Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 3,797, for Job Thomson, New Hampshire

SERVICE
NUMBER
Th. H.
Thomson, J. O.
S 3797
Carded.
CONTENTS

* 7075
Job Thompson
of Portage County in the State of Ohio. who was a private in the Company commanded by Captain Moray of the Regt. commanded by Col. Reed in the New Hampshire mi- litiar 12 mos. 6 days from '75
Job Thompson: Records of Mar 10 '34
Inscribed on the Roll of Ohio at the rate of 40 Dollars 64 Cents per annum to commence on the 14th day of March, 1834.
Certificate of Pension issued the 28 day of Febr'y 1833 and sent to John Whittlesey Esq. Ravenna O.
Arrears to 14th of Mar. 1833 $81.28 Semizant. allowance ending 4 Sept. 1833 20.32 $101.60
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by W. L. Williams Clerk, Book B Vol. 8 Page 26
Dec. 5. 1833 transfer to B. Pittsbg from 4 Sept 1833 notice sent to Cyrus Prentiss, Ravenna Ohio same day

9. 433 —
Rob Thompson
Ohio
Portage County
from 1775 prints 12 mo. 6 days.
40. \frac{64}{100} .
John Whittlesey Ravenna

BRIEF in the case of of Sargt
Job Thompson of the County in the State of Ohio (Act 7th June, 1832.)
 1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? Open Court  2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?  3. How old is he? 74. 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.     enlisted In 1775 as Sargt Vol 1776. 3 Private Capt. Marcy Gen. New Hampshire. Col Reed   Vol 1777. May 6. 6. do " M'Intosh " Bellairs   The fall of 1777. as 80 Vol in all the above cases 3 " do do  
 5. In what battles was he engaged? None stated  6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Alstead Cheshire County New Hampshire  7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditional evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? one living witness & traditional  8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? Not defective 
I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
H. P. Evans Examining Clerk.

State of Ohio } On this twentieth day of August 1832 Portage County } personally appeared before the Judges of the Supreme Court of the State of Ohio Job Thompson a resident of Shalersville Township in the County of Portage and State of Ohio, aged seventy four 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 enlisted into the Army of the United States under Captain John Marcy in the month of December 1775 or in the month of January 1776 That he was attached to the New Hampshire Regiment under the following named Officers to wit Col. Reed and Capt. John Marcy, that enlisted at Winter Hill near Boston and remained there upon duty for the term of three months when he received a discharge from Captain Marcy and returned home to Alstead in New Hampshire that he has lost the discharge which he received from Captain Marcy.
That in the month of May 1777 Col. Bellows Regiment was called into service for the term of six months that he entered the service under Captain Webber and marched with the Regiment commanded by Col. Bellows from Alstead in New Hampshire to Ticonderoga, from this place we marched to Bennington, thence to Bottenkill, thence to Saratoga, thence to Stillwater, from thence to Fort Edward, and after the surrender of Burgoyne's Army, that he returned to Alstead and was discharged having served in this campaign six months and six days.
That in the fall of 1779 or 1780 Col. Bellows Regiment was ordered out to oppose the Indians who had burnt the town of Royalton in Vermont and were destroying our citizens, that he again entered Capt. Webber's Company and marched with Colonel Bellows Regiment from Alstead to Royalton in Vermont and from there pursued the Indians to the Canada line, from thence

To Dartmouth College where they remained about two weeks and then marched home to Alstead where we were discharged - That he served in this Campaign the term of three months - That his whole time of service in the above mentioned Campaigns was twelve months -
He hereby relinquished every claim whatever to a Pension or annuity except the present, and declares that his name is not on the Pension Role of the Agency of any State -
Ques? When and in what year were you born?
Ans. I was born in the town of Windsor in the State of Connecticut in the year 1758
Ques. Have you any Record of your age and if so where is it?
Ans. I have none and know of none -
Ques. Where were you living when called into service, where have you lived since the Revolutionary War and where do you now live? -
Ans. At Alstead in Cheshire County, New Hampshire and I resided at that place for a number of years after the war and have resided in Phaleroville in the County of Portage State of Ohio for the last eighteen years -
Ques. How were you called into service; were you drafted, did you volunteer, or were you a substitute and if a substitute, for whom
Ans. I volunteered on all the occasions mentioned in the foregoing declaration
Ques. State the names of some of the Regular Officers, who were with the troops, when you served; such Continental and Militia Regiments as you can recollect, and the General Circumstances of

