Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 328, William Dickson, S.C.
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{S-1776)
Service S.C. 
 Dickson, William 
Bayliss, Sarah
Bayless
Number W.328
Contents
(Former Widow)
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5.885
Tennesee
Sarah Bayless former widow of Wm Dickson who served in the Revolutionary S.Ca war, as a private of Cavalry & Infy.
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate
of 28 Dollars 54 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1848.
Certificate of Pension issued the 12th day of March '52 and sent to E.B. Grayson Present
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act February 2, 1848, Page 283, Vol. 3

Letter JL Hopkin 29 Augt 1854
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State of Tennessee Monroe County
on this 11th day of December 1850 Eighteen hundred and fifty before
me Wm Williams an acting Justice of the peace in and for the County & State aforesaid came Sarah Bayless aged Eighty years a citizen of Monroe County & State of Tennessee who being first duly sworn according to law, doth upon her oath make the following Declaration for the purpose of obtaining a pension to which She may be entitled under existing laws of Congress. She declares that she is the widow of William Dickson who was engaged in the service of
the united states in the war of The revolution, and That he served in said war about six or seven years. And that he served as Commissary of Issues for a time in Sumpters [General Thomas Sumter] Brigade this appears in Book U No. 643 as filed or kept in the Comptrollers office in Columbia South Carolina & the war Department also the following you will find by reference to the same office Book O. No 381 shows that he performed duty as a private on Horse & foot from August 1779- to April 1782 by the pay Rolls of Capt. John Wilson & Capt. Hugh Wardlaw, and that he did duty in Capt. [Samuel] Otterson's Company. Col. [Thomas] Brandon's Regt. 111 days as a private Horseman as appears by an order signed by Wm Dickson before Charles Sims J.P. 1st Nov. 1785 for 10 £ Sterling, also an order No. 3471
32 £ Sterling. Militia duty as private and Lieutenant in Roebucks Regt. before and since the fall of Charleston-- viz., 250 days duty horseman Capt. John Lawson's pay roll, Col. Ben Roebuck's Regiment -- the above you will find by examining the Books of the Comptroller's Office of the war department Columbia South Carolina. my said husband was a resident of Spartanburg County South Carolina. she further says that her husband was at and engaged in the skirmishes of Kettle Creek the battle of Ninety Six and the Battles of the Cowpens, and other services
before and since the fall of Charlestown and that
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her said husband William Dickson was wounded by being shot in the mouth in one of the Battles that he was in while in the said revolutionary war and that he never afterwards
was stout or enjoyed good health on the account of said wound. She further declares that the discharges and other papers of her said husband were destroyed by the accidental burning of affiant's House that the private record of their marriage was also destroyed in the same manner and she knows of no other record of their marriage. She further declares that she was marryed to her said husband Wm Dickson on or about the 8th of January Seventeen hundred and Seventy Seven (1777) that he died in July 1824 that he drew no pension nor did he ever make any application for one. That she
has not applyed for a pension on the account of the services of her said husband nor has she authorised any one to make an application for a pension untill The present Time.
She states that she remained a widow from July 1824 untill July 1826. when she intermarried with William Bayless who died December 5th 1845 and that she has since
remained and is now a widow.
Sarah Bayless X her mark
Sworn to and subscribed before me the day & date above written. And I hereby certify that I believe Sarah Bayless who has subscribed the foregoing declaration is the widow
of Wm Dickson who did the military duty as above set forth and that she is of the age set forth in her
declaration & entitled to full belief
s/ Wm  Williams Justice of the Peace

State of Tennessee Monroe  County on the 11th day of December 1850 personally appeared before me Wm Williams an acting Justice of the peace for said County & State office said One James Roberson aged
48 years and one A.R. Chaney
aged 66 years who being duly sworn according to law makes oath
that they were well acquainted with Wm Dickson
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and his wife Sarah who has subscribed the foregoing declaration (now Sarah Bayless and do say that the said Wm. Dickson and his wife Sarah lived together as man and wife and were so recognised in the community where they resided until the death of the said Wm Dickson and that she is now a widow and the identicle woman who has subscribed the foregoing declaration.
s/ James Robison A.R. Chaney 
Sworn to & subscribed before me the day & date above written.
And I hereby certify that James Robison and A. R. Chaney who have subscribed the above affidavit are persons of respectability and intitled
to full credit & belief.
s/ Wm Williams Justice of the Peace
Know all men by these presents that I Sarah Bayless do constitute and appoint Parker Hood my true & lawfull attorney for me & in my name to demand of & from the proper officers or department of the government of the United States a pension or pension or arrears of Pensions as are due me for the services of my first husband Wm Dickson in the
war of the revolution & to do for me & in my name all things necessary in said business in as full & ample a manner as I myself could do were I personally present at the doing thereof hereby confirming what my said attorney may do in the premises to whomever above I have deligated the power & authority to manage said business in Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal this 11th day of December 1850.
Signed Sealed & delivered in the presence of Sarah Bayless (her mark) 

State of Tennessee
Monroe County      ⎬ I Wm Williams an acting Justice of the Peace in the County & State aforesaid duly authorized to take acknowledgements do hereby certify that Sarah Bayless who subscribed the above power of attorney personally appeared before me &
acknowledged the same to be her act and deed for the purposes therein contained. Oct. 11th, 1850
s/ Wm Williams Justice of the Peace
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State of Tennessee Monroe County
I hereby Certify that Wm Williams who has officially subscribed the written Declaration, affidavits, Power of Attorney and Certificates is now & was at the time of signing the same an acting Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid duly elected commissioned and sworn and his signature appears to be genuine. 
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of my office as clerk of the County Court of the County aforesaid This 31 day of December 1850. 
s/ John S Stephens Clerk
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No. 7,688

Declaration of Sarah Bayless for Pension

Tenn
Sixth July 1836

Send Certificate to 
Parker Hood
Madisonville, Tenn

Letter April 23r 1837
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Rev. and 1812 War Section eel
January15,1930
Mamie Raworth
443 Bay Avenue
Clearwater, Florida

Dear Madam:
I advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim  W.328, it appears that William Dickson while residing in Abbeville District, South Carolina, with
his mother, Mrs. Margaret Dickson, entered the service in August, 1779, and served until in April, 1782, as private of Cavalry and Infantry at various times about one and one - half years, in the South Carolina Troops under Captains John Wilson, Hugh Wardlaw, [Samuel] Otterson, and John Lawson, Colonels [Thomas] Brandon and Benjamin Roebuck. He was in the battles of Kettle Creek, Ninety Six and Cowpens and was wounded by a shot in the mouth while in a battle, name and date of the said battle not given.
 It is also stated that he served as Lieutenant in Colonel Roebuck's Regiment and as Commissary of Issues in General Sumter's Brigade, dates and length of these services not stated.
The soldier married, as stated by his widow, January 8, 1777, or ln 1783,at Cambridge, South Carolina, Sarah
Franks. He died in July, 1824, and his widow married in July, 1826, William Baylêss (the name also appears  as
Bayliss) who died December 4 or 5, 1845.
She was allowed pension on account of the services of Willlam Dickson on her application executed December
11, 1850, at which she was a resident of Monroe County, Tennessee, and stated that she was eighty years of age, but in 1852, she stated that she was aged  ninety-four years. No explanation of the discrepancies in dates of birth and marriage is given.
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There is no reference to children.

The soldier's niece Jane Robertson, stated that the soldier, William Dickson and his uncle, John Dickson, came from Ireland.
Very truly yours

Earl D. Church
Commissioner.

