HILL COUNTY TX – REPUBLIC OF TEXAS PENSION:  NATHANIEL ADDISON

Contributed by:  Joan Renfrow

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REPUBLIC OF TEXAS CLAIMS

PENSION CLAIM APPLICATION FILE FOR NATHANIEL ADDISON


To the Hon. A Bledsoe
Comptroller of Public Accounts
State of Texas

The undersigned Nathaniel Addison a native of Louisiana and for the thirty eight 
years a citisen of Texas and until 1869 a resident of Jasper County Texas and 
since then and now a resident citisen of Hill County State of Texas aged fifty 
nine years would state unto your Honor

That he is a surviving veteran of the Revolution that separated Texas from 
Mexico and as such is entitled to an annual pension of two hundred and fifty 
dollars under the act of the legislature of the State of Texas.  Granting 
Pensions to the surviving veterans of the Revolution that separated Texas from 
Mexico approved August 13th 1870.

That he volunteered at Jasper about the first of March 1836 and went into the 
company under ____ James Chesher Captain of their company and went to the Texas 
army them commanded by Gen Thos J. Rusk and that he continued in the said army 
until the day of July A.D. 1836 when he was honorably discharged which discharge 
is now in the Adjuntant General Officer of the state of Texas at Austin and 
accessible by our Honor which discharge is prayed to be to made part of this 
petition.

He therefore prays your Honor to issue to him such a certificate as said Law 
required authorising petitioner to draw his said annual pension of $250.

Nathaniel Addison
May 21, 187_

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Contributor’s Note:
The following presented affidavit of identity:

B. C. Lowe – Jasper County
James Armstrong – Jefferson County
Jo. Abbott – Hill County
J. M. Merrell – Hill County

Nathaniel Addison of Hill County, Pension Claim #882 was approved and he was 
paid $250.00 Dec. 1, 1874