Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 3584, Thomas Williams, Va.

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Williams, Thomas
S. 3584
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Kentucky
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Thomas Williams Swisbo in the State of Kentucky who was a private in the com manded by Captain Lucas of the reg commanded of the Kentucky Militia time for 6 months & 15 days
Inscribed on the Roll of Kentucky at the rate of 20 Dollars 56 Cents per annum. commence on the 14th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 12 day of October 1833 and Joseph Robb Clarksville
Arrears to the 14th of Sep t 37.40 Pens ant. allowance ending March 10.28 $61.68
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by Dan Boyd Clerk Book E Vol. 7 Page 33

15595
Thomas Williams
Lewis co.
Kentucky
from 1777 private 6 yrs 5 days. $20.56/100
10.28 5 51.40
Clarksburgh
Joseph Robb, clk., Lewis county, Kentucky.
1. Was the declarant ever a member of a lodge? 2. If before a lodge, does it appear that the applicant is entitled to public aid? 3. How old is he? 4. State his service as rendered in the war. 5. In what battle or battles did he participate? 6. At what place and when did he enter the service? 7. At what place and when did he leave the service? 8. Was the papers defective as to form or irregularities and if so in what respect? 9. Explain that the foregoing statement and the answers given with the exception of the last one are true to the best of his knowledge. Given under my hand and the seal of the Department of Veterans' Affairs this 10th day of June, 1924. in the case of the state of Kentucky

BRIEF in the case of Thomas Williams of Lewis county in the State of Kentucky (Act 7th June, 1832.)
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 1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? Court  2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?  3. How old is he? 76  4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed. 
   Period. Duration of Service. Rank. Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.   Years, Months, Days.     Volunteer In 1777 Nearly 4 Private Gen. Capt. Edward Lucas   Substitute Peter De Mays for do 4 Capt. Wm. Gavaids   3 13   2 20   6 05  
 5. In what battles was he engaged? None  6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Berkeley county, Virginia  7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditional evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? traditional  8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? Perfect 
X  Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
J. B. Bradford. Examining Clerk.

Williams Thomas Declaration for a Pension sworn to at Sept Term 1832 Ordered to be Certified &c
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Filed in the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Columbia, this 15th day of September, 1832.

State of Kentucky } County of Lewis } Set
On this 27 day of September 1832 personally appeared in open Court before the Circuit Court for the Circuit County of Lewis now in Session Thomas Williams a resident Citizen of the County and State aforesaid aged seventy six years, on 25 th day of May 1832 being first duly sworn according to law, on his oath makes the following declarations in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832, That he entered the service of the U.S. in September 1777 as a private in Captain Edwards Lucas's volunteer company of Infantry raised in the County of Berkeley in the State of Virginia, the Regiment was named Davis, the Ensign's name is not remembered, and marched to Fort Pitt, where we moved down to Wheeling, where in a regiment composed of Capt. Baldwin's Company and other Companies, the name of the Colonel and other Staff Officers not recollected, where we were stationed for some time, our Company was engaged in some Indian skirmishes, and had one man named Joseph Chapman killed and one man named Troop wounded at Log. Town 18 miles below Pitts- burgh. In December we returned and were discharged after having served nearly four months, the certificate of discharge is lost, In September 1781 the Applicant Thomas Williams aforesaid resided in Berkeley County, one Peter DeMoss was drafted to serve as a private in Captain

William Iamards militia company of Infantry and hired S d Williams to move his town in his stead, S d Williams engaged to do, and was received, his Lieutenant was John Buckels Ensign not recollected Colonel & other Staff Officers not known, except that Maj. Behringer was then in the service, the Company was marched to Little York, and were engaged in preparing fortifications for the siege where we continued until such the snow was on the ground and the weather so cold that it was thought better to go home as our town was relieved, this Applicant states that his two terms of service extended over months. He states that he now lives in the County of Lewis and State of Kentucky and has been a resident thereof for six years, he moves from Berkle County Va to Mason County Ky. more than forty years ago, and in served on the Wabash at under Genl. Clarke, called Clarke broken campaign. He is known to Judge Wm Rosen the Judge of this Court, he is known to Joshua Powers a justice of the Peace for Lewis County he is known to John Thomas & Benf. Williams of Lewis County, in fact he is known to a numerous acquaintance all of whom as far as he knows will establish his character for truth & veracity.
Thomas Williams

