Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 14596, Thomas Davis, Mass.
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Service                        Number
Mass. Davis, Thoms Lettice W14596
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21.972
Massachusetts
Thomas Davis
Worcester in the State of Mass, who was a private in the Comp commanded by Captain Leicester of the Regt. commanded by Col. Holman in the Masstts. line for 2 years.
[illegible]

Inscribed on the Roll of Masstts. at the rate of 80 Dollars 00 Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 9 day of Dec. 1833 and sent to Hon. John Davis House of Rep.

Arrears to the 4th of Sept. '33               $200
Semi-anl. allowance ending April '34        40
Total $240

{Revolutionary Claim
Act June 7, 1832}

Recorded by Geo [illegible] Clerk
Book E  Vol. 2  Page 18


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Dead
Sett [illegible] Mr. Jenni[illegible] of 3 Auditors
25 day Aug. 1844



80
Worcester

$96 [illegible] 17  Apr 1818
yrs [illegible] 7 May 1818
[illegible]
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DECLARATION, in order to secure the benefit of the Act of Congress, passed June 7, 1832.
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
COUNTY OF WORCESTER, as.
ON this 14 day of August in the year of our Lord, eighteen hundred and thirty Three personally appeared in open Court, before Nathan Laine Judge of Probate for the County of Worcester now sitting Thomas Davis a resident of Holden in the County of Worcester and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, aged 79 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 7th 1832.
  THAT he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated.
In April 1775 I marched as a minute man from Holden in Mass the day of the battle at Lexington to Cambridge in a company commanded by Lt. Thompson where we remained about a week when I started into a com-pany commanded by John Jones for eight months, Lane Thompson was Lt. & Francis ?? was Ensign and belonged to a regiment commanded by Col. Doolittle whose officers were Lt. Col Holden & Major Moore.  The brigade was commanded by Gen. Sullivan.  I remained in said service in the vicinity of Boston to ??? at Cambridge and Prospect Hill having been in the battle of Bunker Hill to the last of said time, and then Enlisted for one month more and served it out under the same officers and at the same place when I was honorably discharged but had no writing.
I next Entered as a militia man in June 1776 if I remember right in a company commanded by Capt. Lincoln of Leicester. The other officers names I do not recollect. We belonged to a regiment commanded by Col. Halman (whose officers were Lt. Col. Raymond & Maj. Sears) and marched to the city of New York where we remained some time, when we mo? about three miles up North River and after remaining there some time we were suddenly cannonaded by a British man of war, when we retreated towards Kings bridge, where we had a fight, but finally retreated from place to place until we reached White Plains, where I was in the Engagement of that place, and at the End of five months the time of which I was detached, I was honorably dismissed but had no written discharge.
I entered the service in the year 1778 in a company commanded by Capt. Shays, in Col Rufus Putnams regiment, in the Mass line on the continental Establishment for nine months and served the same faithfully out and was honorably discharged.  For this service I was placed on the pension roll in ???? but soon afterwards my pay was suspended and I have never applied to the War Department for it once.  I was out at several other times but there can be no occasion for stating them in detail as I have already ??? Two years of service. Gen Fellows commanded the brigade in which I served at New York - All the services were rendered and performed as a private - I was born in Rutland on the 7th of June 1754.  I have no record of it, but have no doubt it is on the town books of Rutland.  I have lived in Holden ever since I was seven years old.  I entered the service as above. Jonas Flagg, Artemous Dryclear, Paul Davis, James Nichols, Col Daimon & many others were my townsmen and know my character & I refer to them for my reputation as a soldier.
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, and declares that his names is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state.
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
Before Nath Taime, Judge of Probate for hte County of Worcester.   /s/ Thomas Davis
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We John Davis and Emory Washburn residing in    hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Thomas Davis who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration, that we believe him to be 70 years of age, that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the revolution, and we concur in that opinion.
  Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.     /s/ J Davis
                    /s/ Emory Washburn

And the said court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above mentioned applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states.  And the court further certifies that it appears to them that the preceding certificate,  and that John Davis & Emory Washburn who also signed the same as residents in the town of Worcester and are credible persons, and that their statement is entitled to credit.  The deposition of Benjamin Mead has been added to the Evidence since the declaration was first presented to the court.  /s/ Nath Taime, Judge of  Probate for the County of Worcester.
  I______Clerk of the Court____do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of____for a pension in that John Davis & Emory Washburn are Justices of the peace in & for the county of Worcester qualified to take depositions.

