Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 41591, Jonas Grove, Va.
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SERVICE                                                     NUMBER
Va.                 Grove, Jonas                        S.41591
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12.689
Ohio D
Jonas Grove
of Jefferson Cty in the state of Ohio who was a Private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Neville of the Virginia line, for the term of one year.
Inscribed on the Roll of Ohio -- at the rate of Eight Dollars per month, to commence on the 1st of May 1818 --
Certificate of Pension issued the 21st of July 1819 and sent to Benjn Tappan, Esqr Steubenville, Ohio
Arrears to the 4th of March 1819 10 4/31 81.03
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4 Sept: 1819 - 48.00
$129.03

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[crossed out See let 15 Ma 1841
[Crossed out Now B. Tappan]
Died Mar 31, 1823 (A B)

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[illegible] Sent to Ephraim Root Eqr. 16 Nov 1820. Steubenville, Ohio
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Certificate to be sent to Ephrm Root Steubenville Ohio

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Jonas Grove- Priv:
Col: Neville's Virginia Regt.
1778 - 1 year
1st May 1818
See the within deposition relative to service of applicant

Admitted
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State of Ohio
Jefferson County SS
     I John Patterson Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the aforesaid County, by direction of the Hon Benjamin Tappan President Judge of the [illegible] Judicial district in the State of Ohio have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said County at Steubenville this 12th day of June 1819
   for John Patterson Clk
     James Patterson Dept Clk
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     The Deposition of Louis Grove of the County of Jefferson and State of Ohio.  Herewith --- This Deponent entered the service of his country at the time the British Army occupied the City of Philadelphia, the spring of the year one thousand seven hundred seventy-eight as a Volunteer in the company of Capt. Mathias Ambrose in the Regiment commanded by Col. Pendleton in the Virginia Line.  In this Regiment he remained three months when his time having expired he enlisted in the Company of Capt. John Stead in the fourth Regiment in the Virginia Line commanded by Colonel Neville.  In this company Regiment and Line he remained one year when his term of service having expired he in N. Jersey.  This discharge the Deponent kept about a year and then [illegible] to Moses Hunter of Martinsburgh Virginia for the purpose of drawing some [illegible] of pay that were then due him.  Mr Hunter has since died and it is impossible for this Deponent to get said discharge.  he further says that from his [illegible] and [illegible] circumstances in Life it is impossible for him to support himself. That he needs tha assistance of the United Stated pension of compensation in Lieu thereof for all these services.
     Jonas his X mark Grove
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State of Ohio
Jefferson County Ss May 1st 1818
     Personally came Jonas Grove within named & was duly sworn to the contents of the within deposition & affixed his signature to the same before me
     In session President of the Court of Common Pleas in the Fifth Circuit of the State of Ohio
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State of Ohio Jefferson County Ss
     In testimony that the Honourable Benjamin Tappan before whom the within deposition was made is President of the Court of common Pleas in the fifth circuit of the State of Ohio duly commissioned and qualified to whom official acts as such full faith and credit is due I John Patterson Clerk of the Court of common Pleas for said County have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at Steubenville the first day of may AD 1818
     John Patterson Clk
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State of Ohio Sc
     Agreeably to not of War Department made on back of envelope to application of Jonas Grove dated first of May A.D. 1818 (revolutionary soldier) taken before the Honorable Benjamin Tappan president of the fifth circuit of the Court of Common pleas State of Ohio authenticated under the seal of Jefferson County, came John Froshour aged sixty three years resident of [illegible] state of Ohio who after being duly sworn according to law by me the subscribed president of the Court of Common pleas of the Second Circuit on said states (as a proof of services performed by said Jonas Grove in colonel Neville's regiment) deposith and saith that he is well acquainted with the said applicant Jonas Grove and served in same Company with him during revolutionary struggle commanded by John Heid of said Colonel Neville's regiment the year Howe went out of Philadelphia and that Jonas Grove now present who presented the paper certificate by said Judge of fifth Court as above stated and which is here attached is the same Jonas Grove enrolled with this deponant and served with him during one year the term of enlistment, and of the facts he feels no doubt and further this deponent saith not.  [signed] John Froshour
Sworn to subscribed before me second day of June AD 1819  [signed] John Thompson
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I John Thompson president as within stated do certify that the said John Froshour resident of our County of Pope is a respectable and credible man and his testimony to be believed and relyed on. Given under my hand this 2nd day of June 1819
     [signed] John Thompson
Done at Chillocathe
Ross County State of Ohio

