Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 12447, Jonathan Card, Vt.

SERVICE
H
bard, Jonathan
NUMBER
S. 12447
CONTENTS
carded

New York 1223
Johnathan Card
of New Lisbon in the State of New York who was a Private in the Comp y commanded by Captain Briggs of the Reg t commanded by Col. Herrick in the Vermont line for 9 Months
Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 30 Dollars — Cents per Ann. to commence on the 4th day of March, 1834.
Certificate of Pension issued the 29 day of October 1832 and sent to J. C. Walworth
Arrears to 4th of Apr 1832 $ 45 Semi-ann. allowance ending 1 Mar. 33 15 $ 60
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by Geo. C. Hiles Clerk, Book D Vol. 5 Page 76

Statute of New York
Otsego county ss
Be it remembered that on the 2 nd day of August 1832 personally appeared me before James C Mansworth Esquire one of the Judges of the county courts of common common Pleas for the county of Otsego it being a court of Record proceeding upon common Law principles having a Clerk and Seal Jonathan Carr of the town of New Lisbon in the said county being first duly sworn makes the following Declaration that he was born in the town of — East Greenwich Kent county state Rhode Island in the year 1764 and that he is now 67 years of age and that there is a Record of his age in that town and that in the year 1780 he at the town of Pownal in Vermont volunteered into Capt Joseph Briggs company Lieutenant Parker and Benjamin Brown that he was marched immediately to Castleton in the state of Vermont and served about four months under the command of Col. Herrick and that Gen. Ebenezer Allen was often there expecting them and was discharged by Col. Herrick shortly thereafter at the town of Pownal aforesaid at or about the 1 st of August in the year 1781 re-entered in the service under Captain Charles Parker and marched immediately to

to Castleton aforesaid in the State of Vermont and served there and did Garrison Duty about five months at the Fort and the Mills there under the command of Generals Allen and Col. Herrick and returned about the first of January there after and that he never was in any engagements that he well recollects that General Shaw Allen mounting a large pine stump at Brandeard Mills in the town of Rutland - and made a speech to the garrison there there and that since the revolutionary war has lived in the town of Pouneah  Vermont and in the town of New Lisbon in the county of Ulster  St. & York where he now lives and has lived for 40 years past that he is so infirm that he is wholly un- able to attend the courts that he has not been able to walk a step for more than four years past and under ex- pects to be able to again
He hereby relinquishes all claims what- ever to a pension or an annuity

except the presents and awards that his name is not on the pensions rolls of the agency of any state nor never has been
Subscribed and sworn to day and year afore said Jonathan his Hara James C. Mearns Judge of Atty General Court
State of New York Otsego County
Thomas Ward of the town of New Lisbon in the said county being first duly sworn deposeth and saith that he is of 70 years of age that he has been well acquainted with Jonathan Ward that was read the above Declaration in his presents that he is his own brother and has known him from a child that he served with him in the year 1780 at Cattleton and knows that he did serve as set forth in his declaration and

that also in the year 1781 he then lived with him at Castleton aforesaid in the St. of Vermont and further knows that the said so far as set forth in his present declara- tion made in his presents this day and and was present and heard Garrison than Alans. the Address on the first stump as mentioned by this Applicant in his Declaration were into annexed and that he is very infirm and wholly unable to walk a step and I presume never will be and is not able to attend the county courts at the courthouse of the county to him more than 12 miles from his residence and that he is a man of truth veracity and entitled to full credit and belief and that he is 67 years of age Subscribed and sworn this 2 d day of August 1832 Thomas C. Carr James C. Warrenton a Judge of Otsego County Courts

State of New York Otsego county, ss
Paul Garmant of the town of Ansonia in the said county, being first duly sworn, deposes and saith that he is 75 years of age that he has been acquainted with Johnathan Bards that has read the above declaration and that he lived with him in the town of Castleton in the state of Vermont the two campaigns as set forth in his declaration and served with him and with regiments of General Allen's first Sturges' address at Blanchard's Mills at Castleton aforesaid and that he now lives near him and that he is a man entitled to full credit and belief and that he is not able to walk a step and I presume never will be and is otherwise very infirm and that that he is as old as he represents himself to be — Subscribed and sworn to this 2 d day of August 1832 Paul Garmant J. C. Maunoth a Judge Mark of Otsego county

