Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 26554, for John Toms, New York
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SERVICE
New York

Toms, John
Sarah.

NUMBER
W.26554
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John Toms was born August the 30d 1757
Sarah Andruss was born October 2?d 1767
The ware marred January ye 8d 1786
Jerheusha Toms was born January 5d 1787
Sally Toms was born November 28d 1788
Ruben Toms was born April the 2d 1791
Climena Toms was born April 3d 1793
Isac Toms was born June 26d 1795
Hannah Toms was born July 2d 1797
Biram Toms was born March 2d 1800
John Toms Junor was born April 3d 1802
Parliamon was born Febuary the 4 1805
Charles Toms was born August the 3d 1807
Parmelia Toms was born August the 30d 1809
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Jacob B Farr
Do to (word crossed out) helveing and grindeing


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State of New York
Genesee County ss.

Sarah Toms the applicant for a pension named in the declaration hereunto annexed being duly sworn says that the within is and always has been the family record kept by her husband John Toms deceased named in the said Declaration and that the within marriage was entered and set down in the within record more than fifty years ago.

(Her signature)
Sarah Toms

Sworn to and subscribed this 20 day of June 1839 before me Moulton Farnham, Commisioner of Deeds of Genesee County.
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State of New York
Genesee County ss.

Sarah Toms the applicant for a pension named in the declaration hereunto annexed being duly sworn says that the within is and always has been the family record kept by her husband John Toms deceased named in the said Declaration and that the within marriage was entered and set down in the within record more than fifty years ago.

(Her signature)
Sarah Toms

Sworn to and subscribed this 20 day of June 1839 before me Moulton Farnham, Commisioner of Deeds of Genesee County.

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Jacob B Farr
Do to helveing and grindeing
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[circled, top center]
20261

New York
John Toms
of Monroe Coy in the State of New York who was a private in the company commanded by Captain Wright of the Regiment commanded by Colonel Van Schaick in the New York line, for the term of nine months from April 1776 to January 1777

Inscribed on the roll of New York at the rate of Eights Dollars per month, to commence on the 1 day of November 1830-

Certificate of Pension issued to 3d of November 1830- and sent to Messrs. V & S Mathews, Rochester NY

Arrears to 4th of
Semi-anu'l all'ce ending 4 March 1831
$33.03

{Revolutionary Claim, Acts March 18, 1818, and May 1, 1820.} 1 March 1823

Recorded Book D.
Vol 5 Page 143-
B?B
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[Left Side]

Reported

Paid at the Treasury under the Act 6 April 1838 from 4 Sep. to 26 Oct 1834 Agt notified 9 Decm.1844

[Right Side]
New York 3956
Sarah Toms
Widow of John Toms N.Y.
who was a Private in the New York line
for 9 months

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of Thirty Dollars -Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843.

Certificate of Pension issued the 18th day of December 1843 and sent to Pension Cnoks [Cooks] Corners Erie County Ohio

[Act of March 3, 1843]
Recorded in Book A
Vol. 1 Page 139
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6033

Sarah Toms

Mrd 8 Jun 1786
Husb died 26 Oct 1834
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Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of the 7th July 1838 entitled an act granting half pay and pensions to certain Widows- 

State of New York 
County of Genesee  ss.

