Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 17107, for Jonathan Marsh, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Marsh, Jonathan Hannah
W.17107
CONTENTS

Sept r May 25 th 1841
3558
Albany New York
William Marsh
Jonathan Marshall
who died on the 15 th September 1827 of Wey Co. in the State of N.Y. who was a Private in the Comp y commanded by Captain Baldwin of the Reg t commanded by Col o Mass in the Mass line for 23 months & 20 days
Entered on the Roll of Albany N.Y. at the rate of 75 Dollars 55 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4 th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 20 th day of May 1841 and sent James W. Davis Tuckermans Oregon.
Arrears to the 4 th of March 1841 $788.80 Semi-annual allowance ending 4 Sept r 39.44
$828.24
{ Revolutionary Claim, Act July 4, 1836, Section the 3 rd }
Entered by N. H. Addison Clerk,
Vol. 1 st Page 122

Hannah Marsh widow of Jonathan Marsh dec.
Pension -
act 4 July '36.
James W Davis
Butternuts Otsego Co N.Y.
agent -
admd
3 mo 76. rate. Baldwin 20 - 20d. - H & Lucy -
23 mo. 20d
$78.88
No deduction
James W Davis Butternuts Otsego Co. N.Y.

State of New York } Otsego County } I Ipe Rose clerk of said County do hereby certify that John A. Holley Esq. before whom the annexed affidavits of Nathan Sayles Deborah Sayles & Hannah Marsh purports to have been sworn was at the time of taking such affidavits a Justice of the peace of said County duly Elected & sworn and authorized to take the same and further that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of said Justice and verily believe his several signatures thereto affixed are his genuine hand writing and signature.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of the Court of Common Pleas of said County this 21. day of November 1840.
Ipe Rose Clerk

Otsego County ss. Nathan Sayles of Butternuts in said County being duly sworn says, that he is the brother in law of Hannah Marsh the applicant in this case and is seventy one years old - That deponent became ac- -quainted with Jonathan Marsh deceased (the late husband of said applicant) in the year 1793 and continued well acquainted with him till his death, which occurred at Butternuts in 1827 - that from 1793 to 1819 deceased resided in Amherst in Massachusetts.
That deponent resided in Douglass Mass. from 1798, to 1802, inclusive, and during that time said deceased came frequently to Douglass on visits to his connections and old friends - and that at the said time in Douglass and always since said deceased had an unqualified reputation of having been a soldier of the revolution -
That up to the time of said deceased's removing from Amherst to Butternuts he was possessed of a handsome real and personal estate - but at the time of his removal he had become reduced in circumstances and removed to Butternuts to live with his son Israel Marsh who had prom- ised to provide for him -
And deponent knows from reputation that this same Jonathan Marsh resided a short time in a town of Massachusetts called Gageboro. before he went into the revolutionary service and verily believes the same to be true -

And deponent further says not. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 18 th Nov 1840. and I certify said deponent to be a credible person -
Nathan Sayles
John A. Dodge Justice of the peace of Otsego County
Otsego County ss - Deborah, wife of Nathan Sayles being duly sworn says - that she well and clearly remembers that Jonathan Marsh and Hannah his wife (the present applicant) were married as before stated by deponent, before said Jonathan went into the revolutionary service. That when he went, said Jonathan Hannah came to Doyles, from some distant town for the purpose of leaving said Hannah and her children at said Hannah's father's in Doyles - And deponent remembers that when they came, said Hannah rode on horseback with one child behind and one in her arms - And during the following winter said horse got hurt on the ice, and killed him with an axe -
And further that from the revolutionary war to his death said Jonathan was reputed to have been a revolutionary soldier -
Subscribed and sworn before me this 18 th Nov 1840
And I certify that the deponent Deborah Sayles is a credible person -
John A. Dodge Justice of the peace of Otsego County

Otsego County ss Hannah Marsh widow of Jonathan Marsh deceased being duly sworn doth say that the paper writing hereto annexed and marked A. is the true, orig- -inal and only record of the family of the said Jonathan Marsh deceased, and that the entries thereon made were made by the said dece d and that said record was never made in any Bible or other book, but was always kept on paper similar to the annexed; that deponent caused the present paper to be accurately trans- -cribed from the first paper used, whereon said -deceased had herself made the several entries and that she so caused it to be transcribed because said first paper had become nearly worn out; and that said first paper was thereupon destroyed; and that said annexed paper has been in deponent's possession more than twenty five years and that all the entries thereon (except the last) have been thereon and unaltered for the same space of time And deponent further says that she and her said husband actually resided at the several places and at the times when and where her several children were born as mentioned in the aforesaid record marked A.
Subscribed and sworn this 19 th Oct 1840 before me - and I certify in a highly credible & intelligent person -
her Hannah Marsh mark
John A. Dodge Justice of the peace of Otsego County

