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2-22-1982, From cousin VIRGINIA RESQUE BRITTON:
Petition of John Gillock Jr. son and heir of John Gillock Sr. to the House of Representatives of the 8th Congress: To the Honorable Speaker of the House & the House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, The Petition of John Gillock Jr. respectfully showeth that your petitioners father John Gillock Sr. early in the commencement of the Revolutionary War enlisted as a soldier in Capt. Francis Taylors' company in the Second Virginia Regiment commanded by Col. Lawson for eighteen months that at the experation of the said term of eighteen months your petitioners father enlisted again during the was, & continued therein until near the close of the same, when owing to the Rhematism & other bodily infirmatives he had contracted in the service of his country, he was discharged, (by General Woodford) under which complaints he languished for a few months & died, leaving your petitioner than an infant of very tender years together with your petitioners mother.
Your petitioner further states that he is the only child left at the time of his fathers death (note: The way this reads, indicates there were other children, but they died? nlp) that owing to the indigent circumstances of your petitioners mother, & his then being an infant no application was made to obtain the pay due to his father from the United States nor was any part thereof ever received to his knowledge, he further states that the discharge given him his father being found among some other old papers whilst your petitioner was an infant & bound out as an apprentice, your petitioner prevailed upon his then Master to become his Guardian in order to recover the pay due your petitioners father, as well as to secure the land which your petitioner was entitled to under the existing laws of the United States in the right of the services rendered them by his father as a soldier-That your petitioners Master James H. Davidson did become his guardian, got the discharge & sent same by a Mr. Samuel Grousson to Philadelphia to endeavor to obtain the pay due as aforesaid & the land, but owing to some cause unknown to your petitioner failed in doing it. Things remained in this situation for some time until your petitioner came of age, & made application for the discharge which could not be found, nor has he ever been able to recover it either from his guardian aforesaid or Mr. Samuel Graudson the same being by some means or other either lost or mislaid, so that your petitioner is wholly without any voucher except what appears on record in the War Office which states the time of your petitioners fathers enlistment & discharge-Your petitioner therefor prays your honorable body to issue a warrant to him for the pay due his father, & also to grant him a warrant for the 200 acres of lands which he is entitled to under the laws that existed at the close of the war & which your petitioner is assured his father would have been entitled to had he lived & which he is now entitled to as his heir at law & that your Honorable body will extend such relief to the heir of an unfortunate soldier who lost his life in obtaining the liberties of his Country, as shall be agreeable to the laws & usages of these United States & the Justice of his case & he as in duty bound & unto ?? pray. John Gillock Jr., son & heir of John Gillock Sr., dec'd.
11-22-1803, referred to the committee of claims. 2-21-1804, Committee of Claims discharged from consideration & petition referred to the committee of the whole House, to whom the committee on the 13th instant, the bill, in addition, to "An Act to make provision for persons that have been disabled by known wounds received in the actual service of the U.S. during the Rev. War.
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