Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 10581, for Amos Thurber, Rhode Island

SERVICE
NUMBER _____
R. J.
Thurber, Amos Mariah
Tr. 10581
CONTENTS

17. 864. Ohio — Pittsburgh
Amos Thurber of Portage Co in the State of Ohio who was a private in the Comp. commanded by Captain Thayer of the Regt commanded by Col. Auger in the — R. Island line for 2 years.
Inscribed on the Roll of Ohio Pittsburgh at the rate of 80 Dollars — Cents per annum. to commence on the 4th day of March, 1834.
Certificate of Pension issued the 20. day of September 1833. and sent to John Whittlesey Ravenna O.
Arrears to the 4th of Sep. 1833. 200.00. Semi-ant. allowance ending 4 March 1834 40.00
Portage Co Ohio Oct 1832 Palmyra 692 Enlist 1777 St. H. Number 4014 at Sunbury and later at Valley Forge Sick & absent at White Plains at Valley Forge & Monmouth
Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.
Recorded by Wm R. Palmer Clerk, Book 8 Vol. 8 — Page 129.
Portage Co Pen — Berkeley Penn Hamilton Penn
Letter 20 th Aug 4 th 42 G. Green Sol. to Geo. Green Jan 29. 1841 respecting widows' claim,

1768 17.868
Amos Thurber
Returned for the declaration to be amended 5.
Look on Rhode Island
Roll Adm 2 years
for $80.
Must amend his def. The papers are defective in consequence of the declarant not stating the period of his discharge
Geo Whittier Ravenna Ohio

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BRIEF in the case of  Amos Thurber  of Portage Co in the State of Ohio  (Act 7th June, 1832.)
 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? 69  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.     From 1777 to 1780 In 1780 to Apr 1782 - and would appear As a Private Corporal Gen. H. M. Cumberbee Col. Angel Capt Thoyer Capt M c Cumberbee - Col Jenut   The enlisted for "during the war" — The above is one continuous service  
5. In what battles was he engaged? Monmouth — Springfield N.J. —
6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Cumberland R. Island
7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? Tradition
8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? Right
X Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
A. C. Easton Examining Clerk.
20 Feb 1833

The deposition Horatio G. Thresher of Wilson Township in the County of Ashtabula taken before me Wm S. Merwin a justice of the Peace for Portage County in the State of Ohio - The sd Horatio G. Thresher deposes & saith that From the information his parents when he the deponent was quite young that he was told by them that he had a Brother Name Amos Thresher then in the service of the United States and was also told by my parents that he the sd Amos Thresher gave them my name By letter While he the Amos was in service and when the deponent was about ten years of age the sd Amos Thresher returned to where my parents lived who recognised him as their son since that I have known him from that time to the present to be the same person that Amos Thresher that from the impression I then had & from that time until the present the sd deponent did & do suppose that he the sd Amos Thresher was in the actual service of the United States I mean to annex subscribers of Horatio G. Thresher Before me Wm S. Merwin a justice of the Peace this eighth day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & thirty two
Wm S. Merwin justice of the Peace
The State of Ohio Portage County ss.
I John N. Skinner Deputy Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Portage in the State of Ohio do hereby certify and make known that Wm S. Merwin Esquire before whom the foregoing deposition was taken & who has thereto in his own proper hand writing subscribed his name was at the time of taking said deposition and now is an acting justice of the Peace for said County duly commissioned and sworn. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court - this 15 th day of October 1832.
John N. Skinner Deputy Clerk