Memorandum
A
Jonathan Marsh was born at Douglass Jan 12 1749 his wife Hannah Marsh was born April 12 1749 1 st Pamela Marsh was born at Sturbridge Jan 20 1774 2 nd Hannah Marsh was born at Gageborough May 17 1770 3 rd Wheeler Marsh was born at Williamstown July 30 1779 4 th Mary Marsh was born at Hancock Dec 26 1781 5 th Jonathan Marsh was born at Hancock Dec 4 1783 6 th Lucretia Marsh was born at Whately March 2 1786 7 th William Marsh was born at Amherst Sept 4 1788 8 th Newel Marsh was born at Amherst July 7 1791 9 th Nathaniel Marsh was born at Amherst August 14 1799
My beloved daughter Lucretia Watkins Died Dec 31 st 1813 Aged 27 - 9 months & 29 days
Our honored Father Joseph Bolecom Died July 16 th 1797 Aged 74
Our honored Father Asa Marsh Died
June 2 1799 Aged 73
Our honored Mother Hannah Bolecom Died
October 14 th 1803 Aged 77
Our Honored Mother Nelson Marsh Died
April 29 th 1812 Aged 82
September 15 th 1827 A.D.
Then Died our honored Parent Jonathan Marsh A.G. 78
anniversaries [Signature] 5/11/1827

State of New York Otsego County - ss
Deborah Scales of the Town of Butternuts in the County of Otsego aged 77 - years -
personally appeared before me Hiram Kinne a judge of the County Courts in & for Otsego County and on being duly sworn according to Law doth on her Oath Declare and say that she is the Sister to the Widow Hannah Marsh now of Butternuts Otsego County - formerly of Douglas in Worcester County Massachusetts - that she the said Deborah has always been well acquainted with said Hannah from Infancy to Womanhood - that they were brought up together at Douglas aforesaid - that her Sister the said Hannah was Married to Jonathan Marsh of Douglas aforesaid on the sixth of December eighteen hundred and sixty nine by Esquire Harnold - that she the said Deborah was present at the Marriage and saw them Married that she the said Deborah has lived in the same Neighborhood with them at Douglas in Massachusetts and also now does in Butternuts in Otsego County. State of New York The said Deborah further saith that she now well recollects that the said Jonathan Marsh Enlisted at Douglas in Capt Samuel Baldwin's Company as Sergeant and March d from Douglas to Boston (she thinks in the fall of 1776) and that he return d in the spring following - and that he then went again but cannot recollect how long he serve d or under what Officers but she thinks he serve d some time in Vixons Regiment - and in all two or three years
Deborah further saith that said Jonathan Marsh died on the 15 th September 1827 - and that said Hannah Marsh is now Living as is the Widow of the said Jonathan Marsh.
sworn to & subscribed this 2 d day of February 1838 before me Hiram Kinne Judge of Otsego County Courts
Deborah Scales
I certify that the above named Deborah Scales is well known to me as a person of truth & veracity and as a very Creditable person and Lawfull Witness - Hiram Kinne Judge of Otsego County Courts

State of New York Otsego County I J. Pesse Rose clerk of said County do hereby certify that Nathan Kinnear Esqr before whom the within affidavit purport to have been sworn was on the day of the date of the same a Judge in and for said County duly Commissioned and sworn And further that I am well acquainted with the handwriting of the said Judge and verily believe his name subscribed to the within affidavit and the annexed Certificates of Credibility &c to be his genuine hand writing and Signatures
Witness my hand & seal of Office this 17 th day of February A.D. 1831
J. Pesse Rose clerk By George Wilson Deputy

Let. to James W. Davis, March 26, 1841
Act 4 July, 1836.

N. York.
Hannah Marsh to Hon. J. H. Prentiss 9. March 1838 lit. to J. W. Davis 14. Nov. 1839 to same 17. Aug. 1840 to same 31. Aug. 1840 to same 1. Dec. 1840 to same 29 Dec. 1840, to same 25 March 25, 1841
Act July 1836.

Marsh Vol 26. 421 - private Bmt - Gageborough March 47 -
Forb. Capt. Sam e Balswin -
Serg - 6 mo.
77 in Nixon's Regt (Certificate of Secy. died in 1827 -
20.208
Could not be the man as he would have been pensioned

Paterson July 15 July N.Y. Postscript Samuel Marsh
Free
Hon J L Edwards Comm. of Pensions Washington City D.C.

Please address when occasion arises
James W Davis
Buttermilk Otsego Co N.Y.

East Douglas Ky 3 March 1st
11 3/4
James Davis Esq. Butternut Otsego County N.Y.
James Davis Esq. Butternut Otsego County N.Y.

State of Massachusetts Worcester county ss. I David Balecom of the Town of Douglas in said county being duly sworn depose and say that I am eigh- ty six years old and shall be eighty seven on the twenty sixth day of May next and have always lived in said Town of Douglas - I was well acquainted with Jona- than Marsh now deceased who married Hannah Bale- com and I was present at the wedding and Marriage of the said Jonathan to the said Hannah being married in said Douglas. The deponent further says that he was well acquainted with the said Hannah's Father who was brother to the Deponent's father and he was well acquainted with the said Jonathan's Father who lived in the same neigh- borhood with the Deponent, and was well acquainted with both families. The said Hannah and Jonathan Marsh mar- ried after their marriage, and before the Revolution out of the said Town of Douglas to some Town not recollecting in said State. The Deponent lived during the Revolution near the father of the said Hannah and the Father of the said Jona- than in said Douglas. The Deponent at that day was well acquainted with the people of said Douglas and its neighborhood and knows to his entire satisfaction that there was one man by the name of Jonathan Marsh in said Town of Douglas and its neighborhood except the said Jonathan who married the said Hannah Balecom
David's his mark Balecom
Worcester ss July 30 th 1841.
Subscribed and sworn to by said Deponent and is known also to me as a man of truth Before me Frederick W Dorr - Justice of the peace

