Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 14279, Jonas Bemis, Continental Mass.
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Continental Mass.   Bemis, Jonas   W. 14279
Mary
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2,623
Massachusetts Roll
Jonas Bemis  Private Mass Line 177-3 years
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence the 17th of April 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 18th of Sept 1818 and sent to Edward D. Bangs Esq Worcester Massachusetts
Arrears to 4th of Sept 1818  36.80
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4th Mar 1819  48.00  $84.80
Revolutionary claim,
Act 18th March, 1818.
Royalston, Worcester County
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State of Massachusetts I Jonas Bemis of Royalston a Citizen of the United States, now resident at Royalston in the County of Worcester in the State aforesaid, do on oath testify and declare, that in the War of the Revolution, on or about the first day of December in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred & seventy five I entered and was engaged in the land service of the United States on the continental establishment, and served accordingly from that time to January the fort in the year of our Lord 1777 as a private soldier -- against the common enemy, without any interruption or absence; that I belonged to Captain Aaron Hayns Company in Col Asa Whitcomb's Regiment when the Regiment was disbanded-- I again enlisted March 18th 1777 in the same Capt Haynes company in the Regiment of Col Edw Wigglesworth & Gen Glover's Brigade for the term of three years & was honorably discharged March 19, 1780 by Noah Alden Capts Commandant - which discharge is lost & cannot be found and that I left the service on the nineteenth day of March AD. 1780 and that, by reason of my reduced circumstances in life and poverty, I stand in need of assistance from my country for support, being now of the age of sixty years to 

And I hereby relinquish all claims to every pension heretofore allowed me by the laws of the United States, if any may be or hath been so allowed. Jonas Bemis 

BE IT REMEMBERED, That on this 17th day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen pursuant to a law of the United States, entitled, ""An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War," made and passed on the 18th of March, A. D. 1818, personally appeareth before me Edward Bangs Judge C.C. Com pleas Western Circuit 

the abovenamed Jonas Bernis and after due examination and caution to testify and declare the whole truth, he maketh oath to the declaration aforesaid, and subscribes the same in my presence; and, on examination duly made by me the said Judge, it appeareth to my satisfaction that the said declaration is true. 

Given under my Hand and the Seal of said Court the day of the date aforesaid Edwd Bangs
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I Abel Jones of Winchendon in the County of Worcester do hereby certify that I have lived for many years in the neighborhood of Jonas Bemis within named & have been & now am well acquainted with him, & that he maintains a fair moral character, & believe him to be a man of the strictest truth 
Abel Jones 

Worcester SS April 17, 1818 Abel Jones personally appeared & made oath that the above certificate by  him subscribed was true before me 
Danl Henshaw, Jus Pacis --- 


Jonas Bemis 
Application for Pension
Admitted
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Massachusetts 2344 f
Mary Bemis of Royalston widow of Jonas Bemis decd who died on the 28th day of June 1831, of Worcester in the State of Masstts who was a private in the Compy commanded by Captain Haynes of the regt commanded by Col Whitcomb on the Mass line for 3 months 1 day Mass. 

Inscribed on the Roll of Massts at the rate of 80 Dollars Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831 & end on the 28 day of June 1831 

Certificate of Pension issued the 17 day of Sept 1838 & sent to Jacob Wales Baldwinsville Massachusetts  
Arrears to the 4th of 
Semiannual allowance ending 
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whole amount $60.22

(Revolutionary Claim, Act July 4, 1836}
Recorded by D. McCurdy, Clerk, 
Book A. Vol. 2, Page 46,
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Decleration 
In order to obtain the benefit of the second section of the act of Congress of the fourth of July 1836 

Commonwealth of Massachusetts Worcester County Ss. 

On this sixteenth day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & thirty eight. Personally appeared before Ira Barton Judge of the Court of Probate within and for said County of Worcester the Widow Mary Bemis a resident of Royalston in said County and commonwealth the aforesaid aged eighty years who being first duly sworn according to 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 4-1836- 

1st That her maden name was Mary Smith that she was married to Jonas Bemis of said Royalston on the twentieth day of October 1806 by the Reverend Mr. Goodridge there a Minister in said Royalston and at the time the marriage I was a resident of said Rutland soon after marriage I moved from said Rutland to said Royalston to live with my said Husband at which place I have resided ever since 

2d That her said Husband died the twenty eighth day of June one thousand eight hundred and thirty one in said Royalston

3d she further says she has remained the widow of the said Jonas ever since
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4th She further says she never had any children by the said Jonas

