Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 5702, for Hezekiah Jones, New Jersey
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Daniel Jones and
Amos Jones
Davisburg Mich.
Asks that application of Hannah
Jones for pension
be sent to them
Respectfully referred
to Commr Pensions
Dept. Int. W. W. Lester
Aug 3/6 Adj Chf Clk
Hannah Jones - wid of
Hezekiah  N.J. Sus 1850
Rec'd 3 Aug. 60
Wm. Rhett
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403

Pension Office
Sept 24th 41

Sir
The deposition of Christy
Little in the case of Mrs Hannah Jones
shows that he was a short time engaged
with her late husband in the teamster
service of the revoy [revolutionary] army- there was a corps of "enlisted Teamsters" 
entitled to soldiers rights & subject to soldiers
penalties who are embraced by the
pension laws but there is nothing
in her papers to show that her late
husband belonged to that corps-
No portion of the service for which
this claim is asserted is either set
forth or established as the rules require-
P. H. Dils Esq.
Kingwood
N.J.
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Augt 11. '40

War office 
To Care of J L Edwards Com of Pensions
CIty of Washington DC
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The Honourable the Secretary at war or Commissioner of pensions I herewith send to you the petition and Evidence colected [collected] in behalf of Hannah Jones widow (of Hezekiah Jones Dec who was a souldier [soldier] and served in the war of the Revolution) for a pention [pension] and hope that it will Receive from you a due and a favourable attention as from what I can lern the old lady is in indigent Circumstances and has not means to hire an atorney at Law to put her papers in the most ample order
these papers sent I done while attending to other business in that Neighbourhood (she lives in Alexandria in the County of Hunterdon NJ) their is so few of those people of that day now living that their is much Difficulty in colecting plain evidence as to time and
place Each of the two witnesses recolects that the said Jones Served much time in that was but how long as a souldier [soldier] and how long as a wagoner and how often in Each capacity when asked that question they could not clearly Recolect. Mr Little said he and Jones he knew Drove teams in Company more than three month and Mr Clifford said that he knew that Jones had served a good part of the time during that war the other Evidence being herersay [hearsay] as to service yet being talked of before the Law granting pentions [pensions] was made and the Witnesses being of good repute for honesty temperence and truth I took them as being worth something.  She only claims as a private & from the Conversation I had with the witnesses their is no dought [doubt] on my mind but the hole time claimed was served.
Nevertheless you will give her all the time the evidence will warrant you in doing.  the mariage could not be plainer proven without sending in the State of New York 
some (300 miles) there.  there is a person if living who was present at the weding.  their has Nothing been included in the within testimony but what they Clearly Remembered
The old lady requested of me to send her papers to the Dept for her and to receive from and forward to you all such or any communication Respecting said pension as you may think justice and Equity require -- adress me at Kingwood P.O
Kingwood Hunterdon County N Jersey
Dec. 7th 1839
Respt yours &c P. H. Dils
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Clinton N.J. Nov 14/45
John Manners
Pension claim of Mrs. Hannah Jones

Letters &C
not Material
in this case
M420 [illegible] Dec 31/45
Pension Office

Jan 1, 1846
Hannah Jones
July 7, 1838
Supplemental dec
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Sir
I respectfully submit for your consideration
the case of Mrs Hannah Jones Widow of the
late Hezekiah Jones as a [illegible] subject for the benefit of "an act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows" --
The said Hannah Jones the said applicant
by her declaration was set forth according to the best of her knowledge and belief the name and rank of her said husband on account of where [illegible] the said claim is presented. She also set forth the precise time of her marriage to the said Hezekiah Jones as
Apr 15th 1787. and also the precise time of his death and that she is his widow its April 15th 1818 and that the marriage took place previous to the first of January 1794 -
the said Hannah Jones was sworn before
Roberson Rukhill one of the Judges of the Court of common Pleas of the County of Hunterdon and State of New Jersey, being made by reason of her advanced age and bodily infirmity to appear in the Court
her inability to appear in the Court by reason
of her bodily infirmity appears from the testimony of Amos Jones her son
the time of the marriage between the said
Hannah Jones and the said Hezekiah Jones is [illegible] by a sworn copy of the family Bible: the said family Bible having been sent to the department on a former application and never returned
the said copy is proved to have been duly
taken and entered by the depositions of P.H. Dils & Daniel Jones - [illegible] by the conclusion of Benj Egbert Esq
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5702

Hezekiah Jones
N.J.

Hannah Jones
N.J. sus 38

J. C. G. Kennedy 
Present
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State of New Jersey
Hunterdon County ss. Personally appeared before me the Subscriber one of the Justices of the peace in and for said County Benjamin Egbert Esquire of who being duly sworn according to law on his Oath saith that on or about the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty eight, this deponent being at that time a Judge of the Court of Common pleas
and Justice of the peace in and for the said County of Hunterdon, this deponent then took the affidavit of Benjamin Pursel now decd the purport of which affidavit was that the said Benjamin Pursell was present at the marriage ceremony of Hezekiah Jones who was married to Hannah Purcell, who is now living in the said County of Hunterdon and is the widow of the said Hezekiah Jones decd who is reputed
to have been in the service of the United States for a length of time during the American Revolutionary War and further says not
Sworn and subscribed before me
this 30th day of May AD 1845
Benj'n Egbert
Enoch Clifford Justice of the peace
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Hunterdon County State of New Jersey delaware town
Elijah Hummel apeard and after being duly sworn Saith that he New Hezekiah Jones in the Revolutionary army and he served with him at one time the space of thirty fore
days in the bairing arm service and also that he New him in the driving team service for one year and longer
I certify the above named Elijah Hummel to be a man of
good fame
Elijah Hummel his mark

