Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 16492, Thomas G Alvord, Continental (N.Y.)
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Service
Continental NY

Alvord, Thomas G
Nancy

Number
W. 16492
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Rec July 7 1828

Homer July 1st 
War department of United States
Or Pension Office at Washington City 

Thomas G. Alvord

Act 7828
Settled at 
Treasury

Consd with 
Ad Oh [tia?] 
File # 16.492
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For the purpose of obtaining the benefit of an act of relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the army of the Revolution approved on the 15th day of May 1828- I Thomas G. Alvord of the Town of Homer in the county of Cortland, in the State of New York do humbly declare that I enlisted in the Continental line of the Army of the Revolution for and during the war, and continued in the service until its termination at which period I was a Gunner in Captain Joseph's company in the second New York Artillery Regiment of the New York line and I also declare that I do not remember whether i received a certificate for the reward of eighty dollars to which I was entitled under a Resolve of Congress passed the fifteenth day of May 1778 or not, but I declare that I was entitled to receive such certificate, and the said reward of Eighty Dollars, which I do not recollect of ever receiving but may have compounded for the same, with some Agent or pretended Agent of the United States, and further I declare that I was not on the fifteenth day of March 1828 on the  Pension List of the United States.
Thomas G. Alvord 
dated Homer  June

Before me Lizur B. Canfield Esquire a Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Cortland, duly empowered to administer oaths in the county of Cortland and State of New York personally appeared this 28 day of June in the year 1828 Townsend Ross and Moses B. Butterfield of the town of Homer in the said county of Cortland who did Acoord[ing?] make oath that Thomas G. Alvord by whom the foregoing declaration was subscribed is gen[uine]
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respected and believed to have been a non commissioned officer in the army of the Revolution in manner as therein stated and that he drew Lot No. 57 in Homer in the county of Cortland on the Military tract in the State of New York for the services in the revolutionary war; as they are informed and believe is true
Witness my hand this 28th day of June in the year 1828. 
Townsend Ross
M.B. Butterfield

Subscribed and sworn 
before me this 28 day of 
June 1828
Lizur B. Canfield Justice of the 
Peace

I Samuel Hotchkiss Clerk of the County of Cortland in the State of New York do certify that Lizur B. Canfield before whom the above affidavit was sworn was at the time a Justice of the Peace of the County of Cortland in the said State of New York and duly empowered to administer as this as such Justice. 
Per testimony whereof I have hence set forth my hand and affixed the seal of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Cortland this thirtieth day of June in the year 1828. 
Saml Hotchkiss Clerk
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Cortland County Ss: Thomas G. Alvord Ss. being duly sworn deposeth and saith I drew for Military services during the Revolutionary ^ war the 57th in the town of Homer in the County of Cortland and State of New York and that he had a discharge given and signed by Gen. George Washington and that I [?] and Oliver Tuttle have the discharge about the year 1795 and have not seen it since that Tuttle lived in Whitestown or Sangerfield as far as he can recollect then in Herkimer county State of New York who is now dead as I am informed and the widow also died and I do not know who has the custody of the property and that I took an article of the said Tuttle for said discharge which is [a..?] to these papers and that I am the Son of Thomas G. Alvord who served as Sergeant in the same company with me who drew Lot 13 in Homer and who is now dead. 
Thomas G. Alvord

Sworn before me this 
28th day of June 1828
Lizur B. Canfield Justice of 
the Peace 

Homer Cortland County State of New York
Letters will be directed to M.B.Butterfield
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New York 944 (Albany)
Nancy Alvord
widow of Thomas G. Alvord
who died on the 23rd of June 1835 Cortland Co. in the State of New York who was a Gunner op in the company commanded by Captain Thomas of the regt commanded by Col. Lamb in the N. York line for the war. 
NY

Inscribed on the Roll of New York (Albany) at the rate of 104 Dollars  -  cents per annum to commence on the 23 June 1835. 

