Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 16137, for Edward Lock, New Hampshire

SERVICE
NUMBER _____
N 26
Lock, Edward Betty
U. 16137
CONTENTS

2712 New Hampshire Pats
Betty Lock widow of Edward Lock who was a Private in the N. H. Militia N. H. for 7 months
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 22 Dollars & 33 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843.
Certificate of Pension issued the 15th day of Nov. 1843 and sent to Ira M. Blair Deerfield N. H.
[Act of March 3, 1843.]
Recorded in Book A Vol. 1 Page 18.

New Hampshire
Edward Lock
of Rockingham in the State of N H who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Leavitt of the Regt commanded by Genl Sullivan in the N H line for 7 Mos from June 1777
M. 81. A. 1834
Inscribed on the Roll of New Hampshire at the rate of 23 Dollars 33 Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 19 th day of October 1832 and sent to Peter Chadwick Exeter N H
  Arrears to 4th of Sept 1832  $ 34 99    Semi-ant. allowance ending 4 Mar 33  11.66     $ 46 65  
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by J. H. S. Blair Clerk, Book 20 Vol. 125 Page 167.

4416 Howard Lock Private
Mr Roll Capt Leavitt Co. Col. Drakes Regt as Muster'd 8 Sept 1777 for 3 months & 8 days
7 Months
Adm'd J. L. E.
Peter Chadwick Esq. Agent Exeter N. H.

BRIEF in the case of  Edward Locke of the County of Rockingham in the State of New Hampshire  (Act 7 June, 1832.)
 1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? Open Court  2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?  3. How old is he? 71—  4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed. 
   Period. Duration of Service. Rank. Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.   Years, Months, Days.     In 1777 June — 5. — Private Gen. Sullivan Capt. Moses Leavett Comp'y   1778 Summer — 2. — ditto Lt. Col. Sanborn Capt. Winthrop Ross' Comp'y has no recollection of the Regt. in either enlistment  
 5. In what battles was he engaged? Stillwater and Saratoga  6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Hensington in the County and State aforesaid.  7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditional evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? his Affidavit and Furlough annexed.  8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? No Certificate of a Collyerman. 
I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
Levin Belt Examining Clerk.

Declaration Pretty Soth 2426 July 30. 1831
Wid of Edward
W.H.
Ad July 7 1838
Mama 1781
Ad 1834
Allow. $23.33
Pharm
Capt Seant
W.H. Miller
M c Kelley Esq. Exeter W.H.

Declaration.
In order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of the 7 th July 1838 entitled an act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows
State of New Hampshire County of Rockingham.
On this thirtieth day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred thirty eight personally appeared before John Hasey Aguin, Judge of Probate of wills &c within & for the said county of Rockingham at a court held before him at Deerfield in said county on the day above written, Betty Lock a resident of Kennington in the county of Rockingham aforesaid aged seventy six years eleven months & three days, 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 grant- ing half pay & pensions to certain widows - That she is the widow of Edward Locke late of Kensington in said county deceased who was a soldier in the War of the Revolu- -tion & who was placed on the Pension roll of the United States by the War Department under an act of Congress passed June 7 1832
She further declares that she was married to the said Edward Locke on the 27 th day of November in the year seventeen and hundred and eighty one; that her husband the aforesaid Edward Locke died on the thirteenth day of August in the year eighteen hundred & thirty four and that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service but the marriage took place to the first of previous to the first of January seventeen hundred and ninety four or, at the time above stated note.  she was in married to him on the day and year above written and that since the death of her late husband, the said Edward Locke, she hath never married again

with hath ever remained and still is his widow
Witness John Kelly      Betty her + Lork mark
I swear to and subscribe the day and year first before written      before me
John Harvey Judge of Probate I John Kelly Register of the Court of Probate for said County do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Betty Lork for a Pension
In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of said Court this thirtieth day of August AD 1830.
John Kelly Register of Probate

