Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 125, for John Thomas, Maryland
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(3 - 1776)
SERVICE
Md.

CONTENTS
Thomas, John

Elizabeth


NUMBER
W. 125
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11.930 A
West Tennessee
John Thomas
Wilson County in the State of W. Tennessee
who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Bindley of the Maryland
line, for the term of three years

Inscribed on the Roll of West Tennessee
at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on
the 26th of October 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued the 14th of June 1819
and sent to J. C. Doacky, esq
Winchester, Tenness

Arrears to 4th of
Mar. 1819. [illegible] $34.58
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4th Sept 1819
$48.00 =   $82.58
Revolutionary claim,
Act 18th March, 1818.}
Discontinued

Notifn sent to John - illegible - Esq 27 July 1821 Lebanon Tennessee
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5573
Tennessee, Nashville
Elizabeth Thomas
widow of
John Thomas
who served in the Revolutionary
war, as a private Colo Birdley, Md

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of
80 Dollars 00
Cents per annum, to commence on
the 4th day of March, 1848 and
ending 1 January 1849, which she said
Certificate of Pension issued the 7th day of Feb 1838
and sent to

Wm E. Jones
Present
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act
February 2, 1848, Page 311 No. 3
any made payable to [illegible] and delivered to E. Jones Present and Rutger notified
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No 4
State of Tennessee on this 6th day December
Rutherford County
1850 personally appeared
before the undesigned as Justice of the peace in and for said County Jacob Whitworth a resident of said County aged sixty nine years
made oath in due form of law that he was
well acquainted with John Thomas and his
wife Elizabeth Thomas of Rockingham County
State of North Carolina that he knew them
well from his earliest recollection say
from the year Seventeen hundred and Eighty
four or five that at that date the said
John & Elizabeth Thomas was living together
as man and wife that previous to the
Marriage affiant understood that the said
Elizabeth Thomas was named Elizabeth Perryman whose father was Isaac Perryman with whom he was also well acquainted with 

that at this date the said John Thomas was reputed & believed to have been a Soldier in the Revolutionary war that affiant also indicated that he the said Thomas had a lame leg which affiant then and always thereafter
understood he got hurt or wounded while
he was out in the service in the regular
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army in the revolutionary war affiants
father continued to live in the same neighborhood
those with the said John & Elizabeth
Thomas in Rockingham County NC
until the year 1805 or 1806 when the
said John Thomas & Elizabeth his wife
removed to the Western Country and
in the year Eighteen hundred and Eleven
1811 affiant also removed and Stopt [stopped] in Wilson County Tennessee where he again
met with the same identical John Thomas
& his wife Elizabeth Thomas who was then
settled in Wilson County Ten and affiant
having known him in Rockingham County
stopt [stopped] and stayed a week with him
then moved over into Bedford County Ten
then to Rutherford County that since that
time affiant has understood that the sd [said]
John Thomas died in Wilson County in
the year 1828 and that his wife survived
him until the year 1849 when affiant
was informed that she died also in Wilson
County but the particulars of said death
affiant cannot give that he is certain that the John Thomas and Elizabeth
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was Still living together in Wilson County 
Tenn as man & wife and so
continued up to the death of the Said
John Thomas and affiant is certain
that the John & Elizabeth Thomas who
he met with in Wilson County Tenn in
in 1811 was the identical John and
Elizabeth Thomas who he knew in
Rockingham County North Carolina 
as above Stated.

