Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 26,808, for Nehemiah Jones, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Jones, Nehemiah Anna.
W. 26.808.
CONTENTS
b. June 17, 1760 Norton, Bristol Co. Mass. res. during Rev. War Norton & New Marlborough, Mass. res. in 1832 Westmoreland, Oneida Co. N.Y. d. Dec. 19, 1838
20

Utica 14/703 New York
Mehitabel Jones
of Utica in the State of New York who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Cobb of the Regt commanded by Col French in the Mass. Militia time for 16 Months 16 days
Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of $5 Dollars 09 Cents per annum, to commence on the 14th day of March, 1834.
Certificate of Pension issued the 10 th day of June 1833 and sent to Library Clinton New York
Arrears to the 14th of Mar 1833 $110:18 Semi-ant. allowance ending 1/Sept. '33 27:54
$137:72
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by Geo. B. Whiting Clerk, Book 6 Vol. 4 Page 3

New York Albany
Anna Jones,
widow of Nehemiah Jones who was a Private
in the Mass. Mil. for 16 mo & 16 days
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 55 Dollars & 10 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843.
Certificate of Pension issued the 27th day of June, 1843 and sent to
B. T. Johnson, Agent Rome, Onondaga Co. N. Y.
[Act of March 3, 1843.]
Recorded in Book A Vol. 1 Page 167.
Rep June 27

STATE OF NEW-YORK. Oneida Common Pleas, ss.
On this 8 th day of Sept r 1820, personally appeared in open Court of Common Pleas in and for said county, being a Court of Record, Nehemiah Jones aged 60 years, resident in Westmoreland 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: Enlisted in April 1777 in Allen Company Wigglesworths Regt Massachusetts Line and served therein nine months and was Honorably discharged.
That he has received a Pension, and the number of his pension certificate is 4,790 That he is by occupation a Farmer - but in feeble health - has lost one eye in a fight and his hearing very bad and unable to work -
That the number and names of his family residing with him: their ages and capacity to contribute to their support is as follows, viz.
His wife Emma aged 57 years in declining health
Nehemiah Jones 4790 Emma
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 whatever, disposed of my property, or any part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it, as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress, entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War," passed on the eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen; and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property or securities, contracts or debts, due to me; nor have I any income other than what is contained in the Schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed.
Sworn to and declared, on the 8 th day of Sept r 1820.
Nehemiah Jones
Before M c Millen J udg of court

SCHEDULE , containing the whole estate and income of
Nehemiah Jones - About thirty one acres of land in Westmoreland with a tolerable fine Stone Farm house thereon worth about five hundred Dollars.
 500  30 a Man worth thirty Dollars  14 Old Cow and Calf  12 Two year old Heifer & Calf  13 Three yearlings  10 10 Sheep  1 two pigs  4 Two Goats  30 Farming utensils worth about thirty Dollars  50 Household furniture worth fifty Dollars  16 84 Due to me on Note and Book  680 84 Income none 
I have a loan of forty seven Dollars (from my Brother Ephraim Jones in Westmoreland on Condition of supporting him at my table. This loan is for four years yet to come: And the collateral is the joint in the lease produced to the Court I consider it a Commy Commodity for me
I owe between seventeen and Eighteen Dollars - and Besides am Sorely bound with my son Parney Jones in a Note to Mr. Blanchman on which there is due one hundred and eighty six dollars.  Nehemiah Jones
Sworn to and declared, on the 8 day of Sept 1820, before M c Miller
Jint Judge of Oneida.
State of New-York. Oneida Common Pleas. } A Court of Record by Of the Term of Sept 1820. } Statute.
The whole of these proceedings were had in open Court ; and in the opinion of this Court the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the above Schedule is Six hundred Eighty Dollars Eighty four cents dollars and no more.
I, FRANCIS A. BLOODGOOD, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for the county of Oneida, do hereby certify, that the foregoing Oath and the Schedule thereunto annexed, are truly copied from the record of the said Court : And I further certify, that it is the opinion of the said Court, that the total amount, in value, of the property exhibited in the aforesaid Schedule is Six hundred Eighty four dollars and Eighty four cents. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this eighth day of September, 1820.
Francis A. Bloodgood Clerk

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My Militia
Am. Declaration

Declaration -
Of Nehemiah Jones - in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress - passed June 7 th 1832 -
State of New York
Onida County ss: On this 4 th day of August - in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & thirty two - personally appeared in open court, before the Court of Chancery of the State of New York - at a court held in before Nathan Williams Esq r Vice Chancellor of the 5 th Circuit of the State of New York - now sitting in the City of Utica - in the County aforesaid: Nehemiah Jones - a resident of the Town of Westmore  Land in said County - age seventy two years - who being first duly sworn according to law - doth on his oath make the following declarations in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832 -
That he entered the service of the United States and served as herein stated He then enlisted in Captain Silas Cobb, Company 1 st Lieutenant Isaac Smith - was one of the subalterns - in the Regiment commanded by Colonel, the Colonel's name not recollect. That he enlisted in Boston - in the County of Bristol & State of Massachusetts - That on in the month July 1814  the  at Roxbury near said Company was ordered to Boston - and ten or twelve days after the arrival of said company at Boston - it was ordered together with two other companies and march to an Island called Squantum - That he

does not now recollect the an commandant man- of said detachment - That this detachment was a substitute for one Princeas Briggs, there were no regular troops present with said Regiment - Had no fighting except a few shots from the English boats - That he this detachment was in said service - five weeks - It was honourably discharged at Scituate
That as aforesaid -
That in the Town of Norton - on or about the sixteenth day of January in the year seventeen hundred & seventy six - he enlisted as a private in Capt Silas Cobb's company - in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Col. Sturtevant for the term of as he thinks for three months That said company - was marched to Cambridge - thence to Winter Hill and at Winter Hill was attached to Colonel Frances' Regiment - in Genl Sullivan's division - or was equipped by him That he has not been at the last named place - for about fifty years - It cannot now discover any direct evidence of the last named - campaigns except that peremptory & herein adduced. That he was discharged at Dorchesters Neck 1776 - That in June - in the year seven- teen hundred & seventy six - that that his detachment - enlisted as a substitute for his brother Ebenezer Jones as a private, in Captain Stephen Dewey's compt in Colonel Jonathan Smith's Regiment - commanded by Lieutenant Col. Langley - of Brig Gen Feller's Brigade - That after the evacu- -ation of New York - this detachment - in said company

