Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 21468, for James Jones, New York

SERVICE
NUMBER
New York.
Jones, James Katharine
No. 21468.
CONTENTS
born Feb. 22, 1788 at home of Henry. resided in Stephentown (Columbia Co.) N.Y. and died there July 20, 1803.

4. 207.
New York, Albany
Catharine Jones widow of James Jones who died on the 26 th July 1803. of Rensselaer in the State of New York who was an Ensign in the _____ commanded by Captain Dennis of the Reg t commanded by Col Van Rensselaer in the New York line for 9. Months & 8 days
Inscribed on the Roll of Albany at the rate of 66. Dollars 88 3 / 4 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 9 th day of May 1845. and sent to G. H. Yates Esq r Present.
Arrears to the 4th of Semi-annual allowance ending
{ Revolutionary Claim, Act July 4, 1836, Section the }
Recorded by H. S. Conaus Clerk, Book 10. Vol. 1. Page 119.
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Letter to James Jones. 9. June 1845
Death date not shown on A.B.

State of New York Rensselaer County ss
On the 23 d day of February in the year of our Lord 1837 personally appeared before me George R Davis One of the Judges of Rensselaer County Court Catharine Jones a resident of Berlin in the County of Rensselaer aforesaid and State of New York aforesaid, aged twenty nine years of age the 24 th day of July last 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 10 th 1836. That she is the Widow of James Jones late of the town of Stephentown in the said County of Rensselaer deceased, that she was married to the said James Jones at Little Hodeck now Berlin  Stephentown aforesaid on the 28 th day of May 1778, by Elder Joshua Maxson, who she has been informed and newly believes has been dead a great many years, that she lived with the said James Jones as his wife from the marriage aforesaid to his death, July 26 th 1803 at Stephentown aforesaid and has remained his Widow ever since & is now his Widow —
And this deponent further says, that her said husband James Jones was a soldier of the United in the United

State Service in the Revolutionary War, that he was out on duty in that trying period for more or less periods of time every year from the early commencement of the War to its final close, that it was generally said and believed before and at the time of her marriage aforesaid & afterwards, that her said Husband had been in the service of the United States as a militia soldier, at the cross at St Johns. Canada - Ticonderoga Crown Point, Fort Edward & other places at Lake George & Champlain, as orderly sergeant, in the years 1775, 1776, & 1777 - and this deponent has no doubt & firmly believes the truth of the above mentioned reputed services, as it was then a subject of general conversation, and never questioned or disputed to her knowledge or belief -
And this deponent further says that after her marriage aforesaid she was called out as a Ensign & Lieutenant of the Militia in the service of the United States at Albany Schenectady Schoharie & other places on the Mohawk River, every year till the public alarm has ceased, from Indian incursions & Long depredations, about the mode of raising or calling out the militia was this, when a number of militia were called out, several Companies drafted their quota & the militia thus drawn - went some times under one officer & then another

and it is not in her power to recalled the name, or rank of the officer who went out or were associated with her late Husband in these various services.
That this deponent does not know whether her late Husband was in the battle of Saratoga, or not, but thinks he was. Knows he was in the Bennington Battle for soon after that he returned home to his father's in Stephentown where on his way home in Company with several other militia soldiers he called at Caleb Sweet's, a neighbor of the deponent's father there of little Isaac Stephens Benson, the deponent was there, & assisted the family in preparing a dinner for him & his companions of his companions of which they all partook, that the incidents of the battle were all then talked over, —
That this deponent knows that her said Husband left home in the service of the United States as a militia Ensign in July or August 1778 after their marriage aforesaid, and went to Albany upon thence she does not now recalled and did not return until the leaves of the forest trees had fallen, a fact well recollected by her, from a circumstance, fresh in her memory, that on the day of his return she walked out with him in Company with others through a piece of woods of walking on the newly fallen leaves

and the deponent recollects that after her marriage as only said, that her said husband was out one after season & did not return until cold weather in the fall, and that he was in the service of the United States, but whether as an Ensign or Lieutenant in the Militia cannot say -
That this deponent has no doubt, but that she knew at the time who were the officers associated with her husband, and the place where he served the United States, but from failure of memory, & having no motive to cherish the recollection, it is out of her power to state either -
That the before mentioned part of her return late in the fall, is recollected by her, from the fact that she was without fine woods & was obliged for a long time to pick up her own woods until at length she got one Thomas Sherman an aged man, to assist her in procuring & preparing fuel for her -
That this deponent recollects perfectly the frequency of his absence in the service of the United States as a militia officer, on alarms created by Indian incursions & foray depredations, and has no doubt but that he was in the service of the United States as a militia soldier before her marriage

over one year - and she has the strongest impression that he had heard from her at the period of their marriage that he had been in need service about one year & three months
And the respondent has no doubt from her best recollection & belief that her said husband was in the service of the United States in a military office for more than a year after her marriage with him as aforesaid -
That the annexed communication are the originals & were left at his death among his papers -
Sworn to and subscribed the 23 rd day of February 1887
Catharine Cher L. Lowe Mark
Geo R Davis, Judge of Pulaski County Court

George A Davis Judge of Pampelae County Do hereby Certify that I am well acquainted with John Bly. Daniel Hull Peter Hull & Catharine Jones and that each of them are persons of great respectability & entire Credit is due to their statements. It was sworn to me by the oath of the Clergyman hereinafter mentioned William Satterlee that Eleanor Davis his wife Elizabeth who subscribed to known to the above affidavit, (they being strangers to me) were persons of Credit & entitled to the fullest belief.
To W Davis Judge of Pampelae County We William Satterlee a Clergyman of the town of Berlin County of Pampelae & Charles M. Davis of the City of Troy in same County hereby Certify, that we are well acquainted with the within mentioned Catharine Jones widow of the late James Jones deceased who has subscribed known to the above declaration, & we believe her seventy five years of age, & she is a credible person & her statements are entitled to Credit.
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 23 rd day of February 1887 To W Davis Judge of Pampelae County
Wm Satterlee Chas M. Davis

with James March the 2 nd 1775 James Jones his Book Henry Jones James Jones

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July 12/1751 I recd of Mr. Benjamin Bently to my sons Henry & William accounts G-4-
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paid on a set which I  gave eight traps for the  set Bushel. if you shut one Bushel to James  Jones eighteen and one to  the  set to Wydut  trap  one  to  1/2 

Henry Jones Died in Seneca Co., Cayuga Co.
Cunice his wife Died in the same place
There son Wm. Died Stephenson March D 1788
There son Henry Died Sharon D 1802
There son Roger Died Barnesfield
There daughter Cunice Andrews Died Seneca Co. Cayuga Co. Dec. A 1814

Henry Jones and Eunice Miner my Honoured Parents Was married in Wottonington in the year of our Lord January the 19 th 1749
Henry Jones jun r Was born Saturday December the 9 th 1751 Eunice Jones Was born Monday January the 20 th 1752 James Jones Was Born Monday July the 22 nd 1754
Roger Jones was born Saturday December the 3 rd 1756
William Jones was Born Saturday August the 25 th 1759 Amos Jones Was Born Sunday May the 2 nd 1762
Hannah Jones Was Born Wednesday July the 31 st 1764
Frelove Jones Was Born Friday August the 15 th 1766 Miner Jones Was Born February the 20 th 1769 Anna Jones Was Born July the 13 th 1771 Elijah Jones Was Born August the 27 th 1774

Henry Jones James Jones in the 24 year of his age and Catharine Denison in the 21 year of her age Was Married in Littlehoosuck on Thursday May the 28 th in the year of our Lord 1778.
My Son James Was Born on Sunday March the 28 th A D 1779
My Daughter Catharine Was Born on Sunday December the 3 rd A D 1781
My Daughter Eunice Was Born on Saturday September the 14 th A D 1789
my Son Daniel Was Born on Wednesday November the 3 rd A D 1784
My Daughter Jerusha Was born on Wednesday the 25 th April 1787
My Son William, was Born on Wednesday the 26 th of August 1789
My Daughter Rachel Was Born on Tuesday the 10 th of January 1792
My Son Asa was born on Monday September the first Day 1794

My Son Elias Was born on Monday the Sixth Day of February 1797
My Daughter Clara Was Born on Monday the Sixth of October 1799
James Jones of Stephentown Departed this life 26 th July 1803 Being in the Fiftieth year of his age Avery Jones departed this life in Stephentown March 1811 Being in the Seventeenth year of his age
Eunice Smith departed this life in DeRuyter February 26 th 1812 Being in the 37 th year of her age

Stephenstown Married Dec 1801
Katy Jones to B. Calver
Married Stephenstown January 10 th A 1902
Jamies Jones to
Katy Jerome
Married Stephenstown
March 2, 1802
Eunice Jones to
Hubbard Smith
Married Berlin January 2
Daniel Jones to
Betsy Jerome
Married Stephenstown
June 2
Jerusha Jones to
David Greene
Married Stephenstown
January 24 th A 1810
Mrs. Jones to Phoebe Greene

Marryd Stephenstown September 28 th - A.D. 1815 Caroline Jones to Job Snow Marryd Stephenstown November 9 th A.D. 1816 Rachel Jones to Stephen Hull —

Daniel Dineson & 8 Catharine Lewis was Married
Groton July 1 st A 1756
Account of the Children's birth
1 Catherine Born July 24 th
A 1757 Sabbath morning
2 Daniel September 26 th
A 1758 Tuesday
3 Ebenezer Jan 26 A 1760
Saturday
4 Jonathan May 17 th
A 1761 Sunday
5 George April 22
A 1763 Tuesday
6 Gabriel April 21
A 1765 Sunday

