Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 43994, for Christopher Thayer, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER.
Continental Mass
Thayer, Christopher
S. 43994
CONTENTS

11,325 R
New Hampshire
Christopher Thayer
of Peterborough in the state of N. Hamp. who was a Private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Bailey of the Massachusetts line, for the term of One Year
Inscribed on the roll of New Hamp. at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence the 26 of October 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 4 of Sep. and sent to Levi Woodbury Francistown N. Hamp.
Arrears to 4th of Sep 1819 82. 60
Semi-ann. all'ce ending Mar. 1820. 48. 00
10 Mo \frac{6}{31} \frac{4}{30}
$130.60
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }

We Daniel Loring of Braintree in the county of Norfolk & State of Massachusetts, Gentleman, formerly a Sergeant and afterwards a Lieutenant in the Revolutionary Army, and James Penniman of the same Braintree, Yeoman, both of lawful age to testify as on oath depose and declare that we well know Christopher Thayer formerly of said Braintree but now belonging to Peterborough in the State of New Hampshire, that we served with him in the War of the Revolution and from our own personal knowledge we can state that said Thayer between the years 1775, that is from the first day of January 1776, one year that is the years wherein said Penniman was in the same company with said Christopher Thayer under Captain Jacob Allen, said Loring was also under the same Colonel, John Bailey. We served on the continental establishment were at Pombury, then we marched to New York, and Puckkill. Said Thayer we know was Sergeant of the company.
Dan d Loring James Penniman
Norfolk ss. July 8 th 1819. Personally appeared the above named Daniel Loring and James Penniman who subscribed the foregoing deposition and made oath that the same deposition is true, before me
Benjamin H. Dyer, Just Peace

Norfolk ss 8 th July 1819. I certify that to the best of my knowledge and according to my belief the afore-named deponents are worthy of credit neither of them having been in any case convicted of any infamous crime or suspected of any which would render them incredible in the courts or course of Justice as Witnesses
Ebenezer D. Thayer
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Norfolk ss. I Horatio Townsend Clerk of the Judicial Courts in said County of Norfolk, do hereby certify that Ebenezer D. Thayer Esquire, is a justice of the peace for said County of Norfolk, duly commissioned by the Executive authority of the Commonwealth aforesaid, and that the signature to the within certificate is in the handwriting of the said Ebenezer D. Thayer
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said County at Dedham this ninth day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and nineteen
Horatio Townsend

N.H. Christopher Thayer Pittsborough Private Col. Baileys Regiment Massachusetts Line 1775-1 year
Not on roll
Proof of service by the testimony of a credible witness is wanted.
Admitted

I Christopher Thayer of Peterborough in the County of Hillsborough in the State of New Hampshire and formerly of Braintree (Massachusetts) Husbandman Testify that in the summer of 1775 I enlisted into Colo. Langdon's Regiment and served five or six months - Again in December 1775 on the first of January 1776 I enlisted as a common Soldier into Capt Jacob Allen's Company in Colo. Baileys Regiment in the Massachusetts line in the Continental service and there served against the common enemy one whole year, and did the duty of a Sergeant in said Company, and was honorably discharged. Neither myself, nor any other person discharged at that time, had any written discharge to my knowledge - We were discharged at Pittsfield on the North River -
I have never received any pension from the United States, am now seventy seven years old, infirm, have very little property, and from my reduced circumstances need assistance from my country for support
October 19. 1818
Christopher Thayer
State of New Hampshire
Hillsborough ss October 26th 1818 - I hereby certify that the above named Christopher Thayer this day personally appeared and made oath to the truth of the foregoing declaration by him subscribed before me - and that said declaration hath satisfied me that the said Christopher Thayer served against the common enemy in the Revolutionary War, as a soldier in the Massachusetts line in the Continental service longer than nine months at one period - and that from his reduced circumstances he needs assistance from his country for support
Levi Woodbury
Assistant Justice of the Supreme Court of N.H.

43994 Rev INVALID.
File No. 43.994
Christopher Shayer Rev Rev
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 3 , Page 508
[Arrangement of 1870.]