Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 15794, for Jonathan Pollard, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass
Pollard, Jonathan Keziah
W. 15794.
CONTENTS

Exam d by J. W. Risque Nov. 16. 1850
Albany A. 306
Keziah Pollard widow of Jonathan Pollard
who was a pensioner under the Act of Invalid Pensioners and who died on the month of April 1821 of Madison Co. in the State of N. York who was a Private in the _____ commanded by Captain Mays of the Reg't. commanded by Col. Nixon in the Revolution time for 2 years
Inscribed on the Roll of Albany at the rate of 80 Dollars _____ Cents per annum. to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.
Certificate of Pension issued the 4 th day of Dec. 1838 and sent to B. Beckwith Cazenovia, N. Y.
Arrears to the 4th of Apr. 38 200.00 Semi-annual allowance ending 4 th Mar. 39. 40.00
$240.00
{ Act July 7, } 1838. }
Recorded by D. Brown Clerk. Book A. Vol. 2 Page 97.

State of New York Madison County } ss. Solomon Bliss of Coesenvine in said County Aged seventy one years being duly sworn according to law deposes & Says that he has been well acquainted with Jonathan Pollard & Hester Pollard his wife for thirty five years last past until the decease of the said Jonathan Pollard in the year 1821. & has been since that time well acquainted with the aforesaid Hester Pollard widow of the said Jonathan Pollard, upon declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed July the 7 th 1838 entitled "an Act granting half pay & pensions to certain Widows" is hereby affirmed that the said Deponent has no personal knowledge of the Marriage of the said Jonathan Pollard to the said Hester Pollard but has no doubt of their having been married previously to his acquaintance with them which was in the year 1803. when the said Pollard removed with his said wife & family from the State of Massachusetts into the town of Coesenvine aforesaid & into the neighborhood of this deponent where he resided at the time of his death, that at the time of their removal into the neighborhood of this deponent the said Jonathan & Hester had a family of several children, the eldest of which a daughter named Abigail Pollard appeared to be at that time about 15. years of age. And the said deponent further testifies that he has no doubt that the said Jonathan & Hester were lawfully married several years previously to his acquaintance with them as he has never in any instance heard the fact doubted and that they always lived together as man & wife since this deponent became acquainted with them until the decease of the said Jonathan Pollard. And this deponent further testifies the said Jonathan Pollard was at the time of his decease an invalid Revolutionary pensioner of the United States and had been for a number years according to common reputation & belief which he has no doubt was true. And this deponent further says that the said Hester Pollard has not intermarried since the death of her said husband. but still remains the widow of the said Jonathan Pollard and further this deponent saith not. Solomon Bliss Subscribed and sworn before me This 13 th day of August 1838 Sarah Buckley a Judge of Madison County Court

State of New York
Madison County } ss.
Dyer Lamb of Coeymans aged 52 years being duly sworn, according to law deposes and says that he was well acquainted with Jonathan Pollard late of Coeymans deceased, for 18 years previously to his death and also with his wife Fanny Pollard, (now the widow of the said Jonathan Pollard) and continues still to be well acquainted with the said Fanny, and that she has not intermarried since the death of the said Jonathan Pollard but still remains his widow, that this deponent became acquainted with the said Jonathan Pollard & Fanny his wife soon after they removed from the town of New Braintree, in the County of Worcester & State of Massachusetts, into the town of Coeymans in the County of Madison aforesaid that at that time the said Jonathan and Fanny had a large family of children the eldest of which a daughter named Abigail Pollard appeared to be about 14 or 15 years of age that at that time they the said Jonathan & Fanny lived together as husband & wife & has no doubt that they had been lawfully married for a number of years previously to his acquaintance with them & has never heard the fact of their marriage doubted by any one. And this deponent further testifies that in the year 1811, he this deponent married a daughter of the said Jonathan & Fanny Pollard by the name of Zilpha Pollard at that time about 20 years of age. And this deponent further deposes & says that the the family record herunto attached and sworn to is in the hand writing of the aforesaid Jonathan Pollard & that deponent is well acquainted with the hand writing of the aforesaid Pollard, and has no doubt that the writing is genuine & the facts therein stated are true.
Dyer Lamb
Subscribed & sworn before me
This 13 th day of August 1838
Barak Beckwith a Judge of Madison County Court
and Solomon Bliss I hereby certify that Dyer Lamb, who subscribed to the above affidavits and made oath thereto are credible persons whose testimony is entitled to credit Barak Beckwith Judge &c.

