Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 45692, Thomas Colcord, N.H.

SERVICE
N. H.
NUMBER
S. 45692
Colcord, Thomas or Colchord
CONTENTS

141045 R New Hampshire
Thomas Colchard
of Springfield in the state of New Hampshire who was a Private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Long of the New Hampshire line, for the term of One year
scribed on the roll of New Hampshire at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 27 of June 18 18
Certificate of Pension issued the 9 of Aug. 18 and sent to Elisha Hamblen Esq. Newport New Hampshire
 Arrears to 4th of Mar. 1819. 66.09 Semi-ann. all'ce ending Sep. 1819. 48.00 8 Mo \frac{4}{30}  \frac{4}{31} $114.09 
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Discontinued
See letter of May 1829 to John Bryant Esq. do 29 May 1830
Notification sent Sept. 1,  to  Powers: Croydon Church Co. M, R,

Thomas Colcord Private 76-137 Longt. N Hampn Rept
Samuel
27 June

Thomas Leohard Private Col Longs Regiment New Hampshire Line 1775. 1 year 27. June 1815
The disposition of this credit the disinterested wishes duly to be taken a authentic copy (on the certificate of an officer of reg.) to prove the service of the deceased.
Thomas Leohard of New Hampshire

I Thomas Ballard of Springfield in the County of - Chephire & and State of Hampshireshire Husbandman To make the following Declaration upon Oath - That in the year of our Lord one Thousand Seven Hundred and Seventy six in September I enlisted as a private Soldier in the Continental Army in the United States of America for one year at Concord in the State of Hampshireshire in the County of Rockingham under Capt Nathan Brown and was attached to Col Loring's Regiment and marched to Tyendeague and from thence to Shippesdale and was there Dismissed on the nineteenth day of August in the year 1777 - after which in the year Seventeen hundred and Seventy Eight I enlisted again for nine months under Lieut Col. Nathaniel of Epsin in said State of Hampshireshire and marched to Providence in the State of Rhode Island and from thence to Hampshire South Kingstown after which I was Regularly Dismissed after Serving my Term fully out I am fifty seven years of age September next
I also further say under oath that by Reason of my Reduced Circumstances in life I stand in need of assistance from my Country for Support
Thomas Ballard

State of Hampshire
Cheshire ss June 27 th 1818 Then before Elisha Huntly a Justice of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County of Cheshire personally appeared Thomas Colcord before named and made solemn oath that the foregoing Declaration by him subscribed contains the truth and nothing but the truth and it has been made to appear to my satisfaction that the said Thomas Colcord did serve in the Revolutionary war against the common enemy in manner as by him is stated in said Declaration and I am further satisfied that the said Thomas Colcord by reason of his natural circumstances in life stands in need of assistance from his country for support and I hereby certify and transmit the testimony in his case being his oath and the substance of the selection of the town in which he lives to the Hon ble John Calthorne
Secretary of war
Elisha Huntly
{ one of the Justices of the Court of Common Pleas for said County
Cheshire ss.
I Salma Hale Clerk of the Courts in said County hereby certify that Elisha Huntly is one of the Justices of the Court of Common Pleas which is a Court of Record in said County and that the foregoing is his signature
In testimony whereof I have unto my hand and affixed such a seal as is used by the Court
S. Hale Clerk

234 Coffehard Thomas Lestard Value 515. 37- 14.046-
Sept. 10/19.
Not entitled

SCHEDULE,  CONTAINING the whole estate and income of  Thomas Colcord (his necessary clothing and bedding excepted,) by him subscribed, exhibited to the Court of Common Pleas for the county of Cheshire in the State of New-Hampshire, on the 18 th day of July 18 20 , and annexed to his oath, viz.
A Farm containing ninety six acres with poor building $ 400.00 1 Mare 14 years old \frac{3}{4} of the colt $ 20.00 1 Cow $ 4.00 24.00 1 Grindstone .50 - 1 Plough 1.50 - 1 old harrow $ 2. - 2 w. stones $ 2. - 5.00 2 scythes and handles $ 1.50 - 1 hoe, .20 - 1 1/2 thousand Pen nails 1.50. 3.20 three forks, .75 - 2 old chains $ 2.00. 1 yoke $ 1.00. 13 sticks 50. } 8.25 an old wind mill $ 4.00 three rakes 50 cents 2 hoes & 3 pigs $ 9.00 2 axes 1.50 } -12.50 our Iron bar 1.50 Harlock $ 2.00 our hand knife, 75 our Iron knife $ 2.00 } 9.25 Iron ware $ 1.50. 11. chains $ 3.00 1 warming pan 75. 1 shovel & tongues $ 1.00 } - 2.00 1 Broiler 25 minipewter plates two old plates and our basin $ 2.00 } - 3.00 cupboard furniture $ 1.00 2 Bushel Cans $ 1.34. Dry lock $ 2.00 } 5.34 saddle birds and saddle bags $ 2.00 1 peck of beans 20 their bushel meal $ 2.00 } 8.87 20 lb wool $ 6.67 2 old buckets 34 2 old baskets 40 cents horseshoes $ 1.00 - 1.74 2 old tables and light stand, 80 4 old cedar barrels 1.34 } 3.04 1 tub and bucket 1.50 pisk and barrel 4.50 - 1 loom $ 2.00 one linen wheel, 75. 1 woolen wheel 75 } 0.00 2 tubs 50. 1 chest $ 1.00 cheese $ 2.00 } 7.00 old Iron $ 3.00. 7 milk pans 50 cents 1 Caw $ 12.00. 1 steel yard 50 } 12.50
$ 515.37  I owe to Joseph Taylor $ 51.00. To David Colcord $ 10.00 To Solomon Lamont 9.50 To John Jones 6.50 } 156.00 To Elias Root for attending my Daughter probably. 10.00 To Sunday other persons probably 10.00  $ 1.92  Thomas Colcord 

