Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 16,527, for Jonathan Simonds, New Hampshire
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(3-1776)

SERVICE                                                                                       NUMBER
Mass.                        Simonds, Jonathan                        S.16,527
N. H.                                                                                                   carded
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CONTENTS
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                                                 1370
New Hampshire

Jonathan Simonds
of Grafton in the State of N. Y. who was a Private in the company commanded by Captain [blank] of the Regt commanded by Col. Putnam in the Mass and N.H. line for 2 years.


Inscribed on the Roll of N.H. at the rate of 80 Dollars --Cents per annum,  to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 2nd day of November 1832 and Sent Ira Goodall  Bath, New Hamp'r

Arrears to 4th of Sept 1832                              $120 ---
Semi-annl. allowance ending 21 Mar 33               40--
                                                                        -------------
                                                                         $160--

                                                         {Revolutionary Claim,   }
                                                         { Act June 7, 1832.        }

Recorded by J H McBlair Clerk

(B)ook D.  Vol; 1st  Page 184.
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I Jonathan Simonds of Lawful age being Sixty Six years old that duly depone and say that I inlisted in the United States army in the Spring of 1787 at Unionhill in Massachusetts for three years into Captain Phinebus [Phineas] Bowmans Company in the fifth Regt Masschsts. line commanded by Col Rufus Putnams toward the [illegible] of that year  I was transferred to Col.  Scammells Regt.  I continued to serve in said Regiment until after the capture of Cornwallis when I was returned to my old Company again.  I served there until I was discharged in 1782  I think my discharge is in the war office among my pension papers as I was placed  on the pensions list in 1818 I continued until the act of March 1820 when I was displumed because I was not a beggar or poor enough .  I served two years in the United States army under said enlistments my certificate is number 3236 is dated Oct 2 1818 and I do hereby relinquish all rights to any pensions except what I now name under the present act passed in 1832  I reside in Landoff in Grafton County in New Hampshire where I first  applied and reside there still and have for the last forty years.
                                                                                           
                                           X  Jonathan Simonds aforesaid

Grafton ss  Be it remembered that on the Sixth day of July Ad 1832 Jonathan Simonds (a pensioner [illegible] but now  [illegible] ) personally appeared and made oath that the above affidavit by him signed is just and true before me    Ira Goodall  Justice of the Peace
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State of New Hampshire
I George Woodward Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for the County of Grafton do certify that Ira Goodall Esq is a Justice of the Peace within and for said county and that is qualified to take affidavits and that I believe the within to be his genuine signature.  Witness my hand and the seal of said Court this 18th day of August 1832
                                        Geo Woodward   Clerk

[here affixed a seal]
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Declarations of 
Jonathan Simonds
  1 May 1820

returns to be made to
Ira Goodall Esq
Bath
Grafton Co
N. Hamp.



(March 1819)
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County of Grafton for the State of New Hampshire.On the 19th day of February 1829, personally appeared in open Court being a Court of Record for the County of Grafton Jonathan Simonds a resident in Landoff in said County aged sixty four years who being first duly sworn, according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the acts of Congress of the 18th March 1818 and the 1st May 1820 .  That he the said Jonathan Simonds enlisted for the term of three years in the month of March 1781 in the State of Massachusetts in the company commanded by Captain Phineas Bowman in the Regiment commanded by Col. Rufus Putnam in the line of the State of Massachusetts on the Continental establishment; that he continued to serve in the said Corps until the siege of Cornwallis at Yorktown during which he served in Captain Smiths Company (I think) in Col. Scammells Regiment and after the siege I was transferred back to Capt. Bowmans Company and until Dec 1782 I think when I was discharged from the service at West point, in the State of New York and that his discharge is sent on to the war department .  That his name has been placed on the pension list and dropped there from an account of his property   that his pension certificate is No. 3236 and dated Oct. 2d 1818.  And in pursuance of the act of May 1st, 1820,  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 bring my self 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 way 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











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schule hereto annexed and by me subscribed as follows. Viz.
   Schedule of all the property income and estate owned by Jonathan Simonds of Landuff late a revolutionary pensioner and the within named applicant.
   The  right in equity to redeem fifty acres of land where the said Simonds lives in Landuff, mortgaged twenty four years since to Enoch Bradley brought of him @ $300. and on which about $200. is due him now the right to redeem is worth not over 200.00.

  One house for the farm worth not over .. 30.00
  One cow...............................................................  15.00
  Two shoats .........................................................    6.00
  6 Sheep . ............................................................     9.00   
   1 yearling colt near a year old.................     20.00
   1 yearling and two calves..........................     10.00
                      Jonathan Simonds

Household furniture besides necessary bedding and apparel such as chairs, Tables, Pots, vittles, Knives plates forks and all his spoons etc. all old trunk of it worn and such as is in an old farmer's house small in amount and all not over the value of           25.00
                                                   ----------
Jonathan Simonds.                        315.00

   I further certify that I cannot pay the mortgage as to Bradley and must if called on give up the farm.  I have no other place to live on as home.  I have made no charge in my property since March 18th 1818, except to kill and eat some hogs, sheep and creatures and use the produce of my farm and that my whole nett income cannot equal forty dollars a year.   Jonathan Simonds.