joined the army at Harlem - four miles from Kings Bridge - on the State of New York the fourth of Oct r 1776 - & by short night marches - arrived at White Plains - before the battle - that he was in the prin- cipal engagement - at White Plains - that the enemy - after that engagement fell back & the Army to Hills this dispo- sition belonged - continued its march to the north to Crotons Bridge. That Colonel Gans Regiment crossed said bridge: but the reg t to which this dispo- sition belonged remained on the south side - of said bridge till the twentieth of December of the same year when - the said last named Regiment return home - that this dispo- sition reached his home about the first of January 1777: and was honourably discharged from said service at said Crotonsbridge in the state of New York
That in the spring of seventeen hundred & seventy seven - this dispo- sition entered said service by enlisting as a private - in Capt Noah Allen company in Colonel Hightworts regiment & Genl Glovers Brigade - of the Massachusetts line - that this is the term of service for which the annexed pension certificate was granted - under the Act of Congress of the 8 th of March 1850 - : that said pension was granted - on the proof of nine months & eleven or twelve days services - the evidence of which this dispo- sition believes is on file in the War Office of the United States - : that he was dispo- sition of said pension by that whimsical

law of Congress - by which - the soldiers of the revolution were rewarded for extravagance & punished for economy.
He hereby relinquishes every claim to a pension or annuity except the present, & declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the Agency of any State - except on that of the State of New York - as herein before set forth.
I sworn & subscribed - This 9 th day of Augt 1832.
Heberiah Jones
J. WILLIAMS Miss Chan.
Interrogatories prescribed by the War Department to be put to claimants for pensions under the Act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832
 First - Where & in what year were you born;  Second - Have you any record of your age & if so where is it;  Third - Where were you living when called into service; Where have you lived since the revolutionary War - Where do you now reside;  Fourth - How were you called into service were you drafted, did you volunteer; 

were you a substitute and if a substitute for whom -; Fifth State the names of some of the regular officers who were with the troops where you served, such continental & militia regiments as you can recollect: and the general circumstances of your service.
Sixth Did you ever receive a discharge from the service, and if so by whom was it given; & what has become of it.
Seventh State the names of persons in your neighbourhood, to whom you are known and who can testify as to your character for veracity - : & their belief of your services as a revolutionary soldier.
State of New York
Onida County, ss: The said Nehemiah Jones who has subscribed & sworn to the foregoing declaration - : being duly sworn, according to law, - true answer to make to the Interrogatories - presented by the War Department, & herein before contained - ) to be put to affiants for pensions under the Act of Congress - passed June 7 th 1832 - - forsooth 4 days -
That he was born in the Town of Norton County of Bristol & State of Massachusetts Dec r 17 th 1760 -
Has no record of his age - :
Lived at Norton Bristol County Massachusetts the two first times he was called into service: the two last - in New Marlborough - :
of said person's name

It in seventeen hundred & eighty was removed to what is now Westmoreland in the county of Onondaga - it has resided at his present place of residence till the date hereof
That once he was a substitute for Phineas Briggs - once for Ebenezer Jones - & once - a true estimate -
That he recollect nothing further of the officers - & Regt with said troops except those herein before named -
Had no discharge - said company disbanded.
That Asahel Sheraton - D.D. & & Deacon Goodley are persons residing in the neighbourhood of their department & who can testify as to his reputation & the report of said services -
In witness whereof This 1 st day of Aug - 1832
Jeremiah Jones
M. Williams Vice Chan.

State of New York
Oneida County - fs: We Asahel S Norton
a clergyman residing in in the County of Oneida & State aforesaid - and Archibald C Gray - residing in Kirkland aforesaid - hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Nehemiah Jones - who has subscribed & sworn to the above declaration: that we believe him to be seventy two years of age: that he is reputed & believed in the neighbour- -hood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the revolution: & that we concur in that opinion.
Sworn & Subscribed This 15 th day of Aug t 1832
Asahel S. Norton Archibald C Gray
J. Williams Vice Chan.
Archibald C. Gray sworn & Subscribed the 18 th day of September 1832. before me
J. Williams Vice Chan.
And the said Court hereby declares its opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the Interroga- -tories prescribed by the War Department that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier & served as he states. And the said Court further certifies that it appears to it that Asahel S Norton - who has signed the proceeding certificate, is a clergyman residing in the Town of Kirkland. and that Archibald C Gray who has signed the foregoing certificate the foregoing certificate the foregoing certificate
of said pension by that nominal

The same is a credible person & that their statement is entitled to credit.
J. Williams Vice Chanc.
I James Watson Williams Clerk of the Court of Chancery for the Fifth Circuit of the State of New York -
Do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Rebecca Jones for a pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of office this 18 th day of August September 1832
J. Watson Williams Clerk in Chancery 5 th Circuit N.Y. by H. H. Williams Dept. Clks

WAR DEPARTMENT.
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.
I CERTIFY That, in conformity with the Law of the United States, of the 18th of March, 1818, _____
Nehemiah Jones _____ late a Private _____ _____ in the Army of the Revolution, is inscribed on the Pension List, Roll of the _____ New York Agency, at the rate of _____ eight dollars per month, to commence on the _____ 10 th day of April _____ one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.
GIVEN at the War Office of the United States, this _____ 7 th day of _____ December one thousand eight hundred and Eighteen.
J. H. Calhoun Secretary of War.

Bristol County
ss Nathaniel Sweeting of the town of Westport in said County being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, That this deponent who is now seventy three years of age, has ever been acquainted with Jeremiah Jones from his earliest recollection that they lived neighbors when very young in the town of Norton County of Bristol State of Massachusetts, & continued to live in that vicinity until the breaking out of the Revolutionary War, that this Deponent was a private in Capt Silas Cobb's company in the eight months service in 1775 and was stationed at Roxbury and Squantum that this deponent knew Jeremiah Jones to be a private in said company, that this deponent recollects distinctly of his being on the Island of Squantum doing duty as a soldier for a considerable length of time, how long is unable to recollect and further saith not
Nath. Sweeting
Bristol County ss
I certify that the above named Nathaniel Sweeting is personally known to me that he is a person of credibility truth and veracity, and that he duly made oath to, and subscribed the above affidavit before me
Westport 6th August 1882
W. M. Mroy C. M. S. Justice of the Peace
first recorded

State of New York Oneida County
vs. George Brown Clerk of the County of Oneida - do hereby certify, that Mumroy Jones - Esq. whose name is subscribed, to the foregoing Affidavit, signed & deposited to by Nathl Sweeting - was at the time the said Affidavit bears date, a Justice of the Peace in & for the County of Oneida aforesaid: And I do further certify - that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of said Justice - & that his said signature in his proper hand writing is genuine
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand - & affixed the Seal of the Court of Common Pleas, of the County of Oneida aforesaid
This 20 th day of Sept r 1832
Geo Brown Clerk
Joseph B Read Deputy Clerk

THE NEW TESTAMENT OF OUR LORD and SAVIOUR JESUS CHRIST, TRANSLATED OUT OF THE ORIGINAL GREEK; AND WITH THE FORMER TRANSLATIONS DILIGENTLY COMPARED AND REVISED, By His MAJESTY'S Special Command.
Appointed to be Read in CHURCHES.
EDINBURGH: PRINTED by MARK and CHARLES KERR, His MAJESTY'S Printers. MDCCCLXXXIX.

