Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 26,671, for Oliver Jones, Massachusetts
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2081  Susanna Jone 2081.
wid of Oliver
Vt. Vt
act 4 July 1836
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State of Vermont
Windham County SS
On this twenty sixth day of April
AD 1837 personally appeared before the Honourable
Probate Court, held
at Brattleboro, within and for the District of Marleborough, County of Windham and State of
Vermont, Widow Susannah Jones a resident of
Brattleborough, in the County and
State aforesaid, aged ninety years who
first sworn, according to Law, doth, on
her
oath, make the following declaration, in
order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress, passed
July 4, 1836: That she is the widow of
Oliver Jones, late of said Brattleboro deceased,
who has been a private in the Army of the
Revolution, and served therein as follows. He
enlisted at Rehoboth (Mass) into the Continental Troops, the latter part of April
1775 and marched to Roxbury, near Boston
in (Mass.) for nine months, & served out
the same, in that vicinity. In the spring of
1776 as near as she can recollect, at said Rehoboth
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The leaf attached to this that
---
was taken from Bible sent
to the Depart
Suzanne Jones
Wid of
Oliver Jones do by
Myself
[illegible]
Clk Pen Off
March 22 1839
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State of Vermont
Windham County Court Clerks Office,
Brattleborough, May 1st 1819
I hereby certify that Gilbert Denison, Esquire, is one of the Assistant
Judges of the County Court aforesaid, and that John Phelps and
Ebenezer Goodell, Esquires, are two of
the Justices of the Peace within and
for this county. that they are all
duly commissioned in their said
office under the authority of this
State, and authorized by law to take
depositions and administer oaths
that I know the signatures of said
Denison and Phelps, respectively, to
the
accompanying certificates to
be their hand writing and that I
believe the signature of said Goodell
to the certificate annexed to the
accompanying deposition of Thomas
Baldwin to be the hand writing of
said Goodell.
In testimony whereof I have
hereunto subscribed my hand and
affixed the Seal of said Court
Attest
James Elliot Clerk
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Asa
Susana Jones Petitioner
Certified of [illegible]
Asa Keyes Esqr
Brattleboro, Vt


Susanna Jones Certificate of Pension
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March 29, 1935.
BAILL
Oliver Jones
W. 26671

Mrs. Harry B. Kellogg
20 North Chesnut Avenue
Green Bay, Wisconsin.

Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letter in which you request the
Revolutionary War records of David Heaton and Oliver Jones whose
wife was Susannah.
A search of the Revolutionary War records fails to show
a claim for pension or bounty land on file based upon service of a
David Heaton. The record of Oliver Jones has been found and is given
herein as shown in pension claim, W. 20871, based upon his service
in the Revolutionary War.
Oliver Jones enlisted in April 1775, in Rehoboth, or in
Roxbury, Massachusetts, served as private in Captain Samuel Bliss'
company, Colonel Timothy Walker's Massachusetts regiment until January
1, 1776, at which time he enlisted and served one year as private
in Captain James Perry's company, Colonel Paul Dudley Sargent's Massachusetts
regiment during the period of service, he was in the battles
of Horn's Hook Fort on York Island, Harlem Heights and Trenton. He
served afterwards, was a prisoner nine months on board a British Prison
ship, fifteen days in irons, specific dates and officers not given;
he enlisted about August 1782, at which time he resided in Castleton,
near Townshend, Vermont, and served five months in Captain James
Brookins' company, Colonel Fletcher's Vermont regiment.
He was allowed pension on his application executed April 20,
1818, at which time he resided in Guilford, Windham County, Vermont,
having moved there from Brattleboro in that county. He was then aged
sixty years, the date and place of his birth and names of his parents
not shown.
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Susanna Jones
widow of Oliver
VT
act July 1836
Let to Asa Keyes 23d
March 1839 rods
30 May 1839
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I Clarissa Jones of Brattleboro in the County of
Windham and State of Vermont aged 45 being duly
sworn do testify and say that I am the daughter
of Susanna Jones of said Brattleboro an applicant
for a Pension - that I remember as long ago
as I can remember any thing the old family Bible
which is now before me, being the Edinburgh Edition
printed by Mark and Charles Kerr in the year 1791
I can also remember that there was a record
of the births of my brother and sisters and my own
written on the back of the title page to the New Testament
. There was also a similar record of
births of an other sheet at the beginning or
and of the bible but I cannot say which and
with this last record was a record of the marriage
of my Father Oliver Jones and my mother
Susanna which I recollect on that record
was stated to be March 1782 but the day
I dont remember. This record was old and
much defaced and
the last time I saw
it the leaf was loose and detached from the
book this was a number of years ago-
Three or four years ago my mother gave
said bible to her grand daughter Caroline
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FREE

J.L. Edwards Esq
Commissionerof Pensions
Washington City

[stamp] BRATTLEBORO JU 6 91

28 June
Evans Asa Keys Atty for Susannah Jones
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Brattleboro June 26, 1839
Sir
I had anticipated the [illegible]
necesary to pursue in the case of
Susanna James and taken her
declaration now under the
act 7 July 1838, which I now forward
you you
wrote me under date of
March 23d 1839 That the only application
to the admission of the claim of
Mrs Susannah Jones is the want
of more satisfactory proof in support
of the alleged service in Vermont in 1782
as that period is abandoned in the
present declaration. I presume the department will find no further difficulty
in coming to a decision by refering
to the original Declaration of One
Jones
& the testimony there filed
as also to the testimony filed in
the first declaration of Susanna Jones
With great Respect your Obt svt

Asa Keyes

Hon J. L Edward
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I Russel Fitch of Brattleboro in the State of
Vermont of lawful age do testify & say
that about three years ago-- Oliver Jones
of Brattleboro recieved about one hundred
and thirty dollars which sum of money
said Jones recieved as a Pensioner
of the
United States the said Jones informed  
me when he read said money he had engaged to
send it to Simeon Eaton, and I understood
from said Eaton & others he lent Simon
Eaton one hundred dollars of the said
Pension money the same day he the
said Jones received it
Russel Fitch

State of Vermont
Windham County
Brattleboro Act of 6th 1822 personally appeared Russell Fitsch Subscriber of the above affidavit
and made solemn oath to the truth
of the same before

Samuel Clark Justice of the Peace
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I Joseph Seaver of Brattleborough in the State of
Vermont, of lawful age testify and say, that two or the
years ago, Oliver Jones of said Brattleboro called at my
house, and I understood from him that he had just received
a sum of money as a pensioner of the United State,
which was in bills of the bank of Burlington, and as
that was a new bank, I had some curiosity to see one of the
bites, and having looked at one of them, I proposed
to borrow a small sum of the money, when said
Jones informed in that he had agreed to lend the
money to Simeon Caton, but if he did not lend the
whole of it to Eaton, he would lend me two dollars
In a very few days afterwards I saw Jones
again and he told me that he had but the whole
of the money to Eaton and of course could not lend
me the small sum that I wanted
Joseph Sever

State of Vermont ⎬Windham County, Brattleborough October 23d 1822.
 Personally appeared Joseph Seaver
the subscribed of the above affidavit and made solemn
oath to the truth of the same before me -
James Elliot, Justice of the Peace
I further certify that the said Joseph Sever, to the best
of my knowledge, is a credible witness-
James Elliot, Justice of Peace.
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Susanna Jones petitioner
Dep of John Smith
marriage
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR PENSION OFFICE SEP 6 1877
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N. O W & B L Division
Evans ⎬

Department of the Interior
Pension Office

Washington, DC. Sep 7, 1877.

Dear Sir
I herewith transmit to
your address the Bible sent to this
Office to be filed in evidence in behalf
of your mother when she made
application for pension in 1840.
Please acknowledge the receipt of
the Bible on the back of this letter
and return it, (the letter to this
Office in the enclosed Envelope

Very Respectfully
J A Bentley
Commissioner
per J.F.M.

Mr Edmund Jones
Wt Brattleboro
Vermont
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enlisted, or in what
company he was, but
he was a Vermont man
great-grandfather of
mine
through whom
I hope to join the D.A.R.
any information will be
thankfully received
Sincerely
Jane
Abbie J Nash

[STAMP] U.S.PENSION OFFICE A OCT 12 1907
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[stamp] O W & N Div. Oct 10 1906 Files

Honorable Commissioner of Pensina
Dear Sir
I have been refered
to you for information
would like to sum if Oliver
Jones of the Revolution received
a pension and was he a
prisoner
Respectfully yours
 
Lena Merriam Miller
Oct. 8, 1906
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address
Mrs. L. A. Miller
68 Wilcox Are
Meriden Coun
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Green Bay Wisconsin
Mch 5 1934
The Pension Dept. U. S. A.
Gentlemen-
Have you the names
of the father and mother
of Oliver Jones
enlisted at Roxbury or Dorchester Mass.
in April 1775. age 17 yrs
He applied for
a pension at age of 60
and his wife Susannah
Smith Jones at age 90
Have you the
names of
the Father and
Mother of
Susanah, his
wife