Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 5436, for Jonathan Oakley, New York

SERVICE
NUMBER
New York
or
Oakley, Jonathan Oakly, Mary
W. 5436 B L Wt. 7560-100 B L Ht. 159-60-55-
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Michigan 32615
Jonathan Oakley, dis.
of Ingham Co. in the State of Michigan who was a Capt & Sergt in the Comp y commanded by Captain [blank] of the Reg t commanded by Col. Dubois in the [blank] Michigan for 6 Mo. Capt. 18 " Sergt.
Inscribed on the Roll of Detroit at the rate of 12 Dollars 00 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831. and ending 3rd Feb. 1833 when he died.
Certificate of Pension issued the 18th day of July, 1848, and sent to Griffin Saddock Esq.
Arrears to the 4th of Ingham, Ingham Co., Michigan. Deduct what he rec d under head of 1838 for the same time. at 496 per annum. { Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by H. Dunsford Clerk, Book 2 Vol. Page 104
Payable to his widow Mary Oakley.

118.300 - Act March 3/55-
May 5/55-
Mary Oakley wid of
Jonathan Oakley exp. rsgn
Private ip Oakley 15 B Dubois
15 B Dubois 15 B Dubois
Revolutionary War
Much Feb 48-352
Ad. 60 acc Jan 18/56
VM
Dr 170
S. M. Knight Present

to P. A. 96. 20
Deposited
to P. A. 96. 20
352 Michigan Mary Baker whose name was entered on the list of the 10th service of the Revolutionary war, as a serg. H. Corp.
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 100 Dollars per annum to commence on the day of March, 1845.
Certificate of Pension issued the 21 day of June 1845 and sent to
Mrs. Mary Baker Chapman Indianapolis
Pensioners under act 374 v. 2

7990. Michigan.
Mary Oakley - widow of Jonathan Oakley who was a Sergt & Corp. in the No. York Line.
Husband died 2 nd Feb y 1833.
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 11 25 Dollars Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843.
Certificate of Pension issued the 21 st day of Octo. 1846. and sent to
G. Paddock, Esq., Ingham, Mich n .
[Act of March 3, 1843.]
and re nd June 1844.
Recorded in Book Do. Vol. 2. Page 240.
Rep d .
2 Cents. 1838 { 1843 & 1844. }
S ub t Griffin Paddock August 19 '47 D r D r Nov. 10 '47.

State of Michigan County of Ingham } ss On this twenty seventh day of September one thousand eight hundred and forty seven personally appeared before me an associate judge of the circuit court of the county of Ingham and State of Michigan Mary Oakley widow of Jonathan Oakley deceased a resident of White Oak in the county of Ingham and State of Michigan aged eighty two years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in this behalf in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the Act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832 That the said Jonathan Oakley deceased did in his lifetime enlist in the army of the United States in the year 1775 in the company of Captain Van De Burch and served in the regiment under the command of Colonel Brantlandt of the New York line and under whom he served during the time that he was in the service which was seven years and nine months That he was at the Battle of the Brandywine under General Sullivan in his western campaign against the Indians and was at the siege of Yorktown at the surrender of Lord Cornwallis and his Army And the said Mary Oakley widow of Jonathan Oakley deceased does hereby relinquish every claim

Whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and she declares that the name of the said Jonathan Oakley deceased is not on the pension Roll of any agency in any State except only on that of the agency of the State of New York at the time of his death Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid Before me { Mary her X Oakley mark
Joseph Hunt } Associate Judge of the circuit court of the County of Ingham State of Michigan
And I Joseph Hunt the Judge before whom the foregoing declaration was taken do hereby declare and certify my opinion after the investigation of the matter and after an examination of witnesses with whose credibility I am well acquainted with that the aforesaid Mary Oakley is the widow of Jonathan Oakley deceased afo- -said and that the said Jonathan Oakley died on the 6 th day of February 1834 and was at the time of his death of the age of 76 years and I do hereby certify that I have been acquainted with the said Mary Oakley widow of Jonathan Oakley deceased for eight years last past that she resides some fourteen miles from the place of holding a court of record in said County of Ingham and that from old age and bodi- -ly infirmity she is unable to attend before a court of record to make a declaration in this behalf and for the purposes of attending the examination aforesaid

Given under my hand this 27 th day of September AD 1847
Joseph Dunt { Associate judge of the circuit court held in and for the county of St. Joseph Michigan
State of Michigan and County of St. Joseph Ingham County Clerk's Office
I, Profsoutworth Clerk of Said County and also Clerk of the Circuit Court of Said County do hereby certify that Joseph Dunt Proclamation the person before whom the forego- ing depositions and his own certificates  depositions & certificates thereunto attached was at the time of the date there- off an associate Judge of Said County duly Commission- ed & sworn and authorized to act as such and further that I am acquainted with the Hand Writing of Said Judge and truly believe the signatures thereunto subscribed purporting to be his is genuine
In Testimony whereof I have here- unto set my Hand and affixed the Seal of Said Circuit Court at Mason this 4 th day of October AD 1847
Profsoutworth Clerk