Worcester, Commonwealth of Massachusetts
I Theophilus Wheeler Register of the Court of Probate for the County of Worcester do hererby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Thomas Davis for a Pension.  I further certify that Hon. John Davis, Emory Washburn and Rufus Putnam are each of them Justices of the Peace within & for said County of Worcester and entitled to full fredit and that the signature to the foregoing affidavits made before them and which purports to be their signature is genuine.
In testimony whereof I do hereunto set my hand and affix the Seal of said Court this 23d day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand and eight hundred & thirty three.
/s/ Theophilus Wheeler Reg of said Court
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[written by hand "5222
Massachusetts"]
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[written by hand "Lettice Davis"]

widow of [written by hand "Thomas Davis"]
who was a [written by hand "Private"]
in the [written by hand Mass Massa line"]

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Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of [written by hand "80"] Dollars - Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843.

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Certificate of Pension issued the [written by hand  "29"] day of [written by hand "Apl 1844"] and sent to 
[written by hand "Wm Jennison, Worcester, Massa"]

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[Act of March 3, 1843.]

Recorded in Book [written by hand "2"]
Vol. [written by hand "1"] Page [written by hand "266."

[written by hand "Ref, 29, Apl, 44
Paid at the Treasury under the Act 6. April 1838 from 4, March to 14, May 1840. Agt Notified 10 Dec '44

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10451
Lettice Davis
Lettice Davis
Worcester County
Massachusetts
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Declaration,
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress, of the 7th July, 1838, entitled "An Act Granting half pay and pensions to certain Widows."---
State of Massachusetts.
County of Worcester
  On this eighteenth day of January, in the year eighteen hundred and forty four, personally appeared before the Honl. Ira M. Barton, Judge of the Court of Probate and the granting of administrations, etc. in and for the said County of Worcester, the same being a Court of Record established by law, Lettice Davis, a resident of Princeton, in the county of Worcester, aged eighty 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 provision made by the Act of Congress, passed July 7, 1838, entitled "An Act granting half pay and pensions to certain Widows:" That she is the widow of Thomas Davis, who was a private in the Revolutionary Army-but under what officers, or in what Regiment, he served the said Lettice is now unable to state; and begs leave to refer to the evidence in the War Department, at Washington, connected with the application made by said Thomas, for a pension - and which was granted to him, as by Certificate dated December 9, 1833, and numbered 21,972.
  She further declares that she was married to the said Thomas, on the eighteenth day of July, in the year Seventeen hundred and eighty two; that her husband the aforesaid Thomas, died on the fourteenth day of May, in the year 1840 - that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place previous to the first of January, seventeen hundred and ninety four; viz. at the time above stated & she has not been married since his death.
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written.       /s/ Lettice Davis
Before
  Ira M. Barton Judge of said Court
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We Joseph Rice and Austin Davis - both of Lancaster in the County of Worcester, and State of Massachusetts, of lawful age, testify and say that we are well acquainted with the widow Lettice Davis, now of [word crossed out] Princeton, in [mark-abbreviation] County, and have been thus acquainted with her for more than twenty years last past - that we know her to be the widow of Thomas Davis, late of said Lancaster, deceased, who was a pensioner of the United States- and that the said Lettice has not been married since his death, but still remains the widow of the said Thomas Davis, deceased. -
Witness.  John Witney [signature] Joseph Rice [signature] 
 [Giory] Stratton [signature] Austin Davis [signature]
Worcester [mark-abbreviation] January 15th1844
Then personally appeared the above named Joseph Rice and Austin Davis and made oath to the truth of the foregoing Deposition, by them signed.
Before me, Silas Thurston [signature] Justice of peace.
And I further certify that said Deponents are well known to me, as credible witnesses, whose evidence may be relied on as true.
Silas Thurston [signature] Justice of the peace.
See Deposition of Hollis Davis, 10 pages forward of this-
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I, Joseph G. Kendall, Clerk of the Judicial Courts, in and for the County of Worcester, and State of Massachusetts, do certify that I, as Clerk as aforesaid, have the care and keeping of the Records and Files pertaining to said Courts for said County, and also of the former Court of General Sessions of the peace for said County, which was also a Court of Record - that the laws of this State formerly required the return of marriages, solemnized within said County, to be made by the Town Clerks of the several Towns in said County, to the said [said crossed out] Clerk  of the said Court of General Sessions of the peace, and by him to be entered of Record in the Office of Clerk of said Court-
That I find in such Records in my office, the entry of a certificate of marriages, in the Town of Holden, in said County, for the years 1782, and 1783, made in said Records of said Court of General Sessions of the peace, by Joseph Allen, a former Clerk of said Court, now deceased, in the words and figures following, to wit-
"Holden Marriages.
" 1782
March 7th. {Lemuel Heywood Lucy Heywood } Holden 
May 2d. {William Flagg jun.r Abigail Black. } Holden
May 9th. {Timothy Marshall Lucy Robinson. } Holden
June 13th. {John How } Canton Lucy Hubbard. } Holden
July 11th. {David Fisk jr. Naomi Winch. } Holden
July 18th. {Thomas Davis Lettice Rice. } Holden
Sep.r 2d. {John Williams Sarah Davis. } Holden
Sep.r 29th. {Abner Rogers Dorothy Nichols. } Holden
1783.
Jany. 1st. } Jonathan Lovel } Holden Hopestill Taft. } Mendon
Jany. 16th. } William Heard Betsey Dix. } Holden
Feby.18th. } Samuel Rowe Submit Rice. } Holden
Feby. 27th. } David Gray } White Creek Sarah Smith. } Holden
March 27th } Israel Johnstone } Groton Mary Frost. } Rutland 
April 7th. } Charles Rosen } Rutland Mary Smith. } Holden
May 6th. } Sol. Clark Chany  Molly Estabrooks. } Holden
May 15th. } Abel Marshal  Lydia Driden. } Holden

