Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 33808, Jonathan Tower, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass
Tower, Jonathan
S 33808
CONTENTS

10.255
Massachusetts Jonathan Tower
of Lincoln in the state of Massachusetts who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Brooks of the Massachusetts line, for the term of Two Years
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of eight Dollars per month, to commence the 29 th of August 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the sixth of May 1819 and sent to Hon: John Davis Boston Massachusetts
  Arrears to 4th of Mar: 1819.  49. 80    Semi-ann. all'ce ending 4 th Sep: 1819.  48. 00     $ 97. 80  
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Continued
Notification Sent to Abraham Biglow Esq: Col 13. 1820 Cambridge, Mass.

617
Jonathan Sawyer
Private Col Brooks Mass t Regt
1781-2 years
Admitted

I Jonathan Sower of Lincoln in the County of Middlesex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, being in the fifty fourth Year of my Age, testify depose and say that in the Year A.D. one thousand seven hundred and eighty one, then in the seventeenth Year of my age, I enlisted in the Continental Service, for the term of three Years, and was put under the Command of Jonathan Maynard Esquire, of Framingham in the County of Middlesex aforesaid, in the Regiment commanded by his Excellency John Brooks Esquire, and faithfully served until into the Year A.D. one thousand seven hundred and eighty three, when I was regularly discharged; I am in indigent circumstances, have neither House nor Land, have a Wife and two minor Children to provide for; last Spring I was dangerously Sick, was then unable to apply for a Pension, my Constitution is much broken by that and other sickness and wounds. And I further declare that I am in such reduced circumstances in life as to stand in need of assistance from my Country for support. Jonathan Sower
Mass. Dist. Ct. Aug. 29. 1818
Never to be paid me 200
MASSACHUSETTS DISTRICT, ss.
Boston September 3 A. D. 1818
IT appearing to my satisfaction, that Jonathan Sower subscriber to the annexed declaration, sworn to before me, did serve in the revolutionary war against the common enemy, as stated in said declaration, I now transmit the testimony in the case, with the proceedings had thereon, to the Secretary of the department of war, pursuant to the directions of the Act entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war;" the testimony and proceedings in the premises being the declaration aforesaid, with the accompanying documents marked A. B. — together with this certificate.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the District Court of the United States for this District to be hereunto affixed.
W. Davis } Judge of the District Court U. S. Massachusetts District.

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Jonathan Tower
Residence 10255
Cam
May 19
Ms. A. 9. 2. 188
Given that the said Jonathan Tower is owner of the property situated in the town of Cambridge, County of Middlesex, State of Massachusetts, and described as follows: (faded legal description of land)
Witnesseth, that the said Jonathan Tower has hereunto set his hand and seal this 19th day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty.
Jonathan Tower

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
MIDDLESEX, ss.
At the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the Middle Circuit, begun and holden at Concord, within and for the County of Middlesex, on the second Monday of June A. D. 1820
Before the Hon. SAMUEL DANA, Esquire, Chief Justice,
and WILLIAM WETMORE, and } Associate Justices STEPHEN MINOT, Esquires, } of said Court.
In open Court here, being a Court of Record for said Circuit, proceeding according to the course of the common law, with a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount, keeping a record of its proceedings, and having the power of fine and imprisonment, Jonathan Sower resident in Lincoln in said Circuit, who is named in Pension Certificate No. 10.255 now in his possession, of which the following is a true copy, to wit,
“ WAR DEPARTMENT.....REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.
“ I certify that, in conformity with the Law of the United States, of the late a “ 18th March, 1818, Jonathan Sower
“ Private in the army of the Revolution, is inscribed on the “ Pension List, Roll of the Massachusetts Agency, at the rate of eight “ dollars per month, to commence on the twenty ninth day of
“ August one thousand eight hundred and eighteen “ Given at the War Office of the United States, this fifth “ day of May one thousand eight hundred and nineteen
J. C. CALHOUN, Secretary of War,”
by Elijah Siske his Guardian, appears, and exhibits to the Court here a Schedule, subscribed by him, as follows, to wit,
SCHEDULE,
containing his whole estate and income, his necessary clothing and bedding excepted, to wit, “ he has no property real or personal is fifty six years of age nearly has no family and has nothing to depend upon for support but his pension and the said Siske does on oath declare that the said Sower served in the war of the Revolution three years as he has understood in the company commanded by Captain Maynard Elijah Siske } Guardian to Jonathan Sower. ”

and at the same time he produces to the Court here the following Oath, taken and subscribed by him, before the Hon. a Judge of said Court as aforesaid, to wit,
I, _____ do solemnly swear, that I was a resident citizen of the United States, on 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 whatever, 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 eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, 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. So help me GOD.
Middlesex ss. C. C. C. P.
Term, A. D. 182
Then the abovenamed took and subscribed the aforewritten Oath before me.
Judge of said Court.
I, ABRAHAM BIGLOW, Clerk of the Court aforesaid, do hereby certify, that the foregoing Oath, and Schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the record of the said Court; and I do further 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
nothing
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court, at Cambridge, in said County of Middlesex, on this 20 th day of July 182
Attr.
Abraham Biglow

Select-men of Lincoln their Certificate relative to Jona Tower — 1818 —
B

We the subscribers Selectmen of the Town of Lincoln do hereby certify that Mr Jonathan Yawer of said town did Engage & actually serve three years in the Continental service in the Revolutionary war in the years 1781, 1782, 1783 And that the said Jonathan Yawer is Poor & Needy and must look to his Country for support of himself and Family.
Attest
Elijah Fiske Selectmen
Lincoln April 10 th 1810
Solomon Foster Selectmen

Esq r Maynard's Certificate Yona Tower 1818.
A

Jonathan Maynard of Framingham in the County of Middlesex & commonwealth of Massa- chussetts, aged sixty six Years, do testify depose and say, that Jonathan Tower of Lincoln in said County, was a Soldier under my command in the the Seventh Massachussetts Regiment commanded by Lt Col Commandant John Brooks, in the Years Seventeen hundred and eighty one & two, he was enlisted for the term of three Years, he had served in my Company about twenty months, as a good and faithfull Soldier, when I left the Army on the first of January Eighty three on a reform of the Army. And have no doubt he served his time out, or was honorable discharged at the close of the war Jon a Maynard late Capt 7th Mass t Regt.
Middlesex ss July 27th 1818
Then the above named Jonathan Maynard personally appeared and made oath that the above deposition by him subscribed contains the truth & nothing but truth relative to the subject matter therein contained Before me Joseph Russell { Justice of the Peace.

33 808 Rev INVALID.
File No. 88,806
Jonathan Davis Rev Davis
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 421
[Arrangement of 1870.]