Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 18146, for Thomas Tolman, Vermont
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(3-1776)
SERVICE
Continental
Mass.
Vt.
Tolman, Thomas
Lois

NUMBER
W. 18146
B.L.W2131-200 Lieut {Warner's Regt.
Issued Feb. 14, 1793. 
No papers.
name spelled Talman

CONTENTS
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Thos Tolman
No. 9
5502
Not entitled
30 June 1820
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State of Vermont.
County of Orleans, SS.⎬ 

It a County Court, within & for the sd County of Orleans, began & held at Irasburgh, in sd County, on the fourth Monday of June, A.D. one thousand eight hundred & twenty; the same being a court of Record, & made such by the Statute laws of said State
on this twenty-ninth day of said June personally appeared in open Court, Thomas Tolman, aged sixty-three years, resident in Greensborough, in sd County, who, first being duly sworn according to law, on his oath declares- That he served in the Revolutionary War (in addition to other services, & in another line) in the regiment of Col. Seth Warner, one of the Sixteen additional battalions of Congress, as a Lieutenant; that he made his first declaration for a Pension, on or about the twenty-second day of April, A.D. 1818, & hath received his pension, from that time to the fourth of March of the present year, on a certificate from the war office, numbered five thousand five hundred & two; and doth
further solemnly swear, that he was a Resident Citizen of the United States on the eighteenth day of March one thousand eight hundred & eighteen, & that he hath not since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner, disposed of his property, or any part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it, as to bring himself within the provisions of an Act of Congress, entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons
engaged in the land & naval service of the United States, in the Revolutionary War
passed on the 18th day of March, 1818, & that he hath not nor hath any person in trust for him, any property, or securities, contracts, or debts, due to him; nor hath he any income, other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed & by him subscribed.
Schedule of the whole Estate & Income
of the sd Thomas Tolman.
One small house, 22 by 24 feet, one story, with half an acre of land adjoining. Other buildings, or out-houses: none.
One cow & one three- year- old Heifer. Other creatures: none.
Farming Utensils, or carriages, none.
House - furniture: One wooden clock, with case
one four feet.
cherry
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Cherry Table.
two old Kitchen tables
two light-stands
One plain pine chest of drawers, & book case
One pine chest, with one drawer
One old trunk-
One Looking-Glass, frame damaged
28 inches by 14.three
Three pictures (engraved emblems) in frames, 14 inches by 10.
two old great Chairs
six common kitchen do [ditto]
four old dining do

Pewter:
 two platters
six plates
One old qu’t bason
two old block tin Tea pots

Tin:
 four milk pans
four basons
One Coffee pot
one Funnel
one small tin pail
Two small servers
One breadTray

Coarse Earthen: 
six milk pans
One small platter
One cream pot
two Jugs
One pudding pan

Crockery: 
two pitchers
four quart bowls
Two pint do
eight large plates
ten Small do, 
six butter do
two table dishes
Twelve cups & saucers-

Glass:
one qu’t decanter
one pint do
Two pint tumblers
three half pint do
one foot glass.
 Two Salt Cellars
one Vinegar Cruet
Two two quart Cattle, block Glass
one pint do
one half with do

Brass:
 one brass kettle
one warming pan
one candlestick 

Iron:
 One two part Kettle
two small do
two basons
one gridiron
Three candlesticks
Six knives & forks
Two flat-irons
two spoons
One axe
A.
Silver:
 one large spoon
sIx tea do

one old side saddle

Sundry articles of less value, common to a house, mostly wooden
The house & land, & the cow heifer, I have obtained since receiving my pension,
partly by gratuity from a friend, & partly by purchase. And I owe
eighteen dollars, more than I have due coming to me; and, in addition
I owe four cows, or their value, in Nov next, for one cow loaned to me
eight years ago, to be twice doubled. Income I have none, except a
contract with a son, for fire-wood, at the door, unchopped, for a stove
the keeping of my two cows, & wood, potatoes, & apples,
for
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for the use of my family: but this contract is on a condition to be fulfilled on my part,
which I can in no part, fulfill, without receiving my pension in future.

Circumstances of my family
My former employment has been clerkship in which I have had no employment
 of profit, for twelve years past, I have no ability for labour. My wife is aged
62 of slender health. The rest of my family, residing with me, are, three unmarried
daughters: Roselana, aged 36, infirm for several years-- for the year past
wholly invalid, & the same as confined, with considerable medical expence, & for the
future, utterly uncertain that she will recover health. Achsak, aged 30: her
constitution not only injured, but utterly destroyed, by under labour in the family
Maria aged 20: slender, constitutionally, for any hard labour.
Attest, 
Tho Tolman
Sworn & declared in open court, before me, this 29th day of June, 1820.
William Howe Judge of Orleans
County Court
I, Ira H. Allen, Clerk of Orleans County Court
aforesaid, do hereby certify that the foregoing oath
& the Schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied
from the Record of the said Court; & I do further
certify that it is the opinion of the sd Court that the
total amount in value of the property exhibited in the
 aforesd Schedule is, Two hundred & Seventy three doll’s
 93 cents. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand
 & affixed the seal of the said Court on this 30th day of
June A.D. 1820
Ira H Allen Clerk of the
Court for the County of Orleans
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No 23

Lois Tolman
No 5760
Vt
Act 4 July 36

mo. 80 d 4 [e.]

Adm
12 mo Ensign
6 - Com.
6- paymaster
380 $

To commence on 9 Sept
1842 the day after her husband
died

Richard Randolph
Present
Hon Augustus Young [crossed out or underlined]
HR
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State of Vermont
District of Orleans
Greensboro in said District
On this twenty third day of January A.D. 1843, personally
appeared before the Hon the Probate Court
for the District of Orleans and State of Vermont, Lois
Tolman, a resident of Greensboro in the County of Orleans
and State of Vermont, aged eighty four years, who being
first 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 July
4. 1836, granting pensions to widows of persons who served
during the revolutionary war, viz;- that she is the widow
of Thomas Tolman, late of said Greensboro, who was a
Lieutenant and paymaster in the army of the revolution;
that he belonged to the Regiment commanded by Col
Seth Warner, of the Massachusetts Continental line, and
received his commission prior to the year 1780, as she
believes, and served in the capacity of Lieutenant and
paymaster to the close of the revolutionary war; that he
was a pensioner under the law of Congress passed March
18, 1818, and subsequently under the law of Congress passed
May 15, 1828, and she refers to the rolls and documents
in the war department and his declarations made to obtain
pensions under the aforesaid acts, for a more particular
statement and proof of his services.
She further declares that she was married to the said
Thomas Tolman on the seventeenth day of August in the
year seventeen hundred and Eighty, by the Rev. Job Simmons
a minister of the Gospel; that the marriage was celebrated at
Attleboro in the State of Massachusetts; that her maiden name
was Lois Clark; that the said Thomas Tolman died at
said Greensboro on the Eighth day of September A.D. 1842
and that she has not since intermarried, but still is his
widow, as will appear by the accompanying affidavits.
She further declares that during a portion of the revolutionary war,
 her said husband was a commissary.

Lois Tolman
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Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written, before me, and I certify that the said Lois Tolman is a person of truth and credibility, and that the word "court"" in the above declaration was erased before signing
Geo. Nye Judge
State of Vermont
District of Orleans ⎬
We John C. Ellsworth and Eliza Ellsworth, both of Greensboro in the County and district of Orleans and State of Vermont, do testify and say, that we have been acquainted with Lois Tolman, who has made the above declaration, for more than thirty years last past, and were acquainted with the late Thomas Tolman, her husband, for more than thirty years previous to the death of the latter, (the said Eliza Ellsworth being a daughter of the said Thomas and Lois,) that the said Thomas Tolman was, at the time of his death, a pensioner under the law of Congress, passed May 15, 1828; that the said Lois Tolman is his widow having never intermarried since the death of the said
Thomas, her late husband, and that the said Thomas died at said Greensboro on the Eighth day of September, in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty two. We were both present when he died and attended his funeral.
J. C. Ellsworth
Eliza Ellsworth
Sworn to and subscribed this twenty third day of January A.D. 1843, and I certify that the said affiants are, both persons of truth and veracity, before me.
Geo Nye Judge
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State of Vermont
District of Orleans.
I, Henry M. Bates, Register of the Probate Court
for the District of Orleans and State of Vermont, do
hereby certify that George Nye, before whom the foregoing
declaration and affidavit were sworn to, was, at the
time of taking the same, and still is, Judge of said probate
Court, and that the signatures thereto, purporting to be his
Are genuine.
In testimony whereof I do hereunto
affix the seal of said court and sign
my name at Irasburgh in said district
this 23d day of January A.D. 1843
H M Bates Register
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5502
Vermont

Thomas Tolman
Lieutenant
Putnam's R't Massach'tts
1776 5 years
in the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.

Inscribed on the Roll of Vermont
at the rate of 20 Dollars per month, to commence on
the 22 of Apl 1818

Certificate of Pension issued the 21st of Jan 1819
and sent to Hon Sam C Crofts
H's. Reps

Arrears to 4th of Sept. 1818
Semi-anl all'ce ending 4 Mar 1818 
88.66
120.00
---------
208.66
{Revolutionary claim,
Act 18th March, 1818.}

Respecting identity &c. See letter to T.
Tolman, Oct. 20. 1827
Reinstated
July 21, 1821
and Enter before
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Reported by letter 14th
June 1843--
See letters May 4, 1846 to H. W. Weston and L. F. Waterman.

Vermont - 3861-
Lois Tolman
widow of Thomas Tolman
who died on the 8th September, 1842
of Orleans Co in the State of Vermont
who was an En: P.M.,& C'y in the [blank] commanded
by Captain [blank]  of the [blank] 
commanded [
by Col. Putnam in the Massachusetts
line for 2 years-
---
Increased from $300 per ann
Inscribed on the Roll of Montpelier at
at the rate of 600 Dollars - Cents per annum,
to commence on the 9th of
September, 1842. -

Certificate of Pension issued the 13th day of
June 1843 and sent to G. B. Sawyer
present.

Arrears to the 4th of March 1843 
Semi-annual allowance ending 4 Sept. 
$291.66
$300.00
----------
$591.66

Revolutionary Claim,
Act July 4, 1836,
Section the 3d--

Recorded by Clerk
Vol.  Page
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Vermont - 32.039-
Thomas Tolman, deceased
of Orleans Co. in the State of Vermont
was an E.n P.M & C'y in the [blank] commanded
by Captain  [blank]
of the Regt. commanded
by Col. Putnam in the Massachusetts line for 

12 months an Ensign
6- do. Commissary
6- do Pay Master

Inscribed on the Roll of Montpelier-
at the rate of 360 Dollars - Cents per annum
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831. & terminate the 8 September 1842-
---

Certificate of Pension issued the 4th day of May
1843 & sent to Wm Weston, Burlington 
Vermont
papers herewith

Arrears to the 4th of Sept. 1842
Semi-ant. allowance ending
[illegible- ?? amount paid and sent 5th July 1843?]
$4144.00

Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7, 1832.
Recorded by U. M. Stewart Clerk,
Book E. 2. Vol. 3 Page 103


Rept'd May 8

Refr'd by letter to P.  Agt
5th May 1843-

June 13. 1843 a new
certificate has been issued in
the within case, for $600
per annum-- see the
Widow papers herewith 
for the same amount
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Lt. Tho. Tolman
No 5

Jan. 7. 1819
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Case of Lieut Thomas Tolman
I, Thomas Tolman, resident citizen of the United States, to wit
of Greensborough, in the County of Orleans, & state of Vermont, of the
age of sixty-one years, say & testify:- That, in the first campaign of
the Revolution, before Boston, in the year 1775, I enlisted immediately
the action at Lexington in the regiment of Colo Joseph Read of
Massachusetts, & continued therein (a private) to the close of the term of
enlistment which was eight months. That early in the spring of 1777
(having tarried at home during 1776) I enlisted, a private in the company
of Capt Nathan Goodale, in the regiment of (the then) Colonel Rufus
Putnam of the Massachusetts line; in which service I continued during the
investiture, until the capture of Burgoyne. That after the said capture
I was discharged from the said regiment, to enter, as a Clerk into the Issuing
commissary department. That I continued in said Commissary department,
as Clerk, & Assistant, at Albany & north of that, to wit, at Fort George, on
Lake George, until I entered into the regiment of Colonel Seth Warner, one of the
sixteen additional Battalions of Congress, then stationed at that fort,
with the commission of Ensign, which commission (pretty well worn out
like its owner, & for very many years not having done me much good) I
 herewith respectfully, transmit to the honorable Secretary. That I continued in
this Regiment, with the promotion to a Lieutenancy, untill, by the battle &
seige of said fort, which terminated in its capture, on the 11th day of October
1780, the regiment was nearly destroyed. That, when this regiment, with
others that had become small in the ranks, were, on principle of economy by
order of Congress, deranged & added to the main Army in 1781, I retired, by
virtue of said order, with the other surviving officers (subject to recall)
under the promise of half pay, so, that in the whole, I was in the service
nearly five years. And, if not irrelevant & untimely to mention it, I further
say, that at the said capture of fort George; I last every article of private property
& baggage by the Indians, though contrary to the capitulation; and that, after
receiving my commutation certificate, I was necessitated to dispose of it for
the general song of six pence. And further your [illegible] [insert] & Deponent saith not; (Except that he makes this application with due consideration, & respect.)
Greensboro, April 13. 1818.
Tho Tolman
State of Vermont Orleans County ss Greensboro April 14. 1818 
Then personally appears Thomas Tolman Esq
Signer of the foregoing declaration and made solemn oath
that the same contained the truth and nothing but
according to his best recollection before me
Tim’o Stanley Judge of Orleans County
(See next page.)
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At Greensboro aforesaid, on the twenty second day of April
A.D. 1818, having received the "Rules & Regulations” of the
Hon. Secretary of War, of March 26th, I, the same Thomas
Tolman, as in the foregoing deposition of the 13th instant on the
preceding page do further declare & say: That from my
reduced circumstances, I need the assistance of my country for
support
Tho. Tolman
Sworn to before me date above -
Tim’o Stanley Judge of Orleans County Court

