Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 5362, Henry Dorton, Va. Md.

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(3--1776)
Service: VA MD
Dorton, Henry
Number: S5362
Born in MD.
Carded

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Virginia
 12570
Henry Dorton
of Monongalia in the State of VA
who was a Private in the Company commanded
by Captain Ford of the Regiment commanded
by A. Gibson in the Virginia Militia

Reduced from $40--

Inscribed on the Roll of Virginia
at the rate of 28-- Dollars --- Cents per annum
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 4th day of May '35
and  Thomas P. Ray
Morgantown VA

Arrears to the 4th of Mar '35 __ 112--
Semi-annual allowance ending 4 Sept '35 __ 14--
$126--

Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832

Recorded by Nath. Rice, Clerk
Book E Vol. 6 Page 6
Book E Vol. 6 1/2 Page 9

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Henry Dorton
23686

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State of Virginia
County of Monongalia
On this 21st day of November, in the year
1892, personally appeared in open court. before the county court of Monongalia now sitting Henry Dorton, a resident of said county, aged eighty four years, he 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 7th June 1832 that he was drafted in the fall of the year 1777 at Redstones settlement near Brownsville, Pennsylvania, in a company of militia commanded by Capt. Foard and immediately marched to Fort Pitt, where Foards company was placed under the command of Col. John Gibson of Virginia, who ? leives was a Regular officer...that while at Fort Pitt, he was transferred to a company. (that was not full) from the South Branch of the Potomac river, commanded by Capt. Foreman - that Foreman was soon ordered to a fort at Grave creek, on the Ohio river twelve miles below Wheeling - upon arriving there we found the fort burnt, and we commenced a march back to Wheeling along the bank of the river...in the narrows of Grove creek, we were attacked by about seventy indians, and Capt. Foreman and twenty of his men were killed twenty ? were saved...that he made good his escape back to Wheeling and in ten days after, we went with others to bury the dead, putting fourteen in one hole and seven in another. That he then returned to Fort Pitt, where at the end of a month the term for which he was drafted, he was discharg-ed by Capt. Foard. Which discharge, he has preserved, and in hereto a ?
That he cannot recollect the month, but from some circumstances brought to his recollection he believes it was during the month of July in the year 1778 he was again drafted, for a six months tour, at Red-stone, in Capt. Foard's com-pany, and immediately marched to Fort Pitt, where Col. Gibson commanded the regiment and Gen. Hand the troops...that soon after Gen. McIntosh ar-rived at Fort Pitt, the troops descended the Ohio. to near the mouth of Big Bea-ver creek, near to which we built a fort, that sometime after the troops were ordered all but a few left at Fort McIntosh, to march to the Tuscarawa, a branch of the Muskingum, where we built Fort Lawrence - that from Fort Lawrence, we marched back to Fort McIntosh and thence to Pittsburg, where he was

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discharged a week before Christmas, but a written discharge signed by Capt. Foard, which he has lost - 
That from the western county, he removed back to the place of his birth, and in the month of May 1781 he was again drafted near Bladenburg in Maryland in Capt. Crofs company of militia, that in June we marched to Annapolis where we were reviewed and remained a week, that we had seventy five men in our company, march-ed to Falmouth - other troops were marching the same direction, but taking diffe-rent roads on account of provisions...from Falmouth, we continued our march thru Virginia to a place called the Savannah below York town, and was there stationed with five other companies under Genl. Smallwood, to keep the enemy from retreating from York town. That after the surrender of Lord Cornwallis, we were all dis-charge from Capt. Crofs which he has long since lost - 
That at present he knows of no person by whom he can prove his services - that he was born in the year 1748 near Bladensburg, Maryland, and resided in Prince Georges county  Maryland, about nine years after the Revolution, that he then removed to their county where he has ever since resided. That he does not know where the record of his age is. That he recollects Capt. David Scott, a regular officer of the 13th continental Virginia regiment stationed at  Fort Pitt, as well as Lieut. Dent of the same regiment - that he has known for many years the Reverend Joseph A. Shockerford. Thomas S. Haymond esq. Matthew Gray, Cr. Samuel Hamway, resi-dents of said county, who he believes can certify as to his character veracity and belief of his services - 
That hereby relinquishes evry claim whatsoever to a pension or an annuity, except the present, and he declares that his name is not on the roll of any pension agency in any state. 
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year, aforesaid
Mr.
Henry Dorton
mark
We Joseph A Shackelford, a clergyman aged fifty four years, and Matthew Gay, aged fifty one years, residing in Morgantown, in said county, after being duly sworn doth depose and say that they have been personally acquainted with Henry Dorton, who made oath to the foregoing declaration in the presence of the court and in their presence for more than twenty five years, that they believe him to be of the age he represents himself to be, that he is a man of good character, and they have no doubt of his veracity, and that he served

