Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 26528, for Samuel Thayer, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Thayer, Samuel Sarah
W 26528
CONTENTS

Massachusetts - 5-81.
Sarah Thayer, widow of Samuel Thayer, dec. who was a pensioner under the Act of and who died on the 27 th December 1828 at Norfolk in the State of Mass. who was a P er in the Comp y commanded by Captain Burbeck of the Reg t commanded by H er in the Mass s line for 2 years
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 80 Dollars - Cents per annum, to commence on the 4 th day of March, 1834
Certificate of Pension issued the 6 th day of Dec r 28, and signed S. Salem, Pensioner Mass s
Arrears to the 4 th of Sept r $ 200.00 Semi-annual allowance ending 40.00
$ 240.00
{ Act July 7, } 1838. }
Recorded by R. Burdick Clerk, Book A Vol. 1 - Page 136.

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File No. 26.5.28
Sarah Thayer wid of Samuel Thayer Pris Rev war.
Act: July 7 th 88
Index:—Vol. M , Page 273
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Sarah Thayer
(979)
Mass.
act. 7 July 38
Married in 1782
Died in 1828
adm d
2 yrs pri
80 $
no deduction
S. Leland Roxbury Mass

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
County of Norfolk ss. On this 22 nd day of August A.D. 1888, personally appeared before Sherman Deland, Esquire, Judge of the Court of Probate in and for said County, Sarah Hayer a resident of Quincy in said County, aged 74 years who being first duly sworn, according to law, able on her oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision of the Act of Congress passed July 7 th 1888, entitled "An act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows" —
That she is the widow of Samuel Hayer late of Norfolk in said County, deceased, who was a soldier in the Army of the Revolution, and died, according to the best of her information and belief, there at East William, or West Independence in Boston, December also deceased in the Massachusetts State Troops under Captain William Barbeek, and John Hancock, commander of the First and Second Regiment, commencing about the first of January 1779 and ending December 1783, one thousand seven hundred and eighty, to the first of January one thousand seven hundred and eighty three.
M 80-881- 87. 93
She further declared that she was married to the said Samuel

Thayer on the seventeenth day of July in the year been teen hundred eighty three of that her said husband the aforesaid Samuel Thayer died on the twenty seventh  fourth day of December one thousand eight hundred & twenty eight  sixth that she was not married to him prior to her leaving the pubic but the marriage took place previous to the first of January, Seven hundred and ninety four, or, at the time above stated. Her father died on the day above stated by the Revd. Mr. Dyer, the minister of the Gospel in the town of which was a friend of her mother
Sarah Thayer
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written by the said Sarah Thayer who by reason of bodily infirmity is unable to attend court to make her due protestations.
before me I. H. Land / Probate
I Silvanus Laddeson of Branton in the County of Norfolk & Commonwealth of Massachusetts aged eighty four years testify say that I was well acquainted with the said Samuel Thayer & I am also well acquainted with the said Sarah Thayer. They lived together as husband & wife from a time so about the close of the American Revolution until his death, which took place about nine years ago & the said Sarah has remained a widow ever since the death of her said husband & now resides in Branton
Silvanus Laddeson
Norfolk August 22 nd 1830 sworn to & subscribed by the said Silvanus Laddeson who is a credible witness
before me I. H. Land / Probate

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
County of Norfolk Town of Braintree ss.
A true copy of Marriage between Samuel Thayer & Sarah Stutson both of this town Feb. first Seventeen hundred eighty two.
The above is a true copy from the records of Intentions of Marriages in the Town of Braintree with the exception of the date which is expressed in the record in plain legible figures as follows (Feb. 1. 1782)
Attest Judson Stoddard, Town Clerk.
I Judson Stoddard above named do hereby certify that I hold the office of Clerk of the Town of Braintree aforesaid in the County and State aforesaid, and that the above is a true extract from the records of said Town of Braintree with the exception above named as certified by me. — and I further certify that I cannot find any record of the Marriage of the said Samuel Thayer & Sarah Stutson nor any Marriage returned by the Rev. Moses Lapham by whom it is said they were married.
Judson Stoddard, Town Clerk.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Norfolk County ss August 20th 1835 Subscribed and sworn to by the above said Judson Stoddard
Before me Benjamin Richards Justice of the Peace

I Jonathan Stelson of Randolph in the County of Norfolk and State of Massachusetts, being sixty five years of Age, do testify and say; that Samuel Thayer of Braintree now Randolph, married Sarah Stelson of Braintree on that part which is now Randolph the said Sarah being a sister of mine; they were married at the dwelling House of my father in said Braintree by the Rev. Moses Luff, the then Minister in that part of Braintree now Randolph some time between the years seventeen hundred and eighty one and nineteen hundred and eighty three, I lived with my father and well remember of seeing them married, I was young at the time of their marriage and do not now recollect the month or the particular year but am very sure it was between the periods named above, I further testify and say that the said Samuel Thayer died at Randolph in the County & State aforesaid, in the month of December eighteen hundred and twenty eight according to the best of my recollection, and that the said Sarah Stelson Thayer has not been married since the death of the said Samuel Thayer and is now a Widow and resides in the Town of Braintree in the County & State aforesaid N.B. the word Stelson was inserted before signing
Jonathan Stelson
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Norfolk County ss. August 20th 1838.
Then the above named Jonathan Stelson who is a person of truth & veracity and of respectable standing in society, personally appeared & made oath to the truth of the above affidavit by him subscribed. and the word inserted above before signing
Before Me Benjamin Richardson Justice of the Peace

ss of Massachusetts.
no 1000
Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
County of Norfolk.
I Jonathan H. Cobb Register of the Court of Probate for said County hereby certify that Sherman Leland is Judge of said Court of Probate & that Benjamin Richmonds is a Justice of the Peace within said County of Norfolk, & that their respective signatures to these papers are genuine & true.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & the seal of said Court of Probate this twenty fifth day of August A.D. 1828.
Jonathan H. Cobb.