Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W 14468, Jonathan Church, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER _____
Mass.
Church, Jonathan Sarah
W 14468
CONTENTS

2.245
Massachusetts
Sarah Church, widow of Jonathan Church
who was a pensioner under the Act of and who died on the 15 th Ap l 1816 of Plymouth in the State of Mass s who was Mass s in the Campy commanded by Captain Clapp of the Reg t commanded by _____ in the Mass s line for 8 months
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 26 Dollars 66 Cents per annum to commence on the 4 th day of March, 1836.
Certificate of Pension issued the 5 th day of Ap l '39, and sent to and Ch s S. Solomon Rochester, Mass s
Arrears to the 4 th of Mar - $ 79.98 Semi-annual allowance ending 12.33 $ 92.31
{ Act July 7, 1838.
Recorded by R Burdin Book A Vol. 1 - Page 80

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Rev WIDOW, &c.
File No. 14468
Sarah Church Widow of Jonathan Church Priv. Rev. War
Act: July 7 th 1838
Index:—Vol. a , Page 130
[Arrangement of 1870.]

3584. Sarah Church's Dedication
m 83.816
Carl Clapp
75 pmi 8mo
Vol 14 p 49 in J. S. Morris
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Smofin
$26. 66/100
No deduction
Charles J. Holmes Rochester Mass.

I James Ruggles of Rochester in the County of Plymouth legally qualified to give evidence testify that I am the clerk of said town of Rochester and in the records of said town is documentary following,
"one thousand seven hundred and eighty three
Jonathan Church and Sarah Nye of Rochester, married December eleventh; except that the year and day of the Month are in plain legible figures, instead of being in letters.
James Ruggles } Town Clerk of Rochester Ms
Myrmaculfs November 7 th 1838.
Personally appeared the above named James Ruggles and subscribed & made oath to the
the above affidavit
Before me Walker Wood Judge of Probate for said County of Myrmaculfs
Plymouth ss. I Jacob H. Lord Register of Probate for said County do hereby certify that Hon. Willes Wood is Judge of Probate for said County & that the sig- nature to this & the annexed paper purporting to be sign- ed by him are his true & genuine signatures.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & the seal of the Court of Probate for said County this first day of December 1838. Jacob H. Lord

I Gideon Hammond of Rochester in the County of Plymouth I am now well of all my friends legally qualified to give evidence, testify and say that in the year nineteen hundred and twenty five I was member of a company of Militia raised by Massachusetts for eight months, to aid in the War of the Revolution. It was commanded by Capt. Earl Clapp and stationed at Roxbury. Its term of service closed with the year nineteen hundred and twenty five. In the month of June, I think, and certainly before Brattle Hill battle, Jonathan Church of said Rochester, became a member of the same company and served until the term of the same had expired; at the close of the year. We were discharged and came home together. I had known him before, and knew him until the time of his death in the Spring of 1816. I do not know that any member of the company except myself is now living.
Gideon Hammond Commonwealth of Mass & Chusetts.
Plymouth ss. Nov. 2 d 1835. Gideon Hammond appeared and made solemn oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavit by him subscribed, before me the undersigned - And I further certify that he is personally known to me and that he is of good reputation for truth.
B. J. Morton Secy Peace.

Plaintiff, I Jacob H Lord Register of Probate for said County do hereby certify that Charles J. Holmes Esquire is a Justice of the Peace in & for said County & that the signatures to the Affidavits on this sheet purporting to be signed by him are his true & proper signatures.
In testimony whereof I have here- unto set my hand & the seal of the Court of Probate for said County this fifth day of December 1838
Jacob H. Lord

I Hannah Vincent of Rochester State have in the County of Bristol legally qualified to give evidence, testify and say That my brother Jonathan Church late of Rochester in the County of Plymouth, in the year fifteen hundred and sixty five joined a company of Militia raised by Massachussetts to carry on the War of the Revolution. The company was stationed at Roxbury and was commanded by my uncle Sam Bliss. I was then a member of my father's family, and knew of my brother's going and returning; but I am unable to state when he went or returned or the length of his absence. My brother died in the year one thousand eight hundred and fifteen leaving a Widow, who is still living, and has remained a widow since the death of my brother. The maiden name was Sarah Nye. I am eighty two years of age.
Hannah Vincent
Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Bristol ss. Nov. 6. 1838. Hannah Vincent appeared and made solemn oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavit by her subscribed before me the undersigned; and I further certify that she is personally known to me, and that she is of good reputation for truth.
C. J. Motley Sec. Peace.

Plymouth Co. On this seventh day of November 1838 before the Court of Probate now holden at Rochester in & for said County personally appeared Sarah Church aged seventy nine years, who being first duly sworn ac- cording to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the Act of Congress passed July 7. 1838 entitled an "Act granting half pay pensions to certain Widows." That she is the Widow of Jona- than Church who was a soldier in the War of the Revolution & served as is herein after set forth.
He enlisted into the service for eight months in 1775 & she believes he served from June in that year in Capt Earl Clapps Company in the vicinity of Boston until the close of that year.
She further declares that she was married to the said Jonathan Church on the eleventh day of De- cember in the Year Seventeen hundred & eighty three & that her husband the aforesaid Jona- than Church died on the fifteenth day of April last in the Year Eighteen hundred & sixteen that she was not married to him previous to his leaving the service but the marriage took place previous to the first day of January

in the Year Seventeen hundred and sixty four Nis: at the time above stated.
Sarah Church
I warn to add subscribed the day and year first above mentioned Wilkes Wood J. P. Probate
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