Cheshire
ss.] STATE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE.
ON this 15 th day of July A. D. 1820 personally appeared
before the Justices Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in the county of Cheshire being a Court of Record, in and for the said county, having the power of fine and imprisonment, Thomas Colcord aged 50 years, resident in Springfield in said county, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on his oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary War, as follows: viz.
On Col. Jones Regiment and Capt. Brown's Company from the 1st of August to the first of Sept. 1778 to the nineteenth day of August 1778 in the Manchester line
The date of my original declaration in order to obtain a pension is the 27 day of June 1818 — The number of my pension certificate is 14040 I have received a Pension. And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March, 1818; and that I have not, since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner 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 18th day of March, 1818; 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. My occupation is farming and am not of sufficient ability to pursue it
but every little money subject to family expenses — In family residing with me 4 children of mine Oldest named Sally aged 23 years 2 nd named Jane aged 21 years 3 rd named Dolly aged 18 years and is in a convent and has been for almost 2 years and now is quite sick and it is very costly supporting her — the 4 th named Moses aged 10 years rather unwell
Sworn to and declared at Newport in said County, on the 10 th day of July A. D. 1820 before
Salma Hale } Judge of the said Court.
Pleas, for the County of Cheshire, do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and the schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the record of the said Court; and I do hereby certify, that it is the opinion of the said Court that the total amount in value of the property said schedule, is 515 dollars and 37 cents. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court on this 25 th day of May A. D. 1820
S. Hale } Clerk of the said Court.

45692 INVALID. Rev
File No. 45692
Thomas Colcord
Rev War
Act: 18 March 1818
Index:—Vol. 3 , Page 97
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Meriden N.H. April 16th 1829
Sir Enclosed is the Declaration of Thomas Colcord in order to be restored to the Pension list under the act of March 1 st 1823 which he placed in my hands to be forwarded to the War Department as soon as I could procure the certificate of the Clerk of our Superior Court as to the official capacities of the Magistrates - As Mr Colcord did not hear of the regulations of the 26th Dec r 1828 till the latter part of March he did not apply so soon as he otherwise would have done - He got the property composing his schedule appraised on the 26th of March and made oath to his Declaration on the 4th of April instant - No notice of the suspension of the aforesaid regulations of the 26th Dec r having till some time since the date of the Declaration been published in the Papers in this state - I first saw it in our News Papers of this week and presume that Colcord is yet ignorant of it - Under these circumstances it is hoped his claim will be treated as if it had been made and transmitted to you a few days earlier - Colcord at the time of making his former schedule had a little personal property every item of which though he is I believe a prudent temperate man has been expended for his support. He has been out of health and unable to labour for some time past, has no family nor relatives to assist him, and even hires his land his little unproductive place, doing but little towards his

support - At his request I enclose the remains of his old Certificate. and hope his drooping spirits may soon be cheered by a restoration to the List of Pensioners, and the receipt of a new certificate - Please to transmit the same if you can concede him entitled to it. to me, or the fate of his case in its turn.
Very Respectfully Yours John Bryant
Hon Secretary of War Washington
Please direct to Meriden Sullivan Co N.H.

J. C. ...
Payable semi-annually. The first payment on this Certificate will be made on the 4th of September next, in Portsmouth, N.H. at the Branch Bank of the United States. —
[Faint mirrored text from the reverse side of the page] This certificate is subject to the terms and conditions of the issuing institution. The interest rate is prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury.

War Department.
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.
I CERTIFY that, in conformity with the Law of the United States, of the 18th of March, 1818,
Thomas Colchora . . . . . late a Private in the Army of the Revolution, is inscribed on the Pension List, Roll of the New Hampshire Agency, at the rate of eight dollars per month, to com- mence on the twenty seventh day of June . . . . . one thousand eight hundred and eighteen
GIVEN at the War Office of the United States, this ninth day of August one thousand eight hundred ten

State of New Hampshire Secretary's Office
July 15 th 1819
I hereby certify that Daniel Blairdell Esq., whose name is subscribed to the certificates ac- companying these presents, is a Justice of the peace throughout said State duly appointed and commissioned, and that to his acts and attestations as such faith and credit are due
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the public seal of said State on, the day of the date hereof.
Sam l Sparkhawk Secretary

