Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S, for Joshua Lazenby, Maryland
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This application was submitted to this Bureau December 15, 1927 to be filed for the sake of posterity and not for the purpose of obtaining any pension. See correspondence inside. Submitted by Miss Mary E. Lazenby.
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Mary E. Lazenby
2333 Nebraska Ave
Washington D.C.

Registered

299402

Commissioner of Pensions
Department of the Interior
Washington D.C.

82801
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Mary E. Lazenby
Research and Translations
2333 Nebraska Avenue
Washington D. C.

December 15, 1927
Hon. Winfield Scott,
Commissioner of Pensions

Sir:
In accordance with your letter of December 12, I attach here-with the original application for a Revolutionary pension, of Joshua Lazenby, which was never completed and never sent in. Joshua Lazenby died Sept. 2, 1840, aged 81, near Statesville, N.C., where he went from Montgomery County, Maryland, in 1785; this date is verified by a paper in my possession, the date of 1790, mentioned in the application, probably arising from the lapse of memory.

From the manuscript records of Montgomery County, in possession of the Maryland Historical Society, I learn that Joshua Lazenby served in the 1st Company, 29th Lower Battalion. The first name on this list is that of John Gaither; Colonel, John Murdoch; Lt. Col., Wm. Deakins; Major, George Beall. In the same company were Daniel Lewis, and three of Joshua's brothers, Alexander, Henry and Elias. Joshua's pension application may be considered in connection with that of Daniel Lewis, on file in your office. His oldest son married Daniel Lewis's oldest daughter, my grandparents.
Respectfully,
Mary E. Lazenby
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Signature of Joshua Lazenby
on Daniel Lewis (N.C. or Md.)

Miss Mary E. Lazenby
2333 Nebr Ave
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Miss Mary E. Lazenby
2333 Nebraska Ave., N.W.
Washington, D.C.

Madam:
I have to advise you relative to the pension application of Joshua Lazenby, Revolutionary War soldier, referred to by you on the above date, that if you will submit said papers, the matter of placing them on file in the Bureau for the sake of posterity, as suggested by you, will be given consideration. 

Respectfully, 
Winfield Scott
Commissioner.

This lady called to know if this could be done and I asked Dr. Wilkinson what h thought about the matter. He said no reason why it should not be done. 

But put in jacket, when filed, by whom and for what purpose.

I wrote this to first see the papers to be sure of their purpose.
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Joshua Lazenby
Declaration

Receive of Pierce $2"18
Received of Howard $12"00
Received of Crawford $29"66
Received of Wm. Turner $8"85

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State of North Carolina 
Iridell County

August Sessions AD 1832

On the 22nd day of August 1832 personally appeared in open court before the Court of
now selling Pleas & Quarter Sessions Joshua Lazenby a resident of Iredell County North Carolina aged 73 years who being
first sworn according to Law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832
That he entered the service of the United States under the following appears & served as herein stated he served in Captain John Farther's Company, which was in a brigade of Regulard commanded by General
Smallwood, He entered such service in the spring of 1777and left it date in the fall of the same year, he was drafted and served six months or more when he was taken sick & obtained a discharge which is now lost
He lived in Maryland in the County of Montgomery
& was drafted there- He marched into Pennsylvania after the British & came up with them at a little town
then called the White Horse somewhere between Baltimore & Philadelphia & had a smart action in the night time that he was kept constantly on the scout & pap in various directions through that part of the country principally for the purpose of watching the British. & then he returned home when he received his discharge
he does not recollect much about the Regular troops or their
officers, but thinks General Smallwood commanded the
Maryland Line & there was a Major Brooks, who was eitherRegular or militia officer he is not certain which
He knows of no documentary evidence at all to establish
his claim & of no other person but Daniel Lewis whose
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Certificate is annexed, by whom the facts of his service
an known, the said Lewis & David Fitzgerald on
near neighbours to whom his character is well known
He lived in Maryland up to about the year 1790
at which time he moved to this County when he now live
That he has a record of his age which shews that
he was born in the year 1759
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension
or annuity except the present & declares that his name is
not on the pension Role of the agency of any state
Sworn to & subscribed the day & year aforesaid
Mr Daniel Lewis &residing in the County of Iredell hereby Certify that
an well acquainted with Joshua Lazenby who
has subscribed & sworn to the above declaration
that we believe him to be 73 years of age; that he is
reputed & believed in the neighborhood when [illegibele]
to have been a soldier of the Revolution & that
we concur in that opinion
Sworn to & subscribed the date aforesaid
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and the said Court do hereby declare their opinion
after the investigation of the matter & putting the
interrogators presented by the war department, that the
above named applicant was a Revolutionary solder
& served as he states. And the Court further certifies
that it appears to them that Daniel Lewis and
who have signed the above
certificate a resident in the County of Iredell
a credible persons & their statement is entitled
to credit
I Absalom Simonton Clerk of the Court of Pleas &
quarter sessions do hereby certify that the forgoing
contains the original procedings of the said Court in the
matter of the application of Joshua Lazenby for a pension
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my
hand & seal of office this 24th day of Aug. 1832