Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 10450, for Jonas Temple, New Hampshire

SERVICE
NUMBER
N 26
Temple, Jonas
R. 10450
CONTENTS
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No 37614
Jonas Temple
VT
Let to Clairmont July 20/42 N.Y. Babbitt July 25. 1855
act 7 June 1832

Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873.
10450
P. O. _____
Jonas Temple
Service: _____
REJECTED
Enlisted: _____, 18__
Discharged: _____, 18__
Application filed: _____, 18__
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____

I William Heywood Jr of Guildhall in the County of Essex and State of Vermont do hereby depose and say that some time as I believe in the year eighteen hundred and thirty nine Mr Jonas Temple of Lyndonbury in said County and State engaged me to assist him to obtain a pension under the act of June 7 th 1832. I wrote for the purpose of obtaining some testimony but did not succeed in getting it. Some time as I believe in 1840 Judge Kimball of Barton Vermont came to Guildhall and informed me that he made it his business to get evidence and obtain pensions and said that he went personally and made examina- tions of the records in the office of the Secretary of State of New Hampshire and that he should do so again soon after that time. I then gave him what papers I had in relation to said Temple's case and engaged him to attend to it for him. In a year or two after that time I heard of the death of Kimball. I think that said Kimball's given name was John.
W m Heywood Jr
State of Vermont } At Guildhall in said County Essex County ss } January 13 th 1848 Then W m Heywood Jr Personally appeared before me and made oath that the forego- ing affidavit by him subscribed is true to the best of his belief - I further certify that I am well acquainted with said Heywood and that he is a credible witness
W m H. Hartshorn Justice of the Peace

State of Vermont Essex County I William V. Hartshorn, Clerk of the Superior Court of Judicature of the County and State aforesaid. do hereby certify that William V. Hartshorn, is an acting justice of the Peace, in and for said County - duly Commissioned and qualified. That his Commission was dated on the 30 th day of November 1847 and will expire on the 30 th day of November 1848, and that his signature within written is genuine -
Given under my hand and the seal of said Court at Guildhall this Thirteenth day of January A.D. 1848
Wm V. Hartshorn Clerk

Westmoreland N.H. July 13, 1855.
D r Sir
This enquiry made in behalf of my neighbor, Ralph Temple son of Jonas Temple deceased, who was a soldier in the revolutionary service, is to ascertain whether a pension certificate has been issued or an application therefor been made. The papers for that purpose, I am informed, were made out some few years ago & given in charge of a Mr. Newell of Vermont, from whom no answer to Ralph Temple's several enquiries has been received. A reply from your department will be thankfully rec d .
Respectfully &c. N. G. Babbitt.
The Hon. Com te of Pensions.

State of Vermont, Lunenburg, July 3 rd 1848 Sir I sent to Hon Wm Upham M. C. a package of papers the Declaration of Mr Jonas Temple, a Revolution- ary Soldier, the testimony of Asa Britton formally a pay pensioner but now deceased . Mr Up ham has delivered said papers to the Commissioner of Pensions Said Temple is waiting with great anxiety - having been able to support himself till the last 2 years, would in these Last days of penury & need be glad to have a little compensation for services rendered to government in time of their need .
This is to invite your earliest attention to his case, ever praying that your decision may be favourable to his wants
Respt Yours
Syman Daman

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Declaration
of Jonas Temple
for Sponsors

Declaration. In order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of the 7th of June A.D. 1832 State of Vermont On this 11th day of January 1848 District of Essex ss personally appeared in open Court  the  before the court of the state now sitting Thomas Simple a resident of Dannebury in the County of Essex and State of Vermont, of the age of eighty two years last April, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the ben- -efit of the provision made by the act of Congress, passed June 7th 1832, that he enlisted in the Army of the United States in the year, one hundred and and eighty in the month of November (cannot tell the day of the month) as a volunteer in the State of New Hampshire and County of Cheshire and Town of Westminster the place of his nativity and residence, that he enlisted for the term of three years under Capt Benjamin Ellis, that he left Westminster in Capt Ellis Company, that he belonged to the first Regiment of the New Hampshire Brigade, And that he marched with said Company through Connecticut crossed the Hudson river ten miles above Westpoint and was first stationed at New Windsor State of New York at which place I first saw the Major whose name was Scott and the Col whose name I do not remember Afterward the Company to which he belonged was taken to a place called Gallowhill N.Y. and connected with a Continental Regiment then Col in name was Schamuel or Seammels, that his fellow Soldiers names which he recollects, to wit Ben Blood. P. H. Barlow, Desbrosser, Beebe & Archelus Simple my brother who is now dead, Asa Britton was of another Company I served but one year and was discharged by Major Scott and Capt Ellis, on account of a bunch on my neck I received a written discharge but being a boy who could run

neither read nor write I took no care of it and it was lost. He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the Agency of any State — for in the presence of Lyman Damon Jonas Temple
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written before Jonas Brooks Judge of Probate of the District of Essex 17
We Lyman Damon a clergyman residing in the Town of Kennebec and Leland Snow residing in the same hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Jonas Temple who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be eighty two years of age; that he is respected and beloved in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion
Lyman Damon Leland Snow
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid before Jonas Brooks Judge of Probate And the said court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories submitted by the War Department that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Sol- -dier, and served as he states, And the board further certify that it appears to them that Lyman Damon who has signed the the find- -ing certificate is a clergyman, residing in the Town of Kennebec and that Leland Snow who has signed the same is a resi- -dent in the Town of Kennebec and is a credible person and that their statement is entitled to credit.

I Jonah Brooks Judge of the Probate Court for the District of Essex in the State of Vermont, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the Court in the matter of the application of Jonas Temple for a pension
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and Seal of office this 14 day of January A D 1848 Jonah Brooks Judge of the Probate Court { For the District of Essex Vt

Is Asa Britton of Chesterfield in the County of Cheshire & State of New Hampshire of lawful age testify & say that I am acquainted with Jonas Temple of Seabrook in the County of Essex & State of Vermont & was acquainted with said Temple in the year of our Lord One Thousand Eighty one at which time said Temple resided in Westmoreland in the County of Cheshire aforesaid as did I also myself — In the Summer of the said year Seventeen Hundred & Eighty one I belonged to the Second New Hampshire Regiment commanded by Col. Geo. Read in Capt David Mc- Gregor Company at which time said Jonas Temple then of said Westmoreland as aforesaid joined the same Brigade to which my Regiment was attached — The said Temple belonging to the First Regiment of the New Hampshire Brigade I recollect that said Temple was at a place called Gallows Hill in the State of New York with myself in actual service & further I know not — Asa Britton Chesterfield. Sept. 16. 1839
New Hampshire Cheshire ss. — Sept 16. 1839
Then the said Asa Britton, who is a Justice of the peace, in & for said County of Cheshire personally appeared before me & made oath that the above certificate by him subscribed is in his belief true — Charles A. Merrill, Jas. Pease.

State of New Hampshire Cheshire County ss
I Henry Coolidge Clerk of the Superior Court of Judicature of the County and State aforesaid, do hereby certify that Charles G. Webster is an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said County - duly commissioned and qualified; that his commission was dated on the 27 th day of June 1835. and will expire on the 26 th day of June 1840. and that his signature within written is genuine.
Given under my hand and the seal of said Court at Keene this fourteenth day of October A.D. 1839 -
H. Coolidge Clerk "