Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 16,100, Jonathan Blue, N. H.
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(8-1776)
SERVICE
N.H.

Blue, Jonathan
Jennet.
 
NUMBER
W. 16,100

CONTENTS
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2713. 
New Hampshire Portz
Jennet Blue widow of Jonathan Blue who was a Private in the  N. H. in the N. H. Militia for 10 mo & 14 days  
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 34 Dollars & 88 Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843. Certificate of Pension issued 15th day of Nov. 1843 the and sent to Ira St. Clair, Deerfield, N. H. 
[Act of March 3, 1843] 
Recorded in Book A  Vol 1. Page 14.
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State of NewHampshire~
County of Rockingham Ss - 
On this ninth day of August in the year of  our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty nine personally appeared before Dudley Green Esquire, one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas for the County of Rockingham Blue, (widow of Jonathan Blue late of Deerfield in A  said County of Rockingham, deceased, a resident of Denfield in the County of Rockingham aforesaid aged seventy five years, who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth, on her oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress, passed July 7, 1838, entitled "An act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows:" That she is the widow of Jonathan Bane late of Deerfield aforesaid, deceased, who wood, according to the best of her knowledge and belief a soldier in the Army of the Revolution that the believes the said Jonathan Blue enlited as a volunteer and private soldier in Captain Y Enoch Payes Company of Infantry in the Army of the Revolution sometime in the month of July in the year one thousand seven hun dred and seventy seven for the term of six months - that said Jonathan Blue suited with said Company at Exeter in said State of New Compline, thence marked to Haverhill in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, thence to Combudge and then to Providence in the State of Rhode Island thence to Warwick in said Role of Rhode Island where said Company joined Colonel Peter. Regiment that will Jonathan Blue served the said term of six months in said Page Company and was discharged at said War will some time in the month of January in the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy eight and that she has no documentary evidence of said ardicethat she further believes that said Jonathan Blue again enlisted as a stinted and private soldier in Captain Parsons Company of Infantry in the Army of the Revolution sometime in the month of August in the year one thousand
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seven hundred and eighty one and served in said Company the term of three months- that said Jonathan Blue inhertited at said Deerfield and marked with said Company to Charlestown (then called No.4) in well Roll of New Hampshire - thence to Castleton thence to Sanborough - thence to act - thence returned to said Charlestown where he was discharged roundine  in the month of November in the roist year one thousand seven hundred and eighty one - that Major Manton was Major of the Regiment to which will Parson's Company belonged, and that she has no documentary evidence of the abovenamed last mentioned recrine.
She further declares that she was married to the said Jonathan Blue at said Deerfield on the twenty sixth day of November in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty nine - and that her said husband, the aforesaid Jonathan Blue, died on the twenty third day of November in the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty nine - that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the revine, but the marriage took place previous to the first of January, seventeen hundred and ninety-four, vis: at the time above stated ~.
The further declares that in a large Bible which was owned by the said Jonathan Blue at the time of his decease, and which is now in her possession, there is a ceived of the marriage between the said Jonathan Blue and the said Jennet Blue, (formerly Jennet McGregor) in the words and figures following, to wit - "Mr. Jonathan Ballou of Deerfield & Miss Jennet McGregor of the same Town were joined in marriage Nov, 26th., A.D. 1789- By the Rev. Timothy Upham", that said record was made by her son, Alexander Blue, in her presence and before the decease of the said Jonathan Blue, but the precise time she does not now remember- that her said husband always spalt his name "Jonathan Blue"- but the children of the said Jonathan, have latterly spelt his name "Jonathan Ballou"-and that the said Jonathan Blue
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her late husband, and the said Jonathan Ballou, mentioned in the aforesaid record in said Bible, are one and the same person- and that there is no other record of said marriage in existence to her knowledge- 
Sworn to and subscribed, on the day and year as above written. Jennet Blue 
State of New Hampshire- Rockingham Ss: August 9, 1839~ 
Personally appoining the above named Jennet Blue, made solemn oath that the above affidavit by her subscribed is, in her belief, true~ 
Before me, Dudley Freese 
{Judge of the Court of Common Pleas for said County of Rockingham~}
I, the Subriber, Judge of the Court of Common Pleas for the County of Rockingham and State of New Hampshire, do hereby certify that the above named Jennet Blue, by reason of her age and bodily infirmity, cannot attend the aforesaid Court to subscribed to her declaration therein~ Dudley Freese
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State of New Hampshire
Rockingham County Sct,
I Ira B. Hoitt Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas within & for the County & State aforesaid, do hereby certify that the Hon Dudley Freese who has subscribed his name to the within certificates and before whom said declaration was made is a Judge of said Court duly commissioned & qualified that full faith and credit should be given to all his official acts as such and that the foregoing & aformed contains the original proceedings in the matter of the application of Janet Blue for a pension~

