Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 10554, for Seth Thompson, North Carolina
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SERVICE

N.C.
Thompson, Seth
Judith 

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R. 10554

CONTENTS
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Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873

10. 554.

P.O.

Seth Thompson

Service:

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REJECTED 

Enlisted: ____________, 18

Discharged: ___________, 18

Application filed: ___________, 18

Alleges: ___________

Re-enlisted: ___________

Attorney: ___________

P.O. ___________

___________Recognized. ___________Contract.

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Seth Thompson
Georgia

Suspended, see let W B. Harris Oct 10 1835

Col GWB F[illegible] May 23 1836

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10554

Act June 7. 1832
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Greenville Meriwether County Ga Augst [?] 21st 1835

Dr Sir

Inclosed [sic] are two applications for pensions - Please notify me as early as practicall [sic] as to the sufficiency of the claim, a whether is sufficient [caret] what the amount will be
Yours JC
[signed] Walter B Harris [underlined]

Mr J L Edward
Com of Pensions
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S. thompson 33092
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State of Georgia
Meriwether County 
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On this the thirteenth day of August Eighteen hundred & thirty five personally appeared in open Court before the Judge of the Superior COurt of Meriwether County now sitting, Seth Thompson a resident of the State of Georgia & County of Meriwether aged seventy eight years who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on his oath make the following declaring in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June 7th 1832. That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers & served as herein stated — Under General Rutherford, & Colonel Geimes [?] field officers in Captain James Cook’ Company, Adam Hampton lieutenant for the 1st of July 1775 as a volunteer in the militia for five months during which time he was engaged as a spy on the frontier of North Carolina against the Cherokee Indians, & was in a skirmish with a party of Indians in the month of August 1775 at Munfords Cove in Rutherford County North Carolina on the head of main Broad River served out the time & returned home to Munfords Cove in Rutherford County where he then resided - That he was drafted in February or March 1782 from Halifax County North Carolina where he then resided for three months & served by substitute [underlined] (Frederick Thompson) under Colonel Nickolas Long Capt Nelson’s company of the militia, at the battle of Guilford Genl Greene commanding officer — That [caret] being drafted in the latter part of the summer of 1782, he served a tour of twelve months by James Allen [underllined] a substituted under Genl Greene in the southern division of the Army - That he served in person in 1783 & 1784 [underlined] the term of two years in Capt Newsoms company Furney [?] Southhold lieutenant of Halifax County North Carolina during which time he was engaged in scouting & protecting
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the frontier of Halifax North Carolina from the out lying tories & also to suppress insurrectionary movements among the negroes Genl Thomas Eaton & Col Nicholas Long [?] of the militia commanding officers, during which time the tories were entirely subdued or driven from that section of Country. The he lived at that time in Halifax County North Carolina that he has no documentary evidence of his services 

I hereby relinquish every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present & declare that my name is not on the Pension Roll of any State. 

Q. Where & in what year were you born?
A. From the information of my parents - I was born January 3rd 1755 Brunswick County Virginia

Q. Have you any record of your age & if so where is it?
A. I have no record nor do I know here it is

Q. Where were you living when called into service? Where have you lived since the revolutionary war & where do you now live?
A. Rutherford County North Carolina when called into service at just afterward, in Halifax County North.C. At the close of the War settled in Brunswick County Virginia then moved to Georgia where I resided many years then a moved to Tennessee remained a few years & removed to Georgia & now reside in Meriwether County

Q. How were you called into service: were you drafted: did you volunteer & if a substitute for whom?
A. Volunteer for five months in 1775 drafted for 3 months in 1782 & drafted for 12 months in the latter part of 1782 & volunteered 2 years 1782 & 1784

Q. State the name of some of the regular officers who were with the Troops where you served: such Continental & Militia Regiments as you can recollect & the general circumstances of your service?
A. Colo. Austin Willis regiment Colo. Nicholas Long Genl Thos Eaton Militia Genl Green of the Army
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A. Did you ever receive a discharge from the service & if so by whom was it given & what has become of it?
A. [underlined] I have no written discharge 

Q. State the names of persons to whom you known in your present neighborhood & also who can testify as to your character for veracity & good behavior your service as a Soldier in the revolution
A James Render Abram Hill John Hill or to character & veracity & Samuel Coleman as to services. 

