Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 37,892, Thomas Dossett, S.C.

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SERVICE
S.C.

Dossett, Thomas 
or Dosset

NUMBER 
S 37,892

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26784
Kentucky
Thomas Dossett
of Hopkins Co. in the State of Kentucky who was a private in the com commanded by Captain Brood of the regt commanded by Colomber in the South Carolina line for Six Months

Inscribed in the Roll of Kentucky at the rate of 20 Dollars - Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 29 day of May 1834 and Hon C Lyon House of Representatives

Arrears to the 4th of March 60.00
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sept. 10.00
$70.00
{Revolutionary Claim, Act June, 1832}

Recorded by Danl Boyd Clerk, 
Book E Vol. 7 Page 30

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37 892
INVALID.
Revy
File No. 37,892
Thomas Dossett
Pri Rev War

Act: 18th March 18th
Index:-Vol. Q, Page 181
[Arrangement of 1870.]

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Lyon H.R.

Col James L. Edwards
Pension Office

Ky
30.995
Thomas Dossett.
Kentucky
f 1782 fr 6 m
$20

can only allow for 3 mo in [illegible]

Hon. C. Lyon

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Kentucky
Hopkins County }ss. May County Court 1834
Thomas Dossett a soldier of the Revolution and applicant for a pension this day produced in Court his declaration under the Act of Congress passed 7th June 1832 and subscribed and made oath to the same and the certificate of Abner Cates and John Donaho thereunder written was also subscribed and sworn to in open Court where upon the Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department that the above applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier & served as he states and the Court further certifies that it appears to them that Abner Cates and John Donaho who subscribed the certificate above named are Residents in this County and are credible persons and that their statement is entitled to credit
I Samuel Woodrow clerk of the Court for the County of Hopkins aforesaid

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in the State of Kentucky do hereby certify that the foregoing is a true transcript of an entry on the Minutes of said Court as the same now remains of record in my Office I further certify that the Declaration and certificate here unto attached marked A & B. are the original Declaration and certificate mentioned in said entry as having been subscribed and sworn to
I Testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name & affixed my seal of Office in this 10th day of May 1834 & in the 42nd year of the Commonwealth
Sam Woodrow

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State of Kentucky
Hopkins County }SS
A
On this 12th day of May 1834 personally appeared in open Court before the Court of the County aforesaid now sitting Thomas Dosset a resident of said County & State aged about seventy six years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following Declaration in order to obtain the benefits 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
This applicant has no record of his age but from the best information he has received he was born in Orange County in the State of South Carolina in the year 1758 or 1759 that in his early infancy his father removed to South Carolina and & settled between Broad and Pacolet rivers (the County or District not recollected) where the Revolution found this applicant and where he was drafted for five months - this was as well as this applicant now recollects about three years before the close of the war  - He states that his

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Captain was by the name of Tutt under whom Moses Dosset (this applicants father) was Lieutenant and James Huggins Ensign all of the South Carolina Militia
That he rendezvoused at Wafferds Iron works and marched thence through a wilderness Country to Seneca Fork on the Savannah River in Georgia - that he remained on duty in said Fork four & a half months where being sick he was discharged and returned home he received a discharge for his full term of five months signed as he believes by his Capt but has lost the same - Capt Tutt commanded at the Fork
He stated that about twelve months after he returned home he was again drafted for four months under Capt John Brumet of the S. Carolina Militia that he rendezvoused about three miles below Camden and marched thence to Lawrences or Laurens ferry on the [illegible] River where he was stationed

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until his tour expired when he was discharged and returned home he received a written discharge signed as he believes by his Capt but hath lost the same 
He states that after the close of the war he moved to Orange County S. Carolina thence to the State of Tennessee and thence to the County of Hopkins in the State of Kentucky where he served ^his first tour in a Forte on the Frontier which was garrisoned by militia and saw no Regular Officers ^nor does he know that he saw any on his 2d tour unless Colo Shelley who commanded at Law [illegible] or [illegible] ferry was such
He states that his is known to Abner Cates & John Donaho residing in his present neighborhood who can tistify to his character for veracity & their belief of his services as a Soldier of the Revolution
He states that he is an illiterate old man and that he was informed he would have to prove his services positively to entitle

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him to a pension under the act of Congress before informed to [illegible] was he better informed until very recently - which accounts for his being deferred this application to this late period as he has no documentary evidence and that he knows of no person whose testimony he can procure who can testify to his services - He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present & declares that his name is not on the pension Roll of the Agency of any State 
Thomas Dosset his x mark
Sworn to & subscribed the day & year aforesaid}
B
Abner Cates & John Donaho 
[illegible] residing in the County of Hopkins Ky. hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Thomas Dosset who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be about seventy six years of age, that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have to been a Soldier of the Revolution and the we swear in that opinion
A. Cates
John Donaho his x mark
Sworn & Subscribed the day & year aforesaid}

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