Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 10547, for Thomas Thompson, Connecticut
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(3-1776)
SERVICE NUMBER
Conn. Thompson, Thomas R. 10547
Lucy
CONTENTS
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Thomas Thompson and Lucy Killam were joined in marriage November twenty fourth seventeen hundred seventy three at Stonington. 
I certify that the above is a true copy of the record with the exception of the date which is expressed on the record in fair legible figures as follows November 24 1773 
Attest Ralzamon Belknap Town Clerk 
I Ralzamon Belknap above named depose and say that I hold the office of Town Clerk of the Town of Coventry in the County of Tolland and State of Connecticut and that the above is a true extract from the records of said town with the exception above named as certified by me
 Coventry March 13 1843 
Attest Ralzamon Belknap 
Sworn before me 
Justice of Peace 
Royal Manning Justice of Peace
I Thomas T. Waltridge of Tolland in the County & District of Tolland & State of Connecticut aged – years  testify that the above named Thomas Thompson the husband of the said Lucy Thompson died the 23 day of June 1831 and that the aforesaid Lucy Thompson has ever since remained his widow & unmarried 
Tolland May 10 1843 
Thomas T. Waltridge 
Sworn & subscribed before me and I certify that the said Thomas T. Waltridge is a credible witness Elisha Stearns Justice of Peace
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State of Connecticut
County of Tolland
S.S. County Clerks Office

I Jeremiah Parish Clerk of the Courts in so Tolland County certify that Royal Manning Esq of Coventry & Elisha Stearns Esq of Tolland are both Justices of the Peace within so County of Tolland
duly + legally appointed and acting in said Capacity that they are both enrolled in the County Commission for Justices of Peace
within said County now in this office bearing date the 4th day of June AD 1842 and will continue until the 20th day of June 1843 - And that the signatures to the above
and foregoing certificates purporting to be the official signatures of said Justice Manning and Said Justice Stacey are both genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed
my name and affixed the seal of said County
of Tolland this 9th day of May AD 1843
Jeremiah Parish Clerk
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Declaration 
In order to obtain the benefit of the third Section of the Act of Congress of the 4th July 1836
State of Connecticut 
County of Tolland } ss  Town of Tolland in the Probate District of Tolland On this 27 day of April 1843 personally appeared before the Judge of Probate for said District of Tolland Lucy Thompson a resident of said District aged 88 years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the Act of Congress passed July 4" 1836 - that she is the widow of Thomas Thompson who was a private soldier in the Revolutionary War who served therein as a private in a militia company commanded by Capt. Eleazer Hutchinson in Col Obadiah Horsford Regt at New York six months commencing in Sept. 1776.  Paul Brigham was Lieut & Thomas Terrel Ensign of said company - Capt Buell commanded said company before Capt. Hutchinson -  That her said husband performed another term of service in a militia company commanded by Capt. Clark about the same time, D Patten was Lieut. of said company but she is unable to state particulars respecting said last mentioned service.   She further declares that she was married to the said Thomas Thompson on the 24" day of November in the year seventeen hundred and seventy three. That her husband the aforesaid Thomas Thompson died on 23 day of June AD 1831 and that she has remained a widow ever since that period as will more fully appear by reference to the proof hereto annexed 
Lucy Thompson her mark
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written before 
Loren P Waldo Judge of the Court of Probate for the District of Tolland 
I also certify that the above named Lucy Thompson is a credible witness 
Elisha Stearns Justice of Peace
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I Joel R. Arnold Clerk of the Court of Probate for the District of Tolland in the County of Tolland and State of Connecticut do certify that Loren P. Waldo Esq. of Tolland in said District is the Judge of said Probate Court duly commissioned and sworn that the within Declaration of Lucy Thompson was made before him and that his name appended thereto in his own proper signature.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto
set my hand and name and affixed
the seal of said Court this twenty
seventh day of April one thousand
eight hundred and forty three
Joel R. Arnold Clerk.
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December  23, 1932

BA-J/NEL
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Joseph Thomson- S.23022
Thomas Thompson- R.10547

M.S. Gregory, M.D.
708 Medical Arts Building
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

Dear Sir:

Reference is made to y our request of December 4, for the Revolutionary
War records of Thomas, James, Alexander, Joseph and Nance 
Thompson, all of Stonington, Connecticut; Thomas, born March 25, 1750;
Alexander, born June 10, 1760; Nance, born April 27, 1748; Joseph,
born January, 1762; James, date of birth not given.

A careful search of the Revolutionary War records has been made
in your behalf and no claim for pension found based upon service in
that war of Alexander Thompson, as described by you, or of a Nance
Thompson. With the data given by you, no claim for pension could
be identified as that of James Thompson, in whom you are interested.
The records of Thomas and Joseph are given below:

The data furnished herein are obtained from the papers on file
in Revolutionary War pension claim, S.23022, based upon the military
service of Joseph Thompson in that war.

