Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 6,265, for William Thayer, Virginia
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[typed form, with handwritten responses]

[3-1776]

SERVICE
Va. 
Thayer, William
Thayar, Mary

NUMBER
W.6,265
B.L.Wt.324-60-55
B.L.Wt.12613-100-179 -

CONTENTS
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[typed form, with handwritten responses]

[left side] Let to Geo. Richards, Nov 2 1838 G. H. Hampton Esq. Rock Hill Mills, Fa
[written sideways] Notification sent May 14th 1821, to Fauquier County, Virginia.

[right side] (317) Virginia
William Thayer, Sergeant Major Virginia Line
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.

Inscribed on the Roll of Virginia – at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 29th of April, 1818 

Certificate of Pension issued the 4th of May 1818 and delivered to the Pensioner who resides near Middleburgh Fauquier Co. Va.

Arrearages to 4th Sept 1818.47/31 Mar. $33.80 
$33.80 

{Revolutionary claims,} 
{Act 18th March, 1818.}
3 years War
12 6+3 apl. 18, 96 
Continued Fauquier Co
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[typed form, with handwritten responses]

[left side] Virginia Richmond 
Mary Thayer
widow of Va. William Thayer
who served in the Revolutionary was as a private

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 96 Dollars 00 Cents per annum, to commence on the 3d February, 1853.

Certificate of Pension issued the 18th day of Jany [January]/54
and sent to John Moore Aldie Va.

Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act February 3, 1853, Page 150 Vol. A
18
[written sideways] 252406

[right side] 1862 Oct 29th Transferred to DC from 4th March 1861
1863, Sept. 4. Duplicate issued
1890 July 28} John Hunter child not entitled to Arrears on account of the Commencement of the pension to the widow prier
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252,406 Sat. Mar 3/55
July 24/56.

Mary Thayer wid. William Thayer Priv 
[written through sideways] No 324 isd [issued] Sept. 20/56
Mary Thayer wid. William Thayer Pri.

Rev. War 
Va. Feby 55 – 3481
Ad. 60 ac Sept. 18/57 
Boynton 
John J. H. Gallaher. Presents
Lots No. 12,613 for 100 ac. issued Apl. 18, 1794 Va. line -
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July 17/90

Hon. G. V. Raum,
Com. of Pensions, 
Dear Sir, 
I am requested to bring to your notice a Widow’s Pension Claim for accrued pension, to wit, Mary Thayer was granted a pension being the widow of William Thayer, a private in the revolutionary War – he died in the year 1834 –his pension then ceased. The widows pension did not commence till the year 1854 - by the act of congress Feb 3 1853. In the year 1861 - the accrued pension claim passed the lower house of Congress, but was not further acted upon from the lack of
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funds at that period in the US Treasury. In the year 1865 Mary Thayer was drowned while returning from her regular trip to collect her pension, crossing from Edward’s ferry to Leesburg where she lived with her daughter, evidence showed she had been robbed, when the body was found. She left an only child Mrs. Francis Beach – who seeks to recover the accrued pension from the year 1834 to 1854. The pension is recorded in the pension office on the role of pensions under the act of Feb 3, 1853 page 130 Vol A. 

Respectfully yours
John Hunter
207 King St
Alex. Va.
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252,496
Bounty Land Claim of Mary Thayer widow of Wm. Thayer, decd [deceased] Rev. Army

See her Pension Papers Act 3 Feb 1853

Act 3 March 1855 160 acres

 = Filed by Jno. S Gallaher Washington D. C
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State of Virginia}
County of Loudoun} SS 
On this First day of July AD 1856 personally appeared before me a Justice of the peace within and for the County & State aforesaid Mary Thayer aged about Eighty four years a resident of the County of Loudoun in the State of Virginia who being duly sworn according to law declares that she is the widow of William Thayer deceased who was a private in the company commanded by Captain ---- in the ----- Regiment of ---- commanded by Col. ---- in the war with England - the Revolution that she was married to the said William Thayer on the -- day of --- that her maiden name was Mary Evans that her said husband died of in the year --- and that she is now a widow. She refers to the proof of service & marriage to her pension papers on file under Act 3d Feby 1853.
She makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the Bounty land to which she may be entitled under act of March 3rd 1855 and - 1856 never having received nor applied for bounty land under these nor any act of Congress - she hereby appoints Jno S & Robt Gallaher her attorney to prosecute her claim
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and receive her warrant
Mary [her X mark] Thayer {seal}
Witnesses 
Lewis Taylor 
Nathaniel Everhart 
We Lewis Taylor and Nathaniel W Everhart residents of the County of Loudoun in the State of Virginia upon our oaths declare that the foregoing declaration was signed and acknowledged by Mary Thayer in our presence and that we know she is a widow and we believe from the appearance and statement of the applicant, together with our acquaintance with her that she is the identical person she represents herself to be
Lewis Taylor 
Nathaniel W. Everhart