7 Joseph Feb. 24 A 1767 Monday 8 David March 14 A 1769 Saturday 9 Luthane March 8 A 1771 Friday These children Born in New London 10 Still Born August 18 A 1773 Wednesday 11 Samuel August 24 A 1774 Monday 12 Eliza April 14 A 1777 Monday
13 Thomas May 5 A 1779 Wednesday These born in Little Hoosuck Catherine Married to James Jones May 28 1778 David Married to Hannah June May 9 Jonathan Married to Sally Greene Jan. 15 1789

George Denison
Died Stephentown
March 1 st 1786 in the 23 year of his age —
Daniel Denison his
Father Die March 15 th
AD 1793
Record of Children Born of the Body of Catharine Denison formerly Avery Catharine Born July 24 1757 Sabbath morning
2 Dan l Born Sept r 26 1758 Tuesday
3 Ebene r Avery Born Jan y 26 1760 Saturday
4 Jonathan Born May 17 1761 Sunday
5 George Born April 12 1763 Tuesday
6 Grisold Born April 21 1765 Sunday
7 Sarah Born Febr y 24 1767 Monday
8 David Born March 19 1769 Saturday
9 Latham Born March 8 1771 Friday
These 9 Children Born in New London
10 Still Born August 18 1773 Wednesday
in Little Pheasant
11 Sam l Born August 24 1774 Monday
12 Elihu Born April 14 1777 Monday
13 Thomas Born May 5 1779 Wednesday
Catharine Married James Jones
May 18 1778
Dan l marriage of May Hannah Jones
Jonathan marriage 15 Jan y 1789
1789

Wm. H. for. Ent. Account No. 16
Wheat thrash By antony Phillips 23 1/2
Phillips Cleaned 12 space hood Cleaned 23 Gave him 2 Bushel for cleaning
July 17 1781 obedient (Coles 2.0 To 2 Bushel wheat 00 12 0 To 2 Bushel corn 00 8 0 To 2 Bushel 1/2 wheat 00 9 0 August 10 To Bushel 1/2 wheat 22 November 1783 Black Mare Hole horse
Wm. H. 2 bushel 1/2 corn Sunday 14 April widow's house burnt down and every thing in it 1782 Phillips had 6 Bushel Do 1

1802 1754 48
Longer you are of little use King He Barnes James Miller congratulate William Jones Little Hoosack William Jones Little Hoosack William Jones Little Hoosack

Concurrence Jan 10 1791 then recd and had was due to me Nathan Jones |||| 22:5:7 62 days of 14 1791 then recd with Elijah Jones to Coints and there was due to me Elijah Jones 14 14 Nathan Jones Fred D. Cash

James Jones at Lark Hoof Book 1775
  16  16  35  33  34    76  61  74  10  71  
one of the most famous of the ... ...

In the matter of Widow Catharine Jones - application for a pension
additional affidavits.
Hon Henry Vail
Mar 31

State of New York Rensselaer County
On the 24th day of February 1838 personally appeared before me Peter Hull of Berlin in the County & State aforesaid who being first duly sworn by me according to Law and on his oath says that he has resided from 1776 in Little Schodack now Berlin down to the present time Linton. Two miles of the residence of the said Captain James Denison, & knows that the said James Denison - was an officer in the Militia & a very considerable man, & was distinguished for his zeal & activity in the cause of his Country. His assessment was always understood, that up to his death in 1778 he was engaged in the various military services rendered the United States, in that agitated & disturbed section of the Country during those periods -
Peter Hull
Sworn to & subscribed before me this 24th February 1838
Geo R Davis Judge of Rensselaer County Court & Commissioner at Law Sup Court

State of New York Rensselaer County
On the 24 th day of February 1838 personally appeared before me Daniel Hull of Berlin in the County & State aforesaid aged seventy years who being first duly sworn according to Law upon his oath say - that he has resided in the then Little Hoosick now town of Berlin, from the year 1776 to the present time. I within two miles of the former residence of Captain James Dennison I within three miles of the late James Jones. I know that Captain Dennison was a whig Committee man & officer from 1776 to his death in 1778 & was most active in both character, & was among the most respectable & zealous men of that day. I was frequently but in the militia service of the United States as an officer during those years, and Captain James Jones was an equally zealous & active whig in those days. I was and although the deponent cannot state any particular term of service, or term of service rendered by the said James Jones. he knows it was talked over & understood in the neighborhood in those days & after the close of the war. I was never questioned or

doubted that the said James Foulk had been after in the militia service of the United States during the year of the War -
That the neigh- borhood of his residence, was for years in constant agitation & alarm from Indian incursions & foray predations during the three first years of the War - In the year of Burgoyne's surrender, the militia was in a state of constant alarm & were apt none or little pretty much that whole season - & they also went has no doubt, but the said Foulk was among the militia so called out -
Sworn to & subscribed before me this 24th day February 1838
Daniel H. H.
Tho R Davis Judge of Rapp County Court & Counsellor of Sup Court

State of New York Rensselaer County ss
On the 24 th day of February in the year of our Lord 1838 personally appeared before me George R Davis Esq of Rensselaer County Count Catharine Jones Widow of James Jones late of Stephentown deceased the applicant for a pension, who being again just ly sworn by me according to law doth on her oath say that the following is a true copy of the family records of her late husband kept by him & in his own hands writing known to her to be as follows
James Jones in the 24 year of his age and Catharine Dennis in the 21 year of her age was married in Little Hoosick on Thursday March the 28 in the year of our Lord 1778 my son James, was born on Sunday March 28 ad 1779
my Daughter Catharine was Born on Sunday December 31 ad 1780
my Daughter Eunice was born on Saturday September the 14 ad 1782
my son Daniel was born on Wednesday November the 3 ad 1784
my Daughter Jerusha was born on Wednesday the 25 th April 1787

1438 1789 my son William was born on Wednesday the 26 th of August 55 1789
my Daughter Rachel was born on Tuesday the 10 th of January 1792 my son Elveny was born on Monday September the first day 1794
my son Elias was born on Monday the sixth Day of February 1797
My Daughter Clara was born on Monday the sixth of October 1799 that her said Husband died on the 26 th day of July 1803 - and she says the said record is true in all respects
and the deponent knows that Captain James Dennis (who was her Uncle), in the years 1776. 1777. & 1778 was a brig Committee man as well as officer & was out in the service of the United States as a Militia officer, frequently in those years, that her late Husband was out with him in those services, until the death of the said James Dennis on the 24 th day of December 1778. - the death of the said Dennis is entered in the affidavit records, in the

proportion of the applicant taken from the family Bible records of Ebenezer Arney who married the mother of the said James Dennison, which entry was taken for her benefit over forty years ago has been in her possession ever since the entry is in these words "James Dennison Died of the small pox Dec. 24 th 1778"
That these services were mostly rendered before her marriage with the said James Jones, but her father & the father of her said husband's family resided within about a mile of each other during all those years, is the reason of her general knowledge of the services aforesaid —
her Catharine X Jones mark
Sworn to & subscribed before me this 24 th day of February 1838
Geo R Davis Judge of Peace. County Court Amistad of Sup Court

September 23, 1937.
Mrs. W. H. Quigley 52 Burton Street, North Grand Rapids, Michigan.
BA-J/ILL James Jones W. 21468
Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letter in which you request information in regard to James Jones, who lived in the Mohawk Valley, and served from New York state in the Revolutionary War.
The claim for pension has been found based upon service of a James Jones who served from New York in the Revolutionary War; he is the only soldier with that name who served from that state found on the Revolutionary War pension records. The data given herein were found in claim, W. 21468.
James Jones was born July 22, 1754, the place not shown. He was the third child of Henry Jones and his wife, Eunice Miner, who were married January 19, 1749, in Stonington, the state not named. At the beginning of the Revolutionary War, the family resided in Little Hoosick, called later Stephentown, in that part of Albany County, New York, which was Rensselaer District.
James Jones enlisted in June 1775, as a private in Captain John Visscher's company for the defense of Albany County, New York, in March 1776, served as orderly sergeant in Captain Sandford's company and was on the expedition to Crown Point and Ticonderoga, was commissioned March 30, 1777, ensign, Captain James Denison's (Dennison's) company, marched against General Burgoyne's Army, was in the battle of Bennington and, after the surrender of General Burgoyne, returned home. He was commissioned April 1, 1778, ensign, Captain James Denison's company, Colonel Killian Van Rensselaer's New York regiment, and served against the Indians in the Mohawk Valley; he was commissioned March 4, 1780, 2 nd Lieutenant, Captain Stephen Miles's company, in that same regiment and served at Johnstown, New York, and other places as late as 1781.
James Jones married May 28, 1778, in Little Hoosick, New

here next time ✓ Her father died mch. York, Catharine, a daughter of Daniel and Catharine (Avery) Deni- son; Catharine was born July 24, 1757 and lived only a few miles from the home of James Jones during the Revolutionary War. She was a niece of Captain James Denison, referred to herein.
11, 1793 and her mother d. - when 12 yrs. prior to 1838.
James Jones died July 26, 1803, in Stephentown, New York.
Catharine Jones, the officer's widow, was allowed pension on her application executed February 23, 1837, at which time she resided in Berlin, Rensselaer County, New York.
James Jones and his wife, Catharine, had a large family of children, their names and births given as follow:
James Jones born March 28, 1779. Catharine " " December 31, 1780. Eunice " " September 14, 1782. Daniel " " November 3, 1784. Jerusha " " April 25, 1787. William " " August 26, 1789. Rachel " " January 10, 1792. Avery " " September 1, 1794, died March 1, 1811. Elias " " February 6, 1797. Clara " " October 6, 1799.
In 1840, William Jones, the son listed above, resided in North Stephentown, New York. In 1845, the son, James Jones, was a resident of that same place.
In 1839, Miner Jones, a brother of James Jones, the soldier, was a resident of Gainesville, Genesee County, New York. In 1839, Anna Rathbun, sister of James and Miner Jones, was a resident of Pike, Allegany County, New York; she stated that she and her sister, Hannah Jones, were at home with their mother at the time of Burgoyne's surrender, and that their brother William was also in service then, as well as their brother, James.
In 1837, Ebenezer Denison, a resident of Berne, Albany County, New York, stated that he was present at the marriage of James Jones and Catha- rine Denison; Elizabeth Denison stated then that she lived in Little Hoosick, New York, when James Jones was in service. Said Elizabeth was born July 3, 1776, and was a resident of said Berne, New York, in 1837; her brother, Nicholas Spencer, went into service with James Jones, from Little Hoosick, New York, in 1777.