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in the war of the Revolution as he states, and that a number of years ago, he was reputed in the neighborhood where he lives, to have been a soldier of the Revolution. 
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
Joseph A Shackelford
Matthew Gay
And the said court, do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Departement that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary soldier, and served as he states. And the court further certifies that Joseph A Shackelford who has ? the above certificate is a clergyman, residing in Morgantown in said county, and that Matthew Gay esq. who has also signed the same, is a resident of the same town, and prosecuting attorney for the Commonwealth in said court, and that their statement is entitled to credit 
I Thomas P. Ray, clerk of the County court of Monongalia aforesaid, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the paid court, in the matter of the application of Henry Dorton, for a pension. In testimony where I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said event. the 31st of December in the year 1832, and 67th year of the Common-wealth

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23686
Henry Dorton
V.A.
Aon Jan 1. year
from 1777
T.P. May
Thomas P. May
Morgantown
Monongalia Cty
VA

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War Department
Pension Office
183
Sir:
The evidence in support of your claim, under the act of June 7, 1832, has been examined, and the papers are herewith returned. The following is a statement of your case in a tabular form. On comparing these papers with the following rules, and the subjoined notes, you will readily perceive that objections exist, which must be removed, before a pension can be allowed. The notes and the regulations will show what is necessary to be done. Those points to which your attention is more particularly directed, you will find marked in the margin with a brace (thus: }). You will, when you return your papers to this Department, send this printed letter with them; and you will, by complying with this request, greatly facilitate the investigation of your claim. 
A Statement, showing the Service of Henry Dorton VA
1777. Drafted...1. private Captn Ford Col Gibson 84 born in M.D. 
July 1778. 6' entered great Brownsville PA
now lives in V.A.
May 1781 ? Genl ?
Clergymans Certificate, and a Citizens 
Know of no one to prove his service
no document
I am, respectfully, 
Your obedient servant,
J.L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions

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REGULATIONS UNDER THE ACT OF JUNE 7, 1832.
The following regulations have been adopted:
This law has been construed to extend, as well to the line, as to every branch of the Staff of the Army, and to include under the terms "Continental Line," "State troops." "militia," and "volunteers," all persons enlisted, drafted, or who volunteered and who are bound to military service, but not those who were occasionally employed with the army upon civil contracts, such as Clerks to Commissaries and to Store Keepers, &c., Teamsters, Boatmen, &c. Persons who served on board of private armed vessels are also excluded from the benefits of the law, as well as persons who turned out as patrols, or were engaged in guarding particular places at night, and were not recognized as being in actual military service.
Four general classes of cases are embraced in this law:
1. The Regular Troops
2. The State Troops, Militia, and Volunteers
3. Persons employed in the Naval Service
4. Indian Spies
As rolls of the regular troops in the Revolutionary War exist in this Department, all persons claiming the benefit of this law as officers, non-commissioned officers, musicians or privates, will, in the first instance, make application by transmitting the following declaration, which will be made before a Court of Record of the County where such applicant resides. And every Court having by law a seal and Clerk is considered a Court of Record
DECLARATION
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th of June, 1832.
State, Territory, or district of }ss.
County of }
On this ____ day of _____ personally appeared (a) before _______    A.B. a resident (b) of ____ in the county of ____ and State, Territory or District of ____ aged (c) ______ 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 provision made by the act of Congress, passed June 7th, 1832. That he enlisted in the Army of the United States in the year (d) ____, with _____ and served in the _____ (e) regiment of the _____ line, under the following named officers:
[Here set forth the names and rank of the Field and Company Officers; the time he left the service; (and if he served under more than one term of enlistment, he must specify the particular period, and rank and names of his officers;) the town or county and State in which he resided when he entered the service; the battle, if any, in which he was engaged, and the country through which he marched. {Symbol of hand pointing right} This form is to be varied so as to apply to the cases of officers and persons who belonged to the militia, volunteers, navy, &c.]
He hereby relinquishes every claim (f) whatever to a pension of an annuity, except the present, and he declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any Agency in any State, or (if any) only on that of the Agency in the State of ____
Sworn to and subscribed by the day and year aforesaid. A.B.
[And then will follow the certificate of the Court.]
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion (g) that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states. 
I ________ of the Court of _______ do hereby certify (h) that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of ______ for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office (i) this ______day of _______ &c. 
If, on examination of the proper record, the names of applicants, making such declaration, cannot be found, they will produce such proof as the rule given in note (j) points out. 
Every applicant who claims a pension by virtue of service in the State Troops, Volunteers or Militia, except those who belonged to the New Hampshire Militia and State Troops of Virginia, will make and subscribe a declaration similar to the foregoing , with the following additions, viz:
(k) We, A.B., a Clergyman residing in the _____ and C.D. residing in (the same) hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with ______, who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be _____ years of age; that he is reputed and believed, in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion. 
Sworn and subscribed the days and year aforesaid.
[And then will follow the certificate of the Court]
And 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 named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier, and served as he states. And the Court further certifies, that it appears to them that A.B. who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman, resident in the _____ and that C.D., who has also signed the same is a resident in the _____ and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit. 
I, ______ Clerk of the Court of _______ do hereby certify that the foregoing contains that original proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the application of ______ for a pension. 
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal _____ of office, this____ day of _____ &c. 
Every applicant will produce the best proof in his power. This is the original discharge or commission; but if neither of these can be obtained, the party will so state under oath, and will then procure, if possible, the testimony of at least one credible witness, stating in detail his personal knowledge of the services of the applicant, and such circumstances connected therewith, as may have a tendency to throw light upon the transaction. 
If such surviving witness cannot be found, the applicant will so state in his declaration, (l) and he will also, whether he produce such evidence or not,  proceed to relate all the material facts, which can be useful in the investigation of his claim, and in the comparison of this narrative with the events of the period of his alleged services, as they are known at the Department. A very full account of the services of each person

