Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 10,521, for Abraham Thompson, Connecticut

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Thompson, Abraham Dorcas B. _____
R. 10521 B.L.W. 34599-160-55-
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74.986 3 Act March 3/55 April 16 "
James Thompson M.D. son of Abraham Thompson
Was in the War of the Revolution M.D. Princeton N.J. 7-1802
Portrait Col. Austin Frank Nica Revolutionary War
Conn. Lts 1832
Portrait Ad. 160 act July 12/55 Portrait
Abraham Robinson for Haver Conn.
Abraham 12/27/55
Vol. I-66

State of Connecticut County of New Haven } S.S.
On this 16 th day of February 1882 before me a Judge of the Court of Probate in and for the district of New Haven, in the County and State aforesaid, personally appeared Abraham A Thompson of the town of New Haven in the district and State aforesaid who being duly sworn declares and says that he is the duly appointed Administrator on the estate of Abraham Thompson, the identical person who was a soldier of the War of the Revolution, and who applied for a pen- sion from the United States, under act of 7 th June 1832, and whose claim was suspended or rejected,
That he died on the 22 nd day of August, 1846, and that Dorcas B Thompson is the widow of the said Abra- ham Thompson, and that she now resides in the town and cou- nty aforesaid;
That the object of this declaration is to ask that the claim of the said Abraham Thompson may now be examined, and the amount due him at the time of his death may now be allowed for the benefit of his surviving widow.
Sworn and subscribed before me this 16 th day of February 1882
Fred: C. Cowell, Judge of Probate for the District of New Haven.

State of Connecticut District of New Haven
I Frederick Crosswell Judge of The Court of Probate Within and for the said district of New Haven, do hereby certify that it has been Satisfactorily proved before me by Respectable and Credible testimony, that Abraham Thompson deceased formerly of the town of New Haven and New Haven County and State aforesaid, was and is reputed to have been a Soldier of the War of the Revolution, and an applicant for a pension from the United States, that he died on the 22 nd day of August, 1846. — And that Dorcas B Thompson is the surviving Widow of the said Abram Thompson and that Abraham A Thompson is his duly Appointed Administrator and legal Representative
In testimony whereof I have hereunto Set my hand and Seal of said Court of Probate this 16 th day of February, 1842
Fred: Crosswell, Judge

County Law, Act of 1835 Application by Widow of Revolutionary Soldier
State of Connecticut City and County of New Haven ss
On this 2 nd day of April A. D. One thousand eight hundred and fifty five before me the sub- -criber, a Notary Public for said State dwelling in said city of New Haven in the said State of Connecticut personally appeared Dorcas Thompson of said city aged seventy nine years who being duly sworn according to law declares that she is the widow of Abraham Thompson deceased formerly of said New Haven who was a private in the war of the Revolution and performed actual service therein for the term of fourteen days, who made application for a Pension under the Act of June 7 th 1832 and whose claim for said Pension was suspended on the ground that six months service was not fully proved.
She refers to the evidence filed in connection with her husband's said application in the U. S. Pension Department for proof of his services in said war of the Revolution for the term of fourteen days.
She further states that she was married to the said Abraham Thompson in said city of New Haven, on the 3 rd day of October A. D. 1803. by the Rev. James Dano then Pastor of the First Congregational Church in said city and that her name before her marriage was Dorcas Perkins
And that her said husband died at said city of New Haven on the twenty second day of Aug. A. D. 1826

and that she is now a widow.
She makes this Declaration for the purpose of obtaining the bounty land to which she may be entitled under the Act approved March 3, 1855.
Dorcas Thompson
We, Abraham A. Thompson and Emma Short residents of said city of New Haven in said State of Connecticut upon our oaths, declare that the foregoing declaration was signed and acknowledged by Mrs Dorcas Thompson in our presence, and that we have been for many years well acquainted with her and know that she is the identical person she represents herself to be and that she is now a widow.
A. A. Thompson
Emma Short
The foregoing declaration and affidavit were sworn to and subscribed before me on 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.
Henry Root Notary Public
The Commissioner of Pensions will please forward the Warrant on the above to Charles Robinson Esq. New Haven Ct.
Dorcas Thompson

