Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 15253, for Jonas Rice, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Rice, Jonas Zilpah
N. 15253
CONTENTS

2022.
Massachusetts
Jonas Rice
of Worcester in the State of Mass who was a Private in the company commanded by Captain of the  the Pickeney in the Mass line for 19 Mths
Inscribed on the Roll of Mass at the rate of 63 - Dollars 33 Cents per annum to commence on the 14th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 15 th day of November 1832 and sent to Holson of Worcester now present
Arrears to 4th of Sept 1832 $94.99 Pension allowance ending 1 st June 33. 31.66 $126.65
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by J. H. Blair Clerk, Book D. Vol. 17 Page 79.

No 247
First Pico. of Jan'y 23 '45
Iss to Elijah Clarke Aug 28th 1844
Paid at the Treasury Under the Act of 6 April 1838 from 4th week to be: April 1836. Agent Notified 25 April 1845
V 4378 Massachusetts
Gilpah Rice widow of Jonas Rice who was a private in the Mass'ts Line Mass.
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 63 Dollars 33 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843.
Certificate of Pension issued the fifteenth day of Jan'y 1844 and sent to
George G. Parker Auburnham Mass
[Act of March 3, 1843.]
Recorded in Book Vol. 1 Page 60
April 7th 1885 Copy of data furnished to Genl. S. D. Hemenway of Auburnham Mass for historical use copy made

Application of General Price - General Price
10345
Plans to transmit the coa directed to Geo. G. Baker Ashburnham, Mass.
$63.33.

DECLARATION, in order to secure the benefit of the Act of Congress, passed June 7, 1832.
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
COUNTY OF WORCESTER, ss.
ON this Sixteenth day of October in the year of our Lord, eighteen hundred and thirty two personally appeared in open Court, before Hon. Nathaniel Paine, Judge of Probate now sitting forus vice a resident of Coshburnham in the County of Worcester and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, aged Seventy eight 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 7th 1832.
THAT he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated.
That in the nineteenth day of April 1775, he entered a company of volunteers at Salem, Mass. commanded by Capt. Wiley of said Salem in Col. Timothy Pickering's Regt. as a private soldier, and marched immediately to Cambridge near Boston. That after serving about one week in said company he enlisted as a private for the term of eight months, at Cambridge, and joined a company of militia commanded by Capt. John Brachdell of South Reading, Mass. & Col. Briggin's Regt. of Chelmsford; that he was stationed during said eight months at Cambridge, Cambridge, and the house of Samuel Hastings ; that he was employed, with others, under Gen. Putnam in an attempt to construct a fort at Lechmere's Point from which they were driven by the British then lying in Charles River - that he remained in the service ten days or more after the expiration of said eight months, at the request of Gen. Washington till new recruits arrived & that he was honorably discharged at the end of that time.
That same time in the summer of 1776 he again enlisted as a private soldier for the term of five months; that he marched from Sterling in said county of Worcester through Worcester, Mass. , Hartford & New Haven to City of N.Y. in a company of militia commanded by Capt. Samuel Sawyer ; that they remained a few days at N.Y. & then moved up the Hudson a short distance to a place the name of which he does not recollect; that he remained there until about the first of Sept 1776 when the city of N.Y. was given up to the British; that he then moved up the river to Hudson Highlands where he remained in that neighborhood till his term of service was completed when he was regularly discharged. That he again enlisted as a private soldier for the term of six months about the first of July 1777 - served in a company of militia commanded by Capt. Francis Willson of Holden, Mass. in Col. Hayes's Regt.
That soon after he enlisted for the six months last aforesaid; he was ordered to Scituate in said county of Worcester ; that he then marched to Providence in the state of Rhode Island ; then to a place about two miles South of Greenwich - there he remained about the first of Jan. 1778 - that during the time last mentioned he went to Point Judith to assist in collecting boats to be used in an attack upon Newport that in sailing round the point many of the boats were destroyed - eight were destroyed and the contemplated attack on Newport abandoned. In reply to interrogatories proposed by the court he says that he was born in the town of...

