Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 5356, Jonathan Doty, New Jersey
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Service
New Jersey
Doty, Jonathan
Number 
S. 5356
carded
Contents
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Johnathan Doty, Senr
of Indiana Coy in the State of P
who was a private in the company of Captain Bailey of the regt
by Col Freelinghysen in the New 
line for 12 months
Inscribed on the Roll of Pittsburgh at the rate of 40 dollars to commence on the 4th day of March 18 
Certificate of Pension issued the 1st day of June 1843 and sent to Blainsville, Penn
Arrears to the 4th of March 1843 $
Semi-anl allowance ending 4 Sept

Sept 16 1854
Pa Agency
Ctf No. 32046
Revolut
Act June
Recorded by [illegible]
Book E. 2. Vol 5  Page
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Declaration
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June 7th 1832
State of Pennsylvania, Indiana County for
On this 5th day of December 1842 personally appeared before me, James Mc Kennan, an official just of Indiana County in the said state - Johnathan Doty [illegible} a resident of Blacklick Township in said County and State of Pennsylvania aged Eighty six years of age who being by me 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 entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated as he served under Capt Bailey, Col Freelinghysen, Genl Wind, Col. Hunt, Capt Logan, Major Sinn, Capt Parker, Col. Dayton, Col. Seeley, General Dickinson, Genl Sullivan, Col. Ogden, Sond Sterling, Genl Heard, or Hurd, Genl Reed, Col Nixon, Genl Maxwell, Major Barber, these were some of this applicants company and field officers and general officers both militia and regular including Col VanAngl's or Angel's regiment.  Major Barber's battalion also of regular troops and some other regular corps not at present recollection.
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that he entered the service of the United States in the fall of the year 1776 as a militia man under the command of Capt Bailey of the Somerset County militia of the State of New Jersey.  That he was drafted out and after being drafted marched out a number of times under Capt Bailey who was a militia officer of the Somerset County militia subject to the command of Col Freelinghysen of the said County of Somerset. That he was drafted out and after being drafted called out a number of times in the fall of the year 1776 during the months of September and October.  That the company with which he served were termed minute men divided into classes at that time. That the name of his lieutenant was Baker.  That he marched with his commanding officer Capt Bailey from Baskenridge meeting house in Somerset County to Elisabeth Town and stationed there with other Jersey troops and regular forces to repel the advance of the British 
That during these two months above mentioned he was warned out to take the field a number of times from sudden alarms and dismissed after the danger had subsided.  That the service performed during these two months made a period of five weeks at least as a private soldier in Col Freelinghysen's battalion or regiment of Somerset County militia.
And this applicant says he was drafter to serve for one more tour in the Somerset County militia of the State of New Jersey.  That he entered the service on this second tour under the command of Capt Bailey who was subject to the orders
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of Col. Freelinghysen.  That he was ordered on to Elizabethtown with all possible speed to assist the Continental troops to keep off the enemy and from thence we was ordered on to Springfield in the State of New Jersey and stationed there.  That sometime afterwards he was ordered 1 mo with other troops to retreat towards the Short Hills.  That at the expiration of one month which happens on this applicant thinks a Thursday December the 5th, 1776 he was permitted to leave the service and  to be ready again to serve at a minute's warning.  That he served this tour as a private in the Somerset County militia of the State of New Jersey.
And shortly afterwards in Dec 1776 this applicant was ordered out again on a third tour against the encroachments of the enemy and was marched from Somerset County to Elizabethtown with Capt. Logan's company of Somerset County militia to which soon after he arrived there, the British retreated.  That this applicant was engaged with the other troops in razing the enemy's fortifications as speedily as possible as there was a report of their returning with greater forces.. That after being encamped at Elizabethtown for rising three weeks as near as this applicant can remember he was ordered to march with his Capt. and companions to Allenstown and from there to Pluckemin to help the Americans in cutting off the retreat of the
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enemy.  That this service was performed in December 1776 and in January 1777 making a period of six weeks precisely.  That he service this tour under Capt. Logan, Lieut Bales and Ensign Zabriskie of the Somerset County militia.  That Major Lynn had at that time the principal command of the militia with whom he served.  That he served this tour as a private in said militia and was dismissed at Pluckimin and went home.  
The declarant was again out in the service on a fourth tour of duty and was drafted out to serve for two months and joined a militia corps near Baskenridge under command of Capt. Parker of the Somerset County militia and was ordered on to Middlebrook to join the main army under General George Washington, Commander in Chief in the summer of 1777 and he served during the months of June and July 1777.  Col. Hunt came forward an officer of the Somerset County militia and took us on or led us on to the Sourland hills where we joined General Sullivan and the troops under his command about there with a view of preventing as he was told the British army from crossing the river Delaware to Philadelphia.  From the Sourland Hills he was marched to Amboy
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in New Jersey to harass the enemy in their retreat from Amboy & Brunswick and from thence to Quibbletown and from Quibbletown to Middlebrook again and from there to Morristown in New Jersey.  After this applicant had served out his tour of two months as a private soldier of the Somerset County militia under Col. Hunt he was verbally discharged.   The above periods of service were served as a private soldier during the months of June and July 1777.
Again he the said applicant turned out as a volunteer in the service of the United States and joined a company of militia of Somerset County aforesaid under the command of Capt. Logan in a battalion under Col. Hunt and Major Lynn of Somerset County.  That he joined the same for a period of two months and was marched to Elizabethtown and stationed there as a guard for two months during the months of October & November  in the year 1777.  The fifer's name of the company was Wheeler and the drummer was one Jake Vandyke.  That after this applicant had completed his tour for two months as above as a private he obtained leave to return home to his parents.
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And in the year of our Lord 1778 this applicant entered again into the service of the United States by joining a corps of militia under the command of Col. Hunt, Major Lynn and Capt. Logan of the Somerset County militia in the State of New Jersey.  That he entered as a volunteer for one month and served the same in the month of July.  1 mo commencing in the latter end of June previous in the year 1778 making one months service.  That he was sent to a place called Communipaugh and from there to another station called Bargain as a guard against the enemy and and tories. That as soon as his month had expired he was dismissed.  That he served this period of one month as a private soldier of the Somerset County militia in the month of June & July as above mentioned.  
And afterwards in the same summer and in the fall of 1778 this applicant commenced another term of militia duty.  That he joined again Capt. Logan's company as a volunteer and marched from Middlebrook N. Jersey the place of rendezvous to Elizabethtown and from there to Springfield and stationed there with a body of New Jersey militia.  That General Wind and Col. Seeley and Col. Hunt were
1 mo
service there & their troops with this applicant.  He was also a part of the tour at Mount Kimble.  That he served two months during
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this tour in the months of August and September in the year 1778 making a period of two months service as a private soldier in Col. Hunt's battalion of Somerset County militia in New Jersey and at the expiration of the same he was permitted to return to his friends.
And in the year of our Lord 1780 this applicant says he was once more in the service of his Country as a drafted militiaman of the Somerset County militia in the State of New Jersey.  That he commenced this tour at Baskenridge in the county last mentioned under Capt. Parker of Somerset County and Lieut. Baker and his company and marched to Amboy where he did duty as a guard and afterwards during this period of service he was sent along with other troops to serve at Hackensack and also service at Morristown and Mount Kemble and about there to match the motions of the enemy and to keep up the forces.  That General Wind, General Dickenson and Col Hunt commanded the different corps of militia assembled at these places.  That he commenced this tour some time in the summer of the year 1780 and continued for two months vis. the month in part of August and September and October making a period of two months at least as a drafted militiaman of the Somerset County militia aforesaid and at the expiration of this above mentioned tour he was verbally dismissed and returned to his father's residence in Somerset County New Jersey.
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In the above declaration he has set forth the names and rank of his field and company officers and specified the particular periods of his service.  He has mentioned also the names and the rank of his field and company officers and the places to which he marched and where he served.  He the said applicant has given as full an account of his various tours as he can at present recollect.  But he would here state further that he was called out on some other small tours not mentioned about but he cannot state precisely how long he was engaged in them or at what time during the revolutionary war he did serve them.  But he knows of his being out in the service under Capt. Bullion & Lieut. Baker after part of September at or about the time the City of New York was burnt and of standing on sentry at that time.  That he was out under Col. Hunt and Major Lynn at Bargain and to Communipaugh and out to Pluckimin when General Lee was made a prisoner and was called out to cut off the retreat of the enemy.  He was so very often called out for short periods that many of them he has fogotten.  He recollects of being out in some short tours not enumerated in his above mentioned tours - viz. he recollects of being out to Springfield under Capt. Bailey.  He was out on service not specified above under the same Capt to Elizabethtown and Amboy and he now recollects of being out to Newark under Capt. Logan and was out to Hackensack with Col. Freelinghysen and to Middlebrook with Capt. Parker and out to Quibbletown