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will be indispensable to a favorable action upon his case The facts stated will afford one of the principal means of corroborating the declaration of the applicant, if true, or of detecting the imposition, if one be attempted; and unless, therefore, these are amply and clearly set forth, no favorable decision can be ex-expected. All applicants will appear before some Court of Record in the County in which they reside, and there subscribe and be sworn to, one the declarations above provided, according to the nature of his case.
The Court will propound the following (m) interrogatories to all applicants for a pension, on account of service in the Militia, Sate troops, or Volunteers, except the Militia of New Hampshire and the State troops of Virginia.
1. Where and in what year were you born?
2. Have you any record of your age, and if so, where is it?
3. Where were you living when called into service; where have you lived since the Revolutionary war, and where do you now live?
4. How were you called into service; were you drafted, did you volunteer, or were you a substitute? And if a substitute, for whom?
5. State the names of some of the Regular Officers, who were with the troops, where you served; such Continental and Militia Regiments as you can recollect, and the general circumstances of your services.
6. {To a Solider. {Did you ever receive a discharge from the service, and if so, by whom was it given, and what has become of it?
{To an Officer. {Did you ever receive a commission, and if so, by whom was it signed, and what has become of it?
7. State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood, and who can testify as to your character for veracity, and their belief of your services as a solider of the Revolution.
The Court will see that the answers to these questions are embodied in the declaration, and they are requested to annex their opinions of the truth of the statement of the applicant.
The applicant will further produce in Court, if the same can be done, in the opinion of the Court, without too much expense and inconvenience to him, two respectable persons - one of whom should be the nearest clergyman, if one lives in the immediate vicinity of such applicant, who can testify, from their acquaintance with him, that they believe he is of the age he represents, and that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood to have been a Revolutionary solider, and that they concur in that opinion. If one of these persons is a Clergyman, the Court will so certify, and they will also certify to the character and standing of other persons giving such certificates. 
The traditionary evidence of service is deemed very important, in the absence of any direct proof, except the declaration of the party. And the Courts are requested to be very particular in the enquiry whether the belief is general, and whether any doubts have ever existed upon the subject.
Applicants unable to appear in Court, be reason of bodily infirmity, may make the declaration before required, and submit to the examination, before a Judge of Justice of a Court of Record of the proper county, and the Judge or Justice will execute the duties, which the Court is herein requested to perform, and will also certify that the applicant cannot, from bodily infirmity, attend the Court.
Whenever an official act is required to be done by a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record, or by a Justice of the Peace, the certificate of the Secretary of State or Territory, or of the proper Clerk of the Court or County, under his seal of office, will be annexed, stating that such person is a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record, of a Justice of the Peace, and that signature annexed is his genuine signature.
  No payments can be made on account of the services of any person who may have died before the taking effect of the act of June 7, 1832; and in case of death subsequent thereto, and before the declaration herein required is made, the parties interested will transmit such evidence as they can procure, taken and authenticated before a Court of Record, showing the services of the deceased, the period of his death, the opinion of the neighborhood respecting such services, the title of the claimant, and the opinion of the Court upon the whole matter.

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[a] The declarant must appear in open Court, unless prevented from doing so by reason of bodily infirmity; in which case the declarant will follow the rule laid down for his guidance.
[b] The declarant must make his declaration in the county where he resides. If he should fail to do so, he must assign to sufficient reason for not conforming to the rule.
[c] The age of the claimant must invariably be mentioned.
[d] The declarant must mention the period of periods of the war when he served.
[e] Every continental officer of solider must give the name of the Colonel under whom he served; otherwise a satisfactory examination of the claim cannot be had. Every claimant must state, with precision, the length of his services, 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. In a 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 Pease, &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 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 services I claim a pension."
If is important, in all cases to determine with precision the period for which each applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pensions to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service. The use of the phrase about three or four months, is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable. Some persons who apply for pensions merely state that they served two years in the militia, &c. without specifying the tours, the names of the officers, and other particulars respecting their service; the duration of each term of engagement; the particular place or places where the service was performed; that the applicant served with an embodied corps called into service by competent authority; that he was either in the field or in garrison; and for the time during which the service was performed, he was not employed in any civil permit.
[f] The law makes the relinquishment indispensable.
[g] The opinion of the Court is always required.
[h] The Clerk must give his certificate in every case.
[i] The Clerk must affix his seal, and if it has no device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal, or if he has no public seal of office, the certificate of a Member of Congress, proving the official character and signature of the certifying officer, should accompany the papers.

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

Proof of Service.
[j] In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses who are required to set forth in the affidavits the time of the claimant's entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the regiment, company, and line to which he belonged. The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the witnesses, and the official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office.
-> The notes from [a] to [i] are all equally applicable to the cases of Militia men, Volunteers and State Troops. The proof required by rule in note [j] applies to continental troops only.
[k] This traditionary evidence is indispensable in militia cases.
[l] If a witness cannot be found, the declarant must state the fact.
[m] The answers to the interrogatories must all be written, and sent to the War Department, with the declaration;

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Rev. and 182
Wars Section
AWF/HMN

March 29, 1930

Hon. Joseph W. Byrns
House of Representatives
Washington, D.C.

