Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 40198, for Hananiah Newton, Massachusetts

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Continental (Mass)
Newton Heamaniah or Heamaniah
S. 40198
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State of Pennsylvania Erie County, ss
On this second day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred and Eighteen before me the Subscriber President of the Courts of common pleas in the Sixth Judicial district of the said State of Pennsylvania, personally appears Hannanah Newton aged fifty six years, now resident in the Township of Greenfield in said County, 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 Hannanah Newton enlisted in the Town of Chelmsford in the County of Middlesex, and State of Massachusetts, in a company commanded by Captain — Fox of the Regiment commanded by Colonel Henry Jackson; That he continued to serve in the said Corps or in the service of the United States, for the period of about three years and until the tenth day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand Seven hundred and eighty, when he was discharged from the
service in the Fort Mifflin in the State of New Jersey That he was in the Battles of Brandywine on Rhode Island, and Elizabeth Town, and that he is in reduced circum- -stances, and stands in need of the assistance of his Country for support. And that he has no other evidence now in his power of his said services, than what is now produced — Sworn to and declared before me the day Hannanah Newton
and year aforesaid Sworn and subscribed at supra coram Jesse Moore

I Jesse Moore Esquire President of the Courts of Common Pleas within and for the said Judicial District do hereby certify that it appears to my satisfaction, that the said Hannibal Benton, 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 laid before me to the Secretary for the department of war, pursuant to the directions of the aforementioned act of Congress.
Jesse Moore
Erie Penn a June Second 1818.
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Erie County Y s
I certify that Jesse Moore Esquire, is duly commissioned President of the said Judicial district composed of the Counties of Venango, Butler, Mercer, Crawford and Erie, that he is now in Commission - And that full faith and credit ought to be given to all his official acts. -
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set the seal of my office the 2 nd day of June 1818. -
John Hedges Brother

Erie county in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania P.
To the Secretary of the Department of War,
I the subscriber president of the aforesaid sixth judicial district in the said Commonwealth do hereby certify, That on the oath of Col. Elisha Marrison and Daniel Palmer, credible witnesses and neighbours of Hananiah Newton who know his circumstances, I am fully satisfied that the said Hananiah "by reason of his reduced circumstances in life" is in need of assistance from his country for support!! In testimony whereof - at the town of Erie in the said county of Erie on the second day of February one thousand eight hundred and nineteen I have hereunto subscribed my name & affixed my seal.
Jesse Moore

State of Ohio } Court of Common Pleas Morgan County } July Term 1820
On this twelfth day of July eighteen hundred and twenty, personally appeared in open court being a bailiff of record for the said County, having power to fine and imprison, Hannaniah Newton aged fifty eight years, resident in Winesor 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, that he enlisted on the tenth day of July seventeen hundred and seventy eight, in Capt Fox's Company in Colonel Henry Jackson's Massachusetts Regiment for three years, and served throughout the term and was honorably discharged as set forth in his original application for pension made on the second day of June eighteen hundred and eighteen, and that he has received a pension certificate bearing date on the twenty sixth day of May eighteen hundred and nineteen and numbered 11,106 by which said certificate he was placed on the roll of the Pennsylvania agency but was on the ninth of September 1819 transferred to the roll of the Ohio agency.
And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the eighteenth day of March 1818; and that I have not since that time, by gift, sale or in any manner disposed of my property, or any part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it, as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States, in the Revolutionary war" passed on the eighteenth day of March 1818, and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property or securities contracts, or debts due to me; nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed

That is to say no real property
2 acres of Indian Corn growing 1 1/4 acres of rye 8 bushels of wheat in the stack 1 kettle 1 pot 1 tea kettle 1 Dutch oven 2 axes 6 cups and saucers 4 knives and forks & 4 plates 2 looms with 7 reeds
She has owing to her  me by John Chidder $30
and am in debt to Deborah Boan a man $62
Thomas Lillo 9.92 The above is a true enumeration of all my property and the debt due to me by J Chidder is all that I have owing to me Hemeniah Newton
The declarant on his oath aforesaid further states that he is by occupation a farmer and that on account of ill health for the eight years past he is unable to pursue his occupation to any extent and that his inability is increasing that his family consists of his wife aged fifty four years of about the health and ability common to her age of a son and a daughter (twin) aged fourteen years of good health and of a son aged ten years of a weak constitution
Sworn to, acknowledged and subscribed in open court this 12 th day of July 1820 Hemeniah Newton
Attest Sam l . A. Barker Clerk S.S.