And I hereby certify that the said Thomas Tolman
has produced satisfactory proof that he served
in the revolutionary war against the common
enemy as stated in his declaration, and as
to his reduced circumstances and need of assistance
 from his country I certify that
he is destitute of property either in possession
or expectation and has some demands also against
him which he is unable to discharge; that he
is incapable of manual labour; has for several
years past been destitute of any employment of
profit and is now by age and infirmity beyond
the hope of any, and that his sole dependence for
himself & wife has been for ten years past & is
now in a son whose circumstances of [incapacity] are moderate
and not [immbarassed]. These are the facts of
his case which I can give with confidence from
personal acquaintance &c having resided as my [next]
neighbour for twenty years- I judge this is
statement of the facts of the case, the course of my
duty and it is my opinion that his case is one
intended to be provided for by the act of Mar. 18 ‘18.
And I now transmit the testimony & proceedings
taken and had before me to the Secretary of the
Department of War, pursuant to the directions
of the aforementioned act of Congress
Tim’o Stanley as Judge of Orleans
County Court
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State of Vermont
Orleans County
Irasburgh 7. January 1819
I hereby certify that the Hon. Timothy Stanley
is an asistant Judge of Orleans County Court and
that the foregoing is his signature
Att. Ira H Allen Clerk
of Orleans County Court
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
County of Bristol Town of Attleborough,
The following is an extract from the
Book of Marriage records of the marriage of Lieut.
Thomas Tolman and Miss Lois Clark made by
Calvin Richards Clerk of said Town December
20th 1842
Lieut Thomas Talman Resident in Wrentham
and Miss Lois Clark of Attleborough were married the
Seventeenth 17th day of August Seventeen hundred
and Eighty 1780, The above is a true Coppy of the
record except the day and year which is expressed
on the record in fair legible figures only,
Calvin Richards above named depose and say that I
hold the office of town Clerk in the town County and
Commonwealth aforesaid and that the above is a true
extract from the record of said town with the exception
 above named
Calvin Richards Clerk
of the town of Attleborough

Bristol SS 23rd December 1842
Then the above named Calvin Richards
 Made oath to the truth of the above extract
Before me Elihu Daggett Justice of the Peace.
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Bristol
I James Sproat Clerk of the Court of Common
Pleas for said County of Bristol do hereby
certify that Elihu Daggett, Esq. who signature
is affixed to the within certificate is a Justice
of the peace in & for said County of Bristol, and duly qualified to
administer oaths.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my
hand and affixed the seal of said Court at Taunton this twenty
sixth day of December in the year Eighteen hundred & forty two
Jas Sproat Clk
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Thomas Tolman
dec’d
Vt
Act  7 June 32

am’d 
12 mo. Ensign
6 Com’y
6 Paymaster

300 $

from 4 March 31 to 8
Sept 42 to Lois Tolman
 widow deducting
what was pd under the
act of 15 May 28 from 4
March 31
Wm Weston
Burlington
Vt
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State of Vermont
Orleans County ss.
Lois Tolman of Greensboro in the County of Orleans
and State of Vermont, aged Eighty four years, do hereby
declare and make oath, that I am the widow of Thomas
Solman, late of said Greensburg deceased, who was a Lieutenant
 and Paymaster in the regiment of Col. Seth Warner
in the Massachusetts Continental line of the Army of
the revolution, and served in that regiment to the close of
the revolutionary war; that I am advised that the act
of June, the seventh, one thousand eight hundred and thirty
two, gave to my late husband, the said Thomas Tolman
pay for the staff office which he held as above stated, and
ask that the pay or pension which he was [insert] entitled to receive under the
said act of June 7, 1832, may be granted to me; that the
said Thomas Tolman died at said Greensboro, on the
Eighth day of September, in the year one thousand eight
hundred and forty two; that he was a pensioner of the
United States under the act of [June-crossed out] May, 1828. and I
herewith surrender the certificate which issued to my late
husband under the last mentioned act and ask that
a certificate may be issued to me for the pension which
he was entitled to receive under the act of June 7, 1832.
and I do hereby relinquish all and every claim whatever
to a pension or pay, other then them the one now applied
for, excepting such pension as I am or may be entitled
to receive under the act of July 4, 1836, or other acts
granting pensions to widows. I further declare that my said
husband was also a commissary during a part of the revolutionary war.
Lois Tolman
Sworn to and subscribed before the subscriber, Judge of the
Probate Court for the District of Orleans. and I certify that the
word "entitled" was interlined, and the word "June" erased
in the above declaration, before signing, and that the said
Lois Tolman is a person of truth and credibility. Done at
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Greensboro in the County and District of Orleans this 23d [22d-crossed out] day of January A.D. 1843
Geo Nye Judge

We John C. Ellsworth and Eliza Ellsworth, both of
Greensboro in the County of Orleans and State of Vermont,
do testify and say that Lois Tolman, who has made the
above declaration, is the widow of Thomas Tolman, late
of said Greensboro, deceased, that, we have known the said
Thomas and the said Lois for more than thirty years, the
said Eliza Ellsworth being a daughter of the said Thomas
and Lois, that the said Thomas Tolman was a pensioner
under the law of Congress, passed May 15, 1828, and that
he died at said Greensboro on the Eighth day of September
A.D. 1842. We were both present when he died and
attended his funeral
J. C. Ellsworth
Eliza Ellsworth
Sworn to and subscribed this 23d day of January
A.D. 1843. before me, and I certify that the affiants
are both persons of truth and veracity.
Geo Nye Judge
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State of Vermont
District of Orleans
I, Henry M. Bates, Register of the Probate
Court for the District of Orleans and State of Vermont
do hereby certify that George Nye, before whom the
foregoing declaration and affidavit were taken and sworn
to was, at the time of taking the same, and still is, Judge 
of said probate court, and that the signatures thereto
purporting to be his, are genuine.
In testimony whereof I do hereunto
affix the seal of said Probate Court
and sign my name at Irasburgh
in said district this 23d day of
January A.D. 1843
H M Bates Register

Revolutionary Claims
(434)
under the Act entitled, An Act for the relief certain surviving
Officers and Soldiers of the Army of the Revolution, approved Dec. 1838
I Certify that Thomas Tolman of Greensborough in the County
of Orleans in the State of Vermont is entitled to pay
under the above mentioned Act, as a surviving Liet. of Infantry
in Col. Warner's Regt of the Army of the Revolution at the rate of
Twenty six dollars and sixty six cents a month payable during his life
on the third day of March, and third day of September, in each year
as provided by law that the said pay shall not in any way be transferable, or liable to attachment, levy, or seizure by any legal process whatever.
Given under my hand and the Seal of the Treasury
of the United States this third
day of
August in the year one thousand eight hundred and
twenty nine, and of Independence the fifty fourth
T D Ingram
Secretary of the Treasury
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REVOLUTIONARY WAR RECORDS SECTION.
3 -- 525
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR.
BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
Washington, D. C. 19 

In reply to your request of ___, received ___
For a statement of the military history of Tomas Tolman
A soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired
information as contained in his (& his widow's) application for pension
on file in this Bureau.

DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. |LENGTH OF SERVICE.|OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED.CAPTAIN.| COLONEL. | STATE.

1775 | 8 mos | Pvt.| [blank| Joseph Read| Mass.
Spring 1777 to | Fall, 1777 | Pvt.| Nathan Goodale | Rufus Putnam| Mass.
Clerk in Issuing Commissary Dept. at [Albourough]
Nov 14 1778 to | Oct 16 1780 | Ens. Lieut & Paymaster in  [blank|| Seth Warner’s Continental Regt. | [blank
Dec. 16 1780 to | Oct [dc] 1784 | Paymaster of Vt. troops, Private Sec’y to Gov. &c of Vt. and 
Deputy Sec’y to Gov & Council of Vt.

Battles engaged in, Captured of Fort George
Residence of soldier at enlistment, [check mark]
Date of application for pension, April 13, 1818. His claim was allowed
Residence at date of application, Greensboro Orleans Co., Vt.
Age at date of application, (61) 59 yrs. He died at Greensboro, Vt. Sept. 8, 1842.
Remarks: Soldier was the son of Thomas Tolman, who died at Greensboro, Vt., in 1821,
 aged about 93 yrs. Sol. Mar. Aug 17, 1780 at Attleboro, Mass. Lois Clark of that place.

 Children: Roseanna b. 1784, Achsak b. 1793, Maria b. 182 , Enoch Thomas and Eliza Ellsworth. 
The above is the only Thomas Tolman on record .

Respectfully,
Commissioner.
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Tolman Thos
W 18146

NA
RG 15
TR 1589
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THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA IN CONGRESS ASSEMBLED
[No. 26?] To Thomas Tolman [illegible] Greeting. We, reposing especial trust and confidence in your Patriotism, Valour, Conduct and Fidelity, do, by these presents, constitute and appoint you to be [Ensign] in the Regiment Commanded by Col. Seth Warner, in the army of the United States [to serve and act as such from the 1st day of November, 1778. You are therefore carefully and diligently to discharge the Duty of an Ensign
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 Ensign.
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, for that purpose appointed, or Committee of the States or Commander in chief, for the Time being of the army of the United States, or any other your
superior Officers, according to the rules and discipline of war, in pursuance of the trust
reposed in you. This Commission to continue in force, until revoked by this or a future Congress, the Committee of Congress before mentioned, or a [Commander] of the State.

Entered in the War Office
 and examined by the Board
I Attest, Ben [Starbush], Secretary of the Board of War

Witness this seal by [Gen’l Washington, Esq]
 President of the Congress of the United States of America, 
at Philadelphia the 12th day of November, 17[89], and in the fourth 
  year of our Independence.

George Washington President
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Vermont - 3861-
Lois Tolman
widow of Thomas Tolman
who died on the 8th September, 1842.
of Orleans in the State of Vermont
 who was an Ens. P.M. & Com’y. - in the    _____commanded
by Captain  ___ of the Regt. commanded
by. Col Putnam in the Massachusetts
line for
12 months an Ensign-
6 do- Commissary
6 do Pay Master

Inscribed on the Roll of Montpelier
at the rate of 360 Dollars - Cents
per annum, to commence on the
9th September, 1842 [to]
 the day of his death -

Certificate of Pension issued the 4th day of
May 1843-- and sent to William
Weston, Burlington, Vermont
---
Arrears to the 4th of March ‘43 $185.33/3
Semi annual allowance ending Sept 190.00
$375.33/3 [total] 

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

Recorded by W M Stewart Clerk
Book — Vol. 3 Page 40-

Rep’d 13 Apl
and also
re-rep’d by letter to P. Agt.
5 May 1843
See letter to Sec War 19 May 1843
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Rev Sec
H
Molina Ohio 7-8-1915
To the Hon Head of Pension Department
Washington, D.C.
Will you kindly give me all information
you can find in regard to, "Thomas
Tolman"
He was my great grand-father,
all I know about him is what I
remember my mother telling me, when I
was a child. She said he was on his way
to make his home, with my father and
Mother, was taken sick on the road and
died, that he had just received his pension
($1200) twelve hundred dollars, and had it
with him. One think[s] he must have been in
the revolutionary war , or why did he get a
pension? He was a doctor, and also a
Minister, I have been told.
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He was my father's grandfather.
My father was left an orphan when very
young, and was brought up by his grand
father.
My father also died when I was three
years old so that my knowledge of my
farther’s people is very limited,
I am interested in the D.A.R.
and will be grateful for any information
you can give me
my fathers name was Samson Clark
Tolman, I am not certain about the name of
his Grandfather, being "Thomas" but, think it was.