The names of the brothers and sisters of James Jones, the soldier, are shown as follow:
   Henry  Jones, Jr.,  born  December  9,  1749.    Eunice  "  "  January  20,  1752.    Roger  "  "  December  3,  1756.    William  "  "  August  25,  1759.    Amos  "  "  May  2,  1762.    Hannah  "  "  July  4,  1764.    Freelove  "  "  August  15,  1766.    Miner  "  "  February  20,  1769.    Anna  "  "  July  13,  1771.    Elizabeth  "  "  August  27,  1774.   
The names of the brothers and sisters of Catharine Denison, who married James Jones, are shown as follow:(the first nine, including said Catharine, were born in New London).
   2. Daniel  Denison  born  September  26,  1758.    Ebenezer  "  "  January  26,  1760.    Jonathan  "  "  May  17,  1761.    George  "  "  April  12,  1863.    Grisold  "  "  April  21,  1765.    Asenath  "  "  February  24,  1767.    David  "  "  March  19,  1769.    Latham  "  "  March  8,  1771.    10. Stillborn  .....   August  18,  1773, in Little Hoosick.    Samuel  "  "  October  24,  1774.    Elihu  "  "  April  14,  1777.    Thomas  "  "  May  5,  1779.   
The following were shown also-Daniel Denison married May 8, 1783, Hannah Jones; Jonathan married January 15, 1789.
Catharine Jones, the widow, stated in 1838, that her mother died ten or twelve years ago, and that her father died March 11, 1793.
above most time
In order to obtain the date of last payment of pension, name of person paid, and possibly, the date of death of the pensioner, Catharine

Jones, you should write the Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, this city, and cite the following:
Catharine Jones, widow of James Jones, Certificate #4207 Issued May 9, 1845 Rate $66.88 per annum Commenced March 4, 1831. Act of July 4, 1836. New York Agency.
Very truly yours,
A. D. HILLER, Executive Assistant to the Administrator.

W.P. Bostwick Clinton, Iowa, m. el. 1937-Sept. 23. Hist. to Mrs. H. H. Snigley - J.L.L.
WIDOW, &c.
File No. 21468
Catherine Jones
Wid. of
James Jones
Ensign Rev. War
Act: July 4, 1836
Index:—Vol. 64 Page 381
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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Lt. G.R. Davis - - - - - ap. 29. '37 " Hon. H. Vail - - - - - Dec. 20 - " " " - - - - - ap. 3. 38 " G.R. Davis - - - - - July 24 - " Hon. H. Hunt - - - - - June 26. '40 " W. Jones - - - - - Aug 18. 40 " C.M. Davis - - - - - March 20. 41 Hon. G.W. Briggs March 7. 1842 Hon. C. Ellis ap. 3. 1844 " to same June 19. "
Act 4 July '36 -

2 Lt. Jones

James Jones W. 21,468 N.Y.

The People of the STATE of NEW-YORK, By the Grace of GOD, FREE and INDEPENDENT;
To James Jones, Gentleman, GREETING.
WE reposing especial Trust and Confidence, as well in your Patriotism, Conduct and Loyalty, as in your Valour and Readiness to do us good and faithful Service; HAVE appointed and constituted, and by these Presents, DO appoint and constitute you the said James Jones - Second Lieutenant of Capt. Stephen Niles's company in the Regiment of Militia in the county of Albany, whereof William Van Rensselaer Esquire is Colonel.
YOU are therefore, to take the said Company - into your Charge and Care, as Second Lieutenant thereof, and duly to exercise the Officers and Soldiers of that Company - - in Arms, who are hereby commanded to obey you as their Second Lieutenant - - and you are also to observe and follow such Orders and Directions, as you shall from Time to Time receive from our General and Commander in Chief of the Militia of our said State, or any other your Superior Officer, according to the Rules and Discipline of War, in Pursuance of the Trust reposed in you; and for so doing, This shall be YOUR COMMISSION, for and during our good Pleasure, to be signified by our Council of Appointment. IN TESTIMONY whereof we have caused our Seal for Military Commissions to be hereunto affixed. WITNESS our trusty and well beloved George Clinton Esquire our Governor of our State of NEW-YORK, General and Commander in Chief of all the Militia, and Admiral of the Navy of the same, by and with the Advice and Consent of our said Council of Appointment, at Albany - - the fourth - - Day of March - - in the fourth - - Year of our INDEPENDENCE, and in the Year of our LORD, One Thousand Seven Hundred and Eighty .
Passed the Secretary's Office,
By His EXCELLENCY's Command,
Robt. Harrison Dep y Secretary.
Geo. Clinton

Cajun Jones

James Jones Mr. 21468 N.Y.

The People of the State of New York.
by the Grace of God, FREE and INDEPENDENT.
James Jones Genl.
Greeting.
WE
reposing especial Trust and Confidence, as well in your Patriotism, Con- -duct and Loyalty, as in your Valour and Readiness to do us good and faithful Service, Have Appointed and constituted, and by these Presents DO Appoint and Constitute you the said James Jones Esq. Ensign of Captain James Dennisons Company of Artillery in the County of Albany, in the Regiment whereof William Van Rensselaer Esq. is Colonel YOU are therefore, to take the said Company into your charge and care as Ensign thereof. and duly to exercise the Officers and Soldiers of that Company in Arms, who are hereby commanded to obey you as their Ensign and you are also to Observe and follow such Orders and Directions, as you shall from time to time, receive from our General and Commander in chief of the Militia of our said State, or any other your Superior Officer, Ac- -cording to the Rules and discipline of War, in pursuance of the Trust reposed in you; and for so doing this shall be Your Commission, for and during our good pleasure, to be Signified by our Council of appointment. In Testimony whereof, we have caused our Seal for Military Commissions to be hereunto Affixed. Witness our Trusty and well beloved George Clinton Esq. our Governor of our State of New York, General and Commander in chief of all the Militia, and Admiral of the Navy of the same, by and with the Advice and Consent of our said Council of Appointment, at Poughkeepsie the First day of April in the Second year of our Independence, and in the year of our Lord one Thousand Seven Hundred and Seventy Eight
Passed the Secretaries Office July 2 nd 1781
By His Excellency's Command.
Wm. B. Rance Secretary.
[Handwritten signature: G. Clinton]

James Jones W. 21, H 68 N.Y.

IN Convention  State FOR THE COLONY OF NEW-YORK, THE twelfth DAY OF March 1774
To James Jones Gentleman GREETING:
BY Virtue of the Authority reposed in us, We do hereby nominate, authorize, constitute and appoint you the said James Jones  Ensign of the forth Company of Militia of foot in the forth Regiment in the County of Albany whereof James Tompson Esq. is Captain -herewith requiring you, before you enter into the Exercise of your said Office, to make in Writing, and subscribe in Presence of the Chairman of the Committee of the City, Town, District, or Precinct wherein you reside, the Declaration appointed and directed by the Eleventh Section of the Seventh Resolve contained in the Rules and Orders for regulating the Militia of the Colony of New-York, recommended by this Congress on the 22d Day of August 1775, and authorizing you fully to execute all the Powers belonging to your said Office, by Virtue of the said Rules and Orders and the said Declaration: And we do hereby require all Persons under your Command, to pay due Obedience to you, according to the said Rules and Orders, and such further Rules and Orders as shall be made and recommended for the Militia of this Colony, by the present, or any future Continental Congress, or Provincial Congress of this Colony.
Attest,
W. Ransom Secy
By Order,
H. Ten Broeck President

Catharine Lane
Can't be else
J. L. Edwards Esq. Commissioner of Pensions Washington D.C.

