Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 43199, for Asa Thayer, Connecticut
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(3-1776)

SERVICE
Conn

Thayer, Asa

NUMBER
S.43199

CONTENTS
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43199
INVALID
Revy

File No. 43.199
Asa Thayer
Pri Rev War

Act: 18" March 18"
Index:- Vol. 8, Page 508

(Arrangement of 1870.)
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Notification sent July 31st 1820 to
Peter Chadwick, Exeter, New Hampshire

3628
4
New Hampshire Roll

Asa Thayer
Capt Smith
Conn Private-
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.

Inscribed on the Roll of New Hampshire-
at the rate of Eight Dollars per month, to commence on the 28th of April 1818

Certificate of Pension issued the 20th of Janry. 1819 and sent to Elisha Huntley Esqr Judge
Marlow Ches. Cy. N H

Arrears to 4th of Septr. 1818. 4 ms. 7/30 - 35:86
Semi-anl, all'ce ending 4th March 1819 - 40:-
$83.86
Revolutionary claim,
Act 18th March, 1818.

Continued
[illegible] Apl '77 left before the end of the war

Westmoreland Ches. Cy.
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State of Newhampshire [New Hampshire]
Cheshire ss April 28th 1818 Then before Elisha Huntley a Justice of the Court of Common pleas in and for said County of Cheshire personally appeared Asa Thare [Thayer] before named and made solemn - Oath that the foregoing declaration by him Subscribed contains the truth and nothing but the truth and it having been made to appear to my satisfaction that the said Asa Thare [Thayer] did serve in the Revolutionary war against the Common Enemy in manner as by him is Stated in said declaration I hereby certify and transmit the testimony in his case being his oath-
to the Honble. John C Calhoun ads[?] 
Secretary of war -
This may certify that the within named Asa Thayer is poor and stands in need of the assistance of his country for support -
Marlow December 28th 1818 
Elisha Huntley 
one of the Justices of the Court of Common pleas for said County

Cheshire ss I Levi Chamberlain Assistant Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for said County hereby certify that the above is the signature of the Hon Elisha Huntley who is duly commissioned a Justice of said Court and that no particular impression is used as a seal by said Court 
In witness whereof I have hereto subscribed & affixed a seal in usual form as used by said Court this 26th day of May A.D. 1818 
Levi Chamberlain
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I Asa Thare [Thayer] of Westmorland in the County of Cheshire and State of Newhampshire [New Hampshire] Laborer do make the following declarations upon Oath that in the year of our Lord one Thousand Seven Hundred and Seventy seven in the month of Aprel [April] I enlisted as a private Soldier in the Continental Army in the United States of Amarica [America] for During the war at Waterbury in the State of Connecticut under Capt Smith of Horthbary in said State in Col Chandler Regiment and Marched to pishskils[?] [Fishkill? Peekskill?] and from that to German Town [Germantown] Battle and soon untill [until] the End of the war- only I receved [received] a furlow [fulough] from ["the [illegible]" crossed out] Major Smith being sick to go home just Before the war Closed To Repair my health and before I was well The war was at an End and I never Returned so I never had a Regular discharge- 
Also I further Say upon oath that I am- poor and stand in need of assistance from my Country for support-
Asa Thayer

On the Connecticut Roll

Returned for evidence of the [illegible] circumstances- The Judge will certify ["that" crossed out] his Knowledge thereof or to the credibility of those certifying the same.

Admitted [written over above]
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Asa Thayer
5028
Nottingham

Jany 19

con

Mar 1820
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STATE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE, 
ROCKINGHAM.....SS. 
ON this Eleventh day of July, 1820, personally appeared ["in open court," crossed out], before Hall Burgin a Judge ---- ["Esqre. Justices" crossed out] of the Court of Common Pleas for the said County of Rockingham, being a Court of Record for the said County of Rockingham, having the power of fine and imprisonment, Asa Thayer aged seventy years, resident in Nottingham, in said county, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on his oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows:- Viz
 In April 1777 in the Company commanded by Captain Smith in the Regt commanded by Colonel Chandler in Connecticut line in the Revolutionary war against the commen [common] enemy during the said War. I served in said War six year and at the close of said wa[r] I was honorably discharged I was in the Battle at Germantown and at horse neck [Horseneck] & several others 
The date of my original declaration in order to obtain a pension is the 28th day of April AD 1818 The number of my pension Certificate is 5,628. I have received a pension 
And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 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 provision 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 securities, contracts or debts, due to me; nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed, and by me subscribed. My occupation is a labourer but am not of- sufficient ability to pursue it 
I have - - - 
in family residing with me none- 
Their capacity to contribute to their support Asa Thayer 
Sworn to and declared at Deerfield in said County on the 11th day of July AD 1820 before Hall Burgin Judge of the said Court 

I, Peter Chadwick Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for the County of Rockingham do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and the schedule thereto annexed, are truely [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 exhibited in the aforesaid schedule, is ------- dollars and ------- cents. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said court, on this 14th day of July, 1820. 
P Chadwick Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for the County of Rockingham
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SCHEDULE
CONTAINING the whole estate and income of Asa Thayer (his necessary clothing and bedding excepted,) by him subscribed, exhibited to the Court of Common Pleas for the County of Rockingham, in the State of New Hampshire, on the Eleventh day of July, 1820, and annexed to his oath, viz.
not any property of any description excepting my pension money.
Asa Thayer