Thomas Nott

[. . . following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June 7, AD 1832.]

I entered the service of the United States under the following officers and served as herein stated. I started from Charlestown in New Hampshire on the third day of January AD 1776 in Company with fifty men as a volunteer marched under the command of Captain White we marched to Brady[?] Point & from thence to Quebeck & there we joined the regular army under the command of General Schyler that I was [...] engagement on the plains of Abram under said Schyler on the 6th day of May 1776. I have no documentary evidence of my service. I know of no person by whom I can prove my service. I hereby relinquish every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declare that my name is not on the pension Roll of the agency of any state.

[Where and in what state were you born?]

I was born in Fairfield in Connecticut on the twenty fourth June AD 1740.

[Have you any record of your age and if so what is it?]

None but in my Hymn Book here now.

[Where were you living when called into service, where have you lived since the Revolutionary War, and where do you now live?]

I was living at Acworth in the state of New Hampshire and after the war I returned to Acworth. I came to the North Western Teritory now the State of Ohio on the waters of the Muskingum River about the year 1800. I now live in Bristol Township in Morgan County, Ohio.

[How were you called into service?]

I was a volunteer and remained three years in the service.

[State the names of some regular officers who were with the troops where you served such continental and Militia Regiments as you can recollect and the general circumstances of your service.]

I do not recollect the names of any officers but General Schyler, General Lyman and Captain White during the time of my service I had the small pox I was in the battle at Stillwater and at the plains of Abram.

1. THADDEUS NOTT, b. at Charlestown, NH, 22 Aug 1765; d. at Claremont, NH, 21 Feb 1856; m. at Charlestown, NH, 30 Oct 1787, CHLOE SPENCER, b. at Gilsum, NH, 8 Aug 1768, daughter of Joseph Spencer and Lucy Darte, and d. at Barnard, VT, 12 Sep 1844.

2. REUBEN NOTT, b. at Charlestown, NH, 30 Jan 1768; m. at Charlestown, NH, 7 Feb 1788, LOUISA HOLDEN of Charlestown. She was born in Charlestown, NH, 18 Dec 1769, daughter of Richard Holden and Dorothy Adams. She married, second, ___ MOSELEY, according to the Holden Genealogy.

3. SIMEON P. NOTT, b. at Charlestown, NH, 8 Feb 1770; d. at Morgan County, OH, in 1835; m. by 178_, wife's name unknown.

4. THEODORE NOTT, b. at Charlestown, NH, 28 Mar 1772; m. (published at Charlestown, 7 Aug 1790), CATY PETTY of Charlestown. Probably the Catherine Petty who was born 4 Oct 1772 in Dedham, MA, daughter of Samuel Petty and Catharine Hart. Lived in Barnard, VT from 1794 until 1799. In Jefferson County, NY, by 1810.

5. LUTHER NOTT, d. at Barnard, VT, 22 Aug 1795.

6. MARTHA (PATTY) NOTT, m. at Barnard, VT, 18 Jul 1799, EDWARD RICHMOND, who was born in Taunton, MA, 1774, son of Josiah Richmond and Betsey Hathaway. He d. at Evansburg, OH, in 1830. He m. second, SALLY MCFARLANE.

7. WILLIAM NOTT, b. 177_; m. first, by 1795, ___ ___; m. second, at Muskingum County, OH, 12 May 1814, NANCY ___, widow of ___ STORY.

8. BENJAMIN NOTT, b. 1779; d. at Lowell, OH, 1822; m. at Washington County, OH, 18 Mar 1806, POLLY ROCHE, who was born in Vermont in 1782 and died after 1860. She married second, LOUIS MORRIS.

9. JAMES NOTT, b. about 1782; d. 1815; m. in Ohio, 1803, PHEBE RICHMOND, daughter of Josiah Richmond and Betsey Hathaway, who was born in 1787 in Taunton, MA. They moved from Barnard, VT to Syracuse, NY to Morgan County, OH. She m. second, JOHN FINLEY.

10. SAMUEL NOTT, b. 178_; d. about 1840; m. at Washington County, OH, 15 Jul 1804, EMMA (AMY) VAN CLIEF, daughter of Peter Van Clief and Mary Ann ___, who was born in Hattonfield, NJ, 4 Dec 1785.