Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 2184, Jonathan Collom, Penn.
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SERVICE   Penn.
Collom, Jonathan
NUMBER   R. 2184
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Declaration of Jonathan Collum for Pension under act of 7 June 1832 
32.033 
Jonesborough 
Hon. J. Blair 
Hon J. Blair
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State of Tennessee  
Washington County  
First Judicial Circuit}    September Term 1834 
Be it remembered that on this 9th day of September 1834 before the Honorable Samuel Powel, judge of the said court, personally appeared Jonathan Collom, a resident citizen of the county and state aforesaid, aged seventy-four years and being desirous of availing himself of the provisions of the act of Congress passed the 4th of June 1832 made and subscribed on oath the following declaration. That he was born in the county of Montgomery, state of Pennsylvania in the year 1760 on the 10th day of December but is deprived of the record which was in the family by his brother retaining it; that he served in the Revolutionary War as a musician under the following named officers and as herein after stated
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to wit: in the year 1778 as well as he can now recollect (but more clearly identified the time it was when the British was in possession of New York) and the French Fleet was [unreadable] to assist the United States he as a resident citizen of the county of Montgomery, state of Pennsylvania, and being subject to do military duty was drafted as a militia man for three months to go on an expedition against the British aforesaid to New York and was placed under the command of Capt. Marpole of Col Dowling command, marched to Crooked Billet there encamped and on hearing French fleet had landed at Norfolk and a successful attack that the could not be made without the assistance of the Fleet which had gone to the southward and was kept in waiting for the proper destination of the enemy until then discharged (by his captain being three months) which discharge was again given him by his said Captain Marpole, and which he has long since lost. Declarant states that at the time the British was in New Jersey he was again drafted for another three months tour
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precise time not the recollected but from the best of his recollection was in the Winter of the year, 1779 when he was enrolled under Captain Dowling – of Col George Smiths Regiment [unreadable] housed at Newton and was marched to Delaware River & there remained the British having gone into winter quarters and continued until the receipt the second discharge which was given him by his said Captain that in both the aforesaid campaigns he was a Musician and drew the pay of a musician, and after his return he was kept at home for some time as a minute man in pay of the Government of Pennsylvania as a musician but did not again go from home in a regular call until 1782, when Cornwallis was marching through Virginia to little York when a call was again made for the militia of Pennsylvania to resist his March & he was enrolled as a militia man to go on [unreadable] expedition & was taken sick on March being prevented with the Regiment to which he belonged in the siege & surrender of Cornwallis and only by reason of falling sick
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& the news reaching him of the aforesaid surrender  that he served as before stated in the several expeditions, two of the last tours eight months for which he claims a pension.  That he has no record evidence of his service or documentary proof, having lost his discharges - that there is no minister of the Gospel of his vicinity by whom he can establish the facts required by the rules of the War Dept nor is there any witness living known to him by whom he can establish his actual servitude but that James A. Mitchell & John N. Doak of his vicinity are known to him & he to them & by which he can establish reputation of his services. He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension except the present & declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State Sworn to & subscribed in open Court this 9th day of September 1834.  
Jonathan Collom
Test Jas V. Anderson Clk 
We James A. Mitchell & John N Doak do certify on oath that we are well acquainted with the foregoing declarant Jonathan Collom
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and believe him to be seventy four years of age that it is reputed and believed in the vicinity of his residence that he was a Revolutionary soldier and served as stated by him & that we concur in that opinion 
Sworn to & subscribed in open Court this 9th day of September 
James A. Mitchell
John N. Doak
Test  Jas V. Anderson Clk 
And the said Court do after investigation of the matter and after propounding the interrogatories presented by the war department that the said the said Jonathan Collom him was a soldier of the Revolution & served as stated.  Given under my hand & seal this 9th September 1834 
S. Powel [seal]
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State of Tennessee 
Washington County 
I James V. Anderson clerk of the Circuit Court of Law & Equity in and for the County and State aforesaid do certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings in the matter of the application of Jonathan Collom for a pension 
Given under my hand & seal of office this 9th day of September 1834 
Jas V Anderson Clk
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May 3, 1939 
BA-J/MCS 
Jonathan Collom, R. 2184
Mrs. John K. Boyce 
106 Crestway 
Amarillo, Texas 
Dear Madam: Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revolutionary War record of Jonathan Callom who was born December 10, 1759, Illinois. in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, moved to Washington County, Tennessee , after the Revolution, and died February 20, 1843, near Charleston, Illinois.
