Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 11395, for Thomas Simpson, New Hampshire
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(3-1776)

SERVICE
N.H.

Simpson, Thomas

NUMBER
S. 11395

carded

CONTENTS
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Schenck  HR.  4 Feb. 1835

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New Hampshire
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Thomas Simpson
Lieutenant

["Captain company" stricken out]  of the Third N.H. Regiment.
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Ratio of disability,   Total
Date of discharge,
Time of closing the testimony,
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Inscribed on the Roll of N. Hampshire
at $17---Dollars per month, to commence on the 4th March 1831--
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Certificate of Pension issued the 13th of Sept.
1833 and sent to J.A. Simpson Esq.
Boston, Mass'tts.
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Arrears to 4th of Sept 1833......................510.00
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4 Mar '34...........102.00
pvt sound in body.....................................======
but nearly blind.........................................$ 612.00
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Act of the 19th February 1833.
Recorded in Book D.
Vol 1  Page 129--
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Thomas Simpson
Lieutenant
76 to 79
Scammel  N. Hamp're

Regt.
on Roll

Admitted

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[written vertically]
Affidavit and
Commission
Lieutenant
Col. Scammels Regt.
New Hampshire
Line
1776--3 years

[written upside down]
The claim will be admitted
upon the judge's certifying
that the applicant, from his
reduced circumstances in
life, is in need of his country's 
afsistance for support.
29  June  1819
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United States of America--

State of Newhampshire  Strafford  fs.  Newhampton  May 21st  1818.

I, Thomas Simpson of Newhampton a citizen of the United Staates now resident at said Newhampton in the county of Strafford aforesaid in the state aforesaid do on oath declare that I served in the war of the Revolution the full term of time required by a Law of the United States made and passed in the month of March AD 1818 entitled an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary war as a requisite to entitle me to be placed on the pension list of the said United States having entered the land service of the said United States on the continental establishment and served as a private soldier or volunteer against the common enemy from July to the last of December 1775 when the time for which I engaged being six months having fully expired I was honorably discharged that I belonged to a company commanded by Lieutenant Abraham Palmer in Colonel Timothy Bedel's Regiment in the Newhampshire forces and on the fourteenth of September 1776 I again entered the service against the common enemy as an Ensign in the service of the state of Newhampshire in a choir of Rangers so called consisting of three companies and commanded by Thomas Simpson Esquire as captain commandent
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and served in that capacity honorably till the eighth of November 1776, when I was commissioned as second Lieutenant, in Capt Richard Weare's company in Colonel Alexander Scammell's Regiment being the third Newhampshire regiment on the continental establishment an served in that capacity untill the latter part of the year 1778 when I was promoted to a Lieutenant commandent to command Major Litcomb's company of said Regiment and in the begining of 1779 I was promoted to Lieutenant commanding the Lieutenant Colonel's company and on the 18th day of July I was honorably discharged, by order of Maj. General Sullivan signed by Frederick Barber his adjutant-General as Captain-Lieutenant which discharge I was ordered by the authority of the Stte of Newhampshire to deposit in the secretary's office of said State on my receiving a pension for known wounds received in the Revolutionary war, which discharge I cannot now obtain.  I was at the seige of St. John's in the province of lower Canada under the command of Gen'l Montgomery in the year 1775 and likewise at the taking several vessels on the River St. Lawrence between the Cities of Montreal and Quebeck the same year.  And in the year 1777 September 19th I was at a general Battle fought at Bemis's Hights so called in the state of Newyork.  On the 7th of October in the same year and near the same place I was in a general Battle and under the Enemies Breast-work I received a ball in my body which I carry in me to the present day, and on the 28th day of June 1778 I was in the Battle of Monmouth in the state of Newjersey.  And I hereby relinquish all claim to every pension heretofore allowed me by the laws of the said United States if any may be or hath been so
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allowed.  I further declare that by reason of my reduced circumstances in life I stand in need of assistance from my country for support
Thomas Simpson

Be it remembered, that on this twenty first day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and Eighteen Pursuant to a law of the United States entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary war made and passed on the eighteenth of March AD 1818 personally appeared before me John Mooney Judge of Probate for the County of Strafford and State of Newhampshire.  The above named Thomas Simpson and after due examination and causion to testify and declare the whole truth, he maketh oath to the declaration aforesaid, and subscribes the same in my presence; and on examination duly made by me, the said judge and my long personal acquaintance with the said Thomas Simpson, it appeareth perfectly to my satisfaction that the said declaration, is true.
John Mooney  Judge of the Court of Probate for the county of Strafford
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Thomas Simpson

10,084

CM

1820

March 1820
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II

To the Justices of the Court of Common Pleas now sitting at Gilford within and for the County of Strafford and State of New-Hampshire, on the third Tuesday of July, 1820.

