Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 10514, for Samuel Thomas, Massachusetts
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Service
Mass
Thomas, Samuel
Number R. 10514
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I Keziah Thomas of Pittsfield Maine, aged seventy four years doth on her oath testify and say that she does will [illegible] that Samuel Thomas who is now my husband went into the service in the year seventeen hundred and seventy eight or nine according to my best recollection and served in a Company Commanders by Cadet Smith four months as near as I can recollect I lived in Middleborough Massachusetts which was my native token at that time which was before we seen Mamica my father's house was within a mile of the residence of Mr. Samuel Thomas. Samuel Thomas [illegible] went out to take the place of his brother Solomon Thomas as a substitute in Capt Smith Company I do not [illegible] the Christian name of Capt Smith. Samuel Thomas is one year and three months older than I am according to the account he had always given of it. I have a record of my own age and of the age of my children in my family Bible. Sworn and subscribed to this agency 1840 by the above named Thomas who is a person by me will and a credible witness of Robert Hunter Justice of the Peace.
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Deposition of Keziah Thomas
State of Maine
Somerset. I the subscriber Clerk of the District Court for the Middle District within and for the County of Somerset certify that Robert Hunter, is a Justice of the Peace within and for said County, duly commissioned and qualified, and that his signature within written is genuine an testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affirmed the Seal of said Court, this Eighteenth day of February AD 1840. Joshua Gould Clerk
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$1
Pittsfield, Maine March 31, 18[illegible]
Dear Sir, I received a line from you in regard a Pension & Land Bounty for Samuel Thomas & as he and Wife as [illegible] and I as one of the [illegible] in close one dollar in this recording to your request.
I want you to write as soon as you receive this what proof you want me to git? Anson H. Thomas
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State of Maine
County of Somerset
On this 15th day of June 1839 personally approve in open before [Illegible 3 word] the of Probate now sitting Samuel Thomas a resident of Pittsfield in the County of Somerset and State of Maine aged seventy-five who being first duty sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act [illegible] papers June 7th, 1832. What he intends the service of the United State under the following officers and served as herein stated. I resided in Middleborough County of Plymouth Commonwealth of Massachusetts. I [illegible] the service of the United States during the first of the summer of seventeen hundred and seventy-nine as a substitute for my brother Solomon Thomas who was taken sick and returned home to the town of Middleborough which was his native place.
I joined the Company under command of Capt Smith stationed at [illegible] two miles from Howlands Ferry. The Company being constituted mostly of volunteers from the town of Middleborough and Bridgonton Abbington and Rochester in the County and State [illegible] I cannot recollect the name of the Officer that commanded the regiment.
[Illegible] at Little Compton I met with a small party at Howlands Ferry for the purpose of drawing provisions and while there the horses belonging to the British when [Illegible] stationed on Rhode Island more turned into the river to swim and one of them getting into the current and carried down to the ferry and I assisted in capturing