FAYETTE CO. TX - TEXAS REVOLUTION PENSIONS: LYMAN W. ALEXANDER

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TEXAS REVOLUTION PENSION CLAIM APPLICATION

Lyman W. Alexander


The State of Texas
County of Fayette

September 24th, 1870

To the Comptroller of Public Accounts

You petitioner would most respectfully reference to your Honor that he is 
entitled under an act entitled An Act Granting Pensions To The Surviving 
Veterans of the Revolution which Separated Texas from Mexico passed by the 
Legislature of the State of Texas. Approval August 13th 1870 t a Pension.

That he moved to Texas ____ with his father Amos Alexander now dead, in the 
month of December 1832 and settled in Austin Colony 4 miles N.W. of the town of 
Columbus in Texas.  And that in the year 1835 his Father moved to the town of 
Bastrop that his Father and Brother Amos H. was killed by the Indians on the 
Goshen Trace on the 1st day of Jan. 1835 which left your petitioner then in his 
17th year in charge of his mother Hannah Alexander and one sister.  Petitioner 
was born in Bradford County in the State of Pennsylvania August 1st, 1815 and is 
now Fifty Four years of age and resides in the County of Fayette in the State is 
a married man.  In the year 1835 he joined a company commanded by Capt. H. M. 
Coleman from Bastrop in answer to a call from the citizens of Gonzales to assist 
in repelling the mexicans that were near that place and that said company was 
the first to arrive at Gonzales that other companys soon arrived that he was in 
the attack upon the mexicans under Constanado at Mr. Williamsons place 7 miles 
west of Gonzales.  We were commanded by Col. John H. Moore & J.W.E. Walker.  
Subsequently Stephen F. Austin took command here after we arrived at the Mission 
Espado  Petitioner went with the 92 men as volunteer to select a camp near the 
city of San Antone under the command of Bowie and Fanning we camped near the 
Mission Conception and the next morning Oct. 28 commenced the battle of that 
name in which the Mexicans were defeate leavin their cannon.

That petitioner was discharged near San Antone (date not recollected).  
Petitioner also served in the company of Capt. Jesse Billingsly during the 
campaigne of 1830 and was discharged at Bastrop in May or June of that year that 
he received a Bounty Warrant from the government for 320 acres (the sounds by 
the Indians inter lined before signing)

Sworn to and subscribed before Lyman W. Alexander on this the 24th day of 
September A.D. 1870
R. P. Ludick
Clk. D.C.C.C.

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Contributor’s Note:
Other items in this file are:

Affidavit to Identity:  I. W. E. Wallace and Wm B. Deevers, both of Colorado 
County.  dtd: 9/24/1870

Pension Claim No. 56 for Lyman W. Alexander of Fayette County was approved 
October 7th, 1870 and payment of $250.00 was issued.

Several Powers of Attorney with different law offices

Several receipts for pension payments

Affidavit to Identity:  Henry Marseburger and Jas. C. Abell of Colorado County 
attesting to the fact that Lyman W. Alexander is now a citizen of Colorado Co.  
dtd: 7/28/1874