Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 21460, for Aaron Jenne, Vermont
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Vt.|Jenne, Aaron|W. 21460|
[blank]|Jinney Abigail|B.L.Wt. 14754-160-55|
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CONTENTS
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[verso]
119355 Act Mar 3 May 5} '55
Abigail Jenne widow Aaron Jenne. Paid
Private Capt Sawyer
Vermont Troops
Ent}
Dis} Revy War
[overwritten: no 14754 iss Jan 24/56]
Rev'y Pensioner
N.Y. Feby 48 - 5611
No. 160ac: Jany 22d/56
Dodge
N. C. Boynton 
Jay N.Y. 

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Vol. J. 38
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[verso]
New York 31,81[damaged paper]
Aaron Jenne, of Essex Co. in the State of N. York who was a private in the Compy: commanded by Captain Sawyer of the Reg't commanded by [blank] in the Vermont line for 12 mos. 84 days
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Inscribed on the Roll of Albany at the rate of 40 Dollars 44 Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day  of March, 1831.
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Certificate of Pension issued the 12th day of Dec: 1840 and sent to ['and' crossed out] George Stow Keeseville, N. York
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Arrears to the 4th of Sept: 1840: $181:98
Semi=anl allowance ending 4 Mar: 41. 20:22
$202:20
{Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.}
Recorded by Wm C. Lantzinger Clerk,
Book E. Vol. 2. Page 36. 

