Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 5116, for David Jones, Massachusetts
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(8-1776)

SERVICE
Continental
Mass.

Jones, David Elizabeth

NUMBER
W. 5116

CONTENTS
In 1818 aged 70 yrs [illegible] of North Yarmouth, Cumberland Co. [illegible] died there Mar. 27, 1822.
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Portland Sept. 15th 1845

Sir

The within declaration of David Jones for an increase of Pension due to his mother is forwarded to you at the request of the children of the late [illegible] Jones for your consideration and decision.

I am very respectfully your obv serv.
F. Bradford

J.L. Edwards Esq
Comm of Pensions
Washington D.C.
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N189. David Jones
North Yarmouth
5000
21 Dec 1818.
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WIDOW, &c.

File No. 5116
Elizabeth Jones
Wid. of David Jones
Surgeon Mafs, line
Act: March 3743
Index:--Vol. A, Page 377

[Arrangement of 1870.]
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IN CONGRESS

The Delegates of the United Colonies of new Hampshire, Massachusetts-Bay, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New-York, New-Jersey, Pennsylvania, the Counties of New-Castle, Kent, and Sussex on Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North-Carolina, and South-Carolina, to David Jones, [illegible]

We reposing especial Trust and Confidence in your Patriotism, Valour, Conduct and Fidelity, DO by these Presents, constitute and appoint you to be Surgeon of the [illegible] of Tooh, commanded by Colonel Loammie Baldwin

in the Army of the United Colonies, raised for the Defence of American Liberty, and for repelling every hostile Invasion thereof. You are therefore carefully and diligently to discharge the Duty of Surgeon by doing and performing all Manner of Things thereunto belonging. And we do strictly charge and require all Officers and Soldiers under your Command, to be obedient to your Orders as Surgeon. And you are to observe and follow such Orders and Directions from Time to Time, as you shall receive from this or a future Congress of the United Colonies, or Committee of Congress, for that Purpose appointed, or Commander in Chief for the Time being of the Army of the United Colonies, or any other your Superior Officer, according to the Rules and Discipline of War, in Pursuance of the Trust reposed in you. This Commission to continue in Force until revoked by this or a future Congress January 1, 1776.

By Order of the Congress,
John Hancock, PRESIDENT.

ChaThomson[illegible]
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59918_00684

The Honorable
The Secretary of War
Washington
Cal
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ayable semi-annually---the first payment on this certificate will be made on the 4th of March next, at the Cumberland Bank, Portland, Maine.

Recorded