Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 28914, for Silvanus Tompkins, New York

SERVICE
NUMBER
New York.
Tompkins, Silvanus
S 28914
CONTENTS

Died 4 th April 1835. Letter to Pension Agent and  at Camp Plattsburg 23 April 1838. Same 7 th May 1838. Paid at the Treasury under the Act of 6 th April 1838. from the 4 th March 1834 to the 4 th April 1835. Agent notified 16 May 1838
24,348.
New York Silvanus Tompkins
of Westchester in the State of New York who was a Private in the Co. H commanded by Captain Brown of the Regt. commanded by Col. Drake in the New York line for 2 years
Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 80 Dollars 00 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 22 day of Nov: 1833 and Seattle No. awarded King's Creek
Arrears to the 4th of Apr. 33 $208 Semi-annual allowance ending Apr 34 40 $248
Revolutionary Claim, by June 7, 1832.
Recorded by Col. Smith Clerk, Book E. Vol. 1. Page 82.

Treasury Department,
SECOND COMPTROLLER'S OFFICE,
May 14 - 1838.
Sir.
Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled "An act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States;" The heirs of Sylvanus Tompkins a Pensioner on the Roll of the New-York City Agency, at the rate of eighty Dollars and _____ Cents per annum, under the law of the 7 th June 1832 has been paid at this Department, from the 4 th of March 1834 to the 4 th April 1835, the day of said pensioner's death - Respectfully, yours,
Alison K. Parrish Comptroller
To the COMMISSIONER OF PENSIONS, Present.

28.310
Sylvanus Tompkins
Pension application
Admitted Private 2 years
W. Ward disq. ling.

State of New York
County of Tioga ss John Jones
Esquire of the town of Spencer in the said County being duly sworn on his oath saith that he is now Seventy two years of age, that he is well acquainted with Sylvanus Tompkins of the town of Courtland in the County of Westchester and State of New York and that he was well acquainted with him during the Revolutionary War: that the Deponent has been informed that said Tompkins is about making an application for a pension under the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832. And the Deponent saith that this deponent he was in the service of the United States with the said Sylvanus Tompkins in the Revolutionary War in the company of Militia of the State of New York commanded by Captain Ebenezer Doid in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Samuel Drake in the years 1779. 1780. 1781 and 1782. And the deponent further saith that the said Sylvanus Tompkins, to the personal knowledge of this Deponent was in the actual service of the United States in the Revolutionary War six months in each of the last mentioned years that is to say, six months in the year 1779, six months in the year 1780, six months in the year 1781, and six months in the year 1782 that each of the said terms of service was performed in the company commanded by Captain

Bois aforesaid of the militia of the State of New York. That the said Sylvanus Tompkins served the said term of service in the County County of Westchester and State of New York. That he served as a private: that the said term of service commenced in the month of April in each of the said years respectively and that the said Tompkins served faithfully during the continuance thereof. And the Deponent further saith that the said County of Westchester was during the years aforesaid partly occupied by the British troops and refugees who were  were stationed in the southern and middle parts of said County and were almost constantly making incursions into the northern part of said County plundering the inhabitants and burning and destroying their property and laying waste the country: that these causes rendered it necessary to keep up a consider- able military force in said County, which some times consisted consisted of continen- tal troops and militia, and some times of militia only: that the said company of the said Bois was required to be in actual service during the years  time above mentioned, in the said County and that the deponent served in the said company during that time and knows that the said term Tompkins served in the same as herein mentioned and further deponent saith not
Sworn to & subscribed this sixteenth day of March 1833
John Jones

before me Joshua Ferris J.P.
I certify that I am personally acquainted with John Jones Esquire who has subscribed and sworn to the foregoing affidavit and that he is a credible person and that his statements are entitled to full credit
Dated Spencer March 16 th . 1833.
Joshua Ferris J.P.
State of New York (Tioga County)
I Green M. Tuttle Clerk of said County do certify that Joshua Ferris before whom the preceding affidavit purports to have been sworn and who to the certificate of identity was at the date of the same a justice of the peace in for said County. And that I am acquainted with his handwriting and hereby believe his signature subscribed above to be genuine. Witness my hand and seal of office this 2 nd day of March A.D. 1833.
Green M. Tuttle Clerk

Declaration
In order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832 State of New York County of Westchester ss
71
On this twenty third day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty three personally appeared in open court before the Judges of the court of common Pleas in and for the County of Westchester aforesaid now sitting (being a court of Record) Sylvanus Thompson a resident of the town of Cortlandt in the said County and State aged twenty one 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 7th 1832 1832
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated that is to say he entered the said service as a private in the Company of Militia of the State of New York commanded by Captain Ebenezer Boud in the regiment commanded by Colonel Colonel Samuel Drake in the on or about the first of April in the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy nine. That at the time he entered the service as aforesaid he resided in the Manor of Cortlandt now town of Cortlandt in the County of Westchester aforesaid. That he continued in actual service in the said Company and Regiment from the time

