Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 42931, for Jonathan Macomber, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass-
Macomber, Jonathan
S 42931
CONTENTS

New York
Jonathan Macombe
of Ontario County in the state of New York who was a Private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Seargent of the Mapache line, for the term of One Year
Inscribed on the roll of New York at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 29 of April 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 20 of Sep 1818 and to Micah Brooks & Bloomfield N. York
Arrears to 4th of Sep 1819 129. 60
Semi-ann. all'ce ending Mar 1870 48
16 Mo 6/30 $177.60
{ Revolutionary claim, { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Secy of War P.O. Box 10, Feb 10, 1859

STATE OF NEW-YORK,
ONTARIO COUNTY, ss.
On this twenty first day of August 1820 personally appeared in open Court, (being a Court of Common Pleas in and for said county, and constituted a Court of Record by proceeding according to the course of the Common Law, with a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount, and keeping a record of its proceedings, and recognized as such Court by the laws and judicial decisions of said State,) Jonathan Macomber in said county, who, being aged sixty eight years, resident in the town of Victor 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 twenty months in Capt. Asa Barnes Company in Col. Paul D. Sergeant's regiment Massachusetts line commencing with the month of April 1775
and that he made application for a Pension on the twenty ninth day of April 1815 and that he received a Pension Certificate, No. 12153 And 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, 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 14th day of March, 1816, 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, viz.
  Two Shoals 4. 1 old wagon & harness 15 1 plough 4 $23.00   1 Chain 1.25 1 hoe 37 axe 1.25 pitch fork 50 3.37   Pot milk kettle and tea kettle 1.00 frying pan 1.25 2.25   Shovel & tongs 1.25 and hoe 1.50 crane hooks 19 2.94   Laye wheel 2.50 pail 37 four chains 1.25 4 cups 19 4.31   Tea pot sugar bowl and creamer 75 2 ladles 1.25 2.00   Churn 50 2 jugs 25 3 crucks 37 bread tray 25 1.37   two pitch Barrels 1.50 1 chest 75 Milk pail 25 2.50   Clock 1.50 10 spoons 62 7 knives & forks 63 6.25   Cannister of shovel 37 table hoe 2 Bibles 1.50 2.91   Wash tub 37 six guns 12 2 acres of corn 5 7.37   Four shecks of wheat 62 10 shecks rye 2.50 3.12   Two tons Hay 10.00 pine parlor seats 56, old ladder 3 13.56   Bread Loom & Bench 50 
Jonathan Macomber
75.51

And I do further swear and declare that I am by occupation a tanner and currier and that by age and rheumatic complaints am unable to perform but little labor of any kind and further that my family consists of Elizabeth my wife aged sixty five years also disabled by rheumatic pains from labor Madam my son aged 17 years who is subject to fits and is of a delicate constitution and the only child at present under my care. Benjamin Franklin a grandchild aged four years whom I am obliged to support.
Jonathan Macomber
Sworn and declared this 21 st day of August 1820 in open court before me.
Wm Rogers a Judge of Ontario County
ONTARIO COUNTY, ss.
I, John Van Sten Clerk of said county, do hereby certify, that the foregoing Oath, and the Schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the Record of the said Court; and I farther 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 seventy five dollars and fifty one cents. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this 22 nd day of August 1820
J Van Sten Clerk of the Court aforesaid, in and for said County.

