Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 14070, for Jonathan Owen, Massachusetts

SERVICE
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Mass New York
Oliver Jonathan
S14070
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CONTENTS

Owen, Jonathan Mass - NY 514370

William Hammon, Nov 26 '36 Mary R. Poirier, Le. Mar. 5 Aug. 1837 D. Poirier, Aug 20 1837 Mary Poirier, 1839 of paper sent to same 23 1839 to Sydney Jan 18 June 1839 same 14 Sep. 1840
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14094 William ... of ... in the State of ... who was a ... in the ... by Captain ... of the ... by ... in the ... line for ...
19 1841 Mass Line Record, etc. inscribed on the Roll of ... the rate of 80 Dollars 00 Cents per annum commence on the 24th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 9 day of ... 1833 and ... to ...
Arrears to the 24th of ... 1833 ... Pension, allowance ending ...
{ Revolutionary War, Act June 7, 1832 }
Recorded by ... Clerk Book ... Vol. ... Page ...
Recd not in A.B.

14084 in kind of shares in the Great Western who were entitled in the shares com- by Captain Mansel of the light vessel by Robert Lee in the time for 1831 William My and Maria French etc. entered on the Roll of the rate of 5 per share 100 shares per name on the 14th day of March, 1831. Joseph of Simon spent the 1831 and 1832 to the 24th of General, otherwise ending Recorded by Book Vol. Page 1831 1832 1832

No 110 Jonathan Owen New York City N.Y.
admitted.
24 mo Pirate.
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W. G. Taylor New York City No. 3 Nassau St.
Owen, Jonathan Mass-NY 514270

City
BRIEF in the case of of New York in the State of (Act 7th June, 1832.)
Jonathan Owen New York
 1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? a Court  2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?  3. How old is he? 73  4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed. 
   Period. Duration of Service. Rank. Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.   Years, Months, Days.     Enlisted In 1780 1 Private Gen. Washington - Capt. Crawford   " 1781. 1 " " Sullivan - " Jones   Capt. Moore - Col. Ludington  
engaged? None
 5. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Continental Village N.Y.  7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditional evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? Survey Warrants  8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? None 
I certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
Dyer Castor Examining Clerk.

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Jonathan Owen's pension application
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State City & County of New York ss: On this twelfth day of October A.D. 1832. Personally appeared before the Justices of the Marine Court of the City of New York now sitting Jonathan Owen of said City aged 73 years and upwards, who being first duly sworn upon his oath maketh the the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832. That he was born at Salem in the County of West Chester in the State of New York on the 15 th May 1759 - but has no written record of his age. That he entered the service of the United States in the Summer of 1780 for one year in the Regiment of New York State Troops command- ed by Colonel Hugh Hughes in the Company commanded by Capt. John Campbell Jr. being then at Continental village whither he had gone for the purpose of joining the troops. That Continental village is a small place 3 or 4 miles below Fort Montgomery in the High- lands. That he got a discharge after the year was out which has been lost - during that year he was stationed principally at Continental village which was the head quarters of his Regiment from which he made frequent ex- cursions on the lines near it. Several skirmishes.
That about 2 months after his said discharge & during the Spring or Summer of 1781, as he thinks he enlisted for one year in the U. States Army in the 3 rd Regiment of Massachusetts Infantry commanded by Col. Jackson in Captain Davis Company (he thinks) Lieutenant Fairbanks was his lieutenant, being then at Continental village aforesaid. That

immediately after his said enlistment he was sent with his said company to West Point where he remained in garrison for guard during that year under the orders of Colonel Jackson who then commanded at the Point - that after being discharged from the Point he attached himself to & was out several times in the militia in his father Jonathan Owen's company in Colonel Ludington's Regiment raised in Dutchess West Chester & Putnam Counties & was in actual service full six months, that he has no documents to prove his said services - that he has witnesses here in court who can swell testify to his said services from their personal knowledge of them, that they are Jacob Dutcher William Colegrove & John Valen- tine who were his fellow soldiers in his com- pany in 1780 & with whom he has been intimate since the War, that he is now & has been most of the time since the war resident of the City of New York, He hereby relinquishes every claim to a pension except the present & declares that his name is not the pension roll of any agency of any State. Sworn & Subscribed to the day & year aforesaid in open Court -
John Barlow Clerk
Jonathan Owen
We William Colegrove a resident of Poughkeepsie in the State of New York & Jacob Dutcher & John Valentine of the City of New York do hereby certify upon our respective oaths that we are well acquainted with Jonathan

None who has subscribed & sworn to the above declaration - that we knew him in the Revolution- ary War & have known him ever since - that we believe him to be of the age of 73 years that we were also members of Captain John Campbell's Company in 1780 stationed at Con- -tusatab village in the Highlands & member that said John joined our said company in the summer of that year & served a full year therein according to the best of their recol- -lection - And this Respondent Dutcher for himself for the said that he was in garrison at West Point with the 10 th Massachusetts Regiment in 1781. & perfectly well remembers that said John was there then a soldier in the 3 rd Massachusetts Regiment & continued there -in as he thinks a full year - And all these respondents further generally say that they have the fullest confidence in the veracity of said John & have no doubt of the truth of the statements made by him in his declaration & know the most of them to be true of their own personal knowledge & observation. Sworn & subscribed to this Jacob Dushiter say 4 years of said in present Wm Colegrove  John Barlow Clerk John Valentine's mark 
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter & after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department that the above named Jonathan Owen was a soldier of the Revolution & served as his status. And the Court further certifies that it appears to them that William Colegrove a resident of Canajoharie in this State and Jacob Dushiter and John Valentine of the City of