In Testimony Whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the Seal of said Court this fourteenth day of August Anno Domini 1839. 
I. B. Hoitt Clerk

[Seal is on the middle left of the paper]
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State of New Hampshire 
County of Rockingham Ss- 
On this twenty second day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty personally ^ before Dudley Freese Esquire, one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas for the County of Rockington aforesaid, Jennet Blue (widow of Jonathan Blue late of Deerfield in said County of Rockingham, deceased) a resident of Deerfield in the County of Rockingham aforesaid, aged seventy five years, who being fist duly sworn according to law, doth oath, make this her supplemental declaration to a declaration made by her on the ninth day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty nine before the said Dudley Freese, and now on file in the Pension Office, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the Act of Congress passed July 7, 1838 entitled, "An act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows".- That she is the widow of Jonathan Blue late of Deerfield aforesaid, deceased, who was, according to the best of her knowledge and belief a soldier in the Army of the Revolution - That in addition to the several received set forth in her said form declaration, she believes the said Jonathan Blue enlisted as a volunteer and private soldier in Captain Simon Morton's, Company of Infantry in the Army of the Revolution some time in the month of August, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy six, for the term of about five months (as she believes) in Colonel Gilman's Regiment, and served said term in said Company- that in the lifetime of the said Jonathan Blue she has frequently heard him say that he serves
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as a private soldier in said Manton's Company in the year seventeen hundred and seventy six, but the [unreadable] she did not state this service in Captain Montan's Company in her former declaration, is, that she was not then aware that any evidence existed to prove the aforesaid service, nor did he know of the existence of said evidence until it was found among the Rolls of the Department of War at the City of Washington, and in the Office of the Secretary of State for the State of New Hampshire, as appears by said Secretary's certificate, which will accompany this declaration- She further states that she has no documentary evidence of said service other than as above stated, nor does she know of any person now living who served in said Company at the time aforesaid~
That she further believes that her late husband, the said Jonathan Blue, served about four months in Captain Errach Page's Company as a volunteer and private solider in the Army of the Revolution in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty one- that in his lifetime she has heard him frequently say that he served as a soldier in said Page's Company, but she does not now recollect of hearing him say that he served in said Company at two several times, nor was she aware of that fact until the evidence was forced to exist in the said War Department- She further states that she . has no documentary evidence of the aforesaid service in said Page's Company in the year seventeen hundred and eighty one, nor does she know of any person now living who served in said Page's Company at the time let aforesaid- She further states that she has been acquainted in said town of Deerfield ever since the year seventeen hundred and eighty, and that there never has been, to her
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knowledge, any person, other than her late husband, by name of Jonathan Blue, in said town of Deerfield since that time, with the exception of her son, Jonathan Blue, who was born in the year seventeen hundred and ninety seven, nor has she ever known any other person of that name in the State of New Hampshire. She further states that she has reason to believe, and does believe that she is the widow of the said Jonathan Blue whose service is above set forth in this, her supplemental declaration, and that she has never been married since the decease of her said late husband, the said Jonathan Blue~ 
She further states that the annexed Record of her marriage, she has this day torn from the family Bible which was owned by her late husband, the [unreadable] Jonathan Blue, at the time of his decease, and has remained in her possession ever since, and is the family record referred to in her former declaration, to which this is supplemental,- and is the only record of the marriage between her and her husband, the said Jonathan Blue, in existence to her knowledge~
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year as above written~ [signed] Jennet Bllue
State of New Hampshire- 
Rockingham Ss- April 22. 1840- Personally appearing the above named Jenet Blue, made solemn oath that the above affidavit by her subscribed is, in her belief true~ Before me, 
[singed]  Dudley Freese
{Judge of the Court Comman Place for said County of Rockingham-}
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I, the Subscriber, Judge of the Court of Common Pleas for the County of Rockingham and State of New Hampshire, do hereby certify that the within named, Janet Blue, by revian of her age and bodily infirmity, cannot attend the aforesaid Court to subscribe to this, her supplemental declaration therin~
Dudley Freese 

