Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 36,408, Jonas Belknap, Continental Mass

SERVICE
NUMBER
Continental Mass.
Belknap Jonas
S 36,408
CONTENTS

13360 To her husband from New York
Jonas Belknap
of Naples in the state of New York who was a Private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Brook of the Massachusetts line, for the term of Seven Years
Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 27 of May 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 25 of June 1819 and sent to Stephen Phelps Esq. Phelps New York
  Arrears to 4th of  Mar. 1819.  74.32    Semi-ann. all'ce ending  Sep. 1819.  48.00     $122.32    9 Mo. 9/31
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Continued
Notification of confirmation had the 19th Dec 1819 to Jane Hagenoff Esq. Esq. Esq. Esq. Esq. Esq.

aw May 17, 1906 H. J. H.

Belknap, Jonas
His name appears, on a list of applicants for invalid pension returned by the District Court for the District of New York, submitted to the House of Representatives by the Secretary of War on April 25, 1794, and printed in the American State Papers, class 9, page 92.
Rank: Sergeant.
Regt: Col. J. Brooks
Disability: Wounded in the left side in an action with the Indians.
When and where disabled: May 30, 1778, Coburskill.
Residence: Cherry Valley, Otsego.
Remarks: There are no militia rolls in this office.
Evidence transmitted by the District Court comp.

Jonas Belknap
Informal - La acknowledged The Court has not certified as to constitution of the jury
Pension Certificate no 13368 payable at New York. Wishes it transferred to Kentucky

Kentucky Hardin County Feb December term 1820
Ordered that the following Schedule be Entered of record
Sworn Schedule
District of Kentucky Hardin County ss On the 11th day of December 1820 personally appeared in open Court being a court of record in the County and district aforesaid Jonas Belknap aged sixty two years Resident in Hardin County in said district who being first sworn according to law doth on his oath declare that he served in the revolutionary war as follows (to wit) that he was enlisted for the term during the war in the month of January in the year 1776 in the town of Northampton in the state of Massachusetts in the company commanded by Captain Smith in the regiment commanded by Colonel Jackson and continued to serve in said Corps until about the month of November 1777 when he was transferred into Captain Luke Days Company of foot in the 7th Massachusetts regiment commanded by Colonel John Brooks at Albany New York in which Corps he served until during the term of two years when he was discharged from the said service at Newburg in the state of New York by General George Washington that he was in the battles of the taking of Burgoyne the taking of Lord Cornwallis battle of Newburn and Cobers hill where he was wounded The number of his pension certificate is 13360 payable in New York. Qua I do Solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United states on the 18th 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 to diminish or as to of Congress entitled an act to bring myself within the provisions of 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 18th day March 1818 and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me

no any property or securities contracts or debts due to me Nor have any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed this property I have none my family consists of my wife named Fanny aged fifty four years and one daughter Diantha aged nine years my occupa- tion is coopering and I am very unable to follow the business
Jonas Bellknap
Sworn to and declared in open court this 11 th Decr, 1820 before.
Sam d Hayscraft, Clk, C.C.
I Samuel Hayscraft Juv. Clerk of the Hardin County Court in the State of Kentucky do hereby certify that the foregoing Bill and the schedules thereto annexed are truly copied from the records of said Court
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court on this 12 th day of December 1820
Sam d Hayscraft Juv. Clk.

State of New York Ontario County ss
On this twenty seventh day of May 1818 before me Stephen Phelps a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County Personally appeared Jonas Belknap aged 59 years Resident in the Town of Naples in the County of Ontario 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 Jonas Belknap enlisted into the Service of the United States in the Spring of 1775 for eight months in the State of Massachusetts and served out said term and about the first of January 1776 he enlisted for one year and before his Service expired he enlisted sometime in the fall of the same year into the Continental Service during the war in the State of New York in the Company commanded by Captain Luke Day in the 7 th Massachusetts Regiment commanded by Colonel Alden afterwards by Colonel John Brooks and that he continued to serve in said Company until June 1783 when he received an hon- orable discharge from Service at Newburgh in the State of New York. and that he was in the Battle of Bunker Hill, Bunker Heights, Yorktown and at Cobleskill in the latter of which he received a wound in consequence of which he received a Pension from the United States of twenty Dollars per Annum being as he believes placed on the Pension List under the act of Congress passed February January 28 th 1793

