Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 43136, for Thomas Shaw, New Hampshire
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(3-1776)

SERVICE               NUMBER

Continental (N.H.)   Shaw Thomas   S. 43136


CONTENTS
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(Two Line - too light to read)


[SECOND COLUMN]

New Hampsh
17.715

Thomas Shaw
of Rock.m Co.y in the state of N.H.
who was a private in the regiment commanded by
Colonel Stark, of the N. Hamp.e
line, for the term of one year.

Inscribed on the Roll of New Hampshire
at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on
the 1st of October, 1819.

Certificate of Pension issued the 7 of Sept. 182
and sent to Hall Burgin, ay,
Pembroke, New Hamps.e

Arrears to 4th of Sept: 1820.  $ 89.06
Semi-anl. all'co ending 4 March   48..
11 mo. 4/30  1824
$137.06


[ Revolutionary claim, }
{ Act 18th March, 1818. }
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Thomas Shaw
Claim for a
pension

Service done in 1776
in (illegible)  N.H. Reg.t


[WRITTEN VERTICALLY]

Col. Stark. Regt.

This claim will be admitted when
Capt. Moor's certificate shall be
duly certified.  May 1820
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I Thomas Shaw of Pembroke in the
County of Rockingham state of 
New hampshire [Hampshire] testify & declare that
in the month of January 1775 I 
enlisted for one year in the Company 
commanded by Capt. Samuel Moore in the 
Reg.t Commanded by Col. John Stark
in New hampshire [Hampshire] line I served said one
year faithfully & was honorably discharged
by my said Captain. I am seventy four
years of age am in reduced circumstances
in life & need assistance from my Country
for Support.
Allenstown October 1st - 1819

Thomas X  Shaw
("his" above X)
("mark" below X)

Taken & Sworn to the day & year above
before me
Hall Burgin  (signature)
{ one of the
{ Judges of the
{ Court of Com.
{ pleas for the
{ County of 
{ Rockingham
{ in the State
{ of New hampshire [Hampshire]
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State of New hampshire [Hampshire]
Rockingham Ss

Allenstown  October 1st 1819

I hereby certify that it appears to my
Satisfaction that the said Thomas Shaw
did serve in the revolutionary War as he
has stated in the foregoing declaration
by him signed & I know that said Shaw
is a County pauper & needs assistance from his
Country for support.

Hall Burgin  (signature)
{ one of the 
{ Judges of the
{ County of Com.
{ pleas for the
{ County of Rock-
{ ingham in the
{ state of New ham [Ham}
pshire


Attest Chadwick  Clerk of the Court of
Common Pleas for said County of Rockingham
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Thomas Shaw
Seal
of Pembroke
Rockingham Co. N. H.
Col. Stark  (illegible)
N. Hampshire Regt

1776 - 1 year -

{ Peter Chadwick }
{ Agent }
{ Exeter, NH }

Proof of service by (illegible)
(illegible) & disinterested
(illegible) is required.

21 July 1820 -
(illegible) 1820

[Last 2 lines illegible]
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SCHEDULE

CONTAINING the whole estate and income of Thomas Shaw
(his necessary clothing and bedding excepted,) by him subscribed,
exhibited to the Court of Common Pleas for the County of Rockingham, on the
fourth day of July 1820, and annexed to his
oath, viz.


Not one dollars value of
any property accepting his wearing
apparel
Thomas  X  Shaw
("his" above X)
("mark" below X)

Witness Hall Burgin
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And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on
the 8th 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 I have 
none but am a County pauper (sufficient ability to pursue it = crossed out)
never having any means of support since I became
unable to labour [labor] which is more than ten years
in family residing with me none - neither have I one dollar,
worth of property on earth
Thomas  X  Shaw
("his" above X)
("mark" below X)

(Their capacity to contribute to their support = crossed out)

Sworn to and declared at Pembroke on the twenty sixth day of June 1820
before me
Hall Burgin (signature)  }  Judge of
} 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 (blank)
dollars and (blank) 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 (signature)  {  Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas
{ for the County of Rockingham.
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Mrs. E. D. Champine,
4129 Upton Ave. So.,
Minneapolis, Minn.

Madam:

I have to advise you that the Revolutionary War
records of this Bureau do not show that any soldier
named Thomas Shaw was pensioned while residing in the
state of Vermont or for services in the Vermont Troops.

You are herewith furnished the history of the only
Thomas Shaw of New Hampshire found on said records.

From the papers in the pension claim, S.43136, it
appears that Thomas Shaw enlisted January 1, 1776, and
served one year as a private in the companies of
Captain Daniel Moor and George Read, Colonel John Stark's
New Hampshire Regiment.

He was allowed pension on his application executed
October 1, 1819, at which time he was seventy-four years
old and a resident of Pembroke, Rockingham County, New
Hampshire.

There is no data on file as to family.

