Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 6264, for Ambrose Thacker, Virginia
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SERVICE
Va.

Thacker, Ambrose
Molly

NUMBER
W. 6264

CONTENTS
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19114
Tenessee

Ambrose Thacker
of Fentress Co in the State of Tennessee
who was a private in the company commanded
by Captain Thomson of the Regt commanded
by Col Rutherford in the Virginia
Two years private

Inscribed on the Roll of W Tennessee
at the rate of
80 Dollars - Cents per annum
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831

Certificate of Pension issued the 2 day of Augt
1833 and sent to Robt
A Dabney Morgan Ctt

Arrears to the 4th of March.................160.00
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sept.....40.00
......................................................................$200.00

{Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7,1833}

Recorded by Danl Boyd Clerk,
Book E Vol. 7 Page 98

Dead.

See letter 24 Jany
1834 to Hon Jn Stendefer
NN

Original certificate returned
as a dead letter to the Pen
office and sent to Rev J. Stendefer
Feb 28. 18?4
[Very lightly, this line:] What agency?
form sent to R. A. Dabney,
July 5, 1837.
let to John Abertson, &
Order to Nashville Agt.
to pay Sept 2, 1837

[Very lightly, this line:] Pd 4 Sept 1838
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Tennessee West 2325

Molly Thacker
widow of Ambrose Thacker
Va
who died on the 21 November 1835
of Fentress Co in the State of Tennessee
who was a private in the Compy commanded
by Captain Thomson of the regt commanded
by Col. Rutherford in the Virginia
line for
2 years.

Inscribed on the Roll of West Tennessee
at the rate of 80 Dollars - Cents per annum
to commence on the [crossed out: illegible day of March 1834]
[Inserted, this line:] 22 November 1835.

Certificate of Pension issued the 14 day of Sept
1838 & sent to Robert A. Dabney
Morgan C.H. Tennessee

Arrears to the 4th of Sept 38...................................$223.26
Semi-annual allowance ending 4 Mar '39 ..............40
.............................................................................................$263.26

{Revolutionary Claim,
Act July 4, 1836,
Section the 3d}

Recorded by D McCurdy Clerk,
Book [Illegible] Vol. 2. Page 182
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No 20002
Ambrose Thacker Fentress
County Tennessee

from 1775 private
2 years
[Lightly in the background of this paragraph:]
Va Regt
[Illegible] Roll
10, 14, 16

Rob: A Dabney
Morgan CH
[Crossed out, this line: Wm Richadson]
[Crossed out, this line: Jamestown]
Tenn
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BRIEF in the case of Ambrose Thacker
County of Fentress in the State of Tennessee
(Act 7th June, 1832.)

1. Was the declaration be ore a Court or Judge? a Justice of the Peace

2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity? Yes

3. How old is he? 87

4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed.

Period.
Enlisted In 1775

Duration of Service.
Years,
2
2
2
Months,
7-
Days.

As a Private
..
..

Rank.
June
Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.
Gen.
Capy Thomson Col Rutherford
..
..

5. In what battles was he engaged? White Plains Bunkershill Stony Point Kingsbridge [words or phrase, illegible]

6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Albemarle Co Va

7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by
incidental evidence, or by the rolls?
Traditionary evidence

8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? Not connected
as the regulations require - No public seal of office

Icertify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above

Dyer Castor Examining Clerk
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State of Tennessee
Fentress County

On this 7th day of
November 1832
personally appeared
before me James Campbell a Justice of the
peace for the County of Fentress as
being a member of the Court of pleas
and quarter sessions in and for said
County which court of which
[crossed out: when] I am a member when sitting is
a court of record. Ambros Thacker
a resident citizen of the county of
Fentress aforesaid aged, as he believe
Eighty seven years according to
Tradition having no record of his age
and after being duly sworn according to
Law doth on his oath make the
following Declaration in order to
obtain the benefit of the act of
the act of congress passed the 7th
June A.D. 1832.
That owing to his extreme
old age and infirmity that he
is unable to go to any court of
record and has for this reason
called on a Justice to take his
Declaration at his own house in
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in said County, he states that he
entered the service of the United 
States a listed soldier in the revolutionary
soldier under a certain Capt
George Thompson a regular officer
he enlisted at Albemarl Court
house in the State [crossed out: of] [inserted:] Virginia the precise
time not recollected but it was in
the spring season & and believed to
be in the year 1775 he enlisted
for two years under said capt and
marched off from said County under
said capt in a few days after my
enlistment there was about Eighty
men marched off at the same time
counting officers and musicians Warren
Cash was Ensign and Joseph Biby
Lieutenant Moses Webb Drummer
we marched to Williamsburg Virginia
and staid there a few days and then
we joind some small forces and there
we took water in a vessel with
orders to go to Cambridge when
we were to join head quarters
we went within Twenty or thirty
miles of Cambridge by watter and
Landed at a place which he can
not designate to any satisfaction
the reason we took Land was through
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fear of the British as danger
was apprehended that their ships
would come on us unawares and
our force being small we went
from thence To the Camps near
[crossed out: at] Cambridge and there
found General Washingtons
army when we arrived there
Col Rutherford was and Col.
We staid at Cambridge but a
short time there was some
British vessels there but they
left there and we followd
on toward where it was supposed
they would try to land and
at same thirty or forty miles from
Cambridge or there about
some of the British
Landed and others were
Trying Land and they saw
Washington forces and beat
off from the shore in their
vessels and after making
ourselve ready and preparing
for that purpose we went
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On Toward Stony Point
when we arrived at [crossed out: Stony]
[crossed out: Point at] a place near Stony
Point being some Miles from
that place the precise
distance not recollected
by this applicant it was
but a few miles from said
place, at which place
this applicant, witnessd
all the feelings that an
approaching fight must
necessaryly proced on
than that are about to
partake of its dangers
it being understood by us
that the british were landing
as they are trying to Land
and a great many of them
did land we fird on them
and they still continued to
Land, and a great many
Landed and while they were
still Landing we tried to
drive them all from
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Landing and be fired on them and
they filed on us and they drove us back
there was some killed and wounded on both
sides we retreated from them and camped
close to Stony Point and in a few days
I was in the battle at Stony Point.
and there our Lieutenant Joseph Biby
was badly wounded in the heal and
leg but finally got well, our Capt
I started with from Albemarle
County Virginia Took the small Pox
at Cambridge and we left him there
and he afterwards died when we left
Cambridge. I was put under another
Captain named John Thompson no
relation To my first captain as I
suppose I understood he lived some
where Northward though I do not
know where at the end of my first two
years which I served under under the
same Col Rutherford, and [crossed out: and] Capt
John Thompson, I then enlisted for
Two more and served the same
out under the same of Col Rutherford
and Captain Thompson I enlisted the
second time a soon as my first Time
was out at a place where we camped
[crossed out: some] near the Delaware river I donot
know what State it was in, before
I had quite finished my Second Tourer
I agreed and became enlisted a third
time for two years more making
six years I served the same out under the
same Col Rutherford and Capt
John Thompson when my three Terms
of Enlistments were expired making
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Six years close service and at which time
said Captain John Thompson
insisted that I should stand as a listed
Soldier Seven months longer and I
I done so and served seven months more
under my same Col. and my same
Captain I was discharged finally
service in Louisa County Virginia
at Col Boswells honary I received my
discharge from my same Captain
Thompson for six years and seven
months close servitude General
Washington was at the place where
I was finally discharged he was then
going towards York as I understot
I do not recollect the precise time
I was discharged but I think it was
in the month of August or September
and but a short time before I heard
heard Corn wallis taken when I heard
Wallis was taken I was then in Albemarle
County Virginia where first
started from. the most of time of
my services was north or Virginia
to the new England States and in
the Northern states I did not know
always when I got out of one State
into another I was in the battle
Kings bridges, I was at the taking
Burgoins the army was divided into
three parts one part under Washington
the other General Lea and the other
I do not know who commanded
I was then under General Lea
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I was in in the Battle at the white
plains under General Washington, I was
[this line crossed out, illegible]
I was at the battle at flat
bush. General Washington was not there
when the battle was fought we were
nearly surrounded by the Enemy at
that place and we had to run and
rush through the enemies Lines
an forced through with assistance
of our arms General Washinton came
with reinforcements when we were on
retreat we met him when we were 
retreating and I saw him myself I do 
not recollect who was our principal
officer during the fight. I do not
know the number of my regiments
I think I did know while in the service
but my recollection has left me
in them particulars here was so long
a time of my servitude that a great
many things I believe has Escaped
my recollection and some times I
can recollect recollect more than
I can at other times. I know of
Person living by whom I can prove
my services or any part thereof I have
not known whether I was within the
provisions of the Law for soldiers or that
I could get on the right track obtain
the benefit of the act of Congress untill
of Late I have been informed that
I could I have some way lost
my discharge and have no said commentary proof
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hereby relinquish every claim to a pension
or annuity except present and declare
that my name is not on the pension
roll of State in the united states
Ambros Thacker
sworn to & subscribed
before me this 7th
day of November
1832,
James Campbell

