Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 37066, Jonathan Hamilton, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Hamilton, Jonathan
S. 37066
CONTENTS
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7,739 Maine.
Jonathan Hamilton 4
of Berwick in the Dist. state of Maine who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Bailey of the Me. line, for the term of three years.
Inscribed on the Roll of Dist. of Maine at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 30 th of March 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued the 16 th of Mar. 1819 and sent to Hon: Ben: Greene Judge, South Berwick, Me.
Arrears to 4th of Mar: 1819 - 89.54
Semi-ann. all'ce ending 2d Sep: 1819 48. -
62-20 $137.54
York { Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Continued

Notification sent to David Sewall Esq. Kennebec Maine 31 st July 1820

37 066 Rev INVALID.
File No. 37,066
Jonathan Hamilton Rev Rev DAD
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 177
[Arrangement of 1879.]

Jonathan Hamilton (Private)
H. Jackson's Majest's Regt.
Enlistment Dec. 1781, to 4. Jan. 1784 -
30. March 1812 -
correct
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BY THE HONOURABLE MAJOR-GENERAL K N O X,
Commanding the AMERICAN FORCES on Hudson's River.
Jonathan Hamilton Soldier in third Massachusetts Regiment, being inlisted for Three Years, is hereby honourably DISCHARGED from the Service of the United States.
Given in the State of New-York,
the fourth Day of January
1784
By the General's Command,
H. Knox
158 3/4 REGISTERED in the Books of the Regiment,
on the Eight Night, in 3 d Regiment Nelson

March 1 st 1787 by John 100 90 Rev
B Payment received in the sum of 95 3/4
Final settlement notes
the Hampden # Hon. General

COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
YORK, ss. } ON this thirtieth day of March A. D. 1818, before me the subscriber, Chief Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the first Eastern Circuit in said Commonwealth, personally appears Jonathan Hamilton aged sixty first resident in Berwick in said county of York, who being by me first duly sworn, according to law, doth on his oath make the following Declaration in order to obtain the provision 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 in the month of May in the year 1780, he the said Jonathan Hamilton, enlisted as a private soldier under Capt. Derby, of the Regiment commanded by Col. Bailey in the Massachusetts Line that he continued to do his duty in the said Company & Reg t in the various places in which they were stationed till three years that being the term for which he enlisted, expired, when he was honorably discharged, but has long since lost his first discharge. And that in the month of December, 1781 he again enlisted as a private soldier under Capt. Hunt in the Reg t commanded by Col. Henry Jackson of the Massachusetts Line & continued to do his duty in the said Company & Reg t in the various places, in which they were stationed, till three years that being the term for which he enlisted, expired, when he was honorably discharged—as per his discharge as now appears.  And the said Hamilton further states and proves by a certificate signed by the selectmen and overseers of the poor of the town of Berwick Berwick in which he resides.
That he is reduced in his circumstances and needs the assistance of his country for support, and that he has no other evidence now in his power of his said services.
Sworn to and declared before me the day and year above said.
Benj o Greene
I, BENJAMIN GREENE, Chief Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the first Eastern Circuit, in the Commonwealth aforesaid, do certify, that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Jonathan Hamilton did serve in the revolutionary war against the common enemy, as he has stated in his declaration aforesaid—and that he is reduced in his circumstances, and needs the assistance of his country for his support.—And I do now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me to the Secretary for the Department of War, pursuant to the directions of the before mentioned act of Congress.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court this
Twentyfifth day of June
Anno Domini, 1818.
Benj o Greene

Jonathan Hamilton
LM
7739
Sept. 1819.

SCHEDULE of the real and personal estate, (necessary clothing and bedding excepted) belonging to me the subscriber, viz:
one cow — one pig
SCHEDULE of the family residing with me Jonathan Hamilton who, by occupation am a labourer — which I am un able to pursue by reason of rheumatism & infirmity —
NAMES. AGES. Capacity of each to contribute to their support. Lydia my wife 54 — years Sickly & unable to unable to work Jonathan Hamilton
STATE OF MAINE.
I, York  38.  W. B. Sewall Clerk of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for said Circuit , within the county of York — do hereby certify, that the foregoing oath, and the schedules thereto annexed, are truly copied from the Record of the said Court; and I do further certify, that it is the opinion of the said Court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule, is sixteen dollars and fifty — cents. IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this twentieth — day of July — A. D. one thousand eight hundred and twenty.
W. B. Sewall { Clerk of the said Circuit Court for the County of York

STATE OF MAINE.
York ss....At a Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the First Eastern Circuit, begun and holden at York within and for the County of York on the first Tuesday being the fourth day of July and by adjournment at Alfred from day to day, on the eighteenth day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty, before the Honorable Benjamin Greene Chief Justice. Judge of said Court.
ON this eighteenth day of July — in the year 1820, personally appeared in open Court
the same proceeding according to the course of the common law, having jurisdiction unlimited in amount, keeping a record of their proceedings, and having “the power of fine and imprisonment,” and being a Court of Record for said County  Jonathan Hamilton aged Sixty two years, resident in Berwick in said County who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows, viz. as a private in the company commanded by Capt. Samuel Darby in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Briley in the line of the State of Massachusetts on the Continental Establishment, as is more particularly mentioned and described in his original declaration, made on the twentieth day of March — A. D. 1818, and on which said declaration his Certificate of Pension, numbered 7,739 — was granted. And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th 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 so to diminish it 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 18th day of March, 1818: and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property or securities, contracts, or debts due to me; nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereunto annexed, and by me subscribed; that my occupation and ability to pursue the same, together with the number and other particulars of my family, are in fact and in truth as is herein particularly described, also subscribed by me.
Jonathan Hamilton
Sworn to and declared, on the 18 th day of July A. D. 1820.
BEFORE
Benj n Greene Ch: Justice
Atty. Daniel Sewall, Clerk
One of the Judges of the said Court.