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“My father, John Dolson was one of the Minute(men) during the Revolution and served as a soldier during the whole of the War. He was with Washington at the battle of Trenton, Christmas night 1776, in the battle of Saratoga when Burgoyne surrendered, in the battle of Yorktown when Cornwallis was defeated and other battles.”
(Author’s note – A précis of John Dolson’s Revolutionary War Pension Application, the details of which were taken under oath and the integrity of Dolson attested to by neighbors, provides a much different portrayal. John enlisted in the Pennsylvania militia in July 1776 and served for several three and four month periods of time along the Delaware River primarily providing defense against the Indians for over two years. One night in the spring of 1778 his company crossed the Delaware River into Sussex County, New Jersey, arrested and jailed upwards of seventy Tories. From this time until the close of the war, his Company was confined to the frontier defense against the Indians on the Delaware River. He continued in this service subject to the orders of Colonels Stroud and Chambers until the summer of 1783 without any special engagement but was on active duty at least one-third of the time. Perhaps the proud Sophia, a “Real Daughter of the Revolution”, who was only 7 years old when her father died, can lovingly be forgiven for exaggerating “slightly’ her heroic father’s wartime deeds).
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