Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 43507, Jonathan Dolbee, R.I.
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(3-1776)

SERVICE
R.I.

Dolbee, Jonathan,
or Dolbe

NUMBER
S. 43507

CONTENTS
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10.270

New York

Jonathan Dolbe of Ealen in the State of N. York who was a private in the Regiment commanded Colonel Angels of the R. Island line, for the term of 3 years.

Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 12th of May 1818. -

Certificate of Pension issued the 9th of Oct 1821 and sent to Applicant.
          Ealen, Seneca Co. NY

Arrears to 4th of Sept 1821                     317.70
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4 Mar 1822           40.00
3 yrs 3 mos                                            $365.70
3 yr

{Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818}
21 May 1822  

Seneca Co
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District of New York

County of Seneca: I John Sayres one of the 
judges of the Court of Common Pleas in ____
for the County of Seneca in ___ State I hereby certify that on the Twelfth day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen formally appeared before me John Davenport and Jonathan Dolbee and each for himself made his separate declaration on oath by me duly administered in confromity to the act entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States and the revolutionary war" [proposed?] on the 18th day of March One thousand eight hundred and eighteen, that the said declarations were submitted by me and were made and sworn to be the said John Davenport and Jonathan Dolbee for the purpose of obtaining their pensions under the provisions of the said act.
dated 6th Feb 1821

John Sayres one
of the judges of the court
of common pleas in + for the County of Seneca

And I John Sayres one of the Judges as aforesaid of the Court of Common Pleas as mentioned in the ______ certificate by me made do further certify that on the Tenth day of April in the year of our Lord 1818 James M[itheron?] personally came before me and made submitted I made oath for his declaration in conformity to the act entitled "an act to provide for certain  persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war with a _____ to obtain his _______________ the provisions of said act that the said declaration ________ signed + certified by me dated 7th Feb 1821
John Sayres
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District of New York 
County of Seneca ss:  I John Sayre one of the [for?]

State of New York Seneca County Clerk's office ss: 

I certify that John Sayre Esquire whose signature appears to the within certificate bearing the dates of the 6th & 7th days of February [illegible] in his own proper hand writing as I verily believe (I being acquainted with his hand writing), was at the times that the said certificates bear dates,  and also on the 10th day of April & 12th of May 1818, a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in & for the County of Seneca, acting under the authority of this State-

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court this 16th day of February 1821 
J. H. Halsey Clk.
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District of New York 
County of Seneca ss: 

On this fourth day of October in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and twenty personally appeared in open Court in the Court of common Pleas held in and for the County of Seneca in said State before the Judges of the same court it being a court of record because it is so declared by the laws of the said State and proceeds according to the course of the common law with a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount keeping a record of their proceedings and a common seal.  Jonathan Dolbee aged sixty two years who being first sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the acts of Congress of the 18th March 1818 and the 1st May 1820 that he the said Jonathan Dolbee first enlisted for the term of eight months in the month of May 1775 in the town of situate in the County of Providence in the State of Rhode Island in the company commanded by Captain Stephen Kimbal in the regiment commanded by Colonel Hitchcock in the line of the State of Rhode Island on the Rhode Island Continental establishment that he continued to serve in the said Corps until the month of December 1775 when he enlisted for the term of one year in the town of Boston in the State of Massachusetts in the same company and regiment above stated and commanded by the same officers above stated, and in the same line & continental establishment as above stated that he continued to serve in in the said corps untill some time in the month of January 1777, when he was discharged from the said service in the town of Peramus in the County of Morris in the State of New Jersey that he the said Jonathan Dolbee enlisted a third time for the term of three years in the
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month of June 1777, in the town of Warwick in the County of Providence and State of Rhode Island in the company commanded by Captain Benjamin Hughes in the regiment commanded by Colonel Isaac Angel in the line of the State of Rhode Island in the Rhode Island Continental establishment that he continued to serve in the said Corps untill the month of June in the year 1780 when he was discharged from the said service at the town of Springfield in the State of New Jersey in the Spring of 1780 or in the month of June of that year at a place then called the Connecticut farms  That he was in the battles of Long Island Harlam Hights, Monmouth, White Plains & Rhode Island  And in pursuance of the of the Act of the first March 1820 I do solemnly swear that I was a resident Citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March one thousand eight hundred and eighteen 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 so to diminish it 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 one thousand eight hundred and eighteen and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property or securities, contracts or debts due to me nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed & by me subscribed to wit. I have no real property of any description nor have I any interest in any-

