Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 41360, Jonathan Willis, Mass.
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Mass. 
Willis, Jonathan
S. 41360
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829
Vermont Roll
Jonathan Willis
Nixons Regt. Private
Massachusetts line '77 3 years
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War

Inscribed on the Roll of Vermont at the rate of Eight Dollars per month, to commence on the 4th April 1818

Certificate of Pension issued the 3d of June 1818
and sent to Hon. Stephen Pitkin,
Montpelier, Vt.

Arrears to 4th Sept. 1818
5 months 1/30          $40.26
{Revolutionary Claim,}
{Act 18th March, 1818}

Continued
Marshfield Washington Co
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Dead
Paid at the Treasury under the act of 6th April 1838 from 4 Sept to 18 Sep. 1841. Agent notified 26 April 1845

Notification sent oct 25th 1820 to George Rich
Montpelier Vt
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We Jeduthun Wait and William Wait both of Waitsfield in Washington County do testify and say that Jonathan Wyllys now of Marshfield in said County did about the year 1777 enlist for three years into Capt. Peter Harwood's Company & Col. Nixon's Regiment, being the same Company to which we belonged and that he served in said Company three years.
Jeduthun  Wait
X his mark
Wm. Wait

State of Vermont
Washington County SS
Waitsfield April 4, 1818
Personally appeared Jeduthun Wait and William Wait, and made solemn oath to the truth of the above deposition by them subscribed.
Before me, Edmund Rice, Justice of Peace
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States of Vermont
County of Washington SS

Jonathan Willis of Marshfield in the County of Washington and State of Vermont being duly sworn, doth declare, depose and say, that, on or about the first day of April A. D. 1777, he was duly enlisted into the service as a private of the United States, for the term of three years and that he belonged to Captain Peter Harwood's Company, and Colonel Thomas Nixon's Regiment, of the Massachusetts line and served therein, against the common enemy, for the full term of three years until honorably discharged near West Point about the first day of April 1780, which discharge has been lost many years. a part of the aforesaid term of time he served in Capt. Toogood's Company- Col. Nixon's Regiment.
He further deposes and says, that he is now, and ever since has been a citizen of the United States & that by means of his reduced circumstances in life he is need of assistance from his country for support.
Jonathan Willis
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Jon. Willis 829
Sept '18
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State of Vermont
Washington County ss.
On this 29th day of June A. D. 1820 personally appeared in open court to wit the Supreme Court of Judicature holden within and for said County of Washington and State of Vermont being a court of record
Jonathan Willis resident in Marshfield in said County aged sixty two years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath declare that he served in the revolutionary war as follows, about the first of April a. D. 1777 I listed for the term of three years in Capt. Peter Harwoods Company in Col. Thomas Nixon's Regt. in the Massachusetts line as a private soldier and served the whole term. That the date of my original declaration was on the fourth day of April A. D. 1818 and the number of my pension certificate issued thereon is 829 and dated June 3d A. D. 1818.
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 any property or income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed. Ten acres of land with a small house. I have not paid any thing for the same and it is mortgaged for payment of the same. one cow-one two year old heifer-2 yearlings-one hoble-2 sheep 2 lambs-2 old chests & old chairs-one broken -five pail kettle-one pot-one spider-one dish kitt-a few knives and forks and spoons-some old pewter and crockery ware-one pig    $41.25
That I am by occupation a Farmer and that by reason of old age and a breach in my body and being very subject to the asthma I am unable to do but very little labour-that I have a wife named Hannah aged fifty two years who is so feble as to her health that she is unable to take any care of the family concerns. I have a daughter named Lucy Greely aged 15 years one son named Newell Greely aged 14 years one Daughter named Polly Greely aged 13 years all children that my wife had by a former husband one son of my own named John Willis aged 13 years who is subject to a soreness in one of his knees so that
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he is not able to perform but very little manual labor and he is wholly Dependant on me for his support. and I am now indebted at this time in honest debts about thirty Dollars.
Johathan Willis
Sworn to & subscribed in open Court on this 29 day of June A.D.1820
Before the Court
George Rich, Clerk
(seal)
I George Rich Clerk of the Supreme Court for the County of Washington in the State of Vermont do hereby certify that the foregoing oath & the schedule thereto 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 foregoing schedule is Forty one dollars and twenty five cents.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of the said Court on this 14 day of July a. D. 1820.
Geroge Rich, Clerk of the Sup. Court
Washington County Vermont
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Revolutionary War Record Section
MMHF
S. 41360
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Pensions
Washington, D. C. June 30, 1923