Thomas Simpson aged sixty five, resident in New Hampton in said County, comes into court, and in pursuance of an act of Congress passed on the 1st day of May, 1820, brings with him, and in his proper person exhibits to said Court a Schedule by him subscribed, containing his whole Estate and Income--his necessary clothing and bedding excepted--as follows:--

one Desk.........................$15.00
one Bible........................... 10.00
............................................_________
................................................25.00

Thos. Simpson

And the said Thomas Simpson in pursuance as aforesaid produceth to said court the following oath by him duly taken and subscribed:--viz.

I Thomas Simpson do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of 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 18th day of March, 1818; and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property of securities, contracts or debts due to me, nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed.
Thos. Simpson

And the said Thomas Simpson doth here in Court further declare on oath, that he served in the revolutionary war as follows, viz.  that he entered a company in the New Hampshire forces commanded by Capt Palmer in the Reg. commanded by Col. Tim'o Beedle as a private soldier or volunteer sometime in July seventeen hundred & seventy five and continued therein till some time in December of the same year and was honourably discharged--on the fourteenth day of September seventeen hundred and seventy six he again entered the Revolution in the service of the State of New Hampshire as an ensign in a choir of Rangers so called consisting of three companies and commanded by Thos Simpson Esqr and served in that capacity till the eighth of Nov'r of the same year when he was commifsioned sec. Lieutenant in Capt Richard Wear's company in Colo Alexandria Scammel's Regiment of the New Hampshire line and served in that capacity till the latter part of the year seventeen hundred and seventy eight when he was promoted to a Lieut. commandant to command Maj. Fitcomb's comp. of said Reg. and served in that capacity till the beginning of the year seventeen hundred and seventy nine when he promoted to a Lieut. commanding the Lieut Colo company in the same year on the eighteenth day of July of the same year he was honourably discharged as Capt Lieut by order of Maj Gen. Sullivan and signed by Frederick Durham his adjutant General
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That the date of his original declaration in order to obtain a pension is May 21 1818 and the number of his pension certificate is 16.084:--That his occupation is that of a Farmer but is unable to pursue it:--That the number and names of his family residing with him, and their ages and capacities to contribute to their support, are as follows, viz.

his wife Betsy aged sixty three unable to support herself

Wherefore he prays the opinion of the said Court as to the value of the property contained in the said schedule, and that the same, together with a copy of the premises, be duly certified to the Secretary of War.
Thos Simpson

Sworn and declared before the said court the 18th day of July 1820.
Attest,  A. Peirce, CLERK.

STATE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE.....STRAFFORD  SS.

AT a Court of Common Pleas holden at Gilford within and for the County of Strafford and State of New-Hampshire, on the 18th day of July 1820 before DANIEL M. DURELL, Esquire, Chief Justice, and 
VALENTINE SMITH, and  )  Associate Justices
SAMUEL QUARLES,         )  of said Court.

The aforesaid schedule and oath and the above declaration duly subscribed and sworn by the said Thomas Simpson having been by him exhibited in person, and presented to the court, and the same being seen and considered, it is the opinion of said Court that the value of the property contained in said schedule is twenty five dollars---cents.  Wherefore the Court order that a copy of the premises, together with the proceedings thereon, be duly certified to the Secretary of War
Attest,  A. Peirce, CLERK.

STATE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE.....STRAFFORD  SS.

I, ANDREW PEIRCE, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas within and for the County of Strafford, being a court of record, do certify that the foregoing schedule and oath and the declaration annexed, with the proceedings and opinion of the court thereon, are true copies from the Records and files of said court.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court the 18th day of July 1820.
A. Peirce, CLERK.

[illegible seal affixed to the left of the above paragraph]
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New Hampton N.H.  November 9th 1832.
Hon. Lewis Cass Secretary of War of the United States.

Dear Sir,

Pursuant to an act of Congress passed June 7th 1832 and agreeable to the rules and regulations established at the War department, June 27th 1832, I herewith transmit to you my pension certificate together with the information required for the purpose of obtaining a new and larger certificate agreeable to said act.  I was Commissioned a lieutenant in the army of the Revolution but actually done the duty of what was termed captain lieutenant in the army, and belonged to the third New Hampshire Regiment of Infantry, Commanded by the late Collonel Scammell.  My present place of residence is in the town of New-Hampton in the County of Strafford and State of New-Hampshire, and has been for the last fifty years.
Yours with much Respect
Thomas Simpson
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Boston  July 30, 1833.

