Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 38159, for James Lyon, Virginia
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(3—1776)
SERVICE  Va.
Lyon, James
NUMBER  S 38159
CONTENTS
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5259.
Virginia  4
James Lyon  Private
Capt Wallace  Virginia Line
In the the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War

Inscribed on the Roll of Virginia at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 22d of June 1818

Certificate of Pension issued the 9 of Jany 1819 and sent to Capt Randolph Rev. & OW&N Col.

Arrears to 4th of Sept 1818  $18.92
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4 March 1819  48.
[=] $66.92
{Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818.}
File Mch '19.
Continued
Fauquier
File Mch '19

Notification sent to Gideon Johnson Esqr 
6 Nov 1820 Fauquier CH Virginia

Duplicate certif issued 16 May 1821. and sent to. J Horner Esqr Warrenton Va:

Dead
Paid at the Treasury under the Act of the 6. April 1838 from 4 March to 15 Decr 1836.  Agt Notified 26. March 1841
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Jas Lyon

Lyon James Declaration 5.259

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Farquier County State and District of Virginia
On this 29th day of August 1820 personally appeared in open Court in the County of Fauquier Virginia being a Court of Record made so by an Act of Assembly invested with Common Law and Chancery Jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount and with the power of fine and imprisonment keeping also a Record of its proceedings James Lyon in his sixty fifth year resident in the said County who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows that he enlisted as a soldier for the term of two years under Captain Gustavus Brown Wallace of the 3rd Virginia Regiment on Continental establishment Commanded by Colonel Mercer and Lieutenant. Col George Weddon at Falmouth now in Stafford County Virginia  that he served under Captain Gustavus Brown Wallace one year and ten months and Capt Lowd two months making together in the musketry the term of two years that he was discharged at Philadelphia by Capt Land that he has lost his discharge that he was in the battles of Harlem Hights and the White Plains that the evidence of his service will more fully appear by a reference to his declaration and the affidavit of Robert Randolph filed in the record office of the United States that his original declaration was made in the County Court of Fauquier Virginia the 23d day of June 1818  that the annexed is his certificate of pension numbered 5.259  that he has received his pension under it up to the 4th of March 1820
I. James Lyon do solemnly swear that I was a resident Citizen of the United States on the 18th March 1818 and that I have not since that time by gift or sale or in any manner disposed of my property or any part thereof with Intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring my self within the provision of an Act of Congress entitled an Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the service of the United States in the Revolutionary War passed on the 18th of March 1818 and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property or securities contracts or debts due me nor have I any means other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed that is to say One Shop Board one goose a pair of shears and scissors a set of tea cups and saucers and six tea spoons one looking glas a shaveing Box and a razor and one earthen Bowl  that I am by profession a Taylor  that I have no wife and three children John James and Nancey aged forty years thirty seven years and thirty three years  that none of them live with me  that I obtain no assistance from either of them  that he is afflicted with Rheumatic
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rheumatic pains is too infirm and unable from defect of sight to support himself by his trade that he is a boarder in a private family and that from his pension he derives his support solely and contributes as much as he can to the comforts of the family in which he lives by participationg with them in such things as his pension affords that he is unable to support himself without the assistance of this Country or private Charity
The foregoing property estimates at $4.30
Sworn to and declared on the 29th day of August 1820 before the County Court of Fauquier Virginia
Jno. A W Smith DyC
F C C

A a Court of Quarterly Sessions continued and held for Fauquier County the 30th day of August 1820
James Lyon a Revolutionary Soldier offered his declaration and Schedule of property which being sworn to by the said James Lyon in open Court is ordered to be filed among the Records of this County.  The Court is of opinion that the property in the schedule mentioned is worth four dollars thirty cents and ordered to be certified
A Copy
Tes  Daniel Withers  Clk
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Fauquier County Court this 30th day of August 1820
I Daniel Withers  Clerk of the said Court do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and the schedule thereto annexed an truly copied from the Records of the said Court and do further certify that it is the opinion of the said Court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is four dollars and thirty cents.—
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the County on this 30th day of August 1820
D. Withers
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Lyon James  x
1818. June 22d. see Entry

