Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S 32923, for Thomas Jones, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER
Continental Mass.
Jones Thomas
832923
CONTENTS
res. at mt. Brookfield Mass m. 1878 aged 63 yrs & res New Marlborough, Berkshire Co. Mass. wife Lydia m. 1829

17228 Massachusetts
Thomas Jones
of Berkshire Co in the State of Massachusetts who was a private in the company commanded by Captain Danforth of the regiment commanded by Colonel Shepard in the Massachusetts line, for the term of one year from January 1776 to January 1777.
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of Eight Dollars per month, to commence on the 27 day of April 1818 and
Certificate of Pension issued the 27 of May 1820 and sent to J. Woodbridge Esq. Stockbridge Mass.
Continued on the Roll on 26 day of March 1830 1830 and notification sent to Charles Sedgwick Esq. Lenox Massachusetts Pension commencing on the 8th of March 1830.
Amount due on 4th of Sept 1830. } $ 47.15
{ Revolutionary Claim, Acts March 18, 1818, } { May 1, 1820. }
Sept 1820 file
see letter to T. Jones 7 Dec. 1830. do 16 May 1831

The Deed of Gift states that he same in Capt. [illegible] Josiah Henson in Capt. [illegible] Col. Shepard must have commanded the Regiment that of course was Shepard's The the [illegible] of [illegible] [illegible] was [illegible] in his [illegible]
Thomas Jones - m Mass line Col. Shepard Regt Sept 1775 Sept 1776
Shepherd's Mass. regt.
X motion rolls Admitted
I [illegible] with an [illegible] do hereby return the application with the additional evi- dence of the [illegible] of the applicant and [illegible] the [illegible] deposition of Josiah Henson & Peter [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] and I do also certify that from [illegible] [illegible] I am satisfied that the said applicant is an [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] of [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] did 3-1819 [illegible]

District of Massachusetts.
BERKSHIRE COUNTY, ss.
ON this 27th day of April in the year of our Lord 1818 before the subscriber Edward D. Russell Clerk of said Court personally appeared Thomas Jones aged 83 years, resident in the Town of New Marlborough in the County of Berkshire aforesaid, in the said District—who being by me first duly sworn according to law, doth, on his oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the provisions made by the late act of Congress, entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war:" That he the said Thomas Jones enlisted in September 1775  Brookfield in the State of Massachusetts in the company commanded by Captain Peter Hemenway of the Massachusetts Line for one year. That he continued to serve in the said corps, in the service of the United States, until the the month of September 1776 and then engaged as a Volunteer opened Oct. 1777 when he was discharged from service in Monmouth State of New Jersey That he was in the battles of New York White Plains Brandywine so called; —and that he is in reduced circumstances, and stands in need of the assistance of his Country for support;
And that he has no other evidence now in his power of his said services. Sworn to and declared before me the day and year aforesaid.
John Hooker
Thomas Jones X
I John Hooker Clerk before me do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Thomas Jones did serve in the revolutionary war, as stated in the preceding declaration, against the common enemy, and I now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me, to the Secretary for the Department of War, pursuant to the directions of the aforementioned act of Congress.
John Hooker
I JOSEPH WOODBRIDGE, Clerk of the  Court for Berkshire do certify and attest, that the abovenamed John Hooker is the Clerk before me and that the foregoing is his signature.
IN testimony whereof, I have hereto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said Court, the day and year first above written.
J. Woodbridge

Declaration
No 1
In order to be restored to the Pension List under the act of first of March 1820 Plymouth County ss. On this thirteenth day of May 1829 personally appeared in open Court being the Supreme Judicial Court for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts began & held at Plymouth in and for the County of Plymouth aforesaid on the second Tuesday of May 1829. & a Court of Record. Thomas Jones resident in West Stockbridge in said County aged seventy four, who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provisions made by the Acts of Congress of the 18 th of March 1818 & the first of May 1820. That he the said Thomas Jones enlisted for the term of nine months on or about April in the year 1775 in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the Company commanded by Captain Hancock in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Jones in the line of the Commonwealth aforesaid on the Continental establishment that he continued to serve in the said Corps until the expiration of said nine months the term of his said Enlistment and immediately thereafter again enlisted for one year on or about the month of January in the year 1776 in the State of Massachusetts in the Company commanded by Capt. Danford or Danforth in the Regiment commanded by Col. Shepard in the line of the State of Massachusetts on the Continental establishment that he continued to serve in said Corps until the expiration of one year the term of the last enlistment aforesaid when he was discharged from the service (he believes) in Morristown in the State of New Jersey, that his name has been placed on the Pension list & dropped therefrom on account of his poverty. And in pursuance of the act of May 1 st 1820 I do solemnly swear that
Forwards to War Office Feb. May 1829.

