. C. Sep. 4th 1877

Dear Sir

I herewith transmit to your address the two -old books - containing a family record - which were sent to this office when Mr. & Tabitha Lomax made application for pension in 1843.
You will please acknowledge the receipt of said Books on the back of this letter and return it (the letter) in the enclosed envelope.
Very respectfully
[Signatures]
J. A. Bentley
Commissioner
Jw J. T. W. 

John A. Lomax
Jackson Hill
care of Allen Newsom
Davidson Co. 
N.C.
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Dear Sir, I acknowledge the reception of the two Books named in the within letter and enclose it back to you according to your request.
Mr. John Lomax has been dead several years ago. I am yours with due regard.
[Signature]
Allen Newsom
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B .Ld. Div.}
E}
Department of the Interior.
PENSION OFFICE.
Washington D. C. Aug. 20. 1877

Dear Sur
Please furnish this office with the names and present P. O. address of some of the descendants of Tabitha Lomax, Widow of William Lomax a pri. in Rev. War.
Application for pension was made by Mr. Allen Newsom of your place, in behalf of Mrs. Lomax & children and two old Books - containing a family record - was - filed in this office in evidence in 1840 - 43.
It is now desired to return these books to the family who formerly resided with the delivery of your office & in your Co. - The names of the children are, John, Addison, Eliza, Wesley and Lucy Lomax.
Please return this letter - with your reply.
Very respectfully
[Signature]
O. P. G. Clake
Acting Commissioner
per Wicks

Post Master}
Lexington}
Davidson Co.}
N.C.}
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John A. Lomax - or
Tabitha Lomax's adderss is 
Jackson Hill
Davidson Co. N.C.

In the care of 
Allen Newsom

J. A. Sowers PM

[stamp - LEXINGTON
AUG. 31 1877 N.C.]
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D 11306
Allen Newsom 
Jackson Hill P.O. N.C.
Aug 185/55

Encloses the application of Mrs. Tabitha Lomax for Bounty Land under act of 1855.

Gen'l Land Office
Aug't 25 1855.
Respectfully ref'd to the Commissioner of Pensions & the  writer so informed

[Signature]
Thos. A. Hendrick
Commissioner
207.104

R

Hood
Aug 24/55.
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Jackson Hill P.O. Davidson Co. N-C-a. Aug't. 18th 1855

To the Commissioner of 
Bounty Land Claims

Sir,

I enclose in behalf of Mrs. Tabitha Lomax her Bounty land claim or the Declaration & proof thereof which she hopes that you examine as early as it may come to her time & forward hir Land warrant to she for the amt. to which she may be entitled. I am yours &c
[Signature]
Allen Newsom
Agt. "Jackson Hill P.O.
Davidson Co.
N.C.
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Troy N.C. April  25/59

To the General Post master
Washington City
District of Columbia

[stamp - PENSION OFFICE A 2 1859.]
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To the postmaster general

Sir you stated to me - in your letter the time Tabitha Lomax commenced drawing her pension - & from 1836 to her death how much she was entitled to now I want you to write to me how much William Lomax (her husband) drawed in his lifetime - now the heirs of William & Tabitha Lomax wants to know if it is in your power to tell how much William & Tabitha Lomax are both entitled to & how much their agent Dr. Allen Newcum has drawn as they think "they have been cheated the said Dr. Allen Nucum & William Lomax both lived in the County of Davidson, if you will search out the amount I will pay you any reasonable amount for your trouble - I want to know how much is drawn & how much there is to draw - write to me as soon as you make a search & oblige.
- Yours with Respect
[Signature]
Wesley Lomax
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Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City
D. C.

[stamp - PENSION OFFICE. MAR ?5 1859.]
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Troy N. C. March 20th/59

Dear Sir

By request I write you for information concerning the Pension of William Lomax of Davison County N. C. Allen Newsum agent - he was a revolution soldier - and I am informed by his son at who’s instance I write you these lines - that he believes Newsum has done the family injustice - he desires that you send him an account of all the money. That has been paid to Newsum - so that he may ascertain in what way Newsum has disposed of the money.
Most Respectfully
[Signature]
Wm. H. McRae

Address Westly Lomax
Troy.
Montgomery County N.C.
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Jackson Hill P. O. Davidson Co. N-C-a. Nov. 12th 1856.

Hon. J. Minot,

Dear Sir,
In the case of the land warrant for Bounty Land of Tabitha Lomax No. 34833 information is wanted. She filed her Declaration and on account of the pressure of business at your office she had to await a considerable time and before the said Land Warrant reached her she died leaving 5 children & hers and the oldest son John Lomax has administered on her estate. He now wants your instructions in regard to the case so as to obtain the said land so as to transfer or locate &c. if desired will you be so good as to instruct him through me as early as your conveniency will permit.
I am your &c.
[Signature]
Allen Newsom
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State of North Carolina}
County of Davidson} SS.
On this 27th day of November A. D. 1855 personally appeared before me a Justice of the Peace in and for the County and State aforesaid, duly authorized by law to administer oaths. Tabitha Lomax aged 86 years who first being duly sworn according to law, declares that she is a resident of said County and State and that she is the widow of William Lomax deceased, and that her said husband the said William Lomax was a Pensioner under the act of 18th March 1818 at the rate of ninety six dollars ($96) per annum, that he was first placed upon the pensioner Rolls under the aforesaid act, and was afterwards dropped, and in June 1834 was again returned and was paid at the rate of ninety six dollars per annum Commencing from 11th Feb'y 1834, and continuing until 5th or 6th day of November 1835 - when he died, that she was allowed a pension under the acts of 7th July 1838, 3rd March 1843 and 17th June 1844 at the rate of Forty dollars ($40) per annum, and is now in the receipt of a pension under the act of 2nd February 1848 at the same rate as appears from the Certificate issued to me which is herewith surrendered. She also claims arrearages of pension due her husband under the act of 7th June 1832 at the rate of $   per annum from the 4th of March 1831 to the 11th of February 1834 when he was restored to the Roll under the act of 18 March 1818 - and that she now asks a pension under the Joint Resolution of Congress of the 1st July 1848 at the
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rate of ninety-six dollars ($96) per annum under the above named acts, deducting therefrom the amounts at the rate of forty dollars ($40) per annum that she has already received.
[Signatures]
Tabitha Lomax X her mark
Attest
Butler Taylor
Attest:
Wm. Birckhead

Sworn to and subscribed before me, the day and year above written, and I do hereby certify that Tabitha Lomax is well known to me to be the widow of William Lomax deceased who was a pensioner of the United States, that she is the identical person she represents herself to be, that she is from old age and infirm health unable to attend Court to make her declaration, and I also Certify that she is a credible woman and still the widow of said William Lomax, and that I am not interested nor concerned whatever in the prosecution or result of this claim.
[Signature]
R. B. Jones J. P.

