Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 36,328, for Thomas Strayton, Delaware
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([illegible]-1776)
SERVICE NUMBER
Del Strayton, Thomas S. 36.328
CONTENTS
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10.731
Delaware
Thomas Strayton of Kent Co'y in the state of Delaware who was a private in the regiment of Colonel Hazlett of the Delaware line, for the term of one year.
Inscribed on the roll of Delaware at a rate of $8 per month.
Two commence on the 9th of February 1819.
Certificate of pension issued on the 19th of April 1820 and sent to Hon'ble [Richard Slate]
H. Rep's U. S.

[Illegible]
Arrears to 4th March 1820 $102.82
semi-anl.all'ce ending 4 September 1820 $48.00 
1 yr 21/29 4/31 
$150.82 [total]
Revolutionary claim,
Act 18th March 1818
Kent Co'y
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Thomas Stayton
probate
Delaware Regt 1775 1 year
the applicant must
name the Colonel
under whom he
 Served

Thomas Stayton,
appl under law of the
18th of March, 1818.

Will the Secretary
of State of Delaware
please to give a certificate
 of the service of the
above named claimant
& transmit the same
with these papers to the
War Department

War Department
Pension Office
April 1st 1820

When ret’d to the Pension Office
result of decision to be made known
(Vide letter) to Hon Willard
Hall, of Delaware, H. of Reps
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State of Delaware
Sussex County

Be it remembered that on the
ninth day of February in the year of our Lord
eighteen hundred and nineteen, came before me
Samuel Paynter Jun., one of the Judges of the Supreme
Court of the said State of Delaware, Thomas
Stayton formerly of Sussex but now of Kent County
in the State aforesaid, aged sixty six years
who being solemnly Sworn on the Holy Evangels
of Almighty God deposeth and saith that in
the Revolutionary War in or about the years
seventeen hundred and seventy five or six
he enlisted under Captain David Hall in the
Delaware Regiment for one year which time he
served faithfully, the next year after he served
under Captain William Perry in an Independant
Company for one year which he also
served faithfully, the next year after about
the year seventeen hundred and seventy eight
he enlisted under Captain Cord Hazzard in a
light horse company for one year, but the
British going round to the Chesapeake,  was discharged
at the expiration of three months, and
further that he is lame, poor and in indigent
circumstances and needs the assistance of his
country for support; that if he fails in his application
he must be taken to the Poor House.
Thomas Staton
Sworn 
Taken and subscribed the ninth day of February
1819 above written before me
Saml Paynter Jun
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State of Delaware
Sussex County ss.
Be it remembered that on
the tenth day of February in the year of our
Lord eighteen hundred and nineteen, came before
me Samuel Paynter Jun, one of the Judges
of the Supreme Court of the State of
Delaware, Cord Harrard of the County aforesaid aged
sixty eight years who being solemnly sworn
on the Holy Evangels of Almighty God, Deposeth
and saith he served as Ensign in
the year seventeen hundred and seventy six
in the Delaware Regiment under Captain David
Hall, that the within named Thomas Stayton
served the same year in said Company
twelve months, that his services were satisfactory
to the officers of the Regiment during the
time for which he enlisted - that he the
said Cord Hazzard was appointed Captain
of Guards, in the year seventy eight, but the
British leaving the Delaware we were not
called together - further he saith not.
Cord Hazzard

Sworn and Subscribed the 10th day of February
eighteen hundred & nineteen
Saml Paynter Junr

I do certify that I am satisfied as to the service of
Thomas Stayton in the Revolutionary war more than
nine months, that he is poor, lame and in indigent circumstances,
 that he is intitled to all the benefits arising
under a law of Congress for the relief of old soldiers.
In Testimony whereof I hereto set my hand the tenth
day of February A.D. 1819.
Saml Paynter Junior 
one of the Judges of the Supreme
Court of the State of Delaware
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State of Delaware
Kent County ss
Be it Remembered that on the first
day of March in the year of Our Lord
one thousand Eight Hundred and Ninety
Before me Isaac Davis one of the Judges of the Supreme
Court for the State aforesaid personally appeared
Hill D. Staton formerly of the County of Sussex in the
said State Aged Fifty two years who being duly sworn
upon the holy Evangels of Almighty God deposeth and sayith
that he is well acquainted with Thomas Staton and
hath known him from his enlistment in the year
One thousand Seven Hundred & Seventy Six in Captain Davis
Halls Company in the Delaware Regiment, that the said
Thomas Slaton lived one year as a soldier in the
said Regiment, and then returned to the Neighbourhood
of Broadkill and then enlisted in seventy seven in
Captain William Perry’s Company of Independants, or
Minute men, and served for one year therein, that the
said Thomas Staton is old, lame, and without the means
of supporting himself and further saith not.
Hill D Stayton


Sworn and Subscribed the day and year aforesaid
Isaac Davis

State of Delaware
Kent County
I Presley Allee Clerk of the Supreme Court
of the State of Delaware in and for Kent
County do hereby certify that Samuel Paynter
Junior and Isaac Davis are two of the
Judges of the Supreme Court of said State
as they have declared themselves to be in
the aforegoing depositions. In Testimony
whereof I have hereunto set my hand
and affixed the seal of the said Court this second day of
March in the year of our Lord
thousand eight hundred and nineteen
Presley Allee
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State of Delaware
Kent County ss
Be it Remembered that on the twelfth
day of January in the year of our Lord One
thousand Eight Hundred & twenty, came before me Isaac Davis
of the Judges of the Supreme Court for the said State, Thomas
Staton, whose deposition is herein before taken, and further being
Sworn deposeth & sayeth that the service proved heretofore
by him to have been performed in the Revolutionary war
was performed for one year under the command of Colonel
John Haslett of the Delaware Regiment
Thomas Staton

