Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 3,115, for Thomas Rathbun, Connecticut

SERVICE
NUMBER
Conn.
Pathbun, Thomas Pathbone
N. 3,115
Elizabeth
CONTENTS

7316
4
Pennsylvania Thomas Rathbun
of Haga in the state of Pennsylvania who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Shruman of the Connecticut line, for the term of three years
Inscribed on the Roll of Pennsylvania at the rate of 3 Dollars per month, to commence on the 10 of Apr. 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 6 of Mar 1818 and sent Hon Wm Wilson Williamsport Pennsylvania
Arrears to 4th of Mar 1819  86.66 Semi-ann. all'ce ending 4 Sep 1819  48.
$134.66
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Continued
Not recorded in the General Pension Office for the year 1818

2024
Pennsylvania. Phil a
Elizabeth Rathbone
widow of Thomas Rathbone
who was a Private
Connecticut line in the Penn a line for 2 years.
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 80 Dollars Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843.
Certificate of Pension, issued the 20th day of Sept. 1843 and sent to
James Ford Lawrenceburg Penn a
[Act of March 3, 1843.]
Recorded in Book 4 Vol. 1 Page 136
Letter from H. dead Jan 30 1844 Pension at Muskegon, Mich. sent to J. A. Ford Lawrenceville Pa Jan 30 1844. (amended)
Dead
Letter to H. de. Milam, 7 Feb 44
Date of widow's death not on A. B.

District of Pennsylvania County of Tioga ss
On this eleventh day of Sept A D 1820. personally appeared in open court of Common pleas held in Wellsborough for the county of Tioga being a Court of Record proceeding according to the course of common law with a Jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount and keeping a Record of proceedings Thomas Rathburn aged fifty five years resident in Tioga County in said District who being first Duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following Declaration in order to obtain the provisions made by the Acts of Congress of the 18 th of March A D 1818. and first of May A D 1820. that he served in the revolutionary war in the Company Commanded by Capt n Dorrance in the Regiment Commanded by Col. Shearman in the line of the state of Connecticut and has obtained a pension under the act of the 18 th of March A D 1818. his certificate being numbered 7316. and dated the sixth day of March A D 1819 to commence on the tenth day of April eight hundred & eighteen. and I do solemnly swear that I was a resident Citizen of the United States on the 18 th day of March 1818. and that I not since that time by gift sale or in any manner disposed of my property or any part thereof with intent thereby so diminish it so as to bring my self

within the provision of Congress entitled an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land & naval services of the United States in the revolutionary war passed on the 18 th day of March A.D. 1818. and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property of securities contracts or debts due to me nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereunto annexed and by me subscribed -  Sworn and subscribed in open Court this nineteenth day of September A.D. 1820  Thomas Rathburn  Uriah Spence Clerk
Schedule of the property of Thomas Rathburn taken the 16 th of Sept 1820
I have besides necessary bedding and wearing apparel the following property viz:-    1 1/2 Bushels B. Wheat  $ 0.50  1 Cow  $10.00    1 12 gallon Kettle  4.00  3 B. Bowls  0.37    1 Iron Trunk  0.75  5 C. & Saucers  1.00    1 Skillet  0.25  4 Knives & forks  0.75    1 Broken pot  0.12  6 Spoons  0.37    1 Plow  6.00  2 Crocks  0.25    2 Axes  2.75  2 Barrels  1.50    2 hoes  1.00  1 Rakes  0.25    1 hog  2.50  1 Scythe  0.75    12 Bushels grain  6.00  6 Chairs  2.25      2 tin Dishes  0.25      1 old rifle  4.00    Carried forward $ 55.37  Carried forward $ 12.25  

  Amt Brot Ford #  $45.67    1 old horse collar 50 cts, Pail 27 cts  - - - 0.77    1 Tub 50 cts, old Chest 50 cts  1.00          $47.44  
I owe nothing nor have nothing due me —
I am by Trade a farmer but by age and infirmity am not able to pursue that occupation I have three children living with me viz. Betsey aged 20 years I do. Esther aged 17 years healthy Eleanor aged 14 years healthy. Bezemias aged 9 years Angelina age 7 years My wife Elizabeth aged 50 years infirm like myself
Thomas Rathbun
Sworn & subscribed in open Court September the 19 th A.D. 1820
Uriah Spencer Proty
War Department Revolutionary Claim. I certify that in conformity with the law of the United States of the 18 th of March 1818. Thomas Rathbun late a private in the army of the revolution is inscribed on the pension list Roll of the Pennsylvania Agency at the rate of eight Dollars per month to commence on the tenth day of April one thousand eight hundred and eighteen Given at the War office of the United States this sixth day of March one thousand eight hundred and nineteen J. C. Calhoun Secretary of War

