Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 2,637, Jedediah Damon, Mass.
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Mass. Damon, Jedediah R. 2637 
Jemima B. L. Wt. 54,269-160-55
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I HEREBY CERTIFY, that the accompanying pages numbered from One to Eight inclusive, are truly copied from the originals on file in the Office of the Commissioner of Pensions.
L P Waldo
Commissioner of Pensions.

BE IT REMEMBERED, That Loren P. Waldo, who has signed the foregoing certificate, is Commissioner of Pensions; and that to his attestations full faith and credit are ought to be given.

IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF I have hereunto subscribed my name, and caused the seal of the Department to be affixed, on this twenty-fifth day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty-four

R McClellan
Secretary of the Interior.
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
L. S. [circled in margin]
Secretary's Office, Boston
Oct. 29, 1853.
I hereby certify, That from an examination of the Books and Documents relating to Military Services in the War of the Revolution which remain in this Department, it appears that the name of Jeremiah Damon is born on pay role of the service of six months men of Dedham, employed in the Continental service from July 15 to Dec. 22, 1780 - 5 mos., 18 days.
Sworn to by the select men of Dedham, Dec. 24, 1781. Allowed in Council, March 28, 1782.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto affixed the seal of the Commonwealth the date above written.
E. M. Wright
Secretary of the Commonwealth

I, Nancy Damon of Dedham in the County of Norfolk & Commonwealth of Massachusetts, sixty four years of age, single woman, depose and say that I have often heard my parents say that
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to my father as a shoemaker - I recollect my mother's telling that he went into the Continental Army as a substitute for my father, who was to have gone, but he hired Jedediah to go in his stead - I have often seen his canteen & things, that he brought back from the army - They were kept & laid up as articles that Jed., as he used to be called, brought home - I have often heard him, said Jedediah, spoken of in the family as having been in the Revolutionary Army & he had the reputation in the neighborhood of being a Revolutionary soldier.
Nancy Damon

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Norfolk County, ss, November 5th 1853.
Their personally appeared the above named Nancy Damon, a credible witness & made oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavit by her subscribed before me, Jonathan H. Cobb.
Justice of Peace

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Norfolk ss.
L. S. [circled in margin]
I, Ezra W. Sampson, Clerk
of the Judicial Courts, being 
Courts of Record within and for
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the county of Norfolk, hereby certify that Jonathan H. Cobb, Esquire, was at the time of making the above certificate + now is a Justice of the Peace in and for the county of Norfolk aforesaid, duly appointed, commissioned and qualified to discharge the duties of said office, and that his signature to the annexed certificates, is genuine and true.
In witness whereof I have subscribed my name and affixed the seal of the Supreme Court of the Commonwealth aforesaid at Dedham, the fourteenth day of November A. D. one thousand eight hundred and fifty three.
Ezra W. Sampson
Clerk

I Rebecca D. Mackintosh, of Dedham in the county of Norfolk + Commonwealth of Massachusetts, wife of Eliza McIntosh, of said Dedham, aged seventy one years, depose and say, that I recollect Jedediah Damon, who used to come to my father's house as a home + visit there frequently during my childhood, I always understood that he was an apprentice boy to my father and lived with him until he was one and twenty years of age + went as a substitute
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for him in the Revolutionary Army I recollect that a freedom suit was got up for him in the family + there was much talk about it. I remember his canteen I think it was a blue one - It was a great wonder to us children - He was a distant relation of our family.
He always had the reputation in the neighborhood of having been one of the continental soldiers + of having been in the service of his country for a considerable time.
Rebecca D. Mackintosh

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Norfolk County ss. Nov. 12 1853.
There personally appeared the above named Rebecca D. McIntosh, a credible witness + and made solemn oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavits by her subscribed before me
Jonathan H. Cobb.
Justice of the Peace

