Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 38821, Jonathan Heath, Continental N.H.
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Continental  N.H.  Heath, Jonathan S. 38821
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12975 R
VERMONT
Jonathan Heath of Troy in the State of Vermont
who was a Lieutenant in the regiment commanded by Colonel Poor of New Hampshire
line for the term of 1 year 1776-
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Subscribed on the Roll of Vermont at the rate of 20 Dollars per month, to commence on
the 11 of May 1818
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Certificate of Pension issued the 28 of July 1819
and sent to Time  of Stanley Greensburg. Vermont.
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arrears to 4th of Mar 1819.                 197.19
Semi-anl, all'ce ending 4 Sept. 19.     120.00
1 25/35                                                    336.12

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

25/31- 16.12
            180
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           196.12
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d Aug 10 1826
D. Aug 10 1826
Draft sent to Ira H Allen Esq  22 June 1826
Prasburgh, VT
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Jonathan Heath
Lieut & Col Poors Regt  New Hampshire line 1775 year & 5 months

May 11th 1818
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Further evidence of service
wanting 7 May 1819
Adm.
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I Jonathan Heath, resident citizen of the U. States, in the town of Troy, County of Orleans & State of Vermont, of the age of seventy-six years, do declare & testify. That I entered the revolutionary Army of the U. States in the first campaign, before Boston, in 1775, with the commission of Ensign in the company of Capt Jeremiah Clough in the regiment of Colonel
Enoch Poor in the Troops of New Hampshire, the time of my entering was immediately after the Battle of Bunker Hill, on or about the 20th of
June, in said year. At the close of this Campaign, I entered immediately without leaving the service, for the year 1776, & on the evacuation of Boston, we marched to N. York, & from thence to Canada, by the way of Ticonderoga. I was now in the same company & Regiment as above mentioned, & in this campaign I served with the commission of
Lieutenant. both of which commissions have been destroyed & last by accident. In this campaign I served through it, to the last of November. So that in the whole, I was in the service a little more than seventeen months.
And I further declare that I am educed
circumstances & stand in need of the assistance of my country for support.
                                            Jona Heath
State of Vermont
Orleans County & Greensboro May 11th 1818 Personally appeared the above named Jonathan Heath and being duly cautioned made solemn oath that the foregoing declaration contained the truth and nothing but the truth before me. Tim Stanley Judge of Orleans County Court

And I hereby certify that the said Jonathan Heath has produced satisfactory proof that he served in the revolutionary war against the common enemy as state in his declaration and that he is in reduced circumstances and needs the assistance of his country for support and I submitted the testimony and proceedings taken in this case to the authority of the department of War.
Tim Stanley Judge of Orleans County Court

# He did not enter the soon as an Ensign but had In commission for the close of County Court the first campaign being quite deaf did not understand it being red in that way.
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State of Vermont}
Orleans County ss}

I certify that the Hon Timothy Stanley
is an assistant Judge of Orleans County Court
and that the foregoing signature is his
Att Ira H Allen Clerk & Notary Public

Jonathan Heath Lieut. & Col. Poor Regt,  
New Hampshire line 1775 years & 5 months
May 11th 1818

Further evidence of service wanting 7 May
1819

Adm
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November 11, 1937
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Jonathan Heath, S. 38821
BA-J/CS

Miss Thelma Loper
Box 521
Greenwood, Mississippi

Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your request for information relative to Major General William Heath and Jonathan, Nathaniel and Peleg Heath
who served as officers in the Revolutionary War.

Because of the great demand for Revolutionary War data and the limited clerical force available for furnishing such information, it is impossible to comply in full with each request pertaining to soldiers of this war.

The record of Jonathan Heath is furnished you herein, as found in papers on file in pension claim, S.38821, based upon his service in the Revolutionary War.

The date and place of his birth and the names of his parents were not given.

Jonathan Heath entered the service, place not stated, about the 20th of June, 1775, and served as sergeant, ensign and lieutenant
in Captain Jeremiah Clough's company in Colonel Enoch Poor's New Hampshire regiment until sometime in November or December, 1776.

He was allowed pension on his application executed May 11, 1818, at which time he was seventy-six years of age and was living in Troy,
Orleans County, Vermont.

In 1819 he stated that he lived occasionally in Walden, Caledonia County, Vermont, and Troy, Vermont, with his children but he did not give
the names of his children nor that of his wife.

Jonathan Heath died August 10, 1826.

                                                      Very truly yours
                                                        A. D. HILLER
                                                 Executive Assistant
                                                 to the Administrator
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38821
INVALID. Revy
File No. 38821
Jonathan Heath
Lieut  Rev. War
Act: 18th  March 18th
Index: -- Vol. 3   Page 221

{Arrangement of 1870.}

1906 March 8. history to Wm Baxter, this Sen. W. P. Dillingham
1914. Dec. 2: history to Miss.
Carrie E. Deavett M. B. H.
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1937 Nov. 11. Hist to this Thelma Loper
M.D.
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Mr. Jacob Garland Deposition
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Westfield June 11 1819

I Jacob Garland of Troy County of Orleans
and State of Vermont of lawful age do testify
and say that I am well acquainted with one
Jonathan Heath of Walden County Caledon
and State of Vermont and that I was with him
in the revolutionary war that he served with
me in the New New Hampshire establishment
1775 eight months as sergeant and in the year
1776 said Heath served and did the duty of one
Ensign and Lieut for one year said Heath served
in the Company of Capt & Clough Col Peirs
regiment in 1775 and 1776 and further the deponent saith not
                                                Jacob Garland
                                               
State of Vermont}
Orleans. ss}
Westfield June 11 1819 then personally appeared Jacob Garland and after being carefully examined and duly cautioned made solemn oath that the foregoing deposition by him subscribed contained the truth and nothing but the truth before me He lives occasionally with his children in Walden & Tory 
Timothy Stanley Justice of the Peace

State of Vermont}
Orleans County ss} Green July 8th 1819
I hereby certify that I am well acquainted with
Jacob Garland the above deponent and consider him a man of truth and veracity and disinterested witness in this case. I also certify
that Thomas Hitchcock Esqr of Westfield is a
Justice of the Peace in this County & is 
authorized to administer oaths, by the laws of this State in such cases & that then his hand writing
Timothy Stanley Judge of Orleans. Esq
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Jonathan Heath, declaration
Troy, Orleans County Vermont

12975 
Con  
I. L. E.
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District of Vermont ss. at Trasburgh in the County of Orleans on the 4th day of January 1821 personally appeared in open court being a court of record for said County & District made such by the law of the State having a
jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount and have in the power of imprisonment & fine, Jonathan Heath aged seventy nine years now
resident in Iray in said district and County who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary war as follows, that he enlisted into the company of Capt Jeremiah Duff in the Regiment commanded by Col Enoch Poor in the year 1775 in the New Hampshire line of Troops and served six months as a serjeant was then advanced to a Lieutenancy in the same Company and Regiment in 1776 and served one year and was honorably discharged at Ticonderoga as by his declaration made on the 17th day of May 1818 by reason of which he obtained a pension certificate dated at the war office of the United States 28th day of July 1819 numbered 12, 975 will more fully appear-- and I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March 1818 and that I have not since that time by gift sale or in any manner disposed of my property or any part thereof with intent thereby so to diminish it as to him & 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,
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 one cow and calf appraised at $1,00. I am by occupation a farmer and unable to persue the pensions no family but myself.

Jonathan Heath Sworn to and declared on the 4 day of January AD. 1821.
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William Howe Judge
I Ira H Allen Clerk of Orleans County Court do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and the schedule thereto annexed an truly copied from the words of the said Court. And I do further certify that it is the opinion of the said Court, that the total amount in value
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of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is sixteen-----dollars.
.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court on this day of
Ira H Allen Clerk of the Court
of the County of Orleans
.
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Capt. Frifield Lyford
Deposition
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I Frifield Lyford of Cabot in the County of
Caledonia and State of Vermont testify and
say that I enlisted into the continental
service near the close of the year 1775 & joined the Army at Winter in Capt Jeremiah Cloughs Company in Col. Enoch Poors regiment for one year that Lieut Jonathan Heath of Troy in the County of Orleans was at that time an Ensign
in the same company and before the end of the campaign was promoted to a Lieutenancy that I was well acquitted with Lieutenant Heath and know that he continued in the service till the time of enlistment had expired my Father Thomas Lyford was a hire in the same company and I did duly waiter for him through the year and further the deponent saith not
                                           Frifield Lyford

State of Vermont}
Orleans County ss}
Greensboro June 18th 1819 Personally
appeared Frifield Lyford signer of the above
deposition and made solemn oath that the
same contained the truth and nothing
but the truth before me
Timothy Stanley Judge of Orleans County Court

I hereby certify that the above named Frifield
Lyford is considered a man of truth and veracity  is a disinterested witness in this case 
Timothy Stanley Judge of Orleans County Court
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Hon. P Dillingham d.s.s.


