Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 21,257, Jonathan Hale, Conn.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Conn.
Hale, Jonathan
S. 21, 257
CONTENTS

28.697 Albany N.Y.
Jonathan H. Peterson in the State of N.Y. who was a private in the com. by Captain Parsons of the reg. by Col. Moray in the Continental line for 13 months and 17 days
Increased from $34.21
Inscribed on the Roll of Albany at the rate of 45 Dollars 33 Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 28 day of Aug 1835 and sent to Pensioner. Masonville
Arrears to the 4th of Semi-ann. allowance ending
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by Dan Boyd Clerk. Book 62 Vol. 1 Page 30
John F. Cunn 10 Apr 1835

29 6/17 Jonathan Hale
Youngstown
Ohio
Oct. 1832
of New York

State of New York } Delaware County. }
On this Eighth day of October in the year 1832 personally appeared in open Court before the Judges of the Court of Com n Pleas in and for the County of Delaware now sitting Jonathan Hale as resident of the Town of Mason Hill in the County of Delaware and State of New York. Aged seventy five years & five months - who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his Oath make the following Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed the 7 th June 1832 - That he entered into the Service of the United States under the following named Officers and served as herein stated - That he Enlisted as a private Soldier at Enfield in Connecticut in the Spring of the year 1775 for the term of 8 or 9 months (thinks 9 Months) but in fact he served in that Service ten months in the Company commanded by Capt n Parsons in the Regiment commanded by Colo c Hinman that they first went to Roxbury near Boston and was engaged there untill August then March d to Hingham about 20 miles from Boston and said Company was stationed there (with only one other Comp y viz t Capt n Lincoln's) untill Winter - while Colo c Hinman with the other part of the Reg t went to the Northward - that said Capt n Parsons Company remained at Hingham after the term of Enlistment because no others came to their relief - that when winter came on they were moved back to Roxbury and there discharged by Capt n Parsons in presence of Gen l Washington that their guns &c were appraised & retained and that he served under this Enlistment in said Company ten months - upon that in the year 1776 he engaged and went as a substitute for Simeon Kent the term of three months in Colo c Mosley's Regiment Connecticut Line went to Kings Bridge & Red Bank Hill near New York & served out of term and also in the year 1777 he went as Substitute for Judiciah Bliss for the term of 3 Months in Colo c Sheppard's Regiment in the Northern Campaign was at Ticonderoga most of the time - also that he rendered various services in capacity of Quarters otherwise for several years in that War that he has no other Evidence of his Services & knows of no other than that he procured via the Affidavits of Deacon Forry and Stephen Burrows which was transmitted to the Pension Office some time ago with the Certificate of the Court on his case under the Act of Law as may appear by the Enrolled Letter that he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the Agency of any State.
Sworn to & subscribed this day of year aforesaid. E. B. Sheldon Clerk

The following questions were then put by the Court to the said applicant under Oaths and the following examination had the following answers given  1 st When & in what year was you born —  Answer that he was born in the Town of Enfield in the State of Connecticut in the year 1737 in April as he supposes that he has no record of it except in the Town Book of Enfield  That in answer to the 2 nd question he says that he lived at Enfield in Connecticut when called into the Service — that he lived in Connecticut several years after the war — also in Massachusetts several years — that he now lives in the Town of Mason Hill in Delaware County & has lived there about 13 years  3 rd that he Enlisted into the Service once & went as Substitute twice —  4 th that Genl. Putnam & Genl. Lincoln (he thinks they were both Colonels then) were at Roxbury where he served many Militia Officers & Men there and at Brattle Hill — but at Hingham there were only Capt n Parsons and Capt n Lincoln's Companies — that he Genl. Washington when he arrived took the Command he thinks in June —  That he had no written discharge but that the Company was discharged by Capt n Parsons in presence of Genl. Washington at Roxbury — that his gun was offered and left with them for the use of the Army — that he saw Genl. Washington again at Kingsbridge in 1776 when he was in the 3 months service —  That he is well known in the Neighborhood where he lives by Deacons Smith Esquire — Warham Willis Esquire — Elder Griswold & Sylvester Smith Esquire who can testify as to his Character for veracity & belief of Service &c —
We Hugh H. Hovey and Thomas Clark hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Jonathan Hale who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration — that we believe him to be seventy five years of age — that he is respected and beloved in the Neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier in the Revolution and that we fully concur in that opinion — and we also certify that the said Hale is in poor & unremunerated circumstances and is not capable of providing for himself without the

Assistance of his Neighbors and that we have no doubt but that he was a Soldier and served in the revolutionary War Seven years he had the above of years aforesaid C. B. Sheldon Clerk.      Hugh H. Beall Thomas Clark
And the said Court do hereby declare their Opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the Interrogatories prescribed by the War Department that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier and served as he states.
And the Court further Certifies that it appears to them that A. H. Beall who has signed the foregoing Certificate is a resident of the same Neighborhood of Thomas Clark who has signed the preceding Certificate and is a resident of Masonville in Delaware County and are Credible persons - and that their statement is entitled to credit.
I Crawford B. Sheldon
Clerk of the Court of Com on Pleas
in and for the County of Delaware do hereby Certify that the foregoing contains the Original proceedings of the said Court in the Matter of Jonathan Hall's application for a Pension
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of Office this Eighth day of October 1832.
C. B. Sheldon Clerk.

21. 800
Court of Common Pleas and Com- ple of the County of Delaware Do hereby certify that Darius Smith Esquire before whom the foregoing affidavits were taken, was at the time of taking said affidavits a Justice of the Peace in and for said County duly commissioned and sworn. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hands and affixed the Seal of the said Court of Common Pleas February 9 th 1838.
C. B. Sheldon Clerk.