The foregoing declaration and affidavit were sworn to and subscribed before me on the day and year above written and I certify that I know the affiants to be credible persons that the claimant is the person she represents herself to be, and that I have no interest in this claim. I further certify that she has in her possession and this day exhibited to me a certificate signed by L. P. Waldo Comr [Commissioner] of Pensions dated 18th day of January 1854 – No – which entitled her as the widow of Wm. Thayer a pension of ninety six dollars per annum payable semiannually on the 4th day of March & 4th day of Sept and I know
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that by virtue of said Certificate the semiannual payment of Forty Eight Dollars was received by her (through me) of the agent for paying Pensions at Richmond Va. 
Gabriel Vandevanter J.P. 

State of Virginia 
I Presly Saunders, Clerk of the County Court of Loudoun County, in the State aforesaid, Certify, that Gabriel Vandevanter, whose genuine signature appears to the foregoing certificate was at the time of giving the same, a Justice of the peace for the County and State aforesaid duly Commissioned and qualified. 
Certified under my hand, and the seal of the said Court, at Leesburg this 8th day of July, 1856
P. Saunders C. C.
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Thayer} Declaration 
William 
No 317 
Sep 1818
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At a Court Continued and held for Fauquier County the 25th day of July 1820 

District of Virginia Sct. On this 25th day of July 1820 personally appeared in open Court being a Court of Record for the County of Fauquier made so by express provision of Law William Thayer aged sixty nine years resident in the County of Fauquier in the said State who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on his oath declare that I served in the Revolutionary War as follows That I said William Thayer inlisted [enlisted] in the said Service to the best of his recollection in the Autumn of 1775 with a Captain Burgess Ball (who was afterwards promoted to Colonel Ball in the County of Lancaster in said District for the term of Two Years and was attached to the fifth Virginia Regiment at the expiration of said Term. I enlisted under Captain Henry Fauntleroy who was killed at the Battle of Monmouth [28 Jun 1778] of the same Regiment for the term of Three Years that before the expiration of said Term I enlisted under Captain John Blackwell of Fauq’r [Fauquier] County in said District for the Term of during the war and was attached to the third Virginia Reg’t [Regiment]. That during the said Service I was at the Battles of Brandywine Germantown and Monmouth. That I was at the Capture of the Hessians at Trenton and was engaged against the enemy on the first and second of January following at Trenton and Princeton that I was with General [Nathanael] Greene at the Battle of the Eutaw Springs and General Morgan at the Cowpens that I was at the siege & Capture of Lord Cornwallis in Virginia after which I marched to the South in a Regiment commanded by Colonel Thomas Posey [BLWt1733-450] and joined General A Wayne [Anthony Wayne] in the State of Georgia and continued in the South untill [until] the proclamation of Peace in Savanna [sic: Savannah]
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That I was carteled from Charleston South Carolina to Richmond Virginia where I received my discharge that exclusive of the before mentioned engagements I was in a variety of Skirmishes in both the Northern and Southern States that I was seven years and Ten months in the said service during which time I served as a private Corporal, Sergant [Sergeant] and Sergant [Sergeant] Major and I do solemnly swear that I was a resident Citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March 1818 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 person engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War” passed on the 18th day of March 1818 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 annexed and by me subscribed To wit One Broad axe Two narrow axes 1 drawing knife 1 Foot adze 1 set of Bench Planes some carpenters chissels [chisels] two old Hoes and a plough which said articles so as afore enumerated the Court doth appraise to the sum of Twelve Dollars [signed] Wm Thayer
I do further declare that my occupation is that of a course Carpenter that in common I enjoy good health and considering that the addition of less than three months will finish my seventieth year under these circumstances I leave to others to Judge of my ability to pursue my avocation that I married a wife January 1786 who is now living with me and who has through me nine living sons and seven Daughters that in the late Conflict with the British Government one of my sons entered the United States cavalry under Captain Little John two others the Virginia Militia one of whom died at Norfolk My present family the aforementioned
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wife aged about fifty two years (infirm) Sons Hiram aged 18 years Albert aged 9 years Taliaferro aged near 8 years Daughters Betty aged 13 years & Frances Eleven years That my original Declaration was before Judge Robert White in the Second week of April 1818 and my pension Certificate is dated on the 8th day of May 1818 and Numbered on the Back thereof 317.
Sworn to in Open Court this 27th day of July 1821 
Jno. A.W. Smith DC F. C. O.