J.L. Edwards Esqr.

My Dear Sir,

My Father, Thomas Simpson Esqr. of New Hampton N.H. was an officer in Scammels Regiment, in the New Hampshire continental line, and was shot in the body at the Battle of Saratoga, Oct'r 7, 1777 and carries the musket ball in him to this day.  It entered near the Navel and lodged near the kidney, and could never be extracted.  for this he was put on the list of Invalid Pensioners before my remembrance.

The act of, I think, 1818, gave him more than his invalid pension, he therefore surrendered up his certificate, and took one under the then new act.--

He has desired me to enquire of you whether by the explanatory act passed last Winter, he is not entitled to his Invalid Pension in addition to the one under the late act, and if so, what documents will be necefsary to be forwarded to your Office to obtain it.

He is now in the 79th year of his age and his name stands on the Pension Books.

If you will write me, giving the required information.

You will greatly oblige
Your Obt Serv't
John K Simpson
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awr

Rev. War Section.

Oct. 21, 1920.

Mrs. Amy D. Kramer,
Box 41, San Bernardino, Calif.

Madam:

In reply to your letter of the 3" ultimo, you are advised that from the papers in the pension claim, Survivor File No. 11,395, it appears that Thomas Simpson was born May 7, 1755, and that he enlisted in July 1775, as a Private in Lieutenant Abraham Palmer's Company, Colonel Timothy Bedel's New Hampshire Troops, he was at the siege of Saint John's and served until Dec. 1775.  On September 14, 1776, he was appointed Ensign of Captain Thomas Simpson's Corps of Rangers, it is not stated whether this officer was a relation.  On November 8, 1776, he was commissioned Second Lieutenant of Captain Richard Weare's Company, Colonel Alexander Scammell's New Hampshire Regiment.  On April 3, 1777, he took the small-pox which resulted in the loss of his left eye.  He was in command of his company at both battles at Bemis Heights, (Saratoga) and during the last battle on October 7, 1777, was wounded by a ball in the abdomen.  He rejoined his regiment at Valley Forge in April 1778 and was engaged in the battle of Monmouth.  Late in 1778 he was promoted Lieutenant Commandant to command Major Frank Titcomb's company and early in 1779 he was put in command of the Lieutenant-Colonel's Company of said regiment.  But in the autumn of 1778, he was also appointed to do the duty of Quartermaster to General Poor's Brigade, and in March 1779, his horse fell with him, causing wound of right leg, he was carried to the hospital at Danbury, Connecticut, where he received news of the death of his father, whose name is not given, he was granted furlough returned to New Hampshire and was discharged July 18, 1779, with the rank of Captain Lieutenant.

In 1782 he was pensioned by the State of New Hampshire and in 1806 by the United States for disability resulting from the above named wounds.

In 1818 he lived in New Hampton, Strafford County, New Hampshire.  In 1820 his wife Betsy was 63 years old and in 1833 their son John K. was a resident of Boston Massachusetts.  There is no further data on file as to family.
Very respectfully,
F D Byington
Acting Commissioner.
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16,084  R

New Hampshire
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Thomas Simpson
of New Hampton in the state of New Hamp.
who was a Lieutenant in the regiment commanded
Colonel Scammell of the New Hamp.
line for the term of Three Years
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Inscribed on the Roll of New Hampshire
at the rate of 20 Dollars per month, to commence
the 21 of May 1818
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Certificate of Pension issued the 26 of Nov'r 1819 and Sent to Thomas Simpson Esq
New Hampton  New Hamp.
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Arrears to 4th of Sep 1819............................309.00
Semi-anl. all'ce ending Mar 1820...............120.00
Mo 11/31    4/30..............................................=====
................................................................................$429.
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Continued

(Revolutionary claim,         )
(Act 18th March, 1818.      )

Amount Invalid Pension
from 21 May '18 to 4 Sept.................$234.20
1819 @ $15"/'  Pr. and
Diff bet Rev & Inv..................................$185.40
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WAR DEPARTMENT.  [underlined]

I CERTIFY that in conformity with an Act of Congrefs of the 25th of April 1808, entitled "An Act concerning Invalid Pensioners."--the Stipend of THOMAS SIMPSON (who previously stood on the Pension List of THE UNITED STATES...Roll of the New HAMPSHIRE Agency at the rate of Six dollars Sixty-six and two-thirds cents, per month)--was increased to "Thirteen dollars, thirty-three and one third cents per month, to commence on the Twenty-fourth day of December One thousand Eight hundred and Six."--

Given at the WAR OFFICE of the UNITED STATES this 5th day of April 1814.
N.B.  The present CERTIFICATE is granted in lieu of one ifsued to said Thomas Simpson for his former Pension, stated to be worn out, which is to be delivered up to the Agent for the payment of Invalids on receipt of this.
John Armstrong

By act of Congrefs of April 23d 1816 said Simpson is entitled to fifteen dollars
Deliver full p't Month from that date
Wm Flumer fr Comm'r.
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19773

Revolution  INVALID.
Dup. of File 11395

File No. 19773
Thomas Simpson
Lieut  Rev  War

Act:  Feb 19"  33

Index:--Vol.  2,  Page 367
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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Dec. 21, 1893   Mil. Hist.
to Mrs. H.R. Clinton, O.W.&R Div.
Pension office, City

1920 Oct. 20.  History to
Amy D. Kramer, AW
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11395.

Rev War
[checkmark]

INVALID.

File No.  11, 395
Thomas Simpson
Lt. Rev. War

Act:  June 7 1832

Index:---Vol. A,  Page 342
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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[part of line lost at folds or cuts] The DELEGAT[es?] UNITED STATES of New Hampshire, Massachusetts-Bay, Rhode-Island, Connecticut, New-York, New-Jersey, Pennsylvania, the counties of New-Castle, Kent and Sussex on Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North-Carolina, South-Carolina and Georgia, TO
Thomas Simpson Gentn Greeting
We, reposing especial Trust and Confidence in your Patriotism, Valour, Conduct and Fidelity, DO, by these Presents, constitute and appoint you to be Second Lieutenant of Capt Richard Weare's Company in the third Battalion of New Hampshire Troops Commanded by Col. Alexander [Scammelhugh?] in the Army of the United States, raised for the Defence of American Liberty, and for repelling every hostile Invasion thereof. You are therefore carefully and diligently to discharge the Duty of Second Lieutenant by doing and performing all Manner of Things thereunto belonging. And we do strictly charge and require all Officers and Soldiers under your Command, to be obedient to your Orders as Second Lieutenant. And you are to observe and follow such Orders and Directions from Time to Time, as you shall receive from this or a future Congress of the United States, or Committee of Congress, for that Purpose appointed, or Commander in Chief for the Time being of the Army of the United States, or any other your superior Officer, according to the Rules and Discipline of War, in Pursuance of the Trust reposed in you. This Commission to continue in Force until revoked by this or a future Congress.
Dated the Eighth Day of November Anno Domini 1776
By order of the Congress,
John Hancock, PRESIDENT.
ST. Cha Thomeary
S. file 11,395.
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[part of line lost at folds or cuts] The DELEGAT[es?] UNITED STATES of New Hampshire, Massachusetts-Bay, Rhode-Island, Connecticut, New-York, New-Jersey, Pennsylvania, the counties of New-Castle, Kent and Sussex on Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North-Carolina, South-Carolina and Georgia, TO
Thomas Simpson Gentn Greeting
We, reposing especial Trust and Confidence in your Patriotism, Valour, Conduct and Fidelity, DO, by these Presents, constitute and appoint you to be Second Lieutenant of Capt Richard Weare's Company in the third Battalion of New Hampshire Troops Commanded by Col. Alexander [Scammelhugh?] in the Army of the United States, raised for the Defence of American Liberty, and for repelling every hostile Invasion thereof. You are therefore carefully and diligently to discharge the Duty of Second Lieutenant by doing and performing all Manner of Things thereunto belonging. And we do strictly charge and require all Officers and Soldiers under your Command, to be obedient to your Orders as Second Lieutenant. And you are to observe and follow such Orders and Directions from Time to Time, as you shall receive from this or a future Congress of the United States, or Committee of Congress, for that Purpose appointed, or Commander in Chief for the Time being of the Army of the United States, or any other your superior Officer, according to the Rules and Discipline of War, in Pursuance of the Trust reposed in you. This Commission to continue in Force until revoked by this or a future Congress.
Dated the Eighth Day of November Anno Domini 1776
By order of the Congress,
John Hancock, PRESIDENT.
ST. Cha Thomeary
S. file 11,395.
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[handwritten at top: Rev. H]
Probation Committee
J. B. HANNA, COLTON, CHAIRMAN
MRS. ANNA D. GARNER, SAN BERNARDINO
SECRETARY
J.R. POLLOCK, ONTARIO
PETER G. MCIVER, REDLANDS
MRS. J. W. BARTON, SAN BERNARDINO
MRS. CORA O. LINVILLE, NONLANDS
MRS. AGNES F. LEWIS, REDLANDS

