Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 5527, for Reuben Jackson, Massachusetts

SERVICE
SERVICE Noass.
NUMBER _____
Jackson, Ruben Sally
55527
CONTENTS

I Anna Balch wife of Doct Ebenezer Balch of Sandisfield of Lawful age do depose and say, that I am the Daughter of the late Rev. Elazar Storrs who was as early as one thousand seven hundred and seventy three a Presbyterian Clergyman of this Town, that I have now in my possession, the Records of Marriages made by my said Father and that I have had the same in my possession ever since the decease of my Father. And on my Father's said Book of Records, there is the following Entry made by my said Father: "November third one thousand seven hundred and seventy four Ruben Jackson and Sarah Hibbey were married" that the above is a true copy of the Record with the exception of the date, which is expressed on the Record in fair and legible figures, as follows., Nov 3 1774 Anna Balch
State of Massachusetts Berkshire County } ss. Oct. 2 nd 1840. Then personally appeared Anna Balch the subscriber of the above and made oath to the truth of the same.
Before me L. H. Stockland Just Peace

COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
Berkshire, ss.
I Charles Sedgwick, Clerk of the Judicial Courts of the Commonwealth, for the County of Berkshire, do certify, that Samuel B. Strickland Esquire, whose signature is affixed to the certificate on the paper hereunto 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 are 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 Strickland and believe his signature to said certificate is genuine.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the Court of Common Pleas for said Commonwealth, this ninth day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty.
C. Sedgwick CLERK.

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la Jackson
4 Reuben
at July 1836
  11. 233.  Bacon  75.  X    14. 27.  —  —  X    21. 151.  Noble  77.  X  
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Hm. D.P. Brewster H.R.

State of New York County of Oswego } ss On this Sixth day of January in the Year one thousand Eight hundred and forty one personally appeared before the undersigned one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of said County, the same being a Court of Record Sally Jackson a resident of the town of Scriba in said County of Oswego, aged Eighty five years, who being first du- ly sworn according to law doth on oath make the following Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the Act of Congress passed July 4 th 1836, and the Act Explanatory of said Act passed March 3 rd 1837. - That she is the widow of Reuben Jackson late of the town of Sheffield in the County of Berkshire and State of Massachu- setts now deceased - that said Reuben Jackson enlisted as a Minute man, in the year 1775 in said town of Sheffield under Captain William Bacon and Lieutenant John Hubbard, and that he served as such Minute man for nine Months, and that during said time he was called out several times one of which times was at the Battle of Bunker Hill in which he was engaged. - That in the Winter of 1776 in January he enlisted for six Months under Captain Isaac Fosberg to go to the North to join the Northern Army - That while with the Army in Canada he had the small pox, that he re- turned to his home in the Month of July for being in a weak and feeble state in consequence of his sickness, from the effects of which he soon entirely recovered He started for the North about the first of January. - That she does not re- collect the name of the Colonel under whom he served on this or any other expedition. That

During the Year 1777 the said Reuben Jackson was called into actual service as a Soldier Several times, once in the Month of August at the time of the Battle of Bennington and again at the time of the Capture of Burgoyne in which battle he was engaged - That she does not recollect the names of the Officers under whom said Reuben Jackson served in these expeditions in 1777. That whenever he was in the public service he served in the capacity of a private Soldier. That she believes and has no doubt that he was engaged in actual service as a Soldier in the Revolution as above mentioned, in the whole more than two years.
The further declares that she was married to the said Reuben Jackson in the town of Sheffield county of Berkshire at the house of Solomon Smith on the third day of November in the year (1774) one thousand seven hundred and seventy four by the Rev. Mr. Morris, that the said Reuben Jackson resided with his family from the time of his marriage until his death in the town of Sheffield aforesaid, excepting while he was in the public service - that the said Reuben Jackson died on the third day of December in the year eighteen hundred and two (1802) of a disease called Influenza or Rheumatism - and that she the said Sally Jackson has never since been married, but has remained a widow until the present time. The further declares that she never knew any other man bearing her said husband's name who was a Soldier in the Revolution - that she does not know of any persons now living by whom she can prove the military

