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A second Find-a-Grave record - 128378315 - states unknown burial location, July 2020
NSSAR Record Copy notes burial, probably Clark County, Kentucky, no further information
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Author: Michael D. C. Merryman
Christopher Dawson (abt 1760-1846) P-328930
An excerpt from the Revolutionary War Pension of Christopher Dawson, S*W2721:
State of Kentucky Clark County SS:
On this 26th day of June 1840 personally appeared in open court before the Circuit Court of said County now sitting Hon. James Simpson Judge, Christopher Dawson a resident of Clarke County and State aforesaid, aged eighty 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 7th 1832. That he entered the service of the United States under the following named Officer; and served as herein stated. He served in the Militia service of Virginia in the County of Stafford, the names of all the officers he served under he cannot now recollect from infirmity and old age. He served under Captain James, and Captain Balls and Captain Toulson, and Captain Garrard or Colonel Garrard as he was called both Colonel and Captain and under Captain Geo. Mt. Joy – the given names of the others he does not now recollect, and indeed he does not know that he ever knew them. He saw William Washington who was then called a Captain – he does not know that he was ever under his command. The other officers under whom he served he does not now recollect. He entered the service when young, but the time he entered the service either of the year or month he cannot state with accuracy, but thinks it was first in the fall of the year when he was called out. He continued in the service for more than three years serving off and on when called out, he served on two or three occasions three months at a tour, he was a volunteer, and as such compelled to hold himself in readiness at a minutes warning. He was called at that time a minute man. The greater part of his service was in the county of Stafford and State of Virginia where he then resided & where he lived until he was thirty odd or forty years old. He was in the engagement on the Potomac River at Brents or Brunts House when the British came up the river and fired on us and burnt the house. He is certain that he served for three years put it all together. He was never in the Regular service or State line. One of his Brothers, he thinks it was Spencer, was in the State lines or regular service he does not know which. He only served in the Militia. His Father died when he was very young and left him an orphan, without control and without education and he has not now and don’t think he ever had any documentary evidence of his service. That since moving to Kentucky he has never seen or heard of his relations or kindred in Virginia, except seldom and that not for a great many years until within the last three or four weeks his Grand Niece Lydia Ann George came to see him very unexpectedly. He has endeavored to find out someone to make proof of his services for several years back and could not get any unless he went to Virginia and he feared all his old associates were dead long ago and he was too poor to undergo the expense and too old and feeble to stand the journey. He has now to work with his hands for his daily bread. Several of his terms of service were for the period of three months and a good many for a shorter time, but then he was liable to be called out at any minute. His memory is very indistinct as it regards dates, for it is greatly enfeebled by age. He never was employed in any civil pursuit by the Government. He only served his country in the militia and in the field and that he knows he did freely and faithfully as he could. He never made application for a pension before and 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. The within declaration was sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid in open court.
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