Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 33788, for Foxwell Thomas, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass
Thomas Foxwell
S 33788
CONTENTS

Application sent September 20 1820 to Edward, Esq. Clerk of Court, Greenfield, Mass.
699
Massachusetts Roll.
Foxwell Thomas, Capt Wood Lieutenant 4 
Massachusetts line 1st 1 year In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of Twenty Dollars per month, to commence on the 15 th of April 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued the 25 th of May 1818 and sent to Hon. Edward Bangs, Worcester, Mass.
Arrearages to 4 th Sept r 1818 4 months \frac{20}{30} $93.33
{ Revolutionary claims, { Act 18th March, 1818, }
Continued
New Salem Franklin Co.

Joaxell Thomas
W. Salem
699
Dec 1818
60W Cont 20p
1820
Sep 1818

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
FRANKLIN ss.
At a Special Session of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, for the Western Circuit, began and holden at Greenfield, within and for the County of Franklin, on Monday the tenth day of July, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and twenty, et de die in diem to the fifteenth day of the same month,
PERSONALLY appeared in open Court, being a Court of Record, within and for said County of Franklin, established as such by the Constitution and Laws of said Commonwealth, Foxwell Thomas aged seventy two years, resident in New Salem 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:
that he entered into the service for a year on the first of January 1776, and was a Lieutenant in the Company commanded by Capt Isaac Wood in Col. Learned's Regiment, the said Regiment being commanded the latter part of the time by Col. William Shepard; that he served out his time of one year. That this regiment was in the Massachusetts line & Continental establishmt. That he served eight months in the year 1775 immediately before he enlisted in 1776 - That he has received a pension under the act of the 18 th of March 1818.
He also states that he has one lame arm in addition to the infirmities of his advanced age, and is now able to do but very little labour.

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.
Foxwell Thomas
Sworn to and declared, on the tenth day of July A. D. 1820, before the said Court.
Attest, E. Alvord CLERK.
I ELIJAH ALVORD, Clerk of the aforesaid Court, do hereby 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 seventeen dollars and twenty five cents
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this fifteenth day of July, 1820.
E. Alvord CLERK.

A schedule of the estate of Foxwell Thomas of New Salem in the County of Franklin & Commonwealth of Massachusetts, applicant for a pension under the act of Congress of May 1. 1820
   1 Old loom 1.50 — 1 Old Saddle 2.00 — 3.50   1 Great Wheel, 50 — Shovel & Tongs, 50 — 1.00   1 pair Andirons, 50 — 1 Table 2.00 — 2.50   1 Hand saw, 50 — 1 pair Flat irons, 75 — 1.25   a number of old chairs — 3.33   1 Chest, 75 — 2 old Kettles 1.00 — 1.75   2 Pewter Basins 0.67 — 1 Bottle & 1 Jugg, 25 — ,92   1 Wheel Barrow — 3.00   $17,25  
Foxwell Thomas

Josiah Thomas Lieut.
15 Apr
2

I James Shaw testify and say that I served in the army of the United States in the Revolutionary war, under the Continental establishment, from the first day of July 1775 untill the last Day of December 1776 making the term of fifteen eighteen months - in the Company commanded by Capt Isaac Woods, in the Regiment commanded by Col n Cotten for six months, and one year in Col n Learned's Regiment - That during the whole of that time Lieutenant Foxwell Thomas now of New Salem served in the same company as a commissioned Officer - that I have been well acquainted with the said Lt. Thomas ever since that time, and have considered him as a respectable Citizen, but in rather low circumstances as to property and is now reduced, by reason of sickness in his family and his advanced age and bodily infirmity of himself, to indigence - James Shaw
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Franklin ss. April 13 th 1818 Then James Shaw above named personally appeared and made Oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavit by him subscribed -
Before me
Varney Pearce Just t of the Peace

IN CONGRESS.
The DELEGATES of the United Colonies of New-Hampshire, Massachusetts-Bay, Rhode-Island, Connecticut, New-York, New-Jersey, Pennsylvania, the Counties of Newcastle, Kent, and Sussex on Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North-Carolina, and South-Carolina , to Foxwell Thomas Esq.
WE reposing especial trust and confidence in your patriotism, valour, conduct and fidelity, DO by these presents constitute and appoint you to be Ensign in Capt. Wood's Company in the 16 th Regiment, commanded by Col. Cotton.
in the army of the United Colonies, raised for the defence of American Liberty, and for repelling every hostile invasion thereof. You are therefore carefully and diligently to discharge the duty of Ensign by doing and performing all manner of things thereunto belonging. And we do strictly charge and require all officers and soldiers under your command, to be obedient to your orders, as Ensign . And you are to observe and follow such orders and directions from time to time as you shall receive from this or a future Congress of the United Colonies, or Committee of Congress, for that purpose appointed, or Commander in Chief for the time being of the army of the United Colonies, or any other your superior officer, according to the rules and discipline of war, in pursuance of the trust reposed in you. This commission to continue in force until revoked by this or a future Congress.
33788 July 1 st 1775
By Order of the Congress.
John Hancock President

I James Shaw testify and say that I served in the army of the United States in the Revolutionary war, under the Continental establishment, from the first day of July 1775 until the last Day of December 1776 making the term of eighteen fifteen months - in the company commanded by Capt Isaac Woods, in the Regiment commanded by Col n Cotten for six months, and one year in Col n Learned's Regiment - that during the whole of that time Lieutenant Fowell Thomas now of New Salem served in the same company as a commissioned Officer - that I have been well acquainted with the said Lt. Thomas ever since that time, and have considered him as a respectable Citizen but in rather low circumstances as to property and is now reduced, by reason of sickness in family and his advanced age and bodily infirmity of himself, to indigence - James Shaw
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Franklin ss. April 13 th 1818 Then James Shaw above named personally appeared and made Oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavit by him subscribed - Before me Varney Pearce Just t of the Peace

State of Massachusetts — I Forwell Thomas a Citizen of the United States, now resident at New Salem in the County of Franklin in the State aforesaid, do on oath testify and declare, that in the War of the Revolution, on the first day of July 1775
I entered and was engaged in the Land service of the United States on the continental establishment, and served accordingly from that time to December 31 st 1776
as an Ensign and Lieutenant against the common enemy, without any interrup- tion or absence: that I belonged to the Company of Capt. Isaac Wood Col. Cotton's Regiment, in the Massachusetts Line ; that afterwards I was a Lieutenant under the same Captain, in Col. Shepard's Regiment in the same line and served one year my last Commission is almost entirely worn out, one small piece only being left and that I left the service on it in the last instance Dec. 31, 1776
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 seventy one Years —
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.
Forwell Thomas
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 18 th of March, A. D. 1818, personally appeareth before me,
Edw. Bangs Judge of the Common Pleas Western Circuit
the abovenamed
Forwell Thomas
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- e 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.
Edw. Bangs

33 788 Resy INVALID.
File No. 33,788
Foxwell Thomas
Lieut Rev War
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 481
[Arrangement of 1870.]