State of New York Delaware County ss.
On the 9 th day of February 1838 personally appeared in open court of Common Pleas and General Sessions of the peace, being a Court of records as established by law, having the power of fine and imprisonment within and for the said County of Delaware.
Jonathan Hale a resident in said County aged 73 years and 10 months, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the acts of Congress of the 18 th of March 1818 and 1 st of May 1820 that in the said Jonathan Hale enlisted for the term of nine months in the fore part of the month of April in the year 1775 in the State of Connecticut in the Company commanded by Captain H. Pease in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Heman in the line of the State of Connecticut on the Continental Establishment, that he continued to serve in the said Corps until some time in the month of February following being more than ten months he having remained more than a month over his time of enlistment at the particular request of Genl. Washington when he was discharged from the service in the town of Roxbury in the State of Massachusetts that he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension except the present that his name is not on the pension roll of any State and never has been, and that the following are the reasons for not making earlier application for a pension (viz) A determination that so long as he was able to work and support himself he would not apply for it, but now from his advanced age and bodily infirmities he is unable to work and support himself his wife is 75 years old and infirm & lame - no children or other person living with him, or other means of supporting them his small earnings and the

Charities of his Neighbours, and in pursuance of the act of the 1 st of May 1820. I do solemnly swear that I am 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 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 the 18 th 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 hereto annexed and by me subscribed viz.
  One cow 15. Dollars one old table 50 years old 1 dollar  $16.00    3 old chairs 3 sets worn out 75 cts, 1 Iron Dinner set 75-  1.50    1 Iron dish kettle 50 cts, 1 plate plate 12 in  62 1/2    4 earthen plates 14 cts, two knives & forks old broken 18 cts  32    1 meat Barrel & some meat  2.50    1 old pail 12 1/2, one tea pot 15, cts, two tea cups & saucers 18 cts  45 1/2    1 pocket knife 6 cts, 1 old pail 6 cts  12    1 old Bible 25. Psalm book 12 1/2 Frying pan 12 in  49 1/2     $22.02    One old ax 25 cts one broken hoe 12 1/2  37 1/2     $22.39 1/2  
That no changes have been made in my property since the 18 th of March 1818 other than by ordinary and common use by which means some articles are worn out and consumed entirely and those few remaining are almost so, as also myself and wife, I have no mechanic art or other occupation than that of common labour and for some time past am so afflicted with the Rheumatism that I can do but little work and do absolutely need assistance for support. I have no children or other person living with or assisting me than as above stated.
Sworn & subscribed in open Court.
Jonathan Hale.
February 9. 1831. C B Sheldon Clk.

State of New York Delaware County ss
Stephen Burroughs of Hamilton in Madison County being duly sworn says that he was well acquainted with Jonathan Hale formerly of Enfield in the State of Connecticut that this deponent and said Jonathan Hale & also Ebenezer Terry all enlisted into the Revolutionary Army in the Connecticut line in Hezekiah Parsons Company in Colonel Housmans Regiment in the month of April (as the deponent believes) in the year 1775 & that they enlisted for nine months, that at the request of General Washington they continued in the service one month longer, making in the whole time ten months service and were discharged in February following according to the best of this deponent recollection, and that this deponent was with said Jonathan all the time and knows he served as aforesaid and this deponent has seen said Jonathan this day & recollected and recognized him as being the same person above mentioned and this deponent understands and believes that said Jonathan now resides in Masonville in the State of New York
State of New York Delaware County ss
Stephen Burroughs
I hereby certify that on the 26 th day of November 1836. Stephen Burroughs personally appeared before me & made oath to the truth of the facts in said affidavit set forth and contained
Darius Smith Justice of the peace
Personally appeared before me Darius Smith one of the Justices of the peace of the town of Masonville and County of Delaware N.Y.
Ebenezer Terry of the town of Guilford County of Chenango State of New York a Revolutionary Soldier and made oath to the solemn oath as follows that in the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy five he served in the Revolutionary Army in the Connecticut line in Hezekiah Parsons Company Colonel Housmans Regiment, served ten months

or more till regular discharged and also that Jonathan Hole served in the same Company with me, the same term of time.
Ebenezer Terry
Sworn & Subscribed before me Darius Smith J. P. E.
State of New York Delaware County
Clerks office ss
to Crawford B Sheldon clerk of the Court of Common Pleas and Cler- k of the County of Delaware Do
hereby certify that Darius Smith Esquire before whom the foregoing affidavits were taken, was at the time of taking said affidavits a Justice of the Peace in and for said County duly commissioned and sworn. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of the said Court of Common Pleas February 9 th 1831.
C. B. Sheldon Clk.
State of New York Delaware County Clerks office ss.
I Crawford B Sheldon Clerk of the County of Delaware, and Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County, Do hereby Certify that the foregoing is a- true copy of the minutes of said Court on file in this office.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of the said Court February 14. 1831.
C. B. Sheldon Clk.
21. 800

Jonathan Hale
29.619
Ref d to E. Phelps Mar 1 '36
msb 2 —
J. Johnson Hon. S. Page Home Refy U.S.

