Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 40,885, Jonas Gates, Mass.
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Service Mass
Gates, Jonas
Number  S.40.885
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11233 
Vermont 
Jonas Gates of Tunbridge in the State of Vermont who was a Sergeant in the regiment commanded by Colonel Putnam of the Massachusetts line, for the term of 2 years --- Inscribed on the Roll of Vermont at the rate of 8  Dollars per month, to commence on the 3d of April 1818 
Certificate of Pension issued the 30th of May 1819 and sent to Josiah Dana Esquire Chelsea Vermont 
Arrears to 4th of Mar 1819 10 mo 7p/30 5/31 = 88.49 Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4th Sep 1819 48 
$136. 49 Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818. 
not entitled
Notification sent October 23d 1820 to J G McLaughlin Orange County Vermont 
1864 April 4 to Pensioner & Pension agent increasing pension to 19 ? pr annum pr act April 1, 1864 Increase com Jany 1,1864

Copy of [illegible] Genl’s [illegible] 9 July 1821 to H. E. G. McLaughlin Chelsea Vt.
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I Jonas Gates of Tunbridge in the County of Orange & State of Vermont Testify and say that in April AD 1781 I enlisted into the Continental Service of the United States for three years, at Barre in the State of Massachusetts, was mustered at Webster - from thence marched to West point under Colonel Rufus Putnam-- there joined Captain Trotters Company in the fifth Regiment of the Massachusetts line commanded by Colonel Rufus Putnam in the second Brigade commanded by Major Genl Patterson of a mistake not was then under the General Command of Genl George Washington Commander in Chief of the 1 American Army - was honorably discharged the thirtieth day of June AD 1784 by Henry Jackson Brigadier General at West Point which I [illegible] and further testify and say that in consequence of the fatigues in the service of my Country my constitution was broken down and my health much impaired and ever since has been and still continues to be poor - and my circumstances are such that I need the assistance of my country to make my self and family comfortable. I therefore pray that I may be placed on the pension list of the privates agreeably to the law of the Congress of the United stated in such case made once provided dated at Chelsea April 3rd AD 1818 
Jonas Gates
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Sergeant
Jonas Gates
Orange County, Vt
2 years in Col Putnam's regiment Massachusetts
Line
3rd April 1818
[illegible] on discharge
Josiah Dana judge, Chelsea Vermont

Jonas Gates
April 3, 1818
Tunbridge
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Jonas Gates
Tunbridge 
Vermont
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I do hereby certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Jonas Gates did serve in the revolutionary War on the continental establishment  as stated in the proceeding declaration against that the common Enemy and I also certify that appears to my satisfaction that he is poor and needs the assistance of his country for support and I now transmit the proceedings taken and had before me to the Secretary for the War department pursuant to the aforementioned Act of Congress 
Chelsey January 19th 1819 
Josiah Dana Chief Judge of Orange County Court 
State of Vermont Orange County 
Clerks Office January 19th 1819- 
These Certify that Josiah Dana Eqr of Chelsea in the County of Orange before when the foregoing Declaration was taken is Chief Judge of Orange County Court acting under the authority of the state of Vermont and that his Name subscribed to the foregoing is in his own hand writing 
Attest H E G McLaughlin 
Clerk of O. C. Court
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Jonas Gate Declaration and Schedule

1 March 1823
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State of Vermont
 Orange County 
on the day 11th day of June AD. 1823 personally appeared in open Court being Orange County Court, and being a Court of Record having the power of fine & Imprisonment, Jonas Gates aged 58 years resident in Tunbridge in the County of Orange aforesaid, who being first duly sworn, according to Law, doth on his oath, make the following Declaration,  in order to obtain the provision made by the acts of Congress and first of March AD 1823 of the 18th of March 1818, and the first of May. 1828. that he the said Jonas Gates enlisted for the Term of three years on --- the day of March 1781 in the State of Massachusetts in the company commanded by Capt Trotter, in the Regiment commanded by Col Rufus Putnam in the State of Massachusetts, on the continental Establishment; that he continued to serve in the said corps until July 1784 (I think) when he was discharged from the said service in West point in the State of New York (see Discharge in Secretary of wars office), that his name has been placed on the Pension List, and dropt there from an account of his property and in pursuance of the act of the first of May 1820. 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 Interest 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
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18th day of March 1818. and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property 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. That since the Exhibition of my first Schedule the following
changes have been made in my property use--
The small tract of land appraised in the former schedule at 80 dollars I sold to Ammi Dodge on the 6th day of July A.D. 1820 (as appears by Copy annexed,) for $120 and took my pay in
neat stock at the appraisal of men which Neated me in payment of my Debts about Eighty Dollars the Old lame mare appraised in the former Schedule at $10 I Exchanged for another horse which I lost, the swine appraised in the former schedule at $18. I have made use of in my family the Debts due to me from Thomas Shephard, Nathaniel Ladd and A
Bennett Jr  amounting to $190 have been collected and applied towards the payment of the several Debts mentioned in the
former Schedule amounting to $739 and about all the Ballance remains now due from me amounting to about five hundred Dollars--
And I have now on hand the following property vize one Cow $15 - the swine & 5 pigs $15- 10 Sheep $10 ___________$40.00
2 Tables $5 - 7 chairs $6 one brass kettle $7___18.00
old stone ware $3. old chests and trunks $3 ___6.00
Barrels, casks, tubs, pails  &tc. $10 ______10.00
Crockery ware- Glassware, knives & forks & old pewter $6 ________6.00         $80.00

My family consists of my wife Anna Gates aged 
54 years very weakly not able to labour, Alanson Gates aged
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18 years very weekly not able to labour subject to fits. Oscar Gates aged 16 years in good health, Moses Gates aged 14 years poor health, Arathusa Gates aged 12 years poor health one grand child which I have to support aged 5 years and Named Angelina Gates as to my heath it is poor and while in the service lost the use of one Ear and partly lost the use of one arm am unable to labour on a farm. I tend mill when I can have an oppertunity so to do
but Brought up a farmer-
  Jonas Gates
Sworn to and Declared in Court on the 10th day of June AD 1823 - Attest H E G McLaughlin Clerk of Orange County Court _____

I H. E. G. McLaughlin Clerk of Orange County
Court do hereby certify that it appears to the Sattisfaction (sic) of the Court that the said Jonas Gates did serve in the Revolutionary war
as stated in the preceding declaration against the Common Enemy, for the Term of nine months under one engagement on the Continental Establishment, I also certify that the foregoing oath and the schedule thereto annexed are truly from the Records of the said Court and I do further attest that it is the opinion of the said Court that the Total amount in value of the property Exhibited
in the aforesaid Schedule is Eighty Dollars._
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the Court this 16th day of June AD 1823
H. E. G. McLaughlin Clerk of Orange
County Court   Vermont
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Jonas Gates  Vt.
Act June 7, 1832
          Power



J D Woodward
           Atty
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State of Vermont, County of Orange ss.

