Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 42,473, for Henry Thomas, New York
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(3-1776) SERVICE 
New York 

Thomas, Henry 

NUMBER 
S. 42,473 
WX. 7869-100 issued July 19 -1790

CONTENTS
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8741 
New York Roll 
Henry Thomas, of Sempronius in the state of N. Yk. who was a Private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Van Cortlandt of the N. Yk. line, for the term of 6 years 

Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 2d of May 1818.

Certificate of Pension issued the 1 of April 1819, and sent to Silas Bowker, Esq. Locke N. Yk. 

Arrears to 4th of Mar. 1819   80.77 
Semi-anl. all'ce ending Sept. 1819.   48.  Arrd  10m:  3/31.   $128.77 
{Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818.} 

Date of death not on A B
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Cayuga County ss }  on this second day of may in the year of our Lord Eighteen hundred and Eighteen from me the subscriber one of the Judges of the Court of Common pleas in and for the County of Cayuga – personally appears Henry Thomas Aged fifty seven years and three month - Resident in the town of Sempronius County of Cayuga and State of New York who being by me first duly sworn according to Law - Doth on his oath make the following Declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the late act of Congress entitled an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the Land and Naval Service of the United States in the Revolutionary war - that he the sd Henry Thomas Enlisted in tarry town [Tarrytown] in the State of New York in the month of March in the year seventeen hundred and seventy seven in the Company commanded by Captain Right of the second New York Rigement Commanded by Colonel Phillip (Van) Cortlandt - and that he continued in Capt Rights Company, untill after the capture of Bergoine [Burgoyne] - that the Regement was then so reduced it there was new arrangments made and that he was then arranged into Captain Jonathan Halletts Company - continued in Colonel Cortlands Rigement – and that he Continued in the Service of the United States untill the Seventh day of June in the year Seventeen hundred and Eighty three (to the end of the war) when he was discharged from service at Camps at Snok hill [Snook Kill] Back of Newburgh in the State of Newyork. and that he was in the Battels of taking or Burguyn and skirmish on the Mohawk River and at Newtown in Sulivans [Sullivan’s] western expidition - and that he was in the Battle at Yorktown at the taking Lord Cornwallis -- and that he is in Reduced Circumstances and stands in need of the assistance of his Country for his support and that he has no other evendence now in his power of his Service except his Discharge signed by his Excelency George Washington –
[signed] Henry Thomas
Sworn to and Declaired before me the 2nd day of May 1818 
[signed] Silas Bowker Judge of Cayuga Com pleas

I Silas Bowker one of the Judges of the Court of Common pleas in and for the County of Cayuga - Do Certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Henry Thomas Did serve in the Revolutionary war
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As stated in the proceeding Declaration against the Common Enemy – and I now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and had Before me to the Secretary of the Department of war pursuant to the Directions of the aforementioned act of Congress-- given under my hand at Larke this 2nd day of May 1818 
[signed] Silas Bowker Judge of Cayuga Com pleas 

County of New York 
Cayuga County } ss   I certify that Silas Bowker before whom the foregoing declarations under oath were made and by whom the foregoing certificate was made, was on the day of the date thereof, and still is one of the Judges of the Court of Common pleas, in and for the County of Cayuga duly commissioned and sworn as such Judge, and that full faith and credit are to be given to his acts in that capacity I further certify that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of the said Judge, and know the foregoing signature to be his, In testimony whereof, I have hereunto affixed the seal of the said Court and my name subscribed, the twenty first day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen. 
[signed] E T Throop Clerk 

Application of Henry Thomas 
Henry Thomas, Private
Van Cortlandt N.Y. Regt
May 2 1818
Admd
from 77 to the end of the war –
Service admitted The judges certificate as to [illegible] stands wanted
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THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES  Form VAM-51  12-5-41 
BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
Division of Veterans' Administration Archives
NAME Thomas, Henry   GRADE  Private   LINE  New York 
WARRANT NUMBER 7869  ACREAGE  100  ISSUED  July 19, 1790 to- not shown –
*The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800. Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.
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May 25, 1931 
Rev. & 1812 Wars Section AWF:MLB 
Miss Marie Squire 
Suite 2, 106 Chester Street 
Allston, Massachusetts 
Dear Madam: 
You are advised that it appears from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S. 42473, that Henry Thomas enlisted in Tarrytown, New York, in March, 1777, and served as a private in Captain Wright's company, Colonel Philip Cortlandt's 2" New York Regiment, was in battles at the capture of Burgoyne, after which, he was transferred to Captain Jonathan Hallett's company in the same regiment, was in a skirmish on Mohawk River, battle of Newtown in Sullivan's Western Expedition, and in the battle of Yorktown and surrender of Cornwallis, and was discharged June 7, 1783 from the 2" New York Regiment. 
He was allowed pension on his application executed May 2, 1818, at which time he was living in Sempronius, Cayuga County, New York, aged fifty-seven years and three months. 
There are no data as to his family. 
Very truly yours 
E. W. MORGAN
Acting Commissioner
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42473
Revy INVALID. 
File No. 42,473 
Henry Thomas 
Pri Rev War
Act: 18th March 18[18]
Index:- Vol. T , Page 508 
[Arrangement of 1870.] 

