Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 15,588, Joseph Bonney, Continental Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Continental Mass.
Bonney, Joseph or Bonny, Mary
N 15,588
CONTENTS

1929
Massachusetts
Joseph Bonney
of Plympton in the State of Mass. who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Bliss - of the Regt commanded by Ward - in the Massachusetts line for 13 Months
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 43 Dollars 33 Cents per annum, to commence on the 14th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 21 day of Decr 1832 - and sent to the Hon. J. L. Adams H.R.
Arrears to 14th of Sep 1832 $ 14.99 Semi-ant. allowance ending 4 Mar 1833 29.66 $ 86.65
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by Henry S. Dyer Clerk Book 10 Vol. 2 Page 95
Paraphrase
Paraphrase of the Act of June 7, 1832, in favor of the state the 13 March 1832 which placed the Pension on the Roll of the State Pension Agency.

5272
Ad d notified by letter 10 ap l
Massachusetts
Mary Bonney dec d
widow of Joseph Bonney Mass s who was a Private
in the Mass s Line
Pay d to John Bonney, George Bonney and Margaret Fuller says only children
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 43 Dollars 33
Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843. to 27 June 1843 the day of her death
Certificate of Pension issued the 10 th day of Ap l 1844 and sent to
Hon. H. C. Williams, H. Rep t
[Act of March 3, 1843.]
Recorded in Book a Vol. / Page 60.

Joseph Bonney Private 13 Months
Old Base.
$43.33

REVOLUTIONARY PENSIONERS.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
COUNTY OF PLYMOUTH, ss.
ON this twentieth day of August 1832, personally appeared in open Court, before Hon. Willys Wood Judge of the Court of Probate being a Court of Record now sitting at Plymouth within and for said County of Plymouth, Joseph Bonney a resident of Plympton in said County of Plymouth, and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, aged Seventy Seven 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. 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. That is to say, that he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers, and served as herein stated.
That he was placed on the Pension Roll of the Massachusetts Agency under the Act of March 18, 1818 and was struck therefrom on account of property, his certificate N o 10.601 is annexed hereto. Under his former application for a Pension he proved one years service in the Continental Army in the Year 1776 under Col. Clapp Captain, Jesse Sturtevant 1st Lieut. George Dunham 2 d Lt. Saml. Eldredge Ensign in Col. Jonathan Wards Reg t . All his evidence he presumes to be in the War Office at Washington in his former application.
He also served one month in Capt. Thomas Furness company at the private expedition under Gen. Spencer at Rhode Island as a substitute for one John Randall. He does not know of any person living by whom he can prove this term of service. He had no discharge.

He was born in the town of Plympton in the Year 1755 & has had his home always in that town. His birth is recorded in the town records of that town. He has no other written testimony than what was furnished in his former application
Joseph Barry
Sworn to and subscribed in Probate Court the day & year aforesaid
Attest Jacob H. Lord Register

We, _____ a clergyman, residing in the town of _____ and residing in the _____ hereby certify, that we are well ac- quainted with _____ who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be _____ years of age; that he is reputed and believed, in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the revolution, and we concur in that opinion.
Sworn to, and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid.
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 abovenamed applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states. And the Court further certifies, that it appears to them that who has signed the preceding certificate, is a clergyman, resident in the town of _____ and that _____ who has also signed the same, is a resident in the _____ and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
By the Court, Attest, Jacob H. Lord Register
I, Jacob H. Lord Register 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 Joseph Bonney for a pension. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of _____ office, this twentieth day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two
Jacob H. Lord

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May, May Bonny and at 1845
H. H. Williams MR

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
PLYMOUTH ss.
At a Court of Probate holden at Situata in and for said County, on the first  three day of March eighteen hundred and forty four .
IT is satisfactorily made to appear to the said Court that Mary Bonney late of Plymouth in said County, Widow deceased, who was a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States, died on the twenty seventh day of June now last past leaving three children, to wit, John Bonney, George Bonney & Margaret Fuller her only surviving children.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of said Court, this fifth day of March in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty four .
Isaac D. Dyer
REGISTER

