Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 5689, for Henry Jonce, Pennsylvania
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(3 - 1776)
SERVICE
Penn
CONTENTS
Jonce, Henry
NUMBER
R.5689
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This paper was duly authenticated
G.W.C.
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State of Pennsylvania
County of Allegheny Ss
Personally appeared before the undersigned a Justice of the peace in and for said County Henry Jonce a respectable Citizen of the County and State aforesaid who being duly sworn as law directs deposeth [deposes] and saith that the reasons why he did not apply for a pension before this time are those that he did not know untill [until] abought [about] a year or eighteen month pasts that Congress had past an Act for the relief of the surviving officers and soldiers of the Revolution embracing him in its provisions, And further that untill [until] one or two years past he was able to support himself and family by the exertions of manual labour [labor] and that since that time on account of old age and the common frailties of nature so incident to human life at such an advanced age he is not in justice to himself any longer able to procure a comfortable livelihood by his labour [labor] and further this deponent
saith not
Sworn to & subscribed before me this 20th Day of September AD 1835}
Robert Curry
Justice of the Peace

H Jonce
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State of Pennsylvania}
Allegheny County} ss
Personaly [personally] appeared before the undersigned one of the justices of the peace within and for the County of Allegheny and State of Pa, John Chambers a respectable Citizen of said County aged Eighty eight years past who being duly sworn as law direct deposeth [deposes] and saith that he is well acquainted with Henry Jonce the foreging [forgoing]
applicant for the purpose of obtaining a pension for services in the Revolutionary War, and further saith that Henry Jonce entered the service of the United States in the begining [beginning] of January 1776 under the command of Major Patten of the County of Lancaster
Pa, from which place he marched to Philadelphia from thence we march to prince, town State of Jersey and from thence to New York and from thence to Long Island to a place called Brooklin where we was in an engagement and Col Miles was taken prisoner and Col Walter Stewart took the command of Col Miles Regiment from thence we marched to the White plains where we had an engagement from thence we marched to Trenton where near
one thousand of the enemy were made prisoner and further that in the following year we was in the Battle of Brandywine & the last knoledge [knowledge] that this deponent has of his service in the Revolution was in the battle of Germantown where this deponent states he himself got wounded & left the service This deponent further states States that he is a  revolutionary soldier that he served in Capt [Captain] Martial, company attached to the regiment commanded by Cols, Miles and Stewart, and further that he is now drawing a pension under the act of Congress of the 7 June 1832 and further saith not
Sworn to and Subscribed before me this 20th Day of November 1835}
Robert Curry
Justice of the Peace
his
John X Chambers
mark
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Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of the 7d of June 1832
State of Pennsylvania}
County of Allegheny} ss
On this 19th Day of November personally appeared in open Court, before the Judges of the Court of Common pleas now setting Henry Jonce a resident of St Clair Township in the County of Allegheny and State of Pa. aged, 75 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 1st 1832
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated
Henry Jonce saith that he volunteered in the service of the United States abought [about] the first of January 1776 under the command of Captain Matthew Henry Lieut Slow at which time he resided in Deuphin [Dauphin] County Pa. from which place we marched to Carlile [Carlisle] and from thence to Markis hook where we
fell under the command of Major Patton attached to Col Miles Regiment from thence we marched to Philadelphia where the whole regiment Voluntered [Volunteered] to march thrugh [through] the diferent [different] States for the term of twenty one months from thence we marched to princetown [Princeton] State of Jersey from thence to New Yorke where we remained a short time from thence we retreated to the white plains where there was an engagement at which place we came under the command of Cols Walter Stewart from thence we marched by a Siritous rout to Chester Pa, where we remained a short time from thence we marched to Germantown where there was a severe engagement from thence we marched to valy [Valley] forge where we remained for some time from thence we marched to Harpers ferry where we remained some time from thence we marched to Little Yorke where we remained to the first of January 1778 when the time for which
he voluntered [volunteered] expired and he returned home after having served Two
years as a private without giting [getting] a discharge and that he has no
