Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 22082, for Jonas Rice, Vermont
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Service
Mass.
New York
VT.

Rice, Jonas
Elizabeth

Number
W. 22082
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Vermont 902
Jonas Rice

of Rultand Co in the State of Vermont who as a Lt. & private in the companies commanded by Captain Blakely & others & the reg't commanded by Col. Malcolm in the N.Y. Services for 21 1/2 months as Lieut., 2 1/2 months as private. =24.

Incribed on the Roll of Vermont at the rate of 294 Dollars 98 Cents per ann. to commence on the 4th day of March 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 22 day of October 1832 and sent to R. Temple
Rultand V't.

Arrears to 4th of Sept. 1832    442.47
Semi=anl, allowance ending 
4th M'ch 1833                         147.49
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                                              $589.96
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{Revolutionary Claim
Act June 7, 1832}
Recorded by John M Duffield, Clerk
Book D [missing] 4 Page 81

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Payment ordered [illegible] resumed [illegible] to Hon. Wm. Slade 16 July 1835.

Sect. Roswell Bottom
Sept 10 '39
let to Hon. W. Slade April 4 '43
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Dead. See letter April 18.1843 to Hon. W. Slade -- do to same May 1. 1843.
do Hon. S. Foot abt 8.'44

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Vermont - 7150 --

Elizath Rice widow of Jonas Rice who was a pensioner under the Act of 7 June '32 and who died on the 17 February 1839 -- of Rutland Co in the State of Vermont who was a  priv: corp: & Lieut. in the ___________ commanded by Captain ________________ of the [blank] commanded by Col Malcolm in the [blank] line for Private 2 mos: 15 days Corpl. ----------- Lieut: ---- 10 ----9[illegible]

Inscribed in the Roll of burlington at the rate of 148 Dollars 82 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 186.

Certificate of Pension issued the 4th day of April 1843 and sent to Hon. Wm. Slade, Middlebury Vermont

Arrears to the 5th  of 
Semiannual allowance ending  
$744.10

[Act July 7, 1838.]
Recorded by Nellstenesh Clerk;
Book A Vol. 2 Page 55
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[left side of document]Payable to Apheus Rice, Betsey Lee, and Harriet Bond, only surviving children.

Vermont 7150
Elizabeth Rice, decd. widow of Jonas Rice N.Y. who was a penioner under the Act of 1832 and who died on the 17. February 1839. of rutland Co. in the State of Vermont was a Pr. Corpl. & Lient. in the ------------ commanded by Captain ------------ of the regt. commanded by Col. Malcolm in the [blank] line for [blank]
widow died 15. March 1863.

Inscribed on the Roll of Burlington at the rate of 183 Dollars 26 Cents per annum, to commence on the [begin strike through] 4th day o March, 1835 [end strike through] 17th February 1839
Increased from $148:82

Certificate of Pension issued the 2? -- day of July 1844 and sent to Hon. Soln. Foot, Rutland, Vermont

Former payments to be deducted.
Total amoun, $[blank]

[Act July7, 1838.]
Recorded by D. Brown Clerk,
Book D. Vol. 1. Page 137.

[rigt side of document] Sec. Let. Fo P Hagner
3d Aniv. Jany. 24. "45
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No 1112

admitted 

Lt. 21 1/2 months
       2 1/2 private
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     24.

served much longer.

$294.98

902
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BRIEF in the cast of J [strike through]osias[end strike through] onas Rice of Rutland County in the State of Vermont
(Act 7 June, 1832)

1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge?   A Court of Probate
2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?
3. How old is he? 77 years
4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed.

Period  |  Duration of Service  | Rank  | Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.
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In 1775 |  8 months | As a private | (Gen.) Capt. Drakes Col. Gardner  Massachusetts Line
1776 | 1 year | do | Capt. Peters  Col. Leonard
1777 | 1 month 14 days | do | volunteered officers not named Massachusetts line
1778 | 9 months | do | Capt. Gates. Col. Putnam
1779 | 3 months | do | Capt. Wilson Col. Dana
1 July 1780 | 3 months | Lieutenant | Capt. Blakely Col Malcolm Vermont troops
6th Feb'y 1781 | until 15th Dec. following | do | Capt. Blakely Col. Fletcher
April 1782 | until 15th Dec. following | Capt. Boyden Maj. Brownson

5. In what battles was he engaged? Trenton, Princeton, Burgoyne's capture
6. Where did he reside when he entered the service: Guilford Vermont
7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by indicental evidence, or by the rolls?  The three last services are proved by his commissions which accompany his declaration, the second by live living witnesses.
8. ARe the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? Papers conect

*Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.

J.M. Duffield Examining Clerk.
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Jonas Rice
No. 1112
21 1/2 mo. Lieut
34   "   Private

PO
July 28, 1832
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State of Vermont }
Rutland County, ss.}

On this 18th day of July A.D. 1832 personally appeared in open Court before the Judge of the Probate Court of Rutland Dist. now sitting, Jonas Rice a resident of the County of Rutland and State of Vermont, aged 77 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 7, 1832.

That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers, and served as herein stated.

