Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 26520, for Shadrach Thompson, Massachusetts

SERVICE
Mass.
Thompson, Shadrach Martha
NUMBER
W 26520
CONTENTS

83 1/3  New York
Madrach Thompson of Viola in the State of N. York who was a Private in the Camp commanded by Captain Campbell of the Infantry by _____ in the States time for 6 Months
Inscribed on the Roll of N. York at the rate of 20 Dollars _____ Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 1st day of April  1833 _____ and to Mo H. Magall  Almira
Arrears to the 4th of Mar 33 $ 40 Semi-ant. allowance ending 4 Sept 33  10 $ 50
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by G. C. Stiles Clerk, Book E. Vol. 4 Page 32
De
Paid at the Treasury under the Act of the 2 April 1838 from 4 Sept 1835 to 4 Sept 1836. Age notified 16 Jan 1839.
Dead.
Paid at the Treasury under the Act of the 6 April 1838 from 4 Sept 1835 to 4 Sept 1836. Age notified 16 Jan 1839.

Suppl
4673.
New York Albany
Martha Thompson widow of Hezekiah Thompson who was a Private in the Hecker's
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 20 Dollars Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843.
Certificate of Pension issued the 25th day of May 1844 and sent to Mrs. Maxwell Elmira N.Y.
[Act of March 3, 1843.]
Recorded in Book 1 Vol. 1. Page 139

No 11429.
Shadrach Thompson
resided
17.
8 Feb 32 11 Dec. 32
Thos Maxwell P.H.7. Agent. Elmira N.Y.

No 11439
BRIEF in the case of Shadrach Thompson, of Ulmia, County of Tioga — in the State of New York.  (Act 7th June, 1832.)
 1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge?  In Open Court.  2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?   3. How old is he?  72 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.     Spring In 1777. 6. private. Capt John Carpenter.  
 5. In what battles was he engaged?  None stated.  6. Where did he reside when he entered the service?  Brimfield, County of Hampshire, Mass.  7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls?  By traditionary Evidence.  8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect?  
I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
James Ord
Examining Clerk.

X (2312) Martha Thompson
NY.
act 7 July 38 m 84 d 38.

At a Circuit Court held for the Sixth Circuit of the State of New York at Elmer in for the County of Chemung on the 1 st day of Oct. 1838
Present
Hon Robert Monell Judge 6 th Circuit NY
State of New York
Chemung County ss } On this first day of October 1838 personally appeared in open Court before the Judge aforesaid Martha Thompson aged Seventy six years of age, who being first duly sworn according to law doth make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed July 7. 1838 entitled "An act granting half pay & pensions to certain widows". That she is the widow of Shadrach Thompson who was a soldier in the Massachusetts Setts militia for six months, in the War of the Revolution and for such service placed in the Pension Roll of the New York agency under the act of June 7 th 1832 at the rate of twenty dollars per year, by Certificate dated April 1 st 1833 numbered 8313 reference to which and to the pension paper on file in the War Department accompanying his application, she makes for proof of his services.
She further declares that she was married to the said Shadrach Thompson on the second day of September Seventeen hundred eighty four at the town of Palma in the State of Massachusetts, Hampden Co. by the Rev. Mr Baldwin a Minister of the Congregational Church in that town: That her husband the aforesaid Shadrach Thompson died on the Seventeenth day of September 1838 at Elmer in the County of Chemung: That she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service but the mar- riage took place previous to the first day of January

Seventeen hundred & ninety four viz at the time above stated. She has no documentary evidence of the said marriage other than the family record of the said Thaddeus Thompson which was kept in the bible used in the family, which is now principally destroyed but the original record as kept by her said husband is in part preserved and what is left, stating the time of the marriage is here to annexed before the court
Thaddeus Thompson We was married 2 nd of September 1784 John was born in June 17 th 1785 Eunice was born Nov r 25 th 1787 Thaddeus was born September 17 th 1790 Robert was August 21 st 1792 Rebecca was born June 29 th 1794 Cathy was born June 24 th 1798 Alvan was born April 28 th  1799 1802 Betty was born
She further say, she has not since married & still remains the widow of the said Thaddeus Thompson -
Sworn & subscribed In open court the 1 st day of October 1838 before me
David Herron Deputy Clerk
Martha Thompson