State of Connecticut } City and County of New Haven } ss
On this 9 th day of April A. D. 1855 before me the subscriber, a Notary Public for said State duly commissioned and sworn personally appeared Rev. Leonard Bacon D. D. of said city whom I certify to be a highly respectable and credible person, who being by me duly sworn according to law did depose and say
— that he is the Pastor of the First Congregational Church in said city and has the custody of the records of said church relating to marriages
— that upon said records there is the following entry—to wit "1803 Oct. 2 nd Abraham Thompson Jr was married to Dorcas Perkins by the Reverend James Dana"
— that the above is a true extract from said records and that the said James Dana was the Pastor of said Church at the date of said record and was by law fully authorized to perform the ceremony of marriage
Leonard Bacon
Sworn to and subscribed this 9 th day of April A. D. 1855 before me Henry Peck Jr Notary Public

Bounty Land Act of 1855
Application by Widow
of Revolutionary Soldier
State of Connecticut
City and County of New Haven ss
On this 2 nd day of April A. D. 1855 before me the subscriber a Notary Public for said state, dwelling in said city personally appeared Abraham A. Thompson and Emma Short of said city whom I certify to be credible persons who being duly sworn did depose and say.
— that they were for many years well acquainted with Abraham Thompson deceased formerly of said city, who was a private in the war of the Revolution and also with Mrs. Dorcas Thompson now his widow.
— that the said Abraham Thompson and Dorcas Thompson are the identical persons named in the records of the First Congregational Church of which a copy is contained in the fore-going affidavit of the Rev Leonard Bacon.
— that the said Abraham and Dorcas, cohabited and were publicly reported to be husband and wife, until his death,
— that the said Abraham Thompson died at said New Haven on the 22 nd day of August A. D. 1846 and that the said Dorcas Thompson has never again married but is now the widow of the said Abraham Thompson and is the identical person who has made the declaration hereto attached, and that we have no interest in her said claim.
Abraham A. Thompson
Emma Short.
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 2 nd day of April — A. D. 1855
Henry Peck Jr. Notary Public

5840.
Abraham Thompson
son:
Act of June 32
Reported
Count
10521

Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7. 1832
State of Connecticut County of New-Haven } ss
On this 18 th day of August personally appeared in open Court before the Court of Probate for the District of New-Haven in the State of Connecticut now sitting, Abraham Thompson a resident of New-Haven, in the county of New-Haven & State of Connecticut aged 67 years, who being first duly sworn according 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 & served as herein stated. That in November & December of the year 1779 he entered the company of State Guard so called stationed at New-Haven, for a substitute for Jared Atwater of New-Haven - That said company was commanded by Captain William Van Deusen - That John Clarke of New- Haven was an officer in said company, but of what rank he cannot now remember - that he thinks one Painter of West-Haven was lieutenant - that the declarant served one month at that time as a private in said company, which remained at New-Haven during the whole of that time -
That in the latter part of the summer of the year 1781 he entered the company of Connecticut militia in the service of the United States commanded by Captain Munroe of Haverden, as a substitute for one Beecher of Woodbridge - that he thinks the name of the Colonel of the regiment was Adkin - that this regiment was stationed at New-Haven to guard that port & the shore of Long Island round adjacent that he served, one month in this company, being employed as a

guard to the shore aforesaid -
That immediately after he was discharged from Captain Munn's company he again entered, on the same day that he was discharged, into the company commanded by Captain Todd of North Haven, as a substitute for Matthew Gilbert of Haverden - That this company belonged to the same regiment with the company in which he last served; & was employed in the same way to guard the shores - That William Jones of New-Haven was clerk of Captain Todd's company - that the declarant served one month in this company, & did duty in keeping guard, with the rest of the company -
That a few days before the time for which he was last hired had expired, he was drafted into the militia for six months to go to West Point to strengthen that post, which had been weakened in consequence of the army having been withdrawn by General Washington to Yorktown - That the draft was made a short time before Cornwallis was taken in Yorktown - That Captain Osborn, the captain of the militia company out of which he was drafted, went with the declarant to the Colonel of the regiment in which the declarant was then serving as a substitute for Matthew Gilbert, to ascertain whether the declarant could under those circumstances be drafted, & that the Colonel informed Captain Osborn & the declarant, that the declarant must go if drafted & that some other substitute must be provided by Matthew Gilbert - That accordingly Captain Osborn ordered the declarant to be ready to march at a minute's warning & to keep himself then ready - That the declarant held himself then ready & equipped to march at any moment during the whole six months for which he was drafted - That the declarant was not marched out of New-Haven but remained ready & liable to go whenever ordered during the whole of said six months