State of New Hampshire - Rockingham. Town Clerks Office Kensington August 20, 1835. I John T. Blake Town Clerk of Kensington, County and State aforesaid, hereby certify that I have examined the town Records now in my possession and find a Record of the following Marriage
Edward Locke & Betty Perkins, were joined in Marriage the twenty seventh day of November Seventeen hundred and Eighty one.
The above is a true copy of the Record with the exception of the date which is expressed on the Record in fair, legible figures as follows 27 th Day of Nov r 1781-
John T. Blake, Town Clerk
I John T. Blake above named, depose and say: that I hold the Office in the County, town, and State aforesaid, and that the above is a true extract from the Records of said town, with the exception above named, as certified by me
John T. Blake Town Clerk of Kensington
me
Samuel Shaw Justice Peace
State of New Hampshire Secretary of States office
I hereby certify that the above named Samuel Shaw is a Justice of the Peace for the County of Rockingham duly qualified, his signature as such is genuine.
In testimony whereof I have this 25 th day of August Anno Domini 1838 hereunto caused the seal of the State to be affixed Jno. W. Pierce Deputy Secy

New Windsor November 26 th 1777
This may certify that Edward Lock of Capt. Leavitt's Company & Col. Drahm's Regiment is unfit for Duty he is therefore permitted to return home on furlow untill the last Day of Novemb: 77.
By Order of the Director General
Levi Dearborn Surg n to D o Regiment.

State of New-Hampshire.
County of Rockingham, ss.
ON this Ninth day of August AD 1832 personally appeared, in open Court, before the Justices of the Superior Court of judicature now sitting now sitting at Exeter in said County
Edward Lock a resident of Kensington in the County of Rockingham and State of New-Hampshire, aged Seventy one years, & upwards who being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on his oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the Act of Congress, passed June 7, 1832:
That he entered the service of the United States in the revolutionary war in the summer he believes in the month of June 1778 when he enlisted as a private in the Company commanded by Capt. Moses Leavitt. Lieut. James Sandborn & Ens. Redman Moreton in Col. Dickey's regiment of New Hampshire militia; that he was marched with said Company to Bensen's Creek & to Stillwater and Saratoga - was in the battles at the two last places, and guarded the prisoners from Saratoga to Albany, thence went to New Windsor and having taken the measles he received the furlough but it expired a very few days before the term of his enlistment expired & was at the expiration of said term dismissed; that this term was, as he believes, five months & he regularly served it out; that he was the youngest soldier in the regiment after the death of Henry Blake.
That in the summer of 1779 he again enlisted for two months in the Company commanded by Capt. Winthrop Rowe and was marched through Massachusetts to Rhode Island & was in Sullivan's Army on its retreat from the Island; that he served out his term of two months & was regularly dismissed; that Capt. Rowe's Company was a part of the N.H. militia but does not know in what regiment; that he has no documentary evidence other than the above furlough; that he resided at Kensington aforesaid when he entered the service & has ever since left the service resided there.
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity, except the present, and he declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any Agency in any State.
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
Edward Lock Attest Richard Clerk

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion that the above named Applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states
I Peter Chadwick Clerk of the Superior Court of Indiana for the County of Rockingham in the State aforesaid do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Edward Locke for a pension. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of said Court this ninth day of August Anno Domini 1832.
P. Chadwick Clerk of The Court Rockingham County
Edward Locke Esq. 1832
Edward Locke No 4-415

We Josiah T Blake Catharine Blake Elizabeth Shaw Martha Rowe.
of lawful age depose and say that we severally reside in the town of Kensington, County of Rockingham, and State of New Hampshire, and were present on the thirteenth day of August in the year of our Lord One thousand Eight hundred and thirty four, when Edward Locke of said Kensington departed this life, a petitioner. We further depose and say that Betty Locke Widow of said Edward Locke could not have been married without our knowledge therefore we say that the said widow has not been married since.
Josiah T. Blake Catharine Blake Elizabeth Shaw
her Martha Rowe mark
State of New Hampshire
Rockingham ss ) Kensington August 21 st A D 1838
Then personally the above named Josiah T Blake, Catharine Blake, Elizabeth Shaw and Martha Rowe and made solemn Oath that the above Deposition by them subscribed is true.
before me.
Samuel Shaw Justice of the Peace
I hereby certify that the above named Josiah T Blake, Catharine Blake, Elizabeth Shaw and Martha Rowe is entitled to full faith and credit for truth and veracity.
Samuel Shaw Justice of the Peace

