Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 36,020, Thomas Hudson, Md.
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(3-1776)

SERVICE
Md.        Hudson, Thomas.
NUMBER
S.  36,020
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CONTENTS
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[Left page]
Dead.
See letter to Mr Hudson his
widow, Aug. 14, 1834
Died 24 Sept. 1826
let: 21 Jany 1842 to E.
J. Middleton
Robt [Robert] Barnard Jan'l 10/57.

[written sideways, left page:]
Notification delivd to the pensioner at the office
30 October 1840

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16.458  R
Dist: of Columbia
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Thomas Hudson,
of the Dist of Cola [District of Columbia] [lined out: in the State of]
who was a private in the ^1st Maryland^ regiment commanded by
[written over: Colonel] Capt Gaither of the Delaware
line, for the term of nine months.
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Inscribed on the Roll of the Dist of Cola
at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on
the 30th of May, 1819.
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Certificate of Pension issued the 9th of Feby 1819
and delivered to the Pensioner.
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Arrears to 4th of Sept 1819 3 1/31 & 4/30 $25.31
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4 Mar: 1820 $48.--
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$73.31
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{Revolutionary claim,
Act 18th March, 1818.}
File Mch 19
[too faint]
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Admr
Pension to commence
31st May 1819 by order
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DISTRICT OF Columbia, SS.

On this Eighth day of [lined out: May] February 1820, before me, the subscriber, one [lined out: of the Judges]
of the Judges of the Circuit Court of the United ^States^ for the said district
personally appeared Thomas Hudson aged fifty nine years
& Eight months resident in the County of Washington in the said district, 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 said Thomas
Hudson enlisted for the term of nine months on the Sixteenth day of
May in the year Seventeen hundred & ^seventy eight^ in the 1st Maryland Regiment in the state 
of Maryland in the company commanded by Captain Gaither
of the Regiment commanded by Colonel [blank]
in the
line of the State of Maryland on the Continental Establishment; that he continued to
serve in the said corps, or in the service of the United States, until the twentieth of Feby seventeen
hundred & seventy ^nine^, when he was discharged from service in Bonsbrook state of New
Jersey, that he was in the battle of Monmouth meeting House
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and that he is in reduced circumstances, and stands in need of the assistance of his country for support, 
and that he has no other evidence now in his power of his said services.
Sworn to and declared before me, the day and year aforesaid.
James S Morrell

I, James S Morsell Judge, &c. as aforesaid, do certify that it appears,
to my satisfaction, that the said Thomas Hudson did serve in the
revolutionary war, as stated in the preceding declaration, against the common enemy, for the term of
nine months at one time, on the continental establishment. I am also satisfied that he needs the assistance
of his country for support. And I now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and had
before me, to the Secretary for the Department of War, pursuant to the directions of the aforementioned 
act of Congress.  Given under my hand the day &
year first aforesaid.
18
James S Morrell

[Stamp:]
SEAL OF
THE COURT.
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I do hereby certify that the original declaration
made upon oath before me by Thomas Hudson
in most parts resembling the within, suppos.d by
the Secretary [lined out:of the to] to be defective ^(only)^in having
the words "drafted into the Militia" instead of
"enlisted for the Term of" and ^in not having^ the certificate of
the Judge as to the circumstances of said Hudson
and which was by me this day destroyed
after having taken the within, was dated
about the first of May last,
James S Morsell
8th Feby 1820
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Auditor's Office, Annapolis, Feby 4th 1820

I hereby certify, that it appears from the muster-rolls remaining
in the Auditor's Office, that Thomas Hudson
enlisted as a pvt [private] in the 1st Maryland
Regiment, on the 16th day of May 78
and was discharged on the 20th Feby 79
Thos. Karney Aud. S.M.
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Thomas Hudson
16.450
March 1820
Con
Pensioner
at the Office
16458
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[lined out: Schedule]

Circuit Court for
Washington County}
District of Columbia Ss.
on this 21st day of October 1820, personally appeared
in open Court, ^withesaid Circuit Court being a court of record for the [lined out: record for] said
district, Thomas Hudson aged sixty five years, resident in
Washington County in said district, who, being first duly sworn,
according to law, doth, on his oath, declared that he served in
the Revolutionary war as follows as a private in Captain
Gaithers Company Nine Months and has received a pension
as appears by the pension certificate No 16,458 hereunto annexed
And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the
United States 18th day of March, 1818; 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 as to bring myself within the provisions of an 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," passed on the 18th day of March, 1818; and that I have not
nor has any person in trust for me, any property or securites,
contracts, or debt, due to me; nor have I any income other
than what is contained in the schedule annexed, and by me subscribed. 
And I do also swear that I am a laborer, and have two
sons who do not reside with me, and a wife who does aged
about 55 years, and further I swear that the produce of my labour
is insufficient to support myself and wife and pay house
rent and firing and that I have no property whatever 
except necessary clothing and bedding and except what is contained
in the schedule as aforesaid