Admitted
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Fauquier County  State and District of Virginia
On this 22nd June 1818 in open Court personally appeared James Lyon aged sixty years, resident in Fauquier County and Districy aforesaid, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the provision made by the late act of Congress, entitled an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war:  That he the said James Lyon enlisted in Stafford County in the State of Virginia in a company commanded by Capt. Gustavus Brown Wallace of the third Virginia Regiment commanded by Col. Mercer and afterwards by Col. [Needon?  ]  that he continued to serve in the said company and in the service of the United States from the end of 1775 or the commencement of 1776 until about the end of the year 1777 two years having been the term of his enlistment, when he was discharged from service in Philadelphia, State of Pensylvania,  that he was in the Battles of Haerlem Heights and White Plains and that he is in reduced circumstances, and stands in need of the assistance of his country for support; and that he has no other evidence now in his power of his said services except the annexed affidavits of ___
James Lyon
Sworn to and declared in open court the day and year aforesaid
Jno A W Smith DyCK
Fauq. County Court

Fauquier County to wit.
This 22nd June 1818 John P Smith, a Justice of the Peace for the County aforesaid appeared in open Courjt and made oath that from his knowledge James Lyon the above applicant for a pension is a man of truth and respectability
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and that he is in such reduced circumstances as to require the aid of his Country for support
Jno P Smith

Sworn to in open Court the day and year above written.
Jno A W Smith DyCK
Fauq. County Court_

At a Court commenced and held for Fauquier County the 22nd day of June 1818
It appearing to the Satisfaction of the Court from the annexed declaration of James Lyon and the annexed affidavits of John P. Smith and Robert Randolph, duly Sworn in open Court that the said James Lyon, did serve in the revolutionary war against the Common Enemy (as stated in the said Declaration and the said affidavit of Robert, and that the said Lyon is in reduced Circumstances as appears from the affidavit of John P. Smith, so as to require the assistance of his Country for a Support.  This Ordered that the proceedings taken and had before this Court be transmitted to the Secretary of the Department of War for the United States in pursuance of an Act of Congress in such cases made and provided
A Copy 
Daniel Withers Clk

Virginia  Fauquier County to wit
I Daniel Withers  Clerk of the County Court of Fauquier iin said State of Virginia, Do hereby Certify that the foregoing is a true Copy of the Order made by the County Court of Fauquier on the 22nd day of June 1818.  Touching and Concerning the foregoing Declaration of James Lyon as fully and Completely as the same now wish among the Records and Proceedings of said County Court
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of the Office of the County Court of Fauquier at the Court of said County this 27th day of June Anno: Dom: One thousand eight hundred and Eighteen and in the forty second Year of the Commonwealth
Danl Withers C.F.C.C.
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Affidavit of R Randolph
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The affidavit of Robert Randolph make in open Court this 22nd June 1818.  This Deponent states that he served as an officer during the Revolutionary War with Great Britain in the station of an ensign in the 3d Virginia Regiment commanded by Col. Mercer and afterwards by Col. Needon,  that James Lyon and applicant for a pension from the General Government enlisted in a company of Infantry of the same Regiment, commanded by Capt. Gustavus Brown Wallace,  this Deponent does not know the term of his enlistment, and thinks that James Lyon was a faithful and patriotic soldier.
Robt Randolph
Sworn to in open court this 22 June 1818. before me
D. Rodes Dy.Clk
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[F]REE
James L. Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
City of Washington D.C.

{stamp:]
FREDERICKSB.G VA
NOV 7

W
Nov 9 1840
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[Friday?] Novr. 6' 1840
James L. Edwards Esq
Comr. of Pensions
Sir
James Lyon an old revolutionary pensioner died in Fauqr. County Va. in the latter part of 1836 leaving due to him some arrears of his pension which yet remain undrawn.  He left no widow & only two children who are his legal distributers.  I have the pension certificate in my hands & his admr has requested me to prepare the necessary papers for drawing the arrears of the pension.  Will you be so good as to inform me when, or [drwn] what day, the last pension was drawn so that I may know how much remains due?  In 1838 I recd. through the hands of Mr. Taliaferro the [illegible: Justicial?] forms to be observed in preparing the papers where the pensioner has died.  If any variation has been made since that time by any law of Congress or regulation of the Department please inform me 
Very resp.y Yours
R. C. L. Moncure
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TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
Second Comptroller's Office,
February 20th, 1841.
Sir:
Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled "An act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States," The childn of James Lyon, decd a Pensioner on the Roll of the Richmond, Va Agency, at the rate of Eight Dollars and — Cents per [crossed out: annum] month, under the law of the 18th March 1818, has been paid at this Department, from the 4th of March, to the 15th Dec. 1836.
Respectfully yours,
Albion K. Parris
Comptroller.

