Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 35883, William Dawson, Conti Penn.
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[typed form, with handwritten responses]

[3-1776]

SERVICE
Cont.
Penn.

Dawson, William

NUMBER
S.35883

CONTENTS
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[typed form, with handwritten responses] 

[left side] notifn of can.d [notification of cancellation] Sent to Clerk of Bourbon Circuit Court Paris, Keny [Kentucky] Dec. 18 1822
[written sideways] Date of death not on AB -

[right side] 8,243
Kentucky
William Dawson
of Bourbon Co. in the State of Kentucky
who was a private in the regiment commanded
by Colonel Webster of the Penn.a [Pennsylvania] line for the term of two years.

Inscribed on the Roll of Kentucky
at the rate of 8 - Dollars per month, to commence on the 2d of July 1818.

Certificate of Pension issued the 22d of March 1819 and sent to Ben Wills, Judge Bourbon Co. Kentucky

Arrears to the 4th of March 1819 - 64.77
Semi-anl. [annual] all’ce [allowance] ending 4 Sept. 1819 48--
$112.77

{Revolutionary Claim}
{Act 18th March 1818}
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William Dawson Cert 

8243 
Sept 1829 

[several words crossed out] 

{Pension office} 
9th Nov 1820.} 

Continue 
Sent to the Clerk of Bourbon Circuit Court Dec 18. 1820
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Commonwealth of Kentucky} S.S. 
& Circuit of Bourbon} 
On this twenty second day of August in the year 1820 personally appeared in open Court, being a Court of record in and for the Circuit aforesaid, William Dawson aged about eighty six years resident of Bourbon County & Circuit aforesaid, who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary war, as follows, to wit, five years in Capt. Leroi’s company of the third Virginia Regiment of light Dragoons, commanded by Colo. William Washington as fully detailed in his original declaration now on file in the war office under date of the second day of July in the year one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, in pursuance of which he was inscribed on the pension list Roll of the Kentucky agency, and holds a certificate there of dated on the twenty second day of March one thousand eight hundred and nineteen, No. 8.243. 
And he did solemnly swear that he was a resident Citizen of the United States on the 18 March 1818 and that he has not, since that time, by gift ,sale ,or in any manner disposed of his property or any part thereof with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring himself within the provisions of an 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” passed on the 18 March 1818 - & that he has not nor has any person in trust for him any property or securities contracts or debts due to him, nor has he any income other than what is herein contained, nor has he made any schedule thereof, for except his wearing clothes and bedding
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and a part of his pension drawn heretofore & not yet expended, he owns not one single article of property, having been previous to his pension aforesaid many years on the poor rates of Bourbon County, & he annexed this statement to his oath instead of a formal schedule.

Kentucky Sct 
I Thomas Arnold Clerk of the Bourbon Circuit Court do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and the Schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the record of the said 

In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court on this 22nd day of September 1820 
Tho Arnold Clerk Bourbon
Circuit Court 

Bourbon Circuit Court Sct.
November Term 1820. 

"The pension certificate of William Dawson a Revolutionary soldier having been returned from the war department for explanation, The court do order that it certified to the Secretary at War that it appeared satisfactorily to the court from the oath of the applicant, that he the said applicant that he the said William Dawson, had no property, and therefore no Schedule could be made out." 
A true copy from the orders of the court 
Att. Tho Arnold Clerk
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Wm Dawson 
Col Wm Washington 
Regiments – 3 years

Not mustered W. H. 

This is admitted, although not formal. W. Hill has no rolls - nor can any be had, to then this man's service. There is no doubt but the statement is correct