New Jersey
Essex County ss. Lydia Wood, of the City of Newark in said county of Essex, being duly sword, according to law, on her oath, saith, That she is the sister of Jemima, widow of Jedediah Damon
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deceased, which Jemima now lives in said city of Newark; That at the time of said Jemima's marriage to said Jedediah Damon this deponent and said Jemima both lived in Elizabeth Town, in said county of Essex, that deponent was present at said marriage, and remembers the same that the same took place at said Elizabeth Town, on the eleventh day of March A. D. eighteen hundred and four and that the ceremony thereof was performed by the Reverend David Austin, the pastor of the Presbyterian Church of said Elizabeth Town. And deponent further saith that said Jedediah Damon died in the city of Newark aforesaid, on the fifty [fifth] Day of December A. D. Eighteen hundred and thirty-
Said Jemima is still said Jedediah's widow.
          her
Lydia  X Wood.
          mark.
Sworn & subscribed before 
me at Newark, this 30th day of November
A. D. 1853.
Henry D. Hedden
Justice of the Peace
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New Jersey
Essex County ss. Mary Garthwaite of the city of Newark in said county of Essex, being duly sworn, according to law, on her oath saith, That she is acquainted with Noah Damon Esther Damon and Samuel S. Damon, and has known them from their birth: that they were respectively at the time of the death of their father, Jedediah Damon, of said Newark under the age of sixteen years.
Mary Garthwaite
Sworn & subscribed
before me at Newark
this 30th day of November
A.D. 1853
Henry D. Hedden
Justice of the Peace

New Jersey
Essex County ss.
Jemima Damon of the city of Newark, in said county of Essex, being duly sworn, according to law, on her oath saith, that she is the widow of Jedediah Damon deceased, who died at said city, on the fifth day of December, in the year of Our Lord, eighteen hundred and
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thirty; that at the time of his death, there were living of the children of this deponent by the said Jedediah Damon, the following who were then under sixteen years of age. Noah Damon, who was born the second day of August, A.D. Eighteen hundred and seventeen, and now lives in Dancyville in Haywood County in the state of Tennessee, Esther Damon who was born on the twenty second day of August AD, eighteen hundred and nineteen, and who now resides in said city of Newark and is the wife of Benjamin
Sandford, and Samuel S. Damon, who was born on the eighteenth day of June A. D. eighteen hundred and twenty two, and who now resides in Newark aforesaid.
Jemima Damon

Sworn & subscribed
before me at Newark
this 30th day of November
A.D. 1853.
Henry D. Hedden
Justice of the Peace
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State of New Jersey
County of Essex ss.
I, John R. Weeks
Clerk of the County of Essex, and also of the Court of Common Pleas, in and for said County, do certify that Henry D. Hedden before whom the annexed affidavits were severally taken at the dates thereof, was an acting Justice of the Peace for said County residing therein, commissioned and sworn and duly authorized to administer oaths, that I know his handwriting and verily believe the signatures to the Jurats of said affidavits respectively are genuine.
L. S. [circled in margin]
In testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand and affixed my Official seal the Thirtieth day of November A. D. 1853
J. R. Weeks.
Clerk
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Newark Dec 19/56
Dear Sir
I send enclosed the additional evidence that you required in relation to the claim of Jemima Damon widow of Jededia [Jedediah] Damon under the act of March 3 AD 1835 please notice and forward as soon as convient [convenient] to my address.

Hon. Geo. C. Whiting | Yours Respectfully
Washington| AM Reynolds
DC| Newark. NJ
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State of New Jersey
County of Essex ss.
On this eighteenth day of December
AD 1856 One thousand eight hundred and fifty six personally Appeared before me a Notary Public within and for the county and State aforesaid Hannah Chamberlin aged fifty years and Ester Sanford aged thirty seven years both residents of Newark Essex County in the State of New Jersey who being duly sworn according to Law declare that they are children of Jedediah Damon now deceased and that they have often heard their father speak of being in the Revolutionary war and of incidents connected with said war one of which was that he was at the execution of Major Andre. And that he belonged to the selectmen of the town of Dedham Massachusetts and served as such in said war. And that our Mother now lives with us. and that her name is Jemima Damon And said Jedediah Damon is the same person mentioned in a certificate procured from the Secretary of State on Massachusetts, by one Mr Phillips a resident of the city of Newark. Said certificate was procured that Jemima Damon might get a Pension And that our father Jedediah Damon died in Newark New Jersey December 5th 1830
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and that our Mother Jemima Damon has remained a widow ever since the death of her husband Jedediah Damon And that we have no interest whatever in her claim for Land Bounty only that we believe that it would help her as she is poor. And that the foregoing statements are true to the best of our Knowledge and belief
Hannah Chamberlin
Esther Sanford