   We the subscribers the Selectmen of Landuff aforesaid hereby certify that we believe the said Jonathan Simonds above statement to be  correct.  That he is a credible honest man and we believe his whole estate real and personal (except his necessary bedding and apparel) to be worth not over four hundred dollars.
        Rufus Noyes. }  Selectmen of
        Benj Clark      }  said Landuff.
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My occupation has been that of a Tanner but I am unable now to pursue it, on account of Rhuematism and a broken constitution and ill health generally.  I have a wife aged 58 years of tolerable health except an inflamation in her eyes for two years past, which at times almost makes her blind  I have a son named David W. Simonds aged 19 years who is in good health and assists me along and I have no other person in my family, except a hired girl occasionally when my wife cannot see.  I never applied for a renewal of pension under the act of May 1, 1820, as I was told I could not obtain it, if I had over one hundred dollars property.  I do not think I could sell all I have for three hundred dollars now and I owe about two hundred and fifty dollars,  besides Bradleys mortgage on my land.  I have no way to obtain a copy of my mortgage Deed to Bradley as he lives in Haverhill in Massachusetts 130 miles distant and he has never put it on Record in this County as I can find on tracing the records but I know about 200$ is due him  on it. And I am now so infirm and poor that I demand the assisteince of my Country for support.
                                      Jonathan Simonds

Sworn and declared on the 28th day of February 1829
                     Geo. Woodward  Clerk

I George Woodward Clerk of this Court of Common Pleas do hereby certify that it appears to the satisfaction of this Court that the said Jonathan Simonds did serve in the Revolutionary war as stated in the proceeding declaration against the common enemy for the term of nine months under one engagement on the Continental establishment I also certify that the foregoing oath,  and the schedule [illegible] are truly copied from the records of said Court.  And I do further certify that it is the opinion of the said Court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the foregoing schedule is three hundred and fifteen dollars
     In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my name and affixed the seal of said Court this 28th day of February 1829
           Geo Woodward    Clerk
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Florence A. Russell
Fairlee
Vt.

Madam:
     I have to advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim S. 16527, it appears that Jonathan Simonds was born in July 1765, or 1766, place not stated.
     He enlisted at Haverhill Massachusetts in March 1781 and served as a private in Captain Phineas Bowman's Company,  Colonel Rufus Putnam's Massachusetts Regiment, during the siege of York, he served in Captain Smith's Company under Colonet Scammell in the New Hampshire Troops, after which he returned to his former company, he also served in Captain Mills' Company in the First Massachusetts Regiment, from which he was discharged December 24, 1783.
     He was allowed pension on his application exe-  [continued on next page]
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(exe)cuted April 14, 1818, while a resident of Landaff, Grafton County, New Hampshire.
     In 1829, soldier referred to his wife (her hame not given) as aged fifty-eight years, and son, David W., aged nineteen years.  There is no further data on file as to family.
      Respectfully,

         WINFIELD SCOTT
         Commissioner.
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         INVALID.
           16, 527
File No. 16, 527
 
Jonathan Simonds
Pri   Rev War

Act:  June 7th 32
Index:--Vol. 1, Page 343

 [Arrangement of 1870.]

[written vertically on left page]

1926, July 10--History to Florence A Russell [illegible]
1928, May 25  "   " Mrs. Karl J. Brummell [illegible]
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             BY THE HONOURABLE
   MAJOR-GENERAL KNOX,
Commanding the American Forces on the Hudson's River.

  Jonathan Simonds Soldeir in the first  Massachusetts Regiment, being in listed for Three Years, is hereby honourable discharged from the Service of the United States.
                         Given in the State of New York,
                         the Twenty fourth Day of Dec, 1783
By the General's command, H Knox MGenl [Major-General]

Registered in the Books of the Regiments,
           [illegible] F Bowles
                          Capt. and Adjutant
                             (illegible)
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[round black inked stamp]
       PENSION
             S
          APR
    U.  28     S.
        1926
     OFFICE


                                                               April 26, 1926

Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D. C.

Dear Sir,
     Can you give me any information regarding the War Record of Jonathan Simonds, a Revolutionary soldier, who enlisted from Middletown, Connecticut? 
     He was born July 31, 1763 and died Jan. 27, 1836 in Landaff, New Hamp.  
     His brother, James Simonds was also a Revolutionary soldier, enlisting at the same time.
     I am told that they both received pensions.  
     I would like any information
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about both of these men that you can give me, as it would help me in joining the D. A. R.
                    Yours very truly
                    Florence A. Russell
                    Fairlee
                     Vermont
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                        Mrs. Karl J. Brummer
                        Eleven Brummer Place
                       Lisbon, New Hampshire      Aug 19, 1927

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

     I am writing to ask for information concerning the service of Jonathan Simonds in the Revolutionary War.  He was a pensioner, and died in Landaff, NH. Jan. 27, 1837 aged 76 years.  He did service from the State of Massachusetts.  The name of his wife was May Doyle, and they had children, Jonathan, William, Moses, Darius, James, Enoch, and I think still another son.
     I would like to date of his marriage and anything there is on record concerning his
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survive in the War.  If there happens to be anything concerning his parentage I would like that.
     I want this information--particularly for an application to D A. R.

     Thanking you in advance  I am
                     Very truly yours,
                       Mary Carleton Brummer

Mrs. K. J.
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[circular black inked stamp]

                PENSION
                    AUG
             U.      22    S.
                  
                  OFFICE
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New Hampshire
Jonathan Simonds,
private
Massachusetts line 1781. 24_10mo
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.
Inscribed on the Roll of New Hampshire,
at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 14th of April 1818..
Certificate of Pension issued 9th of October 1818 and sent to Ezra Bartlett Esqr.
Grafton Co New Hampshire.
Arrears to 4th of Sept. 1818. 4 M 21/30. 37..60
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4th Mar. 1819     48..00
                                                                 83..60
{Revolutionary claim}
{Act 18th March, 1818)

Discontinued

Landaff Grafton Co.

{written vertically on left hand page]

Notification sent to Ira Goodall Esq. 17 Apr 1829
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Rev. And 1818
Wars Section.

May 25, 1928

Mrs. Karl J. Brummer
Eleven Brummer Place
Lisbon, N. H.

Madam:
               I advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim S. 16527, it appears that Jonathan Simonds was born in July 1765 or 1766, place not stated.
                He enlisted at Haverhill, Massachusetts in March 1781 and served as a private in Captain Phineas Bowman's Company, Colonel Rufus Putnam's Massachusetts Regiment, during the Siege of York, he served in Captain Smith's Company under Colonel Scammell in the New Hampshire Troops, after which he returned to his former company, he also served in Captain Mills' Company in the First Massachusetts Regiment, from which he was discharged December 24, 1783.
               He was allowed pension on his application executed April 14, 1818, while a resident of Landaff, Grafton County, New Hampshire.
                 In 1828, the soldier referred to his wife (her
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name is not given) as aged fifty-eight years, and to a son David W. Simonds, aged nineteen years. There is no further data as to family.
            Respectfully,
                        WINFIELD SCOTT
                         Commissioner.
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[written right side up, upside down and sideways]

Bath NH
August 7, 25                        free [underlined]

Hon Lewis Cass
     Secretary of War
       Washington 
            City

Old [illegible]
Jonathan Simonds
Private
 2 years Col Putnams Regt Mass line
 
Ira Goodall Esq
Bath N.HJ.

Sept 4 '32
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                           Bath  August 22,1832

Sir
     I enclose the application of Jonathan Simonds for a renewal with the certificate and seal of the County Clerk of my being a magistrate as required by the rules of the war Office--Mr. Simonds is anxious to [illegible] in Sept  furnished an early answer
          respectly 
                  Ira Goodall
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Jonathan Simonds
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STATE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE.
Graftons SS.)

On this fourteenth day of April 1818, before me the subscriber, one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas for said County personally appears Jonathan Simonds aged about 60 years, resident in Lundaff in the State, 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 Coagress, entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war:" That he the said Jonathan Simonds enlisted in March 1781 in the State of Massachusetts. in the company commanded by Captain Bowman of the 5th. Massachusetts Regiment commanded by Col Rufus Putnam in June 1783 was annexed to Capt. Mills Company, first Massachusetts Regiment; that he continued to serve in the said corps, or in the service of the United States, until the 24th. day of December 1783., when he was discharged from service in New York State of New York, by Genl. H. Knox ; that he was in the battles of [BLANK] and the 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. Sworn to and declared before me, the day and year aforesaid.
Ezra Bartlett
I Ezra Bartlett Judge of the Court of Common Pleas as aforesaid, do certify, that it appears to my satisfaction, that the said Jonathan Simonds did serve in the revolutionary war, as stated in the preceding declaration, against the common enemy; 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.
April 14th, 1818
Ezra Bartlett
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THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES    Division of Veterans'
         form VAM-51                Administration
           12-5-41                       Archives

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*

Name Simonds, Joseph 
Grade Private
Line Massachusetts

WARRANT NUMBER 4986
ACREAGE 100
ISSUED Sept.  13, 1792
To Jonathan Jenks

*The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16. 1776, and subsequent dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800. Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.