I Samuel A Barker Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of Morgan County do hereby cer- tify that the foregoing oath 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 property ex- hibited in the aforesaid schedule is thirty five dollars
In testimony whereof I have hereun- to set my hand and affixed my of- ficial seal this eleventh day of July eight- een hundred and twenty
Samuel A Barker Clerk S. C. P. M.

State of New York
City and County of New York ss
On this 8 th day of May, one thou- sanda eight hundred and fifty one, per- sonally appeared before me, a Justice of the Peace for the City and County afore- said, Truman C. Newton, who being duly sworn according to law, declares that he is the identical Truman C. Newton, the son and next heir at law of Hananiah Newton and Chloe Newton, whose name before marriage was Chloe Wood, that his Father served as a Soldier in the Revolutionary War, and subsequently inscribed on the Pension Roll of Pennsylvania at the rate of eight dollars per month and afterwards transferred to the Pension list of Ohio,
Deponent further saith, that his Father the aforesaid Hananiah Newton Died at Janesville Ohio on the 14 th day of April A.D. 1826, - and that his Mother Chloe Newton Died in the City of New York on the 16 th day of January 1836 -
That the said Chloe Newton left only three sons and two Daughters her surviving, viz - John Newton, Armon Newton, and Truman Newton the present Deponent, and Abigail Newton & Amelia Newton - That John has not been heard of for more than fourteen years and is considered to be lost on Lake Erie. Deponent further states, that from the

Records of the Family Bible it appears to a certainty that it was written in the hand writing of his Father the said Hananiah Newton, which states that he and Chloe Wood were married in Fitchburg Massachusetts on the eighteenth day of July A. D. 1785 -
Sworn before me
this 8 th day of May 1857
M rs D ame Justice of the Peace
Truman C. Newton
Jacob C. Batterson being duly sworn according to law, declares that he was intimately acquainted with the said Hananiah Newton since the year 1818, and has the clearest recollection of his introducing Chloe Newton to him as his wife and have known them to have lived together and generally so reputed, until his death - and has a perfect remembrance of the time of his death - at Zanesville at Muskingum, or Muskingum Ohio -
Deponent further saith that he was also intimately acquainted with Chloe Newton the widow of Hananiah Newton, and present at her funeral at the City of New York in the month of January the seventeenth or eighteenth 1836 - that he was acquainted intimately with two sons and two daughters of the said Hananiah and Chloe Newton viz - Armon Newton, and Truman C. Newton and Abigail and Armilia Newton, and from the best of his belief and know-

ledge that the four children within mentioned are the only sons and daughters of the said Hananiah and Chloe Newton that the deposition of Truman C. Newton is true and worthy of undoubted cre- dit, and further that he is disinter- ested -
Sworn before me this 8 th day of May 1857
Wm B. Muehl
Justice of the Peace
Yacob D. Patterson
Polly Patterson, being duly sworn according to law, declares that she has been intimately acquain- -ted with the aforesaid Hananiah Newton since the year of 1818, and saw him dead as within stated, and that she was also at the funeral of his widow the aforesaid Chloe Newton on the seventeenth or eighteenth of January 1836, in the City of New York - that she has known the said Hananiah Newton and Chloe Newton were legally married husband and wife and never heard of the fact to have been doubted - that she has been intimately acquainted with the sons and daughters aforesaid, that there are no other children now living to the best of her belief and knowledge that the deposition of Truman C. Newton is true and worthy of undoubted credit and further that she is disinterested -
Sworn before me this 8 th day of May 1857
Wm B. Muehl
Justice of the Peace
Polly Patterson