In the Case of Catharine Jones widow of James Jones, if the service of Jones as Sergeant in 1775 added to his service as Lieutenant after in 1779 amounting to more than 2 months as per enclosed certificate from the Comptroller of the State of New York do not make out 6 months, I am not disposed to prosecute this claim any farther. In your letter of July 1838 you say that "there is no evidence in the Department that James Jones was an officer in the Drafts" of 5 mos. men in 1776 of 4 mos. men in 1777 & 3 mos. men in 1778. I am aware that no direct proof has been furnished to establish any portion of this service, nor do we claim for such service - only for service previous to 1779 in the year 1775, of 9 months . We do not claim that Jones was a commissioned officer previous to 1779.
Of the 9 months service of Jones in 1775 you have documentary evidence in your office, & the same is confirmed by the affidavit of Bishop - This service was rendered under Col. McDougal & Capt. Lyon.
In my last communication not then sufficiently understanding this claim, I

asserted improperly that Jones might not have been a regular Commissioned officer. There is record proof of the fact; to wit of service under Capt. Niles in 1779 & 1780, and the same is enclosed (£14.3:9) nearly 3 months service I believe.
Claiming principally for service in 1775, 1779 & 1780, both fortified by record & parol proof, we confidently trust that a reexan- -ination of the claim will induce a favorable decision. The proof of marriage is admitted to be perfect.
I am very respectfully Your mo: Obl: Servt
B. H. Lusk
Schenectady May 18 th 1840.
Genl Edwards Esq Commissioner of Pensions

A. James Jones Enlisted June 1775- 9 months-
6 months- 2. Ensign 76 1. S. Lt. 78/80
copy of an enlistment roll now remaining on file in this office
Philip Schuyler Dept Comptroller

437 We the Subscribers being well convinced of the absolute necessity of raising a sufficient body of Provincial forces for the defence of the Constitution and the preservation of our Just Rights and Liberties when the same are in the most imminent danger of being invaded have therefore voluntarily enlisted into the Provincial Service under Capt. John Fisher Bury Esq. our first Lieut. & Joseph Fitch 2 d Lieut. & Guy Young Ensign, and do hereby promise and agree that we will severally do execute and perform all and every such Instructions directions orders and Military discipline and duties as our said officers or either of them or the commanding officer for the time being on this new establishment shall from time to time give or send to us during the time that our Service is required in the unhappy contest between Great Britain and the Colonies and we do severally promise and engage not to go from or quit the said Service untill we shall be discharged or dismissed from the same by the Continental Congress or the Provincial Congress of this Colony or by the General Committee of the City & County of Albany under the penalty of forfeiting our Wages and being deemed in the eye of the publick as enemies to our Country and we the said Officers do severally promise and agree under the most solemn Ties of honor and love to our Country that we shall and will from time to time and at all times during the said contest between Great Britain and the said United Colonies to perform and execute in our several and respective Stations all and every the Instructions directions orders Military discipline and duties as the

continental or Provincial Congress or the General Committee of the City and County of Albany or the Commanding Officer for the time being shall recommend or give or send to us or either of us. And we do likewise severally promise and engage not to go from or quit the said Service until we are discharged or dismissed from the same by the Continental Congress or the Provincial Congress of this Colony or by the General Committee of the City and County of Albany under the penalty of forfeiting our Wages and being deemed enemies to our Country. In witness whereof we have hereunto set our hands this third day of June 1775.
  John Kipscher  William Caw  William Dickens    Benjamin Evans  William Armstrong  Jacob P. Price    Joseph Fitch  Samuel Wheeler  James Perkins    Guy Young  William W. Faulkner  Joseph Perkins    Thomas Wheeler  James Jones  John Gray  
Comptroller's Office Albany July 18 th 1843
I hereby certify the above to be a correct copy of an enlistment Roll now remaining on file in this Office
Philip Schuyler Comptroller
A. James Jones enlisted June 1775- 9 months
Comptroller's Office 2. Enlistment 1. 8. 2. 732880

Catherine Maria of James Jones
J. L. Edwards Esq. Commr of Pensions Washington D.C.

Schenectady, N.Y. Novr. 30 th 1843.
Sir,
The claim of Catharine Jones , widow of James Jones , under the act of 4 th July, 1836, has recently been placed in my hands. The former Agent, George R. Davis Esq. of Troy (N.Y.) was unable to give me any information about this claim, except what I could gather from a letter you had addressed him under date of July 24 th 1838.
Although asserted & believed that James Jones was an officer (an Ensign) during a part of the War, I can find no documentary evidence of the fact. He may however, have served as an Ensign without a regular commission.
He hailed from the same part of the Country with Fisher, Young, and the others named in the paper marked A, herewith sent; and I present this paper giving the name of Jones as an enlisted Soldier under said Officers, in June 1775, under the conviction that the James Jones whose name appears to that paper is the same James Jones, whose widow applies for a pension. All those whose names are subscribed to said paper as voluntarily enlisted

Soldiers, were under the Jurisdiction of the Committee of Safety of the City & County of Albany. This enlistment was for 9 months.
It is alleged that Captain Niles died shortly after Jones became an Ensign, and this may account for the circumstance that Jones's name was not returned on Niles's Roll.
I also enclose proof that "James Jones" served under Col. Van Schaick for 2 or 3 months in 1780, but am unable to determine whether this proof is applicable in the present application, as I know not what is declared for in the year 1780; - the affidavit of Foliard, enclosed, names Pawling as his Colonel during said year 1780.
Moses Bishop testifies to his service in 1777, and thinks he acted as an Ensign, (probably only as Commandant of a detachment) in 1776, while engaged in throwing up breast works &c. He also testifies to his service in 1775, and gives Colonel M c Dougall & Captain Lyon as his Officers.
M c Dougall & Lyon did serve in the Northern campaign of 1775, but I have no documents at hand to prove this.
I trust however, that under all the circumstances of the case, you will find reason to award the Widow at least a minimum

pension.
I am
Most respectfully,
Your obed. Servant
J. F. M. (S)
J. L. Edwards, Esquire, Commissioner of Pensions, Washington City, D. C.

Mar 1. 1842
Am at
to-day
Col J. L. Edwards
G. N. Briggs W.R.
Copy for Present
Dr. A. L. Jones

28 Feby 1842
Sir
I am requested to enquire after the Can of Mrs Catherine Jones of Berlin in the State of New York -
Ans.
I should be glad to have you turn your attention to the Can of Mrs Kagroick of Seneca, about which I talked with you the other day, as soon as your convenient will permit, as she is an old woman & would be glad to have the can filled as soon as may be.
Yours
W. R. Burges

New York N.Y. July 20 th 1838
J. L. Edwards Esq. Commissioner of Pensions
Sir,
I have been requested by Judge Davis a highly respectable citizen of my District to forward you the enclosed documents relating to the case of Mrs Catherine Jones for a pension.
Respectfully Your Obt. Servant Henry Fails

Jones
June 24. 1840
Free H. H. Hunt (Mr. Hunt) Col. S. Edwards Esq. Comp d Pension Washington

Rep d Hall June 23 d /40
I am under the necessity of again troubling you - Some time since I am informed an application was made for a Pension for Catherine Jones, widow of James Jones of Stephentown, Rensselaer Co. N. York - The papers were entrusted to the care of Esq. B. Davis of Troy - The applicants can learn nothing in the subject besides what to a certain extent the papers have been rec d by you - I do not know why no action has been had - If the papers are defective, I am supposed to have the papers amended - We should like to give you the necessary information at your earliest convenience -
With Respect Ever
H. P. Hunt
W. L. Edwards Esq.

Catherine Jones from - ab. N.Y.
Mar 9
4 July '36 3 rd Sec.
8/14/37
J. L. Edwards Esq
Court for Pensions Washington
Rev. R. Davis of Troy
now present

Troy March 4. 1837
J. S. Edwards Esq.
Dear Sir,
Enclosed are the papers of the Widow Jones - from a particular examination of her case. I think her entitled - I went out to her neighbourhood, and she might have multiplied traditional evidence - the old inhabitants, all agreed as to the reputation of Major Jones services, but could give no more certain proof than this furnished - Mrs Jones is a very respectable old Lady.
Most respectfully Geo R Davis

North Stephentown NY June 1845
1845 1845
1845 June 1845
Hon. J. L. Edwards Pension Office War Department City Washington D.C.

Sir
In the case of an application for a Pension by Mrs. Catharine Jones now of this place but formerly of Berlin Pensepaur Co. N.Y. there was transmitted hither, an old Family re- cord, as evidence of Marriage to her late husband James Jones, and she wishes me to write and enquire whither the said record is any longer of use to the department & if it is not & it is consistant with your duty to do so, she wishes it may be returned, she thinks much of it, & wishes to preserve it, & also to have it transcribed. Any communica- tion you may see fit to make you will direct to this place yours so doing will much oblige the old Lady & Yours Respectfully
James Jones
North Stephentown June 5 th 1845 Hon. J. L. Edwards

6. Sep 30
2. Sep 20
13.33
— 3.55
66.78
[Faint, mirrored handwriting from the reverse side of the page]

In the matter of Catharine Jones widow of James Jones } Act of 4 th July 1836 James Jones died 26 th July 1803. Marriage - 28 th May 1778 - admitted -
1775 Decl: alleges 9 mo s service in this year serv t D anl Brown swears to service of 6 mo s & more at Skeneateles &c Capt Canwood - Moses Bishop witn s also Anna Rathbun swears to 9 mo s - at Canada &c as serv t &c Comptroller of N.Y. furnished enlistment Roll 1775.
1776 In this year 9 mo s service alleged serv t to spring of 1777. Capt. Dennison &c Engaged in throwing up Breast works &c Ticonderoga - P l Edward - Eliz a Dennison witn s & Anna Rathbun Lieut. Comt Obadiah Vangundy recruiting Officer David Hoard enlisted same time 1777 Col. Wynkoop, Isaac serv t witn s - Col. Allen Commission as Ensign in March 1777. J s Dennison Capt at Bennington Battle Sep 1777. Capt. Dennison Anna Rathbun witn s
1778 Comm: as Ensign - July 2 d 1778 - Capt. J s Dennison & Col: Killian V m Rensselaer Albany County.
1779 In spring Moses Bishop witn s to 6 weeks service Record over 1 mo
1780 In spring M. B. witn s a few weeks service - Record over 1 mo Soliah witn s in 1780 - Schoharie - Clark Bly witn s . App d 2 d Lieut. 4. Mar 1780. Col. K. V m Rensselaer Danl Hull - Peter Hull, John Horton Mary Horton Sohier. Traditional evidence abundant -