I George W Prescott of Deerfield in the County of Rockingham and State of New Hampshire aged thirtyseven years and upwards testify and say that my Grandmother Betty Lock since the death of her late husband my Grandfather Edward Lock which deceased in August 1834 has resided principally in my father's family in Deerfield - and hath never been married again as I believe - I never have had an intimation that she was married or intended to be married since my Grandfather's death and am very sure that I should have heard of it had she been married or had there been a report or talk of her being married
George W Prescott
Rockingham ss August 30. A.D. 1838 Then said George W Prescott who I certify is a credible person and his estate is entitled to credit, made solemn oaths that the foregoing affi- davit by him subscribed is true Before me Josiah Butler Jus Peace
State of New Hampshire Rockingham ss.
I John Kelly Registry of the Court of Probate for said County do hereby certify that the aforesaid Josiah Butler Esq is a Justice of the Peace for said County and that the signature above purporting to be his is genuine. I also certify that Samuel Shaw Esq is a Justice of the Peace for said County, and that the signa- tures purporting to be his on the paper hereunto annexed being the affidavit of Josiah T. Blake and others, are in my belief genuine. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the Seal of said Court this thirtieth day of August A.D. 1838 John Kelly Registry of Probate

Application of Boltz Lock for a pavilion
2029
$23:33 per aw
Ira St Clair Deerfield N.H.

State of New Hampshire — Rockingham ss —
On this twenty ninth day of May, A.D. 1843, personally appeared before Israel St. Clair, Esquire, a justice of the Peace within and for the County of Rockingham aforesaid, Betty Lock, a resident of Deerfield in said County of Rockingham, aged eighty one 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 third day of March, 1843, granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War. That she is the widow of Edward Lock late of Harrington in said County of Rockingham, deceased, who was, according to the best of her knowledge and belief, a Soldier in the Army of the Revolution. That the annual amount of pension which she received under the act of July 7. 1838, was twenty three dollars and thirty three cents. She further declares that she is still declares that she is still a widow —
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year first above written —
Witness Israel St. Clair —
John B. Prescott
her Betty X Lock mark
State of New Hampshire —
Rockingham ss — May 29. 1843 — Personally appearing the above named Betty Lock, made solemn oath that the above affidavit by her subscribed, is in her belief, true —
Before me,
Israel St. Clair — Justice of the Peace —

I, Ira St. Clair, the Justice of the Peace within named, do hereby certify that the within named Betty Lock, the declarant, on the twenty ninth day of May in the year 1843, and for sometime previous, was personally known to me, and did personally appear and make oath as within certified, before me - This certificate being made by me, by direction of J. L. Edwards, of the first of September, 1843 -
State of New Hampshire, Rockingham ss - September, 6. 1843 -
Ira St. Clair, Justice of the Peace.
The last foregoing certificate was made by the undersigned at the date last above named, and since the date of the following certificate of the Secretary of State -
Ira St. Clair -

State of New Hampshire
Rockingham County ss
I Ira B. Herrick Clerk of the Judicial Courts in and for said County. certify that Ira St. Clair Esq who has subscribed his name to the annexed paper was on the sixth day of September Instant and still is, an acting justice of the peace duly commissioned and qualified; that his commission is dated on the 29th day of June A d 1843. and will expire on the 29th day of June A d 1848. and that his signature to the annexed paper is in his own hand writing and genuine.
In Testimony Whereof I have hereunto signed my name & affixed the seal of our Superior Court of Judicature this thirteenth day of September Anno Domini 1843.
I. B. Herrick Clerk.

