Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 44,910, Thomas Hammond, Penn.
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SERVICE
Penn.
Hammond, Thomas
NUMBER
S. 44,910
CONTENTS
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5181
New York 4
Thomas Hammond
Capt. Coran, Private, Pennsylvania Line, in the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.
Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 8 of April 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued the 4 of January 1819 and sent to James Townsend, Jr., Carmel, New York.
Arrears to 4th of Sept 1818 - 4 mos 27/30 -  $39.19
Semi-annual allowance ending 4 March 1818 $48
$87.19
{Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818}
two years-War
Duplicate certificate sent to Jeremiah Hine, Carmel, N.Y., 4 Sept. 1820.
Continued
Putnam Co.
Notification sent Nov 4th, 1820 to Rowland Bailey, Perkasie, N.Y.
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State of New York
Putnam County, SS.
Pursuant to an act of Congress passed 18th March 1818, providing support for those Officers and Soldiers, &c. who served in the revolutionary war and who are in reduced circumstances in life.
Personally came before me Barnabas Carver, one of the Judges of the Court of Common pleas in and for said County, Thomas Hammond, who being by me duly sworn deposith and saith that in the year 1778, he enlisted for three years into Capt. Isaac Corin's Company in the 4th Regiment of Artillery in the Pennsylvania line commanded by Col. Proctor and actually served out the full period of his enlistment and was discharged from the same by proper authority and after that in the year 1781 he enlisted for during the War into Capt. William Ferguson's Company in the 4th Regiment as aforesaid, then commanded by Col. Porter and actually served in said Regiment until peace took place and was then honorably discharged by Col. Porter in the City of Philadelphia in the year 1783 and that he is in indigent circumstances in life, having no property wherewithal to support himself in his advanced age in life and further this deponent saith not.
Thomas Hammond
Sworn and subscribed this 8th day of April in the year 1818 before me, Barnabas Carver, one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County.
State of New York
County of Putnam, SS.
I, Barnabas Carver, Judge as aforesaid, do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Thomas Hammond did serve in the revolutionary war as stated in the preceding declaration against the common enemy and I now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me to the Secretary for the Department of War pursuant to the direction of the aforementioned act of Congress, and also I do further certify that I am personally acquainted with the said Hammond and know him to be poor and needy and supported by a Town Charge.
Barnabas Carver
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Putnam County
Clerk's Office, SS.
I certify that Barnabas Carver, Esq., before whom the within affidavit appears to have been taken is an acting Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County of Putnum and to whose judicial acts full faith and credit ought to be given. On witness whereof, I hereunto subscribe my name and affix the seal of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County.
James Townsend, Clerk of said County of Putnam
April 28th 1818
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Thomas Hammond
Affidavit
8 April
See Pennsylvania Rolls
Jas. Townsend, Jr.
Carmel,  N. Y.
Admitted
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State of New York
Putnam County
Certified Copy of the Declaration of Thomas Hammond
5181
4 January 1819
Already on Pension Roll
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State of New York
Putnam County, SS.
On the tenth day of October in the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty, personally appeared in the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County of Putnam in open Court, the same being a Court of Record proceeding according to the course of the Common Law with unlimited Jurisdiction as to the amount keeping a Record of its proceedings, Thomas Hammond, aged seventy-four years, resident in the Town of Carmel in the said County aforesaid, who being first duly sworn according to Law, doth on his oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary war as follows to wit: That he enlisted as a private soldier shortly before the British evacuated Philadelphia in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, in the Company commanded by Captain Isaac Coran in Colonel Proctor's Regiment of Artillery in the Pennsylvania line for three years, that he continued in Captain Coran's Company until he was transferred to the Company of Captain Porter and served during the three years for which he enlisted, that he immediately reenlisted under Captain Ferguson in the same Regiment, then commanded by Colonel Porter, in the year one thousand eight hundred and Eighty one, just before the siege of Cornwallis during the war, that he continued in the service until he was discharged in the year one thousand eight hundred and eighty three of Colonel Porter, that he was engaged in the Battle of Monmouth and in the siege of Cornwallis. That he lost his original Pension Certificate and on application received a duplicate thereof from the War office by which it appears that his original declaration was dated the eighth day of April one thousand eight hundred and eighteen and that the number of said Certificate is 5,181. That the said certificate is for eight dollars per month.
