Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 34,075, Jonathan Bryant, Mass. Va.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass. Va.
Bryant, Jonathan
S. 34,075
CONTENTS

New Jersey Roll.
4,935
Jonathan Bryant, of Trenton New Jersey, Private, Capt. Newell's Com. Mass & Virginia Line
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War
34 years
Inscribed on the Roll of New Jersey at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence the 25 th of March 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued the 18 th of Dec. 1818, and sent to James Living, Esq. Trenton, N. Jersey.
Arrears to 4th of Sept. 1818. ... $42.86 Semi-ann. all'ee ending Mar. 4. 1819. ... 48. "
un d 5 m s 7/31 4/30. $ 90.86
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Col d Bailey's Cavalry
Adoption but to John J. Blackwell of ...

State of New-Jersey.
Hunterdon County ss. I John T Blackwell Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in said County of Hunterdon do hereby certify that James Ewing Esq. of the city of Trenton in said County, whose name is subscribed to the annexed Depositi- ons is one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in said County du- ly appointed and sworn, and that full faith and credit is due to all his official Acts as such.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court this ninth day of April 1818.
Blackwell, Clerk.

State of New Jersey
Hunterdon County It Before me James Swing one of the judges of the Court of Common Pleas in said County of Hunterdon, personally appeared Jonathan Bryant of the city of Trenton in said County a person to me well known and worthy of credit, who being duly sworn deposeseth and saith that he served the United States in the War of the Revolution, that he served one year and eight months in the fort service under Captain Newell in Col. Hutchinson's Regiment of the Massachusetts Line and was discharged from that Regiment in the year 1776, that he then enlisted for three years in Captain Lewis's Troop of Horse in Col. Bailey's Regiment of the Virginia Line, in which troop he served during the full term of enlistment and was honorably discharged in the city of Philadelphia on the 13 day of December 1779. That his discharge sworn at Trenton in said County March 25. 1810 before me James Swing
have been destroyed that from his pecuniary circumstances he needs the assistance of his friends for his support
State of New Jersey
Hunterdon County It Before me James Swing one of the judges of the Court of Common Pleas in the said County of Hunterdon, personally appeared Samuel Raymond of the township of Lawrence in said County a person to me well known and worthy of credit who being duly sworn deposeseth and saith that he is personally acquainted with the above named Jonathan Bryant, that he served as a private in Capt. Lewis's Troop in the 3rd Virginia Regiment commanded by Col. Bailey, that he enlisted on the 13th day of Decem 1776 on the same day with this deponent, that he continued in the said Troop for three years and served faithfully until they were discharged on the 13 day of Decem. 1779. Sworn at Trenton in said County March 25. 1810 before me James Swing  Samuel Raymond

I have been personally acquainted with the within named Jonathan Bry- ant for many years past and from the within Testimony and a variety of other circumstances with which I am acquainted, I have no doubt but he served the United States against the common enemy in the Revolutionary War as herein stated - He is now advanced in life, in poor health, and in low circumstances. Witness my hand at Trenton Mar 25. 1810
J. A. Smith

Jonathan Bryant 4935
March 10/19
Cal

State of New Jersey County of Hunterdon ss.
On this first day of August 1820 personally appeared in open court being a court of records for the said county and created so by the laws of the said State Jonathan Bryant aged sixty five years in the month of October next, resident of the city of Trenton in said County, for upwards of thirty years past, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on his oath declare that he served in the revolutionary war as follows:
First. That he the said Jonathan Bryant enlisted and served in a volunteer company, commanded by Captain Israel Newell of Lynn in the state of Massachusetts in the year 1775. and that he was one of number who opposed the enemy on their return from Concord on the memorable 19 th April of that year.
Second. That the said Jonathan Bryant enlisted for the term of one eight months in the year 1775 in the state of Massachusetts in the company commanded by the said Captain Israel Newell and was at the expiration of the time discharged in Massachusetts.
Third. The said Jonathan Bryant enlisted for the term of one year in the year 1776 in the state of Massachusetts in the company commanded by the said Capt Newell in the Regiment commanded by Col Hutchinson in the line of the state of Massachusetts that he continued to serve in the said corps until after the capture of the Hessians at Trenton when he was discharged from the said service at Newton in Pennsylvania.
Fourth. The said Jonathan Bryant then enlisted for the term of three years in the spring of 1777 in the state of Pennsylvania in the first troop of Dragoons commanded by Captain James Washington Lewis in the third Virginia Regiment commanded by Col Bailey, that he continued to serve in the said corps until December 1779. when he was discharged from the said service in Philadelphia in the state of Pennsylvania.
The present applicant having made his declaration for inscription on the pension list on the twenty fifth day of March eighteen hundred and eighteen did obtain a certificate for his revolutionary claim in conformity with the law of the United States of the 18 th March 1818 dated the eighteenth day of December 1818 and numbered 4.935 wherein he is stated to be inscribed on the pension list

Roll of the New Jersey agency at the rate of eight dollars per month to commence on the twenty fifth day of March one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.
And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the eighteenth day of March eighteen hundred and eighteen 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 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 18 th March 1818 and that I have not, nor has any person for me 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 hereunto annexed and by me subscribed.
Schedule of the whole property, real and personal, belonging to the said Jonathan Bryant on the first day of August 1820 necessary clothing and bedding excepted.
One stove and pipe valued $ 12. 00 Old chest table 1 50 Teak bottom chair 50 One 50 Two Hoes 50 One shovel 37 1/2 $ 15. 37 1/2
The income as Sexton of St. Michael's Church at Trenton for the present year (being an yearly appropriation) $30
J. Bryant
The Declarant in order to enable the Department to judge of the justness of his application, further states that his occupation is a Thresherman, but by a fall, he fractured the bones of his right hand from whence proceeds a lameness, which precludes the possibility of pursuing it. His family including himself is composed of three although the number may be small, yet they from inability are expensive: his wife Jane Bryant who completed her sixty fifth year in June last, and his grand child Jane Ann Davenport in her twelfth year, both complaining, the former from age, the latter by the delicacy of constitution in component parts of her family; and so great has been (and without Governmental charity) will be the necessities of his house, that private donations of the first necessity publicly given, has been the relief

your applicant has experienced.
J. Bryant Sworn to and declared in open court on the second day of August, 1820 before George Rea
I John T Blackwell Clerk of the Inferior Court of common pleas of the county of Henrico do hereby certify, that the foregoing oath and the schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the record of the said court; Further certify that it is the opinion of the court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is forty five dollars and thirty seven shalfeents. —
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hands and affixed the seal of the said court this second day of August, eighteen hundred and twenty
J. T. Blackwell Clerk of the Inferior Court

34075 Rev INVALID.
File No. 34075
Jonathan Bryant Rev Rev War
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 55
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Jonathan Bryant
$34 07 1/2
Mr. Prior
19

War Department,
N o 4935
PENSION OFFICE,
30 Sept. 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. S. Edwards
To Mr.
Jonathan Bryant, care of J. S. Blackwell, Esq. Remington N. H.
J