Personally came Butler Taylor and William Buckhead residents of the County of Davidson and state of North Carolina who first being duly sworn according to law, swear that they were present and saw Mrs. Tabitha Lomax make her signature or mark to the foregoing declaration that she is a credible woman, and the identical person she represents herself to be in said declaration, that she is from old age and infirm health unable to go to Court to make her declaration, and that we know
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the above facts from personal acquaintance.
[Signatures]
Butler Taylor [seal]
Wm. Birckhead [seal]

Sworn to and subscribed before me the day and year above written, and I certify that the affiants are residents of our said county and are highly credible and respected persons
[Signature]
R. B. Jones J. P.

State of North Carolina}
County of Davidson} S. S. 

I, C. F. Lowe Clerk of the Court of  Pleas and Quarter Sessions for the County and State aforesaid, do hereby certify that R. B. Jones ESquie, before whom the foregoing declaration and affidavits were made, was at the time of it being done a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, duly Commissioned and Qualified by law to administer oaths, and that his signatures above written are genuine.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of my office on this 30th day of November A. D. 1855
[Signature]
C. F. Lowe Clk.
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Washington Decem. 15 1855

Hon. J. Minot

Sir

Enclosed you will find the application of Tabitha Lomax widow of William of N.C. for the benefits of the Joint Resolution of 1st July 1848.
Mrs. Lomax's husband was pensioned under the act of 18 March 1818, but in consequence of the application of some other man of the same name for the service for which he was pensioned his name was dropped and he was deprived of his stipend until 1834 when he was restored and paid at the rate of $ 96 perm from that time until his death. Mrs. Lomax now claims pension at the same rate under the Joint Resolution of 1st July 1848 under the act of 2 Feb'y 1848 at $40. perm 
Mrs. Lomax claims also arrears of pension under act 7 June 1832 perm 4 March 1831. to 1834 when her husband pension under act of 18 March 1818 commenced.
Very Respectfully
Your obt. sevt.
[Signature]
Geo. C. Ames
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War Department
Pension Office
July 9. 1836

Sir,

In the case of William Lomax, dec'd I have the honor to make the following report.
In 1819 he made a declaration under the act of march 18, 1818, and produced the certificate of the Secretary of the State of North Carolina as to his service. Upon these papers he was placed on the Pension List. It was afterwards, discovered that another man, named William Lomack, had upon similar proof obtained the benefits of that law. A doubt then arose whether Lomax or Lomack had performed the service set forth in the Secretary's certificate. Upon a more thorough investigation of the subject, and after much correspondence it was found that Lomax did not perform the service for which he had been pensioned, as will appear by reference to the declaration and comparing it with the Secretary's certificate. He was then required to prove his service by
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two credible witnesses, as the regulations direct. Such proof he did not exhibit till 1834, when his name was again placed on the pension list. Under the act of March 18. 1818 the pension cannot commence before the evidence is completed.
The Hon. A. Rencher has appealed from the decision of the office, upon the ground that the evidence of service was complete in 1819: and from the period when the dec'd Pensioner first exhibited his claim Mr. R. claims the pension for the benefit of the representatives of Lomax.
I enclose the papers for your inspection and respectfully request that they may be returned, whenever a decision shall take place.
I have the honor to be,
Very respectfully
Your Obt. Sevt.
[Signature]
J. L. Edwards

Hon. Lewis Cass,
Secretary of War.
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Brief in case of Tabiha Lomax, widow of William 
Montgomery County and State of No. Carolina. 
act Joint Resolution, July 1. 1848.

Claim. ("original", or "for increase")

Proof exhibited, (if original.)
Is it documentary, traditionary, or support by rolls? If either, state the substance.

William Lomax was at his death (Nov. 6. 1835) a pensioner on the No. Carolina Roll under the Acts of March 18, 1818, May 1, 1820 and March 1, 1823, at the rate of $96. per annum. His widow who is now living, and who was pensioned under the Act of July 7, 1838, at $40 per annum, is entitled to a pension at the same rate he received from July 1, 1848, deducting former payments.
The old certificate has been surrendered and cancelled by the Commissioner


[Signature]
Ogden Niles
Examining Clerk.

G. C. Ames
Present
Name and residence of Agent.
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William Lomax d 1831-1839
(26 dec. 1793)  1869
Tabitha M 1783.4
at the 1770
age of 24  24
______________
1794

Z. Coggen - Wt. 24 dec'r 1793

1838
44
__________
1794

acct. kept by son Jno. born Mar '94
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Ascertain whether any part of the pension of William Lomax has been withheld. He was placed on the N Carolina roll, act March 1818 at $8 per mo. on the 28th March 1820: and on the 3d July 1834 a certificate was again issued in his case.
[👉🏻This is not the Wm. Lomack who was pensioned the 3d Dec. 1819 - Remember this.]

Willaim Lomax on the North Carolina roll act 7 June 1832 appears not to have been paid - & the above William Lomax appears to have been paid from 11 Feb. 1824 to the 4 Sept. 1835. Both their pensions yet stand on one Book accidently both were pensioners

J.H.
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Payment to be made at Fayetteville by

Agent for paying Pensioners, in the 
Agency of North Carolina

Payable on the 4th September and 4th March

Recorded in the Pension Office on the Roll of Pensioners under act February 2d, 1848, Page 219 Vol. 1.

[Signature]
Leo Jenkins Clerk.
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WAR DEPARTMENT.
WIDOW'S PENSION.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
I certify that in conformity with the act of February 2d, 1848, 
Tabitha Lomax
widow of William Lomax
who was a private in the revolutionary war, 
is inscribed on the pension list at the rate of forty
dollars per annum, commencing on the 4th of March, 1848, and continuing for life, unless she should again marry; in which case the Pension is not payable after the time of such marriage.
Give at the War Office of the United
States this 12th day of January one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine:

[Signature]
W. L. Macy
Secretary of War.
[Seal]

Examined and Countersigned
[Signature]
J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions.
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House of Rep's Jan'y 20. 1844.

