Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 9117, Dobson Burrow, Va.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Va
Burrow, Dobson or Burrough
S 9117
bearded
CONTENTS

Dead
r
Paid at the Treasury under the Act of the 16 th April 1838 from 4 th March 1831 to 18 March 1840 the day of his death. Age Notified 27 th Nov 1840
31715
North Carolina
Dobson Burrow
of Randolph in the State of N. Carolina who was a private in the Compy. commanded by Captain Starke of the 6 th Regt. commanded by Col. in the Virg a Compy. time for 2 years.
Inscribed on the Roll of North Carolina at the rate of 80 Dollars  Cents per annum to commence on the 4 th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 7 th day of March 1840, & sent to Hon. C. Fisher House of Representatives
Arrears to the 4 th of Mar 1840 $720.00 Semi-annual allowance ending 4 th Sep r 40 40.00
$760.00
{ Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.
Recorded by J. M. Gandy Clerk Book E. Vol. 6 1/2 Page 47.

Declaration
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7 th of June 1832
State of North Carolina } Court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions, Randolph County } November Term 1839
On this 8 th day of November 1839 personally appeared before the Court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions, now sitting, Dobson Burrow, a resident of said County of Randolph and State of North Carolina, aged eighty one 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 enlisted in the army of the United States in the year 1776, as well as he can recollect with one William Starke - What rank said Starke held in the Army this declarant does not remember. He enlisted for two years he thinks, and served therein some new enlistment two years and a half - He served in the Sixth Regiment, but does not remember with certainty who was his Colonel - He knows that Genl Starke commanded him but he does not remember what rank said Starke held in the Army - He enlisted in Dinwiddie County Virginia in which County he resided at the time he enlisted. He served till the year 1778 as well as he can recollect - and he was then honourably discharged - He recollects with distinctness

being present at the taking of the Hessians at Trenton and crossing the Delaware River on the ice - and that he was then under the immediate command of Genl Washington - He was a private soldier during the whole period of his service - This declarant would state that by reason of old age his memory has been very greatly impaired, and he cannot remember with certainty the length of his service but according to the best of his recollection he served as a private soldier two years and a half, commencing in 1776 and leaving the army in 1778 - His service was altogether in the Infantry - He states that he was frequently under the immediate command of Genl Washington - That he remembers a Col Stephens, who he thinks was killed - He remembers Genl La Fayette - He was with the army at Valley Forge and at a place called Red Bank - He was present at the battle of Brandywine - This declarant states that his memory is so exceedingly impaired that he cannot state with certainty the particulars of his services.
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or an annuity except the present and he declares that his name is not on the pension Roll of any agency in any State
Dobson Burrow

The foregoing declaration was duly sworn to & subscribed the day & year aforesaid to wit, the 8th day of November 1839 in open Court.
Lucy York maketh oath that she was very young at the time Dobson Burrow was a Soldier in the Revolutionary War - so young that she does not remember when he entered the service, but she remembers with distinctness the time that he returned from the service - she recollects that he had had the small pox shortly before his return from the army - she knows that he was in the army for a considerable time but how long she does not remember - nor does she know whether he belonged to the State or Continental troops. She has always understood that he was a good & faithful soldier and has never heard it doubted by any person - she believes from what she has always understood from him & others that he served at least as long as two years and a half - Sworn to & subscribed before you in open Court this 8th November A. D. 1839.

Genl Geo. Hoover maketh oath that he has been well acquainted with Dobson Burrow, who has subscribed & sworn to the foregoing declaration for more than twenty years - that for several years past his memory has been failing till at present he, the said Burrow cannot remember past events with any degree of distinctness - that said Burrow has always been reputed a man of strict veracity & this affiant in years past has often heard him relate the circumstances relating to his services as a soldier of the Revolution - that this affiant, from what he has under- stood from said Burrow & others, has no doubt that he was a soldier of the Revolution and that he served at least as long as he has set forth in his declaration, He has always understood & believes that he was a brave & faithful soldier - Sworn to & subscribed this Genl. Hoover 8th Nov r 1839 in open Court
Isaac Parks maketh oath that he has heard the affidavit of Genl. Hoover read over & that he is acquainted with the same facts therein set forth & believes them to be true. Sworn to & subscribed this Isaac Parks 8th Nov r 1839 in open Court

Dobson Parragh N o 34938 Act 7 June 1832
Allan 5'80 per ann Virginian Cont'd Sad Hawks. La Brev. m ts 2 testimony —
H m Ch. Fisher A2

