Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 18733, Isaac Bonney, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Bonney, Isaac.
S. 18733
Bonny or Bonneys.
CONTENTS
Carded

Maine 11.410
Isaac Bonney
of Oxford Co. in the State of Maine; who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Hamlin of the Regt commanded by Col. Bailey in the Massachusetts Militia Troops -
19 1/2 cts Per Diem 34.99
Inscribed on the Roll of Maine at the rate of 34 Dollars 99 Cents per annum; to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 29 day of April 1833 and sent to J. B. Cole Paris, Me.
Arrears to the 4th of March 1833 129.98 Semi-ant. allowance ending 4 Sept " 32.49
162.47
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by J. S. Sprague Clerk, Book E Vol. 1 - Page 3

Isaac Bonney's Declaration 14,010.
Admitted 19 1 / 5 months $64,99
L. G. Cole Esq Paris M wine

STATE OF MAINE.
COUNTY OF Oxford ss.
ON this 19 th day of August A. D. 1832, personally appeared in open Court, before the Court of Probate now sitting, Isaac Bonney a resident of Sumner in the county of Oxford and State of Maine, aged 77 years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on his oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress, passed June 7, 1832. That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers, and served as herein stated. That he enlisted at Pembroke ,
in the county of Plymouth & Commonwealth of Massachusetts , in the year 1775 & just after Lexington battle, into a company, commanded by Captain Ebenezer Hemenway , of Col. Bailey's Regiment, for the term of eight months and went to Roxbury near Boston , where he was stationed and served in said company during said term of eight months and was disbanded having been employed in building forts & other services.
That after the above named term & in March, he believes in the year 1776, he enlisted again into said service, at said Pembroke , into a company commanded by Captain Solomon Hemenway in said county of Plymouth (he does not remember that there was any Colonel) for six months and was stationed at Marshfield and Silicate , in said Plymouth county & was employed in guarding the shores; and in this duty, served through said six months in those places & was disbanded.
That after the above he enlisted again into the service, at said Pembroke , in the year 1777, into a company commanded by Captain Wm Weston of said Plymouth for the term of six months and went on to the Quincy , in Plymouth harbor, where we built a fort and dug a very deep well and thus served through said term of six months & was disbanded.
That after the above named term and towards the last of the war, the year having now escaped his recollection he again enlisted into said service at said Pembroke into a company commanded by Captain Launcel  Shapin for six months

Sister of Nanine in sd. County of Plymouth (he does not remember that there was any Colonel) for six months and was stationed at Marshfield and Situate, in said Plymouth County & was employed in guarding the shores; and in this duty, served through said six months in those places & was discharged.
That after the above he enlisted again into the service, at said Pembroke, in the year 1864, into a company commanded by Captain Wm Weston of sd. Plymouth for the term of six months and went on to the Gurnet, in Plymouth harbor, where we built a fort and dug a very deep well and thus served through said term of six months & was discharged.
That after the above named term and towards the last of the war, the year having now escaped his recollection he again enlisted into said service at said Pembroke into a company commanded by Captain Leonard having under him a Lieutenant Chapin, for six months and marched to Springfield & from thence to West Point, where we went across Kings Ferry into the Jerseys and down on to the lines and went back to West Point when he was discharged. having served said six months through During this last named service, he was arranged into the regular troops, but the name of the Colonel, he has forgotten; but he recollects that General Tyler commanded the Brigade.
The said Bonney further states that he was born in the year 1835 at Pembroke aforesaid where & in said town of Sumner, the record of his age may be found. That he lived in said Pembroke when he was called into the service. That he afterwards lived four years in the town of Fitchburg, in the County of Worcester, in Massachusetts, whence he moved to said Sumner, where he has lived ever since. That he always entered the service as a volunteer.
Isaac Young

Sister of Nanine in sd. County of Plymouth, (he does not
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State.
Sworn to, and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid.
Isaac Morris

We Samuel F. Brown & John Loring both of Stockfield in the County of Oxford State of Maine hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Isaac Bonney of who has subscribed & sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be 77 years of age - that he is respected and beloved in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution & that we concur in that opinion
Samuel F. Brown
John Loring
Sworn to & Subscribed the day of your appearance
Stephen Emery, Judge
This case is continued to the 25th day of September A.D. 1832
And now on this twenty fifth day of September A.D. 1832.
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states. Said applicant having adduced in corroboration of his own declaration, the certificate of Samuel F. Brown & John Loring, credible men and also the deposition of Jonathan Purdie & Joshua Ford, all on oath duly administered.
Stephen Emery, Judge
1 Joseph G. Gale Register Clerk of the Court of Probate do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Isaac Bonney for a pension.
IN testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 14th day of August A. D. 1832.
CLERK.
Joseph G. Gale Register

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
Bureau of Pensions,
Washington, D. C., _____, 190_____
In reply to your request of _____, received _____ for a statement of the military history of Isaac Bonney a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pen- sion on file in this Bureau.
S. 18,733
   DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE.   CAPTAIN. COLONEL.     Apr. 1775 6 wks. Pvt. Ebenezer Hamlin Bailey Mass.   Mar. 1776 6 mos. " Soper ✓ "   May 1777 6 mos. " William Norton ✓ "   June 1780 6 mos. " Saward ✓ "   George Webb Sheppard  
Battles engaged in, _____
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Pembroke, Plymouth Co., Mass.
Date of application for pension, Aug. 17, 1832 - Cl. al.
Residence at date of application, Sumner, Oxford Co., Me.
Age at date of application, 6 Pembroke, Mass. 1755.
Remarks: d. Aug. 28, 1841 - No family data
Very respectfully,
Commissioner.

