Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 29,630, Jonathan Berry, Mass.

SERVICE
Mass.
★ Berry, Jonathan
NUMBER
S. 29630
CONTENTS

4029- Maine
Jonathan Berry of Bunton in the State of Maine who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Tyler of the Regt commanded by Col Phinney in the Mass acts line for 8 Mo -
Inscribed on the Roll of Maine at the rate of 26 Dollars 66 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 7 th day of Jan'y 1833- and sent to Hon J Anderson. House of Reps
Arrears to 4th of Sep: 1832 $ 39 99 Semi-ann. allowance ending Dec 1833 - 13. 83
$53.32
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by ED. Bullock Clerk Book D Vol. 1 st Page 76

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I Eliakim Libby of Scarborough in the County of Cumberland State of Maine aged Eighty four years do hereby declare that I have been well acquainted with Jonathan Bury of Bristol in the County of York for his youth, his father being a townman with my father. That I was a sergeant in Capt John Pierce Company, Phipps's Regt in 1775 in the War of the Revolution & enlisted & served eight months at Cambridge Massachusetts & that said Bury was a soldier during all said period in Capt John Tyler's Company same Regt & faithfully served out his said enlistment of eight months.  Eliakim Libby
Signed & sworn to below
Alma Warr
just of the United States Dist. Ct. District of Maine
I certify that the above named Libby is a credible witness worthy of belief.
Alma Warr

I Bernard Milliken of Scarborough in the County of Cumberland State of Maine aged Eighty four years - in with declare that I have been well acquainted with Jonathan Berry of Boston in the County of York State of Maine from his youth - That I was a Sergeant in Capt Wm Pierce Company in the Revolutionary War Col C. Paineys Regt & served Eight months at Cambridge Mass & knew that since Berry was a soldier in Col Abraham Tifft Company in said Regt & served all of said period.
Bernard Milliken
I hereby swear to the above
Adams Wain Judge of the United States District Court Dist. of Maine
I certify that the above named Milliken is a credible person & worthy of belief. Adams Wain

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
MAINE DISTRICT SS.
At a Special District Court of the United States begun and holden at Portland, within and for said District, on the first day of August A. D. eighteen hundred and thirty- two
ON this first day of August aforesaid, personally appeared in open Court before said District Judge Jonathan Berry a resident of Byron in the county of York in said Maine District, aged seventy two 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 provision made by the act of Congress passed June 7th, 1832. That he
enlisted at Scarborough in the County of Cumberland in April AD 1775 under Capt Abraham Tyler to serve eight months in the continental service. In Revolutionary War. That Elisha Dyer was Lt. & later Lt. Col. Col. Elisha Dyer. That he marched to Cambridge in Massachusetts, & then joined Col. Edmund Phinney's Regt. & there served out the eight months. That there were Generals, Heath, Patterson & Putnam there commanding, but he does not now remember which of these Generals commanded the Brigade in which Phinney's Regt. was. That said Regt. was engaged at Bunker Hill in building works of defence & keeping guard. & he served out the whole eight months & was regularly discharged but never had a discharge in writing. That he was born in said Scarborough on the 3rd day of August AD 1756 & removed from Scarborough to Byron in Jan'y 1775 & has resided there ever since that he has no record of his age.
Jonathan Berry
he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or an annuity, except the present, and he declares that his name is not on any pension roll of any agency in any State, or (if any) only on that of the agency in the State of
Sworn to and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid. Before,
Asher Ware
} U. S. Judge for the District of Maine.

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion (after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatives prescribed by the War Department) that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states and that Eliabim Sibbyd Samuel Milliken are credible witnesses whose depositions are annexed.
I, John Nussey Clerk of the District Court of the United States for Maine District, do hereby certify, that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Jonathan Berry for a pension.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this four day of August A. D. one thousand eight hundred and thirty- two
John Nussey { Clerk of the U. States District Court for Maine District.

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
NAME Berry, Joseph GRADE Private LINE Massachusetts
WARRANT NUMBER 3704 ACREAGE 100 ISSUED July 22, 1789 to — not shown —
*The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800. Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.