1816, to replace the name of which he does not recollect; that he was, in Dec 8 and at least present on the 14 & 15 Sept 1776 when the city of N.Y. was given up to the British; that he then moved up the river to Harlem hills that he remained in that neighborhood till his term of service was completed when he was regularly discharged. That he again enlisted as a private soldier for the term of six months about the first of July 1777 & served in a company of militia commanded by Col. Francis Williams of Holden, Mass. in Col. Mages Regt. That soon after he enlisted for the six months last aforesaid he was ordered to join the at Scituate in said County of Worcester; that he then marched to Providence No 3 in the State of Rhode Island; then to place about two miles South of Greenwich - then eastward, through Warren to Tiverton, then to Providence where he was regularly discharged about the first of Jan. 1778 - that during the time last mentioned he went to Point Judith to assist in collecting boats to be used in an attack upon Newport that in sailing round the Point many of the boats were destroyed - eight men drowned and the contemplated attack on Newport abandoned - In reply to interrogatories proposed by the court he says that he was born in Lancaster, Mass. Feb. 11 1754 - that when he first entered the army he was residing in Salem, Mass. when he entered for the last two terms, he was residing in Sterling Mass. that he removed to Ashburnham in 1779 where he has resided since that time that he served in the army of the revolution Nineteen months and half in the whole & that his services were all voluntary - that he has no recollection
of age; that while he was in the army at Cambridge he saw Genl Wash- ington, Putnam, Ward, - at N.Y. Genl Putnam & his son acting as his aid - he thinks - while in R. Island he does not remember that he saw any general officer - the troops being stationed here or two companies in a place, that he does not remember that he ever received any written discharge, nor has he in his possession any written evidence of his services except a receipt which he produces in court - that he is acquainted with Hosea Stone (ad. justice & Abraham Love Esqrs. Col. Charles Barrett, Samuel Skinner and Reuben Loam, all living in his neighborhood who can testify as to his character for truth & their belief of his services as a soldier of the revolution.
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.
Jonas Price
affidavit sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
under the pains & penalties of perjury. The said Jonas Price being conscientiously scrupulous respecting taking oaths.
Before Nathl. Farnes Judge of the State for the County of Worcester -

We S. B. Spaulding a Clergyman residing in the town of Ashburnham of reside and Abraham Love residing in the same Ashburnham hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Jonas Rice who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration, that we believe him to be seventy eight years of age, that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the revolution, and we concur in that opinion.
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
Before Nath l D. D. Judge of Probate for the County of Worcester
Nathan B. Spaulding Abraham Love
And the said court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above mentioned applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states. And the court further certifies, that it appears to them that Nathan B. Spaulding who signed the preceding certificate, is a clergyman, resident in the town of Ashburnham and that Abraham Love Esq r who has also signed the same is a resident in the same Ashburnham and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
Nath l D. D. Judge of Probate for the County of Worcester
Joseph Wheeler Reg d , Clerk of the Court of Probate do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Jonas Rice for a pension. Simon D. Hall, Jos. Hovey, Jr., Alexander Dutton and Joseph G. Brindall before whom the annexed affidavits were made, are Justices of the Peace in & for the County of Worcester, & that their signatures are genuine. IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of said Court this 18 th day of October in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and thirty two.
Joseph Wheeler Reg d of the Court of Probate for the County of Worcester in Massachusetts
Mr. [unclear] for [unclear] W.R.