WAR DEPARTMENT,
Pension Office,
March 1 1834
Sir:
The evidence in support of your claim, under the act of June 7, 1832, has been examined, and the papers are herewith returned. The following is a statement of your case in a tabular form. On comparing these papers with the following rules, and the subjoined notes, you will readily perceive that objections exist, which must be removed, before a pension can be allowed. The notes and the regulations will shew what is necessary to be done. Those points to which your attention is more particularly directed, you will find marked in the margin with a brace, (thus: { ). You will, when you return your papers to this Department, send this printed letter with them; and you will, by complying with this request, greatly facilitate the investigation of your claim.
A Statement, shewing the Service of Jonathan Hale
   Period when the service was rendered. Duration of the claimant's service. Rank of the claimant. Names and rank of the Field officers under whom he served. Age at present, and place of abode when he entered the service. Proof by which the declaration is supported.   Years. Months. Days.     Spring 1775 8 2 Private (Col. Hinman) 45 years   9 2   10   1776 3 mo " Capt Parsons   " Col Mosley   1777 3 mo " Col Shepard   1778 To the end of the war Quartermaster  
I am, respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
JAMES L. EDWARDS,
Commissioner of Pensions.

REGULATIONS UNDER THE ACT OF JUNE 7, 1832.
The following regulations have been adopted:
This law has been construed to extend, as well to the line, as to every branch of the Staff of the Army, and to include under the terms "Continental Line," "State troops," "militia," and "volunteers," all persons enlisted, drafted, or who volunteered and who were bound to military service, but not those who were occasionally employed with the army upon civil contracts, such as Clerks to Commissaries and to Store Keepers, &c., Teamsters, Boatmen, &c. Persons who served on board of private armed vessels are also excluded from the benefits of the law, as well as persons who turned out as patrols, or were engaged in guarding particular places at night, and were not recognized as being in actual military service.
Four general classes of cases are embraced in this law:
 1. The Regular Troops.  2. The State Troops, Militia, and Volunteers.  3. Persons employed in the Naval Service.  4. Indian Spies. 
As rolls of the regular troops in the Revolutionary War exist in this Department, all persons claiming the benefit of this law as officers, non-commissioned officers, musicians or privates, will, in the first instance, make application by transmitting the following declaration, which will be made before a Court of Record of the County where such applicant resides. And every Court having by law a seal and Clerk is considered a Court of Record.
DECLARATION,
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th of June, 1832.
State, Territory, or District of } ss. County of }  On this _____ day of _____ personally appeared (a) before A. B. a resident (b) of _____ in the county of _____ and State, Territory or District of _____ aged (c) _____ 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 in the Army of the United States in the year (d) _____, with _____ and served in the _____ (e) regiment of the _____ line, under the following named officers:
[Here set forth the names and rank of the Field and Company Officers; the time he left the service; (and if he served under more than one term of enlistment, he must specify the particular period, and rank and names of his officers;) the town or county and State in which he resided when he entered the service; the battles, if any, in which he was engaged, and the country through which he marched. □ This form is to be varied so as to apply to the cases of officers and persons who belonged to the militia, volunteers, navy, &c.]
He hereby relinquishes every claim (f) whatever to a pension or an annuity, except the present, and he declares that his name is not on the 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.
A. B.
[And then will follow the certificate of the Court.]
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion (g) that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states.
I _____ of the Court of _____ do hereby certify (h) that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of _____ for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office (i) this _____ day of _____ &c.
If, on examination of the proper record, the names of applicants, making such declaration, cannot be found, they will produce such proof as the rule given in note (j) points out.
Every applicant who claims a pension by virtue of service in the State Troops, Volunteers or Militia, except those who belonged to the New Hampshire Militia and State Troops of Virginia, will make and subscribe a declaration similar to the foregoing, with the following additions, viz:
(k) We, A. B., a Clergyman, residing in the _____ and C. D. residing in (the same) _____, who has hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with _____, who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be _____ years of age; that he is reputed and believed, in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.
Sworn and subscribed the days and year aforesaid.
[And then will follow the certificate of the Court.]
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier, and served as he states. And the Court further certifies, that it appears to them that A. B. who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman, resident in the _____ and that C. D., who has also signed the same is a resident in the _____ and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
I, _____ Clerk of the Court of _____ do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the application of _____ for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office, this _____ day of _____ &c.
Every applicant will produce the best proof in his power. This is the original discharge or commission; but if neither of these can be obtained, the party will so state under oath, and will then procure, if possible, the testimony of at least one credible witness, stating in detail his personal knowledge of the services of the applicant, and such circumstances connected therewith, as may have a tendency to throw light upon the transaction.
If such surviving witness cannot be found, the applicant will so state in his declaration, (l) and he will also, whether he produce such evidence or not, proceed to relate all the material facts, which can be useful in the investigation of his claim, and in the comparison of his narrative with the events of the period of his

