Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 38152, for William Lockard, Virginia

SERVICE
NUMBER
Lockard, William
S 38152
CONTENTS

Duplicate certificate issued and sent to Lucas P. Thompson Esq. New Glasgow, Va. 27 June 1821.
Notification sent to Lucas P. Thompson Esq. 1821 to New Glasgow, Va.
12.540 R Virginia.
William Lockhard Amhurst Co. in the state of Virginia who was a Private in the regiment commanded by Col. Wm. Washington of the Virginia Key Stone Battery, for the term of 3 years - War -
scribed on the Roll of Virginia the rate of Eight Dollars per month, to commence on 29 th of Sept: 1810
Certificate of Pension issued the 21 st of July 1819 - and sent to Arch d Stewart, Esq. Lexington, Virginia.
Years to 4th of March 1819 - 5 2 / 3 41. 56 Semi-ann. all'ce ending 4 Sept: 1819 - 40. 00 $89.56
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Continued Amhurst County.

Virginia
Amherst County.
This day William Lockard personally appeared before me Archibald Stewart one of the Judges of the General Court of Virginia the same being a Court of record, and made oath that he enlisted under Captain Call as a regular soldier in the late Revolutionary war about the year 1778, and that he served in the said war in the Corps of Cavalry commanded by Col o William Washington from the date aforesaid until the year 1783 when he was honorably discharged. That he is now a resident citizen of the United States and that by reason of his reduced circumstances in life, he stands in need of assistance from his country for support. That he is upwards of 68 years of age, & that he was in the battles of Charleston, at the Capture of York, and a battle on the river of Suckabee in South Carolina.
Sworn 29 th Sept r
Arch d Stewart
And it appearing to my satisfaction as well from the oath of the said William Lockard as from the affidavit of Philip Lockard and the certificate of Patrick Rose, that the said William Lockard served in the Revolutionary war as stated by him on oath I do hereby certify & transmit the testimony in this case to the Secretary of
Arch d Stewart

The Department of War according to the provisions contained in an act of Congress entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War." Given under my hand this 29 th day of September 1818.
Arch d Stuart
Wm Lockard - Paris
Col. Wm Washington Regt. of Horse
1770 - to 1783 -
29 th Sept. 1818.
L. 15.
Wm Lockard He has received the amount of their respective parts - Wm Washington 1770 - 1783 1770 - 1783 1770 - 1783
Admitted
Make copies of the original and send one copy of the original and one copy of the original and one copy of the
Col. J. Stuart, Esq. Deputy for U.S.

Amherst County to wit:
On this 14 th day of January 1821 personally appear in open court William Lockhard a resident citizen of the County of Amherst, State of Virginia, aged seventy years who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the acts of Congress of the 18 th March 1818 and of the first of May 1820: That he the said Lockhard enlisted for the term of Eighteen months about the year 1779 in Amherst County in the State of Virginia in the Company commanded by Captain Carr in the regiment commanded by Colonel Paylor in the line of the State of Virginia on Continental Establishment. That he continued to serve in the said Corps until about 1781 when he enlisted in a company of Cavalry commanded by Capt George Bowyer at Buckingham Court house and State of Virginia Regiment commanded by Col. William Washington & afterwards by Col. Jones. That he enlisted in the said last mentioned Company and Regiment during the war, That he served therein until about the year 1783 when he was regularly discharged at Nelson's Ferry on Santee in the State of South Carolina - That he the said Lockhard was in the battle of Charleston & at the taking of Cornwallis at Yorktown in the State of Virginia besides several minor engagements, and that he has no evidence of said service in his power except those heretofore forwarded to the war department.
And in pursuance of the act of Congress of the 1 st May 1820 I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18 th day of March 1818 and that I have not since that time by gift sale or in any manner disposed of my property or any part thereof with intent thereby to so diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress entitled "an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land & naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war" passed on the 18 th March 1818 and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property or securities contracts

or debts due to me; Nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed! And the said William Lockard declares he is a shoemaker and is quite too aged and infirm to support himself by his trade. That the family at present with him is a wife about 61 years of age, who is also unable to do much towards her support. That he has no children living with him and that he and his wife are and have long been dependent upon the charity of their married children for a scanty support.
William his Lockard made
Schedule of property owned by William Lockard the above declarant
  One Bed  $10    One Sow & Pigs  5    Four Split-bottom chairs  1.50    One peaple table and a few articles of Vash furniture of little or no value  3.50     $20.00  
Teste L. B. Thompson
William his Lockard made
Amherst County January Court 1820. Sworn to in Court according to law
Teste - William D. Davis, Clerk
Virginia to wit: I Arthur B. Davis clerk of the county court of Amherst do hereby certify that the foregoing declaration and schedule have been duly copied from the papers and records filed in my office & I do hereby further certify that it is the opinion of the court that the property specified in the said
Schedule