Affidavit of Eliakim Rice

I Eliakin Rice of Hartland in the County of Windsor and State of Vermont but formerly of Salem in the County of Essex & Commonwealth of Massachusetts of lawful age do depose & say that my brother Jonas Rice now of Ashburnham in the County of Worcester & Commonwealth of Massachusetts but formerly of South Reading in said County of Essex on the nineteenth day of April A.D. 1875 entered as private soldier in a Company of Militia commanded by Capt. Derby of Salem aforesaid in the Regt. of Col. Timothy Pickering of the same Salem: that he marched immediately to Cambridge near Boston & volunteered & marched with the same Company and remained at said Cambridge with the said Jonas about one week, when I returned to Salem but my said brother then enlisted as a private soldier for the term of eight months & joined the Company of Militia commanded by Capt. John Bachelder of said South Reading in Col. Ebenezer Bridges Regt. of Chelmsford in Mass. I again entered the same Company commanded by said Capt. Bachelder in the month of August A.D. 1875 for the term of five months as a substitute for one Jacob Herrick and was with my said brother till the end of his said eight months when he was honorably discharged. We were stationed on Cambridge Common near Boston at the house of one Hastings. At the time the said Jonas entered the army as a volunteer he was laboring at said Salem where I then resided. I further testify that the said Jonas is seventy eight years of age, his own age being seventy six years. Ashburnham 14 Aug. 1882.
Eliakin Rice
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
November 24. 1882. Then the above named Eliakin Rice personally appeared & made oath that the above affidavit by him subscribed is true before me.
Joseph Jewett Jus Pacis
I certify that I am acquainted with the above named Eliakin Rice & that he is a credible witness.
Jos. Jewett Jus Pacis

4083 Zillah Rice
admitted Pn $63. 33 / 100
Geo J. Parker Ashburnham Mass

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
1864 Nov 8 I, Charles G. Prentiss, Register of the Court of Probate for the County of Worcester, do certify, that Ira Barton is the Judge of said Court, duly commissioned and qualified, and that his signature to the paper hereto annexed is true and genuine.
I further certify, that George G. Parker is a Justice of the Peace within and for said County, duly commissioned and qualified, and that his signature to the paper hereto annexed is true and genuine.
In testimony whereof I do hereunto set my hand and affix the seal of said Court, this eighth day of November, in the year, one thousand, eight hundred and thirty eight.
Chas. G. Prentiss, Register.

State of Massachusetts } County of Worcester } ss -
On this twentieth day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred thirty eight, personally appeared before the undersigned justice of the peace for said County, Tillie P. Rice , a resident of Ashburnham in the County of Worcester aforesaid aged eighty two years, who, being first duly sworn, according to law, doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress, passed July 7. 1838, entitled, "An act granting half pay & pensions to certain widows." That she is the widow of Jonas Rice , late of said Ashburnham, deceased, who was a private in the Army of the Revolution for the term of nineteen months, as follows - one term of eight months at Cambridge Mass. in the year 1775 - one term of five months in the above stated  year 1776 - one term of six months in N.J. in 1777. That her said husband received a pension from the United States for the reason that his Certificate dated Nov. 15 - 1832 is hereunto annexed. When the above service was performed her said husband was an inhabitant of Reading Mass. afterwards of Sterling & Boylston Mass. - When the above Certificate was issued he was resident in said Ashburnham. She supposes that all the evidence that can be found to prove her said husband's service, is now on file in the War Office in Washington -
She further declares that she was married

to the said Jonas Rice on the tenth day of May in the year Seventeen hundred Seventy Nine; that her said husband, the aforesaid Jonas Rice, died on the twenty sixth day of April in the year Eighteen hundred thirty six - that she was not married to him previous to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place pre- vious to the first of January Seventeen hundred & ninety four AD, on the tenth day of May Seventeen hundred Seventy Nine - and that she has never been married since his death.
I swear to subscribe as the day & year above written, before
my Sub-Battle Judge of her  the Court of Probate for the marks - said County of Wentworth -
memo. The Applicant requests that her Husband's Certificate may be returned to her so that she may get the balance of pension due him at the time of his death J. B. B. / S. W.