In 1775, he lived in Guilford in the State of Vermont, & immediately after the battle of Lexington he marched to Cambridge & enlisted for 8 months & served in Capt. Draper's Co. Col. Gardner Regt. was at Cambridge during the battle of Bunker Hill. Col. Gardner was mortally wounded, & afterward the Regt. was commanded by Col. Bond. In 1776, & a few days after his time was out in the above mentioned service, he enlisted for one year in Capt. Peters' company, Col. Leonard Regt. of Massachusetts, was stationed at Roxbury until the enemy left Boston, when he marched to New York, was there when the enemy took possession of New York, relocated to Harlem Heights, Frogs Point where they had a skirmish, thence to White Plains, Kings Ferry, thence thro' New Jersey to Pennsylvania & joined the army at [illegible], opposite Trenton, & to Chatham, N. Jersey, where he was discharged -- was in the battles of Trenton & Princeton, having volunteered after his time expired & served six weeks. In 1777 he served 6 weeks as a volunteer to assist in the capture of Burgoyne. In 1778 he enlisted & served nine months in Capt Gates company in Col. Rufus Putnam Regt. of Mass. [illegible] Brigade -- served at White Plains & then Prist[?], & worked on the Fist. In 1779 he enlisted for 3 months & served in Capt. Wilson's Co. Col Dana Regt. & served at Hudson & Albany. [illegible] 1. July 1780 he was appointed Lieutenant & commissioned by Gov. Clinton & served three [illegible, including strike through] Fishkill then march to West Point, Haverstraw Bay, then back & to Albany then to Fort Herkimer & back to Fort Plain, when his  term expired -- he served in Capt Blakesley Company, Col. Malcolm's Regt. of N. York levies. On the 10th of Feb. 1787 he was appointed & commissioned by Gov. Chittenden Lieut. in Capt. Blakesley's company, Col.. Fletcher, Regt of Vermont [illegible] to serve until the 15 of Dec. following in defending the frontiers, & served out his time at Castleton & in scouting along the shores of Lake Champlain. On the 1..April 1782 he was again commissioned by Gov. Chittenden as Lieut. & served in Capt. Boyden company, in a Battalion commaded by  Maj. Gid. Brownson, in defending the frontiers until the 15. of Dec. following his commissions accompany this. He knew Genl. Washington, Sullivan, Lee, Gates, the traitor Arnold, & many other officers of the Continental Army. He was at ARnold quarters about a week before he attempted to give case
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West Point. His whole service answers to 21 1/2 months as Lieut. & 34 months as Private & Corporal. He was born at Worcester Mass. the 21 June 1755, but knows of no record of his age ut he presumes it is recorded at Worcester. He has resided in Orwell where he now lives for the last 48 years. The clergyman in Orwell was lately dismissed, but he is known to Apollos Austin & Roswell Bottom Esqs. whose affidavits he has present

He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, and declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of the Agency of any State.

[signed] Jonas Rice
[written in right margin]
Mr Rice cannot write the consequence of rheumatism. His name is put to this by his direction in the handwriting of R. [illegible]

Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid. 

R.C.Royce Regr

We [blank] a Clergyman residing in [blank] and [blank] residing in the same place, hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with [blank] who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be [blank] years of age; that he is reputed and believed, in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.

Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.

And the Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary soldier, and served as he states. And the Court further certifies that it appears to them that Appollos Austin Esq. who has signed the [inserted] accompanying affidavits [ end insert] [strike through] preceding certificate [end strike through], is a [strike through] Clergyman {end strike through], resident in Orwell and that Roswell Bottom who has also signed the same, is a resident in Orwell and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.

I Rodney C. Royce Regr. [strike through] Clerk [end strike through] of the Court of Probate do hereby certify, that the foregoing contains the orignal proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Jonas Rice for a Pension. 

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 23d day of July A.D. 1832

R.C.Royce Regr.
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5859
Elizabeth Rice
[illegible]
Act 7. July 38'
Decd 39

Aoned
    2.15 or pri    8.33
---- 26  Corpl   3.17
10.  9    Lt.     137.32
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                     148.82
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148.82        $744.10


Hon. W. Slade
Middlebury
Vt
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State of Vermont
Rutland County ss.

On this 6th day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty eight personally appeared before me the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace within and for the County of Rutland aforesaid Elizabeth Rice eighty one years of age who being duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath make the following Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision of the act of Congress passed the seventh day of July 1838. That she is the Widow of Jonas Rice, late of said Orweell in said County deceasd who was a soldier and officer in the Revolutionary Army of the United Sttes but in what Company or Regiment she cannot tell. That the said Jonas served in different capacities and in various companies during the term of his service. She further declares that she was marrried to the said Jonas Rice on the 13th day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-six. That said marriage was soemnized at Castleton in the aforesd County of Rutland by Brewster Higley Esq. and that he husband the aforesaid Jonas Rice died on the 17th day of Feby AD 1839 and that she has remained a Widow ever since. That she was not Married to the said Jonas prior to his leaving the Army, but that the Marriage took place previous to the first day of January seventeen hundred and ninety four. viz=at the time above stated.  She further declared that she has not now in her possession any Documentary proof of the services of her late husband the said Jonas Rice other than that he was on the Pension Roll and died a Pensioner and his Warrant was then sent to the Pension office at Washington where the commissions of hte said Jonas and al the documentary evidence of the services in the
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the Revolutionary War of the said Jonas Rice have been sent. to which she refered the department as she is unable to facilitate the investigation of the Department by any thing in her recollection. She further says that she is very feeble in bodily health besides being in such a [illegible] situation that she has not been [strike through] out [end strike through] able to ride in any carrriage for six years past and is unable to be moved in any way whatsoever. Only to be drawn in her chair from one room to another in the house and that her decripitude was in a great  measure occasioned by a full [illegible] years since and in consequence of her said decrepitude she is unable to attend court. She also says that she as surviving Widow of said Jonas Rice on forwarding his Pension Warrant to the Pension department due the arrearage Pension due on said Warrant being the Pension from the 18th day of September 1838 to the 17th day of February 1839, the day of his decease.

Elizabeth (her X mark) Rice

Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written before me; and I certify that the deponent is personally known to me and that she is old and feble and very decrepice and unable to attend court.

Roswell Bottom ss Justice Peace
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War Department
Reolutinary Claim.

I certify that, in conformity with the law of the United States, of the 7th July 1838, Elizabeth Rice, deceased, late of Vermont, widow of Jonas Rice, who was a Private, Corporal and Lieutenant in the Reovlution, was entitled to a pension at the rate of One Hundred and Eighty-three Dollars and Twenty-six cents per annum; and having died on the 16th of March 1863, the amount due, from the seventeenth of February eighteen hundred and thirty-nine the time of her husband's death, to the 6th of March 1841, is payable to Alpheus Rice, Betsey Lee and Harriet Bond, only surviving children of Elizabeth Rice, deceased, [strike through] first deducting [end strike through] the amount already paid [struck through] [illegible] said and [end strike through] to be deducted.

Given at the War Office of the United States, this 20 day of July one thousand eight hundred and forty-four.

Secretary of War.

Examined and }
Countersigned}   Commissioner of Pensions.
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information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau.

