Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 10501, for John Thomas, New Jersey
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SERVICE --------------------NUMBER
New Jersey  Thomas, John  R.10501

CONTENTS
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Jno Thomas
V6.821

J.C. Smallwood
Woodbury
N.J.
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The State of New Jersey Gloucester County Ss

On the sixth day of November 1833 before me the subscriber one of the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas of the said county of Gloucester, personally appeared John Thomas of the said county aged seventy nine years and upwards, who being first duly sworn according to law saith that in addition to the service of five months in the Revolutionary War, and which service is particularly mentioned in his application for a pension, he served in what was then called "The Eggharbour Guard," in a company commanded by Capt. Samuel Snell in Col Taylor's Regiment as follows -
In the latter part of the Month of October 1778, he entered in the said service in the company commanded by Capt. Samuel Snell aforesaid, he entered for one year, and was stationed at Somers Point, the first service that he performed after he entered was in assisting to build two small Forts or Batteries at Somers Point and a Barracks at the same place. It took two or three months to complete these, he remained at this place until his term of one year had expired, during which time he was constantly engaged in the service which was standing guard at the
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the Fort, and Marching up and down the "Sea Coast and along Great and Little Eggharbour Rivers, and the country between those Rivers, during which time we had frequent skirmishing with the Refugees and Tories and sometimes with the British when they landed from their vessels to plunder -
At the expiration of this term of service in October 1779, he again entered the same service for one year longer, under the same Capt. Snell in Col Taylor's Regt - he was stationed at Somers Point aforesaid and continued to perform the same kind of services that he performed the first year - until his term of service expired -
At the expiration of the second year in October 1780, he again entered the service for one year longer under the same Capt. Samuel Snell in Col Taylor's Regiment, and was stationed at the same place. The Enemy at this time had become much less troublesome than formerly, and the necessity for a Guard along the Sea Coast was not so great, and although he entered for one year, he was not in actual service all the time, and according to the best of his recollection at this time he served during this year about for or five months certainly
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certainly as long as four months, a Guard was kept constantly at the Fort at Somers Point until the end of the year in October 1781 - but the number of men on Guard at the same time was lessened, about 20 or 25 of us were on Guard at a time, and we remained on Guard about three weeks, where we would be relived and go home, and would not be called again (unless when these alarms - occasioned by Landing of the enemy or the Refugees) until the whole company had taken their tours. The company contained about 60 or 70 men, and we were called out in this way about three weeks in every ten weeks, in this way, we continued to serve until our times had expired in October 1781 when we were discharged, and this deponent did not go out again during the War. The whole length of time that he served during the war, and whilst engaged in a Regularly organized body was two years and nine months during all which time he served as a private. and during all which time he was in actual service either in the field or Garrison, and during the time he was not engaged in any civil
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civil pursuit, in his original application he stated that he had served three years in the Eggharbour Guard, and the reason that he stated this, was because he had entered for that time one year at a time - and although he did not serve the whole of the last year he was all the time in readiness to go when ever called upon, and was out several times in addition to the time he has mentioned, when alarms were given in consequence of the landing of the Enemy or Reffugees, he considered himself all the time under orders but was not in actual service more than four months.
And this deponent further saith that the Eggharbour Guard consisted of Militia detached for that particular service; previous to the formation of this Guard, the Militia of that district of County performed their regular tours of duty the same as the other Militia of New Jersey, but the country along the Sea Coast at that time was so thinly inhabited that when the militia were away the whole country was left almost defenceless - about that time too a number of Privateers had been fitted out of Great and Little Eggharbour
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Rivers. these Privateers as well as the Privateers from the Eastern States often sent their prizes up these Rivers, a considerable number of them were run up Little Eggharbour River to a place called Chesnut Neck, and many others were run up Great Eggharbour River. The British Cruizers that were continually hovering around the Coast sometimes caught these prizes as they were coming in. they frequently landed from their boats and burnt the houses of Men who were active in the Revolution, stole their cattle and sheep, burnt their hay barns and committed other depredations upon the property along Shore, the Reffugees had become very troublesome also. Under these circumstances Col. Richard Somers who then Commanded the Regiment went to the Governor and obtained permission to form this guard and got the men in that district of country exempted from any other duty, so they were told at the time they entered in the Guard, they were told if they entered they would be relieved from any other duty, and they were never after that time
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time called to any other duty - when they entered it was for one year, and he thinks that each man signed a paper, but is not certain of this, he is certain that their names were written down upon a paper by someone -
his X Mark
John Thomas