State of New York Ontario County ss }
On this twenty ninth day of April A D 1818 before me the subscriber one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in said County personally appears Jonathan Macomber now in the 66 th year of his age resident in the said County who being 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 persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States of America, in the revolutionary war;" that some time in the month of April 1775, he enlisted at Rehoboth into a company of foot-soldiers commanded by Capt Samuel Blip attached to a regiment commanded by Col Timothy Walker of the Massachusetts line; that he served at and in the vicinity of Roxbury, until the first of January A D 1776, when the term of his enlistment having expired, he with his company was disbanded and received no discharge: And this deponent further saith that he again enlisted at Cambridge about the first of January A D 1776 into a company of regulars commanded by Capt Asa Barnes of the 16 th regiment of the Massachusetts line commanded by Col Paul Dudley Sargeant, for one year . that he served at and in the vicinity of Cambridge, that he was ordered from there to New York City - thence to Kingsbridge and Fort Washington where he was captured by the British, that at the time of his capture he was serving in a detachment commanded by Capt Holmes under the command of Col Thomas Knowlton: that he was liberated on or about the last of January A D 1777: that the time of his enlistment expired while he remained a prisoner: and that he consequently received no written discharge: And this deponent further saith that he was present at a battle at Harlem Heights, at one between Harlem plains and New York City, one at Harlem plains and at one at Fort Washington where he was taken prisoner: that he was afterwards at a battle on Red Bank while serving in a company of Militia: And this deponent saith further that by reason of his reduced circumstances he needs the assistance of his Country for support: And further this deponent saith not:
Jonathan Macomber
I have read the foregoing declaration this 29 th day of April 1818 Nicholas Bradley

State of New York
Ontario County ss I Micah Brooks one of the judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County, do certify that it has been proven to my full satisfaction by the oath of respectable persons that the within named Jonathan Maesember is so reduced in his circumstances as actually to need the assistance of his country for support and I am fully satisfied that the premises as stated in the other declaration have been by him performed -
Bloomfield 11 th Oct r 1818
Micah Brooks
Jonathan Maesember
Affidavit
permitted
Colonel Joseph Root
My Clerk 1816-1818
Jonathan
State of New York Ontario County Clerk's Office
In testimony that Micah Brooks whose name is subscribed to the foregoing certificate was on the day of the date of the same one of the judges of the Court of Common Pleas in & for the County
of Ontario & that the same is his signature thereunto subscribe my name & affix the County Seal at Canandaigua this 11 th day of Nov. A.D. - 1818
H. M c Naughton

(W) Rev. War Section,
March 2, 1916.
Miss Carrie Macomber, 4001 Vincennes Ave. Chicago Ills.
Madam:
In reply to your letter of the 27" ultimo, you are advised that there is no provision of law that would entitle the grandchildren of a soldier of the Revolution to pension.
Very respectfully,
E. C. Tienan
Acting Commissioner.
R.
S. F. 42931.

Feb 27
Rev. Sec 16
Pension Bureau Washington D.C. I wish to make an inquiry in regard to pensions.
My Grandfather Jonathan Macomber was a soldier of the revolution. He was taken prison- er at the battle of White Plains and placed on board one of the prison ships in New York harbor. After a time there was an exchange of prisoners, and he from illness contracted while there was considered unfitted for duty and given an honorable discharge.
He was granted a pension but did not live to receive any benefit from it, neither did any of his family or descendants.
My father was the twelfth and only son youngest child of

Johnathan Macomber. I am the eighth and youngest child of this youngest son. The members of my family are all gone and I only remain. There can be no other living grandchildren of the soldier for I am nearly 79 years old. I am needy and dependent. Under the circumstances, is there any possibility of a pension for me?
It would be most thankfully appreciated during my few remain- years.
My brother was a volunteer in the civil war and died in the service.
Very truly yours.
a revolutionary granddaughter.
(Miss) Carrie Macomber 4001 Vincennes Ave Chicago, Ill.

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NEW JERSEY SOCIETY
REGENT: Miss ADELINE WHITTEMORE TORREY.
VICE-REGENT: Mrs. CHARLES B. YARDLEY.
RECORDING SECRETARY: Miss GAIL A. TREAT.
CORRESPONDING SECRETARY: Miss MARIE POTTER ROGERS.
TREASURER: Mrs. GEORGE H. HODENPYL.
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Dear Sir: Will you kindly furnish me with what facts there may be concerning one John or Jonathan Mc Cumber a Revolutionary Soldier for five years. Enlisted in Vermont in 1778 - moved to Lima N.Y. (after the war) (Livingston Co.) where he drew a pension has we think, a prisoner for two years on board the ship "Jersey" - Family tradition only - is the proof of this would be glad of proofs from Old War Division of Pension Department as to the fact of his

being a pensioner — Please do me the favor of ascertaining for me and I shall be held highly grateful
Very sincerely
(Mrs) Georgia Burr Bates Registrar D. of R. & H. S.