I James Campbell Justice
as aforesaid do hereby declare my
opinion that the above named
applicant was a revolutionary
Soldier and served as he states
and I further certify that from the
appearance of said applicant he
is not well able to attend court,

James Campbell J P

State of Tennessee
Fentress County
certify
I do hereby [inserted:] certify that James Campbell
who has officially singed the
preceding certificate was at the time of doing
the same and now is an acting Justice of the
peace for said County and that full faith
and credit is due his official acts as such
in testimony whereof I have hereto set
my hand and private seal there being
no seal of office in Jamestown this
the 9th day Nov 1832
John H. Richardson Clerk
of Fontress County Court
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State of Tennessee
Fontress County

I John H. Richardson
Clerk of the County Court
of said county do certify that James Campbell
before whom the foregoing declaration
was sworn to and certified was there and now
is an acting Justice of the Court of Pleas and
Quarter Sessions of said County and that his
signature to his foregoing certificate is in
his own proper hand writing and that
full faith and credit is due his official acts
I also certify that at the time of officany my
previous private seal that there was no official
Seal there provided since that time there is one
provided
In testimony of which I have
hereunto set my hand and seal of
office at office in Jamestown
the 14th day of May AD 1833
John H Richardson
By his deputy M. Huffoker

Ambrose Thacker
20,092
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State of Tennessee
Fentress County ⎬
On this the 28th day of June 1838
personally appeared before me George
A Brock one of the acting Justices of the peace
for the County of Fentress and State of Tennessee
Molly Thacker, a resident citizen of the County
of Fentress aforesaid, aged Eighty Eight
years from her best and undoubted calculation
having no record of her age and
after being duly sworn according to law
on her oath make the following Declaration
in order to obtain the benefit of the provision
made by the act of Congress passed July 4th
1836 that she is the widow of Ambrose
Thacker who was a private of Infantry
in the army of the Revolution, who engaged
in said service in Albemarle County
State of Virginia in the early part of the
Revolutionary War under Captain Thompson
and served the greatest part of the war, that
her said deceased husband, Ambrose Thacker
had been in the receipt of a pension for several
years before his death as a Revolutionary
Pensioner at the rate of Eighty dollars per
annum under the act of Congress passed the
7th June 1832, that her said husband
departed this life on the twenty first day of
November one thousand Eight hundred
and thirty five. She was married to the said
Ambrose Thacker in Buckingham County
in the State of Virginia in the year one thousand
seven hundred and seventy in the time of
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the year of cuting the growing crops of tobacco off
from the ground her said husband died on
the day and year aforesaid in the County of
Fentress in the State of Tennessee. She states
that owing to the great length of time since her
said marriage she cannot tell the day of
the month of her said marriage nor the
month with further certainly she was married
to the said Ambrose Thacker by the publication
of [Illegible] and - the same was celebrated
by the old church minister, his name she
has forgotten. She states that she was married
to the said Ambrose Thacker near
six years before the commencemet of his Revolutionary
services. She states that she remaind
the wife of said Ambrose Thacker from the
time of their said Marriage untill the day
that he died, that he died suddenly having 
been afflicted with a sore foot for some time
but seemed to die with debility and old age
rather than from any particular specific
disease, that she has remained the widow of
said Ambrose Thacker ever sence his death
which will more fully appear from from
the proof hereto annexed. She has no record
no Documentary evidence of her said
marriage to the said Ambrose Thacker
and that is wholy unable to attend a court
to transact business from bodily infirmity
Mary X her mark Thacker
Sworn to and subscribed
the day and year above
written before me
George A. Brock
Justice of the peace
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I George A Brock one of the acting Justices of
the peace in and for the County of Fentress
State of Tennessee do hereby certify that
I am intimately acquainted with Polly
Thacker who has this day made and sworn
to the foregoing Declaration and that I was
well acquainted with her deceased husband
for many years before his death, that I am living in
the immediate vicinity where the said Ambrose
died, that they were respectable and
always reputed by their acquaintance as
husband and wife, that I am convinced
from the appearance of Mrs. Thacker that she is
at least Eighty Eight years of age from the age
of some of her children with whom I am acquainted
I further certify that the said Molly
Thacker is wholly unable to attend a court
from bodily infirmity. I further certify that
from her great age her memory and thinking
faculties are rather too much impaired to
give as complete a narrative, as she might
probably make if younger. I live in about
a half mile of Mrs Thacker and have had
had a good opportunity of being acquainted with
the traditionary account of the family
and believe that the oldest of the children of the
body of the said Ambrose Thacker and the
Molly Thacker is sixty six years of age or there
about
George A. Brook
Justice of the peace
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State of Tennessee
Fentress County
on this the 28th day of
June 1832 personally appeared
before me George A Brock
an acting Justice of the peace for
the County of Fentress aforesaid Joel
Thacker man of veracity and respectable
and after being duly sworn for that
purpose on his oath make the following ┃
affadavit
That agreeable his record of his own
age as taken from the record of the ┃
age of Holman Thacker who was born
on the Eleventh day of February
one thousand eight hundred and
eighty two that from my calculation
that he has his father Ambrose Thacker
[crossed out: "and and"] and his mother Molly
was married about the year 1770 that
it is the traditionary account of his
father and mother that they were
married in Buckingham County
County Virginia by the church of
England minister,
Joel Thacker
Sworn and subscribed
the day and year above
written before me
George A. Brock
Justice of the peace
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State of Tennessee
Fentress County} Sett,
to
I John Richardson Clerk of the
County County of said Fentress County
hereby certify that George A. Brock is
a magistrate as above, and that the foregoing
Signatures purporting to be his are genuine
In testimony whereof I have
hereunto set my hand. and affixed
my seal of office this 27th
day of July 1838
John H Richardson Clk
of the County Court of
Fentress County Tennessee
By John Alberthon DC.
