Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 43,746, for Jedediah Osborn, New Jersey

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SERVICE                                                   NUMBER
New jersey  Osborn, jebediah                S 43746

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8164

New York
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Jebediah Osborn
of Ontario city in the State of New York who was a Private in the egiment commanded by Colonel Ogden of the New Jersey Line, for the term of six years
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Inscribed on the Roll of New York
at the rate of 8 dollars per month, to commence on the 8 of July 1818
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Certificate of Penson issued 23 of March 181
4 and snt t Stephen Phels Esquire

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Decleration of Jedediah Osborn
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July 4th 1818


The Honorable 
( ) of ( )

Admitted

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State of New York Ontario County ?  On this 8th day of July - 1918 before me the ? One of the Judges of the Court of Common pleas in ? For the County of Ontarios ? ? Appears Jedediah Osborn aged Sixty seven years resident in the said County who ? 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 ? Engaged in the land of ? Service of the United States in the revolutionary war” That of the said Jedediah Osborn until in the year Seventeen hundred and seventy five in Orange County in the State of New York in the Company ? By Captain John Wood under Colonel Nichols in a Regiment not now are together, that he continued to serve in said Corps for five months and was during that time in different Battles at the expiration there was discharged That’s he afterwards in the ? Of May Seventeen Hundred and Seventy Six enlisted during the war in Morristown in the State of New Jersey in the Company commander by Captain Silas Howell under Lieutenant Colonel De Hart and First Colonel Mathias Ogden of the first Jersey Regiment that he continued to serve in this last mentioned Corps in the service of the United States until the month of September in the year Seventeen Hundred and Seventy nine when he was discharged from ? ? In Elizabethtown State of New Jersey by

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Colonel Mathias Ogden in consequence of injuries recieved by explosion of powder, that he was in the Battles of Monmouth & Germantown & others that he is in reduced circumstances & stands in absolute need of the assistance of his Country for support & that he has no other evidence now in his power of his said services.

Sworn to & declared before me     (signed) Jedidiah Osborn
the day  & year aforesaid
Stephen Phelps

I Stephen Phelps, one of the judges of the Court of Common Pleas in & for the county of Ontario as aforesaid do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Jedediah Osborn did serve in the revolutionary War as state in the preceding decleration against the common enemy, I& that he the said Jedidiah Osborn is in reduced circumstances & absolutely needs the assistance of his Country for support and I now transmit the  proceedings & testimony taken & had before me to the secretary for the department of War persuent to the directions of the aforementioned Act of Congress -
Day and year July 8th 1818  Stephen Phelps

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The Honorable Secertary of the Department of War if my claims are allowed will please to forward a certificate of the same to Stephen Phelps judge of   ( )  who is authorized to Review the same
Jediah Osborn

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State of New York     Stephen Phelps
Ontario County}  Ss   In testimony that the Clerks office} ( ) whose name is Burrenke tot he foregoing certificate wason the day of  his date of the same and of the judges of the Court of COmmon Pleas in & for the County of Ontario and tht the same is his signature I hereunto subscribe my name & affix the County seal as can and ( ) this 8th day of july AD 1818
Hu McNair

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Decleration of Jedediah Osborn
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July 8th 1818


The Honorable
Lucy of ( )

Admitted

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In the application of MAry Reynolds for Bounty Land
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Return to be made to WH Fox Station
D Bible House New York

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State of New York
Delaware County Ss:  Jacob Osborn being duly sworn and says that he is one of the heirs to Jedediah Osborn deceased a Revolutionary soldier.  What he is now twenty years of age and the only living heir of said Jedediah Osborn except Mary Reynolds of Wilson Niagara County New York, And Departmnt further says that his Father enlisted in the Revoluionary Service same time about the year 1776 and served in said War for the space of over three years in the Jersey Regiment and that as deponent is informed & believed, he never recieved a Bounty land Warrant from the United States for said service neither has deponent recieved any And deponent says that his father was injured and wounded while in said service very badly as that his life was dispaired of some time. And I hereby relinquish allc laim to said Bounty Land in favor of my said sister Mary Reynolds
Personally appeared the above named jacob Osborn before me, and subscibed this afidavit & made oath to the same and acknowledged the same to be

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STATE OF NEW YORK,
ONTARIO COUNTY, ss

On this nineteenth day of August 1820 personally appeared in open court, (being a court of common pleas in and for said county and constituted Court of record by proceeding according to the course of the common law, with a jurisdiction unlimited in point ant, and keeping a record of its proceedings and recognized as such court by the laws and judicial decisions of said state.) JJedediah Osborn aged Seventy one years, resident in the town of Benton in said county, who, being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath declare, that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows:
for the term of three years in Captain Sils Howell's Company in the first New Jersey Regiment Commanded by Colonel Ogden commencing in March 1776-

and that he made application for Pension on the eighth day of July 1818 and that he recieved  Pension Certificate, No 8,164. And do solomnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States in the eighteenth day of MArch, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, 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 entitiled, "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 12th day of March 1818 and any income other than what is contained in the Schedule here to annexed, and by me subscribed, viz.

One cow----12.00
one axe 1,00 3 pails, 50-----1.50
6 cups and saucers, 25 -4 tin cups .25---.50
2 tubs, 50 - 1 draw shave .25 -----.75
1 tro .25  3 chairs. 50----.75
1 pot .50 - 2 kettles (small) $1.00--1.50
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                                        $17.00
                             Jedediah Osborn
And I do futher swear and declare that I am by occupation a basket maker and that by age and bodily infirmities I am able to perform but very little labour and that my family consists of my wife Abigail aged 69 years unable to labour -  Jedidiah osborn
Sworn to and declared this 19th day of August 1820 in open court before me
Wm Rogers
a judge of Ontario Com Pleas

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ONTARIO COUNTY, ss
I JOhn Van Fossen Clerk of said county, do hereby certify, that the foregoing Oath, and the Schedule thereto annexed, are truy copied from  the Record of the said Court; and I furhter 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 Seventeen dollars and - cents.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this twenty seven day of August A.D. 1820
J Van Fossen Clerk of the Court aforesaid, in and for County.

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 43746
INVALID
Revy
File No. 43746
Jedidiah Osborn
( ) Rev War
Act: 18 March 18
Index: - Vol 3, Page 373
[Arrangement of 1870]