At a Court Continued and held for Fauquier County the 27th day of February 1821 
William Thayer a Revolutionary Soldier offered his Declaration and schedule of property which being Sworn to by the said William Thayer in Open Court is ordered to be filed among the Records of this County. The Court is of opinion that the property in the Schedule mentioned is worth Twelve dollars and ordered to be certified 
A Copy Teste 
Danl Withers Cl

Virginia
Fauquier County SS.
I. Daniel Withers Clerk of the Court of the County aforesaid do hereby certify that the foregoing declaration and schedule annexed are truly copied from the Record of the said Court house offices and I do further certify that the opinion the Court as duly now stands in my office – and I do further certify that it is the opinion of the Court that the amount in value of the property contained in the said Schedule is twelve dollars 
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of my office this 27th day of February 1821 and in the 35th year of the Commonwealth
Dan Withers
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State of Virginia SS – 
On this fourteenth 14th day of November in the year Eighteen Hundred and Fifty three, personally appeared before the County Court of Loudoun County in the State of Virginia Mary Thayer, a resident of the said County of Loudoun and State aforesaid, aged about sixty four years, who first being duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the act of Congress passed on the 3d February 1853, granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War; 
that she is the widow of William Thayer who was a Sergeant Major in the Army of the Revolution, but whether in the Virginia, or in the Continental line she cannot now say; - that her said husband was pensioned under the act of Congress passed 1818 - and drew his pension in Richmond Virginia - to the papers connected with which pension & with the army of the Revolution she refers for further evidence of his services, being at this date unable to state them from her memory – 
She further declares that she was married to the said William Thayer on the -- day of -- 18 - She cannot remember the date of her marriage, in the County of Fauquier in the State aforesaid - no record which marriage can be found in the Clerks office of the County Court of said County as the certificate of the Clerk shows - That her said husband died on the -- day of -- in the year -- this date also this is unable to remember; that she was not married to him prior to the second day of January Eighteen Hundred - but a subsequent date - She further declares that the is now a widow- 
Mary [her X mark] Thayer 
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written 
W. Hummer
Presiding Justice
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State of Virginia 
At a Court held for other for Loudoun County September 15th 1853 
Mary Thayer, widow of William Thayer, deceased, this day appeared in open Court, and made her declaration, on oath, in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the act of Congress, passed on the 3rd day of February 1853, granting pensions to widows of persons who served in the Revolutionary War, which is Ordered to be certified accordingly

Virginia
I Presly Saunders, Clerk of the County Court of Loudoun County in the State aforesaid, Certify, that the foregoing is a copy from records of said County, and I further certify that Washington Hummer, whose genuine signature appears to the within Certificate, was at the time of signing the same, Presiding Justice of the said Court, duly commissioned & qualified.