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Worcester, ss.
I, Joseph G. Kendall, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, in and for the County of Worcester, the same being a Court of Record, do certify, that Frederic W. Buttern, Esquire, is a Justice of the Peace, within and for said County, duly commissioned and qualified - and that his signature to the certificate on the preceding page hereof, is in his own proper hand writing.
In testimony whereof, I hereto set my name, and affix the Seal of said Court, at Worcester, this twenty second day of February, 1841.
Joseph G. Kendall. Clerk.
Cad of (Hannah Marsh)
Sir, The above affd t is just as it was forwarded principally because it goes to show that there was only one Jonathan Marsh belonging to Doyl's.
Yours ob t Se J. W. Davis
Hon J. L. Edwards
Butternuts Mar 8 th 41

Mr of the D.W. most
Mar 15. 1841
Miss Add. Kiff
Hannah Marsh
FREE
J. L. Edwards Esquire Comm r of Pensions Washington

State of New York
Albany Co. ss } personally appeared before me Ralph C Randall a commissioner of Deeds &c for the county of Albany Joseph Bicknell who being duly sworn by me deposes and saith that he was present at the marriage of Jonathan Marsh and Hannah his wife; that they were married in Uxbridge Massachusetts by (as he believed) Esq. Narwood, and that there is no public record of the fact as this deponent believes, and this deponent further swears that Jonathan Marsh and Hannah his wife moved into (what was then called Gageborough) now Windsor Massachu- setts and returned to Douglas again when Jonathan Marsh went into the Army leaving his wife at her father's, & this deponent further swears that the said Jonathan Marsh had too much property to draw a pension under the Act of 1818 [for Gageborough] Joseph B. Bicknell Sworn and subscribed before me this 17 th day of Sept 1838
Ralph C Randall } Comr of Deeds &c And I further certify that at the time of taking the fore- going affidavit the said Dr Joseph Bicknell was to me well known, and that he was and is a credible and respectable man. Ralph C Randall Comr of Deeds Home Albany Co. Ny. Dec 5 th 1839

State of New York Albany County Clerks Office }
I Jan d Van Winkle Clerk of the County of Albany do hereby Certify that Ralph C. Randall, was on the day of the date of the within Certificate a Commissioner of Dues in and for said County, duly appointed and qualified and that the signature within purporting to be his is Genuine — In Testimony Whereof I have hereunto affixed my seal of Office and Subscribed my name this 1 st Day of October 1838 Jan d Van Winkle Clerk
Cash of Hannah, receiver of John M. Clark. App d of Managers —

Allegany County ss
personally appeared before me Charles Mather Esq. a Commissioner of Deeds for the County of Allegany Joseph Bolhorn who being by me duly sworn by me testified that he was present at the marriage of Jonathan & Hannah Marsh and that he positively knows such marriage took place before Jonathan Marsh went into the service of the United States and further this deponent saith not
Sworn and subscribed Joseph Bolhorn before me this 17 th day of Sept 1840
Chas. Mather Comr of Deeds
Mr. Bolhorn was certified credible on his preceding affidavit.

Heinrich Stahl
Poststrasse - offiz. Dr. Med. Dr. Phil. 20 to 10 Uhr -
State of New York — } H- Albany County - Clerks Office
I Sam l Van Winkle Clerk of said County do hereby certify that Charles Mather Esq r was on the day of the date of the within af- fidavit a Justice of the Peace in and for said County - duly appointed and qualified and that the signature within purporting to be his is genuine In Testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed my seal of office and subscribed my name this 6 th day of October 1840
Sam l Van Winkle Clerk

  1269  600    1838  31    229  600  
Hannah, widow of Jon. -athan Clark. Certificate from town clerk's office as to marriage -

I Fenner Batcheller, depose and say that I hold the Office of Clerk of the town of Douglas in the county of Worcester and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and was chosen into said Office March D r 1839. And I hereby certify that I have carefully examined the records and files of this Office and find no evidence of an alleged marriage between Mr. Jonathan Marsh and Hannah Balcom in the said Office. The examination has been made between the years 1750 & 1784.
The register of births (in said Office) does not recognise their relation of husband and wife.
The town Records do not appear to be so regular and full as to raise a presumption against an alleged marriage between the said Jonathan Marsh and Hannah Balcom,
Fenner Batcheller, Town Clerk.
Sworn to before me Frederic W. Botham justice of the peace.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Worcester, fs.
I certify that, Frederic W. Bothorn and Henry Chapin, Esquires, are Justices of the Peace in and for said County of Worcester, and that their signatures to the certificates hereto annexed, are in their own proper hand writing. —
In testimony whereof, I hereto set my name, and affix the Seal of the Court of Common Pleas for said County, at Worcester, this twenty second day of June, in the year 1840. —
William Jennison, Assistant Clerk.

