REVOLUTIONARY WAR PENSION APPLICATION - VACHEL LIGHT

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Pension Application for Revolutionary Service - Vachel Light

State of Tennessee
Sullivan County Declaration in order to be placed on the

Pension

On this (Blank) day of September 1833 personally
appeared before the Honorable the present Court of Law &
Equity in & for the County & state aforesaid Vachel Light
a citizen of said County aged seventy years, who being
first duly sworn according to Law doth on his oath
make the following declaration in order to
attain the benefits of the provisions of the act of
Congress passed the 7th day of June 1832, that he
entered into the service of the United States & served
under the following named officers in the Revolutionary
War as follows to wit. He was born in Halifax
County Virginia and there resided when the Revolutionary
war broke out, and in the year 1780 in the militia of said state
of Virginia volunteered for a three months
tour of duty under Captain Cobb rendezvoused at Staunton
Virginia, marched to Petersburgh, thence to Norfold, and
there formed the main army under General Muhlenburgh
& continued until the expiration of his three months
at Norfolk & was then discharged by Captain Cobb
but which discharge in the course of time he has lost.

Again in the year aforesaid (1780) he in the
militia of Virginia he substituted for one William Hodge
a drafted militia man & enrolled himself
under Captain Joshua Powel marched to Norfolk by the way
of Petersburgh & there his captain died & he was transferred
to another officer whose name he has forgotten but
was marched to the Fort above Norfolk of which the British
had ______ themselves & had frequent attacks from the
British then served out his term of enlistment and
obtained a discharge from the Captain to whom
he had been transferred on the death of Captain Powel which
discharge he has also lost. In which two
tours he served six months in the Revolutionary army
& for which he claims to be pensioned. That he has no record of
his age but was born as informed by his parents in the year 1763,
that his name is not on the roll
of the agency of any state nor has he any record
evidence or documentary proof of his service
not Liveing proof of actual service, but that John Peoples Esqr &
(Blank) are persons known to him & he to them by whom he can
establish his reputation to have been a soldier. He hereby
relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension except the
present,that there is no minister of the Gospel in his vicinity
by whom he can prove ________.
Sworn to & subscribed in
open Court this day of Vachel (his X mark) Light
September 1833.

State of Tennessee
Washington County On this 4th Nov. 1836

Personally appeared Vachel Light before
the undersigned a Justice of the Peace
for said Couty and made oath that he is
the identical Vachel Light, named in an original certificate of
pension ______ him 16th Oct 1833 at the rate of
twenty dollars per annum, that he has failed to
attend and draw his pension for the last two years from inability
to attend at the distance at which he resides from the agency
(being afflicted with Rheumatism) that the same is still due him
but the agent refuses payment without official instructions which
he prays may be given him.

Sworn to & subscribed this
4th Nov. 1836 Vachel (his X mark) Light
_____ B.Carr
Justice of Peace

I know the above Vachel Light to be the pensioner.

John Blair.