Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 4,723, for John Matlock, North Carolina

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(3 - 1776)
SERVICE
N.C.
CONTENTS
Matlock, John
Mary
NUMBER
W. 4723
CONTENTS

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6661
N. Carolina
Mary Matlock, widow of John Mallock, who was a Sergeant in the Rev War.
Husband died 11 Sept 1838.  
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 120 Dollars 00 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843.
Certificate of Pension issued the 12th day of February. 1845. and sent to Hon D. S. Reed.
[Act of March 3, 1843.]
Recorded in Book A, Vol. 2, Page 157.

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19.119 R.
North Carolina
John Matlock, of Rockingham County in the State of N. Carolina, who was a Sergeant in the Company commanded by Captain Nelson, of the regiment commanded by Colonel Martin in the N. Carolina line, for the term of three years.
Inscribed on the Roll of North Carolina at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 27 of August 1823.
Certificate of Pension issued the 25 of Nov. 1823. and Sent to B. Taney, Esq, Rockingham County, North Carolina.
Arrears to 4th of Sept 1823. $2.35
Semi-annual allowance ending 4th March 1824. $48.00
$50.35
{Revolutionary Claim, Acts March 18, 1818, and May 1, 1820.}
March 1, 1828.

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19,802.
Application of Jos. Mattock
Rev. Soldier

B. Taney, Esqr.
Rockingham Co. [Courthouse]
N.C.

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State of North Carolina
On the 29th day of August 1823 personally appeared in open Court, of the Court of pleas & Quarter Sessions of the County of Rockingham and the aforesaid which is a Court of Record John Mather aged 70 years, residing in Range Court the foresaid, the being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath declare the service in the Revolutionary war as follows:
He enlisted under Capt. John Nelson, as a Sergeant in the Court of Guilford from Rockingham County in North Carolina, in the fourth Regiment of North Carolina troops on Continental Establishment [in] May 1776 the Regiment was commanded by Colo Alexander Martin; enlisted for the service a number of soldiers in the County, until the month of April 1777 of which I marched with the War [when] I enlisted, by order of by superior offices and joined Corps under the command of Colo. Polk - Granville; from that place he marched to Georgetown, then in the State of Maryland, from there to Philadelphia; and three in the Delaware; from this place we marched to the Lord Cornwallis [Illegible] near Iron Hill of that place he had a severe kind. I was selected in his affair is one of the bit forty & writ in front was commanded by Col. Martin. I was then in the Battle of Brandywine was one of [the] soldiers, who brought 4 on the battle; after his better we went to Waster quarter of the Schuylkill the spring following, I was in the Battle of Germantown this pursued the enemy toward Sandy Hook she had or the sure skirmish after then in the Battle of Stony Point, of the time it was taken, even the command of [Illegible] marched to a little town in Jersy, I think called [Illegible] after a service of the years are worth was discharged by Col. Clark & steered to what was then called Guildford County about a month [I was not in the Battle of Guilford after this?]. [Illegible] I have lost or mislaid there during the whole time was in the I served as a Sergeant. I know of no person in particular, residing in this Vicinity, he was with me in the six battles in which I fought but many persons of this Court can testify, that I was a considered to in the Revolutionary Service. I do solemnly swear, I was a resident Citizen of the United

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Of 18th of March 1818, and it I have not since the time by gift, sale, any manner disposed of by property, any part thereof, with intent thirty so to finish it as to bring myself with the provisions of or 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,” hoped on the 18th day of Feb 1818, and that I have not, nor has any person in trust any property or Smith, contract at center, have any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed, subscribed. I have or shall crop of corn growing [Illegible]. I have a very small quantity of provision [Illegible]. I have had a number of shall one me, but having been Sheriff of the City of Brooking here for about twenty six years in succession, and having been unfortunate in the securing matters of my office, and my securities having paid for a considerable sum of money. I have attested to this honestly and in good faith, all the debts and property owed to me, all of which will be for short of paying the money, which they have paid [Illegible]. 
John Matlock
[Illegible]
Sworn to in open Court the 27th day of August 1823
R. Gallaway, Clerk of County Court

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State of North Carolina
Rockingham County
I, Abraham Phillips, of the aforesaid [County and State] about sixty six years do doth oath, that during the Revolutionary War, I resided in what was then called Guilford, now Rockingham Court the foresaid, & I have always understood.
John Matlock
Sworn to in open court 27th August 1823.
 R. Gallaway

State of North Carolina
Rockingham County
I, Robert Gallaway, Clerk of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions, held for said County do hereby certify that the foregoing subscribed in open Court on the 27th day of August A.D. 1823 and the property in the annexed Schedule was valued by the Court to ten dollars and that A. Phillips who subscribed the foregoing certificate is entitled to full faith and order.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affix the Seal of said Court at office the 30th day of October A.D. 1822

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LESSONS IN ELOCUTION, 
OR, A 
SELECTION OF PIECES 
IN 
PROSE AND VERSE, 
FOR THE 
IMPROVEMENTS OF YOUTH
IN 
READING & SPEAKING
BY WILLIAM SCOTT. 
TO WHICH ARE PREFIXED
ELEMENTS OF GESTURE.

