Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 6,975, Zachariah Hastings, Va.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Va.
Hastings, Zachariah
S. 6,975
CONTENTS
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4928 North Carolina
Zachariah Hastings Service in the State of N.Car: who was a Mr: in the Company commanded by Captain Winn of the Regt. commanded by Brocken - in the War: time for 7 months from 1777
Inscribed on the Roll of North Carolina at the rate of 2 D - Dollars 33 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 31 st day of Jan: 33 and sent Hon: A.H. Shepherd House of Reps.
Arrears to 4th of Sept 1832 34.99- Semi-ann. allowance ending 4 th Mar: 33 11.67
$46.66
{ Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by Nathan Rice Clerk Book D Vol. 8 Page 32 .

Zachariah Hastings
19379
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State of North Carolina County of Caswell } Court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions 3 October Term 1832
On this the 3 rd day of October 1832 personally appeared in open court before the justices of the county court of Caswell now sitting Zachariah Hastings a resident of the county of Caswell and state of North Carolina aged 81 years. Who being first duly sworn according to law oaths on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 9 th 1832. That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers served as herein stated. To wit: In the first place, He declares that he was drafted as one of the militia of the county of Amelia in the state of Virginia in the month of August in the year 1777. as well as he recollects, and belonged to a company commanded by one Capt. Richard Wren. The regiment to which Capt. Wrens company was attached was commanded by Col. Evan Brocken. The company to which this applicant belonged marched in the first place immediately from Amelia County to Guilford Town on James River. He was accompanied in this expedition by another company the officers of which however he has forgotten the names of. He only stayed at this place a few days and was discharged and returned home. He has no written evidence of this discharge which he thinks took place about the first of April 1777. He knows of no man now living by whom he could prove the facts here stated but must therefore rely upon his own oath. After this discharge he returned home and continued there until the month of April in the year 1781. When he

was again called into service in the company of Amelia County militia. under the command of Capt Edward Mumford. On this occasion his company together with another company under the command of Capt John Dennis of Amelia aforesaid. marched directly on from Amelia C.V. to the city of Richmond where they met with and joined the force under the command of Genl. Lafayette. This appointment was taken rich at Richmond and in consequence obtained a discharge and returned home after having been in actual service for about six weeks. This discharge was received as he thinks about the middle of the month of May in 1781. He received a written discharge as he recollects but lost it in a short time afterwards. There is no one now living by whom he can prove the facts here alleged he has therefore to rely upon his own oath. He remained at home from the time of this later discharge until the month of September following. When he again went into service. On this occasion he left home on the fourth day of September 1781. and joined headquar- ters at Surry old Court House Va on the 8th of the same month. He was commanded in his march on this occasion from Amelia to Surry C.V. by Capt Rowland Ward. The object of the company marching from Amelia to Surry C.V. was to serve as a reinforcement to Col Blounts regiment. which was quartered at that place. After continuing three weeks at Surry C.V. the whole regiment under Col Blounts command proceeded immediately to York Town and united with the other American forces under the command of Washington.

Washington in besieging York Town. As soon as the regiment to which he belonged however reached York this applicant together with the Company to which he belonged was detached to guard the ammunition stores at Williamsburg. After continuing at Williamsburg for some time and after the surrender of Lord Cornwallis's army at York this applicant together with the other Mobile Station at Williamsburg whose term of service had not expired was ordered to Fredericksburg to guard the prisoner taken at York. On the fifth day of November 1781 at Fredericksburg in Virginia this applicant was finally discharged. He has no written Evidence of this discharge nor is there any person now living by whom he can prove the facts mentioned. He has therefore to rely upon his own oath, for being discharged at Fredericksburg, he had been in service from the time he last left Amelia for the space of nine months.
This applicant (Zackariah Haskins) was born in the County of Amelia state of Virginia in the year 1757. He has no record of his age and is therefore indebted to the recollection of what he has been told by his mother for the accuracy of this statement. When he was called into service he lived in his native County Amelia. In 1784 he left Amelia County and removed to Warren County in the state of N Carolina. He lived in Warren nine years and from Warren he removed to Caswell where he now lives and has lived.

Ever since, He hereby re-asserts his every claim whether to a pension or annuity, except the provision and declares that his name is not upon the pension roll of the Agency of any state
Sworn to and subscribed to day & year aforesaid, his Zachariah Hastings Mark.
Not Public & Hazleton Clk
We John Stadler a clergyman of the County of Casner state of Maryland and James Kerr a resident of the same County and State hereby certify that we are now acquainted with Zachariah Hastings who has subscribed and sworn to the above Declaration that he believes him to be of the age of 81 years and that he is separately in his  own  right in the neighborhood where he seems to have been a soldier of the revolution, and that we concur in that opinion,
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year Aforesaid.
John Stadler
James Kerr
Not Public & Hazleton Clk
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories presented by the War Department that the above appli- cant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states. And the Court further certifies that it appears to them that John Stadler who has signed the above certifi- cate is a clergyman resident of Casner City in Maryland and that James Kerr who has also

Depond the same is a resident of Cassel City - Iowa and is a credible person and that this statement is entitled to credit
James H. H. H.
John P. Garrison
I Paul A. Haraldson Clerk of the County Court of Cassell County in Iowa do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Zachari- ah Hastings for a pension
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office This the 9 th day of October 1882 Paul A. Haraldson CLK
I have carefully examined the foregoing declaration and the accompanying affidavits & know them to be in the hand writing of John Kerr Esq. and James Kerr & the certificates and seals to the affidavits are written by the Clerk Paul Haraldson From my entire confidence in the honesty & uprightness of all concerned I doubt not that the papers are entirely genuine
J. H. H. H. 26. Jan. 1883

Z. Hastings.
from 1777 private 7 months.
$23. \frac{33}{100} .
Amended Declaration
of Z. Hastings
filed by A. H. S. & Co.
May. 26 1833.