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State of Tennessee
Morgan County
On this the 25th day of August
A.D. 1838 personally appeared before me
Thomas Jack _ one of the acting Justices
of the peace for the County of Morgan in the
State of Tennessee, Robert A Dabney a man
of veracity and of good reputation with
whom I am intimately acquainted and
after being duly sworn, on his oath States
that he is well acquainted with Molly Thacker
of Fentress County Tennessee and was well
acquainted with her deceased husband
Ambrose Thacker some few years before his
death, that I well recollect thinking on
my first acquaintance with them that they
was the oldest pair that I had probably ever
seen to be both living, On conversing with
them I learned that they were married some
years before the begining of the Revolutionary 
War This conversation and information
was moved and receiv'd by and in consequence
of the application of said Ambrose
Thacker for a Pension and endeavoring to
arrive at his age I recollect that they
informed me that they had several children, before
the begining of the Revolutionary War
Robert A Dabney
sworn to & subscribed
the 25th day of Augt
1838 before me
Thomas Jack
Justince of the Peace
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State of Tennessee
Morgan County ⎬
I Edmund G Kington clerk of the
County Court of Morgan aforesaid certify
that Thomas Jack Esquire whose signature
appears to the foregoing affidavit is a 
magistrate as above, and that the foregoing
Signature purporting to be his is genuine
Given under my hand
and seal of office at office
in Montgomery this 25th day
of August A.D. 1838
Edmund G. Kington
Clerk
By his Deputy
Samuel P Vaughn
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Molly Thacker
Tennessee

Suspended

See let 27th
July 1838 R. A. 
Dabney.

see Mrs. Kindred's
affidavit plea within
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LETTERS From Morgan CH Ten 1833
to Washington City D:C

Rates. 

Unpaid No. 1 Dolls. Cents.

Paid here;
10 October
No. Dolls. Cents

Free. No 1

Thomas Jack P. M.
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Ambrose Thacker W. Ten act 7 June 3
to what time paid?
Pa? off
May 1738
To 4th Sept 1835.
S.H. H.
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Sir. all I know of Mr Ambrose Thacker service is that I saw
him in the army, but I cannot inform you any [illegible] thing
elz, whether he was a Regular or Militia Solder I know not
only as he telz me. so that I do not wish to be oth any further
which will do the man no good.
Geo. Helm
To Mr Copley
July the 11th 1832
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Ambrose Thacker W. Ten: Act 7 June 1832
to what time paid?
Pen: Office
July 26. '38
p to 4th Sep. 1835
JH
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Jamestown Fentress County
Tennessee Augt the 
10th 1837
I enclose to you in this letter the
the proof of the death of Ambrose Thacker
former pensioner of this county the
widowhood of his wife Molly thack
as made out last June was a year
ago, in the circuit court in this county,
with a power of attorney made
To Young John Abbertson, he as Clerk
of the circuit court of this County
will have to be at Nashville in the
ensueing fall to settle with the State
Treasurer and has promised to draw the
Arrears of pension due the Widow if
empowered so to do, please transmit the answer
&c to him for Mrs Thacker directed to
this place
R. A. Dabney
for
Molly Thacker
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Morgan C H Tennessee
July 30th 1838
your letter to me from Pension office of the 17 may
1838 in answer to the claim of Mrs Molly Thacker
to a pension under act 4th July 1836, together
with printed instructions, for to guide [inserted:] her the manner
to lay the facts of her case upon which the
Law [crossed out: was] [inserted:] is to operate has been received
She has made a Declaration as I suppose agreeable
to her best memory which is enclosed in this letter
together with the affidavit of her son Joel
Thacker and the affadavit of Thomas Kindred
However unprecedented, or unavailing, I am
inclind to suggest to you that fact of her
statements in her Declaration relative to her
marriage seems, together with the whole Declaration
to be corroborated with circumstances, and
with the the information afforded me by her and
her deceased [inserted:] husband at and about the time of my
preparing his papers to obtain his claim
I have solicited information from Buckingham
County Virginia, and has not received any
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I waited on Mrs Thacker at her sons house to
prepare her Declaration, it said that her best
Recollection of her marriage could not enable
her to arrive at the Minister,s name that
celibrated the same, [crossed out: and they] [inserted: it seems] that they went to that
County, viz Buckingham to many from some
other county not far distant, her strength of
body and mind seems small. She would
talk a while connectly and appear inteligent
and soon seem to give out in both respect
I am convinced that if the realizes any
thing of claim it must shortly. I have procured
the copy of the record of the circuit court
of the county wherein the resides, that was
made and recorded as a preparatory step
to obtain, the remnant of Pension due
to her that accrued between the last draw
made by her husband, and his death, her
situation, is not so indigent as the most
unfortunate, but is really poor
the great distance to Buckingham County
Virginia, and whether matters of that kind
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are matters record, or if so to what extent
or whether recorded by the Clerk of Court
or what court, or whether matters of that
kind were of civil or Eclisiastical notice
I am unadvised to what tribunal to apply
for information in Tennessee all the records
of marriage is the marriage bond given to
the Clerk of the county court and the return
of the License to the Office celebrated by
a Justice of the peace, or some minister
of the gospel no book record is made, until
Last Legislature, has made it the duty
of the County Court Clerk to record the License
and return of the celebration, it is I
venture to say and will be found in 
Tenessee, that these contracts so important
to the parties and society, have been taken
[inserted: but little] [crossed out: no] notice of heretofore that contracts of
marriage, that really his been celebrated
have not [inserted: in many cases] even been returned to the office
and if returned, there was in no case notice
taken of them, but to file the same without
making any record of it untill the
inconvenience has been last Legislature
Remedied, by making Clerk keep a
Record Book of the marriage for which they
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Get the sum of one dollar, instead of
fifty cents which they had before they
were Recorded
as I feel it my duty to get all information
I can relative to this claim, I thought
it probable, the Department might, hint
to applicants the way of obtaing the
Record Evidence of marriages in that time
in that State
your humble servt
Robert A Dabney