ILLUSTRATED BY FOUR FLATES AND RULES FOR EXPRESSING WITH PROPRIETY, THE VARIOUS PASSIONS, & OF THE MIND.
ALSO, AN
APPENDIX.
CONTAINING LESSONS ON A NEW PLAN.
LEICESTER

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State of North Carolina
Be it remembered that at a Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions, (it being a Court of Record) begun and held for the County of Rockingham and State aforesaid, in Wentworth, on the fourth Monday of November A.D. 1844, the annexed declaration of Mary Mattock (widow of John Mattock, an applicant for a pension under the act of Congress of the 7th July 1838 and the accompanying certificate contained on pages 1, 2, 3 and 4) both of which being duly subscribed by R. Reid one of the acting Justices of our said Court were presented in open Court. And evidence being adduced that the applicant from bodily infirmity is unable to attend Court and being made further to appear that the facts set forth are true and the statements of the applicant on oath are entitled to belief. It therefore ordered by the Court that the declaration and accompanying certificate be made a part of the Record of this Court and certified accordingly. 
In witness whereof I, Thomas B. Wheeler Clerk of said County Court have hereunto set my name and affixed the seal of our Court. Done in Wentworth, on the 25th day November A.D. 1844.
B. Wheeler, Clerk of the County Court

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Declaration of Mary Mattock 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."
State of North Carolina
Rockingham County
On this 23d day of November A.D. 1844 personally before me R. Reid one of the acting Justices of the Peace for the County and State aforesaid Mary Matlock, a resident of the County and State aforesaid, aged Seventy years, who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress, passed July 7, 1838, entitled “An act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows”:
That she is the widow of John Mattock who was a Private and Sergeant in the Army of the Revolution, and who she understood served under John Griffith McCray. The time he entered the service or how long he served she does not recollect but she knows that he drew a pension of ninety-six dollars per annum for a number of years before his death and that he resided in this County at the time his name was entered on the pension roll. For further proof as to his service she refers to the Records of the War Department.
She further declares that she was married to the said John Matlock in the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety two.

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Thinks in the month of November, but does recollect the day of the month she not even certain that it was in the month of November. She has had a full examination made in the Clerk’s office of this County where the marriage bond ought to be, but it is not to be found, and she is informed that many marriage took place in this County about the same period, the bonds of which can not now be found. The Bible which contained the family Record was carried to the west many years ago by a relative, but she does not now know where it is, or whether it contained a Record of the marriage. She understand that one of her sons has a copy of the Record of the ages of her children taken from the Bible that was carried to the west but she learn that it does not embrace the date of the marriage. The marriage took place at William Bethell’s in this County and she knows that she was married to the before mentioned John Matlock, and that they lived together as man and wife up to the time of his death and that the legality of the marriage was never questioned.
Her husband John Mallock was High Sheriff of the County for upwards of twenty years and the full confident that he had their marriage legally celebrated. She does not now recollect of any person now alive who saw them married her eldest son Charles Matlock was born in seventeen hundred and ninety-three and he is

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Now living. She further swears that her husband, the aforesaid John Mattock died on the first day of September one thousand eight hundred and thirty eight. That she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service but the marriage took place previous to the 1st day of January Seventeen hundred and ninety four; that she is now a widow and has remained so ever since the death of her husband John Matlock: And she further declares that in consequence of bodily infirmity she unable to attend Court to make her declaration.
Mary Matlock
Sworn to and subscribed on the 23rd of November AD 1844, before R. Reid.

State of North Carolina 
Rockingham County 
I, R. Reid, one of the acting Justices of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions for the County and State aforesaid, do hereby certify that Mary Matlock whose name is subscribed to the foregoing declaration is from bodily infirmity unable to attend Court to make her declaration. He further certifies that up to the time of John Matlock’s death that he and Mary Matlock had been living together as man and wife from his earliest recollection of hearing

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Of knowing anything about them, which he thinks must have [been] fifty years ago. He further certifies that the is entitled to credit. 
Given under my hand and seal this 23rd November A.D. 1844.
R. Reed

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No. 8957
Act 1838
Mary Mallock
N.C.

