Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 4989, Harris Hicks, N.C.

SERVICE
NUMBER
N.C.
Hicks, Harris
N. 4989
Temperance
CONTENTS

North Carolina
Temperance Hicks of Halifax widow of Harris Hicks, deceased
who was a pensioner under the Act of 7 June 1832 and who died on the 31 August 1836, of Halifax in the State of N Carolina who was a private in the company commanded by Captain Farrar of the reg t commanded by Col — in the N. Carolina line for 2 years.
J. H. Haper
J. M. Stevens
Sep 24
Inscribed on the Roll of N. Carolina at the rate of 80 Dollars per ann per ann to commence on the 1st day of Sep r 1836.
Certificate of Pension issued the 22 d day of Oct r 1838, & sent to R. H. Mosby, Br. q r . now present.
Arrears to the 4th of Sept r 1838 $159.30 Semi-annual allowance ending 4 Mar ch 38 40.00
$199.30
{ Act July 10
recorded by D. M. C. A. Vol. 2

23.966. for the Carolina
Ofanis Oficles of Frawies in the State of Ma who was a Pr. — in the Ryr commanded by Captain Laran of the — commanded by — in the M. an: line for 2 years.
certificatly yours to Anderson. I at Chaff Guardian.
Inscribed on the Roll of N. Carolina. at the rate of 80—Dollars _____ Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1834.
Certificate of Pension issued the 14 th day of May 3 rd . Hawkins - H. R. and Sub Hon: J. P.
{ Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by E. M. Vice Clerk, Book E Vol. 6 Page 58 .

POWER OF ATTORNEY,
FROM
TO
R. H. Gallaher.
Filed: ..... 185  BY  R. H. Gallaher,  Attorney.
Copyrighted by John S. Gallaher, Jr.
Murphy & Co. Printers & Stationers, 175 Market St., Balt.
Mr. Hicks

Wm Hicks
Copyrighted by John S. Gollner, Jr. Attorney: R. H. Gollner, BY Filed. 185
R. H. Gollner. TO
FROM POWER OF ATTORNEY.

POWER OF ATTORNEY.
Know all Men by these Presents,
That I William Hicks, H er of Harris H er ks a resident of of the County of Washington and State of Virginia do hereby select, ordain, constitute and irrevocably appoint, with power of substitution, John M c Stearns Attorney of Abingdon Virginia My true and lawful Agent and Attorney, for Me and in My name, place, and stead; to examine into, enter, prosecute, file and defend; before the proper Department of Government, or other Tribunal; any claim, or suit, in My behalf, or in which I may be legally interested; by virtue of My Claim for Arrear of pension due the H er of Harris Hicks a pensioner in the state of North Carolina, in right of pension due the M er from the 4 th day of March 1836 to the 29 th day of Septer 1848.
Further empowering My said Agent and Attorney, or his substitute, to apply for, and receive, any Money, Bounty Land or Bounties, Pension Claims or Claims, or other Dues, of any kind whatsoever, that may be found to be due Me for said pension in right of the Widow of Harris Hicks, viz My Mother Impence Hicks who died On the 29 th day of Septer 1848.
And further empowering My said Agent and Attorney, and authorizing him to receipt therefor, and give full and free acquittance thereof, in his name, as My Agent and Attorney in fact, but all for My benefit and behoof. Hereby ratifying and confirming whatsoever My said Agent and Attorney may lawfully do, or cause to be done, as in these premises specified; and, as though I were present personally, and acting for Myself. Binding My heirs, legal representatives and assigns to comply with, and fully carry out and complete any obligation, contract, or agreement, that is, or may be made between Me and My said Agent or Attorney, his legal representatives, heirs or assigns.
Signed, Sealed, and Acknowledged in presence of
A, C ms Scott mark J. A. Brownlow
In Virtue whereof, I do hereunto affix My Hand and Seal, this 26 th day of July 1853
Witness, W m Hicks *** * L. S. * ***

State of Virginia
County of Washington
On this 26 th day of July One Thousand Eight Hundred and Fifty three before me, John N. Hurnes Justice of the peace in and for said County and State, duly authorized by law to administer oaths, personally appeared William Hicks a resident of said County the identical person whose name is attached to the annexed Power of Attorney, and being duly questioned, acknowledged the same to be his free act and deed, as specified.
In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed my name, the day and year last above mentioned.
John N. Hurnes
State of
County of
Virginia
Washington
I, Jacob Lynch Clerk of the County Court, in and for the County and State aforesaid, do hereby certify, that John N. Hurnes whose genuine signature appears to the foregoing affidavit, is, and was, at the time of signing the same, a justice of the peace in and for the County and State aforesaid, duly commissioned and sworn; that all his official acts as such, are entitled to full faith and credit; and that the aforesaid County Court is a Court of Record having general jurisdiction.
Given under my hand and the Seal of my Office, at Abingdon this first day of August A. D. 1853
Jacob Lynch Clerk.

Thorns Hicks
N. 20.522.
- 1st Class
New
admitted
2 years
17 d. 14
S. O'Brien
Hon. J. Hawkins HR

North Carolina } Court of Pleas & Quarter Granville County } Sessions, May Term 1834
The undersigned, Justices of the Court of the Court aforesaid, now sitting, after duly examining the annexed evidence & proofs of the services of Harris Hicks as a private in the army of the revolution give it as our opinion that he served as stated by the several witnesses whose affidavits are herunto appended & that he served for the space of two years & nine months besides a tour in the cavalry one tour . The duration of which is not stated & we therefore have that to be ascertained by the Department — We also give it as our opinion that said applicant was wounded as stated while in the service of his country — We also give it as our opinion that he is the identical person named in the preceding affidavits for whom Anderson Paschall has been duly appointed guardian as appears by the subjoined certificate of Benjamin Stillwell Clerk of our court aforesaid.
Given under our hands & seals in open court this 7th May 1834.
Jas M. Muggins J t Seal Ebenezer Smith J t Seal D. P. Paschall J t Seal

