Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 16790, Thomas Wilson, New Jersey
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service: New Jersey

Wilson, Thomas
or
Wilson, Sarah

W. 16790
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New York (Albany)  953

Sarah Wilson
widow of Thomas Wilson
who die on the 1 October 1797
of Saratoga Co. in the State of New York
who was a private inn the company commanded by Captain Piatt do the reg't commanded by Col. Ogden on the N. Jersey line for three years N.J.

Inscribed on the Roll of New York (Albany) at the rate of $80 Dollars ---Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March 1834.

Certificate of Pension issued the 31st day of May 1837 - and sent to SW Higgins Esq. Clifton Park

Arrears to the 4th March 1837.       $480-
Semi-anl allowance ending 4 Sept '37.  40-
                                                              ________
                                                             $520-

Recorded by Wm. S. Allison Clerk
Book. (blank). Vol. 1 Page 141
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THE NEW
TESTAMENT

LORD
JESUS CHRIST
Newly Translated out of 
ORIGINAL GREET
And with the former Translations
Compared and Revised
By His Majesty's Special Command
Appointed to be read in CHURCHES.

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Wilson, Thomas
NJ W16790
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Nichols 
December
December 1771
Willson Thomas
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State of New York
Saratoga County Clerk's Office

I, Alpheus Goodrich, Clerk of the county of Saratoga, do Certify, that Seth W. Higgins before whom the annexed affidavit purports Mohave been sworn was at the date of the same, one of the Justices of the Peace in and for said county, and that I am acquainted with his hand writing, and verily believe his name subscribed to the said affidavit, to be his proper hand writing and signature.
   Witness my hand and seal of Office, the sixth day of March 1837

A. Goodrich Clerk
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Wilson, Thomas
NJ     W16790
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State of New York
Saratoga County

Aaron Willson of the town of Ballston  in the county of Saratoga and State of New York o oath deposes and says that I am sixty nine years of age that I am the son of Thomas Wilson dec'd who died at New Brunswick in the County of Middlesex and State of New Jersey on the first of October seventeen hundred and ninety seven.  That at the commencement of the Revolutionary War my father Thomas Wilson together with my mother Sarah Wilson resided in said town of New Brunswick that I continued to reside with them during the said Revolutionary War and in the county of said town of New Brunswick until the age of twenty one years.  That at the early part of the Revolution I well recollect of my father the said Thomas Wilson  aforementioned  being out from home as a Soldier in the army, one circumstance particularly recalls to my mind that during my father's absence  in the army as aforesaid my mother Sarah Wilson aforesaid left her residence with her little family of which I was one and fled to the woods and fields where we remained all night, and I further depose and say that during the war of the Revolution I well recollect of my father the said Thomas Wilson returning home from the army lame, that he was wounded in in the ankle whilst engaged in Battle, thinks it was the Battle of Brandywine, that the said Thomas Wilson my father aforesaid returned and back again to the army after recovering from his wounds in some degree and I further depose and say that I distinctly recollect of hearing my father say that he enlisted and served three years in a company commanded by Capt. Piatt  in Col. Daniel --- Regiment which was the first Jersey Regiment, and I further depose and say that my mother the said Sarah Wilson aforementioned has resided with me and in the county for the last twenty years past that after my mother the said Sarah came to reside with me she deposited in my care papers belonging to my father during his life, that in said package of papers I found the paper hereunto annexed dated at Jersey Camp Jan 7 1780 signed by Daniel Pathway (Rathway?) Col. of the 1st Jersey Eg't and that I kept said paper in my charge ever since supposing it to be the discharge of my father.
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And on which his Lands as allotted as a Soldier might be claimed if not by him conveyed.  And I further does and say  the Record hereunto annexed purporting to be the Record of the Marriage of my father Thomas Willson to my Mother Sarah Hide now Willson was taken from a Bible which was the property of my father during his lifetime and by him kept and retained as a  record which record was by me taken from said Bible as it is hereunto annexed.  And I further certify that the Record of the date of my father and mother the said Thomas and Sarah Marriage as they're recorded was so recorded in said Bible on the -?- hereunto annexed having the date therein specified as Early as the first of my recollection which record as intended to be referred to is  executed with a line drawn around the same and is in the hand writing of my father as I verily believe.
And I further depose and say that my mother the said Sarah Wilson widow of the said Thomas Wilson has never intermarried but still remains his lawful widow.  and further this deponent saith not.
Aaron Wilson