I was a resident Citizen of the United States on the 18 th of March 1818 & that I have not since that time by gift sale or in any manner disposed of any property or any part thereof with intent thereby to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress entitled "an act to provide for Certain persons engaged in the land & naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War" passed on the 18 th day of March 1818. & 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 in common other than what is contained in schedule hereto annexed & by him subscribed. That since the exhibition of my first schedule or my first application or Declaration for a pension the following changes have been made in my property. The one equal undivided half of a small Lot of land containing about fourteen acres I sold to Chester Wentworth in the fall of the year 1823 for the sum of One hundred and eighty three Dollars the small amount of personal property I have disposed of & shifted to accommodate my necessities from time to time & the avails both of the same & of the said Real estate has been applied towards my support & the proceeds and what remains is contained in the annexed
Schedule - That my family consists of myself & my wife Lydia Jones whose age is Seventy three years that my occupation is that of a husbandman or Farmer that my health is feeble & am no longer able to support myself by my labor being able to do but little more than the necessary chores of a Family. That my wife usually enjoys no better health than myself she commonly is able to do the necessary cooking for us two & but little else. One Horse was all except the personal property except my household Furniture & Clothes I possessed at the time of making my first application for a pension which I sold about three

years thereafter for twenty five Dollars in money & five Dollars worth of Grain & the Cutter mentioned in the annexed Schedule. That I have no other evidence now in my power of my said services except the evidence annexed to & accompanying my first application.  Sign Thomas Jones.
Peekskill P. Supreme Judiciale Court May 13. A.D. 1828. Sworn to & declared before the S. Court Sign. Chas Sedgwick Clk
An Inventory of all the Real & Personal estate of Thomas Jones of West Stockbridge in the County of Rensselaer except his necessary Clothing & bedding - do.
  One single one horse Waggon $ 18.00   One Cutter or single Sleigh 5.00   One half of a pair of horses 100.00   Debts due over & above what he stands indebted $ 140.00 —   140.00   Also the following house-hold furniture viz   1 Box $ 75. 3 Iron Kettle $ 4.50. 5.25   2 Brass Kettles 3. D. 1 wash Tub 1.50 4.50   12 Chairs 2. D. 1 Table 50 1 Looking Glass 1. D. 3.50   Crockeryware 1.50 2 Set knives & forks 1. D. 2.50   2 Tea pots 75 c 2 tin Pans 12 c Old Chest Drawers 25 c 1.12   2 Chests 1. D. 2 Trunks 1. 25. 2.25   1 Chimney & 3 pails 70 c 70.   $ 282.82 
Amounting in all to two hundred & eighty two Dollars & eighty two cents.  Sign Thomas Jones.

Berkshire Co. Sup. Jud. Court May 15. 1829.
Property of the applicant valued at $282.82. Sign: Isaac Parker Chief Justice Sup Jud Court.
Berkshire Co. Supreme Judicial Court May Term 1829. I Charles Sedgwick Clerk of the Supreme Judicial Court within & for the County of Berkshire do certify that the foregoing with the schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the records of said Court & 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 Two hundred eighty two Dollars eighty two cents
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of said Court this thirteenth day of June A D 1829
Chas Sedgwick Clerk
Berkshire Mass Thos Jones Applicant for a Pension May 1829.

August 19, 1933
Olive Taylor R.D.#1 Warren Pennsylvania
BA-J/MCS One Thomas Jones S. 32923
Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letter requesting the Revolutionary War record of Thomas Jones.
The data furnished herein were obtained from papers on file in the pension claim, S. 32923, based upon the military service of Thomas Jones.
He enlisted in April, 1775, while living in Brookfield, Massachusetts, and served nine months as private in Captain Peter Barwood's Company in Colonel Learned's Massachusetts Regiment. Immediately after this service he enlisted and served one year as private in Captain Asa Danforth's Company in Colonel Shepard's Massachusetts Regiment and was in the battles of New York, White Plains, Trenton and Princeton.
He was allowed pension on his application executed April 27, 1818, at which time he was sixty-three years of age and was living in New Marlborough, Berkshire County, Massachusetts.
In 1823 he was living in West Stockbridge, Berkshire County, Massachusetts.
In 1829 he referred to his wife, Lydia, as being seventy-three years of age. She was the daughter of Reuben Rockwood.
They had a son, William, who was living in West Stockbridge, Massachusetts, in 1829.
Very truly yours,
A. D. HILLER Assistant to Administrator