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" The above list of persons, married by the Rev-d Joseph Avery,
" have been received and recorded as the Law directs. 
"David Fish, Town Clerk.
"Returned August 4th, 1783.
" Recorded by Jos Allen, Cler. pacis."
In testimony whereof, I hereto set my name, and affix the County Seal, at Worcester, this twenty ninth day of November, in the year 1843 --
 Jos. G. Kendall, Cler. [signature]
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Worcester Count, SS

I Joseph G. Kendall - Clerk of the Judicial Courts for the County and Commonwealth aforesaid, do hereby certify, that Ira M. Barton is Judge of the Court of probate of wills, and granting administrations, being a Court of Record - in and for said County, duly commissioned and qualified; and that his signature to the certificate, on the Declaration of Lettice Davis and the deposition of Hollis Davis, hereunto annexed, is genuine; and that Silas Thurston is a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, duly commissioned and qualified - and that his signature to the certificate, on the depositions of Joseph Rice and Austin Davis, hereto annexed, is genuine.

Given under my hand, and the Seal of said County, this eighteenth day of January, in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty four.
     Jos. G. Kendall
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I Hollis Davis of Lancaster in the County of Worcester and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, do depose and say that I am a grandson of the late Thomas Davis of Lancaster and Lettice Davis his widow. My said Grandfather died at said Lancaster on the fourteenth day of May in the year eighteen hundred and forty, and my said Grandmother, Lettice Davis has never been married since his death, but is now his widow.
Hollis Davis [signature]
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
[illegible] Jany. 18. 1844 sworn to by said deponent who is a man of truth
[illegible]
Ira M. Burton J. Peace. [signature]
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Rev Widow, & c.
File no. 14596
Lettice Davis
Widow of 
Thomas Davis
Priv. Mass. Line
Act: Mar 3, 1843
Index: Vol. A, Page 140
Arrangement of 1870
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826Y
Massachusetts

Lettice Davis widow of Thomas Davis who was a pensioner under the Act of 1832 and who died on the 14 May 1840 of Worcester County in the State of Mass. who was a Priv. in the Company commanded by Captain Leicester of the Regt. commanded by Col. Holman in the Mass a line for two years.

Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 80 Dollars ~ cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.

Certificate of Pension issued the 5th day of April 1844, and Sent to Hon. Hudson HR.

Whole amount due...$400.00

[Act July 7, 1838]
Recorded by F S Swann clerk,
Book D, Vol. 1, Page 54
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707
Massachusetts Roll
Thomas Davis, 
Private
Mass Line - 9 mo -
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts
at the rate of eight dollars per month, to commence on 
the 17th of April 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 27 of May 1818
and sent to How. Edward Bangor
Worcester, Mass
Arrearages to 4th Sept 1818
Amount 18/30 $36.80
Revolutionary claims
Act 18th March 1818
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Thos. Davis
Mass.
W14596
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This may Certify that Thomas Davis of Capt Daniel Shays C?ing 4th Massachusetts Battalion, his time being Expired I hereby Discharged from Said Regiment.
     Given under my Hand this 6th of March 1779
          /s/ Jonathan Allen. Maj of Regt
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J.L.. Edwards, Esq
Commiss of Pensions,
Washington
Sir
Please receive the enclosed application of
Lettice Davis and Hannah Bigelow, for one year
pension, under the act of 3d March, 1843-
when certificates are granted thereon, you
will forward the same to me.
Yours very respectfully,
William Jennison
Worcester, Mass
Apr. 24, 1844,
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Lettice Davis
Widow of Thomas Davis
Married July 18, 1782 - husband died 14 May 1840. Private. $80.00. Act 1838

Sent out 15
Hon. C. Hudson HR
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James L. Edwards, Esq.
Commissioner of Pensions, Washington

Sir, enclosed are papers in behalf of Lettice Davis, for a 5 years pension, on account of services rendered by her husband, Thomas Davis, deceased, in the Revolutionary War.
     When a certificate is granted, please send the same to me.
     Very respectfully,
      William Jennison

Worcester, Massachusetts
January 19, 1844
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Treasury Department,
Second Controller's Office
Feb. 1st 1844

Sir:
     Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled "An Act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States", and the third section of the Act of August 23, 1842, extending the time within which pensioners may receive their pensions from the pension agents, the widow of Thomas Davis, deceased, a pensioner on the Roll of the Massachusetts Agency, at the rate of eighty dollars per annum, under the law of the 4th June 1832, has been paid at this Department, from the 4th of March ~ to the 14th May 1840.
     Respectfully, yours,
     Albion K. Parris
     Comptroller
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Thomas Davis
14 After
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State of Massachusetts

I Thomas Davis a citizen of the United States, now resident of Holden in the County of Worcester in the State of aforesaid, do on oath testify and declare, that in the War of the Revolution, on or about the 6th of June, 1778, I entered and was engaged in the Lands service of the United States on the continental establishment, and served accordingly from that time to the 6th of March, 1779, being nine full months as a private soldier against the common enemy, without any interruption or absence: that I belonged to Capt. Daniel Shay's Company, Col. Rufus Putnam's Regiment, being the fourth in the Massachusetts Line and that I left service on the 6th of June 1779 and that, by reason of my reduced circumstances in life and poverty, I stand in need of assistance from my country for support, being now of the age of sixty four years.

And I hereby relinquish all claims to every pension heretofore allowed me by the laws of the United States, if any may be or hath been so allowed.

Be it remembered, That on this 14th day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and 18 pursuant to a law of the United States entitled, "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War", made and passed on the 18th of March, A.D. 1818, personally appeareth before me, 
     Edward Bangs
     Judge C. Court
    (Comptroller?), Western County

The above named Thomas Davis and after due examination and caution to testify and declare the whole truth, he maketh oath to the declaration aforesaid, and subscribes the same in my presence; and, on examination duly made by me the said Judge, it appreareth to my satisfaction that the said declaration is true.

