Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 15464, for Ezra Jones, Connecticut
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(3-1776)

SERVICE
Conn.

Jones, Ezra  

NUMBER
R. 15464

CONTENTS
b, 1762 at Saybrook, New Loudoun Co Conn. [b, = born]
res. at. enl Canaan, Litchfield Co. Conn. [residence at enlistment]
res in 1832 Phelps, Ontario Co. N.Y. [res = residence]
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Copy[?]
No 7963
Ezra Jones

rejected
on Rolls
26. June 80. 7th Decr
5. mo. 11 days
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No 7965        26 June 7 recd
Brief in the case of Ezra Jones of Phelps, County of Ontario in the State of New York
(Act 7 June 1832)
1. Was the declaration made before a Court or Judge? In open court
2. If before a judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?
Rank: (blank)
3. How old is he?
70 years
4. State his service as directed in the form annexed:
Period: June 1780
Duration of Service: 6 months
Rank:  Blank
Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served:
Gen. Huntington. Capt Charles Miles, Col H. [illegible]
5. In what battles was he engaged?)
(blank)
6. Where did he reside when he entered the service?
Canaan County of Litchfield Connt.
7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls?
By one living witness and [illegible]
8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication?  and if so, in what respect.
They appear to be in due form.
I certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
Examining Clerk
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Ezra Jones
Declaration
7965




Passed
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State of New York
Ontario County
On this twenty seventh day of Augus 1832 personally appeared before the judges of the Court of Common Pleas of the County [illegible] aforesaid, Ezra Jones, a resident of Phelps in the County of Ontario in the State of New York, aged seventy years, who being first duly sworn according to la doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the  provision made by the Act of Congress passed June 7, 1832.  That he enlisted in the Army of the United States in the year 1780 with Capt. Charles Miles and served in Col Herman Smith's 7th regiment of the Connecticut Line under the following named officers.
That he enlisted about the first June in the year 1780, a private in Capt Charles Miles in Col Herman Smith's 7th regiment in the Connecticut Line, in General Huntington Brigade and served in said line six months, resided at this time of his enlistment in Canaan in the county of Litchfield and state  of Connecticut, marched first to Nelsons Point where he joined the army thence to Peekskill [illegible] the Hudson River at Stoney Point in the  vicinity of which place and along the [illegible] of the Hudson River he remained until his term expired, at which time he received a written discharge from Col. Swift and returned home.  Said discharge he has since lost. [illegible] and recollects of seeing often General Washington and Putnam, also their Inspector General Steuben and also General Knox of the artillery and Genl Lafayette of the Light Infantry. That he was born in the year 1762 in the town of Saybrook County of New London and State of Connecticut that he resided after the War in Connecticut until about the year 1792 when he emigrated to the state of New York in which state he has since resided.  That he has no documentary evidence of service, but is acquainted with Cornelius [illegible] who knew him, when in the service and will testify to the same.  He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension annuity except the present and he declares that his name is not on the [illegible] of any agency on any state.
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid in open court
Ezra Jones
Charles Crane, Clerk
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I, Cornelius Dunham, resident in the town of [illegible] in the county of Seneca and state of New York, do hereby certify that I am well acquainted with Ezra Jones, who has subscribed and sworn to the foregoing declaration that I knew him when in the army and as a member of the same company commanded by Capt Charles Miles in the continental line, and know that he is the identical Ezra Jones who served in said line six months, as above stated.
Cornelius Dunham
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid in open court.
Charles Crane, Clerk
And the said court do hereby declare their opinion that the abovenamed applicant as a revolutionary soldier and served as he states.
I Charles Crane, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of aforesaid do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of Ezra Jones for a pension.
In testimony whereof I have herewith set my hand and seal of office this twenty second day of August one thousand eight hundred and thirty two.
Charles Crane
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In reply to your request of _______________, received ______________ for a statement of the military history of Ezra Jones a soldier of the Revolutionary War, you will find below the desire information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau.
R. File 15,464
Date of Enlistment: June 1780
Length of service: Blank
Rank: Private
Captain: Charles Miles
Colonel: Herman Swift
State: Connecticut
Battles engaged in:  blank
Resident of soldier at Enlistment: Canaan, Litchfield Co. Conn
Date of application for  pension: Aug 27 1832
Residence at date of application: Phelps, Ontario Co., NY
Age at date of Application: B1762, Saybrook, New London Co,, Conn.
Remarks: There is no data relative to family.  The claim was rejected as soldier did not [illegible] six months service as required by the Act of June 7,1832 under which he applied.  The above noted is the only Ezra Jones of Conn. found on the Rev. War records of this Bureau.
Very respectfully, Commissioner
(Rej Book says - Did not serve 6 months)
(Compared with Conn Book, page 228 which says June 26 to Dec 7 1780= 5 mo 11 da) F.m.
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Rev. 15464  Rejected