My dear Mr. Byrns:

I am in receipt of your letter of March 26, 1930, requesting information relative to the Revolutionary War records of Henry, John, England and Thomas Dorton.

I have the honor to advise you that said records fail to afford any information in regard to England Dorton, or to John Dorton who served with the North Carolina troops.

You are herewith furnished the histories of Henry Dorton and John Dalton of Virginia and Thomas Dalton who served with the North Carolina troops. [S 1755 + W 6983]

From the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim S. 5362, it appears that Henry Dorton was born March 10, 1748 or 1750 near Bladensburg, Maryland.

He was drafted in the fall of 1777 at Red Stone Settlement, near Brownsville, Pennsylvania, and served in Captains Joseph Foard's and Foreman's Company, Colonel John Gibson's Virginia Regiment, marched to a fort on the Ohio River twelve miles below Wheeling. While returning to Wheeling they had a skirmish with the Indians. He was discharged October 11, 1777.

He served in 1778 about three months in Captain Joseph Foard's Company, Colonel Gibson's Virginia Regiment, and was in General McIntosh's campaign.

After this service he moved back to Maryland and enlisted in May or June 1781 and served in Captain Cross' Company and was discharged after the surrender of Cornwallis, having served

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This is to certify that [illegible] Dorton did serve thirty one days in my company of militia [illegible] service at this place as witness my hand  this Eleventh Day of October 1777
Joseph Foard, Capt.

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Joseph W. Byrns
6th Dist. Tennessee

House of Representatives
Committee on Appropriations
Seventy-first Congress
Washington, D. C.

[long list of committee members in margin of letterhead]

The Commissioner of Pensions,
Washington,
D. C.

My dear Sir:

Will you please furnish me with any information available in your files relative to pension records of Henry Dorton and John Dorton who served during the Revolution from Virginia. Will you please also see what information is contained relative to England Dorton, John Dorton and Thomas Dorton of North Carolina and who also served during that war.

Very truly yours,
Joseph W. Byrns

March 26, 1930

[black circle stamp]
U. S. Pension Office
MAR 27 1930

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Rev War 5362

INVALID.

File No. 5362
Henry Dorton
Pr. Rev. War.

Act: June 7 1832
Index: Vol. M, Page 99

[Arrangement of 1870]

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War Department.
Revolutionary Claim.

I certify that, in conformity with the law of the United States of the 7th June, 1832, Henry Dorton of the State of Virginia who was a private in the War of the Revolution is entitled to receive Forty dollars and - cents per annum, during his natural life, commencing on the 4th of March, 1831, and payable semi-annually on the 4th of March, and 4th of September, in every year.

Given at the War Office of the United States, this tenth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and thirty three. 

Lew. Cass
Secretary of War.

Examined and Countersigned.
JL Edward
Commissioner of Pensions.

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Stamped: Morgantown Va, Jan 29
Free

Revolutionary pension office
War Department 
Washington city

Va
Va.
Feb 14
23686

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Morgantown Va
26th Jan. 1832

Lewis Cass
Sec. at War

The enclosed application for a pension to Henry Dorton
I would have sent to you some time since. but he was under the impression that he would find some of his companions still living in Prince George county who had been with him. under Capt. Crofs - the names of those he gave me. I learn are long since dead.

He is so very poor and needy that I ask an early attention to his case as will suit the convenience of the Department.

I am []
Your []
Thomas P. Rory

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Morgantown 27th Mar 1835

Col. J. L. Edwards
Comr of Pensions,

I have ascertained that Lackquill Morgan died on the 25th of Feby ad Purnell Housten on the 8th of this month.

I cannot conceive what report could be made in Henry Dortons' case that would strike his name from the roll - he was the only applicant in this county that had preserved a discharge - it was part of his services. I examined him and know  that his services were carefully [illegible due to paper fold] but yet in able with the least degree of patience to make a clear and satisfactory statment.

You may be assured that great injustice will be done to many of these men unless you adopt some other mode of examination.