Uxbridge June 21. 1840
I hereby certify that I am clerk of the town of Uxbridge and that there is no record on the town books of a Marriage between Jonathan Marsh and Hannah Balcom - I further certify that there are very few returns of Marriages solemnized by Esq. Storrs
Daniel Carpenter Town Clerk of Uxbridge
Worcester ss June 21. 1840.
Sworn to before me
Henry Chapin
Justice of the Peace

Dec 26 40
Encl
FREE
Not Hon. S. L. Richards
Commission of Pensions Washington City

Butternuts Otsego Co N.Y. Dec 14 th 1840
Sir In the case of Hannah, widow of Jonathan Marsh — will you have the goodness to inform me whether the certificate of the Secretary of War describes him as "of Gatsborough", or "of Douglass"?
Gatsborough, is now called Windsor — we suppose that Capt Walker who bought the farm of said Marsh in Gatsborough is yet living there and will be able to say something toward identifying him — there is also living near this town a woman who lived in Gatsborough (or Windsor) long ago with Capt Sam l Baldwin in his life time and has heard him speak of said Marsh and of the applicant his widow.
Yours Respectfully
Anne M c Davis
Hon J d L d Edwards Com r of Pensions

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, 2 May, 7 th 1841.
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 the name of Jonathan Marsh is borne on an account in the Army book, as a private from Douglas in the 7 th Company, Colonel Nixon's Regiment, and there is Credited with Service from 19 th May 1777. to 9 th February 1779 is 20 Months, and 20 days at 40/ Per Month
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written.
John P. Breton
Secretary of the Commonwealth.

V 3190 Hannah Marsh widow of Jonathan
N.Y. July
Marr'd 6 Dec. 1769 Husband died 15 Dec. 1827
War Department
Division
Washington
Hon. H. Prentiss P.R.
State House

Capt. Webster William Washburn Timothy (unk) Joseph Jenison Thomas Colbeck Capt. Hays Andrew Colburn John Brown Eli Hays John Nichols
Capt. Bol own man Ebenezer Daniels Lyman Dost Bela Gardner Ebenezer Belnap David Long John flag John E. L. Thomas Todd
Capt. P. Cummins Nathaniel Wentworth Benjamin Shaver Asa Dyer William Dyer Nathaniel Hurd Nathaniel Glover Samuel Hurd John Whitecomb Samuel Whitecomb
Capt. Coder Josiah Carruth James Sawin Jonathan Artherlon Richard Whitcomb Nathaniel Priest Josiah Williams

Capt Samuel Baldwin Lieut Solomon Land Ensign Aaron Batchelder Serjt Benjamin Suckermere Serjt Jonathan Marsh Capt [blank] May Corpt Ichabod Albee Fife Ebenezer Belnap Drum John Simmons Jeremiah Batchelder Joseph Batchelder
Joshua Batchelder Jonathan Batchelder John Bemas Samuel Bracket Benjamin Bracket Barnet Cole Aaron Chase Abie Chase James Dutton Elias Dancil James Elliot
John Eliot William Evans Asa Evans Benjamin Fish Ezekiel Gardner Bela Gardner Samuel Green Francis Green Hezekiah Huse Lyman Hatt [blank] May Frederick Past Thomas Sodd Joseph Shayer John Thompson Joseph Shayer Nicholas Shayer Ebenezer White Paul Warfield March 22, 1777 Discharged Joseph Shayer

Herbert m. James Savin 26 Aaron Spear 11 Thomas Gooch 08 Jeremiah Bachelder Thomas Toole Joseph Thayer John Thompson Nicholas Thayer Joseph Thayer Frank Worfield Edwin Saxton
100 Benjamin Smith 6 105 109 116 114 118 122 124 131 134 139 141 144 148 152 156 160 164 168 172 176 180 184 188 192 196 200 204 208 212 216 220 224 228 232 236 240 244 248 252 256 260 264 268 272 276 280 284 288 292 296 300 304 308 312 316 320 324 328 332 336 340 344 348 352 356 360 364 368 372 376 380 384 388 392 396 400 404 408 412 416 420 424 428 432 436 440 444 448 452 456 460 464 468 472 476 480 484 488 492 496 500 504 508 512 516 520 524 528 532 536 540 544 548 552 556 560 564 568 572 576 580 584 588 592 596 600 604 608 612 616 620 624 628 632 636 640 644 648 652 656 660 664 668 672 676 680 684 688 692 696 700 704 708 712 716 720 724 728 732 736 740 744 748 752 756 760 764 768 772 776 780 784 788 792 796 800 804 808 812 816 820 824 828 832 836 840 844 848 852 856 860 864 868 872 876 880 884 888 892 896 900 904 908 912 916 920 924 928 932 936 940 944 948 952 956 960 964 968 972 976 980 984 988 992 996 1000
 Call Belden m Thomas Todd 12 Jonathan Curran 13 John Tomson 2 5 Aaron Chase 1 5 Jeremiah Bacher 1 7 Josiah Bachelter 2 7 James Dunton 2 1 Joseph Thair 0 2 Barnet Cole - 2 3  Oliver Daniels Jonathan Burban Benjamin Brachet 
Get ready for Samuel Black Bela Goodwin William Green 7 0 4 3 0 9 good Friend - Strong Hays St. Paul Jacob Hunt Veriah Foster Pay with money