Certificate of Pension issued the 30 day of May 1837 and sent to S. B. Canfield Esq. Homer

Arrears to the 4th of 
Semi. anl allowance ending 4 Sept 1837 $52
$52
Revolutionary Claim
Act July 4, 1836
Section the 3d

Recorded by Wm. S. Allison Clerk
Book    Vol  1  Page 126 

Let to Evans & Fant June 16/52

885
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1471
Nancy Alvord
admitted
Gunner
Artillery
$104
died
23 June 1835
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Declaration
in order to obtain the benefit of the Third Section of the Act of Congress of the 4th of July 1836 
Cortland County, 
State of New York Ss  on this Sixteenth day of February personally appeared before the Judge of Cortland County Common Pleas Nancy Alvord a resident of Homer in the county of Cortland and State of New York aged seventy two years the 23 day of March next, who being first duly sworn according to Law, doth on her oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the Provision made by the Act of Congress passed July 4th 1836- that she is the widow of Thomas G. Alvord who was a Gunner in Col. Lambs Regiment of Artillery in the army of the Revolution- she further declares that she was married to the said Thomas G. Alvord on the 17th day of June 1783. That her husband the aforesaid Thomas G. Alvord, died on the 13th day of June 1835 and that she has remained a widow ever since that period, as will more fully appear by reference to the proof hereto annexed. the complaint of which he died was called the Diobatus [Diabetes] - she says that the said Thomas G. Alvord was a Revolutionary pensioner and that she never learned to write. 
Sworn and subscribed 
before me the 16th day
of February 1837
Oren Stimson, clerk Cortland Co. 
Witness- Lizur B. Canfield
Homer Cortland County N. York
Oren Stimson Cortlandville Cortland Co. N York

her
Nancy x Alvord
mark
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Cortland County 
State of New York  Ss}
Jacob B. Alvord, aged forty four years the 21st day of March next and George W. Brown aged twenty five years on the 9th day of April next, both of Homer in the county of Cortland and State of New York, being duly sworn deposeth and saith that they are personally acquainted with Nancy Alvord the late Wife  and now a widow of Thomas G. Alvord, deceased, who was a Revolutionary pensioner and who died on the 13th day of June 1835, they both say that they have lived in the same house with the said Nancy Alvord ever since the death of the said Thomas G. Alvord and are personally knowing to her remaining a widow ever since the period of said Thomas G. Alvords Dec[ease] [or Decline?]. 
  
Sworn and subscribed 
before me this 16th day of 
February 1837
Lizur B. Canfield J. Peace

Jacob B. Alvord
George H. Brown

I certify that I am personally acquainted with Jacob B. Alvord and George W. Brown and that they are both men of truth and veracity and reputable in their neighborhood. 
Lizur B. Canfield J. Peace
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State of New Jersey 
Morris County ss } To whom it may concern: 
This may certify that I this day married Thomas Gould Alvord of the State of Connecticut and county of Hartford to Nancy Scouten of Fish Kill of State of New York sworn under my hand at mount Hope this 17th day of June in the year of our Lord 1783
John Jacob Traselz
Justice Peace

1793
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State of New York
Cortland County} Ss I Oren Stimson clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of said County the same being a Court of Record/ do hereby certify that at a court of Common Pleas, held in and for said county, before the Judges thereof at Cortlandville on the 16th day of February 1837, it was proved by the adduction of Testimony satisfactory to the said court that Thomas G. Alvord, late of the Town of Homer, in said County and died on the 23rd day of June 1835, that at the time of his Death, he was a pensioner of the United States under the Act of the 15th of May 1828, and that he left a widow him surviving whose name is Nancy Alvord, and that she has remained a widow ever since that period- and I further certify that Lizur B. Canfield  Esquire before whom Jacob B. Alvord and George W. Brown purports to have been sworn is a Justice of the Peace in and for said county and that I am well acquainted with said Justice's hand writing , and that his signature to the written affidavit is genuine- in testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed my seal of Office at Cortlandville the 27th day of February A.D. One Thousand Eight hundred and Thirty Seven.