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See let to G. Stow, Esq: January 12, 1841.
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5311.
New York - Alby
Abigail Jenne widow of Aaron Jenne Vt who served in the Revolutionary war, as a Private - 
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 40 Dollars 44 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1848. 
Certificate of Pension issued the 21st day of Jan. 1850, and sent to Arad Joy Ovid N.Y. 
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act February 2, 1848, Page 103, Vol. 4
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Aaron Jenne 22234
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State of New York
Essex County}ss
On this 9th day of January 1833 personally appeared in open Court before the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas now Sitting Aaron Jenne a Resident of the Town of Jay in the County and State aforesaid aged seventy one years who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on his oath make the following Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832. 
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated That in the Town of Clarendon and State of Vermont where he then resided some time in the Month of September (the day he cannot recollect) in the year 1778 he entered the service of the United States with a Detachment of Militia that was raised in that Town of by Classification that he was Mustered and Enrolled and attached to a company organized at that place under the Command of Capt Thomas Sawyer that Samuel Campbell and a person by the Name of Brookings (his given name he does not recollect) were Lieutenants of the company and Thomas Pope Ensign that they were ordered and marched  to Rutland at which place he was stationed and served the full period of three Months that during the time he was engaged in completing a Stockade port scouting &c at the end of three months he was discharged and returned home where he remained untill the May following when he enlisted into the service for the Term of Nine Months and was again attached to a company commanded by the above named Capt Sawyer and that the above named Campbell and Brookings were Lieutenant and the same Pope Ensign of the Company that they were again stationed at Rutland that General Enos had command of the Fort that Colonel Warner of the Regular Troops commanded the Regiment to which he was attached that Major Whitcomb and Maj Pope were in the same Regiment that during the time
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he was there he was frequently on Scouting parties by was never in any particular engagement with the enemy that sometime during the summer Colonel Warner was ordered to the South and that Colonel Cluggar  (Claghorn) of Rutland  took command of the Regiment that he served the full period of Nine Months [margin note: 1779 9-] was discharged and returned home where he remained one month when he again volunteered and entered the service under the Command of Capt. Hutchins and that Samuel Butterfield and the above named Brookins were Lieutenants of the Company and Thomas Handy was Ensign that they were stationed at Pittsford and s'd State of Vermont where they erected a Picket Fort that three diferent times during this Period of service he was in Detachments which met Scouting parties of the Enemy and had skirmishes with them and at one time under the Command of Lieutenant Butterfield they took a boat belonging to the Enemy and five prisoners that he remained at Pittsford and full year from which place he was ordered to Castleton where he remained on duty for the Term of nine Months at which place he was discharged and returned home and that the Diferent Terms of his service amounted to two years and Nine Months and that he has no Documentary Evidence to prove these facts, and knows of no person living by which he can prove them and that he has heard of the death of all the Commissioned Officers under which he served. He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension Roll of the agency of any State
/s/Aaron Jenne
Sworn to and Subscribed the day and year aforesaid} /s/Leonard Stow Clerk
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The Court Put the following interrogatories (Viz)
1. Where and in what year were you born
was born in Dartmouth State of Massachusetts (he thinks but does not know the County) as he was informed by his Parents) in the year 1761 ninth of April.
2nd Have you any record of your age and if so where is it
Has no record of his age
3. Where were you living when called into service where have you lived since the Revolutionary War and where do you now live
Lived at the time he was called into service The Town of Clarendon County of Rutland and State of Vermont has lived since the Revolutionary War in the Towns of Waterford County of Rutland and State of Vermont, Salisbury Addison County and State of Vermont in the Town of Jay County of Essex and State of New York and resides there now - 
4th How were you called into service were you drafted did you volunteer or were you a substitute and if a substitute for whom - 
Went as a Substitute for three months in the Place of William Stewart and Enlisted for nine months and then volunteered for twelve months and was after that at Castleton nine months as volunteer
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5th State the names of some of the regular Officers who where with the troops where you served such continental and Militia Regiments as you can Recollect and the general Circumstances of your service
Thomas Sawyer Captain Lieutenant Samuel Campbell and Brookings (dont remember his Christian name) Ensign Pope General Eno (Enos) Major Whitcomb Major Pope says that Colonel Warner commanded of the Regulars commanded them at ['Castleton' crossed out] Rutland Black Fort was in a skirmish or two and was engaged in  compleating a Stockade fort one time under the command of Lieutenant Butterfield they took a boat belonging to the Enemy and five Prisoners 
6th Did you ever receive a discharge from the services and if so by whom was it granted and what has become of it
Never received any discharge from the service other than being verbally dissmissed
7th State the names of Persons to whom you are know in your Present neighbourhood who can testify as to your Character for Veracity and their belief of your services as a Soldier of the Revolution
Benjamin Bull of the Town of Jay County of Essex and State of New York and John Lavalle of the Town of Peru County of Clinton and State of New York
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We Benjamin Bull of the Town of Jay County of Essex and State of New York and John Lavake of the Town of Peru County of Clinton and state aforesaid hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Aaron Jenne who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be seventy one years of age and upwards that he is reputed and believed in the neighbourhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that Opinion
/s/Benjamin Bull
/s/John Lavake
Sworn and Subscribed the day and year aforesaid}
/s/Leonard Stow Clerk 
And  the court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after Putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states and the court further certifies that it appears to them that Benjamin Bull and John Lavake who has signed the preceding certificate are residents in the Towns of Jay and Peru as stated in the said Certificate and are credible Persons and that their Statements are entitled to credit
I Leonard Stow Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the Original Proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Aaron Jenne for a Pension 
[court seal affixed] In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my and the seal of this office this ninth day of January 1833
/s/Leonard Stow Clerk
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Abigail Jenne
119355
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[Revolutionary Widows..] DECLARATION. 
State of New York
County of Essex}ss.
On this Twenty third day of April A.D. 1855 before me, George G. Tobey a Justice of the Peace in and for the county and state aforesaid, personally appeared Abigail Jenne aged eighty seven years, a resident of the town of Jay in the State of New York who, being duly sworn according to law, doth, on her oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the Bounty Land to which she is entitled under the Act of Congress approved March 3d, 1855. 
That she is the widow of Aaron Jenne who was a private in the Revolutionary War; that, on account of the services of her husband, the aforesaid Aaron Jenne in said war, she now received a Pension at the  $40.44 per annum, under the act of 2d February 1848 ['Act of Congress' crossed out] as will more fully appear by reference to the evidence now on file in the Pension Office at Washington. 
She further declares that she is now a widow; that she has never before applied for nor received any Bounty Land under this or any other Act of Congress.
Claimant's Signature, X her mark Abigail Jenne
WE Joel Bull and Samuel R Webb residents of the town Jay in the State of New York upon our oaths declare that the foregoing declaration was signed and acknowledged by Abigail Jenne in our presence, and that we know her to be the identical person she represents herself to be, and that she is now a widow.
Signature of 2 Witnesses 
Joel Bull
James R. Webb
The foregoing declaration and affidavits 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 identical person she represents herself to be, and that I have no interest in this claim. 
Magistrate, /s/George G Tobey Justice of the Peace
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State of New York,
ESSEX COUNTY, SS.} I, E. A. ADAMS, Clerk of said County, Do Certify that George G Tobey Esquire, whose name is subscribed to the certificate of proof or acknowledgment of the annexed Declaration Affidavit & Certificate was, on the day of the date of the said certificate of proof or acknowledgment, a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, dwelling therein, duly qualified and authorized by law to take the Proof and Acknowledgment of Deeds, &c., and that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of the said Justice and verily believe the signature to said Certificate of Proof or acknowledgment to be genuine and that the said instrument is executed and acknowledged according to the Laws of the State of New York.
[court seal affixed] IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have subscribed my name and affixed the seal of said County, this twenty Seventh day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty five
/s/E A Adams Clerk,
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State of New York
St Lawrence County}ss Ezekiel Jenne whom I certify is a respectable person after being duly sworn, according to law, deposes and says, that Abigail Jenne an applicant for a pension as the widow of Aaron Jenne is this deponent's mother - and that the said Aaron Jenne late a pensioner was this deponent's father - that this deponent is sixty one years of age and is the third child of his said parents - that is - two of their children were older than this deponent - that this deponent is exempt from serving on Juries having passed the year of sixty - that is - being sixty one years of age he is cleared from serving upon juries
/s/Ezekiel Jenne
Subscribed and sworn before me this 20 day of September 1849 
/s/Isaac R. Hopkins Jus. Peace
State of New York
St Lawrence County}ss Elias Post whom I certify is a respectable person - after being duly sworn according to law, deposes and says that he is one of the town board, whose duty it is to make the Jury list, that he is personally acquainted with Ezekiel Jenne above named son of the late Aaron Jenne and the present widow Abigail Jenne, herself an applicant for a pension, that the said Ezekiel Jenne is considered by the town board to have passed sixty years of age and is thereby stricken from the Jury list.
/s/Elias Post
Subscribed and sworn before me this 20 day of September 1849 
/s/Isaac R. Hopkins Jus. Peace
State of New York
County of St. Lawrence} ss. I Martin Thatcher County Clerk of the County of St. Lawrence and also clerk of the Courts of record directed by Law
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to be held in and for the said County do hereby certify that Isaac R. Hopkins Esq whose name is subscribed to the Jurats of the foregoing affidavits of Ezekiel Jenne & Elias Post was at the time of taking such affidavits a Justice of the Peace in and for the County of St Lawrence elected and sworn and duly authorized by the Laws of the state of New York to administer oaths and affirmations
And further that I am well acquainted with the handwriting of such Justice and verily believe that the signature to the Jurats of such affidavits to be genuine
[county seal affixed] In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of said County this 22d day of September 1849
/s/Martin Thatcher Clerk of St Lawrence County
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2234
Aaron Jenne
rej
Joel Bull 
Jay [illegible]
Edmund. L. Williams
Elizabeth Town Essex C'y New York
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WAR DEPARTMENT, Pension Office, [blank] 183[blank]
Sir: 
The evidence in support of your claim, under the act of June 7, 1832, has been examined, and the papers are herewith returned. The following is a statement of your case in a tabular form. On comparing these papers with the following rules, and the subjoined notes, you will readily perceive that objections exist, which must be removed, before a pension can be allowed. The notes and the regulations will show what is necessary to be done. Those points to which your attention is more particularly directed, you will find marked in the margin with a brace, (thus: }). You will, when you return your papers to this Department, send this printed letter with them; and you will, by complying with this request, greatly facilitate the investigation of your claim. 
A Statement, shewing the Service of Aaron Jenne, of Jay Essex County New York
[column headings: Period when the service was rendered|Duration of the claimant's service.(Years.|Months.|Days.)|Rank of the claimant.|Names and Rank of the Company officers under whom he served.|Names and Rank of the General and Field Officers|Battles in which the applicant was engaged.|Country through which he marched.|Place of abode when he entered the service, and age at the present period.|Evidence by which the declaration is supported.|]
Sept 1778 sub|( " |3| "4)|[blank]|Capt Sawyer|Col|[blank]|Rutland|Clarendon Vermont|[blank]|
May 1779 enlisted|( " |9| " )|[blank]|do|Warner Gen'l Eno(s)Maj Pope|[blank]|Rutland|[blank]|Traditionary|
Enlisted for 9 months & vol for 1 year|(full one|year &|nine months|Hutchins Lt. Butterfield|[blank]|Skirmishes near Pittsford|Pittsford|aged 71 years|[blank]|
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I am, respectfully, Your obedient servant, 
J. L. EDWARDS,
Commissioner of Pensions.
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2 
REGULATIONS UNDER THE ACT OF JUNE 7, 1832. 
The following regulations have been adopted: 
This law has been construed to extend, as well to the line, as to every branch of the Staff of the Army, and to include under the terms "Continental Line,' State troops," " militia," and "volunteers," all persons enlisted, drafted, or who volunteered and who were bound to military service, but not those who were occasionally employed with the army upon civil contracts, such as Clerks to Commissaries and to Store Keepers, &c., Teamsters, Boatmen, &c. Persons who served on board of private armed vessels are also excluded from the benefits et the law, as well as persons who turned out as patrols, or were engaged in guarding particular places at night, and were not recognized as being in actual military service. 
Four general classes of cases are embraced in this law: 
1. The Regular Troops. 
2. The State Troops, Militia, and Volunteers. 
3. Persons employed in the Naval Service. 
4. Indian Spies. 
As rolls of the regular troops in the Revolutionary War exist in this Department, all persons claiming the benefit of this law as officers, non-commissioned officers, musicians or privates, will, in the first instance, make application by transmitting the following declaration, which will be made before a Court of Record of the County where such applicant resides. And every Court having by law a seal and Clerk is considered a Court of Record. 
DECLARATION, 
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th of June, 1832. 
State, Territory, or District of} County of} ss. 
On this [blank] day of [blank] personally appeared (a) before [blank] A. B. a resident (b) of [blank] in the county of [blank] and State, Territory or District of [blank] aged (c) [blank] years, who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress, passed June 7th, 1832. That he enlisted in the Army of the United States in the year (d) [blank], with [blank] and served in the [blank] (e) regiment of the [blank] line, under the following named officers : 
[Here set forth the names and rank of the Field and Company Officers; the time he left the service ; (and if he served under more than one term of enlistment, he must specify the particular period, and rank and names of his officers ;) the town or county and State in which he resided when he entered the service; the battles, if any, in which he was engaged, and the country through which he marched. ⇒This form is to be varied so as to apply to the cases of officers and persons who belonged to the militia, volunteers, navy, &c.] 
He hereby relinquishes every claim (f) whatever to a pension or an annuity, except the present, and he declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any Agency in any State, or (if any) only on that of the Agency in the State of [blank] 
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid. [blank] A. B. 
[And then will follow the certificate of the Court.] 
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion (g) that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states. 
I [blank] of the Court of [blank] do hereby certify (h) that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of [blank] for a pension. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office (i) this [blank] day of [blank] &c. 
If, on examination of the proper record, the names of applicants, making such declaration, cannot be found, they will produce such proof as the rule given in note (j) points out. 
Every applicant who claims a pension by virtue of service in the State Troops, Volunteers or Militia, except those who belonged to the New Hampshire Militia and State Troops of Virginia, will make and subscribe a declaration similar to the foregoing, with the following additions, viz: 
(k) We, A. B., a Clergyman, residing in the [blank] and C. D. residing in (the same) hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with [blank], who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be [blank] years of age; that he is reputed and believed, in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion. 
Sworn and subscribed the days and year aforesaid. 
[And then will follow the certificate of the Court.] 
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a RevoIutionary Soldier, and served as he states. And the Court further certifies, that it appears to them that A. B. who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman, resident in the [blank] and that C. D., who has also signed the same is a resident in the [blank] and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit. 
I, [blank] Clerk of the Court of [blank] do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the application of [blank] for a pension. 
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal [blank] of office, this [blank] day of [blank]&c. 
Every applicant will produce the best proof in his power. This is the original discharge or commission; but if neither of these can be obtained, the party will so state under oath, and will then procure, if possible, the testimony of at least one credible witness, stating in detail his personal knowledge of the services of the applicant, and such circumstances connected therewith, as may have a tendency to throw light upon the transaction. 
If such surviving witness cannot be found, the applicant will so state in his declaration,(l) and he will also, whether he produce such evidence or not, proceed to relate all the material facts, which can be useful in the investigation of his claim, and in the comparison of his narrative with the events of the period of his alleged service, as they are known at the Department. A very full account of the services of each person
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Abigail Jenne
Act 7th July/38
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Declaration 
In Order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the Acts of Congress of 7th July 1838 3d March 1848, and 17th June 1844, being Acts granting pensions to certain widows - 
State of New York
County of Essex SS} On this 30th day of September 1846, at a Court of Common Pleas in & for the county of Essex, before the Judges thereof in open Court, came Abigail Jinney (Jenne) of said County, aged Seventy nine years and upwards who being first sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provisions made by the Acts of Congress above named - 
That she is the widow of Aaron Jinney (Jenne) who was a pensioner of the United States at the rate of Forty dollars and forty four cents per annum who was a resident of Jay in the County of Essex aforesaid at the time of his death and who died on the nineteenth day of April 1842, Eighteen hundred and forty two - 
That this deponent was married to said Aaron Jinney on the 26th day of June in the year 1783, Seventeen hundred and Eighty three at the house of deponents Father, Ezekiel Mighill in the town of Wallingford in the State of Vermont by a Justice of the Peace by the name of Abram Jackson - that she has no record of her marriage, but that she is positive as to the date as she well knows it was in the year in which the revolutionary war was closed - that she has not intermarried since the death of her said husband but sill remains his widow - and that this deponent now resides in Jay aforesaid - 
Sworn & subscribed /s/X her mark Abigail Jinney
Sworn & Subscribed this day of September A.D. 1846 in open Court before me 
/s/E. A. Williams Clerk of Essex County NY
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State of New York 
County of Essex ss} I Edmund A. Williams do ['solemnly swear' crossed out] certify that I am informed and believe that the within deponent had to sign her name by making her Mark from the fact that she never learned the art of writing Ddated the 24th day of Sept. A.D. 1846. 
/s/E. A. Williams Clerk of the County of Essex
Abigail Jinney 
Declaration
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State of New York
County of Clinton ss} 
Personally appeared before me the subscriber one of the Justices of the Peace in and for said County of ['Essex' crossed out] Clinton Elisha Button of the Town of Peru in said county aged seventy five years and upwards - who being first duly sworn according to Law Deposeth and saith that he was personally acquainted with Aaron Jinney (Jenne) late a pensioner of the United States, from Essex County who died on or about the nineteenth day of April 1842 and who left Abigail Jinney (Jenne) his widow surviving him - with whom this deponent was equally well acquainted - that he has been personally and familiarly acquainted with said Aaron Jinney and Abigail Jinney for more than Sixty years before the decease of said Aaron Jinney - that he was acquainted with said Aaron & Abigail Jinney before their marriage, that they were married in the town of Wallingford in the county of Rutland and state of Vermont about the year of 1783 as near as deponent can now recollect - and deponent remembers it was near the time of the close of the war between the United States and Great Britain, and deponent knows that said Abigail was the first and only wife of said Aaron Jinney, that she has not married since his death and that now is his widow that she resides in Jay Essex County New York - and deponent further says from his acquaintance wit the family he has full confidence i the statements made by the said Abigail Jinney as they are entitled to full credit & value - 
/s/ Elisha Button
Subscribed and sworn before me this 1st day of February 1847}
/s/Thos. B. Watson Justice Peace of Peru Clinton County N.Y.}
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State of New York
Clinton County ss I Charles H. Jones Clerk of the County of Clinton do hereby certify that Thomas B. Watson Esqr whose name is Subscribed to the within jurat & before whom the said affidavit was taken was on the day of the date thereof a Justice of the Peace in and for said County Commissioned and Sworn & duly authorized to act as such and that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of said Justice and verily believe that the Signature within is genuine 
[county seal affixed] In testimony whereof I have hereunto Subscribed my name and affixed the Seal of Said County the 12th day of February 1847. 
/s/Charles H. Jones Clerk
Abigail Jinney 
Act 7th July/38
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Please report to me 
Dec'r 11: 1849
W. A. Sackett M.C.
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State of Vermont
Montpelier May 7, 1840
Secretary of State's Office. 
I hereby certify that there is on file in this office a paper purporting to be a Pay Roll of Capt. Thos. Sawyer Company of Provincial Troops from the dates of their several inlistments until discharged both days included commencing May 5th & ending Nov. 30. 1778 on which Roll in the list of privates, is the name of "Aaron Jenny" (Jenne) with an allowance for three months 4 days service. [margin note: 3-4] Said Roll is written in an indistinct hand and on a former examination said name was read "Aaron Jenny," but a more critical examination and comparison of letters induce the belief that the name is "Aaron Jenny." Said Pay Roll appears to have been duly approved by the proper authorities. 
I further certify that I have examined the pay rolls on file of Capt. Parmelee Allen's Company, and have not been able to find the name of Aaron Jenne.
I also certify that the Pay Rolls on
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file in this office appears, evidently, to be imperfect and incomplete and to have been used without due care. 
[seal affixed] Given under my hand and the seal of this office this seventh day of May A.D. 1840. 
/s/Ferrand F. Merrill
Deputy Secretary of State
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[handwritten letter]
War Department
Pension Office
Feb. 6, 1840

