Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 10578, for Josiah Thrasher, Pennsylvania
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Service                                                 Number

Penn            Thrasher, Josiah              R.10578
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State of Indiana
Rush County

    On the twelfth day of October one thousoand eight hundred & forty two before the rush Circuit Court in and for the Country aforesaid, personally appeared Josiah Thrasher, a resident of said county & state aged eighty years.  Who being first duly sword according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provisions made by the Act of Congress passed June 7th 1832. That he entered the service of the United States as a volunteer in the state of Pennsylvania, at a place called Fort Jackson in the County of Washington in the state of Pennsylvania.  That he cannot at this time, in being so long ago, say with certainty at what time, he entered the said service, but he was in the Eighteenth of Nineteenth year of his ago, when he entered said service.  He served three years as a volunteer as aforesaid during which time he was engaged in scouting expeditions against the Indians.  He was at first under the command of Captain James Archer and when said Archer died he was afterwards during the whole term of his service under the command of Captain James Ankram.  That there was at Fort Ancorm a few miles distant from Jackson Fort and that the soldiers often joined in scouting parties against

(Transcriber's Note:  Fort Ancorm is probably misspelling for Fort Ancrum a small Revolutionary War fort in Pennsylvania)
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the Indians. He is not positive as to his age when he entered the service, and might have been only is his Seventeenth year. He was under Command of Col. Crawford.  He further states that the reason why he makes this his application at so late a period is the following - about the year one thousand eight hundred and ninety four or nineth five, he sent his application and proof to the War Department by Gen. Jonathan McCarty but from that time until the present he has (??) nothing of the matter - except that in the summer of 1842, he was informed by his agent that his claim had never been presented.  This too is one reason why he cannot speak more definitively as to his service.  From the time of making his said application many of the facts have escaped his fast failing memory.  He does not recollect whether he received a discharge or not but if he did, he has lost ot many years ago.  Owing to his service having been informed in a section of county where but few troops were stationed and the service having chiefly against the Indians he cannot name any regiments of regimental officers, other than those he has already mentioned.
           The court provided the following interrogations to the said Josiah Thrasher to which he made the following
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answers to wit,
Question 1. Where & in what year were you born?
Answer - I was born in the county of Frederick in the State of Maryland in the month of January Seventeen hundred & sixth three.
Question 2. Have you any recon of your age and is so when is it?
Answer - I have, in my family bible in my possession - It shews that I was born in January in January 1763.
Question 3. Where were you living when called into service - Where have you lived since the Revolutionary War - & Where do you live now?
Answer - I was living in the state of Pennsylvania when called into service - since the war I have lived in the states of Pennsylvania, Kentucky & Indiana - in which last stat I now reside & in the County of Rush.
Question 4. How were you called into service - were you drafted - did you volunteer, or were you a substitute & if a substitute, for whom?
Answer -  I was a volunteer.
Question 5. To the question as required to be provided by the Department he says, he has answered as full as he is able - upon reflection he thinks A.N.Krunn's name was Job instead of James as given
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in his declaration - He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present - and declares that his name is not any pension roll of the agency of any state.

Sworn to and subscribed                 //s//
in open court on this                Josiah Thrasher
day & year aforesaid.
                //s//
    Robert Thompson Clerk.

And the said court do hereby declare this opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogation, prescribed by the War Department That the above named applicant Josiah Thrasher was a Revolutionary Soldier & sworn as he states.
                                                   //s//
                                    James Perry Prest Judge

  I Robert Thompson Clerk of the Rush Circuit Court in and for the County of Rush and state of Indiana do certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings in the matter of the application of Josiah Thrasher for a pension.

    In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of office. This twelfth day of October One Thousand Eight Hundred & Forty-Two.
                                       //s//
                         Robert Thompson  Clerk
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State of Kentucky
Pendleton County

   Be it known that on the 17th day of October 1842 before me Patrick Williams a Justice of the Peace in and for said county, personally appeared, Mary Boner  of said county aged seventy four years and personally known to me, and after first being duly sworn, desposeth and saith that she is well acquainted with Josian Thrasher now of the state of Indiana and formerly a resident of this county.  That the said Thrasher is her brother and aged about seventy nine years, that she well recollects that her father and family lived in Jackson's Fort in Washington County Pennsylvania, something like two like three , that during their stay at said fort she has no distinct recollection of any services rendered by her brother Josiah, but she well recollects that he was employed with many others in guarding what was called Ankrums Fort, about two miles from Jackson's Fort.  That he was thus engaged off and on for something like three years after they left Jackson's Fort. That during their stay at the fort many Indians and whites were killed.  This was before the close of the Revolution. 

