Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 20,286, Jonathan Barry, Mass.
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Custom House Machias (Me)
October 3 1832

Sir,
I have the honor to enclose herein the Application of Jonathan Barry of this town- for Pension under the late act of Congress- & respectfully to request that after examination you will inform me whether Mr Barry will be placed on the list, & at what rate - 

I am, with great respect
Sor, your obdnt svnt

P. A. Morse

Hon. Lewis Cass
Secretary of War
Washington
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BRIEF in the case of Jonathan Barry.
of Machias in the State of Maine
(Act 7th June, 1832.)

1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? Open Court

2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?

3. How old is he? 77 years.

4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed.
Period. | Duration of Service. | Rank.| Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.

In 1775 | 9 months | Private | Capt Smith
1776 | 1 month | Private | Colo Edey
1777 or 8 | 1 month | Private | Cap. Small, Gen'l Ward

5. In what battles was he engaged? None

6. Where did he reside when he entered the service?  Scarborough Me

7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by
incidental evidence, or by the rolls? Two living witnesses

8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? Correct


X Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.

Richard Cutts
Examining Clerk.
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State of Maine.
County of Washington Ss.

On this twentieth day of September AD 1832 personally appeared before the Hon John Dickinson Esqr. Judge of the Court of Probate of Wills &c in and for said County of Washington now setting at Machias in said County
Jonathan Barry a resident of Machias in the County aforesaid State of Maine aged Seventy Six 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 provisions made by the act of congress passed June 7. 1832. 

That he enlisted into a company commanded by Capt Stephen Smith at Machias in 1775 in September of that year and continued in said Company as a private until June 1776 being
nine months, in December in the year 1776, he served & enlisted as a volunteer under Ezekiel Foster a recruiting officer under Colonel
day and served in the expedition to Cumberland in Nova Scotia which service he was employed one month, he was also drafted to serve in an expedition to Penobscot in Capt. Smalls Company, Jonas Farnsworth
first Lieutenant in the summer of 1777 or 1778 Genl. Ward commanded the expedition and was in the service one month, 

that he was born in the town of Scarborough near Portland in 1755 and came to Machias 1763. when he has lived ever since. that he is Seventy seven years old, that he had no written discharge, but was regularly discharged. 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.-
Jonathan Barry

Sworn to & subscribed the day & year aforesaid
John Dickenson Judge.-

We Joseph Getchell and James W. Crocker residents of Machias in the County of Washington hereby testify that we are well acquainted with Jonathan Barry who has subscribed and sworn to the above
declaration that we believe him to be Seventy seven years of age that he is reputed & believed in the neighbourhood where the
resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that we are both knowing also to his being in the service he states
having been in Machias in the same service.
Joseph Getchell  X his mark
James W Crocker 

Sworn & subscribed the day & year aforesaid
John Dickinson Judge -

And the said Court does hereby declare his opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories
prescribed by the war Department. That the above named applicant