Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 30,207, Jonathan Wilder, Mass.

SERVICE
Wilder, Jonathan
NUMBER
Mass.
S. 30.207
CONTENTS

8150 Massachusetts
Jonathan Wilder
Lancaster in the State of Mass who was a Sgt & Spr in the company commanded by Captain Sawyer of the Regt commanded by Col. Whitney in the Massachusetts line for 1 Month & 15 Days Sgt
7 " 7 " Private
State
79 March
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of $31. - Dollars - 60 - Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 13 th day of March 1833 and sent to Dana Present
Arrears to 4th of March 1833 63.20 Semu=ant. allowance ending 4 Sept 15.80 $79.00
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by Daniel Page Clerk Book 8 Vol. 2 nd Page 90.

Please to direct to James Dana Esq. Gaston, Ill.
Declaration of Jonathan Wilder Stealing
21526
Sept 1 Month & 15 days March 7 Month & 7 day 8 " 22
Amount 31.60
Sawyer Whitney
James Dana Esq.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
County of Worcester ss.
On this fourteenth day of August  Providence A.D. 1832 Worcester personally appeared in open Court before the Court of Common Pleas , now sitting at within and for the County of Worcester in the Commonwealth aforesaid Lancaster in said County
Jonathan Wilden of age  seventy seven years
Who being duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress, passed June 7th 1832. That he entered the service of the United States, under the following named officers, and served as herein stated. That is to say
1 That he was a minute man, in the Town of Lancaster on 1774 And on the 19 th of April AD 1775 with 100 men marched with the Company to Concord where he encamped that night & proceeded to Cambridge next day where he remained three weeks in the Company of Capt. Hayden  Hayden which was attached to Col. Whitecomb's Regt. as he continued and was then dismissed and returned home. 2 In the summer AD 1776 he engaged to go to New York for 5 months and enlisted in the Company of Capt. Samuel Sawyer, Lieut. Sawyer and Godfrey in Col. Smith's Regiment, of Mass. forces, he marched to New York and encamped at Bloomingdale, in September he returned from York Island, marched to Kingsbridge and White Plains served out his five months and was dismissed at Croton river. 3 In the fall of AD 1777 he enlisted to go to the Northern frontier for 6 weeks in the Company of Capt. Eager, in Lt. Col. Sawyer's Regiment of Mass. forces, he marched to Binnington just before the surrender of Burgoyne's Army, and afterwards encamped at Fort Edward, from whence on the opposite side of the river he saw the British Army surrender, and was soon after dismissed, having served six weeks. 4 In the summer of 1778 he engaged to serve 6 weeks at Rhode Island and enlisted into the Company of Capt. Mansfield Sawyer of Sterling, in Col. Josiah Whitney's Regt. in which he was appointed a Sergeant and marched with his Company over Howland's Ferry, on to the Island & there encamped until after Sullivan's retreat, when they returned to Providence and there remained until he completed his term of six weeks and was dismissed.

He relinquishes every claim, whatever, to a pension or annuity, whatever except, the present, and declares that his name is not on the pension roll, of the agency of any State, subscribed the day and year aforesaid
Sworn to and
Before Nathl. Greene Judge of Probate for the County of Worcester Jon d Wilder
We Nathaniel Thayer D.D. a Clergyman residing in the town of Lancaster and Ebenezer Wilder of the same Lancaster in the county of Worcester hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Jonathan Wilder who has subscribed and sworn to the above, and that we believe him to be 77 years of age, that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood, where he resides, to have been a soldier in the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion. Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
Sworn Before Nathl. Greene Judge of Probate for the County of Worcester Jonathan Wilder
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, that after the investigation of the matter, and putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier, and served as he states. And the Court further certifies that it appears to them, that Nathaniel Thayer is a Clergyman resident in the town of Lancaster & that Ebenezer Wilder of said Lancaster is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
Before Nathl. Greene Judge of Probate for the County of Worcester Joseph Wheeler Register of the Court of Probate for Worcester County
do hereby certify, that the foregoing contains, the original proceedings, of the said Court, in the matter of the application of Jonathan Wilder for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this fourteenth August in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred and thirty two
Joseph Wheeler Register of Probate for the County of Worcester in Massachusetts -
Declaration
Worcester ss
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
I Theophilus Wheeler Register of the Court of Probate for the County of Worcester do hereby
certify that, since making the above certificate, dated the 14th day of August 1832, the certificate of the Secretary of State has been produced, to the said Court, and that the papers now annexed to the Petitioner's application for a Pension constitute the evidence to support the claim -
I further certify that Hon. Samuel Dana, before whom one of the annexed affidavits was made, is a Justice of the Peace throughout said Commonwealth, as I believe, and that Alexander Dutton before whom one other of the annexed affidavits was made, is a Justice of the Peace in the County of Worcester, and that the names thereunto subscribed are their true and proper signatures -
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my name & affixed the seal of said Court this 26th day of December 1832 Theophilus Wheeler Reg t of said Court