Clerk's Office, Shrewsbury, Worcester County, Massachusetts, September 21 st 1838.
Transcript of the record of marriages:— "Jonas Rice of Ashburnham and Zilpah Pours- end," May tenth, seventeen hundred and sev- enty nine, "By Rev'd Eleazer Fairbanks:"— that it is a true copy of the record, with the ex- ception of the date, which is expressed on the record in fair, legible figures, as follows:— "May 10. 1779."—
Attest,
A. R. Phelps, Trial Clerk.
I, A. R. Phelps, above named, depose & say, that I hold the office of Clerk, in the County, Town & State aforesaid, & that the above is a true extract from the records of said marriages, with the exception above named, as certified by me.
A. R. Phelps, Clerk of the Town of Shrewsbury.
Sworn before me, William Garrison
Justice of the Peace.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Worcester, ss.
I, Joseph H. Kendall, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, within and for said County of Worcester, do certify, that William Garrison, Esquire, is a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, and that his signature to the certificate on the preceding page is in his own proper hand writing.
In testimony whereof I hereunto set my name, and affix the Seal of said Court, at Worcester this twenty fourth day of September, in the year 1838.
W. H. Kendall. Clerk.

I, Silas Rice, of Auburnh m in the County of Worcester & Commonwealth of Massachusetts of lawful age, do hereby say - that my father Jonas Rice, late of said Auburnh m deceased died, at said Auburnh m on the sixth day of April in the year eighteen hundred & thirty six - that he was - at the time of his decease - a citizen of the United States under the act of June 7 - 1832 - that Zillah Rice of said Auburnh m is the widow of said Jonas Rice - & that she has not - to my knowledge been married since the decease of her said husband - I have lived in the same town with  with my said father & mother for the last ten  thirty years -
Silas Rice
Worcester ss. Oct. 20 - 1858 Then the above named Silas Rice personally appeared & made oath that the above affidavit by him subscribed is true - I also certify that the I am personally acquainted with said Silas Rice & that he is a highly credible witness -
Geo. E. Packer J. Trustee

Jonas Kins
Payments to be made at Boston Mass by the Pres d B k Bank Agent for paying Pension- ers, in the Agency of Mass.
Recorded by J H B Blair Clerk, in Book 9 - Vol. 2 nd page 79.

WAR DEPARTMENT.
Revolutionary Claim.
I certify that, in conformity with the Law of the United States of the 7th June, 1832, Jonas Rice of the State of Massachusetts who was a Private in the Army of the Revolution
is entitled to receive Sixty Three dollars and Thirty Three 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 Fifteenth day of November one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two,
Acting John B. Babb Secretary of War.
Examined and Countersigned. }
J. L. Edwards

Rev WIDOW, &c.
File No. 15253
Gilpah Rice Widow of Jonas Rice Brn Rev. War
Act: Mar. 3, 1843
Index:—Vol. M , Page 163
[Arrangement of 1870.]

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No. 247
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May 16. '45 Cyle iss under St Res: of Vengy 23. '45 at $13 33 1/3 per annu. Am. 4th March 1836 and ending 7th April, 1836 and due to Elijah Clark Brighton Mass
Massachusetts
Zilpah Rice.
widow of Jonas Rice , deceased: who was a pensioner under the Act of 7 June 1832 and who died on the 6 April 1836 — of Worcester in the State of Mass: — who was a private in the ————— commanded by Captain ————— of the Reg't commanded by Col: Pickering in the Mass: — line for 19 months —
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 63 Dollars 33 Cents per annum, to commence on the 1st day of March, 1836 . 7th — April, 1836
Certificate of Pension issued the 22 d day of May 1839 and sent to George G. Parker, Ashburnham, Mass:
Arrears to the 4th of Mar: 1839 $ 184. 19 Semi-annual allowance ending 1 st Sept: $ 31. 66
$215.85
{ Act July 7, } 1838. }
Recorded by M c Stewart — Clerk, Book A Vol. 1 — Page 127

