Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 26777, for John Lawton, Rhode Island
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RI Lawton, John   W 26777
                  Ruth
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3413

New York
Ruth Lawton
Widow of John Lawton
RI
who was a private 
in the R. Island line

Inscribed on the Roll at a rate of 
80 Dollars
Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843. 

Certificate of Pension issued the 7 day of Dec: 1843 and sent to H. R. Mygatt
oxford
N. yk

[Act of March 3, 1843.]

Recorded in Book A
vol. 1 Page 108

arrears cap see within
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4465
John Lawton
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State of New York
Tioga County I Luke Sanders of Boston in said County of Tioga being duly sworn says that he is eighty one years of age and died in October 1782 & he lived in Charlestown in Rhode Island and that he was present when John Lawton was married to his sister Ruth Sanders by Elder John Garner which deponent believed was the third of October 1783, that the widow of said John Lawton who lives at Smithville in Chenango County that deponent well recollects that said marriage took place in the fall of 1783 from the fact that my oldest daughter was born February 1783 and said marriage took place in October of the same year
Luke Saunders
Sworn to June 19th 1839
before me and I certify
that Luke Saunders is a credible person
Washington Smith J. P.
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State of New York
Tioga County Clk's Office
I David Wallis Clerk of the said County of Tioga certify that Washington Smith Esq before whom the within affidavit was taken was on the [illegible] day of Fabrery the same an acting Justice of the Peace in the forgoing saidn County duly qualified to act as such I am well acquainted with the hand writing of said Justice and do truly believe the signature Washington Smith within subscribed is genuine
In Testimony whereof I have herein to set my hand and affix the Seal of said Count of Tioga July 1st 1839
D Wallis Clk

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State of New York
Chenango County
I on this twelfth day of September 1838 personally appeared before John Tracy Lieutenant Governor and Judge of the Court for the Correction of Errors of the State of New York, resident of Oxford in said County of Chanango Ruth Lawton, a resident of Smithville in the County of Chenango aforesaid, aged seventy two years, who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the pension made by the Act of Congress passed July 7 1838 entitle "an act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows". That she is the widow of John Lawton who is a private for several years during the Revolution of the Rhode Island State troops and was a pensioner under the act of June 7, 1832 for the participation of his service she would refer to the paper whom which he as pensioned. She further declares that she as married to the said John Lawton on the day forgot of October in the year seventeen hundred and eighty two but her husband the aforesaid John Lawton died on the twelfth day of August in the year eighteen hundred and thirty six & that she was not married to him prior to his leaving there service, but the marriage took place previous to the first of January seventeen hundred and ninety four, to wit; at the time above stated. 
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written before me and I certify that from bodily infirmity said Ruth Lawton is unable to attend Court and that said Ruth Lawton makes her mark annexed.

Ruth X Lawton 
her mark

John Tracy Judge of the Court for the Correction of Errors
State of New York
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State of New York
Chenango County
I Elizabeth Dent of Smithville in said County of Chenango being duly sworn saith that she is 40 years of age, and that she is the daughter of Joh Lawton and his wife Ruth Lawton, whose affidavit is annexed. that she was present at the death of said John Lawton who died August 12th 1836. That said John Lawton was a revolutionary pensioner under the act of June 7th 1832. That she has lived with said Ruth Lawton since the death of said John Lawton and that she has not since married as deponent believes true, and that there is no family record of their marriage to deponents knowledge. 
That it has always been understood in the family and as deponent believes true said John Lawton was married to said Ruth about the close of the Revolutionary War. 
Sworn to before me this 
12th September 1838 and I certify that I believe said Elizabeth Dent to be a credible person
E Dent
John Tracy Judge of the Court for the Correction of Errors
State of New York
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State of New York
Chenango County} ss
I Percy Randall Clerk of said County of Chenango herein certify that John Trace is Lieutenant Governor and Judge of the Court for the Correction of Error of the State of New York and that his signature within written are genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed my hand and the seal of said County this November 12th  1838. 
P. Randall Clerk

