Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 2,966, Lewis Dishon, N.C. Privateer

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SERVICE N.C.
Privateer
Dishon, Lewis or Dishong
NUMBER R. 2966
Elizabeth

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Georgia 16.867
Lewis Dishon alias Dishong of Gang in the State of North Carolina who was a prv in the company commanded by Captain Hunter of the ---commanded by ---- in the No. Car: line for one month
Inscribed on the Roll of No. Caroliana
at the rate of 20 Dollars - Cents per annum commence on the 4th day of March 1831
Certificate of Pension issued the 11th day Dec 33 and P.H. Marman Hillsboro No. Car.
Arrears to the 4th of Sep 1833
Semi-Ani allowance ending 4 Mar 34
50
10
$60
Revolutionary Claim
Act June 7, 1832
Recorded by Nath Rice clerk
Book E Vol. 6 Page 57
Letters to William Morell Esq Lawsen Georgia and 3d (illegible) Sept 30th 1842
Cer to Pension abe 21 Oct 1842
Paid this Treasury under the Act of April6th 1838 and Aug 23 1842 from March 4th 1840 to March 4th 1841 Age notified Oct 25th 1842
Cert of Pension agt 19 Nov 1842
to Georgia from 4 Sep 1842 5 Dec 1842 notification to William Malbie Summerville Geo
Paid at Treasury under act of 6 Apr 1838 from 4 sept 39 to 4th March 40 Agent notified 23 March 1840

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Lewis Dishow
declaration

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Declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress, papered June 7th 1832 
State of North Carolina
Orange County    SS
On this 28th day of November AD 1832 personally appeared in open court before the Justices of the Court of please + quarter sessions of the County aforesaid, now sitting Lewis Dishon, alias Dishong aged 69 or 70 years, resident in the county + state aforesaid who first being duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress papered June 7th 1832 - That he entered unto the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated. In the year 1778 or 1779 as (illegible) certainty
he was drafted if Chowan County in the state aforesaid for the term of six  months in the state militia, sometime in the fall of the year. His company was organized at Edenton under Elishia Hunter but Capt Hunter being an old man relinquished his commission and Lieutenant James Roberts was appointed Captain in his place - John Walter Ensign - From Edenton his company was ordered to march to Kingston N.C. where the North Carolina troops were to rendezvous The wind on Albermarle sound detained his company some days on their way to Kingston + when they reached Kingston the main army had moved to the south. His company left Kingston  + marched after the main body to join them, first to Elizabeth in Bladen County N.C. thence to Charlston, South Carolina; thence to the Two Sisters on Savanna River, + thence to Augusta in Georgia, where he overtook the main

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body of North Carolina militia, commanded by General Ashe, Genl. Bryant and lieutenant col. Bob Pugh Williams. From Augusta, he was marched with the main army down to Brian Creek - and at Bryant Creek, had an engagement with the British - which resulted in the defeat of the American forces. From this defeat, the declarant fled as he best could, and made his way to the vicinity of the Two Sisters where the scattered Americans were rallied. There, the rallied forces were placed under the command of Gen. Lincoln, a Continental officer; General Ashe, of the North Carolina militia, not being in command over the declarant, after the Battle of Brian Creek. After being placed under the command of Genl Lincoln, the delcarant was stationed about four miles above the Generals main army, up on the Savanna River - where the declarant remained untill the term of six months expired, for which he had been drafted and was then discharged and returned home. Whether he received a written discharge or not, the declarant does not recollect. - The declarant remembers distinctly that after his discharge from the aforesaid service, on his return home by way of Georgetown South Carolina, a severe frost fell that fix the young corn down which was five or six blades high. - After remaining at home some two months, the declarant determined to enter the navel service of the United States, and accordingly, he went to Newbern [New Bern] in the

