Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 16,765, Josiah Dickson, Va.
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(3-1776) 

SERVICE
Va.

Dickson, Josiah

NUMBER
S. 16.765.

CONTENTS

Carded
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5341
Missouri
Josiah Dickson
Cooper Co. in the State of Missouri
who was a Private in the company commanded
by Captain Butler of the Regt. commanded
by Col Neville in the Vriginia
line for 2 Years -

Inscribed on the Roll of Missouri
the rate of 80 Dollars  ___ Cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 8 day of February 1833 - and sent to Hon. H. Ashley 
and sent to Hon W. Ashley Ho Rapson

Arrears to 4th of Sept 1832 - $120.00
Semi=anl. allowance ending 4 Mar 33  40.00
$160.00

{ Revolutionary Claim, }
{ Act June 7, 1832. }

Recorded by Jno Cromwell Clerk,
Book D Vol. 19 Page 99

1883 Oct. History to L C Draper
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State of Missouri }
County of Cooper } SS

On this ___  day of ____  in the year A.D. 1832 personally appeared before the Judge of the Circuit Court within and for the County of Cooper aforesaid now sitting, Josiah Dickson a resident
of Boonville Township in the County of Cooper and State of Missouri aforesaid aged eighty years in the month of April last who being duly sworn, according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the act of
Congress, passed June 7th 1832.  That he enlisted in the Army of the United States in the
year 1775 with Capt Butler and served in Colo. Nevilles Regiment  under the following named officers, to wit, Captain Presley Neville and Colo.
Neville, the others I have forgotten, having been
exchanged from Capt. Butlers to Capt Neville's Company, and that he entered the Service in Westmoreland County State of Virginia from whence he marched to Pittsburgh then in the State of Virginia - where he remained untill the fall season of the year 1776, when he engaged with General George R. Clark to descend the Ohio River in order to guard Powder and safely convey the same to the settlers of Kentucky and while engaged in this expedition that he together with Joseph Rogers was taken prisoner by the
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Shawnee Indians by whom he was kept upwards of twelve months and by them taken afterwards to Detroit where he remained a prisoner about six months when he together with others on account of suspicion being entertained against them of making their escape and carrying intelligence to General Clark of Governor
Hamiltons expedition, they were sent bound
in Irons and sent to Montreal and from thence Quebeck and there continued a prisoner with the British During the revolutionary war and was discharged at the end of the war at Liverpool in England in the year 1783 of which captivity this applicant has in his possession Certificates signed by Danl. Boon and General George R. Clark and he says that said certificates were each signed to his own knowledge by said persons in words & figures following, towit "Feyatt County Sept. 20th 1785 this is to certify on February the 7th 1778 I was taken prisoner by a party of Shawnee Indians who conducted me to detroit where was a certain Josiah Dickson who was taken at the time John Gabriel Jones was killed in the year 1776 and had purchased his freedom from the Indians and then in Detroit a prisoner with the British and was afterwards informed by three prisoners of note that left that Post at different times towit, Wm Brook, Bartlett Searcey and Nathaniel Bullock, that the said Dickson and James Callaway a young man taken with me was taken on suspicion of making their escape and bringing us intelligence of Governor
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Hamiltons expedition against --- & Kentucky Country, confined with Irons and sent down to Quebeck and remained in captivity during the war, Given under my hand this day and date above written
Danl. Boon clk

I certify that Josiah Dickson was employed by me in the fall of the year 1776 to assist in conducting & guarding a quantity of public powder belonging to the State of Virginia from Fort Pitt to Harrodsburgh while in this service was taken prisoner that he not received any pay from me for his service and as it appears he suffered considerably and continued a long time a prisoner I therefore recommend him to Government as a person worthy to paid for his service &c
Spt. 26th 1785
G.R.Clark

He annexed hereto, is a copy in his possession, the originals have been lost to him, by placing them in an agents hands to procure some pay
for his services which he never received  That this applicant hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any agency or state
Josiah Dickson

Sworn to & subscribed this day & year aforesaid
David Todd circuit Judge
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And the said Court do hereby declare its opinion that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier & served as he states and this Court further certifies that it is the opinion this Court that the foregoing certificates are what they purport to be, and this Court further Certifies that Josiah Dickson is an man of credit and undoubted veracity
David Todd
Circuit Judge Cooper County

I Robt P. Clark Clerk of the Circuit Court held within and for the County of Cooper do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings in the matter of the application of Josiah Dickson for a Pension

In testimony whereof I herein to set my hand seal of Office this 7th day of December in the year A.D. 1832
Robt. P. Clarke clk
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admd
2 years private
80$

Genl. Ashley
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BRIEF in the case of Josiah Dickson
of Cooper County in the State of Missouri
(Act 7th June, 1832.)

