Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 19122, for Amherst Thompson, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER _____
Mass.
Thompson, Anhurst S. 19122
B. L. H. 7101-160-55.
Carded O.K.
CONTENTS

10-160.
Massachusetts Amherst Thompson
Berk in the State of Mass who was a Pirate in the company commanded by Captain _____ of the regt commanded by Col. Mosen in the war for 9 mos.
72 Berkshire
Inscribed on the Roll of Mass at the rate of 30 Dollars ~ Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 21 st day of March 1832. and sent to her Sedgwick  Seneca  Mass
Arrears to the 4th of March 1833 $ 60- Semi-ant. allowance ending 4 febr " 15- $75-
{ Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.
Recorded by G H Spofford Clerk Book 2. Vol. 2 nd Page 83.

Rev. 7 over Rev. 7 Pensioner Map June 22 - 10160 Ad: 160 Oct. Sept 29 1852 Blyth, R. Raw
Vol 7 page 57

Washington Ia April 24 th 1896
Mr. W m Lochran Bureau of Pensions
Dear Sir
I wish to establish my right to join The Daughters of the American Revolution . Our family history shows that my great-great grandfather Col. Joseph Thompson of Brinsfield Hampden Co., Mass. served from the beginning of The Revolutionary War to its close also his son my great grandfather Lieutenant - Amhurst Thompson served until the close They lived in Brinsfield until

after the war when they moved to a town then called Partridgefield, now called Peru Berkshire Co., Mass. afterwards, Col Joseph Thompson moved to Marietta Ohio, Lieut. Amhurst Thompson my great grandfather continued to live in Peru until his death in 1857. He was 95 years old when he died.
Will you please tell me what the pension records show in regard to them.
Yours respectfully
Mrs E. E. Everson
Washington Pa
Washington Co

U. OLD WAR & NAVY APR 29 1896 FILES. P. B.
PENSION U. S. OFFICE. APR 27 1896

7504
Amherst Thompson
Pr. at
9 Months
1/8 30
Charles Ledyneck
Lenox. Mass

BRIEF in the case of  Amherst Thompson  of Peru. Berkshire Co. in the State of Mass.  (Act 7th June, 1889.)
 1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? Court  2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?  3. How old is he? Seventy 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. As a Gen.     enlisted In 1779 July. 9 Capt R Lilly, Col Nixon & Gen Nixon  
 5. In what battles was he engaged? none stated  6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Brimfield. 
 7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditional evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? Sylvanus Thompson en'ty to 9 mo service as stated of Cyrus Stowell en'ty to his character for truth.  8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? cluttered and unallied - now are the papers 
I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
D. K. L. Examining Clerk.

Harriet Thompson A Revolutionary Soldier's Application for Bounty Land 60217
60217
Essex Street Court Lexington? Mass?

BOUNTY LAND DECLARATION.
State of Massachusetts } ss. County of Berkshire
ON THIS Thirty-First day of March A. D. one thousand eight hundred and fifty five personally appeared before me, Ebenezer Haskell a Justice of the Peace, within and for the County and State aforesaid, Thomas Thompson aged Twenty two years, a resident of Pierce in the State of Massachusetts who, being duly sworn according to law, declares that he is the identical person who was a Soldier Captain Reuben Dill in the regiment of Massachusetts State Troops commanded by Col Ebenezer D. D. Marshall in the War of the Rebellion and he refers to his Pension under the act of 7th of June 1832 and that he was in the Massachusetts State Troops and that his services were fully proved under said act before his pension of $ 30.00 per annum was allowed, under act of 1832 and pension certificate is dated 27th day of March A.D. 1839 - And Payable at Boston agency and continued in actual service in said War for the term of Nine Months that he has heretofore made application for bounty land under the act of September 28, 1850, or any other act and entitled a land warrant which he has since legally disposed of and cannot now return and authorize said Pierce to receive his warrant
He makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the additional bounty land to which he may be entitled under the act approved the 3d day of March, 1855. He also declares, that he has never applied for nor received, under this or any other act of Congress, any bounty-land warrant except the one mentioned . All errors were made before signing
Amherst his Thompson Mark
We, Smith Thompson and Hannah Thompson residents of Pierce in the State of Massachusetts upon our oaths, declare that the foregoing declaration was signed and acknowledged by Amherst Thompson in our presence, and that we believe, from the appearance and statements of the applicant, that he is the identical person he represents himself to be.
Smith Thompson Hannah Thompson
The foregoing declaration and affidavit were sworn to and subscribed before me on the day and year above written; and I certify that I know the affiants to be credible persons; that the claimant is the person he represents himself to be, and that I have no interest in this claim.
Ebenezer Haskell. Justice of the Peace