State of New York Otsego County ss
I James C. Mawdorth one
of the Judges of the court of common Pleas in and for the County of Otsego it being a court of Record having a clerk and seal the testimony and declare that on the 2 nd day of August 1832 Jonathan Carr of the town of New Lisbon in said county made the foregoing Declaration before me and at the same time appeared Benjamin Carr Thomas Carr and Paul Garmant all persons known to me and that I had a full and complete investiga- gation of all the matters and after reading the annexed affidavits of the said Benjamin and Thomas Carr and Paul Garmant and after putting all of the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department the said Judge do declare it my my opinion that from his the said Applicant was a Revolutionary soldier and did so serve as he states and that Benjamin Carr Thomas Carr and Paul Garmant that has made the annexed affidavits are known to me to be the residence of of the said County and are creditable persons and that their statements is entitled to belief and I further declare it is my opinion that the said Applicant is wholly unable to attend the courts of the said County on account of his bodily infirmities and presume he never will be In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 2 nd day of August 1832
J. C. Mawdorth a Judge of Otsego Common Pleas

State of New York
Atty County ss Benjamin Card of the town of Burlington of the town and county, being first duly sworn Depose and saith that he is 77 years of age and that is well acquainted with Jonathan Cane that has made the above declaration in his present and that the he served with him and sworn and knows that he did serve as aforesaid in his declaration aforesaid and that he is unable walk or help himself out of his chair and that he is as old as he represents himself to be - and that he is a man of truth and veracity. Benjamin Card
Subscribed and sworn this 2 d day of August 1832
Before me J. C. Wansdorth a Justice of Atty County.

State of New York
Otsego County ss:
I Horace Lathrop, Clerk of the said County of Otsego, do certify, that James B. Maloorthe, before whom the preceding Affidavits purport to have been sworn, and whose name appears to the foregoing Certificate, was, at the date of the same, a Judge of Otsego County Courts, duly commissioned and sworn as such, And also, that I am well acquainted with his hand writing and verily believe his name subscribed to the said several Affidavits, and Certificate, to be his own proper hand writing & signature.
Witness my hand & Official Seal, the 14 th day of August A.D. 1832
Horace Lathrop, Clerk.
Incantation Card N o 4267

admitted private 9 mo $30
William Lloyd
There is nothing... the papers... the incident... the document...

No 4,267
BRIEF in the case of Jonathan Carle of New Lisbon in the State of New York (Act 7th June, 1832.)
 1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? a Judge.  2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity? yes  3. How old is he? 69 years old -  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.     Volunteered In 1780 - 4 - As a  Gen Col Herrick  Cap: Joseph Briggs (Comp)  Lt Parker & Ensign Brown    do 1781 abt 1 st August - 5 -  Cap Clark Parker  Gene Allen Col Herrick   
 5. In what battles was he engaged? - None  6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Lowell Vermont - 
7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditional evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? Living Witness Thomas Carle served with him in 1780 and 1781 - Paul Gannum served with him and testifies to the truth of his statement - Benjamin Carle's evidence is similar to that of the preceding persons.
8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? There is no string passing thro them and under the Seal
I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
A Reintzel Examining Clerk.

In reply to your request of _____, received _____ for a statement of the military history of Jonathan Card a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pen- sion on file in this Bureau. Ln. F. 12,447.
   DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE.   CAPTAIN. COLONEL.     Sept. 7, 1780 To Dec 25, '80 Pri. Clarke Parker. Herrick Vt.   Aug. 1, 1781 → served to close of war. " Joseph Briggs " "  
Battles engaged in, _____
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Ent at Pownal, Vt.
Date of application for pension, Mch. 10, 1831. Cl. al.
Residence at date of application, New Lisbon, Otsego Co., N.Y.
Age at date of application, Born in 1764, at East Greenwich, Kent Co., R.I.
Remarks: Soldier's brother, Thomas, served with him in both services.
No further data as to family.