Service of her said husband excepting Joseph Bower of Sheffield, who resided at that time in the immediate neighbourhood and within a few rods of herself and husband. And further she declares that she has no documentary ev- idence of the services of her said husband or of their marriage.  Subscribed and sworn to the day and year above written before  Sally the Jackson Mark  J. V. D. Ludlow Judge of Oswego County Court, Counsellor &c
I certify that, on the 6 th day of January last, when the above declaration & oath of the abovenamed Sally Jackson were made before me the then next term of the County Courts of Oswego was to be holden about twenty six miles from her residence, and that I believe, from her great old age and infirmities, she was incapable of attending said Court, & so has continued down to the present time; and that that she can leave her bed, as I am informed and believe, but a few minutes at a time, at this day - And further, from all that I have heard about her, I have no reason to doubt that she is a woman of rep- utable character, & in all respects entitled to belief, saving the natural infirmities of old age
J. V. D. Ludlow Judge Osw. Co. Courts Counsellor &c

I the subscriber, before whom the affidavit of Phebe Joyce here- unto annexed was taken, do certify that on inquiry, & from information received, I believe that the said Phebe is a woman of reputable character, & in all respects entitled to belief, and I have no reason to doubt that the facts stated in her said affidavit are true
Oswego N.Y. Apr. 26. 1841
J. D. Sullow Judge of Oswego County Counsellor J. P.

State of New York County of Oswego } ss
I, Phebe Joyce of the town of Scriba in said County having been duly sworn, depose and say, that I am aged fifty one years, that I have for many years past been a resident of the said town of Scriba, that I am the daughter of the late Reuben Jackson of Sheffield Berkshire County and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, that I distinctly recollect the death of my said Father which took place on the third day of December in the year Eighteen hundred and two (1802) that my Mother Polly Jackson has not been married since the decease of the said Reuben Jackson, but has remained hitherto a widow and now resides in the family of the deponent. And further that the said deponent has often during the life time of the said Reuben Jackson heard him speak of being a Soldier in the Revolution and heard him relate circumstances and incidents connected with his service and the battles in which he was engaged, and further saith not.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 6 th day of January 1841 J. D. Ludlow Judge of Oswego County Court, Chancellor &c.
Phebe Joyce
State of New York Oswego County ss. I Andrew J. McCarthy Clerk of the County of Oswego

and Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of said County Do certify that Samuel B Ludlow Esquire before whom the foregoing depositions were taken was at the time of taking the same a Judge of the County Court of said County duly authorized by the laws and statutes of said State to administer oaths &c - and that full faith and credit should be given to his acts as such Judge - And further that I am acquainted with the signature & hand writing of said Judge and that the signature to each of the foregoing depositions purporting to be his is genuine.
In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the Court of Common Pleas of said County this eighteenth day of January A.D. 1841 A. G. McCarthy Clerk.

Reuben Jackson
My.
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Oct 1832
1836
Aug

State of New York } County of Otsego }
Be it Known, that on this Second day of May A. D. 185 3 before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, in and for the County and State aforesaid, personally appeared Rhoda Hall
resident of Scriba in said County, and made oath according to law that she is the daughter of Ruben Jackson Sally his wife, that said Sally died June 15 th 1848 being the widow of the identical Ruben Jackson who was a Soldier in the war of the Revolution, and who has heretofore made application for the benefit of
the Pension Act of 4 That she is directly interested as a claimant in said Pension, and makes this affidavit to be filed with such additional evidence or arguments as my Agent may use in prosecuting said claim.
Countermanding and revoking all Powers of Attorney and authority heretofore given, I hereby constitute and appoint C. W. BENNETT , of Washington City, my true and lawful Attorney to prosecute the claim of Ruben Jackson for any amount of Revolutionary Pension, or increase of Pension that may be due; and I hereby authorize my said Attorney to examine all papers or documents in relation to said claim, on file in the Department at Washington City or elsewhere, to file additional evidence or arguments, and to receive for my exclusive benefit, the certificate which may be issued for said claim, which certificate I wish made payable at the Washington City, D. C. Agency; to appoint one or more substitutes under him for the purposes herein expressed, and to do all things that I might or could do were I personally present. Hereby ratifying and confirming all that my said Attorney and Agent shall lawfully do in the premises.
Rhoda Hall
Sworn to, Subscribed, and Acknowledged before me the day and year above written, and I hereby certify that I believe the said Rhoda Hall to be directly interested in said claim as set forth, and to be the identical party therein alleged.
Amos Morgan Justice of the Peace
State of New York } County of Otsego }
It is hereby Certified, that satisfactory evidence has been exhibited before me, Clerk of the Court of _____ that Rhoda Hall the party who has sworn to, and acknowledged the foregoing Declaration and Power of Attorney, is the identical Child of the reputed soldier aforesaid. I further certify, that Amos Morgan Esq. before whom the preceding affidavit and Power of Attorney were made and acknowledged, was, at the time of so doing, a Justice of the Peace, in and for said County, and that the signature purporting to be his, I believe to be genuine.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of Office, this Second day of May 185 3
J. C. Huggins D.P. Clerk
1. Claimant's name or names in full.—2. Post Office address. 3. "That he is the identical man," or, "that she is the widow of the identical man," or, "that he or she is the legal heir of the identical man," &c., &c. 4. Leave this line blank.—5. "He is," "she is," or "they are."—6. Revolutionary soldier's full name.—7. Claimant's signature.—8. Claimant's name.—9. Magistrate's signature. 10. "Identical," "widow of," or, "child of."—11. Magistrate's name.—12. Clerk's signature.
N. B.—Should two or more heirs join in the foregoing, the plural should be substituted for the singular number.

