Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S 37676, Joseph Anderson, Va.
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May 9, 1940

BA-J/AWF [?]
Joseph Anderson
S. 37676

Mrs. C. S. Woodward
2005 Scott Street
Little Rock, Arkansas

Dear Madam:

Reference is made to your letter in which
you request information in regard to Joseph
Anderson of Augusta County, Virginia, soldier in
the Revolutionary War.

The data furnished herein were obtained
from papers on file in claim for pension, S. 37676, 
based upon the military service of Joseph Anderson, in the War of the Revolution.

The date and place of birth of Joseph Anderson
were not stated, nor were the names of his parents given.

Joseph Anderson enlisted in Botetourt County,
Virginia, sometime in March, 1776, served as private in Captain Thomas Posey's company, in Colonel Dangerfield's Seventh Virginia Regiment, he was in the battles at the taking of Burgoyne, and was discharged in the month of March, 1778, ,at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania. 

He was allowed pension on his application
executed June 29, 1819, at which time he was aged about sixty-nine years, and a resident of Giles County,
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Virginia.

The soldier, Joseph Anderson, in 1821 referred
to his wife as aged about sixty years, and reference was made to children, in 1853.  Names of wife and children were not given.

The papers on file in this claim contain no 
further discernible data in regard to family.

In order to obtain the date of last payment 
of pension, name and address of person paid, and possibly the date of death of this pensioner, you should apply to the Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, Records Division this city, and furnish the following data:

Joseph Anderson
Certificate # 15734
Issued November 5, 1819
Rate $8.00 per month
Commenced June 29, 1819
Act of March 18, 1818
Virginia Agency.

Very truly yours

A. D. HILLER
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator