Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S 38106, Thomas Ackley, Conn.
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SERVICE: Conn.
Ackley, Thomas
NUMBER: S. 38106
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Not entitled to a pension under the law 1 May 1820.
Notification sent to John Fisk Esq. 5 July 1820.
Middletown Connecticut
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(3108.)
Connecticut

Thomas Ackley, Corporal,
Connecticut line -
Capt. Holmes
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.

Inscribed on the Roll of Connecticut
at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on
the 31 of March, 1818.

Certificate of Pension issued the 28 of Sept: 1818
and sent to Calvin Goddard, Esq.
Chelsea landing, Connecticut

Arrears to 4th Sept: 1818 - $ 41.32
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4 March 1819 48.00
[=] $89.32

{Revolutionary claim,}
{Act 18th March, 1818.}
War
6 years
East Haddam, Mi[ddlesex Co?]
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Thomas Ackley Corp'l.
31st March 1818
Conn't. line.

["Deserted" - stricken]
(apl. 16, 1783)
admitted
["Inadmissible" - stricken]

Additional testimony of the Applicant having joined the Army after he recovered from illness June 1783 & dismissed & discharged July 1783 and secured his land warrant -
The Applicant [illegible] confident his name will be on the books in July 1783 unless the confusion incident to [illegible] up prevented it
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To Calvin Goddard Esq one of the Judges of the Superior Court in the State of Connecticut
The Petition of Thomas Ackley of the Town of East Haddam in Middlesex County, a resident Citizen of the United States - sheweth that he serv'd more than nine Months in the War of the War of the Revolution upon the Continental Establishment as a Private Soldier & non commission'd officer - that he is by reason of his reduc'd circumstances in life, in need of assistance from his Country for his support
That he hereby relinquishes all claim to any pension under any Law of the United States excepting under an Act entitled an act to provide for certain persons engag'd in the Land & naval Service of the United States and to substantiate his claim to a pension under that act, he make this application. Dated at [illegible - Colchester?] this 31st Day of March 1818.
[Signed] Thomas Ackley

State of Connecticut -
New London County ss.
Be it remember'd that on the 31st Day of March in the Year of our Lord one Thousand eight hundred & eighteen before me Calvin Goddard one of the Judges of the Superior Court in the State of Connecticut -
Personally came Thomas Ackley aforesaid, and made oath to the truth of the following declaration by him subscribed, to wit that he entered into the Army of the Revolutionary War in the year 1777 for during the Sd. War in the Company commanded by Capt. Eliphalet Holmes in Col. Jedediah Huntington Regt. and serv'd faithfully against the common enemy
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till the year 1783 in the first Connecticut Regt commanded by Col Zebulon Butler at the close of the war, that he served before in a Regt commanded by Col Sherman  - That on the first day of January 1783 being sick he recv'd a furlough Signed  G. Washington for one hundred & five days which is herewith exhibited - The having recovered he rejoined the army in the month of June 1783 & was honourably discharged therefrom in July  1783 - That he has never received any pension & is by reason of his reduced circumstance in life in need of Assistance from his Country for his support. 
[Signed] Thomas Ackley 
Sworn to & declared [?] before me the day & year aforesd 
[Signed] Calvin Goddard a Judge of Sup Court

I Calvin Goddard Judge &c as aforesaid do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Thomas Ackley did serve in the revolutionary war as stated in the preceeding declaration against the common enemy & I now transmit the proceedings & testimony taken & had before me to the Secretary for the department of War pursuant to the directions of the above mentioned act of Congress 
Dated at Norwich 31st March 1818 
[Signed] Calvin Goddard Judge of Sup Court
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I certify that within named Thomas Ackley is in indigent circumstances. 
[Signed] Calvin Goddard 

THE Bearer hereof Thomas Ackley Corporal in the first Regiment of Connecticut is hereby permitted to be absent on Furlough for one hundred & five days from the Date hereof. And all officers, civil and military, are requested to suffer him to pass to Headam [s/b E. Haddam] in Connt. and return to his Regiment, without molestation, he behaving as becometh him. This Permit to be valid no farther than the above mentioned Place, and no longer than for the above mentioned Time. 
Given at New [illegible] the first day of January 1783
[Signed] G. Washington 
Registered in the Books of the Regiment. 
[Signed] Libb Loomis [illegible] Adjutant.


