Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 30,597, for Thomas Morris, New Jersey
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SERVICE NUMBER
New Jersey Morris, Thomas S. 30,597
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[The following is crossed out.]
Fra Cir [Illegible] 
5th Jany 1838.
[Illegible] 31 May 1838
[The following is not crossed out.]
19279
Kentucky
Thomas Morris 2nd
of Madison Co in the State of Kent
who as a pr in the Co commanded
by Captain Smock of the rgt commanded
by Col Halems in the N.J.
line for 1 year
Inscribed on the Roll of Kentucky
at the rate of 40 Dollars -- Cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 21 day of Augt
1833 and Marshall
Key Washington
Arrears to the 4th of March 80--
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sept 20--
$100--
{Revolutionary Claim,}
{Act June 7, 1832.}
Recorded by D Boyd Clerk,
Book E Vol. 7 Page 19
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13,713.
Thomas Morris
from 1775 private
1 year
[Illegible] 16, 17 $40
Marshall Key Marshall Key
Washington C H Washington C H
Kent Kentucky
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13,713
BRIEF in the case of Thomas Morris
County of Mason in the State of Kentucky
(Act 7th June, 1832.)
1. Was the declaration made before a Court of a Judge? Court
2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?
3. How old is he? 82
4. State his service, as direct in the form annexed.
Period. Duration of Service. Rank. Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.
Years, Months, Days. As a Gen.
Drafted In 1775 His memory very much [Illegible] Capt. J. Smock, Col. Holmes
Capt Holmes, Capt Howell
impaired from age & disease Private Genl. D. Forman
Sundry times He is however, perfectly confident
that he was in actual service in the
Jersey line more than One Year, and believes very [illegible] Two years
but less? he should [illegible] he begs to limit his claim for one years serv.
5. In what battles was he engaged? none
6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Elizabeth Town New Jersey
7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? Traditionary & 2 witnesses
8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? They are not connected with the Clerk's Seal as required.
I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
F. Waugh Examining Clerk.
Feb. 19, 1833.
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State of Kentucky
County of Mason Ss.
On this thirteenth day of August in the year 1832, personally appeared in open court before the Justices of the County Court of said County now sitting Thomas Morris a resident of the town of Washington in the County aforesaid aged about eighty two years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on this Oath make the following declaration 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 and served as herein stated, towit, He was enrolled in a Company of New Jersey Militia, under the command of Captain John Smock, which belonged to a Regiment Commanded by Colo. Holmes, that he entered the service as well as he now remembers in the year 1775, and was drafted into it, and served short tours of duty until the battle of Monmouth, after which he was not again called on, that he was a Tailor by trade and most commonly employed while in the service in making clothing for the troops, and at one time
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was employed in that way he thinks about three months, receiving no compensation for his labour other than his pay as a Militia man, that when not thus employed the company to which he belonged & himself as a soldier in that company was generally on duty on the lines and along the shore at Sandy Hook & [Illegible] where watching the tories - that on one Occasion he recollects to have been under the Command of Genl. David Forman, and he remembers too to have marched at one time with some regular troops called Morgan Riflemen from Middletown in Monmouth County to Sandy hook. He cannot however fix the precise period or duration of any of the tours of duty he performed, being now extremely frail in body and his memory very much impaired from age and disease, he is however perfectly Confident that he was in actual service as a Malitia man in the Jersey line more than one year and believes very near two years, but lest he should 'ere he begs to limit his claim to pay under the act of congress as for one years service. That he with his company came upon the battle ground at Monmouth just after the
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termination of the battle. He further states he left the state of New Jersey and came to Kentucky in the year 1788 or 1789, and has resided in the County of Mason aforesaid ever since except about four years (he thinks) during which he lived at Lexington in this state. That he has no papers evidencing his services in the war of the revolution, and he knows of no person whose evidence he can procure who can testify to his services, except John Salmon & Tunis Bur[illegible], who have some knowledge of his said service. He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that he is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state.