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state of North Carolina, and volunteered for a six weeks cruise on board the Brig Belona, a privateer, under the command of Captain Harrison. From (Newbern), the said Brig set sail, the declarant being on board, and sailed to the mouth of Cape Fear, N.E., and there remained some days until Capt. Harrison could go home on White Oak, to attend to some domestic business- Thence said Brig set sail, the declarant being on board, to make his intended cruise. After she had been out at sea a few days, she met with a British fleet of merchant-men and expected to make prizes of some of them - but a British Clipper ship of 49 guns, supposed to be the Gallatin, gave the Baltona chase from early in the morning until dark. After dark, Capt. Harrison changed his course in order to deceive the pursuing enemy - and after leaving ran some two hours. The Ballona ran on shore and was wrecked. One of the crew was drowned - the rest clung to the wreck until morning. They were wrecked nine miles to the south of St. Augustine in east Florida. The crew saved their boat, on deck - and at a great hazard, they got on shore that day with the aid of the boat they saved. At that time there was a British force stationed out at St. Augustine, under the command of a Col. (Glazien). This force captured Bellona's crew, among whom was the declarant, on the night of the day in which the crew

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got to land. The declarant and the rest of his crew were taken prisoners by the British about the 2nd or 3rd day of December 1780 - and he was detained as a prisoner of war by the British at St. Augustine, from that time untill the 5th day of  May 1782, at night - when he and four more men of his crew made their escape - and were about 20 or 22 days in the wilderness. The declarant and his comrades got on the track of the cattle, which one McGirl, a robber, had taken from Georgia to St. Augustine for the British. He discovered the track of a cow that had got away from McGirl's drove and was returning towards Georgia; and he and his men pursued and finally overtook her and made beef of a part of her. Which perhaps saved their lives - as they were nearly starved. At length they reached (?), the edge of the white settlement, and then made their way home where they arrived the latter part of June 1782. The declarant was born in the county of (Chowan) in the state of North Carolina in 1762 or 63, as he supposes - he hath no register of his age. He resided in Chowan a far years after the close of the Revolution  and thence removed to Orange county aforesaid . Where he hath resided ever since. He hath no documentary evidence of his service - no doth he know any person of whom he can prove it. He humbly relinquishes every claim

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whatever to a pension or annuity, except the present, and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency or any state so far as he hath knowledge.
Sworn to transcribed, this day and year aforesaid.
26th Nov 1832
Sword to (an officiant)
J. Crayton CC

Lewis Dishon
[Dishon made a trembling + between his first and last name and Crayton noted that it was "his mark"]

We John King ["a clergyman" is crossed out], and Edward King all of the county of orange and state of North Carolina, hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Lewis Dishon, who hath subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be 69 or 70 years of age, that he is reported and believed in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier in the War of the Revolution; and that we conceed [concede] in that opinion.

Sworn to and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid.

John King
Ed King
26th Nov 1832
Sworn to an (officiant)
J. Crayton CC

And the said court do hereby declare their opinion, that said declarant & the proofs in support thereof are entitled to full credit.

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I John Taylor Clark of Orange County Court of pleas and quarter sessions do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of Lewis Dishon for a pension 
Witness my hand and seal of office
this 27th Nov 1832
J Crayton CC

North Carolina
Orange County
Court of Pleas and Quarter Session 
August Fifth AD 1833

Declaration of Lewis Dishon by way of amendment to the above declaration made by him of November session, AD 1832 of the court aforesaid in order to obtain the benefits of the act of Congress passed June 7th 1833.

The declaration states that for the tour of six months, set forth in his formal declaration above for which he was drafted - that he was drafted as a private and served as a private in the militia of North Carolina and that for the incidents and circumstances of that service he asks leave to refer to his said former declaration. As to the service set forth in his said former declaration as having been rendered by him at sea; the declarant is at a loss how and in what manner to shed more light on this history of that service than what his former declaration will do by a particular reference to it: on board the privateer, Brig Balona, on board of which he volunteered as set forth in his said former declaration; the declarant served as a marine. The incidents of his shipwreck and capture by the enemy, which soon

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occurred after his embarkation at Wilmington N.C. and the circumstances attendant on his escape from the enemy, after an imprisonment of one year five months and two or three days - are circumstantially set forth in his said former declaration - to which he here respectfully asks a reference. The declarant hath to rely for most of  his services in the War of the Revolution in the absence of living witness to testify to them, none of whom can he procure - on the reputation in the county where he resides, of his having been a soldier, and on the strength of the regard of his character for veracity and integrity - which he hopes can be abundantly shown. The declarant resided in Chowan County N.C. from his birth untill after the Revolutionary War. Sworn to & subscribed.
Lewis Dishon [with a + and the note it is "his mark"].

