Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 33385, for Thomas Maclaughlin, New Hampshire
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(3-1776)

SERVICE
N. H.

Maclaughlin, Thoman
or McLaughlin

NUMBER
S.33385
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Massth
Thomas McLaughlin
Captain. Col Hanks
N. H. Regt. April 1775 to
March 1776 - 10 months

April 21. 1818


Somerset County


Proof -
Dr. Bradley Richards
Samuel Moore
Alex Gilbert
(See letter to Hon: J. Cushman
8th May 1820)


[illegible] Cushman
H. R
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
I Thomas McLaughlin, aged eighty five years, a citizen of the U. States, born in London Derry, In New Hampshire, but now resident in Madison i the District of Maine, upon oath testify and declare, that under the commission and in the capacity of a Captain in April 1775 I entered into the service of the war of the revolution, against the common enemy, upon the continental establishment in Col. John Starks' regiment of the New Hampshire line or troops.  In this capacity and regiment I continued to serve until February 1776 (in Genl John Sullivan's Brigade) when at Winter Hill by permission of my superior officers, I finally and honorably left the service.  I was in the battle of Bunker Hill.  My commission is not in my possession, and I am doubtful whether it is now in existence, as I left it many years ago, two hundred miles from me, and I have twice sent for it without being able to find it.  It was signed by John Hancock Esq. President of Congress & dated July 1 1775.  From my extreme age, poverty and infirmities I am unable to send again.
From my advanced circumstances, I need the assistance of my country for support.  And I do hereby relinquish all my claim to every pension heretofore allowed me by the laws of the U. States if any; but I am [illegible] borne on any pension list whatever.  I request that I may be placed upon the pension list for the District of Maine.  I served as above about ten months.

Thos Maclaughlin


Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Somerset SS.

On the twenty first day of April A D. 1818 Thomas McLaughlin above named, after having been carefully examined, made out to the truth of the foregoing declaration by him subscribed.  Before me Nathan Weston Jr Clerk.

C Court C Pleas [illegible] Circuit
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

I Goff Moore of Madison in the District of Maine upon oath testify and declare, that I am well acquainted with Thomas McLaughlin within named.  I know that he commanded a company and served in Col. Starks' regiment, as he has within stated, as I served the greater part of the time by him within mentioned in his company as a private.
From his reduced circumstances, he needs the assistance of his country for support.  He sustains the character of a man of truth.
Goff Moore

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Somerset SS.

On the twenty first day of April A. D. 1818 Goff Moore above named, after having been carefully examined, made oath to the truth of the above deposition by him subscribed.
Nathan Weston Jr C. Clerk
C Court C Pleas 2d Eastern Circuit
I am satisfied that the above deponent is credible and disinterested.  Nathan Weston Jr
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Skowmegan Sept 23rd 1857

To the Honble Commissioner of Pensions

Capt Thomas McLaughlin was in the Revolutionary Army under Genl Starks in the New Hampshire & went from the Town of [illegible] - He came to this County about 1796 or 8 & after the passage of the Pension Law of 1818 
[rest of page is too faded to accurately transcribe]
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March 1, 1935.
BA-J/ILL
Thomas Maclaughlin
S. 33385


Miss Carrie C. Shank
759 East Lombard Street
Springfield, Missouri.

Dear Madam:

Reference is made to your letter in which you request the records of soldiers with name McLaughlin of Hillsborough and Rockingham Counties, New Hampshire, who served in the Revolutionary War and designate Captain Thomas McLaughlin, Patrick, James, John, Rodney and any Thomas McLaughlin other that the captain.

The Revolutionary War records have been searched and the claim of Captain Thomas Maclaughlin has been found; his record is given herein as shown in pension claim, S. 33385.  There are no claims for pension or bounty land on file based upon service of a John McLaughlin of New Hampshire or other Thomas McLaughlin of that state, nor of any Patrick or Rodney McLaughlin.  In order to identify the record of the particular James McLaughlin in whom you are interested, it is essential that you furnish the approximate dates of birth and death and residence after the Revolutionary War.  All spellings of the surname McLaughlin have been used in the search of the records.

Thomas Maclaughlin was born in Londonderry, New Hampshire; the day of his birth and names of his parents are not shown.

While a resident of Bedford, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, he entered the service April 20, 1775 as Lieutenant, Captain John Moore's company, Colonel John Stark's New Hampshire regiment, was in the battle of Bunker Hill, after which he was promoted to Captain and continued in that capacity until sometime in February or March 1776.

He moved from Bedford, New Hampshire, in 1796 or 1798, to
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Somerset County, District of Maine, Massachusetts.

Thomas Maclaughlin applied on April 21, 1818 for pension on account of the above noted service; he was then a resident of Madison, in said Somerset County, aged eighty-five years.

