Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 9921, for Levi Jerome, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass
Jerome, Levi
8,9921
Carded
CONTENTS

Hon. Wm Taylor 19 Jan 1836
Albany 30.324
Levi Jerome
of Onondaga Co. in the State of N. York who was a Private in the _____ commanded by Captain _____ of the Regt. commanded by Col. Wood in the Cent. mil. D. line for 8 months
★ Mass. Line. Jan'y 6/35. Records corrected.
Enrolled in the Roll of Albany at the rate of 26 Dollars 66 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1834.
Certificate of Pension issued the 13 th day of Jan'y. 1836 and sent to Wm. Taylor N. R.
Arrears to the 4th of Sep. '35. 120.00 Semi-ann. allowance ending 4 March '36. 13.33 $133.33
{ Revolutionary Claim, Asst June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by D. Brown Clerk, Book E-2- Vol. 4 Page 36

Dec 15. Leon Ironie Russian Applicant from L. P. Morgan
NY. 33. 474
Admitted Private 8 months by enlistment of Hon. Wm. Taylor on rolls of Col. Worth reg't in 1878 - See rolls for June, Aug., Sept. & Dec -
Letter 21 Dec. 1895
Hon. W. Taylor H.R.
Hon. W. Taylor H.R.

State of New York Onondaga County } } 3
On this Twenty fourth day of February 1835 personally appeared in open Court before the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas now sitting Levi Jerome a resident of Pompey in the County of Onondaga and State of New York aged thirty four who being first 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 7 th 1835
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated.
First He states that he was born in Milford a town in Massachusetts Connecticut in the year 1761. The County in which he was born he has forgotten, as he moved into Stockbridge in Massachusetts when about nine years of age.
Second . That he has no existing record of his age, but that he had one, which was burnt at the time his house was burnt about eighteen years ago while he lived in Pompey aforesaid.
Third , That at the time he entered the service he lived in Stockbridge in Massachusetts, and that he moved from Stockbridge he thinks when at the age of twenty four to Ballonay a town near Saratoga Springs in New York, and that when he was about twenty seven years of age he moved from Ballonay to Malone & then to Pompey where he has resided ever since.
Fourth That he entered the service as a volunteer at two different times, and at one time served about a month, & at the other time he served full eight months as was what was called an "eight months man" and
Fifth He further states that he cannot be certain

as to the month or year when he entered the service for the first time, But thinks it was in the year 1777. He served as a waiter the first month above stated to Capt. Whittlesley and Sgt. Deyant and was stationed at Saratoga Barracks. These are the only officers names whom he distinctly recollects during this term of his service. But he recollects that his brother in law Lieut. Brodley who was in the American Army at this time was taken sick & that he the said Lieut. was singled out to take care of him and that he returned home with him to Stockbridge. While going home he heard the report of Cannon, and after he had been home a few days news come of the surrender of Burgoin.
He further states that at another time he thinks soon after either the same year or the next spring he volunteered as an eight months man, and was actually gone from home into the service during the above time. He recollects that he left home in the Spring or early part of summer & returned while there was snow on the ground thinks in December. His Capt. name was Nobles of Sheffield near Stockbridge, but his sir name he cant recollect. The Col name was Wood but dont recollect his sir name. One of the Generals names was McC Dougall but he dont recollect his sir name. He thinks it was in the Militia of the State in what was called the "Massachusetts line" in which he served but he cannot recollect with any great degree of certainty. He thinks this "line" was raised for the special purpose of going to the South, but his recollection is very imperfect on this subject.

While on his eight months tour he recollects of going to the South, of marching near the Hudson river of passing through Fishkill Poughkeepsie & near or through the White Plains. One night (he thinks while stationed for a short time at Poughkeepsie) the company in which he served received orders to march and that they did march under the command of Capt. Nobles all night and early in the morning reached a small village on the New Jersey side of the River, at a  rise of ground, and that after they landed the enemy were seen to come up in a boat & land on the same side. The Americans saw them approaching through their spy glasses. Both armies formed themselves into a line for Battle as he supposed, but in a few minutes he heard the horns of the enemy sound & they retired in the same Boat in which they approached the place. This was the only circumstance of importance that occurred during his tour, & this he can never forget.
Sixth- He further states that after the time of his service had expired he returned home but has no discharge and don't recollect as he can receive any. There is a person living as he knows of who was in the service with him whose testimony he can procure but he has a brother & two sisters living who he thinks will recollect the fact of his going into the service & the length of time very near that he was absent in the service. His brother's name is John Jerome and lives in the same town with him. One of his sisters lives in Mon

lives in an adjoining town. His Brother is  about about seventy eight years of age & who was was in the service himself more or less during the same time, but in another part of the Country at the North. He further states that he can refer to Daniel Gott Esq & Olin Davis Wheaton of Pompey his neighbors to testify to his credibility & to their belief of the truth of his having served as he has above stated. He further states that there is no Clergyman in his neighborhood who can state the facts required of him as he has been in the town the resident Clergyman has only been in the neighborhood a few weeks.
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of the agency of any state. of Sworn to & subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
Levi Jerome
Subscribed & sworn this 24 th day of November 1835 before me H. Edwards Clerk
We Daniel Gott and Olin J. Wheaton of Pompey hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Levi Jerome who has sworn to & subscribed to the above declaration & that we believe him to be seventy four years of age, and that he is reported to be  have been & that we believe him to have been a soldier of the Revolution.
Subscribed & sworn this 24 th day of November 1835 before me H. Edwards Clerk
Daniel Gott Olin J. Wheaton

