Person:Aaron Lockhart (2)

Revolutionary War Pension Information

Information from “Virginia/West Virginia Genealogical Data from Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Records”, Vol. 3, compiled by Patrick G. Wardell, Lt. Col. U.S. Army Ret. :

Lockart, Aaron - entered service 1776-7 in 4th Pennsylvania Regiment; granted pension 1818 in Harrison County, Virginia, age not given; died Fall of 1819; married in 1793 with wife [mentioned but not named] in New Jersey, who survived him for 5-6 years; one child mentioned but not named living in 1851. F-S38146, R1575.

1.   New Jersey, Compiled Census and Census Substitutes Index, 1643-1890.

   New Jersey, Compiled Census and Census Substitutes Index, 1643-1890
   Name: Aaron Lockhart
   State: NJ
   County: Monmouth County
   Township: Shrewsbury
   Year: 1793
   Record Type: June Tax List
   Database: NJ Tax Lists Index 1772-1822
   [Ancestry.com]

2.   Haymond, Henry. History of Harrison County, West Virginia: from earliest days of northwestern Virginia to the present. (Morgantown, West Virginia: Acme Publishing, 1910)
   pg. 150.

   Aaron Lockhart, Enlisted in 1776 or 1777 (the same year that Montgomery was killed). Capt. Lacy 4th Regt. Penna. Line. Served 4 years. Discharged by Gen'l. St. Clair.

3.   Aaron Lockard in Harrison county (W)Va , applied for a pension 22 April 1818 and died in the fall of 1819. Info in a letter from James Bennett to I.E. Heath Esq.
   comptroller of pensions written in Weston, Lewis county VA, Nov 20 1851. The 1810 Harrison county Virginia census lists Aaron Locard with 1 male 10-16, 1 male 45 and up, 2 females under 10,1 female 15-26 and one female 26-45.