Very respectfully
Mrs. Harriet S Walton
320 W Washington St. Medina
Ohio
[circle stamp]
PENSION OFFICE U S 
JUL 10 1915
Page 29

Page 83. Vol. 23, Mass Rolls-
Return of Warner’s regt. Seet-
Th. Tolman Ensign & Pay Master
Nov. 14, 1778 - H Tolman was from Suffolk Co.
[next text has a box drawn around it]
Tenn.
#36
Page 30

James L. Edwards Esq 
Comr of Pensions
Greensboro March 13. 1843

Sir
You will please
forward to William Weston Esq of Burlington
the Certificates of my claims for a pension
for the services of my late husband Thomas
Tolman, & obliged yours respectfully
Lois Tolman
Page 31

Washn. May 9, 1843.
G. B. Sawyer
Appeals on Mrs Lois
Tolman's pension
claim.
[h72] Rec'd 12/43
Pension Office
Page 32

Col. Edwards will please send up 
the papers with his reasons. This argument is sent for him to answer at his convenience.

[J Bright ni Company]
JMO

Hon
James M. Porter
Secretary of War
Washington

Pension of Lois Tolman
Appeal
Page 33

Washington May 9th 1843
Hon. James M. Porter
Secretary of War
Sir. A recent decision has been made by the
Commissioner of Pensions, in the case of Mrs. Lois Tolman
of which, I beg leave in her behalf, to solicit your revision
and to submit the following Statement.
Mrs. Tolman is the widow of Thomas Tolman
who drew a pension under the act of 1828, as a Lieutenant
in the Army of the Revolution up to Sept. 9. 1842, the time of his
death. She has made two declarations - one for her life pension
under the act of 1836, the other, for arrearages due her late
husband for his services as a staff officer. The claims the benefit
 of the decisions made by your predecessor, the Hon. Mr.
Spencer viz - that an officer who held rank in the line
and also in the staff is entitled, under the act of June 7, 1832
to pay for both appointments with the limitation of the highest pay
 of a Captain $50 per month and that if the pensioner had not
 received pay for his staff service, he or his representative is entitled
 to it from March 4. 1831. Having been married before the termination
 of the War, she is entitled to all her husband would be - pension &
 arrearages if alive.
 As to Mr. Tolman's lineal rank. He was commissioned
 an Ensign, in 1778, in Col. Warners Regt of the N.H. line - 
promoted - stands on the books of the Bounty Land Office as having received
 his land as a Lieutenant, at the close of the War, and was pensioned as such.
As to his staff service. By the Washington papers Vol. 50. p.70, it appears, he
 was appointed paymaster of Warner’s
Regt March 10. 1780, and stands on the Rolls (Vol. 143.p.85) as
such.  Oct. 27, 1780 His Regiment being captured at Fort George he became
 supernumerary, retaining his rank in the line.
 On the 16th Dec. 1780, he was appointed by Governor & council of
Vermont “paymaster of the troops raised 
and to be raised for the defence" of that frontier, and held that
office to the close of the War as is abundantly proved by his
Page 34

settled accounts for his services, receipts, payments &c, certified
by the Secretary of State of Vermont.
The result is, more than seven months service as
paymaster in Warners Regt - and two years and eleven
months, under the Vermont appointment. He served, also, from
Jan. to June, 1780 as Commissary of Warner's Reg’t. Two years
service as pay master, under the act of 1832, entitled him to full pay.
As to pay of paymaster-- It was $26.67 by Revolution of July 16. 1776
 - (Jour. of Con.) It was $20 per mo. by Res’n of May 27. 1778. By Res’n
 of March 23, 1779, the offices of [clothier] and pay master were united; and
 then the pay was fixed at $30 per month by Res. of Jan. 1. 1781.
The act of June 7. 1832 gives full pay to all persons to all persons, according
 to their grades who served two years in the “Continental Line, State Troops,
 Militia or Volunteers." The Vermont troops, of whom Tolman was pay master
must be included in one of there descriptions-- it matters
not which. The circular of the Hon. Sec’y. of War, dated June 27. 1832, to carry that act into effect, announced “it has been construed to include "Staff” as well as ‘line’ “.
The view of the Commissioner is, that Tolman’s
Vermont appointment of pay master conferred a mere civil
office. Why so? Were the other officers, appointed by the same
authority, for those "Troops”, Quarter Masters, adjutants
Lieutenants &c, civil officers? Were the "Troops" themselves
serving in civil capacities? The functions, duties and responsibilities
 of a paymaster are military. The Military rank
of first Lieutenant is given a paymaster by the Res’n of Oct. 10, 1776.
He was not appointed a disburser of public monies for civil
purposes, but simply “paymaster of troops raised & to be raised”
and appointed by the same supreme authority, and
in the same way-- as all other military officers of the State
were appointed, as well might an Adjutant be confounded
with a constable, or an aid de Camp with a Justice of the
Peace: and it seems to be a hardship, that the use of a misapplied term
 should set aside, in this case, for the first time, the main meaning of the law,
 and its settled construction.
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But, however called, Mr. Tolman’s Vermonth appointment
 of paymaster, conferred a staff office, and of course comes
under the act of 1832.
I beg leave to add, that Congress, by a Resolution, of
1779 (I think) preferred supernumeraries for staff appointment
and by Res’n of Nov. 24. 1778 earnestly recommended the
state to make further provision for them-- by employing
them. It was therefore, the very sense and policy of Congress to employ
 in state service, skill, experience and zeal which it wanted
 the means of rendering available to the country. Mr. Tolman
 was an example of this. His Reg’t Captured, and himself
 without a command, he became a supernumerary, retaining
 his rank in the line; but he immediately entered
the State service as pay master, acted in a variety
of Capacities, and rendered highly useful service in the
"defence" of the most important and exposed frontier of the
Country. His Lieutenant's rank in the continental line
which he retained to the close of the War, and his service in
the staff under state appointment, after being supernumerary,
 were perfectly compatible. As he served both in the staff 
and the line, more than two years, his widow claims full
pay for both.
In behalf of this venerable lady, a compatriot
 of my own, I respectfully ask an examination of her
case, and that the rule applied to all others should
not be denied to her.
I have the honour to be
With great respect
Your obedient servant
G. B. Sawyer

Hon James M. Porter
Secretary of War
Page 36

Rev
WIDOW, &c.
No. 18146

Lois Tolman
Widow of
Thomas Tolman
Paymater Rew War
---
Act: July 4th 36
1
Index: -- Vol. M Page 279
(Arrangement of 1870.)

190 July 10 Hist. to Harriet S. Walton AW
Page 37

Thomas Tolman Lt. & Paymaster
of Warner's Regt - His services
in each grade?
G.W.H.

Mr Hagner

Lt Thomas Tolman was a Lieut & Paymaster
and has been settled with & received his [commutation] as Lieut't, but it cannot be ascertained by the Records how long he served as Paymaster.
[illegible]
Feb 17 1843
P.H.
Page 38

Thomas Tolman
Act 32 $320
Vermont
Page 39

See letter to G. B Sawyer 30th
May 1843 -
Page 40

[page is torn, with missing text]

T[homas Tolman]
[drawing of a hand+ [missing]
His [missing]
See letter to [missing]
Hardwick Vt 12 Feb. 1836
Page 41

Reinstated
Stricken off under
Act May 15 1828
13 Augt 1828

Mar ‘ 19
This pensioner’s property
was valued at $273.93
he served 5 years–
Is 63 yrs of age his
wife 62 - of slender health
Daughters - aged 36 30
20- all invalids - It may
be proper to state that his
Home-½ acre of land, Cow
& heifer, were purchased with
pension money.
Page 42

V
5760
Lois Tolman
Vt
let to Hon Augt Young 
Feby 18 '43
&
R Randolph April 3 '43
act 4 July 36
Page 43

Thomas Tolman
No 16
26 Feb 36

Vt. Mar 5

See letter 19 Mar. 1836 to P. Agt.

Hardwick, Vt.
25 Feb'y

free

Hon. J. L. Edwards
Pension Office
Washington, D.C.
Page 44

Thomas Tolman
No 16
26 Feb 36

Vt. Mar 5

See letter 19 Mar. 1836 to P. Agt.

Hardwick, Vt.
25 Feb'y

free

Hon. J. L. Edwards
Pension Office
Washington, D.C.
Page 45

Confidential

Hardwick on 24 Feby 1836
Hon J L Edwards
Sir-- Yours of 12 inst.
has this moment came to hand,  I
will answer yr enquires. Thomas Tolman
resides in this town, removed from Greensboro.
He is reputed [underlined] to have been a "Revolutionary
Officer”. Whether he not at any time such
only as acting Adjutant for the time being,
evidence found to be had elsewhere.

I am yours respectfully
Lewis H Delong
P. S. to answer yr question definitely
“Thomas Toman is not known as a
Revolutionary officer in this neighborhood”
L H Delong
Page 46

Washington June 20th 1819
Sir,
The accompanying containing Documents to
substantiate a claim for a Revolutionary pension
I have sent them directly to your care.
 & am very respectfully yours &c
Saml C. Crofts

J L Edwards Esqr
Page 47

No 17
FREE

Jas L. Edwards Esq
Com'r of Pensions
Washington, D. Co.

[circle stamp]
WASHINGTON D. C.
APR 19

am'd  April 26 1836
18 Apl '36

Apl 25

Tho Tolman
[Act or May] 15 '28
Pen. Agt. 
Mar 19 '36
Page 48

Burlington April 18, 1836
Sir, 
Thomas Tolman Esq - a pensioner under the
act of May 15, 1828 inscribed upon the roll
of the Vermont Agency, having recently had the
payment of his pension suspended, wishes to know
the cause of his suspension that he may satisfy
you from proper testimony that he ought be
restored to the roll.
Be pleased to advise me without
delay of the cause of his suspension, and I will
inform him thereof.
I am very respectfully
Your obt Servt
Wm Weston

Jas. L. Edwards Esq
Commis’r Pensions
Page 49


J. L. Edwards Esq
Com of Pensions



No. 18 June 3rd

Tho. Tolman
Vt. 

Act 1828 

ann: 9 June 1836

Hon. H. Allen
HR
Page 50

Washington June 3, 36
J. L. Edward Esq. Com. Pen.
Sir
Enclos’d is a memorandum of ongoing concerning
 Tho Tolman’s Pension. Will Mr Edwards
have the goodness to inform me  the
deficiency of testimony. Mr Tolman is one of 
our oldest inhabitants.  He was a responsible 
officer under our state government & his moral
character has never been impeached to 
my knowledge.

I am yours &c 
Heman Allen
Page 51

J.L. Edwards Esq
Com. Pensions
Washington
Page 52

Feb. 14. 1843
House of Representatives
Sir
Herewith I send you the pension papers
 in the case of a most worthy
lady, a neighbour and friend of mine;
and beg of you the favour to give them
an early consideration, necessary in this
case, from her age and the short period
left of the Session. She, you will perceive, is
the widow of Thomas Tolman, a meritorious
and gallant office of the Revolution, paymaster
 and Commissary in Col. Warner's Regiment.
 As she was married before the Revolution closed,
 she will be entitled to his pay during her life. She is
 also entitled to the difference between the lineal pay
 he rec’d and the state pay - say $3174.-
And it gives me pleasure to State that there were and are
 no worthier recipients of the justice of the country
than these venerable persons. Repeating that an early
 consideration of these matter will oblige me extremely, 
 I am
Yours Respectfully
Augustus Young

J. L. Edwards Esq
Com Pensions
Page 53

[circle stamp]
WASHINGTON
APR 

To James L. Edwards, Esq
Pension Office

Apl 7, 1843
Vt. 
Tolman
R. Randolph
Present

5 mo. 26 dys

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No. 27
Page 54

Washington 6th March 1843
Sir
The returns of the Commissary General of issues, on
file in the department of State, shew, that Thomas
Tolman acted as an assistant Commissary at Fort George
from the first of January, to the thirtieth of June 1780.
Col. Warner’s letter to Genl. Washington, dated at
Bennington 10th March 1780. states, the his pay master
had absconded, and that he had appointed Ensign
Thomas Tolman (the bearer of the letter) his successor.
The Roll of Col. Warner’s Regiment dated 21st October
1780, report Ensign and Pay Master Tolman, as on
command at Boston.
General Washington’s Letter to Col. William Malcom
dated 16th October 1780. says "Warner’s regiment will be
incorporated on the first of January".
The act of congress, of 9th October 1776 gives to regimental
paymaster, the rank of first Lieutenant, and the
ration of Capts. The act 7th May 1779. gives to the
assistant Commissaries, ninety dollars per month as pay,
and their traveling expences.
The testimony referred to, proves that Thomas Tolman
was an assistant commissary for six months, during
part of the time he also acted as Paymaster; and
he was officially a paymaster until Col Warner's
Page 55


regiment was incorporated. He is reported as an Ensign but
as assistant commissary his pay was equal to that of a
Captain, and his appointment as Pay Master; gave
him the rank of a first Lieutenant.
It is in proof that he acted for twelve continuous
months as a staff officer. And as the agent of Mrs.
Lois Tolman: his widow; I ask the staff pay which
the act 7th June 1832 has been construed as due,
may be given to her, and that her pension certificate
may include the Staff pay.
I salute you very respectfully
Richard Randolph

J. L. Edwards
Page 56

Mar 13 '43
Vt.
Lois Tolman

To J. L. Edwards Esqr
Commissioner of Pensions

No. 30
Page 57

Washington 13th March 1843.