1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? a Court.
2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?
3. How old is he? 80 years.
4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed.
Period. In 1775.
Duration of Service.
Years, Months Days.
to the close of the War }
time not stated }
Rank.  As a ____
Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.
Gen.
Capt Butler Col. Neville
5. In what battles was he engaged?
6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Westmoreland County Virginia
7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls?
Traditionary evidence.
8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? No.

I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
B. F. Pleasants
Examining Clerk.
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To. Col. John B. Barnes
Boonville, Missouri

M.E.E.

Jan. 15, 1930,

From the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S. 16765, it appears that Josiah Dickson was born in April, 1752, place not shown.

He enlisted [in Westmoreland Co. Va] in 1775 and served under Captain Butler and Presley Neville in Colonel Neville's Virginia Regiment. In the
fall of 1776 he engaged with General George Rogers Clark to descend the Ohio river in order to guard and safely conduct a quantity of
powder from Fort Pitt to Harrodsburg; while thus engaged he was taken prisoner by the Shawnee Indians, held about twelve months and then taken to Detroit where he remained a prisoner about six months and was then sent, bound in irons, to Montreal, thence to Quebec, and held a prisoner by the British until discharged at Liverpool, England, at the close of the war in 1783.

He was allowed pension on his application executed December 7, 1832, while a resident of Boonville Township, Cooper County, Missouri.

There are no data relative to his family.

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

Josiah Dickson
Certificate Number 5341
Issued February 8, 1833
Rate $80 per month, commenced March 4, 1831
Act of June 7, 1832
Missouri Agency.

Corresp. in claim of George Carr, S. 16693
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July 29, 1938.

BA-J/ILL
Isaac Drake
R. 3072
Josiah Dickson
S. 16765

Mrs. Chester Auld
Route #3
Independence, Missouri. 

Dear Madam: 

Reference is made to your letter of June 25, (See notations on another copy of this letter) which has been received in the Veterans Administration for reply to your inquiry in regard to the names of the father and mother of Ebenezer Dixon of Virginia and Missouri, whose wife was Harriet McCown Dixon, both buried in Jackson County, Missouri, he in 1884 and she in 1894, also, the Revolutionary War record of Isaac Drake of New Jersey or Maryland.

The War of 1812 records have been searched, assuming that Ebenezer Dixon might have served in that war, and no claim for pension found, nor record of issuance of a bounty land warrant for service of the Ebenezer Dixon cited above. The War of 1812 record has been found of an Ebenezer Dixon who served in the Kentucky Militia, lived later in Indiana, wife Catharine Waugh Dixon. If you desire the record of that Ebenezer Dixon, it will be furnished you upon request.

The Revolutionary War records have been searched and no claim for pension found based upon service of a soldier with surname Dixon (variously spelled) who served with the Virginia troops, in which is recorded the name of a son Ebenezer. The record of one soldier only with that surname, who served in the Virginia troops
and later lived in Missouri, has been found on the Revolutionary War records of this office; it is that of Josiah Dickson. His record and that of the only Isaac Drake found on said records are furnished herewith.

Your genealogical chart is enclosed with these reports.

Very truly yours,
A. D. HILLER,
Executive Assistant 
to the Administrator.
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July 29, 1938.

BA-J / ILL
Isaac Drake
R. 3072
Josiah Dickson
S. 16765

Mrs. Chester Auld
Route #3
Independence, Missouri.

Dear Madam:

The Revolutionary War records of Isaac Drake and Josiah Dickson are furnished you herein.

ISAAC DRAKE-R. 3072.

The data which follow are found in the papers on file in pension claim, R. 3072, based upon service of Isaac Drake in the Revolutionary War.

Isaac Drake was born in February 1754, in Morris County, New Jersey, and resided there during most of the Revolutionary War: the names of his parents are not given. However, his father lived
about nine miles from Morristown, New Jersey, at the time Isaac entered the service. Isaac's brother, Stephen, lived there at that time also. Isaac Drake's father moved from New Jersey to Pennsylvania; Isaac moved from Pennsylvania to Cincinnati, Ohio, and lived about two years, then lived about five years in Newport, Kentucky, after that about three years in Henry County, Kentucky; he moved thence to Missouri, resided about sixteen years in St. Louis County, then in Ohio County, and after that in Jackson County,
Missouri; his residence in 1836 was Six Mile, in said Jackson County.