Juvenile Court
County of San Bernardino
State of California

Chief Probation Officer
M.A. BAGLEY
Assistant Probation Officer
MRS. AMY D. KRAMER
Deputies
C.E. BIGELOW, MRS. FLORENCE E. BIGELOW DETENTION HOME
GEORGE LARMORE, REDLANDS
OFFICE, ROOM 20, COURT HOUSE
PHONE HOME 666
OFFICE HOURS: 9 A.M. TO 5 P.M.

JUDGES
REX B. GOODCELL
J.W CURTIS

SAN BERNARDINO, CAL. September 3rd 1920

U.S. Commissioner of Pensions,
Bureau of Pensions, Rev. War
Washington, D.C.
Dear Sir:
Please send me all data you may have regarding the claim for pension for service in the Revolutionary War of Robert Simpson, Deerfield, N.H.
Have you any record of Thomas Simpson, a brother, who served as a Lieut. at the same time?
Would it be asking too much to give me a duplicate copy of the Robert Simpson pension claim record?
Thanking you kindly for this favor, I am,
Very Respectfully,
(Mrs.) Amy D. Kramer.

Box 41
San Bernardino, Calif.

[printed seal:]
PENSION OFFICE
C SEP 13 1920
U
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To what time, and at what rate, was Thomas Simpson, of N. Hampshire, an Invalid Pensioner, last paid?  He was Dropt from the Invalid Roll in November 1819.
Respectfully
J.L. Edwards
Aug. 3. 1833

H. Whetcroft, Esqr.

Lt. T. Simpson has been pd to March 4, 1831 @ $20 per month
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State before & after service.
{illegible] of Wid

Thomas Simpson joined the Continental Army as an Ensign under General Montgomery in 1775.
In 1777 he was 1st, Lieu of a Company commanded by Captain Weare. The Captain was mortally wounded and the command of the Company devolved on Lieu Simpson. He afterwards at the battle of Monmouth commanded the Life Guards of Major General Lee. He afterwards commanded the Life Guards of Baron Steuben and Major General Greene.
He was then transferred
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to the staff with the rank of Major. He was wounded at the battle of Saratoga. He suffered a long and painful illness. When able he was sent home with honorable mention of his brave conduct and a discharge from the service.

[written separately in diagonal across page:]
Mr. [Shaphugh?]
Please answer this
[illegible]
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J.L. Edwards, Esq.
Commissioner of Pensions.
Sir, Thomas Simpson Esq. the person refered to in the annexed certificate, was on the roll of Invalid Pensioners, as you will see by the Books in your office, for many years previous to 1818, when he surrendered up his Pension Certificate for one under an act of that year which gave him a larger sum.
I am Sir Respectfully
Your Obt. Serv't.
John R. Simpson
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State of New Hampshire Secretary's Office
June 30th 1818.
I hereby certify that the Hon. John Mooney of Meredith is Judge of Probate for the County of Strafford in said State duly appointed and commissioned, and that to his official acts and attestations faith and credit are due and to be given in and out of Court, within and out of the State.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the public seal of sd. State on the day of the date hereof
Saml. Sparhawk Esq
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1975.
[New] Hampshire
Thomas Simpson
in Hampton the State of N.H.
was a lieut. in the Company commanded
[by] Captain [blank], of the Regt commanded
[by Gen'l] Scammel in the N H
for 2 Years

Inscribed on the Roll of N H
the rate of 320 Dollars -- Cents per annum
commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
[Certi]ficate of Pension issued the 23rd day of Nov
1832 and Said Claimant
Hampton New Hampshire

[4th?] of Sept 1832 $480
[A]llowance ending 4 Mar 33 $160
$640
Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7, 1832.
H P Blair Clerk
Vol. 17 Page 184.

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Letter to J.K. Simpson Aug. 3. 1833
Pearson Coaswell 14 Oct 1830
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THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES
Form VAM-51
12-5-41
BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
Division of Veterans' Administration Archives
NAME Simpson, William
GRADE Private
Line Delaware
September 22, 1789
WARRANT NUMBER 10884
ACREAGE 100
ISSUED September 2, 1789
to __not shown __
*The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent
dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800. Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.