Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W 9517, for Nothey Thomas, South Carolina
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(8 - 1776) 
SERVICE NUMBER
S. C. Thomas, Nothey W9517
or Notley
Temperance
CONTENTS
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23492
Jonesboro Temper
Notley
Notley Thomas
of Hawkins in the State of Tennessee
who was a private in the core commanded
by Captain Waddleton of the regt commanded
by Cob McCrury in the
line for 1 year apr of Infantry
3 year apr of Cavalry
Inscribed on the Roll of Jonesboro Tennessee
at the rate of 52 Dollars 50 Cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 18 day of Jan
1834 and D Alexander
Rogersville
Arrears to the 4th of Sept 131.25
forward, allowance ending 4 March 26.25
$157.50
Revolutionary Claim
Act June 7, 1832
Recorded by Daniel Boyd Clerk,
Book E Vol. 7 Page 134
[unknown] to Per Agents [unknown]
in Knoxville, Feb 6 1837-
Left to D. Alexander May 22, '44
Sent the letter [word crossed out] [date crossed out]
[word covered by ink drops] on the Reg act 36 - No. 5998
he[unknown] [unknown] to D.A.
262
131.2
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Let How: L. M. Cox Feb 20 1857

4.127
Tennessee Knoxville
Temperance Thomas, 
widow of Notley
SC
who served in the revolution-
ary war, as a Private
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate
of 52 Dollars 50.
Cents per annum, to commence
on the 3rd February, 1853.
Certificate of Pension issued
8th day of May 1852,
and sent to
Samuel Powell
Rogersville
Tenn
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act
February 8, 1853, Page 186. Vol. A.
1321
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State of Pennsylv
Hawkins County on this 20th day of June 1853
personally appeared before me an acting Justice of
 the Peace in and for said County, Temperance
Thomas a resident of the County of Hancock in the State of [unknown] [unknown] [unknown]  [unknown] highlyfour 7 years who being
duly sworn according to law doth on her 
oath make the following declaration in order
to obtain the benefit of the provisions made
by the act of congress paper 3rd February 1853
that she is the widow of Notley Thomas
who was a pensioner of the United States at
the rate of about forty dollars per annum
on the role of the Jonesborough Tennessee
agency and that he resided in Hawkins
County Tennessee
She further declares that she was married 
to the said Notley -- Thomas on or about the 
17th day of January in the year of our 
Lord 1823 that the aforesaid Notley 
Thomas died on the 4th day of March 1841
that she was married to him at the time above
stated. She further swears that she was a
widow at the passage of the act and is still a widow and has never been married since the death of the said Notley Thomas
and that she has never before made applica-
tion for a pension
Temperance Thomas
her mark
Joseph D Mitchell
George W. Payne
Sworn to and subscribed before me the day and
year above written and I hereby certify that
the said Temperance Thomas is unable from
bodily infirmity and age to attend at the nearest Court House in Hancock or Hawkins
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County she living near the line between the
two counties, to make her declaration before
a Court of Record.
John Mitchell
Justice of Peace for
Hawkins County
The Commisionerof Pensions will please recognize
J. H Verner of Rogersville Tennessee as my
agent in the forgoing application and address
any communication on the subject to him
Temperance Thomas
her 
+
mark

State of Tennessee
Hawkins County
ss
On this 22 day of September
in the year 1853 personally appeared before me an acting Justice of Peace in and for said County
James Johnson a citizen of said County aged
about 77 years who being duly sworn
according to law, deposes and says that in the
year 1823 he was an acting Justice of the Peace
for Hawkins County affirms and acknowledges and that he recalls having united Nottley Thomas and Temperance 
Shepperd together as Husband and Wife during the time he was a Justice of the Peace. That he was authorized to do so by virtue of his office under a License issued by the Clerk of
the County Court of Hawkins County and that he does not know whether he ever returned said license to the Clerks Office or not. He further states that he is well acquainted with the said Temperance
Thomas and knows that she is still the widow of the said Nottley Thomas desc.
James Johnson 
[unknown]
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Sworn to subscribed before me the day and
year above written and I certify that I
am in no way interested in the result of the
above application
W m Gamble JP