Genl Alexander Gray maketh oath that he Removed to Randolph County in the State of North Carolina in the Year 1792 and settled in the Neighborhood of W m Sucey Burrow and his family consisting of Dobson Burrow and his brothers and sisters with whom he became intimately acquainted; that it was generally Understood in the Neighborhood that the said (Dobson Burrow) had been for several Years a Soldier in the Army of the United States in the Revolutionary War And that from information I received from himself and others I have never had had reason to doubt that fact. He stated to me that he enlisted under a William Starke of Dunwiddie County Virginia what grade W m Starke held in the Army this deponent doth not recollect nor does he recollect whether he was an Officer in the Regular Army or in the Militia. But he does recollect that the said Burrow told him this deponent that part of the time he was in the Army he served in the Militia and another part in the Regular Army of the United States, that he was at the battle of Brandy wine after which the American Army retreated and crossed the Delaware River at a time when it was frozen over and attacked & took a Number of Hessian troop at Trenton. That the army he was in was at a place called Wally forge, at another called the Red banks and at one of these places or some other on some River to the North a Block house or some wooden fortification was fired on by the British with hot balls and took fire, that himself and others volunteered

Their services to extinguish it, that while engaged in this dangerous business a Musket ball passed through his Cartouch box into his small Clothes without doing him any serious injury. In addition to which this Deponent has heard the said Duborn Burrow relate repeatedly the many battles and skirmishes he was in in the course of the revolutionary war with the names of the Officers who commanded &c which places it beyond a doubt that he was a soldier in that service. I also recollect hearing his Mother and Brother Burrow both of whom are now deceased relating that he after serving three years or more took the small pox in the Army and was permitted to return home. I have also heard his brother in law Thomas Young in state that said Duborn Burrow was a soldier for several years in the revolutionary war. These circumstances has been related to this deponent repeatedly for upwards of the last thirty years.
This affiant further maketh oath that for many years past the memory of the said Burrow has been failing and at present it is so defective that he remembers past events with great indistinctness. This affiant believes that said Burrow served both as a Continental soldier and also among the State troops of Virginia. Sworn to & subscribed in Open Court this 8th Nov r 1839 John Gray
And the said Court do hereby declare

in this though it doing with this relate was in names res it that sensu other thing at the small box some om as as was necessary to the 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 Lucy York, George Hoover, Joab Parks and Alexander Gray who have signed the same are resident in the County of Randolph aforesaid and each of them is a credible person and their statement is entitled to credit
I, Hugh McCain, Clerk of the Court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions of Randolph County, do here by certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Dobson Burrow for a Pension.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of office this 8th day of November 1839.
Hugh McCain Clerk
with that of the and at re- indire said ental troops
declare

In reply to your request of _____, received _____ for a statement of the military history of Dobson Burrow or Burrough a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his ( or his widow's ) application for pension on file in this Bureau.
S. File 9117
   DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE.   CAPTAIN. COLONEL.     1776 2 1/2 yrs. Private William Starke ✓ 6 th reg. Va.   He crossed the Delaware under command of Genl. Washington, and was at Valley Forge.  
Battles engaged in, taking of Hessians at Trenton, & battle of Brandywine. Residence of soldier at enlistment, Dinwiddie Co., Virginia Date of application for pension, Nov. 8, 1839. His claim was allowed. Residence at date of application, Randolph Co., North Carolina. Age at date of application, eighty-one years.
Remarks: his mother Lucy Burrow, his brother Barney, & bro-in-law Thomas Yeargin were referred to in 1839.  Soldier died Mch. 18, 1840.
Respectfully,
6-2850
(It is stated that soldier had no children in 1840.) Commissioner.

[Large stylized signature]
J. Worth Esq. Asheboro' N. Carolina
Hon. C. Fisher-

Auditors Office 27. Dec. 1839
Dear Sir
I have rec d yours of the 22 nd inst, and enclose you a Certificate relative to the final settle- =ment with Dobson Burrow. It does not appear by our books how long Burrow served — His name is Spelt Burroughs .
There are no fees of office
Very resp d J. E. Heath And W. F.

TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
Second Comptroller's Office,
November 20 th 1840.
Sir :
Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled "An act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States," Administrator of Dobson Barnes  Burroughs , a Pensioner on the Roll of the N. Carolina Agency, at the rate of Eighty — Dollars and Cents per annum, under the law of the 7 th June 1832, has been paid at this Department, from the 4 th of March 1831, to the 18 th March 1840. the day of his death.
Respectfully yours,
Wm. H. Harrison
Comptroller.
To the Commissioner of Pensions, Present.