this 13th day of February 1857 before the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for the said county personally appeared Jonas Gates
a resident of the town of Chelsea in said County, aged 93 years and made oath according to law that he is directly interested in a claim against the United States for certain arrears of pension, Bounty Lands, or allowances supposed to be due to him as one of the heirs of Benjamin Gates who was a Capt in the continental issue of the  the continental army, and he to deponent for his own services in the American Regiment, as a sergeant in the Revolution and he hereby appoints J. DOUGLASS WOODWARD, Counsellor at Law, of Plattsburgh, N. Y., his Attorney to
prosecute such claim and examine all papers and documents in relation thereto, on file in any of the Departments at Washington City or elsewhere, and to receive from the officer authorized to issue the same, a certificate for
any arrears or increase of pension, pay, half pay for life, extra pay, Bounty Lands, and allowances to which Deponent may be entitled, from the United States, and to do all other acts and things in and about obtaining such claims which Deponent might or could do, were he personally present at the doing thereof; and he hereby revokes all former powers if any inconsistent with the above, and authorizes he said Attorney to appoint Attorneys, one or more, under him, for any or all the purposes aforesaid, hereby ratifying and confirming whatsoever Deponent's said Attorney or those appointed under him shall lawfully do or cause to be done in the premises.
In witness whereof the said Deponent has hereunto set his hand and seal the day and year first above written.
IN THE PRESENCE OF
John W Smith}
Alanson Gates}

his
Jonas   X   Gates
mark

Swon to Subscribed and acknowledged, before me, on the day and year first above entioned, and I believe the Deponent to be directly interested in the claim above mentioned, and the identical person therein alleged and described, and I have no interest in the result of said claim and am not concerned in its prosecution.
John W. Smith   Peace

State of Vermont County of Orange ss. I, the subscriber, Clerk of said County, certify that John W. Smith before whom the above affidavit and Power was sworn and acknowledged on the thirteenth day of February 1857 was at said time a Justice of the Peace in and for said County duly qualified, and that I verily believe his signature above written to be genuine; and I have no interest in the result of the claim to which the foregoing paper relates, and am not concerned in its prosecution. Witness my hand and official seal at Chelsea in said County this Fourteenth day of February 1857
B. Martins  Clerk.
[L.S.]
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Copy
I certify that Jonas Gates is a Brother of mine,  and is an inhabitant of the Town of Barre, in the County of Worcester & Commonwealth of Massachusetts, And that is his place of domicel [domicile], as he has hired my tenement. 
Samuel S Gates
Worcester ss December 26th, 1833 Then the above named Samuel S Gates made oath, to the above certificate by him subscribed Before me.
Nathl Houghton Justice Peace
I, Jonas Gates of Barre in the County of Worcester and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, certify that I am the identical Jonas Gates who enlisted in the Army of the Revolution and the same person named in the discharged signed by H Jackson, B. Genl & certified J L Edwards Commissioner of Pensions
Jonas Gates
Worcester ss December 26th, 1833. Sworn to, the day and year beforesaid by the said Gates
Before me Nathl Houghton Justice Peace
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Boston 1st Feb. 1834  Received dof of Geo W Coffin Land Agent of the Comm'wth of Massachusetts a deed of two hundred acres of land.---  for Jonas Gates
Sam'l Lee
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Jonas
Gates Sergeant, in the American Regiment
being enlisted for three years, is hereby honorably discharged
from the service of the United States.
Given in the State of New York,
the thirtieth day of June 1784.
Signed. H. Jackson B. Genl
By the Generals Command
signed) C. Selden Capt &
Registered in the Books of the Regiment,
Signed ) Charles Selden Adjutant.
I hereby certify that the foregoing is truly copied from the
original in the office of the Commissioner of Pensions-
J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Be it remembered, that James L Edwards who has signed
the foregoing certificate, is commissioner of Pensions, and that
to his attestation full faith and credit are and ought to begiven

. In testimony whereof I have hereunto sub
scribed my name, and caused the seal of the Depart
ment to be affixed, on this twenty eighth day of Nov
ember, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight
hundred and thirty three.
Lewis Cass
Secretary of War
Seal
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts Land Office Boston Sept 3, 1844 
This certifies that the within instrument is a true copy of the original now on the files of this Office. For Geo W Coffin Land Agent
Edwd A Snelling Clerk
James E Harvey
[illegible]
[illegible]
Jonas Gates
[illegible]
Jas E Harvey
[illegible]
Oct 18,'44
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March 10, 1939

Jonas Gates
S. 40885
BA-J/MLB

Mrs. W. R. Westboy
232 Ellsworth Street
Gary, Indiana

Dear Madam:

Reference is made to your letter in which you request information relative to Jonas Gates who, you state, was born July 14, 1766,  served with his father in the Revolutionary War and died January 14, 1866, aged ninety -nine and one half years.
You are furnished herein the record of the only Jonas Gates found in the Revolutionary War records of this office, the data of which were obtained from the papers on file in pension claim, S. 40885, based upon his service in that war.
Jonas Gates was born in Barre, Worcester County, Massachusetts' the date of his birth and names of his parents are not stated.
While residing in Barre, Massachusettss, JOnas Gates enlisted in April, 1781, for the term of three yers, served as sergeant under Captains Trotter, Boardman and Benson, in Colonel Rufus Putnam's Massachusetts regimeny, and was discharged June 30, 1784, by Brigadier General Henry Jackson.
The soldier moved about 1811 to Tunbridge, Orange County, Vermont, where he was residing when he was allowed pension o his application executed April 3, 1818.
In 1820, Jonas Gates was still living in Tunbridge, aged fifty-seven years, and stated that his family consisted of his wife, Anny or Anna, then aged fifty-two years, a son, Alanson Gates aged sixteen years; Oscar Gates aged thirteen years; Moses aged ten years and Arrathusa aged nine years.  In 1823, he referred to his granddaughter, Angelina Gates aged five years, but did not state the names of her parents.
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In 1827, the soldier was a resident of Randolph, Vermont; in the fall of 1833, he was living in Barre, Massachusetts, where he remained a few months, and in 1844, was living in Chelsea, Orange County, Vermont.
In 1811, Jonas Gates' brother, Horatio Gates, was living in Montreal, Province of Lower Canada.  In 1833, another Brother, Samuel S. Gates, was a resident of Barre, Massachusetts.
In 1857, Jonas Gates, while still living in Chelsea, Vermont, stated that he was one of the heirs of Benjamin Gates, Captain in the Massachusetts Line, War of the Revolution, but he did not designate the relationship.  There are no further family data in the claim.
In order to obtain date of last payment of pension, the name and address of the person paid and possibly the date of death of Jonas Gates, you should write to the Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, Records Division, this city, and cite the following data: Jonas Gates, certificate #11233, issued May 30, 1819, rate $8 per month, commenced April 3, 1818, Act March 18, 1818, Vermont Agency.
Very truly yours
A.D. Hiller
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator
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Gates, Jonas
Mass. S40885
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Jonas Gates Sergeant,  in the American Regiment, being inlisted for Three Years, is hereby honourably DISCHARGED from the Sevice of the United States.
Given in the State of New York,
the thirteenth Day of June, 1784
[illegible]
By the Generals Command,
C. Selden, Capt. [illegible]
REGISTERED in the Books of Regiment,
Charles Selden
Adjutant
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No. 358118
Jonas Gates
increase
per
[illegible]
[illegible]
[illegible] to J E Harvey
Aug 10, '44
Same pension Nov. 25, 1844
to W.B. Pierce, March 7, 1845
Act June 7, 37(?)
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I Samuel Austin of Tunbridge in the County of Orange & State of Vermont of Lawful age depose and say that I made out the deed of Jonas Gate to Ammi Dodge saw it signed witnessed it and as a Justice of the Peace took the acknowledgement of the same in due form of Law & had not the least doubt of its being a real sale & transfer - The reason why it was not record at that time must be entirely atributed to the neglect of the purchase as I find that he kept it in his own hands until the latter part of March Last past when he the aforesaid Dodge the purchaser sold the land contained in said deed at which time the deed from Gates to Dodge & the deed from said Dodge to a third person who purchased the same land was presented me as the Town Clerk of Tunbridge aforesaid by the said Ammi Dodge who directed me to record them both I then entered them both on file in my office for record which is the Legal form in this State & by reason of a wound in my right hand they were not entered at length on the Book of Records until after the copy of said deed from Gates to Dodge was called for was the reason of my certifying the copy in the manner in which it now appears in & further the deponent saith
Samuel Austin Justice of the Peace
& Town Clerk of said Tunbridge
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State of Vermont
Grange County
Clarks [illegible]

