Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 10488, for Joseph Thayer, Massachusetts
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SERVICE
Mass.

Thayer, Joseph
             Mary

NUMBER
R. 10488

CONTENTS
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State of Vermont
County of Samoville   Town of Morristown

The Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts is hereby requested to furnish Evidence from the Rolls of the service of my late husband Joseph Thayer I do not know the year his enlistment nor do I know the length of time or which he enlisted. He enlisted as I believe &now for his own relation from the town of Mendon in the State of Massachusetts, but I cannot tell the company or Regiment into
which he enlisted nor do I know the names of the officers under whom he served. We were married the 30th day of Decr 1780 in the town of Richmond in the State of New Hampshire and my said husband
died in Goshen in New Hampshire  in the year 1798 before my marriage to Mr Thayer my name was Mary White and I had a brother who was in the army with my said husband but he died a great  service a while ago, and I do not now know any
person living by whom I can prove any service
of my husband, or by whom I can prove that he was in the army. I frequently heard him state the service of the army and Camp that he was with General Washington and knew him well heard him & my said brother talk over soldiers tricks
when in the Camp till the names of officers &c. but his service was well performed before our marriage, and he died about Eighteen years afterwards about July years ago, and I was left with a family off small  children with but little means to support them  and my mind was taken off from former (?) and
facts that I may have been interested in at the
time and called to my more immediate situation & now by the great length
of time that his inter
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since my said husbands decease and the infirm
the infirmitive of his health and great age the relations I heard frommy husband and are so obliterated from
my  that I will not attempt to give
them in detail. I can only say, and that
I know from the (?) of my said husband
& brother that he intlisted from Mendon as before (?)
and I believe for (?) years that he performed two years or more that while in the army he was 
at the South or west, or both was sergeants acquainted with
General Washington, and many other officer whose names I cannot (?).

I am now Eighty years old and my mine
any does not enable me to take anything for
the material to the [illegible]

I have empowered Samuel Willard of Morristown in Lamoille County aforesaid to act in the premises as my attorney

Witness my hand this 29th day of January
1844 -
Mary (her X mark) Thayer

Witness Calin Burnett

Signed in my presence by said Mary Boyer
Calin Burnett Judge of Lamoille  County Court
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State of Vermont
Lamoille County I, Philo G. Camp of [illegible] 
Park Clerk of Lamoille County
Court hereby certify that Hon Calvin Bennett is
2d assistant Judge of Lamoille County Court duly
commissioned & qualified that his commission to
Dated Oct. 29th 1843 & will expire on the 1st day of December 1844 & that his signature attached hereto in time & genuine

In Witness whereof I hereunto
affix the seal of said Court and
Subscribe my name this 2nd day
of Feby AD 1844
P.S. Camp Clerk

Secretary of Massachusetts
[illegible] I believe your forms
and for the applicant to sign the power of  atty before a Justice of Peace
but I had a Judge with me to take her declaration, and has him to certify the power of atty & supposed it white
answer the requisition of I am mistaken it must of course  be returned.
Your communications may be
directed to me at Morrisville Vermont-
Yours with Respect   Saml A Willard
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Boston;
October 16 1845.

