Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 35,926, Jonathan Ferren, Continental Pensioned In Mass (Me.)

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(8-1776)
Service     Number
Continental     Ferren, Jonathan    S. 35.926
Pensioned in Mass (Me.)

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11.376R
District of Maine
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Jonathan Ferren
of Arundel in the state of (crossed out) D Maine who was Private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Patterson of the Massachusetts line, for the term of one year.
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Inscribed on the Roll of District Maine at the rate of 8 dollars per month, to commence on the 9th of April 1818
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Certificate of Pension issued the 3rd of June 1818 and sent to G.W. Wallingford Esq Kennebunk D. Maine
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Arrears to 4th of Mar. 1819            86.89. 
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4 Sep 1819 48.00
10 Mo 22/30  4/31                           -----
                                                        $134.89
{Revolutionary claim,}
{Act 18th March 1818}
Date of Death not on A.B.

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(MF 12 )
Date June 12, 1922
Name Jonathan Ferren No. S35926
Rev War
Photographic copies wanted of
pieces, consisting of 4 pages.
Remarks:
Exr. W E Wilson Chief Rev War Sect
Law Clerk.
Serial
No. 6703

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9th April 1818

Jonathan Ferren

Arsendel

[crossed out - 1st [illegible]]
31st Dec 1775 - held in Col. Pattersons
Regt Massa Line. & served to the Middle
of Feb 7 1777 -

Benjn Greene Esqr



Admitted

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COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS
York, ss.
On the ninth day of April 1818 before me, the subscriber, Chief Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, for the eastern District, in said Commonweath, personally appears Jonathan Ferren resident in Arundel in said county of York and state aforesaid, 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 Ferren, (no being sixty six years of age) did about the last of December 1775 enlist into the continental army for the term of twelve months under a Captain Bliss in Col Patterson's regiment which was stationed at Cambridge until the British army evacuated Boston in the month of March 1776 and that he marched from there in said company and regiment to New York from there to Albany and from there into Canada and that on the way back from Canada he was taken prisoner but was in a few days released and again arrived at Albany. From there he was marched to Newtown in Pennsylvania and was about the middle of February 1777, finally discharged at a place called Morrestown, he having served six weeks longer than his first enlistment at the request of the officers. That the said Patterson Regiment was one of (illegible) Massachusetts and that he received no written discharge, none being at that time given that he has heard of .

And that he is reduced in circumstances and stands in need of assistance from his country for support and that he has no other evidence now in his power of his said service. Benjamin Greene

I BENJAMIN GREENE, Chief Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the first Eastern District of the Commonwealth aforesaid, do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Jonathan Ferren did serve in the revolutionary war, as stated in the preceding declaration against the common enemy and that I do now transmit the procedings and testimony taken and had before me, to the Secretary for the department of war pursuant  in the directions of the aforementioned act of Congress. and it is hereby certified that said Ferren is in reduced circumstances and stands in need of assistance from his country for support.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said Court at Alfred this 4th day of January in the year of our Lord 1819.
Benjamin Greene

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Additional Evidence

I Dominicus Smith of Biddeford in the county of York and state of Massachusetts (sixty three years of age), do on solemn oath testify and depose as follows - that about the last of December 1775 or first of January 1776 I enlisted into the Continental army in a company commanded by a Capt. Noble in the regiment under the command of Colo John Patterson, which was a Massachusetts regiment at the camp in Cambridge, that I marched with said company & regiment to the City of New York, Then to Albany, Ticonderoga and Montreal and then to Grown Point and Fort Independence; and from there to Albany. There to New Town in Pensylvania and was finally discharged at Morristown. I further testify that Jonathan Ferren now resident in Biddeford was a private soldier in the company commanded by Capt Bliss in Colo Pattersons regiment in the twelve months service in the year 1776. That said Ferren enlisted about the first of January 1776 in the said company and continued to do his duty therein as a good soldier untill the first of January 1777 and was at that time honorably discharged - I further say that I have known the said Ferren from that time to this having lived by him as a neighbor most of the time and that the said Declarant is the same Jonathan Ferren above named and that he was a continental soldier during the said twelve months ---