State of New Hampshire 
Rockingham Ss
I Ira B. Hoitt Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas within and for said County hereby certify that the Hon Dudley Freese is one of the Judges of said Court, that the foregoing signatures purporting to be his are genuine, and in his own proper hand writing, and that the foregoing contains the original proceeding before him in the matter of the application of Jennett Ballow for a pension
In Testimony Whereof I have hereunto Set my hand and affixed the Seal of our Court of Common Pleas this first day of May Anno Domni 1840~  
J. B. Hoitt Clerk
[Seal is in the lower left of the paper]
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FAMILY RECORD. 
MARRIAGES. 
Mr.  Jonathan Ballou of Deerfield & Miss Jenet McGregore of the same Town were joined in marriage Nov. 26th A.D. 1789 By the Rev. Timothy Upham
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FAMILY RECORD
BIRTHS. 
Mr. Jonathan Ballou was born in Rye, NH Jan 19th AD. 1755 Mrs Jenet Ballou, Consort of Jonathan Ballou, was born in Londonderry, NH July 13th A.D. 1764 
-----------------------------------------Children of Jonathan & Janet Ballou
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James Ballou was born March 14th A.D. 1791
Mary-Ann Ballou was born April 26th 1794 Jonathan Ballou was born Jan. 1st A.D. 1797 Edward Ballou was born Nov. 5th 1799 
Agness Ballou was born July 7 A.D. 1802 Alexander M. Ballou was born October 3rd A.D. 1804. 
Elza-Jane Ballou was born April 17th A.D. 1808 

BIRTHS. (second column)
Mr Jonathan Ballou was born in Deerfield January 11th 1797. Mrs Lucinda Ballou [unreadable- Con...] of Jonathan Ballou in Deerfield NH Oct 15th 180-
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Children of Jonathan and Lucinda Ballou
John M. Ballou was born Nov 4th 1829
David T Ballou was born Jul 7th 1830 
David P Ballou was born Novem 7th 1832 Samuel N. Ballou was born Nov 8th 1834 -
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Rev 
WIDOW, &c.
File No. 16100
Jennet Blue 
Widow of 
Jonathan Blue 
Pri in Rev  War 
---
Act March 3d 43 
Index: Vol. A, Page 68 
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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N.H. 6136
Janet Blue, wid
of Jonathan
Act 1838 - Let to 
Ira St Clair 29 Oct 
1839. do to Hon. I.A. Eastman
Dec 10. 1839.
(paper reto) 

Act '38
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[left column]
Ira St Clair 20 Aug 1840 do. 1 Sept. 1843
 
[right column]
New Hampshire 5428
===================================Jennet Blue widow of Jonathan Blue, d.E. who was a pensioner under the Act of --- and who died on the 23 November 1829 of Rockingham in the State of N. Hamp-. who was a private in the Comp commanded by Captain Page of the Regt. commanded by Col. Seuter in the N.H. Milia line for 10 Months
================================== Inscribed on the Roll of Portsmouth at the rate of 34 Dollars 88 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March 1836.
================================== Certificate of Pension issued the 22 day of May 1840 & Sentt and F Court Allen Eastman House of Reps.
===================================Arrears to the 4th of Mar 1840 $139.52 Semi=annual allowance ending 4 Sept '40 17.44 $156.96
{Act of July 7, 1838}
Recorded by D. McCurdy, Clerk
Book A. Vol. 4  Page 35.
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613.6 Ent.

