Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 32,910, for Jacob Jonah, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Jonah Jacob Joner or
S. 32,910
CONTENTS

12.314 Q Massachusetts
Jacob Jonah or Joner of Natick in the state of Massachusetts who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Putnam of the Massachusetts line, for the term of One year & 6 months
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 2 of May 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 14 of July 1819 and sent to W m Wetmore Boston Massachusetts
Arrears to 4th of March 1819  10 3/4  80.77 Semi-ann. all'ce ending 4 Sep 1819  48
$128:77
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Continued
Specification sent to Abraham Dighton Esq 22 Sep Cambridge, Mass.

Jacob Jonah or Jones - private 5 th Mass ts regt. Rutmans.
✓ 1781 - war
Adm d on the within depositions
It is presumed that the date first stated in the declaration, May 2 d 1818, is a mistake, it is returned for correction.

State of Massachusetts.
I Jacob Jonah, alias Joner a Citizen of the United States, now resident at Natick in the County of Middlesex in the State aforesaid, do on oath testify and declare, that in the War of the Revolution, in the month of January, A. D. 1782 certainly as early as that time, though I believe it was in the year 1781. but of this I cannot now be positive,
I entered and was engaged in the land service of the United States on the continental establishment, and served accordingly from that time to the end of the said war, & the disbanding of the army.
as a private against the common enemy, without any interruption or absence: that I belonged to the fifth regiment in the Massachusetts line of the army, which regiment had been commanded by Col. Rufus Putnam, & to the Company commanded a part of the time by a Captain Studang, then by Capt. Newell, who was promoted to be a Colonel, & last of all by a Lieut. Brown.
and that I left the service on the disbanding of the Army at the peace & not before, & was honorably discharged.
and that by reason of my reduced circumstances in life and poverty, I stand in need of assistance from my country for support, being now of the age of sixty one years, upwards; I also declare that I enlisted into the said company & regiment for the term of three years; but the army was disbanded, by the return of peace before my term of service expired, but that I continued in the said service from the time of my enlistment, nearly a year & half before I was discharged; being stationed a part of the time at a place which we called Snake Hill or New Boston, on the Hudson in the State of New York.
And I hereby relinquish all claim to every pension heretofore allowed me by the laws of the United States, if any may be or hath been so allowed.
Att. M. Wetmore
Jacob X Jonah, mark
BE IT REMEMBERED, That on this second day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen Pursuant to a law of the United States, entitled, "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war," made and passed on the 18th of March, A. D. 1818, personally appeareth before me an Associate Judge of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the Middle Circuit within the State aforesaid & presiding pro hac vice
the abovenamed Jacob Jonah and after due examination and caution to testify and declare the whole truth, he maketh oath to the declaration aforesaid, and subscribes the same in my presence; and, on examination duly made the said Judge, it appeareth to my satisfaction that the said declaration is true in all its particulars. I moreover now certify that the deponents named in the annexed Depositions, viz Noah Bayley & Eliphalet Bayley are known to me & are credible & disinterested witnesses and that the said Jacob Jonah, otherwise called Joner

is in such reduced circumstances in life & so poor that he requires the aid & assistance of his country for his support. Witness my hand & the seal of the Court aforesaid hereunto affixed. May 1. 1819.
W m Wetmore

29 Jacob + Josiah or o Josier
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x Jonah o Joner
July 1819 Cont 22/18 1820

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
MIDDLESEX, ss.
At the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the Middle Circuit, begun and holden at Concord, within and for the County of Middlesex, on the second Monday of June A. D. 1820.
Before the Hon. SAMUEL DANA, Esquire, Chief Justice,
and
WILLIAM WETMORE, and } Associate Justices STEPHEN MINOT, Esquires, } of said Court.
In open Court here, being a Court of Record for said Circuit, proceeding according to the course of the common law, with a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount, keeping a record of its proceedings, and having the power of fine and imprisonment, Jacob Souali or Souer resident in said Circuit, who is named in Pension Certificate No. 17 314 now now in his possession, of which the following is a true copy, to wit,
“WAR DEPARTMENT.....REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.”
“I certify that, in conformity with the Law of the United States, of the 18th March, 1818, Jacob Souali or Souer  late a
Private in the army of the Revolution, is inscribed on the
“Pension List, Roll of the Massachusetts Agency, at the rate of eight
“dollars per month, to commence on the second day of
May one thousand eight hundred and eighteen
“Given at the War Office of the United States, this fourteenth
“day of July one thousand eight hundred and
nineteen
J. C. CALHOUN, Secretary of War,”
appears, and exhibits to the Court here a Schedule, subscribed by him, as follows, to wit,
SCHEDULE,
containing his whole estate and income, his necessary clothing and bedding excepted, to wit,
“He has no property real or personal is about sixty years old has a wife & children to support his business a daily labourer no other income except his pension enlisted in the Massachusetts line of the Army for the town of Framingham in said State for the term of three years & served accordingly on the Hudson in the State of New York at first when he joined the army and in New Jersey and was honorably discharged in January 1782 being then attached to a Corps commanded by Col. Hudon a French Officer Jacob & Souali, mark Sworn to & declared before Wm Wetmore Judge etc”

and at the same time he produces to the Court here the following Oath, taken and subscribed by him, before the Hon. Wm Wetmore a Judge of said Court as aforesaid, to wit,
// I, Jacob Juvale 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. So help me GOD.
Jacob Juvale or Juvale mark
Middlesex ss. C. C. C. P. June Term, A. D. 1820
Then the abovenamed Jacob Juvale or Juvale took and subscribed the aforewritten Oath before me,
Wm Wetmore Judge of said Court.
I, ABRAHAM BIGLOW, Clerk of the Court aforesaid, do hereby certify, that the foregoing Oath, and Schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the record 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 nothing
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court, at Cambridge, in said County of Middlesex, on this 20th day of July 1820
Attr.
Abraham Biglow 35

