Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 33840, Jonathan Turner, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER _____
Mass.
Turner, Jonathan
S 33840
B.L. Mt. 478-300
CONTENTS

33840 Rev INVALID.
File No. 33 840
Jonathan Turner Capt Rev War
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 124
[Arrangement of 1870.]

No 70
THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA IN Congress ASSEMBLED
Greeting.
To Jonathan Turner Esquire
We Reposing special trust and confidence in your Patriotism, Valour, Conduct and Fidelity, DO by these presents constitute and appoint you to be a Captain in the Tenth Massachusetts Regiment in the Army of the United States, to take rank as such _____ from the fourth day of October 1780 You are therefore carefully and diligently to discharge the duty of a Captain by being and performing all manner of things therein belonging. And we do strictly charge and require all Officers and Soldiers, under your command, to be obedient to your orders, as Captain. 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 States, 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 United States, 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 in force until revoked by this, or a future Congress, the Committee of Congress before mentioned, or a Committee of the States.
Witness His Excellency John Hanson Esq President of the Congress of the United States of America at Philadelphia the sixteenth day of September A.D. 1782 and in the Seventh Year of our Independence.
John Hanson
By Order of Congress
C. Smith Secretary at War

Jonathan Turner's letter of Attorney to Chas. Turner Esq.

I know all Men by these Presents, that I Jonathan Turner, of Situate, in the County of Plymouth, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Gentleman, have constituted and made, and do by these Presents constitute and make Charles Turner Esq. of said Situate, in said County & State Esq. my true and lawful Attorney; for me, and in my name to receive of the proper Officer, in the War- Department of the United States, the Certificate, or Warrant, of the Lands belonging to me as a Captain in the late Army of the United States, and in my name to sign such Receipts therefor as shall be usual in said Office, hereby ratifying and confirming all that my said Attorney shall lawfully do in the premises, by virtue hereof. For Witness whereof I have hereunto set my Hand & Seal, this Seventeenth day of October, in the Year of Our Lord, One thou- sand Eight-hundred and nine. In presence of - Jonathan Turner Hayward Pierce Elijah Pierce
Plymouth ss November 1 st 1809. Then personally appeared Jonathan Turner, and acknowledged the above letter of Attorney, by him subscribed, to be his Free Act. Before me. Hayward Pierce Esq. Pierce

No 178.
Jonathan Turner
Cap.
Map W. time
This claim is good by a warrant to issue on proper application.
H. Rogers.
25. May 1809.
W. issued 2 d Dec. 1809 to Mr. H. C. Turner Esq.

16. 184
Massachusetts Jonathan Turner
of Scituate in the state of Massachusetts who was a Captain in the regiment commanded Colonel Marshall of the Massachusetts line, for the term of Seven Years
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 20 Dollars per month, to commence the 4 of October 1819
Certificate of Pension issued the 29 4 th of Decr Jan y 1820 and due to Nahum Mitchell Esq. E. Bridgewater Massachusetts
Arrears to 4th of Mar. 1820 100. 67
Semi-ann. all'ce ending
Mar 31
$ 100. 67
{ Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818. }

Jonathan Turner (Mass.) —
B.L.Wt. 478-300
Muster roll of capt. Jonathan Turner's 5 th co., col. David Cobb's 5 th mass. regt. of foot, signed J. Turner, capt. and W. Barber, Major and asst. Inspector, dated April 24, 1783
has been removed from this claim to be sent to the War Dept.
D.G. am Jan 20, 1912 Sent to War Dept. Jan. 16, 1913

Jon a Turner Scituate Mass.
Captain.
76 to 83
Marshall Map to
Page
Samuel

COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
Plymouth ss.
On this fourth day of October A D 1818, before me the subscriber, one of the Judges of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, for the Southern Circuit, personally appeared Jonathan Turner of Situatuate Mass aged seventy seven years, resident in the said Circuit, who being by me first duly cautioned according to law, on his oath made the following declaration, by him signed, 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."
I Jonathan Turner depose set forth and declare, that I served as an Officer in the revolutionary war on the continental establishment during the whole war and until the close of it - I was at first a Lieutenant and afterwards a Captain. I served most of the time in the 10 th Mass. Regiment, which was first commanded by Col. Marshall and afterwards by Col. Tupper: at the close of the war I was transferred to the 5 th Mass. Regiment commanded by Col. Putnam. My last Commission I herewith forward to the war office. From my reduced circumstances I need the assistance of my country for support.
Jonathan Turner

And I the said Judge do certify that I am satisfied the said Turner needs the assistance of his country as he has sworn. —
also And I, the said Judge, do certify, that it appears to my satisfaction, that the said John Turner did serve in the revolutionary war, as stated in the preceding declaration, against the com- mon enemy, for the term of nine months, on the continental establishment; 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.
Nahum Mitchell
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
1818.
ss.
I HEREBY CERTIFY, That is one of the Judges of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the Southern Circuit, consisting of the Counties of Plymouth, Norfolk, Bristol, Barnstable, Dukes and Nantucket in said Commonwealth—that the same Circuit Court of Common Pleas is a Court of record—that the signature to the above cer- tificate is the true signature of the said Judge, and that the seal thereunto affixed is the seal of the said Court.
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