Sworn + subscribed the date above before me
Michael C. Fisher

Gloucester County Ss: On this seventh day of November AD 1833 before me the subscriber one of the Justices of the peace of the said county, personally appeared Henry Snell of the said county aged sixty nine years and upwards, a person of credibility whose statement is entitled to full credit and belief, who being first duly sworn according to law saith that he is well acquainted with John Thomas and has known him since the Revolutionary War, and this deponent further saith that from the Month of March 1779 till the Month of December of that year, he belonged to what was then called "the Eggharbour Guard" and was stationed at the Fort at Somers Point ,he was a Drummer in a company commanded by
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by Capt. Saml Snell, and he receives a pension for his services at that place, and this deponent further saith that during all the time that he was in the service the same John Thomas was also in the service at that place, and further when he went into the service the said John Thomas was there and in the service, and when he left the service he left him there, and this deponent further saith that he has always understood that the said John Thomas was in that service more than two years - and until the Guard was broken up -
Henry Snell -

sworn + subscribed the date above before
Federal Champion Justice of the peace

I John C. Smallwood clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Gloucester in the state of New Jersey, do hereby certify that Michael C. Fisher and Federal Champion Esquires, before whom the foregoing Affidavits of John Thomas and Henry Snell were
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were made, were at the doing thereof the said Michael C. Fisher a Judge of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas of the said country and the said Federal Champion a Justice of the peace in and for the said county, both of whom were duly commissioned and qualified, and that the signatures of the said Michael C. Fisher and Federal Champion subscribed to said affidavits are genuine -

In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office at Woodbury in said county this twelfth day of November AD one thousand eight hundred and thirty three
Smallwood clk
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State of New Jersey Gloucester County Ss