the Hon
J L Edwards
comr Pensions
Washington DC.
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Ambrose Thacker

[Other text, illegible]
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BRIEF objections to the admission of Pension Claims, of which these
answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of
Ambrose Thacker which require
further proof or explanation.

I. Does the declaration show where the applicant resides?

II. Did the declarant make the declaration in the county where he resides?

III. If the applicant did not make the declaration in the county where he resides, is there any reason assigned for his not doing so?

IV. Has the declarant mentioned the period or periods of the war when he served?

V. *Has he mentioned with precision the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the department to determine to what amout of pension he is entitled?

VI. Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with the regulations?

VII. Has he made a relinquishment of every claim to any other pension than the one under the Act of June 7, 1832?

VIII. Has the Court given their opinion?

IX. Has the Clerk given his certificate?

X. Is the Clerk's seal affixed? And if so, has it a device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal? No
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XI. Has the applicant obtained the evidence of a clergyman and another respectable citizen as to
their belief respecting his age and the general belief in his neighborhood relative to his revolutionary
service?

XII. If the clergyman's affidavit has not been produced, is there any reason assigned for not obtaining
it?

XIII. If the applicant has no documentary evidence, and has not obtained the testimony of at least one living witness, has he stated in his declaration that such proof cannot be had?

XIV. If the applicant's name is not found on the rolls of military service, has he produced a witness
or witnesses as to his service? No
If he has produced direct proof as to service, has the magistrate who administered the oath,
certified to the credibility of the witness or witnesses?
Has the proper officer certified to the official character and signature of the magistrate as the
regulations direct?

XV. Does it appear from any of the papers that the witness was in such a situation, or of such an age,
as to have a personal knowledge of the applicant's service?

XVI. Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct? No

XVII. Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily? And,
if not, which of them is not so answered?

EXPLANATORY NOTES.
QUERE V. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how
long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words:
"Personally appeard before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A. B. who, being
duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that, by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he
cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service, but according to the best of his recollection
he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades; For ____
year ____months and ____days, I served as a ____ . For ____months
and ____days, I served as a ____; and for such service I claim a pension.
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3
It is important in all cases to determine with precision the period for which each applicant served,
and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the
pensioner and the length of his service. The use of the phrase about three or four months is too indefinite
, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable. Some persons who apply for pensions
merely state they served two years in the militia, &c. without specifying the tours; the names of the
officers, and other particulars respecting their service. This form of a declaration is highly objection
able. It must in every case be clearly shown under what officers the applicant served; the duration
of each term of engagement; the particular place or places where the service was performed; that the
applicant served with an embodied corps called into service by competent authority; that he was either
in the field or in garrison; and for the time during which the service was performed, he was not employed
in any civil pursuit.
QUERE XIV. Proof of Service.
We where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must
prove his service by two credible witnesses, who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of
the claimants entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the
regiment, company, and line to which he belonged. The magistrate who may administer the oaths
must certify to the credibility of the witnesses, and the official character and signature of the magistrate
must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office.
QUERE XVI. Mode of authenticating papers.
In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticates the papers is not
written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other paper authenticated, the certificate
must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the ends of which must pass
under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly
attached to the certificate.
In every case where the clerk of the court, or other certifying officer, has no public seal of
office, the certificate of a member of congress, proving the official character and signature of the
certifying officer, should accompany the papers.
Page 36

Morgan C H [Illegible]  Free
10 October
John L Edwards, Commissioner of Pensions
Washington city
D C
war department
pension office
Page 37

Morgan Courthouse Tennessee,
October the 8th 1833.
Sir
Some time in may Last I enclosed in 
a Letter and miled it at this place, the amended
and original proceedings of Ambros
Thacker of Fentress County Tennessee
To obtain a pension, he has been able
To procure the Testimony of Charles
Thurman Late a pensioner of the united 
States who lives near Burksville Kentucky
the deposition was obtained some time
ago, but I thought perhaps I
would receive an answer before I
could send it to you: you please
compare it with the other proof
if necessary, Said Thacker enjoins
it on me to write to you
for an answer. the poor old
man is Entreaty old and
is unusually anxious to hear the result
of you examination, of his evidence
Page 38

please answer as soon may be
compatible with the regulations of the
department, having received no inteligence.
I have thought it might be that ┃
his papers might be miscarried by mail
and again permit me to remind you
and again permit me to remind you
that some time about five months
ago I sent you the Declaration
and proceedings of Joshua Roberts
of this County to obtain a pension
under the late Law. he claimed for
Twelve months service in the
Revolutionary war as a private
he servd I think mostly under Capt
John Trigg of Bedford County
Virginia, some time ago I saw
the name of Joshua Roberts Inrold
as a pensioner at the agency
at Knoxville, there had not
been any application made for
the money which induced the agent ┃
Mr King to think (as he said) that
it was the identical Joshua Roberts
Page 39

that I was then enquiring, after and that
his certificate was in some way miscarried
by mail. I wrote you a letter some
time ago and maild it at Knoxville
requesting information, the old man is
sending and enquiring at the arrival
of Every mail, please send him an
aswer directed to me, and if it be the
case that you started his certificate
you may be assured that it is miscarried
in some way (and if compatible
with your rules) send him a duplicate
certificate, The earnest incessant
solicitations of these old men is my
excuse for this lengthy. Letter
your humble
Servant,
Robert A Dabney