New York all of whom have signed & sworn to the above certificate are credible persons, & their statements entitled to full credit. By the Court.
John Barberie Clerk
I, John Barberie Clerk of the Marine Court in the City of New York do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Nathan Owen for a pension. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of office this 12 th day of October, A D 1832.
John Barberie
Ms. B. 2. 25
Nathan Owen's pension application

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July 1. 1843.
Am
John D. Owen Myrtle
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James K. Edwards Esq. Commr. of Pensions Washington Dist. Col.

New York June 27. 1868
Sir.
I have been desired by the wife of Johnathan Owens a Pensioner of the Revolution to learn why his pension is stopped.
The Pension I learn from Mr Irving - the agent in N.Y. - was suspended per letter of 5th June 1856.
I presume I know the cause of the suspension but not the reason which may have been presented at your office.
If what I learn is correct, one through whose hands the money suffered to pass retained six times as much as he agreed to take for his services. He was prosecuted & settled the matter but the pension was stopped in a mysterious manner directly afterwards.
The poor old couple are now in great want one living with one descendant at Peekskill - to wit Johnathan - & the other at another in this City of New York.
He cannot help himself at all & she

act for her under a power of attorney for her mind is very clear spirited & vigorous & it was her resentment on ac- count of the overreaching of her feeble husband which called out the indus- trious passions of a certain person to cause the pension to be stopped. The Witnesses of Owen are John Valentine & Jacob Dutcher. Dutcher is now dead and Valentine fears to swear again unless he can be assured his pension shall not be stopped for doing so as I learn he has been threatened for the same attorney procured both pensions and Valentines has been stopped almost every other year I believe, three times since it was procured viz 15 June 1839 29 April 1840 and once again the time not mentioned a Mr Living says in his new book. I presume the design is to extort money for ren- ing suspensions & that the reasons for stopping the payment are alto- gether frivolous. I make no charge however as I only state my suspicion and Lear says to put you on the scent to discover the true reason why

you have been called on to counter- act the just designs of government in behalf of needy old soldiers whose few remaining years were lined man- desires to render comfortable. I fear she that twice have I been obliged to assist her with the means of paying her fare home as she was too feeble to walk. But her mind is clear & excellent while his is almost entirely gone as before remarked.
Pardon the length of my letter in my anxiety to interest you in a case in which I believe great injustice has been done to the defenseless. A prompt answer will exceedingly oblige them as well as
His Excellency Com d of Pensylvania
Your obedt Servt Clinton Roosevelt

July 6, 1939
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BA-J/MCS Jonathan Owen, S.14070
Mrs. W. J. Cable 165 West St. Clair Street Warren, Pennsylvania
Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your request for information relative to the Revolutionary War service of Jonathan Owen, Sr., of Ulster County, New York.
The data which follow were taken from papers on file in the pension claim, S.14070, based on the military service of the only Jonathan Owen of the vicinity of Ulster County, New York, on account of whose service a claim for pension was made to the United States; such claims are the source of the Revolutionary War data furnished by this office.
Jonathan Owen was born on May 15, 1759, at Salem, Westchester County, New York, and was the son of Jonathan Owen; name of his mother not shown.
He enlisted in the summer of 1780, served one years as private in the company of Captain John Campbell, Jr., in Colonel Hugh Hughes' New York regiment and was in several skirmishes. In 1781 about two months after discharged from his first service, he enlisted and served one year as private in Captain Davis' company in Colonel Jackson's Massachusetts regiment. After this service he served at various times, amounting to six months in all, in the New York militia, in the company of his father, Jonathan Owen, in Colonel Ledington's New York regiment.
He was allowed pension on his application executed October 12, 1832, at which time he was living in New York City, where he had lived most of the time since the Revolution. He had also lived in Phillipstown, New York.

In 1843, it was stated that Jonathan Owen was living in Peekskill, New York, with one descendant and that his wife, her name not given, was living in New York City with another descendant. The names of the descendants were not given.
Jonathan Owen was living in New York City in 1845.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER Executive Assistant to the Administrator

Mar. 29, 1904. Hist. to Charlotte Strickland, Ravenna, Ohio.
1931 June 6. hist. to Hon. B. M. Jacobsen for Mrs. Wm. S. Binford M.C.S. 1936 May 23. hist. to Mrs. C. C. Wallenbaugh, M.C.S. 1937 Oct. 22. hist. to Mrs. W. M. Reno, M.C.S. 1939 July 6. hist. to Mrs. W. S. Cable, M.C.S.
Reohar
14070 INVALID.
File No. 14070
Jonathan Owen Brn. Ret. War.
Act: June 7 th 1932
Index:—Vol. 1 , Page 282
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Ex-Recds.
Art. No. 14094 Cert 14,094
New York Agency
Name: Jonathan Owen Rank: Private Comp'y: Capt. Campbell Reg't: Col. Hughes N.Y. Vols.
} Agency.
RATE PER MONTH, AND DATE OF COMMENCEMENT.
1st { Eighty Dollars Comm'g March 4 1831 Exire. { May 9 1833. 2d { Exemp. { Comm'g