War Department
Revolutionary Claim
I certify that, in conformity with the Law of the United States,
of the 18th March, 1818, Thomas Hudson, late a private in
the Army of the Revolution, is inscribed on the pension list
Roll of the District of Columbia Agency, at the rate of
eight Dollars per month, to commence on the thirty first
day of May one thousand eight hundred and nineteen.
Given at the War Office of the United States this
ninth day of Feby 1820 
J.C. Calhoun Secy. war

[scroll circle:] Seal
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Schedule of Thomas Hudson property
3 chairs, one table, one pail, one Iron Pot, one Iron Skillet, one
Copper Do. 2 flat Irons, 6 cups and saucers, one cream cup one
Wooden Sugar Box, one Jug, one Pitcher, 2 black bottles, one
Iron Candlestick, one pewter dish, 3 Plates 4 Pewter teaspoons
2 table do, on tea pot, & one axe six knives and forks
Thomas ^his X mark^ Hudson

Sworn to in open Court }
October 21st 1820 }
Test William Brent Clerk of the Circuit
Court of the District of Columbia for Washington
County

I William Brent Clerk of the Circuit Court of the
District of Columbia for the County of Washington
do hereby certify that the aforegoing oath and the
Schedule thereto annexed, are  truly copied from the
record of the said Court.  And I do further certify
that it is the opinion of the said Court, that the
total amount in value of the property in the aforegoing
Schedule is ten dollars -

In testimony whereof have hereunto
set my hand, and affixed the seal
of the said Court the 21. October 1820.
Wm Bent [flourish]
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District of Columbia towit.
On the 21 day of October 1820. William Jiams
personally appeared in open Court in the Circuit Court
of the District of Columbia for Washington County and
made oath in due form of law, that he is acquainted 
with Thomas Hudson named in the aforegoing affidavit
that he has known him for about twenty years, and that
he is also acquainted with the goods stated in the aforegoing
Schedule and he does not believe the same to be
worth more than ten dollars.
Test Wm Brent Clerk
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District of Columbia}
Washington County}
To Wit

On this thirty first day of March on the year eighteen hundred and fifty one before the subscriber one of the Justices of the peace in and for the said County personally appeared Samuel Hudson who being duly sworn declared that he is the only surviving child of Thomas Hudson and Benedicta his wife that Thomas Hudson aforesaid and and that the aforesaid Benedicta his wife is the identical person who died in the George Alms House as the summoned certificate of the Superintendent of such Alms House swearth he makes this declaration for the purpose of claiming the pension in accrues to which he may be entitled as the sole surviving heir of the said Thomas and Benedicta his wife.

Witness Wm Daw

(Signed) X (His Mark) Samuel Hudson

Sworn to and subscribed before me on the day and year above written

(Signed)  Paul Stevens (Illegible)
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District of Columbia}
County of Washington}  To Wit

On this 32st. day of March in the year 1851 before the subscriber one of the justices of the peace in and for the said county personally appeared Samuel Pauly and Margarette Atchinson two credible witness who being each duly sworn severally depose and say that they each one well knew Thomas Hudson and Benedicta his wife for many years during the life time of both and that they lived together as man and wife and so respected by their neighbors and that from all the circumstances surrounding them they aforesaid deponents have not the least doubt of their being legally husband and wife and they  and the persons mentioned in the foregoing affidavits and that Samuel Hudson, the person making the annexed declaration is the only surviving son and child.

(Signed) Samuel (Illegible) Pauly?  --Seal

Witness:
(Signed) William Daw
Margarette Atchinson X (Her mark) --Seal

Sworn to and subscribed before me
on the day and year above written

(Signed)  Paul Stevens (Illegible) -- Seal
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District of Columbia}
Washington County}  Act:  On this 8th day of February A.D. 1857, before the subscriber, a Justice of the peace in and for said county, personally appeared Richard Butt, personally well know to me, to be a credible witness, and being first duly sworn on the Holy Evangely of Almighty God,deposeth and saith that he knew Joseph Hudson deceased in his lifetime; that he always understood and believes that he was a brother of Samuel Hudon of the city of Washington, D.C. and that the said Joseph Hudson died at the Washington Asylum about the 29th day of January A.D. 1845, to the best of his knowledge and belief.

(Signed) Richard Butt

Subscribed & sworn to before me
(Signed) B. K. Morsell (Illegible)
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District of Columbia
County of Washington}  To Wit

On this 1st. day of August in the year 1851 before me the subscriber one of the justices of the peace in and for the aforesaid county, personally appeared Mary Anne Hudson a respectable citizen of the United States, who deposeth and says that she was well acquainted with Mrs. Benedicta Hudson who resided in George Town in the District of Columbia and that said Benedicta Hudson died on the 20th day of July in the year 1835 and this deponent  was at her funeral and remembers the time well as she very often visited her during her sickness

Mary Anne Hudson -X- (her mark)

Signed sealed and witnessed in presence of
Saml Dunz

Subscribed and sworn to before me
Saml Dunz (Illegible)
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State of Maryland Charles County (illegible)
I hereby certify that upon examination
of the marriage records of Charles County
I find that a marriage license was 
in effect on the twenty fourth day of
December in the year seventeen
hundred and ninety four for Thomas
Hudson and Bennedicta Coffer to
be joined together in the Holy Bond
of matrimony.
In testimony whereof &
have hereunto subscribed
my name and affixed 
the seal of Charles County
Court this 30th day of Sept
Anno Domini 1851
[Illegible] Mitchell [Illegible] 

