Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 30,597, for Thomas Morris, New Jersey

SERVICE
NUMBER
New Jersey.
Morris, Thomas
S. 30,597
CONTENTS

For Col. D. ... at ... 1838. ... 1838
Kentucky 19
By Thomas Morris 2nd of Madison Co in the State of Ken t who was a pr in the co commanded by Captain Smock of the reg t commanded by Col. Habers in the 1st line for 1 year
Inscribed on the Roll of Kentucky at the rate of 40 Dollars ~ Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 21 day of Aug t 1833 and Marshall Key Washington
Arrears to the 4th of March 80 ~ Semi-ant. allowance ending Sept e 20 ~ $100 ~
{ Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by D Boyd Clerk Book E Vol. 7 Page 19

13.713. Thomas Morris
from 1775 private 1 year $40. Mar. 16, 1777
Marshall Key Washington C.H. Kentucky
Marshall Key Washington C.H. Kentucky

13. 7/13.
BRIEF in the case of  Thomas Morris  County of Mason  in the State of Kentucky  (Act 7th June, 1832.)
 1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? Court  2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?  3. How old is he? 82.  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.      Drafted In 1775  Sundry times.   His memory very much impaired from age & disease.  He is however perfectly confident that he was in actual service in the Jersey line more than one year, but as he should not he begs to limit his claim to one year's service.   Infantry  Private.   Capt. P. Smock, Col. Holmes,  Genl. D. Forman   
 5. In what battles was he engaged? none  6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? New Jersey  7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditional evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? Traditional & 2 witnesses  8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? They are not connected with the Clerk's Seal as required. 
I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
J. Waugh Examining Clerk. Feb. 19. 1833.

State of Kentucky
County of Mason S.T.
On this thirteenth day of August in the year 1832, personally appeared in open court before the Justices of the County Court of said County, now sitting Thomas Morris a resident of the town of Washington in the County aforesaid, aged about eighty two 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 and served as herein stated, to wit, He was enrolled in a Company of New Jersey Militia, under the command of Captain John Smock, which belonged to a Regiment commanded by a Col. Holmes, that he entered the service as well as he now remembers in the year 1775, and was drafted into it, and served short tours of duty until the battle of Monmouth, after which he was not again called on, that he was a Sailor by trade and most commonly employed while in the service in making clothing for the troops, and at one time

was employed in that way he thinks about three months, receiving no compensation for his labor other than his pay as a militia man, that when not thus employed the company to which he belonged themselves as a soldier in that company was generally on duty on the lines and along the shores at Sandy Hook where watching the tides, that on one occasion he recollects to have been under the command of Genl. David Forman, and he remembers too to have marched at one time with some regular troops called Morgan's Riflemen from Middletown in Monmouth County to Sandy Hook. He cannot however fix the precise period or duration of any of the tours of duty he performed, being now extremely frail in body and his memory very much impaired from age and disease, he is however perfectly confident that he was in actual service as a militia man in the Jersey line more than one year and believes very near two years, but lest he should 'ere he begs to limit his claim to pay under the act of congress as for one year service. That he with his company came upon the battle ground at Monmouth just after the

termination of the battle. He further states he left the state of New Jersey and came to Kentucky in the year 1788 or 1789, and has resided in the County of Mason aforesaid ever since except about four years (he thinks) during which he lived at Lexington in this state. That he has no papers evidencing his services in the war of the revolution, and he knows of no person whose evidence he can procure who can testify to his services, except John Salmon, James Beaggett who has some knowledge of his said service. He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that he is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state.
Subscribed and sworn to the day and year aforesaid. Thomas his Morris Marked
We John Salmon and Moses Fowler residing in the town of Washington, county of Mason and State of Kentucky, hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Thomas Morris who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration, that we believe him to be eighty two 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
Sworn and Subscribed the day and year aforesaid
John Salomon Moses Lowen
John Salomon of the town of Washington aforesaid as stated upon his  my solemn Oath, that in the year 1776 he knew Thomas Morris who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that said Morris in the Spring of that year was in the public service as a militia man, and was employed at Shrewsbury as a Tailor making uniform clothing for a com- pany of Jersey light horse to which the affiant belonged, that he knew Morris before the commence- ment of the war and could not therefore have been mistaken as to his identity, he afterwards fre- quently saw him on duty as a militia man in what was called then the "flying camp". He knows also that Morris belonged to Capt. John Smock's com- pany and that the regiment he belonged to was said to be commanded by Col. Holmes. and further that he has lived near Morris for upwards of thirty years and thinks he represents his services

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
Washington, D. C., Oct-4, 1922
In reply to your request of _____, for the history of  Thos Morris , a soldier of the Revolutionary War, the following is taken from the sol. claim for pension.
   DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE.   CAPTAIN. COLONEL.     1775 unspecified Pvt. Jno. Louch Holmes N.J.   at various times all about 1 year.        
Battles engaged in, None stated.
Residence of soldier at enlistment, enb in N.J.
Date of application for pension, Aug. 13, 1882 - al.
Residence at date of application, Washington, Mason Co., Ky.
Age at date of application, about 82 yrs.
Remarks: No fam data.
Respectfully,
Commissioner.