Arroyo
7 Rice
7 July 1838

Commonwealth of Massachusetts Norfolk ss.
On this thirty first day of January A.D. 1844 and forty four personally appeared before me Nathan Townsend one of the Justices of the Peace in and for the County of Norfolk this a Resident of Ash- burnham in said County eighty seven years of age who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the amount of pension which she claims from the fourth of March 1836 to the sixth day of April 1836 from which period she has heretofore paid under the act of the seventh of Febry 1838 and the Declaration further alleges that she is still the widow of James Rice who was a private in the Revolutionary war that her pension was allowed at the rate of sixty three dollars and thirty three cents per annum and was paid to her at the agency at Boston in the State of Mass- achusetts and further she saith not.
Zillah Rice
Sworn to and subscribed day and year after written before me
Norfolk ss.
Nathan Townsend } Justice of the Peace
At Ashburnham Jan'y 31 - 1844
I hereby certify that Zillah Rice who has subscribed the above Declaration is personally known to me to be the widow of James Rice of Ashburnham a Revolutionary pensioner of the United States
Nathan Townsend } Justice of the Peace

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Boston February 3 1844
I hereby Certify, That at the date of the annexed attestation Reuben Townsend was a Justice of the Peace for the County of Worcester.
in the said Commonwealth, duly constituted and commissioned; and that to his acts and attestations, as such, full faith and credit are and ought to be given, in and out of Court.
In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written.
John G. Palfrey. Secretary of the Commonwealth.

4695 AW 3 o 1843
FREE
Wap. 1 o 1843 Mar 3 o 1843 Zillah L. Lucy  Lucy $63:33 per ann Geo. G. Parsons Ashmun's Wap.   Joan L. Lucy  Lucy Edwards Commission of Pensions Pension Office Washington City D.C.

Atkinsburg Mass. Oct 30 - 1848 Dear J. S. Edwards
Enclosed the application of Mrs. Tilford Rice of this town for a renewal of her Pension, under the act of March 3 - 1843. If there is any error or deficiency in the papers please to inform me. —
I should be glad to learn whether the act of March 3 - 1843 is so construed as to include the widows of Pensioners who have deceased since the expiration of the act of July 7 - 1838. There are two cases of the kind in this town & the widows are too poor to make any application till the question is settled. Of course I am correct & convenient I should be glad of the answer to the above question.
Yours truly
Ebenezer D. Park

Hon. J. L. Edwards Chair of Pension Washington D.C.

Ashburnham Mass. Dec 19/88
J. L. Edwards, Esq.
Sir
I herewith transmit the applications of Margaret Townsend, Lilliput Rice & Charlotte Lord - for Pensions under the act of July 8 - 1838 - Their late husbands were all Pensioners under the act of June 7 - 1832 - The Pension Certificates of two of them were surrendered by the present applicants on receiving the arrears of their husbands pensions - The other is annexed to Mrs Rice's application - As her pension commences at the time of her husband's decease she requests that the certificate may be returned to enable her to obtain the annuity due her husband at the time of his death.
I believe they have furnished all the evidence that they are required to, but if there is any deficiency I would respectfully ask to be apprised of it before their applications are rejected on that account.
Respectfully & in haste Geo. G. Parked

TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
SECOND COMPTROLLER'S OFFICE,
Feb'y 23 d , 1844.
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," and the third section of the Act of August 23, 1842, extending the time within which pensioners may receive their pensions from the pension agents, The widow of Jonas Rice, deceased, a Pensioner on the Roll of the Boston, Mass. Agency, at the rate of Sixty Three — Dollars and 33 Cents per annum, under the law of the 7 th June 1832, has been paid at this Department, from the 1 st of March, to the 6 th April 1836.
Respectfully, yours,
Comptroller.
To the COMMISSIONER OF PENSIONS, Present.

Gilpak Rice
Under joint resolution
23 d Jan y : 1845 V act
7 th July, 1858 —
Adm d : $63.33 per ann: from 4 March to 7 th the: April 1856 —
50
Elizab l Clark Esq. Brighton, Massachusetts —