Date of widow's death not on AB
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No. 7.688

Sarah Bayless
former wid. of Wm Dickson

Tenn
Act of 4th July 1836

Letter to Parker Hood, Esq.
April 23rd 1851
Let. to Parker Hood. June 19/51
E.B. Grayson Jany 7/51
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 no 7.688

Sarah Bayless
formerly widow of
William Dickson
Tenn

Act 4th July 1836

E.B. Grayson, January 7, 52
see envelope within for prior 
correspondence.
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9.184
Tennessee              K .
Sarah Bayliss  formy
widow of  Wm Dickson
who was a pri of Cav & Inf
in the Revolution
Inscribed on the Roll at the Rate
of 28 Dollars 54 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843.
Certificate of Pension issued the
12th day of Mar '52 and sent to
E B Grayson Present
Acts of March 3, 1843, & June 17, 1844
Recorded in Book. A Vol. 2   Page 189
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Chattanooga Tennessee
18 August 1854
Commr of Pensions
Sir
Some two years since Mrs. Sarah Bayless of Monroe Co Tenn, as widow of Wm Dixon received of Eaken Wright her Lawyer $200. which they reported to her as having been obtained of your Department for her in right of her deceased husband, the old lady is very much dissatisfied    & thinks she has not been treated property. Will you please let me know what amount was allowed her & when it was paid.
Very Respectfully,
Jno. L. Hopkins

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28.54
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399.56
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No. 14548
 Sarah Bayliss
formerly Wid of Wm Dickson.
Tenn
Act 7 July 1838 
Adt 129 Pri Cav'ry.   $16.71
     107   "  Infry.           11.77    
                                 _____
                                 $28.54
per ann from 4 Mar 1836, execute 2 yrs


cert sent  to
E B Grayson
Present
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State of South Carolina
District of Abbeville}
Personally appeared before the undersigned an acting Magistrate within and for said District, State. Mrs. Grizzella Milford who being duly sworn according to law declares that she is now in her Eighty fourth year of age and was born, brought up, and has ever lived in her present neighborhood. That she remembers perfectly well the war of the Revolution. And at that time she was living with her grandmother Mrs. Margaret Dickson and distinctly recollects about her Uncle William Dickson's being compelled to keep himself concealed from the tories & the enemy and of his going as a soldier under General Andrew Pickens to Georgia and he said when he returned that he had been in the battle at Kettle Creek in that State and that together as intimate friends and Comrades in said war were the said uncle & Edward Sharpe of same neighborhood who was wounded in his arm: That the Whig Captains of the neighborhood in the Militia
in said war were Captains John Wilson, Hugh Wardlaw and [Lieutenant Samuel Reed] Samuel Read: that all the while her said uncle was out in said war she remained with his mother her grandmother aforesaid, and that after the war was over about one year and a half her said uncle William Dickson and Sarah Dickson his wife were married at a place then and still called Cambridge in this District and that Deponent acted as Bridesmaid and remembers
joining their hands and that the Marriage ceremony was performed by William Moore a Justice of the Peace who lived at said Cambridge in said District. That this Deponent is positive and certain as to the fact of the marriage not having taken place prior to the year in which the war closed-- that was after the war and that said uncle said William Dickson was not an officer in the said war; That he then said William and his said wife Sarah moved as they then declared to Tennessee about forty three years ago.  That this Deponents age she is unabled to state from her family Record in which the date of her birth is August 15th seventeen hundred and sixty Eight-(15th August 1768) and that she is in no way interested
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in any amount which said Sarah Dickson may recover for the services of her said uncle the said William Dickson - That the following families belonged to this neighborhood about the time of the war viz, those of the Agnews, McKees, Pruets, Cowans, Hathorn,s Seawrights, Bells, Wardlaws, Bowman, Razon and Thomas Moore -That John Dickson was a cousin of her said Uncle William & lived here also and that from her earliest recollection which was before the war her said Uncle William never lived out of this District until he moved away as aforesaid. 
Grizzella Milford X her Mark
Sworn to and subscribed before me this Twenty fourth day of September 1851 Before me s/ John B. Richey Mag. for Abbeville District

And I the said Magistrate do hereby certify that the Deponent above Mrs. Grizella Milford appears to be of the age by herself stated and that in her family record her birth is recorded as having taken place at the time by her stated viz, August 15th 1768 and I further certify that her mind and memory appear to be good and from her clearness of statements & her manner, I am of the belief that she has told the truth carefully.
Sworn and Given under my hand the
day & year aforesaid
s/ John B Richey, Mag

South Carolina Abbeville District
 I Matthew McDonald Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas & general session for the District & State aforesaid do certify that John B. Richey Esqr before whom the several preceding affidavits were made was at the date thereof a Magistrate for the District aforesaid as appears by his genuine signature to the same, who was duly appointed and his official acts are entitled to full faith &
credit, I do further certify that there is no record of Marriages kept in the District & State aforesaid
Given under my hand and seal of office this twenty ninth day of Sept Anno Domini  Eighteen hundred & fifty one & 76 years of American Independence
s/ M McDonald CCP & G.S.
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State of South Carolina 
 District of Abbeville       
Personally appeared before the undersigned an acting Magistrate within and for said District & State Robert C Sharp a citizen of said District & State aged sixty six years on the Seventeenth day of last June as appears by his family Record duly examined and being duly sworn according to law deposeth: That he was born  and brought up and has ever lived in his present neighborhood near the head of Long Cane Creek in said District and not far from the old Hogskin Mills: That he was well acquainted with William Dickson and his wife Sarah Dickson living together as husband and wife from Deponents earliest recollection when a boy. That said Dickson & wife were near neighbors of Deponents father Edward Sharpe deceased and were on intimate terms of friendship: That this Deponent has as he clearly recollects heard his said father and said Dickson speak of having been in the Revolutionary war together and of serving together as fellow soldiers: That in the same neighborhood of their (his father's & William Dickson's) Whig friends, as this Deponent
learned from seeing them together & hearing their conversations as to their trials & difficulties in said war, were, Andrew Agnew, William Bell, James Wardlaw and his father Captain Hugh Wardlaw of the Whig side, Samuel [Lt. Reed] Read, Major [John] Bowie, Andrew Cowan and John Dickson a relative of said William Dickson, and that there also lived in same neighborhood James Hawthorn whose daughter this Deponent married. William Ball who lived with said William Dickson, William Blain, Samuel Pruet, Wm Rapley, and James Seawright another Whig friend. That  this Deponents father had his left arm badly cut with a sword as he said in that war and Deponent has seen & heard his father speaking of said William Dickson's dressing his arm. That this
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Deponent does not recollect the particulars of their service as detailed by his father and his friend said Dickson, but that his father spoke
of having been in the or at the battle of Cowpens- That since this deponent's recollection John Dickson the relative of Wm Dickson as aforesaid married Betsey Franks, relative of Mrs Sarah Dickson wife of said William Dickson: That this Deponent himself married in February Eighteen hundred and Eight and remembers that in the following fall when this Deponent was settling on his place the said William Dickson
and his wife the said Sarah Dickson moved, as they then declared their intention, to the State of Tennessee. That this Deponent remembers that said Dickson & wife had no children; and that he has no doubt but that they had been married and further this Deponent says he is in no way interested in any amount which said Sarah Dickson may recover on account of her said husbands services in said war. s/ R.C. Sharp
Sworn to and subscribed this Twenty fourth day of September in the year of Our Lord one thousand Eight hundred and fifty one Before me
s/ John B. Richey Mag. 
Abbeville District, S.C.

And I the said Magistrate do hereby certify that I have personally examined Mr. R.C. Sharpe's Family Record as above referred to and that the date of said Sharpe's birth is therein recorded as having taken place on the seventeenth day of June Seventeen hundred and Eighty five and that of his marriage February Eighth Eight hundred and Eight and I further certify for twenty years past I have lived near & well knew said Sharpe and that he is of sound body and
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mind and a gentleman of unexceptionably good character and one to whose statement on oath are due full faith and credit.
Given under my hand day & year aforesaid. s/ John B. Richey     Mag.

