Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S 5910, for Thomas Pearson, Virginia
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(3-1776)
SERVICE
Va.
Pearson, Thomas
NUMBER
b 5-910
B.L.
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No. 352
Thomas Pearson
Virginia Line

W issued & Del’d to Jon. Smith to an office 2d June 1887. -
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To the Honble the Senate and house of Representatives of the United States in Congress assembled.  --  The petition of Thomas Pearson, humbly shureth, that your Petitioner in the year 1777 entered into the service of the United States in the character of ensign, and was shortly afterwards promoted to the office of Lieutenant, in which capacity he acted during the war that your petitioner under the command of Col. Abraham Buford, in an engagement with the British on the 29 day of May 1780 at the Waxhaws in South Carolina received a number of wounds by which he has, ever since been greatly disabled, and altogether disqualified for any laborious employment, which will fully appear by authentic documents now in the war office.  That, after the conclusion of the war, your petitioner moved to the district, now State of Kentucky, where he has ever since resided, and tho' your honble body, at an early period, after the peace made provision for those officers and Soldiers, who were unfortunately
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disabled by wounds received in the service of their country yet, your petitions, from the remoteness of his situation from the seat of the general governments and from the private & retired manner in which he lived, never received any information of such provision having been made untill the Spring of the year 1803, and therefore could not have made application to be placed on the pension list earlier than he did, which was on the 23 day october following--Your petitioner therefore under the firm persuasion that there is a disposition in your Humble body to do ample justice to those who shed their blood in defence [defense] of the liberties of their country, humble prays that his application may have a retrospect to the first provision that was made, & that he may be permitted to derive that advantage from the benignity of the government, which nothing but his remoteness & consequent ignorance prevented him from obtaining at the earliest possible period- & your petitioner as in duty bound will ever pray--Thomas Pearson.  Nov. 15. 1808
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Rev. and 1812
Wars Section-S.5910
AWF/eel

September 17, 1929

Miss Nancy E. Pearson
Pearisburg
Virginia

Dear Madam:

I advise you from the records of this bureau it appears that Thomas Pearson entered the service in 1777 as an Ensign, soon after he was appointed Lieutenant and served in Captain Thomas Hord's Company in Colonels Edward
Stevens' and John Green's Tenth Virginia Regiment; he was wounded several times in the battle of Waxhaw, South Carolina, May 29, 1780, when under the command of Colonel
Abraham Buford, and served to close of the war.
He was allowed pension, on account of disability, resulting from above mentioned wounds, from January 1, 1803, at which time he was living in Jefferson County, Kentucky.
He was also allowed two hundred acres of bounty land, by the United States, on Warrant No. 352, which was issued June 2, 1807.
He died July 10, 1826.
There are no date as to family.
Very truly yours,
EARL D. CHURCH
Commissioner.
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Mrs David Proctor
7404 Mercier St
Kansas City Mo
April 1st


U.S. Pension Office
Apr 5 1926
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Pension office Washington D.C.  Mar 30-26 Dear Sir--I wish for purpose of establishing membership in D.A.R. following pension records--Thomas Hart-Bukly Co Va granted land (exclusively for military service) in June 1784--Benjamin Hart--of Hart Co-Georgia whose wife was Nancy Morgan Hart--[illegible] White [illegible] 6 YR. WD 128, 14; WD 142, 90YR WD 2/2, 11--(Virginia State Report) Thomas Pearson, officer for whose services [illegible] private land warrants were issued. Very truly yours--(address)
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To what time was Thomas Pearson, (lieut) Invalid of Pennsylvania, last paid? 

Respectfully 
J. L. Edwards
 Jan. 19, 1831

paid to the 1. March 1826 atty $15.33/q
Respectfully H Whitenest

To either of the gentlemen White Pension Room at 3d AWeston office
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Thomas Pierson
Senate Chamber Dec 12. 08
Sam Otis – Enclosing a resolution of the Senate of the petition of Tho. Pierson
R.

1903
The petitioner was placed on the list at $13.33 which was to commence at the period fixed by the law. –
Notacted on 1903
Rec’d Dec 13, 1808
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Secretary’s Office, Senate of the United States Dec. 12 1808 
Sir
I have the honor to enclose a resolution of the Senate, with the petition of Thomas Pearson, upon which it is founded. 

