Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 19,439, for Jabez Thompson, New Jersey

SERVICE
New Jersey
Thompson Jabez Mary
NUMBER
W. 19439 B.L. No. 28,590-160-55
CONTENTS
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New Jersey 99107
Sabes Thompson
of Middlesex in the State of New Jersey who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Seely of the Regt. commanded by Col. _____ in the N. Jersey line for 3 Vrs.
Col Ford
Inscribed on the Roll of New Jersey at the rate of 80 Dollars _____ Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
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Certificate of Pension issued the 24 day of June 1833 and in No Hon. J. H. Rankin Pensioner.
Arrears to the 4th of Mar. 33 $ 100 Pensional allowance ending 1 Sep. 33 40 $200
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Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.
Recorded by G. C. Miles Clerk, Book C. Vol. 3. Page 133
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1604 Martha Albury Mary Thompson widow of James Thompson who served in the Revolutionary war, as a
described on the list of the rolls of pensioners which are now in existence on the list of March, 1842.
Certificate of Pension issued the day of March 1849 and sent to J. Chapman Clerk W.P.
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act February 3, 1846, Page 225 Vol. 4.

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J. H. Gaylord
Mary Thompson will favor J. H. Thompson Prison
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Rev. Avar
Rev. A. pens. comm. NY Feb 48-4604
Adilooas, May 26/56 B. F. Chapman
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B. F. Chapman Lockville, N.Y.
C. B. F. Chapman, Mch. 10/76
Vol I. page 64

State of New York Madison County
On this fifteenth day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty Personally appeared before the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Madison it being a Court of Record Mary Thompson a resident of the town of Senox in the said County of Madison aged seventy three years in April last 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 made by the act of Congress passed July 7 th 1838 entitled an act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows: That she is the widow of Iabez Thompson who was a Revolutionary Pensioner under the act of Congress of the 7 th of June 1832 at the rate of Eighty dollars a year: And that she is the same identical Mary Thompson who made application and drew the money due on the original pension certificate of the said Iabez Thompson at the time of his death which took place March thirty first 1835 at New Brunswick Somerset County New Jersey which said original pension Certificate was returned to the pension office with said application some time after his death do not know the precise time when.
She further declares that she was married to the said Iabez Thompson in the winter of 1787 at Elizabeth (now town of Springfield) in the County of Essex New Jersey by the Reverend Mr. & Mrs. Coddle and that her husband the said Iabez Thompson afterwards died on the thirty first day of March 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 viz at the time above stated: That there is no record evidence of the said marriage to be found and that she has never been married since the death of the said Iabez Thompson her said husband.
Subscribed & sworn to in open court June 15, 1840
Mary X Thompson mark
A. Donaldson Jr. Clerk. I Alexander Donaldson Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Madison aforesaid do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original papers & proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Mary Thompson for a pension, and I further certify that the said Mary Thompson cannot write her name by reason of bodily infirmity & has therefore made her mark as above
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court of Common Pleas the 15 th day of June 1840
Alexander Donaldson Jr. Clerk

State of New Jersey } ss Samuel C Smith of the town of Springfield Essex County } in said county being duly sworn deposeth and saith that he is the Town Clerk of the town of Springfield (formerly Elizabetta) and have the custody of the records of said town and have made diligent search and examination of said records and find no record of any Marriage of John Thompson to Mary Jones between the years of 1783 and 1794 or at any other time and further saith not Given to the 19th day of June 1840 upon oath. Samuel C Smith Town Clerk
Mr Noah Clark Justice of the peace I the undersigned Justice do hereby certify that Samuel C. Smith Smith with whom I have previously acquainted in a matter of truth and veracity and his statement entitled to full credit as stated in his affidavit above stated by him June 19th 1840 - Noah Clark Justice of the Peace
State of New Jersey } ss I John P. Jackson Clerk of the County do County of Essex } hereby certify that Noah Clark before whom the foregoing affidavit of Samuel C Smith Town Clerk was made and taking at the time of taking the same was and still is one of the Justices of the Peace in and for said County duly commissioned and sworn, and that the signature of Noah Clark affixed to the final of said affidavit respectively is genuine In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office at New Ark in said County the Nineteenth day of June A D Eighteen hundred forty 1840
J. P. Jackson Clerk

Abel Thompson was born November 19 th in the year of our Lord 1759. —
Mary Thompson was born April 10 th 1764 —
John Thompson was born May 25 th 1767 —
Elias Thompson was born June 9 th 1800 —

