Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 3214, John Bonner, Penn.
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(3-1776)

SERVICE
Penn.


Bonner, John
              Jane

NUMBER
W. 3214

CONTENTS
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Declaration of Jane Bonner in order to avail herself of the act of Congress of 4th July 1838

Adams County 
Pennsylvania  

On the tenth day of November eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, personally appeared before me. one of the judges of the Court of Common Pleas for said county, Jane Bonner, aged eighty years, residing on the plantation on which her husband John Bonner resided in Latimore Township in the county of Adams, and state aforesaid, taken upon her solemn oath, deposeth and saith that she was married to John Bonner on the first day of April in the year seventeen hundred and seventy-nine in Carlisle in the county of Cumberland by the Rev. Stewart.  That previous to her marriage she resided within a mile of the residence of John Bonner; that her maiden name was Thompson. 

That he entered the Revolutionary service on the first day of August 1776 as a common volunteer soldier.  That he was under the command of Col Matthew Dile and Capt. James Chamberlin, officers residing in what was then York, now Adams County.  That they marched through York and Lancaster to Philadelphia, thence to Amboy and Fort Lee on the time of the taking of Fort Washington.  That after serving a tour of two months he enlisted in the Flying Camp under Joshua Williams, captain in 1776, that he acted as sergeant frequently under various officers.  That he returned home in January 1777.  That he
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returned to service in September of the same year; that he was under Capt. William Dodds and Col James Thompson at the battle of Brandywine, and at the battle of Germantown, and at the battle of the While Horse where Col. James Thompson was wounded.  That in 1778 he was out under Capt. Benjamin Cable and served a tour in that year and that he returned home sometime during 1778.  And that she knows not the month but recollects that he was out three distinct periods.  And further saith that her husband, John Bonner, died on the 13th day of March 1835, and that she remains a widow at this time, and that deponent is not in possession of any other evidence documentary in support of her claim.
Signed:  Jane Bonner

Sworn and subscribed the day and year first written before
Signed:  Wm Clean

I hereby certify that the above named deponent, Jane Bonner, is unable from bodily infirmity to appear in open court.
Signed:  Wm Clean

State of Penna
Adams County SS

I, Bernhart Gilbert, Prothy of the Court of Common Pleas of Adams County, do certify that Wm. Clean Esq. before whom the foregoing proceedings were had, is and was at the time of doing the same, one of our associate judges of the Court of Common Pleas of Adams County, duly qualified as such and that the signature purporting to be his is genuine. 

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said court at Gettysburg this 27th day of Nov. 1838.
Signed:  B. Gilbert, Prothy
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I do certify that Joseph Taylor, before whom the within deposition of Jane Bonner was taken, is one of the Justices of the Peace for the county of Adams in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, duly commissioned as such by Joseph Ritner, Governor, witness my hand the 31st day of Dec. 1838.
Signed:  Daw Sheffer