TO INDEXW8420 STATE OF KENTUCKY
CALDWELL COUNTY
Be it remembered that on this the 3rd day of June in the year 1840 LUCY MATLOCK, a resident citizen, of said county personally appeared before me, Francis W. Urey (?) one of the justices of the County Court in and for said county, and being by me duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath declare, that she was married to ZACHARIAH MATLOCK on the 7th day of December 1780 in Louisa County, State of Virginia by Parson Douglas; that she remained the wife of said MATLOCK as long as he lived; that said ZACHARIAH died in said county of Caldwell on the 28th day of February, 1827 and that she has remained a widow ever since. That she was born on the 18th day of July 1759 in Louisa County, Virginia that in the year 1777 or 1778 the said ZACHARIAH entered the regular service in the Revolutionary War and served for eighteen months as well as she recollects; that he enlisted in the Virginia State Line and served under Captain B. , Major Kellis and Colonel Richardson to the best of her recollection; that he was at the battle of Brandywine and had the smallpox at Dumpries; and at the end of his service was regularly discharged, which discharge he kept a long time, but it is now lost. She may be a little rnistaken as to the manner of his entering the service, it may be that he was enlisted as an eighteen months man, as it was then called, and he may haved served in Col. Karr's regiment instead of Richardson's as to this she cannot be positive; that one Charles Hardy served in the same company with said ZACHARIAH and drew pension for it and she thinks her husband's testimony was taken to prove his service. That after the said ZACHARIAH's regular service was over he was in much active service with the militia of Virginia under Capt. William Harris, but she cannot remember the particular nature of the service nor how long. He was a commissary awhile and had some subordinate office as will appear by the annexed receipt, the only relict she has of three times. That she and her husband moved out to this country at an early period, and she knows of no person living who can prove her husband's service. Sarah Porter of Christian County, if living, can prove her marriage with said ZACHARIAH and may remember something of his service. That she has a family record of her age in an ancient Bible, with the ages of all her family; that she is now, very old and needs the benefit of the Act of Congress, but her husband in his lifetime would not apply under the Act of 1818 because he would not take an insolvent oath, and he did not live to receive it under the Act of 1332. That she makes this declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress, passed July 4, 1836 on the day and year above written before me.
/s/ Lucy Matlock
Answer lst. - I was born in Hanover County in the State of Virginia in what year I do not certainly know except that according to my account I shall be ninety years of age if I see next December.
Answer 2nd. I have not but my father had in North Carolina. (Note: Land grant?).
Answer 3rd. I was living in Granville County, in North Carolina when I was first called into service. I have since resided in East Tennessee, in Alabama and in Kentucky. I have been sixteen years or thereabouts in Livingston County about the lower end of the Tennessee River.
Answer 4th. - Upon the first occasion I volunteered, after that I was drafted. I never went as a substitute for any other person.
Answer 5th. - Besides the officers already mentioned there was a Major Armstrong. I remember also Col. Washington who was cut down and taken by the enemy at the Eutaw Springs and Col. Lee of the Legion Cavalry.
Answer 6th. I never received but one and that was frorn Capt. Roney when I exchanged into Cole's Company and left the stockade to go and fight Cornwallis. I left it at my father's more than fifty years ago and have heard nothing of it since. (Note: Discharge?)
Answer 7th. - I know Samuel McCauley and Squire Brown and Doctor Johnson and Moses Lordon (?) and Wills and nearly all the people of the neighborhood all of whom can and I doubt not will testify promptly and distinctly in favour of my character and standing and general conduct during the sixteen or seventeen years that we have been living here.
/s/ (by mark) Nathaniel Matlock
I, Robert C. Bigham, Clerk of the County Court of Livingston County do hereby certify that David Brown is a regularly commissioned and acting Justice of the Peace for and in the said County and that his official acts and certificates as such are (blank) full credit.
In Testimony whereof I have unto set my hand and office the seal of said County Court at Office in Salem, Kentucky this 12th day of September, 1832 and in the 41st year of the Commonwealth.
/s/ Robt. Bigham
Pension Claim No. W. 8409
STATE OF KENTUCKY
LIVINGSTON COUNTY
On this nineteenth day of February Eighteen hundred and forty-two personally appeared before Henry A. Harman, A Justice of the Peace for the County and State aforesaid - MARTHA MATLOCK, a resident of Livingston County and State of Kentucky, aged ninety-two years she being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provisions made by the Act of Congress passed July the 4th, 1836.