Respectfully,
(Blank)
Commissioner.
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[FIRST COLUMN]

43136
INVALID.
Revy

File No.  43,136
Thomas Shaw
Pri Rev War

Act:  18 March 18

Index: -- Vol. S, Page 458

[Arrangement of 1870.]


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1923. Dec. 6 hist. to Mrs. E. D. Champine  aw
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Thomas Shaw,
Rockingham Co:  N.H.
1st October 1819.

Col. Stark's reg.t  N.H.
line, one year, from
January, 1776.

Service proved by the
testimony, on oath, of
his Capt. Daniel
Moore.

Admitted.

Hall Burgin, agent,
Pembroke, N.H.
Rec.d 22.d Aug.t 1820.
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Allenstown  August 10th. 1820

Dear Sir

I duly rec.d Your favor of
date Aug.t 1st 1820 enclosing eight
letters of information to claiment [claimant]
of Pensioners also the return of Thomas
Shaws claim & the deposition of Capt.
Daniel Moore relative to Shaws service
& my letter to the Sec.y on which is written
"The testimony of two (underlined) or more (underlined) credible
& disinterested witnesses on oath certified
by the Judge as such is required to prove
the applicants service 9 months in 
continental Establishment. I conclude in
that through the press of business in the pension
office at this time some little omission of some
one of the Clerks is the cause of this return for
I long since rec.d instruction from the Secretary
that one Credible disinterested witness (being
an officer of the same Reg.t) or two privates was
required to establish claims, which instructions
are perfectly corroborated by the endorsement
on the back of Shaws declaration as you will
please to notice. but if it is now necessary to
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have more testimony in the case there
are twenty within ten miles of him who
will testify to the same fact & the only reason
why he sent no more was I considered it not
necessary. Therefore take the liberty to
transmit the same for Your examination
for I presume I have certified all that you
Sir will require.

I am dear sir
Respectfully Your 
Obt. Serv.t

Hall Burgin (signature)

J. L. Edwards Esquire
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Thomas Shaw

Hall Burgin
Agt.
Pembroke, NHam.

Rec.d 21 Aug. 1820.


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J. L. Edwards Esquire
City of Washington
Pensions office
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Affidavit of
Captain Daniel
Moore in the
case of Thos. Shaw
for a pension
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I Daniel Moore of Pembroke in the County
of Rockingham & State of New hampshire [Hampshire]
testify & say that I was an officer in the U.S.
army in the Revolutionary War against the
common enemy in 1775 & 1776. & Thomas
Shaw served in my Company eight months
& he inlisted [enlisted] the first of January 1776. into
the Company Commanded by Captain George
Reed in Colonel John Starks Regt in
which Regt. I commanded a Company &
I know that the said Thomas Shaw did serve
one Year in said Regt it being the term
for which he enlisted. & I know he served
faithfully his year out & in 1777 I know him in
the same service
Allenstown  Dec. 8th 1819  Daniel Moore (signature)

Rockingham County Ss. Allenstown June 16th 1820
I hereby certify that Daniel Moore the subscriber
to the above affidavit, is a Gentleman of
perfect credit as to truth & veracity & is intirely [entirely]
disinterested and that he made solemn oath to the
truth of the above affidavit before me

Hall Burgin }  a Judge of the Court of Com. pleas
} in said Rockingham County
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Minneapolis, Minn.
4129 Upton Ave. So.,
Nov. 26, 1923

Bureau of Pensions
Washington, D. C.

Gentlemen: -

In a letter from you this morning stating you had no record of a
Pension to Thomas Shaw of New Hampshire, you requested me to furnish you with
all the information I could concerning the "alleged Pension."

Thomas Shaw was a grandfather of William I. Allen of Hartland, Vt. William Allen born 1806, father of William I. Allen, married Hannah Shaw, daughter
of Thomas Shaw. Thomas Shaw was a taxpayer in Weare, N.H. from 1788 to 1793.
The last record I find of him there was a member of the church in Weare in
1802 after which he evidently removed to Hartland, Vt. in company with his father-
in-law, Isaac Sargent, who was a soldier in the Rev. war.

According to the record of the Town Clerk of Hartland he died Sept.
4, 1848, aged 86; his wife, Martha Sargent, died May 1, 1847 aged 79. The 
Department of Vital Statistics of Concord, N.H. gives the date of his marriage
to Martha Sargent at Weare, N.H. as Feb. 26, 1789.

A little book, Hartland in the Revolution, published in Rutland, Vt. 
gives on page 41 that Thomas Shaw drew a Revolutionary Pension in Hartland, Vt.;
also in the Rev. Documents, N.H. State Papers, page 290, Vol. 30 it has the
following: "Thomas Shaw private resided in Rockingham, N.H. Continental Line;
placed on pension list Nov. 18, 1819."

The reason I wanted a copy of his Pension record was to establish the
service for that particular Thomas Shaw as there seems to have been more than one
in N.H.  Hoping you may be able to give me some assistance, I am

Very truly yours,
(Mrs. Emojine D. Champine (signature)