Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 7715, for John Thompson, Pennsylvania
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(3 - 1776)
SERVICE
Continental Penn.
CONTENTS
Thompson, John
NUMBER
S. 7715
Carded
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30. 444. Increase. C
Ohio
John Thompson decd [deceased] of Franklin Co in the State of Ohio who was a pay master Muster Master & Capt. in the commanded by Captain of the Regt commanded by Col. Hazen in the *Penna line for two years. 
*Continental and Pa. Records completed Oct. 17/25. [illegible]
Inscribed on the Roll of Cincinnati the rate of 575 Dollars 00 Cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831 & end 17 April 1834, when he died.
Certificate of Pension issued the 24 day of Augt [August] 1850 and sent to Hon. N. Evans, H. R.
Increased from $480.00
Semi-annual allowance ending
Payable to Saml [Samuel] Thompson Admr [Administrator]
Having left neither widow or child
Revolutionary Claim Act June 7, 1832.
Recorded by J. P. Chase Clerk
Book E2 Vol 8 Page 57
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Gregg Andrews March 2. 1829
John Thomson Office
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The President of the United States
Sir
At the request of Col. John Thompson, who has intimated an intention of applying for an office under goverment, [government] I take the liberty of stating to you, that I have known him from an early period in life. He is the descendant of a respectable family in Pennsylvania. When young he entered into the army as an officer at the commencement of the revolutionary war, and I believe served with considerable reputation. By circumstances not within his controul, he was prevented from getting his army accounts setled, [settled] untill [until] foreclosed by the acts of limitation. On the ground therefore of past services, not yet compensated, he considers himself entitled to notice. On his leaving Penna
after the war I have understood that he setled [settled] in Virginia and read law.
With very great respect I have the honor to be
your most obed svt. [obedient servant]
Andrew Gergg
2d. March 1809
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admitted
$480
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The State of Ohio}
Franklin County} ss
At a Court of Common Pleas holden at Columbus in and for said County, on the 15th day of February 1836, personally appeared in open court Joseph C. Thompson of said County of lawful age who being first duly sworn, deposeth [deposes] and saith, that Col John Thompson, deceased who was a revolutionary Pensioner of the United States, at the time of his deceased left neither widow nor child-- That the legal heirs of the said John Thompson, are as follows: viz Samuel Thompson Nephew of said John Thompson decd [deceased] & Samuel Thompson and John C Thompson sons of John C Thompson also deceased, who was Brother to the said last named Saml [Samuel] Thompson. Samuel Young, Sally Gromph, Polly Strider and Lucy Harris, nephews and neices [nieces] of the said John Thompson, deceased, -- Sally Armstrong, Marcy Shepherd & and Joseph C Thomson -- this deponent's nephew and niece of said John Thompson deceased: also Isobel Armstrong
a grand niece of said deceased, and daughter of Rahannah, sister to this deponent - said Rahannah is now dead - said deponent cannot say whether all
these heirs are now living, as he has not heard from, nor seen some of them for many years. - And further this deponent saith not.
Joseph C. Thompson
Sworn to and subscribed in open Court Feby 15. 1836
A J McDowell Clk [clerk]
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At the same time and place also appeared Philo H Olmsted, of Lawful age who being duly sworn deposeth and saith, that he was acquainted with Col John Thompson, a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States, and known as such; and that he died in Columbeus,[Columbus] Ohio, on the seventeenth day  of April, in the year either hundred and thirty four, and further this deponent saith not
P H Olmsted
Sworn to and subscribed in open court Feb 15. 1836.
A J McDowell, Clk [Clerk]
The State of Ohio}
Franklin County} ss
I Abram J McDowell, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of said County do hereby certify that the foregoing depositions were made in open court, and that said court was satisfied [that the said John Thompson deceased was satisfied crossed out] from the evidence that the said John Thompson decd [deceased] left neither widow nor child - That he was known to be a Revolutionary pensioner
and died at the time and place as herein stated.
In witness whereof I have hereto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court this 15 day of Feby 1836 
A J McDowell
Clk [clerk]
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Colo. John Thompson
Declaration
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The State of Ohio Franklin County
On this 7th day of November 1833 personally appeared before me the subscriber one of the Justices of the peace in and for the County of Franklin and State of Ohio aforesaid, John Thompson a resident of Columbus in the County of Franklin in the State of Ohio, aged Eighty three years old the 3rd day of February last (according to his statement) who being duly sworn according to law doth make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832. That he received a Lieutenants commission in the Revolutionary Army commanded by Col. Miles
of Philadelphia. The Regiment was composed of two Battalions of Rifle men, one of the Battalions was commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Broadhead - That he, this deponent, belonged to the first Battalion of which James Piper was the Lieutenant Colonel. That he (Deponant) [deponent] resided in York County Pennsylvania at the time he received the Lieutenants Commission-- That the Regiment marched, in the first place to Long Island, from there retreated to New York, New Jersey and crossed at Trenton to Pennsylvania - that they recrossed the Delaware, and took the Hessions, [Hessians] and afterwards was at the battle of Princeton. That he continued in said service from January or February 1776 until January 1777- That he was then transferred to the Congress Regiment commanded by Moses Hazen, and was promoted to the command of Captain, and continued in service under Col. Hazen for about one year. That he was in all the hard fought battles from that time till after the battle of Germantown (as will appear by the Certificate of General John Sullivant, now on file in the Pension Department) at which time he wished to resign and Genl [General] Washington refused to accept of his resignation, and gave him a separate command, in which he continued about a year, until he was promoted to a Colonel in the line of the Army) in 1779 and ordered to take the command on the Western Frontiers in the State of Pennsylvania and there continued until the end of the war in 1781, about three years as near as he can recollect, at which time he received an honorable discharge from under the
hand of General Washington. (The Depositions of Major
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Finley of Ohio, and Captain Duncan of Pennsylvania, on file in said Department will more particularly show the time of Commission. The Colonel's Commission in the Line of the Army and letters from Washington, Gen. Sullivant and the Governor of Pennsylvania, and an account he (this deponant) [deponent] had against the United States for a large amount were all placed in the hands of Joseph Nourse who was his agent, and were by his brother Michael Nourse
placed in the War office, and burnt during the last war, as this deponant [deponent] is informed and believes
The said John Thompson being by me (the subscribing Justice) further interrogated, states that he was born in the year 1750 in York County in the State of Pennsylvania - that there is a record of his age in his fathers Bible-- that he was living when he was called into the service, in the same place. That after the war he lived in York County in the State of Pennsylvania until the year 1801 when he removed to West Union in the State of Ohio, and lived there about four years, and was back and forward from Washington City to Ohio until 1818 when he came to Columbus, where he has lived ever since.-- That he received a commission as before stated, and that the names of the officers with whom he served are embodied in the foregoing declaration, and that he cannot get testimony stating in detail a personal knowledge of the services of this applicant
And he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or an annuity except the present, and declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any Agency in any State, only on that of the Agency of the District of Columbia
