Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 36,023, for Neals Jones, Maryland
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Service
Md.

Jones, Neals
or 
Nelce

Number
S.36,023

Contents
In 1818 aged over 70 years [and] res. Pencader Hundred, New Castle Co. Del,
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[S4].501
Delaware
Neals Jones 
of New Castle Co. in the state of Delaware who was a Private in the ^2nd regiment commanded by Capt Herdman of the Maryland line, for the term of six years.
Inscribed on the roll of Delaware
at the rate of 8 dollars per month, to comment on the 9th of April 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued the 6th of Sep 1819
and sent to James Boothe Esq New Castle Delaware
Arrears to 4th of Sep. 1819 [numbers scratched out]
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4 Mar 1820 48.
16 mo 22/30  [dollar amount scratched out]
Br. down
[illegible] between [illegible]
Revy Pension from 9 Apl
 1818 to the 4th Sep 1819
6 months
67.46
48.--
$115.46
{Revolutionary claim,}
{Act 18th March, 1818.}
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Nov 13, 1906
[illegible].
[AW]
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Jones, Nelce
His name appears on a list of applicants for invalid pension returned by the District Court for the District of Delaware, submitted to the House of Representatives by the Secretary of War on Feby 28, 1790 and printed in the American State Papers, class 9, Page 163.

Rank; Corporal
Regt; 2d Mayland regiment
Disability; wounded in the front of his ankle through the bone, by which he is disabled and disqualified from procuring a livelihood by labor. 
When and where disabled; Sept. 1781 Eutaw Springs.
Residence; County of Kent.
To what pension entitled  Precise degree of disability not ascertained.
Remark; On the rolls in 1783, enlisted February, 1778 for the war.
Evidence Complete
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Auditors Office Annapolis 7th Apl 1819.  I hereby certify that it appears from the Muster Rolls remaining in the auditory office that Neile Jones enlisted as a private in the Second Maryland Regt. on the 16th November and was discharged on the 1st Nov. 1780
Thos. Karney Aud.
State Md.
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State of Delaware, to wit.
Be it known, that on the ninth day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, before me James Booth, Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas of the said State of Delaware, personally appeared Neals Jones, a resident of Pencader Hundred, in the County of New Castel, in the said State of Delaware, aged seventy years and upwards, who being solemnly sworn on the Holy Evangels of Almighty God, doth declare and say, that about the beginning of Autumn in the year of our Lord, one thousand and seven hundred and seventy-seven, he enlisted in the second company of the second regiment of the Maryland line' which said company at that time was commanded by John Herdman, the former captain thereof Edward Vesy, having been killed at the battle of Long Island; the said company and regiment being, at the time of the said enlistment, in the Continental service' that this deponent enlisted for and during the war' that he continued in the said service [one word scratched out, probably from] until the close of the war; that he was in the battle of Brandywine, in Delaware, at the Battle of Trenton and Monmouth in New Jersey; and also at the Battle of White Plains; - and that in the Spring of the year One thousand seven hundred and eighty, this deponent went with the aforesaid Regiment to the Southward; that he was in the
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Battle of Cowpens & at the siege of Camden, - and that he was on duty at the time of General Gates defeat; - that he was engaged in the Battle of Eutaw Springs in South Carolina; - that he was severely wounded in the ^left leg, and was incapable of doing any duty during the remainder of the war that he was obliged for a long time to support himself on crutches, and since then has never had the perfect use of the wounded limb; - that this deponent never received any discharge from the service of the United States; but that General Smallwood gave him a furlough without date that this deponent is unable to produce the said furlough, having sent it to Annapolis in the State of Maryland, in order that he might receive from the said State of Maryland, the pay to which he was entitled on account of the depreciation of the Continental Money, with which Continental Money the arrears due to him had been paid:  And further this deponent saith, that from the infirmities of old age, from the effects of his wound which he still feels severely, from the defect of his vision ^ (having lost one eye) and from his very reduced circumstances, he is under the necessity of making application to his Country for support.
Neal Jones
Taken, sworn, and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid,
Before me, 
Ja Booth C. [Illegible possibly J]
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Maryland Cecil County, to wit