1931 May 25 – Hist to Marie Squire [illegible]
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Cayuga County ss: I Silas Bowker one of the Judges of the Court of Common pleas in and for the said County of Cayuga: do hereby Certify that I am satisfied that the foregoing or hereunto anexed applicant Henry Thomas is in Reduced and indigent circumstances on stands in need of the assistance of his Country for his support: Certified by me at Larke this 8th Day of February 1819 
[signed] Silas Bowker Judge of Cayuga Co pleas

State of New York 
Cayuga County } I certify that Silas Bowker Esqr by whom the preceeding certificate was made was on the day of the date thereof and still is one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Cayuga duly commissioned and sworn as such Judge  I further certify that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of the said Judge and know the preceeding signature to be his  In Testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed the Neal of the said Court and my name subscribed this 19th day of February 1819 
[signed] E. T. Throop Clerk of Cayuga County
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Henry Thomas
Claim
[REMAINDER OF PAGE IS ILLEGIBLE, ALTHOUGH LAST LINE CONTAINS THE WORD "April"]
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Henry Thomas [illegible] Discharge 
BY HIS EXCELLENCY 
GEORGE WASHINGTON, Esq; 
General and Commander in Chief of the Forces of the United States of America. 
THESE are to CERTIFY that the Bearer hereof Henry Thomas Private in the Second New York Regiment, having faithfully served the United States, Six years & the Months and being inlisted for the War only, is hereby DISCHARGED from the American Army.
GIVEN at HEAD-QUARTERS the 7th June 1783
[signed] G. Washington
By HIS EXCELLENCY’S Command, 
[signed] J. Trumbull [illegible]
REGISTERED in the Books of the Regiment
[signed] Christr [last name illegible]
THE above Henry Thomas  Private has been honored with the Badge of [illegible, Merit?] for six Years faithful Service. 
[signed] P. Cortlandt Colo[nel]
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337. 
Act 1828 
Settled at 
Henry Thomas 
Consd with Invalid file #42.473 

Revd & acknowledged July 1, 1828

Free
Revolutionary Claims
Hon Richard Rush
Secretary Treasury
Washington
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Sempronius N.Y. June 24, 1828 
Hon Richrd Rush 
Sir 
Enclosed herewith I send you the declaration &c of Henry Thomas to enable him to obtain a pension under the late law of the United States, 
Mr. Thomas Discharge is now in the Pension Office in Washington, he drew a pension under the law of 1818, he had a small property and when the Law was charged in 1826 he did not apply for a renewal of his certificate, and his discharge has never been returned to him
you will please make your communications to me as Post Master Sempronius and as Mr Thomas is my Neighbor if any thing further should be necessary to enable him to obtain the pension you will please let me know 
I am Sir Respectfully 
your Obt Servant 
[signed] Rowland Day
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Sempronius NY
25 June


Hon
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337.  316   No of orig Pay 316- 
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIMS. 
TREASURY DEPARTMENT. 26 July 1828.
Henry Thomas, of Sempronius, in the County of Cayuga, in the State of New York, has applied to the Secretary of the Treasury for the benefits of the act, entitled "An Act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the Revolution," approved the 15th of May, 1828. He states that he enlisted in the Continental line of the army of the Revolution, for and during the war, and continued until its termination, at which period he was a private in Captain Hallett's company in the 2d regiment of the New York line; and that he received a certificate for the reward of eighty dollars, provided by the resolve of the 15th of May, 1778; and further, that he was not on the 15th day of May, 1828, on the pension list of the United States, and that he has received as a pensioner since the 3d of March, 1826, nothing.
The Third Auditor is requested to report how far the several statements are corroborated by the records in his office. 
By order of the Secretary,
A. Dickins.

TREASURY DEPARTMENT. 
THIRD AUDITOR'S OFFICE, July 29, 1828 
It appears by the records in this office, that a certificate for the reward of eighty dollars has been issued to Henry Thomas in the New York Line It further appears that Henry Thomas is not now on the pension list of any agency, and has not been so since the 3 March 1826

[signed] Peter Hagmin [or Hagner]  Aud
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For the purpose of obtaining the benefit of an “Act for the relief of certain surviving Officers and Soldiers of the Army of the Revolution Approved on the 15th May 1828 I Henry Thomas of Sempronius in the County of Cayuga in the State of New York do hereby declare that I enlisted in the Continental line of the Army of the revolution for and during the War and Continued in its service untill its termination at which period I was a private in Capt Halletts Company in the Second Regiment of the New York line,  And I also declare that I afterwords received a Certificate for the reward of eighty dollars to which I was entitled under a Resolve of Congress passed 15th May 1778.
And I further declare that I was not on the fifteenth day of March 1828 on the pension list of the United States – 
[signed] Henry Thomas 

Before me Gershom Morse a Justice of the peace in the County of Cayuga in the State of New York personally appeared this day Peter Havens and Benjamin Card of the said County who did severally make oath that Henry Thomas by whom the aforesaid declaration was subscribed is generally reputed and believed to have been a private in the army of the Revolution in manner as therein stated 
Witness my hand this 21st day of June 1828 
[signed] Gershom Morse J peace 
I Abraham Gridley Clerk of the Court of the County of Cayuga in the State of New York do Certify that Gershom Morse before whom the aforesaid affidavits were sworn was at the time a Justice of the peace and duly empowered to administer Oaths  In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court this 23d of June in the year 1828. 
[signed] Abraham Gridley  Clerk
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Please send pension records of: 
1 Henry Thomas 
Pensioner from Moravia, Cayuga Co. N.Y., 1840.
2  Daniel A. Ward [note] Sent 
Pensioner from Ledyard, Cayuga Co. N.Y., 1840 to 
Miss Marie Squire
(Suite 2) 106 Chester St 
Allston, Mass.

Apr. 11 - 1931