Subscribed and Sworn to the day and year aforesaid his
Thomas T Morris
mark
We John Salmon and Moses Fowler residing in the town of Washington, county of Mason and State of Kentucky, hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Thomas Morris who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration, that we believe him to be eighty two years of age, that he is reputed and believed in the neighbourhood where he resides to have been
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a soldier of the revolution and that we concur in that opinion.
Sworn and Subscribed the day and year aforesaid
John Salmon
Moses Fowler
John Salmon of the town of Washington aforesaid states upon his solemn Oath, that in the year 1776 he knew Thomas Morris who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that said Morris in the Spring of that year was in the public service as a malitia man, and was employed at Shrewsbury as a Tailor making uniform clothing for a company of Jersey Lighthorse to which this affiant belonged that he knew sd Morris before the commencement of the war and could not therefore have been Mistaken as to his identity, he afterwards frequently saw him on duty as a Malitia man in what was called the "flying camp." He knows also that sd Morris belonged to Capt. John Smocks company and that the regiment he belonged to was said to be commanded by Colo. Holmes, and further that he has lived near sd Morris for upwards of thirty years and thinks he represents his services
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REVOLUTIONARY WAR RECORDS SECTION 3-525
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR.
BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
Washington, D. C., Oct 4, 1922
In reply to your request of _____, for the history of Thos. Morris, a soldier of the Revolutionary War, the following is taken frm the Sol claim for pension.
DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT.
1775
at various times in all
about one year.
LENGTH OF SERVICE.
[Illegible] I served
RANK.
Pvt.
OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. 
CAPTAIN.      COLONEL.
Jno. Smock   Holmes
STATE. 
N.J.
Battles engaged in, None stated.
Residence of soldier at enlistment, enl in N.J.
Date of application for pension, Aug. 13, 1832, al.
Residence at date of application, Washington, Mason Co., Ky.
Age at date of application, about 82 yrs.
Remarks: No fam data.
Respectfully,
Commissioner.
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1045 MAPLE AVENUE
EVANSTON, ILLINOIS
Sept. 3, 1922
Department of the Interior.
Washington D.C.
Gentlemen:
Will you kindly send me a copy of the Revolutionary pension of one Thomas Morris - member of New Jersey militia, pension granted Aug. 21, 1833, in Mason Co. Kentucky.
I sent you a former request for the above
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1045 MAPLE AVENUE
EVANSTON, ILLINOIS
a few weeks ago, but I received no reply.
Thanking you for the information, I am
Very truly yours,
(Mrs.) Neva S. Burgess.
PENSION
[Illegible]
SEP
U. 7 S.
1922
OFFICE.
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State of Kentucky}
Mason County [Illegible]} August Court 1832.
Thomas Morris produced in Court and subscribed & swore to the foregoing written statement or Declaration of his Services as a soldier in the war of the Revolution in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the act of congress passed June 7th 1832, which is [illegible] to be certified to the Secretary of War of the United states, and sundry Witnesses being sworn and examined the Court do hereby declare their opinion that the said applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as stated by him.
I Marshall Key, Clerk of the County Court of Mason County Do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of application of Thomas Morris for a pension.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office for said Court this 24th day of September 1832 and of the Commonwealth the 41st.
Marshall Key.
Kentucky Mason County Court [Illegible]
May term 1833
Thomas Morris who made and subscribed the declaration Contained in the preceeding pages at the last August term of the Court, again came into Court and States on Oath that there is not now and was not at the time he made the said declaration any Clergyman residing in his neibhbourhood and that he has no personal acquaintance with any clergyman
Subscribed & Sworn to in Open Court his X mark
Thomas Morris
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State of Kentucky
Mason County [Illegible]. May Court 1833.
Thomas Morris produced an addition to his Declaration made at the last August Court and swore to the same in open Court. And it is ordered to be certified that there is not now, & was not at the last August Court any Clergyman residing in the town of Washington, and that John Salmon and Titus Bennett whose testimony is appended to the declaration of the said Thomas Morris made at the last August Court, gave subscribed and made oath to their statements in open Court, and that they are persons of good character and entitled to full credit as Witnesses.