March 29, 1939.
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BA-J/CC Reuben Jackson R.5527
Mrs. E.H.Ruth Route #1, Amherst, Ohio.
Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revolutionary War record of Reuben Jackson of Massachusetts.
The data which follow were obtained from papers on file in pension claim R.5527, based upon service in the Revolutionary War of Reuben Jackson. This is the record of the only Reuben Jackson of Massachusetts found on the Revolutionary War records of this office.
Date and place of birth of Reuben Jackson and names of his parents are not shown.
Reuben Jackson married November 3, 1774, in Sandisfield, Berkshire County, Massachusetts, Sally (Sarah) Kibbey. They were married by a Presbyterian Minister at the home of one Solomon Smith. The date of her birth and the names of her parents are not shown. Neither party had been married previously. They lived in the house with said Reuben's family in Sheffield, Berkshire County, Massachusetts, from the date of their marriage until his death, December 3, 1802.
On January 6, 1841, while a resident of Scriba, Oswego County, New York, Sally Jackson, widow of Reuben Jackson, then aged eighty-five years, made application for pension which might have been due on account of the service of her husband, in the Revolutionary War. It was stated that Reuben Jackson was a minuteman in 1775, and was in the battle of Bunker Hill in Captain William Bacon's Massachusetts company, that he enlisted January 1, 1776, served six months as private in Captain Isaac Vosburg's Massachusetts company and was in the expedition to Canada; that during the year 1777, he was called into active service several times, once in August, and was in the battle of Bennington; that he enlisted September 19, 1777, served thirty-one days in Captain Roswell Bowning's company, Colonel John Ashley's Massachusetts regiment and was at the surrender of Burgoyne.
Downings

The claim for pension was not allowed as soldier's widow failed to furnish proof of service of her husband for six months, as required by the pension law.
Sally Jackson died June 15, 1848, place not shown.
In 1841, Phebe Joyce, soldier's daughter, was aged fifty-one years and a resident of Scriba, Oswego County, New York. Her mother, Sally Jackson, was living with this daughter when she applied for her pension. In May 1853, another daughter, Rhode Hall, was a resident of Scriba, New York. The names of the husbands of these two daughters are not shown, nor dates of their marriages and no reference was made to any other children of the soldier.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER Executive Assistant to the Administrator.

5 5 217  P. O. Sally Jackson  Service: _____  REJECTED  Enlisted: _____, 18 .  Discharged: _____, 18 .  Application filed: _____, 18 .  Alleged: The printed list of 1852 gives cause of suspension as "No proof of service - name on the rolls but for a few days."  Re-enlisted: _____  Attorney: _____  P. O. _____  _____ Recognized. _____ Contract.
1922 Aug. 30. Hlct. D. Mrs. J. E. Burnap 1518 S. Boston Ave. Tulsa Okla. (see her letter in Pliny Kellogg - Mass SH 1718.) aw.  1939 Mar. 29 Visit to Mrs. E. H. Ruth cc

3200 Very Suspended Lit to E. P. Cooke May 1885 E. P. Cooke in duty free act of filing who & R. ...

I Anna Balch of Sandwich in the County of Barnstable Commonwealth of Massachusetts wife of Ebenezer Balch of lawful age do depose and say that I have in my possession the Records of My Father the late Elazar Storrs a Clergyman, who was for a long time settled over the Church Society in St. Sandwich, and in his Book of records of Marriages, is the following entry in his own hand writing: November "Third Scrutton hundred and seventy four Reuben Jackson and Sarah Kilby were married." That the above is a true copy of record, with the exception of the date which is expressed on the Record in fair legible figures, as follows "Nov. 3. 1774" — Anna Balch
Barnstable County April 6 th 1841. Then the above named Anna State of Massachusetts Balch personally appeared before me J. H. Stickland a Justice of the Peace in and for said County under oath to the truth of the above affidavit by her subscribed.
J. H. Stickland Just. Peace I certify that I am well acquainted with Anna Balch the above named deponent and she is a person of truth & veracity and entitled to full credit and I further certify that I examined a Book of Records in her possession, and among other Records of marriages therein contained, is the above entry as sworn to by the deponent.
J. H. Stickland Just. Peace

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Hm D. P. Brewster N2

State of New York } County of Onondaga } ss. On this 4 th Day of June in the Year of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred and forty one, person- ally appeared before me the undersigned one of the Justices of the Peace of the said County in the Town of Salina Thomas Ingersoll a resident of the Town of Salina in said County, aged Ninety three Years. who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on oath make the following declaration. that in the time of the revolutionary War he Resided in the Town of Great Barrington, County of Berkshire State of Massachusetts, that he Now Resides in the Town of Salina County of Onondaga and State of New York, that while he Resided in the said Town of Great Barrington he was acquainted with Reuben Jackson who Resided in the Town of Sheffield County of Berkshire in the said State of Massachusetts that he was acquainted with said Reuben Jackson during and for some time after the said War. he Recollects that a Company of Minute Men was raised in the said Town of Sheffield in the Year one thousand Seven hundred and Seventy five for nine months, and that he is very sure that Reuben Jackson enlisted as one of said Company for nine months under Capt William Bacon, Lieut John Hubbard under the command of General Ward and that he knows that the said Reuben Jackson marched to Boston and that this deponent saw the said Reuben Jackson in the service at the time of the Bunker Hill Battle, that in the four part of January Seventeen hundred and Seventy six the said Reuben Jackson enlisted under Capt Isaac Vose and started to join the expedition to Canada in the Northern Army under the command of Col Benedict Arnold and that while on their March they were under the command of Genl Sullivan when on their Return from Canada, to Fort Crown Point and from Crown Point they crossed to Fort Edward where deponent was then stationed that he saw him at the time and that

he the Said Reuben Jackson had the Small Pox and Look'd Verry Poorly, this was about the first of July in the Year Seventeen hundred Seventy Six that the Said Reuben Jackson was then discharged on account of ill health Originating from his having had the Small Pox, that while deponent was at Fort Edward General Schuy- ler was in Command, and in the Year Seventeen hundred and Seventy Seven about September, deponent was again in the Service with Said Reuben Jackson at Pemmits Litter in Stillwater Saratoga County, this he recollects from one particular Fact of Working with him on a float- ing Bridge & that Deponent was at the time an Orduly Sergeant and Ordered the Said Reuben Jackson to work on the Bridge, this Bridge was Built for the purpose of crossing the North river, that Deponent & the Said Reuben Jackson crossed the Bridge with a Company of Rangers in pursuit British Troops, that he deponent knows Said Reuben Jackson was there in the Service for the time of six weeks which Bro't it to the time of Genl Burgoyne's Surrender that at this time Deponent thinks they were under capt Enoch Noble and Col John Ashley & Genl John Fellows is Very Sure Fellow was the General
Sworn and Subscribed this 4 th Day June 1841 Before J. P. Hicks J.P.
Dear Friend
Onondaga County N.Y. I hereby Certify that I have been acquainted with Thomas Dugard for more than twenty Years that he is a man of Truth and Veracity and has been Considered a Very Respectable Old Gentleman and by all Who knows him and that he is Remarkable Smart for his age and that he signed his name to the above affidavit without Spectacles Salina June 4 th 1841 Jonathan P. Hicks J.P.

