Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 2292, for Reuben Jones, Connecticut
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Conn.    Jones, Reuben   S 2292

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CONTENTS

b. May 1763 in Preston, New London Co. Conn. & res. there at  enl.
in 1832 res. Plymouth Twp. Luzerne Co. Pa.
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                    2004
Pennsylvania
Reuben Jones
of Plymouth in the State of Pennsylvania who was a private in the Company commanded by Captain T Gill of the regiment commanded by Col. Swift in the Connecticut line for 11 months.

Inscribed on the Roll of Pennsylvania at the rate of 36 Dollars and 66 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March . 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued 14 day of November 1832 and sent to Pensioner Plymouth Luzerne Co Penn

Arrears to 4th of Sept. 1832               $ 54.99
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 March    18.33
                                                  1833   ______
                                                          $ 73.32

{Revolutionary Claim
    Act June 7, 1832.}

REcorded by JMcuffield Clerk
Book D    Vol. 6  Page 63
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  No 9133
PENNSYLVANIA

[Next three notations crossed out]

Send to
          Claimant
             Plymouth
[word crossed out]
                      Pa


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9133
Admitted
Private, 11 Months 

$56.66

to {word Claimant crossed out]  Pensioner
           Plymouth
               Penn
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BRIEF in the case of Reuben Jones of Plymouth County of Luzerne in the State of Pennsylvania
               (Act 7th June, 1832)
1.  Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge?  Court
2. If before a Judge, does ot appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?  [Blank]
3. How old is he?  69

4 State his service, as directed in the form annexed. [NOTE: this form has four columns; Period. Duration of Service, Rank, Names of Generals and field Officers under whom he served. ]

August in 1778   2 months Substitute  Private   
            Capt Wheeler, Col Gallup
Dec in 1778        1 Month   Substitute
ditto      Capt Whiting
July  1780    (on Roll)  6 Months
ditto      Capt Hill, Miles Billings, 
              Col Swift, Saml Huntington
   --     1782     2 Months  ditto   Capt. Prentice

5. In what battles was he engaged?   [blank]

6. Where did he reside when he entered the service?  Preston, County of New London, Connecticut

7. In his statement supported by living witnesses by documentary proof, be traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls?  Living and traditionary

8. Are the papers defective as to form authentication? and if so, in what respect?  - Defective papers, not attached properly together

I CERTIFY that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.

{Signed] James Mihony [sp?] Examining Clerk
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Luzerne County Js

Be it remembered that on the twenty sixth day of July AnDi 1832 Before me the subscriber one of the Justices of the Peace in and for said County - personally came Elisha Jones who being duly sworn according to law did depose and say, that he was acquainted with Reuben Jones of the township of Plymouth Luzerne County aforesaid: in the time of and during the revolutionary War, that in the year 1778 - that he saw the said Reuben Jones on Rhode Island in the capacity of a soldier & that in 1780 he was then a soldier at Tapon in New Jersey in Colonel Swift's  Regiment, and further saith not.                               his
             [Signed]  Elisha  X   Ames
                                    mark
Sworn & subscribed
before me  Asa Stevens JP

Luzerne County Js
    Be it remembered that on the twenty Eightnth day of July AnDi 1832 Before me the Subscriber - one of the Justices of the peace in and for said County personally came Aseph Jones who being duly sworn according to law did depose and Say that he was acquainted with Reuben Jones of the Township of Plymouth Luzerne County aforesaid in the time of and during the Revolutionary War that in the year one thousand seven hundred seventy eight he was knowing to the said Reuben Jones going in the service at Rhode Island one month and in the same year was knowing to his being in the service at New London one month under the Command of Capt William Whitney and in the year 1780 was knowing to the said Reuben being in the Continental services six months in Col Hemon' Swifts' Regt. and after wards was knowing to his being in the service two months at Grawton [sic] fort and has often seen the said Reuben Jones Discharged for the six months service in the Continental troops and further sath not - 