Jonathan Oakley Born in the year of our Lord, 1758, June, the, 14 Mary Oakley Born in the year of our Lord, 1765, January, the 28 Sarah Oakley Born in the year of our Lord, 1785, Sept, the 12, And Departed this Life the 2 - Day of October, 1885 - - - - -
Ester Oakley Born in the year of our Lord 1786 August the 4
Sarah Oakley Born in the year of our Lord, 1788, January the 12
Lydia Oakley Born in the year of our Lord, 1792, March the 6
James Nut Oakley Born in the year of our Lord, 1795, - - - February the 6 - - - - -
Mary Oakley Born in the year of our Lord, 1798, August 26 the
Richard Oakley Born in the year of our Lord 1801 January the 12 - - - - -
Rachel Oakley and Irwin Bush Oakley was Born in the year of our Lord, 1803, June the 15 - - -
Rachel Oakley Departed this Life the 6 Day of Sept 1825
Irwin Bush Oakley Departed this Life the 14 day of October Jonathan Oakley Departed 1825 -ed this life February the 6, 1834

No 37619 Jonathan Oakley Mich
act 7 June 1832
Adm
18mo Supt. $90.00 6 " Curfe. 22.00 112.00
From 4 March 1831 to 3 July 1833 the day of his death payable to his widow Mary Oakley after deducting what has been paid for the same time under the act of 18 March 1833 at the rate of $96 00 per annum Griffin Paddock Ingham co Mich

State of Michigan
County of Ingham ss
Be it known that on this fifteenth day of January one thousand eight hundred and forty eight before me the undersigned a justice of the peace in and for the said County of Ingham aforesaid personally came Richard Oakley of the Town of White Oak in the County of Ingham and State of Michigan who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath depose and say that in the year 1834 and previous thereto this deponent resided in the Town of Murray in the County of Orleans in the State of New York. That he is the son of Jonathan Oakley deceased that the said deceased was a resident of the place last aforesaid mentioned that he resided with and under the control of this deponent at the time of his death which took place on the 6 th day of February A D 1834 and for a long time previous to his death that said deceased some three years prior to his death he fell by accident and became so much injured thereby that until the time of his death he became so far deranged in his mind that he was wholly incapable of being intrusted to himself that at the time the said deceased got hurt as aforesaid this deponent called upon a Physician to attend upon the deceased and that this deponent was informed by the Physician that in consequence of the advanced age of the deceased and the injury that he had received as aforesaid that medical aid could not be of any use that the deceased could not be helped that the only course to be adopted was for this deponent was care and furnish good nursing to the said deceased and that this deponent did so do until the day of the death of the deceased and further then as aforesaid

There was no Medical Services rendered the deceased that there can be no certificate obtained showing the day of the death of the deceased that the minister who preached the funeral sermon of the deceased had before this deponent left the State of New York seemed to serve one of the western States but when this deponent cannot tell nor find out that there was no one who officiated as undertaker of the funeral of the deceased and that this deponent does not know that a certificate can be obtained of the minister and undertaker And further this deponent states that at the time of the death of the said Jonathan Oakley and prior to his death deponent had charge of the family of the deceased and that this deponent kept a record of the family of the deceased and transcribed the original record of the funeral with the exception of what had been made by the deceased in his lifetime that now is in the Pension Office of the United States at Washington and that the annexed record is the family record of the deceased continued in the hand writing of this deponent and that the record showing the day of the death of the deceased is correct and that the same was entered at the time of the death of the said Jonathan Oakley And that this deponent does not know of any other record showing the day of the death of the aforesaid Jonathan Oakley and further this deponent saith not known to and subscribed before me this 15 th day of Richard Oakley January AD 1848
Griffin Packstock Justice of the peace

State of Michigan County of Ingham ss I Griffin Paddock the Justice of the peace before whom the foregoing affidavit was made do hereby certify that I am well acquainted with Richard Cobley the person who made the foregoing affidavit and has subscribed his name thereto and that I believe him to be a credible witness and I do further certify the words on the second page of the foregoing affidavit in the 18 th line from the top to and thereunto the origin of several of the family; were interlined before the affidavit was executed & sworn to Given under my hand this 17 th day of January AD 1848 Griffin Paddock Justice of the peace
State of Michigan Ingham County Clerks Office ss
I Theodore Southworth Clerk of Said County and also Clerk of the Circuit Court of Said County do hereby certify that Griffin Paddock was before whom the foregoing affidavit was made and who subscribed thereto was at the time of making the same an acting Justice of the Peace for Said County duly Commissioned & sworn & authorized to act as such and further that I am acquainted with the handwriting of Said Justice and that the the signature to said certificate is genuine. Given under my Hand & Seal of Said Court at Mason in Said County this 17 th day of Jan'y AD 1848
Theodore Southworth Clerk

Jonathan Oakley - [copy]
Continued
8725
30 March 1819.
Roseville Rabbit Rochester Genesee Co N.Y.