Payable semi-annually---the first payment on this Certificate will be made on the 4 th of September next at the United States Bank Philadelphia - - - - -
Tioga County ss
I, Uriah Spencer Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the said County do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and the schedule thereunto annexed are truly copied from the records of 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 said schedule is forty seven dollars & thirty eight Cents In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at Mansborough this eleventh day of September AD 1820
Uriah Spencer Proty
Thomas Rathburn
No 15 J Rathburn

In the matter of Elizabeth Rathbun the Widow of Thomas Rathbun deceased formerly a Pensioner
State of Pennsylvania County of Tioga ss.
Be it remembered That on this 27 th day of January One Thousand Eight hundred and thirty nine personally appeared before me Elizabeth Rathbun the widow of Thomas Rathbun deceased a pensioner and on her solemn oath doth depose and say that there is no family record in existence to her knowledge of her marriage to Thomas Rathbun nor of the ages of her children that her three oldest children are now dead to wit Ruth Aaron and Priscilla that she has seven children now living to wit Samuel, Thomas, Polly, Elmina, Angelina, Orson and Betsy the last of whom is an idiot or lunatic & wholly incapable of taking care of herself that her oldest child now living to wit Samuel Rathbun was forty seven years old last February and further this deponent saith not
Subscribed & sworn to the day of year aforesaid before me John Ryan App Judge
Elizabeth Rathbun mark

V 4195 Elizabeth Rathbone of Thomas Pennsylvania
admitted Pa m — $80. Capt. Bausum Cr Sherman Cr e line
dec'd Jan 5. 1832 Preston, list
Acty July 38
Hon. J. Ford Lansdown Pa

Luzerne County State of Penn a
ss. On this fourteenth day of Dec r . 1838
Personally appeared before me John Ryan one of the judges of our Court in and for said County Mrs. Elizabeth Rathbone a resident of the aforesaid County aged seventy years who being duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the Act of Congress passed July 7 1838 entitled An Act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows. That she is the widow of Thomas Rathbone who was a Common Soldier in the Revolutionary War that he was a Pensioner under the Act of 1818 by referring to his papers in the Pension office will more fully appear. She further declares that she was married to the said Thomas Rathbone on the 27 th day of August in the year seventeen hundred and eighty eight by Elder Nathaniel Gannett then of the in the Township of Argyle County of Washington and State of N. York and that her husband the aforesaid Thomas Rathbone died on the seventh day of February in the year eighteen hundred and twenty two that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service but the marriage took place previous to the first of January seventeen hundred and ninety four then at the time above stated.
Elizabeth Rathbone
Sworn & subscribed before this fourteenth day of December 1838
John Ryan also duly
I hereby certify that the defendant in this cause by reason of old age & infirmity is unable to attend in open Court. M c Clure Myhens John Ryan also duly

Tioga County, Pa.
I John F. Donaldson Clerk of the court of Tioga County certify John Ryan Esq. to be an associate judge of said County as written and that the signature purporting to be his is genuine. In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed my seal of office at Wellsboro the twenty second day of December A.D. 1838.
J. F. Donaldson Clerk of the court of Tioga County.

It is in the possession of the State of Penn
W. Wilson of Penn
Wilson of Penn

Pennsylvania Tioga County ss Personally appeared before me Ira Gilburn one of the associate judges in and for Tioga County aforesaid Thomas Rathburn who upon his solemn oath declares and says that he was a soldier in the revolutionary war of the United States and enlisted under Dawrence capt. and — Shearman col. Connecticut line — enlisted for three years beginning the 6 th day of February 1781 and discharged the 30 th Dec. 1783 — which discharge is now in the hands of Col. Samuel Satherlee of Bradford County Pa. — Thomas Rathburn.
April 10 th 1818
Personally appeared before me Thomas Rathburn and swore to and subscribed the above instrument
Ira Gilburn A. Judge
The deponent further declares and says that he is fifty three years old, and that he is lame from a wound he received in the service, that he has been quite lame ever since, as the wound has been continually breaking out, and that and that the above service was performed in the continental establishment and that he is poor and unable to labour but little and stands in need of the assistance of his country for support and that the above mentioned discharge is lost and that he has no other proof of his said service