Sworn to and Subscribed 
before me date above
Joseph Smith JP
Jacob Whitworth

State of Tennessee
Rutherford County ⎬ I Joseph
Smith a Justice of the peace in and
for said County do hereby certify that I am
well acquainted with Jacob Whitworth
who has this day appear[ed] and made oath
to the above affidavit before me that
he is a man of truth and veracity &
that full faith & credit is due & of right
ought to be given to his Statements witness
my hand and seal this 6th day Dember [December] 1850
Joseph Smith JP
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State of Tennessee
Rutherford County I John Woods Clerk of the County Court of said County do hereby certify that Joseph Smith Esquire whose official signature is attached to the within affidavits & certificate is now
and was at the date thereof an acting Justice
of the Peace in and for said County duly
elected Commissioned & qualified as such
and that the Signature purporting to be his
is genuine
Witness my hand and seal of
office at office this 9th day of
December 1850. 
John Woods Clk
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State of Tennessee
Rutherford County } On this 5th day of December1850 personally appeared before me Joseph Smith an acting Justice of the peace in 
and for said County Isaac Perryman a
resident of said County aged forty Eight years
and makes oath in due form of law that
was well acquainted with John Thomas & his
wife Elizabeth Thomas [deceased?] that he has been
well acquainted with[?] from his earliest recollection Say from the year Eighteen hundred 
and six that they then lived in Rockingham
County North Carolina and affiants father 
and the said John & Elizabeth Thomas moved 
from Rockingham County NC to Paradise[?]
Valley East Tennessee and thence on to Kentucky
and from there to Wilson County Tennessee
where they settled in the same neighborhood
some time in the year Eighteen hundred
and Seven (1807) that at this date the Sd [said]
John Thomas and his wife Elizabeth
Thomas was living together as man &
wife and so continued up to the day of
the death of him the said John Thomas
and which was in the year 1828 he thinks
that previous to his death he then was a pensioner
of the United States at the rate of Eight
dollars per month as affiant now recolects [recollects] which 
pension he drew some time in the years
(1820 or 1821) Eighteen hundred and twenty or twenty one 
that after he had received his pension
a short time he was stopt or drop [stopped or dropped] for some cause but affiant cannot tell what it was
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affiant was Still living in the Same 
neighborhood and afterwards to wit in the 
year Eighteen hundred and twenty eight 
1828 the said John Thomas died in Sd 
Wilson County as above stated that at the 
time of his death he left his widow 
Elizabeth Thomas who survived him 
until the on or about the 1st day of 
January Eighteen hundred and forty 
nine 1849 that Previous to her Marriage 
in North Carolina her name was Elizabeth 
Perryman being a aunt to affiant 
that at the time of her death in 1819 
She left William Thomas who resides 
in Gallatin County Illinois and Mrs 
Mary Mount of Wilson County Tennessee 
who are the only heirs at law of her 
the said Elizabeth & John Thomas’s 
affiant of course could not know 
anything of their Marriage but always understood from them and from 
affiants father that the said John Thomas 
and his aunt Elizabeth Thomas was Maried [married] Shortly after the Revolutionary 
war in Guilford County or in Rockingham 
County North Carolina but cannot say which 
County having understood that at about this 
date Rockingham County was taken off 
from Guilford and affiant is certain 
that the above statements is correct that 
from his earliest recollection they the 
said John Thomas and his aunt the said Elizabeth lived together as man
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and wife and so raised up their 
family affiant was also well acquainted 
with the children of the said John 
& Elizabeth Thomas decd[?] and recollects that  their first child was by the name of 
Isaac Thomas who died very young 
but who if now living would be 
as affiant would suppose sixty seven 
or sixty eight years of age that after 
the death of the said John Thomas 
his widow the said Elizabeth did not 
again marry but continued the widow of 
John Thomas up to her death 
Sworn to and subscribed 
before me the date above 
Joseph Smith JP
Isaac Periman 
State of Tennessee 
Rutherford County }
I Joseph Smith a Justice of the peace in and for 
said Rutherford County do hereby Certify 
that I am well acquainted with the 
above Isaac Perryman who has this 
day appeared and made oath to the foregoing affidavit before me that he 
is in all respects a man of truth and 
Veracity and that full faith & credit is 
due & of right ought to be given to his Statements 
Given under my hand & seal 
this 5th day of December 1850 
Joseph Smith JP
Justis of the pece 
[Justice of the Peace] for R County
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Winchester Y Ind
Der
The Hon John C. Calhoun
Secretary of War
Washington City
Mail

John E Thomas
Private
Col Bradley's Regmt
Maryland Line
3 Years.
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State of Tennessee, Wilson County
On this the 26th day of October in the year of our Lord, 1818 personally appeared before me the subscriber one of the judges of the Circuit Court of the State aforesaid John Thomas aged about fifty seven years, resident in the County of Wilson in said State of Tennessee and in the 11th Judicial Circuit for the [illegible] state, who being by me first duly sworn according to law [illegible word crossed out] on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the late act of Congress entitled and act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval services of the United States in the Revolutionary War.  That he the John Thomas enlisted in the service of the United States on the 25th day of March 1781 in the State of Maryland and in the County of Kent in the state in the 1st Regiment commanded by Col. Liveley and after e arrived at [illegible] quarters was attached to and mustered in the company commanded by Capt. Teralee of the said regiment.  That he continued in the service of the United Stataes until about the month of February in the 1783 when he was attacked with a very severe [illegible] as the army was on the line of march from Salisbury to Dan River in the State of No. Carolina, and from and from an incessant continuation of his illness, he was incapacitate from joinint the army again
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I John Thomas, do hereby relinquish all claim to every 
person which may have heretofore been allowed to me by 
the laws of United States, or any of the States thereof. Given under my hand and seal, this the 26th day 
of October 1818 previous to the before [?] 
John Thomas his X Mark Seal
Attest

