Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 22,335, for John Jones, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Jones John
S 22,335
CONTENTS
A. 1757 in Plymouth, Mass. res. at sub. Halifax, Plymouth Co. Mass. In 1830 res. of Winchester, Del. Co. Pa. 76

ally. John Jones  John Jones  30  30 John Jones of Sturminster in the State of N.H. who was a Private in the Company by Captain Healey of the Regt by Col. Ross in the Regt line for Ames 
Concord, New Hampshire
Incribed on the Roll of Many at the rate of 5 Dollars 33 Cents per month to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 17 day of July 1837 and sent Henry  Vanderpool of Rich Arrears to the 4th of Sept 1836 $293.75 Semi-annual allowance ending 4 March 26.00 $319.75
Revolutionary War Act June 7, 1832
Recorded By W. H. Madison Clerk Book 12 Vol. 4 Page 36 
See letter to Pensioner June 2 1837
Paid at the Treasury under Act of the 6th April 1838 - 4th March 1837 to 4 Sept again notified 1 June 1838.
Cir to Pen age 23 March 1837 To Concord N.H. from 4th Sept 1838 - 8th April 1839 - Notified to J. Estlin & Carrards. Keene N.H.

John Jones Application for Transfer
2167 8691

County of Cheshire ss
On this twentieth day of September 1838 before me the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace for the said County of Cheshire personally appeared John Jones, who, on his oath declares that he is the same person who formerly belonged to the Company commanded by Captain Norrie in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Vose, 1 st Mass. in the service of the United States. That his name was placed on the pension roll of the State of New York from whence he has lately removed. — That he now resides in the State of New Hampshire, where he intends to remain and wishes his pension to be there payable in future. The following are his reasons for removing from the State of New York to where he now lives, is that he formerly lived here, and has a child married & residing here. was at Winchester in the County of Cheshire aforesaid & then he removed from the County of Columbia N.Y. John Jones
Cheshire ss State of Hampshire
Subscribed & sworn to the day & year aforesaid
Before me Thomas M c Edwards Justice of the Peace

I Thomas Wheelock of Manchester aged twenty five years do hereby say that I have been acquainted with John Jones forty years, and that who has subscribed the within affidavit, and that he is the same person therein described, according to the best of my knowledge & belief.
Thos Wheelock
Sept 20. 1838
On this p. subscribed & sworn to Before me Thomas M c Edwards Jus Peace
I certify that the above deponent is a credible person -
Th c M c Edwards Jus Peace

State of New Hampshire Cheshire County ss —
I Henry Coolidge Clerk of the Superior Court of Judicature for the County of Cheshire, certify that Thomas H. Edwards was on the twentieth day of September instant and still is a Justice of the Peace in said County of Cheshire duly commissioned and sworn — and that his name subscribed to the foregoing certificates is his genuine signature — In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at Keene this twenty first day of September A.D. 1818.
H. Coolidge Clerk

33 881
In the matter of the application of John Jones for a Pension
Declaration &c
In June 1840 to 1841 in Frank Jackson & G. L. G. entry No 29. 140
Mary L. Tobey
Hendrick
County of Columbia
State of New York
Agent for
Applicant Admitted Private 16 August
Adams
Hon. A. Vanderpool
H. B.

State of New York } Columbia County } On this sixteenth day of December 1836 personally appeared in open court before
"The Justices Court of the city of Hudson" now sitting John Jones a resident of the town of New Lebanon now in the County of Columbia & State of New York aged seventy nine years who being first duly sworn according to law oath on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7, 1832 - viz That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers, and served as herein stated - viz
That in the fall of the year 1777, he can not be precise as to the time - but he recollects that it was very soon after the news of the surrender of Burgoyne, he enlisted as a private soldier (at Halifax in the County of Plymouth in the State of Massachusetts - where he then resided) under a recruiting officer by the name of Stone who was a captain. That the time of six months, in the first Regiment of Massachusetts State Troops, in Captain Harry's Company & Colonel Foss' Regiment. From Halifax he marched to Boston where he passed muster and was marched with about forty recruits to New Pond in the