Mr. Edwards,
I inclose a letter of Wm. Allen Esq. on the subject of the Pension claim of Nancy Nash of N.C. and would ask your attention to the facts stated in this letter as to the family record W. J. White and Wm. Allen who I am informed have given some proofs in her favor are very respectable and worthy citizens of Anson County the former is sheriff of the county the latter a Justice of the Peace.
I am requested if you cannot pass favorably on her claim to ask copies of her papers with instructions to bring them before the House which in that event I must beg you to furnish as soon as convenient.
I am requested also to ask copies of the papers of Penelope Braswell for the same purpose.
The Pension claim of the heirs & representatives of  William Lomax which passed the House of Rep's last session but was lost in the Senate I am instructed to bring  before the  House again but the papers are not on file and the clerk says they have been perloined or taken out of the archives with some others of a similar kind I must ask copies of these also Early in the Session (this session)
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I sent to you the Pension papers of Euphema Campbell of N.C. may I ask to be informed what decision has been made on her case.
One more request. Mrs. Nancy Parsons widow of Joseph Parsons a deceased Pensioner has received from the Pension office a certificate to enable her to draw the ballance of her pay due from the 4th of March 1836 to the time of her husband’s death Nov. 1837. But in your letter, you state that she must make some proof of her identity before she can draw it; she wishes a blank form to enable her to make this proof and also a form of a power of attorney to get some person to draw her money for her.
I regret to give you so much trouble.
Respectfully
[Signature]
E. Deberry
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N. C.

Admit as a private 
12 months $40

Hon. A. Rencher
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Wm. Lomax - papers sent by

Allen Newsom
Lexington P.O.
N. C.

Report to Hon. A. Rencher
HR
______________________________
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Jackson Hill P.O.
Davidson Co. N-C-a

J. L. Edwards, Esq'r.

Sir,

Enclosed you have the necessary Declaration of Tabbitha Lomax for to obtain on e years additional pension to which she is entitled according to a late art of Congress. I hope that you will ssend on her certificate as soon as it can be convenient.
Yours &c.
[Signature]
Allen Newsom
Agent.

N.B. Report this Jackson-Hill N.C.
Allen Newsom,
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State of North Carolina}
Davidson County}
On this 16th day of September 1843 personally appeared before the subscriber Alex'r Oliver J. P. of the County and State aforesaid, Tabbitha Lomax a resident of North Carolina in the county of Davidson aged the 4th Nov. next about 74 years, who being first duly sworn; according to law, doth on her oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the act of Congress, passed on the 3rd March 1843, granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary war. That she is the widow of William Lomax who was as she believes a private soldier of the regular Army, entered (as she understood) at Salisbury N.C. under Capt. McRee, and after he got killed under Elijah Moore under the Command of Gen. Nathaniel Green, and was engaged in the Battle at the Utaw [Eutaw] Springs &c and the annual amount of pension which she reserved under the act of July 7th 1838 was forty Dollars making for five years Two Hundred Dollars. She further declares that she is still the widow of the said Wm. Lomax. Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written before me.
[Signatures]
Tabbitha Lomax X her mark
Attest
A. Oliver J.P.
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I Alexander Oliver a Justice of the Peace in & for the County of Davidson State of N.C. do hereby certify that the foregoing declaration was had and taken before me officially and that the applicant is a person with, whom I am personally acquainted and the widow of William Lomax Dec'd. late of this county. Given under my hand & seal the day and date before written.
[Signature]
A. Oliver J.P.

The above was inter lined before signed.
[Signature]
A. Oliver J.P.

North Carolina}
Davidson County} I Charles Mock Clerk of the court of Pleas and quarter sessions for the county of Davidson do certify that Alex Oliver is a Justice of the Peace in & for said county duly commissioned and qualified and that the foregoing signature purporting to be his is genuine in Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said court at office the 3d day of November 1843.
[Signature]
Ch's Mock C.C.C.
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Jackson Hill May 
2d 1843. N.C.

Mr. J. L. Edwards,

Sir, 
In compliance with the requisitions of your letter of the 3rd April last I obtained the books (to wit Murray's Grammer & a Testament) in which John Lomax & his other brothers & sisters ages are recorded which are the originals that are contained in the transcript of the 28th Feb. 1843 & was recently transmitted to you. I therefore hope that when you shall have seen and examined these that you will forthwith send on her certificate & no longer prevent her from enjoying her pension. If you can enter upon the back of the transcript that "Original copies were exhibited at your office & send back the book without cutting out the leaves on which their births are recorded do so & if that will not answer you can cut the leaves out of the books, containing the words & send the books, back. I make this the suggestion of Jno. Lomax who wishes to have the books back because as he says that they are the first books he ever owned which induces the partiality to them. It appears that the Dept. is hard to belief this claim to be true & if the Dept. would pay the passage
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her indigent circumstances if she is to have it; therefore I hope that you Mr. J. L. Edwards will attend personally to this matter & then send your answer as soon as possible.
Yours &c with respect
[Signature]
Allen Newsom

J. L. Edwards Esq'r.
Commissioner of Pensions
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Allen Newsom
April 3rd 1843.
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Pension Office
April 3. 1843.
Sir.
The deposition of John Lomax, in the case of Tabitha Lomax, transmitted by you under date of the 28th of Feb'y 1843 has been examined and placed on file, but does not remove the objection stated in my letter to you of the 25th Jan'y last. The regulations of this Department are imperative and they do not permit me to depart from the rule that requires the most precise proof under certain causes such as those of the case in question. Even when family records are reserved the originals must be forwarded and in no events are alleged copies to be admitted.

[Signature]
Allen Newsom
Jackson Hill
Davidson Co.

No. 2922
 Act. 7th July 38
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Lexington N.C.

Hon. J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City D. C. 
War Dept. Pension Office


Mar 6 1843
N.C.

Tabitha Lomax
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Jackson-Hill Davidson
County, N.C. Feb. 28th 1843.

Hon. J. L. Edwards,

Dear Sir,

I received your answer of the 25th of Jan'y last informing me of the Joint resolution of Congress that over-ruled the decision of the Attorney General touching the claims of certain widows including that of Tabbitha Lomax. I have therefore proceeded to obtain additional evidence according to what you required me to do in a letter dated June 26th 1839 to wit: "Before passing definitely upon her (t. Lomax's) claim the Department will require that the original record of the births of the children of William & Tabitha Lomax, mentioned by John Lomax be sent to this office". In conclusion you remarked they Ä certificate of the Clk. of Montgomery County, stating whether there is, or is not such a bond in his office should be furnished." To this last concluding requirement of yours I attended to, and sent to you with the affidavit of John Hall who provides the day and date of marriage. The Clerk and myself made the examination for the bond & could not find it owing to the carelessness of the magistrate or some of the many clerks that had to handle the papers &c. Many of the magistrates at that date  for want of knowing their duty never returned the bonds or license to the clerk and Arthur Harris  who married them had sworn in as magistrate in Jan'y1793 & on the 26th Dec'r 1793 married them, consequently as he was a new  officer he knew but little of his duty. The clerk of Montgomery County says that he thinks that there is not more than one third of marriage bonds, or license in his office of the date of 1793 that there ought to be and
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he has so certified & I sent it on to you last summer. I have proved for her by two or three credible witnesses the date of her marriage and the transcription of the ages of her children and the statement of Joh Lomax whose word and oath stands as fair as the sun where he is known. According to the law of our maker in the mouth of two or three witnesses every thing shall be established" and our laws say where important papers or decouments are lost parole evidence is admissible, therefore I solemnly contend that old Mrs. Tabitha Lomax's case is a clear one, without a trembling doubt or the least shadow of it. I hope and trust that you will send on to her without delay her certificate for her pension for 5 years what the old man drew a year was $96. If her marriage had taken place on the 31st Dec'r. & she had made it to appear as clear as she has in this case I contend that it would be as just as if it had been in 1784,  '85 or 1786 &c. The claim has been long withheld which has been to her prejudice & injury, but if it be longer withheld I shall in her behalf be under the necessity to have  her claim laid before Congress which would be a double tax to the Government, but I feel fully assured that you will no longer hesitate or delay the forwarding of her certificate. Hon. Wm. A. Rencher wrote me somet ime ago to present the claim to you with the proof & that you were bound to allow it so I will conclude my remarks and request you to send on your report as soon as it is possible.
I am yours &c.
[Signature]
Allen Newsom


Hon. J. L. Edwards

👉🏻 Report to me at 
Jackson-Hill
Davidson Co.
N. C-a.
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Allen Newsom
January 25 1843
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Pen. Off.
January 25 '42

Sir

In answer to your enquiry in the case of Tabitha Lomax I have to inform you that a Joint resolution of Congress approved 16 of Aug't. last removes the objection [smudge] upon the fact that her husband was a pensioner under the act of 7 June '39 & the decision of the Ator. Gen'l But the alleged date of the marriage in Dec'r. 93 so nearly approximates the limitation of the act of 7 July '38 (via. Janý 94) that the Dept. can not deem parol testimony as to a distant date sufficiently precise & certain to be satisfactory - marriage to is very generally susceptible of a higher grade of proof from Clerks offices & family registers &c.

[Signature]
Allen Newsom Esq'r.
Jackson Hill N.C.
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Jackson Hill N.C.     Free
Dec'r. 13th

Hon. J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City  D. C. 
Pension Office

Dec. 23d '42
N.C.

Tabitha Lomax
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Jackson Hill N.C-a
Dec'r. 13th 1842.

Sir

I was never more disappointed in receiving a letter than I was of receiving an answer from you of the 14th June last (1842) relative to Tabbitha Lomax claim as a widowed pensioner which was in conclusion a rejection to the said claim. I have not had a convenient opportunity of writing to you on the subject earlier nor do I desire to multiply letters, for I have already wrote much for the old lady, and laboured to obtain correct, information & truth & to fulfill every requisition that the Dept. through you demanded and I did so fully with undoubted testimony &c. And then, after you had promised to admit her claim, to receive an answer that you had written to Hon. A.  H. Arrington the Att'y General & he had given it an unfavorable decision &c. I thought the Com'r of Pensions made his own decisions. I have understood that widows of the same grade dates of marriage & c as she are now in the receipt of pensions and why not her as well as they does not the law meet her case or was not the intention of it to benefit the widows of these old way worn soldiers. There has been several Attorney Generals in office between the making of this law and the Hon. A. H. Arrington's reception of the office, and why not you, the law makes & the other Attorney
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Generals find it out before. If it be as General Arrington would have us believe, and I had been so informed by you, I would have been redeemed of much labour &c in this very peculiar hard case. The law makers never would have made such ambiguous terms in the law that they nor none else could have interpreted it but General Arrington. If the Act was not a continuation of the same act (or it so means) I am desirous in the Act & the Blank forms of your declaration which has been prescribed by the President of the U. S. 's and adopted by the War Dept. I hope by this time that the Department have seen that such claims by the tenure of the law & Justice ought to be allowed. I think Congress ought to sustain the intention of the law. Her husband was entitled from the time he first filed his claim which I believe was in 1822, but only received a small part before he died. Mr. E. L. Edwards, this claim ought as well as others of the same character to be allowed I wish to know if you continue to withhold it on the same ground if so, I then wish to know if there is no act of Congress by which she can be allowed with the same papers & proof a pension. If none of these Acts will benefit her as that you cannot do any thing I shall feel it my duty as her agent after doing so much & knowing the Justice of her claim to have her case
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presented before Congress that she may have it allowed which will trouble those persons with additional cost. I hope that you will reexamine the case as suggested and give me an answer to the various points herein named &c.
Yours &c.
[Signature]
Allen Newsom

Hon. J. L. Edwards
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A. Newsom
16 June 1842
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Pen: Office
June 14, 1842

Sir,

The additional testimony in support of the claim of Tabitha Lomax widow of Wiliam Lomax dec'd has been ex'd & filed. Since writing to Hon. A. H. Arrington in this case the Attorney General has decided that no widow who was married after her husband left the army and who was not a widow on the 7th June 1832 is entitled to the benefits of the act of 7th July 1838. It would appear that Mrs. Lomax was married in 1793 and that her husband died in 1835. Her claim has consequently been rejected.

Allen Newsom Esq.
Jackson Hill
N.C.

o.c
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2922
Act 38
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J. L. Edwardes Com. of Pensions
Pension Office
Washington City
D. C. 

June 13. 1842
N.C.
Lomax
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Jackson Hill N.C.
June 1842

Mr. J. L. Edwards,

Sir,

Mrs. Tabbitha Lomax has been able to find additional proof of the day and date of her marriage with Wm. Lomax which you will discover by examination of the enclosed affidavit made by John Hall of Montgomery Co. who attended Mr. Wm. Lomax at his marriage he as by certain events &c. enable to identify the very day and date. Before I had his affidavit taken I went personally to the Court House of Montgomery Co. where I assisted the clerk in making a search for the marriage bond, but we were unable to find such a paper as you may see from his certificate which is herewith enclosed. We found that most all the bonds & license that were taken by magistrate at their own residence in & about 1793 were never returned to the clerk by the magistrate on account of negligence or not knowing their duty as we may suppose. You will find by reading the said Clerk's certificate that he certifies that there are not more than one third as many marriage bonds of the date of 1793 as ought to be
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in his office, but he is unable to certify the reason, but my aforesaid supposition is a reasonable one.

