Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 33381, for Jonas Lyon, New Jersey
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Service New Jersey Number S. 3381 Lyon, Jonas
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10.022 New Jersey Jonas Lyon of Morris County in the State of N. Jersey who was a Private in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Dayton of the N. Jersey line for the term of 9 months 76 Inscribed on the Roll of New Jersey at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 2nd  of April 1818. Certificate of Pension issued the 12th of June 1821 and sent to Hon Bernard Smith House of Representatives. Arrears to 4th of Sept 1820 - $184.76 Semi-annual allowance ending March 1821 $48.00 [totaling] $232.76 Revolutionary claim Act 18th March 181- Payable up to 4 March 1820 22 mo 29/30 4/31 8 [totaling] 176. 7.73.  1.3 [totaling] $184.76.  Notification sent to Hon Lewis Condict, Morris town N.J. 30 May 1822
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Jonas Lyon (Private) Dayton’s Regiment N Jersey Line 1778 to Spring 1779 9 months [illegible] Admitted. Not on roll. The Judge has not certified as to reduced circumstances of applicant.   I do certify that Jonas Lyon, Morris Co and James Raymond, the deponents within named are all of the personally known to me and that I have been well acquainted with them for twenty years or more and believe them to be men of veracity and fully entitles to belief. Thomas Goff is a man of accountability and good standing in his neighborhood, having been for many years Deputy Sheriff of Morris County. Joseph Jackson
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State of New Jersey Morris County s.s. Be it remembered that on the second day of April in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and eighteen personally appeared before me Joseph Jackson, one of the Judges of the inferior Court of Common pleas in and for said county Jonas Lyons, who being duly sworn according to law on his oath saith that he was born in Essex County in New Jersey and that on the first day of January seventeen hundred and seventy eight he enlisted for three months in Captain Jonah Hall’s company in Colonel Sylvania Sulys Regiment of Continental troops in what way called the Jersey line, as a common soldier and after serving that time out, this deponent again enlisted for nine months in Captain Cox’s company in the 3 Jersey Regiment commanded by Elias Dayton of Elizabethtown in New Jersey, and after serving the time out was discharged at Elizabeth Town in the spring of seventeen hundred and seventy nine by Colonel Dayton which discharge he hath since lost, and that he hath resided ever since, and still residing in the County of Morris, and is in the fifty eight year of his age, and is very much reduced in his circumstances and needs the assistance of his country for support and begs to be put on the pension list of common soldiers of the United States. Jonas Lyon X his mark. Note the words and need the assistance of his country for support were underlined in presence of this deponent and at his request. Sworn and subscribed before me the date as above in witness whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed my seal. Joseph Jackson
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State of New Jersey Morris County s.s. Be it remembered that on the seventh day of May in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and eighteen personally appeared before me Joseph Jackson, one of the judges of the inferior court of Common pleas for said County, Thomas Cobb, who being duly sworn according to law on his oath saith that he is personally acquainted with Jonas Lyon the within named deponent and is knowing to his having enlisted and served for nine months in Captain Richard Cock’s company in the third Jersey Regiment of Continental troops commanded by Colonel Elias Dayton, and that he joined the company just before, and was present with this deponent at the battle of Monmouth. This deponent was then in the same company, and served as a Sergeant in the same company, and is knowing, to the said Jonas Lyons obtaining his discharge at Elizabeth Town in New Jersey. Thomas Cobb. Sworn and subscribed before me the date as above . Joseph Jackson. I Joseph Jackson, Judge of the inferior court of Common pleas aforesaid do certify that it appears to my satisfaction, that the said Jonas Lyon did serve in the revolutionary war, as stated in the preceding declaration against the common enemy; and I now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me, to the secretary for the department of War pursuant to the directions of the Act of Congress approved 18 March 1818. Joseph Jackson
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State of New Jersey County of Morris. I Robert H McCarter, Clerk of the County of Morris, do hereby certify that Joseph Jackson Esquire before whom the foregoing affidavit is made is and was at the doing thereof duly enrolled one of Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Morris and that full faith and credit is due to his official acts as such. In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said County this seventh day of May A.D. eighteen hundred and eighteen. Robert H. McCarter. State of New Jersey Morris County. s.s. Be it remembered that on the fourth  of April in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and nineteen personally appeared before me Joseph Jackson Esquire one of the judges of the inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for said County James Raymond, who being duly sworn according to law, did depose and say that he is personally acquainted with Jonas Lyon the applicant for a soldier’s pension, within names, and was knowing to his serving as a private soldier in Captain Cox’s company, in the third Jersey Regiment of Continental Troops commanded by Colonel Elias Dayton, and thinks he saw him on the day before the battle of Monmouth in June 1778 and that in February 1779, this deponent was transferred from the 4th Regiment commanded by Colonel Ephraim Martin into the third Regiment commanded by Colonel Elias Dayton and placed under the command of Captain Cox, in which Company the aforesaid Jonas Lyon then belonged, and from which he was discharge in the Spring of 1779 as a nine months man, having as this deponent thinks served the full term of nine months; This deponent was at the time the nine months men were discharged, orderly Sergeat in Captain Cox’s company. And this deponent is now knowing to the said Jonas Lyon’s being in very reduced circumstance. James Raymon. Sworn to and subscribed before me. Joseph Jackson.
