Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 10450, for Jonas Temple, New Hampshire
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(9-1776)
SERVICE
NH

Temple, Jonas

NUMBER
R.10450

CONTENTS
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Jonas Temple
VT
Let to Claimant July 20 '48
N.Y. Babbitt July 25.1855
Act 7 June 1832
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Act of July
10450
[stamp] REJECTED
Jonas Temple
Enlisted:
Discharge
Application filed:
Alleges:
Re-enlisted:
Attorney:
Recognized.
Cert. of Dis.
Searched for
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I William Heywood Jus of Guildhall in the
County of Essex and State of Vermont depose and
say that some time as I believe in the year eighteen
hundred and thirty nine Mr Jonas Temple of Lunenberg
in said County and State engaged me to assist him to
obtain a pension under the act of June 7th 1832.
I wrote for the purpose of obtaining some testimony
but did not succeed in getting it. Some time as I
believe in 1840 Judge Kimball of Barton Vermont
came to Guildhall and informed me that he made
it his business to get residence and obtain pensions
and said that he went personally and made examinations of the records in the office of the Secretary of
State of New Hampshire and that he should do so
again soon after that time. I then gave him what
papers I had in relation to said Temples case and enjoyed
him to attend to it for him. In a year or two after
that time I heard of the death of Kimball. I
think that said Kimball's given name was John
[signature] Wm Heywood

State of Vermont  
Essex County At Guildhall in said County January 13th 1848 Then Wm Heywood
Personally appeared before me and made oath that the foregoing affidavit by him subscribed is true to the best of
his belief - I further certify that I am well acquainted with
said Heywood and that he is a credible witness
[signature] Wm H. Harbhom
Justice of the Peace
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State of
Vermont Essex County ss
William H. Hartshorn, Clerk of the
Superior Court of Judicature of the
County and State aforesaid do hereby
certify that William H. Hartshorn, is an
acting Justice of the Peace, in and for
said County duly commissioned and
qualified. that his commission was
dated on the 30th day of November 1847
and will expire on the 30th day of
November 1848, and that his signature
within written is genuine-
Given under my hand and the seal of said Court
at Guildhall this thirteenth day of January A.D. 1848
[signature] Wm H. Hartshorn Clerk
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Westmoreland N.H. July 13, 1855.
Dr Sir
This enquiry made in behalf of my neighbor
Ralph
Temple son of Jonas Temple deceased, who was a
soldier in the revolutionary service is to ascertain whether a pension certificate has been
issued on an application therefore been made
The papers for that purpose I am informed, were
made out
some few years ago & given in charge
of a Mr. Newell
of Vermont, from whom no answer
to Ralph Temples several enquiries has been
received.
A reply from your Department will be thankfully recd