State of Tennessee
Hawkins County SS.
J James [unknown] [unknown] Clerk
of the County Court of said County do certify
that John Mitchell and William [unknown]
Esqr. before where the foregoing officiants
were made are more [unknown] were at the service date though acting Justices of the Peace
in and for said County legally commission
and qualified and that their signatures
hereto are genuine.
Given unto my hand and official
seal of office is in Rogersville
the 21st day of September 1853
J. H. Vance Clerk
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State of Tennessee
Hawkins County
s s.
on this 25th day of November 1833
personally appeared in open Court before
the Court of Pleas [unknown] in said  County-
and State, now sitting Notley Thomas a resident of
the county [unknown] in said State aged Eighty years
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 [unknown] June 7th 1832- That he entered the Service of the United
States under the following named officers and served
as herein stated -  That in the month of May as well
as he now remembers in the year 1778 - he was drafted
in the State of South Carolina, under Capt. Dugan
within about thirty five miles of ninety
Six, when declarant then resided  - and was marched from his residence on the Saluda River (he
thinks the later part of May. Say the 20th in
the year 1778 - under said Dugan, [word crossed out] into the State of Tennessee, to a place called [unknown] [unknown] when declarants company find the regiment commanded by Col Mcrury who was under the command of General [unknown] from [unknown] [unknown] they marched to Saint Marys River near the mouth of [unknown] river, and after being stationed {unknown] [unknown] this declarant was discharged in the latter part of [unknown] 1778 | being three months he received his discharge in [unknown]. Enquired by permission of Genr Willimason, but said discharge has been lately [unknown] lost. That shortly after this declarant arrived home his father Joseph Thomas was infirm, near ninety five in South Carolina and this declarant took his place as a substitute, and then again marched under the command of Captain James Waddelton
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from Saluda River, within thirty five miles of [unknown] [unknown] about the last of September or first of October in the year 1778 and then marched to the mouth of South Broad River emptying into the Savannah River, and from there to the [unknown] river. From there [unknown] marched on towards the Ocmulgee against the Indians , but Gen Williamson having given up the pursuit of the Indians, by [unknown] of the many obstacles that opposed him then [unknown] his militias did not [unknown] the Ocmulgee when Gerl Williamson marched back to Little Broad River, which they reached about the later part of December 1778 or first [unknown] 1779 and this declarant was then with others discharged by said Gnl Williamson which discharge has also been lost or mislaid having served [unknown] three months that [unknown]
Again in the Summer of 1779 this declarant reenlisted under Capt. Dugan and was marched by said Capt Duggan from his residence on the Saluda Rver, about the first of June in that year to [unknown] River near to when it entered into [unknown] River and said company was stationed near a place near the Golden Grove in the Cherokee Nation, to guard the frontier against the incursion of the Indians, and this declarent [unknown] there within his company until about the first of September 1779 when he was discharged by Capt. Duggan. Returned home, but [unknown] , having served then three months again in the winter of 1780.
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he served another campaign under Captain [unknown] and was marched under Capt. [unknown] from his residence on the Saluda to Augusta in Georgia, when he came under the command of P. Pickens, who commanded a [crossed out word] Regiment of Mounted Men then declarant being also mounted, that declarant left from under Capt. [unknown] about the first of November 1780 and from Augusta was marched to [unknown] about eight miles [unknown] where the troops under Pickens halted [unknown] and [crossed out phrase] from [unknown] was marched on a [unknown] under Pickens to Edisto and Beach Island to Buck Island and again was marched from Buck Island to a place near Egeeshee River, between Savannah & [unknown] and [crossed out phrase] hence then marched in [crossed out word] a [unknown phrase] Capt Pickens, with a party of British infantry of about 100 men ...[continued] but Pickens took about thity five men and the declarant was discharged by said Pickens, about the first of February 1781 at Buck Island South Carolina having served after three months but said discharge has been lost or mislaid. 

