Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 15181, for Jonathan Hunter, Massachusetts

SERVICE
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Mass.
Hunter, Jonathan
S. 15-181
Carded
CONTENTS

1570 New York
Jonathan Hunter of Plattsburg in the State of New York who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain D. Hawes of the Regt commanded by Col. Holmes in the Massachusetts line for 9 Months 21 days
Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 48 Dollars 50 Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 6 th day of Novem- ber 1832 and sent to J. Woodward
Arrears to 4th of Sept 1832 $72 75 Pension allowance ending 4 Mar. 33 24 25 $97 00
{ Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.
Recorded by Geo. C. Miles Book D Vol. 5 Page 99

2 d Supt. in Revolution for 9 mos three weeks..
Pension application.
No 6358.
address of Douglas Woodward Plattsburg. N. Y.
Ms. A. 9. 2. 20. 10 Ms. A. 9. 2. 20. 10

Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7. 1832.
State of New York
County of Clinton ss.
On this second day of August 1832 personally appeared before John Warford Esquire one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Clinton (the said Court being a Court of record) Jonathan Hunter a resident of Plattsburg in said County aged seventy nine years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7. 1832.
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated.
I was born at the town of Marlborough County of Middlesex Massachusetts January 24. 1753. I have a record of my age in my family Bible made by my elder Brother Robert Hunter now deceased which record I have recently referred to.
Since the Revolution was I resided in Petersham Mass until about the year 1806 when I moved to Chelsea Vt. where I resided until about the year 1812 when I moved to Plattsburg N.Y. where I have ever since resided and where I now reside.
I resided in Roxbury Mass. and enlisted at Petersham the first day of March 1776 as a Second Sergeant into Capt Dan Hawes Company. (don't recollect Co & Reg't) I think Col. don't recollect his name Reg't Massachusetts State Troops for two months. marched from thence to Roxbury Mass where several thousand American Troops were stationed. don't recollect what officers commanded there I marched through Barrre Mass. Old Rutland Mass. & corner of Oakham Mass. Holden Mass. Shrewsbury Mass. Northbury Mass. Marlborough Mass. Sudbury Mass. Westtown Mass. Watertown Mass. Watertown to Roxbury Mass. I continued to serve at Roxbury Mass until my time (two months) for which I enlisted was fully out when I was discharged at that place on the first day of May 1776. I actually served two months in said Corps and was honorably discharged as aforesaid. I served during said two months as a Second Sergeant in said Company (never had any Sergeant Warrant) and was discharged as such Second Sergeant. - after my discharge
I returned to Petersham Mass and again enlisted at that place as a Second Sergeant for five months in May 1776 into Capt Benjamin Bates Company (First Lieut Mung Spooner. Second Lieut - Smith Ensign Parmenter) Col. Holmes Massachusetts Reg't of State Troops Genl. Fellows Brigade - marched from that place to the City of New York through Greenwich Hardwick. and Springfield North Hampton Mass. - and is the most direct route to New York City. I am so broken that it is impossible for me to recollect the names of the towns through which we passed. I served at New York until the British took possession of it about the last of August 1776. when we retreated to Harlem Heights where (the next day after our arrival) I was engaged in the Battle at that place as Second Sgt in said Company, we beat the British and they retreated back to New York. I continued at Harlem Heights a while and marched to White Plains N.Y.
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and was engaged in the battle at that place which took place during one of the last days of September 1776. I served at that place until I had served in said Company and Regiment for seven months as second sergeant. (For the last two months of the said seven months I served as a volunteer 2 d Sergt. in said Company and Regt. my time five months for which I enlisted having expired at Harlem Heights, N.Y.) I was discharged at White Plains, N.Y. in December 1776. Having fully completed my terms of service to wit five and two months in said Company, and Regt. I had no written discharge. After I left the service I returned to Peterham Mass. and volunteered again at that place in Aug t 1777 as 2 d Sergeant in Capt. King's Spoons Company (The gen. before Spooner was my Lt. in New York) Massachusetts State Troops had no Colonel. Don't recollect the other officers. we marched to Bennington Vt. but did not arrive there until a few (say 3 or four) days after the Battle. I then returned to Peterham Mass and was there discharged having served three weeks in said Company of volunteers. - had no written discharge - There was about fifty persons went with me in the same Company from Peterham to Bennington, Vt. & I cannot now recollect the names of any of them except Joel Doolittle, and our Lieut. Elisha Flagg. - The names of the others are out of my memory. I never was drafted nor was a substitute. -
7. mo
3 weeks
9 mo. & 3 w.
I actually served as above stated during the revolutionary war nine months and three weeks as second sergeant. - I have no documentary evidence (and never had any) and know of no person whose testimony I can procure to testify to my services except Obadiah Durgin whose affidavit I hope to obtain to accompany this declaration.
To whom I am known in my present neighborhood. The names of persons who can testify to their belief of my services are Roger Gregory. Edward Hunter Charles Hunter Joseph Wilcox Justin Mitchell. David Broadwell Esq. Elda Turner Platt Newcomb & Hon. Kimball Newcomb & the whole neighborhood including the persons above named will I believe testify to such belief of my services and as to my character for veracity.
I hereby relinquish every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declare that my name is not on the Pensions Roll of the agency of any state.
Sworn and subscribed to before me this 2 d day of August 1832 and I certify that Defendant is a credible person and cannot from bodily infirmity attend the Court. He is just able to hobble about upon crutches a very little being scarcely able to walk without them.
Jonathan Hemen
Wm Warford Judge of Clinton Common Pleas
Note the words "first days" interlined and the word "in" erased on the first page & the words "and Lord & Springfield also erased on same page and the words "To whom I am known in my present neighborhood" on the second page interlined before signing and swearing.
Wm Warford Judge

