Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 21670, Jonathan Bixby, Mass.
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SERVICE
Mass

Bixby, Jonathan
Esther

NUMBER
W. 21670
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I Jonathan Bixby now of Lyme in the county of Grafton on oath do testify and say that on or about the first of May in the year 1777 I did enlist in the army of the United States in the company of Captain Issac Pope in the fourth Massachusetts regiment then under the command of Colonel Shepard in the Massachusetts line of the Continental army in the war of the Revolution for the term of three years that I did faithfully perform my duty as a private soldier for the full term of my enlistment and until about the month of January in the year 1781 when I did receive my discharge signed by General Heath as my discharge will show, which accompanys [sic] this application. 
That I then and since that time have been a citizen of the United States or some one of them. That by reason of age and infirmity I am placed in such situation that I do verily stand in need of assistance to enable me to obtain a comfortable  support, and I hereby relinquish all claim to any pension hereto, or granted to me by the United States or either of them for or on  amount of said service.
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19,035.
New Hampshire.

Jonathan Bixby.

of Grafton in the State of New Hampshire
who was a corporal in the company commanded by Captain Pope of the regiment commanded by Colonel Shepard in the Massachusetts line, for the term of 3 years and 9  months from May 1777

Inscribed on the Roll of New Hampshire
at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 29th of May 1823.

Certificate of Pension issued the 23 of July 1823, and sent to S. P. Webster Esquire
Haverhill New Hampshire.

[illegible]
Semi annual allowance ending 4 September 1823 $25.57
3 months
3/31 and 4/30.

$25.57

{Revolutionary claim, Acts March 18, 1818,
and May 1, 1820 & 1 March 1823},

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New Hampshire (C.) 1050

Esther Bixby widow of Jonathan Bixby, deceased, who was a pensioner under the Act of 18 March 1818. and who died on the 12th of February 1834, of Grafton in the State of New Hampshire who was a Corporal in the company commanded by Captain Pope of the the Regiment commanded by Shepherd in the New Hampshire line for 2 years Corporal

Inscribed on the Roll of Concord
at the rate of 88 Dollars __Cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.

Certificate of Pension reissued the 15th day of December 1838 and sent to D.C. Churchill
Lyme, New Hampshire

Arrears to the 4th of September [18]38 
Semi-annual allowance ending

$220.00
44.00
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$264.00

{Act July 7, 1838.}
Recorded by S.A. Elliot, Clerk,
Book A, Volume 1, Page 34
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Town Clerks office Lyme N.H.
"Seventeen hundred & eighty five
November twenty fourth.

Jona. Bixbee was married to Esther Newton

I, Asa Shaw Town Clerk of Lyme in the County of Grafton and State of New Hampshire certify that the above is a true copy of the record with the exception of Date which is expressed on the record in fair Legible figures as follows.
1785 18 Nov'r 24.

Asa Shaw, Town Clerk of Lyme

I, Asa Shaw above namedd depose and say that I hold the office of Clerk in the County Town and State aforesaid and that the above is a true extract from the records of said Town with the exception above named, as certified by me
Asa Shaw. Town Clerk of Lyme
State of New Hampshire Grafton Lynme August 21, 1838.