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Hon. J. Q. Adams H. Rep

State of New York City and County of New York ss On this eleventh day of March A.D. 1846 personally appeared before me William T. Brady Alderman and Judge of the County Court _____ Jonathan Owens a resident of the State City and County aforesaid, who being first duly sworn according to law doth on oath depose and say he is now aged about ninety years, and consequently his memory is much impaired by his great age. But according to his best recollection he asserted his claim for a pension under the Act of 1832 in vir- tue of his services as a soldier in the Revolu- tionary war, which services were principally performed in Westchester County in said State and under Officers commanding men in said State and County at that time as set forth in his former declaration. And he further saith that his claim for a pension was in part allowed, and he drew a small pension for several years, but which was subsequently suspended and has for seven or eight years been withheld from him for cause (as he has been advised) which has been alleged by the Pension Department, that he had asserted himself to have served under such Officers as never com- manded in said County. And if such are the reasons for withholding his pension he respectfully prays that if the Pension Department do not see fit to reinstate

him and restore to him his pension as granted on the proof adduced in support of the same - that his papers including his declaration and all the accompanying proof therewith, together with the rolls of the Officers and returns of the same under whom he alleged himself to have served so far as they may now exist and be accessible in the Pension War or State Departments, may be submitted to Congress for their adjudication and final and decisive action on the same. And if it should appear on a reexamination and a strict comparison of the papers adduced by him in support of his claim with the documents now existing purporting to have been the record of such service, that he had erred in his statements, he prays that his errors may be imputed to the fact of the loss of his memory in consequence of his great age and the long period of time intervening between that in which he rendered his service and the present. But he would here state what the Department must be fully advised of which is the fact that they have but a very small proportion of the documentary proof of the services rendered within this or any other of the frontier States and Counties in the United States where the Militia were constantly in service as they were in Westchester County

hence the great liability of the Depart- ments to misjudge themselves for want of full reports of all the services rendered during that long struggle for independence. And he further saith if he is ever to receive any further acknowledgment of his services at the hands of his Country he prays that it may be immediately as his time is but short that he can enjoy any of the goods of this world. And he does hereby substitute and appoint William H. Hoyt of New York as his lawful Attorney and Agent to assist in reasserting and sustaining his claim to a pension, through whom he requests the Department to correspond.
Sworn to and subscribed)
On the day and year } first above written }
Jonathan Hull
W. M. May, Alderman, and Judge of the County Court

Sir
Washington D.C. No 28 th 1841
In the matters of the claim of Jonathan Corn formerly a pensioner under the act of June 7 th 1832 in virtue of his revolutionary military services as proved by documentary and parole evidence in support of the same - And who was suspended from the pension rolls in 1836, for cause not assigned as far as the records show - I have to state after careful and due examination of all the evidence as exhibited in the above case both for and against the allowance of the same - That I find no just cause for the above named individual being suspended from the pension rolls - I find in the pension Department no on file evidence of the highest authority (That is documentary) of the services of the said Jonathan Corn - I also find the testimony of three respectable and unimpeached witnesses on which his pension was granted him there recorded in support of his claim - And all I find against the allowance of the above pension in that Department is an unauthenticated letter from Sylvester Spencer stating that the certificate from the Comptroller of Albany in the case of Corn had reference to another individual and not to the one in question - And on the strength of that letter it appears the above pension was suspended - Now for the weight and importance to be attached to the statements of this Sylvester Spencer who was in 1836 or thereabouts pay agent for the pension Department -

in the city of New York and who was at this time himself prosecuting claims against the U s Government and was indicted in 1840 about this time in the grand jands upon the government of misappropriation as reported 1840 and himself and accomplices were prosecuted for the same - And some of them were sent to State prison and there died in prison and he the said Spencer only received the same finally through the powerful influence of returned friends - And Secondly after the said Spencer had succeeded in causing the suspension of the above pension, he goes to the said Olsen as appears for record and as Olsen affirms him- self and offers to get him restored again to the pension list provided he the said pensioner would allow him the said Spencer one third pay in consideration for his services and thus undertakes his cause - But whose character by this time had become too notorious for his influence to be very available with the Commission of pensions in favor of restoring a pensioner that he himself had caused to be suspended - Now Sir these are the facts in short as far as documents and on file records and that the parties themselves have admitted - We therefore can arrive at no other conclusion than that the said Jonathan Olsen has been wrongfully suspended from the pension roll through the fraudulent representations of Mr. Spencer and therefore entitled to be reinstated on the pension list and to have his back pay of which he has been deprived for the last 13 years paid to him - I do therefore as the Solicitor for Jonathan Olsen respectfully appeal from the decision of the Commission of pensions to the Hon Thomas H Ewing Secretary of the Treasury

and request all the documents in the matters of the claims of Jonathan Osmo to a pension that are now on file in the Pension Department may be immediately transferred to the Secretary of the Interior for his adjudication upon the same.
I am Sir
Very respectfully Your humble Servant
Wm H. Slayton
James L. Edwards Esq. Commissioner of Pensions