I am very respty your ...
Thos. P. Ray

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[STAMP]
MORGANTOWN
Va.
APR 13 

free [written in ink, different hand than address]

Col. J. L. Edwards
Comr. of Pensions
Washington

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Morgantown 10th April 1835

Col. J. L. Edwards
Comr. of Pension,

I received this morning the pension certificate of Dorton, which I enclose you agreeably to your request of [torn] the 4th.

I again examined Dorton, who is very old and infirm, scarcely able to walk and find that he served under Capt. Foreman on the Ohio, under Capt. Foard in McIntoshs campaign, and in May 1781 drafted near Bladensburgh, where he was born, and was marched to a place called Savannah below Yorktown, where he was discharged after Cornwallis' surrender. Which he makes a little more than twelve months. He says he made this statement to Mr. Singleton as distinctly as he could.

I have no recollection now what his first statement to me was, but as you are in possession of it, you can judge more correctly.

I am very resptly yrs,
Thos. P. Ray

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Henry Dorton - draw $40--

I the undersigned Henry Dorton at the requisition of the Secretary of War, give the following Statement of my old war services as a soldier in the army the Revolution to Wit shall be 85 yrs old the 10th March next.

In September 1777, I was drafted in the old Red Stone Settlement in what is called Washingtons Bottom and marched from there under Captain Joseph Ford to Pittsburg. On getting there met other troops then commanded by Genl. Hamd. and Col. Gibson. Our company of 43 men including myself [illegible] the river under Capt. Ford to Grove Creek. On getting there found [illegible] fort had been burned. We retreated and in our retreat we [illegible] up Grove Creek were pursued and attacked by the Indians. [Illegible] made safe their retreat to Fort Pitt. [illegible] and then until we were discharged which was in October having been in the service "thirty one days". I had a discharge from the service which I gave to Mr. Ray who wrote my declaration.

In September 1778 I was again drafted at the same place and marched under Captain Jos. Ford to Fort Pitt and then [illegible] Gen. McIntosh who with his [illegible] descended the river to Fort McIntosh. Remained there until Christmas week in December. I returned home [illegible] days before Christmas having been in service at least three months.

In June 1781 I was draft in Prince Georges County. We marched under Capt. Cross to Annapolis then to James River below York Town. I was not at the Battle of York Town. My company with some others were stationed where below York Town. I returned home about the Middle of October having been...

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in service at least 4 1/2 months. [illegible] my service. Thomas P. Ray wrote my declaration. [illegible] I here to subscribe my name Henry Dorton X his mark 

Witness Isaac Cooper

Note: This is one of Mr. Rays cases and although the case is fraudulent I am respectfully [illegible] that is is not [illegible] on the part of Mr. Ray. He could no be quilty of such an act. 

W. G. Singleton
Mr. 28 1834

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Virginia .12.570
Henry Dorton.
of Monongalia in the State of Virginia who was a [Private [handwritten] in the [company [handwritten] commanded by [Captain Ford,  [handwritten] of the [Reg.t [handwritten] commanded by [Col Gibson [handwritten] on the [Virginia[handwritten] line for [one year [handwritten], [Reduced $40 [underlined, crossed out] $28. [handwritten]
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Invoiced on the Roll of Virginia at the rate of [40 [handwritten] Dollars [00 [handwritten] cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
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Certificate of Pension issued that [10 [handwritten] day of [May 1833 [handwritten] and sent to [Thos P. Ray. Morgantown, VA [handwritten]
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Arreats to the 4th of [March 1833, 80.00 [handwritten]
Semi-anl. allowance ending [4 Sept11833 20.00
$100.00 [handwritten]

{Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832}
Recorded by Wm R. Palmer Clerk, 
Book E Vol. 6 Page 6.


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Let 21 March 1835 Piv: Ap.
[Check Mark] 1- 1- 1- 1- Thos P. Ray
[Check Mark] Let 4 April 1835. Thos P. Ray -Rec. ltv in due. M. 1912 of Z.Morgan
Rec. ltv on due. M. 1912 of Zackgard Morgan

Ha. d.  June 11- 1836