[REDACTED] State of New York On the County of ... sixth
... was born in 1825 ... ... Anna ... daughter of the ... of Pike in the County of ... ... age ... the 13th ... ... being first ... ... that her former name was ... That James ... the husband of Catherine ... was her brother that they lived ... at their father's Henry's house at Little ... ... at the commencement of the war of the rebellion - I was then young but I knew brother James entered into the service of his country at an early period of that event & was much of the time in that service - He was ... ... I think it must have been in 1875 and returned home - He thought it more pleasant to be near the Small Park before he again ... ... accordingly went to the Park ... in Pittsfield ... and was ... through ... it he returned home ... ... with his free ... very much ... ... it - He then soon enlisted and for nine months and went again into the service ... whom he enlisted or with whom he served cannot say she recalls the ... of ... another ... at the time of that ... she was at school and two girls also at school told her that she would never see her brother James again he had enlisted to serve during the whole war ... will see him no more The statement affected me it made a deep & lasting impression in my mind - My Sister Hannah being present & discussing very agitatedly ... ... I might see James again ... was not enlisted during the war but for nine months only My mind was not yet

fully satisfied until I got home from school tonight and learned by my parents that the enlist- ment was but for nine months. He went into the service I did not see him until the nine months passed and he returned home from the service very late in the fall or some part of winter. In what year that nine months service was rendered I cannot say for certainty further than to say it was before the Battle of Sarato- ga in which the British army surrendered to the American forces but I think it must have been the last year before that event, but he was in the service as above stated one time before the nine months service or the having the Small- Pox I think the first time must have been in 1775. I have heard mention the name Almon Colonel Almon. The said James was in the service in the same year of the Saratoga Battle and I believe the whole of that season until some time after the defeat & surrender of Burgoyne's Army. In the time of that battle I heard the guns very plain, my Mother first called my attention to it she said to me how can you be so playful look don't you hear the cannon I expect the two great armies are now fig- hting and you have two brothers there they may be killed and if the British are triumph- ant they will march through here and I know not what our fate may be but the cheering news soon reached us that Burgoyne was defeated and had surrendered his army to the American Troops. And in the same fall some time after brother James and W m returned home. The said James was afterwards in the service but I believe for shorter periods, and when he was not otherwise in the service he was out in Alarmy he was in a district where the Tories and Indians were troublesome.

to that right that seemed to agitate the whole community - I cannot say what officers he served under yet I recollect of hearing him speak of Capt. Denison, Capt. Sanford or Sandford, Capt. Austin or Austin, Capt. Bentley, and also as above named Capt. Allen, Capt. Wynkoop or Wynkoop, Col. Milet, Col. Van Rensselaer & General Schuyler.
Sworn & subscribed before me this 26 th day of June in the year 1839
Anna Paton
State of New-York, } ss. Genesee County,
I do hereby certify, that John L. Sanford  sworn to before whom the annexed Instrument in Writing was acknowledged was, at the time of taking such acknowledgment a Justice of the Peace and for said County, duly authorised to take the same. And that I am well acquainted with his handwriting and verify believe that the signature to the foregoing instrument is genuine.
In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my Official Seal, at Batavia in said county, this 27 th day of June 1839
Erasmus A. Maltbie
Clerk of Genesee County.
In certificate before execution

to that degree that seemed to agitate the whole community - I cannot say what office he succeeded under yet I recollect of hearing him speak of Capt. Denison, Capt. Sanford or Sandford Capt. Hunted or Austin Capt. Bentley, and also as above named Col. Allen, Col. Wynkoop or Wynkoop Col. Milet Col. Van Rensselaer & General Schuyler.
Sworn & subscribed before me this 26 th day of June in the year 1839
Anna Patterson
John D. Landon Justice of the Peace
...being verieve that the signature to the foregoing  the foregoing  is  is genuine. In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my Official Seal, at Batavia in said county, this 27 th day of June 1839
Erasmus & interlineated E. L. D. L.
Clerk of Genesee County.
This certificate before execution

State of New York
Genesee County ss
3 An the twenty sixth day of June 1839 Personally
appeared Minor Jones Resident of the town of Gainesville County and State aforesaid aged seventy years the 20 th day of Feb y last Who being first duly sworn doth on his oath say that he is a brother of James Jones who was the husband of Catherine Jones nee of Berlin N. Y. Says he has examined the depo- -sition of Anna Rothburi this day made and herewith attached and can certify and now here- by certify to the truths and statements therein named with the exception of two unimportant statements the one mentioned to take place at the Wheat house concerning the enlistment and the other and the other in which her attention was called by her Mother - And in addition to what she has said I did on one occasion when brother Jones went in to the service I take a team and carried him to Albany to join his associates in arms and I understand to March from thence to Chakobony - I cannot say in what year that was or how long before his return -
My brothers & Sisters all older than myself are dead -
Minor Jones
Sworn & subscribed
before me this 26 th day of June
1839
John D. Landon
Justice of the Peace

Widow Jones additional proof,

State of New York Ontario County ss. }
On the twenty eighth day of June An thousand eight hundred and thirty eight personally appeared Isaac Hoard of the Town of Potter in the County of Yates & State aforesaid Aged eighty four who being first sworn according to law doth upon his oath say that he was acquainted with James Jones of Little Falls in New Stephentown knew him at the commencement of the American Revolution I know he was in the service of his country at that period - In June 1777 I bore arms & marched to the North and at or near Fort Ann met with Jones together with all our forces then General Schuyler Commanding, they were retreating before the enemy (Burgoyne's Army) our forces retreating from place to place (followed by the enemy) until the Bennington Battle and on that memorable day when the British forces there surrendered to General Starks, Jones was selected to the command of an scouting party he called on me to go & I went with him on such duty - After that Battle our forces continued on duty until Burgoyne's Army gave up in October after how much he Jones served in that year except as above stated I do not know or now recollect - but Jones was in the service anterior to that he enlisted and I think as a Sergeant, in the spring say March or April 1776 and went immediately to Skaneateles and there joined our army I was not there myself at the time but I know by common reputation as well as by his statements that he did so join the army, And I do know that he enlisted for that purpose under Lieutenant Obediah Vaughan, recruiting officer, My brother David Hoard who lived in the same house with me, enlisted at the same time and under the same Officer and went with Jones to the army - David is dead I do not now recollect the name of their Capt. but one Wynecop was then Colonel and the Regiment remained at the north during the whole of that season Jones did not return home until late in the fall or forepart of winter - That being an infested district when

Indian depredations, and Tory excursions, were frequent. James was often out on duty to subject or disperse them and on three or four several such duties I was with him - James was an officer commissioned in the early part of the war under Capt. James Denison, I knew Denison well he was an active sergeant major and Committed man until he died in December 1778. Denison was also out on duty in both the Bennington and the Saratoga Battles I then and there served with and under him. Subscribed and sworn before me Elisha Miller - a Commissioner of Deeds in and for the County of Ontario this the 28 Day of June in the year 1838 Elisha Miller
Isaac Hays
I Certify that I am acquainted personally with Isaac Hays the above named Deponent and believe him to be a Man of Truth and Veracity Elisha Miller
Thomas Hall CLERK.

Indian expeditions, and Long expedition's were frequent. Jones was often out on duty to subject or disperse them and on three or four several such duties I was with him - Jones was an officer commissioned in the early part of the war under Capt. James Denison, I knew Denison well he was an active sergeant major and Committed man until he died in December 1778. Denison was also out on duty in both the Bennington and the Saratoga Battles I then and there served with and under him.  Subscribed and sworn before me Elisha F. Miller a Commissioner of Deeds in and for the County of Ontario this the 28 Day of June in the Year 1838 Elisha F. Miller
Isaac H. Jones
STATE OF NEW YORK, Ontario County Clerk's Office, } ss.
I, Thomas Hall Clerk of said County,
Do hereby Certify, That Elisha F. Miller whose name is subscribed to the certificate of the proof or acknowledgment of the annexed instrument, and thereon written, was, at the time of taking such proof or acknowledgment, a Commissioner of Deeds , in and for the County aforesaid, dwelling in the said County, commissioned and sworn, and duly authorized to take the same. AND FURTHER, that I am well acquainted with the hand-writing of such Commissioner, and verily believe that the signature to the said certificate is genuine.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said County, this Twenty eighth day of June A. D. 1838
Thomas Hall CLERK.

Catharine Jones widow of James Jones —
Act of 7. July 1838.
C. F. H. H. C. H.

In pursuance of a law passed the 27th of April, 1784, entitled "An act for the settlement of the pay of the Levies and Militia, for their services in the late War, and for other purposes therein mentioned," the following certificates have been issued, bearing interest at five per cent per annum, viz:
  13 th Nov r 1779 James Jones Lieut £ 6 9 7   7 th Aug t 1780 do do 2 1 4   27 th Oct do do do 5 12 10   14 3 9       1 mo 8 days £ 2 
STATE OF NEW YORK,
COMPTROLLER'S OFFICE, Albany, Dec r 26 th 1843.
I hereby certify the above to be true extracts from Book No. 8. — now remaining in this office, and that the service for which the certificates above named were issued, were performed under the following officers, viz:
  First—under Capt. Stephen Niles in Col. William P. Ruyvelan Regt.   Second " " do " " do "   Third " " do " " do "   Fourth " " " " "   Fifth, " " " " "   Sixth " " " " "   Seventh " " " " "   Eighth " " " " "   Ninth " " " " "   Tenth " " " " " 
Philip Phelps Comptroller
28 7 50 35 50

State of New York } Ebenezer Denison of Burn Albany Co; Albany County ss. } upon said being duly sworn says he was twentyseven years of age the 26 th day of January 1837. That he was acquainted with James Louis Lote of Stephentown Rensselaer Co. N.Y. deceased that the said James Louis was married to Catharine Denison at her Father's in Little Haasick Albany Co. (now Stephentown aforesaid) in the spring or for part of summer 1778 that he this deponent was present at the wedding and saw the contract solemnized
Ebenezer Denison
Subscribed & sworn before me This 11 th February 1837
William Denison
Commissioner of Deeds &c.