Certified under my hand, & the seal of the Court aforesaid, this 23rd day of November 1853.
P. Saunders CC
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Personally appeared before me

[written upside down] 
9.4 
4.28
4. 7/31 
8 
$32
1.80
$33.80

21/5600 78 (180
31
250
248
20
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Fauquier County District and State of Virginia
On this 14th day of April 1818 before me the subscriber, presiding and sole Judge of the Superior Court of Law for the county of Fauquier in the said District and State of Virginia personally appeared William Thayar resident in the said county of Fauquier and State aforesaid, aged Sixty seven years who being by me just and duly sworn according to Law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the late 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; that he the said William Thayar in the year 1776 enlisted as a common Soldier in a company commanded by Capt. Burgess Ball [Burges Ball BLWt252-500] Dec’d. [deceased] in the county of Lancaster for the term of two years – after serving said term he the said Wm Thayar [Thayer] enlisted again under the said Capt. Burgess Ball for the term of three years; before the expiration of which term he enlisted again under Capt. John Blackwell [BLWt264-300] (now Gen’l. [General]) for, During the War; all of said enlistments being on the continental establishment – that he served the United States under the said enlistments more than Six years – that he was in in the advance at the capture of the Hessians at Trenton [26 Dec 1776]; was at the actions of Trenton and Princeton [3 Jan 1777] on the first and second of January following; was at the Battles; of Brandywine [11 Sep 1777], Germantown [4 Oct 1777], the advance at Monmouth [28 Jun 1778], at Gen’l. [General] Morgans capture of Colo. Tarltons foot soldiers [Gen. Daniel Morgan’s capture of troops of Lt. Col. Banastre Tarleton at Cowpens SC, 17 Jan 1781], at the Eutaw Springs [SC, 8 Sep 1781], Guilford Courthouse [NC, 15 Mar 1781], and at the Surrender of Lord Cornwallis at York [19 Oct 1781] and various Skirmishes that he is in reduced circumstances and needs the assistance of his country for a support and that he has no other evidence of his aforesaid services except the annexed affidavit of Joseph Verone [S41283] now in his power [signed] Wm. Thayer
Sworn to before me this 14th day of April 1818
Robt. White
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I Berkeley Ward Clerk of the Superior Court of Law of Fauquier County in the Commonwealth of Virginia do hereby certify that the within named Robert White is the sole and presiding Judge of the said Superior Court of Law.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and annexed my {LS} (private there being no official) seal this twenty ninth day of April 1818. 
B. Ward

NB. Wm Thayer ought to sign his name at the end of his Declaration BW
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On this 14th day of April 1818 personally appeared before me the subscriber Presiding and Sole judge of the Superior Court of Law for the county of Fauquier in the State and District of Virginia Joseph Verone and made oath that he became acquainted with the above applicant William Thayar [Sic] at the camp of the United States Revolutionary Army at Ashley hill, in the State of South Carolina, then called Sarjeant Mager [Sergeant Major] Thayar, that the said Thayar continued in the service of the United States in the said Revolutionary war until the proclamation of peace after which he the said Joseph Verone and the said William Thayar parted at Charleston South Carolina before they were discharged
Sworn to before me this 14th day of April 1818
Robt. White

I Robert White Judge as aforesaid, Do certify that it appears to my satisfaction, that the said William Thayer did serve in the revolutionary war as stated in the preceding declaration against the common enemy and I now commit the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me to the Secretary for the department of War, permanent to the directions of the aforementioned act of Congress 
Robt White
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[typed form, with handwritten responses]

[left side] THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES 
Form VAM-51 
12-5-41

[center] BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*

[right side] Division of Veterans’ Administration Archives

Name Thayer, William Grade Private Line Virginia

WARRANT NUMBER 12613 ACREAGE  100 ISSUED April 18, 178-(torn) to – not shown - 
also, B.L.Wt.324-60-55

*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.
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[typed form, with handwritten responses]

[left side] May 3 – 1902 W. F. Fillingane Herndon, Va.

[right side] Revy WIDOW, &c.
File No. 6265
Mary Thayer
Wid. [Widow]
Wm. Thayer
Pvt. Rev. War

Act: Feby. 3rd/53, 

Index: - Vol. M, Page 269

[Arrangement of 1870.]
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324 
60 Acres
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Va. 1818
Application of T. 18 Mary Thayer, widow of William Thayer, a Soldier of the Revolutionary War for a pension under the Act of 3rd February 1853 
Geddes 
Presented by 
John Moore of Aldie 
Recd [received] Jany [January] 3/52, Loudoun Co. Virginia
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26 May 2d
Will the 3d Auditor state the time of death of pensioner, & to where paid
Respectfully,
S. Cole For Commissioner
F Bart Esq.}
3d Auditor}
Jan. 16, 54}

William Thayer, Act 1818. died 20 May 1828 Paid 
F Burt Auditor
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No 4021
Mary Thayer, wid. of William

Letter to John Moore Esq. Jany. [January] 6/54
Aldie, Loudoun Co. Va. 