Respectively,
Y of Serv

Sam A Otis

The Hon,
Secretary of War
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Pierson to Snith} Letter of ated
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Know all men by these present that I Thomas Pearson of the County of Jefferson & State of Kentucky do by these present [illegible] & appoint John Smith esquire of the City of Washington to be my true & lawful attorney for the purpose of asking for demanding & receiving from the Humble Henry Dearborn Secretary of War for the time being & his [illegible] allowance for two hundred acres of land due me in consideration of my services as a Lieutenant in the 10th Virginia Regiment as continental establishment to the end of the late War between the United States & Great britain first under the command of Col. Edward Stevens & last under the command of Col. John Green when the 2d. Regiment was [illegible] t the Sixth, And as receipt of [illegible] warrant to give the [illegible] & proper discharge & acquaintance for the same And as attorney or attornies for the purpose aforesaid at his pleasure to appoint & again at his pleasure-- to revoke his or their appointment hereby ratifying & confirming whatever my said attorney as his position shall or may do in the premises In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand & Seal this 16th day of March 1807 Signed Landowner Thos. Person
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Signed & acknowledged in presence of} Wm. Taylor John Taylor I William Taylor do certify that Liet. Thomas Pearson who has executed the written power of attorney is the person he represents himself to be.  I know him which as officer in the Army & have been personally acquainted with him ever since as he lives a near neighbour to me, his is the same person who is now on the pension list from the wounds he received in Befords defeat which was evident to every beholder Given under my hand this 16th day of March 1807 Wm. Taylor Late Maj. 9th Virg. Regt. Cont. Line Kentucky Campbell County to wit The foregoing certificate was acknowledged before me on the date above James Taylor Clk. CC
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State of Kentucky 
Campbell County 
South 

I James Taylor Clerk of the County aforesaid and of the Circuit Court holden for the Campbell Circuit being auth rized by law to receive the acknowledgment of Deeds Letters of attorney, other writings, and to submit the same to record in my Office, do certify that Thomas Pearson whose hand seal is affixed to the within Power of Attorney personally appeared before me and acknowledged the within instrument to be his act & deed for the uses & purposes therein contained on the day of the date of the said power, and I do moreover certify that I have been personally acquainted with the said Thomas Pearson for upwards of twelve years and know him to be the person be represents himself to be from the scars he has accationed by wounds he received in Bufords defeat. I also know that he is the same person who is on the pension list, he who was placed thereon in consequence of the said Wounds 

In testimony whereof
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Whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed my seal of Office this 16th day of March 1807 and in the year of the Commonwealth

James Taylor 

Pearson to Smith 
Letter of attd
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Rev War
5910
INVALID 
File No.  5910 
Thomas Pearson
 Lieut Rev War 

Index: -- Vol. M, Page 292 
[Arrangement of 1870.]

1926 - June 11. Hist to Mrs David Proctor 
1929 - Sept. 17 - Hist to miss Nancy E. Pearson
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Sam A Otis Secretary
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In Senate of the United States Dec. 12 1808 
Ordered, That the petition of Thomas Pearson, praying to be put on the Pension list of the United States, be referred to the secretary of war to consider and report thereon 

Attest
Sam A Otis, Secretary
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Stamp Enclosed 
Pensburg, Virginia Sept. 11, 1929 

Commissioner of Pensions
Washington, D.C. 
Dear Sir: 
Will you please tell me if Thomas Pearson, of Virginia, who served in the Virginia Revolutionary War, first as an Ensign in Captain Thomas Hord's Company, 10th Virginia Regiment, also designated a 6th Virginia Regiment, received a pension?  He was commissioned 1st. Lieutenant Sept. 10, 1778. His name appears on a pay master general’s  return dated Jan 10, 1786 with remark:  “Deranged Jan. 1. 1783 Prisoner till May 1783.”

[Stamp]
US Pension Office 
Sep 13 1929
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According to traditions he was severely wounded -- received 13 wounds, and this together with imprisonment, caused mental derangement.  

I am anxious to know from what part of Virginia he enlisted and any information that can be obtained about him, and his wife and children

Please write me of here any informatios of Lieut. Pearson and if there will be any charges for copying his record
Very truly yours, 
Miss Nancy E Pearson
Historian George Pearis Chapter D.A. R
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Rev. and 1812
War Section.
S. 5910

June 11, 1926

Mrs. David Proctor
7404 Mercier St
Kansas City, Mo.

Madam:

I have to advise you that from the records of
this Bureau, it appears that Thomas Pearson entered the service in 1777 as an Ensign, soon after he was appointed Lieutenant and served in Captain Thomas Hord's Company in Colonels Edward Stevens' and John
Green's 10th Virginia Regiment; he was wounded several
times in the battle of Waxhaw, South Carolina,
May 29, 1780, when under the command of Colonel Abraham Buford, and served to close of War.
He was allowed pension, on account of disability, resulting from above mentioned wounds, from January 1, 1803, at which time he was living in Jefferson County, Kentucky.
He was also allowed 300 acres of bounty land, by
Reviewed by Miss Wilson
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the United States, on warrant No. 352, which was issued June 2, 1807.
He died July 10, 1826.
There is no data on file as to family,

Relative to land that may have been granted by
the state of Virginia, you should consult the archives of that state at Richmond.

Respectfully,
WINFIELD SCOTT
Commissioner.