Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 16657, Thomas Bryant, Va.
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SERVICE  Va.

Bryant, Thomas

NUMBER S. 16657

carded
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LEFT SIDE

To Missouri from 4th Sep 1842.
22 Dec 1842. Notification to
Hon. T. D. Arnold. H.R.

RIGHT SIDE

Missouri 5932

Thomas Bryant
of Greene County in the State of Tennessee
who was a Private in the Company commanded
by Captain [John] Pope of the Reg't commanded
by Col. [Thomas] Meriwether in the Virginia
line for two years .~

Inscribed on the Roll of Jonesboro Agency
at the rate of 80.- Dollars 00. Cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 18th day of Feb'y
1833 and Handed to Hon.
John Blair.

Arrears to 4th of September '32    120.00
Semi=anl. allowance ending 4 Mar, 1833 40.00
[Total due] $160.00

{Revolutionary Claim,}
{Act June 7, 1832.}

Recorded by Wm. R. Palmer, Clerk
Book D  Vol 9  Page 203
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[left side]
of October 1832
A. Patterson
By W. Severn, [?]

[right side]
17316
Thomas Bryant
from 1776 private 3 years,
#80.
admit if on Va Roll

on Roll

Hon. J. Blair
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State of Tennessee
Greene County} October Sessions 1832      1759
On this 24th day of October 1832 personally appeared in open Court being the Court of pleas and Quarter Sessions for said County before the Justices of said Court Thomas Bryant a resident Citizen of said County aged seventy three years the 3d day of March last who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed the 7th of June 1832
That he was born in Northumberland County in the State of Virginia on the third day of March in the year 1759 near the mouth of the Potomac and he entered the service of the United States under the following named Officers and served as herein after stated to wit
He inlisted at Culpepper Court house in the State of Virginia under Capt John Pope of Louisa County in the month of December (as well as he remembers the month) 1776 for the Term of three years in the 11th Regiment Continental troops and about a month after he inlisted he marched to Williamsburgh and there he Joined Capt Pope's Company under Lieutenant Pettit and shortly after wards was attached to the company of Captain John Camp Colonel Mary Wether commanded the Regiment, (tho his name may have been Marywether) Major Morgan Commanded in that Regiment part of the time.  He remained with the troops from January 1777 at Williamsburgh until July in the year 1778 and then under the command of Capt Camp, he was marched with the company to Middlebrook Long Island in the State of New York and from Long Island part of the Company to which he belonged including this applicant [end of page]
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returned to the State of Virginia where in the month of February following he was placed on the duty of guarding the prisoners in AbbeMarle [Albemarle] County Virginia and then he remained in Virginia in Albemarle County until his three years expired, the term for which he inlisted.  And he served his full term for three years and was discharged by Colo Cole or Coles Capt Fisher Rice and Colo Harvey commanded Whilst he was stationed in Albemarle County Virginia.  He was not in any battles during his service  He left his discharge at Redstone on the Ohio River in the year 1782 and he has not seen it since and expects it has been lost long since
He further states that within a month After he returned from the service as before stated to his residence he was drafted in the Militia for a three months tour of duty under Capt Elijah Kirkley Lieutenant Henry Walker Colo James Barbour and was discharged at Johnsons Springs 25 miles from Richmond Virginia but did not serve out the three months
After he was discharged that time he went on to Richmond Virginia and there substituted in the Regular service in the place of Joseph Snider for eight months and was in a short time after sent to Liberty where he was kept until the end of his time running bullets and musket balls for the use of the Army and in all he served nearly or quite four years
He has not any documentary evidence to prove his service nor has he any Witnesses to prove his service except the Affidavits of John Day James Lay & John Pougue Jr hereto annexed [end of page]
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hereby relinquishes every claim to a pension except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of any state or its Agency
There is not any resident in minister in his vicinity who can certify for him
Sworn to and subscribed in open Court this 24th day of October 1832
[signed] C. Sevier D.C.
Thomas Bryant X his  Mark