his
John X Thompson
mark
Sworn to and subscribed the day & year first stated before me. W. F. Martin J.  P.
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We Robert Armstrong and Ralph Osborn residing in the Town of Columbus, hereby certify that we are well acquainted with John Thompson, who has subscribed and sworn to the foregoing declaration, that we believe him to be Eighty three years of age; that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood 
where he resides to have been a soldier in the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion
Ralph Osborn
Robert Armstrong
Sworn & subscribed the 7th day of Nov. 1833, before me
W. T. Martin J.P.
I hereby certify that John Thompson the aforesaid applicant, from bodily infirmity cannot attend a Court of Record at this time- That after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War department I am satisfied that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier and served as he states, and that the answers to the questions are embodied in the declaration aforesaid. And I further certify that Ralph Osborn and Robert Armstrong who signed the foregoing certificate are resident of Columbus Franklin County Ohio and are creditable persons and that these statements are entitled to credit. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand as acting Justice of the peace for said County this 7th day of Nov 1833
W. T. Martin J. P
I am known to Gov. Lucas of Ohio Genl. McLine late Secretary of State of Ohio & now member in Congress & Levin Belt Esqr [Esquire] of Washington City
and to the Hon. William Crughton Jr. Henry Bush Esqr. [Esquire] & Thomas Scott now Register of the Land Office at Chillicothe, whose certificates are now in the Pension office
his
John X Thompson
mark
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The State of Ohio Franklin County ss
I Abram McDowell Clerk of the Court
of Common pleas in and for said County, do hereby certify
that W T Marton Esqr is an acting Justice of the peace in
and for said County of Franklin, that the signature within
written purporting to be his is genuine, and that full faith
and credit are due and ought to be given to all his official
acts as such
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office at Columbus this Eighth day of November
AD 1833
A  McDowell Clerk
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Office [obscured by ribbon] Clerk of Franklin Common Pleas,
Columbus, August 14 - 1850
State of Ohio, Franklin County, ss.
I, LEWIS HEYL, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, within and for the said county and State, certify that Daniel Evans Esq before, at and after the date of the annexed affidavit & certificate was and still is an acting Justice of the Peace, in and for said county duly commissioned and qualified; that his commission was dated on the 27th day of November A. D. 1848, will expire on the 27th day of November A.D. 1851; that the signature attached to said affidavit and certificate and purporting to be his, is true and genuine; and that full faith and credit are due and given, both in and out of Judicature, to all of his official acts as such Justice of the Peace.
Witness my hand, and the Seal of said Court, the day and year first above written.
Lewis Heyl Clerk.
[large seal on left margin]
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State of Ohio}
County of Franklin} ss
On this fourteenth day of August 1850 personally appeared before me a Justice of the Peace in and for the County and State aforesaid Samuel Thompson a resident of said County who first being sworn according to law doth on his oath declare, that he is the duly appointed Administrator on the Estate of Col. John
Thompson decd. who was during his life time a pensioner under act 18 March 1818, and died in April 17 1834 and subsequent thereto his name was inscribed under act 7 June 1832. at the rate of $480 . per annum, all of which will appear by the papers filed in my application as his administrator
A claim to a further increase is now [illegible] for a pension at $600. from 4 March 1831, when the act 32 took effect to the 17 April 1834 when he died. upon the additional evidence now about being presented and payable as heretofore 
Saml Thompson
Administrator of the estate of Colo. Jonr [John] Thompson
Sworn to & subscribed before me on this fourteenth day of August 1850
Daniel Evans J. P.
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The State of Ohio Franklin County Set
On this 13th day of June 1820 personally appeared in open Court being a Court of Record for said County. Col. John Thompson aged Sixty Eight years resident in said County of Franklin who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on his oath declare that he served
in the Revolutionary war as follows to wit, in a Regiment of Volunteers Riflemen, commanded by Colonel Thompson that Marched from Pennsylvania to Boston at the Commencement of the Revolutionary War and there was Appointed an officer in Colonel Miles Regiment of Riflemen for Pennsylvania, and from that was appointed In the Congress own Regiment, commanded by Colonel Hagen, during said time I was in the Battles of Long Island at York and York Island Merrimack and White plains and on the retreat to Trenton, was at the taking of the Hessians at Trenton the Battle of Princeton, Battle of Brandy wine, the white house and Germantown in the greater part of all the Battles I was under the Command of General Sullivant and Major John Taylor their Certificate are now in the war Office Some time after the Battle of Germantown I was appointed by the State of Pennsylvania to the Command on the
Frontiers of said State Colonel Commandant of the Rangers volunteers and the Malitia [Militia] that might be called out and was also appointed [illegible] and paymaster General for the same there I continued until the close of the Revolutionary war against the Indians & English my first certificate is dated on the Eighteenth day of March Eighteen hundred and Eighteen
and was signed by J C Calhoun Secretary of War on the thirtieth of March one thousand eight hundred and eighteen and my pension was transfered [transferred] from the Roll of the district of Columbia to that of Ohio
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March the thirty first eighteen hundred and nineteen and I have drawn my pension every six months until this time, the last I drew was the fourth of March eighteen hundred and twenty which made four drafts since I have drawn, And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident
Citizen of the United States on the Eighteenth day of March Eighteen hundred and eighteen and that I have not since that time by gift sale or in any manner disposed of my property or any part thereof with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions
of an act of Congress Entitled an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the Land and Naval Service of the United States in the Revolutionary war passed on the eighteenth day of March eighteen hundred and eighteen
And that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property or securities contracts or debts due to me nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto anexed [annexed] and by me subscribed, I have not any Real Estate whatever have one and waggon [wagon] one old horse, one small bank case one table and six chains which I bought with my pension money I have neither wife nor children nor family of any discription, [description] that I am an Attorney & Counsellor at law by profession but unable to pursue
my profession from a violent attack of the Rheumatism in my head shoulders and arms which has injured my hearing and sight and from old age and infirmity am unable to do any thing to help myself And further this deponent saith not 
John Thompson
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Schedule of property of the applicant
One old Waggon 25."
one old Horse 20
one small back case 7
one Table 3
Six Chairs 6
Total $61:00
John Thompson
I Abram I McDowell Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Franklin and State of Ohio  do hereby certify that the aforegoing [foregoing] oath and the Schedule thereto anexed [annexed] are truly copied from the records of the said Court, and I do further certify that it is the oppinion [opinion] of the said Court, that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid Schedule is Sixty one dollars
In Testimony Whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seat of the said Court on this 19th day of June AD 1820
Abram I McDowell Clk [clerk]
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copied this in ink first
and then decided not to use
 Col. Thompson, so
left this for future copies

