Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 10,503 1/2, for John Thomas, Pennsylvania
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Service:  Penn, Va, Indian War 1791

Thomas, John

R.10503 1/2
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10503 1/2

John Thomas
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Col Jas L Edwards
Pension Office
Washington



Hon R M Johnson, HR (House of Representatives)
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Col J L Edwards

Please answer to within and return the letter.

I oblige

Rh Johnson
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33.552
John Thomas
Indiana

Hon R M Johnson
HR
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State of Indiana
County of Vigo

On this 9th day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty six personally appeared in open Court before me James T Muffit probate judge composing the Court of Probate for
said County, now sitting, it being a Court of Record for said County, John Thomas, a resident of the County of Vigo & State of Indiana aged seventy three years; who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832.

That he entered the service under General Clark in the year 1781 in the County of Fayette, State of Pennsylvania; served a six months tour in the Militia; was commanded by Capt Robert Ferrel; that Col. Zachariah Morgan commanded the Regiment and that Major Lowder commanded the Battalion. He states that the Regiment he served in took water on the Monongahela River, at a place, then called. Red Stone Old Fort, sometime in May or June and landed at Louisville; and that he was stationed at Louisville all the time of his service. He states that he never returned to his native State and got no purchaser; that he served two months under General Clark, in the year 1782; was commanded
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by Capt. John Tantruse; that Col. Floyd Commanded the Regiment. that they embarked at Louisville in the fall season of the year & went up the Ohio to Cincinnati; that they scouted the Country of the Indians on the west side of the Ohio River, as high up as Chilicotha; that they took the town of Chilicotha, on the Miami River, and killed several Indians in that expedition. He states that he was born on the 10th day of April 1763 in Frederick County State of Virginia; that his father moved from Virginia to Fayette Co. Pennsylvania, when he was eight years old, that he lived there until he entered under Gen. Clark 1781; that after he was dismissed from Clark, he lived in that part of Kentucky now called Hardin County, and there married in the
year 1786. In 1791 he raised a company and commanded the same in St. Clairs defeat. In 1793 he commanded a company under General Wayne. He states that he lived in Hardin County Kentucky
until the year 1831. He then moved to Floyd County Indiana. In 1833 he moved to Washington County, and in 1834 he moved to Vigo County where he has lived ever since. He says, that he knows of no person in this
State by whom he can prove his services. He states that he is known to Abraham Stark a Clergyman & John Hodges - residents in his present neighbourhood, who can testify as to his character for veracity and their belief of his services as he has stated. He hereby relinquishes every 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.

John Thomas

Sworn to and subscribed the day & year aforesaid, C Gilbert Clerk
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We Abraham Stark a clergyman, residing in the County of Vigo and State of Indiana and John Hodges residing in the same County, hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with John Thomas, who has subscribed & sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be seventy three years of age; that he is reputed and believed in the neighbourhood where he resides to have served as he has stated, and
that we concur in that opinion

Abraham Stark
John Hodges

Sworn to and subscribed the day & year aforesaid
C. Gilbert Clerk

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And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interogatories prescribed by the War Department that the above named applicant did serve as he has
stated. And the Court further certifies that it appears to them that Abraham Stark who has signed the preceding certificate, is a Clergyman resident in the County of Vigo and that John Hodges who has signed the same is a resident in the same County of Vigo and is a credible person and that his statement is entitled to credit

James T. Moffatt
Probate Judge
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State of Indiana
County of Vigo

I Curtis Gilbert Clerk of the probate court of said County do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of John Thomas for a pension. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 9th day of February 1836.

C. Gilbert
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E Brooks, Esq
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[NOTE:  THIS APPEARS TO DEAL WITH UNRELATED PERSON TO JOHN THOMAS APPLICATION]

7th Question - State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood, and who can testify as to your character for veracity, and their belief of your service as a soldier of the Revolution.

Answer - I am well known to all the Justice of the Peace in my neighbourhood and the principal characters in it also. George Washington Pool has known me intimately from 1816 to this time as well as Eli Cornell, Esq and George Gannil, Esq from 1811

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State of Virginia
Fairfax County Viz:

On this 17th day day of December, 1832, before me the subscriber one of the Justices of the Peace in and for said County, personally appears George Washington Pool who being duly sworn according to law, deposeth that he has been intimately acquainted with Israel Ellsworth Hollyday from the year 1816, on or before that time, having worked with him at the Carpenter's trade, and have often heard him give an account of his services as a soldier in the Revolutionary War, which correspond with the detailed statement contained in his declaration which he has seen, and which record of his services was made when he could have had no motive or gain in making it - That many years ago, when he has heard Mr Holly day make these statements, he
was even more minute and circumstantial in his details than he has been in his declaration, his mind and memory being much more clear and perfect than at the present time, they being a good deal affected by and impaired by the infirmities of old age, and a stroke of the palsy which took place some time ago in his presence. That he knows Mr. Hollyday to be a man of integrity, and the strictest veracity, and that it is the general belief of all who know him that he rendered long service to his county in the war of the Revolution
He further depones that the
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[NOTE: THIS APPEARS TO DEAL WITH UNRELATED PERSON TO JOHN THOMAS APPLICATION]

State of Virginia
County of Fairfax


is no resident minister that he knows of in the County, and being of a very advanced age, he supposes it would be difficult even in the County where he spent the early part of his life to obtain positive evidence of his service as he has stated

George Neal
subscribed and sworn before me, and I do hereby certify that G. W. Pool is a credible person

George Gunnell J.P.

State of Virginia
County of Fairfax in

I do hereby certify that George Gunnell who administered the above is a Justice of the Peace in the aforesaid County duly commissioned and sworn as such, and that due faith and credit ought to be given to all his act and deeds as such. In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and seal office this 17 day of December 1832

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