A T a court of Common Pleas held at the Court-House in the Village of Batavia, in and for the county of Genesee, in the State of New-York; on the second  last day of June — of the term of June — 1820, being a Court of Record, in pursuance of the 41st article of the Constitution of the state of New-York, which has unlimited jurisdiction, keeps records of its proceedings, and has immemorially exercised the power of fine and imprisonment.
Present, the Hon. John H. Jones, Isaac Wilson, Richard Smith, and Moses Haydeu —
GENESEE COUNTY, ss. —On this fourteenth day of June 1820, personally appeared in open Court, (being a Court of Record,) Jonathan Oakley aged sixty three years, resident of the town of Caledonia in said county, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on his oath, declare that he served in the Revolutionary war as follows:— In the Company Commanded by Capt. John Johnson, afterwards, by Capt. Henry Van Berburgh, in the Regiment Commanded by Col. David Dubois & afterwards, by Col. Philip Courtland, in the New York line of troops; That his original declaration was dated on or about the thirteenth day of April 1818. That his pension Certificate is numbered 8725.
And I do solemnly swear, that I was a resident Citizen of the United States, on the eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and that I have not, since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner whatever, 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 eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, 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, other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed."
This Deponent has,
One cow & a yoke of oxen — One broken table —
Six kitchen chairs — One fire shovel
Six dining forks —
He has also purchased one yoke of oxen, but depends upon his pension money to pay for them. Most of the above articles also, have been already paid for out of his pension money.
The Deponent is a farmer. Is unable to labour or even put on his clothes for half his time. Has a wife and three children; Ruth & Rachel (twins) aged seventeen years, Jonathan aged eleven years living with him. The children are healthy, but his wife is unable to work.
(Signature) Jonathan Oakley —
Sworn to and declared on the 13. day of June 1820. before me Moses Haydeu
a Judge of the Court aforesaid.
I Simon Cummings, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in & for the County of Genesee, do hereby certify that the foregoing oath (or affirmation) and the schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the record of the said Court; And I do further certify that it is the opinion of the said Court, that the total amount in value of the said property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is Fifty five — — — — Dollars and twenty five cents. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of the said Court, on this fourteenth day of June 1820. S. Cummings Clerk of the Court for Genesee County

118. 300
Mary Oakley. 8 th Mar. 1855.
S. M. Knight. Present,

State of Michigan County of Ingham } ss.
On this Twenty third day of April 1855,
before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace duly authorized by law to administer oaths within and for the County and State aforesaid, personally appeared Mary Oakley , aged Ninety years, a resident of White Oak P.O. County of Ingham in the State of Michigan who made oath in due form of law, that she is the identical Mary Oakley to whom, under the provisions of the Act of February 2d 1848 a pension of One hundred twelve dollars per annum has been allowed for the services of her late husband Jonathan Oakley a Sergeant Corporal of the Revolutionary war, and late of Orleans County, State of New York . She further states that her Pension Certificate, under the aforesaid Act of February 2d 1848 is numbered 574, vol 2 d , bears date the Twenty first day of June 18 48 , and is made payable at the Detroit Agency. She makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the Bounty Land to which she may be entitled under the Act of 3d March, 1855, never having received or known herself entitled, or made application, under any previous act of Congress. In evidence of her marriage and proof of service of her said husband, she respectfully refers to the proofs heretofore adduced, now on file in the Pension Office, and upon which her annuity as aforesaid was granted.
That, since being placed on the list of Revolutionary Pensioners, she has not intermarried, but continues the widow of the said Jonathan Oakley .
She appoints as her attorney for the within specified purpose, and with power of substitution, S. M. KNIGHT , of Washington City, D. C.
11 Mary Oakley Mark
Attest: Wm C Port James Findling
SWORN TO, SUBSCRIBED AND ACKNOWLEDGED before me, the day and year above written, and I hereby certify that I know the aforesaid Mary Oakley to be the identical person she alleges herself to be—a Pensioner of the United States, and at the date of the execution of this declaration a widow; and that I am not interested in her claim as Agent, Attorney, or otherwise.
12 George J. Sly J. Peace.

State of Michigan County of Ingham } ss.
On this Twenty third day of April 1855, before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, authorized by law to administer oaths within and for the County and State aforesaid, personally appeared 13  William C Post and 13  James Binding 14  White Oak County of Ingham , in the State of Michigan known to me as credible persons, who made oath, in due form of law, that 1  Mary Oakley who in their presence has sworn and subscribed to the foregoing declaration, is, to their personal knowledge, the identical person to whom, under the provisions of the Act of 3  February 2 d 1848 a pension of 4  One hundred dollars per annum has been granted for the services of her late husband 5  Jonathan Oakley deceased, a 6  Sergeant & Corporal of the Revolutionary war.
That since being placed on the roll of Pensioners, she, the said 1  Mary Oakley has not intermarried, but remains, and now is, a widow: That they have known her for many  15  years , and derive their knowledge of the facts herein named from the following circumstances, to wit: 15  they have seen her certificate of the date of February 1 st the 2 d 1848 and have known of her receiving a pension on said Certificate
They further state that they are disinterested witnesses.
16  Wm C Post James Binding
Sworn to, and subscribed before me, the day and year above written.
12  George F. Sly J. P.
State of Michigan County of Ingham } ss.
I Hereby Certify, That George F. Sly Esq., before whom the foregoing Declaration, Power of Attorney, and Affidavits were made and acknowledged, and who has thereunto subscribed his name, was at the time of so doing an authorized Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid, and that his signature thereto is genuine. I further certify, that in the within application I am not interested as Agent, Attorney, or otherwise.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the Circuit Court, for the County aforesaid, this 26 th day of April 1855.
Philip M. Nelson Clerk of the Circuit Court and of the County of Ingham
NOTES.
 1. Insert the widow's full name. 2. Give the Post Office address.  3. Insert the title of the Act under which her Revolutionary Pension was granted. 4. State the amount in dollars and cents.  5. Insert the full name of her late husband. 6. State what rank he held.  7. Give the name of the County in which he lived at the time of his death. 8. Insert the registry number of her Pension Certificate.  9. Give its date. 10. State where made payable. 11. Widow's signature in full. 12. Magistrate's signature.  13. Insert the witnesses' full names. 14. Give their Post Office address.  15. Here give a statement of the facts and circumstances from which the foregoing testimony is adduced, or from which the witnesses knowledge is derived.  16. Witnesses' signature. 