PD Lo
32923 Reorg INVALID.
L. Easall Colo. Mch.
File No. 32,923
Thomas Jones
Rev. Rev. Rev.
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 206
[Arrangement of 1870.]
1892 Dec 3 Hist to J.H. Easall Colorado Springs Co.
Aug. 1/93 Hist to Mrs. H. 811 Cascade Ave., Colorado Spr.
Dec. 19-1900-R.15 Hon. Geo. P. Lawrence - m.c.
1929 Sept. 21. Hist to Mrs. Cornelius T. Posson M.C.A.
1932 Aug. 19. Hist. to Oliver Taylor M.C.A.

17220 P  Massachusetts
Thomas Jones
of New Marlboro' in the state of Massachusetts who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Sheppard of the Massachusetts line, for the term of 1 year
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 27 of April 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 27 th of May 20 and sent to Son: Woodbridge Esqr Stockbridge, Berkshire Co. Mass
Arrears to 4th of March 1820: 22 mos 30 3/31 178.09 Semi-ann. all'ce ending 4 Sep: 1820. 48
$ 226 09
{ Revolutionary claim, { Act 18th March, 1818. }
See letter of 19 June 1829 to Chas. L. D. G. Esqr Sept. 5: 1829.
6.19  1.06 7.15  40. 47.15
Death not on agency work

I Josiah Henshaw of Brattlefield and Peterboro New Hampshire Respectfully state in the County of Worcester and to all men beath of Massachusetts of lawful age, do hereby certify that all parsons the money of the Massachusetts on which some time the lottery drawn A.D. 1775 on four lots of money. A.D. 1776 in Capt. Abner Davenport's company - That Thomas Jones at that time of said Davenport's had now living in New Manchester in the County of Rockingham and commonwealth of said, enlisted with me and marched to New York - That said Thomas Jones con- tinued with us said company till the eighteenth of the month of October following - at which time I was wounded, but was credibly informed that he marched with said company into the Jerseys and remained with the Army till his year was up and have been repeatedly informed that he returned from the Army with others after his discharge I have no doubt from my acquaintance with said Jones and living in the same town with him that had that he recd an honorable discharge, else I should have known it & I never heard any thing to the contrary - Josiah Henshaw
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Worcester ss. February 6th. 1789 Then the above named Josiah Henshaw personally made oath to me above declaration by him subscribed and that the same is true I hereby certify said Henshaw is entitled to credit -
Daniel Spillberg Justice of the Peace

I have by the [illegible] that has [illegible] been granted by [illegible] to [illegible] among others. D. Thompson [illegible] New Market May 3 1819

Peter Hill Peter Hill of Brookfield in the County of Franklin and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, of lawful age, do testify and say that I enlisted into the Revolutionary Army in Dec. 1775 or Jany 1776 in Col. Asa Dinsmore's Company that Thomas Jones then of Brookfield but now of St. Andrews joined said Company and continued with the same to the end of the year. At which time the Company was the Company was discharged and said Jones among the rest.
Peter Hill
Cambridge Mass. Febry 6 th 1849. Then the above named Peter Hill personally made oath to the above declaration by him subscribed and that the same is true and I hereby certify said Hill is entitled to credit.
Daniel Gillely Jr. of the same

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
WORCESTER, ss.
I, ABIJAH BIGELOW, Clerk of the Judicial Courts holden within and for said County of Worcester , certify, that Daniel Gilbert , Esquire , before whom the annexed affidavits have been made, is a Justice of the Peace within and for said County, duly qualified for the purpose, acting under the authority of this Commonwealth, and that his name subscribed thereto is his own proper signature.
IN testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the County seal, this seventh day of February , A. D. 1819.
Abijah Bigelow, Clk.
Application of Thomas Jones.

