Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S 33796, for Asa Thomas, New Jersey
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Service                  Name                  Number
New Jersey        Thomas, Asa           S33796
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306
New Jersey Ro - (illegible due to damage)
Asa. Thomas,
Capt. Weyman | Private 4
Likely misspelled "Jersy" Line (faint lines under the "a" in "Weyman")
In the Army of the United States during the revolutionary War.
Inscribed on the Roll of New Jersey
at the rate of Eight Dollars per month, to commence on the 17th of April 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 29th of April 1818 and forwarded to William P. Deare
New Brunswick, New Jersey
Arrearages to 4th, Sept 1818
4 months 18/31
$36.64
Revolutionary Claims
Act 18th March, 1818
One Year
Not entitled
South Amboy. Middlesex
(illegible initials - too damaged)
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Asa Thomas
Private

Correct

To Wm. P. Deare
New Brunswick
N.J.
Discharge  annexed
New Jersey Roll

Com 8. 17th. Apr. 1818
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State of New Jersey
Middlesex County

On this seventeenth day of April in the year of our lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen before me the subscriber our of the Judges of the Court of common pleas of the county of Middlesex in New Jersey personally appears Asa Thomas of the Township of South Amboy in said county aged fifty eight years, who being by me first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declarations in order to obtain the provisions made by the late Act of Congress entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and "naval services of the United States in the "Revolutionary War". 
That be the said  Asa Thomas did enlist on or about the month of June seventeen hundred and eighty two at Mansfield - in the county of Burlington and State of New Jersey to serve during the war in the company commanded by Captain Abel Weyman in the Second Jersey Regiment on the continental establishment - and continued to serve in said regiment until the fifth day of June seventeen hundred eighty three where he was discharged from
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service at the Head Quarters near Newburgh in the State of New York -- which discharge is hereunto annexed and that he is now in such reduced circumstances of life that he is in need of assistance from his country for support -- and that he hath no further evidence now in his power of his said services.

Asa Thomas

Sworn to and declared before me the day and year aforesaid.

Thomas Hance

State of New Jersey
Middlesex County

I Thomas Hance, one of the judges of the Court of Common Pleas of the county of Middlesex do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Asa Thomas did serve in the Revolutionary War as stated in the preceding declaration against the common enemy; and I now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken nd heard before me, to the Secretary for the Department of War, pursuant to the directions of the aforementioned Act of Congress -- April 7, 1818.

Thomas Hance

I William P. Deare, Clerk of the
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Court of Common Pleas of the County of Middlesex certify that Thomas Hanse above named is one of the judges of said court duly commissioned &  sworn.  Witness my hand & the seal of the said Court this 7th April 1818.

Wm. P. Deare
Clerk, Middlesex
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By his Excellency
George Washington, Esq.
General and Commander in chief of the Forces of the United States of America

These are to certify that the Bearer hereof, Asa Thomas, Soldier, in the Jersey Regiment, having faithfully served the United States one year and being enlisted for the War only, is hereby Discharged from the American Army, 

Given at Head Quarters the fifth day of June 1723.

George Washington

By His Excellency's Command
J. Trumbull, General 

Registered in the Books of the Regiment, Ephram Whitlock, Adjutant

Richard Cox, Major [illegible]
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837

No. of Original Payment 615

Revolutionary Claims

Treasury Department Aug. 29, 1828

Asa Thomas, of South Amboy, in the County of Middlesex, in the State of New Jersey, 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 private in Captain Wayman's company in the Second regiment of the New Jersey 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 was received as a pensioner since the 2d 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. Dinkind

Treasury Department,
Third Auditor's Office
4th September, 1828

It appears by the records in this office that a certificate for the reward of eighty dollars has been issued to Asa Thomas in the New Jersey line.  It further appears that Asa Thomas is not now on the pension list of any agency and not been so since the 3d March 1826.

