Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S.45,607, Jonathan Bosworth, Continental (R. I.)

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SERVICE
Continental (R. I. )

Bosworth, Jonathan

NUMBER
S. 45,607

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New Hampshire
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Jonathan Bosworth
of Sullivan Co. in the state of N. Hampshire
who was a private in the company commanded by Captain Kimball of the Regiment commanded by Colonel Hitchcock in the R. Island line, for the term of one year.
from April  1 1776 to January 31 1777
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Inscribed on the roll of New Hampshire 
at the rate of eight Dollars per month, to commence on the 23" day of Dec. 1830
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Certificate of Pension issued the 24 of December 1830 and sent to Hon. H. Hubbard, House of Reps
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Arrears to 4th of March 1830  $19.35
Semi-anu'l all'ce ending  
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$19.35

{Revolutionary Claim,}
{Acts March 18, 1818,}
and May 1, 1820.}

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Jonathan Bosworth



See and [illegible] on the
destination in the case of
Johnathan Louger

(same in this case)

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STATE OF NEW
HAMPSHIRE.
Grafton SS.
On this
first
day of May
1818, before me the
subscriber, one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas for the second
District in said State comprising the county of Grafton
personally appears Jonathan Bosworth a citizen of the
United States
aged about 65 years, resident in En[illegible]
in the said State, who being by me first duly sworn according to
law, doth, on his oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the provision made
by the late 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:"" That he the
said Jonathan Bosworth enlisted in the year 1776 as a private
Soldier
in the Rhode Island line
in the company commanded by Captain Kimball
of the regiment
commanded by Col. Hitchcock for the term of one year
that he continued to serve in the said corps, or in the service of the United States,
until the expiration of said term of one year
when he was discharged from service in Morristown
State of New Jersey
that he was in the battles of
White Plains, Bordentown Trenton & Princeton
and
that he is in reduced circumstances, and stands in need of the assistance of his country for
support; and that he has no other evidence now in his power of his said services.
Sworn to and declared before me, the day and year aforesaid.
Wm H. Woodward
I Wm H. Woodward Judge of the Court of Common Pleas
as aforesaid, do certify, that it appears to my satisfaction, that the said Jonathan
Bosworth
did serve in the revolutionary war, as stated in the preceding declaration, against the common enemy and from his reduced circumstances needs his country's assistance for support and I now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me, to
the Secretary for the Department of War, pursuant to the directions of the aforementioned
act of Congress. Witness my hand & the seal of said
Court, no particular impression being issue therefore the day and year first before written
Wm H. Woodward

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21.172

Jona. Bosworth's
application for
Pension.
Jany 21, 1830

Hon. H. Hubbard H. R.
rec'd Dec. 13. 1830

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Original Claim

Declaration in order to be placed on the Pension list under the act of the 18th March 1818__

County of Sullivan  ss.

On this twenty first day of January 1830 personally appeared in open Court, being a Court of Record for the County of Sullivan in the State of New Hampshire, Jonathan Bosworth of Enfield, County of Grafton and State of New Hampshire aged seventy two years; who being just 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 of the 18th March, 1818; and the 1st of May 1820; that he the said Jonathan Bosworth enlisted for the term of one year on or about the first of April 1776, or rather at that tie I enlisted to serve out a year which another person had commenced, who was by agreement discharged on my taking his place, in the State of Rhode Island in the Company commanded by Capt Stephen Kimball, in the Regiment Commanded by Col Daniel Hitchcock in the line of the State of Rhode Island on the Continental Establishment; the he continued to serve in said corps until the last day of January 1777 when he was discharged from the service in Morristown in the state of New Jersey; that he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a Pension except the present; that his name is not on the roll of any State except Rhode Island; and that the following is the reason for not making earlier application for a Pension, to wit, I 
have heretofore by my own exertions, and the assistance of a daughter living with me been able to get a comfortable support, but am now in need of he

