Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 19,443, for Daniel Thayer, Massachusetts

SERVICE
Mass.
Thayer, Daniel Beulah
NUMBER
W.19.443
carded.
CONTENTS
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6142 New Hampshire
Daniel Thayer of Chester, in the State of N.H. who was a private in the Company commanded by Captain Dyer of the Regt commanded by Col. Smith in the Mass. Militia for 13 mos from 1775.
Look for roll of Genl Dyer Mar 75
Inscribed on the Roll of New Hampshire at the rate of 43 Dollars 33 Cents per annum, to commence on the 14th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 25 day of July 1832 and N.H. No. 1133
  Arrears to 14th of Sept 1832  44 99    Pension allowance ending March 1833  21 66  
$ 86 65
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }

1100
New Hampshire Co.
Dinah Mayer widow of Daniel Mayer dec d
Mass who was a pensioner under the Act of 1832 and who died on the 20th September 1835 of Nashua in the State of N. H. who was a private in the Company commanded by Captain Lester of the Regt. commanded by Col. Smith in the Mass. Vol. time for 13 months
Inscribed on the Roll of Concord NH at the rate of 43 Dollars 33 Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836
Certificate of Pension issued the 30 th day of 1838 and Sept 1838 Babbett Westmoreland NH
Arrears to the 4th of Sept 1838 $107.32 Semi-annual allowance ending March 29, 21. 66
$128.98
{ Act July 7, } 1838. }
Recorded by H. H. Addison Clerk. Book A Vol. 1 st Page 57

10,592
David Thayer
Photo
13 Months
adm
Na. A. Hubbard
CR
$43.33
M. McEowasy
Keene
CR H

BRIEF in the case of David Thayer  of Westmoreland in the State of New Hampshire  (Act 7th June, 1832.)
 1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? Open Court  2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?  3. How old is he? Seventy five years.  4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed. 
   Period. Duration of Service. Rank. Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.   Years. Months. Days.     enlisted In 1775 apl 8 As a Gen. Capt Doolittle   1776 June 5 Capt Foster, Col Smith  
 5. In what battles was he engaged? none stated  6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Warwick, Mass. Milford,  7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? A. Chapman & J. Allen certify to traditionary evidence Ebenezer Island pious the 5th of Decr 1776 - Samuel Morton pious soon in 1775.  8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? 
I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
A. Kitch Examining Clerk.

Marriage certificate B. L. H. Mayer
Steffen G. Balth. Eger Wohnershaus Kirchstraße
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Seventeen hundred Seventy eight; August Nineteenth.
"Marriages returned by the Revd Mr Amariah Frost - Daniel Thayer & Beulah Corbett, both of Mendon married."
State of Massachusetts, & County of Worcester ss: Town Clerk's Office Mendon August 18.. 1838. I certify that the preceding is a true copy of the record in my office with the exception of the date which is expressed on the record in fair legible figures as follows "1778 Augt 19"
Stephen Taft, Clerk of Mendon
I Stephen Taft, above named, depose and say, that I hold the office of Town Clerk in the town, County and State aforesaid, and that the above is a true extract from the records of said town of Mendon, with the exception above named, as certified by me -
Stephen Taft.
Worcester ss. Aug. 18. 1838. Sworn before me -
Charles C. Hastings Justice of the Peace
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Worcester ss - I Jos Glendall Clerk of the Supreme Judicial Court within and for said County certify that Charles C. Hastings who signed the foregoing certificate is a Justice of the Peace within and for said County duly qualified to act in that capacity and that the signature of his name above written is his true and natural writing In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said Court at Mendon this twenty first day of August A.D. 1838 Jos. Glendall. Clerk.

1024 Declaration
Bulah Thayer
Wid of Daniel
W.H.
Act 7 July 1838
Mar. 1778 d ed 1835
Allow. $43. 33 1/4
amt
N. G. Babbitt Esq
Westmainland
W.H.