We John Giles a clergyman, and David Perkins and Benjamin Hurdle residents of the county of Orange and state of North Carolina, do hereby  certify that we are acquainted with Lewis Dishon, who hath subscribed and sworn to the above amended declaration; that we believe him to be about 70 years of age; that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier in the Revolutionary War and that we concur in that opinion: and that the said declarant retains the character, in the section of the country where he is known, of being an honest man  a man of undoubted truth and veracity - and that we think his statement in his two declarations above is entitled to full credit subscribed and sworn to.
John Giles
Benj Hurdle
David Perkins

And the said courts do hereby declare their opinion.

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opinion: and that the [page cuts off]
contains the character, in the section of county where he is known of being an honest man - a man of undoubted truth and veracity - and that we think his statement in his two declarations above is entitled to full credit subscribed and sworn to.
John Giles
Benj Hurdle
David Perkins

As a the said court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the whole matter embraced by both of the above amended declaration and the original declaration above, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary soldier, served as he states in the two declarations above; and the court further certifies that it appears to them that John Giles is a clergyman resident in the county of Orange, and hath subscribed and sworn to the above certificate and is a credible person; and that David Perkins and Benjamin Hurdle who have herein subscribed and sworn to the above certificate, are residents in the county of Orange and state of North Carolina and are credible persons - and that their statement is entitled to full credit.
In testimony whereof, I, John Taylor, clerk of the court aforesaid has hereunto set my hand and affirmed my seal of office, this the 27th day of August AD 1833.
J. Cranton CC

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12306
Nov 18, 1845
103

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Declaration,
In order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of the 7th July 1838 entitled "an act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows."
State of Georgia} ss.
On this 7th day of November 1845, personally appeared before the subscriber a Justice of the Inferior court in and for the county of Gwinnett and state aforesaid Elizabeth Dishon a resident of said county aged 74 years who being duly sworn, according to law, doth on her oath, make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed July 7, 1838, entitled "An act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows": That she is the widow of Lewis Dishon who was a private in the war of the revolution as will be seen by evidence in the secretary of war office heretofore furnished by him. She further declares that she was married to the said Lewis Dishon on the 2nd day of February Seventeen hundred and eighty seven; that her husband, the aforesaid Lewis Dishon died on the 21st day of May 1843; that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place  previous to the first of January, seventeen hundred and ninety four, vis: at the time above stated.
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written before us
Wm. Maltbie J.T.G
John Clower Yr.
Elizabeth Dishon [with a + and a note "her mark"]

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Georgia
Gwinnett County

I David W Spence Clerk of the Superior Court of Gwinnett County certify that William Maltbie and John Clower are Magistrates as above, and that the foregoing signatures purporting to be theirs are genuine.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto affixed my Seal of Office and subscribe my name this 10th day of November 1845
D W Spence Clk
SC

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Elizabeth Rhody
Daughter of Peter Rohdy and Mary his wife was Born April ye 5 day 1771

Radrick Dishon Was Born July ye 2nd day 1700

Nathaniel Dishon Was Born December ye 10th day 1790

Sarah Dishon was Born February ye 12th day 1792

Lavina Dishon was Born February 7th day 1795

Mary Dishon was Born July ye 8th day 1797

Lewis Dishon was Born August ye 24 day 1799

Elizabeth Dishon was Born December ye 20th day 1801

Jacob Dishon was Born February 20th day 1804

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Nancy Palmer was born December the 9th day 1800
Mary Palmer was born April the 27th day 1810
Jesse Frankling Dishongh was born March the 25th day 1811
Mary Palmer was born April 27th day 1810

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                                                  March 15, 1926.