Record of Jonathan Pollard, Birth & Hester his wife's & their Children
   Names Birth Year Month Day     Jonathan Pollard Born 1759 March 3 rd   Hester Pollard Born 1768 March April 21 st   We joined in Matrimony --- 1788 June 9 th   Asahel Pollard Born 1789 April 3 rd   Philpba Pollard Born 1791 February 25 th   Otis Pollard Born 1793 March 1 st   Sally Pollard Born 1795 April 15 th   Calvin Pollard Born 1797 June 14 th   Seris Pollard Born 1799 April 9 th   Polly Pollard Born 1801 January 22 nd   John Pollard Born 1803 August 27 th   Tabitha Pollard Born 1805 July 22 nd   Melina Pollard Born 1807 February 16 th   Orvina Pollard Born 1810 October 12 th   Franklin Pollard Born 1815 October 29 th   Franklin Pollard Pollard Deceased 1817 January 8 th   Aged one year & two months & nine days  
Franklin Pollard has laid in the this mortal disturbed painful body aside - he is gone beyond the bounds of pain he sleeps & rests on Jesus. Booncom sweetly
I shall soon follow his unsearchable ways through the A well grounded hope to see the blessed smiles of Jesus who says Come ye blessed of my Father enter into my joy

State of New York Madison County } J. Dyer Lamb of Coeymans in said County being duly sworn, according to law deposes & says that in the year 1887 Jonathan Pollard of Coeymans aforesaid at the request of this deponent gave the within family record to said deponent and stated at the time that it was a correct record & account of all the facts stated therein, and that this deponent has no doubt of the truth of every fact therein mentioned & this deponent further testifies that the within named Hester Pollard is the identical person who is now making application for a pension and whose declaration for that purpose is hereto annexed Dyer Lamb
Sworn and subscribed before me This 13 th day of August 1888
Barak Beckwith a Judge of Madison County Court
I hereby certify that Dyer Lamb who subscribed and was sworn as to the truth of the above affidavit is a credible person whose testimony is entitled to full credit Barak Beckwith Judge

State of New York
Madison County } ss. On this 13 th day of August 1838 personally appeared before the Subscriber a Judge of the county courts in & for the county of Madison aforesaid Keziah Pollard a resident of the town of Cazenovia in said County aged seventy years, who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress, passed July the 7 th 1838, entitled "An act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows". That she is the widow of Jonathan Pollard of Cazenovia aforesaid deceased who was a private in the Army of the United States in the War of the rebellion and served under Lay Fayette in which service he received a wound in his left leg which caused him to become an invalid and for which he was placed on the Invalid Pension Roll, and received a pension annually from the United States from the time of his discharge from the army until the day of his decease, as will more fully appear by reference being had to the papers on file in the office of the Secretary of War or the Pension department of the United States and that for the last 17 or 18 years previous to his decease he resided in the town of Cazenovia aforesaid.
She further declares that she was married to the said Jonathan Pollard on the ninth day of June Seventeen hundred & eighty eight, that her husband the aforesaid Jonathan Pollard died on the 14 th day of April 1828; that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place prior to the first of January nineteen hundred ninety four, viz: at the time stated above
Sworn to and subscribed, on the day and year first above written Keziah Pollard before me, Barack Bushnell.
a Judge of Madison County courts

State of New York Madison County } ss. On this fourteenth day of August eighteen hundred & thirty eight personally appeared before the subscriber Barah Beekwith a Judge of the County Courts in & for the county of Madison aforesaid Hester Pollard, a widow of the town of Herk- aforesaid aged seventy years who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath, make the following additional 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 was married to the aforesaid Jonathan Pollard mentioned in the above declaration (made by her on the thirteenth day of August instant) on the ninth day of June seventeen hundred & eighty eight (as stated in her said first decla- -ration) by William Clark a Justice of the peace at that time in the town of Windsor in the County of Berkshire & State of Massachusetts That she does not know that any record was kept of her said marriage in said town either by said Justice or in the town and that all the persons who were present at her said marriage were the following viz. my father Edward Hayward, & my mother Deborah Hayward, Josiah Beals, Winslow Richardson, & Elizabeth his wife Lebuley Pasked, & Barzillai Beals, all of whom are now dead except Josiah Beals, and whether he is living or not at this time she does not know, but supposes that most probably he is not.
Sworn to & subscribed before me on the day & year above written
Hester Pollard
Barah Beekwith a Judge of Madison County Courts.
I hereby certify that the above named Hester Pollard is unable to appear in court from bodily infirmity and that she is a person of good moral character whose statements are entitled to credit and that the above statements & declarations are the original proceedings had before me on the 13 th & 14 th days of August 1838 Barah Beekwith a Judge of Madison County courts

State of New York
Madison County Clerks Office
ss: J. Alexander
Donaldson Jr Clerk of the said County do hereby certify that Barak Beckwith whose name is subscribed to the annexed certificate and before whom the annexed declaration and affidavit purport to have been made was on the days of the dates of said declaration and certificate a Judge of the County courts in and for said County duly elected and qualified; and that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of the said Barak Beckwith and verily believe that the signatures to the annexed declaration and certificate are genuine. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said County the thirtieth day of August 1838.
A. J. Donaldson Jr Clerk.
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1506