West Stockbridge Mass Sept 3 -
Free
Sept 12th
Hon. S. D. Ingham Secy of the Treasury
Washington
Union Office Dec. 30
Revolutionary Claims
Dr,
Respectfully refer to the Hon Secretary of War for Sept 3 Dec 1860

Revolutionary Claims
For the purpose of obtaining the amount of pay accruing to me since my application to be placed continued on the Pension list Roll to the second day of September 1830 agree to the act of the 1 st of March 1823 I Thomas Jones of West Stockbridge in the County of Berkshire & State of Massachusetts do hereby declare that I was a private of Infantry of the Army of the Revolution in the Continental Line (as was more fully set forth on my application for the benefit of said act) and that I have been found entitled by the Secretary of War under that act to the pay of a private in the said line who has directed my name to be continued on the Pension Roll as by the notice to me from J. L. Edwards of the 26 th of March 1830 appears
Witness My hand this third Day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & thirty —
Thomas Jones
N. B. The most convenient Branch Bank of U.S. is New York The Most convenient Post Office is West Stockbridge Berkshire Co. Mass.
Before me Robbing Kellogg Esquire a Justice of the peace for the County of Berkshire & State of Massachusetts personally appeared this day Daniel Spencer Junr. & Lyman Hinman of the said County who did severally make oath that Thomas Jones by whom the foregoing declaration was made & subscribed is all known to them to be the person therein described and that his generally reputed to have been a soldier & private of Infantry in the army of the Revolution in manner as therein stated and that the said Declaration was made & subscribed by the said Thomas Jones in their presence on the day of the date thereof — Witness My hand this third day of September in the year one thousand eight hundred & thirty —
Robbing Kellogg Justice of the peace
P.S. R. Kellogg was the Justice before whom the evidence was taken in support of Thomas Jones application, to which is affixed the certificate of Charles Sedgwick Esquire Clerk of the County of Berkshire, proving said Kellogg to be a Justice &c.

Hon d S. D. Ingham
It is now a considerable time since Tho s Jones made his application to be continued on the Pension Roll & to obtain the necessary evidence has been at much expense, & should it be consistent that he should draw pay from the time of making his application instead of the eighth of March last it would be some remuneration for the expense he has been at & the privations & hardships he sustained while in the service of his country, his health is such that he cannot probably long enjoy this bounty —
He has not yet rec d any pay certificate & not knowing the form now in use to draw his pay has adopted the annexed form &
for & in behalf of Tho s Jones R. Pellegg

Pension Office 8th March, 1830.

1823 William Jones of West Sturminster in the County of Durham being duly sworn do depone & say that I was well acquainted with the situation, property & circumstances of my Father Thomas Jones in the year eighteen hundred & eighteen who then resided in New Martonough in said County & who now resides in West Sturminster aforesaid - That in the year 1819 said Thomas Jones owned one share in the real estate of Robert Rockwood formerly of New Martonough deceased died seized & possessed & Lydia Jones the Wife of said Thomas Jones inherited one other share in the estate of said Rockwood who was her Father, that then two shares lay adjoining to each other & both constituted about thirteen acres, that on the twentieth day of February A.D. 1826 the said Thomas & Lydia joined in the conveyance of said two shares, by their deed to Charles Winterboth, which I subscribed as a Witness, that said Thomas share was computed at one hundred & eighty three Dollars & said Lydia's share at one hundred & fifty Dollars - that said Lydia insisted on having the sole control & management of the avails of her said share & therefore took said Winterboth's Note for one hundred & fifty Dollars payable to herself, which Note said Lydia about one year thereafter handing to me for the purpose of receiving payment of said Winterboth which he paid to me & which I paid to said Lydia who has had the sole control or management of the same & no part of the same has ever come to the hands of said Thomas to my knowledge or belief, that in the year eighteen hundred & eighteen said Thomas Jones proposed said share or lot of land & some horses & his household furni- ture & clothing & nothing more to my knowledge & belief that said share he sold for twenty five Dollars in Money & five Dollars worth of grain & a cutter or sleigh, which cutter he now has, that when said Thomas was hunted for pland on the Garrison list, he received his Garrison two Dollars money with it & with the aforesaid twenty five Dollars enabled to discharge some one debts against him & purchase a colt four months old for which he paid fifteen Dollars about nine years ago, which colt with my assistance

