Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 9509, for Thomas Shillingsford, Pennsylvania
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SERVICE   Penn.
Shillingsford, Thomas  
Rosanna
NUMBER   R.9509
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Shillingsford, Thomas
Penn R9509
No 4
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These are to certify whom it may concern, that Thomas Shillingford and Rose Shits were lawfully joined together in the Holy Estate of Matrimony, and pronounced man and wife, on the 18th day of February in the year of our Lord, One Thousand Seven Hundred and Eighty one by me 
M. Hultgreen
Parish Minister at Philadelphia
THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF THE UNITED STATES
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State of Pennsylvania 
County of Philadelphia } S.S.    
On this Twenty fourth day of January AD 1853 personally appeared before the subscriber one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas, for the County aforesaid, Sarah Keffer formerly  Sarah Shillingford aged sixty five years, and James Shillingsford aged fifty nine years, residents of the County of Philadelphia, who being duly sworn according to law, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress, passed July 4th 1836. That they are the only surviving children of Rosanna Shillingford who was the widow of Thomas Shillingford, who was a private in Captain John Henson's Company, in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Benjamin T. Eyres Pennsylvania Militia in the war of the Revolution.  That they do not know the exact period of his service but think that he entered the service about the year 1776 and continued until 1781.     
They further declare that the said Rose was married to the said Thomas on the 18th of February 1781. That the said Thomas her husband died on the Fifth day of October 1835, and that the said Rose died on the 22nd day of February 1839, and that she remained a widow – 
Sworn and subscribed of, in open Court this 24th Day of January 1853
Alexr Napier   Pro Prothy
James Shillingsford  [L.S.]    
Sarah Keffer her mark [L.S.]
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Sworn to and subscribed before me the day year above written
Wm D Kelley 
City & County of  Philadelphia Ss
I Geo Carpenter prothy of the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia County do Certify that the Honorable Wm D Kelley Esq by whom the above attestation was made & who has thereto subscribed his name was at the time thereof and now is a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of said County the same being a court of record having a seal duly commissioned and sworn, to all whose acts as such full faith and credit are and ought be given as well in Courts of Judicature as elsewhere    
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of said Court this Twenty fourth day of Same AD 1833 
Ela David 
for Geo Carpenter pwt
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State of Pennsylvania    
County of Philadelphia } S.S. 
On this twenty ninth day of October AD 1852 personally appeared before me a Justice of the Peace within and for the State and County aforesaid John Foster  and Mary Mulicake residents of the State and County aforesaid who being duly sworn according to law declare, that they were personally acquainted with Rosanna Shillingsford the Widow of Thomas Shillingsford; that the said Thomas Shillingford died on the fifth day of October A.D. 1835 from the effects of consumption and old age; that the said Rosanna Shillingsford never married again after the death of her said husband, and died on the twenty second day of February A.D. 1839, leaving two surviving children by her said husband, named Sarah and James, the former aged 60 years, and the latter, 59 years of age, the said Sarah having intermarried with Anthony Keffer during the lifetime of her Father 
Sworn to and subscribed to before me this 29th day of October 1852    
Isaac B. Dare Alderman Exicific 
John Foster [L.S.]
Mary Mulicake [L.S.]  
This may Certify that I am personally acquainted with the deponants and know them to be of good standing in this County in which I reside    
Isaac B Dare
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State of Pennsylvania, 
COUNTY OF PHILADELPHIA, ss  
I, THOMAS FLETCHER, Prothonotary of the District Court of said County, do Certify, that Isaac B. Dare before whom the annexed affidavit was made was an Alderman and ex officio Justice of the Peace of the County of Philadelphia, duly commissioned and qualified to administer oaths and affirmations, and to take acknowledgments, des and to all whose acts, as such. full faith and credit are and ought to be given, as well in Courts of Judicature as elsewhere, and that his signature thereto is genuine.    
In TESTIMONY WHEREOF I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said Court, this first day of January A. D. 185 – 
Thos Fletcher, Prothonotary
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State of Pennsylvania 
County of Philadelphia ss    
Sarah Miller, a resident of Kensington, in the County aforesaid, being duly sworn, according to Law, deposes and says. I was well acquainted with the late Thomas Shillingsford of Kensington who died in the year 1835 and have repeatedly heard him relate the particulars of his services as a soldier in the Revolutionary army.  He told me that he was in service as a soldier at the Battle of Monmouth New Jersey, and that he also served in the Galleys or Row Boats used by the Colonies against the English, upon the River Delaware. I have often heard him talk of being made prisoner during the war - of marching barefoot in the snow, leaving tracks of blood, and enduring various other hardships in the course of his several campaigns. He was by common repute known in the neighborhood in which he dwelt, as a revolutionary veteran, and I entertain no doubt of the fact.  It has never been questioned to my knowledge 
Sworn & subscribed before me this Thirtieth day of October AD 1852. 