BRIEF objections to the admission of Pension Claims, of which those answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of Leachard Hastings which require further proof or explanation.
I. Does the declaration show where the applicant resides? II. Did the declarant make the declaration in the county where he resides? III. If the applicant did not make the declaration in the county where he resides, is there any reason assigned for his not doing so? IV. Has the declarant mentioned the period or periods of the war when he served? V. * Has he mentioned with precision the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the department to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled? No VI. Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with the regulations? VII. Has he made a relinquishment of every claim to any other pension than the one under the Act of June 7, 1832? VIII. Has the Court given their opinion? IX. Has the Clerk given his certificate? X. Is the Clerk's seal affixed? And if so, has it a device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal?

XI. Has the applicant obtained the evidence of a clergyman and another respectable citizen as to their belief respecting his age and the general belief in his neighborhood relative to his revolutionary service? XII. If the clergyman's affidavit has not been produced, is there any reason assigned for not obtaining it? XIII. If the applicant has no documentary evidence, and has not obtained the testimony of at least one living witness, has he stated in his declaration that such proof cannot be had? has a witness XIV. † If the applicant has produced a witness or witnesses as to his service, has the magistrate who administered the oath certified that he, she, or they are persons of credibility? No Has the official character and signature of the magistrate been certified by the proper officer under his seal of office? XV. Does it appear from any of the papers that the witness was in such a situation, or of such an age, as to have a personal knowledge of the applicant's service? XVI. ‡ Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct? No XVII. Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily? And, if not, which of them is not so answered?
EXPLANATORY NOTES.
“QUERE V. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words: “Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A. B. who, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that, by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service, but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades: For _____ year _____ months and _____ days, I served as a _____. For _____ months and _____ days, I served as a _____; and for such service I claim a pension.”

It is important in all cases to determine with precision the period for which the applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service. The use of the phrase about three or four months is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable.
QUERE XIV.  Proof of Service.
In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses, who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimants entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the regiment, company, and line to which he belonged. The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the witnesses, and the official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office.
QUERE XVI.  Mode of authenticating papers.
In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticated the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other paper authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the end of which must pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate.

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Zachariah Hastings Pri Rev War
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[Arrangement of 1870.]

State of North Carolina } 18 th January Caswell County } Feb. 7. 1833—
Personally appeared before me the undersigned a Justice of the Peace in and for the County and State aforesaid. Zacharias Hastings a Citizen of the said County who was declared. heretofore sworn on to the Department. has been returned for amendment. who being duly sworn deposeth and saith. That by reason of old age and the consequent loss of memory he cannot discern possi- -bility as to the precise length of his service but according to the best of his recollection, he served 100 days than the previous mentioned below and in the following service For seven months. I served as a private, sergeant, under the Captains and other officers, mentioned in my original Declaration to which this is an amendment. and for such service I claim a pension. Zacharias Hastings
Sasker D

State of North Carolina County of Caswell 8 Feb
I Paul A. Haracson Clerk of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions in and for the County and State aforesaid, do hereby Certify that James Kerr esquire before whom the within affidavit or amendment of declaration has made is an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said County he having been duly Commissioned and sworn according to Law, and as such due faith and credit should be paid to his official acts.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and Seal of Office this 18 th day of January 1833.
Paul A. Haracson Clk.

A. Paulus. defender—

State of North Carolina
Coastal County } August 25 th 1832 -
This day personally appeared before us Fremon Leath and James Kerr two of the Justices of the peace in and for the County of Coastal and State aforesaid: Abner Powell who being duly sworn according to law, deposed and saith that he knew Zachariah Hasten in the County of Amelia in the State of Virginia before the Revolutionary war and also knew him during that war and that he knows to his certain knowledge that he served at least two tours in that war in the Virginia Militia from the County of Amelia in that State and that he served one of the two tours with said Hasten himself in the year A.D. 1781 - Sworn to and subscribed before us the day and date first above written.
His Mark Abner Powell
F. Leath J.P.
James Kerr J.P.
We do hereby certify that Abner Powell whose name is subscribed to the foregoing affidavit is a man of truth and integrity and that his statement as above made is worthy of the fullest credence and belief.
F. Leath J.P.
James Kerr J.P.

State of North Carolina County of Caswell. I Paul F. Haralson, Clerk of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions in and for the County and State aforesaid do hereby certify that Freeman Leath and James Kerr esquires, before whom the within affidavit was taken and who have subscribed their names thereto, are acting Justices of the peace in and for said County, they having been duly Commissioned and Sworn according to Law, and as such due faith and credit should be paid to their official acts.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of my Office this 9 th day of October A Dom n 1832.
Paul F. Haralson CLK "