Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 11056, Thomas Walker, Penn.
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Service                                   Number

Penn.        Walker, Thomas      r.11056
                              Aurilla
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Contnets
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11056
P.O.
Thomas Walker
Service:

REJECTED

Enlisted:_________________, 18--
Discharged:______________, 18--

Application filed:_________, 18--

Alleges:___________
Re-enlisted:_________

Attorney:_________
P.O. ______________

______Recognized    ___________ Contract
______Cert of Dis.  Searched for ________, 19
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34.923
N. York
Thomas Walker
let to J.D. Woodward 2 Dec 1839

11056





Act June 1832
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Aurilla Walker
Widow
Thomas



N.Y. (illegible)

No (illegible) 
Thos' Walker
N.Y.
 Jul 1832
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I hereby by these presents, constitutes, appoints, and fully empowers and authorizes, irrevocably and with powers of substitution, F.E. Hassler, of Washington city, D.C. as my true and lawful attorney for me and in my name and stead, to examine into, to prosecute, to demand, and to receive from the U.S. Government and State officers my rights to all and in any manner of claim for arrears of pay, half pay, or commutation pay, for pension, increase of arrears of Pension or Land that are or may be due to me as the widow of Thomas Walker as in right of law I may be entitled; and I furthermore revoke all and any powers of attorney heretofore executed in favor of any persons.

     In witness whereof I have on this 16th day of February 1855 hereunto signed my name, and affixed my seal. 

                                           her
                                 Aurilla  X   Walker
                                          mark

Witness: J. M. Doubleday
Witness: Mer.. Todot

    Signed, sealed, acknowledged, and sworn to before me; and I further certify, that Aurilla Walker has always by the community been known as the widow of Thomas Walker and I am not interested in the result of this claim.

    Dated on this sixteenth day of February 1855.

                                     //s//
                           Elisha Doubleday J.P.

State of New York Couty of Yates

    I hereby certify that, Dou., before whom the foregoing affidavits and acknowledgment were made, and who has hereunto subscribed his name, was at the time of so doing, a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid, duly commissioned and sworn, and that his signature above written is genuine.

    In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of County Court, thia 19th day of February one thousand eight hundred and fifty five.

//s//
C. Martin Clerk

*If a widow applies, state "the date of marriage, and death of her husband".
+Widow, son, or daughter.
&Give the name of the State in which he lived when he went into the Revolution. If a pension so state - and the amount of pension, and under what act, and whether an officer or private soldier.
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Plattsburg, N.Y. July 23,  1839

Col Jos. S. Edwards
(illegible)

Sir,
    I enclose the declaration of Thomas walker the  (the Last of the Mohicans) who suppose himself entitled to a pension & hopes your rolls will corroborate his statements.

Yours truly,
//s//
J.D. Woodward
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34,923

Thomas Walker
Act June 7, 1802
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State of New York County of Chester on this 26th June 1809 personally appeared before me William Hedding Judge of Chester County court Thomas Walker a resident of said county in the town of Plattsburg aged eighty-two years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the act of congress passed June 7, 1832.  That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers &  (illegible) so herein states.  He resides at Markers Hooks. Dovord, Pennsylvania & enlisted at that place in the spring of the year of 1777.  He is not certain as to the year.  It was the same year of the Battle of Brandywine into Col. John Hannom's regiment, Capt. William Brady's Co. St. James Hennom's Pennsylvania State Troops or militia for nine months.  The company to which he belongs were called nine months (illegible). He was stationed at Dorn two or three months & from thence he marched to Valley Forge whence he remained about three months.  There were more than two thousand troops at Valley Forge serving in part of the time he was there.  From Valley Forge he went to Lancaster, Pa. where he remained until nine months for which he enlisted had passed.  He thinks he was drafted into the company, but his not certain.  He received a discharge in writing at Lancaster from Col. Hammond which was burnt at the house of Mr. Newell occupied by applicant in Champlain more than twenty-five years since.  He resided after the revolution in Doron & Lancaster, Pa until 1794 when he moved to Clinton County New York there he has ever since resided and now resides except (illegible) during the East War he resided in Grand (illegible) Vermont.  After the expiration of his nine months, he continued in the service two months in same company & was engaged in guarding Hessians from Newport to Philadelphia, applicant was in the Battle of Brandywine with his company.  His discharge above referred to was not given to him until two months after his nine-month tour had expired.  He says he actually served eleven months under said officers & that he has always (illegible) he could not prove his services by those who served with him (illegible) which he prevented him from applying before for a pension.  He has no proof of his age. He had one in his bible which was burnt with his house above mentioned.  He was born in Philadelphia on the tenth day of March 1757.  William Herron John Leach  James Leach  John Hastings Samuel Hastings (illegible) served with applicant in the same company.  (next Page)
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the names of persons in my present neighborhood with whom I was acquainted & who can testify to my character for veracity and their belief of any services are Judge Nichols Robert White Prothonotary.

    He severely relinquishes any claim whatsoever to a pension except the present. Declares that he has no documentary or other proof of his service and that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state.

                                                    his
                                       Thomas  X  Walker
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Sworn and subscribed to before
me this 28th day of June 1839 &
 I certify that applicant cannot write
his name (2 to 3 words illegible) how & that he is unable by reason of bodily infirmity to attend (illegible) & court he has the rheumatism & fits (illegible) feeble, has difficulty to get about & is very poor.  And I have my opinion of the investigation of the matter & putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department that the above named Thomas Walker was a revolutionary Soldier and served as he states.   The preceding declaration was carefully read over to the applicant in presence of Edwin Benedict Esq. overseer of the poor & others & declared by applicant to be true in all respects.
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                        William Hedding a Judge
                          of Clinton Co. Courts

State of New York]County of Clinton ss

   I the subscriber Clerk of said court certify that William Hedding before whom the foregoing declaration was taken was at the time of taking the same a Judge of Clinton County Court and his signature above is genuine     & I certify the foregoing to be the original proceeding of said process in the case of Thomas Walker applicant for a pension.

Witness my hand & official seal this 8th day of  July 1839.

                                                 Clerk.