W 441 VIRGINIA

On 24 Sep of the year 1819 in Bullitt County in the state of Kentucky, the said pensioner appeared in open court and stated that he had enlisted in the year 1779 or 1780 to serve in the company under the command of Captain John Watts in his corps of Dragoons and also in the regiment under the command of Colonel John White, and he was then transferred to the regiment under the command of Colonel Washington and then came under the command of Major Swan.  He stated that he had served for three or four years until the year 1783 and that he had received no written honorably discharge from his officers.

On 18 Sep of the year 1820 in Bullitt County in the state of Kentucky, the said pensioner at the age of 58 years again appeared in open court and stated that he had first been enlisted by a man by the name of Lieutenant Gunn at Hillsborough in the state of North Carolina and he stated that he had then been sent to Halifax and that he had served in the troop of Horse under the command of Captain John Watts in the year 1780.  He stated that he was then sent from Halifax to Staunton in the state of Virginia and from there to the state of South Carolina and he said that he had served in the regiment under the command of Colonel Washington as aforesaid.  The said pensioner also stated that he had served during the Siege of York and that he had been honorably discharged at Charlestown in the state of South Carolina.  He stated that his pension was numbered 16858 and he said that he had first applied for his pension on 24 Sep of the year 1819.

The said pensioner also stated that he was by occupation a farmer and he also said that his wife was at the age of 58 years and had been lame for thirty years.  He had two children living with him, a daughter at the age of twenty three years and a son at the age of 16 years.

On 02 Aug of the year 1837 in Jefferson County in the state of Kentucky, Eda Langsdon, being the widow and relic of the said pensioner and being at the age of 78 years, appeared in open court and stated that they had been married in Prince Edward County in the state of Virginia on 15 Dec of the year 1781.   She also stated and swore that they had removed from Prince Edward County in the state of Virginia to Mercer County in the state of Kentucky and from there they had removed to Bullitt County in the same state and then from there to Jefferson County also in the state of Kentucky.  She stated that in this latter place her husband had died on XX Oct of the year 1831, leaving herself and the following children:  John Langsdon of Bullitt County in the state of Kentucky who was then married to Royal Langsdon, Mary Langsdon, William Langsdon of Jefferson County in the state of Kentucky and Charles Langsdon of either the state of Ohio or the state of Michigan.  The said widow also stated that all these children were over the age of twenty one at the time of the death of the said pensioner.

On 17 Aug of the year 1838 in Prince Edward County in the state of Virginia, the affidavit of Branch I. Worsham was also given.  the said deponent being the clerk of the Prince Edward County court stated and swore that there was neither a register of the marriage or a certificate of the marriage of the said pensioner.  But the said deponent produced the following:  "Sir, You may grant to Charles Landale a marriage license to marry my daughter Ediath Burks.  As witness my hand and seal this nineteenth day of December of the year seventeen hundred and eighty eight.   Signed, Richard Burks.   Witnessed by Benjamin Hawkins and Elizabeth Burks."   The said deponent also stated and swore at the same time that the marriage bond of the said pensioner had been signed by Charles Landale and Robert Hawkins.

On 11 Dec of the year 1838 in Jefferson County in the state of Kentucky, Edith Langsdon again appeared in open court and stated that she was the daughter of Richard Burks of Burks Old Store in Prince Edward County in the state of Virginia.  She also stated and swore that the following persons were present at her marriage - her sisters Elizabeth Burks and Amelia Rain, Nancy Jackson, Starting Smith, Robert Hawkins, George Cardwell and Dabney Morris.

On 16 Jan of the year 1839 in Jefferson County in the state of Kentucky, the affidavit of George F. Pope was again given.  The said deponent stated and swore that he had been both well and favorably acquainted with the said pensioner many years ago and that he had also at a slightly date become acquainted with the wife of the said pensioner.  The said deponent also stated and swore that the said pensioner and his wife had lived together as man and wife ever since he knew them.

The affidavit of Elizabeth Walthall was also given at the same time and in the same place as the foregoing.  The said deponent stated and swore that at the time of the marriage of the said pensioner and his present widow, she the said deponent, was a small girl living in the vicinity of Burks Old Store in Prince Edward County in the state of Virginia.  But she stated that she herself was not present at the marriage but heard it much spoken of.  She also stated that the said pensioner and his wife had resided in that county for six or seven years after their marriage and that they had then removed to the state of Kentucky.  She also stated and swore that she herself later removed to Jefferson County in the state of Kentucky and there became again acquainted with the fact that the pensioner, Charles Langsdon, had died as has been previously stated.

On 04 May of the year 1843 in Jefferson County in the state of Kentucky, the affidavit of John Jones, A Justice of the Peace, was also given.  The said deponent stated and swore that he had been both well and favorably acquainted with the said pensioner for a period of twenty years.  This deponent also stated and swore that the said pensioner had died as has been stated and that the said Eda Langsdon still remained the widow and relic of the said pensioner, Charles Langsdon.

It was stated on one paper that the pension claim of the said Eda Langsdon was rejected because by a letter from George F. Pope she had been married after the termination of the period her husband's services.

Edith Langsdon, the widow of the pensioner, was on the Kentucky Roll of Pensions at the rate of $100.00 per annum and her certificate of pension for that amount was issued on 10 Jul of the year 1843 and it was then sent to G. W. Merewither, the pension agent at Louisville in Kentucky.

The said pensioner himself, Charles Langsdon, was on the Kentucky Roll of Pensions at the rate of $8.00 per month to commence on 24 Sep of the year 1819 and his certificate of pension for that amount was issued on 06 May of the year 1820 and it was then sent to the Honorable R. C. Anderson.