Mrs. C. P. Durrance,
Punta Gorda, Fla.


Madam:

     I have to advise you, that from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, R. 2966, it appears that Lewis Dishon, or Dishong was born in Chowan County, North Carolina, in 1762, or 1763 and while living there he enlisted in the fall of 1778 and served six months as a private in Captain James Robards, or Roberts' Company, under Colonel John Pugh Williams in the North Carolina, Militia, in which services he was engaged in the Battle of Brier Creek.  He later shipped at Newbern. or Wilmington, North Carolina, date not stated, as a Marine on the Privateer, Brig "Bellona", Captain Harrison, after a few days at sea, in attempting to escape from a  British cruiser, the "Bellona" was wrecked near Saint Augustine, Florida and the crew was captured.  He was imprisoned at Saint Augustine, until May 5, 1782, when he escaped and reached home in June 1782.

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He was allowed pension on his application executed November 26, 1832, while living in Orange County, North Carolina.  He was living in Gwinnett County, Georgia in 1842,  He died May 21, 1843.

He married February 2, 1787, in Chowan County, North Carolina, Elizabeth, born April 5, 1771, the daughter of Peter and Mary Rhody, or Rohdy. 

They had the following children:

Radrick born July 2, 1788.
Nathaniel " December 10, 1790.
Sarah " February 12, 1792.
Lavina " February 7, 1795.
Mary " July 8, 1797.
Lewis " August 29, 1799.
Elizabeth " December 28, 1801.
Jacob " February 20, 1804.
Jesse Franklin " March 25, 1811.

The Revolutionary War records of this Bureau fail to afford information in regard to any soldier or North Carolina, named Deshon, or Deshong, and the above noted is the only soldier named Dishon, or Dishong found on said records.

                     Respectfully,


                            WINFIELD SCOTT,
                                 Commisioner.

Handwritten: {The rejection of widow's claim was an outrage.
Even today there are no provided lists of N. C. Militia privates & few of officers & he gives an exact account of the Brier Creek (...) in which the militia from ?denton participated, it left n. c. in Nov. 1778 & continued until after the battle on Mar 4, 1779
See accounts in N. C. archives Vol. 13 j 258?289. & in Sosswig Vol. 2 j507-
(...) Col. John Pugh Williams (not Bob.) in N. C. Vol. 10 illegible}

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March 11, 1926

Pension Dept.,
Washington, D.C.

Gentlemen: I am writing you again to ask you if you have any record of any DeShon of North Carolina having served in the Revolutionary War. I am trying to trace my Ancesters in order to be able to join the D. A. Our family Bible has a vague description of my Great Grandfathers service. His name was Lewis DeShong, of N. C. Any help that you can give me with this will be greatly appreciated. Thanking you I am

Respectfully,
Mrs. C. P. Durrance

[handwritten note: the only one of NS is Lewis Dishon]

Stamped by the US Pension Office Mar 13, 1926

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Feb 15, 1926

Pension Dept,
Washington D. C.

Gentlemen: Will you kindly sed me any information of services rendered by Lewis Dishong, of Wilmington, N. C. during the American Revolution War. I am trying to trace my ancestors in order to join the D. A. R, Thanking you for any information that you may be able to give me, I am
Respecfully,
Mrs. C. P. Durrance
Punta Gorda, Fla.

[stamped by the US Pension office Feb 19, 1926]

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2966
P.O. Elizabeth Dishon
Service:  widow of Lewis Dishon
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18

The printed list of 1852 gives cause of suspension as "For proof of service by the Comptroller of N.C."

Attorney:  See my note on carbon of letter of Mar. 10; 1926 AW
P.O.
_____ Recognized.     _____ Contra

1926. Mar [] Hist. to Mrs. C. P. Durrance. AW

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Georgia
Elizabeth Dishon
Letter to Wm Maltbie 18 Dec. 1845
" to Secy of War 23 Mar '46
Hon J. H. Lumpkin 23 Apl
Cannot find

2966

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25 Nov 1842
Evans.

James L Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington.