State of South Carolina
District of Abbeville       ⎬Personally appeared before the undersigned an acting Magistrate within and for said District in said State, Reverend Hugh Dickson a resident of said District & State who being duly sworn
according to law declares that he is nearly eighty years of age and that in October Eighteen hundred he came to and settled in his present neighborhood and has resided here ever since. That when he came into said settlement he became acquainted with William Dickson and his wife Sarah Dickson then living together as husband and wife: That he never heard anything to the contrary as to their marriage and from their character this deponent supposes they were regularly married: That said William Dickson was reputed and believed to have been a soldier in the war of the Revolution: That in the same
neighborhood were living at the time of this Deponents settling in the same the following persons, viz James Hawthorn, James Wardlaw,  his father Captain Hugh Wardlaw, Andrew Agnew, William Bell, Samuel Read [Reed], Samuel Pruett, William Blain, Major John Bowie, Richard A Rapley and John Dickson a relative of said William and who married a Miss Frank a relative of said Sarah Dickson who, before marriage as this deponent learned, was also a Miss Frank & that said William Dickson and
his said wife Sarah were as this deponent supposes and remembers forty years of age or more severally when he so settled here, and that they moved from this neighborhood
as they declared their intention, to Tennessee some forty years ago or upwards. That this Deponent is disinterested in any amount said Sarah may recover by virtue of her said husband's services in said war. That Hoskin Mill & McWhorters old field are in this neighborhood and that Captains John Wilson & Hugh Wardlaw were living
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at the time of deponent's settling in this neighborhood as aforesaid and had the reputations of having been Whig Captains. 
That this deponent as Minister married Robert C. Sharpe and Miss Hawthorne. s/ Hugh Dickson
Sworn to and subscribed this Twenty fourth day of September A.D. 1851. 
John B. Richey Mag for Abbeville District Intesting above before signing

And I the said Magistrate do hereby certify that I am well acquainted with deponent Revd. Hugh Dickson & have been for years and that he appears of the age by himself stated and is a gentleman who as a man & a Clergyman stands high in this community and one to whose statements as above are due full faith and credit. s/ John B. Richey Mag.

South Carolina Abbeville District
 Personally appeared D W Hawthorn and William Norton and swear that they are well acquainted with the foregoing Deponents Robert C Sharp and Revd Hugh Dickson and that they are gentlemen of high respectibility
and to whose statements are due full faith and credit
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
s/ D.W. Hawthorn W. Norton
  Before me John B. Richey  Mag.
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Pension Office
January 7th 1852
Sir:
The application of Sarah Bayless is made under the Act of 4th July, 1836. Although the date of her marriage is not established it is shown 
conclusively by the oath of the one that acted as her bridesmaid that it occurred a year or two after Dixon left the service. Consequently if it is
designed to press this claim, a declaration must be made under the Act of 7 July, 1838.
The length of Dixon's service is not proved, nor is there any thing to connect him with the Certificate of the Comptroller of South Carolina
relating to a man of the same name. Of it were shown by men old enough to recollect the incidents of the Revolution that there was no other man of that name in the Abbeville
District during that time; this point might be conceded
Very Respectfully
Your Ob Servent
J. Wilson [signature]
for Commr of Pension

E. B. Grayson Esq
Present.
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Washington  Jan 27. 1852
Hon, J E Heath,
Comm Pensions
Sir:
Enclosed please 
find additional evidences in the
case of  Sarah Bayless claiming
as widow of Wm Dickson decd
for his service in the war of the
Revolution and letter of authority
from Mrs. Bayless authorizing me
to make application for
the act of 7 July 1838 for Pension.
Yrs Very Respectfully
E B Grayson
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Washington  Oct 25 1857
J E Heath
Comm Pensions
Sir
Enclosed you will please
find testimony taken in the State of Tennessee and South Carolina in support of the claim of Sarah Bayless widow of William Dickson for Pension
under the act of 7 July 1838
on account of the services of her
deceased husband in the war of the
Revolution -  On an examination
of the papers originally filed in the case you will perceive that the declaration of Mrs Bayless  is most erroneous in its several statements ---These errors will appear on the face to be blunders arising
from ignorance and extreme old age -I therefore have as her attorney, to request  that in the consideration of the papers taken altogether, that these errors may be disregarded and the testimony taken in
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The State of Tennessee and with South Carolina
be the main subject of consideration from
which it will conclusively appear
that Mrs.  Bayless is without question
the widow of "the William Dickson
whose services are stated in a certificate
from the Comptroller Genls' office dated
1st October 1857 and herewith filed
and as such entitled to a pension under the
act of 7 July 1838 for the service her Husband a private---

The identity of the parties is by the
connecting chain of evidence from 
Tennessee and S Carolina entirely conclusive-
the service of her husband in the company
of Nelson & Wardlaw under Genl Picken
is sufficiently proven and the removal
to Tennessee & is certainly all sufficient
to show to the Dept that Sarah Bayless
is the widow of the William Dickson
and as such entitled under act of 7 July
1838 - to a pension

with much respect
Yr obdst
E B Grayson
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Comptroller Genl. Office
Columbia, S.C.
Dec 24th 1850

No. 643 M
Appeared The first October 1784 to Mr. William Dickson late Commissary of Issue in Sumter's Brigade State Troops for Ninety four pounds Sterling amount pay and bounty due him for services in that Brigade with interest thereon from first April 1782 to date hereof agreeable to Resolution of General Assembly of Eleventh March last.
Principal     £ 94.0.0
Interest            6.11.7
£ 86.10.8

No 381 Lib O 
Issued 11th April 1785 to Mr. Wllm. Dixon for thirty eight pounds 1'S 10¼ Sterling: duty done as a private on foot and Horse in the Militia 1779 & 1782 per accot. audited. Principal £38.12.10¼. No 28. Interest £2.13.3 

0381 No. 28 
19 April 85 Mr. Wm. Dixon
his acct of militia duty as a private on Horse & foot from Augt 1779 to April 1782 performed alternately and for 22 days. Hire of a wagon train and driver in 1779 & 1781 per State of So. Carolina or to William Dickson for Militia Duty for Pay Britts of Capt. Jno. Wilson & Capt. Hugh Wardlaw from Aug. up to April 82 inclusive performed alternately viz. 10 Days as private 20S £10 - -
107 Do as Do  10S 53.10
119 Do as Do  20S 119--
  £ 182.10 --

1779 Apr 10 days wagon service a £4 -- £40
    army 88 ---
1781 June 12 days Do.  Do.     £48 --
    Stg  270 .10
          98.12.10¼
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Receipted by James Hathorn
No. 3471 Book X
Issued 4 August 1786 to Mr. William Dixon for £32.8.6¾ duty in Roebuck's Regiment per dy audited No 114
hire: £32.8.6¾ - Annual Interest £2.5.4. 
3471 X  no 114 4 Aug 86  William Dixon for Militia Duty before & since the Fall of Charleston as a private & Lieut. in Roebuck's Regiment pr Anderson's return.
curcy £227 --
Stg.  £32.8.6¼
(Receipted by Wm Poole)

No 6A Lib Z Issued 18 Oct 1786 to Willm Dixon for Twenty Pounds Stlg. for Duty as a Horseman pr acct from the Commr. Prin.  £20.0.0  Int £-.8.0.

No 6/A/75 Z  18 Octo. 86 
 William Dickson for 140 Days duty as   Horseman amt. £20.51.9
State of S.Ca. To Wm Dickson  Dr.
Day 140 For 250 Days Duty - horse services £250.0.0
Capt Jon Lawson's pay Bil  140 days at £140-
In Col Ben Roebuck Regt.           20Stg.
(Enclosed is a power of Attorney from "William Dickson of the State of South Carolina and County of Spartanburg farmer" to Reuben Dickson dated 20th Augt 1785 - in presence of James Dickson & certified pr Wm Wood
P"__ Transferred by Reuben Dickson to William Poole before Richd Harrison J.P."
I do hereby certify that the foregoing are true copies as taken from the Records in this Office and that the remark in parenthesis are true as by careful examination,
For Comptroller Genl.
James A. Black
Deputy
(No Seal of Office)
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Know all men by these present that
I Sarah Bayless do constitute and appoint E B Grayson my true and lawful attorney for me and in my name to demand of and from the proper officer or department of the Government of the United States a pension or pensions or arrears of pension or any back pay as are due me for the service of my first husband Wm Dickson in the war of the revolution and to do for me and in my name all things necessary in said business in as full and ample a manner as I myself could do were I personally present at the doing thereof hereby confirming what my said attorney may do in the premises, and after collecting it send the same to Parker Hood who is also my agent to attend to said business for me hereby confirming what my said two attorneys may do in the premises to which two men above I have delegated the power of authority to manage said business in Testimony whereof I have here unto set my hand & Seal this 28th day of April 1851
Sarah Bayless her Mark X 
Attest W L Eakin
J.I. Wright

State of Tennessee Monroe County
On this the 28th day of April
1857 personally appeared before me Sarah Bayless who being first duly sworn according to law acknowledged the above power of attorney to be her act and deed for the purposes therein mentioned
s/ Wm Williams  Justice of the Peace
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State of Tennessee
Monroe County ⎬ SS
I hereby certify that W. Williams before whom the with
in Power of Attorney was acknowledged and who has
officially certified the same as a Justice of the Peace is
now and was at the time of signing the same an acting
Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid duly elected commissioned & sworn.