I Thomas Ackley on oath declare that having left the Army with the foregoing furlough I continued sick but supposed I was on the recovery & intended [?] to have joined the Army at the time of the expiration of my furlough but on the 24th Day of March 1783 Doct Augustus Mather was called [?] as my Physician having been violently seised [?] with the fever & ague with which I was confined untill the last week in June AD 1783 when I took a certificate from Doct Mather & joined the Army at West Point & was mustered with the Regiment on the 1st or 2d of July & was discharged honorably by Genl Washington a short time afterwards with a badge of Merit - my discharge I held untill I sold the land to which I was entitled for Service during the War & delivered to Thomas Lord to whom I sold my land when I delivered the same to him & presume it is now lodged at the public Land Office at Washington - Dated this 31st day of August D 1818.
[Signed] Thomas Ackley
Sworn before me 
[Signed] Calvin Goddard Mayor of Norwich [?] Cty
& Presiding Judge Cty Ct [?]
[SEAL]
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United States of America
DISTRICT OF CONNECTICUT}
County of Middlesex. } ss.
On this 14 day of June 1820, personally appeared in open Court of Common Pleas, holden by adjt. [?] at Haddam within and for the County of Middlesex; being a Court of Record, according to the laws of the State of Connecticut; by which it was created; and having the power of fine and imprisonment, Thomas Ackley aged Sixty five years, resident in East Haddam in the County and District aforesaid, who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth on his oath, declare, that he served in the Revolutionary War, as follows: to wit; in the 1st Regt of the Connecticut line raised by Col afterwar[d]s Brigade Genl Jedh. Huntington & in a Company of [illegible] Regt commanded by different Captains particularly by Capt. Willm. Belcher & Ebr. Perkins & that he has received a pension under the Act of Congress of the 18 day of March AD 1818 & the number of his pension certificate is (3,108) & his original declaration was dated the 31 day of March 1818- 

And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March, 1818; and that I have not since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner, disposed of my property, or any part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it, as to bring myself 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 war,” passed on the 18th day of March, 1818; and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property or securities, contracts, or debts, due to me; nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed, and by me subscribed.
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Schedule necessary bedding & apparel excepted:
Seventy acres most of it poor land with an Old Dwelling House & Barn & the use for life of Ten Acres more - whole of Land & House thereon $640, 
Horse 20 years old - 5, 1 Iron Farmer Bar 1.50, 
1 Cart 5, 1 Chain 1, 1 Hoe .50, 1 Ax .25 ,
1 Scythe .30, 1 Rake .10, 1 Pitchfork .10, 1 large Iron 
kettle 2.50, 1 Small Kettle 1,  2 Iron Wedges .50,
5 Knives & forks .20, 1 looks Glass 50, 2 flat Irons .50,
1 Shave [?] .25, 1 augur .20, 1 stone pot .17, 1 Bottle .12, 
1 Spider .34, 1 Jug .25,  3 milk pans. 25, 1 pot 1, 
1 Bible 1, 1 Grindstone 1, 1 V[?] Cup .12, 1 tin Cullender [collander] .12,
2 pigs 4, 1 Cow 15, 14 Sheep & 14 Lambs 21,
1 Shovel .75, 6 Chairs 1, 1 Tea Kettle .50 
1 Frying pan .25, 1pr Bellows .25, 1 pr Andirons 1,
1 pr [?]Shovel & Tongs 1, 2 Tables 1.25, 3 pails .75, 
1 Chest 1, 1 old case & Drawers 1, 1 Gall Bottle .25,
2 Meat Blls [barrels?] 1, Soap Bll .25,  1 Tea pot .50,
3 Earth'n Plates .20,  2 Bowls .10,  2 Earth'n platters .16
1 tin pail .10,  2 Candlesticks .17, 2 pewter platters .34 
3 pewter plates .36,  3 [illegible] empty Blls [?]
1 old tub .50, 1 Saddle & Bridle 1,  2 Buckets .25, 
1 Small Wheel .50, 1 Reel .20,  1 pr [illegible] .50, 
1 half Bushel .25, 1 Hammer .25  ----- [$] 689.93