The foregoing declarations were sworn and subscribed before me upon the day and year above written And I certify that I know the witnesses to be respectable residents of the city of Newark And that their testimony is true in all respects of which I have no doubt And that I have no interest in the contents of the Affidavits as sworn

In testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand and affixed my Notarial Seal This eighteenth day of December AD 1856
AM Reynolds
Notary Public
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New Jersey ss.
Essex County 
David Price of Elizabethtown in said County of Essex being duly sworn on his oath saith that he was present at the marriage of Jedediah Damon to Jemima Woodruff at Elizabethtown in said County of Essex on or about the 11th day of March A.D. one thousand eight hundred and four, which said marriage was solemnized by Rev. David Austin a minister of the gospel; and this deponent further saith that the said Jedediah Damon and Jemima his wife, lived together as man and wife until his death.
David Price

Sworn & subscribed this thirtieth day of October A.D. Eighteen hundred and fifty five before me. 
Periam Price a justice of the peace in and for the County of Essex.

Essex County ss.
Phebe Price wife of the above named deponent being duly sworn on her oath saith that she was  present and witnessed the marriage of the above named Jedediah Damon to Jemima Woodruff as above stated, and that they lived together as man and wife until the death of the said Jedediah Damon.
           her
Phebe  X  Price
          Mark
Subscribed and sworn this 30th day of October A.D. 1855. before me 
Periam Price one of the justices of the peace in & for the County of Essex.
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223.846

[illegible] March 2
Jany 28/51
Jemima Damon
Jedidiah Damon
[illegible]
[crossed out] 15. July 1790
22. Dec

Revy war.

[illegible] 24/51

A.M. Reynolds
Newark
N.J

A.M. Reynolds [illegible]
Same Nov 18/56
Same Dec 12/56
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State of New Jersey ss
County of Essex
On this third Day of November AD one thousand Eight hundred and fifty five Personally appeared before me a Justice of the Peace within and for the County and State aforesaid Jemima Damon, aged Seventy four years a resident of Newark in the State of New Jersey who being Duly sworn according to Law declares that she is the widow of Jedediah Damon Deceased who was a Private in the Company Commanded by Captain

in the Revolutionary war with Great Britain that her said husband enlisted at Dedham in the Commonwealth of Massacusetts on the fifteenth Day of July AD 1780 for the term of Six  months and continued in actual service in said war for the term of five months and Eighteen days and was honorably Discharged on the 22nd Day of December AD 1780. She further states that she was Married to the Said Jedediah Damon in Elizabeth town in the State of New Jersey on the Eleventh day of of March AD 1804 by one David Austin A Presbyterian Clergyman and that her name before her said marriage was Jemima Woodruff that her said husband Died at Newark NJ on the fifth day of December AD 1830 and that she is now a widow.
She makes the declaration for the purpose of obtaining the bounty Land to which She may be entitled under the act approved March 3rd 1855
Jemima Damon

We Hannah Chamberlin and Abraham M. Reynolds residents of Newark in the State of New Jersey upon our oaths declare that the foregoing declaration was signed and acknowledged by Jemima Damon in our presence and that we believe from the appearance and statements of the applicant that she is the identical person she represents hereby to be  
Hannah Chamberlin
Abraham M. Reynolds
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The foregoing Declaration and affidavit were sworn to and Subscribed before me on the Day and year above written and I Certify that I know the affiants to be credible persons that the Claimant is the person she represents herself to be and that I have no interest in this Claim
Chas Merchant
Justice of the Peace