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doumentary [documentary] evidence and that he knows of no person whos [whose] 
evidence he can procure who can testify to his services accept George Settler who deposition is hereunto anext [annexed] 
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or anuity [annuity] except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension Roll of the agency of any State
H Jonce
Sworn and Subscribed the day and year aforesaid
H. H. Peterson [illegible] 
We David Harmmerer Clergyman residing in the County of Alligheny Pa, and George Bratt residing in the same hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Henry Jonce who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration, that we believe him to be 75 years of age, that he is reputed and believed in the neighbourhood [neighborhood]  where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion
David Hammerer
George Bratt
Sworn and Subscribed the day and year aforesaid
H. H. Peterson [illegible] 
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interogatorys [interrogatories] prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states and the Court further certifys [certifies] that it appears to them that [illegible]  who has signed the preceding certificate is a Clergyman resident in the County of Allegheny and that George Beaty who has also signed the same is a resident in the same, and is a credible person and that their statement is entitled to credit
H H Peterson [illegible]
I Henry H Petrsan Clerke of the Court of Common please for the County of Allegheny do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Henry Jonce for a pension 
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and Seale of said Court this 19th day of Nov. A.D. 1834
H. H. Peterson [illegible]
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Interogatorys [interrogatories]  put by the Court to Henry Jonce 
1d where and in what year were you born
aswer [answer] I was born in York County in the year 1759
2d Have you any record of age answer I have no recon of my age 3d where were you living when called into service where have you lived since the Revolutionary war and where do you now live
aswer, [answer] I lived in Dauphin County Pa, when I volunteered and after that I moved to Allegheny County Pa, where I now live
4d How were you caled [called] into service were you drafted did you Volunteer or wore you a substitute answer, I volunteered
5d State the names of Some of the regular officers who were with the troops where you served such Continental and militia regiment as you can recolets [recollect] and the General Circumstances of your services
answer Generals Washington Green and Lea Cols, Miles and Stew Major Patton wore officers whom I served with
6d Did you ever receive a discharge from the Servas [service] 
Answer I never received a discharge
7 State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighbourhood [neighborhood] and who can testify as to your character for veracity and their belief of your services as a soldier of the Revolution
Answer John Willson Jacob Flours Robt Williamson John Braddy and the Revend [reverend]  Wm Brown and the [illegible] and others
H Jonce
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Allegheny County in the Commonwealth of Pa,
personaly [personally] appeared in open Court George Settler a respectable
sitizen [citizen] of St Clair Township Allegheny County aged 76 years who being duly sworn saith that he is well acquainted with Henry Jonce who has sworn and subscribed the forgoing declarition [declaration] and further states that he volunteered in the same company and under the same officers and served for the term of Two, years in the Revolutionary war with Henry Jonce during which time he served faithfully as a soldier and further saith not
George Settler
Sworn and subscribed this 19th Day of Nov 1834
H. H. Peterson [illegible]
Henry Jonce
Pennsyla [Pennsylvania]
H Jonce
5689
[illegible]
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[Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 8, 1873. crossed out]
5689.
P. O. 
Henry Jonce
Service:
REJECTED
Enlisted: , 18
Discharged: , 18
Application filed: , 18
Alleges:
Re-enlisted:
Attorney:
P. O. 
Recognized.  Contract.
Cert. of Dis. Searched for , 18
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Henry Jonce
[illegible crossed out] 
[illegible] date of  See letter
Lett E Simpson 5 Dec '35
E. Simpson Pittsburgh
21. March 1835
do 28 July 35 to J. M. Harger
Let: 5 Oct 39 Hon. R. Biddle
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Free
J L Edwards Esqr [Esquire]
Pension Agent
Washington City
Mar 7
[Mar 5 in round stamp, parts illegible]

Pa [illegible]
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Pittsburg March 4th 1835
Dr Sir
I enclose you the application of H Jonce for the benefit of the late law concerning
[illegible] - The application was drawn up in the County which will account for the [illegible] I sometime ago [illegible] you the application of George Little Bot have never received a answer I would be glad to hear from you as soon as convenient
Yours respect[illegible]
E Simpson
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H Biddle
H. of R.
FREE
J L. Edwards Esq.
