Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S 35097, for Jesse Thompson, Maryland
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Service Md. Thompson, Jesse Number S35097 Contents
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Notification sent Oct 4, 1820 to  Joseph (?) 
Harris Esq. 
Lenorade (?)


11. 325
Maryland
Jesse Thompson
of St. Mary's of in the State of Maryland
who was a Private in the regiment commanded by
Capt Thomas of the 3d Regt Maryland
line, for the term of 1 year

Inscribed on the Roll of Maryland
at the rate of Eight Dollars per month, to commence on
the 12 of May 1818-

Certificate of Pension issued the 5th of June 1819
and sent to J.R. Pater, Esqr
Bloomsbury, Maryland

Arrears to 4th of March 1819 - 78.19 (?)
Semi-anl, all'ce ending 4 Sept 1849
48. 00(?)  to
126.19

Revolutionary claim,
Act 18th March, 1818.}


Discontinued 
St. Mary's County.
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3077
J R Plater Esq
judge
Bloomsbury M'd
Rec Jany 1819

Sent to the Auditor General of Maryland for further evidence of service.
6 May 1819

Jesse Thompson
Maryland
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District of Maryland Saint Marys County to wit -
On this 12th day of May 1818 before me the subscriber one of the associate Judges of the first Judicial District of Maryland Composed of the counties of Saint Mary, Charles and Prince Georges personal appears Jesse Thompson aged about 62 years resident in Saint Marys County in the said District, who being by me first duly sworn doth on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the provision made by the late 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 + That he the said Jesse Thompson enlisted in the State of Maryland in the company commanded by Captain John Allen Thomas in February 1776 attached to the regiment of Maryland commanded by Colonel William Smallwood during the war and in the year 1777 was  transferred to the artillery company under the command of Captain Fulford: That he continued to serve in the said Corps, or in the service of the United States during the war, when he was discharged from said service at Annapolis in Maryland in or about October 1783 - That he was in the battles of White Plains, Brandywine, Trenton, Camden, the siege  of Camden and 96 - Gilford and Eutaw and that he is in reduced circumstances and Stands in Need of the Assistance of his Country for support. And that he has no other evidence now in his power of his said services -  Sworn to and declared before me the day and year aforesaid
[signed: J R Plater]

I John Rousby Plater associate Judge as aforesaid do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Jesse Thompson did serve in the revolutionary war as stated in the preceding declaration against the common enemy: And I now transmit the Proceeding and testimony taken and had before me to the Secretary of the war department, pursuant to the directions of the aforementioned act of Congress - and that he is in reduced circumstances and stands in need of the assistance of his Country
[signed: J  R Plater]

May 12, 1818
Saint Mary, County January 1809 -
Personally appeared Anthony Davis of the County aforesaid aged about Sixty four Years, and being sworn on the Holy Evangely of Almighty God, desposeth & sayeth that he enlisted under Capt John Allen Thomas in the United States Services in the Year 1776 with Jesse Thompson and that they served together in said service under Capt. Thomas about One Year and was then with W Thompson transferred to the Artillery under Capt William Campbell and continued to see and be with the said Jesse Thompson in said service until the year 1778. when the defendant obtained his discharge 

Sworn before James Cook
The above oath of Anthony Davis taken before James Cook a magistrate has been repeated before me - he is a very respectable man tho' poor and entitled to due credit
Jany 4th 1819
J R Plater
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Saint Mary's County Court
I, Joseph Harris Clerk of St Mary's County Court hereby certify that the Honourable John R Plater Esquire, who appears to have taken and signed the within declaration was at the time of taking and signing thereof ever since hath been and still is one of the associate pages of the County Courts of the first Judicial District of Maryland comprehending the counties of St. Marys, Charles and Prince Georges, duly commissioned and qualified; and that to all
his acts as such due faith and credit is and out to be given, as well in Courts of Justice as therein.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of my Office, this 12th day of May 1818
J. Harris
St Mary's County

I have added to the certificate the fact of Jesse Thompson being in reduced circumstances and standing in need of the assistance of his country which cannot be doubted-- he is a worthy old man - and universally known in that he did serve and was a faithful soldier throughout the revolutionary war - from every information have been able to obtain it has ever been believed, and never
doubted, that he was among the few that unceasing did his duty as a soldier throughout that glorious contest.
Jany 4th 1819 -
J R Plater
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Jesse Thompson
11.325
Schedule
not entitled
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State of Maryland first Judicial District
on this fifteenth day of August 1820 personally appeared in open Court being a Court of record having unlimited original Jurisdiction and the power to pre and commit for the said First Judicial District of Maryland
Jesse Thompson aged forty four years resident in said Marys County in said Judicial District who being first duly sworn, according to Law doth on his oath declare that he served in the revolutionary war as follows that in February 1776 he enlisted as a private in the
company commanded by Captain John A Thomas attached to a Regiment commanded by Colonel Small Wood, and that on the twelfth of May 1818 he made his first application for a pension, and that the
number of his certificate is 11325 that he enlisted to serve during the war, and in 1777 he was trans. from Smallwood's Regiment to the Artilery, and was regular discharged at the law of the war at Annapolis in the State of Maryland; I was in the following battles, Long
Island, White Plains, Camden, Gilford Court House, and Eutaw Springs, and I do solemnly swear that I was a resident Citizen of the United States on the 18 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 18 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 the subscribed except that I receive from the State of Mary an annual sum of Sixty dollars.
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A Schedule of my property my necessary bedding and clothing Excepted viz
one hundred and fifty acres of Land one negro boy 6 years  old one card, Eleven head of cattle, two mares, one calf, two sows and pigs, three shoals, one plough & Gear, four hoes, one axe, seven head of sheep, an old
Desk, Eight chairs, two tables, Six Knives and forks one set of lead ware, three Iron pots two wooden tubs , four other hogs heads, three (illegible)
has no debts due to him
Debts due from me Jesse Thompson
to Philip Turner $110 
Charles C Eaton  30.00
James Keech  70.00
William Harry  25.00
Charles Wood  15.00