State of New York - where he joined his Regi- ment and company and was station during the whole of his said term of service.
6- That he served in the Regiment aforesaid at West Point and under the officers above named, six months, as a soldier, under his aforesaid lieutenant - when he was dis- charged at West Point in the Spring of 1778 as soon as he can recollect - That he returned to Halifax immediately after his said dis- charge & very soon after his arrival at Halifax and in the summer of the year 1778 or late in the Spring as soon as he can recollect, he again entered under the same recruiting officer in the same Regiment & company under the same Captain & Colonel as above mentioned, for the term of nine months as a private soldier - That after his last- mentioned enlistment he proceeded to Bos- ton where he passed muster & was march- ed to West Point where he joined his com- pany & Regiment, at which place he was stationed and where he served as a private in Colonel Vose's Regiment - Captain Hovey's company of Massachusetts State Troops for and during the term of nine months; when he was again discharged and returned to Halifax from West Point 9-

immediately after his said discharge, which as near as he can recollect, was in March or in the Spring of the year 1779 or it may have been in February of that year - He had a discharge but lost it - That sometime in the summer of the year 1779 at Halifax aforesaid where he then resided - he will not be positive as to the time - but about the period last men- tioned or earlier in the Spring - for he thinks he had not then been home but about two months - he again enlisted & served for eighteen months as a private soldier in the same company and Regiment and under the same officers as before mentioned and did duty and regularly served as a private soldier at West Point aforesaid under the officers in the company & Regiment commanded by them as above mentioned after having served as a soldier at the time last mentioned for the period of 18 months he was regularly discharged and again returned to Halifax aforesaid where he then resided and at which place he again enlist- ed as a private soldier for three years in Captain Hovey's company - Colonel Rose's Regiment of Massachusetts State Troops

His recruiting officer was Captain Stone above mentioned - He marched from Hali- -fax aforesaid from there to Hal Point to Boston, where he joined his Regiment Commanded by Colonel Gore & his company commanded by Captain Hovey - His Lieutenant Colonel was named Vose - The Lieutenant of his company he thinks was Holliston - & his ensign Wells - The Brigade was commanded by Brigadier Gen Glover For this term he thinks he enlisted in the latter part of the year 1780 - but he may be mistaken as to the time - & it may have been a little earlier - or later - he recollects that he was at Westpoint at the time the American Army was disbanded - and when the British evacuated New York - and that he was dis- charged as near as he can recollect about three months after the latter event - During the last three years service he was with his Regiment part of the time in New Jersey - at Morristown and that one winter he encamped at Newburgh & he recollects that the soldiers went into the woods and built huts to live in - He never was in any engagement except the battle of Lexington, at the commencement of the revolution, in which he was engaged

as a private under Captain Stone, Col. Regiment bottom, under whose command he marched from Plymouth in Massachusetts where then lived, and was drafted as a minute man -
He says he does not recollect the names of any other officers who were with the troops where he served, except that Gen. Washington who had his quarters at Newburgh while applicant was there - or part of the time at least - He does not recollect the names of any regiments except that in which he served - He was discharged from his three years service as near as he can recollect some time in 1783 - but did not return home immediately, but hired as a substitute for a soldier and served in his place for several months with a view to raise money by to enable him to get home - The discharge which he received was signed by General Washington - Colonel Polks Rose Adjutant there and Captain Hovey. They are all lost or destroyed. The last discharge, being the one for three years service, was put away by him in a chest & shortly after his return home at the close of the war he had an occasion to look for it and ascertained that it had been taken out by his mother & burnt with some papers of no value - By reason of old age and

