Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 6,428, Thomas Williams, Conn.

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NUMBER
Conn
Williams, Thomas
S. 6428
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CONTENTS

The Subscribers being by the Honorable Judge of the United States Court, for the District of Connecti- cut, on the 8 th day of October A.D. 1811 appointed Commissioners to examine the claim of Thomas Williams of East Haddam in said district, a Pensioner of the United States, and report matter to the Secretary of the War Department, our opinion of the age in which the said Williams is disabled from procuring a subsistence by manual labour — — have this day examined the said Williams, as to the facts aforementioned, and are of opinion that, by reason of his former wounds received in the American revolutionary War, he is totally disabled from performing any manual labour whereby he may procure subsistence — that he is now about eighty years of age, and otherwise infirm
East Haddam August 29 th 1814
John R Watrous } Physi- Augustus Matthes } cians
State of Connecticut, S. Middlesex County. East Haddam August 29 th 1814
Personally appeared Doctors John R Watrous and Augustus Matthes, who were appointed by the Judge of the District Court for the District of Connecticut, to examine the claim of Thomas Williams of said East Haddam for an increase of Pension — and made solemn oath to the facts stated in the above Report by them subscribed — Before me — Eliph. H. Holmes Justice Peace & Inspector

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File No. 6428
Thomas Williams
Dis. Rev War
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Index:—Vol. a , Page 409
[Arrangement of 1870.]
1906 Apr. 25. Mrs H. L. Sweet hist of service M.B.H. perlaw

Utica NY Apr 10, 1906
Dear Sir
Can you give me any record of Amos Wright - Prov. Capt - Isaac Woods Co. engaged in guarding Continental Stores at Concord Mass
Also of Thomas Williams of born, Pension No 188, annual stipend $20. issued about 1813.
Respectfully -
Mrs H. L. Sweet 3 Avery Place Utica
Onondaga Co. N.Y.

CONNECTICUT.
Thomas Williams
Private. $1.00 3/4
— Revolutionary Army. — Conn Service (Increase.)
Degree Disab: certif: Total.
Date of Certif: Exam: Surg: 29 Aug. 1814
Entered P. 11.
1/2 pension full pension
Noted on Bl. 29. Sept. 1814
1906 Apr. 24- History to Mrs H. L. Sweet. M.B.R.

Thomas Williams
Petition of

East Haddam Sept r 16 th 1811-
Hon ble Pierpont Edwards Esq r
Sir
I served in the American revolutionary war between six and seven years, and was then discharg d on account of disability and bodily infirmities contracted in the aforesaid Service, by the hardships and Fatigues I underwent, and was allowed a pension from the United States of Twenty Dollars p t Annum. Since then I have become so feeble and decrepit, by the disability and infirmities contracted, by the hardships and fatigues I underwent in the aforesaid Service, that I can not do any thing, towards obtaining a Subsistence, and the pension now allowed me, is very far short of being sufficient for my Support.
This is therefore to request your Honour that you will be pleased to appoint two Surgeons, to examine my ear, and they to make their report to the Secretary of War, so that I may obtain some further allowance towards my Support by an addition to my pension - or in some other way grant relief, as you Honour may think proper - And I as in duty bound will ever pray
his Thomas X Williams mark
In presence of Benedict Simmons Anthony Pratt

Hon. Purvis Edwards Esq.

To John R. Watrous of Colchester in the County of New London in the State and District of Connecticut and Augustus Mather of East Haddam in the County of Middlesex in said State and District Two Reputable Physicians and Surgeons - Greeting - I Pierpont Edwards District Judge of the District of Connecticut aforesaid re- posing special trust and confidence in you the said Watrous and Mather do hereby by virtue of the power vested in me as as District Judge as aforesaid by an act of the Congress of the United States of Amer- ica passed the tenth day of April A 1806 entitled "An act to provide for persons who were disabled by known wounds received in the Revolutionary War" by these Presents authorise you the said Watrous and Mather to examine Thomas Williams whose petition is herewith annexed as to the nature of the disability by the said Williams stated in his said petition and the degree in which he the said Williams is thereby disabled and prevented from obtaining a subsistence by manual labour and after having thus examined the said Williams you are to report

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Sur. File 6428, Rev. War.
L.M.H.
April 24, 1904.
Mrs. H. L. Sweet, No. 3 Avery Place, Utica, Oneida County, New York.
Madam:
In response to your letter dated April 10, 1906 and received April 13, 1906, you are advised that the papers in the above noted claim show that Thomas Williams served between six and seven years in the Revolutionary War, names of officers not stated, and that for disabilities contracted in said service he was placed on the invalid pension roll under the act of July 10, 1806, at $20. per year upon an application made September 16, 1811, at East Haddam, Middlesex Co., Connecticut.
A careful search of the records of this Bureau fails to show that a claim was filed on account of the service of an Amos Wright, of Massachusetts, Revolutionary War.
Very respectfully,
Commissioner.