Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File B.L.Wt 1473-100, for James Rawsey, [Blank]

SERVICE
NUMBER
Continental
Rawsey James.
B.L. No 1473-100
Residence of son, Va, in 1829
CONTENTS

N o . 1473 La! Ransuyi here, see?

February 19 th Received of the Secretary of War a warrant Number 1473 for one hundred acres to the heirs of James Rawsey a soldier of Armand's corps in the revolutionary war
James Rawsey

Virginia Forest At a Court held for Bedford County the 26 th day of January 1829
Categorical evidence was adduced in Court to prove that James Harvey H and his son James and the sons and only heirs of said James Harvey H were soldiers in the Continental Establishment
I Gustavus A. Wingfield Deputy Clerk of the County Court above said do certify that the above evidence is taken from the records in my office In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed my official Seal this 28 th day of January 1829
G. A. Wingfield D. Clerk

N o 1473
Samuel John Rawson son & heir of James Rawson
Esq d
Arms mail to James Rawson Bedford. Va

General Land Office 13 Jan y . 1829.
Sir
I have the Honor to enclose herewith a Pigeon's Military Warrant N o 0420. in the name of Thomas Small's Heirs for 100 acres of Land & Survey N o 10601. made thereon for your Certificate agreeably to the act of 20 May 1826.
with great Respect
Sir
your obed Servt
J. W. Frazer
Enc. P. B. Porter Sec y of War

The Honorable Secretary of War
Washington City
Recd By J. P. Officer Jan 15 1864
No. 1423 Col. H. C. Burrows Commissary Quarters Arl.

Bedford County Virginia January 27 th 1827
Sir
I enclose you my papers in support of my claim to County Court account of services rendered by my father James Rawsey a soldier of the revolution. If the claim is allowed please send me the warrant to Liberty Bedford County.
I am your obt Servant James Rawsey

State of Virginia County of Bedford
I James Rawsey saw, and one of the heirs at law of James Rawsey Senior deceased, do upon oath testify and declare to the best of my knowledge and belief, that James Rawsey Senior did enlist in the year 1777 for the term of during the war, and served in Armand's Corps under the command of General Armand, and that he continued in the service aforesaid until the close of the war in 1783, I further declare that I have never received a warrant for the bounty land promised to the said James Rawsey deceased and the heirs of the United States in lieu thereof. I believe that he was never paid, or transferred his claim to it in any manner whatsoever.
James Rawsey.
Bedford County to wit:
The foregoing affidavit of James Rawsey was this day subscribed and sworn to before me and a justice of the peace in and for the County of Bedford given under my hand this 15 th day of January 1829
Chas. Whitley J.P.

1. I, the undersigned Clerk of the County Court of Bedford do hereby certify that Charles White and whose signature appears to the within copy was at the time of signing the same an acting Justice of the peace in and for the said County duly commissioned & qualified according to law & that just faith & credit was and ought to be given to all his official acts as such
In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed my official seal and my name this 28 th day of January 1829 G. H. D. [Signature]