Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W 16055, for Jonathan Perkins, New Hampshire

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(3-1776)
SERVICE                                          Number
N.H.   Perkins, Jonathan                 W16055
Elizabeth
B.L. Nt. 1625-200. Lieut.
Issued April 24, 1798. to 
Daniel Gookins assinee
No papers.

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4,324
New Hampshire Roll.

Jonathan Perkins
Lieutenant, 4
New Hampshire line 3 years
In the United States during the Revolutionary War.
Inscribed on the Rol of New Hampshire 
at the rate 20 Dollars per month, to commence on the 27. of March 1818.
Arrears to the 4th of Sept. 1818 ,,,,,   $105.88
Semi.anl. all'ce ending 4. Mar. 1819 ....120. "
ars." 5m: 5/31                                    $ 225.88
        4/30
                    {Revolutionary claim}
                    {Act 18th March, 1818.}

Revy                     105:88
Invalid pension      34:41
Difference to 4th} $71:47
          Sept. 1818}
Continue
Gilmanton, Strafford Co 

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let 26 6 t 78 8 6
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Notification sent to A. Peirce [illegible]
[illegible] New Hampshire 6th Sept. 1820

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Portsmouth N.H. 288
Elizabeth Perkins
of Strafford in the State of N.H.
who was a     in the    commanded
by Captain     of the     commanded
by                  in the
widow of Jonathan Perkins dec. who
was a Lieutenant in the Revolution

Inscribed on the Roll of Portsmouth
at the rate of 320 Dollars 00 Cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of march, 1831.

Certificate of Pension ifsued the 3d day of Decr.
1835 and sent Danl. Gale Gilmanton N.H.

Arrears to the 4th of Sept 1836          $1,760.00
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Mar '37    160 00
Act                                                        $1.920.00 

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Ex  [illegible]  Dec 18- 
[illegible] D.D. Addison  on Jan 7, 1852.

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288
New Hampshire.    [illegible]
Elizabeth Perkins, decd
widow of Jonathan Perkins
who died on the
of Strafford in the State of N.H.
who was a [illegible] in the     commanded
by Captain     of the      commanded
by       in the Revolution
for 2 years N.H.

Inscribed on the Roll of Portsmouth
at the rate 476 Dollars  00 Cents
per annum, to commence on the fourth day of
March, 1831. [illegible] January 1842

Certificate of Pension ifsued the 6th day of
February 1852 and sent to D.D. Addison Esq

Arrears to the 4th of Present
Semi-annual allowance ending
[illegible] $320
{Revolutionary Claim, Act July 4, 1836 Section the 3}
Recorded by H R Weightman     clerk,
Book [illegible]  Vol. 2    Page 338

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Certificate of Death and Heirship.

State of New Hampshire }ss:
County of Belknap

It is hereby certified, that satisfactory evidence has been exhibited befor me O.A.J. Vaughan
Register of Probate in and for the 
County aforesaid that Elisabeth Perkins late of
Gilmanton in said County who was widow of Jonathan Perkins & a pensioner 
under [illegible] of the United Staes of 1836   

died in said County, on the     day of
in the year one thousand eight hundred forty two leaving surviving
the following named children only, viz: Peter Perkins - Jonathan Perkins -  Sally Perkins - Mary Dutton, - Lydia Batchelder and Hannah P. Brown

and the above named children 

are the only children of the said Elisabeth Perkins
who are now living.
I further certify, that Pter Perkins of Gilmanton has been duly appointed and qualified as Administrator of the estate of the said Administrator deceased.

In Test [blocked] I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed my Seal of Office, this 31st [blocked] January one thousand eight hundred and fifty two.    O.A.J. Vaughan    Register

