Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 10574, for Jesse Thrall, Massachusetts

SERVICE
Bass.
Thrall, Jesse
NUMBER _____
R. 10574
CONTENTS

Feb 3 d 1837
On the application of Jesse Thrall for a pension for six months service - The reason assigned for not granting his pension was that he was too young at the time the service was performed - I would say that perhaps he has a mistake as to his age, which I have learned that old men are very liable to - Or perhaps he was better able to perform the service at that age than many others would have been who were much older -
The applicant is my father - and I can say that he is an uncommon athletic person, and no doubt passed muster without any objection. And it appears to me that if he passed muster and was in the service as alleged he is now entitled to the benefit of it - even if his age was as is stated, and whether his age was or was not, as is stated I am not now able to say - But I can make affidavit if necessary that his (the applicant) brother who is now departed this life, has stated to me that my father was in the service six months during the Rev-

-olutionary war- And I think he so stated when before the Court as a witness- If services performed would entitle him to a pension I would Respectfully ask whether he is not entitled to one
We do not ask it unless it be just
Feb Nov 4 th 1837
Respectfully &c
Walter Shroll
J. L. Edward Esq

17,890 Lepe Thrall Ohio
Ask Mr Edmonds as to his being a Warder in the interrogatories
This case is not embraced by the Act
Walter Thrall Granville Licking Co Ohio

17 890
BRIEF in the case of  Jesse Thrall of Licking Co in the State of Ohio (Act 7th June, 1832.)
 1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? absent  2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?  3. How old is he? 67  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.     Thurs, Augt '80 Jan 17 3 Substitute Capt Albert (Thurs), Col. Brown   Augt. '81 - to now 3 Private Capt Horace Col. Willette  
 5. In what battles was he engaged? None mentioned  6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Hampshire Co Mass  7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? Tradition  8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? Right 
I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
W. C. Easton
Examining Clerk.  21 Feb 1833

Jesse Thrall's Declaration
1789 v
Walter Thrall Granville Licking Co Ohio

Questions propounded by the Court
1 st Where and in What year were you born?
Ans. In the Town of Windsor Co. of Hartford, Connecticut.
2 d Have you any record of your age if so where is it?
Ans. I have a record in my bible
3 d Where were you living when called into Service Where As have you lived since the Revolutionary war and when do you now live?
Ans. When called into Service he lived in the Town of Granville Co. Hampshire, and State of Massachusetts. He lived in Granville Ms untill 1799 - then moved to Rutland Vermont. lived there untill 1816 then moved to Licking County Ohio he now lives in Burlington in said County of Licking, in Ohio
4 th How were you called into service were you drafted did you volunteer or were you a substitute And if a substitute for whom?
Ans. In the first time he was a substitute for Samuel Thrall in the second time he was a volunteer in the Massachusetts line
5 th State the names of some of the Regular Officers who were with the troops where you served such Continental and Militia Regiments as you can recollect and the general circumstances of your service?
Ans. General Arnold, Genl Patterson Col. Willet Maj. Rowley Genl Stark. Capt. Moody's Company of Artillery were with him a part of the time. There was a Captain Van Ranselaar and Capt Livingston. The service was somewhat changeable frequently changing place and under different officers. He was employed in camp duty some but principally as a waiter for.
6 th Did you receive a discharge from the service, if so, by whom was it given and what has become of it
Ans. James Berry and Eliphas Thrall
7 th State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood and who can testify to your character for veracity and their belief of your services as a soldier of the Revolution
Ans - James Berry & Eliphas Thrall
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or an annuity.

ty except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of any the agency of any State Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
W. H. Caffee Clk
Jesse Thrall
+ We James Berry a clergyman residing in the County of Licking and State of Ohio and Eliphas Thrall residing in the same place hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Jesse Thrall who has subscribed to and sworn to the above declaration, that we believe him to be 67 years of age, that he is reputed and believed in the neighbourhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
W. H. Caffee Clk
James Berry Eliphas Thrall
+ And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War department that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary soldier and served as he states. And the Court further certifies that it appears to them that James Berry who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman resident in the said County of Licking and that Eliphas Thrall who has also signed the same is a resident of the same place and is a credible person and that their statement is entitled to credit.
I Andrew H. Caffee Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of said County of Licking and State of Ohio, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Jesse Thrall for a Pension
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this eighth day of November A.D.
1832.
W. H. Caffee Clerk
21 and 9 mo.