Sworn and subscribed this 1str day of March 1837 Before me
Seth W. Higgins Justice Peace

State of New York
Saratoga County
   I certify that Aaron Wilson who subscribed and swore to the above affidavit before me on the date above named is well known to me and known to me to be a man of good moral character and of truth and veracity and his statement is entitled to the fullest confidence.
Seth W. Higgins Justice Peace
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1493

Sarah Wilson

Admitted
$80

died 1 (month unclear) 1797
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State of New York
Saratoga County

    On this fourth day of March one thousand eight hundred and thirty seven personally appeared before me Nicolas B. Doe a Judge of the Saratoga County Court Sarah Wilson a resident of the town of Ballston in the county of Saratoga and State of New York aged ninety one years who having 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 Wilson   who was a private in the War of the Revolution that previous to and at the commencement of the Revolution the said Thomas Wilson this deponent's husband resided in the town of New Brunswick in the county of Middlesex and State of New Jersey and that the said Thomas Wilson this deponent's husband with her continued to reside in said town of New Brunswick during the Revolutionary War and until the date of his the said Thomas Wilsons death.
     And this deponent further saith that at the commencement of the Revolution was the said Thomas Wilson husband enlisted the service of the United States in the Militia for the State of New Jersey as a private and served as such at different intervals from 1775 to Jan. 1777 from terms of from three months to six months and some short terms of service.  Yet the names of the officers under whom the deponents husband served and the particulars time and manner of his service this deponent cannot recollect.  And this deponent further saith that between the year 1775 and Jan 1777 she believes from the best of her recollection that the said Thomas  this deponents husband served two terms of regular enlistment in the Jersey troops, on term of three months and one for six months.  Yet the names of the officers under whom he the said Thomas served or the date of his entering the service or his dismissal there from.....
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...this deponent cannot now recollect as she has no documentary evidence in his papers whereby she can -?-.
   And this deponent further saith that on or doubt the first of January 1777 the said Thomas Wilson this deponents husband enlisted as a Solider in Capt Piatts company of Infantry which company belonged to the first Jersey Regiment and commanded by them or thereafter Daniel______ as colonel thereof which term of enlistment out was for three years ad that the said Thomas this deponents husband continued to serve under said Enlistment until the full end and term of his enlistment of three years as aforesaid when he was regularly discharged then from 1st jersey Camp on the 5th day of January 1780 as will appear from discharge hereunto annexed.
    And the deponent further saith that during the revolutionary war she was the mother for children them all surviving that owing to her situation as residencer (?) she was put to flight and obliged to lay out in the open fields with her little family to prevent being plundered by the British Army then lying or passing within the -?- her this a property dwelling.
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....20th day of December 1764 as will further appear from a Record thereof hereunto annexed taken from the family Bible kept as a part of the family Records and that her husband the aforesaid Thomas Wilson died at New Brunswick aforesaid on the first of October seventeen hundred and ninety seven and that she has remained a widow ever since that passed as will more fully appear  by reference to proof hereunto annexed.
Sarah Wilson her X mark

Sworn before me this 4th day of March 1837
N.B. Doe Judge of Saratoga County Court

   I Nicholas B. Doe Judge of Saratoga County court do hereby certify that Sarah Wilson the individual named in the foregoing Declaration by reason of old age and other infirmities is unable to attend Court at its place of sitting for the purpose of being examined and making oath to the foregoing Declaration - and I do also certify that she sustains a fine moral character and also that her character for truth and veracity is good and that her Declaration is entitled to the fullest confidence and belief.
N.M. Doe Judge of Saratoga county Court

Sate of New York 
Saratoga County
  I Alpheus Goodrich Clerk of the county of Saratoga do certify that Nicholas B. Doe before whom the foregoing affidavit purports to have been sworn was at the date of the same one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas I and for said county and that I am acquainted with his hand writing and verily believe his name subscribed to the affidavit and certificate to be his proper hand writing and signature.  Witness my .........
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....hand and seal of Office the 6th day of March 1837

A. Goodrich Clerk
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August 23, 1927
Mrs. Frank H. Cook
302 South Elmira St.,
Athens, Penna.

