Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W 27,385, Jonas Blood, Continental Mass.
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(8--1776)

SERVICE          NUMBER

Continental    Blood, Jonas    W 27,385
Mass.                 Sarah


CONTENTS
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[Left-hand side of page] Notification sent Nov. 2d 1820 to Saml. Dana
Groton Mass

[Right-hand side of page]
3905
Massachusetts roll
Jonas Blood
Private
Mass. Line 1775   1 Year
IN the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.

Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts
at the rate of eight Dollars per month, to commence on
the 3d of April 1818

Certificate of Pension issued the 26 of Octo 1818
and forwarded to Saml Dana
Groton, Middlesex. Mass.

Arrears to 4th of Sep 1818  40.53
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 11 Mar 1818   48.00
$88.53

4 mo 28/30  4/30

{Revolutionary claim,}
{Act 18th March, 1818}

Continued

Groton Middlesex Mass.
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Massachusetts
Sarah Blood
of Middlesex in the State of Mass.
who was a   in the   commanded
by Captain   of the   commanded
by   on the
[crossed out: line for] widow of Jonas Blood dec.d
late a private in the Revolution

Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts
at the rate of 80 dollars 00 Cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 7 day of March
1836 and sent Reuben
Baldwin Boston Mass

Arrears to the 4th Sept 1836 $440.00
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Mar 37  40.00
$480.00

{Revolutionary Claim,}
{Act June 7, 1832}
Recorded by D D Addison Clerk.
Book A  Vol. 1  Page 45
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Jonas Blood
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COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.

BE it remembered, that on this third day of April
in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen before me SAMUEL DANA
Chief Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, for the Middle Circuit, (comprehending the Counties
of Essex and Middlesex, in the Commonwealth aforesaid) comes Jonas Blood 
of Groton in said county of Middlesex and on oath declares that
he served in the war of the Revolution against the common Enemy, for the space
of two years and two months in the latter part of the fall of the year
One Thousand Seven hundred and Seventy five, he was in the Company of
one Capt. Nutting in Capt. Prescotts Regiment at Cambridge in Massachusetts
there he enlisted into the Company of said Nutting upon the Continental as
tables [illegible] for one year to commence on the first day of January, then 
[Left-hand side of page: 12 mos.]
in this Company, in Col Prescotts Regiment in the Massachusetts line he
proceeds to the City of New York, was on Governors island and continued to do
duty in that vicinity untill the first day of January, One Thousand seven hundred
and seventy seven, when he returned home with Capt. Nuttings Company
his Leiut Col. he does not remember, Henry Woods Segt was his Major, D Spaulding
was his L2., and Edmund Bancroft 2d Leiut., he does not think that any
discharge was ever given him -- After he had compleated this service of
a year, he was hired as he believes in A.D. 1781 by the [illegible] of Groton to 
do nine months service in the Continental Army, he proceeded from
Groton aforesaid D Springfield and from there to the Highlands in New
York where he was placed in the Company of Capt. [illegible] in the
[Left-hand side of page: 9 mos.]
Regiment Commanded by Col.      in this Company he
served full nine months, and untill his time expired & he was again
permitted to return home, D Groton. -- Afterwards he served at Rhode
island, three months --- He is Sixty three years old, has no real
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estate, very little property of any kind, and has occasionally received
assistance from the publik for support, being unable by reason of
Bodily infirmity to labor for subsistence and -- -- -- --

-- -- -- by reason of his reduced circumstance in life
he stands in need of assistance from his country for his support.
Thus, made, subscribed, and sworn to, at Groton
the day and year aforesaid.  [Signatures: Jonas Blood
Saml. Dana]
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Jonas Blood ----

not on Rolls 
DN
Let him prove the
service required by the
law by the testimony
of some state authority
or of two witnesses
(certified by the Judge
to be credible, who
have personal knowledge
of his having 
performed the Service
as stated   Adm.d
(see Isaac William)
[illegible] ([illegible] on file)
Pens office
19 May 1818
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To the Honorable JOHN C. CALHOUN, Secretary of the Department
of War of the United States.

I, the undersigned Samuel Dana, Chief Justice of the 
Circuit Court of Common Pleas, for the Middle Circuit, (comprehending the
Counties of Esses and Middlesex) in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, being
a Court of Record, duly established by Law, Do hereby certify, that on
the third   day of April in the year of our Lord, one
thousand eight hundred and Eighteen Personally appeared
Jonas Blood - - - - - and made and subscribed the 
declaration which is hereunto annexed.


from which it appears to me, that the said Jonas Blood
did serve in the War of the REVOLUTION, against the common Enemy,
upward of nine months. upon the Continental
establishment

Wherefore, in pursuance of the directions of an Act of Congress, made and
passed the eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen,
entitled, "an Act to provide for certain person engaged n the land and naval
service of the United States, in the Revolutionary War," I have transmitted the
said Declaration - - - - -
to you the said Secretary, that such further proceedings may be had in the premises,
as the said Act may require.