State of North Carolina Granville County
I Benjamin Pettibone Clerk of the Court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions for the County of Shelby do hereby certify that the foregoing proceedings were had in Open Court at this May Court A.D. 1834 & were under my hand and seal up of office at affix in Oxford the 7th May 1834
Benj a Pettibone Clerk

State of North Carolina } Court of Pleas and 1 Granville County } Quarters Sessions 3 August Term AD. 1832.
William Hargrove becaey a Resident of the County of State aforesaid, came into open Court and being duly sworn, according to Law and upon his oath Testifies & declares that Harris Hild a man about his own age or perhaps a little younger was a Soldier of the Revolution, and a Private in the Expedition to Rapt Swamp in the Summer of 1787 - and that he left him on duty when he this affiant obtained leave to visit the Service & come home on account of sickness - That none of the Soldiers from this County of which Harris Hicks was one, was for three months on this Expedition - subscribed & sworn to 11 th August 1832
Wm H. Hargrove
subscribed & sworn to in open Court before the undersigned Member holding said Court 11 th August 1832 - putting our hands -
Wm D. Bond C.W. R. Bullock W.P. Thos Miller J.P.
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State of North Carolina } Superior Court of Law Granville County } Fall Term 1882
Personally appeared in open court this 7 th day of September A.D. 1882, James Gresham Sew. who being duly sworn according to law, doth depose, testify and declare as follows viz t .
That he is a citizen resident of Granville County a little more than thirty three years of age - That he was a soldier in the Revolutionary War - and among other service he performed a three month's tour at Harrisburg in Granville County at work in the Public Factory at that Place - Harris Hicks a resident of Granville County but who is deprived of the use of Greek by a visitation of Providence, performed a like tour of duty at the same place and in the same business - The Superintendent of the Establishment was Capt. Nath Birdsong - Upon the expiration of our term of service the said Harris Hicks & myself were discharged and we went home -
This affiant further Testifies that he knows that said Harris Hicks performed several tours of service in the army and one in well remembered was as a substitute for three months service for Lemuel Lewis, for Ennion Gresham Sew. - This affiant knows the fact that Harris Hicks took the place of the said Gresham and marched off with the detachment to which he belonged but he does not know that the whole tour was performed - This tour was at a period anterior to that at Harrisburg. For this affiant asked the said Harris Hicks to drive & carry from the house of the said

I remain Drayton W. and the man and two Cows & Calves which he had received from said Drayton for taking his place as a substitute as aforesaid -
The said Man & Cows & Calves were carried and left with Bishop Hicks the brother of the said Harris, who is now dead
This affiant further Testifies that after the close of the revolutionary War Harris lived in the same county within a few miles of said Harris Hicks That said Hicks had a very sore leg, and that he was often unable on account of it to do his ordinary labor; and further that although he has no personal knowledge of the time or manner in which he received the said injury in the leg, yet he well remembers that it was the an universal understanding & belief of all the neighbors of the said Harris Hicks that said injury was received & occasioned by the kick of a Horse while in service in the Army. He further declares that said Harris Hicks was at times much afflicted by the pain & soreness of his leg; and that on one occasion he saw

him at the house of Old Cloud Joseph Taylor at Harrisburg near Granville Court House That Mrs. Taylor the wife of the said Joseph Taylor was very skillful in curing such ulcers, and she was then engaged in doctoring & administering to him for the cure of his sore leg - but how long he remained there this affiant is unable to state - sworn to and subscribed in open Court This 7 th September 1832. James Gylesham
Henry Wilson a citizen of Granville county aged sixty eight years the 16 th November 1832 who being duly sworn according to Law, in open Court testified and declared as follows vizt.
That during the Revolutionary war, but the year he is unable to state, the year he volunteered as a private in a Company of Infantry from Granville County; under the Command of John Harris as Captain, Joseph Johnson Lieutenant and John Earl as Ensign This tour was for three months, and when our Company reached Crops Creek now Fayetteville, we were placed under the Command of Col. Stephen Moore then of Granville County and Genl. Caswell was commander in Chief of the whole detachment consisting of about seven hundred men -
We were kept on duty during the whole term of three months in and about our place of rendezvous and in Randolph and the adjoining country, nor were we out of the State, during this tour as well as he can recollect
During the whole of this tour Harris Hicks, a citizen of Granville who is afflicted by a Seven dispensation of divine providence and who is a little older than this affiant, was a private in the same Company and performed his duty as such, - The year (Turn over)

of this Service he cannot recollect, but he knows it was before the British Army invaded the State of North Carolina - Upon the completion of our term of duty we were discharged at a Place called the Orop Heads in Randolph County - subscribed & sworn to in open Court This 7 th day of September 1832 -
His Henry Wilton Mark
Thomas Parkham (Short) a Citizen of Granville County aged sixty nine years on the 5 th day of December 1832, personally appeared in open Court, This 7 th September 1832 and duly sworn according to law, Testifies and declares on Oath as follows viz: s
That he is ab

State of North Carolina } Superior Court of Law } 3. Franklin County } Fall Term 1832
Personally appeared open Court this 5 day of September A.D. 1832 Benjamin Hester (O.) who being duly sworn according to law doth depose, Testify and declare as follows viz.
That he has long known Harris Hicks of the said County and State, who was bound apprentice to the Blacksmiths trade under Harry Melton upon the death of the father of the said Harris Hicks - That he was serving his said apprenticeship when the war of the Revolution broke out, and it being understood that if an apprentice enlisted in the Army his indentures were cancelled Harris Hicks defected from his said Master and enlisted I think under Capt. John Hannon I belonged to the same detachment which was marched to Peyton being in Halifax County State of Virginia - we were here drilled & mustered for about four months and discharged on furlough as no pressing call required our further service at that time - Harris Hicks was a Private in this detachment - he was shortly afterward called upon and marched to the South - Harris Hicks joined the detachment and we were marched through South Carolina where we halted about a week within Ten Miles of Charleston S. Carolina, and were marched thence to Puryesburg on the Savannah River - After various duty here and the adjoining country we were marched up that river to Golphine Mills - While we were stationed at Puryesburg the Battle of Brian Creek took place - The year I cannot remember but we were under the Command of General Lincoln - The British having crossed Savannah River, we retreated before them to Dorchester in South Carolina, at Bacon's Bridge within about 20 Miles of Charleston - The enemy