To the Commissioner of Pensions,
Present.
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January 25, 1936 
XXX 
BA–J/MCS  [illegible: aum?]
James Lyons, S.38159

Mr. George H. S. King 
1301 Prince Edward Street 
Fredericksburg, Virginia 
Dear Sir:  Reference is made to your letter of January 11, 1936, in which you request the records of James Lyon of Stafford County or Fauquier County, Virginia, and Ikey (Isaac ) Richards of Orange or King and Queen County, Virginia. 
You state, also, that you made request several years ago for the record of James Lyon and received a report that no such record existed. When a search of the Revolutionary War records is made the data given in letters of inquiry are used in making the search as means of identification of the record desired.  It may be that the description you gave at that time did not apply to any record of a James Lyon found on file, hence, the report that the one you described was not found. 
There is no claim for pension on file based upon service of the above named Isaac Richards or Ikey Richards. 
The record has been found of a James Lyon of Stafford County, Virginia. That record is furnished, herein, as found in the claim for pension, S. 38159, based upon his service in the Revolutionary War.  It is assumed that you are interested in Revolutionary War service. The War in which those soldiers served is not designated in your letter. 
James Lyon enlisted in Stafford County, Virginia, late in 1775 or early in 1776, served two years as private in Captains Gustavus Brown Wallace's and Lowe's companies in Colonels Mercer's and George Weedon's Virginia regiments and was in the battles of White Plains and Harlem Heights.
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He was allowed pension on his application executed June 22, 1818, at which time he was living in Fauquier County, Virginia, and stated that he was then sixty years of age. 
In 1820 he stated that he was in the sixty-fifth year of his age and that he had no wife but that he had children,--John, James and Nancey, aged forty, thirty-seven and thirty-three years respectively. The place of birth of James Lyon and the names of his parents were not given and there are no further data relative to his family. 
He died December 15, 1836, in Fauquier County, Virginia. 
Very truly yours 
A. D. HILLER 
Executive Assistant to the Administrator
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38159
Revy INVALID.
File No. 38,159
James Lyon
Pri  Rev War
Act: 18th March 18th
Index:— Vol. D, Page D51
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Mch. 2. 1904 Dr. Jas. L. Miller Thomas W. Va
1920, Sep'r-25 Hist to Olivette Stricklen EW
1935. Nov. 20. hist. to E. E. Macy.  See letter in Jacob Lyon, S41789, Rev.  M.C.S.
1936. Jan. 25. hist. to Mrs. Geo. V. S. King.  M.C.S.
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Rev H
1
Tonkawa, Okla.,
Aug 10, 1920.

[Stamp:]
U. S. PENSION OFFICE
O  AUG 14 1920

[STAMP:]
U. S. PENSION OFFICE
O  AUG 14 1920

Pension Dept..
Washington
Gentlemen
Kindly send me a copy of the services of James Lyons of Farquier Co. Va.  S. of W. Pen. 2.56.  1835.Wish to use this in proving eligibility to the D.A.R.  My mother was a Lyons.
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If there is a fee, kindly advise and I will send same at once.
Very respectfully,
Olivette Stricklen
Toukawa, Okla.
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1301 Prince Edward Street, Fredericksburg, Virginia, 
11th of January, 1936.

[Stamp:]
RECEIVED JAN 13 1936
MAIL SUB-DIV.
VETS ADM READER # 12

[Stamp:]
RECEIVED
JAN 15 1986
[illegible ]
[illegible: 12.. MCX? ]
BUS DIV.

The Veterans Administration,
Washington, D.C. 