Nehemiah Jones born June 17 th A.D. 1760
Anna Pomeroy born March 6 th 1768
Nehemiah Jones and Anna Pomeroy.
Married, Jan. 10 th 1785.
Amanda born March 16 th 1786
Orin born January 14 th 1788
Died March 29 th 1788
Pomeroy born December 30 th 1789
Adeline born April 25 th 1800
Nehemiah Jones baptized by Elder Parsons
Feb 7 20 th 1803
Anna Jones baptized by Elder Douglas
March 17 th 1803
Adeline Jones baptized by Elder Miller
Oct 22 nd 1817
Adeline baptized by Elder Philo Jass 6 th 1817

4923 X Anna Jones act 11/8/38
Mr. John
Agts.
John,
Omaha,
NY
Maria 10 Jan 1837
Husband 16 Dec 1837
Not admitted
Harding sent after papers of the latter
4923
Anna Jones
NY
act 7 July '38
admitted 16mo 160s per $55 10
Hon. J. G. Floyd

DECLARATION
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th July, 1838, entitled "An act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows."
State of New York, } County of Oneida, }
On this eleventh day of February 1839 personally appeared before the Court of Common Pleas, of said county, Anna Jones , a resident of Westmoreland in the county aforesaid, aged 76 years, 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 Act of Congress, passed July 7, 1838, entitled "An Act granting Half-pay and Pensions to certain Widows," that she is the widow of Nehemiah Jones , late of said county — who was a Revolutionary Pensioner under the act of 1832 —
She further declares that she was married to the said Nehemiah Jones , at Suffield Conn — on the 10 th day of January in the year Seventeen hundred and eighty five ; that her husband, the aforesaid Nehemiah Jones , — died on the 19 th day of December 1838
That she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service ; but the marriage took place previous to the first of January, 1794 viz ; at the time above stated. That her maiden name was Anna Pomeroy
Sworn to and subscribed on } and the annuity family record is the day and year above written } taken from the family bible part of which is in his hand writing as it also recd there to annuity.
Anna Jones
Anna Jones

State of New York
Onondaga County ss.
William Fuller of Westmoreland in said county, being duly sworn deposes and says that he is well acquainted with Anna Jones within named - That she is the widow of Abraham Jones late of Westmoreland deceased - Said Abraham Jones was a Revolutionary prisoner of the United States and died on the 19 th Decr. 1838, and the said Anna Jones has remained a widow ever since his death.
Sworn in open court
I certify he is a man
of trust and veracity
July 11. 1839.
Dean, Clerk.
Wm. S. Fuller
State of New York Onondaga County ss.
I James Dean Clerk of said Court, do hereby certify that above proceedings were this day had in open court -
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the Seal of said Court the day & year aforesaid - James Dean, Clerk.

Rev. and 1812 Wars Section
AWF/HMM
April 15, 1930.
Miss Harriet A. Myrick Clinton New York.
Dear Madam:
I advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim W. 26808, it appears that Nehemiah Jones was born June 17, 1760 in Norton, Bristol County, Massachusetts.
While residing in Norton, Massachusetts, he enlisted and served as a private with the Massachusetts troops as follows:
From in July 1775 one month and seven days in Captain Silas Cobb's Company; from January 16, 1776 three months in Captain Silas Cobb's Company, Colonel French's Regiment.
While residing in New Marlboro, Massachusetts, he enlisted October 4, 1776 and served as a substitute for his brother, Ebenezer, two months and twenty-eight days in Captain Stephen Dewey's Company, Colonel Jonathan Smith's Massachusetts Regiment. He was in the battle of White Plains. He enlisted April 1, 1777 and served in Captain Noah Allen's Company, Colonel Wigglesworth's Massachusetts Regiment and was discharged January 22, 1778.
He moved in 1787 to Westmoreland, Oneida County, New York, and was residing there when he was allowed pension on his application executed April 10, 1818.
He died December 19, 1838.
The soldier married January 10, 1785 in Suffield, Connecticut, Anna Pomery. She was born March 6, 1763.
She was allowed pension on her application executed in February 1839, at which time she was living in Westmoreland, New York.

Their children were:
Amanda born March 16, 1786 married ----- Wood Oren " January 14, 1788 died March 29, 1788 Pomeroy " December 30, 1789 Adeline " April 25, 1800.
The following also appears on the family record:
Nehemiah Jones was baptized February 20, 1803 by Elder Parsons Anna Jones " " March 17, 1803 " Elder Douglas Amanda Jones " " October 12, 1803 " Elder Butler Adeline Jones # " January 5, 1817 " Elder Philo.
Very truly yours,
E. W. MORGAN Acting Commissioner.

1900 Lyric Dance Pun.
1930 Apr. 15 - Truck to minor Hester A. Murphy
WIDOW, &c.
File No. 26808?
Anna Jones widow of Nehemiah Jones Pr. Rev. War.
Act March 3 rd 48
Index: Vol A , Page 382
[Arrangement of 1870.]
Jan'y 23 - Mrs. Juliette Nashville

Keating
S. S.
Nicholas found in 1888
Nicholas found

This may Certify that Nehemiah Jones of the Town of N. Marlborough in the County of Berkshire in the State of Massachusetts Bay, hath enlisted Untill the 1 st of Jan y 1778. into the Continental Service and Join Capt. Allens Company and Col. Higgelbowths Regiment According to An Act of the Gen l Court of this State who on the 30 th of April Ordered that a Draft should be made by the 16 th of May to raise the seventieth Part of of the Male Inhabitants if not enlisted for Three Years or During the war Before According to Jones to the said Company Nehemiah Jones
N. Marlborough May 26. 1777