Chelsea 23d July 1823
When Samuel Austin Signer and Sealer of the foregoing affidavit personall appearance before me H.E. McLaughlen one of the Justices of the peace within and for the County of Grange and made Solemn Oath that the foregoing affidavit by him Subscribes contained the whole Truth and nothing but the Truth and I further Certify that the said Samuel Austin is and was at the Time of the Date of the within mentions Deed a Justice of the peace within and for Grange County acting under the Authority of this State, & that his Signature is in his own handwrite and also certify that the Said Austin is Town Clerk of the Town of Tunbridge. In Tistimony whereof I have hereunto Set my hand and afxited the Seale of Grange County Court the day & year above contained
H.E. McLaughlin J peace and Notary Public
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Know all men by these presents that I
Jonas Gates of Tunbridge in the County of
Orange & State of Vermont for and in consideration of the sum of One hundred and Twenty five dollars to me in hand before the delivery hereof well and truly paid by Ammi Lodge of said Tunbridge the receipt whereof I do hereby acknowledge have given granted bargained sold and by these presents do
give grant bargain will also enforce convey
and confirm unto the said Ammi Dodge his
heirs and assigns forever a certain piece of
Land in Tunbridge aforesaid described as follows (viz) the one equal half of the Easterly half of Lot No 209 it being a part of the same land purchased of Thomas Shepard be the same more or less. To have and to hold the said granted premises with all the privileges and appurtenances to the same belonging to him the said Ammi Lodge and his heirs and
assigns to his and their only proper use and benefit forever. And I the said Jonas Gates and my heirs executors and Administrators do hereby covenant grant and agree to and with the said Dodge and his heirs and assigns that until the delivery hereof I am the lawful owner of the premises and am sacred and possessed thereof in my own right in fee simple and have full power and lawful authority to grant and convey the same in manner aforesaid that the said premises are free and clear of all and
every incumbrance (sic) whatsoever and that I and my heirs executors and administrators shall and will warrant the same to him the said
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Ammi Dodge and his heirs and assigns against the lawful claims and demands of any person or persons whomsoever -
In witness whereof I hereunto set my hand and seal this 6th day of July in the year of our Lord One Thousand eight hundred and Twenty -
Signed Sealed and delivered in presence of us
Electa Austin     Jonas Gates   (LS)
Samuel Austin
-
State of Vermont
Orange County ss
personally appearing the above named Jonas Gates
acknowledged the foregoing Instrument to be his voluntary act and deed
Before me at Tunbridge this 6th day of July AD 1820-
Samuel Austin   Justice of the Peace
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The within & foregoing is a true copy of a deed on file in the Town Clerks Office in Tunbridge-deposited for record-
Mist. Samuel Austin Town Clerk of Tunbridge



Copy of deed of J Gates
to
Ammi Dodge
July 6th 1820
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I Samuel Austin of Tunbridge in the County of Orange & State of Vermont depose & say that I have been intimately acquainted with Mr. Jonas Gates of this Town for about twelve years just when first I became acquainted with him he moved into this town with a large and extensive family was then very poor & destitute of almost any kind of property excepting household furniture for the necessary use of his family.  The reason of my being so particularly knowing to his circumstances I was then a Town Clerk of Tunbridge & knew that a brother of Jonas Gates then a resident in Montreal in the Province of Lower Canada purchased paid for & let [illegible] Jonas Gates tend a certain set of mills in said Tunbridge.  Furthermore continued to know the said Jonas' circumstances by personal acquaintance with the said Horatio Gates & acting as agent for the said Horatio in the business of the premises & made all the records-and to the best of my judgement from the above facts he has constantly been [illegible] but still falling in the war & largely indebted to his brother & others which he is entirely unable to pay whenever he has obtained any property it has been on credit & generally made on debt to pay some other.  He now is at work in grist mill out of this town to obtain a support for his family what property he has possessed has been judiciously appropriated to pay his just debts & the necessary support of his family as far as I have been acquainted from the above knowledge of his situation & further the deponent saith not Chelsea Nov, 26th 1823
Samuel Austin
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State of Vermont
Orange County Clerks Office Nov 26th 1823
There the within named Samuel Austin signer of the within affidavit and who is a credible witness, personally appeared and mad solemn oath that the within affidavit contained the truth.  Before me H.E.G. McLaughlin, Notary Public




Samuel Austin Deposition
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Josiah Dana
Affidavit
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I Josiah Dana of Chelsea in the County of Orange and Stat of Vermont of [illegible] age testify and say that I have for many years been acquainted with Jonas Gates who now resides in Tunbridge in the County aforesaid, that for the last ten or twelve years he has lived in this vicinity and I have been considerably acquainted with his circumstances, and have considered him a poor man, and have never known of his [illegible] property in his own right to any considerable amount; he has always been in embarrassed circumstances, has for many years had a large and [illegible] family.  I do not beleive he has ever disposed of any property fraudulently for the purpose of obtaining his pension.
I have ever considered him a poor but honest man whose character stands unimpeached (as far as I know) as to the truth & [illegible] and further your deposement saith not.
Josiah Dana

State of Vermont
Orange County Clerks Office November 26th 1823
Then the above named Josiah Dana signer of the above affidavit (who is a credible witness), personally appeared and made solemn oath that the foregoing affidavit contained the truth and nothing but the truth, before me, 
H.E. G. McLaughlin Notary Public
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free
Hon James Barbour
Secretary of War
City of Washington


Pension Office
May 28th 1827
Jonas Gates
Vt.
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Randolph Vt. May 17, 

Hon James Barbour
Secretary of War

In reply to my letter of the 16th ultimo relative to the claim of Jonas Gates for a Pension
an answer has been returned signed J. L. Edwards in which it is stated "that no decision can be had until the papers shall have been authenticated according to the regulations of this Department. Such as require the proper authentication are herewith returned. The Certificate of the Notary Public should
be united with the papers it is intended to validate by a piece of ribband on the ends of which the seal should be placed."
The papers returned as aforesaid were sent to H. E. G. McLaughlin Clerk of the Supr County Courts & Notary Public. He has complied with Mr. Edwards directions-- & also states in his letter in reply "that he was never required to authenticate papers in that mode until 1825."-- previous to which time the papers had been
regularly forwarded to the Pension Office.