In reply to your request of .............for the history of Jonathan Willis, a soldier of the Revolutionary War, the following is taken from the soldier's claim for pension.

Dates of Enlistment or Appointment: April 1, 1777 to Apr. 1, 1780
Rank: Private
Officers Under whom Service Was Rendered
Captain: Peter Harwood, & Capt. Toogood
Colonel: Thos. Nixon
State: Mass.
Battles engaged in: none stated
Residence of Soldier at enlistment: not stated
Date of application of pension: April 4, 1818
Resident at date of application: Marshfield, Washington Co., Vt.
Age at date of application: 60 years
Remarks: In 1820 he referred to his son John aged 13 yrs., by his first wife ^name not stated, and to his wife Hannah aged 52 yrs who had former husband named Greely.
He died Sept. 18, 1841
Respectfully
Commissioner
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3 Puritan Ave Dorchester Mass
May 12 1923

Bureau of Pensions
Washington D. C. 
Dear Sir, Will you give me the ^Revolutionary War military history place of residence from and any other information that may be contained in the application for pension of Jonathan Willis Apr. 4 1818 age 76. He then lived in Washington Co. Vt. but I do not know the town nor when he died nor from what place in Mass he went to the Revolutionary War.
Thanking you in advance
Sincerely yours
Fannie L. Wetherell.
(stamp) U. S. Pension Office May 15 1923

Mrs. C. F. Wetherell
3 Puritan Ave
Dorchester, Mass 

Boston 21
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41360
Revy INVALID

File No. 41,360
Jonathan Willis
Pri Rev War

Act: 18th March 18
Index: Vol. (?) Page 568

[Arrangement of 1870]

June 30-Hist to Mrs. C. F. Wetherell MMHF
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Gideon, Printer

TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
Second Comptroller's Office
March 14, 1844
Sir
Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled "An Act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States", and third section of the Act of August 23, 1842, extending the time within which pensioners may receive their pensions from the pension agents, The widow of Johnathan Willis dec. a Pensioner of the Roll of the Burlington Vt. Agency, at the rate of Eight Dollars per month, under the law of the 18th March 1818 has been paid at this Department from the 4th of Sept. to the 18th Sept. 1841
Respectfully yours
Albion K. Parris, Comptroller

To the Commissioner of Pensions, Present
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Johathan Willis
Correct  DN

Mass 4 pal.
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State of Vermont
Washington County, to wit.
I Stephen Pitkin One of the Judges of the County Court, within and for the County aforesaid Do Certify, that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Jonathan Willis 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, passed the 18th March, 1818 entitled, "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War."
Given under my hand at Montpelier this 4th day of April A. D. 1818.
Stephen Pitkin

State of Vermont,
Washington ss.
I, George Rich, Clerk of the County of Washington aforesaid, do certify, that the Honorable Stephen Pitkin who made the above certificate and before whom the annexed declaration was taken, was a Judge of the County Court within and for the County aforesaid, at the respective dates thereof, acting under the authority of this State, and duly qualified for that purpose; and that his name subscribed thereto, is his own proper signature.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the Seal of said County, at Montpelier in said County, this fourth day of April in the Year One Thousand Eight hundred and Eighteen.
George Rich, Clerk
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The National Archives
Form VAN-51
12-5-41
Division of Veterans' Administration Archives
Bounty Land Warrant Record Card*
Name: Willis, Joseph
Grade: Private
Line: Massachusetts
Warrant Number: 5296
Acreage: 100
Mar. 10, 1790
to: not shown

*The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800 which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800. Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.