Schedule is worth the sum of Twenty Dollars -
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused to be affixed the seal of my office the 10 th day of January 1821 and in the 45 th year of the Commonwealth
William B. Davis, Rec.
Virginia to wit
I Tho. Aldridge presiding justice named in the commission of the peace for the county of Amherst, do hereby certify that the foregoing Certificate and attestation of Arthur B Davis Clerk of the County Court of Amherst to which he has affixed the seal of his office have been done agreeably to the laws and usages of this Commonwealth and that full faith and credit are due thereto in any of the United States of America. Given under my hand and seal this 6 th day of January 1821 and in the 45 th year of the Commonwealth
Tho. Aldridge (Seal)

John Spitzfathom certifies upon his oath - That he served in the Revolutionary war in the South Virginia Regiment. That during that time he was personally acquainted with William Lockard. That he knows from his own personal knowledge that the said Lockard was a regular soldier in the revolutionary war, in the line of Virginia on Continental establishment. That he & the said Lockard did not belong to the same Corps or Company. That in the lapse of time he, Spitzfathom, has now forgotten to what particular Company or Corps the said Lockard was attached. but confidently believes that he belonged to Col. Baylon Corps of Cavalry - but of this he is certain that the said Lockard served more than nine months in Contimance in the Virginia line on Continental establishment - John Spitzfathom
William Allen certifies upon oath that he was acquainted with William Lockard before & after the revolutionary war. That he knows of his own knowledge that the said Lockard enlisted in the Virginia line on Continental establishment - That he served several years in the said engagement of service - But he does not know to what particular Company or Regiment he the said Lockard belonged - William Allen
John Fortune certifies upon his oath that he was acquainted with William Lockard during the revolutionary war. That he knows from his own personal knowledge that the said Lockard served about two years in Col. Baylon troops of Cavalry in the Virginia line on Continental establishment. That

the said Lockard first belonged to another Regiment of Cavalry. Commanded as well as this deponent recollects by Col Washington - but which for some cause was afterwards cut down & joined to the 1 st Corps a troop of Col Baylor in which the said Lockard as above stated served to the personal knowledge of this deponent at least two years in Continental John Fortune
Nelson County Court:
This day personally appeared before me a justice of the peace for the aforesaid County. John Spitzfathom, William Allen & John Fortune who being first duly sworn according to law say upon their oaths that their foregoing certificates are true to the best of their knowledge & belief. And I do hereby certify that the said John Spitzfathom, William Allen & John Fortune are men of truth & that full faith & credit ought to be given to whatever they would assert upon oath - Given under my hand this 21 st day of October 1820. Re. J. H. Kincaid
Virginia, Nelson County Court:
I do hereby certify that Robert J. Kincaid whose name is subscribed to the above certificate is and was at the time of executing the same an acting Magistrate in the Commission of the peace for the County aforesaid & that due faith and credit ought to be given to the same In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my name as Clerk of the Court of the said County and annexed the seal of my office this 21 st day of October 1820. Spotswood Garland, Clerk of Nelson County

New Hanover October 25. 1820
Sir.
I return you inclosed the declaration of William Lockard with the certificates your department specified as being necessary if they should not be considered sufficient evidence of Service. I believe it will be out of the old means power to furnish it: for although to my own knowledge there are a great many of the most respectable old men in this district of country who are willing to certify as to their belief of his having served, the three whose certificates are enclosed (together with one in an adjacent county where certificate it was, not in our power to obtain) are the only persons that he knows of now living who were eye witnesses of his enlistment, discharge & service & who can therefore speak with that kind of certainty your department seems to require from your note. Two of these speak as explicitly as it is possible having served in the same army - one of them (Fortune having served part of the time in the same company the other (Spitzfathom formerly a pensioner, though in a different company or Regiment in the same army) whose testimony although his memory does not enable to say positively & specifically as to the Regiment in which the declarant served I should think would satisfy the requisites of the law - There is not the slightest doubt entertained in this part of the country of the old man's having served for I have conversed with many of his contemporaries now living who know of his departure for the service (under an report said an engagement of service by enlistment for they were not eye witnesses to the enlistment), his long absence in that service, his return, the report said his discharge from that service - There could be no scene of certificates had to this amount - you say his name is found on the infantry rolls he speaks of having served a short time in an engagement of service in an infantry company - but his principal service was in the Cavalry - commanded by Col. Bayle - If his name should not be found there it may probably be accounted for by a circumstance alluded to in Fortune's certificate - viz his first having enlisted in another troop the declarant believes they spoke of of two troops in one - The declarant is very old & has a very confused recollection of events so long past and to that source very well may be

attributed any little misstatement in his relation - I must request you will have the roll again examined for I think it very probable upon strict scrutiny his name will be found there - I should have sent an certificate with the declaration before but understood from our District judge whose duty it was, & who had sent on the declaration of the present applicant under the former law that the department were satisfied as to the question of service - And that the only objection then was a mere formal one to the declaration &c
Respectfully
Lucas P. Thompson