Sworn to and subscribed                   her
the day and date first above       Mary X Boner
written before me.                             mark
            //s//
  P.Williams  J.P.P.C.

The Commonwealth of Kentucky
Pendleton County 

           I Reuben McCarty Clerk of the
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County Court for said, County do certify that Patrick Mullins, whose signature appears to the foregoing deposition, is not and was at the time of signing the said an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said County duly commissioned and qualified as the sum requiring and that full faith and credit are due and ought to be given to all his official acts as such - and that the said signature is genuine and in his own proper hand.

                        In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said county at Falmouth, the 7th day of October AD 1842.
                                             //s//
                                    R. McCarty Clerk
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10578
P.O. Josiah Thrasher
Service:

REJECTED

Enlisted:
Discharged:
Application Filed:
Re-enlisted:
Attorney:
P.O.
____Recognized  _______Contract
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Josiah Thrasher
Indiana
Rejected
See let: 5 Nov 42
U. Manly
Hon. Y.R. Young Augt. 27/50

(did not serve in a regularly organized corps and by order of competent authority/

10578

Act of June 1832
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Ref; Washington Aug 22. 1850

J.R. Young
Encl: letter from (??) Manly asking re-examination of the case Josiah Thrasher.

Letter to Hon. J.R. Young
Aug. 23 1850

Ref (??) of Pensions
Dep. of Interior
Aug, 23 1850.
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Washington D.C.
August 22nd, 1850

Sir,

   I  have the honor to enclose here with a note from Mrs. Manly.  (??) requesting that the case of which it speaks this Josiah Thrasher of Indiana, Act 7th June 1832, may be re-examined & if not allowed, please cause a report to be made to me for the reasoning of its disallowance.

                         I have the honor to be,
                        Sir, very respectfully.
                         Your obt. serv.
                           //s//  
                           J.R Young

Hon. Th. Me. T. McKennan
                 Secy. of the Dept.
                        on Interior
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Marshall W. 24th Oct. 1842

Sir, I have the honor to enclose the application of Josiah Thrasher under Act 7 June 1832.  It will be seen that he gives the reason of his late application. It will be seen that the history of Mr Thrasher whose deposition I enclose is 6 years younger than Mr. Thrasher.

                      Very Respectfully
                              yr. obe. set.
                                     //s//
                                C.B. Manly

Hon. L.L. Edwards

 Mr. Preeble whose deposition is enclosed is a pensioner I believe on the Ky. Roll & seems to have been engaged in the service.
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State of Kentucky
Pendleton County

    Be it known, that, on this 19th day of July 1842, personally appeared James Preble of said county and after being first duly sworn states, that he is well acquainted with Josiah Thrasher formerly a resident of this county.  That he has been acquainted with him ever since he was a small bot. That he (Preble) knew and saw the said Josiah Thrasher during the revolutionary war frequently in Jackson fort in Washington County Pennsylvania.  That he Preble was at that time in the service of the United States as a soldier of the revolution, under Captain Lessee Pigman stationed at Ancrums Fort which was about three miles from Jacksons Fort, and that he continued in the service through the years 1777, 1778 & 1779 & 1781 & 82.  That during this time he was frequently at Jacksons Fort and saw the Josiah Thrasher at Jacksons Fort, under the command of captain James Archer.  That he was seen him at different times, on scout and frequently the two forts would unite, in scouting expeditions and in those scouting expeditions he saw the said Thrasher engaged, like the other soldiers well equipped. How long he served he does not know precisely, but recollects of seeing him off and on, during the period of his own service.
Sworn to and subscribed                his
before me William Eillis a     James   X   
Justice of the Peace in and
for the said County of Pendleton
the day and date first above
written.
                       //s//
                Willaim Ellis  J.P.P.C.
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State of Kentucky
Pendleton County

    I Reuben McCarty clerk of the county court for the county aforesaid do hereby certify that Willaim Ellis Esq whose name is in his own proper hand writing is subscribed to the foregoing certificate is now and was at the time of subscribing the same one of the commonwealth's  justices of the peace in and for the county aforesaid duly commissioned and qualified and that full faith and credit is due to all his official acts as such. 
     In testimony of which I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of the aforesaid county court this 26th day of July 1842.
                                         //s//
                                   R. McCarty  Clerk
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State of Indiana
Rush County

