Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 11466, James Whitlock, Va.

SERVICE
NUMBER _____
Wa.
Whitlock, James
R 11466
CONTENTS

South Carolina
On an Dist 3 James Whittlock. Came personally before me & deposes as follows in order to explain & make more explicit his application for a Pension under the act of June 1832. That he enlisted as a man he was in December 1776. in the State of Virginia for the express purpose to guard the prisoners of War given at the Albemarle Barracks. (Which kind of enlistment I served and under the officer I was in my declaration. I again served a term of two months duty as a Substitutes for Shadrach Vanspauw as first Lieut at the Siege of Little York & under the officer as he was in my declaration.
Sworn to & subscribed before me this 28 th July 1834 th J. Hays Clk
James Whittlock
So Carolina 3 rd I John Ross do certify that the above affidavit was made before me on this day which is bear date.
Given under my hand Seal of Office at home at this 29 th July 1834. J. Hays Clk

26.192
Declaration of gas Whittock
118166
not althe rolls
Suspended
Hon M c R. Clancy N.P.
M c Rodgers Vincennes I.C.
26.192

of South Carolina Union District } To wit.
On this 11 th day of October one thousand eight hundred & thirty two. Personally appeared in Open Court before the Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, now sitting for said District James Whellock, a Resident of said District aged 70 years, on the third of July last. 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 Con- gress, passed June 7 th 1832, that he entered the service of the United States, under the following named Officers, and served as herein stated.
I entered the service under enlist- ment, in December, about three years before Peace was established, according to my best recollection, Under Captain Holman Rice, & Colonel Tazewell, in Albemarle County Virginia, to guard the Prisoners surrendered by Burgoyne at Saratoga. I was stationed in the discharge of that duty at the Albemarle Barracks, under the above named Off- icers & remained in that service, till Charleston fell. The British marched through Albemarle, the Prisoners were removed, the Barracks broken up & I with all the soldiers under the above Officers, & in the above service, was dismissed. I then joined Captain Thomas Bates, in Col. Wm. Fleming's Regiment, as a Substitute for Shadrick Vaughan, and served as First Lieutenant. I joined the last named Officer, in the capacity last stated, in Goochland County Virginia and marched from thence, to Col. Woodson's in the same County, thence to Richmond, thence to Old Williamsburg, & thence to Little York. I then continued till the end of the siege of the last named place, having several slight skirm- ishes with the Enemy while there. After the close of the Siege & the Surrender of Cornwallis, I marched to Winchester to guard the Prisoners taken at Little York, where I received a written Discharge from my Commanding Officer, which I have lost.
I have no documentary Evidence of my Service, & know of no Person living, who can Testify as to my service.
To the Interrogatories propounded to me by the Court. I answer, 1 st . I was Born in Virginia, Goochland County in the year 1762, on the 3 rd of July.
2 nd . The Record of my age is in the High Church of England in my native County - Virginia.
3 rd . I lived in Goochland County Virginia when called into service, & have lived in Union District South Carolina, since the Revolution, where I now live.

1 th I was drafted  enlisted & substituted as already stated — 2 th General Washington, & the officers that I have named in my declaration are all that I recollect. I recollect none but the Regiments I have mentioned — 3 th I Received a discharge from Col. Taylor, when I left the Barracks, & a discharge from Col. Will Fleming, when I left the service — both of which I have lost — I received a Commission, signed by Col. Will Fleming, which is lost. 4 th I refer to the signed  testimony of James Green to testify as to my character for veracity & good behavior, & touching my services as a Soldier & officer of the Revolution
I hereby relinquish every claim whatsoever to a pension or annuity except the present, & declare that my name is not on the Pension Roll of the agency of any.
State — Sworn to in open Court James Whillock
Jno M c Neal Pres Judge
We Thomas S. Green, a Clergyman, residing in Union District So. Carolina, and James Green — residing in the same place, hereby certify that we are well acquainted with James Whillock, who has subscribed & sworn the above declaration, that we believe him to be 70 years of age, that he is reputed & believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a Soldier of the Revolution, & that we concur in that opinion
Jno M c Neal
Sworn to in open Court by James Green Jno M c Neal Pres Judge
James Green
And the said Court hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the Interrogatories presented by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier, and served as he states. And the Court further certifies, that it appears to them, that Thomas S. Green who has signed the preceding Certificate, is a Clergyman, residing in the District of Union & State aforesaid, & that James Green who has also signed the same is a resident of the same place & is a credible person, & that their statement is entitled to credit —
Jno M c Neal Pres. Judge

State of South Carolina Union District } I John Rogers Clerk of the Court of Session & Common Pleas for the said District of Union do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of James Whitlock for a Pension
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of office at Union Court House this 4 th day of May 1833-
J. Rogers Clk.

