Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 43,604, Thomas Gilligan, Mass.
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Mass 
Gilligan, Thomas
S43,604
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New York Roll 
4,020 
Thomas Gilligan 
Capt Chambers 
Private 
Massachusetts Line In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War

 Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 22 of April 1818 

Certificate of Pension issued the 29 of Oct. 1818, and sent to Henry Wendell, in Albany, N. York 

Arrears to 4th of Sept. 1818- $35.46 
Semi-anl all'ce ending Mar. 4. 1819. 48. 
Pri 4 mo. 13 /30. $83.46 
Tupper 
{Revolutionary Claim, Act 18th March, 1818.} 6 years 

Town of Orange
County of Saratoga
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Thomas Gilligan 
Pension documents --- -
Dated 22d April 1818. 

Admitted 
says he enlisted in the 12th Mar. 77 in in Chamber's Compy Tuppers Regt and left in 83 
found on Elias Rolls - in 
Willingtons Capt Wigglesworth Reg
enlisted Jany 1 '77 for the war

refered to Wm Edward
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State of New York 
City & County of Albany 
Towit- 
Joseph Russell late an Orderly Sergeant in the Army, in the Revolutionary War against the common enemy, being duly sworn faith that he knows Thomas Gilligan the soldier in the proceding declaration & the Certificate of his Honor Judge then named - that he knew the said Thomas Gilligan in the service in the Company commanded by Capt Mathew Chamber's in Col Tupper's Regiment and Massachusetts Line- that the said Thomas, is a criple and much debilitated - And that this deponent verily believes the facts stated in the foregoing declaration by the said Thomas Gilligan made, to be substantially true- 

Before me this Twenty Second day of April 1818 
Ambrose Spencer 
Joseph Russell
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In Supreme Court Clerks Office 
State of New York Albany County
Towit

 I Hereby Certify, That Ambrose Spencer Esq. in the following certificate named, is one of the Justices of the Supreme Court of Judicature and that the signature thereto is in his own proper hand writing -
In Testimony Whereof, I have caused the Seal of the said Court to be hereto affixed, this 22 day of April 
F. Bloodgood Clk

United States of America. 
By the Honorable Ambrose Spencer- Esquire, one of the Judges of a Court of Record in the State of New-York, to wit, of the Supreme Court of Judicature ----in the said State. 

To theHonorable the Secretary of the Department of War of the United States of America. 
SIR, 
I DO respectfully certify to you, in  pursuance of the Act of the Congress of the United States of America , passed March 18th, 1818, entitled ""An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the Land and "Naval Service of the United States in the Revolutionary War", that Thomas Gilligan of the Town of Orange in the County of Saratoga and State of New-York, personally appeared before me, at the City of Albany, in the said State, on the Twenty Second day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and then and there was carefully and minutely interrogated and examined by me, under oath, touching the facts stated in his foregoing Declaration, and thereupon he then and there subscribed the said Declaration in my presence, (after the same was deliberately read and explained to him by me and at the same time made solemn oath before me, on the Holy Evangelists of Almighty God, that the said Declaration was, in all respects, true-- Whereupon, I required of him to produce such other evidence as was in his power, to support the truth of his said Declaration. Accordingly he produced as testimony

The deposition of Joseph Russell - (and which accompanies this Certificate, and I having duly considered the said Declaration and the said testimany produced in support thereof, I DO CERTIFY to you, Sir, that I am fully satisfied that the said Thomas Gilligan -- did serve in the Revolutionary War, against the common enemy, for the time and in the manner by him stated in his said DECLARATION, and I am likewise satisfied, that the other facts in that Declaration stated, are in like manner, true--I do therefore, respectfully transmit to you the testimony in the case, and the proceedings had thereon, according to the Act of Congress aforesaid. 

GIVEN under my Hand and Seal, at the City of Albany, the Twenty second day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen. 

Ambrose Spencer
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[eagle mast heading]
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. State of New York CITY AND COUNTY OF ALBANY. 
TO WIT: 
In conformity with the provisions of the Act of the Congress of the United States of America, passed March 18th, 1818, entitled ""An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the Land and Naval Service of the United States in the Revolutionary War", the following DECLARATION, in writing, is made under oath, by Thomas Gilligan of the Town of Orange in the County of Saratoga in the State of New York - before the Honorable Ambrose Spencer - Esquire, one of the Judges of the Supreme Court of Judicature in the said state, which court is a Court of Record of the State, in which the said Thomas Gilligan doth reside, that is to say: 

DECLARATION. 

Thomas Gilligan aged Fifty three years on the 27th of July prev of the Town of Orange in the County of Saratoga in the State of New York on this Twenty Second day of April-in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen-- Do solemnly sincerely and truly swear and declare, that I served against the common enemy in the Army, in the War of the Revolution Until the end thereof, on the continental establishment and that I am a resident Citizen of the United States, to wit, in the Town County and State aforesaid; and that by reason of my reduced circumstances in life, I am in need of assistance from my country for support. 

I do further swear and declare, that I served in the said Revolutionary War, in the capacity of, and being a private Soldier that I belonged to the Army, to wit, I belonged to Captain Mathew Chamber Company Tupper's Regiment and Massachusetts Line -- That I entered the said service the twelfth day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and Seventy seven and left it the Twelfth day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty three in the manner following, to wit: I left it by reason of the conclusion of the War that I received one document concerning the same service and discharge, which has been casually lost.  That I was in the Battles at the taking of Burgoyne, at New Port Rhode Island & at White Marsh and that there is no other evidence in my power to my knowledge, concerning the matters deposed by me than Joseph Russell who has made a depositions accompanying this declaration-- And I further declare, that in pursuance of the requisitions of the aforesaid Act of Congress, I do hereby freely and absolutely, and to all intents and purposes, relinquish all claims to any pension under any of the Laws of the United States, except the Pension contemplated to be allowed me under the Act of Congress aforesaid mentioned, and under which this Declaration is made. 

IN WITNESS of the truth of this Declaration, I have subscribed the same in presence of the said Judge, and have solemnly deposed to the truth thereof, on the day herein before, for that purpose, specified. 
Thomas his X mark Gilligan

Sworn before me, this Twentysecond day of April 1818 Ambrose Spencer
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43604 
Rev INVALID. 
File No. 43 ,604 
Thomas Gilligan 
Pri Rev War
Act: 18 March 18 

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