Sworn to before me
D.C. Churchill Jus. Peace
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Copy 18.908 
Jonathan Bixby declaration Grafton County New Hampshire 
S P Webster
Haverhill, New Hampshire
Received 23 May 1823
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State of New Hampshire
Grafton Ss.
 at the Superior Court of Indenture holden
at Haverhill within for the County of Grafton 
in the fourth Tuesday of May Anno Domini 1823
Present the Honorable
William M. Richardson Chief Justice
Levi Woodbury 
Samuel Green
Justices
Personally appeared Jonathan Bixby aged sixty three
years resident in Lime in said county who being
first duly sworn according to law doth on his Oath
declare that he served as a private in the Revolutionary war
viz from May 1777 until January 1781 in Captain
Isaac Pope’s Company Colonel Shepards Regiment in Massachusetts
line and was discharged at West Point New York January 16, 1781
that he was in the Monmouth battle in the month of
June 1778 that the date of his Original declaration is
Sept 11 1819 and that he has not received a pension certificate and no pension. that he was a resident citizen of the
United States on the 18th day of March 1818 and that
he has not since that time by gift Sale or in any
manner disposed of his property or any part thereof
with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring himself
within the provisions of an act of Congress entitled
an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the
land & naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary
war passed on the 10th day of March 1818
And that I have not nor has any person in trust for me
any property or security contracts or debts due to me
nor have I any income other than what is contained
in the schedule hereto annexed and by me subscriber
I am by occupation farmer unable to support
myself by manual labour having broke my shoulder
about one year since and other infirmities which render
me incapable of doing much of any labour by
wife aged 63 years is unable to do much of any work
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being very sickly with the [illegible] and unable to do much
toward supporting the family. I have no children
at home with me and no one under obligations to support 
me I stand in need of charity of my country’s bounty
Jonathan Bixby
Schedule of property
I have no personal property
I have the lease of 35 acres of poor being very sickly with the [illegible] and unable to do much
toward supporting the family have no children
at home with me and no one under obligations to support
me I stand in need of charity of my country County
Jonathan Bixby
Schedule of property
I have no personal property
I have the lease of 35 acres of poor [illegible] cold
land in lime the yearly income of which
cannot be more than $16——-16.00
Walter Brity being the lessor
Jonathan Bixby
Sworn to and declared on this 29th day of May
before the Justices of said Court
S. P. Webster, Clerk
State of New Hampshire
Grafton Ss.
I Stephen P Webster Clerk of the superior Court of judicature for said County do hereby certify that it appears to the satisfaction
of the Court that the said Jonathan Bixby did serve
in the Revolutionary war as stated in the presiding
declaration against the Common enemy for the
term of nine months, under one engagement on
the continental establishment. I also certify that the
foregoing oath and the schedule thereto annexed
are truly copied from the records of the said Court
And I do further certify that it is the opinion of the
said Court that the total amount in value of the
property exhibited in the aforesaid the sixteen
dollars yearly - In testimony whereof I
have hereunto set my hand affixed
the seal of the said Court on this
29th day of May AD 1823
S. P. Websters, Clerk
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Esther Bixby 902 
act 7 July [18]38 
admitted
2 years Corporal $188 No deduction 
D.C. Churchill Lyme New Hampshire
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Declaration
In order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of the 7th July 1838 entitled "an act granting half pay and Pensions to certain Widows"

State of New Hampshire
Grafton County } ss.

On this 21th day of August 1838 personally appeared before me David C. Churchill one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas for said County of Grafton Esther Bixby a resident of Lyme in the County & State aforesaid aged 78 years who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of congress passed July 7, 1838 entitled "An act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows:"

That she is the widow of Jonathan Bixby late of s'd Lyme who was a private and corporal in the war of the revolution in which war he served more than three years and was at the time of his death a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States under the act of 1818 (as she believes) and was placed on the Pension Roll of the New Hampshire agency at the rate of Eight Dollars per month the date of the number of his certificate she does not remember but she remembers of hearing him say that he was a soldier
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in the continental line she has heard him tell of serving in Capt. Pope's Company in Col. Shepard's Regiment. She respectfully refers to her said Husband's declaration and testimony furnished by him to establish his claim to a pension. She has no Documentary Evidence

She further declares that she was married to the said Jonathan Bixby on the twenty fourth day of November in the year seventeen hundred and Eighty five that her husband the aforesaid Jonathan Bixby Died on the twelfth day of February 1834 that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service but the marriage took place previous to the first of January Seventeen hundred and ninety four - viz at the time above stated

Esther Bixby
her + mark

Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written before me
D.C. Churchill J.C.C. [justice of the court of common] Pleas

I hereby certify that the above applicant can not
from bodily infirmity attend Court
D.C. Churchill [justice of the court of common] Pleas
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State of New Hampshire
Grafton ss.

I Nathan B Felton, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for said County, hereby certify that David C. Churchill, whose name is subscribed to five certificates on the preceding pages of this Packet, was on the 21st day of August current, & has ever since been, a Judge of said Court, & an acting Justice of the Peace for said County, & that his name so subscribed is, in each case aforesaid, his genuine signature.

In testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of said Court
the 24th day of August AD 1838
NB Felton Clerk
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We, Jedediah Davidson and Mary his wife and Eunice Clemary of Charlton in the County of Worcester and Commonwealth of Massachusetts in New England being of Lawful age do testify and say that in the month of May in the year of our Lord 1777 [indistinct] Nathan Taylor was at the Dwelling House in Charlton where your deponents then held and was all of present when P Taylor Inlisted Jonathan Bixby of Charlton as a soldier to serve in the Continental army for the term of three years only, and that at the time when the P Jonathan signed the inlistment the P Serg. Taylor promised him the P Jonathan that he would not return him for a longer term than Three years on his honour / and your deponents further say that they often saw the P Searg't Taylor & Jonathan Bixby after the P Jonathan Inlisted before they marched and hand both of them often say that he the P Jonathan was inlisted for three years only / and further your deponants say not

[indistinct] 3 Jan 1781
Jedediah Davison
Mary Davison
Eunice Clemary

Worcester [indistinct] Charlton 3 Jan 1751

Personally appeared Jedediah Davidson & his wife Mary Davidson and Eunice Clemary and made Solemn Oath that the above Deposition by them signed is the truth the whole truth & nothing but the truth before

Mr. Jacob Davis Jus. Pacis

This deposition was taken at the request of the Friends of the above named Jonathan Bixby in order to be sent to His Excellency George Wash. Commander in Chief of the army of the United States
Sir I am well knowing to the truth of the above deposition and I Declare the same to be true on the Honour of an Officer
His Excelency George Washington

Jed Davis Coll of the 5th Reg't
of Militia in the County Worcester

BIXT, JONATHAN
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General Heath will be pleased
to have this representation properly
enquired into and justice done
To the soldier and to the public
Alexander Hamilton
Aide De Camp
AD January 18, 1780
It appearing from the within Deposition
and the certificate of Mr Muster Master
Newhall that the within named Jonathan
Bixby was enlisted to serve during the term 
of three years, only, which time
he has faithfully served, I do hereby discharge
him from the army,
Given under my Hand at West point this 16
Day of January 1781
W. Heath M General
To whom it may concern
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For his excellency George Washington
Commander in Chief of the Continental Army
Hartford January 20th 1781Issue 2 days rations
Daniel Sitkin
Providence February 1st 1781
Issued three days rations
James Wallace [illegible]
Jonathan Almy
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West Point January the 17 1781
The issuing commissaries [sic] are directed to issue Provisions to the bearer Jonathan Byxby to carry him to his respective home agreeable to General orders 
James Mellen Lieutenant Colonel Commanding
 4th Massachusetts Regiment
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Payment to be made
At Concord by Isaac Hill Esquire
Agent for paying Pensioners in the Agency of
Concord New Hampshire
Payable on the 4th March
and 4th September in each
year. First payment to be made 31st December, 1838
Recorded in the Pension
Office, in Book A Volume 1
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R. Burdine Clerk
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WAR DEPARTMENT.
Five years Pension.
I certify that in conformity with the act of July 7, 1838
Esther Bixby of New Hampshire
widow of Jonathan Bixby, deceased
who was a Corporal during the Revolutionary War
and died on the twelfth
day of February 1824
is entitled to receive five years pension at the rate of Eighty eight
dollars per annum, commencing on the
fourth day of March, 1836; and in case of the death or marriage
of said widow before the expiration of said five years, the pension
will cease on the day of such marriage or death.
Given at the War Office of the United States this 15th day of December one thousand eight hundred and thirty eight
Examined and
Countersigned. } [illegible]
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Lyme New Hampshire December 10, 1838 
Sir I herewith send you the pension certificate of the widow Esther Bixby and Deborah Mason for the purpose of having them made payable at Concord New hampshire instead of Portsmouth agreeable to yours of the 4th instant. 
please return them as soon as practible
Yours, etc.
D.C. Churchill 
Honorable J L Edwards 
Commissioner of Pensions Washington DC
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Old War and Navy
Revolutionary War
500 NORTH BROAD STREET. Philadelphia. May 2nd 1901
Honorable H. Clay Evans 
Commissioner of Pensions 
Dear Sir-I wish to ascertain whether a pension on account of Revolutionary War service was drawn by or on account of Jonathan Bixby, Senior of Sutton Massachusetts and Killingly, Connecticut born 1728.
Jonathan Bixby, Junior, of Killingly Connecticut born 1758 
and if so, to which one
Thanking you in advance for such information as can be given me from your department. 
I remain 
Yours Respectfully of 
Charles A. Converse
If any fee for search I will send check for same an advisement of the amount
[stamp} US Pension Office 
E
May 3 1901
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[Left side:]
WIDOW, etc.
File number 21,670
Esther Bixby
Widow of
Jonathan Bixby
Corporal Revolutionary War
Act July 7th [18]38
Index: Volume A, Page 14
(Arrangement of 1870.]