[written sideways] Proof of service required which you can obtain on application to the Secretary of War
Company [Illegible very light] must be given and date of enlistment
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State of Kentucky} 
County of Bourbon} To wit, 
On this day of the date hereof [2 July 1818] came before the undersigned one of the judges of the General Court for the State aforesaid and presiding Judge of the Circuit Courts in the eleventh Judicial District in the same State, William Dawson, who being sworn according to law did depose and say, that he is now a citizen of Bourbon County, and that he never resided in any other place than the United States since the commencement of the Revolutionary war. That he was enlisted in the Continental Army in the Pennsylvania Line, as a private soldier, by Capt. Bourne, sometime between the battle of Bunker’s Hill or Breed’s Hill [17 Jun 1775] & that of Brandywine [11 Sep 1777], the precise date or year he cannot reccollect [recollect]; that said enlistment took place in Lancaster Pennsylvania – that his enlistment was then for the term of two years – and he was attached to the eleventh Regiment of Pennsylvania commanded by Colo. Webster – that he served the two years & was in the battles of Trenton [26 Dec 1776] & Brandywine with others. That he received a discharge from Capt. Bucher[?] when his time of service was out, at Lancaster Pennsylvania which he has lost. That he again enlisted in Salisbury North Carolina for the term of three years, the date not reccollected [recollected] but thinks it was shortly after the Battle of the Eutaw Springs [8 Sep 1781]. That said last enlistment was with
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Capt. Roy & Lieutenant Watts, and was attached to the Regiment of Cavalry commanded by Colo. William Washington that he served the said three years out, and was in the battles of Kings Mountain [7 Oct 1780] – of Guilford [Guilford Courthouse NC, 15 Mar 1781] – at Gates’s defeat [defeat of Gen. Horatio Gates at Camden SC, 16 Aug 1780] – at the Hanging Rock, and at the Cowpens [17 Jan 1781] where he received many severe wounds. That he was discharged at Salem North Carolina when his time was out by Capt. Roy, & has lost that discharge also – so that he cannot exhibit any written evidences. That he knows of no person whose testimony he can obtain owing to his infirmities who can prove these facts, except he knows a man by the name of Williams, who, was also wounded in the battle of Guilford, but he only knows of this affiants being there at the time of said battle. That he never received any pension from the United States or any of the United States, except that he has remained some three or four years on the poor list of Bourbon County & partook of the provision of said County for its poor – that he is about eighty years of age & infirm and unable to labor, and possesses no other means of subsistence since he was placed on the poor rates of Bourbon County except what was afforded him by said provision for the poor & that he needs greatly the aid of his country.

I Benjamin Mills Judge as aforesaid do certify that the foregoing examination of statement was this day taken before me
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and that it does appear to my satisfaction, not only from the foregoing statement, but also from the seal of seven pounds apparent by inspection on the body of the said William Dawson that he was enlisted and did serve as a soldier in the continental army as in said examination is stated - and it further appears to my satisfaction that said applicant, not only by the foregoing statement but also from my personal knowledge of his circumstances & from the records of the County of Bourbon, in which he has been placed on the poor list I supplied by the poor rates of said County, is in such indigent circumstances as greatly to require the aid & support of his country, allowed by the Act of Congress in such cases provided -- Given under my hand this second day of July, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen- 
B Mills 

State of Kentucky Montgomery Circuit Sct –
I Micajah Harrison Clerk of the Court of the Circuit aforesaid, do hereby certify that Benjamin Mills Esqr [Esquire] who has certified, and whose name appears to the foregoing Certificate, was at the time of signing and certifying the same is one of the Circuit Judges of this State –
And that full faith and credit is and ought to be given to all acts by him so certified as well in Courts of Justice as thereout - In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Seal of the said
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said Court to be hereto affixed at Mountsterling [Mount Sterling] this 10th day of July 1818 In the 27th year of the Commonwealth - 
M Harrison 

The name of Wm. Dawson does not appear on the North Carolina Rolls for the Revolutionary war. There is no musterroll [muster roll] of Cavalry in the Secretary's Office of No. Carolina. Given under my hand this 1st March 1819 
Wm. Hill Secretary of State
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[typed form, with handwritten responses]

September 9, 1935 

William Dawson – S.35883
BA-J/AWF

Mrs. C. S. Fazel
1738 Westover [crossed out – Western] Ave 
Petersburg, Virgin 

Dear Madam: 
Reference is made to your letter in which you request the record of William Dawson, Revolutionary War pensioner in Bourbon County, Kentucky. 

The data furnished were obtained from the papers on file in pension claim, S. 35883, based upon the service of William Dawson in the War of the Revolution. 

