Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 2694, Samuel Davison, Va
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Service            Number 
Va  Davison, Samuel  R.2694
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militia of Virginia did not perform service for so long a period
as to entitle under the provisions of the Act of June 7, 1832.  If he go to court & there
show by recognized testimony that the service was as long as alleged, the Act of June 7, 1832 provides for cases like this – not some different one. The claim has consequently been rejected and the papers filed in this office.
J. Ryman, Esq.
Brookville, Indiana
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War Dept. Pen. Office
Sept. 2,  1836

Sir, The declaration of Samuel Davison has been [illegible], [crossed out] Nor alleges that he was entered the service in Virginia in the two months before the battle of Guilford and the dates don’t give months. The militia of Virginia did not perform continuous service for so long a period. [Crossed out] The act of 7 June 1832 is the go to court & there be recognized that the service was long as alleged. The act of June 1832 provides for cases like this – not some different one. The claim has consequently been rejected and the papers filed in this office.
J. Ryman, Esq.
Brookville, Indiana
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Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of congress of the 7th of June 1832
State of Indiana
Franklin County
On this 11th day of October A.D. 1836 personally appeared before the Judges of
the Franklin Circuit Court in open Court Samuel Davison a resident of Ray township in the County of Franklin and State of Indiana aged seventy four years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions of the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832. That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated, that is to say under General Green and Captain Moon (which are all the officers whose names are remembered by this applicant) on the [blank] day of [blank] 1781 about two months before the battle of Guilford (the precise time not remembered in consequence of age) that he remind
in the service just six months from the time he entered the service and this applicant received his discharge from his Lieut. whose name this applicant has forgotten, and has long since lost his discharge, that at the time he entered the service he resided in the County of Bedford Virginia near Linchburgh, he was a substitute for his father James Davison, he was in the battle of Guilford in which battle Capt. Moon was mortally wounded having received a ball on the left side which he caught in his hand as it passed through his right side, exclaiming to one Michael Gilbert, his brother in law, that he had received a mortal wound
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he died the evening following. This applicant marched from Bedford County Virginia to where the main army was, near Hillsborough North Carolina, from thence to Guilford That after the battle of Guilford, this affiant remained near a place called Ramsowers Mills, within a few miles of the said battle ground for, as well as he can recollect, six weeks, with the wounded soldiers of said battle of Guilford. That he afterwards marched with the detachment with which he was left, to said Mills, and overtook the main Army under General Green, in the borders of South Carolina, where he remained with the Army until his discharge; but the precise time of his discharge, this affiant does not recollect, nor does he remember at what particular County, or place the Army was stationed at the time of his discharge, owing to his being then a stranger in that country, as well as to his present advanced age. And this affiant further saith, that he knows of no person living by whom he can prove his said services and that he has no documentary evidence thereof He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not the pension roll of the agency of any state
Sworn to and subscribed in open Court the day and year aforesaid
J.Hw CLK FCC
Mr. Jonathan Alley and Daniel John Clergyman, residents in the said county of Franklin, Indiana, do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Samuel Davison, who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be 74 years
of age; that he is reputed and believed in
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The neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier
of the [illegible] revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid in open court
Robert John Clk   Jonathan Alley
                             Daniel John

Interrogatories by the Court
1st  Where and in what year ware you born? Ans I was born in Pennsylvania 4 mile from Taney
Town.
2nd  Have you any record of your age, and if so, where is it? Ans I have none.
3rd  Where ware you living when called into the service? Where have you lived since the Revolutionary War, and where do you now live? Ans. In Virginia Bedford County near Lynchburgh, when I entered the service, I next lived in E. Tennessee next in W. Tennessee, from thence I moved to Franklin County Indiana where I now live.
How ware you called into the service; ware you drafted, did you volunteer, or ware you a substitute? And if a substitute, for whom? Ans. I entered the service as a substitute for James Davison
5th State the names of some of the Regular Officers who ware with the troops, where you served; such Continental and Militia Regiments as you can recollect, and the general circumstances of your service. Ans I can state the names of none but Gen. Green, and Capt. Moon, I recollect none of the continental or militia regiments. I recollect the circumstance of Capt. Moon’s being killed at the battle of Guilford as stated in my declaration
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Did you ever receive a discharge from the service, and if so, by whom was it given and what has become of it? Ans. I received a discharge from my Lieut. whose name I have forgoten, which has long since been lost

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier, and served as stated. And they further certify that it appears to them that Jonathan Alley and Daniel H. John who have signed the preceding certificate, are respectable clergymen, resident in the County of Franklin aforesaid, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
M. C. Eggleston, Chair
David Mount,
John Lanick

State of Indiana
Franklin County 

I, Robert John, Clerk of the Franklin Circuit Court, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of Samuel Davison for a pension
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of office this 19th  day of October 1836
Robert John Clk
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Department of the Interior,
Bureau of Pensions
Washington, D.C. [blank], 19[blank]

In reply to your request of [blank], received [blank], for a statement of the military history of Samuel Davison, a soldier of theRevolutionary War, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau.

R.2694

DATE OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT	LENGTH OF SERVICE	RANK	OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED	STATE
1781	2 mos	✓	Captain: Moon  Va.

Battles engaged in: Guilford

Residence of soldier at enlistment: Bedford Co. Va. (near Lynchburg)

Date of application for pension: Oct. 11, 1836

Residence at date of application: Ray Township, Franklin Co. Ind.

Age at date of application: 74 years; born 4 miles from Tawnystown, Penn.

Remarks: Soldier was the son of James Davison

The claim was rejected on the ground of insufficient proof of 6 mos. actual service as required by the Act of June 7, 1832 under which he applied.

Respectfully,
Commissioner
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Samuel Davison
Indiana

Rejected
See letter 9 Oct.
1836 J. Ryan

Died [illegible]

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1233 Madison Street,
Brightwood, Washington, D.C.

May 2, 1914

Hon. Gaylord M. Saltzgaber,
Commissioner of Pensions.

Dear Sir:
In the Report of the Secretary of the Interior, under date of Feb. 23, 1882, containing a list of names of pensioners residing in Indiana who had applied for pension under the act of June 7, 1832, whose claims had been rejected, as appearing in conformity with the resolution of the Senate of the United States of September 16, 1850, now, at the bottom of page 406, the name of Samuel Davison, with the brief statement that he was of Brookville, in Franklin County, and that his application was rejected because he did not serve six months. In this connection, I beg to enquire if the Pension Bureau is in possession of any further information whatsoever, regard-
ing this rejected claim? What was did this
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particular claimant serve in?

Thanking you in advance,
I am, respectfully yours,
John C. Proctor
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1914 May 11 — Filed by John C. Proctor
M. 18. 74
Refd
1836 of Franklin Co. Ind.
Resided in Bedford Co. Va. near Lynchburg. Enlisted for his father in war in battle of Guilford &c. His father was James.
Born in Pen and in East Ten

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2694

P.O.: [Blank]
Samuel Davison
Service: Samuel Davison

REJECTED

Enlisted: [Blank], 18[Blank]
Discharged: [Blank], 18[Blank]
Application filed: [Blank], 18[Blank]
Ages: [Blank]
Reenlisted: [Blank]

Attorney: [Blank]
P.O.: [Blank]

Recognized: [Blank]
Contract: [Blank]
Cert. of Dis.: [Blank]
Searched for: [Blank], 18[Blank]