Sir, 
The additional certificate of the Secretary of State of Vermont offered as evidence in support of the claim of Aaron Jenne is received. The claimant says in his original declaration that he served 3 months under Capt. Thomas Sawyer in 1778, nine months in 1779, and about one year and nine months under Capt. Hutchens; but the records of Vermont do not confirm his statement. It is stated by two witnesses that the claimant was in 1779 a private in Capt. Parmelee Allen's company. It does not appear that any search for evidence of his service in that company has been made. Either the claimant or the witnesses, as to the last mentioned service are mistaken. The rolls of Capt. Allen's company in the Office of the Secretary may furnish an explanation. 
I am respectfully Your Obt. Serv't
/s/J. L. Edwards
G. Stow, Esqr.
Keeseville N. York
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State of New York
County of Essex ss. Aaron Jenne of Jay in the County of Essex being duly sworn deposeth & saith that the annexed letter of J. L. Edwards Esq. of the Pension office bearing date Feb. 6, 1840 & addressed to "G. Stow Esq'r, Keeseville N. York, is now before him, from which he learns that in  his original declaration makes no mention of his service under Captain Parmalee Allen - that the said original declaration was drawn for deponent by a Mr. Williams who was herein with business when he did it - that deponent feels confident that at the time Williams drew his declaration, he mentioned Capt. Parmalee Allen as one of the Captains under whom he served - & deponent undoubtedly mentioned also Captain Hutchins as a Captain under whom also he served - that his original declaration in this respect is true, though in part he never inlisted under Captain Hutchins - During the time of his inlistment under Capt Parmalee (Allen), he was several times under the command of Capt. Hutchins. There were three forts near each other, Rutland, Castleton, & Pittsford. Deponent was principally at Castleton, but occasionally at the other forts - & on several occasions deponent & in part of his company joined Captain Hutchins Company by orders - These circumstances may account - & it is the only way in which deponent can account for the discrepancy between his original declaration & the ['testim' crossed out] depositions of his two witnesses - or rather for the omission in his said declaration of his service under Capt. Parmalee Allen. There was a circumstance connected with the fate of Capt. Hutchins, that might have
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['rendered' crossed out] made his temporary service under Hutchins at the time of making his declaration more readily recollected - & to give it a prominency 
Hutchins and two other men made an excursion on the water near the Southern end of Champlain in company with three women in a small boat - A shower coming on they landed drew the boat ashore, turned it bottom up, & all six took shelter under it from the rain. Im this situation a party of the enemy came upon them & made the men prisoners, discharging the females. 
Deponent never saw Capt Hutchins afterwards & has no recollection, that he ever heard of the captain's return
/s/Aaron Penne
Sworn the 20th day of May 1840 before me}
/s/G. Stow Justice of the Peace
State of New York
County of Essex ss. Joel Bull of Jay in said County aged thirty six yeas being duly sworn deposeth & saith that he has been acquainted with Aaron Jenne who subscribed the foregoing affidavit & who is now present before me for nineteen years; that he has always since deponent's first acquaintance with his ben reputed a revolutionary soldier - that he has several years resided in deponent's family - that ['he has very often' crossed out] deponent has very often heard him relate his revolutionary services & adventures - that before he had any expectation of obtaining a pension as well as since deponent recollects his mentioning his service under Capt. Parmalee Allen - as with us under Capt Hutchins & Capt Sawyer
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that deponent was present when he made his original declaration - & that ['he recollects' crossed out] deponent recollects he then mentioned in presence of Mr. Williams his aforesaid service under Capt'n Parmalee Allen - Deponent on that occasion was curious to know whether at his age he would remember his several periods of service this officers - & for that reason gave more attention to his statement this deponent otherwise would - And deponent further says that he is a son in law of the said Aaron Jenne
/s/Joel Bull
Sworn the 20th of May 1840 before me}
/s/G. Stow Justice Peace 
State of New York
County of Essex ss. Benjamin Bull of Jay in the County aforesaid aged fifty eight years being duly sworn deposeth & saith that he has been well acquainted with Aaron Jenne named in the preceding affidavits for eighteen or nineteen years last past - that for all that time the said Aaron has been reputed among all his neighbors to have been a revolutionary soldier - that before the passage of that amendment of the Pension law which would  entitle him to a pension for his services, as well as since, he has often hear him relate the particulars of his revolutionary services, & the names of his officers - that deponent knows that on all these occasions eh has been consistent in his story - that he has always told deponent that his principal services
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were rendered under Capt Parmalee Allen - but that he had served also under Capt Sawyer & Capt Hutchins.
Deponent was present when the said Aaron's original declaration was made out by Mr. Edmund F. Williams - 7 has a strong impression that the said Aaron then mentioned his service under Capt Parmalee Allen - though deponent cannot recollect positively that such was the fact. 
/s/Benjamin Bull
Sworn the 20th day of May 1840 before me}
/s/G. Stow Justice of the Peace
I certify that the above named Benjamin Bull & Joel Bull are men of truth & veracity, & are credible persons
/s/G. Stow Just. Peace
State of New York
County of Essex ss.} I, Edmund F. Williams Clerk in and for the County of Essex and Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of said County do hereby certify that Gordon Stow, whose name is Subscribed to the foregoing affadavits was a Justice of the Peace in and for said County duly elected and qualified and that his official term as said Justice commenced on the first Tuesday of April 1838 and will expire on the last day of November `841. - and further that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of the said Justice and Know the Signatures "G. Stow" to be genuine.
[court seal affixed] In Testimony Whereof I hereby subscribe by name and affix my Official Seal at the Clerk's Office at Elizabethtown in said County this 25th day of May A.D. 1841. 
/s/E. F. Williams Clerk
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No. 13540
Abigail Jenne 
wid of Aaron NY
act 7 July 1838
married before '94
husb. dec'd 1842
Adm'd act 3 March 1843 & 17 June 1844 at $40.44 per annum
Adm'd 2 Feb Act '48
Arad Joy 
Ovid N.Y. 
Eliakin Bradley's affidavit
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I Eliakin Bradley of Salisbury in the county of Addison and State of Vermont of lawful age depose and say: that I was well acquainted with Aaron Jenny (Jenne) deceased, and Abigail Jenny previous to their intermarriage, which was in the year 1783. they there resided in the town of Wallingford, in the county of  Rutland and State of Vermont, and Mrs. Jenny's maiden name was Abigail Miles. About the 26th day of June 1783. they were married at least such was the reputed fact about the neighborhood 
And I understood by Abram Jackson Esq. at that time a Justice of the peace in the county of Rutland. I have no recollection of being present at the wedding although I was a new neighbor to them, but I do know that for many years after they cohabited and lived together as man and wife and supposed to be so, and until the decease of Mr. Jenny, which was about the year 1840, according to my recollection and belief, 
They lived in Wallingford in this recollection for about 25 years - they then moved to Salisbury Vermont, where they lived together as man and wife, & some 20 years ago they moved to Jay, N.Y. I have been to their house while they were at Jay, N.Y. and have no doubt but that they were married as reputed, and at the time above set forth. I further say that Mrs. Abigail
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Jenny was the first and only wife of the said Aaron Jenny - I further say that I was 77 years of age the first day of last October, and that ever since I first became acquainted with the said Aaron and Abigail I have seen this man in life frequently. I was also well acquainted with Abram Jackson Esq in his life time and know that he was a magistrate at the time referred to. 
/s/Eliakin Bradley 
State of Vermont
Addison County ss} At Leicester in said County on this 13th day of December A.D. 1847, personally appeared before me the above named Eliakin Bradley and made that the facts set forth in the foregoing affidavit are true according to his recollection.
Before /s/John Prout Justice Peace
State of Vermont
Addison County Clerk's Office}
[court seal affixed] I, George S. Swift Clerk of the county court for the county of Addison, hereby certify that John Prout, whose signature is attached to the foregoing certificate, was at the date thereof, a Justice of the peace within & for said county, duly commissioned & qualified, and that I know said signature
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to be genuine. 
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of said court at Middlebury in said county this 16th day of December A.D. 1847. 
/s/Geo. S. Swift Clerk of Addison County Court
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State of New York
Clinton County } ss: Elisha Button of Peru in the said County (whom I certify to be a respectable person) after being duly sworn says that he was  seventy six years old on the thirteenth day of January last past, that he has been intimately acquainted for more than sixty years, with Abigail Jenne an applicant for a pension, and with her late husband Aaron Jenne late a pensioner, that this deponent has also been equally well acquainted with the family of the said parties, and that he knows well from his own age, & comparing it with the eldest children of the said parties that there cannot be over from twelve to sixteen years difference between the age of this deponent and the eldest child of the said parties, that as a more certain data this deponent says that at the age of eighteen years he trained under the said Aaron Jenne who was then a Captain of the Malitia(sic), - that at the time this deponent so trained under said Jenne said Jenne was a married man and had one or two children, and deponent says he was himself married in the year 1796 and that the above named Aaron and Abigail Jenne had at the
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time of this deponent's marriage three or four children, these facts he well remembers.
/s/Elisha Button
Subscribed & sworn before me this 26th day of June 1828}
/s/Thos. B. Watson Justice Peace}
State of New York
Clinton County ss} I Charles H. Jones Clerk of the County of Clinton do hereby certify that Thomas B. Watson Esqr, before whom the foregoing affidavit was taken, was at the time of taking the same a Justice of the Peace in & for the County aforesaid, duly Commissioned and Sworn. And further that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of Said Justice and verily believe that the Signature above written is genuine. 
[county seal affixed] In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed by name and affixed the Seal of Said County the 5th day of July 1848. 
/s/Charles H. Jones Clerk
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Abigail Jenne of N. York 
See Com's letter of Nov 21, 1844
Pension admitted
Report to Arad Joy not to me 
/s/W. A. Sackett
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DECLARATION.
In order to obtain the benefits of the act of Congress of 2d February, 1848, entitled, "An act making further provision for surviving Widows and Soldiers of the Revolution."
STATE OF NEW YORK
County of Essex} ss. 
On this 19th day of December 1849 personally appeared before the subscriber one of the Justices of the Peace in and for said county, Abigail Jenne a resident of Jay in the county of Essex aged eighty two 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 2d February, 1848, granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary war. That she is the widow of Aaron Jenny (Jenne) late a pensioner of the United States, and that this deponent as his widow, has long since made declaration for a pension - 
She further declares that she is a widow.
/s/X her mark Abigail Jenne
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written, before 
/s/Mr. George G. Tobey Justice of the Peace and I further certify that I wrote the name at her request & saw her make her mark
I certify that the above named affiant is personally known to me, and that she is the same individual who drew a pension as stated by her in the foregoing affidavit. 
/s/George G. Tobey Justice of the Peace
State of New York
Essex County ss.} I hereby certify that George G. Tobey Esquire before whom the foregoing affidavit was made & who has thereunto subscribed his name was at the time of so doing a Justice of the Peace in & for the county aforesaid duly elected and sworn.
[court seal affixed] In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of my office as Clerk of the County Court of said County this 25th day of December 1849. 
/s/G. S. Nicholson Clerk, Essex County.
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2334
Aaron Jenne of Jay, a pension application
1778 Capt. Sawyer 3 mo. & 4 days
1780 " P. Allen 9. 
12.& 4
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I Daniel Foot of Cornwall, County of Addison, & State of Vermont, aged 78 years & more, being duly sworn depose & say, that in the year 1778, I was a soldier in the Revolutionary War, and was then well acquainted with Aaron Jenne, who was also a soldier in the War, that we belonged to the same Company, said Jenne & myself both resided in Clarendon, County of Rutland & State of Vermont, at the time, and we enlisted into said service for the term of ten months, into a Company commanded by Capt. Parmelee Allen, Nath'l Holmes, first Lieut. & James Smith second Lieut. and attached to a Regiment commanded by Col. Ebenezer Allen, we enlisted about the first of February AD 1778 - and continued in said service, full ten months, and did duty at Pittsford, & Castleton, Vermont, in the same company, during the full term of ten months, agreeable to our enlistment, and were then honorably discharged, but no written discharge. - I know that the said Aaron Jenne enlisted & did duty as a soldier in the Company, & Regiment, aforesaid, and for the term of ten months as before stated, because the said Jenne & myself were messmates, and were constantly together except when out on scouts.
/s/Daniel Foot
State of Vermont
Addison County ss} Sworn and subscribed this
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this 17th day of August A.D. 1838 - before me
/s/Joel Doolittle Justice Peace
And I certify that I have been well acquainted with the said affiant, Daniel Foot, for thirty years or more, that he is a credible witness
/s/Joel Doolittle Justice Peace
State of Vermont
Addison County ss} I, Samuel Swift, Clerk of the County Court for the said County of Addison, do hereby certify that Joel Doolittle, before whom the foregoing affidavit was made is a Justice of the peace duly qualified to administer oaths, and that his name subscribed to the above certificate is his own signature. 
[court seal affixed] In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said Court, this 17th day of August 1838. 
/s/Sam'l Swift, Clerk
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State of New York
Franklin County} ss Be it known that on this twenty first day of September in the year 1839 Before the undersigned Justice of the peace in and for the county of Franklin at Malone in the said County personally appeared Samuel Smith 2d of the said Town of Malone who after being duly sworn by me the undersigned Justice deposeth and says that he is eighty years of age & over that during the period of the Revolutionary war he resided in that part of the State of Vermont now embraced within the county of Rutland and served as a soldier in several campaigns during the said War for which service his name is now on the pension Roll of the New York Agency under the act of the 7th of June 1832. That in the Spring of the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy nine (1779) as he believes he this Deponent enlisted for nine or ten months at Rutland in the State of Vermont into a Company of Vermont Troops commanded by Captain Parmalee Allen in Col. Ebenezer Allen's Regiment in which company James Smith was Lieutenant and Elias Hall was Ensign and served out the term of his said enlistment in the said company and this Deponent further saith that he acted as Sergeant in the said company that he was well acquainted with one Aaron Jenne then a member of the said company that he now recollects that the said Aaron Jenne entered the said company with this Deponent or within a few days before or after and served as a private in the said company & Regiment with this Deponent for nine or ten months and was discharged with this Deponent late in the fall of the same year or beginning of the next year that the said company was stationed at Castleton near Rutland and was employed in Keeping guard and scouting & connoitering in the vicinity of Lake Champlain and further saith not
/s/Samuel Smith 2d
Subscribed and Sworn before me the day & year first above written} 
/s/Asa Hascoll Justice of the peace
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State of New York
Franklin County }ss I the within named Justice of the peace do certify that I am and for twelve years last past have been personally well acquainted with the within named Deponent Samuel Smith 2d that he has always sustained a good moral character and is a credible witness
/s/Asa Hascoll Justice of Peace 
State of New York
Franklin County ss. This certifies that the above signed Asa Hascoll Esqr is a Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Franklin whose term of office will expire on the last day of December 1842 - 
[county seal affixed] Given under my hand and the Seal of Said County this twenty first day of September 1839 - 
/s/Thomas P. Powell Deputy Clerk
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I Elias Hull of Castleton in the County of Rutland & State of Vermont aged 86 years do testify & say that in the year 1779 I served three months in Capt. Parmalee Allen's company as a Sargent in this town. I well remember there was a man in said company by the name of Jenne who came from Shrewsbury in this County 
In the year 1780 I was appointed Lieutenant and served as such in Capt. Jesse Sawyer's company at Pittsford nine months during said time I often saw the said Jenne in Capt Allen's company. The christian name of the said Jenne I do not now remember but from description I have no doubt but the same man now resides in Jay in the State of New York. I have a more particular recollection of the man from the circumstance that during the time we were stationed at Pittsford as afs'd the said Jenne and others took & brought into the camp ['a Wolf' crossed out] a live wolf. And further say not
/s/Elias Hall
State of Vermont
Rutland County ss} Castleton September 1st 1840 Then personally appeared Elias Hall to know as a credible witness and made solemn oath that the foregoing affidavit by him subscribed in my presence contains the truth and nothing but the truth
Before me /s/Almon Warner Justice Peace
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Town Cl
Abigail Jenney (Jenne)
from Town Clerk Wallingford
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[handwritten letter]
Town Clerk's office
Wallingford, Vt. Aug. 18th 1847