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I hereby certify that Jonas Lyon, Thomas Cobb and James Raymond the deponents within names, are all of them personally known to me, that I have been acquainted with them for twenty years, or more, and believe them to be men of veracity and fully entitled to belief. Thomas Cobb is a man of reliability and good standing in his neighborhood, having been for many years Deputy Sheriff of Morris County. Joseph Jackson. I, Joseph Jackson, one of the judges of the inferior court of Common pleas in and for the County of Morris and State of New Jersey; do hereby certify to the Hon. J. C. Calhoun Secretary of War, that Jonas Lyon, the applicant for a soldier’s pension, within names, is personally known to me, to be in very reduced circumstance, and needs the assistance of his Country for support. In witness whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed my seal the fourteenth day of April in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and nineteen. Joseph Jackson.  Jonas Lyon (Private) Dayton’s Regiment. 1778 to 1779 9 months. admitted. Not on roll. The Judge has not certified that [illegible] to reduced circumstances of affidavant
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Jonas Lyon
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District of New Jersey, Morris County. ss. On this twenty second day of March 1821, personally appeared in open Court before the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas, hold at Morris-Town, in and for the County of Morris, in the term of July, in the year aforesaid. [ The said court being a court of record, possessing a seal, proceeding according to the course of the common law, having a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount, keeping records of its proceedings, and its Judgements being removeable by writ of error only] Jonas Lyon aged sixty one years, resident in the township of Pequannock in said county who being sworn according to law declare, that he enlisted in Captain Cox’s Company in Colonel Elias Dayton’s regiment commonly called the 3rd New Jersey Regiment in the Jersey line, he cannot distinctly recall the month nor the year with certainty but thinks it was probably on or about the first June and in the year when the battle of Monmouth was fought, that he enlisted to serve for nine months at Pequannock in Morris County and was honorably discharged at Elizabeth Town New Jersey in March following having served out his time, that the numbers of his pension warrant is not remembered.  And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States, on the 18th day of March, 1818; and that I have not, since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner, disposed of my property, or any part thereof, with intent so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress, entitled “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 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 hereto annexed, and by me subscribed. This deponent further states, that he has no wife living, that he has four children, two sons and two daughters the youngest 18 years of age and all of them able to provide for themselves but unable to provide anything for the substance of their father. This deponent has followed the business of working in iron mines between 25 and 30 years but is now unable to labor in consequence of Rheumatism and old age being partly disabled by the fracture of his collar bone. The names of his children are William aged 27 years, Eliphatel aged 22 years, Sarah aged 20 years, and Elizabeth aged 18 eyars. Jonas Lyon X his mark.  Sworn and subscribed in open Court March 22nd, 1821 Jepe Upson Lewis Condict
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Schedule referred to in the foregoing deposition of Jonas Lyon. This deponent has never owned any real estate during his life. He does not keep house but lives in the family with his brother James Lyon. He has a few articles of household goods in his possession, the remains of his stock which he had during the lifetime of his wife, of which the following is a list. One poor feather bed more than 20 years in use with a few old blankets. 1 stew pan, one griddle, 1 iron pot, 3 old chairs, 6 pewter plates, 1 pewter platter, 2 or 3 old knives and forks, 2 old pewter spoons, 1 mining hammer, 1 small hatchet, no cattle, no sheep, no hogs. he has no notes or obligations for money due him except one from James G. Conway of twenty five dollars, which he has no expectation of ever receiving one cent for nor any books of amount. Jonas Lyon X his mark Sworn to and subscribed in Open Court March 22nd, 1821. Jepe Upson Lewis Condict
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State of New Jersey County of Morris ss. I, Robert H. McCarter, Clerk of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Morris, do hereby certify that the foregoing oath, and the schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the Record of said Court; and do further certify that the full amount of the value of the property contained in the said schedule is apartend and fixed by the said Court at fifteen dollars. In Testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of said Court, this twenty eighth day of March in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and twenty one. Robert H. McCarter
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33381 Revy Invalid. File No. 33,381 Jonas Lyon Pri Rev War. Act: 18th March 1818. Index:-Vol. 2, Page 251. Arrangement of 1870
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J. L. Edwards Esquire Pension Office War Department Washington.  Morristown N.J. May 22
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Morristown N.J. 21st May 1822 Dear Sir, The Agent for paying pensions in the State declines payment in the case of Jonas Lyon, stating that payment has been suspended at the War Department. May I request the favor of you, to look over the papers and inform me whether there be not some misapprehension, or if Lyon has been suspended, to inform me on what grounds? As to property, I am confident he has none, and that he came honestly by his poverty. In point or service, I thought his proof conclusive. Your friend and your obedient servant- Lewis Condict. J. L. Edwards, Esquire Pension Office War Department