Act Feb 3,53
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William Thayer
Virginia Troops
Revolutionary War.

[stamp] Old War Revolutionary Division APR 28 1902
Mr. W. F. Fillingane
Herndon, Virginia
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No letter came with this or any explanation 

[stamp sideways] DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR JULY8, 1862 PENSION OFFICE

Respectfully referred to the Commissioner of Pensions 
Rbt. Smith chf clk [Chief Clerk]

Dept Int.}
July 8/62.}
Mr. Whiting
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See Mr. Waldo’s letter inside -
State of Virginia} 
Loudoun County} Ss:
I, Asa Rogers, a Justice of the peace for the said County, do hereby certify, that Elijah B. Sinclair and Thomas Jones, whose depositions were taken before me, on Monday the 26th day of December last, touching the marriage of William Thayer decd [deceased] a Revolutionary soldier, and the identity of his widow, Mary Thayer, are both, now, and were at the time of giving said depositions citizens of the County of Fauquier on the state - their residences are within four miles of this Place (Middleburg) Fauquier being the adjoining County to Loudoun-- and they are credible persons.
Given under my hand in the said County of Loudoun this 12th day of January 1854
Asa Rogers
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[typed form, with handwritten responses]

State of Virginia, 
Alexandria County, to wit: 
I, JEFFERSON TACEY, Clerk of the County Court for Alexandria County, hereby certify, that Robert Bell Esqr. before whom the above and annexed Affidavit was made, and who has thereto subscribed his name was at the time thereof a Justice of the Peace in and for the County and State aforesaid, duly commission and qualified, and that his signature thereto is genuine. 

IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of said Court, this 28th day of October A. D. 1862 
Jefferson Pacey, Clerk.
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[typed form, with handwritten responses]

APPLICATION FOR A TRANSFER
State Virginia}
County of Alexandria} SS. State of Virginia
On this 28th day of October 1862, before me, the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace for the said County of Alexandria personally appeared Mary Thayer - who, on his oath, declares that she is the widow of William Thayer - who formerly belonged to the Company commanded by Captain [blank] in the Regiment commanded by Colonel [blank] in the service of the United States; that her name was placed on the pension roll of the State of Virginia - whence she has lately removed; that she now resides in the State [crossed out - (District, or Territory,)] of Virginia - where she intends to remain, and wishes her pension to be there payable, in future. The follow-are his reasons for removing from the County of Loudoun – to the County of Alexandria Virginia – She prefers being with her Friends in Alexandria.
Mary [her X mark] Thayer

Sworn and subscribed to before me,} Robert Bell, J. P
this day and year aforesaid.}

[Illustration of a hand pointing right] The oath to be taken before a duly qualified Magistrate, whose official character and signature must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office. The County Clerk, Secretary of State, or some other officer, must certify, under his seal of office, that the officer who administered the oath is a Justice of the Peace, Judge, Mayor, Alderman, or Notary Public, as the case may be, and that the signature purporting to be his is genuine.
[Illustration of a hand pointing right] The oath must be supported by the testimony of some respectable person, as to the pensioner’s identity. He must swear that the person who has taken the above oath, is the person described in the affidavit. The Magistrate must certify that the witness is a person of veracity; and the affidavit must also be authenticated in the manner above directed. 
[Illustration of a hand pointing right] 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 be sent with the papers.
[Illustration of a hand pointing right] Mode of authenticating papers.-In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officers who authenticates the papers is not written on the same sheet which contains the affidavit, or other paper authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or small 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.
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Alexandria Va. Oct 24th 1862
We certify that Mary Thayer whose name is affixed to the within Instrument, is the widow of William Thayer who served in the Revolutionary War as a private
Lewis Cole
Delilah J Mills