4 having turned over camped at Stone we were marched in pursuit of them and then the affair of Stone took place - The enemy have retreated to ward Savannah River, we followed them as far as Dorchester where we halted - our term of Service having nearly expired we were marched to Sheldon Hill where, upon its completion we were discharged. Harris Hicks came home with this affair after having completed his full term of nine months service in this Campaign in addition to the four months term at Bytownburg as before stated -
This affiant testifies that he served with Harris Hicks another term of three months duty, and was marched & stationed in Charleston S.C. - Zack Hester a Cousin of this affiant who is now living also performed the same term - Harris Hicks and Zack Hester, having performed the full term of three months service were discharged three days before the attack was made on that City which eventualled in taking it and all our men as Prisoners & this affiant, who had enlisted for another term after the discharge of his said comrades, among the rest -
This affiant also served another term of three months duty with Harris Hicks - In the course of this Service our Detachment was marched to and joined the American Army under Genl. Greene at the Catawba - We were present at the engagement in which Genl. Davidson was killed, at the attack of Darlington Light Horse upon our men in Mr. Torrance's lane - From these disasters we retreated in confusion to the Yadkin & thence to Halifax Co. to Charlotte Co. N.C. - From this place this affiant was dispatched to North Carolina for more troops, and agreeably to orders joined the forces that had collected at

Granville old Court House under General Butler - From this place we marched after the enemy through Hillsborough to the High rock on Haw River at which place Harris Hicks, his term of service of three months having expired, was discharged - but this affiant engaged in another tour of duty and remained in the army -
This affiant has not seen Harris Hicks for several years, nor since he has left the use of our side, and the power of speech as he is informed & believes. Harris Hicks must be not less than (70) seventy years of age
The foregoing is a Recital of all the service of Harris Hicks which comes within the personal knowledge of this affiant - He has no doubt that he performed various other service but is unable to state them -
This Benjamin Hester (O.) Mark
Deponent Hester, being duly sworn according to law, testifies & declares that he knows very well Harris Hicks, spoken of in the foregoing affidavit of Benjamin Hester (O.) that he was a soldier and performed various service in behalf of his country during the War of the Rebellion, but he has no personal knowledge of any particular tour of duty, except the one spoken of by the said Benjamin Hester (O.) in his affidavit aforesaid when the said Benjamin Hester Harris Hicks & this affiant were marched

State of South Carolina from Granville County and were stationed in the town of Charleston S.C. as before stated That a very short time before the attack upon and capture of said City this affiant and Harris Hicks, having performed our term of service, were discharged and we came home to North Carolina together - having our Comrade Benjamin Hester (S) in said town, he having engaged for another tour of service -
upon further consideration this affiant declares that he remembers another tour of duty of three months he believes - This was as a substitute for Jeremiah Hester Jeremiah Hester - affiant's son open court 5 th Sept. 1832 -
Benjamin Hester Mark
Thomas Parham makes oath that he is well acquainted with Harris Hicks, that he is about two years younger than said Harris - That said Hicks was born and raised in Granville County and still resides therein - That said Hicks was repeatedly on duty in the American Army as a Private Soldier in the Revolutionary War - That he saw him on several occasions when he returned home from a tour of duty - That on one tour this affiant served as a Brother Soldier with him - The Company was raised in Granville County, but whether said Hicks was a volunteer or was drafted, he is unable to state - But he knows that he himself was drafted, and that his Captain was John Harris & his Lieutenant was Moore - The tour of duty was for three months - We were marched to Hillsborough, where we were placed

in a Regiment which was Commanded by William Moore as Colonel & Elijah Moore as Major - The detachment was commanded by Genl. Butler - we were marched to the Yadkin River, where we were stationed for two or three weeks then marched through Salisbury to the Wax haws in the edge of South Carolina our duty was principally to watch and restrain the Tories in their depredations upon the Whigs - and we were called in various parts of the country around about - to do duty.
During the whole of this Tour Harris Hicks who was a private in the Salem Company with me, and a Messmate with me, performed duty as such and faithfully served his time out - as a valiant and dutiful soldier should do - To the best of the recollection, for he cannot speak with assurance of its certainty, this Tour was in the year 1780 - we were dis- charged at Bells Mills upon the Clay  after our duty This affair further Certifies that he was at home when the War Ended upon the capture of Cornwallis, and when the said Harris Hicks returned from a Tour of Duty to the Bratt swamp below Fayetteville -
He further Certifies that in the Tour before mentioned to the Waxhaws, the said Harris informed him & he has no doubt of the truth of the fact for it was mentioned to him that and other Soldiers in the Camps that he had received a kick from the Horse of one of the Waggons on his leg and he was present and saw the wound before it was bound up - That the injury was so great that said Hicks was unable to perform duty for some time, and was carried, when the detachment moved from place to place, in one of the Waggons

8/ How long it was before he was able to do duty, this affiant is unable to state, but he well knows that the leg of the said Harris Hicks continued to be very painful and distressing to him after immutability after the close of the war and for a great many years afterwards, nor did he know until this day he has been so informed that the leg of the said Harris Hicks continued to be a distressing & painful one to him until about a year after the awful visitation of Providence in the formation of one whale side of him and of the use of speech, since which time he learns that the leg has cured up -
sworn to and subscribed in open Court the day & year above stated
Stearns Lathorn
Personally appeared in open Court now sitting at Oxford this 7 th September 1832 Richard Glasgow a resident of Granville County, aged about 77 years, and who has this day made oath to a declaration for a pension as a soldier in the Revolution under the act of Congress of the 7 th June 1832, who being duly sworn according to Law, in open Court, certifies & declares as follows vizt That in the time upon the tour which I have described in the said declaration in which I marched to the Savannah River and was stationed at Purysburg and after the capitulation of said town our Company was discharged at a place called the Sisters, that Harris Hicks was a private in the same Company to which I was attached that he marched with us, performed his tour with fidelity, as a good soldier was in duty bound to do.