Jesse Thrall's Declaration In order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832 State of Ohio
County of Licking ss On this 30 th day of October 1832 personally appeared in open Court before the judges of the Court of Common Pleas of said County now sitting Jesse Thrall a resident of Burlington Township in said County and State of Ohio aged 67 years who being first duly sworn accor- ding to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832. That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as follows He served two terms of three months each.
In the first Term he was a substitute for Samuel Thrall He served in Captain Albrod's Company he thinks in Col. Brown's Regiment, but was not with Col. Brown. The time he went into the service was he thinks in August 1780 and left the service at the expiration of three months, he resided in the Town of Granville. Co. of Hampshire in Massachusetts, he marched to Penderhook on the Hudson River, from there to West Point, was there, at the time Arnold attempted his traitorous design of surrendering the place. he was mostly employed in detachments patrolling, away from the fort and guards, he knew a General Patter- son there. In his second Term he was in Captain Samuel Thrall's Company was under the Command of Col. Willet entered the service as near as he can recollect in August 1781 and left it in November, resided in the Town of Granville as aforesaid volunteered in the Massachusetts line - Marched from Granville to Albany there he was under Genl. Stark's from Albany to Schoharie, from there to Fort Plain about 50 or 60 miles up the Mohawk River there he was under Col. Wil- let from there he marched to Fort Herkimer further up the River he was with a party that had a skirmish with the British & Indians about a days march distance from Fort Herk- mer - in the same evening there was another Battle in which Major Butler who commanded some Tories & Indians was killed He has no documentary evidence And knows of no person that can testify to the particulars

Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873.
105711
P. O. _____
Jesse Thrall
Service: _____
REJECTED
Enlisted: _____, 18 .
Discharged: _____, 18 .
Application filed: _____, 18 .
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized.
_____ Contract.

Oct 4 June 1839
Repealed
See letter 19th June 1833 and 19 Nov 1834, 46th L 1837
Walter Thrale
Granville
Seahy Court
105 74 Ohio

Ack 7. June 1832
Repeated
See letter 19. to April 1833 and 19 May 1834, 46 Feb 1837
To
Walter Thrale
Granville
Lehigh County Ohio 10574

XI. Has the applicant obtained the evidence of a clergyman and another respectable citizen as to their belief respecting his age and the general belief in his neighborhood relative to his revolutionary service ?
Y
XII. If the clergyman's affidavit has not been produced, is there any reason assigned for not obtaining it ?
XIII. If the applicant has no documentary evidence, and has not obtained the testimony of at least one living witness, has he stated in his declaration that such proof cannot be had ?
Y
XIV. † If the applicant's name is not found on the rolls of military service, has he produced a witness or witnesses as to his service?
If he has produced direct proof as to service, has the magistrate who administered the oath, certified to the credibility of the witness or witnesses?
Has the proper officer certified to the official character and signature of the magistrate as the regulations direct?
XV. Does it appear from any of the papers that the witness was in such a situation, or of such an age, as to have a personal knowledge of the applicant's service ?
XVI. ‡ Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct ?
Y
XVII. Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily ? And, if not, which of them is not so answered ?
Y
EXPLANATORY NOTES.
* QUERE V. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words: "Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A. B. who, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that, by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service, but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades; For _____ year _____ months, and _____ days, I served as a _____ For _____ months and _____ days, I served as a _____; and for such service I claim a pension."

BRIEF objections to the admission of Pension Claims, of which those answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of Jesse Thrall which require further proof or explanation.
I. Does the declaration show where the applicant resides? Yes II. Did the declarant make the declaration in the county where he resides? Yes III. If the applicant did not make the declaration in the county where he resides, is there any reason assigned for his not doing so? _____ IV. Has the declarant mentioned the period or periods of the war when he served? Yes V. * Has he mentioned with precision the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the department to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled? Yes VI. Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with the regulations? Yes VII. Has he made a relinquishment of every claim to any other pension than the one under the Act of June 7, 1832? Yes VIII. Has the Court given their opinion? Yes IX. Has the Clerk given his certificate? Yes X. Is the Clerk's seal affixed? And if so, has it a device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal? Yes