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June 27-1900
Miss Mary L. Cook
New Haven Connecticut
May 7.1901
Charles A. Converse
Philadelphia Pennsylvania
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New Hampshire 1050n
Esther Bixby
widow of Jonathan Bisby deceased
who was a pensioner under the Act of 1818
and who died on the 12th February 1824
Of Grafton in the State of New Hampshire
who was a corporal
in the Company commanded
by Captain Pope
of the Regiment commanded by
Sheples
in the New Hampshire
line for 2 years
Inscribed on the Roll of Portsmouth
at the rate of 88 Dollars
___Cents per annum
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836
Certificate of Pension issued the 17th day of March
[18]38and sent to E.C. Churchill
Lyme New Hampshire
Arrears to the 4th of September $220.00.
Semi-annual allowance ending
44.00
&264. 00
Page
Act July 7,
1838.
Recorded by R. Burdine Clerk,
Book A Volume 1 Page 341
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I Josiah L Smith of Lynn in the county of Grafton and state of New Hampshire aged 53 years depose and say that Jonathan Bixby late of said Lynn deceased and his wire Esther Bixby lived in my family for some years before his death and his widow the said Esther Bixby has ever since lived in my family and now lives with me. I further say that said Jonathan Bixby died at my house in said Lynn on the 12th day of February AD 1834. He was a revolutionary pensioner of the United States at the time of his death. I further say that the said Esther Bixby is now in my presence, and I know her to be the identical person who was ever the wife and is now the widow of the said Jonathan Bixby deceased and has remained a widow ever since his death.

Josiah L Smith

State of New Hampshire Grafton
Lynn August 21, 1838

Then personally appeared the above-named Josiah L Smith and made solemn oath that the above affidavit by him signed is true before me and I further certify that he is a credible witness.

D.C. Churchill - Jus: Peace
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I John Hall of Lynn in the county of Grafton and state of New Hampshire aged 60 years depose and say that from my childhood I have been acquainted with Jonathan Bixby late of said Lynn deceased who was a revolutionary pensioner of the United States for many years and at the time of his death he died at the dwelling house of Josiah L Smith in said Lynn (a near neighbor of mine) I was present at the time he died and at his funeral he died on the 12th day of February 1834. I further say that Esther Bixby widow of said Jonathan Bixby is now living and has remained a widow ever since the death of her said husband. I have also been acquainted with said Esther Bixby from my childhood. She is now in my presence, and I know her to be the identical person who was once the wife and is not the widow of the said Jonathan Bixby deceased.

John Hall

State of New Hampshire Grafton

Lynn August 21, 1838, then the said John Hall personally appeared and made oath that the baove affidavit by him signed is true before me and I further certify that he is a credible witness.

D C Churchill - Jus: Peace
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We the subscribers selectmen of the town of Lorne county of Grafton & state of N. Hampshire on the 14th day of May Anno Domini 1823 examine the real estate of Jonathan Bixby of said Lynn and all that we have any knowledge of belonging to him which is a leased property the said Jonathan Bixby being the lessee and Esther Bixby being the lessee and so do appraise the same at the sum of $250.00.

Sylvanus Hews
Philip Turner

Selectmen of Linne

State of New Hampshire Grafton, May 15th AD 1823

On this day Sylvanus Hews and Philip Turner who are two of the selectmen of Lime in said county and fully qualified who both personally appeared before me the subscriber and made solemn oath that in making above appraisal the said faithfully and impartially making the above appraisal swearing to the best of their skill and judgement - John Fairfield - Justice Peace