Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 20,086, for Samuel White Thayer, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER
Continental
Thayer, Samuel White
N. 20,086
Mass.
Esther
CONTENTS
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312 Massachusetts
Esther Thayer widow of Samuel W. Thayer decd. who was a pensioner under the Act of and who died on the 3 rd January 1816 of a dropsey in the State of U.S. who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Wild of the Regt. commanded by Col. Eaton in the U.S. line for Danvers
Inscribed on the Roll of Mass. at the rate of 66 Dollars 67 Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1838
Certificate of Pension issued the 12 th day of Sept. Ellis 1838 and sent Mr. Ellis Needham Mass.
Arrears to the 4th of Sept 1838 $166.67 Semi-annual allowance ending 4 March 39. 33.33
$ 200.00
{ Act July 7, } 1838. }
Recorded by W.C. Adison Clerk, Book A Vol. 1st Page 136
Dead
Paid at the Treasury under the Act of the 1 st April 1838 from 4 Sept 1838 to 4 March 1839. 2 nd Notified 9 Aug 1840

Esther Thayer Application for Pension
(1838) 490 wid of Saml C.
Mass At 7 July 1838
Maria 1780 died 1816
Altar 20 months on pri. $11.66 2/3 am. 1849 Mell & Estlin
Result to be forwarded to the subscription at Dedham Mass.
Yrs W. Ellis

Commonwealth of Massachusetts County of Norfolk.
I Jonathan H. Cobb Register of the Court of Probate for said County of Norfolk hereby certify that Sherman Leland is Judge of said Court of Probate & that William Ellis & Asa French are Justices of the Peace within said County of Norfolk & that their several respective signatures to the papers annexed are genuine & true.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of said Court of Probate this Fifteenth day of August A.D. 1838. Jonathan H. Cobb

Application of Esther Thayer for an allowance of five years pay under the Act of Congress of July 7 th 1838.
State of Massachusetts County of Norfolk ss
On this sixth day of August A.D. 1838
Personally appeared before the Hon. Sherman Seland Judge of the Court of Probate in and for said County of Norfolk, Esther Thayer a resident in the town of Wrentham in said County, aged seventy six years, who being first sworn according to law, doth, on her Oath, make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Provisions of the Act of Congress, passed July 7 th A.D. 1838.
Viz - I Esther Thayer of Wrentham in the County of Norfolk and State of Massachusetts widow, being seventy six years of age declare, that I am the widow of Samuel W. Thayer late of Wrentham in said County dec, who rendered military services in the capacity of a Soldier or private, in the Revolutionary war, that according to the information long since received of my late husband the said Samuel W. Thayer, these military services were rendered by him as follows -
Viz - Eight months service at Cambridge and at other towns near Boston, beginning early in the month of May 1775, and ending about the first of January 1776, in a Company commanded by Capt Silas Wild in Col. John Greadon's Regiment, that before this eight months service expired, the said Samuel W. Thayer engaged as a Soldier for the term of one year, and performed this engagement in a Company commanded by Capt Jacob Gould in said Col. Greadon's Regiment, that this term of service began about the first of January A.D. 1776, and was rendered at various places, first at Cambridge till the Enemy left Boston in the Month of March 1776, thence a short time in the City of New York, thence with his company and Regiment by way of Albany and Skaneateles and down Lake Champlain to St John's, Sorelle, and Montreal in Canada, - at St John's said Samuel W. Thayer had the Small Pox, and soon afterward, he with his Regiment, proceeded to Tucaderoza and Mount Independence and after considerable stop at that Port, moved by way of Albany, Pechskill or Fishkill on the Hudson River, to several places in the State of New Jersey, in New Jersey the said year's engagement expired about the first of January A.D. 1777. - Making the amount of Services on which my claim is founded, one year and eight months.
That I have no other documentary evidence to offer in aid of my claim but that herewith transmitted, and that, to my knowledge, had the said Samuel W. Thayer ever received any pension or gratuity from the United States or from any State, for Revolutionary services.
And I the said Esther Thayer further declare, That I was lawfully married to the said Samuel W. Thayer, by the Rev. Ezra Weld of Braintree, on the eleventh day of May A.D. 1780. That my maiden name was Esther French. That the said Samuel W. Thayer my late husband died at Wrentham aforesaid, on the third day of January A.D. 1816: and that I have remained a widow ever since that period, as will more fully appear by the proof herewith annexed. The said marriage did not take place from the time the said Samuel W. Thayer left the service but subsequent to the first day of January 1794, viz at the time above stated.
Esther Thayer
Sworn to, and subscribed, before the subscriber on the day and year first above written, and I hereby certify that by reason of old age, and bodily infirmity, the said Esther Thayer was unable to attend before a Court to make the above declaration. The words "or about a Eleventh" were interlined by me
Sherman Seland / Probate

