Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 6,676, John Bonnell, New Jersey.
Page 1

(3-1776)
SERVICE
New Jersey

Bonnell, John

NUMBER
S. 6.676

carded
CONTENTS
__________________________________________________________________________________
Page 2

[left side:]
26.437
John Bonnell
Wayne Co. in the State of Pa.
who was a pr in the company commanded
by Captain Lyon of the Regt commanded
by Col Richman in the --- Penna. [cut off] for
[illegible] 
$30.00 
N.J. June 24/04
Records corrected
--------------------
Inscribed on the roll of Penna --
[at] the rate of 30 Dollars --- Cents 
per annum, [to] commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
-----------------
[Ce]rtificate of Pension issued the 1st day of July and sent to [cut off] Hon S.S. Nugener Contents
------------------
Arrears to the 4th of Mch 34          90.00
Semi-anl. allowance ending Sept.  15.00
                                                           _____
                                                        $105.00
{Revolutionary Claim,}
{Act June 7, 1832.}

Recorded by S.T. Sprague Clerk,
Book C. Vol. 5 Page 5

[right side]
Order to pay 14. Sep. 1837.
Letter to E.W. Hamlin 14. Sep. 1837.
Paid at the Treasury under the 
Act of the 6th April 1838 from
4 Sep 1840 to 4th March 1841
Agt notified 4 March 1842.
---------------------
Date of death not noted
Page 3

Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress Passed June 7. 1832
State of Pennsylvania Wayne County Ss

On this 27th day of August AD. Eighteen hundred and thirty three personally appeared in open Court before the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas now sitting John Bonnell a
resident of Dyberry Township Wayne County and State of Pennsylvania aged seventy six 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 act of Congress passed June 7th 1832
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated-

That he enlisted a private in the early part of the spring of seventeen hundred and seventy five and he believes in April for the term of one year, in Essex County New Jersey under Captain David Lyon Matthew Clark and --- Bateman were the lieutenants. The Regiment to which he was attached was commanded by Liet Col Richman and was marched to St Johns passing through Elizabeth Town, New York Albany Tyconderoga and Crown Point - he remained
with the regiment at St Johns some time and whilst there was in a skirmish or engagement with the Brittish & Indians after which he returned to the Isle of Knox. the hardships that he had undergone in his March and whilst at St Johns impaired his health and he with many other soldiers were taken sick. that he remained at the Isle of Knox for some weeks the time he cannot now recollect when he with other invalid soldiers at that place were ordered to Tyconderoga where he remained untill he was dismissed with others, as he understood
at the time by the order of General Schuyler and he with Nathaniel Bonnell and Nehemiah Ward soldiers in the same company returned home together to Chatham New Jersey he believes he was dismissed in October 1775 being in actual service six months at least and he believes more than that time- he also believes he received a written discharge from a Richard
Varick but has since lost or mislaid the same

Some time after he returned home to Morris County New Jersey he was drafted and called out in the militia as a private for one month and served out the term, he does not distinctly recollect the name of his captain but well
recollects that he was stationed with the Company at Elizabeth Town point
New Jersey remained there some time, was marched to Newark staid there about one
week and returned again to Elizabeth Town point New Jersey remained there some time, was marched to Newark and staid there about one week and returned again to Elizabeth Town pont and staid untill the end of his enlistment for one month, was discharged and returned home

Soon after his return home he was again drafted for one month, and called into service of the militia as a private and was stationed at Bergin in the State of New Jersey. he was laying at Bergen Point at the time of the Battle on
Long Island which he believes was in August 1776 and in the two last named tours he thinks that his Captains name was Chandler from Elizabeth Town he served his tour of one month and was discharged and returned
Page 4

home. That he was home but a short time before he was again drafted in the militia for one month, his captains name was Wood and
Seith Raymond was his Lieutenant. This was in the latter part of the Summer or early in the Fall of 1776. He was stationed at Woodbridge in New Jersey and was marched from there to Springfield and was in that battle.  he believes that Col Seely then had the command at any rate he saw him there and also Col Angel of the Continental army; he served his time of one month and was discharged-- he was called out and served at other times but cannot recollect the precise time of service- he was at the Battle of Monmouth in New Jersey
he was born in the month of March 1757 in Essex County New Jersey

He was born in the month of. March 1757 in Essex County New Jersey and resided in that State untill AD 1816 when he removed to Pennsylvania where he now resides. That at this time he has no documentary evidence of his service and that he knows of no person whose testimony he can procure who can testify to his service except David Leonard and Stephen Bedford whose depositions are hereto annexed. And that he hereby relinquishes any 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

John Bonnel

Sworn to and subscribed the day
and year aforesaid }
G.B. Wescott Prot.