State of New Hampshire
Cheshire ss.
On this fourth day of
September A.D. 1838 personally appeared before me the Judge of the Probate Court, within & for said county of Cheshire, Bulah Thayer a resident of Westmoreland in the County aforesaid aged seventy eight years on the 19 th day of Oct. last past, who, being first duly sworn, according to law, doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision of made by the act of Congress passed July 7 th 1838, entitled "an act granting half pay & pensions to certain widows." That she is the widow of the said Daniel Thayer who was a private in the Army of the Revolution and who did receive a pension under the act of Congress passed July 7 th A.D. 1832. That she as well as the s d Daniel Thayer at the time he rendered the service, resided in Mendon (now called Milford) Massachusetts. That she was knowing to his being out in the service for some time, once in an eight months campaign in 1775 at Cambridge or Boston & another term of I think five months at New York in the season then next following. Under what officers I do not recollect. Reference may be had to the War Department for further particulars in proof of his services.
she

She further declares that she was married to the said Daniel Thayer at S. Mendon by the Rev. Amariah Frost on the 19 th day of August in the year of our Lord Seventeen hundred & seventy eight, - that her Husband the aforesaid Daniel Thayer died at said Westmoreland on the twentieth day of September A.D. 1835 - & that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the Service, but the marriage took place previous to the first of January Seventeen hundred & ninety four, to wit at the time above stated. She further says that she has not been married otherwise than as aforesaid.
Bulah her X Thayer mark
Sworn to & subscribed on the day and year above written before Frederick Esq. Judge of Probate
State of New Hampshire Cheshire County
I, Henry Coolidge Clerk of the Superior Court of Judicature in the County of Cheshire, certify that Frederick Esq. is Judge of Probate in and for said County duly commissioned and sworn, and that his name above written is his genuine signature.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Superior Court at Keene this fourth day of September anno Domini Eighteen hundred & thirty eight.
H. Coolidge Clerk

Declaration
In order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7. 1832. -
State of New Hampshire ) County of Cheshire ss )
On this eighth day of August A.D. 1832. personally appeared in open Court before the Judges of the  Superior Court of the  for said County  now sitting within said  for said County , Daniel Thayer a resident of Westmoreland in said County of Cheshire aged seventy five years, who in my presence being first sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7. 1832 That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers, and served as herein stated -
1 st For the term of eight months in the Company commanded by Ichabod Dester - The Lieutenant was Goodenough Guilford the Christian name I do not recollect - Ensign John Makeew - The names of the field officers I do not recollect - our Company never paraded with the Regiment. - At the time I entered the service, which was immediately after the Concord and Lexington fight. I lived in Warwick in the then County of Hampshire, now the County of Franklin, in the State of Mass - I was a volunteer - I went first to Cambridge Massachusetts - remained there the whole eight months - kept guard or watch on the marsh to see that the British troops did not come out of Boston - near built a breast work - near the marsh. - no other company was stationed within about a half a mile - Col Pattersons Regiment was stationed about a half a mile distant on the road from Cambridge College to Charlestown. -

The Battle of Bunker hill took place while I was on this service - I entered the service I think in the latter part of April and left it in December 1775 - and know that I was in the service just eight months - was discharged at Cambridge but had no written discharge -
2. I again entered the service in June 1776 the day I do not recollect - was then living at Milford in the County of Worcester in the State of Massachusetts, in Capt James Foster's Company, Lieutenant Robert Taft of Upton, 2 d Lieut. Joseph Warren - Ensign Michael Madding of said Milford - proceeded  marched directly to New York City, was in the Regiment commanded by Col. Smith, from Berkshire County Massachusetts - our Regiment with two others were stationed above the city two or three miles on the Hudson - Genl. Fellows from Roxbury Mass. in command of the Brigade we were marched up near to Harlem heights soon after we began to move from our first station the British landed on the east side and two or three men in our regiment were said to be wounded and left in a barn, supposing that would die - I remained at Harlem heights until discharged - in no written discharge - volunteered on this service for 5 months and remained in service the five months - and left in the month of November -
And the said Daniel Shay further declares
1 st That he was born in the year 1756, in Mendon Mass. 2 d That if there is any record of his birth it is there - 3 d That he went from Worcester Mass - and into the service from Mendon aforesaid -

