Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S 38174, for Thomas Marsh, Virginia

SERVICE
Var-
Marsh, Thomas
NUMBER _____
8 38174
CONTENTS

5179.
Virginia
Thomas Marsh
Capt Gaskins private
Virginia line 3 years
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.
Inscribed on the Roll of Virginia at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 27 of April 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 4 th of Jan'y 1818 and sent to Hon P.P. Barbour the Rep.
  Arrears to 4th of Sept. 1818  34.13    Semi-ann. all'ce ending 4 mar. 1819  48.00     82.13  
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
4 m 3 8 2.

38 174 Rev INVALID.
File No. 88,174
Thomas March
His Rev End
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 2174
[ Arraignment of 1870. ]

Thomas Marsh 27 April -
Returned to the Virginia Roll
See Remarks in J. King's case
For opinion of Court See Peter Montague's papers.
Admitted
Hon P. P. Barbour

State of Virginia, to wit:
A monthly Court held for the County of Orange at the Courthouse, on Monday the twenty seventh of April One thousand eight hundred and eighteen.
Thomas Marsh, aged seventy two years and a resident of this County, appeared in Court this twenty seventh day of April 1818, and being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the pension made by the late 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". That the said Thomas Marsh enlisted in the fifth regiment of the Virginia line on Continental establishment, in the Company commanded by Thomas Gaskins of the said State, that he continued to serve in the said Corps in the service of the United States for three years, and served afterwards in the Cavalry until the close of the war, when he was discharged from service in the State

Thomas Gaskins of the said State, that he continued to serve in the said Corps in the service of the United States for three years, and served afterwards in the Cavalry until the close of the War, when he was discharged from service in the State of North Carolina; that he was in the battles of Trenton, Brandywine and Germantown; that he is in reduced circumstances, and stands in need of the assistance of his Country for support, and that he has no other evidence of his services -
Whereupon it is ordered to be certified, that it appears to the satisfaction of the Court, that the said Thomas Marsh did serve in the revolutionary War as stated in the preceding declaration against the common enemy - And that a copy of the said declaration be transmitted to the Secretary for the Department of War, pursuant to the directions of the before mentioned acts of Congress.
In Testimony that the foregoing is truly copied from the records I Reynolds Chapman, Clerk of the County Court of said County, have hereunto put my hand, and affixed the Seal of the said Court, this fifteenth day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and of the Commonwealth the forty second.
Reynolds Chapman