Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 45416, for Joseph Jennings, Massachusetts

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★ Jennings, Joseph
S. 45416
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No. 962 L New York
Joseph Jennings of Whitestown in the state of New York who was a private in the regiment commanded Colonel Nixon of the Mass. line, for the term of one year
Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 30 th of April 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 10 th of Sep r 1819 and sent to Henry R. Morris Esq.
Whitestown New York
Arrears to 4th of Sep 1819 16 mo 5/30 $ 129.33
Semi-ann. all'ce ending 6 Nov 1819 48.
$177.33
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }

45416 INVALID.
File No. 45416
Joseph Jennings Pris Rev War
Act: 18 March 1818
Index:—Vol. 3 , Page 256
[Arrangement of 1870.]

State of New York Oneida County: Needham Maynard being sworn faith, that Joseph Jennings is the person named is well known to him, that they were men until 1775 in April, when both of them entered into the 8 Month Service from until December following - that about the first of January 1776 said Joseph Jennings enlisted at Cambridge Massachusetts in to Capt. Gleason's Company. Col. Vose's Regiment for one year - this deponent remained with it in service as a Volunteer with said Jennings until said Jennings was marched to New York, from which time he did not see said Jennings until the last of December 1776, when said Jennings came home, from the above facts & information respecting said Jennings which this deponent has - during the summer of 1776. This deponent has no doubt but that the said Jennings served regularly there - or so until his term of enlistment expired or that he was honorably dis- -charged - the said service of said Jen- -nings was in the Continental Service. Witness my hand Needham Maynard
Sworn before this 15th July 1819. Ebenezer White Commissioner of the Court of Records

I Certify that Needham Maynard who made Oath to the above affidavit before me is to me well known that he is a man of truth & veracity July 15 th 1819. Fortune C White Commissioner of the
I certify that Fortune C White before whom the foregoing affidavit was made & who ex- ecuted the above certificate is a Commis- sioner authorized to administer oaths, to affidavits to be used in the Courts of Record in the State of New York & that the above is his signature

30 April 1810 Joseph Jennings Whitestown
1 st Jan y 1776 Enlisted in Col. Nixon Mass. Reg. & served for one year
Honble Solomon Wolcott Judge
Wanted Judge's Certificate that from various circum- stances of application he stands in need of the assist- ance of his friends for support and recovery must be proven by the deposition of Witnesses certified by the Judge to be credible
Proof supplied - to be sent to Henry R. Horrs. Whitestown Oneida County. New York

State of New York Solomon Wolcott One of the Judges of Oneida County ss: on the thirteenth day of April - eight- een hundred and eighteen before me the undersigned, one of the judges of the Court of Common Pleas in & for the County of Oneida personally appears Joseph Jennings aged fifty years, resident in Whitesboro in the said County of Oneida, who being by me first duly sworn according to law, doth, on his oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the provision 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 Joseph Jennings enlisted at Cambridge in the State of Massachusetts in the month of April or May 1775 in the company commanded by Captain Thom- as Dunn in Col. John Dickinson's Regiment of Penn- sylvania Key Stone Battery that he continued to serve in the said Corps or in the service of the United States until the last of December 1775 that he again enlisted on some of the first days of January 1776 in Captain Oleson's Company in the same Regiment & Line, that he continued to serve in the said Corps, or in the service of the United States until the last of December 1776 when he was discharged from service about seven miles below Trenton in the State of New- Jersey. That his discharge was regular & honoura- ble by reason of the term of his enlistment having expired. That he was in the Battles of Lexington and Bunkerhill - and that he is in reduced circumstances, and & family in need of the assist- ance of his country for support - and that he has no other evidence in his

Power of his said service Given to & declared before Joseph Jennings me, the day & year above said Solomon Wolcott
I Solomon Wolcott - Judge of the us above said do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Joseph Jennings did serve in the Revolutionary war, as stated in the preceding declaration, against the com- mon enemy and I now transmit the pro- ceedings and testimony taken and before me, to the Secretary for the Department of War, pursuant to the directions of the above mentioned act of Congress - Dated The thirtieth day of April 1818 -
Solomon Wolcott

I certify that Solomon Golcott was at the date of the foregoing certificate a Judge of the board of Common Pleas in and for the County of Oneida in the State of New York and that the said Court is a Court of Record. Dated Sept. 25. 1814.
Henry K. Stone one of the Members of the U. S. Reps. for the State of New York
State of New York ss. I Jonas Platt one of the Justices of the Supreme Court of said State certify that the above applicant Joseph Jennings and the Witness Needham Maynard have long been well known to me, having lived upwards of twenty years in the same town with them (Whitestown). They are both men of good credit and of great respectability having both been for many years Judges of the County Court. Joseph Jen- nings has till lately been in easy and independent circumstances, but has lately been unfortunate in trade and other business, so that I feel authorized to certify that he is in reduced cir- cumstances and stands in need of the assistance of his country for support. I am fully & perfectly satisfied of the

Facts relating to the service of Joseph Jennings as a soldier according to the affidavit made by him: and besides it has been a received & notorious fact ever since I first became acquainted with him, that he was an old continental soldier in the revolutionary war. July 30 th 1819.
Jonas Platt