The Act of March 18, 1818, under which Thomas Maclaughlin applied for pension provided only for those who rendered continuous service of nine months in the Continental line.  The service in 1775 was not Continental service, leaving only two or three months in the Continental Line.  He died in 1820, before any final action was taken in his case, and without claiming any service subsequent to March 1776, therefore, no pension certificate was ever issued.  [Mrs. Finch penciled in next to previous bracketed paragraph]

In 1857, Captain Asher Davis whose father was killed in the Lexington Concord battle, and Patten McLaughlin were referred to as the descendants of Captain Thomas Maclaughlin (McLaughlin); the degree of relationship between them was not stated.

There are no further data relative to family.

Very truly yours,


A. D. HILLER,
Executive Assistant to the Administrator.


This is an unusual case and Mrs Finch wrote the above paragraph - J. L. L.

(2 James -1, S - 110480)
(2. BL1A 59 & 96 - 160 - 55)


                                       2.
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759 E. Lombard St.,
Springfield, MO.,
Feb. 7. 1935.

stamped
RECEIVED
FEB 9 1935
MAIL SUB-DIV.
READER 15
VETS. ADM.

Veterans Administration,
Washington, D. C.
Gentlemen:

Will you please to send me records from your office, with any information as to parents, wife or children, that you may have of soldiers in the Revolutionary War of the name of McLaughlin, who enlisted from Hillsborough and Rockingham counties in the state of New Hampshire?
Do you have any record of a Capt. Thomas [pencil note:  only one] McLaughlin, of a Patrick, James, John, Rodney or Thomas, other than Captain
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stamped
RECEIVED
FEB 9 1935
MAIL SUB-DIV.
READER 15
VETS. ADM.

Thomas?  It is know that he had lived at Bedford and Francestown in Hillsborough County, New Hampshire.
I trust I am not asking too much of you.  Any information you can give will be gratefully received.
Very respectfully,
(Miss) Carrie C. Shank.
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33 385
Revy INVALID.

File No. 33,385
Thomas McLaughlin
Capt Rev War

Act:  18" March 18

Index :--Vol. 2, Page 263

[Arrangement of 1870.]


1935-March 1- Hist. to Miss Carrie Shank - J. L. L.
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

[seal affixed to page]

To the Honorable the Secretary of the Department of War of the United States.

I the subscriber, being Chief Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, for the Second Eastern Circuit of Massachusetts, embracing the Counties of Lincoln, Kennebec and Somerset, do hereby certify to your Honor, that Thomas McLaughlin, a citizen of the United States, now resident in Madison, in the said County of Somerset, in the District of Maine, on the twenty first day of April, A. D. 1818, made application to me to receive his declaration under oath, and such other evidence, as was in his power to produce; and to transmit the same, and the proceedings had thereon, to your Honor; that he might be placed on the pension list of the United States, agreeably to the provisions of an Act, entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war," passed March 18 A. D. 1818, which declaration, and the other evidence produced by the said applicant, is hereunto annexed.
And I do further certify to your Honor, that after a full examination of the said applicant, and a careful consideration of the evidence in the case, it appears to me that the said applicant did serve as a commissioned officer, in the war of the revolution, against the common enemy, upon the continental establishment, for more than nine months, as stated in his declaration aforesaid; and that from his reduced circumstances, he needs the assistance of his country for support.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand, and caused the Seal of the Court in which I preside, to be hereunto affixed, this twenty third day of May in the year of our LORD one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.

Nathan Weston Jr C. Clerk
C. C. C. Pleas 2d E. Circuit.
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

I Bradley Richards, aged seventy years, and a commissioned officer in the war of the revolution, and now a pensioner under the late law, upon oath testify and declare, that I know that Thomas McLaughlin within named, now of Madison in the district of Maine, was a Captain in April 1775 in Col. Stark's regiment in the war of the revolution as he has within set forth.  I know that he continued to serve until near the time that the British evacuated Boston, which was in March 1776---
Bradley Richards

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
[illegible] SS.

On the twenty sixth day of March A. D. 1819.  Bradley Richards above named to me well known, and being a disinterested and credible witness, made oath to the truth of the above deposition, by him subscribed.

Before me, Nathan Weston Jr 
C. J. C. C. C. Pleas 2d E. Circuit.
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Solon Me. July 11. 1857

To the Hon. Comr of Pensions.
The Declaration of Capt. Thomas McLaughlin a revolutionary officer was filed in the Pension office about 1818, claiming a pension under the then Existing laws for service during the revolutionary war.
Capt. McLaughlin died in 1820 before completing his proof, consequently there are arrears of pension due his heirs.
Will the Dept. inform me what papers are on file relative to his Claim.
Capt. McLaughlin served in Col. Starks New Hampshire Regiment, and lived in Madison Maine after the War.

I am Yours &c
W. M. E. Brown
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

KENNEBEC, SS.