The State of Ohio
Ross County 
     I Humphrey Fullerton, clerk of the court of common pleas for the county aforesaid do certify that, John Thompson Esquire, before whom the within affidavit appeared to have been taken was at that time and now is President Judge of the Second circuit of the Court of Common Pleas for said State of Ohio including the County of Pope aforesaid and that the same with the certificate thereby is in his own proper handwriting
     In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said court at Chillicothe this 2nd day of June 1819 and in the 17th year of this state
     [signed] Humphrey Fullerton
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I Martin Zwickard of Island Creed township in the County of Jefferson and State of Ohio do on oath testify that Jonas Grove the aforementioned deponent is in reduced circumstances and stands  in need of assistance from his country for support.
   [signed] Martin Zwickard

State of Ohio
Jefferson County SS
     Personally appeared before me Benjamin Tappan as President judge of the 5th judicial district of the State of Ohio, the above named Martin Zwickard who in my presence subscribed and made oath to the above affidavit, and is appearing to my satisfaction that the above named Jonas Grove served for more than nine months at one period of time in the Revolutionary war, on the Continental Establishment against the common enemy and that he is in reduced circumstances and in need of assistance from his county for support. I hereby certify the testimony and the proceedings thereon to the Secretary of the Department of War:
     In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the aforesaid County to be affixed this 12th day of June 1819.
     [signed] Benj Tappan
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State of Ohio Jefferson County SS. Court of Common Pleas
In the matter of Jonas Groves a Revolutionary pensioner
     Be it remembered that at the August Term of this court in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty Jonas Groves a Revolutionary pensioner comes into Court & makes a Declaration of his services in the words & figures following, to wit --
On the 21st day of August A. D. 1820, personally appeared in open Court being a Court of Record for the said County Jonas Groves, age seventy five years, resident in Knox Township in said County who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary war as follows viz. The said Jonas Groves in the spring of the year 1778, at the Warm Springs Barclay County in Virginia enlisted as a private in Captain John Steeds Company in the Col. Nevil Regiment, the Fourth of the Virginia line for the term of one year, he joined the main army near Valley Forge; at the time of the Battle of Monmouth was sick, served the term of one year when he was discharged at Bon Brook by Major Crighan & Capt Steed, during the term of his service he was also with the [torn illegible] at West Point. He has received a pension certificate from government. The number of which is 12.689. The date of the original Declaration was the first day of May 1818. and I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March 1818, and that I have not since that time by gift sale or in any manner disbursed of my property or any part thereof with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress entitled an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and navel service of the United Stated in the Revolutionary war, passed on the eighteenth day of March 1818 and that I have not nor has any person in Court for me any property or securities contracts or debts due to me; nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed. viz. 
One horse   $25
1 Cow          $15
3 Sheep        $6
4 Hogs          $7
4 cups & sauces  .37
Brot forward  $53.37
1 Table    .50
2 Chairs     .62 1/2
5 Knives & Forks   .50
       $55.00
Carried forward $53.37
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The Declarent lives in a house for which he pays nothing. has a wife & Daughter living with him. The former ages 72 the latter aged 20 who works out to keep herself. The ocupation of the Declarent has been that of a Butcher, at which trade he is now wholly unable to work: he now sometimes earns 6 1/4 or 12 cents per day for making bread baskets but from an irruption in his bowels is unable to do anything else to support himself: his wife is not able to work.
     Jonas his x mark Grove

Whereupon the said Jonas Grove being duly sworn to the facts above stated and producing satisfactory evidence to the Court that the aforesaid schedule contains all the property by him owned that the value thereof is fifty five dollars & no more, Therefore it is ordered by the Court that the aforesaid Declaration & Schedule be entered of Record & certified by the Clerk of the Court to the war Department. 
     Attest John Patterson Clk

State of Ohio Jefferson County SS
     I John Patterson Clerk of the court of common Pleas for the said county of Jefferson do certify that the foregoing oath and the schedule thereto annexed are truly copyed from the Records of said Court  - and I do further certify that it is the opinion of said court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited as the aforesaid schedule is fifty five Dollars. 
     In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at Steubenville this 23rd day of September AD 1820. 
     [signed] John Patterson Clk
E Root Agent
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July 6, 1938

Jonas Grove 
S. 41591
BA-J/MLB

Mr. Winthrop H. Duncan
 165 Eighty-fourth Street
 Brooklyn, New York

Dear Sir:
     Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revolutionary War record of Jonas Groves, about whom you have no information.
     The pension record has been found of one Jonas Groves (Grove, Graves, etc.) only, who served in the Revolutionary War. All papers in that claim, S. 41591, have been examined very carefully and the following data found:
     The date and place of birth and names of the parents of Jonas Grove are not shown.
     Jonas Grove volunteered at Warm Springs in Berkeley County, Virginia, in the spring of 1778, at the time the British were occupying Philadelphia, and served three months as a private in Captain mathias Ambrose's company, colonel Pendleton's Virginia regiment. Upon the expiration of that tour, he again enlisted near Valley Forge, served as private in Captain John Steed's company, Colonel Neville's Virginia regiment, and was discharged after having served on this tour one year.
     The soldier was allowed pension on his application executed May 1, 1818, at which time he was a resident of Jefferson county, Ohio.
     In 1820, Jonas Grove was aged seventy-five years and a resident of Knox Township, Jefferson County, Ohio, and stated that his wife aged seventy-two years and his daughter, aged twenty years, were living with him, but did not state their names, and no reference was made to any other children. He died March 31, 1823, survived by his widow who was still living in 1841. There is no claim for pension on file in this office made by her as the widow of Jonas Grove.
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In order to obtain date of last payment of pension and name and address of the person paid, you should write to the Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, Records Division, this city, and cite the following data:
     Jonas Grove
     Certificate #12589
     Issued July 21, 1819
     Rate, $8 per month
     Commenced May 1, 1818
     Act 18th March, 1818
     Ohio Agency.
       Very truly yours
        A. D. Hiller
         Executive Assistant to the Administrator
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Hon:
March 15, 1841
G. C.
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Pen Office
Mch 15. 1841

Sir
On reply to the enclosed letter of E. M. Stanton of
7th unit requesting that a copy
of the papers in the case of Jonas
Grove for the purpose of [illegible] his
widow in making an application
for a pension I have to inform you
that it is against regulations of
this office to give copies of papers for 
such a purpose. The widow in making a
declaration can refer to the husbands papers
on file for proof of service which will be 
sufficient.

Hon. Benj Tappan
Senate M. States.
[following crossed out:]
E. M. Stanton Esq
Stantonville,
Ohio

SC
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Winthrop H. Duncan
165 Eighty-fourth Street
Brooklyn, New York

April 8 - 1938

Veteran Administration
Washington 
D. C. 

Gentlemen:
Will you please inform
me whether or not you have
on file, the original papers
in the matter of the application
of Jonas Grovese a Revolutionery
War soldier, for a pension
If such papers are on file
will you please let me
know the cost of having
photostat in order to preserve the old records + often try a history
JG
copies made of
the same - and oblige

Your Very Truly
W. H. Duncan.

[rubber stamp:]
Received
Apr 11 1938
Mail Sub. Div
Vets. Adm
Reader No. 6
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(9-1776) 
SERVICE NUMBER
Va. Grove, Jonas S41591
CONTENTS
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In order to obtain date of last payment of pension and name of
person paid, you should write to the Comptroller General, General
Accounting Office, Records Division, this city, and cite the follow-
ing data:
Jones Grove
Certificate #12689
Issued July 21, 1819
Rate, $8 per month
Commenced May 1, 1818
Act 18th March, 1818
Ohio Agency.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator
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[stamped]
RECEIVED
Apr 23 1937

MAIL SUV-DIV.
VETS.ADM.
READER No. 16
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Canton, Ohio.
Apr. 22, 1937

Sirs -
I'm writing to ask if
only me in files
Jonas Grove was in the
Revolutionary War?
We know his widow
Margaret Grove received
a pension. She was living
in Jefferson C. Ohio at that time
but they came from Penn.

Thanking you
I am,
Geo F Andrews
2122 Cleveland Ave
Canton, Ohio.
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1937. May 22 - Hist to Geo F Andrews - ML 13
1939. July 6 - Hist to W H Duncan MLB

41591
Invalid
Revy

File No. 41,591
Jonas Grove
Pri Rev War

Act 18th March 18th
Index: - Vol. 5, Page 204

[Arrangement of 1870.]