State of New York Madison County ss
Mary Thompson who made application for a pension aged sixty three years and over being duly sworn according to law deposeth and saith that the paper herewith attached is a leaf taken from a Palm Book now in her possession which said book was the property of James Thompson her late husband in his life time and that the entry thereon of his age My own and those of John Thompson & Elias Thompson our two children is in the hand writing of the said James Thompson and by him made shortly after the birth of the said Elias Thompson - and before the year 1800 and the same has ever since been in the possession of the deponent and regarded as the only record in existence of the age of her said children and further saith not.
Witness B. Franklin Chapman Sworn to this 9th day of November 1840 before me Stephen Chapman J. Pease
Mary her Thompson mark
I hereby certify that the said Mary Thompson who made the foregoing affidavit with whom I am well acquainted is a person of truth and veracity and that her statement is entitled to full faith and credit and the reason she did not write her name is she never learned to write as she says. Dated November 9th 1840 Stephen Chapman J. Pease
State of New York Madison County ss
John Thompson of said county being duly sworn according to law on his oath deposeth and saith that he is of the age of fifty two years and upwards and is the son of James and Mary Thompson and that he is well acquainted with the hand writing of the said James Thompson and that the entries made on the blank leaf herewith attached are in the hand writing of the said James Thompson and that said leaf was this day taken from the Family Palm Book which said book has remained in the family of his father and mother with the same entries thereon as they now stand ever since he can remember and has always been regarded by the family as the true and only record of the age of this deponent.
Sworn to before me November 9th 1840 S. Chapman J. Pease
John Thompson
I hereby certify that I am well acquainted with John Thompson who made the foregoing affidavit that is a man of truth & credit and his statement is entitled to full credit November 9th 1840 Stephen Chapman J. Pease

State of New York County of Madison S.S. I the undersigned John W. Darnell Deputy clerk of the said county do certify that Stephen Chapman Esq before whom the within affidavits purports to have been sworn and also whose name appears to the within certificates was at the date of the same one of the Justices of the peace in and for the said county and that I am acquainted with his hand writing and rightly believe his name subscribed to the said affidavits and the acknowledgment of the execution of the said power to be his proper hand writing and signature Witness my hand and seal of office this twelfth day of November A.D. 1840.
John W. Darnell Dep Clerk
Mary Thomson

Gabriel Thompson
Admitted
Private 24 months
J. F. Randolph Pusur

State of New Jersey Middlesex county ss. On this Tenth day of Oc- tober in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two Personally appeared before the Judges of the Inferior court of common Pleas in and for said county of Middlesex in open court and now sitting David Thompson a resident in the city of New Brunswick county of Somerset and State aforesaid, who being first duly sworn according to law, and examined and interrogated according to the instructions from the war department doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to ob- tain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832 That is to say -
That he was born at Elizabethtown in the county of Essex and State aforesaid on the 19 th day of November 1759 and will be seventy four years of age in November next. That he has a record of his age in his family bible copied by himself from the ori- ginal record kept by his father in his an- cient bible. When he was a lad his father moved with his family into the county of Morris in New Jersey, where this declaration continued to reside till the breaking out of the revolutionary war. Since the war he continued to reside for a while in the county of Morris when he moved into Es- sex & afterwards returned again to Morris where he lived till about three years ago & then moved to New Brunswick where he has resided ever since.

He entered the service of the United States in the month of June 1776 in a company of Militia commanded by Captain Stephen Day as a substitute for Obadiah Baird in the capacity of a private. At this period he resided at Long Hill in the said county of Morris. The company to which he was attached was collected together at Wharton in said county & marched to Newark in Essex county and then to Ben- son Town in the county of Bergen and near Pahanack Hook now Jersey City. At this time the British fleet lay in New York Bay. He served this town about a month as near as he can recollect. In August and September following he was again called out but not as a substitute & served as a private the whole of those two months at Elizabeth Town Point under the command of Colonel Ford of Morris and Capt. Peter Dayton. In the November following he was again called out when Gen. Washington retreated through New Jersey. The Militia had a hard march - In the winter of 1776 he served as a volunteer in the three months service under the command of Col. Sinclair of Morris and Major Hays of Essex, he might say under the command of Gen. Maxwell who was with them, with the Jersey Brigade Capt. Seely had the command of the com- pany. Their head quarters were at Short Hills between Plainfield & Woodbridge. This was the time that the British left

at New Brunswick - In the years 1777 1778 & 1779 and 1780 he was out in the ser- vice as a volunteer and by orders a great many times of from a fortnight to a month at a time & served at New Wind- sor on the Hudson river, at Mount Holy and Haddonfield in West Jersey, at Hack- ensack & the English Neighbourhood in the county of Bergen, at Morristown Pump- ton Plains Parsippany the Great Falls now Patterson, and at Newark Elizabeth town Connecticut farms, Springfield & Westfield a great number of times, at Barnabrook, Chatham, & Yonkers farms, under the command of Col. Brande Ford and Lindley, Majors Hays, Ward, Boker & Hathaway, Captains Day, Pease, Dayton Hale, Wood, Lindley & Ward, and Lieuten- ants Smith, Backer, Caldwell, John- son, Talmadge and Nutan, and Generals Winds, James Head, & Williamson All of whom so far as this account knows or believes are dead - It is impos- sible for him at this remote period to speak with certainty as to the whole time he served during the war, or to go into any further or more particular detail than he has above but he speaks with great certainty when he says that his whole service as a soldier during the revolution exceeded two years - He ne- ver served as a substitute except his first time as above mentioned, - Besides his regular service he was frequently called