THE Subscriber, Clerk of all the Judicial Courts, held within the said County of Kennebec, hereby certifies, that the Honorable NATHAN WESTON, Junior, Esquire, before whom the annexed proceedings were held, is Chief Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, for the Second Eastern Circuit of Massachusetts, embracing the Counties of Lincoln, Kennebec and Somerset; and that by the direction of the said Judge, I have affixed unto his Certificate bearing his signature, the seal of the said Court in which he presides.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand:  Dated at Augusta, in said County of Kennebec, this tenth day of June, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.
[cannot read signature--too faint]
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Revo Mass -

Capt. Thos. McLaughlin

Let W. M. E. Brown Aug. 11. 1857
to Weston Sept 29. 1857 -
Sus - 1818. Mass
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Pension Office,
August 11th, 1857.

Sir

In your letter of 11th ultimo you assumed that, as Thomas McLaughlin applied for a pension in 1818, and died in 1820, before completing his proof, his children, or heirs, are entitled to pension arrears.
In this you are mistaken.  No pension arrears are due his children.



W. M. E. Brown, Esq.
Solon, 
Maine.
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Pension Office,
Sept. 29, 1857.

Sir:

In answer to your letter of the 23d instant I have to inform you that the Secretary of the Interior has recently decided that the children of Revolutionary soldiers are not entitled to pension allowances.  In consequence of this decision, all applications similar to the one contemplated by the heirs of Thomas McLaughlin, deceased, of Mass, are rejected.



Eusebius Weston, Esq.
Skowhegan,
Maine.
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Col Starks Mass

Thos McLaughlin




Enclosed to the Pension Office in a letter from Hon. J. Cushman [illegible] 1820
written to 8th May 1825
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Caleb Stark adjutant of Colonel John Starks regiment in 1776.  Do certify that I was in the Regiment, in 1775 and am Knowing that Thomas McLaughlin then of Bedford in the State of New Hampshire, entered the Service soon after the battle at Lexington, in Captain John Moors company - That at the battle of Bunker hill, Major Andrew W Clary was killed, & moor succeeded as Major, & McLaughlin was appointed Captain, and that he continued in the Service untill the End of the Campaign - that I ever understood that he continued faithful to the interests of his Country after he left the Service - His residence at that time was about Six miles from my fathers, and all his conduct was well known to me during the war.
Caleb Stark

Pembroke N Hampshire
Feby 21. 1819
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I Alexander Gilvert of Goffstown in the County of Hillsborough & State of New Hampshire testify & say, that Thomas McLaughlin formerly of Bedford in this County, but now resident in Madison in the County of Somerset & district of Maine went from Bedford some time in month of April in the year of Lord seventeen hundred & seventy five as a Lieutenant under Capt John Moor in Col. John Starks Regiment to meet the enemy at Charlestown in Massachusetts - In the month of December following I went myself to winter hill, and there found said McLaughlin, who was then Captain of said Company.  I staid there two months from the tenth day of December aforesaid [illegible] continued as Captain or commander of a company, during the whole of the time I remained there.
Alex Gilvert

State of New Hampshire Hillsborough SS
February 25th 1819 - Then the above named Alexander Gilvert, who is a man of truth & veracity made solemn oath to the truth of the above deposition by him signed - 
before me James Parker Jur Justice
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I Samuel Moor of Bedford in the County of Hillsborough & state of New Hampshire testify & say that on or about the thirtieth of April in the year of our Lord 1775 I enlisted [illegible] in the Company of Capt John Moor for the term of eight months, of which company Thomas McLaughlin then of Bedford, but now resident in Madison in the County of Somerset & district of Maine was Lieutenant, which company belonged to Col. John Starks Regiment in the New Hampshire line.  I served in said Company eight months but after Bunker hill battle said Capt John Moor was promoted to the office of Major & the said Capt Thomas McLaughlin was promoted to that of Captain of said company - I well know that said McLaughlin served as commander of said company till sometime in the month of February in the year of our Lord seventeen hundred & seventy six
Samuel Moor

State of New Hampshire Hillsborough SS  February 25th 1819.  Then the above named Samuel Moor who is a man of truth & veracity made solemn oath to the truth of the above deposition by him signed ---
before me   James Parker for person
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Thos McLaughlin

Lt & Capt
NH

Samuel Moor depos


State of New Hampshire
Secretarys Office March 2d 1819

I hereby certify that James Parker Esqr is a Justice of the peace within and for the County of Hillsborough in said State duly appointed and commissioned and that, to his acts and attestations as such faith and credit are due.
In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the public seal of said State on the day of the date hereof

I am Sparhawk Levy
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Thos. McLaughlin
Capt NH Service
(proof admd case)


Thos McLaughlin
Capt NH service


State of New Hampshire
Secretary's Office March 2d 1819.

I hereby certify that James parker Esqr. is a Justice of the peace within and for the county of Hillsborough in said State duly appointed and commissioned and that, to his official acts and attestations faith and credit are due.

In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the public seal of said State at Concord on the day of the date hereof.

I am Sparhawk Levy
[seal affixed to page]