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Power of Attorney
Charles Mattock, son of  John Mattock of North Carolina,  a pensioner at $96.00 per annum. Mary Matlock, John N.C. to 1843.
His widow was pensioned and lived until 1845
A. H. Markland

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Power of Attorney.
Know all men by these Presents: That I, Charles Matlock, of the County of Rockingham and State of North Carolina the son & heir at law of John Mattock deceased who was a pensioner under the Act of Congress approved the 18th day of March 1818, and who died on the 1st day of September 1838, do hereby constitute and appoint A. H. Markland of Washington City, my true and lawful Attorney irrevocably for me, and in my name and place, to examine all the records, letters, affidavits, and other documents and papers connected with on am now on file in the Pension Office, as well as all the Muster Rolls and other records that may show the Revolutionary services of the said John Matlock and generally to do all lawful acts and things whatsoever touching the premises in order to prosecute said hereby revoking all powers of attorney heretofore given for a like purpose, and confirming whatsoever my said attorney shall, in my name, legally do in the premises. 
In testimony whereof, I hereunto set my hand and seal this thirteenth day of March 1855.
Charles Matlock
Acknowledged and subscribed before me, J. Holderby, a Justice of the Peace, for the aforesaid county of Rockingham and State of North Carolina; and I do certify that of my own personal knowledge the aforesaid Charles Mattock is the son of John Mattock deceased.
Witness my hand and seal this 13th day of March 1855.
STATE OF North Carolina
COUNTY OF Rockingham
I do certify that Joseph Holderby, Esquire, before whom the foregoing acknowledgment was made, was at the time of it being made a Justice of the Peace for said county, duly commissioned and qualified, and that the above is his genuine signature. 
Witness my hand and the seal of the County Court for said county, this 13th day of March 1855.
W. M. Ellington, Clerk

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State of North Carolina
Rockingham County
This day personally appeared John Matlock before me Joseph W. Neel a Justice of the Peace for the County and State aforesaid who after being duly sworn according to Law Deposeth and saith as follows:
That he is the son of John Matlock who was a soldier in the Revolution by his wife Mary Matlock who is an applicant for a pension under the acts of Congress that it was the accompanying Record hereunto and taken from a Bible formerly in the possession of his further and that the said record as annexed is in the proper and genuine handwriting of.
Deponent further John Matlock who was the husband of Mary Mattack that his father John Matlock and his wife Mary, the Deponent’s Mother, lived together as man and wife up to the time of his father’s death which occurred on the first day of September 1838, the Deponent does and has always believed that his father and mother were legally married in the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety two.
John Matlock
Sworn and Subscribed to before me this 31st day of December A.D. 1849.
J. W. Neel, Justice of the Peace

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State of North Carolina
Rockingham County
I, Joseph W. Neel, a Justice the Peace in and for the County and State aforesaid do hereby certify that John Matlock whose name is signed to the foregoing Deposition person of respectability and entitled to belief. Given under my hand seal his 31st day of December A.D. 1844 -
Joseph W. Neel, Justice of the Peace

State of North Carolina
Rockingham County
I, J. B. Wheeler, Clerk of the Court of and Quarter Session for the County & State hereby certify that J. W. Neel whose signature appears to the going Deposition & certificate is an acting Magistrate for our said County & that the signature purporting to be his is genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed the Seal of my office and subscribed my name the 31st day of December A.D. 1844.
J. B. Wheeler, Clerk

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State of North Carolina
Rockingham County
This day personally appeared Rhodes Little, aged seventy six years before me, Joseph W. Neal, a Justice of the Peace for the County and State aforesaid who after being duly Sworn according to Law deposeth and saith as follows:
That she was at the Marriage of John Matlock and Mary his wife they did not see the rites solemnized as they with several other young persons rode off to the house of a magistrate in the Neighborhood and returned and said they were married and that she was at their infer on the day after and that they always lived together as man and wife up to the time of his death and that she knows none of those persons who went with them to the magistrate to be now living and as to the date at which their marriage took place she does not recollect the year or month but knows it was about a year previous to the Birth of Charles Matlock, their oldest child. And further this deponent saith not. 
Rhodes Little
Sworn and subscribed to before me this 31st day of December A.D. 1844 -
J. W. Neal

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State of North Carolina
Rockingham County
I, Joseph W. Neal, one of the Justices of the Peace in and for the County and State aforesaid do hereby certify that Rhodes Settle, whose name is signed to the foregoing Deposition is a person of respectability and entitled to belief on her oath.
Given under my hand and seal this 31st day of December AD 1844--
Joseph W. Neal, Justice of the Peace

Washington City
Feb. 11th, 1845
I personally know Mrs. Rhodes Settle, the above deponent. She is a lady of Education at the signs with a cross. She is of the highest respectability and possesses a five memory and I have no doubt but what he deliver the date of the birth of one of her own children.
David S. Reid
M. H. Reps

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May 17, 1934
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John Matlock-W.6723
BA-J/AWF
Mrs. J. W. Baines
5427 Belmont Street
Dallas, Texas
Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revolutionary War record of John Matlock of North Carolina.
The data furnished herein were obtained from the papers on file in pension claim, W. 4723, based upon the Revolutionary War service of John Matlock.
The date and place of birth of this soldier are not shown in the claim, nor are the names of his parents given.
John Matlock enlisted in Guilford (that part which was later Rockingham County, North Carolina, sometime in May, 1776, served as sergeant in Captain John Nelson's company, Colonel Thomas Polk's North Carolina regiment, and as sergeant in Colonels Alexander Martin's and Thomas Clark's North Carolina regiments; he was in the Battles of Iron Hill, Brandywine, Germantown, an engagement near Sandy Hook, and the Battle of Stony Point, length of service three years. He volunteered in 1781 in Colonel Washington's regiment, was in the battle of Wetzell’s Mills, length of this service not stated.
He was allowed pension on his application executed September 1, 1838. The soldier, John Matlock, married in 1792 in Rockingham County, North Carolina, Mary Settle or