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And in pursuance
of the act of the 1st
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 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
State, 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, or debts due to me,
nor have I any income other than what is
contained in the schedule hereto annexed and
by me subscribed
1 Case Dawes 4 old cast 250 2,84
his waggon 10,00 1 do 1.00
14,000
1 old Cutter 2.00 10 Acres Pasture land 6.00 66,00
Cows 3.00 1 old man 3.00 1 sucking colt 10.00 414.00
30 Sheep 2,50 1 old clock 10.00
9 old Chairs 27- 1 Pot, 35 1 Kettle 17
32.50
14
1 Kettle 1.00 1 Brass do 90 iron basin 80 2,70
1 old Wheel 1,00 do. 251 Shovel & tongs 50 1.75
table 33 - 1 Stack damaged hay 300
353
$172,89
My trade has been that of a Cooper but
I am not now able to do any thing at that
or any other business of consequence I have
in family residing with me my wife M.
Witable Bosworth aged Seventy three years
who has not been able to do any thing
toward our support for three years past.
Also my daughter Lucinda aged about
thirty years who enjoys a tolerable degree
of health and who has aided as much
by her coming toward getting a living

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and has indeed been, as it were, out dependence.

Jonathon Bosworth

Sworn to and declared on the 21st day of January A. D. 1830 before me
B. B. French Clerk
Court Common Pleas

I Benjamin B. French Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas within and for the County of Sullivan in the State of New Hampshire do hereby certify that it appears to the satisfaction of the Court that the said Jonathan Bosworth did serve in the Revolutionary War as stated in the preceding declaration against the Common enemy for the term of nine months under on engagement on the Continental establishment.  I also certify the the foregoing oath and the schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the records of the said Court, and I do further certify that in the opinion of the said Court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the foregoing schedule is one hundred and seventy two dollars and sixty nine cents__

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my had and affixed the seal of said Court, during no particular device, on this 25th day of January 1830

 B. B. French

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45607
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File No. 45607
Jonathan Bosworth
Priv Rev War

Act:  18 March 1818 & 1st May 1820

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Dr Alfreda Pittsf???
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E. A. Bosworth

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War Department
Pension Office
March 13
Sir the declaration forwarded by you to this ┃
Department in support of your claim to a Pension
been examined and it is herewith returned. You
state that you enlisted on or about the first of 
April 1776 to serve out a year which another person
had commenced and that he continued to serve
until the last of January 1777. As your name is not on the Roll of the Revolutionary Army in this Department you must prove that you served as stated by two credible witnesses. They must set forth in their affidavit the time of your entering the
service and the time and manner of your leaving the same as will at the regiment company and line to which you were attached. The Magistrate who ┃
may take the evidence must certify to the credibility of
the witness and the official character and signature
of the magistrate must be certified by the proper office
under his seal of Office. You must also account for
property disposed of since March 13. 1818, in the mode
pointed out in note (9) in the enclosed printed sheet.

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I am respectfully
Your Ott Svt
J. L. Edwards




Mr. Jonathan Bosworth
Meriden
New Hampshire

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Washington
Dec 1? 1830

I do hereby certify that I was well acquainted with Timothy Kendrick Esq a Justice of the peace for the County of Grafton in the State
of New Hampshire and that his official signatures to [illegible] Depositions taken by him in the case of Jon^a Bosworth are his own hand writing and [illegible] the said Kendrick was [illegible]

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acting justice of the peace for said County at the time sd depositions purport to be taken

Henry Hubbard

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Washington Dec 23. 1830
Hon Jno H. Eaton
Secy of War
Sir
In the case of Jonathan Bosworth an applicant for a pension. I would observe that before I left home I took pains to
go into his neighborhood, and make
myself acquainted with the character of the application. I took this
course, because I felt it to be
matter of duty-- the papers had been
forwarded to me at the last
Session of Congress, and as Mr Edwards

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had made some objections to the
evidence. I was determined to satisfy myself on this subject before presenting the papers again to the Department on visiting
the neighborhood and seeing the
applicant hearing his story and
learning from men whom I well know 
in have character
I place the most implicit
confidence.  I
became entirely satisfied that Mr Bosworth's
account of his present situation
as to property-- and his account
of services rendered during the rev.