Jennet Blue
NH wid of 
Jonathan Blue
Act July 7, 1838
Married 1789
died 1829 
[unreadable- service time] 10 mo 14 dy
pri $34.88 per ann
Capt. Page  Col. Senter 
NH Militia 

Hon Ira Allen Eastman
HR
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House of Representatives 
Washington May 20. 1840.
J.L. Edwards Esq
Sir,
I enclose you herewith a supplemental declaration & evidence in the case of Jenet  Blue for a pension. She is a resident of Deerfield N.H.
Very respectfully
Your Obt. Sert. 
Ira A. Eastman
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[circular postal stamp] CONCORD JUL. 8 N.H.
12

Mr. Thomas Burbank 
North -  Deerfield 
NH.
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In the subjecting voluntarily & severally Inlist a Soldier for the Town of Portsmouth to serve in the Army of the United States of America three months from the day of signing unless sooner discharged, and in that can to be paid for the time in service only; And each of us agree & promise to furnish a good Fine Arm, Carton Box, Blanket & Knopark, and promise to obey the rules & regulations of the Continental Army In consideration of a faithful discharge of duty, the said Laron of Portsmouth promises & obliges themselves to pay twenty silver dollars for month-
Witness at Portsmouth aforesaid the day affixed against each name.
1781 Sept 29 Jonathan Blue 
Portsmouth Feb 4 1782  In the subscribed acknowledge to have received of the town of Portsmouth the full consideration of our wages by the within enlistment - And for Jona Blue Benji Butler Jr
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State of New Hampshire
Office of Secretary of State
July 6- 1840 
I herby Certify the foregoing to be a true that from the original now in this office which contains the names of fifteen men. In testimony of the foregoing I have hereunto affixed the seal of said State
Josiah Stevens
Secy of State

[seal affixed to the left middle of the page]
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Pleas forward on dollar by Mail
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Hon. I.A. Eastman 
Copy by of declaration- Jannet Blue NH.
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Jona Blue A 1829
Samuel Blue M 1789
July  77 hmP.   Errach Page
.329 on roll
Col Senter
81 3. Parsons
6.29 Sq book Vol 3 +
8.15
see rolls. 10..14 
send for record in Bible
Sqd 2y + of Portsmouth 
or Capt Marston Roll 

Aug 1776
Ed Gulmen  ab 3 1/2

3333
   155
_____
   408
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Deerfield N.H.
August 12
.50 [crossed out]

Hon. Joel Poinsett,
Secretary of the War Deparment

Washington City
D.C.~

S393. Aug 17. '40
Pention Office
WH
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Deerfield, N.H. August 10, 1840
Hon. J. R. Poinsett,
Sir,
We have received a Pension certificate for Jennet Blue, widow of Jona Blue late of this town, deceased, for the sum of $34.88 per annum for five years, which certificate is dated May 22. 1840- 
We are much at a loss to know how the Department came to the condition to allow only that sum and no more, and think there must have been a mistake in the calculation- If the Dept. will in their attention to the first declaration dated August 9th 1839, they will find that the deceased received six months, the latter part of the year 1777, in Capt. Errach Page's Company-
Tho, that said deceased received three months in the year 1781, in Capt. Parson's Company- Then the supplemental declaration dated April 22. 1840, shows that said deceased received, in addition to the above, the term of about five months in the year 1776, in Capt. Simon Morton's, Company-
And also that said deceased received about four months in the year 1781, in said Capt Errach Page's Company, making in the whole about eighteen months as follows- 

1777- In Capt. Page's Company- 3.29  v 6 months 
1781 - In Capt. Parson's Company- 3.00 v 3 months 
1776 - In Capt. Morton's Company 3.18 v 5 months  
1781 - In Capt. Page Company again, about 10.14 about 4 months 
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18 months 

which several terms of service, we supposed, were
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proved by the affidavits furnished, and by the files of the War Department
We would, therefore, respectfully request the Department to review their decision, (as we presume they will be willing to correct any error that may have been made) and write us upon the subject, stating for what services the pension has been allowed~
Since the evidence has been furnished the Dept. the inclosed Certificate has been furnished us showing that the deceased served three months (or we think) in 1781 ~
With grant respect, I remain your most
Obedient Servant,
Ira St. Clair ~
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Application of 
Jennet Blue for a
pension~
_________________________________
2028 .

