Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S 33794, for Amos Thayer, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass
Thayer Amos
8 33794
CONTENTS

9819 Q
Massachusetts
Amos Thayer 2 a
of Axbridge in the state of Massachusetts who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Reed of the Mass line, for the term of one year
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 15 th of Ap l 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued the 26 th of Ap l 1819. and sent to Edw d D r Bangs, Esq r Worcester, Mass.
Arrears to 4th of Mar 1819.  85.29
Semi-ann. all ce ending 1 st Ap l 1819  48.00
$133.29
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Not entitled Decision confirmed by Hon. Secy of War 19 Feb y 1821.
Notification sent Feb y 19 th 1820 to Abab Bagley, Treasurer, W ch Massachusetts

Amos Thayer Upton
9819
Sept 1819
[Faint, mirrored bleed-through text from the reverse side of the page]

Schedule of the Estate of Amos Thayer, of Uxbridge in the county of Worcester and Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Applicant for a Pension under the Act of Congress of May 1. 1820
The improvement during my wife's life of a small old low house and 27 acres of land in low cultivation Annual income over all taxes and necessary repairs
20.00
Personal Estate etc
  1 Old axe, 50 Iron bar $1.00 $1.50   Old case of drawers $2.00 Old table $1.00 3.00   Set $1.50 Brass kettle $6.00 7.50   1 pair andirons fire slice and tongs 2.00   Crane hooks, 50 7 old chairs $3.50 4.00   9 pewter plates 2 platters & 1 B.P. Bacon 3.00   Looking Glass, 50 4 milk trays, 40 .90   2 Earthen Bowls & pitcher .50   2 Tea cups & Saucers, 60 Tea Kettle & dish, kettle 1.00 1.64   4 old knives & forks, 30 2 old candlesticks, 10 .40   1 Old chest .25   Broad trough old and new sound .10   Old chest .10   Water pail & Milk pail .25   Churn, 30 Old table 17 .47   Old pewter Tankard .33   2 Wash tubs .75   Spin wheel 1.00   English testament .17   Spider & crack'd Baker Kettle .40   Vote agt Capt Daniel Carpenter $59 91.00   do Thaddus Taft 32   saved from pension money, 119.26 Am't of pers. Est. 
And I owe the following debts viz.
  To John Capron $12.00   Thaddus Taft on note to him 12.00   George Person 2.60   Royal Thayer 3.30   Doct. Scott Willard 11.00   Joshua Larkin 1.50   Richd George Esq 1.00   Emory Taft 2.00   Sindrella Thayer 30.00   Am't of debt $75.60   Balance of personal property after paying debts fully contracted for necessary repairs of life $43.86 
I am a Husbandman by calling I have been so infirm for many years that I have been incapable of performing but little labour, my family consists of five persons - myself - my wife 70 years of age, too infirm to labour - 2 maiden daughters Sally 34 years and Sindrella 32 years old, incapable of supporting themselves by their industry, and entitled to the proceeds of their labour by the laws of this Commonwealth, and a fatherless grandson aged 2 years
Amos Thayer

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
COUNTY OF WORCESTER, ss.
ON this twenty second day of June 1820, personally appeared in open Court, before the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, being a Court of Record, within and for said County of Worcester, established as such by the laws of said Commonwealth, Amos Thayer aged sixty three years, resident in Uxbridge in said County, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on his oath, declare that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows: Enlisted in Dec. 1775 for one year in the year's service, so called in Capt. Moses Knapp's Company, Col. Read's Reg't Mass'ts Line; served the whole of the year 1776, was engaged at the capture of Burgoyne and in an action at East Chester, and was honorably discharged from the service; as will appear from the evidence accompanying my original application which was dated Apr. 15. 1818. My Pension Certificate is N o 9.819
and I do 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 hereto annexed, and by me subscribed.
Amos Thayer
Sworn to and declared, on the twenty second day of June, 1820 before the said Court.
Attest, Abijah Bigelow, Clk.
I, ABIJAH BIGELOW, Clerk of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, holden within and for the County of Worcester, do hereby certify, that the foregoing Oath, and the Schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the Record 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 Annual property exhibited in the aforesaid Schedule, is one hundred nineteen dollars and forty six cents, and that the improvement of the Real Estate mentioned is of the net annual income of twenty dollars. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this twenty second day of June , 1820.
Abijah Bigelow Clerk of the Court for the County of Worcester.

Amos. Phayes -
Mcbride -
Return Bills
July
Adm.
E. D. Bangs, Esq. Worcester, Mass.

