This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Pension Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/gVB.2ACI/2830 Message Board Post: JOHN RICHARDSON – Revolutionary War Pension File (Transcribed by Deloris Williams- [email protected] from microfilm copies 805, Roll: 688, Image 443, File R8769 - All misspellings are being left as written. Note: Records from Ancestry’s Family Data Collection and Marriage Bonds for North Carolina, seem to indicate that this John Richardson was married to Leary Jones- on December 20, 1773 in Wake County, North Carolina - and that their son, Levi/Levy Richardson was born in 1785) State of North Carolina Johnston County Be it known that on the 7th day of November 1826 personally appeared before me a Justice of the Peace in and for said County and State LEVI RICHARDSON a resident of the aforesaid County and State aged 60 years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following statement: that he is the son and only living heir of the late JOHN RICHARDSON dec’d who was a private soldier in CAPTAIN RAIFORD’s company of the 10th Regiment of North Carolina in the War of the Revolution – that his father the said JOHN RICHARDSON had often said that he entered service in June 1781 for the term of twelve months. At the expiration of which time he was discharged and the said discharge has been lost or destroyed. That his father the aforesaid JOHN RICHARDSON died in the 10th day of September 1839 leaving no widow. That this statement is made in order to obtain the pension due and unpaid to the said JOHN RICHARDSON dec’d under the Act of C! ongress passed 7th June 1832 [signed, made mark] LEVI RICHARDSON Sworn to and subscribed to me the day and year above mentioned.. [signed] JAMES HINNANT, J.P. State of North Carolina Johnston County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions November Term 1846 When was satisfactory evidence produced before said Court to prove that LEVI RICHARDSON is the son and only living heir of JOHN RICHARDSON decd who was a Soldier in the Revolutionary war and died on the 10th day of September 1839 and that said JOHN RICHARDSON left no widow surviving him. I further Certify that JAMES HINNANT is now and was at the time of taking the foregoing affidavit an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said county and that the purporting to be his is genuine. Ordered that the same be Certified to the War department. Given under my hand and seal as affixed November 25th, 1846 THOS. BAGLEY, clk