consequent loss of memory he is unable to state many particulars of his service or the precise time when he entered or when he was discharged from any particular service above mentioned; but he is positive that he enlisted as a soldier for, and served four several terms of service during the revolutionary war viz for six months - for nine months - for eighteen months and for three years - That he was regu- larly discharged at the expiration of each term of service - That he enlisted in and per- formed each and all of the aforesaid terms of service in the first Regiment of Mass- achusetts State Troops - That the names of his Colonel & Lieutenant Colonel were Rose & that he always understood they were brothers - That his Adjutant's name was Polles - he believes - his Captain's name was Hovey & his Lieut- enant he thinks was Holliston - and his Ensigns, Wells - & that he never did to his know- ledge serve under any other officers - He does not now recollect any persons living who can testify to his revolutionary services as above mentioned - except some some of Bennington in the State of Vermont

who is his brother - Isaac King of Winchester in the State of New Hampshire - & Abner a King of the same place - each of whose dispositions he has procured -
He says he was born at Plymouth in the county of Plymouth in the State of Massachusetts in the year 1757 That he has no record of his age - but he believes there is a record kept by the minister of the parish in Plymouth aforesaid, where his age is recorded That he lived at Halifax in the county of Plymouth & State of Massachusetts when he was called into the service as a soldier except under his several indentments above men- tioned - That since the revolutionary war he has resided at Halifax aforesaid - at New Bedford New Hampshire  Massachusetts - at New- Durham county of Greene & State of New York & now resides at New Lebanon in the County of Columbia and State of New York - That he removed from Halifax to Winchester about 35 years ago where he resided until about 3 years since, when he removed to Durham aforesaid, where he lived until about 4 months ago, when he removed to New Lebanon aforesaid

That he has received a discharge from the service at the expiration of each of the several terms of service above named - That each was signed by the officers whose names he has heretofore mentioned - viz Gen Washington - Col Rose Captain Hovey & Adjutant Bolles - And that each of said discharges are now lost or destroyed - He has no documentary evidence of his service
That he was called into the service by enlistment or as a volunteer in the manner above stated
That he can name no other Regular officers than those he has already mentioned - who were with the troops when he served - And for the reason before given, can state no other circumstances attending his service, than as above stated
He says that from his short residence in New Lebanon - and being confined at home nearly all of the time and from his old age he is known to but few persons there or in his present neighbourhood - but he thinks that Dea Homa Esgins a justice of the Peace - Nathaniel Nichols a merchant - Mr Hon John Bell junior a judge of the county court of Columbia county, to whom he is known in his present neighbourhood can testify to his character for morality, his advanced age & the length of his residence as a resident of the municipality - 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 any agency of any State -
Subscribed to and submitted the day before aforesaid before said Justice of the Peace
John G. Goss

Given to all whom these presents shall come to before said Justice Court
R. Barrigue } Justices Wm R Macy }
And the said court do hereby declare their opinion, after 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 is of the age he represents himself to be - And the court further certify, that they are satisfied that the applicant is very poor and that he cannot without too much expense and trouble and inconvenience to him, procure in court two witnesses or respectable persons, who can testify as to their opinion of the applicant's age or the belief in his neighbourhood of his revolutionary services R. Barrigue } Justices Wm R Macy }
I Paul Dean Barrigue — Clerk P.S. of the Justices Court of the City of Hudson do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of John Jones for a pension —
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of office this sixth day of January One thousand eight hundred & thirty & six
Paul Dean Barrigue Clerk P.S.

Revolution
22335 INVALID.
File No. 22,335
John Jones Rev War
Act: June 7 th 89
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 212
[Arrangement of 1870.]

New York
John Jones
Rev —
Suspended Lib to Hon A Vandenpool Dec 27. 1836

21.269.
John Jones
Cheshire New Hampshire
Act 18 March 1818
See letter to S. Hale
1 May 1830. do 8
March 1830
Rejected

John Atkinson's Deposition

I John Waterman of Halifax in the County of Plymouth of lawful age do testify and say, that according to my best recollection in the year seventeen hundred and eighty the Town of Halifax was divided into three Claps to furnish a proportional part of soldiers for the Revolutionary War the Clap which I belonged to was called upon for a soldier for three years, we hired a man by the name of John Jones then living in Halifax now residing in Winchester in the State of New Hampshire to serve for our Clap for three years, we was to pay him for his service three three hundred Dollars, which sum when he returned we paid him, I never had a doubt but that he had faithfully performed the service, and further saith not
John Waterman

