Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 5286, Jonathan Black, Penn.
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SERVICE Penn.
NUMBER S.5286
Black, Jonathan
Contents Carded
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31.409    
Pennsylvania 
Jonathan Black 
Greene Co in the State of Pennsylvania as a private in the compy commanded by Captain Sharp of the regt commanded by Col  in the Pennsyl Ma for six months
Inscribed on the Roll of Pennsylvania at the rate of 20 Dollars - Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831. 
Certificate of Pension issued the 23d day of May 8 1838 and sent to Hon A. Buchanan H. R.
Arrears to the 4th of March 1838      $140 -   
Semiannl. allowance ending 4 Sep 38 10 -      
$150 -    
{Revolutionary Claim, June 7, 1832.}             
Recorded by Wm. S. Allison Clerk 
Book E 2  Vol. 5 - Page 5
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34.387
Jonathan Black
Pennsylvania
admitted
Pr 6 mo
$20
Declaration of  Jonathan Black 
for a Pension
to A. Buchanan H.R.
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State of Pennsylvania )
Greene County           ) SS.

On this 22d day of March in the year of
our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty eight. personally appeared in open Court before me Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, now sitting Jonathan Black of Wayne Township in said County and State. aged seventy seven [last 2 words underlined] years who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed June 7, 1832.  That he entered the services of the United States under the following officers and served as herein stated:
That he was drafted in the company of militia commanded by Captain James Sharp [last 3 words underlined], ["at a place" stricken out] and served at a place called Wallaces' Fort near the foot of Chestnut Ridge in what was then called Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania - This was in the summer of the year 1778- Deponent cannot recollect the month
but he recollects distinctly that it was during harvest of that year. He served in the said company of Capt. Sharp two months [last 2 words underlined] and remained principally at said Wallaces' Fort and the neighborhood-guarding the frontier- That in the summer of the year-1780 [year underlined] he was drafted in the company of militia commanded by Captain John Craig, and was stationed on the waters of Crooked Creek. in said Westmoreland County, Penna. - That he served two months [last 2 words underlined] in said company of Capt. Craig-and was employed in guarding the frontier, ["and" stricken out] scouting, and protecting the inhabitants- That in October of the year 1781. he was drafted in the company of militia commanded by Capt. John Sloan, and was stationed on the waters of Crooked Creek in said Westmoreland County Penna, and was employed between the waters of said Crooked Creek, and
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now of Little Mohoning Creek then in Westmoreland now in Armstrong County Pennsylvania in scouting and guarding and protecting the frontier inhabitants. That he served two months in the said company of Capt. Sloan - That during the year of 1782 and 1783 he was frequently, a few days at a time, engaged as a scout, in scouring the country, watching them Indians and protecting the inhabitants and the length of which time he cannot now estimate correctly - That he served in said county of Westmoreland at the periods in which he performed this services above mentioned - That said deponent has no documentary evidence of his services above mentioned, now in his possession. although he obtained discharges from each of the officers above mentioned at the periods of the close of the respective services - That deponent knows of no person now living who knows of services mentioned above, and by whom he can prove them. That said deponent has a record of his age. which he took from his fathers Bible. - That said deponent resided in said Westmoreland County, Pa. till about the year 1806 or '7, that then he removed to Cumberland in Maryland, where he remained about two years - that he removed from thence to Somerset County Pennsylvania where he remained three or four years, -that he then removed to Monongahela County. Pa. where he remained four or five years and removed from there into Greene County State of Pennsylvania his present place of residence, where he has remained nineteen years. 
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a Pension or annuity except the present; and declares that his name is not on the Pension roll of the Agency of any State.