Peter Hagman, Aud.
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Asa Thomas
306
September 1818
Not entitled

Informed July 19, 1821, that he could not reinstated, [illegible]
Wm. P. Deare
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District of New Jersey
Middlesex

On this thirteenth day of June, Eighteen hundred and twenty.  Personally appeared in the open Court of Common Pleas in for the said County of Middlesex, being a court of Record, Asa Thomas, aged Sixty years, a resident in the Township of South Amboy in said County, who being duly first sworn according to Law doth on his oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary War as a private, that he enlisted he thinks in the year 1782 for and during the War, that he served about one year and was then discharged, that he served part of the time in the 2 Jersey Regiment but was afterwards transferred to the first, in Captain Abel Weyman's Company, that the date of his original declaration was about the 17 day of April 1818; that he has received four Installments on his pension certificate which is marked No. 306.

And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18 ay of March 1818, and that i have not since that time  by gifts, 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 Navel Service of the United States in the Revolutionary War" passed the 18 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 is contained in the Schedule hereunto annexed, and by me subscribed.

And I further declare that my family consists of myself, my wife, who is about my own age, and a child about
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fourteen years old, who is a cripple,  that I am by trade a shoe maker, but by reason of the decay of my eye sight, cannot by that occupation procure a sufficient support for my family.

Asa Thomas

Sworn and declared in open Court the 13 day of June, 1820.

Robert M. Chesney

A Schedule of the Real and Personal Estate of Asa Thomas

One acre of land with a small house thereon $50.00
One cow and one heifer $30.00
One hog and 4 hives of bees $12.00
2 tables, one dresser and one corner cupboard $5.00
1/2 dozen chairs $1.50
2 iron pots, one tea kettle $1.00
1 pr. andirons, shovel and tongs $2.00
2 Washing tubs and 2 pales $1.25
1 wheelbarrow, 2 axes, and one hoe $3.50
A set of earthen and crockery ware $1.00
A small quantity of lumber and other articles about the house of little value $2.00
A small sheet iron stove $3.00
1 old silver watch $3.00
______________________
$115.25

Asa Thomas

I William P. Deare, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Middlesex, 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 One Hundred Dollars
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and twenty five cents.  In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said court on this twentieth day of June 1820.

Wm. P. Deare, Clerk
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Additional evidence in the case of Asa Thomas, Pensioner No. 306 New Jersey Roll.
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Additional evidence in the case of Asa Thomas, a Pensioner, NO. 306, on New Jersey Agency.

Middlesex:  Asa Thomas being duly sworn deposeth and saith, that the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Middlesex in New Jersey, in June last valued his property at one hundred and fifteen dollars and twenty five cents -- that the said inventory contained all his estate of every kind and description and without regard to his debts; and this deponent further saith that he is indebted to Genl. James Morgan by bond in sixty one dollars and upwards and to sundry other persons in small sums amounting to Sixty three dollars and upwards and in other small debts not now recollected.

And this deponent further saith, that he is in need of assistance and if his pension is refused he will be poor and reduced to absolute want   -- his creditors are now forbearing -- but if the little property he has is applied to the payment of the said debts and which must be the safe, he cannot subsist without public or private charity.

Asa Thomas

Sworn and subscribed this 28 Aug., 1820, before me.

Nichl. Booraim, Justice of the Peace
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Middlesex County ss:  James Morgan Esq. of South Amboy in the County aforesaid being duly sworn deposeth and saith, that Asa Thomas within named is justly and truly indebted to him in Sixty one dollars and upwards on Bond and Mortgage on a lot of one acre -- that he verily believes the said debt is the full value of the premises mortgaged and that if he should foreclose the said mortgage it would take all the property of said Thomas to pay the same.

That he hath forborne to press the same in consideration of the poverty of said Thomas and of his faithful services in the Army of Revolution.