3-523
REVOLUTIONARY WAR RECORDS SECTION
mmhf
S. 7715

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR.
 BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
Washington, D. C., July 25, 1923

Harriet S. Hastings
Hanford, Wash.
Madam
In reply to your request of June 5, 1923, for the history of
John Thompson, a soldier of the Revolutionary War,
the following is taken from the soldier's claim for pension.

DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT
April 6, 1776
Nov. 3, 1776 
Apr. 15, 1779

LENGTH OF SERVICE.
[blank]
to Oct 14. 1777
3 yrs

RANK,
1st Lt
Capt
Paymaster and Muster Master of 5  companies of Pa Rangers

OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED.
CAPTAIN.
Co. of Foot 
Just use this 1st Battl’n of Riflemen, Penn.
Moses Hazen’s Continental Rangers

COLONEL.
[blank]
[blank]
[blank]

STATE.
[blank]
[blank]
[blank]

Battles engaged in Long Island, York Island, Mamaroneck, White Plains, Trenton, Princeton, Brandywine
White Horse, Germantown, and with Indians.
Residence of soldier at enlistment, York Co. Pennsylvania
Date of application for pension, Mch. 25, 1818. His claim was allowed
Residence at date of application, Georgetown, District of Columbia
Age at date of application Born Feb. 3, 1750 in York Co. Pa.
Remarks: He went to Franklin Co. Ohio in 1819. In 1820 he had
neither wife nor children. He died Apr. 17, 1834 in Columbus, Ohio leaving no widow or children.

Respectfully,
Commissioner
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John Thompson, Col.
Penn- Rangers -
Frontier service with Indians, time of Revolution-
Evidence insufficient
Ohio 
Act 1828
Dont fit
Inv File No [40,570 crossed out] 
Draws Pri
Want Col
[See # 508 Adt Wids. 
" # 1665 " " 
" # 1908 " "
" # 3317 " " 
" # 19,449 " "
" # 22,400 " " 
" 22,418 " " crossed out] 
OW I #7715 OK
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S.F. 7715
Thompson, John. 
Discharge from service as Capt. Col. Hazen's regt, [regiment] dated Oct 24, 1777, signed
by Jno. [John] Sullivan, Maj. Gen.
{Resolution of General Assembly of Pa. dated Mch. [March] 29, 1779, with regard to five companies of Rangers to be raised. Certified copy, dated May 6, 1829. of extracts of minutes supreme Executive Council of Pa. held Aug. 19, 1779. adjusted debt and credit account, dated Phila, Nov. 25: 1780. signed by Joseph Dean and Jacob Morris, Auditor}
These papers have been removed from the case for safe keeping and may be found in the
safe in the room of the Chief O.W. & D. Div
Oct. 10, 1905.
F. W.
To War Dept Oct. 27, 1900
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Rev War
7715
INVALID
File No. 7715
John Thompson
Priv. Rev. War
Act: June 7th 1832
Index:-- Vol. A & B, Page 373
(Arrangement of 1870.)
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Feby 2/98 Hist. to Mrs. Ida
S Thompson, Topeka Ks.
(see Inv. 26.837)
1923. July 25. Hist to Harriet S.
Hastings, Mont. - mmhf
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S. File 7715
John Thompson.
Pa
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John Thomson
of Colo Hazens Regiment
being in an ill state of health & being Much Dissatisfied with not having his proper Rank given him in the Regiment to which he belong is by his own Desire Dismissed from the Army in which he has served with Honor and reputation
Jno [John] Sullivan M. Genl [General]
ee
October 24 1777

[stamped] THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF THE UNITED STATES
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S. File 7715
John Thompson
Pa
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October 13th Capt. John Thompson late of Colo. Hazens Regiment having resigned his commission, Major Taylor does the Justice to declare, that he hath in several actions proved himself to be a man of Spirit and a good Soldier
1777
John Taylor Major, Cont.
[stamped] THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF THE UNITED STATES
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John Thompson,
S. F. 7715 -
Pa.
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In Council
Philadelphia April 15, 1779
Ordered, that Mr John Thompson be appointed Pay Master of the five companies of Rangers on to be raised for the defence [defense] of the Frontiers of this State, under the authority of Congress [for the crossed out] And also Muster Master of the said companies and to muster such of the Militia of the State as may be called into the
continental service for the defence [defense] of the North Western frontiers of this State
And that he be allowed pay and rations as a deputy Muster Master in the Continental Army and also the pay and rations of a Regimental Pay Master
Extract from the minutes
T Matlack [illegible]
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Ohio 30. 444
John Thompson decd [deceased] & Saml [Samuel] Thompson Admnstraor & the heirs of Franklin Co in the State of Ohio who was a Captain & P.M.  in the commanded by Captain  of the regt [regiment] commanded by Col Hazen, in the [star] Penna line for two years, [star] Continental and Pa. Records completed Oct. 17/05 Ji

Inscribed on the Roll of Ohio at the rate of 480 Dollars - Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 26 day of February 1836 and sent to Hon Jeremiah McLene H. R

Arrears to the [4th of crossed out] 17 Apl [April] 1834. date of death, 
Semi-anl. [annual] allowance ending $1500.

{Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832}

Recorded by Wm J Allison Clerk, Book E.2 Vol. 8. Page 57
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Act 18th March 1818-
John Thompson
Ohio
Letter Col M Nourse
See letter 18th March 1834
to
Hon J. McLene
" J Vance
Ho of Representative
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(5)
[Dist. of Columbia. crossed out]
John Thompson a Colonel, Pennsylvania line - 1778. 5 years in the army of the U. States.
At $20. per mo: [month] to comm. @ the 5th of March, 1818.
Cert: issued & Delivered to himself 30th March, 1818
Ans. to 4th Sept 1818. 5 8/28 mo [month] $105.71
(Revy claim, act 18th Mar. 1818)
*Transfered [transferred] to Ohio on 31st March from 4th of March, 1819
George Town
[illegible]

Continued under Act 1 May 1820 - Notification sent 18 July to pensioner, Columbus, Ohio
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See letter July 27 1831.
do. Jany [January] 30 1833 to Hon J'n Vance HR Ohio
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See letter 2 Octr [October] 1834 to Hon Jeremiah McLene. Columbus, Ohio . do 27 Feb. 1835, do. to P. Agt. June 18, 1835
Ohio
Act March 18. 1818
file Sept 1818
See Letter 10 Decr [December] 1835 to Hon. J. McLene, H. R.
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Recd 31 July 1830.
The undersigned certify that they have been intimately acquainted for the last twenty five years with Col. John Thompson of Columbus Ohio, who is now on the pension roll of the Ohio agency. and have always understood that Col. Thompson served in the line of the Army of the United States from the commencement to the close of the revolutionary war and that he was a brave faithful and gallant officer.
W Creighton Sen'r
H Brush
Thomas Scott