alleged service, as they are known at the Department. A very full account of the services of each person will be indispensable to a favorable action upon his case. The facts stated will afford one of the principal means of corroborating the declaration of the applicant, if true, or of detecting the imposition, if one be attempted; and unless, therefore, these are amply and clearly set forth, no favorable decision can be expected. All applicants will appear before some Court of Record in the County in which they reside, and there subscribe and be sworn to, one of the declarations above provided, according to the nature of his case.
The Court will propound the following (m) interrogatories to all applicants for a pension, on account of service in the Militia, State troops, or Volunteers, except the Militia of New Hampshire and the State troops of Virginia.
 1. Where and in what year were you born?  2. Have you any record of your age, and if so, where is it?  3. Where were you living when called into service; where have you lived since the Revolutionary war, and where do you now live?  4. How were you called into service; were you drafted, did you volunteer, or were you a substitute? And if a substitute, for whom?  5. State the names of some of the Regular Officers, who were with the troops, where you served; such Continental and Militia Regiments as you can recollect, and the general circumstances of your services.  6. { To a Soldier. { Did you ever receive a discharge from the service, and if so, by whom was it given, and what has become of it? { To an Officer. { Did you ever receive a commission, and if so, by whom was it signed, and what has become of it?  7. State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood, and who can testify as to your character for veracity, and their belief of your services as a soldier of the Revolution. 
The Court will see that the answers to these questions are embodied in the declaration, and they are requested to annex their opinions of the truth of the statement of the applicant.
The applicant will further produce in Court, if the same can be done, in the opinion of the Court, without too much expense and inconvenience to him, two respectable persons—one of whom should be the nearest clergyman, if one lives in the immediate vicinity of such applicant, who can testify, from their acquaintance with him, that they believe he is of the age he represents, and that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood to have been a Revolutionary soldier, and that they concur in that opinion. If one of these persons is a Clergyman, the Court will so certify, and they will also certify to the character and standing of other persons giving such certificates.
The traditional evidence of service is deemed very important, in the absence of any direct proof, except the declaration of the party. And the Courts are requested to be very particular in the inquiry whether the belief is general, and whether any doubts have ever existed upon the subject.
Applicants unable to appear in Court, by reason of bodily infirmity, may make the declaration before required, and submit to the examination, before a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record of the proper county, and the Judge or Justice will execute the duties, which the Court is herein requested to perform, and will also certify that the applicant cannot, from bodily infirmity, attend the Court.
Whenever any official act is required to be done by a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record, or by a Justice of the Peace, the certificate of the Secretary of State or Territory, or of the proper Clerk of the Court or County, under his seal of office, will be annexed, stating that such person is a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record, or a Justice of the Peace, and that the signature annexed is his genuine signature.
No payments can be made on account of the services of any person, who may have died before the taking effect of the act of June 7, 1832; and in case of death subsequent thereto, and before the declaration herein required is made, the parties interested will transmit such evidence as they can procure, taken and authenticated before a Court of Record, showing the services of the deceased, the period of his death, the opinion of the neighborhood respecting such services, the title of the claimant, and the opinion of the Court upon the whole matter.
[a] The declarant must appear in open Court, unless prevented from doing so by reason of bodily infirmity; in which case the declarant will follow the rule laid down for his guidance.
[b] The declarant must make his declaration in the county where he resides. If he should fail to do so, he must assign a sufficient reason for not conforming to the rule.
[c] The age of the claimant must invariably be mentioned.
[d] The declarant must mention the period or periods of the war when he served.
[e] Every continental officer or soldier must give the name of the Colonel under whom he served; otherwise a satisfactory examination of the claim cannot be had. Every claimant must state, with precision, the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the Department to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words:
"Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A. B. who, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that, by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service; but, according to the best of his recollection, he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades:—For _____ year _____ months, and _____ days, I served as a _____. For _____ months and _____ days, I served as a _____; and for such service I claim a pension."
It is important, in all cases, to determine with precision the period for which each applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service. The use of the phrase about three or four months , in the militia, &c. without specifying the tours, the names of the officers, and other particulars respecting their service. This form of a declaration is highly objectionable. It must, in every case, be clearly shown under what officers the applicant served; the duration of each term of engagement; the particular place or places where the service was performed; that the applicant served with an embodied corps called into service by competent authority; that he was either in the field or in garrison; and for the time during which the service was performed, he was not employed in any civil pursuit.
[f] The law makes the relinquishment indispensable.
[g] The opinion of the Court is always required.
[h] The Clerk must give his certificate in every case.
[i] The Clerk must affix his seal, and if it has no device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal, or if he has no public seal of office, the certificate of a Member of Congress, proving the official character and signature of the certifying officer, should accompany the papers.
Mode of authenticating papers.
In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticates the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other papers authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the ends of which must pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate.
Proof of Service.
[j] In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimant's entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the regiment, company, and line to which he belonged. The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the witnesses, and the official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office.
The notes from [a] to [i] are all equally applicable to the cases of Militia men, Volunteers and State Troops. The proof required by rule in note [j] applies to continental troops only.
[k] This traditional evidence is indispensable in militia cases.
[l] If a witness cannot be found, the declarant must state the fact.
[m] The answers to the interrogatories must all be written, and sent to the War Department, with the declaration.

Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873.
REJECTED
11447
P. O.
Jonathan Hale
Service:
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contr:

Providence 21 257
INVALID.
File No. 21 257
Jonathan Hale Pri Rev War
Act: June 7 th 82 nd
Index: — Vol. 2 , Page 167
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Jonathan Hale
New York
Rev. J.
Suspended
See let to Hon N. Johnston April 29. 1834
Act 9 June 34

New York 28.697
Jonathan Hale
of Delaware Co. in the State of New York who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Parsons of the Reg t commanded by Col Mosley in the Connecticut line for 10 mo. 8 days
Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 34 Dollars 21 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 15 th day of May 1834 and sent to Hon. N. Johnson H. Rep.
Arrears to the 4th of March '34 $ 102.63 Semi-ant. allowance ending Sep r 4 '34 - 17.10 $119.73
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by Sam l H. Page Clerk. Book E Vol. 4 Page 112
Deb to Jonathan Hale 20 June 1835

CHH
Unailla Feby 17 th 1831
War Department
Pension Office
Rejected June 11. 1831
Washington City
Pension Office Feb. 25. 1831

Unionville - Otego County 16th Feb 7 1831
Enclos d are the papers of Jonathan Hale applying for a pension - he wishes to be put on pension List Roll of the New York Agency - and a Certificate Transmitted to me as above.
Yours Respectfully
Abijah H. Beach
Pension Office Washington City

Pension Office Madison NY June 4 th 1831 June 20 1831
War Department
Pension Office Washington City

Unadilla Otsego County 30 th April 1831
Sir Yours of the 13 th Inst is recieved & communicated to Hoke - to which he makes the enclosed reply - and also subjoins the Affidavit of Daniel Smith Esquire
Yours Respectfully -
A. H. Beach
Pension Office Washington - D. C.