and was discharged with the balance of the Company at the Sectors upon the completion of our term of Service
This affiant further certifies that He performed part of another four of Three months Service at the English factory at Harrisburg in Granville County. It was partly if not entirely under the control & management of a man who was named Bath Birdsong - He certifies that Harris Hicks was then in service in the same factory, at work as a Black Smith, but how long he served This affiant is unable to state Subscribed & sworn to in open Court the day of year above
Richard his Glasgow mark
Agnes Parkham resident of Granville County aged about 67 years years Wife of Thomas Parkham (Short) of said County, personally made Oath After being duly sworn according to Law in open Court, Testifies and declares that she is a Cousin of Harris Hicks of the said County & State of North Carolina, that she knew the said Harris when the War of the Revolution broke out and ever since that Period, that she well knows that Harris Hicks was repeatedly in service during that War, but she is not able to state what- Fours or what lengths of time in the several Fours, he did serve - She remembers that at the close of the War or perhaps before the End of it, the said Harris was at her father's and that he had a very sore leg, which it was understood on all hands was the

10 effect of the kick of a Horse received while in service in one of the Fours of duty in it - That the leg continued to be very sore & painful to him and that it continued very sore and, there were large holes in the leg from a little below the knee to the insteps for several years and as long as he continued to live in the neighbourhood in which she lived - He moved a few miles from this affair and married & settled himself; from which time she had but little acquaintance or intercourse with him, but she under- stood that his leg continued sore for a very long time, and has only lately learned that his sore leg continued until some thing like a year after the affliction under which he is now laboring, that is, a complete loss of the use of one side of him and of the power of speech -
She states distinctly that it was generally understood & believed that the injury done to the leg of the said Adair Hicks was inflicted by the kick from a Horse during his service in the revolutionary War -
Subscribed & sworn to in open court this 8 th day of September 1832 -
A. G. P. his mark Parkman
Personally appeared in open court this 8 th day of September 1832 - The Rev d James Harvey Harris and the Reverend Shadrack Parrish Ministers of the Gospel and Residents of Granville County who Testify, declare and Certify, that they both live in the immediate neighbourhood of Thomas

Pasham (Short) and his wife Agness Pasham that they have known them the first for about thirty years & the last for the space of forty years - and they declare that they are both honest & will dispose peaceable people and persons of strict veracity and Truth and that Agness Pasham is a worthy Exemplary follower of Christ as they think & believe subscribed and sworn to the day & year stated
James H. Harris Shadrach Parrish
George W. Harris makes Oath that he is a Resident of Granville County, lives in the neighbourhood of Old Key, Thomas, Pasham (Short) & his Wife and that he fully coincides & corroborates the Statement of the two persons the Rev. James H. Harris & Rev. Shadrach Parrish as stated in the Certificate above subscribed & sworn to in Open Court This 8 th Sept. 1832 -
Geo; W Harris
Doct. Richard Hurd, a Citizen of Granville County and a Justice of the Peace of the same who being duly sworn according to Law in open Court makes Oath that he is well & has been long acquainted with. James H. Harris Rev. Benjamin Keeter (A) Richard Glassford and Henry Wilson Rev. who have subscribed & sworn to the foregoing Affidavit as also Zachariah Keeter who has also Certified are men of veracity & Truth & that their Statements may be relied upon as True - Subscribed sworn to in open Court Sept. 8 th 1832
Richd Hurd

12. And the Court doth hereby, declare their opinion upon the affidavits aforesaid that the testimony given by James Grisham Rev. Benjamin Hester (C) Zachariah Hester, Richard Glasgow Thomas Parkam (Short) and Agripus Parkam, together with the certificates of the Rev. James Harvey Harris, & the Rev. Obadiah Barrick who are ministers of the Gospel, that the facts set forth in said affidavits & certificates other than those of Geo. W. Harris & Prof. R. T. Funder are true and and that their statements aforesaid are entitled to Credit
James Charlton H. Ch. H.

Personally appeared in open court now held for the county and State aforesaid at Hillsborough before the Honorable James Martin one of the Judges of the Superior courts of Law & Courts of Equity for said State, Solomon Whittow, aged Seventy years the 22 nd day of April 1832, who is a citizen and Resident of the County of Person and State aforesaid, who being duly sworn according to law in open court, doth on his Oath, depose, testify and declare as follows viz. That at about the age of three years his parents removed from Hanover County in the State of Virginia and settled on Tabb's Creek in the County of Granville State of North Carolina. That his mother was the sister of Absalom Hicks who had married and settled in the neighborhood of his father and within about a Mile or a mile and a half of him - That said Absalom Hicks died and left three sons Bishop Hicks, Absalom Hicks, and Harris Hicks - Bishop Hicks was bound apprentice to Thomas Norman, and Absalom Hicks and Harris Hicks were bound to Harry Melton to learn the art & mystery of a Blacksmith - That before the completion of his apprenticeship the said Harris Hicks contrary to the wish of his Master, escaped from him and enlisted as a Soldier in the Army of the United States under Col. Farrar in a Nine Months tour of duty - This affiant has seen the affidavits of Benjamin Hester (a) Zachariah Hester, James Grisham Rev. Thomas Partan (Short) and Agnes Partan his wife and fully concurs in the statements made by them of the services of the said Harris Hicks in the revolutionary war so far as they state it in the tour before spoken of this Certificate, and of a three Months tour at Charleston S.C., of a three Months tour to the Waxhaw in South Carolina, of an other three Months tour to the Catawba at the time Genl. Davidson was killed at the

