Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 39941, Thomas Anderson, Del.

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Service Del.                               
Anderson, Thomas 
Number S.39941
BL. Wt. 39.200 Lieut.
Issued May 3, 1789
No papers

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Pennsylvania Roll
1,801

Thomas Anderson
Lieutenant
[Capt. Kirkwood noted in margin]
Delaware line May 1781- war

In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War

Inscribed on the Roll of Pennsylvania at the rate of 20 Dollars per month, to commence on the 11th of April 1818.

Certificate of Pension Issued on 30th of June 1818 and sent to the Pensioner at Philadelphia

Arrears to 4th of Sept. 1818.
[text crossed out]
4 months 24/30 $90.”

{Revolutionary Claim}
{Act March, 1818}

Continued

see letter 18 March 1890 to P N Shruat

[illegible] sent to D. Caldwell Esq
9 Mar 1820 Philadelphia

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Affidavit of Capt. Anderson

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Personally appeared before me Jacob Rush, president of the first Judiciary [sic] District in the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, composed of the city and county of Philadelphia; Thomas Anderson, now a Resident in the city of Philadelphia, but late of the state of Delaware, and being duly sworn upon the holy Evangelist of God, doth depose and say, that he entered as a private in the month of January 1776 in Captain Joseph Stedams Company, under the command of Colonel John Haslett, who commanded the Delaware Regiment of the state of Delaware. That he continued under the command of the said Colonel John Haslett until he was killed at the Battle of Princeton; That he then said Thomas Anderson, then served under Captain Enock Anderson, the Regiment being commanded by Colonel David Hall- That he received the commission of Second Lieutenant, the day of which he does not recollect, and that he has lost the commission, that he was sometime after promoted and received the commission of First Lieutenant in said Regiment bearing the date of the first day of May 1781, and that he continued in said Delaware Regiment until the end of the war-.

Sworn and subscribed this 11th 
Day of April, 1818
before me. Jacob Rush.
Thos Anderson

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Philda on April 15th 1818.

Sir:

I have the pleasure, or rather the pain, to transmit certain Affidavits taken before me, in obedience to the late Act of Congress because they are designed to prove that Captain Tho's Anderson, a very deserving Officer who served during the Revolutionary War is at this time so poor and old that he is incapable of maintaining himself and Family. Few Men have seen so much Service or gone through so much hard fighting, as this old Veteran, who has been engaged in thirty Battles for the Liberty and Independence of our Country. With Colonel Haslett, who commanded the Delaware Regiment, when it was first raised, I was personally acquainted. At the Commencement of the War, he was a practicing Physician in that State, and held a seat in the House of Representatives in which he was distinguished both for Talents and Eloquence. His Career in military Life was short and terminated at The Battle of Princeton, where he was shot through the Head by a Musket Ball. There, and many other events, are still fresh in my Memory, [illegible] of my occupying, during the Revolutionary War. A Station near the Head of the Civil Power.

The affidavit of Captain Anderson and his enclosed Commission of first Lieutenant, [illegible] be deemed sufficient to show his service and rank in the army; and the deposition made by two of

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of initial acquaintance who are known to me to be persons of good Character and Standing in Society, will I presume, completely establish the other fact, viz. his being in such reduced Circumstances as to require assistance from his country.

For myself, feeling the most perfect but painful conviction of this truly unfortunate situation of Captain Anderson, and of his military Merit in the War of our Revolution, I state it to be my judicial opinion and do in the Manner officially certify to the War Department that he served in the army as mentioned in this affidavit and that verily he stands in Need of Assistance from his Country.

I am, Sir,
very respectfully,
your most obd. Srvt.
Jacob Rush

Honorable M. Calhoon

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Thom. S Anderson

1801 [illegible mark] Calhoun

Jacob Rush

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District Court of the United States in and for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania  - Sct.

On the eighth day of September in the year of our Lord Eighteen hundred and twenty personally appeared in open court aforesaid, being a Court of Record for fourth district Thomas Anderson aged seventy four years and upwards, resident of the City of Philadelphia in the said District, who being first duly sworn according to Law both on by Oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows- to wit, That he enlisted in the Month of January in the Year 1776 in the State of Delaware in the company commandered {sic} by Captain Joseph Stedham in the Delaware Regiment commandered {sic} by Colonel Joseph Haslet in the hire of the State of Delaware on the Continental Establishment, and that continued to serve in the said Regiment until he was discharged, after the Peace at New Castle in Delaware in the year 1783. That he fought at the Battles of Long Island, White Plains and Trenton; also at the Battles of Brandywine, Germantown and Monmouth; also at the Battles of Camden, Cowpens, Guilford, Battle of Eutaw Springs, also at the Siege of Ninety Six, where he commanded for the occasion a Company with which he entered and took Holmes’s Redoubts. And also in many heavy Skirmishes- making in the whole of his Engagements with the Enemy twenty nine Battles. There he was promoted during the War through various grades to be the first Lieutenant of Kirkwood’s Company, which Post he held at the close of the War. That he made his Original Declaration in order to obtain the Provision made by the Act of Congress passed 18th March 1818 on or about the 11th of April 1818. And that and he has received a Pension under the said Act Certificate whereof was granted the 30th June 1818 and appears to be Numbered 1801. And in Perseverance of the Act of 1820, he maketh the following Oath to wit - I do solemnly swear that I was