Also on the same day personal came before 
me the undersigned Judge John M Carrol 
and Edward Willis of said County of 
Wilson and being duly sworn make 
oath that that they have been well 
acquainted with the conduct character 
and circumstance of the 
above named applicant John 
Thomas for several years past 
that they believe him to be entitled 
to full faith & credit on oath 
That he is old and infirm and in 
low circumstances in life so much 
so as to stand in need of the 
assistance of his County for support 
Sworn to & subscribed Oct 26th 1818
Edward Willis 
John M. Carroll
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Auditor's Office Annapolis, May 31st 1819 

I hereby certify, that it appears from the pay-rolls remaining 
in the Auditor's Office, that John Thomas prvt received from 
John Hamilton, agent of the Maryland line, the sum of $52..80 
for arrears of pay from the 1st August 1780 to the 
1st Jany 1782 - Also, the sum of $80..00 for pay 
from the 1st Jany 1782 to the 1st Jany 1783 
and also the sum of $43.30 from the 
1st Jany 1783 to the 15th Nov. 1783 
when his time expired. 
Thos Karney A. L. Md.
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State of Tennessee 
I Jacob C. Isacks one of the Judges of 
the circuit courts in said State do certify 
that it appears to my said satisfaction that the said John Thomas did serve in the 
revolutionary war as stated in the preceeding declaration against the common 
Enemy. And that he is in reduced 
circumstances in life and stands in need 
of the assistance of His country for support 
And I now transmit the proceedings 
and testimony taken & had before 
me to the Secretary of the War [depart]ment 
pursuant to the directions of the 
before mentioned act of congress 
Given under my hand & seal this 
5th day of November 1878 . 
J. C. Isacks  Seal

State of Tennessee 
I Jonathan Spyker Clerk of the circuit court 
of Franklin County do hereby certify that Jacob C. Isacks, 
whose signature appears to the above certificate 
is one of the Judges of the circuit courts for the state 
aforesaid. In Testimony whereof I have hereto set 
my hand & private seal having no official seal 
at office in Winchester this  23rd day of December 1848
Seal  Jon Spyker Clk
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No 14272 Jan 29/57
No 6

Decl & Evi of Mrs 
(crossed out) Mary Mount

Capt. [illegible]
Eliz. Thomas

Act 7 July 1838

Jones & Smith
Jospeh Bayan

Present
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State of Tennessee 
Wilson County } County Court 
January Term 1851 
Be it remembered that at a County Court of 
Monthly Sessions held at the Court house of said Wilson on this 7th 
day of January 1851. Satisfactory evidence was aduced [adduced] in open court, 
to prove, and did prove to the satisfaction of said Court that John 
Thomas late of said County, was a pensioner of the United States, at the 
rate of ninety six dollars per annum, and drew his pension at Nashville 
Tennessee for services rendered during the Revolutionary war and of 
the Maryland line: that after the said John Thomas was allowed his said pension he 
was dropt or stopt [dropped or stopped] from receiving the same for reasons unknown to the Court; but that he still remained a Citizen of said County until on the 20th day 
of November 1828 when he died in said Wilson County. That at the time of his 
death he left a widow Elizabeth Thomas who survived him until on or about 
the first day of January 1849 when she died in said Wilson County Tennessee. That 
at the time of her death, the said Elizabeth Thomas left William Thomas of Gallatin 
County Illinois, and Mary Mount of said Wilson County, who are the only heirs at 
law and legal representatives of her the said Elizabeth Thomas and Widow of 
the said John Thomas as above mentioned, It is also satisfactory shown 
to said Court that previous to the Marriage of said Elizabeth Thomas her name 
was Elizabeth Perriman; that she and the said John Thomas were married 
in Rockingham County in the State of North Carolina some time in the 
year Seventeen hundred and Eighty two. 
All of which is ordered to be entered of record and certified by the Clerk of said Court. 
State of Tennessee 
Wilson County } I Josiah S McClain Clerk of the
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County Court Court of said County of Wilson and State of Tennessee 
do hereby certify that the above contains a true copy of an original 
record in the minutes of said Court in the matter of the 
identity of the heirs of Elizabeth Thomas, Widow of John 
Thomas late of said County deceased 
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at 
office in Lebanon, this 9th day of January 1851 J. S. McClain Clerk
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John Thomas 
11.930