1. ... 2. ... 3. ... 4. ... 5. ... 6. ... 7. ... 8. ... 9. ... 10. ... 11. ... 12. ... 13. ... 14. ... 15. ... 16. ... 17. ... 18. ... 19. ... 20. ... 21. ... 22. ... 23. ... 24. ... 25. ... 26. ... 27. ... 28. ... 29. ... 30. ...
   Capt Williams men     James Hayward  9    Malachi Snow  16    Rufus Tower  10    Benjamin Craft  27    John Mohoo  26    Andrew Capin  29    Francis Traft  32    Jonathan Bithorn  33    Bela Howard  1    Jeriah Collier  30   
Eleazer Banister Jonathan Burden Samuel Brachel Benjamin Brachel Benjamin Gist Samuel Green Frances Green
Joseph (vervolgd) G. J. van Williams G. J. van Williams G. J. van Williams
Capt Baldwin Jer. Butcher 25 Aaron Chase 14 John Flag 18 Jehiah Williams John Clemens Barnet Cole 23 James Fenton 14 John Beman David Long 2

The old list of names hereto annexed appears to be the names of Men taken from various Companies and put into the Company Commanded by Capt. Baldwin also the roll of Capt. Baldwin's Company in which it appears that Jonathan Marsh was enrolled as 2 d Sergeant — Mrs. Marsh seems to recollect the above and also thinks that her Husband served & did the duty of first or Andervly Sergeant that first Term in Capt. Baldwin's Company but she cannot be so certain as to make Oath of it — she wishes the above stated by way explanation of the old list which she says is in her Husband's hand writing — for and at request of Mrs. Marsh
2 d Feby 1838
A. H. Beach
P.S. please direct to me at Unadilla in Otsego County N. York or to the Hon. J. Brewster M. C.

Rev
WIDOW, &c.
File No.
17187
Hannah Mearsh Widow of Jonathan Mearsh Priv. Rev. War
Act:
July 4 th 1836
Index:—Vol.
m
Page
9
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Mar 9. 1841
my aff
Hannah Marsh
FREE
Hon J. L. Edwards Comm ee of Pensions Washington
Free

Butternuts, N.Y. Mar 3 d 1841-
Sir The enclosed affidavit of Sarah Marsh has just been rec d by me, and is forwarded, as confirmatory of some of evidence already furnished. Yours obediently James W Davis
J. P. Edwards Esquire Com. Penn.

Feb 20 1841
N.Y.
Adolf
Hannah Marsh,
GENE
J. L. Edwards
Leon - Pension
Washington City
D.C.

Bathurst Street Co. N.Y. Feb 15 th 1841
Sir) The Enclosed affidavit will I think make complete the evidence to identify the Jonathan Mark of Danyers with the Jonathan Mark of Gatsborough
The deponent was wholly unknown to me till very lately, and was only found with much trouble - I have & believe (saddly we will see by the Certificate) that he is a gentleman of uncommon intelligence and high standing, and is entitled to the fullest confidence —
Let me beg of you to review the whole case in connection and hope that upon the whole it may prove sufficient —
Yours ob servt
James W Davis
J L Edwards Esq. Comr etc

Butternuts Otsego County New York, July 15 th 1889
In the matter of the application of Hannah Marsh widow of Jonathan Marsh deceased for a pension:
To the Com r of Pensions: The subscriber as the prudent sole agent for the applicant hopes leave to submit some further proof, and make some explanations, that may facilitate the final decision of the Commission upon this application —
The proceeding has been delayed by neglect so long that its particulars have probably been forgotten at the office — I therefore annex the Com r letter to Col Prentiss of the 9 th March 1888 which will readily show the state of the case as on file at that time and also annex the affidavits of Dr. Joseph Bal- =Com, and Mrs Deborah Sayles, hoping they may satis- =factorily make up the proof mentioned in that letter as being then wanting —
I do not know that anything has been filed relating to the subject since the Spring of 1888, ex- cept a certificate of the Rev d Rufus Wheeler, as to character of the applicant & I believe of Mrs Sayles — I recollect that Mrs Sayles made an affidavit that she was present at the marriage of applicant and Jon r Marsh, which I think was on file at the date of the letter to Col Prentiss above mentioned
The claim is only supported by the record, as a for service of 3 mos as a private in Capt Baldwin's Co. G. and of 20 m 20 d as private in Nixson Regiment of the Massachusetts line — The old lady probably got the

