Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 36,795, for Thomas Stone, Connecticut
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SERVICE  Conn. 
Continental
Stone, Thomas
NUMBER  S. 36,795
{B.L. Wt. 6480-100 issued Oct 7, 1789 to Benj. Tallmadge, assignee, no papers
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3125
Connecticut
Thomas Stone 
Sergeant 
Saml B Webbs Regt.
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War
(Conn) 
Inscribed on the Roll of Connecticut at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence the 2d of April 1818 
Certificate of Pension issued the 25th Sept 1818 and sent to Augustus Pettibone Esq. Litchfield, Ct. 
Arrears to 4th of Sept 1818  5 mos 3/30  $40.80 
Semi-anl, all'ce ending 4th Mar 1819     48.00 
$88.80 
{Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818} 
77 War 
Town of Litchfield, Litchfield Coty [county]
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[unreadable] Notary Publick
Mr. Boyd
Hon John C. Calhoun
Department of War
Washington
G. J. Lane
Ext’d to the correct
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State of Connecticut Litchfield town and County 
April 2nd AD 1818 
Thomas Stone of said Litchfield being duly sworn testifies and says that in the month April 1777 he enlisted into the company commanded Capt James Watson the 3rd Connecticut Regiment commanded by Saml B. Webb Colonel and in his absence while a prisoner, the Regiment was commanded personally by the Hon Eben’r Huntington, the said Stone testifies that he served the United States against the Common Enemy in said Regiment under several Captains from the day of his inlistment to the end of the war of the Revolution except that he was taken prisoner with said Col. Webb and remained a prisoner from the 10th of Dec’r 1777 till July 16th 1778 at which time he was in 1778 exchanged and immediately joined his company & Regiment again in which he served on the continental establishment as a Sargeant to the end the war and was discharged by the enclosed discharge under the hand of his Excellency George Washington Commander in Chief dated June 9th 1783 to which annexed a certificate for six years faithful service signed by Sam’l B. Webb Colonel. 
That he has never received any pension. That by reason of his reduced circumstances in life he is in need of assistance from his County for support. 
Thomas Stone
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State of Connecticut 
Litchfield April 2nd 1818 
Personally appeared Thomas Stone signer of the within affidavit and made solemn oath to the truth of the same before me. 
Augustus Pettibone Chief Judge 
Litchfield County Court 
John M. Landon Esqr, Sheriff of Litchfield County & Hon’le Frederick Wolcott being duly  Sworn testify & says that they had been acquainted with the within named Thomas Stone for more than thirty years that his character for truth and honesty is very good.  
Frederick Wolcott
Jno M. Landon
Sworn before me   
Sworn Before me April 2nd day of April 1818 Augustus Pettibone Judge
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Litchfield, Connecticut April 2nd 1818 
Hon John C Calhoun Secty of War 
Sir: as chief Judge of the Court of Common Pleas for the County of Litchfield I have taken the foregoing affidavits of Thomas Stone and the Hon Benjamin Tallmadge and have examined the “Discharge” of the said Stone and it appearing to my satisfaction that the said Thomas Stone served the United States in the war of the Revolution on the Continental establishment, against the Common Enemy more than nine months agreeable to his affidavit and that by reason of his reduced circumstances in life he needs assistance from his County for support.  
I therefore hereby certify the same & herewith transmit to you the aforesaid affidavits and the Discharge of the said Stone, the testimony in the case & the proceedings had thereon. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused to be annexed and affixed the seal of the Court in which I preside.   
Augustus Pettibone Chief Judge 
Litchfield County Court
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State of Connecticut 
Litchfield April 6th AD 1818 
I certify to whom it may concern that Augustus Pettibone Esq is Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in the County of Litchfield in said State; and that the signature to the foregoing Certificate is to me known to be his proper hand writing. 
Witness my hand and notarial Seal the above written 
Frederick Wolcott Notary Publick
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THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES 
Form VAM-51 
12-5-41 
BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD* 
Division of Veterans' Administration Archives 
NAME  Stone, Thomas     GRADE  Sergeant   LINE  Connecticut   
WARRANT NUMBER  6482   ACREAGE  100   ISSUED  Oct 7, 1789
To Benj. Tallmadge, assignee
The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives. registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800.  Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in the National Archives.
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RECORD DIVISION. 3-525.
 DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, 
BUREAU OF PENSIONS. 
Washington, D. C. - -19  
S. F. 36795
In reply to your request of received for a statement of the military history of   Thomas Stone  a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau. 
DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT.    [unreadable]  LENGTH OF SERVICE.  [unreadable]  RANK.   OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. Captain James Watson  Colonel Samuel B. Webb [unreadable]  Colonel Ebenezer Huntington  STATE. Conn 
Dec 1777 was taken prisoner [unreadable]   
Battles engaged in, [unreadable]  
Residence of soldier at enlistment,  [unreadable]  
Date of application for pension, [unreadable]  
Residence at date of application, [unreadable]  
Age at date of application, [unreadable]  
Remarks: [unreadable]  
Very respectfully, 
Commissioner,
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Revy 36795 
INVALID. 
