Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 33191, for Thomas Thompson, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Thompson Thomas S. 33191
CONTENTS
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Massachusetts Roll.
1,516
Thomas Thompson, Capt Burnham Private
Massachusetts line '81 - 3 years in the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.
scribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 3 rd of April 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued the 30 of June 1818, and sent to Jn o Hooker, Esq. Spain's field, Mass.
Arrears to 4th of Sept r . 1818.
See list of arrears
4 months 32/30 $ 40.53
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Christopher Hampe

33191 Rev INVALID.
File No. 33191
Thomas Thompson
Dis Rev War
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 331
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Thomas Thompson 3 April
Tho' Thompson Mtd. 14 April 1861
Not on Roll DA
Grd
The Hon. John C. Calhoun
McGregor
Secretary of the Department of War,
Washington.
adm -
1861 2 lines adm

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Hampshire ss.
On this third day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred eighteen before John Hooker Esquire Chief Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the Western Circuit in said Commonwealth including the said County of Hampshire personally came and appeared Thomas Thompson a citizen of the United States resident in Chesterfield in said County who being duly sworn deposeth & saith. That in the Spring of 1781. he enlisted into the Army of the United States then called the continental Army, into the company commanded by Capt Brown being in Col. Michael Jackson Regiment in the Massachusetts line, for the term of three years. That he continued in said service against the common enemy to the close of the war, and after the ratification of peace, but at what time this deponent is unable, with precision to say, he was honorably discharged from said service; that he was furnished with a discharge at the time he left said service which he has since lost & is now unable to produce. That he served during the whole time above mentioned upon the continental establishment, and is now from his old age and infirmities in life unable to support himself and stands in need of assistance from his country for support, and that

he has never been allowed or received any pension or other allowance by the government of the United States.
In presence of Elijah H. Mills
Thomas his  Thompson mark
Eliakim Sylvester of Chesterfield in the County of Hampshire being duly sworn depose & saith that for several years last past he has been well acquainted with the above named Thomas Thompson, & that the said Thompson is considered a man of truth and veracity, and this deponent has no doubt that the facts stated in the foregoing deposition are true. And this deponent further states that the said Thompson is poor & from his reduced circumstances in life stands in need of assistance from his country for support.
Eliakim Sylvester
Elijah H. Mills Member of Congress from Massachusetts depose & saith that he is well acquainted with the above named Eliakim Sylvester - that he is a man of great respectability and veracity and that full credit is due to his declarations. And this deponent further saith that he well knows the said Thomas Thompson to be poor & destitute of the means of subsistence, & verily believes the facts stated in his deposition to be true.
Elijah H. Mills

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Hampshire ss. Be it remembered that on this third day of April A.D. 1810 personally appeared before me John Hooker Chief Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the western Circuit in said State & including the said County of Hampshire, the above named Thomas Thompson Elizabeth Sylvester & Elizabeth H. Wells & severally made oaths to the truth of the foregoing affidavits by them respectively subscribed - And it appearing to my satisfaction that the said Thomas Thompson the Applicant served in the revolutionary army against the Common Enemy in the continental establishment for more than the term of nine months & yet is a resident citizen of the United States, I do therefore certify and transmit the foregoing as the testimony & proceedings has before me in the application of the said Thomas Thompson to the Secretary of the Department of War of the United States -
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of the said Court for the said County of Hampshire to be affixed the day & year aforesaid
John Hooker