Dear Sir
For the objections to Lois Tolman's claim, stated in
your letter of the 18th ult. I take the liberty to refer you
to the Archives of State, where you will find a letter
from Col. Warner to Genl Washington, dated 10th March
1780. announcing the appointment of Ensign Thomas
Tolman, as paymaster to his regiment,  to the Roll of his
regt 21st October 1780. reporting Tolman on duty to
Boston: to Col Warner’s Letter 30th October informing Gen’l
W. that his late paymaster Sherman had run off, and
that all his papers were lost at Fort George
To his letter 16th June 1782: to the 3d Auditors office, where it
appears that Tolman was a paymaster, referring to
a book which is lost, for particulars. To Mr Moritz's
office for a certificate paid to Tolman, by Jonathan
Burral in 1785. Had there been a paymaster to the
regiment subsequent to Tolman, there would have been
evidence of it. The Rector of Congress, 26th April 1782 directs
the staff office to be filled by supernumerary officers, and that
regimental paymaster shall not be attached to any company-
I salute you respectfully
Richard Randolph

J.L. Edwards Esqr
Page 58

[circle stamp]
BURLINGTON VT
APR 20

Apl 24 1823
Vt. 
Lois Tolman

James L. Edwards Esq
Comr of Pension
Washington
D. C. 
No. 31
Page 59

Burlington Apl 19. 1843
Sir
I enclose the request of Mrs Lois Tolman,
widow of Thomas Tolman, to have the certificates
that may be issued to her, forwarded to me.
She is an applicant for a pension under the law
of July 4 1836 - and also for a balance, under the
act of June 7, 1832, due her late husband.

I am very respectfully
Your obt. serv’t
Wm Weston

James L. Edwards Esq
Coms. of Pensions
Page 60

May 2’d 1843
[D Comsr]

[circle stamp]
BURLINGTON VT.
APR 26

Hon. J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions,
Washington
Page 61

Secretary of State's Office
Montpelier, April 24. 1843
Sir,
I have the honor to enclose a copy of
the account of Thomas Tolman as Paymaster
&c, as exhibiting the only evidence I have
been able to find of the length of his service in
the said office of Paymaster.
I have not, heretofore, made any charge
for like examinations and certificates; but as
in my subordinate station, the fees paid by
applicants constitute the only remuneration 
receive, I enclose my bill, receipted, which
if not at variance with the rules of your office,
will doubtless be paid.
Very respectfully
Your Obt Sevt,
C.L. Knapp,
Deputy Secretary of State.

J.L. Edwards Esq
Page 62

Bennington, Dec. 16, 1780.
In Council, date above
Rules and regulations, directing in what manner the
Troops employed in the service of this State shall
be paid
Resolved, That for the payment of the troops that shall
be in service hereafter for the defence of this State, for
any stipulated term of time there shall be one Paymaster
appointed, whose duty it shall be, to pay the Troops agreeable
to Pay Rolls which the captain of each company shall
make out, and which shall be examined and approved by
the Committee of Pay Table, and the same certified on
the back of said Roll before the Paymaster shall pay any
monies thereon, upon which a warrant shall issue on the
Treasurer for the Paymaster to receive the same, and pay
out the several sums due to each officer and soldier respectively.
There shall be duplicate pay rolls thus authenticated
for each payment, on one of which shall be the warrant to
the Treasurer, who shall take the Paymaster's receipt thereupon,
 keeping the same as his voucher, and the other shall
be lodged with the Paymaster.
The Paymaster shall be under a bond of one thousand
pounds to the Treasurer of this State, for the due and faithful
performance of his duty. He shall keep regular books of all monies
received by him and paid out, with his accounts with the auditors
Page 63

of Accounts, as often as they shall call upon him for that
purpose. He shall take all his receipts for money, specifying
the sums in words at length, and not in figures, and no other accounts
 shall pass as a voucher to his acct’s in settlement.
All orders which officer or soldiers have drawn or may
draw on their respective captains while in service, for their
wages or any part of them, shall be paid by the Paymaster
when exhibited to him, to the amount of such officers’ and
soldiers’ wages, and such order, with a receipt thereon
endowed, shall be a sufficient voucher to the Paymaster
in a settlement of his accounts. Provided always
that such be exhibited before such officer or soldier may otherwise have
received his pay, and all like orders, which the captains or the commanding
 officers have drawn or may draw upon the Treasurer,
and which are not paid before the Pay Rolls are made up
and authenticated, shall in like manner be paid by the
Paymaster, who is hereby directed not to receive any other orders
for pay, until such order, and receipts as the Treasure may
have are deducted, and the Treasurer accounted to for the same.
And whereas there is now a number of troops in
service, and others that have been discharged, which are not yet
paid for their services, it is further
Resolved, that all such troops shall be paid by the
Paymaster in the same manner as is provided by the foregoing
resolution.
Resolved, That the Paymaster who shall be appointed,
be allowed an adequate compensation for his services,
 he keeping accounts of his time and necessary
Page 64

expense in such service.
The preceding Rules and regulations read and
approved.
Whereupon,
Resolved, That Thomas Tolman be and he
is hereby appointed Paymaster to the Troops heretofore
and in future to be raised for the defence of this State
for the year ensuing
By order of the Governor and Council.
Jonas Fay, Sec protem.

State of Vermont
Secretary of States Office, May 31, 1843
I certify the above and foregoing to be a true extract
from the Journal of the Governor and Council of said
State, for the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred
and eighty.
Given under my hand and the
seal of said office, at Montpelier
this thirty first day of May Anno
Domini one thousand eight
hundred and forty three
Ferrand F. Merrill
Acting Secretary of State
Page 65

Pension Office, May 19, 1843
J.L. Edwards's report in
the case of Lois Tolman
widow of Thomas Tolman

I think he Evidence shows
the appointment of Pay
Master to have been a
Military one & that the
Claim should be admitted.

War Dept
May 29 1833
J M Porter
Page 66

Pension Office
May 19, 1843.
Sir,
In the case of Lois Tolman, widow of
Thomas Tolman, deceased, I make the following report:
In 1819 he was pensioned under the act of
March 18, 1818 as a Lieutenant, at the rate of $240 per
annum. After the act of May 15, 1828 passed, he obtained
the benefits of that law, and relinquished his former pension,
as under the latter law he received $320 per annum. He
died on the 9th of September 1842, and his widow has been
pensioned for his service as an Ensign for twelve months,
as an Assistant Commissary for six months and a Regimental
Paymaster in Warner's continental regiment for
six months, and she has been paid her pension under the
act of July 4 1836 for all this service at the rate of
$360 per annum. The difference between $320 per annum
which he received under the act of May 15, 1828, and
$360 per annum (which he might have received had the
necessary proof been presented) has also been paid to her
She now claims a still higher pension on
account of his alleged service as a Paymaster to the Vermont
Page 67

Troops. This was a civil appointment; and my opinion is
founded on the evidence contained in the papers marked
20, 29 and 33; and believing it to been nothing more than
a civil appointment, I do not think myself authorized to make
any further allowance. I enclose the papers numbered from
1 to 33 for your examination. I respectfully ask a return
of them.
I have the honor to be,
Very respectfully,
Your Obt Sert
J.L. Edwards

Hon. James M. Porter
Secretary of War.
Page 68

Hon James M. Porter
Secretary of War
Washington
Page 69

Washington May 20, 1843
Hon James M. Porter
Secretary of War. Sir
In addition to the views submitted to
you heretofore on the case of Mrs. Lois Tolman, I beg
leave to refer to the following documentary proof.
June 22d 1775, Congress
“Resolved that it be recommended to
the Convention of New York that they employ in the Army
to be raised for the defence of America, those called
Green Mountain Boys, under such officers as the said
Green Mountain Boys Shall Choose.”
Vide Jour. old Cong. Vol. 1. P. 126
President Hancock transmitted the
next day, the resolutions to the New York Congress and
remarked in his letter-
“As the Congress are of the opinion that the
“employing the Green Mountain Boys in the American
“Army would be advantageous to the common cause
“as well on account of their situation, as of their disposition
“ and alertness, they are desirous you should embody
“ them among the Troops you shall raise." He adds
They will not serve under any officers but such as they
themselves Choose”.
Vide American Archives Vol. 2. P. 1076
The New York Congress or Convention
confirmed the proposed arrangement, and resolved
that the Vermont Troops be considered an independent
Body.
Vide Amer. Arch. same Vol. P. 1339
Page 70

This early arrangement grew out of the disputes
 between the "Green Mountain Boys" and New York.
Except Col. Warner’s Regiment, which consented to be
put on the N.H. Continental Line-- all the Vermont troops who
captured Ticonderoga under Allen, defeated two British
armies in one day under Stark, shared the calamities of
the Canada invasion under Montgomery, and the triumph
at Saratoga, and resisted St Legers invasion in 1781 -
retained their independent organization till the close of the war.
From their position on Lake Champlain, the military key of
the North, they were the only break water against Indian
 incursions and British invasion from Canada.
The consequence was, they were-- unlike
Militia constantly and permanently embodied "under
officers chosen by themselves”, tho continuous service was
not always necessary in winter. Those "officers”, under the
above arrangement of Congress became entitled to all the
pay, rank and privileges enjoyed by those of other State
and continental Troops, for it was not altered.
The troops under Col [Walbridge-crossed out] Allen
and Lieut. Col. Walbridge, of whom Tolman was pay
Master, were organized agreeably to the above resolve
of Congress; and this Vermont appointment of pay master
 was conferred by the organ of the "Green Mountain
Boys’. It was as valid, by that resolve, as tho conferred
by Congress itself. His pay mastership was simply transferred
 from one Regiment to another. The troops, whether
called Continental, or State troops were really in
the permanent service of the Continent, settled with
and paid as such: and Congress expressly invited the
States to employ supernumeraries in such appointments.
 This was done in all the States particularly in Virginia which
 had the greatest proportion of supernumeraries;
 and in no other case has a staff State appointment
Page 71

[ment-syllable added to prior page]

  been considered as a civil office, or as incompatible 
with the retention of lineal rank in the continental line.
 And the assumption that a “paymaster" appointed
 under State authority, sanctioned by Congress itself.
is not a paymaster, but a mere Clerk in the civil
Employ of Vermont, is unreasonable and impossible.
All which is respectfully submitted.
I have the honour to be
With great respect
Your obedient servant
G. B. Sawyer

Hon James M. Porter
Secretary of War
Page 72

Burlington June 7. 1843
Sir
I herewith return the certificates heretofore issued
to Lois Tolman, having been informed, by G.B. Sawyer
Esq that new certificates will be issued for an increased
pension, he having transmitted me a copy of your note
to him to that effect, dated the 30th ult.
No payment has been made upon the enclosed certificates.
I would respectfully suggest (as before in my last letter,
 covering additional evidence) that, as Mr Tolman served
two years as paymaster, after the resolve of Congress of
January, 1781, which fixed the pay of paymaster at $30
per month, in addition to their pay in the line, it should
be computed at that rate
The result is that Mrs Tolman is entitled to $50 per
month from March 4, 1831, deducting what M Tolman
received after that time previous to his death, under the
act of May 15, 1828.
At different periods of the revolution before the resolve on
the subject in 1781, a paymaster pay was more and less
than $30 per month. But, I submit, the true rule is
to take the rate of compensation which existed when the
services were performed, particularly as it was the ultimate
rate fixed by Congress.
Be pleased to transmit to me the new certificates and at
the same time, instruct the pension agent to pay the
amount due, on the production of the proper vouchers.
I am very respectfully
Your obt. Servt
Wm Weston
Page 73

