Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 26250, Thomas Welch, N.H.

SERVICE
NUMBER
N. 16.
Welch, Thomas
R. 26250
CONTENTS
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RECORD DIVISION.
Department of the Interior, BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
Briefed by A. Wilson Feb. 4, 1911
Claim No. _____
Certificate No. alleged applying in 1819 in VA Claimant & rejected
Soldier Thos. Welch or Welsh
Service N. H.
Additional Service Rev.
No. _____ claim, State records _____, 191 _____
No claim, combination records _____, 191 _____
REMARKS:
No Rev. Surv. except
S. 3502 Mass & Cont.
S. 1733. N.C.
No Rev. War. Natl. except
1818 pens N. 18309 N.Y. ser. & res.
N. 22566 1818 pens. of same regt but different co.
No Rev. at all as Chief Division
11297 should be Archelaus not Thomas.

awful
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22.566
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Thomas Welch.      Pot. N. Hampshire line
Maine -
ad Miles File No 22.566 not identical.
Evidence insufficient abt 1828

Act May 15, 1828
3-258.
No. 26250
REJECTED
....., Ex'r.
OLD WAR INVALID.
Thomas Welch
P. O. ....
Service: Private Ellis Co. Col. Geo. Reed's New Hampshire Line
Enlisted: Revolutionary War, 18
Discharged: ..... , 18
Application filed: ..... , 18
Alleges: .....
Re-enlisted: .....
Attorney: .....
P. O. ....
..... Recognized. .... Contract.

Revolutionary Claims.
Under the act, entitled "An act for the relief of certain surviving Officers and Soldiers of the Army of the Revolution," approved 15th May, 1828.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
30 August 1828.
The annexed paper, relating to the claim of Thomas Welch , under the abovementioned act, is respectfully referred to the Secretary of War, with a request that he will be pleased to cause me to be informed whether a discharge, and, if so, what discharge, was received at the War Department, from the claimant, on an application stated to have been heretofore made by him for a pension. The claimant is the individual mentioned as being on the pension list.
Richard Rush.
The Hon. the SECRETARY OF WAR.
See letter of the War Department 2 September 1828.

REVOLUTIONARY CLAIMS.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
August 2. 1828
Thomas Welch, of Bloomfield, in the County of Somerset, in the State of Maine, has applied to the Secretary of the Treasury for the benefits of the act, entitled "An Act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the Revolution," approved the 15th of May, 1828. He states that he enlisted in the Continental line of the army of the Revolution, for and during the war, and continued until its termination, at which period he was a private in captain Ellis's company, in the 1st (Col Read's) regiment of the New Hampshire line; and that he received a certificate for the reward of eighty dollars, provided by the resolve of the 15th of May, 1778; and further, that he was not on the 15th day of May, 1828, on the pension list of the United States, and that he has received as a pensioner since the 3d of March, 1826, nothing.
The Third Auditor is requested to report how far the several statements are corroborated by the records in his office.
By order of the Secretary, A. Dickinson.
21035
TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
THIRD AUDITOR'S OFFICE,
Aug 6. 1828
It appears by the records in this office, that a certificate for the reward of eighty dollars has been issued to Thomas Welch in the New Hampshire Line. It further appears that _____ is now on the pension list of the _____ agency, and has been so since the _____ at the rate of _____ dollars per month.
There is a man by the name of Thomas Welch, now on the New Hampshire Pension Roll , and who has been paid, at the rate of $8 per month, up to the 4 th March 1828. It appears from the papers on which the Pension was granted that he served in Cap t  John Drew's company and Col o  George Read's Regiment of the New Hampshire Line.
John Hagner And

Hon. Richard Rush,
Sec'y of the Treasury U.S.
Washington,
" Revolutionary Claim "
7. Wells. no. 21 p. 4. 1828 Oct. 20 p.m.
555

Augusta, Maine, July 14. 1828
Sir,
at the request of Mr. Welch, I transmit to you his declaration, with the accompanying evidence & also his request, that when his claim may have been examined at your Department, the result may be directed to me or to my care for him -
I am very respectfully
Your ob dt Serv t
Robert C. Vose
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Hon. Richard Rush Secy of the Treas y . Washington

Thomas Welch. pris. Ellis C o . Ld. Geo. Reed s Reg t N. H. Line
Claim for Pay - under the law of 15 th of May 1828

Hon Richard Rush Secy Treasr.
Augusta Maine July 8. 1828.
Sir,
In pursuance of your circular of the 28 th of May last, I herewith forward you a declaration of my services as a private soldier in the New Hampshire line, during the war of the Revolution, with the accompanying evidence. If the papers sent are satisfactory to your department I presume I am entitled by the laws of Congress approved May 15. 1828. to two years pay as a private. Viz from 3 rd March 1826 to 4 th of March 1828. in which case I wish you to transmit by mail, the amount due me, directed to the care of Robert C. Vose, Esq r . Clerk of the Courts Augusta Maine. — I resided at the time I enlisted into the army of the revolution at New Andover in the State of New Hampshire, and have since that period resided in Vermont and Maine, in the latter place I have lived with my family in remote towns in Maine for the last five years, I have never been on the Pension list of the United States, while I resided in Vermont in the year 1819. I made application for a pension, but for some reason unknown to me, my claim was not admitted. If any further evidence of my services is required, it can no doubt be found on the records of the Revolutionary Army of the New Hampshire line, now in the War Office.
Witness Reuben Partridge
I am very respectfully Your ob dt . Serv t his Thomas X Welch mark

State of Maine. —
For the purpose of obtaining the benefit of "an act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the army of the Revolution" approved on the 15 th of May, 1828, I Thomas Welch, of Bloomfield in the County of Somerset, in the state of Maine, do hereby declare that I enlisted in the continental line of the army of the Revolution for and during the war, and continued in its service until its termination at which period I was a private in Captain Benjamin Ellis, Company Col. George Read Regiment, 1 st Regiment of the New Hampshire line.
And I also declare that I afterwards received a certificate for the reward of eighty dollars, to which I was entitled under a resolve of Congress passed the 15 th of May 1778. — And I further declare that I was not on the fifteenth day of May 1828. on the Pension list of the United States.
Thomas his Welch mark
Witness Reuben Partridge
Kennebec ss — Before me Robert C. Vose, a Justice of the Peace & Quorum and also Clerk of the Judicial Court within and for the said County of Kennebec, personally appeared, this day, George W. Morton, and John Robbins, both of Augusta in said County, who did solemnly make Oath that Thomas Welch, by whom the foregoing declaration was subscribed, is generally reputed to have been a soldier in the army of the Revolution in manner as therein stated. I certify that the foregoing is a true and correct copy. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the County Seal of the said County of Kennebec this fourteenth day of July in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and twenty eight.
R. C. Vose.