State of New York Onondaga County } ss:
I Lewis J. Gillet Deputy Clerk of the said county do certify that Jonathan P. Hicks Esquire before whom the preceding affidavit purports to have been sworn was at the date of the same one of the Jus- tices of the Peace in and for the said county, and that I am acquainted with his hand writing, and verily believe his name subscribed to the said affidavit to be his proper hand writing and signature. Witness my hand and the seal of said county at Syracuse this 4 th day of June 1841.
("June" written on erasure.)
Lewis J. Gillet Dep. Clerk.
was then stated that he saw him at the time and that

Phoebe Joyce Dec 1. '42

Gen of Rev Dec 1, 1872
Phebe Mrs Joyce -
Your letter of 16 inst respect- -ing the claim of your mother Mrs Sally Jackson has been received - As it affords no additional means for a further exami- -nation of the rolls I am not able to give you any more information than that you have communicated to me also than that the rolls have been unsuccessfully searched for evidence of the service under every Officer named - The rules of the Dept superiorly required when the  the rolls of any alleged service are in existence the service should be traced thereon or esta- -blished by two credible witnesses having personal knowledge of the time & manner of entering & leaving the service names of Officers &c -
If the names of the Capt's are in correctly given the search of the rolls would of course be fruitless - It may be that there is some mistake in that respect Mrs Phebe Joyce - Oswego NY.

Hon D. P. Brewster,
July 1, 1841
P. 6

Gen. A July 1 41
Sir
I have the honor to inform you that the deposition of Thomas Ingersoll enclosed in yours of 14 ult in the case of Mrs Sally Jackson is not sufficient to establish any portion of the service. That under Bacon in 75 is discredited by the rolls of that company as are also the alleged term in 77 at Para to ga under Capt Hobbs. The witness was in Goodrich's Company during that term but claimant's late husband is not found on the rolls of that company. The alleged service in the expedition to Canada could not be known to the witness, if he has truly set forth the facts in his own unsuccessful application under the act of 7. June '32
No 5260 4 July 1836 N.Y. ✓
Gen. D. P. Brewster H.R.

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
Washington, D. C., _____, 19_____
In reply to your request of _____, received _____ for a statement of the military history of _____ a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pen- sion on file in this Bureau.
   DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE.   CAPTAIN. COLONEL.     75 ✓ Noncommissioned Henry Bacon ✓ Mass   Jan 76 ✓ 1st Isaac Voorhies ✓   Sept 19. 77 31 days 1st Samuel Drown John Ashley  
Battles engaged in, _____
Residence of soldier at enlistment, _____
Date of application for pension, _____
Residence at date of application, _____
Age at date of application, 85
Remarks: _____ H. d. Dec. 3 1802 Sled d. June 11 1845 Daughter Phoebe Drown and Rhoda Hall Her claim was not allowed as she failed to furnish proof of her service as required by the pension laws
Respectfully,
Commissioner.

Hon. S. G. Palfrey Sec. of State Boston Mass
From Brad Loy Ovid Seneca Co. N.Y.
1842.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Boston;
March 19 1845.
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 Reuben Jackson is borne as a private, upon a pay Roll of Capt s Roswell Drownings Comp y . in Col. John Ashley's Reg t of Militia, Berkshire County, from Sept. 19 to Oct. 19, 1777, both days included, 31 days, and 90 miles travel. To one of the name is borne upon the Rolls of Capt s Bacon or Noble - there are no rolls of Capt s Isaac Fosburg or Ezra Fellows, and the above is all the evidence of service in the case.

Hon. A. G. [unclear] [unclear]
1042.
And I further Certify, That, before search made for evidence of said facts, the application hereto annexed was filed in this Office, in the form in which the same now appears; that the search was made by myself and my clerks alone; and that said application, and the certificate above set forth, contain all the facts and circumstances within my knowledge, pertaining to the case.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written.
Secretary of the Commonwealth.

Application for Certificate of Revolutionary Services by the Widow.
State of New York
Town of Scriba
County of Oswego
The Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts is hereby requested to furnish evidence from the Rolls in his office of the services of my late husband Rhenben Jackson. He enlisted in the year 1775 from the town of Sheffield in the County of Berkshire, State of Massachusetts - in the Company of Capt William Bacon Regiment, and served as private, probably until
We were married in the year 1774. He died in the year 1801 or 2. The only other facts which I recollect, are as follows. viz: He resided during the War of the Revolution in Sheffield, Berkshire, Mass. enlisted in 1775, & served 9 months - under Capt Wm Bacon - enlisted in 1776 under Capt Isaac Fosberg, served 6 months - & was honorably discharged; in August 1777 - enlisted under Capt Ezra Fellows, or Capt Enoch Noble & served 6 weeks - he was in the battles of Bennington, Saratoga, and Bennington -
I am now Ninety years old, and my memory does not enable me to state any thing further material to the proof required I have empowered David Day of Ord Services County to act in the premises as my Attorney. Witness my hand this 29th day of January A.D. 1845. Signed in my presence by said Sarah Jackson per Sarah Jackson mark
John H. Curtis
a Justice of the Peace.

June 14. 1841
In at N.Y.
J. S. Edwards Esq. Com r of Pensions Washington
Payee
Hon. D. P. Brearley W.R.

House of Reps June 11. 1891
Mr. Sir
Enclosed I send you additional testimony in the case of Mrs. Joyce or Mrs. Jackson (I am not quite sure which.) but the affidavits showing the Service of Rufus Jackson her husband, sufficient evidence of her marriage I understand is already on file in your Dept and the General considers the enclosures as sufficient supplementary proof to entitle the applicant to her pension
Very Respectfully Yours
D. P. Brumley
J. L. Edward, Esq. Chair of Pension

1822
C. M. WATKE
May 10 th 1821
Ab...

Dear Sir May 11 th 1874
Sir
The claim of Mrs Sally Jackson has been again examined & her papers placed on our files under the act of 4 July '36.
The proof as to the date of the marriage in 1774 is deemed satisfactory but no term of service is duly set forth as to the names of the Comp y Field officers either by claimant or witness as is indispensably necessary to an examination of the rolls.
The service stated by the witness as having been rendered in the detachment raised in Dec r 1775 to reinforce Montgomery in Canada did not exceed 5 mos. even if it were duly established. The objections stated in my letter to Hon. D.P. Brewster of 4 Feb y last have not been obviated except as to the proof of the date of her marriage.
Edwin W Clarke Oswego N.Y.

May 3. 1841
Mrs. M c D. Carr Sally Jackson.
Memorandum of Pension (Revolutionary)
Washington City

Orwego N.Y. Apr 27. 1841
To the Com d of Pensions
The enclosed papers of Sally Jackson have been once submitted to your office and returned as insufficient.
They have been recorded in the particular noted as deficient and certificates of suitable character &c have been procured.
Hardly a case could occur in which the re- lief sought is more necessary to the individual.
I trust the papers will now be found sufficient. If not please return them to me.
The evidence of service is indeed slight but little less the applicant has been able to obtain.
Yours &c Edwin W. Clarke

Spaulding
Hon. S. C. Ellsworth

Ovid May 15th 1846
My Dear Sir
Will you please to enclose the enclosed papers to Comt. of Pensions
Obedient Your friend & Obdt Servt Brad Joy
Hon S S Ellsworth M.C.
Please request at the bottom of the papers that a report upon the  them be made to you

Hon. S. P. Ellsworth
20. May 1846.
[Handwritten flourish]

Sir
Gen H May 23. 46
I have the honor to re- turn you a memo in Mr. Jay's handwri- ting referring to the papers of "Jehiel Spalding of Berkshire of Mass" in the case of Sally Jackson & to inform you that there is no person of that name in Mass. Moreover it is not competent for an agent to en- -gaze the force of this Office in searching for information in a certain designated file to supply deficiencies in another.
Hon. S. C. Ellsworth A.R.

Sir
Pen H
May 14 th 45
The certificate of the Secy of Mass. in the case of Sally Jack-son shews but 31 days service of her husband while it discredits that part of the claim founded upon service under Capt. Bacon & Noble upon whose rolls he is not found. The other service under Capt. Burgess is neither supported by the rolls or any other evidence.
And Jay Esq Aid N.Y.

April 1, 1845.
Adams case
Sarah Jackson
Hon J. S. Adams Comm. of States Washington D. C.

Ovid March 26. 45
Dear Sir
Respectfully ask leave to enclose to you Secy. of War Cert of Service of Reuben Jackson, if you find it corresponds with the declaration of Sarah Jackson whose papers are on file in your office under the law of 1836 from Oswego Co N.Y. you will no doubt ex her with the Service, in return be pleased to give me the objections to a pension in the case, if the proof on file with the enclosed Certificate does not establish her claim as to the case I know but further than very little, I ask nothing for it, but the most  just most strict justice, justifying but I do most respectfully ask for a full history of the objection to a pension, if it is rejected.
Hon J L Edwards Comt of Pension Washington.
Respectfully Yours M c O o Servt Abad Loyo