Sworn & Subscribed the day
& year aforesaid before
Isaac Davis

I do Certify that Lord Hazzard & Hill D Staton whose depositions
  are hereunto annexed are Reputable witnesses whose
Credibility and veracity is well established. In Testimony  
whereof I have hereunto set my hand this Twelfth day
of July 1820 - Isaac Davis one of the Justices 
the Supreme Court of the State of Delaware
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State of Delaware, to wit,
On this twenty seventh day of November one thousand eight
hundred and twenty personally appeared in open Court
of Common Pleas of the State of Oaths
being a court of record for the said State, expressly made
to by the laws and constitution of the said State, which
created it, and proceeding according to the course of the
common law, with a jurisdiction unlimited in
point of amount and keeping a record of its proceedings)
Thomas Strayton aged sixty seven years and upwards 
 resident in Duck Creek Hundred, in Kent County and said
State, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth
on his oath, declare that he served in the Revolutionary war
as follows, that he enlisted in Capt David Halls
company of the first battalion of the Delaware Regiment
in the year 1776; the said Regiment being commanded by
Colonel Haslett, on the continental establishment
and this deponent further declares, that according to
the best of his recollection he made his original declaration
 for a pension, on or about the ninth day of February
 one thousand eight hundred and nineteen; that he
received a certificate for a pension in conformity
with the law of the United States, of the 18th March 1818,
the number of which certificate is 16, 731, and purports
to be registered by J.H. Henshaw, Clerk, in Book B.
Volume 7. page 207 - And this deponent doth further
Solemnly swear, that he was a resident citizen of the United States
on the 18th day of March 1818; that he hath not since that
time by gift sale or in any manner, disposed of his property or
any part thereof with intent thereby so to diminish it as to
being himself 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
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War"" passed on the 18th March 1818: -  that he hath not nor has any
person in trust for him any property or securities, contracts or debts
due to him, nor hath he any income, other than what is contained
 in the schedule hereto annexed, and by this deponent
subscribed. And this deponent further declares, that he was
brought up a farmer but from being crippled and deprived
of the use of some of his limbs, he has been disabled from
pursuing his occupation of farming, that to prevent him from
going to the poor house, he has often pursued the business of
a Cobbler in mending old shoes, altho' he never learned this
trade: that he has no person or persons residing with him
except his wife who is afflicted with Rheumatic pains
and almost helpless: that he has no children residing with
him, and none capable of contributing to his support;
and that he is now in such indigent circumstances as
to be unable to support himself without the asistand
of his country, except by private or public charity
Thomas Strayton

Sworn to and subscribed in open Court of Common Pleas
Dover this 27 day of Novr 1820
Before Nathaniel Smithers, Pro

Schedule of the property of Thomas Strayton

1 [later-ladder?] pine 100, 1 iron pot 75, 1 Tea Kettle 100
1 hand Saw 50,  3 [plains] 100. 1 meal box 25. 2 old chairs 30
2 washing tubs 50-2 Small cider- vessels 25
1 pail & [pig sow] 40 - 1 chest 50 -  stands and fr. 50
1small box with Coblers 100 - Sifter 12 ½ - hammer 25.
1 Shoat 100. Coffee pot 37 ½ - one [queen] 100 -  1 doz plates 30
2 [??] 15  1 [bottle] 6 [illegible] 6  2 [illegible] 12 ½
1 spinning wheel 150

Total $12:89½
Attest N. Smithers
Thomas Stayton
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State of Delaware
Kent County
I Nathaniel Smithers Prothonotary of the
Court of Common Pleas of the State of
Delaware in and for Kent County, do
certify that the foregoing oath and the
Schedule thereto annexed are truly
copied from the records of the said
Court: And I also 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 twelve dollars and eighty nine and a half cents
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand
and affixed the seal of the said Court on this twenty fifth
day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and twenty one
Nathaniel Smithers, Prothy
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36328
Revy
INVALID.
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File No. 36328
Thomas Strayton

Pri Rev War
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Act: 18 March 18
Index: - Vol. 2 Page 398
{Arrangement of 1870.}
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mining
free
The Hon'ble
J. C. Calhoun Esq
Washington

[Right side]
Smyrna 
[1 Mar 13]

[Left side]
280 old [illegible]
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J. C. Calhoun Esqr

Sir I enclose the further proof
required in the case of T. Stayton - 
he is on the Verge of the poor house & has been much attended for a long time with lameness, is Sixty seven years old & has earned a pension by hisfaithful services in several battles and the loss of his consitution-- I hope his case may be speedily decided on & returned to me. he is in Immedate want, but will not want long 
Your Obt Servt
Judge Davis
Jan 12 1820
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n the case of Thomas Staton of Kent County, State of Delaware,
 a petitioner for a pension which the act of Congress of the 18th March
1818 entitled “An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the
Land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war.”

Office of the Secretary of the State of Delaware
Dover 6th April 1820
There is in this office "a muster roll of Captain David Hale's Company & Delaware
Regiment of Continental Troops commanded by Colonel John Hazlett and in the
service of the United Colonies, in barracks to Lewis Town the eleventh day of April 1776”,
from which it appeared that a man of the name of "Thomas Staton” enlisted as a
private soldier in the said company on the 23rd of January 1776 and belonging to
and with the said company of the formaine 10th of April 1776 - Except this muster
roll there is not in this office, to my knowledge, any paper [trending??] in the smallest
[way?]to prove the services of the said Thomas Stator as a soldier in the revolutionary
in which his name is [state] mentioned.
certified at the request of the U.S. War Department
H. M.  Ridgely

It is proper however to observe, that, except the muster roll duly mentioned,
there is not in this office any payer master rolls of the aforesaid company
prior to September 1778
H.M. Ridgely