O.W. & N. DIV.
MAR 190 FILES
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Rolox 238 Chilag 2/5=1909-
Hon. William P. Dillingham

Dear Sir.
Can you secure and send me the record of Joshua Foss and Lieut. Jonathan Heath who are mentioned as Revolutionary War Pensioner from Orleans County, Vermont. 
Respectfully Wm Portus Barter
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OFFICE OF FIRST DEPUTY COMMISSIONER.

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR.
BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
WASHINGTON,

MAR 7 19061 FILES
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Mr. Bryant
Chief, Old War and Navy Division: 
MAR 6 1905 FIRST DEPUTY COMMISSIONER

In the three cases mentioned in the letters herewith please have such information as your records contain sent by letter to Hon. W. P. Dillingham, U. S. Senate,

J. L.Davenport
First Deputy Commissioner.
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Nov. 25, 1914
Commissioner of Pensions

Dear Sir
Will you please send me a copy of
the Revolutionary service
of Lieut. Jonathan Heath a pensioner for service in New Hampshire. He lived for
time in Cabot Vermont.

Yours truly,
(Miss) Carrie E. Deavitt
11 Baldwin St.
Montpelier Vermont
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Greenwood, Miss.
October 18, 1937

Department of the Interior,
Pension Bureau.
Washington, D. C.

Gentlemen:
I have been advised to write you to substantiate
a family claim dealing with William Heath, major-general in the American Revolution, who was born in 1737 and died 1814, living in Roxbury, Mass.
Would it be possible for you to send me a copy of his family history, descendants, etc.? I
also need data concerning Jonathan Heath, of
New Hampshire; Nathaniel Heath, of New York;
Peleg heath, of Rhode Island; all officers in
the Revolution.

Thanking you for your consideration, I am
Yours very truly,
Thelma Loper
Miss Thelma Loper,
Box 521
Greenwood, Miss.

Received Oct. 21, 1937
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REVOLUTIONARY WAR RECORDS SECTION.
3 -- 525
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR.
BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
Washington, D. C.,............................19

In reply to your request of...........received.......or a statement of the military history of Jonathan Heath, a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau. S. 38821.
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DATES OF                   LENGTH OF SERVICE.                                                                            
ENLISTMENT OR
APPOINTMENT.
June 20 1775.                 8 MOS
Jan. 1, 1776                     1 year

RANK.
Sgt.
Ems. Lt.
OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED.
CAPTAIN.
Jeremiah Clough
Jeremiah Clough

COLONEL.
Enoch Poor.
Ench Poor

STATE.
N.H.

Battles engaged in, none stated............
Residence of soldier at enlistment,... Not stated....Date of application for pension,... 
May 11. 1818. His claim was allowed...........
Residence at date of application,...... Troy, Orland Co. Vt...........
Age at date of application,.... 76 year.....
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Remarks: in 1819 & he stated that he lived occasionally in Walden, Caledonia
Co. Vt. and Troy Vt with his children, names not stated. He died Aug 10. 1826. A.D.
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Respectfully,
Commissioner.
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L. M. H.                               March 8, 1906.
Hon. William P. Dillingham
United Senate
Washington, D.C.

My dear Senator:
In response to your inquiry and the letter of Mr. William Portus Baxter, P. O. Box 238, Chicago, Illinois, dated February 2, 1906 and received March 7, 1906, requesting the military histories of Jonathan Heath and Joshua Foss, soldiers
of the Revolutionary War, I have the honor to advise you that the papers in claim, Surv. File No. 38821, show that Jonathan Heath enlisted June 20, 1775 and served until November 1776,
as Sergeant, Ensign and Lieutenant in Capt. Jeremiah Clough's Co., Col. Enoch Poor's Regt., New Hampshire line. His pension was allowed on an application executed May 11, 1818, at which date he was a resident of Troy, Orleans Co., Vermont, and seventy-six years of age. He died August 10, 1826.

A careful search of the records of this Bureau fails to show that a claim was filed on account of the service of Joshua Foss, Revolutionary War.

Very respectfully,
Commissioner.