Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 40,960, for Jason Makepeace, Massachusetts

SERVICE
Mass
Makepeace, Jason
NUMBER
S.40960
CONTENTS

17. 612. Vermont
Jason Makepeace
of Windham in the state of Vermont who was a Corporal in the regiment commanded by Colonel Putnam of the Massachusetts line, for the term of the war - 1780
Inscribed on the Roll of Vermont at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 13 th of April 1810
Certificate of Pension issued the 15 th of July 1820 and sent to Jon n Brase Esq r (agent) - Hartford Conn t
Arrears to 4th of March 1820 - 101.83
Semi-ann. all ce ending 4 Sept r 1820. 40.00
22 mo s  \frac{12}{30} \frac{6}{31}
$229.83
{ Revolutionary claim, { Act 18th March, 1818.
Guilford Col y -
Hope & Co. on [unclear] (Pension) 1820 to Henry [unclear] Vermont

State of Vermont
Windham County Ss
Brattleboro within said county April 13 th anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and eighteen Be it remembered that on the day of the date of these presents came personally before me Gilbert Denison one of the Assistant Judges of said Windham County Court Iason Makepeace of Guilford in said County and Made the following declaration under oath by me administered to him in presence of the act of the Congress of the United States entitled an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and Navel Service of the United States in the Revolutionary War passed March 1818 and it appearing to me the said Judge to my satisfaction that the said Iason Makepeace served in the Revolutionary War agreeably to the provisions of said act I do hereby certify and transmit to the Honorable the Secretary of the Department of War the following testimony in the case and proceedings had thereon under my official Signature and the Seal of said County Court
Gilbert Denison J ge Assistant Judge of the County Court

I Sason Makepeace of Guilford County of Windham & State of Vermont do testify declare and say that I served in the war of the revolution for more then the term of nine months as a private soldier on the continental establish- -ment. That is I enlisted in the town of Massachusetts in Dec r 1775 by Ensign Solomon Makepeace joined Capt Oziel Bliss Company at Hartford Cont. belonging to the 17 th Regt t commanded by Col. Seth Huntington of Gen. Spencer's Brigade then marched to Boston afterwards to New York by land & was there until Sept. 15 th 1776 then retreated to Harlem fought at Kings Bridge & was stationed about 7 M s from that place till Nov r following marched under Col. Huntington to Ramapaw where I tarried 4 weeks and was dismissed with honor from my duty in Dec r 1776
Nov r 1779 enlisted under Capt. Silas Walker at Brookfield and went to Boston & was on guard there about 3 months & was honorably discharged March 21. 1780 Soon after I enlisted again under Capt - Benson Col l Rufus Putnam's Regt. Gen Patterson Brigade & marched to Pittsfield then to West Point & wintered there - Next spring marched to Orange Town

I stayed there untill the next winter & returned to west-point for winter quarters In Sept. 1782 was sick & unable to do duty therefore was honorably discharged from my Regt and went home.
I have no written discharge to produce.
I hereby further declare that in consequence of my reduced circumstances I am in need of assistance from my country for support -
Jason Mather
Sworn on the day and date first above mentioned
Before me
Gilbert Denison, Asst. Judge of the County Court

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Jason Makepeace. Application for Pension Windham County, Vt. [Copy.]
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Continued
July 20
Oct 20