of your services.
This I can not do more particularly than I have done in my declaration.
Ques. Did you ever receive a discharge from the service and if so by whom was it given and what has become of it
Ans. I never received any written discharge
Ques. Have you any documentary evidences of your Revolutionary services?
Ans. I have not.
Ques. Do you know of any person who can testify to your Revolutionary services?
Ans. I offer Daniel Burroughs of Shalersville Portage County, Ohio. — Job Thompson
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
Before me John Skinner Dept. Clerk Supr. Court.
The State of Ohio
Portage County } I Daniel Burroughs of Shalersville Township in the County of Portage and State of Ohio do hereby certify that I am well acquainted with Job Thompson who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration, that I believe him to be seventy four years of age, that he is a man whose truth and veracity is unimpeachable and that he served as a soldier for months in the Company of Captain Webber in Colonel Bellows Regiment in the year 1777 to my personal knowledge. Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid Daniel Burroughs Before me John Skinner Dept. Clerk Supr. Court.
The State of Ohio
Portage County } We William Coolman Jr. of the Township of Ravenna in the County of Portage in the State of Ohio and Joseph Platt of Shalersville Township in the County and State aforesaid hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Job Thompson who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we

believe him to be seventy four 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, that he sustains a good Character for truth and veracity -
And we further State that at the present there is no resident Clergyman in the Township of Shalersville -
William Coolman Jr.
Joseph Platt
Given to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
Before me John N. Strainer Dept. Clerk of Sup Court - 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 Daniel Burroughs who has signed one of the preceding certificates is a resident in the township of Shalersville and county of Portage aforesaid and that William Coolman Jr. who has signed the other certificate is a resident in the Township of Ravenna in the county aforesaid and that Joseph Platt who has also signed the same is a resident in the Township of Shalersville aforesaid in the county of Portage aforesaid that they are credible persons and that their statement is entitled to credit.
I George Kirkum clerk of the Supreme Court of the state of Ohio for the county of Portage do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of Job Thompson for a pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this first day of September A.D. one thousand eight hundred and thirty two. Geo. Kirkum Clerk.
9433 Job Thompson's Application

Rev May 3494 INVALID.
File No. 3797
* Job Thomson Pr. A.K.M.
Act: June 7, 182
Index:—Vol. 1 , Page 372
[Arrangement of 1870.]
* Job Thomson. Records corrected Mar. 1872

John Whetlesley's Letter
Pareura
Portage County Ohio

Carew Ohio Septm 1 st 1832
Sir
I have enclosed the Application of Daniel Burroughs, Job Thompson, Nathaniel Kelly, Paul Sancom, Philip Baker, Valentine Coosard, Obadiah Stephens, & Ozias Hawley asking to be placed in the Pension Roll under the act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832
Hon Lewis Cass Secretary of War Washington City
I am very Respectfully Yours O bt Serv t John. Whittier

Department of the Interior,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS,
Washington, D. C., _____, 190__
SIR:
In response to your letter of _____, I have to decline to furnish you the post-office address of _____
_____ Cert. No. _____ for the reason that it does not appear from the records of this Bureau that you are the attorney of record in any claim now pending.
Very respectfully,
Commissioner.

BRIEF objections to the admission of Pension Claims, of which those answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of Job Thompson 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

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? No Two Citizens XII. If the clergyman's affidavit has not been produced, is there any reason assigned for not obtaining it? Yes 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? Yes 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? Yes XVI. ‡ Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct? Yes XVII. Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily? And, if not, which of them is not so answered?
 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."

It is important in all cases to determine with precision the period for which each applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service. The use of the phrase about three or four months is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable. Some persons who apply for pensions merely state they served two years in the militia, &c. without specifying the tours; the names of the officers, and other particulars respecting their service. This form of a declaration is highly objectionable. It must in every case be clearly shewn under what officers the applicant served; the duration of each term of engagement; the particular place or places where the service was performed; that the applicant served with an embodied corps called into service by competent authority; that he was either in the field or in garrison; and for the time during which the service was performed, he was not employed in any civil pursuit.
†QUERE XIV. Proof of Service.
In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses, who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimants entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the regiment, company, and line to which he belonged. The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the witnesses, and the official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office.
‡QUERE XVI. Mode of authenticating papers.
In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticates the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other paper authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the ends of which must pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate.
¶ In every case where the clerk of the court, or other certifying officer, has no public seal of office, the certificate of a member of congress, proving the official character and signature of the certifying officer, should accompany the papers.