Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 3803, for Thomas Thompson, North Carolina
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(3-1776)
SERVICE
N.C. [North Carolina]
Va. [Virginia]

Thompson, Thomas

NUMBER
S.3803.

Carded
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CONTENTS
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25093
West Tennessee
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Thomas Thompson of Davidson Co [County] in the State of Tennessee who was a private in the com [company] commanded by Captain Dogerty [Doherty] of the regt [regiment] commanded by Col [Colonel] Todd in the [star symbol] N [North] Carolina line for 3 months pr of Cavalry 3 – “ “ “ Infantry
Va [Virginia] [star symbol] and N.C. [North Carolina]
Records completed May 1/06.
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Inscribed on the Roll of West Tennessee at the rate of 22 Dollars 50 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1834.
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Certificate of Pension issued the 19 day of Nov [November] 1833 and J R Wharton Nashville
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Arrears to the 4th of Sept [September] $56.23
Semi-anl. [semi-annual] allowance ending 4 March 11.25
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$67.50
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{Revolutionary Claim, }
{Act June 7, 1832.}

Recorded by Danl [Daniel] Boyd Clerk
Book 6 Vol. 7 Page 98
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27.519
Thomas Thompson
Tennessee
Pension Claim

J. R. Wharton
Nashville
Ten [Tennessee]
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State of Tennessee }
Davidson County } 
Court of Pleas + [and] Quarter Sessions for said County July sessions 1833.

On this 20th day of July 1833 personally appeared in open court, before the Justices of the Court of Pleas + [and] Quarter sessions now sitting Thomas Thompson a resident of said County + [and] State, in the 74 year of his age, 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.
I was born Oct. [October] 2nd 1759 in Guilford County North Carolina, where I resided till I was 19 years of age. I have no record of my age at home. I resided there, until about Oct [October] [crossed out: November] 1779, when I emigrated to Ky. [Kentucky] where I resided but a short time, from thence I moved in a few weeks to the place where Nashville now stands, in the County + [and] State aforesaid in a few miles of which place, I have resided ever since. About the year 1780, last of June or first of July, in Kentucky, where I went for that purpose [crossed out: where I then resided], I volunteered myself in a company commanded by Capt [Captain] Dogerty [Doherty], attached to the army under the command of Genl. [General] Clarke [Clark] in an expedition against the British + [and] indians. In that army I knew Genl. [General] Clarke [Clark] commander in chief Col. [Colonel] Ben Logan, Commander of the right Col. [Colonel] Harrod the left, + [and] Col. [Colonel] Todd of the centre [center]. The army was divided into 3 lines not regiments, indian file as they were intended to operate principally against the indians. We rendezvoused at the Blue Licks Ky [Kentucky]. Under these officers we marched [crossed out: to] across the ohio at the place where Cincinnati now stands to the picowee towns, now in the State of ohio where we were met by + [and] had an engagement with the indians, in which battle we were victorious. This battle was fought on the 10th Augt [August] 1780 + [and] our army sustained a loss of 27 killed wounded not recollected. After that battle we returned immediately to Ky [Kentucky], where we were discharged, as soon as we arrived having served three months. This was my first tour.
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In Guilford County N. [North] Carolina about [crossed out: first] last of Nover [November] or first of Dec. [December] 1780. I volunteered in Capt [Captain] Daniel Gillaspies [Gillespies] compy [company] of horses, not attached to the army, intended to operate against the Tories. [crossed out: This project was recommended by Genl. [General] Greene] from Guildford County we marched through three Counties of Randolph, Chatham, + [and] anson, dispersing the tories wherever we found them in this business we were occupied three months, and then our period of service having expired, we were discharged about the first of March 1781. In Guilford County County North Carolina, I was employed by Genl. [General] Greene to carry expresses + [and] in whilst engaged in this business I was taken prisoner but a party of the troops of Lord Cornwallis, + [and] remained a prisoner, until a Genl [General] exchange of prisoners took place, I believe the 19th Oct [October] 1781. In relation to my character , + [and] services in the Revolutionary War I would to Capt [Captain] Jno [John] [illegible] Gilbert, G. [George] Washington, Robt [Robert] Woods, Andrew Casselman, Will Ewing + [and] many others too tedious to mention.
[smudged: of this] I have no documentary evidence [crossed out: and] [ink blot] not know of my [illegible] by whom
I hereby relinquish every claim to a pension or annuity except the present + [and] declare that my name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state.
S. Thomas Thompson
Sworn to and subscribed in open court July 20th 1833. Just Henry Ewing Clerk of Davidson County Court
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State of Tennessee }
Davidson County }
Court of Pleas + [and] Quarter Sessions for said County, July sessions 1833.