Columbus July 24th 1830}
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Pennsylvania. ss
[SEAL LIBERTY SAFETY & PEACE in round imprint]
No 7.
IN ASSEMBLY. 
To John Thompson Gentlemen April 6. 1776.
WE reposing especial Trust and Confidence in your Patriotism, Valour, {Valor] Conduct and Fidelity, DO, by these Presents, constitute and appoint you to be 1st Lieutenant of a Company of Foot in the first Battalion of Riflemen
in the Service of this Province for the protection of the same, against all hostile Enterprizes, [enterprises] and for the Defence [defense] of American Liberty. You are therefore carefully and diligently to discharge the Duty of a Lieutenant as aforesaid 
by doing and performing all Manner of Things thereunto belonging. And we do strictly charge and require all Officers and Soldiers, under your Command, to be obedient to your Orders as their Lieutenant 
And you are to observe and follow such Orders and Directions, from Time to Time, as you shall receive from the Assembly during their Session; and, in their Recess, from the present or any future Committee of Safety for this Province, or from your superior Officer, according to the Rules and Discipline of War, pursuant to the Trust reposed in you. This Commission to continue in Force until revoked by the Assembly, or by the present or any succeeding Committee of Safety.
Signed by Order of the Assembly
John Morton Speaker
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Pennsylvania ss May 18th, 1776.
These are to certify that Thomson the officer within named, appeared before me a Justice of the Peace of the County of Chester and was qualified to the within commission, pursuant to a Resolve of the Assembly of the said Province, dated April 6th. 1776.
Richd [Richard] Riley

Thompson, John
S-7715
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IN CONGRESS.
he DELEGATES of the UNITED STATES of New-Hampshire, Massachusetts-Bay, Rhode-Land Connecticut, New-York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia,
North Carolina, South-Carolina, and Georgia, TO
John Thompson Esquire
WE, reposing especial Trust and Confidence in your Patriotism, Valour, [Valor] Conduct and Fidelity, DO, by these Presents, constitute and appoint you Captain of a Company in the Regiment commanded by Moser Hazen n [in] the Army of the United States, raised for the Defence [Defense] of American Liberty, and for repelling every sustile [hostile] Invasion thereof. You are there are carefully and diligently to discharge the Duty of a Captain by doing and performing all manner of Things thereunto belonging. And we do strictly charge and require all Officers and Soldiers under your Command, to be obedient to your Orders as Captain And you are to observe and follow such Orders and Directions from Time to Time, as you shall receive from this or a future Congress of the United States, or Committee of Congress, [illegible] that Purpose appointed, or Commander in Chief for the Time being of the Army of the United States, or any other your superior Officer, according to the Rules and Discipline of War, in Pursuance of the [illegible] reposed in you. This Commission to continue in Force until revoked by this or a future Congress.
DATED at Philadelphia 18th day of August 1776
By Order of the CONGRESS
John Hancock PRESIDENT.
Thomson fee 7
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Feb 25
McAl.
J. L. Edwards Esqr [Esquire]
Pension Agent 
Washington City
Hon. J. McLene H. R.
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Columbus, 15th Feby 1836
Sir, 
You will recollect that as Admr [Administrator] of Col John Thompson deceased, late a United States Pensioner,  I made application for additional pay for him.
Your letters of the 10th & 14th of Jany [January] last, directed me as to the proof necessary.-- In obedience to those instructions I send you the enclosed, which will furnish the evidence the case required.
Upon examination of them, please inform me of the action of your department upon this subject.
I am very respectfully
your obedient Servant
Saml [Samuel] Thompson, Admr [Administrator] of John Thompson Deceased

J.L. Edwards Esqr [Esquire]
Agent of Pensions US
Washington City
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The Hon. Richard Rush -
Secretary of the Treasury -
Pension Claims -
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Columbus Ohio: 8th July 1828.
Sir
I have the honor to submit same of the papers now
in my possession, which I hope will be satisfactory to you. The
rest, consisting of my Commissions-- letters from Genl Sullivan - from the Secretary of War - and the Governour of Pennsylvania, were left with Mr Joseph Nourse. Register, at Washington City; for fear of losing them, in carrying them so often backwards & forwards. As Mr Nourse has formerly been my agent, Mr Nouse informs me that he put my papers into a box and deposited him in the War office where they were consumed when the British burnt the publick buildings. Which facts Mr Nourse will state. Owing to the loss of my papers & vouchers & got I nothing for my service till the law of Congress, under which I began to draw my pension in March 1825 and have drawn up to the 3rd March 1828. Although I entered into the service in 1775 and continued up to the close of the war.
If any further information or evidence is wanted, please
to inform me of it. My wish is to receive my pension at the Franklin Bank of Columbus, as I have lost the use of my limbs in a great measure, and am unable to travel about without much trouble.
Your most obedient servant, John Thompson
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Thomson John Mar. 1, 1809
office of Judge Illinois Territory
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Washington City, March 1st 1809
Sir, 
We have been solicited by Col. John Thompson for documents under our signatures, in favor of his application for a Judge's appointment in the new Territory of Illinois. From a personal acquaintance with Col. Thompson for some time past, we can truly declare that he served with reputation as an officer in the revolutionary army & has ever  conducted himself as a firm republican & is of sober demeanor. He stated the law & removed to the State of Ohio where he has been admitted to the bar; but we cannot undertake to certify anything of his legal requirements from our own observations.
We are Sir
with high respect
& Esteem
John Smith of Virg'a
John Morrow
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Respectfully referred to the Secretary of the Treasury, April 13, 1829.
[stamped]
COLUMBUS OHIO April 7