STATE OF VERMONT.
COUNTY OF WINDHAM ss.
At the County Court, begun and held at New-Fane, within and for the County of Windham, on the second Monday of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty.....
PRESENT—Hon. PHINEHAS WHITE, Esq. Chief Judge.
Hon. JOHN ROBERTS,
Hon. GILBERT DENISON, Esqrs.
} Assistant Judges.
ON this Twentieth day of June, A. D. 1820, personally appeared in open court, being a court of record for the said county, proceeding according to the course of the common law, with a civil jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount, keeping a record of their proceedings, and having, in certain cases, the power of fine and imprisonment, Jason Makepeace aged 62 years, resident in Guilford 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—In Capt. Orias Bissell's Company and Col. Jedidiah Huntington's Regiment, in the Cont. Line, that he enlisted for the term of one year in the State of Connecticut, and continued to serve in the said corps one full year and had an honorable discharge which is lost—I was in the battle of the White Plains, and that he has no other evidence of his service except certain deposition, lodged with the War Department with his original declaration—
That he has not yet received a pension under the act of the Congress of the United States of the 18th March, 1818, that the number of his pension certificate is not yet received, but and the date of his original declaration is the 14 th day of April, A. D. 1818.
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 accounts, claims or debts, due to me, not in the nature of any income other than what is contained in the Schedule hereto annexed, and by me subscribed.
SCHEDULE of real and personal estate, necessary clothing and bedding excepted.
One Hog—One set of old crockery—4 old chairs—1 Pot. 1 Kettle— 1 Tub—1 Pail—1 Skillet, one old Box for clothes—1 Table— A few dishes and other trifling articles of furniture, 1 Ax—1 Hoe— 1 Yearling calf— Jason Makepeace.

AND I do also swear that my occupation is that of a Farmer - I have a wife aged 58 - 1 Daughter aged 22, who live with me in my family -
Jason Makepeace
SWORN to and DECLARED in open court on the Twentieth day of June, A. D. 1820, Before Gilbert Denison JUDGE.
James Elliot , Clerk of the County Court for the County of Windham, in the State of Vermont, do hereby certify, that the foregoing oath, and the Schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the files and records of the said Court: 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 Twenty dollars, and — cents.
IN testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court, in open Court , on this tenth day of June, 1820.
James Elliot CLERK OF THE COURT FOR THE COUNTY OF WINDHAM.

40960 INVALID.
Rev
File No. 40960
Jacob Wakepeace Corp Rev 1870
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index: Vol. 3, Page 876
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Stephen Gibbs Deft. for - Jason Wakefield Pension -
The official character of the within notice should be certified by the seal of the Court -

I Stephen Gibbs of the Town of East Windsor in the County of Hartford and State of Connecticut of lawful age testify and say that some time in the month of January A D 1776 Jason Wakepeace joined the Company command- ed by Capt. Oria Dyer & the Regt. comman- ded by Col. Seth Huntington in the Cont- line and continental establishment in the Revolutionary War - at Dorchester in the State of Massachusetts as a private soldier and as such remained in said Company so served constantly until the 19 th day of Jan'y 1777 when I left said Company by reason of sickness having served in said Company for more than one year then next previous with said Wakepeace - Stephen Gibbs East Windsor Jan'y 20 th A D 1820 -
State of Connecticut - Hartford County ss East Windsor Jan'y 20 th A D 1820 - personally appeared Stephen Gibbs signer of the foregoing Deposition or affidavit by him subscribed and made solemn oath that each and all the parts therein cont- ained are the truth & nothing but the truth - before the subscriber - who also hereby certifies that said Gibbs is known to him and that he is a man of truth & veracity G.S. B. Godfrey Scarborough Justice of the Peace

State of Connecticut } County of Hartford
January the 19 th A.D. 1820
Personally appeared Capt n Oziel Bissell, personally personally known to me, and who is a credible witness and made solemn Oath, that he was Capt n of a Company in the revolutionary war, in the Reg t commanded by Col. Jedediah Huntington, of the Connecticut line, that Solomon Makepeace a brother of Jason Makepeace was a Lt t in the same Company, that the both and thus hired at Weston in the State of Massachusetts, and as he understood enlisted said Jason to serve as a Soldier in said Company, in the Month of November 1775; that the enlistment order was soon returned to him, with the name of said Jason Makepeace, and he came and joined said Company in the Month of Dec r next following; said Company then marched to Roxbury in Massachusetts & remained near Boston through the Winter, and in the Spring, marched to New York, and that he said Bissell, was taken a prisoner in the Month of August 1776 on Long Island, during which time (to wit) from the said Month of Dec r 1775 till he was taken prisoner in the Month of August as aforesaid, said Jason Makepeace served as a private Soldier in said Company; and that he always understood & believes, that he continued to serve in the same, till some time in the month of Dec r 1776, being a term of one year, from the time of his enlistment.
Before me
Jonathan Brace Judge of the County Court for the County of Hartford aforesaid.

I Thomas Chester clerk of the county court of the county of Hartford in the State of Connecticut certify that the Hon d Jonathan Brave on the 19 th day of January 1820 was the presiding Judge of said court & I believe the within is his signature & certify that Geoffrey Scarborough Esq r is a Justice of peace for the county of Hartford & believe that the signature of his name on a paper marked G. B. B. is his signature. Signed & sealed with the seal of said court. Hartford January 20. 1820
Thomas Chester clerk

son Jas Makepeace — Application for Pension. Windham Co. Vermont. [13 th April 1818.]
Returned for further evidence of service
cut annu d “
Jason Makepeace Priv:
Col. Huntington's Connecticut Reg t .
Dec r 1775 — 1 Year — 13 th April 1818.
2 on Roll in Col. Putnam's Reg t 1780 — war
Sons: Brane, Esq r Brattleboro' Vermont.
Admitted.
Brattleboro' Windham Co. Vermont.

To the Honorable Secretary of War of the United States
I the undersigned Assistant Judge of Windham County Court - State of Vermont Do further certify That I am personally acquainted with the above named Deponent Jacob Makepeace That I am well knowing that said Jacob Makepeace is and has been for some years in indigent circumstances and that he stands in need of the Assistance of his Country for Support and Maintenance.
Gilbert Denison, Asst. Judge of the County Courts
State of Vermont.
Windham County Court Clerk's Office, Brattleborough, July 30. A.D. 1818.
I certify that the Honorable Gilbert Denison, Esquire, is one of the Assistant Judges of the County Court aforesaid, duly commissioned under the authority of this State, and that the signatures of the preceding certificates are in the hand writing of the said Judge.
Witness my hand and the Seal of said Court, the day and year above written. James Elliot, Clerk.

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Mr Jason Maki Pease
Guilford
Vermont
1828 1758 12

War Department. Pension Office, 30 th May 1820.
Sir,
There are two different declarations made by you, on the files of this office, and made in two different states - one made in 1810, in Vermont - the other made in 1820, in Connecticut. Some explanation on the subject, is requested - And also state your actual place of residence.
I am,
Sir,
Your humble Servt. J. G. Edwards
M c Jason Makepeace Hartford, Connecticut. }

Jason Harkness
Recommendation
— 111 —
Jonathan Brace Hartford Connecticut 3 dollars

We the undersigned are well acquainted with Mr. Jason Wakefield of Guilford County of Vermont and State of Vermont a Revolutionary Soldier and know him to be an honest tho' very poor man and as he is in pursuit of testimony to substantiate his claim to a Pension we recommend him to the charity of the public and we certify that we know his reputation for truth and veracity to be good -
Guilford Jan'y. 11. A.D. 1820
Willard Martin
Benajah Edwards
Cyprian Strong Town Clerk of Guilford
James Hall Constable
James Houghton
James Houghton Jr
Isaac Kent
Samuel West
William Edwards
Joshua Lynde Jr
Daniel Wilkins
Samuel Kent
Joseph Weatherbee
Benj. W. Stevens
John H. Chase
See return of since Guilford

Instructions
It is necessary that all affidavits should be taken by a judge of the court or if taken by a justice peace the authenticity of same, certified by a county clerk or notary public —
All witnesses should be certified by the authorities taking same that they are witnesses of credibility — — —