We Joel Campbell ------- a Clergyman residing in Honesdale Wayne County and Stephen Day -- residing in the same county hereby certify that we are well acquainted with John Bonnell who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be seventy six years of age that he is reputed and believed in the neighbourhood where he now resides to have been a soldier of the revolution and that we concur in that opinion

Joel Campbell
Stephen Day

Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid

G.B. Wescott
Prot.
Page 5

April 3, 1934
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

Mr. J. P. Krom
Jersey Shore
Pennsylvania

JOHN BONNELL
S. 6676
BA-J/M:B

Dear Sir:

Reference is made to your letter in which you request the record of John Bonnell, a soldier of the Revolutionary War who was granted a pension in 1834.

The data which follow were obtained from the papers on file in pension claim, S. 6676, based upon the service of the only soldier named John Bonnell or Bonnel found in the Revolutionary War records of this office.

John Bonnel (as he signed, but was pensioned Bonnell) was born in March, 1757, in Essex County, New Jersey.

He enlisted in the early part of spring or in April, 1775, in Essex County, New Jersey, served six months as a private in Captain David Lyon's company, Lieutenant Colonel Richmon's New Jersey regiment, and was in a skirmish with the British and Indians at St. John's. On account of the hardships endured there and in marching, he was taken sick at the Isle of Knox where he
remained several weeks. He was discharged about October, 1775, and returned to his home in Chatham, Morris County, New Jersey.
In 1776 he served three tours of one month each in Captains Chandler's, Wood's and Joseph Horton's Companies, Colonel Sylvanus Seeley's New Jersey regiment, and was in the battle of Springfield. He was called out and served at other times, officers not stated, and was in the battle of Monmouth.

The soldier resided in New Jersey until 1816 when he moved to Pennsylvania.

He was allowed pension on his application executed August 27, 1833, at which time he was living in Dyberry Township, Wayne County, Pennsylvania.
Page 6

The papers in the pension claim of John Bonnel or Bonnell contain no family data.

Very truly yours

A. D. HILLER
Assistant to Administrator

-2-
Page 7

[left side:]
1932 - Jan. 28. Hist. to Mrs. Irwin
S. Valentine M L B
1934, Apr. 3- Hist to J.P. Krom-MLB

[right side:]
Rev War. 6676
INVALID.
---------------
File No. __6676__
__John Bonnell__
__Priv. Rev. War__
------------
Act__June 7th 1832__
Index: -- Vol. _A_, Page _38_

[Arrangement of 1870.]
Page 8

TREASURY DEPARTMENT.
Second Comptroller's Office,
Dec. 28th, 1841.

Sir:

Under the date 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", John Bonnell--
a Pensioner on the Roll of the Philadelphia 
 Thirty Dollars ['and     Cents' crossed out] 
per annum, under the law of the 7th June 1832, has been paid at this Department, from the 4th
of Sept. 1840, to the 4th March 1841.

Respectfully, yours
William K. Parris
Comptroller.

To the Commissioner of Pensions
Present.
Page 9

Sept 13
RETURNED SEPT [illegible]
M at M Evans

Free E.W. Hamlin P.N

J. L. Edwards Esqr
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City
D.C.
Page 10

Bethany Sept 4th 1837

J.L. Edwards Esq

Dr Sir

I enclose to you John Bonnells pension
Papers to gather with a power of attorney for Mr Neal to draw the money on the same. Please examine the same and inform me to the correctness and what further is required to enable him to draw the money

Very Respectfully Yours &c
E.W. Hamlin
Page 11

Pennsylvania Wayne County SS. }

David Leonard of the County of Wayne and State of Pennsylvania (in Dyberry Township, being duly sworn saith that he has been acquainted with John Bunnell [Bonnel] (who is now making application for a pension), since the year AD. seventeen hundred and seventy five.  that before that time he resided near Chatham Morris County New Jersey that he
now resides in Dyberry Township Wayne County Pennsylvania.

That in the early part of the spring of the year AD 1775 the said John Bonnell enlisted in the service of the United States in the same company with this deponent commanded by Capt. David Lyon in the regiment commanded by Lieut. Col. Rickmon, and marched in company with the said John Bonnell from Chatham New Jersey to St Johns passing 
Through Elizabeth Town New York Albany Tyconderoga and Crown Point. he remembers of seeing the said John Bonnell the said St  Johns but at what time he left there he cannot now recollect-

That after he returned from that tour of duty he again enlisted and saw the said John Bonnell in the service of the United States at the Battle of Monmouth New Jersey but he cannot tell how long he served

David Leonard

Sworn and subscribed before me
this 15th day of August Eighteen hundred
& thirty three and I do hereby certify that
David Leonard is a credible witness.
Thos Spangenberg J.P.