he kept until it was then old years & then disposed of it & the avails was applied towards obtaining the half of the grain of horses he now owns, that the growth & keeping of said colt & pair of Horses constitute at this time their principal value or price instead of the first cost, as I have understood & verily believe that only the sum of thirty Dollars was paid by said Thomas Jones towards them, a great proportion of said keeping was furnished by Myself without making any charge therefor, about seven or eight years ago said Thomas Jones purchased a one horse Wagon, which he now owns, that with his Pension Money & the avails of his Lot of Land aforesaid & his own industry, & the little favors & assistance I have been enabled to render him from time to time he has retained & now possesses said colt & Wagon & one half of said pair of Horses & Debts to the amount of about one hundred & thirty or forty Dollars as I have understood & verily believe beside his household furniture & clothing which are of small value - that the above mentioned property is all said Thomas Jones possessed in the year eighteen hundred & eighteen & since that period to my knowledge & recollection, that I have no other interest in said Thomas Jones application to be reinstated on the Pension list or in this subject than the natural feelings of a son towards a parent & natural obligation I am under to supply their necessities in time of need - The health & strength of my Father & Mother for some time past has been declining & they are able to do but little more than their own chores & cooking & housework of their family
No 3
William Jones
Berkshire p. August 29 th 1829 Then the above named William Jones personally appeared & made solemn oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavit by him subscribed before me Robbins Kellogg Justice of the Peace

Thomas Jones Exemplified copy of Deed
WCH

Know all Men by these presents that We Thomas Jones of New Marlborough in the County of Franklin & Commonwealth of Massachusetts Esq. yeoman & Lydia Wife of said Thomas Jones in consideration of the sum of three hundred & thirty three Dollars paid by Chester Wentworth of Springfield in S d County. Receipt makes the rent whereof we do hereby acknowledge do hereby give grant sell & convey unto the said Chester Wentworth a certain tract of land situate in Springfield containing twelve acres & sixty eight Rods be the same more or less bounded as follows beginning at the north side of the highway on the east line of Brattle Chapfuls land thence North fifty seven degrees & thirty Minutes east on the line of said Chapfuls land eighty five Rods to a stake & stone thence west thirty five degrees & thirty Minutes north twenty three Rods to a stake & stone thence South fifty seven degrees & thirty Minutes west seventy Rods to a stake & stone thence Westerly two Rods & five Links to a stake & stone thence South fifty seven degrees & thirty Minutes west thirteen Rods to the highway thence Easterly  Easterly on the highway to the first mentioned bound - So have & to hold the above granted premises to the said Chester & his heirs & assigns, to his and their use & behoof forever And we do covenant with the said Chester his heirs & assigns that we are lawfully seized in fee of the above granted premises that they are free of all encumbrances that we have good right to sell & convey the same to the said Chester and we will warrant & defend the same premises to the said Chester his heirs & assigns forever against the lawful claims & demands of all persons In witness whereof we the said Thomas & Lydia have hereunto set our hands & seals the fourteenth day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & twenty six
Signed sealed & delivered in presence of
William Jones Silas Parsons
Thomas Jones { L S } Lydia Jones { L S } wife

Berkshire Co. Feb 20. 1826 Personally appeared Thomas Jones & Lydia Jones & acknowledged the within instru- ment to be their free act & deed before me
Silas Ressee Justice of the Peace
Registered Co. Linton May 14 th 1826 Received & recorded in the original in Book No 72 Page 349 and examined by Jo Tucker Reg r
The within & foregoing is a true copy from the Record
W m Jos. Matthew Reg r

1825 I Thomas Jones of West Stockbridge in the County of Berkshire being duly sworn do depose & say that my Wife Lydia Jones inherited one share in the estate of Abner Rockwood her Father that I purchased one other share in said Estate which lay adjoining thereto, both of which contained about thirteen or fourteen acres & is the same lot of Land alluded to in my application to be recorded on the Pension Roll, which is there called "one equal undivided share", which was a clerical error in the person who drafted it, that on the twentieth day of February 1826 I joined my Wife in making a conveyance to the of said two shares to Chester Wentworth for the consideration of three hundred & thirty three Dollars, I do not now recollect why we joined in the conveyance unless it was to save the expense of two Deeds, at any rate it was stipulated & agreed that I would have one hundred & eighty three Dollars for my share & my Wife one hundred & fifty Dollars, I received one hundred & eighty three Dollars & no more. My Wife objected to executing a conveyance of her share unless she could have the disposal arrearly thereof, she accordingly received said one hundred & fifty Dollars & no part of it ever came to my hands or possession or disposal - the horse that I proposed in 1812 I sold for twenty five Dollars in Money & five Dollars worth of grain & the cattle mentioned in the schedule annexed to my application, this sum with the what pension money I received, I appropriated in payment of some small debts against me, & for the support of my family, & for the purchase of one colt for which I paid fifteen Dollars at four months old & the Wagon also mentioned in said schedule - said colt I sold at three years old & the arrearly was appropriated towards the keep of the pair of Horses also mentioned in said schedule the growth & keeping of said colt & pair of Horses constitutes at this time the principal amount or value put upon them in said inventory that thirty - Dollars was all the Money I had for them, the keeping was principally furnished by my

