Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S 37637, for Jonathan Longley, Massachusetts
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Longley, Jonathan 
Number S 37637
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Dist. Of Maine
Jonathan Longley
Private
Capt. Smith  Massachusetts line. In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.
Inscribed on the Roll of Dist. of Maine at the rate of 8 dollars per month, to commence on the 4th of April 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 2nd of May 1818 and sent to the Pensioner care of A. K. Paris, Esq., Judge
Paris Dist. of Maine
Arrearages to 4 Sept. 1818   $42.66
5 1/31 mo.                               $42.66
Revolutionary claims, Act 18th March, 1818
Three years
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Jonathan Longley

The Hon. John C. Calhoun
Secretary of War
Washington City
A.K. Paris
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I hereby certify that Jonathan Longley was a soldier with me in Capt. Silvanus Smith’s Company in the 15th Mass. Regt. commanded by Col. Timothy Bigelow in Genl. Glovers Brigade of the United States (illegible) three years Beginning in the year 1777 ending in the year 1780.
Waterford  March 31st, 1818
Solomon Russell (illegible) of said company
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I hereby certify that Jonathan Longley was a soldier with me in Capt. Silvanus Smith’s Company in the 15th Mass. Regt. commanded by Col. Timothy Bigelow in Genl. Glovers Brigade of the United States (illegible) three years Beginning in the year 1777 ending in the year 1780.
Waterford  March 30, 1818
Solomon Russell (illegible) of said company 

This may certify that Mr. Jonathan Longley of Waterford in the county of Oxford and commonwealth of Massachusetts is a man that is in indigent circumstances and also a cripple and has been for many years past.
William  Munroe  
Daniel Greene – Selectmen of Waterford
Waterford March 30th 1818
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United States of America
District of Maine ss.
Be it remembered that on this fourth day of April, A. D. 1818 personally came the within named Jonathan Longley, and after being cautioned and examined, made oath that the within statements by him subscribed is wholly true; and also at the same time cane the within named America Hamlin, and made oath that the affidavits by him subscribed is true; and the said Joanathan Longley further produced the certificates hereunto annexed signed by persons to me well known.
Whereupon, its appearing to me in the examination here had, that all the persons above named are credible witnesses.   I do hereby admit their testimony as evidence, and certify the same as being satisfactory proof to me, that the said Jonathan Longley served as a private soldier in the Revolutionary War.
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I Jonathan Longley of Waterford in the county of Oxford and State of Massachusetts and being a citizen of the United States of America do testify and say that in the year of our Lord seventeen hundred and seventy seven, in the month of March enlisted for three years as a private soldier into the Army of the United States of American in the continental establishments, in the company commanded by Captain Silvanus Smith in the Regiment of Colonel Timothy Bigelow, it being the fifteenth Massachusetts Regiment in General Glover’s Brigade in which service I continued till the expiration of the term for which I had enlisted, when I received an honourable discharge from Colonel Bigelow, which discharge I have since accidentally lost.
I further testify that by reason of reduced circumstances in life I stand in need of assistance from my country for support.
Jonathan Longley
I, America Hamlin of Waterford in the county of Oxford certify and say that I am well acquainted with Jonathan Longley named in the above deposition, and that he served in the revolutionary army on the continental establishment during the nine month which I served in said army, commencing on the eighth day of August, seventeen hundred and seventy-nine, and ending on the eighth day of May seventeen hundred and eighty when I left the service.  Said Longley belonged to Captain Silvanus Smith’s company in the regiment of Colonel Timothy Bigelow and General Glover’s Brigade
America Hamlin
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against the common enemy for the term of nine months and upwards on the continental establishment; that he is yet a resident citizen of the United States and that by reason of his reduced circumstances in life, he is in need of assistance from his country for support.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my private seal.
Albion K. Parris
Judge of the United States in and for the Dist. of Maine
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Jonathan Longley
No. 337
Continental
2 May 1818
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STATE OF MAINE
Oxford ss. At a circuit court of Common Pleas begun and holden at Paris within and for the county of Oxford on the second Tuesday of June A.D. 1820 before the Honorable Benjamin Green (and) Judah Dana, Judges of said court.  On this 13th day of June in the year above written, personally appeared in open Court the same having “the power of fine and imprisonment” and being a Court of Record for said county of Oxford, Jonathan Longley aged fifty nine years, resident in Waterford 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. as a private in the company commanded by Capt. Sylvanus Smith in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Timothy Bigelow in the line of the State of Massachusetts on the Continental Establishment, as is more particularly mentioned and described in his original declaration, made on the 4th day of April A. D. 1818, and on which said declaration his Certificate of Pension, numbered 337 was granted.  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 disposed 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 naval service of the United States, in the Revolutionary War,” passed on the 18th day of March, 1818; and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property of securities, contracts, or debts due to me; no have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed, and by me subscribed; that my occupation and ability to pursue the same, together with the number and other particulars of my family, are in fact and in truth as is particularly described below, also subscribed by me.
Jonathan Longley
Sworn to and declared on the 13th day of June A.D.1820
Benjamin Green
Juddah Dana – Judges of said Court.
Schedule of the real and personal estate, (necessary clothing and bedding excepted) belonging to me the subscriber, viz: - 
One poor set of shoe makers tools
One pot, one spider, one skillet, one pail, one tub
Crockey ware to the a amount of fifty cents, three chests, one tub, three chairs
Jonathan Longley
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Schedule of the real and personal estate, (necessary clothing and bedding excepted) belonging to me the subscriber, viz: - 
One poor set of shoe makers tools
One pot, one spider, one skillet, one pail, one tub
Crockey ware to the a amount of fifty cents, three chests, one tub, three chairs
Jonathan Longley