Bunay
Hon. C. Fisher

State of North Carolina & Court of Pleas & Quarter Randolph County 3 Sessions. February Term 1840
Alexander Gray maketh oath that he has been personally & intimately acquainted with Dobson Burrough, who subscribed and swore to a declaration at the last Term of this Court, for the purpose of obtaining a pension from the United States for Revolutionary services, since about 1795. This affiant has always understood from said Burrough and others that he resided in the State of Virginia during the Revolutionary War and that he served faithfully & was honorably discharged as a soldier of the Revolution. This This affiant did not know said Burrough personally till since he became a citizen of this County & cannot therefore say of his own knowledge that he served as stated in his declaration, but this affiant has never heard it doubted by a single person and it has been a subject which he has heard others often speak of ever since he knew said Burrough. This affiant knows of no person now living who could prove the actual services of said Burrough or who knew him during the Revolutionary War except Lucy York whose affidavit accompanies the aforesaid declaration.
In explanation of the reason why said Burrough has not applied for a pension under the Act of March 18 th 1818 or

at an earlier date under the act of June 7 th 1832" this affiant would state that David Burrough was and still is a man of considerable wealth in that he had no children and that many years since both his bodily and mental powers became so much impaired that he was unable to manage his concerns as he had formerly done - that about the year 1825 this affiant undertook to manage his concerns for him & hired out his slaves and rented his lands for several years and that since this affiant ceased to manage his concerns for him other persons have done so: that said Burrough having a comfortable estate and no children neither he nor his friends felt any particular solicitude about procuring a pension - that owing to his extraordinary loss of memory and the want of any direct proof of his services by any persons who knew him while in actual service his friends thought it would be difficult to get a pension for him. This affiant believes the foregoing to be the true and only reasons why said Burrough has not earlier applied for a pension.
Thos. Gray
George Wall and twenty per The fact of Gen This aff with a since that the affida made Pension
And Genl who ha affida County their
Court of Raw going by the 1840 proce

June 7th said consider- new and ly and unfair- his court about to his al years ed to ersons having neither litude to his want any all be This the true ough Pension Gray
George Hoover Maketh oath that he has been well acquainted with Dobson Burrough for twenty years and that he is acquainted with the facts set forth in the foregoing affidavit of Genl A. Gray and that they are true. This affiant has been intimately acquainted with said Burrough & his affairs ever since he knew him and he has no doubt that the reasons set forth in the said affidavit why said Burrough has not made an earlier application for a Pension are the true and only reasons. Geo. Hoover
And the said Court do hereby declare that Genl Alexander Gray & Genl Geo. Hoover who have signed & swore to the preceding affidavits are resident citizens of Randolph County and are credible persons and that their statements are entitled to credit.
I, Hugh McCain, Clerk of the Court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions of said County of Randolph do hereby certify that the fore- going affidavits were subscribed & sworn to by them in open Court this 7th day of February 1840 and that the foregoing contains the proceedings of said Court thereon. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of Office this 7th day of February 1840. Hugh McCain

War Department Bureau of Pensions Washington D.C.
Will you please give me the pension record of Dobson Borough a Rev. soldier of Va. I think he died in Randolph Co. N.C.. I want to join the D.A.R. through his service. I am sure my gr. gr. grand mother was his daughter. She was the wife of Zebidee Wood of Randolph Co. N.C.
Mrs. W. Y. Smith 618 Monroe St. Springfield, Mo

1919 Oct. 13. Hist. to Mrs. W. G. Smith. 9
Rev War
9117 INVALID
File No. 9117
Dobson Burrows
Rev War
Act: June 7th 1832
Index:—Vol. 102 , Page 80
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Dobson Burrough N.C. on virginian line page 106.
Sum Mikan Stark Canuck 63

Dobson Burrow W.C. Act 1832 Let to Hon. C. Fisher 12 th Decr 1839

This is to Certify, That it appears from a List in this Office of such Officers and Soldiers of the Virginia Continental Line, during the Revolutionary War, as settled their Accounts, and received Certificates for the balance of their Full Pay, according to an Act of Assembly, passed the November Session, 1781, that a Certificate issued on the 20 th day of December 1783 , in the name of Dobson Burrough as a Soldier of Infantry for £ 16. 4. 0 , which Certificate appears to have been delivered to Mr B. Starke and was given for services prior to the 1st January, 1782.
p. 106. { No Seal of Office. }
Given under my hand at the Auditor's Office, Richmond, this
27 th day of December 1839.
J. E. Beall AUDITOR.