that with the avails of said lot of land & P. pension money together with my own earnings, & the favors & expenditures I have from time to time received from my friends, I have been enabled retain the amount of property mentioned in said schedule that the above mentioned property is all that I possessed in the year eighteen hundred & eighteen & since that time, and the above is also all the changes that have been made in my property during said period to my knowledge, the debt I have discharged or credit an of considerable amount & I am not now able to enumerate them - My household furniture has decayed by use & when articles have been worn out others have been substituted in their place.
With these means & while myself & wife enjoyed our usual health & strength we were able to support ourselves & therefore do not consider that I am within the rules established in the Pension office under the act of Congress of 1 st May 1820 which is the reason I have not sooner applied for the continuance of my Pension. The health & strength of myself & wife no longer enables us to do it, which has been declining for some time past & I am generally able to do but little more than the nursery chores of my family and my wife is able to do but little else than the nursery cooking & house work for us two and should my son William withhold his accustomed assistance, in furnishing house rent firewood & other necessities which he has been accustomed to furnish & has made no charge therefor what reserves I have would soon be exhausted & spent.
Thomas Jones
Berkshire ss. August 29 th 1829 then the above named Thomas Jones personally appeared & made solemn oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavit by him subscribed. Before me Robbins Kellogg Justice of the peace

No 6
I Chester Wentworth of Spencer  Spencer in the County of Berkshire being duly sworn do depose & say that in the year eighteen hundred & thirty six I purchased of Thomas Jones & Lydia Jones his Wife who then resided in the  the  town of  the town of  North  North  Stockbridge  Stockbridge in said County about thirty acres of land lying in said Spencer  Spencer and recd a Deed thereof signed by them a copy of which is hereto annexed, that said land was owned by them in distinct & separate parcels, & adjoining each other & was two shares set off in the division of the estate of Mr. Rockwood the father of said Lydia Jones, one to said Lydia, the other share the said Thomas Jones purchased of one of the other heirs of said Rockwood as I have understood & truly believe - that in my obtaining for the purchase of said two shares said Lydia Jones absolutely required to execute a Deed of her share unless unless she could have the avails thereof for her own private use & disposal which said Thomas Jones for some time objected to, but finally yielded & on receiving said Deed I made my note payable due to her & delivered the same to her for one hundred & fifty Dollars, which was the sum stipulated & agreed to be paid for her share, about one year after said note was presented for payment by then John William Jones, to whom I paid it, the remaining part of the purchase money one hundred & eighty three Dollars, the sum stipulated to be paid to said Thomas Jones for his share was paid to him - that said Thomas Jones was reputed to be a man of small property on her & his furniture & clothing was all the property I knew him to possess or own at the date of said Deed - why said two shares were both included in in one Deed I do not know unless it was to save the expense of two Deeds -
Deed for purchase
Chester Wentworth
No 6
Berkshire ss. August 25 th 1829 Then the above named Chester Wentworth personally appeared & made solemn oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavit by him subscribed before me -
Robbins Kellogg Justice of the peace

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Berkshire ss.
I Charles Sedgwick Clerk of the Supreme Judicial Court of said Commonwealth within & for the County of Berkshire do certify, that Robbin's Folsom Esq. before whom the within depositions were taken was at the time a magistrate duly empowered to administer oaths that the hand writing & signatures within purporting to be his are genuine & I further certify that Joseph Fleeke Esq. is a Register of Deeds within said County that the signature purporting to be his is genuine. —
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the Seal of said Court this 31 st day of August A D 1829.
Chas Sedgwick Clerk

