Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 3,792, for John Thompson, Pennsylvania
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(3 - 1776)
SERVICE
Penn.
Thompson, John
NUMBER
S. 3792.
CONTENTS
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Ohio 19.856
John Thompson of Adam Co. in the State of Ohio, who was a private in the company commanded by Captain Boyd of the Regiment commanded by [blank] in the Pennsylvania line for two years.
Inscribed on the Roll of Ohio at the rate of 80 Dollars 00. Cents per annum, to 
commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 21 day of Sep 1833 and sent to Hon. Wm. Russell, Mt. Union, Ohio.
Arrears to the 4th of Sep. 1833. 200.
Semi-annual allowance ending 4 Mar 1834 40
$240
{Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.}
Recorded by Wm. R. Palmer, Clerk, Book E., Vol. 8, Page 26.
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Sworn to the above declaration, that we believe him to be seventy-one years of age, that he is refuted and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.
Thomas Curry
John Means
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
Joseph Darlinton, Clerk, A.C.
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion the investigation of the of the matter and putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states. And the Court further certifies that it appears to them that Thomas Curry, who has signed the presiding certificate, is a Clergyman resident in the said County of Adams and that Col. John Means, who has also signed the same, is a resident in the said County of Adams and is a credible person and that their statement is entitled credit.
I, Joseph Darlinton, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Adams and State of Ohio, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of John Thompson [illegible] a pension.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of Office this 26th day of October in the year of our Lord 1832.
Joseph Darlinton, Clerk. A.C.
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Question 5: State the names of [illegible] officer [illegible] were with the troops when you served; such continental and Militia Regiments as you can recollect, and the general circumstances of your service.
Answer: There were no regular officers with the troops where I served except those of Capt. Boyd's Company of Rangers, to wit, Lieutenant Richard Johnston and Ensign Hugh Mans. We were not attached in service to any Continental or Militia Regiments, that I now recollect of, except a detachment of Militia from Bedford County under Major John Woods, which formed a Junction with Lieutenant Johnston's Company and made an expedition to Frankstown. The general duties of the service were to guard the frontiers and prevent the depredations of the Indians.
Question 6: Did you ever receive a discharge from the service, and if so, by whom was it given and what has become of it?
Answer: I did receive from Richard Johnston, the commandant of the company, a discharge for the twenty-five months service under him as a Ranger, and when I started from Pennsylvania in 1811 to remove to this State, I threw the discharge, with many other papers, away, as I considered them all useless.
Question 7: State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood, and who can testify to your character for veracity and their belief of your services as a Soldier of the Revolution.
Answer: Jacob Lawrence, James Hook, Daniel Copple and Henry Whiteman have all heard me talk of my services in the Revolution, many years back. Also, I am well known to the Revd. Thomas Curry and Col. John Means.
John Thompson
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year above written.
Joseph Darlinton, Clerk, A.C.
We, Thomas Curry, a Clergyman residing in the County of Adams, and John Means, residing in the County and State aforesaid, hereby certify that we are well acquainted with John Thompson who has subscribed and
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[illegible] as stated, the full term of eighteen [illegible] and that the whole time of his service was two months in the militia, and in the Pennsylvania Rangers Twenty-five months, making in all twenty-seven months and for that time he claims a pension.
That he has no documentary evidence, and that he knows of no person whose testimony he can procure who can testify to his service. He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State.
John Thompson
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
Joseph Darlinton, Clerk, A.C.
Interrogatories propounded by the Court-
Question 1: When and in what year were you born?
Answer: At Foggs Manor, Philadelphia County, Pa. on the 28th of February 1761.
Question 2: Have you any record of your age, and if so, where is it?
Answer: Yes, the transcript of my Fathers family record is now in my possession.
Question 3: Where were you living when called into service; where have you lived since the Revolutionary war, and where do you now live?