Catawba, and of his discharge at the High rock on Haw River as stated by them. also as to another Tour of three months duty in the Public Factory at Harrisburg - This affiant was a Soldier with the said Harris Hicks in the Tour to Charleston that to the Catawba just before the battle of Guilford, and that in the factory at Harrisburg, and knows of his own knowledge that the said Harris performed his duty in those Tours as a faithful Soldier should do - And although this affiant did not serve in the other Tours mentioned in said affidavits, yet he well remembers that said Harris Hicks, being a young active man without a wife or family or other incum- brance, &c was, still but little or at least very short intermission in service, almost in constant service in the Army either by Draft or as a substitute - This affiant well remembers that he performed a tour of three months duty for Jeremiah Fraizer Sen. but when he was called in this service, he is unable to say but he knows that said Harris received of the said Fraizer a Man and two Cows and Calves for taking his place in the army - He also remembers that Harris Hicks performed part of another tour as a substitute for David Hicks his Uncle - David Hicks was in service and desirous of going home to his family. The tour of Harris had just expired and he was prevailed upon to take his uncle's place and did do so, for some compensation but what this affiant cannot remember - The term of service of Harris Hicks in this Tour this affiant thinks was for two months. This affiant remembers the tour spoken of by Thomas Barham (Short) to the Wayhaws and thinks it was for three months - He is enabled to recollect this tour, but does not remember the year it was performed, from the fact that, that upon his return home from this tour, said Harris Hicks had a very

son leg which it was said and believed by every person was occasioned by the kick of the Horse while on duty in this Town - By rest and care and proper application his leg was so far cured as to enable him very shortly again to enter the Service which he did - and this affiant is confident that a tour was performed by said Harris Hicks in the Light Horse, which he does not remember to have been stated in any of the affidavits he has seen - This affiant thinks that Harris Hicks went out at this time in the Light Horse but whether it was under Capt. John Henderson and John Dickerson Lieutenants or shortly after that under Solomon Walker as Captain. This affiant is unable to state with any sort of confidence - but he is confident that he did perform a tour of duty in the Light Horse -
This affiant well remembers that after the close of the war upon the Capture of Cornwallis, Harris Hicks returned home from a tour of duty in the South Eastern part of North Carolina against the Tories - He also remembers that his leg still continued at this time to be very sore - He remembers hearing a conversation after the close of the between Harris Hicks & Harry Melton his old Master - Melton told him if he had not run away from him and joined the army, he would not have had such a sore leg or be obliged to undergo the pain & misery of it - and wished him to come & work with him in his shop - Telling him that if he would do so, Melton, would learn him a great deal in the trade, which he had never learned him - But Hicks declined it - This affiant well knew or was familiarly acquainted with Harris Hicks as long as this affiant he continued to live in Granville -

15 and knows that his leg continued to be very sore and painful to him during that time - often becoming so bad as to prevent him from work - He remembers that he got old Mr. Cooke to Doctor it for him and under his care it was entirely cured up - But it very soon had like to have killed him and it broke out anew and then he felt some relief - He also remembers that Davis Hicks was under the care of Mrs. Taylor Wife of Col. Joseph Taylor Esq. as stated by James Garrison in his affidavit - and he believes that he was undertaken of some others for the same purpose, but whom he cannot remember soon to subscribe in open Court this 11 th day of September A.D. 1832. Solomon Whitlow
We James Satterfield and Thomas Morris Citizens of Person County living in the immediate vicinity of Solomon Whitlow who has soon to subscribe the foregoing affidavit testify that we are well acquainted with his character both in a public and private capacity and we have no hesitation in certifying on oath that he generally believed to be a man of strict moral honesty and truth, and that we concur in that opinion.
James Satterfield
Thos Morris
Rankin McKee personally appeared in open court, who being duly sworn according to Law, Certifies, testifies, and did swear upon oath that he is a citizen of Orange County and State of North Carolina. That he is well acquainted with Solomon Whitlow who has subscribed & sworn to the Affidavit above written. That he lived & worked with Whitlow as a Blacksmith about 12 or 14 years ago - That he knew him before that time and ever since, and that he fully concurs with James Satterfield & Thomas Morris who have subscribed & sworn to the foregoing affidavit as to the character of said Solomon Whitlow - subscribed & sworn in open court this 12 th September 1832.
Rankin McKee

State of North Carolina } Orange County }
3 Superior Court of Law Fall Term 1832
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The three preceding affidavits, the first signed to Solomon Whittow, the second by James Satterfield, & Thomas Morris, and the third by Rankin McKee were severally signed by and sworn to by them respectively in open Court & ordered to be certified under the Seal of the Court.
Witness Alner B. Bruce Clerk of our said Court at office in Hillsborough this 12 th day of September A.D. 1832 under Seal of the Court
A. B. Bruce C.S.C.
State of North Carolina } Court of Pleas & Quarter County of Granville } Sessions, May Term 1834

Declaration
In order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of the 4th of July 1836 and the joint resolution of July 7th 1838.
State of North Carolina
Halifax County
On this 10th day of September 1838. personally appeared before me a Justice of the Peace Mrs. Temperence Hicks widow of Harris Hicks aged Seventy Four years and now residing in the County of Halifax; who being first duly sworn according to Law, doth, on her oath, make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions of the act of Congress passed July 4th 1836. and the joint resolution of July 7th 1838. That she is the widow of Harris Hicks who was a private in the War of the Revolution and served as will more fully appear by reference to the evidence now on file upon which the annexed certificate of pension issued to him. She further declares that she was married to the said Harris on the 10th day of April Seventeen Hundred and eighty Four. That her husband the aforesaid Harris Hicks died in the month of August Eighteen Hundred and Thirty Six; and that she has remained a widow ever since that period, as will more fully appear by reference to the proof hereto annexed.
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written before me Jas. S. Langham B.
Temperence Hicks mark

State of North Carolina
Halifax County
} This To certify to all it may concern that Miss Temperance Hicks now residing in the County of Halifax has this day appeared before me a Justice of the Peace and after subscribing and swearing to the foregoing declaration has produced to me her family Bible from which I have cut the page containing entries of the ages of her children & affixed it by three seals to this certificate. To the Truth of the entries in the Bible Miss Hicks has deposed before me in due form of Law.
Given under my hand & Seal this 10 th day of September 1838.
Jas. J. Baughman

Abraham Hicks the son of Aaron & Susannah his wife was born June 12 th 1786.
Sarah Hicks daughter of same was born July 18 th 1788.
John Hicks son of same was born May 20 th 1790.
Elizabeth Hicks, Daughter of same was born Sept. 8 th 1794.
Willie Hicks son of the same was born May 2 nd 1797.
Polly Hicks daughter of same was born January 20 th 1800.
Robert Hicks son of same was born Oct. 17 th 1802.

