Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 20318, John Dixon, Md.
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Service
MD

Name
Dixon, John

Number
R.20318
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Rejected
OLD WAR

File No 20318
Rejected

John Dixon
Pri
Capt. Trueman
Md Line
Revy War

Forged by Whitley & Co
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Chambliss Store
Bedford County Va
August 3d 1829

Dear Sir

I have sent you my papers for a pension. I hope you will attend to my claim as soon as possible and write to me as soon as you have acted on the papers.

With respect
your obt serv
Signed John Dixon

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The Hon: J D Ingham
Secretary of the Treasury
Revolutionary Claim
Washington City

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John Dixon
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REVOLUTIONARY CLAIMS

[B.]
Form of a declaration to be made by the Non-Commissioned officers, Musicians, and Privates

For the purpose of obtaining the benefits of the act entitled "An act for the relief of certain surviving Officers and Soldiers of the Army of the Revolution" approved on the 15th of May 1828, I John Dixon of Bethel in the county of Amherst in the state of Virginia do hereby declare that I enlisted in the Continental Line of the Army of the Revolution for and during the war and continued in its service until its termination; at which period I was a private in Captain Alexander Trueman's company in the first regiment of the Maryland Line. And I also decare that I afterwards received certificates for the reward of eighty dollars; to which I was entitled under a resolve of Congress pass the 15th of May 1778.

And I further declare that I was not on the fifteenth day of May 1828 on the Pension List of the United States.

Witness my hand this third day of August in the year 1829.

John Dixon
His X Mark

Note: The most convenient Branch Bank of the U.S. is at blank.
The most convenient Post Office is at blank.

Before me Charles Whitely a Justice of the Peace in the county of Bedford in the state of Virginia personally appeared this day John Colwell and Richar Anderson of the said county persons known to me as credible witnesses who did severally make oath that John Dixon by whom the foregoing declaration was subscribed is generally reputed and believed to have been a soldier in the army of the revolution in manner as therein stated.

Witness my hand this third day of August in the year 1829.

Charles Whitely - JP

I Robt C Mitchell clerk of the Court of the County of Bedford in the state of Virginia do hereby certify that Charles Whitely before whom the foregoing affidavits were sworn was at the time aa Justice of the Peace and duly empowered to administer oaths.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court this 5th day of Aug 1829.

Rob C. Mitchell - Clerk
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1706

Revolutionary Claims

Treasury Department
26 Au 1829

John Dixon of Bethel in the county of Amherst in the state of Virginia has applied to the Secretary of the Treasury for the benefits of the act entitled "An act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the Revolution" approved the 15th of May 1828. He states that he enlisted in the continental line of the army of the Revolution for and during the war and continued until its termination at which period he was a private in captain Alex Truman's company in the first regiment of the Maryland lined; and that he received a certificate for the reward of eighty dollars, provided by the resolved of the 15th of May 1778 and further that he was not on the 15th day of May 1828 on the pension list of the United States and that he has received as a pensioner since the 3rd of March 1826, nothing.

The Third Auditor is requested to report how far the several statements are corroborated by the records in his office.

By order of the Secretary

F.A. Dickins

Whether John Dixon served in Capt. Trueman's Company I think may be ascertained from the auditor of the state of Maryland who has some of the original Maryland payrolls.

Treasury Department
Third Auditor's Office
28 August 1829

In appears by the records in this office that a certificate for the reward of eighty dollars has been issued to John Dixon in the Maryland line. It further appears that John Dixon is not now on the pension list of any agency and has not been so since the 3d March 1826.

Capt. Alex Trueman of the Maryland line served to the end of the war and received certificates for his commutation - the muster rolls of the Maryland line having all been destroyed there is nothing by which any particular soldier of that line can be identified as having belonged to a certain company or even regiment.

Peter Hagner - Aud.

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Council Chamber
Annapolis June 30th, 1829

I certify that it appears from the records relating to the services of the revolutionary troops of this state now in my office that one John Dixon enlisted in the first regiment of the line on continental establishment on the 28th day of April 1779 for & during the war that he was present on the first day of November 1780 and that he received for arrearages of pay from the 1st day of August 1780 to the 15th day of November 1783 $203.30 and also the sum of eighty dollars as a gratuity.

Signed (Thomas Culbreath Cler of the Council)

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Council Chamber
Annapolis, June 30th, 1829

Sir

I have examined the records in my office relating to the service of the revolutionary troops of
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this state but do not find that any person of your name served in the fourth regiment. Now you have a certificate of the service of a person of your name in the First regiment & I think it quite probable it was yourself. It is very common for old soldiers to make mistakes in the number of the regiment they served in and it is not at all surprising that such should be the case after such a long interval of time. Our records are very defective and imperfect & I am sorry that they do not enable me to give you the names of the officers, but they are so frequently changed that I presume you must have served under several both as commandant of the regiment and company.

I hope that the evidence furnished may answer your purpose.

I am very respectfully
your obt servant

Signed Thos Culbreth

P.S.

I send you a certificate of your right if you are the J.D. named to a lot of land in Alleghany County.

Signed T.C.
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The National Archives

Bounty Land Warrant Record Card

Division of Veterans' Administration

Name: Dixon, John
Grade: Dragoon in Maryland Regiment
Line: Pennsylvania
Warrant Number: 9302
Acreage: 100
Issued: June 20, 1789
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