4,790
New York Roll -
Nehemiah Jones Private -
in the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.
inscribed on the Roll of New York — at the rate of Eight Dollars per month, to commence on the 10 th of April 1818 -
Certificate of Pension issued the 7 th of December 1818 and sent to Morris S. Miller Esq. Judge Oneida N. York -
Arrears to 4th of Sept. 1818. Amt. \frac{25}{30} — 38:66 -and all'ce ending 4 th March 1819 — 48: —
$ 86:66 Magglesworth
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
N. Hartmuth Oneida County - over
Information sent to the War Dept. 1818 Informed the 11 th June 1823, that in consequence of the removal of property situated in his N. school, he could not be re- inscribed on pension roll. — see letter to officials 11 th June 1823 Wadsworth N. York

6985 Albany, New York
Anna Jones widow of Nehemiah Jones
who was a pensioner under the Act of 1832 and who died on the 19. Dec. 1838 of Oneida Co. in the State of N. York who was a Private in the company commanded by Captain Cobb of the regt. commanded by Col. French in the Mass. Mil. time for 16 months & 16 days
Inscribed on the Roll of Albany at the rate of 55. Dollars & 10 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.
Certificate of Pension issued the 4 th day of February 1843 and sent to Hon. J. G. Floyd, House of Representatives
Arrears to the 4th of March 1841 $275.56 Semi-annual allowance ending
[Act July 7, 1838.]
Recorded by D. Brown Clerk, Book A. Vol. 2. Page 85.
Reported

W. York
Anna Jones
lit. to B.P. Johnson 13 July 1839
Rejected
Sister to Noble J. Farnese
March 21 st 1842
Noble J.B. Hoyle
March 21 st 1842
Act July 1838

Mass
Jones, Nehemiah
Y. 26.808

ANNA JONES.
[To accompany bill H. R. No. 452.]
————— MAY 26, 1842. —————
Mr. FURNANCE, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, submitted the following
REPORT :
The Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Anna Jones, report :
That all the facts of the case are contained in the annexed letter from the Commissioner of Pensions; and, being within the rule adopted by the committee, they report a bill.
————— PENSION OFFICE, March 21, 1842.
Sir : In answer to yours of the 19th instant, I have the honor to state that Nehemiah Jones, deceased, was allowed, first, under the act of March 18, 1818, and, afterwards, under the act of June 7, 1832, a pension for sixteen months and sixteen days' service as a private, and that his widow, Mrs. Anna Jones, presented a claim, under the act of July 7, 1838, which was disallowed, because she was not a widow at the date of its passage. She was married to the late pensioner in 1785, and has been his widow since December 19, 1838.
I have the honor to be, very respectfully, your most obedient servant, J. L. EDWARDS.
Hon. J. FURNANCE, House of Reps.

Mar 19. 1842.
John Jones
Home & Co
Home
L Edwards Esq. Stoner
Present
HR

March 19 th 1842
To J L Edwards Esq / Commissioner of Pensions
Dear Sir
The petition of Anna Jones has presented her petition for pension & refers to the department for testimony. She states that she is the widow of Nehemia Jones, late of Oneida County New York, who was a pensioner - that the petitioner was refused a pension because her husband did not die before the passage of the act, Please inform the Committee the evidence of service & time of marriage and cause of rejecting this case by department.
With great respect Yours
J. Horance

The Hon ble Lewis Cass, Secy of War Washington City

Clinton March 24 th 1833
Sir
Enclosed are the pension papers of Solomon Stockwell & Nehemiah Jones - together with the bills - received with Selah Woodruff, Thomas Thompson and David Comstock's - declarations - which I omitted to forward, with their amended declarations.
I am Sir with Respect Your Obedt Servt Hick G. Brany
The Honble Lewis Cass Secy of War Washington City

Mar 9. 42 Anna Jones Newbern Cousin from Mar 9 - 1842 Rumors of Purvis - Medicine D. L. H. G. G. G. H. G.

House of Representatives March 5 - 1842
Sir
Will you be so good as to send me the papers of Anna Jones on efficient - a record of a Revolutionary pension - for the purpose of laying them before the committee on Revolutionary Pensions - As the matter is now before the Committee I shall be obliged to you for the papers immedi- ately -
Very respectfully Yours obed Servt J. W. L. Lloyd
Hon J. L. Cummins

Amended Declaration
By Nehemiah Jones - in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832 -
State of New York
Oneida County - ss:
On the thirty first day of January, in the year of our Lord - eighteen hundred & thirty three - personally appeared before Nathan Kimball - one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas - of said County - (at Whitland in said County)
Nehemiah Jones - a resident of the Town of Westmoreland in said County - aged seventy two years - 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 1832.
That he entered the service of the United States - under the following named officers and served as hereinafter stated: - That he enlisted in Captain Silas Cobb's Company - in the Regiment commanded by Col. (not recollecting) That he enlisted at Norton - in the County of Bristol - State of Massachusetts - That in the month of July 1775 he joined said Company - at Roxbury - That he was stationed at Roxbury ten or twelve days - That from Roxbury - said Company, and two other were marched to an Island (called Squantum) That he does not

nor recollect the name of the commandant of said detachment - That this deponent was a substitute for one. Thomas Briggs - That there were no regular troops present with the said detachment - That this deponent was present with said detachment - one month and seven days - and was honorably discharged at Syracuse aforesaid.
That in the Town of Norton - on the fifteenth day of January - as this deponent believes - in the year seventeen hundred and seventy six - this deponent enlisted as a private in Captain Silas Cobb's company for the term of three months - That said company was marched to Cambridge - thence to Winter Hill, and at Winter Hill - was attached to Colonel Francis' Regiment in Genl. Sullivan's Division That he was discharged the 4 th day of April - seventeen hundred and seventy six - at Dorchester.
That he  he  then  he  enlisted  enlisted on the 4 th of Oct r - in the year seventeen hundred & seventy six - This deponent enlisted as a substitute for his brother (Ebenezer Jones) - as a private in Captain Stephen Dewey's company in Col. Jonathan Smith's Reg t commanded by Lieut. Col. Langley of Brigadier Genl. Fellows Brigade - That immediately after the evacuation of New-York - (as a private in said company joined the Army at Harlem four miles from Kings Bridge - on the Island of New-York - and arrived at White Plains - in October of seventeen hundred and seventy six, that this deponent was in the battle at on fatigue White Plains and that after that engagement - the army to which said regiment belonged - continued its march to the north - to Croton's Bridge - and