John P. Bowditch 1846 18

73064
9082
Mary O'Leary 125-2
Mother of Immaculata
Mary
act 7 July 1838
Manned 1783
husband died 2 nd July
1838

State of Michigan Ingham County
ss. I John R Bowdish one of the Associate judges of
the circuit court in and for the county Ingham State of Michigan do hereby certify the word duly on the within declaration of Mary Oakley for her pension was erased before signing and the word duly inserted before signing in the ninth line from the top and I also do further certify that I am well acquainted with Mary Oakley the person who has made oath to the annexed declaration and that she from old age and bodily infirmity is prevented from attending in open court and that the said declaration for such reason is made at her private house and I do further certify that from facts that the annexed declaration of the said Mary Oakley is true given under my hand this 11 th day of September A.D. 1846
John R Bowdish } Associate Judge } of the Circuit Court } of the same County of } Ingham Michigan
Clerk's Office Ingham County ss
I John Coatsworth Clerk of said County and also Clerk of the Circuit Court of said County do hereby certify that John R Bowdish whose name is subscribed to the within declaration and before whom the same was sworn & subscribed was at the officer signing of the same and still is Associate Judge of the Circuit Court of said County duly Authorized by Law to take the acknowledgements of instrument writings and ad- minister oaths & affirmation & that I am acquainted with the hand writing of said Judge and Verely believe the signature to said declaration and certificate is genuine In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said County at Mason this 29 th day of Sept A.D. 1846 John Coatsworth Co Clerk

18 5 State of Michigan County of Ingham 355
On this Eleventh day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred and forty five personally appeared before me one of the associate judges of the Circuit courts of the County of Ingham Mary Oakley a resident of White Oak in the County of Ingham State aforesaid aged Eighty one (81) years who being sworn duly sworn according to law deposited on her oath made the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed July 7 th 1838 entitled "An act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows." That she is the widow of Jonathan Oakley who was a private Soldier in the New York Regulars in the war of the Revolution was in the service eleven years and nine months was at the battle of the Brandywine was in the army of Gen. Sullivan in the company of Capt. Vanderburgh in the regiment of Col. Courtenay in Sullivan Campaign against the Indians in the Onondaga country was at the siege of Yorktown Virginia at the Surrender of Lord Cornwallis and the said Jonathan Oakley her husband was a pensioner until the time of his death in the State of New York. She further declares that she was married to the said Jonathan Oakley on the twentieth day of October in the year seventeen hundred and Eighty four and that her husband the aforesaid Jonathan Oakley died on the Sixth day of February in the year Eighteen hundred and thirty four that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service but the marriage took place previous to the first of January seventeen hundred and ninety four at the time above stated. Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written before me John P. Boardman Mary X Oakley mark Associate judge of the Circuit Court of Ingham County Michigan

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
NAME Oakley, Jonathan GRADE Private LINE New York
WARRANT NUMBER 7560 ACREAGE 100 ISSUED March 16, 1792 and Mt. 159-60-55  Wt. 7560 to Platt Rogers, assignee
*The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800. Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.

Rev
WIDOW, &c.
File No. 5436
Mary Oakley Widow Jonathan Oakley Sergt Rev. War
Act: Feb. 2, 1848
Index:—Vol. 16, Page 94
[Arrangement of 1870.]

10101.
Michigan.
Mary Oakley
Widow of Jonathan Oakley who was a pensioner under the Act of - 1818 and who died on the 2 d February 1833 of Ingham in the State of Michigan who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain _____ of the Reg t commanded by Col. Dubois in the N. York line for 18 mo. Sery. 6 mo. Corporal.
Inscribed on the Roll of Detroit at the rate of 112 Dollars Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.
Certificate of Pension issued the 21. day of Octo. 1846 and sent to G. Paddock, Ingham, Mich.
Total amount, $ 560.
[Act July 7, 1838.]
Recorded by D. H. Wood Clerk, Book D. Vol. 1. Page 67.

Lt Col G. Paddock May 28 th 1833
May 11 th 1833. Wrote to Charles H. Peabody of Allion N. York letter - wrote to the pension same day -
8725 4
New York Roll
Jonathan Oakley of Genesee County in the state of New York who was a Sergeant in the regiment commanded by Colonel of Dubois of the New York line, for the term of six years and one month
Inscribed on the Roll of New York War at the rate of Eight Dollars per month, to commence on the 13 th of April 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 30 th of March 1819 and sent Roswell Rabbitt Esq. Rochester N.Y.
Arrears to 4th of March 1819. 10 \frac{18}{30} \frac{14}{31} — 85:03 Semi-annual all'ce ending 4 th Sept 1819 — 48: —
$133:03
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Continued on the roll under the law of the 1 st May 1820. Notation sent Roswell Rabbitt 5 July 1820. Rochester, New York.