In Testimony whereof I Marshall Key Clerk
of the Court for the County of Mason afore-
said have hereunto set my hand & affiexed
the seal of said Court at Washington
the 20th day of May 1833.
Marshall Key
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and present situation correctly in the foregoing declaration, signed and sworn to by him: That he sd Morris is a very honest, poor man & generally so esteemed.
Subscribed and Sworn to in Open Court.
John Salmon
Tunis Bennett of the Cunty of Mason and State of Kentucky aforesaid states upon his solemn oath he was sixty five years old on the first day of July last according to the information of his birth kept by his father (which he has often seen) That he was born and raised in the County of Monmouth and State of New Jersey and well recollects the War of the Revolution, and has known Thomas Morris who has made and Subscribed the above declaration, now Sworn to in Court, was since he the said Bennett can remember any thing, that said Morris was a neighbour to this affiants father in said County of Monmouth, and he remembers that said Morris and his father were frequently called out into the public service during the war as Malitia men as he this affiant then understood and he knows they left home
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and were frequently absent, as he understood for the purpose of guarding the lines, but this deponent cannot state how often or how long at a time they were absent, nor where they actually were employed or how, ex[illegible] the general understanding of the neighbourhood at the time, which was as above stated. This affiant further states that he came to Kentucky in the year 1789 and that said Morris came here shortly afterward perhaps in that or the next year, and he has known him ever since residing in the same County with him and that he the said Morris is as he verily believes as old as he now represents himself to be, that is to say eighty two years old, and is very infirm and poor, but has always sustained the character of a very honest truthful man. And this affiant from his own knowledge as above detailed and from the declaration of said Morris verily believes he did serve in the war of the Revolution as he states.
Subscribed & Sworn to in Open Court.
Tunis Bennet
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Rev [Illegible]
1045 MAPLE AVENUE
EVANSTON, ILLINOIS
Sept. 11, 1922.
Department of the Interior.
Washington, D.C.
Gentlemen:
I find that I made a mistake in the name when I wrote for a copy of the pension. So, Kindly send me a copy of the pension given to Thomas Morris of N.J. & Mason Co. Ky. He was in the Revolution.
He applied for the pension
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in 1833.
Thanking you for the above mentioned copy I am,
Very truly yours,
(Mrs.) Neva S. Burgess
[Written vertically]
PENSION
O
SEP
U. 13 S.
1922
OFFICE.
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N
[Illegible] South Bound Brook NJ
May 21st 95
Dear Sir M
Can you give me any information as to Birth, Birth place, Age and death of Thomas Morris who was attached to Capt Barnes Smocks Company of 1st Monmouth Regiment New Jersey - Pension Claim No. 30597 of 1820 or 1840.
and of
Thomas Morris, of Smyrna Del. a Sea Captain who rendered many important services to his Country under General Washington.
Note
This last Thomas Morris settled in Monmouth Co. N.J. and I am of the opinion that they are one and the Same.
I would be obliged for any information aiding me in joined "The Sons of the Revolution."
I find the above from old family notes - Thomas Morris was my Great
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KY. MO.
OLD WAR & NAVY
MAY 27 1895
FILES.
18- 18-
Grandfather.
Thanking You
J.L.M. Du Four
(J.L.M. Du Four)
[Written vertically]
PENSION
[Illegible]
MAY
U. 24 S.
1895
OFFICE
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June 1/95 J.L.M. Du Four,
So. Bound Brook, N.J. [Illegible]
1922, Oct. 4 List to Mrs. Neva S. Burgess [Illegible]
30,597
Revy INVALID.
File No. 30,597
Thomas Morris
Pri Rev War
Act: June 7" 32"
Index:--Vol. 2, Page 284.
[Arrangement of 1870.]