Answer: I was living, when called into service, with my Father, Wm. Thompson in the East end of Kissocoquillas Valley, Cumberland County, Pa. After the Revolutionary war, I lived in the same County until 1811. I removed to Adams
County Ohio where I now live.
Question 4: How were you called into service? Were you drafted, did you volunteer, or were you a substitute? And if a substitute, for whom?
Answer: I was drafted for the first tour of two months and afterwards enlisted for seven months in the Pennsylvania Rangers, Capt. Boyd's Company, and again enlisted for Eighteen months
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The State of Ohio
Adams County, SS.
Court of Common Pleas
October Term 1832
On this twenty sixth day of October, personally appeared in open Court before the Court of Common Pleas now sitting, John Thompson, a resident of Adams County and State of Ohio, aged Seventy-one years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832 - That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated to wit, That in the fall of the year 1780, he was drafted for a tour of two months in the Militia, and entered the service as a private at Potters Fort, in Penn's Valley, Cumberland County, Pa. in Captain McCollister or McCallerton's Company (the Christian name of the Captain he does not recollect). That the duties of this service was to protect the frontiers from the Indians; that the period of his service at this time was two full months and that during the time and near the expiration of this two months' service, the company, he being one, went on a scout or tour to the big Island in the Susquehanna, where they found good ripe apples under the trees, but he cannot more particularly set forth the time of entering said service or being dismissed therefrom. And that again in the same year and shortly after the expiration of his said service of two months, he with several others enlisted and entered the service in Captain Boyd's Company of Pennsylvania Rangers for the term of seven months; That he met the recruits that were to join Captain Boyd's Company at Judge Wm. Brown's, as he was returning from the two months' tour of service as aforesaid, that he then borrowed a horse, went to his Father, six miles
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distant, for his clothing and [illegible] same night in Kissocoquillas [illegible] That Captain Boyd had been killed in an engagement with the Indians about three miles from Franks Town, Pa. previously to his joining the company. That he was commanded by Lieutenant Richard Johnston - Ensign Means, believes Christian name Hugh.
That he was marched from Judge Brown's to Standing Stone Town, now called Huntingdon, from thence to Squire Samuel Thompson's fort in Woodcock Valley, from thence to Col. John Peper's Station, from thence to Bedford, and from thence to Frankstown Garrison. The duties of this tour was to act against the Indians and defend the frontiers. That during this tour while his company lay at Bedford, he was sent as one of a party consisting of a Sergeant and six privates to escort some Baggage Wagons taking out supplies for the troops stationed at Fort Pitt, and while at Fort Pitt, he witnessed the execution of a Soldier named Thomas Steed, who was shot for a mutiny committed at Fort McIntosh. That he thinks General Irvin commanded at Fort Pitt at that time. That he continued in said service during the period of seven months and served as a private in said Company of Rangers, and that immediately afterwards he again enlisted for eighteen months under the same officers and in the same Company of Pennsylvania Rangers and continued to serve as a private in said company for eighteen months longer. That he entered or rather continued in the service at Bedford in the spring or summer of the year 1781 when the tour of eighteen months commenced. That during this tour, the Militia of Bedford County under Major John Woods formed a Junction with Lieutenant, or as he was then called, Capt. Johnston's Company of Rangers, and made an expedition across the Alleghany mountains as far as Frankstown and returned again to Bedford. That he recollects the names of the following persons belonging to the said Johnston's Company to wit-- Sergeants, William Ward, David Bates, Harrington Price, and Robert Atkins - Privates Stephen Goble, Abram Bodle, John Jones, Benjamin Frazier, William Allegan, Henry Simmonds, John Beaty, George Shannon, David Milligan, Lewis Carts, John Brown, Michael Brown and James McDowell - That he was discharged early in the spring of the year 1783, but the day, or the month he does not recollect- That he served in the first tour as herein stated, as a private the full term of two months- That he served in the second term as therein stated the term of seven months-
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19.856
John Thompson
Ohio
Admitted 2 years $80
Hon William Russell
West Union
Ohio
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WAR DEPARTMENT
Pension Office,
12 Aug 1833
Sir:
The evidence in support of your claim, under the act of June 7, 1832, has been examined, and the papers are herewith returned. The following is a statement of your case in a tabular form. On comparing these papers with the following rules, and the subjoined notes, you will readily perceive that objections exist, which must be removed, before a pension can be allowed. The notes and the regulations will show what is necessary to be done. Those points to which your attention is more particularly directed, you will find marked in the margin with a brace, (thus: }). You will, when you return your papers to this Department, send this printed letter with them; and you will, by complying with this request, greatly facilitate the investigation of your claim.