On this thirty first day of January 1839 personally appeared before me Alden S. Stevens a Judge of the Court of Common pleas in and for the County of Genesee Sarah Toms a resident of the Town of Attica in the County of Genesee and State of New York aged Seventy one years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed July 7, 1838 entitled an act granting half pay and pensions to certain Widows. That she is the Widow of John Toms who was a private in the Revolutionary Army of the United States in Captain Wrights Company and Colonel Van Schaicks Regiment. She further declares that she
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was married to the said John Toms on the Eighth day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and Eighty six That her husband the aforesaid soldier died on the Twenty Sixth day of October in the year of our Lord One thousand Eight hundred and thirty four that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service; but the marriage took place previous to the first day of January in the year Seventeen hundred and Ninety four viz at the time above stated 
That the said John Toms was a Revolutionary Soldier and received a pension certificate from the War Department which is now in her possession and which was left in her possession at the time of his death of which the following is a true Copy – 
War Department 
Revolutionary Claim 
I certify that in conformity with the laws of the United States of the 18th of March 1818, May 1, 1820 & March 1, 1823 John Toms late a private of Capt Wrights Company Col. Van Schaicks Regiment in the Army of the Revolution
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is inscribed on the pension list Roll of the New York agency at the rate of Eight Dollars per month to commence on the first day of November One thousand Eight hundred and thirty. 
L.S.  Given at the War office of the United States this third day of November One thousand Eight hundred and thirty.
Jno. H Eaton 
Secretary of War 
Examined and Countersigned
 J L Edwards 
Sworn to and Subscribed on the day and year above written before me 
A.S. Stevens --- A Judge of Genesee County Courts 
[Her signature]
Sarah Toms
State of New York Genesee County ss--- 
I Alden S. Stevens Court a Judge of the Court of Common pleas in and for the said County of Genesee do hereby certify that the above Sarah Toms is not able to appear before any Court of Record to make the above declaration to which she has subscribed her name and sworn to on account of her bodily infirmity 
A.S. Stevens
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State of New York 
County of Genesee ss
 David W. Bailey of the Town of Attica in the County and State aforesaid, being duly sworn deposeth and saith that in the month of October last this Deponent was in the Town of Stillwater in the County of Saratoga in the State of New York and then and there searched with the Town Clerk the Town Clerks record for marriages and ascertained on such examination that there were no Records of marriages kept in the said Town Records or books of said Town nor has there be any records at any time of marriages kept in the said Town of Stillwater-- And further this Deponent saith not
David W. Bailey
Sworn to and subscribed this 26 day of February 1839 before me Moulton Burnham Commissioner of Deeds of Genesee County.-
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State of New York
Genesee County ss
John Toms of the Town of Attica in the County and State aforesaid and Naomi R. Toms of the same place duly sworn severally depose and say that they and each of them were well acquainted with John Toms named in the declaration hereunto annexed in his life time who was the husband of Sarah Toms named in the said Declaration and further these deponents say that they were present when the said John Toms died and know from their own personal knowledge that he the said John Toms died in the Town of Wheatland in the County of Monroe in the State of New York on the twenty Sixth day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred and thirty four and that the said Sarah Toms is now the widow of the said John Toms deceased and that she was not at any time married since the death the said John Toms and that the paper hereunto annexed was and still is the family record of the said John Toms deceased and the said Sarah Toms – And further this Deponent saith not 
[Their signatures]
John Toms
Naomi R. Toms
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State of New York
Genesee Count ss
I do hereby certify that [Adam S. Sterns?] Esqr., whom the annexed Instrument in Writing was proved or acknowledged, was, at the time of taking such proof or acknowledgment, a Judge of Genesee County Courts in and for said County, duly authorised to take the same.  And that I am well acquainted with his hand writing and verily believe that the signature to said certificate of proof or acknowledgment is genuine.   In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my Official Seal, at Batavia, in said county, this 6th day of July 1839
[N. Soper?] Clerk of Genesee County.
 State of New York, 
Genesee County SS. I do hereby certify, that Moulton Farnham, Esqr. before whom the annexed Instrument in Writing was proved or acknowledged, was, at the time of taking such proof or acknowledgment a Commr. Of deeds in and for said County, duly authorised to take the same. And that I am well acquainted with his hand writing and verily believe that the signature to said certificate of proof or acknowledgment is genuine.
In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my Official Seal, at Batavia, in said county, this 6th day of 1839
[N. Soper?] Clerk of Genesee County.
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State of New York. 
CAYUGA COUNTY, 
CLERK'S OFFICE. Ss.
I, MICHAEL S. MYERS, Clerk of the County of Cayuga and Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, in and for said County: Do HEREBY CERTIFY, that John Groves Esquire, was on the sixth day of July, on thousand eight hundred and twenty nine a Justice of the Pease in and for said County, duly commissioned and sworn, and that full faith and credit are to be given to his acts in that capacity:  And that I am acquainted with the hand writing of the said Justice and verily believe the signature to the annexed Affidavit “John Groves” to be his proper hand writing. 
In TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto affixed the seal of the Court of Common Pleas of said County, and subscribed my name this sixth day of July A.D. 1829