Commonwealth of Massachusetts, County of Worcester ss on this fifteenth day of April eighteen hundred and forty five personally appeared before me Reuben Townsend one of the Justices of the Peace in and for the County of said Lilpha Rice a resident of Ashburnham in said County eighty eight years of age, who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following additional Declaration in order to obtain the amount of pension which she claims from the fourth of March 1836 to the seventh day of April 1836 from which period she has been already paid under the act of July the seventh 1835 and the Declarant further alleges that she is still the Widow of Jonas Rice who was a private in the Revolutionary war, that her pension was allowed at the rate of sixty three dollars and thirty three cents per annum and was paid to her at the agency of Boston in the state of Massachusetts, and further she saith not.
Lilpha Rice mark
Sworn to and subscribed on the day above written.
Before me -
Reuben Townsend } Justice of the Peace
Worcester ss Ashburnham April 15 - 1845
I hereby certify that Lilpha Rice who has subscribed the above by making her mark and made oath to the same is personally known to me to be the Widow of Jonas Rice and that she is now a pensioner of the United States
Reuben Townsend } Justice of the Peace

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Boston, April 21 st 1845
I hereby Certify, That at the date of the annexed attestation Reuben Townsend was a justice of the Peace for the County of Worcester,
in the said Commonwealth, duly constituted and commissioned; and that to his acts and attestations, as such, full faith and credit are and ought to be given, in and out of Court.
In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written.
Wm G. Russell, Secretary of the Commonwealth.

4695
Please accept Rev. G. Parker Ashburnham Worcester Co. Mass.

Declaration
In order to obtain the benefits of the act of Congress of the 3 rd March 1843 granting Pensions for one year to certain Widows who have received pensions under the act of July 7 1838 State of Massachusetts
Worcester County } ss.
On this fifth day of August in the year of our Lord Eighteen hundred forty three, personally appeared before me the subscriber, one of the Justices of the Peace within my said County of Worcester, Silpah Rice, a resident of the town of Auburn, herein in said County of Worcester, aged Eighty Seven years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth - on her oath - make the following Declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the act of Congress passed on the 3 rd March 1843, granting Pensions to Widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War -
That she is the Widow of Jonas Rice, who was a private in the Army of the Revolution & served in said Army as follows - Served Eight months at Cambridge Mass under Capt John Balch held in Col. Bridge's Regt. - Five months in New York under Capt Samuel Sawyer & Six months in Rhode Island

under Capt. Francis Willson - That the annual amount of the Russian which she received under the act of July 7 1838 was Sixtythree dollars thirty three cents - She further declares that she is still a Widow -
I swear to the subscription on the day & year  on the day & year above written before me  before me  Eliza Rice  Eliza Rice Sec. G. Packer } for Peace
I further certify that I am well acquainted with the above named Eliza Rice & that she is the same person who received the pension as above specified -
Sec. G. Packer } for Peace

(The Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Worcester, ss.)
I, Charles G. Prentiss, Register of the Court of Probate for the County of Worcester, do certify, that Geo. G. Parker is a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, duly commissioned and qualified, and that his signatures to the foregoing certificates are genuine.
In testimony whereof, I do hereunto set my hand and the seal of said Court, this twenty-third day of August, in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-three.
Chas. G. Prentiss, Register.

Elijah Burris Official

I Elijah Burpee of Shelburn in the County of Worcester and Commonwealth of Massachusetts of lawful age testify and say that some time in the summer of 1777 I enlisted as a private for the term of five, or six months Soldier in the Company commanded by Capt. W. then of Holden, in said County Wilson in the Massachusetts line, and shortly after my enlistment I was ordered to muster at Leicester in said County of Worcester, and in said Company I was Jonas Rice as a Private soldier, who then was an inhabitant of said Shelburn, who now lives in Ashburnham in said County, and I have always been acquainted with said Rice. Immediately after we were mustered, we were ordered to march to Providence in the State of Rhode Island, and after remaining there a few days, we there marched in a south easterly direction about twenty or twenty five miles to a certain place, the name of which I do not recollect, where we remained, and in other places near that, until we were ordered back to Provi- dence aforesaid for winter quarters; that said Rice continued in said Company during the whole term aforesaid. Colo. Keyes commanded the Regiment to which said Company belonged. Said Service was rendered in the Revolutionary War. Shelburn 20 th 1832. Elijah Burpee
Witnesseth: July 20 th 1832. Then Elijah Burpee appeared, sub- scribed and made oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavit by him submitted before me; I also certify that said Burpee's character for truth is good.