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Amos Thurber
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The State of Ohio } On this 15th  18th day of August  October 1832 personally Portage County } appeared before the Superior court of Common Pleas of the State of Ohio Amos Kim be a resident of Palmyra in the county of Portage and State of Ohio aged sixty nine 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 th 1832.
That he enlisted in the Army of the United States in the year 1777 with Lieu- -tenant Ebenezer McCumber, and served in the regiment called the Second Rhode Island Regiment of the Rhode Island Line under the following named officers Brigadier General James M. Varnum Colonel Israel Angel Lieutenant Colonel Jerriel Olney Major Simeon Thayer Captain William Jew that he resided at the time of his enlistment in the Town of Cumberland, in the State of Rhode Island, and enlisted at Howland Ferry in said State during the War that he marched from the place of his enlistment to Providence in said State, where he remained with his regiment until some time in April from thence he marched with his Regiment to Morristown in New Jersey where they joined the Army under General Washington from thence they marched to Ruckersville in New Jersey and from thence to Bonbrook bridge on the Raritan drove the British out of Brunswick and returned to Morristown. From Morristown we marched to a place between Hightstown & Princeton in the State of New Jersey called the Continental Village where where this affidavit was taken Sigh. and remained until some time in October following when he joined his regiment at Mount Holly in the State of New Jersey near Red Bank we crossed the Delaware -re into Bristol Pennsylvania and joined Wash- -ington at the White Marsh that the following winter he marched with his regiment to Valley Forge in Pennsylvania where they remained until Spring when they marched out and in June had a battle at Monmouth in New Jersey - From this we marched to Rhode Island, the British being at

New Port Island. the following Winter we lay at Warren in Rhode Island and remained in that State during the ensuing Year untill late in the fall, and had made arrangements for passing the Winter there but in the latter part of November or in the fore part of December marching orders arrived. When we took up the line of march for Morristown New Jersey where we spent the Winter of 1779-
In the Spring of 1780 we marched to Springfield New Jersey where we had a battle with the British. and during the summer of marched to West Point in New York. soon after Arnold's defection where we remained untill relieved by other Troops. When we crossed the River and encamped through the Winter at a place called Haverack. During this Winter I marched under General Stark to Morristown near New York which we burnt. and took several Companies of Refugees - the Captain at this time was promoted or was absent and Lieutenant McCumber was promoted to the captaincy and in the vacancy that occurred I was appointed Corporal - From Morristown we returned to our Winter quarters - where we remained untill Spring. When we marched to Princeton New Jersey where we rejoined by others. and the command of the whole was taken by Colonel Demot a Frenchman - From Princeton we went to Anapolis where we remained several weeks. When we marched up near Elktown. in Pennsylvania. and encamped where we remained untill the eight of April following that he knows of no person living who can testify to his services He hereby relinquishes any 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
Where and in what Town were you born? Ans I was born in the Town of Renshaw State of Massachusetts in the Year 1763
Have you any Record of your age and if so where is it? Ans I have a Record of my age in my Bible. in Salem in the County of Portage and State of Ohio

Where are you living when called in to service - Where have you lived since the Revolutionary War, and where do you now live?
Ans. I was living in Cumberland State of Rhode Island when called in to service. I have since the war lived in Hyatt county State of Pennsylvania and in Berkeley County State of Virginia and Hampshire County State of Virginia and from there removed to Palmyra and Portage County and State of Ohio where I now reside
How were you called into the service were you drafted did you volunteer, or were you a Substitute -
Ans I have already stated in my affidavit.
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid Before me John P Skinner
State of Ohio } Dept-Clerk of Court of Com. Pleas,
Portage County } We Alva Day residing in Deerfield Portage
County and State of Ohio and Truman Parks of Palmyra County and State aforesaid are all acquainted Amos Thurber who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that he believes him to be sixty nine years old. that he is reputed and believed in the neighbourhood where he has resided to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid John P Skinner Dept Clerk of Com. Pleas,
Alva Day Truman Parks
And the said court 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 Alva Day who has signed the preceding certificate is a resident in the Township of Deerfield in the county and state aforesaid and that Truman Parks who has also signed the same, is a resident in the Township of Palmyra in said county and state that they are credible persons and that their statement is entitled to credit.
The State of Ohio }
Portage County } I George Kirtland Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the county of Portage do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the

matter of the application of Amos Shumba for a pension In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this eighteenth day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two Geo. Kirkman Clerk

