Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 42119, Jonathan Center, Continental (Penn.)
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(3-1776)
SERVICE: Continental (Penn.)
Center, Jonathan
NUMBER: S. 42119

CONTENTS:
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12,986
Ohio R
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Jonathan Center of Franklin City in the state of Ohio was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel flower of the Pennsylvania line, for the term of Three years. 
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Inscribed on the Roll of Ohio 
at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 11 of April 1818
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Certificate of Pension issued the 24 of  July 1819 and sent to Columbus, Ohio.
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Arrears to 4th of March 1819 _10.204/3031
Semi-anl, all'ce ending 4 Sep 1819
86.36
28
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$134.36

Revolutionary claim,
Act 18 March, 1818.}

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Notif sent to Hn. P Beecher
HReps _ 22 Dec 1820
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Jonathan Center
Rev.

Col. Flower's 
Pennsylvania Reg
1779 - 3 years
11th April 1818

Admitted

Endorsed [written sideways]

Honorable John C Calhoun 
Secretary at War
Washington City
Eleanor [illegible]

The deposition of two [illegible] & 
disinterested witnesses
duly to be taken & written [illegible]
[illegible] (on the certificate of
an officer of the Reg)
prove the service April cert, is as granted. 

The cert: of Jonathan Center 
with the [illegible] [illegible]

[sideways writing across part of this text]
Jonathan Center
private 
Col Flowers Regiment
Pennsylvania Line
3 years
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State of Ohio
Franklin County 
On this 11th day of April 1818, before me the subscriber president Judge of the 6th Judicial Circuit of Ohio, personally appeared Jonathan Center aged seventy four years, resident in Franklin County in said State who being by me first duly sworn, according to law, doth, on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the pension made by the late act of Congress entitled "An act to provide for certain
persons engaged in the land and naval
services of the United States in the Revolutionary war. That he the said Jonathan Center enlisted at Wyoming in the State of Pennsylvania in a Company of Artillery Artificers commanded by Captain Thomas Wilie [Wylie] of said State of Pennsylvania, in a Regiment commanded by Colonel Benjamin Flower of Philadelphia. That he enlisted into said company for three years, and performed his duty faithfully in
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said Company in the service of the
United States, for the space of three years and two months, after the time of his enlistment
aforesaid, which was in March in
the year of our Lord 1779, as near as
his deponent recollects. This deponent
was honourably discharged at Carlisle in
the state of Pennsylvania as he thinks in
April or May 1782. This deponent has never received any pension from the United States, and is now in need and circumstances and needs the assistance of his country for [illegible] act. He knows of no other evidence
now within his power to prove his services aforesaid. 

Jonathan Center [signature] [illegible]

Subscribed and sworn to before me the
day and year aforesaid
Orris Parish [signature] [illegible]
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I Orris Parish, president Judge of the 6th
Judicial Circuit of Ohio do certify
that it appears to my satisfaction
that the said Jonathan Carter did serve
in the Revolutionary war as stated in 
the preceding declaration; and I now
transmit the proceedings and testimony
taken and had before me to the Secretary
for the Department of war, pensions and at
the directions of the aforementioned
act of Congress.

April 11th 1818
Orris Parish [signature]

I further Certify from my own knowledge
that the said Center is in such reduced 
circumstances that he absolutely needs the assistance of his country for support. 

Orrin Parish [signature]
Pres Judge
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Auth Center

Schedule & [illegible]

12.980 - 6
Sept 1819

C
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State of Ohio Fairfield County

At a court of Common Pleas holden at Lancaster in for the County aforesaid on the 23d day of October AD 1820 personally appeared in said court being a court of Record by the Constitution and laws of Ohio, Jonathan Center, aged Seventy six the Eighteenth of this month, now a resident of [illegible] County and State of Ohio aforesaid, who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath declare. That he was enlisted by Capt Thomas Wiley [Wylie] of the artilery artificent in company under Coll [Colonel] Benjamin Flower, that he was discharged by Genl Irvine at Carlisle. And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident Citizen of the United States on the 18 day of March 1818 and that I have not since that time by gift sale or in any other manner disposed of my property or any part thereof, with intent thereby to diminish it, as to bring myself within the provisions of the act entitled "An act to provide for certain persons any
aged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war passed on the 18th day of March 1818 and that I have not, nor has any person in 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 hereafter named and by me subscribed. 

The date of my first application is not recollected the number of my original certificate is 12980 dated the 24th day of July 1817. That I have drawn my Pension up to the 24th of March last. My wife aged 74 years unable to do but little. 
One daughter now living with me aged 30 unhealthy named Lucy Cook her [illegible] husband left her about nine years since, has but [illegible] children. One aged 10 the other 8 part being Ameri Indian. Four or five months after his departure, she was left [illegible] destitute of property. 
I am by profession a black smith
unable to work from loss of [illegible].