[crossed out Free]
25
James L. Edwards Esq -
Clerk in the War & Pension office -
Washington Cty -
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Coluhttps://catalog.archives.gov/images/misc/drag.pngmbus 7th April 1829
Sir
Some time about the 1st of July last I forwarded to the pension office, at Washington, all my papers relative to my claims, under the new law, I have been looking for an answer from Mr. Rush ever since, but have not to this moment heard a word from him. Will you have the goodness to inform me what the defiently [deficiency] is?
I now recollect that I wrote a second time to Mr. Rush, but with no better success than at first. But I presume the department at Washington have all been somewhat in an uproar, during the Presidential contest which has just terminated.
Be so good as to let me hear from you as soon as possible, for as the business now  stands I have not drawn my pension, under the old law, although I am now entitled to one year's pay. My papers being all there.
John Thomson
James L. Edwards Esq.
P.S. Col. Thompson is so very old & infirm that he is unable to do his own writing, and has called upon me to write for him &c [illegible]
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C.
Increase
John Thompson decd [deceased]
Ohio
act 7 June 1832
Admd. [admitted] 
18 mo [months] 11 day P.M. [Pay Mster] & M  [Muster] Master
$459. 16
5 mo [months] 19 day Capt [Captain] 115.84
from 4 March 1831 to 17 April 1834, the day of his death
Payable to Samuel Thompson
Admd [admitted] he having left neither widow or child, deducting what has been paid at the rate of $480. per ann for same time
Hon N Evans
House of Reps
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House of Representatives
Washington, Aug. 19. 1850
Sir:
Enclosed you will receive a declaration made by Samuel Thompson of Ohio, administrator on the estate of John Thompson decd [deceased] late a Pensioner on the Ohio Roll under act of 7th June 1832 at the rate of $480.- The Administrator
now claims an increase of Col. Thompson's late pension at the rate of $600. per annum.
By the evidence enclosed you will discover John Thompson was appointed April 15
1779, a Muster Master, and also a Paymaster, and received the pay under each of the appointments, and as the service has already been admitted for two years at $480- an increase is now claimed at the rate of $600.-- for the United Service as Muster Master and Pay Master.
Your early attention will oblige
Yours Respectfully
N. Evans
James L. Edwards Esq.
Commissioner of Pensions,
Washington
D. C.
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James L. Edwards Esq -
Pension Office
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Treasury Department
Registers office Mar 7, 1834
Sir
I have no recollection of my brother's placing in my hands, Col. Thompson's Commission or the letters referred to by him as he mention my Brother as his Agent, it is probable he may recollect the case
very respectfully
Your Ob st [obedient servant]
Abiel Nourse

Now in receipt of a pension under the  act of 18 March 1818

J.L. Edwards Esq.

Col. Thompson's papers are returned herewith
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Red. 26 Augt [August] 1830 2108
Columbus, August 16, 1830.
Sir,
I have the honor of acknowledging the receipt of your favor of the 6th inst. in which you inform me that the further evidence transmitted by me, in support of my claim under the "act for the relief of certain surviving Officers and Soldiers of the Army of the Revolution" approved 15th, May, 1828. has been examined, and not found satisfactory.
To this decision, however severely it may operate against me, it is my duty to submit. I have forwarded all the evidence which can now be produced in support of the justice of my claim; and I cannot add to it, unless I were able to raise the dead. My papers, as I have heretofore had the honor of representing to the Treasury Department, had been consided [considered] to the care of Joseph Nourse, Esq. late Register of the Treasury previously to the commencement of the last war with Great Britain, and having been deposited in the war office were involved in the destruction
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truction [destruction] of that edifice by the enemy. I can only, therefore, reiterate my former statement, that, after my promotion to a Colonelcy in 1779. I was assigned to the command of the forces stationed on the western portion of Pennsylvania, and remained in that situation until the termination of our Revolutionary struggle, and that with due respect for your decision, I still believe that the evidence I have forwarded in support of this fact being the best of which the nature of the case admits ought to have been satisfactory.
I shall esteem it a favor, if you will be good enough to direct the various documents relative to my services, forwarded either to yourself, or to your predecessor Mr. Rush, to be returned to me at this place
I remain, Sir,
With high respect,
Your very obeid Servt [obedient servant]
John Thompson
Hon S. D. Ingham,
Secretary of the Treasury
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P.S. Should it be your opinion that my own exposition as to the last of my having remained in the service of the United States until the close of the Revolutionary War could be sufficient, with the documents already forwarded,
to establish my claim, I shall, on being informed of it, immediately make an affidavit of this matter before any tribunal which you may think proper to designate for that purpose, and transmit the same to your Department
J Thompson
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[oval stamp]
COLUMBUS OHIO 
DEC 16

Free
Hon. Richard Rush
Washington City
M Dirkens
22 Dec 1898
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Columbus Ohio: 16th 1828
Sir. 
About six months ago I had the honour [honor] of forwarding to you the papers
relative to my claims, under the act entitled "An act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the army of the Revolution", approved 15th May 1828: But I have not yet had the pleasure of hearing from you, on the subject: will you have the goodness to inform me what difficulty has occurred in the business? or whether it is merely from want of time "that you have not found it practicable to act upon my case, as early as could have been wished."
Having arrived at the age of seventy eight years, and being exceedingly inform and destitute of property, it is of the last importance to me, that I should, as early as possible, obtain the support which my country has thought proper to allow me. Even gold, we are told, may come a day too late.
I have the honor to be very respectfully
Your most obedient humble servant
[shaky signature John Thompson]
John Thompson
P. S. Col. Thompson has become so very frail that I was afraid his name as written by himself, would not be legible.
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[Oval Stamp]
COLUMBUS OHIO Nov 4

Free
Hon. Joseph Nourse.
Washington City.
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Columbus Ohio 4th November 1828
Dear Sir.
About three months ago, I forwarded to Mr Secretary Rush, my claims for a pension, under the new law of Congress; and I referred him to you for information relative to my papers, which were formerly burnt in the war [illegible]. I have not heard a word from Mr Rush. Will you have the goodness
to call on him and inform me what can be the cause of the delay. I am very anxious to learn to decision of my case: as age and infirmity have at length rendered me all age then incapable of any exertion for my own support. You will very much oblige your old friend, by attending to the business.
Accept my friendship, and be sure to give 
my complements to Mrs Nourse. All I can do is to write my own name, and that I fear will not be legible
John Thompson
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[oval stamp]
Chillicothe Ohio
 7 JUL


 FREE
Honble [Honorable] John C. Calhoun
Secy [Secretary] at War
Washington
Jno. [John] Thompson Franklin Co
No. 5
Iss'd 30 March 1818

