Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 10535, for George Thompson, Georgia
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Service: GA/SC
Thompson, George 
                     Jane
Number R.10535
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State of South Carolina } 85
Charleston District 
On this 5th day of
December AD. 1857 - Before me, D. C. Gibson a  Magistrate for the Parishes of St. Philips and St. Michael’s - S.C., personally appeared William Thompson a citizen of the city of Charleston who being duly sworn according to law, declares and says that he is the Administrator of the Estate of his Grandmother Jane Thompson late of Charleston and widow of George Thompson deceased late of South Carolina, and formerly a private and Forage master in the Army of the Revolution. He further certifies that Jane Thompson aforesaid died in the City of Charleston on the 13th day of May eighteen hundred and forty - being of the late age of about (84) Eighty Four years - That the following are the duly surviving children of said Jane Thompson which are likewise the children of said George Thompson. To wit - Francis Thompson aged about (77) seventy seven years - Mrs Eliza Calvert 

& interlined before signing.
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aged about 72 years - Mary Thompson aged about 68 years - George Thompson aged about 66 years and Anna Thompson aged about 54 years. Signed - Wm Thompson 

State of South Carolina }
Charleston District 
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 5th day December AD 1857., and I hereby certify that I am personally acquainted with Wm Thompson the above affiant and that he is a credible witness and a person of known respectability - signed D C Gibson Magistrate. 

State of So. Carolina
Charleston District} Office Court Com Pleas 
I D. Norbeck clerk of said court do hereby certify that D.C. Gibson who has signed the above attestation is a Magistrate in for the state of South Carolina that his signature is genuine and his attestation in due form of law. Witness my hand at Charleston this 5 December AD 1857. 
Signed Dan'l Norbeck C.C.P.
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State of South Carolina
Charleston District }

On this 5th day of December AD 1857 -  Personally appeared before me D.C. Gibson, a magistrate in and for the state of South Carolina, above stated Robert H. McDowell and C.L. Jenkins residents of the City of Charleston who being first duly sworn according to law declare and say - that they are personally acquainted with Wm Thompson administrator of the Estate of Jane Thompson deceased. They further certify that the said Jane Thompson, said the widow of George Thompson, late of South Carolina and formerly a private and Forage master in the army of the revolution and that the said Jane Thompson departed his life in the said City of Charleston on the 13th May (1840) Eighteen hundred and forty. That the following are the only surviving children of the aforesaid Jane Thompson which are likewise the children of George Thompson - to wit - Frances Thompson - aged about seventy seven years - Mrs Eliza Calbert aged a about 72 years - Mary Thompson aged about 68 years - and George Thompson aged about 66 years - and Anna Thompson about 54 years. Signed RHMcDowell. CLJenkins
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Sworn to and subscribed before me this 5th day of December AD 1857. And I hereby certify that I am personally acquainted with Robert H McDowell and C L Jenkins and that they are credible witnesses and persons of known respectability. Signed DC Gibson magistrate. 

State of So. Carolina } Office Court of 
Charleston District } Common Pleas 

I Daniel Norbeck, clerk of said court do hereby certify that D C Gibson who has signed the above attestation to the affidavit of the R H McDowell, C L Jenkins, is a magistrate in and for the State of South Carolina that his signature is genuine and his attestation in due form of law. Witness my hand and seal at Charleston this 6th December AD 1857. Signed Daniel Norbeck CCA
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V 4340
Jane Thompson, wid.
of George - S.C. 3'd
Act 4 July 1836
S. C. 136