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170
Jon. Perkins
4,324

[illegible]
March

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That the date of his original declaration in order to obtain a pension is March 27, 1818 and the number of his pension certificate is 4324: - That his occupation is that of a Schoolmaster: - That the number and names of his family residing with him, and their ages and capacities to contribute to their support, are as follows, viz.
Elizabeth Perkins aged sixty eight years & one grand child Perkins Gale, aged twelve years an orphan
Wherefore he prays the opinion of the said Court as to the value of the property contained in the said schedule, and that the same, together with a copy of the premises, be duly certified to the Secretary of War. 
Sworn and declared before the said court the 18th day of July 1820.} /s/Jon'a Perkins
Attest; /s/A. Peirce, CLERK.
STATE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE....STRAFFORD SS. 
AT a Court of Common Pleas holdens at Gilford within and for the County of Strafford and State of New-Hampshire, on the 18th day of July 1820 before
DANIEL M. DURELL, Esquire, Chief Justice, and 
VALENTINE SMITH, and SAMUEL QUARLES,} Associate Justices of said Court. 
The aforesaid schedule and oath and the above declaration duly subscribed and sworn by the said Jonathan Perkins having been by him exhibited in person, and presented to the court, and the same being seen and considered, it is the opinion of said Court that the value of the property contained in said schedule is ninety dollars -- cents. Wherefore the Court order that a copy of the premises, together with the proceedings thereon, be duly certified to the Secretary of War. 
Attest, /s/A. Peirce, CLERK. 
STATE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE....STRAFFORD SS.
I, ANDREW PEIRCE, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas within and for the County of Strafford, being a court of record, do certify that the foregoing schedule and oath, and the declaration annexed, with the proceedings and opinion of the court thereon, are true copies from the Records and files of said court. 
[court seal affixed] In testimony whereof  I  have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court, the 18th day of July 1820.
/s/A. Peirce, CLERK.

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To the Justices of the Court of Common Pleas now sitting at Gilford within  and for the County of Strafford and State of New-Hampshire, on the third Tuesday of July, 1820. 
Jonathan Perkins aged seventy one years, resident in Gilmanton in said County, comes into  court, and in pursuance of an act of Congress passed on the 1st day of May, 1820, brings with him, and in his proper person exhibits to said Court a Schedule by him subscribed, containing his whole Estate and Income - his necessary clothing and bedding excepted - as follows: - 
one small piece of land twelve rods square with an old house on the same, one horse, one Cow, one half a old Chaise an old watch & one note for twenty eight dollars - 
I owe twenty dollars to several persons
/s/Jon'a Perkins
And the said Jonathan Perkins in pursuance as aforesaid produceth to said Court the following oath by him duly taken and subscribed: - viz. 
I Jonathan Perkins 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. 
/s/Jon'a Perkins
And the said Jonathan Perkins doth here in Court further declare on oath, that he served in the revolutionary war as follows, viz. 
a Sargent in the Company commanded by Capt. Daniel Moor (Moore) in Col. John Stark's Regiment New-Hampshire line from May 1, 1775 that September 2 1775 was drafted into Cap't Dearborn's Company in General Arnold's detachment for Quebec that January 1st 1776 he was  taken prisoner at Quebec & so remained till Sept 24, 1776 when he was landed at Elizabethtown New Jersey but not exchanged till June 1777 that July 29th 1777 he received a commission from Congress as ensign in Cap't Jason Wait's company in Col. Cilley's Reg't & as Lieutenant in Cap't Dustin's Company in the same Reg't & continued in service till July 1783 & was in the battle of Bunker Hill, Storming of Quebec - Stillwater - Monmouth & at Chemung

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STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE.
Secretary of State's Office. 
I, JOHN L. HADLEY, Secretary of State aforesaid, do hereby certify that L. D. Stevens is an acting Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Merrimack duly commissioned and qualified, and duly authorized by the Laws of said State to administer Oaths, take the acknowledgment of Deeds, &c. His Commission was dated on the 7th day of December 1847; and will expire on the 7th day of December 1852; 
[state seal affixed] Given under my hand and the Seal of the State, this 20th day of November 1851, 
/s/John L. Hadley Secretary of State.

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POWER OF ATTORNEY: - Revolutionary Pension Claim. 
Know all Men by these Presents, that I, Peter Perkins of Gilmanton in the County of Belknap and State of New Hampshire do hereby constitute and appoint John M. Thayer & D. D. Addison to be my true and lawful Agents and Attorneys to prosecute the claim of Elisabeth Perkins widow of Jonathan Perkins for any amount of Revolutionary Pension, or Increase of Pension, that may be due; and I hereby authorize  my said Agents to examine all the papers and documents of every description, in relation to said claim, that may be on file in the Departments at Washington City, or elsewhere; to file any additional evidence or arguments that can be obtained; and to receive the Certificate which may be issued for said Claim, which Certificate I wish made payable to me as administrator on the estate of Elisabeth Perkins to appoint one or more substitutes under him for the purposes herein expressed; and to do all things that I might or could do were  I personally present. Hereby ratifying and confirming all that my said Attorneys and Agents shall lawfully do in the premises. 
[seal affixed] WITNESS my hand and Seal this 20th day of November A.D. 1851.
/s/Peter Perkins
Signed and Sealed in the presence of 
/s/L. D. Stevens
/s/Perkins Gale} 
STATE OF New Hampshire
COUNTY OF Merrimack}ss: 
On this twentieth day of November A.D. 1851, before me, a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid, personally appeared Peter Perkins and acknowledged the foregoing Power of Attorney to be his act and deed, for the purposes therein mentioned. 
/s/L. D. Stevens. J. Peace [facsimile:  {SEAL}]