No 8
Jesse Langdon of Tyringham in the County of Berkshire being duly sworn deposes & says that about the year 1819 Thomas Jones purchased of Eben Rockwood of Styffsburg in the State of Vermont his right in the farm of the Widow Rockwood which adjoined the two farms in Pemberton Rockwood estate belonging to S d Thomas Jones & Lydia his Wife & which they conveyed to Charles Wentworth that said Thomas Jones about the year eighteen hundred & twenty said Thomas Jones paid this Deponent for said Right, he verily believing the sum of twenty Dollars, but cannot be positive as to the precise sum  Jesse Langdon Berkshire ss. February 16 th 1830 the above named Jesse Langdon personally appeared & made oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavit by him subscribed before me  Robbins Kellogg Justice of the peace
No 9
John Bull of Great Barrington in the County of Berkshire being duly sworn deposes & says that about the year eighteen hundred & twenty three he purchased of Thomas Jones then of Tyringham in said County & residing in West Stockbridge, a three years Old Horn or Cattle and paid him therefor the sum of fifty Dollars - which was the same he the said Jones purchased of Jonas than Townsend, who now resides in the western part of the State of New York, which was about four months Old when he purchased it
John Bull Berkshire ss. February 16 th 1830 then the above named John Bull personally appeared & made oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavit by him subscribed before me  Robbins Kellogg Justice of the peace

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Ex 10
Chester Wentworth in addition to his affidavits made the 26 th of August last further testifying & says that the sum of one hundred & eighty three Dollars as therein stated to have been paid to Thomas Jones was paid in my notes one for one hundred Dollars which he paid & took up the sum of seventy Dollars he paid on said note to Thomas Jones about the month of October A.D. 1926 & said Jones then informed this Deponent that he was to let the same to Edward Stevens - the remaining sum of eighty three Dollars was paid in this Deponents note payable to said Thomas Jones on the 1 st of May 1929 that on the 26 th of June 1929 he paid & endorsed on said last mentioned note the sum of eight Dollars. The remainder of said note is unpaid & due to said Thomas Jones
Chester Wentworth
Berkshire ss Feb 7 16 th 1930 the above named Chester Wentworth personally appeared & made oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavit by him subscribed before me
Robbins Kellogg Justice of the peace

No 11 Edward Stevens of New Marlborough in the county of Berkshire Esq r being duly sworn depon- & says that on the seventeenth Day of October A D 1826 Thomas Jones then resident in said Town, loaned this Deponent the sum of seventy Dollars for which sum this Deponent gave his his note - that on the 26 of June last past this Deponent took up said note & gave him a New note for the sum of sixty Dollars payable on demand with interest & paid him the difference, which loan I understood was the avails of his little farm which he sold to Chester Wentworth which last mentioned note is wholly unpaid & due to said Jones.
Edw. Stevens
Berkshire ss. February 16 th 1830 The above named Edward Stevens personally appeared & made Oath to the truth of the foregoing Affidavit by him subscribed before me
Robbins Kellogg Justice of the Peace

No 12 Roswell Bently of New Marlborough in the County of Berkshire being duly sworn depones & says that about the year eighteen hundred & twenty he sold to Thomas Jones who then resided in West Sturtebridge town (& now in West Sturtebridge) a one horse Wagon which said Jones usually used at the time he moved from New Marlborough to West Sturtebridge, that said Jones paid this Deponent therefor the sum of forty five Dollars which Money he then understood and verily believed he drew on account of his Pension Roswell Bently
Berkshire p. July 16 th 1830 The above named Roswell Bently personally appeared & made solemn Oath to the truth of the above affidavit by him subscribed before me
Robbins Kellogg Justice of the peace

Summary of Schedule of Tho s Jones Property in 1818 & disposition thereof
One Horn, Sold (in affidavit N o 3 Letter C) for $25, bark $5, worth of grain (which was consumed in the family) & the butter which is contained on the Inventory
One Share in R. Rockwood estate & one share in Widow Rockwood's share N o 3. Letter A } Sold C. Wentworth 20 Feb 1826 (in N o 36 & 10) for $183.00 $75 of which paid 26 June 1829 (in N o 10 Letter E) & applied toward my support $40 collected Oct r 1826 (N o 10 Letter D) & immediately loaned E. Strong (in N o 11 Letter D) $30 collected & applied for support & also $10 the 26 June 1829 (N o 11 Letter E) There is now due from sd Strong $60 (N o 11 Letter F) & from said Wentworth $75 (N o 10 Letter E) amounting to $135 beside interest which is the sum named on my inventory as owing to me
9 30 10 60 25 173 Doll s
$20 I have paid to J. Langdon (N o 3 Letter B) 40 " " to Ronald Nutt (N o 12) for the Wagon named on Inventory 15. " " to John Forster for Collar - sold mule in 1822 (N o 9 Letter D) for $50 - thirty Dollars of which I paid for the half of the pair of Horses named on the Inventory (N o 3 Letter D)