A Statement, showing the Service of John Thompson
Period when the service was rendered. | Duration of the claimant's service. (Years, Months, Days) | Rank of the claimant. | Names and rank of the Field officers under whom he served. | Age at present, and place of abode when he entered the service. | Proof by which the declaration is supported.
1780 | ( , 2, )| Private | Capt. McCallister | 71 years, Cumberland County, Pa. | Traditionary
1780 | ( , 7, )| Private | Capt. Boyd | |
     | (1, 6, )| Private | Same officers as before | |
I am, respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
J L EDWARDS,
Commissioner of Pensions.
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REGULATIONS UNDER THE ACT OF JUNE 7, 1832.
The following regulations have been adopted:
This law has been construed to extend, as well to the line, as to every branch of the Staff of the Army, and to include under the terms "Continental Line," "State troops," "militia" and "volunteers, all persons enlisted, drafted, or who volunteered and who were bound to military service, but not those who were occasionally employed with the army upon civil contracts, such as Clerks to Commissaries and to Store Keepers, &c, Teamsters, Boatmen, &c. Persons who served on board of private armed vessels are also excluded from the benefits of the law, as well as persons who turned out as patrols, or were engaged in guarding particular places at night, and were not recognized as being in actual military service.
Four general classes of cases are embraced in this law:
1. The Regular Troops.
2. The State Troops, Militia, and Volunteers.
3. Persons employed in the Naval Service.
4. Indian Spies.
As rolls of the regular troops in the Revolutionary War exist in this Department, all persons claiming the benefit of this law as officers, non-commissioned officers, mucicians or privates, will, in the first instance, make application by transmitting the following declaration, which will be made before a Court of Record of the County where such applicant resides. And every Court having by law a seal and Clerk is considered a Court of Record,
DECLARATION,
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th of June, 1832.
State, Territory or District of ss.
County of
On this day of personally appeared (a) before
A.B. a resident (b) of in the county of and State, Territory or District
of aged (c) years, who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress, passed June 7th, 1832. That he enlisted in the Army of the United States in the year (d), with and served in the (e) regiment of the line, under the following named officers:
[Here set forth the names and rank of the Field and Company Officers; the time he left the service; (and if he served under more than one term of enlistment, he must specify the particular period, and rank and names of his officers;) the town or county and State in which he resided when he entered the service; the battles, if any, in which he was engaged, and the country through which he marched. [stamp of a hand] This form is to be varied so as to apply to the cases of officers and persons who belonged to the militia, volunteers, navy, &c.]
He hereby relinquishes every claim (f) whatever to a pension or an annuity, except the present, and he declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any Agency in any State, or (if any) only on that of the Agency in the State of
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid. A. B.
[And then will follow the certificate of the Court.]
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion (g) that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states.
I                         of the Court of                       do hereby certify (h) that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office (i) this                  day of &c.
If, on examination of the proper record, the names of applicants, making such declaration, cannot be found, they will produce such proof as the rule given in note (j) points out.
Every applicant who claims a pension by virtue of service in the State Troops, Volunteers or Militia, except those who belonged to the New Hampshire Militia and State Troops of Virginia, will make and subscribe a declaration similar to the foregoing, with the following additions, viz:
(k) We, A. B., a Clergyman, residing C. D. residing in (the same) hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with , who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be  years of age; that he is reputed and believed, in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.