I have one cow and our young calf I have eight sheep I have two small hogs one
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pair of plow Irons, one log chain, six drag teeth, one three pail Iron Kittle, a small pot, and a small Kittle, a tea kettle, one crain, one pair fire dogs, one old table, one half dozen old chairs two or three old earthen bowls one half dozen tea dishes, one small Skillet 3 or four old knives and as many old forks 3 or four old spoons
Jonathan Dolbee-

I also further solemnly swear that I have no other occupation than that of a day laborer at the business of farming that my health is fast declining so that I have not been able to labor for a great proportion of the time for two or three years past, that my family consists of 4 persons, to wit, myself, my wife who is in a
bad state of health and unable to labor, one
daughter sixteen years of age and a little boy
five years old. I am indebted to a Physician
by the name of Lewis Ely in the sum of fifty dollars for attending myself and family in sickness. I am indebted to one Thomas Slocum in the sum of nine dollars for necessaries for my family
I am also indebted to one Loammi Beadle in
the sum of twenty two dollars I am indebted
to Smith & Ludlow merchants in the sum of
fifteen dollars I am indebted to James Roy
for wheat four dollars & twenty five cents I am
indebted to one Henry Creager for pork in the
sum of four dollars and thirty seven cents & I am indebted to one Abner Hopkins in the sum of four dollars for pork all purchased for the
use of my family
Jonathan Dolbee
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I, Jehiel H Halsey Clerk of the County of Seneca and of the Court of Common Pleas thereof do here by certify that the foregoing oath and the Schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the records of the said Court, and I do further certify that it is the opinion of the Court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid Schedule is forty four dollars & ninety cents. 
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court on this fourth day of October 1820 J. H. Halsey Clk. &c

District of New York 
County of Seneca ss:  Jonathan Dolbee the within named declarant being duly sworn deposeth and saith that in the month of May 1818 he employed him Lemuel Warner Ruggles Esquire of said County to make out this deponents declaration & assist him in obtaining the provision of our 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 the 18th day of March 1818, that the said declaration that the said declaration was accordingly drawn by the said Ruggles & sworn to by this deponent before the Hon John Sayre Esquire one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of said County on the 12th day of May 1818 & at the same time left the said declaration with the said Ruggles to be sent to the war department, who afterwards told this deponent that he had forwarded the same - And further saith not 
Jonathan Dolbee

Taken subscribed & Sworn before me 19th Dec 1820 
John McLean Jr
Sen. Com Pleas 
State of N. York
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State of New York 
County of Steuben ss-

Robert Harrisson of said County being duly sworn deposeth and saith that he is acquainted with Jonathan Dolbe, and was acquainted with him the said Jonathan in the army of the revolution. That he the said Jonathan Enlisted in Captain Hughs’ company in Col. Israel Angel's Regiment of the Rhode Island line in the continental Establishment, in the spring of the year 1777- at the Town of Situate in the County of Providence and State of Rhode Island aforesaid- That his said Enlistment was for the term of three years, and that he the said Jonathan Dolbe served in said line for the said term of three years, and was regularly and honorably discharged from said service at the expiration of said term of three years - That the said Regiment was commanded by Col Angel, Col. Christopher Green, & Col. Jeremiah Ony in succession while the said Jonathan Dolbe belonged thereto- and that at the time of his said discharge the said Regiment was commanded by the said Colonel Ony
Robert Harrison