Cont'd 
Sent to Pensioner
at Columbus Ohio
18 July '20
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At his request I enclose you Col Thompsons declaration and schedule of property to have his pension continued which I have no doubt will be satisfactory
He desired me to solicit for him the secretary's determination as soon as his convenience would permit
I know no man with less means scarcely, no more deserving, and do therefore sincerely hope he may receive his answer in time to draw in Sept.
Respectfully your obt [obedient]
H. Burch
Honble [Honorable] J.C. Calhoun
Secy War
Chillicothe, July 7" 1820
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P. S. It may be forwarded to me here or to himself at Columbus
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The within is a true copy of an original letter fild [filed] in my office accompanying the petition of John Thompson
Tho. [Thomas] Dougherty C H Rep. U. S. 
March 6th 1817.
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Treasury Department
Dear Sir
Registers Office 24th Jany [January]1816
Dear Sir
You request me to say whether John Pierce Esq. the late Commissioner of Army accounts ever applied to Lieut. Col. Antill of Hazen's Regiment to settle his recruiting Accounts (with which your recruiting account was connected) and altho' [although] I have not any specific remembrance of his having made that call, I have no doubt whatever of the fact, that he did call upon him-
I am DSir [Dear Sir]
Your ob svt [obedient servant]
Joseph Nourse
Capt. John Thompson
of the late Revolutionary Army
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I John Thompson in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed on the 18th day of March 1818, entitled "an Act to provide for certain persons, engaged
on the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary War", do make this my declaration as followeth [follows]. I am a Citizen of the United States resident of George Town in the district of Columbia aged 67 years, and am in reduced circumstances in life and in need of assistance from my country for my support, I was an officer in the revolutionary War; I entered the service as a volunteer in the year 1775, and served in one capacity or another to the end of the war. I was first appointed a commissioned officer on the 6th of April 1776, as a lieutenant of a company of foot in the first ballation [battalion] of riflemen in the Pennsylvania State troops, and was afterwards put on the continental establishment, on the 3d of Novr [November] 1776 I was appointed a Captain in Moses Hazen's regiment, a Canadian regiment in General Sullivan's division, in which regiment I served more them one year, I then resigned my captains commission on account of not being allowed my rank which I thought I was entitled to - in 1778, I was appointed a col. of Rangers and volunteers raised by the State of Pennsylvania and put on the continental establishment in which service I continued until the end of the war & was in the battle of Long Island, York & York Island, Rye, and [illegible] and also the battle of the white plains in the battle of Brandywine, of the white horse and of German Town Trenton and Princeton and other battles with the Indians-- I offer in evidence of some of the preceeding [preceding] statements, two commissions the one
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of Lieutenant & the other of Captain and also other documents relating to my services and in corroberation [corroboration] of the foregoing declaration, all which are attached hereunto
John Thompson
District of Columbia sct
I Buckner Thruston, one of the Judges of the circuit court of the United States for the said district, do certify, that on this 25th day of March 1818, John Thompson did make oath before me in due form of law, to the truth of the foregoing declaration, and did
subscribe the same in my presence; that it appears to my satisfaction, that the said John Thompson, did serve in the revolutionary war, against the common enemy as stated in the said [letter crossed out] declaration, and I transmit herewith, the testimony & proceedings taken and had before me, to the Secretary at war, pursuant to the direction f the aforesaid act of Congress given under my hand at Washington [in Washington crossed out] in the said district the day & year aforesaid
B. Thruston
To the Honble [Honorable]
The Secretary at War
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Comptroller General's Office
Sundries Dr. T. David Rittenhouse
John Thompson, by & Muster Mr.  of Rangers. 
Paid him to be applied to pay the 5 ranging companies from Augt. [August] 79 to Nov. 1780 [pound sign] 21,360"3"9
Auditor General's Office}
Harrisburg Aug. 8, 1850}
I certify the above to be a true extract from folio 55 of "Continental money Journal" Comptroller Generals office, now remaining in this department.
Witness my hand and seal of office the day and year aforesaid
John N. Purniance
And Genl [General]
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The Hon. Richard Rush
Secretary of the Treasury
Pension Claims
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1828 papers
Cosl'd [consolidated] with 
OW & Nv
File # 7715

487
J. Thompson 
recd [received] 14 Jul 1828
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487.
For the purpose of obtaining the benefits of an act entitled "An act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the army of the Revolution" approved on the 15th of May 1828, I John Thomson of the County of Franklin, in the State of Ohio, do hereby declare that I was an officer in the continental line of the Army of the Revolution, and served as such to the end of the war, at which period I was Col. of a Regiment of Rangers raised under a Resolve of Congress and required to defend the frontier settlements of Pennsylvania
And I also declare that I did not afterwards, receive a certificate (commonly called a commutation certificate) for a sum equal to the amount of five years full pay; which sum was offered by the Resolve of Congress of the 22nd of March 1783, instead of the half pay for life, to which I was entitled under the Resolve of the 21st of October 1780, because I preferred the half pay to be commutation.
And I do further declare that I have received of the United States, as a pensioner, since the 3rd day of March 1826, the sum of four hundred and eighty dollars, paid to me by the agent for paying pensions in the State of Ohio
John Thompson
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Before me William T. Martin a justice of the peace, duly empowered to administer oaths, in the County of Franklin in the State of Ohio; Personally appeared this day Henry Brown and [illegible] of the same County, who did severally make oath that John Thomson by whom the foregoing declaration was subscribed, is generally reputed and believed to have been an officer in the army of the Revolution, in manner therein
stated. Witness my hand this 8th day of July 1828.
W. T. Martin J. Peace [seal surrounded by squiggles]

I Abram J. McDowell Clerk of the court of the County of Franklin, in the State of Ohio, do hereby certify, that William T. Martin, before whom the foregoing affidavits were sworn, was at the time a justice of the peace, and duly empowered to administer oaths. 
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court, this eighth day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty eight -
A McDowell Clerk
[white paper with stamp on left margin]
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John Thompson 487
Recd [received] 26 May 1829
8702
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Columbus May 18, 1829
Honl. Saml [Samuel] D Ingham
Secy of the Treasury of the U States
Sir 
Yours of the 13th April last was recd [received] by which I was informed that there was no evidence of my services on the records at Washington; that the troops to which I belonged were not on continental establishment for ought that appears, and that any further evidence I should be able to procure would have due attention
By the Journals of Congress October 23d 1776 you will see that the report of the Committee on the petition of Col Moses Hazen from Canada being taken up it was resolved that the Regiment under his command remain on the original establishment thereof and he recruited to its full complement in any of the 13 United States By the Journals of Congress April 8th 1777 you will see that I was appointed Captain in said Regiment under Col. M Hazen by the 2d vol of the Old Journals for 1777 & 1778 page 83 & 84 Congress appointed or Commissioned Captain Col. M Hazens Regt among the no. I was one, It was called the Congress Regiment
In 1779 Congress passed a Resolution to raise 5 [Regiments crossed out] Companies of Rangers to be station on the Frontiers see way & Gideon Edition of
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the Journals of Congress Vol 3 page 212
On the 20 February 1779 Congress passed a resolution authorizing Genl [General] George Washington to appoint a proper officer to succeed Brigadier Genl [General] McIntosh in the command of a detachment of the Army at Fort Pill and thereupon Col John Thompson was appointed by the Commander in Chief in conformity with said Resolution - By that resolution and proceeding you see I was transfered [transferred] from Col Hazens Regiment to the command of the Frontiers, I was appointed by the Legislature of Pennsylvania Pay Master & muster Master of the troops on Continental establishment of the Frontiers
I will observe here that in 1776. I was appointed Lieut. in the 1st Regt of Riflemen  commanded by Col Miles of Philadelphica and continued therein till my appointment as Capt [Captain] in Col Hazens Regt
My Commission, evidences of service other than those sent & refered [referred] to were all burnt with the war office at Washington City during the last war the papers were left with Majors Joseph & Michael Nourse who can testify thereto
I believe that some certificates are lying
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at the pension office relative to my service There is one Certificate to what I wish reference at the pension office - to wit Genl [General] Sullivants Certificate at a time when I wanted to resign for not getting my Rank which I carried to Genl [General] Washington who refused to let me resign but [illegible crossed out] directed Genl [General] Sullivant to let me have a separate command and augment my company to 150 men, till he would promote me to my rank
my respectfully
John Thompson
 