STATE OF NEW-YORK CITY AND COUNTY OF NEW-YORK, } ss.
I, James Conner , Clerk of the City and County of New-York, and also Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, for the said City and County, DO HEREBY CERTIFY , That being whom the annexed deposition was taken, was at the time of taking the same, an Alderman of the of County Court in and for said City and County, duly commissioned and sworn, and authorized by the laws of this State to take the same; and that I believe the Signature of said Alderman thereto subscribed is genuine.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the Seal of the said Court and County, the 11 day of March 1846
James Conner Clerk.

of Capt South Company.

Certify that Jonathan Owens is mustered to serve untill January the first 1783 for James Dobson Chap in Capt Arthur Smiths Company in Col John Jansens re iment Penn Wester County this Thirteenth day of April 1782
John J Jansen Schellert 11th

July 10 '43
for Owen May 24 34
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Edward Eddy Commissary General Washington Dist. Col.

New York July 6, 1880
Sir:
The letter to Mr. Spencer would be conclusive - for I shall state I have received 14 years of interest. Were it not a fact that Mr. Valentine's pension which was stopped on the same or like grounds as Owens is I understand has been restored. Valentine has been stopped three times & is now restored. As to obtaining new evidence Owens mind is almost entirely gone & has been so for 12 years past & perhaps longer for his wife has had a power of atty to act for him for that time. Owens has been dependent on Valentine to recollect for him & he only knows the general fact that he was a soldier & to this also has Jacob Dutcher sworn but Dutcher is dead. Sylvester Spencer who caused the pension to be withdrawn

was expelled from the Pension Lines in this city for some improper conduct and he Attorney who procured the pension charged in times as much as he agreed to do, & was prosecuted for it, he refused now to explain or deliver up an important paper which Mr Owens says he holds back. I presume it is his discharge but perhaps not - it is said to be important & conclusive however.
He he said Attorney as I am informed has agreed to cause the pension to be restored for much more than has been paid him at first, but Mr Owens refused to submit to extortion & thus it has rested.
I would ask if there is no discon- tinuing power in your office? The character of Mr Valentine having been cleared up by Gen Aaron Ward & his pension having been restored & established after three dispen- sims I would humbly ask if his testimony is not to be received in connexion with Jacob Dutcher.

who is now dead. From what I know he for old man was a revolutionary soldier I should think would be safe although senile in his dithyramb un- able himself to say anything more positively excepting as told to him, un- der whom he served. In a word his mind is gone. I depend upon the testi- mony of Valentine since since Dutcher is dead - and Valentine has been found by full examination to be a true sol- dier & an honest man although his memory as to the officer under whom he served is somewhat definite. It is a pity that the inability of Owens which he en- sues law was designed to help should be turned against him. I would repeat the question: Is there no dis- cretionary power in your office to admit the main fact on good testimony even if all the details are incorrect from a man so re- duced in mind & memory as Owen is. Is not the restoration of Valentine's general credability a restoration in effect of Owens' as to the leading facts

of his having been a revolutionary soldier? I hope Sir you may be enabled to do something effectual in this matter. I trust that you will not be so rigid in rules as to thwart the design of the law for I do not believe you will wish to do so unnecessarily. Respectfully Clinton Roosevelt To Edward Esq.
July 10 '43
John Owen My. 211 32
Edward Esq. Commissioner of Customs Washington D.C.

Hm. Allard K.R.

I certify that Jonathan Owens is mustered to serve until January first 1783 for Duns Dobson Clap in Capt Artur Smiths Company in Col Joh Tansens Regiment in Ulster County this Thirtieth day of April 1782 Joh Tansen Lieut Master
State of New York Comptrollers Office Albany June 29. 1841
I certify the above to be a true transcript of an original paper now on file in this office W Wredway Dep Compt.
  Fifth, " "  E  " "  E  "    Sixth, " "  " "  "    Seventh, " "  " "  "    Eighth, " "  " "  "    L. B. & A. Auditor account

In pursuance of a law passed the 27th day of April, 1784, entitled "An act for the settlement of the pay of the Levies and Militia, for their services in the late War, and for other purposes therein mentioned," the following certificates have been issued, bearing interest at five per cent per annum, viz :
  1781 Nov 9 3187 Jonathan Owens 8 8 10   1782 Dec 28 3868 Jon m Owens " 21 3 1               
STATE OF NEW-YORK, COMPTROLLER'S OFFICE, Albany, 184 }
I hereby certify the above to be true extracts from Book No. _____ now remaining in this office, and that the service for which the certificates above named were issued, were performed under the following officers, viz :
 First—under Capt. Henry Godwin in Col. ( Staten Island ) Frederick Weissenfels Regiment.  Second, " " Andrew White " " do Frederick Weissenfels "  Third, " " _____ " " _____ "  Fourth, " " _____ " " _____ "  Fifth, " " _____ " " _____ "  Sixth, " " _____ " " _____ "  Seventh, " " _____ " " _____ "  Eighth, " " _____ " " _____ " 
and I further certify that it appears by Book A Credited account to certain inhabitants of Ulster County are credited with amounts of Money under the following general head "Acct of Subsistence of a Detachment of the Levies of Col o  Frederick Weissenfels Reg t subsisted by the inhabitants of Luren "Mill Neponagh & Wawarsing in the County of Ulster in 1782"
   Inhabitants Names Commenc d Ending No. of Men No. of Days Price per Day Amount Subs d Interest     John Brodhead May 14 May 31 5 140 1/- 7 - -  
M. D. ...

Jonathan Owen
June 5. 1886
J.G.G.
Record Y 31 Page 508.

War Department Pension Office June 5 1836
Sir
On a reexamination of the papers upon which your pension under the act of June 7 th 1832 was allowed it appears that your claim was admitted without sufficient evidence — It is stated in your declaration that in 1780, you enlisted in Capt John Campbell's Company Col Hugh Hugh's regiment of New York State troops and served one year, and, that in 1781, you enlisted in Col Jackson's regiment of the Massachusetts line — To which it is objected, 1 That there was no such regiment as that described, in the state troops of New York during the war The rolls of Col Jackson's regiment have been examined and your name is not found there — The most satisfactory explanation and proof is required in order to sustain your claim to service in Col Hugh's regiment, and that, in Col Jackson's regiment, requires the support of two credible witnesses setting forth the time of entering and the time of leaving the regiment as well as well as the names of the company officers
M c Jonathan Owen New York

James L. Edwards Esq. W Commissioner of Pensions Washington.

Mechanics Bank New York 6 th June 1836
Sir
Johnathan Brown a Private at $80 pr Annum under the act of 7 th June 1832, whose Pension is suspended by your Letter of the 5 th Inst, was paid to the 4 th of March 1836 on the 13 th Ultimo.
I am very Respectfully
Your Ob t Serv t
W m Fleming Presd t H m cy
James I Edwards Esq Commissioner of Pensions

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New York 19 th Jan y 1889
Sir
Jonathan Owen, who was pensioned under the act of 7 th Jan y 1832, at $80 per annum, and suspended by your Letter of the 5 th Jan y 1836, has requested me to forward to the Department the enclosed affidavit of John Valentine,
I am Very Respectfully Your Obedt Servt Sylvester Spencer
James L Edwards Esq Commissioner of Pensions Washington

Aug 20. 1840
My
Jonathan Owen
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Number 15 1/2 August 1836
Sir
The Pension of Jonathan Owen, a Swede at Eighty Dollars per Annum, was suspended by you & sent to the Pension Agency of the 5 th Jan 1836. I herewith enclose some Certificates from the Comptrollers office, which may remove the difficulty in his case.
I am very Respectfully, Your Obedt Servt B. Russell
James D. Edmonds Esq Commissioner of Pensions Washington

J. Owens can.
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Wethersfield County } I Lemuel Marks one State of New York } of the Justices of the peace of said County do certify that the foregoing deposition was carefully read to the Deponent, & was then subscribed & sworn to by his making his mark to the same, & duly sworn to before me. That I am acquainted with the said John Valentine & that he is a credible witness.
Lemuel Marks Justice of the Peace

Oct 10/44
Dear Cousin,
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J. H. Edwards Esq. Commissioner of Pensions Washington

New York October 13. 1844.
Sir,
I am again requested by Jonathan Owens of this City to enquire, why his pension was stopped, as he does not know, He says he was a pensioner per act of 7 th June 1832 on the New York City Agency at the rate of $80. per annum.
Very respectfully Your obed Servt. (W. W. Gay)
O. L. Gilmore Esq. Commr. of Pensions

New York August 2nd 1844
In Jonathan Owens of this city - was a pensioner as is said 8 or 10 years ago in virtue of services rendered in the revolutionary war. But his pension was suspended. And I have been requested to write you for information on the subject. To know for what reason it was suspended. A Mr. Lacy of our city is said to have written you on the same subject - but says he has not received any answer. Mr Owens papers were first made out and forwarded to Mr Washington by John N Taylor Esq of this place
I have been requested to ask this information from you by the family of Owens I am Sir Very respectfully Your humble servant
J P Edwards Esq Channel Stone Commissioner of Pensions No 11 King Street

New York September 4 th 1844
Sir
Having written a letter on 2 nd of August last, directed to Mr. Edwards, and not having received any answer, & subsequently learning he was from home - I take the liberty of addressing you on the same subject. Which is to learn the cause why the Pension of Jonathan Cook of this City was suspended about eight years ago, as is said. The cause of which has never been explained, to him and his family. And which explanation they request and have authorized me to ask for and obtain such explanation if there is any to be made. And whom you will much oblige and also your humble
servant by answering the above enquiries Very respectfully Yours
Wm Lloyd Jones acting comr of pensions
No 11 King Street

Nov 25
Rev. James L. Edwards Omnipotent Ruler Washington
of Rev. James L. Edwards Omnipotent Ruler Washington