which said Pension he has with the  the  above  above  mentioned  mentioned and that he is in reduced circumstances 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 his said services having lost his discharge Subscribed and sworn to the 9 Jonas Belknap Day and year aforesaid before me Stephen Phelps
Ontario County ss - I Stephen Phelps a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Jonas Belknap did serve in the Revolutionary War against the common enemy and has been  has been  transmitted the  transmitted the the  the  state  state in the preceding declaration for the term of Nine Months or more on the Continental establishment and by satisfactory proof have no doubt of his being in reduced circumstances and entitled to the provisions of the aforementioned Act of Congress 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 Canandaigua May 27 th 1818 Stephen Phelps

fin am March 25, 1916
Honorable Willis C. Hawley, House of Representatives.
My dear Mr. Hawley:
In response to your personal request of the twenty-fourth instant, I have the honor to advise you that from the papers in the claim S. File No. 36,408, Rev. War, it appears that Jonas Belknap enlisted in Massachusetts, in 1775, names of officers not stated, and served eight months, during which he was in the battle of Bunker Hill. He enlisted at Northampton, Massachusetts, in January, 1776, in Captain Keith's company, Colonel Jackson's regiment, and served until November, 1777, when he was transferred, as a Sergeant, to Captain Luke Day's company, Colonel John Brooks' Massachusetts regiment, and served until June, 1783. He was in the battles of Bemus Heights, Cobleskill and Yorktown.
He was wounded in the left side at the battle of Cobleskill, and was pensioned from September 4, 1793, on account of said disability.
In 1818, he was a resident of Naples, Ontario County, New York, aged fifty-nine years.

In 1820, he resided in Hardin County, Kentucky, and referred to his wife, Tanner, aged fifty-four years, and his daughter, Diantha, nine years of age.
Very truly yours,
G. M. Saltzgaber
Commissioner.

36 408
Rev INVALID.
File No. 36 408
Jonas Belknap His Rev. Dad
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index: —Vol. 2 , Page 28
[Arrangement of 1870.]
WILLIS C. HAWLEY, M. C.
COMMITTEES ON AGRICULTURE, LABOR.
House of Representatives U. S.
Washington, D. C.
SENIOR MEMBER, H. R. NATIONAL FOREST RESERVATION COMMISSION, ACT OF MARCH 1, 1911.
Jonas Belknap Mass
Personal request of March 24, 1916 } W. C. Hawley, M.C.
(only Jonas B. in files)

2 Cushing County Iss
November Term 1822.
A schedule of property And the Affidavit of Jonas Belknap handed in this Court at December Term 1820, was again presented before the Court And On Consideration thereof - It is the Opinion of the Court that the property mentioned in said Schedule is of no value
A Copy Issued
Samuel Hayer Clerk

To The Honorable Secretary for the Depart- ment of War of the United States of America Whereas I Jonas Belknap of the Town of Naples in the County of Ontario and State of New York named in the Declaration herunto attached, was placed on the Pension list pur- suant to a former act of Congress at the rate of twenty dollars per annum Now know ye that I the said Jonas Belknap for and in consid- eration of the provision made by the late act of Congress entitled an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the Land & Naval Service of the United States in the Revolutionary war-do by these Presents Release quit Claim and Relinquish all and every Right title Inter- est or demand I now have or ever had to the afore said Pension
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this twentyseventh day of May one thou- sand eight hundred and eighteen
In presence of -
E. Kingsley
J. Merrill
Jonas Belknap
State of New York } Ontario County }
on this 27 th day of May 1818 before me Stephen Phelps a Judge of the Court of Common pleas for said County came Jonas Belknap whom I know and acknowledged that he executed the above quit Claim or Release as his free act and deed
Stephen Phelps

Jonas Belknap
Transferred the 15 th Dec r 1822, from the N. York Roll of Rev d Pensioners to that of Kentucky.
Sep 19