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[illegible] were strictly true. He lives
more the thirty miles from me
and while there I took pains to learn
the reputation of Mr Bosworth for
truth and I found that it had never
been questioned-- that the most
implicit reliance could be placed
in his [illegible]
He is now a very old man and very infirm
his memory is some what impaired
and his general health not good and although he has been industrious, yet his
[illegible] have increased
upon him, and in my opinion if it
and not been for the earning of
& daughter who is over
thirty years

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of age and who lives with the
old people-- they could not have
got along to this time without
help from the town. It will
occur to you that this daughter is
not bound to labour for the father +
mother-- I would add if she should
make a claim
for compensation for
her services, and should be
allowed a reasonable sum
according to the judgment of men
the family would be in my opinion
reduced to [illegible]
Your obt ser
Henry Hubbard

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War Department
Pension Office
April 2d 1830.
Sir I herewith return the documents deposited by you in this office in the case of Jonathan Bosworth, who claims a pension on account of Revolutionary services The affidavit of William Blanchard, formerly a Lieutenant of Captain Kimballs company, Hitchcock's regiment, Rhode Island line, to which the claimant
states that he belonged, is not full enough. It is
inferred from the phraseology employed, that the deponent has come to the conclusion that Bosworth served under him; from circumstances drawn out in conversation; and
that he does not positively know the facts. If a wrong construction has been put upon his testimony, it can be easily removed by him. It is important also, as the service is stated to be only nine months, that the deponent
should state the date of the claimants entering the service and leaving it.If he cannot testify from a personal knowledge of the claimants service, his evidence cannot be admitted
The applicant must be more explicit respecting
the diminution of his property, since the 18th March 1818.

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He can certainly recollect whether he has sold, lands, or any
specific article of personal property. I refer him for further
instructions on this part of his case to the [g] note in the printed
sheet herewith enclosed
Mr Bryants letter to you
is herewith returned.
The case of Nathaniel Challis is under consideration
I have the honor to be
Hon Henry Hubbard
House of Representatives
Very respectfully
Your Obt Servt
J.L. Edwards

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Timothy Blanchard
Deposition

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I Timothy Blanchard resident in Wilton in the County of Kennebee and State of Maine aged seventy four years do testify and say that I took an active part in the army of the Revolution
and served as a Seargent in the company commanded by Captain Stephen Kimball in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Daniel Hitchcock in the line of the State of Rhode Island on the Continental Establishment and that Jonathan Bosworth Now of Enfield in the County of Grafton and State of New Hampshire did enlist as a soldier in the same company commanded by said Capt Stephen Kimball in the year service in the year seventeen and seventy six and I well know that the said J Bosworth did actual service through said campaign in the same Company
with me being more than nine months under one enlistment
Timothy Blanchard
Kennebee ss October the 2d 1830 then Personally appeared
the above named Timothy Blanchard and Made solemn oath that the above deposition by him subscribed is true before me
Ebenezer Eaton Justice of the peace
Witton October the 2d 1830 I do further certify that Timothy Blanchard the above Deponent is a credible Witness
Ebenezer Eaton Justice of the peace 
Kennebec
State of Maine
I the subscriber Clerk of all the Judicial Courts
held within & for the County of Kennebec do certify that Ebenezer Eaton Esq. before whom the above affidavit was taken was
that time & now is a Justice of the Peace for said County of Kennebec, & duly qualified as such
In testimony whereof I hereunto subscribe
my name & affix the seal of the Supreme
Judicial Court of said State this 16th day of
October AD 1838
Wm. Woart J

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I Sylvanus Martin of the town of Plainfield
County of Sullivan State of New Hampshire Physician depose & say that I have been
acquainted with Capt Jonathan Bosworth of Enfield County of Grafton State afforesaid for the space of twenty three years & have been frequently called to visit his family in cases of sickness his wife Several years age had a shock of the palsy called hemoplegia and since that time has not been able to do any thing towards his support - he has been subject
to several severe accidents & contusions of his limbs which has with his advanced age rendered him incapable of doing much business and not withstand
his industry his farm being mountainous cold & rough-- he has not been able to get along without selling apart thereof; and in a word there has been to my certain knowledge a rapid diminution of his property for the last few years more especially so since he has been labouring under infirmities
April 13th 1830
Sylvanus Martin
State of New Hampshire
Grafton Lebanon April 13, 1830
Personally appeared the above named Silvanus Martin and made solemn oath that the above affidavit by him signed is just and true
Before me
Timothy Kimrik Justice of the Peace