We Josiah Wilcox a Clergyman residing in Plattsburg in the County of Clinton and State of New York, and Myron Reed ————— residing in the same town hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with Mr Jonathan Hunter who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be seventy nine years of age; that he is reputed and believed, in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion —
Sworn and subscribed to before me this 2 d day of August 1832 and I certify that Deponants are credible and respectable persons.
D Douglas Woodward Notary Public
Josiah Wilcox Myron Reed
I the Said Judge do hereby declare my opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states. And I further certify that it appears to me that Josiah Wilcox who has signed the foregoing certificate is a Clergyman resident in the town of Plattsburg in the County of Clinton and State of New York and that Myron Reed who has also signed the same is a resident in the same town and is a credible person and that their statement is entitled to credit. Given under my hand this second day of August 1832
John Warford Judge of Clinton Common Pleas and of the County Courts of said County Counsellor
State of New York
County of Clinton ss
I the Subscribed Deputy Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Clinton and of said County (Roswell Wilson Esquire the Clerk being sick and unable to attend to business) do certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of Hon John Warford in the matter of the application of Jonathan Hunter for a Pension, and I further certify that the said John Warford before and by whom the foregoing declaration of the said Jonathan Hunter was taken & made was at the time a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of the said County of Clinton and of the County Courts of said County & Counsellor at law of the Supreme Court of this State and that the signature of the said Judge to the certificate immediately following the declaration of said Jonathan

Number and the signature of the said Judge to the note of authentication immediately following. And the signature of the said Judge to the Certificate immediately following the Clergyman's Certificate are all in the proper and genuine handwriting of the said Judge I being well acquainted with it. I further certify that J Douglas Woodward before whom the above Certificate signed by Josiah Wilson Clergyman & Lyman Reed was taken and sworn to who has signed his name to the Certificate orurat of said affidavit, was at the time a Notary Public in and for the State of New York residing in the town of Plattsburg in said County and that the signature of the said J Douglas Woodward to said orurat or Certificate is in his proper genuine handwriting I being well acquainted with it - I also certify that the seal affixed by said J Douglas Woodward to said Clergyman's Certificate or affidavit is the genuine notarial seal of said J Douglas Woodward. -  I further certify that I have attached hereto the affidavit of Ebenezer Dugmore taken before Ezra Brainerd Justice of the Peace on the ninth day of August 1832 - authenticated by the Deputy Clerk of Oneida County on the ninth day of August 1832.
In Witness whereof I have hereto set my hand and the seal of said County of Clinton at Plattsburg in said County this seventeenth day of August 1832. I have attached said Papers by a piece of red tape passing under my official seal -
Geo M Beckwith Deputy Clerk
2d Ser't in Revolution for 9 mos three weeks Pension application. W 6355
address J Douglas Woodward Plattsburg N.Y.

Mr. 6358. Jonathan Hunter
admitted
9 mo 1821
J. Douglas Woodruff Plattsburg New York

No. 6358
BRIEF in the case of Jonathan Hunter of Plattsburg  County of Clinton in the State of New York  (Act 7th June, 1832.)
 1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? Before a Judge  2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity? It does.  3. How old is he? Seventy Nine years. 79.  4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed. 
   Period. Duration of Service. Rank. Names of General and field Officers under whom he served.   Years. Months. Days.     Enlisted on 10 th of March In 1776 discharged 21 st May 1776 — 2 — 2 nd Serjeant Capt. Dan l Hovey Compy of Massachusetts State troops   Enlisted 2 nd May 1776 for 5 weeks & volunteered for — 7 — 2 nd Serjeant Col. H. Linsy 2 nd Mass. State troops Genl. Fellows Brigade, Capt. Bangs Compy   Volunteered in Aug t 1777 — — 21 2 nd Serjeant Lieuts. Spooner & Smith, Capt. Wm. Spooner's Compy   9. 21  
 5. In what battles was he engaged? of Haulem Heights, at White Plains  6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? at Roxbury & enlisted at Peterham Mass 
7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditional evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? By a living witness as to his service, By a Clergyman & neighbor as to his tradition, The character & credibility of all substantiated agreeably to the regulations
 8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? They are not 
I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
Chas. B. Wicoff Examining Clerk.