Isaac B Dare Alderman
Sarah Miller [L.S.]
I certify, that the above named affiant is personally known to me as a person of veracity and respectability. Isaac B Dare
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State of Pennsylvania 
City of Philadelphia } Ss
On this Thirtieth day of October AD 1852 personally appeared before me, a Justice of the Peace, within and for the County and State aforesaid Sarah Keffer, a resident of said County, who being duly sworn according to Law, declares, that she is the daughter of Thomas Shillingsford deceased, who was a soldier in the Revolutionary war, that he served in the Boats or Galleys on the River Delaware, when the Hessians in the service of Great Britain, were at Red Bank, New Jersey (six or eight miles below Philadelphia) and that he also did service on shore in the Battle at that place, under the command, as near as this deponent can remember of Captain Stokes. That said Thomas Shillingsford served also as a soldier in the Battle of Monmouth New Jersey and was also in the army as a soldier during the whole revolutionary with but little intermission - he having been made prisoner by the enemy on two occasions -  on one of these occasions he effected his escape, and on the other, was recaptured at sea by a vessel in the service the Colonies Sworn and Subscribed before me this Thirtieth day of October 1852 
Isaac B Dare, Alderman   
Sarah Keffer her mark  [Sct]   
I Certify that the above named affiant is personally known to me as a person of veracity and respectability
Isaac B. Dare
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Rev. War Section  
Record Division. 
V. L. M. 
October 7, 1921.
Helen Pearce,         
81 North Munn Avenue,             
East Orange, New Jersey.          
Madam;       
In response to your letter dated the 16th ultimo, you are advised that in the Revolutionary War pension claim S. File No. 9,509 it appears that Thomas Shillingford married February 18, 1781, Rose or Rosanna Shite and died Oct. 5, 1835. She died February 22, 1839, leaving two children Sarah aged sixty-one years, wife of Anthony Keffer and James aged fifty-nine years, who applied for the pension that might have been due their parents on an application executed January 24, 1853, while residing in Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania .    They alleged that soldier was a private in Captain John Howson's Company, Colonel Benjamin G. Eyres' Regiment, Pennsylvania Militia during the Revolutionary War, that he was in the battles of Germantown and Monmouth and was taken prisoner on two occasions details not given. 
The claim was not allowed as the children
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failed to furnish proof of six months service as required by the pension laws. 
Very respectfully, 
Washington Gardner 
Commissioner.
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1921 Oct 7 Hist to Helen Pearce 
1922 Apr. 10 Mrs Pearce refund of cost of copy AW 
1922 Apr 19. Copies mailed to Mrs. R A Pearce  AW
9509  Rose Shillingsford 
Thomas
REJECTED
Alleges:  Claim too late to be on printed list of 1852 of Rejections
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No 7825. 
Shillingsford wid of Thomas 
Pa
R. A. Pearce July 24 / 52
R. A. Pearce Nov 30 /52
F. Clements Apr 12 1853
July 4 1836
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No. 5
Thomas Shillingsford
R.9509
Penn
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Philadelphia, Sept. 28, 1781. 
You are hereby ordered to parade at your Captain's Quarters on the 30th instant, at ten o'clock in the Forenoon, with your arms and Accoutrements, in good order, ready to March, agreeable to the Militia Law of this State: Therefore fail not.  
N. B. Take notice that an appeal will be held at the State , on the eighth of October next, at ten o'clock in the forenoon.  
By order of Benj G. Eyres Esqr
To Mr. Thomas Shillingsford
John Hanson Captn
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No. 2
Thomas Shillingsford
R.9509
Penn
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Philadelphia   
SIR 
You being drawn in the sixth Class of Captain John Hanson’s Company, and Colonel Benjamin G. Eyres Battalion You are hereby desired to parade at the State-House Yard on the First September at two o’clock, with your Arms and Accoutrements, agreeable to the Militia Law of this State; therefore fail not.
Take notice, That an Appeal will be held at the same Place on the 6th September 
To Mr. Thos Shillingsford By order of Lt. Coll. [unreadable]
 Thos Shilling for order of Col of