out on alarms, so that he could attend to no regular business & suffered greatly in property and estate and in person un- der great hardships and apprehensions. He never missed a written discharge from the service nor has he any docu- mentary evidence of his service, but is personally well known to Stafford Wil- son who was also a soldier of the revo- lution & lives at present in the county of Morris aforesaid & can testify to his services in part as a soldier of the revo- lution, and he is also well known to the Rev. Joseph Jones and James Dunn both of whom reside in the neigh- borhood of this declarant and can testify to his character for veracity & their belief of his services as a soldier of the revolution.
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity ex- cept the present & declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state.
Sworn & subscribed } before me in open court the day } & year aforesaid } Yrs B Manning }
Abner Thompson

We Joseph H Jones of the City of New Brunswick and County of Middlesex and James Dunham residing in the County of Somerset do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Elias Thomp- son who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration That we believe him to be of the age of seventy three years of age or thereabouts, That he is reputed and believed in the neighbor- hood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution and that we concur in that opinion
Joseph H Jones James Dunham "
Sworn and subscribed the day and year above in open court
B. Ford
And the said court do hereby declare their opin- ion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the war department, that the above named applicants was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states - And the court further certifies that it appears to them that Joseph H Jones who has signed the preceding certificate is a cler- gyman residing in Middlesex County and that James Dunham who has also signed the same is a resident in the County of Somerset Somerset and is a credible person and that their statement is entitled to credit - October 30 th 1832.
B. Ford Thos Hance } Judges

I Nicholas Boorman clerk of the Superior court of common Pleas in & for the county of Middlesex do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of said court in the matter of James Thompson on application for a pension
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of said court at New Brunswick this thirtieth day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & thirty two -
N. Boorman CLK
I do certify that I am now and for a great number of years have been well acquainted with Mr James Thompson within named; during all which time he has been a respectable citizen of the State of New Jersey, and has sustained the character of an honest and upright man, and that in my opinion full faith and credit may be given to the declaration by him made as within contained
Baron Allen
Jersey City New Jersey Nov. 14. 1832

Morris Common Pleas, Septt. term, 1832.
State of New Jersey Morris County. } p:
Be it known, that on this 2 d . day of October, A.D. 1832, personally appears in open Court before the Judges thereof, Stafford Wilson, of said County, aged 82 years, & known to be a credible witness, - who being first duly sworn, saith that he has long been well acquainted with Joby Thompson, now of Somerset County in this State, & who is said to be an applicant for a pension under the law of the United States of June 7 th 1832. - That said Joby Thompson performed two monthly tours of Militia in the same company with the Deponent in the Revolutionary war, commanded by Captain Peter Layton, Lieut. Hugh Caldwell, & Ensign Samuel Oliver. They were stationed at De Hart's point below Elizabeth town, guarding the lines & landing places & throwing up a breast work for defence against the enemy then in possession of Staten Island directly opposite. The first tour he believes was in the month of August, in the year 1776, & at the time when the battle of Long Island was fought, as the cannonade was very distinctly heard at Elizabeth town. - The second tour of monthly duty performed by said Thompson & the Deponent, he thinks was in the month of October of the same year, (1776), when they were engaged in performing the same duty as in the first month. He also remembers that said Thompson served another month in Militia duty, in guarding prisoners confined in Morris town goal, & was then commanded by Lieut. Hiram Smith & Sergeant John Roll. It was in the latter part of summer, probably August, - but the year, he does not remember. - Sheriff Carmichael had charge of the jail at the time. - Govt. Livingston was at Morris town, when some Tories & London traders were brought from Bergen as prisoners, & were examined before Govt. Livingston at Arnoldi's tavern, before they were committed to jail. He believes that Thompson performed other Militia duty, during nearly the whole period of the war, but from the facility of his memory, he cannot particularise the times nor places. Further he saith not. Sworn & subscribed in open Court the date first above mentioned.
William Britton
Stafford Wilson

Morris County ss I David Bay Clerk of Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Morris aforesaid do hereby certify that William Britton Esquire before whom the within deposition was taken is one of the Judges of the said Court of Common Pleas for the County of Morris and that the same was taken in open Court.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of the said Court at Morris Town the second day of October A.D. Eighteen hundred and thirty two
David Bay Clk
I William Shute late an Officer in the Revolutionary War, do hereby certify that I am well acquainted with Jabez Thompson, the enclosed applicant, having had more or less intercourse with him during forty years; that he has sustained a fair moral character, as far as I have known, and that with me his declaration on Oath is entitled to full credit - New York City 10 Nov 1832
William Shute
Thompson 2284 22119