William Hicks son of same was born August 29 th 1808
Byron Hicks son of same was born March 1 st 1808
Joseph John Hicks son of Byron & Eliza was born Feb y 10 th 1832
Eliz a Caroline Hicks daughter of the same was born Jan y 9 th 1834
Eliz a Hicks the daughter of
Eliz a Hicks the wife of Byron Hicks was born the 16 th of June 1817
Temperance Hicks the wife of Harris Hicks was born the 7 th Oct. 1765

State of North Carolina
Halifax County } I Joseph H. Simmons Clerk of Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions for the County of Halifax hereby certify that Jas. J. Vaughan Esq. whose signature appears to the foregoing declaration and certificate is and was at the time of Halifax County and that faith and credit are due to his Official acts as such
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of my Office at Halifax Town the 15th day of September 1938
J. H. Simmons Clerk

Declaration An order to obtain the benefit of the act of Con- gress of the 17th July 1838, entitled an act gran- ting half pay & Pensions to certain widows.
State of North Carolina } Court of Pleas & quarter se- Granville County ss. December Term 1844. On this the 8 th day of December 1844, personally appeared before the Court of Pleas & quarter sessions for the said County of Granville (now sitting) Willis Hicks a resident of the said County & State, aged 47 years, who being first duly sworn according to Law, maketh oath that he is one of the children and heirs at Law, of Temperance Hicks widow of Harris Hicks who was a soldier in the N th Carolina Militia, in the war of the Revolution, and was placed on the N th Carolina Pension roll for Granville County under act of 1832, that said Pension- er was placed on the Pension roll sometime in May 1834, at $ 80. dollars per annum.
That said Pensioner died on the 6 th day of Ap- ril Eighteen hundred & thirty seven leaving a widow Temperance Hicks surviving him who died on the 29 th day of September Eighteen hundred & forty one, leaving the following children sur- viving her, to wit; The declarant Willis Hicks

John Hicks, William Hicks, Caiton Hicks, Robert Hicks, Jane Hicks, & Mary who intermarried with Ransom Smith, all of lawful age;
The declarant in behalf of himself & the other heirs of the said Harris & Temperance Hicks further sets forth upon his said oath that to the best of his understanding & belief, the said Harris & Temperance Hicks were married in the year of seventeen hundred & eighty six, that they did live together as husband & wife till the death of the said Harris Hicks, that the said Harris & Temperance Hicks were not married prior to his leaving the service, but that the said marriage took place previous to the first of January seventeen hundred & ninety four (1894) to wit: at the time above stated (1786) and that the said Temperance did not marry after the death of her said husband Harris Hicks but remained his widow till death, that the original Family Record is lost.
Willis Hicks
Sworn to & subscribed on this 8 th day of November 1844. in Open Court;
Jas M c Miggins C.C.
I James M c Miggins clerk of the courts of Pleas & quarter sessions for the said county of Granville (now in session) do hereby certify that satisfactory evidence was this day furnished the said court, that Harris Hicks Pensioner of the United States died on the 6 th day of April

Eighteen hundred & thirty seven, That Temperance Hicks his wife died on the 29 th day of September Eighteen hundred & forty one, leaving the following children surviving her to wit: The declarant Willis Hicks, John Hicks, William Hicks, Paiton Hicks, Robert Hicks, Jane Hicks, & Mary who inter- married with Ransome Smith, all of Lawful age
I also certify that satisfactory evidence was fur- nished the said Court, that the said Harris & Temperance Hicks were lawfully married about the year of nineteen hundred & Eighty six, That they did live together as husband & wife till the death of the said Harris Hicks, That the said Temperance Hicks did not marry after the death of her said husband Harris Hicks, but remained his widow till death.
And I further certify that it was shown to the satisfaction of the said Court, that the declarant Willis Hicks is a man of truth & veracity whereupon the said Court, ordered that the clerk certify the same to the ward department
In testimony whereof I have here- unto subscribed my name & affix- ed my seal of office at Oxford on this 8 th day of November A. D. 1844,
Isaac Higgins CLK

Dear Sir, I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 14th inst.
and in reply to inform you that the same has been forwarded to the proper authorities for their consideration. I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
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Yours faithfully, [Signature]

Rev WIDOW, &c.
File No. 4989
Temperance Hicks
Wid.
Harris Hicks
Put. N. C. line
Act: July 7 th 38
Index:—Vol. 84 , Page 333
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Temperance Hicks widow of Harris Hicks, decd.
$80 per ann.
act July 7. 1838.
cert: to R. H. Mosby, Esq. (of Littleton, N.C.)
now present

Pension papers
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Hon Com of Pensions Pension Offi'ce Washington City U.S.