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Miriam Thumber Pa
7 July 1838
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10845
At 11 o'clock in the morning Not a word of news from Philadelphia

of the Widow Mariah Thurber was Married to Amos Thurber in Mercer County, County State of Pennsylvania on the twenty seventh Day of August Eighteen Hundred & twenty. Seven by Alexander Wright and got My certificate which I give to George Green to show and that as his Lawfull wife Had four Children to him these things I can affirm on my Deposition and as he Dyed the twenty fourth Day of April Eighteen Hundred and forty three and as I can solemnly swear and declare I am or was Amos Thurbers Lawfull wife. I therefore begg petition & desire Congress or war Department to give me the sum my husband got yearly for my Natural Life or the sum he got yearly as a pension which was Eighty Dollars for five or six years as the Law allows for Widows after the Death of their Husband therefore I expect you have an account of His services and Chap- -man was qualified to the Death of my Husband & present of Pwanna the capital of Portage County who managed my Husbands pension. Before His Death Did undertake to get me my Arerages which was Due me after His Death from the time He got His Last pay therefore I allow George Green to be my Lawfull attorney in all the Virtues of the Laws of the united states to Do my business for me - these things I can testify on my Deposition or qualification given under my Hand and seal this 3. Day of July A.D. 1843. Mariah Thurber (seal) Witness present
Beman Chapman
Pliny P Chapman
I authorise George Green to try and get a reward for me from Congress or War Department any way they see proper for my Husband Deceased Amos Thurbers services Done to the united states in War given under my Hand & seal this 3. Day of July A.D. 1843. Witness present - Mariah Thurber
Beman Chapman
Pliny P Chapman

State of Ohio: } S.S. Roots town July 5 th 1843. ~ Portage County } Before me Abraham Olmstead a justice of the peace in and for said County personally came the foregoing Named Mariah Thurber signed on & sealed on of the foregoing Deposition of a petition & power of Attorney and Affirm - that the foregoing was a correct Statement given under my Hand and seal the Date above written ~ Mariah Thurber Affirm - to and Subscribed. This 5 th Day of July 1843
Abraham Olmstead J.P.
State of Ohio: } S.S. William Coolman Clerk of the court of Portage County } Common pleas within & for the said court of Portage County & State of Ohio Do Hereby Certify that Abraham Olmstead before whom the foregoing and annexed Deposition was taken is now and was at the taking of the same a justice of the peace within and for said County and State aforesaid Duly Sworn and Commissioned
agreeably to the Laws of the State of Ohio and that I am acquainted with His signature and that the above is Genuine and to all of whose official acts as such Justice full faith and credit is and ought to be given throughout the united States & Elsewhere in testimony Whereof I hereunto set my Hand and affix- -ed the seal of said Court this 4 th Day of March A.D. 1844 ~ William Coolman Clerk

Mercer County § Personally appeared before the State of Pennsylvania Subscriber a justice of the peace in and for the County aforesaid Alexander Wright Jr who saith upon his solemn oath that the within certificate of marriage of them Amos Thurber and Mary Thurber  is genuine is genuine where lawfully married by him at the day certified that at present give said certificate and the name of Alexander Wright Jr signed to said certificate as a witness of his own proper handwriting and genuine sworn to before me before me this seventh day of Decr A.D. 1843 John T. Wright J.P.
Mercer County § J. H. A. Douglass hereby certify that John T. Wright is now and was at the time of drawing the above instrument an acting justice of the peace duly qualified under my hand & seal of office this twenty eight day of December 1843 Mercer Dec 28. 1843 A. A. Douglass Justice pro J. Galloway Dist.

Mercer County State of Pennsylvania This is to certify that Amos Thurler of Portage County State of Ohio and his wife Mariah Sherzo were this day joined in the bands of wedlock by Alex Wright for a justice of the peace in and for said County in witness whereof the said parties have hereunto set their hands she the said Mariah assuming the name of her said husband.
August 27 th 1827
In presence of Alex Wright
Amos Thurler Mariah Thurler
Abraham Magie Robert W. Farlane