State of New-Hampshire.
Office of Secretary of State.
I, Josiah Stevens, Jr., Secretary of the State aforesaid, do hereby certify, that Isaac Atkinson is an acting Justice of the Peace, in and for the County of Rockingham duly Commissioned and qualified. His Commission was dated on the twenty ninth day of June 1838 and will expire on the twenty ninth day of June 1843 and his signature to the annexed instrument is genuine.
Given under my hand and the Seal of said State, this seventh day of June 1843.
Josiah Stevens Jr. Secretary of State.

2029 Cruiser Pension
W.H.
Mar 3 rd 1843
Janet Blue Holly Leach,

Deerfield, County of Rockingham & State of New Hampshire, June 12. 1843 —
Hon. John C. Spencer, Secretary of War — Sir,
Enclosed are the applications of James Blue and Betty Ladd for pensions pursuant to the provisions of the act of the third of March, 1843 —
You will have the goodness to pass on the same and forward the certificates as soon as may be convenient —
With great respect, I am, Sir, your most ob st Serv t .
Ira St. Clair —

Dearfield N.H. 13 th Simon
Free
Hon. John C. Spencer, Secretary of War, (Pension Office,) Washington City. D. C.

Edward Lock R. M. H. Compt Agt. Ad June 7 $23 33 Due 13 th Aug 1834 p d to that period When paid NH A H B

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Recd
let. ma S r Clavis Sept. 1843
New Hampshire Betty Lock.
widow of Edward Lock , deceased who was a pensioner under the Act of June, 1832 and who died on the 13 August, 1834 — of Rockingham Co in the State of N. H. — who was a private in the Company — commanded by Captain Seavill of the Regt. commanded by Col. Sullivan in the N. H. Milia line for 7 Months —
Inscribed on the Roll of Portsmouth at the rate of 23 Dollars 33 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.
Certificate of Pension issued the 29th day of April 1839 and sent to John Kelley, Exeter, N.H.
Arrears to the 4th of Mar. '39 — $ 70.00 Semi-annual allowance ending 4 Sept — 11.66
$81.66
{ Act July 7, } 1838. }
Recorded by M c Neat Clerk Book A — Vol. 1 — Page 45 —

Rev WIDOW, &c.
File No. 16137
Betty Lock Widow of Edward Lock Pr. Rev. War
Act March 89/43
Index: Vol. A , Page 443
[Arrangement of 1870.]

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A. H. S. Edwards, Esquire,
Commissioner of Pensions, War Department, Washington City D. C.
True John H. Blair Dearfield N. H.
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Sept. 14. 1843—
Since writing that part of this communication under date of Sept. 6. 1843, I have obtained the certificate of the Clerk of the Courts in this County, that I am a Justice of the Peace, as appears by the enclosed papers—
Ina St. Clair
J. L. Edwards, Deputy—

Deerfield, Vt. September, 6, 1843
J. S. Edwards, Esq., Commissioner of Pensions - Sir,
Yours of the 1st. instant enclosing the applications of Betty Lock & Jennette Plue has been duly received -
I supposed that if the declarants personally appeared and made oath, the certificate of the justice of that fact would be sufficient without his stating they were personally known to him.
I have made certificates on the applications over the date of Sept. 6, 1843, although succeeding the Secretary's Certificate - You will see the facts stated as they exist - I did not know how to make the Certificate otherwise, unless I had been to the expense of procuring a new Certificate from the Secretary of State - the applicants are infirm, aged and needy, and I was unwilling to make them unnecessary expense - I am not certain that my cause is strictly regular - If the papers are now correct, you will forward the certificates - if not, please return the papers, and I will procure an additional certificate that I am a justice of the Peace, and that the signature is genuine -
With great respect, I remain
Your Obedient Servant,
Ira St. Clair -