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Suttle; she was his second wife, name of first wife not stated. The widow, Mary Matlock, was allowed pension on her application executed April 6, 1843, then about seventy-two years of age and living in Rockingham County, North Carolina.
The following is a list of the names of their children, as found in the claim:
Charles born December 1, 1793.
Sally born April 21, 1797.
Abishay born November 12, 1800.
(record torn) born August 12, 1803 or 1805.
John born March 1808
David born March 1811
In 1844, John Matlock was a resident of Rockingham County, North Carolina, and in 1855, Charles Matlock was also living in that county.
Mrs. Rhoda Settle or Suttle was seventy-six years old and living in Rockingham County, North Carolina; her relationship to the widow not stated.
Very truly yours,
A. D. HILLER
Assistant to Administrator

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9049
N. Carolina
Mary Matlock, widow of John Matlock, who was a pensioner under the Act of 1818 and who died on the 1838 of Rockingham County in the State of North Carolina, who was a Sergeant in the Company commanded by Captain Nelson of the Regiment commanded by Col. Martin in the NC line for 3 years.
Inscribed on the Roll of N. Carolina at the rate of 120 Dollars 00 Cents per annum, to commence on the 1st day of September 1838.
Certificate of Pension issued the 12th day of February 1843 and sent to
Hon. R. Reid, House of Representatives
Total amount,
[Act July 7, 1838.] 
Recorded by F. S. Swann, Clerk, Book 2, Vol. 1, Page 295

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No 19.
Certificate issued under the Joint Resolution: of 23 January 1845, at $120 per annum, from March 4, 1836 to Septem 1 1838

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To what time was John Matlock, of North Carolina, Act 1818, last paid?
Died 1st Sep 1838, to that period.

J. L. Edwards
Feb. 12, 1845

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Mary Matlock, Widow of John Matlock
Sergeant 3 years
Married in 1789
Husband died 31 August 1838
$120 per annum, to commence 31 August 1838.
Acts July ’38 } 8951
6959 ‘43
No. 415 ‘44
N. Carolina Roll

Cert: To Hon. David S. Reid, House of Representatives

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Contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension [Illegible] this Bureau. John Matlock W.F. 4723.
Date of Enlistment [Illegible]
May 1776 
1781 Length of Service not given.
Length of Service 
3 Years
Rank 
Sergeant
Officers under whom Service was rendered.
Capt. John Nelson
Col. Alexander Martin 
Col. Thomas Polk
Col. Thomas Clark
Col. Washington 
State 
N.C.

Battles engaged in Iron Hill, Brandywine, Germantown, Sandy Hook, Stony Point, Witzell Mills.
Residence of soldier at enlistment, enlisted in Guilford County.
Date of application for pension, August 27, 1823.
Residence at date of application, Rockingham County.
Age at date of application, died September 1, 1838.
Remarks: Soldier Married Mary Little or settle in Rockingham Cort C. 1789 or 1792, he was allowed pension on an application executed Apr. 1843, while a resident of Rockingham aged 70 yrs.
Children
Charles born Dec. 1. 1793. 
Sally born Apr. 21, 1797.
Abishay born Nov. 16, 1800.
A child born Aug. 12, 1803 is torn.
John M. Davish 1814.
In 1823, Soldier refers to [Mary Matlock as] his second wife. 
Very respectfully,

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19119
Died Sept. 1 1838
January 21, 1911
Commissioner of Pensions
The record of the John Mattock is not the one belonging to our branch of the family of that name. He was a pensioner in N.C. (what is now a part of E. Tenn from Grainger Co.). I think he married Sarah M. Pherson and his children were Henry

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Charles, William and John, Sarah, Mary, Elizabeth & Martha. His widow drew a pension in M. Minn Co Tenn.
Please look a little farther, and find another John Mattock
Respectfully, 
Miss Julia L. Mattock
[Illegible] Tenn.

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January 7th, 1841
Commissioner of Pensions
Sir,
I wish you to send me all the information you can obtain on Giles Hatlock, a Pensioner of the Rev. War from North Carolina to My address.
Mrs. Julia Lane Mattock
Athens, Tennessee

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WIDOW, &c.
File No. 4723
Mary Matlock, Widow of John Matlock, Sergeant, Rev. War
Act: March 3rd 1843 & June 17th 1844
Index:-- Vol. M, Page 3
[Arrangement of 1870.]

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3 -- 871.
RECORD DIVISION.
Department of the Interior,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
Briefed by A, Marcd. 17/1/11
Claim No.
Certificate No.
Claimant
Soldier. John Matlock
Service N.C. 
Additional Service Rev.