State of Pennsylvania } I Uriah Spencer Prothonotary of Tioga county } the court of common pleas in and Prothonotary office for the county of Tioga do certify and make known that Ira Killburn is and was at the time of signing and taking the foregoing depositions and certifying the same as aforesaid Judge of the county of Tioga in the State of Pennsylvania that the signa- ture is his proper hand writing and that full faith and credit are due to his acts as such in testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of Office at Wellsborough in the county of Tioga aforesaid this twentieth day of December Anno Domini one thousand Eight Hundred and Eighteen
Uriah Spencer Proty of the Court of Common Pleas at Tioga County

except the knowledge of some of his neighbours that he had such a discharge
Sworn and subscribed Thomas Rathburn before me
Sara Pillsbury A. Judge
I am well acquainted with Thomas Rathburn the above applicant, and know him to be poor and bame, and that he needs the assistance of his country for support; and I am also satisfied that he served nine months in the Continental establishment of the U. States in the revolutionary war at one continued time and he claims the pension under the act of Congress of the 13th March 1818 - Sara Pillsbury A. Judge
Personally appears before me Elijah D. Day who on his oath says that several years past he saw Thomas Rathburn put in the hands of Samuel Lattick a discharge to be Rathburn from the continental service of the United States for nine months and more
Sworn and subscribed before Elijah D. Day me this 17th December 1818
Sara Pillsbury associate judge
and Uriah Spencer also under oath says that he saw the above mentioned discharge and thinks it was for three years service in the continental establishment of the United States in the Connecticut line
Sworn and subscribed this Uriah Spencer

February 25, 1935
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Mrs. Mary Caldwell 4447 North Cramer Street Milwaukee, Wisconsin
THOMAS RATHBUN W. 3115 BA-J/MLB
Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revolutionary War record of Thomas Rathbun or Rathbone, who served from Connecticut and applied for pension while a resident of Tioga County, Pennsylvania.
The record of Thomas Rathbun (name also appears Rathbone) follows as obtained from pension claim, W. 3115, based upon his service in the Revolutionary War.
The date and place of soldier's birth and names of his parents are not given.
Thomas Rathbun or Rathbone enlisted February 6, 1781, place not stated, served as private in Captain Dorrance's company, Colonel Sherman's Connecticut regiment and during his service received a wound which caused lameness, no further details of wound given; he was discharged December 30, 1783.
He was allowed pension on his application executed April 10, 1818, at which time he was aged fifty-three years. His application was executed in Tioga County, Pennsylvania.
He died February 7, 1822, or January 5, 1832, both dates given.
Thomas Rathbun or Rathbone married August 27, 1788, in the Township of Argyle, Washington County, Pennsylvania, Elizabeth ___, her maiden name not given.
Soldier's widow, Elizabeth, was allowed pension on her application executed December 14, 1838, at which time she was aged seventy years and residing in Tioga County, Pennsylvania. In 1843, she was
I did not use date of Mar. 1790, given by a witness because of ages of children - M.S.B.

a resident of Elkland Township, Tioga County, Pennsylvania, and died prior to January, 1846.
In 1820, the soldier, Thomas Rathbun or Rathbone, was a resident of Tioga County, District of Pennsylvania, and then referred to his children, as follow:- Betsey aged twenty-three years, Esther aged seventeen years, Eleanor aged fourteen years, Orsemus or Orzemus aged nine years and Angelina aged seven years.
In 1839, soldier's widow, Elizabeth, stated that her three oldest children were then deceased whose names were Ruth, Aaron and Priscilla, their ages not stated, and that she then had seven children living; namely, Samuel, born in February, 1792, Betsey, Orsemus, Angeline, also, Thomas, Polly who in 1844 was referred to as Polly Finch, deceased, and Elmira (ages of last three children not given).
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER Executive Assistant to the Administrator

Rev
WIDOW, &c.
File No. 3115
Elizabeth Rathbone Widow Thomas Rathbone Rev. Gen. War
Act: March 3, 1843
Index:—Vol. M. Page 148.
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Nov 17 96 To James L Johnson, Springfield
JWD
Hand
60
Jan'y 22. 1904 L. 15
Hom Geo. D. Hoar - N. H.
1938 Feb 25, Histo to Mrs. Mary Caldwell — M L D
5 Apr. 8. Mrs. Mary Caldwell Dr. only sol. by that name etc.