[Signed] Thomas Ackley
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No. 10
Tho. Ackley

not entitled
3108
28 Sep 1818.
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And the said Thomas Ackley further saith that he is by occupation a Farmer that he is very infirm, & by reason of a Rupture is able to do very little labour, that there are four persons at present residing in & belonging to his family [to wit?] Olive Ackley his Wife aged fifty Nine Years in tolerable Health for a female of that age, & able to support herself -- Anne Ackley a Daughter aged twenty Eight Years - at present in good health but unable generally to do more than to provide necessary support for herself  -- Amon Ackley a Son aged 24 Years in health able to support himself -- Alvin Ackley aged 21 Yrs in health able to support himself & that he the sd. Thomas Ackley is indebted to sundry persons in the amount as nearly as he can now ascertain of five hundred & thirty Dollars 
SWORN to and declared on the 14th day of June 1820 before the Court of Common Pleas for Midx County
[Signed] Jno. Fisk Clerk of said Court. 

I, Jno. Fisk, Clerk of Common Pleas for Midx Co do hereby certify, that the foregoing oath and the schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the record of the said Court: and I do 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 Six Hundred & Eighty Nine dollars and Ninety three cents. 
IN TESTIMONY whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this 14 day of June 1820. 
[SEAL]
[Signed] Jno Fisk Clk of sd. Court
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May 17, 1904 His to
Hattie M. Griffing
Spring Lake Mich.
1928 July 18 Photos to
E.V. Martindale A.D.Y.

38106
Revy INVALID.
File No. 38, 106
Thomas Ackley
Corp Rev War
Act: 18" March 18"
Index:-Vol. 2, Page 2
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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Thomas Rogers of East Haddam in the County of Middlesex & State of Connecticut of Lawful age deposeth & saith - that in the years 1782 & 1783 I lived a near neighbour to Thomas Ackley in sd. East Haddam & was knowing to his coming home from the army sick with the Fever & Ague some time in the month of January 1783, and that he remained quite sick & low with sd. disorder during the residue of sd. winter & Spring, after the weather begun to moderate the fits left him & he regained his health so as to be able to Join the army some time in the month of June in the same year & left home for that purpose - further deponent saith not 
[Signed] Thomas Rogers 

Middlesex County ss East Haddam 14 May 1818 
Personally appeared Thomas Rogers and made solemn Oath that the facts stated in the foregoing Deposition by him Subscribed are the truth, the whole truth & nothing but the truth, before me 
[Signed] Sylvester Chapman Just. of Peace
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I Augustus Mather of East Haddam in Middlesex County & State of Connecticut of Lawful age depose & say -- That I have been a practising physician for about fifty years in the Town of East Haddam & am able still to pursue the business of sd. Profession, though more than seventy years of age, and I very well recollect attending Thomas Ackley in the Months of March, April May & June in the year 1783, who was severely afflicted with fits of fever & Ague, which Brot. [brought] him very low & his case was very obstinate. he however recovered in the course of the Month of June in the same year, so as to be able to perform business. I also understood that he was at that time home from the Army on furlough - further deponent saith not.
[Signed] Augustus Mather 

Middlesex County ss. East Haddam 15th Aug. 1818 
Personally appeared Augustus Mather and made solemn Oath that the Matter & facts stated in the foregoing deposition by him subscribed are the truth, the whole truth, & nothing but the truth, before me-
[Signed] Sylvester Chapman Just. of Peace 