M.S. Myers.
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Cayuga County ss
Personally appeared John Ward of the Town of the town of Auburn in the County of Cayuga in the State of New York who being duly sworn according to Law doth depose and say that he was well acquainted with John Toms during the Revolutionary War that the said John Tombs enlisted as a private soldier in Capt Job Wrights Company in Col Josee Van Shaicks Regiment of New York States line of Continental Troops That he so enlisted on or about the first day of April in the year one thousand Seven hundred & Seventy Six for the term of nine months and that the said John Toms continued to serve as such private in said Company until some time about the last of the month of January following his term of enlistment having then expired and this deponent further saith that he was during the last mentioned period a Drummer in said Van Schaicks Regiment
[His signature]
John Ward
Sworn & Subscribed this 6th day of July 1829 before me
John Groves 
Justice of the Pead
I certify that the above named John Ward is a credible witness 
John Groves Justice of the Peace
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Cayuga County ss James Toms of the Town of Brutus in the County of Cayuga in the State of New York deposes & says that he is well acquainted with John Toms now of Wheatland in the County of Monroe & State of New York. That this deponent was well acquainted with the said John Toms during the American Revolution. That the said John Toms enlisted as a private soldier in Capt. Job Wrights Company in Col. Gosee Vanschaicks Regiment of the New York State line of Continental Troops in the war of the Revolution (of which said Regiment Peter Gansvort was Lieut. Colonel). That he so enlisted on or about the first day of April in the year One thousand Seven Hundred & Seventy Six for the term of nine months. And that the said John Toms continued to serve as such private in said Company until some time about the last of the month of January following, his term of enlistment having then expired. And this deponent further said that he was during the last mentioned period a teamster in said Van Schaicks Regiment –
[signed] James Toms X his mark
Sworn & Subscribed this 6th day of July 1829 before me 
[signed] John Grover Justice of the Peace
I certify that the above named James Toms is a credible witness 
[signed] John Grover Justice of the Peace
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State of New York 
Monroe County ss }  On this fifth day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight Hundred and twenty nine, personally appeared in Open Court being the Court of Common pleas held in & for the County of Monroe in said State having jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount and keeping a Record of its proceedings by virtue of an express act of the Legislature of said State John Toms of the town of Wheatland in said County of Monroe, aged Seventy two years and upwards, who being first duly sworn doth on oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provisions made by the act of Congress of the 18th day of March 1818 and the first day of May 1820. That he did on the first day of April one thousand seven Hundred and seventy six enlist as a private soldier for the term of nine months in in Capt. Job Wrights Company in Col. Gosee Van Schaicks Regiment of the New York State line of Continental troops in the war of the American Revolution. That he joined the regular army at Albany in the cause of the said month of April - That he Continued to serve in the said Corps until the latter part of the month of January one thousand seven Hundred & Seventy seven when he was discharged from the said service in in the said City of Albany - and he hereby relinquishes any claim whatever to a pension
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except the present, and that his name is not on the Roll of any State –
That this declarant about three years since employed one Samuel Lake of Batavia in the County of Genesee to make out the necessary papers & documents on which to found an application by this declarant for a pension, and such application was made but rejected by reason of some informality in the said papers - That the said Samuel Lake has promised this declarant from time to time to renew the said application, but has never done it. 
And in pursuance of the act of the first of May Eighteen Hundred & twenty I do solemnly Swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the Eighteenth day of March One thousand Eight Hundred and Eighteen and that I have not since that time by gift sale or in any manner disposed of my property or any part thereof with intent thereby so to diminish it on bring myself within the provisions of the act of Congress entitled "an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and Naval services of United States in the Revolutionary war” passed on the eighteenth day of March Eighteen Hundred & Eighteen. And that 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
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than what is contained in the Schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed 
The following is a just & true inventory of the property owned by John Toms on the fifth day of October 1829. 
nine acres of land in the town of Wheatland, with a small house & barn upon it of very little value, the yearly value of which is not more than twenty dollars –
One horse, worth thirty dollars 
One Cow worth ten dollars 
One Yearling heifer & one calf, north Eight dollars 
One bed. Very old
4 Chair 
6 Knives & forks 
1 Pot 
2 Kittles 
1 sett of tea cups & saucers 
1 doz plates 
one axe 
one hoe   All very old
one horse waggon & harness, about worn 
out one pair of Shoel [shovel] & tongs 
one pair of And Irons
And this declarent further says that he is by trade a weaver, but his health is such, and his constitution so infirm that he has not been able to work at the said trade for several years last past. That he has a wife living, whose name is Sarah, aged sixty years, who is quite wife infirm and unable to endure much labour - That this declarant has one daughter, who lives with him, That she is about twenty year of age - and this
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further said not
[signed] John Toms
Sworn to and subscribed and declared in open Court this 5th day of October 1829. 
[signed] William Groves, Clerk 

