Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 42307, for Thomas Skinner, Connecticut
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SERVICE   Conn.
* Skinner, Thomas
NUMBER  S. 42307
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letter to N. Y. Pa. Agent & Rudyard & Whittlesey March 28 1831. 
Notification sent the 8th Nov 1820 to Samuel Beardsley Esqr Rome N. York
R. New York 3356. 
Vermont Roll to N. York Thomas Skinner, 4 
Capt Brown private, 
Connecticut Line 
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War. 
Inscribed on the Roll of Vermont at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 6th of May 1818 
Certificate of Pension issued the 5 of Oct. 1818 and sent to William Brayton Esqr St Albans Vermont 
Arrears to 4th of Sept. 1818    31.79 
Semi-anl, all'ce ending 4th Mar 1819  48.00 
Arrears 3 mo. 26/31 4/30    $79.79 
{Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818.} 
Chandler 3 years. 1777 – 
Continued 
Enosburg Franklin Co’y
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Thomas Skinner 
Priv’t 
10 May Correct
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State of New York 
Oneida County} ss  Oneida Common Pleas September 1820. 
On this 8th day of September 1820 person ally appeared in open Court being a court of record for said County Thomas Skinner aged sixty years resident in Rome in said county who being duly sworn doth declare that he served in the revolutionary war as follows to wit  
In the 8th Connecticut Regt (Connecticut line) commanded by Col. Chandler & in Capt Browns Company until a new arrangement of Officers was made when the company was commanded by what was called a Captain Lieutenants, who was Benton or Bentley, & the Lieut Col was Russell in which regt & Company he served about three years; I was taken prisoner & detained about ten months that he applied for a pension on the sixth day of May 1818 which was granted & the certificate of the same is No 3356. And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March 1818, and that I have not since that time by gift sale or in any manner disposed of my property any part thereof with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress entitled “an Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land & naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war” passed the 18th March 1818; and I have not, nor has any person in trust for me any property or securities contracts or debts due to me; nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed & by me subscribed 
Thomas Skinner
Sworn to on this 8th day of September 1820 Before Ez Bacon Judge of Oneida Com. Pleas
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Thomas Skinner  
Schedule. Real estate none. Personal estate. 
1 Iron pot of the size of 4 quarts-1 kettle holding 2 quarts – 1 Crosscut saw Whole Value $6  
Thomas Skinner 
I have no other property whatever. My wife is fifty years of age, & we live with Isaac Simons of Rome who is brother to my wife. Two years last Decr my property was all consumed by fire in Vermont where I resided. I have since that time be utterly unable to provide myself with any fruition as it has taken all I could care to support myself & wife from day to day.  I have no children living with me or who are able to assist me at all. My health is impaired by age & a paralitic affliction & my wife is able to labor but a little 
Thomas Skinner
Sworn to & declared on the 8th day of Sept. 1820 Before me 
Ez Bacon Judge of Oneida Com Pleas 
State of New York, Oneida Common Pleas 
Of the term of Sept. 1820. A Court of record by statute - the whole of these proceedings were had in open Court: and in the opinion of this Court the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the above Schedule is Six dollars & no more.
I Frances A. Bloodgood, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas  for the County of Oneida, do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and the schedule thereunto annexed, are truly copied from the record of the said Court; And I further certify, that it the opinion of the said Court, that the total amount, in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule Six dollars 
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed Seal of the said Court this eighth day of September 1820
3356 March 1819
Con
Notification sent Nov 8th 1820 to Sam’l Beardsley Rome N. Yk.
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State of Vermont 
Franklin County ss } On the Sixth day of May AD 1818 before me William Brayton a Judge of the Supreme Court of the State of Vermont personally appeared Thomas Skinner aged Fifty eight years resident in the Town of Enosburgh in the County of Franklin and State of Vermont, who being by me first duly Sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the late Act of Congress entitled “An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land & naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war.”
That he the said Thomas Skinner in the month of April 1777 at Hebron in Connecticut enlisted in the company commanded by Captain Stephen Brown in eighth Regiment in the Connecticut line commanded by Col Chandler that he continued to serve in said corps in the service of the United States until the 15th day of January 1780 when he was taken a prisoner at Staten Island and detained by the enemy until the November following when he was exchanged some time after his term of enlistment (three years) had expired, he then received an honorable discharge from Service at Totoway in New Jersey that he was in the battle of German Town
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Fort Mifflin or Mud Island Fort, Monmouth and various Skirmishes - that he is in reduced  circumstances and stands in need of the assistance of his country for Support and that he has no other evidence now in his power of his said services than the testimony herewith transmitted.
Thomas Skinner 
Sworn to and declared before me the day & years aforesaid – 
William Brayton Judge Supreme Court 
I William Brayton Judge of the Supreme Court of the State of Vermont as aforesaid do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Thomas Skinner did serve in the revolutionary war as stated in the preceding certification against the common enemy for the full of nine months at one period of Service in the Army of the United States on the continental establishment, and I now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me to the Secretary for the Department of War pursuant to the directions of the aforementioned act of Congress, and certify that the said Thomas Skinner is in reduced circumstances and Stands in need of the assistance of his country for support. In witness whereof I have caused the seal of our said Court to be affixed Given under my hand at St Albans in said County of Franklin & State Vermont this 2 day of May AD 1818 
William Brayton Judge Sup Court
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State of Vermont 
Franklin County SS}  Franklin County Supreme Court Clerks Office May 8th 1818 I Horace Jones Clerk of the Supreme Court of the State of Vermont in and for the County of Franklin do hereby Certify that William Brayton Esqr is one of the assistant Judges of said Court duly qualified have as such and that the foregoing certificate is Signed by him in his own proper hand. In Testimony whereof I have hereunto signed my name and affixed the Public Seal of said Court 
Horace Jones Clerk
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Thomas Skinner
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Henry Marble of the Town of Montgomery the County of Franklin and State of Vermont aged sixty two years do testify & say that I am acquainted with Thomas Skinner of the Town of Enosburgh in said County.  
I have been personally acquainted with him for Eighteen years last past and he has during that period resided in said Enosburgh & at various times related to me the same account of his service in the Army of the United States with revolutionary War, which is contained in his declaration made this day before Judge Brayton and which I have heard read and I farther testify that the said Thomas Skinner sustains a good character for truth & veracity and further this deponent saith not  
St. Albans May 6 1818
Henry Marble 
The above deponent Sworn according to law before me and I certify that the said Henry Marble is a credible witness- 
William Brayton Judge Sup Court
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42307 
INVALID. 
Revy 
File No. 42,307
Thomas Skinner
Pri Rev War
Act: 18” March 18”
Index: - Vol 3 Page 465 
[Arrangement of 1870.]