War Department Pension Office Washington City
4

Unadilla Otsego County 30 th April 1831
Sir
In the month of February last on my return from Court - I handed my Pension papers to Judge Beach of Unadilla and requested him to transmit them to the Pension Office for me - it appears that he did so and that he is inform d that claims sent by an agent are not attended to &c - I therefore do now myself most respectfully request that my said claiming application now on file in the Pension Office may be examined and that the result be transmitted to me at Unadilla that being the most convenient place or Post Office for me And if necessary I refer you to Mr Hobbey the Assistant Post Master General at Washington who (may perhaps know me but if not) may know Judge Beach of Unadilla and also Darius Smith Esquire of Mason Hill before whom the affidavits were taken as attached to my claim for Pension and also as certified to by the Clerk of Delaware County also attached - and who also now makes his affidavit as to my identity or being the same Jonathan Hale who now signs this letter and who did sign the application for pension as aforesaid -
J. L. Edwards Esquire Pension Office Washington City
with the greatest respect your Ob t Serv t
Jonathan Hale

State of New York Otsago County
Be it known that Darius Smith of the Town of Mason Hill in the County of Delaware Esquire personally appears before me the Subscriber a justice of the peace of said County and on being duly sworn doth say that he said Smith is personally well acquainted with Jonathan Hale of Mason Hill aforesaid - that he saw the said Hale sign this letter herunto annexed after it was read and fully explained to his understanding - And also knows the said Hale to be the Identical same Jonathan Hale who signed the application for Pension in Court as certified by the Clerk of the County of Delaware and offered to said Hale's Pension papers - which were the same pension papers which the said Hale requested Judge Brack of Unadilla to transmit to the Pension Office for him
Sworn to & subscribed this 30 th day of April 1831 before me Gilbert Lord Justice
Darius Smith

4447
on the rolls -

War Dept, Pension Office 17 July 1832
Sir.
I herewith forward you a copy of the printed regulations with which you will comply in making your application for a pension under the late Act. The evidence on file in this office to which you refer is not deemed sufficient to establish the fact of nine months service as set forth in the original declaration because there were no enlistments in 1775 before May. It may be admitted that you served eight months under that enlistment which was the term of enlistments at that period; And if you should prefer a claim for the additional service alledged in your recent declaration (herewith returned) you will conform to the regulations which point out the course to be pursued in order to substantiate it.
I am respectf ly Yr mo. obt. St r J. L. Edwards
Jonathan Hale esq r Unadilla N. York

Jonathan Hall's case Duplicate of —
29. 6. 19
Service in Shepard's neg. dis. all. see Phelps certificate
aug 35 - proved by Bangs - 3mo. 9 ds.
acord 10mo 8 ds pri
3. 9
13. 17
43.33 166 34 13.33
33.33
88
Hon. J. Page

A copy or Duplicate of Jonathan Hale's papers
State of New York } Delaware County }
on this eighth day of October 1832 personally appeared in Open Court before the judges of the Court of common Pleas now sitting in & for the said County of Delaware - Jonathan Hale a resident of the Town of Masonville in the County of Delaware State of New York aged seventy five years and five months - who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his Oaths make the following declarations in order to obtain the Benefit of the Act of Congress passed June 17 th 1832 that he entered the service of the United States under the following named Officers and served as herein stated that he enlisted at Infild in Connecticut in the spring of the year 1775 for the term of (he cannot now recollect whether) eight or nine months but does recollect that he served less than that term as a private in the Company commanded by Capt d Asahel Parsons in the Regiment commanded by Col d Hinman as stated in his former application & supposed to be on file in the pension Office at Washington that he went with said company to Roxbury near Boston and remained at and near Roxbury until the last of August when they were ordered and went to Hingham 21 miles south east and remained there until Winter when they were ordered back to Roxbury and was there discharged - that he was in the battle at Bunker's Hill - Also in the year 1776 he engaged as a substitute for Simeon Root in Col d Mosley's Regiment Connecticut line for three months and was engaged at the same at Kings Bridge Valentine's Hill &c near New York - also in the year 1777 he engaged as a substitute for Judideah Blops for 3 months in Col d Shepard's Reg t Connecticut line and went to Ticonderoga and was stationed there that Winter and was discharged in April following -
Also that he engaged and served as a Teamster from the year 1778 to the end of the war - that he has no other evidence to prove his said services but that on file in the pension Office at Washington and the Affidavits of

Whereas I, Jonathan Hale, hereto annexed, that he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to any pension or annuity except the present and declaring that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State —
Sworn & subscribed in Open Court Jonathan Hale The day and year aforesaid G. B. Sheldon Clerk
We, residing in the Town of Masonville in the County of Delaware and residing in the do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Jonathan Hale who has subscribed & sworn to the above declaration — that we believe him to be 75 years of Age — that he is reputed & believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a Soldier in the revolution and that we concur in that opinion — and we also certify that said Hale is in very poor & miserable circumstances and incapable as we think to take care of provide for himself without assistance of his Neighbors — and that we have no doubt but that he was a Soldier in the revolution —
Sworn & subscribed the day and year aforesaid — G. B. Sheldon Clerk (sign d by two persons names not recollected)
The several Interrogatories as prescribed by the War Department were then put by the Court to the to the said applicant — to which he gave the several following answers — that he was born at Enfield in the State of Connecticut in the year 1757 — don't know of any record but in the Town Book of Enfield — that he lived in Enfield where first called into the Service in Hiram's Regiment — and at Springfield the other two times — that he enlisted once & served as a substitute twice — that Gen l Putnam was at Roxbury and at Bunker's Hill also Gen l Lincoln — then a Colonel he thinks — that Capt n Lincoln's Company was at Roxbury — that he had no written