idea that he was a sergeant from the fact (I suppose) of his acting occasionally & temporarily in that capacity —
That Jonathan Marsh of Douglass, and Jonathan Marsh of Gatsborough was one and the same person would seem to be the fact, from the evidence contained in the affidavits annexed — The applicant & her husband were raised in Douglass married there and removed to Gatsborough, and bought land there & thereupon became in fact "of" that town he joined the army from that town (Gatsborough) & then took his family to his native Douglass where they remained during the war, or his service. So that Marsh naturally might with some propriety describe himself as "of Gatsborough" & "of Douglass" indifferently —
The Claimant's husband had till near his death too much property to be able to get a pension under the act of 1818, but died extremely poor — Dr Balcomb knew the fact & has so stated —
We cannot find Esqr Harwood's record of the marriage and beg therefore to supply it by the testimony of two witnesses present — Dr Balcomb & Miss Sayles —
For the hona fides of this application I beg to refer you to S r B r Beach Esqr of the Genl Land Office who is acquainted with some of the parties —
Hoping that you may find the enclosed proofs and explanation satisfactory and sufficient I
am your obed t
James W Davis
Hon J S Edwards
Com d & c

Nov 27 1840
N.Y.
Adams
Hannah Marsh
FREE
Hon J. L. Edwards Comm r of Pensions Washington D.C.

Butternuts Otsego County N.Y.
Nov 23 d 1840
Sir /
The enclosed affidavits in the case of Hannah, widow of Jonathan Marsh, are to the points mentioned in the letter from your office to me of the 17 th Aug last — I hope they may be considered sufficient —
Respectfully, your ob st serv t
James M c David
Agent
Hon J d Lockwood Comm Pension

3190 Feb 26 In at Original My.
J. L. Edwards, Esq.
Entd.
Com te of Pensions, Washington
W. H. Brooks, Am. Mds.

House of Reps!
Feby. 26, 1825
J. L. Edwards, Esq.
Sir:
Have the goodness to cause the vote on the motion before, to be counted  counted , and if there is found to be any defects in the testimony to entitle the Applicant to a Pension, I have advised of what further is required to effect the desired object. Will highly oblige
Rev. H. Prentiss.

Baltimore Aug 24
Aug 25 N.Y.
Free
Hon J. L. Edwards Comm. of Pensions Washington City

Butternuts Otsego County N.Y.
Aug 24 th 1860
Sir I have received the communication of your office of the 17 th inst in relation to the case of Hannah, widow of Jonathan Marsh, and find three deficiencies suggested -
1 st Proof as to date of the marriage 2 d The reason of the non application under the act of 1818. 3 d Identity of the Jonathan Marsh mentioned in the certificate of the Secretary of Massachusetts with the applicant's husband -
These I think are not insurmountable -
I beg now to enquire (for I do not certainly know) whether the said certificate does not show the service to have been in the Massachusetts militia and not "on the continental establishment"? And if so, whether he would have been entitled to the benefit of the act of 1818 -? Inasmuch, if he was not embraced by that act, it cannot be necessary to show why he did not apply -
Acknowledging the patience and courtesy of the Com ee in the investigation of this case -
I am yours of serv t
Jam s W. Davis
Hon J. L. Edwards Com ee Pensions

July 3 1876
My
Adolfus
Hammack Marsh,
FREE
Geo M c Crump Esq r Acting Com r of Pensions Washington D.C.

Butternuts Otsego County New York
Jan 29 th 1840
Sir/ Enclosed is the affidavit of Dr Balcom / in the case of Hannah Mark / which was returned to me to get certificate of the Discredibility which is done -
The affidavit of Deborah Sayles another witness to the marriage of the applicant with Jonathan Mark deceased is on your files - making I believe the requisite proof of the marriage -
In order to render the affidavit competent proof you will also find enclosed certificates from the town clerks offices of Douglass & Uxbridge, Mass. in proper form showing that the records do not contain any proof of the marriage -
Hoping that the enclosed may so complete the proofs in this case as to induce a favourable decision thereon in its earliest order -
I am your obedient
James M. Davis
G. W. Crump Esq. Acting Com r of Pensions

Miss Mary
Hannah Marsh
7
Hon J. L. Edwards Comm ee of Pensions Washington City D.C.

Lady of Hannah Marsh
Butternuts Otsego Co N.Y. May 14 th 1841
Sir,
Enclosed is a new Certificate of the Secretary of War which contains what I had till lately supposed was contained in the first Certificate sent. viz the description of Jonathan Marsh as of Douglas
The evidence on file will show you that Jonathan Marsh of Douglas was the applicant's husband; and also that there was not at that time any other Jonathan, of Douglas , than his husband and also that the claimant's husband, was "died" at the time to be in the army —
The description "of Douglas " on record taken in connection with the other evidence filed, I cannot doubt, will be found sufficient to establish the claim —
I learn now for the first time (from the Sec'y's letter to me) that more than one Jonathan Marsh appears on record — viz one "of Myrfield in a roll of Capt Oliver Shattucks Com'y Col Sears Regiment a short service only — and one other belonging to Offord in Capt Wm Campbell Company, Col Scarnards Reg't who was in what was called the 8 months service in 1775" — but I cannot learn any thing to induce a belief that either of these men was the applicant's husband — of course we cannot make claim on those services —
Your obedient
James W Davis
Hon J L Edwards Chair of Pensions

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Secretary's Office Jan y 23 d 1828
I hereby certify that it appears by an original document remaining in this office, that Jonathan Marsh enlisted on the 19 th of May 1777, in "ye 7 th Comp y " Nixons Regiment, and served therein as a private twenty months and twenty days.
Witness my hand and the Seal of the State.
John P. Digeon Secy of the Council

State of New York } I, Samuel Russell clerk of Kings County } said County do hereby certify that John C. the Ely before the annexed affidavit purports to have been sworn was on the day after date after same a justice of the peace in for said County duly elected and qualified and further that I am well acquainted with the handwriting of said justice and believe his name subscribed to said afft to be his genuine signature
Witness my hand and seal as officer
Feb 10. 1811
Samuel Russell Clerk
Said town a few weeks in the...