Let to Thos Green Dec. 5. 7th '47

James Whitlock
S. C. m:
Suspended
Letter to Hon: Wm. L.
Colburn 15 Feb: 34
- do. to Felix Richards Nov. 12.
1835 - In claimant's life
17. 1837 do do June to 1837

James Whitlock
Georgia
Let. to Thos. Green 11. Oct. 1843
" " Hon. J. H. Lumpkin. 29 Mar. 1844.
" " Thomas Green August 14. '47
Act. 1832

This is to Certify, That it appears from a List in this Office of such Officers and Soldiers of the Virginia State Line, during the Revolutionary War, as settled their Accounts, and received Certificates for the balance of their Full Pay, according to an Act of Assembly, passed the November Session 1781, that a Certificate issued on the 15 th day of May 1784 , in the name of James Whillock as a Soldier of Infantry for £ 48. 8. 2 , which Certificate appears to have been delivered to M c Morton and was given for services prior to the 1st January 1782.
p 211.
{ No Seal of Office. }
Given under my hand at the Auditor's Office, Richmond, this 26 th day of July 184 7 .
J. H. Heath AUDITOR.

I further certify that it appears that a James Whitlocke recd £3.10.8 as a soldier of the militia, on the 15 April 1784.
Thos Heath
James Whitlocke

South Carolina Pension District 16 June 1834
Sir
You will please deliver to Mr Felix Keaborn of Virginia my Pension Papers that were left in the Pension Office at Washington for the purpose of obtaining a pension and you greatly oblige
Yours Affly Sect
Jas W. Whitlock
The Secretary of War is the proper Officer at Washington City.
Test H. W. Foote

Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873.
11,466
P. O. James Whitlock
Service: _____
Enlisted: _____, 18 .
Discharged: _____, 18 .
REJECTED
Application filed: _____, 18 .
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract.
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18 .

This is to Certify, That it appears from a List in this Office of such Officers and Soldiers of the Virginia State Line, during the Revolutionary War, as settled their Accounts, and received Certificates for the balance of their Full Pay, according to an Act of Assembly, passed the November Session, 1781, that a Certificate issued on the 15 th day of May 1784 , in the name of James Whillock as a Soldier of Infantry for £48. 3. 2, which Certificate appears to have been delivered to Mr. Morton and was given for services prior to the 1st January, 1782.
{ No Seal } { of } { Office. }
Given under my hand at the Auditor's Office, Richmond, this
23 rd day of October 183 5 .
J. R. Heath
AUDITOR.

Washington 21 Jany 1844
Col: J. L. Edwards. Present.
Sir.
In yr favor of Oct. last the claim to a pension of James Whetlock was suspended for further proof of identity &c.
Enclosed is his own affidavit stating the reasons for his not sooner applying for the pension - & the efforts he had made to get the proof &c. This affidavit taken in connection with the proof of identity heretofore filed may be sufficient - to relieve your mind of the difficulties & objections heretofore entertained
I am yr. Obt servt
Thomas Green

Wadsworth. 28 Aug 1847
Col. J. L. Edm. -
Sir,
England is the subject of the matter of 67. That James Wadsworth recd. £48. 8. 2 at one time & £3. 10. 8 at another.
These payments correspond so well with his declaration, 4 1/2 years ago, as to constitute a strong circumstantial evidence of the identity.
I have recently learned that in 1834 or 5 - some evidence, in this case, was filed by Felix Richards, to whom you wrote on the subject - a Reference to that correspondence might aid in the investigation. Yrs. Respectfully,
Shomer Green
look for old papers also

July 27 1843
Exec.
Act 1832
James Whitlock -
25
Ed
Comm

Washington 27 July 1843.
To Col: J. L. Edwards.
Sir:
Enclosed is the application of James Whitlock of De Kalb County Georgia for a pension under the act of 7 June 1832.
From his recital of his services, I presume there can be no doubt, the records of your office will prove them —
I am yr very Respectfully
Thomas Green
James Whitlock
De Kalb Co Ga
July 27 1843