continued at Croton Bridge till the twentieth day of December - of the year last aforesaid. - when said Regiment was ordered home - and that this deponent was honourably discharged - at Croton Bridge - aforesaid - in the State of New York - the said twentieth day of December - That said Bridge is (about) 100 miles from the said Town of New Paltz the then residence of this deponent - arrived at his said residence - the first day of January seventeen hundred & sixty seven - That this deponent served as aforesaid - under the said last named enlistment two ————— months and twenty eight ————— days - as this deponent believes.
That on the twenty tenth day of April, in the year - seventeen hundred and seventy seven (as this deponent believes) - he was enlisted as a private in captain Noah Allen - company in Colonel Higglesworth's Regiment - 1 st Genl. Glover Brigade - of the Massachusetts Line, - for the term of nine months. That he was discharged at Valley Forge - 1 st order of Washington - a detachment was ordered to be discharged upon count on the tenth day of Jan y - seventeen hundred and seventy eight (as this deponent believes) - That he was discharged at least one hundred eighty miles from his residence. and that he arrived at his home - the twenty first day of Jan y - aforesaid that he served under the said last-named enlistment - the term of nine months and eleven days - further that the said last-named term, is the same for which the annexed pension certificate issued. That he was deprived of the pension - granted under the act of Congress - of eighteen hundred and eighteen by a subsequent act of Congress -
And this deponent further says: That he

was born in the Town of Boston - in the County of Bristol and State of Massachusetts, in the year seventeen hundred and sixty (as he believes).
That he has no record of his age.
That he lived in Boston, aforesaid the two first of the above named terms of service, and at New Marlborough - where he entered said service for the two last terms herein above named. That in nineteen hundred and eighty seven removed to what is now Westmoreland - in the County of Duval aforesaid. - That he now resides in Westmoreland aforesaid - and has resided there for the term of forty five years last past.
That he was a substitute for Phineas Briggs - during the first of said said terms of service. That in 1776 - he was a substitute, in 1777 - and 1778 he was not a substitute.
That he recollects - nothing - of the said service other than the facts herein set forth -
That he received no written discharge from said service.
That D r Asa B. Boston - and are persons residing in the neighborhood of this deponent - to whom he is known - and who can testify as to his character for veracity.
That the first of said terms of service - was one month and seven days - That the second of said terms of service - was three months - That the third of said terms - was two months & twenty six days - and that the fourth of said terms - was seven months and fourteen days - That this deponent discharged from last enlistment, says march from his then place - of residence -
That he this deponent knows of no other
1288 1287 1286 1285
1.7 3, 2.26 7.14 6. -6

evidence of said services - than that - on file in the War Office - and herewith attached.
We hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension, or any other present, and declare that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state, except that of the State of New York - as herein before set forth.
Sworn & Subscribed This day of Jan y 23 d 1833
Nehemiah Jones
Waltham Kimball, Judge of Circuit common pleas
State of New York
Franklin County
ss I Waltham Kimball - one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of said County - do hereby certify - that after the investigation of the matter - and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Depart- ment, that that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states. - And I do further certify that the aforesaid Nehemiah Jones - is by reason of old age & bodily infirmities, unable to attend either of the courts of record in this County at their sittings.
And I the aforesaid Judge do hereby further certify - that it appears to me - that the Rev Isaac Horton - is a clergyman residing in the Town of Hinton in said County - and that he signed the annexed certificate. - And that Archibald Gray - who has also signed the same resides in the same place & is a respectable person & that their statement is entitled to credit. Jan y 31 st 1833 - Attest my hand & seal Waltham Kimball Judge of Circuit common pleas

State of New York
Oneida County, ss: I, George Brown - Clerk of the County of Oneida - do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of Nathaniel Kimball Esq. one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in the matter of the application of Nehemiah Jones - for a pension.
I do further certify, that I am well acquainted with the hand writing said Judge - and that his signatures hereunto-sub- scribed to the foregoing - Declaration & Certificate are genuine. - I do further certify that said Court is a Court of Record - of this County.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand - and af- fixed the seal of the said Court This 18th day of January February - 1833 -
Geo. Brown Clerk
State of New York
Oneida County, ss: Nehemiah Jones - of Westmoreland in said County - being sworn says - The first of April - 1777 - This deponent enlisted as herein set forth - That he this deponent, - was ordered to return to his home - and go through with a course of the small pox: That he was inoculated & had the small pox; & returned to the said company at Poughkeepsie, N.Y. -
Sworn & Subscribed - This 31 st day of Jan y 1833
Nehemiah Jones
Nathaniel Kimball } Judge of Oneida common pleas

To The Hon. The Senate & House of Representatives of the United States.
The Memorial of Anna Jones of Westmoreland in the County of Onida most respectfully shows; that your petitioner is of the age of seventy six Years, that she is the widow of Nehemiah Jones late of said town of Westmoreland deceased, who was a Revolutionary pensioner of the United States at the time of his death, which took place on the 19 th day of December last. That your petitioner was married to said Nehemiah Jones on the 10 th day of January 1785 and that she so made her declaration under the act of July 7. 1838, before the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Onida in the month of February 1839 - and the same was presented to the War De- partment. Your petitioner received information from the Com. of Pensions J. L. Edwards Esq. that her case did not come within the provisions of that act, as her husband died after the same was passed.
Your Memorialist would most respectfully represent that she supposed her case was included in the Law of 1838 and was so advised by reputable Counsel - and that the fact of her husband's dying after the passage of the law could not make any difference as to the rights of Widows under that law -
Your memorialist would therefore most earnestly respectfully request your Honorable Bodies to pass an act embracing the case of your memorialist in the provisions of the Pension Law, or that you would be pleased to direct the Commissioner of Pensions to place the name of your memorialist on the list of Pensioners.

She also begs leave to refer you to the papers on file in the Pension Office as to the proof of the facts herein set forth.
And as in duty bound will ever pray.
Westmoreland N.Y. } October 1889.
Korner Jones
Anna Jones -
Petition of Anna Jones
vs
Congress
1889
Mar. 16. 1840
Ref d to Com ee Rev. Pensions
Mar. - 8 - 1842
Ref d to Com ee Rev. Pensions
May 26. 1842 - Bill N o 452
J. G. Floyd J. L. L. L.