We James Whitsett a clergyman residing in davidson County + [and] State of Tennessee and Robert Weakley a resident of the same, Certify that we have been acquainted with Thomas Thompson, many years, who has sworn to + [and] subscribed the above declaration that we believe him to be a man of veracity + [and] believe he is 73 years of age, + [and] that he is believed and reputed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution, + [and] that we concur in the same. Said Weakley further states that his acquaintance commenced with sd [said] Thompson upwards of forty nine years ago, in this County where we have both resided ever since.
S. James Whitsett
R. Weakley
Sworn to and subscribed in open court July 20th 1833 Just Henry Ewing Clerk of Davidson County Court

State of Tennessee }
Davidson County }
Court of pleas and quarter sessions July sessions 1833.
And the said court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the questions required by The War Department that the said Thomas Thompson was a soldier of the revolution and served as he states. And the said court do further certify that they are personally acquainted with James Witsett who has signed the above certificate and that he is a clergyman residing in said county and State and that they are also personally acquainted with Robert Weakley esquire who has also signed said certificate and that he is a justice of the peace residing in said county and State and that said James Whitsett and Robert Weakley are both credible persons men of high standing and reputation whose statements are entitled to implicit faith and credit.
Will [illegible]
G. G. [illegible]
E. P. Cornell
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State of Tennessee }
Davidson County } ss

I Henry Ewing clerk of the court of pleas and quarter Sessions for said county do hereby certify to whom it may concern that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of said court in the matter of the application of Thomas Thompson for a pension.
[seal] In Testimony whereof I have heretunto set my hand and caused the seal of said court to be also affixed at office in Nashville on this 20th day of July A.D. 1833.
Henry Ewing
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O. W. and N. Division.
M.B H
File S. 3803
Rev [Revolutionary] War

3–525.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
Bureau of Pensions,
Washington, D.C. [District of Columbia], April 11 1906

Madam:
In reply to your request for a statement of the military history of Thomas Thompson, a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his ([crossed out: or his widow’s]) application for pension on file in this Bureau.
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DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. | LENGTH OF SERVICE. | RANK. | OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. CAPTAIN. | COLONEL. | STATE.
Soldier enlisted in Guilford Co. [County] N.C. [North Carolina] in Nov. [November] or Dec [December] 1780 and served 3 mos [months] as a Private in Capt [Captain] Daniel Gillaspie’s [Gillespie’s] co [company] of Horse; again enlisted in Guilford Co [County] N.C. [North Carolina] under Gen [General] Greene as an Express rider, was taken prisoner and held until exchanged Oct [October] 19 1781; also enlisted in Ky [Kentucky] and served as a Private 3 mos [months] in Capt [Captain] Dagerty’s co. [company], was in Gen. [General] Clarke’s [Clark’s] expedition against the Indians
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Battles engaged in, against the Indians at the Pickaway Towns in Ohio
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Davidson Co. [County] Tenn. [Tennessee]
Date of application for pension, July 20 1833; his claim was allowed.
Residence at date of application, Davidson Co [County] Tenn [Tennessee]
Age at date of application, born Oct 2 1759 in Guildford [Guilford] Co [County] N.C. [North Carolina]
Remarks: 
Very respectfully,
Mrs Gordon Paine
200 E. Preston St.
205S1b3m11-05 Baltimore
Md [Maryland]

Commissioner.
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1906 Apr. [April] 11. History to Mrs Gordon Paine. M.B.H.

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3803
Rev [Revolutionary] War [check mark] INVALID.
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File No. 3803
Thomas Thompson
Priv. [Private] N.C. [North Carolina] Line
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Act: June 7th / 32
Index: – Vol. A, Page 372

[Arrangement of 1870.]
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27.519
Thos. [Thomas] Thompson
Tennessee
Of [illegible] [illegible] from 1780 private 6 month
$22.50

[upside down: Honorable Lewis Cass
Secretary of War
Washington City
D.C. [District of Columbia]]

J. R. Wharton
Nashville
[illegible] Ten [Tennessee]
[upside down: Ten [Tennessee]]
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Nashville Oct. [October] 9th 1833
Honble [Honorable] Lewis Cass
Secretary of War
Washington City
Dr. [Dear] Sir.

Inclosed you will find the claim and accompaning [accompanying certificates of Thomas Thompson of this place. Owing to the residence of the witness being some distance from Nashville, their certificates are not exactly as precise and formal as you might desire. Please, when investigating his claim, imagine to yourself, the difficulty of an old man of his age, travelling over the Country to examine + [and] reexamine witnesses, and you will be satisfied with the certificates, although not precisely in accordance with the directions of the war department. I have been acquainted with the old soldier from my boyhood to the present day + [and] know that he has always maintained a respectable character for honor, honesty + [and] veracity. I was not present when the certificates were drawn + [and] it is owing to that circumstance that they are so informal. I hope, if the old Gentleman has substantial claims on the Government no formalities or technicalities will be allowed to defeat them. With great respect, Yr. [Your] Obt. [Obedient] Servt. [Servant]
J. R. Wharton
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P. S. [Post Scriptum] If the claim is allowed, please send on the certificate to me at Nashville Pr. mail + [and] if it is defective, forward it to me at the same place. Yrs [Yours] Respectfully. J. R. Wharton
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State of Tennessee }
Davidson County }