Schedule of the family residing with me Jonathan Longley who by occupation am a shoe maker which I am unable to pursue by reason of rheumatism and other infirmities
Names – No family
Capacity of each to contribute to their support – Jonathan Longley
Oxford SS.
I, Thomas Clark Clerk of the Circuit court of common pleas for said county of oxford do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and the schedules thereto annexed, are truly copied from the Record of the said Court; and I do further certify, that it is the opinion of the Court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is six dollars and fifty cents. $6.50
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court on this 24th day of June A.D. one thousand eight hundred and twenty.
Thomas Clark – Clerk of the Circuit Court of Com. Pleas for the said count of Oxford
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February 21, 1934
Mrs. William A. Barber
Box 64
Greenfield, Massachusetts

Dear Madam:
The date and place of birth and the names of the parents of Jonathan Longley are not shown in the papers in the pension claim.
Jonathan Longley (as he signed pensioned Longley) enlisted, place not shown, served as a private in Captain Sylvanus Smith’s Company, Colonel Timothy Bigelow’s 15th Massachusetts Regiment; length of service, three years.
He was allowed pension on his application executed April 4, 1818, at which time he was residing in Waterford, Oxford County, Massachusetts (Maine).  In 1820, he was still residing in said Waterford and was then aged fifty-nine years.
There are no data as to soldier’s family.
In order to obtain the date of last payment of pension, the name and address of person paid and possibly the date of death of the Revolutionary War soldier, Jonathan Longley (S.37637) you should address The Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, Records Division, this city, citing the following data:
Jonathan Longley, Certificate No. 337, issued May 2, 1818, rate $8 per month, commenced April 4, 1818, Act of March 18, 1818, Maine Agency.
Very truly yours
A.D. Hiller
Assistant to Administrator
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INVALID
File No. 37,637
Jonathan Longley
Prv. Rev War
Act: 18th March 18th
Index: Vol. 2 Page 248
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February 21, 1934
Mrs. William A. Barber
Box 64
Greenfield, Massachusetts

Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letter in which you request information in regard to Jonathan Longley and Benjamin Parker, soldiers of the Revolutionary War.
The histories of the above named soldiers are furnished herewith the data for which were obtained from the papers on file in pension claims, S.37637 and W.21924, based upon their service in the Revolutionary War.
Very truly yours
A.D. Hiller
Assistant to Administrator