Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 44122, Jonathan Davis, New Jersey

SERVICE
New Jersey
Davis, Jonathan
NUMBER _____
S 44122
CONTENTS

Ohio. No. 5792
Jonathan Davis. 2 d
of Kyne Co in the state of Ohio
who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Dayton of the New Jersey line, for the term of 9 mos
Inscribed on the roll of Ohio at the rate of eight Dollars per month, to commence the 28 th of March 1819.
Certificate of Pension issued the 21 st of Sept 1819 and sent to H. Curtis Esq Fort Vernon. Ohio
  Arrears to 4th of Sept 1819  $42.00    Semi-ann. all'ce ending Mar 4. 1820  48.00    5 mos 4/30/31.  40.00     $130.00  
{ Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818. }
Continued

The State of Ohio } ss on this Knox County } 28 th day of March
AD 1819 Before me the subscriber one of the associate Judges of the Court of Com- mon Pleas in and for the County of Knox aforesaid Personally appeared Jonathan Davis aged Sixty-three years & eleven months ten months & nineteen days resident in the Coun- ty of Knox and State of Ohio aforesaid who be- ing by me first duly sworn according to law doth on his oaths make the following declaration in order to obtain the provisions 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 the said Jonathan Davis enlist- ed in the Township of Deerfield in the County of Berland in the State of New Jersey in the Company commanded by Captain Humphreys of the third Jersey Regiment commanded by Colo- nel Dayton that he enlisted on the nineteenth day of March seventeen hundred & seventy six & that he continued to serve in the said Corps & in the service of the United States until the about the last of March or the first of April of the year of seventeen hundred & seventy seven when he was discharged from the service in Morris Town in the State of New Jersey
That he with the rest of the Company joined the said Regiment at Amboy in the State of New Jersey from thence the Regiment & the said Jonathan marched by the way of Eliza- beth Town & New York to Albany At this last place there was a detachment of volunteers raised out of said Regiment for the purpose of taking Johnstown then in the possession of the Tories & Indians and the said John- ston was one who went on said ex- -pedition That the said Town was taken

without any fighting That a few days after the said Jonathan & the rest of the said Expedition were joined by their Regiment & proceeded further up the Mohawk River & attended a treaty with the Indians at the German flats From thence the said Jonathan marched with his said Regiment to Fort Schuyler & from this last place he marched with said Regiment to Sconderoga where he with the rest of said Regiment remained until the 23 d of March 1777 when they marched to the place where the said Jonathan was discharged That during the time of his the said Jonathan enlistment aforesaid he was not in any battle That after he was discharged as as aforesaid he was in several tours of militia duty & fought in the battle of Mad Island port & in the battle of Trenton & was en- gaged & fought in several other skirmish- es in the militia against the British & Gories The said Jonathan further states that he is in reduced circumstances & stands in need of the assistance of his Country for support & that he has no other evidence in his power of his said services beside this deposition & the deposition of Eleazar Biggs & Andrew Casto here with to be enclosed Jonathan Gories
Sworn to and declared before me the Day & year aforesaid
John M c Clafford Assortat Judge

I John H. Mefford associate Judge as aforesaid Do hereby Certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Jonathan Davis did serve in the Revolutionary war as stated in the preceding declaration against the common enemy for the term of nine months (and upwards) on the conti- nental establishment And I now transmit the proceedings & testimony taken and had before me to the Secretary for the department of war pursuant to the directions of the aforesaid act of Congress This 28 th March 1819 John H. Mefford Associate Judge
I John H. Mefford associate Judge as aforesaid Do further certify that from the Depositions of Eleanor Biggs & Andrew Casto as well as from the aforesaid declaration of the said Jonathan Davis and also from my own knowl- edge of these men it appears to my satis- faction that the said Jonathan Davis is in reduced & indigent circumstances and actually stands in need of the assistance of his country for support This 28 th March 1819 John H. Mefford Associate Judge
The State of Ohio ss I John H. Mefford { Associate Judge of the Knox County { Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Knox aforesaid Do hereby further certify that I am, & for sometime have been, acquainted with Eleanor Biggs & Andrew Casto who have made oaths to the depositions to which their names are annexed & herewith certified and that the said Deponents are men of undoubted veracity & particularly deserv- ing of credit when under oath J. H. Mefford Associate Judge

