Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 10552, for Roger Thompson, Virginia
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SERVICE NUMBER
Va. Thompson, Roger R. 10552
CONTENTS
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Rejected
Hon W F Gordon
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Virginia:
At a Circuit Court held for Albemarle County the 18" day
of May 1853.
On the motion of William Ward executor of Roger Thompson deceased, the Court doth Certify that on the 18" day of May 1853, Edmund I Thompson of the County of Albemarle, personally appeared in open Court, in the Circuit Court of the said County, and being first duly sworn, stated that he Knew Roger Thompson of Albemarle County. - that the said Roger Thompson departed this life on some day in the winter of 1838, between the 25 of December 1838 and the 1" of January 1839, at which time he was eighty nine years and nine months old or thereabouts, leaving the following named Children who survived him to wit - William Thompson, Nicholas Thompson, Nathaniel Thompson Jr., Mary Franklin wife of Richard Franklin, Elizabeth Ballard, Sarah Ward wife of Samuel Ward, Susan Ward wife of William Ward; -
The said Roger Thompson had been an applicant for a pension under the laws of the United States, but had failed in his application in consequence, as he informed the witness, of his not having been engaged the full term of six months in the Military service of the United States.
The witness has no interest whatever in the estate of the said Roger Thompson, nor in the estate of either of his Children, and none whatever in the estate of the said Roger Thompson, and none whatever in any pension or claim for compensation in land or money that the said Roger Thompson may be entitled to claim on account of the military service of the said Roger.
Captain Robert A Burrass also of said County, also appeared in open Court on same day, and on oath testified that he knew the said Roger Thompson, that he departed this life on the 30" or 31" of December 1838 and was buried on the 1" day of January 1839, he was a very old man, some eighty or ninety years of age; The witness beliefed that he had no sort of interest in any Compensation in land or money or claim to pension, which may belong to the representatives of said Roger Thompson for military services rendered by the said Thompson, either under the laws of the United States, or State of Virginia. All of which is ordered to be certified.
And the Court further Certifies that the said Edmund I Thompson