Bounty Land Warrant information relating to Robert Lawson VAS850 vsl 2VA
Note from Jeannette Austin: This was General Robert Lawson who served from Nansemond County.
Source: bounty land records in the Library of Virginia
In the House of Delegates
November 11, 1783
Resolved that the Petition of Edward Stevens, and Robert Lawson, praying that a bounty of Lands may be granted them, is reasonable.
Resolved that the same Bounty of Land ought to be allowed to Brigadier General Edward Stevens, and Brigadier General Robert Lawson, as is allowed to Officers of the same Rank in the Continental Army.
Teste:
S/ John Beckley, C. H. D.
1783 November 19th
agreed to by the Senate
S/ William Davis, C. S. A Copy
S/ John Beckley, C. H. Ds
[From rejected pension records in the Library of Virginia]
The Heirs of Brigadier General Robert Lawson deceased claim the one sixth additional bounty lands promised to all officers who should he in the service in the actual or as supernumerary for every year over six years.
It appears from the Journals of the House of Delegates of November 1783 that Robert Lawson was in service with little intermission from 1775 until the cessation of hostilities and the Claimants believe that the resolution of the House of Delegates under which said Lawson drew bounty lands for three years confers on him or his heirs the same right to additional bounty lands as belonged to Officers of the same rank in the Continental Army. The resolution of the House of Delegates is here with presented
S/ G. H. Parker
Attorney-in-fact for the Heirs
Rejected December 1833