The State of Ohio } ss Before me Knox County } John H. Mofford one of the Associate Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Knox aforesaid Personally came An- drew Casto & Eleazar Biggs both of the County & State aforesaid & made sol- lemn oaths that within a year or two after the commencement of the Revolutionary war (these Deponents believe in the Spring of the year seventeen hundred and seventy six) these Deponents were neighbors & intimately acquainted with Jonathan Davis who is now a Resident of Knox County aforesaid & who at the date above alluded to was a Resident in Deerfield Township in Cumberland County & State of New Jersey. These Deponents fur- ther state that early in the Spring of the year aforesaid they were well knowing of the said Jonathan Davis enlisting in the Company raised by Captain Blumfield of the Continental Army. These Deponents understood that the said Enlistment was for the term of one year. They very well remember that the said Jonathan with the said Company marched out of the said Cumberland County & Deponents understood & still believe that the said Company was sent & employed in the army of the United States in some of the Northern States. These Deponents further state that the time which elapsed after the said Jon- athan marched before he returned was one year or upwards & these Deponents verily believe from what they understood at the time & since that the said Jonathan during the period aforesaid was faithfully engaged in the service of his Country

in the Continental army These Depo- -ments further State that they are well acquaint- -ted with the present situation & health of the said Jonathan & that he has no land or other property of any considerable value These Deponents believe that the whole amount of property of every description belonging to the said Jonathan could not be estimated at more than twenty dollars value & they consider him in truly indigent cir- -cumstances They further state that the said Jonathan Davis is now old & decrepit & they believe him unable without the assistance of his Country or friends to sup- -port himself That the friends of the said Jonathan consist principally of his Children who are five daughters with their husbands & families who are to the knowledge of these Deponents in low & embarrassed circumstan- -ces and further these Deponents say not Sworn to & subscribed } Elazar Briggs this 24 th day of March } Andrew Easton AD 1819 John H. Clapp 
-petition That the said Jonathan was taken

12 6 The State of Ohio County ss I James Smith Clerk of the court of common pleas in and for the county of Knox aforesaid Do here by certify that The Honorable John H. Bufford Esq. before whom the foregoing proceedings has been had and taken and who has Given his certificate upon the foregoing declaration of more than Slaves in his ap- -plication for pension, & before whom likewise, the other within Depositions were taken, is now and was at the time of the respective dates thereof one of associate Judges in and for said County fully Commissioned Sworn & full faith and Credit is due & ought to be Given to all his Judicial acts as such as well in courts of Record as there out as & I further certify that the with in the restrictive signatures of the said John H. Bufford are Espreßly his hand writing & proper signatures In testimony whereof I have hereto Set my hand and seal of said court at my office in Mt. Vernon this 31 st day of March 1819. Attest James Smith Clerk.

1 The State of Ohio Knox County ss. I James Smith Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for said County at the within mentioned Do hereby certify that the Honorable John H. Bufford Esq. before written this within additional Certificate was then given me is as well as heretofore has been & yet continues to be one of the associate Judges of the our said Court of Common Pleas within for said County duly Commissioned Sworn in for said County Due faith Credit is due & given to all his official acts as such as well in courts of Record as thereout
In testimony whereof I have hereunto Set my hand & Seal of office at Mt. Vernon this 5 th day of August 1819.
Attest James Smith C.M.

Jonathan Davis 2 nd  270 / 20
Declaration & Schedule
Ohio 14:519 21 Sep '19
Rec. 16 th 1820
mar '20
Confirmation Directed to
"Hosmer Curtis"
Mount Vernon
Knox County
Ohio
Nov 18. 1820
4

At a Court of Common Pleas held at the Court House in the Town of Mount Vernon County of Knox in a State of Ohio on Thursday the nineteenth day of October A.D. 1820.
Jonathan Davis one of the Revolutionary pensioners appeared in Court with a Declaration in form of his service in the Revolutionary War together with an exhibit a Schedule or exhibit of his Estate thereunto an- nexed and here in Open Court is duly qualified to the truth of the same, His thereupon Ordered by the Court that the said Jonathan Davis receive a certified copy of the same, and further let it be certified that in the Opinion of the Court the property enumerated in said Schedule is of the value of six hundred and forty
_____ Which said Declaration & Schedule above referred to & now remaining on file in the Clerks Office of said Court reads in the words and figures following, to wit,
The State of Ohio Knox County ss. On this 19 th day of October 1820 person- ally appeared in open Court being a Court of Records for the County and of the State aforesaid Jonathan Davis (2 nd ) aged sixty five years and some months resident of Morgan Township in the County aforesaid who being first duly sworn according to Law, doth on his oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows in the Reg t

iment Commanded by Col: Elias Dayton in the Company Commanded by Captain Bloomfield whose first name is not recollected by Deponent the Regiment was called the third Jersey Regiment that this declarant on the twenty eighth day of March 1819 before John H. Clifford one of the associate Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Sussex a- foresaid made the Declaration provided by the act of Congress and in consequence thereof has received a pension the certificate for which bears date Sept: 21 st 1819 and is numbered by figures on the back thereof as follows "14,519." — And I do
Solemnly swear that I was a resident Citizen of the United States on the 18 th 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 it so 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 day of March 1818 and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property or securities con- =tracts or debts or debts due to me nor have I any income other than what is contained in the Schedule hereto an- =nexed and by me subscribed. I furthermore do swear that by occupation I am a farmer that for two years past and at this I have not been able and am not now able in consequence of sickness and other infirmities to per- =form any labour such as is necessary to carry on farming upon any scale whatever. I have no wife living and my family consists of five Daughters who are married and board with one of my sons in law