No. Claim, State Records, 191
No claim, combination records , 191

REMARKS:
No Wid any service exc
4723(V.C. N.C.)
No Regt. at all
same for Matlock
No sur. either name and
No O. W. Inv. either name
6 -- 1944
Chief Division

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House of Representatives
Washington, Jany 7, 1845
Sir,
I herewith enclose you the Declaration of Mrs. Mary Matlock who is an applicant for a Pension under the act of 1838. The Declaration and the accompanying Deposition will I fancy convince you that she is entitled to a pension.
The Deposition of J. B. Wheeler, Clerk of the County Court, shows that the marriage bond is not to be found on file in his office and accounts for the cause why it is not if in fact one was ever issued. Having shown that the bond is not to be had, she relies upon the best attainable evidence of which the case is susceptible, and that produced is in fact more conclusive than the bond itself would be. The declarant swears that she was married to John Matlock in 1792, and the magistrate, the Court, and the Clerk all go to show that she is a lady of credibility. She declares that the Bible which contained the family Record was carried to the west by a relative a number of years ago and that she does not know where it is or whether it contained the date of the Marriage. Attached to the Deposition of John Mattock (who is the son

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Of the Revolutionary Soldier) is the leaf of a Book which contains a record of the ages of the children in the handwriting of his father and which he says was copied from the Bible carried to the West and is the family Record. Mary Matlock declares that their son Charles Matlock was born in 1793; and this record which is in the handwriting of her husband shows that he was born on the 1 December 1793 and that her statement is true Rhode Settles in her deposition says "that she was at the marriage though she did not see the rites solemnized as they with several other young persons [who] rode off to the house of a magistrate in the neighborhood and returned and said they were married. she further states that she does not recollect the date of their marriage, but know it was about one year previous to the birth of Charles Matlock their eldest child. The Record shows that he was born in 1793.
Marriages in N. Carolina are legal either by license or publication of bans, thought former mode is the usual one of late years. Indeed in N. Carolina marriage is regarded as a contract and held to be valid without either license or publication of bans. I can state on my own knowledge that all the persons who testify in this case are of high respectability I think the proof is clear and sufficient,

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know the old lady-- she is my near neighbor and I have not the least her station in saying that she is entitled to a pension. If she is entitled to it her situation is such that early action upon her case is of importance to her. You will confer a favor by giving her case an examination at your earliest convenience and let me know the result.
I am in haste, very respectfully, Your obt Servant,
David S. Reid

Hon. J. L. Edwards
Com. of Pensions
Washington

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House Rep's
Washington Mar. 1, 1845.

Sir,
I herewith enclose you the Declaration of Mrs. Mary Matlock to enable her to draw a Pension under the Resolution of Congress of the 23rd January 1845. I hope you will examine it and make out the certificate as early as convenient. I shall not leave this city till the latter part of the ensuing wake and I would like to receive it before that time.
Very respectfully, Your Obedient Servant,
David S. Reid

Hon. J. L. Edwards,
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington

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House Reps.
Washington, Feb 14, 1845.

Sir,
Upon examining the Pension Certificates of Mrs. Mary Matlock which you sent one I observe that her pay is made to commence on the day of the death of her husband, Sept. 1st 1838, and I wish to know whether she is not entitled to a pension from the 4th March 1836 You will find that her first Declaration was filed some two or three years ago. If it is necessary for her to file another Declaration to enable her to get her pension from the 4 March 1836 to the 1st Sept. 1838, I will thank you to send me the necessary directions to enable to her to do so.
I am, very respectfully, Your Obedient Servant,
David S. Reid

Hon. J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions

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Washington City
March 15, 1845.

Sir,
Several days ago I enclosed you the Declaration of Mrs. Mary Mattock under the Resolution of the past session of Congress to enable her to draw the residue of the 5 years pension under the act of 1838. The Declaration is in due form and I write this letter to ask you to have the certificate made out and sent to me before I have here, which will probably be about the middle of next week.
I am, very respectfully, Your Obedient Servant,
David S. Reid
 
Hon. J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington

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Haw River, North Carolina
24 April, 1863
Sir
I herewith enclose to you the declaration of Mrs. Mary Matlock of the County of Rockingham Widow of John Matlock, Deceased, who was a United States Pensioner under Act 18 March 1818, as Sergeant, and died 31 August 1838. Under an act of Congress of the last Session, (I believe) the Act of 1838, was so amended, as to give a 5 year pension to the widows of such Rev. Soldiers whose marriage took place before 1794, although the applicant has become a widow since 7 July 1838.
Mr. John Mattock died it seems, 31st August 1838. There is an error in the filling up of the declaration as you will mine I should have been filled up from the 4th March 1836, to the 4th March 1841. Instead of from the 31st August 1838, the error was in part mine being under the impression, when I drew of the declaration that the widow's pension would commence at the death of her husband - I hope the error in filling us will be nothing prejudicial to her claim for “five years” as “Sergeant.”
When a decision is had, on this claim, be so good as to enclose it to me at this Post Office.
I remain, Sir, very respectfully your humble Servant, 
James A. Craig

Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City

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May 14, 1934
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BA-J/EEL
Miss Danie Hall
940 Faxon Avenue
Memphis, Tennessee

Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letter in which you request information in regard to John Matlock, David, John and William Montgomery, all of Caswell County, North Carolina soldiers of the Revolutionary War.
Due to the great demand for Revolutionary War data and the limited clerical force available for furnishing such date, it has not been possible to make a series of investigations and reports for one person or organization. You are furnished herewith the histories of John Matlock and David Montgomery, the date for which were obtained from the respective claims for pension based upon their military service in the Revolutionary War.
Very truly yours,
A. D. HILLER
Assistant to Administrator.

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May 15, 1934
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John Matlock - W. 4723
BA - J/AWF

Miss Danie Hall
940 Faxon Avenue
Memphis, Tennessee

Dear Madam:
The data contained herein were obtained from the papers on file in pension claim, W. 4723, based upon the Revolutionary War service of John Matlock.
The date and place of birth of this soldier are not shown in the claim, nor are the names of his parents given.
John Matlock enlisted in Guilford (that part which was later Rockingham County, North Carolina, sometime in May, 1776, served as sergeant in Captain John Nelson’s company, Colonel Thomas Polk's North Carolina regiment, and as sergeant in Colonels Alexander Martin’s and Thomas Clark’s North Carolina regiments; he was in the battles of Iron Hill, Brandywine, Germantown, and an engagement near Sandy Hook, and the Battle of Stony Point, length of service three years. He volunteered in 1781 in Colonel Washington's regiment, was in the Battle of Wetzell’s Mills, length of this service not stated.
He was allowed pension on his application executed August 27, 1823, then a resident of Rockingham County, North Carolina, and was aged about seventy years. He died September 1, 1838.
The soldier, John Matlock, married in 1792 in Rockingham County, North Carolina, Mary Settle or Suttle; she was his second wife, name of first wife not stated.

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widow, Mary Matlock, was allowed pension on her application executed, April 6, 1843, then about seventy-two years of age, and living in Rockingham County, North Carolina.
The following is a list of the names of their children, as found in the claim:
Charles born December 1, 1793.
Sally born April 21, 1797.
Abishay born November 12, 1800.
(record torn) born August 12, 1803 or 1805.
John born March 1808
David born March 1811
In 1844, John Matlock was a resident of Rockingham County, North Carolina, and in 1855, Charles Matlock was also living in that county.
Mrs. Rhoda Settle or Suttle was seventy-six years old and living in Rockingham County, North Carolina; her relationship to the widow not stated.
Very truly yours,
A. D. HILLER
Assistant to Administrator

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June 30, 1931
Rev. & 1812 Wars Section
AWF

Edward Lance
Sparta
Tennessee

Dear Sir:
You are advised that it appears from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, W. 4723, that John Matlock enlisted in Guilford (that part which was later Rocking County, North Carolina in May 1776 and served as sergeant in Captain John Nelson's Company, Colonel Thomas Polk's North Carolina Regiment, and served as Sergeant in Colonel Alexander Martin's and Thomas Clark's North Carolina Regiments, was in the battles of Iron Hill, Brandywine, Germantown, an engagement near Sandy Hook, Battle of Stony Point and served three years. He volunteered in 1781 in Colonel Washington's Regiment, was in the Battle of Wetzell’s Mills, length of this service not stated.
He was allowed pension on his application executed August 27, 1832, then a resident of Rockingham County, North Carolina, and was aged about seventy years.
He died September 1, 1838
The soldier married in Rockingham County, North Carolina in 1780 or 1792, Mary Settle or Suttle. She was his second wife, name of first wife not stated.
His widow, Mary, was allowed pension on her application executed April 6, 1843, then a resident of Rockingham County, North Carolina, and aged about seventy-two years.
Children of [John and Mary Matlock]
Charles born December 1, 1793
Sally born  April 21, 1797

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Abishay born November 18, 1800.
John born March 1801.
David born March 1801.
born November 18, 1800
The record is torn of the name of a child born August 12, 1803. 
The above John Matlock is the only soldier of that name, all spellings of the surname searched, that is found in the Revolutionary War records of this bureau.
Very truly yours,
E. W. MORGAN
Acting Commissioner.

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February 11, 1911.
Mrs. Julia L. Matlock,
Athens, McMinn County, Tenn.
Madam;
In reply to your letter dated the 21"" and received the 27 ultimo, you are advised that a careful search of the records of this Bureau fails to show that a claim for Revolutionary War pension was ever filed on account of the services of any John Matlock or Mattock other than John Matlock, Wid. File No. 4, 723, Rev. War, a history of whose services was furnished you January 30, 1911.
Very respectfully,
Commissioner.