I have therefore Respectfully to beg the attention of the Department to the facts in this case as Mr. J. Gates has been prevented from obtaining his Pension from Feb. 23. 1824
(the time of the completion of the Testimony) until the present moment from reasons to him 
unknown-
Respectfully Yr obdt. Servant
Geo. Chase
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H.E.G. McLaughlin
Certified as Notary
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I John Stearns of Chelsea in the County of
Orange & State of Vermont of lawful age depose and say that I am one of the firm of Dana & Stearns & further state that Dec 27th 1819 Jonas Gates was indebted to Dana & Sterns for goods wares & merchandise the sum of $29.95 which sd sum he has since paid
He has likewise had of us good to the amount
of six dollars 94 cents for which he paid in
money Oct'r 2d- 1822 - and further saith
not Chelsea Jany 27th 1824
--John Stearns

State of Vermont}
Orange County ss}
At Chelsea Jany 27th AD 1824 personally
appeared John Stearns & made Solemn oath to the foregoing deposition
Attest Samuel Austin   Justice Peace
State of Vermont
Orange County Clerks Office February
23d 1824  I, H E G McLaughlin Clerk of
Orange County Court hereby certify that Samuel Austin Esq of Tunbridge in said Orange County before whom the accompanying affidavits of Elish Williams, J H Harris, Thomas Winslow, Nathan Nayes Jr, John Steams,
William Hutchins, J C Hall, Benjamin Hall,
William Alexander Jr, Luis Hale and Ammi Dodge were taken is a Justice of the peace within and for the County of Orange an acting
under the authority of this State and that the signatures to the several certificate is in his own hand writing-
Attest H. E. G McLaughlin Clerk & Notary
Public
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Samuel Austin
Certified as a
Justice of Peace
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I Jedadiah H. Harris of Strafford in the
County of Orange & State of Vermont of
lawful age depose & say that Jonas Gates of
Tunbridge in sd County of Orange paid me some time in the latter part of the year AD 1822 a debt of about ten dollars for which I then held his note of hand of a previous date & further saith not
Strafford January 9. 1824
--J. H. Harris

State of Vermont ⎬
Orange County ⎬ 
 At Strafford on the 9th day of Jany AD 1824
J. H. Harris Personally appeared & made solemn oath to the foregoing deposition by him subscribed
Before me
Attest Samuel Austin   Justice Peace

State of Vermont ⎬
Orange County ss}

Be it remembered that J. H. Harris of Strafford Thomas Winslow, Nathan Hayes Jr &
John Sterns of Chelsea William Hutchins
Jonathan C Hall Benjamin Hall
William Alexander Jr Luis Hall &
Ammi Dodge of Tunbridge are all of them
good & credible witnesses & are the same
persons sworn before me in the case of
Jonas Gates an applicant for a pension
Attest Samuel Austin   Justice Peace
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I William Alexander Jr of Tunbridge in the
County of Orange & State of Vermont
depose & say that Jonas Gates of Tunbridge aforesd paid me sometime in the month of May AD 1822 about fifteen dollars for which he was previously indebted to me & further saith not
--William Alexander Jr
Tunbridge Jany 15 1824

I Luis Hale of Tunbridge in the County of Orange & State of Vermont depose and say that Jonas Gates of sd Tunbridge paid me some time in the month of May A.D. 1822 about Eleven dollars for which sum he was previously indebted to me & further saith not
Tunbridge Jany 15th 1824
--Luis Hale

State of Vermont ⎬ 
Orange County ss}
At Tunbridge Jany 15th AD 1824
William Alexander Jr & Luis Hale & made solemn oath to the foregoing depositions as by them individually subscribed
Before me
Attest Samuel Austin    Justice Peace
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I Elisha Williams of Chelsea in the County
of Orange & State of Vermont of lawful age
depose & say that in deal with Jonas Gates of
Tunbridge he gave me a note for about seventy nine dollars the exact date I have forgotten but the whole of sd note I received The pay & closed a final settlement of the same in 1821 & the full amount that I received princple & Interest was consisting of Eighty dollars some part I rec'd in Neat Cattle that I then understood came from Andrew Bennet
who was owe by sd Gates some he paid me
in store pay or goods out of Philip Websters
Store &c-- But the whole amount I have rec'd
in full from sd Gates
Tunbridge Feb 21st 1824-
--Elisha Williams
State of Vermont ⎬ 
Orange County ss}
Personally appeared Elisha Williams & made
solemn oath to the truth of the above
deposition by him subscribed-
Before me
Samuel Austin    Justice Peace

N B The above named Elisha Williams
is a man of integrity & a good & credible
Witness-
Attest Samuel Austin   Justice Peace
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I Nathan Hayes Jr of Chelsea in the County of Orange & State of Vermont of lawful age depose & say that Jonas Gates of Tunbridge in Orange County paid me about Sixty dollars in Neat Cattle which Cattle sd Gates Received from Ammi Dodge in part payment for a
piece of land he sold sd Dodge I Need s
pay in consequence of a debt I paid for sd
Gates two years previous to the time of receiving sd Cattle which was in October
AD 1822 - further the deponent saith not-
Tunbridge Jany 10th 1824
--Nathan Hayes Jr.
State of Vermont}
Orange County ss}
At Tunbridge  Feb'y 10th  A D 1824 
Nathan Hayes Jr personally appeared before me & made Solemn oath to the foregoing deposition by him subscribed
Attest Samuel Austin    Justice Peace
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I Benjamin Hall of Tunbridge in the County
of Orange & State of Vermont depose & say
that in October AD 1820 Jonas Gates let me
have a demand against one Andrew Bennet
Jr. for about $80.00 - payable in neat cattle
at the appraisal of men on the note was
not considered equal to money I then held a
note against sd Gates that had been sometime due for money for about $65.00 which note I had of him when reduced to money did not quite pay the note held against him further more the sd Gates
is at this time indebted to me about Eight dollars for articles for his family use & further saith not
Tunbridge Jany 15th 1824
--Benj'n Hall

State of Vermont
Orange County ⎬  At Tunbridge Jany 15
 AD 1824 
Benjamin Hill Personally appeared before me & made oath to the foregoing deposition by him subscribed
Attest Samuel Austin   Justice Peace
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Jonathan Chase Hall of Tunbridge in the County of Orange and State of Vermont depose & say that James Gates of said Tunbridge on the 30th day of October
A.D. 1820 sold to the Firm of JC & B Hall a note against Thomas Shepherd amounting to $64.45 including interest on said note, for said note he received his own note we held against him viz one dated April 10th 1819 given for
ballance (sic) of Book accounts to J C Hall amounting to $18,37 including interest
one other note dated Feb'y16th1820 given for ballance of Book accounts to JC & B Hall
amounting to $47.43 including Interest, the said Gates is now indebted to  JC & B Hall
on note dated April 27th 1821 for the sum of $8.86 with interest which said note was given to the firm of jc & B Hall & has since become my property. I further state that I am the person alluded to in said Gates Schedule July 1820 & was one of the firm of JC & B  Hall and
further saith not.
Tunbridge Jan'y 13th 1824
--Jon'a C. Hall
the
State of Vermont ⎬ At Tunbridge Jany 13-1824
Orange County    }
personally appeared Jonathan C. Hall and made solemn oath to the foregoing deposition by him subscribed
Before me
Attest Samuel Austin   Justice Peace
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I Ammi Dodge of Tunbridge in the County of Orange & State of Vermont of lawful age depose and say that the deed executed to me by Jonas Gates of sd Tunbridge was a bon fide purchase & the only reason why I did not have a deed with the Town Clerk for Record until last March it was a mere neglect of my own-- And that I give him for sd land one hundred & twenty five dollars payable in neat stock which
I chose to do rather that pay $100 in money
which was easier for me to perform And that I did actually buy the cattle and saw to my satisfaction that the sd Cattle went immedially (sic) to pay sd Gates Creditors & further saith not
Tunbridge Jany 30th 1824 -
--Ammi Dodge

State of Vermont ⎬ Tunbridge Jany 30th
Orange County SS}  AD 1824
personally appeared Ammi Dodge & made solemn oath to the above deposition
Before me
Attest Samuel Austin Justice Peace
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I Thomas Winslow of Chelsea in the County
of Orange & State of Vermont depose & say that Jonas Gates paid me about Eight dollars in neat Stock October AD 1822 that he was indebted to me for doctoring his family previous to that time further more I at that time understood that sd Gates and the stock he let me have of Ammi Dodge towards a piece of land he sold sd Dodge & further saith not-
--Thomas Winslow   Chelsea Jany 27-1824

State of Vermont ⎬ At Chelsea Jany 27th 1824
Orange County    }ss.  
Personally appeared
Thomas Winslow & made Solemn oath to the foregoing deposition
Before ma attest Samuel Austin Justice Peace


I William Hutchins of Tunbridge in the
county of Orange & State of Vermont of lawful
age depose & say that Jonas Gates of sd Tunbridge paid me on the first day of October
1821. Twenty six dollars in neat cattle sd cattle
came directly from Ammi Dodge as I understand  in payment for lands Gates sold to Dodge & I knew sd  Stack on a note sd Gates executed to me on the 3d of October AD
1820 & further saith not-
--William Hutchins
State of Vermont}
Orange County ⎬ ss.
At Tunbridge on this 3d day of February AD 1824 William Hutchins personally appeared 
and made solemn oath to the for deposition by him subscribed
Before me
Attest Samuel Austin       Justice Peace
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Randolph Vt
Sept 21 -             free

To the Honorable
James Barbour
Secretary of War
City of Washington

Pension Office April 30th 1827
Rec'd 30 April. 1827
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Randolph Vt. April 16. 1827
To the Honorable
The Secretary of War
Sir
I beg leave respectfully to solicit your attention to the following statement relative to the application of Jonas Gates of Tunbridge Vt but now residing in Randolph Vt for a pension under the act of Congress of 1818 & 1st of May 1820. granting Pension to those who had served in the Revolutionary Army & were in need of the assistance of their country for support. The case of Mr Gates has been delayed for so great a length of time in consequence of the objections created by your predecessor in office or by his clerks, that it has been a subject of general observation
among the people, & will perhaps require a more detailed statement than can at present be made, owing to the fact that the papers last transmitted to your office, to which reference ought to be made, still remain there unexamined, or certainly without reply. It is to solicit an examination of the papers last sent on, & if they should be found insufficient to request that directions for the method to be pursued to obtain Mr. Gates restoration to the Pension List, that the present letter is written.
From the papers in Mr. Gates possession the following facts may be obtained

1. Is Jonas Gates (Sergant) Certificate dated 30th May 1819 N° 11.233.
2. Is copy of the Schedule of the property of the sd Gates Sworn to before Orange County Court July 4. 1820. from which the following results appear.
Jonas Gate's property in possession - $175.
Due to the Sd Gates __________________  190
                                                  Total - 365
Due from the Sd Gates   $739.
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3. Is a Letter from J. L. Edwards informing the sd  his name is stricken from the Pension List dated Oct. 21. 1820.
4. It appears from the replies of James L. Edwards under date of the 9th July 1821 & Apl 9th 1823 that application had been made
by the sd Gates to the War Office to ascertain the reason of his discontinuance & of the method to be adopted to obtain a reinstatement to the Pension Roll. In the reply of Mr Edwards under date of April 9th 1823 it appears " that the papers transmitted
by you in support of your claim to a restoration to the Pension Roll have been examined & found insufficient." Enclosed at
the same time was a blank form for Mr Gates' future guidance in making out a new set of papers.
5. Is a Copy of Mr Gates' new schedule dated 10th day of June 1823. before Orange
County Court being a Court of Record from
which the following statements appear - that the land mentioned in first schedule appraised at 80 dollars had been sold bonafide & the avails applied to discharge a part of his the said Gates debts- that the debts due to the sd Gates amounting to 190 dolls. had been collected & applied to the payment of his just debts, leaving still due from the sd Gates to sundry persons about 500 dolls. that the whole amount of the sd Gates property in possession or in expectancy was 80. dolls being part of the same personal property as appraised by Samuel Austin Esq on the first schedule
mentioned in this letter under No 2.-
that the sd Jonas Gates was employed as a miller being unable to bear the fatigue of
labouring on a farm although brought up a farmer-- that he had a wife & a grandchild dependent on him for support - & that his
oldest son then 18 years of age was subject to fits & unable to render him much assistance. These were the principal facts stated
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in the last mentioned Schedule on which Mr. Gates relied for obtaining his restoration to the Pension Roll
I am informed however by him that the Clerk at the Pension Office required further proof relative to the disposition of the land mentioned in the first schedule & of the money collected from those who owed him. To remove every doubt Mr. Gates, I am informed, obtained 12 or 13 depositions from some of the most credible people in the vicinity stating the facts as they knew them to be relative to the disposal of his property & exculpating Mr. Gates from any suspicion that might have been indulged in at the Pension Office. These depositions were regularly forwarded to the War Dept but no answer has been returned.
.
This therefore, to obtain a revision of the proceedings in this case & particularly an examination of the depositions last mentioned
that the present letter is addressed to you in remain
I have the honor to be
Respectfully your obt Servant
George Chase
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the certificate asked for
in this case was forw'd 
on the 4th Dec 1833 