That she is the widow of NATHANIEL MATLOCK who was a private in the Army of the Revolution and resided in the State of North Carolina. That she does not recollect the name of the county where they lived but at the beginning of the Revolution her husband, NATHANIEL MATLOCK, served a campaign of three months with the Granville Troops and remembers they were on Cross Creek in the State of North Carolina. I had two children at that time. Dolly Matlock was the oldest; she is seventy-two years of age. Ursly Matlock the youngest was a sucking babe at the time. I think they are both alive and living somewhere in the State of Alabama. We removed from where we then lived to the Brushy Mountains in the State of North Carolina. My husband, NATHANIEL MATLOCK, served a second tour of three months, was with the troops at the crossing of the Catawba where the American commander was killed. We continued to live at the Brushy Mountains and my husband again served a tour of twelve months and marched down towards the seashore and was at the Battle of Eutaw Springs. She further declares she was his wife when he performed those three campaigns and had thirteen children by him in all. That she is feeble her recollection not good, that places and names have faded from her memory, so much that to undertake to relate them would, she fears, be attended with many errors. She knows she cannot remember the names of the officers - she knows her husband served a part or all of the time as a wagon guard. That for several years before his death he received sixty dollars a year from the government for the services rendered in the Revolution, that when he died there was seven months and one day pension due him - that she sent a Power of Attorney and his original certificate to Mr. Joseph Ficklin of Lexington, Kentucky who drew the money for him but she thinks kept the certificate as she has not seen it since, that she thinks his certificate and pension was granted her husband under the provisions of the Acts of Congress passed the seventh of June, eighteen hundred and thirty-two.
She further declared that she was married to NATHANIEL MATLOCK on the first day of September, seventeen hundred and sixty-nine but has no certificate of her marriage at this time; that her husband, NATHANIEL MATLOCK died on the fifth of April, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight and that she has remained a widow ever I since that period as will more fully appear by reference to the proof hereto annexed.
/s/ by mark Martha Matlock
Note: Even though Nathaniel Matlock lived to be past ninety and his wife lived past ninety-two, very little seems to be known about them. In 1790 no Nathaniel Matlock appears on the census records but in 1800 I find four listed by that name as follows:
STATE OF TENNESSEE
COUNTY OF HAWKINS
On the 4th day of October 1832 personally appeared in open court before the Judge of the Circuit Court of Hawkins County, now sitting, RICHARD MATLOCK, a resident of Hawkins County, aged seventy two years, who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declarations in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed 7th of June 1832. That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated, to wit: That on the 18th day of April in the year 1779 in the County of Burke, North Carolina, the declarant volunteered in the company commanded by Capt. John Montgomery in the regiment of militia commanded by Col. Joseph McDowell and with his said company was marched to Hasford's (?) Station in the upper end of Burke County from the lower end of said county where the declarant's father lived and at said station declarant joined Col. McDowell's regiment and continued doing duty at said station in what was called the Turkey Cove on the north fork of the Catawba River and in guarding the frontier settlements from the incursion of the Indians and Tories until about the first day of July following when his company was discharged by Col. McDowell. States declarant received from said officer a written discharge having served fully three months that time which discharge he has lost. Shortly after he returned home another call was made for volunteers and this declarant again volunteered in said County of Burke under Captain Henry Reed, and was again placed under the command of Col. Holmes and left home about the 15th of July 1779 and was marched against the Tories in the Counties of Lincoln and Wilkes and after pursuing took many of them prisoners, he with his company was discharged about the middle of October 1779 at the hand's of Col. Holmes in Burke County having served three months and having also received from him a written discharge, which has also been lost. Again about first of November 1779 he was induced to volunteer under Capt. Reed in said County of Burke and marched with Capt. Reed's company in Col. Holme's regiment into Lincoln and Wilkes Counties marching from one point to another and after being stationed some time at Ramsay's Mill he was again marched into Burke where he was again discharged about the first of February 1780 by said Col. Holmes and received from him a written discharge which he has also lost. His country still needing his services he entered as a volunteer the fourth time into the services of the United States about the middle of March 1780 under the said Capt. Reed in Col. Holmes' Regiment and was marched into the upper part of Burke County and from there into the Counties of Lincoln and Wilkes, where it was difficult to keep down the Tories, and protecting the settlements and after continuing in service and undergoing great fatigue and exposure he was