42931
INVALID.
Rev
File No.
42,931
Jonathan Wacombe His Rev War
Act:
18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol.
8
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808
[Arrangement of 1870.]

June 2 nd 1905, Miss L. Mrs. Georgia Burns Carter. Newark, N.J. e
Feby. 10. 1905 - Hist to D. S. Herron - DuBois Pa
Feby 24. 1905 - Hist to Hon. P. J. McCumber U. S. S.
1916. Mar. 2. Miss Carrie Macomber advised grand- children no title aw

State of New York
Ontario County
Clerks Office V. B. J. Herman Norton, Deputy
Clerk of the County of Ontario, hereby certify that Spencer Coleman was on the day of the date of the above certificates a Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Ontario duly commissioned and sworn, and that the name of the said Spencer Coleman subscribed to said certificates is in his own proper hand writing.
In testimony whereof I have affixed the seal of the said County and subscribed my name at Canandaigua this 19 th day of August 1819.
Herman Norton Dp: Clerk

Place of Enugah
Ontario County ss
Nathaniel Turner of the Town of Victor of said County being duly sworn deposeth and saith that he was personally acquainted with Jonathan Macumber in the Town of Rehoboth County of Bristol and Commonwealth of Massachusetts that sometime in the month of January Seventeen Hundred and Seventy Six the said Jonathan enlisted into a Company of regular Soldiers at the Town of Cambridge in said State for the Term of one year command by Capt. Asa Burns of the Sixteenth Regiment of the Massachusetts Line said Regiment was commanded by Col. Paul Dudley Sergeants and this deponent further saith that the said Jonathan served in the United States Army in the same Company with this deponent until the sixteenth day of November Seventeen Hundred and Seventy Six when the said Jonathan and this deponent were taken prisoners by the British at Fort Washington and the said Jonathan remained a prisoner together with this deponent until some time in the month of

January following Seventeen Hundred Seventy Seven when the said Jonathan and this deponent were paroled By the British and returned home our term of service having expired - and this deponent further saith that he is still acquainted with the said Jonathan that he now resides in the Town of Victor County of Ontario and State of New York and knows him to be the same person that enlisted as above stated and served in the United States Army in the same Company with this deponent for at least the term of one year — Nathaniel Turner
Sworn and subscribed before me This fifth day of July A.D. 1849
Spencer Coleman Justice of Peace
I certify that Nathaniel Turner the above de- ponent is a credible witness, on whom I solemnly put Nathaniel ought to stand —
Spencer Coleman Justice of Peace

State of Connecticut
Ontario County ss
John Dyer of the Town of Seneca County of Seneca and State of aforesaid being duly sworn deposeth and saith that he was well acquainted with Jonathan Macumber in the Town of Rehoboth in the State of Massachusetts that the said Jonathan and his family resided in the same house with this deponent in the said Town of Rehoboth that some time in the month of January 1776 the said Jonathan left his family and enlisted into the service of the United States as a common soldier into a company commanded by Capt. Asa Barnes as this deponent was then informed and verily believes to be true for one year that same time in the month of June following this deponent visited the said Jonathan at the Town of Boston and found him in the service of the United States as a soldier in the company above mentioned this deponent was afterwards informed that the said Jonathan was afterwards taken Prisoner by the British that some time in the month of January following this deponent having heard that the said Jonathan

was released from his imprisonment went in pursuit of him the said Jonathan to bring him home to his family who still lived in the same house with the defendant at the time of said and found him in the State of Rhode Island on his return home and continued in his company and assisted him the said Jonathan on his return home to his family in the said Town of Rehoboth his term of service having then expired and this defendant was then informed and verily believes to be true and this defendant further saith that he is still acquainted with the said Jonathan that he now resides in the Town of Victor in the County of Ontario and State of New York and this defendant further saith that from his acquaintance with the said Jonathan he verily believes that the said Jonathan enlisted and served in the United States Army as a soldier for at least the term of one year.
John Dyer.
Sworn and subscribed before me this fifth day of July A.D. 1819.
Spencer Colburn Justice of Peace
I certify that John Dyer the above defendant is a credible witness on whom testimony full weight may be placed.
Spencer Colburn Justice of Peace