Joseph Thomson(he signed Thomson but was pensioned Thompson 
alias Thomson) was born January 5, 1761, at Stonington, New London
County, Connecticut.

While residing at Groton, Connecticut, he enlisted May 15, 1776,
served as a private in Captain Elijah Palmer's Company, Colonel
Richards' Connecticut Regiment and was discharged September 16, 1776;
during the year 1777, he was called out at various times on short
tours on alarms, at least three months in all, under Captains John
Morgan and James Holmes in the Connecticut Troops.

After the Revolution, he continued to reside at Groton, Connecticut, 
until he married(name of wife and date of marriage not given);
then moved to Otsego County, New York, where he lived until about
1823, then moved to Charleston Township, Tioga County, Pennsylvania,
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of which place he was a resident when he was allowed pension on his
application executed May 20, 1833.

Children are referred to; their names are not given.

In order to obtain the date of last payment of pension, the
name and address of person paid, and possibly the date of death of
the Revolutionary War pensioner, Joseph Thompson(S.23022), you should
address the Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, Records
Division, this city, citing all of the following data:

Joseph Thompson alias Thomson, Certificate No. 18042, issued
July 22, 1833, rate $23.43 per annum, commenced March 4, 1831, Act
of June 7, 1832, Pennsylvania Agency.

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Thomas Thompson
R. 10547

The data furnished herein are obtained from the papers on file
in Revolutionary War pension claim, R.10547, based upon the military
service of Thomas Thompson in that war.

Thomas Thompson married November 24, 1773, at Stonington, Connecticut,
Lucy Killam.

He died June 23, 1831. His age is not stated.

On April, 27, 1843, his widow, Lucy, then aged eighty-eight
years and a resident of Tolland, Connecticut, applied for the pension
that might have been due her on account of the services of her husband,
Thomas Thompson, War of the Revolution, and alleged that the
said Thomas Thompson enlisted, place not stated, in September, 1776,
and served six months as a private under Captains Buell, Eleazer Hutchison or Hutchinson and Colonel Obadiah Horsford in the Connecticut
Troops and that he also served another tour under Captain Clark,
dates of this service not given.

Her claim was not allowed as she failed to furnish her proof of six

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months service as was required by the pension laws.

There is no reference to children.

Very truly yours

A. D. HILLER
Assistant to Administrator.

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1932 - Dec 23 - Hist. to M. S. Gregory M.D. Letters in case Joseph Thomson S. 23022 – EEL  
10,547.
Lucy Thompson 
REJECTED 
Printed list of 1852 given cause of rejection:  
"It will be assumed until proved otherwise by the Hartford Records that Horsfords regiment was [unreadable] the other militia of that State in service but two months in the fall of 1776."
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Lucy Thompson
Con

Let to Elisha Stearns July

Act 4 July 1836
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Tolland, Conn. May 10 1843

J L Edward, Esq

Sir

Inclosed is the application
of the widow Lucy Thompson for a
pension. I trust you will find it supported
by the proper evidence of the justice of
the claim agreeable to the suggestion
of the Comptroller

Yours very
Respectfully
Elisha Stearns
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Elisha Stearns, Esq
Tolland
Connecticut
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State of Connecticut 
Comptrollers Office 
Hartford 
28th Jany 1843 
I certify that an application for evidence of the revolutionary service of Thomas Thompson I find on file a pay roll or list of soldiers, headed as follows: viz "Capt Eleazar Hutchinson's Co militia, under Command Col Hosford's Regt. State Connecticut." 
On this list or roll, is the name of Thomas Tomson There is no record of the time of service, further than the roll is filed with other similar rolls in 1776. One of them is headed as follows, "A List of Capt. Joshua Phelps Co. in Lieut Col Obadiah Hosford's Regt. that marched by Order to East Chester in 1776 to join Genl Washington's Army." 
Col Obadiah Hosford commanded the 12" Regt of Militia and was in the New York service in 1776. On the book of the Pay Table Committee is the following entry "6th Feby 1777, United States DV to order on Treasurer to Col Obadiah Hosford for 12" Regt. Militia to New York viz the inevitable [unreadable] in Retreat &c. 274.2.10 to Hospital Expenses £24.18.0" 
On the 24th of February 1777 "there is the following entry on the Pay Table books "United States DV to order om the Treasurer to Capt E. Hutchinson, his Co 12" Regt.
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"militia to New York [unreadable] £25.16.6 Hospital expenses £ 23.5. 8”
I further certify that I find no pay rolls of the militia service of Capt Clark or Capt Buell in 1775 or 1776 nor do I find the name of Thomas Thompson on any other Pay roll. There are very few Pay rolls of militia service in this office. Perhaps I ought to add, that the name of Paul Brigham Lieut appears on the roll or list of Capt Hutchinson, and Thos Terrell Ensign. 
Gideon Willis Compt.
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Dear Sir
It is somewhat difficult to provide particular times of Militia service, but in this case it is done for the New York tour in 1776  After diligent search I think I am unable to furnish you with evidence of the other tours. This certificate will undoubtedly enable the widow to prove a pension, but perhaps it all that she desires. 
Very Respetfully 
Gideon Willis
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Comptrollers office  
Hartford 
9th May 1843 
Dear Sir
I have been so much occupied since the receipt of yours of the 3rd inst that I have not been able to give any attention to the subject of your enquiry until today.   I have gone through the Pay Roll of 1777 but do not find any roll of Caps Clark or Patten in that year. Then are in fact but few Revy Rolls of the service of that year on file, and not finding the roll is by no means conclusive that no service that was rendered - Probably there are no rolls of four fifths of  the service and from that of the Line.  I perceive the Widow right in her recollection.
Very Respectfully 
Gideon Willis
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Elisha Staims
July 11, 1843
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Pen Off. July 11 ‘43
Sir
The claim of Lucy Thompson has been examined her papers filed.   
It is asserted for 6 mo service from Sept 1776 under Capt Hutchinson of Col Hosford Regt of Connecticut militia in the State of New York. - if Col Hosfords Regt was called out under a different authority from the other troops who were ordered up to New York for a two months tour in Sept 76 after the Battle of Long Island it should be shown. The only Connecticut troops who served as long as 5 mo in that year marched to New York in June in 4 battalions of which Col Hosfords was not one - It will be assumed untill proof from the records of Conn’t shall establish other wise, that Hosfords Regt was like the other militia of that state in service but 2 mos in fall of 76 – 
Elisha Stearns Esqr Tolland Conn.
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Act of July 4, 1835
Claim of
Lucy Thompson
widow of
Thomas Thompson
(Conn.)
Power of Attorney