We Joshua Power. Bm. Williams John Thomas
residing in the counties of Fleming and Lewis hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Thomas Williams who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration, that we believe him to be upwards of seventy years of age, that he is considered to be a man of truth in the neighborhood where he resides, and that it is reporting believed that he was a soldier in the Revolution & we concur in that opinion
Joshua Power
John Thomas
The Commonwealth of Kentucky -
Lewis Circuit Court, Feb. 4.
vs. Bm. Williams September Term 1832
The following order was made at this term on the production of the foregoing declaration. Forwit-ss. Thomas Williams
This day produced an open Court. His declaration, made under the act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832, and made oath to the same - Accompanied by the affidavit of Joshua Power John Thomas, and Benjamin Williams, who also made oath to said affidavit in open Court. And the Court is of opinion after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the Interrogatories prescribed by the War department, that the said Thomas Williams, was a Revolutionary soldier as he states in his declaration. And it further appears to the satisfaction of the Court that Joshua Power, John Thomas, and Benjamin Williams, who has signed the Certificate annexed to, said declaration are resident Citizens of the County of Lewis, and are Creditable persons. And that their statements are entitled to Credit. All of which is ordered to be Certified to the War department.
Copy Test Joseph Robb Clerk Lewis Co. Ky.

Lewis Circuit Court. Feb.
Joseph Robb Clerk of the Lewis Circuit Court do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Thomas Williams for a pension
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the Seal of office for said Court at Clark- -sburg the 3 rd day of October 1832, in the 41 st year of the Commonwealth of Kentucky — Joseph Robb. Clerk.

The undersigned declaration of Thomas Williams. Personally before me appeared before me the undersigned a justice of the peace for Lewis County, Thomas Wil- iams, who being duly sworn, deponeth and saith, That, by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively to the precise length of his service, but according to the best of his recollection, he served not less than the previous mentioned time, and in the following grades: For three months and fifteen days, I served as a volunteer private soldier in Capt. Lu- cas' volunteer company: - For two months and twenty days, as a private soldier, sub- stituted for Peter Demott, in Capt. Wil- iam Garrett's Com. of militia, and for such service I claim a pension. Subscribed and sworn to this 16th. day of Sept. 1833. before me Wm B. Parker S.P.L.C.
Robert Thompson a clergyman residing in the County of Lewis, hereby certify that I am well acquainted with Thomas Williams, who has sub- scribed and sworn to the above declaration, that I believe him to be seventy six years of age, that he is respected and beloved in the neigh-

buried where he resides, to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that I concur in that Opinion Pursuant and given to in open Court on this 16th. day of Sept. 1833. John Thompson
The Commonwealth of Kentucky, Lewis County, Set. At a County Court began and held for Lewis County at the Court house in the Town of Clarksville, On Monday the 16 th day of September 1833. Thomas Williams of this County who then came personally into Court, and produced an Amendment to his Declaration made in pursuance of an act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832. in order to obtain a Pension which was sworn to before William B. Parker Esq. & accompanied by the affidavits of John Thompson a Clergyman, Resident of the County of Lewis - And the affidavit of Martha Willett of Meason County. Sworn to before John T. Brooks a Justice of the Peace, in and for Meason County and duly Certified as the law requires. And the said Court do hereby de- clare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after 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 John Thompson, who has signed the preceding Certificate is a Clergyman Resident in the County of Lewis - And that Martha Willett who has signed and made oath to the affidavit annexed to said declaration is a creditable person, as appears from Evidence introduced to the Court - And that the Statements of the said Thompson & Willett, are entitled to Credit - which is ordered to be Certified. Copy Test Joseph Robert M c L. Clerk

The Commonwealth of Kentucky Lewis County Set. I Joseph Robb Clerk of the Lewis County Court do hereby Certify that the foregoing amended Declaration &c. Containing the original proceedings of said Court. &c. in the matter of the application of Thomas Williams for a pension. I further Certify that William B. Parker. Esquire before whom the said Claimant Williams deposed &c. as to the length of time he served in the revolutionary war - is a Justice of the Peace in and for the said County of Lewis. Duly Commissioned & and sworn in office and acting as such. And that to all his official acts as such, due faith and credit is due, and ought to be given as well in Courts of Justice as Thereout.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of Office for said Court at Melarkslung the 16 th day of September 1833. And in the 42 nd year of the Commonwealth - Joseph Robb Clerk