State of Massachusetts —
Amos Thayer —
a Citizen of the United States, now resident at H. bridge in the County of Worcester — in the State aforesaid, do on oath testify and declare, that in the War of the Revolution, on or about the first of April A. D. Seventeen Hundred & Seventy five
I entered and was engaged in the land service of the United States on the continental establishment, and served accordingly from that time to the latter part of December then next
as a private Soldier, against the common enemy, without any interrup- tion or absence: that I belonged to Capt Edward Seagraves Company in Col. Joseph Hoads Regiment. In January Seventeen Hundred & Seventy Six I again entered in the same Service in Capt Moses Knapp's Company in Col. Joseph Hoads Regiment and continued in the same one year. I was again engaged in the service three months in the summer of 1777 & fall of Seventeen Hundred Seventy Seven in Capt. Hoads Company in Col. Cushing's Regiment — In 1780 I again entered in Capt. Seagraves Company in Col. Hoads Regiment in the month of June — and that I left the service on or about the first of December in the same year — I was honorably discharged from all the above terms of service with my last my discharge — and that, by reason of my reduced circumstances in life and poverty, I stand in need of assistance from my country for support, being now of the age of Sixty years very infirm —
And I hereby relinquish all claims to every pension heretofore allowed me by the laws of the United States, if any may be or hath been so allowed.
Amos Thayer
BE IT REMEMBERED, That on this 15 th day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and Eighteen pursuant to a law of the United States, entitled, "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War," made and passed on the 18th of March, A. D. 1818, personally appeareth before me, Edward Bangs
Judge of the Court Pleas Worcester County
the abovenamed Amos Thayer and after due examination and caution to testify and declare the whole truth, he maketh oath to the declaration aforesaid, and subscribes the same in my presence; and, on examination du- ly made by me the said Judge, it appeareth to my satisfaction that the said declaration is true.
Given under my Hand and the Seal of said Court, the day of the date aforesaid.
Edward Bangs

I Asa Thayer of Milbridge in the County of Worcester & Commonwealth of Massachu- setts of lawful age do testify & say that I am personally acquainted with Amos Thayer within named & know that the facts stated in his representation are true — Asa Thayer
Worcester ss April 15 th 1860 personally appeared Asa Thayer above named personally known to me & entitled to full credit and made solemn oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavit by him subscribed — before me Benjamin Safford Justice of the Peace

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Mrs Phoebe
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[Arrangement of 1870.]

Schedule under the act of March 1823 dated 19 June 1823
Real property none
Personal do valued at $27 68
Accounts for the decrease of his property as follows.
His wife in whose right he was then seized during life of a small house and 27 acres of land is Dead and he is deprived of the interest he then had in said house and land. The money due him from D Carpenter and D Taft has been nearly expended in support of his family, and the other articles are to be found nearly the same as when the former schedule was made noting small alterations resulting from an [Restored under law Feb. 1823 commencing 19 June 1823 & ratification 17 July 1823 to the case
Lyman Bigelow $20.26
Worcester Mass
Massachusetts. 9,819 Sept. 1820
Amos Thayer
Private Restore
1775 - 1 year
Aged 66 years by occupation a Farmer, but incapable of performing but little labor. Wife age 70 years infirm. 2 Maiden Daughters aged 34 & 32 years capable of supporting themselves by their industry. a fatherless grandson aged 2 years.
Schedule dated 22 June 1820
Real Estate, He has the right of improvement - during his wife's life a small old house and 27 acres of land in low cultivation annual income over and above taxes and necessary repairs $20.
note against D Carpenter 19 do do D Taft 32.70
Personal property valued at $20

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
WORCESTER, ss.
I, ABIJAH BIGELOW, Clerk of the Judicial Courts holden within and for said County of Worcester, certify, that Bazaleel Taft Junior before whom the annexed Affidavits have been made, are Justices of the Peace within and for said County, duly qualified for the purpose, acting under the authority of this Commonwealth, and that his name subscribed thereto is his own proper signature.
IN testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the County seal, this thirteenth day of January A. D. 1819.
Abijah Bigelow, Clerk
Application of Mrs Thayer

I Aaron Benson of Douglas in the County of Worcester & Commonwealth of Massachusetts Gentleman of lawful age do testify & say that I have been long acquainted with Amos Thayer of the bridge in said County of Worcester. In the war of the Revolution I was a non commissioned officer in the year 1776 on the Continental establishment in the land service Massachusetts line in the company commanded by Moses Knapp in Col. Joseph Head's Regiment. I will remember that said Amos Thayer enlisted in said Knapp's company and served from Jany 1776 to December following inclusive, a term of twelve months, called the year service and that he was honorably discharged from the service — Said Thayer's name as also the name of Antipas White whom affidavit accompany this are on the Muster roll of said Knapp's company which I now have in my possession Aaron Benson
Worcester Jany 7 th 1819 Personally appeared Aaron Benson above named a gentleman well known to me and entitled to full credit and made oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavit by him subscribed before me. Benaiah Safford Justice of the Peace

