Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 6229, for Reuben Thorp, New Jersey
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Thorp, Reuben
Tharp

S.6229
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Pennsylvania 1921
Reuben Tharp of Fayetteville Co in the state of Penn who was a [illegible] in the Company commanded by Captain Hadden of the [illegible] comand by [Illegible] Foreman in the New Jersey Line for Militia
[Illegible] $ 70.00

Reuben Thorp
Records corrected

Inscribed on the Roll of Pennsylvania at the rate of 70 Dollars [illegible] per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1832.

Certificate of Pension issued the 13th day of January and [illegible]

Arrears to the 4th of Sept 1833.        175.00
[illegible].                                                35.00
                                                             $ 210.00

Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832
Recorded by [illegible]  Clerk. [illegible]
Book D
Vol. 4 
Page 85
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No 2934
Private 21 Mo
Reuben Thorp
$70
to John H. Defore
Union Town
Penn a
In letter to Hon A.
Stewart 10 Jan 1834
No evidence that Col Turton was in
service for 1 year
Hon A. Stewart
H. R
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BRIEF in the case of Reuben Thorp
of Fayette County in the State of Pennsylvania
(Act 7th June, 1832.)
1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge?
Court of Common Pleas,
2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?
3. How old is he? 71
4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed.
[beginning of chart][first column][header] Period.
In 1775
not [overwritten] 1776
1776 and 7
1778 -9
[second column][header] Duration of Service.
Years,
-
-
-
1
Months,
1
5
3
Days,
[third column][header] Rank
Private
[fourth column][header] Names of General and Field Officers
under whom he served.
Gen. 
New Jersey Militia
Capt. Hadden
same Capt. Col. Forman
Col. Martin
Flying lamp
Col. Tuston
[end of chart]
5. In what battles was he engaged?
None mentioned
6. Where did he reside when he entered the service?
Middlesex County N. Jersey
7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by
incidental evidence, or by the rolls?
2d service proved by one witness
8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect?
Correct, but that there is no
certificate of no reason assigned for its absence.
certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case
above mentioned.
John M Duffield
Examining Clerk.
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Ruben Tharp
declaration to
obtain Pension.
3934 [upside down]
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State of Pennsylvania of
Fayette County
On the 21st day of August 1832 personally appeared in open court before the Judges of
the court of Common pleas now sitting Reuben Thorp a resident
of Wharton Township in the County of Fayette and State of
Pennsylvania aged 77 years who being first duly sworn
according to law, doth, on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress
[ineligible] June 7 1832 - That he entered the service of the
United States under the following named officers, and
served as herein stated
that he first enlisted in Woodbridge Town Middlesex
County State of New Jersey under Captain Thomas Hood
on in the winter of 1775 for one month, to go to Long
Island to Queen County to disarm certain forces - That
after this term he reenlisted under the same captain
in the same County & State at Perth Amboy for a term
of nine months and was again taken to Long Island
in the regiment commanded by Col. David Forman
to fortify the place against the British fleet that lay
in the Narrows between Staten Long land this was in the year 1776 - that after the expiration of
this term he was sent on to Fort Washington in New York
on York Island, from thence to Fort Lee in
New Jersey on North over or near the State line.
And from thence to Woodbridge New Jersey, there
the company to which he belonged commanded by Capt
Hadden separated from the regiment and went
down the shore to take some Tories who were
going to join the british fleet.  Sixty were taken
brought on to Philadelphia where he
received a discharge that he after this went
out under Col Ephraim Martin as a volunteer during the
winter of 1776-7 and lay at a place called
Baskin ridge for a term of three months- that in the year 1778, he went to the fronteer [sic] of the
State of New Jersey as a volunteer under Major Meeker and Col Tuston to a place called
Menasing west of the blue mountain to fight
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and watch the Indians as a spy and continued
in this service for one year. The regiment to which he belonged in the first one and five months service enlistment at Long Island was called the "Flying Camp-

He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state-

He further states that he was born in New Jersey Middlesex County Woodbridge Township in the year 1755 - that he has a record of his age at home on a piece of paper taken from his mother mouth. That he lived in New Jersey Middlesex County when he was called into the service. That said 1792 he has lived and now live in Fayette County Pennsylvania, and that before the and after the revolution he lived in New Jersey Middlesex County aforesaid- That he was called into service as before stated. That the names of the officers which he now recollects a as before stated except Generals Green and Hird who were also his officers-- That he received a discharge at Philadelphia at the end of his five months enlistment from Captain Hadden, that he kept it till within ten
years, when he lost it in pulling down an old cabbin [cabin] in which he lived since which
he has not seen it-- That he names Abraham
Stewart and Thomas G. Mitchell as persons
his neighbourhood who can testify to his character for veracity and their belief of his service, as a soldier of the revolution - He further states that he [entire line crossed out] has no documentary evidence of his service, nor does he know of any person living who can testify to his being in the revolution save his brother.