Dear Sir,
You will not infer from the time since the date of yours of the 20th July, that I neglect to answer the same I trust. 
On the recpt of your letter I called on Mr. Ives the nephew of the wid. Jenne & then made a thorough examination of the Town Records. 
There are no record of the marriage of any previous to the year 1784 - I find the name of Abram Jackson as Just. Peace attached to Deed, &c. The record of their marriage if anywhere must be where Jackson's papers are - the proper place is at the County Clerk's office but at that early day must likely was neglected
There is one old lady by the name of Crary wife of Elias Crary who lived near neighbour to Old Mrs. Jenny (Jenne) & on whom I call'd this morning - he recollects well that they had a number of children born at the place above named but was not present at the birth of Esther. One, she said, "had two teeth when born" There are many who recollect the old "hunter" Jenny (Jenne) & this E. Crary, was Lieut. in the militia when Mr Jenny was Capt. &c. &c. 
No Church Records to be found - they or their friends were Baptists of course the children were not Baptized. I think it possible that if someone was to take the time - they might trace out the proof
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[handwritten letter]
of their marriage
This is all I have been able to find & this is small
Respectfully Yours
/s/David Holden Town Clerk
W. G. Wade
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Please report the within cases to Arad Joy, of Ovid New York W. A. Sackett M.C.
 5
Arad Joy, Esqr
Ovid N.Y.
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[handwritten letter]
Ovid N.Y. Augt 28th 1849

