Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 18738, for Jonathan Perry, Massachusetts
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(3-1776)
Service | Number
|Mass.|Perry, Jonathan| W 18738
|          |Betty.               |
Contents
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N. Hampshire - ((4,051))
Betty Perry
widow of Jonathan Perry, ((?))
who was a pensioner under the Act of
and who died on the 20 August 1822
Cheshire in the State of N. Hampshire
who was a Pri in the company commanded 
by Captain Sacks of the Reg' commanded
by Gardner in the ((??))
line for 8 mos.
Inscribed on the Roll of Concord
at the rate of 26 Dollars 66 Cents per annum
to commence on the 4th day of March 1836
Certificate of Pension is issued the 31 day of August
'39, and sent to B. Merrill
Salem, Mass
Arrears to the 4th of March - 			$79.98
Semi=annual allowance ending		  13.33
						$93.31
Act July 7, 1838
Recorded by R Br((??)) Clerk
Book A  Vol. 1  Page 50
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Betty Perry
Massachusetts
Act 7 July 38
((??)) 80
Served 8 months and  ((??)) 1775
no roll of Capt Benj
Lock Co. 
was((?)) private two winters((?))

((??)) ((??))
$26.66
No deductions
B. Merrill
Salem, Mass
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I Amos Frost of West Cambridge in the County of Middlesex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts now seventy six years of age ((?)) and say that I have been regimented with Jonathan Perry formerly of that West Cambridge said West Cambridge from my ((?)) ((?)) that said Jonathan Perry moved from ((?)) West Cambridge to Dublin in the State of New Hampshire about forty years ago, that during the year seventeen hundred and seventy five I was regimented at Prospect Hill((?)) in Charlestown in said county of Middlesex where Captain Lockes Company was stationed, and that the said Jonathan Perry was a private in said company and served as written to ((?)) of the officers in said company during the eight months for which said company was ((?)), my brother ((?)) Mr Stephen Frost((?)) was an officer in said company which  causes me to remember ((?)) him ((?))most fortuitously.
Amos Frost
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Middlesex  December 3d 1838.  
((?)) written named Amos Frost, personally appeared and swore as to the truth of this written affidavit by him under god((?)) 
Before Mr James Temper Justice of the Peace
from Middlesex County

I the said Justice hereby certify that I have been acquainted with the above deposed  for more than thirty years that he is a man of good man of character and in my opinion in that to ((?)) credit.
James Russell Justice of Peace
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I Charles Cotton of West Cambridge in the County of Middlesex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts now eighty one years of age ((?)) Day, that I am a pensioner of the United States that Jonathan Perry formerly of Cambridge in the county and Commonwealth ((?)) and was a private soldier and ((?)) waiter((?)) to Ensign Stephen Frost in the company commanded by Captain Benjamin Locke in Col Gardner's Regiment, and after then served of Col Gardner the said regiment was commanded by Col Band in the Massachusetts line, that the said Jonathan Perry enlisted in and served in the month of April 1774 and served eight months, thus I am the only person have known to me as being ((?)) which belonged to said company, that I instantly remember the service((?)) of the said Jonathan Perry as where ((?)) by me, that said Perry afterwards moved from Cambridge to Franklin in the state of New Hampshire where he died that June ((?))
Charles Cutler
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Middlesex December 3d 1838
That the above named Charles Cotton made with to the truth is ((?)) ((?))
unit by him ((?)) ((?)) before James Russell  ((?)) ((?))
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I the((?)) writter named Justice hereby certify that I have known said man((?)) with the written 
name Charles Cotton for more than twenty years that he is 
certainly((?)) a man of truth and veracity among his neighbors and that I too consider him.
James Russell Just Peace
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I David Damon of West Cambridge in the county of Middlesex in Commonwealth of Massachusetts ((?)) do hereby certify that I ((?)) have in my custody the Records of the Congregational church of Saints((?)) in said town of West Cambridge, that in said records as kept by the late Rev Samuel Cooke the first Pastor  of said church of Saints((?))  under the ((?)) ((?)) years is the following "Seventeen hundred and eighty June twenty ninth Jonathan Perry & Betty ((?)) both Cambridge" that the above is true copy of the Record with the exception of the dates, which is exempt in the Record in ((?)) ((?)) figures as follows "1780 June 29" I David Damon who am named upon and say that I hold the office of Pastor of the Congregational Church of Saints((?)) in the town of West Cambridge  ((?)) ((?)) of Cambridge and that the house is a true copy, and extract from the ((?)) of ((?)) as kept by the late Reverend Samuel Cook, formerly Pastor of said church of Saints((?)), with the exception where named is certified by me.