By reference to the affidavit of Zach. Coggan & Linny Coggan his wife sent to you previously in this case whose corroborating testimony with Mr. Jno. Hall (all respectable) will certainly remove all ground of hesitancy in the allowance or granting of old Mrs. Tabitha Lomax her pension. Although her marriage does border on the limits of the law yet her marriage did take place the 26th of Dec'r. 1793 according all testimony & circumstances. Ms. Lenny Coggan in conjunction with her husband if I mistake not stated that she herself was married in Jan. 1793 & had her fist born in Oct. 1793 & on the next Christmas either the 25 or 26 her Husband went to the marriage is it possible that they could be mistaken when the circumstances were so strong that of their own marriage and their first born & John Lomax's birth was on the 6th (if I mistake not) (of Nov. 1794. It is in evidence of Wm. Hannah of the marriage being without any requisition of breaking virtuous principals &c. I hope you will now send on her certificate &c and that as soon as possible for she will not get it before she needs it or before she is
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entitled if the law be just. I shall look every mail after 2 weeks from the mailing of this letter for her certificate.
Yours &c.
[[Signature]
Allen Newsom

👉🏻 Please to report to Allen Newsom 
Jackson Hill
Davidson Co.
N.C. 

J. L. Edwards Esq'r.
Commissioner of Pensions
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Jackson Hill} Free
N.C. Dec'r. 29th} Lomax

Hon. J. L. Edwards .P.
War Department
Pension Ofice
Washington City

Jan. 6 1841
mail 
N.C.
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Jackson Hill Davidson Co.
N.C. Dec'r 26th 1840.

Sir,

If I had the least shadow of a doubt relative to the honesty of the claim which this letter is intended to detail I should blush at the idea of troubling you with the pursual of another, but on the contrary I have the fullest evidences of the integrity of the claim of Tabbitha Lomax; therefore I feel it my imperious duty which I owe to her to never surrender her claim as long as she lives and a Congress continue to sit. Before I make a request it may not be improper to make a few suggestions which in all probability may remove some objections & errors made by the War Department. You stated in one of your reports the it was too near the limits of the law to be allowed without stronger proof &c. I am fully convinced that her proof would entitle her at common law in any of our courts without objections. She swears it took place in Dec'r (Christmas) prior to the limits. Wm. Hanna supports her evidence by several statements by going back to his own children &c. & says that another Harris was a magistrate at that time &c and also that the said Wm. Lomax & Tabbitha were well known to him & that they lived together as man & wife after their marriage and he never heard the legality of it brought in question. John Lomax (her son) was the only one of their children that received any thing like an education & from his most early
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information from his parents, he was taught his birthday & the date of their marriage (he being the oldest child too) before there could have been any inducement to mislead children or others. To providing additional Zachariah Coggan & his wife Linny gives insurmountable testimony touching the questionable part of said claim. They know by their own marriage and also by their first born & other contingent circumstances that would not admit of a mistake. Z. Coggan was present & saw them marriage within the the 1st or 2d day of Christmas as represented by the affiant & all the other testimony. Z. Coggan stood as far for truth, as any man & not long since he bid this world farewell in the full triumph of faith in the son of God. At the time of her marriage this country was new & every thing kept & done in a rude manner. Magistrates and clerks were not unfrequently negligent & incompetent, so after the lapse of so many years it is impossible for her to have all that you would require of records, when perhaps none was kept by the affiants as they many times negligently do, as have done, (thrown them aside), I clearly & conscientiously do believe that not only her claim is just according to the law, but the evidence or proof will entitle her to it. I hope therefore Mr. Edwards that you will review it & if so I believe that you will discover that she ought not to be kept out of it, if I had not the best reasons (two have being an eye witness) to know the honesty & Justice of her claim I would have given it up long ago, but I never shall while she lives & a Congress sits. If on reflection you should grant her claim please send on her
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certificate as soon as possible for she absolutely is too indigent & old to live comfortable without it & her children are not able to do for her what ought to be done. There is in your office the memorial & petitions of Wm. Lomax her husband before he deceased praying for an arrears of a pension which he ought to have had from the time he first petitioned (1822) up to the year 1834 making a ballance due him or his widow about $1000. or upwards. Now I hope that if The Hon. Cha's Fisher shall call for them that you will hand them to him or send them to the House of Representatives & also all the papers relative to Mrs. Tabbitha Lomax's case that Mr. Fisher may present them before congress for their consideration because we can never otherwise surrender both these claims. Either of them would support the old lady while she lives & both are just, but if you would allow us the latter after reexamining the case we will stop further proceedings & trouble I shall address a letter to Mr. C. Fisher by the same mail on the above cases. And he can tell you the Character of Dr. Wm. Hannah & Z. Coggan & others her affiants if you ask him &c. We have as we think obtained the best proof that can be come at for her that can be relayed - or such as we deem sufficient & know of no other at this time that would be beneficial to her case. In criminal cases we have to be convinced without a doubt but if we were restricted to that rule in every case we would make a slow progress in obtaining our rights at common law therefore because you may suppose the date of her marriage to be too near the limited time does not make it so, or having doubts about it does not furnish a good reason for withholding her claim. Every person is looked upon as acting in good faith until the contrary appears. And if her proof says that it took place on that day it is as good as if it had been 2 years sooner. Mr. Z. Coggan & wife prove that & in the month
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of two or three credible witnessses the law establishes what they say as facts. I hope that you will send your answer to me or through Mr. C. Fisher to me so soon as it may be convenient.
Yours with respect &c
[Signatures]
Allen Newsom


Hon. J. L. Edwards


Free
Lomax

L. Edwards C.P.
Department
Pension Office
Washington City
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Lexington N.C.
Sept. 1

free

Hon. J. L. Edwards
Com'r. of Pensions
Washington City D. C. 
War Department Pension Office,

Sept. 5.1840
N. C. 
 address of
Tabitha Lomax
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Jackson-Hill N-C-a.
Aug't. 11th 1840.