Again in the month of July about the 1st, the declarant again [unknown] for three months under Capt. Pendleton [unknown] and was marched from [unknown] borough, when his company came under the command of Major Hartgraves from
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[unknown] to the [unknown] Swamp against the forest, when it [unknown] said regiment of them had assembled and after staying there some time, declarant was marched with his company back to [unknown] borough. From hence to the Saluda River [unknown] declarants [unknown] when he was discharged by Major Hartgroves about the first of October 1781 - which [unknown] was lost. Having served there three months making in all fifteen months. [continued...]
That he was born in the county of Hawkins State of Tennessee [unknown continued...]

W. B. Mitchell [unknown]
Notley Thomas (his mark)

Mr. Lewis Click and John Rodgers residing in the county of Hawkins in the neighborhood of the said Notley Thomas do hereby certify that we were well acquainted with the said
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Notley Thomas who has subscribed & Sworn
to the above declaration that we believe him to be eighty years of age, that he is reputed & believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution. And that we concur in that opinion. Sworn to & subscribed the day and year aforesaid
W B Mitchell Clk
Lewis Click
John Rogers

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion to be after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogations
prescribed by the war department, that the
above named applicant was a Revolutionary soldier and served as he states And the Court further certifies that it appears to them that Lewis Click Esquire and John Rogers and residents in the County of Hawkins, and are credible persons and that their statement is entitled to credit

J Stockley Mitchell Clerk of the Court of Pleas & quarter Sessions for the County of Hawkins aforesaid do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the
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the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Nothey Thomas for a pension
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of office this 25th day of November
1833
S D Mitchell Clk
By W B Mitchell Clk
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Reg WIDOW, &c. 
File No. 9514
Temperance Thomas
Wid
Notley Thomas
Prvt Rev War
Act: February 3d. 1853
Index: - Vol. M, Page 270
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No. 3280
Temperance Thomas, 
widow of Notley.
Letter to J. H. Vance, 
Oct. 20. 1853
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Mag: Who: Ma: & 2 to left: 4" Mch: 41
"R Boyanton."
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Pendleton Office. 
3 May 1854
Sir, Please Certify the [unknown] to which the within named pension was paid, on the date of his death,
Very respectfully,
S. Cole
for the Commissioner,
N M 42
52.50
"Boynton"
Francis Burt, Esquire,
Third Auditor, Treasury.
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Notley Thomas, Act 1832. $52.50 per annum paid to 4 March 1842.
F. Burt
Auditor
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Breif in the case of Temperance Thomas, Wid of Notley, Hancock County and State of Tenn; act 3d February, 1853
Claim, ("original," [strikethrough or "for increase.) proof exhibited, (if original.)
Is it documentary, traditionary, or supported by rolls? If either, state the substance. 
Husband was a pensioner under the Act of 7th July, 1832. 
Marriage proved by the Magistrate who performed the marriage service. 
(If for increase.)
Has additional evidence been filed since the admission of the claim. If so, what?
Samuel Powell, Esquire. 
Rogersville, Tenn
Name and residence of Agent. 
S.C. Boynton
Examining Clerk.
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Rogersville Tennessee
James L. Edwards, Esquire
Sir
Enclosed you will find the declarations of Mrs. Temperance Thomas and Mary England, they request that the pension be made payable at Knoxville [unknown], as it will be more convenient to leave their [unknown], at that agency. 
Forward duly the Pension Certificate from Sarah Bussell, [unknown name] from the [continued...],  as does also Sally Pratt, whose certificate was forwarded to me some eight [unknown] weeks ago - If they are entitled will you please it forward on the form of the declaration if one is [unknown] - so that I may be enabled to make [unknown] their papers forward them to you. 

Respectfully, I am your assistant
M. C. Alexander.
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Rogersville
Nov [unknown]
[unknown] Rev. claim [unknown]

J. L. Edwards Esq., 
Comm. of Pensions
Hawkins Cty
[unknown]
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Rogersville E Tn
Nov.r 28th 1833

Sir
Enclosed I send you the declaration of Notley Thomas under the act of 7 June 1831.