State of New York
City and County of New York
It is hereby certified that satisfactory proof has been exhibited before me, the undersigned a Justice of the Peace for the City and County within mentioned by the affidavits of Jacob A. Baterson and Polly Baterson two credible witnesses and of known respectability, that they have been intimately acquainted with the within mentioned Hannah Newton and Phoebe Newton and have known them to have lived together as Husband and Wife from the year 1818, they then residing in the State of Ohio, and that they have the most perfect recollection of the times of their deaths, and that the only children now surviving are Arman, Truman, C. Abigail and Armelia
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State of New-York, City and County of New-York, } ss.
I, GEORGE W. RIBLET, Clerk of the City and County of New-York, and also Clerk of the Supreme Court for said City and County of New-York being a Court of Record, DO HEREBY CERTIFY, That J. F. Muech before whom the annexed deposition was taken, was at the time of taking the same, a Justice of the Peace, in and for said City and County, duly elected and sworn, and that his signature thereto is genuine, as I verily believe.
Peace county
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the Seal of the said Court and County, the 9 day of May 1851.
George W. Riblet Clerk.

State of New York City and County of New York
It is hereby certified that satisfactory proof has been exhibited before me, the undersigned a Justice of the Peace for the City and County within mentioned by the affidavits of Jacob A. Baterson and Polly Baterson two credible witnesses and of known respectability, that they have been intimately acquainted with the within mentioned Hannah Newton and Chloe Newton and have known them to have lived together as Husband and Wife from the year 1818, they then residing in the State of Ohio, and that they have the most perfect recollection of the times of their deaths, and that the only children now surviving are Asman, Truman C. Abigail and Amelia that the deposition of Truman C. Newton is true and worthy of undoubted credit, and further that they are disinterested
8th May 1851
Wm B. Beecher Justice of the Peace for the City & County of New York

* This Duplicate was returned to the War Dept and destroyed 20 th October 1879. the original having been found inside letter from J. W. Howard in this envelope. Let to D. S. Brown. Aug 5 /51.
This is a duplicate of the original certificate of pension issued to the said Hannah Newton on the 26th day of May 1819 and sent to the Hon. Robert Moore Beavertown, Beaver Co. Penna.
Ohio 11,106 transferred Dept from Pennsylvania to take effect from 11 Sep. 1879 Hannahiah Newton
of Greenfield in the state of Penn a who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel H. Jackson of the M'Kean's line, for the term of three years
Inscribed on the Roll of Pennsylvania at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 2 nd of June 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 26 th of May 1819 and sent to Hon. Robert Moore Beavertown, Beaver Co. Penn a .
Arrears to 4 th of Feb y 1819. 8 mos \frac{29}{30} \cdot \frac{4}{31} \cdot 72.76 Semi-ann. all ce ending 4 Sep. 1819. 48 $ 120.76
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Duplicate certificate Pension issued on the 26 th of May 1819 and sent to Joseph W. Howard Washington. Sept 1819.

September 25, 1933
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Hananiah Newton, S.40198 BA-J/MCS
Mr. Gilbert H. Doane 1734 B Street Lincoln Nebraska
Dear Sir:
Reference is made to your request for the record of Hananiah Newton, a soldier of the Revolution.
The data which follow were obtained from papers on file in the pension claim, S. 40198, based upon the military service of Hananiah Newton.
He enlisted in Chelmsford, Massachusetts, July 10, 1778, and served as private in Captain Fox's company in Colonel Henry Jackson's regiment, was in the battles of Rhode Island and Elizabethtown and was discharged July 10, 1780.
He was allowed pension on his application executed June 2, 1818, at which time he was living in Greenfield Township, Erie County, Pennsylvania, aged fifty-six years.
In 1819 he was living in Barlow Township, Washington County, Ohio. In 1820 he was living in Windsor, Morgan County, Ohio.
He died April 14, 1826, at Zanesville, Ohio.
This soldier married July 18, 1785, at Fitchburg, Massachusetts, Chloe Wood. In 1820 he stated that his wife was fifty-four years of age.
Chloe Newton died January 16, 1826, in New York City and was survived by the following children: Truman C., a resident of New York City in 1851; Armon; Abigail Newton; Armelia Newton. In 1851

it was stated that Hananiah and Chloe Newton had a son, John, who had not been heard from for more than fourteen years and was considered to have been lost in Lake Erie.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER Assistant to Administrator

1734 B STREET LINCOLN, NEBRASKA
17 September 1933.
The Pension Bureau, Washington, D.C.
Gentlemen:
I should like to have the pension records of the following named Revolutionary soldiers:
NEWTON , Hannaniah. Served from Massachusetts.
CRAW , Reuben. Served from Connecticut.
Very gratefully yours,
Gilbert H. Doane.