Sir,

In compliance to the requisitions of the War Department Mrs. Tabbitha Lomax has brough forward the enclosed deposition as additional evidence to her claim for a pension. She has now made the best effort to get Documentary evidence but has not been able to secure the license bond &c from the Clerks record for the reasons set forth in some letters previously enclosed and sent to you. She has called her oldest son & Dr. Wm. Hannah to testify to what recorded evidence that they have to support the equity of her claim. I found by your last communication that I had made an error in drawing up her original Declaration or that you had made an error in making the communication or computing the dates; therefore, to remove all doubts, I had my own certificate before Jacob Goss Esq'r. taken in due form of law so I trust that you cannot entertain the least shadow of a doubt in regard to the Equity and legality of her claim when taken in consideration the last two preceding witnesses to wit: Zacariah Coggins & his wife Linny Coggins. The old lady says if the law will give it to her she wants it and that she will not get it before she needs it, therefore as I trust there cannot be any other well grounded objection raised against her claim I hope that you will be so kind as to make an early decision & send on the result to me as soon as circumstances will permit &c.
Your respectfully &c,
[Signature]
Allen Newsom

Hon. J. L. Edwards
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N. B. Please to direct your answer thus.
Allen Newsom
Jackson-Hill
N-Carolina.
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Lexington N.C.
April 3.  

Free

Hon. J. L. Edwards Com. of Pensions
Pension Office
Washington City.

Apr. 8, 1840
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Lexington N.C.
April 2d 1840.

Sir,

Yours of the 20th Feb. and the 28 March last have come duly to hand and their contents noticed by which I learn that you request some more documentary evidence &c of her (Tabitha Lomax's) marriage. In reply I would say that prior to the last Evidence (Zachariah & Linny Coggan his wife's) in accordance to your instructions I made the necessary efforts for her in order to procure some record of said marriage from the Clk. of Montgomery County Court (Mr. J. B. Martin_ who informed me that they might be in the Clk's office in Anson County by which I suppose that Anson was the only County of record at that time of the two.  And I then addressed a letter to the Clk. of Anson - requesting a similar search and according to a letter which I received he states after searching that he was unable to find any such bond or license on record and moreover that there were but very few in his office of that date, although it is older than Montgomery - This shows the difficulty of such papers being kept even in a clerk's office of such an ancient date. In order that you may rely more fully upon that which I have above written I have deemed it necessary to enclose both of the aforesaid letters and send them to you in order to show you the naked facts of her case in addition to what I have heretofore written. After I failed to obtain a word from the Clks. the old applicant still not remembering of any persons being present that was living to her knowledge, then, and it then began to be spoken of in the neighbourhood and Mr. Z. Coggan sent with whom I have been acquainted from my most early boyhood and can testify & say as to integrity & veracity no man
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is his superior - If you should doubt it call on the Hon. Charles Fisher for a decision; and his wife likewise I know to be a woman of irreproachable character. Now if I remember correctly their evidence is conclusive on this point - the old man was at the wedding & saw A. Harris marry them who (as he told me) married himself Z. Coggan and look at the strong circumstances which go or did go to reveal the date to the minds of these two affiants - such as contemporary in age; the date of their own marriages & birth of their first child, also her condition after birth & the approach of Christmas. If Congress intended that a record in every case should be produced of the marriage before you should allow a claim they ought not to have passed the act for a great portion would be in the condition of this old widow for those boys at 16 years of age like Wm. Lomax Dec'd poor & having to go into ranks & the times & country not permitting an opportunity for education could not marry any person but and unlearned girl therefore being poor &c. did not perhaps ever have their marriage entered & she says if her parents did that they have long since been dead & gone and does not know of any such record in existence only what she told her oldest son about it and his statement you have before you in her original affidavit. I never in any claim had more confidence than in the righteousness of her claim and likewise her husband's before her (who was at his death entitled to 11 or 12 years arrears of pension $ 96 per annum) and yet they both seemed to take more labor and evidence &c than ever I have known. I have presented the best evidence of which I have any knowledge at present. I regret that I did not inform you previous to this of my application to said Clks. and the reason of it was that I thought living proof was better than any other kind. Her claim has been long suspended (if her claim be just of which I have not the least shadow of a doubt) she has sustained an injury) but hope that you will send on her certificate as soon as you examine these letters if you do not please send me an answer without delay so that she may know what
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N.B. You will please to direct your communication to me at "Jackson-Hill N-Ca.

A.N.
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Lexington N.C.
Feb'y 1 2
Free

Hon. J. L. Edwards Com. of Pensions
War Department
Washington City

Feb. 17.1840

N.C.

T. Lomax
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Lexington N. C.-a.
Feb. 13th 1840.

Dear Sir,
Sometime ago I sent for Mrs. Tabbitha Lomax her additional proof as an applicant for a pension , but in receiving no returns from you or the Department, She being in present need & her claim having been delayed or suspended so long that she much desires a report on it and insists on me to request of you to send it without further delay than can be prevented. In so complying I know that you would oblige her by letting her hear the result as early as possible &c. Yours resepctfully &c.
[Signature]
Allen Newsom


Hon. J. L. Edwards

1838
69
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1769
15
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1783

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         Mar 'd. at the age of 24. 1793
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[stamp - WADESBORO SEP ? N.C.] 
25

Mr. Allen Newsom
Jackson Hill
Davidson Co.
N.Carolina
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Wadesboro Sept. 4tj 1839.

Sir
I received your letter of July 15th and after making two or three long searches have not been able to find the bond you want. Should I be so fortunate I fear it is not to be found - there are but few of the date in my office as far back as 1793 - It would afford me great pleasure to give the old lady any assistance in my power.
Your Respectfully
[Signature]
N. D. Boggan
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Allen Newsom Esq'r.
by Mr. Riley
Lexington No. Ca
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Lawrenceville Jan'y 9 1837

Dr. Sir,

Yours of the 4Inst. is sat hand requesting a search of the records of my office in behalf of Mrs. Lomax.
I have made strict & close search amongst the license bonds in my office & am sorry to say to you that no such bond is on file there. I have looked from 1783 to 1825 & find no such bond. I must think it is in the Clk's office at Wadesboro & that you may be mistaken in relation to the
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the date of her marriage.
Hoping you will find some record to secure the pension I remain
Yours respectfully
[Signature]
Jno. B. Martin
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Lexington NC
Dec 14
Free

War Department
Pension Office
Washington City.

  3

 June 20th

Pension office.

Jno at N.C.

69
24
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45
1838
45
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1793
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Lexington N. Carolina
Davidson Co. Dec'r 10th 1838

Dear Sir,

I sent on to the  Department sometime in October the Declaration of Tabbitha Lomax (the widow of Wm. Lomax who was on the pension list) in order for her to obtain a pension under the late act of Congress made in behalf of widows and have waited as I think full time for an answer but as yet I have not received her certificate or an answer from you & thinking perhaps her claim has been miscarried, mislaid or overlooked; therefore I address this note of enquiry to you to know the result of her claim as soon as you have it convenient without delay; In so acting you will very much oblige the old woman.
Yours &c.
[Signature]
Allen Newsom

J. L. Edwards Esq'r.

N.B. Report to Lexington
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Treasury Department
Third Auditor's Office
Feb'y 22. 1858.