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under General Wind.  He is not now able to state how long he served in his last mentioned short tours or at what periods he served them but that he served them exclusive of the first mentioned tours of service.  But setting aside those small periods of duty the duration of which is not more recollected he has positively served as much as ten months and eleven weeks equal to twelve months and seventeen days as a private soldier in the Somerset County militia of the State of New Jersey both in the field and garrison as above detailed.  And this applicant further says that he believes he is able to prove the greater part if not the whole of the above specified periods of services by a living contemporary witness who was with him in the services above mentioned.  And this applicant declares he was not engaged while in the service in any civil pursuit but that he was entirely devoted to the services of the United States as he has above stated.  
And this applicant further states that he has hitherto been unwilling to make an application for the benefit of the surviving soldiers of the Revolutionary War on account of his having been able to subsist without it.  But his circumstances are such that he now needs the provision made by the Act of Congress for his support.  Although the application is late for the reason set forth herein, yet he
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can perceive no grounds on which he should be excluded on the score of lateness. And he presumes the Department will not reject the claims of an old soldier who serviced his Country in the times that "tried men's souls" because he has not embraced the provisions of the law sooner.  He shouldered his musket in the days of his youth against a cruel, powerful, and unrelenting foe who were wasting, spoiling and destroying his oppressed country, burning her houses and defenseless towns and exposing her helpless citizens to indescribable miseries.  He exposed his life and endured the privations of the soldier, the toils of the field and the Garrison to achieve the independence of these United States and led on by the Immortal Washington and other dauntless heroes through sanguinary trials, he now beholds the fruits of his labor, the freedom of his country from the chains of the tyrant.  May kind Heaven preserve his beloved country from the calamities of such another war.
X his mark
Johnathan Doty Senr.
Sworn before me this day Dec 5th 1842
J McKennan
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Interrogatories
Q1.  Where and in what year were you born.
An.  I was born in Somerset County in the State of New Jersey in the year of our Lord 1756
Qu Have you any record of your age and if so where is it
An. I have the record of my age carefully and exactly taken from my fathers Bible and recorded in my own Bible and from that record I have my age to be eighty six years.
3rd.  Where were you living when called into the service, where have you lived since the Revolutionary War and where do you now live
An. When called into the service I lived in Somerset County in the State of New Jersey and since the Revolutionary War I lived in Somerset County in the State of New Jersey and in Westmoreland County in the State of Pennsylvania and in Indiana County in the State of Pennsylvania where I have lived for twenty three years past.
4. How were you called into service, were you drafted, did you volunteer, or were you a substitute and if a substitute for whom. 
An.  I was drafted and volunteered for the periods I have above stated.
5th Interrog.  State the names of some of the regular officers who were with the troops where you served, such continental regiments as you can recollect and the general circumstances of your service.
An.  I will state General Sullivan, Col. Sterlin, Genl Reed, Col. Nixon, Col. Ogden, Col. Angel, Gen. LaFayette, Gen. Green, Genl. Maxwell & his
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division of flying troops, Genl. Mercer & his troops of the flying camp at Brunswick, Col. Dayton and his battalion, Col. Heard or Hurd & his regiment, Col. Cook and his regular battalion, Major Barber & his battalion, Genl. Dickinson, Genl. Wind, Col. Freelinghysen, Col. Hunt & his regiment with Major Lynn. He served at Elizabethtown or at the time he was serving at Elizabethtown in the fall of 1776 he thinks the third battalion of Col. Dayton's regular troops were serving there too. Also the 6th battalion of Pennsylvania troops under Col. Irvine.  He thinks Major or Col. White had command of the third battalion, Continental troops of New Jersey.  Gen. Washington commanded at the time he was at Middlebrook.  His militia captains were Capt. Parker, Capt. Bailey, Capt. Logan.  The above were some of (this applicants) my regular officers or regular officers together with the continental and militia regiments or battalions that served with me or were with the troops where I served.  I was drafted out and I also volunteered to serve in the militia service of Somerset County in the State of New Jersey. At the commencement of my services I was called on to take the field from sudden alarms.  I was called out a number of times in the fall of 1776.  I was out to Elizabethtown to repel the advance of the enemy there and to prevent their devastations.  I also was stationed at Springfield to repel the advance of the enemy there.  I was also stationed at Springfield N.J. before and after it was burnt by the British.  I was also called out in the forepart of the year 1777 to Allenstown and Pluckimin to augment the army under the commander
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in chief and afterwards in the summer of the year 1777 I was marched and quartered at Middlebrook with the main army under General George Washington for some time and I was serving at the Sourland Hills under Genl. Green and at Amboy and New Brunswick and Quibbletown and I think in the same year afterwards I served as a guard at Hackensack and at New York and in the ensuing fall I was out under Major Lynn and Capt. Bailey & his company.  In August & Sept 1778 I was part of the time under Col Seely and Genl. Wind about Elizabethtown and Springfield.  I was out also under Capt. Parker in the summer & fall of 1780 at Amboy, Hackensack and Morristown N.J. for the purpose as I could understand of augmenting the army.  I think Genl. Dickinson & Gen. Wind also commanded the militia about there at this period.  I was called on so often and served at so many different places that I cannot now remember them all and I may have erred in some particulars of minor importance owing to my advanced age and infirmities & the consequent loss of my memory
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Did you ever receive a commission and if so by whom was it given and what has become of it
An.  I never did but I served the periods above stated as a private soldier making a Revolutionary service of twelve months and seventeen days.
7th  State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood and who can testify as to your character for truth and veracity and their belief of your services as a soldier of the Revolution.
I will state the Reverend James C. Day and the Reverend David Williams, Thomas White Esqr. President Judge of our Courts. Stuart Davis Esqr, Daniel Smith, Major Walter Bell, Joseph Dixon, James Dixon, Charles Campbell, John Burce, John Graff, Archibald Davis.
X his mark
Jonathan Doty
Sworn and subscribed before me this day December 5th 1842
J. McKennan
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State of Pennsylvania
Indiana County 
ss
Personally appeared before me the undersigned a Justice of the Peace in and for said county Nathaniel Doty who being duly sworn doth depose and declare on his solemn oath that he was a soldier of the Revolutionary War and served as a militiaman in the Morris County militia N.J. That he this deponent is confident that Jonathan Doty Sr served as a militiaman of the Somerset County militia for one month in the month of June 1777 at and about Middlebrook and Morristown N.J.  That he this deponent was serving there as a soldier of the Morris County Militia at the same time and place and knows from his own personal observation that said Jonathan served for one month there as above mentioned.  This deponent further says that he saw and conversed with the said Jonathan repeatedly during the said Jonathan's tour for one other month vis. the month of October 1777 while there were both serving together in the New Jersey Militia at and about Elizabethtown N.J. and also that he had a personal knowledge of the said Jonathan's service for one other month vis. the month of November 1777 which the said Jonathan served at Elizabethtown N.J. he this deponent being in the same service at the same time and place.  He further says that the said Jonathan servced one other month in the year 1778 vis. the month of August of that year and which he the said Jonathan served at and about Elizabethtown, Springfield and Mt. Kimble and also for one other month vis. the month of September
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1778 and served at and about the last mentioned places, they being both in the New Jersey militia at the same time and places.  And this deponent was out in the service with said Jonathan for one other month in the year 1780 in the summer & fall of that year and served at and about Amboy, Hackensack, Morristown and Mt. Kimble and the said Jonathan served one more month in the fall of 1780 at the last mentioned placed, he the said deponent being with him in the same service altho' serving under different officers, vis. the field & company officers of the militia of Morris County militia of New Jersey. And this deponent says that the said Jonathan served the several tours of duty specified as aforesaid under the following named officers both field & company, vis. Capt. Bailey, Capt. Parker, Capt. Logan, Major Linn, Col. Dayton, Col Seeley, Genl Dickinson, Genl. Wind, Col. Ogden, Col. Angel, General George Washinton, and other officers mentioned in the said Jonathan Doty Senr's declaration already already (as he is informed transmitted to the Honourable the Commissioner of Pensions at Washington City) and the said Nathaniel Doty is positive that the said Jonathan Doty Sr. was out in a number of other periods of militia duty either in the capacity of a volunteer or drafted militiaman of Somerset County militia in the State of New Jersey in the time of the Revolutionary War, but for what length of time he cannot say, but he is positive from his own personal knowledge & observation that he served as much as eight months as a private in the militia.
Nathaniel Doty
Sworn and subscribed before me the 4th day of Mary A.D. 1843
Thomas Boyle 
Seal
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Hon. J. L. Edwards
Comm. of Pensions
Washington City
D.C.
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Blainsville March 14 '43
Dear Sir
Herewith I forward to you the statement of Nathaniel Doty in behalf of Jonathan Doty Sr. a Revolutionary soldier whose claim remains upon file in your office.  
Your communication respecting the claims of Jacob Libengood and Simon Ruffener came to hand the 4th inst.  In compliance with your request, we have addressed a letter to Col. McClure Secy of Penn a for his certificate in relation to their officers and their tours and expect his answer soon.  In the mean time, we shall endeavor in further compliance to offer a more substantial reason for their delay in presenting their claims, and also endeavor with the best evidence in our power to furnish satisfactory proof of their age.  On the receipt of  your communication we were induced to believe that these old Revolutionary soldiers had been maligned & misrepresented to you by some envious persons and that in consequence thereof the above additional evidence was required.  We do hope there is no one in this community with so black a heart as to traduce or act the Judas towards these poor old inoffensive men who have periled their lives in defense of our Country. Forbearing any further remarks, I am very truly yours
Gillis Doty