Sworn and subscribed the days and year aforesaid.
[And then will follow the certificate of the Court.]
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier, and served as he states. And the Court further certifies, that it appears to them that A.B. who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman, resident in the  and that C. D., who has also signed the same is a resident in the  and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
I, Clerk of the Court of  do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the application of  for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office, this day of & c.
Every applicant will produce the best proof in his power. This is the original discharge or commission; but if neither of these can be obtained, the party will so state under oath, and will then procure, if possible, the testimony of at least one credible witness, stating in detail his personal knowledge of the services of the applicant, and such circumstances connected therewith, as may have a tendency to throw light upon the transaction.
If such surviving witness cannot be found, the applicant will so state in his declaration, (l) and he will also, whether he produce such evidence or not, proceed to relate all the material facts, which can be useful in the investigation of his claim, and in the comparison of his narrative with the events of the period of his
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alleged service, as they are known at the Department. A very full account of the services of each person will be indispensable to a favorable action upon his case. The facts stated will afford one of the principal means of corroborating the declaration of the applicant, if true, or of detecting the imposition, if one be attempted; and unless, therefore, these are amply and clearly set forth, no favorable decision can be expected. All applicants will appear before some Court of Record in the County in which they reside, and there subscribe and be sworn to, one of the declarations above provided, according to the nature of his case.
The Court will propound the following (m) interrogatories to all applicants for a pension, on account of service in the Militia, State troops, or Volunteers, except the Militia of New Hampshire and the State troops of Virginia.
1. Where and in what year were you born?
2. Have you any record of your age, and if so, where is it?
3. Where were you living when called into service; where have you lived since the Revolutionary war, and where do you now live?
4. How were you called into service; were you drafted, did you volunteer, or were you a substitute? And if a substitute, for whom?
5. State the names of some of the Regular Officers, who were with the troops, where you served; such Continental and Militia Regiments as you can recollect, and the general circumstances of your services.
6. To a Soldier: Did you ever receive a discharge from the service, and if so, by whom was it given, and what has become of it? To an Officer: Did you ever receive a commission, and if so, by whom was it signed, and what has become of it?
7. State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood, and who can testify as to your character for veracity, and their belief of your services as a soldier of the Revolution.
The Court will see that the answers to these questions are embodied in the declaration, and they are requested to annex their opinions of the truth of the statement of the applicant.
The applicant will further produce in Court, if the same can be done, in the opinion of the Court, without too much expense and inconvenience to him, two respectable persons--one of whom should be the nearest clergyman, if one lives in the immediate vicinity of such applicant, who can testify, from their acquaintance with him, that they believe he is of the age he represents, and that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood to have been a Revolutionary soldier, and that they concur in that opinion. If one of these persons is a Clergyman, the Court will so certify, and they will also certify to the character and standing of other persons giving such certificates.
The traditionary evidence of service is deemed very important, in the absence of any direct proof, except the declaration of the party. And the Courts are requested to be very particular in the inquiry whether the belief is general, and whether any doubts have ever existed upon the subject.
Applicants unable to appear in Court, by reason of bodily infirmity, may make the declaration before required, and submit to the examination, before a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record of the proper county, and the Judge or Justice will execute the duties, which the Court is herein requested to perform, and will also certify that the applicant cannot, from bodily infirmity, attend the Court.
Whenever any official act is required to be done by a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record, or by a Justice of the Peace, the certificate of the Secretary of State or Territory, or of the proper Clerk of the Court or County, under his seal of office, will be annexed, stating that such person is a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record, or a Justice of the Peace, and that the signature annexed is his genuine signature.
No payments can be made on account of the services of any person, who may have died before the taking effect of the act of June 7, 1832; and in case of death subsequent thereto, and before the declaration herein required is made, the parties interested will transmit such evidence as they can procure, taken and authenticated before a Court of Record, showing the services of the deceased, the period of his death, the opinion of the neighborhood respecting such services, the title of the claimant, and the opinion of the Court upon the whole matter.