Oren Stimson Clerk
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Nancy Alvord
NYS 36




Evans and Fant
Present
Feb 27- 1852
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State of New York
County of Cortland }  SS
Be is known that on this 9th day of January 1852 Before me the undersigned a Justice of the Peace in and for the County and State aforesaid personally appeared Jacob B. Alvord and made oath according to Law that he is a son of Nancy Alvord who was a pensioner of the United  under the act of July 4th 1836 at the Rate of $104 per annum as the widow of Thomas G. Alvord deceased who was pensioned under the Act of 1828 as a Gunner in Col. Lambs Regiment of Artillery. 
That he has lately been informed that the said pension ought to be increased that he is directly interested as a claimant in said pension and makes this affidavit to be filed with such additional evidence and arguments as my said agent may use in prosecuting said claim

Sworn and subscribed
the day and year aforesaid
before me 
E.W. Edgecomb 
Justice of the Peace

Jacob B. Alvord
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I EW Edgecomb Justice of the Peace in and for said county do hereby certify that Jacob B. Alvord, who executed the foregoing papers is a respectable resident of this county and is I believe directly interested in said claim as there in set forth. E.W. Edgecomb Justice.

Know all men by these presents that I Jacob B. Alvord of Homer Cortland Co. NY do hereby constitute and appoint such J Evans Esq. of Washington D.C. my true and Lawful agent and attorney to prosecute the claim of the Children of the said Nancy Alvord deceased for any amount of Revolutionary Pension or increase of pension that may be due and I do hereby authorize my said agent and attorney to examine all the papers and documents in relation to said claim on file in the department at Washington City D.C. or elsewhere additional evidence or arguments and to receive the certificate which may be issued for said claim to appoint one or more substitute for the purpose here in exposed to do all things that I might or could do more I personally present.
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hereby rattifying and confirming all that my said agent and attorney shall lawfully do in the process. 
Hereby Revoking all other attornies and agents appointed by me
Witness my hand and seal this 9th day of January 1852
Signed Sealed and 
Delivered in Presence of 
E.W. Edgecomb

Jacob B. Alvord

State of New York
Cortland County 
Be it known that on the 9th day of January AD 1852 Before the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid personally appeared Jacob B. Alvord above named and acknowledged the foregoing power of attorney to be [?] and deed for the use and purpose therein mentioned
In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name the day and year last above mentioned
E.W. Edgecomb
Justice of the Peace
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I hereby certify that EW Edgecomb is a justice of the Peace in and for the county of Cortland State of New York, that he has been such justice for several years last past, that I am acquainted with his handwriting and verily believe his signature to the foregoing jurats & certificate are genuine. Dated Jany. 12, 1832
H.S. Cenger
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Rev Widow, and c.

File No. 16492
Nancy Alvord
Widow of 
Thomas G. Alvord 
Gunner Rev War

Act July 4th 36
Index: Vol. A Page 10 

[Arrangement of 1870]

Mch. 22 1904- His to Samuel M. Alvord 
Hartford Conn
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Thomas G. Alvord NY  15 May 1828
May 30

341 origl

2642 No warrant 

Feb 28/1852
Rel to case of Nancy Alvord widow of Thomas G. 

Evans and Fant
Present 

James E. Heath Esq. 
Comm of Pensions
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408. No of Orig Pay 341
Revolutionary Claims

Treasury Department
July 28, 1828

Thomas G. Alvord, of Homer - in the county of Cortland, in the State of New York 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 Gunner in captain Thomas's company,  in the 2nd Artillery regiment of the New York 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,
31st July 1828

it appears by the records in this office, that a certificate for the reward of eighty dollars has been issued to Thomas G. Alvord in Lambs Arty N. York line. 
It further appears that Thomas G. Alvord is not now on the pension list of any agency and has not been so since the 3rd March 1826.
Peter Hagner And.
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Washington, Feby. 27 1852
Sir, 
We request an examination of the claim of Nancy Alvord, widow of Thomas G., New York, Act 4th July 1836, and request an increase from $104 to $108 per annum. 
Very respectfully, 
Evans and Fant  

J.E. Heath Esq
 Comm of Pensions
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THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES
Form VAM-51
12-5-41
BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
Division of Veterans' Administration Archives
NAME [added by hand "Alvord, Thomas G."]
GRADE [added by hand "Sergeant"]
LINE [two lines added by hand "Lamb's Artillery (New York)"]
WARRANT NUMBER [added by hand "6759"]
ACREAGE [printed or typed "100"]
ISSUED [added by hand "July 9, 1790"]
[added by hand on line below "to Theodosius Fowler, assignee"]
[short divider line]
*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 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.