4113
4193
Ruth Lawton 
widow of John 
N York
Act 1 July 1838
Married Oct 1782
[illegible} died 12 Aug 

Admitted
Private 2 years
H .R, May 9th [ilegible]
Oxford
New York
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No 4, 465
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State of New York
County of Chenango } ss
On this 13th day of August 1832 personally appeared in open Court before the Honrl Robert Monell Vice Chancellor of the 6th Circuit of the State of New York at a Court of Chancery held at the residence of the Vice Chancellor in the Town of Greene in the County of Chenango and State of New York now sitting John Lawton  a resident of the town of Smithville in the County of Chenago and State of New York aged 74 years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June 7th 1832. That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated, that he living at Hopkintown in the State of Rhode Island on the 8th of December 1776 after the British has possessed Rhode Island he volunteered and enlisted in Captain Barker Wells, Lieutenant [ilegible ] Babcock V Ensign Sylvanus Maxon company and joined the company at Westerly Rhode Island and Colonel Joseph Noyes, Lieutenant Colonel John Maxon and Major (believe, Slatter) Regiment of Rhode Island State Troops, and soon after enlisting marched with the troops to Boston neck in the State of Massachusetts where he remained with the troops all winter and in the spring of 1777, and then at Boston the Company was detached as divided into two parts and one half of the company were to remain in constant service, and the other half to be dismissed so that they might go home and attend to their families farms etd and so he continued alternately at home and in the service with the company as will hereafter appear; and that in the months of April and the first half of the months of June July August and September and during the months October and December he as at home in Rhode Island, and in the month of May he was with the troops at Boston Neck and the last half of the months of June July August and September and in the month of November of the same year 177 he was with the company at Point Judith in Rhode Island guarding the coast so that in the year 1777 he was in service with the company seven months , and that tin the year 1778 in the months of January March May and the last halfs of the months of June and July he was with his division of the company at Point Judith and in the months of February and April and the first half of the months of June and July he was at home and in the months of August, September and November of this year he was with the company in constant service and continued in the same company above mentioned, and believes in the months of August Captain Henry Wells took the command Captain Barker having previously died, and he went with the company to the north part of Rhode Island and joined the army under General Sullivan and was I the month of August in the Battle of Rhode Island and that the first halfs of the months August & September he served as a substitute for his father Joseph Lawton, and that after the Battle of Rhode Island in the year 1778 he was constantly with the company guarding the shores except in the months of October & December  when he as at home and that he was during the year 1778 in constant service seven months, and that he was in the year 1779 with the company guarding the lines at Point Judith & other places along the past of Rhode Island, during the months of January , March, May and the first half of the months June, July, August and September and the month November and during the remainder of the same year 1779 he was at home and was in service in the year 1779 six months, and that during the year 1780 he was with the company guarding the lines in the southern part of Rhode Island during the months January, March, May and the first half of the months June, July, August and September and the month November and the remainder of the year was at home and that he was at home during the year 1780 six months and in constant service six months, and in the year 1781 in the month of January he was guarding the coast with the  company in February was at home and in the month of March was again with the company and he was discharged on the 1st April 1781 and returned home to Hopkintown aforementioned, that he has no documentary  evidence and that he knows of no person whose testimony he can procure who can testify to his services, 
To the 1st Interrogatory prescribed by the War Department he answers he was born in Hopkintown Rhode Island on the 3d of October 1757
To the 2d answer that he has a record of his age at home on a piece of paper, 
To the 3d answer, that he lived at Hopkintown Rhode Island when called into service and after the Revolution he lived there until the year 1785 from thence removed to Leyden Massachusetts and from thence to Argyle in New York where he lived a few years and from thence to Brookfield in Madison County New York until the years 1820 there he lived, when he moved to Smithville in Chenago County and State of New York where he as since lived and now lives. 
to the 4th answer that he volunteered his services, except at one time he served as a substitute for his father Joseph Lawton , for one month
To the 5th answers that Genl Sullivan [remainder of document cut off and ilegible]  (a frenchman) were