State of New York } Onondaga County } ss
On this 15 th day of April 1848 personally appeared before the subscriber a Judge of the Onondaga County Courts, Anna Jones, a resident of Westmoreland in the County of Onondaga aged eighty years, who first being duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the act of Congress, passed on the 3 rd March, 1848 granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary war. That she is the widow of Nehemiah Jones who was a private in Capt. Hoak Allen's company in Col. Nigglesworth's Regiment Massachusetts line, that the said Nehemiah Jones served two or three tours in the Massachusetts Militia, but from the great age of this declarant she cannot now recollect under what officers he did serve, but respectfully refers the commissioner of Pensions to the proofs furnished by her said husband and now in the office of the Secretary of War of the United States, for the purpose of enabling her said husband to obtain a pension. And that her said husband did obtain a pension of Fifty five Dollars and Nine cents per Annum, And that the annual amount of the pension which this declarant received under the act of July 7 th 1838 was Fifty five Dollars and ten cents.
She further declares that she is still a widow.
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written before me. And I further certify that the said declarant Anna Jones is personally well known to me.
Anna Jones
W. M. Jones Judge of Onondaga County Courts

I P. Sheldon Root Clerk of the county of ... do hereby certify that Pomeroy Jones was on the date of the above certificate a Judge of the County Courts in and for said County, duly appointed and qualified and that the signature to the jurisdiction subscribed is genuine.
In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto affixed my seal of office and subscribed my name this 18 th day of March 1883 —
P. Sheldon Root, Clk.
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matter of me from an liant for a him under act 3.
J. Johnson
agent
Home
one-half
St. T.
with private $55.10
Agency
as above

Jeremiah Jones.
Served on Lycoming County Pa.
Westmoreland
Official papers

State of New-York, } ONEIDA COUNTY, ss. }
I MORRIS S. MILLER, First Judge of the county of Oneida, do certify, that it appears to my satisfaction that the within named Nehemiah Jones did serve in the Revolutionary War, against the common enemy, on the Continental Establishment, for the term of nine months or longer, as stated in the declaration hereto annexed. And I now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me, to the Secretary of the Department of War, pursuant to the directions of the Act of 18th March, 1818. Dated this 14. _____ day of May 1818. And I further certify that by reason of his reduced circumstances, he is in need of assistance from his country for support.  M. S. Miller First Judge of Oneida.
STATE OF NEW-YORK, } CLERK'S OFFICE OF ONEIDA COUNTY, }
I do certify that the above signature, and the signatures to the certificates of the affidavits hereto annexed, are in the proper hand writing of Morris S. Miller, the First Judge of the county of Oneida. In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of this Court. Dated the 15 th _____ of May 1818.
Simon A. Woodgood

State of New York } Oneida County } ss:
Menemiah Jones - being duly sworn saith that he is a resident of the County of Oneida and State of New York - that he is Fifty Seven - years old and upwards - that by reason of his reduced cir- cumstances in life he is in need of assistance from his country for support - that he never had any pension allowed him by the laws of the United States - that he served as a soldier in the war of the Revolution on the continental establishment full nine months. He enlisted in April 1777 in Allen Company. Wigglesworth's Regt. Massachusetts Line and served out the term of nine months for which he enlisted. The Certificate of Lieut. Eben Smith is genuine and was originally granted to this Deponent. The Certificate is hereto prefixed. He was honourably discharged in 1778 - don't remember that he had a written discharge. -
Sworn 10 Apr. 1818. } Before me. - }
Menemiah Jones
H. S. Miller Dist Judge of Oneida.
State of New York } Oneida County } ss:
Samuel Collins being sworn saith that he knows the above named applicant Menemiah Jones and believes him to be a man of truth and veracity - and that he this deponent fully believes the matters set forth in the above affidavit to be true.
Sam Collins
Sworn this 10 Apr. 1818 } Before me. }
H. S. Miller Dist Judge of Oneida.

W. H. Smith Lines Oct 1 March 1823
N. Y.
(March 1819)

Schedule of the property of Nehemiah Jones, the within named applicant for a Pension under the  an act of Congress, passed 1 st of March 1822. —
   Doll. Cts.     A Horse, ————— 65. —   A Cow ————— 20. —   A two year old Heifer, ————— 12. —   Ten Sheep, ————— 10. —   One Calf, ————— 5. —   One Horse Wagon, ————— 12. —   Harrow Teeth, ————— 3. —   Household of Furniture, ————— 50. —   Due me on note Stock, ————— 15. —   { I am owing five Dollars. —————   23 acres of land, at $20. per acre, ————— 460. —  
652 —
Nehemiah Jones. —

County of Dukes Is.
On this sixth day of March 1829, personally appeared before me the subscriber, a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, being a Court of Record, for the County aforesaid. Nathaniel Jones, resident in said County, aged 68 years, who being first sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the provision made by the acts of the 18 th of March 1818, the 1 st of May 1820, and 1 st of March 1823, that he the said Nathaniel Jones enlisted for the term of nine months on or about the 1 st day of April in the year 1777, in the State of Massachusetts, in the company commanded by Captain Noah Allen in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Wigglesworth in the line of the State of Massachusetts on the Continental establishment that he continued to serve in the Corps until the 28 th day of January 1778, when he was discharged from the said service in Sharon in the State of Connecticut. And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18 th day of March eighteen hundred eighteen, and I have not since that time by gift, sale, or in any manner disposition 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 pro-

vice for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States, in the Revolutionary War, passed on the 18 th day of March 1818; and that I have not, nor have 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. That since the exhibition of my first Schedule the following changes have been made in my property.
   To whom Sold. Time of Sale. Amount of money, or description of property received in return.     The Mare To Samuel H. Tilton In the fall of 1825. My son traded for a younger horse and paid five Dollars.   Cow. A Drover (name unknown) fall of 1828. 15 Dollars.   Three Yearlings One sold to Perry Jones, one to a drover by the name of Griffin and one killed fall of 1827 & 28 One for 9 Dollars and one for 17 Dollars. -   Pigs. Slaughtered and consumed in family at different times   Farming utensils, - Worn out, except Little Wagon & Harrow teeth. -  
That in my first Schedule I put down 30 acres of Land, but that I was mistaken. The original lot of Land I purchased was 99 acres and some rods; that I divided it away at five different times; that I have

carefully ascertained the amount that I have now left and find it to be as in the annexed Schedule: — that the last time I dined away was on the 27 th day of April 1913, as shown to the War Department by the affidavits of Perry Jones, the prison to whom dined, when I made a former and second application under the acts of 1 st of March 1923: — That I am unable to attend in person in Court, by reason of disease or bodily infirmity. —
Stephens Jones.
Sworn to and declared on the 6 th day of March 1929 before me.
James Dean, one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas, of Union County.
I James Dean, a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas holding in the county of Union, when the Decla- rant resides, do hereby certify, that the above named Stephens Jones is, from a disease called a hard cough & affection of the Lungs attendant on a broken constitution, with which disease I am credibly informed and believe he has been more particularly affected for the last two months, unable to attend the Court of which I am a Judge; and I do not think from present appearances,