10,200
Mary Bonny
Mass 5
Act 7 th July '38

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Plymouth Y. On this twentieth day of May in the Year Eighteen hundred & forty three personally appeared before the Hon. Willes Wood Judge of the Court of Probate for said County, Mary Bonney a resident of Plympton, in said County, Widow, Aged Seventy eight 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 7, 1838 entitled "An Act granting half pay and pensions to certain Widows"
That she is the Widow of Joseph Bonney who was a soldier of the Revolution & served as set forth in his Declaration on file in the Pension Office for which service he was a Pensioner under the Act of June 7, 1832. His Certificate was dated December 21, 1832.
She further declares that she was married to the said Joseph Bonney on the twenty ninth day of April one thousand seven hundred and eighty five and that her husband the aforesaid Joseph Bonney died on the sixteenth day of May in the Year Eighteen hundred & forty; that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place previous to the first of January, Seventeen hundred and ninety four viz: at the time above stated.
N.B. the words "the benefit of" were interlined before the signature hereof.
x Mary Bonney mark
Sworn to & subscribed in the day & year above written before me & I certify that said Declarant is unable by reason of Age & bodily infirmity to travel & attend Court and I further certify that she is a credible person
Willes Wood Judge of Probate

Plymouth Y. I Jacob H Lord Register of Probate for said County do hereby certify that Hon. Willes Wood is Judge of the Court of Probate for said County and that the within is his true and genuine signature. —
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & the seal of the Court of Probate for said County this Seven- teenth day of June 1843 Jacob H. Lord

"The following Marriages were Solemnized by the Rev. Ezra Sampson.
April twenty ninth one thousand seven hundred and eighty five, Joseph Bonney and Mary Cushing."
I hereby certify, that the above is a true copy from the Records of the Town of Plympton in the County of Plymouth and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, with the exception of the date, which is expressed on the Record in fair legible figures, as follows, April 29. 1784.
Plympton, April 29. 1843.
Lewis Bradford { Clerk of the said Town of Plympton.
I, Lewis Bradford, abovenamed, depose and say, that I hold the Office of Town Clerk in the Town, County, and Commonwealth aforesaid, that the above is a true extract from the Records of said Town, with the exception abovenamed, as certified by me.
I further depose and say, that the above named Joseph Bonney died in said Plympton, May 16. 1840, aged 84 years, 4 months and 18 days, as appears from said Town Records. Also that his widow, the aforesaid Mary Cushing, is still living in said Plympton, and is now in the 79 th year of her age.
Plympton, April 29. 1843.
Lewis Bradford { Town Clerk of the said Town of Plympton.
State of Massachusetts Plymouth County ss. be it known that on the third day of May 1843 before the subscriber a justice of the peace in and for said County personally appeared Lewis Bradford Town Clerk in Plympton and made oath that the above statement by him subscribed is true. In testimony whereof I have set my hand the day and year above mentioned. Jonathan Walker justice peace.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts Plymouth County ss.
I John B. Thomas, Clerk of the Judicial Courts for the said County of Plymouth, do hereby certify that Jonathan Parker, Esquire before whom the within deposition was sworn to, was, on the day of taking the same a Justice of the Peace for the said County of Plymouth, duly commissioned and qualified under the authority of said Commonwealth to administer oaths and take depositions - And that his signature subscribed to the jurat of the same deposition is genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the Supreme Judicial Court, this eleventh day of September, in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty three.
John B. Thomas, Clerk
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Plymouth ss. I Jacob H. Louis Register of Probate for said County do hereby certify that Jonathan Parker Esquire is a Justice of the Peace in & for said County duly Commissioned and qualified and that the within is his true and genuine signature.
In testimony whereof I have here unto set my hand and the seal of the Court of Probate for said County this seventeenth day of June 1843.
Jacob H. Louis

5652 Act '49
Mary Bonny, dec d
payable to John Bonny, George Bonny and Mar- garet Fuller, dec d only surviving children, up to June 27 th 1843, the day of Mary Bonny's death.
at the rate of $ 43:33 per an
Hon. H. Williams H. Rep

State of Massachusetts
Plymouth County ss. On this twentieth twenty third day of March in the Year Eighteen hundred & forty four personally appeared before the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in & for said County, John Bonney, George Bonney & Margaret Fuller all residents in said County of Plymouth, who being first duly sworn according to law, do on their Oaths declare that they are the only surviving children of Mary Bonney late of Plympton in said County of Plymouth decd. who was the Widow of Joseph Bonney who was a soldier in the Revolutionary War for which services after said father their mother the said Mary Bonney made application for a Pension under the Act of July 7. 1838 upon which application a Pension Certificate was issued on the seventh day of March instant for forty three dollars & thirty three cents per annum & is numbered 8163. And they further declare on Oaths that their mother said Mary Bonney died on the twenty seventh day of June in the Year Eighteen hundred & forty three & that she was also entitled to be pensioned under the Act of March 3. 1843 for the same services & at same rate up to the day of her death as aforesaid. Now the object of this declaration is obtain the amount of Pension from the fourth day of March 1843 to the twenty seventh day of June 1843 the day of her death to which she was entitled by the Act of March 3. 1843
John Bonney George Bonney Margaret Fuller
Subscribed & sworn to by the above named John Bonney, George Bonney & Margaret Fuller on the day & year first above mentioned & I certify that they are well known to me to be the only surviving chil