$34:88 per an 

Ira St Clair
Deerfield N.H
 
Ira St. Clair [crossed out]
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State of New Hampshire-
Rockingham Ss-
On this eleventh day of May, A.D. 1843, personally appeared before Ira St. Clair, Esquire, a Justice of the Peace within and for the County of Rockingham aforesaid, Jennet Blue, a resident of Deerfield in said County of Rockingham, aged seventy eight 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 act of Congress, passed on the third day of March, 1843, granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War. That she is the widow of Jonathan Blue late of Deerfield aforesaid, deceased, who was, according to the best of her knowledge of and belief, a Soldier in the Army of the Revolution - that the annual amount of pension which she received under the act of July, 7. 1838. was thirty four dollars and eighty eight cents- The further declares that she is still a widow. Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year first above written ~ 
Witness of Ira St. Clair-
[signatures] Ira St. Clair Jenet Blue
State of New Hampshire~
Rockingham Ss- May, 11. 1843- Personally appearing the above named Jenet Blue, made solemn oath that the above affidavit by her subscribed, is, in her belief, true~
Before me, 
Ira St Clair, Justice of the Peace
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I, Ira St. Clair, the Justice of the Peace within named, do hereby certify that the within named Jennet Blue, the declarant, on the eleventh day of May, in the year 1843, and for sometime previous, was personally known to me, and did personally appear and make oath as within certified, before me- This certificate being made by me, by direction of J.L. Edwards, of the first of September, 1843~ September 6, 1843- State of New Hampshire, Rockingham County-
Ira St. Clair, Justice of the Peace

The last foregoing certificate was made by the undersigned at the date last above named, and since the date of the following certificate of the Secretary of State~
Ira St. Clair~
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State of New Hampshire
Rockingham County 
Ira B. Hoitt Clerk of the Judicial Courts in and for said County certify that Ira St Clair Esq who has subscribed his name to the annexed paper was on the sixth day of September instant, and still is, and acting Justice of the Peace in and for said County duly commissioned and qualified that his commission is dated on the 29th day of June AD 1843 and will expire on the 29th day of June AD 1848, and that the signatures on the annexed paper purporting to be his, are in his own hand writing and genuine- In Testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand & affixed the Seal of our Superior Court of Judicature this thirteenth day of September Anno Domini 1843.
I.B. Hoitt Clerk

[seal is at the bottom left of the page.]
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State of New-hampshire.
Office of Secretary of State. 
I, Josiah Stevens, Jr. Secretary of the State aforesaid, do hereby certify that Ira J. Clair is an acting Justice of the Peace, in and for the County of Rockingham duly Commissioned and qualified. His Commission was dated on the twenty ninth day of June 1838 and will expire on the twenty ninth day of June 1843 and his signature to the annexed instrument is genuine. Given under my hand and the Seal of said State, this Seventh day June 1843.
Josiah Stevens Secretary of State.
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Washington 13th, Dec 1839- 
Sir,
I herewith enclose the original Sir papers of Mrs Jennet Blue an applicant for a pension under the Act of July 7. 1838, and have to request that you will please acknowledge the receipt of the same-
Very Respectfully
Your obt. Sevt.
Ira A. Eastman

Geoff Crump Esq Pension Office ⎬
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6136 Sept 25
NH
July 7. 1838