5th That her said Husband was a Soldier in the Revolutionary war that at the time he first went into the service he resided in the town of Sudbury in the County of Middlesex and Commonwealth aforesaid, she think he was in the first eight months service and their enlisted during the war and served three years and then was an honourably discharged. I have frequently heard him speak of the names of his officers but I do not now remember their names but for the perticular proof of her said Husband services she respectfully refers to the roals in the war department and the evidence filed with his application by which he obtained a Pension under the act of Congress passed March 18, 1818 and to his Pension Certificate which will accompany this application 

Signed and sworn to the day and year aforesaid before me 
Mary her X mark Bemis 

Ira BartonJudge of the Court of Probate Justice County of Worcester
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and hereupon the Court do declare it as their opinion after a full examination of the matter, that the said Jonas Bemis was a soldier of the Revolution, that he married the said Mary Bemis; that he hath deceased and that she now services time as his bed one, as she hath on oath declared The being reputed to be a person of truth 
Ira Barton Judge of said Court
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State of Massachusetts Worcester County⎬SS Town of Rutland  

"Rutland April 30. 1807" - 
Jonas Bemis of Royalston and Mary Smith of Rutland married October twenty first eighteen hundred and six, the above persons were joined in Marriage by me Hezekiah Goodrich
P. Church 

I Rufus Putnam Clerk of the above Town of Rutland, certify that the above is a true copy of the Record of said Town with the exception of the date, which is expressed in the Record in fair legible figures as follows " Oct 21. 1806 Rufus Putnam Clerk of the Town of Rutland

I Rufus Putnam above named depose and say, that I hold the office of Town Clerk in said town of Rutland, and that the above is a true extract from the records of said town with the exception above named as certified by me Aug. 3, 1835 
Rufus Putman Clerk of the Town of Ruttland 

Commonwealth of Massachuseth Worcester County ss Rutland August 3 1838 
subscribed and sworn to before me the day and year written 
Jacob Wales Justice of the Peace
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BEMIS, JONAS
THis certifieth, that Jonas Bemis has served three years in the Massachusetts Regiment his being the full term of his Enlistment; has concerned hither as a good and faithful Soldier, and is hereby discharged the Service. Given under my Hand, at Highland this 18 Day of March 1780
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Married 17 1780
the above line
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I Jonas Bemis of Royalton in the County of Worcester and Commonwealth of Massachusetts do say in declaration of my discharge which was stated to be lost when my application was made out, that it was afterwards found and forwarded the Ho Judge Bangs, sent by him in to the application, without explanation and sent to Washington 
Jonas Bemis


Worcester SS Commonwealth of Massachusetts June 20 1818 
Jonas Bemis above named personally appeared and made oath to the foregoing statement before me Stephen Batcheller Jr Jus Pacis

I Jonathan Pierce of Royalton in the County of Worcester do hereby certify that on the 20th April 1818 Jonas Bemis's discharge which had been supposed to be lost was found and given me to forward to Judge Bangs of Worcester and that I delivered it to him on the 21st or 22 of said month Jon'a Pierce

Worcester ss June 29th 1818 
Jonathan Pierce above named personally appeared and made oath to the foregoing statement by him subscribed before me Stephen Batchelder Jr Jus. Pacis
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts Worcester SS
I Abijah Bigelow Clerk of said County of Worcester certify that Daniel Henshaw and Stephen Batcheller Jr Esquires, before whom the annexed affidavits have been made, are Justices of the Peace, duly qualified for the purpose, acting under the authority of this Commonwealth, and that their names thereto Subscribed are their own proper signatures 

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the County Seal this eighth day of July A.D. 1818. 
Abijah Bigelow, Cler.
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payable on the 4th of March and 4th of September of each year, at the Branch Bank of the United States at Boston Massachusetts Recorded 

Jonas Bemis
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WAR DEPARTMENT. 
Revolutionary Claim 
I CERTIFY, That in conformity with the Law of the UNITED STATES, of the 18th of March 1818. Jonas Bemis 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 --- cents per month, to commence on the seventeenth day of April one thousand eight hundred and eighteen 

GIVEN at the WAR OFFICE of the UNITED STATES. this eighteenth day of September one thousand eight hundred and eighteen 
J.C. Calhoun Secretary of War

Gen Glover
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Jonas Bemis 2d Mass Act 1818
Worcester Co when paid last .
Pd to March 4, 1820 