John L. ... off for Jan 1839
Wage, daily ... 77 1/2
He ... about nine mths ... As ... Given ... the same
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The number and amount of certificates issued by the Treasury of the State of New York for Series 18 th Militia Services & Contained from Books No 5 & 8
   to whom given     1780 July 31 26.240 John Owens private 0 12 3   1780 Oct 31 26.284 John Owens do 8 0 0   1780 Feby 3 43.260 John Owens 5 8 0  
State of New York Comptroller's Office Albany June 10. 1840
I hereby certify the above to be true Extracts from Books No 6 & 89 now remaining in this Office and that the Service for which the first and second cer- tificates above named were issued were performed under Captain John Burnett in a regiment commanded by Col. Lewis Dubois
W. W. Inaway Dep. Comptroller

William Hammond
Nov 26 '36
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Record V36 Page 349

War Dept.
Pension Off.
Nov 1836
Gentl m
In answer to yours of 23 inst. respecting the case of Jonathan Drown I would respectfully refer you to my letter of 5 June last to the Claimant and of 21 inst. to J. H. Taylor Esq. as his att o . It will readily occur to you that it would be extremely at the same time onerous to the Dept t to correspond with more than one att o in a case unless there was some peculiarity in its features which distinguished it from the common mass of claims. This intimation should not be construed to impair the perfect right of the claimant to select or change his att o .
Messrs Williams Hammond New York

Wartsburg County } p. State of New York }
John Valentine of Phillipsburg in the County of Putnam & State of New York being duly sworn doth depose and say that he will be security for a bond in March next, that he is now a Pensioner of the United States as a Revolutionary soldier. That this deponent enlisted as a soldier & joined Capt. John Campbells Company belonging to Col. Hughs Regiment in the spring of the year and a year about nine months before the close of the Revolutionary War, that this deponent first enlisted in said Company for one year, that he served out his time and again enlisted in said Company for one other year, and served therein under his second enlistment about nine months and until the close of said War, at which time this deponent was discharged at the Continental Village in the lower part of Dutchess County & near the Village of P'killkill in Wartsburg County.
That this deponent has been well acquainted with Jonathan Owens ever since this deponent joined the Army in the revolution as above stated until this time, that most of the time since the peace the said Jonathan Owens has resided in Phillipsburg (now Putnam County) in which town this deponent has also ever since resided, except

about three months during the la- war with Great Britain. When this defendant was out in service as a volunteer - That the first that this defendant became well acquainted with the said Jonathan Green, was at the Continental Village aforesaid at the time this defendant joined Capt. Cannells Company as above stated that said Green was at that time a private in said Company doing duty therein as such private, that he the said Green as this defendant then and always, understood, enlisted in said Company a short time before this defendant enlisted in & joined said Company.
This defendant further saith that the said Jonathan Green continued to serve in said Company as a private therein until the close of the revolution and until said Company was discharged at the Continental Village as aforesaid, a period of more than one year and six months and according to defendants best recollection and belief for the period of one year and nine months, that this defendant and said Green were discharged at the same time and in the fall of the year, That this defendant is without reservation and is unable to state the year he enlisted or was discharged, other- wise than by the length of time, between his enlistment and his discharge, which was after five years was discharged.
John X Valentine mark

Pension Offer Yes & Over
Hn. A. Ward HR

New York 4 th Aug t 1841
Dear Sir
I enclose you a copy of Mr Edwards Letter sent to me after you had the case of Owen, called up while on your way South,
The certificates heretofore obtained at Albany were wrong, as the Comptroller had made the services of John Owen (who was a different man) and Jonathan Owen, all as one man's service, I have obtained new Certificates, and have no doubt but that he is actually entitled to his pension, Your attention to the case will confer a favor,
I have the honor to be Your Ob t Serv t Sylvester Spencer Pension Office
Hon. Aaron Ward House of Representatives Washington D.C.
16 Wall St

Mr. O'Neil May 10 52 14094
James & Co. 14094 Columbus Ohio

Aug 26
James L. Edwards Esq. Commissioner of Pensions Washington

New York August 24 th 1837. —
Sir,
I am requested by Jonathan Owen of this city late a Pensioner under the Act of 7 th June 1832 at $20 p. Annum to enquire into the cause of the suspension of his pension, according to your letter to the Pension agent of June 5 th 1836. —
M r Owen is a very worthy and honest man, entirely unable to support himself & lived entirely upon his pension. The object of this enquiry is to remove the difficulty if practicable, so that his pension may be restored.
I am Sir Very Resp y
Your obed t Serv t !
W. P. P. P. No. 9 Chatham St. N.Y.
James L. Edwards Esq. Commissioner of Pensions Washington

Navy Department

Jan a Buren born in Salem N.Y. 1759 - aged 73 d. 1832
Sum 1782 12 mo. State Worry Col. Knapp Capt. Campbell died at the end of 12 mo. Sum 1783 12 mo. 3rd Reg. West. Line Col. Parker - Captains J. Van Alstyne and removed in day at Ulster Died for the whole year Capt. Van Buren - child died
Agan Vol s Jacob Balcher * Wm Colegrove J. Valentine
* Was in Battle Road R. 1781

Camp Oct 1820 1760 July 1 st Dunn
John Dunn of Ulster Co. S er S er in 1782 John Dunn claimant bond in Westchester Co.
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New York 23 Nov. '36
Hon. James L. Edwards
By your instructions of June 6 - last to the Pension agent at New York, the pay of Jonathan Owen a pensioner under the act of '32 has suspended - Will you have the kindness to inform me for Mr Owen the grounds of this suspension -
Very Respectfully yours
Williams & Hammond

Thurs Dec 2nd Clap to Jonathan Owen Deed or Transfer
4

No 5
200 acres
Wap. Common name

We the subscribers being the Major part of a company which said Company is raised in Col Johannes Jansens Regiment of Militia in Ulster County for a valuable consideration to wit in hand paid by Jonathan Curn of the Precinct of Hurburgh in Ulster County and State of New York. The receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged Have granted and transferred and by these presents Do grant and transfer unto the said Jonathan Curn and to his heirs and assigns forever all our right title and interest of and in the annexed certificate and the two hundred acres of unappropriated Land to which we are entitled by virtue of an act entitled an act to compensate the line of this State in the service of the United States and the two Regiments to be raised on portions of unapp- propriated land and for the further defence of the frontiers of this State passed the 23rd day of March 1782 To have and to hold the same unto the said Jonathan Curn and to his heirs and assigns to his and their only proper use & behoof forever as witnesseth our hands & seals the 26th day of May 1783 Dated and delivered In presence of James Curn
Gilbert this mark Aldridge S.S. John Foster S.S. James Hoban S.S. Jacob miss Hoban S.S. Joseph Carr S.S. Samuel Grigg S.S. John Davis S.S. John D'Arcy S.S.
State of New York Comptroller's Office Albany June 10. 1800
I hereby certify that I have carefully compared the foregoing copy and the endorsements thereon with an original paper now on file in this Office and that it is a true transcript therefrom and of the whole of said original and of its endorsements, and further that the paper herewith annexed is a true transcript of an original paper or instrument an- nexed to the first above mentioned original paper
W. M. Indray Dep. Comptroller

Wexford County ss We it remembered that on the sixteenth day of June 1783 personally came and appeared before me Patrick Brann Esq one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas for the County assigned James Owen and being duly sworn deponeth and saith that he saw and heard the within named subscribing generally sign seal and deliver the within grant and transfer as their voluntary act & deed for the uses and purposes therein mentioned and I having inspected the same & finding no erasures nor interlineations therein do allow the same to be filed in the Surveyor General's Office Patrick Brann
I the within named Jonathan Owen for a valuable consideration to me in hand paid by Thomas Palmer of New Brough Esq the receipt is hereby acknowledged hath assigned and set over all my right title and interest of and in the annexed certificate & transfer and the two hundred acres of Land thereby granted unto the said Thomas Palmer and to his heirs and assigns forever as witness my hand and seal this 3 day of July 1783
Witness present Esther Palmer
Pat: Cady
Jonathan Owen

Ravenna Ohio March 17-1904
The Pension Dept. Washington D.C.
I wish for information of Jonathan Owen and Bozardus Hatch.
Are their names on the records of Revolutionary Soldiers -
From family history. Jonathan Owen was drafted in at New Lebanon

N.Y. and Margaret Hatch at N.Y. City
Very Truly Charlotte Strickland Painesville Ohio.

B. M. JACOBSEN 2D DISTRICT IOWA
T. J. SLOWIE SECRETARY
Congress of the United States House of Representatives Washington, D. C.
June 6, 1951
Veterans Administration Bureau of Pensions Washington, D. C.
Gentlemen:
We are enclosing herewith letter that is self-explanatory. Kindly look up the matter and report to us at your earliest convenience. Also please return the letter for our files.
Very truly yours,
B. M. Jacobsen B. M. Jacobsen
Enc.
Wanted record of Jonathan Owen who served in Capt. Campbell's Co., Col. Hughes' N.Y. Regt.; also record of Benjamin Hatch. Letter from Mrs. Ellen L. Puriford returned to Hon. Jacobsen

THIS SIDE OF CARD IS FOR ADDRESS
Veterans Administration, Washington, D.C.

Gentlemen:- Will you kindly send me Revolutionary War data concerning
Archibald Brown, Ulster Co., New York, 2nd Reg.
Jonathan Owen, Sr. " " " " " "
" " Jr. " " " " " "
Oliver Owen, " " " " " "
I understand you would have the records if they applied for pension? Think I saw somewhere that the states too granted pension?
These people were located in 1790 in what was known as Wallkill Town. Was very near the Orange Co. line so they might have been considered as from Orange Co. N.Y.
Thank you, no signature?
1249 Eleventh St., N.W. Mrs. C.C. Waltenbaugh. Canton, Ohio.

