Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File B. L. Wt. 1021-100, John Dixon, Continental Conn.
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(8-1776)
Service Number
Continental  Dixon, John   B.L. Wt 1021-100
Contents
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1021
the heirs of Jno Dixon
private
Connecticut line -
Warrant ipd Jany 2nd 1822

Hon. C. H. Ruggles
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1021
the heirs of Jno Dixon
private
Connecticut line -
Warrant ipd Jany 2nd 1822

Hon. C. H. Ruggles
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State of New York
Dutchess County 
I John Dixon of the town of Dover in the County of Dutchess and State of New York and a Citizen
of the United States of America being duly sworn depose and say that I am the only son and Heir at Law of John Dixon late a Drummer in the third Connecticut Regiment in the Revolutionary service who died on or about the year one thousand Seven hundred and Ninety Two - That to the best of my knowledge & belief my Father John Dixon prior to the first day of May 1777 enlisted in the army of the Revolution against the Common Enemy of our country for the term of "during the War" as Drummer, and served in the Regiment No 3 under the command of Colonel Samuel B Webb of the Connecticut line and that he continued in the service aforesaid until the close of the War in seventeen hundred and eighty three when he was regularly and honorably discharged from the said Regiment commanded by said Colonel Webb as appears by the original discharge under the hand of Genl Washington and the certificates thereto attached 

And I further declare that my Father has not (to the best of my knowledge and belief), received the bounty land promised to him on the part of the United States, nor have as his heir at law ever received said County lands nor have I, (or my Father to the best my knowledge and belief) ever assigned or transferred my claim to that gratuity in any manner whatsoever therefore Know all men by these
presents that I John Dixon aforesaid son of the late John Dixon do hereby constitute and appoint William Henry Buckley of the County of Dutchess and State of New York, to be my true and lawful attorney, for me and in my name to demand and receive from the Secretary of War of the United States, or of such other person as is duly authorized to issue and deliver the same a warrant for the quantity of land due to me as aforesaid and to sign a receipt or acquittance therefore; and my said Attorney is hereby fully authorised and empowered to constitute and appoint one or more substitutes or attorneys
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for the special purposes above expressed-
John Dixon [signature]
Sworn and Subscribed before me this 24th day of August 1821
Jesse Barlow Jus Peace

I, Isaiah Williams aged Fifty Four years, a citizen of the United States do upon oath declare that I have been long acquainted with John Dixon who has subscribed the above declaration in my presence, and well know that he is the Identical person he therein represents himself to be. and further that I was acquainted with John Dixon his Father who is named in the annexed Discharge of Genl Washington and that he performed the Military services therein expressed, and that the said John Dixon who has subscribed the above declaration has always been known and reputed among his neighbours and acquaintances as the legitimate Son and Heir of John Dixon named in the
annexed Discharge-
Isaiah Williams [signature]
Sworn and Subscribed this 24th day of August 1821 before me
Jesse Barlow Jus Peace

Before me Jesse Barlow-- a Justice of the Peace of the County of Dutchess and State of New York personally appeared the above named John Dixon Subscriber to the foregoing declaration and in my presence acknowledged the power of attorney thereto subjoined to be his free act and deed and likewise personally appeared Isaiah Williams who hath subscribed the above certificate of identity, both to me well known to be men of respectability and truth, and made Solemn oath to the truth of the depositions by them respectively subscribed this 24th day of August 1831
Sworn and Subscribed this 24th day of August 1821 before me
Jesse Barlow Jus Peace
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of identity, both to me well known to be men of respectability and truth, and made Solemn oath to the truth of the depositions by them respectively subscribed, this 24th day of August 1820
Sworn and Subscribed this 24th day of August 1821 before me
Jesse Barlow Jus Peace