Richmond 13 Nov. 1847
Col. J. L. Edwards Washington 8 Lm.
In the case of James Whittle, of Ga. (application under act 1832, for a pension) you rejected the case on 14 Aug. last. From the contents of your letter it was evident, only one set of papers had been before you, when the claim was examined. This I ascertained when last in Washington - and without blame to any one - as the one set was presented from La (where J. W. lived many years) and the other set was from Ga. The old man is still alive - I have made continual claim, in the language of the law, but his memory is defective, altho' I think no one can read carefully, both sets of papers, without admitting he was (apart from the full second evidence) at least, 6 months in service. His own statement clearly shows he was at Albemarle Barracks, for a good while and John Riddle testifies, he was four months with Jas. Whittle at the Barracks. Henry Lusk was there also with him for a short time; and two months while service at York Town it is readily admitted - as it is fully proved - Here then we have his  own  testimony service, clearly established, unless Riddle be discredited - which is not the case - On the contrary his declaration in his own case, some 15 or 16 years ago, verifies his statement that he was 4 months in service at the Albemarle Barracks.
But we ask a full pension. The second evidence establishes the right, beyond dispute, if this be the man who drew the depreciation in the two instances exhibited - He says he was more than two years in service - at the Barracks, and was two months in service at York Town, under the second engagement. The latter , is not questioned - Now is it to be presumed he would have drawn his depreciation for the short service, than left it, undrawn for the former? This alone, I think, shows he was, in all human probability, the very man who drew the last set.
But the internal evidence in his declaration strengthens this probability - He says he sold the certificates of depreciation, for a mere trifle to one Thomas Underwood &c. Now it is known, there was such a speculator in old certificates at that date in Goochland & if the nominal amount of the certificates had

only been about £300 - the market value (say 2/6 in the pound) would have nearly been so any thing, I would not have collected it at all - But this is not all - in his statement of 10 July 1883, in Glasgow, he recited the amount of his outgoings as £43. - yet which he got from Doelings . Now there is a strong resemblance of the currency -
For altho' the amount does not exactly correspond with the record, it comes near enough to ensure this in accuracy - And yet the variance is important, in another aspect - It shows the Applicant was not speaking by the card - it is impossible to suppose he made a corrupt variance, in order to obtain the benefit of the argument - & unless as he is, super - it must be admitted the coincidences establish the identity -
His reference to the trial of James Stoughton - shows a willingness to submit the accuracy of his recollection to the test of events, the occurrence of which, he had reason to suppose, others present, would know - Stoughton was a Lieutenant and not a Captain. The recollection of the Applicant is evidently very defective - but when his statements are contradicted by the record and when the whole tenor of his several affidavits indicate not the least designed misrepresentation, surely they are entitled to a favorable con- struction. His memory as to dates - however singular - should
not prejudice him - as he refers to events , most lasting on the memory, by which those memories may be corrected. For instance - he says he enlisted in Decr 1776 "soon after the capture of Burgoyne " - And altho' required subsequently, to correct the error - he admits it may be so, but still thinks it may be 1776 altho' he knows it was after the capture of Saratoga - When an old man whose better days had been worn out in the service of his country, trips in the testimony of his latter years in no wise in manner than this, ought he to be censured or discredited, more than the necessary

of the case absolutely requires? surely not. But are his statements in conflict with the records? He says, in December of Oct. 1852 he entered service about 2 years before then (which he regarded as 1778-81) "according to that of his recollection". That would be in the fall of 1778- In the December of 1778 - say he entered service in two years before the fall of Charlestown. This would still be in 1778 - rather not quite two years - if the commencement of the service was in the fall of '78. He says he remained at the Barracks till they were broken up by the approach of the British, when he & others were dismissed" - This was an event, not likely to be forgotten and the Affiant in Oct 1852 (18 years ago) must have been a witness misstatement - if it were at time as to that important event - the inversion of that interior point, by the errancy - As to mere dates, an error is nothing - but as to such an event as this, there could be no excuse for misstatement - If his statement be true, then his dep- -osition would be, about the error, which the Records & his own unaided memory, (for I have not the minutest idea, it was intended) disclose -
The affidavit of 13 May, 1857 refers to the loss of his Winchester discharge & certificate. The certificate alluded to, was probably the one for the 3:44. -
That he was a Lieut: seems not proved - he may have had a temporary appointment as such officer or as adjutant, but no regular commission - he cannot claim for such rank -
The witness John Riddle, knew this man (J.W.) intend- -ly - before & in service - served with him, at the Barracks, 4 months etc. Indeed, the reasonable inference, of this careful affidavit, may be, that J. White left the barracks after 4 months service. This however, could not have been so, and the whole state- ment of this witness shows his recollection as to the duration of J.W.'s services, was vague - having been only 4 months himself at the Barracks - he could not say with any reliable precision, that White was not, other 16 months, or more than Henry Isbell saw J.W. at the barracks - and several years thereafter
saw him again in service at Fort Town.
This evidence does not contradict the statement of J.W.
I am yr obt servt.
Thomas Green