(a) The declarant must appear in open Court, unless prevented from doing so by reason of bodily infirmity; in which case the declarant will follow the rule laid down for his guidance.
(b) The declarant must make his declaration in the county where he resides. If he should fail to do so, he must assign a sufficient reason for not conforming to the rule.
(c) The age of the claimant must invariably be mentioned.
(d) The declarant must mention the period or periods of the war when he served.
(e) Every continental officer or soldier must give the name of the Colonel under whom he served; otherwise a satisfactory examination of the claim cannot be had. Every claimant must state, with precision, the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the Department to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words: Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A. B. who, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that, by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service; but, according to the best of his recollection, he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades: For [blank] year [blank] months, and [blank] days, I served as a [blank]. For [blank] months and [blank] days, I served as a [blank]; and for such service I claim a pension."
It is important, in all cases, to determine with precision the period for which each applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service. The use of the phrase about three or four months is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable. Some persons who apply for pensions merely state that they served two years in the militia, &c. without specifying the tours, the names of the officers, and other particulars respecting their service. This form of a declaration is highly objectionable. It must, in every case be clearly shown under what officers the applicant served; the duration of each term of engagement the particular place or places where the service was performed; that the applicant served with an embodied corps called into service by competent authority; that he was either in the field or in garrison; and for the time during which the service was performed, he was not employed in any civil pursuit.
(f) The law makes the relinquishment indispensable.
(g) The opinion of the Court is always required.
(h) The Clerk must give his certificate in every case.
(i) The Clerk must affix his seal, and it has no device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal, or if he has no public seal of office, the certificate of a Member of Congress, proving the official character and signature of the certifying officer, should accompany the papers.
Mode of authenticating papers.
In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticates the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other papers authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the ends of which must pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate.
Proof of Service.
In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimant's entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the regiment, company, and line to which he belonged. The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the witnesses, and the official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office.
The notes from (a) to (i) are all equally applicable to the cases of Militia men, Volunteers and State Troops. The proof required by rule in note (j) applies to continental troops only.
(k) This traditionary evidence is indispensable in militia cases.
(l) If a witness cannot be found, the declarant must state the fact.
(m) The answers to the interrogatories must all be written, and sent to the War Department, with the declaration.
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Rev. and 1812 Wars Section
MEE/RMM
October 12, 1929.
Mr. Luther S. Williams
Indiana, Route 1, Box 101
Pennsylvania.
Dear Sir:
I advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim S. 3792, it appears that John Thompson was born February 28, 1761 at Foggs Manor, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania. He was the son of William Thompson.
While residing in the east end of Kishacoquillas Valley, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, he enlisted in the fall of 1780, at Potter's Fort in Penn's Valley, and served two months as a private in Captain McCollister's or McCallister's Pennsylvania Company, guarding the frontiers from the Indians. Shortly after the above service, he enlisted and served twenty-five months in Lieutenant Richard Johnston's Company of Pennsylvania Rangers and was discharged in the spring of 1783.
He was allowed pension on his application executed October 26, 1832 while a resident of Adams County, Ohio, to which place he had moved from Cumberland County, Pennsylvania in 1811. At the time of his application for pension he was a minister in the Methodist
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Episcopal Church.
There are no data relative to wife and children.
It does not appear that this soldier ever lived in Indiana County, Pennsylvania.
In order to obtain the date of last payment of pension, name of the person paid and possibly the date of death of the above noted Revolutionary War pensioner, John Thompson, S. 3792, you should apply to the Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, Records Division, Washington, D.C., citing all of the following data:
John Thompson
Certificate No. 19856, issued September 21, 1833
Rate $80 per annum, commenced March 4, 1831
Act of June 7, 1832
Ohio Agency.
Very truly yours,
EARL D. CHURCH
Commissioner.