State of New Jersey Middlesex county ss Personally appeared before me the subscriber one of the Justices of the Peace in and for the said County of Middlesex James Thompson who being duly sworn deposes & saith that the only reason why he did not appear before the court of the county where he resides is that he resides in the City of New Brunswick - the larger part of which lies in the County of Middlesex & that in that part of New Brunswick lying in the County of Middlesex are held the Courts of said County & that in his advanced age he felt his duty (to avoid expense & fatigue) to appear before that court nearest his residence and that by reason of old age & consequent loss of memory he cannot swear positively as to the precise time & length of his service but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned below & in the following grades In June 1776 He served as a substitute for one Obedient Baird a term of one month under Captain Stephen Day. During which he marched to Newall in Essex County & Buryer Forest near Pauls Hook near Jersey City. The British Fleet then lay in York Bay. In August September following he was drafted on- dered out & served two months at Elizabeth Town, under the command of Captain Layton & Col Lord guarding that portion of the state. In the same year & at the same place at the time when Genl Washington retreated to Trenton He served one month under the command of Captain Wood & Genl Wines. In the winter of 1776 - 1777 & at the time the British had poss- ession of New Brunswick & Amboy He was out out served three months in the three months' service
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under the command of Captain Seely, Major Bays & Colonel Lindley & Genl. Marmach. His Head Quarters were at Short Hills & in the fall or latter part of the summer he was ordered out & served one month at New Windsor on the Hudson river under Genl. Wines. He was ordered out again in the same year & served one month about the time of the surrender of Burgoyne at Mount Bolly & Baddonfield in West Jersey under the command of Captain Seely & Major Hathaway engaged in scouting parties & protecting the property of his fellow citizens. In June 1778 he was ordered out & served one month under Captain Wood & he was marched towards the British Army then occupying New Jersey from Phila- delphia & just previous to the Battle of Monmouth I was ordered to halt & retrace their steps & was marched to Clinton town. In July of the same year he was ordered out & served a term of two months under Captain Layton & Major Bays. They met at Morristown & from there marched to Newark - the British neighborhood of Hackensack in Bergen county & returned by the way of Pompton Plains & Passippany to Morristown. During which march they captured some Tories whom they carried with them to Morristown & locked them up in Jail. The weather he recollects was exceedingly hot & the march very fatiguing. In the same year & shortly afterwards he was ordered out & served two months at Morristown under Captain Layton & Lieutenant Smith & was engaged in guarding the Jail which was filled with loose  thieves  tories & other  bad  characters . In the year 1779 he was ordered out & served one month at Elizabeth town under Capt Israel Wood. He was ordered out again in the
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Same year I served three months at Boundbrook under the command of Captain Layton Hobbs Hall I was ordered out served another month under the same officers. During this year he was stationed at the places designated engaged in scouting parties & watching the Tories. In the summer of 1788 he was ordered out served two months at the time that Lieut Kniphausen came to Connecticut Farms. The former part of the time he was under Lieut Beard & the latter Captain Layton & Lieutenant Caldwell. During which one of his associates was shot through the head at Hightstown, in Somerset County  in Somerset County . This was about the period of the Princeton engagement. In the same year he was ordered out served again three months under Captain Layton & Major Bathany at Long Hill near Chatham in Morris County. He was repeatedly ordered out served at divers other times sometimes one two three & four months under different officers & engaged in various duties which he cannot now specify into any mi- nutiae. During all the times specified he served as a private for himself except his first time for one month I was wholly occupied in the service of his country & could not attend to any private employment & for these services he claims a pension -
Subscribed known to this Jabez Thompson
Eighteenth day of June
Anno Domini 1833
Before me Peter P. Murray Justice of the Peace

I Nicholas Booraem Clerk of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas of the County of Middlesex do hereby certify that Peter P. Runyon is one of the Justices of the Peace in for the said County duly commissioned & sworn & that the signature to the within declaration purporting to be his signature is his own proper hand writing.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed my seal of office this eighteenth day of June Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred & thirty three - N Booraem Clerk

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In the Matter of Mary Thompson for a pension - S. Chapman Atty

State of New Jersey } Rebecca Wade of said County being Essex County ss: } duly sworn saith that she is the sister of Mary Thomson the widow of Iabez Thomson whose application to Divorce Pensions is herunto annexed That she this Deponent was present and see the said Mary Married to the said Iabez Thomson then the town of Elizabeth in the County of Essex aforesaid by the Reverend Mr Van Arsdale in the winter of 1787 and that they cohabited and Resided together as man and Wife from that time until the Death of the said Iabez Thomson in the Spring of 1835 that this Deponent and the said Mary Thomson were the Daughters of James Jones of the said County of Essex and further saith not -
Sworn to this 28th day of December 1839 before me  James W. Wade Justice of the peace
her Rebecca X Wade mark
State of New Jersey } John C Hart of said County Essex County ss: } being duly sworn saith that he is the minister of the gospel of the Presbyterian Church of Springfield formerly the Town of Elizabeth in said County and have the Custody of the Records of said Church and Society and have made diligent search and do not find the marriage of Iabez Thompson to Mary Jones any where on said Records and further saith not -
Sworn to this 28th day of December 1839 before me  James W. Wade Justice of the peace
John C. Hart
And the said John C. Hart do hereby certify that I am well acquainted with Rebecca Wade Mary Wade John C. Hart who made the foregoing affidavits and that they are each and every of them persons of credibility and their statements entitled to full credit
Decr. 28th 1839 James W. Wade Justice of the peace