Virginia Geo. Clarke County Court
This day personally appeared before me a Justice of the peace for the County aforesaid, John Riddell who after having been duly sworn, made the following statement to wit. That he is now seventy three years of age & is now drawing a pension from the United States for his Revolutionary Service and that he was well acquainted with James Whitlock who was a Soldier in the Revolutionary war, and formerly a resident of this County. - he understands that the said Whitlock emigrated to the State of South Carolina many years ago. - he further states that he was acquainted with said Whitlock previous to his entering the service; but became well acquainted with him after they entered the Army. - he further states that said Whitlock and himself enlisted in the Regiment of Guides and Service about four months and there discharged. - The said Whitlock then got an appointment of Lieutenant in Captain Thomas Patten Company of Col. Heman's Regiment; how long he served as Lieutenant he is now unable to recollect; but feels confident that he served over twelve months. he also acted as Adjutant for some time in Heman's Regiment but what length of time he does not recollect but feels confident that said Whitlock served over two years in the capacity of either Lieutenant and Adjutant. - The said Whitlock was an Officer much esteemed and considered an excellent Officer. -
Given under my hand this 31 st day of October 1835
Thereby Certify that I have been John Martin Esq. acquainted with John Riddell and believe his statement may be relied on as truth.
John Martin

Wingenie Geach laid by July 1837
I hereby certify that I am about 35 years of age all that I am a pensioner of the United States - I further certify that I was well acquainted with James A. Chickell who formerly was a master in this Navy and well recollects of meeting with him at the Albany Basin - he was then a Master Station at that place he was a letter attached to the State Lines - how long he remained that night I do not recollect as I was then only about twenty five days - Several years afterwards I remained at New York in a Master's Command by Capt. Smith and also met with James A. Chickell who was then in service in your boat on the engagement at Parkersburg - after the engagement returned with him as far as Cincinnati and then we parted - he went on up to Cincinnati for the purpose of quenching the fires taken at Parkersburg - I recollect very well that said Chickell gave me an old Gun Powder to bring up here for him which I did -
Given under my hand this 28 Oct 1835 J Stewart J. Stewart
Geach laid by July 1837
Presently appears before me a friend of the fires for the firing of which Henry Schell who made such to the health of the above Captain -
Given under my hand this 30 Oct 1835 John A. Underwood

I have known Henry Blee many years & I know him to be a man of veracity & entitled to full credit as to any thing he will say.
John Underwood
Wiggin Creek June 1865
This day personally appeared before me a justice of the peace for the County of Lewis Anthony Layne who after being sworn according to law made the following statement - That he is now in the 77 th year of his age and that he is a pensioner of the United States - he also states that he was well acquainted James Whitlock who formerly resided in this County and removed to the State of South Carolina many years ago - he well recollects that the said James Whitlock marched from this County to the Allenton Barracks for the purpose of defending the Province the time being he mentioned that he was not recollect - he further states that he frequently heard said Whitlock say that he was at the Battle of Bull Run and well recollects that Mr Henry Blee bought him a Gun there which the said Whitlock requested him to bring out from Bull Run.
Sworn to me this day and this 28 th of June 1865
John Underwood
I have known Mr Anthony Layne many years & I know him to be a man of veracity & entitled to full credit as to anything he will say.
John Underwood

State of Virginia } ss Goochland County
I William Miller clerk of the County Court of said County, do hereby certify that John Martin and John Underwood Williams before whom the preceding affidavits of John Riddle, Henry Isbell and Anthony Sayne appear to have been made, and who have subscribed their names to the preceding Certificates, were then, and still are, acting Justices of the Peace in and for the said County, duly commissioned and qualified, and that the signatures to the same, purporting to be theirs, are genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of my Office, this 31 st day of October 1855
W. Miller. Clk