Sworn and subscribed this 28th Aug. 1820 before me

James Morgan

Nichl, Booraim, 
Justice of the Peace

Middlesex ss:  Stacy Sawyer of full ae, being duly sworn according to law, deposeth and saith, that he is a neighbor and intimately acquainted with Asa Thomas, this applicant, that he verily believes his property will not pay his debts and thus deponent further saith that said Thomas hath a child a charge upon.
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him lNiame and crippled -- and that he believes said Thomas stands in need of assistance for support.

Stacy Sawyer

Sworn and subscribed this 28th August 1820 before me

N. Boormain
Justice of the Peace

State of New Jersey
Middlesex County ss  I, William P. Deare , Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Middlesex, in the State aforesaid, certify that Nicholas Boormain , Esq., who hath subscribed his name to the foregoing affidavits is one of the Justices of the Peace of said County duly commissioned and sworn and to his official acts full credit is to be given.

Witness my hand and the seal of said Court this twenty eighth day of August, Eighteen Hundred and Twenty.

Wm. P. Deare, Clerk
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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 May 1828.  I, Asa Thomas, of the Township of South Amboy in the County of Middlesex in the State of New Jersey 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 Private in Captain Able Wayman's Company in the 2nd Brig. of the New Jersey 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 16th May 1798.  And I further declare that I was not, on the fifteenth day of March 18 1828 on the pension list of the United States.

Asa Thomas

State of New Jersey
County of Middlesex    ss:

Before me John Perrine, Jr., one of the Justices of the Peace in and for the County of Middlesex in the State of New Jersey personally appeared this day John Perrine and John Dillentash of the said County of Middlesex in the State of New Jersey, who had
severally made oath that Asa Thomas, by whom the foregoing declaration was subscribed, is generally reputed and believed to have been a private in the Army of the Revolution in a manner therein stated.  Witness my hand this fourth day of August in the year of our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Twenty Eight.

John Perrine, Jr., Justice of the Peace

I, Samuel Randolph, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, in the County of Middlesex, New Jersey, do certify, that John Perrine, Jr., before whom the foregoing affidavits were sworn, was at the time a Justice of the Peace in and for said County and duly empowered to administer oaths.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court this nineteenth day of August in the year  of our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Twenty Eight.

Sam'l Randolph, Clerk of Middlesex County
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Act -- 1828
Settled at
Treasury
Cons'd with
Invalid file
#33,796
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New Brunswick, N.J.
Aug. 19th, 1828

Sir,

By request of Asa Thomas, I enclose his application for the benefit of the pension of the law of 15th May last.  I understand from Mr. Thomas that he has been on the pension list and was stricken therefrom in consequence of its appearing that he had property.  He requests to say that his Discharge was forwarded to the War Det. at the time he applied for said pension.

He, Thomas, wishes me to make the request that any communication for him may be addressed to "John Perrine, Jr., Esq., Spotswood, Middlesex County, N.J."

Very respectfully
Your most able servant
Samuel J. Randolph

Hon. Richard Rush, Esq.
Secty Treasy.
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33796
Reg Invalid

File No. 33,796
Asa Thomas
Priv. Rev. War

Act:  18th March [illegible}
Index:  Vol. 2, Page 430

October 27 - Photos to Mrs.  Jessie M. Casanova.
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Amount of property
$100.25
Age 60 -- Shoemaker
Cannot by that occupation procure sufficient support for his family.

Wife 60 -- well
One child 14 -- a cripple

Served 1 year

No
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New Jersey
Asa Thomas
Served up to June '83

1st Sched. 1 acre of land with a small horse $50.00
1 cow and 1 Heffer $30.00
1 hoe and 4 hives of bees $12.00
2 tables, 1 dresser and cupboard $5.00
[illegible] chairs 2 pots 1 tea kettle $2.50
1 andirons, shovel & tongs $2.00
2 Washtubs, 2 pails $1.25
1 wheel barrow, 2 [illegible] $3.50
Earthenware $1.00
Lumber $2.00
1 small iron stove $3.00
1 old silver watch $3.00
________
$115.25
Age 60 partially blind - wife 60 
1 child 14, cripple

Application for restoration rejected July, 1821.

