Notes on William Thayer
William was a rev war soldier for 7 years, receiving a pension in his old age.
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BIOGRAPHY: Marr: Fauquier Co., VA Marriage record for Wm and Hannah Jones. "Early Fauquier Co., VA Marriage bonds for marriage #2, source says his second wife is called Mary Russell, (the former wife of Mr. Russell). The widow Mary Thayer applied
for pension 11-14-1853. She claimed Wm. was a Sargeant Major, other records he was called a private. Wm. was a soldier in the Va Line.
Census: 1810 Fauquier Co., VA with these children, 2 and males 2 under 10, plus 7 slaves. He was a revolutionary soldier, enlisted in 1775 in 5th Regiment, Lancaster Co., VA. Pension #317 dated 5-4-1818 with a lengthy description of service in
pension records. Received land bounty #8398 of 466 acres of land in KY from state of VA 9-23-1783. 11-24-1828, son John W. Thayer appointed administrator of estate.
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Filed application for Revolutionary War Pension, which was approved:
"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."
Note the discrepancy in the number of children he says he had (16) with the number we know (13). The names of the other 3 are unknown, and it is presumed that they died young.
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