Individual Details

Lawson, Robert (Va). Major 4th Virginia, 13th February, 1776; Lieutenant-Colonel, 13th August, 1776; Colonel, 19th August, 1777; resigned 17th December, 1777; served subsequently as Brigadier-General Virginia Militia.
Source: Heitman, Francis B. Historical Register of Officers of the Continental Army During the War of the Revolution. Rev. ed. Washington, D.C.: The Rare Book Shop Pub. Co., 1914.

These following two notes from the "Virginia Regolutionary War Records" which show Robert Lawson eligible for bounty land which was likely in Kentucky.

LIST OF FIELD OFFICERS CHOSEN BY THE CONVENTION |R*|r
Williamsburg, Va., Jan. 13, 1776.
........4. Adam Steven, Isaac Read and Robert Lawson.

4) LIST OF OFFICERS OF THE ARMY AND NAVY, WHO HAVE RECEIVED LANDS FROM VIRGINIA FOR REVOLUTIONARY SERVICES; THE QUANTITY RECEIVED, THE TIME OF SERVICE FOR WHICH EACH OFFICER RECEIVED LAND, &C. DOWN TO SEPTEMBER, 1833.
Lawson, Robert B. G. [Brigadier General] Cont'l. 10000 Nov. 21, 1784 3 years

Source Information: Ancestry.com. Virginia Revolutionary War Records [database online]. Orem, UT: Ancestry.com, 1998. Original data: Brumbaugh, Gaius Marcus. Revolutionary War Records, Volume 1, Virginia. Washington D.C.: 1936


In the manuscripts at Duke University Library:
Robert Lawson Papers, 1776-1825 (bulk 1781). 40 items. Richmond, Va.
Correspondence and papers of Robert Lawson (d. ca. 1802), brigadier general of the Virginia Militia during the American Revolution. Chiefly letters to Lawson concerning the raising, reenforcement, and movement of troops in Virginia and North Carolina in 1781. Several concern Lawson's possible reenforcement of Nathaniel Greene's troops. Correspondents include Thomas Jefferson, Baron Von Steuben, John P. Muhlenberg, and Richard Henry Lee. Also an account book (1776, Sept.-Dec.) relating to Lawson's service with the 4th Virginia Battalion., military commissions, letters of introduction (1787) for Lawson from George Mason and Henry Lee to Pierce Butler, Charles Pinckney, and William Few.

Birth	23 Jan 1747/48
Marriage	13 Dec 1769	Hanover County, Virginia - Sarah Meriwether Pierce
Death	5 Apr 1805	Richmond, Henrico County, Virginia

Spouse

Sarah Meriwether Pierce (1750 - 1809)