Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S 33790, for Thomas Thornton, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass
Thornton Thomas
8 33 790
CONTENTS

Massachusetts Roll.
1,555
Thomas Thornton, Capt Richardson
Private 4
Massachusetts line '76 - 1 year In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 6 th of April 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued the 30 th of June 1818, and sent to Saml Putnam, Esq. Salem, Mass.
Arrears to 4th of Sept r 1818.
4 Months 29/30. $ 39.73
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818 }
Continued
Salem Essex County
Modification sent July 26th 1820 to Schabod Tucker, Salem Mass.

Thomas Thornton
6 Apr
Not on Rolls
DH
correct

I Thomas Thornton of Salem, in the County of Essex, & Commonwealth of Massa- chusetts, on solemn Oath declare,
That I served a faithful soldier, in Capt. Addison Richardson's Company, in Col. Hutchinson's Regiment, in the Massachu- setts Line, in the War of the Revolution on the Continental establishment, from January 1776 to January 1777 - and was taken in Fort Washington; - And I further declare that by reason of my reduced circumstances in life I need the assistance of my Country for support -
And I hereby relinquish every claim to a Pension, heretofore allowed by the laws of the United States. - †
Thomas his mark Thornton
Signed in presence of E. Putnam J. S. J. Court of Mass ts 6. Apr. 1818.

I Jonathan Seal, of Salem, in the County of Essex Merchant - On oath declare - That Thomas Thornton, served in Capt Richardsons, Company, in the War of the Revolution, from January 1776 to January 1777 - and that he was taken in Fort Washington - That during said term I belonged to the same company and was taken with the said Thornton & others in Fort Washington -
Jon Seal
Affidavit. I Ichabod Tucker Clerk of all the Judicial Courts of said County certify that Hon. Samuel Putnam is a Judge of said Court - that the signature on next page is his hand writing and that the affixed is the Seal of said Court
Attn Ichabod Tucker, Clerk
June 13. 1818 I further certify that Benjamin Merrill Esq. whose signature is under the Disposition of Moses Townsend Esq. is a Justice of the Peace duly qualified to administer oaths
Attn Ichabod Tucker, Clerk

Commonwealth of Massachusetts Essex ss.
On this sixth day of April A.D. 1818, before me Samuel Putnam Esq. one of the Justices of the Supreme Judicial Court of said Commonwealth, personally appeared Thomas Thornton and Jonathan Neal and severally made solemn oath, to the truth of the annexed Declarations, by them severally subscribed. And it appears to my satisfaction, that the said Thomas Thornton served more than nine months, in the War of the Revolution, on the Continental establishment against the Common Enemy; and I hereby certify and transmit the Testimony in the case, to the Hon. Secretary of the War department.
In testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand and cause the Seal of said Court to be affixed, the day and year first above written.
S. Putnam Just.
S. S. Court of Mass.
S. Putnam Just.
S. S. Court of Mass.
Essex ss: June 13. 1818
I further certify that Jonathan Neal, and Moses Townsend Esq. are credible & disinterested Witnesses, and that said Thornton is very poor and indigent.

I Moses Townsend Esq r of Salem Mass s on oath testify that I know Thomas Thornton now of Salem served one year all 1776 as a pri- vate in Capt. Richardson's Company in Col. Hutchinson's Continental Regiment. He was taken and kept prisoner till 1777 - I was in the same company and was taken at the same time at Fort Washington -
Eps r Sep. June, 13. 1818
M c Townsend
Then the above named Moses Townsend Esq r subscribed and made oath to the above affidavit before me
Benj m Merrill Just. Pac e .

1111
Tho: Thornton June 1875
Salem
ton
1111
age 80
worth $10.-

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
ESSEX, ss.
At the Circuit Court of Common Pleas of the Middle Circuit, begun and holden at Salem, within and for the County of Essex, on the third Monday of June, A. D. 1820.
Present, Hon. SAMUEL DANA, Chief Justice.
Hon. WILLIAM WETMORE, and
Hon. STEPHEN MINOT, Associate Justices.
In open Court here, being a Court of Record for said Circuit, proceeding according to the course of the common law, with a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount, keeping a record of its proceedings, and having the power of fine and imprisonment, Thomas Thornton resident in Salem in said Circuit, who is named in Pension Certificate No. 1111 now in his possession, of which the following is a true copy, to wit,
"WAR DEPARTMENT.....REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM."
"I certify that, in conformity with the Law of the United States, of the 18th March, 1818, Thomas Thornton — late a Private in the Army of the Revolution, is inscribed on the Pension List, Roll of the Massachusetts Agency, at the rate of eight dollars per month, to commence on the sixth day of April — one thousand eight hundred and eighteen ."
***** * L. S. * *****
"Given at the War Office of the United States, this thirtieth day of June — one thousand eight hundred and eighteen ."
J. C. CALHOUN, Secretary of War."
appears, and exhibits to the Court here a Schedule, subscribed by him, as follows, to wit,
SCHEDULE,
containing his whole estate and income, his necessary clothing and bedding excepted, to wit,
Six chairs An iron pot & kettle a Looking-glass knives, forks & spoons iron shovel & tongs . . . $ 10.00
He declares he is more than eighty years of age, how much more he cannot exactly state — That his wife is dead, and that he lives with his daughter widow Swasey. That he served from the beginning to the end of 1776, in Capt. Richardson's Company

in Col. Hutchinson's Regiment of the Massachusetts Line of the Continental Army.
his Thomas X Thornton mark

and at the same time he produces to the Court here the following Oath, taken and subscribed by him, before the Hon. Samuel Dana a Judge of said Court as aforesaid, to wit,
I, Thomas Thornton do solemnly swear, that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the eighteenth day of March one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and that I have not, since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner whatever, 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 eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, 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. So help me GOD.
Thomas Thornton.
Essex, ss. C. C. C. P. June, Term, A. D. 1820.
Then the abovenamed Thomas Thornton took and subscribed the aforeswritten Oath before me
Sam l Dana  Abraham Judge of said Court.
I, ICHABOD TUCKER, Clerk of the Court aforesaid, do hereby certify that the foregoing Oath, and Schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the record 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
ten dollars
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court, at Salem, in said County of Essex, on this 17 day of July A. D. 1820
Attr. Ichabod Tucker, Clk.

33 790 Reg INVALID.
File No. 33,790
Thomas Shurton
Li. Res. 1880
Act: 18 th March 1880
Index:—Vol. 9 , Page 420
[Arrangement of 1870.]