Sworn to and subscribed [illegible] 
H.W. Beeson Prothonotary.   Re[rest is cut off]

We Abraham Stewart Thomas G Mitchell residing in the neighbourhood & county of Reuben Thorp hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with
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Service
New Jersey

Thorp, Ruben
Or Thark

Number
S. 6229

Carded
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Pennsylvania
Fayette County SS}
Personally appeared before me a Justice of the peace in and for said County Paul Thorp who deposeth and saith that his brother Reuben Thorp tho not in the same place with himself, was a soldier of the revolution - Deponent
knows that he enlisted and went in to the
service of the United States in the year 1776
and he seen him at New York in the year- Reuben Thoarp was a soldier of the Jersey line and deponent was in the Pennsylvania line, so that they had no chance of knowing each others
services, except when they met- And further that he is the identical person whom he describes himself to be in his declaration-

       his
Paul X Thorp
       mark

Sworn & subscribed
before me this 13th day
of August 1832-
Abraham Stewart J. P.

I do certify that the deponent is a credible
witness.
Abraham Stewart

Pennsylvania Fayette County ss. I Henry W. Beeson Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas in & for said County do hereby certify that Abraham Stewart Esq. is an acting Justice of the peace in & for said County duly commissioned & qualified & that I believe the above signatures respectively to be those of the said Abraham Stewart Esq. In testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand & affixed the seal of said Court at Uniontown the 23d August 1832
Henry W Beeson
Prothy.
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May 19, 1938
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

Reuben Thorp, S. 6229
BA-J/MCS

Mrs. N. M. Speidel
322 S. Iowa Avenue
Washington, Iowa

Dear Madam:

Reference is made to your request for information relative to Revolutionary War soldier, Reuben Thorp, who was pensioned while living in Fayette County, Pennsylvania.

The data which follow were obtained from papers on file in the pension claim, S.8229, based on the military service of Reuben Thorp.

He was born in 1755 in Woodbridge Township, Middlesex County, New Jersey. The names of his parents were not given.

While a resident of Woodbridge, Middlesex County, New Jersey, he served as follows: in the winter of 1775, one month in Captain Thomas
Hadden's New Jersey Company; from the summer of 1776, five months in Captain Thomas Hadden's company in Colonel David Forman's New Jersey regiment; in the winter of 1776-78, three months in Captain Barker's
company in Colonel Ephraim Martin's New Jersey regiment; in 1778 and 1779 he served at various times, amounting to at least one year, under Captains Cole, Beckwith and Chambers, and a part of this service was under Colonel Tusten of the New York line and a part under Major Meeker of the New Jersey line; also served at various times on scouting parties
against the British and Indians and his entire service during the Revolution amounted to more than two years. He did not state the rank of his
service.

He was allowed pension on his application executed August 21, 1832, at which time he was living in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, where he
had lived since 1792, having moved there from Middlesex County, New Jersey.
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Paul Thorp testified in behalf of his brother, Reuben Thorp, in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, in 1832. There are no further data on file relative to the family of Reuben Thorp.

Reuben Thorp made no reference to a will in the papers of his pension claim.

Very truly yours

A. D. HILLER
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator
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[left side:]
May 25 '08. Hist to Louis K. Ely.
Letter with S. F. 34.433, Thos. Mitchell
F.W.
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1911 Feby 14 Hist to Miss
Fannie E Showers V.L.M.
1912 Apr 4 Hist. to Mrs.
A. K. Smith. Letter in S.34433
Thomas Mitchel V. L.M.
--------------------------
1938, May 19, hist to
Mrs. N. M. Speidel.  MCS
--------------------------
1838 Oct. Mrs. N.M. Speidel
sent inf. rel. to obt. date
last paymt. I pen. etc. MCS

[right side:]
Rev War.  6229  
INVALID.
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File No. __6229_____
__Reuben Thorp_____
___Privt Rev War_____
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Act: ___June 7" 1832______
Index: -- Vol.___M____, Page___ 373____

[Arrangement of 1870.]