118.300
Hon S. P. Wald Comm ee of Pensions Present.

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Jonathan Ashley Ward No 756 of the Plate Mtn. District March 10 1920

Jonathan Oakley (New York Genesee co., Brook , Oct 18 March 1818 #9613
To what time was the last paid and to whom was the arrear paid
G. L. A.
Pension Office July 7 48 3
Be pleased to look at this carefully as there is some discrepancy in the testimony as upon the date of his death
G. L. A.
over

No such name as this on the Ord or new Book, Michigan Roll, abt 1822.
B.S.B.
Died 2 nd Feby 1833. Paid to his death
The voucher on which the arrears was paid, will be hunted up, and the informa- tion communicated. B.S.B.
See letter on file in Genl Office 26 th June 1833 from Mr. Beman to Mr. Standing.
Samuel Stansbury to A. B. T. N.Y. City, drew the arrears as Attorney. B.S.B.

Jonathan Oakley N.Y. act 18 March 1818 To what time was he last paid? G. B. A.
Pension Office Oct. 17. 1846
Died 2 nd Feby 1833, paid in full to the day of his death A. B. L.

admitted
Griffin Paddock Ingham Mich.

State of Michigan County of Ingham ss
On this fifteenth day of May A D 1848 personally appeared before me the undersigned a justice of the peace in and for the County of Ingham aforesaid Mary Oakley a resident of White Oak in the County of Ingham Michigan aged eighty three years who being first duly sworn according to law both in her oath made the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the act of Congress passed on the 2 d day of February 1848 granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary war That she is the widow of Jonathan Oakley who was a corporal and sergeant in the New York Line in the company under the command of Capt Van De Burk and in the regiment under the command of Col. Courtlandt and the annual amount of pension which she received under the acts of July 7 th 1838 March 3 d 1843 and June 17 th 1844 was one hundred and twelve dollars per annum And she further declares that she is still the widow of the said Jonathan Oakley Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year first above written Mary F Oakley Griffin Tuckwell her mark Justice of the peace
State of Michigan County of Ingham ss I do hereby certify that I am well acquainted with the above named Mary Oakley that she is the identical person who subscribed the foregoing declaration and who was inscribed on the pension list in two several certificates issued October 21 st 1846 at the war office of the United States given under my hand this 17 th day of May A D 1848 Griffin Tuckwell Justice of the peace

State of Michigan County of Ingham
Clerks office ss
I M c Swarth the Clerk of said County & also Clerk of the County Court of said Co do hereby certify that Griffin Paddack Esq whose name is subscribed on the within Declaration & Certificate is a Justice of the Peace of said County duly elected & qualified and authorized to act as such and further that I am acquainted with the Hand- writing of said Justice and truly believe the signatures purporting to be his and that they written to be genuine
The Testimony whereof I have here unto set my Hand and offered the Seal of said County Court at Mason this 17 th day of May A D 1848
M c Swarth Clerk

House of Reps Washington Aug. 2. 1830
Dear Sir
Will you be good enough to have answered the intinuations of the en- closed letter. — And with the answer please return me the letter —
With much respect Truly Yours N. J. W. Taylor
Hon. J. H. Edward Secy. of Penns.

Mich
FREE
Oakley Michigan 43 M rs
Edwards Esq. Commissioner of Pensions City of Washington

J. L. Edwards Esq. Commissioner of Pensions, Sir,
Pension Agency. Detroit August 18. 1848
On the 19 th May last S. Bube presented the papers of Mary Oakley for the purpose of drawing her pension to the 4 th March last unaccompanied by the original Certificate. He executed the affidavit and the receipt for the amount and promised to send in the Certificate and draw for the amount. I received a day or two since the enclosed which I submit for your instructions.
I am Sir respectfully your Obedient Servant E. P. Hastings Pension Agent

June 2 Act 48 Code (44) march 29 1890 many articles of substance
Syracuse N.Y. the May 24 Pension office Washington District of Columbia U.S.A.

Sir
Ingham Ingham County Mich. May 24 th 1848
Enclosed I send your Declaration of Mary Oakley of White Oak Ingham County Michigan to obtain the benefits of the Act of Congress passed February 2 nd 1848 whatever action you take in the premises please inform me it is believed that this Declaration herewith inclosed is got up under the rules and forms adopted at the Pension office "March 9 th 1843"
As forwarded to the pension office papers for Mrs Mary Oakley to obtain the benefits of the Act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832. The evidence in that case was not what was required in your communication of November 10 th 1847 if that evidence is insufficient will you please inform me from the Pension vouchers about the day of the death of Jonathan Oakley deceased took place tho' I am informed by the family that there was no pension ever received by the widow after the decease of her husband - Though I believe that it was applied for Mrs Oakley is very old and poor and in case of a further application to obtain the benefits of the Act June 7 th 1832 it would be attended with some considerable trouble and expense to appear before the judge of a court of Record before whom the declaration might to be made therefor if the declaration could be made before a justice of the peace it would be a saving of expense and much trouble please inform me in selection thereto
Respectfully, your most humble & obt servt Griffin Dredlock J. L. Edwards Esq. Com. etc.

