Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 10506, for Joseph Thomas, North Carolina
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(3-1778)
SERVICE
N.C.
S.C.
Va.
CO.
Thomas, Joseph
NUMBER
R. 10506

CONTENTS
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10506
P.O.
Joseph Thomas
Service:
Enlisted: ___,18   .
Discharged:____,18  .
REJECTED
Application filed:___,18  .
Alleges:
Re-enlisted:
Attorney:
P. O.
Recognized.
Contract.
Cert. of Dis. 
Searched for____, 18
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No. 10506
Joseph Thomas
[illegible]
[illegible]
Sept {illegible]
10506
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{Stock Hill  Ga.
{August 21st 1854.
Dear Sir
We now send enclosed the declaration of
Joseph Thomas, claiming a pension for
his services in the Revolutionary War
You will please examine the claim, and
let us hear from you
as early as practicable.
We are very Respectfully
Your Obedient Servants
Query & Walker.

Hon. S. P. Waldo
Comr of Pensions
Washington City
D.C.
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No
Joseph Thomas
Geo
June 7, 1832
Mss
Query & Walker
Stock Hill,
Geo.
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State of Georgia)
County of Union}
On this 1st day of June
A.D. One thousand Eight Hundred and fifty
four. Personally appeared before me John Davidson
a Justice of the Inferior Court. Within and
for the County and State aforesaid Joseph
Thomas aged 95 years a Resident of the
County of Union in the State of Georgia.
Who being first duly sworn according to
law, doth on his oath make the following
Declaration in order to obtain the benefit
of the provision made by the act of Congress
passed June 7th 1832. That he volunteered in the
Army of the United States in the year of 1782
from the State of Virginia, and served a Tour
of three months in the Company Commanded by
Captain James Gaines, and in the Regiment
Commanded by Colonel ______
and that,
he volunteered for a Second Tour of three months
from Surry County in the State of North Carolina in
the same year and served in the Company
commanded by Captain ______
in the Regiment
of Infantry Commanded by Colonel _______
and that he volunteered the third time for
three months.
from Union County in the State of
South Carolina and served in the Company
Commanded by Captain _______
in the Regiment
of Infantry Commanded by Colonel Brandon
and that during the periods of his services as
above named he marched to Moravian Town
as guard of prisoners and in the latter part of
his service was ordered by Colonel Thomas
Brandon as a guard to convey some Tory prisoners
from Union County South Carolina
across the Pedee River, and he further States ┃
by Reason of old age and the consequent
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loss of memory that he cannot swear positively
as to the names of all the officers that he served
under and the dates of his services but according to the best of his recollection he served
not less than the periods above mentioned
He hereby (Relinquishes every Claim) to a
pension and declares that his name is not
on the pension Roll or agency of any State
[words crossed out]
and states that he is the
identical Joseph Thomas named in the certificate of discharge of which a certified copy
is herewith presented (the orrignal being filed
in the pension office of the United States in the
year of 1853 on his application for Bounty Land.)
And he further more by these presents
Constitutes appoint and fully empowers
and authorises irrevocably William R
Query and Henry H Walker of Stock Hill
Georgia his true and lawful attorneys
for him and in his name and Stead to
examine into to prosecute, demand, ask,
and receive from the Goverment Officers of
the United States, all his Rights in any manner
of claim to pension or annuity that he
is or may be entitled under the act aforesaid
hereby confirming whatsoever my said attorneys shall or may legally do in and about
the premises,
Witness my hand and seal
John Davidson J.I.C.
Joseph his mark Thomas 

Sworn to acknowledge and Subscribed
before me the day and year first above written And I hereby certify that Joseph Thomas who
makes this Declaration is a man of truth
and good Varacity
and is Genera  Reputed.
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and believed to be a Revolutionary Soldier
and I declare my opinion that he served
as stated in the foregoing Declaration and
that he is of the age above stated and
from bodily infirmity he cannot attend
the Court and I further certify that I am
disinterested in the result of this application to
pension.
John Davidson J.I.C.

State of Georgia}
County of Union}
I Thomas M Hughes
Clerk of the Superior Court in and for
the County and State aforesaid Do hereby
certify that the Hon. John Davidson Esqr
before whom the foregoing Declaration Power
of Attorney and Certificate was made is
and was at the time of the signing
thereof an acting Justice of the Inferior
Court within and for the County of
Union and State of Georgia duly 
commissioned and sworn and that his
Signature thereto is genuine, and that
I am not
interested in this application
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto
 Set my name and affixed
my official Seal of Office at
Blaresville on this the 2nd day
of June A.D. 1854.
Thos M. Hughes C.S.C.
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April the 27th 1783

Sir
Be please to pay Mr James Floyd two pounds Virginia Spreia and
three shillings
for your corn tax
The two pounds
is for your debt due
my Class for
hiring a Soldier and
shall be your
Discharge from said
Class. Given
under my hand &
To Mr. Joseph Thomas }
James Gaines Capt
Recorded this 7th Oct 1853
Thos M. Hughes CSC

Georgia}
Union County}
I hereby certify that
the above is a true
copy of the Record in my office above
Discharge of Joseph Thomas. Given
under my hand and
Seal of office
at Blairsville Ga to this 2nd day of
June 1854
Thom  M. Hughes CSC