Individual Details

Married Susannah Hodgen, 9 May 1786. After her death, John married her widowed sister, Rebecca Hodgen Keith, about 1831.

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Land Office Military Certificates, catalog card, The Library of Virginia:
JOHN THOMAS, Captain, Virginia Continental Line. Military certificate number LO 6755. Original Documents, Box 187, 24 (3 items). Available on microfilm; Virginia Land Office; Military Certificates, reels 1-38.
JOHN THOMAS, Captain, Virginia Continental Line. Military certificate number LO 9820. Original Documents, Box 187, 25 (2 items). Available on microfilm; Virginia Land Office; Military Certificates, reels 1-38.
JOHN THOMAS, Captain, Virginia Continental Line. Military certificate number LO 4071. Original Documents, Box 187, 26 (1 item). Available on microfilm; Virginia Land Office; Military Certificates, reels 1-38.
Background: After examining and approving documentation of Revolutionary War military service, the governor issued a certificate on which the Land Office register subsequently issued a warrant for bounty lands. The certificates are printed forms filled in with the name of the individual, his rank, whether he served in a state or a continental line unit, and the length of such service. The original certificates are dated, signed, and filed in individual folders along with any supplemental papers presented with the claim other than those actually proving military service. The certificates were numbered 1-9926 and cover the period July 14, 1782 - August 5, 1876. Note: The Land Office military certificates (RG #4 -- Virginia; Land Office; Register and Entry 86 in the Virginia Land Office Inventory) are housed in the Archives of the Library of Virginia.

1786 April 27, John Thomas md. Susannah Hodgen, Nelson Co., KY. --Mary Harrel Stancliff, Marriage Bonds of Nelson County, Kentucky, 1785-1832 (Houston, TX: ca. 1962-1963)

He was one of the four Major Generals of the Kentucky Militia in the second War with Great Britain, the other three being Gen. William Henry Harrison, Gen. Joseph Desha, and Gen. William Henry. ("Kentucky in the War of 1812," by A.C. Quisenberry, at page 177). The same author says (at page 134): "On October 20, 1814, Governor Shelby issued a call for men for the New Orleans campaign, and under that call three Regiments of Kentucky Detached Militia were brought into the field and organized for that campaign. * * * These troops were commanded by Major General John Thomas, with Brigadier General John Adair as his Adjutant General." A similar statement is made by McElroy in "Kentucky in the Nation's History."
The Filson Club (Louisville) publication entitled: "The Battle of New Orleans," by Z. F. Smith, states that by reason of General Thomas being prostrated with illness the command fell upon General Adair before the battle.
The controversy between General Adair and Andrew Jackson, the commander-in-chief of the American troops at the battle of New Orleans, arising from the latter's charge of cowardice against the Kentucky soldiers in that battle, which charge was denied by General Adair, and which later was somewhat reluctantly withdrawn by General Jackson, made General Adair the idol of his troops, and probably led to his election as Governor of Kentucky in 1820, and to his election as United States Senator five years later. General Thomas, on his retirement from the army at the close of the war, returned to private life and lived as a quiet farmer until his death, in Vigo County, Indiana, twenty years afterward. Three of his sons were engaged in the historic battle in which but for his untimely illness he would have had a conspicuous part.

In 1832 he applied for a pension for his Revolutionary War service, but his application was rejected, for the law required 9 months of continuous service, whereas JOHN served for 6 months at one time and 2 at another. In his application he made the sworn statement that he was born April 10, 1763, in Frederick Co., Va., that his father moved from Va. to Fayette Co., Pa., when he was 8 years old, that he lived there until he entered service under General Clark in 1781, that after such service he lived in that part of Kentucky now called Hardin County.
Note: I have been unable to find this application, even though the rejected pensions are on Fold3.

Said to be buried in the Old Brown Cemetery, Pierson Township, Vigo County, Indiana

Children of JOHN THOMAS, all by his first wife: HENRY m. Sarah Thomas; OWEN; ISAAC m. Mary Watts; ROBERT HODGEN m. Letitia Miller; HARDIN m. Sarah LaRue; HESEKIAH m. Lucretia Thomas; and JOSEPH.

Birth	10 Apr 1763	Frederick County, Virginia
Marriage	27 Apr 1786	Nelson County, Kentucky - Susannah Hodgen
Marriage	Abt 1831	Rebecca Hodgen
Death	16 Oct 1836	Terre Haute, Vigo County, Indiana

Spouse	Susannah Hodgen (1767 - )
Child	Isaac Thomas (1787 - 1860)
Child	Robert Hodgen Thomas (1789 - 1878)
Child	Joseph Thomas (1790 - )
Child	Henry Thomas (1795 - )
Child	Owen Thomas (1796 - 1880)
Child	Hardin Thomas (1797 - )
Child	Hezekiah Thomas (1799 - )

Spouse

Rebecca Hodgen (1784 - 1845)

Father	Owen Thomas (1731 - 1808)
Mother	Mary "Polly" Hardin (1735 - 1805)
Sibling	Lewis Thomas (1752 - 1844)
Sibling	Enos Thomas (1756 - )
Sibling	Henry Thomas (1758 - 1837)
Sibling	Hezekiah Thomas (1760 - )
Sibling	Catherine "Katy" Thomas (1764 - 1830)
Sibling	Hardin Thomas (1766 - 1837)
Sibling	Mary Thomas (1768 - )