State of New York Chemung County ss 3 On this first day of October 1838 personally appeared before the said Court John R Thompson a resident of the said County of Chemung aged fifty three years, upwards, who being duly sworn says that he is the eldest son of Shadrach Thompson & Martha his wife both named in the foregoing proceedings. That the paper annexed to the foregoing declaration of the said Martha Thompson is a part of the family record of the said Shadrach Thompson deceased, and is in his handwriting. That he has frequently seen it in the old family bible belonging to his father, and has no doubt that it is genuine. That the said Shadrach Thompson died on the seventeenth day of September 1838: the said Martha Thompson still remains his widow and is the identical person named above as the widow of Shad- rach Thompson who deceased who is the identi- cal Shadrach Thompson who was a Revolu- tionary pensioner of the United States, under a certificate dated at the War office of the United States, the 1 st day of April 1833 Number 8313. by which he was placed on the Pension Roll of the New York agency under the act of June 7, 1832 at twenty dollars per annum.
Sworn before me in open Court the 1 st day of October 1838.
John R. Thompson
David Herron Deputy Clerk
State of New York Chemung County ss
I certify the above to be the original proceedings of the said Court on the application of Martha Thompson for a pension. Witness my hand & seal of office the 1 st day of October 1838.
Isaac Baldwin Clerk

11.439 Theodora Thompson
Postoffice Elmina N.Y., care Th s Maxwell Agent
adm d 6 mo pri
20 3/4

State of New York
Tioga County ss.
Shadrach Thompson of Elmira in the said County being duly sworn says that in addition to what is stated in the annexed declaration made by him before the Court of Common Pleas of said County of Tioga on the 4 th September last: that in answer to the 5 th Interrogatory propounded by the War Department, he has stated the particulars of his service in his said declaration having enlisted for six months under the officers therein named to guard the Continental Stores at Springfield & served his time out accordingly: that he does not recollect that any other troops were then in service there except the company to which he belonged & that he can therefore give no other names than those of his own officers —
In answer to the 7 th Interrogatory he states, that he refers to Col Selah Mathews & Hon. Grant B Baldwin who reside in his present neighborhood, who can testify as to his character for veracity & their belief of his services as a soldier of the Revolution —
from & subscribed the 9 th Jany 1833 before me W Maxwell justice of the peace Tioga Co. N.Y.
Shadrach Thompson
State of New York
Tioga County ss.
I Green M Smith Clerk of said County do hereby certify that William Maxwell esq. before whom the above aff te was made is a justice of the peace in & for said County duly qualified & that I believe his signature above subscribed to be genuine.
Witness my hand & seal of office the 9 th Jany 1833 —
Green M Smith

At a Court of Common Pleas held at the Court House at the Village of Elmira in & for the County of Tioga in the State of New York commencing on the first Tuesday in September 1832: the same being a court of Record having a Seal & Clerk.
Present.
Hon G B Baldwin First Judge
John R Bratton
Joseph L. Darling
Darius Bentley
Elijah Shoemaker
} Esquires Judges
State of New York
Tioga County ss.
Personally appeared in open court on the 4 th day of September 1832 before the Judges above named now sitting Ladrach Thompson, a resident of the said Town of Elmira in the said County, aged Sixty two years and upwards who being duly sworn, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7. 1832.
That he resided in the town of Brimfield County of Hampshire & State of Massachusetts during the war of the Revolution: that in the year 1777 a company was enlisted in the said town & the adjoining towns to serve for six months to guard the Continental Stores at Springfield in the said State. The deponent enlisted at Brimfield after said in the Spring of 1777 in the said company for the term of six months and served his term at Springfield in guarding the said Stores, where he was regularly discharged. The company was commanded by Capt. John Carpenter of Brimfield, and Aaron Miles was the first Lieutenant, and Lieut. Brewer of Springfield was the second Lieutenant. That he received no written discharge and has no documentary evidence of his services nor does he know that there is any person living by whom he can prove his services. That he was born at Brimfield

aforesaid on the 4 th February 1760 - that the record of his birth as he has been informed was kept on the records of the said Town; and he has it also in his bible - That he continued to reside in Brimfield and in Palmer the adjoining towns until about 35 years since, when he removed to Butternuts in the County of Otsego N.Y. from whence he removed to his present residence in Elmira where he has lived for about fourteen years last past.
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension except the present, and declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of the agency of any State -
Shadrack Thompson
In witness whereof The day & year aforesaid Green M c Tuthill Clk
We Simeon R. Jones — a clergyman resident in the Town of Southport in the said County and John R. Thompson a resident of the town of Elmira — in the said County do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Shadrack Thompson the above named declarant; that we believe him to be of the age he represents in his declaration, that he is reputed & believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a Revolutionary soldier and that we concur in that opinion —
Simeon R. Jones John R. Thompson
In witness whereof the day & year aforesaid — Green M c Tuthill Clk
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 certify that Simeon R Jones — who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman, resident in the Town of Southport in the said County and John R. Thompson who has also signed the same is a resident of the town of the Elmira in the said County and is a reputable person, and entitled to credit —
J. B. B. Palown First Judge
Green M. Tuthill clerk of the said Court do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Sarah Thompson for a Pension. Witness my hand & Seal of office the 4th day of September 1832. Green M. Tuthill

Rev
WIDOW, &c.
File No. 26520
Martha Thompson Wid. of Shadrack Thompson Priv Rev War.
Act Imp. 3rd 1843.
Index: Vol. 7 , Page 273
[Arrangement of 1870.]

