Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 46350, Jonathan Cass, N.H.
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Service
N.H.

Cass, Jonathan

Number
S.46350

B.L.Wt 325-300 Capt.
Issued Mar 25, 1790
No paper
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Left Side Page

1883 Nov 7 - C L C Cass of New Orleans military history
1921 Jan 14 - History to W V Cox
1924 July 7 - History to Minnie H Knapp

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2-320
No 177
46350

Revy

Name: Jonathan Cass
Rank: Capt. Comp: Blank
Regt: blank N.H. Line

Agency - Date of death not shown

No other person's claim on file either for service in Rev or later in U.S.A.

Allowed - Act 1828
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Jonathan Cass
to Aaron Ogden with
power of substitution 
to Jno R Nourse

Lodged 25 June 1828

#46350
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No of Orig Pay 177

Revolutionary Claims
Allowed Act 1828

Treasury Department
18 July 1828

Jonathan Cass of Dresden in the county of Muskingum in the state of Ohio has applied to the Secretary of the Treasury for the benefits of the act entitled "An act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the army of the Revolution" approved on the 15th of May 1828. He states that he was an officer on the continental line and served as such to the end of the war, at which period he was a captain in the blank regiment of the New Hampshire line; and that he received commutation certificates for the five years full pay granted by the resolve of 22 March 1783 and further that he has receied as a pensioner since the 3d of March 1826, nothing.

The Third Auditor is requested to report how far these several statements are corroborated by the records in his office.

By order of the Secretary
A. Dickins

Treasury Department
Third Auditor's Office
21st July 1828

It appears by the records in this office, that final settlement certificates have been issued for the commutation of five years full pay to Jonathan Cass - Captain in the New Hampshire line amounting to Twenty-four hundred dollars.

It furthers appears that Jonathan Cass is not now on the pension list of any agency and has not been since the 3rd March 1826.

Peter Hagner - Aud.

No Record
Nov 12/16
Corrected
No 780
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Revolutionary Claims
[A.]
Form of a declaration to be made by the officers.

For the purpose of obtaining the benefits of an act entitled "An act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the army of the Revolution" approved on the 15th of May, 1828, I Jonathan Cass of Dresden in the county of Muskingum in the state of Ohio do hereby declare that i was an officer in the continental line of the army of the revolution and served as such to the end of the war at which period I was a captain in the New Hampshire battalion line.

And I also declare that I afterwards received certificates (commonly called commutation certificates) for a sum equal to the amount of five years' full pay, which sum was offered by the resolve of Congress, of the 22nd of March 1783 instead of the half pay for life to which I was entitled under the resolve of the 21st of October 1780.

And I do further declare that i have received of the United States as a pensioner since the 3rd day of March 1826.

Witness my hand this 15th day of June in the year 1828

Jonathan Cass

Before me Abram Smith a Justice of the Peace in the county of Muskingum in the state of Ohio personally appeared this day [illegible] and A H Woods of the said county who did severally make oath that the said Jonathan Cass by whom the foregoing declaration was subscribed is generally reputed and believed to have been an officer in the army of the revolution in manner as therein stated.

Witness my hand this 16 day of June in the year 1828

Abram Smith - JP - SEAL

I Ezekiel T Cox clerk of the court of the county of Muskingum in the state of Ohio do hereby certify that Abram Smith Esq before whom the foregoing affidavits were sworn, was at the time a Justice of the Peace in and for said county and duly empowered to administer oaths.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said court this Seventeenth day of June AD eighteen hundred and twenty-eight.

Ezekiel T Cox - Clerk

Here insert To the end of the war or (as the case may be) to the time when the arrangement of the army provided by the resolves of congress of the 3d and 21st of October 1780 was carried into effect; and that I was reduced under that arrangement.

Here insert, the sum of blank dollars paid to me by the agent for paying pensions in the state of blank. If the claimant has not been a pensioner, this part of the declaration may be omitted.

