Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 40264, for Jonathan Pike, Connecticut
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Service                                                     Number
Conn                 Pike, Jonathon               S40264
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Jonathan Pike of Gennese in the state of New York who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel C Webb of the Connecticut line, for the term of one year.

Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 4 of June 1818.

Certificate of Pension issued the 28 of April 1821 and sent to Samuel Lake Esq Batavia New York

Arrears to 4th of March 1821. 33 mo 1/31 264.25
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4Sep 1821. 48.00
$312.25

{Revolutionary claim Act 18th March 1818}

illegible signature ending in May 1820

Right side

Transfer from Albany to Ohio (illegible) agency 19AUG1831 and notification sent to Cyrus Prentiss Eng Ravenna, Ohio.
See letter to B Pearson 9 OCT 1833
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17,129
Jonathan Pike, Genesee Co. N.Y. 4  June 1818.

Col Charles Webbs' regt. Conneett line, one year Dec. 1775 to Decem 1776

Not found on the rolls

It is required, that the service of the applicant, 9 months in continuance on (illegible) be approved by the testimony, on oath, of two disinterested and credible persons, certified as such, by the judge. 

in left hand margin 

Saml. Lake, agent, Batavia, NY (illegible) 18 July 1820
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Jonathan Pike (illegible) for pension Caledonia

Saml. Lake Agent Batavia N.Y.
recd 18 July 1820
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Upper left corner in box
State of New York 
County of Genesee

On this 4th day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, before me the subscriber one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the said County of Genesee in the said state of New York, personally appears Jonathan Pike aged sixty eight years on the eleventh day of June. (illegible) resident of the town of Caledonia in the said county of Genesee who being by me first duly sworn according to law doth, on his oath made the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the late 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." That he said Jonathan Pike sometime in the month of December in the year 1775, enlisted in service of the United States for one year between (illegible) Hill and Bunker Hill (near Boston inserted) in the State of Massachusetts in the company commanded by Captain ____ Hull in the regiment commanded by Colonel Charles Webb of the Connecticut line.  That he continued to serve in said corps in the service of the United States until sometime in the month of December in the year 1775 when he left the army at Peekskill (in the state of New York inserted) without a written discharge caused by his being taken sick a short time previous at Peekskill while the regiment to which he belonged went into duty into the state of New Jersey where they remained until his tour of service expired when he was directed to leave the service by Colonel Streethall. That all who were sick
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he belonged went into duty into the state of New Jersey where they remained until his tour of service expired when he was directed to leave the service by Colonel Streethall. That all who were sick with him had left the service as he did without a written discharge. That he was in the battle of White Plains There he said Jonathan Pike was several times in the service as a militia man, one time in particular for the months during which he was at the taking of General Burgoyne.  That in reduced circumstances and absolutely stands in need of assistance of his country for support and that he has no other evidence now in his power of said service.

Jonathan Pike signature

Sworn to and declared before me the day and year aforesaid.

John H. Jones signature

I John W. Jones one of the Judges of the court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Genesee in the said State of New York do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Jonathan Pike did serve in the revolutionary war as stated in the presiding declaration  against the common enemy and I now transmit the proceedings and testimony and said before me to the secretary of the department of war pursuant to the aforesaid act of Congress. And further that I am satisfied he is in absolute need of assistance from his country for support.____ Dated at illegible this 4th day of June 1818-----

John H Jones signature
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I also certify that, from satisfactory testimony addressed before me the said Jonathan Pike (illegible) named is a man in indigent circumstances and stands in absolute need of assistance for support. Dated at Batavia June 10th 1820.

John H. Jones signature
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State of New York
Genesee County  I Simeon Cummings Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in said county certify that John H. Jones is and was at the foregoing dates, first Judge of Said Court acting under authority of this state and that the names signed to the foregoing affidavits are his Signatures.

In testimony whereof I have here to set my hand and seal of office at Batavia July 10 1820

S. Cummings signature or seal
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Jonathan Pike
Inventory
19.00
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At a Court of Common pleas held at the courthouse in the village of Batavia in and for the County of Genesee, in the State of New York on the Eighth day of February 1821 on the terms of February (being a court of record) in the pursuance of the 48th Article of the Constitution of the State of New York which has unlimited Jurisdictions (illegible) records of its proceedings, and has immeasurably? exercised the power of fines and imprisonment.

Present the honorable Moses Hayden, Richard Smith, and Ralph Parker Judges

Genesee County on this Eighth day of February 1821 appeared personally in open court (being a Court of Record) Jonathan Pike aged Seventy Years resident of the Town of Caledonia in said County who  being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary war as follows. One year in the company commanded by Col. C Webb Connecticut line he enlisted in December 1775 and was discharged at Peekskill N.Y. in December 1776. His declaration was dated the 4th of June 1818 and accompanied this schedule---- And I 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, 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 eighteenth day of March one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and that I have not, nor has any person in trust foe me, any property or securities, contracts, or debts due me; nor I have any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed.