Dear Sir
I have a letter of Augt 27, '47 that you addressed W. G. Wade relating to no marriage record of Aaron Jenney (Jenne) to Abigail 
Your letter does not say that you are town clerk & that your town or church records show no such record of marriage - I therefore beg/care to ask you to please give your certificate as to your records of the marriage of Aaron Jenny & Abigail Wilson - I inclose your letter to Mr Wade, * ask you if you were then the town clerk to give your certificate upon the back of it, as to the truth of the facts stated in it, & say too whether there is or is not a town or church record of it - you yet ascertain by whom the papers of Abram Jackson Esq who married them are kept - please return this sheet as it now is, turning it inside out, that it may show the post mark of your place as well as ours - please return the inclosed old letter with your certificate upon the back of it - married 1783 - 
Much oblige Your Obt Servt
/s/Arad Joy
Sept. 1/49
If you have a Vt. Register you will see that I have been Town Clerk since March 1 1842 for the town of Wallingford Rutland Co. Vt. 
/s/D. Holden Town Clk
P.S. I have no additional information on the subject DH
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[addressed envelope]
[margin notes: Jan 9 1841 In at N. Y. A. Jenne] 
[illegible postmark] F
J. L. Edwards Esqr
Pension Office 
Washington City
Dist. Columbia
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[handwritten letter]
Keeseville, New York
Jany 2. 1841