Respectfully &c
[signature] A.G. Babbitt
The Hon. Comm of Pensions
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State of Vermont, Lunenburg July 3d 1848
Sir
I sent to Hon Wm Upham M.C. a package of papers
the Declaration of Mr Jonas Temple a Revolutionary Soldier, the testimony of Asa Britton formally
a pensioner but now decd Mr Upham
delivered said papers to the Commissioner of Pensions
said Temple is waiting with great anxiety-- having been
able to support himself till the last 2 years, would in
these last days of January & need be glad to have a
little compensation for services rendered to
goverment in time of their need,
this is to invite your earliest attention to his
Case,
ever praying that your decision may
be favourable to his wants
Respt Yours
Lyman Damon
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No 1
Declaration of Jonas Temple
for pension
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Declaration. In order to obtain the benefit
of the Actof Congress of the 7th of June AD. 1832
State of Vermont  
District of Essex  On this 14th day of January 1848
personally appeared, in open court the declarant
before the court of sd state now sitting
Jonas Temple a resident of Lunenburg in the County
of Essex and State of Vermont of the age of Eighty
two years last April, who being first duly sworn
according to law doth on his oath make the
following declaration, in order to obtain the be
benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress
passed June 7th 1832. That he inlisted in the Army of the
United States in the year Seventeen hundred
and Eighty in the month of November cannot tell
the day of the month as a volunteer in the State of
New Hampshire and County of Cheshire and
Town of Westmorland the place of his nativity and
residence, that he inlisted for the term of three years
and Capt Benjamin Ellis. That he left Westmorland
in Capt Ellis Company, that he belonged to the first
Regiment of the New Hampshire Brigade, And that
he marched with said Company through Connecticut crossed
the Hudson river ten miles above Westpoint and
was first stationed at New Windsor State of New York
at which place I first saw the Major whose name was
Scott and the Col whose name I do not remember
afterward the Company to which he belonged 
was taken to a place called Fallowhill N.Y
and connected with a continental Regiment their
Col name was Scchannels or Scammels, that his fellow
Solders names which he recolects, to wit Bean Blood
J. Barlow, Scribnor, Beebe & Archelus Temple my
other who is now dead, Asa Britton was of another Company
served but one year and was discharged by Major
Scott and Capt Ellis, on account of a bunch on my [illegible]
I received a written discharge but being a boy who could
Over
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neither read nor write stock no can of it
and it was last I 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
in the presence of Lyman Damon
Jonas his x mark Temple

Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year
above written before Jonah Brooks or Judge of Probate of the
District of Essex 17

We Lyman Damon
a clergyman residing in the
Town of Lunenburg and Leland Snow resident
in the same hereby certify that we are well acquainted with
Jonas Temple who has subscribed and sworn
to the above declaration, that we believe him to be
Eighty two years of age; that he is reputed and believed
in the neighborhood when he resides, to have been a soldier
of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion
[Signature] Lyman Damon
[Signature] Leland Snow

Sworn to and subscribed the day & year aforesaid before such [illegible]
Probate
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 Lyman Damon who has signed the the [illegible] certificate is a clergyman resident in the Town of Lunenburg
and that Leland Snow who has signed the same is an
in the Town of Lunenburg and is a credible person
and that their statement is entitled to credit
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I Jonah Brooks Ja Judge of the Probate
Court for the District of Essex in the State of
Vermont, do hereby certify that the foregoing
contains the original procedings of the Court
in the matter of the application of Jonas
Temple for a pension
In testimony whereof I have
hereunto set my hand and
Seal of office this 14 day of
January AD 1848
[signature] Jonah Brooks edge of the Probate Court for the District of Essex Vt
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 Asa Bittan of Chesterfield in the County of Cheshire State of New Hampshire of  lawful age testify & say that I am acquainted with Jonas Temple of Lunenburgh in sd county of Essex & State of Vermont & was acquainted with said Temple in the year of our Lord seventeen hundred & eighty one at which time said Temple resided in Westmoreland in the County of Cheshire aforesaid as did I also myself
In the summer of the such year seventeen hundred & eighty one I belonged to the second New Hampshire regiment commanded by Col Go. Reads in Capt David McArgon company at which time said Jonas Temple then of said Westmoreland as aforesaid joined the same Brigade to which my regiment was attached 0 The said Temple belonging to the first regiment of the New Hampshire Brigade I recollect that said Temple was at a place called Gallows Hill in the State of New York with myself in actual service & further I know not.
[signature] Asa Bittan
Chesterfield Sept 16 1839
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State of New Hampshire
Cheshire County ss
I Henry Coolidge Clerk of the Superior
Court of Judicature of the Court
and State aforesaid, do hereby certify
that Charles E. Webster, is an acting
Justice of the Peace, in and for said
County, duly commissioned and qualified;
that his commission was dated on the day
of June, 1835, and will expire on the 26 day
of
June 1840. and that his signature within
written
is genuine Given under my hand
and the seal of said Court at Keen this
fourteenth day of October A.D. 1839-
[signature] H. Coolidge Clerk