I was born in Mendon Mass. A.D. 1756. No record of my age to my knowledge - discovered into the service from Mendon once from Worcester Mass. - Have lived in Westmoreland for 83 years past - I volunteered into the service - Gen? Fellows commanded my Brigade - Col. Smith of Berkshires was my Colonel. Never received any written discharge -
Rev. Allen Pratt & Ichabod Albee live in my neighborhood & can testify for me -
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a Pension or an annuity except the present and he declares that his name is not on the Pension Rolls of the Agency of any state -
Daniel Thayer I sworn to a declaration the same day above written before me Aaron Watson Judge of Probate
We Allen Pratt a Congregational Minister of the Gospel & Ichabod Albee of said Westmoreland hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Daniel Thayer who has subscribed & sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be 76 years of age, that he is respected & believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution and we concur in this opinion -
Allen Pratt
Ichabod Albee
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
before me Aaron Watson Judge of Probate
And the said do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states and the Court further certifies that it appears to them that Allen Pratt who has signed the preceding certificate is a Congregational Minister in the Town of Westmoreland aforesaid and that Ichabod Albee who has also signed the same is a President of said Westmoreland and is a credible person and that their statement is entitled to credit
Aaron Watson Judge of Probate
I Asa Parker Register of the Court of Probate

For the said County of Cheshire, do hereby certify, that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Daniel Thayer for a pension —
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this eighth day of August A.D. 1832
Asa Parker { Register of the Court of Probate
Daniel Thayer Wilmot Israel Chas. Co. & Co N. 592

May 11, 1935
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BA-J/MCS one
Daniel Thayer, W. 19443
Mrs. Henry D. W. Morris 162 Highland Street Brockton, Massachusetts
Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your request for information in regard to Revolutionary War soldiers named Daniel Thayer.
The data which follow were obtained from papers on file in the pension claim, W. 19443, based upon the military service of Daniel Thayer, the only soldier by that name that is found in the Revolutionary War records of this office.
He was born in 1758 in Mendon, Massachusetts, names of parents not given.
While a resident of Warwick, Hampshire County, Massachusetts, he enlisted in April, 1775, and served eight months as private in Captain Ichabod Dexter's company in Colonel Woodbridge's Massachusetts regiment. While living in Mendon, (which was later called Milford), Worcester County, Massachusetts, he enlisted in June, 1776, and served five months as private in Captain James Foster's company in Colonel Smith's Massachusetts regiment.
He married at Mendon, Massachusetts, August 19, 1778, Beulah Corbett who was born October 19, 1759, and both were residents of Mendon.
He was allowed pension on his application executed August 8, 1832, at which time he was living in Westmoreland, Cheshire County, New Hampshire, having lived there for thirty-five years. At this time he stated that he was aged seventy-five years and ten months.
Daniel Thayer died September 20, 1835, in Westmoreland, New Hampshire.

His widow, Beulah Thayer, was allowed pension on her application executed September 4, 1838, at which time she was living in Westmoreland, New Hampshire.
The papers in this claim contain no further data relative to the soldier's family.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER Executive Assistant to the Administrator

Apr. 2, 1904 - Dist. to Miss Alice B. Fletcher, Keene, N.H.
1928 Mar. 19, fresh. to Mrs. Hazel M. Henry m. of S.
1935 May 11, Dist. to the Henry D. D. Morris
Rev WIDOW, & Co.
File No. 19443
Bulah Thayer
Widow
Daniel Thayer
Brn Rev. Wm.
Act: July 9 th 1838
Index: Vol. M Page 272
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Daniel Thayer
Ich. Serle
on roll May 2 o 1775 Vol. 1. p. 81
26.66 3.33 1.51 11.32

BRIEF objections to the admission of Pension Claims , of which those answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of Daniel Thayer which require further proof or explanation.
I. Does the declaration show where the applicant resides? neg II. Did the declarant make the declaration in the county where he resides? neg III. If the applicant did not make the declaration in the county where he resides, is there any reason assigned for his not doing so? _____ IV. Has the declarant mentioned the period or periods of the war when he served? neg V. * Has he mentioned with precision the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the department to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled? neg VI. Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with the regulations? neg VII. Has he made a relinquishment of every claim to any other pension than the one under the Act of June 7, 1832? neg VIII. Has the Court given their opinion? neg IX. Has the Clerk given his certificate? neg X. Is the Clerk's seal affixed? And if so, has it a device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal? neg