Sir,
I am sorry to trouble you again in the matter of the application of Aaron Jenne for a pension
You wrote me that the last deposition of Elias Hall was satisfactory; & decided that one year & four days service had been proved - & saying that you would issue a certificate for the pension that that length of service would intitle him to if the applicant should decide on accepting it 
After advising with his son in law I wrote you for the certificate thus promised. 
I have rec'd a certificate but it is for only $40.44 instead of $49.05 the sum it ought to be
Presuming that it is a mistake of one of your Clerks I send the certificate back for correcction
In My last letter I returned your letter to me above referred to 
Very respectfully Your obt. servant
/s/G. Stow
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Nov 2 1840
N.Y. Add proof Aaron Jenne
[postmark: KEESEVILLE N.Y. Oct 28] F
J. L. Edwards Esq'r
Pension Office
Washington City
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[handwritten letter]
Keeseville, New York
Oct 28, 1840

Sir,
I now enclose you the further deposition of Lieut. Elias Hall establishing positively the identity of Aaron Jenne - which I hope & trust will be entirely satisfactory, & terminate our correspondence in reference to him 
Yours resp'y
/s/G. Stow 
The deposition is taken before me - my official character is duly certified to, on the papers of Jenne which you have in poss'n
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[addressed envelope]
[margin notes: N.Y. Nov 10. No 2234 to Case Aaron Jenne]
[postmark: KEESEVILLE N.Y. NOV 4] Free
Secretary of the Treasury 
(J. L. Edwards Pension office)
Washington City D.C.
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[handwritten letter]
Keeseville New York
Nov. 3, 1838

Sir,
I enclose an app'n for a pension when the Department shall have passed upon it please direct to me
Yours &c
/s/G. Stow
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[addressed envelope]
[margin notes: In at N. York Apl 8. DC Aaron Jenne]
[postmark: KEESEVILLE N. Y. March 31] Free
Pension Office
Washington City D.C.
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[handwritten letter]
Keeseville, New York
March 29, 1839

Sir,
Before the late Session of Congress, I sent to the Pension Office, certain papers to support the claim of Aaron Jenne of Jay, New York to a pension. The original application had been before sent & had been returned for proof.
The papers seem not to have been acted upon by the department - for nothing has been communicated to the applicant or to me
May I hope that the appl'n will be soon attended to?
Your's respectfully
/s/G. Stow
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[handwritten letter]
Pension Office
November 21. 1840

Sir,
The additional evidence in the case of Aaron Jenne, enclosed in your letter of the 28th ult. viz. the affidavit of Elias Hall, has been examined. Upon the proof now adduced there appears to be no objection to allowing the claimant a pension for 12 months and four days service. If it be decided to accept a pension for that term, he will signify his assent accordingly. 
I am respectfully Your Obt. Servt.
/s/J. L. Edwards
G. Stow, Esq'
Keeseville N. York
49
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Abigail Jenney
Town Clerk's office Wallingford Vt. 
Sept 1st 1849. 
The within Statement as to the memorandum of the family record is correct & agreeable to truth - 
I have diligently searched & examined the Records in this office & do not find any record of the marriage or Death of the Mrs. Jenny named within
Attest /s/David Holden Town Clerk
Town Clerk's office Wallingford Vt. Sept. 1, 1849
At a town meeting legally warned & holden at the town-House in s'd Town March 2d 1847 David Holden was Elected town Clerk of the year ensuing 
a true Copy of Record now in this office}
Attest /s/David Holden Town Clerk
Town Clerk
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Town Clerk's office Wallingford Vt. Sept. 1, 1849
At a town meeting legally warned & holden at the Town-house in s'd Town David Holden was elected Town Clerk for the year ensuing
A true Copy of Record now in this office} 
Attest /s/David Holden Town Clerk
Willis G. Wade Esq
Rose Wayne Co. N.Y.
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[addressed envelope]
[margin notes: Dec 12 1840 WZ. per cut Aaron Jenne susp'd 32 N.Y.]
[postmark: KEESEVILLE N.Y. DEC 4] F
J. L. Edwards Esq'r
Pension Office
Washington City
District of Columbia
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[handwritten letter]
Keeseville New York,
Dec'r 4. 1840

Sir,
The claimant Aaron Jenne is very infirm - It is doubtful whether even with the utmost diligence evidence can be obtained to establish further service - & his son in law with whom he resides advises that you pass definitively upon the proof now before you - 
I return the enclosed your letter - which may supersede the necessity of a reexamination of the papers.
I am resp'y Your obt. Serv't
/s/G. Stow
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[addressed envelope]
[margin notes: Oct . 21, 1839 add'l proof Aaron Jenne N.Y.]
[postmark: KEESEVILLE N.Y. Oct 14] F
J. L. Edwards Esq.
Pension office
Washington City
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[handwritten letter]
Keeseville, New York
Oct 12, 1839

Sir,
I now send you all the proof which Aaron Jenne can obtain of his services & to sustain his claim to a pension
You directed him to apply to the Sec'y of Vermont. He has done so, as you will see by the Secretary's answer, without success. 
Jenne's name is not found in the papers in his office - but he adds that "those papers are imperfect"
Jenne is quite ['inform' crossed out] infirm, & unable to travel about in search of his army acquaintances - & the enclosed is probably the only evidence he can obtain
Yours resp'y
G. Stow
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[addressed envelope]
[margin notes: Dec 30. N.Y. add proof Aaron Jenne]
[postmark: KEESEVILLE N.Y. DEC 23] free
J. L. Edwards Esq'r
Pension Office
Washington City
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[handwritten letter]
Keeseville, New York
Dec'r 23. 1839

Sir,
I enclose another certificate of the Sec'y of the State of Vermont by which it will be seen that Aaron Jenne, the applicant for a pension, is not found, on any of the Rolls in his office; but Jenne, having depositions of two witnesses, proving his service, I trust he will be deemed entitled to a pension for which he asks.
Very respectfully Your obt. Serv't
/s/G. Stow.
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[addressed envelope]
[margin notes: June 2 1840 N.Y. add proof Aaron James (Jenne) O. mail
[postmark: KEESEVILLE N.Y. May 28] Fr
J. L. Edwards Esq'r
Pension Office
Washington City D.C.
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[handwritten letter]
Keeseville, New York
May 27. 1840

Sir,
I return Mr. Jenne's papers, with additional proofs. The papers in the Sec'y of State's office, Vt. are in all possible disorder - many of them ['written' crossed out] originally quite illegible - dirty - torn & worn in all manner of ways - & much of them cut up find by mice. Sending a special messenger there to make a personal examination, he succeeded in finding Mr. Jenne's name on one of the rolls - which the deputy sec'y had not before been able to do. The prooffs now establish the applicant's service as follows Viz
1st 3 months & 4 days service ['proved' crossed out] in Capt Sawyer's Company, proved by the Certificate of the Sec'y of State of Vt.
2nd Service in Capt. Parmelee (Parmalee) Allen's Co. as testified to by the two former witnesses - I do not recollect for what time. The witnesses however are themselves revolutionary pensioners - & have the means of knowing about the service
Mr. Edwards states that there is a discrepancy between the applicant's decl'n & the testimony of the 2 witnesses - or rather that the witnesses do not meet the decl'n. This circumstance
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[handwritten letter]
which was certainly suspicious will be found explained in the affidavits now sent
Of his services in Allen's Co there can be no doubt. The depositions of the Bulls show that he has for a great many years - & ever since their acquaintance with him always talked about his service in Allen's Company
As I think the evidence sufficient to establish ['to establish' crossed out] the service in Allen's Comp'y, I desire as a matter which I think the applicant has a right to claim, that the period of service in Allen Com'y shall not be rejected, until the head of the department shall pass upon the question.
Yours respect'y
G. Stow
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[addressed envelope]
[margin notes: Sept 10 1840 N.Y. add'l proof Aaron Jenne]
[postmark: KEESEVILLE N.Y. Sept 4] free
J. L. Edwards Esq'r
Pension office
Washington City
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[handwritten letter]
Keeseville New York
Sept'r 4, 1840

Sir,
I enclose you Elias Hall's deposition to sustain the appl'n of Aaron Jenne for a pension - I hope it will prove satisfactory.
Mr. Jenne is so very infirm that he could not go to see Mr. Hall - the former says Mr. Hall has made one mistake in his deposition - It is in saying that Mr. Jenne came from Shrewsbury. Had Mr. Jenne been abt to see Mr. Hall & talk with him, the recollections of the latter might have been corrected.
Cannot Mr. Jenne be permitted to draw his pension up to this day - instead of waiting until the fourth of March?
Yours respectfully
/s/G. Stow
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14.754
160 acres
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Revy WIDOW, &c. 
File No. 21460
Abigail Jenne
widow of Aaron Jenne 
Pri. Rev War
Act Feb 2d 48
Index: Vol. A, Page 374
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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Decr. 4, 1905 His. to Fred C. Jenne - Ft. Wayne Ind
Mch. 16 1904 Hist. to D. Judson Jenne #406 West 3rd St., Sterling Ills. - his letter in S.F. 38,868 Prince Jenne
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8740.
New York - Alby.
Abigail Jenne widow of Aaron Jenne who was a Private in the Revolution 
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 40 Dollars 44 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March  1843. 
Certificate of Pension issued the 21st day of Jan. 1850, and sent to Arad Joy, Ovid N.Y. 
[Acts of March 3, 1843, & June 17. 1844.]
Recorded in Book A., 
Vol. 2 Page 78,
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No 13540
Abigail Jenne
NY
Let. to W. G. Wade May 31, 1848
Let. to Hon. O. Kellogg July 24th 48
Let. to Hon. W. A. Sackett, Nov. 6./49
 same 21st Nov. 1849
 same 14 Dec.  "  
act 7 July 1838
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N. York
Aaron Jenne
let to G. Stow 12 April 1839
to same 13. Nov. 1837
to same 6. Feb. 1840
to same 8. Aug. 1840
to same 12. Sep. 1840
to same 21. Nov. 1840
(adm'd 12 mo 4 days private - send cert to G. Stow Keeseville N. York)
Act June 1832
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21,460
3-068.
(Old No. 3-649.)
Bureau of Pensions.
Aaron Jenne
Jany 9, 1833 71
Jay N.Y.
Apl. 78 Clarendon Vt
Capt Thos Sawyer
Col - 
pvt. 3 m
May 79 Capt DO
Col Warner
pvt 9 m
80 Apl Hutchins
Col - 
['pvt 9 m' crossed out]
Pvt. 1 yr 9 m.
several skirmishes
Born Ap; 1761 Dartmouth Mass
mar Abigail Mighill June 26, 1783 Wallingford Vt. 
D Apl. 19, 1842
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[typewritten letter]
[margin notes: ww OW&N]
Fort Wayne, Ind., Nov. 28th, 1903.