McConnelsville Ohio Jan 17. 1931 Dept of Interior Washington D.C.
Kindly give me any information you can concerning these two Revolutionary soldiers.
Tom Nott - 1833 Conn. State troops
Hananiah Norton 1819 Mass. Continental
Sincerely Agnes J. Pyle OF Amanda Barker Deven Chapple D.G.R.
21 1931
McConnelsville Morgan Co.

40 198
Ray INVALID.
1921 Feb. 16 hist. to Agnes J. Pyle. U.C.S. 1923 Sept. 25 hist. to Mr. Gilbert H. Doane U.C.S.
File No. 40 198
Hannah Newton Rev Rev D.D.
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 8 , Page 868
[Arrangement of 1870.]

February 16, 1931
Agnes J. Pyle Mc Connelsville, Ohio
Rev.& 1812 Wars Section MCS:MLB
Dear Madam:
You are advised that it appears from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S. 40198, that Hananiah Newton enlisted in Chelmsford, Massachusetts, July 10, 1778, and served as private in Captain Fox's company in Colonel Henry Jackson's regiment, was in the battles of Rhode Island and Elizabethtown and was discharged July 10, 1780.
He was allowed pension on his application executed June 3, 1818, at which time he was living in Greenfield Township, Erie County, Pennsylvania, aged 5-6 years.
In 1819 he was living in Barlow Township, Washington County, Ohio.
In 1820 he was living in Windsor, Morgan County, Ohio.
He died April 14, 1826 at Zanesville, Ohio.
The soldier married July 18, 1785 at Fitchburg, Massachusetts, Chloe Wood. In 1820 he stated that his wife was fifty-four years of age.
Chloe Newton died January 16, 1836 in New York City and was survived by the following children:- Truman C., a resident of Branch New York City in 1851; Armon, Abigail Newton and Amelia Newton. In 1851 it was stated that Hananiah and Chloe Newton had a son, John, who had not been heard of for more than fourteen years and was considered to have been lost in Lake Erie.
Very truly yours
E. W. MORGAN Acting Commissioner

War Department, N o . 11,106.
PENSION OFFICE.
July 24 th 1820.
SIR,
You are hereby informed that the schedule of your property has been examined ; and the Secretary of War has directed your name to be continued on the Pension Roll.
I am, respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
J. L. Edwards
To Mr. Hannaniah Newton, Windsor, Hampshire Ches

Mr Edwards
Sir
The enclosed duplicate certificate of Pension has been returned to me, with information that the Original has been received.
Respectfully &c.
J. M. Hinds
(Signature)
Wadsworth Oct. 20th 1819
Recd 20 Oct 1819 D. B. Smith Postmaster same day

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Augustus Stone Esq Point Harmar Ohio

War Department, Pension Office,
September 9 th 1819.
SIR,
AGREEABLY to your request, you have this day been transferred from the Roll of Pennsylvania to that of the Ohio agency , to take effect from and after the 4 th day of September, 1819.
I am, Sir, respectfully,
Your obedient serv t
J. L. Edwards
Mr.
Hannaniah Newton
Rev. S. U. S.  Pensioner.
Care of Mr. Joseph W. Hand, City of Washington.

Samuel Newton born March 25 th 1763 at Westbury Wootton Bassett

I have put in suit the Note of the Miss Clark, and shall advise you as soon as the affair is settled.
J. M. H. and

Payable semi-annually. The first payment on this Certificate will be made on the 4th of September next, in Philadelphia
at the U. S. Bank
No. 1234 5/1/
Recorded

War Department.
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.
I CERTIFY that, in conformity with the Law of the United States, of the 18th of March, 1818,
Hannariah Newton late a Private in the Army of the Revolution, is inscribed on the Pension List, Roll of the Pennsylvania Agency, at the rate of Eight dollars per month, to com- mence on the second day of June _____ one thousand eight hundred and eighteen
GIVEN at the War Office of the United States, this twenty sixth day of May one thousand eight hundred and nineteen.
J. L. Edwards, in the absence and on behalf of the Secretary of War.