4193 Pennsylvania
Elizabeth Rattlebone widow of Thomas Rattlebone who was a pensioner under the Act of 1818 and who died on the 5 January 1834 of dysuria in the State of Penna who was a private in the Com ny commanded by Captain Dorrance of the 2 nd reg t commanded by Col l Shearman in the Penn a for 2 years.
Inscribed on the Roll of Philadelphia at the rate of 80 Dollars — Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.
Certificate of Pension issued the 12 th day of Sept r 1839, sent to Hon d John Lord and Lawrenceville, Penn a
Arrears to the 4th of Sept r 1839 $280.00 Semi-annual allowance ending 4 Mar ch 40 40.00
$320.00
{ Act July 7, } 1838 }
Recorded by D r M c Curdy, Clerk, Book 1. Vol. 2. Page 164.

Elizabeth Ruth Pennsylvania
Suspended
Act 15 April 1835 Board of Directors
Act 7 July 1835

Hon A. H. Rands January 15 1844

199 Pension office Jan 15 1844.
Sir,
I herewith return the letter of the Hon. James Ford, and have to inform you that a pension certificate was issued for Mrs. Elizabeth Rathbone on the 6th 20 th of September last, and inadvertently sent to Mr. H. at Laurenceburg instead of Laurencerville. I have written for its return, and when received it will be sent to you.
The In the case of Polly Finch & one of the children should make a declaration under the act of July 7, 1838, and produce the testimony of a Court of record, showing the names, ages, and residence, of the her surviving children. Enclosed are the regulations, under that act, which was prepared for living applicants.
Hon A. H. Read A. R.

Jan'y 7. 1847 Hon. D. Wilmot.

115 Pension Office January 7 th 1846.
Sir
In the case of Elizabeth Ralston dec d , late a Pensioner under the Act of March 3 rd 1843 and 17. June 1844, I have the honor to inform you that the enclosed printed instructions should be strictly complied with, in order to obtain the amount due up to the period of her decease. The papers are herewith returned
Hon. D. Wilmot House of Representatives

Jan 12. 1849
W
Eliz. Ralston 43 889 Pearl St
Five unit
2024
A H Kent H R
Edwards Puncheon
Washington D.C.

Washington 11th Jan y 44
Dear Sir
Please to furnish me with the materials for ordering the folded letter, Please also to furnish the blanks and instructions for filling up as thereon mentioned.
Very Respectfully Yours &c
J. J. Edwards Esq d A. H. Read

2270
June 29/43.
Ely. Rothton
March 5/43.
Perm.
$80 per annum
James Ford
Laurensburg
Perm.?
I. I. I.
Wasington
Laurensburg June 26.

Laurenceville Tioga Co. Pa. June 24 1843.
J. G. Edwards Esq.
Pension at Washington
Dear Sir You will herewith receive Mrs. Elizabeth Rathbone's Application & deposition for the benefit of the Act of Congress passed the 3 rd day of March 1843.
Please act on it as early as convenient
I also certify that I am personally acquaint- ed with Mrs. Rathbone & know her to be the identical person named in her deposition. I also know that she drew a pension under the Act of Congress July 1838.
Yours Respectfully James Wood

Lawrenceville July 8 1839.
J. L. Edwards Esq. Comm r of Pensions
Sir The papers in the case of Mrs. Elizabeth Rathbone widow of Thomas Rathbone Dec d is herewith returned together with her additional depositions in relation to the records of the family and the births of the children Also the Juges Certificate in relation to the Credibility of the Witnesses I observe in your last letter of the A. H. Aprie that her case is suspended. I know of no good reason why except the additional proof which is herewith furnished, I know that she is a proper subject for a Pension if any is entitled, she is poor in the extreme with the additional care of an idiot child to take care of which she is intitled to she wants for immediate use I am sure you are the family upon some as not hesitate to act forth with without any delay
Yours truly with Respect James Norris

Han J. Ford
Apr 15 1839
06

War Dept. Pen. Effin April 15, 1839
Sir
The papers in the case of Mrs Elizabeth Rathbone widow of Thomas Rathbone has  the depositions been examined, and filed with suspended case . Of these be a family record of the marriage, or of the births of the children it should be exhibited. If there be none the claimant should state the fact under oath. The affidavits are herewith returned in order that the credibility of the witnesses may be established by the magistrate before whom their affidavits were made as required by the enacted  enacted  printed  printed regulations. The error in stating the marriage to have taken place in 1780 should also be corrected.
Wm James Lord Esq Lancasterville. Pa
4195- att 7 Feb 1838