information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau. Jonathan Pollard War File 15794
   DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE.   CAPTAIN. COLONEL.     ✓ Pvt. ✓ Nixon Nass   wounded in left leg for which pensioned from Mar 17, 1786  
Battles engaged in, _____
Residence of soldier at enlistment, _____
Date of application for pension, Aug 13, 1858. For it was al
Residence at date of application, Barnesville, Madison Co., N.Y.
Age at date of application, She was born Apr. 21, 1768
Remarks: Soldier was born Mar. 3, 1759 & married June 9, 1788 at Windsor, Berkshire Co. Mass. Reuben, daughter of Edward & Rebekah Hayward. He died Apr 14, 1821. Children: Abiah, b. Apr. 3, 1789. Gilpha b. Feb. 23, 1791, mar. Dyer Lamb. Otho b. Feb. 1, 1793. Sally b. Apr. 15, 1795. Calvin b. June 14, 1797. Persis b. Apr. 9, 1799. Polly b. Jan. 22, 1801. John b. Aug. 27, 1803. Isabella b. July 22, 1805. Melina b. Feb. 16, 1807. Ursula b. Oct. 12, 1810. Franklin b. Oct. 29, 1813, died Jan'y 8, 1817.
Very respectfully,
See Inv. List of Machine Co Commissioner.  Ref. printed 1835- no papers

N. York
Keziah Pollard
widow of Jonathan Pollard
send cert: to to B. Beckwith 8 Oct 1878
Cazenovia, N.Y.
Albany roll —
$80 per ann
died in April 1821
no deduction
Act. 7. July 1878 ✓

RECORD DIVISION.
Department of the Interior, BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
Briefed by L. D. L.
Claim No. _____
Certificate No. _____
Claimant _____
Soldier Jonathan Pollard
Service Mass.
Additional Service Rev. War
Res-N.Y.
No. _____ claim, State records _____, 190__
No claim, combination records _____, 190__
REMARKS:
No claim except I. # 36739  not identical Art 1818 not disability W. # 15794

Jonathan Pollard of Wheeler's Co. Nix on res. On roll - for war

Jonathan Pollard enlisted under Capt. Wheeler Mass. Line during the war —

It appears from vouchers for the first quarter of 1821, among the New-York Agent's accounts that Jonathan Pollard, whose widow now claims a pension under the act of 7 July, '38, was a soldier of Col. Mixon's regt. On looking at Mixon's rolls, I find that he was a war's man. The claim is therefore admitted for a full pension as a Private. J. L. E.

Apr 6/86 Soldier pensioned Mrs. Frank P. Adams, New York, N.Y. M.C.C. 1909 Apr 17 Hist. to Mrs. Frank P. Adams. V.L.M. 1913 July 9 Hist. to Henry R. Drowne V.L.M.
Re WIDOW, &c.
File No. 15794  Elizabeth Pollard Wid of  Jonathan Pollard Prin Rev War   Act July 7 th  1838.  Index: Vol. M , Page 134
[Arrangement of 1870.]

712 East Jefferson St. Syracuse
N.Y. March 24, 1909
Department of the Interior Bureau of Pensions, Wash. D.C.
Dear Sir:
Please send me papers that I can fill out regard- ing the military record of my great-great-great grandfather.
Jonathan Pollard His wife, Regia Haywood received a pension. At the time of application Aug. 14, 1835 She resided in Coeymans N.Y.

Trusting soon you will send me the papers I remain
Respectfully Yours Miss Helen Elizabeth Johnson
T. Mrs. Frank P Adams, 712 E. Jefferson St., Syracuse N.Y.

Sons of the Revolution
in the State of New York
Frances Tavern
Corner Broad & Pearl Streets
New York City
July 1, 1913.
Bureau of Pensions,
Washington,
D.C.
Gentlemen:-
Will you kindly send me the Revolutionary service of Jonathan Pollard, who was born in Suncock, N.H., on March 3, 1759, was a citizen of New Braintree, Mass., and died in Cazenovia, N.Y., on April 18, 1821.
Thanking you for any trouble you may take in the matter, I remain,
Yours very truly,
Henry Russell Dromé
Secretary.

1306 38 F. W. Risque Present.

New York November 6, 1850- D. L. Edwards Esq. Sir,
You will please allow F. M. Risque Esq., of Washington D.C. to examine such papers as may be in your Bureau, that may give information in regard to my deceased father, Jonathan Pollard, who was a Revolutionary Pensioner of the New York Agency, & belonged to Massachusetts during the Revolution.
Very respectfully Your obedt servt.
Abigail Pollard
Witness Wm. T. Herrington
Jonathan P. Pollard pension under act of 7 June 1832 & his widow under act of 7 July 1838 - both on the pension roll of New York, city of
Resided Pollard's widow of Jonathan Pollard was Act of July 1838 at $80 per annum, paid by March 1847.
M c Randall will F. M. Risque please examine. Sir,

11149 NY. 7 July 1888
Hon. J. L. Edwards Sec Commissioner of Pensions Washington D. C.

Coshocton Sept. 1 st 1838
Sir I send you enclosed the application of Huziet Pollard for a pension
Any communication from the Pension department on the subject directed to the subscriber at Coshocton will be thankfully received very respectfully your ob t . servant
Barack Bushnell
Hon J. L. Edwards Washington