Note Col Thompson not being being able to write on account of the Rheumatism in his arms was obliged to procure a friend to do it for him
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Recd [received] 16 Sept 1829
Before me David M Knight a Justice of the peace for the County of Mercer in the State Pennsylvania, personally appeared this day James Duncan of Pymatuning township in the County of Mercer in the State of Pennsylvania who on his solemn oath doth depose and say that John Thompson served in the same Regiment with himself as a Captain in the Regiment commanded by Col. Moses Hazen of the Revolutionary Army, and that he continued to command a Company until the close of the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy eight, or perhaps until the beginning of 1779 -
Witness my hand this third day of September in the year 1829.
James Duncan
David McKnight

I Wm S Rankin Clerk of the Court of the County of Mercer in the State of Pennsylvania, do hereby certify that David McKnight before whom the forgoing affidavit was sworn, was, at the time a Justice of the Peace for the said County, and duly empowered to administer oaths.
In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the Seal of the said
Court, this fourth day of September in the year one thousand eight hundred and
twenty nine
Wm S Rankin Clk [clerk]
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Recd 16 Sept 1829
The State of Ohio Adams County ss
I Ralph Miller a justice of the peace of said County certify that this day the undersigned Joseph L. Finley personally came before me and being sworn in due form of law stateth [states] that he is well acquainted with Colonel John Thomps [Thompson] of the revolutionary army & that in or about the year one thousand
seven hundred and seventy nine he the said Thompson he was appointed muster master and pay master of the Western division of the army with the full rank of Colonel and I the said deponent never understood otherwise but that said Thompson continued in said offices untill [until] the close of the war and further stateth [states]  not
Joseph L. Finley
Sworn to & subscribed before me this 4th day of August 1829}
Ralph McClure [seal with squiggles around] 
justice of the peace

The State of Ohio Adams County ss
I Joseph Darlinton Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County aforesaid do hereby certify that Ralph McClure Esq before whom the foregoing
deposition of Major Joseph L. Finley was taken & who has certified the same was at the time of signing the above Certificate and still is a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid duly commissioned and quallified [qualified] & that
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full faith and Condit are due to his said Certificate and all other Official acts by
him done as well in Courts of Justice as thereout In Testimony whereof have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of the said Court at West Union this 4th day of August in the year of our Lord 1829 and in the 27th year of this State
Joseph Darlinton Clerk A. C.
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John Thompson 487
2702. 3385.
Red [received] 16 Sept 1829.
615
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Recd [received] 16 Sept 1829
Columbus Sept 10 1829
Honl. [honorable] Saml [Samuel] D Higham}
Secretary of the Treasury}
of the United States}
Sir
I enclose you herewith the depositions of Captain James Duncan Capt. Joseph L Finley Benjamin Pegg a regular Soldier and Wm Altman, which establishes the fact of my being a Capt [captain] till 1779 and afterwards a Colo till the end of the war in the service of the United States, I hope this testimony with the other Testimony which
you have will be sufficient on which to grant me a pension. I have also sent the other documents you wished me to return
Joseph & Michael Nourse can Testify that my paper were placed in their hands & by them deposited in the War office and all burned during the war -
When therefore a law was passed in my favor about the year 1816 or 1817

See Act approved 11 May 1812. 14 April 1818
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I was unable to procure my money in consequence of my papers being burned.
[illegible crossed out] the [payment crossed out] Vouchers of payments made to soldiers could not then be obtained consequently I lost all that I had paid
This will be recollected by Col. Joseph Anderson late Controller of the Treasury
department
Very respectfully
John Thompson
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Recd [received] 16 Sept 1829 
The deposition of Benjamin Pegg aged 76 or 77 years a soldier in the line of the revolutionary Army of the United States now drawing a pention [pension]) taken before me Wm Long a Justice of the peace in and for the County of Franklin State of Ohio the said Benjamin Pegg being duly sworn Deponeth [deposes] and saith that he recollects well that 1779 Col John Thompson came to Pittsburgh and that he said deponent was at that time under the command of Col. Broadhead and that said Col. Broadhed [Broadhead] was called away and said Colo John Thompson took the command of the army along on the Frontier and continued the command untill [until] 82 or the close of the war and further this deponent saith not sworn to and Subscribed before me this 10th day of September 1829
Benjamin Pegg
William Long Justice Peace