State of New Jersey ss
County of Essex
I James J. Terhune Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Essex do hereby certify that Charles Merchant whose genuine Signature Appears above is and was at the time of signing the same a Justice of the Peace in and for the County and State aforesaid duly Commissioned and sworn that all his official act as such are entitled to full faith and that the aforesaid Court is a Court of Record having general Jurisdiction I also certify that I have no interest in in the result of the case and am not concerned in its prosecution In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and and affixed the seal of said Court this nineteenth day of November A.D. 1855
J. J. Terhune Clk

[embossed seal]
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2637
P.O.
Jemima G Lamson
Service, wid. of Jededi
Enlisted:
Discharged: Rejected

Application filed:
leges:
re-enlisted:
Attorney: 
PO

Recognized          Contracted
Cert. of Dos.  Searched for:
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No. 38.668
Jemima Damon
widow of
Jedediah Damon
N. Jersey
Let to Andrew Wylie- Dec14/53
Hon D B Wright - Apl. 15/54
Let Andrew Whylie, enclosing
copies of within papers [illegible] 20 / [illegible]
V M Firor June 13 1854
D. P. Damon 7th Nov 1854.
Hon D B Wright March 24/56
Act July 7, 18 [illegible]
Revolutionary 183[illegible]
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                                      (Official)
            
         Hon. Geo. C. Whiting
               Commissioner of Pensions   
                               Washington
Additional                          DC
    evidence
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23.846 Ac[?] Z  M[illegible]
for
Jemima Damon
                           Damon
wife of Jedediah Damon dec
[illegible] 15 July 1780
Le[ss] 22 Dec             "
Perlman [?]
54.269
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Jemima Damon
widow of
Jededia Damon
dec ?
Additional Evidence
223.846
Boynton
1 May 7 / [illegible]
Touley
A.M. Reynolds
Newark
New Jersey
[illegible] for
Dec 20/56
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[?]
54.269
Leo A[?]g
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[transcription will have 2 parts - left side of documents reads vertically and right side reads horizontally]

Jedediah Damon dec
N J[?]
Not in [?]usp a 
files dec 24/56
adl [?] 
Dec 26/56
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Pension [illegible]
16 [?] J. Minot
Commissioner for [Bounty] Pensions
postal stamp Jan5 
Washington D.C.

[Transcriber's note: document is very dark]
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Official [circled]
FREE 
Newark Nov19 NJ [stamp]
Hon. J. Minot 
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D.C.
223-[5?]46
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(Official) FREE
Newark Nov 251856 N.J.[stamp]
Hon. Geo. C. Whiting
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D.C.
|Additional evidence|
|223846|
|Jemima Damon and| |Jonathan|
Boynton
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Hon. J. Minot
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D.C.
FREE (Official) 
[stamp]Newark [illegible] 18 1956 N. J.

} Additional evidence
} Jemima and Jedediah
Boynton
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Newark Nov 17th 1855

Sir
I send to you the application and affidavits in relation to the claim of Jemima Damon wid of Jedediah Damon the Captains and Cols name we have not but we have a Certificate of Service from the Ste [State] of Mass please notice and forward as soon as convient [convenient] to my address

Yours Most Respectfully
AM Reynolds
Newark N. Jersey
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New Jersey
Essex County ss

Jemima Damon of the City of Newark in said County of Essex, being duly sworn according to law, on her oath saith, That she is the widow of Jedediah Damon deceased, who died at said City, on the fifth day of December, in the year of our Lord Eighteen hundred and thirty; that at the time of his death there were living of the children of deponent by said Jedediah Damon, the following who were the under sixteen years of age, Noah Damon, who was born the second day of August, A.D. Eighteen hundred and seventeen and now lives in Dancyville in Haywood County in the State of Tennessee, Esther Damon, who was born on the twenty second day of August A.D. Eighteen hundred and nineteen, and who now resides in said City of Newark, and is the wife of Benjamin Sandford, and Samuel S. Damon, who was born on the Eighteenth day of June A.D. Eighteen hundred and twenty two, and who now resides in Newark aforesaid 
Jemima Damon

Sworn & subscribed before me at Newark this 30th day of November A.D. 1853
Henry D Hedden
Justice of the Peace
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State of New Jersey
County of Essex ss
[embossed seal]
I John R. Weeks Clerk of the County of Essex and also of the Court of Common Pleas in said County do certify That Henry D. Hedden before whom the annexed affidavits were serially taken at the dates thereof was an acting Justice of the Peace for said County residing therein, commissioned and Sworn and duly authorized to administer Oaths: that I Know his hand writing and verily believe the Signatures to the Jurats of said affidavits respectively are genuine.
In Testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand and affixed my official Seal the Thirtieth day of November AD. 1853
J. R. Weeks. Clk
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New Jersey
Essex County ss
Lydia Wood of the City of Newark, in said County of Essex being duly sworn according to law, on her Oath saith That she is the Sister of Jemima, Widow of Jedediah Damon Deceased, which Jemima now lives in said City of Newark, That at the time of said Jemima's marriage to said Jedediah Damon this deponent and said Jemima both lived in Elizabeth Town in said  County of Essex, that deponent was present at said marriage and remembers the same that the same took place at said Elizabeth Town on the Eleventh day of March A.D. Eighteen hundred and four, and that the Ceremony thereof was performed by the Reverend David Austin, then pastor of the Presbyterian Church of said Elizabeth Town. And deponent further saith that said Jedediah Damon died in the City of Newark aforesaid on the fifty [fifth] Day of December A.D. Eighteen hundred and thirty, said Jemima is still said Jedediah's widow.
Sworn & subscribed before me at Newark this 30th day of November A.D. 1835
          her
Lydia  X  Wood
         Mark
Henry D Hedden 
Justice of the Peace
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New Jersey
Essex County [S?]s: Mary Garthwaite of the city of Newark in said County of Essex, being duly sworn according to law, on her oath saith, that she is acquainted with Noah Damon, Esther Damon and Samuel S. Damon and has known then from their birth: That they were respectively at the time of the death of their father Jedediah Damon, of said Newark under the age of sixteen years.
Sworn & subscribed before me |
at Newark this 30th day of |
November A.D. 1853 _ |
Mary Garthwaite [signature]
Henry D Hedden [signature]
Justice of the Peace [signed]
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I Rebecca D. McIntosh of Dedham in the County of Norfolk & Commonwealth of Massachusetts wife of Elisha McIntosh of said Dedham, aged Seventy one years, depose and say, that I recollect Jedediah Damon who used to come to my fathers house as a home & visit there frequently during my childhood, I always understood that he was an apprentice boy to my father, and lived with him until he was one and twenty years of age & went as a substitute for him in the Revolutionary Army I recollect that a freedom suit was got up for him in the family & there was much talk about it. I remember his canteen, I think it was a blue one, it was a great wonder to us children. He was a distinct relation of our family. He always had the reputation in the neighborhood of having been one of the Continental Soldiers & of having been in the service of his Country for a considerable time
Rebecca D. Mackintosh [signature]
Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 
Norfolk County SS, Nov. 12 [?] 1853
Then personally appeared the above named Rebecca D. McIntosh a credible witness & made solemn oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavits by her subscribed before me
Jonathan H Coll Justice of Peace
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I Nancy Damon of Dedham in the County of Norfolk & Commonwealth of Massachusetts sixty four years of age single woman depose and say that I have often heard my parents say that Jedediah Damon was an apprentice to my father as a shoemaker, I recollect my mother telling that he went into the Continental Army as a substitute for my father who was to have gone but he hired Jedediah to go in his stead I have often seen his Canteen & things that he brought back from the Army they were kept & laid up as articles that Sid as he used to be called brought home I have often heard him said Jedediah spoken of in the family as having been in the Revolutionary Army & he had the reputation in the neighborhood of being a Revolutionary Soldier
Nancy Damon [signature]
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Norfolk County ss. November 5 [th] 1853
Then personally appeared the above named Nancy Damon a credible witness & made oath
Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Norfolk ss.
I, Ezra W. Sampson, Clerk of the Judicial Courts, being Courts of Record, within and for the County of Norfolk, hereby certify that Jonathan H Cobb [signature?] Esquire, was at this time of making the above certificate & [??] is a Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Norfolk aforesaid, duly appointed, commissioned and qualified to discharge the duties of said office, and that his signature to the annexed certificate is genuine and true.
In Witness Whereof, I have subscribed my name and affixed the Seal of the Supreme Judicial Court of the Commonwealth aforesaid at Dedham, this fourteenth day of November A. D. on thousand eight hundred and fifty three
Ezra W Sampson [signature] Clerk
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I Nancy Damon of Dedham in the County
of Norfolk & Commonwealth of Massachusetts sixty four years of age single woman depose and say that I have often heard my parents say
that Jedediah Damon was an apprentice to my
father as a shoemaker, I recollect my mother
telling that he went into the Continental Army
as a substitute for my father who was to have
gone but he hired Jedediah to go in his stead
I have often seen his canteen & things that he
brought back from the Army they were kept
& laid up as articles that Sid as he used to
be called brought home I have often heard him
said Jedidiah spoken of in the family as having
been in the Revolutionary Army & he had the reputation in the neighborhood of being a Revolutionary Soldier
Nancy Damon [signature]
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Norfolk County ss. November 5th 1853
Then personally appeared the above named Nancy Damon a credible witness & made oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavit by her subscribed before me 
Jonathan H Cobb [signature] Justice of Peace
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts

Secretary's Office Boston
Oct. 29. 1853

I hereby Certify That, from an examination of the Books and Documents relating to Military Services in the War of the Revolution, which remain in the Department, it appears that The name of Jedediah Damon is born on pay roll of the Service of Six Mos. Men of Dedham, employed in Continental Service from July 15 to Dec. 22. 1780 5 mos. 18 days
Sworn to by the Select men of Dedham Dec 24 1781. Allowed in Council March 28 1782.

In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written.
E M Wright
Secretary of the Commonwealth.
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Commissioner
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Gallipolis Ohio June 11th 1854
L P Waldo Esqr Com of Pensions. 
On answer to yours of the 30th of March I am happy to furnish the required evidence in the application of Catharine Lott daughter of Stephen Damon for Revolutionary Services, except the "additional evidence" of Marriage which I expect to forward shortly.
Please acknowledge and much oblige yours [C]c 
V M. Firor [signature]
P.S application from Van West Co - Ohio
Sent March 22 [?] 1854
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Respectfully referred to the Dep of the Interior
War Dep
March 11/54
Mr Pritchett
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Newark Nov 9th 1853
Honorable Jefferson Davis
Dear Sir
Pardon me for troubling you the second time in regard to the getting up the Necessary & Lawful testimony in regard to my Fathers pension. (who is deceased) For the Benefit of my widowed Mother. Your Communication & also from the Department of the Interior came to hand promptly. The documents I received from the Pension office does not cover my Mothers case The declaration is designed for Widdows of 17 Hundred. My Mother was not married untill 1804. I therefore want the declaration for 1800. Since I received your Communication I have been to Boston the Theatre where my Father started in the War of the Revolution I applyed at the Secretary of State's Office and found on Records that my Father Jedediah Damon had been on Pay Roll of the Service of Six Months Men of Dedham employed in the Continental Service from July 15th to December 22nd 1780 (5 months & 18 days) & sworn too by the Select Men of Dedham Dec.24th 1781 allowed Council March 28th 1782 This is all the documentary evidence I find in Mass. I have taken two Affidavits Traditionary Evidence of the grade he held. It appears from this evidence he went out as a Substitute for Jonathan Damon of Dedham. I am not able to ascertain the name of of the Captain of his Company but supposed to be Captain Timothy Stow. I would refer this to the Department of the Interior. The record of the Office may show As also I am unable to ascertain the County through which he marched but have Traditional history that he saw Andre Executed. Therefore he must have been in the vicinity of West Point
This your Records may show     Over
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My Father Jedediah Damon died in 1830 My mother stills remains his Widdow pleas send me a declaration according to the late acts Please except my warmest thanks for your prompt attention to my former Communication and your early attention is called to the present communication for I am 1500 miles from home & wish to return as quick as I can Back, by this complying you will oblige your very humble & Obedient Friend
David P Damon
NB
Direct to Newark N Jersey
David P Damon
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Washington April 17 1854
To the Commissioner of Pensions
Sir:
In December last I presented the application of the heirs of Jedediah Damon late of New Jersey, for arrears of pension in [consequence] of his services in the Revolution. The claim was rejected of which I was informed in your letter dated 14th of that month. I now [inclose] a 
letter from Theodore Runyon Esq of Newark NJ requesting to be furnished with copies of the
papers in the case. In reply to his letter of 5th
[instant] ['I have' crossed out] (also inclosed) I had stated that the original papers could not now be withdrawn from the Bureau, which no doubt, is the reason of this present request for copies.
Very resp[illegible] Andrew Wylie [signature]
Please return me the [inclosed] letters, * if not
contrary to rules of office to do so
A W
*Note [underlined] the letters referred to ask Wylie to procure copies of paper -- Returned 26th April 1854 - with the copies of the papers by order of Commissioner R.G.
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David P. Damon Newark N.J. Nov. 9. 1853.
Rec. [vd] from de[?] on March11.1854.
[illegible] forms for making Declaration for Pensioner
Jedediah [note: very faint] Demon [signature] K. Jessey
Respectfully referred to the Comm of Pensions Dept [illegible]
Mar 15/54 [?]ro[?]ohiting
Cole Chf Clk
Boynton [crossed out]
Mar 16/54
Let to D.P. Damon March17/54
Jemima Damon [signature]
N/J_ [?] 1838
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Saraha Baily
Aaron Gray
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[embossed seal]

Secretary's Office, Boston,
January 23rd 1855

I Hereby Certify, That from examination of the Books and Documents relating to Military Services in the War of the Revolution, which remain in this Department, it appears that the name of Jedediah Damon is borne on pay roll of six mos. men belonging to the Town of Dedham and raised in said Town who were employed in the Continental Service in the year of Our Lord 1780 from July 15. to Dec. 22. 1780 and 220- miles travel. 5 mos. 18 days

Roll signed by Selectmen of Dedham:
Ichabod Gay}
William Avery}
George Gould} 
Nath'l Sumner}
Ebenezer Newell}

No reason appears on the roll why the said Damon was discharged or any others belonging to the said roll.

In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written.
E M Wright
Secretary of the Commonwealth.
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Newark. N. J. Nov 22nd AD 1856

Dear Sir
I send to you enclosed the papers that where filed in the Pension Office, or rather a Copy of them, with the intention of procuring a Pension for Jemima Damon widow of Jedediah Damon and from these papers it will be seen that she is the Identical person in question who applied for a Land Warrant under the act of March 3 AD 1853 - No of Application 223.840. I should have sent these papers on before only as I thought the proof of Identity had been established. And further I send the said papers in answer to yours of the 18inst And the only reason given for not granting a pension is that Jedediah Damon service was short 12 days please notice and forward as soon as convient to my address

Hon. Geo. C. Whiting. |  Yours Respectfully
Com of Pensions         |   AM Reynolds
Washington                  |   Newark N J
DC
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State of New Jersey}
County of Essex      } ss
On this Ninth day of October AD 1856 personally Appeared before me a Notary Public within and for the County and State aforesaid Hannah Chamberlin and Ester Sanford Residents of the City and County above named. who being duly sworn according to Law declare that they are acquainted with Jermima Damon an Applicant for Bounty Land under the act of March 3 AD 1855 And that we know that the said Jermima Damon is the widow of Jedediah Damon who was a Revolutionary Soldier and that we know that they lived together as man and wife. And that we know that they had children some of which are living and that we know that Jedediah Damon is dead as we attended his funeral, and that we have known his widow Jermima[h] Damon ever since the death of her said husband and that we know her to be the person she represents herself to be, and that we have no interest in her claim for Bounty Land And further that we know that the said Jedediah Damon is the person represented in a certain Certificate sent to the Pension Office with the Application made by the said Jermima Damon for Bounty Land. said certificate procured from the Secretary of State of Massachusetts
Hannah Chamberlin
Esther Sanford
Sworn and Subscribed before me on the day and year above written 
 A.M. Reynolds Notary Public  [Note: document is notarized with an embossed seal]
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State of New Jersey}
County of Essex} SS
I, James J. Terhune Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County and State aforesaid hereby certify that Periam Price of the city of Elizabeth in the County of Essex and State of New Jersey is and acting Justice of the Peace duly Commissioned and sworn that all his official asets as such are entitled to full faith and credit and that the aforesaid Court is a Court of Record having general Jurisdiction Given under my hand and seal this Tenth day of October AD 1856
J J Terhune Clk [signature]
Embossed seal
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Newark, Oct 10 th 1856
Dear Sir
I send to you enclosed the additional evedence that you required in relation to the claim of Jermima Damon under the  ? of March 3 AD 1855
please notice and forward as soon as convenient to my address
Respectfully yours
A M Reynolds [underlined] [signature]
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Pension Office.
September, 27" 1856.
Sir:
The bounty land Claim of Jemima Damon, as the widow of Jedediah Damon, has been examined & suspended.
Proof of the identity of the applicants husband should be filed. Evidence is required to show that the husband of the Claimant is the soldier who performed the service Certified to by the Secretary of State of Massachusetts. The Official Character of Periam Price, should be duly Authenticated.
Yours Respectfully,
B Hooe [signature]
for Commissioner,
A.M. Reynolds, Esqr  [check]
Newark, N.J.
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PENSION OFFICE,
December 26, 1856
[typed] The frequent applications made to this office for information about particular claims
for bounty land pending before it, render it proper to call particular attention to some
suggestions, a careful observance of which, by those thus applying, is necessary to enable
the office to give the information desired.
The system of the registration of such claims requires that both the name of the applicant
for land and the number of his application be stated, in order that the office may
readily turn to the papers in the files. In all acknowledgments of the receipt of applications at this office the number of each application is given, and by reference to those the numbers can always be ascertained. If, however, from not having received any such
acknowledgment, or from having subsequently lost it, the number cannot be stated, the particular time-the month and the day of the month-when the application was forwarded to this office should be stated as nearly as may be.
Without these particular statements this office cannot undertake, with the force now
at its command, to make those examinations for particular claims which are necessary in
order to give information about them. The amount of time and labor which would be
required in a general examination for a particular application among the over two hundred and thirty thousand now received, will readily be seen.
GEO. C. WHITING,
Commissioner.
[handwritten] A Reynolds Esqr
Sir
The evidence in the case of the application of Jemima Damon widow of Jededia Damon for Bounty Land is received and you are requested to send on the number of the said application early as convenient
in compliance with the directions of the above Circular
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State of New Jersey}
County of Essex} SS
I hereby certify that The following is a true copy of a circular received from the Pension Office About the 23-d day of November AD 1855 the claim of Jemima Damon widow of Jedediah Damon No 223.846 for Bounty Land under the act of March 3 AD 1855 has been received and will be attended to in its turn
In testimony where of I have hereto set my hand 
and affixed my Notarial Seal at Newark
This Twenty ninth day of December AD 1856
A M Reynolds
Notary Public
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[Transcriber's note: the above numbers on the top of the document are in order 7362 and upside down]


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