a true copy ~

Know all men by these presents that I Amos Thurber of Palmyra in the County of Portage and State of Ohio a Revolutionary pensioner of the United States do hereby constitute and appoint John Ernest my true and lawfull attorney for me in my name to receive from the agent of the United States for paying pension at Pittsburgh State of Pennsylvania my pension from the 4 th Day of March 1841. to the 4 th Day September 1841. Witness my hand Amos Thurber (Seal) and seal 4 th Day of September in presence of 1841 William. P. Merwin Phebe Merwin
State of Ohio
Portage County
Be it known that on the 4 th Day of September 1841 before the Subscriber a justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid personally appeared Amos Thurber above named and acknowledged the above power of attorney to be his act & deed in testimony Whereof I have hereunto set my Hand the Day and Year above mentioned
William. P. Merwin
Justice of the Peace

State of Ohio } Be it known that before me Portage County } W th Br. Merwin a justice of the Peace in and for the County a forefaid person appeared Amos Thurber and made oath in Due form of Law that he is the identical person Named of Which I Certify the following is a true Copy
War Department Revolutionary Claim.
I Certify that in conformity with the Law of the united States of the 7 th of June 1832 Amos Thurber of the State of Ohio who was a private in the army of the Revolution is Entitled to receive Eighty Dollars per annum During His Natural Life Commencing on the fourth of March 1831. and payable Semiannually on the 4 th of March and 4 th of September in Every year
Given at the War office of the united States this 21 st Day of September one Thousand Eight Hundred and thirty three Examined and } Lewis Cass.
Counter signed } Secretary of War
J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
that he is Entitled to a pension of Eighty Dollars per year on account of Services rendered to the united States During the Revolutionary War that he served in Captain Lewis Company Colonel Angels Regiment that he now resides in Palmyra Portage County Ohio and has resided there for the space of thirty seven years past and thereto he resided in Hampshire County Virginia sworn to and subscribed to this 4 th Day of September 1841. Before
Me William Br. Merwin Justice of the Peace
amos Thurber (seal)

War Department Revolution Claim
I certify that in conformity with the Law of the United States of the 7 th June 1832. Amos Thurber of the State of Ohio who was a Private in the army of the Revolution is entitled to receive Eighty Dollars per annum during His Natural Life commencing on the 4 th of March 1831. and payable semi-annually on the 4 th of March and 4 th of September in every year
Given at the War Office of the United States this 28 th Day of September one thousand eight hundred and thirty three
Lewis Cass Secretary of War
Examined and Counterfigured {
J. L. Edwards Commissioner of Pensions

10.865 Ryland
Miriam Thurber Penn.
Wed. to George Green June 29 "44
Act. July 7. 1838.

Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873.
REJECTED
10.581
P. O. Miriam Thurber
Service: _____
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: C 19.864 P. O. Col. Angel
P. O. R. D. Lee
Recognized. _____
Contract. _____

Sir
Racine Ohio July 23 d 1833
I return the application of Amos Thaler amended as required
I am very Respectfully Your obt Servt
Dear J d L d Edwards -
John Whiting
Commission of Pension

B R I E F objections to the admission of Pension Claims, of which those answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of (Amos Thurber) which require further proof or explanation.
I. Does the declaration show where the applicant resides? Y II. Did the declarant make the declaration in the county where he resides? Y 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? Y 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? No VI. Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with the regulations? Y VII. Has he made a relinquishment of every claim to any other pension than the one under the Act of June 7, 1832? Y VIII. Has the Court given their opinion? Y IX. Has the Clerk given his certificate? Y 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? Y

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?
No
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?
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?
Has the proper officer certified to the official character and signature of the magistrate as the regulations direct?
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?
XVI. ‡ Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct?
Yes
XVII. Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily? And, if not, which of them is not so answered?
Yes
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."