Sir:-
I am endeavoring to compile a complete record of the "Jenne" family. I am advised that Prince Jenne's father was a bugler in the Revolutionary war for seven years and after the war drew a pension of $96.00 a year; that he lived with his son Prince Jenne until he became a very old man when he went to Vermont and died there. I think it probable that he belonged to some regiment from Vermont.
If your records are available so as to enable you to do so upon this information, I wish you would kindly advise me the Christian name of this Jenne, who was a bugler, the date of his birth and death, the names of his parents, and also the name of the regiment in which he served.
It is quite important that I secure this information and I wish to thank you in advance for the same. I enclose stamped and addressed envelope for reply. I am, Sir,
Yours respectfully,
/s/Fred G. Jenne
To the Honorable Commissioner of Pensions,
Washington, D. C.
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[addressed envelope]
[postmark: MONTPELIER Vt. AUG 9] 10
G. Stow Esq.
Keeseville 
N. York
[margin note: 9 months]
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State of Vermont
Secretary of State's Office} Montpelier Aug. 8, 1839
Sir,
After examination, the name of Aaron Jenne has not been found on the papers in this office. These papers however are imperfect.
Respectfully,
/s/F. F. Merrill
Depy Secy of State
G. Stow Esq.
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[addressed envelope]
[margin notes: July 17/48 Abigail Jenne Hon O. Kellogg]
free O Kellogg M.C.
Col. Edwards
Com'r of Pensions
Washington D.C.
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[handwritten letter]
Washington July 17. 1848

Col Edwards
Sir - Will you please examine the within papers and report to me at your earliest convenience & 
Oblige yours &c
/s/O. Kellogg
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Abigail Jenne wid of Aaron 
Pens. of N.Y. law '38 40.44
are to case of mine from Arad Joy
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[addressed envelope]
[margin notes: Jany 12 48 13540 Abigail Jennings (Jenne) wid of Aaron Vt 1838 Rose Jany 7]
(official business)
Free
J. L. Edwards
Comm'r of Pensions
Washington D.C.
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[handwritten letter]
Rose New York
January 7th 1847 

Sir,
I have the honor to enclose herewith the application of Abigail Jenny's (Jenne) claiming a pension under act of Congress of 7th July 1838. 
The Declaration has been retained some time since its execution awaiting the collection of other proof. 
I am, Sir, Very Respectfully Your Obed't Serv't
/s/W. G. Wade
Hon J. L. Edwards
Comm'r of Pensions
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State of New York
County of Essex ss. On this 19th day of September 1838 before me Gardner Stow Esq a commissioner to perform certain duties of a judge of the Supreme Court personally appeared Aaron Jenne of Jay in the said County & State who being by me duly sworn does depose & say that he finds that his former declaration, which is annexed, made on the 9th day of January 1833, is incorrect in several particulars - that since the declaration was made, the subject & circumstances of his service have been kept almost constantly in mind & circumstance after circumstances has reappeared in his memory, & now by the aid of Daniel Foot who was ['mess' crossed out] his messmate throughs one period of his service, & whose deposition is hereto annexed, he thinks he is able to state distinctly the different periods of his service which were as follows Viz. 1st. Three months service. This service was wholly in the year 1778 & ended late in the fall of that year. He recollects ['standing' crossed out] that snow had fallen before the expiration of the term, & that he suffered considerably, while standing as a sentry, from the severity of the cold. Through this period of his service Thomas Sawyer was his captain. There were he believes two lieutenants & one ensign. Samuel Campbell was one of the lieutenants.
A gentlemen by the name of Brookings
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was a lieutenant of his company at one period of his service but whether it was ['that' crossed out] this or a future period of his service he cannot recollect. The place of service at this time was at Rutland Vt. he helped to build a block house & pickets there. ['Thomas Pope was ensign of the' crossed out]
Whitcomb according to his best recollection acted as ensign - his christian name he cannot recollect - but he was a brave man & soon after this was promoted to a majority - Col Warner commanded the fort or station at Rutland a part of the period - but Warner was called Southward & he was accompanied by Whitcomb then called a major, & the command devolved in Col. Claggan (Claghorn)
Claggon (Claghorn) proved a coward - at least the soldiers thought him so - A few indians & tories captured five or 6 men. The soldiers went into pursuit to a creek near the plain where the enemy was encamped with their prisoners, & Claggon (Claghorn) refused to let them cross. Deponent was not with the party - Deponent being swift of foot & healthy was principally employed in scouting 
After the termination of this period of service (which he served as a substitute for one Wm. Steward of Clarendon Vt.) he returned home home & remained a part of the winter - & until the commencement of the second period of his service. 
2d - Ten months service. This is the service which I have stated in my former
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declaration as nine  months. I now believe it ten months as stated in the annexed deposition of Daniel Foot. I enlisted at Clarendon where I resided, under Captain Parmelee Allen Nathaniel Holmes was first Lieut & James Smith the second. The company was attached to a regiment commanded by Col. Eben'r Allen & the inlistment & entry upon service commenced in February & as well as he can recollect the forepart of the month. The company was stationed during this period at Pittsford & Castleton 
The said Dan'l Foot was a messmate & a corporal in the company. We were employed in camp duty & scouting. 
3d. Less than a month's service. After the termination of the ten months service I returned home - where I remained about a month - I then returned to camp & volunteered to take the place of one Savy(?) whose time was nearly out - having between a half month & month to serve - I served for him accordingly - it was I think in Capt Hutchins company stationed at Castleton. 
4th Three months service - This commenced at the termination of the last - there was no interruption - It was a voluntary inlistment for during the war - ['Witness believes that h' crossed out] & he served from that time until the proclamation of Peace when all the troops were discharged or dismissed. I am strongly impressed that I served after this enlistment nearly four months, but I am certain it was as much as three
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this last service was at Castleton which was garrisoned by one company & that was commanded by the said Hutchins 
On reflection deponent says that they were discharged before the proclamation of peace but after actual hostilities had ceased & further the deponent saith
/s/Aaron Jenne
Sworn to & subscribed before me Sept. 19. 1838. 
/s/G. Stow Sup. Court Com'r
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State of New York,
County of Essex ss. Elias Hall of Castleton in the State of Vermont, a Lieutenant in the Revolutionary War, & a pensioner of the United States, being duly sworn deposeth & saith, that on the first day of September 1840 he made a deposition in relation to the services of Aaron Jenne in the Revolutionary War - which deposition was made before Almon Warner Esq'r - & that deponent therein stated the residence of the said Aaron Jenne to have been Shrewsbury Vt. - that deponent has been since informed that his deposition aforesaid was not satisfactory to prove the identity of the said Aaron Jenne - that at the request of the friends of the said Aaron Jenne he yesteday went to the residence of the said Aaron Jenne in the town of Jay in the County of Essex & State of New York, & remained there until to day - that he recognises the said Aaron Jenne as the identical Aaron Jenne whom he knew in the revolutionary service in the year 1780 at Pittsford in the State of Vermont & in the year 1781 at Castleton in Vermont; that deponent has no doubt in regard to his identity & therefore states the fact positively.
And further that after conversing fully with the said Jenne in regard to his residence he is satisfied that he was mistaken in supposing his residence to have been Shrewsbury Vt. as stated in deponent's former deposition - & that his residence he now believes was in the adjoining town of Clarendon, Vt. 
/s/Elias Hall
Sworn the 28th day of October 1840 before me}
/s/G. Stow Justice Peace