Copy the discharge
for Mr Smith
Chelsea Vt Nov 21 free

Lewis Cass. Sec'y. War
City of Washington,
 D.C

Wants the discharge 
or whatever on file 
or a copy
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Hon Lewis Cass,  Sec'y War
Sir
A law was recently passed in Massachusetts entitling certain Revolutionary soldiers to bounty Lands in Massachusetts
on making proof at the Land Agents Office
in said State and the time limited for application for these bounty lands is short--
Mr Jonas Gates of Tunbridge, Orange County V.T. requests me to make application to the war department for his original discharge which was transmitted to the department soon
after the passage of the pension law of 1818, as proof of Service. Mr Gates is on the pension List under that law-
He wishes to avail himself of the benefit
of the late law of Massachusetts and
therefore requests you to send to me the
Original Discharge or a certified copy of
Org. Discharge if the Original cannot be sent
Whether the original or copy is sent he
wishes to use it as evidence of his three years
service in the Revolutionary Army
Chelsea Vt. Nov.} 
22d AD 1833}
Resp. Sir your Obt Servt
John W. Smith
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Jonas Gates
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office Sept 3 1844
I hereby Certify, That, from an examination of the Books and Documents, relating to Military Services in the War of the Revolution, which remain in this Department, it appears that the
name of Jonas Gates cannot be found upon any rolls or documents in this Office

In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written.
John G. Palfrey,
Secretary of the Commonwealth.
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Pension Office,
August 16th 1844.
Sir,
The papers in the case of Jonas Gates, claiming an increase under the Act of June 7th, 1832,
for services rendered as a Sergeant, he having been heretofore a pensioner under the act of March 18th, 1818, have been examined and filed.
There are no rolls in this Office shewing the service to which Jonas Gates has reference. Application should be made at the Office of the Secretary of Massachusetts, or recourse had to the Town records to ascertain the alleged service, and a Certificate thereof sent to this Office
I am, Sir,
Very respectfully,
Your Obt Servant.
J. L. Edwards

James E. Harvey, Esq
Present.
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[illegible] 14 July 1820.
land ------------------------------- 80.00
personatley ----------------------- 95.00
                                                  $175.00
Debt owing to him. ------------- 190.00
                                                    365.00
owes $739
2 Decr 1820 -
10 Sheep & --------------------- $62.00
---
Decrease not accounted for.
3d Schedule 11 June 1823
personal property -------------- $80.00
land sold to Dodge deed exhibited
for $120; and pd in in neat stock
which discharged dets to the amt of $80.
$190 collected and paid away -
letter of July 3. 1823, required the reason why the
deed to Dodge had not been recorded & reason given in Aurtins (Town Clerk) Deposition
letter of Sept 5. 1823. required the authentication evidence of his creditors - Evidence offered, last date 23d Febry 1824.
Amt of affidavit - $275
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Elisha Williams pd in cattle & ------------- 80.
Jona C. Hall, book account ---------------- 47.43
Wm Alexander ----------------------------- 15.00.
Lewis Hall ---------------------------------- 11.00.
Benjn Hall, articles for family --------------- 8. 00
J H. Harris, a note of hand ---------------- 10. 00
N. Noyes Jr note -------------------------- 60. 00
Jonas Winslow ------------------------------ 8.00.
John Stearns, goods ---------------------- 36. 00
                                                               $275 43
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Mar 13 45
rect for
Jonas Gates pen cert
file
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Albany N.Y.
March 10. 1845.
Sir
I have received the pension certificate of Jonas Gates of Vermont under the Act of March 18. 1818 returned to me agruably to my request that he might draw his semi annual pension.
I am Sir
Very Respectfully
Hon
Your Obt svt
Wm B. Pierce
Hon J L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
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[horizontal text]
Mar 1, 1845.
Jonas Gates.
(increase)
Jonas Gates
N. York 1878

[vertical text on left]
W. B. Pierce
clerk
March 7, 1845.

[vertical text on right]
Hon. J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington
D.C.
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Albany N.Y.
February 27. 1845
Sir
Jonas Gates of Vermont, applied for increase of pension on account of his service as Sergeant.
He received $96 per annum under the Act of March 18. 1818 & he has applied for increase under the Act of June 7, 1832. Not being at present able to prove his Service as Sergeant he requests that his pension certificate under the
Act of March 18 1818 may be returned. This certificate I sent with his papers. He is poor and
wishes to draw his usual stipend on the 4th of
March.
I am Sir
Very Respectfully
your Onpes
Wm B. Pierce
-
Hon J L. Edwards
Com of Pensions
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[left side of page]
stock, with which he paid debts,
exchanged old mare for a horse,
since lost, swine made use of
in family. - debts due from
sundry persons collected and
paid to creditors.
Claimant aged 59, Farmer,
lame arm, cannot labor much
Wife 54, very infirm 3 sons
18, 16 & 14, Daughter 12 years,
a grandchild aged 5 years
see letter 5 Septr. 1823, to
H. E. G. McLaughlin,
Williamston
Vt
4th Sept. 1819.

[right side of page]
Vermont.
Jonas Gates, Sergeant
Served 2 years, from 1781,
1st Schedule, dated 4th July 1820,
Real Estate
A small tract of land appraised
at,       $80. -
Personal property,
1 lame mare 1 cow 6 small
swine 10 sheep, 2 tables, 7 chairs
etc. ----------------   $175. -
Debts due ------------190. -
                                  $445. -
Owes ---------------- $739. -

Schedule under Act 1st of Mar
1823, dated 11th June, 1823,
no Real Estate
Personal property,
Cow, hogs and sheep, ------- $40. -
Household and Kitchen
furniture, --------------------- $40. -
                                               $80
Accounts for decrease of property
by sale of land to Ahmni Dodge
for $125, Authenticated copy of
deed to Dodge exhibited, dated
July 6th 1820 recd payment in neat
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[left side of page]
Nothing said, in 2d
Schedule, about
the Land & exhibited
in 1st Schedule
Lend Regt.
Regulations Sent
April 9th 1823.
[right side of page]
VERMONT
Jonas Gates, Sergeant
2 yr for '81
Hirage 59 - Farmer
lame arm - cannot labor
much - Wife 54 - very infirm
Two sons 16 & 13 - A Daughter - 9 -
Schedule July 1820 -
Land appraised at $80
1 lame mare, 1 cow.
6 Hogs - 10 Sheep.
Debts due are $190
Total amt of Schedule $365
I am owing to divers persons,
(name not given) $739
application for restoration
July 1821
2d Schedule Dev 1820 -
1 cow - 10 Sheep and a few articles
of furniture - Total $62
H. E. G. McLaughlin, Williamstown Vert.
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Jonas Gates, S. 40885
Noah Deman, W. 10711
BA - J/MMHF: MLB           October 19, 1934

Miss Mary W. Ellis
18 Harvard Street
Springfield, Vermont
Dear Madam:

Reference is made to your letter in which you request the date of death of the last Revolutionary War soldier in Vermont, also,
date of death of last widow in Vermont of a soldier of that war.
This office has a record only of those Revolutionary War soldiers and widows who made applications to the United States for
pension and bounty land based upon service in that war.
The Revolutionary War records of this office show that Jonas Gates was living as late as 1864 in Vermont. In 1857, he was aged about ninety-three years and his residence was in Chelsea, Orange County, Vermont. The record of no other Revolutionary War pensioner
of Vermont has been found of a later date. In order to obtain the date of his death, the name and address of the person to whom the
last payment of pension was made, you should address the Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, this city, and cite the following:

Jonas Gates
Certificate 11233
Issued May 30, 1819
Commenced April 3, 1818
Act of March 18, 1818
Vermont Agency

In regard to Esther Daman, or Damon, widow of Noah, she died November 11, 1906, at Plymouth, Vermont, and was the last pensioned widow of a Revolutionary War soldier of any state.
Very truly yours

A. D. HILLER
Assistant to Administrator 

(NOTE: "Thoms" a search in the Gen. Acct. Off.-Searched his files and said death files. Jonas Gates was the last VT. Rev. War sol. on Pen. List for VT. agency and that he died Jan. 14, 1864
our records show that he was advised of increase of Pen. in April 1864, therefore I only used the year in this letter & referred to Gen. Acct. Off.- - for death)
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Gary, Ind.
Jan. 31, 1939.

Veterans Administration,
Washington D.C.

Dear Sirs
I am seeking information about - Jonas Gates B. July 14, 1766 D. Jan. 14, 1866 -99 1/2 yrs. who served with his father in the Revolutionary War. Last pensioner on Vermont rolls. I would like his pension number. To whom he was married and the name of his children.
My mother says this is my Great Great Grandfather but we have no definite records.

(note: we have only one name in files )
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If you can help me on this I would be so thankful.
Thank You,

Mrs. W. R. Westbay
232 Ellsworth St.
Gary, Indiana
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(Date &  Time Stamp)

3:45
Received
Sep 25 1984
(Illegible)
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Miss Mary W. Ellis
12 HARVARD STREET
SPRINGFIELD, VT.
Sept. 22, 1934

Pension Bureau
Washington, D.C.

Dear Sirs: -- The Vermont Chapter D. A. R. 
is trying to prove the date of the death of the
last Revolutionary Soldier in the State and also
the last Soldier's widow's death. So far the
latest date for a Soldier that I have is that of
Nathan Lounsberry who died in Rutland April 26, 1857. I have been told that Esther Damon who died in Plymouth November 11, 1906 was the last pensioned widow,
Can you help me from your records?
Thank you.
Mary W. Ellis
Chairman of Preservation
of Historic Spots.
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18 1899
No B Argon

405 Vistula Ave., South Bend
Indiana, Mar 13, 1899,

Mr. Clay Evans
Com. of Pensions, Pension Office
Wash D.C.
Dear sir
Will you kindly send me a certificate of the services of Benjamin and Jonas Gates, soldiers in the Revolutionary War. I think they enlisted in Massachusetts, yet it is barely possible
that they enlisted from Vermont.
A news paper article printed July 1893 in Orange Co. Tunbridge Vermont, says
Captain Jonas Gates - at the age of fourteen
entered the patriotic army of 1776-1783
with his father Benjamin Gates of Barre
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Massachusetts. His first service was as a
drummer boy and as servant for his father. When seventeen he enlisted as a private, and was discharged at the close of the Revolution as first Sergeant. In 1812 he was commissioned 
as a lieutenant and was for some time a recruiting officer. He died Jan 1864, aged ninety nine years six months and twelve days, and is said to have been the last Revolutionary soldier living in the state-
Can you corroborate the above and add anything to it, or correct it in anyway? He is my great grandfather and I am very anxious to know every item of any kind about his life, even as to where he was born and all about his life as a soldier, in what regiment, company
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and what battles he fought, and under what general,.
I wrote to my grandfather, his son, and he said that Jonas Gates drew a pension of ninety
dollars a year, and I believe, had a grant of land given him in Maine. Would that grant be
good now, if he never went to claim it?
Did Benjamin Pates draw a pension? Can you tell me where he was born and all about him ? for anything about him? When he was born? when he died; and under general he fought.
I wrote to the Record and Pension Bureau and they sent me a record of four Benjamin Gateses I am at a loss to know which is the one that is my great, great grandfather, or whether any of them are. Can you help me in that? They also say that the name Jonas Gates is not found on the rolls, as a Revolutionary soldier, nor as a soldier of 1812. That surely is a mistake for he has a number of relatives living who can testify to the fact that
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he drew a pension
If you will send me the certificate of the services of these two men and any other information that your records give, with the number of the volume and its page I shall be most thankful to you.
Yours very respectfully
(Miss) Elizabeth Skinner
405 Vistula Ave.
South Bend
Indiana.

(Date Stamp)
MAR 16 1899
U. S. Pension Office
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Indiana
1934 Oct. 19 - Miss Mary W. Ellis
add last pension of this sol.
V.F located - MNR
1939 Mar 10 - Hist to Mrs. WR Westbay  MFB
___________________________________________
40855
Revy  INVALID.
File No. 40.885
Jonas Gates
Serg  Rev War

______________________________________
Act : 18th March 1818
Index: -- Vol. 3, Page 186
[Arrangement of 1870.]
__________________________________
Oct 9'99
Miss E Skinner
So Bend,
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official certif: of J. Gates forwarded to J. W.
Smith on the 4 Decr 33
see letter within at
Chelsea Vt Let to Windsor
agt. Sept 17. 1836
Date of death not on AB
___________________________
Cpy to O. inclus 11,233
Vermont
Jonas Gates
of Orange in the State of Vermont
who was a Sergeant in the company commanded by Captain Trotter of the Regiment commanded by Colonel Putnam in the Massachusetts line, for the term of 2 years and 4 months from March 1781 to July 17 1783.
Inscribed on the Roll of Vermont at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 3d day of April 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 30th of May 1818 and sent to Josiah Dana Esquire
Chelsea Vermont
Restored to the Roll on the 29 day of May
1827 and notification sent to George Chase
at Randolph Vermont Pension commencing
on the 23d of February 1828
Amount due on 4th of
Septem'r 1827  $338, 74
{Revolutionary Claims
{Acts March 18, 1818
{and May 1, 1820.
1 March 1827
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of Jonas Gates 35818
Application for Increase of Pension
Act June 7, 1832
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Declaration
In order to obtain Increase of pension under the act of June 7, 1832

