Leaven Dorsey, the above named soldier applied on May ___ 1833, for a pension in Jefferson County, Kentucky and stated that he was 78 years of age on May 25th.   He enlisted as a regular soldier in the company commanded by Captain Nathan Williams, and remained with his company in the city of Baltimore till the fall of the year 1777.   There was another company of regular recruited at the same time in Baltimore, commanded by Captain Jonathan Leeman.  The company to which said the said Dorsey belonged, together with Captain Seaman's company, marched in the fall of the year 1777 to Bush Town in the state of Maryland, on their way to Philadelphia, at which place both companies remained during the winter of 1777 and 1778.   In the summer of 1778, the said two companies marched together from Bush Town through Wilmington, below West Point, with Captain William's company attached to the 6th Maryland Regiment. 

The regiment to which said Dorsey belonged, was stationed in garrison for the defense of West Point.  Said Dorsey was near West Point at the time of the capture and execution of Major Andre and remained in that station until about July 1781, when he obtained his furlough from General Otto H. Williams, the object of which was to enable said Dorsey to visit his mother in Maryland and when he was informed, was seriously ill at the time.  Said Dorsey went home on the furlough and since his mother was very ill, he remained with her till after the surrender of Lord Cornwallis and was not wanted in the army after that time, and did not receive notice afterward to join the army.   He knew General Smallwood and was well acquainted with Colonel John E. Howard of Maryland.   He was also acquainted with Mordicai Gist, but does not remember whether he was a Major-Colonel or Major-General.   Mordicai Gist went to South Carolina soon after the close of the Revolutionary War and married there.

Daniel C. Banks, clergyman, in Louisville, Kentucky and Leaven Lawrence, resident of the same place, made certification of being well acquainted with Leaven Dorsey and to their belief in the truthfulness of his statements.   Leaven Lawrence also made certification that he is sixty years of age, that he was born in the state of Maryland, that for forty-five years, he has known Leaven Dorsey.  The deponenet, Leaven Lawrence lived in Maryland till he was 21 years of age, and within twelve miles of the Revolutionary War soldier, Leaven Dorsey, and that Leaven Dorsey had always been reputed to have been a soldier of the Revolutionary War.

There is record on file in the Pension Bureau, from the Land Office of Annapolis, Maryland, dated on 27 Sep 1833, that it appeared from the muster roll of the office, that in 1833, that Leaven Dorsey enlisted as a private in the 6th Maryland Regiment commanded by the officers of that regiment, on 31 Aug 1779 and on 17 Oct 1779, deserted and that his name did not appear again on any of the Revolutionary War payrolls, to have received pay for any of his Revolutionary War services.   It was signed by George G. Brewer, Registrant of the Land Office of Maryland.