Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 6201, for Drewry Lawson, Virginia

SERVICE
NUMBER
11
Lawson, Dreury
P. 6201
CONTENTS

Physeter
(See letter to
Gen. G. Burch Dr. Wm. Sprague Oct R 100 23 18. Feb. 1835
Sal. 6. L. R. McAnally Oct 28-47
6201

1889 April 3. Dr F S Nash - history - Prior
Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1865.
6201
P. O. Drewry Lawson Service:
REJECTED
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contra
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18

32752 Andrew Lawson Tennessee
Lawson
Reject did not see in with her 18 Feb 1875 to No 1. Bank
of office in Register Her story of January 1835 at Mitchellville My miniature style
From S. Branch

State of Tennessee On the 30 th day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty five Personally appeared before me William Babb an acting justice of the peace for said County and one of the justices of the Court of pleas & Quarter sessions for said County of Hawkins George Garrison, aged seventy nine Years, who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress Passed June 7 th 1832. That he entered the service of the United States as a substitute for one William Hooker of Henry County in the State of Virginia for a term of twelve months under Col Penn a Militia Col in the County of Henry in said State of Virginia in the Spring of the Year as he now recollects, but on what day of the month or in what month as he this declarant does not from mental inability now recollect but he believes it to have been in the Spring of the Year 1780. This Declarant states that he received a furlough from said Col Penn and he was engaged to be in readiness to take the field wherever called on. This Declarant further states that in the fall of the Year following he was called out on a tour of duty as a (volunteer) Militiaman for eighteen months and under the command of Captain George Haston whose company together with another company under the command of Captain Peter Haston marched from Court House in said State the State of Virginia to Pittsburgh in said State where he was placed under the command of Captain Shelton From Pittsburgh Court House this declarant was marched to Hillsboro in the state of North Carolina where he was placed under the command of Captain Morton with Regiment commanded by Col. Shelton Buford who was a Col in Genl Bates Army. This affiant states that he was marched from Hillsboro to Salisbury in said state where Captain Morton took sick and was put in the Hospital from Salisbury he was marched into South Carolina for Camden as he was informed but on the way thither he was taken sick and lay sick as well as he now recollects about six

weeks, from which place he was taken by a relation to his home in the state of North Carolina, and since not recollecting in four or five months all of which time he was unable to perform military duty this declarant states that he never saw, after he was taken sick (being left by the army) any of his Officers and never obtained a discharge from them in states that he served during that tour six months.
This declarant states that the next time he intended the service was against the Indians on the north western frontier as a substitute for a certain David Taylor in the state of Virginia but in what County or what Year he does not now know to his decayed recollection recollect but believes it to have been in August or September in the Year 1781. under Captain Paris of Colo. Floyd's regiment on a tour of three months, that he was marched towards the Ohio River where they discovered several Indian traces but did not see any, and their provision growing scarce they were after an absence of two months and were compelled to return on account of the scarcity of provisions; in this tour he served two months he then obtained a discharge they were disbanded and never again called into service: this affiant states that he removed from the State of Virginia to the settle- ment on the Holston then a wilder up settlement where where he was frequently engaged in skirmishes partly against the common enemy the Indians in defence of the frontier. He states that he was acquaint- ed with or at least knew Genl. Greene & Bates but owing to mental and bodily infirmity he cannot now recollect all the circumstances relative to his service but he served in both Companies as above stated amounting to eight months actual service. Besides from the

him - he entered the service until he was called into actual service (being about five months) in all thirty months for which he claims a pension. He has no documentary evidence that he knows of and knows of no person whose testimony he can procure who can testify to his services. He was born in Pennsylvania County in the state of Virginia, he has no record of his age and when called into service was living in Henry County in said state of Virginia. He is acquainted with Hardy Collins and Morgan Collins and who will testify to his character for veracity and belief of his services as a soldier of the Revolution. He hereby relinquishes every claim to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the Pension roll of the agency of any state.
Given to me this 2nd 1st day of Decr March before me the day and year Henry Harrison
William Babb
Mr Hardy Collins and Morgan Collins residing in the neighborhood of Henry Harrison the above applicant for a Pension do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Henry Harrison who has submitted and sworn to the above declarations. That we believe him to be seventy nine (79) years of age and 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 to and subscribed before me this day and year aforesaid.  Hardy Collins Morgan Collins Mark
State of Tennessee } Franklin County } ss I William Babb one of the Justices of the Court of Pleas and Quorum for said County do hereby declare my opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories presented by the War Department that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary soldier as he states. And the undersigned further certifies that it appears to him that Hardy Collins and Morgan Collins are residents of the said County of Franklin and in the same neighborhood.

the said applicant and that they are credible persons and that their statement is entitled to credit and I further certify that there is no clergyman resident in said neighbourhood and I further certify that the above applicant from bodily infirmity cannot attend court.
William Babb (A.P.)
State of Tennessee
I Stockley J. Mitchell Clerk of the court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions of Hawkins County in the State aforesaid do certify that William Babb whose name is subscribed to the above and foregoing affidavit declaration and affidavits is now and was at the time the same were done and acting Justice of the Peace of said County and one of the Justices of the court of Pleas & of said County and that the foregoing contains the original proceedings had before him in the matter of the application of Drowny Lawson for a Pension.
Given under my hand and seal
of office at office in Rogersville the 13 th day of February 1835
S. Mitchell Clerk By M.B. Mitchell Clerk
32752 Drowny Lawson Tennessee
St. Andrew
Reject did not send it with the 18 Feb 1835 to No. 1. Babb
File S. Mitchell

Oct 18 Supt. of P.M. Baltimore Md
free
St. Elizabeths Ky Washington City N.C.

September the 27th 1847
An Old Gentleman named Henry Lawson of Clarendon & Grange Inn - says he filed a declaration under act of 1832 for a Rescous, against Judge J B Robinson in which he claimed to be here said Robinson shortly afterwards left the country never informing him any thing about the case please inform me what decision was made of it & if the said statements are correct etc.
Col. S. Edwards, Clerk of Sessions
I am Very Respectfully yours William Lloyd & James M. Shelly
See letter to me dated 2nd July 1847