Page created: July 30, 1998

Richard Thomson, aged about 80 years of Lawrence County, Kentucky, states that he was well acquainted with Edward Burgess of Lawrence County, who made his original declaration for a pension on the 15th day of June, 1818, and that now makes another application for a pension this being the 16th day of September, 1822, and that the said Edward Burgess was in the Revolutionary War in the service of the United States under the command of Colonel Abraham Bluford, and this deponent states that he left the said Burgess in the service of the United States, when he himself was discharged from the army, and the this deponant always understood that the said Burgess served out his full time of enlistment.