On this seventh day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand and eight hundred and thirty three, personally appeared in open court before the Inferior Court of Common Pleas of the County of Gloucester now sitting, John Thomas, a resident of the Township of Hamilton in the said county of Gloucester aged seventy nine years the sixteenth day of June next - who being first duly sworn according to law doth upon his solemn oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions 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, That is to say -
In the Month of January 1777 he was drafted in a company commanded by Capt. Richard Higbee in Col Taylor's Regt. the company marched from Chesnut Neck to the Forks of Little Eggharbour, from there we marched by Batsto, Hampton Gate, the Red Lion, Vincentown, and Mount Holly to Burlington where we quartered and remained until discharged.
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discharged in the Month of February, after having served six weeks or there abouts -
He next entered in the month of August 1778 as a private in a company commanded by the same Capt. Higbee in Col Somers Regiment, the company marched to the Forks of Little Eggharbour River where we joined a large number of Troops from the counties of Salem, Gloucester and Burlington. Col Proctor was there also with his artillery, we remained at the Forks about two weeks and then moved down the river to Leeds Point, where we remained about a week or a little more, and from there we Marched to Somers point, where we quartered and built a small Fort under the directions of Col Proctor, we remained at Somers point until October 1778 when we were discharged after having served two months this tour - during this tour the British Fleet lay off the mouth of the Little Eggharbour River. they frequently landed in their Boats, and did considerable damage by Burning the houses, Barns etc and plundering the inhabitants, upon these occasions we had skirmishes with them and drove them off as soon as we could get there in sufficient numbers, but they often did a good deal of mischief, before they were dirven off -- He
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He next entered as a private in the latter part of the month of October 1778 in what was called "The Eggharbour Guard" in a company commanded by Captain Samuel Snell in Col. Robert Taylors Regt. He entered for one year and was stationed at the Fort at Somers Point at the mouth of Great Eggharbour River, after having served our times out we again entered in the month of October 1779 in the same company commanded by the same officers, during this service we were stationed at the same place, and remained there for the term of one year longer at the Expiration of which term in October 1780 we again entered the same service under the same officers and were stationed at the same place, where we remained until October 1781 when we were discharged, there no longer being any necessity for our services as soldiers - this last service in "The Eggharbour Guard" commenced in October 1778 and ended in October 1781 making three years service, during this period we were stationed at the Fort at Somers Point, and some part of us were always there and on duty, but as our business was to Guard a coast of thirty or forty miles
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Miles in extent, we were seldom all there together, we took turns some of us remained at the Fort while others of us were Marching up and down the Coast -
We had frequent skirmishing with the Reffugees and Tories and sometimes with the British as they landed from their vessels, in one of these skirmishes at a place then called Clam Town now Tuckerton, I was wounded in the breast and taken prisoner by a party of Tories, Reffugees and British. At another time near the same place one of our men by the name of John Caim(?) was taken prisoner and then killed by them, they ran their bayonets through him and killed him after they had taken him prisoner. I was within fifteen years of him when they put their Bayonets in him, he first cried for quarters and then Murder - on this occasion they were too strong for us and we were obliged to run - we killed some of them - the time that Caim was killed a man named Steele was taken prisoner he afterwards joined the Reffugees, at another time a party landed from their Boats and set fire to John Steelman's house, our men got there in time to save the house and drive them off -
I was also out one month and a half
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half at a place called the Fox Boroughs where we built a small Fort, this was in the Month of July 1777 in a company commanded by Capt. Abraham Davis in Col. Somers Regiment, we remained at the Fox Boroughs until discharged in the month of August 1777 -
After having been discharged from the Eggharbour Guard, I went home and was not out again during the war,
The whole length of time that I was out during the war and while in a regular organized body was three years and five months during all of which time I served as a private -
I was born in the township of Gloucester New Jersey at the head of Great Timber Creek on the 16th day of June 1754. I have a Record of my age in a bible at my own house. I lived in the Township ofGalloway in the County of Gloucester when called into the service. I have lived in the Township of Hamilton since the Revolutionary War and now live there. I was drafted twice, once when I went to Burlington the other time was when I went to the Fox Boroughs. I volunteered whenever I was out other than at those places -
Col Proctor was with the Troops where I served at Eggharbour. I also saw
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saw Count Pulaski at the same place, Col Proctor artillery and Count Pulaski's house was there at Eggharbour, I saw Col Somers and Col. Ellis Regiments of Militia at Eggharbour and Col Taylor's at Somers Point -
I have no Documentary Evidence and the only Evidence of my Services are to be found in the affidavits annexed -
I am acquainted with John Estell Esquire, Philip Emmell Esq., Major John R Scull, Lewis M. Walker, Sheriff Doughty, Jesse Smith Esquire and others in my neighbourhood.
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 -
his X mark
John Thomas

Sworn and subscribed in open court the day and year first above written
Ephraim Miller

We Philip Emmell and Henry Snell residing int he county of Gloucester in the State of New Jersey, do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with John Thomas who has sworn and subscribed to the foregoing Declaration, that we believe him to
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be seventy nine years of age, that he is reputed and believed in the neighbourhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.
Philip Emmell
Henry Snell

Philip Emmell aff + Henry Senll from the day and year aforesaid
Ephraim Miller

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 Philip Emmell Esquire + Henry Snell, who have signed the preceding certificate are credible persons and that their statement is entitled to full credit and that they reside in the neighbourhood of the said John Thomas.
Ephraim Miller

I John C. Smallwood clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Gloucester in the State of New Jersey, do certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the application of John Thomas for a pension.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office at Woodbury this seventh day of May in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and thirty three.
Smallwood clk
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The State of New Jersey Gloucester County Ss

