Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 5263, Thomas Dixon, Continental N.Y. Residence And Agency
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SERVICE
Continental

Dixon, Thomas
Army
N.Y. residence and agency

NUMBER
W.5263
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73
New York, Albany
Amy Dixon
widow of Thomas Dixon NY
who served in the Revolutionary war, as a Matross

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 100 Dollars 00
Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1848.

Certificate of Pension issues the 21 day of January 1837 and sent to 
Hon. D. Gott
House of Reps

Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act July 29 Page 71, Vol. A.
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Allowed
Act 1828
Inv #
46287
Counsel with OW Mid #5263
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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 Thomas Dixon of the Town of Pompey in the County of Onandaga and State of New York do humbly 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 Matross in Captain Cornelius Swarthauts [Swartwout] Company in the [illegible] as New York Artillery Regiment of the New York lines, Commanded by Colonel John Lamb.  And I also declare that I afterwards received Certificates for Back rations but cannot say whether I received Certificates for a reward of eighty dollars to which I was entitled under a resolve of Congress passed the 15th of May 1778.  And I further declaim that I was not on the fifteenth day of May 1878 or at any time before, on the pension list of the United States.

witness my hand this twenty seventh day of August in the year of Our Lord Eighteen Hundred and twenty Eight.

Thomas Dixon
X
his mark

Attest I.W. Brewster

Before me Hiram Gilbert Esquire a Justice of the Peace duty authorized to administer oaths in the County of Onandaga and State of New York personally appeared this day, David Holbrook and Isaac W. Brewster of said County who did S[illegible] make oath that Thomas Dixon by whom the f{illegible] declaration was subscribed is generally reputed and believed to have been a soldier in the Army of the Revolution in manner as Thomas state and that they have lived neighbors to and have been acquainted with the said Thomas Dixon a number of years and that he now resides upon the lot of land which he drew for his services in said Army 