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Jotham Howe 

affidavit

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I Jotham Howe of lawful age do depose and
say, that some time in the month of March
AD 1828. I received of Jonathan Bosworth of
Enfield the sum of one hundred
& one dollars Eighteen cents, which sum was
in full payment for a note I hold against
said Bosworth, and said note was given
for value Reced and was due me from him
Jotham Howe
State of New Hampshire
Grafton Lebanon November 10th 1830
Then the above named Jotham Howe
made oath that the above deposition by
him subscribed is in his belief true.
Before me
Timothy Kenrick Justice of the Peace

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I Jonathan Bosworth the applicant for a Pension named in the copy of my Declaration to which this is annexed do depose and say that it is next to imposible for me to account for property disposed of since March 18th 1818. having kept no account thereof but I can truly say that no other change than a gradual diminution of the same necessary to the support of myself and family has taken
place since the 18th of March 1818; and that not a single item have I in any way disposed of with an intention thereby so to lessen the amount of my property as to bring myself within the provision of the Pension
Acts of the 18th of March 1818, and 11th of May 1820
Jonathan Bosworth
State of New Hampshire ⎬ March 19, 1830 
Sullivan SS
Then Jonathan Bosworth personally appeared and made solemn oath that the above
affidavit by him subscribed is true
Before me
John Bryant Justice of the Peace

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We James Willis of Enfield and Calvin Benton
of Lebanon County of Grafton and State of New
hampshire depose and say that we are well acquainted with Jonathan Bosworth of Said Enfield and that we consider him a man of truth and entitled to full credit Lebanon April 13th AD 1830
James Willis
Calvin Benton
Sworn to before me April 13. 1830
Timothy Kenrick Justice of the Peace

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I James Piersons of Orford in the
County of Grafton & State of New Hampshire
Esq depose & say that I am 60 years of age
That in the month of Jany 1776 I enlisted into the army of the revolution as a private for one year in the company commanded by Capt Stephen Kimball & Col. Daniel Hitchcock's Regiment of the Rhode Island line-- that Jonathan Bosworth then of Barrington in the County of Bristol in said State of Rhode Island of Enfield in the County of Grafton aforesaid was a corporal in said Company, that we both served in said company in the above capacities
until Jany 1777 at which time we were both
dismissed but had no written discharges I
further state that the above named
Bosworth was a good soldier & discharged
his duty in the above capacity with general
approbation of his officers
Haverhill 29th of July 1819
State of New hampshire
James Pearson
July the 30th 1819
State of New hampshire Grafton
At Piermont in the County of Grafton in
the State of Newhampshire aforesaid, came
before me the Subscriber, and made Solemn
Oath, that the aforesaid Declaration by him
subscribed contains the truth as therein set
forth I hereby certify and make known
that the said James Pearson, has resided a
Long time in this county and has always conducted himself as a man of fair character, and of respectability, and to the best of my knowledge has sustained the character of a moral man
Given under my hand the day & year afore  William Simpson Justice of the peace of the Quaram
Through the seal of
N Hampshire


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William Elas Affidavit

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I William, Ela of Lawful age do depose 
and say that some time in the month of October
1829. Captain Jonathan Boswath paid
me forty eight dollars which sum was due
me from him for labour done for him
previous to that time
William Clay
State of New Hampshire
Grafton & Lebanon Nov 15 1830
then the above named William Ela Made
solemn oath that the above statement by
him signed is in his belief true
before me
Timothy Kenrick Justing the Peace

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Jonathan Bosworth Priv
Col. Hitchcock's R. Island Regt
1776 - Not entitled keep papers in the office July 1820 May 1818
Not entitled on acct. of [illegible]
1046

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I Jonathan Bosworth of Enfield in the County
of Grafton & State of New Hampshire
a citizen of the United States declare and say
that I served as a private soldier in the army
of the United States eight months in the
years 1775 - That at the time the army was
on their march from Boston to New York, in
the year 1776 I again enlisted into Captain
Kimballs company being the third in Colonel
Hitchcock's Regiment being the eleventh regiment in the Rhodeisland line, for the term of one year that I joined my regiment on Long Island near New York where I remained until the Army retreated from the island, that I was
afterwards in the battle of White plains
from thence we went through New Jersey
and crossed the Delaware and recrossed that
river fought the battle of Bordentown- then
the battle of Trenton. then the battle of
Princeton from thence we went to Morris
town where my regiment was discharged
and I received a written discharge after
the expiration of the year aforesaid,
I also declare that my discharge
aforesaid was sent home by me some years
since to Ipswich in Massachusetts in the
expectation of getting some arrears of pay
but by some accident the discharge was
lost and I have now no other evidence
of my said services. This service was on the
continental establishment in the war of the
revolution

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I also declare and say that I am in reduced circumstances and stand in need of the assistance of my country for support
Jonathan Bosworth

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William Blanchard Affidavit

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I Jonathan Bosworth of Enfield in the County of
Grafton, State of New Hampshire an applicant for a Pension depose and say that soon after I made my Declaration on the 21 day of January last I was advised that it might become necessary eventually, to make proof of my service, I therefore went to Wilmington Massachusetts to see Col. William
Blanchard who was Lieutenant of the Company
in which I served as stated in my said
Declaration and procured his affidavit which
is hereunto attached, he being the only surviving member of said company to me known and I now know not that it is or ever will be in my power to make any further proof
Jonathan Bosworth

State of New Hampshire March 19 1830. Sullivan SS Personally appeard Jonathan Bosworth and made solemn oath that the above affidavit by him subscribed is true
Before me
John Bryant Justice of the Peace

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I William Blanchard of Wilmington in the County of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts do testify and say that I took an active part in the army of the Revolution. That I was a Lieutenant of the company commanded by Capt Stephen Kimball in the Regiment commanded by Col Daniel Hitchcock
in the line of the State of Rhode Island in the Continental establishment, and am confident that Jonathan Bosworth now of Enfield in the County of Grafton and State New
Hampshire with whom I have this day had an interview was a private in said Company in the years service of 1776 and did actual service therein for the space of nine months under one enlistment
William Blanchard

Middlen S. Wilmington February 10. 1830, personally appeared the above named William Blanchard and made oath that the above depositions by him subscribed is true-
Before me
James Jaques Jus Peace 
I hereby certify that the above named
William Blanchard is personally known to me
and is a gentlemen of respectable character
Wilmington Feby 10. 1830 James Jaques Jus Pea
I do also hereby further certify that William Blanchard the above deponent is a credible witness
Wilmington Feby 10. 1830
James Jaques Just Peace

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Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Middlesex Co. I Abraham Biglow Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, within and for said County, do certify, that James Jaques is a Justice of the Peace within and for said County, duly appointed and qualified, and that his
name set to the within certificate is his own proper & true. 
In testimony whereof I have hereunto
set my hand, and affixed the seal of said
Court this twelfth day of February 1830.
Abrhm Biglow

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Pension Office
Dec. 24 1830
[illegible]
23 Dec 1830
J.H. Eaton
sen:to com:
Dec. 23 1830
Hon H. Hubbard
H.R

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I Jonathan Bosworth of Enfield County of Grafton State of New Hampshire an applicant for a Pension do depose and say that in the month of March last I gave an affidavit which
was annexed to my declaration wherein, if I mistake not, I stated that it would be dificult for me to account for property disposed of since the 18th of March 1818, as I had kept
no account thereof the meaning to be understood and now do, that having made no memorandum in writing of the property
I had on hand on said 18th of March 1818 nor of the changes have since taken place, it would be next to impossible for to account for all the property which has passed through my
hands sinc the period aforesaid I can therefore safely repeat what I in substance said before that it has undergone no changes excepting a gradual diminution thereof necessary to the support myself and family, not meaning in my former affidavit for in this to say, that no account whatever can by me be given
nor shall I now pretend to give an account of all the charges that have taken place. I do now further say from recollection that I sold off of my farm and conveyed to And Bosworth in the
month of September 1819 between fourteen and fifteen acres of land for the consideration of one hundred and fifteen dollars and receive payment for the same in labor and necessaries for the use of my family. That also in the month of March 1828 sold off by the same about thirty two acres to Edward Bosworth for the consideration of the sum of one hundred and fifteen dollars fifty cents to raise money to pay debts. I was living I received of said
Bosworth one hundred dollars down, which I paid to one Jotham Howe for a note he held against me the remaining nine dollars fifty cents received of said Bosworth in the
months of November December following, which I paid out where I was owing & mostly to one John Tucker. That I still
have left sixteen acres according to my schedule but not of as good a quality as that sold off as above, I also sold in the fall of 1829 to a stranger one yoke of [illegible] for fifty nine dollars to pay a debt I owed one Richard Elle for work I also admit and state that I have in some years past