Burlington June 3d 1843
Sir
I forward herewith resolutions and regulations passed in
Council in December, 1780, and also a copy of an account rendered
in 1786, by Thomas Tolman, late Paymaster, which I think
clearly shows that Tolman's office was military in every sense
I would remark that previous to these proceedings in council, the
General Assembly (Legislature) of Vermont passed a resolution authorizing
the Governor and council to appoint paymasters, &c.
It is clear that the legislature, being the legislative of a sovereign
State, had the power to authorize the Governor and council, or either,
to appoint all the officers in the army of the State, from the office
of Major General down to fourth corporal, and had they done so
it would not have changed the character of the offices from
military to civil. In this State, and I believe in Virginia, Mayor
Generals and Brigadier Generals are now elected and appointed by
the legislature. This does not change the character of the office.
All military appointments are made by, or under some law
of the legislature and should the legislature authorize the clergy
of the State to appoint all the military officers, the offices would
be military still-- surely not ecclesiastical.
The account of Paymaster Tolman, dated Oct 16. 1784, (a copy
of which I am informed by Mr Knapp he transmitted to you,
and from an examination of which I infer that you decided
that Mr Tolman's office of Paymaster in Vermont was a civil
and not a military office,) shows that Tolman rendered important
services, both as a civil and military officer. The fair
 inference to be drawn from that account, alone, is that
in 1780, Tolman was paymaster, and in 1781, he was paymaster
and muster master, and that the other services there enumerated
were rendered subsequently to 1781. This inference is made
certain on examining the account forwarded herewith, for it is
morally and physically impossible, if the statements in the
latter account are true, that Tolman could have done any
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other business then attending to his duties as paymaster, until
after 1781. It is evident, however, from the evidence heretofore
 transmitted, that he continued to discharge the duties of
paymaster until the close of the revolutionary war, probably
under a resolution of the General Assembly of Oct, 1782
spoken of in Tolman's "note" page 2nd of his last mentioned
account.
It appears, from your note to M. Randolph of April 12, 1843,
that the allowance to Mrs Tolman was for her husbands service
is as follows; "six months as ensign, assistant Commissary
and paymaster at twenty dollars per month;-- six months
as Ensign and paymaster at $20. per month, and twelve months
as Ensign at ten dollars per month.
It seems to me that for part of those services she was entitled
to higher pay. The act of Congress of October 10, 1776, gave
paymaster the rank of Lieutenants and the rations of Captains.
Johnson was Ensign at the time of his appointment of Paymaster
and Commissary in Warner's regiment, and the appointment
I contend, gave him the pay, as well as the rank of a Lieutenant.
The pay of a paymaster, at that time, under the law of Congress,
was $20- per month in addition to his pay in the line. For
this, and the succeeding six months, then, Solman was entitled to
receive $46.66 ⅔  per month: i.e. $26.66 as Lieutenant and $20.00
in addition as paymaster, instead of $40.00 per month, as
allowed by you.
The act of March 23, 1779, makes regimental paymasters
Exofficio clothiers, and the act of January 1, 1781, gives regimental
 paymaster and Clothiers thirty dollars per month in addition to
their pay in the line.  It is evident, from the copy of
Tolman's account herewith transmitted, that, as pay master in Vermont
he exercised the office of Clothier, and having been employed by
Vermont, in pursuance of the resolution of congress, recommending
in the States to employ supernumerary officers, his pay should be
computed according to the law of Congress-- $56.66 ⅔  per month.
Page 75

His services in Vermont were as beneficial to the United States
under his state appointment, as they could have been had
he served the whole time in the continental army.
If the evidence is satisfactory that Tolman served two years
as paymaster in the Vermont Troops, and I think there can be no doubt
of the fact, then the widow is entitled to $50. per month for
this service alone, from 4th March, 1831, deducting what has
already been paid. The act of June 7, 1832, gives a pension
to each surviving officer &c. “who shall have served in the Continental
 line, or State troops, volunteers or militia, a period of
two years”, &c. State troops one by that act, put upon the same
footing with the continental army.
But if Tolman served but one year in the Vermont troops having
served a full year as paymaster in Warner's regiment, the computation,
 fixing the amount of pension, should be, as I understand the law, thus;
Twelve months in the Vt. troops at $25.00 per mo. $300.00
Twelve months in Warner's regiment at 23.33 ⅓  per mo. 280.00
$580.00 [total]
The reason of my computing the service in Warners Regiment at
a less rate them for the service in the Vermont troops is that the
act giving $30.00 per mo. to a paymaster in addition to his
lineal pay, passed after Tolman's services were rendered in Warner’s
Regiment.
I think you will have no difficulty, in a reexamination of
the case, with the additional evidence, in coming to the
conclusion that there was a two years service as paymaster
and Clothier, entitling the widow to $50- per month.
If, however, you should be of a different opinion, I
respectfully ask that all the papers relating to the case
together with this letter, may be passed to the Secretary of
war, for his inspection and revision.
I have heretofore requested my friend G. B. Sawyer Esq
to attend to this case. If he has done so, and an
Page 76

appeal has already been taken to the Secretary of War,
be pleased to pass the enclosed certificates, and this letter
to the Secretary, that he may have all the papers relating to
the case before making a decision.
As soon as there shall be a final decision, please advise
me of the result. I hope that the case will be acted upon
with as little delay as possible.
I am very respectfully
Your obt Servant
Wm Weston

James L Edwards Esq
Comr of Pensions
Page 77

Greensboro [N.O.]
Apl 27

May 4. 1846
Rec’d
Thos Tlman
Comm’r

10
To 1st Clerk of the 
Pension Office
Washington
D. C.
Page 78

3861

Greensboro Vt April 25 1845

Confidential
Dear Sir
I shall write briefly
saying that Enoch Talman [one of]
the [oldest this?] of Farmers in Town
committed suicide some 10 days-
cause unknown - his Father Thomas
 Tolman was a Pensioner and received
a large amount of back arrearage
short time before his death.
His widow now I think is on the
Pension list. This money was
obtained as I am informed
through the influence of
Wm  Weston Esq of Burlington who 
again as I am well informed rec’d
50 cents on the dollar about $35.00
“Rumor” says that Mr. Talman killed himself
on a/c  of some false swearing
at the Department & that he had
 been notified of it - is this
so or not? Please write me
[now] confidentially.
[Mar 7?]  L. F. Waterville
Page 79

Payment to be made
at Montpelier
by Thomas Reed
Agent for paying Pensioners,
 in the Agency of
Vermont

Increase to $600 per
Ann.

Hand Certificate to
G. B. Sawyer
Present

Recorded in the Pension
Office, in Book C. Vol. 3
Page 46 - by [testament]
Clerk.
Page 80

[Following word is written vertically and superimposed on printed certificate]

Cancelled

WAR DEPARTMENT.
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM
I certify that, in conformity with the 3d section of
the law of the United States, of the 7th of July, 1836,
Lois Tolman of Vermont
widow of Thomas Tolman
was Ensign, Pay Master and Commissary in the Revolutionary War
is entitled to receive Three hundred and sixty dollars and —---
cents per annum, during the time she may remain
unmarried, commencing on the Ninth day of September, 1842-
payable annually on the 4th of March and 4th of September.

Given at the War Office of the United
States, this 4th day of
May one thousand eight
hundred and forty three

J.  M. Porter
Secretary of War.

Examined and
Countersigned.
J L Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions.
Page 81

Payment to be made
at Montpelier
by Thomas Reed
Agent for paying Pensioners,
 in the Agency of
Vermont

Increase to $600 per an
Hand certificate to
G. B. Sawyer
Present

Recorded in the Pension
Office, in Book E.2 Vol. 3
Page 103 by [testament]
Clerk.
Page 82

[Following word is written vertically and superimposed on letter]

Cancelled

WAR DEPARTMENT,
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.
I certify that in conformity with the law of the United States,
 of the 7th of June, 1832 Thomas Tolman,
deceased, who was an Ensign, Commissary and a
Pay Master in the Revolutionary War, was entitled to
a pension of three hundred and sixty dollars per
annum, commencing on the 4th of March 1831,
and terminating on the eighth of September, 1842,
the day of his death.  The amount due to be paid
upon the production of the proper voucher to Lois Tolman
his widow after having deducted the amount paid
him under the act of the 15th Feby, 1828, from the 4th
of March, 1831 - to the eighth day of September, 1842.

Given at the War Office of the United States,
 this – 4  - day of May - one thousand eight
hundred and forty three.
J. M. Porter

Examined and
Countersigned.

J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Page 83

June 13
Tho Tolman
[gvt.] papers 1825
&1828

21 [Jun 36]
No. 376

James L. Edwards Esq
Com’r of Pensions
Washington, D. Ca.

[circle stamp]
BURLINGTON VT
JUN 7
Page 84

Burlington June 5, 1836
Sir
Your letter to me stating the cause of
Thomas Tolman’s Esq. being drop’d from the
pension roll I have transmitted to him and he
has sent me the enclosed papers, which he thinks
will satisfy the department as to his identity.
He wishes the papers returned to him after they
shall have been acted upon.
I have been personally acquainted with
Mr Tolman since my boyhood, a term of Eighteen
years, and know that he is the identical person who
was inscribed upon the pension roll under the act
of March 18th 1818 and subsequently increased to his
present pay under the act of 15th May 1828. He has
a son by the name of Thomas and this department
may have been informed that the young man had been
receiving the pension instead of the old man.
This of course is a mere conjecture of mine as I
do not know the ground of the "disbelief at the
Depart.” of the present Pensioner being the identical
person who served in the War of the revolution.
If the enclosed papers are not satisfactory,
please advise me without delay
I am very respectfully
Your Ob’t Serv’t
Wm Weston

J. L. Edwards Esq
Com’r of Pensions
Page 85


Aug 6
Tho Tolman
On Vt.  Act 1828

[circle stamp]
BURLINGTON VT
JUL 30

No. 21

FREE
James L. Edwards Esq
Com’r of Pension
Washington
D. Co.


Susp’n remov’d See letter 6
Aug 1836 to W. Weston &
P. Agt.
Page 86

Burlington July 29. 1836

Sir
I enclose the papers of Thos Tolman
& hope they will prove satisfactory.
Please advise me of the result
Very respectfully
Your obt Servt
Wm Weston

Jas L Edwards Esq
Page 87

[crossed out-No. 5 ]
No. 13

Claim
to Full Pay,
ratified by Sec. of Treas’y
Aug. 12, 1828
Page 88

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.
12 August 1828
SIR:
Your claim, under the abovementioned act, having been examined, you
are found to be entitled to the pay of a Lieutenant of Infantry
in the Continental Line. The amount which may be due, accordingly, will be remitted
to you by the Treasurer of the United States.
I am, sir, very respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
Richard Ruth

Thomas Tolman Esq.
Page 89

PENSION CERTIFICATE

[No. 3-crossed out] 
No. 7
Payable semi-annually -- the first payment
on this certificate will be made
on the 4th of March next,
by the Agent for Pensioners
at Burlington
Vermont
Recorded
Page 90

N. B.
In the Regiment commanded by Col. Seth Warner, one of the
16 additional Battalions of Congress
WAR DEPARTMENT.

REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.

I CERTIFY that, in conformity with the Law of the United 
States, of the 18th of March, 1818,
Thomas Tolman late a Lieutenant in the Army of the Revolution,
 is inscribed on the Pension List, Roll of the Vermont Agency, at
 The rate of Twenty dollars per month, to commence on the
 Twenty second day of April one thousand eight hundred and
eighteen.

GIVEN at the War Office of the United States, this
 Twenty first day of January one thousand eight hundred
and nineteen

C. Calhoun
Secretary of War.
Page 91

1819	April 22	First [Rev't]	$208.66	Paid Mr. Gibb	$1.66	Neat	$207.00	
	Sep	--- 	120	--- 	1	--- 	119	
1820	May 3	--- 	120	--- 	1	--- 	119	
1822	Apr 20	--- 	480	P'd Thomas	5	--- 	475	
	Sep	--- 	120	Burroughs	1.5	--- 	118.5	
1823	Mar	--- 	120	d'o	1	--- 	119	
	Sep	--- 	120	d'o	1	--- 	119	1,276.50
1824	April	--- 	120	d'o	1	--- 	119	
	Sep 18	--- 	120	D'r Scott	1	--- 	119	
1825	Mar	--- 	120	D. Davison Jr	0.75	--- 	119.25	357.25
	Sep	--- 	120	--- 	1	--- 	119	
                                                      ___________
		--- 		--- 		--- 	1,752.75	
1826	Mar	--- 	120	--- 	1	--- 	119	
	Sep	--- 	120	--- 		--- 	119	
1827	Mar	--- 	120	--- 		--- 	119	

[written vertically, right margin, double lined above and below]
$1,633.75
Page 92

RESTORATION

[No. 4-crossed out] 
No. 11
Page 93

War Department
Pension Office
July 21. 1821.
Sir
You are hereby informed that the
Secretary of War has reconsidered your
case and has directed your name to be
reinstated on the pension list.
I am, respectfully,
Yr: obt: Servt.
J. L. Edwards


Mr Thomas Tolman,
Greensborough
Vermont
Page 94

No 12
12 August 1828
Page 95

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,
12 August 1828.
SIR:
I have the honor to inform you, that Thomas Tolman
formerly a Lieutenant in Col Warner’sRegiment of the
line of the Continental Army; and who has heretofore received a
pension at the Vermont, agency, has been admitted
to the benefits of the abovementioned act.
I have the honor to be,
Very respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
Richard Ruth


The Hon. the SECRETARY OF WAR.
No 72.
March 1819
Page 96

The State of Vermont,
To Thomas Tolman
[Dr]
To pay for his services as Paymaster for the
troops of the years 1780 and 1781- Muster
Master for those of 1781 - Private Secretary
to his Excellency the Governor, and Deputy
Secretary* to the Governor and council. Including
 other services to the public (mostly
those of Clerkship), as occasion has required,
under the direction of the Governor and Council,
 and Board of War for the time being,
and in the committee of Pay Table, for
receiving granting fees, &c. It having been
a full employ of my time from the first day
of November one thousand seven hundred
and eighty to the fifteenth day of October
one thousand seven hundred and eighty four
(Being 3 years 11 months 15 days, which, @ #10
per month is #475.) Excepting what I have
lost, or properly improved in my own service,
which I estimate in the whole at five
(which amts to #250). This deducted from
#475, there remains my due #425.00
Attest, Thomas Tolman
October 15, 1784.

