Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 7713, for John Thomasson, Virginia
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Service: Va. 
Thomasson, John
Number: S7713

Carded
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23.135
Virginia

John Thomasson
Before in the State of Virginia
he was a pri - in the [blank] commanded by Captain --- of the Reg commanded by Col Lynch in the Va. line for 9 months --

[page torn at margin] Inscribed on the Roll of Virginia at the rate of 30- Dollars --- cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 15 day of Nov 33. Liberty - Va and W. L. Goggin

Arrears to the 4th of Sept 1833 75
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 mar 36 15

$90--

{Revolutionary Claim
Act June 7, 1832}

Recorded by Clark Rice -- Clerk.
Book E Vol. 6 [unclear, perhaps "m"] Page 35


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[signature, illegible] 23 Sept. '33
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State of Virginia
Bedford County

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On this 18th day of October 1833 personally appeared before me Parker Preston a justice of the peace for the County aforesaid -- John Thomasson a resident of the [ink smudge] county and state aforesaid aged ninety years in [ink smudge] being first duly sworn according to law state on his [ink smudge] oath make the forecoming declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the pension made by the Act of Congress [illegible] June the 7th 1832. That he entered the service of United States under the forecoming named officials and served as herein stated. In the year 1778 he thinks but by reason of old age and the consequent loss of memory he cannot state [illegible] by the year the month of day, he was drafted as [illegible] sworn in the County of [unclear, perhaps Allemande] and marched from his residence in said county to the barracks in the same county under the command of Captain Shelton the officers he does not recall: he was engaged at the barracks in guarding General Burgayne and the prisoners that were taken with him: he remained at the said place until he was discharged after having served a tour of three months the day he was discharged he cannot recollect the date of, though he served not less than the time above aforesaid, his discharge if it was a sudden one which he does not remember is now cast as mislaid: during his tour of service he was a private soldier and was during the time in no civil employment.

About the beginning of the year 1781 the month and day he does not remember for the reasons before stated [illegible] he had then removed and was marched to Carolina under the command of Captain Jonathan Richardson and was attached to the Army under the command of [illegible] Green and belonged to the Regiment commanded by Col Charles Lynch. The other officers of the company and Regiment he has now forgotten his memory being very deficient and he cannot therefore state the names of the places by which he prospered and his route to Carolina: he was in the battle at Guilford Courthouse which he thinks was in the month of March 1781. That after the battle the Americans retreated to an [illegible] works the name of which he has now forgotten. At this place they remained as well as he recollects and day

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And when General Green passed he was not pressured [illegible] and followed on the trail of the British as far as [illegible] deeper River: the other places he marched to he does not now recollect: he [illegible] leaving this tour four months when he was discharged but the day he was discharged he does not now recollect for the reasons before set forth: if he received any written discharge for this tour it is it is now lost and mislaid he was during the time engaged in no civil employment and as a private soldier served not afar than the time above mentioned.

In the summer of the year 1781[,] but the month as the day he cannot now remember for the reasons before set forth[,] has marched in the County of Bedford under Captain Brand (the other officers he does not recollect) and was marched to New London this in the same county but now is the County of Campbell where he remained a few days when Captain John Triggs company came to the same place. He was marched through the Country a distance of upwards of two hundred miles to Williamsburg and from chance to Little York of [unclear, perhaps "Cornwallis"]: he only remembers the names of General Washington and General Lafayette amongst the officers. After having served a tour of four months he was discharged: he has no written discharge and if he had it is now lost as mislaid: he was during the time in no civil employment and acted in the capacity of a private soldier. He has no documentary evidence of his service but refus to the testimony of [illegible] Woody, George Asbury and Thomas Wright who are being [unclear, perhaps "entrusted"] to post of his services though the services are not fully proven by them. This [sic] affidavits are herewith exhibited. He relies upon them to establish with his now declaration the services as above set forth: he knows of no person now living by whom he can fully prove the same. The [illegible] of his services will amount to not up than Eleven months for which he claims a pension as a private soldier. He was [illegible] and State of Virginia.