See origl. papers
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District of West Tennessee 
Wilson County ss. }
On this ninth day of 
May 1821 personally appeared in open court 
being a county court of record in said county 
and district as aforesaid John Thomas aged sixty=one years resident in Wilson County and district 
as aforesaid who being first duly sworn according 
to  law doth on his oath declare that he served 
in the Revolutionary war as follows in the s Regimt [regiment] 
of Maryland Regular service in the company commanded 
by Capt. Revillie. Also I have heretofore 
legally declared on oath on the 26th of October 1818 of my inability service in said revolutionary war & and sent it on to the war department 
and have since obtained a Pension 
Certificate in my favour numbered 11.930 and 
I do further declare upon oath that I was a resident 
citizen of the United States on the 18 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 the intent thereby so as to diminish it as to bring myself within the 
provision 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
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war passed on the 18th March 1818 and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property or securities, or debts due to me nor have I any income other than what is herein contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed as followeth.

One gray mare valued at $50
Sixty acres land $150
seven head cattle $27
twelve head hogs & 11 young pigs $12
Two beds and sleds with the rest of his household & kitchen furniture $20
[Total] $259

I further declare on oath that I am by occupation a shoemaker almost unable to pursue it my wife Elizabeth and one daughter by the name of Polley constitutes my family, my wife about sixty years of age quite decrepit and infirm scarce able to do anything to our support, my daughter Polley about Eighteen years of age of course very little she is able to contribute to the supporting a family 
Sworn to and subscribed in open court being as aforesaid a county court of record for said county and district as aforesaid this 9th day of May 1821.

Sworn to in open court John Thomas
Robt Bampf[?]
Isaac Perriman
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State of Tennessee
Wilson County Court }

May Session 1821

I John Allcorn clerk of the county court aforesaid do hereby certify that the foregoing oath & the schedule thereto are truly copied from the records of said court. I further certify that it is the opinion of the said court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in said schedule is two hundred fifty-nine dollars & no more.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my name and affixed my private seal (there being no seal of office at office this 9th day of May 1821.

John Allcorn - Clk

SEAL
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No 1

State of Tennessee
Wilson County

On this 2nd day of December 1858 personally appeared before the undersigned a justice of the peace in and for said Wilson County and a justice of the county court of said county which is a court of record Mrs. Mary Mount a resident of said county aged forty-nine years on the 12th day of September last who on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions of the acts of congress past July 7th 1838 3rd March 1843, 17th June 1844 and 2d February 1848 granting pensions to certain widows or their heirs of revolutionary soldiers who served during the revolutionary war etc.. That she is the sixth child of John Thomas & his wife Elizabeth Thomas late of said county now present and declarant will here proceed to give as full an account of her said father services in said revolutionary war and of the marriage of her father & mother as she can now recollect which statements she gives and makes from what she heard and understood from her said father & mother in their lifetime to wit, her father was a continental soldier or regular soldier from the
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State of Maryland that he was an enlisted soldier for during the war of the revolution that after the close of the said war affiant's father then returned for his home and while on his way he being out of money & clothing at the close of said war he was compelled to stop & go to work. this he done stopped in the state of North Carolina & while remaining there became acquainted with declarants' mother who was Elizabeth Perryman of Rockingham County as well as declarant recollects and sometime in the year seventeen hundred and eighty-two or eighty-three declarant's father John Thomas intermarried to the said Elizabeth Perryman in said Rockingham County North Carolina and afterwards they removed to East Tennessee thence to Kentucky & thence back to Tennessee & settled in Wilson County. This was about the year 1807 declarant being then about six years old and afterwards to wit about the year eighteen hundred and nineteen 1819 declarant distinctly recollects her father the said John Thomas applied for a pension which papers of application was made out by and forwarded to the department
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by Joshua Lester or Esqr crop of said Wilson County and upon said application declarants father the said John Thomas was allowed a pension of ninety-six dollars per year declarant also recollects that after said pension was allowed in 1820 or 1821 her father went to Nashville after his money and received it the precise amount she does not recollect, that sometime thereafter the said Lister again call at her father's to arrange his papers & to value his property again in order for her father to make another draw when this was done & the papers sent on when the said John Thomas was informed that he could not draw any more money that his pension was stopped in consequence of his having more property then was allowed to a pensioner, affiants father therefore never received any more money as a pensioner up to the day of his death that he died in said Wilson County Tenn on the 20th November eighteen hundred & twenty-eight (1828) that at the time of his death he left his widow the said Elizabeth Thomas declarants
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mother who survived him until on the first day of January 1849 when she died in said Wilson County Tennessee that at the time of her death she left but two Children William Thomas
of Gallatin County Illinois and declarant who are the only legal heirs of their mother the said
Elizabeth Thomas deceased.