Isaac Drake applied April 16, 1836, for the pension which might have been due on account of his service in the Revolutionary War. He
stated then that at the age of sixteen years he volunteered in Captain David Young's New Jersey Company and guarded prisoners one month,
at the jail in Morristown, that shortly after that he served three months in Captain Jonas Ward's New Jersey company, in the vicinity of Staten
Island and Long Island, that he served three mnoths also in Captain Hendricks' New Jersey company and was in the battle of Staten Island,
said service as substitute for his brother, Stephen; that he enlisted next as private in Captain Ward's New Jersey Company, was in a skirmish at
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the mouth of the Rahway River, was taken prisoner carried to New York and held three months, after which he was paroled; furthermore,
that he enlisted in Pennsylvania (to which state his father had moved) and served three years in Captain Butler's company under General Wayne in the section which was later Ohio. The claim for pension of Isaac Drake was not allowed as he failed to furnish proof of service as required by the pension law under which he applied.

In 1853, it was stated that Isaac Drake had been dead "some ten or twelve years since", the date of his death not given. In 1853, children of the soldier were living, but their names were not given, nor the name of the soldier's wife.

JOSIAH DICKSON - S. 16765.

The data which follow are found in the papers on file in pension claim, S. 16765, based upon service of Josiah Dickson in the Revolutionary War.

Josiah Dickson was born in April 1752; the place of his birth and the names of his parents are not shown.

He enlisted in 1775, in Westmoreland County, Virginia, and served as private under Captain Butler and Presley Neville in Colonel Neville's Virginia regiment; in the fall of 1776, he engaged with General George Rogers Clark to descend the Ohio River in order to guard  and safely conduct a quantity of powder from Fort Pitt to Harrodsburg, and while thus engaged, was taken prisoner by the Shawnee Indians, held about twelve months and was then taken to Detroit where he remained a prisoner about six months, was then sent, bound in irons, to Montreal,
thence to Quebec and was held a prisoner by the British until the close of the war in 1783, when he was discharged in Liverpool, England.

Josiah Dickson was allowed pension on his application executed December 7, 1832, at which time he resided in Boonville Township, Cooper County, Missouri. There are no data regarding the family of this soldier.

In order to obtain the date of last payment of pension, name of

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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 cite the following:

Josiah Dickson
Certificate #5341
Issued February 3, 1833
Rate $80 per annum
Commenced March 4, 1831
Act of June 7, 1832
Missouri Agency.

Very truly yours,
A. D. HILLER,
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator.

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16.765
INVALID.
File No. 16765
Josiah Dickson
Pri Rev War

Act: June 7" 32
Index: - Vol. 1, Page 97

[Arrangement of 1870.]

1914 Mch. 23. To Qr. Mr. Gen. U.S.A.
For tombstone.  FW.

1930.. June 15. Hist to Col. John B. Barnes, Corresp. in claim of George Carr, S.16693, M. E. E.

1938. July 29 Hist to Mrs. Chester Auld. In letter 
letter in Rev Isaac Drake R-3071  ILL
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Fayatt County Sepr the 20th 1785
This is to Certify that on Februry the 7th 1778 I was taken Prisoner by a party of Shaney Indians who Conducted me to Detright where was a Certen Josiah Dixson who was taken at the time John Gaberel Jones, was held in the Year 1776 
and had purchased his freedom from the Indians, and the in Detright a prisoner with the British and was afterwards inform by three Prisoners of Note that left that Post a Different times to wit Willm. Brook Bartlet Cearey and Nathaniel Bullock that the said Dixson and James Calaway a Young Man taken with me was taken on 
Susspesion of making their escape and bringing us inteligen of Governor Hamiltons Expeditions against --- and the Canatucky Country and Confind in Irons and sent down to Quebeck and remained in Captivity during the War
Given under my hand this Day and Date above 
Writen -
Daniel Boon Clk

I Certify that Josiah Dixson was employed by me in the fall of the year 1776 to assist in Conducting & Guarding a Quantity of Public 
Powder belonging to the State of Virginia from Fort Pitt do Harradsburg and that while in this service he was taken prisoner by the Indians. that he not received any pay from me for his Services and as it appears he suffered considerably & continued along time a prisoner I therefore recommend him to Government as a person worthy to be paid for his services
September 26th 1785

Gen G R Clark
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a Copy of
Josiah Dixson
Certificate from
General Clark
1785