The last papers in the case of the applicant state that he is in debt by bond for considerably more than was exhibited in the 1st Sched. Subject to be foreclosed at any moment.

Wm. P. Deane, Esq.
New Brunswick
N. Jersey

See letter to Hon. G. Holcombe 10 Jan. 1827.
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War Department
Pension Office
Washington

Additional evidence in the case of Asa Thomas 
under Act of May, 1820.
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3-2233
Bureau of Pensions
Finance Division
Oct. 19, 1926
Chief Rev. War Section

I have this day received from Jessie M. Casanova cash for $80/100 requesting photostat copy as per letter herewith.

O.J. Randall
Chief Finance Division

Copies mailed and Finance Div. ntfd. Oct. 27, 1926.
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[Illegible] this job should refer to Requisition No. 10194.

Requisition for Duplicating, addressograph, Photostat, and Blue Print Work.

Department of the Interior
Washington
Chief, Division of Publications
Room G137
October 21, 1926
Please furnish work specified below.

Bureau ordering Pension.  Deliver to Room NO. 5033
(ALL COPY FOR DUPLICATING WORK SHOULD BE PLAIN AND WRITTEN IN ELITE TYPE, EXACTLY LINE FOR LINE AS IT IS TO APPEAR ON FINISHED JOB)

Title and description of job:  photostat copies of one page from Revolutionary War pension claim of Asa Thomas, S. 33796.

No. of copies:  two  Shall form be kept standing:   no days.

For further information see M.M.M. Finch, Room No. 5033, Phone No. 541.

Approved:
O.L. Gassbril, Chief Clerk of Bureau

Margaret M. H. Finch 
Acting Chief of Branch

No order made "SPECIAL" unless statement showing necessity is written below and approved by Chief Clerk of Bureau ordering __________________.

CHECK WORK DESIRED
Duplicate
Multigraph   single or double space?  Facsimile signature?
Mimeograph   one side or both sides?  Facsimile signature?
Folding   once or twice?
Assembling Stapling    once?  twice?  Since?  End?
Electric ;typewriter   Fill in addresses?  Dated?

Addressograph from lists
Envelopes, size                  Cards, size
Proof list                            Pay rolls
Labels (submit sample)     Corrections
Fill in letters                      Tabulation sheets

Photostat   X   Size   actual   Official Use? Repay?  $0.30
Blue Print        Size                Official use?  Repay?

Remarks_________________________________________
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Routine changes of addresses may be made on this blank without [illegible] reference through or initialing [illegible] of branches or chief clerks bureaus.

________________________
(Date)

INDICATE BY AN x IN PROPER SQUARE ACTION TO BE TAKEN.

___ Make new addressograph plate
___  Change present addressograph plate
___  Destroy present addressograph plate
On list _____________________

as follows:

Now reads      1__________________________
                       2__________________________
                       3__________________________
                       4__________________________
                       5___________________________

Should read    1____________________________
                        2___________________________
                        3___________________________
                        4___________________________
                        5__________________________FOR USE OF DUPLICATING AND ADDRESSING SECTION

ADDRESSOGRAPH

The above change was made ____________ 192___.
Operator________________________

MULTIGRAPH

Operator ____________ Date______Type set by _________
Remarks_______________________________________

MIMEOGRAPH

Operator ____________Date______ Cut by _____________
Remarks ____________________________________
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October 19, 1926

Commissioner of Pensions
Washington, D.C.

Sir:

I desire two certified photostat copies of one page from the Revolutionary War pension claim of Asa Thomas, S. 33796.

Jessie M. Casanova
727 Kennedy St., N. W. City

Received payment
Eighty cents
October 19, 1926
M. C. Stokes
Rev. & 1812 Wars Section