Declarant further states that after the death of her father the said John Thomas his old original pension certificate with his other
papers was taken into possession by her brother William Thomas who moved from said Wilson County to Gallatin County Illinois that when he removed, he carried said pension
certificate & papers with him. Since which time declarant has not seen nor heard of them.
Declarant further states that she has no documentary or record proof of the Marriage of her mother & Father that their family record which showed the dates of the children's births
& probably of the Marriage was lost or destroyed so declarant cannot now produce it. Affiant further
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States that at the date of the
death of her mother the said
Elizabeth Thomas She was as declarant
understood from the said
Elizabeth that she was in the
Eighty Seventh year of her age
that she had for twenty years
previous to her death been almost
intirely blind that the reason
why she did not apply for a
pension in her lifetime was
that the supposed as her husband
had been stopt from receiving
it that she was not intitled
nor did she know any better up
to the day of her death nor did
declarant untill very [illegible]
know that she and her brother
could claim the same as his heirs
declarant therefore makes this her
application and asks that she &
her brother the said William
Thomas who are the only heirs at
law of the said Elizabeth Thomas
may be allowed the amount of
pension that was due to [illegible]
Mother at the time of her death
Sworn to and subscribed
before me the date above
W. F. Harris
Mary Mount [her mark]
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State of Tennessee
Wilson County

I William T Harris a Justice of the Peace in and for said county do hereby certify that I am well acquainted with Mrs. Mary Mount who has this day appeared and made oath to the above declaration before me, that she is a woman of truth & veracity that full faith & credit is due and of right ought to be given to her statement and I further certify that she is a daughter of Mrs. Elizabeth Thomas dec'd widow od John Thomas dec'd this 2nd day of December 1850.

W T Harris - JP
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No 5

State of Tennessee
Wilson County

On this 1st day of January 1851 personally appeared before the undersigned a Justice of the Peace in and for said county Clairborne Rhodes a resident of said county aged fifty years and makes oath in due form of law that he was well acquainted with John Thomas and his wife Elizabeth Thomas late of said county that he has known them well from his earliest recollections say from the year eighteen hundred and six 1806 that they then lived in Rockingham County North Carolina, they was then living together as man and wife & so continued up to the day of the death of the said John Thoams, that after this date they removed from North Caroline to East Tennessee thence to the state of Kentucky then to Wilson County. Affiants father also removed from Rockingham Co NC to Wilson County in 1808 and settled in the same neighborhood of the said John & Elizabeth Thomas say in one half mile of each other that they was then living together as man & wife that sometime thereafter say in 1819 or 1820 the said John Thomas applied for and was allowed a pension at the rate
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of ninety-six dollars per year, that shortly after he received his pension & made one or two draws he was stopped or drafted in consequence of his property the particulars of which affiant cannot give, that some time afterwards to wit in the year 1828 the said John Thomas died in said Wilson County that he left his widow the said Elizabeth Thomas who survived him until on the first day of January 1849 she died in said county, that at the time of her death she left two lawful heirs to wit, William Thomas and Mary Mount who were the only surviving heirs of him the said John & Elizabeth Thomas. Affiant was also acquainted with the children of the said John Thoams & his wife Elizabeth and would suppose that their oldest child if living would now be sixty-five or sixty-eight years of age his name was Jules Thomas and affiant is certain that Mary Mount who made a declaration to claim the amount of pension due in consequence of her mother's death is a daughter of the said John
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Thomas & his widow Elizabeth Thomas the identical John Thomas who drew a pension as above stated and which declaration affiant examined as made by the said Mary Mount and date 1st day of January 1851.

Sworn to and subscribe before me the date above

W T Harris - JP

A H Rhodes

State of Tennessee
Wilson County

I W T Harris a justice of the peace in and for said county do hereby certify that I am well acquainted with Claibourne Rhodes who has this day appeared and made oath to the above declaration before me that he is a man of truth & veracity that full faith and credit is due and of rite ought to be given to his statements. Witness my hand this 1st day of January 1851.