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Claim of Elisabeth Perkins of N.H. 
Act of July 4h 1836 - 
[margin notes: Elizabeth Perkins N.H. D. D. Addison Present]
STATE OF New Hampshire
COUNTY OF Merrimack}ss. 
Be it known, that on this twentieth day of November A.D. eighteen hundred and fifty one, before the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace in and for the County and State aforesaid, personally appeared Peter Perkins a resident of Gilmanton in ['said' crossed out] Belknap County in said State and made oath according to law that he is the son and administrator on the estate of Elisabeth Perkins who was a Revolutionary Pensioner under the Act of July 4th 1836 at the rate of Two Hundred Thirty Five Dollars per annum; and he has been informed that the said Pension ought to be increased; that he is directly interested as a claimant in said Pension, and makes this affidavit to be filed with such additional evidence and arguments as his Agent may use in prosecuting said claim. 
/s/Peter Perkins
Sworn to and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid, before me, 
/s/L. D. Stevens J. Peace}
I, L. D. Stevens Justice of the Peace, do hereby certify that Peter Perkins who has executed the foregoing affidavit before me, is a respectable resident of ['this' crossed out] said County of Belknap, and is, I believe, directly interested in said claim as therein set forth. 
/s/L. D. Stevens J. Peace.
I, [blank] Clerk of the [blank] Court in the County and State aforesaid, do hereby certify that [blank] before whom the foregoing affidavit was executed, was, at the date of the same, a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, duly authorized by law to administer oaths; and his name thereunto subscribed, appears to me to be his usual signatures. 
In testimony whereof, I hereunto subscribe my name and affix the County Seal, this [blank] day of [blank] A.D. 185[blank].
[COUNTY SEAL.] [blank] Clerk.

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State of New Hampshire
Strafford ss} On this 27th day of March A.D. 1818 before me the subscriber one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas for said County of Strafford personally appears Jonathan Perkins aged sixty nine years resident in the Town of Gilmanton County and State aforesaid who being my be first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provision ['of the' crossed out] made by 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 Perkins on the first day of May AD 1775 enlisted as a sergeant in the aforesaid service in the Town of Epping in said state into the Company commanded by Captain Daniel Moore in the Regiment commanded by Col'o John Stark New Hampshire line that on the second day of September 1775 he was drafted as a sergeant into the

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company commanded by Captain Henry Dearborn and detachment comanded by Benedict Arnold for Quebec that on the first day of January 1776 he was taken prisoner at Quebec and so remained until September 21st 1776 when he was landed at Elizabethtown point State of Newjersey but not exchanged until June 1777 that on the 29th day of July 1777 he was commissioned as an Ensign by the Continental Congress of the United States ad entered said service in the company commanded by Captain Jason Wait in the 1st Newhampshire Regiment commanded by Col Joseph Cilley and line aforesaid that on the 24th day of March 1780 he took rank and did the duty of a Lieutenant in said service in the company commanded by Captain Moody Dustin Regiment and line aforesaid and on the 31st day of October 1781 he was commissioned as will appear by the accompanying commission and that he continued to serve in the said service of the United States in the revolutionary war on the Continental establishment from the first day of May 1775 and as a commissioned Officer from the 29th day of July 1777 until July 1783 when the Army was disbanded at Newburgh in the State of New York ['And that his Ensign commission is not now in existence' crossed out] and that he was in

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the Battles at Bunker or Breeds-hill on the 17th of June 1775 and in Storming the City of Quebec December 31st 1775 when he laid in irons seven weeks in both battles near Stillwater State of New York the first on the 19th Sept'r the second on the 7th October 1777 in the latter he received a wound for which he now draws a small pension at Monmouth Newjersey on the 28th June 1778 at Chemung or Newtown with the Indians on the 13th August 1779 and another skirmish with the Indians on the 29th August 1779 
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 service - 
Sworn to and declared before me the day and year aforesaid
/s/William Badger
I William Badger Judge &c as aforesaid do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Jonathan Perkins did serve in the revolutionary war as stated in the preceding declaration against the common enemy, 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 - 
[court seal affixed]
Dan'l Waldron clk Court Com. Pleas for the County of Strafford} In witness whereof I have have hereunto set my hand and caused the Seal of said Court for said county of Strafford in s'd State to be hereunto affixed this 27th day of March A.D. 1818 and of the Independence of the United States of America the forty second
/s/William Badger