Scedule  of Inventory
Real estate I have none.
Personal property
1 Year bla heifer ----------------------- $5.00
1 Small Swine --------------------------$1.50
illegible $6.50
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Brot over $1.50
1 Ax---2.00
2 Small Kettles ---2.00
1 illegible broken ---.12 1/2
1 illegible ---.12 1/2
4 illegible ---.25
1 illegible ---.12 1/2
1 Pewter Tea Pot ---.25
4 Spoons Iron ---.38
2 Knives and Forks ---.50
1 drawing Knife ---.12
1 illegible ---1.00
1 Churn ---.50
1 Trow ---.75
1 Pail ---.18
1 Small pot Broken ---.12 1/2
3. Chairs .75. 1 Barrel.25. 1 Nail Hammer.1 ---1.06
1 Hand Saw $1.00. 1 pr. pinchers .12 1/2. 2 Augers .50 ---1.62 1/2
2 Bibles $1.00. 1 Hymn Book .25. 1 Gimblet .12 1/2 ---1.37 1/2
 (total) $19.00

And the deponent further says he is owing debts to the following persons ---
to D. McDonald Caledonia ---$6.25
" Samuel Lake ----$8.00
(total) 14.25

And the deponent further says that he is a farmer by occupation that he has no farm. and is not able to do any hard labor. that he has a wife named Charity Pike aged fifty three who is a very weakly woman is a cripple and has been for twenty years  not able to walk around the house. who is a great expense to him for doctoring -- and he has one daughter named Charlotte aged fifteen which compose his family. and further that he has not wearing apparrel and bedding Sufficient for the comfort and convenience of his family. and further saith not ---
(signed) Jonathan Pike
Sworn and Subscribed in open court 
this eighth day of February 1821
before me S. Cummings Clk
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I Simon Cummings Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Genesee do hereby certify that the forgoing oath and the Schedule thereby 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 Vale of property exibited in the aforesaid Schedule is Nineteen Dollars $19.00

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of Said Court the Tenth day of February 1821
(signed S. Cummings Clk
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Application for a Transfer
Portage County
State of Ohio   SS

on this 25th day of May 1831 before me the Subsciber a Justice of the Peace for the said County of Portage Personally appeared Jonathan Pike who on his oath declares that he is the same Person who formerly belonged to the Company commanded by Col Charles Webb in tyhe service of the United States that his name was place on the Pension Roll of the State of new York from whince he has lately removed that he now resides in the State of Ohio where he intends to remain and wishes his Pension be payable at Pittsburgh State of Pennsylvania and that his reason for removing to the State of Ohio was to spend his remaining days among his children

(signed) Jonathan Pike
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The State of Ohio
Portage County SS

On this 10th day of August AD 1831 before me the Subsciber a Justice of the Peace for said County of Portage of State of Ohio personally appeared Cyrus Prentiss of the township of Ravenna and county of Portage aforesaid well known to me as a person of integrity & truth in whose declaration full and entire confidence can with safety be deposed who on his oath decares for more than six months he has been well acquainted with the above named Jonathan Pike who Subscribed the forgoing affidavit that said Jonathan Pike removed from the County of Livingston State of New York to the county of Portage State of Ohio in 1830 -- and that he well knows him to be the same person described in said affidavit

(signed ) Cyrus Prentiss

Sworn & subscribed to before me the day & year aforesaid 

(Signed) Lucuis V Bierce Esquire

State of Ohio 
Portage County ss

I Seth Day Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the county aforesaid do certify that George Y Wallace and Lucius V Bierce Esquire before whom the following affidavits were sworn (illegible)
now as Justice of the Peace of said county duly  commissioned and sworn to whos (illegible)
full faith and credit ought to be given.  In testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand and  affix the seal of the said (illegible) this 11th day of August A.D. 1831.
(Signed) S Day Clerk
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Admitted on Capt (illegible in parentheses) Hulls's certificate

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40264
INVALID
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File No. ---40,264
Jonathan Pike
(illegible) Rev War

Act: 18 March 18
Index ---Vol 8 --, Page 894
[Arrangement of 1870]
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War Department
Revolutionary Claim
I certify that, in conformity with the laws of the United States, of the 18th of March 1818, and the first of May 1820

Jonathan Pike late a private in the Army of the Revolution, is inscribed on the pension list Roll of the New York Agency, at he rate of eight Dollars per month, to commence on the fourth day of June one thousand eight hundred and eighteen

Given at the war office of the United States this twenty eighth day of April one thousand eight hundred and twenty one ---

(Signed) J.C. Calhoun
Secretary of War
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Jonathan Pike