To examine claim

Chas C. Tucker
Atty
Present
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Power of Attorney
Know all men by these presents, that I Thomas T. Walbridge of Tolland
County of Tolland + State of Connecticut
do hereby irrevocably constitute and appoint CHAS. C. TUCKER, of Washington City, D.C. my true and
lawful Agent and Attorney to prosecute the Claim of Lucy Thompson widow of Thomas Thompson for any
amount of Revolutionary Pension or increase of Pension that may be due under the provisions of the Act of
July 4 1836 or any other Act or Resolution of Congress and I hereby authorize the said
Attorney to examine all papers and documents in relation to said Claim on file in the Departments at Washington
City, or elsewhere, to file additional evidence or arguments, and to receive the Certificate which may be
issued for said Claim, and to appoint one or more substitutes under him for the purposes herein expressed : and
to do things that I might or could do, were I personally present. Hereby ratifying and confirming
all that my said Attorney may lawfully do in the premises.
Witness my hand and seal this 29th day of December 1852
In presence of A. P. Hege
John H. Brockway
Thomas T. Walbridge

State of Connecticut Tolland County
Tolland
On this 29th day of December 1852, before me a Justice of the Peace
in and for the County and State above mentioned personally appeared Thomas T. Walbridge
and acknowledged the foregoing power of
Attorney to be his act and deed for the purpose therein mentioned.
Alvan P. Hyde
Justice of Peace

State of Connecticut
Tolland County
On this 29th day of December 1852, before me the undersigned Justice of
the Peace in and for the County and State aforesaid, personally appeared Thomas
T. Walbridge a resident of said County, and made oath according to law that he is the identical
Thomas T. Walbridge who executed the foregoing power of Attorney, and that he
is directly interested in said Claim, and makes this affidavit to be filed with such additional evidence or arguments
as my said Attorney may use in prosecuting said Claim.

Sworn and subscribed before me the day and year above written.
Alvan P. Hyde
Justice of Peace

State of Connecticut
County of Tolland
I Joseph Bishop Clerk of County Court do
hereby certify that Alvan P. Hyde Esq., before whom the foregoing affidavit and
acknowledgement were made and who has thereunto signed his name, was at the time of so doing a Justice
of the Peace, in and for the County and State aforesaid, duly commissioned and sworn, and that all his official
acts as such are entitled to full faith and credit.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto signed
my name and affixed my official seal this
29th day of December 1852
Joseph Bishop Clerk of
County Court for Tolland County
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Tolland Conn May 12 1842 
J. L. Edwards Esq 
Com of Pensions 
Sir
I enclose you a letter from Gideon Wells Esq, Comptroller stating that the Rolls of Militia in his office are very defective as a reason for not finding a second tour of duty performed by Capt Thomas Thompson as [unreadable] in the declaration of his widow Lucy Thompson.  As the first town was found in the Rolls by her first naming the officers of the Company it is presumed her recollection is equally correct as to the other service under Capt Clark probably 1777 or 8.   If a Clerk could be directed to examine the Rolls in your department for its justice though on this late day might be done to her as all known witnesses to the service are now deceased.  
Very Respectfully 
Your Obed Svt.
Elisha Stearns 
The declaration was forwarded last mail