CAMPBELL  COUNTY, TN - Rev War Pension Application - David Lawson
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Pension files for David Lawson -  North Caroline Militia - Record: R6200

State of Tennessee
Campbell County

On this 28th day of October 1843 personally appeared before the
subscriber a Justice of the Peace for said County Mr. David Lawson a
resident of said County and State aforesaid aged eight five ____ and
after being duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the
following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provision
made by the act of congress paper June 7th 1832. That he entered the
service in the North Carolina Militia in the War of the Revolution at
Gilford Court House in the State of North Carolina in the year 1780 under
Captain Johnson and was in the battle of Cowpens in this campaign. He
served six months. After the battle at the Cowpens he volunteered and went
to the head waters of the Riv[er] Holston to defend the western frontier
and was under Captain Campbell for six months. After his discharge from
Capt. Campbell he was retained as an Indian spy under the command of Col.
Dickison and Captain Lewis. He was upwards of eight months in this service
and encountered a great many hardships. He further ____ that that owing to
the laps[e] of time and the lap[se] of memory he has forgotten a great
many of the particulars of his campaigns and nothing but the [reverse?] of
his fortune has caused him to ask of his government that which he knows to
be justly due him. He relinquishes any claim whatever to a pension or an
annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the
pension roll of any agency in any State.

Allen McDanald   David (his mark) Lawson
Justice of the Peace

Sworn to and subscribed before me on the day and year before written a
Justice of the Peace for the County aforesaid. I further certify that the
said David Lawson is from [?] basically infirm and unable to attend court.
I further certify that full .... [page ends and no further information.]

   POWER OF ATTORNEY

For ascertaining whether any increase or arrears of Pension are due to the
widow or heirs of Revolutionary Pensioners, etc. State of Tennessee County
of Scott W.W. Cottan, a Justice of the Peace, personally appeared
Elizabeth Lawson aged 79 years who, being duly cautioned and then sworn in
due form of law, states that she is the widow/wife of David Lawson,
deceased, who was a revolutionary soldier in the State of North Carolina
and that he died on the first day of March 1852 and that they were married
on the 18 day of October in the year 1794 and that they were residents of
Hawkins in the State of          and that they resided there five years
and that      resides in           and that furthermore             BY
THESE PRESENTS, constitutes, appoints, and fully empowers and authorizes,
irrevocably and with powers of substitution, F.E. Hassler, of Washington
city D.C., as my true and lawful Attorney of me and in my name and stead,
to examine into, to prosecute, to demand, and to receive from the U.S.
Government and State my rights in all and in any manner of claim for
increase or arrears of Pension or Land that may be due me as the widow of
David Lawson who died, leaving the same undrawn, as in right of law and
may be entitled.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, has on this 22nd day of September 1852 hereunto
signed        name, and affixed       seal.

    Elizabeth (her mark) Lawson    SEAL
Witness:  Wm. H. Ryan
Witness:  S.G.[?] Smith

Signed, sealed, acknowledged, and sworn to before me; and I further
certify, that           has always by the community been known as
the         of
Dated on this          day of           185
     W.W. Cottan, J.P.
State of Tennessee
County of Scott  to wit:

I HEREBY CERTIFY, That, W.W. Cottan Esq., before whom the foregoing
affidavits and acknowledgement were made, and who has thereunto
subscribed his name, was at the time of so doing, a Justice of the Peace
in and for the County aforesaid, duly commissioned and sworn, and that his
signature above written is genuine. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto
set my hand, and affixed the seal of County Court, this 22nd day of
September one thousand eight hundred and fifty two.
    Allen McDanald Clerk