Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 36341, for Abraham Thompson, Connecticut

SERVICE
NUMBER
Conn.
Thompson, Abraham
S. 36341
CONTENTS

8034 P
Connecticut Roll
Abraham Thompson of Huntington in the state of Connecticut who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel R. Wells of the Connecticut line, for the term of One Year
Inscribed on the Roll of Connecticut at the rate of Eight Dollars per month, to commence on the 7 th of May 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 22 nd of March 1819 and sent to the Hon ble Simon Baldwin New Haven Conn t
Arrears to 4th of March 1819. Quarters 29 / 31 — 80:58 Semi-ann. all ce ending 1 st Sept r 1819 — 48
128:58
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Expt from roll, under the head of three sent to David Dyer, S

Abraham Thompson Shipman 60 Ch. Webbs Reg? 1 year Connecticut line
May 7. 1818
Not on Book
Admitted

STATE OF CONNECTICUT, ss.
ON this Seventh day of May 1818, before me the subscriber, one of the Judges of the Superior Court of the said State, personally appears Abraham Thompson aged 64 years, resident in Huntington in the said State, who, being by me first duly sworn, according to law, doth, on his oath, make the following DECLARATION , in order to obtain the provision made by the late act of Congress, entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war:" That he the said Abraham Thompson in Jan y 1776 enlisted in Huntington in the State of Connecticut in the company commanded by Captain Edward Shipman in Col. Ch: Webb's regiment of Connecticut Troops to serve as a soldier one year in the Connecticut Line of the army of the revolution.
That he continued to serve in the said corps, or in the service of the United States, until the month of Jan y 1777 when he was discharged from service, in Stockbridge state of New York . That he was in the battles of White Plains .
and that he is in reduced circumstances, and stands in need of the assistance of his country for support; and that he has no other evidence now in his power of his said services.
Sworn to and declared before me, the day and year aforesaid.
Simeon Baldwin
I, Simeon Baldwin Judge, &c. as aforesaid, do Certify , that it appears, to my satisfaction, that the said Abraham Thompson did serve in the revolutionary war, as stated in the preceding DECLARATION , against the common enemy; and I now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me, to the Secretary for the Department of War, pursuant to the directions of the aforementioned act of Congress.
NEW-HAVEN, May 7 th
1818.
Simeon Baldwin
STATE OF CONNECTICUT, NEW-HAVEN COUNTY, ss.
NEW-HAVEN, May 7 th 1818.
I, DYER WHITE , Clerk of the Superior Court of said State, for said County, and keeper of the Seal thereof, do CERTIFY that the name SIMEON BALDWIN , subscribed to the foregoing Certificates, is known to me to be the proper hand writing and signature of SIMEON BALDWIN , who is one of the Judges of said Superior Court. In testimony whereof, I affix the Seal of said Court.
Dyer White

State of Connecticut
On this seventh day of May A.D. 1818 before me Simson Baldwin one of the Judges of the Superior Court of said State personally appears Edmund Smith of New Haven in said State to me personally known to be a credible witness & being first duly sworn deposes & testifies that in the year 1776 he belonged to Col. Huntington's Regt. that in the month of June he was detached as an artificer & attached to a company of Artillery commanded by Capt. Job Brian & continued to serve in that company as an artificer till the latter part of Decr. of that year when he again joined his regiment - that while he served in Brian's company the within named Abm. Thompson served as an artificer in the same company from June till the latter part of Decr. & then understood he was detached from Col. Webb's regiment to serve as an artificer & that he joined his Regt. before he was discharged.
Simson Baldwin
State of Connecticut
On this 29 th day of Jan'y. 1819 before me Simson Baldwin a Justice of the Peace in for the County of New Haven in said State personally appears Zachariah P. Pakenham of Stratford in said State a credible witness to me then made known as such & being first duly sworn deposes & testifies that in the latter part of the year 1775 he enlisted to serve for one year in Col. E. Shipman's Company in Col. Ch. Webb's regiment in the continental Army - that he served in said Company during the year 1776 - & this well knew the applicant Abraham Thompson who also enlisted & served in said Company from Jan'y 1776 till June 1776 when he was detached as an artificer & attached to

Col. Brewer regiment of artificers & continued to serve in that till the Department marched with his regiment to the Southward in the latter part of Oct r or beginning of Nov r when he left the Department and Thompson in service in 2 d reg t of artificers & for a time he served in that during the remainder of the year. - & at the same time also appeared Benjamin Tomlinson then also made known to me my satisfaction in a credible witness who also being first duly sworn deposeth & saith that in March 1776 he also entered into the Leavenworth Company in 2 d Col. Webb's regiment & conti- nued to serve in that till June following when he was detached from said Regiment & annexed to Col. Brewer's reg t of artificers & served in that as an artificer till the 1 st of Jany following - that at the time the Department was removed from Webb to Brewer regiment the applicant Ab m Thompson whom he then well knew was also detached from the same regiment & served in said Brewer's as an artificer till the 1 st of Jany 1777 - when the year men were discharged at Fredericktown in the state of New York.
Simon Baldwin
I further certify that it appears to my satisfaction from due enquiry that the applicant Ab m Thompson by reason of his reduced circumstances in life now needs the assistance of his Country for support.
Simon Baldwin

36341 Rev  INVALID.
File No. 36,341
Abraham Thompson Rev
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 330
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Abn Thompson
(Ex 2)
Mid 19
not entitled