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5427 Belmont Street
Dallas, Texas
May 2, 1934.

Veterans Administration Bureau
Washington, D.C.
Gentlemen:
I am asking you to send me the pension record of John Mattlock of North Carolina. He was a soldier during the Revolutionary Period I think and I am trying to get my family line established through him for admission to the D.A.R. will you please, include with it any family data that be accessible?
If there is any charge for the service, I shall be glad to pay you for it if you will let me know how much it is.
Very sincerely yours,
Mrs. J. W. Baines.

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Vol. 22 is open guarded and the Revolutionary War Pensioners are seldom found here.

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940 Faxon Ave
Memphis, Tenn.
Apri, 23, 1933

Pension Building
Washington D.C

Dear Sirs:
In Clark's Historical Records of North Carolina we find the following items which we would like for you to verify:
(1) John Matlock Vol 32 – 75 listed as Revolutionary Pensioner.
(2) David Montgomery Vol. 3- 78 listed as Revolutionary Pensioner.
(3) John Montgomery Vol 22-278 listed as Revolutionary Pensioner.
These were all supposed to have come from Caswell Co. N.C. Do you have any record of William Montgomery as Revolutionary Pensioner from Caswell Co.
Thank you (Miss) Dame Hall

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Sparta, Tenn.
May 28, 1931

Veterans Administration
Bureau of Pensions
Washington, D.C.

Dear Sirs
You have records of John, James, David, Gideon, and George Mallock of Va. and John, David, and James French of Va. Among the pension records, please send me their records (both family and War).
Yours truly,
Edward Jane
P.S. I mean in Revolutionary pension records.

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8951
Mary Matlock
N.C.
Act 7 July ‘38

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State of North Carolina
Rockingham County
I, J. B. Wheeler, Clerk of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions for the said County of Rockingham do hereby certify that I have made diligent search in my affirm for the Marriage Bond for License of [John and Mary Matlock] have not been able to find the Bond. I also certify that I have not [Illegible] in finding any marriage and of as old a date as that is said to be.
The only reasons I can assign as that in those days in many cases the rights of Matrimony were solemnized without his which the proctor for ministers to publish the Bans of Matrimony same in force to the time & that was all sufficient. Other cases I understand Magistrates granted License & rarely ever returned the Bonds to the affirm & the practice never prevailed her of a certificate of marriage being retired to this office by a Person as Magistrate
In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed the Seal of my Office and subscribed my name this 19th day of April 1843.
J. B. Wheeler, Clerk of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions

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Clerks Certified
Rockingham County
1843

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State of North Carolina
Rockingham County
This day personally appeared Thomas B. Wheeler, Clerk of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions for the County and State aforesaid, before the one of the acting Justices of the Peace for said County who being duly sworn according to law, deposeth and Saith as follows:
That at the request of the agent of Mary Matlock who is the widow of John Matlock a Soldier of the Revolution, he has carefully examined the records of his office for the Marriage Bond of said John Matlock but has not been able to find it; and does not believe that the hand is to be found in his office. He further says that his office is the one in which Marriage Bonds are filed; He further states that about the time this Marriage is alleged to have taken place (1792). Many Marriages took place, the Causes of which cannot be found on file in his office, that this probably arises from the marriage being solemnized by publication of Bans as from the fact that time and even until this day the Clerks were in the habit of making the Justice of the Peace who resided in various parts of the County the deputies to issue Manage licenses and take many of which lands were no doubt never returned to the Office. He also says that up to the time of John Matlock’s death he had known him for many years at least from about the year 1804 or 1805 and that he and his wife Mary lived together all the time as man and wife and that he never heard the legality of the marriage doubted by anyone; and further this deponent saith not.
Thomas B. Wheeler
Sworn to and Subscribed the 25th day of December 1844 before me J.W. Ellington, Justice of the Peace.

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State of North Carolina
Rockingham County
I, J.W. Ellington, one of the acting Justices of the Peace for the County and State aforesaid do hereby certify that Thomas B. Wheeler whose name is signed to the above deposition is a person of respectability and that he is entitled to belief on oath.
Given under my hand and seal this 25th day of December 1844.
J.W. Ellington, Justice of the Peace 

State of North Carolina
Rockingham County
I, J. B. Wheeler, Clerk of the Court Pleas & Quarter Sessions for the County and State aforesaid certify that J. W. Ellington, whose Signature appears to the above certificate is and was at the time of the date thereof an acting Magistrate in and for our said County and that his signature is genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed the seal of our said Court & subscribed my
name this day of December A.D. 1844.
J. B. Wheeler, Clerk of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions

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State of North Carolina
Caswell County
On this the 22 day of April 1843 personally appeared before the undersigned one of the Justices of the Peace in and for said County Charles Thacker of said County aged 71 years who being first duly qualified according to Law dec oath and saith that he was intimately acquainted with Jean John Matlock an United Pensioner lending in Rockingham County in the State aforesaid, who died in August 1838 leaving a widow Mary him surviving.
This affiant was also acquainted with Mr. Mary Matlock before she intermarried with said John Matlock, and that her maiden name was Suttle. Lived [as] neighbor to said John Matlock and remembers that he was married to the said Mary about the year of 1789. that he was not present and saw them married, but has always understood that they were married lawfully in or about the year of 1789 that said John Mattock, Pensioner as aforesaid, died on 31st day of August 1838, leaving the aforesaid Mary his widow, who has not since married but still remains his widow.
Charles Thacker
Sworn and subscribed the day and date fist above written before me.
Thomas Reid, Justice of the Peace
.
I, Thomas Reid, magistrate as aforesaid certify that Charles Thacker the above affiant is a man of good standing and entitled to full credit and belief before me as I know.
Thomas Reid, Justice of the Peace

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State of North Carolina
Caswell County 
I, Abisha Slade, Clerk of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions for Caswell County Certify that Thomas Read is a Magistrate and that the foregoing Signatures purporting to be his is genuine.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed my seal of office and subscribed my name this 22nd day of April 1843.
A. Slade, Clerk of the Court of Caswell County

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Declaration
In order to obtain arrears of Pension due from 4th March 1836 under the Act of State of North Carolina.
July 7, 1838

State of North Carolina
Rockingham County
On the 6th day of April 1843, personally appeared before the undersigned one of the Justice of the Peace in and for the aforesaid County of Rockingham Mary Mallock of said County aged 72 years of age who being duly qualified according to Law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the amount of pension which the claim from the 31st day of August 1838. And the declarant further alleges that she is the widow of John Matlock who was a Sergeant during the Revolutionary war, that her said husband John Mallock aforesaid, was allowed an Annuity at the rate of $96. In an and that he was and at the agency in Fayetteville State of North Carolina. And further she saith not.
Mary Mattock
Sworn and subscribed on the day and year first above written, before me [Illegible].

State of North Carolina
Rockingham County
I, J. B. Wheeler, Clerk of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions for the [Illegible] County of Rockingham hereby certify that John Mattock is an United States pensioner of said County, who died on the 31 day of August 1828, leaving a widow Mary surviving him.
J. B. White, Clerk of the County Court 
I also certify that J. Little, a Magistrate as above and that it foregoing signatures purporting to be his are genuine. 
In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed my seal of office & Subscribed my name on this the 7th day of April 1863.
J. B. Wheeler, Clerk of the County Court

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Declaration
In order to obtain the benefits of the Resolution of Congress of the 23d January 1845.
Whereas the act of the 30th April 1844, prohibited me from drawing a pension for the same period during which my husband was a pensioner I now make the following statement under oath to obtain the benefits of the Resolution above mentioned. I am the widow of John Mattock who was a Private and Sargeant in the War of the Revolution. I have drawn a pension at the rate of one hundred and twenty dollars per annum from the 1st day of September 1838 to the 4th March 1841 and now ask for the amount due me from the 4th March 1836 to the 1st day of September 1838 when my former pension commenced.
Mary Matlock
Sworn to and subscribed before me on this 25th day  of February 1845 in the County of Rockingham and State of North Carolina.
R Reid, Justice of the Peace

State of N. Carolina 
Rockingham County 
I certify that the declarant is personally known to me and that she is the same individual she represents herself to be in the foregoing affidavit.
R. Reid, Justice of the Peace

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I, Thomas B. Wheeler, Clerk of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions do hereby certify that R Reed who has signed the foregoing is a Justice of the Peace for the County of Rockingham in the State of North Carolina and that the foregoing is his signature.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed my Seal of Office this 25th day of February 1845 at Wentworth, Rockingham County in the State of North Carolina
J. B. Wheeler, Clerk of the County Court

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Georgia
Muscogee County 
Personally appeared before me Charles Matlock who being duly sworn says that he was born on the first day of December seventeen hundred and ninety three and that he is the son of John Matlock by Mary Mallock who lived together as man and wife till the year eighteen hundred and thirty eight where the death of my father occurred and the season he has for believing that he was born on the first day of December seventeen hundred and ninety three is that that he has been repeatedly so informed by his parents, and seen the same so recorded on the family record of the births & deaths in his father’s family.
Charles Matlock
Sworn to & Subscribed before me on the 5th day of February 1845.
John J. McKendle, Justice of the Peace

Georgia
Muscogee County  
I, Nelson Lester, Clerk of the Inferior Court of said County do hereby certify that John J. McKendree whose name appears to the above affidavit as a subscribing witness is an acting Justice of the law of said County and that full faith and credit ought to be had and given to his attestations as such.
Given under my hand private seal there being no seal of office this 4th day of February 1845.

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Washington City  
Feb. 11, 1845
I certify that the within deponent Charles Mattock is a gentleman of respectability and that he is entitled to credit. I further certify that his signature as it stands to said deposition is genuine. I know him well.
David S. Reed