U. S. Pension Office.
Jonas Rice - of Ashburnham - Dec. 16 th 1832 - aged 78 - Alleged - Enlisted Apr. 19 th 1815 in a Co. of Volunteers raised raised at Salem, Mass. Commanded by Capt. Serfus of Salem - of Col. Timothy Pick- ering's Regt. - Marched to Cambridge - after a winter service re-enlisted for 8 Mos. at Cambridge. in a Co. of Militia commanded by Capt. John Bocheider of So. Reading - of Col. Bridget's Regt. of Chelmsford. He was stationed during all of this service on Cambridge Common. at the time of Genl. Hastings's arrival he was employed under Genl. Putnam in an attempt to construct a fort on Lechmere Point - from which they were driven by the British Ships -
Again enlisted in the Summer of 1816 - for 5 mos. in Militia Co. of Capt. Samuel Lawyer - Marched from Sterling thru Worcester - Hartford - New Haven to N.Y. City - remained a few days in N.Y. & then moved up the Hudson about 2 miles - was on duty at Ft. Prescott - where the City of N.Y. was given up to the British - then moved up to Harlem Heights where he re- mained thro' the service

Again enlisted about 7 th of July 1863 for 6 mos. in Milit. Co. of Capt. Francis Williams of Holden Mass. Col. Keyes Div. - marched to Providence - thence to Providence - thence to place about 2 miles south of Narragansett - thence this Warren to Providence. - thence back to Providence - during their arrival here went to Point Judith to assist in collecting boats to be used in an attack on Newport. - in sailing around the Point many of the boats were destroy- ed, eight men drowned, & the contemplated attack was abandoned.
Says that he was born in Lancaster Mass. Feb'y 16 th 1834. When he first enlisted the Army was residing at Salem - at least two enlistments was residing at Sterling & removed to Asleburnham in 1879 - where he after resided.

✓ U. S. Pension Office.
Elijah Burpee of Sterling testified to service with the Clamaut in Capt. Wilson Co. in 1777 -
Benj. Perkins - of Leominster testified to service at least with the pensioners in Capt. Sawyers Co. in 1776 -
Ebenezer Rice - brother of the pensioner - of Hartford, Vt. but formerly of Salem, Mass. testified that he served with the pensioner in the first service named, commencing Apr. 19 th 1775 - in Capt. Durbey's Co. & after in Capt. Backelders Co.
The wid. of Jonas Rice Oct. 17 th 1838 - of Ashburnham aged 82 - alleged that he died Apr. 26 th 1836 - that she was married to him May 10 th 1779. The marriage appears to be recorded at Shrewsbury, Mass. Her maiden name was Silpah Downs. She appears to have been still living as late as Apr. 1845 -

Benj. Perkins Affidavit -

I Ben n Perkins of Westminster in the county of Worcester & State of Massachusetts, of lawful age, testify & say, that in the year 1776 I was a Sergeant in a Company of Mass- achusetts Militia, Commanded by Capt. Samuel Sawyer, & served in the State of New York in & near the city of New York for five months - I think, but am not cer- tain, that our Colonel was one Smith - Jonas Rice was of Ashburnham in said County was a member of said Company & served with me during said term of five months - I have no doubt that he marched with me from the State of Massachusetts in July or August 1776, & I saw him from time to time & know that served as long as I did, which was five months, & was discharged at the same time that I received my discharge -- Mr. Rice sustains a good char- acter for truth - We were not in the battle of White Plains, but were in the vicinity & within hearing of the report of the musquetry - But as far as I know
Worcester J. Aug 16 1832 Then the above named

Benjamin Perkins personally appeared before the Subscriber & made oath to the truth of this affidavit by him subscribed - & I certify that the said Perkins is a man of the highest integrity - Joseph G. Kendall Jr. of Peace.

Jonas Rice Maps: act 7 June 1832 to what time paid?
p t . 4 March 1836 Pen. Office.
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May 20. 1839