Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 33,907, Thomas White, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass
White Thomas
S 33907
CONTENTS

Massachusetts Roll
Thomas White
Capt Keith Mass
Private 4
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of Eight Dollars per month, to commence on the 7 th of May 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 27 th of May 1818 and sent to Hon. Edward Bangs Worcester, Mass
Arrears to 4th of Sept r 1818 Semi-annual ending
3 months 25/31 & 4/30 $31.51
Massachusetts line 79 9 months { Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Warwick Franklin 63
Patrician sent September 2 1820 to Rev. Mr. Gray's Mass.

I James Snow of Shrewsbury in the County of Worcester testify & say that Thomas White of Warwick in the County of Franklin enlisted & entered the service of the United States on the continental establishment on about the middle of June A.D. 1779 for the term of nine months as a private soldier in the Company of Capt. Smith of Col. Michael Sams Regiment in the Massachusetts line & that he was stationed at New Point & served against the common enemy without interrup- tion or absence to the end of nine months & I have reason to believe he was regularly & honorably discharged - that I served with said Thomas, in the same Company, during the whole of said time & knew him well at that time & ever since
James J. Snow
Worcester ss. May 7 th 1818 - Personally appeared James Snow above named and made oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavit by him subscribed.
Before me
James D. Sleeper for Jus. Peace

State of Massachusetts Thomas White a Citizen of the United States, now resident at Warwick in the County of Franklin in the State aforesaid, do on oath testify and declare, that in the War of the Revolution, on or about the middle of June A. 1779
I entered and was engaged in the land service of the United States on the continental establishment, and served accordingly from that time to the end of nine months
as a private soldier against the common enemy, without any interrup- tion or absence: that I belonged to the Company of Capt. Keith in the Regiment of Col. Michael Jackson of the Massachusetts line & was stationed at West Point
and that I left the service on or about the middle of March A. 1780 & was regularly discharged which discharge I have lost and that, by reason of my reduced circumstances in life and poverty, I stand in need of assistance from my country for support, being now of the age of Sixty years
And I hereby relinquish all claims to every pension heretofore allowed me by the laws of the United States, if any may be or hath been so allowed.
Thomas White
BE IT REMEMBERED, That on this twelfth day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen pursuant to a law of the United States, entitled, "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War," made and passed on the 18th of March, A. D. 1818, personally appeareth before me, Edw d Bangs Esq. Judge of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the Western Circuit inclu- -ding the Counties of Worcester, Hampshire, Hampden, Franklin & Berkshire in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts the abovenamed Thomas White and after due examination and caution to testify and declare the whole truth, he maketh oath to the declaration aforesaid, and subscribes the same in my presence; and, on examination du- ly made by me the said Judge, it appeareth to my satisfaction that the said declaration is true.
Given under my Hand and the Seal of said Court, the day of the date aforesaid.
Edw d Bangs

Thomas White
7 May
Correct TW
citizens of the United States, now residing in the State of Florida, do hereby
I am a native of the United States and was educated in the common schools, and served accordingly from the time to
against the common enemy, without any interference with the rights of the United States to
and I am a resident of my native country in the United States and I am a resident of my native country in the United States and I am a resident of my native country in the United States
the United States, do hereby certify that the information
the United States, do hereby certify that the information
the United States, do hereby certify that the information
the United States, do hereby certify that the information

768
Thomas White
Warwick
1768
May 1811
Land p 20
OW
1820
July 1815

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
FRANKLIN ss.
At a Special Session of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, for the Western Circuit, began and holden at Greenfield, within and for the County of Franklin, on Monday the tenth day of July, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and twenty, et de die in diem to the fifteenth day of the same month,
PERSONALLY appeared in open Court, being a Court of Record, within and for said County of Franklin, established as such by the Constitution and Laws of said Commonwealth, Thomas White aged Sixty three years, resident in Warwick
in said County, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on his oath, declare that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows:
I entered the service in the month of June 1779 to serve for the term of nine months in Col. Keith's Company in Col. Michael Jackson Regiment in the Massachusetts line, and continued in the same until my term of enlistment had expired and was discharged, at West Point - My certificate is dated May 29, 1818 the Pension to commence May 7th 1818 and is numbered 768 - I am by occupation a farmer but old age and infirmities render me incapable of doing much manual labor - My family residing with me consists of my Wife Hannah aged fifty eight years who is rather feeble and my daughter Polly aged thirty three years who is in a declining state of health and has been under the care of a Physician for several years all whom are dependent on me for their support -