Plymouth Jy February 15 th 1831. Then personally appeared the above named John Waterman and made oath to the truth of the above affidavit by him subscribed before me Obediah L. Lyon Justice Peace
I have no hesitancy in declaring the above Obediah L. Lyon to be a Person of unimpeachable Morals & may be relied upon as a man of truth & veracity
Obediah Lyon Justice Peace

FREE
Hon J L Edwards Commr of Pensions Washington City
J. W. Evans

Kane March 16. 1839
Dear Sir, —
John Jones was transferred from the Albany St. York Agency to the St Hampshire agency at Concord - but was reported as entitled to $80.00 per annum. The notice of transfer was dated Dec 15 th last - This Pension is in fact $53.33 per annum - & application has been made for the amt due him March 4. at that rate. - The agent declines paying untill the amount reported to him shall be corrected by y r department. —
The arrears of Pension due Susannah Davis under act of 1832 - for which a certificate issued to her dated Feb 2. 1839 - were not paid, - her

name as entitled to the such arrears not having been reported -
She has been reported for the pension to which she is entitled under the act of 1838 - but not for the above arrears -
Early attention to the above will much oblige me
Respectfully
M c Edwards

MECHANICS' & FARMERS' BANK,
Albany Pension Agency,
March 26. 1839
JAMES L. EDWARDS, Esquire, Commissioner of Pensions.
Sir,
In reply to your letter of the 23 d inst. I have to state, that John Jones a Pensioner under the Act of 7 June 1832 at $33 33 / 100 — Dollars per annum was last paid to the 4 day of Sept. — 1838 John Jones at $80 per annum is re-inscribed on our Books — I am, Sir,
Very respectfully,
Your ob't serv't,
Thos. M. Lewis
PRES'T AND PENSION AGENT.

Treasury Department,
SECOND COMPTROLLER'S OFFICE,
May 25 - 1838.
Sir.
Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled "An act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States;" John Jones a Pensioner on the Roll of the Albany Agency, at the rate of fifty three Dollars and thirty three Cents per annum, under the law of the 7 th June 1832 has been paid at this Department, from the 4 th of March 1837 to the 4 th September 1837.
Respectfully, yours,
Alison R. Parish Comptroller
To the COMMISSIONER OF PENSIONS, Present.

I Zenas Jones of Binnington in the County of Bennington State of Vermont do hereby testify and say that I am seventy six years of age - That John Jones formerly of Halifax in the County of Plymouth & State of Massachusetts - late of Winchester in the County of Cheshire & State of New Hampshire and now of Staten Lebanon in the County of Columbia & State of New York is my brother - That the said John Jones is now aged seventy nine years - and in order to collect testimony of his services as a soldier in the revolutionary army of the United States to enable him to obtain a pension under the act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832 - That my said brother John Jones enlisted as a private soldier in the Massachusetts State Troops at four different times during the war of the revolution and served under such enlistments for the term of his several engagements - That somewhere about the year 1780 as near as I can recollect - I will not be precise as to the time - my said brother John Jones while residing with me in the family of my mother at Halifax as aforesaid enlisted as a private soldier for the term of three years in a company of infantry belonging to a Regiment of the Massachusetts line commanded by Colonel Vose The recruiting officer under whom he enlisted was a Captain Stone - but the company to which the said John was attached and in which he served was commanded by Captain Hovey - with the soldiers enlisted by Captain Stone, my brother aforementioned - marched to Boston where the Troops were mustered and then marched for West Point in the State of New York - The said John Jones was absent from my mother's family at this time & on the army from Halifax, three years and upwards - I should think three years and a half - he did not return till after the close of the war - on his return home he brought with him a

