The State of Alabama Clarke County On this the 5th day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & thirty two personally appearing in open court before me Samuel Wilkenson Judge of the County Court of Clarke County State of Alabama now sitting John Cox a resident of the State of Alabama in the County of Clarke aged sixty eight years who being duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7, 1832. That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated that we entered the Service in the Virginia Militia on the first of September Seventeen hundred & Eighty One that he entered the service under the command of Captain William Gatewood and that shortly after he entered the Service he was taken into a grenadier company commanded by Col. Mercer he further states that the troops that he served in was commanded by General Weeden, and that he lived at the time he entered service in Essex County, Virginia and that he was drafted to serve two months in the Virginia Militia and that he marched thru King & Queen Counties and into Middlesex County from there to Glocester and that he served about two months he further states that he has no documenting evidence and that he knows of no person whose testimony he can procure who can testify to his service. I hereby relinquish every claim whatsoever to a pension or annuity except the present, and declare that my name is not on the pension Roll of the agency of any State. Where and in what year were you born I was born in Essex County Virginia in the year Seventeen hundred and Sixty four Have you any record of your age and if so where is it I have none Where were you living when called into service, where have you lived since the Revolutionary war and where do you now live I lived when called into service as above stated in my declaration in Essex County, Virginia from Virginia I moved to the State of South Carolina Pendleton District Page 2 And that he lived there nearly Eighteen years, from there moved to Franklin County Georgia lived there some years and from thence moved to the Mississippi Territory now the State of Alabama, Clarke County where he now lives. How were you called into Service, were you drafted did you volunteer or were you a Substitute and if a Substitute for whom? I was drafted in the Virginia Militia as above stated in my declaration State the names of some of the regular Officers who were with the troops which you served, such Continental and Militia Regiments as you can recollect and the general Circumstances of your Service I was at Glocester attached to the Militia recollects General Wayne many french Officers were in Glocester at the time but do not recollect their names Did you ever receive a discharge from the Services And if so by whom it was given and what is become of it I received no discharge, was dismissed after Cornwallis was taken State the names of the persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood and who can testify as to our character for Veracity and good behavior your Services as a Soldier of the Revolution- Mathew Cox and Malcomb Calhoun Sworn to and Subscribed the day and year aforesaid His John x Cox Mark We Malcomb calhoun a clergyman residing in the County of Clarke State of Alabama and Matthew Cox residing in the same do hereby Certify that we are wee acquainted with John Cox who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be Sixty eight years of age that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a Soldier in the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion Sworn to and Subscribed the day and year aforesaid Malcom Calhoun Clergyman Matthew Cox And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the Interrogatories prescribed by the War department that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier and served as he stated and the Court further Certified that it appears to him that Malcomb Calhoun who has Signed the preceding Certificate is a Clergyman resident in the County of Clarke State of Alabama and that Matthew Cox who had also signed the same is a resident in the County and State aforesaid and is a Credible person and that their Statement is entitled to Credit Samuel Wilkinson