Capt n Hanson's Company was at Roxbury — that he had no written
discharge but was discharged by Company by Capt n Parsons in presence of Gen l Washington — that he now lives in Masonville in this County where he has resided about 20 years last past — that he refers the Court to Darius Smith Esq r Warham Williams Esq r Eldon Grimwood and Sylvester Smith Esq r who reside in the same neighborhood with him and who can testify as to his character and their belief of his services — etc —
sworn in Open Court —
C. B. Sheldon Clk
Jonathan Hale
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the Interrog- atories prescribed by the War Department that the above men- tioned applicant was a revolutionary Soldier & served as he states — And the Court further certify that it appears to them that and who has signed the present- ing certificates are residents of this County and credible persons and that their statement is entitled to credit —
I Crawford B. Sheldon Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Delaware do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the Original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Jonathan Hale for a pension —
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court this 8 th day of Dec r . 1832 —
C. B. Sheldon Clk
As Copy

State of New York Olage County ss.
I, Elijah H. Beach of Mendonville in Olage County living and sworn according to law still say that the foregoing Duplicate herein contained is a true copy of the original pension papers of Jonathan Hale as made out by him in October 1832 that the said Duplicate was taken from the original minutes of Memorandums as in his possession - said Beach further saith that he is very positive and certain that he enclosed the said papers of Jonathan Hale with six other sets of papers all to the Board at the same time on 8th Oct r 1832 and that on the 10th of Oct r 1832 he sent them all in one bundle or wrapper to the Pension Office - and that he has since had nothing from all of them except said Jonathan H. Williams - of further he well recollects that the Affidavits of Deane & Coon of Stephen Burrows as taken before De Smith were attached to and sent with said Hale's papers - and further that he said Beach saith that he does not know where the said Deane or Burrows can now be found or whether they are alive.
Sworn & Subscribed -
22 nd Jan y 1836 before me
Gilbert Coon Justice
Elijah H. Beach
I hereby certify that Elijah H. Beach who has now to be known is known to me as a credible & lawful witness
Gilbert Coon Justice
State of New York
Olage County ss.
Thomas Clark of Mendonville Delaware County knows all men well that he is well acquainted with Jonathan Hale that he attended Court with him in Oct r 1832 that he saw Hale and his papers examined by the Court - that the Affidavits of Deane & Coon of Stephen Burrows were then attached to said papers - that the Clerks & Subordinates of said Court were also attached to them - and that he said the latter sent them over to Elijah H. Beach Esq r - and that he has no doubt but that said Beach sent them to the Pension Office - said Clark further saith that he was one of the two Clerks who signed the certificate therein contained 24th Jan y 1834 - said Clark further saith that said Thomas Clark is known to me as an reliable person of lawful witness
Gilbert Coon Justice
Thomas Clark

State of New York Otsego County
ss: I Horace Lathrop Clerk of said County do hereby certify that Gilbert Cane Esquire before whom the preceding Affidavits of Darius Smith, Abijah H Beach, & Thomas Clarke, purport to have been severally sworn, was at the date of the same, one of the Justices of the Peace in and for the said County of Otsego, And that I am acquainted with the handwriting of the said Justice, and verily believe his name subscribed to the said several Affidavits, to the certificates thereunder written, to be his proper handwriting, and signature. Witness my hand, and Seal of Office the 3rd day of February 1854.
Horace Lathrop. Clerk.
Jonathan Duley com Defendant
29. 69
Service in Shepard not disall. see Shepard certificate aug 35. proved by Bangs - Imo 900.
Amount 10mo 80s pri    3.  9  4333    13  17  166      34      4533  
23 33 68 4411
Hon. J. D. Page

Abijah H. Beach Esq Unadilla Otsego County New York

Comptroller's Office April 1 st 1834
I Elisha Phelps, Comptroller of Public Accounts of the State of Connecticut, do certify that it appears by an authenticated copy of a pay roll of the 10 th Co. 4 th Reg t of troops ordered to be raised by the General Assembly of the Colony of Connecticut May 1775, that Jonathan Hale served therein as a private from the 11 th day of May until the 19 th day of December 1775. Of this company Herkiah Parsons was Captain, & of the Regiment Benjamin Hinman was Colonel. Said Jonathan Hale having served in said company seven months & eight days.
It appears by the journal of the Council of Safety that on the 11 th August 1776, among regiments, the 13 th regiment of Connecticut was

ordered to march to New York. It appears by the State that Benjamin Hinman was Colonel Increase Moseley Lt. Col. of the 13 th Regt. of Artillery Lt. Col. Moseley was appointed March 1775. The expenses of this regiment to New York was charged to the United States, upon the books of the Pay Table. But no roll of it has been found or evidence showing how long it served.
Of Col. Shepherds reg t I find no mention made upon the records in this office. It is believed that no Colonel of the name of Shepherd commanded a regiment of State troops or militia under the authority of this State during the revolutionary war.
C. Phelps

Sir
I send all the direct & collateral evidence to be found in this office regarding Mr. Hale's revolutionary services. His last station was probably under Massachusetts officers, as Enfield adjoins Massachusetts, & a part of it was deemed to belong to that State, & has been actually within its jurisdiction before the boundary line was established about thirty years ago.
If other applications should be made for proofde - please state the name of the Captain, & Colonel - place of service - year whether continental or state troops - militia or coast guards -
Yours ever
Respectfully
J. H. Phelps
Feb 2 - recd 1 1 dec