XI. Has the applicant obtained the evidence of a clergyman and another respectable citizen as to their belief respecting his age and the general belief in his neighborhood relative to his revolutionary service? no
XII. If the clergyman's affidavit has not been produced, is there any reason assigned for not obtaining it? 
XIII. If the applicant has no documentary evidence, and has not obtained the testimony of at least one living witness, has he stated in his declaration that such proof cannot be had? 
XIV. † If the applicant's name is not found on the rolls of military service, has he produced a witness or witnesses as to his service? no
If he has produced direct proof as to service, has the magistrate who administered the oath, certified to the credibility of the witness or witnesses? no
Has the proper officer certified to the official character and signature of the magistrate as the regulations direct? no
XV. Does it appear from any of the papers that the witness was in such a situation, or of such an age, as to have a personal knowledge of the applicant's service? no
XVI. ‡ Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct? no
XVII. Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily? And, if not, which of them is not so answered? answered
EXPLANATORY NOTES.
* QUERE V. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words:
"Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A. B. who, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that, by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service, but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades; For _____ year _____ months, and _____ days, I served as a _____ For _____ months and _____ days, I served as a _____; and for such service I claim a pension."

It is important in all cases to determine with precision the period for which each applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service. The use of the phrase about three or four months is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable. Some persons who apply for pensions merely state they served two years in the militia, &c. without specifying the tours; the names of the officers, and other particulars respecting their service. This form of a declaration is highly objectionable. It must in every case be clearly shewn under what officers the applicant served; the duration of each term of engagement; the particular place or places where the service was performed; that the applicant served with an embodied corps called into service by competent authority; that he was either in the field or in garrison; and for the time during which the service was performed, he was not employed in any civil pursuit.
†QUERE XIV. Proof of Service.
In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses, who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimants entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the regiment, company, and line to which he belonged. The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the witnesses, and the official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office.
‡QUERE XVI. Mode of authenticating papers.
In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticates the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other paper authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the ends of which must pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate.
In every case where the clerk of the court, or other certifying officer, has no public seal of office, the certificate of a member of congress, proving the official character and signature of the certifying officer, should accompany the papers.

Diho for Dunt Thayer To 1 st Service

I Samuel Morton of Athol, in the County of Worcester in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, of lawful age do testify and say that I was a soldier with Daniel Thayer in Brattlebridge in the State of Vermont in the company of Militia of which Israel Sawyer was commanding Officer - The Lieutenant was Goodenough of Guildford Vt - Ensign John Mahews - for five months. During all this time of five months, which was the term of my service the above named Daniel Thayer was a private in the same company - Col. Woodbridge of Hatfield (according to the best of my recollection) was the commanding officer of the Regt I further say that at the expiration of the five months above stated, I left the service, and procured a substitute, which accounts for my not being able to state anything farther in relation to the above Daniel Thayer - Samuel Morton
Worcester ss. July 17 th 1832
Personally appeared Samuel Morton and made Oath to the truth of the above declaration by him subscribed before
W m H. Williams Jas. Paine
I further certify that the above Samuel Morton is a disinterested and credible witness
W m H. Williams Jas. Paine

Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Worcester, ss.
I, Elijah Bigelow, clerk of the court of Common Pleas within and for the county of Worcester, certify, That William H. Williams, Esquire, before whom the within Deposition was signed and sworn to, is a justice of the Peace within and for said county of Worcester - and that his signature, thereunto subscribed, as such justice, appears to be in his own proper hand writing.
In testimony whereof, I hereunto set my hand, and affix the county seal, this twenty third day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two.
Elijah Bigelow, Clk.
Deposition
James M. [?]

Ashe for Daniel Thayer. To his wife
Thos. in Edward's way Name

I Ebenezer Leland of Shrewsbury in the county of Worcester and Commonwealth of Massachusetts of lawful age do testify and say that I was a soldier with Daniel Thayer five months at New- -York in 1776. I was in the Regiment commanded by Col. Smith in Capt. James Foster's company of Mendon. I further testify that the above named Thayer served out said term
Ebenezer Leland
Worcester ss. July 19th. 1832
Personally appeared Ebenezer Leland and made oath to the above declaration by him subscribed,
Before me
Not Having Just Deed
I further certify the above Ebenezer Leland is a distinguished and credible witness.
Not Having Just Deed

Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Worcester, ss.
I, Abijah Bigelow, clerk of the court of Common Pleas for the county of Worcester, certify, that Fortunatus Harrington, Esquire, before whom the within Deposition was signed and sworn to, is a justice of the peace within and for said county of Worcester, - and that his signature thereunto subscribed, as such justice, appears to be in his own proper hand writing. -
In testimony whereof, I hereunto set my hand, and affix the county seal, this nineteenth day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two.
Abijah Bigelow, Clk.