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spend a little grain and in other some pork, and some other articles of possession, but am unable to say to what amount. I also received having paid and taken up notes to the amount of one hundred & nine dollars thirty six
cents also within a year past one collection against me for the sum of twenty three dollars Seventy Eight cents. I have also paid considerable sums of money to the Storekeepers Doctor & Mechanics since said 18th of March 1818 and still some in debt
Jonathan Bosworth
State of New Hampshire
Grafton ss
Lebanon April 13 1830
Then the above named Jonathan Bosworth Personally appeared and made solemn oath that the above affidavit by him subscribed is just and true
Before me
Timothy Kenrick, Justice of the Peace
We Jonathan How Moses Flander and Jean
Eldridge, do depose and say, that we have for many years been well acquainted with Jonathan Bosworth the above deponant, having been his near neighbors fully believe that his property has been gradually lessening for several years past, and in consequence of his inability to manage his offices as he formerly did and we have no doubt but that he has truly stated above, as respects the changes in his property since the 18th of March 1818, believing him to be a credible man, and that we have not known of any changes made in his property with a design to lessen it as to entitle him to a Pension
Jonathan Howe
Moses Flanders
Juan Eldridge

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State of New Hampshire Sullivan ss} April 13 1830 Personally appeared Jonathan How Moses Flanders and Juan Eldridge who are all credible men and made solemn oath that the following affidavit by them subscribed is just and true Before me John Bryant Justice of the Peace

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Copy of Deed
Bosworth Jon.n
to
Ariel Bosworth
[illegible] 2/ pd.

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KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS
That I Jonathan Bosworth of Enfield in the County of Grafton and State of New Hampshire Gentleman
for and in consideration of the sum of One hundred & fifteen dollars to me in hand, before the delivery hereof, well and truly paid by the Bosworth of Enfield in the County of Grafton & State aforesaid Gentleman
the receipt whereof I do hereby acknowledge, have given, granted, bargained, sold, and by these presents do give, grant, bargain, sell, alien, enfeoff convey, and confirm unto the said Ariel Bosworth and his heirs and assigns, forever, a certain tract of land situate in Enfield aforesaid containing fourteen acres two quarters and thirty eight rods be the same more or less it being part of the fifty acre Lot No forty one drawn to the original right of Nathaniel Turner and is bounded as follows to wit, beginning at a hemlock tree standing
in the easterly line of said Lot and about one Rod north of the north bank of stoney Brook (so called) from thence running south thirty six degrees West in the line of sd Lot about twenty nine rods to the south easterly corner
thereof, then westerly in the southerly line North thirty six degrees east in the westerly line of said Lot about sixty rods to a stake and stones, it being a bound of land this day deeded by the said Jonathan Bosworth to James Worther, from thence south thirty eight degrees east across said Lot to the first mentioned bound or place began at
N.B. the words sixty in the sixteenth line from top erased and the words twenty nine added before signing To Have and to Hold the said granted premises, with all the privileges and appurtenances belonging to him the said Ariel Bosworth and his heirs and assigns, to his and their only proper use and benefit forever. And I
the said Jonathan Bosworth and my heirs, executors, and administrators, do hereby covenant, grant, and agree, to and with the said Ariel Bosworth and his heirs and assigns, that until the delivery hereof, I am the lawful owner of the said premises, and he seized 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; and that the said premises
are free and clear of all and every incumbrance whatever: and that I and my heirs, executors, and administrators, shall and will warrant and defend the same to the said Ariel Bosworth
and his heirs and assigns, against the lawful claims and demands of any person or persons whomsoever.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and seal this twenty third day of
September in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and nineteen
Jonathan Bosworth
Signed, sealed, and delivered
in presence of us,
Jesse J. Tong
Wm Williams Jr. 