James Thurber Remark that George Green Has come my way and seems to Have a Disposition to Do business for Widows soldiers & orphans therefore I allow Him to be my Lawfull attorney to Do my business with you Congress & War Department and of I Have sent to you my Witnesses and my Description of some of my services I will touch on some of My services but not in the same manner I Did when you gave me my pension I was about seven years in the service between sickness and Duty I listed part of the time before I listed in the army on Land I listed in a Sloop of light Guns of three pounders to try to take English prizes so we went out & took an English Ship of Sixteen Guns of six pounders Double fortified of brass pieces loaded with Clothing and a Quantity of Powder I believe several tons going to New york to Supply the English army was in a Goodly numbers of battalions and Regiments and suffered much with Cold and Hunger I Had the measles I Had the small pox I Had the fever so severe I was considerably out of my senses at times and it stuck to me part of two summers when I was in the office of a Corporal I went with the Guard of an Escort from Sayre to to General Green with the major of the Light Horse in a Sloop & when we was on our return up the Chesapeake bay aiming to the army at Annapolis we seen a Vessel coming to meet us & said major & Middleton said they we will see who they are and we took the Vessel which was loaded with Flour & found on the Vessel three English Captains which we thought a Good prize I think Ebenezer M c Enbury listed me & served part of the time in Captain Tews Company Casual angles Regiment & under a General James Mitchel Servant and I believe you Have my papers for your Guide & I Have not Varried as I know & if so please to Correct me in some things I Have added I think you will find recorded in the pension office in Book E. V. ob. d. page 129. by William B. Patmill. Clerk Now there fore as I understand that there is an Eleven Million of acres of Land in the united States for Widows soldiers & orphans I beg you to and Dispose

Congress and War Department to Give me my Land for my sufferings & the risk of My Life and a true soldier and a true Citizen to my Country where we now live in peace & serving so faithfully I think I deserve My Land as well as my pension as well as other Soldiers that Did not suffer near as much these things I can testify given under my Hand & seal this twenty third Day of March A.D. 1842 ~ Amos Thurber
Witness present
Wm B. Merriam
N R Merriam
I amos Thurber authorise George Green to pay and Get me my Land from Congress and War Department for me or for my services Done in the time of the Revolution War given under my Hand & seal this twenty third Day of March A.D. 1842 ~ Amos Thurber
Witness present
Wm B. Merriam
N R Merriam

Amos Huxbers
Petition
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For Land
for a parcel of land situated in the County of...
January 20th 1843
Ref'd to cause on
Rev; Penruddock,

Amos Harber
Jan y 26 1843
Ref d to the Com a on Rev d  Pension
Feb. 25-1843
Com a - dist n - leave to withdraw
L. A. Andrews

The State of Ohio Postage Carriers
Affidavit Amos Thurber Show application for a Pension is hereto annexed,
and in explanation thereof deposes and says - that he enlisted into the service of the United States in the year 1777, as in his statement is set forth - in February or March, but he cannot state which - and that he served as is in his statement set forth, from the time of his enlist- ment until March 1780, when men were wanted to work the American vessels from Elk Ferry to York, (or near there) at Annapolis - This was in the Spring previous to the Capture of Cornwallis, and these move- ments, I suppose, were made to get some advantage of him - These American Vessels were commanded by John Nicholson, and I was put on board of them - At Annapolis we were blockaded by two British frigates, when most of the troops landed - I remained on board to assist in working the vessels until the fleet returned to Elk Ferry, and brought the troops back - I remained on board until the eighth day of April 1780, when I, and three other Soldiers, which remained on board, were set on shore, and received a discharge from Commodore Nicholson - What has become of that discharge I do not know - After receiving this discharge we marched to the place where the American Army had been encamped, but they had moved off - Soon after this I was taken sick, and never after joined the Army, or received any other discharge -
Sworn to and subscribed
Amos Thurber
this 21st day of July 1833 and I certify that said Amos Thurber is a man of truth and veracity -
Francis Burns J. Pease

The State of Ohio Portage County ss.
I Geo. Wirkum Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Portage afore- said do certify that Lucius V. Bierce Esq. before whom the within suppletory declaration was made was at the time of taking said Declaration a justice of the Peace of said County duly commissioned & sworn and that the signature to the jurat under said Declara- tion purporting to be his is genuine -
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of said Court at Ravenna this twenty second day of July Anno Domini one thou- sand eight hundred and thirty three
Geo. Wirkum Clerk -