REVOLUTIONARY WAR PENSION APPLICATION - WILLIAM THAYER

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William Thayer
At a Court Continued and held for Fauquier County the 25th day of July 1820, 
District of Virginia
On this 25th day of July 1820 personally appeared in open court being a court of 
Record for the County of Fauquier made so by express provision of law, William 
Thayar aged Sixty nine years resident in the county of Fauquier in the said 
state who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath declare that 
I served in the Revolutionary War as follows, that I the said William Thayar 
enlisted in the said service (to the best of his Recollection in the autumn of 
1775) with a Captain Burgess Ball (who was afterwards promoted to Colonel Ball), 
in the county of Lancaster in said District for the term of two years and was 
attached to the fifth Virginia Regiment at the expiration of said term I 
enlisted under Captain Henry Fauntleroy who was killed at the battle of Monmouth 
of the same regiment for the term of three years that before the expiration of 
said term I enlisted under Captain John Blackwell of Fauquier county in said 
District for the term of during the war and was attached to the third Virginia 
Regiment that during the said service I was at the battle of Brandy Wine, 
Germantown and Monmouth that I was at the capture of the Hessians at Trenton and 
was engaged against the enemy in the first & second of January following at 
Trenton and Princeton that I was with General Green at the battle of the Eautaw 
Springs and General Morgan at the Cowpens that I was at the siege & capture of 
Lord Cornwallis in Virginia after which I marched to the south in a Regiment 
commanded by Colonel Thomas Posey and joined General A. Wayne in the state of 
Georgia and continued in the south until the proclamation of peace in Suvanna 
(that I was Cartelled from Charleston South Carolina to Richmond Virginia where 
I received my discharge that exclusive of the beformentioned engagements I was 
in a variety of skirmishes in both the Northern and Southern states that I was 
seven years and ten months in the said service during which time I served as a 
private, corporal, sergeant and sergeant major, 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 to diminish it so 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 tract 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 hereto annexed and by me subscribed to wit four swords of horned battle 
owned by my children living with me one old mare, bill of sale on the same to 
James Pickett to secure payment, six hogs owned by my children living with me, 
one plow, two hoes and two axes, some coarse carpenter's tools a debt due me by 
me deceased son about sixteen dollars of six years standing debtor considered 
insolvent which articles so as aforesaid enumerated the court doth appraise to 
the sum of ninety nine dollars. I do further declare that my occupation is that 
of a coarse carpenter that in common enjoy good health and considering that the 
addition of less than three months will finish my seventieth year under these 
circumstances I leave to other to judge of my ability to pursue my avocations. 
That I married a wife January 1786 who is now living with me and who has brought 
me nine living sons and seven daughters. That in the late conflict with the 
British Government one of my sons entered the United States Cavalry under 
Captain Littlejohn two others the Virginia Militia one of whom died at Norfolk 
my present family the aforementioned wife aged about fifty two years (infirm) 
sons Hiram aged 18 years Albert aged 9 years Taliaferro aged near 8 years 
Daughters Betty aged 12 years Francis Eleven years that my original Declaration 
was made before Judge Robert white in the second week of April 1818 and my 
pension certificate is dated on the 4th day of May 1818 and numbered on the back 
thereof 317. Sworn to in open court.