Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File B. L. Wt. 1221-300, for Abraham Lyon, New Jersey
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(3 - 1776 )
SERVICE
New Jersey

Lyon  Abraham

NUMBER
B.L.K. 1221-300 Capt.
Issued Dec. 24, 1789
also recorded as above
under L. Wt. 2527
No papers

CONTENTS
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Rev Sec Mt
Mt. Vernon, Ohio
June 22, 1917

Mr. G.M. Saltsgaber
Washington D.C.

Dear Sir
In talking with
O.G. Daniels of this city,
concerning pension and war
records, she referred me to
you as a person who could
help me establish some facts
concerning my ancestor
May I ask the favor of you?
my great grand father was a
soldier for a few months in
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the war of 1812. Mahlon Craven by
name. His widow, Hannah (Iden)
Craven received a widows pension for
Years.
Do you have on record the
names of his father and mother, and
in what part of Virginia did they live?

Wid of 10844, War 1812

Another ancestor, Abraham Lyon, was a
Captain in Heards Brigade-- also
Captain in Continental Army in
New Jersey, during the Revolutionary War
of would you have any record
his birth or death, or the name of
his wife I have my papers ready for membership
in the D.A.R. Society and if you can
give me any information on
either or both of these ancestor, I
will be glad to send you whatever
Respectfully-

Miss Ada Cooper
611 E. High St
Mt. Vernon
Ohio
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Rev. War Section.

                                                                                    July 18, 1917.
Miss Ada Cooper,
612 E. High St.
Mount Vernon, Ohio.

Madam:

In reply to your letter of the 23"" ultimo, you are
herewith furnished the history of the only Abraham Lyon,
under any spelling of the name, found on the Revolutionary War
records of this Bureau, who served as a Captain of the
New Jersey Troops.
County Land Warrant No. 2527, for three hundred acres,
was allowed on December 24, 1789, on account of the service
of Captain Abraham Lyon, of the New Jersey Line, War of the
Revolution. There are no papers on file relative to him
owing to the destruction of the papers in such claims when
the war office was burned in November 1800.

Therefore there
is no further data on file as to his services and no data as
to his family,
Very respectfully,
Hill
Commissioner.