State of Louisiana, Parish of St Helena, before James H. George, JP. On this 30th day of March eighteen hundred and fifty seven before me, the undersigned, a justice of the Peace in and for the parish and state aforesaid, personally appeared Rebecca Dykes aged about 70 years, a resident of the parish of St Helena state of Louisiana who, being duly sworn, according to law, declares that she is the widow of Isaac Dykes deceased, who was a Private in the company commanded by Captain John R. Goff in the Regiment of commanded by Col Decluet in the war between the United State of America and Great Brittain, that her said husband entered said service at the Navy Yard St Tammany Parish on or about December A.D. 1814 for the term of the war and continued in actual service in said war for the term of fourteen days and more, and died before he reached home 15 January A.D. 1815. She further states that she was married to the said Isaac Dykes in Orrangeburg District state of South Carolina on the 1st day of December A.D. 18-- [no year given] by one Isaac Dykes a Justice of the Peace and that her name before her marriage was Rebecca Holley, and that her said husband died on or about 15th day of January A.D. 1815 and that she is now a widow. She further declares that she has not made application for bounty land under the act of Congress passed 3rd March or any other act and has not received a land warrant for any amount of bounty land. Rebecca (x) Dykes.
Rhoda (x) Mixon and Kezzia A. George of St Helena Parish are witnesses.
St Helena Parish, 15 Feb 1857, Jehu (x) Fletcher, being duly sworn before W.C. McAlister, JP, says that he was a soldier in the war with the United States and Great Britain known as the War of 1812, that he was a Private in the company commanded by John R. Goff, regiment commanded by Colonel Decluit. He further swears that he knew personally Isaak Dykes who was a Private in said company commanded by Capt John R. Goff and Regiment commanded by Col Decluit, that said Isaack Dykes was drafted on or about December 1814 about the latter part of the month, that said Isaack Dykes served in said company during the war and did actual service in said battle to applicant's own personal knowledge from the fact that this affiant was there and saw the said Isaac Dykes then in said service, and that the said Isaack Dykes died after the war after battle was fought in or near New Orleans, for I was there and nursed him and saw him then sick and was there the night he the said Isaack Dykes died, all of the subtanciel facts of said pertinant facts above stated are true to my mind but the particular dates months & days I have stated to the best of my recollection but that I saw the identical Isaack Dykes in said service I have no doubt and state the same positively and unequivocally from a distinct recollection of the same.
The above two paragraphs are transcribed from the bounty land file at NARA. James Starnes, Wiley Young and Jacob Womack also made affidavits in support of service. Thomas Green Davidson, Member of Congress from the 3rd District of Louisiana, also made affidavit in support of the widow's marriage to the deceased. The application was successful.
[Contributed by Bevin Creel]
