Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 43,499, David Dixon, Conn.

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(3-1776)

SERVICE
Conn.

Dixon, David

NUMBER
S.42.499

{B.L.Wt.5700_100_Pvt.
  Issued Feb. 28, 1794,
  No papers.

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11.063 R
Reported to have died in 1820 of [illegible]
New York

David Dixon

of Sherburne in the state of N.Y who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Chandler of the Connecticut line, for the term of 6 yrs,

Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 8. Dollars per month, to commence on the 4. of Nov 1818

Certificate of Pension issued the 25 of May, 1819 and sent to Millard Milton, Sherburne Chenango Co.

Arrears to 4th of Mar. 1819 -- $32.23
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 1 Sept. 1819 -- $48.00
(total) $ 80.23

Send 27.4 / 80.81
{Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818.}

M York
[signature flourish]

[notes In margin of document]
[upper right corner in different handwriting]
1891 March 31 M D Raymond history [illegible] 
[two mathematical scribbles appear in margins in original handwriting]
83 - 77 = 6
30 - 3 =27
[additional text exists on lower right of page which may have been cut off in scan. Possibly says 24 or Qp]

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David Dixon
private Col. Chandler's
Regt 1777 to 1783
Admitted

[note in margin is cut off]
of said County

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State of New York.
Chenango County

Sirs: Be it remembered that on this fourth day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred eighteen, before me the subscribed one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas, was in the aforesaid county of Chenango personally appears David Dixon aged sixty two -- years resident in the town of Sherburne in the county and State aforesaid. Who being by me just duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the late Edict of Congress entitled   "an act to provide for certain persons in the bond of Naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary war." That he, the aforesaid David Dixon, enlisted in the town of Woodbury of State of Connecticut in the company of Captain Chappel under Major Elman in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Hinman, in the month of May seventeen hundred seventy five for seven months, which time of service [illegible] he served in said Corps at the Northward, was at the taking of St Johns Chamble [sic -Chambly] & Laprairie and was duly and honorably discharged at the close of said term near Montreal. That on this seventh day of April seventeen hundred seventy seven he the said David Dixon again enlisted at the town of Woodbury in the State of Connecticut in the company commanded by Captain Samuel Mattocks in the Regiment commanded by Colonel John Chandler for the remainder of the war- and that he actually continued to serve in the said Corps or in the service of the United States from the said seventh day of April, last of aforesaid, until the Ninth day of June in the year seventeen hundred seventy three. More than six years & two months- when he was discharged from service at West Point in the State of New York. That the then said David Dixon was in the battles of Germantown, Monmouth, besides several brushes with the enemy in the said last minute term-of-service- and that his discharge from the late General George Washington

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unable to do any Labor and much of the time has been in a great degree helpless - that he has also two other daughters of his family dependent on him - not yet settled in life - and further that his now second wife has been sick ever since the Month of April last past and ever since June last has been totally unable to do any business of any kind and has been under the constant care of the Physicians ever since April last - her complaint is Consumption  That he the said David Dixon is a Farmer by occupation and is disabled in his left hand, which was hurt by the fall of a broadside of a building upon his said hand upon the s'd of the building, several years ago and which very much disables him that about sixteen years ago he the said David Dixon was thrown from a loaded wagon & dislocated his shoulder which has been lame ever since [& is?] endured very painful by la [bon fincise?] - That he the said David Dixon about six years ago was Ruptured an [Breactnd?] very badly by an ox? & is now under the necessity of wearing & actually does wear & for more than three years has worn a trus [sic] and the best [inanted?] instruments of this kind proven insufficient -
and that he the said David Dixon on the thirty first day of October now last past called Joseph Guthrie & Asa Gifford Esquires whose affidavits are hereto annexed, to examine his estate & to appraise his property for the purposes aforesaid - who did duly examine & appraise the same - that this deponents real property now remaining is worth sixteen hundred & fifty dollars and that he has two oxen two cows & a [man & kott?] worth one hundred & forty dollars - That he has also besides a small [value?] of farming tools & house [Noto?] furniture - and that he now owes & is indebted in & to the amount of about four hundred dollars And that he has no other property of any kind except as above mentioned except provisions for his familys use & clothing That he has no other means than [his?] Labor of supporting his said family
  David Dixon
Sworn this 11th day of November ad 1818 before me Tilly Lynde one of the Judges of the court of common Pleas of the county of Chenango}
 I Tilly Lyde [sic] Judge & as aforesaid do certify that it appears to me that the said David Dixon did serve in the revolutionary war as stated in the preceding declaration against the Common Enemy for more than nine months on the Continental establishment - And I transmit the precedings & testimony & had before me to the secretary for the department of war pursuant to the devotions of the aforesaid act of congress - Dated at Sherburne this 4th day of November 1818
  Tilly Lynde

