Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 23,795, for Jonathan Meeker, New York
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(3-1776) 

SERVICE 
New York 

Meeker, Jonathan or Meker

NUMBER 
S. 23,795

CONTENTS
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24.933
New York 
Jonathan Meeker of Middleburgh in the State of New York who was a private in the Comp commanded by Captain Vaughn of the Regt commanded by Col. Forman in the New York line for 8 months and 26 days 

Inscribed on the Roll of New York the rate of 29 Dollars 50 Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831. 

Certificate of Pension issued the 13th day of Feb 1834 and sent to J.B. Moore Rensellearville 

Arrears to the 4th of Sep ‘33   $ 73.7 [missing last digit]
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 M. ‘34  14.7 [missing last digit]
$88.6 [missing last digit]
{Revolutionary Claim
Act June 7, 1832}

Recorded by Geo C. Stiles  Clerk
Book E. Vol. 4  Page 186
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Admitted 
Private 8 months & 26 days
26.66
2.86
29.52
Be particular to direct Certificate and all communications relating to this claim to "J. B. Moore Rensselaerville New York” 
I wish this instruction strictly adhered to –
[signed] J. B. Moore
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State of New York 
Schoharie County } SS 
On this fourth day of November A.D. 1833 personally appeared before the undersigned a Judge of the County Courts of the County of Schoharie in the State of New York Jonathan Meeker a resident of the town of Middleburgh in the County of Schoharie in the State of New York aged 72 years, who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June 7. 1832.
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers, and served as herein stated. 
He first entered the said service at the town of Nobletown (as it was then called) in the County of Columbia in the State of New York, in the Spring of the year 1778 having been drafted - He joined a company of Militia, the Captain of which he does not recollect, Ensign Phillips belonged to the said comp and was immediately marched to Johnstown in the State of New York and was there stationed and kept guard and did Sentinel duty, and was out on Scouts untill his term of service for which he was drafted expired. He served at this time one month as a private soldier [side note: 1 Month] and was then dismissed and he returned home 
He again entered the said service at Nobletown aforesaid in the spring of the year 1779 a volunteer and joined a company commanded by Ensign Vaughn and was immediately marched to Schoharie and was stationed in the Middle Fort, and was under the command of Major Acker
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as near as he can recollect. He cannot remember the Capt. name he served under He continued at the Middle Fort and kept guard, and served as a private soldier one month and four days, [side note: one month 4 days] and was then dismissed and he returned home – 
He again entered the said service in the fall of the same year (1779) thinks in the month of September or about the first of October, having been drafted, and was marched to Schoharie and joined the forces then under the command of Colonel Vroman as near as he can recollect but he cannot tell who commanded the company he belonged to. He was stationed at the Upper Fort and kept guard and did Sentinel duty, and served as a private soldier for the term one month and two days [side note: 1 month 2 days] and was then dismissed and returned home 
He again entered the said service at Nobletown aforesaid having been drafted and joined Capt Bigsbee's company of Militia for the term of forty days and was marched to Cherry Valley and there joined the forces under the command of Colonel Alden, and was stationed about one mile from the Fort at that place, and there kept guard untill his term expired. He served at this time forty days as a private soldier [side note: 1 month 10 days] and then returned home - He served at this time in the year 1780. thinks in August
He again entered the said service at Nobletown aforesaid a volunteer and joined Capt.
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Hawleys Company of Militia, sometime in the face of the year 1780, and was marched down on the east side of the Hudson River to Fishkill and stationed within about one mile from a garrison at that place, and occupied tents. He kept guard and did sentinel duty and served as a private soldier two months and three days and was then dismissed and he returned home the last of November 1780 [side note: 2 months 3 days] 
He again entered the said service at Danbury in the State of Connecticut in the Summer of the year 1781 and enlisted in Capt Deeds [or Weeds] company for the term of Eight months, to go down and take Cornwallis. He started from Danbury in the month of August 1781, and was ordered to take charge of a four Ox team, and take baggage belonging to a company of Artillery, He was taken down the Hudsons River to White Plains, and from there crossed the Hudson's River and went down with the French soldiers belonging to the Army through New Jersey and Pensylvania to same place in Virginia, and there staid having charge of a team untill about the time of the Surrender of Cornwallis and then returned back to Danbury in the State of Connecticut. He was then dismissed and returned home having served at this time two months and Seven days as near as he can recollect [side note: 2 months 7 days] as a private soldier – 
He was in the actual
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service of the United States in the Revolutionary War, and served as a private soldier eight months and twenty six days, and for such service he claims a pension [side note: 8 months 26 days Private]
He was born in the town of Nobletown in the County of Columbia on the 16th day of October 1761 
He had a record of his age in a family Bible, which he believes is now in the State of Ohio 
He resided at the time of entering the said service at Nobletown aforesaid - and was called into the said service as above stated 
He continued to reside in Nobletown aforesaid untill about the year 1798, when he removed to his present place of residence in Middleburgh aforesaid where he has lived ever since except about two years, when he resided in the County of Oneida –
Genl Washington Col Alden. Capt Van Rensselaer and others were with the troops where he served but he cannot tell what Continental and militia regiments he served with 
He never received a written discharge, and he has no documentary evidence to prove his services 
He is known to Revd Stephen Joice. Leighton Joice Peleg Cook, Capt George Borthwick, Samuel Sweet Restcome Macumber William Braymin Esqr and others
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who reside in his present neighbourhood and who can testify to his character for veracity and their belief of his services as a soldier of the Revolution 
He has made enquiry and used all the exertions in his power to procure witnesses to prove his services in the Revolutionary war and Witnesses cannot be had or found 
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of the Agency of any State –
He has an unusually had rupture and one of his knees is entirely stiff with the Rheumatism, and he is wholly unable to attend the Court, 
[signed] Jonathan Meker  X his mark
Sworn to and Subscribed the day and year aforesaid Before me Thos Danforth a Judge of Schoharie County Courts 
I hereby certify that said Meeker is so very infirm that I had to call a distance at his residence to take his affidavit & that he apparently was not able to attend Court owing to a bout reumatism & the Palsey
[signed[ Thos. Danforth Judge as aforesaid
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We Revd. Stephen Joice a clergyman residing in the town of Middleburgh in the County of Schoharie in the State of New York and Restcome Macumber, & William Braymin Esqr residing in the same place hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Jonathan Meeker who has subscribed and sworn to the within declaration; that we believe him to be 72 years of age; that he is reputed and believed in the neighbourhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion 
[signed] Stephen Joice  Rescom Macumber  Wm Braman 
Sworn and subscribed this 6th day of November 1833 Before me 
[signed] Thos. P Danforth a Judge of Schoharie County Courts –
And I the said Judge do hereby certify and declare my opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier, and served as he states. And I do further certify that I am well acquainted with Revd Stephen Joice, Restcome Macumber and William Braymin Esqr who have signed the preceding certificate, that the said Stephen Joice is a clergyman, and that they all reside in the said town of Middleburgh, are credible persons and that their statement is entitled to credit 
I do also certify that the said applicant is unable to attend the Court by reason
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of bodily infirmity, and that I have attended at his place of abode and administered to him the foregoing oath 
In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand the day and year aforesaid 
[signed] Thos. P Danforth a Judge of Schoharie County Courts 