File No.  36,795 
Thomas Stone 
Serg.  Rev War   
Act: 18” March 18” 
Index: - Vol. 2, Page 898 
[Arrangement of 1870.] 
1913 Nov 8 Hist to Mrs. Alice N. White V. L. clk & Letter in W.F. 10624 Reuben Clark
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Thomas Stone 
Litchfield Cont, 
522 
Apr 1828 
Settled at Treasury 
Con’t with Invalid file
#36,795
[unreadable] claims
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522
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIMS. 
No of Original [unreadable] 576
TREASURY DEPARTMENT, August 1. 1828. 
Thomas Stone of Litchfield in the County of Litchfield in the State of Connecticut has applied to the Secretary of the Treasury for the benefits of the act, entitled "An Act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the Revolution,” approved the 15th of May, 1828. He states that he enlisted in the Continental line of the army of the Revolution, for and during the war, and continued until its termination, at which period he was a Sergeant in the 5th company, in the 3rd regiment of the Connecticut line; and that he received a certificate for the reward of eighty dollars, provided by the resolve of the 15th of May, 1778; and further, that he was not on the 15th day of May, 1828, on the pension list of the United States, and that he has received as a pensioner since the 3d of March, 1826, nothing. 
The Third Auditor is requested to report how far the several statements are corroborated by the records in his office. By order of the Secretary A Dickins 
TREASURY DEPARTMENT. 
THIRD AUDITOR'S OFFICE, 
7 August 1828 
It appears by the records in this office, that a certificate for the reward of eighty dollars has been issued to Thomas Stone in the Connecticut line.
It further appears that Thomas Stone  is now not on the pension list of any agency, and has not been so since the 3 March 1826.  
Peter Hagner Aud.
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Revolutionary Claims 
For the purpose of obtaining the benefits of the act, entitled “An act for the relief of certain surviving officers and Soldiers of the Army of the Revolution”, approved on the 15th of May 1828. I, Thomas Stone of Litchfield in the County of Litchfield in the State of Connecticut do hereby declare, that I enlisted in the Continental line of the Army of the Revolution, for and and during the war and continued in its service until its termination; at which period I was a Sergeant in the 5th Company commanded (I think) by Captain Joseph Walker is the Third Regiment of the Connecticut Line.  And I also declare that I afterwards received certificates for the reward of eighty dollars; to which I was entitled, under a resolve of Congress, passed the 15th of May 1778.   
And I further declare that I was not on the fifteenth day of May 1828 on the Pension List of the United States.   
And I further declare that at the termination of the War, (to wit), in June1783 I obtained a discharge from the Commander in Chief and a certificate of a badge of merit for more than six years faithful service from Col. Saml B Webb which discharge I forwarded to the Secretary of the War Department in 1818 with a view to obtain a pension, & the said discharge was never returned to me but remains (as I suppose) in the War office.   
Witness my hand this twentieth day of June in the year one Thousand Eight hundred & twenty Eight. 
Thomas Stone 
Before me Morris Woodruff Esqr a Justice of the Peace in the County of Litchfield and State of Connecticut personally appeared Samuel Jackson of Bethlehem in said County & Sam Waugh of Litchfield in the County aforesaid, Gentlemen of respectability who did severally make oath that Thomas Stone by whom the foregoing declaration was subscribed, is generally reputed and believed to have been a soldier in the Army of the revolution in manner as therein stated.  Witness my hand this twentieth day of June in the year one Thousand Eight hundred & twenty eight.
Morris Woodruff Justice of the Peace
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I Frederick Wolcott Esq. Clerk of the Court of the County of Litchfield in the State of Connecticut do hereby certify that Morris Woodruff Esq before whom the within or foregoing affidavits were sworn, was at the time a Justice of the Peace and duly empowered to administer oaths. 
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court this 7th day of July AD 1828
Frederick Wolcott Clerk
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HEAD-QUARTERS, June Ninth 1783. 
THE within CERTIFICATE shall not avail the Bearer as a Discharge, until the Ratification of the definitive Treaty of Peace; previous to which Time, and until Proclamation thereof shall be made, He is to be considered as being on Furlough. 
GEORGE WASHINGTON. 
Serg’t Thomas Stone’s discharge 
5th Compy 3d Regiment
36795
Thomas Stone
Conn Rev War
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BY HIS EXCELLENCY GEORGE WASHINGTON, Esq; 
General and Commander in Chief of the Forces of the United States of America. 
THESE are to CERTIFY that the Bearer hereof Thomas Stone a Sergeant in the 3rd Connecticut  Regiment, having faithfully served the United States from April 1777 to the date hereof and being inlisted for the War only, is hereby DISCHARGED from the American Army. 
GIVEN at HEAD-QUARTERS the ninth day of June 1783 
G. Washington 
By HIS EXCELLENCY'S Command, 
Jon’n Trumball Secty 
REGISTERED in the Books of the Regiment Joseph Clark Adjutant,
THE above Sergt Thomas Stone has been honored with the BADGE of MERIT for six Years faithful Service, 
Sam’l B. Webb Colonel