Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 34,322, Jonathan Deacons, Continental (R.I.) Mass.
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Service
Continental (R.I.)
Mass.

Deacons, Jonathan

Number 
S. 34,322
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1865
Massachusetts roll

Jonathan Deacons Capt. Tollman HC
Mass Private
Rhode Island line 9 years
In the army of the United States during Revolutionary War. 

Inscribed on the roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 8 dollars per month to commence on the 18 of April 1818

Certificate of Pension issued the 16 of July 1818 and sent to Elia Sam Pulman Salem Mass. 

Arrears to 4th of Sept. 1818
4 mos 17/30
36.53

{Revolutionary claim, Act. 18th March 1818}
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34322
Revy Invalid

File No. 34,322
Jonathan Deacons
Pri Rev War

Act: 18 March 18
Index Vol. 2, Page 107

[Arrangement of 1870]
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Jon.a Deacons

Adm.d
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts

Be it remembered that Jonathan Deacons of Marblehead in the county of Effex in the commonwealth aforesaid doth make upon oath the following declaration to wi, 
That in May seventeen hundred & seventy five at s.d Marblehead he enlisted as a soldier in Capt. John Tollman's Company of the 21st Reg.t under Col. John Glover went to Cambridge & was discahrged the last day of Dec.r following. In the month of January seventeen hundred & seventy six be again entered the service & enlisted into Capt. Francis Lymond's company he thinks of the 11 Reg.t under Col. Hitchcock of the Rhode Island Line went to Cambridge there returned then in April went to New York & continued in the same company & reg.t until the first day of Feb.y seventeen hundred & seventy seven when he was honorably discharged at Springfield in Ne Jersy - both of s.d reg.t were upon the continental establishment & that his discharge is lost by time & accident - that he is sixty years old that he was in the battle of Long Island also at Harlem Heights --

That the declarant is infirm; that from his reduced circumstances in life he is now in need  of assistance from his country for support; and that he hereby relinquishes his claim to every pension heretofore allowed  him by the laws of the United States. 
Jonathan Deacons
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Affidavit

I Andrew Larking of Marblehead in the county and commonwealth aforesaid rope maker do on oath depose and testify. 
That I well known that the said Jonathan Deacons did serve in the American Revolutionary War as he has stated in his foregoing affidavit. I was in the same reg.t & services.
Andrew Larkey

I William Thompson of Marblehead in the County and commonwealth aforesaid do on oath depose and testify that I well know Jonathan Dacons within named he enlisted in May 1775 in Glover Reg.t went to Cambridge when he remained in s.d Reg.t until about the last of Decmeber then not. He then entered in January 1776 into the Rhode Island line in Col. Hitchcock Regiment on the continental establishment. He left Cambridge about the time I did for New York. I saw him almost every day & I know that he served after the expiration of his first term from about the first of Jan.y 1776 until the beginning of February 1777. After which time I do not recollect I saw him in the service. 
William Thompson

Eness June 22, 1818. Then William Thompson personally subscribed & made solemn oath to the above affidavit. 
Before me Ralph H Frenck
J. Peace
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Essex, ss. 

I Samuel Putnam a Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of the Commonwealth aforesaid hereby certify that the aforenamed deponents, Andrew Lackey & William Thompson. 

are credible and disinterested witnesses; and that it appears to my satisfaction that the said declarant served in the Revolutionary Army on the continental establishment against the common enemy more than nine months at one period of continued service; and I further certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said declarant is in reduced circumstance in life, and stands in need of assistance from his country for support. 

Given under my hand and the seal of said court this 3rd day of June Anno Domini 1818
S. Putnam Just
S.S. Court of Massr.

I Ichabod Tucker clerk of the supreme judicial court aforesaid de certify that the Hon. Samuel Putnam is a judge of said court that the above is his signature that the seal affixed is the seal of said court that the within named Ralph H. Frenck Esq. who has certified the aforewritten depositions is a Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Essex duly empowered and qualified to administer oaths. 
Ichabod Tucker, Clerk

Printed by T.C. Cushing,Salem
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Essex 

On this eighteenth day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, personally appeared before me Samuel Putnam one of the jui8stces of the Supreme Judicial Court of the Commonwealth aforesaid

the aforesaid Jonathan Deacons & Andrew Lackey and in my pressence severally subscribed and made solemn oath to the aforewritten declaration and affidavit by them respectively made as aforesaid; And it appearing to my satisfaction that the aforenamed Jonathan Deacons served more than nine months, to wit from January AD 1776 to the first day of April AD 1777 at one period of the Revolutionary War on the Continental Establishment against the common enemy I do hereby certify that testimony in the cafe and the proceedings had thereon to the secretary of the Department of War. 

Given under my hand and the seal of the court aforesaid at Marblehead this eighteenth day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen. 
S. Putnam Just
S.J. Court of Mass.t
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Essex

I Ichabod Tucker clerk of all the judicial courts of said state in for the county of Essex do certify that the hon Samuel Putnam is a judge of said Supreme Judicial court that the within signature is his proper handwriting that the seal hereto affixed is the seal of said court. 
Solemn April 20, 1818
Att. Ichabod Tucker
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The National Archives
Bounty Land Warrant Record Card
Division of Veterans Administration Archives

Name Deacons, William 
Grade Private
Line
Hagen's Regiment

Warrant Number 13009 
Acreage 100
Issued April 8, 1794 to not shown. 

The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776 and subsequent dates. Other records relatives to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800. Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land  Office records in the National Archives.