Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R 10493, for Absalom Thomas, North Carolina
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SERVICE   NUMBER 
[handwritten] N C Thomas, Absalom R10493
S C _ _
Nation of S.C. [/handwritten]
CONTENTS
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Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1876. [This line is crossed out]
OWN
REJECTED10,493
P. O. 
Absalom Thomas
Service:
Enlisted:  , 18  .
Discharged:  , 18  .
Application filed:  , 18  .
Alleges:  
Re-enlisted:
Attorney:
P. O. 
Recognized.  Contract.
Cert. of Dis.  Searched for  , 18  .
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Georgia
Absalom Thomas
Suspended
Letter 27 June 1834_
Hon: William Shley-
10493
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House Representatives
Washington 26th June 1836
Dr Sir;
Herewith I send you a petition which has once been before, with the letter of Mr Watts stating the reason why it is now impossible to furnish the evidence you wished.
If you possibly can consistent with your duty allow this claim I know from what I understand that you will only do justice to a meritorious man, "who is of few days and full of trouble."
Very respectfully
Yr Obt Svt
Wm Schley
Please give me an audience as soon as your Convenience will permit.
Hon. J. L Edwards-
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27.691
Absalom Thomas
Ga
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Declaration, In order to obtain the benefit of an Act of Congress of the 7th June 1832.
State of Georgia }
Burke County. } S.S.
On this the 20 day of May. 1833 Personally appeared before the Justices of the Inferior Court of the County of Burke and State of Georgia sitting for ordinary purposes Absalom Thomas of the County of Burke and State of Georgia age Seventy two years a native of South Carolina who being 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 (the year the applicant does not recollect) with Col Thomas Taylor and served in the Regiment commanded by the above mentioned Officer (the number of the Regiment this applicant does not recollect) that he served in the line under the following named Officers William Goodwin Captain, Green Reeves first Lieutenant, J Wilkie Thivers Ensign, the time he left the service he does not know but that he served under Colo Taylor two years, and that he entered service at a place then / called Fishing Creek in the State of North Carolina, under the command of this Officer he assisted in taking a Fort at Fridays ferry on the Congarees River in South Carolina commanded by a British Officer named Col Maxfield or Maxwell. he was also at the taking of Orangeburgh Fort in the same State, the dates of these engagements he does not recollect, after which he again enlisted under General Hampten of South Carolina and served until the close of the War when he was regularly discharged, and that his discharge was lost or mislaid and he further states that there is no Surviving witness (as he knows of) who can attest his service
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He says that he was in no general engagement under this Officer, but was in a skirmish with the enemy at a place called Monks Corner in the State of South Carolina when he was slightly wounded, that [blank space] Brown was the name of his Captain and Benjamin Huff his first Lieutenant.
Personally appeared before me the Undersigned a Justice of the peace for the County of Burke Absalom Thomas who being duly sworn deposeth and saith that by reason of old age and the consequent loss of memory he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service but according to the best of his recollection he served for not less than the periods as before stated, and that he served all these periods in the grade of a private, and that he cannot give the date of these services further than he has already given them.
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or an annuity, except the present, and he declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any Agency in any State, or (if any) only on that of the Agency in the State of  Georgia.
his 
Absalom X Thomas
mark
Sworn and Subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
Wade Brown, J.P
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier and served as he states.
I John G. Baduly Clerk of the Court of Ordinary for Burke County do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Absalom Thomas for a pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 20th day of May 1833.
J. G. Baduly, clk
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I John Watts Clerk of the Inferior Court of Burke County and State of Georgia, do hereby certify that Wade Brown whose name appears to the foregoing affidavit as a subscribing witness is a Justice of the Peace of said County, and that full faith and credit ought to be had and given to his attestation as such and that the same is in due form.
Given under my hand and privy Seal (there being no Seal of Office) this 20th day of May 1833.
John Watts, Clk IC (LS)
We Mark Lively a clergyman resident of the County of Burke and John Gordon [written above the words "Joseph Bush," which were lined out] residing in the same place hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Absalom Thomas who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be Seventy three years of age, that he is reputed and believed in the neighbourhood where he resides to have been a Soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion
Mark Lively
John Gordon
Sworn and Subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
Wade Brown J.P
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter and putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier and served as he states.  And the Court further certifies that it appears to them that Mark Lively who has signed the preceding certificate is a Clergyman resident in the County of Burke and that Joseph Bush who has also signed the same is a resident of said County and is a credible person
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and that their statement is entitled to credit.
I John G. Baduly Clerk of the Court of Ordinary do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Absalom Thomas for a pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 20th day of May 1833.
J. G. Baduly, clk