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1912 Apr. 1 History to Ben B. Whiteman
1915 March 8. To Dr. McLen U.S.A. for tombstone.
1929, Oct 12. History to Luther S. Williams, M. E. E.
Rev War
3792
INVALID.
File No. 3792
John Thompson
Private Rev War
Act: June 7th 1832
Index: -- Vol. A, Page 372
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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James B. Aston
Somerset
Perry
Co.
Ohio
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West Union Ohio
Sept the 30th 1835
Sir
I have had a conversation with Mr. Thompson this day and he wishes me to say in explanation of his claim to a pension that during the summer and autumn, their active service was in the neighborhood of Frankstown, but that during the winter, they were ordered to Bedford when they were supplied with rations and although they had no duties to perform there, they were held in readiness in case of emergency.
Mr. Thompson is a Minister in the Methodist Episcopal Church in good standing and of [illegible] character. I have been well acquainted with him for a little over twenty years and have the most full and perfect confidence in his truth and veracity. He admits
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that as to dates he may be mistaken as he made his declaration from memory alone, but he is certain that he served for the full term of time stated in his declaration. Mr. Thompson is an old man, yet time has not made such ravages either in his bodily or mental [illegible] as is common to most men of his years.
Col. John Means (who certifies for Mr. T, has long been his neighbor) is a gentleman of fine character who has been a representative in his native State (S.C.) and also in this. Mr. Curry is a good man of unspotted character.
I will say in conclusion that I have no doubt but Mr. Thomson has performed the service stated by him and I have heard him speak of it long before the passage of the law under which he claims.
Very Respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
William Russel
J. L. Edwards, Esquire
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Indiana, Penna.
July 31. 1929.
Dear Sirs:- I applied recently for membership in the Penna Society of the sons of the American Revolution thru my great-great Grandfather, John Thompson (called Blockhouse), (who according to Caldwell's History of Indiana County from 1745 to 1880) was born in or near Philadelphia, Penna. and served 5 years in the Revolutionary Army. He was born in 1761 and died in Rayne Twp., Indiana Co., Penna. in 1838 at the age of 77 years. I was advised to write to you people for further or more explicit records, as to the command he served
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under also what branch of service. Will you please look up this soldier's record, if you have any records of the Revolutionary soldiers, and then communicate with me.
Yours respectfully.
Luther S. Williams
Indiana, Penna.
R# 1. Box 101
[Stamp: U.S. Pension Office Aug 1, 1929]
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Number 2705
CAPITAL $50,000
SURPLUS AND PROFITS
$50,000
The First National Bank
56 -- 673
Georgetown, Ohio
H. F. PINDELL, President
P. B. CAHALL, Vice-President
BEN B. WHITEMAN, Cashier
T. B. RICHEY, Assistant Cashier
March 22nd, 1912.
The Hon. Commissioner of Pensions,
Washington, D. C.
Dear Sir: -
Please send me the record as shown in your office of John Thompson, a Revolutionary Soldier, Sur. File No. 3,792. 
Thanking you for your former reply and in advance for your reply to this.
I am yours very truly,
Ben B. Whiteman
[Stamp: U.S. Pension Office Mar 25, 1912]
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information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau.
John Thompson S.F. 3792
DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. | LENGTH OF SERVICE. | RANK. | OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. (CAPTAIN., COLONEL.) | STATE.
Fall of 1780 | 2 mos. | Private | McCallister or McCollister | | Penna.
1789 | 25 mos., discharged spring of 1783 | | Lieutenant Richard Johnston's Company of Rangers | |
Battles engaged in, [blank]
Residence of soldier at enlistment, East end of Kishacoquillas Valley, Cumberland County, Penna.
Date of application for pension, Oct 26, 1832 His claim was allowed.
Residence at date of application, Adams County, Ohio.
Age at date of application, born at Foggs Manor, Phila. County, Pa. February 28, 1761.
Remarks: Soldier was the son of William Thompson; no other data as to family.