1045 MAPLE AVENUE EVANSTON, ILLINOIS
Sept. 3, 1922.
Department of the Interior. Washington, D. C.
Gentlemen:
Will you kindly send me a copy of the Revolutionary pension of my Thomas Morris member of New Jersey militia, pension granted Aug. 21, 1833. in Mason Co. Kentucky.
I sent you a former request for the above

1045 MAPLE AVENUE EVANSTON, ILLINOIS
a few weeks ago, but I received no reply.
Thanking you for the information, I am, Very truly yours.
(Mrs.) Nera S. Burgess.

State of Kentucky Mason County Set. 3
August term 1832.
Thomas Morris produced in court and subscribed & swor to the foregoing written statement or Declaration of his services as a soldier in the war of the Revolution in order to obtain the benefits of the provisions made by the act of congress passed June 7 th 1832, which is required to be certified to the Secretary of War of the United States, and sundry witnesses being sworn and examined the court do hereby declare their opinion that the said applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as stated by him.
J Marshall Key, Clerk of the County Court of Mason County do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of application of Thomas Morris for a pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office for said court this 24 th day of September 1832 and of the court's existence the 41 st .
Marshall Key.
Kentucky Mason County Court Set.
May term 1833
Thomas Morris who made and subscribed the declaration contained in the preceding pages at the last August term of this court, again came into court and states on oath that there is not now and was not at the time he made the said declaration any clergyman residing in his neighborhood and that he has no acquaintance with any clergyman in Henderson County in Kentucky. Thomas Morris

13713 Thomas Morris Declaration.
State of Kentucky
Mason County Set. May Court 1833.
Thomas Morris produced an addition to his Declaration made at the last August Court and swore to the same in open court. And it is ordered to be certified that there is not now, & was not at the last August Court any Clergyman residing in the town of Washington, and that John Salanaw and Titus Bennett whose testimony is appended to the Declaration of the said Thomas Morris made at the last August Court, gave subscribed and made oath to their statements in open court, and that they are persons of good character and entitled to full credit in all respects.
In Testimony whereof I Marshall Reg Clerk of the Court for the County of Mason aforesaid have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of said Court at Washington the 20 th day of May 1833.
Marshall Reg

and present situation correctly in the foregoing declaration, signed and sworn to by him: That he is Promiss a very honest poor man & generally so esteemed.
Subscribed and sworn to in Open Court.
John Salomon
Lewis Bennett of the County of Mason and State of Kentucky aforesaid states upon his solemn oath he was sixty five years old on the first day of July last according to the information of his parents and a record of his birth kept by his father (which he has often seen) that he was born and raised in the County of Monmouth and State of New Jersey and well recollects the war of the Revolution, and has known Thomas Morris, who has made and subscribed the above declaration, now sworn to in Court, ever since he the said Bennett can remember any thing, that said Morris was a neighbor to this affiants father in said County of Monmouth, and he remembers that said Morris and his father were frequently called out into the public service during the war as Militia men as he this affiant then understood and he knows they left home

and were frequently absent, as he understood for the purpose of guarding the lines, but this depo- nant cannot state how often or how long at a time they were absent, nor where they actually were employed or how, except from the general understanding of the neighborhood at the time, which was as above stated. This affiant further states that he came to Kentucky in the year 1789 and that said Morris came here shortly afterwards perhaps in that or the next year, and he has known him ever since residing in the same county with him and that he the said Morris is as he verily believes as old as he now represents himself to be, that is to say eighty two years old, and is very infirm and poor, but has always sustained the character of a very honest truthful man. And this af- fiant from his own knowledge as above detailed and from the declarations of said Morris verily believes he did serve in the war of the Revolution as he states.
Subscribed & sworn to in Open Court.
James Bissett

Rev. S. J.
1045 MAPLE AVENUE EVANSTON, ILLINOIS
Sept. 11, 1922.
Department of the Interior. Washington, D. C.
Gentlemen:
I find that I made a mistake in the name when I wrote for a copy of the pension. So, kindly send me a copy of the pension given to Thomas Morris , of N. J. + Mason Co. Ky. He was in the Revolution. He applied for the pension

in 1833.
Thanking you for the above mentioned copy I am, Very truly yours. (Mrs.) Nera S. Burgess

Wm
South Bound Brook N.J.
May 21 st 95
M
Dear Sir
Can you give me any information as to Birth. Birth place. Age and death of Thomas Morris. who was attached to Capt Barnes Smocks Company of 1 st Monmouth Regiment New Jersey. Pension Claim No 30597 of 1820 or 1840.
and of Thomas Morris, of Smyrna Del. a Sea Captain who rendered many important services to his Country under General Washington.
Note -
This last Thomas Morris settled in Monmouth Co. N.J. and I am of the opinion that they are one and the same
I would be obliged for any information aiding me in giving "The Sons of the Revolution".
I find the above from old family notes. Thomas Morris was my Great

Grandfather.
Thanking You J. L. M. Du Four (J. L. M. Du Four)

June 1958 J. L. M. Du Frane, So. Branch Brook, N.J. M.E. 1922, Oct. 4 left to Mrs. Neva S. Burgess. Ex.
30,597 INVALID.
File No. 30,597
Thomas Morris
Rev me
Act: June 1 st 32 nd
Index:—Vol. 9 , Page 284
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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