In Testimony whereof I have hereunto
set my hand and affixed the seal of
office as clerk of the County County of   the County aforesaid this 28" day of April 1851.

 John A Stephens [signature] Clk

Seal
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E B Grayson, ,  Letter of Authority
from Mrs Sarah  Bayless to E B Grayson to apply for her
under act of July 1838


E B Grayson
Jan 27. 1852
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Madisonville  Jan. 20th 1852
Mr. E B Grayson of Washington  City  DC
 Sir I hereby authorize you 
should you deem it proper for the advancement of my best interest to change the form of my application for pension; now pending before the department of government of the
United States, so as to make it an application under the Act of 7th July 1838 or to any other act of congress under which I am entitled to a
pension with in my own or husbands Wm Dicksons rights as you may in your judgement deem best, and  I hereby authorized to prosecute said claim for me in as full & ample a manner as I have heretofore 
done & to do whatever is necessary to be done in said business to its final adjustment as will but advance & advantage my pensionary interest
Sarah Bayless  X  her mark
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Comptroller Genls Office
Columbia So. Ca
1st October 1851.
No 381   Lib O Issued 19 April 1785 to Mr. William Dixon for Thirty Eight pound 12/10 ¼ sterling: duty done as a private on foot and horse in the militia 1779 & 1782 per acct. Audited.
Principal £ 38:12: 10¼ No 28. Interest £2: 13.3.

No 28 O 381  19 April 85
Mr. William Dixon his acct. of militia Duty as private on horse & Foot from Augt 1779 to April 1782 performed alternately and for 22 days hire
of a waggon Team and Driver in 1779 & 1781 amotg. to viz.
129 Days on horse     £129.__. _
107 Days on Foot           53.10.0
22 Days of wagnpr.       88.
                               Curcy £270.10.
                                  Stg £  38.12.10¼
State for Carolina Dr to William Dickson for Militia Duty for Pay Bills of Capt Jno Wilson & Capt. Hugh Wardlaw from Augt 79 to April 82 inclusive performed alternately Viz.
10 Days as Private  20S     £ 10.00
107 Days as   Do     10S        53.10.
119 Days as    Do.    10S      119.0.0
                 =182.10
1779 Sept. 10 Days Waggon Service - A £4 =£40
1781 June 12 Days- Do-Do 48.88.__
   Curry  £270.10.--.
     Stg. £ 38.12.10
Recd 19th April 1785 full satisfaction for the within in an Indent No 381 Lit. O. P. Order (Signed ) James Hathorn
I do hereby certify the foregoing to be a true Copy as taken from the Records in this office.
For Comptroller Genl. 
James A Black
Dep.
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Comptroller Genl's Office
Columbia  So. Ca. 3rd oct. 1851.

I do hereby certify that it appears from the  records of this office 
that Hugh Wardlaw's account state "Duty done in the militia
as Capt & Quarter Master. done before & since the reduction of Charles-
town" per Col Anderson's return and under General Pickens -that
John Wilson's account states " Militia duty as Capt done before
& since the reduction of Charlestown" per same return and enclosed
in bid amount is an order signed by John Wilson " Abbeville County" in
favor of Major John Bowie and futher that Edward Sharpe's account
states " Duty as private before & since the reduction
of Charlestown" per Anderson's Return_. 

For Comptroller Genl
James A Black
Dep:

[left side margin]
Wm Dickson
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11.292
Tennessee         K
Sarah Bayliss formerly
widow of Wm Dickson
who died on the _    in the state of_
who was a Priv Cavalry & Inf.  in the 
Revolution 

Inscribed on the Roll of Knoxville
at the rate of 28 Dollars 54 Cents
per  annum, to  commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.

Certificate of Pension issued the 12 day of Mar. 1852 and sent to
EB Grayson Present
{ Revolutionary Claim}
{Act July 7, 1838}

Recorded by  R Mc Rae, Clerk,
Book D  Vol. 1   Page 341
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Power of attorney 
case of 

admitted
Sarah Bayliss
widow
Andrew Dickson
Act 1838
Tennessee

Elizth Mc Allister & [illegible]
Madisonville
Monroe Co
Tenn

F E Hassler
Present
A
Feb 1853
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POWER OF ATTORNEY
For ascertaining whether any increase or arrears of Pension are due the Widow or heirs of Revolutionary Pensioners, fc.*
STATE OF Tennessee}
County of Monroe}
Be it known that before me
William Williams Justice of the Peace  personally appeared
Sarah Bayliss   about aged 94 years , who being duly cautioned and 
then sworn in due form of law, states that She is the widow of William Dickson
who was a revolutionar Soldier  in the State of S. Carolina 
and that he died on the     day of.   1824     and that  mother, named
                and died on th.           day    .     and that they were
married on the.     day of.        in the year 1783. and that they were residents of
in the State of South Carolina     and that they resided there     years, and that
she   resides in Monroe County Tennessee and that furthermore  BY THESE
PRESENTS, constitutes, appoints, and fully empowers and authorizes, irrevocably and with powers of substitution, F. E. HASSLER, of Washington city, D. C., as his true and lawful Attorney for his and in 
his name and stead, to examine into, to prosecute, to demand, and to receive from the U. S. Government 
and State officers  his rights in all and in any manner of claim for increase or arrears of Pension or Land
 that may be due his  as the widow of William Dickson  who died leaving the
same undrawn, as in right of law she may be entitled.

In witness whereof, she  has on this 6th day December 1852,
hereunto signed  his  name, and affixed his seal.                      Her
                                                                                                       Sarah X.  Bayless                                        SEAL
                                                                                                                  mark
Witness: W L Eakin
Witness: Josiah Wright
Signed, sealed, acknowledged, and sworn to bofore me; and I further certify, that   Sarah Bayless  
has always by the community been known as the Widow of William Dickson died

Dated on this 6th day of December 1852 
William Williams J. P
_________
State of Tennessee
County of Monroe
to wit:
I hereby certify, that William Williams Esq..
before whom the foregoing affidavits and acknowledgment were made, and who has thereunto subscribed his name, was at the time of so doing, a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid, duly commissioned and sworn, and that his signature above written is genuine.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the Monroe
County Court, this 6th day of December one thousand eight
dred and Fifty two 
John A Stephens Clerk
by A.  S. Hicks  Clerk
[paper torn away] ow applies, state "the date of marringe, and date of death of her husband." 
under what act pensioned, or when pension commenced, if a pensioner-and amount of pension.
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State of Tennessee Monroe County
On this the 21st day of January Eighteen hundred And fifty one
Personally appeared before me John
Carson a Justice of the Peace for the 
County and state aforesaid. Jane
Robertson who being duly sworn according to law makes oath that she
was well acquainted with Wm Dickson of Abbeville District S.C. - that She was well acquainted with The family history of the Dicksons that she was born in Abbeville District S.C. and lived there for about forty years. That there was at the close
of the revolutionary war and for many years afterwards in Abbeville District but two men by the name of Dickson to wit Wm Dickson the husband of Sarah Bayless and John Dickson his uncle - that they both came from Ireland as she was then informed 
That she was very intimate with Wm Dickson & his wife and that there was not during the time of Wm Dickson service or for many years afterwards Any other person by that name in  Abbeville District. That Sarah Bayless was the lawful wife of the William she knew. that she never knew or heard of any other other Wm Dickson Being in the war or in Abbeville District At or near that time than the William 
Dickson for whose services Sarah Bayless, his widow is now making application for pay. 
Jane Robertson X her mark
Sworn to & subscribed before me this day & date [illegible]
s/ John Carson Justice of the Peace
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State of Tennessee County of Monroe
I, John A Stephens Clerk of the circuit court of the county and state aforesaid do hereby certify that John Carson Esqr. Whose genuine signature appears to the foregoing affidavit was at the time of signing the same an acting Justice of the Peace for the county & State aforesaid duly elected & authorized 
to administer oaths & that his signature is genuine. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand 
as clerk & affixed the seal of the 
county court of the county aforesaid this 21st January 1852
s/Jehu A Stephens clerk
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Addl evidence
in case of
Sarah Bayless
for Pension
under act
7 July 1838
as widow of 
Wm Dickson