State of New York Albany County ss
Elizabeth Denison of Bern Co. & State aforesaid being duly sworn say her former name was Spencer that she was 70. years of age the 3 rd day of July last that she was living at home in her Fathers family at Shen Littlehaosile Albany Co. now Stephenstown Rensselaer Co. And within one mile of the residence of James Jones of the same place now deceased that she was acquainted with said Jones And in the year 1781 he the said Jones came to her Fathers and called for her eldest Brother Nicholas Spencer to go with him as a soldier in the service of his country that Nicholas was willing to go but his Mother objected saying he was young - Jones said there was a necessity for it for the enemy or the Indians and Jones were coming down and they must be met and when it was found that Nicholas was about to go his Mother addressed herself to Jones & said now if Nicholas gets killed I shall charge it all to you and you being an officer & going with him I commit his charge to you & you must take care of him when they went or how long from home cannot say as numbers herein. N. S.
State of New-York, } ss. City and County of Albany, CLERK'S OFFICE,
I, CONRAD A. TEN EYCK, Clerk of the city and county of Albany, do hereby Certify, that William Spencer Esq whose name is subscribed to the certificate of proof or acknowledgment of the an- nexed instrument in writing and endorsed thereon, was at the time of taking such proof or acknowledgment, a Commissioner in and for the county aforesaid, dwelling in the said county, and duly au- thorised to take the same: And that I am well acquainted with the hand-writing of the said Commissioner, and verily believe that the signature to the said certificate of proof or acknowledgment is genuine.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed my official seal, the 11 th day of February 1837.
C. A. Ten Eyck Clerk.

State of New York Albany County ss
Elizabeth Denison of Bern Co. & State aforesaid being duly sworn says her former name was Spencer that she was 70. years of age the 3 rd day of July last that she was living at home in her Fathers family at then Littlehaasile Albany Co. now Stephentown Rensselaer Co. And within one mile of the residence of James Jones of the same place now deceased that she was acquainted with said Jones And in the year 1781 he the said Jones came to her Fathers and called for her eldest Brother Nicholas Spencer to go with him as a soldier in the service of his country that Nicholas was willing to go but his Mother objected saying he was young - Jones said there was a necessity for it for the enemy or the Indians and Jones were coming down and they must be met and when it was found that Nicholas was about to go his Mother addressed herself to Jones & said now if Nicholas gets killed I shall charge it all to you and you being an officer & going with him I commit his charge to you & you must take care of him when they went or how long from home cannot say - members hearing Nicholas say after their return home that they crossed the hills of Saratoga further saith not
Elizabeth Denison
Subscribed and sworn before me this 18 th February 1837
William Denison Comr. of Deeds

State of New York Rensselaer County
On the 23 d day of February 1837, came personally before me Clark Bly aged 70 last August who on being my me sworn, says upon his oath, that he resides in Berlin & has lived there since 1780. That he knew James Jones from that time to his death many years ago - that it was reputed, & believed that the said James Jones, was zealously devoted to his Country's liberty during the Revolutionary struggle, and it was generally understood & credited that the said James Jones had been frequently in the service of the United States during that struggle as an officer & soldier, & from that period down to the present. This deponent has never heard it doubted -
That the deponent's mother law John Babcock was with the said Jones at Schenectady in the service of the United States, before the deponent came into the Country in 1780, as he has heard the said Babcock frequently state - that the said Babcock is dead & has been so dead for several years - and the deponent has no doubt of the truth of said statement as to said Babcock - nor that the

the said reputed Service of the said James Jones were rendered as reputed — Clark Bly
In witness whereunto subscribed this
23 d of February 1837
Geo R. Darius Grace of Rapp County County

State of New York } Rensselaer County } 3
On the 25 th day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty seven came personally before me Daniel Brown, who on being by me duly sworn deposes & says, that he was eighty three years, the 18 th day of July last, and resides in Stephentown in the County & State aforesaid, & has so resided since 1771, that when he first came to the said town he became acquainted with the former Governor late of the said town & continued that acquaintance until the death of the said Governor in the year 1803 all that time living within 4 or 5 miles of him, knew him during the revolutionary war, was an active sealer & diligent friend of his Country, and was distinguished for his devotion to the cause of freedom, that it was reputed at the time that he was frequently in the service of his Country as an officer & soldier, during the whole revolutionary struggle, that he never hired it doubted or questioned but what he did render service to the United States as such officer & soldier at the time or since - & has not the least doubt of it himself - but never having been with him, he can not state with particularity those services This also must also know that the said Governor was in the army in the early part of the said war, of

Revolution, and that the deponent's brother Solomon Brown was in the same Company with the said Jones, said Company was commanded by Capt Sandford, the deponent's brother Solomon Brown was taken sick while at Skeneateles Lake Champlain, and the deponent went to that place & found his brother there, and saw the said James Jones there doing duty as orderly sergeant of said Company, that the said Company was sent for six months or more, whether for six or nine months cannot say with certainty, has no doubt & merely believes that the said Jones staid out the term of the service -
This deponent cannot recollect the name of the officer there or the Regiment - Timothy Baker was one of the Company, & thinks William Beatty & Gilbert Warden were also, the said Beatty & Baker are dead, but as to the said Warden the deponent knows not where he is, or whether dead or alive - that the deponent cannot give the year, but it was before Genl: Burgoyne's defeat - nor can the deponent estimate the period of his whole services with certainty -
Daniel Brown
Seen and before me this 25th day of -

Emory's appeal - no one else alleged estimate the period of his whole services with certainty -
Seen and before me this 25th day of
Daniel Brown
of February 1837. and
Verify that I am personally acquainted with the above named Defendant and that he is a man of truth & sincerity & his statement is entitled to full credit -
Daniel Jones Justice of the peace
State of New York Rensselaer County ss: I Henry P. Bristol Clerk of said County do hereby certify that Daniel Jones Esquire before whom the foregoing affidavit appears to have been sworn was at the time of taking the same a Justice of the peace in & for the said County of Rensselaer duly Commissioned & sworn also that I am acquaint- ed with the hand writing of said Justice & verily believe his sig- nature above written to be Genuine In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of the said County this 3rd day of March 1837 Henry P. Bristol Clerk

V1477.
In the matter of Widow Catharine Touhy for a Pension
admitted 6 months 2. Ensign 1. 80. Lieut.
66.88
Lieut 4.39 = 38 days
G. F. Yates Esq. Present

George R Davis Judge of Poughkeepsie Carmel County & Counsellor at Law of the Supreme Court. Do hereby Certify that after an investigation of the matter, that I am satisfied that former Jones late of the town of Stephentown in the County of Poughkeepsie was a revolutionary soldier & appeared & served as stated by the above named applicant Catharine Jones his Widow, and I do further Certify that it appears to me from personal knowledge that William Fletcher who has signed the preceding Certificate, is a Clergyman resident in Berlin, that Charles M. Stark who has also signed the same is a resident in the City of New York & are both Credible persons that their statement is entitled to Credit and I do further Certify that the said Catharine Jones lives about twenty miles from the County of records a very aged & by reason of bodily infirmity is unable to appear in Court. March 3 d 1837
Geo R Davis Judge of Poughkeepsie County &c
State of New York Poughkeepsie County ss: I Henry M Bristol Clerk of the said County do hereby Certify that George R Davis Esquire before whom the foregoing Declaration & the several Affidavits hereto annexed appear to have been sworn to at the time of taking the same a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of the said County of Poughkeepsie duly com- missioned & sworn that his signature to the several papers hereto annexed is Genuine
Given under my hand & the Seal of said County this 3 d day of March 1837 Henry M Bristol Clerk

State of New York Rensselaer County ss
On the 23 d day of February 1837 personally appeared before me Ephraim R Davis Judge of Rensselaer County Court Daniel Skell a resident of Berlin in the County State aforesaid aged sixty nine years, who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath say that he has heard read the annexed affidavit of his brother Peter Skell, and agrees & concurs in all the facts therein stated from his personal knowledge, & as to the facts therein stated upon reputation - except as to service of the said Peter with the said James Jones -
Daniel Skell
Sworn to and subscribed the 23 d day of February 1837 Ephraim R Davis Judge of Renss. County Court.

State of New York Pensylvania County p
On the 23 d day of February 1837 personally appeared before me Kings R Davis Judge of Pennsylvania County Court. Peter Keell a resident of Berlin in the County & State aforesaid aged seventy six years of age last June who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on his oath relate & say that he knew James Jones late of Stephentown deceased. Jones had been dead a great many years, that he left Catherine Jones his widow him surviving, who is now living & his widow, having never since his death remarried.
That the Deponent knew the said James Jones during the Revolutionary War & lived near him from that period to the day of his death aforesaid that the said James Jones was a zealous active militant & distinguished member of the revolution, and was reputed to be at the time frequently in the service of the United States, both as an officer & soldier, and the deponent has not the least doubt. But what the said James Jones was more or less for years in the United States service, it was so reputed & credited at the time & the deponent has never heard it questioned or doubted. and the deponent has the recollection

I once being called with him in the United States service  out - but the time & the place of service here, entirely escaped this deponent's recollection - Sworn to and subscribed Peter Hull the 23 d day of February 1837 Geo R Davis Judge of Russell Co. Court

In the matter of Catharine Jones Widow of James Joules -
application for Pension additional proof