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He further states that there is no resident Clergyman in his neighborhood, but he refers to William Tygard and Elijah Chalfaut who can testify as to the reputation in the neighborhood where he resides of his being in the Revolution   
Jonathan Black
 Sworn & subscribed the day and year aforesaid in open Court before 
Jno Hook Prothy   
We William Tygard and Elijah Chalfaut residing in the County of Greene hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Jonathan Black who has subscribed & sworn to the above declaration , that we believe him to be seventy seven years of age that he is reputed & believed in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion
Elijah Chalfan 
William Tygard 
Sworn & Subscribed the day & year aforesaid in open court Jno Hook
The applicant makes the following answers to the Interrogatories proposed by the War Department.    1.  That he was born in the year 1761 in County State of Delaware   2.  That he has a Record of his age taken in [unreadable] by himself from his fathers Bible   3.  That he lived in Westmoreland Co. Penna when called to the service -- that he removed from thence to Cumberland, thence to Somerset Co. Pa. thence to Morgan Co. V. & thence Greene Co. Penna where resides at the moment   4.  That he was drafted in the service. 5.  That he only recollects the names of Captains, which are Hart, Craig & Kearn & that the companies to which he was attached, acted alone & not in connection with others having no officer other than the captains before mentioned & that he was employed as a Scout, & in guarding the property & lives of the frontier inhabitants    
6.  That he received discharges at the ends of his three terms of services mentioned by respective Captains, that he sold them immediately to a store keeping in Westmoreland Co. Pennsylvania   
7.  That he refers to  William Tygard and Elijah Chalfan who can testify to his veracity & there belief as to his serving as a soldier of the Revolution
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And the said Court do hereby declare there opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the questions prescribed by the war department that the above applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier & served as he states And the Court further certifies that it appears to them that Wm Tygard & Elijah Chalfan who has signed the preceeding certificates 
I John Hook Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of Greene County, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Jonathan Black, for a Pension   
In Testimony whereof, I have hereto set my hand and seal of office, this 22d day of March AD 1838   
John Hook Clerk of Greene  
34.387   
Jonathan Black 
Pennsylvania   
Admitted
Pr 8 mos.
$20    
Declaration of Jonathan Black for a Pension 
Hon A. Buchanan H. R.
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Entered you will find the affidavit of Jonathan
Black, which will, I trust, with the Doc'ts already
filed in your office, be sufficient to entitle him to
the favorable consideration of the Department
Respectfully yours &c
A. Buchanan
James L. Edwards Esq
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War Department
Pension Office
April 5, 1838
Sir
The declaration of Jonathan Black has been examined and filed with suspended cases. Before
a final decision can be had in his case, he should state under oath his reasons for not making an
earlier application for a pension. 
I have the honor to be
Very respectfully
Your Obt. Servt.
J L. Edwards
Hon: Andrew Buchanan
House of Representatives
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Jonathan Black
Pennsylvania
Suspended
See lot 5 April 1838 Hon. A. Buchanan
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5286
INVALID
File No. 5286
Jonathan Black
Pri Rev War
Act: June 7th 32
Index:- Vol. M, Page 34
(Arrangement of 1870)
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Apl. 4
W. Allison
Jni att
James L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington
Free
A. Buchanan
H. R.
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Washington April 4.38
Dr. Sir    
The enclosed application for a pension has been forwarded to me with a request that I would lay it before the Department - Will you please examine it and let me know of Mr Black has made out his case to your satisfaction    
Respectfully yours    
Andrew Buchanan
Jas. L. Edwards Esqr
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Hon Andrew Buchanan
HR
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Pennsylvania
Greene County Ss. 
Personally appeared before me an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said County Jonathan Black, a citizen of Wayne Township in said County and State now an applicant for a pension from the United States, under the act of Congress of June 7, 1832, and after being duly sworn says, that he felt unwilling while he was able by his own exertions to maintain himself and family, to be an applicant for the bounty of his country for services rendered in the Revolutionary believing then as he does now, that it is the duty of every good citizen of the country to maintain and support its institutions, in consideration of the protection afforded by that country, but that he is now old and in consequence of the effects of decease, and as others all around him are receiving a pension for similar services, he receded to the wishes of his friends and his necessities, and made the application for a Pension which is now pending before the War Department. And further this Deponent saith not.    
Jonathon Black    
Sworn & subscribed before me this 14th of May A.D. 1838. 
Fletcher Brock J. Peace   
Pennsylvania 
Greene County SS 
I John Hook Prothonotary of Court of Common Pleas of Greene County. Do certify that Fletcher Brock Esq before whom the above Deposition is taken is an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said County duly commissioned and sworn 
Witness my hand and seal of office this 18th of May A.D. 1838 John Hook Prothy