W T Harris - JP
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State of Tennessee
Wilson County

I Josiah McClain clerk of the Circuit Court of said county of Wilson hereby certify that W T Harris Esq whose genuine signature appears to the within affidavit now is and was on the day of the date of the same an acting justice of the peace in and for said county duly commissioned & sworn.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my deal of office at office in Lebanon this 13th day of January AD 1851.

J McClain - Clerk
of Wilson County Court
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Rev & 1812 Wars Section

July 27, 1925

Margaret Peavy
Cuero, Texas

Madam

I have to advise you that from the papers in the revolutionary war pension claim W-125 it appears that John Thomas while residing in Kenty County, Maryland enlisted August 1, 1780 served as a private in Captain Revelly's Company of the First Maryland regiment and was in a skirmish hear Charleston, South Carolina and at the battle of Yorktown and served until November 10, 1783.

He was allowed pension on his application executed October 26, 1818, while residing in Wilson County, Tennessee. He died there November 20, 1828.

In 1782 or 1783 he married Elizabeth Perryman of Rockingham County, North Carolina. She died in Wilson County, Tennessee January 1, 1848 aged eighty-six years.

Their first child was Isaac. A daughter Polly was eighteen years old in 1821. Two children survived the widow, namely William of Gallatin County, Illinois and their sixth child Mary born September 12, 1801 who married Alfred Mount. Names of others not stated.

Respectfully

Winfield Scott
Commissioner

William Bodley was Lieutenant of Kent Co. Md
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Left Side Page

125 Revy WIDOW, etc.

File No 125
Elizabeth Thoms dec'd
Widow of
John
Pri Rev War

Act: Feb 2nd, 1848
Index Vol M Page 268
{Arrangement of 1870.]

Right Side Page

1925 July 27 - Hist Mary Peasy
see letter in Claim S-3783 William Thomas, VA
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I certify that John Thomas was enlisted for the Maryland line on the 25th day of March 1781 - to serve as a soldier for the term of three years.

W B Bodley
Lieut. Kent Co Md
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partial page

labor and want government to do something for me as well as pa me for my past services.

John Thomas
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Pg 6
I do Certify there is due to John Thomas Soldier in the 
1st Maryland Reg for his deficiency of Clothing from 
the of 1st of November 1781 to [?] of November 1782 The Sum of 
nine Dollar and fifty Seven hundreths of a Dollar—Camp Ashley Hill 1882 
[?] Winchester P. M.
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Important
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No 14.272
Elizth [Elizabeth] Thomas decd 
wid of John 
Ten. [Tennessee]
Act of 7th July 1838
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11.033 
Tennessee Nashville 
Elizabeth Thomas decd
Widow of John Thomas 
who was a pensioner under the Act of 1818 
and who died on the 20th Novr 1828 
of Wilson Co. in the State of Tennessee 
who was a private in the ____ 
commanded by ____ of the 
Regt commanded by Col Brindley in the Maryland line for years 

Inscribed on the Roll of Nashville 
at the rate of 80 Dollars 00 
Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836. 

Certificate of Pension issued the 7th day of 
Feby 1837and sent to 
Wm E. Jones
present 

Total amount, $_____ 
[Act July 7, 1838.] 
Recorded by H R Weightman Clerk, 
Book D Vol 1 Page 357
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8931 
Tennesse Nashville 
Elizabeth Thomas decd 
widow of John Thomas 
who was a private 
in the Revolution 

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate 
of 80 Dollars 00Cents 
per annum, to commence 
on the 4th day of March, 1843. 
Certificate of Pension issued 
the 7th day of Feby 1837 
and sent to 
William E. Jones Present 

[Acts of March 3, 1843 & June 17, 1844.]

