Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 11467, Nicholas Whitlow, Va.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Va.
Whitlow, Nicholas
R. 11467
CONTENTS

Nicholas Whittow
Me
Bus. sub Let B. Bates
May 5 1837
11467
Ad 7 June 1837

Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873.
11,467 7
P. O. Nicholas Whittow
Service: _____
REJECTED
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: _____ _____ _____
Re-enlisted: _____ _____ _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____ _____ _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract.
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18

Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the acts of Congress passed June 7 th 1832
On this 25 th day of April 1837 personally appeared in Open Court before the Justices of the Court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions for the County of Mecklenburg & State of North Carolina now sitting Nicholas Whittow aged Eighty three next August 13 th and after being 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 7 th 1832
I was born in Henritta County State of Virginia in the year 1754. I Entered the service of the united States in the year 1777 in the Spring, as a drafted soldier under Capt Thomas Anderson was placed under Col Samuel Hopkins served out my four six months & got a discharge & again in the year 1781 I was drafted to go to assist General Washington when he besieged Lord Cornwallis at Little York, Virginia I hired a man Thomas Whittow to go in my place - who got a discharge
I have no documentary Evidence having lost my discharge
I hereby relinquish Every Claim whatever to a pension or annuity Except the present under the act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832 and declare my name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State
Interrogatories put by the Court
Q Where & in what year were you born A. I was born in Henritta County State of Virginia in the year 1754
Q Have you any record of your age A yes in my bible
Q Where were you living when called into service A I lived in Mecklenburg County State of Virginia Q Where have you lived since the Revolutionary War I removed to Mecklenburg County State of N Carolina in the year 1801, I then removed to South Carolina

Then Removed back to Mecklenburg N Carolina where I now reside
I then were you called into service
I was drafted for six months
I state the names of some of the officers
Col Saml Hopkins & Capt Thomas Andrews under these Officers I marched to Norfolk
Sworn to and subscribed the day & year above
Written Test James Doherty Nicholas his Whittow
We John Williamson Cliggman and James Doherty
both Residing in the County of Mecklenburg & State of N Carolina, hereby Certify that we are well acquainted with Nicholas Whittow who has subscribed & sworn to the above declaration, that we believe him to be Eighty three years of age, that he is Reputed & believed, in the neighbo- rhood where he resides to have been a Soldier of the revolu- tion and that we concur in that Opinion.
Sworn & subscribed the day & year aforesaid
John Williamson V.D.M.
James Doherty
And the Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter; and after putting the Interrogat- ory prescribed by the war department, that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and lived as he states and the Court further Certifies that it appears to them that John Williamson who has signed the preceding Certificate is a Cliggman Resident in Mecklenburg County N Carolina and that James Doherty who has signed the same is Resident in the same County & State and is Creditable persons and their Statement is Entitled to Credit
I Traly Oats Clerk of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions held for Mecklenburg County, State of North Carolina, do hereby Certify

That the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Nicholas Whittow for a pension
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of Office this 25 th day of April A.D. 1837
V. D. Clater Clerk of Hacklinburg Co. Court