Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 32921, for Jethro Jones, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Jones, Jethro
S. 32921
CONTENTS
enl. at Plainfield, Hampden Co. Mass. & res. there in 1898 aged 85 yrs

✓ BY THE HONOURABLE MAJOR-GENERAL K N O X, Commanding the AMERICAN FORCES on Hudson's River.
Jermy Jones soldier _____ in the First Massachusetts _____ Regiment, being enlisted for Three Years, is hereby honourably DISCHARGED from the Service of the United States.
Given in the State of New-York, the Twenty fourth Day of December
1783
By the General's Command,
Henry Myles
REGISTERED in the Books of the Regiment,
Ralph H. Bowles Capt. Adj. D

688
Massachusetts Roll
Jethro Jones
4
Massachusetts Private line. 1780. three years
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of Eight Dollars per month, to commence on the 28 th of April 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 20 th of May 1818 and sent to How. Sam d . Putnam, Salem, Mass.
Arrearages to 4 th Sept r 1818
4 months 7/30 $ 33.86
{ Revolutionary claims, } { Act 18th March, 1818, }
Continued
Wendell, Hamden (S)
Revolutionary claims, etc. 8/25/1818 Jethro Jones

Jethro Jones
611 20 May 1878
CON
Blankford
Sep 1878
July 31

Commonwealth of Massachusetts County of Hampshire.
On the tenth day of July 1824 personally appeared in open court before the Circuit Court of Common Pleas the same being a court of Record and so established by a statute of said Commonwealth, said court being now in session at Springfield within & for said County of Hampshire.
Jethro Jones an applicant for a Pension under the act of Congress of May 1. A. D. 1820 aged Eighty seven years resident in Blandford his said County who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary war as follows That he cannot now exactly recollect the time of his enlistment, but he enlisted & served in Capt. Martin's Company in Col. Putnam's Regt. till said Putnam was promoted and then he was a waiter to said Putnam, till said Jethro served in said war six years & two months when he was honorably discharged. his original discharge he forwarded to Washington where he applied for his Pension under the act of Congress of March 20. 1810 - he is by profession a farmer, & has a wife aged Seventy five years in comfortable health, excepting the infirmities incident to age - That he is very feeble and a great portion of the time confined to his room, that he is absolutely entirely unable to do any thing towards his own support & that he & his wife have for several years been maintained by said town of Blandford - That he applied for a Pension under said act of Congress of March 20. 1810, on the 20 th day of April A. D. 1810 and is the same Pension named in pension certificate no (611) under said act — And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident and

Citizen of the United States on the 10 th day of March 1810: and that I have not, since that time, by gift, sale, or in any other manner, disposed of my property or any part thereof with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress entitled "an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary war," passed on the 10 th day of March 1810, 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 & by me subscribed
Schedule
  1 old kitchen table  $1.00     1 old case with drawers  1.50     1 old chest  20     1 pair old shears  6     1 broken chair  25  Jethro Jones     $3.01   
Sworn to & declared on the tenth day of July 1820 Before the Circuit Court of Common Pleas Attest John Ingersoll Clerk
John Ingersoll Clerk of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas of said County do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and the schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the record of said Court: and I do further certify that it is the opinion of said Court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is Three dollars & one cent —
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court on this Eleventh day of July 1820 —
John Ingersoll
Clerk of the Court for the County of Hampshire

Court, of said Commonwealth for the County of Hampden •fore said do certify that Samuel Putnam is a judge of the Supreme Judicial of said Commonwealth that the foregoing signature is his proper hand writing and that the seal hereto affixed is the seal of said Court
April 28 th 1840 Attest John Ingersoll Clerk
Jethro Jones.
rights

Commonwealth of Massachusetts Hampden ss Springfield Apr. 28 th A.D. 1818
Personally appeared before me Samuel Pulnam one of the Justices of the Supreme Judicial Court in the Commonwealth aforesaid, Jethro Jones now resident in Blandford and made solemn oath that in the fall or winter of the year seventeen hundred and eighty at said Blandford he was enlisted as a private soldier in the Company of Captain Goodwin in the first Massachusetts Regiment of Regular Troops commanded by Colonel Rufus Putnam and served during three years thereafterwards in said Regiment on the continental establishment against the common enemy, until the twenty fourth day of December seventeen hundred and eighty three when he received an honorable discharge at West Point in the state of New York under the hand of Maj. General Henry Knox, which said discharge he now here produces and he further makes oath that by reason of his reduced circumstances in life he stands in need of assistance from his country for support
The Declarant further states that he is eighty five years of age - That he was at the Battle of Monmouth was also at the taking of Burgoyne -
Jethro Jones
Commonwealth of Massachusetts,
Hampden ss. On this twenty eighth day of April A.D. 1818 before me Samuel Pulnam one of the Justices of the Supreme Judicial Court of said Commonwealth, personally appeared the above named Jethro Jones and subscribed and made oath

oath to the truth of the Declaration aforesaid - and it appearing from the annexed discharge from Maj. Genl Knox that he the said Jethro Jones served more than nine months - to wit three years at one period of the Revolutionary war on the Continental establishment against the common Enemy; I do hereby transmit the evidence in the case to the Secretary of the Department of War.
Given under my hand and the seal of said Court at Springfield in the County of Hampden the 28 th April A.D. 1818
S. Putnam Just S. J. Court of Mass ts }
Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Hampden ss. John Ingersoll Clerk of all the Judicial
Courts of said Commonwealth for the County of Hampden do hereby certify that Samuel Putnam is a judge of the Supreme Judicial of said Commonwealth that the foregoing signature is his proper hand writing and that the seal hereunto affixed is the seal of said Court
April 28 th 1818 Attest John Ingersoll Clerk
Jethro Jones.

32921 Reorg INVALID.
File No. 82,921
Jethro Jones Rev Rev War
Act: 18 th March 1818
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 206
[Arrangement of 1870.]