Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 8862, for Lewis Lindsay, Virginia

SERVICE
NUMBER
Va.
Lindsay Lewis
S 8862
Carded
CONTENTS

12.357 Virginia
Lewis Lindsay of Charlotte in the State of - Va - who was a Pvt. in the commanded by Captain of the Regt - commanded by Col. Burwell in the Va - line for 9 months.
He has since that he has been in the for his services.
Inscribed on the Roll of Virginia at the rate of 30 - Dollars - Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 23 d day of Apr. 33 and unto Winslow Robinson. Charlotte C A
Arrears to the 4th of March 1833 be Semi-ant. allowance ending Sept - 15 -
$75
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by Nathaniel Rice Clerk, Book 6 Vol. 6 Page 16.

Rev War
8862
INVALID.
File No. 8862
★ Lewis Lindsay
Rev War
Act: June 14 89
Index:—Vol. 1st , Page 224
[Arrangement of 1870.]
★ Lewis Lindsay Feb. 13/05. Records corrected. R

7583
Admch for 9 months $3000
M Robinson Charlotte L.H. va

State of Virginia, ss. Charlotte County
On this 5 th day of April 1833 personally appeared before us, William Morley junr. & Edwin Price Justices of the peace of the County of Charlotte Lewis Lindsey a resident of the County aforesaid, aged seventy eight 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 7 th 1832. That he was at different times during the war of the Revolution drafted four several times to serve a tour in the Virginia Militia, and served each of the first first tours according to the requisition, and that he hired a substitute to perform the third fourth tour of service for him. That his first tour of service was for Three months, his second for Three months, and his fourth fourth for Three Months.
That he marched from the County of Mecklenburg in the State of Virginia and served principally at Norfolk in the said State, but that he cannot now, from the decay of his memory state the precise date of his service, nor the officers under whose command it was performed. That some time in the Summer of the year 1781 he marched from the County of Mecklenburg aforesaid to York Town in Virginia and was in actual service at the "Siege of York" under the command of Capt. Thompson Fowler, in a Company attached to the Regiment commanded by Col. Lewis Burwell of the County of Mecklenburg. That all his service was rendered in the capacity of a Common soldier or private. That he has no documentary evidence of his service and cannot procure any, and that he knows of no person by whom he can prove the same - all those with whom he was acquainted, or who knew him while engaged in the service being either dead or removed beyond his reach.
That he was a resident of the County of Mecklenburg in the State of Virginia at the several times when he went into service. That when the period of his service expired he returned to the said County, and has resided in the County of Mecklenburg & Charlotte ever since; That he now resides in the County of Charlotte aforesaid; That he does not, and cannot now recollect, with sufficient distinctness to state the same on oath, the names of the regular officers who were with the troops where he served, nor any very remarkable or memorable circumstances connected with his service other than the battle of York Town - That being the only incident of general interest or notoriety which his memory now serves him to recollect; That he received discharges at the expiration

of each term of his service before related but has long since lost or destroyed them & cannot now recollect by whom they were given: That he is known to the following gentlemen in his neighbourhood who can testify to his character for veracity and who will state their belief of his services as a soldier of the Revolution i.e. William Morley Esq. Francis Barrs, Royall Lockhart Jr, W. H. Atkinson, Maj. Robt. Moore, and James Barrs. He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever 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.
Lewis Lindsey
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid. William Morley junr J.P. Eawin Price J.P.
We, William Richards, a Clergyman, residing in the County of Mecklenburg and State of Virginia, in the neighbourhood of Lewis Lindsey whose declaration is above written, and Jennings M. Safford of the County of Charlotte in the same neighbourhood, do certify that we are well acquainted with Lewis Lindsey who has subscribed & sworn to the above declaration. That we believe him to be fully seventy eight years of age; that he is reputed & believed in the neighbourhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.
Given under our hands this the 5 th day of April 1833 William Richards Jennings M. Safford
I, Obadiah Coleman of the County of Mecklenburg V a do certify that I have a recollection of seeing Lewis Lindsey who has made the foregoing declaration at the house of York, but I cannot state any thing further in relation to his services as a revolutionary soldier, altho' it is probable that I may at one time have known more about it, so much has my memory decayed, that I now recollect nothing in relation to it that is not immediately connected with some important or deeply interesting event of that war, grown more deeply on my memory than the more ordinary and daily occurrences of it.
Given under my hand this the 5 th day of April 1833. Mecklenburg County To Wit. Obadiah Coleman
I do hereby certify, that the above certificate was duly sworn to before me a justice of the peace for the County aforesaid. Given under my hand and seal the 5 th day of April 1833. John S. Safford J.P.

I John G. Safford of the County of Rockbridge County state of Virginia do hereby certify that I have been well acquainted with Obadiah Coleman of the 8 th County whose Certificate is herewith annexed for twenty years, and during that time have no conscience him to be a man of strict honesty & integrity. Given under my hand 5 th day of April 1833.
We the under signed do hereby certify that we have been acquainted with Lewis Lincoln who has made the foregoing declaration for many years & that he is a man respected and beloved in his neighbourhood to have been a soldier of the revolution & we believe to be fully 78 years old given under our hands this 6 th day of April 1833
William Mosley Robert Moore Francis Barm Myrthasias Royal Lockhart
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