E B Grigson
Feby 2 nd 52
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State of South Carolina 
District of Abbeville
Personally appeared before
the undersigned an acting Magistrate 
within & for said District in said state was Grizella Milford who being duly sworn doth upon her oath state that she is now in her eighty fourth year of age and was brought up from infancy & has ever lived in this same neighborhood in Abbeville District
South Carolina. That she remembers well the incidents of the Revolution which occurred in her own family and that during the war she lived with her grandmother Mrs Margaret Dixon. That she was, just about the close
of the war bridesmaid to Sarah, who married Deponents Uncle William Dixon both of whom some forty years ago & upwards moved to Tennessee,
and had during the war when her said
Uncle William Dixon was out carried him Victuals & his comrade & friend Edward Sharpe. 
That she never knew or heard of any other William Dixon or Dickson than her said uncle who was from this, at present Abbeville District, in the
Whig service, while her said uncle served, or afterwards or before, Nor did she ever know of Any other than one James Hawthorn in this neighborhood during or soon after the close of the war- she further swears that it is her distinct recollection That her said uncle said William Dickson served under General [Andrew] Pickens, and further that Captain John Wilson & Captain Hugh Wardlaw were The Whig captains living not more than About three miles from where deponents said uncle lived whose home was at deponents
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Grandmother’s - That this Deponent has already testified as to the marriage of her said uncle William 
& aunt Sarah Dickson, and that she is in no way interested in what said Sarah may recover as the widow of her said uncle. 
Grizzella Milford X Her mark 
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 22 day of January in the year 1852 Before me 
s/ John B Richey Magistrate 

State of South Carolina 
Abbeville District 
Personally appeared before underSigned an acting magistrate within & for said District, James
Cowan and A. C. Hawthorn who being duly sworn on oath say that they are neighbors of, and well acquainted with Mrs Grizzella Milford the aforementioned Deponent and that they believe her to be of the age by her above stated and that she is a person to whose statements whose oath are due fully faith and credit.
s/ James Cowan A. C. Hawthorn Sworn to and subscribed before the 23rd day of January Eighteen
hundred and fifty two
s/ John B Richey Magistrate

And I the said magistrate do hereby certify that I live within a few miles of Mrs Grizzella Milford the Deponent above, in said District & State and that from her character & her manner which testifying above. I believe her fully worthy of credit that she is of sound mind and memory. I further that James Cowan and A. C. Hawthorn who have testified above are persons known to me & fully worthy of all faith & credit when testifying above. Given under
my hand and seal this 23rd day of January 1852 s/ John B Richey
Magistrate 

State of South Carolina 
Abbeville District 
I Matthew McDonald clerk of the Court of Common Pleas and General Sessions for said District, certify that
John B Richey Esq. is a magistrate as above and that the foregoing signatures purporting to be his 
are genuine. In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed my seal of office and subscribed my name this twenty fourth day of January in the year of our Lord One thousand Eight hundred and Fifty two
Matthew McDonald c.c.p.& g.s
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Affidavit of Jane Roberson
State of Tennessee Monroe County
On this the 14th day of August 1851 personally appeared before me John Carson one of the acting Justices of the Peace for said County Jane Roberson who being first duly sworn according to law makes the following statements to wit that she Jane Roberson is about 70 years of age that she was from about 3 miles from Abbeville Court House South Carolina.  That she was well acquainted with William Dickson and his wife Sarah Dickson in Abbeville District South Carolina - that when she was a child about 8 or 10 years of age she was at the house of Wm Dickson frequently and at that age even slept on one occasion between Dickson & wife Sarah when a child and at that time Sarah Dickson told her and she heard her say that she had been married with Dickson for ten years or more. Prior to that time she further states that about the year 1807 or 8 himself husband & family left Abbeville Dist South Carolina and moved to the state of Tennessee and not liking the country in the course of two years moved back to Abbeville Dist and that the year they moved back to South Carolina Dickson & wife moved to Tennessee that in 1812-13 they Roberson wife and family including affiant again moved to the state of Tennessee and on moving to this state the second time they found Dickson and wife here. And affiant distinctly states that she had been well acquainted with Dickson up to the day of his Death and
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that she has been acquainted with his wife Sarah Dickson now Sarah Bayless ever since she can remember any thing and that she is still acquainted with her and she distinctly states that Sarah Bayless who has sworn to and subscribed the foregoing declaration is the Identical Sarah Dickson wife of Wm Dickson whom she knew and was so well acquainted with in Abbeville District
South Carolina and that she must be about 95 or 100 years of age. She further states that Sarah Bayless was taken and known as the lawful wife of Wm Dickson both in South Carolina and in Tennessee that they lived together agreeably as husband and wife were so known and taken by the community both in South Carolina and in Tennessee, up to the day of Dicksons death - That Dickson died in the year 1824 and that Sarah
Dickson his widow sometime afterwards perhaps in the year 1826 intermarried with one William Bayless and lived with him as his lawful wife until about the year 1845 when he died. And that his wife Sarah Bayless formerly the wife of Wm Dickson is now a widow known as Sarah Bayless, the widow of Wm Bayless.
She states these facts from her own personal knowledge and not from information - that Wm Dickson is buried in 1/2 mile from her dwelling house that she was at his burial.
That Sarah Bayless is a woman of much respectability and entitled to full credit & belief.
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And affiant again distinctly asserts that Sarah Bayless is this identical Sarah Dickson wife of Wm Dickson who buried in Abbeville District South Carolina -- and further that she while in South Carolina has heard Dickson speak of being a soldier in the revolutionary war
E E Griffith
J. C. Wright
Jane (X mark) Robertson

Sworn to & substantiated before on the day and date above written and I hereby certify that Jane Robertson is a respectable Lady and is of sound mind and entitled to full credit to his statements on oath
John Carson (Seal)
Justice of the Peace