To whom it may concern
I Micah White of Randolph in the County of Norfolk and State of Massachusetts being eighty four years of age, hereby testify and say, that I was personally and intimately acquainted with Samuel W. Thayer (I think his middle name was White), when the Revolutionary war began in the year A.D. 1775, and many years afterward, till his death about twenty years ago. That I am knowing to the fact, that the said Samuel W. Thayer of Braintree rendered twenty months service as a Soldier in the said War viz - Eight months military service in the Company of Capt. Silas Wild in Col. John Green's Regiment, at Dorchester and Cambridge near Boston. This term of service began about the first of May 1775, and ended about the first of January 1776. - That he the said Samuel W. Thayer also served as a Soldier for and during the years service (so called) in the Company of Capt. Jacob Gould in said John Green's Regiment, that this service began the first day of January A.D. 1776 and ended on the first day of January A.D. 1777. This years service, was rendered by said Samuel W. Thayer, as follows from the first of January 1776 to the eighteenth of March 1776 was at Cambridge near Boston, thence moved to New York and remained there three weeks, thence up the North River to Albany, thence to Skeenborough on Lake Champlain, thence down Lake Champlain to St. Johns in Canada, thence down the River Chambly to Saulte on the River St. Lawrence, thence down the St. Lawrence till the troops of Montgomery and Arnold were met on their retreat from Quebec, thence up the St. Lawrence to Montreal, thence to St. Johns, where the Regiment stopped and had the small Pox, and the said Thayer had the small Pox at that time and place, thence this Regiment moved up Lake Champlain and reported to Gen. Gates at Ticonderoga in the State of New York, thence said Regiment moved down to Albany, thence down to Peekskill, thence to Morristown in the State of New Jersey and some other places in that vicinity, at Morristown this term of service ended about the first of January A.D. 1777, making twenty months service. The reason why I know of this twenty months service of the said Samuel W. Thayer is, because I served in both the same Company and Regiment through the said eight months service, and said years service, either as a fifer or Sergeant, and because said Samuel W. Thayer, was my constant mess mate, having this service of twenty months.
Randolph July 18 th 1838- Micah White
State of Massachusetts County of Norfolk ss. July 18 th 1838. Then personally appeared the above named Micah White for many years a respectable Magistrate of said County, and long known to the subscriber as a credible witness, subscribed to and made Oath, that the matter set forth in the foregoing statement is true - me Wm Ellis Justice of the Peace
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Before me secundy scribe

To whom it may concern
I Elisha Thayer of Dedham in the County of Norfolk and State of Massachusetts, being of lawful age, hereby testify and say. That I was personally acquainted with Samuel W. Thayer late of Wrentham in said County dec. for many years previous to his death, and that he the said Samuel W. Thayer, died at said Wrentham, some time in the month of January in the year eighteen hundred and forty  sixteen . And I further testify and say, that I am knowing to the fact, that since the death of said Thayer his widow, Esther Thayer, has not intermarried and that she the said Esther Thayer remains the Widow of said Samuel W. Thayer at the present time.
August 10 th 1838
Elisha Thayer
State of Massachusetts County of Norfolk ss
August 10 A.D. 1838 - Then personally appeared the above named Elisha Thayer known to the subscriber as a credible witness, and subscribed to, and made Oath, that the matter set forth in the foregoing statement by him subscribed, is just and true.
Before me W m Ellis Justice of the Peace

I Judson Stoddard of Braintree in the County of Norfolk and State of Massachusetts hereby certify and say that I hold the office of Clerk in said Braintree, and have the custody and keeping of the records and books of said Town. Thereon said records it distinctly appears that Samuel White Thayer, and Esther French, were married on the ninth day of May seventeen hundred and eighty - by the following Entry - viz.
Marryed by the Rev. Ezra Weld, May ninth seventeen hundred eighty Samuel White Thayer & Esther French both of this Town. And I hereby certify that the above extract, is a true copy of the record, with the exception of the date, which is expressed on the record in plain legible figures as follows, viz - May 9. 1780 - (May ninth seventeen hundred eighty).
August 14. 1838.
Attest - Judson Stoddard } Town Clerk of Braintree
State of Massachusetts } County of Norfolk ss } August 14th 1838 Then the above named Judson Stoddard personally appeared and made Oath that the matter of record set forth in the above Certificate by him subscribed is just and true Before me Asa French Justice of the Peace

Recd
WIDOW, &c.
File No.
20084
Esther Shayer
Widow of
Samuel W. Shayer
Priv. Rev. War
Act:
July 7 th 1858
Index:—Vol.
m
Page
242
[Arrangement of 1870.]

TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
Second Comptroller's Office,
Dec. 31 st 1839.
Sir:
Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled "An act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States," (The child n of Esther Thayer, dec d . a Pensioner on the Roll of the Massachusetts Agency, at the rate of Sixty Six - Dollars and sixty seven Cents per annum, under the law of the 7 th July 1838, has been paid at this Department, from the 4 th of Sept. 1838, to the 4 th March 1839.
Respectfully, yours,
William H. Parris Comptroller.
To the Commissioner of Pensions,
Present.