Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 29,896, Jonathan Howe, Mass.
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Service: Mass
Howe, Jonathan
Number: S. 29,896
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Massachusetts
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Jonathan Howe
of Paxton in the State of Massachusetts
who was a Private in the Company commanded
by Captain Lt Davis of the -------- commanded
by --------- in the Massachusetts line for 6 Months
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Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the 
rate of 20 Dollars ---- cents per annum to
commence on the 4th day of March 1831.

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Certificate of Pension issued the 3rd day of March 1832. and sent to G. Folsom

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Arrears to 4th of Sept.  32                   $30
Semi=annual allowance ending
 4 March 33                                            10
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                                                            $40
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Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7, 1832.

Recorded by Geo C. Stiles  clerk
Book D Vol. 2  Page 58
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Jonathan Howe
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

County of Worcester, ss.

ON this sixth day of September in the year of our Lord, eighteen hundred and thirty two personally appeared in open Court, before Hon. Nathl Paine, Judge of that Court of Probate now sitting Jonathan Howe, a resident of Paxton, in the County of Worcester, and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, aged seventy 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 he was born 30 Sept. 1761, in that part of Rutland, now Paxton, where he has resided ever since. 

That in the autumn of 1777, his father, Paul Howe, now deceased, enlisted for seven months in this (cause) of the Revolution, & went to Springfield, Mass. at the expiration of one month. After he had been transferred to Brookfield, Mass. he, the abovenamed Jonathan Howe, at his father's request, on account of his ill health, took his place as his substitute at said Brookfield, and there performed a term of service of six months, in (defense) of (the) military (stores) deposited at that place. The only duty performed was to stand sentry, which he faithfully performed for the above stated term, at the expiration of which time he was honorably dismissed. The officers who had command of the troops stationed at said Brookfield during that term, were Lieut. Peter Davis of Rutland, and Lieut. Freeman, of Sturbridge. Tilly Chaffin, now of Holden, was with him in the same service during (the) said term; Levi Hathaway, of North Brookfield, was with him a part of the time; and his (brother) Jonah Howe was well acquainted with (the) fact of his service at the time it was performed.

Jon. a Howe

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.

Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.

Jon. a Howe

Before Nathl. Paine Judge of Probate for the County of Worcester
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And the said 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 mentioned applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states. And the court further certifies, that it appears to them that Rev Gaius Conant who signed the annexed certificate, is a clergyman, resident in the town of Paxton, and that Jonathan P. Grosvenor, Esq. who has also signed the same is a resident in the same town, and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
Nathl. Paine Judge of Probate for the County of Worcester

I Theophilus Wheeler (unknown), Clerk of the Court of Probate for the County of Worcester do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Jonathan Howe for a pension & that Ethan Davis, Nathl. Crocker & Eli Forbes before whom the annexed affidavits were made are the Justices of the Peace in & for (indiscernible)

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the deal of said Court this 13th day of Sept. in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and thirty two.

Theophilus Wheeler (Register) of the Court of Probate for the County of Worcester in Massachusetts
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I Jonah Howe of Paxton in the County of Worcester do testify and [illegible] that [illegible] in the revelutionary war my Brother, Jonathan Howe of Paxton aforesaid went into the service as [illegible] militia [illegible] for a term of time but I cannot remember for how long - 
Paxton Augt 13th 1832  Jonah Howe
Worcester ss August 13th 1832 Then personally appeared Jonah Howe above named and made oath to the truth of the above declaration by him signed, Before me Nathl Crockett Justice of the Peace 
I hereby state that the above named Jonah Howe  is so aged and witness that he is unable to ride to the court  at Worcester but that his declaration is intitled to full credit, Nath Crockett
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Worcester Holden Sept 1ST 1832
Personally approved Tilla Chaffin of Holden and have in evidence in partition to faith partition to his Personal Knowlede of the Services Done in the Revolutionary Service by Mr. Jonathan Howe of Jaxton in the year Seventeen Hundred and Seventy Eight I was in the Service Six Months with said Howe as Militia men in the Same Company under the Command of Leiutentant Freeman of Sturbridge and was Stationed in Brookfield South I arrived to Gard Contental Stores in which times the said Jonathan How Performed his duty as a good and for the full Soldiers for his Country and was discharged by our officers at the Experation of Said times without Ethan Davis
Tilla Chaffin
Worcester Sept 1ST 1832
Personally Affirmed Tilla Chaffin and has made oath that the statement above subscribed to by him was true before me Ethan Davis Justice of the Peace
Holden Sept 1ST 1832
I hereby certify that I have been Personally acquainted with Mr Tilla Chaffin for more than Forty years and that to the Best of my knowledge he has uniformly sustained good Morral Caractor
Ethan Davis
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We, Gaius Conant, a clergyman residing in the town of Paxton, County of Worcester, & Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and Jonathan P. Grosvenor residing in the same town, certify that we are well acquainted with Mr. Jonathan Howe, who is about to apply for a pension under the Act of Congress, passed June 7, 1832, that we believe him to be seventy years of age, and that we fully believe he performed the service in this army of the Revolution set forth in his declaration, to which he has made oath before the Hon. Court of Probate now sitting.

(indiscernible) Sept 6 1832

Gaius Conant
Jon.a P. Grosvenor

Before Nathl Paine Judge of Probate of the County of Worcester
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Worcester--I Levi Hathaway of NorthBoroughshire in the County of Worcester and Commonwealth aforesaid being now in the seventy first year of my age, do testify and say that I entered the war of the Revolution as a militia solider in the first part of April 1778, and served with Jonathan Howe of Parston in said County of Worcester, in a guard stationed to guard some Military stores at Brookfield about one fortnight when was wounded by the accidental dis-charge of a musket, I was then [ineligible] home, said Howe was then as a officer when I went their and when I came away--I understood said Howe served as a soldier six months, and I have no doubt but that he died, as I have never heard anything to the contrary--and further the deferment say of not
Dated at North Brookfield
August 27th 1832          Levi Hathaway

Witness for Town of North Brookfield on this twenty seventh day of August 1832, Personally approved Levi Hathaway, and after being examined and duly santioned, made solemn oath that the above deposition by him subscribed is true--
Before me Eli Forbes Justice of the Peace

I hereby verify that Levi Hathaway signed to the above deposition is a man of truth veracity and no more evidence is entitled to full benefit
North Brookfield August 27th 1832    Eli Forbes