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Pension Office
Fayetteville Nov 22 1842

James L Edwards Esq.
Commissioner of Pensions

Sir

Lewis Dishon alias Dishong was paid yesterday - by order of the 3d [] to the 4 Sept 1842:  no further payment will be made in this Office to this pensioner.

I very respectfully
Your Obt Svt
Jno Huske
[]

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GIDEON, PRINTER

TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
SECOND COMPTROLLER'S OFFICE,
October 4th, 1842

Sir:

Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled "An Act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States," and the 3d section of the Act of August 23, 1842, extending the time within which pensioners may receive their pensions from the pension agents, Lewis Dishon a Pensioner on the Roll of the North  Carolina Agency, at the rate of Twenty Dollars per annum, under the law of the 7th June 1832, has been paid at this Department, from the 4th of March 1840, to the 4th March 1841

Respectfully, yours,
Albion K. Parris
Comptroller.

To the COMMISSIONER OF PENSIONS,
Present.

16,867

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12,306.

Elizabeth Dishon
George
7 July 1838
M.  before 1 Jany 1794

No 2

Wm. Maltbie
Agent
Lawrenceville
Georgia

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31 Oct 1842.

James L Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington

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Pension Office
Fayetteville Oct 25 1842

J L Edwards Esquire
Commissioner of Pensions

Sir

Lewis Dishon alias Dishong, a pensioner under the Act of 7th June 1832 at the rate of $20 per Annum, has been paid at this Office to the 4 March 1841.

I am Sir most respectfully 
Your Obt Servt
Jno Huske
[]

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FREE

Lawrenceville
Nov 11

J L Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City 
D.C.

16 Nov 1843
Evans

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Lawrenceville November 9th 1842

Sir

Mr Lewis Dishon (alias Dishong see pension Certificate) is advised by me through his attorney in Savannah to request that will cause his name to be transfered from the North Carolina to Georgia Agency.  The Pension Agent in Savannah has sent Mr Dishon six months pay up to 4th March 1841 with directions to apply at the Agency in North Carolina for the remainder.  Will you please to have this matter regulated. 

Respectfully Your Obt Servt
Wm. Maltbie

J L Edwards Esq
Com: Pensions

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Lawrenceville Ga Nov 13th 1845.

Dear Sir

You will herewith receive the Declaration of Mrs Elizabeth Dishon and other confirmatory testimony in order to place her upon the roll of widowed pensioners.  Your early attention to her application will confer a great favour upon Mrs Dishon.

Assuredly your Obt Servt
Wm. Maltbie

J. L. Edwards Esq
Com: Pensions
Washington City
D.C.

P.S.  You will also receive enclosed the age of the children of Mrs Dishon registered upon blank leaves of a very ancient Book now in her possession of which said leaves made a part

Wm Maltbie

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314

Pension office
Dec 18, 1845

Sir,

The papers in the case of Elizabeth Dishon, an applicant for the benefit of the act of 7 July 1838, as the widow of Lewis Dishon, have been examined and filed.

The family records proves that the marriage took place prior to 1 Jany 1794.

Lewis Dishon [] pensioned for six months' service as a private in the Company organized at Edenton in 1778 or 1779, and commanded by Capt. Elisha Harter & Lt. James Robards.  The claim was admitted on parol evidence when it was not known that the records in the Comptroller's office afforded any proof of the service of the militia in state of N. Carolina.  Before any further action can be had on this case, it must be shown by the Certificate of the Comptroller

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whether the alleged service is contradicted or sustained by the records of his office

William Maltbie Esq
Lawrenceville 
Georgia

W. Maltbie
18 Dec 1845

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FREE

Lawrenceville
Mar 3

Hon. John H Lumpkin
Member House
Representatives
Washington City
D.C.

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Lawrenceville Geo:  Feby 27 1846.