We John Day James Lay & John Pogue Jr resident citizens of said County do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Thomas Bryant who has subscribed and Sworn to the foregoing declaration for a pension and we believe him to be seventy three years of age and it is reputed and believed in the neighbourhood where he resides that he served in the revolutionary war as a soldier and we concur in that opinion
Sworn to and subscribed in open Court this 24th day of October 1832
[signed] C. Sevier, D.C.
John Day
John Pogue
James Lay X his mark

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogations prescribed by the War Department that the above named applicant, Thomas Bryant was a Revolutionary soldier and served as he states. And the said Court do further certify that it appears to them that John Day James Lay and John Pogue Jr who have subscribed and
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Sworn to the above certificate are citizens of Greene County credible persons and that their statement is entitled to credit.
[signed] Jos Brown Jus
R Maloney Jus
M Lincoln Jus


State of Tennessee
Greene County } 
I Andrew Patterson Clerk of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions in and for said County do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Thomas Bryant for a pention [pension]
In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed my seal of office, at office, in Greenville this 25th day October 1832
[signed] A. Patterson
[?] C. Sevier D.C.
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Sworn to the above certificate are citizens of Greene County credible persons and that their statement is entitled to credit.
[signed] Jos Brown Jus
R Maloney Jus
M Lincoln Jus


State of Tennessee
Greene County } 
I Andrew Patterson Clerk of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions in and for said County do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Thomas Bryant for a pention [pension]
In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed my seal of office, at office, in Greenville this 25th day October 1832
[signed] A. Patterson
[?] C. Sevier D.C.
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REVOLUTIONARY WAR RECORDS SECTION. 
S.F. 16,657
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, 
BUREAU OF PENSIONS. 
Washington, D. C., 
In reply to your request of [blank] received [blank] for a statement of the military history of Thomas Bryant 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. 

Dec 1776 - 3 years - Pri - Captains John Pope, John Camp, Fisher Rice) - Colonels Merriwether, Harvey - state Va.
[check mark]  - Captain Elijah Rickley - Col James Barbour 
(") - 8 mos - running musket balls & bullets for the army

Battles engaged in, [blank]
Residence of soldier at enlistment, enlisted in Culpepper Co. Va.
Date of application for pension, Ocr 24, 1832, His cl was al .
Residence at date of application, Greenville, Tenn.
Age at date of application, b Mch 3,1759 in Northumberland Co. Va.
Remarks In 1842 soldier had moved to Daviess Co. Mo. , eight miles south of Gallatin
For date of last payment of pension & probable date of death & [end of statement]

Respectfully, Commissioner.

[along left side]
Apr. 9, 1917
Note AW. not one of these officers are found on the rolls of the 11th Va. Regt. so do not use that number
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H of R
Decr 21st 1842
D. Sir
According to promise I enclose you the letter and pension certificate of Thomas Bryant a revolutionary pensioner of the United States and late a Citizen of Greene County Tennessee but now a citizen of Daviess County Missouri.
Mr Bryant while living in Tennessee was a neighbour of mine and well known to me. I know that he has been drawing a pension for a number of years past.   Some time last fall while I was at home Mr Bryant called on me, and informed me that he was going to move to Missouri and desired to have the payments of his pension changed and transferred from Jonesborough Tennessee to the most convenient agency in the State of Missouri.  I was not able to inform him whether there was more than one agency in the state nor could I inform him where that was established; nor could Mr Brant say precisely where he expected to settle.  I therefore advised him to settle himself first in Missouri and then send on his Certificate to me at this place with the name of the County in which he had settled & also his post office. This he agreed to, and has writen me the enclosed letter, shewing that he has settled in Daviess County and that Gallatin in his post office.  In order therefore that his pension may be transferred to Missouri I make the following statement of facts to wit:
That Thomas Bryant the writer of
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enclosed letter is now a pensioner of the United States at the agency in Jonesborough Tennessee. That he has drawn his pension up to the 4 of September last and is now a permanent Citizen of Daviess County 
Missouri

I hope his pension or rather the place of paying it may be transfered from
Janesborough Tennessee to St. Louis Miss
Very respectfully
Your obt servt
[signed] Tho. D. Arnold

