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From the Revolutionary War Pension of Jeremiah Dawson, R2778V:
State of Kentucky County of Hart SS:
On this 5th day of June A.D. 1851, Before me Ransom A. Dawson a Justice of the Peace in and for the County and State abovementioned, personally appeared Nancy A. Dawson a resident of Hart County aforesaid, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on her Oath make the following declaration – to-wit — That she was born in Hanover County Virginia on the 6th day of October A.D. 1765. That she was married to Jeremiah Dawson, in Bedford County Virginia, in the month of March A.D. Seventeen Hundred and Eighty Eight. That said marriage was solemnized by one Jerry Hatcher a Baptist Minister, and that her said husband died in Hart County KY on the 28th day of February A.D. Eighteen Hundred and Forty-Six. Leaving the following his only living children to wit, John W. Dawson aged 62 years, Thomas T. Dawson 60 years, Ransom A. Dawson 43 years – Elizabeth Combes aged 47 years, Nancy Bosdick aged 52 years and Susan Rader aged 54 years. She also states that her name before her said marriage was Nancy A Dollard. She remembers certainly that she was married in the month of March, but does not remember certainly whether the year was 1787 or 1788. She also swears that her said husband Jeremiah Dawson departed this life in the Eighty Fourth year of his age. She also states that the said Jeremiah Dawson served in the war of the Revolution. That he volunteered and went into the army in Bedford County, Virginia, under Captain Watkins. That he fought in the battle of Guilford under Captain Watkins and General Green. That Colonel Washington was the Colonel of the light horse at the same time and place. That her said husband was afterwards stationed as a Guard at New London VA and she knows of herself that he was in the service at least seven months if not longer. She also states that she is still a widow, and that neither her late husband nor herself have ever received a pension, and are not now on any pension roll in the United States. She makes the above declaration for the purpose of obtaining the Pension to which she is entitled on account of the military services of her late husband Jeremiah Dawson, deceased as aforesaid.
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State of Kentucky County of Hart SS:
On this 17th day of December 1855 John Gaddie personally appeared before the undersigned a Justice of the peace in and for the county aforesaid and after being duly sworn according to law states that he was born and raised in the County of Bedford in the state of Virginia, and that he lived within a distance of four miles from where Jeremiah Dawson lived in said county last aforesaid and that he was personally and intimately acquainted with said Jeremiah Dawson until he was grown and married in the state of Virginia, and afterwards knew him well and lived in the County of Hart in the state of Kentucky within a few miles of him for many years and until the death of the said Jeremiah Dawson. The said John Gaddie further states that he knows that said Jeremiah Dawson Volunteered and went into the service of the United States in the revolutionary war under Captain Charles Wadkins and William Milam first Lieutenant in Colonel Charles Linch’s regiment, he states that his best recollection at present is that, Nathaniel Roundtree, John Cannady, Benjamin Milam, George Gaddie, George Reicker, and John Reynolds went into the service at the same time with Jeremiah Dawson and that they all served a tour of six months in said war. He further states that he was not in the service himself but lived in the neighborhood as before stated and knew well when the Volunteers herein before named went into the service and saw and talked with Jeremiah Dawson in a few days after his return from said tour of service he thinks it was in the year 1781.
John Gaddie
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