6mw of his entering the same on the said first day of April in the year one 1777 for and during and until the expiration of six months when he was honorably discharged at Coitlands aforesaid: that he served during the said term of six months in the County of Westchester aforesaid. and was stationed in the manor of Coitlands aforesaid on what was then called the American lines, being on the border of that part of the said County which was then in possession of the enemy. That the said term of six months service is proved by the affi- davit of John Doreas Esquire one of the Justices of the peace in and for the County of Tioga in the State of New York who was also a soldier of the Revolution and in the service at the same time with this Deponent and in the same company and Regiment.
6mw And the Declarant further saith that he again Entered the said service as a private in the same company and Regiment aforesaid, on or about the last of May in the year one thousand eight hundred and eighty and continued in the actual service of the United States for and during and until the expiration of six months when he was honorably discharged from said service at Coitlands manor in the said County of Westchester that he served on the American lines in the said County during the continu- ance thereof and was stationed at different places in said Coit County.

that he was frequently marched on expeditions against the enemy into the south- ern part of said County during both of the said last mentioned terms, and engaged in driving back from the northern part of said County hostile parties of the enemy that the said last mentioned term of service is proved by the affidavit of the said John Jones who was during the same time a fellow soldier of the declarant.
And the Declarant further saith that he again entered the service of the United States some time in the month of April in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty one in the compa- ny of militia of the said County of Westchester commanded by Captain Boice in the Regiment command- ed by the said Colonel Samuel Drake. that he continued in actual service in the said Company and Regiment for and during and until the expiration of six months from the time of his entering the same in the month of April 1781, when he was honorably discharged from said service at the town of Cortlandt aforesaid. that he served as a private during the said last mentioned term of six months and was stationed on the lines in the said County of Westchester: that the said last mentioned term of service is proved by the Affidavit of John Jones Esquire of the hereto annexed.
6ms
And the Deprecant further saith that he again entered the service of the United States on or about the last of April in the year 1782 as a private in the company of

100 Militia of said County of Westchester County -ed by the said Captain Ebenezer Boid in the Regiment commanded by the said Colonel Samuel Drake: that he con- tinued in the  actual service in the said company and Regiment for the term of six months from the said last of April 1782 as afore- said when he was honorably discharged; at the manor of Cortlandt in the said County of Westchester: that he served on the lines in the said County during the said last mentioned term: that which is also proved by the affidavits of the said Jones hereto annexed.
300 And the declarant further saith that he was in the actual service of the United States three months in the Summer of the year 1778 in the Company of Militia of the County of Westchester commanded by Captain Gilbert Lockwood in the Regiment commanded by the said Samuel Drake. But that he has no documentary evidence thereof nor does he know of any person whose testimony he can produce who can testify to the last mentioned term of service.
1 st And the declarant states that he was born in the County of Dutchess in the State of New York in 1762
2 d That he has no record of his age
3 d That at the time he entered the service as aforesaid he resided in the County Westchester town of Cortlandt then Cortlandt manor in the said.

State of New York and since the revolution has lived in the said town of Cortland and County and State last aforesaid and now resides there
4 thly That he entered the service as herein before stated as a volunteer.
5 thly That the only officers with whom he served whose names he now recollects are Col. Drake and Captain Ebenezer Boice and Captain Gilbert Lockwood, that he never served with any continental troops.
6 thly Did not receive any written discharge from the service, but did receive a verbal discharge from the Captain of his company as aforesaid
7 thly That Robert MacLeod Esquire one of the Justices of the peace in and for said County of Westchester and Nathaniel Under of said County who reside in my neighborhood can testify as to my character for veracity and their belief of my service as a soldier of the Revolution.
That he has no documentary evidence of his service, and that he knows of no other person whose testimony he can procure who can certify to his service other than John Jones where affidavits are hereto annexed.
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatsoever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State or County.

Sworn to and subscribed This 23 rd day of September 1833.
N o Rayles Atk of said Court
Sylvanus Tompkins
We Robert MacLeod and Nathan Anderson residing in the Town of Cortlandt in the County of Westchester and State of New York hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Sylvanus Tompkins, who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration, that we believe him to be seventy one years of age, that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.
Nathan Anderson
Sworn to and subscribed
This 23 rd day of Sept r 1833 before me.
Robert MacLeod
N o Rayles Atk of said 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 Robert MacLeod and Nathan Anderson the who have signed the proceedings certificate, are both residents in the Town of Cortlandt and County of Westchester aforesaid and that they are credit- able persons and that their statements are entitled to credit.