150155 00000 I Joshua Richardson of Lawfull age do testify and say that within the month of August or September 1776 I join the Regiment commanded by Col. Daniel Dineen of the New Hampshire line in the service of the United States in the Revolutionary war, in which Regiment I enlisted for the term of one year. Very soon after I join said Regiment I became acquainted with Thomas Colcord then of Candia in said state of New Hampshire, but now of Springfield in said state who was then enlisted in the Company commanded by Captain Brown in the said Regiment for the term of one year. That I was acquainted with him through the whole term of his enlistment and know that he faithfully served in said Company and Regiment more than eleven months at that one time of enlistment and that he was honorably discharged on the nineteenth day of August in the year 1777 at a place called Stillwater in the state of New York. And I further testify that I have no interest in said Colcord's pension, for the obtaining of which this deposition is taken as he tells me.
Canaan July 12th 1819
Joshua Richardson
before me, in the state aforesaid July 12th 1819 Then personally appearing Joshua Richardson above named made solemn oath that the above deposition by him before signed is just and true before me. And I further certify that full faith and credit is to be given to his testimony.
Daniel Blaisdell justice of peace

150155-00001 I Enoch Richardson of Lawful age do testify and say that in the month of August or September in the year 1776 I join the Regiment commanded by Colonel Rinece Lovey in the Massachusetts line in the service of the United States in the Revolutionary war, in which Regiment I enlisted for the term of one year - very soon after I join said Regiment I become acquainted with Thomas Colcord then of Candia in said State but now resident of Springfield in the same State, who was at that time enlisted as a private in the Company commanded by Captain Brown in said Regiment for the term aforesaid. That I was acquainted with said Colcord through the whole term of his enlistment and know that he faithfully served in said Company more than eleven months, and was honorably discharged at a place called Stillwater in the State of New York on the nineteenth day of August in the year 1777 - And I further testify that I am a disinterested witness in the cause for which this deposition is taken
Canaan July 12th 1819 Enoch his Richardson mark I after ss. in the State of Massachusetts July 12th 1819. Then the personally appearing Enoch Richardson above named and made solemn oath that the above deposition to which he set his mark is just and true Before me - And I hereby certify that his testimony is entitled to full faith and credit
Daniel Blaisdell justice of peace

Thomas Leleand Declaration for a pension made April 10. 1829.

Declaration
in order to be restored to the pension list under the act of March 1 st 1823 Drawn up in conformity with the regulations of the War Department of the 26 th of December A.D. 1828.
County of Sullivan Pa. in the State of Pennsylvania
On this fourth day of April Eighteen hundred and twenty nine personally appeared before me a justice of the peace within and for the County of Sullivan the undersigned Thomas Colcord, a resident of said County, who being duly sworn according to Law, doth Depose and say, that he is the same person who served in the revolutionary war in the Company commanded by Captain Nathan Brown of the regiment commanded by Colonel
Long of the line of the State of Pennsylvania: that he received a pension under the act of March 18 th 1818 but his same was draft from the pension roll on account of the amount of his property, which was valued at less than five hundred and sixty Dollars and he now applies to be restored in consequence of the regulations of the War Department of the 26 th of December 1828, having at this time the following named property, being worth no more than the sums below mentioned. He also swears that he has before applied to be restored, but his claim has been rejected, on account of the amount of his property.
Schedule
one small farm and buildings thereon situated and lying in the town of Shrynfield in said County of Sullivan - valued at four hundred Dollars - $400.00
Thomas Colcord
Sworn to before me James Smith Justice Peace this fourth day of April 1829

155-00001 Benjamin Brown French Clerk of the Superior Court for the County of Sullivan and State of New Hampshire do hereby certify that James Smith before whom the within declaration was sworn is a Justice of the Peace and duly en- powered to administer oaths
B. B. French
In testimony of which I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court this 8 th day of April A. D. 1829
B. B. French

Schedule of Property of Thomas Colcord of Springfield County of Sullivan and State of New Hampshire Applicant for a Pension under the Acts of Congress of 18 th March 1818 and the 1 st May 1820 & 1 st March 1823 Necessary Clothing & Bedding Excepted Thomas Colcord
A small Farm and Building thereon 400 00 situate & Lying in said Springfield Thomas Colcord
We the subscribers certify that we have viewed said Farm, and are of Opinion that four Hundred Dollars is the true value Abijah Powers Solomon Clement
Sullivan County ss March 26 1829 Personally appeared Abijah Powers and Solomon Clement the above subscribers and made solemn oath that the above affidavit is true before me Joseph Nichols Jr. of the Peace
I certify that Abijah Powers and Solomon Clement are disinterested and credible Witnesses Joseph Nichols Jr. of the Peace

I Benjamin B. French Clerk of the Superior Court of Judicature for the County of Sullivan in the State of New Hampshire do hereby certify that Joseph Nichols, before whom the within certificate was sworn is a Justice of the Peace & duly empower- ed to administer oaths.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court this eighth day of April A. D. 1829
B. B. French
Minut of Thomas Leavitt Subdu.