State of Georgia DeKalb County } On this eighth day of January eighteen hundred & forty four, Before the sub- criber an acting Justice of the Inferior Court of said County personally appeared James Whitlock who being first duly sworn according to Law makes the following statement under oath, That about the year eighteen hundred thirty six (but the papers in the Pension office will show the date) he made an application to the War Department for a Pension, through one John Rogan of Union District, South Carolina and was told then in answer that the Depart- ment would require positive proof of service by one or more living witnesses, — that some time afterwards he was informed that Archy Riddle & John Humber two of his fellow soldiers were living in DeKalb County upon which information he set out for this County in order to prove his services by them but when he came here he found that Archy Riddle had left and that John Humber had died — That he then sent to the State of Kentucky to procure the testimony of Captain Rice under whom he served but in answer to this trial he was informed that Captain Rice had then been dead about six months — That he then began to despair of success until lately had been informed that the Department did not in all cases require pos- -itive proof of service and feeling conscious that he is entitled to a pension he felt encouraged to make one more application in hopes that the Department will reconsider his case and grant him such pension as he feels conscious he is entitled to. his James Whitlock

Sworn to & Subscribed before me this day & year above written Jno. N. Ballenger, J.P.
State of Georgia DeKalb County } I Eldoy B. Reynolds, clerk of the Superior Court of said County do hereby certify that John N. Ballenger is an acting Justice of the Superior Court of said County duly commissioned & qualified and that the foregoing Signature purporting to be his is genuine
Given under my hand & seal of office this Eighth day of January Eighteen hundred & forty four. E. B. Reynolds Clk

State of South Carolina Union District
James Whitlock in order to explain his application for a pension under the act of 1832. makes the following declaration on Oaths & Saith That he is still under the Impression That he enlisted in Dec r 1776 to guard prisoners at the Barracks in Allermarle Va but States That his recollection from advanced age may have failed him & it may have been 1777, and That he served as Lieutenant at the Siege of Little York Two Months in the place of Capt. Vaughan as a substitute by order of the Col. The Bats. He got a discharge, & a Certificate for what was due, in money That was so much depreciated That it was of no value scarcely & This deponent further States That he has long since lost or mislaid both his discharge & Certificate, That he had served in the Capacity of an Enlisted Soldier, & in the Militia at Little York including both at least Three years & was entitled to & subscribed before me this 13 th May 1837.
James Whitlock
D Wallace Esq
State of South Carolina Union District
I John Rogers Clerk of the Court of Sessions & Commissioners Pleas for said Dist t do certify That David Wallace Esq r whose name is subscribed to the above probate is an acting Justice of the peace & properly authorized to administer oaths & that the signature above purporting to be his is genuine given under my hand seal of office at Union & Harrow this 13 th May 1837.
J Rogers
Turner

35.778
James Whitlock Ga
Act 7 June '32
Capt. Holman Rice was alive for 7 mo at the Battery, left here Station 10 Aug. 1779 was captured at Savannah 18 Dec 1779 Thos Green Esq Richmond Ga

Declaration
In order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7. 1832.
State of Georgia DeKalb County ss
On this Tenth day of July eighteen hundred & forty three personally appeared in open Court before the Inferior Court of said County now Sitting James Whitlock a resident of said County of DeKalb & State of Georgia aged Eighty five years who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on his oath make the following declarat- -ion in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7. 1832.
That he entered the Service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated viz Col. James Taylor & Captain Holman Rice & he thinks the Major name was — young that he enlisted in the month of October at the Barracks in Albemarl County & State of Virginia he does not recollect the year but he knows that he served there two years previous to the time the British took Charleston at which time the prisoners were removed from the Barracks by order of General George Wash- ington to keep the British from releasing them & then the Troops were discharged & himself among the rest at the end of his two years Service as above stated — Captain Holman Rice was the enlisting officer under whom he enlisted and received a bounty of thirty dollars & a new suit of clothes and his wage was sixteen pence a day — He received a discharge from Colonel Taylor but it is now lost — he sold what was called his "indent" to a Speculator by the name of Thomas Underwood
Chamberlain June 19th 1843