discharge from the said service - which states that he had served for three years as a soldier - I saw the discharge repeatedly & read it - it was put by my said brother in the title of a chest with other papers shortly after his return - I afterwards saw my mother clearing out the chest & saw her burn the papers that were in it - shortly after the burning of the papers above mentioned the said John requested his discharge to take to Col Vose from or through whom my brother expected to receive some money for his services from the State or general government I think; he having received nothing or a duplicate paper for his services - I will not be particular as to the course from whence the money was expected - but I distinctly recollect that my brother searched for his discharge to take to Col Vose at Milton - - - in the State of Massachusetts - and that it could not be found & he then ascertained that it had been burnt up as above stated - I went with my brother to Col Vose and heard him say to my brother that he had served out his time regularly and should have his money & that the loss of the discharge which was then mentioned to Colonel Vose - should not make no difference -
I recollect that when my brother returned home from the service above mentioned he said he had after serving out his term of three years enlisted again - hired as substitute for some soldier with the view to get some money to return home with - which was the reason of his absence for more than three years - I cannot be mistaken as to the fact of my brother's enlistment for three years nor of the Regiment in which he enlisted and served - nor of his absence for the time above mentioned nor of the

years - I cannot be sure of the exact time of my brother's enlistment for three years nor of the age at which he enlisted and served - nor of his absence for the time above mentioned nor of the continuance and subsequent loss of his discharge as above mentioned - I also recollect that Henry Munro of Halifax went with my brother for the three years since they started from Halifax together and returned about the same time and further I say not. Dated at Bennington County of Bennington & State of Vermont and subscribed by me December 1 st 1836 -
James Jones
State of Vermont - Bennington County ss
I personally appeared before me James Jones the subscriber of the foregoing Affidavit or deposition and after being duly cautioned and carefully examined does testify the foregoing deposition to be true and I have been personally acquainted with said Jones for fifteen years or more & from my knowledge of the man have reason to believe his statement to be correct and as far as I am acquainted with him believe his reputation or deposition is unimpeachable in truth whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal the first day of December A.D. 1836
Joseph Starin Justice of the Peace
State of Vermont - I Henry Robinson Clerk of the County Court in & for the County of Bennington hereby certify that Joseph Starin Esq. whose signature appears to the foregoing was at the date thereof & still is a Justice of the Peace in said County, duly qualified by law to take Depositions & certify the same - that his signature hereunto is genuine -
In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name & affixed the seal of our said County Court at Bennington the first day of December A.D. 1836 -
Henry Robinson

John Jones
affidavit etc
Hon. A. Vanderpool H.R.

State of New York Columbia County }
John Jones of the town of New Lebanon in the county aforesaid being duly sworn says - That he is an applicant for a pension under the act of June 1832. That he applied for a pension under the act of March 18.7818. That he then resided in Winchester in the State of Massachusetts - That the papers in rela- tion to such application were returned as disapproved for some defect in the proof of service or some informality in the manner in which they were drawn -
That said application was sent to the war department at Washington & when returned came into the hands of one Paul Wright of Winchester aforesaid who had undertaken to assist disprove in the procuring of a pension
What became of the papers in relation to said application deponent does not know, he left them with said Wright who from time to time assured deponent that he would procure to be done all that was necessary in order to obviate the objec- tion made at the department to the applica- -tion that said application was made about seven years ago. That about three years after said application was made into

The State of New York - That from the fail- ure of my business application he became discouraged - and abandoned the idea of running until recently when advised by his friends, under whose advice he has again appeared for a position for his services as a soldier at the revolution. John G. Smith
State of New York Columbia County } ss. On this fifth day of January 1837 before me personally appeared John Louis the substance to the foregoing affidavit, which being leg- ally first duly sworn, says that the facts in said affidavit, as follows are true - & I certify that the said John Louis is known to me to be a credible person and that his statement is reliable. to wit:
John Bull Jur. Judge of County Court

Sam. C. Sturtevant Affidavit

I Samuel S Sturtevant of Halifax in the County of Plymouth in the State of Massachusetts of Lawful age do testify and say, that according to my best recollection, in the year seventeen hundred and eighty, I was one of the Committee for hiring soldiers to go into the Continental Service. The Town at that time was divided into Claps, each Clap to furnish their proportional part of soldiers for the Revolutionary War, in the Clap in which I lived we hired a man by the name of John Jones then an Inhabitant of the town of Halifax now Resident in the Town of Winchester in the State of New Hampshire to serve in the said War for the term of three years, for which service he was to receive three hundred Dollars which sum when he returned I paid him, we had at the time of his return satisfactory evidence that he had performed the service required of him, but whether he served the whole term of three years, or was discharged at the close of the war I do not now recollect, and further saith not Sam d S. Sturtevant
Plymouth ss February 16 th 1831 Then personally appeared the above named Samuel S. Sturtevant and made oath to the truth of the above Affidavit by him subscribed before me Obadiah Lyon Justice Peace
I have no hesitancy in declaring the above Deponent to be a person of unimpeachable morals and can be relied upon as a person of Truth and veracity
O Lyon Justice Peace

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Plymouth Clerk's Office of the Judicial Court Feb'y 16 1821
I certify that Obadiah Lyon appeared before whom the foregoing affidavit was sworn to a justice of the Peace for the County of Plymouth in said Commonwealth duly qualified and acting under the authority of said Commonwealth - and the signature purporting to be the signature of said Obadiah Lyon is genuine -
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of the Court the day and year aforesaid
W. B. Munroe Clerk of the Judicial Court for the said County of Plymouth

I Isaac King of Winchester upon that when young I resided in Halifax Mass - that I was well acquainted with John Jones - & lived but forty or fifty rods from the dwelling of his mother, who was a widow. - I can recollect his return from the army, being then about ten years of age. He now resides in Winchester, and I have no doubt that he is the same John Jones whom I knew in Halifax, and I have no doubt he served in the army of the revolution. Such has been the understanding and belief of all his intimate acquaintances. And I further say that it has been the general understanding that he served three years. Isaac King
State of New Hampshire Cheshire Co. April 6, 1830
Then the aforesaid Isaac King appeared & made oath That the above affidavit by him subscribed is true
Before me Foster Alexander Jus. peace
I certify that the said Isaac King is a man of truth and veracity.
Foster Alexander Jus. peace
Cheshire Co. April 20. 1830
I Salma Hale clerk of the Superior courts in said County certify that Foster Alexander is a Justice of the peace for said County & that the foregoing are his signatures. In testimony whereof I hereunto affix the seal of our Superior Court of Judicature J. Hale Clerk

State of New York Rensselaer County ss. 3
Gideon Simpkins of Stephentown aforesaid being duly sworn deponeth & saith that he is 78 years of age that he now resides in Stephentown aforesaid that he is well acquainted with John Jones now of New Lisbon in Columbia County & state of New York & believes him to be 80 years of age that he was well acquainted with him in the time of the Revolutionary War in the year 1780 or 1781 this deponent became acquainted with said John Jones at West Point in the state of New York that they served under Capt. Harry Col. Joseph Vose at which place they served as soldiers together until the close of the War went several times to New Jersey & once to Newburgh that most of the time at West Point where this deponent served a three years enlistment & knows that John Jones above named to be the identical person that he is possessed of that fact as the said John Jones is now present at the drawing of this deposition and that the said John Jones served as a soldier of the revolutionary War three years at the times & places above named
Sworn & subscribed this 8 th day of June 1837 before me
Nathan Howard Com. D.
Gideon his Simpkins mark
I certify that I am well acquainted with the above named Gideon Simpkins that he is a man of truth & veracity & that his statement above is entitled to credit I have been acquainted with said Simpkins over 35 years that his signature has always been a crop I never knew him to write
Nathan Howard Com. D.
State of New York
Rensselaer County ss. I Henry R. Bristol Clerk of said County do hereby certify that Nathan Howard Esq. before whom the foregoing deposition appears to have been sworn to at the time of taking the same a justice of the peace in & for the said County of Rensselaer duly commissioned & qualified that his signature above written is genuine
Witness my hand & seal of office this 12 th day of June 1837
Henry R. Bristol Clerk

To the Secretary of War
Sir,
At the request of Mr Jones I send you the enclosed papers. You will perceive there is no certificate of the court that the applicant had proved to their satis- faction that he had served according to his statement. This omission does not arise from any reason to doubt but from his failing to produce plenary proof; and you will probably find his name on the roll of their years men, in your office, which will be sufficient proof.
Respectfully
S. Hale

[Signature]
Pension Office
March 2, 1891
[Signature]
Department of War
Pension office
Washington

Keene. Feb. 22. 1831
Sir,
At the request of John Jones, an applicant for a pension, I send you the enclosed affidavits. He made application April 1830
Respectfully
S. Hale

ms 8.
Mr. S. S....
Hon J. L. Edwards
Comm ee of Pensions
Washington D.C.

Keene Church Co N.H. Nov. 5. 1838.
The application of Jones to be transferred from the Roll of the Albany Church agency to the Concord N.H. agency
Please return to
Morris M. Edwards

Washington
H. B.
21 Decr 1836
My dear Sir
I enclose you the per- -son papers of of John Jones , a pensioner. I would be glad, if you would give the papers your earli- est attention & inform me of the conclusion to which you shall come
Yours very truly A. Vandepol
J. L. Edwards Esq.

I Rebecca King of Winchester in the county of Cheshire and State of New Hampshire aged ninety years depose and say that, at the close of the Revolutionary war I lived in Halifax county of Plymouth and State of Massachusetts and near neighbour to the Mother of John Jones late of Winchester aforesaid now of Lebanon Columbia County N.Y. and that, I was at the house of the aforesaid John Jones Mother soon after the aforesaid John Jones returned from the army, and saw and heard the said John Jones discharge from the service of his country, read: and I know this to be the same John Jones whose discharge I heard read at that time: and I further say that it was after the close of the war after Isaac King Isaac King Rebecca King
State of New Hampshire } Oct. 27 th 1838 Cheshire ss } Then the above named Rebecca King, personally appeared and made oath that the above affidavit by her subscribed was true and I further certify that the mental faculties of the deponent are as sound and her recollection apparently as clear as any person of her years and her moral character unimpeachable Before me Homer Chapin Judge of the Court of Common Pleas for the Co. of Cheshire

State of New Hampshire } Cheshire County ss. }
I Henry Coolidge, Clerk of the Superior Court of Judicature for the County of Cheshire, certify that Horace Chapin, was on the 27 th day of October instant and still is a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas for said County of Cheshire, and that his name subscribed to the within, is his genuine signature.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Superior Court at Keene the twenty ninth day of October Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and thirty six.
H. Coolidge, Clerk.

I Isaac King of Winchester in the County of Cheshire and State of New Hampshire aged sixty years last May, depose and say, that I think my Father removed from Hingham Plymouth County, and State of Massachusetts to Halifax in the same County, in year Seventeen hundred and eighty, - and settled near by the Mother of John Jones late of Winchester County of Cheshire and State of New Hampshire, now of Lebanon Columbia County and State of New York. That soon after we settled in Halifax the aforesaid John Jones together with a man that lived with my Father went into the army, and as I understand for three years but do not recollect that fact clearly; recollect very well that the said John Jones returned home after the close of the war - heard much conversation about it because he did not return so soon by some months as he was expected - I know this to be the same John Jones that I knew in Halifax aforesaid Isaac King
State of New Hampshire } Oct. 27 th 1838 Then the Cheshire ss } above named Isaac King personally appeared and made oath that the above affidavit by him subscribed was true; and I further certify that the said King is a man whose habits of life have been such that he would be likely to recollect transactions that took place when he was young, and that his moral character is unexceptionable Before me Horace Chapin Judge of the Court of Common Pleas for the County of Cheshire

State of New Hampshire, Cheshire County ss. S.
I Henry Goodridge Clerk of the Superior Court of Judicature for said County certify that Horace Chapin is the true image of the Court of Common Pleas for said County of Cheshire, and was on the 27 th day of October instant, and that his name within written is his genuine signature.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Superior Court, at Keene the twenty ninth day of October anno domini one thousand eight hundred and thirty six.
H Goodridge, Clerk,

In the matter of The application of John Jones for a pension
Depositions
Wm H Tobey Kinderhook Columbia County State of New York Agent for Applicant
Address Hon. A. Vanderpool H. R.

State of New York
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I John Bull junior of the town of New Lebanon now in the County of Columbia & State aforesaid son of the judges of the County Courts of said County do depose and say That I am acquainted with John Bull of New Lebanon aforesaid an applicant for a pension under the act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832. That I have known him for four months during which time he has resided in my imme- diate neighbourhood. That I believe him to be seventy nine years of age as he represents. That since I have known him he has borne a fair and unswarable character & is reported to be a man of truth and veracity - Since I first knew him, he has uniformly stated that he was a soldier of the revolutionary army of the United States - That he is believed in the neighbourhood where he lives to have been a soldier as he states and I verily believe that his statement

is entitled to credit - and I further state that there is no clergyman living in the neighbourhood of said John Jones nor within two miles of his residence & I do not believe that any clergyman in the town is acquainted with him and that it would therefore be impossible to prove a clergyman in his neighbour- hood to testify as to his age, character or reputation -
Subscribed and sworn before me this 9 th day of December 1836 Ira Hand Justice of the peace
John Bull Junr. Judge of County Courts in & for Columbia County.
State of New York
Columbia County } On this ninth day of December 1836 personally appeared before me John Bull Junior Esquire one of the judges of the County Courts in the County aforesaid & being by me first duly sworn according to law, did depose and say that he had read the foregoing affidavit subscribed by him & knew the contents thereof and that the facts therein stated are true - And I certify that I am well acquainted with said John Bull Junior & know him to be a credible person and that his statement is entitled to credit -
Ira Hand Justice of the peace

Columbia County, } ss. Clerk's Office, }
I, James Storm, Clerk of the county of Columbia,
Do hereby certify That Ira H. Hill - Esq. —  unsworn before whom the affidavit
purports to have been sworn, was on the day of the date of the same, a Justice of the Peace in and for said county. And further, that I am acquainted with the hand writing of the said Justice, and verily believe the name of the said Justice subscribed to the said affidavit, to be his proper hand writing and signature.
In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my name and affixed the Seal of the said county, this fifteenth day of December 1836
James Storm C.M.
John Buel Jr. of County Court Columbia County. the day of swearing before me on oaths in my law, and before the foregoing + there the in facts therein by that same in full junior are and that all — a justice of the peace —

State of New Hampshire Cheshire County ss. Superior Court of Inferiature.
On this sixth day of April 1830 personally appeared in open court, being a court of Record for said County, proceeding according to the course of the common law, having a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount, and keeping a record of its proceedings John Jones aged seventy five years resident in Winchester, in said county, who being first duly sworn doth on his oath declare that he served in the revolutionary war as follows - That in the summer of _____ in the town of Halifax Mass. he enlisted into the company commanded by capt Hovey in the regiment of col Vose, and in the brigade of Genl Glover, in the Massachusetts line, on the continental establishment, for three years. - that he served the said three years, and was honorably discharged at Westpoint in the state of New York, after the conclusion of peace - that he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension except the present - that his name is not on the roll of any state, and that the reason why he has not made earlier application is that he was told he must prove his service and discharge and he had lost his discharge, and did not know until lately that any person was living by whom he could prove his service. -
And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 10 th day of March 1818: and that I have not since that time by gift sale or in any manner disposed of my property or any part thereof with intent thereby so 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 and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war" passed on the 10 th day of March 1818, and 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

income - Nor had I any property or income on the 10 th of March 1810, nor have I had at any time since I have no family, am subject to fits, and am not able to obtain my living by labor
John Jones
Sworn to and declared at Keene in said county on the sixth day of April 1830 before Mr. M. Richardson, Samuel Green, & John Harris, Judges of said court
S. Hale Clerk
I Salma Hale, clerk of the Superior court of Inden- cation for the county of Cheshire certify that the foregoing oath is truly copied from the record of Court. In testimony whereof I have affixed the seal of said Court
S. Hale Clerk
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