And he went bound to wit.
On this 15 th day of June 1821, before me a the subscriber a justice of the Peace for the said County of Hampshire personally appeared Lucas P. Thompson who on his oath declares that he as agent or attorney for William Lockard did as well as he remembers forward to the secretary at war a pension certificate of the said Lockard under cover of a letter bearing date as well as he remembers on the 15 th March 1821. That he heard nothing more from the department on the subject until some time in May last when he received a letter dated the 4 th May 1821 and covering and referring to the duplicate of a letter of the 23 rd March 1821 which purports to be an answer to my letter of the 15 th March above alluded to. in which the writer J. L. Edwards mentions that the said certificate forwarded by my letter of the 15 th March is returned together with a letter of continuance: And the said Thompson declares that he never has rec d the said certificate or letter of continuance and verily believes that the letter covering them fell a prey to the degradation of the mail carries on this route
Lucas P. Thompson
Sworn & Subscribed to before me the day & year aforesaid
Edm d Penn

Virginia Amherst County to wit:
I Arthur B Davies, clerk of the County Court of Amherst do hereby certify that Edmund Penn whose name is subscribed to the foregoing certificate is a justice of the Peace for the said County and that to all his official acts as justice of the Peace aforesaid full faith & credit should be given in any of the United States or else where
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of my office this 16 th day of June Eighteen hundred & twenty one and in the 45 th year of the Commonwealth -
Arthur B. Davies Clk
Amherst County vis
I David S. Garland
presiding Justice named in the Commission of the peace for the County aforesaid do hereby certify that Arthur B Davies whose name is subscribed to the foregoing certificate is the clerk of the County Court of Amherst and that to all his official acts full faith and credit should be given in any of the United States or else where. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed my seal this 16 th day of June Eighteen hundred & twenty one and in the 45 th year of the Commonwealth -
David S. Garland

Amherst County Court:
This Day personally appeared before me a justice of the peace for the county aforesaid William Lockard who being first duly sworn states that he filed his declaration and qualified to the same before Judge Archibald Stuart - Judge of the Superior Court of Law in the Eighth Circuit in the county of Amherst being one of the Counties composing the said Circuit. That being informed the sd Judge would forward the sd declaration and procure a pension warrant for the sd deponent he the sd deponent took no further steps in the business until the month of August 1820. when being informed the law was changed on the subject of revolutionary claims he repaired to Staunton the residence of the sd Judge and enquired of him what had been done with his papers so as above placed in his hands. and the sd deponent states upon his oath that the said Judge informed him, that he had forwarded the sd papers to the Department of War and that they had never been returned to him the said Judge. And the sd Lockard upon his oath states that the above declaration was filed with & qualified to before the said Judge and was dated between the 20 th & 30 th of April Eighteen hundred and nineteen. That after the interview above named with the sd Judge he the sd Lockard forwarded the declaration (his last) now before the Department as

As Witness my hand Seal this 23 rd day of January - Eighteen hundred & twenty one -
John Coleman
Virginia. Amherst County Court:
I Arthur B Davies Clerk of the County Court of Amherst do hereby certify that John Coleman whose name is subscribed to the foregoing affidavit is one of the Commonwealth justices named in the commission of the peace for the County aforesaid and that to all his acts in such official character full faith and credit are due in any of the due in any of the united States.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my hand & affixed the Seal of my office in this 26 th day of January Eighteen hundred & twenty one and in the 45 th year of the Commonwealth.
Arthur B Davies

State of Virginia & Application for a new certificate County of Amherst ss
On this 15 th day of June 1821; before me the subscriber a Justice of the peace for the said County of Amherst personally appeared William Lockard who on his oath declares that he is the same person who formerly belonged to the Company Commanded by Captain George Dayer in the Regiment Commanded by Col. William Washington and afterwards Col. George Baylor in the service of the United States; that his name was placed on the pension roll of the state of Virginia. that he received a certificate of that fact under the signature & seal of the Secretary of War. which certificate was transmitted to the War Department on the 15 th March 1821 by the attorney of the said Lockard for the purpose of having his name placed on the pension roll in pursuance of the act of Congress of the 1 st May 1820. That he is informed by his attorney who was so advised by the war department. that his name was placed on the pension roll & that the said certificate together with a letter of Continuance were inclosed in a letter to his said attorney from the Secretary at war bearing date the 23 March 1821. That the said Lockard has never received the said pension warrant nor letter of Continuance and is informed by his said attorney & verily believes that the letter of the 23 March containing them never came to hand but miscarried in the transmission and as this declarant verily believes fell

