Pension Application of Richard Litteral: W26220

                        Transcribed and annotated by C. Leon Harris

 

At a Court held for the County of Botetourt in the State of Virginia the 14th day of May 1818

            Richard Litteral an inhabitant of this county and citizen of this state personally appeared before this court, being a court of Record, and made oath that he served as a soldier in the army of the United States in the War of the Revolution  that he enlisted with Capt’n John Stith in the 3d Regiment of Light Dragoons commanded by Colo George Baylor on Continental establishment, he believes in the year 1780– that he served in said Regt. untill he was discharged by proclamation in November 1783 as well as he now recollects, having received no other discharge, and that he has no means by which he can support himself than by his dayly labour, and that he needs the assistance of his country for support.

            Henry Bowyer made oath that he was a Lieut’t & Adjutant in the first Reg’t of Light Dragoons on Contiental establishment in the Army of the Revolution  that in the year 1781 or 1782 the said first & third Regimts of Light Dragoons were consolidated, when the sd. Richard Litteral (then a soldier of the sd 3d Reg’t) became known to this Depon’t, and that sd. Litteral served in sd Regiments (thus consolidated) in the State of S. Carolina untill the army was disbanded in the year 1783

 

State of Tennessee}    Circuit Court Feb. Term 1855

Knox County}              Be it remembered that on this 20th day of February 1855 Jane Litteral appeared in open court and made oath to the following statements, in order to obtain a provision under the act of Feb 3rd 1853

Declarant states that she is the widow of Richard Litteral, a soldier of the Revolution, and a pensioner of the United States. That she was married to said Richard Litteral in Botetourt, now Craig County Virginia by one James Davis a Minister on or about the 26th day of August 1830. She has no private and knows of no public record of her said marriage. previous to her marriage with said Litteral her name was Jane Champs, widow of George Champs, her maiden name was Jane Welch  That her said husband Richard Litteral died in Botetourt C Virginia she thinks in the year 1840 [“Sept 3rd 1840" written above] and that she is now and has been ever since his death a widow never having married again.

Affiant asks to be placed on the Pension roll of the Knoxville Tennessee Agency having a son resident in said city and not expecting to return to Virginia.           Jane herXmark Litteral

 

NOTES: A typed summary in the file states that Jane Welch Champs was the second wife of Richard Litteral, that she was born in Botetourt County and lived there until 1849, when she moved to Wayne County IN, where some of her children lived.