P. Cantwell
Charleston S. Ca
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State of South Carolina
District of Charleston
Office Court Common Pleas
Charleston
I Charles C Strobucker, Clerk of the Court of 
Common Pleas for Charleston Dist So Ca, do hereby certify
 that P Cantwell is a magistrate as set forth in the
annexed papers, and that the signature hereto purporting
to be his is genuine, I further certify, that the witnesses in
this case namely Revd William W Spears, Assistant
minister of St Michael’s Church of Charleston, So Ca, Miss
Mary King, Mrs Ann McCants are respectable, and
that their statements are entitled to credit.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my
name and affixed the seal of my office this 6th
day of February 1839
Charles Strobucker
Clerk of the Court of Common
Pleas Charleston Dist So Ca
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Charleston South Carolina
February 1839
We the undersigned Citizens of Charleston
So. Ca. do, hereby certify, that we have known
Jane Thomson, the widow of George M
and mother of Mr Geo Thomson of
Hasell St, a claimant for a pension on acct.
of the Revolutionary services of her husband
to be a respectable lady of amiable disposition
whose statements are entitled to credit and
we do therefore recommend her case to the
favorable consideration of the Department.
Tho. Lee
Richard Fordham
George Just
Alex’r McDonald
Lawrence Ryan
City Sheriff
E. Rouch C.T.
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George Thomson & Jane King were married June 27. 1773
Extract from the Record of St Michael's Church
William W. Spear
Assistant Minister

Charleston Feb 2. 1839
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State of South Carolina
District of Charleston
On this 21 day of December 
1838 personally appeared
before the undersigned Mrs Jane Thompson, aged
83 years, resident of Charleston, who being duly
sworn according to law doth on her oath make the
following declaration in order to be entitled to the benefit
of the 3d Section of the act of Congress of the 4th July 1836.
That, she was married to George Thompson, late of Godfrey’s
 Savannah, So. Ca., house carpenter deceased, who was a
soldier during the war of the Revolution in a Militia
Company raised in the neighbourhood of said Godfrey’s
 Savannah, which said Corps was commanded by Major
Larson and afterwards by Captain Day. Deponent
saith she has reason to believe said George Thompson
served in said Corps under arms two years during said
war. to wit one year as a private and one year as
forage master.  Deponent saith he joined said Corps
in the year 1775, and continued to serve in same up to
the period of the Evacuation of Charleston by the British in
1782. Deponent saith, that, during this period her sd
husband served at Port Royal, at the assault upon Savannah
in 1779, at Bees Creek, and at other places besides
the city of Charleston, which she does not now recollect.
She further declares she was married to the said
George Thompson in the year 1773 and that her husband,
 the aforesaid George Thompson, died in the year
1799. And that she was a widow on the 9th July 1836
and has not since intermarried. That she has no
documentary evidence to produce.  That it is now
almost impossible to procure direct testimony,
more especially as the service of her husband were
performed on a sickly County, thinly populated,
as will appear by reference to the proofs annexed.
Sworn to and subscribed before me the day &
and year above written & I also certify the credibility of
 the affiant.
Tho Lee Dis’t Judge
of the State,  for So. C.
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State of South Carolina
District of Charleston
On this 24th day of December 
1838 personally appeared
before the undersigned Mary King aged 76 years
spinster, a resident of Charleston, who being duly
Sworn according to law, deposeth, that Mrs Jane
Thompson, widow of George Thompson dec’d, late
 Charleston, house carpenter, is her sister. Dep’t 
saith she was personally acquainted with and knew
the same George Thompson before and during the war
of the Revolution. Deponent saith she has reason
to believe he served two years under arms during
said war in a corps raised near Godfrey’s Savannah, 
a place situated half way between Charleston and
Georgia, for deponent saw him frequently during
said war. Deponent saith she has reason to believe he
served at Port Royal Savannah, and near the 
City of Charleston on James’s Island.
Deponent saith she remembers well the wedding of 
  her sister & circumstances attending it, and that
she has reason to believe she was married by the Rev’d
Doctor Cooper of the Episcopal church in the year
1773. And that said George Thompson died in the
 year 1799, and that her sister has remained
a widow and unmarried ever since.  And that
said sister now resides in the City of Charleston with
 her son Mr. George Thompson, Bricklayer, 
and that her statements are entitled to credit.
And Deponent saith she knows [illegible] Savannah and
that she believes there is not now living any male
person who was an actor in the scenes of the Revolution
now alive there.
Mary King
Sworn to & subscribed before me
the day and year above written
and I also certify the Credibility of
the affiant, the word "near" 16 line post
inserted.
P Cantwell Not Pub
& Q.W. for Charleston Dis’t
So. Ca.
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State of South Carolina 
District of Charleston
On this 11th day of December
personally appeared before the undersigned , 
Mrs Ann McCants, [‘who’ is crossed out] aged 82 years,
a resident of the City of Charleston, who being duly sworn
according to Law Deposeth that she was personally
acquainted with George Thompson dec’d. That she
knew him and his wife, the present Mrs. Jane Thompson
his wife, as a married couple during the war of the
Revolution.  That she has reason to believe said George
was engaged under arms in a company raised
at Godfrey’s Savannah in So. Ca. during said war against
 the British, and that her belief is founded
on an acquaintance with the family that
served under arms one or more [inserted] years [disch’d then].
Deponent saith that her recollection is that
said Jane was married before [inserted] and is one year older than
Deponent. Dep’t saith she was married in 1774.
and Dep’t saith that altho she has often heard
of the services of said George Thompson, she cannot 
now recall to her memory the particulars of or the places
 of said George’s service.
Deponent Saith that said Mrs Jane Thompson
has always been regarded as a respectable married lady of good
standing, that her statements are entitled to credit, and 
that she spakes of her as one with whom Dep’t and her family
 were always on terms of intimacy and friendship. Deponent
saith she has reason to believe said George Thompson died
 in the year 1799, and that his wife the s’d Jane has remained
 a widow ever since that period. 
Ann McCants