a prey to the depredations of the Mail Carrier on the route from Charlottesville to Lynchburg passing by New Glasgow.
William H Lockhart
Sworn & Subscribed to before me the day and year aforesaid
Edm d Penn
Virginia Amherst County to wit:
I Arthur B Davies, clerk of the County Court of Amherst do hereby certify that Edmund Penn whose name is subscribed to the foregoing certificate is a justice of the peace for the said County and that to all his official acts as justice of the peace aforesaid full faith & credit should be given in any of the United States or elsewhere -
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of my office this 16 th day of June Eighteen hundred Twenty one in the 45 th year of the Commonwealth.
Arthur B Davies, Ck

Amherst County Court
I David S. Garland, presiding Justice named in the commission of the peace for the County aforesaid do hereby certify that Arthur P. Davies, whose name is subscribed to the foregoing certificate is the clerk of the County Court of Amherst and that to all his official acts full faith & credit should be given in any of the United States or elsewhere. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed my seal this 16 th day of June Eighteen hundred Twenty one and in the 45 th year of the Commonwealth.
David S. Garland

The residence of the applicant should be stated in his declaration.
The applicant will forward his original declaration (if he should have made one previous to that now returned) or the judge before whom it was made will certify as to the date thereof.

New Glasgow June 26 th 1821
Sir, Inclosed is the amended declaration of Mr. Lockard (Shahen) his residence as required - The within affidavit of the declarant it is presumed will answer the same purpose as the old declaration on the judge's certificate of its date, written for - The judge lives some distance from here and it would require sometime for him to communicate with him on the subject - The applicant swears that the date of his original declaration was between the 20 th & 30 th of April 1819. That the judge informed him last summer the papers were never returned - I hope from your last note that the object in requiring the date is to make the warrant bear date on the same day by which thereby according to the applicant's amendment - Under that impression I conserving that the 4 th of March is near at hand and might elapse before the certificate of the judge could be had if at all I prefer forwarding the within affidavit believing it would answer precisely the same purpose and that upon it the department would issue a warrant immediately in order to let the applicant come in at the next draught

The 4 th March next.
Very Respectfully
Lucas P. Thompson

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William Lockard
Dr. Geo. Ward
Act: 18 th March 18 th
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[Arrangement of 1870.]

Amherst County. State of Virginia
This day Anderson Mayo personally appeared before me a justice of the peace for the said County & made oath that he is well acquainted with William Lockhard of the County of Amherst and that he owns no property of any kind whatever & that from his age he considers that he needs the assistance of his country for support - Given under my hand this 27 th day of April 1819.
Thos. Brown

Virginia. To wit
On this 27 th day of April 1879 before me the subscriber one of the Judges of the General Court for the State of Virginia personally appeared William Lockhard aged 69 years & resident in the County of Henrico, who being by me first duly sworn according to law, doth, on his oath, make the following Declaration in order to obtain the pension made by the late act of Congress entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land & naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war"; That he the said William Lockhard enlisted for the term of the continuance of the war on the _____ day of _____ about the year 1778 under Captain Bell & that afterwards he was transferred to the Corps of Cavalry commanded by Col o . William Washington.
That he continued to serve in the said Corps, in the service of the United States until the year 1783 when he was honorably discharged from service in the
Richmond State of Virginia
and that he is in reduced circumstances, and stands in need of the assistance of his Country for support. That except the affidavit of Philip Lockhard & certificate of Col o . Patrick Rose, he has other evidence now in his power of his said services. Sworn to and declared before me the day & year aforesaid.
Arch d Stewart
I Archibald Stewart one of the Judges of the General

Court for the State of Virginia as aforesaid do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said William Lockhart did serve in the revolutionary war as stated in the preceding Declaration against the common enemy for the term of nine months at one time in the Corps of Cavalry commanded by Col o .
W m Washington; and I now transmit the proceedings and Testimony taken & had before me, to the Secretary to the Department of War, pursuant to the directions of the aforementioned act of Congress - I am also satisfied that he needs the assistance of his country for support.
Arch d Stuart

Amherst County to wit
Philip Lockard personally appeared before me a justice of the peace for the county aforesaid and made oath that William Lockard served as a regular soldier in the American army in the Regiment of horse commanded by Col. Wm Washington (during) the revolutionary war - Given under my hand this 9 th day of September 1818
I do hereby certify that W m Lockard served under Col W m Washington in his Regiment of Horse, I do not now remember how long, and that he was honorably discharged
Patrick Rose at that time
Lt Colo. of the Lower Regt of Amherst.