On the seventh day of May AD eighteen hundred and thirty three before me the subscriber one of the Justices of the peace in and for the said County of Gloucester personally appeared Edward Dowers of the said Count aged Eighty years and upwards, and Benjamin Scull of the said County aged seventy nine years and upwards, who are known to me to be credible persons, and whose statement is entitled to credit and belief, who each of them being duly sworn according to law, upon their respective oath aforesaid, say, that they are both well acquainted with John Thomas and have known him since before the commencement of the Revolutionary War and further that they know that the said John Thomas was a soldier in the Militia of New Jersey, during said War, and the he was in a company commanded by Capt. Samuel Snell in Col Richard Somers Regiment, which company marched to the Forks of Little Eggharbour River in the month of August 1778 where it joined the Regiment and a large number of Troops from the counties of Salem, Gloucester, and Burlington, and that they remained there about two weeks. from there they Marched to Leeds Point, and from there to Somers Point
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Point where they remained until the Month of October 1778, when they were discharged, and further that the said John Thomas then entered in a company commanded by Capt. Samuel Snell in Col. Robert Taylor's Regiment in what was called The Eggharbour Guard, and that he served in that company for the next three years until the month of October 1781 when the company was discharged and the Guard Broken up, there being no longer any need of their services -
they know that the said John Thomas performed these services, because they were out at the same time in the same company, and performed the like services themselves, they saw each other during said term - sometimes every day, and sometimes there were several Days that they did not see one another, these times happened when they were called to different part of the shore, and when they were on their Look out parties, some of us would be at the Fort while other were obliged to go on these excursions.
His X mark
Edward Dowers
His X mark
Benjamin Scull

Sworn and subscribed the day and year first above written before
Philip Emmell
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State of New Jersey, Gloucester County Ss

Be it Remembered that on the twelfth day of June AD 1833 before me the subscriber one of the Justices of the peace of the said County of Gloucester, personally appeared Nicholas Simpkins, a person of credibility whose statement is entitled to credit and belief, who being first duly sworn according saith, that he is about seventy years of age that he lived during the Revolutionary War in the Township of Eggharbour in the County of Gloucester aforesaid - that he is well acquainted with John Thomas and knew him during the Revolutionary War, he lived in the same neighbourhood with the father of the said John Thomas with whom he made his home - and this deponent further saith that he knows that the said John Thomas was in the service of the United States during said war, in the Militia of New Jersey for several years, he knows it because he lived so near where the said John Thomas lived that he knew when the said John Thomas went away from home and when he was at home, and he remembers that the was away from home for two or three years and he knows that he was in the service during the time that he was from home
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or some part of the time, because he frequently saw him while in the service and when he was on duty, he saw him in the service under Capt. Richard Higbee and he saw him in the service many times under Capt. Samuel Snell, when he belonged to the Eggharbour Guard, he saw him with many others as they were performing their duty  Marched up and down the Seashore from Somers Point towards Tuckerton or Clam Town as it was then called. he remembers very well when it was said that the said John Thomas was taken prisoner, the father of this deponent was out at the same time and taken prisoner, after his father and John Thomas got released, they came home together and told that they had been taken prisoners, he remembers to have seen the said John Thomas and others that formed the Company of Capt. Saml Snell March towards Chesnut Neck, and he remembers the time when that place was burnt by the British, the said John Thomas was there, at least he understood so at the time and knew he was away from home, he heard that
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that Col. Proctor was down at Eggharbour during said War, and that the said John Thomas was in the service at that time, he remembers the time very well  when a number of them Marched from their homes to Clam Town or Tuckerton at the time. that a man named Cain was killed, Cain started with John Thomas and the rest of them but did not return and he understood that he had been killed by the Reffugees- and this deponent further saith that he frequently saw them drilling when in the service - he cannot swear positively as to the length of time that the said John Thomas was in the service, but judging from the time that he was from home and when he understood and believes that he was in the service when he saw him himself -he verily believes that he must have been in the service nearly three years -
his X mark
Nicholas Simpkins

Sworn + subscribed the date above before
Philip Emmell
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State of New Jersey Gloucester County Ss