I, Christopher Dutcher aged Seventy Three years a Citizen of the United States do upon oath declare that I was acquainted with John Dixon named in the annexed Discharge of Genl Washington and that the said John Dixon according to the best of the recollection, knowledge and belief of this deponent died on or about the year one thousand Seven hundred and Ninety Two leaving a son named John Dixon as his heir at law, with whom I am well  acquainted and that the said John Dixon has always been reputed and known among his acquaintances and neighbours as the legitimate Son and Heir of said John Dixon deceased - and that the said John Dixon who has signed the preceding declaration is the Identical
John Dixon above described and Son of John Dixon named in the annexed Discharge
 Christopher Dutcher [signature]
Sworn and Subscribed before me this 24th day of August 1821
Jesse Barlow Jus Peace

Before me Jesse Barlow a Justice of the Peace of the County of Dutchess in the State of New York personally appeared Christopher Dutcher who hath subscribed the above oath to me well known as a man of respectability and truth, and made solemn oath to the truth of the above deposition by him subscribed this 24th day of August 1821
Jesse Barlow Justice of the Peace
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Dutchess County ss. 
I Joseph Belding of Washington in the said County & a natural born citizen of the United States, aged fifty five years - do upon oath declare that I was intimately and long acquainted with John Dixon the Father of the John Dixon who hath subscribed the above declaration that he the said first named John Dixon in the year 1787 came to & resided in the same town in said County with this deponent & married his sister in the year 1788 & died in this deponent's House in the year 1792. & that he this deponent well knows that John Dixon who has Subscribed the above declaration is the only son & heir of his Father the said John Dixon & of the Sister of this deponent
Sally Belding, and that he was born in the year 1789 and that he this deponent, brought up the said son who lived with this deponent until he arrived at the age of twenty one years & that he is the said John Dixon who hath subscribed the above declaration
Joseph Belding
Sworn & subscribed before me This 24th of August 1821
Jesse Barlow Just  Peace

Before me Jesse Barlow a Justice of the Peace of the County of Dutchess State of New York personally appeared Joseph Belding who hath subscribed the above oath to me well known as a man of Respectability and truth and made solemn oath to the truth of the above deposition
subscribed this 24th day of August 1821
Jesse Barlow
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State of New York
Dutchess County ⎬ 
I Jacob Van Ness Clerk of the County of Dutchess and Clerk of the Court of
Common Pleas of said County Do hereby certify that that Jesse Barlow within named by whom the within and annexed affidavits taken was on the day when the said affidavits were taken Justice of the peace for said County of Dutchess and duly
commissioned and sworn and as such Justice duly authorized by the laws and State to take said affidavits and I am acquainted with the hand writing of the said
Barlow and verily believe the signatures hereto subscribed to the said affidavit to be the proper hand writing of the said Capt Barlow

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court this Nineteenth day of September one thousand eight hundred and twenty one
Jacob Van Ness Clerk by
David F. Radcliff Deputy
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Rev. and 1812
War Section.
June 16, 1926

Honorable E. Hart Fenn
House of Representatives.

My dear Mr. Fenn:
In response to your letter of the twelfth instant, with enclosure from Miss Mary Francis, 101 Elm Street, Hartford, Connecticut; I have to advise you from the records of this Bureau, it appears that John Dixon enlisted May 1, 1777 and served as a Drummer in the Third Connecticut Regiment, and was discharged June 8, 1783 by Samuel B.
Webb, Colonel of the Third Connecticut Regiment.

Soldier moved to Dutchess County, New York in 1787, and married in 1788 in that county, Sally Belding. He died in 1792. The date of her death is not on file.

Their son, John, was born in 1789. He was allowed 100 acres of bounty land on Warrant No. 1021, in full satisfaction for the services rendered. In 1821, he was living in Dover, Dutchess County, New York.

Very truly yours,

WINFIELD SCOTT
Commissioner
Letter of inquiry in Robert Dixen or Dixon s10.571
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The heir of Jno Dixon of the Connecticut line
Warrant No. 1021
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BY HIS ExCELLENCY
GEORGE WASHINGTON, ESQ.
General and Commander in Chief of the Forces of the United States of America.