State of New Jersey
Essex County } ss: Henry Wade of Union in said county being Duly Sworn Saith that he is well acquainted with Mary Thomson and also with John Thomson her husband in his life time that he knew them for a great number of years and they were known & received in community as man and wife and and that John Thomson with whom the said widow Mary Thomson now resides is her oldest son and that he is about fifty one years of age and further Saith not this deponent -
Sworn to this 28 th day of December 1839 before me James W. Wade Justice of the peace
Henry Wade
State of New Jersey } ss I John P Jackson Clerk of the County of Essex } ss County of Essex Do hereby certify that James W. Wade before whom the foregoing Affidavits of Rebecca Wade John C Hart & Henry Wade were severally made and taken at the time of taking the same was and still is one of the Justices of the Peace in & for said County duly Commissioned and Sworn; and that the signatures "James W. Wade" affixed to the Jurats of said Affidavits respectively are genuine -
In Testimony Whereof I have hereunto set my hand and Seal of Office at Newark in said County the Seventh day of January A.D. Eighteen hundred Forty - 1840 - J P Jackson Atty

State of New York Cattaraugus County
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Sarah Wade of the town of Farmersville in the the said County being duly sworn Depoſith and says that she is twenty five years of age that she is well acquainted with Mary Thompson the Widow, of Iabaz Thompson (being a sister of hers) who were expected married (as was reported and as this deponent verily believes) at Elizabethtown now Springfield in the County of Essex in the State of New Jersey in the month of February or March in the year 1788. at which place this deponent then resided. She well recollects the time they were married as she was unable to attend the wedding on account of having been at that time recently confined with one of her children who was then only a few days old. That the husband of this deponent, Jacob Wade, went after the Minister to marry them and attended the wedding and she well recollects that the said Iabaz Thompson and Mary Jones the new Mary Thompson widow of the said Iabaz Thompson cohabited and lived together as husband and wife from the month of March 1788. to January 1796 and that about the last mentioned date this deponent with her family removed from New Jersey to Oneida County in the State of New York and that John Thompson their first child of the said Iabaz and Mary Thompson was born in May 1789. the same son with whom the said widow now resides and that they the said Iabaz and Mary were since their marriage received and accepted in the community whom they resided as husband and wife until the time of his the said Iabaz Thompsons death and further this deponent saith not
Subscribed and sworn August 24. 1840 before me G.W. Gillet J. P.
Sarah Wade mark
Cattaraugus County ss. I hereby certify that I am well acquainted with Sarah Wade who made the foregoing Affidavit, and that she is a person of truth and veracious and entitled to credit and that she executed the above Affidavit by making her mark after the same was read to her for the reason as she stated that she had never learned to write August 24. 1840 G.W. Gillet Justice
State of New York County of Cattaraugus
ss I Francis E Baily, Clerk of the Common Pleas Court of the County and State aforesaid do certify that George W. Gillet, Esq. is a Magistrate as above and that the foregoing signature purporting to be his is genuine Given under my hand and the seal of said County the twenty eighth day of August 1840 Francis E Baily Clerk for George W Kimball Dep Clerk

State of New York } ss John Thompson of said county being Madison County } duly sworn saith that he is the son of Jacob & Mary Thompson mentioned in the affidavit of Sarah Wade within named; that he is fifty two years of age last May, that he well recollects of the said Jacob Thompson & Mary Thompson his father and Mother cohabiting & living together as man and wife from 1793 to 1835, and ever since he can remember to the time of the death of the said Jacob and further saith not Sworn to this 14th day of September 1840 before me Stephen Chapman J. Pease John Thompson
Madison County ss. I Stephen Chapman the undersigned Judge of the Pease do hereby certify that I am well acquainted with John Thompson who subscribed and swore to the above affidavit and that He is a man of truth and veracity and his statement is entitled to full credit September 14th 1840 Stephen Chapman J. Pease
State of New York } ss A. Alexander Donaldson Jr Madison County Clerk's Office } ss A. Alexander Donaldson Jr Clerk of the County of Madison aforesaid do hereby certify that Stephen Chapman Esq above named was on the fourteenth day of September 1840 a Justice of the peace in & for the said County duly elected & qualified and that the two signatures above written purporting to be his are genuine. My testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of said County the fifteenth day of September 1840. Alexander Donaldson Jr Clerk

132788- Application
of Mary Thompson widow of Jacob Thompson for 160 d acres of Borne's Land
B. F. Chapman Atty for claimant
Lockville Madison Co. New York