J L Edwards,
Commissioner of
Pensions,
Page 40

Morgan Courthouse Tennessee Feb 14th 1834

Sir
I received a letter from you togather with
a letter from Col James Standifer with
a [inserted:] duplicate certificate of pension for Joshua
Roberts, in your letter, you answered my
previous Letter Relative to the claim
of Ambros Thacker of Fentress County
Tennessee to a pension you stated in
your letter that the claim of said
Thacker was admitted on the 2nd
day of August last, I have enclosed
an affidavit that [crossed out: to that affect in the] in
that I have not recivd a certificate of pension
this Letter, [inserted, the rest of this line:] that I have not recivd [illegible] certificate of pension]
I have also enclose another affidavit
to Col James Standifer of the house
of Representatives in congress with no other
view than to encounter the probability
that this might never get to your hands
as I am determined to leave no ground for the
Extreamly poor old man to complain
Your friend
Robert A Dabney

JL Edwards
Commissioner
of pensions
Page 41

State of Tennessee
Morgan County ⎬ On this the 12th day of
February AD 1834,
personally appeared before me Thomas Jack
Justice of the Court of pleas and quarter
sessions for the County of Morgan State of
Tennessee Robert A Dabney attorney
at Law and after being duly sworn for
that purpose, on his oath states that he
is the Identical Robert A Dabney that
but the papers in support of the claim
of Ambros Thacker of Fentress County
Tennessee for pension) to the war department,
affiant positively states that
he has never received any certifficate of pension,
and that said Thacker is often
soliciting affiant to do all he can in it
so as to get his pension as soon as possible
Robert A Dabney
Sworn to before me
and subscribed the
day and year aforesaid

Thomas Jack
Justice of the peace
For Morgan County
Page 42

State of Tennessee
Morgan County
I Elijah Lavender Clerk
of the Court of pleas and quarter Sessions
for the County of Morgan aforesaid hereby
Certify that Thomas Jack Esqr who signature
appears to the within affidavit was at
the time of doing the same an acting Justice
of the peace for the County of Morgan in
the State of Tennesee and that his signature
there to is in his own proper hand writing
Given under my hand
And seal of office at office
in [Illegible] this 15th day
of Febuary 1834
Elijah Lavender Clerk
By his deputy
A. ?. Cowell
Page 43

[Illegible, crossed out] V3611
Molly Thacker
Tennessee
Page 44

State of Tennessee
Fentress County

on this the 5th day of May
1838 [inserted:] before me Even D. Frogge, an acting Justice
of the peace in and for the County of Fentress
aforesaid personally appeared Molly Thacker
Resident Citizen of the County of Fentress
in the State of Tennessee aged about
ninety years having no record of her age
She being respectable and of undoubted
veracity who being first duly sworn according
to law makes the following Declaration
in order to obtain the benefit of
the provision made by the act of Congress
pass the 4th July 1836. that she is the
widow of Ambrose Thacker deceased late
a pensioner of the United States at the Rate
of Eighty dollars per annum under the act
of the 7th June 1832 as a private in
the in the continental line. according to
her best knowledge and belief in the
infantry line and that some period of
his service was under [inserted: an officer] named Thompson ┃
owing to her extreme age and loss of memory
she cannot state precisely the time
of her said husband entering said
service and quiting the same but
she thinks he entered said service in 1775
and quit the same in 1781 that she
thinks that her said husband was under
three several engagements of two years
Each and under one other shorter engagement
of five months more she does not
Recollect how long She was married to
the said Ambrose Thacker in Buckingham
County Virginia at the age of Twenty one or
to [illegible] to as she believes having record of
Page 45

the same she cannot state the day of the month
nor the month with certainly only recollects
that it was the season of year of cutting the
standing tobacco not being certain as to the
date of her birth she is not certain as to the
year of her said marriage, but believes it
was in the year 1770, or thereabout. She
knows it was about six years before her said
husband entering the said service herein
alluded to, she was married by the old
Church minister in said County Buchingham.
it being about thirty miles from her
residence at the time her name before
her marriage was Molly Langham, her said
husband and herself was living in Albemarle
County at the time of his first entering
said service, her said husband Ambrose
Thacker departed this life on the 21st
of November 1835 positively declares she
is unable to attend a court of Record from
bodily infirmity and old age that she has
no documentary evidence of her age
and her marriage that she is now the
widow of her late husband deceased to wit
said Ambrose Thacker, and never has
married since
Molly X her mark Thacker

Sworn to & subscribed
this 8th day of May 1838
before
Even D Frogge
Justice of the peace
For Fentress County

I Evan D Frogge an acting Justice of the
peace living in the immediate neighborhood
of the said Molly Thacker who
is about to apply for a pension certify
that I am well acquained with the
Page 46

Molly Thacker and was well acquinted
with the said Abrose Thacker in his
lifetime and has had a good opportunity
to be informed with the said Ambrose
Thacker deceased and his said widow
Molly Thacker and certify further that
they were reputed as respectable and always
spoken of as being the husband and wife
of each other and that fact seems
undisputed. I have no hesitation is saying
I believe is true from the most satisfactory
information of the Respectable part of
all there acquaintance with whom
I am same acquainted which are
many. I have no doubt she is just about
ninety years of age her apearance and
from close enquiry of her as to her age
I further certify that she is wholly unable
to go to Court from bodily infirmity and
old age
Even D Frogge
Justice of peace
for Fentress County

State of Tennessee
Fentress County ⎬ set,
I John H. Richardson an clerk of the County Court
of said Fentress County hereby certify that Even D. Frogge
is a magistrate as above, and that the foregoing
signatures purporting to be his are genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto
set my hand and affixed my seal
of office this 7th day of May 1838.
John H Richardson Clerk
of the County Court of Fentress
County by John Albertson D.C.
Page 47

Morgan Courthouse
Tennessee April
the 30th 1838
I, at the special request of Molly
Thacker widow & Relict of Ambrose
Thacker Deceased late a resident
citizen of Fentress County Tennessee
who was in the Receipt of a Pension
for services rendered the United States
during the Revolutionary War and
who was enrold at the agency at
Nashville at the rate of Eighty
dollars per annum under the
act of Congress of the 7th June
1832 [crossed out: to] suggest to the Department
that she is the widow of said deceased
and was the wife of the said decease
during the time of her said husbands
service in the Revolution
and has been eversince, which she
can clearly make manifest which
will probably appear from the original
Declaration and proceedings
of her said Husband on file in
the war office of the United States
She humbly solicits information if
Page 48

She is or is not within the provision
of a Pension law made for the benefit
of old Widows
the friend of Mrs. Molly
Thacker, and your
most obedient Servant
Robert A. Dabney