for five dollars, when it ought to have been worth & called for forty five pounds — Captain James Slaughter was an officer at the Barracks at the same time but was broke of his commission And this declarant further states that he entered the service again as a substitute for Shadrach Vaughn in the month of October or November Shortly after he returned from his service at the Barracks but he does not recollect the month and he served two months at this time to wit six weeks at the Siege of Little York in the State of Virginia and the balance of the two months he was engaged in guarding the prisoners to old Winchester where he was again discharged his Captains name was Thomas Bates his Colonels name was — Morris, this service was in the Militia of Virginia. The French had blockaded Little York at the time of the Siege. And this declarant further states that he has no documentary evidence and that he knows of no person whose testimony he can procure who can testify to his service. That he came from Union District & State of South Carolina to his present place of abode four years ago for the purpose of obtaining the testimony of John Humbbe and Archibald Riddle by whom he expected to have proved his service but when he came here he found that one of them had died & the other had moved away. Archibald Riddle was his orderly Sergeant. — and this declarant further states that he was born in Goochland County Virginia in July Seventeen hundred & fifty eight that he has no record of his age but believes it is registered in the parish where he was born — He would give the names

of William McEllanid, John Hardman & William Johnson & Larkin Nash as his neighbors who can testify of his veracity and their belief of his services as a revolutionary Soldier - 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 or Territory whatever and that he lived in the said County of Goodland at the time he entered the service both times and that he was not employed in any civil employment of the Government.
Sworn to & subscribed in his open Court on the day & year James E. Whitlock aforesaid mark
Attest
E. B. Reynolds Clerk
State of Georgia } Inferior Court July Term 1843. Dooly County } We Isaiah Parker a clergyman residing in the State & County aforesaid and Andrew Browning in the same State & County do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with James Whitlock who has subscribed & sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be eighty five years of age that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion.
Sworn and subscribed } Isaiah Parker in open Court the day & year } Minister of the Gospel aforesaid
Attest
Andrew Browning
E. B. Reynolds Clerk

State of Georgia DeKalb County } Superior Court July Term 1843 And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the Interrogatories prescribed by the War Department that the above named applicants was a Revolu- tionary soldier and served as he states. And the Court further certifies that it appears to them that Isaiah Patten who has signed the above preceding Certificate is a clergyman resident in the State & County aforesaid and that Andrew Browning who has also signed the same is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
E. B. Reynolds Clerk.
J. N. Bellamy J.J.C. D. D. Anderson J.J.C. W. M. Hairston J.J.C. Robert Jones J.J.C. Wm. Thurston J.J.C.
State of Georgia DeKalb County } I Elsey B. Reynolds clerk of the Superior Court of said County do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of James Whitlock for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this Tenth day of July 1843.
E. B. Reynolds Clerk

State of Georgia Irwin County } Before me Daniel N. Pittman a justice of the Inferior Court of said County person- ally appeared James Jackson a resident of the State and County aforesaid who being duly sworn according to Law says on his oath that he has been personally acquainted with James Whitlock who has sworn & subscribed the foregoing Declaration, for forty eight years and that he has always during that time borne the name and character of a Revolutionary Soldier
James his  J Jackson mark
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 17 th day of July 1843. D. N. Pittman J.P.C.
State of Georgia Irwin County } I Daniel N. Pittman a justice of the Inferior Court of said County do hereby certify that I am well acqu- ainted with James Jackson who has sworn and subscribed the above affidavit that he is a respectable Citizen of this County and that his statement is entitled to full credit.
Given under my hand & seal this 17 th day of July 1843. D. N. Pittman J.P.C.

State of Georgia Grinnell County I Wiley S. Baker Clerk of the Inferior Court of said County do hereby certify that Daniel N. Pittman is an acting Justice of the Inferior Court of said County duly commissioned and qualified and that the foregoing signature purporting to his are genuine under my hand and seal of office this 17 th day of July 1843
Wiley S. Baker C. S.

Lawrenceville Grinnett County Ga. July 17 th 1843 To Col. J. L. Edwards
Sir,
Through Col. Green I forward you the application of James Whitlock for a pension. It may not be strictly formal for circumstances beyond my control compelled me to make it out in a great hurry. I endeavoured to give his own statement as nearly as I could but it is possible I may have put down some of the names wrong as the old man's articulation is very indistinct as to names but his recollection seemed to be very ready about names - I was very much puzzled to understand him when he told the name of the County of his nativity and had to ask him five or six times over but I think I have it right at last. And if informality alone prevents a favorable action upon his claim I will give it another trial when I hear from the Department upon the subject -
Trincham Rambo