Affidavit of James Roberson
State of Tennessee Monroe County
On this 14th day of August 1857 personally appeared before me John Carson one of the Justices of said county James Roberson who being first duly sworn according to law makes the following statement to wit That he has been well acquainted with Sarah Bayless for something like 40 years That he knew her in Tennessee in and from the year 1812 up to the day of Dicksons death as the lawful wife of Wm Dickson That he has heard them both speak of coming from abbeville District South Carolina to this state
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and their statements he has heard made prior to the 4th of July 1836 - that they lived together as husband & wife and even so taken in their community - that Wm Dickson died in the year 1824 and was buried near his house That afterwards perhaps about the year 1826 Sarah Dickson the widow of William Dickson intermarried with one Wm Bayless and lived with him as his lawful wife up to the year 1845 when he died And that Sarah Bayless his widow is still a widow and affiant distinctly states that Sarah Bayless who has sworn to and subscribed the foregoing declaration is the identical woman who was formerly the wife of Wm Dickson who moved from Abbeville District South Carolina about the year 1810. s/ James Robison
Sworn to & subscribed before me this day and date above written- And I hereby certify that James Robertson is a respectable person and entitled to full credit & belief
s/ John Carson (Seal)
Justice of the Peace
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affidavit of 
Edward Griffith
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State of Tennessee Monroe County
on this the 14th day of August 1857 personally Appeared before me
one of the sitting Justices of said County Edward Griffith who being first duly sworn according to law make the following statements to wit that
he lived some four years a neighbor
to Mr Dickson & his wife Sarah Dickson in his Dicksons lifetime that Dickson died in the year 1824 that he has lived near to & known Sarah Dickson his wife ever since that time.that he has heard them speak
of moving from Abbeville district South Carolina - that after the death of Wm Dickson (which was in the year 1824) and sometime in the year 1826 Sarah Dickson his widow intermarried with one Wm Bayless and lived with him as his lawful wife until about the year 1845. When Bayless died .that Sarah Bayless
formerly the Sarah Dickson wife of Wm Dickson is now a widow known as Sarah Bayless and further that she is the identical woman wife of Wm Dickson who moved from Abbeville District South Carolina as appears from the conversations with affiant
that Sarah Bayless is entitled to full credit and belief. s/Edward Griffith
seen and subscribed before me the day & date above written and I
hereby certify that Edward Griffith is entitled to full credit & belief
s/ John Carson JP
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State of Tennessee Monroe County 
On this 14th day of August 1851 before the undersigned Wm Williams an acting Justice of the Peace within & for the county of Monroe & State aforesaid personally appeared George C. Harris a citizen of the county & State aforesaid & made the following affidavit in relation to Sarah Bayless who has made her declaration for pension. Being first duly sworn according to the law, affiand (Harris) States upon his oath that he has known the said Sarah Bayless for thirty years past & was well acquainted with her first husband William Dickson until his death, which took place some time about the year 1824, that they lived together as man & wife until the death of the said William Dickson aforesaid He states that they came from the State of South Carolina as he understood. That the said Sarah Bayless after the death of the said William Dickson died She intermarried with one Wm Bayless who died sometime in the year 1845 and that She is now a widow. Affiant States that the said Sarah discharged the duties of a wife and was known & so recognized by the community in which they lived as being the lawful wife of the said William Dickson until his death Affiant States that he is seventy years of age
s/ Geo C Harris
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Sworn to & subscribed before the day & date last written. I hereby certify that George C. Harris who has subscribed the foregoing affidavit is a person of good character & entitled to full credit & belief And of the age set forth
Wm Williams
Justice of the Peace [seal]
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State of Tennessee Monroe County
I hereby certify that John Carson, C.J.P. Davis and Wm Williams who have each respectively officially certified and subscribed the foregoing Proceedings as Justices of the Peace are now and were at the time of so doing acting Justices of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid duly elected commissioned and sworn. 
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of my office as clerk of the county court of the county aforesaid this 18th day of August s/ John S Stephens clerk
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State of Tennessee Monroe County
On this 13th day of August 1851 personally appeared before me John Carson an acting Justice of the Peace within and for the county aforesaid John Thomasson who being first duly sworn according to law makes the following statement to wit That he was acquainted with Wm Dickson and wife Sarah Dickson in this lifetime and is still acquainted with Sarah Bayless formerly Sarah Dickson wife of Wm Dickson that he lived within two miles of Wm Dickson that he recollects to have heard them speak of coming from Abbeville Dist S Carolina he thinks he has heard him (Dickson) speak of being a revolutionary soldier that Dickson died in 1824 that something over a year afterwards his widow Sarah Dickson intermarried with Wm Bayless that Wm Bayless died about the year 1845 and he distinctly states that Sarah Bayless is the identical Sarah Dickson wife of Wm Dickson that she is an extremely old woman and supposes her age about 95 or 96 years - that her statements as to age are entitled to full credit and belief
s/ John Thomas__
sworn to & subscribed before me 
this day and date above written
and I certify that John Thomasson is entitled to full credit and belief.   
s/ John Carson Justice of the Peace
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Madisonville  free

To the Honorable A. G. Wadkins
Panther Springs
Tennessee


April 19 '51
Letter of Parker Hood
rel: to Sarah Bayless

Hon A.G. Wadkins
Panther Springs
Tennessee
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Madisonville Tenn March 7th 1857
Col. A.G. Wadkins
Sir a few days since I addressed you a line asking for information about the Sarah Bayless pension case Since which time I have received a letter from the pension office dated Feb. 21th -51 accompanied by the proper
forms and instructions how to proceed to get a pension for widows in certain cases which I now suppose was in answer to a letter that I sent to that office for such information same
two months before I sent the
declaration. The Commissioner of
Pensions Mr. J.E. Heath does not say
one word about the declaration and
proof accompanying the same whether it is correct or not.
And now if you will not think me too troublesome I will just say to you that I wish you to see whether the papers are correct or not and if they are not correct show me in what particulars they are deficient  or defective & say point out the errors to me and if you can get the Declaration and the balance of the papers accompanying if and send them back to me or if you
cannot get them please get a copy
of the whole Declaration & proof and I
will send up the papers in proper
form. I see in the regulations of
the pension office that the person
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making out a declaration must
do it in open Court if they are not
prevented by infirmity or inability to do so.Now the declaration is made
by Sarah Bayless was done before
a Justice of the peace it was
done because she was not at that
time able from old age and bodily infirmity to go before a court of
Record to make said Declaration
I say if this is all the defect about
the case I wish you would learn
if Mr Heath the pension commissionor if it would not do to send a little statement of the facts with proof of the same showing that the old lady is not able to attend and
have her Declaration made in open Court
I shall dislike it very much if I have to send all the way to Columbia South Carolina and spend another six dollars in order to procure the comptrollers certificate to prove the services of Wm Dickson when that part is now already established before the department;
And as I before asked would like
to know whether the back pay
can be got that Wm Dickson never
Received.
I would hereby state too that the
letter of Mr. Heath states that he has
inclosed the forms and regulations
of the Pension office showing
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how a person can proceed to get a
pension under the Acts of Congress
of the 4th of July 1836 and also of July 7th 1838 but instead of giving me the Regulation and form for July 4th 1836 he sent me the act of Congress for 29th July 1838.
Now Sarah Baylesses case comes
under the act of July 4th 1836 as
I am well satisfyed as she was
Marryed before 1894
And as before stated Mr. Heath
gives me no information about
the Declaration and proof whether
is correct or not. YoursYes/ Parker Hood

April 5 57
Please reply to this
Very Respectully
your obt Servant
A. G. Watkins
Hon J. E. Heath
Commr Pensions
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Madisonville  Monroe  Free