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No. 387 Pention Declaration
Elizabeth Perkins
Dan'l Gale
Gilmanton NH

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State of New Hampshire
Strafford ss I Ira A. Eastman Register of Probate in and for the county of Strafford aforesaid hereby certify that the within named Daniel Gale is a Justice of the Peace in and for said county and that the within are his true and genuine signatures.
[court seal affixed] In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of the Court of Probate for said county of Strafford this Sixteenth day of November Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and thirty six - 
/s/Ira A. Eastman Register
State of New Hampshire
Strafford County ss I Francis Cogswell Clerk of the Superior Court of Judicature for said County hereby certify that Daniel Gale is a Magistrate as within and that the within signatures purporting to be his are genuine - 
[court seal affixed] In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court this seventh day of October Anno Domini 1836. 
/s/F. Cogswell Clerk.

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I Nicholas Folsom of Gilmanton in the County of Strafford and State of New Hampshire, formerly of Exeter in said State aged seventy seven years, depose and say that I was well acquainted with Jonathan Perkins late of Gilmanton but formerly of Epping in said, State, and also with Elizabeth Folsom formerly of Exeter the widow of the said Jonathan Perkins deceased, that I was present at their marriage which took place in the winter of seventeen hundred seventy eight, and that they had three children while the said Jonathan Perkins was in the War of the Revolution, and Elizabeth Perkins remains the widow of the said Jonathan Perkins and she has never since been married - 
/s/Nicholas Folsom
State of New Hampshire
Strafford County ss} Sept. 9th 1836
Sworn to, and subscribed ['to' crossed out], on the day and year above written - 
Before me, /s/Daniel Gale Jus. Peace
I hereby certify that the above named Nicholas Folsom is a man well known to me, and is a man of truth and veracity - 
/s/Daniel Gale Jus. of the Peace

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Declaration
In order to obtain the benefit of the third section of the Act of Congress of the 4th of July 1836.
State of New Hampshire
Strafford County ss}
On this twelfth day of September A.D. 1836 - personally appeared before the Court of Probate holden at Gilmanton in the County of Strafford and State of New Hampshire, - Elizabeth Perkins, aged eighty four years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on her oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the Act of Congress, passed July 4th  1836 - That  she is the Widow of Jonathan Perkins, who was a Lieutenant in the Revolutionary War - He enlisted in the service of the War aforesaid as a ['private' crossed out] Sergeant I think in the Company commanded by Capt. ['Wait' crossed out] Moore in the month of ['April' crossed out] May 1775, and was in the Battle of Bunker Hill, and went to Quebec and was there when General Montgomery fell - I think about two years after he entered said service he was promoted to a Lieutenant in said Captain ['Wait's' crossed out] Moore's Company and remained in the  service untill the close of the War, except when he was occasionally at home on furlough's, he was in the Battles at Stillwater Trenton &c. - He was  wounded in the Army by the enemy in the left arm between the shoulder and the elbow by a musket ball passing

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through the same, for which wound he received the pension of an Invalid the sum of sixty dollars per annum, and afterwards the sum of two hundred and forty dollars per annum - she thinks he made a declaration of his services from the time he entered the service aforesaid untill the close of the War, before a Court of record which is on file in the Office of the Secretary of War - ['That she is the widow' crossed out] She further declares that she was married to the said Jonathan Perkins on the second day of March seventeen hundred and seventy eight, and that her husband the aforesaid Jonathan Perkins, died on the eleventh day of August A.D. 1824, and that she has remained a Widow ever since that period, as will more fully appear by reference to the proof hereto annexed - 
The said Jonathan Perkins was a resident of the Town of Epping in the State first above mentioned when he entered the service as aforesaid - 
/s/X her mark Elizabeth Perkins
Subscribed & Sworn to before me
/s/Daniel C. Atkinson Judge of Probate

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State of New Hampshire
Strafford ss - 
I hereby certify that Daniel C. Atkinson is a Judge of Probate in and for the county of Strafford aforesaid, and that the above is his genuine signature - 
[court seal affixed] In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of the Court of Probate for said county of Strafford this thirteenth day of September Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and thirty six - 
/s/Ira A. Eastman Register

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I certify that I have examined the Exeter town book of Records and there find recorded the Marriage of Johnathan Perkins to Elizebeth Folsom Exeter April 1, 1778 by Isaac Mansfield
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Daniel Melcher Town Clerk of Exeter
State of New Hampshire
Rockingham County
Nov. 11 1836
Personally appeared the above named David Melchor who is well known to me to be the Town Clerk for the keeping the records of the above named town of Exeter and that he is a person of truth and veracity and made oath in due form of Law that the above declaration by him subscribed is true.
Before me, 
In testimony whereof I have 
hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the Court of Common Pleas within and for said county this 11 Nov 1836
J. B. Hoitt Clerk Court Common Pleas for said county