U. OLD WAR & V. AUG 15 1895 THE LADY
OFFICE OF THE ADJUTANT GENERAL U.S. ARMY AUG 13 1895

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811 NORTH CASCADE AVENUE, COLORADO SPRINGS,
Colo
Augt 9, 1895
Commissioner of Pensions Washington D.C.
Sir:
For the purpose of completing family history I have the honor to request an abstract of the application for pension for Rev. Serina made by Thomas Jones of western Massachusetts under the Act of 1878 or subsequent acts.
For his identification I would state that following facts are known:

He was born in 1756 and died in 1841; was a Minute Man from Brookfield Mass. in "Lexington Alarm" and afterwards served in Mass Militia & from 1775 to 1777 was in Continental Army.
I am Yours respectfully Mrs. Mary Edvall
Mary P. P. Jacobus Edvall of Sussex Co. N.J. was a Rev. pensioner (as our family tradition has it) I would like to receive an abstract of his pension application, for same purpose.

Pension Bureau Washington, D.C. Gentlemen:
Will you please send me the pension papers of Thomas 29 Jones , a soldier of the Revolutionary War. There are several Thomas Jones, but the one in whom I am interested was married to Lydia Rockwood.
Respectfully Olive Taylor
Aug 27

CORNELIUS F. POSSON 505 EAST DRIVE, WOODRUFF PLACE INDIANAPOLIS
July 3rd, 1929
Commissioner of Pensions Washington, D. C.
Dear sir, -
The Pension List of 1835, published in the U. S. Senate Documents, shows
Thomas Jones
as a Revolutionary War soldier - Massachusetts Line from Berkshire County , Mass.
Will you be good enough to advise me what the records of your office show regarding this soldier, Thomas Jones .
Very truly
Cornelius F. Posson

Aug 26 1891
Thos Jones Maf

Colorado Springs, Colo., August 26, 1891
COMMISSIONER OF PENSIONS,
Washington, D. C.
SIR:
For the purpose of family history, I have the honor to request copies of the pension papers on file in your office in the case of Revolutionary pensioner THOMAS JONES. He was born in 1756, and, it appears by Mass. records, went as Minute Man from Brookfield, Mass., April 19, 1775, under Capt. Barnes, Col. Walker; enlisted April 27, 1775, under Capt. Harwood, Col. Larned, and served about three months; was in battle Bunker Hill &c.
By family tradition , he joined the line (probably Mass.) and served some years later, being in battles White Plains, Trenton, Monmouth, &c.; was an early applicant under the pension laws; then resided (probably) in Berkshire County, Mass., and died in 1841.
The writer is his great grandson, and will remit any charges for copies requested on being advised of amount thereof.
I have the honor to be
Yours respectfully,
Thos. H. Edsall

Rev. and 1812 Wars Section
MCG/HMM
September 27, 1929.
Mr. Cornelius F. Posson 505 East Drive, Woodruff Place Indianapolis Indiana.
Dear Sir:
I advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S. 32925, it appears that Thomas Jones while a resident of Brookfield, Massachusetts, enlisted in April 1775 and served nine months as a private in Captain Peter Harwood's Company in Colonel Learned's Massachusetts Regiment. Immediately after this service he enlisted and served one year as a private in Captain Asa Danforth's Company in Colonel Shepard's Massachusetts Regiment. He was in the battles of New York, White Plains, Trenton and Princeton.
He was allowed pension on his application executed April 27, 1818, at which time he was sixty-three years of age and was living in New Marlborough, Berkshire County, Massachusetts.
In 1823 he was living in West Stockbridge, Berkshire County, Massachusetts.
In 1829 he referred to his wife, Lydia, as being seventy-three years of age. She was the daughter of Reuben Rockwood.
They had a son, William.

In 1891 one Thomas H. Edsell of Colorado Springs, Colorado, stated that he was the great grandson of the above mentioned Thomas Jones.
Very truly yours,
EARL D. CHURCH Commissioner.