State of New York 
Schoharie County } ss
I John Gebhard Junr. Clerk of the County of Schoharie in the State aforesaid do hereby certify that Thomas P. Danforth before whom the within declaration of Jonathan Meeker and the foregoing certificate of Stephen Joice Rescom Macumber & William Braymin Jun. was sworn, and who has made the above certificate is a Judge of the County Courts of the County of Schoharie in the State of New York and that the signature "Thos P. Danforth” to the said declaration and certificates is his genuine signature - In testimony whereof [I] have hereunto set my hand and affixed [the] Seal of the said County this ninth [day] of November A.D. 1833 
[signed] John Gebhard Jun. Clerk of Schoharie County
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In reply to your request of --- received --- for a statement of the military history of Jonathan Meeker a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his [crossed out, (or his widow's)] application for pension on file in this Bureau. S.F 23,795 

[TABLE]
DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT.   |  LENGTH OF SERVICE.   |  RANK.  |  OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. CAPTAIN. / COLONEL.   |  STATE   |
Spring 1778  |  1 mo.  |  Pri  |  names of officers not remembered.  |  N.Y.  |
Spring 1779.  |  1 mo 4 days.  |    |  Ensign Vaughn /    |      |
Fall, 1779.  |  1 mo. 2 days.  |    |   / Vrooman.  |      |  
Aug. 1780  |  1 mo. 10 days.  |    |  Bigsbee / Alden   |     |
Fall, 1780  |  2 mo. 3 days.  |    |  Hawley  /    |     |
Summer, 1781.  |  2 mo. 7 days.  |    |  Weed. /    |     |
[END TABLE]