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Rev. War Section
July 28, 1913
Mr. Henry D. Warren
Boston Athletic Association, Exeter Street, Boston, Mass.
Sir:
In response to your letter dated the 18th and received the 19th instant, you are advised that from the papers on file in this Bureau it appears that Jonathan Perkins was a resident of Epping New Hampshire, when he served in the Revolution as follows:
Enlisted May 1, 1775, as Sergeant in Captain Daniel Moore's Company, Colonel John Stark's regiment. New Hampshire troops, and was in the battle of Bunker Hill; he was transferred September 2, 1775, to Captain Henry Dearborn's company, under Benedict Arnold, was in the storming of Quebec where he was captured Jan 1, 1776, kept in irons seven weeks, and landed at Elizabethtown, NJ, Sept 24, 1776, on parole, but was not exchanged until June 1777; he was commissioned July 29, 1777, Ensign, in Captain Jason Wait's company, Colonel Joseph Cilley's 1st New Hampshire regiment was in both battles of Stillwater, battle of Monmouth, Chemung or Newtown, Aug 13, 1779, and skirmish with Indians, August 29, 1779; he was commissioned Mar 24, 1780, Lieut of Capt Moody Dustin's

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Jonathan Perkins - 2
company, Colonel Joseph Cilley's 1st regiment, and served until July 1783, when the army was disbanded at Newburgh, New York. 
A warrant numbered 1625 issued April 24, 1798, for 200 acres of land on account of his services as Lieutenant in the New Hampshire Line; he was pensioned at $5. per month from May 3, 1809, for gunshot wound of left arm sustained at the second battle of Stillwater, and at $20. per month from March 27, 1818, in which year he claimed to be sixty-nine years of age and a resident of Gilmanton, Strafford County, New Hampshire. 
Soldier married at Exeter, New Hampshire, April 1, 1778, Elizabeth Folsom; he died August 11, 1824, and she was allowed pension W. File No. 164055, on her application executed September 12, 1836, at which time she was 84 years of age and a resident of Gilmanton, where she died Jan 2, 1842. The following are the only children who survived her in 1852: Peter Perkins. Jonathan Perkins, Sally Perkins, Mary Dutton, Lydia Batchelder, and Hannah P. Brown. 
In 1820, soldier referred to his grandchild Perkins Gale, an orphan who was twelve years old. There is no further family data. E.C. Tieman

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Rev Widow etc
File 16055
Elizabeth Perkins
widow of 
Jonathan Perkins
Quarter Master Revolutionary War
Act July 4, 1836
Index Vol M, page 122

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May 19 1894 History to F.W. Perkins C/O D.[illegible] Kansas City, MO
May Mr.
S-Ha
1913 Jul 28, History to Henry D. Warren letter in S. 4474 Samuel Cherry and 
1914 Oct 13, Henry D. Warren furnished dates to apply and for int etc
1914 Nov 13 Henry D. W [illegible]
gives name of assignee B. L. Wt and inf no further data relative to same and explore giver of burning of records. See letter in Samuel Cherry, N.H. S44746 
1923 March 15, date of birth to Henry D. Warren. Letter & cards of reply in cl S.48748 of [illegible] MMH

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To all persons to whom these presents shall come I Jonathan Perkins of Gilmanton in the County of Strafford and State of New Hampshire, Gentlemen send greeting
Whereas I the said Jonathan Perkins was placed upon the pension list of the United States at the rate of five dollars per month commencing on 3 May 1809 for a known wound received in the revolutionary war and whereas by a 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. It is among other things provided that every commissioned officer who served in said revolutionary war until the close thereof on the continental establishments shall receive a pension from the US of $20. per month during life. Provided that no person shall be entitled to the provisions of said but until he shall have relinquished his claim to every pension heretofore allowed him by the laws of the US and whereas on the twenty seventh day of March instant I made solemn oath before the Honorable

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William Badgers one of the judges of the court of common pleas in the county of Strafford aforesaid setting forth that I served as a commissioned officer in said revolutionary war on the continental establishment from the month of July 1777 until the enemy was disbanded at the close of the war. In order to obtain the aforesaid pension of twenty dollars per month agreeable to the provision of said act.
Now know ye that the said Jonathan Perkins for the considerations aforesaid have remised released and quitclaimed and by these presents do for myself my executors and administrators remin, release and  [illegible] unto the said United States the aforesaid pension of five dollars per month and all other pensions heretofore granted or allowed me by the laws of the said United States. 
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this thirty first day of March 1818.
Signed sealed and declared in presence of us
Daniel Weymouth
William Badger
Jonathan Perkins

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Evidence of the 
indigence of
Lieut Jonathan Perkins

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Lieut. Jonathan Perkins
Your direct tax for the year 1816 is D. 0,-11 which must be paid to the collector in twenty days from this date Oct 25, 1816.
Samuel B. French
Deputy-collector for the 5th Division
2d Collection District of N. Hamp.

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We the subscribers hereby certify that we are well acquainted with the circumstances of Lieut. Jonathan Perkins of Gilmanton in the county of Strafford and state of New Hampshire who has this day made his solemn affidavit before the undersigned William Badger Esquire, to enable him to obtain a pension under the recent act of Congress for relief of the officers and soldiers, seamen, and marines of the revolutionary army and navy of the United States and we know him to be poor and indigent and to stand in need of assistance from his country for support. That his principal reliance for the maintenance of himself and family is a pension of $6.50 per month which he now receives for a known wound received in the revolutionary war and that he is old and infirm and unable to gain but little by his manual labor to supply himself and family with the necessaries of life.
Wm. Hutchinson
Sam B. French
Gilmanton, 
March 29, 1818

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State of New Hampshire
Strafford March 27, 1850. then personally appeared the within named Wm Hutchison and Samuel B French and made solemn oath that the within affidavit by them subscribed was just and true before
Wm Badger Justice of the Court of Common Pleas for said County of Strafford.

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Elizabeth Perkins
widow of Jonathan
D. D. Addison, Presents

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State of New Hampshire
Belknap
At a court of probate holden at Gilford in said county on 20 Jan 1852, satisfactory evidence was adduced that Elizabeth Perkins of Gilmanton in said county died at said Gilmanton on 2 Jan 1842 and that she was a pensioner under the laws of the United States. 
On the 19 Apr 1842, Peter Perkins of said Gilmanton was duly appointed administrator on the estate of the said Elisabeth Perkins and said appointment has never been annulled but is still in full force.
In witness whereof I have hereto set my hand and the seal of said court this 20 Jan 1852. 
O.A.J. Vaughen
Register of Probate

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Elizabeth Perkins deceased
of N Nathan

D.D. Addison, present

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Department of State 
Washington December 29, 1851
D.D. Addison, Esquire
Washington, DC
Sir
In reoly to your request of this date, relative to the Revolutionary services of Jonathan Perkins, a Lieutenant and Quarter Master in the New Hampshire line, I have to state that it appears from an examination of the Army returns Vol. 35, in the return of the Officers of the New Hampshire Grade of March 21, 178- that the name of Jonathan Perkins is entered thereon as Lieutenant and Quarter Master under commission dated 24th March 178-.
The date of the return has been defaced. It must however have been subsequent to that of the 10 Jul 1782 as a name is entered opposite 
that date.
I am Sir respectfully your obedient servant, 
Daniel Webster.

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Brief in the case of Elizabeth Perkins deceased widow of Jonathan
County and State of New Hampshire
Act 4 July 1836
Claim, proof exhibited

This claim was originally allowed for 2 years at Lieut at $320 per annum: Record evidence recently filed from the Dept of State shows that he was Quarter Master also during the same time, I therefore allow him the increased pay.

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Treasury Department 
Third Auditor's Office
December 12, 1860
Sir:
In reply to your letter of the 8th instant, I have to inform you that the pension of Elizabeth Perkins, deceased, amounting to $1689.14 was paid to Peter Perkins Administrator "for himself, Jonathan Perkins, Sally Perkins, Mary Dutton, Lydia Batchelder, and Hannah P. Brown" on the
9th of August 1852. The above are the children named in the body of the original pension certificate.
Very Respectfully Your obedient servant, 
R. J. [illegible] Auditor 
Ser: C. Whiting Esquire
Commissioner of Pensions

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Baryn, May 6, 1858
Hon. G. C. Whiting
Com Pensions
Sir:
Lieutenant Jonathan Perkins who died in Gilmanton N.H. Augt 1825 served from the commencement to the close of the Revolutionary War and drew a pension which was probably payable at Portsmouth, N.H. 
it is said never received the bounty land due him. Will you please inform me in relation thereto.
John G. Hodsden

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Mr. Henry D. Warren
Boston Athletic Association
Exeter Street, Boston, Mass.
Sir:
In response to your inquiry of the 29th ultimo, you are advised that Bounty land Warrant No. 323 for 300 acres was issued June 24, 1795 to William S. Thom assignee, on account of the Revolutionary War services of Captain Samuel Cherry, and Bounty Land Warrant No. 1625 for 200 acres was issued April 24, 1798, to Daniel Gookins assigned on account of the Revolutionary War services of Lieutenant Jonathan Perkins and there is no 
further information on file relative to either of said warrants.
This is owing to the fact that the papers in such claims which were then in the custody of the War Department were destroyed when the building which that Department occupied was burned in November 1800, and the data furnished you above was obtained from an old record book which was saved and which does not report the location or the lands or throw any further light on the subject.