State of New Hampshire.
Grafton ss. Sept 28th A.D. 1819
Personally appearing the above named Jonathan Bosworth acknowledged the foregoing instrument to be his voluntary act and deed..... 
Jesse J. Tegg Jus Peace
Before me, Grafton [illegible] May 23d 1820 Rec & recorded [illegible] Attest Ephm Kingsbury Reg

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Grafton p. N.H. Registers Office Nov. 20 1830
The within is a true copy of record see File n 80 for 537 and examd. 
Attest John Page Reg.

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Copy of Deed
Jon a. Bosworth
to
Edw.d Bosworth

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KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS
That I Jonathan Bosworth of Enfield in the County of Grafton and State of New Hampshire husbandman for and in consideration of the sum of One hundred and sixty dollars to me in hand, before the delivery hereof, well and truly paid by Edward Bosworth of Lebanon in said County of Grafton in said State of New Hampshire husbandman and
the receipt whereof I do hereby acknowledge, have given, granted, bargained, sold, and by these presents do give, grant, bargain, sell, alien, enfeoff, convey, and confirm unto the said Edwards and his heirs and assigns, forever, a certain tract of land situate in said Enfield and bounded as follows viz beginning at small beach tree standing on the southerly side of land owned by Jonathan Cartman and brothers
thence North sixty eight degrees west fifty four rods to a Birch tree standing on the southerly side of land owned by Isaac Dall. thence south thirty six degrees West one hundred rods to a stake & stones. thence South sixty eight degrees East fifty four rods to a stake & stones standing about ten rods northerly of Stoney Brook road so called, thence North thirty six degrees East one hundred rods to the first named bound containing by as measurement thirty two and seventy seven rods be the same more or less and to hold the said granted premises, with all the privileges and appurtenances to the same belonging
to him the said Edward and his heirs and assigns, to his and their only proper use and benefit forever. And I the said Jonathan
and my heirs, executors, and administrators, do hereby covenant, grant, and agree, to and with the said Edward and his heirs and assigns, that until the delivery hereof, I am the lawful owner of the said premises, and am seized and possessed thereof in my own right in fee-simple, and have full power and authority to grant and convey the same in manner aforesaid; and that the said premises
are free and clear, all and every incumbrance whatever: and that I and my heirs, executors, and administrators, shall and will warrant and defend the same to the said Edward
and his heirs and assigns, against the lawful claims and demands of any person or persons whomsoever.
And I Mehitable Bosworth wife of the said Jonathan in consideration aforesaid do hereby relinquish my right of Dower in the before mentioned premises
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, we have hereunto set our hands and seals this twenty ninth day of
March in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty eight
Signed, sealed, and delivered
in presence of us,
Lucinda Bosworth Philip Sargent
Jonathan Bosworth seal
Mehitabel Bosworth seal)
State of New-Hampshire Grafton Lebanon Nov 8th 1830
Personally appearing the above named Jon athan Bosworth acknowledged the foregoing instrument to be his voluntary act and deed.
Before me,
Calvin Benton Notary Public ┃
Grafton ss. Nov 18. 1830 Recd recorded exam
Attest John Page Reg

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State of New Hampshire
Grafton s. Registers Office Nov. 20 1830
The written is a true copy of Record see File n. 117 folio 5 exam.d Attest John Page Reg.

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OLD WAR & NAVY
JUN 15 1904
FILES.
Bayton, Shasta Co, Cal. June 5, 1904.
Hon E. S. Ware
Commissioner of
Pensions, Washington D.C
Dear Sir
I am a grandson of a revolutionary soldier but can't prove it. I was advised to write to you to find out if he drew a pension from the government. My grandfather Jonathan Bosworth Jr was born 1757 and I thought inlisted from R.I. But I have just found out that an elder brother of his Nathaniel Bosworth
inlisted from Conn. It is more than likely
they boath inlisted from the same State
It was said by my older brothers (who are now
dead, that grand father was a lieutenant
in the army and afterwards a Cap in the
N. H. State Militia If you can give the disered
information you will greatly oblige E. A. Bosworth

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Ex'r Invalid.
1046 Rejected
.0. Jonathan Bosworth
ervice: