Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W 20186, for Timothy Jones, Connecticut
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SERVICE
Conn.
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Jones, Timothy
Lydia
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NUMBER
W 20186
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CONTENTS
res at enl.[resides at enlistment] Cheshire, New Haven Co.  Conn
res also Plymouth Litchfield Co Conn
died July 25, 1870 in Litchfield Co, Conn
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Connecticut- 3,642
Lydia Jones
[wi]dow of Timothy Jones, Conn.
who was a pensioner under the Act of
and who died on the 25 July 1810.
of Litchfield in the State of Connecticut
who was a Pr. in the Company commanded by
Captain Arnold of the Regt. commanded by 
Wooster in the Connecticut line for 8 mos.
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Inscribed on the Roll of Connecticut
at the rate of 26 Dollars 66- Cents per annum,
commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.
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Certificate of Pension issued the 29th day of July
39, and sent [illegible] Calvin Butler, Plymouth, Conn. 
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Arrears to the 4th of Mar.-              $79.98
Semi-annual allowance ending        13.33
                                                        $93.31
{Act July 7, 1838.}

Recorded by R Burdine Clerk,
Book A  Vol. 1  Page 189.
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State of Connecticut
County of Litchfield
On this 13th day of May A.D. 1839,
personally appeared in open Court
before the Court of Probate for the District of
Plymouth, in the County aforesaid, Lydia
Jones, a resident of Plymouth in said County
and State aged seventy eight years, who being first
duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath,
make the following declaration in order to obtain
the benefit of the provisions made by the act of
Congress passed July 7th 1838, entitled "An act
granting half pay and pensions to certain
widows", that she is the widow of Timothy
Jones who was a private soldier in the army
of the Revolution and then a resident of Cheshire
in the County of Newhaven and State of Connecticut, 
but afterward, a resident of Plymouth saith 
that her late husband the said Timothy Jones 
entered the service of the United States about the
twenty fifth day of April A.D. 1775, being enlisted
as a military soldier into a company of State troops of the State of
Connecticut commanded by Capt Arnold
in a regiment commanded by Gen Wooster
That he marched from Cheshire aforesaid where 
he then resided to Canada and was at the
taking of St Johns in Canada and remained
there as one of the guard untill November
1775 and was discharged on the 25th day of
said November, that at this time; he performed
seven months service as a private, which the
[illegible] by the affidavit of Reuben Dorchester
and a certificate from the Comptroller of this
State which accompany this application
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That he again entered the service of
the United States as a private being drafted in a
company of Militia in the month of August
A.D. 1776, and marched from Cheshire aforesaid
where he then resided, to the City of New York in
the State of N. York and then served one
month as she verily believes. The Company
to which the said Timothy Jones belonged,
at this time, and in which he served, was
under the command of Capt Ephraim Cook
Lieut. Munson Marian & Ensign John Brock
and the regt under Colonel Baldwin, the Major
of the Regt. being [illegible]. Capt Cook served as
Major. He has no written discharge, nor any
Documentary evidence of this service, but can
prove the same by the Deposition of Samuel
Tallmadge, which will accompany this application
She cannot state the precise time when he entered
or left the service at this time but is very confident 
he performed a month served as a private and 
for that claims a pension.

She further declares that he was married to
the said Timothy Jones on the 8th day of April, in
the year seventeen hundred and seventy nine and
that her husband, the aforesaid Timothy Jones and
on the 25th day of July A.D. 1810 That he was not
married to him prior to his leaving the service but
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the marriage took place previous to the first
day of January seventeen hundred and ninety
four, viz: at the time above stated
Sworn and subscribed on the day and year above
written before the said Court of Probate
Lydia Jones [signature]

"Timothy Jones and Lydia Ives were married
April eighth seventeen hundred seventy nine"
"Brother in the family"
"Timothy Johns died July twenty fifth eighteen
hundred and ten"
I hereby certify that the above is a true copy
of the record in in this office, with the exception
of the date, which is expressed on the record in
the fair legible figures as follows (April 8th) eighth
1779 seventeen hundred seventy nine and July
25th (twenty fifth), 1810. (eighteen hundred ten)
Attest Calvin Butler Town Clerk

State of Connecticut
Litchfield County ⎬
I, Calvin Butler above named depose and say
that I hold the office of Town Clerk in the County town
and State aforesaid, and that the above is a true extract
from the Records of said Town, with the exception above
named as certified by me
Calvin Butler town Clerk
Sworn and scribed the day and year aforesaid before
said Court of Probate
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And on the same day before the same Court
personally appeared Lewis Bradley a resident
of said Plymouth will known to this Court to be a
person of credit for truth and veracity, who being
duly sworn according to law doth on his oath upon
and say that he is well acquainted with the above
named Lydia Jones and has been ever since the
death of her said husband, and knows her to
be the widow of the aforesaid Timothy Jones and that
since his death she has not been married, but
will remains his widow
Lewis Bradley
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid before
the said Court of Probate

I Egbert T. Buller Clerk of the Court of
Probate for the District of Plymouth in
the County of Litchfield and State of Connecticut
do hereby certify that the foregoing contains
the original proceedings of the said Court
in the matter of the application of Lydia
Jones for a pension
In testimony whereof I have
hereunto set my hand and affixed
the Seal of office at Plymouth
the 13th day of May 1839
Egbert T. Butler Clerk

[sideways at bottom]
5418
Lydia Jones
Con.
Act 7 July 38
M 79 d 10
Aomd
8 mo. pri
$26.66/100
no deduction
Calvin Butler
Plymouth Conn.
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Rev
WIDOW, &c.
File No. 20186
Lydia Jones
Wid of
Timothy Jones
Priv. Rev. War
July 7. 1838
Index: -- Vol. A Page 380
{Arrangement of 1870.}
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Plymouth Ct
July 1 1839

J.L. Edwards Esq.
Comm of Pensions
Washington

[sideways]
June 4
Lydia Jones
file
May 18
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Plymouth May 31 1839

J. S. Edwards Esq.
The application of Mrs Lydia Jones
of this town for a pension was sent to the
Pension Office by me, and all communication
on the subject are to be addressed to me at
Plymouth Connecticut
Very Respectfully
Calvin Butler
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Comptrollers Office
Hartford Connecticut
30 January 1839
On application for evidence of the service of Timothy
Jones, I have examined the books and papers remaining in this
Office relating to the Revolutionary War, and find his name in a
document filed "Discharge of Connecticut Troop, AD. 1775"
and under the head of "General Wooster Regt. Cap. Arnold
Company", and is mentioned as being discharged by General
Schuyler, Nov. 25, but the duration of service not given
The above document is certified by "Rich Varick
Sect to M. Genl Schuyler", as a "true account of the discharges
(dates of) of the above named men of the several companies in
General Wooster & Col Hinman Regiments above mentioned".
Henty Kilbourne Compt
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I Samuel Talmage of Cheshire, New Haven
County and State of Connecticut of the age of
Seventy nine years, a Revolutionary Pensioner
Testify and say that Timothy Jones then of
Cheshire, in the year 1776 in the month of August
of said year belonged to a company of Militia
commanded by Ephraim Cock, Lieutenant Munson
Merriam, Ensign John Beach, that said Timothy
Jones together with a large portion of said company
were ordered to the City of New York in the service
of the United States, the company belonged to the
Regiment commanded by Col Baldwin of Waterbury
in said New Haven County Lieutenant Colonel
Thaddeus Cook of Wallingford the major being
absent our Captain Ephraim Cook supplied his place

That said Timothy Jones, myself and the
company were stationed in said City of New York
until the month of September when we were
discharged making a tour of at least one month
and that said Timothy Jonas performed
on this tour one months service for the United
States
Sworn to and subscribed this 21st day of Feby
A.D.1839
Samuel Talmage [signature]
Before me Silas Hitchcock Judge of the
Court of Probate for the District of Cheshire
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I certify that I have from my childhood
(I have) been acquainted with Samuel Talmage
whose deposition is annexed and that he is a
credible person
Silas Hitchcock Judge of Probate
for the District of Cheshire
 I Burrage Beach Clerk of the Court of Probate
for the District of Cheshire in New Haven County
and State of Connecticut, certify that Silas
Hitchcock is the Judge of said Court and
that his name subscribed to the above
certificate is his genuine signature
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set
my hand & seal of office this 21st day of
February 1839
Burrage Beach Clerk
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State of New York
Onondaga County ss Reuben Dorchester of the town of
Marcellus in said County being duly sworn
and who is a credible person for truth 
makes oath and says that he is now ninety
years old. that he served as a corporal under
Captain Arnold in the expedition to Canada
in the year 1775 that he was out in said expedition 
about five months and was discharged
the last of November 1775. that he was well acquainted 
with Timothy Jones then of Cheshire in the State of
Connecticut who went in said expedition to Canada
as a private in Captain Arnold's Company, that
this deponents best recollection is that said Timothy
Jones served in said expedition about seven months
and further saith not 
Reuben Dorchester [signature]
Subscribed and Sworn
November 3d 1838 before
me Theron Goddard Justice of the peace

State of New York
Onondaga County
Clerks office
I Elijah Rhodes Clerk of
the County aforesaid and
Clerk of the Court of Common pleas in and for said
County do certify that Theron Godard before
whom the preceding affidavit was taken
was at the date thereof a Justice of the Peace
in said County duly commissioned and
qualified and that I am acquainted with
the hand writing of said Justice and verily
believe his signature thereto to be genuine
In testimony whereof I have
hereunto subscribed my name
and affixed the seal of the Court
aforesaid this 23rd day of November 1838
E Rhodes Clerk
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[all crossed out]
Mr. Butler sir the expence of this Affidavit
is small if it will do a poor Widow any
any good she is welcome to it
Reuben Dorchester
per E Dorchester