In testimony of all which, I have caused the Seal of said Court to be
hereunto affixed.

Given under my hand within the said Circuit, the third day
of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and Eighteen
Saml Dana
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107. Jonas Blood
Groton 3905


see the case no. 106
Con
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
MIDDLESEX, ss.
At the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the Middle Circuit, begun
and holden at Concord, within and for the County of Middlesex, on
the second Monday of June A.D. 1820
Before the Hon. SAMUEL DANA, Esquire, Chief Justice,
and
WILLIAM WETMORE, and} Associate Justice
STEPHELN MINOT, Esquires,} of said Court.

In open Court here, being a Court of Record for said Circuit, proceeding 
according to the course of the common law, with a jurisdiction unlimited in
point of amount, keeping a record of its proceedings, and having the power
of fine and imprisonment, Jonas Blood reside in
Groton in said County & Circuit, who is named in Pension Certificate No. 3.905
now in his possession, of which the following is a true copy, to wit,

"WAR DEPARTMENT....REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.
"I certify that, in conformity with the Law of the United States, of the
"18th March, 1818, Jonas Blood late a
"Private in the army of the Revolution, is inscribed on the
"Pension List, Roll of the Massachusetts Agency, at the rate of eight
"dollars per month, to commence on the third day of
"April one thousand eight hundred and eighteen
[In box: L.S.] "Given at the War Office of the United States, this twenty sixth
"day of October one thousand eight hundred and 
"eighteen
J. C. CALHOUN, Secretary of War,"

appears, and exhibits to the Court here a Schedule, subscribed by him, as
follows, to wit,

SCHEDULE,

containing his whole estate and income, his necessary clothing and bedding
excepted, to wit,
"Real estate viz.

A lease for his own life and that of his wife Sarah of
a small tenement and parcel of land of the clear
yearly income of twenty dollars - - - - $20.00
Personal estate viz.
1 old chest of drawers 1.00 2 old tables 1.12 - - - 2.12
4 old chairs.33 teakettle .67 2 skillets .53 - - - - 1.53
Crockery pewter and earthen ware 1.61 1 lantern .25 - - - 1.86
Bellows .25 shovel x tongs .50 old and andirons .25
1 hoe .20 casks x pail 1.00 1 cow 13.00 1 swine 4.00 - - -18.20
$24.71
In presence of
Caleb Butler}  Jonas Blood

And the said Jonas Blood having been first duly 
sworn according to law does on his oath declare that
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he served as a private in the Revolutionary war
nearly three years one year of said time in Capt.
John Nuttings Company in the Regiment 
commanded by Col. William Prescott all which service
are more particularly set forth in his original
declaration in the war office dated April 3.d 1818 -
that he is sixty five years of age a husbandman
by occupation but having had the misfortune
to loose one of his eyes and also to have one shoulder
broken by a fall and through infirmity of
age he is wholly unable to support himself by
labors 0 that his family consists of his wife Sarah
aged 57 years of a feeble constitution and unable
to support herself by labor - his daughter Sukey
aged 37 years weakly - his grand daughter Sally
Blood aged eighteen years also weakly an orphan
and Sarah Bolton aged 98 years whom he is under
bonds to support through her life
Jonas Blood.
In presence of
Caleb Butler}
Sworn x declared to before me
S. Dana"
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and at the same time he produces to the Court here the following Oath, taken
and subscribed by him, before the Hon. Samuel Dana
a Judge of said Court as aforesaid, to wit,

"I, Jonas Blood do solemnly swear, that I was a resident citizen of the
United States, on the eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and
that I have not, since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner whatever, disposed of my
property, or any part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the
provisions of an act of Congress, entitle "an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the
land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war," passed on the eighteenth
day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and that I have not, nor has any
person i trust for me, any property, or securities, contracts, or debts, due to me; nor have I
any income, other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed.
So help me GOD.   Jonas Blood.
In presence of
Caleb Butler}

Middlesex ss. C. C. C. P. June Term, A. D. 1820

Then the abovenamed Jonas Blood
took and subscribed the aforewritten Oath before me,
Saml. Dana Judge of said Court."

I, ABRAHAM BIGLOW, Clerk of the Court aforesaid, do hereby certify, that the
foregoing Oath, and Schedule hereto annexed, are truly copied from the
record 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 Schedule is" twenty four dollars & twenty one
cents --- and an annual income of twenty
dollars when he can get it")
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed
the seal of the said Court, at Cambridge, in said County of
Middlesex, on this 20th day of July 1820
Attr. Abraham Biglow atty
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Sarah Blood
widow of 
Jonas Blood Dc.d
No. 563 
3. Sec.