Sworn to & subscribed the day & year aforesaid. 

[signed] S. Hiram Warner [underlined] Judge Supr Court

[signed] Seth Thompson 

We [redacted] John Keith [illegible] a clergyman residing in the County of Meriwether Stae of Georgia & [redacted] [illegible name] William Merggu [?] Samuel Coleman residents of the same County & State hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Seth Thompson who has subscribed & sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be seventy eight years of age, that he is reputed & believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution & that we concur in that opinion

[illiegible name] Warner 
Judge Supr. Ct
Sworn to & subscribed the day & year aforesaid. 
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is a Clergyman resident in the County of Meriwether & state of Georgia & that Abner Durham William Morgan & Samuel Coles who have signed the same are residents of the same County & State & are credible persons & that their Statements are entitled to credit
[signed] Hiram Warner
Judge Supr Court [illegible] Dist. Ga
I Levi M Adam’s Clerk of the Superior Court of the County of Meriwether in the State of Georgia do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings in the matter of the application of Seth Thompson for a pension

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of office this 21st day of [redacted] August 1835

[signed] Levi M. Adam’s
Clk.

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POWER OF ATTORNEY — Revolutionary Pension Claims.

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Know all Men by these Presents, That I, * Judith Thompson widow of Seth Thompson deceased

hereby irrevocably constitute and appoint M. THOMSPON, Esq., of Washington City, D. C. My true and lawful Agent and Attorney, to prosecute the Claim of Seth Thompson for any amount of Revolutionary Penson [sic], or Increase of Pension, that may be due; and I hereby authorize my said Agent to examine all papers and documents in relation to said claim, on file in the Departments at Washington City, or elsewhere; to file additional evidence or arguments; and to receive the Certificate which may be issued for said Claim, and to appoint one or more substitutes under him for the purposes herein expressed; and to do all things that I might or could do were I personally present. Hereby ratifying and confirming all that my said Attorney and Agent shall lawfully do in the premises, and revoking all former powers
WITNESS my hand and Seal this 30th day of August A. D. 1853.
[signed] Judith X her mark. Thompson
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Signed and Sealed in the presence of L. M. Adams [curly bracket]
F. A. Boykin J, P.

STATE OF Georgia
COUNTY OF Meriwether [curly bracket] SS.
On this thirteenth day of August A. D., 1853 before me, the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid, personally appeared Judith Thompson — and acknowledged the foregoing Power of Attorney to be her act and deed, for the purposes therein mentioned. 
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I hereunto set my hand, this 30th the day and year aforesaid. [curly bracket]
[signed] F A Boykin J. Peace.

*In this blank, if the Claimant b [sic] alive, he will insert his name, and execute the power If he be dead, the widow, if alive, will insert her name, (stating the fact that she is his widow,) and execute the power. If both be dead, then any one of the children may insert his, or her, name, (stating the fact that he or she is the son r daughter) and execute the power.
If there be neither father, mother, child, or children, then there is no person entitled under the existing rules of the Department, and the power of Attorney need not be executed.
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Claim of
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STATE OF Georgia
COUNTY Meriwether 
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Be it Known, That on this thirtieth day of August A>D., eighteen hundred and fifty three, before the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace in and for the County and State aforesaid, personally appeared Judith Thompson - a resident of Eleventh Dist. In said County, and made oath according to law the she is the identical Eidow of Seth Thompson deceased - - who executed the foregoing power of attorney, andthat she is directly interested in said claim, and makes this affidavit to be filed with such additional evidence or arguments as said Agent may use in prosecuting said claim.
Sworn to and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid, before
F A Boykin J. Peace. [curly bracket]

[signed] Judith Thomson her X mark

I Fr. A. Boykin Justice of the Peace, in and for said County do hereby certify that Judith THompson who executed the foregoing paper, is a respectable resident of this County, and is, I believe, directly interested in said claim as Theron set forth.
[signed] F A Boykin J. Peace.

I, William A. Adams Clerk of the Superior Court in the County and State aforesaid, do hereby certify that Fr. A. Boykin before whom the foregoing papers were executed, was, at the date of the same, a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, duly authorized by law to administer oaths, and the name thereunto subscriber, is his signature.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed my official Seal, this 30th — day of August — A.D., 1853.

[signed] William A. Adams Clerk 

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