Dear Sir,

You being our more immediate representative I have taken the liberty to address you in relation to the claim of a revolutionary widow.  Mr Lewis Dishon a revolutionary pensioner of the  U.S.A. formerly of Newbern N.C. but for several years past a Citizen of this County, died on business in the low Country of this State about two years since.  At the request of Mrs Dishon his widow I made application to Mr Edwards Commissioner of Pensions in her behalf.  Mrs Dishon satisfactorily proved her marriage and whatever else the law required to place her upon the list of pensioners.  But Mr Edwards at this late day starts an objection to the parole testimony of Mr Dishon made at the time he obtained his pension.  Mr Edwards suggests the idea that there is written testimony of his service in the Archives of North Carolina, and that such testimony should be obtained.  I cannot see the propriety of going beyond the record proof made by Mr Dishon when he obtained his pension; but to satisfy the Commissioner I wrote to the keeper of publick records (Wm. F Collins) in

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North Carolina, and received for answer "that in order to have a thorough examination of these records you must forward a fee sufficient to compensate for the labour to be performed, which is five dollars in advance!!"  Poor old Mother of the revolution, you have indeed fallen upon evil times... Now however strange it may appear to y our big bugs about Washington City, poor old Mrs Dishon has not got five dollars in this round world; and I should guess that she would be glad to leave it for a more hospitable clime.  I have no interest  in this matter save a desire to relieve a neighbour, and dependant widow.  You will please refer this application to the Secy of War who I trust will view it more favourably than Mr Edwards.  A compliance will much oblige.

Your friend & humble Servt
Wm. Maltbie

Hon. J. H. Lumpkin
M. H. R

PS.  Mr Dishon pension was only $20.00 per annum

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March 17. 1846.
Washn Mch 14/46.

Hon. J. H. Lumpkin

Asks action of Dept. on claim of widow of Lewis Dishon for a pension.

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Pension Office

Appeal

War Dep
Ansd 24 Apr []

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Washington City
14th March 1846

Hon. Wm L Marcy

Sir

At the request of Mr William Maltbie a respectable citizen of Lawrenceville, Gwinnett Co Georgia, I have the honor to call your attention to the position assumed by Mr Jas. L Edwards, the Commissioner of Pensions in an application for a pension made by Mrs Dishon, the widow of Lewis Dishon, a revolutionary pensioner of the United States Army, formerly of New Bern N.C. but for several years was a citizen of Georgia, but who died about two years ago.  By the enclosed statement it appears that Mr. Edwards at this late day set aside the claimant, not for want of proof that she is the widow of the Pensioners, nor for want of proof that she is legally entitled as his widow, but rejects the [] testimony upon which the Pension was granted to Lewis Dishon her late husband, and requires her to establish by nunc proof that he was entitled to the Pension which he received up to the time of his death.  Your attention is respectfully directed to the decision and the le[] s[] on this application, with a hope that Justice may [] be to this widow, for the few remain-

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years of her life

I am Sir yours Respectfully
John H Lumpkin

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Gen off
March 23, 46

Sir

I have the honor to return you Mr. Lumpkins letter of appeal in the case of Elizabeth Dishon & to make the following report

Her husband was allowed in 1833 a pension for an alleged service of six months in N. C. militia upon traditionary, not parol proof as erroneously stated by the Clerk who drew up my letter to Mr. Maltbie of 8 Dec. last, & at a time when the knowledge of the examining clerks was very imperfect & limited with respect to the militia service.  When the claimant applied she was required by the rules & by the established law of evidence to sustain the service by the best attainable proof, which had been discovered subsequently to the adjustment of her husbands claim, to be in the Comptr office at Raleigh.  This

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was the more insisted upon as the length of the alleged tour does not correspond with our present information as to the service required by the laws of the State or actually rendered by its Militia.  This appeal seeks to exempt Claimant from complying with that requirement upon the grounds 1st that she is unable to pay the fee of the Compt. & 2nd that her husbands service was established by parole as contradistinguished from record.  If the first be available, very few honest claim[] would encounter the trouble & expense of obtaining the best proof while the dishonest would under it evade the test of record evidence.  The other is founded on the mistaken inference that her husbands service had been established by parole proof.  The adjustment of her husbands pension is not such an authoritative settlement of her [] would preclude the re-examination of hher papers and accord to the widow the benefit of the present estimate of their value as [] of her claim

Hon W. L. Marcy
Secy of War

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Comm of Pensions

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Will the Commissioner of Pensions please to send over the case, believed to be that of Patience Cerbin, and the decision upon it, in which the Secretary of War decided that the Joint resolution of January and the act of February 20th 1845 did not apply to cases where the widows had died before that resolution and act were passed, but to those only of widows living at the time of their passage.