79 90.43 Oct 20 47 Matthew Oakley Mch 1832
2 P. 11 14 1/2 march
Ingham Mich october 8,
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Pension Office Washington District Of Columbia W. D. A.
Open

Ingham Oct. 5 th 1847
Sir
Inclosed I send you the declaration made by Mary Oakley Widow of Jonathan Oakley Attached thereto the judges certificate as near as could be under the circumstances of the case agreeable to yours of the 19 th of August 1847 to obtain the benefit of the Act. of Congress of the 7 th of June 1832 if you should claim the declaration together with the judges certificate for the allowance thereof of the back arrearage of what Jonathan Oakley would have been entitled to under the said Act. of June 7 th 1832 issue a certificate accordingly for the benefit of Mary Oakley Widow of Jonathan Oakley if you do not think the evidence sufficient or not properly authenticated return an answer with the objection.
Would Ephraim Wheeler or Wheaton a Pensioner of the revolution who is inscribed on the Pension list as a fifer of the New York line and now resides in Stockbridge Ingham County Michigan received his pension now at Detroit Michigan be entitled to an increase of his Pension under the Act. of June 7 th 1832 And oblige your most humble

And ob st Servt,
Griffin P. Burch
J. L. Edwards Esq.
Con. 281

13064
Oct 8 '46
Stockbridge Mich Sept 30
P
Michin July 7 '38
Mary Oakley
Pension office Washington
District of Columbia U.S.A.
30 20

Ingham Sept 29 th 1846.
Dear Sir
After the investigating the evidence herewith sent you should be of the opinion that Mrs Mary Cakly should be entitled to a pension please give the required information and by not plus return the family record if nothing more I send you the best and all the evidence that is attainable at present I have written to the State of New York where Jonathan Cakly and Mary such was married but here as yet been unable to obtain any account of the record of their marriage if the evidence is insufficient from informality it may be amended but in substance I can get nothing more than is her sent you if you do not act on the evidence her sent you plus return the same from the insufficiency of the same
Respectfully your most humble and obt servant Griffin Packock
J. L. Edwards Esq Commissioner on Pension Washington D. C.

No. 13064 Mary Oakley Widow of Jonathan Mich act of July 1838
Adm d .
18 Mo. Infant $90.00 6 " Corporal 22.00 $112.00
Adm d act 3 March 1843 and 17 June 1844 $112 48 per ann.
G. Paddock Ingham Ingham co. Mich.

Jonathan Oakley's Application
New York line New York City New York State New York
A Distant Relative 5 Regiment, Col. John Deer Company Enlisted 21st March 1777 for War, Corporal Oct 79, Sergeant July 80. Must ered to June 1782 - Recd Vount Service -
Reduced to Rank, Feb 1782 - See Capt Van Inghs Role, Bm. de 4 1782 -

State of New York County of Dutchess
Jonathan Oakley being duly sworn doth depose and say that he this deponent in the month of May in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy seven enlisted as a private into the Continental Service in the war of the Revolution into a company commanded by Capt John Johnson in a Regt under the command of Col Lewis Debevoise into the Brigade under the command of Gen James Clinton in the New York line at Fort Stanwix in said State for the term of during the war aforesaid, and after serving faithfully for and during the term of six years and one month to the end of said war he was regularly and honorably discharged and this deponent further saith that he has never been placed on the pension list of the United States And that this deponents discharge has been lost or destroyed and that from his reduced circumstances in life he is in actual need of assistance from his country for support and that he is now an actual resident of the County of Dutchess in the State of New York Jonathan Oakley

Sworn and subscribed before me this 13 th day of April 1818
Ralph Parker Judge of the Court of Common Pleas within and for the County of Genesee
State of New York Genesee County ss) Matthew Dean Gilder
being duly sworn doth depose and say that he was acquainted with the within named Jonathan Oakley and was positively knowing to his having served in the war of the Revolution as within stated and for the term within stated and he knew of the said Jonathan being regularly and honorably discharged as within stated and further saith not
Matthew Dean Gilder mark
Return J. Collins
Sworn and subscribed before me this 13 th day of April 1818
Ralph Parker Judge of the Court of Common Pleas within and for the County of Genesee

State of New York
Greene County On this thirteenth day of April 1818 before me the Subscriber one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Greene personally appears Jonathan Oakley aged sixty one years resident in the said County and State 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 Jonathan Oakley enlisted in the month of May in the year of our Lord 1777 at Fort Constitution in the State of New York in the Company commanded by Capt John Johnson in the Regt under the command of Col Lewis Debois in the New York line for during the war - That he continued to serve in the said Corps or in the service of the United States until the end of the said war of the Revolution when he was discharged from service at Newburgh in the State of New York That he was in the battles at the taking of Fort Montgomery in General Sullivan's battle with the Indians

and the halls of the taking of Lord Cornwallis and that he is in reduced circumstances and stands in need of assistance of his country for support and that he has no other evidence now in his power of his said service except the affidavit of Richard Gildersleeve herein to annexed
Jonathan Oakley
sworn to and declared before me this day and year aforesaid
Ralph Parker judge
I Ralph Parker one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Genesee in the State of New York as aforesaid do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the S r Jonathan Oakley did serve in the Revolutionary war as stated in the preceding declaration against the common Enemy. And I now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me to the Secretary for the Department of War pursuant to the directions of the aforementioned act of Congress.
Ralph Parker judge
And I do hereby further certify that from my own knowledge the said Jonathan Oakley is in reduced circumstances and absolutely needs the assistance of the country for his support
Genesee County p. Ralph Parker judge
Jonathan Oakley affidavit