Ezra Jones

The printed list of 1802 gives cause of rejection as "Did not serve six months"

1913, Mch 24, History to Mrs. Emma B. Roberts 
F.m.
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Ezra Jones
Rejected [illegible]
D. McNeil
New Yori
Nov 23rd 1820
Act 7, June 1832
Revo.
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Copy
Extract from Bureau letter to D. McNeil Phelps
dated Nov 23 1832.
(Referring to Ezra Jones) - "declares for a service in the Continental Army which by the rolls is less than six months, being 5 mos. and 11 days"
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Copy
Extract from Bureau letter to D. McNeil Phelps
dated Nov 23 1832.
(Referring to Ezra Jones) - "declares for a service in the Continental Army which by the rolls is less than six months, being 5 mos. and 11 days"
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Prosser. Wash. Mar. 10th. 1913
Department of the interior,
Will you kindly inform me if the following names of men appear in the war Department in the war of the Revolution.  Gershom Palmer of Stonington Conn, his son Abel Palmer, born 1751 at South Coventry, Conn or Waller Palmer, of Stonington, Conn.
or Seth Granger of  Conn, also Ezra Jones of Conn.
Your respectfully,
Emma Bishop Roberts
Box 96 Prosser, Wash.

Stamp: Dept of the Interior
Received March 15 1913
to Bur. Pensions
Secy's off - mails and filter

Stamp: Mar 15, 1913
Commissioner
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[illegible]
No. 4965
Ezra Jones

David McNeil
Agent
Phelps
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No 7965
Brief objections to the admission of Pension claims of which those answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of Ezra Jones which require further proof or explanation.
I.  Does the declaration show where the applicant resides? Yes
II. Did the declarant make the declaration in the county where he resides? Yes
III. If the applicant did not make the declaration in the county where he resides, is there any reason assigned for his not doing so?
IV. Has the declarant mentioned the period or periods of the war when he served? Yes
V. *Has he mentioned with precision the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served in language so definite as to enable the department to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled? Yes
VI. Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with the regulations? Yes
VII.  Has he made a relinquishment of every claim to any other pension than the one under the Act of July 7 1832? Yes
VIII. Has the Court given their opinion? Yes
IX. Has the Clerk given his certificate? Yes
X. Is the clerk's seal affixed?  And if so, has it a device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal? No, not distinctive.
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XI. Has the applicant obtained the evidence of a clergyman and another respectable citizen as to their belief respecting his age and the general belief in his neighborhood relative to his revolutionary service? No
XII. If the clergyman's affidavit has not been  produced, is there any reason assigned for not obtaining it?  No
XIII. If the applicant has no documentary evidence, and has not obtained the testimony of at least one living witness, has he stated in his declaration that such proof cannot be had? {answer missing]
XIV. If the applicant has produced a witness or witnesses as to his service, has the magistrate who administered the oath certified that he, she or they are persons of credibility?  Has the official character and signature of the magistrate been certified by the proper officer under his seal of office? No
XV. Does it appear from any of the papers that the witness was in such a situation, or of such an age, as to have a personal knowledge of the applicant's service? Yes
XVI. Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct? Yes
XVII. Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily?  And, if not, which of them is not so answered? No.  2nd

EXPLANATORY NOTES
QUERE V.  In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words:
"Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Pace, &c. A. B. who, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service, but according to the best of his
recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades:  For ______ year _____ months and _________days, I served as a ______; and for such service I claim a pension."
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     It is important in all cases to determine with precision the period for which the applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service.  The use of the phrase about three or four months is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable.

+QUERE XIV,   Proof of Service.
     In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses, who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimants entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the regiment, company, and line to which he belonged.  The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the witnesses, and the official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office.

+QUERE XVI.  Mode of authenticating papers.
       In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticated the paper is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other paper authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the end of which must pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate.