Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 13653, for Jonas Kidder, New Hampshire

SERVICE
NUMBER
N. 16.
Heider, Jonas
S. 13653
CONTENTS
Carded

Jonas Kidder
Capt 3 mo. 24 days
Sent 3 1/2
6 - 24
adm
$16.07
Edmund Parker Amherst N.Y.

BRIEF in the case of Jonas Kidder of Edenfield in the State of New Hampshire (Act 7th June, 1839.)
 1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? part  2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?  3. How old is he? 88 Years  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. As a Gen.     In 17 78 " 1 " Lieutenant Gen. Sullivan   September '79 " 2 " Subordinate Gen. Conway Col Kelly   July 12 th 80 " 3 24 Captain Col. Damer   on Roll of service Col. Nichols  
 5. In what battles was he engaged? none stated  6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Synnbrough  7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditional evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? Living Documentary proof for the whole time. Traditional evidence  8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? correct in every respect 
X  Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
L. D. Dorr Examining Clerk.

10.1146 New Hampshire
Jonas Stead Selectman in the State of New Hampshire who was a Lt. Col. in the Company commanded by Captain Leveque of the Regt. commanded by Col. Nichols in the New Hampshire line for 3 months Continental 3. 14 days Capt.
Inscribed on the Roll of New Hamp is the rate of - 1116 - Dollars 0 7 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 16 day of March 1833 and sent Hon. E Harker Amherst Mass
Arrears to 4th of March 1833 $232.14 Semi-ann. allowance ending Sept. 4, 1833 58.03
$290.17
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by V. B. Adams Clerk, Book 6 Vol. 152 Page 98

May 3 18617 Jonas Kiddoo Litchfield - Maine
Send D. C. Parker Antrim
STATE OF MAINE - LITCHFIELD
COUNCIL OF HIRING-PURPOSES, &c.
1. Have you any record of your age, and where it is? Answer: 2. Where and in what years were you born? Answer: 3. Where and in what years were you married? Answer: 4. Have you any children? If so, give their names and ages. Answer: 5. What was your occupation before you were married? Answer: 6. Have you any property? If so, describe it. Answer: 7. Have you any relatives living near you? If so, give their names and addresses. Answer: 8. Have you any friends living near you? If so, give their names and addresses. Answer: 9. Have you any enemies living near you? If so, give their names and addresses. Answer: 10. Have you any other information to give? Answer:

STATE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE.
County of Hillsborough, ss.
On this the twenty-seventh day of August A.D. 1832 personally appeared in open Court before the Court of Probate, now sitting a within and for the County of Hillsborough, in the State aforesaid,
Jonas Hildreth of Litchfield in said county. — aged 88 — years
Who being 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 7th, 1832. That he entered the service of the United States, under the following named officers, and served as herein stated. That is to say, that in the year 1778 he lived in Lyndeborough in said county, and held the commission of lieutenant in the ninth New Hampshire regiment. In August of that year he volunteered to go to Rhode Island. A company was raised, which he commanded as Lieut. and marched to Rhode Island. After Gen. Sullivan retreated from the Island he was discharged with his company, having served one month . — The paper herewith exhibited marked A. relates to this service. — Also his commission marked B.
Second . — In the month of September 1779, at Lyndeborough he again volunteered for two months to go to Portsmouth as Lieutenant of a company of militia. The paper herewith exhibited, and marked D, being an order from the Col. of the regiment, relates to this service. That he marched to Portsmouth, and there served as Lieut. under Capt. Lovejoy, in Col. Theophilus Dames Regiment two months. — The paper marked E, contains a list of the men who marched to Portsmouth under his command.
Third . — On the 12 th of July 1780 at Lyndeborough he volunteered to command a company of mi-