[below is hand-written:]
Reuben Thorp
Records corrected June 6, 1904
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[left side:]
1921
Pennsylvania
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Reuben Tharp
of Fayette Co. in the State of Pennsylvania
who was a private of the company commanded
by Captain Hadden of the regiment commanded
by Col. Foreman in the N. J. Militia
line for. [rest is blank]
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Inscribed on the Roll of Pennsylvania
at the rate of 70 Dollars ['Cents' crossed out] per annum, to commence on the 4th March, 1831.
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Certificate of Pension issued the 13th day of November 1832 and sent to S.H. Deford
Uniontown Pa
---------------------------
Arrears to 4th Sept. 1832            105.00
Semi-anl. allowance ending 
4 March 1833                                  35.00
                                                     ________
                                                        140.00
⎨ Revolutionary Claim, }
  { Act June 7, 1832.      }

Recorded by J.M. Duffield Clerk
Book D    Vol. 6    Page 85

[right side:]
Suspended for answer to
letter of Nov 14 1832 to J.H. Deford-
requiring evidence that
Col Tustons regt was in service
for 1 year
further suspd for correcting
his decln as to time of service
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TREASURY DEPARTMENT.
SECOND COMPTROLLER'S OFFICE.

May 19, 1842.

Sir:

Under the date of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled "An act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States, Reuben Thorp
a Pensioner on the Roll of the Philadelphia, Pa.
Agency, at the rate of Seventy
Dollars and ['Cents' crossed out] per annum, under the law of the 7th June 1832, has been paid at this Department, from the 4th of March 1841, to the 4th Sept. 1841.

Respectfully yours,
Albion K. Parris
COMPTROLLER.

To the COMMISSIONER OF PENSIONS,
Present.
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Admd

Hon. A. Stewart
H R

$70--
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Jany 12 1833

J.L. EdwardsEsq

Sir,  your note of the 10th it saying that a
pension would be granted to Reuben Thorp upon my certificate of good character is recd. In reply I have to State that I have known Reuben Thorp the applicant above named from my early
boyhood up to this time intimately and that I know no man in whose truth and integrity I have
more unqualified confidence.

Yours respectfully
Andw. Stewart


  70
    2
___
140
  35
____
175

  70
    3
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210
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[on left:]
Reuben Thorp
pa
[stamp:] UNION TOWN Mar 21

[address area of envelope:]
Free

Honbl. Lewis Cass
Secretary of War
Washington City
D.C.
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Union Town Pa.
March 22. 1833

I recd a letter from you in the case of Reuben Thorp under the late pension act dated Nov 1832-  I delayed writing an answer till I could get the necessary evidence required.

You desired to know how long Col. Tuston was in service which the enclosed affidavit of Wm Williams proves.

You also wished Mr Thorp to State definitely how long he was in the service and the reason he could not procure the certificate of a Clergyman. This he fully states in his own affidavit herewith also enclosed on the same paper with Mr Williams-

Be so good as to examine his case as soon as possible and forward me the result-

Very Respectfully
Jr. Obt State.
John H Deford

Hon. L. Cass
Secy of War
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Bryants Pa
May 18th 1831

Free
A. Stewart Mil
---

J. L. Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City
D.C.
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[vertically on left:]. May 19 addl Declaration Reuben Thorp

[vertically on right:]. Reuben Thorp
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Affidavit of
Wm Williams in
Case of Reuben Thorp-
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Pennsylvania
Fayette County  SS }
Personally appeared before me Justice of the peace in and for said County William Williams who deposeth and saith that he was a soldier of the revolution of the New York line. That
he was well acquainted with and lived neighbour to Col. Tuston, who was also in the revolution, that the said Tuston was a militia colonel in the year 1775, and continued in that office after the commencement of the year and was in service till 1778 in the latter end of July or the first day of August, when he was killed by the Indians on Delaware river. This deponent
further states that he served under Col Tuston
himself-

Wm Williams

Sworn and subscribed
before me this 12th
day of March 1833
James Lindsay

I certify that deponent is a credible witness-
James Lindsay

Fayette County SS.  
Personally appeared before me a Justice
of the peace Reuben Thorp who deposeth
and saith that he was in the service during the revolution in all two years at least and further that the reason he did not obtain the certificate and affidavit of a Clergyman as to his belief of his veracity and of his services as a soldier of the revolution, is because there is no clergyman in his neighbourhood to whom he is acquainted-- Sworn & subscribed before me this 22 March 1833