Madam:
I have to advise you that from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim W. 18790 it appears that Thomas Wilson, or Willson, while a resident of New Brunswick, Middlesex County, New Jersey, served a tour of three months, one of six months and others of shorter duration, between 1775 and January 1777, no details of service or officers' names given.
He enlisted in January 1777, served as a private in Captain Daniel Platt's Company, First New Jersey Regiment, was in the battle of Brandywine where he received a wound of the ankle, and was discharged January 5, 1780. He died October 1, 1797 in New Brunswick, New Jersey, where he had resided ever since the Revolution. His age is not given.
Soldier married December 20, 1764 in New Brunswick, New Jersey, Sarah Hide. She was allowed pension on her application executed March 4, 1837 while a resident of New
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Ballston, Saratoga County, New York aged ninety-one years.
During the Revolution they then had four children. In 1837 their son Aaron was living in Ballston, New York aged sixty-nine years. It also appears that one Nichols? or Nicholas? Wilson (not clearly written) was born October 7, 1771, but it is not stated whether he was a son. The names of other children not stated. 
The above noted is the only soldier named Thomas Wilson who served in the New Jersey Troops, found on the Revolutionary War records of this Bureau.
Respectfully, 
E. W. MORGAN
Acting Commissioner.
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Rev. WIDOW, &c.

File No: 16790
Sarah Wilson
Widow of
Thomas Wilson
Pri Rev War

Act July 5th '36

Index: Vol. M, Page 343

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1927 Aug 23 - Hist. to Mrs. FH Cook
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Wilson Thomas
NJ W 16740
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Thomas Wilson having served three years as a soldier in the first Jersey Regiment it being the term of his enlistment is hereby discharged.

Daniel (illegible last name)
Commd.  -?- Jersey Reg't

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(month illegible) 5 1780
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Pension Claims under the
Act of July 4th 1836

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Sarah Wilson
(a second name)
NY
4 July '36
3rd Sec

Clifton Park NY March 8th

Hon. B.FG. Butler
Secrtary of War
Washington
D.C.

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No. 1493
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Sir
    The enclosed claims are left in my care to be forwarded to you for Examination.
    The claimants are -?-, and are considered by those being within the section (?) to have just claims.  All which is respectfully submitted.

Your most obdt Servt.
S.W. Higgins

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Clifton Park Saratoga
County State of New York
March 7th 1837
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April 26, 1937

Commissioner of Pensions
Washington, D.C.
Dear Sir:
   I was referred to you from the adjutant General's office at Washington concerning an old record.
  In Stryker's Record of "Jersey Men in the Revolutionary War" I find the name of Wilson, Thomas private iCapt. John Phillips Co. 3rd Regiment, Hunterdon County, New Jersey Page 825.
    As I am desirous of doing the D.A.R., will you please give me all the information possible concerning this ancestor, as I have reasons to believe he was my father's great grandfather.
   My father is Charles Hinton, Civil War veteran, belonging ......
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...to the 9th regiment of New Jersey and his grandfather was Thomas Wilson of New Jersey.
   Would like to. know if a pension was issued and to whom and all data you can furnish me, which is necessary for me to become a member.
   I have no record of his birth, marriage, whom he married, or names of children, all of which I must have for membership in the D.A.R.
    Enclosed find stamped self addressed envelope.  will hope for an early reply.

Respectfully yoursMrs Frank H. Cook
302 South Elmira Street
Athens, Pennsylvania
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Wilson, Thomas
Private
New York
7963
September 6, 1791
  to ---not shown---
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Wilson, Thomas
Sargeant in Moylan's Dragoons Pennsylvania
10633
June 29, 1789
  to M. McConnell assignee