The hon
James L Edward
comr a pensions
Page 49

State of Tennessee
Morgan County ⎬ On this the 25th day of August 
1838 personally appeared before me
Thomas Jack a Justice of the peace for the County
of Morgan aforesaid, Nancy Kindred wife of
Thomas Kindred, who is a Revolutionary Pensioner
of this county, She being a very old Lady
and entirely respectable, and after being
duly sworn on her oath states that she was
acquainted with Molly Thacker of Albemarle
County State of Virginia in the time
of the Revolutionary war and knows from
many circumstances, that her husband
Ambrose Thacker was a soldier of the Revolution
knows that he was absent from his said wife
Molly Thacker and understood to be in
service that they had children before the
said war, that they were reputed and
spoken of as husband and wife before the
war that she never heard the same doubted
and [crossed out: they] by any person
Nancy X her mark Kindred
Sworn to and subscribed
the 25th day of August
1838 before me,
Thomas Jack
Justice of the peace

I Thomas Jack a Justice of the peace for the County
of Morgan State of Tennessee certify that I attendend
at the house of Thomas Kindred, administered
the necessary oath to Mrs Nancy Kindred aforesaid
and on interogating her, as to the facts contained
in her foregoing affidavit. I have no hesitation
in saying that I believe from her statement that
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that Mrs Molly Thacker, and her said
husband Ambrose Thacker was married
before the earliest period of the Revolutionary
war
Thomas Jack
Justice of the peace

State of Tennessee
Morgan County
2
Edmund G Kington Clerk
of the County Court of Morgan aforesaid
certify that Thomas Jack Esqr is a magistrate
as above and that the foregoing
signatures purporting to be his are Genuine
Given under my hand and
seal of office at office
this 27th day of August
A.D. 1836
Edmund G Kington
Clerk
By his Deputy
Samuel P Vaughn
Page 51

State of Tennessee
Morgan County}  on this the 18th day of June 1838
personally appeared before me Samuel
Scott one of the acting Justices of the County
of Morgan aforesaid Thomas Kindred with
whom I am verry well acquainted a man
of good reputation for veracity, he being
a Revolutionary Pensioner of this County
and after being duly sworn for that purpose
on his oath states, as follows to wit,
that Ambrose Thacker and his wife Molly
Thacker, was reputed and understood to be
husband and wife in Albemarle County in the
State of Virginia in time of the Revolutionary 
War that the same was never doubted to his
knowledge, this he states from living a long
time in the same vicinity with them and having
a good opportunity of hearing of and concerning
them,
Thomas X his mark Kindred 

Sworn & subscribed before me
the day and year above
mentioned

Sam Scott
Justice of the

State of Tenessee
Morgan County ⎬ I Edmund G King
to Clerk of the county
Court of Morgan County in the
Page 52

State of Tennessee certify that Samuel
Scott is a magistrate, as set forth in the
foregoing affadavit and that the
signature purporting to be his is genuine
In testimony whireof I have
hereunto set my hand and
affixed my seal of office
this this 14th day of June
A D 1838.
Edmund G. Kington
Clerk
By his Deputy
Samuel P. Vaughn
Page 53

July 5

Ambrose Thacker
Ken WW
19114

James L Edwards
Washington
City
D. C

War Department
Pensions
office

Paid [illegible]
January 19th

[Crossed out: DC]
Page 54

Paoli Clinton
County Kentucky
June 12th
of 1837.

Sir
I will inform you that Ambrose
Thacker late a pensioner of the United 
States, under act of the 7th June 1832
died, upwards of Twelve months
past the precise time not known unto
me a,s one of his family are
now present I think there is about
$20 dollars in arrear, his widow
Molly Thacker is living and resides
in 6 miles of this place, in the
Edge of Tennessee, please write
to me if she can draw the
little [crossed out, illegible] Remainder and
how as is the informs me she
has [crossed out, illegible] had some difficulty
in trying to get the same
a letter to this office would be
more handy, than at any office
Tennessee though she lives
the Tennessee side
Molly Thacker
By her friend and your
humble servant
[Signature illegible, but probably Robert A Dabney]
Honorable
JL Edwards
Page 55

Morgan Courthouse Ten
August 27th 1838
Sir I enclose to you in this letter the affadavit
of Mrs Nancy Kindred in suport of the claim
of Mrs Molly Thacker Widow of Ambrose Thacker
deceased of Fentress County Tennessee, who
claims a Pension in right of her said Husband
under the act of July 4th 1836.
I also enclose my own affidavit, of such
information, detailed to me by Mrs Thacker
and her deceased husband, which I
have in my said affidavit. Given the
circumstances, under which I received the
information, I decend it not improper to
Give, my own affidavit (although acting as
her agent and friend) of such things as I 
distinctly recollect, to have passed before the
existence of the Law under which she now
claims
please to give me information respecting the
matter, your Letter of the 27th July last
has been received I am requested to
Suggest that if on Examiation of her declaration
and the evidence, and the claim is
admited, it would be most convenient to
her to be paid at Knoxville E. Tennessee
Your humble servent
Robert A Dabney

The Hon
J L Edwards Comr Pensions
Washington city D.C
Page 56

Morgan Courthouse Tennessee
May the 10th 1838
I herein enclose to you pension papers
in favor of Molly Thacker, She is advised
that she is probably entitled to a pension
by the provision of the act of Congress of
of the u.s of the 4th July 1836 as being
the widow of the of Ambrose Thacker
who was a pensioner of the us under the
act of Congress of the 7th June
1832, She being the wife of said 
pensioern ever since and before the 
commencement of the Revolutionary War
and untill his death in 1833 and
having been his widow ever since, She
Solicts information at this office being
most convenient to me as her agent

Your most obt
Robert A Dabney

The hon
J L Edwards
Com Pensions
Washington City DC.
Page 57

J. L. Edwards
Washington City D. C. 
Pension Office
Page 58

Morgan C H. Tennessee
May 20th 1833,
I inclose the papers relative to the
claim of Ambros Thacker for
a pension the seal of the County
Court of Fentress County Tennessee
where the most these papers was 
authenticated is verry indifferent, and
badly put on I learn that Jacob
C. Isaacs, [inserted: member of Congress] has signified some thing
to the department of War on that
Subject the only device it has is
SEAL, in the middle & Letters to
signify Fentress County Tennessee
but so badly done, as to be scarcely
decernable, but on reference to the
Signture of the deputy Clerk Mr
Mikel Huffaker and comparing of this
Signature to this case with others in
the department you will be much
aided, as to the certainty of his
own hand writing it would
be more convenient for me to
receive an answer at Morgan
Page 59