Jonathan Hale
30- 20-
8
14 160 (5
150
10
12
120

Comptrollers Office April 16 th 1834.
I Elisha Phelps Comptroller of Public Accounts of the State of Connecticut do certify that it appears by an authenticated copy of a pay roll of the 10 th Co. 4 th Reg t raised by order of the General Assembly of the Colony of Connecticut May 1775, that Jonathan Hale served therein as a private from the 11 th day of May to the 19 th day of December 1775, being seven months & eight days. This company was commanded by Captain Merickiah Parsons, & the regiment by Col. Benjamin Hinman. E. Phelps

Pension Office
Hon A. Johnson
House Representatives

War Department Pensions Office April 29. 1834
Sir
I have the honor to inform you that the claim of Jonathan Hall has been again examined and suspended. He alleges that he served two terms of three months each in the "Connecticut line" under Col. Mosley & Shepherd - There were no officers of that name in that line. Col Mosley commanded a militia regiment, and it appears by Comptroller Phelps certificate that there was no Col Shepherds in the service of Connecticut. But the principal objection is the failure to give the names of his company officers. The affidavits said to have been forwarded with his original papers are not among them.
The team service in which he was engaged from 1778 to the end of the war is not provided for by the act of 7 June 1832. His papers are placed on file.
I have the honor to be Very Respectfully your ob t Serv t J. L. Edwards
Hon N. Johnson House Representatives

J. Johnson Esq. 22 May 1824
Free N. Johnson FREE
Elijah H. Beach Esq. Knadilla N.Y.

Washington May 2. 1834
Dear Sir,
Some ten or eleven weeks since the original declaration of Jonathan Hale was put into my hands by the Com te of Pensions - He desired me to take charge of the case as Hale lived in my district and as he did not know who sent the papers then He also stated it was necessary to have a certificate from the Comptroller of Connecticut as to a part of his ser- vices. I took charge of the papers & immediately wrote the Comptroller of Conn. I have since rec d a certifi- for 7 months and a few days ser- vice. The Com te is willing to allow this, but that is all. I sent you his letter to me that you may get Mr. Hale to correct his own declar- ation in the particulars indicated and to obtain all additional proof he can. Perhaps Col. Brady Stephen was in the Mass. line, or even Mass.

military officers. I have recently learned that Mr. Page has frequently enquired for these papers at your request. If it should be difficult for Mr. Hale to furnish the necessary proof immedi- ately he can have his certificate for the 7 Mo. & some days, and when he makes further proof he can have his pension raised. Please inform me of his desire. It will be neces- sary to enclose to me one dollar that being the charge of the Com- troller of Com. for search & certificate
Respectfully
Yours
A. A. Beach Esq.
A. Johnson
Capt Nathan Rowley Com'd both in Colo. Shepard & Colo. Moseley Lieut in Westfield Mass - shot & served 3 mo. in each in Moseley Reg't Capt Rowley Lieut Cooley. Ensign Merrill in Shepard Reg't Capt Rowley Lieut Bush

Jonathan Hale Payments to be made
at New York
by Mrs. Mechanics Bank Agent for paying Pension- ers, in the Agency of
New York
Recorded in the Pension Of- fice, in Book E Vol. 4
Page 112 by
Sam H. Page Clerk.

WAR DEPARTMENT.
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.
I certify that, in conformity with the law of the United States of the 7th June, 1832, Jonathan Hale of the State of New York who was a Private in the Revolutionary Army
is entitled to receive Thirty Four dollars and Seventy one cents per annum, during his natural life, commencing on the 4th of March, 1831, and payable semi-annually on the 4th of March, and 4th of September in every year.
Given at the War Office of the United States, this 15 th day of May one thousand eight hundred and thirty-four
Peter B. Lee Secretary of War.
Examined and Countersigned. }
J. Edward
Commissioner of Pensions.

Free N. Johnson
FREE
Alvan L. Beach Esq. Unadilla N.Y.
9 no 7. Stock

Dear Sir,
I could not induce the committee to allow Mr. Hale for his allied services in Col. Shepard's Regt. without further proof - When that is made his pension will be raised
Respectfully
Yours &c.
A. Johnson
Washington May 19 1834
S. H. Beach Esq.

State of New York Delaware County } }
Be it known that Jonathan Hale of the Town of Mason Ville in said County of Delaware person- -ally appeared before me Darius Smith Esquire assistant of the Peace in & for the said County and on being duly sworn according to Law doth Depose & say that that in the year 1776 he served three months in Colo: Moseley's Regim- -ent and in the year 1777 he served three months in Colo: Shepard's Regiment as stated in his former & original application - but not in the Connecticut Lines as therein stated erroneously - but in the Massachusetts service - that the names of his Company Officers were as follows Capt: Nathan Rowley - Lieut: Cooley Ensign Morrick in Colo: Moseley's Reg near New York in 1776 as aforesaid - And the same Captain Rowley and Lieut: Bush in Colo: Shepard's Regiment at the Northward in 1777 as aforesaid
Sworn to & subscribed this
16 th day of June 1834
before me
Darius Smith V.P.
Jonathan Hale

State of New York
Delaware County ss I Francis B Sheldon Clerk of the
County of Delaware, do certify that Darius Smith Esquire before whom the within affidavit purports to have been Sworn, was at the date of the same a justice of the peace in and for the County of Delaware duly Commissioned and Sworn
and that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of the Said Justice and that his name subscribed to the within affidavit is his proper hand writing and signature In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of the Said County this 11th day of February 1855
F B Sheldon C.R.

Jonathan Hale
Revo. N. York.
Rejected. See letter to A. H. Beach. June 11. 1831.