State of New York Rensselaer County ss.
On the fifteenth day of June 1838 personally appeared John Dorton resident of the town of Stephentown in the County & State aforesaid aged Seventy four years who being first sworn according to Law doth on his oath say - That he came to this place (Then Little Hoosick) About the time or just before the close of the War, formed an acquaintance with James Jones of this place immediately on coming here and continued that acquaintance until he died in 1803 - Living all the time within about one mile except four years then within five miles of him - And the first summer after the war worked with and labored for S r Jones half the time by the month for the season during which time and at various and diverse other times as well subsequently as prior to that, We talked together on the subject of the Revolution and its incidents and the part we had each of us respectfully taken in it - And from the many conversations we had on the subject and the relations he gave of his services in which I had the fullest confidence, I then formed an opinion that he had been much in the service indeed that opinion was strengthened and confirmed and his statements corroborated by the statements and declarations of others his Co patriots of that day then living here And the impressions of mind then formed remain with me down to the present, Unshaken & unimpaired And I firmly believe that he Jones was in the service at least as much as two or three years and I have heard it said of him that he was often selected to the command of Scouting and reconnoitering party's And I have no more doubt of his rendered services as above stated than I have of there being such a place as City Washington or such a man -

Man as Andrew Jackson - He Jones was said to be an officer and was called Lieut. Jones - My knowledge and acquaintance in this community at that day enabled me I think to know the hideous calumnies respecting his services and I never heard it controverted or denied but what he was an active, zealous, vigi- -lant whig and rendered much time and service to his country John Horton
Sworn & subscribed before me
This 15 th day of June 1838
Wathan Hawes Com. of Dues &c
I certify that I am well acquainted with the above named John Horton & full credit ought to be given to his deposition
Wathan Hawes Com

In the matter of Catharine Giles Widow of James Jones
An application for a Pension additional Mass

Strongly impressed with the belief that in the aggregate he must have served at the lowest estimate some where from two to three years and might have been more than three years - My acquaintance at his house and also in his father's family at the time enabled me to know about it I know he was often absent and much of the time gone from home both before and after he went to housekeeping when it was reported he was out under arms in defense of his country, the truth of which I never heard questioned or doubted - I was often at his father's house intimately acquainted with the family and knew its concerns nearly or quite as well as I did that of my father's in which I lived the two houses situated not far from each other and I often going from one house to the other back and forth to and from and for the last three years of the war I made it my home the most part of the time at his father's house - He was said to be an officer his grade I do not recollect but it was under that of Captain
Sworn & subscribed before me this 15 th day of June 1838
Mary Horton mark
Nathan Hawan Com. of Duds H.
I certify that I am acquainted with the above named Mary Horton & full faith & credit is and ought to be given to her deposition Nathan Hawan Com. H.

State of New York } Rensselaer County } ss. 3
On the fifteenth day of June 1838. personally appeared Merely Horton resident of the town of Stephentown in the county and State aforesaid aged twentyfour years next August who being first sworn according to Law oaths on her oaths say that she knew James Lewis of Little Hoosick Now Stephentown was acquainted with him as one in his fathers family from the commencement of the American Revolution to the time he was married and went to keeping house and always acquainted with him afterwards until his death more than thirty years since. He married Catharine Dorison during the war and went to keeping house in the neighborhood near by not long afterwards and on the same farm where he lived and died. But he was not at home much of the time. And it was said and that fully credited that he was off in the service or as some called it in the war soldiering. I was often at his house to see his little family wife and one or two children when he was out in defence of his country, he was out more or less for longer or shorter periods every or nearly every year from the first to the last of the war I did not see him there but I know he was in the service as well as I know any man was there as well as I know my Brother Christopher (who lived in the house with me) went, which he did and I have heard Christopher tell of being in the army with Lewis. Christopher is dead. I do not recollect times and dates and therefore cannot say for certainty how much time in the whole he Lewis did since but I am

State of New York Rensselaer County ss
On the 28th day of February 1842 Personally appeared before me John Folliard of the city of Troy in said county of the age of ninety eight years upwards & a pensioner of the U.S. under the act of Congress passed March 18th 1818. who being duly sworn deposes & says, That in the year 1780 he was well acquainted with James Jones (whose widow Catharine Jones is applying for a pension as this Deponent is informed & believes) now a resident of the Town of Berlin in the said County of Rensselaer. That said Jones served during the year 1780 under Col. Abner Parsons also, in Col. Malcoms Regiment at West Point. And this Deponent was then employed with him in in procuring materials & in erecting a Fort at West Point. And Deponent thinks that he also saw said James Jones in the year 1781. under the command of Abner Parsons Regiment, but cannot now distinctly recollect what officers he served under, other than as above set forth. That in 1779 he saw said James Jones in Col. Fishers Regiment or under his command, at Fort Montgomery. Also, during some part of the same year he believes he saw said James Jones in Col. William Van Rensselaer's Regiment at Albany. does not recollect his Captains name. In the year 1781. this Deponent saw said James Jones in Col. Parsons Regiment, at Johnstown. Saw him engaged on fatigue duty in putting the pickets around the field for a Fort. That this Deponent was very familiar with said James Jones, has played cards with him wrestled with him, & engaged in many other amusements with said James Jones - and knows that he did
swear as above stated.
John F Folliard mark
Sworn before me this 28th day of Feb 1842. I certify that I believe him to be a credible witness. Francis H. Meigs Judge of Renss. Co. P.L. Rensselaer Co.

Catharine Jones widow of James Jones under act of 4 th July 1836.
Aff t of John Foliard

State of New York Rensselaer County ss. I Charles Hooper Clerk of said Clerks office County do hereby certify that Francis N. Mann Esq. before whom the within deposition of John Folliard purports to have been taken was at the time of taking the same a Judge of the Rensselaer County Courts residing in said County duly Commissioned & Sworn. That I am well acquainted with the handwriting of the said Judge & truly believe his signature subscribed to the Jurat or Certificate of proof of said deposition is the proper handwriting of the said Judge.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed my official seal this 5 th day of August 1833.
Charles Hooper Clerk
Catharine Jones widow of James Jones under act of 4 th July 1836.
H. Afft. of John Folliard

Catharine Jones widow of James Jones - undead of 4. July 1836.
W Afft of Moses Bishop
663 James Jones

State of New York Rensselaer County
Moses Bishop of the town of Stephentown in said State and County aged eighty five & upwards being duly sworn saith that he is a pensioner under the act of Congress passed 18 th March 1818 - That during the war of the revolution he resided in the town of Old Canada Connecticut State and County of Litchfield that while he this deponent was engaged in his military expeditions to Canada in 1775 he became acquainted with James Jones whose widow Catharine is now an applicant for a pension, that in going to & returning from said expeditions he stopped at the house of said Jones who then resided in Stephentown aforesaid.
That said Jones in the early part of the revolutionary war served as a Sergeant with the troops then on duty in the northern department for at least four months & he thinks under Col. M c Dougall, but he cannot give the name of his Captain yet thinks it was Capt. Ligon.
Deponent recollects that he saw said James Jones on duty at several of the northern posts in the State of New York viz: at Saratoga Point.
performing fatigue duty as Ensign & having command in a company then & there engaged in throwing up breast works if he remembers right in the summer of the year 1776 - This deponent was present when said James Jones was promoted to the office of Ensign in the summer of 1776. At this time said Jones served

Six months & he thinks under Colonel Van Rensselaer & also thinks James Dennison was his Captain, but well remembers seeing said Jones serving under the said Capt. James Dennison in the spring of 1777-
This deponent in 1777 accompanied said Jones to Norfolk in Connecticut on the occasion of scorting Genl. Burgoyne to the last named place, where he was guarded by another company & both of us returned together to Albany & other places. Deponent cannot specify under what officers the said James Jones served on this occasion.
That in the years 1779 & 1780 this deponent saw said James Jones in Johnstown New York & other places along the Mohawk on duty with the troops of New York under Col. Van Rensselaer & Capt. Niles but deponent cannot give the length of his services, yet feels assured that he served at least six months in each of those years.
Subscribed & sworn to this 18th day of June 1842 before me and I certify Moses Bishop is a man of truth and veracity
his Moses B. Bishop Mark
Amos Gurney for question of the peace of the Town of Stephen County of Rensselaer and State of New York
State of New York
Rensselaer County ss. I Charles Harper Clerk of said County do hereby certify that Amos Gurney before whom the foregoing deposition purports to have been taken, was at the time of

taking said deposition a Justice of the Peace in and for the county of Rensselaer residing in said county and duly Commissioned & Sworn. And that I am well acquainted with the handwriting of the said Justice and verily believe his signature subscribed to the foregoing certificate of proof of said deposition
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand. I affixed my official seal. this 19 th September 1842
Charles Hosper Clerk

Washington August the 13 Aug 17 1870 Mrs.
Hon. J. L. Edwards Pension office War Department City of Washington

Hon. S. L. Edwards
Dear Sir
Through the Hon. H. T. Hunt M.P. I received a report from you in relation to the application of my Mother Catharine Lewis for a pension for revolutionary services of my late father James Lewis, from which I concluded the application was made for services as a common militiaman when from the information I have I incline to the opinion that most of his services were rendered either in the regular service or drafts of from three to nine months at a time and that he spent most of his time from the commencement of hostilities to the surrender of Burgoyne about Lake Champlain and Green and afterwards frequently out a militiaman I do not know how many depositions have been taken and forwarded to the department but from personal knowledge and satisfactory information the following named persons have made depositions that should have been forwarded and know not but others
  viz. Daniel Brown  x John Horton    x Peter Hull  x Isaac Hoard    x Daniel Hall  Anna Rathbun    x Clark Bly  Miner Lewis, the last two    x Mary Horton   
was obtained were obtained in June 1839 I should like to know whether they have all been forwarded and whether traditional evidence is of any use in establishing the application North Stephentown August 12 th 1840
Respectfully Yours Wm Lewis

Mar. 8. 41
NY
Asa H.
Jones.
D
L Edwards Esq
Pension Agent
Washington
FREE

J. L. Bowditch Esq
Indorsed in some additional evidence in the case of Mr Jones -
The error I apprehend in her declaration, and for which I may have been to blame, was denominating the service military, when a portion if not the greater portion was in the regular service -
Capt Jones, had the reputation I had ever since I heard his name, of being a patriot having served his Country in the Army & also to strong & satisfactory is the impression in the vicinity of his Widow - that I have been charged with not even sending his papers - and so far as the enclosed are concerned I must plead guilty - they were handed me, soon after they were made, but were mislaid, & not until a few days since when my attention were called to them did I perceive my delinquency -
It is impossible at this late day to find witnesses, who can supply all the particularity required by your form - & a rigid adherence to all their technicalities, is a substantial denial of all claims - Truly & respectfully
May March 1. 1841
Geo R. Dabney

State of New York Rensselaer County ss.
On the Twentyfirst day of June 1838 personally appeared before me Catharine Jones (Widow of James Jones late of Little Horick now Stephentown deceased) resident of Stephentown, County and State aforesaid aged Eighty years last July who being first sworn according to Law doth on her oath say that the annexed leaf containing her birth & marriage is taken from old family records book kept by her father in his life time & is in his hand writing, and has been in her possession ever since her mother's death about ten or twelve years since, & before her mother's death was in her mother's possession since the death of her father March 15th 1793
and the deponent further says that the annexed book, was an old family records kept by her husband and the late James Jones & that the same is in the hand writing of her late husband from the entry of their marriage May 28th 1778 to the birth of Clara my daughter about 6th of October 1799-
That her late husband died July 26th 1803, since which time the said book has been in her possession
Sworn to and subscribed the day & year aforesaid Geo W Bowin First Judge of Rensselaer County Court Commissioner of Sess: Court
Catharine X Jones mark

May July 19. 1838
To the Hon. J. R. Poinsett. Secretary of War
Dear Sir.
I enclosed are the additional proofs of my former claims to a pension - to require positive proof of each hour of service - the names of the officers - after such a lapse of time when most of all the Witnesses are dead. and that too from the Widow - whose means of knowing these particular facts with all the accuracy & particularity required, is impossible - seems to me like a rule, in effect. excluding most of these claims - Capt Jones having served in the army. almost every year to the close of the War. and of him at most a line and Zealous Whig - is as generally acknowledged and beloved in this County. as any historic fact. the Witnesses to which are dead - these facts were conceded, long before any idea of a pension was dreamed of - I am fully aware that the department have been imposed upon. by these rigid rules and adapted to prevent deception & fraud - but I must be permitted to say, that in this case, where there is but one sentiment as to Capt Jones services - that his Widow, should be excluded from the benefits of a pension to cheer her path to the grave - because she can not prove each hour of service - the precise place where & the names of the officers under whom she served and served, in the application of a rule the moral influence of which

may and will be doubted, by a community who have no more doubt of her claim than they have in the language of one of her Witnesses - that there is such a City as Washington - -
I should feel great mortification that Mrs Jones should be defeated, because I am perfectly satisfied of the justice of her claim from a thirty years acquaintance with the family, and from their additional evidence of Calvin Jones, servant during the revolutionary war - during all that period -
Most respectfully
Yours affec Lt
Geo R Davis

In the matter of Catharine Jones Widow of James Jones
Pension Proof of marriage

OW
Pueblo, Colo.
Dec. 9th/1904.
Commissioner of Pensions. Washington, D. C.
Dear Sir: -
Will you kindly send me the particulars to be found on your pension records of my ancestor, Peleg Spencer, who served during the Revolution and whose widow Anna (I think her name was Anna) drew a pension from Albany. Also of another ancestor, John Jones whose widow, Catherine, also drew a pension from Albany.
Very Resp
Wm. Robt Henderson Jr. 1425 Vernon Ave Pueblo. Colo.

CLINTON HIGH SCHOOL BUILDING.
PUBLIC SCHOOLS, CLINTON, IOWA.
OFFICERS OF BOARD:
A. L. STONE, PRESIDENT. A. H. PADDOCK, SECRETARY. A. LAMB, TREASURER. O. P. BOSTWICK, SUPERINTENDENT.
STANDING COMMITTEES:
Teachers, Janitors and Salaries: G. M. CURTIS, M. S. RIZER, W. J. YOUNG, JR. Buildings, Grounds and Supplies: L. C. EASTMAN, P. J. FARNSWORTH, M. S. RIZER. Text Books, Apparatus, Library and Course of Study: P. J. FARNSWORTH, L. C. EASTMAN, G. M. CURTIS. Rules, Regulations and Discipline: M. S. RIZER, W. J. YOUNG, JR., P. J. FARNSWORTH. Finance and Accounts: W. J. YOUNG, JR., G. M. CURTIS, L. C. EASTMAN.
Clinton, Iowa, Oct. 30, 1895.
Commissioner of Pensions, Washington, D. C.
Dear Sir:
Will you kindly inform me if Mrs. Catherine Denison Jones ever drew a pension as the widow of James Jones - a Revolutionary soldier. Her husband died in 1803. She lived until 1851 and I am informed drew a pension for many years. I should like a certified copy of the records, if any are found. Mrs. Jones lived in New York and I think her husband enlisted from that state.
Yours very truly,
O. P. Bostwick

Grand Rapids, Michigan. Sept 22, 1937.
Mr. A. D. Hiller, Executive Assistant to the Administrator.
BA-8/122 James Jones W. 28468.
Dear Sir: I received your letter of the 23 inst. and wish to express my appreciation for the information you sent me regarding James Jones. Your report was so complete, but unfortunately, not my ancestor, James Jones. I could have wept when I realized that I could not claim him.
My ancestor, James Jones, lived in Mohawk, Montgomery County, N. Y.
The only record I have of his service in the Revolutionary War is that he served as a corporal in the 1st New York Regiment, commanded by Col. Goose Van Schaick.
I hope you will send me as complete a history of his record as you did the other James Jones.
Words seem inadequate to thank you for your kind service. Respectfully, (Mrs. W. H.) Mary E. Quigley.

Grand Rapids, Michigan, Sept 5, 1937.
Mr. C. D. Hiller, Executive Assistant to the Administrator.
only N. K. James J
Dear Sir: Will you kindly send me the pension record of James Jones who served in the Revolutionary War?
The only authentic record that we have of his service is the one which  forpen preserved under Col. Grose Van Schaick, First New York Regiment. James Jones lived in the Mohawk Valley, Montgomery Co.
Assuring you of my deep appreciation for your trouble in this matter,
Yrs. W. H. Quigley. Grand Rapids Michigan. 52 Burton St. N.W.
truly, Quigley.
1937 Veterans Adm.

Grand Rapids, Michigan, Sept 5, 1937.
Mr. C. D. Hiller, Executive Assistant to the Administrator.
only M. James J Dear Sir: Will you kindly send me the pension record of James Jones who served in the Revolutionary War?
The only authentic record that we have of his service is the one that  forpen he served under Col. Grose Van Schaick, First New York Regiment.
James Jones lived in the Mohawk Valley, Montgomery Co.
Assuring you of my deep appreciation for your trouble in this matter.
I am,
Yours very truly,
! Mrs. W. H. Mary C. Quigley.

October 4, 1937.
Mrs. W. H. Quigley Grand Rapids Michigan.
BA-J/ILL
James Jones W. 21468
Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letter in which you state that the James Jones of New York, whose record was furnished you from Revolutionary War claim for pension, W. 21468, is not that of your ancestor, and state further that the James Jones, whose record you desire, served as corporal, 1 st New York Regiment, commanded by Colonel Goose Van Schaick, and lived in Mohawk, Montgomery County, New York.
A further search of the Revolutionary War records has been made and there is no claim for pension or bounty land on file based upon service of the James Jones cited above. It is regretted that this office is unable to aid you in your research.
Very truly yours,
A. D. HILLER, Executive Assistant to the Administrator.

W.21468:Rev.War.
Dec. 27, 1904.
Madam:
In response to your recent letter, you are herewith furnished the military history of James Jones as it appears from the papers on file in the claim of his widow, Catharine Jones, who applied for pension February 23, 1837, at which time she was a resident of Berlin, Rensselaer County, N.Y.
She stated that the soldier served every year of the Revolutionary war in the militia; in 1775, 1776, and 1777 he was an Orderly Sergeant, and went to St. Johns, Ticonderoga, Crown Point, Fort Edward, Lake George, and Champlain; was in the battle of Bennington.
He was commissioned March 30, 1777, Ensign, in Capt. James Denison's 4th company, 4th regiment of Albany County militia.
April 1, 1778, Ensign, Capt. James Denison's company, Col. Killian Van Rensselaer's regiment.
March 4, 1780, 2d Lieutenant, Capt. Stephen Niles' company, Col. Killian Van Rensselaer's regiment of militia.
He served on the Mohawk river during the incursions and depredations of the Indians and Tories.
Soldier married May 28, 1778, at Little Hoosick (now Stephenson), N. Y., Catharine, born July 24, 1757, daughter of Daniel and Catharine (Avery) Denison.

He died at Stephenson, July 26, 1803, and she was pensioned as his widow.
Family data on file:
Henry Jones and Eunice Miner (soldier's parents) were married in Stonington January 19, 1749;
James Jones (soldier) born July 22, 1754;
Children: James, born March 28, 1779; Catharine, born December 31, 1780; Eunice, born September 14, 1782; Daniel, born November 3, 1784; Jerusha, born April 25, 1787; William, born August 26, 1789; Rachel, born January 10, 1792; Avery, born September 1, 1794, died March 1, 1811; Elias, born February 6, 1797; Clara, born October 6, 1799.
Very respectfully,
Acting Commissioner.
Mrs. Robert Henderson, Jr.,
1425 Vernon Avenue,
Pueblo, Colo.