State of North Carolina Wake County

The Affidavit of Bartlet Pettiford who is a person of respectability, who first being by me duly sworn according to Law; to testify & the truth to say in relation to the marrige of Valentine Locus with his wife Rachel Locus, who was before their marrige Rachel Pettiford, & sister to the deponent.

Deposeth & Saith that he was present at the Wedding and Saw them married, at the House or dwelling of Col. John Dickinson who was the magistrate that married ^them^ & whose residence was in the County of Granville in the State of North Carolina near Tar River, that he went with his Sister & the said Valentine to the House of the sd.  magistrate, & after they were married he return'd with them, and he is certain they were lawfully married, and always lived together thereafter as man & Wife, and that they had Eight Children, to wit, Martin, Phereby, Kinchen, Nancy, Ruthy, Polly, Jordan & Absalom. And that the above Marriage took place on a Thursday on or about the Middle of the Month of November 1774—at the place aforesaid, & by the aforesd. Col. John Dickinson

Sometime after which say, on or about the month of April 1776, the said Valentine Locus enlisted as a Soldier, in the Revolutionary War for two & a half years, and it was always said & reported of him that he served out the full term of his enlistment and was Honourably discharged: that he stayed with his Sister a good part of his time, while the said Valentine Locus was from home in the Army. And that they lived near each other in the sd. County of Granville, at that time and afterwards in the County of Wake, where he died: to the best of this deponents recollection about 25 or 30 years ago: 

And that his said Sister Rachel Locus, has ever since her husbands death, and still lives the widow of the aforesaid Valentine Locus in the County of Wake & State aforesaid, and is now very old & infirm & some upwards of 80 years of age.

& further he saith not. Sworn to & Subscribed before me, one of the acting Justices of the Peace in & for the County of Wake aforesd. on this 24th. day of August 1838.

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Bartlet X Pettiford

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Wm Thompson JP

I Certify that the above named Bartlet Pettiford is a person of credibility & respect

Wm Thompson JP

State of North Carolina
Wake County}
I Alfred Williams Clerk of the Court of the Court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions for the County of Wake aforesaid, do hereby Certify that William Thompson whose name appears to the foregoing affidavit & certificate is an acting Justice of the Peace in & for the County aforesaid—

In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto affixed the seal of said Court, and set my hand at Raleigh, this 24th. day of August 1838

A. Williams D.C.