Payable on the 4th March and 4th September of each year by the president of U.S. Bank in the City of New York. No pension is payable until after the arrival of one or the other of the above dates after the issue of a certificate ---

Registered by T Wright Clerk, in book B Volume Page 164

I certify the forgoing to be a true copy of the paper now in Jonathan Pikes hand. who is a resident of Sandy Lake T.P. Mercer County Pennsylvania taken by me one of the Justices of the Peace for Mercer County and State of Pennsylvania this Seventh day of August 1833

(Signed) Enoch Perrine
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Jon Pike
Certificate of Service
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This may certify that in the year 1776 I commanded acompany in a Regt of the Continental Army commanded by Col Charles Webb of the State of Connecticut. That (illegible) Hall was the (illegible) of the regt That a (illegible) was the (illegible) of the company; That the company was in the Battle of White Plains (state of New York) That in December of 1776 the Regt marched into New Jersey & Pennsylvania, that the invalids of the Regt were left on the Hudson River, at or near Peeskill --- That (illegible) Cole & Hal, remained on the Hudson with the invalids, and did not join the regt until the mens time expired --- That a part  of my Company was enlisted near winter Hill in December  That they engaged to serve until the 1st of January 1777 --- That according to my best recollection Jonathan Pike was a Soldier in my Company, and served a term of one year.

Signed William Hull

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Middlesex Ts October 12th 1920

Personally appeared William Hull the subscriber of the above Certificate, and made oath that the facts therein contained are true, according to his best recollection, before me.

(Signed) Josiah Bacon Jus. Peace
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Middlesex Ts I Abraham Biglow Clerk of the Justice of the peace---(illegible) in the County of Middlesex here certify that Josiah Bacon is a Justice of The peace acting under the authority of this Commonwealth , this name (illegible) to the written certificate, is his own proper signature---
 
In  testimony whereof I have hereunto with my hand & affixed the seal---(illegible) Judicial Court this 13th, Oct 1820.

(signed) Abraham Biglow
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(Left Border)

Revolutionary Claim
Requiring immediate attention

(text)

Mercer, Pa.  Free
Aug 9

Secretary of War
City of Washington
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Pennsylvania
Mercer County Ss

Before the subscriber an apropiate Judge of the Court of Common Pleasin and for the said County comes Bevan Pearson a Justice of Peace in and for said county and on his solemn affirmation deposeth what he thinks about the first week in March (illegible)this deponent was said for by Jonathan Pike who stated to this deponent he was a United States Pensioner --that he showed this deponent a certificate signed by John C. Calhoun then Secretary of War -- which certificate stated hat said pensioner would receive his pension half yearly  (illegible) --- this deponent then took the affidavit of said Pike to his being the same person as mentioned in said  he transmitted the same to a friend in Philadelphia with a request that he would receive the (illegible) in New York --- that said friend has written to this deponent that he  has applied through a friend of his at New York who he states informed him that the name Jonathan Pike cannot be found in that office ---this deponent further states that he found Pike to be very old and infirm --- destitute of every comfort and has to depend on the charity of his neighbors for support and that through infirmity he was not able to write his name  but made his mark to the affidavit & powers of attorney---

affirmed and subscribed before me August 6, 1833

(Signatures)

F. Brown
Bevan Pearson
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Secretary of War   Mercer Pa Aug 9,1933

As stated in my deposition herewith sent - I went to Jonathan Pike I took his deposition. I sent it to a friend in Philadelphia-and by him to New York-his information to me is that the name Jonathan Pike cannot be found in the office- he further states (tear in the document) wrote to a friend in Washington to (illegible) - it seems that there has been some doubt about whether Mr. Pike is yet living - and this information (illegible) on the Government- as it has been (illegible) that it is mandatory for Mr. Pike to make his deposition as to the (illegible) of his having made his mark instead of writing his name - whether he ever was capable of writing his name or not  I cannot tell but I  (illegible) satisfied he was not then able - he was a (illegible several lines) Pike lives on a (illegible) twelve miles from me - in order to remove all doubt his (illegible) I wrote to a Justice of the Peace residing near him to send me a copy of the certificate which is herewith enclosed - Mr. Pike formerly resided, as he states, in Livingston County State of New York - has resided for some years in Portage County State of Ohio and moved to this county, to some of his children who have (illegible) for some years- (illegible)- my object in writing direct to you is hoping you will immediately take measures to have the old man paid what the Government provided for him - and if permissable to have it paid at Pittsburgh or Philadelphia - he (illegible) to communicate to me your deposition in this (illegible) justification of the necessary measures to (illegible) to obtain his dues from Government -----
Your attention to this business will confer a  (illegible) on a poor destitute to Soldier - am oblige your friend --

(signature) Bevan Pearson