Hon
Alexander H. H. Stuart Secretary of the Interior
Sir
I herewith transmit the claim for back Pension, due, and owing to the heirs of Hanameah and Chloe, Newton -
Hanameah Newton was a Revolutionary Soldier, and was inscribed on the Pension Roll of Pennsylvania at eight dollars per month, and was subsequently transferred to Ohio -
He died at Zanesville Ohio on the 14 th day of April A.D. 1826 - and his wife died at the City of New York on the 16 th day of January 1836, the Pension, therefore is claimed from the 14 th day of April 1826, to the 16 th day of January 1836 - that is from the date of the death of the Father until the death of the Mother inclosed are the Vouchers -
I have the Honor to be Sir
your Most Obedient
Humble Servant David Samuel Brown 42 Cross Street New York
17 th May 1851

Simsbury July 15 th 1820
Sir,
I enclose the declaration of the Han- aniah Newton under the law of the last Session of Congress - Please commu- nicate with me at this Place
Respectfully your
Most obedient
The Secretary of War
Richard Stillwell

From Hannahiah Newton requesting to be transferred from Pennsylvania to Ohio - dated 23 d Aug t Transfer o . Ye - 9 th Sept r 1819
Oct 19

Mr. Fairman Aug 24 - 3
Paid 8 3/4
Joseph W. Hance Esquire Washington City Dist Columbia

From Hannaniah Newton requesting to be transferred from Pennsylvania to Ohio - dated 23 rd Aug t Transfer! Ye - 9 th Sept r 1819
Oct 19

State of Ohio
Washington County ss
On the day of the date hereof Before me the undersigned Notary Public for the District of Marietta in the County of Washington and State of Ohio dwelling in said Marietta personally Camp and appeared Hananiah Newton formerly of the Town of Greenfield in the County of Erie and State of Pennsylvania, now residing in Barlow Township in the County of Washington and State of Ohio, and being duly sworn upon his oath doth say that he made application under the Act of the United States allowing pensions to the Officers and Soldiers of the Revolutionary Army, that his Papers and Documents to establish his claim as a pensioner was forwarded on to the Department of War by Judge Moore of said County of Erie Pennsylvania, that he has been informed and Verily believes that a pension was allowed him but that he has not received any Certificate thereof although he has understood the same has been forwarded to him. And that that this application affidavit is made for the purpose of obtaining a new Certificate.
Hananiah Newton
In testimony whereof I do hereunto set my hand & affix my Seal Notarial at said Marietta County of Washington and State of Ohio this Twenty third day of August Anno Domini One Thousand eight hundred and nineteen
Geo. Dunbar W.P.
From Hananiah Newton requesting to be transferred Pennsylvania to Ohio dated 23 rd Aug. & Nov Ye - 9 Septm 1819
Oct 15

72 The [unclear] [unclear] July 23rd
Hon. J. C. Calhoun Ref. at War Washington City
Transfer

State of Ohio Washington County ss;
On the day of the date hereof before me the undersigned Notary Publick for the District of Marietta in the County and State aforesaid, personally came and appeared Hananiah Newton, and made solemn Oath that he is the same person that applied for a pension as a Revolutionary Soldier before Judge Moore of Berks County Pennsylvania, sometime (as he believes) about the second or third day of June A.D. one thousand eight hundred and eighteen that he has since removed to, and is now, a resident of the County of Washington in the State of Ohio, and that it is his desire that his pension be transferred to the Roll of the Ohio Agency, and the evidence of such transfer forwarded by Mail to the Post Office in Marietta in said State of Ohio.
Hananiah Newton
In testimony whereof I do hereunto set my hand and affix my seal Notarial this twenty first day of July A.D. one thousand eight hundred and nineteen
Geo. Dunlevy Not Public
Mr J. L. Coxe
Sir
I am acquainted with the above document, and have no doubt but the facts stated are correct.
your obed Servt.
L. Barber