State of New York 
Monroe County ss }  I William Groves Clerk of the County Court in & for the County of Monroe do certify that it appears to the satisfaction of the Court that the said John Toms did serve in the Revolutionary war as stated in the preceding declaration against the Common Enemy for the term of nine months under one engagement on the Continental establishment. And I further Certify that it is the opinion of the said Court that the yearly value of the property exibited in the aforesaid Schedule does not exceed twenty five dollars, and that the property of the said John Toms is [illegible, therein?] truly set forth –
In testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court the fifth day of October One demand Eight Hundred & twenty nine –
[signed] Wm Groves Clerk
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State of New York 
Monroe County ss } On this fifteenth day of June in the year our thousand Eight Hundred and thirty personally appeared in open Court, being the Court of Common pleas in & for the County of Monroe & State of New York & having Jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount & being a Court of Record by virtue of an express act of the Legislature of said State, John Toms of the town of Wheatland in said County, in the affidavit hereto annexed mentioned and on oath maketh the following declaration in addition to the declarations & facts contained in the affidavit hereto annexed subscribed & sworn to by the said John Toms - That he the said John Toms removed from the County of Essex in the State of New York to the town of Wheatland where he now resides in the month of October one thousand Eight Hundred & Seventeen - That he has continued to reside in Wheatland ever since - that he had no property of any consequence when he came to Wheatland. That in the year 1823. he purchase of Ephraim Blackman seven acres & a half of the land mentioned in the annexed affidavit and by his the declarants labor & industry has paid for it since. That the price agreed to paid by the declarant said five acres was at the rate of sixteen dollars per acre. That he paid for the said land in work by the day & month, and in a horse, which declarant sold to said Blackman
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For Sixty five dollars. This horse was sold about fourteen years ago. That he the declarant turned out to said Blackman a cow, at the price of Sixteen dollars. This was about two years ago. which went towards paying for the land –
That about seven years ago in April last he purchased of Olin Blackman about two & there [illegible] of the land [illegible] in the area & of affidavit of declarant at the rate of Sixteen dollars per acre - that he turned out to Olin Blackmore a Cow in part payment for this land the cow was valued & received at Eighteen dollars -  the ballance often consideration for this land was paid in labor of declarant -
That declarant also turned out to Ephraim Blackman two or three young cattle in part payment of the land purchased of him, but at what price the declarant cannot now distinctly recollect but thinks at the rate of Eight or nine dollars a head – 
The changes above mentioned are all the charges which have been made in the property or estate of the declarant since the eighteenth day of March one thousand Eight Hundred & Eighteen. 
That James Toms the brother of this declarant was a teamster in the same Regiment with declarant at the time declarant served his time in the Revolutionary army - The declarant was a private Soldier –
[signed] John Toms
Sworn in open Court this 15 day of June 1830 before the Judges thereof. 
[signed] Saml. Castle
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State of New York
Monroe County ss }   I William Grover Clerk of the Court of Common pleas of the County of Monroe, do certify that the above named John Toms was sworn in open Court on the fifteenth day of June 1820. that the facts set forth in the last preceeding affidavit are true - And I further certify that Isiah Blackman was also sworn in open Court on the said fifteenth day of June & on his oath confirmed all the material facts set forth in said last mentioned affidavit 
[signed] Wm Groves Clerk 
of Monroe Com. Pleas
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Paid at the Treasury under the act of the 6 April 1838 from 4 March to 4 Sep 1840.
Agt. notified 9 July 1841 