Sworn to before me 
This 25th December 1819 
H. Welles J. P.
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I certify that in my opinion Robert Harrison the aforegoing deponent, is a credible witness and that his deposition is entitled to full credit.
Henry Welles J.P.
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State of New York 
County of Steuben ss.  Pardon Dolbe of said County being duly sworn deposeth and saith, that Jonathan Dolbe is a brother of him this deponent, and that he this deponent knows of the said Jonathan Dolbe being a private, in 
Captain Hughes’s a Company in Col. Israel Angel's Regiment in the Rhode Island line on the continental Establishment - That he enlisted in said company some time in the spring of 1777- in the Town of Situate in the County of Providence in the State of Rhode Island aforesaid. That he the said Jonathan Dolbe served in said line for the term of three years and was then honorably discharged from the said service - That the said Regiment was command by Col Angel, Col. Green, &amp; Col. Ony in succession, and the said Regiment was commanded by the said Ony at the time of the discharge of the said Jonathan Dolbe
Pardon Dolbee

Sworn before me 
This 25th Decr. 1819- 
Henry Wells J. P.
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I do hereby certify that in my opinion the aforegoing deponent Pardon Dolbe, is a credible witness, and that his deposition is entitled to credence- 

Henry Welles J.P. 

State of New York 
Steuben County 
Clerks office ss

In testimony that Henry Welles Esq. whose name appears to the preceeding affidavits & certificates was at the dates therein contained & now is one of the Justices assigned to keep the peace in & for the said County of Steuben duly commissioned & qualified as such I have hereunto set my hand & seal of office this 25th day of December AD 1819 
E Howell Clerk 

[written sideways at bottom left of page:]

In the Matter of
Jonathan Dolbe
a private in the
Rhode Island Continental
establishment"
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43504
INVALID
Revy

File No. 43.507
Jonathan Dolbe
Pri Rev War

Act 18 March 18
Index:-Vol. 5, Page 132
[Arrangement of 1870]
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Galen Seneca Co State of
New York Septr 24th 1871

Dear Sir

Enclosed is the certificate of the Judge, before whom I first made application, or declaration, agreeable to your letter- Please do send my certificate & date it, so that I may now draw the money- I am very poor & all my family are sick- my credit is injured because I have not recd. my certificate & I cannot without great difficulty get the necessaries of life- Yours respectfully
Jonathan Dolbee
[illegible] Sylvester Clarke
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War Department, 
Pension Office, 
Septr 7th 1821. 

Sir

In answer to your's of the 20th ultimo, I have to state that your claim has been suspended for the certificate of the Judge before whom you made your first declaration, as to the date of it. If you cannot procure his certificate, and are willing that your pension should commence on the date of your last declaration, your name will be inscribed on the pension roll, when you shall have notified this Department of your willingness.

I am, respectfully, 
Yr. Obt. Sert. 
J.L. Edwards 

Mr Jonathan Dolbee, 
Galen,
N. Yk.
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I John Sayre one of the late Judges of the
Court of Common pleas in & for the County
of Sencca in the State of New York do certify
that on the 12th day of May 1818 Jonathan---
Dolbee of Galen in the County of Seneca made oath before me to a declaration of his service
in the revolutionary war in order to obtain
a pension under the act of Congress
passed March 1818-
John Sayre
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Jonathan Dolbee
Priv.'
Col. Angels
R. Island Regt
1777.
3 years
See Roll
-
Service admitted
-
Dec 12 May 1818.

For date of original declaration
see Judge Sayre's certificate
filed with John Davenport's
papers
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District of New York
County of Seneca ss: Lemuel Warner Ruggles of said County being duly sworn deposeth and saith that he was applied to by Jonathan Dolbee the above named declarant in the month of May 1818 to assist him in obtaining the provisions of the 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 the 18th day of March 1818. that the said declaration was made out by this deponent and duly sworn to by the aforesaid declarant on the 12th day of May 1818 according to this deponents best recollection and belief before the Hon. John Sayre one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of the said County, and that within a few days thereafter this deponent supposed it was forwarded the to the war department 

Lemuel Warner Ruggles

Sworn this 23. day of 
Dec 1820 before me 

John McLean Jr.
Judge Seneca County
S. N Y