State of New York. Otsego County ss - Elijah White of the town of Franklin. Delaware County New York being duly sworn says, that he was born as he believes in the town of Douglass Massachusetts in the year 1769 February 1 st -
And deponent further says, that Hannah Marsh the applicant for a pension is Aunt to deponent - And that deponent was well acquainted with Jonathan Marsh deceased, the husband of said Hannah - that deponent first became acquainted with said Jonathan, in the town then called Gatesborough in Massachusetts in the year 1777 and stayed at the house of said Jonathan & Hannah in said town a few weeks in the summer of that year That deponent was not acquainted with said Jonathan in the town of Douglass but knows from reputation that said Jonathan was born & brought up in said town of Douglass - And deponent after going from said Marsh's house in Gatesborough resided in Douglass and the adjoining town of Ulridge until he was Seventeen or Eighteen years of age - And then deponent went to the town of White, Mass. to which said Jonathan had removed, and worked with and for said Jonathan one year, and afterwards when said Jonathan lived in Amherst Mass - deponent visited at his house occasionally and saw said Jonathan & Hannah by times for about four years.
And deponent further says that the said and same Jonathan Marsh moved to Butternuts Otsego County New York several years before his death and resided there till his decease which happened as deponent believes in September 1827 -
And deponent further says that he was generally and

Extensively acquainted in the towns of Douglass Bridge and Gatsborough (now called Windsor) and deponent never knew or heard of nor does he believe that any other man of the name of Jonathan Clark belonged in those towns except the said Jonathan the husband of the said applicant
And deponent knows positively and states unequivocally that Jonathan Clark deceased the husband of the said applicant Hannah was the identical person who lived in Gatsborough at the time mentioned above by deponent - and deponent has reason to know and believe and does believe that the same man was born, brought up and married in the town of Douglass aforesaid
And deponent further says that he did not know that said Hannah was an applicant for a pension until the 9th inst, nor had the matter of to which this affidavit relates ever been mentioned to him until the said day - And deponent says that he had not seen the said Hannah until this day, since the death of said Jonathan
And deponent further says that after deponent was married he resided in said town of Gatsborough which had been altered in name to Windsor for the space of about nine years, and became well acquainted, as above mentioned
Subscribed and sworn before me this 10th Feb 1841. And I certify that I have been acquainted with deponent many years and that he is a man of great respectability and undoubted veracity -
Elizah White
John A. Dodge Justice of the peace of Otsego county
Hannah Clark - for pension -

Oct 31 Hannah Marks widow of J. M. Suppl. My file.
1933
Free
J. Edwards Esq. Comr of Pension Washington D.C.

Butternuts Otsego Co. N.Y.
Oct 26 th 1838.
This may certify that Mrs Hannah Marsh Widow of Jonathan Marsh dec d and Deborah Sayles both of said Town are both of them communicants of the Protestant Episcopal Church of said town, and are in all respects persons of good reputation for truth and good moral character.
Respectfully N. P. Wheeler Minister of the Protestant Episcopal Church. —
In the matter of the application of Hannah Marsh Wid w of Jonathan Marsh dec d for a Pension —
Sir Although I am not known to you as the conductor of this application yet I volunteer to send the above certificate from our Parson, hoping to expedite the matter to a decision, because the old lady is very poor & infirm & in daily want of the comforts which a pension would supply —
The opinion here is general that her application is bonafide & meritorious. — Her husband had the reputation of having been a worthy Soldier —
Yours ob st Servt
J. W. Davis
Mr. Edwards
Com tee

In the matter of the application of Hannah Marsh for a pension, as the widow of Jonathan Marsh dec d .
State of New York
Albany County ss - Deborah Sayles being duly sworn says that she was during the life time of the said Jonathan Marsh his sister in law, and well acquainted with him and all his circumstances. That the said Marsh was born and brought up in Douglass in Ulster - county, and had all his connections there and resided there until about the com- -mencement of the Revolutionary war when he moved from the said town of Douglass to the then town of Gatsborough or Gageborough - and this deponent had been informed and believes that the said town of Gatsborough had been and was soon after the close of the war changed in name to Windsor. That the said Jonathan Marsh served in the Revolutionary war but to what extent or how long this deponent cannot tell - and that he went into service from the said then town of Gatsborough, and there, when he first went into the army this deponent well knows that the said Jon- athan Marsh brought his present widow (the applicant) to the house of deponent's father in the town of Douglass aforesaid; so that during the first period of his service, he went from Gatsborough but changed the residence of his family to the town of Douglass aforesaid and this deponent well knows also that