*Having rec’d no debenture in Council or any other pay.
Page 97

No 33. Pay Table Office, Dec. 13, 1784.
The within account is approved and the Treasurer
is directed to pay the contents of the same to Thomas
Tolman, Esq. being the sum of four hundred and
twenty five pounds L. M.
Tim'o Brownson
Saml Bartlet,
Com'e
#425.0.0

Sunderland, Dec. 13, 1784. Recd of the
Treasurer the contents of the above order
in full.
Thos.Tolman.
Page 98

State of Vermont
Secretary of State’s Office,
Montpelier, April 24, 1843.

I certify the foregoing to be a true copy of
an account, order and receipt, originally
on file in the Treasurer’s office and now
remaining in this office for custody.

Given under my hand
and the Seal of this office,
at Montpelier this the
twenty fourth day of April,
Anno Domini one thousand
eight hundred and forty three.
C. L. Knapp
Acting Secretary of State.
Page 99


Apl 13 '43
No 29
Lois Tolman

G. B. Sawyer
Washington
Page 100

Bennington, 16 Dec. 1780
Resolved, That Thomas Tolman be and he is hereby
appointed Paymaster to the Troops heretofore and in for
time to be raised for the defence of this State for the
year ensuing.
By order of the Governor and Council.
Jonas Fay, Secy pro tem

State of Vermont
Secretary of State's Office,
Morpher, March 10, 1843
I certify the foregoing to be a true extract from the Journal
of the Governor and Council of said State for the year 1780.
I further certify that there is on file in this office a
paper, purporting to be a "Pay Roll of Capt. William
Hutchins Company in Col Ebenr Allen's Detachment
in the service of the State of Vermont, 1780-1," and that the
following is a true copy of a Pay Table Order upon the back
of said pay roll, to wit:

“No 47. Pay Table Office. The within Pay Roll
being examined and approved, the Treasurer is hereby directed
to pay the same to Thomas Tolman, Paymaster to the
Troops of this State, being the sum of One Thousand three
hundred and fifty-seven pounds and four pence in hard
Page 101

money, or other current money equivalent, the said
Paymaster to be accountable.
Given at Addington this 2 day of Feb. 1781
M. L. Chittenden
John Fassett,
Committee"
#1357.0.4

I further certify that a receipt appears upon the same
pay roll, in the words and figures following:

“Received the within in full. March 20, 1782.
Thos Folman, Paymaster."

I further certify that there is on file in this office
another paper, purporting to be "A Pay Roll of Capt.
William Davis Company of Volunteer in Col
Eben Walbridges Battalion, raised for the defence
of the frontiers of the State of Vermont and stationed
at the post of Skeensboro, 1781”. That a Pay Table
order appears upon the back of said Pay Roll, which
order is of the following tenor, to wit:

Pay Table Office, Sunderland,
August 21, 1783.
The within well examined and approved, the Treasurer
 is directed to pay the same to Thos Tolman Esq,
Paymaster, amounting to the sum of three hundred and
two pounds thirteen shillings and four pence, lawful
money, taking his receipt, for which he the said Pay
master is to be accountable, Saml Bartlet
Tim’o Brownson, Com’e"
Page 102

I further certify that a receipt of which the
following is a true copy, appears upon the same pay
roll, to wit:
"Recd of the Treasurer the contents of this
warrant. Thos Tolman, Paymaster
Oct 22, 1784."

I further certify that the said receipt appear
to be in the handwriting of Thomas Folman, formerly Deputy Secretary of this State.
Given under my hand and the
seal of this office, at Montpelier, this 11th day of March A.D. 1843.
C. L. Knapp
Acting Secretary of State.
Page 103

[No 7 - crossed out] 

No 14
Copy

13 August 1829
Page 104

Copy
Revolutionary Claims No 424
under the act entitled "An act for the relief
of certain surviving officers & soldiers of the Army of
the Revolution approv’d 15 May 1828.”
I Certify that Thomas Tolman, of Greensborough
in the County of Orleans in the State of Vermont
is entitled to receive pay under the above
mentioned Act as a surviving Lieut of Infantry
in Col Warner’s regt. of the Army of the Revolution
at the rate of twenty six Dollars & Sixty Six cents
a month payable during his life on the
third day of March and third day of
September, in each year.
It is provided by law that the said pay shall
not in any way be transferable, or liable
to attachment, levy or [seizure] by any legal
proof whatever.’
Given under my hand and the seal of the
Treasury of the United States this third day of
August in the year one thousand eight
hundred & twenty nine, and of Independence
the fifty fourth
S. D. Ingham
Secretary of the Treasury

A true copy
Albert H Deans
Page 105

Amount of pay Accounts - with the Troops of this
State, for the years 1780 and 1781. (the time for which
I served as Pay Master,) agreeable to my Books.
An Extract from the amount rendered, in great
Book, vellum bound, Page 216.
Year | There was due | There is paid.| There remains Unpaid | And these Errors, there has been Overpaid

1780 |    6,381.1.2  |  6,399.2.11 |      12.7    |  18.14.4
1781 | 13,808.4.11 |15,757.12. 10 ¼ | 69.8.4 ½  | 18.16.3 ¾
#22,189.6.1 | #22,156.15.9.¼  | #70.0.11 ½  |  #37.10.7 ¾
[Totals = # stands for pound sign]

See Treasurer's Certificate herewith, that I have credited
 [ye] Soldier the just sum of the Rolls.
Here follows
An account of Articles of Public Property
furnished the Troops, which accounts have been sent
in to me, and charged against the officers & soldiers, &
stopped out of their wages respectively, as per Books
and for which I am accountable to the Public
An Extract from Great Book, Vellum bound, Page
217. See also, Folio Book, Paper bound No 2. from page 45
to 53, viz:

2 Guns, lost by the soldiers 6. 18. 4
4 Bayonets, " " "                      1.   5.  0
1 Wormer " " "                                 1. 0     
Ammunition " " “                             3. 0
Leather, for shoes &c             13. 10. 2
23 lbs. rend’d Tallow, to Officers  15. 4  
1 pr. Boots                                    1. 12. 8                     
Boots & shoes                              4.   2. 4   
2 pr Moggasons                                 9. 4
[27] pr Taps                                     2.  7. 0
308 pr of Shoes                          227.  8. 3   
[Total]                                         #260. 12. 5    
 {The most of them at 9/ a pr. The rest at 8/ and 7/}
Page 106

See Treasurer's Certificate or receipt herewith, that I have reimbursed
the Treasury with the said sum of Two Hundred & Sixty pounds 12/s.
Note. I view myself still accountable to the Soldiery for the
said years 1780 & 1781 agreeable to a Resolution of the
Gen. Assembly, passed in Oct. 1782, directing me to
settle in full with the Troops for the said years, &
I also view myself accountable for all my due
Bills, not counterfeit, That I have not yet taken up
from the Treasurer, (the sum of which is now become
inconsiderable, altho I am not able at the present
to determine it exactly) for which responsibility
I suppose my Bond of $1,000. now in the Treasury
 to be sufficient.
But being thus accountable, if the above sum
of #70.0.11 ½  remaining unpaid, should be called for by
the soldiers. I shall expect from the generosity of the
Hon. the Gen. Ass’y. that they will make me an allowance
 for the #37.10.7 ¾  thro' errors over paid; and
also for the time I have necessarily spent in redraughting
 & arranging these accounts for settlement,
it having taken me at the least four months, my
rendering, at the same time, an account of what
may then remain of the said #70.0.11 ½ on hand.
If it be thought that this is a long time to be engaged
in preparing these accounts for settlement, let it be
observed, that I have to open a separate account
with every soldier Dr & Cr and in some instances
have 20 & 30 orders & Receipts, as vouchers to one acct. So
that (besides a large number of Rolls & other papers
& all my Vouchers which are numerous) my accounts in
Book only, upon this draughting, fill 363 pages in Folio
Books, the greater part of the writing & figures, being at
the same time, small & connect [correct?]
Page 107

I hereby certify & attest, that the preceding is a just
& final stating of Pay Accounts for the years 1780
1781, at the present time, Errors excepted, as it respects
the soldier & the Public, viz. That there was due to the
soldiery, twenty two thousand one hundred eighty
nine pounds 6/1 [Lelly-Shll’g?]; That there has been paid,
twenty two thousand one hundred fifty six
pounds 15/9 ¼, That there remains due, seventy
pounds 0/11 ½; and, thro' Errors has been overpaid,
Thirty seven pounds 10/7 ¾; and that I conceive
it remains for me to take up my remaining due bills,
 and satisfy the delinquent soldiers upon application.
Attest
Thos. Tolman 
late Pay Mas’r

Burlington, Aug. [4] 1786
Thos Johnan
To the Hon. The Auditor of Acts.
N.B. Let it be remembered, that, for the clothing
which the soldiers had, I then gave my receipt
upon the Pay Rolls, took the risk of delivering it
to them, did it at the same day at which I
receipted it by the quantity.      T.T.

Account Current of the foregoing stating

Dt. Thos Tolman 
To, The amt of Pay Rolls as
per Treasurer's certificate 22,189.6.1 
To shoes &c. as per books     260.12.5
To, Errors, overpaid,                     37.107 ¾
[Total]  #22,487.9.1 ¾

Contra, Cr.

By Cash paid the Troops as per Books   #22,156.15.9 ¼
By a reimbursement to the
Treasury for Shoes as per Rec’d   260.12.5
By Balance remaining
due to the soldiery   70.0.11 ½
[Total]  $22,487.9.1 ¾

Thos Tolman, late Pay Master
Page 108

Treasury Office, Sunderland, Aug. 10th. 1786.
Recd of Thomas Tolman, late Pay Master to the
Troops of this State, the sum of Two Hundred
and sixty pounds, twelve shillings & five pence [L.M.Y]
which he has delivered into the Treasury, agreeable
 to the above account.
#260.12.5
Jn Knickerbocker
Treasurer's Clk

State of Vermont Secretary of State’s Office June 1. 1843
I certify the above and foregoing to be true copies
of original papers remaining on file in this office
Given under my hand and
the seal of this office, at Montpelier,
 this the 1st day of June, A. D.1843.
Ferrand F. Merrill
Acting Secretary of State
Page 109

[No 2.  crossed out]
{Copy}
No 3
Page 110

And I hereby certify that the sd Thomas Tolman has produced
satisfactory proof that he served in the revolutionary war against
the common Enemy as stated in his Declaration. And as to his
reduced circumstances, & need of assistance from his country; I
certify that he is destitute of property either in possession or
expectation, & has some demands also against him, which
he is unable to discharge - That he is incapable of manual
labour; that, for several years past, being destitute of any employment
of profit, & is now, by age & infirmity, be and the hope of
any & that his sole dependence, for himself & wife, has been,
for ten years past, & is now, on a son, whose circumstances of
property are moderate, & not unimbarrassed. These are the
facts of his case, which I can give with confidence from
personal acquaintance, he having resided my near neighbor
for twenty years. I judge this brief statement of the facts of
the case, the course of my duty; & it is my opinion that his
case is one intended to be provided for by the act of Mar 18.18.
And I now transmit the testimony & proceedings, taken & heard
before me, to the Secretary of the Department of War, pursuant
to the directions of the aforementioned act of Congress
Tim’o Stanley, Judge of
Orleans County Court.
Page 111

State of Vermont
Orleans County
I Lois Tolman of Greensboro in the County of
Orleans and State of Vermont, do hereby nominate, constitute
 and appoint Richard Randolph Esq, now of
Washington, in the District of Columbia, my true and
lawful attorney for me and in my name, to present
my application for the increase of pension due my late
husband Thomas Tolman, deceased, and also my application
for a pension under the law of Congress passed
July 4, 1836, and to receive the certificates which may issue
from the Secretary of War to me, and in all things in the
premises, to have as full power to examine documents and
pay rolls, as I might myself have were I personally
present. 
Lois Tolman

In witness whereof I do hereunto set my hand
and seal this 23d day of January 1843
Sealed and delivered
in presence of
Geo Nye
Wm Weston
Page 112

No 20.