32 910 Rev INVALID.
File No. 32,910
Jacob Jonath or Jonas Rev Rev Rev
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 206
[Arrangement of 1870.]

I Noah Bayley of Hopkinton in the County of Middlesex of Lawful age do depose and say that I was born in Natick in said County that I was a Soldier in the Army during the revolutionary war - That before the close of said War I was a Soldier in Captain John Trotter's Company in the fifth Regiment of the Massachusetts Line of the Continental Army - I know that Jacob Jones of said Natick was duly enlisted as a Soldier in said Army for the term of three years and duly mustered I know that he was mustered by my Brother Eliphalet Bayley that muster took place in  the first part of the year one thousand eight hundred and eight one or two - I know that said Jones was a Soldier in the fifth Regiment in the Company commanded at the close of said war by Col. David A. D. a late Capt. of said Company That Lieut. D. D. did the duty of Captain I know that said Jones was in said Service in said Regiment until the close of said Service and served as a Soldier and I know that said Jones was in the Service until the year nineteen hundred and eighty three being more than one year from for his being mustered in said Service except to Westbury and back I know that said Regiment has been commanded by Col. D. D. D. D. I know that said Jones is now poor and to the best of my knowledge starved in said Service until said Army was wholly disbanded and that I say not
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Noah Bayley
Middlesex April 14 19 th 1819 Personally appeared Noah Bayley and made solemn oath to the truth of the above Deposition by him subscribed and further certify that said Noah Bayley is a credible witness and his Testimony to be relied on taken before me Eli Bullard Justice of the Peace

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Witnesseth. I Abraham Biglow Clerk of the Judicial Courts in the county of Middlesex, do certify that Eli Bullard Esquire is a Justice of the peace acting under the authority of this Commonwealth, & his name set to the within certificates is his own proper signature.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of the Supreme Ju- dicial Court this twenty first day of May 1819.
Abraham Biglow

Eliphat Bayley late of Natick in the County of Middlesex that now resides in Hopkinton in said County of Senoful Age do depose and say that I was a Soldier in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary war I well remember that James of said Natick was a Soldier in Col. Dyer's Company in fifth Regiment of the Massachusetts line of said Army I though a private I often saw myself for the duration of the  for the duration of  the  the year and thousand seven hundred and eighty one or two I know that he was duly mustered and joined the Army I know that Captain Hurd had for some time commanded the Company but believe that it was finally called Capt. Newell's Company who was advanced to the rank of Brigadier Colonel I remember that said Regiment had been commanded by Col. Roger Putnam who was advanced to the rank of Brigadier General I know that Lieutenant Prange did the duty of Captain before the close of said war whether Lieut. Prange was commissioned as Captain I know not but Newell was made a Colonel I know that said James served as a Soldier from the time of his enlistment until the Peace was established in the latter part of the year seven hundred and eighty three when he was duly discharged and the whole Army disbanded I further depose and say that I have lived near said James from his infancy to the present day (except for a short time) and I know that he has been in a large number of Children that he is extremely poor - and I further say that I know said James served more than one year in said Army and was honorably discharged at the Peace and further I say not his Eli Phat X Bayley Eli Bullard Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Middlesex April 8th 1819 Personally appeared Eliphat Bayley and made solemn Oath to the truth of the above Deposition by him subscribed and I do further certify that the said Eliphat Bayley is a credible Witness and his testimony to be believed taken before me Eli Bullard Justice of the Peace

To the Honourable
John C. Calhoun
Secretary of War
Washington
6 June 48

Boston July 4. 1819
Sir
Jacob Jonah made his Deed before me on the 20 May 1818, but neglected, from poverty or ignorance or some other cause to procure y e evidence of his service till y e 17. April last, supposing as he simply states, that I had only to ask; having heard in March that I had rec d certificates from the War Office he applied to me for his - when I informed him of the necessity of evidence - there is therefore no mistake of the date inserted - I can account for the delay myself from his extreme ignorance & extreme poverty.
I have one other Deed of one Lohore, in the naval service, taken on the 1 May 1818, waiting for y e return of witnesses from the East Indies - and one of John Hobbs in the land service, taken on the 1 April 1818, whose witnesses are at such a distance that he has not yet been able to procure their testimony - excepting these to the number of about 200, three all the declarations before me have been transmitted to the War department.
Respectfully I am Your Most Obe d Servant
W m Wetmore
The Hon Secretary of War.
The deed of Micah Brewster for service in the hospital Department now in y e war office has been delayed for similar reasons, W m Prince of D r Eustis, late Envoy to Holland.