Also all the papers in the case of Elizabeth Dishon (including those upon which her husbands pension was allowed) upon which the Commissioner reported on the 23rd of March last.

War office
April 24/46

Archibald Campbell
Chief Clerk War Dept.

Eliz Dishon 3 papers
Patience Cerbin 4 papers
Sent to War office
Apr 24 1846

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Lewis Dishon

Objection

5 and 17-
Admin as a 
Private
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No allow f privateer service

P-224
P. H. Mangum
Senate
Hillsbo[]

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BRIEF objections to the admission of Pension Claims, of which those answered in the negaitve, in red ink, will apply to the claim of (Handwritten: {Lewis Dishon alias Dishong}) which require further proof or explanation.

1. Does the declaration show where the applicant resides? (Handwritten: {Yes})

II. Did the declarant make the declaration in the county where he resides? (Handwritten: {Yes})

III. If the applicant did not make the declaration in the county where he resides, is there any reason assigned for his not doing so?

IV. Has the declarant mentioned the period or periods of the war when he served? (Handwritten: {Yes})

V. Has he mentioned with precision the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the department to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled? (Handwritten: {No})

VI. Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with the regulations? (Handwritten: {Yes})

VII. Has he mad a relinquishment of every claim to any other pension that the one under the Act of June 7, 1832? (Handwritten: {Yes})

VIII. Has the Court given their opinion? (Handwritten: {Yes})

IX. Has the Clerk given his certificate? (Handwritten: {Yes})

X. Is the Clerk's seal affixed? And if so, has it a device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal? (Handwritten: {Yes})

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XI. Has the applicant obtained the evidence of a clergyman and another respectable citizen as to their belief respecting his age, (Illegible) general belief in his neighborhood relative to his revolutionary service?  (Handwritten: {2 citizens})

XII. If the clergyman's affidavit has not been produced, is there any reason assigned for not obtaining it?  (Handwritten: {No})

XIII. †If the applicant's name is not found on the rolls of military service, has he produced a witness or witnesses as to his service?
If he has produced direct proof as to service, has the magistrate who administered the oath, certified to the credibility of the witness or witnesses?
Has the proper officer certified to the official character and signature of the magistrate as the regulations direct?

XV. Does it appear from any of the papers that the witness was in such a situation, or of such an age, as to have personal knowledge of the applicant's service?

XVI.‡Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct? (Handwritten: {Yes})

 XVII. Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily? And, if not, which of them is not answered? (Handwritten: {Yes(crossed out) 7.}

                       EXPLANATORY NOTES.
QUERE V.  Ina case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words: "Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A. B. who, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service, but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades; For ________ year __________ months, and __________ days, I served as a __________ For __________ months and __________ days, I served as a __________; and for such service I claim a  pension.

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Georgia
Gwinnett County

I do solemnly swear that the record of the ages of the children of Lewis Dishon and Elizabeth Dison, viz. Rodrick Dishon, Nathaniel Dishon, Sarah Dishon, Lavina Dishon, Mary Dishon, Lewis Dishon, Elizabeth Dishon, Jacob Dishon and Jesse Franklin Dishon was made chiefly by Robert Lackey and Rept by Elizabeth Dishon wife of Lewis who employed other persons than the said Robert Lackey occasionally to enter said names:  And the said Elizabeth Dishon further declares that she was married to the said Lewis Dishon in Chowan County North Carolina and that she does not at this time know that she can make any positive proof of her marriage by any other person than herself

Elizabeth Dishon (X) her mark
Sworn to and Subscribed before us this 7th day of November 1845.
John Clower JP
Wm. Maltbie JH

We do hereby certify that we are acquainted with Elizabeth DIshon that she is a credible person and unable to attend Court.