Recorded in Book a Vol 2. Page 198
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No [9?] 
State of Tennessee 
Wilson County } 
on this 2d day 
of December 1850 personally appear 
before the undesigned a Justice of the 
peace in and for said County Richard Mount 
Sr. a resident of said County aged 
Sixty five years and makes oath 
in due form of law that he was 
will acquainted with John Thomas 
and his wife in their lifetime 
and was well acquainted with them
Since his earliest recollection Say 
from the year seventeen hundred and 
ninety one or two that at this date 
they was living in Rockinham [Rockingham] 
County 
State of North Carolina and was there 
living together as man and wife 
& so continued untill the death of the 
said John Thomas having removed 
from North Carolina to Tennessee 
and affiant also removed to this Wilson 
County Ten [Tennessee]in the year 1809 when 
affiant reached said Wilson County 
he met with the said John Thomas 
and his wife Elizabeth living in sd[said]
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County Still together wife as man and 
wife and affiant then settled in 
the same neighborhood within and 
some time thereafter they about the 
year Eighteen hundred and nineteen 
or twenty the said John Thomas 
applied for and received a pension 
amount of which affiant is not certain 
but thinks it was ninety six dollars 
a year which pension he was in 
receipt of but for a Short time 
when he was stopt [stopped] in consequence 
of his property and some 
time thereafter to wit in the 
year 1828 the said John Thomas 
died in said Wilson County 
that at the time of his death he 
left his widow the said Elizabeth 
Thomas who Survived him 
untill on the 1st day of January 
1849 at which time she died in 
said Wilson County Tennessee that 
at the time of her death She left 
two children to wit Mary Mount 
& William Thomas both of whom 
is still living and the only heirs 
at law of the said John Thomas
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and his wife Elizabeth Thomas 
and that previous to the Marriage 
of the said Elizabeth to the said John 
Thomas her name was Elizabeth Perryman affiant of course was 
not at the marriage but always 
understood from them that they was 
Married in Rockinham [Rockingham] or
[illegible] County North Carolina and affiant 
is certain that from the year 
1791 or 1792 the said John Thomas 
and the said Elizabeth lived 
together as man and wife and was 
So reported up to the day of their 
deaths as above stated affiant 
further states that he was will [well]
acquainted with the family or 
children of the said John & Elizabeth 
Thomas that their first 
child was by the name of Isaac Thomas 
who was two or three 
years older than affiant We 
was boys together and raised up 
together in the same neighborhood 
and was well acquainted with him
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up to his death. from the intimate 
acquaintance that affiant 
had with the said John & Elizabeth Thomas 
affiant is certain that the Statements 
above given is correct that he 
also understood from the said John 
Thomas that he was a regular 
Soldier from Mariland [Maryland] he is also 
certain that previous to his death 
he was a pensioner as above 
Stated he has frequently conversed 
with the said Elizabeth Thomas Since 
the death of her husband concerning 
her drawing a pension and 
her conclusion seemed to me that 
as her husband had been stopt [stopped] 
that she could probably get nothing 
nor did She no [know] any better as long 
as she lived. affiant has seen the 
declaration of Mary Mount who is a 
distant relation to affiant in which 
she claims the amount of Pension 
due to her mother the said Elizabeth 
at the time of her death and is certain 
that she is the daughter of the above
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John and Elizabeth Thomas as above affidavit and also as mentioned in her said declaration that the other heir William Thomas lives in Gallatin County Illinois.

Sworn to and subscribed the date above mentioned.

W T Harris - JP

Richard Mount

State of Tennessee
Wilson County

I Wm Thomas Harris a justice of the Peace in and for said county hereby certify that I am well acquainted with Richard Mount Sr who has this day appeared and made oath to the above affidavit before me, that he is a man of truth & veracity and full faith and credit is due & ought to be given to his statements. In testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand this 2nd day of December 1850.

W T Harris - JP
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State of Tennessee
Wilson County

I Josiah S McClain clerk of the County Court of Wilson County & 
State of Tennessee do hereby certify that
William F Harris whose name is signed
officially to the foregoing declaration 
of Mary Mount and to the certificates 
and also to the foregoing affidavit
& certificate is now and was, at 
the time of Signing the same an acting
Justice of the peace in and for said county 
and a Justice of our said county court which
is a court of record and has by law 
a public seat that the signatures those 
to be purporting to be his is genuine
In testimony whereof I
have here set my hand
and affix my seal of
office at office in Lebanon
this 11th day December 1850
J. S. McClain Clark
of Wilson County Court
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District of Columbia
Washington County

Wm E Jones being duly sworn deposes & says that sometime in the month of December last a letter was written and addressed to the clerk of the county court of Rockingham County North Carolina asking for a certificate from the records of his office of any said register of the marriage of John Thomas & Elizabeth Perryman and that if no record of the fact existed a certificate of that fact, the letter was signed by Smith & Jones who were attending to the claim and a fee thereof enclosed. Deponent states that no answer has been received to said application to affiants' knowledge.