David Damon
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Middlesex December 3d AD 1838 ((?)) the within named David Damon personally appeared and made solemn oath as to the truth of the written affidavit by him ((?))
Before Mr James Campbell Justice of the Peace for Middlesex County
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Middlesex Cs. I Elias Phinney Clerk of the Supreme Judicial Court of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, for the County of Middlesex do certify that James Russell Esquire is a Justice of the Peace, within for said county, and that his signatures to the forgoing certificates hereto annexed((?)) are his genuine signatures.
In testimony which I have hereunto set my hand & affix the seal of said court 
The fourth day of December
1838
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Betty Perry Jonathan
of Massachusetts
(left margin) Associate Justice of the court of Common Pleas

B Merrill
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Declaration
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th of July 1838 Entitled "An Act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows". 
State of New Hampshire County of Cheshire /s:
On this twenty ninth day of January 1839 personally appeared before the Honorable Sarkin Baker A Associate judge of the Court of Common Pleas  forsaid County of Cheshire.
Betty Perry, a resident of Dublin in the County of Cheshire, aged seventy seven years, who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following Declaration in order to entitle her to 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 Perry who was a private in Captain Benjamin Locke's Company in a Regiment of Massachusetts commanded by 
cot
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Col Thomas Gardner till he was killed in action and afterward by Col. Wm Bond, and that said Jonathan Perry served therein eight months from about 1775 to January 1776: and that she has often heard ((?)) talk of his serving on the northern frontier of Ticonderoga and she verily believes he did serve five months there in 1776 but she cannot state in what Company or Regiment, and begs leave to refer to the Rolls of the Army for proof thereof:
She further declares that she was married on the twenty ninth day of June in the year Seventeen hundred and Eighty: that her husband the aforesaid Jonathan Perry died on the twenty eight day of August, AD 1824, that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place previous to the first of January seventeen hundred and ninety.
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We, Levi W. Leonard and Joseph Appleton, both of the town of Dublin in the county of Cheshire, declare((?)) and say, that we are well acquainted with Betty Perry of said Dublin, that she is the widow of Jonathan Perry, late of said Dublin deceased, that said Jonathan died at said Dublin on the twentieth day of August eighteen hundred and twenty four & that the said Betty has never since married but still remains his widow.
Levi W. Leonard
Joseph Appleton
State of New Hampshire
Cheshire
On the 29th day of January, 1839
Personally appeared the above named Levi W. Leonard & Joseph Appleton and made oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavit
Before me
Larkin Baker, Associate Judge of the Court of Common Pleas for said County
I hereby certify that the Rev. Levi W. Leonard and Joseph Appleton Esq whose names subscribed to the foregoing affidavit are creditable witnesses and gentlemen of great respectability.
Larkin Baker, Associate Judge
July 29, 1839
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State of New Hampshire
Cheshire County
I Henry Coolidge Clerk of the Superior Court of Judicature in ((?)) for the said county of Cheshire certify that Larkin Baker was on the twenty ninth day of July last past and still is an Associate Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for this county aforesaid, duly ((?)) and qualified and that his signature within written is genuine.
In witness whereof have hereunto set my hand and office the seal of said Superior Court at Keene this the third day of August A.D. 1839
H. Coolidge Clerk
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ty four, and at the time above stated and that she has not been married since his decease and that her name before marriage was Betty Hill and that marriage was solemnized by the Rev Mr Cook of West Cambridge in state of Massachusetts.
Betty Perry
Subscribed and sworn to on the day and year above written before
Larkin Baker, Associate Judge of the Court of Common Pleas
for the County of Cheshire

State of New Hampshire
Cheshire County 
I Henry Coolidge Clerk of the Superior Court of Judicature for the County of Cheshire, certify that Larkin Baker is an Associate Judge of the Court of Common Pleas  for the County of Cheshire aforesaid duly ((?)) and sworn and that his name above subscribed is his genuine signature.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of at ((?)) at Keene this twenty ninth day of July eighteen hundred and thirty nine
H Coolidge Clerk
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I hereby certify that the forgoing declaration of Betty Perry was signed and sworn to at her residence in the town of Dublin and that she is in my opinion unable from bodily infirmity to attend court.
Larkin Baker
Associate Judge of the Court of Common Pleas
(left Margin) 
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Betty Perry
of Jonathan
Massachusetts
(right margin)
B Merrill
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Reg Widow, &c.
File No. 18738
Betty Perry
widow of
Jonathan Perry
Priv. Rev. War
Act July 1, 1838
Index. Vol ((?)) , Page 123
Arrangement of 1870
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Betty Perry
of Jonathan 
Massachusetts
suspended((?))
 ((?)) 26 June 1839
B. Merrill
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James E. Edwards Esqe
Court ((?))
Washington D.C.
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Salem, Masstts. 5th Feby, 1839
James E. Edwards Esq. Court ((?))
Sir,
I inclose the application of this Betty Perry for a pension under Act of July 1838.

Please reply to 
((?)) ((?))
Benj. Merrill
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Salem Masstts, Aug 13 1839
James L Edwards Esqe.
((?)) ((?))
Sir,
Herewith I send the corrections with papers of Mrs Perry
Very respectfully
Benj Merrill