I hereby certify that the court of Common Pleas in the county of Greene is a court of Record in the State of New-York and that Ralph Parker Esq r was on the 13 th day of April in the year 1818 one of the Judges of the said court - and that the official signatures to the determination and certificates hereunto affixed are his signatures, -
In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed the seal of the said court this 8 th day of June A.D. 1818
S. Cummings Clerk

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Rachel Parley Departed this Life the 6 Day of Sept 1825 in Bush Park St. Joseph's this Life 14 Day of October 1825

Jonathan Oakley was married to Mary Bush in Year our Lord 1784 October 20
Jonathan Oakley departed this life in Year of our Lord 1834 Feb 18
Jonathan Oakley Born in The year of our Lord 1750 June 11
Mary Oakley Born in the Year of our Lord 1765 January 20 m.m.m
Sarah Oakley was Born in the Year of our Lord 1785 Sept. 12 and Departed this Life 2nd Day of October 1905
Ester Oakley Born in the Year of our Lord 1786 Aug 4
Sarah Oakley Born in the Year of our Lord 1788 January 20
Lyda Oakley Born in the Year of our Lord 1792 March 6
S S 1817 1817 1817 1786 1786 1786 1829 1806 1782

James Nut Oakley Born in the year of Our Lord 1795 February the 6
Mary Oakley Born in the year of our Lord 1798 Augst the 26
Richard Oakley Born in the year of our Lord 1801 Jan the 12
Rachel Oakley & Sarah Bush Oakley was Born in year Lord 1803 June the 15

State of Michigan County of Ingham } ss
Richard Oakly of the Town of White Oak in the county of Ingham and State aforesaid being duly sworn deposeth and saith that he is the son of Jonathan Oakly now deceased late of the town of Murray in the county of Orleans State of New York and of Mary Oakly his widow now a resident of White Oak in the county of Ingham State aforesaid and that he is familiar and acquainted with the family record of the said Jonathan Oakly and Mary his father and mother and that the annexed record is the record of the family as kept by them and that the record was kept in the hand writing of the said Jonathan Oakly and that the record was kept in the possession of the said Jonathan Oakly until the time of his death which was on the sixth day of February A.D. 18 34 and this deponent verily believes the said record sets forth a true record of the marriage and the time when the same when it took place and since the death of said Jonathan Oakly the said record of the family has been in the possession of this deponent who has now the family Bible of the said Jonathan Oakly and Mary Oakly and that the record hereto attached is the original record, as kept in the family itself and taken out of the family Bible and that the said Jonathan Oakly was a pensioner in his life time up to the time of his death which took place on the sixth day of February in the year

Eighteen hundred and thirty-four as will be seen at the General Pension office and that the said Mary Oakley The widow of the said Jonathan Oakley is not married nor has she been since the death of the said Jonathan Oakley her husband but remains the widow of the said Jonathan Oakley Sworn to and subscribed Richard Oakley before me this 19 th day of September AD 1846
George Jolly Justice of the peace
State of Michigan } County of Ingham } ss I George Jolly the justice of the peace before whom the foregoing affidavit was taken do hereby certify that I am well acquainted with Richard Oakley the person who has sworn to the foregoing affidavit and that he is a person of good moral character and that he is a person of worth and veracity George Jolly given under my hand this 27 th day of Sept 1846 George Jolly Justice of the peace in and for the county of Ingham State of Michigan

State of Michigan County of Weyhamp.
I John Coatsworth Clerk of Said County and also Clerk of the Circuit Court of Said County do hereby certify that George J. Sly Esq. before whom the within Affidavit was taken and made the within Certificate was made was at the time of taking Said affidavit and making Said Certificate and Still is an acting Justice of the Peace in and for Said County duly authorised and qualified to take the Same and further that I am acquainted with the Hand Writing of Said Justice and Verily believe the Signature purporting to be his is Genuine
In Testimony Whereof I have hereunto Set my Hand and affixed the Seal of Said Court at Mason this 29 th day of September AD 1840
John Coatsworth Clerk

State of Michigan } County of Ingham } ss
John Bush being duly sworn deposits and saith that he is of the age of eighty years of age and that he was acquainted with Jonathan Oakley and Mary Bush in the year sixteen hundred and eighty-four in the County of Saratoga in the State of New York and that the said Jonathan Oakley was married to the said Mary Bush on the twentieth day of October in the year Seventeen hundred and eighty-four By the Rev Mr. Edwards since deceased and that this deponent was present at the solemn- ization of the Marriage of the aforesaid Jonathan Oakley and Mary Bush and this deponent further states that the aforesaid Jonathan Oakley was a Revolutionary Soldier and in his life time drew a pension and that he is now dead and that his widow Mary Oakley the aforesaid is still alive in the Town of White Oak Ingham county State of Michigan and that she has not been married since the decease of her said husband, the aforesaid Jonathan Oakley this deponent further states he does not recollect the precise period of the death of the said Jonathan Oakley but thinks that it was in the month of February Eighteen hundred and thirty-four Sworn to and subscribed before me this 22 nd day of Sept 1846 George H. Hays. Justice of the peace John V. Bush mark