On the twelfth day of June AD 1833 before me the subscriber one of the Justices of the peace of the Said county personally appeared Elizabeth Daniels of said County aged Eighty nine years and upwards, a person of credibility whose statement is entitled to full credit and belief - who being duly affirmed according to law, saith that she is well acquainted with John Thomas and knew him during the Revolutionary War, And this affirmant further saith that during said War she was a Married Woman, her husband's name was James Simpkins, that since that time her husband died, and she married one David Daniels, that her husband the said James Simpkins was out in the service during said War, and that he and the said John Thomas and others were taken prisoners by a party of the British she understood her husband the said James Simpkins frequently made mention of the said
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John Thomas saying what a good soldier he was, and how active he was - and this affirmant further saith that during said War she lived a near neighbour to the father of John Thomas, she saw him go aware sometimes, when it was said that he was going into the service, he was equiped as a soldier at these times - and this affirmant further saith that she always understood that he belonged to a Company called the Eggharbour Guard, it was whilst he was in the Guard that he was taken prisoner, she knows that the said John Thomas started to go with others to Chesnut Neck at the time it was burnt by the British. She has always understood that he was there and in the service at that time - And also that he was at a small Fort which had been built in the neighbourhood. She believes that the said John Thomas belonged to the said Eggharbour Guard at least two years, She knows that he was away from home
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that length of time and longer, and she heard her husband speak about the said Thomas being out a great while, and she saw him go away herself sometimes, and when he went away she understood that he was going into the service and he was equipt as the other soldiers were. And this affirmant further saith that she remembers John Cain a man that was killed in a skirmish with the Reffugees at Clamtown - now Tuckerton - she remembers very well when they started to go to Clamtown that John Cain had no gun and her husband lent him one - John Thomas was with the others when they marched away -
her X mark
Elizabeth Daniels

Affirmed + subscribed the day and year above written
Philip Emmell
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I John C Smallwood clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Gloucester in the State of New Jersey do hereby certify that Philip Emmell Esquire before whom the foregoing affidavits of Edward Dowers and Benjamin Scull, Nicholas Simpkins and Elizabeth were made was at the doing thereof and now is one of the Justices of the peace of the said County of Gloucester duly commissioned and qualified, and that the signature of the said Philip Emmell subscribed to the said affidavits respectively is in the the proper hand writing of him the said Philip Emmell and that full faith and credit is and ought to be given to all his acts as a justice of the Peace aforesaid.
In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office at Woodbury in said County this first day of July AD eighteen hundred and thirty three
Smallwood clk
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Acts of July 14, 1862 and March 3, 1873
(written diagonally) REJECTED

10.501
P.O.
John Thomas
Service: ____, 18
Enlisted:____, 18
Discharged:____,18
Application filed: ____, 18
Alleges: ____
Re-Enlisted: ____
Attorney: ____
P.O. ____
___Recognized.  ____Contract.
___Cert f Dis.  Searched for ____, 18
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No. 26,821
John Thomas
New Jersey
Act 7 June 1832
suspended
See letter to J.C. Smallwood
24 Sept 1833 do to J.F. Randolph 12 March 1838.
Do to Hon. J. L. Murray May 10. 1838. to J. C. Smallwood July 17, 1841
10501
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Woodbury Novem 13 1833
J. L. Edwards Esquire

Dear Sir

I herewith return the papers of John Thomas with his explanation of the service in the Eggharbour Guard, he has procured as you will observe the affidavit of Henry Snell who was with him for nine months in the same service.
I also return the papers of James Giberson, he has procured three additional affidavits to prove and explain his services. The service at Chesnut Neck in the year 1780 I presume is the most objectionable - That Troops were there at that time I think there can be no doubt - last winter I Drew a petition for Benjamin Bates who was there at the same time under Capt. Jno Davis his
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his services were fully proved, and he now receives a pension for them, a few weeks since I drew a petition for Archibald Campbell in which he claims a pension for services rendered at the same time and place, and these services were proved by Danl Richman Esquire of the County of Salem who is a very respectable man and formerly a member of the Legislature of the State - And in looking over an old Law, I find that in the year 1781 our Legislature passed an act for the defence of the Frontier of the State by which a Capt. Simon Lucas with a company of 25 men, were stationed at the same place, Chesnut Neck to continue in service from March to 15th Decem 1782 this act is to be found in Wilson's Edition N.J. Laws Vol 2d page 252 -
Very  Respy  Yours
J.C. Smallwood
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Washington Feb. 5 1838
J.L. Edwards Esq

Sir/
I enclose you a letter from my friend the Hon. JC Smallwood of Gloucester N.J. respecting a pension claim by John Thomas - I would also respectfully enquire for the report promised in the case of Geo Budd + also for other changes + specifications called for some time since -
Respectfully yours, 
Jos. H. Randolph
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(Copy)
War Department 
Pension office
March 12. 1838.
Sir,
The certificate of the Secretary of New Jersey, in the case of John Thomas, showd that Captain Samuel Snell was paid for four months and sixteen days service, and that the claimant, a private in that company, was paid for thirteen days service. Some evidence of the service of the Egg Harbor Guard may be found in the abstract of pay rolls of Joseph Lewis on record in the Secretary's office.