State of Vermont   }
County of Orange ⎬ ss
on this Third day of July A.D. 1844. personally appeared before the undersigned a Justice
of the Peace in & for said County Jonas Gates
resident of the town of Chelsea in said County of Orange and State of Vermont who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain Increase of pension under the act of June 7, 1832
That he this Declarant is now a pensioner of the United States under the Act of March 18th 1818 receiving the sum of $96. per annum under said act. That he considers himself entitled to a larger sum than $96- per annum he having served for a time of time as a Sargeant, in the Regiment of Colonel Putnam
& company of Captain Benson the
particulars of which service were set forth by this Declarant in the matter of his original application for pension under said act of March 18th 1818-
--Jonas Gates
Subscribed & Sworn the day & year first above written before me & I certify that said Jonas Gates is personally known to me as a pensioner under the act of March 18th 1818 agreeable to his above declaration
--John W. Smith Justice of the Peace
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STATE OF VERMONT,}
Orange County,...ss.  }    
 I, J.M. Gilson Deputy Clerk of the County Court of the County of Orange in the State of Vermont, do hereby certify that John W. Smith
is an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said county, duly commissioned and qualified; that his commission was dated on the first day of December in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty three and will expire the thirtieth day of November next, and that his signature to the above declaration
is genuine.
Given under my signature and the seal of said County Court, this 3d day of July A.D. 1844
--Jas M. Gilson D. Clerk
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I James Gates of Chelsea in the County of
Orange and State of Vermont. A revolutionary pensioner of the United States under the
act of March 1818, depose and say that I am the same James Gates who was a Sargent in the American Regiment and had a discharge, as a three years were signed by H Jackson B. General which is now at the war department-
Barre (Mass) was my native place & in
December 1833. I went with my wife to Barre Mass to reside a few months in order to get my two hundred acres of Land under the laws of Mass. and remained there untill February following & obtained my land & then returned again to Chelsea where I before & since have
lived-- I have always drawn my pension
in Chelsea & Tunbridge There was no other person of my name in the American Regiment-
---Jonas Gates
Witness J.W. Smith

Sworn to & Subscribed the 9th day of October
AD 1844 before me
--John W. Smith Justice of the Peace
I also certify that said James Gates is well known to me & that the word Jackson was written on an (Illegible).
--John W. Smith Justice of the Peace
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Jonas Gates
Application for Increase of Pension.
Act June 7, 1832.

________________________________
95
Wm. B. Pierce Esq
City of Albany
N. York
Page 77

I John W Smith of Chelsea in Orange County
& State of Vermont of lawful age depose
say that I am well acquainted with
John Gates of Chelsea within named and am 
well acquainted with the facts as stated by
him in his affidavit, he has lived within Chelsea & Tunbridge Vermont - since he drew a pension except a few months [illegible] in the fall of 1833-4. In order to obtain his County Land two hundred Acres which he did obtain -- he his a man of Good Character and undoubted integrity-
John W Smith
Sworn to and subscribed this 9th day of
October 1844 before me & I further certify that the sd Smith is well known to me as a Credible person & a magistrate
Calvin Blodgett Justice Peace
genuine.
Given under my hand and the seal of said County Court, this Ninth day of October A. D. 1844
Calvin Blodgett Clerk.
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STATE OF VERMONT, } 
Orange County ss.     }
I Calvin Blodgett Clerk of the County Court of the County of Orange in the State of Vermont, do hereby certify that John W Smith Esqr & Calvin Blodgett are each acting Justices of the Peace in and for said county, duly commissioned and qualified; that the commissions were dated on the first day of December in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty three
and will expire the thirtieth day of November next, and that the signature hereto affixed are
genuine.
Given under my hand and the seal of said County Court, this ninth day of October
A. D. 1844
Calvin Blodgett Clerk.
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141
Jonas Gates 9
Declaration and Schedule __ Copy
Page 80

STATE OF VERMONT.} 
Orange County         }

On this 28 day of December 1820, personally
appeared in open Court, being a Court of record for said County of Orange Jonas Gates-
aged 57 years, resident in Tunbridge in the County of Orange who being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on his oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary war as follows: I enlisted in 1781 for the Term of three years in Capt Trotters Company was afterwards transfered to Capt Boardman's Company in Conol (sic) Pitman's Regiment in the Massachusetts line- That he made his originall (sic) declaration on the third day of April AD 1818 and has received a pension certificate No 11233
And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the eighteenth 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, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen; and that I have not nor has any
person in trust 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,
That is to say: --one cow _______________$10.00
ten Sheep ______________________________ $10.00
2 Tables $5 Seven Chairs $7 Brass Kettle $8, 
__________________________________________$20.00
Iron ware $3 chests & Trunks $3 Casks &c 
$10 _______________________________________16.00
Crockery, knives forks &c _________________5.00
Pewter _____________________________________1.00
-------------------------Amounting to    $62.00

And the said Jonas Gales further declareth and saith that he is, by occupation a Farmer
but on account of a lame arm am unable to labour much - my wife Anny is 52 years old in poor health, son Alanson aged 16 years is lame, Oseen aged 13 years & Moses 10
years old weakly- Arrathusa aged nine in tolerable health
Sworn to and declared on the 28 day of December one thousand eight hundred
and twenty-
Signed Jonas Gates

Before said Court H E McLaughlin Clerk of O. C. Court

I H.E.M. McLaughlin Clerk of the County court, within and for the County of Orange do hereby certify that the foregoing Declaration and that the Schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the record of the said court; and I further certify, that it is the opinion of the said court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is Sixty two
dollars, and ___cents.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said court, on this 28 day of December one thousand eight hundred and twenty
H.E.M. McLaughlin Clerk of the County Court for the County of Orange
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64 Jonas Gates
Declaration & Schedules

11.233
Sep 1829
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STATE OF VERMONT,
Orange County, ss. ⎬
On this 4 day of July 1820
personally appeared before the County 
court for said county of Orange in open court,
(said court being a court of record, agreeably to the laws of this state, having the power of fine and imprisonment, &c. ) Jonas Gates aged 57 years, resident in Tunbridge in said county of Orange who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth, on his oath declare, that he served in the revolutionary war, as follows:  I enlisted in 1781 for the Term of three years in Capt Trattus Company afterwards transferred to Capt Boardmans Company in Conl (sic) Rufus Putnam Regiment in the Massachusetts line that he made his original declaration on the third day of April
1818 has received a Pension Certificate, No. 11233 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 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. A small Tract of Land
appraised at $80- one lame mare, one Cow, 6 small swine, 10 Sheep, two Tables, 7 Chairs 1 Brass Kettle a number of articles of Rifure (sic) Iron ware $3 old chests & trunks $3. Barrels & Casks Tubs &tc $10 - Crockery & Glassware &
knives and forks $5. Pewter $1 all amounting to the Sum of $175  Debts Due me $190 amounting to $365 and I am owing to divers person the sums $739
my family consists of my self and Wife Anna Gates aged 52 very weakly and infirm Lanson Gates 16 years of age (Illegible)-- Oscar Gates 13 Moses 10 weakly Arathusa nine years old
Signed Jonas Gates
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Sworn to and declared on the before said court.    4 day of July 1820
H. E. G. McLaughlin  Clerk

STATE OF VERMONT,}
Orange County,}        ss.
this
I, H. E. G. McLaughlin  Clerk of the County court for the county of Orange do hereby certify, that the foregoing oath, and the schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the record of the said court:--And I do further certify, that it is the opinion of the said
court, that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is three hundred Sixty five dollars.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of said court, at Chelsea this 4 day of July 1820
H. E. G  McLaughlin Clk