State of Kentucky County of Hardin Ky. On this 25 th day of June 1822 before me the subscriber a justice of the peace for said county of Hardin personally appeared Jonas Belknap who, on his oath, declares that he is the same person who formerly belonged to the company commanded by Captain Keith in the regiment commanded by Colonel Jackson and afterwards belonged to the company commanded by Captain Luke Day in the 7 th Massachusetts regiment in the service of the United States that his name was placed on the pension Roll of the state of New York from whence he has lately removed that he now resides in the state of Kentucky and county of Hardin Where he intends to remain and wishes his pension to be there payable in future
Jonas Belknap
Sworn to and subscribed before me the day and year aforesaid John Morris J. P.
State of Kentucky Hardin County set I Samuel Hayscraft Clerk of the County Court for the County aforesaid do hereby certify that John Morris Esquire who subscribed the above Certificate was at the time of doing the same a Justice of the peace in and for said County duly commissioned and qualified as such
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said County at my Office in Elizabeth Town this 25 th day of June 1822
Sam l Hayscraft Clerk

Enfield
Declaration of Jonas Belknap
May 27 th 1831
private — Col's Brooks Massachusetts 76 Wav
Admitted
The Honorable Secy of War
For his prob of service wanting incorrectly reported Jonas Belknap
Chas. Phelps
on roll A.S.

The Honorable Secretary of War if Mr. Glavin are allowed will please to forward a certificate thereof to Stephen Phelps Esq. of Canandaigua who is my Agent May 27 th 1818. Jonas Belknap

State of New York } In Testimony that Stephen Phelps whose name Ontario County } Clerks office } is subscribed to the foregoing certificate was on the day of the date of the same one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Ontario and that the same is his signature I hereunto subscribe my name and affix the county seal at Canandaigua this 5 th day of June A D 1818
Thos M c Naughton

State of New York 5 / 15 Ontario County
On the twenty seventh day of April 1819 before me Stephen Phelps a Judge of Dist. Com. Pleas Personally appeared Michael Madden of the S t County who has the reputation of a credible witness and being by me duly sworn deposeth and saith that he the Deponent is fifty two years of age and that he is well acquainted with Jonas Bulknap now a President in the Town of Naples in the County aforesaid and that he first became acquainted with the said Jonas Bulknap in the Army of the Revolution near the close of the war and that the said Bulknap was then a Sergeant in the 7 th Mass s Line Reg t in Capt. Coburn's Company being the first Lt. Inf t Company and he knew the said Bulknap in that capacity for the term of one year or more immediately preceding the close of the war and that he the said Bulknap belonged to the Army then in New York and left the Army at that time they understood at or near Newburgh in the State of New York in June 1783 - and further saith not
Michael Madden
also at the same time appeared Maj t William Shepard to me personally known to be a reputable witness and being sworn deposeth and saith that he Deponent was an Ensign in the Army of the Revolution at and three years previous to the close of the war in the first Massachusetts Brigade and that the two last years he was well acquainted with Jonas Bulknap (now a President of the Town of Naples in the County of Ontario) and that he the said Bulknap during said term served as a

Sergeant in the 7 th Massachusetts Regiment Commanded by Colonel John Brooks. and that he continued in said service until the close of the war. when he was dis- charged and that Defendant thereby about four years since received from the said Belknap a Sergeant's warrant from the said Col. Brooks which he the Defendant sent to said Brooks who was then Adjt. Genl. to obtain for him $20. in lieu of said. The said Belknap was entitled to pursuant to the of the State of Massachusetts and that for the Defendant sometime since has the said Col. Brooks who informed him that the said Belknap did his duty faithfully as a Sergeant in said service to the close of the war and that he received an honorable discharge which the Defendant has no doubt was the cause and for the same not
Wm Shepard
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid before me
Stephen Phelps
Judge of Probate Court
State of Massachusetts Suffolk ss Clerk's office
In Testimony that Stephen Phelps whose name is subscribed to the foregoing Affidavit was on the day of the date thereof a Judge of Probate Court in said service and that the same is his signature I hereunto subscribe My Name and affix the Court Seal at Cambridge the 27 th day of April 1819
James Merrill Clerk