like in the New Hampshire line to go to Warfield for three months. He was then Captain, as his commission marked F. will show. He marched to Furbishville and from there to West Point, and served three months in Col. Moses Nichols regiment of New Hampshire Militia. The pay roll, marked G. is the roll of his company at that time, or an abstract of it. - He was born in Londonderry, New Hampshire in the year 1743. - lived in Lyndeborough during the war, and until the year 1832 - never had a written Discharge.
He relinquishes every claim, whatever, to a pension or annuity, whatever, except the present, and declares that his name is not on the pension roll, of the agency of any State, and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
Sworn to Jonas Kidder Colman Parker Judge of Probate - We Nathaniel Merrill - a Clergyman residing in the town of Lyndeborough in the county of Hillsborough aforesaid, and Israel H. Goodridge residing in Lyndeborough aforesaid, hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Jonas Kidder who has subscribed and sworn to the above, and that we believe him to be 88 - years of age, that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier in the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion. Sworn and subscribed the day year aforesaid. Israel H. Goodridge Nathaniel Merrill
Colman Parker Judge of Probate And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, that after the investigation of the matter, and putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier, and served as he states. And the Court further certifies that it appears to them, that Nathaniel Merrill who has signed the preceding Certificates is a Clergyman resident in the town of Lyndeborough and that Israel H. Goodridge who has signed the same, is a resident in the town of Lyndeborough and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
Colman Parker - } Judge of Probate for said } County of Hillsborough.
I CHARLES H. ATHERTON, Register of the court, do hereby certify, that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the application of Jonas Kidder for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of said court, this thirteenth day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two.
C. H. Atherton Register of Probate, for said county of Hillsborough.

STATE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE.
County of Hillsborough, SS.
At the Court aforesaid, On the application aforesaid, the following interrogatories were propounded to the said Jess as Kiddler and the following answers given, to wit:
1. Where, and in what year were you born?
Answer, I was born in Londonderry New Hampshire in the year 1743 as he believes, in that part which is now set off to Hudson
2. Have you any record of your age, and where is it?
3. Have you any record of your age, and where is it? Answer, I have a minute of my age which I took from my parents.
3. Where were you living, when called into service, where have you lived since the Revolutionary War, and where do you now live? Answer, - I lived in Lynchburg when
3. Where were you living, when called into service, where have you lived since the Revolutionary War, and where do you now live? Answer, - I lived in Lyndeborough when called into service - I lived there ever since until about four months since when I moved to Litchfield. -
4. How were you called into service, were you drafted, did you volunteer, or were you a substitute, and if a substitute, for whom? Answer, I volunteered -
5. State the names of some of the regular Officers, who were with the troops, where you served, such Continental and Militia Regiments, as you can recollect, and the general circumstances of your service ?
Answer, I have stated the names of the officers in my declaration. —
Q. Did you ever receive a discharge from the service, and if so, by whom was it given, and what has become of it? Answer, I never had a written discharge.
7. State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood, and who can testify as to your character for veracity, and their belief of your services as a Soldier of the Revolution?
7. State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood, and their belief of your character for veracity, and their belief of your services as a Soldier of the Revolution? Answer, I have been in Litchfield but about four months - I refer to men in Lyndeborough - Rev. Nathaniel Merrill - Allen Crops - Nehemiah Boutwell - Joseph Jones - William Jones -
Certified by
C. H. Harkness Register.

October 15, 1936.
Mr. Frederick E. Kidder 1105 High Court Berkeley, California.
BA-J/ILL Jonas Kidder S. 13653
Dear Sir:
Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revolutionary War record of Jonas Kidder, born in 1743, in Hudson, New Hampshire.
The data which follow were obtained from the papers on file in pension claim, S. 13653, based upon service of Jonas Kidder in that war.
Jonas Kidder was born in the year 1743, the day not given, in that part of Londonderry, New Hampshire, which was later called Hudson. The names of his parents were not given.
While a resident of Lyndeborough, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, he was commissioned September 5, 1775, 1 st Lieutenant, 9 th company, 9 th New Hampshire regiment; he served as 1 st Lieutenant, Colonel Daniel Moore's New Hampshire regiment from August 6, 1778 one month in Rhode Island, also, in that same capacity from September 10, 1779, two months at Portsmouth, a part of the time in Captain Lovejoy's company, Colonel Theophilus Dame's New Hampshire regiment; he was commissioned December 14, 1779, Captain, 4 th company, 9 th New Hampshire regiment; he commanded a company in Colonel Moses Nichols' regiment from July 12, 1780 for three months, during which he marched to New York, thence to West Point.
Captain Jonas Kidder lived after his service in the Revolutionary in Lyndeborough, New Hampshire, until about May 1832, then moved to Litchfield, New Hampshire.
He was allowed pension on his application executed August 27,