State of New York } Madison County } ss. On this 1 st day of May 1855 personally appeared before me a Justice of the Peace within and for the State and County aforesaid Mary Thompson aged 88 years a resident of Seneca Madison County State of New York who being duly sworn according to law declares that she is the widow of Iabez Thompson deceased who was a soldier in the Revolutionary War and her husband continued in actual service in said war for the term of more than one year and was honorably discharged. She further states that she is the identical Mary Thompson who received a Pension Certificate for the services of her husband Iabez Thompson in the war of the Revolution and has drawn pay on the same Semi-Annually since the same was issued to her, the proof in relation to the service, marriage and death of said husband being now on file in the Pension office. That the following is a true copy of said Original Certificate.
"Department of the Interior. "Widows Pension. I certify that in conformity with the act of February 2 d , 1848 Mary Thompson widow of Iabez Thompson who was a private in the Revolutionary War is inscribed on the Pension list at the rate of Eighty dollars and 62 1/2 cents per annum commencing on the 4 th of March 1848, and continuing for life, unless she should again marry, in which case the Pension is not payable after the time of such marriage. Given at the Department of the Interior this 28 th day of June 1855

15 March one thousand Eight hundred and forty nine Examined & Countersigned } T. Ewing Secretary of " J. L. Edwards } the Interior " " Commissioner of Pensions " Endorsed on Back " Payment to be made at Albany by " Thos H. Olcott Esq. agent for Paying Pensions in the agency of " New York, Payable on the 4 th September and 4 th March, " Received in the Pension office on the " Roll of Pensioners under Act February 2d " 1848, Page 225 Vol. 4. " " Leo. Jenkins Clerk "
She makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining 160 acres of Bounty Land to which she may be entitled under the act of March 3 rd 1855. She further states that she has not before applied or received any Bounty Land also that she is now a widow.
Mary Thompson mark
We Charles Allen and William Henry Thompson residents of the town of Leroy Madison County State of New York upon our oaths declare that the foregoing declaration was signed and acknowledged by Mary Thompson in our presence and that we believe from the appearance and statements of the applicant that she is the identical person she represents herself to be. We also state that she is the widow of James Thompson and is the person who is receiving pay under the pension Certificate named in her application.

Charles H. Allen Wm H Thompson
The foregoing declaration and affidavit were sworn to and subscribed before me the day and year above written and I Certify that I know the affiants to be credible persons; that the Claimant is the person she represents herself to be and that I have no interest in this Claim and I further Certify that the said Applicant does not write her name.
Marvin Keene Justice of the Peace
Stephen Chapman of said County & State being duly sworn says that he has had the Original Certificate in his possession named in the above application and as an attorney for said Mary Thompson has drawn the money for her since the same was issued and he has compared the foregoing copy of Certificate with the Original and the same is a true copy, Stephen Chapman Subscribed & sworn to before me this 1 st day of May 1855 and I certify that I have compared said copy of certificate with the Original and the same is a true copy & said Chapman is a credible person, Marvin Keene Justice of the Peace
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STATE OF NEW-YORK, } ss. Clerk's Office, Madison County, }
I, LUCIUS P. CLARK, Clerk of said County, do hereby certify, that Clarence Keene Esq whose name is subscribed to the certificate of the proof or acknowledgment of the annexed instrument, and thereon written, was, at the time of taking such proof or acknowledgment, a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, duly elected or appointed, and qualified, and authorized by the laws of said State to take the same; and that I am well acquainted with his handwriting, and verily believe the signature to the said certificate is genuine, and that said instrument is executed and acknowledged according to the laws of said State. I that I have no doubt
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my official seal, the 7 th day of May 185 6 . Lucius P. Clark Clerk.

Rev
WIDOW, &c.
No. 19439
Mary Thompson
Widow of
Isaac Thompson
Pris. New Mar
Act: Feb 2d 48
Index:—Vol. M , Page 272
[Arrangement of 1870.]

3100 New York, Albany
Mary Thompson widow of Jabez Thompson who was a Private in the Revolution
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 80 Dollars — Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843.
Certificate of Pension issued the 2 7 day of Dec r . 1843 and sent to S. Chapman Clockville, N. Y.
[Act of March 3, 1843.]
Recorded in Book A. Vol. 1, Page 115.

Albany 5933
Mary Thompson widow of Jabez Thompson
who was a pensioner under the Act of June 1832 and who died on the 31 March 1835 of Madison Co., in the State of N. York who was a Private in the company commanded by Captain Seely of the regt. commanded by Col. Ford in the N. Jersey, Mtd. line for year 2 years
Inscribed on the Roll of Albany at the rate of 80 Dollars ————— Cents per annum, to commence on the 1th day of March, 1836.
Certificate of Pension issued the 30 th day of Nov. 1840 and sent to S. Chapman Clarksville, N. York
Arrears to the 1th of Sep. 1840 360.00 Semi-annual allowance ending Oct. 41 40.00
$ 400.00
{ Act July 7, } 1838.
Recorded by D. Brown Clerk, Book A. Vol. 2. Page 107

✓ 28.590
3 Mrs. Aung

7175. Mary Thompson widow of Jacob.
N.Y.
Act July 7. 1838.
Let Stephen Chapman
6 Aug 1840.
to same 30. Sep. 1840
to same 23. Oct. 1840
Act 7 July 1838.