Hon. J. L. Edwards
Comm. of Pensions
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In reply to your request of -------, received ----- for a statement of the military history of Jonathan Doty Sr. a soldier of the Revolutionary War, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau.  S. L. 5356
Dates of Enlistment or appointment.
Length of Service. 
Rank.
Officers under whom service was rendered
Captain  Colonel
State
Sept 1776 1 mo 5 weeks  Pri  {Bailey Bullion  Frelinghysen N.J.
Dec 1776 6 wks  Logan
June 1777 2 mos Parker Hunt
Oct 1777 2 " Logan Hunt
June 1778 3" Logan Hunt
Aug. 1780 2" Parker ✓
Battles engaged in, ✓
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Somerset Co. N. J.
Date of application for pension, Dec. 5, 1842 Cl. al
Residence at date of application, BlackLick Twp, Indiana Co., Pa.
Age at date of application 1756 in Someset Co N.J.
Remarks: The names of his parents are not given nor is it stated whether he was married.  He died Sept 16, 1854 place not stated
The above noted in the only J.D.
Very respectfully,
Commissioner.
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I Robert Jellison, residing in the County of
Westmoreland in the State of Pennsylvania
do hereby certify that I am well acquainted with Jonathan Doty Senr [Sr.] that I believe him to be Eighty six 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 I concur in that opinion that I resided in Somerset County in the State of New Jersey at the time the said Jonathan Doty Senr [Sr.]  resided in the same County and State of New Jersey that it was generally known and believed in that County among his neighbors there that he had been in the service of the Revolutionary war and that no doubt ever existed on the subject of his having been in the service aforesaid.  That I have been well acquainted with him the said Doty ever since the War of the Revolution and have heard not only his neighbors in Somerset County aforesaid say he had been a soldier aforesaid but it is also the opinion of his neighbors where he now lives that he has been a faithful soldier in the Revolutionary war - Sworn and subscribed before me Stewart Davis
a Justice of the peace in and for the County of
Indiana and State of Pennsylvania this 20th
day of October 1842.
Stewart Davis
Robert Jellison
Seal
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I Stuart Davis a Justice of the peace in and
for the County of Indiana in the State of 
Pennsylvania do hereby certify that Robert
Jellison who has sworn and subscribed
to the above certificate in favor of the said
Jonathan Doty Senr [Sr.]  is a man of truth
and veracity and that he and his said
statement of the said Jonathan Doty Senn's [Sr.'s]
revolutionary services are entitled to credit
Given under my hand and seal this
20th day of Oct 1842-
Stewart Davis [Illegible]
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State of Pennsylvania, Indiana County ss-
I Jonathan Doty Senr. the applicant for a pension being duly sworn do hereby declare and depose that I am unable to procure the personal attendance of the Reverend Jas. C. Day the Clergyman who has signed my above traditionary certificate or Mott Wilkinson and Saml. Eckels who have signed the same before
the said Judge without great expense and
inconvenience.