Courthouse Tennessee you will please
direct an answer to Robert A
Dabney at Morgan Courthouse [Paper torn, illegible]
or To. James Town in Fentress
County Tennessee
with the utmost
respect I am yours &c
Robert A Dabney

Mr JL Edwards
Page 60

State of Tennessee
Fentress County ⎬
on this the 14th
day of may
1833 personally
appeared before me William Atkinson
one other Justices
of the Court of Court of pleas and
quarter sessions for the County of
Fentress in the State of Tennessee
which court is a Court of record
George Helm a resident citizen
of said County aged 82 years
a man that is now receiving
a pension for services as a regular
Solder of the revolutionary [inserted:] war, and
after being duly sworn according
To Law states
all he knows of Mr Ambros
Thackers is that he saw him in
the army [inserted: in service in Virginia in 1780 or 1781] some place between
 Albemarle County virginia [inserted:] Richmond he knows
not whether he was a regular or
a militia
George Helm
Sworn to and subscribed
George Helm
before me the day and year
aforesaid
William Atkinson Justice of the
peace for Fentress County
Page 61

I William Atkinson Justice of the peace
for the County of Fentress State of Tennessee
Court of pleas and quarter sessions which
being one of the Justices of the
corut of pleas and quarter session which
is a court of Record, do certify that
George Helm who was sworn to the
forgoing affadavit is a man of veracity
and entire credibility and that
he is the man that is now receiving
a pension as a regular soldier of
the revolution, and that he is an 
entiligent man and his name as assigned
To the foregoing affidavit is subscribed
by his own proper hand writing
in my presence, given under my hand
and seal this the 14 day of May 1833
William Atkinson
JP

State of Tennessee
Fentress County
I John H Richardson Clerk
of the Court of Pleas & quarter
Sessions of said County do certify that William
Atkinson whose name is affixed to the foregoing
Certificate was and is an acting Justice of the
peace for said County and that his name signed
to the foregoing certificate is in his own proper hand
writing and that full faith and credit is due
his official acts
In testimony of which I have hereto
set my hand and seal of office
in Jamestown the 14th day of
May AD 1833 Jno H. Richardson Clk
By his deputy M. Hoffaker
Page 62

Evidence of Mrs. Kindred

Affadavit of
Mrs. Nancy Kindred
Page 63

State of Tennessee 
Morgan County ⎬
on this the 17 day of May 1833
personally appeared before me
Thomas Jack one of the Justices of the court
of pleas and quartersisions for the County of
Morgan in the State of Tennessee which Court
when seting is a court of record Nancy
Kindred a resident citizen of said County &
wife of Thomas Kindred, she being a woman
of Veracity and respectability aged
78 years and after being duly sworn
according to Law deposeth and says
she is well acquainted with Ambros Thacker
who has applied To her To get her
Testimony concerning his services in the
Revolutionary war She well knew him
before and after the said War and 
remembers that when he left home in
Albemarle County Virginia that an infant
daughter of said Thackers wife
was but a few months old when he Thacker
left home and that said infant
was a sizeable girl when he returned witness
well recollects that Thacker was spoken
of by his acquaintance, as being then
about in the War and much was said
Page 64

by his wife acquaintance about his Long
absence. witness well accollects That said
Thacker was spoken of during and after the
warr as having been a soldier many years in
the same and hearing that he went on
with the soldiers from Albemarle Court
house Virginia, witness was acquainted with
said Thacker some years after the said
war and knows his wife was a miss Polly
Vaughn before her marriage with Thacker
Knows nothing positively of said Thackers
service as to her own knowledge
and further she saith not
Sworn to and subscribed
before me
aforesaid
the day & year
Nancy X her mark Kindred
Thomas Jack
Justice of the peace

State of Tennessee
Morgan County
I Elijah Lavender Clerk
of the Court of Pleas &
quarter sessions for the County
aforesaid do certify Thos Jack
before whom the foregoing
affadavit was sworn to
Page 65

was then & now is an acting Justice of ┃
the peace for the County aforesaid
and a member of said Court
of pleas & Quarter Sessions and
that full faith & credit are
due his official acts & his
Signature to the foregoing
is in his own hand Writing
In Testimony whereof I hereunto set my
hand & seal of Office this the 18 day
May 1833.

Elijah Lavender Clk
By his deputy
Thos S. Lea
Page 66

Ambrose Thacker

Amended Declaration
Page 67

State of Tennessee
Fentress County
on this the 13th
day of May 1833
personally appeared before me James
Campell one of the Justices of the
Court of pleas & quartergions for the
the County of Fentress & State of
Tennessee, which court when seting
is a court of Record, Ambros
Thacker a resident citizen of said
County, a very old man be being
unable to attend court from bodily
infermity, and after being duly
Sworn according to Law doth on
his oath depose and say that at
the June of making the original
Declaration [crossed out: and] that he then
knew of no person by whom he could
prove his services, but [crossed out: at] [inserted:] before the
Time of being sworn, to [illegible] his
original Declaration he sent to
[crossed out, illegible] certain George Helm a citzen of
the county of Fentress aforesaid
Page 68

who was in the receipt of a Pension
and is now receiving a pension for
services as a regular soldier of the
Revolution, and received a ticket from
him. stating that he Helm had
seen applicant in the service, but
that he knew not whether this
applicant was a soldier in the
Regular Line or not and that all
he knew was that he saw him in
service, this applicant was informed
and believed said witness would
do him no good, aplicant
has since the arrangeing of his
original Declaration found out
that a certain, Thomas Kindred
whom he understands Lives in Morgan
County East Tennessee about
60 miles from him who applicant
well knew in Albemarle County
Virginia before and after the end of
the Revolutionary war by whom he
can prove as he has no doubt his
entering into the service
Page 70

applicant has some recollection of
said Thomas Kindreds wife after
the end of the war and belives he
can prove some corroborating 
circumstances by her
Ambros. X his mark Thacker

Sworn to & subscribed
before me the day
& year aforesaid
James Campbell
Justice of the Peace

I James Campbell Justice of the Court of
pleas and quarter sessions for the County of
Fentress [crossed out: and] [inserted:] in State of Tennessee do hereby
certify that the foregoing contains the
amended declaration of Ambros Thacker
in the matter of the application of said
Thacker for a pension and I further certify
that said Thacker is unable to attend
Court from bodily infirmity
given under my hand and seal this
the 13th day of May 1833
James Campbell
Justice of Peace