Jonas Rice  W.F. 22082

Dates of Enlistment or Appointment | Length of Service | Rank | Officers under Whom Service was Rendered | State

May 1 1775 | 8 mos. | Pvt. | (Captain) Moses Draper | Colonel Gardner | Mass.
Colonel Bond | " [Mass}
1776 | 1 yr 6 wks | " | (Captain) Nathan Peters | Colonel Ebenezer Leonard | " [Mass}
Aug. 29 1777 | 26 days | " | (Captain) Josiah Boyden | (Colonel) Wm. Williams | Vt
1778 | 9 mos | " | Captain Benjamin Gates | (Colonel) Rufus Putnam | Mass
Sept. 1779 | 2 mos | " | Captain Wilson | (Colonel) Dana | Mass
July [?] 1780 | 3 mos | Lieut. | Captain Blakesley | (Colonel) Wm. Malcom | N.Y.
Feb 10, 1781 | Dec. 15, 1781 | Lieut. | Captain [illegible] Blakeslee | (Colonel) Samuel Fletcher | Vt
Apr 1, 1782 | Dec. 15, 1782 | Lieut. | Captain Boyden | Maj. Gideon Brownson | " [Vt]

Battles engaged in, East Trenton, Trenton, Princeton
Residence of solider at enlistment, Guilford, Windham Co., Vt.
Date of application for pension, July 18, 1832 [illegible]
Residence at date of application, Orwell Vt.
Age at date of application, born at Worcester Mass June 22, 1755
died Feby 17, 1839
Remarks: Soldier was at Castleton Vt Mar 13, 1786 Elizabeth Fairchild She was al pension on an app. ex. July 6, 1839 while a resident of Rutland Co Vt. aged 81 years. She diied at Orwell Vt. Mar 16, 1843, Alpheus Betsey Lee and Harriet Bond were the only surviving children.

Very respectfully, 
Commissioner

31793b5m1c-07
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Feb. 17/94 Mil. Hist
Mrs. W.R. Pitt, New Rochelle, NY C 1911 Apr 5 - Mrs. Louise A. Ferguson

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Rev WIDOW, &c.

File No. 22082
Elizabeth Rice
Widow of Jonas Rice
Lt. Rev. War

Act July 7th 1838
Index: Vol. M, Page 166

[Arrangement of 1870.]
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V 5859
Elizabeth Rice
Vt. Rejected

Let to Hon. W. Slade Mar. 3 '43

ach 7. July 38
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To the Hon. J.L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington
District of Columbia
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Orwell, Rutland County, Vt. Feby 6th 1835

To the Hon. J.L. Edwards

Sir I am so unfortunate to be one of those Pensioners who have recd their pension Certificate through the agency of Robert Temple Esqr whose improper conduct has rendered it necessary the duty of the Pensions department to suspend payment in those cases in which he was concerned. From a letter [illegible] by the department which has been publishd in this region for the benefit of Pensioners. I perceive that it will be necessary for me to forward to the Pension Office the statment of the principle facts on which I claim a Pension and I hasten to attend to it without delay. My first service  commenced by my enlistment under Capt. Moses Draper about the 1st of May 1775 and I servd in his company in Col. Bonds Regt eight months thereafter it being in Genl. Green's Brigade and Genl. Charles Lees Division in the Massachusetts Line. The service [illegible] performed in the vicinity of Boston -- in a few days [illegible] the expiration of my eight months service. I re-enlisted for one year under Capt Nathan Peters. Col. Leonard's Regt. Genl. Charles lee's Division - Mass Line - and served through it years in N. York, N. Jersey and Pennsylvania during their [illegible] the first engagement I was in was at East Chester. State of N.Y. in which the Regt. to which I belonged was engaged with the advanced guard of the Enemy who had landed a considerable force at Horse Neck. We were finally repulsed by a reinforcement from the main army of the enemy. & we cost in the Battle Killd & wounded 16 or 17 men. The next Battle in which I was engaged was the Battle of Trenton. at the taking of about nine hundred Hessians. The third engagement was in the Battle of Princeton, which was a few days after the Battle of Trenton. After the Battle of Trenton and previous to the Battle of Princeton the term for which I had enlisted (with most of the N. England troops) had expired and at the solicitation of Genl. Washington we again enlisted for six weeks onger and it was during the six weeks that we fought the Battle of Princeton. The next serrvice I performed was as a volunteer to go with the Militia at the time Burgoyne was captured. The Militia were drafted for six weeks. Their term expired two or three days previous to Burgoynes surrender and we had (unfortunately) left before
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the general engagement with his army. In the year 1778 I served as a levy to reinforce the Army of the United Statesi nine months. This service I performed in Capt. Benjamin Gates Company. Col. Rufus Putnam Regt. Genl. Nixon's Brigade and Genl. Gates Division. We were stationed some of the time at White Plains, West Point, and at Peekskill, and the serrvice was all performed in the state of N.Y. All the service above related I performed as a private soldier. In the year 1779 I volunteered to go with the Massachusetts Militia from the Town of Wooster for [illegible] months. We went into serrvice some time the last of Septr and marched to Albany, State of N.Y. from thence up the Mohawk River and after a service of two months we were discharged. This service also was as a private soldier. In the year 1780 in the months of August, Septr and Octr I serd as 1st Lieut. in Capt. Blakeley's Company, Col. Wm. Malcom's Regt., Genl. James Clinton's Brig in the N.York State Troops. The service was performed withint the state . My commission I suppose is lodged in the Pensions Office. as I have not seen it since I gave the same to Wm. Temple. and also my two subsequent commission. I left these all with Temple. In the year 1781 I servd as Lieut under Capt. Blakely Col. Sam. Fletcher Regt. Genl. Roger Enos Brigade of the Vermont Troops. This service was confined to the state of Vermont. I erd from Feby 'till the winter following. In the year 1782 I servd as Lieut. under Capt. Josiah Boyden in Major Gideon Brownson's Battalion of the Vermont Troops from the latter part of March till the fore part of the winter following. This serrvice was also in the state of Vermont.

My place of residence during the time of service above related was in the Town of Guilford, County of Windham, State of Vermont.  Soon after the close of the Revolutionary War I took up my residence in the Town of Orwel wherre I have continued to reside to the present time.

W. Robert Temple of Rutland drew up my declaration and I made oath to the same before him as a magistrate. The annual amount of my Pension is $296.988 and I have Recd it regular semiannually up to Sept 4, 1834. The [illegible] of my pension in arrear up to 4th March 1833 I recd through the agency of W. Temple. Since then I have recd. it from the Bank at Burlington Vt. through the agency of different individuals of my own Town.

Jonas Rice
Jonas Rice
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I Edmund Bemiss of Lawful Age testify and say that in the year of our Lord one Thousand seven Hundred seventy six I was personally acquainted with Jonas Rice at the time soldier in Capt. Nathan Peters Company in the Regiment Commanded by Colonel Ebenezer Leonard in the Massachusetts Line. I further state that I was knowing to his, the said Jonas,doing Duty faithfully as a soldier in said Regiment for the time of one full year. I likewise testify that I have no interest in this claim.

Dated at Whitingham, this 2 Day of November 1819.

[signed] Edmund Bemiss

State of Vermont  }
Windham County ss }
Whitingham November the 2 AD 1819 This Day Edmund Bemiss the signer of the above Deposition personally appeared and after being carefully examined and Duly Cautioned made sollom oath that the foregoing deposition by him subscribed contains hte truth and nothing but the truth.

Amos Brown Justice of the Peace

This may certify that the above named Edmund Bemiss is a person of truth and of good character and respectability.

Amos Brown Jusice Peace

State of Vermont
Windham County Court Clerk's office,
Brattleborough, February 23rd A.D. 1829

I certify that Gilbert Denison, Esquire, was on the 13th day of October A.D. 1819, an Assistant Judge of the County Court of the said County of Windham, and that Amos Brown, Esquire, was on the 2nd day of November A.D. 1819 Justice of the Peace for said county and that their several signatures to the paperrs hereto annexed, are in their own proper hand writings, respectively. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand as affixed the seal o said county court on the day and year above written. 

James Elliot, Clerk
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State of Vermont      }
Windham County ss}

I Ebenezer Chamberlain of Guilford in the County of Winham & State of Vermont of Lawful Age do testify declare and say that in the year o our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy six I was a private soldier in the Regiment Commanded by Coll Ebenezer Leonard nd was well acquainted with Jonas Rice at that time as soldier in the Company Commaded by Capt. Nathan Peters & in the Regiment commanded by Coll Ebenezer Leonard in the Massachusetts line and further state that I was knowing to his the said Jonas Rice doing Duty as a soldier in Lee's Regiment for and during one year and farther the deponent say not. 

Ebenezer Chamberlain

State of Vermont      }
Windham County ss}
Brattleboro Octover 13th 1819

There personally appeared the above name Ebenezerr Chamerlain and after being carefully examined and Duly Cautioned made sollomn oath that the above Deposition by him Subscribed & contains the Truth and nothing but the truth.

before me Gilbert Denison } Agt Judge of Windham County Court

This may certify that the above named Ebenezer Chamberlain is a person of truth & veracity and of good caracter and respectability and has no interest in the said Rice receiving a pension.

Gilbert Denison } Agt Judge of Windham County Court
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Elizabeth Rice
171838
Sa papers
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I Alpheas Rice of Orwell in the County of Adison & State of Vermont depose & say that I am the son of Elizbeth Rice deceased who was a Revolutionary Pensioner under the Act of July 7th 1835 & 4th of March 1843, that I believe she was entitled to a larger amount than she drew and ask for a reexamination of her case under the agency of Stephen Thomas of West Fairlee Vermont
Alpheus Rice

Subscribed & sworn to by the above affiant this 14th day of June 1850
Before me Roswell Bottum Jr Justice of the Peace

State of Vermont
Secretary of State's Office
Montpelier July 3, 1850
   hereby certify that Roswell Bottum Jr Esquire whose name is subscribed to the foregoing certificate, is, and was at the date thereof a Justice of the Peace within and for the County of Addison, duly appointed and qualified, and that full credit is due to his official acts & attestations as such

Given under my hand and the seal of this office this third day of July A.D. 1850
Ferrand F Merrill
Secretary of State
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Certificate of the Secy.
of the State of Vermont
Service of Jonas Rice.
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State of Vermont
Secretary of State's Office
Montpelier, March 18, 1843

I certify that there is on file in this office a paper, purporting to be "A Pay Roll of Capt Josiah Boyden's Company in Col. William Williams' Regiment of Militia in the service of the United States, on an expedition to Bennington, &c. in 1777." I further certify that the name of Jonal Rice, corporal, appears upon said pay roll, with an allowance for twenty-six days service annexed the said service commencing August 29th and ending September 23d, 1777.
I further certify that there is on file in this office another paper, purporting to be "A Pay Roll of Capt. Blakeslee's Company in Col. Fletcher's Battalion and Gen. Enos' Brigade in the service of the State of Vermont" I further certify that the name of "Lt. Jonas Rice" appears upon said payroll with an allowance for one hundred and fifty five days' service annexed_ the said service commencing July 1st, 1781.
I further certify that there is on file in this office another paper, purporting to be a "List of (the names and sums of) Capt James Blakeslee's Pay Roll for himself and company in the service of the State of Vermont, from the beginning of the campaign, 1781 to the 30th of June
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in said year, inclusive, taken from the original in the Paymaster's Office." I further certify that the name of "Lt. Jonas Rice" appears upon said list or pay roll, with an allowance of £11.1.9" for service, annexed. 
I further certify that all of said payrolls appear to have been examined, allowed and ordered to be paid, by a committee acting under the authority of this state, and that they were duly paid by the Treasurer of the State of Vermont

Given under my hand and the seal of this office at Montpelier, this eighteenth day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty-three.
C. L. Knapp
Acting Secretary of State
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The Hon. J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington
Distric of Columbia

Pension Business

[written crosswise across left end of address]
5859 
July 31
Vt
Act 7 July 1838
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Hon. J.L. Edwards

Sir Enclosed is the Declaration of the Widow Elizabeth Rice of this Town, made in order to obtain the benefits of act of Congress granting Pensions to Widows of Revolutionary officers and soldiers, and also secondary affidavits designed to prove the Marriage of the present applicant to Jonas Rice in right of whom she claimed a Pension. The commissioner and other testimony of the said Jonas were forwarded to the Department when he applied for a Pension. To which the Department is refused to find evidence of the services of said Jonas Rice. It is believed the enclosd tesimony will prove satisfactory to establish the marriage. If not, the testimony of two or three others can be obtained who witnesses the marriage. Their testimony was not procured because it was thought two witnesses were sufficient. The old Lady with much deference, requests as early an attention to her case as is consistent wit hthe business of the Department.

Very Respectfully. Your Obedient servant in behalf of Mrs. Rice

Roswell Bottum Jr.
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[written crosswise across left end of address)
May 1 1843
Eliz Rice
Vt [illegible] 38

[postmark]
Middlebury
APR [illegible]

[stamped]
FREE

[main address]
J.L. Edwards Esq
Com. of Pensions.
Washington D.C.
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Middlebury April 26. 1843

Sir
I have received your letter of the 18th informing me that the money due Elizabeth Rice on account of her pension is payable to her children. She died on the 16th of March, and there was of [illegible] nearly half a months pension due her under the act
of the 3rd of March. Will you do me the
favor to send me the forms of providing
[illegible] to enable the children to obtain the
five years pension, and that due under the
law of March 3d.

Reputfully yours
William Stade


J.L. Edwards Esq
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Middlebury Vermont
March 24. 1843

Sir
In [illegible] of the suggestion of your letter
of the 3d instant I have obtained certificates from the Comptroller of Newyork, and the Secretary of the State of Vermont touching the services of Jonas Rice, whose widow, Elizabeth Rice, is an applicant for a pension which I herewith send you. You will, of course, know haw much service is indicated by the allowances to Mr Rice as stated in the certificates.

The certificates do not cover all the service described in your letter to me, as having been
claimed for Mr. Rice. I know not what may be the state of the evidence in regard to the terms of service not proved by the certificates. I trust that the absence of proof by the rolls will not be taken of course as conclucive against the existence of other service, because I suppose it to be well understood
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that in the lapse of time, many of the rolls
have been lost. This, I am sure is the case
with the rolls of the Vermont service. You
will of course, however, divide the matter upon
the priniples which govern in other and Similar cases.

Please send the certificate of Mrs Rice's pension to
Your obedient servant
William Slade


J. L. Edwards Esq
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[postmark]
MIDDLEBURY
[illegible]

[stamped]
FREE

J.L. Edwards Esq
Com of Pensions,
Washington
D. C

[written crosswise across left end of address]
Com
Eliz Rice
Vt [illegible] '38
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Middlebury Vermont
April 13, 1843

Sir
Yours has been received ordering the pension
certificate of Elizabeth Rice. I have by a
letter recently received, that Mrs. Rice died
a very few days before I sent you the papers
accompanying my letter of the 24th ultima.
I suppose her heirs are entitled to the five
years pension due her at her decease, and
will thank you to send me the numary
intentions & forms of providing for obtaining
it.

Very respectfully
Your obedient servant
William Slade



J L Edwards Esq
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[written across left end of address]
Elizabeth Rice


Hon. Solomon Foot
Mens Congress
Washington City
D.C.-

[written across right end of address]
Hon. Solo Foot
HR
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Orwell Apl 26. 1844.

Hon. S. Foot.

Dr Sir. by Request of Mr. Alpheus Rice I
enclose to you a certificate of the Probate Court of the death of his late Mother and names of her surviving children which we suppose is the evidence contemplated in the
requisition of the Pension department. If not correct or if anything further is requisite. we will procure it-

Please accept my thanks for your kind communications. I have recd several documents &c. for which I am greatly
obliged. I would not [illegible]vyou but hope you will continue such Favours, when convenient.

Our present tariff regulations (judging from our recent accounts from the seat of Government) is not so easily broken up. I think the country generally are satisfied with it as it is - especially the North and Middle
States and the South should be if they would consult their ultimate interests. God grant that the present systems may be fairly tested at least.

The Baltimore Convention of confirmation
is here now the engrossing topic. Vermont I think will be well represented there. Several from our town and Shoreham are expecting to go-- I understand that some from almost every town in Rutland County will be there. It is expected that will be a glorious affair.

The Clay Ball is rolling in mighty power
God speed it onward

Capt. Rice will be equally obliged if you will see to the enclosed certificate, that it is presented at the Pension department-

Very truly your Obt Servant
Roswell Bottum Jr.
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House of Reps Feb 28 1843

Sir
I send herewith papers in the case of Mrs
Elizabeth Rice, applicant for a pension, which,
together with papers already on file in your
office, will, I suppose, be sufficient to obtain a pension for her. I should be very glad to have
the case acted on in season to enable you
to send me the certificate by Saterday,
as I shall leave on Monday next.

Respectfully yours
William Slade


J. L Edwards Esq
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Pension Agency
In Burlington July 9, 1844

In reply to your letter of 2" instant 
have to state that no letter under date of 17 June in relation to the increase of pension of Elizabeth Rice has been recd at this agency. I have one under date of 27" June which I enclose herewith.

I have the honor to be
Very Respectfully,
Yr obt Srvt
Chas. J. Warner for the Pesion Agent


J. L. Edward
Comm of Pensions
Washington
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7150
Elizabeth Rice
[illegible] Decd 
A. Vt
Act 7th July 38
-------------
Add
12m 25 ds pr       $42.77
        26 Corp           3.17
10m 9ds Lt          137.32
-----------------------------
       .0                $183.26
                      --------------

to commence Feb 17th per an 1839
the day of the husbands death
Deduct what has been paid under certificate
[illegible] April 6th 1843.
certificate to be issued in favor of Alpheus Rice Betsey Lee and Harriet Bond only surviving children.

Honable Sol Foot.

Rutland Vt
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The certificate of the children of Elizabeth Rice is sent to ascertain what is the meaning of the last line "The amount already paid to be deducted"
5 years at H148 -52 was paid under former certificate

JH

To Pension Officer
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Certificate of the
Comptroller of N. York
Services of Jonas Rice
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In pursuance of a law passed the 27th of April, 1784, entitled "An act for the settlement of the pay of the Levies and Militia, for their services in the late War, and for other purposes therein mentioned," the following certificates have been issued, bearing interest at five per cent per annum, viz:

31st July 1780 | Jonas Rice Lieutenant | 6.7.1

15th Oct " | do   do   do   | 29.15.9

NY    3 mo 12 ds Lt
         6.   17.
              26 Confer
----------------------------------------------
State of New York
COMPTROLLER'S OFFICE, Albany, March 21
1843.

I hereby certify the above to be true extracts from Book No. 3 now remaining in this office, and that the service for which the certificates above named were issued, were performed under the following officers, viz:

First-under Capt. James Blakesley in Col. William Malcolm Regt
Second, " "  do do "  " do   do  "
Third, ""   ""  ""
Fourth, ""  ""  ""
Fifth, ""  "  ""
Sixth, ""  ""   ""
Seventh, "" ""  ""
Eight, ""  ""  ""
Ninth, "" "" ""
Tenth, ""  ""  ""

Philip Phelps
Dep. Comptroler

fees 50¢
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5859
Rejected
Sec Roswell Bottum
Sept 16 '39
Act 7 July 38
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State of Vermont
Rutland County 
Be it Known that on the 16th day of February
A.D. 1843. before the Subscriber a justice of the Peace within and for the County of Rutland aforesaid personally appeared Earl Cushman a resident of the town of Orwell in the County of Rutland aforesd and made oath in due form of law that he was personally acquainted with Jonas Rice late of said Cowell deceased, that he died on the 17th day of February AD 1839
and that his widow, Elizabeth Rice has not since the death of her husband, the said Jonas Rice, been married, and that she is still a widow.

Earl Cushman

Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written.
Before me Roswell Bottum Jr Justice Peace

Roswell Bottum Jr. is a Justice of the peace, and
the above is his signature
Feb. 28. 1843
William Slade
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 Jonas Rice
testimony
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I, Apollos Austin of Orwell County of Rutland and State of Vermont of Lawful age being duly sworn do depose testify and say, that I have been acquainted with Lieut Jonas Rice of Sd
Orwell for more than forty years and that ever since my acquaintance with him he has sustained a character of the finest respectability, and do verily believe and it is uniformly believed in the Town of Orwell that the sd Jonas Rice did serve as a soldier and officer in the Revolutionary Army. He has in his
possession several commissions in sd Army, and no person doubt but that he served under them. The said Lieut Rice has resided in sd Orwell for more than forty years and still resides there and further I say not

Apollos Austin

Sworn and subscribed at SdOrwell this
19th day of July AD 1832 before me
Thomas D Hammond Justice Peace
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I, Roswell Bottum of Orwell, County of
Butland and State of Vermont of Lawful
age, being duly sworn do depose testify and
say that I have been acquainted with Lieut
Jonas Rice of said will for more them
forty years and during said time he has
sustained a character of the first respectability
I do believe and it is uniformly believed
in the Town of Orwell that he served as a
soldier and officer of the Revolutionary
Amy He has three commissions in his
possession under which it is confidently
all persons that he served in the Army of
the Revolution. He has resided in said town of
will for more than forty years and
still resides there and further I say not
Roswell Mother
Sworn and subscribed at said Oswell this
17th day of July AD 1832 before me
Roswell Bottan Jr Justice
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State of Vermont
I Robert Pierpoint Clerk of Rutland County Court do certify that Thomas D. Hammond & Roswell Bottum Jr before whom the annexed affidavits were taken, are Justices of the Peace for said County duly commissioned & that these names thereto [illegible] are in their
own proper handwriting.

In testimony whereof I hereunto set my
hand & affix the seal of said Court this 18th
day of July 1832
R. Pierpoint

Lt. Jonas Rice
Testimony
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State of Vermont }
Rutland County   } ss

On this 16th day of February AD 1843 personally appeared before the Subscriber a Justice of the Peace within and for the County of Rutland in the State of Vermont Elizabeth Rice a resident of Cowell in the County of Rutland aforesaid aged eighty four years, who being first duly sworn according to law doth
on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the acts of Congress passed July 7th
1838 and the 23d of August 1842 granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War. That she is
the Widow of Jonas Rice who was a Lieutenant in the Army of the Revolution and served in several campaigns during the Revolutionary
 war; the particular service or in what companies or Regiment he served, she is unable to state. She also declares that
she has not now in her possession and documentary proof of the services of her late husband the said Jonas Rice other than that
he was on the Pension Roll, and died a pensioner, and his Warrant was then sent to the Pension Office at Washington, where the Commissions of the said Jonas and all the documentary evidence of the services in the Revolutionary War of the said Jonas Rice have been sent to which she refers the department, as she is unable to facilitate the investigation of the department by anything in her recollection.

She also declares that she was married to the said Jonas Rice on the 13th day of March in the year seventeen hundred and eighty-six. that her husband the aforesaid Jones Rice died on the 17th day of February AD 1839, that she was not married to him prior his leaving the service, but the marriage took place previous to the first of Jany seventeen hundred and ninety-four viz at the time above stated. She further declares that after the death of the husband aforesaid she has not been married, and that she is still a widow. She further declares that in July 1839. she forwarded to the department at Washington her declaration together with testimony to prove the time of her marriage which she supposes is now on file in the department to which refers the department
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in the investigation of her case

Elizabeth (her X mark) Rice 
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above Written before Roswell Bottum Jr Justice of the Peace

Roswell Bottum Jr is a Justice of the Peace
and the above is his signature
Feb 28, 1843
William State
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State of Vermont }
Rutland County,  } SS.

On this 6th day of July in the year of our
Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty nine personally appeared before me the subscribed a Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Rutland Ichabod Higgins a resident
of the Town of Orwell in said County and to me personally known, who being duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following deposition. That he was present at the Marriage of Lieutenant Jonas Rice
(late of said Oswell deceased) and Elizabeth Fairchild. that said Marriage was solemnized at Castleton in said County of Rutland by Brewster Higley Esqr of said Castleton in the spring of the year seventeen hundred and eighty five, or seventeen hundred and eighty six -- and is not positive which of those years, but believes that said Marriage took place in the year 1786. The date by which he fixes the time at 1785 or 6. is the circumstance of his (the deponent) comeing to reside at sd Castleton, which he says was when he was fourteen years of age and that he was born in the year 1771 and that he came to Castleton in the latter part of the Winter of the year that he was fourteen and that the said Marriage took place that same spring - or a year from that Spring - which year the deponent is
unwilling to state positively, but believes from certain impressions on his mind that the marriage took place in 1786. But the fact, that he was present and witnessed said marriage and that it took place in 1785, 1786, he is positive in Stating. The Deponent further says that he has been acquainted (living in the same neighborhood), with the sd Elizabeth Fairchild now Elizabeth Rice to the present time and with the said Jonas Rice to the time of his decease.

Ichabod Higgins

Sworn and subscribed to
on the day and year above
written before me
Roswell Bottum Jr Justice Peace
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I hereby certify that I have been personally acquainted with Deacon Ichabod Higgins the deponent in the within Deposition for twenty years or more, and that he is a man of unimpeachable moral character and is considered a man of the strictest veracity.
Roswell Bottum Jr Justice Peace
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I Oliver R. Harris of Castleton in the County of
Rutland and State of Vermont of lawful age
depose testify and say that I have been town
Clerk, within & for the town of Castleton aforesaid
for eight years last past, that for a long time
previous to my holding the said office, I was
well acquainted with the records of said town
and I have recently made a thorough and
critical examination of the records aforesaid to
find the record of the marrige of Jonas Rice
late of Orwell in said County of Rutland deceased to Elizabeth Fairchild, now the widow of the said Rice, and there is no such record to be found and further saith not.

Oliver R Harris

State of Vermont
Rutland County
Castleton July 13th AD 1839
Personally appeared Oliver R. Harris who is well known by me the subscribing authority to be a person of trust and subscribed and made  follow oath that the foregoing Deposition is true.
Before me [illegible] Justice Peace
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State of Vermont
Rutland County SS 

I Frederick W. Hopkins Clerk of the County Court for the County of Rutland do certify that [illegible] Howe is a Justice of the Peace within and
for said county; that his commission
is dated the first day of December 1838
and Expires on the 30th day of November
1839. and I believe his signature to
the foregoing certificate is genuine. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand
and affixed the seal of said Court at Rutland this 20th day of July AD 1839

F. W. Hopkins
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I Olive Fisher of Castleton in the County of
Rutland and State of Vermont aged Seventy-nine years years, being duly sworn do depose and say that the I am sister to Mrs. Elizabeth Rice of Orwell in the aforesd County and State, and that I was present and witnessed the Marriage of Jonas Rice late of said Orwell deceased to my said Sister Elizabeth Rice (then Elizabeth Fairchild). said Marriage was solemnized by Brewster Higley Esq at Castleton aforesaid in March Seventeen hundred and
eighty six & that the am unable to state the day of the month. I recollect that I was married in the month of July in the year of our Lord Seventeen hundred and eighty five, and that my sister the said Elizabeth was married to the said Jonas Rice at the House of my Father in sd Castleton in the month of March following. I further say that that said Elizabeth lived with the said Jonas until the time of his death. that the sd Jonas died on the 17th day of February AD 1839 and that he was a soldier of the 
Revolution and a Pensioner at the time of his death and further I say not.

Olive Fisher

Sworn to and subscribed before me the subscriber a Justice of the Oldishan Peace for sd County of Rutland on the 15th day of July AD 1839 and I certify that I am not personally acquainted with the Deponent in this deposition but I have often heard mention made of her and I fully believe from report, that she is a person of truth and Credibility

Roswell Bottum Jr Justice Peace
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State of Vermont
Rutland County

I Frederick W. Hopkins Clerk of the County Court for the County of Rutland do certify that Roswell Bottum Jr. is a Justice of the Peace
within and for said County: that his commission is dated the first day of December 1838 and will upon on the thirtieth day of November 1839 and I believe that his signature
to the foregoing certificate is genuine
In testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at Rutland this 20th day of July A.D. 1839

F. W. Hopkins
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Pension Office
June 27th 1844

Sir,
The pension of Elizabeth Rice, widow of Jonas
Rice, under the Act of July 7th 1838, has been increased from One hundred and forty eight dollars and eighty two cents to one hundred and eighty three dollars and twenty six cents per annum. You will please pay her upon
the production of the proper voucher, at the last mentioned rate after declaring all payment heretofore made under the said Act.

I am, Sir,
Very respectfully
Your Obt Servt
J L Edwards

Pension Agent
Burlington,
Vermont
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The People of the STATE of NEW-[YOR]K
By the Grace of GOD, FREE and INDEPE[NDENT];

To Jonas Rice Gentleman...Greeting
We reposing especial Trust and Confidence, as well in your Patriotism, Conduct and Loyalty,
as in your Valour and Readiness to do us good and faithful Service; HAVE appointed and
constituted, and by these Presents, DO appoint and constitute you the said Jonas  Rice,
Lieutenant of a Company of the Levies of this State to reinforce the army of the United States

YOU are therefore, to take the said Company into your charge and care, as Lieutenant
thereof, and duly to exercise the Officers and Soldiers of that Company in Arms, who are hereby commanded to obey you as their Lieutenant and you are also to observe and follow such Orders and Directions, as you shall from Time to Time receive from our General and Commander in Chief of the Militia of our said State, or any other your Superior Officer, according to the Rules and Discipline of War, in
Pursuance of the Trust reposed in you; and for so doing, this shall be YOUR COMMISSION, for and during our good pleasure, to be signified by our Council of Appointment. IN TESTIMONY whereof we have caused our Seal for Military Commissions to be hereunto affixed. WITNESS our trusty and well beloved George Clinton Esquire our Governor of our State of NEW YORK, General and Commander in Chief of all the Militia, and Admiral of the Navy of the same, by and with the Advice and Consent of our said Council of Appointment at Kingston the first day of July in the fourth year of our INDEPENDENCE, and in the Year of our Lord, one Thousand Seven Hundred and eighty.

Geo. Clinton

Passed the Secretary's Of 11th Sepr 1780
By His ExCELLENCY's Command,
[illegible] Depy Secry
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His Excellency
THOMAS CHITTENDEN, Esquire,
Captain General, Goeller, and Commander in Chief in and over the State of VERMONT,

To Jonas Rice, Gentleman, GREETING.
IN Pursuance of your Election by the Genl Members of this State, to the Office of 
first Lieutenant of a company in a Battalion of Tracks said for the Defense of the Frontiers of sd State [illegible] of Gideon Brownson Esq is [illegible] Command and to continue in Service until the 15th Day o December next, unlesss 
sooner discharged: I DO, by the Presents, fully authorise and impower you to be first Lieutenant of a Company in said Battalion [illegible]. You are therefore carefully and diligently to discharge the Duty of [illegible]
by doing and performing all Manner
of Things thereunto belonging. ----And I do strictly charge and require all Officers and
Soldiers under your Command, to be obedient to your Orders as first Lieutenant. And you are to observe and follow such Orders and Directions from Time to Time, as you shall receive from me the Governor of this State for the Time being, or any other your superior Officer, according to the Rules and Discipline of War, and the Laws of this State, in Pursuance of the Trust reposed in you.

Given under my Hand, and the Seal of this State, this first Day of April AD 17?2 and in the 6th year of the Independence of the States.

Tho. Chitenden

By His Excellency's Command,
[Illegible] Secretary.
Entered in the War-Office, and examined by the Board.
[illegible] Ira Allen, Sec'ry of the Board of War
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His Excellency
THOMAS CHITTENDE[N]
Captain, General, Governor, and Comannder in [missing] the State of Vermont,

To Jonas Rice, Gentleman,

IN Pursuance of your Election by the Honoralbe the Board of W[missing]
a second Lieutenant in Capn [illegible] Col. Fletcher [missing] the Defense of the Frontiers of this State, and to continue i[missing] Day of December next, unless sooner discharged: I DO , by these [missing] and impower you to be a [illegible] Lieutenant in this [missing] the said Regiment. You [illegible]fore carefully and diligently [illegible] a second Lieutenant in the 
P Company by doing and performing all Manner of Things thereunto belonging. ----And I do strictly charge and require all Officers and Soldiers under your Command, to be obedient to your Orders as second Lieutenant in said Company and Battalion. And you are to observe and follow such Orders and Directions
from Time to Time, as you shall receive from me the Governor of this State for the Time
being, or any other your superior Officer, according to the Rules and Discipline of War, and the Laws of this State, in Pursuance of the Trust reposed in you.

Given under my Hand, and the seal of this state, this [illegible] day of February 1781
and in the 5th year of the Independence of this State.

Tho. Chittenden

By His Excellency's Command,
[illegible] Secretary.

Entered in the War-Office, and examined by the Board.
Attest. [illegible] Sec'ry of the Board of War. [illegible]
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3 - 871.
RECORD DIVISION.
Department of the Interior,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS
---
Briefed by A. [illegible]. 1/4/11
Claim No. _________________
Certificate No._________________________
Claimant _________________
Soldier Jonas Rice
Service Lieut.
Additional Service Rev.
No. ____ claim, State records 191__
No claim, combination records _____, 191___.
REMARKS:
Wid F.22,082
Chief Division
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Miss K. J. C. CARVILLE, Regent.
Mrs. WILLIAM R. PITT Vice-Regent.
Mrs. SETH C HUNSDON, Secy and Treas.
HUGUENOT CHAPTER
NEW ROCHELLE, N. Y.

Pension Office Agent,

Dear Sir
Will you kindly send me the records of Lieut
Jonas Rice Revolutionary Army, Orwell Vt He was one of the earliest pensioners of the Revolutionary Army. I wish the records
to enable a descendant of his to enter the Society of the Daughters of the Revolution.

Yours truly
Mrs. W. R. Pitt
V.R.D.R.
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Stamp of the U S Pension Office
Feb 6 1894
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Commissioner
Pension Office

Will you send me please the record of Jonas Rice who served in Rev War as Lieutenant battles
he served in 
Respectfully
(Mrs.) Louisa A. Ferguson
131. A St. N.E.
Washington D.C.
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Stamp of U S Pension Office
Mar 31 1911
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Div. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
WASHINGTON, D. C., February 17, 1895.

O. W. & N. 
M. E. C.

Madam:-
Referring to your request for information as to the military history of Jonas Rice, a soldier of the Revolutionary war, you are advised that he was granted a pension for twenty-one and one half months actual service as a Lieutenant and two and one half months actual service as a private, having enlisted in 1775 and having
left the service finally in the year 1782. The following are mentioned as officers under whom he served: Capt. Draper, Col. Gardner, Capt. Peters, Col. Leonard, Capt. Gates, Col. Putnam, Capt. Wilson, Col. Dana, Capt. Blakely, Col. Malcolm, Col. Fletcher, Capt. Hayden and Major Bronson. At the time of entering the service he resided at Guilford, Vermont. He states that he took part in the battles of Trenton and Princeton and was present at the
capture of Burgoyne.

On July 18, 1833 he was a resident of Rutland County, Vermont, and seventy-seven years of age.

Very respectfully,
Commissioner.

Mrs. W. R. Pitt,
New Rochelle, N. Y.
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State of Vermont
County of Rutland 

I Almon Warner Judge of the
Court of Probate for the District of Fairhaven in
said County holden at Castleton in and for said
district do hereby certify that satisfactory evidence has been exhibited to said Court that Elizabeth Rice was a pensioner of the United States at the rate of one hundred and forty eight dollars & eighty two cents per annum, was a resident of the County of Rutland, in the State of Vermont, and died in the town of Cowell in said district, in the State of
Vermont in the year 1843, on the 16th day of March
that she left three children whose names are
Alpheus Rice, Betsey Lee, & Harriet Band.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto
set my hand and affixed my seal of
office at Castleton this 22d day of April
in the year of our Lord 1844
Almon Warner Judge