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Thomas Toms

The name of Thomas Toms appears on the 1794 list of Invalid Pension Claims for Virginia which indicated that he resided in Albemarle County, Virginia. Toms was wounded in 1780 at Kings Mountain and claimed a pension relating to the following disability: "Severely wounded on the head, being scalped on the left temple with a stroke from a hatchet, which does much injury to that eye; is also disabled in two fingers on the left hand, and wounded in the right hip and neck; all which he received in the service of the United States, against Major Ferguson, on King's mountain."

The examining physician gave no recommendation for pension entitlement.

Source: AmericanState Papers.