Sworn to and subscribed before me the said
Judge this 5th day of Decr 1842 and also given under my hand and seal at the same time-
J. McKennan {seal}  
                 His
Jonathan   X    Doty Senr.
                 Mark

And I the said Judge do hereby declare my
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 I further certify that it appears to me that James C. Day who has signed the preceding certificate is a Clergyman resident in the County of Indiana and State of Pennsylvania and that Mott Wilkinson and Saml Eckels who have also sworn to & signed the same are residents in the County of Indiana in the State of Pennsylvania and are credible
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persons and that their statement is entitled to
credit and I further certify that the belief is general and that no doubts exist in the
neighborhood of the said applicant as to his
having been a soldier of the Revolution and I the said Judge do further certify that the said applicant by reason of old age and bodily infirmity, being very nervous is unable to appear in open Court Court for examination.

In testimony whereof I have set my name and seal the day and year above written-
J. McKennan.  {Seal}. Associate Judge
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Relinquishment

I Jonathan Doty Senr the applicant for a Pension do hereby relinquish every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and I declare that my name is not on the pension roll of any agency in any state-

Sworn to and subscribed
the day and year aforesaid
to wit the 5th day of Decr 1842. }
                  his
Jonathan    X   Doty Senr.
                 mark

J. McKennan

We James C. Day a Clergyman residing in the County of Indiana and State of Pennsylvania and Mott Wilkinson & Saml Eckels residing in
the County of Indiana and State of Pennsylvania
hereby certify that we are well acquainted with
Jonathan Doty Senr. that we believe him to be
Eighty six years of age, that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides
to have been a revolutionary soldier and that we
concur in that opinion. Sworn to and subscribed
before me Stewart Davis a Justice of the peace in and for the County of Indiana and State of Pennsylvania this 20th day of October A. D. 1842-
Stewart Davis.  {Seal}

James C. Day
Mott Wilkinson
Saml Eckels
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I Stewart Davis a Justice of the peace in and for the County of Indiana in the State of Pennsylvania do certify that the above named Saml.  Eckels and Mott Wilkinson who have sworn to and subscribed the above certificate are men of truth and veracity and that their
statement & certificate is entitled to credit-

Given under my hand and seal
this 20th day of October 1842
Stewart Davis.  {Seal}
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State of Pennsylvania, Indiana County SS. And
I the said Justice before whom the aforesaid proceedings were had do hereby certify that Nathaniel Doty who has sworn to and subscribed the preceding deposition is a man of truth and veracity entitled to credit.

Given under my hand seal this 4th day of
March A.D. 1843
Thomas Boyle {Seal}

State of Pennsylvania, Indiana County SS. 
I Robert Craig Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas within and for said County do hereby certify that Thomas Boyle Esqr. who has subscribed the preceding deposition and certificate is an acting Justice of the peace in and for said County duly commissioned and qualified and that all his official acts are entitled to full faith and credit as well in Courts of Justice as elsewhere within his jurisdiction and that the signatures and seal thereto affixed are his genuine signatures and seals -

In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and caused the seal of the said Court to be affixed at Indiana this 9th day
March Anno Domini 1843.
R. Craig Prot.
[seal affixed at left]
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Case of Jonathan Doty aged 86 years

The claimant sets for the several tours of service as a draughted or volunteer militiaman
resident in the County of Somerset State of New Jersey amounting in all to 12 months and 17 days. The Declaration is made before an associate Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of Indiana County Pa. in which he now resides and has resided twenty three years past, [crossed out text] out of Courts. [crossed out text]. There is no record evidence of the services, eight months of which are as named by the affidavit of an alleged fellow soldier.  The names of the company, field and general officers under whom Claimant says he served are given with precision and particular descriptions of places where stationed country
through which he passed and the services in which he was employed
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Pension Office
Dec 29th 1842

Sir,

In answer to your letter of the 8th instant I have to state that the claim of John Johnson therein referred to
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Hon. J. L. Edwards
Washington
City-
D.C.
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Blairsville, Indiana County
Penna Decr 9th 1842

Hon. J.L. Edwards,
Commissioner of Pensions

Dear Sir,

I herewith transmit to you the Pension Papers of Jonathan Doty Senr.

The result of their investigation I would respectfully request you to transmit to me-

I am very respectfully
Yours
Gillis Doty
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Hon. A.G.  Marchand
H.R.
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Washington Feb. 10 1843

J.L. Edwards Esq

Sir,

You will confer a favour by returning me an answer together with Doty's letter, as to the
applications of Jonathan & Nathaniel Doty for pension.

If there are such "regulations" in a printed form as is referred to & I could obtain a copy it would confer an additional obligation on.

Truly yours
A.G. Marchand
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Hon. J.L. Edwards
Commr. of Pensions
Washington City
D.C.
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Blairsville, Indiana County
Penna. Jan. 19th 1843

Dear Sir-

I herewith transmit to you for your investigation the amendment to Jonathan Doty Senr.'s declaration
which it is presumed will be satisfactory.

I am very respectfully
Yours
Gillis Doty

Hon. J.S. Edwards
Commr. of Pensions
Washington City,
D.C.
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FREE

[stamp:] BLAIRSVILLE Pa. MAY 16

Hon .James M. Porter
Secretary of War
Washinton City
D.C.


Indiana Pa. May 12/43
Wm McClaren Jr.
Testifies to character of J. Doty Sr. on
application for pension.

M139, testimony 22/43
Pension Office
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Indiana Pa. May 12/43
Wm McClaren Jr
Testifies to character
of J. Doty Sr. an application
for a pension.
M139 January 22/43
Pension Office

FREE
[stamp:] BLAIRSVILLE Pa. MAY 16

Hon. James M. Porter
Secretary of War
Washington City
D.C.
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Indiana May 12, 1843

Honored Sir-

At the solicitation of the friends of Jonathan Doty Senr. I hereby respectfully state for the information of your department that the said
Doty is a man of unimpeachable veracity. I have
been acquainted with him for many years past & 
have ever found him worthy of confidence.  I am informed he is an applicant for a pension for services rendered in time of the Revolutionary War, and any statements he may have made
in relation to his services aforesaid may be
implicitly relied on, from the fact of his ever sustaining a character for truth & veracity.
He is reputed & believed by his neighbors to
have been a revolutionary soldier and I have no doubt but that he served as he has stated in his application for a pension-

I would therefore recommend Mr Doty to your Department as worthy of a pension-

I am very respectfully yours
Hon. Wm McClaren
Register & Recorder of
Indiana Co.

Hon. James M Porter
Secretary of War
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No 35.440

Pension Papers
of
Jonathan Doty Senr.
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Aged 86 years
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12 Months and
17 days Service
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Address Gillis
Doty, Blairsville,
Indiana County,
Penna.
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admd.
12 Mo. pri.
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40
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Gillis Doty
Blairsville
Pa.
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State of Pennsylvania
Indiana County   } SS.
I Robert Craig Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of said County do hereby certify that James McKennan Esq. who has subscribed and sealed the foregoing proceedings in the
matter of the application of Jonathan Doty Senr was at the date thereof and now is an associate Judge of the said Court of Common Pleas, and I the said Prothonotary do further certify that Stewart Davis who has subscribed the preceding affidavits and certificates is an acting
Justice of the peace in and for the County of Indiana aforesaid.  That the said Judge and the said Justice are duly commissioned and qualified and that all their official acts are entitled to full faith and credit as well in Courts of Justice as elsewhere and that the signatures and seals thereto affixed are the genuine signatures and seals-

In testimony whereof I have
hereunto set my hand and
Seal of Office at Indiana
in the State of Pennsylvania
this 6 day of December
Anno Domini 1842
R. Craig Prot.
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[Note:  entire page is crossed out]

State of Pennsylvania
Indiana County    }  Sct.
I Robert Craig Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of said County do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the above Court in the matter of the application of Jonathan Doty Senior for a pension. And I the said Prothonotary do
further certify that Stewart Davis Esquire who has subscribed the preceding Certificates and affidavit is an acting Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Indiana in the State of Pennsylvania that the said Stewart Davis Esquire is duly commissioned and qualified and that all his official acts are entitled to full faith
and Credit as well in Courts of Justice as elsewhere and that the signatures and seals thereto affixed is his genuine Signatures
and seals.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my
hand and seal of office this [blank] day of [blank] Anno Domini 1842.
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State of Pennsylvania
Indiana County  }  SS.
I Robert Craig, Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County Do hereby certify that Robert Doty Esquire before whom the above proceedings were had and who has subscribed the above affidavit and certificate is an acting Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Indiana in the State of Pennsylvania. That the said Robert Doty Esqr. is duly commissioned and qualified and that all his official acts are entitled to full faith and credit
as well in Courts of Justice as out thereof and that the signatures and seals thereto affixed
are his genuine signatures and seals.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of the said Court at Indiana this 16 day of January in the year of our Lord 1843.
R. Craig Prot.
[seal affixed at left]
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Revolutionary claim of
Jonathan Doty Senr.
amended-

Address,
Gillis Doty
Blairsville,
Indiana County
Penna.
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Nathl. witness for Jonathan

June 77.  Middlebrook & Morristown
Oct --  Elizabethtown
Nov --    "
Aug. 78.  "   Springfield
Sept.--   "     "
Summr. 80  Amboy &c.-
fall. "               "        "
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Blairsville Apr 10 1843

Dear Sir,

Your favor of the 1st inst. respecting Nathaniel Doty's deposition is to hand. I have compared the deposition with his own declaration, and I cannot discover the discrepancies referred to in your reply.  The following are the tours set forth
in his declaration before President White in Nov. Term 1842. viz.

1st Tour in the fall of 1776  at Elizabethtown & Vicy.
2nd Tour Nov. 1776  at Elisabethtown. "
3rd tour Decembr 1776 at Elizabethtown "
4th Town, October & Nov.1 777 at Elizabethtown "
5th Town Augt & Sept. 1778 at Mt. Kimble & Springfield
6th Tour Summer & Fall 1780 at Amboy, Hackensack, Morristown

In the above tours he makes a period of 8 months & 24 days.  
In his amended declaration, explanatory of the above and which was set aside for not being duly authenticated, he set forth four additional tours, viz.
1st Tour in December 1776. Assisting to take deserters.
2nd Tour June 1777 served at Middlebrook
3rd Town July 1777      "       "   Morristown
4th Tour June 1778      "       "   in Monmouth County.

Comprising a period of 2 months and 12 days, and an aggregate of 11 months and 6 days,

He hopes to satisfy the Department, with additional testimony as to the performance of the above services if possible-
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the following are the periods of service set forth by Jonathan Doty Sr. before his honor Judge McKennan of Indiana

1st Tour Sept & October 1776 at Elizabethtown, N.J.
2nd Tour Decr 1777 at Elizabethtown & Springfield
3rd Tour Decr 1776 & Jany 1777. at Elizabethtown, Allent. & Pluckemin
4th Tour June & July. 1777. Middlebrook, Short hills, Morristown, Quibblt.
5th Tour  October & Nov. 1777 Elizabeth town
6th Tour parts of June & July 1778.
Communipaugh & Bargain
7th Town Augt. & Sept. 1778. Elizabethtown, Springfield & Mt. Kimble
8th Tour parts of Aug. Sept. Oct. 1780, Amboy, Hackensack, Morristown & Mt. K.

In the above tours of service he completes a period of 12 months and 17 days. His amended declaration correspond in substance with the above declaration.

The claimants resided near the boundaries of their respective Counties, and within three miles of each other during the Revolutionary War, and consequently had the best opportunity of becoming acquainted with each other's service. By comparing their respective tours, we find that Nathaniel Doty served six tours at the designated periods and places, detailed by his associate Jonathan Doty Senr in his declaration; and if they served with each other at the same
periods and places, which cannot be doubted, they of course cannot be mistaken in their testimony.  I  think with deference to your opinion, that the testimony of Nathaniel
Doty goes conclusively to Establish the claim of Jonathan Doty Senr for Eight months at least. Under all the circumstances We cannot believe that there exists such disparagement in their
cases as to preclude the Commissioner from granting them
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Justice. It is true their loss of memory is much impaired owing to great age and bodily infirmities, but sufficient we think remains to show that they have actually served for the length of time specified in their declarations. It is true also that their reminiscences of the long past and direful scenes thro' which they passed are confused, yet we hope that sufficient light altho glimmering, remains to shed a halo around their Patriotic deeds, that will enable the Department of War to see the Justice and propriety of inscribing their names on the Pension Roll of their Country. In addition to Nathaniel Doty's militia services, he has claims to present for services rendered in the Quarter Master's Department as a Waggoner in transporting military stores, munitions of war for a long period of time in the Revolutionary War, which can probably be substantiated by the deposition of witnesses if living from the Theatre where the services were performed. He
was attached to the Quarter Masters Department & assisted to transport the Baggage of our French Ally (at that time
very domineering and cruel to the defenceless Waggoner) on their march from New Jersey to Rhode Island. The expenses attendant on procuring the necessary evidence may perhaps
deter him pro tem of attempting to present his claims for the above services, yet the militia services he would humbly request the Department not to overlook on account of the
defect of his memory. He has endeavored thus far to present the best evidence which the nature of the case admits and to show as far as he could the extent of his claim.
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He has yet further and I am informed still more satisfactory Evidence to offer in regard to his claims which will be transmitted ere long. I am sorry to trespass on your Patience by recapitulating the services of these truly
worthy old soldiers and hope the apology may be acceptable.

Very Respectfully
Yours &c.
Gillis Doty

Hon. J.L. Edwards
Commr. of Pensions
Washington D.C.
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Revolutionary Claims
Jonathan & Nathaniel 
Doty  New Jersey Militia
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REV. & 1812
WAR SECTION

3 - 2027
UNITED STATES
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
BUREAU OF PENSIONS
WASHINGTON

May 25, 1926.

Mrs. H. M. Hotchkis,
186 N. Park Ave.
Buffalo, N. Y.

Madam:

[in margin:  'all spellings searching']
I have to advise you that the Revolutionary War records of this Bureau fail to afford any information in regard to Jonathan Doty who served as teamster in Capt. Asabel
Hinman's Team Brigade from New Jersey.
If however he served in any other organization and you will so state, also furnishing the approximate dates of his birth and death and places of his residence at enlistment and aftr
er service, another search of the records will be made in your behalf.

Respectfully,
WINFIELD SCOTT,
Commissioner.

I did not find Jonathan Doty N.J. S5356 because in modern letters of inquiry in that claim they say he was not the teamster that there were two and there is no such service in the claim.
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Rev Ses

1621 North Second St.
Harrisburg, Penn.
May 23rd, 1920. 

Com. of Pensions,
Dept of Internal Affairs,
Washington, D. C.

Dear Sir:-

May 6th. I wrote you relative to the pension of Jonathan Doty, a soldier of the Rev., who served from N.J.

As I understand it his pension application
is No. 356. In which he states he was
born 1756.

The above information has not been furnished
from your office directly to me.  What I desire to know is what ['you' crossed out] record you have of him, particularly if he died in Penn., Indiana Co. about 1813.

Also if his wife Nancy was later granted a
Pension.

This Jonathan Doty, Doughty, served in Somerset Militia of N. J.

There was another Jonathan Doty who served
as Teamster in Capt. Hinman's Team Brigade of
N.J.

If you have a pension granted to him, kindly
send record also.

I would appreciate it very much if you could attend to this promptly, as the record is necessary. This family having been very
much confused by those who compiled the record of N. J.

Very truly
J. C. Ferguson

[stamp:] U.S. PENSON OFFICE D MAY 27 1920
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Rev Sec
1621 North Second St., Harrisburg, Penn.
May 6th., 1920
Hon, Commissioner of Pensions, Washington, D.C.
From the office of Adj't General of New Jersey [underlined], I copied the record of Jonathan Doty Sr. of the Rev. The information on the record of New Jersey, they thought was taken from application paper for pension in your office. Now I would like to have any additional record you may have of his family. Particularly name of wife and children.
The Pension application is supposed to be Inv.P. 356. Jonathan Doty of New Jersey. Born 1756 (place not stated on N.J. record)
Enlisted as Priv. Capt---- Bailey's Co. attached Col. Frederick Frelinghausen Reg't. First saw service 5 weeks
Latter part of Sept. 1776 served tour under Capt. Bullion.
Nov. 5th, 1776 enlisted as private Capt. Wm. Logan Co. 1st. Bat. Somerset Mil. Served 6 weeks.
Enlisted June 1777 for 2 months as Private Capt. John [name "X'd" out] Parker's Co 1st. Bat. Somerset Mil. Col. Stephen Hunt
Oct. 1777 enlisted 2 months Capt. Wm. Logan 1st. Bat. Somerset Mil.
Last of June 1778 enlisted 1 month Priv. Capt. Wm. Logan.
Aug. & Sept. 1778 served 2 monthly tours as private, Somerset Mil.
Aug. & Sept. 17[8?]0 served 2 monthly tours as Private Capt. John Parker's Co. Somerset, N. J. Militia.
Kindly state if Jonathan Doty (Doughty, Dottie) says if he was born Piscataway, N. [J.] and where was his last pension paid to him? Basking Ridge?
Also let me know if Jonathan Doughty [name underlined], Capt. Hinman's Team Brigade applied for a pension? Wagon Master's Dep't of N. Jersey.
He served as teamster Oct. 23rd. 1778, 1779, 1780
This Jonathan Doughty was probably father of Jonathan, pensioned as Private. I hope his application, if he has one, will state when he was born.
Hoping fo[r] an early reply. and thanking you for past favers,
Very truly  [signed] J. C. Ferguson
[circular stamp] U. S. PENSION OFFICE. D MAY 7 1920
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250 MAIN STREET
JOHNSTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA
Commissioner of Pensions Washington, D. C.
Dear Sir:  Will you please send me any information on the records in your department concerning the service of my great-grandfather Jonathan Doty (Douty) in the Revolution? He may have enlisted from Basking Ridge, New Jersey where he was born in 1755. He later removed to Black
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Lick or Blairsville, Indiana County Pennsylvania, where he received a pension for his services in the Revolution until his death in his ninety-ninth year in 1854.
I desire this information for membership in the D. A. R.
Very sincerely yours  [signed] (Miss) Mary Douglass Storey
July twenty-ninth nineteen twelve
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[handwritten notes on left side of page]
1912  Aug. 3. Hist. to Miss Mary Douglass Story. aw.
1920 May 26. Hist. to J. C. Ferguson. aw.