State of New York } Onondaga County } 3
Ruth Baylston of Marlin & County aforesaid being duly sworn deposes & saith that she will be sixty six  eight years of age next February and that she is an own sister of Levi Jerome of Pompey in said County who is according to the reputation of the ages of the children in the family now serving four years of age that while she was known in Germantown in Connecticut in Litchfield in Connecticut near Sheffield & moved to Stockbridge at three years of age and that she distinctly recollects that while she was a small girl near or about ten years of age her brother Levi Jerome went to Saratoga as she recollects to Capt Whittlesey as he was called who lived in Sheffield and that he was gone away from home about a month, thinks full a month before he returned, and that this was about the time news came of the surrender of Burgoin. She also distinctly recollects of his enlistment in the American army during the war, thinks it was soon after his going Can't tell whether it was before or after this to Saratoga  going to Saratoga She recollects that he left home to go into the service armed & equipped as a soldier, she thinks  recollects enlisted into Capt Nobles company as it was called at Sheffield, and that Levi Jerome  he was gone from home at this time several months thinks as many as eight months, but she does not recollect of his being what is called an "eight months man". She recollects of hearing of his captains & Generals name at the time. His capt. was one Nobles and the general one McClellan, but don't re- collect Col. Wood. And further saith not.
Ruth Baylston

On this twenty third day of November 1835 personally appeared before me Ruth Boynton to me personally & well known to be the same person described in & who subscribed the above affidavit & made oath that the facts therein stated are true. & I further certify that she is a person of un- questioned veracity & her statement entitled to the fullest credit
L. Ray Morgan Comm. of Deeds

State of New York § Onondaga County p. §
John Jerome of Pompey in the County aforesaid being duly sworn deposes & saith that he was seventy eight years of age last March and that he was born in Maridom in Connecticut at the age of 14 or 15 March in Stockbridge in Berkshire County Mass. to Stockbridge Mass. Chassett , that he is own brother to Levi Jerome who now lives in the same town with deponent, that said Levi Jerome is according to his recollection at the time of his age kept by deponent seventy four years old, that this deponent was a soldier in the Revolutionary war a several times for a short period at a time while he lived in Stockbridge Massachusetts that he recollects of going with horses to meet some soldiers whose time had expired a few days before Burgoyne was taken, & that he met Lieut Bradley who has since deceased  Levi Jerome's sister a Brother in Law of Levi Jerome who was sick & that Bradley was put on to a horse and carried home. Deponent thinks Levi Jerome was then attending Bradley & had come from Saratoga Barracks but on this point deponent's recollection is not positive. Deponent distinctly recollects of hearing the Cannon from Saratoga (at Stillwater) while taking Bradley home.
Deponent also recollects that his brother Levi was gone from home into the South as "an Eight month soldier". When Levi enlisted for the Eight months deponent thinks he was at Ticonderoga & that that he returned & found Levi had gone to

the war but don't recollect of knowing him personally. Deponent is too old to recollect many particulars. Levi Jerome spent to the South and Deponent to the North. Is confident that Levi Jerome was gone from home a an eight months more & recollects of his returning home again. It was always a matter of common reportation in my father's family that Levi had been a term of eight months in the service, then went with his brother Levi into the service.
John Jerome
Personally appeared before me the above deponent & made oath that the facts set forth in the above affidavit are true, and I further certify that I am personally & well acquainted with deponent and that his statement is entitled to the fullest credit as being a man of unquestioned respectability & veracity.
De Ray Morgan Comr. of Deeds
State
Papers of Levi Declaration of Levi Jerome for Pension dc
Affid

State of New York Onondaga County
I Hanson Edwards clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of said County and clerk of said County do hereby certify that Le Roy Morgan before whom the xxxxx preceding af- fidavits purport to have been sworn was at the date of the same a Commissioner of Deeds in and for said County duly appointed and qualified, and that I am acquainted with his hand writing and verily believe his name subscribed to the jurats of said affi- davits and the above certificates to be his genuine signature Witness my hand and Seal of Office this 24 th day of November A.D. 1835. H. Edwards Clerk

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after 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 the said O. J. Wheaton and Daniel Godt who have signed the proceeding certificate are residents of the town of Pompey and that their statement is entitled to full credit.
John Watson
George Pettit
David Munn
Successors
I Hanson Edwards Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of Onondaga County do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Levi Jerome for a pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 24 th day of November A. D. 1835
H. Edwards Clerk

Jan 15 th 1886
Sir
The enclosed certificate & return for correction presuming there is a mistake in the amount allowed - My reference to a letter addressed to me a few weeks since it will be found that I was informed that Mr Brown would be allowed for eight months. Since I have to request that the papers may again be examined and the error corrected. And I have to add that I am well acquainted with Deacon Brown and know him to be a man of the strictest integrity. Pray as early attention to this as may be convenient you will much oblige your Ob't Serv't - W. Jaylee
Hon J L Edwards Dear Sirs

Rehran
9921 INVALID.
File No. 9921
Lim Jerome
Phil Rev. war
Act: June 7 th 1862.
Index:—Vol. 1 , Page 192
[Arrangement of 1870.]