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Preferred Citation:

Robert Lawson Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.

Acquisition Information:

Gift

Processing Information:

Processed by Cynthia L. Barwick in 1984.

Scope and Contents

Letter, 1794, of Robert Stephen, Berkeley County, Va. [now W. Va.] to Robert Lawson near Lexington, Ky., inquiring about land owned by Adam Stephen in Kentucky; correspondence, 1840, of Joel R. Poinsett with William Gordon and William Key Bond concerning military bounty land; and letter, 1835, of Peter Hagner to Richard Mentor Johnson concerning Revolutionary War records of Charles Bradford, Henry Heth, Benjamin Lawson, Claiborne Lawson, and Robert Lawson.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

• Bounties, Military--Virginia
• Bradford, Charles
• Correspondence
• Heth, Henry
• Lawson, Benjamin
• Lawson, Claiborne
• Pensions, Military--United States--Revolution, 1775-1783