I have the honor to be very respectfully, 
Your Obt Servt
(signed) J.L. Edwards

Hon L.F. Randolph,
House of Representatives
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War Department 
Pension office
March 12. 1838.
Sir,
The certificate of the Secretary of New Jersey, in the case of John Thomas, showd that Captain Samuel Snell was paid for four months and sixteen days service, and that the claimant, a private in that company, was paid for thirteen days service. Some evidence of the service of the Egg Harbor Guard may be found in the abstract of pay rolls of Joseph Lewis on record in the Secretary's office.

I have the honor to be very respectfully, 
Your Obed Servt
(signed) J.L. Edwards

Hon. Jos. F. Randolph
House of Representatives
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John Thomas
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Receipts for cash paid the Fourth Years interest on Militia notes.
No. of Voucher
128
129

No. of Certif.
523
229

Dates
1 May 1784
1 May 1784

Signed by
Thos Carpenter
d o

Payable to
Samuel Snell
John Thomas

Amount
[illegible]
$4 "-"8
" 12-6

One years Int
[illegible]
5 " 0 " 10
--------9

Receipts for cash paid for the 4th years interest on notes given by the commissioners in the several counties for militia services. -

No. of Voucher
326

No. of certif
417

Dates
May 12 1784

Signed by 
Thos Carpenter

Payable to
John Thomas

Amount
[illegible]
-8-4

One years Int
[illegible]
--.---"6

State of New Jersey Ss

I James D. Westcott Secretary of State of the State of New Jersey do hereby certify that the foregoing are true extracts from two book of accounts now remaining in my office, the first of which is headed "Receipts for cash paid the Fourth Years interest on Militia  notes" and endorsed on the cover "Militia 4th Year No. 2"- and the other headed "Receipts for cash paid for the Fourth years interest on notes given by the commissioners in the several counties for militia services" and endorsed on the cover "Militia 4th Year No. 5"- Given under my hand and seal of office at the city of Trenton in said state this twenty sixth day of February A.D. one thousand and eight hundred and thirty eight (1838).
James D. Westcott
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No. 1)

Abstract of County rolls discharged by Thomas Carpenter Paymaster to the Militia of the counties of Salem and Gloucester.

No.
36

Date
February 11 1778

Officers Named
Capt. Samuel Snell

Regiment
3rd Gloucester

[illegible symbol]
324

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No. 2) The County of Gloucester in acct: [illegible] with John Little - Paymaster for the militia.--

[illegible symbol]
Pay Rolls 19 - Capt Samuel Snell 10 Decem 1783 11/8/9
" 20 - Ditto Ditto 36/10/"
" 21 - Ditto 28 of April 1784 3/3/9

State of New Jersey Ss:

I James D Westcott Secretary of State of the State of New Jersey do hereby certify that the foregoing numbered 1 + 2 are true extracts in that marked "No 1" from an account headed "Abstract of Bounty rolls discharged by Thomas Carpenter Pay Master to the Militia of the counties of Salem and Gloucester" - as taken from the record in Book A of Auditors accounts folio 74 - remaining in my office:- that marked "No 2" from an original paper headed "The County of Gloucester in acc't: [illegible]: with John Little Pay Master for the Militia" as taken from said paper now on file in my said office.
Given under my hand and seal of office at city of Trenton in said state this twenty sixth day of February A.D. one thousand eight hundred and thirty eight (1838).
James D. Westcott
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THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES
Form VAM-51
12-5-41

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*

Division of Veterans' Administration Archives

Name: Thomas, John
Grade: Private
Line: Lamb's Artillery (New York)

Warrant Number 7895
Acreage 100
Issued April 9, 1791 to James Wadsworth, assignee

*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 resolution 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.