Apr. 22, '08. Hist. to Leste Card. Fr.
Rev War
12.447 ✓ INVALID.
File No. 12.447
Jonathan Card Rev: Rev War
Act: June 7 th 1832
Index:—Vol. A, Page 61
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873.
1679
RECEIVED
P. O. Jonathan Card
Service: _____
D.W. Inv. File 12,447.

Jonathan Card
Revs. N. York
Rejected. See letter to S. R. Hobbie, Esq. April 22. 1831.
1677

21.705 In the matter of Jonathan Leard Revolutionary claim
Rejected. See letter to S. R. Hobbie Enj. 22 d . April 18 th

I Jonathan Ward of New Lisbon in the County of Otsego in the state of New York do hereby declare that I served as a Volunteer in the state of Vermont in the Company Commanded by Captain Clark Parker, in the Regiment, Commanded by Colonel — Kenrick, in the line of the state of Vermont under the Command of General Ethan Allen, from the seventh day of September one thousand seven hundred and Eighty until about the twenty fifth day of December in the same Year; that I afterwards served as a Volunteer in the state of Vermont in the Company Commanded by Captain Joseph Briggs in the Regiment Commanded by Colonel Kenrick aforesaid in the line of the state of Vermont under the command of the said Ethan Allen, from about the first of August in the Year one thousand seven hundred and Eighty one until the Close of the war, as a private soldier. And I further declare that I never have been placed on the pension list of the United States.
Subscribed and sworn to this 10 th day of March 1831 before me Wm. B. Whiting Justice of the Peace
Otsego County State of New York
Personally appeared before me this tenth day of March one thousand eight hundred and thirty one. Thomas Ward and Paul Gannett of said County

who did solemnly make oaths that Jonathan Bard by whom the foregoing declaration was subscribed was in the service of the United States during the war of the Rebe- llion as by him in the foregoing declara- tion is set forth. That they were solemnly in the service of the United States in the same Regiment during the said times in the aforesaid declaration men- tioned, and saw the said Jonathan Bard serving as a private soldier as in the foregoing declaration is set forth.
Witness my hand this tenth day of March one thousand Eight hundred & thirty one. Wm B. Whiting Justice of the Peace
Otsego County ss.
I Abner Cook Junior, Clerk of the County of Otsego in the State of New York do Certify that William B. Whiting before whom the foregoing affidavits were sworn was at the time a Justice of the Peace of said County duly empowered to ad- minister oaths.
In testimony whereof I have here- unto set my hand and affixed the Seal of the Court of said County this 11 th day of March one thousand Eight hundred and thirty one.
A. Cook Jr

I know all men by these presents that I Jonathan Coad of New Lisbon in the county of Otsego and State of New York do hereby constitute and appoint Samuel S. Borne my true and lawful attorney with a power of sub- stitution for me and in my name to receive from the United States the amount of pay now due to me and hereafter to become due to me under the act for the relief of certain the surviving officers and soldiers of the Revolution as a volunteer in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Herrick of the Vermont line of the Army of the Revolution.
Witness my hand and seal this 10 th day of March 1831
Sealed and delivered in the presence of Jonathan Coad (Wm. P. Whiting)
Before me William P. Whiting a justice of the peace in the County of Otsego and State of New York personally appeared this tenth day of March 1831, Jonathan Coad whose name is subscribed to the foregoing power of attorney and acknowledged the same to be his act and deed.
Witness my hand this 10 th day of March 1831. Wm. P. Whiting justice of the Peace

Before me William B. Whiting a Justice of the Peace of the County of Otsego in the State of New York, personally appeared this day the Attorney named in the foregoing power of Attorney and made oath that the same was not given to him by reason of any transfer or of any attachment levy or lien or by any legal process whatever of the said pay then authorized to be received but that the said pay is intended to inure wholly to the personal benefit of the person by whom the said power was given Given under my hand this 10 th day of March 1831 Wm B. Whiting Justice of the Peace

Pension Dept.
Dear Sir:-
Can I ask you to furnish me with a copy of war and family record of Jonathan Card who was placed on pension rolls Oct 22 1832 from Otsego County New York for services in Vt Militia.
And oblige
Lester Card Ansonia Conn
4/14/1908