deed of said Mary Bonney deceased. Before me
Jonathan Waite Jur. of Peace
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Plymouth, ss.
I John B. Thomas, Clerk of the Judicial Courts for the said County of Plymouth, hereby certify that Jonathan Parker Brainerd before me known the foregoing Declaration was sworn, was on the day of the calling of the same, I know it a Justice of the Peace for the said County of Plymouth, duly commissioned & qualified under the authority of said Commonwealth to administer oaths & take depositions and that his signature to the jurats of the same Declaration is genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the Seal of the Supreme Judicial Court this thirteenth day of March in the year one thousand eight hundred & forty four.
John Thomas Clerk

V No 10-200
Mary Bonney. Mass s
Suspended
Set to Idland, Aug. 25. 1843.
At July 7 th 1838.
13 Months Adm te Claimant, Plympton. Plymouth Co. Mass

10,601
Massachusetts
Joseph Bonney
of Plympton in the state of Mass — who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Ward of the Mass — line, for the term of one year.
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 13 th of April, 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued the 11 th of May 1819 and sent to Nahum Mitchell East Bridgewater, Mass.
Arrears to 4th of Mar 1819 (cont. 18/4/31) 85.83 Semi-ann. all'ce ending 4 th of Sept 1819. 48.00
$133.83
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
1929. Rhode Island
Joseph Bonney
of Plympton in the State of R.I. who was a Private in the company commanded by Captain of the Reg't  commanded by Col Ward in the R.I. line for 13 Mos.
Inscribed on the Roll of R.I. at the rate of 23 Dollars 33 Cents per annum to commence on the 14th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 13 th day of Nov 1832 and sent Joseph Bonney Plympton Plympton Co. R.I.
Arrears to 4th of Sept 1832 $ 64.99 Semi-ann. allowance ending 4 th June 33. 21.66
$86.65
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by J H Blain Clerk Book 9. Vol. 3 rd Page 104.

V 8163
Massachusetts
Mary Bonny widow of Joseph Bonny who was a pensioner under the Act of and who died on the 16 th May 1846 of Plympton in the State of Mass ts who was a private in the company commanded by Captain Clapp of the Reg t commanded by Col Ward in the Mass ts line for 13 months
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachu ts at the rate of 43 Dollars 38 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.
Certificate of Pension issued the 7 th day of March 1844 and sent to J. H. Lord Esq r Plymouth M c
Total Amount, $216.65
[Act July 7, 1838.]
Recorded by H. H. Davidge Clerk, Book D Vol. 1 Page 53

Rev WIDOW, &c.
File No. 15588
Mary Bonney Widow of Joseph Bonney Briv. Mass. Line
Act: Mar. 3 d 1848
Index:—Vol. A , Page 74
[Arrangement of 1870.]
This may certify that the Joseph Bonney of Rumpleton in the county of Plymouth was in the army of the United States from the first day of January 1776 to the first day of January 1777 in the company commanded by Capt. Earl Gage in the 21 st Regiment commanded by Col. Jonathan Ward Eng d was stationed at Dorchester until the fourth day of April then marched for New York continued in said service at and near New York until January 1777. Josiah Thomson Halifax April 9 th 1818
Being perfectly satisfied with the certificate, I have not called on the claimant to obtain Justice Thomson's oath or other evidence. — Mitchell: Judge etc

Payable semi-annually. The first payment on this Certificate will be made on the 4th of September next, in Boston, at the Branch Bank N.B.
Joseph Bonney. Plympton
Recorded

War Department.
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.
I CERTIFY that, in conformity with the Law of the United States, of the 18th of March, 1818,
Joseph Bonney late a private in the Army of the Revolution, is inscribed on the Pension List, Roll of the Massachusetts Agency, at the rate of Eight dollars per month, to commence on the thirteenth day of April , one thousand eight hundred and eighteen .
GIVEN at the War Office of the United States, this fourteenth day of May , one thousand eight hundred and nineteen.
J. L. Edwards , in the absence and on behalf of the Secretary of War.

Payments to be made at Providence R.I. by the People of B d Bank Agent for paying Pension- ers, in the Agency of R.I.
Recorded by J. H. S o Blair Clerk, in Book D. / Vol. 3 rd page 104.