THESE are to CERTIFY that the Bearer hereof John Dixon Drummer in 
the Third Connecticut Regiment, having faithfully served the United States from the 1st of May 1877 to the date hereof and being inlisted for the War only, is  hereby DISCHARGED from the American Army.

GIVEN at HEAD-QUARTER the Eighth day of June 1783
G Washington [signature]

By HIS EXCELLENCY'S command
[illegible]
REGISTERED in the books of the Regiment,
Joseph Clark Adjutant

THE above Drummer, John Dixon has been honored with the BADGE of MERIT for
Six Years faithful Service,
Samuel Webb Colonel

[stamp]
THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES
OF THE UNITED STATES
.
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BY HIS EXCELLENCY
GEORGE WASHINGTON, ESQ.
General and Commander in Chief of the Forces of the United States of America.

THESE are to CERTIFY that the Bearer hereof John Dixon Drummer in
the Third Connecticut Regiment, having faithfully served the United States from the 1st of May 1877 to the date hereof and being inlisted for the War only, is hereby DISCHARGED from the American Army.

GIVEN at HEAD-QUARTER the Eighth day of June 1783
G Washington [signature]

By HIS EXCELLENCY'S command
[illegible]
REGISTERED in the books of the Regiment,
Joseph Clark Adjutant

THE above Drummer, John Dixon has been honored with the BADGE of MERIT for
Six Years faithful Service,
Samuel Webb Colonel

[stamp]
THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES
OF THE UNITED STATES
.
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HEAD QUARTERS, June Eighth 1783.
THE within CERTIFICATE shall not avail the Bearer as a Discharge, until the Ratification of the definitive Treaty of Peace; previous to which Time, and until Proclamation thereof shall be made, He is to be considered as being on
Furlough.
GEORGE WASHINGTON.

Drum John Dison's Disch
Light Company
3rd Regiment

John Dixon 
Bounty L Wt 1021-100 Conn
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At a Surrogates Court, held at the Surrogates office in the village of Poughkeepsie in
for the County of Dutchess & State of New York on the ninth day of January in the year one thousand eighteen hundred & twenty two - Present. E Nye Surrogate

John Dixon by Wm. H. Bushby his attorney comes and demands the certificate of this Court, that he is the sole heir at Law, of John Dixon the elder, his late father, agreeable to a law of Congress in such case made & provided and produces to this Court Joseph Belding as a competent & proper person to substantiate his claim. thereupon it ordered that the said
Joseph Belding be sworn - who on his oath declared that John Dixon the elder, and father of the above named John Dixon the applicant, legally married his sister in the year 1786, that from that time he lived in his neighborhood, and was in his house until the year 1792 when he died, in his, the witness, house have that the said John Dixon the applicant is the only child of the said John Dixon the elder

and whereas the said Joseph Belding is well known to me, to be a man of fair character, and that full faith & credit is to be given to his declaration under oath
and whereas the facts by him set forth, are
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sufficient agreeable to the Laws of the state of New York to constitute the said John
Dixon the sole heir at Law of the said John Dixon the elder, deceased

It is therefore adjudged and declared, that the said John Dixon the applicant is sole heir at Law of the said John Dixon the elder, deceased

In Testimony whereof I have caused the seal of office of the Surrogate of Dutchess County to be hereunto affixed, Witness E Nye Surrogate for said County the 9th day 
of January 1822
E Nye
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Wm Henry Bulkley attorney for John Dixon
to Hon. Charles H. Ruggles
Power to receive patent for land
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To The Honorable John C. Calhoun Secretary at War
I hereby authorize the Hon Charles H. Ruggles member of Congress from the County of Ulster in the State of New York to receive the land warrant which John Dixon is entitled to and give all necessary receipts for the same
Dated December 4 1821 

Wm Henry Bulkley
attorney for John Dixon
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THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES Division of Veterans' Administration Archives
Form VAM-51
12 - 5 - 41
BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*

NAME Dixon, John GRADE Private LINE Maryland

WARRANT NUMBER 1134 ACREAGE 100 ISSUED February 14 1797 to- not shown

The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of ""Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800"" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800.
Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.