Witness my hand this 27th day of August in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and twenty eight.
Hiram Gilbert
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Before me Hiram Gilbert Esquire a Justice of the Peace authorized to administer oaths in the County of Onondaga and in the State of New York personally appeared this day Conrad Bush of the said county who mad oath that he was acquainted with Thomas Dixon whose name is subscribed to the foregoing declaration awhile in the army of the ---- and knew that he served as a  --- in Captain Canlin's --- Company in the 2nd or New York Artillery Regiment of the New York line and that he served therein to the close of the war and received a discharge when the army was
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James Ville Onondaga Co N Y S. Sept 2,1828
Dear Sir
Enclosed I send you the papers of Thomas Dixon a Revolutionary Soldier who claims to be entitled to a pension under the act of 15th May 1828, Mr. Dixon, being a very illiterate man, is unwilling to state positively whether he received certificates for the reward of Eighty Dollars. According to the forms. But his discharge (which is also enclosed) together with the affidavit of Conrad Bush I think show conclusively that he was entitled to that reward. The other papers, I think an substantially according to the forms and will I presume be found satisfactory. If so, you will please transmit to me the necessary papers for Mr Dixon to enable him to draw his pay hereafter, and also the amount of his pay or a draft for the same up to the 15th Sept Instant
I presume it will not be necessary for me as Attorney for Mr Dixon to substitute another person to draw the money, not to sign a receipt for the same. But if it be necessary you have liberty to consider this a receipt for the amount of his pay up to the 15th September instant Or if you prefer. I will forthwith, on receiving the money or draft, transmit to you such a receipt, as you shall direct, for the same
Your Obedient Servant
Isaac W Brewster
The Hon Richard Rush
Secretary of the Treasury of the United States
(P.S.) The discharge I presume will be returned
after being registered
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A discharge from Washington 9 June 1785
As a Matross in the 2nd or […] Artillery
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State of New York
Onondaga County ss On this fourteenth day of October in the year 1850 personally appeared before the Supreme Court of the State
of New York at a Special [illegible] there of held at the Court House in the City of Syracuse in the County of aforesaid (being a Court of record)
Amy Dixon a resident of the Town of Pompey aged Eighty years on the 5th day of November last who being first duly Sworn according to law doth on her Oath make the following declaration in Order to Obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the act of Congress passed July 7th 1838 entitled “An act granting half pay & pensions to Certain Widows”  and of the Acts of Congress passed on the 2nd of  February & 29th of July
1848 granting pensions to Widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War, -
That she is the widow of Thomas Dixon who was a matross in the 2d or New York Regiment of Artillery of the Army of the Revolution as appears from his discharge bearing date the 9th day of June 1783 certifying to his service from the 4th of March 1781 to the date of such discharge & signed Geo Washington. I [illegible] all justify by James Bradford Adjutant & which is in the possession of this Declarant she further declares that she was married to the said Thomas Dixon on the 22d day of May 1788. That previous to her marriage she was courted by said Thomas Dixon at the house of her father Charles Knopp who resided in the County of Orange in the State of New York on a neck or point of land then called Pochuck now as this declarant is informed in the Town of Warwick that her said father opposed
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her marriage to the said Dixon & her mother & her relations favored it on which account she went to the house of her Mothers brother Joseph Smith who resided across the [illegible] some 3 or 4 miles from her fathers near Mount Eve as it was then called to be married &
was then married by Calvin Shepard a Justice of the peace & her Aunt made them a supper that this declarant further declares that she had
several brother ["and sisters", has been crossed out] then living at home but does not recollect that any of them attended the wedding & thinks they did not on account of the opposition of their father & the of the timing of the marriage that her uncle & aunt Smith
& the Justice aforesaid & she believes Mr William Howley & his wife were present + witnessed the marriage all of whom this declarant believes are dead she also believes that all her brothers ["and sisters", has been crossed out] are dead Except Jesse Knope her
brother next older than her self who resides in the town of La Fayette Onondaga County aforesaid. That she knows of no person living by whom she can prove positively the fact of her marriage nor has she any record thereof nor does she believe any record was made by the Justice or that any town or church record was made thereof as such records were not usually kept at that place at the time.
She further declares that after such marriage she lived with the said Thomas Dixon as his wife in the said County of Orange until the 10th day of June 1793 when they started to move to the 600 acre lot of land which the said Dixon drew for his military bounty land which was Lot N4
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in the said Town of Pompy whereon they settled and lived together as man & wife until the time of his death & whereon she now resides that during the time they land together in Orange County they had 3 sons the first Charles died in infancy the Second Samuel was born March 19th 1790 who is now living in the County of Oswego or was the last she knew of him, her third son Daniel was born November 27th 1791 who is now dead. 
That she recollects the time of moving from Orange to Onondaga County from the date of the birth of her first daughter Hannah now the wife of Moses Chapman of DeWitt in Onondaga County, who was born on the tenth day of June 1794 just one year after they started from Orange County –