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was a resident Citizen of the United States, the 18th of March 1818. and that I have not since that time by gift, sale or manner disposed of my Property or any part within the Provisions of the Act of Congress entitled “An act to provide for certain Persons engaged in the said Land and Naval Service of the United States in the Revolutionary War” passed on the 18th day of March 1818; and that I have not, nor has any Person in trust for me any property, or securities, contracts or debts due to me, nor I have any Income that is contained here in the Schedule arranged, and by me prescribed- and I further make Oath that my family consists of my wife aged 60 and a daughter aged 30 who keeps house and son who is cripple and unable to contribute to her support- and they my sole means are derived from boarding Two Young Men- One  a Journeyman Tobacconist and the other late a Journeyman Printer.

Tho. Anderson

Sworn to, declared and subscribed on the Eighth day of September in the year of our Lord Eighteen hundred and twenty in open Court.}

L. Caldwell Clk. Dist Ct

An Inventory of the whole Estate of Thomas Anderson except his necessary clothing and bedding viz.
42. Wooden Chairs _____ Dolls 3.00
3. Tables viz - 
1 Dining Table
1 Old Carved Table
1 Kitchen Table
1 Old looking glass - plain & overall the frame broken off ____  .50
1 pair [illegible] Iron Shovel & Tongs ___ 4. 
Kitchen Furniture ____ 8.
1 Rag Carpet ___ 2.
1 Bureau ___ 2.25
5 Candlesticks & One Year of Snuffers & Stand ___ .5
1 Candle Stand ___1.5
1 Picture of General Washington ___.75
2 Muslin Table Clothes ___ 0.25
1 Course Drapes ditto ___0.50
A Lot of Old Books of small value ___ .25

Tho. Anderson 
Jos. Phillips $23.50

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Sworn to in open court Sept 18th 1820

D.Caldwell Clk.Dist Ct

Joseph Phillips being duly sworn declares and says - That the contents of the above appraisement made by him is just and true.

Jos. Phillips

{Sworn in the open court

Sept 8th 1820

D.Caldwell Clk. Dist Ct}

I David Caldwell, Clerk of the District Court of the United States in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania do hereby certify from the Record of said Court- and I do further certify that it is the opinion of said Court that the total appraisement of in the value of Property exhibited in the foregoing Schedule is Twenty Three Dollars and Fifty Cents- In testimony where I have here unto my Hand and affixed the Seal of the said Court on the Thirteenth Day of September A. D. 1820 and the 45th year of Independence of the United States.

D.Caldwell Clk. Dist Ct

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39941

Revy Invalid

File No. 39,941

Thomas Anderson
Lieut. Rev War

Act: 18th March 18th
Index:  - Vol. 3, Page 13

[Arrangement of 1870]

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The United States of America In Congress Assembly

[illegible] Greetings, We reprising especial trust and compliance In your Patriotism, Valour, and Fidelity. DO by those presents constitute and appoint you, to [illegible] in the army of the United States to take rank as [illegible] from the [illegible] day [illegible] You are carefully and diligently to discharge the duty of [illegible][illegible] by doing and performing all manner of things thereunto belonging. AND [illegible] strictly charge and require all Officers and Soldiers under your command to be obedient to your orders, as [illegible] 
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, a Committee of the States or Commander in Chief for the time being of the Army of the United States, or any other your Superior Officer, according to the rules and discipline of War, in pursuance of the trust reposed in you. This Commissioner to continue inforce until revoked by this, or future Congress, the Committee of Congress before mentioned, or a Committee of the States.

Entered in the War Office and answered by the Record
Attest

Witness [illegible] President of 
the Congress of the United States of America at  [illegible] the [illegible] day of [illegible] 17[illegible] and in the [illegible] year of our Independence [illegible] 
Secretary of the Board of War [illegible]

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Deposition of Thos. Clyde and Matthew Baxter.

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Philadelphia April 13, 1818

The subscribers being call’d upon to state who they know respecting the circumstances, situation and standing, of Captain Thomas Anderson. Do believe him to stand in need of supports, as we have frequently lent him small sums of money for the purpose of buying wood, and the nessaries [sic] of life in Market. He opened and account with us the 6th of December 1816, which at this date has accumulated to the amount of $13..231/2 we believe it is for the want of funds, that it yet stands unpaid.  He says h e is now in the 72 year of his age, he  has last the sight of his right eye, and lame of one of his legs. He rents a house in our neighbourhood [sic], which we are told he pays at the rate of $140 – for per Annum, his Wife and Daughter who lives with him are very industrious we believe, and assist him very much by keeping boarders – he is a man that we believe to be of good habits and moral Character; and much respected by all those who are acquainted with him.
Sworn and subscribed by Thomas Clyde and by Matthew Baxter, before me, Jacob Rush,  President of the first  judicial District in Pennsylvania