1832, at which time he resided in Litchfield, New Hampshire.
Captain Jonas Kidder made no reference to wife or children at the time he made application for pension.
In order to obtain the date of last payment of pension, name of person paid, and, possibly, the date of death of this pensioner, you should apply to The Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, Records Division, this city, and cite the following:
Jonas Kidder Certificate #10046 Issued March 16, 1833 Rate $116.07 per annum Commenced March 4, 1831. Act of June 7, 1832. New Hampshire Agency.
Very truly yours,
A. D. MILLER, Executive Assistant to the Administrator.

1105 High Court, Berkeley, Calif., September 20, 1936.
United States Veterans Bureau Washington, D.C.
Dear Sir,
I should like to receive any information you may have concerning Jonas Kidder , a soldier in the Revolutionary War, or his family.
Jonas Kidder was born in Hudson, N.H., November 16, 1743; died in Hudson, Nov. 1, 1837. During the Revolutionary War, in which he served as captain (?), he resided in Lyndeboro', N.H. He married 1 st Huldah Putnam by whom he had six children. He married 2 nd Alice (Taylor) Barron by whom he had four children.
Any information whatsoever that

you may have would be greatly appreciated.
Yours Truly, Frederick E. Kidder

1936 - Oct. 15 - Hist. to Frederick E. Killian JLR
Rehr
✓ 13653 INVALID.
File No. 13653
Jonas Swidder Capt V.C. Sergt Rev. War.
Act: June 7 th 1932
Index: — Vol. 1 , Page 208
[Arrangement of 1870.]

COLONY OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE
The CONGRESS of the Colony of New-Hampshire
TO Thomas Riader
Gentleman Greeting
WE reposing especial Trust and Confidence in your Fidelity, Courage and good Conduct, Do by these Presents constitute and appoint you the said Thomas Riader To be First Lieutenant of the Ninth Company in the Ninth Regiment of Militia within the Said Colony of New Hampshire
You are therefore carefully and diligently to discharge the Duty of a First Lieutenant in leading, ordering and exercising said Company — in Arms both Inferior Officers and Soldiers, and to keep them in good Order and Discipline; hereby commanding them to obey you as their First Lieutenant — and Yourself to observe and follow such Orders and Instructions, as you shall from Time to Time receive from the Congress of said Colony for the Time being, or (in recess of Congress) from the Committee of Safety, or any your Superior Officers for the Service of said Colony, according to Military Rules and Discipline, pursuant to the Trust reposed in You.
By Order of the Congress,
Matthew Thornton President
Exeter the Fifth day of September A D. 1775 E. Thompson Secretary
S. File 13, 653

STATE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE.
The Government and People of said State.
TO Jonas Hildreth Gentleman,
GREETING:
W E reposing especial Trust and Confidence in your Fidelity, Courage, and good Conduct, Do, by these Presents, constitute, and appoint you the said Jonas Hildreth Captain of the forth Company of Melishay in the Ninth ,
Regiment of Militia in the said State of New-Hampshire. You are therefore carefully, and diligently to discharge the Duty of a Captain in Arms, both in leading, ordering, and exercising said Company in Arms, both inferior Officers and Soldiers, and to keep them in good Order and Discipline; and hereby commanding them to obey you as their Captain and yourself to observe and follow such Orders and Instructions, as you shall from Time to Time receive from the Council and House of Representatives of said State for the Time being, and in their Recess from their Committee of Safety, or any your Superior Officers for the Service of said State, according to Military Rules and Discipline, pursuant to the Trust reposed in you. In Testimony whereof we have caused the Seal of said State to be hereunto affixed: Witness Messrs Weare Esq; President of our said Council at EXETER, the fourteenth Day of December
Anno Domini 1779
E. Thompson
M Weare