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Perkshin Co Sheffield Octobr 7 th 1840
Joseph Bower of Sheffield aforesaid aged eighty years, a revolutionary pensioner of the United States, being duly cautioned & sworn deposes and says; That he was in the year seventeen hundred and seventy five, and for a number of years after that time he was well acquainted with Reuben Jackson of Sheffield in said County of Berkshin & Commonwealth of Massachusetts. That he knows recollects that the said Reuben Jackson was enlisted and served as a soldier in the army of the revolution, he enlisted under Captain Isaac Vosburg, he started for the north to join the northern division of the army immediately or soon after the attempt to storm Quebec on the thirty first day of December seventeen hundred and seventy five, by the troops under General Montgomery. The deponent feels quite sure that Reuben Jackson started for the north to join the army on the first day of January seventeen hundred and seventy six. Reuben Jackson had the small pox while upon that expedition, deponent thinks he was gone from home as a soldier about six months, he feels quite certain that it was then the fore part of July seventeen hundred and seventy six, that said Jackson returned from the north in consequence of his having the small pox. The deponent further says that in the year seventeen hundred and seventy five & previously to the expedition to Quebec the said Reuben Jackson was enlisted as a minute-man under Captain William Bacon of Sheffield and Lieutenant John Dubbant of Sheffield, the deponent feels quite certain that Jackson served nine months as a minute man in Sheffield as aforesaid. The deponent further says that at several times he saw Reuben Jackson at the capture of General Burgoyne, but how long he was in the army at time he does not know, because he did not belong to my company - the deponent believes that Reuben Jackson served at that time as a militia-man.
And further the deponent saith not. Joseph Bower in presence of Oliver Peak Minerva Bower

Berkshire Co Sheffield October 7 th 1840
Then the within named Joseph Bowen personally appeared and made oath to the truth of the within deposition by him signed
Before me
Oliver Peck Justice of the Peace
To all whom it may concern
The subscribers, the magistrate before whom the deposition of Joseph Bowen was taken, touching the services of Reuben Jackson in the war of the revolution, Certified that the said Joseph Bowen is a man of reputable character in all respects entitled to belief, abating the natural infirmities of age
Sheffield Berkshire Co. Mass April 1841
Oliver Peck Justice of the Peace

COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
Berkshire, ss.
I Charles Sedgwick, Clerk of the Judicial Courts of the Commonwealth, for the County of Berkshire, do certify, that Oliver Peck Esquire, whose signature is affixed to the certificate on the paper hereunto 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 are 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 Peck and believe his signature to said certificate is genuine.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the Court of Common Pleas for said Commonwealth, this ninth day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty.
Chas. Sedgwick
CLERK.

Rev. H. 4 Feb'y 4, '41
Sir
I have the honor to inform you that the claim of Mrs Sally Jackson has been examined & her papers herewith returned. Her declaration should be made before a Court of record or if actually incapable of attending court, before a judge of a court of record who should certify the disability. The date of the marriage should be established by a certified copy of a church or Town record or by the original of any private register. If the private register in this case cannot be obtained it should be submitted to a court and its opinion of its  certified authentically duly certified under the official seal of the Clerk. With respect to the service which is very imperfectly set forth and which cannot be investigated without the names of the Officers, the allegation of service in 75 under Capt Bacon whose company consisting in part of Sheffield men was in service at Roxbury from 1 May to 25 Dec. 75, is not supported by the rolls. There is probably some mistake as to

The name of his Captain -
Another term from June to July 76 under Capt Vosburgh in the expedition to Canada for a view to relieve the troops under Arnold is set forth by a witness who was not in the expedition and whose testimony is not de- -ed sufficient to establish it - There is no record of that service in this Office - The names of the several Captains under whom he served must be correctly given as it is impracticable to trace the service on the rolls -
The credibility of each witness should be certified by the justice who administered the oaths
Yrs D. P. Brewster
H. R.
Henry H. T. 1841 G. C.