The date and place of birth of this soldier are not given, nor are the names of his parents stated. 

William Dawson enlisted in Lancaster, Pennsylvania and served as a private in Captain Benezet's [written sideways - I found him in Capt. Benezet also Beneret’s in Pa. [Archives?] company and in Colonel Webster's Pennsylvania regiment, was in the battles of Trenton and Brandywine, length of service two years. He enlisted in Salisbury, North Carolina, served in Captain LeRoy's company and in Colonel William Washington's regiment of Cavalry and was in the battles of Hanging Rock, Gates Defeat, King's Mountain, Cowpens and Guilford Court House, length of this service three years. There are no dates of [Ink smear] given. 

He was allowed pension on his application executed July 2, 1818, then living in Bourbon County, Kentucky, aged about eighty years. 

There are no data in this claim relative to his family. 

Very truly yours 

A. D. HILLER 
Executive Assistant to the Administrator
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[typed form, with handwritten responses]

[left side] 35883

Revy INVALID

File No. 35,883

William Dawson
Pri Rev War

Act: 18th March 18”

Index: - Vol. 2, Page 104

[Arrangement of 1870.]

[right side of page – written sideways] 1929 – Nov. 18 – Hist. to Helen A. Simpson – See letter in James Dawson S.44116 AWF.
1935 – Sept. 9 – hist. to Mrs. C. S. Fazel AWF
1940 – Jan. 15 – Mrs. Fazel adv. her to obtain date of last pay of pen. etc. AWF
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January 15, 1940

BA-J/AWF Own
William Dawson
S.35883

Mrs. Charles Fasel
1530 Westover Avenue
Petersburg, Virginia 

Dear Madam: 

Reference is made to your letter in which you request the date of last payment of pension of the Revolutionary War soldier, William Dawson, pension claim, S. 35883. 

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

William Dawson 
Certificate #6243
Issued March 22, 1819 
Rate $8.00 per month 
Commenced July 2, 1818
Act of March 18, 1818 
Kentucky Agency.

Very truly yours 

A. D. HILLER 
Executive Assistant 
to the Administrator
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[typed form]

Rev. and 1812 
Wars Section 
AWF/eel

November 18, 1929

Miss Helen A. Simpson 
334 King's Highway East 
Haddonfield, New Jersey 

Dear Madam: 

I advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S. 35883, it appears that William Dawson enlisted in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and served two years as a private in Captain Benezet's Company in Colonel Webster's Pennsylvania Regiment and was in the battles of Trenton and Brandywine. 

He enlisted in Salisbury, North Carolina in Captain Roy or LeRoy's Company, Colonel William Washington's Regiment of Light Dragoons. He was in the battles of Hanging Rock, Gates Defeat, King's Mountain, Cowpens, and Guilford Court House, and served three years, no dates of any service given. 

He was allowed pension on his application executed July 2, 1818, at which time he was living in Bourbon County, Kentucky, aged about eighty years. 

There are no data as to family, 

Very truly yours, 

EARL D. CHURCH 
Commissioner.
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1530 Westover Ave. 
Petersburg, Va. 
January 8, 1940 

Veteran's Administration \
Washington, D.C. 

Dear Sir 
In reference to William Dawson S. 35883 BA-J/AWF I wish to ask further questions. 
When was his last pension payment made and to whom was it made? 
Thanking you for your help, I am 
Yours truly 
Mrs. Chas. Hazel

[circular stamp with Numbers 1 -12 around the outside] RECEIVED JAN 9 1940 MAIL SUB-DIV, Reader #11 VETS. ADM.
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[circular stamp with Numbers 1 -12 around the outside] RECEIVED AUG 27 1935 MAIL SUB-DIV, VETS. ADM. READER #23

1738 Westover Ave. 
Petersburg, Va 
August 27, 1915.

Veterans Administration 
Washington, D C.

Dear Sir: 
In tracing Dawson Genealogy I should like to have data on William Dawson who was a Revolutionary War pensioner in Bourbon County, Kentucky. 
It would be of great help to me if you would send me this record and family history. Thank you. 
Yours truly 
Mrs. C. S. Fazel