Sworn to and subscribed before me
this 31 Decr 1838 and I also certify the Credibility
of the affiant, the "more" 14 line & the word " before’ 16 line
being post inserted.

P Cantwell
 Not. Pub. & Q.W. for Charleston Dis’t So. Ca.
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[crossed out-‘Acts of July 14, 1832, and March 9, 1873.’]

REJECTED
10535
Jane Thompson

Service:
Enlisted:
Discharged:
Application filed:
Alleges:
Re-enlisted:-
Attorney:-
P. O.
Recognized.
[remainder cut off]
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Let P. Cantwell
Jan 29 1839
July 19     "

10535
Act 4 July '36
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Geo Thompson D 1799
Jane  M 1773

1775 
12 m. pri
12  f.m.
cont'd to 1782

No [illegible] of the services
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Copy Letters of Admin

Est: Mrs Jane Thompson dec'd


Ordinary's fees $1.
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LETTERS OF ADMINISTRATION-Printed by Walker & Burke. 57 East Bay.

The State of South-Carolina,
CHARLESTON DISTRICT.

By Thomas Lehre  Esquire, Ordinary.
To William Thompson of Charleston Bricklayer

Whereas, Jane Thompson late of Charleston widow
deceased, lately died intestate, having, whilst she lived, and at the time of her death, divers goods, rights, and credits, within the State aforesaid; by means whereof the full disposition and power of granting the administration of all and singular the goods, rights, and credits, of the said deceased, and also auditing the accounts, calculations, and reckonings, of the said administration; and a final dismission of the same, to me is manifestly known to belong.  I desiring that the goods, rights, and credits, of the said deceased, may be well and truly administered, converted, and disposed of, do hereby grant unto the said William Thompson
In whose fidelity in this behalf, I very much confide, full power, by the tenor of these Presents, to administer the goods, rights, and credits, of the said deceased, which to her in her life time, and at the time of her death, did belong; and to ask, levy, recover, and receive, the same, and pay the debts in which the deceased stood obligated, so far as her goods, rights, and credits, will extend, according to their rate and order of law, being first sworn on the Holy Evangelists of Almighty God, to make a true and perfect inventory thereof, and to exhibit the same into the Ordinary's Office, in Charleston, in order to be recorded, on or before the tenth  day of May now next ensuing; and to render a just and true account, calculation, and reckoning, of the said administration, when thereunto required: And I ordain, depute, and constitute you, the said William Thompson Administrator of all and singular the goods, rights, and credits, of the said deceased.

Ordinary's Office
Recorded Book A
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In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my Hand and Seal, the tenth day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty two and in the Sixty-sixth year of American Independence.