Com. of Pensions
City of Washington
Oct 5.
[illegible] Pa.
[Pittsburgh Pa. Oct 1 in round stamp]
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Pittsburgh 30 Sept 1839
Sir
Henry Jonce, a respectable citizen of this District, represents to me that he forwarded some time ago an application for a Pension for Revolutionary services. The services of Jonce were established, as he states to me, by the testimony of John Chambers who served in the same Regiment and who received a Pension.
Will you be good enough to let me know whether the application is before you and what obstacles exist to its allowance?
Very respectfully
R Biddle
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Suplamentary [Supplementary] Declaration of Henry Jonce to obtain a pension, by virtue of the act of Congress passed June the 7th. A. D. 1832. ~
Personally appeared before the undersigned a Justice of the Peace within and for the County of Allegheny and State of Pennsylvania, Henry Jonce a citizen of the County and State aforesaid, who after being duly sworn according to Law doth depose and say, that by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory; he cannot give a full and general detail of the events which occurred during the two years, which he served as a private soldier in the Revolutionary War. But to the best of his recollection he served not less than two years, commencing in the begining [beginning] of the year A.D. 1776 under the command of Captain Matthew Henry, from the County of Dauphin Pa. for the term of three months as a private, from which place we marched to Philadelphia, where we fell under the command of Major Patton attached to Colonel Mills Regiment, at which place we remained some time, during which stay my time expired after having served three months.
Colonel Miles made a motion to the whole regiment to volunteer or engage to serve for the term of twenty one months, and to march through the different
States, which motion was unanimously carried. this was in the begining [beginning] of April 1776, from which place we marched to Princeton in the Jersies, [Jerseys]  from thence to New York and from thence to Long Island, to a place called Brooklyn, where we had a severe engagement, at which place Colonel Miles and taken prisoner and Colonel Walter Stuart took the command of Colonel Miles Regiment, from thence we retreated by order of General Washington, to New York, and from thence to [illegible] bridge & which place we had a small engagement from thence we marched to the White Plains at
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which place we had an engagement from thence we marched by a circuitous rout to Brunswick, at which place General Washington made a stand and a feint attempt to attack the Brittish, [British] from thence we marched out of Jersey over the river Delaware into Pennsylvania about the 1st of December from thence we crossed back into the Jersey side on Christmas night and surprised Trenton and after a sharp action took near one thousand men prisoners, after the engagement we remained some time viewing the movement of the enemy, from thence we marched by a circuitous rout to Princeton, at which place the regiment to which I belonged was charged by the Brittish [British] & forced to give way from thence we marched to Morristown in the begining [beginning] of the year 1777. at which place we went into winter quarters, where we remained until the month of May following, from thence we marched and counter marched through the Country until we made a stand at Chads ford on the Brandywine, at which place we had a very severe engagement, and General Washington was obliged to retreat to Chester, at which place we made a stand with an intention of meeting the enemy, when General Washington was disappointed by a tremendous fall of rain that ruined the amunition [ammunition] from thence we marched to Germantown, where we had a very severe  engagement & was obliged to retreat & General Washington then stationed a great number of his troops on the River Delaware, to prevent the Brittish [British] from opening the navigation of that river, from thence General Washington and his army retired into winter quarters at Valley Forge the last of December 1777. And in the begining [beginning] of January 1778. he was discharged, after having served two years as a private for which said services he now claims a pension, and further than any deficient that
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may be in this suplame[illegible covered] Declaration is owing to old age and loss of memory H Jonce
Sworn to and subscribed before me this Twentieth day of July A.D. 1835.}
Robert Curry
Justice of the Peace,

Allegheny County, SS.