marched into Burke and there discharged by Col. Holmes, from whom he received a discharge which has also been lost some time ago. This last discharge was given him he thinks about the 20th of June 1780, having served fully three months or more. And again in the month of January 1781 information having reached the neighborhood where declarant's father resided in the lower part of Burke that Lord Cornwallis was advancing in pursuit of General Greene, declarant volunteered in Capt. Alexander Irwin's Company raised in Burke and about the 20th of January was marched to the Catawba River nearly opposite to Salisbury or a little below where said company came under the command of General Davidson, and about the first of February, 1781 a skirmish took place between the militia under General Davidson and Lord Cornwallis' troops in the Catawba at a private ford in which skirmish Genl. Davidson was killed by the enemy which caused the militia to retreat or rather disperse being pursued by Tarleton some distance, in which skirmish this declarant was. Some days after this most of the Davidson troops reassembled under the command of Major Pope and this declarant rejoined his company under the command of Lieutenant Jones and Ensign Noble Alexander and marched under Major Pope to the lower Moravian Town otherwise called Salam (?) and this declarant was then discharged by Major Pope about the latter part of April 1781 after serving fully three months that time; he also received a discharge from Major Pope which with his others has been lost many years ago. Again about the first of August 1781 the Indians beginning to be troublesome on the frontiers this declarant entered the service of his country as a volunteer under Capt. William Nail in Burke County and joined Col. McDowell's Regiment of militia at Warfield's Station and remained with said Regiment on duty on the north of the Catawba River, and after remaining on the frontier at the upper end of Burke County until about the first of November following, he, with others, was discharged by Col. McDowell having served three months and which discharge has also been lost with his others. Having during the different periods served eighteen months in the most gloomy and difficult period of the Revolutionary War, declarant states that in that part of the State where he lived, the militia (at least those who were true Whigs) were almost continuously on duty in order to protect the settlements from the incursions of the enemy and none were more troublesome than the Tories who were numerous in that section of country.
He states that he was born in the County of Granville, North Carolina and he hereby relinquishes his every claim to a pension or annuity except the present and declares his name is not on the pension roll of any state and states he knows of no person by whom he can prove his said service.
Sworn to and subscribed this day and year aforesaid.
/s/ (by mark) Richard Medlock
STATE OF TENNESSEE
HAWKINS COUNTY
Personally appeared before me the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, Richard Medlock, an applicant for a pension under the Act of 7th June 1832 and who being duly sworn deposeth and saith in addition to the former statement contained in his Declaration hereto annexed, to-wit: that he has a record of his age which was contained in the Bible owned by his, affiant's, father in his lifetime but which Bible is now in the possession of Notley Thomas, the brother-in-law of affiant and which shows that he was born in North Carolina 1761. He states further that he is acquainted with the Reverend William C. Reynolds and John Rogers who have testified to his character, etc. in his declaration and the affiant is acquainted with Lewis Click, Esq. all of whom reside in his neighborhood and many others who would, if necessary, testify as to his character for voracity their belief of his service SWORN to and SUBSCRIBED before me, the 16th day of May 1833.
/s/ (by mark) Richard Medlock
Lewis Click, Esq.
STATE Of INDIANA
JACKSON COUNTY
On the fourth day of April, one thousand, eight hundred and fifty-five, personally appeared before me, a Justice of the Peace within and for said County and State aforesaid, MARY MEDLOCK, age seventy-six years, a resident of Jackson, State of Indiana, who being duly sworn according to law Declared that she is the widow of RICHARD MEDLOCK, deceased, who was a private in the Revolutionary War and a Revolution pensioner of Hawkins County in the State of Tennessee and that on the thirtieth day of August A.D. eighteen hundred and fifty-four she was inscribed on the pension roll at the rate of sixty dollars per annum under the provisions of the Act of February, 1833 and did then receive a pension certificate No. 4477 and whereas payment is made at Madison (?) Indiana by Joseph H. Chapman, Agent for paying pensioners in the Agency of Indiana.
She further states that she was married to the said RICHARD MEDLOCK in Hawkins County in the State of Tennessee on the tenth day of May A.D. one thousand eitht hundred and four by Absolem Lima (?) a Justice of the Peace and that her name before her said marriage was Mary Weddel, that her said husband died at Hawkins County in the State of Tennessee on the fourth day November A.D. eighteen hundred and forty-seven and that she is since a widow.
She makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the bounty land to which she may be entitled under the Act approved May 3, 1855.
/s/ (by mark) Mary Medlock
(Editor's note: This is the worst handwriting I have ever tried to decipher. After working at it for several days, I feel this is the best I can do.)
STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA
On the 27th day of August, 1823 personally appeared in open court of the Court of Pleas and quarter sessions of the County of Rockingham and state aforesaid which is a court of record JOHN MATLOCK age 70 years, residing in Rockingham County, state aforesaid, he being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath declare, that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows: He entered under Capt. John Nelson as a Sergeant in the County of Guilford - now Rockingham, State of North Carolina in the fourth regiment of North Carolina in the month of May 1776; the regiment was commanded by Col. Alexander Martin. I enlisted for the service a number of soldiers in the County until the month of April., 1777 at which time I marched north the men I enlisted by orders of my superior officers and joined troops under the command of Col. Thomas Polk in Granville; from that place we marched to Georgetown, this is in the State of Maryland; from there to Philadelphia and then up the Delaware; from this place we marched and met Lord Cornwallis near _______ ; The army met him near Iron Hill at which place we had a severe skirmish. I was selected in this affair as one of the light infantry to march in front and was commanded by Col. Martin; I was then in the battle of Brandywine and was one of the soldiers who ? ? the battle. After this battle we went into winter quarters of the ?. The spring following, I was in the battle of Germantown. After this we pursued the enemy toward Sandy Hook and we had another severe skirmish. After this I was in the battle of Stony Point. After this I was taken under the command of Genl. Wayne, after this the army marched to a little town in Jersey I think was called, Paramas(?) at which place after a service of three years and four months I was discharged by Col. Thomas Clark and returned to what was then called Guilford Co., now Rockingham.
About a month after I had returned here, the Tories and British becoming troublesome in this state, I again volunteered my services under Col. Washington and we had a severe skirmish at Whitzell's Mill; after this I was sent home to ? war ? ? ? ? on my way to join the army again at this time the battle of Guilford; after this I was discharged from the service, At the time of my leaving the army, I received from the commanding officer and honorable discharge but having been for twenty-five years concerned in a great deal of public business, I have lost or mislaid them. During the whole time I was in the service I served as a sergeant (Note: payroll voucher shows a Corp. and Sgt.). I know of no person in particular ever living in this vicinity who was with me in the six battles in which I fought but many persons in the county can testify that I was a considerable time in the Revolutionary service.
I do also solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March 1818 and 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 divide 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 and Naval services of the United States in the Revolutionary War passed on the 13th day of March, 1818. And that I have not nor has any persons 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 schedules hereunto annexed and by me subscribed. I have a small crop growing, suppose it may make from 5 to 10 bushels; I have a very small quantity of provisions on hand for the support of my family; I have had a small number of debts due me, but having been Sheriff of the County of Rockingham for twenty-six years. in succession and having been unfortunate in the pecuniary matters of my office and my securities having paid for me considerable sums of money, I have _ (?) to them honestly and in good faith. all the debts and property _ to me, all of which will be far short of paying them the money which they have paid and will have to pay for me. My own occupation at this time is tilling in the earth and but little ability to do, that; I am upwards of 70 years of age, have a second wife, two small boys (the youngest was 16) and stand in need of the pension of my country for support and I have not conveyed or otherwise transferred any portion of my property and defrauded the government of the United States to bring myself within the provisions of the law for the relief of Revolutionary soldiers.
/s/ John Matlock
Sworn to in open court the 27th day of August 1823.
In 1843 the widow, Mary (Settle or Suttle) Matlock was granted a pension on her husband's service. She stated in her declaration that she was 72 years of age and was a resident of Rockingham Co., N.C. She also stated that she married JOHN MATLOCK in 1792. She Stated that her husband died Sept. 1, 1838. She gave as their children the following:
The 1790 census of Rockinghan, shows John Matlock as: 1 white male over 16, 1 under 16 and three females. Obviously he had children by his first wife. John, above, was still in Rockingham Co. as late as 1844 and Charles was known to be there as late as 1855.
ADMINISTRATION BOND
Amherst County, Virginia
KNOW all men by these presents, that we, Neill Campbell, and Hugh Rose are held and firmly bound to William Cabell, Jun., James Dillard, Ambrose Rucker and Thomas Wiatt, Gent. Justices of Amherst County, now sitting in the sum of Two hundred and fifty pounds to the payment whereof well and truly to be made to the said Justices and their successors, we bind ourselves and each of us, our and each of our heirs, executors and administrators jointly and severally, firmly by these present. Sealed with our seals, this second day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and sixty-seven and in the seventh year of the reign of our sovereign Lord George the Thirs.
THE CONDITION of this obligation is such that if the above bound Niell Campbell administrator of all the goods, chattels and credits of JOHN MATLOCK, deceased, do make or cause to be made, a true and perfect inventory of all and singular the goods, chattels and credits of the said Deceased which have or shall come to the hands, possession, or knowledge of him the said Niell Campbell or into the hands or possession of any other person or persons, for him and the same so made do exhibit or cause to be exhibited into the County Court of Amherst at such time as he shall be thereunto required by the said Court and the same goods, chattels and credits and all other the goods, chattels and credits of the said Deceased, at the time of his death.
Inventory dated February 5, 1767 showed the following:
Total value lbs. 110. 16. 72
Ordered to be recorded the third day of March 1767.
The above inventory was listed under John Mattocks, but it very definitely is John Matlock.
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