I 18433 INVALID.
File No. 18,733
18,733 18,733
Act: June 7 th 1897
Index: — Vol. 1 , Page 45
[Arrangement of 1870.]
  80. 4. 173 -  on 6 mo 15 days -  Col. Shepherd. 4 copy    x 75. 15. 77 -  not on - X  Capt. Hamilton - Col. Thomas    79. 87. 23 - 4 -  on 6 mo -  Wilson - Special    15. 35. 226. 227 -  on 5. 21 -  Safire  

STATE OF MAINE.
OXFORD COUNTY, ss.
I, RUFUS KING GOODENOW, Clerk of the Judicial Courts in and for said County of Oxford, hereby certify, that Samuel F. Brown
whose genuine signatures are annexed to the foregoing Depositions of Jonathan Reed & Joshua Ford is a
Justice of the Peace in and for said County of Oxford.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office, this first day of October in the year A. D. 1832
R. K. Goodenow
{ Clerk of Oxford County Courts.

I Joshua Foss of Sumner in the County of Oxford State of Maine aged seventy two years on oath say that I was a soldier in the American Army during the revolutionary war with Great Britain for several periods among which was one term of six months in New York in the year 1780 being in the company commanded by Captain Banister at first and afterwards drafted into the Light Corps made part into the company commanded by Capt. Geo Webb of Col. Sheppard Regiment General Poor Brigade, during which service we were at West Point - Kings Ferry - in New Jersey on the lines & back to West Point where we were discharged. During this service I well knew that Isaac Bonney who now lives in said Sumner was a soldier with me in the same service after I entered Captain Webb's Company and that he served six months therein. I do not recollect that he was in Capt. Banister's Company with me, but I know that he enlisted at the same time that I did at Pembroke in Massachusetts and marched at the same time with me through Springfield to West Point.
I also know that in the year 1776 a 1777 I don't entirely recollect which said Bonney enlisted into the Army for six months and went on to the Gunks in Plymouth Harbor Massachusetts where he served said six months through. I was in the habit of going there and always saw him there in the service. I cannot certainly tell who was his Captain. Said Bonney was a near neighbor at that time to our family land was knowing to most of the circumstances that transpired in the neighborhood.
Joshua Foss
State of Maine County of Oxford ss. August 29. 1832. Then the above named Joshua Foss to me well known as a man of truth personally appeared & made oath to the truth of the foregoing declaration by him subscribed before me. Samuel D. Brown Justice of the Peace

State of Maine } April 15 th 1833. Personally appeared County of Oxford } before me, Samuel S. Brown, one of the justices of the Peace for said County of Oxford, being Bonney of Sumner in said County, who being duly sworn, deposeth & saith, that by reason of old age & the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively to all the periods of his service, as a soldier of the revolution, but in answer to the fourth objection of the Commission of Pensions, made to his declaration for a Pension, the said Bonney says, that according to his best recollection, he commenced the period of service named thirdly in his declaration in the month of May and that his term of service, named fourthly in his declaration, commenced in the month of June in the year 1780. and that in all his four periods of service he served not less than ninety  one hundred  days  as a regular soldier months for such service claiming a pension.
The said Bonney further says, in explanation of his statement, in his said declaration, as to the term of service first named, as served at Hoback, that by reason of his infirmity, he misapprehended the reading of said declaration in that particular and that he served in fact full six weeks at Hoback, in the eight months service and he requests that that part of his declaration may be considered as so amended.
Isaac Bonney
Subscribed & sworn to before me
Samuel S. Brown Justice of the Peace

I, Nathaniel Chase of Brookfield in the County of Oxford, State of Maine, being a Cluggaman hereby certify that I am well acquainted with Isaac Bonney of Sumner in said County, adjoining to Brookfield, who has made application for a pension from the United States, by virtue of the law of June 7, 1832, as I am informed and believe him to be of the age of 77 years that he is respected & believed in the neighborhood where he lives, to have been a soldier of the revolution and that I concur in that opinion. Nath l Chase
State of Maine County of Oxford ss. April 12 1833. Then the above named Nathaniel Chase to me well known as a man of undoubted veracity, personally appeared & made oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavit by him subscribed before me.
Isaac D. Brown Justice of the Peace
STATE OF MAINE.
OXFORD COUNTY, ss.
I, RUFUS KING GOODENOW, Clerk of the Judicial Courts in and for said County of Oxford, hereby certify, that
Samuel A. Brownrig
whose genuine signatures are annexed to the foregoing Depositions of Isaac Bonney & Nathaniel Chase is a Justice of the Peace in and for said County of Oxford.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office, this Sixteenth day of April in the year A. D. 1833.
RK Goodenow
Clerk of Oxford County Courts.

I Jonathan Reed resident in the town of Brookfield in the County of Oxford State of Maine, aged eighty two years, testify & say that I was a soldier in the American army, during the revolutionary war, for several periods; two of which were for six months each; in the first of which, I was in a company commanded by Captain Soper of Haverus, Massachusetts, and was served at Siluate and Brookfield in said Massachusetts, in guarding the Prison. The next, I served in a company commanded by Capt. McWhorter of Plymouth, Mass., and was stationed at the Gurnett, so called in Plymouth harbor, where we were employed in building a fort & digging a well. I enlisted at Penobscot in said State and served both of said terms through.
And I further say that Isaac Bonney, who now lives in Haverus in said County of Oxford, was a fellow soldier with me during the whole of said two terms. He was a neighbor to me & I well knew of his enlisting & serving as aforesaid & being discharged with us. My impression is that these services were done in 1775 & 1776. I well remember of Bonneys digging nearly all summer in the well. Jonathan Reed
State of Maine
County of Oxford ss. September 1. 1832. Then the aforesaid Jonathan Reed, to me well known as a man of undoubted veracity personally appeared & made oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavit by him subscribed
before me Samuel H. Barron Justice of the Peace