   Be it remembered that on this the 11th day of October AD 1842, before the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for the said county personally appeared G. B. Rush who being first duly sworn according to law doth upon his oath say that he is in his fortieth year of age.  That he has personally known Josiah Thrasher who is about to apply for a pension under Act of 7th June 1832 for thirty years past that he known him both in Kentucky and the state of Indiana.  That said Josiah Thrasher has always since his acquaintance with him bears the character of a man of truth and integrity that he thinks said Josiah Thrasher is at least eighty years of age and that he has understood from said Isaih Thrasher that he was a soldier of the Revolution and he has no doubt of that fact or at least he believes that J. Thrasher was a soldier of the Revolution.                //s//
Sworn to and subscribe              G. B. Rush
this 11th October AD 1842
Before me                         //s//
                              William McCleary
                               Justice of the Peace
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I Willaim McCleary do certify that G.B. Rush who has this day subscribed and sworn to the forgoing deposition before me is a man of good character and credible witness and his statements upon that or any other subject is entitled  to full credit. Given under my hand this 11th day of October AD 1842.

                                             //s//
                                    William McCleary 
                                    Justice of the Peace

State of Indiana
Rush County

    I Robert Thompson Clerk of the circuit court in & for the county of Rush &  state of Indiana I do hereby certify that William McCleary before whom the foregoing deposition of G.B. Rush seems to have been taken is a justice of the peace in & for said county duly commissioned & qualified that the foregoing signatures purporting to be his are genuine.

    In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my seal & affix & subscribed my name the 12th day of October Eighteen Hundred & Forty Two.
                                               //s//
                                     Robert Thompson Clerk
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State of Indiana
Rush County

    I Jacob Daubenspeck a clergyman, residing in said county and state, do certify that I am well acquainted with Josiah Thrasher who has this day been sworn to his application for a pension before the Rush Circuit Court in and for the said county. That I believe him to be eighty years of age - that he is reported and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution & that I fully concur in the opinion.

                                                //s//
                                  Jacob Daubenspeck

Subscribed & sworn to in open court before the Circuit Court in and for the County of Rush & State of Indiana the 12th day of October 1842.
                                  //s//
                        Robert Thompson Clerk


    And the court certify that Jacob Daubenspeck who has sworn to and subscribed the foregoing statement is a clergyman, residing in Rush County Indiana & that his statement is entitled to credit.                              
                                    //s//
                           James Perry Prest Judge

I certify that the above is a true statement
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statement of the proceeding had before the Circuit Court of said county of Rush in relation to the statements of

                        In witness whereof I have 
                        hereunto set my hand and seal
                         of office this 12th day of October
                         1842.

                                         //s//
                             Robert Thompson Clerk
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We do certify that we are well acquainted with Josiah Thrasher who we understand is about to make application to the War Department for a pension.  That we think he is at least eighty years of age. He is reputed in the neighborhood where he lives and where we live to have been a soldier of the Revolution and in that opinion we fully concur.  We regard said Thrasher as a man of (??) veracity.

Subscribed and sworn
to before me this 27th
day of August A.D. 1842

(Transcriber's note:  There appears to be at least eight signatories to this statement. All eight are much faded and any attempt to read would be at best, a guess. A subsequent list of names appears on the second page of this letter and there could be some duplicate names.)


I (unintelligible) Williams a Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Rush and State of Indiana do certify that the persons above name who
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have in my presence subscribed were by me and were duly sworn to this (??) purporting to be signed by, they are persons of respectability and credible witnesses. 
    Given under my hand and witnessed this 29th day of August 1842.

                                     //s//
                              (??) Williams
                       Justice of the Peace

   We the undersigned not being present at the time of signing of the within certificates, but we fully concur with them that sign it. That I G.B. Rush have been acquainted with Josiah Thrasher for say thirty years. I can say that (he) has always sustain a good character and has been always certainly a man of truth and veracity. August 29th 1842.       //s//
                                           G.B. Rush

 State of Indiana
Rush County

   I Robert Thompson Clerk of the Rush Circuit Court do certify that ward (??) Williams whose name is attached to the above and foregoing Certificate was at the time and now is an acting justice of the peace in and for Rush County aforesaid duly (??) sworn and commissioned according to law and full faith and credit should be given to all his official acts and deeds as such.

   In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said court at Rushville this 16th day of September A.D. 1842.
                                         //s//
                            Robert Thompson Clerk
                            by  (unintelligible) 

 (The following is a list of the signatures referred to in Paragraph two.)

John Gifford
Caleb (unintelligible)
H.H. Prine Jun.
Matthew Prine
W.W. Thompson Sen.
Robert Willson Sen.
(Colin) J. Jackson
Ephraim Clifford
Wm. M. Smith (suffix)
Isaac Clifford
Jacob B. Power
Ezechiel Parrish
John Smiley
Thomas Jansing