Wm E Jones

Sworn to and subscribed before me this 15th Feb 1857

Sam Grubb JP - SEAL
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STATE OF TENNESSEE  Wilson County
To Alfred Mount a citizen of Wilson County.
IT, appearing to the County Court now in Session, that Elizabeth Thomas 
has died in this county, leaving no Will, and the Court being satisfied as to you claim 
to the Administration, and you having given bond and qualified as directed by law, and the Court having ordered that Letters of Administration be issued to you:
These are Therefor to authorize and empower you to take into your possession and
control, all the goods, chattles, claims and papers of the said inestate, and return a true and perfect 
inventory thereof to our next County Court, to collect and pay all debts, and to do and
transact all the duties in relation to said estate which lawfully devolve on you as Administrator,
and after having settled up said estate, to deliver the residue thereof to those who are by
law entitled.
Witness, Josiah S. McClain, Clerk of said Court at office, this 5th day of 
May 1851 and 76 year of American Independence.
J S McClain clerk
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State of Tennessee
Wilson County

I Josiah L McClain clerk of the county court of said county of Wilson certify that the within is the original copy of letters of administration issued by order of the said county court when Alford Mount was appointed by said court administrator of the estate of Elizabeth Thomas deceased. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of said court at office in Lebanon this 11th day of May 1851.

J L McClain - Clerk
of Wilson County Court

Alford Mount
Letters of Administration
on the estate of
Elizabeth Thomas
recorded the
6th May AD 1851

J L McClain - Clk
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House of Reps Feb 4 1851

To The Commissioner of Pensions

Sir

Having often been called on to procure record testimony of marriages in N Carolina my inquiries enable me to say that in Stokes, Rockingham and indeed in any of the western counties of that state no record evidence of marriage can be found of an earlier date than about the year 1790.

Yr obt servt

A. Sheppard
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11033
Elizabeth Thomas
wid of John
Tenn

Act 7 July 1838
Adm'd 2 yrs pension $80 per ann from 4 Mch 1836 (excepts 2 years) to 1st Jan 1849 when she died.

Payable to Wm Thomas & Mary Mount her only surviving children.

Cert sent to 
Wm E Evans
Pension
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The additional evidence transmitted by you in
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Nashville Tennessee
June 5th 1851
Sir
We enclose the affidavit & letters of Administration of Alfred
Mount Administrator of Elizabeth Thomas decd whose name
a certificate of Pension was issued on 7th Feby last & enclosed to us.
You will please direct the Pension Agent at Nashville
to pay the Pension to Mr Mount as administrator as requested
in his declaration enclosed herewith,
Your Ms Obt Servants
Smith & Jones

Hon J E Heath
Commi of Pensions
Washington City
D.C.
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State of Tennessee
County of Wilson

On this 29 day of
May AD 1851 personally appeared Alfred Mount (with
whom I am personally acquainted) and made oath in
due form of law that he is the Administrator of Elizabeth
Thomas, deceased (widow of John Thomas) to whom a
Certificate of Pension was issued on the Seventh day of February
[illegible] under Acts of "July 7, 1838," "3d March 1843," "17 June 1844" and
"2 February 1848" at the rate of Eighty Dollars per annum, which
Pension was made payable to William Thomas, and Mary Mount
(affiant's wife), only surviving children of the said Elizabeth Thomas
decd, that after diligent search and enquiry it can not be
ascertained where William Thomas now resides, nor whether he
is now living, Affiant therefore requests that the Pension be
made payable to him as Administrator for the benefit of
the aforementioned surviving children of the said Elizabeth
Thomas, he having been qualified and appointed Administrator
for that purpose, and having given ample bond and security
for the faithful performance of his duty as such, and that
the Pension Agent at Nashville Tennessee be instructed to pay the
said Pension to him as Administrator.
Sworn to & subscribed before me 
the day and year above written
W.S. Harris

X [his mark] Alfred Mount 
Admin of Elizabeth Thomas
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State of Tennessee
Wilson County ⎬
I, Josiah S McClain Clerk of the County Court of Wilson
County in the State of Tennessee do hereby certify that William J Harris whose
signature appears to the foregoing affidavit is and was at the time of
signing the same an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said County
duly elected, commissioned and qualified, and that the signature thereto
purporting to be his is genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereto
set my hand and affixed my seal of Office
at office in Lebanon this 3rd day of June A.D. 1851.
J S McClain clerk
of the [illegible] and Wilson County
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Envelope

Lebanon Tenn
June 18th

FREE

The Honorable John C Calhoun
Secretary at War
Washington

Mr. Edwards
Not entitled
J.L.E.

445
Tennessee
Rec'd 5 July 1821
John Thomas
11930
W. Tennessee

Ex'd J/L/E/