[circular stamp with name signed under it]  Thomas Lehre
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The State of South Carolina
Charleston District
6 December A.D. 1851
In the Court of Ordinary
I hereby certify that the foregoing is a
 true copy of the Record of the Letters of
Administration which were granted by said Court
to William Thompson upon the Estate
effects of Mrs Jane Thompson deceased
that the same have never been revoked but
are still in full force and virtue.
Given under my hand and seal
of Office at Charleston this sixth
day of December A.D. 1857
M. T. Mendenhall O.C.D.
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Power
Jane Thompson
Charleston S.C.
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Know all men by these Presents That I William
Thompson Administrator of the Estate of Jane Thompson
 deceased late of the City of Charleston &
State of South Carolina, and Widow of George Thompson
 deceased late of South Carolina aforesaid
and formerly a private soldier and Forage Master
in the Army of the Revolution, do hereby nominate
 constitute and appoint W. Ramsay my
true and lawful Attorney for me and in my
name to prosecute against the Government
of the United States, under the act of Congress
Passed [blank] or under any other act or
acts of the said Congress the claim due the
Estate of Jane Thompson aforesaid on account
of the Military services of her said husband
George Thompson deceased. And when an
amount or amounts are found due then my
said Attorney is hereby fully authorised
to demand and receive from the Government
of the United States or any department thereof
 or proper accounting officer of the same,
a Pension Certificate or warrant in satisfaction
for the same, payable at the agency in the
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City of Washington, and to sign seal and deliver
any instrument or instruments in writing in order thereto which he may think right and proper hereby ratifying and confirming all which my said Attorney
may do by virtue of these Presents. And
I hereby authorise my said Attorney to
appoint one or more sub- Attorneys investing
him or them with the same authority herein
conferred upon himself--
Witness my hand and seal at  Charleston this
5th December 1857
Wm Thompson Adm


Witness
MA Botstik
William Deveren
On this 5th day of December A.D. 1857 personally
appeared before me Wm. Thompson and subscribed the above Warrant of Attorney and acknowledged the same for the purposes therein contained.
D. C. Gibson
Magistrate
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State of So Carolina
Charleston District
Office Court Com Pleas
I Daniel Halbeck Clerk of said Court do hereby certify that D C Gibson who has signed the proceeding
attestation or certificate to the affidavit of Wm Thompon is a Magistrate in & for the State of So Carolina that his
signature is genuine and his attestation
in due form of law
Witness my hand & seal at
Charleston this December 10  1851
Dan'l Halbeck
C.C.P.
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Report to
LLC Triplett
Present-

LLC Triplett
William Thompson
Admor Jane Thompson
decd to
Power
of
Attorney
F L Brockett, Esq.
Jane Thompson [from]
widow of George
Act 4 July 1836
S. C.
Suspended
F.L. Brockett
Alexn'a Virg'a
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The State of South Carolina
KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS THAT
I William Thompson of Charleston in the
State aforesaid administrator of all and singular
the goods and chattels rights and credits which were
Jane Thompson widow of George Thompson, deceased do make, constitute, and appoint F. L. Brockett, Esquire, of Alexandria, Virginia, my
true and lawful Attorney for me and in my name as administrator aforesaid to prosecute the claim to a
pension which my intestate, the said Jane Thompson widow of George Thompson, a revolutionary
soldier was entitled to at the time of her
death, and I do hereby authorise [authorize] my said
attorney to examine the papers and documents
on file in the Department in Washington in relation to said claim, and to receive the certificate for the same
with power also, an Attorney or Attorneys, under him
for that purpose, to make and substitute, and to do all lawful acts for effecting the premises hereby ratifying and confirming all that my said Attorney or his Substitute or Substitutes, shall do therein, by virtue thereof.
and I hereby revoke all former power of Attorney given by me, in witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal this Seventh day of December in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty two
SEALED AND DELIVERED
IN THE PRESENCE OF 
C. R. Brewster
Wm Thompson

Admr. Wm Thompson

Be it Known, That on the seventh day of December one thousand eight hundred and fifty two and in the seventy seventh year of the Independence of
the United States of America, before me, Charles R. Brewster Notary Public, by Letters Patent, under the Great Seal of the State, duly commissioned and
sworn, came William Thompson, Administrator
of the personal Estate of Mrs Jane Thompson widow
of George Thompson, a Revolutionary soldier
above named, and acknowledged the foregoing power of attorney, to be his act and deed.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed my seal of Office in the State of South Carolina, the day and year last mentioned
Charles R. Brewster
Notary Public
for Charleston District