small accounts together  10.00

Sworn to and declared on the 15th day of August 1870
Before
That his occupation was that of a brick layer that he is now old and very infirm, totally unable to pursue any occupation a wife about 60 years old that he has five children a male and four aged the Eldest about 35 years the youngest about 22 years they work for their family-
I, Joseph Harris Clerk of Saint Mary's
County Court Company in part the first Judicial district of Maryland do hereby certify that the afore going oath and schedule thereto annexed and I truly copied from the record of said Court, and I do further certify that it is the opinion of the Court that the total amount in value of property of the exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is five hundred and twenty two dollars
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set
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set my name and affixed the Seal of Saint
Mary's County Court this fifteenth day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred and twenty
J. Harris Clk
of St mary's C Court
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35097
Revy INVALID
File No. 25-097
Jesse Thompson
Pri Rev War

Act : 18th March 18th
Index Vol. 2, Page 430
Arrangement of 1870.


Apl 10 - 1901
Mrs. Jno. R. Ludlow
Huntsville Ala
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papers and on order
I Jessee Thompson act 1818 Maryland Roll
Invalid   Maryland Roll
the
July 14th / 57 H. C. Spalding

John Meek papers burnt - on orders
C. C. pow of atty exe
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Auditor's Office Annapolis, May 14th 1819

I hereby certify, that it appears from the muster-rolls remaining in the Auditor's Office, that 
Jesse Thompson
enlisted as a Private in the Third Maryland
Regiment, on the First _______day of April
and was discharged on the
day of 1st Nov  80 present.

Tho. Karney Aud. S.M. 

Only 7 mos: the rolls go no further-
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For the purpose of obtaining the benefit of the Act entitled An act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the Army of the Revolution appeared on the 15th of May 1828 I Jesse Thompson of St Marys County in the state of Maryland do hereby declare that I enlisted in the Continental Line of the Army of the Resolution for and during the war and continued in its service until its termination. At the time of enlistment was a private in Captn. John Allen Thomas's Company. I was transferred to Captn. Wm. Campbell's Company of the Maryland Artillery and at the close of the war was in Captn Smith's Company of Artillery and was sergeant in the said company in the said Maryland Artillery. And I also declare that I afterward received certificates for the reward of eighty dollars to which I was entitled under a resolve of Congress passed the 15th of May 1778. And I further declare that I was not on the fifteenth day of May on the pension list of the United States. Witness my hand this 23d of June 1828

Jesse Thompson


State of Maryland St Mary's County tow?

Before Robert Kilgour a Justice of the Peace in & for the state & county aforesaid personally appeared Charles Williams and George N Alvey of the said county who did severaly make oath that Jesse Thompson by whom the foregoing declaration was subscribed is generally reputed and believed to have been a soldier in the Army of the Revolution in the manner as therein stated this 23d day of June 1828

R. Kilgour Je o P
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Maryland St Mary's Court town.

On this 23rd day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand and eight hundred & twenty eight personally appeared one Charles Williams before the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in & for the county aforesaid & makes oath on the Holy Evangel of Almighty God that he was a soldier in the War of the Revolution & now receives a pension from the United States for the same & that he served in the Army with Jesse Thompson  & the said Thompson was regularly discharged in 1783 from the said asking

Sworn before R. Kilgour

Saint Mary's County Court
I hereby certify that Robert Kilgour gentleman before whom the writing on above affidavits were taken and made and whose name is hereto signed was at the time of the taking and making thereof and still is one of the Justices of the Peace of the state of Maryland for St Mary's County aforesaid, duly commissioned and qualified and to all when acts as such due faith and credit is and aught to be given as well in courts of justice or thereout.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of my office this twenty third day of June eighteen hundred and twenty eight

Jo Carns St Mys County Court
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Act 1828
Settled at
Treasury
Cons, with
Invalid File
#35.097
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267.
No of Orig Pay 267
296

Revolutionary Claims
Treasury Department
July 22, 1828

Jose Thompson of blank in the county of St. Mary's in the state of Maryland 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 sergeant in Captain Smith's company in the artillery regiment of the Maryland line; and that he received a certificate for the reward for eighty dollars, provided by the resolve of the 15th of Mary, 1778; and further that he was not on the 15th 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
26th July 1828

It appears by the records in this office that a certificate for the reward of eighty dollars has been issued to Jesse Thompson in the Marylan Line. 

It further appears that Jesse Thompson is not now on the pension list of any agency and has not been so since the 3d March 1826.

Peter Hagner - Aud

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