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These lands were granted by the United States
but if the location is not on record in the General Land Office which has jurisdiction over such matters, while this Bureau only adjudicated such claims, it is not known how or whether you could obtain any further information on the subject owing to the destruction of the records.
Very respectfully,
G. M. Saltzgaber, Commissioner
See letter from Land Office endorsed with Mr. Warren's request in claim of Capt Samuel Cherry, the Land Office cannot state location of these warrants it says in that letter.

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Rev. War Section
Oct 13, 1914
Mr. Henry W. Warren
282 Berkeley Street
Boston, Mass
Sir:
In response to your letter dated the 8th instant, in regard to Lieut. Jonathan Perkins, W. File No. 16,055, Rev. War. you are advised that the soldier died Aug 11, 1824, and his widow Elizabeth died January 2, 1842, at Gilmanton, New Hampshire, as stated in letter to you from this Bureau dated July 28, 1913.
If however, you desire to apply to the auditor for the Interior Department U.S. Treasury Department relative to said dates, you should cite the following data in so doing:
Jonathan Perkins, Ctf. No. 4,324, issued November 12, 1818, at the rate of $20. per month to commence March 27, 1818, under Act of March 18, 1818, at the New Hampshire Agency.
Elizabeth Perkins, Ctf. No. 288, issued Feb 6, 1852, rate $476. per annum, to commence March 4, 1831, Act of Jul 4, 1836 at the New Hampshire Agency.
Very respectfully,
G. M. Saltzgaber
Commissioner

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For. Mr. Gordon, 
Did Jonathan Perkins receive land as a [illegible] man in the New Hampshire Contl line? He was a Sergeant Ensign Lieutenant & Company
[illegible]
Warrant W. 1625 for $200 acres issued April 24, 1798 to Daniel Gookins, Assignee of Jonathan Perkins a Lieutenant of the New Hampshire line. Room N.15, Pension Office
May 11, 1858

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Sons of the American Revolution
Kansas City Chapter
Kansas City, MO
Hon. D. J. Murphy
Washington, D.C.
Dear Sir:
Kindly send me the Revolutionary record of Hampton Jonathan Perkins of N. H. as same may appear on the files of your office; to perfect the application of F. W. Perkins to membership in the above order.
Respectfully,
D S Harriman, Pres. 

U.S. Pension Office Mar 31, 1897

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Record Division
Dept of the Interior
Bureau of Pensions
Washington DC
In reply to your request for a statement of the military history of Jonathan Perkins, a soldier of the Revolutionary War, you will find below the desire information as contained in his or his widow's application for pension on file in this bureau.
Dates of enlistment or appointment, length of service, rank, officers under whom service was rendered and state.

May 1, 1775, Sergeant under Capt Daniel Moore and Colonel John Stark, N.H.

Sept 2, 1775 under Henry Dearborn and Benedict Arnold

Jan 1, 1776 to Sept 24, 1776 was a prisoner at Quebec (7 wks in irons)

July 29, 1777 Ensign under Capt Jason Wilt and Colonel Joseph Cilley, N.H.

March 24, 1780 to July 1783, a Lieut. under Cap Moody Dustin and Col. J. Cilley, N.H.

Battles engaged in: Bunker Hill, Quebec: both battles of Stillwater, Monmounth, Newtown, [illegible] with indians Aug 29, 1779
Residence of Soldier at enlistment: Epping, N.H.
Date of application for pension, March 27, 1818
Residence at date of application, Gilmonton, Strafford Co., N.H.
Age at date of application 69 years.
Remarks: Sol. married Exeter N.H. Apr 1, 1778, Elizabeth Folsom; he died Aug 11, 1824, and she was allowed pension W. 16055 on her application Sept 12, 1836 at which time she was 84 years of age and a resident of Gilmonton, N.H. where she died Jan 2, 1842 having only children Peter, Jonathan & Sally Perkins, Mary Dutton, Lydia Batchelder and Hannah P. Brown in 1852. 
Very respectfully
nd left arm
orphan gr ch Perkins Gale se 12 in 1820:
Commissioner