at the same time as above came William Altman a respectable Citizen of Columbus in Franklin County Ohio who being duely [duly] sworn Deposeth [deposes], That in the year 1779 he was a resident in Westmoreland County Pennsylvania on what was then called the Frontier near Hannahs Town that he well remembers to hear the Guns firing when Hannahs Town was burnt and also hearing that Col. Thompson who  [illegible] the Indians at the Calatium and that then was peace a while after that battle this deponent sais [says] that he has not personally acquainted with Col John Thompson at that time and as to [Col John crossed out] his [Thompson crossed out] continuing in the service to the close of the hour he knows nothing to the Contrary
William Altman
Sworn and Subscribed before me on this 10th day of September 1829
William Long Justice Peace
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State of Ohio Franklin County ss
I Abram McDowell Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for said County do certify that William Lang Esq is a magistrate as within stated and that signature purporting to be his is genuine 
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of Office this
10th day of September AD 1829
A. McDowell Clk [clerk]
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The Council met. Philada [Philadelphia] April 15th 1779.
Present His Excell Joseph Reed Esq. President
John Markey Esqr Joseph Hart Esqr. & John Hambright Esqr
Major Genl Armstrong having personally recommended James Thompson as worthy of trust Ordered That Mr John Thompson be appointed Pay Master of the
Five Companies of Rangers now to be raised by authority of Congress for the defence [defense] of the Frontiers of this State & also Muster Master of the said five Companies & to muster of such of the Militia of the State as may be called into the Continental Service for the defence [defense] of the North Western frontiers of the State and that he be allowed Pay & Rations as a Deputy Muster Master, in the Continental Army & also the pay & Rations of a Regl [Regular] Pay Master
Secretary's Office
Pennsylvania. ss.
I do hereby certify that the above is a true and correct copy and extract taken from Volume No. 1 Pages 540 and 541, of the Original Record Book entitled "Minute of Council" as the same remains in this Office.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Seal of the Secretarys office to be affixed at Harrisburg, this Eighth day of August A.D. one thousand Eight hundred and fifty.
J. W. Benedict
Dep. Secry [Secretary] of the Commtte [Committee] 
Fees $1. 
[white paper with zigzag edges attached at left margin]
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[stamped]
 COLUMBUS OHIO OCT. 15
487.
2702.3385.3669.
Free
Honble [Honorable] Samuel D. Ingham
Secretary of Treasy. [Treasury] of U. States
Washington City.
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Recd [Received] 20 Oct 1829
986
Columbus Ohio, October 14 1829
Honble [Honorable] Samuel D. Ingham}
Secretary of the Treasury U. States}
Sir
Yours of the 6 instant was received. I had supposed that the evidence furnished under the instruction of your predecessor, and those of yourself would have been sufficient to obtain the benefit of the act for the relief of the Surviving Officers and Soldiers of the Revolutionary Army. I have obtained about all, that at present I know of. You will however state in what particular point, in addition to the evidence furnished it will be necessary to prove, and if possible, I will procure. When it will be reccollected [recollected] that among two Majors and nine captains under my command and that every one is dead, and also after all the papers relating to my services which were placed by Mr Mourse in the War Office are burnt, It is no wonder I should not be able to place before the Secretary of the Treasury, as much evidence as if it were of an earlier period, but it appears to me that I have already furnished evidence sufficient, but of that must leave with you to judge, I should not been obliged to have resorted to this law for relief, if my papers had not been burned, so that I could have obtained the benefit of the act of Congress which was passed for my relief about 1818 & in consequence of which I am reduced almost to beggary and starvation. It seems extremely hard that at the advanced age of Seventy nine years, when I have served my country du[torn] a long and glorious struggle to
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happy termination, that by misfortune I am deprived of my just dues from the United, but am now also deprived of the little pittance which it was intended I should have for a year or two, merely because I could not obtain a mass of absolute testimony to prove at this period of time every day and hour which I served my country, but if after all I cannot get it, I must submit. I have not long to live, nor can the United States Save much by it,
I am dear Sir or Most Obt Servt [Obedient Servant]
John Thompson
P.S. Will you please answer me soon as possible}
In consequence of Rheumatic pains which have afflicted me for many years I am obliged to get a friend to write this letter and Sign my name
J.T.
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487.
Revolutionary Claims.
Under the act, entitled ""An act for the relief of certain surviving Officers and Soldiers of the Army of the Revolution," approved 15th May, 1828.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
27 Dec 1828.
The annexed paper, relating to the claim of John Thompson under the abovementioned act, is respectfully referred to the Secretary of War, with a request that he will be pleased to cause me to be informed whether a commission, and, if so, what commission and other evidence was received at the War Department, from the claimant, on an application stated to have been heretofore made by him for a pension.
A. Rush
The Hon. the SECRETARY OF WAR.
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[stamp] [illegible]
 OHIO July 26

Free
The Hon. L. D. Ingham
Secy [secretary] of the Treasury
Washington City
D. C.
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Recd [received] 31 July 1820 2052
Columbus July 26, 1830.
Hon. S. D. Ingham
Dr Sir
I should have answered your note of the 21st Oct. 1829, before but supposed you would be too much engaged to attend with convenience to my business during the session of Congress
I now send you the certificate enclosed signed by Wm Creighton, a member of
Congress from Ohio, H Brush, one of the Supreme Judges of Ohio, and formerly a member of Congress, and Thos [Thomas] Scott, Register of the Law Office at Chillicothe, and formerly one of the Supreme Judges of this State
Hoping that the enclosed certificate will be considered sufficient to establish my claim I subscribe myself your friend
And humble Servant
John Thompson
P.S. Please let me hear from you as soon as convenient
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487
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIMS.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT.
22 Dec 1828.
John Thompson of in the County of Franklin in the State of Ohio, has applied to the Secretary of the Treasury for the benefits of the act, entitled "An Act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the army of the Revolution," approved on the 15th of May, 1828. He states that he was as an officer on the Continental line, and served as such to the end of the War,
at which period he was Colonel of Ranger raised under a resolve of Congress in
[in the crossed out] of a regiment of the State of Pennsylvania [line crossed out]; and that he did not receive[d crossed out] commutation certificates for the five years full pay granted by the resolve of 22 March, 1783; and, further, that he has received as a pensioner since the 3d of March, 1826, Four hundred and Eighty dollars, paid to him by the agent in the State of Ohio.
The Third Auditor is requested to report how far these several statements are corroborated by the records in his office.
By order of the Secretary,
T A Dickins
TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
THIRD AUDITOR'S OFFICE,
23d December 1828
[It appears by the records in this office, that final settlement certificates have been issued for the commutation of five years full pay to in the line, amounting to dollars. crossed out]
It further appears that John Thompson is now on the pension list of the Ohio agency, and has been since the 3d March 1826 at the rate of Twenty Dollars per month.
The Revolutionary records in this office furnish no information whatever in relation to the services of the above named Colo John Thompson
Peter Hagner Aud
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S. File [illegible, faint]
John Thompson
appointed Paymaster and Muster Master 15 April  79
Paid 5 Ranging companies from  August 1779 to Mch 1780 
Allow for P M & M M
from 19 April 46 to Mch  80

176.11
Cap 5.19
2. 0. 0
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D’r Col John Thompson pay master and Deputy Muster Master for one Company of Rangers on the frontier of the State raised by order of Congress in acct with the State of Pennsylvania

24524
1780 Nov. 24
To our order on David Rittenhouse Esq Treasurer

£4526 “ “

£4526 “ “ [total]

1780 Nov. 24
By Amount of Capt Kimples pay roll from Apl 1779 to [illegible]

 By pay and expense in full till this day S- 26-- 10
State money exchange a[t]75

By allowance made Doctor Tate for attendance on
some privates of Capt Kimple’s company

£2388.10.’ [+]
1987.10.” [+]
150.”.” [=]
£4526.”.”

June 80

We do certify that the above account has been adjusted and settled by us at Philadelphia this 25 day of November 1780
Jos Dean
Jacob Morris
Auditor of accts for the
State of Pennsylvania

Auditor General’s Office
Harrisburg August 8 1830
I certify the foregoing to be a true copy of
the original on file in this Department.
Witness my hand and seal of office
the day and year aforesaid
John N Purviance
Aud Gen
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Hanford, Wash. June 5/1923
U.S. Pension Office
Washington, D. C.

Can you tell me if John Thompson 1st
Lieutenant of Miles Penn. Rifle Regiment, 15th
March 1776, Captain 2 Canadian (Hazens) Regiment
3rd Nov. 1776
drew a pension for Revolutionary
Service; Also whether his wife was named
Abigail?
Also in regard to John Thompson 1st
Lieutenant 18th March 1776 from Virginia
about a pension and whether or not his
wife was named Abigail?

Thanking you, I am,
Harriett P. Hastings

[circle stamp]
Pension OFFICE U S
JUN 11 1923
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THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES
Form VAN-51
12-5-41
Division of Veterans' Administration Archives
BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
NAME Thompson, John
GRADE Private "in the LINE Invalids"
WARRANT NUMBER 18836 (3)
ACREAGE 100
ISSUED April 7, 1795 to John Nicholson, 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 resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800.
Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.