Dominicus Smith


Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
York ss. August 18th. 1818. Then the above named Dominicus Smith who is a reliable and disinterested witness personally appeared and made oath to the truth of the foregoing declaration by him subscribed - before me

Geo' W Wallingford Jus [illegible]

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(Additional Evidence)

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
York ss.
On this eighteenth day of August one thousand eight hundred & eighteen, before me the subscriber a Justice of the Peace for said county - personally appear [illegible] Kimbal resident in Arundel in said county, who being by me first sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration

That he is well acquainted with Jonathan Ferren now resident in Biddeford That said Ferren was a private soldier in the company commanded by Capt. Bliss in Col. Putnams Registment - in the twelve months [illegible] [illegible] between the first of January 1776 & first of January 1777 at which last date he was honorably discharged - That said Pattersons Regiment was a Massachusetts Regiment & upon the Continental establishment

That he the said Kimball is well acquainted with said Ferren & has been from that time to the present - having lived by him as a near neighbor most of the time. & that he is the same Jonathan Ferren above named -

Sworn to & declared before me the day & year aforesaid - 

Henry Clark Jus Peace

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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
York SS?
I Daniel Sewell clerk of the circuit court of of common pleas for the first eastern circuit in said commonwealth do hereby certify that George W Wallingford esq is a Justice of the peace in and for said county duly authorised and empowered to administer oaths -- and that the Hon Benjamin Greene Esq is chief Justice of said circuit court and that full faith and credit is to be attached to his [cuts?] and attestations as such --
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set set my hand and affixed the seal of said court this fourth day of December one thousand eight hundred and eighteen--
Daniel Sewall
I Daniel Sewall Clerk as aforesaid do hereby certify that Henry Clark Esq who has certified one of the foregoing depositions is a Justice of the peace in and for the said county of York and duly authorised and empowered to take and administer oaths 
December 4 1818--

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35926
Invalid
Revy
File No. 35926
Jonathan Ferrin
Pri Rev War
Act: 18th March 18th
Index:- Vol. 2, Page 135
[Arrangement of 1870.]

1922 June 16.  Copies mailed Mrs L.F. Hollinger. 128 C.St.N.E. Wash DC (see receipt for payment in  John Ferren, Mass S35295) AW

1931-Oct. 3. Hist. to Mrs. Lottie E.

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Mrs. S. Hobert Mills
Genealogical Research
110 East State Street
Montpelier, Vermont
Sept. 18, 1931

Mr. E. W. Morgan,
Acting Commissioner
Washington, D. C.
My dear Mr. Morgan
Will you kindly send me what information you have in your office concerning Jonathan Ferrin of York County, Maine, who served in Mass. line and drew a pension?  I would like his service, anything in regard to his family, also his death.
With many thanks in advance,
Very truly yours
Lottie E.R. Mills

Revolutionary & 1812 Wars Section
[illegible]
Sept 21 1931

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October 3, 1931.
BA-J/ILL   Ans

Mrs. Lottie E. R. Mills
110 East State Street
Montpelier, Vermont.

Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letter relative to Jonathan Ferrin, a soldier of the Revolutionary War.
The data which follow are obtained from the papers on file in pension claim, S. 35926 based upon his military service in that war.
Jonathan Ferren enlisted about the last of December, 1775, served as private in Captain Bliss' Company, Colonel John Patterson's Massachusetts Regiment, was on the expedition to Canada and, while returning, was taken prisoner, was released after a few days, marched 
back to Albany, then to Pennsylvania and was discharged about the middle of February, 1777 at Morristown, New Jersey.
He was allowed pension on his application executed April 9, 1818, while a resident of Arundel, York County, 
Massachusetts (District of Maine).  He was then sixty-six years of age. In August, 1818, he was living in Biddeford, in said York County.
It is not stated that the soldier was married and there are no family data in the papers in this claim.
Very truly yours,
A.D. Hiller,
Assistant to Administrator.