Antipas Mule Affidavit

I Antipas White of Pownal in the County of Windham & State of Connecticut of lawful age do testify & say that from the time of the Revolution Amos Thayer of Weybridge in the County of Woresters & Commonwealth of Massachu- setts enlisted as a private soldier in the land service in the month of January 1778 in the company commanded by Capt Moses Knapp in Col Joseph Read's Regiment in the Massachusetts line for the term of one year. And I will know he served the whole of said term as we belonged to the same corps and he was honorably discharged from the service. The above service was in the Continental establishment Antipas White
Woresters ss October 1 st 1810 Personally appeared Antipas White above named a credible witness and made oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavit by him subscribed before me Benedict Safford - Justice of the Peace

Anna Mayes
To The Secretary of War of the United States
The Affiant of Col Dan Carpenter

I Daniel Carpenter of Hoxbridge in the County of Wor- cester & Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Gentleman formerly one of the overseers of the poor in said Town of Hoxbridge do testify & say that I am intimately ac- quainted with Amos Shayer of said Hoxbridge formerly a pensioner of the General Government of the United States under the provisions of an act passed the 10 th of March 1818 and whose name has been since stricken from the pension Roll under the provision of a subsequent pension act. Said Shayer has been for many years extremely infirm, much of the time deranged and un- able to do any thing for his own support or that of an aged and infirm wife. Previous to his receiving aid from his country he was for some time a par- tial in part recipient of said Town of Hoxbridge relief and support at the expense of said Corporation. On his first applica- tion for a pension the evidence furnished the secretary of war was deemed insufficient to entitle him to the benefit resulting from the provisions of said act - His embarrassed circumstances and the state of his mind caused very considerable de- lay before his application was granted and con- sequently at the receipt of his first payment as his certificate he was entitled to about Twenty Dollars That circumstance amount money was prudently managed by his friend for his benefit and account for his having something in hand at the date

of his application to have his name continued on the pension Roll. Their means are partially  nearly exhausted and unless his name is restored to the pension list he must probably again be supported by the charity of friends, in very moderate circumstances, or as a pauper of the Town of Hopedale —
Daniel Carpenter
Worcester Jany 10 th 1821
Personally appeared Daniel Carpenter whose name is subscribed to the above affidavit, a gentleman well known to me and entitled to full credit and made oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavit by him subscribed
before me Benedict Safford Justice of the Peace

Then Secretary of War of the United States
The affidavit of General Supt 3 -

I Benaiah Tapp of Milbridge in the County of Worcester & Commonwealth of Massachusetts Esquire, one of the over- seers of the poor in said Town of Milbridge of lawful age do testify & say that I am intimately acquainted with Mr Amos Thayer of said Milbridge formerly a pensioner of the United States under the act of March 1810 and whose name has been stricken from the list of pen- sioners under the provision of a subsequent act - Said Thayer has been for many years extremely infirm, a large proportion of the time deranged and disqualified for any useful employment - His wife is likewise aged and infirm - They are the tenants of a miserable old house extremely uncomfortable in cold weather and unsafe in inclement weather. Before being relieved by the Charity of his Country he was a pauper of this Town relief at the expense of the Corporation and unless his name is restored to the pension Roll they must very soon be again dependent for support on the charity of friends, in very moderate circumstances, or again relief relief as pauper of the Town - Benaiah Tapp
Worcester Jy Jan'y 15 th 1821 Personally appeared Benaiah Tapp above named and made oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavit by him subscribed before me. Benaiah Tapp justice of the peace

To Hon Secretary of War of the United States
Indorsed in the affidavit of Mr Amariah Chapin.

I Amariah Chapin of the bridge in the County of Worcester & Commonwealth of Massachusetts Gen. Thomas, formerly one of the overseers of the poor in said Town of the bridge, of lawful age do testify & say that I am well acquainted with Amos Mages of said the bridge formerly a pensioner of the United States under the Act of March 10 th 1818 and whose name was stricken from the list under the provision of a subsequent pension law —
Said Mages has been for many years extremely infirm in body & mind — Is a very considerable proportion of the time so much disarranged as to be incapable of attending to any business. His wife is likewise aged & infirm — Before said Mages became a pensioner of his Country he was a pauper of said Town of the bridge and unless the charity of the Government is again restored to him by again putting his name on the pension list — he must soon be again relieved by the charity of his relations who are in very moderate circumstances, or at the expence of the Town of the bridge — Amariah Chapin
Worcester ss January 13 th 1821
Personally appeared Mr Amariah Chapin whose name is subscribed to the above affidavit — being well known to me and entitled to full credit and was duly sworn to the truth of the foregoing affidavit by him subscribed before me Benaiah Duff Justice of the Peace
[Handwritten signature]

Amos Thayer.
Sep 19

Schedule of property belonging to Amos Thayer, of Uxbridge, as appraised June 19 th 1823.
  1 feather bed and bedding, . . . . . $10.00   old case of draws, . . . . . 2.00   1/2 dozen old chairs, . . . . . 1.50   Old table, . . . . . 0.50   2 pewter platters, . . . . . 1.00   6 pewter plates, . . . . . 0.60   1 old warming pan, . . . . . 0.75   1 looking glass, . . . . . 0.50   Axe, 75 — brass kettle $3. — . . . . . 3.75   Handirons, Shovel and tongs, & pot hooks . . . . . 1.00   Tea Kettle, 75. Pot, 50 — churn, 50 . . . . . 1.75   Old case of draws, . . . . . 0.25   Flat irons, 50 — old bed $1. — . . . . . 1.50   Pot $1 — rake, 33 — scythe, 75, . . . . . 2.08   Old iron square 25. Pitchfork, 17. . . . . 0.42   $27.60. 
June 19. 1823 I certify that the foregoing Schedule contains all the property of which I am seized or possessed. I have no family, excepting two maiden daughters, the one thirty five, and the other thirty seven years of age, and an infant grand child about six years of age, who live with me, or rather I live with them. —
Amos Thayer.
I, Abijah Bigelow, Clerk of the Court aforesaid, do hereby certify, that it appears, to the satisfaction of the said Court, that the said Amos Thayer did serve in the Revolutionary War, as stated in the preceding Declaration, against the common enemy, for the term of nine months, under one engagement, on the Continental establishment. I also certify, that the foregoing oath, _____ and the 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 twenty seven dollars and sixty cents. —
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this nineteenth day of June — 1823.
Abijah Bigelow, Clerk.

DECLARATION,
In order to be restored to the Pension List, under the Act of the 1st March, 1823.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
County of WORCESTER, ss.
ON this nineteenth day of June 1823, personally appeared in open Court, being a Court of Record for the County of Worcester , Amos Thayer , resident in Uxbridge , in said County, aged sixty six years, who, being first duly sworn, according to law, doth, on his oath, make the following Declaration, in order to obtain the provision made by the Acts of Congress, of the 18th March, 1818, and the 1st May, 1820, that he, the said Amos Thayer , enlisted for the term of one year  in the month of December , in the year 1775 in the State of Massachusetts , in the Company commanded by Captain Moses Knapp , in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Joseph Read , in the line of the State of Massachusetts , on the Continental establishment; that he continued to serve in the said corps until December, 1776 — the precise date of enlistment not now recollected — but continued in the service for the full year when he was discharged from the said service, in Chatham , in the State of New Jersey , nigh Morristown ; that his name has been placed on the Pension List, and dropt therefrom on account of his property.
And, in pursuance of the Act of the 1st May, 1820, I do 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 hereto annexed, and by me subscribed. That, since the exhibition of my first Schedule, the following changes have been made in my property: — My wife, in whose right I was then seised, during her life, of a small farm house, and 27 acres of land, has deceased, and I am deprived of the interest I then had in said house and land. The money due me from Capt. Daniel Carpenter and Thaddeus Trafton has been necessarily expended in my support, and the other articles will be found nearly the same as when the former schedule was made, excepting
small alterations resulting from use.
Sworn to, and declared, on the nineteenth day of June , A.D. 1823 , before the Justices of the Court of Common Pleas, for said County of Worcester .
Attest, Abijah Bigelow, Clerk.
I, Abijah Bigelow , Clerk of the Court aforesaid, do hereby certify, that it appears, to the satisfaction of the said Court, that the said Amos Thayer did serve in the Revolutionary War, as stated in the preceding Declaration, against the common enemy, for the term of nine months, under one engagement, on the Continental establishment. I also certify, that the foregoing oath, and the 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 twenty seven dollars and sixty cents.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this nineteenth day of June 1823.
Abijah Bigelow, Clerk.