Mr. W. C. Black, Cheif Clerk, 
Old Record Division, 
Veterans Administration,
Washington, D. C. 
My Dear Sir: 
Some years ago I wrote for information concerning the pension record of one James Lyon and was informed by Mr. A. D. Hiller of your staff that there was no such pension recorded or applied for. 
I have recently received a letter from a relative of mine in Oregon and he tells me that on a visit to your office he found James Lyon's pension record, but did not take it down in full what it contained. 
I am interested in the Pension record of JAMES LYON OF STAFFORD OR FAUQUIER COUNTY: VA. [Note: 801  cant rdent stky]
And should like any information stated thereon which might refer to his wife, services, place of birth, children, etc. 
I trust that you will make an effort to find this record for me this time as you heretofore has always been most kind in sending me information. 
[Note: x 801] I should like to know also if you have the pension record of Ikey (Isaac) Richards of Orange County, Va., or perhaps of King and Queen county. [Note: illegible]
Yours very truly 
Geo. H. S. King 
Geo. H. S. King
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Record 1/&c

[Stamp:]
U. S. PENSION OFFICE. 
O  AUG 16 1920

Tonkawa, Okla.
Aug 12, 1920.

Pension Dept.,
Washington, D.C.
Gentlemen
Several days ago I made request for a copy of the services of Henry Lyons of Farquier Co., Va., S. of W. Pen 2.56, 1835.  I made an error in that it should have been
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James instead of Henry.  I had it confused with the name of a member of a family of a later generation.
Very truly,
Olivette Stricklen
Tonkawa, Okla.
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REVOLUTIONARY WAR RECORDS SECTION.
3—525
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
Washington, D. C., Sept 25, 1920

S. 38159
In reply to your request of __, received __ for a statement of the military history of James Lyons. a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his [crossed out: (or his widow's)] application for pension on file in this Bureau.

DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT.  1775 or 1776
LENGTH OF SERVICE  2 yrs
RANK.  Pvt.
OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED.  CAPTAIN. Gustavus Brown Wallace [&] Lowe
COLONEL. Mercer and Weedon
STATE.  Va.

Battles engaged in  White Plains.  Harlem Heights
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Enl. Stafford Co. Va.
Date of application for pension,  June 22, 1818  His cl al.
Residence at date of application,  Farquier Co., Va.
Age at date of application,  60 years
Remarks:  In 1820 he states that he has "no wife and 3 children: John, James and Nancey aged 40 yrs, 37 yrs & 33 yrs"  No further family data.
Respectfully,
Commissioner.
6—2850
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November 20, 1935 
XXXXXXXXX XXXXXX 
BA-J/MCS 
Jacob Lyon, S.41789 
James Lyon, S.38159  

E. E. Macy 
Warm Springs 
Oregon 
Dear Madam: 
Reference is made to your request of November 4, 1935, for information relative to Revolutionary War soldier, Jacob Lyon who was pensioned while living in Wilkes County, North Carolina, and James Lyon who was pensioned while living in Stafford County, Virginia.
You are furnished herewith, the records of Jacob Lyon, S.41789, and James Lyon, S. 38159. 
Very truly yours 
A. D. HILLER 
Executive Assistant to the Administrator
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November 20, 1935 
XXXX 
BA–J/MCS 
James Lyon, S. 38159 

E. E. Macy 
Warm Springs 
Oregon 
Dear Madam: 
The data which follow were obtained from papers on file in the pension claim, S. 38159, based upon the military service of James Lyon
He enlisted in Stafford County, Virginia, late in 1775 or early in 1776, served two years as private in Captains Gustavus Brown Wallace's and Lowe's companies in Colonels Mercer's and George Weedon's Virginia regiments and was in the battles of White Plains and Harlem Heights.
He was allowed pension on his application executed June 22, 1818, at which time he was living in Fauquier County, Virginia, and stated that he was then sixty years of age.
In 1820 he stated that he was in the sixty-fifth year of his age and that he had no wife but that he had children, John, James and Nancey, aged forty, thirty-seven and thirty-three years respectively. There are no further data relative to the soldier's family. 
James Lyon died December 15, 1836, in Fauquier Co. 
Very truly yours 
A. D. HILLER 
Executive Assistant to the Administrator
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James Lyon, Virginia WU, act March 18. 1818
Be pleased to say to what time he was last paid.
Pension office
Nov 9. 1840.

pd to 4th March 1836
2H
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[Stamp:]
U.S.P.B.
OLD WAR & NAVY FILES.
MAR 7. 1904

Thomas, West Virginia. 
March 4, 1904. 

Hon. E. T. Ware, 
Washington, D. C. 
Dear Sir: — I can not give the necessary information to fill out the enclosed blank. I am a gt.grandson of Stephen Lyon b. 1790–2 of Mercer Co., Ky.  Our records do not go farther back than him, but two branches of his descendants have preserved different traditions of his father as follows:  both say that he was a Revolutionary War soldier in the Virginia troops, but one says his name was William Lyon of Washington Co. Va. and the other says that his name was James Lyon of Henry Co., Va.  I do not know if either one ever asked for a pension  but if you have the record of either a James or William Lyon of Virginia in the Revolution I shall be pleased to have copies of same.  I do not care so much for this as a record of their military service, but more to obtain the genealogical data usually given in the pension papers of the Revolutionary soldiers. They may have removed to Mercer Co., Ky., but probably lived and died in Washington Co., Va. Unfortunately the county records of Washington Co., Va. were destroyed during the civil war.  Hoping to receive the desired information if there are any such records in your office, I am, 
Very Truly Yours, 
Jos. L. Miller M.D 
Thomas W. Va
Box 307.

[Stamp:]
U. S. PENSION OFFICE.
A  MAR 5 1904
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R. L. Moncure
Nov 9. 1840
G.C.

Record 7/30 page 324
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Pension Office
Nov 9. 1840

Sir, In answer to your letter of the 6th inst. I have to inform you that the pension of James Lyon decd appears to have been paid to the 4th of March 1836.  The arrears due up to the day of his death are payable at the Office of the Third Auditor, under the Act of April 6. 1838.  Enclosed here with are the printed instructions for the guidance after children in [crossed out: obtaining the balance] preparing the necessary papers to obtain it

R. L. Moncure, Esq
Fredericksburg, Va
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Fauquier County State of Virginia
On this 13th day of April in the year 1821, before me the subscriber; a Justice of the Peace for the sd County of Fauquier and State of Virginia; personally appeared James Lyon and who on his oath; declares that he is the same person who formerly belonged to the Company commanded by Capt Gustavus B Wallace; in the regiment commanded by Colonal George Weedon; it being the 3d Virginia Regiment in the service of the United States; that his name was placed on the Pension Roll of the State of Virginia; that he recd a Certificate of that fact under the signature and seal of the Secretary of War; which Certificate on or about the last of December 1820; was through ignorance of its importance destroyed by Capt Gideon Johnson, he being told that it was of no further use; and the sd Capt Gideon Johnson having his papers in his possession, used the original Certificate as waste paper in his Shop at Warrenton Virginia.
James his x mark Lyon

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal this 13th day of April 1821.  
Wm Horner {Seal}
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Fauquier County State of Virginia
This 13th day of April 1820 personally appeared before me a Justice of the Peace for the County aforesd Capt Gideon Johnson and made oath that somewhere about the last of December 1820 in his Shop at Warrinton Virginia; he used the original Certificate of James Lyon together with others as waste paper; having been told that they were of no further use
Gideon Johnston

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal this 13th day of April 1821.
Wm Horner [Seal}

Virginia  Fauquier County to wit
I John A. W. Smith Clerk of the County Court of Fauquier in the said State do hereby certify that William Horner before whom the foregoing affidavits appear to have been made & sworn to was at the time thereof an acting Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid duly Commissioned and qualified and that due faith and credit are and ought to be given to all his official acts as such as well in Courts of Justice as thereout
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court this 25th day of April 1821 and in the 45 year of the Commonwealth
Jno. A. W. Smith

Virginia Fauquier County to wit
I Joseph Blackwell presiding Justice of the Peace in and for the County Court of Fauquier do hereby certify that the foregoing attestation of John A. W. Smith Clerk of said Court is in due form of Law.  Given from under my hand & Seal this 25 day of April 1821
Jo. Blackwell {seal}