                 [Signed]  Asepth Jones
Sworn & Subscribed
before me  Caleb Roberts Justice of the Peace
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Luzerne County Js
  I Isaac Bowman Recorder of Deeds [next word illegible] in and for the County of Luzerne in the State of Pennsylvania -
 Do Certify that Asa Stephens and Caleb Roberts are Justices of the Peace in the county and State aforesaid and full faith and credit may be given to all their acts and Deeds as truth

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and Seal of Office at Wilkesboro this Seventh Day of September A.D. 1832   
         [Signed]  Isaac Bowman Recr 

[Small seal affixed in bottom left corner of page]
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State of Pennsylvania}
Luzerne County Js}

  On the fourth day of September anno domini 1832 personally appeared in open Court before the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas now sitting in and for said County Reuben Jones a resident of Plymouth township in said County aged sixty nine years and upwards who being duly sworn according to law doth on his oath, declare in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed July 1832.

That he was drafted as a militia man at Preston in the County of New London & State of Connecticut then the place of his abode and marched hence and served for two months August & September in the year 1778 under the Command of Captain Thomas Wheeler & Col Nathan Gallup in Rhode Island which place was at that occupied by the British, and his company was Compelled to retreat from the Island and were soon dismissed -

That he entered the army of the United States again in the month of December of that year as a substitute for Salmon Treat & served under Capt. William Whitney for one month, the period of his engagement at and near to New London - That he enlisted at Preston in the County of New London in the State of Connecticut, there the place of his abode in the year 1780 and served in the continental army for six months commencing about the first of July in that year under the command successively, of Captains Hill  -  Miles & Billings 
in the seventh Connecticut Regiment under the command of Colonel Swift and General Huntington.  That on the occasion he joined the army at Nelson's Point nearly opposite to West Point where the company remained with others for some weeks, and then  crossing the north River marched to the highlands below  fish Kill where they spent the fall of the year erecting huts and preparing generally for a winter encampment of the army -  That he was regularly discharged at the end of the time for which he enlisted - that he has his discharge in writing & retained it for many years after he came to Plymouth in Pennsylvania - but not attaching to it sufficient value it was there lost or destroyed - That he was afterwards drafted as a militia man at Preston aforesaid in the year 1782 whence he marched about sixteen miles to fort Griswold at Groton where he served for two months   the time for which he was drafted under Capt. Prentice, the principle officer as far as he remembers their command at the fort 

   And the said Reuben Jones hereby relinquished every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and
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that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State or Territory
Sworn & subscribed in
open Court 5 September
1832
H. Pettebone
Prob.
Reuben Jones
Luzene County
We Benjamin Brulack a
Clergyman residing in Kingston in Lizeme
County and Elias Hoyt of the same place
do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with
Reuben Jones who has subscribed
and sworn to the above declaration, that we
believe him to be sixty nine years of age, that
he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood
where he resides to have been a soldier of
the Revolution & that we concur in that
opinion
sworn & subscribed ⎬ 
in open Court the 5 day
of September 1832
H. Pettebone   Prob
Elias Hoyt    Benjamin Bidlack
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To the Interrogatories [crossed out to the applicant} by the Court
the applicants  answers
1. I was born in May 1763 in the town of Preston
in New London County Connecticut
2 I have no record of my age & know it only
by information from my parents & others
3 I lived in Preston when I was called into service &
lived in Luzern since I left Preston nearly 45
years ago
4 I was drafted as appears in my declaration
& afterwards enlisted
5 I do not recollect very distinctly any other
officers names now none stated-
Reuben Jones
Sworn & subscribed in open
court 5 Sept 1832

H Pettebone
Prob
And the said Court do hereby declare their 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 the Court further certify that Benjamin Bidlack
who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergy
resident in the township of Kingston in Luzern County, and
that Elias Hoyt who has also signed the same is also a
resident of the said township and is a credible person
and that their statement is entitled to credit.
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I, Henry Pettebone, Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of Luzerne County do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Reuben Jones for a Pension.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this fifth day of September one thousand eight hundred and thirty two.
H Pettebone
Prot.
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Rev War 
2292
INVALID.
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File No.     2292
Reuben Jones
Privt Rev War
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Act: June 7, 1832
Index:-- Vol.   A,    Page 194

[Arrangement of 1870.]