J. L. Edwards Esqr
Commissioner of Pensions & W. S.
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Greenville 26th Oct 1832
Dear Sir
I herewith transmit to your pension claims of William Rankin Zopher Johnson and Thomas Bryant and request your attention to them and hope you will have the goodness to advise me of the result.
As to Wm Rankin he is the same man who served in the convention that formed the constitution of this State with General Jackson and Judge Anderson and they will remember him and know his character and to whom I ask leave to refer you if his character will weigh any thing in his favour.
Thomas Bryant heretofore prepared a claim but he believes it never went on and has therefore prepared this one.
Zopher Johnson is an old man, obscure tho of good character.

I have the honor to be
Dr Sr Yr Obt Servent
[signed] P. Parsons

Hon Lewis Cass
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November the 27 day 1842
Missouri  Daviess County
Mr Thomas D. Arnold
Dear Sir  after my best respects  To you I will inform you that through kind providence I have landed in Missouri, Daviess Cty Eight miles South of Gallatin and have had  Better health through this fatiege [fatigue] than I could of expected hoping these may find you in Good health and prosperous condition the times here is very hard with respect to money matters  Every thing else is very plenty and the health good
I have not seen enough of the county to say much though wat [what] I have seen I am will pleased with Believing it be the greatest farming county I most Ever saw and wonderful for stock that is as much as I can say respecting this country with regard to the Business that I spoke to you in Tennessee to arrange for me I want you to [have?] it arranged as soon as possible so that I may make my draw in this state by the fourth of March next your compliance will confer A never forgotten favor on your friend and Ever well wisher
[signed] Thomas Bryant

 Thomas D. Arnold {Direct yours to Gallatin post office
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Hist Tenn

16,657
INVALID.
File No. 16,657
Thomas Bryant
Pri. [private] Rev War
Act: June 7" 32
Index:--Vol. 1, Page 437
[in brackets] Arrangement of 1870

[right side] 1893 Aug 17 to L. E. Bryant {Harriwa?]
1914 May 7 Hist. to Miss Myrtle Hume V.L.U.
1917 Apr 9 Clara A Ireland advised company & regimental officers given in circular which was returned to her
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[stamp] DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
[illegible]
APR 7 - 1917
TO OUR PENSIONS
[SECT ?] MAILS & FILES

Department of the Interior
Washington D.C.
Can you give me the Company and Regiment in which Thomas Bryant served.
Am inclosing some information that may be of service
Respectfully
Clara A Ireland
Trenton Mo
4 /4 /17

She returned the history of service which was sent May 7 1914 to Myrtle Hume who was then historian of the chapter named below.
I returned it to her.
Historian
Dorcas Richardson
Chapter D.A.R. X
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[stamp]
US PENSION OFFICE  D  MAY 5 1914

Trenton, Mo
May 2, 1914.
Pension Bureau
Washington, D.C.

Sirs: The Dorcas Richardson chapter of the Daughter of American Revolution of this place is desirous of securing a government marker for the grave of a Revolutionary soldier buried near here.
Can you verify the follow-
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ing information
Name____________Bryant.
Born________South Carolina
Served six years or about
Died about Nov. 27, 1847
Age at death about 88 years
Received a pension.
Buried in cemetery near Trenton, Mo. (Grundy, Co.
Would like to hear from you soon in regard to the matter.
Very respectfully
[signed] Miss Myrtle Hume
Chap. Hist. D.A.R
Trenton, Mo.
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Rev. War Section.
April 9, 1817.

Clara A. Ireland,
Trenton, Mo.
Madam:
In reply to your letter of the 4" instant, you are
advised that the enclosed circular gives the names of the company and regimental officers under whom Thomas Bryant served as stated in his application for pension and his pension was allowed on the statements made in said application.
Very respectfully,
[signed] G M Saltzgaber
Commissioner.

I did not say that he served in the Eleventh, Va
for the reason that not one of the officers Capt or Cols mentioned by him were found in that Regt
He may have enlisted to go in that regt
but he did not serve in it according to his
own statements.