That in the interval between the first & second terms of service above mentioned, he was frequently served as a substitute for various persons, as a guard on the shore, & as a picket guard for a single night at a time - That for two nights he served as a guard on board a vessel in the harbor of New-Haven - that he cannot now recollect the exact number of times that he served thus as an occasional guard, or a substitute for the regular soldiers - but he thinks that it must have been as many as thirty times, on as many different nights.
That he was born in the city of New-Haven in the county of New-Haven & State of Connecticut, on the eight day of September AD 1765 - that there was a record of his age in the Family Bible belonging to his father, which is now worn out & defaced - that he had a copy of that record which the declarant copied into his own Bible - that he knows of no other record of his age - that he was living in New-Haven at each of the times in which he entered the service of the United States as above mentioned - & has always resided in New-Haven ever since that time - that he never received any written discharge from the service - that he has no documentary evidence of any kind - that he is known to the Rev. Elazar T. Fitch Professor of Divinity in Yale College in New-Haven, who can testify as to the character of the declarant, & to his belief of the declarant's services as a soldier of the revolution. He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, & declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State. His Abraham Thompson mark Attest Smith Thompson Clerk

We Elazar Ditch Professor of Divinity in Yale College a clergyman residing in the town of New-Haven in New-Haven county & the State of Connecticut and Nathan Beers of said New-Haven formerly a lieutenant in the revolutionary army of the united States hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Abraham Thompson who has subscribed & sworn to the above declaration - that he is a man of undoubted integrity & veracity - that we believe him to be 67 years of age - that he is reputed & believed in the neighbor- hood, where he resided to have been a soldier of the revolution & that we concur in that opinion. I sworn to & subscribed the day & year aforesaid. Attest - Solly Thompson - Clerk - Elazar D. Ditch. Nathan Beers
I. Sylvanus Bills of New-Haven in the State of Connecticut of lawful age, being duly sworn depose to say - that I am well acquainted with Abraham Thompson who has subscribed & sworn to the foregoing declaration - that I served my time in learning my trade when a boy within a few rods of the Thompson - that in the fall & latter part of the summer of the year 1781. the deponent was a soldier in captain Fairchild's com- pany in Colonel Austin's regiment, station at New-Haven - that the deponent then frequently saw & Thompson, & knows that Thompson was at that time a soldier in another company in the same regiment; that I served one month in that

regiment, & that during the whole of this month J Thompson served as a soldier in the service of the United States in the same regiment.
That J Thompson at many different times served with me at a picket guard for a single night at a time, & that I know of his serving in this way many times when I did not. That we served as a guard in this way, two or three times a week for several weeks.
That in the fall of the year 1781 after General Washington had withdrawn the American army from the North river to Virginia, intelligence came that General Washington had ordered a draft from the militia to be ready at a minute's warning to go to West Point. That the late Captain Osborn the captain of the militia company at that time in New-Haven speak of this draft. That I know that J Thompson was drafted in this draft to go at a minute's notice. & that he held himself ready & equipped & remained in New-Haven ready according to the order which he had received. That I believe J Thompson to be 67 years of age - sworn to & subscribed the day & year aforesaid.
Attest - Anthony D. Sanford Clerk
Sylvanus Biles
I Nathaniel Drown of New-Haven in the State of Connecticut of lawful age, being duly sworn before me, say, that in the fall of the year 1781, about the time in which Lord Cornwallis was taken, I resided in New-Haven & was a soldier in Captain Van Deusen's company. That I well remember that at that time order came to make a draft of minute.

men, out of the militia, to go toward New-York - & that such a draft was at that time made - that I am well acquainted with Abraham Thompson who has subscribed & sworn to the foregoing declaration - that I know Mr Thompson to be a man of integrity & veracity & that I believe him to be 67 years of age. Sworn to & subscribed the day & year aforesaid. Nathaniel Dorr Attest Anthony Thompson Clerk
I, Henry Daggett of New Haven in the County of New-Haven and State of Connecticut formerly a lieutenant in the revolu- tionary army of the United States in the regiment commanded by Colonel Herman Swift, of lawful age, being duly sworn before me say - that I am well acquainted with Abraham Thompson who has subscribed & sworn to the foregoing declaration - that I have known Mr Thompson from his youth to the present time - that Mr Thompson has for the last two years, worked in my employ at many different times as a laborer in a farm. that I have within three years heard Mr Thompson relate his services in the revolutionary war, substantially as contained in the preceding statement - that Mr Thompson is a man of undoubted integrity & veracity - that his statements are entitled to full credit & belief - that I believe Mr Thompson to be 67 years of age Sworn to & subscribed this 17 th day of August 1832
Attest - Anthony Thompson Clerk
Henry Daggett