Sampson Williams being sixty nine years of age states that he came to this country in 1779 in company with Thomas Thompson the above applicant for a pension. In 1780 the said [crossed out: Thompens] Thompson set out from Clark’s Station in what is now the south of Ky [Kentucky] on an expedition against the Showanee Indians who together with a British force had recently taken a great many prisoners and done much mischief besides. Genl. [General] Clark commanded the expedition against the Indians as this deponent always understood. The expedition set out in the month of July 1780. This deponent afterwards saw a letter setting forth the number of our citizens who were killed in a battle with the Indians at or near the Pickoway Towns.
This deponant [deponent] further states that he knows that the said Thompson was absent from
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This country from the time when he went against the Southern Indians in 1780 until the fall of 1783 when he returned and this deponent has often from that time to the present heard the said Thompson make the same statement about his services in North Carolina against the Brittish [British] which he now makes + [and] this deponent from a long and intimate personal acquaintance with the said Thompson has the fullest confidence in the truth of those statements.
S. Williams

Sworn to and subscribed to before me 12th Sept. [September] 1832
Stephen Cantrell
Jus [Justice] [of the] Peace

State of Tennessee }
Davidson County }
I Henry Ewing, Clerk of the Court of please + [and] Quarter sessions for the county of Davidson in the State aforesaid, do hereby certify, that Stephen Cantrell, before whom the foregoing affidavit was given, by Sampson Williams, now is + [and] was at the signing of the same an acting Justice of the peace in the county aforesaid, and that he has been duly commissioned + [and] qualified to act as such. Given under my hand this 24th Sept. [September] 1833
Henry Ewing
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I Felix Grundy, a member of the Senate of the United States, Certify that Henry Ewing, who has signed the preceding certificate, is + [and] was at the time of his signing the same a Clerk of the Court of Pleas and Quarter sessions, for the county of Davidson in the State of Tennessee and duly Qualified to act as such. Given under my hand at Nashville this 9th day of October 1833.
Felix Grundy
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State of Tennesee
Bedford County
This day Hugh McCrory aged seventy four years [crossed out: of age] last May personally appeared before me Robt. [Robert] H. Majors an acting Justice of the peace for Bedford County and made oath that he was well acquainted with Thomas Thompson who is now a resident of Davidson County and State aforesaid. And I do hereby certify that I was well acquainted with said Thompson before the Revolutionary war and he was a man of good standing and of a Patriotick [Patriotic] spirit. I was with said Thos. [Thomas] Thompson in the Revolutionary war and both he and myself were taken prisoners by the British in Gilford [Guilford] County North Carolina. Given from under my hand and seal
This 22nd September 1832
Hugh his x mark McCrory

Robt. [Robert] H. Majors
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State of Tennessee
I James McKisick clerk of the Court of pleas and quarter sessions for the County of Bedford in the State aforesaid do hereby certify that Robert H. Major Esquire before whom the foregoing affidavit was [ink blot: given by] Hugh McCrory now is and was at the time of signing the same an acting Justice of the peace in the County aforesaid and and that he has been duly commissioned and qualified as such. Given under my hand this 10th day of October 1832
Jas. [James] McKisick clk [clerk]

I Felix Grundy member of the senate of the United States, certify that Jas. [James] McKisick who has signed the above certificate is and was at the time of his signing the same, Clerk of the Court of Pleas & [and] Quarter sessions of the County of Bedford in the State of Tennessee and duly qualified to act as such.
Given under my hand, at Nashville, this 9th day of October 1833.
Felix Grundy
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[circular stamp: O. W. & DIV. APR [April] 3 1906 FILES]
U.S. Commissioner of Pensions,
Washington, D.C. [District of Columbia]
[circular stamp: O. W. & DIV. APR [April] 3 1906 FILES]
Dear sir:
I will be very much obliged to you if you will give me such information as you have on file concerning Thomas Thompson of Davidson Co. [County] Tennessee, who was placed on the Pension list Nov. [November] 19, 1833. I want to ascertain exactly what his services were, + [and] possibly a copy of his application for a pension which might give the dates of his birth + [and] where
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He was born or name of his parents.
Very truly,
Emma T. Thompson Paine
March thirty-first
Mrs Gordon Paine
200 E. Preston St
Baltimore, Maryland

[circular stamp: PENSION A U. APR [April] 2 1906 S. OFFICE] [circular stamp: PENSION A U. APR [April] 2 1906 S. OFFICE]