Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 20,286, Jonathan Barry, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Barry, Jonathan.
S. 20.286
CONTENTS

Wadsworth
Oct 30
Jonathan Barry
13.642
for Barry
Rev Lewis Boss
Bank of New
Morse
Washington
Spec

Canton House Machias (Me)
October 3 1832
Sir
I have the honor to enclose herewith the Application of Jonathan Barry of this town - for Pension under the late act of Congress - & respectfully to request that after examination, you will inform me whether Mr Barry will be placed on the list, & at what rate -
I am, with great respect,
Sir
your obedt Servt
J. A. Merrill
Hon. Lewis Cass
Secretary of War
Washington

No 11,182
Maine
Jonathan Barry
of Machias in the State of Maine who was a Private in the company commanded by Captain Smith of the Regt commanded by Col. Edey in the Maine troops time for 11 Months Private $ 36.66
Inscribed on the Roll of Maine at the rate of 36 Dollars 66 Cents per annum, to commence on the 14th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 8 day of April 1833 and sent to S.A. Morse Custom House, Machias Me.
Arrears to the 14th of March 1833 73.32
Semi-ant. allowance ending Sep. 1833 18.33
$ 91.65
{ Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.
Recorded by D. Brown
Clerk
Book F. Vol. 1 Page 3

Jonathan Bang
13.662
Admitted
11 mos
$ 36.66
S. A. Morse Custom House Machias Maine

BRIEF in the case of Jonathan Barry. of Macias in the State of Maine (Act 7th June, 1832.)
 1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? Open Court  2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?  3. How old is he? 77 years.  4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed. 
   Period. Duration of Service. Rank. Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.   Years, Months, Days.     In 1775 9 Private Gen. Capt. Smith   1776 1 " Col. Eddy   1777 or 8 1 " Cap: Small - Genl Ward  
 5. In what battles was he engaged? none  6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Scarborough Me  7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditional evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? two living witnesses  8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? Correct 
I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
Richard Catts Examining Clerk.

Jonathan Barry — application for a Pension — Probate Court Sept. 20. 1832
No. 26. — 13.642

State of Maine
County of Washington ss.
On this twentieth day of September AD 1832 personally appeared before the Hon. John Dickinson Esq. Judge of the Court of Probate of Wills &c in and for said County of Washington. Now sitting at Machias in said County Jonathan Barry a resident of Machias in the County aforesaid State of Maine aged Seventy Six 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 provisions made by the act of Congress passed June 7. 1832. That he enlisted into a Company commanded by Capt. Stephen Smith at Machias in 1775 in September of that year and continued in said Company as a private until June 1776. being nine months. in December in the year 1776. he served & enlisted as a volunteer under Ezekiel Foster a recruiting officer. under Colonel Eddy and served in the expedition to Cumberland in Nova Scotia which service he was employed one month. he was also drafted to serve in an expedition to Penobscot in Capt. Small's Company. Jonas Harnsworth first Lieutenant in the summer of 1777 or 1778 Genl. Ward commanded the expedition. and was in the service one month, that he was born in the town of Scarborough near Portland in 1755. and came to Machias 1763. where he has lived ever since. that he is Seventy seven years old, that he had no written discharge, but was regularly discharged. 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. —
Jonathan Barry
Sworn to & subscribed the day & year aforesaid
John Dickinson Judge. —
We Joseph Batchell and James W. Crocker residents of Machias in the County of Washington hereby testify that we are well acquainted with Jonathan Barry who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration. that we believe him to be Seventy seven years of age that he is reputed & believed in the neighbourhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that we are both knowing also to his being in the service. He states and having been in Machias in the same service.
Joseph Batchell James W. Crocker
Sworn & subscribed the day & year aforesaid
John Dickinson Judge. —
And the said Court does hereby declare his opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department. That the above named applicant

was a Revolutionary soldier and served as he states. And the Court further certify that it appears to him that Joseph Mitchell & James M. Brockman who have signed the preceding certificate are residents of the town of Ellacchia as aforesaid and are credible persons. and that their statement is entitled to credit.
John Dickinson
Judge of Probate
State of Maine.
County of Washington ss.
I Aaron S. Raymond Register of the Court of Probate within & for the County of Washington do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Jonathan Barry for a pension. — . —
In testimony whereof. I have hereunto set my hand and Seal this twenty ninth day of September A.D. 1832. —
Aaron S. Raymond, Register. — "

20 286
INVALID.
Pen
Pen
File No. 20 286
Williamstown
Maine
Maine troops
Act: June 7 th 1862
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 20
[Arrangement of 1870.]