Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 22405, for David Thompson, New Hampshire
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(8-1776)

SERVICE
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[this is a preprinted certificate with spaces to fill in personal, location and date information]
State of New-hampshire
Office of Secretary of State
I, Thomas P. Treadwell Secretary of the State afore-said [sic], do hereby certify that Thomas J Goodwin is an acting Justice of the Peace, in and for the County of Rockingham duly Commissioned and qualified; that his Commission was dated on the 17th day of May 1841 and will expire on the 17th day of May 1846 and that his signature to the annexed instrument is genuine.
Given under my hand and the Seal of said State this twenty seventh day of Sept 1843
Thomas P. Treadwell [signature] Secretary of State
[there is a ribbon and seal affixed to the document]
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"Marraiges [sic] performed by the Rev. Nath Sayes Minister of the Gospel in South Hampton"
December the first, Seventeen hundred and Eighty four - David Thomson and Rachel Brown.
This may certify that the above is a true copy of the record, with the exception of the date which is expressed in fair legible figures as follows, "Decr 1, 1784,"
Alfred Jewell, Town Clerk of South Hampton
State of New Hampshire - Rockingham [illegible] Sept 20 1843
I Alfred Jewell above named depose and say that I hold the Office of Town Clerk in the Town County and State aforesaid and that the above is a true extract from the records of said South Hampton with the exceptions abovenamed
A. Jewell, Town Clerk of South Hampton
Rockingham [illegible] Sept, 20 1843
Then the above Alfred Jewell appeared and made oath to the above before me Thomas J Good[illegible] Justice of Peace
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State of Newhampshire County of Stratford SS
On this 11th day of April AD 1818 before me the subscriber one of the Judges of the Court of common pleas for said county personally appears David Thompson aged sixty one years resident in the Town of Gilford county and state aforesaid who being by me first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the late act of Congress entitled an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war: That he the said David Thomp-son [sic] sometime in the forepart of the year 1775 enlisted into the aforesaid service in the Town of Chesterfield in said state into the company commanded by Capt Jacob Hinds and regiment commanded by Col James Reed Newhampshire [illegible] for eight months that about the time his enlistment was out he enlisted for one year at Winterhll state of Massachusetts into the company regiment and [illegible] aforesaid that he continued to serve in said service of the United States in the revolutionary war on the Continental estab-lishment [sic] from the forepart of the year 1775 until
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Rachel Thompson
Payment to be made at Portsmouth by Richard Je[illegble] Eq Agent for paying Pensioners, in the Agency of New Hampshire
Payable on the 4th September and 4th March
Recorded in the Pension Office on the Roll of Pensioners, under act February 2d, 1848, Page 154,Vol. 1. 
Lev. Jenkins Clerk.
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War Department
Widow's Pension
I certify that in conformity with the act of February 2d, 1848, Rachel Thompson widow of David Thompson, who was a private in the revolutionary war, is inscribed on the pension list at the rate of sixty six dollars and sixty six cents per annum, commencing on the 4th of March, 1848, and continuing for life, unless she should again marry; in which case the Pension is not payable after the time of such marriage.
Given at the War Office of the United States this 22nd day of February one thousand eight hundred and forty nine.
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I Benjamin Davis of Rockingham, in the county of Windham of State of Vermont, of the age of seventy six years, do testify to say in the year 1776 I was an Ensign in Capt. Jacob Hinds' Company in the New Hampshire Regiment, commanded by Col. James Peace, and well recollect that there was a Soldier in T. Company, by the name of David Thompson and that he enlisted for one year, in the month of January or February in the aforesaid year of 1776 and I left the Company. I think in the month of October following, at which time the aforesaid David Thompson was then in the Company.
Benj A Davis
 
State of Vermont Windham County
Rockingham, January 10th, 1820
Personally appeared Benj Davis, above named, and made oath that the foregoing definition by him subscribed contained the truth before me, Joseph W[illegible] Justice Peace
Benj Davis in my opinion, is a man of truth and [illegble] Attest, Joseph [illegible] Justice Peace
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State of Vermont
Windham County Court Clerk Office
Brattleborough, August 18th 1820.
I certify that Joseph Ward,  [illegible] is one of the Justices of the Peace within and for the county of Windham aforesaid, duly commissioned under the authority of this State, and that the signatures of his [illegible] and office to the within certificates are in the proper hand writing of the said Justice.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and office the Seal of said Court the day and yearabove written.
James Elliot, Clerk
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Rachel Thompson
W Revolution
5517
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Declaration
In order to obtain the benefits of the Act of Congress of 2d February, 1868, entitled "An Act making further provision for surviving widows and Soldiers of the Revolution. Also of the Acts of Congress of 29th July 1748 entitled "the Act for the relief of certain surviving widows of officers an soldiers of the Revolutionary Army
State of New Hampshire
County of Beklnap  SS.

On this twentieth day of September 1848 personally appeared before subscriber, a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, Rachel Thompson a resident of Gilford in the County of Belknap aged eight one 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 on the 2d February, 1848, and on the 4th July 1848 granting pension to Widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary war. That she is the Widow of David Thompson who was a private in the Army of the Revolution and that she was a Pensioner and received a pension under the Act of Congress of 7th June 1844 at the rate of $66.66 per annum. that her husband the aforesaid David Thompson received a pension of ninety six dollars per annum.
She further declares that she is still a widow.
Rachel X her mark Thompson
Daniel M. Gale Justice of the Peace
I further certify, that the above declarent is personally known to me.
Daniel M. Gale Justice of the Peace

State of New Hampshire
Belknap County, SS.
I Ebeneser S. Lawrence Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, of the County and State aforesaid, do hereby certify that Daniel M. Gale is a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, duly commissioned and qualified; that his commission was dated on the twenty third day of December 1845 and will expire on the twenty second day of December 1850 and that his signature above written is genuine.
Given under my hand, and the seal of said County, this seventh day of October 1848.
E.S. Lawrence Clerk
Sold by John F. Brown, No. 1, Ayer's Block, Concord, N.H.