Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 1683, for Charles Lock, Virginia

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Lock, Charles
S. 1683
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22084 West Tennessee
Charles Lock
When he in the State of Tennessee who was a private in the company by Captain Lock of the 20th by Col Eppes in the Regiment line for 9 months 22 days
Inscribed on the Roll of the  State at the rate of 31 Dollars 33 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 2 day of Sept (Oct) 1833 and Robert Benton Schaeffer
Arrears to the 4th of Sept 78.32 Pension allowance ending 4 March 15.66 $94.98
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by Dan Boyd Clerk Book 6 Vol. 7 Page 87

Rev. York
1683 ✓ INVALID
File No. 1683
Charles Locke Miss M. Lane
Act: June 7 1832
Index: —Vol. a , Page 226
[Arrangement of 1870.]

8 1.12
30 1.30
FREE
2 1/2 63 3/8
Charles Zachry a Philadelphia Pensioner
L. L. Edwards Esq. Pension Agent Washington City
2 1/2 53 3/8 Jenn
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Lebanon July 3- 1833
L. L. Edwards Esq.
Inclosed I send you
the original application of Charles Lock for a pension. You will please examine it with attention - as he is a very meritorious citizen there can be no doubt of the favorable action of the Department in his case - You will please let him know the result through me at Lebanon West Tennessee make his certificate possible at Nashville. - very Respectfully
Robert M. Burton

Declaration of Charles Lock in order to obtain the benefit of Congress — passed June 7th 1832
State of Tennessee } Wilson County }
On this 25 day of June 1833 personally appeared in Henry Hobbs and David Hobbs before Burchett Douglas, Deputy Clerk David Hobbs Justices of the Peace for the County of Wilson and lawfully empowered to hold said Court now sitting being a Court of record) — Charles Lock a resident of the County of Wilson in said State of Tennessee in the eighty first year of his age having been born according to the family register on the 19th day of December 1752 who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on his oath make the follow- ing declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed the 7th of June 1832 — that he entered the service of the United States in the year 1774 as well as he now recollects in the month of June — he volunteered in the militia raised in Amelie County in the State of Virginia in the company commanded by Capt John Wynne — they rendezvoused at a place called the Bitterwood Springs in the same County — and marched from there to Petersburg where his company was placed under the command of Colo Richard Eppes the other officers then in command from the failure of his memory he does not now recollect

from Petersburg the went by water to James town in Virginia where they landed and marched to Williams burg and were placed under the command of Genl. Nelson who then resided at or near Little Book he remained at Williamsburg centre he was discharged - the object of the troops being stationed at Williamsburg was to defend the town from the probable incursion of Gov. Dunmore and the British Army as Portsmouth had been totally burnt - applicant served in this town three months . In the in the month of July 1775 Declant volunteered for twelve months as a minute man in a company raised by Captains Lovelace Jones and Wood Jones, Lieutants and William Greenhill ensign in the militia raised in Amelia County in the State of Virginia - we held ourselves in constant readiness to march at a moments warning - he was not called into actual service centre the month of October 1775 in that month he marched with his company to the foot of Willis Mountain to a place called Goode, which is at the head of a pponiter river in the State of Virginia they were stationed there for three months - and the object of retaining his company at that place was to cut off the com- munication between the Indians from above and the British on the Sea board - after remaining there for three months Declant was discharged he was not in actual service but three months out of the twelve months for which he volunteered but he held himself in constant readiness to be called on at any moment and he is advised that he has

a right to consider the whole twelve months - as so much service and to claim a pension for the same - it is here submitted to the Department whether he is entitled to a pension for the twelve months or for the time actually served - at the time declared here as a minute man he belonged to the Regiment under the command of Colo Paul Barrington and John James as Major - in the year 1776 - declared substituted in the place of Laurence Gibson in the company commanded by Captain Richard Harwell. Senior Rousell Lieutenant, and John Tucker Ensign in the militia raised in Sussex County in the State of Virginia - they rendezvoused at Williamsburg and were placed under the command of Genl Nelson to be prepared to meet the British Army that were expected to land and invade the country he served two months and was discharged - in the month of September 1777 he substituted himself in the place of one John Jacob Thomas  et al  et al in the company of militia raised by Captain John Fullkins Hunt in Sussex County Virginia - they rendezvoused at Williamsburg - and and marched from there to Little Fork and were placed under the command of Genl Nelson there they were detained until discharged having served three months the object of their service at Little Fork was to prevent the landing of the British Army and to prevent the destruction of property - in the year 1780 he served a tour of duty under Capt Green Hill in the militia raised in Sussex County Virginia - John Ties Lieutenant John Freeman Ensign they were stationed at Cabin Point on James River under the command of Genl Nelson - there he remained six weeks and was discharged having obtained a furlough for the balance of

his term of three months - he has no documentary evidence of his service and he knows of no person whose testimony he can produce as to his service Shahan Tague and John Bonner knew him in the State of Virginia and knew that he was reputed a soldier of the Revolutionary War. But Dora says that Rev Thomas Calhoun, Michael Berger and Robert Sims can testify as to his character for truth - his whole time of actual service was twelve months - and a half in closing the whole term of service of a minute man twenty one months and a half - he knows of no person that he can procure to testify as to his service, none living in his present neighborhood - he has except that John Jones of Lynchburg never is entitled to any 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 - he don't know when called into service in the State of Virginia he now lives in Wilson County Tennessee. I know to a certainty that
Charles Lockhart in open court June 25th 1833
Isaac M'Blain Clerk of said county court
John Bonner a citizen of Wilson County and 69 years says he resided in Sussex County in Virginia when the applicant Charles Lockhart lived - he was always reputed in his neighborhood and believed to be a soldier of the revolution. Applicant has often heard his uncle Henry Bonner say that he and applicant used to be together in the revolutionary war - applicant has always sustained a high character for truth and he has before doubt

he read as stated in his declaration, Abraham Vaughn has known the applicant Charles Lock for forty five years - he had talk to him soon after the breaking up of the war he knows he was a soldier of the revolution they lived in the same county at that time he has always been reputed to be a soldier of the revolution in the neighborhood in which he has resided within 10 in his seventieth year - Charles Lock has always sustained a high character for truth and witness has no doubt he read as stated in his declaration - John Jones a clergyman residing in Wilson County hereby certifies that he is well acquainted with the applicant Charles Lock - and that from to and subsequent the 15th of June 1832
he is reputed and believed in his neighborhood to be a soldier of the revolution and that he concurs in that opinion
Sworn to in open court
27th June 1832
W. H. Glavin Clerk
sworn John Bonner
sworn Abram Vaughan
sworn John Jones
And the said court do declare their opinion and that after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories pro- - posed by the War Department, that the above named applicant Charles Lock was a Revolutionary soldier and served as he states. And the court further certifies that it appears to them that John Jones who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman residing in Wilson County, and that John Bonner & Abram Vaughan who has also signed the same reside in said Wilson County, and are all credible persons, and that their statements are entitled to credit.
H. Hoback R. H. H. H. H. B. Dore

I Joseph M c Clain Clerk of the Court of Pleas and quarter sessions for the County of Wilson in the State of Tennessee hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of said Court, in the matter of the application of Charles Locke for a pension
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 2nd day of July 1853
J. M c Clain
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Charles Locke Wilson 6 Tennessee
from 1775 private 19 m. 12 days $31.33 \frac{33}{100}
first term before reorgan- ized by Genl. Smith out of Knoxville Tennessee.
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