Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S 2,612, Thomas Hetherly, Va.
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[Standard Card Format]

Service     Va

Hetherly, Thomas

Number     S2612

carded
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Ohio 6544

Thomas Hetherly
of Brown in the State of Ohio
who was a Private in the Company commanded
by Captain Harrison of the Regt. commanded
by Col. Spottswood in the Virginia
line for 2 years.

Inscribed on the Roll of Ohio
at the rate of 80. Dollars [blank] Cents per annum
to commence on the 4th day of March 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 25th day of Feby.
1833 and sent to Hon. W. Russell
H. of R. [House of Representatives]

Arrears to the 4th Sep. 1832    $120
Seni-anl. Allowance ending 4 Mar. '33    40
$160

{Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832}

Recorded by Geo. C. Stiles Clerk
Book D, Vol. 10, Page 35

[vertical writing] Date of death not alg [?]
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Thomas Hetherly

aom'd.

[writing at bottom is cutoff could possibly be "Russell"]
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Brief in the case of Thomas Hetherly
County of Brown in the State of Ohio
(Act 7th June, 1832)

1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge?   Court

2. If before a Judge, does it appear that tht applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity? [blank]

3. How old is he?   77

4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed.

Period.   Enlisted in 1779 25th Dec

Years, "3 more than"

Rank.     As a private

Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.
Adam Goff, 2nd. regmt. Va. line
Contin: establishment, Col. Alex: Spottswood
Capt. T. Harrison

5. In what battles was he engaged?   Brandywine, Germantown, Monmouth

6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Loudon Cty. Va.

7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? Neither, if not on the rolls

8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect?  Correct

Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.

Examining Clerk
[signed] F. Waugh   Feb 13, 1833
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October 28, 1933

BA-J/EEL
William Combs S.25859
Thomas Hetherly - S.2612

Miss Grace C. Barnett
2013 New Hampshire Avenue, N. W.
Washington, D.C.

Dear Madam

Reference is made to your letter in which you request the records of William Combs and Thomas Hetherly, soldiers of the Revolutionary Was. Their histories follow.
The data furnished herein are obtained from the papers on file in Revolutionary War pension claim, No. 25959, based upon the military service of William Combes or Combs in that war.2
William Combes or Combs enlisted early in 1776, at Stoverstown, Virginia, served as orderly sergeant in Captain John P. Harrison's Company, Colonels Muhlenburg and Abraham Bowen's Eighth Virginia Regiment and was at the attack on Sullivan's Island, length of service two years.
He was allowed pension on his application executed June 17, 1818, at which time he was aged sixty-one years "and upwards" and resided in Bath County, Kentucky.
In 1830, he referred to his wife as aged about sixty-one years but did not give her name or the date of their marriage and there is no reference to children. He then stated that he was a school master.
He died March 8, 1840.
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BA-J/EEL
William Combs S.25859
Thomas Hetherly - S.2612

Miss Grace C. Barnett
2013 New Hampshire Avenue, N. W.
Washington, D.C.

Dear Madam

Reference is made to your letter in which you request the records of William Combs and Thomas Hetherly, soldiers of the Revolutionary Was. Their histories follow.
The data furnished herein are obtained from the papers on file in Revolutionary War pension claim, No. 25959, based upon the military service of William Combes or Combs in that war.2
William Combes or Combs enlisted early in 1776, at Stoverstown, Virginia, served as orderly sergeant in Captain John P. Harrison's Company, Colonels Muhlenburg and Abraham Bowen's Eighth Virginia Regiment and was at the attack on Sullivan's Island, length of service two years.
He was allowed pension on his application executed June 17, 1818, at which time he was aged sixty-one years "and upwards" and resided in Bath County, Kentucky.
In 1830, he referred to his wife as aged about sixty-one years but did not give her name or the date of their marriage and there is no reference to children. He then stated that he was a school master.
He died March 8, 1840.
******
The data furnished herein was obtained from the papers on file in Revolutionary war pension claim, S.2612, based upon the military service of Thomas Hetherly in that war.
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He enlisted December 25, 1776, at Leesburg, Loudoun County Virginia, served as a private in Captain Joh P. Harrison's Company, Colonels Alexander Spotswood and Febiger's Second Virginia Regiment, was in the battles of Brandywine, Germantown and Monmouth and was discharged in 1780.
He was allowed pension on his application executed July 24, 1832, at which time he was aged seventy-seven years and resided in Eagle Township, Brown County, Ohio.
There is no data as to his family.
Very truly yours,
A. D.  Hiller
[unsigned]
Assistant to Administrator

Date of death not on a B [hand written]
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July 31 1832

Pension Office

found on Va. Roll

adm'd.

2 years
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Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of the 7th of June 1832

State of Ohio Brown County: SS
On this 24th day of July A.D. 1832 personally appeared before the court of Common Pleas of the County of Brown and State of Ohio Thomas Hetherly a resident of Eagle Township in the County of Brown and State of Ohio aged seventy-seven 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 provision made by the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832 – that he enlisted in the Army of the United States on the 25th day of December 1776 at Leesburg, Loudoun County Virginia with Adam Goff for the term of three years and served in the Second Regiment of the Virginia line on Continental establishment which was commanded by Colonel Alexander Spotswood who was 
promoted and Colonel Feebecker succeeded him his company was commanded by Captain John P Harrison Lieutenant Valentine Harrison & Ensign Thomas Parker – that he was in the battles of Brandywine, Germantown and Monmouth, he marched through the States of Virginia, Pennsylvania, Maryland, New Jersey, New York and through most of the New England states and was finally 
discharged at Little York in the State of Pennsylvania in the year 1780 having served out the full 
term of his enlistment and some
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short time more – he received a regular discharge which he filed in the Virginia land office in order to obtain his bounty land.
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and he declares that his name is not on the roll of any agency in any state.
[signed] Thomas Hetherly, X his mark
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid in open court.
[signed] James Finley, Clerk

And the said court do hereby declare their opinion that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states.

The state of Ohio
Brown County
I James Finley clerk of the court of common pleas in and for the county aforesaid do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of Thomas Hetherly for a pension.
In testimony whereof I hae herewunto set my and and seal of office the 25th day of July A.D. 1832
[signed] James Finley Clerk