She further declares that her husband the aforesaid Thomas Dixon died on the Second day of April 1850 That he drew a pension of $8.33/100 a month from the 3d day of August 1829 to the 3d of March last His Certificate is numbered 712 bears date the third day of August 1829 & is signed “J D Ingham Secretary of the Treasury – 
That she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service but the marriage took place previous to the first of January Seventeen hundred and ninety four viz at the time above stated She further swears that she is now a widow and that she has never before made any application for a pension nor since been married 
[signed] Amy Dixon X her mark
Sworn to and subscribed in open Court aforesaid the day & year first above written  The words and Sisters twice erased before swearing & also the words 29th of July interlined before swearing
[signed] R. Cossit Clerk
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State of New York 
Onondaga County } ss Rufus Staunton of the City of Syracuse in said County being duly sworn deposes & says that his father Amos Staunton as this deponent has always understood from the family moved unto the Town of Manlius & County & state aforesaid in the winter of 1792 & 3 and purchased & resided upon Lot Number 93 in the township of Manlius aforesaid when this Deponent was between 3 & 4 years old who according to the best of his knowledge & belief was sixty one years of age on the 22d day of June last That the House in which this deponent resided was very near the south line of said Lot which bound the North side of Lot Number 4 in the township of Pompey in said County that this deponent distinctly recollects that in the same summer after this deponents Father moved onto said Lot No 93 as aforesaid to wit in the summer of 1793 when this deponent was about 4 years old Thomas Dixon & his wife Amy Dixon with two small children Samuel & Daniel with them good come as was said from the desired lands in Orange County to Enter upon & take possession of said Lot Number 4 in the Township of Pompey which was said to be the Lot drawn by said Dixon for his service in the revolutionary war, that a small log house was situate upon [illegible] the North West corner of said Lot No 4 very near the residence of this deponents [illegible, Brother?]
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State of New York 
Onondaga County } ss Rufus Staunton of the City of Syracuse in said County being duly sworn deposes & says that his father Amos Staunton as this deponent has always understood from the family moved unto the Town of Manlius & County & state aforesaid in the winter of 1792 & 3 and purchased & resided upon Lot Number 93 in the township of Manlius aforesaid when this Deponent was between 3 & 4 years old who according to the best of his knowledge & belief was sixty one years of age on the 22d day of June last That the House in which this deponent resided was very near the south line of said Lot which bound the North side of Lot Number 4 in the township of Pompey in said County that this deponent distinctly recollects that in the same summer after this deponents Father moved onto said Lot No 93 as aforesaid to wit in the summer of 1793 when this deponent was about 4 years old Thomas Dixon & his wife Amy Dixon with two small children Samuel & Daniel with them good come as was said from the desired lands in Orange County to Enter upon & take possession of said Lot Number 4 in the Township of Pompey which was said to be the Lot drawn by said Dixon for his service in the revolutionary war, that a small log house was situate upon [illegible] the North West corner of said Lot No 4 very near the residence of this deponents [illegible, Brother?]
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that a man named Merrill lived in said house & said Dixon & his family stoped at the house of this Deponents father until he could get possession of the house on his own lot. That by watching an opportunity when said Merrill & his wife were absent said Dixon put said Merrills goods out of the house & put his own in & took possession That the circumstances above mentioned are fixed upon the memory of this deponent, and have no doubt in his mind that said Thomas Dixon & his wife moved on to said Lot No 4 in the year 1793 
That said facts are among the earliest things within his recollection that said Samuel Dixon at this deponents earliest recollection was a small boy of two or three years old and about one year younger than this deponent & that said Daniel Dixon was a very small child –
That this deponent resided with his father on the lot No 93 aforesaid in Manlius or on said Lot No 4 Pompy of which his father procured a piece of said Dixon until this deponent was Eighteen years of age & was during that time well & intimately acquainted with said Thomas Dixon his wife & family and has ever since been acquainted with them until the death of the said Thomas Dixon which this deponent was informed & believes took place last spring That said Dixon & his wife resided upon the said lot No 4 from the time of their first moving on to the same as aforesaid very near the place where said log house was situated until the death of said Thomas Dixon & his widow the said Amy Dixon still resides there as this
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deponent is informed & believes that they then said Thomas & Amy Dixon during all which time lived together as husband & wife & raised a large family of children. That said Amy was always during this deponents acquaintance with them reputed to be the wife of said Thomas & this deponent never heard their marriage or its validity or legality doubted and this deponent further says that said Thomas Dixon has always since his earliest recollection been reputed to have been a Revolutionar [sic] soldier & for a number of years past a pensioner of the United States that this deponent has heard the foregoing declaration of said Amy Dixon read and that said Amy is a person of reputability and credability [sic] and that in the opinion of this deponent her statements contained in said declaration are entitled to full credit and further this deponent saith not
                               Rufus Stanton
Subscribed & Sworn this 18th day of October 1850 before me the words two [underlined] & three [underlined] intention above this words three [underlined] & four [underlined] [illegible] before execution
                         B.S. Gregory JP