that he will be able to attend the court above named at its next Session. — I have therefore in pursuance of the act of Congress of the 1 st of March 1822, attended at his place of abode, and administered the foregoing oath, the words, "of the court of Common Pleas, being a court of Record", having been interlined in the second line, before the oath was administered; also the words, "or about" in the 8 th line.
James Dean, Judge Dunedin Com. Pleas.
I, John H. Ordean, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, of the County of Dunedin, do certify, that James Dean, before whom the above affidavit of Mr. Hennah Jones, who is now sick & confin- ed to his house, was made, is Judge as aforesaid, that the said Schedule & oath have been admitted to the record of the said Court, and the same are truly copied therefrom: — And I do further certify that it is the opinion of the said Court, that the total amount, in value, of the property exhibited in the aforesaid Schedule, is Six hundred and fifty-two Dollars.
In testimony whereof I have

In witness whereof my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this 10 th day of March 1829. -
J. H. Atkinson Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, for the County of Oxford.

State of New York
Jefferson County } on the ninth Day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred and Eighteen personally appeared Before me Elijah Field Jr. one of the judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County forecited - Hezekiah Sumner who being Duly sworn - Deposed and Said that he knew Nehemiah Jones a private soldier in Capt Noah Allen Company in Col. Mugglesworth Regt Massachusetts Line of the Continental Army and that the said Jones Enlisted in the Continental Army the first of April 1777 - and served nine months as man and was Discharged from the Army at Valley Forge in the State of Pennsylvania - January 22 d 1778
Sworn and subscribed to the Day and Date above written } Hezekiah Sumner Before me } Mark Elijah Field Jr. Judge }
State of New York } Jefferson County } Clerk's Office } September 9th 1818 }
This may certify that at the time the above affidavit was taken the above named Elijah Field Jr. was a judge in and for said County and duly qualified to act as such
Benjamin Skinner Clerk 11

I Certify that I have been acquainted with Hezekiah Sumner within my memory for eight or nine years and know him to be a man of truth and veracity and full confidence ought to be placed in his testimony -
Elijah Smith Judge of Mifflin Co. Pa.
Hezekiah
Hezekiah Jones

Rome, N.Y. April 18. 1843
Am for N. Edwards
Esq.
Than the harm done you the papers in the case of Mary Hunsaford and Anna Jones —
under act 1843 - for one year premium — Return respectfully requested to the subscriber —
I am most respectfully Your obt. Servt
Benj. Johnson

County of Onondaga
On this 20th day of May 1823 personally appeared in Open Court being a court of Record for the County of Onondaga Nehemiah Jones resident in said County aged sixty two years 11 months who being duly sworn according to Law doth on his Oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the Pension made by the Acts of the 18th of March 1818 the 1st of May 1820 and 1st of March 1823 that he the said Nehemiah Jones enlisted for the term of nine months on the 1st day of April in the year 1777 in the state of Massachusetts in Company commanded by Capt. Noah Allen in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Niggles within the line of the state of Massachusetts on the Continental establishment; that he continued to serve in the Corps until the 21st or 22nd day of January 1778 when he was discharged from said service at Valley Forge in the state of Pennsylvania. And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident Citizen of the United States on the eighteenth of March eighteen hundred and eighteen and I have not since that time by gift sale or in any manner dispose of my property or any part thereof with intent thereby 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 18th day of March 1818 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.
   Item $ Cts Item $ Cts     About 22 acres of land with a small house and Barn 354 88 a paper covered trunk 50   a man 10 or 11 years old 30 a looking glass 3   3 Cows 30 a Wash tub and 2 pails 1 50   10 Sheep 10 6 Tea spoons 2   A yearling heifer 4 a hinge backed Watch 4   2 small hogs 4 Crockery 60   7 harrow tith 12 Glassware 60   a Chain 1 Stoneware   An old one horse Wagon 15 Brown earthen ware 1 25   a shovel 20 Fiss 80   an axe and pitchfork 1 12 Iron ware 5 68   An old saddle 1 shovel & tongs 1   a Table 2 50 Fire Hogg 75   an old Table in stand 1 50 2 old spinning wheels 2   2 very old pine chests 1 Shears snuffs brush hammer   10 old chains 3 Candlesticks & wooden bottle 75   2 flat irons 50 slight irons 1 50   an old churn 37 1 Table clothes six Towels 2 25   19 sap buckets 3 half worn  
no Income besides I am bound with my son Pompey Jones in a note to Messrs. Blackmer on which there is due one hundred and eighty six dollars
Nehemiah Jones

The former schedule contained about 81 acres of land I was mis- taken there should have been but about 22 acres the rest I had re- id away previous to 1818 On parcel on the 27 th April 1813 the rest excepting the 22 acres on the 28 th September the same year as I shall likewise show by affidavit. The land I now own is about 14 acres improved the rest is state of nature the house was built 1799 I lived in it with nothing but an outside covering till 1817 I then told my son that he should have one half if he would finish it this he did and now occupies it the barn is almost useless for the want of a new roof
That since the exhibition of my first schedule the following changes have been made in my property
   Property Sold Name of the Person to whom sold Time of Sale Amount of Money or description of Property received in return     one sparkling stone London Brimare February or March 1821 6 Dollars   one Cow Reo Gideon B Dyer October 1821 6 do   one Calf Reo Pomroy Jones September or October 1821 5 do   Silver Watch George Loomis February 1822 Exchanged for the pink headed one had one Dollar added   The Sheep's Wigs — — — — — — Fatted and used in family   Wagon — — — — — — Worn to ruin it for five Dollars   Sickle Warren Kellogg — — — Grain Bushel of Peas   Shingle Pitch — — — — — — Worn out   fork & Scythe — — — — — —  

9th My Occupation has been that of a farmer but for six years I have been unable to work I have lost one eye in a 'fit' the other much impaired so that in the Winter I have frequently been so as not to know my own family in attempting to chop I once gave myself a wound that laid me up for eight months in my last sickness (the epidemic) Rheumatism commenced and is increasing I do not now hear any common conversation My wife Anna was 60 years old last March by reason of age and hard labor her health and strength fast declining for the last year she has been much troubled with inflammation in the eyes so that she has been obliged to keep in a dark room though now some better they are far from well My children are all of age and live separate from me - My health and inability are such that I gave up the lease of the farm I mentioned in my former schedule last March so that I now live on my own lot which rent out for one third of the produce and have the fences kept in repair and taxes paid, One third of the avails of 14 acres of improved land I think is a scanty pittance for two old and infirm persons, but I rely with the utmost confidence on the generosity of my Country and the Decision of the Secretary of War
Nehemiah Jones
Sworn before me and declared this 20 th day of May 1828
Suman Enop Judge Enop Conn. Pleas

State of New York (Clerk's Office Oneida County)
I Eliasaph Dorchester Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Oneida (being a Court of Record by Statute) do certify that the foregoing proceedings were had in open Court that the said Schedule and oath have been admitted to the records of said Court and that the same are truly copied therefrom and I do further certify that in the opinion of said Court the total amount of property exhibited in said schedule is four hundred Ninety four Dollars 32 / 100 and no more
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court this 3 rd day of June 1823
Eliasaph Dorchester Clerk By Thomas M Francis Deputy Clerk
Nehemiah Jones (Schedule)
March term 1819
(affidavit)
Nehemiah Jones Westmoreland Oneida Co N. York

State of New York Oneida County ss Amanda Wood of Kirkland in said County being duly sworn deposes and says that she is the daughter of Nehemiah Fannin - that she was born as appears by the family Record March 16. 1786 - That the annexed family record was this day taken from the family bible of the late Nehemiah Jones - That said record is in the hand writing of the said Nehemiah Jones and this deponent has known this record for between forty and fifty years -
Sworn in open court this 11 May 1839 and I certify this is a woman of credibility Truth & nothing else J. Dean Clerk
Amanda Wood
Oneida County ss Romerus Jones being duly sworn deposes and says that he is for the above named person - that he knows the annexed to be the family record of his father - in his hand writing - and has known the same to be the record of family for more than forty years - and the same was this day taken from the

Family bible in my residence
Women's opinion court the day after a married the said Pomeroy Jones being one of the judges of the Court
W. M. Roy & Mary
J. Deacon

State of New York } Onida County ss }
Joseph Jones of Union in said County being duly affirmed deposes and saith, that this deponent was in 1776 in the Army of the Revolution in a Company Company commanded by Capt Stephen Dewey in Col. Jonathan Smith's Regiment Brig. Gen. Fellows Brigade, and was stationed in and near the City of New York, that within less than a month after the re- treating out of said city which was on the 15 th of September Schimmiah Jones a brother of this Deponent joined the said Company as a private, the precise time is not recollected, that the said Schimmiah Jones continued to do duty in said Company until this deponent was discharged on account of sickness the latter part of November or fore part of December, and that he he left the said Schimmiah in the Company, and that he the said Schimmiah did not arrive at his home until just before the first day January 1777 - and further saith not.
Joseph Jones.
Onida County ss I certify that the above named Joseph Jones is personally known to me that he is a person of credibility, truth and veracity, and that he duly affirmed and sub- scribed the above affidavit before me.
Union 26 th June 1882
Wm Mroy Justice of the Peace

State of New York
Saratoga County - ss
I George Brown - Clerk of the County of Saratoga do hereby certify - that Warren Jones before whom the within affidavit purports to have been - subscribed & sworn - was at the date of the same one of the Justices of the peace in and for said County - And that I am well acquainted with him the said Justice hand writing & only believe his name subscribed to said affidavit to be his proper hand writing & genu- Witnes my hand & the seal of the Court of Common Pleas of the said County at Plattsburgh this 21 st day of 1832 Geo. Brown

Onida County ss
Thomas Jones being duly sworn deposeth and saith That he is the son of Nehemiah Jones who is applying for the of the Pension Law of 1823, that this depon- ent purchased of the said Nehemiah Jones all of the land he has owned for the last 30 years (excepting about one acre which he had previously deeded to Noah Merrill) but about 22 acres that the said Nehemiah deeded a part of the said premises the latter part of April 1813 and the next excepting the 22 acres aforesaid the latter part of Sep- tember the same year and the said Respondent has owned and occupied the said premises ever since and the said Nehemiah Jones does not own more than about 22 acres of land nor has owned since 1813 any more than that quantity as this Respondent verily believing he having had the land of the said Nehemiah to improve the principal part of the time for the last ten years, and further this de- ponent saith not
Thomas Jones
Sworn and Subscribed before me this 3d June 1823
Freeman Cross Senior Judge Onida County

This is to certify that I am acquainted with Pomney Lepros Esquire the within named deponent, and that he sustains the reputation of a man of strict integrity and veracity. - -
3 June 1823
Frederick Evans

I hereby certify that I have been acquainted with Nehemiah Jones (of the town of Westmoreland Oneida county) for many years, that he is in a great measure deaf and blind, that he is in indigent circumstances, and a man of veracity.—
3 June 1823. —
Suman Enos
Officially in the case of
Nehemiah Jones
Attest

March 5, 1842. - I am this day permitted by Col. Scholfield to send for the notes in this case at the office of the Conf. of Presbyters - which when recd - I will have placed before the committee
J. H. Hays

Clinton New York
Feb-5-'30
Dear Sirs,
Can you give me the pension record of Nehemia ah Jones - who was a Capt. in the Revolutionary Army. He was born June 17, 1760 in Bristol Co. Mass & died Dec. 19-1838 - in Westmoreland - Oneida Co - N.Y. I think he was a resident of Oneida Co. N.Y. when he obtained his pension, but he enlisted

in New Marlborough, Berkshire Co. Mass -
I shall be very grateful to you for his record. as pensioner -
Sincerely yours, (Miss) Harriet A. Myrick

O. W. & N. DIVISION NOV 24 1899 RECEIVED.

19 Maple Street Nashville, Tennessee November the twenty first Eighteen ninety-nine.
Dear Sir:
Can your office furnish me with a certification of the fact that a forebear of mine, Mr. Nehemiah Jones, served as a soldier in Colonel Wigglesworth's Regiment during the War of the Revolution? I find copied in a commonplace book of his the following, which may aid you in this matter:
War Department. Revolutionary Claims.
I certify that in conformity with the laws of the United States of the 18 th of March 1818, Nehemiah Jones, late a private in the Army of the Revolution, is inscribed on the pension list roll of the New York agency at the rate of eight dollars per month, to commence on the tenth day of April one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.
Given at the War Office of the United States this seventh day of December, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.
J. C. Calhoun. Secretary of War.

I wish this information to establish my eligibility to membership in the Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, and any fee that may be exacted for this information, I shall gladly forward to you.
Yours truly (Mrs) Juliette Magrick Vance
Hon H. Clay Evans, Commissioner of Pensions, Washington, D. C.