A Justice of the Peace or other magistrate duly empowered to administer oaths as the case may be.
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Mooers, New York
May 30, 1924

Department of Interior
Bureau of Pensions
Washington DC

Gentleman,

Will you please send me the pension record of Eliphilet Gale of East Kingston New Hampshire and Jonathan Cass of the same town.

Very truly yours

(Mrs.) Minnie H Knapp

Revolutionary war

US PENSION OFFICE STAMP - Jun 2, 1924
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Washington D C December 7, 1920

The Commissioner of Pensions
Washington, D.C.

Dear Mr. Byington:

I return your letter of Nov 12th (Widow Division) in re Jonathan Cass and two extracts from Muskingum County (Ohio) Histories sent me by Miss M.J. Roe of Gilbert, Ohio. She says these are the sum total of her data.

Miss Roe is a member of the D.A.R. and states that when in Washington at the Congress of the D.A.R. 1918 she spent considerable time in the Pension Office and there saw a record of Jonathan Cass giving his residence Dresden, Ohio.

Miss Roe is chairman of a committee locating the graves and making a record of the services of revolutionary soldiers.

She is doing a splendid work, and I hope your office will be able to assist in establishing the record of Jonathan Cass, father of Lewis Cass, Governor of Michigan and at one time a member of the Cabinet.

Thanking you, I am
Yours very Truly

W V Cox

P.S. If consistent will you please return the two historical sheets as they belong to Miss Roe's files.

US PENSION OFFICE STAMP - Dec 9 1920
RECORDS DIVISION STAMP - Dec 10, 1920
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3-1865

WIDOW DIVISION
Department of the Interior
Bureau of Pensions
Washington
November 12, 1920

Mr. W.V. Cox
Second National Bank
Washington, D.C.

Sir:

In response to your letter herewith returned you are advised that you do not give sufficient information to identify the papers of the particular soldier to whom you refer.

If you will return your letter with this letter and give the name of the company and regiment in which the soldier served, and state when and where he died, the name of his widow, if any, and the number of any claim, if know, filed on account of his military service, and the purpose for which the information as to his military service is wanted, further search will be made.

Very respectfully

F D Byington

US PENSION OFFICE STAMP - Dec 9, 1920

Nov 16, 1920 TLG*ACS

If Miss Roe will send me the data requested by the Pension office I will cheerfully present the case to the commissioner.

Respectfully

W V Cox

RECORDS DIVISION STAMP - Dec 10, 1920
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Rev and 1812
War Section

July 7, 1924

Minnie H Knapp
Mooers
NY

Madam:

I have to advise you that from the papers in the revolutionary war pension claim, S.46350, it appears that Jonathan Cass was a captain of the New Hampshire line, war of the revolution and served until the close of that war.

He was allowed pension on his application executed June 16, 1828 at which time he was a resident of Dresden Muskingum County, Ohio.

There is no data on file as to his family.

The above noted soldier is the only Jonathan Cass found on the Revolutionary War records of this Bureau.

Respectfully

Commissioner
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Rev war Section

Jan 14, 1921

Mr. W V Cox
Second National Bank
Washington, D.C.

Sir:

In response to your letter of the 7th ultimo, you are advised that the papers in the revolutionary war pension claim, Survivor File No 46350 show that Jonathan Cass was a Captain of the New Hampshire line war of the revolution and served until the close of that war.

He was allowed pension for said services on his application executed June 16, 1828, at which time he was a resident of Dresden, Muskingum County, Ohio.

He was also allowed three hundred acres of bounty land by the United States on warrant No 325 which issued March 25, 1790.

There is no further data on file as to his military services and no data as to his family.

Very respectfully

F A Royer
Acting Commissioner.

As this man also served in the US Army as Capt. & Major until 1801, I searched and there was no [illegible] or widow's claim on later service - AW Jan 14, 1921