Sir:
By an endorsement on the enclosed pension certificate it appears that William Lomax was dropped from the roll under Act of 7 June 1830. Will you be pleased to state to what date his pension was to cease under that act or whether he was to receive any pension at all under the act of 7 June 1832.
Very Resp'y
Your Obt. Sevt.
[Illegible Signature]
Auditor

Geo. C. Whiting Esq.
Comm'r of Pensions.
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Memo: Cases of 
Wm. Lomax and 
James Carter
N.C.



Hon. A. Rencher
H R
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Wm. Lomax
N. Carolina
Act 1818 on roll

James Carter
N. Carolina
Act 1832
not allowed.

Hon. Ths. Rencher HR
get papers
& call these or
Book
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Aug. 23/02 Mrs. Portet.
issue of wt. to wid & sub. location by assistance of heirs.


3-247
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No. 207.104
ACT OF March 3, 1855.
Recieved Aug. 28, 1855.

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Tabetha Lomax
Widow William Lomax
Capt. McKee's Co.

Rev. War

 Warrant No. 34.833
Fol 160 acres.
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N.C. Tabitha Lomax
suspended - Act 7 July  '38
see letter to Allen Newsom
24 Dec. '38. Do. 26 June '39
& Clerk of Montgomery  Co. 25 June '39 Blanks
Allen Newsom 20 Feb'y 18
Same  Mar. 28'40
Same Apl. 30 '40
Same Sept. 10, 1840
Same Jan'y 8 1841
let: 2 June 42 Hon. a. Arrington

Act 7 July '38
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34.833
[illegible]
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Hon. J. Mimnot (Commissioner of Pensions)
Department of the Interior
War Department
Pension Office
Washington City.
D. C. 

[stamp - LEXINGTON
N.C. NOV 13]

Tabitha Lomax
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Tabitha Lomax
widow of William 
North Carolina

Rejected

was not a widow on the 7th June 1842 (see attorney Gen'l opinion)

Act 7th July 1838.
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North Carolina Roll

Tabith Lomax, widow of William who was a private N. Carolina Line.
Cha Jons REg. July 1 1848
$96 per ann. Ca. July 1 1848

Deducting from payments at the rate of $40 per annl.


Geo. C. Ames.
Present
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Wm. Lomax, of N. Carolina = revo.
Susp'd see letters to Hon. C. Fisher 4 June 1822. T. S. Hybant 19th. March 1825  - W. Hill 31 Aug. 1826 & W. Hill answer filed with the papers of Wm. Lomack of Cumberland Co. N.C. whose claim has been admitted - Also letters 8 - 28th Sept. 1826, to T. L. Hybart & the Pension AGent. See letter to Henry Giles 29, April 1829.

[Signature]
A. Rencher
Page 154

Let to Hon. E. Deberry HR Feb. 8 44  6
husbands papers

Reported
Letter to Pension  Agt. 18 March 1845.

4070.
North Carolina
==============================
Tabitha Lomax
widow of William Lomax
who was a Private
in teh Revolution
==============================
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 40 Dollars 
-- Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843.
=============================
Certificate of Pension issued the 29th day of Dec. 1843 and sent to Allen Newsom
Jackson Hill
N. C. 
=============================
[Act of March 3, 1843.]
Recorded in Book A
Vol. 1 Page 203
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R
North Carolina
=============================
William Lomax
of Rowan Cy in the state of No. Ca.
who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Clark of the North carolina line, for the term of 12 months
=============================
Inscribed on the Roll of North Carolina
at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 18 of May 1819
=============================
Certificate of Pension issued the 28th of March 1820 and sent to Hon'ble C. Fisher
House of Representatives
=============================
Arrears to 4th of March 1820 $76.64
Semi-anl. allçe ending 4 Sept. 48.--
arr.
Ms 18/31  $124.64

{Revolutionary claim,}
{Act 18th March, 1818.}
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7301
North  Carolina
==============================
Tabitha Lomax
widow of William Lomax
who was a pensioner under the Act of 1818
and who died on the 6th November '35.
of Davidson  Co. in the Sttate of North Ca.
who was a private in the ___________________
commanded by Captain ________________ of the Reg;t. commanded by Col.. Clark - in the N. Carolina line for 12 months - 
==============================
Inscribed on the Roll of N. Carolina
at the rate of 40 Dollars
Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.
==============================
Certificate of Pension issued the 30th day of May 1843 and sent to Allen Newsom Jackson Hill N. Ca.
==============================
Total amount, $200.00
[Act July 7, 1838.]
Recorded by W. M. Stewart - Clerk, 
Book A Vol. 2 Page 188
Page 157

Reprinted
Jan'y 12/49

2973
North Carolina
==============================
Tabitha Lomax.
widow of William
who served in the Revolutionary 
war, as a private
==============================
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 40 Dollars --
Cents per annum, to commence 
the 4th day of March, 184?
============================
Certificate of Pension issued the 
12th day of Jan'y 184?
and sent to 
Allen Newsom
Jackson Hill
Davidson Co. N. C. 
==============================
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners [missing]
February 2, 1848, Page 219
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June 2/97 - History to Therese S. Porter Chicago, Ills. (see Hist. Chicago, Ills 3565)
___________________________________________________
1915. Sept. 14 Hist. to Mrs. A. B. Porter  FW
____________________________________________________
1922, July 14 hist to Mrs. A. Prescott Ew/
1922, Dec. 1, hist to Elizabeth L. Foggy - Ew.
1934 = Aug. 16 - Hist. to Mrs. Rose N. Atkinson. ILL.

Bounty Land 37833-160-55

Rev'y WIDOW, &c.
-------------
File No. 5028
Tabitha Lomax
Wid.
Wm. Lomax
Pvt. Rev. War
-------------
Act: Feb'y. 2/ 48
Index:-Vol. A, Page 441

[Arrangment of 1870.]
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1235 Hinman Avenue
Evanston Illinois

Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D. C.


Dear Sir:

Will you please inform me whether a Land Warrant was ever issued to  William Pemlott-Lomax of North Carolina for his services in the Revolutionary War and if so its number and the Act of Congress under which it was issued?
Yours truly
[Signature]
Therese Study Porter

Jan 11 1898

[stamp - U.S. PENSION OFFICE. D JAN 14 1898]
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126 East 1`th St.
Atlanta Ga
June 1-1922

Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D. C.