Laurensceville Dec r 26. 1888.
J. L. Edwards Esq } Comm r of Pensions }
Dear Sir The enclosed You have the evidence in support of Mrs Elizabeth Rathbone to a Pension I have been personally acquainted with the family for at least thirty five years and know that the old lady has not been married since the death of her husband Thomas Rath- bone. I have also been acquainted with Mr Daily & Mrs Betsy they are both members of an Methodist Church and as far as I know in good standing I have full confidence in what they may say Judge Ryan before whom the deposition was taken is one of our Associate Judges. I discover in one of the depositions says Mrs Betsy that there is an omission of the word sight it ought to read 1788 as I was present and know she intended it to be so. Respectfully Yours & James Ford

Commonwealth of Pa Penn-County of Tioga
On this Nineteenth day of June 1843 personally appeared before me John Ryan one of the Associate Judges in and for the County of Tioga Elizabeth Rathbone a resident of the Township of Seneca in the County of Tioga aforesaid said Agda of her own free will appearing who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declarations in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the act of Congress passed on the 3 rd March 1843 granting pensions to widows who served during the revolutionary war
That she is the widow of Thomas Rathbone deceased who was a soldier of the Revolution and by referring to his papers now on file in Penn- office will more fully appear and that she received annually under the act of Congress of July 7. 1838 Eighty dollars
She further declares that she is still a widow Elizabeth her Rathbone
Witness present
Thos. D. Drown and subscribed on the day and year above written before John Ryan Judge
I do hereby certify that I am personally acquainted with the declarant and have been for many years also that I know she is the identical person named in the above deposition
John Ryan Judge
Seneca June 19 th
1843

Niagara County G.
I John P. Donaldson prothonotary of the court of Common Pleas of said county, certify John Ryan Esq. to be an Associate judge of said court and that the signature purporting to be his, is genuine. In testi-
mony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said court, the 23 d day of June 1840.
J. P. Donaldson, Protho.
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enrolled
James M. [?]
John P. Donaldson

Tioga County } State of Penna } On the fourteenth day of Decem r 1818 Personally appeared before me John Ryan one of the Judges in and for said County Susan Bopay a Resident of said County Aged sixty four  years who being duly sworn. According to her oath on her oath declare that she was present at the time that Thomas Rathbone and Elizabeth his wife was married and that she heard Elder Nathan Farmer pronounce them Man & Wife which took place on or about the  some twenty seventh day of August in the year she thinks of seventeen hundred & eighty eight in the Township of Argyle County of Washington in the State of New York She further declares that she was personally acquainted with the family from that day to this and that she personally knows his wife to be a widow and has been so for many years.
Subscribed
Susan her Bopay Frank
before me John Ryan Judge
Tioga County ss
I John P. Donaldson Clerk of the court of Tioga county certify John P. Donaldson to be an efficient Judge of said court as above and that the signature purporting to be his is genuine. — In testimony whereof I have
hereunto subscribed my name and affixed my seal of office at Williamsport the twenty second day of December A.D. 1818.
J. P. Donaldson Clerk of the court of Tioga county.

I hereby certify that I am personally acquainted with Susan Bessy the person who put her name to the within affidavit and that her reputation for veracity is good and her statement under oath is entitled to credit Jan 27. 1839. I further certify that the within affidavit was read to the witness and she swears by her God it now reads with the word eight now added but then omitted through mistake. John Ryan

Joseph Waid

Tioga County Pa Sheet of Paper On the fourteenth day of December 1838 Personally appeared before me John Ryan one of the Judges in and for said County Joseph Daly a resident of said County aged sixty three years old who being duly sworn according to law doth on his oath declare that he was personally acquainted with Thomas Rutherford & Elizabeth his wife that he was present at their marriage and saw Elder Nathan Loomis for more than nine years which took place in the Township of Argyle County of Washington and State of New York on or about the twenty seventh day of August and he thinks in the year nineteen hundred and thirty and that he was personally acquainted with the aforesaid Thomas Rutherford until the time of his death and that he is now personally acquainted with his wife Elizabeth Rutherford Sworn and subscribed before me this 14 day of Decr 1838 John Ryan Approved Judge  his Joseph + Daly Mark
Tioga County Pa. I John F. Donaldson Clerk of the court of Tioga County certify John Ryan as to be an associate Judge of said court as above and that the signature of said John Ryan to be his as genuine. In witness whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed my seal of office at Wellsboro the twenty second day of December A.D. one thousand eight hundred thirty eight. J. F. Donaldson, Clerk of the court of Tioga County.