7918.
New York
Typ No 25
Martha Thompson widow of Shadrach Thompson who was a pensioner under the Act of 1832 and who died on the 17th Sept. 1838 of Albany in the State of N. York who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Carpenter of the Reg't commanded by _____ in the N. York line for 6 months
Inscribed on the Roll of _____ at the rate of 20 Dollars Cents per annum, to commence on the 14th day of March, 1836.
Certificate of Pension issued the 25th day of Nov. 1843 and paid to Mrs. Martha Thompson, N. York.
Total amount, $ 100.-
[Act July 7, 1838.]
Recorded by Thos. L. Thompson, Clerk, Book D. Vol. 1. Page 182.

IX N. York
Martha Thompson
let. to Thos. Maxwell 7. March 1839
Rejected
let to Thomas Maxwell 9. May 1843.
" " " " 21. July "
Ad. July 1838

my ahl 7 1843
Crookston
FREE
Genl. J. Edwards Com of Pensions Washington D.C.

Elmira April 1 1843
J. Edwards Esq.
Sir. The papers of Mrs. Thompson the widow of Shedrach Thompson a pensioner on the NY agency Roll of July 7. 1832 were filed in 1839 and the application rejected on the ground that he died after the passage of the act of July 1838. I believe the proofs of the marriage to were made.
As I suppose she is now provided for under the act of Aug. 1842 which I have not been able to obtain, will you do me the favor in her behalf to inform me what further will be required in the case? I am not in possession of the necessary forms or I would not thus intrude upon you. Respectfully
Yours J. K. Maxwell
The memorandum which I returned in this case were destroyed when my office was burnt last summer. JM

Thomas Harnell Esq. Olmina Channing Co. N.Y.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office: Boston, Sept 7 1843.
Sir, There are no rolls of the Service of John Carpenter's Company for the year 1777 in this office
Yrs, & in order S ir C. F. Lane
Thos Maywell Esq r Amherst

No 2312
Martha Thompson
N.Y.
Act of 7 th July '38
Adm de
6 mo.
price
$ 20 per an.
Thomas Macowell Esq.
Elmira
N-York.

TREASURY DEPARTMENT.
Second Comptroller's Office,
January 11 th , 1839.
Sir:
Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838 entitled "An act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States," The Widow of Shadrach Thompson, a Pensioner on the Roll of the Albany, N.York, Agency, at the rate of Twenty  Dollars and   Cents per annum, under the law of the 7 th June, 1832, has been paid at this Department, from the 4 th of Sept. 1835, to the 4 th Sept. 1836.
Respectfully, yours,
Wilson K. Parrish Comptroller.
To the Commissioner of Pensions, Present.

M rs Martha Thompson

At a Circuit Court assigned to be held at the Court House at Elmira in & for the County of Chemung & State of New York on the twenty ninth day of May 1843.
Present Hon R Monroe Circuit Judge 6 th Circuit
James Dunn E Banks
Esq rs . Judges Chemung County Courts.
State of New York }
Chemung County } On this 29 th day of May 1843 personally appeared before the said Court Martha Thompson a resident of the Town of Elmira in the said County of Chemung aged
Eighty two — years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed the 7 th July 1838 and an act passed 23 August 1842 amendatory thereof and the resolution approved 16 Aug 1842 and the act passed 3 March 1843: that she is the widow of Shadrack Thompson late of said Town of Elmira deceased who was a pensioner on the New York Roll under the act of 7 th June 1832 and a resident of the then County of Tioga a new County of Chemung at the rate of twenty Dollars per year for services in the militia of the State of Massachusetts and who died on the twentieth day of September 1838 — She further declares that she cannot now state the particulars of her husband's services but refer to the papers on file when his application was made to be placed on the Pension Roll.
She further declares that she was married to the said Shadrack Thompson on the second day of September in the year seventeen hundred & eighty four in the State of Massachusetts
and that the proof of her marriage is on file in the Pension office at Washington attached to a decla- ration formerly made by her under the act of July 7. 1838. That she was not married to the said Shadrack Thompson prior to his leaving the

service, but the marriage took place previous to the first day of January seventeen hundred & ninety four, viz at the time above stated. She further declares that she is still the widow of the said Shadrach Thompson deceased.
MARY THOMPSON
Given & subscribed in open court the day & year above mentioned, before me Robt. O'Call Circuit Judge
Chemung County ss. Thomas Maxwell of Elmira in said county personally appeared before the said court & being duly sworn says that he was well acquainted with Shadrach Thompson the deceased pensioner named in the foregoing declaration, and with his wife the above named Mrs. Mary Thompson - That she is the widow of the said Shadrach Thompson deceased still surviving and still remains a widow, and is the same person whose previous declaration has been forwarded by him to the Pension Office at Washington, together with proofs of her marriage &c.
Given in open court the 29 day of May 1843 the said Thomas Maxwell being in my opinion a credible & disinterested witness Robt. O'Call Circuit Judge
I S. Root the Clk of said court do hereby certify that the above are the proceedings of the said court in the matter above mentioned
S. Root Clerk

4979
Dec 21 1843
NY
Maria Thompson
act 31 March 1843
Hon. J. D. Sleeper
Th. Maxon Elmira N.Y.
Edwards Com Pease's Washington D.C.
Free

Elmira Dec 5-1893
Hon J. Brown
Sir I enclose the application of Mrs. Martha Thompson for the one year stipend under act of 3 March last.
Yours Max well

18 Sep 1843 Martha Thompson Adda evidence N.Y.
PAID FREE
J. L. Cowards Com-Pensions Washington D.C.
J. L. Madole Elmira N.Y.

Elmira Sept 12 1843.
J. L. Edwards Esq Sir
I have written to Boston at your suggestion but find no rolls of Capt. Carpenter's Company in 1777. The case in which this request was made was that of Martha Thompson widow of Shadrach Thompson dec d who was a pensioner under act of 1832 for 20 dol s pr-annum - The amt. claimed is so small that I trust she will be allowed the pension, in pursuit of which she has already expended nearly what she will receive.
Yours Respectfully J. D. Mansfield

June 2 nd 1843
My Dear Mother Thompson
FREE
Gen. J. L. Edwards Com. Pensions Washington D.C.

Elmira 29 May 1843
Hon. J. L. Edwards
Sir.
We forward the application of Martha Thompson the widow of Shadrach Thompson dec d a pensioner on the New York Roll in the then County of Tioga (now Chemung) under the act of 7 June 1832. Your letter of the 9 th May 1843 states that "the proof of the time of the marriage is deemed satisfactory" and that "the difficulty in her case has been removed by the joint resolution adopted by Congress on the 16 th May 1842". A new declaration having been made, we suppose she has now brought herself within the acts of Augt. 1842 & the act of 3 rd March last.
Yrs
Maxwell & Tyler

Alb.
N.Y.
7 July 1838.
23 1/2
Free
Hon. J. L. Edwards
Comr of Pensions
Washington DC
[Faint vertical text:] Hartford Conn July 7 1838

Elmira Oct 3 1838
H. Rowan Esq
Yrs
I forward the application of Martha Thompson the widow of Shadrach Thompson dec d who was a pensioner under the act of June 2 d 1832. His pension papers are on file in your office - His certificate was dated 1 st April 1833 No 8313 - on the NY agency
Yrs &c
H. Maxwell

State of New York
Chemung County ss
On this fourth day of December 1843 personally appeared before the subscriber a Justice of the peace in & for said county Martha Thompson, a resident of said County, and of the Town of Elmina aged eighty one 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 3 d of March 1843 granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the revolutionary war - That she is the widow of Shadrach Thompson who was a pensioner of the at United States under the act of June 7. 1832 on the Roll of the New York agency for services stated in his declaration on file in the War Department to which she refers. That she herself was placed on the Pension roll of the United States of the New York agency by certificate No 7918 dated 25 Nov 1843 at the rate of twenty dollars per year for five years commencing 4 March 1836 & ending 4 March 1841. under the act of July 7. 1838 & the acts amending the same.
She further declares that she is still a widow -
Sworn to Subscriber on the day & year above written, the declarant being personally known to me - G. Wightman J. P. Chemung Co NY
Martha Thompson
State of New York
Chemung County
Clerk's Office -
I S L Rood Clerk of said County do certify that George Wightman Esq before whom the above affidavit was taken was at the date of the same a Justice of the peace of said County duly commissioned & that his signature above subscribed is genuine. Witness my hand & Seal of Office the 4 th day of Decem r 1843 -
I. S. L. Rood Clerk