Adm $80. per ann
com y 4th March
1881
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Commonwealth Massachusetts}
Middlesex County} ss.  On this
second day of November in the year of our
Lord eighteen hundred and thirty six  Personally
appeared before the Hon. Samuel P. P. Fay
Judge of the Court of Probate for the County
of Middlesex Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Sarah Blood a resident of Groton County of
Middlesex and Commonwealth aforesaid, aged
 eighty four 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 4th 1836. That she is the widow of
Jonas Blood late of said Groton deceased and that
the said Jonas Blood her late husband served as a
soldier in the war of the Revolution for which
Service he the said Jonas received a pension
from the United States under the act 18th
March 1818 her husband served as she always
understood from him one year before their 
marriage and two periods of nine and three months after
All of which will more fully appear on reference
to the Records and Rolls on file in the war department
and to the papers and documents which
were forwarded as proof in support of his claim
to a pension under the acts of Congress of the
18th of March 1818 which pension he the said Jonas
Blood continued to receive until his death which
occurred over ten years since.
She further declares that she was married to the
said Jonas Blood at [crossed out: said] Shirley by the
Rev Phineas Whitney Minister of said town but
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She has no record of said marriage and
that none can be found
That her husband the said Jonas Blood
died on the 1 Feby 1825 and that she
had remained a widow ever since that period.
as will more fully appear by reference to the
proof hereunto annexed. I had two children
by said Jonas the eldest of whom was born in
July 1778
Sarah Blood
Subscribed & Sworn to before me
S. P. P. Fay [illegible]

I Edmund Blood of Groton County of 
Middlesex, commonwealth of Massachusetts do
on oath testify and declare that I was
formerly well acquainted with Jonas
Blood late of said Groton deceased and
that the said Jonas was a pensioner of the
United States under the under the act of Congress
1818 which pension he the said Jonas
continued to receive until his death
which accurred about ten year since 
and left Sarah his widow who has
not since married & who always been reputed
to have been his lawful wife as far as I have ever
heard
Edmund Blood

I John Rockwood of Groton County of
Middlesex Commonwealth of Massachusetts
being duly sworn do on oath testify and
say that I am forty four years of age
and that I was formerly well acquainted
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with Jonas Blood late of this town of
Groton deceased and that said Jonas
Blood was a pensioner of the United States
under the act of Congress 18th March 1818
and died in said Groton about ten years
since leaving his widow [crossed out: Hannah] Sarah who
still resides in this town and has not 
since married and that the said Sarah
was always refuted to have been the lawful wife of said
Jonas Blood & have known them for more than thirty
years.
John Rockwood

Middlesex ss: Nov 2.d 1836. Personally
appeared Edmund Blood & John Rockwood both
reputable citizens of Groton & credible persons
made solemn oath respectively to the truth
of the affidavits preceding by them subscribed
before S. P. P. Fay [illegible]

And the said Judge of Probate hereby declares
his opinion after investigation of the
matter, that the statements made in the declaration
aforesaid by said applicant, who is a
respectable & credible person are true and together
with the affiants Edmund Blood Y John Rockwood
are entitled to credit
S. P. P. Fay [illegible]

Middlesex ss  Commonwealth of Massachusetts
I Isaac Fiske [illegible] of the Court of Probate
[illegible] and for the county of Middlesex & Commonwealth
aforesaid hereby certify that Samule P. P. Fay
is the Judge of said Court; & meet his signature
above written is his genuine signature
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand
& affixed the seal of said court this seventh day
of November A. D. 1836
Isaac Fiske [illegible] of [illegible]
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Marriage Certificate
of 
Jonas Blood
&
Sarah
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Groton Twon Clerk's Office
November 2d, 1836
Commonwealth of}
Massachusetts}

I John G. Park do on oath testify that I am 
Clerk of the Town of Groton in the County of
Middlesex and Commonwealth aforesaid and that
I have the custody of the records of said town
and that it appears by said records that
Ebenezer Lewis the son of Jonas Blood and Sarah
his wife was born at Groton July 16th 1778

I further certify that the above Jonas Blood
a Revolutionary Pensioner
John G. Park} Town Clerk

Middlesex ss. Nov. [illegible] 1836 Have personally appeared
before me Caleb Butler a Justice of the Peace within
& for said County. John J. Park above named and
made oath that the above affidavit by him 
subscribed is true and that said [illegible] is a credible
person.
Caleb Butler Justice of
the Peace