Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 7096, for Jonas Meeker, New Jersey
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(3-1776)

SERVICE
New Jersey

Meeker, Jonas

NUMBER
R. 7096

CONTENTS
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Affidavit of Jonas Meeker in support of the claim of Jonas Meeker for a pension.
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The State of Ohio Butler County SS
Before me John Morrow, an acting justice of the peace in and for said County personally came Jonas Meeker of said County of Butler, who being duly sworn according to law, deposeth and saith that my Couzen Jonas Meeker now a resident of Clearmont County Ohio I verily believe was in the public service in the Revolutionary War, and was at that time a citizen of the State of New Jersey (near Springfield) and that I do well recolect to hear my Uncles and others say that my grandfather and seventeen of his sons and grandsons, were in the battle at Springfield at that time of the War, and I do verily believe that said Jonas Meeker was one of them, and further I say not. Jonas Meeker

Sworn to and subscribed this 20th day of July 1835 before me 
John Morrow, J.P.

I certify that Jonas Meeker who has subscribed & sworn to the above deposition, is about sixty-six years of age, and is a credible person, and I have been well aquanted with him for them space of sixteen years past. Given under my hand this twentieth day of July AD 1835
John Morrow, J.P. 

The State of Ohio Butler County SS
I John Reily Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas at the County aforesaid do hereby certify that John Morrow Esquire before whom the deposition above stated was taken was at the taking thereof a Justice duly assigned to keep the peace in the said county of Butler. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and official seal at Hamilton the twentieth day of July one thousand eight hundred and thirty five
John Reily
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Clermont Common Pleas May Term AD 1835

Be it remembered that at the term of May in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and thirty five of the Court of Common Pleas setting in and for the County of Clermont in the State of Ohio personally appeared in open Court before the Court aforesaid Jonas Meeker an applicant for a pension under the law of June 7th 1832 and the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after seeing that the interrogatories prescribed by the war department were properly answered 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 John Baggess who has signed the preceeding certificate is a credible person resident in Tate Township in said County of Clermont and that Isaac Sanders who has sworn and subscribed to the same is a credible person and is a resident of said Township of Tate and that their statement is entitled to credit.

The State of Ohio Clermont County SS
I Jonathan D Morris Clerk of the Court of Common pleas in and for the County and State aforesaid do hereby certify that the above is a true extract from the minutes of said Court of Common of Clermont County State of Ohio at the (illegible - black smudge) May AD 1835 thereof of the proceedings had before said Court on the application of Jonas Meeker for a pension and that the attached papers are the originals which were before said Court and that Edmond Frazier is a Justice of the peace as above & that his signature is genuine. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court of Common pleas at Batavia this 22nd day of May AD 1835
J. D. Morris Clerk