State of Michigan County of Ingham } ss
I George J. Sly the justice of the peace before whom the foregoing deposition was taken do hereby certify that I am well acquainted with the Rev. John Bush the person who made the foregoing deposition and that he is a respectable person and a person of credit and of good moral character
Given under my hand at White Pels this 22 nd day of June September AD 1846 George J. Sly Justice of the peace

State of Michigan County of Ingham ss
I John Coatsworth Clerk of Said County and also Clerk of the Circuit Court of Said Co do hereby certify that George T. Sly Esq. before whom the Within affidavit was Taken and made the within Certificates - was at the time of Taking Said affidavit and making Said Certificates an acting Justice of the Peace in and for Said County duly and qualified by Law to Take the Same and further that I am acquainted with the Hand Writing of Said Justice and Verely Believe the Signature purporting to be his is Genuine
In Testimony Whereof I have hereunto Set my Hand and affixed the Seal of Said Court at Mason this 29 th day of Sept AD 1846
John Coatsworth Clerk

State of Michigan County of Ingham ss Be it known that on this fifteenth day of January one thousand eight hundred and forty eight before me the undersigned a justice of the peace in and for the County of Ingham personally came Thankful Van Buren of the Town of White Oak in the County of Ingham and State of Michigan who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath say that in the year AD 1834 and prior to that she resided in the Town of Murray in the County of Orleans in the State of New York that she was well acquainted with Jonathan Oakley deceased who resided at the place last of said mentioned at the day of his death which took place on the 6 th day of February AD 1834 at the Town of Murray in the County of Orleans and State of New York and that this deponent watched the corpse of the said Jonathan Oakley deceased on the night of the 6 th day of February AD 1834 and that this deponent has referred to dates now in her possession to refresh her memory as to the day of the death of the said Jonathan Oakley deceased Sworn to and subscribed Thankful Van Buren before me this 17 th day of January AD 1848 Griffin Ruddock Justice of the peace

State of Michigan County of Ingham } ss
I Griffin Riddick the Justice of the peace before whom the foregoing deposition do hereby certify that I am well acquainted with Francis Van Buren known to me to be the person who subscribed and sworn to the foregoing affidavit and that I verily believe her to be a credible witness Given under my hand this 17 th day of January A.D. 1848.
Griffin Riddick Justice of the peace.
State of Michigan Ingham County Clerk's Office
I the undersigned Clerk of said County and also Clerk of the Circuit Court of said County do hereby certify that Griffin Riddick Esq. the Justice before whom the foregoing affidavit & deposition was made was at the date thereof & still is an acting Justice of the Peace for said County duly Commis- sioned & and authorized to act as such and further that I am acquainted with the hand & writing of said Riddick and truly believe the signature to said affidavit is genuine.
In Testimony Whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the Seal of said Court at Mason in said County this 17 th day of January A.D. 1848.
Thos Saatsworth Clerk

January 29th 1848
Sir
In the case of the application of Mrs Mary Cately to obtain arrears due her husband by virtue of the Act of 7 th June AD 1832 I was informed by your letter to me of the 10 th of November 1847 the evidence set forth in her declaration and the judges certificate were insufficient evidence to show the day of the death of her husband Jonathan Cately deceased to obtain such arrears of Pension therefor the certificate of the Minister and the undertaker who officiated at the funeral of deceased or the Physician who attended him in his last illness was required to show the particular day of the death of the deceased but that evidence pecuniary  pecuniary be obtained would seem that the date of the death of deceased should be taken as correct by the Bouchers in the 3 rd department office of the Pension office but Mr Cately is quite positive that the day of the death of the deceased took place on the 6 th day of February 1834 is correct Richard Cately is quite sanguine that the day of the death of the deceased as stated in his affidavit is correct he states positively the record is true for it was entered at the time of the death of his father the most satisfactory Bouchers can be given of the credability of Richard Cately as also of Mr Francisful Van Buren if further evidence of that fact would be required at the pension office if Mrs Cately and the others were not so positive that the deceased died on the 6 th day of February AD 1834 no further application would be made as the evidence required by the pension office cannot be obtained and if the evidence herewith sent is not sufficient for the favorable action of the Pension in this

behalf the application cannot be sustained by any better evidence than parol testimony by other witnesses and further affidavits can be obtained if desired to show the day of the death of deceased
The facts in this case, as the accompanying show are respectfully submitted
By your
Obt. sent Griffin Puckett
J. L. Edwards Esq. Comm ee of Pensions Washington District of Columbia

Ingraham Mich May 18
10.
May 27 24 hours
Mary Oakley Mabel
Secretary on Oakley John J. John Jr June 1834
Pension office Washington District of Columbia United States of America

May 18 th 1846
Dear Sir
The widow Mary Oakley of Jonathan Oakley a deceased revolutionary soldier being entitled to an annual annuity from the Government of the United States under the existing laws thereof if you will furnish me with facts in the possession of your office towards the procuring of such pension you will confer a great favor G. Bland & Co to make the necessary application to your office for the payment of such pension you will find the name of the said Jonathan Oakley on the New York pension list the first pension that he received was at Rochester the last at Albion in the State of New York died February 6 th 1834 in your answer will you please answer all the facts necessary to the procuring of such pension Your most humble & obt servant
Griffin Peedock the City of Mary Oakley the applicant
To the commissioner on pension of the United States of America
Please direct your answer to Ingham Highland County Michigan
G.P.