State of New York
Onondaga County

George W Holbrook of the town of DeWitt in said county being duly sworn says that according to the best of his knowledge & belief he was sixty years old on the 20th day of September last that this deponents father David Holbrook who was a physician moved as this
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deponent has even understood from conversation in the family into the town of Pompey in said County in March 1793 when this deponent was about two & a half years old and then moved into the township of Maubus in said county on a lot adjoining lot No 4 in said town of Pompey wherein Thomas Dixon resided as hereinafter mentioned, in the year 1794 when this deponent was about four years old that this deponent became acquainted with Thomas Dixon and Amy his wife immediately after the moving into Moubus aforesaid as the families lived near together and on account of county being very sparsely settled were intimate. Thus deponent recalled the following circumstances which fixed in his memory the time when he was acquainted with the said Dixon and his family. He had a fit of [illegible] in the winter & spring of 1795 or 6 when this deponent was about 4 1/2 or 5 years old and had a blister on his arm that while this arm was yet [illegible] on account of the blister [words crossed out] said Thomas Dixon and his dog attacked him and this deponent bit him on his arm when it was then [illegible] that this deponent was acquainted with the children of said Thomas & Amy Dixon of whom they raised a large family the oldest of whom Samuel was about six months older than this deponent that said Dixons family are among the first persons this deponent recollects that he understood they moved from Orange County in 1793 from the drowned lands near where this deponents father had previously lived  that he [illegible]
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[illegible] hearing it talked in his fathers family that said Amy Dixons father Charles Knapp opposed her marriage to said Dixon & that consequently she went from home to be married and this deponent further says that he has resided within the said township of Maubus ever since this said year 1794 except two years-- That he has been well and intimately acquainted with the said Dixon & his family ever since the year 1795 aforesaid that said Thomas & Amy Dixon during all that time until the death of said Thomas about the 1st of April last lived together as husband and wife when the said lot No 4 in the town of Pompey aforesaid which was allotted to said Thomas Dixon as his military bounty land that said Dixon was reputed to have been a soldier of the revolution & for a number of years previous to his death a pensioner of the United States that the said Amy was reputed to be his wife & this deponent never heard their marriage or its validity or legality doubted that said Amy is a person of reputability & credability [sic] and in the opinion of this deponent her declaration which is hereunto annexed is entitled to full credit and this deponent has no doubt of its truth & further saith not
                        George W Holbrook[signature]

Sworn & Subscribed this 18th day of October 1850 before me B.S. Gregory J.P. the words & figures or 6, 5 [illegible] this deponent & older,[illegible] & in [illegible] the hours of & younger [illegible] before swearing
          B.S. Gregory J.P.
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[illegible] Widow, &c.

File No. 5263
Amy Dixon, Widow
Thomas Dixon, On a trass Rev War

Act: July 29" 1848

Index: --Vol. A, Page 183

[Arrangement of 1870.]
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Lett. Hon D. Gott July 6. 1851-

855 Oct 21-50
Amy Dixon widow of Thomas
N.Y.
Act 24 July 1848

DGott
H of Reps
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Amy Dixon, [illegible] of Thomas-
N.Y.
Act 29 - July - 1848
Ad? 2 years Mar
trip - $100 per
arm from 2d Apl 1850, when her husband died-

[illegible]

[illegible]

Hon D. Gott
[illegible]
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962
[faint handwriting, illegible] 674
                    
Revolutionary Claims

Treasury Department, Sept 13. 1828

Thomas Dixon, of Pompey, in the County of Onondaga, in the State of New York, 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 [illegible] , in captain Swartwont's company, in the Lamb's regiment of Artillery, N.York line; and  does not [illegible] that he received a certificate for the reward of eighty dollars, provided by the resolve 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 3d 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
             A Dickins

Treasury Department
Third Auditor's Office
20 September 1828
It appears by the records in this office, that a certificate for the reward of eighty dollars has been issued to Thomas Dixon in Lamb's Artillery.  It further appears that Thomas Dixon is not now on the pension list of any agency, and has not been so since the 3d March 1826
               Peter Hagner Am
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Application of Amy Dixon widow of Thomas Dixon for a pension

No 14220
Amy Dixon
[illegible]
N.Y.
Act of July 1878

Col Edwards
[illegible
to written as yours as Cust [illegible]
once yours
                        D Gott
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State of New York
Onondaga County

Isaac Keeler of the City of Syracuse in said county bring duly sworn says that according to the best of his knowledge and belief he was seventy years old the 5th day of August last that in the summer of 1796 when this deponent was about 16 years old his father Elijah Keeler moved into the township of Maubus [?] in said county that very soon thereafter this deponent became acquainted with Thomas Dixon & Amy his wife very soon thereafter that they then resided on Lot Number 4 in the township of Powssy [?]the North line of which was on the south line of said township of Maubus & said Dixon lived very near the North line of his lot & this deponents father lived very near this south line of said township of Maubus so that this deponent was in the frequent habit of seeing the said Dixon & his wife that this deponent was also well acquainted with their children the oldest of whom Samuel was about six years old according to the best of this deponents knowledge & belief when he first saw him this deponent further says that for a great number of years this deponent owned and lived where & still owns a farm on Lot No 3 in said township of Powssy adjoining the said Lot No 4 on the west and this deponent further says that he has been well acquainted with the said Thomas Dixon & Amy Dixon ever since the said year 1796 until the death of the
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said Thomas Dixon some time last spring that during all of said lives they lived together as Husband and wife on said Col No 4 which was allotted to said Dixon as his bounty land and that during all that time said Amy was reputed to be the wife of the said Thomas Dixon and this deponent never heard their marriage or its legality or validity doubted. That the said Amy Dixon is a person of reputability and credability [sic] and in the opinion of this deponent her declaration which is hereunto annexed is entitled to full credit and further this deponent saith not                   
                                     Isaac Keeler