J. E. Heath Commissioner of Pensions
Pension Office
Washington City MD
official business

March 28 /51
Decl. of Sarah Bayless
Parker Hood
Madisonville 
Tennessee
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Madisonville Ten. March 22 1851
J. E. Heath
Sir I sent a letter of inquiry to your office some four or five months since asking for information in referance to a pensioner whether Sarah Bayless could get or whether she was entitled to a pension and if she was that I wished the commissioner of Pensions to send me the act of Congress under which she would be entitled to apply.
I did not receive an answer to my
letter of enquiry untill I sent on her
Declaration and proof to establish her
claim, after which I got a letter from
you of Feb 26th 1831 referring me to the acts of Congress of July 4th 1836 and July 7th 1838 enclosed with the acts and forms of July 7th 1838 and July 29th 1848 which I supposed was done or sent through mistake by you as your letter states that if she was married before Jan. 1794 she
would have to apply under the act of
July 4th 1836.
I see by the regulations of the pension office that a Declaration made by a widow before a Justice of the peace is not admissable as evidence unless the person making said Declaration is prevented from going before a Judge of Record in open Court by inability to do so
Now in this Case Sarah Bayless who
made out her Declaration and
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proof before Wm Williams a Justice
of the peace as it is now on file in
your office was at the time of doing
it unable to appear in open court
and she is not able now to go about
only as she is helped to do so and it
was with great difficulty that I got the
old lady in to the Court House
to make the declaration that is
herewith enclosed. Therefore she
hopes that you will take this
Declaration and apply the proof
as made out in her other Declaration
and apply the same to the one
that is herewith enclosed and you
will see by reference to this certificate
of the Comptroller at Columbia
South Carolina that her said Husband
Wm Dickson did do the duty in the
service of the revolutionary war as
set forth in her declaration and
even more you will also see
that there is due from the United States to said Wm Dickson some two
or three hundred pounds Sterling
for his services in said war which
she is now entitled to and as I think with interest from the time
the service was done up to this time.
But I now leave the whole case
with you, if she is entitled to a
land warrant and a pension and
the amount due for her said husband
Wm Dicksons services I am well
satisfied that you will do her
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justice in the premises I know
myself or at least I am well
satisfyed that she is justly entitled
to all she asks at your hands for
I have been acquainted with
said Sarah Bayless for the last
eighteen years and I believe
her to be a woman of undoubted
truth and that she is now
very old and decrepit and
is left without any one to protect
help or defend her being
left in this County without any
connections to do any thing for her
and not being able to employ
one to get or see to getting her 
pension for her, and I seeing and
believing that she was just such
objects as the acts of Congress had
provided for I have taken it into hand and am acting for her in the premises for I tell you that she is poor and she
needy tho I ask for nothing in this case but Justice and the law on her behalf.
and if there is any defect or lack
of proof in the proceedings please
inform me forthwith and if
it can be rectified I will have
it done and oblige yours
Parker Hood
agent for
Sarah Bayless
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affidavit of Jesse Butler
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State of Tennessee County of Monroe
On this 15th day of August 1851 personally appeared before me C T P Davis the undersigned an acting Justice of the Peace within &
for the County of Monroe & State aforesaid Jesse Buttlers a citizen of Monroe County & of the State aforesaid, who being duly sworn according to law, makes the
following affidavit in the case of Sarah Bayless who has made her declaration in order to obtain a pension. Affiant states that he is
now about fifty five years of age. He states that he was born in Abbeville District South Carolina five miles North of the Court house in said District that he remained there
until he was eleven years old, when he removed to the State of Georgia. Affiant states that he has a faint recollection of seeing when he was a small lad William Dickson & his wife Sarah: that they lived about six miles from his father's residence (as he thinks) that he recollects of going to what was then called the Hog
Skin Mills in one half mile of William
Dickson's residence, that they attended the same church with his own parents.
Affiant states further that his recollection of the persons is strengthened by a circumstance he recollects to have witnessed when
a very small boy, That he was permitted to attend a general muster at a place called McWhorter's in South Carolina that there were a great many negroes on the ground
that upon their making a disturbance
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some person fired a gun loaded with small shot upon the crowd of negroes, affiant distinctly recollects of seeing & knowing the said Sarah
Dickson on the ground trying to get away two of her father's slaves that were wounded by the gun before mentioned. That it was the first musters affiant ever attended and the doings of that day are firmly impressed upon his mind.
Affiant further states that he came from Georgia to Tennessee in the year 1811 and has lived in the adjoining counties of Blount & Monroe
until the present time. He states that from the time he left the State of South Carolina, he knew nothing of the said William Dickson
& his wife Sarah until the year 1818 when he met with one William Dickson & wife living in the County of Monroe & State of  Tennessee. Affiant states that he soon discovered by conversing with them that they were the same William Dickson and wife Sarah with whom he had been acquainted when a lad in the State of South Carolina, before mentioned. that he had frequent conversations
with William Dickson and his said wife Sarah in regard to their mutual friends and neighbors in South Carolina, that Sarah Dickson
the wife of the said William was well acquainted with affiants relations. Affiant further states that he visited the said William Dickson
& wife that they visited him, they never living more than twenty five miles apart since he has known them in Tennessee, that they were living together
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as man & wife both in this State & South Carolina & were so recognized by the community until the death of the said William Dickson, affiant thinks it was before the year 1825. that the said Sarah Dickson afterwards intermarried with one
William Bayless, who has since died and that she is now a widow. Affiant States that his own mother is now very old and that when he met with Mrs Dickson in Tennessee she told affiant she knew this (affiants)
mother before the (affiant) was born or his mother married she has often repeated the same in conversation.
Affiant has understood that the said William Dickson was in the service of the United States after his marriage to the said Sarah his wife Affiant distinctly states from his personal knowledge that Sarah Bayless who has made her declaration for
a pension is the identical same person of whom he has spoken, was the wife of the said William Dickson before mentioned Affiant believes the said Sarah Bayless is between eighty & ninety years of age and he thinks may be the rise of ninety
s/ Jesse Butler
Sworn to & subscribed the day &
date last above written & I hereby certify that the above subscribing
Witness Jesse Butler is a person
of respectability of the age set forth &
entitled to full credit & belief
s/ Chas T P Davis
Justice of the Peace
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Affidavit of Samuel Douthit
State of Tennessee
and Monroe County
On this the 12th day of August Eighteen Hundred and fifty one personally appeared before me
an acting Justice of the Peace in and for the County & State aforesaid Samuel Douthit who being first duly sworn according to law makes the following statements viz
That he (Samuel Douthit 74 years of age) that he has been resident of the adjoining counties of Monroe & Blount for upwards of 45 years That he Samuel Douthit bought an occupancy of one James Hall in the County of Blount Tennessee in the year 1807 that he paid for the same by regular installments - that prior to 1807 he (Douthit) owned land in Greenville District South Carolina and
sold the same and came to Tennessee.  that he sold his land in S.C. was to receive the pay by installments. Affiant further states that in the year Eighteen and ten (it may be 1811 as his recollection is not distinct) that which he was on his route to South Carolina for the
money due him   he met with Wm Dickson and wife, was introduced to them as Wm Dickson & wife that it was in the fall season of the year near which that the place where he met with them was called Newport in the State of Tennessee - that they Dickson & wife then  told him that they were just from Abbeville District South Carolina and that they were going on to the settlement in which he (Douthit) lived and that in his
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return to his home in Tennessee in the same fall he found Wm Dickson & wife Sarah settled down and living within 2 miles of his own house    affiant further states that he has had
frequent conversation with Wm Dickson & wife Sarah and that they then and afterwards frequently told him they were from Abbeville District South Carolina and further that Abbeville District was his (Douthits) former place of living as an itinerant minister and that he and Dickson & wife have had frequent conversations about their several acquaintance in Abbeville. 
Affiant further states that he was the family physician of Wm Dickson during his life time and has had the best of opportunities for conversing with him & wife about these matters    affiant further states that he has heard Dickson speak of his claims
upon the Government for revolutionary services. that he was a soldier in the Revolutionary war
and has heard him say that he had claims that he never expected to get from the Government of the United States. Affiant further states that he knew William Dickson & wife after the time of their arrival before mentioned until Dickson died in 1824 - that they lived together as husband and wife were so known in their community and were so recognized by
a number of respectable relations and the community generally and trust their word in great respectability.   affiant again distinctly asserts that he will not be positive as to the time he met them and gives as one reason for remembering what to place when he met them that
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he took dinner with them as Henry
Franks a nephew of the Dicksons was with them and he was and old acquaintance of affiant (Douthit) and that the facts above stated are true
to the best of his knowledge & belief
Samuel Douthit

Sworn to and subscribed before me on the day and date first above written and I hereby certify that the above subscribing witness
is of the highest respectability having
person been a regular authorized minister of the gospel in the Methodist Episcopal Church for more than fifty years and also a regular practicing physician in the Counties
of Blount & Monroe Tennessee for about fifty years and is entitled to full credit and belief.
John Carson
Justice of the Peace

State of Tennessee  Monroe County
Affidavit of Samuel Douthit
On this the 13th day of August 1857
personally  ppeared before me John
Carson an acting Justice of the Peace for the County of Monroe aforesaid Samuel Douthit and being duly sworn according to law makes oath in addition to what he has stated in his affidavit first above that the said Sarah Bayless who has sworn to & subscribed the foregoing Declaration is the identical
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Person and women known and described in his affidavit first above as Sarah Dickson the wife of Wm Dickson.  that after the death of Dickson she intermarried with
an Wm Bayless and lived with him until the year 1845 when Bayless died - and that she is now a widow known as Sarah Bayless
formerly the wife of Wm Dickson
s/ Samuel Douthit

Sworn to & subscribed before
me day & date above within
John Carson [signature]. seal
Juster of the Peace