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Ames 25K C.W. 63
1838 July 7
War Department
Pension office
Washington city
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Westmoreland N.H. Sept. 6. 1838
Dear Sir I here enclose the papers in the cases - Bulah Thayer and Betsy Goodridge applicants for pension & hope a favorable return soon as the promptness & convenience of your Department will admit
Very Respectfully yours &c
Nathan Godfrey Babbitt

A. B. F.
Keene N.H.
Mar 28-1904
To the Secretary of Pension Bureau.
Dear Sir
Will you please send me the war record of Daniel Thayer a pensioned soldier of the war of the Revolution. He enlisted from Massachusetts.
Sincerely yours
(Mrs) Alice B. Fletcher 440 Main St-
Keene N.H.

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July 12-27
United States Pension Bureau Washington D.C.
Dear Sir:-
Can you give me any records concerning Daniel Thayer who served in Capt. Ichabod Dexters Co. in 1775. and Capt. James Foster in 1776. Can you give me any birth or death dates.
Sincerely Yours
Mrs. Hazel M. Henry 408 So. Bowen St.

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Nov 19-27
Pension Bureau Washington D.C. Dear Sir:-
Have you any record of service in the Revolution of Daniel Thayer born in Mendon Mass, 1758, died 1835 at Westmoreland, the son of Samuel Thayer.
Sincerely
Mrs. Hazel M. Henry 408 So. Bowen St.

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Jackson, Mich. Mch. 12-28
U.S. Pension Bureau Washington D.C.
Dear Sir:-
Nov. 19. I wrote you concerning records for Daniel Thayer, born 1758 - d. 1835 and who I am sure served in the Revolution but I never received a reply. Can you give me any record for him. His wife was Beulah Corbitt. He was from Mendon Mass and Westmoreland N.H.
Sincerely yours
Mrs. Hazel M. Henry 408 So. Brown St.

April 19-1935.
162 Highland St.
Brockton, Mass.
Pension Office Old War Division Washington, D.C.
Only Daniel Thayer OK MCS
Wanted, a copy of the Pension Paper of Daniel Thayer , born in Braintree, Mass. Sept. 9-1756, died about 1835, Aug. 19-1777-8, Beulah Corbitt, he is said to have died in Westmoreland, N.H.
Also, a copy of the Pension Paper of a Daniel Thayer, who married in 1785, Betsey Scudder and settled in Stockbridge, Mass.
This data wanted to identify the right Daniel Thayer for a D.A.R. paper.
Hoping for a speedy reply, Sincerely yours,
( Mrs. Henry D.W. )
Nellie M. Morris.
Signature ?

WCS
March 19, 1928.
Mrs. Hazel M. Henry, 408 South Bowen, Jackson, Michigan.
Madam:
I advise you that from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, W. 19443, it appears that Daniel Thayer was born in 1758 in Mendon, Massachusetts.
While a resident of Warwick, Hampshire County, Massachusetts, he enlisted in April, 1775, and served eight months as a private in Captain Ichabod Dexter's Company in Colonel Woodbridge's Massachusetts Regiment.
While living in Mendon, which was later called Milford, Worcester County, Massachusetts, he enlisted in June, 1778, and served five months as a private in Captain James Foster's Company in Colonel Smith's Massachusetts Regiment.
He married at Mendon, Massachusetts, August 19, 1778, of that place Beulah Corbett who was born October 19, 1759.
He was allowed pension on his application executed August 8, 1832, at which time he was living in Westmoreland, Cheshire County, New Hampshire. likely deceased for 35 yrs deceased aged 75 yrs 7 mos
He died September 20, 1835, in Westmoreland, New Hampshire.

His widow, Beulah, was allowed pension on her application executed September 4, 1838, at which time she was living in Westmoreland, New Hampshire.
Respectfully,
WINFIELD SCOTT, Commissioner.