Pennsylvania
Wayne County ⎬SS
I George B. Wescott Prothonotary of the
Court of Common Pleas of the County of Wayne do hereby Certify that Thomas Spangenberg Esquire is an acting Justice of the Peace
in & for said County duly commissioned & qualified and that the above signature purporting to be his is genuine

Witness my hand & the Seal of the said
Court at Bethany the 27th day of August 1833
Geo B Westcott
Prot.
Page 12

31,330
John Bonnel's
Application for a
Pension

from 1775 per ann.
$30

Hon D. D. Wagener
Easton
Pa
Page 13

State New Jersey
Morris County}  SS
Personally appeared before me Benjamin P.  one of the Justices of the peace in and for the said County. Stephen Bedford who being duly sworn saith. That he was out during the Revolutionary war as a Volunteer and drafted Militia man. Tthat he was well acquainted with John Bonnel who lived near him. That he beleaves [believes] said Bonnel served some time in the Militia- That this deponent knows of his being out in the Militia service, saw him at the Battle fought at Springfield in Essex County New Jersey, that said John Bonnel was in that action with this deponent that they where [were] commanded by Col. Silvanus Seely a Militia officer and Capt Joseph Horton-

Stephen Bedford

Sworn and Subscribed before
me this 7th day of Jany
1833
Benjamin P. Lum
------------------
Morris County New Jersey SS
I Benjamin P. Lum do certify that Stephen Bedford who made the above affidavit
before me is a credible witness.
Benjamin P Lum

State of New Jersey
County of Morris SS }  I David Day Clerk of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Morris do hereby certify that Benjamin P Lum Esqr by whom the above affidavit was taken was at the time of taking the same, a Justice of the Peace in & for the County of Morris aforesaid, duly commissioned & sworn, and I do further certify that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of said Justice & that the signature of the said Justice to
the above affidavit is his own proper hand writing-

In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of said Court at Morris Town this sixth day of May A.D. Eighteen hundred & thirty three, David Day Clk

[seal affixed on left]
Page 14

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories presented by the War Department that the before named applicant John Bonnell was a Revolutionary soldier and served as he states and the Court further certify that it appears to them that Joel
Campbell who has signed the foregoing certificate is a clergyman resident in the Borough of Honesdale, and that Stephen Day who has also signed the same is a resident of the Township of Dyberry Wayne County aforesaid and is a credible person and 
that their statement is entitled to credit

I George B Wescott Prothonotary of the Court of  Common Pleas of the County of Wayne do certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter
of the application of John Bonnell for a pension under the act of Congress passed 7th June 1832

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my
hand and have affixed the Seal of the said
Court at Bethany the 27th day of August
AD 1833
Geo B Wescott

[seal affixed at left]
Page 15

DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
FORT ANTES CHAPTER
MRS. JAMES H. KROM, REGENT

JERSEY SHORE, PA.,

Pension Bureau
War Department
Washington D.C

Will you kindly send me a copy of whatever there may be on your records of one John Bonnel ['only one' hand-written over line]  a Revolutionary Soldier granted a pension in 1834 at that time aged 77. Was he the same 
John Bonnel who later is found in Lancaster Militia in Company of Andrew Stewart and
Richard Manning-

Very truly yours
J. P. Krom
March 1934
Page 16

Franklin Ind.
Jan. 9 1932.

United States
Veterans Administration
Washington D.C

Did John Bonnell, who served from Essex County New Jersey, as Captain of Militia during the Revolution, or his wife Sarah Carter
Bonnell, ever draw a pension?  If so I should
greatly appreciate his service.

[stamp on left:] RECEIVED JAN 13 1932 RECEIPT SECTION PENSION FILES SUB-DIVISION

Sincerely
Mary D. Valentine
255 S. Forsythe St.
Franklin Ind.
(Mrs. Irwin L. Valentine)

[stamp on right:] RECEIVED JAN 13 1932 READER A[illegible] MAIL [illegible] U.S.V.S.
Page 17

January 28, 1932

BA-J/MLB

Mrs. Irwin S. Valentine
255 South Forsythe Street
Franklin, Indiana

Dear Madam:

Reference is made to your letter of January 9, relative to John Bonnell, a soldier of the Revolutionary War.

The data which follow are obtained from the papers on file in pension claim, S. 6676, of John Bonnell, based upon his military service in that war.

John Bonnell or Bonnel was born in March, 1757, in Essex County, New Jersey.

He enlisted in the early part of spring or in April, 1775, in Essex County, New Jersey, served six months as a private in Captain David Lyon's company, Lieutenant Colonel Richmon's New Jersey regiment, and was in a skirmish with the British and Indians at St. John's. On account of the hardships endured there and in marching, he was taken sick at the Isle of Knox where he
remained several weeks. He was discharged about October, 1775, and returned to his home in Chatham, Morris County, New Jersey.
In 1776 he served three tours of one month each in Captains Chandler's, Wood's and Joseph Horton's companies, Colonel
Sylvanus Seeley's New Jersey regiment, and was in the battle of Springfield. He was called out and served at other times, officers not stated, and was in the battle of Monmouth.

Soldier resided in New Jersey until 1816 when he moved to Pennsylvania.

He was allowed pension on his application executed August 27, 1833, at which time he was living in Dyberry Township, Wayne County, Pennsylvania.
Page 18

The papers in the pension claim of John Bonnell or Bonnel contain no reference to wife or children.

The above noted history is that of the only soldier named John Bonnell or Bonnel found in the Revolutionary War records of this office.

Very truly yours

A. D. HILLER
Assistant to Administrator


-2-