State of Delaware New Castle County} Ss. 
Before me, James Booth, Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas for the State of Delaware, personally appeared Nathan Bouldun Esquire, one of the Justices of the Peace, in and for the county of New Castle, and James Thompson the present Commr. of the same county, who being solemnly sworn on the Holy Evangelist of almighty God, did severally say, that they have long been, and are at present well acquainted with Neals Jones of (illegible) Hundred in the County aforesaid, that the said Neals Jones, (formerly a Soldier in the Revolutionary War, ) having applied to the Government of the United States, for a pension, is at present in very reduced Circumstances, and in much need of assistance, from his Country and well entitled to a reward for his service rendered in establishing her Independence. Sworn and subscribed, the twenty third day of June, in the year of our Lord, One thousand eight hundred and nineteen. Nathan Bouldun
Jas. Booth C.I.
James Thompson
,
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Maryland Cecil County to wit
On the twenty Sixth day of April 1818 then appeared Genl. Hezekiah Foard before me one of the Justices of the peace in and for said County and made Oath on the Holy Evangles of Almighty God that the Bearer hereof Neals Jones was a Soldier in the Second Maryland Regiment in the time of the revolutionary war and to the best of his recollection the said Jones entered the Service Some time in year 1777 and continued in the Same from that time untill the close of the war, he the Said Jones went with the Said Regiment in the Spring of 1780 to the South and was badly wounded in the leg at the Action of the Eutaw Spring in South Carolina
Hezekiah Foard
Sworn and subscribed to before me the year and day first above written
Jacob Vandegrift
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Maryland Cecil County To wit
I hereby certify that Jacob Vandergrift Gentleman before whom the within Acknowledgment appears to have been taken and whose name is thereto signed was at the time of taking and signing the same and still is one of the Justices State of Maryland, Justice of the peace in and for the County aforesaid duly commissioned qualified and sworn and to all whose act as such due faith and credit are and ought to be given as well in Courts of Justice as thereout
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Public seal of my office this 27" day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred and Eighteen
 James Sewall Clk
Cecil County Court
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Know All Men by these presents, that I Neals Jones, of Pencader Hundred, in the County of New Castle, and State of Delaware, for and in consideration of a pension to be allowed me during life from the United States, under a Act of Congress passed on the eighteenth of March one thousand eight-hundred and eighteen, entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States," - have revised, released and forever quit-claim unto the United States. In witness whereof, I have hereto set my hand and seal, this twenty seventh day of May, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.  Neals Jones
Signed sealed and delivered in the presence of....James Glasgon
James Booth (illegible)
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State of Delaware  New Castle County} Ss
I Joseph Roberts Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of the said state of Delaware in and for the said County of New Castle, do hereby certify that the Honorable James Booth before whom the foregoing deposition of Neals Jones was taken and who hath subscribed the same was at the time thereof and is now Chief Justice of the court of Common Pleas of the said State of Delaware duly commissioned and qualified and that full faith and credit are and ought to be given to all such his acts and attestations
In Testimony whereof I have here unto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court at New Castle the Twenty fourth day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and Eighteen
Jos. Roberts  Prothy. 

Delaware Ss
I James Booth, chief-Justice, as afsd., do certify, that it appears to my satisfaction, that the aforesaid Neals Jones did serve in the Revolutionary War, as stated in the preceding Declaration, against the Common Enemy, for the term of nine months at one time, on the Continental Establishment; and I now transmit the proceedings and testimony had and taken before me, to the Secretary of the Department of War, Pursuant to the Directions of the Act of
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of Congress in such case provided: I am also satisfied, that he is in indigent Circumstances, and needs the assistance of his Country for support. In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my Hand, and caused the Seal of the Court afsd. to be hereunto affixed. at New Castle, the twentieth day of August, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & nineteen.
Jas. Booth

Neals Jones
Private
Maryland Line
1777-6 years
Invalid pensioner pension relinquished
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36023
INVALID.
Revy
File No. 36, 023
Neals Jones
Pri Rev War
Act: 18" March 18"
Index:--Vol.  Q, Page 201
[Arrangement of 1870]