WAR DEPARTMENT.
Revolutionary Claim.
I certify that, in conformity with the Law of the United States of the 7th June, 1832, Joseph Bonney of the State of Rhode Island who was a Private in the Army of the Revolution is entitled to receive Forty Three dollars and Thirty Three cents per annum, during his natural life, commencing on the 4th of March, 1831, and payable semi-annually on the 4th of March, and 4th of September, in every year.
Given at the War Office of the United States, this Thirteenth - day of November one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two.
John P. Robb Acting Secretary of War.
Examined and } Countersigned. }
J. L. Edwards

Joseph Bonney
Plympton Ms
Private
let Ward's map  to Regt
1775 - 1776
Signature
Samuel

COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
On this 13 th  ss. day of April A. D. 1818, before me the subscriber, one of the Judges of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, for the Southern Circuit, personally appeared Joseph Bonney of Plympton aged — — years, resident in the said Circuit, who being by me first duly cautioned according to law, on his oath made the following  enclosed declaration, by him signed, 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." viz. That he served in said war, during the first year's service, so called, in 1776. /See his said declaration enclosed/.
See also the Depos Certificate of Isaac Thomson Esq. who is a respectable Magistrate in the County of Plymouth —was a soldier in the revolutionary war—and is now a man of wealth and not an applicant for a pension—and a man of strict veracity—and his certificate which I

know to be his hand writing entitled to full credit and is per- fectly satisfactory to me. —
He said Bonney, I am satisfied, is entitled needs the assistance of his country for support. —
And I, the said Judge, do certify, that it appears to my satisfaction, that the said Joseph Bonney did serve in the revolutionary war, as stated in the preceding declaration, against the com- mon enemy, for the term of nine months, on the continental establishment; and I now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me, to the Secretary for the Department of War, pursuant to the directions of the aforementioned act of Congress.
Nahum Mitchell
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
ss.
1818,
I HEREBY CERTIFY, That is one of the Judges of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the Southern Circuit, consisting of the Counties of Plymouth, Norfolk, Bristol, Barnstable, Dukes and Nantucket in said Commonwealth—that the same Circuit Court of Common Pleas is a Court of record—that the signature to the above cer- tificate is the true signature of the said Judge, and that the seal thereunto affixed is the seal of the said Court.
} Clerk of the Judicial Court for the County of

Joseph Bonney
Plympton
1776
Joseph Bonney

I Joseph Bonney of Plympton in the County of Plymouth Mass s and a Citizen of the United States and now resident therein set forth and declare that I was a soldier in the war of the revolution on the continental establishment for more than nine months, that I am reduced in my circumstances and stand in need of the assistance of my country for support, and therefore desire to obtain a pension under the late law of Congress of the 18 th March last. That I enlisted into the service in the beginning of 1776 and served one year under Capt. Earl Clapp and in the 21 st Regiment in the Massachusetts Line commanded by Col. Jon s Ward Esq. I have lost my discharge if I ever had any, and I have no evidence to offer but the certificate of Josiah Thompson, who was Clerk and first sergeant of our Company. —
Joseph Bonney
Sworn to April 13. 1818.

Sep. 11 th 1843
Add evidence
Rev Mary Eastman
Boston -
James H. Edwards Esq. Commission of Enquiry Washington D.C.
FREE

Plymouth Mass
Sept 11, 1843
Sir
In reply to yours of Aug 25, 1843 I return the Certificate of the Town Clerk properly authenticated as I suppose according to your rule.
I have not certified as to the official character of any Justice of the Peace since I was advised of the alteration of construction of the law by you. Your acquiescence in my Certificates beginning in the Year 1832 under the Act of June 7 of that year & followed under every Pension Act since even including the Act of March 3, 1843 I supposed to have been sufficient authority for the acts of mine which seem so much to call for your censure
Yours &c
J. H. Lord
J. L. Edwards Esq Comm of Pensions Washington D. C.

10-200
Mary Bonny Mass ts
Act July 7 '38
Cr
Admitted
13 mo prior
$ 43.33 per an.
J. H. Lord Esq r Plymouth Mass ts

WAR DEPARTMENT.
Revolutionary Claim.
I certify that, in conformity with the law of the United States, of the 3 March 1843 Mary Bonney dec d widow of Joseph Bonney who was a private in the Rev. War. was entitled to receive a pension at the rate of $43:33 p. An. Comy. 4 Mar '43 & Ending 27 June 1843 the day after death which will be paid Upon the production of the proper Vouchers to John Bonney. George Bonney & Margaret Fuller only Survog. Children
Given at the War Office of the United States, this 10 day of April one thousand eight hundred and fortyfour.
Secretary of War.
Examined and Countersigned. }
Commissioner of Pensions.