Given under my Hand and the Seal of said Court, the day of the date aforesaid,
     Edward Bangs
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I Jonathan Flagg of Holden in the
County of Worcester aged seventy five year
being cautioned & sworn to depose and say 
that I have known Thomas Davis of
Holden aforesaid now present at the
taking of this deposition ever since his childhood. I know that in the summer of
1776 he enlisted for five months in the
Revolutionary service to go to New York.
I know that he went into the service at
that time, and during that time & sometime
in the fall of the same year I saw him
doing duty in the American Army at one
or two different times near White Plains in
New York
Jonathan Flagg
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Worcester
Of Aug 14 1835 
Then Jonathan Flagg above mentioned 
to me personally known
appeared before me and made oath to the
truth of the foregoing deposition by him such
scribed in my presence and I certify that the
said deponent is entitled to full credit
as a witness
Emory Washburn Justice of the Peace
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I Jona. Flagg of Holden in the County of Worcester do depose and say that so much of the declaration of Thomas Davis of Holden as relates to his first Engagement for 8 months in 1775 has been read to me and I declare the same to be true as I was a member of the same company & knew him well then & have known him Ever since.

I Artemus Dryden also depose to the same as above testified by Mr. Flagg as I was a member of said company during all said time and also for one month more during Which last mentioned month said Davis was also a member and served his time out - I knew him well then and have known him well Ever since as we are townsmen
           /s/ Jonathan Flagg
          /s/ Artemus Dryden
Worcester Augt 14 1832
  Sworn to before me & I certify that the deponents are men of Truth
        /s/ John Davis.  Justice of the Peace
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I Benjamin Mead of Rutland in the County of Worcester and State of Massachusetts aged 73 years, do testify that I am well acquainted with Thomas Davis of Holden in said County that we served together as soldiers in the army of the Revolution in the months of September and October 1777 in Capt. Samuel Thompson's Company for the term of thirty days, at least, that the said Davis performed said Service at Fort Edward & vicinity in the State of New York and that, according to my best recollection, he was a Sargeant and was regularly dismissed from the service a few days after the capture of Burgoyne's troops.  
Benja. Mead

State of Massachusetts
County of Worcester SS.  July 31st. 1833.
Then personally appeared Benjn. Mead above said & signed & made oath to the truth of the above affidavit and I further certify that I am well acquainted with the said Mead. That he is a man of truth and veracity- and that his testimony is entitled to entire credit.  
Before me
Rufus Putnam Justice of the Peace
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57[6]8
Lettice Davis. ---
5422
266.
Princeton ---
$80 per an
Worcester County --
Massachusetts.
Wm. Jennison
Worcester
Mass
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Declaration,
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress, of the 3d. March, 1843, granting pensions for one year to certain Widows , who have received pensions under the act of July 7, 1838.
State of Massachusetts,}
County of Worcester,}    Ss.

On this twenty third day of April, 1844, personally appeared before the subscriber, one of the Justices of the peace in and for said County of Worcester, Lettice Davis, (Lettice Davis is underlined) a resident of Princeton, in the County of Worcester, aged eighty years, who, being first duly sworn, according to law, doth, on her oath, make the foregoing Declaration, in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the Act of Congress, passed on the 3d. March, 1843, granting pensions to Widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War__That she is the Widow of Thomas Davis, who was a private, in the army of the Revolution, but in what Company or Regiment, or under what Officers, she is not now able to state, and she begs leave to refer, for such evidence, to the documents now in the office of the War Department, at Washington in the case of the application of her said husband for a pension, which was granted to him, under the Act of Congress of the 7th of June, A.D.1832, and also of her former application for a five years pension, which was granted on the sixth of April, A.D. 1844, as appears by her certificate, numbered 8,267, under the Act of July 7, 1838.
And the annual amount of the pension which she received under the Act of July 7, 1838, was eighty Dollars.
She further declares that she is still a widow.
Sworn to, and subscribed,          Lettice Davis
on the day and year above written.
Before W. Jennison, Justice Peace 
Witness, Wm C. Head

And I further certify that the said Lettice Davis is personally known to me.
William Jemison, J. peace.