Dear Sir: Will you please send me the pension record of  Wm. Lomax revlolutionary pensioner of Rowan Co. N.C. in 1834, as listed on page 49 -N.C. pensioners, printed 1835. and greatly oblige
Yours very truly
[Signature]
Mrs. A. Prescott

[stamp - U.S. PENSION F JUNE 5 1922]

[NOTE - Rev. / OL
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New Loudon IA
Nov. 1st 1922

Pension Office,

Dear Sir,
Will you please send me the record of William Lomax who drew a pension as a Revolutionary Soldier from North Carolina. I shall be very thankful
Page 162

to you for your trouble and kindness in this matter.
[Signature]
Elizabeth Lomax Foggy
Page 163


Paoli, Ind.,
7/11/34.

Veterans Administration
Washington, D.C.
Sirs - 

Could you tell me of any information your records may show of the Revolutionary War records of the following men:-

Barnaby Davis,
Wm. Pemlott Lomax from North Carolina - Guilford Co.
Abel Knight from Pennsylvania - a quaker.

Thanks for any and all information
Very truly yours,

[Signature]
Eva Mae Atkinson
(Mrs. Ross N.)

[stamp - RECEIVED JUL 16 1934 MAIL-SUB.DIV.
U.S.V.B. READER 1]
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NL 1
Rev. Sec.

1024 Lake Shore Drive
Evanston Illinois
September 8, 1915.

Commissioner of Pensions,
Bureau of Pensions, Int. Dept.
Washington, D. C.

Dear Sir: -

Several years ago I learned from the Bureau of Pensions that William Lomax of Rowan County N.C. applied for and was granted a pension for his services in the Revolutionary War, July 1, 1819 , at which time he was 56 years old.
Will you kindly inform me when he died and where he was living at the time of his death?
Later his widow Tabitha also applied for and was granted a pension. I would like to know when she was born, when and where she died, if such information is available.
Yours very truly
[Signature]
Therese S. Porter
(Mrs. A. B. Porter)
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JAD

1902 - 116871 - B.
IN AT REPLYING REFER TO THE
ABOVE LETTER NUMBER.

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
GENERAL LAND OFFICE.
WASHINGTON, D. C., July 18, 1902.

TTS
ADDRESS ONLY THE COMMISSIONER OF 
THE GENERAL LAND OFFICE.

Honorable Commissioner of Pensions,
Washington, D. C.

Sir:

Replying to your request of July 9th, 1902, you are advised that Land Warrant No. 34835, (160 acres, Act of 1855 ), issued in favor of Tabitha Lomax, was located June 15, 1868, at Brownsville, Nebraska, by Syrena Webber, assignee of John A. Ruff, who was the
assignee of John William, Polley and Wesley Lomax legal heirs of Tabitha Lomax, deceased.

Respectfully,
[Signature]
Binger Hermann
Commissioner.

H.H.E.

[stamp - O.W.& N. DIVISION JUL 21 1902 RECEIVED.]
[stamp - U.S. PENSION OFFICE JUL 19 1902]
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[stamp - U.S. GENERAL LAND OFFICE
RECEIVED JUN 19 1902
102961]

Therese S. Porter
1232 Forest, Ave.
Evanston, Ill.
June 16 - 1902
Has patent issued to one officer Nelson for land in N. Car. or Va. on wt. issued to William Lomax services Revolutionary War.
Ack June 19- 1902

B - 

[note - Huts]
[note - corp John 27]

[stamp - U.S. PENSION OFFICE. H JUN 08 1902]
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1232 Forest Avenue,
Evanston, ILLS.
June16, 1902.

Commissioner of General Land Office,
Dear Sir:--

Will you please inform me if a patent was issued to Officier Nelson who served in the Revolutionary War from either North Carolina or
Virginia, on a Land Grant on a Warrant issued to William Lomax, who served in Officier Nelson's Regiment? I have been told that Officier Nelson
bought the Warrants and Grants from a number of his men, among them the one to William Lomax.

Yours truly,
[Signature]
Therese S. Porter
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L. W. B.
B. L. - 34833 - 160 - 55.

This Bureau can furnish the military record of only such Revolutionary soldiers as were pensioned or whose widows were
pensioned for their services.
Such of the original muster and pay rolls of the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812 as are now in the possession of the Government are on file in the Record and Pension Office, War Department. Original rolls and other records
pertaining to service in the Revolutionary
War may also be found on file in the
archives of many of the original States.

O. W. & N. DIV.
REVOLUTIONARY.

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
WASHINGTON, D. C.,
February 3rd, 1895.

Madam: --

Replying to your communication of a recent date you are advised that the records on file in this Bureau do not show that William P. Lomax, a soldier of the Revolutionary war, ever received a pension for his service,
It does appear, however, that Tabitha, widow of
William Lomax, received a bounty land grant of 160 acres, (No. 34833), under the Act of March 3rd, 1855, for the service of her husband in
said war.
Very respectfully,
Commissioner.


Miss Therese S. Porter,
1235 Hinman Avenue,
Evanston, Ills.
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REVOLUTIONARY WAR RECORDS SECTION.

 3-525
________

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
Bureau of Pensions.
Washington, D. C., …………………….. , 19... .

In reply to your request of , received for a statement of the military history of  William Lomax 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. 5028.

[Headings]

DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. | LENGTH OF SERVICE. | RANK. | OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. | STATE.

May 9, 1781 | 1 yr. | Pri. | Capt. McKee & Capt. Elijah Moore | Col. Armstrong | N.C.

Battles, engaged in, Siege of Ninty Six.

Residence of soldier at enlistment, Guilford Co. N.C.

Date of application for pension, 3rd Monday in May 1819. His cl. was al.

Residence at date of application, Rowan Co. N.C.

Age at date of application, Born Jan. 12, 1764, in Charles Co. Md. He died Nov. 6, 1835 in Davidson Co. N.C.

Remarks: He Mar. in Montgomery Co. N.C. Dec. 26 1790 or 1793, Tabitha born Nov. 4, 1769, dau. of Alexander Gooden. She was al. pension on her ap. ex. Oct. 19 1838 while a resident of Davidson Co. NC. She died FEb. 15. 1856. Children: John born Nov. 6, 1794; Amy b. Oct. 16, 1796; Nancy b. Jan 20 1799; Polly b. June 19, 1801; William B, June 20, 1803; Cornelius B. Mch. 8, 1806; West b. May 31.1809.

Respectfully,

Commissioner.

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