Des Moines - Ia - Oct 6 - 1937
Executive Assistant to The Administrator Veterans Administration Washington
Dear Sir,
Please send me information concerning Jonathan Owen - Revolutionary soldier , New York
In Capt. John Campbell's Co. Col. Hughes Regiment Also in Capt. Jonathan Owen's (his father) Reg-
Pensioned  1832
Enlisted 1780 B-1759 D 1835-
And oblige
Yours truly
Maud Reno
Mrs. M. M. Reno 5052 Ingersoll Ave Des Moines Ia

Warren. Penna May 18. 1939
Bureau Paines -
Dear Sir -
Will you kindly send to me the Revolutionary service of Jonathan Owen br. of Ulster County. New York. Do you have the date of his marriage to Mary (Polly) Warner? Thanking you, I am Very truly yours,
Myrtle Owen Cable (Mrs. W. G. Cable) 105 West St. Clair St. Warren Pennsylvania

October 22, 1937
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Jonathan Owen, S.14070 BA-J/MCS
Mrs. M. M. Reno 5052 Ingersoll Avenue Des Moines, Iowa
Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your request for information relative to Jonathan Owen, a Revolutionary War soldier who served under Captain John Campbell and Colonel Hughes and under his father, Captain Jonathan Owen.
The data which follow were obtained from papers on file in the pension claim, S. 14070, based upon the military service of Jonathan Owen.
Jonathan Owen was born May 15, 1759, at Salem, Westchester County, New York, and was the son of Jonathan.
He enlisted in the summer of 1780, served one year as private in the company of Captain John Campbell, Jr., in Colonel Hugh Hughes' New York regiment and was in several skirmishes. In 1781 about two months after discharged from his first service, he enlisted and served one year as private in Captain Davis' company in Colonel Jackson's Massachusetts regiment. After this service he served at various times, amounting to six months in all, in the New York militia, in the company of his father, Jonathan Owen, in Colonel Ludington's New York regiment.
He was allowed pension on his application executed October 12, 1832, at which time he was living in New York City, where he had lived most of the time since the Revolution. He had also lived in Phillipstown, New York.

On 1843 it was stated that Jonathan Owen was living in Peekskill, New York, with "one descendent" and that his wife, her name not given, was living in New York City with another descendant. The names of the descendants were not given.
Jonathan Owen was living in New York City in 1845.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER Executive Assistant to the Administrator

May 23, 1936
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Jonathan Owen, S.14070 BA-J/MCS
Mrs. C. C. Waltenbaugh 1249 Eleventh Street, N.W. Canton, Ohio
Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your request for information relative to Revolutionary War soldiers, Archibald Brown, Jonathan Owen, Senior and Junior, and Oliver Owen.
Revolutionary War data furnished by this office are obtained from claims made to the United States for pension and bounty land based upon the military service of soldiers in that war. A careful search of the records fails to show such claims on file on account of the service of any Oliver Owen or of an Archibald Brown who enlisted from New York State.
The data which follow were obtained from papers on file in the pension claim, S.14070, based upon the military service of Jonathan Owen, the only soldier of that name who enlisted from New York State that is found in the Revolutionary War records of this office.
Jonathan Owen was born May 15, 1759, at Salem, Westchester County, New York. He was the son of Jonathan Owen, given!
He enlisted in the summer of 1780, served one year as a private in the company of Captain John Campbell, Jr., in Colonel Hugh Hughes' New York regiment and was in several skirmishes. In 1781 about two months after discharge from his first service, he enlisted and served one year as private in Captain Davis' company in Colonel Jackson's Massachusetts regiment. After this service he served at various times, amounting to six months in all, in the New York militia, in the company of his father, Jonathan Owen, in Colonel Ludington's New York regiment.

He was allowed pension on his application executed October 12, 1832, at which time he was living in New York City, where he had lived most of the time since the Revolution. He had also lived in Phillipstown, New York.
In 1843 it was stated that Jonathan Owen was living in Peekskill, New York, with "one descendant", and that his wife, her name not given, was living in New York City with another descendant. The names of the descendants were not given.
Jonathan Owen was living in New York City in 1846.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER Executive Assistant to the Administrator

June 10, 1931
Hon. B. M. Jacobsen House of Representatives
Rev. & 1812 Wars Section MOS:MLB
My dear Mr. Jacobsen:
Reference is made to your letter of June 6, relative to information desired by Mrs. William S. Binford, of Davenport, Iowa.
You are advised that it appears from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S. 14070, that Jonathan Owen, the son of Jonathan, was born May 15, 1759, at Salem, Westchester County, New York.
He enlisted in the summer of 1780, served one year as a private in the company of Captain John Campbell, Jr., in Colonel Hugh Hughes' New York regiment and was in several skirmishes. In 1781 about two months after discharge from his first service, he enlisted and served one year as private in Captain Davis' company in Colonel Jackson's Massachusetts regiment. After this service he served at various times, amounting to six months in all, in the New York militia, in the company of his father, Jonathan Owen, in Colonel Ludington's New York regiment.
He was allowed pension on his application executed October 12, 1832, at which time he was living in New York City, where he had lived most of the time since the Revolution. He had also lived in Phillipstown, New York.
In 1843 it was stated that Jonathan Owen was living in Peekskill, New York, with "one descendant", and that his wife, her name not given, was living in New York City with another descendant. The names of the descendants were not given.

The Revolutionary War records of this bureau fail to afford any information in regard to Bogardus Hatch.
Very truly yours
E. W. MORGAN Acting Commissioner