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And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident Citizen of the United States on the eighteenth day of March one thousand eight hundred and Eighteen, 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 provisions 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 eighteenth day of March one thousand Eight hundred and eighteen, 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. That my only occupation is that of a Wool Comber, that there is very little of that kind of business in this country. I am utterly deprived of the use of my right eye. I am above seventy-four years of age, and so much afflicted with the Rheumatism in all my limbs that I am incapable of pursuing any business from which I can obtain a livelihood but before I received my pension, I was a subject of private and public charity, being wholly unable from my complaints and infirmities to support myself by Labor. That my family consists of my wife Lucretia who is fifty-eight years of age a weakly and feeble woman and unable to perform much labor and Phebe, a daughter about fifteen years of age.
Thomas Hammond
Sworn to, declared and subscribed in open Court before the Judges thereof this 10th day of October 1820.
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Attest Rowland Bailey, Clerk
Schedule of Property
Real Property, None
Personal Property, four chairs, one table five knives and forks, four teacups and saucers, six plates, one pot, one Kettle and tea kettle, five spoons, two bowls, one frying pan, one shoat, one gallon jug, one chest, one cupboard, one tea pot, one barrel, and one pail, five fowls.
Thomas Hammond
Sworn and subscribed in open Court before the Judges of the same this 10th day of October 1820
Attest Rowland Bailey, Clerk
State of New York
Putnam County, SS.
Clerk's Office
I, Rowland Bailey, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County, do hereby certify that the foregoing declaration and the schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the Records 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 said property exhibited in the aforesaid Schedule is fifteen Dollars.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court this nineteenth day of October A.D. 1820.
Rowland Bailey, Clerk
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44910
INVALID.
Revy
File No. 44910
Thomas Hammond
Private Rev. War
Act: 18 March 1818
Index: -- Vol. 3, Page 213
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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State of New York
County of Putnam, ss. 
On this twenty fourth day of August 1820 before me the Subscriber, a Justice of the Peace for the said County of Putnam, personally appeared Thomas Hammond, who on his oath declares that he is the same person who formerly belonged to the Company commanded by Captain William Ferguson in the Regiment commanded by Colonel William Porter in the service of the United States; that his name was placed on the Pension Roll of the State of New York, that he received a certificate of that fact under the Signature and seal of the Secretary of War, which certificate on or about the fifteenth day of March 1820 at the Town of Carmel in the said County of Putnam, he this deponent, delivered to Joel Frost, Esquire, to the end that he might obtain the pension money then due from the agent in the City of New York, and that the said Certificate has not been returned to this Deponent by the said Joel, though this deponent has applied to him for the same, but as is represented by the said Joel and as this Deponent verily believes, the said Certificate has been lost or destroyed by accident.
Thomas Hammond
Sworn and subscribed this 24th day of August 1820, before me, William Watts, Justice of Peace
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State of New York
Putnam County, SS.
Clerk's Office
I, Rowland Bailey, Clerk of the said County, do hereby certify that William Watts, Esquire, before whom the within deposition was taken was at the time of the taking thereof and still is an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said County, duly authorized by law to take Depositions and further that I am acquainted with the hand writing of the said William and verily believe his name subscribed to the within Deposition
to be his own proper signature.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed my seal of office the twenty fourth day of August AD 1820.
Rowland Bailey, Clerk
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For New certificate
Received 29 Aug 1820
Hon. John C. Calhoun
Secretary at War
Washington, D.C.
Carmel NY
25 Aug.
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Carmel (Putnam Co.) N.Y. 25th Aug. 1820
Sir:
Enclosed is the affidavit of Thomas Hammond, a Revolutionary Pensioner, for the purpose of obtaining a new pension certificate made agreeable to the printed form sent to me from the war office a few days since.
Should the papers now sent be deficient, please return them to me with the deficiencies noted, but should you issue a new certificate on them, forward that to me with all convenient speed.
With great respect,
Your Obedient Servant,
Jeremiah Hine
To the Hon. John C. Calhoun
Secretary of War