By Elijah H Beach Esq r Alma Otsego County N.Y.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Aug th 11 1835.
I hereby Certify, That, from an examination of the Books and Documents, relating to Military Services in the War of the Revolution, which remain in this Department, it appears that the name of Jonathan Hale, as a private, is borne on a pay-roll of Capt. Nathan Rowley's Company, in a Detachment commanded by Lt. Col. Timothy Robinson, where he is allowed from Decem r 25 th 1776, to April 3 rd 1777, three months and nine days. m. d 3-9
Jonathan Hale claims for further services under Capt. Rowley, in Col. Shepard's Regt. in 1776 & 77, but the roll is not found in this Office. There are several rolls of Capt. Aaron Rowley's Com py in other regiments, but the name of Jonathan Hale is not borne on them, except the above mentioned.
for E. D. Bangs. Secretary
Wm. Duff. Cl. Clerk

Aug 27. Manyall Aug 22
Free
War Department
Pension Office
Washington City
My.
Jonathan Wales

Madilla Otsego County New York
22 d Aug t 1835
Enclose d is the certificate of P. D. Bangs Esquire as required by your letter of the 20 th of June last for the purpose of increasing or raising the pension of Jonathan Hale of Masonville — his papers and present pension certificate are on file in the Pension Office — sent from here on the 15 th of June last
Most respectfully your Ob t Serv t
for Jonathan Hale
A. H. Beach
Hon d J. L. Edwards, Comm r of Pensions — Washington City —

I Gad Warriner of West Springfield in the County of Hampden & Commonwealth of Massachusetts, aged in the Scanty seventh year of my age, testify & say, that I was well acquainted with Jonathan Hale formerly of this town, but who removed from this town to the State of New York twenty or thirty years ago, since which time I have seen him only once & that was many years since - The said Jonathan Hale came into this town to live before the commencement of the revolutionary war, & while he lived here, was a neighbor of mine - I know him well - In the year 1776 my brother Azokiah Warriner went out as a soldier in the United States service - When he went away, I understood that he was going to the neighborhood of New York, & when he returned said he had been there - I very well recollect that Jonathan Hale enlisted at the same time - He went away with my brother & returned with him - They were absent three or four months - I think that four months was the term of enlistment - They went away some time in the summer & did not return till after Indian harvest - They enlisted under Capt. Nathan Rowley of this town, but their other officers I do not now recollect -
On the first part of 1777 I enlisted into the United States Service for the term of three months, in the company commanded by the same Capt. Rowley, & in Col. William Moseley's Regiment - We were marched to Tienderaga & remained there during the whole period of enlistment - The said Jonathan Hale enlisted at the same time that I did, & served out the whole time for which we enlisted - I think that he did not keep company with me on my return, but that I reached home a short time before him - I rode home in company with Timothy Burbank of this town -
Gad Warriner
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Hampden ss. January 17. 1835. Then the above named Gad Warriner, with whom I am well acquainted, & who sustains an unexceptionable character for truth & veracity, personally appeared & made oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavit by him subscribed - Before me, Sam Lathrop Justice of the Peace

I Simeon Smith of West Springfield in the County of Hampden & Commonwealth of Massachusetts, aged Eighty one years, testify that in the year 1776, I enlisted into the United States service for the term of Three months, under Capt. Nathan Rawley of this town. Roger Cooley was Lieutenant & Joseph Merrick was Ensign. We were marched to the neighborhood of New York & first halted near Kings Bridge. I remained in that neighborhood & at the White Plains during the period of enlistment. Jonathan Hale of this town was in the same company with me - marched down with me, & at the period of our enlistment was discharged with the rest of the company. The said Hale, while he lived in this town, lived five or six miles from me, & I do not recollect that I had any acquaintance with him till we went into the service together.
About the first of Jan y 1777 the said Jonathan Hale & I again entered the service & went to Ticonderoga. We enlisted under the same Capt Rawley - Bud was Lieutenant - Fowler I think was Ensign - We were in Col. Robinson's Regiment, as I think - May was Lieut Colonel & Dickinson Major. We enlisted for the term of Three months & served out the period of our enlistment. The said Hale was discharged, with the rest of our company after the term of our enlistment had expired.
The said Hale removed from this town to the State of New York many years since, & I understood some years ago that he lived at Man- ville in the State of New York, but I have not seen him since he removed from this town.
Simeon Smith
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Hampden ss January 17 th 1835. Then the above named Simeon Smith, with whom I am well acquainted, & who sustains an unexceptionable character for truth & veracity, personally appeared & made oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavit by him subscribed.
Before me Sam Lathrop Justice of the Peace

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Hampden ss. I John Ingersoll a Clerk of the Judicial Courts within & for the County of Hampden do hereby certify that Samuel Lathrop before whom the two foregoing depositions were verified was on the seventeenth day of January in the year of Lord one thousand eight hundred & thirty five a Justice of the Peace within & for the County of Hampden and that full faith & credit shall ought to be given to all acts done by him in said capacity and that his name subscribed thereto is his true and genuine signature.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of the Court of Common Pleas for said County of Hampden at Springfield on this seventeenth day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & thirty five
John Ingersoll Clerk

Hon d J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of pensions
Washington City

Unadilla Otsego County New York
15 th June 1835
Enclosed is the Affidavit of Jonathan Hale for the purpose of having his pension raised — Also your Letter to Hon d N. Johnson and his letter to me upon that subject — Also additional proof of Hale's services as required — Also Hale's present Certificate sent for the purpose of a new one as above —
Most respectfully
Your O bedt . Serv t
Majah H. Beach
To the Hon d the Commissioner of Pensions.