The following is a Schedule of my property.
2 old Horses 1 offered with the foal and both worth $20
1 Cow $12
3 old chairs  .75
[total of two amounts] $20  12.75
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Brought over                                 32.75
5 or 6 old plates & spoons         1.00
3 or 4 Knives & forks                    .50
1 pot 1 Tea Kittle  & dutch oven  4.00
1 Plow  1 hoe   1 set [illegible]      7.00
1 Ax   1 fire [illegible]  1.25  1 old table  1.50
[total of line] 2.75
[total of above lines] 15.25

About 10 Dollars sewing twine      1.00
[total of lines]   25.25
[total of line plus those from page 8]   $58.00

I owe to Doctor Parson for medicine   $38.00
" to Robt. [illegible] [illegible] for house rent  12.00
" to Westley Newman for House rent for
   the three or four last months}  8.50
" Irvine for the rent of the house I now occupy   10.00
[total of these lines]   58.50

Jonathan Center [signature]

The Court finds the amount of the property of
Jonathan Center all worth $48.00
Also his debts due being all   10.00
[total of 2 lines]    $58.00
And his Debt due by him the 58.50
[illegible] Hugh Boyle

Fairfield County Lan
I Hugh Boyle Clerk of the court of Common
Pleas for the county aforesaid, do hereby certify that the forgoing oath and Schedule thereto amended and copied from this request 
filed in this said court, and I further certify that it is the opinion of the said Court that the total amount in value of the Property [illegible] in the aforesaid Schedule is forty eight dollars. 

In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my
hand & seal of said Court at Lancaster in said
County this 23 day of October AD1820
Hugh Boyle
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Record Division    3-525
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
Bureau of Pensions,
Washington, D.C.     190__

In reply to your request of ______________,
received ______________ for a statement of the military history of Jonathan Center a
soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) [crossed out] application for pension on file in this Bureau.
S 42119

DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT.
Mar 1779

LENGTH OF SERVICE.
3 yrs

RANK
Pvt

OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED.
CAPTAIN.
Wiley [Wylie]

COLONEL
Benj Flower
Art Artificers

STATE.
Continental

dis [discharged] Apr 25, 1781 at Carlisle Pa


Battles engaged in,   check mark
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Enl [enlisted] at Wyoming Pa. 
Date of application for pension, Apr. 14. 1818 [illegible]. al. ??
Residence at date of application, Franklin Co. O. In 1820 res Fairfield Co. O.
Age at date of application, 74

Remarks: In 1820 [illegible] wife ar 74, name not stated, his dau Lucy are 30, and her 2 children are 10 & 8, names not stated, are
referred to. Date & place of death not stated. 

(Capt was probablly Robt Wiley)
[this info circled] soldier was dropped in 1820
therefore did not tell her to apply to and for date of death.

Very respectfully,
Commissioner

27225b3ml-07
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Feb 10

CENTER, JONATHAN
(CONT PA)
S-42119
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[illegible] [illegible] Jonathan Center having served for 3 years of this Enlistment in Col Benjamin Flower Reg of Artillery Artificers is hereby discharged the service of the United States Govern at Carlisle this 25th Day of April 1791. 

By order of Brig Genl Irvine 
Thos Wylie Capt [signature]
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Lancaster Fairfield Co.
Feb 1st 1908

U.S. Commissioner of Pensions:
When the war of the Revolution was declared
Jonathan Centre of N. Y. state enlisted and served in the army until the war ended.
Years after he moved to Ohio
where he died and was buried
in Fairfield Co. Inv. 42119

Jonathan Cook also died in Ohio and was buried in Fairfield Co. Both these were
pensioned soldiers, negatives

Daniel and James Devore
were Frenchmen who served
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in the French army at Yorktown.
After the war one married and
settled at St Mary's Md.
The other settled near Cumberland Md. I do not know if they received pensions or not.

I should be pleased to have the records of these soldiers if possible. 

Very Respectfully
(Miss) Clara Miller
138 E. Walnut St
Lancaster Ohio
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Given hist. AW
1908 Feb. 8, Clara Miller

42119
INVALID.
Revy
[illegible] No. 42.119
Jonathan Center

Act: 18 March 18
Index:--Vol. S, Page 82

[Arrangement of 1870.]
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[stamp]
Columbus 
May 10

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80
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1    3
88   49   [columns totaled]

Tree

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Ohio
addl proof

Hon John C Calhoun
War Department
Washington City
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Columbus  May 7 1819

Sir
Here are the [illegible] [illegible] [illegible]
the discharge of Jonathan Center who has made application for a pension under the act of March 1818. At the time of making and forwarding the application to your office it could not be found.

At the request of the applicant for a pension through me, I ask liberty to remark that they are impatient for deciding upon their application. 

Yours Respectfully 
Orris Parish [signature]


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Columbus O  June 28 1819

Sir
Jonathan Center an applicant for a pension under the law of 1818 having fortunately found his discharge signed Genl Irvin [Irvine] of Carlisle and having forwarded it to your office about the same time that you returned his 
application for further proof. I now again send  
his application supposing his discharge will be satisfactory. 

Yours Respectfully 
Orris Parish [signature]
Judge  [illegible]