1872 J. R. [unclear] Pension Office Washington D. C.

Scribe East Oswego Nov 15 1842
Dear sir I must confess that I feel a great indignity when I take pen in hand to write to one who is so much superior in Rank in this world than my self but am not afraid to fall prostrate before the king of kings and Lords of Lords I am not afraid of sending my cries and petitions up to him in behalf of my wants I know he dose hear and gives me answers of peace may the good god of peace put in your heart to do like wise for I say unto you that my mind has been completely harassed for two years past when I think of my undertakings when I think how I have traveled five hundred miles spent fifty dollars which I have earned with my own hands one hundred miles have I walked on foot which being unaccustomed to do blistered my feet and could go no longer in order to gain witnesses and found but very few living of my father's age which if it had been twenty years ago I could get a great number of witnesses but of that world have been false witnesses as you have charged mr. Bowen and mr. Ingason to be I do not see the propriety of having any witnesses at all but I say unto you that they are noted false witnesses as you represent them to be for I have heard my father relate the same stories which he related and with men that he was in the engagement with how they dropped down the red coats their men are all in their graves excepting mr. Ingason he was with him in Battle at the taking of Burgine mr. Bowen see him there all so I all so heard my father say that he helped build the ficting Bridge and volunteered with a number of others and helped it and took a quantity of military stores from the British and brought it to you. Fellows marke it is a lie that he was there six weeks by what I have heard him say and I have heard him tell of that dreadful Extermination or Campaign to Canada how he underwent every thing but death itself by hunger and cold and sickness and when they took it back Canada which being on the 14 th of June

1776 he expected to faint and dye and that he chose death rather than to be taken prisoner he was not able to keep up with the army and was pursued by the Enemy and shot after and expected to be killed every moment if had not been for the goodness of the officers preserving the Dick with mine he thought he should have fainted and dyed by the road as for the nine month nine men he was one in year 1775 I heard him say he was in the Battle at Bunkerhill but I heard him say that he in count of ill health hired a substitute for the two last months and the probability is that his name was returned in stead of my Fathers or there may be a mistake in the writers in spelling my Fathers name he formerly spelt his name Reuben Jackson there has been some papers at Clauds Whealons left in an old desk which belonged to his father that was not returned he told me that the papers that my Fathers name was on was taken from his house by Mr Benjamin Spolding of Sheffield in order to gain his pension and he thought that they were sent to Washington if that be the case you will find his name there as for the militia Captain of the town of Sheffield that we are so often changed during the war it would be impossible for a woman of my mothers age to retain but say that he was called out a number of times and served under a number of different Captains but cannot recollect where and when certainly but recollects the name of the captains that served during the war name is Capt Joseph Kellogg Capt Isaac Dyer Capt John Felton Capt Enoch Noble Capt Groomby etc then that you must find his name in some of their papers. Sirs was twelve years and six months old at my Fathers death I was turned out into this unfriendly world to provide for my self no better than an orphan penury now sir it fails to my lot to provide for my mother which I have for fifteen years being nearly 88 years of age

and now Sir you will say that I have been telling you some justful things in order to gain a position I can say I have told you the truth and life not one one that will stand at the judgement seat of Christ and I say unto you is justice justice justice to take place now Sir I want you to do this thing in a way that you will not be afraid to meet my Father and mother and myself to the judgement seat of Christ the question is asked in scripture who goes a warfare at his own charges my Father was judged as if he had been as you will see in broad in this letter which I heard my Father say was no better than five dollars in good money for six months servants to Canada in the year 1816 and you will find the same date on this old money which has been kept ever since and now the voice of my Father, blood cries out from the ground for justice to take place and the same directs blood runs in my veins that ran in his veins when he went to meet his enemy but my cry is justice and peace if not then war or vengeance I shall feel it my duty that I owe to my Fellow beings to have my story come before the publick I shall publish it in the Morning Morning Star as that is the most extensive paper and shall request all other printers to do likewise throughout the United States so that no others will be insulted as we have been and shall request all others to go and do likewise who have been served the same since you will say what do I care for that poor illiterate woman I tell you I have known small reptiles sting large animals so that the world swell up and die you must not look for eloquent language from me who has had no advantages in this life in consequence of my Father's ill health occasioned by the revolutionary war from which he never wholly recovered this letter is written by the request of my Mother then papers was sent in the year 41
Sally Jackson Phebe Joyce
B Edwards

Amherst, Ohio. Jan. 23, 1939.
Veteran's Bureau Washington D.C.
Gentlemen:
Please advise where to obtain information concerning a veteran of the Revolutionary War.
This much is known, that he was a native of the state of Massachusetts by the name of Reuben Jackson.
Information most desired is regarding ancestry and rank in the army.
Yours truly,
Mrs E. H. Ruth
Mrs. E.H.Ruth Amherst Ohio.            Rt.1.
only one person knows

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
NAME Jackson, Reuben GRADE Private LINE Virginia
WARRANT NUMBER 12276 ACREAGE 100 ISSUED December 13, 1791 To Francis Graves, assignee
*The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800. Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.