Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 9501, for Mormon Lawson, Virginia
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Service 
Va
Lawson, Mormon
               Elva
Number 
W. 9501

B.L. Wt. 39226-160-55
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State of Tennessee
Court of Pleas & quarter Sessions February Session
Hawkins County 1834
On this 25th day of February 1834 personally appeared in open Court before the Court of Pleas sitting Mormon Lawson a resident in the County of Hawkins in the State of Tennessee and who duly according to Law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed 7 1832
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers & served as herein stated 
that he was born in Bedford County in the State of Virginia  January 1751 as well as he can ascertain
from the best information he can get - that he has no documentation - that he has no record of his age - there never was one as he knows - the 
- the applicant further further states that he was living in Henry County in the state Virginia when he first entered the service in the year 1179 in the spring of the year - the month he does not recollect-  the year was as he has stated as wee as he remembers- the affiant further states that the entered the service as a volunteer under Capt Elias Heilan[?] - that those who obeyed the call to enter the service of their County as volunteers rendezvoused  at the hour of the Captain, & from thence under the command of Col James Lynn & Lieutenant Regan were marched in pursuit of the deserters & Tories who had taken shelter in the mountains that in their march they halted[?] at a place called
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rendezvoused  at the house of the Captain, & from
thence under the command of Col James Lyon & Lieutenant
Daniel Rogers were marched in pursuit of the deserters & Tories who had taken shelter in the Mountains, - that in their march they hath at a place called Tower Cap: that this place they occupied as a station for some time, to which they would return from their excursions in the Mountains, -that during this expedition they were called to make prisoners of several Tories -  that his term of service in the ranging the Mountains & remaining at the Station, lasted as well as he remember three months -, that they were then marched home but never received a written discharge
,The Applicant further states that they had remained
at home but a short time, where on account of the depredations again committed by the Tories from the Mountains, orders were given the Col to call out volunteers & the Col. informed Subordinate officers and they called upon the people -this applicant again entered the service, as a volunteer under the same Officers and were again marched in the direction of the Mountains in quest of the Tories,  -that the during this expedition they made a new station at a place called the Old Store from which they would March into the mountain & to which they would return as the term of service was not as long
as the first, but was not less than two months as well as
he can now recollect.