Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File B.L.Wt. 1153-400, for James Jones, Pennsylvania
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(3-1776)

SERVICE     Penn.

Jones, James

NUMBER     B.L.Wt. 1153-400 Surgn
Issued May 30, 1789
No papers.

CONTENTS
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204 N. Queen St.,
Chestertown, Md.
10/25/1925

Commissioner of Pensions,
Department of the Interior,
Washington, D. C.

My dear Sir,
Will you kindly tell me if there is a record in your office to[?] show that "[underlined] James Jones a Surgeon," [/underlined] in the Revolutionary War, and a member of the Society of the Cincinnati, gave service?
[possible erasures] I think he died in ]underlined] Delaware [/underlined] 1830, but of this I am not sure.
Thanking you for any consideration you may be able to show me, I am
Yours very respectfully,
(Miss) Sarah Elisabeth Stuart
(Ex-Regent of Old Kent Chapter, D. A. R.)

[different handwriting]
The only officers entitled to the Cincinnati membership [left margin] Pa Line [/left margin] were those of Continental Line & Heitman shows James Jones Surgeon Pa. Line died 1830, so I sent this
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Rev. & 1812 Wars Section.

Nov. 23, 1925.

Miss S. E. Stuart,
204 N. Queen St.
Chestertown, Md.

Madam:
I have to advise you, that from the records of this Bureau it appears that four hundred acres of bounty land were allowed May 30, 1789, on Warrant 1153, on account of the services of James Jones, Surgeon of the Pennsylvania Line, War of the Revolution.
There is no further data on file as to soldier and no data at all as to family, owing to the destruction of papers in such claims when the War Office was burned in November 1800.

Respectfully,
WINFIELD SCOTT,
Commissioner.