Subscribed & Sworn this 18th day of October 1850 before me B.S. Gregory J.P.

State of New York
Onondaga County

I Isaac W Brewster late of Janesville in said county now of Brighton Mouran [?] county & states aforesaid being duly sworn says that for more than thirty years past he has been acquainted with Thomas Dixon and the foregoing declarant [sic] Amy Dixon this deponent most of that time having lived about one & a half miles from them that this deponent drew the papers upon which the said Thomas Dixon obtained his pension certificate in 1829 & upon which he has obtained his [illegible] payment ever since that time until this 3rd day of March last that said Thomas Dixon died as this deponent is widowed and believes on this 2nd day of April last that this
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deponent was not present at the time of his death but heard the bell toll for his death & attended his funeral on the next sabbath after the said 2nd day of April last that from the frequent intercourse between this deponent & said Thomas Dixon in relation to his property & obtaining his pension this deponent became intimately acquainted with said Dixons affairs & with the turn of the [illegible] and ages of the said Dixon & his wife & turn of their moving to poultry [?] the ages of their said children as indicated [illegible] one in the family that the said times & ages as so understood by this deponent compared with the times & ages as noted by said Amy Dixon in her declaration aforesaid and particularly this time when they moved from Warrick [?] Orange County which compared with the time mentioned in the affidavit of said Thomas Dixon for obtaining his half yearly payments every half year after the year 1829 This Deponent has often heard said Thomas Dixon speak of his marriage with the said Amy & of the lives & of the difference in their ages and from such information this deponent verily believes the statements of the said Amy Dixon in relation thereto are true and this deponent further says that said Amy Dixon was reputed to be the wife of said Thomas Dixon and resided with him as such that she is a person of respectability and credability [sic] and in the opinion of the deponent  her statements contained in the foregoing declaration are entitled to full credit and this deponent further says that he has been
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to See Jesse Knapp the brother of the said Amy for the purpose of obtaining his deposition in relation to the [illegible] of said Amy that in conversation the said Jesse related to this deponent the circumstances as detailed in the Declaration of said Amy except that said Jesse was not present.  At the time of his marriage - but said Jesse declined making a depposition [sic] for the reason as he alledged [sic] that as he could not swear positively to the woman his deposition wont be of no use and further this deponent saith not

Sworn & subscribed this 19th day of October 1850 before me 
       B.S. Gregory J P [signature]

I certify that I am acquainted with Amy Dixon the above named [illegible] and with Rufus Stanton George W Holbrook Isaac Rules and Isaac W Brewster the above affiants that they are all persons of responsibility and credability [sic] and in the opinion of the subscribed their respective statements sworn to as aforesaid are entitled to full credit
                       B.S. Gregory J P [signature]
State of New York
Onondaga County
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Clerks office 

I certify that at the date of the foregoing depositions & certificates the said Benjamin S Gregory Esquire was a Justice of the peace in and for the said county duly elected and qualified and that at the date of the [illegible] certificates was duly authorized to administer oaths & make such certificates I further certify that I am acquainted with the hand writing of the said Benjamin S Gregory and verily believe that the foregoing signatures purporting to be his are genuine.

Given under my hand & the seal of the said county at the city of Syracuse this 19th day of October 1850

                  Rufus Cossit Clerk
                   Clerk of Onendaga County
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I have been for several years last [illegible] personally acquainted with Rufus Stanton George W Holbrook Isaac Rules & Isaac W Brewster, and know that each
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Bounty Land Record Card

Dixon, Thomas
Private
Lamb's Artillery (New York)
Warrant Number 7082
Acreage.  100
Issued Sept 27, 1790

To _____ not shown _______