[crossed out sentence to the left of] nor the year he does not recall. He has no record of his ages: he marks the following
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answers to the several interrogations prescribed by the War Department.

To the first Interrogatory he answers.
I was born in the County of Louisa and State of Virginia.

To the Second he answered
I have no record of my age.

To the third he answers
I was living in the County of Albemarle I have lived since the Revolutionary war in Bedford County Va where I now live.

To the fourth he answers
I was drafted two terms the other I volunteered

To the fifth he answers
See the Declaration above for an answer to this and the sixth interrogatory also.

To the seventh he answers and states the names of Francis Beard John Beard and Samuel Hancock as persons who can testify of his services as a soldier of the Revolution: he cannot however produce the certificate of a clergyman as required because there is no one living in his immediate neighborhood: he himself is unable by reason of old age and bodily infirmity to attend in court and there to make the above declaration, especially as he lives at the distance of twenty miles from the court house. 

He hereby [unclear, perhaps "relinquishes"] any claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension Roll of the Agency of any State.

[signed] John Thomasson

[between "John" and "Thomasson"] his X mark

Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid before me.

[signed] Bowker Preston, J.P.
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[header]War Francis Beard John Beard & Samuel Hancock

residing in the County of Bedford hereby certify that we are well acquainted with John Thomasson who has subscribed and sworn to the foregoing declaration: that we believe him to be ninety years of ages: that he is [unclear] and believed in the neigh bor hood [neighborhood] where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that no concern in that opinion.

[signed, to the right] Tim Hancock
XXX
Francis Beard
John Beard

[to the left of signatures] Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid before me
[signed] Bowker Preston

And I Bowker Preston
a justice of the peace in and for the County aforesaid do hereby declare my opinion after the interrogation prescribed by the War department, that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary soldier and around as he states and that it appears to me that Francis Beard John Beard & Samuel Hancock

who have signed the preceding certificate are residents of the County of Bedford and that this statement is [undecipherable]. And I firsthand certify that the above named applicant could not prove the certificate of a clergyman for the reasons set forth in the answer to the servants interrogatory and that he could not make the foregoing declaration before the Court and that he could not appear in aforesaid Court by reason of bodily infirmity and fir the reasons set forth above. Given under my hand this 27 day of October 1833.

Bowker Preston J.P.
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COPIED BY ADY
October 30, 1928.

Martha Lou Houston,
1441 Second Avenue,
Columbus, Georgia.

Madam:
I advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War 
pension claim, S. 7713, it appears that John Thomasson was 
born in Louisa County, Virginia, date not stated.
While residing in Albemarle County, Virginia he en-
listed in 1778, and served three months as a private in 
Captain Shelton's Virginia Company and guarded the prisoners 
at Albemarle Barracks. He afterwards moved to Bedford
County, Virginia and enlisted early in 1781 and served four 
months as private in Captain Jonathan Richardson's Company,
Colonel Charles Lynch's Virginia Regiment and was in the 
battle of Guilford; and enlisted in the summer of 1781
and served four months as private in Cpatain Beard's Vir-
ginia Company and was in the siege of York.
He was allowed pension on his application executed 
October 18, 1833, at which time he was living in Bedford
County, Virginia, aged ninety.years.
Respectfully,

E. W. MORGAN,
Acting Commissioner
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[above, in script] 7713

[typeset header] INVALID.

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[to the left of header, in script] Preston [checkmark]

[F]ile No. 7713
John Thomasson
Pri Rev War

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Act: June 7th 32

Index:--Vol. [unclear, perhaps 1eB], Page 373

[Arrangement of 1870.]

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1928-Oct-30-Hrif to Martha Lou Houston 
See letter in John Thomasson S. 621C [undecipherable]
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Franklin County to Caleb

I Caleb Tate clerk of Franklin County Court, hereby certify that John M. Holland whose signature appears to the foregoing certificates is and was at the date thereof an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said County, duly commissioned and qualified according to the laws of the State of Virginia, and that the said signatures purporting to be his, are genuine.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed my Seal of Office [covered by patch to the left of paragraph] the 7th day of October in the year 1833.