28 July 36
Page 113

To James L Edwards
Comm’r of Pensions
Sir,
I have before me yours of June 9th to Mr. Allen, M.C., 
in answer to a Note from him; in which if you had specified
the [paper’s] the ‘suspicious’ and objectionable point, you would have
done me a favor. I am unconscious of any paper of mine
except one liable to misconstruction.The last winter
I think in January, I made and gave a Deposition
before Ira Willmarth J.P. in favour of a Moses
Evans, an old man said to be over ninety of
 [Lynndor, R.I.];  in which I represented myself as a
paymaster of the Vermont State Troops.
This Deposition I presume has been under
your observation, and is in your office.
If your construction has been, that I had left
the Continental army and taken a commission
 in Vermont, I take the whole blame
to myself, altho' nothing could be more
untrue. I regret not that I did the service
for Vermont, it being in the great common
cause of our Country, but that I described
the circumstance so inadvertantly as to render
it liable to that false construction.
The palsy of my hand renders an Amanuensis indispensible.
Page 114

The truth, Sir, was this; I was a young Subaltern and
directed nothing, and did nothing without
direction. I had recently been stript of every thing
by the savages at the capture of Ft George, except
what was on my back; my commanding Officer
Lieut Col Commandant Samuel Safford had
taken leave of absence from head quarters
for himself until recalled by general order, 
and gave me the same leave of absence until
recalled by order. I had no home or Friends
short of two hundred miles, and a stranger
in Vermont. He being my friend, personally
introduced me to the Governor & Council of
Vermont then sitting in Bennington, and
commended me to the service of pay-Master
described in my Deposition. Now, Sir, their
confidence in me was solely as a continental
Officer and by the commendation of my Colonel.
I had no commission from Vermont- took
no oath of allegiance or office-- was no where
enrolled as an officer of Vermont, & had no stipulated
pay. The whole service was considered
temporary and conditional, on all hands, and
had there have been a recall to the main
army or any camp or Garrison of the U.S.
my service in Vermont would have terminated
in twenty four hours.
Page 115

I know, Sir, that this is all avowment on
my part, and there can be nothing else. All my field
officers are all long since deceased, who, if living,
would be my swift witnesses. But, Sir, are
there not inferences which will serve my purpose?
Firstly, had I deserted the continental service,
or been doing any thing dishonorable
or in disobedience of orders, in this Vermont service
should not I have been had up before my
Superiors, and a Court Martial? Secondly.
Had I have resigned my commission in the
Cermy, would my sd Col have made me up
as a Lieut and Paymaster of his Regt, at the
close of the war in his certified return of
the officers of his Regt. and given me his
credential letter, with sd return, to Mr-
Pierce, Commissioner of Congress for settling
with the army, which settlement I made with
him, in the City of N. Y. for the officers of
my Regt - That book sir-- is in the U.S.
Treasury Office, on the evidence of which the
Hon. Secretaries Messrs Rush and Ingham
gave my certificates, and to which I
beg leave to refer you.
Now in by my commission and by that book is to be seen my
beginning and my ending, as an officer in Col. Warners regiment
and I am the Thomas Tolman of that Commission and that book,
Page 116

and if Mr. Pierce’s files of vouchers accompany the book, my receipts 
for the amount of his notes for the whole regiment will
appear in my hand writing with which yourself and officers
of the Treasury have been acquainted by signatures and otherwise
these eighteen years until it has got down so that no one can
[match] it. As to my duration of service, my service in the grade
of Lieutenant was far beyond the two years required by the act of
thirty two under which, however I do not claim.
I claim under the act of Twenty Eight whose conditions are to have
been in and continued in to the end and entitled to the commutation
certificate called for half pay irrespective of the term of service
in duration. If I am not right in this, correct me, sir, as
I have not the act by me. And now if there remain in your
mind ground whereon to hang a doubt of my claim to the validity
of my Treasury certificate or in the mind of the Hon. Secretaries
of Treasury and War, or either of them if you shall think proper
to consult their opinion, on receiving the favor of your answer
(if it be unfavorable) I will proceed to the de novo declaration, you have
proposed and the process of corroborating evidence as far as in my power.
As a matter however of pure and mortifying necessity, I transmit
this unsealed through my friend L. H. Delano, Esquire P.M. of
Hardwick and W Weston, Esquire of Burlington Bank. While I yet live
I will pray for my dear bought country, and for the honor of its government
and am Sir, respectfully your obedient and humble servant.
Tho. Tolman
Page 117


State of Vermont
Orleans County
Craftsbury July 19. 1836 Personally appeared
Thomas Tolman of Hardwick in the County of
Caledonia & State of Vermont the subscriber of
the foregoing statement who subscribed the same in my
sight this day and made solemn oath that the same is true
Before me
Nathan S. Hill Justice Peace

I Samuel C. Crafts of Craftsbury in the County of Orleans
and State of Vermont, do depose and say that I have been personally
acquainted with Thomas Tolman whose name is subscribed to the
foregoing statement for more than forty years - that he has for
the whole time been considered a person of the strictest truth and
veracity - during the whole of which time it has been understood
that he was in our army nearly the whole of the war of
the revolution, several years of which time he was a commissioned
officer. I further state that he is the same Thomas Tolman, who
obtained a pension under the act of March, 1818, and that in
1821 or 1822, having his pension, with those of many others, suspended,
 untill proof was forwarded to the Department, shewing that
he was duly entitled to the same under said act, being at that
time a member of Congress from this State, I had some agency
in procuring his restoration to the pension list. Mr Tolman was
formerly a very fair and ready writer, and in the early stage of
State government, he wrote many of the Charters of our townships
and for many years afterwards was the sole [Engraving?] Clerk to our
Legislature. But for a few years last past he has been attacked
Page 118

with a paralysis, which has gradually deprived him of the faculty of
writing, so that what he attempt to write is scarcely legible - 
His father, Thomas Tolman, died at Greensboro in this County in 1821,
aged about ninety three, and his son Thomas Tolman now residing
at Portland, Maine, together with the said pensioner, are all the humans
of that name, I have ever known or heard of.
Saml C. Crafts

State of Vermont
Orleans County Craftsbury July 19, 1836 Personally
appeared Samuel C. Crafts the subscriber
of the foregoing affidavit and made solemn
oath that the same is true before me
Nathan S. Hill Justice Peace

State of Vermont Orleans County
At Craftsbury in said County-
I, Samuel C Crafts, Clerk of Orleans County Court, do
certify that Nathan S Hill, the signer of the foregoing
certificate, is a Justice of Peace within and for the County
of Orleans, afores’d duly commissioned and sworn, that by
the laws of this State he is duly authorized to take
depositions, administer oaths and certify the same, and
that his name subscribed to the said certificate is his
own hand writing. 
In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed
my name, and affixed the seal of said Court, this
nineteenth day of July AD 1833
Saml C Crafts
Page 119

I David Russell of Burlington in the County of Chittenden
 and State of Vermont aged Seventy seven years do
testify and say that in June 1783. I came to reside
in Bennington in the State of Vermont and that I have
resided in Vermont ever since; that shortly after my
first coming into the State I became acquainted with
Thomas Tolman who now resides at Hardwick-- Vermont.
He then resided in Arlington Vermont, and from that
time to the present I have been well acquainted with
him personally - and from my earliest acquaintance
with him to the present time he has ever been reputed
to have served in the revolutionary war as an officer
in the army. He has been formerly in several important
 public offices under the government of Vermont, and
he discharged them with credit and fidelity. I have
never known any other Thomas Holman except
his son who bears the same name who must have been
born since the close of the revolution. I know that the
said first named Thomas Tolman is the identical
person who has for several years past received a pension
from the United States and I have not the least
doubt that he is the identical Thomas Tolman whom
he represents himself to be and as having served in
Warner’s Brigade in the revolutionary Army.
David Russell
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 28th day of
July AD 1836.
Wm Weston Justice Peace
Page 120

and I certify that I am well acquainted with David
Russell who has subscribed the foregoing affidavit and
know him to be a man of respectability and credibility
Wm Weston Justice Peace -

The Clerk of our County Court who is ex officio clerk of
the Supreme Court is now absent at Washington and
consequently I cannot procure his certificate that I am
a Justice of the Peace and that my hand writing is genuine
but if Mr Edwards will bear in mind that my signature
has within the last two years been frequently sent to the
Treasury Department annexed to pension vouchers he
may dispense with the Clerk’s certificate-
Wm Weston

No 20
Page 121

Omission. Lt of infantry - Warner's Regt - of Greensboro, county of Orleans, Vt - 
residing, for time being, in Hardwick, town adjoining.

 Jan 27 ‘36 
Tho. Tolman
 Act 1828
 Vt
 376



(Revolut’y Claims For Pension Office)
 Jany 30th
Free
Hon. the Secretary of war,
City of Washington 


Feb 6
Page 122

No. 15
Omission. Lt of infantry - Warner's Regt - of Greensboro, county of Orleans, Vt - 
residing, for time being, in Hardwick, town adjoining.

 Jan 27 ‘36 
Tho. Tolman
 Act 1828
 Vt
 376

Feb 6

(Revolut’y Claims For Pension Office)
 Jany 30th
Free
Hon. the Secretary of war,
City of Washington
Page 123

Hardwick, Vt Jan. 27, 1836.
Mr. Edwards, Sir
Do have the kindness to transmit a few Blanks, which
will be unexceptionable. On Sep. 3d I made out, in writing a
voucher for “Bank of Burlington, Vt.” for my semi-ann. Payment,
verbatim within the form in your Instructions, & was refused
 payment, alledging that the Bank had rec’d Instructions, with which
my voucher would not comport. After a time, by the help of a
friend at Burlington, I obtained the payment; but with too much
delay, & expense. That you may know that you are not imposed
upon you will find me under the Act of May 15, 1828, certificate
No 424 - my P. Office, Hardwick, Vt. Your Compliance will oblige
the old soldier, aged 79. with a palsied hand, who, although personally
unknown, is, with perfect respect, your humble servant,
Tho. Tolman
Page 124

Act 1828
Settled at
Treasury
Recd 12 Augt 1828
Comb'd with
A'd OW Wid
File 18.146

(Revolutionary Claim)
Hon. Richard Rush
Secretary of Treasury,
Washington City
Page 125

Greensboro, Vt. Aug. 4. 1820.
Sir
Some 5 or 6 weeks since, I
transmitted to you, per mail, in pursuance
of your instructions, my Declaration &c. &c.
 on my claim for my
share in the provisions of the Act of Congress
of May 15. if by any untoward
accident my papers shall not have been
received, I pray that I may have immediate
notice. Or if reserved, & considered, my
pretension to the rank of Lieutenant is not
verified, to your satisfaction, I request the same.
But if these be affirmed. I pray, Sir, as soon
as may be, for the communication engaged
in your instructions: as September is approaching,
 & I had previous to the passing of the
Act, on the faith of the Pension, made
engagements which will then came upon
me, with the old ungentle word “Pay
me that Thou owest.”
I am Sir as before, with perfect respect
Your obedt Servt
Tho. Tolman

Hon. Mr. Rush
Page 126

Greensboro, Vt.
(Revolutionary Claim)

Hon Richard Rush
Secretary of the Treasury,
City of Washington
Page 127

REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM
For the purpose of obtaining the benefits of an act entitled
"An Act for the relief of certain surviving officers & soldiers of the
Army of the Revolution”, approved on the 15th of May, 1828
I, Thomas Tolman, of Greensborough, in the County
of Orleans, in the State of Vermont, do hereby declare
that I was an officer in the Continental Line of the
Army of the Revolution, & served as such to the time
when the regiment of the Army provided by the Resolves
of Congress of the 3d & 21st of October, 1780, was carried
into effect, & that I was [Reduced] under that arrangement,
 at which period I was a Lieutenant Pay Master
 in the Regiment of Col. Seth Warner, it being
one of the [Sedition-Additional?] Battalions of Congress, additional to
& independent of, the Lines of the States.
And I also declare that I afterwards received certificates
(commonly called commutation certificates) for a sum
equal to the amount of five years full pay; which sum
was offered by the Resolve of Congress of the 22d of March
1783, instead of the Half pay for life, to which I was
entitled under the Resolve of the 21st of Oct’r 1780.
And I do further declare, that I have rec’d of
the United States, as a Pensioner since the 3d day of
March 1820, the sum of four hundred eighty dollars
($480), paid to me by the Agent for paying Pensions,
in the State of Vermont-
Tho. Tolman
Greensboro, County of Orleans
Vt. June 13, 1828
Page 128

Before me Joseph Chapman a Justice of the Peace,
in the County of Orleans, in the State of Vermont,
personally appeared, this day, Stephen Sherman
& Jos. G. Stanley of the said County, who
did, severally make oath, that Tho Tolman, by whom
the foregoing declaration was subscribed, is generally
reputed & believed to have been an Officer in the
Army of the Revolution in manner as therein stated.
Witness my hand, this 18th day of June
in the year 1828
Joseph Chapman Justice Peace