 State of Virginia}
County of Alexandria} To wit
Personally appeared before me, a Justice of the Peace in the County aforesaid, Lewis Cole and Delilah J. Mills, who, being sworn according to law testified that the Mary Thayer whose signature is attached to this Instrument is the widow of the late William Thayer, and that she is the identical person described in the affidavit and that she is legal to the United States. Given under my hand this 28th day of October 1862
Robt Bell J.P.
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Wm Thayer
Va- 1818

4 May 18.
 
[written sideways] LAW Notified Nov 2

[written upside down] James L Edwards Comr [Commissioner] of Pensions War Department Washington
[circular stamp] LEESBURG VA. NOV 1
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Leesburg Va. Oct. 31. 1838.

James L. Edward Esq.
Mary Thayer, widow of William Thayer, who was Sergt [Sergeant] Major in Va. Line, and a Pensioner from Fauquier Co. Va. (See Va. Pension Roll page 56) - has applied to me to ascertain if she can claim any aid from the Govt. as the widow of a Revy. Soldier - her marriage took place since Jan. 1. 1794 consequently she did not seem to be embraced in the act of 1836, or that of 1838. Mrs. Thayer nearly 60, perhaps a little over, very poor of living about from family & family as the [Illegible] work in owing Spinning. Please to inform me if there is any Act which applies to her case, or whether I can do anything for her but file a petition before Congress for a special act or her relief?
I am Sir,
Very respy [Respectfully]
Your ob st. [Obedient Servant]
G Richards

William Thayer, her husband has been dead about 10 years
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[typed form, with handwritten responses]

Brief in the case of Mary Thayer widow of William who was a private in Rev War
Alexandria County and State of West Virginia act 3d February 1853, 2d section 

CLAIM FOR NEW PENSION CERTIFICATE, 
PROOF EXHIBITED, 
The name of the pensioner was placed upon the roll on the 18th Jany 1854, at the rate of $96.00 per annum, to commence on the 3d February 1853. 
She now applies for a duplicate certificate alleging that the original has been lost 

M. D. Newman

Name and residence of Agent. 
Pensioner Present.

H. C. Sauch 
Examining Clerk
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Rock Hill Fauqe [Fauquier] Va. 28th March 1821 

Sir
Enclosed you will find the declaration and schedule of Wm Thayer, which was expected to have been sent on to the war department long since but found yesterday to have been overlooked in the Clerks office; it is now put in my house to remit to mail & to request the necessary paper (if he is continued in the Pension list) forward back to me again in the same way. - He is a helpless poor old man, and has called on me to assist him in getting his papers to enable him to obtain his pension from Richmond which is in much need of 
your ob Sert [Obedient Servant]
Wm. B Hampton
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Know all men by these presents That I, Mary Thayer of the County of Loudoun and State of Virginia, do hereby irrevocably make, constitute and appoint John Moore of Aldie in the State and County aforesaid my true and lawful attorney for me and in my name, to demand and receive from the Department of the Interior of the United States, the certificate of pension to which I am entitled as the widow of William Thayer, who was a soldier in the Revolutionary War - and I do hereby authorize and empower my said Attorney for me & in my name to do whatever acts may be necessary to establish my claim to said pension so far as he may lawfully do the same - And for good and sufficient Cause I do hereby revoke and countermand any and all other power of attorney or other authority that may have been heretofore given by me.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this Tenth day of October 1853
Mary [her X mark] Thayer {Seal}

State of Virginia} 
County of Loudoun} SS 
On this Tenth day of October 1853 personally appeared before me French Simpson a Justice of the Peace duly authorized by law to take acknowledgments in and for the County aforesaid, Mary Thayer, and acknowledged the above power to be her act and deed for the purposes therein mentioned, 
French Simpson J P {seal}
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State of Virginia 
I Presly Saunders, Clerk of the County Court of Loudoun, in said State, certify that French Simpson whose genuine signature appears to the within certificate was, at the time of giving said certificate a Justice of the peace for the County aforesaid, in said and qualified State, duly commissioned and qualified.
Given from under my hand & the seal of said Court, at Leesburg this 10th day of October 1853
P. Saunders Clk [Clerk]
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District of Columbia County of Washington, SS: 
On this seventh day of September 1863, before the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace [blank] for said County, personally appeared Mary Thayer, who on her oath, declares that she is the widow of William Thayer who formely [formerly] belonged to the company commanded by Captain [blank] in the regiment commanded by Colonel [blank] in the service of the United States in the Revolutionary War; that her name was placed on the pension roll of the State of Virginia; that she received a certificate of that fact under the signature and seal of the Secretary of the Interior, which certificate, on or about the first day of April 1863 at or near Alexandria, West Virginia, was lost; that she has made diligent search for and it cannot be found
Mary [her X mark] Thayer
Attest
D. Rouland