State of North Carolina
Granville County } On this the 8 th day of November 1844, personally appeared before the undersigned, one of the acting Justices of the Peace in & for the said County of Granville, John Sears a resident of the said County & State, aged 68. years, and made Oath in due form of Law,
That he was well acquainted with Harris Hicks deed, Pensioner of the United States, & his wife Temperance Hicks deed, whose Heirs are applying for a Pension for the Revolutionary services of their said husband. Father the said Harris Hicks,
That this deponent lived in the neighborhood where the said Harris & Temperance Hicks were married, when the marriage took Place, & knew them from that time till their death, that said marriage took Place about the year of seventeen hundred & Eighty six that the said Harris & Temperance Hicks did live together as husband & wife and was always so considered till the death of the said Harris Hicks;
That this deponent does believe the said Harris & Temperance Hicks were Lawfully married at the time above stated & never heard it contradicted;
Sworn to & subscribed on the day & date above written before me.
Sam l L. Murray } John his X Sears (seal) mark

I the said Justice of the Peace do hereby certify that John Sears is known to me that he is respectable & to be believed, and that his statements are entitled to full faith & credit.
Given under my hand the day & date first above mentioned.
Samuel Lemay, Attest
North Carolina § Granville County § ss I James M. Muggins, Clerk of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions for the County said state aforesaid, hereby certify, that Samuel Lemay Esquire whose signature appears to the above Certificate is and was at the signing thereof an acting Justice of the Peace in and for Granville County; and that to all his official acts as such full faith & credit should be given -
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the Seal of my office at Oxford, the 8 th day of November A.D. 1844.
James M. Muggins CEX
James M. Muggins
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James M. Muggins

8 Wm Hicks
Belmopan

The Declaration of the Heirs of Harris Hicks - Who was a pensioner in the County of Granville and State of North Carolina Who departed this life in the County and State aforesaid, on the 6th day of April 1836. And who received a yearly pension of Ninty Six Dollars a year - Respectfully shows to, State of Virginia - County of Washington - On this 26th day of July in the year 1853. personally appeared before me a Justice of the peace for the County aforesaid - William Hicks, who first being duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath, declare that Harris Hicks his Father - Was a pensioner of the United States in the County of Granville and State of North Carolina, at the rate of Ninty Six dollars a year. That the said Hicks died in said County of Granville and State aforesaid on the 6th day of April in the year 1836 - that his Widow Temperance Hicks - died in the County (of Halifax) and State aforesaid, on the 29th day of Septm 1838. That the said Harris Hicks and his Wife, who was Temperance Sears, was Married, in the said County of Granville, and State of North Carolina in the year 1789 - that they left Issue by Name - Absalom Hicks, Jane Hicks, Elizabeth Howell, who is dead Willis Hicks, Mary Hicks, Robert Hicks, dead , William Hicks, Peyton Hicks, John Hicks, dead , who are the children and Heirs of the said Harris and Temperance Hicks - the said Heirs through their Brother William Hicks, now claim a share of pension under the Act of Congress passed on the 7th day of June 1832, wherein it is provided - in behalf of the Widows - Where no act took place previous to the year 1794 - pension would commence, on the 4th day of March 1836. the Heirs claim from the 4th of March 1836 - up to the 29th day of September 1838 - That being the day of her death - which would make two and a half years - at Ninty six dollars per annum would be some $240 - they also claim a fraction of pension, due the said Harris Hicks, their Father at the time of his death, which was never applied for. They pray - that said share of pension be paid them through their Attorney John W. Stevens of Abingdon Virginia, who is legally

Authorized by Special power of Attorney to demand and receive the same
William Hicks Seal
Sworn to, and subscribed before me the day and year above, and last written
J. M. Hurn
State of Virginia Washington County to wit:
I Jacob Lynch Clerk of the court of the said county of Washington, do hereby certify that John N Hurne whose genuine signature appears above now is, and was at the time of signing the same an acting justice of the peace in and for said county duly elected, commissioned and qualified and that full faith and credit is due all his acts as such.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of the said court. This first day of August in the year 1853.
Jacob Lynch Clk

1649
Register this claim under act 7 July 1838.

State of North Carolina } County of Granville }
The affidavit of John Sears of the county and State above written taken to prove the marriage of Harris Hicks with his wife Temperence Hicks, who was Temperence Sears -
This affiant being first duly sworn according to Law testifies and says - That his sister Temperence Sears was married to Harris Hicks who was a soldier of the Revolution and died in this county two years and a half since. They were married by Ambrose Barker at a place called Ellis in this county in the year 1784. Immediately after the said Harris Hicks came out of the service.
Since the death of the said Harris Hicks my sister has removed from this county to the county of Halifax where she now resides. This affiant also testifies that the said Temperence Sears is now a widow and has never married since the death of the said Harris Hicks.
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 4 th day of Sept. 1888 J. H. Paschall J.P.
John Sears
State of North Carolina } Granville county }
This day personally appeared before me a justice of the Peace John Sears an old and very respectable citizen of the county and state above written and acknowledged sworn to the foregoing affidavit in due form of law I also

certify that Mr Shears is a man of high respectability and his evidence is entitled to full faith and credit.
Given under my hand & Seal this 4 th day of Sept r . 1838.
R. H. Paschall JP
State of North Carolina. Granville County.
I James M Wiggins, Clerk of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions for the county and state aforesaid, hereby certify, that Daniel A Paschall, Esquire, whose signature appears to the foregoing Certificate, is and was at the time of signing the same, an acting Justice of the Peace in and for Granville County; and that faith and credit are due to his official acts as such.
Given under my hand & Seal of office, at Oxford, the 4 th day of September, A.D., 1838.
James M. Wiggins, Clerk

WAR DEPARTMENT.
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.
I certify that, in conformity with the law of the United States of the 7th June, 1832, Harris Hicks (non-Compos-mentis) of the State of North Carolina. ————— who was a private in the War of the Revolution —
is entitled to receive — Eighty — dollars and ————— cents per annum, during his natural life, com- mencing on the 4th of March, 1831, and payable semi- annually on the 4th of March, and 4th of September in every year. Payment to be made to his Guardian Anderson Paschall.
Given at the War Office of the United States, this 14 — day of May — one thousand eight hundred and thirty- Four .
Lee
Secretary of War.
Examined and } Countersigned. }
J. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions.

Payments to be made at Fayetteville — by the Ch. W. S. Br. Bank Agent for paying Pension- ers, in the Agency of N. C.
Recorded in the Pension Of- fice in Book E Vol. 6 p. Page 58 by Nathl. Rice. Clerk.