I am respectfully
D Alexander
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Claim of Temperance Thomas Presented by Sam Powell of Rogersville Tenn.
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State of Tennessee. 
Hancock County. 
B.S. Ford. 
On this the 12th Day of February, 1834 personally appeared before me one of the justices of the County Court of Hancock & Justice of the Peace for said County Temperance Thomas a resident of Hancock County, late of Tennessee aged about Eighty Six nad who first being duly sworn according to law doth on her asth make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the act of Congress pass on the 3rd of February 1833 granting pensions to the widows of those persons who served in the Revolutionary War, that she is the widow of Notley Thomas who was a solider in the Revolutionary War but she does not under what officers said Notley Thomas served under nor the length of time he served. She said Notley Thomas was placed upon the pension roll for involuntary services and paid at the pension agency at Knoxville Tennessee at the rate of fifty two dollars and fifty cts per annum per annum and for proof of her said husbands services she did have to refer the department to refer to the proof filed by her husband. She further states that previous to her husbands coming to Tennessee he resided in Burk County North Carolina and came to Hawkins County Tennessee in or about the year 1817 and lived in said County and State up to the day of his death. She further declares that she was married to the said Notley Thomas on the seventh day of January AD 1823 in Hawkins County Tennessee that her said husband did on or about the 4 day of September 1841 in Hawkins County [unknown] that she was not married to him prior to the second of January eighteen hundred but at the time above stated. She further declares that she is his widow and has remained a widow ever since the death of her husband the said Notley Thomas and she has no private record of said marriage. 

Agent
James M. Moneyhan
E. P. Church
Temperance Thomas (her mark)

Sworn to and subscribed before me the day and year above written and I do bereby certify that owing to the bodily infirmity of the said Temperance Notley and the distance she lives
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from the Court House it being seventeen miles to the nearest one and over an exceedingly rough country it would be impossible to [inknown] her to a counrt house without endangering her life as she has to be lifted in and out of the house.
I do further certify that I am not interested in said claim and am not concerned in its prosecution. 
B. C. Ford JP. 

Know all men by these presents that I Temperance Notley of Hancock County Tennessee do hereby nominate and appoint [unknown name] of Hawkins County Tennesseee my attorney to prosecute my claim for pension before the Pension Office and to do all things in my name that an attorney can do in regard to said business. In testimony whereof I hereto set my hand seal this the 13th day of February 1854 sealed in our presence and observance. 
James M. Moneyhon
& E.P. Church

Temperance Thomas (her mark)

State of Tennessee
Hawkins County

Before me personally came Temperance Notley and after my having read and explained the foregoing Power of Attorney over to her acknowledged the same to be her [unknown] this the 13th day of February 1854
B.C. Ford JP for Hancock County Tennessee

State of Tennessee
Hawkins County

On this the 13th Day of February AD 1854 before me an acting Justice of the Peace duly authorized by law to administer oaths within for said County personally came William Church and Samuel Vaughn residents of Hancock
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County State of Tennessee and who are persons entitled to credit who being duly [unknown] awarding to [unknown] day an oath that they were well acquainted with Notley Thomas [unknown] a Revolutionary pensioner and his widow Temperance Thomas as applicant for a pension, that they knew said Notley Thomas fifteen years before his death and they also knew his wife and know the said Temperance and have known her ever since the death of the said Notley. THey knew the said Notley and Temerpance Thomas as mand and wife in that capacity they live and they have never known or heard the fail of this legal marriage disputed or doubted. That the said Notley Thomas died in Hawkins County, State of Tennessee on or about the 4th day of March 1841 and the said Temperance Notley is still a widow and has remained a widow ever since the death of her husnband the said Notley Thomas, and they are [unknown] sworn to and subscribed before me this day and year above stated. B. C. Ford JOP (justice of peace) WM Church. Samuel Vaughan. 
State of Tennessee
Hancock County
I Richard Mitchell Clerk of the County Court for said County do hereby certify that B.C. Ford, Esq. appeared before [unknown] the foregoing power of attorney and declaration was sworn to [unknown] and acknowledged is and was as of the date thereof an acting justice of the peace legally commissioned and sworn into office and that his signature therewith is genuine. 
Received under my hand and official seal of office in [unknown] this 23rd day of March 1854. 
Richard Mitchell, Clerk.