Sworn and subscribed to before me the day and year aforesaid Dan Roland J. P. 

District of Columbia [blank] county of Washington SS;
On this seventh day of Sept. [blank] 1863, before the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace in and for said county, personally appeared [blank] who upon his oath, declares that he well knows [blank] who has executed the foregoing affidavit, to be the identical pensioner named therein. 

Sworn and subscribed to before me the day and year aforesaid,
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State of Virginia} 
County of Loudoun} SS:
The deposition of Elijah B Sinclair, aged about forty seven years, taken at Middleburg in the said County on the 26th day of December 1853 -- Deponent being first duly sworn according to law, deposeth & saith that he was well acquainted with old William Thayer, who was reputed to have been a Serjeant Major in the war of the Revolution, and who died some twenty to twenty five years ago. Some few years before his death, he invited deponent to his house, which was in the in mediate neighborhood, to see him the said Thayer, married - He went accordingly, & saw him married to Mary - Evans, in the house occupied by Thayer - the marriage was solemnized by the Revd [Reverend] Wm Williamson of the Presbyterian Church, it was in peach & wasting year, season. There were many of the young men of the neighborhood present, & he recollects many of the incident which occurred at the wedding –
Deponent gives this deposition in the presence of the widow Mrs. Thayer, and knows that she is the identical person who was married as aforesaid - and she is still the widow of the said Wm Thayer as far as deponent knows, or believes - for he never heard of her marriage again. The Marriage took place in Fauquier County, about five miles from this place.
Deponent has no interest in the application of Mrs. Thayer or bounty land or other compensation.
E B Sinclair
Witnesses C. S. Taylor 
Asa Rogers Jr.

The deposition of Thomas Jones, aged about 48 years, taken at the same time and place - Deponent being first duly sworn according to law saith, that he knew William Thayer (who died some twenty five years ago) from his boyhood, to about the time Mr. Thayer died. He was a near neighbor most of the time. He has a distinct recollection of being at the wedding above described with Mr. Sinclair and a number of others. He recollects that the said William Thayer was married to Mary Evans, at the house of said Thayer, by the Revd [Reverend] Wm Williamson of the Presbyterian
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Church. He cannot recollect the year, but that it was several years before the death of old Mr. Thayer & deponent believes it was some thirty years ago. 
This deposition is given in the presence of the widow Mrs. Mary Thayer & deponent recognizes her as the identical person who was married as aforesaid, to the said Wm Thayer - and he has never heard of her having been married since to any other person.
Deponent has no interest in the application of Mrs. Thayer for Bounty Land or other compensation.
Thomas [his X mark] Jones
Signed in presence of C. S. Taylor 
Asa Rogers Jr

Virginia}
Loudoun County} Ss:
I, Asa Rogers, a Justice of the peace for the County aforesaid, do hereby certify that the foregoing depositions of Elijah B. Sinclair and Thomas Jones, were duly Taken, sworn and subscribed to before me in my said County on this 26th day of December 1853.
And I further certify that I have known the said deponents Jones & Sinclair for many years, and that they are credible persons & their statements are entitled to full faith & credit.
Given under my hand the date aforesaid 
Asa Rogers JP
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State of Virginia:
I Presly Saunders Clerk of the County Court of Loudoun, in said State, certify, that Asa Rogers, whose genuine signature appears to the foregoing certificate, was, at the time of giving the same, a Justice of the Peace for the County and State aforesaid duly commissioned & qualified.
Certified under my hand, and the seal of said Court, at Leesburg, this 31st day of Dec. 1853. 
P. Saunders CC