State of Tennessee
Fentress County
I John H. Richardson
Clk of the Court of Pleas
and quarter Sessions of said County of Fentress
do certify that James Campbell whose name
is affixed to the foregoing certificate is and was
an acting Justice of the peace for Fentress County
and Justice of the Court of Pleas & quarter Sessions
of said County and that his name signed to the
Page 71

above certificate is in his proper hand
writing and that full faith and credit is due
his official acts
In testimony of which I have
hereunto set my hand and seal
of office the 14th day of Mary
A.D. 1833-
Jno H Richardson Clk
By his Deputy M Huffaker
Page 72

State of Tennessee
Morgan County
on this the 29th day
of April A D 1833
personally appeared before me Thomas
Jack one of the Justices of the Court
of pleas and quarter sessions of the county
of Morgan State of Tennessee
it being a court of record when seting
having a clerk and seal and power
To fine and Imprision. Thomas Kindred
a resident citizen of the County of
Morgan aforesaid State of Tennessee
being a man well known to me and
having lived in said County of Morgan
and State of Tennessee many years
A man appearing to be verry old and of
sound memory & discretion but being
lame and from bodily infirmity
is unable to attend a Court, of record
he being a Lawful compentent witness
of respectability and veracity, and
after being duly sworn according to
Law deposeth and says that he
is seventy three years old agreeable
the best [illegible] that he has from home
his parents having no record of [page torn]
Page 73

his age states that he was partly raised in
Albemarle County Virginia and that
he was well acquanted at the Town of
Charlottesville in said County he living
at the distace of about four miles
of said Town, and that he was
well acquainted with a certain, [inserted:] man of that
County named, Ambros Thacker and
that he affiant was at Charlottesville
some time in the Spring [illegible]
season of the year and believed by
said affiant to be in the year
one thousand Eight [sic] hundred and
Seventy five, it being in the early part of
the war and about Two years before
affiant entered the service in said
County, affiant saw the Troops
March of from Charlottesville in
said County he knows not the name of
the officer that the Troops marched
off under applicant saw said
Ambros Thacker [inserted: whose declaration is to this [illegible]] march off with 
the Troops and understood, they
were enlisted Troops [crossed out, illegible] affiant
livd in said County of Albemarle
some years after the end of the
Page 74

Revolutionary war and was acquainted
the said Ambros Thacker after the
said Thacker [inserted: and affiant] both living in said
county after the end of the revolution
said Thacker moving from said County
first, affiant will recollects that said
Thacker was understood to have continued
absent from Albemarle County
for many years after marching off
from Charlottesville and that it was
the understanding that he had been
in the Regular service, but knows
nothing more certain of his own 
knowledge that he has stated
Thoma X his mark Kindred
Sworn to & subscribed
the day and year aforesaid
before me.
Thomas Jack
Justice of the peace

State of Tennessee
Morgan County ⎬
I Elijah Lavender Clerk of the
Court of pleas & quarter sessions
for the County aforesaid, do certify
that Thomas Jack, before whom
the foregoing affadavit was sworn
Page 75

was is an acting Justice of the peace for the
County aforesaid, and a member
of said Court of pleas & quarter
sessions, and that full faith &
credit are due his official
acts & his signature in his own hand
In testimony where of I hereunto set my hand
and seal of office this the 30th day of April 1833
Elijah Lavender Clerk
By his deputy
Thomas S. Lea
Page 76

State of Kentucky Cumberland County Set
Charles Thurman of the County and State
aforesaid late a Soldier in the term of
the Revolution on his Oath states that
he was well acquainted with Ambrose
Thacker who formerly lived in the State of
Virginia
That he knew him while they were
in the service, in the Army of the
Revolution that this affiant saw said
Thacker while he was in the service
at Winchester this affiant does not
now recollect to whose Regiment or line
the said Thacker belonged he thinks
from his [illegible] he belonged to an artilary
Regiment. This affiant was well
acquainted with said Thacker before
entered the service they lived
within a few miles of each other
in Virginia and this affiant
has no hesitation in saying that
Ambrose Thacker who now lives
in Fentress County Tennessee who has
sent his declaration to the war
Dearment for a pension is the very
identical man
Given under my hand at
Burksville Kentucky, this 19th day
of July 1833-
Charles X his mark Thurman
Page 77

State of Kentucky Cumberland County Set
This day Charles Thurman personally
appeared before me Daniel L Myers
One of the Commonwealths Justices of
the peace in aforesaid County and
made Oath that the statements contained
in the foregoing affidavit are true to
the best his knowledge & belief and certify
that said Thurmans statements are [illegible] full credit
Given undermy hand this
of July 1833
[Signature, illegible] CC

State of Kentucky
Cumberland County Set
I Milton King Clerk of the County
Court of Cumberland County Do Certify
that Daniel L Myres whose signature
is to the above certificate is and was at
the time of [crossed out, illegible] executing the same
same an [crossed out, illegible] acting justice
of the peace for aforesaid County of 
Cumberland [crossed out, illegible] legally Commissioned
and qualified and that full faith
and credit is and ought to be given
to all his Official acts as such and
that the signature to the above Certificate
is his own genuine signature
In Testimony whereof I have
hereunto set my hand and
affixed the Seal of my Office
at Burksville this 20th day
of July 1833
M King
Page 78

State of Tennessee Circuit Court June Term 1836
Fentress County ⎬ Be it remembered that at a Circuit
Court began and held for the County of Fentress at the
Court House in Jamestown on the day of the Court
the 21st day of June aforesaid it was satisfactorily
proven to the Court by the oaths of John Campbell
and Robert A Dabney who are entitled to Credit
that Molly Thacker is the widow and was the
Lawful wife of Ambrose Thacker at the time
of his death who died on the 21 day of November
A.D. 1835. - and that he was the identical person
named in an original Certificate of pension
(now here to the Court shown Numbered 1914 and
bearing date at the War Office the 2nd day of
August 1833 and signed by John Robb acting
Secretary of War

A. Caruthers
Judge presiding

State of Tennessee
Fentress County ⎬ I John Albertson Clerk of the Circuit
Court of said County of Fentress do hereby certify that the
above is a true and perfect copy of the Record
of the Fentress Circuit Court as filed in my office
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set
my hand and affixed my private
seal (having no seal as yet provided
for said Court this 27th day of July
A D 1838

John Albertson clk
private
Seal
om
Page 79

Revy WIDOW, &c.  [illegible initials]

File No. 6264
Molly Thacker
Wid.
Ambrose Thacker
Pvt. Va. line

Act: July 4"/36, Sec. 3d
Index:-Vol. M, Page 269
[Arrangement of 1870.]