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Leo FREE
Hon. G. P. Waldo Censor of Pension Washington City N. C.

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Lockville N.Y. May 9. 1855
Hon L. P. Waldo
Censor of Pensions
Enclosed please find Claims of Conrad Forbes & Black Wilkinson wife Mary Thompson for Bounty Land under act of Mar. 3 d 1855
Yours &c B. F. Chapman

Jakey Thompson d 1835 Mary m 1787
On a ship Nancy 180
proof of marriage wedding

7170
Mary Chapman Thompson
Act July 7. 1838
Manned 1787-
Husband and 31 March 1835
Col Fredk. J. Jurey Capt Sulay S Militia
Admitted Privile 2 years
J. Chapman Esq., Clocksville N.J.

Pension Office
Nov 1840
Sir The additional  widow in the case of Mrs. Elizabeth  in the case of Mrs. Eleanor Logan enclosed in your letter of the 20 th instant.

Forms sent July 20 1862
Laurel
Mary Thompson - Lakey, N.Y. as I let to 4600
Respectfully referred to the Commissioner of Pensions John Smith for check
Dept Int Oct 6/62
M. Whiting

Belleport, Suffolk Co.
New York.
Feb. 4 th 1862.
Hon. Secretary of the Interior.
The undersigned begs leave to represent, that Mary Thompson, widow of Jacob Thompson is inscribed on the Pension List, of the United States at the rate of $80.00 per annum. At the time of the making of her Certificate she was a resident of Madison Co. N. Y. & she received her pension, by the Agent for paying pensions in the city of Albany N. Y. She is now a resident in the town of Brookhaven,

County of Suffolk, N.Y.
It is desired to know if the Agency, can not be changed, from Albany to the city of New York.
It is attended with much inconvenience, delay and expense to do the business with the Agency at Albany. You will do a great favor to an aged pensioner by attention to the above.
Mary Thompson of course has taken the oath of allegiance to the government. Will you please say, if it is necessary that she should take said oath at each term her pension is drawn -
Yours very truly
W. H. Croper

Chocoville 304. free Oct. 17 th 3/4
Oct 21. 1840
Miss J. L. Edwards Esq. Com te of Russian city of Washington D.C.

Blackville Madison Co NY, October 17th 1840
Dr Sir
Your last Letter states that you require further Proof of the Marriage of Mr Mary Thompson before the year 1794. There is no record evidence of the Birth or baptism of their son John Thompson I have examined the Town Clerks office where he was born - and there is no ages Births or Marriages recorded in that town. He was not baptized until an adult - and the only written evidence there is of his age is found in a Bible book now in possession of the said Mary Thompson. I found there an entry made on a blank leaf and as she says in the hand writing of her husband. As she says done at a time when the children were young and she thinks before the year 1794, and at the time when the book was purchased. I here give you the whole entry as it now stands.
Isaac Thompson was born November 19th in the year of our Lord 1779.
Mary Thompson was born April 11th 1767
John Thompson was born May 23rd 1788
Chas Thompson was born June 9th 1790
Those two are all the children they ever had
Now I want to know whether you want the Bible Book sent or the leaf only & Proof of the authenticity thereof and if you require any further negative evidence of his birth or baptism than could be proved by the old lady & myself that it is not recorded the old lady is now in feeble health. Please state to me what must be proved & oblige me
H. Chapman
J. L. Edmond Esq. Clerk of Bureau

1843 Mary Thompson
2807
NY
amt 3 month
- $0.80
S. Chapman Lockville N.Y.

State of New York } on this 7 th day of July 1843 Madison County } Personally appeared before the undersigned a Justice of the Peace of said County. Mary Thomson a resident of the town of Lenox in the County of Madison aged seventy six years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the act of Congress passed the 3 rd of March 1843 granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the revolutionary war; that she is the widow of James Thomson who was a pensioner of the United States and whose pension certificate has been returned to the Department, and that she received a pension of eighty Dollars per annum under the act of July 7 th 1838 and she further declares that she is still the widow of the said James Thomson and has never been married since his death and further saith not - Mary X Thomson marks
Witness. Skhappene A. J. Seeber
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year first above written before me & I certify that the reason the above named Mary Thomson did not write her name is she never learned to write, and that I am personally acquainted with her and know that she is the identical person above described and is a person of truth and veracity and that her statement is entitled to full credit
Isaac J. Forbes Justice of the Peace

State of New York Clerks Office Madison County { ss. } I, Elvira Fairchild Clerk of said county do hereby certify that Isaac P. Forbes before whom the preceding affidavit purports to have been taken was on the day of the date of the same a justice of the Peace in and for said county duly elected and qualified and that I am acquainted with his hand writing and verily believe his name subscribed to the said affidavit to be his proper hand writing and signature. Witness my hand and official seal the 13 th day of July 1843. Elvira Fairchild Clerk.