Port Toler
Sept. 30th 1851
Signature (Illegible)

Your note of 26th is
before me, none of these
Church here were required
to keep records of marriage
to marry here.
--- (illegible)
is it will only be necessary
to prove in addition to the
enclosed certificate that the
parties lived together as man &
wife
 Very respectfully yours
P. H. Mitchell

District of Columbia
(Illegible) Document is cut short.
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Very Respectfully
yours
P. Y. Mitchell

District of Columbia
On this 7th day of Febry 1851 personally
Appeared Mary King a resident citizen
of Ger Town DC. about 70 years of age
before the subscriber one of the Justices of the
peace, in and for said County & District and made
oath on the holy evangely of Almighty God that
she was intimately acquainted with Benedicta
Coffer, before she was married to Thomas
Hudson the mother of Samuel Hudson
the petitioner, and that the said Samuel Hudson
is the only legitimate child now living of
Thomas Hudson and Benedicta wife of said
Thomas Hudson Both deceased, and she further
States that the object that Samuel Hudson
has in getting her Declaraton is to receive
all the Benefit at Law which his mother
Died (illegible)  
Sworn before me
R. H. Mitchell
of Peace
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Thomas Hudson, Pensioner, 1818
Dist Roll
Dist 24th September 1826.
Pension paid in full
3rd auditor's ffice
April 4th 1851.
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36020

INVALID.
Revy
File No. 36,020
Thomas Hudson
Pri Rev War
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Act : 18 March 182
Index: - Vol. 2, Page 199

{Arrangement of 1870.]
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To what time was Thomas Hudson, of
Dis. of Columbia, act March 1818, last paid?
L Edwards
March 20, 1837

Died 24 Sep. 1826 paid
to that period
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The bearer Samuel Hudson, who is making some application
for some Pension or other on account of his father being a soldier
in the Revolutionary War. It seems from what he says that it is
only required to prove the marriage of his father & mother,
at this late day it might be difficult to prove their Marriage
in a more reliable way than he is prepared to prove it, to wit:
He has a certified copy of the License to marry them, and
deponent before a magistrate of her
knowledge of the fact and he is able to get any number of
the most respectable depositions from persons here, who knew
his father & mother well for many years and new them to be
honest upright & industrious people & who knew them to
always live together as man & wife & some that have heard
them speak of their marriage and acknowledge themselves
as man and wife,
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Original

To
The Commissioner of Pensions
US
Washington


(unreadable)
W Cole
Oct 10 1857
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The claim of Sam Hudson only surviving
child of Thomas and Benedicta Hudson
is for arrears of pension due to his
mother from the death of her husband
to her deceased.

The record in the pension office will show the revolutionary services
of Thos Hudson and the pension he received
Herewith is a schedule of the Testimony which accompanies
this, and if the success of the claim depended merely on
substantiating the fact of the present claimant being
the only surviving child of Thos & Ben Hudson then
is presume ample proof-- but would add my own
Testimony - having known old Thos Hudson & his wife
upwards of 30 years since, and both he & his son the
present claimant have worked for me frequently.

If the claims be not embraced in any Act of Congress granting
pensions - then all this Testimony is of no avail, but if
the Claim be within the scope of any one or more Acts of
Congress - then I that he must be considered as having
made out his case is being the son of Thomas Hudson
who rendered revolutionary services.
Respectfully submitted
Rob Barnard

Near Geo. Town
10 Oct 1867
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Schedule of Testimony Advanced

Affidavit of warrant that he is the only surviving child of Thomas and Benedicta Hudson and that later died in the G. J. Almshouse.

Do - of Samuel Pauly, Margarette Atchinson -- both to the fact of their knowledge of Thomas & Benedicta  Hudson and that they always even represented to be man and wife

Do - Richard Butt proving the death of Thomas Hudson in Jan 1845 in the Washington Asylum of Joseph Hudson well known to him as the only brother of causant

Do - Mary Ann Hudson s to her knowledge of Benedicta & Hudson and of the fact of the death 20 July 1838

Certificate office of Charles County Court Maryland of the (illegible) of Lawrence on December 1794 to Thomas Hudson and Benedicta  Coffer to marry-

Letter from same showing that the families in said County are not required to keep records of marriages and justices of the peace never had power in that county to solemnize marriages

Affidavit of Mary King as to her knowledge of  Benedicta Coffer afterwards Hudson and that Sam Hudson is the only surviving child of those parties.
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THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES
Form VAM-51-
12-5-41


BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
Division of Veterans' Administration Archives

NAME Hudson, Thomas GRADE Private LINE Crane's Continental Artillery
(Massachusetts)
WARRANT
NUMBER 4434 ACREAGE 100 ISSUED
BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
Thomas G Private
4434
ACREAGE


ISSUED Aug 1, 1796
to Joseph Fordick -
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.