The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
Personally appeared before the undersigned a Justice of the peace within and for the County and State aforesaid George Littler, a respectable citizen of Allegheny County aged 76 years past who after being duly Sworn according to Law doth depose and say that he is personally and well acquainted with
Henry Jonce, who has sworn to and subscribed the foregoing supplementary Declaration for the purpose of obtaining a pension for his services in the Revolutionary  War And further states that Henry Jonce entered the service of the United States in the beginning of the year 1776 under the command of Captain Matthew Henry from the County of Dauphin and State of Pa. from thence he marched to Philadelphia where he fell under the command of Major Patton attached to Colonel Miles Regiment, and further States that he served in the same company and under the same officers with Henry Jonce from the 1st of January 1776 to the 1st of January 1778. at which time we ware both discharged, during which time Henry Jonce served faithfully as a soldier
George Setler
Sworn to and subscribed before me this Twentieth day of July A.D. 1835.
Robert Curry
Justice of the Peace
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Allegheny County SS.}
State of Pennsylvania}
I H. H. Peterson Prothonotary of the Courts of Common Pleas in and for the County of Allegheny in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania do by these present certify that Robert Curry Esquire before whom the foregoing suplamentary [supplementary] Declaration was taken, and who has thereunto in his own proper hand writing
subscribed his name, was at the time of taking such suplamentary [supplementary] Declaration and now is a acting Justice of the Peace, in and for said County duly commissioned and sworn to all whose acts, to such due faith and credit are and of right ought to be given throughout the United States, and elsewhere. 
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said
Court at Pittsburgh in the said County this twenty Second -- day of July In the year
of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred & thirty five and of the Sovereignty and independence of the United States of America the Sixtieth
H. H. Peterson Pro
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State of Pennsylvania
Alleghany County ss
Personally appeared before the undersigned one of the Justices of the peace in and for the County of Allegheny James Dixon a respectable Citizen of the County of Washington Pa, aged 76 years past who being duly sworn as law
direct deposeth [deposes] and saith that he is personally and well acquainted with Henry Jonce who is an applicant for purpose of obtaining a pension for services in the Revolutionary War Saith that he lived a near neighbour [neighbor] to Henry Jonce in the County of Dauphin Pa. in the year 1776 and that [illegible, torn] Henry Jonce entered in the service of the United State in the begining [beginning] of January 1776 under the command of Captain Mathew Henry of the County of Dauphin from which place he marched to Philadelphia where he fell under the command of Col Miles and further this deponent Saith that Henry Jonce returned back to Dauphin County in the begining [beginning] of the year 1778 at which time this deponent under stood that Henry Jonce had been in the service of his country as a private Soldier for the term of two years and further this deponent saith not
Sworn to and subscribed this 24 day of June AD 1835
[illegible] M. Murray
his
James X Dixon
Mark
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Allegheny County SS
State of Pennsylvania. 
I, H. H. Peterson Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Allegheny in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania do by these presence certify that Mag [illegible] M. Murray Esquire before whom the foregoing deposition was taken, and who has thereunto in his own proper hand writing subscribed his name, was at the time of taking such a deposition and now is an Alderman in & for the City of Pittsburgh with the powers of an acting Justice of the peace in & for said County duly commissioned & sworn, to all whose acts as such due faith & credit are, and of right ought to be given, throughout the United States, and elsewhere. 
[folded paper with ribbon on left margin]
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court at Pitburgh [Pittsburgh] in the said County this twenty second day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & thirty five and of the Sovereignty & independence of the United States of America the Sixtieth
Attest
H. H. Peterson Pro
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Free
To
J. L. Edwards Esqr [Esquire]
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City
D. C.
July 27
Pa --
[Pittsbu July 28 illegible in round stamp]
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The within contains, the supplementary Declaration of Henry Jonce, the original declaration was sent on some time last fall or winter & it appears by your Letter that it was filed with many other suspended cases of the same kind in the office,
You will pleas address John M. Harger-
Pittsburgh Pa,
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Free
J. L. Edwards Esqr [Esquire]
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City
Nov 30 
Pa --
Henry Jonce
[Pittsburgh PA Nov 24 in round stamp]
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Pittsburg Nov 24th 1835
Dr Sir
I enclose you the supplemental [illegible] of Henry Jonce to obtain a Pens. 
Yours resptf [respectfully]
[illegible] Simpson