Blackwell July 31 st
Free
J. L. Edwards Esq. Count of Pensylvania City of Washington D.C.
2807 May 9. 1849. Mary Thoms. March 23/49. NY

Blackville July 31 st 1843
Dr Sir
I here forward you the application of Mary Thomson for a pension for one year She drew the five year pension her certificate has been returned and that of her husband also James Thomson Please send the certificate to me and oblige yours S. Chapman
J. L. Edwards Esq. Comr. of Pensions
Please drop me a line on the receipt of this that I may know it has arrived safe

Nov 21. 1840 block rifle Nov 21. 1840 N.Y. Ad. Pruf Many Thanks
free
Hon J. L. Edwards Esq bank of Pensylvania city of Washington D.C.

Blackwater November 13th 1840
Dear
As I have forwarded you the Leaf of Psalm Book as you requested with proof of entry to our year. Sincerely J. L. Edwards Esq. Clerk of Russians

3 Recorded Clerk Clerkville Jan 18 1849
22 Jan 1849 M D 3100
Paid 10
J. S. Edwards Esq. Commissioner of Pensions Washington City D.C.

Lockville January 17th 1849
Dear Sir,
I here enclose you the declaration of Mary Thompson widow of Laber Thompson deceased who was a pensioner and that she drew a pension of $40 per Annum under the act of 1843. and 1844. and that she now is old and infirm she cannot state in what corps he served or the name of the officers she is a worthy old Lady and very poor and needy Please grant her request and send her pension certificate directly to me and greatly oblige her her ill health is the only reason I suppose she has not made an earlier application she expects to draw from the 4 th of March last 1848. please let me hear from you soon as convenient
J. L. Edwards Esq. Commissioner of Pensions
J. Chapman

Blackville Sept 24th
82713
Mr.
Admiral
Mary Thompson
Jan
James L. Edwards Esq. Commissioner of Pensions City of Washington D.C.

Blockville September 24th 1840
Dear Sir
I here enclose you the affidavits you regard which I presume will be satisfactory to you and if so you will have the goodness to grant the Pension and send the certificate to me and oblige yours J. L. Edwards Esq. Commr of Pensions J. Chapman

7175 June 30. 1846 Annapolis July 7 1838
free
J. L. Edwards Court of Pensions City of Washington Thomson D. B.

Belockville June 26th 1840
Or Sir I here forward you the papers of Mary Thomas who claims to be entitled to draw a Pension on five years pay same as her husband would have drawn if he had lived Please grant the Pension and send the Pension Certificate to me at this place Edward Rogers is a Member of Congress from this District who can give you any information you may desire in relation to myself and yours with great Respect
Stephen Chapman Hon James L. Edward Rogers Chairman of Residenc- lity of Washington

Mary Thompson application for Purvis

State of New York ss. Madison County
On this fourth day of January in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty nine Personally appeared before the subscriber a Justice of the peace in and for the county of Madison in the State of New York Mary Thompson a resident of the town of Leroy in the said county of Madison aged Eightyone (apud lxx) years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the act of Congress passed on the 2 nd February 1848 granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the revolutionary war.
That she is the widow of Jacob Thompson who was a private soldier in the revolutionary war and that she obtained and drew a pension under the act of Congress of the 3 rd of March 1843, and also under the act of Congress passed on the 17 th of June 1844 entitled an act to continue the pensions of certain widows that she has not intermarried but continues to be widow of the said Jacob Thompson, who was entitled to and drew a pension as she has been informed of Eighty Dollars a year and that she was entitled to and did receive from the United States Eighty Dollars a year under each of the above recited Acts of the 3 rd of March 1843 and and the 17 th of June 1844.
In presence of S. Chapman John Thompson
Mary for Thompson mark
Sworn to and subscribed on the fourth day of January 1849 before me S. Chapman Justice
State of New York } County of Madison } I hereby certify that the above named Declarant Mary Thompson is personally known to me and is the same Mary Thompson who drew a pension as she has stated above and is entitled to credit July 4 th 1849 S. Chapman Justice of the Peace
State of New York } County of Madison } ss. I A Scott Sloan clerk of the said county do hereby certify that Stephen Chapman was on the day of the date of the above declaration a Justice of the Peace in and for the said county duly elected and sworn and that the signatures to the jurat of the above declaration and to the above certificate purporting to be his are genuine In testimony Whereof I have hereunto subscribed

Seal
My name and affixed the seal of the said County this sixteenth day of January 1849 -
R Scott Sloan Clerk.

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
NAME Thompson, Jack GRADE Private LINE Massachusetts
WARRANT NUMBER 5133 ACREAGE 100 ISSUED July 15, 1797 to Symeon Hyman
*The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800. Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.