That the said Jonathan Marsh when he first returned from the army to his family, his family then resided in Danflap - And that he and his family then returned to Gatesborough. And this deponent knows that during the time of the old war service in the army he and his family moved from place to place and were not permanently settled at any one place until after the war -
And this deponent believes that Jonathan Marsh of Gatesborough and of Danflap was one and the same person, and that the error and confusion had arisen from the fact that the said Marsh resided in both towns during the war - And that he might at different times have called the towns of Gatesborough and Danflap his residence - because he had at one time during his service some land at Gatesborough while at the same time his family was in Danflap -
Subscribed & sworn before me this 5th day of April 1838
Deborah J. [unclear] [unclear]
John A. Hodge Notary of the peace
State of New York } I, Depe Rose clerk of said county do Albany County } hereby certify that John A. Hodge is before whom the above affidavit purports to have been sworn and on the date of the same a Justice of the peace in and for said county duly elected & sworn and that I am acquainted with his handwriting and sincerely believe his name subscribed to the above affidavit to be his genuine handwriting & signature Witness my hand & seal of office this 10th day of July 1839 Depe Rose Clk

COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
Franklin ss.
I, Henry Chapman, Clerk of the Judicial Courts of the Commonwealth, for the County of Franklin, do certify, that John Hastings Jr Esquire, whose signature is affixed to the certificate on the paper hereto annexed, was, at the date thereof, one of the Justices of the Peace, within and for said County, duly commissioned, and acting under the authority of this Commonwealth; and that full faith and credit is and ought to be given to his acts and attestations done in that capacity; and that I am acquainted with the hand-writing of the said John Hastings Jr and believe his signature to said certificate is genuine.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the Supreme Judicial Court for said Commonwealth, this Twenty sixth day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty one.
Henry Chapman Clerk.
Copy of Henry Chapman

I Sarah Marsh of Heath in the County of Franklin and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Eighty three years of age, do testify and say that I was well acquainted with Jonathan Marsh and Hannah Balcom of Douglas Worcester County (Mass) before they were married, after their marriage I was knowing to their moving to Gageborough (now Windsor) in Berkshire County (Mass) and that they lived there several years, and he went into the army, Heath (Mass) Feby 25 1841 Sarah M Marsh
Franklin p. Feby 25 1841 Personally appeared Sarah Marsh above named and made solemn oath that the above deposition by her subscribed is true before me John Hastings Jr } Justice of the Peace
I hereby certify I have been acquainted with Sarah Marsh above named for many years and know her to be a person of good moral character and of undoubted truth and veracity John Hastings Jr } Justice of the Peace

State of New York
Declaration in order to obtain the Benefit of the third section of the Act of Congress of 4th July 1836
Albany County
On this second day of February in the year Eighteen hundred and thirty eight personally appeared before me Hiram Kinne one of the Judges of the County Courts in and for the County of Albany and State of New York, Hannah Marsh a Resident of the Town of Berne in said County of Albany Aged Eighty eight years last April 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 provision of the Act of Congress passed July 4th - 1836 - That she is the Widow of Jonathan Marsh formerly of the Town of Douglas - County of Bristol State of Massachusetts That he the said Jonathan Marsh enlisted and was enrolled as 2 d Sergeant in the year 1775 or 1776 in Capt d Samuel Baldwin's Company for the term of six months that he went with said Company to Dorchester - Bunker Hill & c in the neighborhood of Boston and served in said Company over seven months at that time - in Capacity of Sergeant - that she had his old Muster Roll of said Company in her possession since his Death and now transmits the said roll with this her Declaration to the pension Office - Also that her said Husband the said Jonathan Marsh served in various Companies and at different times until 1779 or 1780 - that she cannot now recollect with certainty all the particular terms of service or under what Officers but that his services were all in the Massachusetts line and that in the year 1777 he served in Nixon Regiment for that that year she went to live with her Father while her Husband was in the Army - that the first term in Capt d Baldwin's Company she thinks was Militia service at or near Boston - that in his other services he went to Vermont to Connecticut and New Jersey which is the most that she can now recollect about it - That she has no other Documentary evidence but that hereto annexed  The said Hannah Marsh further declares that she was Married to the said Jonathan Marsh on the sixth day of Decem r - seventeen hundred and sixty nine by Ezequiel Harvard at Douglas in Bristol County in Massachusetts and that her Husband the said Jonathan Marsh died on the fifteenth day of September one Thousand eight hundred and twenty seven and that she has remained a Widow ever since that period as will more fully appear by reference to the proof hereto annexed  sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written before me  Hiram Kinne Judge of Albany County Court  Hannah Marsh

I do hereby certify that the within named Hannah Marsh who has subscribed her oath to the within declaration is personally known to me as a credi- ble and worthy person whose statements are entitled to full credit. I also certify that it appears to me that from her age and bodily infirmities she is entirely unable to attend the Courts of this County and it is not probable that she will be able at any future time.
Hiram Kline of Otsego County Courts