Jennet Blue
Wife of Jonathan

J.L. Edwards Esquire
Commissioner of Pensions
Washhington City
D.C.~

St. Clair~
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Deerfield, County of Rockingham & State of New Hampshire~ 
September 17. 1839~ 
J.L. Edwards, Esquire, Commisioner of Pensions~ 
Sir,
 Enclosed are the papers in the case of the application of Jennet Ballou, widow of Jonathan Blue, deceased, for a pension which she claims an account of the Revolutionary services of her deceased husband-
Should the evidence prove sufficient to substantiate her claim, you will have the goodness to forward the Certificate to me as soon as the Department shall pass upon the case-
Respectfully, Sir, Your most Obt. Servt,
Ira St. Clair~
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I, Simon Batehelder of Northwood County of Rockingham and State of Newhampshire aged Eighty years before and thatt in 1777. Some time in July I inlisted in to the of company of Capt Erroch Page as a Soldier to Serve in the Revolutionary army at Road Island I served in Said company until the first of January 1778 and then was discharged after. I inlisted the Company formed together at Exeter, N.H. we then marched on throug Haverhill and Cambridge Mass. to Providence in Rodiland from thence to Warwick there we Joined Col Centers --- Regiment. I well remember that Jonathan Blue late of Deerfield in the County and State aforesaid now Deceased inlisted into the same company and went on and served the same time with me and was discharged the same time 
Simon Batehelder. 
Northwood. January th 19. 1839. 
Sworn to before me - Thos. Burbank J.Peace 
I hereby certify that the Deponant is intitled to full credit-
Thos. Burbank J. Peace
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I Edmund Rand of Deerfield in the County of Rockingham and State of New Hampshire depose and say: that I am the town Clerk of said Deerfield and have the Records of said town in custody:- that application having been made for a certificate of the marriage of Mr. Jonathan Blue and Ms Jennet Mcgregore, as was stated by said applicant to be about the year 1789 by the Rev. Timothy Upham of said Deerfield,- that I have examined said records and do not find said marriage therein recorded.- I further depose and say, that there is no record of any marriage whatever from January 25th A.D. 1787, to September 12th A.D. 1792 inclusive.- that there are records of marriages from the year 1775 from year to year up to the present time with the exception above named.- I further depose and say:- that the said Jonathan Blue is now deceased.- that I was well acquainted with him for a number of years before his decease.- that I am, and have been a acquainted [line through previous word] acquainted with his widow, the said Jennet for a number of years.- that she now resides in said town of Deerfield and believe her to be a woman of good moral character. 
Edmond Rand
State of New Hampshire}  
Rockingham Ss.}
Sworn to this 29th day of July A.D. 1839. Before me 
Thos. Burbank Justice of the Peace
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I, Jeremiah Avery, of Deerfield in the County of Rockingham and State of New Hampshire, aged seventy seven years, depose and say that I enlisted as a volunteer and private soldier in Captain Parson's Company of Infantry in the Army of the Revolution, sometime in the month of August in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty one, at said Deerfield, for the term of three months, and served in said Company during said three months until I was discharged at Charlestown in said State of New Hampshire sometime in the month of November in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty one - That said Company was futily stationed at said Charlestown (then called N.H.) for few days- thence marched to Castleton in the State of Vermont- thence to Thenkenboraugh- thence to Fort Ann in the State of New York - thence returned to Charlestown, where I was discharged as aforesaid- that Major Morton was Major of the Regiment to which said Company belonged- 
I further depose and say that I was well acquainted with Jonathan Blue late of said Deerfield, deceased,- that said Blue enlisted as a private soldier and volunteer in said Parson's Company at the same time and place with me, and served in said Company the whole of said Ann of three months and was discharged at said Charlestown at the same time I was, and that neither of us ever had any written discharge from said service to my knowledge~ 
I further depose and say that ever since the discharge of said Blue from said service I have been well acquainted with him until his death which happened about ten years since- that at the time of the decease of the said Blue, and for a long time before, I was well acquainted with his wife, Jannet Blue- that he now lives within one mile of me in said Deerfield, and is the widow of the said Jonathan, Blue- that her character for truth and verity is good and her statement entitled to full credit- and that, although aged and infirm, her mental powers are noot materially impaired~
Jeremiah Avery
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State of New Hampshire 
Rockingham Ss- July 24, 1839~
Then personally appearing the within named Jeremiah Avery, made solemn oath that the within affidavit by him subscribed, is true~ Before me, Thos. Burbbank Justice of the Pea
 