The above named Sylvester Chapman is personally known to me to be a Justice of peace & I know his hand writing 
[Signed] Calvin Goddard
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For the purpose of obtaining the benefit of "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 Ackley of the Town of East Haddam in the County of Middlesex in the State of Connecticut, do hereby declare, that I enlisted in the Continental Line of the Army of the Revolution, for and during the war and continued in its Service until its termination, at which period I was a corporal in Captain [blank] Company in the first Regiment of the Connecticut Line. And I also declare that I afterwards received a certificate, for the reward of Eighty dollars, to which I was entitled, under a Resolve of Congress, passed the 15th of May 1778.
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And I further declare, that I was not, on the fifteenth day of March 1828, on the Pension List of the United States.
I have left the name of the Captain blank, because I do not now remember his name, nor am I certain that the Regiment was the first, but think it was. 
For the purpose of enabling the Secretary of the Treasury to examine the records at Washington I will at this state facts as I am able at this distance of time to recollect them.
I enlisted for and during the war on the 27th of April 1777 in the company of Capt. Eliphalet Holmes, but went into Wm. Belcher's Company in the first Regiment of the Connecticut Line
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commanded by Lieut [name is cut off - Prentice?]. After a little more than three years, I was appointed to do the duty of a Corporal by Colonel Starr, and thus continued to do duty until June 1782, when I was sent to Fishkill in the guard of Lord Stirling, and was there detained two weeks, was taken Sick, and remained sick through the fall, when the Regiment went into Winter Quarters at West Point -- received a furlough from General Washington for 105 days, which furlough was Sent to Washington, when I obtained a place on the Pension Roll in 1818. Previous to the expiration of my furlough, I was again taken Sick, and was detained until the last week in June, a little previous to which the soldiers who had en[listed]
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[en]listed for and during the war, had been discharged in consequence of peace. I was returned as absent without leave; which circumstance deprived me of a pension under the Act of 1818, until it was satisfactorily proved to the Secretary of War, that I joined the Army and received an honorable discharge, from General Washington after having been mustered by Baron Steuben, which discharge was recorded by the Adjutant Lebbeus Loomis in Regimental Book for July 1783, now in Washington as I suppose.
Concerning my discharge, I declare, that when I sold my bounty land to Thomas Lord of
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Lyme, I transferred it to him to carry to Philadelphia, in order to get a title to the land, where it now is in the Land Office, unless destroyed. This was in 1784. 
My certificate I sold to Samuel Ackley for a yoke of oxen.
[Signed] Thomas Ackley

In Presence of }
[Signed] Gideon Higgins }
[Signed] J. Barnes [Jr?] }
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Before me Abiel A. Loomis, Esquire, a Justice of the Peace residing in Middletown in the County of Middlesex and State of Connecticut duly empowered by the Laws of said State to administer Oaths, personally appeared the undersigned Gideon Higgins, Esq. and Arnold Watson, (this day) both of said Middletown and credible witnesses, who did severally make oath, that Thomas Ackley, by whom the foregoing declaration was subscribed, is generally reputed and believed to have been an Officer in the Army of the Revolution, in manner as therein stated. 
[Signed] Gideon Higgins
[Signed] Arnold Watson
Witness my hand this 19th day of June in the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty eight. 
{Sworn to before me June 19th 1828 
[Signed] Abiel A. Loomis Justice of the Peace for Middlesex County
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I John Fisk Clerk of the Court of the County of Middlesex in the State of Connecticut, do certify that AbielA. Loomis, Esq. before whom the foregoing affidavits were sworn was, at the time, a Justice of the Peace, and by the Laws of said State duly empowered to administer Oaths. 
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of the said Court, this 19th day of June in the year One thousand eight hundred and twenty eight. 
[SEAL]
[Signed] Jno. Fisk Clk
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Middletown (Cont.) [CT] June 19th 1828. 
I hereby request the Secretary of the Treasury to transmit the sum allowed to me, if any, under the preceding declaration, to me at my place of residence, East Haddam, Middlesex County, Cont. [CT] 
[Signed] Thom Ackley

In presence of }
J. Barnes Jr. }
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Act 1828
Settled at 
Treasury

Cons'd with
Invalid file
#38,106
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Middletown June 20, 1828.

Sir,
If farther testimony is required, Mr. Ackley requests that notice thereof may be communicated to me as his Attorney, Middletown, Cont.
With due respect,
Sir,
Your Obedient Servant
[Signed] J. Barnes Jr.

Honble William Clark.
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207. 
No of orig Pay 207
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIMS.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT. 
19 July 1828. 
Thomas Ackley of East Haddam in the County of Middlesex 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 Corporal in captain [blank's] company, in the 1st 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,
[Signed] A Dickins 

TREASURY DEPARTMENT. 
THIRD AUDITOR'S OFFICE, 
22nd July 1828 
It appears by the records in this office, that a certificate for the reward of eighty dollars has been issued to Thomas Ackley in the Connecticut line. 
It further appears that Thomas Ackley is not now on the pension list of any agency, and has not been so since the 3d March 1826.  
[Signed] Peter Hagner Aud.
(correct) [?]
No 6,885
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