My son in law, are men of very little property, have all of their families and are not able to render me the necessary support of life in return to their own families.
All the property which I possess or have right to is as follows. I have no real property - I have no bedding - my wearing apparel is sufficient for the present but partly worn - One pocket knife worth - Sixty four cents. The Ditts due me are as follows, I have one note due Sept: 1890 for the sum of one hundred and twenty dollars, payable in cattle or cash as my debtor chooses.
There is also due to me whatever the Law allows of my pension aforesaid since March the 4 th last past.
The Ditts which I owe are as follows.
To Homer Curtis I owe twelve dollars, to Philemon Pearson I owe two Dollars and fifty cents.
To Noah Biggs I owe twelve Dollars, to Ephraim Biggs I owe ninety dollars.
Is now subscribed to, and declared in open court this day and year first herein mentioned.
Signed.
Jonathan Davis
Attest
James Smith Clerk
I James Smith Clerk of said Court do certify that the foregoing is a true copy of the Declaration & Schedule of the said Jonathan Davis together with the proceedings had in court therein, and further that it was the opinion of said Court that the property enumerated in said

Schedule was of the value of six and a fourth Cents and no more. In Testimony whereof I have hereto subscribed My name and set the seal of the Court at Mt. Vernon this 25 th day of October A.D. 1820.
Attest James Smith Clerk. K. G. P.

November 19, 1927
John J. Kritzer Monmouth Ill
Sir:
I have to advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim S. 44122, it appears that Jonathan Davis, while residing at Deerfield, Cumberland County, New Jersey, enlisted March 19, 1776 and served in Captain Bloomfield's Company, Colonel Elias Dayton's Third New Jersey Regiment, he was in the battle of Trenton, and served until April 1, 1777. He also served in the militia on several tours, no officers stated. He was in the battle of Mud Island Fort, and expedition to Johnstown.
He was allowed pension on his application executed March 28, 1819, while a resident of Knox County, Ohio, aged sixty-three years, ten months and nineteen days.
On October 19, 1820, soldier stated that his

wife was not alive, and that he resided in Morgan Township, Knox County, Ohio, with one of his five married daughters, no names given.
No further data as to family.
Respectfully,
E. W. MORGAN Acting Commissioner.

44 122
INVALID.
Rev
1911 D. Sept. 26. No. 1: 25 K.R. Baldwin. letter with S.L. 35 p 73 Jonathan Davis. A.E.P. 1927-Nov. 19-11ish to John J. Kritzer ans.
File No. 44.122
Jonathan Davis Rev Rev Rev
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index: —Vol. 3 , Page 125
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Notefication sent November 18. 1820 to, Hosmer Curtis, Mount Vernon Ohio Ohio,

MURPHY & KRITZER ATTORNEYS AT LAW MONMOUTH, ILLINOIS
June 15, 1927.
Bureau of Pensions, Washington, D.C.
Gentlemen:
I desire information regarding Jonathan Davis, who was a soldier from New Jersey during the Revolutionary War. If my information is correct he was a private in New Jersey Continental Line from Cumberland County New Jersey. I believe that his wife's name was Margaret Bond, and that an affidavit for pension was filed at your office, being Invalid No. 44122.
I desire whatever data your records disclose in regard to this soldier. This material will be used for D.A.R. purposes.
If there is any charge for this service, kindly advise me and I will forward fee promptly.
Thanking you for your favor in this matter, I am,
Very truly yours,
John J. Kritzer
JJK:C.

for a statement of the military history of _____ 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.
Jonathan Davis S. L. 44122.
   DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE.   CAPTAIN. COLONEL.     Mar. 19, 1776 Apr. 1, 1777 Pri. Bloomfield Elias Dayton 3 d N. J.   also served in the militia on several terms of duty, not specified  
Dec 76 + Jan 77
Battles engaged in, Trenton and Mud Island Fort. Expedition to Johnston. Residence of soldier at enlistment, at  near  at  at Deerfield, Cumberland Co., N. J. Date of application for pension, Mar. 28, 1819. His claim was allowed. Residence at date of application, Knox Co., Ohio. Age at date of application, 63 yrs. 10 mos. 19 da.
Remarks: On Oct. 19, 1820 soldier stated that his wife was not alive and that he resided in Morgan Township, Knox Co., Ohio with one of his five married daughters. No further data as to family.
Very respectfully,