S H H L 17 Sept 38
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Rev No. WIDOW, &c. 
File No. 14279 
Mary Bemis Widow of Jonas Bemis 
Act July 4th 36 

Index: --Vol. A, Page 51 
(Arrangement of 1870.}
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Baldwinville Ms
Sept 11th free
-Bemis

Hon J.L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City

at Sept 15 Mass
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Baldwinsville Sept 8. 1838 
Hon J. L. Edwards Commissioner of Pensions 
Sir
Yours of the 1st instant came to hand to day in which you say the Widow Mary Bemis is not intitled under the under the act of 1836 on account of her marriage taking place in 1806, you will see by examining her application that she claims under the second section of said Act which grants pay to the widows of Soldier who died after the 4th of March 1831 and before June 7th 1832 her husband died of recolute write June 28 1831 but the papers filed with her application will have the time of his death. I therefore can do nothing why she is not entitled to receive the amount which would be due her husband Jonas Bemis from the 4th of March 1831 to the time of his death which is all she claims. I may have got a long understanding of the act if you will not me write 
I am respectfully yours 
Jacob Wales 

Hon J L Edwards
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V 3718
Mary Bemis
4 July 1836
wid of Jonas
Mass 2 Leo
Married 1846
died Jun 1831
Allow $80 per an pens

4 March 1831 to 28 Jun 1831

Jacob Wales
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts. --- 

By His Excellency EDWARD EVERETT, Governor and Commander in Chief in and over said Commonwealth. To all whom it may concern: 
Edward Everett
Know ye that Ira Barton Esqr is Judge of Probate and Jacob Wales Esq is a Justice of the Peace, for the County of Worcester, and they were so at the date of the attestation in the said Commonwealth, duly constituted and commissioned, and that to their Acts and Attestations, as such, full faith and credit are and ought to be given in and out of Court: that the within Attestation in due form and by the proper Officer 

In Testimony whereof I have caused the Public Seal of the Commonwealth to be hereunto affixed, this fourteenth day of August A.D. 1838. and in the sixty third year of the Independence of the United States of America. By His Excelleney the Governor. 
John P. Brown
Secretary of the Commonwealth
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I Henry Lovejoy of Royalston in the County of Worcester and Commonwealth Massachusetts aged forty seven years, and say that I have resided in said Royalston for about fourteen years it passed and during which time I have resided within about one fourth of a mile of of Mary Bems now the widow of Jonas Bemis late of said Royalston Deceased who was a Pensioner under the act of Congress passed the year 1818 as by a certificate the said Jonas left at his decease to that effect and further he frequently told me in his life time that he was a pensioner under said act about two years and that they cut him off in the year 1820 on account of his having property, I further say that Mary Bemis the widow of the said Jonas now resides in said Royalston and that she never had any children to my knowlage & further say the said Jonas Died the last of June 1831 and the said Mary has remainedd widow ever since 
Henry Lovejoy 

Commonwealth of Massachusetts Worcester County SS Royalston July 7. 1838 subscribed and sworn to before me the subscriber the day and year last above written 

Thereby certify that the wars Jacob Wales Justice of the Peace said has remained was interlined by me before it was signed 
Jacob Wales Justice Peace
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I hereby certify that I have been aquainted with the within named Henrey Lovejoy the Deponent for more then ten years and I consider him to be a man of truth and strict veracity 
Jacob Wales Justice of the Peace
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I Nathan Reed of Royalston in the County of Worcester and Commonwealth of Massachusetts  aged seventy seven years make this my voluntary affidavit and say that I have resided said Royalston about fifty four years and prior to that time I resided in Rutland in said County, I have always lived a near neighbor to Jonas Bemis late of said Royalston Deceased since lived in said Rayelston, the said James was a Pensioner under the act of Congress passed 1818 the said Jonas Deceased June 28th 1831 
I attend his Funaral, 

I further depose & say I am well aquainted with the said Deceased widow her name was Mary Smith she originated from said Rutland I was aquainted with her when I lived in said Rutland I think she was married to said James about thirty years ago. I further say the said May has remained a widow ever since the death of the said Jonas, and further say that she never had any children to my knowledge
Nathan Reed 

Commonwealth of Massachusetts Worcester County ss Royalston July 7. 1838 Subscribed and sworn to before me the subscribed the day & year last above written 
Jacob Wales Justice of the Peace

I further certify that I have been aquainted with the above named Nathan Reed for more the thirty years and he is a man truth and veracity Jacob Wales Justice of the Peace