Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 4408, Robert Hackney, Va.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Va.
Heackney, Robert
P. 4408
CONTENTS

Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873.
4408
REJECTED
P. O.
Robert Hackney
Service: _____
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract.
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18

Robert Hackney
Ga
Bus. W. D. G. (attorney)
June 27 1938
Hon. W. C. Dawson 8 Jan '39
Ad. June 7 19

Robt. H. Mackay
FREE
Edwards Esq. Commissioner of Pensions Washington City D.C.

Washington Geo. June 17. 1838
Sir -
Herewith you have the application of Robert Hackney. The certificate of those testifying his reputation as a revolutionary soldier differs a little from that prescribed by form inasmuch as one of them is not a clergyman. The reason of which there is no clergyman residing in the immediate vicinity. The papers relative to the application of Branham have been received. I will endeavor to have the omissions rectified.
Respectfully yours D. L. Cottingham
To J. L. Edwards Esq. Court of Pensions Washington

Declaration
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832
Georgia Wilkes County
On this fifth day of June 1833 personally appeared in open Court before the Superior Court of said County sitting for Ordinary purposes Robert Hackney a resident of said County of Wilkes and State of Georgia aged Seventy eight years, 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 Congress passed June 7 th 1832.
That he enlisted as a volunteer in the Third Virginia Regiment in the first part of June 1776 at the town of Port Royal in Caroline County in Virginia - The company in which served as private untill 1777 when he was promoted to the rank of Sergeant, in which office he continued untill discharged) was commanded by Captain Samuel Rawes who died in 1777 and then Captain Thomas Naylor took the command The name of the Colonel was as he says Matthews (or Mattheus) & the name of the General was Thomas Nelson.
That he was discharged from the service in the year 1781 but does not recollect the precise day on which he was discharged but it was soon after the siege of Yorktown & he thinks it was about the 27 th of October.

That he was at a battle at old James- town on James River serving under the Command of Captain Thomas Waylor and General La Fayette
That he was at a skirmish at Dabney's Mill while on a retreat from Williamsburg in which retreat he passed through Spotsylvania County near the town of Fredericksburg through Orange into Culpepper County
That he was at the siege of Yorktown and was one of those who guarded prisoners taken at that place thence to the Rac- oon ford on Rapidan River
That he has no documentary evidence to enforce his claim such evidence having been left in Virginia when he removed to Georgia and he knows of no person who can testify to his service
He hereby relinquishes every claim to a pension or annuity except the present and 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 — Robert Hackney
We Daniel Lee and Gertrude Petet residing in the county of Wilkes hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Robert Hackney who has subscribed & sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be seventy eight years of age, that he is respected and beloved in the neigh- borhood where he resides to have been a soldier in the Revolution & we concur in the opinion — Sworn to & subscribed day & year aforesaid Daniel Lee Gertrude Petet

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after investigation of the matter and after putting the interrog- atories prescribed by the War Department that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier and served as the states and the Court further state that it appears to them that Daniel Lee and Euneth Petet who have signed the preceding certificate are residents of county of Wilkes and are credible persons & that their statement is entitled to credit.
Lewis L. Brown M.C. William Killgore S.D.C. Thos. Anderson S.D.C. William Poole S.D.C.
Georgia I John N. Dyson clerk of the Wilkes County Court of Ordinary in for said County do hereby certify that the foregoing containing the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Robert Hackney for a pension -
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 18 th day of June 1838.
John N. Dyson clk COM

Rev. Pension Claim
Act of June 7. 1832
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Robt. Hackney's heirs
(Sci.)
Power of Atty.
Chas. Tucker.
Atty.
Present.

Power of Attorney.
Know all men by these presents, that I James T. Hackney of the County of Wilkes and State of Georgia do hereby irrevocably constitute and appoint CHAS. C. TUCKER , of Washington City, D. C. my true and lawful Agent and Attorney to prosecute the Claim of Robert Hackney for any amount of Revolutionary Pension or increase of Pension that may be due under the provisions of the Act of June 7. 1832 or any other Act or Resolution of Congress, and I hereby authorize him said Attorney to examine all papers and documents in relation to said Claim on file in the Departments at Washington City, or elsewhere, to file additional evidence or arguments, and to receive the Certificate which may be issued for said Claim, and to appoint one or more substitutes under him for the purposes herein expressed: and to do all things that I might or could do, were I personally present. Hereby ratifying and confirming all that my said Attorney may lawfully do in the premises.
Witness my hand and seal this The 27 day of December 1852
In presence of Lucius G. Gathell } James T. Hackney George Bailey
STATE OF Georgia Wilkes COUNTY—ss.
On this 27 th day of December 1852 , before me a Justice of the Inferior Court in and for the County and State above mentioned personally appeared James T. Hackney of the said State & County and acknowledged the foregoing power of Attorney to be his act and deed for the purposes therein mentioned.
Lewis S Brown J.P.
STATE OF Georgia } ss. Wilkes COUNTY.
On this The 27 day of December 1852 , before me the undersigned a Justice of the Inferior Court in and for the County and State aforesaid, personally appeared James T. Hackney a resident of said County, and made oath according to law that he is the identical James T. Hackney who executed the foregoing power of Attorney, and that he is directly interested in said Claim, and makes this affidavit to be filed with such additional evidence or arguments as my said Attorney may use in prosecuting said Claim.
James T. Hackney
Sworn to and subscribed before me the day and year above written.
Lewis S Brown J.P.
STATE OF Georgia } COUNTY OF Wilkes }
I Royland Beasley Clerk of the Inferior Court of said County do hereby certify that Lewis S Brown Esq., before whom the foregoing affidavit and acknowledgment were made and who has thereunto signed his name, was at the time of so doing a Justice of the Inferior Court of the Peace , in and for the County and State aforesaid, duly commissioned and sworn, and that all his official acts as such are entitled to full faith and credit.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto signed my name and affixed my official seal this 27 th day of December 1852
Royland Beasley Clk 26