[Left Margin:]
Affidavit of S Douthit,
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State of Tennessee Monroe County
on this 18th day of March Eighteen hundred and fifty one personally appeared before me Thomas L Williams Chancellor for the Chancery District of Eastern Division of the Tennessee.  One Sarah Bayless a resident of the state of Tennessee in the County of Monroe, aged eighty years who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth on her oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefits of the provisions made by the acts or acts of Congress, one entitled an act granting help and pensions to certain widows and one entitled.  An act granting bounty land to officers and soldiers who was in the service of the United States in the Revolutionary war &co, also to obtain the balance of what is due for the services of Wm Dickson (my deceased husband) in said revolutionary war.  That she is the widow of Wm Dickson who was engaged in the service of the United States in the war of the revolution as appears by the rolls and books of the war department in Columbia South Carolina, that he was commissary of Issues in Sumters Brigade as will appear in Book M, No 643, and that Book O, No 381 shows that he performed duty as a private on horse and foot from Aug 1779 to April 1782 and by the pay rolls of Capt. John Wilson and Capt. Hugh Wardlow that he did duty in Capt [Samuel] Ottersons Company, Col [Thomas] Brandon's Regt. 111 days as a private horseman's appears by an order
Signed by Wm Dickson before Charles Sirus J.P.  1st November 1785 for 10 L Sterling, also an order No 3471 for 32 L Sterling Militia duty as
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private and Lieutenant in Roebucks Regt before and since the fall of Charlestown. viz.250 days duty horse under Capt John Lawson pay roll Col Ben. Roebucks Regt said Wm Dickson was a resident of Spartanburg South Carolina when he volunteered, which service may be found by reference to the Comptrollers Books and papers as filed in his office at Columbia South Carolina. she further declares that her said husband was at and engaged in the Skirmish of Kettle Creek, the battle of ninety six, the battle of the Cowpens, the battle of Charlestown and other services both before and since the fall of Charlestown, and that the said Wm Dickson was wounded
by being shot in the month in one of these battles and that he never after enjoyed good health up to his death from the effects of said wound, she further declares that she was Married to the said Wm Dickson on the 8th day of January in the year seventeen hundred and seventy seven (1777) and that her said husband Wm Dickson Died in July Eighteen
hundred and twenty four (1824) she further declares that the discharges and other papers of her said husband was destroyed by the accidental burning of affiants House, that the private Record of their marriage was also destroyed at the same time & in the same manner and that she knows of no other record of their marriage, that he drew no pension nor did
he ever apply for one, And that she has not applied for a pension on the account of the services of her said husband nor has she authorized any one to make an application for
pension until the present time, she further states that she remained a widow from July 1824 until July 1826 when she intermarried with Bayless who died the
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fourth of December 1845 and that she has since remained and is now a widow.
Affiant further states that she was not able from old age and bodily infirmity to go before a Judge of Record in open Court, when
she made out her Declaration and proof before Wm Williams one of the acting Justices of the peace for the County of Monroe & State of Tennessee nor is she now able to do so and do herself Justice on the account of inability.
Therefore she hopes that you will take this Declaration and apply the proof as made out in her first declaration made before said Wm Williams Justice of the peace
& Co and apply the said proof in this case or to this declaration as the proof now stands on file in your office. Sarah Bayless X her mark
Sworn to before me in open
Court this day and year above
Written s/ Thomas Williams
Chancellor for the Eastern
division of the state of Tennessee
hereunto in open Court
s/ Thos J Williams Chancellor

I William Williams certify that Sarah Bayless whose name appears affixed to the above Declaration is the same Sarah Bayless who made out a  Declaration and proof before me in order to procure or get a pension for the services of her first husband Wm Dickson in the revolutionary War
and that She Sarah Bayless was prevented from making said declaration in open Court on the
account of old age and bodily infirmity
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and that it is only at times that she is able to do so and that she is at this time very feeble  Given under my hand at office in Madisonville Monroe County state of  Tennessee March 18th 1851
Wm Williams [signature]
Justice of the peace for
Monroe County Tenn

State of Tennessee
Monroe County

I hereby certify that Wm Williams whose name appears signed to the above certificate is now and was at the time of signing the same and acting Justice of the Peace Commissioned and sworn as such for the county & state aforesaid and that he is the same Wm Williams before whom Sarah Bayless (whose name is signed to the above Declaration.) made out a Declaration and proof in order to procure and get a pension for her first husband Wm Dicksons service in the Revolutionary  War same  time in [illegible] which was sent to the pension office by Parker Hood to which Declaration and proof you will find a Power of Attorney attached  made by Sarah Bayless appointing said Parker Hood her agent to get and procure said pension for her
In testimony where of I have hereunto  set my hand and affixed the seal of my office as clerk of the County to wit of the County aforesaid this  21st day of March 1851.
Jehu A Stephens Clerk [signature]
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[ fragment of envelope]
Free

Comm of Pensions
Washington City
D.C.
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Washington May 8th
FS Evan Esq
Chief Clerk P Office
Sir
In accordance with authority which
I showed you yesterday
I have to ask the
favor of examining
the papers in the case
of Sarah Bayless widow
of Wm Dickson claim for Pension
&c for services of her Husband in
the war of the Revolution
Claimant resides in Tennessee
very Respectfully
EB. Grayson
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Brief in the case of Sarah Bayliss
County and State of tennessee
act 7 July 1831
Claim, ("original," 
Proof exhibited, (if original. )
Is it documentary, traditionary, or supported by rolls? If either, state the substance. Of service, parol & record
of marriage, parol

Name and residence of Agent
E B Grayson,
Present

[illegible]
Examining Clerk.
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In reply to your request of_ received_ for a statement of the military history of  William Dickson
a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension  on file in this Bureau.    W. File 328
DATES OF  ENLISTMENT  OR APPOINTMENT.  
   Bet Aug 79 -      Apl 82            STATE.  SC
LENGTH OF  SERVICE     
RANK.     
OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED.  
CAPTAIN. COLONEL.
129 days   Pri of Horse    Capt.John Wilson                                                   107 days      "    Foot            "   Hugh Wardlaw                                         22 days          Wagon service                                                                          111 days Capt [Saml] Otterson, [Col Thos] Brandon
140 days     "     John Lawson         " Ben Roebuck
      "          Lieut.                Roebuck
      " Commis of Issues in Gen Sumter's brigade

Battles engaged in,---Kettle Creek  Ninety-Six Cowpens 
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Abbeville Dist, SC with Mother Margaret Dickson
Date of application for pension, ---Dec 11, 1850
Residence at date of application, Monroe Co Tenn
Age at date of application, 80
Remarks: Soldier married Jany 8, 1777 Sarah Frank Cambridge, S.C.
he died July 1824 & she mar July 1826 Wm Bayless who died in Dec 4, 1845
Sol niece Jane Robertson stated that soldier and his uncle John Dickson came from Ireland

Very respectfully,

Commissioner.

 In 1852 wife stated she 94 yrs. old & mar in 1783

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In reply to your request of_ received_
for a statement of the military history of  William Dickson a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension  on file in this Bureau.    W. File 328
LENGTH OF SERVICE.  6 or 7 yrs
STATE.    S.C  
Gen Sumpters [Thomas Sumter] Brigade     
RANK.  Pri   &   Let   
DATES OF ENLISTMENT  Aug 79 to Apl 82
OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. CAPTAIN.  John Wilson, Hugh Wardlaw, [Samuel] Otterson , John Lawson                              
COLONEL.[Thomas] Brandon, Ben Roebuck                                                           
111 days                        "                                                                              
Before & after Fall Charleston May 1780                                                                        
Wounded in the mouth (date not given)
Battles engaged in,Kettle Creek  Ninety-Six Cowpens 
Residence of soldier at enlistment,--- Abbeville Dist, SC with Mother Margaret Dickson
Date of application for pension, ---Dec 11, 1850
Residence at date of application,---Monroe Co. Tenn
Age at date of application, 80
Remarks: Soldier married Jany 8, 1777 Sarah Frank Cambridge, S.C.
He died July 1824 & she mar July 1826 Wm Bayless who died in Dec 4, 1845
Sol niece Jane Robertson stated that soldier and his uncle John Dickson come from Ireland
Very respectfully,

Commissioner.

In 1852 wife stated she 94 yrs. old & mar in 1783

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Clearwater, Florida   Nov 16-29
443 Bay Ave

Com. of Pensions
Washington, D.C.

Gentlemen,
Please give me the Revolutionary Records of Edward Dickson & William Dickson of S.C. They removed to Tenn about 1790 also the name of Christopher Strong, Edward Raworth S.C.
 Thanking you, I am Sincerely
Maurice Raworth

Stamped U.S. Pension Office Nov 18, 1929
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Davis Goudelock
Att. 29696
Died Sept. 17, 1838
Gaffney, S.C. 
July 17th - '07
U.S. Commissioner of Pensions
Washington, D.C.

My dear Sir, I understand you will have the names of two (2) soldiers, what service they rendered and from what district enlisted copied
from the records of Revolution for a descendant
I will greatly appreciate your sending me this information of my ancestors Lieut. William Dickson and Davis Goudelock (spelled also Grudylock) the latter a pensioner, I think at your earliest convenience, also telling me just where, page etc. these names appear - Again thanking you for your kindness, I'm yrs truly 
Mrs. N.B. Dupre
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Enclosed are photocopies of all
the documents in the file.
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1907 July 19 Hist to Mrs  W B Dupre
1930 Jan 13 -Hist to Mamie Raworth

328
Revy WIDOW, &c.
File No. 328
Sarah Bayliss
Widow
Wm Dickson
Priv.  of Cav & Inf. Rev War

Act: Feb 2, 1848

Index: - Vol A, Page 28
[Arrangement of 1870.]