State of Kentucky Mason County Set The deposition of Martha Willett taken before me John T. Brooks a justice of the peace for the county aforesaid as evidence of the services of Thos. Williams, rendered in the Revolutionary War for which the said Williams wishes to obtain a pension
The deponent being first sworn deposeth and saith that she knew the applicant Thos Williams in Berkeley county Virginia. That in the summer of 1781 the said Williams crossed with her husband Charles Willett and and that she recollects perfectly well the fact stated in the declaration of the said Williams Viz that he was hired by Peter de Mops (Who was a drafted militia-man) to serve a term in his the said de Mops' stead; and that he the said Williams went into the service in pursuance of his said contract and that she recollects that he returned to the farm of her said husband when his term of service had expired and that he occupied a house on the farm of her said husband both before his leaving to go into the service and after his return from the service when he left his family during the time when she believed the said Thos Williams was 77 years of age And that by reason of her extreme old age and infirmity she is unable without very great inconvenience to attend the court house in Lewis County and further the deponent saith not
10 th day of Sept. 1833.
Martha her Willett (Mark)

Kentucky Mason County Set (2)
I. M c BRORR a justice of the peace for the county aforesaid do here Certify that the within deposition was this day taken sworn to and subscribed by the deponent Martha Willett before me
Given under my hand 10 th Sept 1853
M c BRORR J.P.
State of Kentucky Mason County Set
I Marshall Reg Clerk of the Court for the county aforesaid do certify that John T. BROOK Esquire who has subscribed his name to the foregoing Certificate is now, and was at the time of subscribing the same Justice of the peace in and for Mason County due commissioned and qualified as such and that the signature thereto purporting to be his is genuine
In testimony whereof I have herein set my hand and affixed the seal said Court at Washington the 10 th day of September 1853.
Marshall Reg

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File No. 3584
Thomas Williams
Miss. Va. Line
Act: June 7, 1832
Index:—Vol. A , Page 407
[Arrangement of 1870.]

BRIEF objections to the admission of Pension Claims , of which those answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of Thomas Williams of Lewis county, Kent. which require further proof or explanation.
I. Does the declaration show where the applicant resides? yes
II. Did the declarant make the declaration in the county where he resides? yes
III. If the applicant did not make the declaration in the county where he resides, is there any reason assigned for his not doing so?
IV. Has the declarant mentioned the period or periods of the war when he served? yes
V. * Has he mentioned with precision the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the department to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled? The term "Nearly" not definite
VI. Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with the regulations? yes
VII. Has he made a relinquishment of every claim to any other pension than the one under the Act of June 7, 1832? yes
VIII. Has the Court given their opinion? yes
IX. Has the Clerk given his certificate? yes
X. Is the Clerk's seal affixed? And if so, has it a device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal? yes

XI. Has the applicant obtained the evidence of a clergyman and another respectable citizen as to their belief respecting his age and the general belief in his neighborhood relative to his revolutionary service? Three credible citizens - No clergyman
XII. If the clergyman's affidavit has not been produced, is there any reason assigned for not obtaining it?
XIII. If the applicant has no documentary evidence, and has not obtained the testimony of at least one living witness, has he stated in his declaration that such proof cannot be had? yes
XIV. †If the applicant's name is not found on the rolls of military service, has he produced a witness or witnesses as to his service?
If he has produced direct proof as to service, has the magistrate who administered the oath, certified to the credibility of the witness or witnesses?
Has the proper officer certified to the official character and signature of the magistrate as the regulations direct?
XV. Does it appear from any of the papers that the witness was in such a situation, or of such an age, as to have a personal knowledge of the applicant's service?
XVI. ‡Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct? yes
XVII. Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily? And, if not, which of them is not so answered? all answered
EXPLANATORY NOTES.
* QUERE V. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words:
"Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A. B. 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 not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades; For _____ year _____ months, and _____ days, I served as a _____ For _____ months and _____ days, I served as a _____; and for such service I claim a pension."

It is important in all cases to determine with precision the period for which each applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service. The use of the phrase about three or four months is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable. Some persons who apply for pensions merely state they served two years in the militia, &c. without specifying the tours; the names of the officers, and other particulars respecting their service. This form of a declaration is highly objectionable. It must in every case be clearly shewn under what officers the applicant served; the duration of each term of engagement; the particular place or places where the service was performed; that the applicant served with an embodied corps called into service by competent authority; that he was either in the field or in garrison; and for the time during which the service was performed, he was not employed in any civil pursuit.
QUERE XIV.  Proof of Service.
In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses, who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimants entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the regiment, company, and line to which he belonged. The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the witnesses, and the official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office.
QUERE XVI.  Mode of authenticating papers.
In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticates the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other paper authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the ends of which must pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate.
In every case where the clerk of the court, or other certifying officer, has no public seal of office, the certificate of a member of congress, proving the official character and signature of the certifying officer, should accompany the papers.