I Nathaniel Baylis Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Westchester in the State of New York, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Sylvanus Doughty for a pension in testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County. the 23 rd day of September in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred & thirty two.
N Baylis CLK

January 23, 1937.
Miss Marguerite E. Cornell 17 Linden Avenue Ossining, New York.
BA-J/ILL Sylvanus Tompkins S. 28914
Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revolutionary War records of Joshua and Sylvanus Tompkins, who served from Westchester County, New York.
There is no claim for pension or bounty land on file based upon service in the Revolutionary War of a Joshua Tompkins, under any spelling of that surname. The record of Sylvanus Tompkins, or Tomkins, is furnished herein as found in his claim for pension, S. 28914, based upon his service in the Revolutionary War.
Sylvanus Tompkins, or Tomkins, was born in the year 1762, in Dutchess County, New York; the day of his birth and the names of his parents were not given.
While a resident of Cortland Manor, Westchester County, New York, he enlisted and served as private in Colonel Samuel Drake's New York regiment, at different times, shown as follows: in the summer of 1778, three months in Captain Gilbert Lockwood's company; from April 1, 1779, six months in Captain Ebenezer Boyd's company; from the last of May 1780, six months in Captain Ebenezer Boyd's company; from April 1781, six months in Captain Ebenezer Boyd's company, and from April 1782, six months in the same company. During this service, he was engaged against the enemy who occupied the adjoining country much of the time.
He was allowed pension on his application executed September 23, 1833, at which time he resided in Cortland, Westchester County, New York. He had lived there ever since the Revolutionary War.
The soldier died April 4, 1835, survived by his widow, and

sons, one of whom was Henry. The name of the soldier's wife was not shown, nor the date and place of their marriage. There are no further data regarding his family.
Very truly yours,
A. D. HILLER, Executive Assistant to the Administrator.

Treasury Department,
Second Comptroller's Office, June 21. 1838.
Sir:
Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled "An act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States," Henry Tompkins one of the sons of Sylvanus Tompkins deceased a Pensioner on the Roll of the New York City Agency, at the rate of eighty Dollars and — — Cents per annum, under the law of the seventh of June 1832, has been paid at this Department, from the fourth of March 1834 to the 4 th of April 1835, viz. $ 21. 66 Respectfully, yours,
Abner K. Paris Comptroller
To the Commissioner of Pensions, Present.

Mechanics Bank New York 21 st April 1838
Sir
I inclose the papers in the case of Silvanus Tompkins, late a pensioner under the act of 7 th June 1832, at Eighty Dollars per Annum, the widow claiming the balance due from the 14 th of March 1834 to the 14 th of April 1835.
This pensioners name together with others similarly situated, will be transferred to the Second Comptrollers office this day, as directed by his circular Letter of the 12 th Inst. This claim has been presented at this Agency five times, and at each time returned as informal, there are many claims of this nature constantly being presented for small balances, and I beg leave to ask for information, what forms are necessary for the parties interested to attain the money in such cases, from the Treasury Department.
Very Respectfully
James L Edwards Esq Your Obt Servt
Commissioner of Pensions Washington
J Lovick W.P.

28914
Ray INVALID.
1915 Dec. 29: history to mtr.
N. G. L. Adams. m. 13. H.
1937-Jan. 23 - Hist. to Marguerite E. Cornell - L.H.
File No. 28,914
Silvanus Tompkins Pr. Rev. m.
Act: June 7 th 32"
Index: —Vol. 9 , Page 421
[Arrangement of 1870.]

17 Linden Ave. Ossining, N. Y. January 9, 1937.
Veterans Administration Washington, D. C.
Gentlemen;
ok We would appreciate any information you can give us about Sylvanus Tompkins who served as a private in the Westchester County, New York State during the Revolution and who was placed on the Pension roll Nov. 22, 1833.
We would also like to know if a Nancy Travis Tompkins, the widow of Joshua Tompkins who we think served in the Westchester County Militia of New York State, ever applied for a pension. She died on Oct. 24, 1841.
Thanking you in advance,
Yours truly,
(Miss) Marguerite E. Cornell

Per Sec 9
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December 22, 1915.
Bureau of Penisons, Washington, D. C.
Dear Sir:
Kindly give me a record of the service of one, Silvanus Tompkins, who is supposed to have served in the Third Regiment, Westchester County, New York Militia.
This information is desired for the purpose of enabling the Society to determine the eligibility of an applicant for membership in this Society.
Yours very truly,
W. I. Lincoln Adams President.

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
Washington, D. C., _____, 19_____
In reply to your request of _____, received _____ for a statement of the military history of Silvanus Tompkins , a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pen- sion on file in this Bureau. S. 28.914.
   DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE.   CAPTAIN. COLONEL.     2 Apr. 1779 6 mos. Pvt. Ebenezer Boyd. Samuel Drake N.Y.   3 May 1780 6 mos. Ebenezer Boyd. Samuel Drake.   4 Apr. 1781 6 mos. Ebenezer Boyd. Samuel Drake   5 Apr. 1782. 6 mos. Ebenezer Boyd. Samuel Drake.   1 Summer 1778 3 mos. Gilbert Lockwood Samuel Drake.  
Battles engaged in, _____
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Cortlandt Manor, Westchester Co. N.Y.
Date of application for pension, Sept. 23. 1833. His claim was allowed.
Residence at date of application, Cortlandt, Westchester Co. N.Y.
Age at date of application, born in 1762 in Dutchess Co. N.Y.
Remarks: He died April 4. 1835 leaving a widow and sons, Henry only name stated.
Respectfully,
Commissioner.