Michael Thompson Declaration
7304
on Roll of sum for 9 Months.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts Berkshire. - I Sylvanus Thompson of Brimfield in the County of Hampden of lawful age. Do hereby certify that I was personally acquainted with Abraham Thompson then living in said Brimfield and He lived with my Father Sylvanus Thompson and at the same time I lived in my Father's family and that he the said Abraham Thompson insisted into the service of the United States in the of New York and that He served and recently since and that He preferred service in the service of said United States for the term of nine months and at the expiration of said term he returned to my Father's House in said Brimfield and to this day the present with us.
Sylvanus Thompson
Berkshire. June 13. 1832 Then the said Sylvanus Thompson the present personally affirmed and subscribed his name to the above deposition and the truth of the same. Sylvanus Thompson

"Children of Joseph & Abigail Thompson"
"Amherst their son. Born May 20. 1762 copy of the record in the Town Books (signed) att Ja s Bridgham S r . Town clk."
The above is a Copy of the Certificate from the hands of Amherst Thompson
Cyrus Stowell of Peru in the County of Berkshire aged sixty four testifies & says that he has been acquainted with Amherst Thompson of said Peru who has made the declaration hereto annexed, about forty six years. That the said Amherst Thompson is a man of truth and veracity, and that it is commonly reported and believed in the neighbourhood where he lives that he was a soldier of the Revolution - & that I believe he is of the age & performed the services as has stated in his declaration. Cyrus Stowell - -
Subscribed & sworn to this 12 th September 1832 before the Supreme Judicial Court Chas. Sedgwick

DECLARATION, IN ORDER TO OBTAIN THE BENEFIT OF THE ACT OF CONGRESS OF THE 7TH OF JUNE, 1832.
STATE OF MASSACHUSETTS, } ss. Berkshire COUNTY } ss.
ON this Twelfth day of September 18 32 personally appeared before the Hon the Supreme Judicial Court of the Commonwealth  Amherst Thompson a resident of Peru in the County of Berkshire , and State of Massachusetts, aged Seventy years, who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth, on his oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress, passed June 7, 1832. That he enlisted in the army of the United States in the year 1779 , with Captain Reuben Sill and served in the regiment of Col. William Massachusetts line, under the following named officers: le
as follows. In the month of July 1779 I enlisted at Plainfield in the State of Massachusetts into the company of Capt Reuben Sill for three months and marched for Springfield where our company mustered and was mustered . We then marched to West Point and The Highlands , where we joined the Regiment of Col. Thomas Nixon and General Nixon's Brigade and marched down to Pikskill  North Castle and Bedford where we lay till Autumn when we mar- ched back to Pikskill . In November my Father who was a Major in Col. Nixon's Regiment ( Major Joseph Thompson ) was transferred to Col. Thomas Marshall's Regiment  at West Point and served as Lieut Col. and I was transferred with him. In January my father became a party that marched down upon the lines and was taken  prisoner by the enemy at Forty Town and I remained at West Point with Major Nixon till my term of service expired when I was discharged. which discharge is lost.
I was born in Brimfield in the County of Hampshire in 1762 of which I have a certificate of the Born  a copy of which is herewith I lived there till the year 1783 when I removed to Peru where I have resided ever since.
Cyrus Stone Esq. of Peru is well acquainted with me and can testify as to my character for truth & veracity , and that it is commonly reported & believed in my neighbourhood that I was a soldier of the Revolution .
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 roll of any agency in any State, or on the list of the whatever
Sworn to, and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid.
Amherst Thompson
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states.
Sassoon Paton  J.S.G. for Berkshire County
I, Charles Sedgwick Clerk of the Court of Supreme Judicial Court do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Amherst Thompson for a pension.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office, this eighteenth day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two .
Chas. Sedgwick Clerk.

Robert Thompson declaration
73 04
in Role of son for 9 Months

ssion on file in this Bureau.
Amherst Thompson P.F. 19122
   DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE.   CAPTAIN. COLONEL.     July 1779 transferred in Oct. 9 mos. { Reuben Gilly — — — Thomas Nixon Thomas Marshall Mass.   Soldier's father Joseph Thompson was Major in Col. Nixon's regt and Lt Col in Col. Marshall's regt, and was taken prisoner at Saratoga.  
Battles engaged in, _____
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Brimfield Hampshire Co. Mass.
Date of application for pension, Sept 12 1832. - Ind. no. al.
Residence at date of application, Peru, Berkshire Co. Mass. May 20
Age at date of application, 70 Born at Brimfield Mass. May 20 1762
Remarks: Soldier's mother was Abigail — no further family data on file

19 122 INVALID.
File No. 19 122
Amherst Thompson
Dis. Rev. War
Act: June 7" 32
Index:—Vol. 1 , Page 424
[Arrangement of 1870.]

May 596 Recd paid to Mr. E. E. Swenson Washington Da.
JW 3
June 4. 1897 - History to Mrs. J. C. Warner Midina, Ohio.
1908 May 2 Recd to Mrs. Myrtle M. Frissell

No. 60217
ACT OF MARCH 3, 1855.
Received Apr. 11, 1855.
Amhurst Thomas Rev. Mr.
Warrant 101-160-55
Will Pease Lenox Mass

7-10-2
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100 am

Ms. A. 1. 1 v. 32, Map. R. 11. 11. 11.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
BERKSHIRE ss.
I, CHARLES SEDGWICK, Clerk of the Judicial Courts of the Commonwealth for the County of Berkshire, do certify that Oliver Marshall Esquire, whose signature is affixed to the certificate on the paper hereto annexed, was, at the date thereof, one of the Justices of the Peace within and for said County, duly commissioned and acting under the authority of this Commonwealth
and that full faith and credit are and ought to be given to his acts and attestations done in that capacity; and that I am acquainted with the hand-writing of the said Oliver Marshall and believe his signature to said certificate is genuine.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of the Court of Common Pleas for said Commonwealth, this Seventh day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fiftyfive
Chas Sedgwick CLERK.

