REVOLUTIONARY WAR MEDICAL PENSION AFFIDAVIT - JOHN LANHAM

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Source: Library of Virginia Digital Collection

Lanham, John------------------Pen. 240------------------1782-1791
Soldier, 2nd VA Detachment--Lt. Col. Samuel Hawes
Prince William County

    Certified by Lt. John Harkley that John Lanham served 18 months in the 
Detachment and received no pay for the months served but was a brave and 
faithful soldier given 3rd January, 1787 at Camp Round.

   The bearer John Lanham has been in the Alms House for sometime just in order 
to have a ball extracted from him which he received in an action before Camden 
in 1781.  Signed: William Smith Stevens-Surgeon at Alms House--Charleston, SC, 
July 4, 1788.

  I do with the advice of the Council hereby certify that John Lanham, aged 
about 25 years, late a private in a detachment of the Virginia Line, commanded 
by Lt. Col. Hawes and whose pay was at the rate of 24 pounds per annum was 
disabled in the service of the United States by a wound on his left side, which 
has rendered his leg and thigh almost useless; and that he is allowed the sum of 
18 pounds yearly, commencing from the first of Jan. 1786.  Given under my hand 
as Governor of the Commonwealth of VA, at Richmond, this 2nd day of September, 
1788.  Signed: Edm:Randolph  Teste: T. Meriwether