and I do solemnly swear, that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March, 1818 ; and that I have not, since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner, disposed of my property, or any part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it, as to bring myself within the provisions of an Act of Congress, entitled " An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the 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 have I any income, other than what is contained in the Schedule hereto annexed, and by me subscribed.
Thomas White
Sworn to and declared, on the tenth  eleventh day of July A. D. 1820, before the said Court.
Attest, E. Alvord CLERK.
I ELIJAH ALVORD, Clerk of the aforesaid Court, do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and the Schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the records of the said Court ; and I do further certify that it is the opinion of the said Court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid Schedule is Seventy five dollars and eighty five cents
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this fifteenth day of July, 1820.
E. Alvord CLERK.

Schedule of the estate of Thomas White of Winnepeg in the county of Franklin and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Applicant for a Pension under the Act of Congress of May 1, 1820.
  1 Room 40.00   1 Cere 17.00   2 Tables 2.50 Bras 1.00 Iron Kettle 67 3/4   two Ben 24.00 Chest drawers 3.00 9.51   Chairs, broom, ware & sundry small articles 1.34   $75.85 
Thomas White

O. W. & N. Division.
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
M.E.C.
F. S.
Bureau of Pensions,
Washington, D. C., May 11, 1895.
Sir:-
In reply to your request for a statement of the military history of --- Thomas White --- a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau.
DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE. CAPTAIN. COLONEL. June 1779 9 mos. Pvt. Keith M. Jackson Mass.
Battles engaged in, None mentioned. Residence of soldier at enlistment, Probably, Spencer, Mass. Date of application for pension, May 7, 1818. Residence at date of application, Warwick, Mass. Age at date of application, Sixty-three years.
Remarks: His wife's christian name was Hannah.
Very respectfully,
F. L. White, Esq., 26 Broadway, New York, N. Y.
Commissioner

33907 Rev INVALID.
File No. 33,907
Thomas White
Rev War
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 430
[Arrangement of 1870.]

May 1 st 1851 to F. L. White 26 Broadway, New York, N.Y. M.E. July 26 th 1853 Rev. Joseph White, Windham, Mass. Mass. M.E.

26 Broadway New York.
April 20, 1896.
Hon. William Lochorn, Commissioner, Bureau of Pensions, Dept. of Interior, Washington, D. C.
Dear Sir:-
Will you please send me a statement of the Military History of THOMAS WHITE , a soldier of the Revolutionary War . He enlisted from Spencer, Mass., and subsequently received a pension. He died at Boylston, Mass., about 1850, at near the age of ninety-two.
Yours respectfully,
P
J. L. White.

WHITE BROTHERS, Cotton Manufacturers,
OFFICE AT Winchendon Springs, Mass.
MILLS AT East Jaffrey, N. H.
JOSEPH N. WHITE. ZADOC L. WHITE.
Winchendon Springs, Mass., July 20, 1895.
Keeper of Records, Pension Office,
Washington, D. C.
Dear Sir:-
Will you kindly send me all that you know of the army record of Thomas White of Spencer, Worcester County, Mass.
Also when he began receiving his pension and what company and regiment he was in in the continental army and what battles his company was engaged in.
During the last of his life he received his pension in West Boyalston, Mass.
I will thank you very much if you will give me the above in- formation, all of which I understand is on record at the department at Washington.
Yours truly,
Joseph N. White Draw cy 768