June 4, 1897.
Madam:
Replying to your request for information concerning Amherst Thompson and Joseph Thompson, soldiers of the Revolutionary War, you are advised as follows:
Amherst Thompson made an application for pension on September 12, 1832, at which time he was 70 years of age and residing at Peru, Mass., and his pension was allowed for nine months' actual service as a private in the Mass. troops, Revolutionary War; a part of the time he served under Capt. Reuben Lilly and Col. Thomas Nixon. He enlisted at Brimfield, Mass.
Joseph Thompson made an application for pension on May 21, 1818, at which time he was 56 years of age and residing in Belmont county, Ohio, and his pension was allowed for four years' actual service as a private in the Massachusetts' troops, Revolutionary War; a part of the time he served

under Capt. Spalding and Col. Reed. He enlisted at Roxbury, Mass.
Very respectfully,
Commissioner.
Mrs C. J. Warren, Medina, Ohio.

2 Medicine O May 4 "97
Bureau of Pensions.
Would you give me information concerning the pen- sions of Joseph & Amhurst Thompson soldiers of the Rebellious War.
Joseph Thompson Enlisted from Roxbury Mass & served under Capt. Spalding & Col. James Reed. Amhurst Thompson Enlisted from Brainfield Mass. he served un- der Capt. Ruben Lilly and Col.
Thomas Nixon. Very Respectfully
(Mrs) E. J. Warner Medicine. Medicine Co. Ohio

OLD WAR & NAVY MAY 12 1897 FILES.
U.S. PENSION MAY 8 1897

Record Division.
Department of the Interior,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS,
April 29, 1908
Searched by L. D. Lamparter
Original No. _____
Certificate No. _____
Claimant, _____
Soldier, Amherst Thompson
Service, _____
Mass. Rev. War
Remarks: No claim as above except, Encl. # 19122
_____ Chief of Division.

MIAMI TELEPHONE COMPANY CAPITAL $50,000
MIAMI, FLA. apr. 23 1908
U. S. Pension Office:- Please permit me to ask if I may obtain from this source, information which, as far, I am unable to obtain in other ways, regarding my ancestor, Great-Grandfather Amherst Thompson and wife Sarah Clark, of Peru, Berkshire Co. Mass.
He enlisted in Rev. war at Brimfield Mass. July 16, 1779 - discharged apr. - 1780. at least, these are the dates I have found. For a number of years he drew a pension for services in Rev. War, residence Peru, Mass.
In filling out additional papers for daughters of Am. Rev. I require the date of marriage of Amherst Thompson and Sarah Clark. Have you that date among information in regard to his pension? also the birth-place of Sarah Clark - Thompson
Sarah Clark - born - where? Sarah Clark } married - when? Amherst Thompson

MIAMI. TELEPHONE COMPANY CAPITAL $50,000
MIAMI, FLA.
I also wish to ask about the Parents of this Sarah Clark - Thompson :- Joseph Clark & Sarah ————— his wife. Joseph Clark was in the Rev. from Penn, then called Partridgefield, Mass. He was Sergeant, in Capt. Nathan Watkins Co; Col. John Pattersons regt; enlisted May 10, 1775. Name also appears in "Soldiers & Sailors" in 1777, 1780, & under dated Partridgefield June 21, 1784 for wages for service for 1781 & 1782 in Capt. Ebenezer Smiths Co. 6th Regt. He lived in Penn until 1802 when removed to Northampton Mass. I do not know whether he recd a pension or not. If he did so, perhaps you can give me this information which I wish as much.
Joseph Clark { born where ? { born what date ?
Sarah ————— { born where ? { what name of Parents ? { born what date ?
Joseph Clark } married - what date ? Sarah ————— } what town ?
Their daughter, who married Amherst Thompson - Joseph Clark wife died in Northampton 1816

MIAMI TELEPHONE COMPANY
CAPITAL $50,000
MIAMI, FLA.
I appreciate any information, & thank those who assist me.
Sincerely
Mrs Myrtle M. Friessell Miami Fla.

Amherst Thompson made an application for pension on September 12th, 1832, at which time he was residing at Peru, Mass., and 70 years of age, and his pension was allowed for nine months' actual service as a private in the Mass. troops, Revolutionary war; a part of the time he served under Capt. Reuben Lilly and Col. Thomas Nixon. He enlisted at Brimfield, Mass.
Very respectfully,
Commissioner. 40-572
Mrs. E. E. Goerson,
Washington, Iowa.
Washington Co.