Caleb Tate, c.

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Franklin County to wif

This day [bold "x" in ink between "this" and "day"] came Martin Woody before me a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid and made oath that John Thomason [sic] was in the service as a private soldier in the Revolutionary War. That this affidavit [partly smudged] shows that the said Thomason served [unclear, perhaps an abbreviation of "months"] touring in the war aforesaid and that he has every reason to believe that the said Thomason served three tours (being 9 months in all) -- the reason why he believes that the said Thomason served the third is this, that he was absent and which absent was reputed by the neighborhood to be in the service at Guilford & this affidavit [partially occluded by bent corner, perhaps "show"] him upon his return who informed this

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affiant that he had just returned
front he service and further this affiant 
saith not 
X
Martin Woody
The above subscribed and sworn to 
before me Justice peace as aforesaid
this 6th day of August 1833
John M Holland JP

I do hereby certify that I have
long been acquainted with the above
named Martin Woody and that his
statement is entitled to full credit
Given under my hand the day, year
aforesaid.
John M Holland JP
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Bedford County Sct
This day George Asbury [unknown]
of Franklin County Va aged
Seventy six years personally
appeared before me the under 
signed a justice of the peace for
for the County of Bedford and made
oath that in the year 1781 He this affi-
ant served in Genl Greens army in North
Carolina that he was at the battle
of Guilford that John Thomason
now of Bedford was in Greens army
as a militia man was in the
Battle of Guilford and this affixed
ant believes served three months
and this affiant was present when 
said Thomason was discharged
and that he this affiant traveled 
with him said Thomason home
given under my hand this 31st
August 1833
Armestead Oley JP

Inscribed before signed
with the [illegible] Bedford
A.O. JP.
I certify further that I believe George Asbury above
affiant is above scribed to be a man of faith [unknown edit] and that
his statement is entitled to credit. Given under my hand
this      day of October 1833               A. Oley JP.
Inscribed before signed
A O JP
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28094
John Thompson

Admt as a private
9 mo -- $311.

Appt. claimd ^3 tours 11 mo, -- witness
prove 3 tours only of 9 mo.

WS noggin
Liberty Bedford
Yr
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Bedford County to Witt
This day Thomas Wright came before me a Justice
of the peace in and for the County aforesaid and made
Oath that John Thommasson was a neighbor to him
in the date 1781, and this affiant always understood that
said Thommasson was in the service as a private
soldier in the revolutionary war, that this affiant 
well recollects of said Thommasson returning home
shortly after the battle of guilford and believes it was
generally understood at that time that said Thommasson
was in said battle, this affiant also states in the 
same date he understood the said Thommasson
was in the Service at little York when Wallace 
was taken and well recollects of hearing his Brother
who was in the Service at the same time Speak
of being in the same mess with said Thommasson
at Little York and further this affiant saith not.
Thomas Wright

The above subscribed and sworn to before me a
Justice peace as aforesaid this 21st day of Aug 1833
Matthew Pate J.P.

I do certify that I have been long acquainted with
the above named Thomas Wright and that his Statement
is entitled to full Credit. Given under my hand
the day and year aforesaid.
Matthew Pate J.P.
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State of Virginia}
County of Bedford Sct}
I, Robert N Dickerson deputy clerk of the 
County Court of Bedford in the state aforesaid do hereby
certify, that Bowker Preston, Arimstead Oley and
Matthew Pate who have signed the foregoing certifi
cates, are acting Justices of the Peace in and for
Said County, duly commissioned and qualified
according to the Constitution and laws of this State and
that their Said Signatures appear to us to
be genuine.

{Seal}     In Testimony whereof I have
hereunto set my hand and
affixed the Seal of the Said
Court the 29th day of Octo
ber 1833 in the 58th year of
American Independence.
Ro. N. Dickerson D.C.