[printed form with handwritten entries on right side of page]
Rev War   5356.
[checkmark] INVALID.
File No. 5356
Jonathan Doty Senr. Priv. Rev. War
Act: June 7th /32
Index:-- Vol. M, Page 99
(Arrangement of 1870.)
[checkmark]
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State of Pennsylvania Indiana County SS.
Personally appeared before me the undersigned a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, "Jonathan Doty Senr.," [underlined] the applicant for a pension, who being by me duly sworn, makes the following deposition, viz.  That in his first tour under Capt. Bailey of Col. Freelinghysen's battalion of Somerset County militia of New Jersey he was marched from near Baskenridge N. J. to Elisabeth Town N. J. and stationed there as a drafted militiaman for one month, and served for three weeks only which was in the month of September 1776. And again he was drafted out or volunteered in the month of October 1776 for one month and served under the same officers at the same place for two weeks only, being discharged each time before the engagement expired, comprising a period of five weeks in the said two months. That he makes this statement in explanation of his first tour as detailed in his declaration already transmitted to the Commissioner of Pensions.  He further deposes that in his fourth tour in the summer of 1777 he was drafted for one month and served said month in June 1777 and also he served for one month longer in July 1777, the latter month in July was served as a volunteer, making two tours of one month each. And he further says that his subsequent tours of two months as stated in his said declaration were served as tours of one month each in immediate
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succession, which he omitted to state in his said declaration. That the said subsequent tours of two months were served in the same way in which he served his said fourth tour and to this he deposes for the purpose of explanation.
And he further deposes that he has been able to maintain himself without a pension until lately. That he was unwilling to apply for one, had he known that he could have obtained it, so long as he could do without it.  And he moreover states, that he resides at a remote distance from the great public roads and from any public places.  That he has had but very little conversation with any old Pensioner or with any one else who could give him any correct information how to proceed to obtain a pension until within a few months past.  That he supposed that the person applying for a pension must be so poor as not to be able to support himself.  He was likewise under an impression that none but those who were enlisted soldiers were entitled to pension. This kind of information he had received from hearsay and report that he did not know that that the Pension Act of 1832 embraced the militia and volunteers, and he did not know that he was entitled to a pension until about six months ago or short of that time. and since he was informed that he might obtain a pension, he has been engaged in collecting all the information which lay in his power in order to present a satisfactory claim to the War Department.
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that he is now verging to the end of his pilgrimage in this vale of tears. That if he fails to obtain his pension he must suffer for the want of it and his great age and bodily infirmities will but increase his privations. That he is very nervous & dependent on his friends, being unable to help himself  He concludes his deposition by saying that by reason of old age and the Consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service, but according to the best of his recollection, he served not less than the period mentioned below and in the following grade = for twelve months and seventeen days, as set forth in my said declaration I served as a private, and for such service I claim a Pension.  But should the Commissioner of Pensions deduct the month of July 1777 and the month of November 1777, the month of September 1778, and one more month from my eighth tour in the fall of 1780, I would then claim a pension for Eight months and seventeen days service as a private.
Sworn and subscribed before me the said Justice this 13th day of January A. D. 1843.
[signed] Robert Doty  [Seal]  [signed with a mark] Jonathan Doty Senr. His mark
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and I the said Justice do hereby certify that the said Jonathan Doty Senr. who has sworn & subscribed the aforesaid affidavit is a person of truth and veracity & entitled to Credit.  Given under my hand & seal at Blacklick Township at the residence of the said Jonathan Doty Senr. this 13th day of January A D 1843 [signed] Robert Doty  Seal [encircled by a squiggly line]
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State of Pennsylvania Indiana County ss.
Personally appeared before me the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for the said County Nathaniel Doty who being duly sworn deposes and says as follows viz. That he the said Nathaniel Doty is Eighty four Years of age. That Jonathan Doty Senr the applicant for a Pension lived during the war of the Revolution in Somerset County in the State of New Jersey that this deponent also lived in the State of New Jersey in the County of Morris adjoining the County of Somerset in New Jersey. That he is personally acquainted with him the said applicant. That this deponent was also well acquainted with him during the Revolutionary war and has been well acquainted with him ever since that period That this said Deponent was himself in the service of the United States. That he frequently saw and conversed with him during the periods of service specified by him in the above declaration. That the said applicant belonged to the embodied militia of the said County of Somerset and that he was out in the service for a number of periods during the Revolutionary war and that he was called out to serve by the constituted authorities of the County
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and State in which he then lived. and this deponent further says that the said Jonathan Doty Senr served as he has declared in the New Jersey militia under the commands of Major Lynn, Col. Hunt, Capt Logan, Capt Bailey, Capt. Parker, Col. Freelinghuysen, Genl. Wind, Col. Dayton, Col. Seeley, Genl. Dickinson, Genl. Sullivan, Col Ogden, Col, or Lord Sterling, Genl. Heard, Col. Nixon, and many others not now recollected together with their respective divisions of regular and militia troops under their respective commands not forgetting the Commander in Chief Genl. George Washington as stated by him in his declaration that this deponent the said Jonathan Doty Senr in the militia service of the state of New Jersey and was stationed and served at nearly all the posts the military/posts at which the said Jonathan Doty Senr. served as related by him in his above declaration that the said Nathaniel Doty, this deponent knows and is positive from his own personal knowledge and observation that the said Jonathan Doty Senr. served as a soldier with the Somerset County militia in the State of New Jersey and under and with said officers and
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soldiers specified and detailed by him the said Jonathan Doty Senr that He the said Nathaniel Doty was out with him the said Jonathan Doty Senr in the service of the United States in the time of the Revolutionary War at Springfield, Elizabeth town, NewArk, Amboy, Mt. Kemble, Morristown and the other places mentioned by him in his declaration above, but under other officers. that the officers and soldiers of both Somerset and Morris Counties in New Jersey often served together at the same places and at the same time during said war.  But for what length of time altogether he served from time to time, this deponent cannot exactly depose, but from the best of his memory, recollection and Judgement and his personal knowledge of his the said Jonathan Doty Senr's services he does not hesitate to depose and declare that the said Jonathan Doty Senr has served as much as Eight months [underlined] as stated by him in his said declaration of his services.
Sworn and subscribed before me - Stewart Davis the Undersigned one of the Justices of the peace in and for the County of Indiana and State of
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Pennsylvania this 22nd day of October A. D. 1842
[signatures] Stewart Davis  Nathaniel Doty
I the said Justice do hereby certify that the above named Nathaniel Doty who has subscribed and sworn to the above deposition and certificate of Jonathan Doty Senr's revolutionary services is a man of truth and veracity and entitled to credit. Given under my hand and seal this 22d day of October 1842  [signed] Stewart Davis  seal