15181 INVALID.
File No. 15181
Jonathan Hunter Rev. Rev. Rev.
Act: June 7 th 1832
Index:—Vol. 1 , Page 186
[Arrangement of 1870.]

from J. Woodward Admitted 6 th Nov 1832
James L. Edwards Esq Pension Office Washington D.C.

Plattsburg N. Y. Aug 17. 1832
James L. Edwards Esqr
Sir
I enclose Papers in the case of Mr. Jonathan Hunter who wishes to be placed on the Pension Roll, and his certificate sent to me by mail.
Yours very respectfully J. Douglas Woodward

James L. Edwards Esq. Commissioner of Pensions Washington City

Hiram Walworth Esq
28. City Hall
New York
Mr. Albon Mann Esq

Plattsburg Sept 29. 1834.
H. Walworth Esq
Dr Sir,
As Jonathan Hunter died soon after the 4 th March last, it is proper that his Pension Certificate should be returned to the Pension office. I will therefore thank you to enclose it in an envelope with this letter to James L Edwards Esq Commissioner of Pensions Washington. by mail & oblige
Yours truly G. D. Woodward

Jonathan Hunter.
Payments to be made at New York by the Presd. U.S. Br. Brk Agent for paying Pensioners, in the Agency of
New York
Recorded by Geo C Stiles, Clerk, in Book D Vol. 5
Page 99

WAR DEPARTMENT.
Revolutionary Claim.
I certify that in conformity with the Law of the United States, of the 7th June, 1832, Jonathan Hunter of the State _____ of New York _____ who was a Sergeant in the Revolutionary Army _____
is entitled to receive — Forty-eight — dollars and Fifty — cents per annum, during his natural life, commencing on the 4th of March, 1831, and payable semi-annually, on the 4th of March, and 4th of September, in every year.
Given at the War Office of the United States, this 6th day of November one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two.
Lothrop
Secretary of War.
Examined and Countersigned. }
J. Edwards

State of New York
County of Onondaga Ebenezer Ingersoll a resident of Marshall in said County aged seventy six years being duly sworn says that he was well acquainted with Jonathan Hunter now a resident of Plattsburg in the County of Clinton during the Revolutionary war and knows that said Hunter served at Roxbury Mass. two months, as Deponent understood at the time. Deponent went to Roxbury Mass to see said Hunter and saw him therein the service in Capt Dan Hawes Company of Massachusetts Troops - according to my recollection said Hunter enlisted March 1. 1776 as a Second Sergeant. (He was Second Sergeant when I saw him & served as such from the time he entered the said Company to the time he was discharged as I verily believe) and was discharged at Roxbury Mass the first of May 1776. I understood that he enlisted at Peterboro Mass. -
That to Deponent's knowledge said Hunter again enlisted in May 1776 at Peterboro Mass into Capt Benjamin Gates Company as a Second Sergeant (First Lieut Wing Spooner Second Lieut - Smith. Ensign Parmenter Col Holmes Massachusetts Rgt of State Troops Genl Fellows Brigade) for five months - That to Deponent's personal knowledge said Hunter served in said Company for five months as Second Sergeant until his time was out at Harlem N.Y. where the said Hunter again volunteered as Second Sgt in the same Company in October 1776 and continued to serve in said Company from the time he enlisted at Peterboro Mass. in May 1776 to the month of December 1776 having served seven months in said Corps when he was honorably discharged at White Plains New York. said Hunter volunteered for two months at Harlem N.Y. in said Company. Deponent served as third Sergeant with said Hunter during said seven months and was enlisted and discharged at the same time and place with him in the same Company - Deponent has understood that said Hunter was out three weeks on a march to and from Bannington Vermont (about the time of the Battle at that place) under Capt Wing Spooner. (who was on duty in 1776 at New York.) and I now verily believe said Hunter did serve three weeks there as he states. That said Hunter is a man of truth and veracity.
Sworn and subscribed to before me this 9th day of August 1832
Certify that Deponent is a credible person
No. of interpolation made thereon 23 & 24 lines before execution E. M. BARNUM Justice of the Peace
Ebenezer Ingersoll

State of New York
Clerks Office Oneida County ss: I Vero Brown Clerk of the Oneida County Do hereby certify that Ezra S. Brainerd before whom the within and annexed affidavit purports to have been taken and sworn to on the day of the date of same a justice of the peace in and for Oneida County duly commissioned and sworn and duly authorized by law to act as such justice and to all his official acts as such justice full faith and credit should and ought to be given and further that I am well acquainted with the honest writing of the said Ezra S. Brainerd and verily believe the signature "E. S. Brainerd" in said affidavit to be his proper handwriting and genuine. In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the Seal of said County this 9 th day of July 1832.
George Brown Clerk Joseph B. Read (Dep. Clerk)