I Ira H Allen Clerk of the Court of the
County Orleans, in the State of Vermont, do hereby
certify that Joseph Chapman before whom the foregoing
 Affidavits were sworn, was, at the time a
Justice of the Peace, & duly empowered to administer
oaths. In testimony whereof I have
hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of the
said Court, this 21 day of June in the
year AD 1828.
Ira H. Allen
L. S.
Page 129

Greensboro, County of Orleans, Vt. June 26, 1828.
Sir
I have the honor to be a claimant in the grant
of the Act of Congress of May 15, 1828, entitled "An Act for
the relief of certain surviving officers & soldiers of the Army of
the Revolution”. Have rec’dby my Nat. Intelligence, your
general instructions, & have endeavoured to conform strictly
thereto in my Declaration, &c. herewith enclosed. For the
corroborating evidence of my pretensions I refer you, Sir, to
two sources: the Pension Office, & the latter Rolls of my
Regiment, preceding our Reduction; or the final settlement
Book of P. M. G. Pearce (or Peirce.) In the Pension Office,
under care of Mr. Edwards, you will find my Ensign's 
commission, & that I am there recognised, in my certificate,
 as a Lieutenant.  Whether they did this from courtesy on my
own declaration (as it would make no difference in the
pension), or had recourse to Rolls, or the Book aforementioned,
I cannot tell; if the latter, to that source I must now
refer you, where you will find me a Lt P. Master. The
truth, Sir, is, I cannot give the date of my promotion to the
Lieutenantcy (it was to fill a vacancy, in the regular Order
of succession,  & noted accordingly in our rolls) and the 
commission I never did receive. Whether this was occasioned by
our distance from H. Quarters (being stationed at Fort George,
Lake George) or from neglect of my Col. or, being transmitted,
it miscarried in reaching me, I cannot tell. I presume the
case was similar with a number of our officers, respecting their
Promotions. Indeed my first commission was not given (at
Phil’a) till about a year after my appointment. This you
will perceive by its date. According to my recollection
Page 130

There was an indifference & neglect on the subject, relying on
 our Rolls. If those are with you, of the Book aforementioned
(& it is greatly to be hoped they are in being) you will find me, 
as I have declared.
if they are not, I know not what further evidence I could
give, except my oath; for I am much retired, & know not
for certainty that I have a brother officer, or a fellow soldier
 in being, to testify for me.
If you do not obtain satisfactory evidence of my Declaration,
 in whole, I shall rely upon notice & your further or
special Instruction.
When you shall perceive, Sir, that my pretensions are
well founded,  I know not what I ought to say, if anything, 
& not be impertinent & intrusive, respecting the claims of
those very few subalterns who may yet be alive, who
had appended to them the duties of regimental Q. M.P.M.
 with the additional pay of $13 ⅓  per month,  in
which I had the honor & responsibility of being one.
I have concluded, Sir, to say
nothing further, than that I have confidence in the knowledge
& counsel with which the question will be decided, whether
 our additional pay of 13 ½  doll’s (for extraneous
& appended staff duties) will, or will not, be allowed, under the
 Act. I can see nothing (a Judge in my own cause), intended
by the words "according to his rank in the line”, but a reference
to the Grades of rank, from the Ensign up to the Colonel,
 (with the [exception] that the Major & Colonels shall not
exceed the Cap’t ) & not to any contradistinguishing, between
line & Staff duties, of those who were in the line, & in the line
only by commission. 
I have the honor to be with great respect, Sir, your Obed Servt
Tho. Tolman {AE 72}

Hon. Richard Rush
Page 131

Greensboro, Vt July 3, 1828.

Sir, In my communication to you a few
days since, in my claim, I forgot to mention
the convenience it would be to me to receive
future semi-annual payments at the Bank
of Montpelier, or Danville, in this State, if it
comport with the public Interest.  Since I
have rec’d my pension, the transmission of my
money from Burlington (passing through
several hands) has cost me twenty dollars.
With much [rest] respect, your Obed Servt
Tho. Tolman

Hon. Richard Rush
Secretary of Treasury.
Page 132

378
477
No of orig Pay 376
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIMS
TREASURY DEPARTMENT
July 31, 1828

Thomas Tolman, of Greensborough, in the County of
Orleans, in the State of Vermont, 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 until
reduced under the arrangement of 1780.
at which period he was a Lieutenant in Col. Warner’s regiment of the —------
line; and that he received 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 Vermont.
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,
A Dinkins

TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
THIRD AUDITOR'S OFFICE.
5. August 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 Thomas Tolman, Lieut. In Warner’s Regiment, amounting to Sixteen Hundred dollars.
It further appears that Thomas Tolman is now on the pension list of the Vermont
agency, and has been since the 3d March 1826.
at the rate of Twenty Dollars per month.
Peter Hagner Aud
Page 133

(The Seal)
Copy of my commission
The United States of America, in Congress Assembled,
To Thomas Tolman Gent’n Greeting.
We, reposing especial trust & confidence in your patriotism, Valour
conduct, & fidelity, Do by these presents constitute & appoint you,
 to be an Ensign in the Regiment commanded by Col
Seth Warner in the Army of the United States, to take rank as such
from the 14th day of November 1778. You are therefore, carefully
& diligently to discharge the duty of an Ensign, by doing & performing
all manner of things thereunto belonging. And we do strictly charge
& require all officers & soldiers, under your command, to be obedient to
your orders as Ensign. And, you are to observe & follow such orders &
directions, from time to time, as you shall receive from this, or a future
Congress of the U. States, or Committee of Congress for that purpose
appointed a committee of the States, or commander in chief for the time
being of the Army of the U. States, or any other your superior officer, according to
the rules & discipline of War in pursuance of the trust reposed in your
This commission to continue in force until revoked by this or a future Congress
of the United States, or committee of Congress for that purpose appointed, a
 committee of the states, or a commander in chief for the time being of the
Army of the United States, or any other of your superior officers, according
 to the rules & discipline of war, in pursuance of the trust reposed in you.
This commission is to continue in force until revoked by this, or a future Congress,
the Committee of Congress aforementioned, or a committee of the States.

Witness His Excellency Samuel Huntington Esq.
President of the Congress of the United States of America
at Philadelphia, the 12th day of November, 1779, and
in the fourth year of our Independence.
Saml Huntington, President.

Entered in the War Office
& examined by the Board
Attest
Ben Stoddert Sec’y of the Board of War.
Copied this 31st day of August 1818
Tho. Tolman



The original commission has been removed from this claim &
 is locked up in Record Div. AW  Mar 28 [1934]
Page 134

STATE OF VERMONT.
BOSTON AND MONTREAL TURNPIKE COMPANY.
OFFICE OF CLERK OF SAID CO.
SHARES, No.

THIS certifieth that _______
in the County of  _____ and State of ______ is the original 
Proprietor and holder of SHARE No. ___
in the BOSTON and MONTREAL TURNPIKE COMPANY, as appears of the Books of record
of said Company.
Attest _________________ CLERK.

Copy of my Pension Papers
No 2
[No 1 - crossed out]
 (Copy)
Page 135

STATE OF VERMONT.
BOSTON AND MONTREAL TURNPIKE COMPANY.
OFFICE OF CLERK OF SAID CO.
SHARES, No.

THIS certifieth that _______
in the County of  _____ and State of ______ is the original 
Proprietor and holder of SHARE No. ___
in the BOSTON and MONTREAL TURNPIKE COMPANY, as appears of the Books of record
of said Company.
Attest _________________ CLERK.

Copy of my Pension Papers
No 2
[No 1 - crossed out]
 (Copy)
Page 136

STATE OF VERMONT.
BOSTON AND MONTREAL TURNPIKE COMPANY.
OFFICE OF CLERK OF SAID CO.
SHARES, No.

THIS certifieth that _______
in the County of  _____ and State of ______ is the original 
Proprietor and holder of SHARE No. ___
in the BOSTON and MONTREAL TURNPIKE COMPANY, as appears of the Books of record
of said Company.
Attest _________________ CLERK.
Page 137


No 10


Oct 30. 1820
Greensboro 
Nov 4th

Free
Hon. Samuel C. Crafts
Member of Congress,
City of Washington
Thos Tolman

Jany 1819
Page 138

Greensboro, Oct. 30, 1820
Dear Sir
As you was so good, when I was last with you, as
to say you would take the trouble, I confide to you my Pension
cause, & pray you to look it, to the bottom-- scrutinize my
papers & apply them to the law. If these do not give me the
relief intended by the Act of Mar 18, let me know it, & will
it be improper in me to say, I request the Why & wherefore? If
do give it, pray sir, act for me, & obtain my restoration to the roll,
& relief from the painful predicament, into which the unexpected
(& to me unaccountable) operation of the Act of May 1, has thrown me.
We agree, Sir, that the Papers are to decide the cause, on which
it is not necessary for me, here, to say, they contain “the truth, & nothing
but the truth”. I have said it, as the law requires, & am amenable to
indictment, if I have said it falsely; & the Judges & clerks to impeachment, 
if they have certified falsely. If it be possible (in such a world
as this, made up of everything), there should be some ignorance, & local
prejudice & envy, shall these have an influence, or shall I be protected
& defended from them? I know what your answer will be, for you are
Judge.
You will see Judge Stanley's certificate shows that I was entirely destitute
 of property, in possession or expectation, (except the household articles
 now in my schedule).  Was not this, unquestionably, reduced circumstances?
 And had I not good reason for confidence, that the act of May 1
was not intended to affect me, other than as matter of mere form?
And what could I have at the making of my schedule, except as I
have declared solely through means of the economical disposal of
what I had received? Further, notwithstanding what I have rec'd,
Page 139

from the confidence I had, & the engagements I have made, in money
my circumstances are just as deplorable as can be conceived: except
that I am not out of doors.
The first step, Sir, I wish you to take, if you agree with me, (for I shall
be guided entirely by your discretion), is to obtain from the Hon Secretary
the favour that he will, in your presence, give my papers a review, to
see if, by some oversight, or misunderstanding of their contents, an
error has not been committed, in his decision, which he would
himself wish to rectify; & give me the result of this enquiry, as
soon as you can. (The Directory to my file, will be-- Vermont
Agency- Tolman certificate No 5,502. Warner's Regt one of the 16
 additional Battalions of Congress.)
if any question arise, on understanding any part of Judge
Stanley's certificate, on my first declaration, or my schedule, I
pray you to give me the earliest information.
If any preponderance be given to extraneous circumstances,
I think I may hope that the term of my service-- a continuance
to the end - & being one of the Half Pay promises for life, will
have no weight against me, on the present occasion.
Wishing you a more pleasant session than the last &
with respect,
I am, Sir, &c
Tho Tolman
Page 140

Beside ordinary engagements for the family, & pittances for some public
& benevolent objects, to about the amount I expected to have
received in Sept. last, I had restored to law of myself and outlawed
 note of 50 doll, which I have but partly paid, & have
also borrowed 10 dolls of a poor brother soldier Pensioner, of
which I cannot repay a cent! And, on another demand, my
two cows (which you will see on my schedule) are already gone.
But no more of detail - I sicken to have to mention these
things, even to yourself.
T. T.
Page 141

Vt. No. 8
5502 Greensboro
[illegible - Se 73 - Act or A’d Jany 19]

Hon J. C. Calhoun
Secretary of War
Page 142

Greensboro (Vt.) June 30, 1820.

Sir, Having passed through the ordeal, required by the Acts
of May 1. with sentiments purely respectful to you, Sir, I
communicate enclosed herewith the result. I trust, on
adverting to my original papers, you will perceive their
agreement with this, & will readily re-apprehend my
case, as it is.
I am too well acquainted with official business, & aware
 of the infinite burden now lying on
you, Sir, to trouble you with a private tale of woes
corroborative of my schedule. That, with Judge
Stanley's original certificate, will be your guide, &
your voucher.
Awaiting, with respect, your decision, & praying that
 it may be certified to me with
the least possible delay, consisting with the rules of
your office,
I am, Sir
Your Obedt Serv.
Tho. Tolman


My address is-”Tho. Tolman Esq., Greensboro, Vermont.”
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Admitted
No. 4
Hon. S. C. Crafts
H. of Rep.

Hon. John C. Calhoun
Secretary of War
Washington
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Greensboro (Vert) Jan. 1. 1819
Sir
As by absence & other causes on my part, the transmission of
the enclosed case has been delayed till the Applicant complains
of the delay as a damage on account of his necessities; I beg the
favour, if it may consist with the order of your office, that it may have
your consideration with a reference to the date of the application, & not of
the transmission, & that your decision, or any other necessary notice,
may be communicated to Judge Crafts, Member, at Washington
with whom Mr. Tolman corresponds.
With respect, I have the honor to be, &c
Tim’o Stanley


Hon. John C. Calhoun,
Sec of War