Battles engaged in, 
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Nobletown, N. Y. 
Date of application for pension, Nov. 4, 1833 His cl. was al. 
Residence at date of application, Middleburgh, Schoharie Co. N.Y. 
Age at date of application, Born Oct 16, 1761 at Nobletown, Columbia Co, N.Y.
Remarks: There is no data relative to family 

Respectfully, 
Commissioner.
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[left side]
Revolution
23795
INVALID. 
File No. 23,795 
Jonathan Meeker 
Pri Rev War 

Act: June 7th 32” 
Index: -- Vol. 2,  Page 267
[Arrangement of 1870.] 

[right side]
Oct. 28 – 1903. Hist to Mrs. Emma M  Jones Camden N, Y.
Jany 21 – 1904 – Hist to Andrus Meeker Camden N.Y.
1917. Dec. 29. History to Mrs. Ida M. M. Pfendler   F.W.
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Rensselaerville 
Albany County 
New York 
November 13. 1833 
Dr Crump 
Dear Sir 
Herewith you have the papers in support of the claim of Jonathan Meeker to a pension under the act of June 7. 1832. The declaration and traditionary evidence are in strict conformity with the regulations But it is to be feared that under the new and existing regulations of the Pension office, no favorable result can be expected. He has not, nor can he, procure direct proof of his services, and although certificates have frequently been issued without proof, it seems now [that any] impediment is thrown in the way in the decision of these claims. Please let me hear from you in relation to this claim as soon as possible and direct your letter to me at Rensselaerville New York –
I wrote you some days in reply to a letter of J. L. Edwards of the 26 Oct, informing me that the case of Nathaniel Perry had been examined &c and states that I had no such man on my list of applicants, and that probably [illegible] Potter was the man alluded to. I have not received any answer to my letter, I will thank you to inform me who the person is, for if it is Aaron Potter, I have much more to say in relation to the hardship and injustice done in this case –
Respectfully Yours &c
[signed] J. B. Moore
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New York Troops in 6 enlistments for which I have been told he received a pension,
Very truly, 
Mrs. Ida May Meeker Pfendler
Boonville N.Y.
Box 518
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M.W.
24.735 
U S  Commissioner of Pensions 
Washington, D.C. 
My dear Sir 
Will you kindly give me the Revolutionary War Record of John or Jonathan Meeker. (I think the name was Jonathan.) He received a pension and died at McConnellsville, Vienna, Oneida Co. New York, some time about 1837 and is buried there but has no headstone other than a field-stone. Think he must have enlisted from Conn but am not positive. Shall be most gratefull for any information of this man and thank you in advance
Respectfully yours 
(Mrs) Emma Meeker Jones 
Camden, New York.
Oneida Co.
Oct 19th 1903
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23.795
3-068.  (Old No. 3-649.)
Jonathan Meeker
Bureau of Pensions. 
Nov. 4 1833 72 
Middleburg N.Y 
Spg 78 Nobletown N.Y. 
Ensign Phillip 
Col – 
pvt – 1 m
spg 79 Ensign Vaughn 
Col –
pvt 1 mo – 4 d
Fall 79 Capt –
Col Vrooman 
pri 1 mo 2d
Aug 80 Capt Bigsbee 
Col Alden 
pri – 40 days
80 Capt Hawley 
Col.
pri – 2 mo. 3 d
81 Capt Weed
Col –
P. 2 mo 7
27 Born Oct. 16, 1761 Nobletown NY 
no B at
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OW&N 24735  
[stamped] Old War & Navy Files Jan 16 1904
U S Commissioner of Pensions
Rev Dept Washington, D.C. 
My dear Sir 
Will you kindly send me a copy of the Revolutionary pension Record of Jonathan Meeker who died at McConnellsville town of Vienna New York about 1837. 
Also I desire any record you have of service in the War of the Revolution of Joseph Green of R.I. 
He was a private in the Pawtucket Rangers on Pawtucket Neck July 17. 1778. He is said to be with Gen Stark at Bennington. He was born in RI 1758 or 59 Died in Duanesburg N York 1827. 
Respectfully yours 
Andrus Meeker, 
Camden, 
Oneida Co. New York 
June 11th 1904

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