I hereby certify that I am well acquainted with the within named Jeremiah Avery, and that his character for truth and veracity is good, and his statements entitled to full credit~.
Thos. Burbank Justice of the Peace
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State of New Hampshire
Rockingham County Sct
I, Ira B. Hoitt Clerk of the Judicial Court of the County & State aforesaid do hereby certify that Thomas Burbank is an acting Justice of the peace in and for said County, duly commissioned and qualified that his commission was dated on the eleventh day of June AD 1836. and will expire on the Eleventh day of June AD 1841. and that his signatures to the annexed paper purporting to be his are genuine by his, are genuine by his appearing and acknowledging the same to be his genuine signatures.
Given under my hand & the Seal of said Court of Common Pleas this fourteenth day of August Anno Domini 1839 
I.B. Hoitt Clerk
[seal is on the left middle of the paper]
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N.H. 
6136 Jennet Blue 
Jonathan Blue
act 1838-
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JOHN FAIRFIELD,
GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF MAINE. 
TO ALL WHO SHALL SEE THESE PRESENTS, GREETING: 
Know ye, That Wadsworth Foster, whose name is borne upon the paper hereunto annexed, was at the date of his attestation, a Justice of the Peace within and for our County of Kennebee, and that the signature, purporting to be his, is genuine.
John Fairfield
duly nominated and appointed, commissioned and qualified; and that to his Acts and Attestations, as such, full faith and credit are and ought to be given in and out of Court.
In testimony whereof, I have caused the Seal of the State to be hereunto affixed. Given under my hand at AUGUSTA, this twenty fourth day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty-nine and in the sixty-third year of the Independence of the United States of America. 
BY THE GOVERNOR. 
A. R. Nichols Secretary of State.
[seal is on the top left hand corner of page]
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A Morten hall of the men mustered in Capt Simon Marton's, Company by Thomas Bartlett Muster. Master for the men named in bed Gilman Regt- (August 26-1776) 
Name, Jonathan Blue, Rank, Private Place of. abode, Deerfield - Advanced Wages 2.0,- Bounty F7 --- Blanket money-12- Gummony, 6 Frank 6.3. Sum total $10-4-3 
State of New Hampshire Office of Secy of State, April 17- 1840. 
I hereby certify the foregoing to be a true extract from the original man on name in this Office. 
In testimony of the foregoing I have hereunto affixed the seal of State.
Josiah Stevens Secy of State
[seal is on the lower left of page]
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I, Jeremiah Avery of Deerfield in the County of Rockingham and State of New Hampshire, aged seventy eight years, depose and make oath that I have lived in the aforesaid town of Deerfield ever since the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy five, and was then well acquainted with Jonathan Blue who then lived in said Deerfield and continued to be acquainted with him until his death which took place in the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty nine, and always lived within about one mile of said Blue- that I was well acquainted with the inhabitants of said town and that no other person of the name of Jonathan Blue, ever lived in said town of Deerfield in seventeen hundred and seventy five to the present time, except his son, who was born in seventeen hundred and ninety seven and is still living- Said Jonathan Blue, first above mentioned, was the husband of Jenet Blue, who is now his widow and lives within about one mile of me and on the place formerly own by her late husband - that said Jonathan Blue was a soldier in the Army of the Revolution, and the said Jenet Blue, who has made application for a pension, is his widow~ 
Jeremiah Avery
Deerfield April 22. 1840- 
State of New Hampshire-
Rockingham Ss- Deerfield, April 22. 1840- Personally the above named Jeremiah Avery, made oath that the above affirmed by him subscribed, is in his belief true- 
Before me,
Thos. Burbank Justin of the Peace~
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Hon. I. A. Eastman
N.H.

State of New Hampshire 
Rockingham Ss 
I Ira B Hoitt Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas within and for said County certify that Thomas Burbank is an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said County duly commissioned and qualified; that his commission dated June 11. 1836 and will expire on the 11th June 1841, and that his signature within written is genuine- 
Groin under my hand and the Seal of said Court this first day of May Anno Domini 1840 
I.B. Hoit Clerk
[seal is on  the  lower left of page]
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I, Sally Ayer of Winthrop in the County of Kennebec and State of Maine, now wife of Benjamin Ayer of said Winthrop, depose and say that Jonathan Blue late of Deerfield in the County of Rockingham and State of New Hampshire, deceased, was my brother- that said Jonathan Blue was married to Jennet McGregor at said Deerfield in the month of November in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty nine by the Rev. Timothy Upham, then a minister of the Gospel in said Deerfield at said Upham's home- that I was present and saw the ceremony of marriage performed- my brother, Samuel Blue, and a M. John Clow, (both of whom are now dead) were present at the wedding, and I do not now recollect of any other persons being present at that time, excepting the above named person's being present at the time, excepting the above named persons~ that the said Jennett McGregor is still living at said Deerfield and is  the widow of the said Jonathan Blue~ 
Sally Ayers
Winthrop. June 13th 1839~ 

State of Maine
Kennebec Ss- Winthrop June 13th 1839~ Personally appearing the above named Sally Ayer, made solemn oath that the above affidavit, by her subscribed is true~
Before me,
Wadsworth Foster Justice of the Peace 

I hereby certify that I am well acquainted with the above named Sally Ayer, and that her character for truth and veracity is good, and her statement entitled to full credit~ 
Wadsworth Foster Justice of the Peace