The data which follow were abstracted from papers on file in pension claim, R. 2184, based on the Revolutionary War service of Jonathan Collom (personal signature Jonathan Collom), Jonathan Collom was born December 10, 1760, in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. The names of his parents are not shown. He applied for pension on September 9, 1834, while living in Washington County, Tennessee, and he alleged that while a resident of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, he enlisted and served in the Pennsylvania militia as follows: three months in 1778 as musician in Captain Marpole's company in Colonel Dowling's regiment; from sometime in the winter of 1779, three months as musician in Captain Dowling's company in Colonel George Smith's regiment; in 1781, when Cornwallis was marching through Virginia to Yorktown, served two months, names of officers not given. 
The claim for pension was not allowed as Jonathan Collom failed to furnish proof of his service in accordance with the requirement of the pension law. 
It was not stated that Jonathan Collom was married. He referred to his brother but did not give his name. 
Very truly yours A. D. HILLER 
Executive Assistant to the Administrator
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1939 May 3 – Hist to Mrs. John K. Boyce MCS
(Margaret Curtis Boyce)
REJECTED
2184
Jonathan Collum
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Rejected did not serve six months
See letter 25 Sept  34 to Hon J. Blair present 
not found 
2184
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June 3, 1844
JUN 6
[unreadable]
FREE
J. L. Edwards Commissioner of Pensions 
D. C.
Washington City
U. F. Linder
June 19 / 44
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Charleston June 4. - 1844 
Dear Sir 
You will confer a favor upon the undersigned, if you will have the goodness to ascertain and let me know by your earliest convenience whether a pension has ever been allowed or drawn by Jonathan Collum a revolutionary soldier, he was a drummer in the service, and I think  was perhaps 3 months in the service, he lived in east Tennessee at the time application was made for a pension - it was made some time about the year 1828 or 30.  If it has ever been allowed or drawn please inform me and by whom it was drawn and also whether his name is on the roll of revolutionary soldiers, he belonged to the Pensylvania line - I should be glad to know if he has not been allowed a pension whether the archives shew him or his widow entitled to one.
Your attention to this matter will much oblige your obedient Servant 
U. F. Linder
Hon J. L. Edwards
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P.S. I have written a letter to the Hon J I Hardin of the H.R. desiring his attention to the this matter, you will please let him see this letter 
U.F. Linden
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U. F. Linder
June 18 / 44
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357 
Pension office 
June 18. 1844. 
Sir,
In reply to your letter of the 4th inst I have to state that the claim of Jonathan Collum was rejected on the 25th of Sept. 1834 on the ground that the evidence was not sufficient to prove that he served six months the shortest period for which pensions are granted. We cannot examine on Rolls for proof of service until a declaration is filed, but Collum’s widow, if married to him prior to the termination of his service in the Rev. War can assert a claim under before the act of May 4, 1836, if not, but before to to January 1. 1794 under the act of July 7. 1838. Copies of both acts are enclosed for her guidance in asserting her claim.  The office of the Secretary of State at Harrisburg Pa contains proof of service in the time of that State 
Mr. U. F. Linder 
Charlestown, Illinois
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106 Crestway 
Amarillo, Texas 
February 28, 1939 
RECEIVED MAR 4 1939 MAIL SUB DIV 
Bureau of Pensions 
Department of the Interior 
Washington, D.C. 
Gentlemen 
Rcd records by mail Did only one requested. F
Will you please send me a copy of the of Jonathan Collom , born Dec. 10, 1759 in Montgomery Co. Pennsylvania, died February 20, 1843, near Charleston, Illinois.   He served as a musician in the Revolutionary War, 1778 - was drafted for 3 months service to fight the British under Capt. Marpole and Dowling, 1779 - again drafted in N. J. with Capt. Dowling and Col. Geo. Smith as a musician and paid as such. He again served as a minute man. After the War went to Washington County, Tennessee, where he made application for Pension - went to Illinois with his son William Collom, where he died (From "Revolutionary Soldiers Buried in Illinois”) 
I have every reason to believe the Jonathan Collum to be my ancestor and shall therefore he particularly grateful to have his pension Record, with any additional family data which might be included in it, or filed with it – 
Thanking you for your Courtesy in the past, 
Sincerely yours 
Margaret Curtis Boyce 
(Mrs. John K.)