Albany 4,560 
Sarah Toms 
widow of John Toms who was a pensioner under the Act of March 1818 and who died on the 26. October 1834 of Genesee Co. in the State of N. York who was a Private in the company commanded by Captain Wright of the regt. commanded by Col. Van Schaick in the N. York line for 9 months 

Inscribed on the Roll of Albany at the rate of 30 Dollars per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836. 

Certificate of Pension issued the 12th day of Nov. 1839 and sent to Moulton Farnham, Attica, N.Y. 

Arrears to the 4th of Sep. ‘39   105.00 
Semi-annual allowance ending 6 Mar ’40  15.00 
[total] $120.00 
{Act July 7, 1838.}

Recorded by D. Brown Clerk,
Book A  Vol. 2  Page 106
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Revy WIDOW, &c. 
File No. 26.554
Sarah Toms 
Wid. of John Toms 
Pri Rev. war 
Act Mch 3rd 1843. 
Index: Vol. M, Page 423 
{Arrangement of 1870.}
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Sarah Toms 
$30 
Paid 
J. L. Edwards 
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington  D.C.

Cooks Corners 
August 30 

3956
139 
Pensioner 
Cooks Corners 
Erie Co Ohio

4227 Sept. 9, 1843
Sarah Toms
March 30/’43
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State of Ohio ss. 
On this 4th day of May A.D. 1843, personally appeared before the subscribed a Justice of the peace in & for the County of Erie state aforesaid Sarah Toms a resident of Oxford in the County of Erie aged seventy-five years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the act of Congress, passed on the 3d March 1843 granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary war. - That she is the widow of John Toms, who was a private in Capt Wrights company, Col. Van Schaick's Regiment in the Army of the Revolution, and that as the widow of said John Toms she drew under the act of July 7. 1838. thirty dollars per annum. She further declares that she is still a widow. 
[signed] Sarah Toms
Sworn to and subscribed before me on the day and year above written 
[signed] Hiram Stewart Justice peace of Oxford, Erie Co. Ohio.

State of Ohio. Erie County ss: 
I hereby further certify that the above named Sarah Toms is personally known to me and that she was till six month past a resident of the state New York and now resides in Oxford, Erie County Ohio
[signed] Hiram Stewart Justice Peace 

The State of Ohio 
Erie County ss   I Rice Harper Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas within and for the County of Erie and State of Ohio, do hereby certify that Hiram Stewart is a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, duly commissioned and qualified; and that his commission was dated on the 17th day of April A.D. 1843. and will expire on the 17th day of April A.D. 1843. and that his signature above is genuine.
Given under my hand and the seal of the said County this 24th day of July A.D. 1843 –
[signed] Rice Harper Clerk
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pen: to com: 1 Nov. 1830
rec. Nov. 1. 1830
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Rochester Monroe Co N Y. 
Oct. 26 1830 
J. L. Edwards Esq 
Sir
The enclosed papers relate to an application for John Toms for a pension - A part of the papers were left at the war department by Hon. J. Childs of the Home of Reps. and returned by you as improper –
You say in your note to him, that Toms had not accounted for all the changes in his property since the 18 March 1818. We believe this is supplied by the subsequent affidavit – You say also that James Toms [illegible words] his afft, by stating whether John or James Toms Served as a teamster - we think that upon a now careful examination of the affidavit of James Toms you will find distinctly stated that James Toms is a teamster in Vanschaicks Regiment The language is that "he the deponent” served for
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We hope that the amendments & explanations will be deemed sufficient 
Respectfully your
Obt servt,
[signed] V. & S. Mathews
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TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
SECOND COMPTROLLER'S OFFICE,
June 24th 1844.
Sir:
Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled "An Act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States," and the third section of the Act of August 23, 1842, extending the time within which pensioners may receive their pensions from the pension agents, The widow of John Toms, decd a Pensioner on the Roll of the Albany, N. York Agency, at the rate of Eight Dollars per month under the law of the 18th March 1818, has been paid at this Department, from the 4th of Sept. to the 26th Oct. 1834.
Respectfully, yours,
[signed] Albion K. Parris
Comptroller.
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TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
Second Comptroller's Office,
June 25th 184/,
Sir:
Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled "An act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States," [handwritten] Sarah Toms,— a Pensioner on the Roll of the Albany N.Y. Agency, at the rate of Thirty Dollars [crossed out] and Cents per annum, under the law of the July 1838, has been paid at this Department, from the 4th of March to the 4 Sept. 1840
Respectfully yours,
Albion K. Parris 
Comptroler
To the Commissioner of Pensions,
Present.
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3-871. 
RECORD DIVISION. 
Department of the Interior, 
BUREAU OF PENSIONS. 
Briefed by Marion B Hudson. 
Claim No. 
Certificate No. 
Claimant. 
Soldier John Toms. 
Service Rev. War 
Additional Service. 
No   claim, State records   ,191 
No claim, combination records   ,191 
REMARKS: 
No O.W.G.  O.W.W. or Rej. except W.F. 26554. 

Chief Division

6-1944
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4560 
New York 
Sarah Toms 
Married 8 June 1786 
Husband died 26 Oct. 1834 
Col Van Schaick 
Capt. Wright } N.Y.

Admitted 
Private 9 months 

Moulton Farnham Esq 
Attica N. Y.
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Albany 
John Toms act 1818 to what time paid?
VD 
pd. to 4 Sep 1834 
JH