I hereby certify that I am personally acquainted with Joseph Dailey the person who put his name to the within affidavit that his reputation for truth and veracity is good and his statements under oath entitled to credit June 27. 1839.
John Wagon App Clerk

Milwaukee Wis
March 27/1935-
Veteran's Administration Washington D. C.
Dear Sir,
I wish to thank you for your recent answer concerning a Thomas Rathbun pensioner of the Revolution in Tioga Co. Pa.
May I also ask you to look up a Thomas Rathbun of West Greenwich, Rhode Island noted in R. I. Military Census of 1777 as serving as a private in Capt. Joseph Hopkins Is. Class Company of West Greenwich Major Samuel Wall's Regiment July 2 - Aug 8 1780. I don't know whether he ever applied for a pension or not. If you have information about him, would appreciate it very much.

Yours truly, Mrs Mary Caldwell 4447 N. Cramer St. Milwaukee Wis 1

Milwaukee, Wis.
Feb 3, 1935
A. D. Hiller Veterans Administration Washington, D. C.
Dear Sir, ✓
A certain Thomas Rathbun or Rathbone applied for a pension from Tioga Co. Pa for Revolutionary service in a Conn. regiment.
Would you be able to tell me any accompanying data on this man's record? For instance, was he living with children at time of the application or death. If so what are their names and addresses. Also if his wife's name is mentioned I like to find that - in fact anything that would help me in proving that this man is one of my great, great, great, great grandfathers.
With every appreciation for any possible service in this matter I (over)

I am yours truly, (Mrs) Mary Caldwell 4447 N. Cramer St. Milwaukee, Wis

I called the Comptroller General's Office, Accounting Div. & was advised by phone that a thorough search of all their records had been made & the last payment of pension made to Thomas Richtenberg, Cif. 7316, was up to Sept. 4, 1821, and that all papers of his widow Elizabeth under certificate 4193 & 2024, showed that he (her husband) died Jan. 20, 1832. The papers were there, where she appeared before the court and gave that as the date of his death, which is the date of death which their papers show also for John Ryon, Cif. 489 (out file No. S. 40377), singular as it may seem. The 1835 list shows date of death of John Ryon, also as Jan. 5, 1832.
MM Finch
Feb. 21, 1935

O. W. & N. Div. W 3115 D. W. B.
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, BUREAU OF PENSIONS, WASHINGTON, D. C.,
November 17, 1896.
Sir:
Replying to your request for information concerning the military record of Thomas Rathbun, a soldier of the Revolutionary War,

John A. Hall, President
Henry M. Phillips, Secretary
Wm L. Richards, Cashier
Home Office Agency The Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Co. Springfield, Mass.
Masonic Building, Rooms 1, 2, & 3, Cor Main and State Sts. James L. Johnson, General Agent.
Springfield, Mass. Oct. 31, 1896.
R
Commissioner of Pensions, Washington, D. C.
My dear Sir:-
Will you kindly give me a certificate of service of Thomas Rathbun, who was reported to have either been a private or 3rd lieutenant in Capt. Belcher's Company, 1776, and received a pension. Mr. Rathbun was a resident of Lisbon, New London County, Conn. I shall appreciate any information regarding the above that you can give me.
Trusting I may hear from you as early as is practicable, I am,
Very respectfully yours,
James L. Johnson
C

U. OLD WAR & NAVY NOV 3 1896 FILES.
U. S. O. W. & N. NOV 4 1896 RECORDS.
NOV 2 1896 U. S. POST OFFICE

April 8, 1935.
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BA-J/ady
Mrs. Mary Caldwell 4447 North Cramer Street Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letter relative to Thomas Rathbun, a soldier of the Revolutionary War, of West Greenwich, Rhode Island, who served in Captain Joseph Hopkins' Company, Samuel Walls' Regiment.
Revolutionary War data furnished by this office are obtained from claims made to the United States for pension and bounty land based upon military service of soldiers in that war.
A careful search of the records fails to show such a claim on file on account of the services of Thomas Rathbun as described by you, all spellings of the surname searched.
It is suggested that as a possible means of securing information in regard to the military service of the above named soldier you apply to The Adjutant General, War Department, this city.
The history of Thomas Rathbun, W.3115, which was furnished you February 25, 1935, is that of the only soldier of that name that is found on the Revolutionary War records of this office.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER Executive Assistant to the Administrator