DISTRICT OF CONNECTICUT—ss—HARTFORD.
On this 19 th day of June 1820, before me the subscriber Judge of the County Court for the County of Hartford in said district, personally appeared Jason Makepeace aged 63 years, resident in Hartford in the said district, who being by me first duly sworn, according to law, doth, on his oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the pro- vision made by the late act of Congress, entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war:" That he, the said Jason Makepeace on or about the 21 st day of Nov r 1775 enlisted in Weston in the state of Massachusetts in the company commanded by Captain Orias Bissell of the Reg t Commanded by Col. Jedediah Huntington for the term of one year ; that he continued to serve in the said corps, or in the service of the United States until the Month of Dec r 1776 , when he was discharged from service in the State of New Jersey state of _____ , that he was in the battles of _____
and that he is in reduced circumstances, and stands in need of the assistance of his country for support;
and that he has no other evidence now in his power, of his said services, except the Subjoined
Sworn to, and declared before me, the day and year aforesaid.
Jonathan Brainerd Judge of the County Court for said County
I, Jonathan Brainerd Judge, &c. as aforesaid, do certify, that it appears to my satisfaction, that the said Jason Makepeace did serve in the revolutionary war, as stated in the preceding declaration, against the common enemy, for the term of more than nine months, on the continental establishment; and I now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me, to the Secretary for the Department of War, pursuant to the directions of the aforementioned act of Congress.
Jan y 7 th 19 1820 Jonathan Brainerd Judge as aforesaid Hartford January 20. 1820 Sealed by direction of the Hon ble Jonathan Brainerd who is the presiding Judge of said Court this day on the 19 th inst. and I certify that Godfrey Scarborough Esq r is a Justice of peace in & for said County of Hartford & I believe that the signature of his name on a paper marked G.B. J.P. is his signature. Sealed with the seal of said Court & signed Thomas Chester Clerk

State of Connecticut ss County of Hartford Jan y 19 th 1820
Personally appeared Cap n Elias Bissell, personally known to me, and who is a credible citizen, and made solemn oath, that he was Cap n of a company during the Revolutionary war in the Reg t commanded by Col. Jedediah Huntington of the Connecticut line, that Solomon Wake Pease, a brother of the within named Jason Wake Pease was a Lt in the same company and then lived at Weston in the State of Massachusetts, and as he understood enlisted said Jason as a soldier in said company in the Month of Novem r 1775 that the first order received by him with the name of said Jason and he came and joined said company in the Month of Decem r following, said company then marched to Roxbury Massachusetts & remained near Boston through the Winter and in the Spring Marched to New York, that he said Bissell and was taken a prisoner in the Month of August 1776 on Long Island during which time (to wit) from the time said Month of Decem r 1775 till he was taken prisoner in the Month of August, said Jason Wake Pease served as a private soldier in said company and that he always understood and believes, that he continued to serve in the same till sometime in the Month of Decem r 1776 - being a term of one year - from the time of his enlistment. Before me
Jonathan Brace Judge of the County Court for said County

16,908- Jason Makepeace
Jonathan Brace Ag.
Hartford, Conn.
recd 13 July 1820
to declaration.
Given here by the hands of the said Jonathan Brace
at Hartford the 13th day of July 1820

I Jason Make peace of Guilford County of Windham and State of Vermont a Soldier in the Revolutionary War aged 62 years do depose and say that some time in January last past I took the annexed letter of recommendation and instructions for the purpose of going to Hartford to procure testimony relating to my services in the Revolutionary War and I found my Capt. Oziel Bissel at North Bolton Connecticut and I went with him to Judge Jonathan Brace I think of Hartford afor d for the purpose of taking his deposition but not knowing how to proceed in such matters and being wholly unac- -quainted with legal proceedings I suppose the judge made a declaration for me for I recollect taking an oath relating to my services &c. but for what purpose I cannot tell but I did so because I was told by the judge it was right but he was told better - By a letter from the War Department perverts annexed I learn a declaration by me was made as afor d at Connecticut afor d I conclude that the same was sent on to the

office of the war department but I had no intention of doing wrong My residence is and has been for fifteen years in said Guilford where my original declaration stated & further this deponent saith not
Jason Makepeace
Windham County Court June Term 20 th class A. 1820.
Sworn to in open court before me Gilbert Denison, Esq. Judge.
I hereby certify that I have been acquainted with the above deponent for a number of years and know him to be a credible witness altho at present rather of a weak mind — Gilbert Denison, Esq. Judge.