Reuben Thorp

S. Smith J.P. 
I certify that dept is a credible witness. - S. Smith
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Pennsylvania }
Fayette County }ss
I Henry W. Beeson Prothy of the court
of Common pleas in & for said County do
hereby certify that James Lindsay Esq
& Saml Smith Esq are respectively magistrates as within stated & that the within
Signatures purporting to be theirs are
genuine
In testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand & affixed
the seal of said Court at Union town the 20th day
of March 1833
Henry W. Beeson
Prothy
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Fayette County }
Pennsylvania }
Before me the Subscriber a Justice
of the peace
in & for the said County personally
Came
Reuben Thorp a revolutionary
Soldier
who being duly sworn did depose and
say that by reason of old age, and consequent
loss of memory he cannot state on oath [illegible]
the the period of his service but according to
the best of his recollection
he served as
follows viz
He first entered the service as a
militia man for one month in Woodbridge
New Jersey where he then resided under
Capt.
Thomas Hadden went to Long Island & served out
the period above mentioned this was in the winter of 1775.
The next time he went out volunteer
for five months under Capt Hadden from the same
Place he vent to new York & Long Island they were
Commanded by Col. Firmain & Major Parker &
served out his term aforesaid. this was in the summer
of 1776. The third time he went out under
Col. Ephraim Martin as a volunteer commanded by 
Captain Barker in the winter of 1776-7 for a tour
of three months which he served out part of the time
at Basking Ridge.
In 1778 & 79 he went as a volunteer
and as a minute man and served
almost constantly under arms and always ready &  
on the alert to march at a moments warning
during these two years part of the time under 
Captain Cole, Capt Beckwith Capt Chambers &
other officers part of the time they were
commanded by Col Tuston & part of the
time by Major Meeker Col. Tuston was
Killed by the indians in the latter part of
July 1778 & Major Meeker was wounded &
continued to [illegible] and after Col. Tustons death
during 1778 & 79 he served under the officers
above mentioned at least one year, and
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the said deponent further states that in addition to
the foregoing he went out in scouting parties against
both the british and Indians for short periods under
different officers & at numerous & different times
which he cannot now enumerate or recollect
with certainty or precision but he feels perfectly
safe & confident in saying that added to the
foregoing they would make the whole period
of his service during the revolutionary war
more than two years.
Reuben Thorp
Sworn & subscribed before }
me this 18" day of May 1833 }
John Henry

I hereby certify that I have been intimately acquainted with
Reuben Thorp the above named revolutionary Soldier for
more than twenty five years that he is a man of
unblemished character of the strictest honesty and
veracity & that I know of no man in whose word
I would place greater confidence.
Andrew Stewart

I also certify that John Henry Esq is a Justice
of the peace duly commissioned in & for the County
of Fayette Pa.
Andrew Stewart
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Miss Wilm
S.6229
Bethany, Ill.
Lock box #183
Feb. 6, 1911
The Sec. of the Interior,
Washington, D.C.
Dear Sir: I am wanting
to know if you can give
me a statement as to
whither Reuben Thorp
received a pension as a
Revolutionary soldier. He
served seven years in the
Revolution War, and received
a pension for a number of
years. He was born in New 
Jersey, moved to Fayette Co.
Pa. where he was married.
He was 93 years old when he
died
Yours truly,
Miss. Fannie E. Showers
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822 S. Iowa Ave.
Washington Iowa
Sept 7, 1938

[stamp]
RECEIVED
SEP 10 1938
MAIL SUB-DIV
[ILLEGIBLE]
16

Pension Dept.
Washington, D.C.

Dear Sirs: 
Will you
please give me the
pension record of Reuben
Thorp in the Revolutionary 
War and who died in
Perry Co. Ohio about
1850.
Address
Mrs. N.M. Speidel
822 S. Iowa Ave.
Washington 
Iowa
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822 S. Iowa Ave.
Washington Iowa
April 28, 1938
Veterans Bureau.
Washington, D.C.
Dear Sirs
Will you please
give me any record you have
of Reuben Thorp who was
placed on the pension roll of
Fayette Co. Pa. in 1832 for
service in N. Jersey Militia
Was he a sergeant and did
he leave a Will? I am a 
descendant and wish to prove
it.
Sincerely
Mrs. N.M. Speidel
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October 17, 1938
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
BA-J/MCS
Reuben Thorp, S. 6229

Mrs. N. M. Speidel
822 S. Iowa Avenue
Washington, Iowa

Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your request for information relative to
a Revolutionary War soldier, Reuben Thorp, who died in Perry County,
Ohio, about 1850.

The Revolutionary War records of this office fail to afford any
information relative to a Reuben Thorp (searched under all spellings)
who lived in Perry County, Ohio, when he applied for pension, and the
Reuben Thorp, S. 6229, of Fayette County, Pennsylvania, whose record was
sent you May 19, 1938, is the only soldier of that name found in said
records who was living as late as 1832.

In order to obtain the date of last payment of pension of Reuben
Thorp, S. 6229, the name and address of the person to whom it was paid
and possibly the date of soldier's death, it is suggested that you
address The Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, Records
Division, Washington, D.C., citing the following:

Reuben Thorp, Certificate 1921, issued January 15, 1834, rate $70
per annum, commenced March 4, 1831, Act of June 7, 1832, Pennsylvania
Agency.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator

Reuben Thorp, S.6229