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State of New York
Chenango County| Ss:  Be it remembered that on this fourth day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & eighteen, before me        one of the Judges of the court of Common Pleas of the County of Chenango in the state aforesaid personally appears Joseph Guthrie resident in the town & county aforesaid who being by me first duly sworn according to Law doth on his oath make the following declaration & depose and say that he is personally acquainted with David Dixon of the   aforesaid. That the said David Dixon is a farmer by occupation, has a small farm in Sherburne upon which he lives & from which he derives support for himself & family. That on the thirty first day of October last this deponent together with Asa Gifford [?quese?]  of Sherburne, at the request of the said David Dixon, under oath administered by a Justice of the Peace of said county, did examine & appraise the farm & [?not?] property on which the said David Dixon lives as aforesaid and did then value the said Real property of the said David Dixon at sixteen hundred & fifty dollars & his personal property consisting of two cows two oxen a mass scott at one hundred & forty dollars - and that the said Real & personal property of the said David Dixon which they   [?used?] as aforesaid is not, in the Judgment of this deponent worth any more than what they so appraised them at. That they estimate the debt of the said David Dixon ^owing by    from the best information they could obtain, at about four hundred dollars - and this deponent saith further that he verily believes they appraised all the property of the said David Dixon Real & personal except [house hold - crossed out] a smal [sic] amount of joining to it, household furniture & provisions - This deponent further saith that the said David Dixon has been & still is greatly burdened by severe sickness in his family. That he has for a long time had a sick & almost helpless daughter to support also a sick and perfectly helpless wife who will probably

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never be any better - that within a few years he has lost his first wife by a severe lingering illness. That he has also met with very considerable losses      of battle of credits as this deponent verily believes and is much reduced in his circumstances. That the family of the said David Dixon consists of a wife & three daughters & a [?eed?] boy - and that the said David Dixon is quite an infirm man -
  Joseph Guthrie
Sworn this 14th day of November AD 1818 before me   Tilly Lynde}
 one of the Judges of the court of Common Pleas of the county of Chenango -

State of New York
Chenango County} Ss: Asa Gifford of the town of Sherburne in said County being duly sworn deposeth & saith that he is now & for more than three years last past has been acquainted - That he is a farmer by occupation, lives on a small farm of about eighty ___ acres of land in Sherburne aforesaid, which this deponent together with Joseph Guthrie Esquire under oath did duly examine & appraise on the thirty first day of October last past - and then appraise the same at sixteen hundred & fifty dollars which in the judgment of this deponent is all it is worth - They also appraised the personal property of the said David Dixon consisting of two cows two oxen & a mare and colt at one hundred & forty dollars - and this deponent further saith that he     believes that they are    & appraised all the real & personal property of the said Dixon except a small amount of farming tools household furniture & provisions for the family  That they from the best [estimate - crossed out] information they could obtain estimated That the said David Dixon was owing about four hundred dollars - This deponent    saith that said David Dixon is quite an infirm man - and has within a few years past had a great deal of infirm   sickness in his family & which still  n -

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tinues - his wife is now sick with a consumption & so has been for many months past unable to do any thing & without prospects of ever being any better - He has also a daughter belonging to his family & dependent wholly on him for support who for many years has been sick ailing & decrepid & for a considerable part of the time has been almost helpless - he has [three?] daughters dependent on him - his family consist of these three daughters a wife & a small hired boy - And that from good information this deponent verily believes that said David Dixon has met with [any?] considerable losses of battle and of Credits within a few years last past - besides great [?p  oc?] an amount of the sickness of his family - This deponent further saith that the s aid David Dixon is     a worthy &    able  citizen & a man of truth & veracity -
  Asa Gifford
Sworn this 11th day of November AD 1818 before me
  Tilly Lynde  one of the Judges of the court of Common Pleas of the county of Chenango

State of New York
Chenango County} Ss: Israel Farril of Sherburne in said county being duly sworn saith that for ten years last past he has been & still is a regular licenced & practicing Surgeon & Physician in said town & has been & still is well acquainted with David Dixon of said town - and that he has heretofore offerded [sic] surgical aid & advise to him - that the said David Dixon is a very infirm man - has had his left hand mashed the use of it in a great measure destroyed. His shoulder has been dislocated a number of years since & owing to unskilful [sic] management of the surgeon to whom he then [appted?] or to the nature of the injury his shoulder is now unsound lame by turns & very much injures [hinders?] him about labour - the said David Dixon has also a very bad hernia which is & has been such as very much to unfit him for Labour in his occupation as a farmer & even unders [sic - hinders] him in  a measure unfit for any kind of business and  further this deponent saith that the said Dixon is a worthy member of Community

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and is a man of truth and veracity in the estimation of Community.
   Israel Farrell
Sworn [before me - crossed out] this fourth day of November AD 1818 before me
  Tilly Lynde
 one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Chenango

State of New York
Chenango County} Ss:   
  I David G Bright Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in & for the said County of Chenango & Clerk of said County do hereby certify to the Secretary of the War department & of the United States and to all others to whom it may be known, that the Honourable Tilly Lynde Esqr of Sherburne in said County is now & for more than one year last past has been one of the Judges of said court for the said county, with whose signature & hand writing I am [crossed out]  personally well acquainted and will know him to be now in Commission as such Judge as aforesaid to each of the four preceding affidavits of David Dixon Joseph Guthrie Asa Gifford & Israel Ferril, and to the foregoing certificate, is in the proper handwriting of Tilly Lynde before whom it sufficiently appears the said affidavits were taken - In witness whereof I have caused the seal of the said court to be hereunto affixed this 10th day of November AD 1818 -
   David G Bright Clk of said County
[on side]
 David Dixon private Col Chandlers
 Regt 1777 to 1783
  Admitted

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THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES
Form VAM-51
12-5-41

Division of Veterans' Administration Archives

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*

NAME Dixon, David
GRADE Private
LINE Connecticut

WARRANT NUMBER 5700
ACREAGE 100
ISSUEd FEB. 28, 1794
to --not shown--

_____

*The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800. Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.