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Worcester Wiltshire , to wit,
At the Court of Inferior Worcester within and for the County of Worcester begun and holden at Worcester on the 14th day of August A. D. 1832 On the application of Jonathan Walder claiming to be a Soldier of the Revolution, the following Interrogatories were propounded to him to wit :
1. Where, and in what year were you born ?
Answer, I was born in Lancaster Ms on the 22 d of April AD 1788-
2. Have you any record of your age, and where is it ?
Answer, I have no family record, but there is a record of my age on Lancaster records -
3. Where were you living, when called into service, where have you lived since the Revolutionary War, and where do you now live ?
Answer, I lived in Lancaster when I was born where I always have, and now do live -
4. How were you called into service, were you drafted, did you volunteer, or were you a substitute, and if a substitute for whom ?
Answer, All my services were voluntary, and of my own accord. I never rec d any discharge from service. Ans r I never rec d any written discharge from service.
5. State the names of some of the regular Officers, who were with the troops, where you served, such Continental, and Militia Regiments, as you can recollect, and the general circumstances of your service?
Answer, I saw Genl Washington at New York Genl Sullivan at Rhode Island Genl Greene at Rhode Island and Genl Lee at New York, Forts Leamington Boulders near of Ms.
6. State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood, and who can testify as to your character for veracity, and their belief of your services as a Soldier of the Revolution?
Answer, Rev d Dr Thayer Col o Jonas Lane, Capt John Thurston Capt d Josiah Bowers, Anthony Lane & Samuel Carter - Selectmen of Lancaster. Jon d Walder

Jonathan Wilder

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Nov. 26 1832.
I hereby Certify, That, from an examination of the Books and Documents, relating to Military Services in the War of the Revolution, which remain in this Department, it appears that
Jonathan Wilder is borne as 1 st Corporal on "A Pay roll of Capt. Fortunatus Sawyer's  Hasson's Coxe's company, in Lt. Col. Ephraim Hasson's regiment, who marched as a reinforcement to the northern army, for the space of 25. days, from the 2 d of October 1777 —
Again. Jonathan Wilder is borne as a Sergeant , on "A Pay roll of Capt. Manasseh Sawyers company in Col. Josiah Whitney's regiment which served in the State of Rhode Island" for the space of 1. month and 15. days. from the 30. th of July to the 15. th of September 1778.
I further certify that there is no roll of Capt. Samuel Sawyers company, in service at New-York, on file in this office.
Edward D. Bangs, Secy.

30 207 INVALID.
Ray
File No. 30,207
Jonathan Wilder Clerg Rev War
Act: June 8 th 89 th
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 55
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Affidavit of John Thurston in the case of Jonathan Wilder

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Worcester ss. August 1 st 1832
Personally appeared before me the Subscriber a Justice of the Peace, within and for all the Counties in said Commonwealth John Thurston who subscribed the annexed Deposition and who is a disinterested and credible witness - and made solemn Oath that the same is just and true in all its particulars according to the best of his knowledge and belief.
Sam d Dana

I John Thurston of Lancaster in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, aged seventy seven years do depose and say that I served in the war of the revolution, as by my declaration on file in the Pension office will appear. —
And I further testify and say that I well knew Jonathan Wilder of Lancaster Me. who served in that war, and knew that he was a minute man in 1774 and went to Concord fight, and that afterwards he served five months in a campaign at New York in Capt. Samuel Sawyer's Company Col. Smith's Regt of Mass. forces, and that he also served in a campaign in 1777 at the capture of Burgoyne's Army in Capt. Eager's Company in the Regt. of which was L. H. Col. Sawyer in both which Companies I served with him —
John Thurston

Nat. Houghton's
Affidavit. in the case of Jonathan Miller

Nathaniel Houghton of Sterling in the County of Worcester and Commonwealth of Massachusetts of the age of seventy three years, testify and say that in July 1778 as a volunteer joined the com- pany of Artillery commanded by Capt. Mansfield Sawyer who, as will as my self, lived in the West Parish of Lancaster, now situated in said County. Richard Forcened & one Berly were his Lieut. in Col. Josiah Whitney's Regiment. That Jonathan Wilder of then said Lancaster was a ser- geant in said Company, and he and the remainder of the Com- pany marched from Lancaster, through Mendon into the State of Rhode Island, through Fall River, crossed over How- land's Ferry into the Island of Rhode Island, and were there under the command of Gen. John Sullivan where we remained until we retreated from the Island by order of General Sullivan; we reformed at Howland's Ferry, and went to Providence, thence passed down to a village called Pawtucket where we remained until we were destroyed; that said Jonathan Wilder did remain in said Company during the whole time, in the capacity of sergeant, and was destroyed when I was with the rest of the company. I have been ac- quainted with said Wilder ever since, for some time before his entering the service of said Col. has always lived in Lancaster, has remained in the town , until while in the service of the United States, being a native of that town. Nathaniel Houghton
Worcester ss. August 13. 1832. Personally appeared Nathaniel Houghton above said, in my presence submitted and made oath to the truth of the above affidavit; I certify that I have been well acquainted with said Houghton and his character for truth is good.
Richd. D. Weston Justice of the Peace