Be it remembered that at a County Court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions began and held for the County of Wake aforesaid, at the Court house in the City of Raleigh on the third Monday in May in the year of Our Lord One thousand eight hundred & thirty eight, the following declaration was filed, in the words and figures to Wit:

"The declaration of Rachel Locus a free woman of Colour—in Order to obtain the benefit of the third Section of the act of Congress of the 4th. of July 1836—"

"State of North Carolina
Wake County} Ss
On this 24th. day of May 1838 personally appeared in open Court, the above named Rachael Locus of the County and State aforesaid, aged eighty years, who being ^first^ duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision, made by the act of Congress passed July 4th. 1836. That she is the Widow of Valentine Locus, who was a private Soldier in Capt. Emmetts Company of the 3rd. Regiment in the Revolutionary War, and that he enlisted and served two and half years—She further declares that she was married to the said Valentine Locus on or about the full of the year 1777; that her husband the aforesaid Valentine Locus died in the year 1812, as well as she can recollect to the best of her knowledge, the precise day not now recollected, but it was about a month before Christmas in the year aforesaid, in the County of Wake.

And that she has remained a Widow ever since that period, as will more fully appear by reference to the proof hereto accompanying this declaration—