Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 43298, Jonas Whiting, Mass.
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(3-1776)
SERVICE
Mass.

Whiting, Jonas
NUMBER
S.43298
CONTENTS
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New York
17,557 R
Jonas Whiting
at Penfield in the state of New York who was a Sergeant in the regiment commanded by Col. Henley of the Massachusetts line for the term of Three years.

Inscribed on the Roll of New York 
at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on 26 of April 1818

Certificate of Pension issued the 20 of June 1820
and sent to Stephen Phelps Esq.
Canandaigua Newyork

Arrears to 4th March 1820   $177.83
Semi-anl-all'ce ending 4 Sept. 1820  48.
$225.83

22 3/30 6/31

{Revolutionary claim,}
{Act 18th March, 1818}

Cont.
notif. sent Dec. 15th 1820
Stephen Phelps
Canandaigua, N.Y.

died Jan. 15, 1830
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Adm.
This may
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Jonas Whiting
Col. Henley's Regt.
Line

Time of entering service in the above Regt. must be stated with declaration.
Also the Line must be stated

H.W. McNair
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State of Newyork
Ontario County SS 
On the twenty seventh day of April one thousand eight hundred & eighteen before me William Rogers one of the Judges of the Court of Common pleas in and for the county and state aforesaid Personally appears Jonas Whiting aged sixty three years a resident in the town of Penfield, County of Ontario & state of Newyork, who being by me first duly sworn according to Law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the late 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. That the said Jonas Whiting enlisted in the Company commanded by Captain Peter Colburn, Colonel Ebenezer Briggs commanded the Regiment in the town of Cambridge in the state of Massachusetts in the month of of April 1775. Continued to serve in that corps untill the latter part of December following and was discharged from service in the town of Cambridge in the state of Massachusetts. also in the town of Dracutt in the County of Middlesex and state of Massachusetts enlisted in the company company commanded by Captain Joseph Fox as a Sergeant Colonel David Henley commanded the Regiment untill the command was transfered to Colonel Henry Jackson and continued to serve in said Corps untill the first day of June 1780, when he was discharged from service at Ramapo in the state of New Jersey was in the Battle at Bunder Hill and at Springfield in New Jersey and that he is in reduced circumstances and stands in need of the assistance of his country for support and that he has no other evidence now in his power of his said services.
Jonas Whiting
Sworn to declared and subscribed this 27th day of April 1818 before me
Wm. Rogers
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State of Newyork
Ontario County SS
This may certify that Jonas Whiting described in the above declaration now appears before me William Rogers a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in & for the County & state aforesaid and solemnly swears that he entered service commanded by the above mentioned officers to wit, Captn. Joseph Fox, Colnl. David Henley commanded the Regiment on the first day of June 1777 in the Town of Dracutt State of Massachusetts untill the command was transfered to Col. Henry Jackson in the Massachusetts line & served as above stated & discharged accordingly.
Jonas Whiting
declared and subscribed this 23d day of April 1819 before me 
Wm. Rogers

State of Newyork
Ontario County SS
Clerks Office  
In testimony that William Rogers whose name is subscribed to the foregoing certificate was on the day of the date of the same one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the county of Ontario and that the same is his signature. I hereunto subscribe my name and affix the County Seal at Canandaigua this 28th day of April A. D. 1819
H.W. McNair clk
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State of Newyork
Ontario County SS   W William Rogers one of the Judges of the Court of Common pleas in and for the County & state state aforesaid
do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said or within named Jonas Whiting did serve in the revolutionary war on the Continental Establishment against the common enemy for the term of nine months and I am pursuaded from good information other than his own oath that he is in reduced circumstances and absolutely stands in need of the assistance of his country for support 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 aforementioned act of Congress.
Palmyra April 27th 1818
Wm Rogers