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Elizabeth Perkins
widow of 
Jonathan Perkins
N.H.
Adm. 2 yr Lieut
$23 [illegible] per annum
comm 4 Mar 1831

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State of New Hampshire
Strafford County, Gilmanton
Nov 23, 1836
Sir:
I herewith return you the declaration of Elizabeth Perkins with the evidence accompanying the same, and I have amended the certificate of the Town Clerk of the Town of [illegible] of the said Elizabeth marriage in which there was no record of the same; also enclosed is the certificate from the clerk of the town of Sanbornton relative to the marriage of [illegible] Smith. An answer is requested as soon as may be and the same directed to Gilford P. Office N.H.
I am respectfully your obedient servant, 
J. L. Edwards, Esquire
Washington City

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Portsmouth, N.H.
Dec 6, '60
Sir:
Will you do me the favor to inform me whether within the past ten years any pension money has been paid to the heirs of Lieut Jonathan Perkins late of Gilmanton, Belknap County, N.H.
There is no record of such payment in this office but it is expected that money has been paid, and to the wrong parties.
Very truly
Your obedient servant
Albert G. Hoyt, Pension Agent
(over)

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P.S.
Please state the name of the person to whom paid the amount paid and the time when. I would call your particular attention to the years 1853 & 4.
[illegible]

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Increase
Elizabeth Perkins dec
widow of Jonathan
N.H.
Act 4 Jul 1836
2 yrs Lt & 2 M. $476. per annum to 2 Jan 1842 when she died. Former payments at the rate of $320 per annum to be deducted.
Payable to Peter Perkins administrator for the benefit of himself, Jonathan Perkins, Sally Perkins, Mary Dutton, Lydia Batchelder and Hannah P. Brown 
only children
cert to 
D. D. Addison

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The United States of America in Congress Assembled for Land Warrant April 24, 1798 Jonathan Perkins Gentleman greeting we reposing especial trust confidence in your patriotism valour conduct and fidelity do by these presents constitute and appoint you to Lieutenant in the first New Hampshire regiment in the army of the United States to take rank as such from the 24 Mar 1780. You are therefore carefully and diligently to discharge the duty of a Lieutenant by doing and performing all manner of things thereunto belonging and the strictly charge and require all officers and soldiers under your command to be obedient to your orders as Lieutenant, and you are to observe and follow such orders and directions from time to time as you shall receive from this a future congress of the US or committee of Congress for that purpose appointed a committee of the states or commander in chief for the time being of the army of the US or any other your superior officer, according to the rules and discipline of war in pursuance of the trust reposed in you. This commission. to continue inforce until revoked by this or a future congress the Committee of Congress beforementioned or a committee of the States. 

Entered in the War Office and examined by the Board Attest [illegible] Castleton

Witness his excellency Thomas M Keane President of the congress of the United States of America at Philadelphia the 3 Oct 1781 and in the sixth year of our independence. Thos M. Keane, President

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In Congress.
The Delegates of the United Colonies of New Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, the Counties of New Castle, Kent, and Suffix on Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia to 
Jonathan Perkins, Gentleman Greeting, 
We reposing especial trust and confidence in your patriotism, valour, conduct, and fidelity, do by these presents, constitute and appoint you to be Ensign of Captain Jason Wait's Company in the first Battalion of New Hampshire Troops commanded by Colonel Joseph Cilley Esq
in the Army of the United Colonies raised for the defense of American Liberty, and for repelling every hostile invasion thereof. You are therefore carefully and diligently to discharge the Duty of Ensign by doing and performing all Manner of Things thereunto belonging. And we do strictly charge and require all officers and soldiers under your command to be obedient to your orders as Ensign and you are to observe and follow such orders and directions from time to time as you shall receive from this or a future congress of the United Colonies or Committee of Congress for that purpose appointed or commander in chief for the time being of the Army of the United Colonies or any other your superior officer according to the rules and discipline of war in pursuance of the trust reprsted in you. This commission to continue in force until revoke by this or a future congress. Dated the 29 July 1777
by order of the Congress
John Hancock, Presidnet
Attest: Charles Thomson [illegible]

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282 Berkeley St.
Berlin, Connecticut 8th
Dear Sir:
Will you kindly send me as soon as convenient his number of his certificate in the case of one Lieut Jonathan Perkins
a Rev Pensioner so but I may write the auditor for the Treas Dept for date of said soldier's death place of residence

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and to when arrears were paid and to where
Thanking you for your kindness and hoping for an early reply, I am
Very respectfully
Henry B. Warren
His widow Elizabeth Perkins had a pension also; file 16055. May I ask [illegible] of her certificate also. W.