August the 30th 1845
the above named deponent
being duly Sworn and
Subscribed before me
William Roberson one of the
Justices of the peace
in and for said County
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a coppy of the Family Record of Hezekiah Jones dec as coppied by the Deponent in a bible of his widow at the time the Original was sent to the war office of the United States. proven to be the original family Records as
(made and kept by the said Hezekiah Jones dec in his lifetime) by the oath of Daniel Jones duly administered by this deponent
then a Justice of the peace
Hezekiah Jones was born October 26th AD 1762
Hannah Jones was born July 20 AD 1769
where Maried November 1st 1787
Their childrens ages
Sarah Jones Born April 20th 1789
Thomas Jones born April 2nd 1794
Rachael Jones born Febuary 1st 1798
Daniel Jones born August 17th 1801
Amos Jones born November 21st 1803
Peter Jones born January 11th 1807
John Jones born febuary 7th 1809
Lidia [Lydia] Jones born October 22nd 1810
Hezekiah Jones born December 25 1814
Personally appeared before the subscriber one of the Justices of the peace in and for the County of Hunterdon Peter H Dils who upon his oath saith the above is a true coppy of the afforesaid Records as above stated to the best of his knowledge and belief and further saith not.
P.H. Dils

Sworn and Subscribed the
28th day of May AD. 1845
Before me
William Roberson
Personally appeared before the subscriber one of the Justices of the peace in and for the County of Hunterdon Daniel Jones who upon his oath saith that the above is a true copy of the old record kept by Hezekiah Jones and Hannah Jones to the best of his knowledge and belief and further saith not

Daniel Jones

Sworn and subscribed the
2d day of June AD 1845
Robert Finley
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6443
To the Honerable the Secratary of war of the United Sates of America
the petition of Hannah Jones widow of Hezikiah [Hezekiah] Jones Dec is that under the Laws of the United States for granting
pentions [pensions] to the widow of deceased Souldiers [soldiers] of the Revolution
the pention that the said Jones would have been entitled to may if living may be granted to me the said Hezekiah Jones Served in the war of the Revolution as a waggoner
and as a souldier in the Militia for three years which service I hope will be satisfactorily proven so as to entitle me to said pention by the folowing affidavits hereto stated
(Viz) Christy Little who on his oath saith that he knew Hezekiah Jones in the time of the war of the Revolution and since and that he was in the army of the Revolution as a Waggoner for more than three month but how much longer
he cant say he then Carted from pittstown in the township of Kingwood & County of Hunterdon (Moore Furman Comp Genl) and to the best of his recolection Andrew Little
was Waggon master at or some part of the time that the said Jones drove and Jones was about seventeen years old and he said Jones Carted from other Comp stores to the
army also-John Clifford on his oath saith that
he know'd Hezikiah Jones when in the army of the Revolutionary war and that said Jones was in the service a good part of the time during said war he the Deponent having frequently seen said Jones employed about the Comesary [commissary] store at Pittstown and said Jones when at Pittstown often eat and slept at the Deponents house-- Elijah Hummel on his oath saith that he Knew'd Hezikiah Jones and had herd said Jones in his
lifetime talk of being out in the war of the Revolution that at one time he carted with his own team six months and at another time went out as a militia man for one month but they kept him thirty four Days untill the other Souldiers Came in (to relieve him I understand) the Deponent further says he has
herd several Respectable souldiers of that war who is now dead say that the said Jones was out in that was as teamster or Waggoner and as a soldier the length of time the Deponent dont now recolect he further saith that the said Jones has been dead now for more than twenty years past -- Daniel Jones on his oath saith that he frequently heard Hezikiah Jones in his lifetime say that he had served in the Army
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of the Revolution as a waggoner and otherwise
Three years the Deponent further saith
I also trust that our marrage will be suficiently
proven and the time by the paper herewith
sent which was kept as a family Record During
said Jones lifetime se Daniel Jones affidavit or
the back thereoff who on his oath saith that the
within is Hezikiah Jones hand writing and that
he has been dead twenty one year last April
and that the within Hannah Jones has ever and
now does Remain the widow of the said Hezikiah
Jones and as in duty bound your petitioner will ever pray

Hannah Jones
Alexandria Hunterdon County)
New Jersey
Nov 20th
[illegible]
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State of New Jersey
Hunterdon County Ss
I William Emery Clerk of of the Court of Common pleas in and for said County do hereby certify that Edward R Bullock whose genuine
Signature appears to the foregoing acknowledgement and also to the affidavit hereto annexed was at the time of taking the same and now is, one of the Justices of the peace in and for the County of Hunterdon, duly commissioned and sworn according to law, and that full faith and credit are due to all his
official acts as such,
In Testimony whereof I have
hereunto set my hand and affixed
the seal of the said Court at Farmington this 29th day of June A.D.
1853.
Wm Emery Clerk