State of North Carolina } Granville county }
This day personally appeared before me John Barker aged 64 years who testifies and says that Harris Hicks and his wife Temperance who was Temperance Sears were married as this affiant has always understood by this affiant's father when he lived at a place called Ellis in this county - This affiant is as confident as he can be of any fact that he did not see, that the said Harris Hicks was married to Temperance Sears as early as the year 1785 or before. This affiant was at the same school with Mrs Hicks, she being grown and this affiant small. He well recollects that the marriage took place but a short time after he returned from service as a soldier of the Revolution. He also testifies that Mrs Hicks has removed from this county and now resides in the county of Halifax and that she has never married since the death of her husband the said Harris Hicks who died some two years since.
John Barker
State of North Carolina } Granville county }
This day personally appeared before me a Justice of the Peace for the county and state whose John Barker name subscribed & sworn to the foregoing affidavit in due form of law.
I also certify that full faith and

credit is due to the testimony of Mr Burden he being one of our most respectable citizens.
Given under my hand & seal this 4th day of September 1838.
D. A. Paschall
State of North Carolina Granville County
3 } I James M. Wiggins clerk of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions for the County and State aforesaid hereby certify that Daniel A. Paschall, Esq. whose signature appears to the foregoing certificate, is and was at the time of signing the same, an acting Justice of the Peace, in and for Granville County, and that faith and credit are due to his official acts as such.
Given under my hand and seal of office at Oxford, the 4th day of September A.D. 1838
James M. Wiggins C'k

State of North Carolina } County of Granville }
We the undersigned, Acting Justices of The peace for said County, upon a true grounded representation to us made that Morris Hicks, of said County (who is an applicant for a Pension for Revolutionary services as a Militia- man & also for wounds and disabilities received in said service) is in such a state of mental imbecility and bodily infirmity as to render him incapable of making his declaration to said Court for that purpose as hereby certify as follows —
That we proceeded to said Hicks residence & viewed & examined him — and from our own personal observation, as well as from the credible representation of others  his  friends that many years since, the aforesaid Hicks was afflicted with a severe & distressing paralysis which entirely deprived him of the faculty of speech & the use of his limbs whereby he has been, up to the present time, disabled — helpless in body & imbecile in mind.

We do Therefore certify it as our decided opinion that said Applicant is utterly incapable of communicating his ideas in any intelligible manner except by some false signs & motions which are almost exclusively confined to the organs of nature - and that we could obtain no account from him of his revolutionary services or the manner in which he was wounded & disabled -
Given under our hands and seals this 5th day of February 1834
J. Marshall H. Seal
Wm. C. Taylor H. Seal
Court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions First Monday in February 1834 } Granville County.
Personally appeared in open court Dennis J. Paschall & Wm. C. Taylor Esq rs and made oath in due form of law to the contents of the foregoing certificate sworn to & subscribed in open court
James Wilson H. Seal Geo. Shuttle H. Seal Richd. Lee H. Seal

State of North Carolina } February Court AD 1834 Granville County }
I Benjamin Kittle clerk of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions for the County and State aforesaid - do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Harris Hicks for a pension
Given under my hand & seal of office at office in Oxford on the 7 th day of Feby 1834
Benj v Kittle D.M.

North Carolina Returned Mount
May 14. 1834
Minister to the Hon.
Oxford NC May 11 th
Report to Mr. Hawkins Free
The Hon ble Lewis C. B.
(To the care of) Secretary of War
J. G. Edwards Com. 2 d of Engineers Washington City D.C.
Hon. J. Hawkins H.R.

Oxford 8th May 1834
Sir,
You will perceive by the papers of Harry Hicks herewith returned to the Department, that the additional requisites for an application for proof be as stated in your letter to me have been complied with, viz z The appointment of a General which had heretofore taken place a certificate of which fact by the Clerk of our Court accompanies — also the opinion of the Court as to the actual services & their duration — The fact also of his having been in added in service —
You will likewise observe that the Court have certified in addition to the two years & nine months service which is clearly set forth — They have certified as to another tour in the Cavalry but cannot say with any degree of certainty whether that was three or six or any other number of months but I presume the Department would not hesitate to allow as much as three months which sums to be the shortest time usual at that day. If so then it would seem three years have been clearly made out.
I would again call your attention to the fact of the applicant having received a wound in service; & whether it is of such a character as to enable him to draw an additional

Pension under a former act for the benefit of wounded soldiers.
If you should be at any loss as to the character of the several names attached to these papers & the writer of this, I would beg leave to refer you to The Rev. Mr. Klingman, The Rev. Bradford Torrance & The Rev. M. T. Hawkins.
Yrs respectfully Spencer O'Brien
The Rev. S. Keap (deceased) J. G. Edwards Suz. of War Comm. of Pensions Washington

Certificate of Gastinaship

State of North Carolina } Granville County }
November Court A.D. 1835
Anderson Paschall is appointed Guardian of Harris Heeks (Minor Compts) who entered into bond with Lemuel S. Paschall & Thomas A. Willie as security in the sum of Three Thousand Dollars —
State of North Carolina } Granville County }
I Benjamin Kirtland clerk of the Court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions for the County & State aforesaid — do hereby certify that the foregoing is a true Transcript wherein Anderson Paschall was appointed Guardian of Harris Heeks (no. Compts) as appears of Record in my office —
Given under my hand & seal of office at office in Oxford on 5 day of May 1834 —
Benj. Kirtland
State of North Carolina } Granville County — }
J. James M. Miggins Chairman
Pro. tem of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions for the County and State aforesaid, do hereby certify that Benjamin Kirtland whose signature appears to the foregoing certificate is Clerk of said Court and that due faith and credit should be given to his official acts as such. and further that his said attestation is in due form of Law. Given under my hand and seal at Oxford the 5 th day of May
1834
Jas. M. Miggins Ch. Pro. tem

Oxford Augt. 5th 1853
Hon Com
Dear Sir,
Enclosed is the declaration of the Amys of Harris Hicks - Claiming Award of Pension - Certificate of Marriage & Identity Will be sent Shortly,
I am Dear Sir Very Respectfully Your Gt. St.
J. M. Stevens
1853