Given under our hand the day & year above written
John Clower JP
Wm. Mattbie JH

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Georgia
Gwinnett County

I do solemnly swear that Lewis Dishon died on the 21st day of May 1843 and that his widow Elizabeth Dishon has not since married.

Jesse F. Dishon
Sworn and Subscribed before me this 7th day of November 1845
John Clower JP
Wm Maltbie JH

We do hereby certify that Jesse F Dishon is a credible witness.
Given under our hand the day & year above written
John Clower JP
Wm. Maltbie JH

I David W Spence Clerk of the Superior Court of Gwinnett County, certify that William Maltbie and John Clower are Magistrates as above, and that the foregoing signatures purporting to be theirs are genuine.  In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed my Seal of Office and subscribed my name this 10th day of November 1845.
DW Spence Clk S. C.

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William Morsh
Savannah
Georgia

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APPLICATION FOR A TRANSFER.

County of Gwinnett, SS. Georgia

On this Twenty Seventh day of August 1842, before me, a subscriber, a Justice of the Peace for the said County of Gwinnett personally appeared Lewis Dishon alias Dishong who, on this oath, declares that he is the same person who formerly belonged to the Company commanded by Captain James Roberts in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Williams under Genl Ash in the service of the United States; that his name was placed on the pension roll of the State of North Carolina from whence he has lately removed; that he now resides in the State (District, or Territory,) of Georgia, where he intends to remain, and wishes his pension to be there payable, in future.  The follow- are his reasons for removing from Orange County N. Carolina to Gwinnett County Ga ([]) that his Son sold his possessions in Orange County N. C. and he was desirous of accompanying him to Georgia as he thought the temporal prosperity of both might be improved by such removal.

Lewis Dishon (X) his mark
Sworn and subscribed to before me, the say and year aforesaid.
Joseph W Baxter J.P.

The oath to be taken before a duly qualified Magistrate, whose official character and signature must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office.  The County Clerk, Secretary of State, or some other officer, must certify, under his seal of office, that the officer who administered the oath is a Justice of the Peace, Judge, Mayor, Alderman, or Notary Public, as the case may be, and that the signature purporting to be his is genuine.

The oath must be supported by the testimony of some respectable person, as to the pensioner's identity.  He must swear that the person who has taken the above oath, is the person described in the affidavit.  The Magistrate must certify that the witness is a person of veracity; and the affidavit must also be authenticated in the manner above directed.

In every case where the Clerk of the Court, or other certifying officer, has no public seal of office, the certificate of a member of Congress, proving the official character and signature of the certifying officer, should be sent with the papers.

Mode of authenticating papers.--In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officers who authenticates the papers is not written on the same sheet which contains the affidavit, or other paper authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or small ribbon, the ends of which must pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate.

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Georgia
Gwinnett County

I Riley S Baker Clerk of the Inferior Court for said County hereby certify that Joseph W. Baxter whose name appears to the foregoing affidavit as a subscribing witness is an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said County, and that his signature annexed thereto is genuine.  In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of Office this 6th day of Sept. 1842.
Riley S. Baker C.I.C.

Georgia
Gwinnett County

Personally came before me Joseph W. Baxter an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said County Jesse F Dishon who being duly sworn deposeth and saith that Lewis Dishon who had taken the above and foregoing oath is the identical person therein named.
Jesse F Dishon
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 27th day of August 1842
Joseph W. Baxter J.P.

Georgia
Gwinnett County

I do hereby certify that Jesse F Dishon who has taken the foregoing oath is a person of truth and veracity.  Given under my hand this 27th day of August 1842
Joseph W Baxter J.P.

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Georgia
Gwinnett County

I Riley S Baker Clerk of the Inferior Court for said County hereby certify that Joseph W. Baxter whose name appears to the foregoing Certificate is an acting Justice of the Peace for said County and that full faith and credit ought to be had and given to his attestation as such.  In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my Seal of Office this 6th day of Sept. 1842

Riley S. Baker C.I.C.