I hereby Certify, That, from an examination of the Books
and Documents, relating to Military Services in the War of
the Revolution, which remain in this Department, it appears
that the name of Joseph Thayer is borne as a private
upon a list of the Officers and soldiers in Capt JohnTylers Company that joined Col Joseph Reads Regt
said Company was composed of men from Mendon
Uxbridge and Upton. It appears by a return, dated
Roxbury Camp. January 19 1776. that said company
joined said regt. December 10. 1775. Upon a Muster
roll of Capt Samuel Baldwin's Company, in Col Dike
as a private of Mendon enlisted Dec 237 ┃
served to the last of February 1777 2 months & days
upon a payroll of Capt B Reads company, in Col Nathan Tylers regt of Militia from the County of
Worcester, as a Sergeant from July 28 to August 3
1780, 10 days including allowance of 3 days for travel
And the above is all the evidence of service which can be
identified as that of the individual named in the annexed application.
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And I further Certify, That, before search made for evidence
of said facts, the application hereto annexed was filed in this
Office, in the form in which the same now appears; that the
search was made by myself and my dates alone; and that said
application, and the certificate above set forth, contain all the facts
and circumstances within my knowledge, pertaining to the case.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal
of the Commonwealth, the date above written.
John G. Perry
Suntary of the Commonwealth
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State of Vermont
Samville County  ss.⎬ At Morristown in the County of Samville aforesaid on this
29th day of January 1844 before me Calvin Burnett
One of the Judges of the County Court within
and for the County of Lamoille aforesaid
personally appeared Mary Thayer of said
Morristown aged Eighty years who being first
duly sworn according to law, makes the
following declaration in order to obtain the
benefit of the provisions of the act of Congress
passed the 7th
of July 1838 granting Pensions to the
widows of Revolutionary
officers and Soldiers - She
says that she is the widow of Joseph Thayer
who was a private soldier in the army of the
Revolution. That she was married to the
said Joseph Thayer
after the services were  formed and cannot tell, and does not know the name of
 any of the officers under whom he served that
she has hand him late events and scenes of the
Army and war has heard that he was near General Washington frequently and knew him well and his
heard him state the tricks & sports of soldiers when
in Camp but he says her said husband has been dead about forty six years and that owing 
the infirmities
of age and ill health the con
not sufficiently [illegible]  he has given
her to give them in detail. she further says
that her said husband according to the best of
her recollection of the relation he four her
enlisted from the Town of Mendon in
the Commonwealth of Massachusetts for
three years but thinks he did not serve so
any but did serve two years or more
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she further says that she was duly married to the said
Joseph Thayer on the 30th day of December 1780 in Richmond in the State of New Hampshire and
soon after being married went with her said
reside in Newport in the State of New
Hampshire, and that her said husband died in
Goshen a town adjoining Newport in FebruRY
1790, that the moved with her children into
Vermont about thirty five years ago and has
resided in Vermont one, and now lives
with her son Oliver shoe in Morristown
aforesaid where he has lived for several years
now [illegible] & now lives & that she is now
the widow of said Joseph Thayer.
Signature of Mary (her X mark) Thayer

Morristown Jan 29 1844

Witness
Samuel A. Willard
Calvin Burnett

Sworn to and subscribed before me and I certify that the said Mary is a credible witness
Calvin Burnett Judge of [Samoviille?] County Court

I Oliver Thayer of Morristown the (?) County and State of Vermont aged ____ years Certify and by the the above named Mary Thayer is my mother and as the widow of my Father to Joseph Thayer who died as it forth in the above declaration of my mother, I have
a recollection of having my father with James of the Camp and army and of the Revolution and that he
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served n the war but cannot tell the [illegible] 
of any officers under whom he served I believe he was in the army two or three years but cannot tell in what Section of the Country he served in
Oliver Thayer

Sworn to and subscribed before me & deponent is a credible witness
Samuel Willard Justice of Peace

State of Vermont
Lamoille County ss  I. Philo G. Camp of Hydepark Clerk of Lamoille County Court
tify that Calvin Bennett is assistant
Lamoille County Court duly commissioned
& that Said A. William is a Justice of the
then & for sd County of Lamoille duly
& qualified, that their several commission
Oct. 29 1843 & they will expire on the 1st
day of Decr 1844 & that each of their signatures above are true & genuine 
I hereunto set my hand & affix the seal of sd
Court this 30th day October 1844
P. G. Camp Clerk
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10,488
P.O. 
Mary Mayer
Service: wid. of Joseph
Enlisted:
Discharged:
Application filed:
Alleges:
Re-enlisted:
Attorney:
P.O.
Recognized.    Cost
Cert. of Dis. Searched for ,18

A stamp of the word "Rejected" can be seen.
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10488

1888
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West Fairliee Vt. March 3d 1846

My Dear Sir,
I herewith forward the Seal of Mrs
Mary Thayer for a Pension under the act of 1838, which 
I wish you to lay before the Court of Pensions, and ask
of him to call upon the Secy of State for evidence of
the service of her husband Joseph Thayer deceased unless the evidence is in the Pension office, the
widow is confident that her husband served
over two years, and you will pleas communicate
the result to me
I am with due Respect
your Obt Sert
Stephen Thomas


Hon Paul Dillingham
Washington
D. C
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[illegible] Vt
Jany 10 1844

Samuel A. Willard Esq.
Morrisville
(Vermont)

[text written at bottom of document]
Certificate of the [illegible] in relation to the marriage
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Richmond N.H. Jany 9" 44

Dear Sir
Yours of the e inst. came to hand in
our search in which you ask me to write
you whether there is a record of the marriage of Joseph Thayer to Mary White, I have examined the Records and find the same, as set forth by the old Lady, except she was married in the year
1780, 30 day of Dec instead of October 1781
I am sir
Your Jarvis Weeks
Town Clerk
of Richmond N.H.
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House of Rep 9 March 1846

Sir
Inclosed is the Declaration of Mrs. Mary Thayer for a pension together write [illegible] widow & Mr. Thomas's letter to the request in which, you are requested to notice. 
I am [illegible[
P Dillingham