State of New York
Ontario County SS
Clerks Office
In testimony that William Rogers whose name is subscribed to the foregoing certificates was on the day of the date of the same one of the Judges of the Court of Common pleas in and for the county of Ontario and that the same is his signature. I hereunto subscribe my name and affix the Seal of said County at Canandaigua this 24th day of June a. D. 1818
H.W. McNair clk
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Case of
Jonas Whiting
17.557
Penfield
Ontario Ss
'20
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State of New York
Ontario County, ss
On this 11th day of November 1820 personally appeared in open Court, (being a Court of Common Pleas in and for said county, and constituted a Court of Record by proceeding according to the course of the Common Law, with jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount, and keeping a record of its proceedings, and recognized as such Court by the laws and judicial decisions of said State,) Jonas Whiting aged sixty five years, resident in the town of Penfield in said county, who, being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath declare, the he served in the Revolutionary War as follows:
That he enlisted in June 1777 in Captain Joseph Fox's company in the regiment of Colonel David Henley commanded by Col. Henry Jackson Massachusetts Line, where he served three years and was honorably discharged in June 1780.
and that he made application for a Pension on the 26th day of April 1818 and that he received a Pension Certificate, No. 17557 And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the eighteenth ay of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and that I have not since that time, by gift, sale or any manner, disposed of my property, or any part thereof, with intent thereby 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 I any income other than what is contained in the Schedule hereto annexed, and by me subscribed, viz.
one coe #14-one low & four high #7   21.00
three sheep and three lambs #6             6.00
one low chest #1= one old trunk .75      1.75
one iron  pot #1- 2 sm. kettles #1.75      2.75
six old chairs #1.50-1 pr iron dogs #2     3.50
sundry articles of kitchen furniture      4.00
Jonas Whiting              #39.00
And I further swear and declare that I am by occupation a shoemaker, but that owing to bodily infirmities I am not able to labor much, and that my family consists of my wife aged sixty years and very infirm. 
Jonas Whiting
Sworn to and declared in open court this 11th day of November 1820 before me 
Moses Atwater
a Judge of Ontario Com. Pleas
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ONTARIO COUNTY, ss.
John Van Fossen Clerk of said county, do hereby certify,
that the foregoing Oath, and the Schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the
Record of the said Court; and I further certify, that it is the opinion of the said Court;
that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid Schedule, is thirty nine dollars and ---cents
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court,
on this 14 day of November
1820
J Van Fossen Clerk of the Court aforesaid, in and for said County.
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11.97 Rev
New Hampshire
This should have been made to N. York agency (MHF) [pointing to New Hampshire]
New Hampshire
Jonas Whiting
of Penfield in the State of N. Hampshire
who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Henley of the [indecipherable]
line, for the term of three years
___________

inscribed on the Roll of New Hampshire
at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on
the 27th of April, 1818.
_______________
Certificate of Pension issued the 15th of June
and sent to Levi Woodbury Esq
Amherst NH
_________________
Arrears to 4th of Mar 1819round    $82.13
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4 Sept 1819 48.00
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                                                      $130.13
Revolutionary claim,
Act 18th March, 1818.
File Mch 19
See letter to L. Wood-
bury, 18 May 1825
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43311
INVALID.
Revy
---
File No. 43.311

Jonas Whiting
Pri Rev War
---
Act: 18 March 18
Index: - Vol. I Page 560
Arrangement of 1870.
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application dated Apr. 27, 1818 this statement Apr 23, 1819
His ctf. jacket erroneously made out N.H., his old
ctf. surrendered Apr. 14, 1843 by Mr. Woodbury & the latters letter dated Apr. 14, 1843, all with this jacket,
which were filed under this File  no. S.43311
were consolidated or placed with claim S.43298
(the same man)
(June 15-1931) MNSF)
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43298
INVALID.
Revy
---
File No. 43.296
Jonas Whiting
Serg Rev War
---
Act: 18 March 18
Index:- Vol. 3 Page 560
Arrangement of 1870.
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18 1843
[stamp] PORTSMOUTH N.H
APR 15
Apl 18 1843
Free
Levi Woodbury
N.H.W. 1818
Jonas Whiting
J. L. Edwards Esq
Pension Office
Washington
D.C.
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Mr. Woodbury's respects to Mr. Edwards
and finding the enclosed anyhis
his papers returns it to the Pensions
Deptmt where it probably belongs

Attn, N.H.
14th Ap. 1843
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Jonas Whiting
Payable semi-annually. The first
payment on this Certificate will be
made on the 4th of September
next in Portsmouth, at the
Branch Banks

Sent to Secty of War May 12, 1825
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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 Whiting late
a private
in the Army of the Revolution, is inscribed
on the Pension List, Roll of the New Hampshire
Agency, at the rate of Eight
dollars per month, to commence
on the twenty seventh day of April, one thousand
eight hundred and eighteen
GIVEN at the War Office of the United States, this fifteenth day of June
one thousand eight
hundred and nineteen
J. L. Edwards
in the absence and on behalf
of the Secretary of War
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Jonas Whiting
Declaration
first declaration
made April 26, 1818
On rolls
Adm d
20 June 1820
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State of New York
Ontario County SS
On this sixteenth day of May 1820 before me the subscriber one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas for said County personally appeared Jonas Whiting aged sixty four years Resident in the Town of Penfield in the County of Ontario who being by me first duly sworn doth on his oath make the following declaration in Order to Obtain the Provision made by the late Act of Congress entitled An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the Land & Naval Service of the United States in the Revolutionary War. That he the said Jonas Whiting enlisted the first day of June 1777 in the Town of Dracut in the County of Middlesex in the State of Massachusetts in the company commanded by Captain Joseph Fox in the Regiment commanded by Col. David Hanley in the Massachusetts line for term of three years and was soon after incorporated of just under the command of Col. Henry Jackson and that he continued to serve in said Corps and did the duty of a quartermaster Sergeant until the first day of June 1780 when he received an honorable discharge from service at a place called Ramapo in the State of New Jersey and that he was in the Battle of Springfield in the of New Jersey and that he is in reduced circumstances and stands in need of the assistance of his country for support and that having lost his discharge he has no other evidence now in his power of his said services.
Saaid Jonas Whiting also declares on his oath that on or about the twenty sixth day of \April 1818 he made application for a Pension as above before me the subscriber which said application was forwarded to the Secretary of War and that he the said Jonas Whiting lost the said application after it was returned from the war office with an objection on the back written with  red ink that the day of his enlistment and the line he served in must be listed
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and that he made oath to the time of enlistment at the time he saw the Return 
Sworn to and declared before me the day and year before said
Jonas Whiting
Sworn & subscribed this sixteenth day of May 1820 Before me
Wm. Rogers one of the Judges of the Court
of Common Pleas in & for the County of Ontario

Ontario County SS
I William Rogers a Judge of Ontario Common pleas as aforesaid do certify that Jonas Whiting did serve in the Revolutionary war as stated in the preceding declaration against the common enemy for the term of three years on the Continental Establishment and that he is in reduced circumstances and stands in need of the assistance of his country for support and that he the said Jonas Whiting made application for a Pension before him the said William Rogers on or about the 26th day of April 1818 as stated by him in the aforesaid declaration and that to the best of his knowledge & belief after the objection was complied with by the applicant he mailed the same for the War department and received no return until he wrote to the said war department and received an answer that the said application had not been again received and I now transmit the proceedings & testimony taken and had before me to the Secretary for the department of War pursuant to the directions of the aforementioned act of Congress.
May 16th 1820  Wm.. Rogers one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in & for the County of Ontario
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The Secretary of War will please to direct the Returns to Stephen Phelps Esq. of Canandaigua

State of New York
Ontario County SS
Clerks Office
In testimony that William Rogers whose name is subscribed to the foregoing declaration was on the day of the date thereof one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Ontario and that the same is his signature. I hereunto subscribe my name and affix the County Seal at Canandaigua this 10 day of June 1820.
John Van Fossen Clk