At a County Court, held in and for the County of Fairfield in the District and State of Connecticut, on the 15 th day of June — 1820 the same being a Court of Record, and having a seal, by virtue of the laws of said State.
PERSONALLY APPEARED, in open Court, Abraham Thompson a resident in the town of Huntington in the County of Fairfield — in said State, and exhibited and subscribed the following Schedule, and made oath — that the same is a true and perfect Schedule of all his income and property, (necessary clothing and bedding excepted) viz.
3 1/4 acres of land with a dwelling house barn & out buildings standing on the same — 3 acres South the road. 2 3/4 acres East the highway — 6 acres wood land at Knels rock 1 horse — 1 old cow — 1 red cow — 1 two year old heifer — 1 year old ditto — 4 swine — 1 bible & a number of other books — 15 chains — old chest of drawers — wooden wheel clock — 1 looking glass — 3 old chests — 9 dry casks — 1 hogshead — 2 two barrel casks — 8 barrels 4 kegs — 3 meat casks — 4 tubs, loom & other apparatus for weaving porridge pot — 2 dish kettles — tea kettle — brass kettle — 2 pine tubs pair sad-irons — 3 tin pans — 1 tin pail — 1 do. tumbel — 2 coffee pots 1 lantern — 6 coffee cups & saucers — 6 tea do. — 9 earthen plates 3 half pint tumblers — 2 pint bowls — 6 pewter platters & plates tea canister — 2 sauce plates — 1 pepper castor — 5 old baskets 1 earthen platter — 1 pitcher — 3 candlesticks — 2 lamps — prandiron fire shovel & tongs — 2 trammels — warming pan — pr. small steel yards 2 wooden shovels — hay knife — cider mill — old saddle & bridle collar & gears — scythe & tackle — 2 corn hoes — 3 narrow axes 2 broad axes — 1 adz — 1 beetle — 1 iron wedge — old plow share coopers adz — 12 augers — 21 old planes — shaving knives, 4 old gimlets 4 rakes — quantity of timber for plow — knives & forks — gun — writing desk — flax mill & hatchet — cutting box — grindstone — wheel barrow — old harness —
Abraham Thompson

District and State of Connecticut, ss.
BE IT REMEMBERED, That in the County Court, held in and for the County of Fairfield in the District and State aforesaid, on this 15 th day of June 1820 the same being a Court of Record, and having a Seal, under the Authority of said State, personally came and appeared in open Court, Abraham Thompson aged 66 years, resident in the Town of Huntington in the County of Fairfield in said State, and being first duly sworn according to Law, doth on his Oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary War, as follows:
I enlisted in the year not far from the 1 st of June, 1775, in the company of Capt. Peter Peirce in the regiment commanded by Col. Charles Webb. I served till sometime in the month of Decem r then next following, when I was properly discharged, and soon after I had returned home from Boston, either in the month of Decem r 1775 or the month of Jany. 1776, I enlisted under Capt. Edward Shipman of Saybrook in said State in Col. Charles Webb's regim t for the term of one year, which term of service I faithfully served as follows. I served in Col. Webb's regim t until about the 1 st of June then next when I was transferred to Col. Brewer's Regim t and was embodied in Capt. Job Bryant's company, I then served faithfully until the end of the said term of one year. For further information of my service, reference may be had to my original declaration, now in the office of the Secretary of war, dated the 7 th day of May 1818 from which my pension was granted.
that the original Declaration made by him, for the purpose of obtaining a Pension, under the Act of Congress of the 18th of March, 1818, was dated the 7 th day of May  1818 that in pursuance thereof he was entered in the List of Pensioners, and received a Pension Certificate No. 8,034 And I do further solemnly swear
that I was a resident citizen of the United States, on the 18th day of March, 1818, and that I have not since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner, disposed of my property, or any part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an Act of Congress, entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War," passed on the 18th day of March, 1818; and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me any property or securities, contracts or debts due to me; nor have I any income other than what is contained in the Schedule herein annexed, and by me subscribed. And I do further declare that my occupation is that of a
carpenter & that in consequence of the fatigues of service, and my leg, arm & my rib's having been broken, & very much afflicted with the disease called the Asthma, I am almost wholly unable to do any kind of labor.
and that I have a family residing with me viz. my wife Sarah aged 64 years of a slender constitution - my son Nathan aged 29 years who is & has been sick & unable to do any kind of labour - my daughter Charity aged 19 years who is also out of health in consequence of being in a weak state of body & is therefore unable to labour - and that I am indebted about sixty seven dollars.
all which is subscribed by me the day and year aforesaid. Abraham Thompson
Sworn to, and declared in the Court aforesaid. Whereupon said Court is, on satisfactory proof exhibited in Court, of opinion that the total amount in value of the property contained in the aforesaid Schedule is five hundred, seventy seven Dollars and fifteen Cents, and doth order these proceedings to be entered in the Records of said Court.
Attest David Burr Clerk

State of Connecticut, ss. Fairfield County
I DAVID BURR, Clerk of the County Court for the County of Fairfield, in the said State, do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the records of the said Court, and I do further certify that it is the opinion of the said Court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is
five hundred seventy seven Dollars & sixteen cents
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court at
Fairfield, this 15 th day of June A.D. 1820.
David Burr
Clerk of the County Court for said County of Fairfield.
District and State of Connecticut, ss.
I ROBERT FAIRCHILD, Chief Judge of the County Court for the County of Fairfield, in said State, do certify that DAVID BURR, Esq. is the Clerk of said Court, duly appointed and sworn; and that the said Court is a Court of record, made so by the statute laws of said State; that it proceeds according to the course of the common law, has a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount, with the power of fine and imprisonment, and keeps a record of its proceedings.
Robert Fairchild
Chief Judge of the County Court for the County of Fairfield.