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter & after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier & served in the states. And the court further certify that it appears to them that Eleazar Ditch who has signed the preceding certificate is Professor of Divinity in Yale College & and a clergyman resident in New-Haven & that Nathan Beers who has also signed the same is a resident in New-Haven & is a credible person & that their statement is entitled to credit; and also that Sylvanus Biles, Nathaniel Downs & Henry Daggett who have subscribed the foregoing deposition are credible persons & that their statements are entitled to full credit.
Chas. A. Durand
Clerk of said Court.
I, Anthony P. Sanford clerk of the Court of Probate for the District of New-Haven in the State of Connecticut, do hereby certify, that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Abraham Thompson for a pension. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of office this twenty seventh day of August A.D. 1832.
Anthony P. Sanford Clerk

Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873.
REJECTED
10521
P. O. Abraham Thompson
Service: _____
Enlisted: _____, 18 .
Discharged: _____, 18 .
Application filed: _____, 18 .
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract.
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18 .

34.899
160 Ams

FREE
Hon L. P. Waldo. Commissioner of Pensions, Washington, D. C.
73571

Richard Appleton no 15980 New Haven Mrs. Sarah Thompson
34.599 160 34.599 160
FREE
Hon. J. Minot. Buxton Commr of Pensions. Washington. D. C.

New Haven, April 14 th 1833. Hon L. P. Waldo, Commissioner of Pensions, Dear Sir,
Herewith I forward the application of Mrs Doreas Thompson of the City for Bounty Land under the act of Mar 3 rd 1833. She is a respectable Lady, whom I know to be the individual she describes herself to be,
Should any farther evidence be required, please let me be informed, and when her Warrant is issued, please let it be forwarded to me.
Very Respectfully,
Yr. Mo. Affec. Son,
Charles Robinson New Haven Conn

New Haven, July 16 th 1836.
Hon J. Stuart, Com'r of Pensions. Dear Sir.
Your letter of Oct 27 th 1833 was duly recd, relating to the application of Mrs. Sarah Thompson for Bounty Land, for the services of her husband Abraham Thompson in the War of the Revolution, informing me that the case was suspended for want of Record evidence of the service of her husband. As it appears by your favor of Nov 20 th 1833, that her husband did actually serve over 14 days, as full proof of such service is on file in your Department, and the necessity of Record Proof is now removed, permit me to request that her warrant may be issued to her.
When issued, please let her warrant be transmitted to me, oblige,
Very Respectfully, G. W. White.
Charles Robinson Wadsworth Comd

New Haven Nov. 9 th , 1888.
Hon. J. P. Minot. Comm'r of Pensions. Dear Sir,
Herewith I enclose the request of Mrs. Dorcas Thompson, a highly respectable Lady of this city, widow of Abraham Thompson, deceased, who applied for a Rev. Pension under the Act of July 7 th 1882, that she may receive from your Department the particulars of her husband's service, as set forth by him in his declaration.
I trust that her request will receive a favorable consideration from you.
Very Respectfully,
Yr. Hon. Wm. Smith.
Charles Robinson
New Haven
Conn

New Haven Conn. Nov. 9 th 1855.
Hon. J. Moring. Commr of Pensions
I, Dorcas Thompson of New Haven, Conn. hereby declare that I am the widow of Abraham Thompson formerly of said New Haven, who made application for a pension under the Act. July 7 th . 1855, and whose claim was rejected for want of proof of six months service.
And I respectfully request you honor to cause to be forwarded to me the particulars of the services of my said husband Abraham Thompson, as set forth by him in his application for a pension.
With sincere respect.
Your servt.
Dorcas her Thompson mark
Subscribed and sworn to this 9 th day of November A.D. 1855, before me.
Sidney M. Stone Jr.
Notary Public.
P.S. Please direct to Charles Robinson Esq. New Haven, Ct. Dorcas her Thompson mark