Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 30583, for Jonathan Meacham, Massachusetts
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(8-1776)
Service Number 
Mass  Meacham, Jonathan   S30583

Contents
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Died - April 10, 1833   a.B [illegible] 
78 Franklin.

[illegible]  Massachusetts 
Jonathan Meacham
of New Salem in the state of Mass who was a private in the company commanded by Captain King of the Rgt commanded by Col [illegible] in the mass line for [illegible] days

Transcribed on the roll of Massachusetts  the rate of 45 Dollars [zero]  Cents per annum, commence on the 4th day of March, 1834.
Certificate of pension issued the 11th day of may 1833 and [illegible] [illegible] Geo. [illegible] Jr. [illegible] Mass 

Arrears to the 4th of March 1833 $90.00 
Semi-anl. allowance ending Sept 4 " . . . 22.50 
$112.50 
Revolutionary Claim, act June 7th 1832 

Recorded by [illegible] Jackson clerk, Book 4 Vol. 29 Page 52
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Jonathan Meacham
New Salem
22370
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Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of June 7, 1832.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
County of Franklin SS
On this eighteenth day of September A.D. 1832, personally appeared in open Court before Richard C. Newcomb Esq. Judge of the court of  Probate, now sitting within and for the said county of Franklin, Jonathan Meacham a resident of New Salem in said county of Franklin and State of Massachusetts, aged seventy six years in November now last past, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of June 7th 1832
That he entered the service of the United States in the militia of Massachusetts under the following named officers and served herein stated
About the first of May 1775 he voluntarily entered the service in the Company Commanded by Capt William Meacham, who was killed at the battle of Bunker Hill, and was succeeded in command by Capt. John King, of which company William Smith was Lieutenant and ___ Fisk, ensign, in the Reg. commanded by Col. Woodbridge, as a private soldier and was dismissed from service about the first of November following, according to the best of his recollection, having served six months; was during this period stationed at Cambridge & Charleston in the vicinity of Boston and was at the Battle of Bkunker Hill knew Generals Ward, Putnam, Warren & Washington.
and in November following, again voluntarily enlisted in a company of militia commanded by Capt Theopholus King, Gilbert Lieut. and ___ Conant Ensign. marched to, and was stationed at Brooklyn, and afterward at Roxbury near Boston, and returned home sometime in the month of February following, having served
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according to the best of his recollection, three and a half months.
That he again voluntarily enlisted as a private in the month of Feb. 1777 in the Mass. line of militia troops, for the term of two months, in the company commanded by Lieut. John Trask, and marched to Mount Hope, near fort Ticonderoga in the state of New York, where the company was in the Regiment under Col. Root, where he served out said period of enlistment, and when he was discharged, and does not recollect any regular field officers who was there.  That he again voluntarily in the militia troops of Mass, enlisted, in the month of June 1777 at said New Salem in the company commanded by Capt. Ebenezer Goodale, for the term of two months, marched to a place called Moses Creek near fort Edward, met the retreating American army and fell back to Saratoga, and from there to Stillwater, and continued in that vicinity, until the expiration of said term of enlistment in the Regiment commanded by Col. Williams of which Joseph Luck was Major.
That he was born in New Salem aforesaid in the year 1755 has a record of his age, in his bible, lived in said New Salem when called into service, has lived there since the revolutionary war, and lives there now has never at any tie received a discharge, having served in the whole thirteen and a half month. 
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
subscribed & sworn to the day year aforesaid
Jona. Meacham

R.E.. Newcomb Judge of Probate
We Alpheus Harding, a Clergyman and William Whitaker residing in New Salem in the county of Franklin, hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Jonathan Meacham, who has subscribed and
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sworn to the above declaration: that we believe him to be seventy six years of age; that he is refuted and believed in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.  Subscribed & sworn to the day and years of service
R.E. Newcomb Judge of Probate   
Alpheus Harding
William Whitaker
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 certifies that it appears to them that Alpheus Harding, who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman resident in said town of New Salem, and that William Whitaker Esq who has also signed the same is Justice of the Peace resident in said New Salem, and is a credible person and that their statement is entitled to credit.
R.E. Newcomb Judge of Probate
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Jonathan Meacham
22370
Private
13 mos & 15 day
Am'd

E. Alvord Esq.
Greenfield Mass
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30583
Revy INVALID.
File No. 30583
Jonathan Meacham
[] Rev War
Act: June 7 32
Index:- Vol. 2, Page 268

Arrangement of 1870

1932 Sept. 20 Hist. to Mrs. Chas. E. Pattus - ILL.
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Franklin ss. I Elijah Alvord Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, for the county of Franklin do hereby certify that Frederick H. Allen Esq. before whom the two annexed affidavits of Abraham Pearce and Stephen Felton purport to have been taken and sworn to is a Justice of the Peace for the said county; and that William Whitaker Esq before whom the two affidavits of Josiah Ballard and Jesse Frank which are also hereunto annexed were taken and sworn to is likewise a Justice of the Peace for said county.  And that their respective names subscribed to the several certificates thereunto subjoined appears to me their genuine signatures.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said court at Greenfield on the eighteenth day of September A.D. 1832.
E. Alvord Clerk
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I Abraham Peirce of New Salem in the county of Franklin and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, of lawful age do testify and say, that Jonathan Meacham of said New Salem entered the company of which I was a member, and of which William Meacham was for the most part of the time Captain on some of the first days of May A.D. 1775 & served with me untill I left on the thirteenth day of June next after & that we were stationed at Cambridge in Massachusetts.
I further declare on my oath, that I have known said Meacham from a period prior to the Revolutionary War, & that we have resided in the same town ever since.
Abraham Pearce
Franklin ss August 8, 1832 Then personally appeared Abraham Pearce above named, & made solemn oath, that the above statement by him subscribed is true.
Before me Fred H. Allen Just. Peace