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File with 
43 499
David Dixon

[the following text appears verticallyas bleedthrough from the reverse of the original document]
THE HOME PAPER.
$2.50 per year.

JOB PRINTING
Neatly done.

OFFICE OF
The Tarrytown "Argus,"
M. D. Raymond, Publisher.
Orchard Street, near Main Street,
[end stationery header]

Tarrytown, N. Y., Mar 26 1891

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[stationery header]
THE HOME PAPER.
$2.50 per year.  

JOB PRINTING
Neatly done.

OFFICE OF
The Tarrytown "Argus,"
M. D. Raymond, Publisher.
Orchard Street, near Main Street,
[end stationery header]

Tarrytown, N. Y., Mar 26 1891

To the Hon Sec of State
Washington, D.C.

Dear Sir:
Application is hereby made for a copy of the papers filed in the application for Pension of David Dixon, (or Dickson) a Sergt in Capt Nehemiah Rice's Co. of the 5 Conn. Regt of the Line from 1781 to 1783 who was placed on the Pension rolls May 25, 1819. Pension to date from Nov. 4, 1818, & who died in 1820 or thereabouts. Information desired for genealogical & historical purposes.

Respectfully Yours
M D Raymond
Tarrytown, Westchester Co., N.Y.

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M D Raymond NY
July 5 1890
David Dixon or Dickson Conn


[rubber stamped with the following]
U.S. Old War & Navy 
Feb 6 1891
FILES

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[rubber stamped with the following]
BUREAU OF PENSIONS,
FEB. -6 1891
OFFICE OF CHIEF CLERK
[end rubber stamp]


Respectfully assigned to the Commissioners of Pensions,
by Mrs Laura A Oxnard

Please send reply to address the letter of engineers.

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[stationery header]
THE HOME PAPER.
$2.50 per year.

JOB PRINTING
Neatly done.

OFFICE OF
The Tarrytown "Argus,"
M. D. Raymond, Publisher.
Orchard Street, near Main Street,
[end stationery header]

Tarrytown, N. Y., Feb 5 1891

Dear Cousin Laura,
I write to ask a genealogical or historical favor of you, viz; I wish you would go to the office of the assistant Sec'y of State & get for me a copy of the application for Pension in the matter of David Dixon, or Dickson, a brother of Major Joseph Dixon, who was a soldier in the Conn. Regt., & afterward of Sherburne. By so doing you will much oblige. Tell them it is for historical purposes, & no other. If there is any expense I will pay it. Nothing particularly new. With love from all, as ever

Your Cousin,
Mark

P.S.- Did you [papers?] with [Foot?] Family sketches? I was glad to get communications from Mr. Oxnard.

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Department of State.

From Raymond, M. D., Tarrytown, Westchester Co. NY.
Dated, March 26, 1891

SUBJECT:

Requesting military records of David Dixon or Dickson a revolutionary pensioner

ACTION:
March 27, 1891

Respectfully referred to the Commissioner of Pensions.

and the writer so informed.

Sevellon F Brown
Chief Clerk

[rubber stamped with following]
U.S.
Old War & Navy
Mar 30 1891
FILES
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INVALID.

File No. 43.499
David Dixon
Pri. Rev. War

Act: 18 March 18
Index:- Vol.  Z, Page 129

{Arrangement of 1870.}

[handwritten notes in margins as follows:]
43499
Rev'y
[illegible]
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By His Excellency
George Washington, Esq:
General and Commander in Chief of the Forces of the 
United States of America.

These are to CERTIFY that the Bearer hereof David Dixon, Sergeant in the Third Connecticut Regiment, having faithfully served the United States from April 1777 to the Date Signed and being inlisted for the War only, is hereby DISCHARGED from the American Army.

GIVEN at Head-Quarters the, Ninth Day of June 1783

George Washington

By His Excellency's 
Command,
Johnathan Trumbull, Jr

REGISTERED in the Books of the Regiment,
Joseph Clark
Adjutant,

THE above Sergeant David Dixon has been honored with the BADGE of MERIT for six years faithful Service.
Samuel B. Web

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HEAD-QUARTERS, June Ninth 1783.
THE within CERTIFICATE shall not avail the Bearer as a Discharge, until the Ratification of the definitive Treaty of Peace; previous to which Time, and until Proclamation thereof shall be made, He is to be considered as being on Furlough.
[handwritten through text -Land Issued]
  Feby 28  1794
 GEORGE WASHINGTON