Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 29906, Jonas Houghton, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER _____
Mass
Houghton, Jonas
S 29906
CONTENTS

Let to Elizabeth Clark July 17 1845
Letter to Elijah Clark 11. Sep. 1845 Let to same Oct 20 45 " same Oct 28 45
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8137  Massachusetts Jonas Houghton veteran in the State of Mass was a Private in the company commanded by Captain Sawyer of the Regt commanded by Col Whitney in the War 11. Mar 29 45  Miles & Grah
Entered on the Roll of Massachusetts at a rate of 39 Dollars 89 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 13 th day of March 1833 and sent Jan 1833 due to 4th of March 1835 79.78 Semi-annual allowance ending 4 Sept 19.94
$99.72
{ Revolutionary Claim, { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by Daniel Boyd Clerk, Vol. 2: Page 31.

No. 1. (Declaration) of Jonas Houghton
This case contains five papers with an annexation to the Decla- ration, and No. 1. 2. 3. 4.
Boston 21/5 23
11 Mr. & 29 days Pm.
Adm 39.89
Clauger Whitney
James Dana Esq Present
Please to direct to Sam. D. Houghton Boston Us
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Worcester Middlesex , to wit,
At the Court of Probate ... begun and holden at Worcester ... within and for the County of Worcester on the 10 th — day of August A. D. 1832. On the application of Jonas Houghton claiming to be a Soldier of the Revolution, the following Interrogatories were propounded to him to wit:
1. Where, and in what year were you born?
Answer, I was born in Bolton Ms. on the 23 d of April AD 1760
2. Have you any record of your age, and where is it?
Answer, I have one in my own Bible and also a family record in my possession
3. Where were you living, when called into service, where have you lived since the Revolutionary War, and where do you now live?
Answer, I was living in Bolton when I always have and now do like —
4. How were you called into service, were you drafted, did you volunteer, or were you a substitute, and if a substitute for whom?
Answer, all my services were voluntary and of my accord, —
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 service?
Answer, I saw Gen. Sullivan at Rhode Island —
6. Did you ever receive any discharge from service? And? I never recd. any written discharge from service!
6. 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?
Answer, The Rev. Mr. Allen, Bap. Jonas Welch, Nath. Long By Lieut. Gen. Silas Holman, Gen. Amory, Holman, and Gen. Stephen P. Gardner — Jonas Houghton

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
County of Worcester ss.
On this fourteenth day of Augt  Proteat A.D. 1832
personally appeared in open Court before the Court of Common Pleas , now sitting at Worcester within and for the County of Worcester in the Commonwealth aforesaid Jonas Houghton of Bolton in said County aged seventy two years
Who being 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 June 7th 1832. That he entered the service of the United States, under the following named officers, and served as herein stated. That is to say
 1 That in A.D. 1776 he enlisted for three months in the Company of the Corporal of Capt. Manasseh Sawyer of Sterling in Col. Regiment he marched to Dorchester and there did duty and finished his term of three months, when he was dismissed.  2 In the Summer of Autumn of A.D. 1777 before the capture of Burgoyne Army he enlisted to go to the Northern Frontier in the Company of Capt. Gates L t Piper of Phillipston to whom he was attached , in Col. Regiment of Mass. Forces he marched to the frontier and did duty with his Company, saw the surrender of Burgoyne Army completed his engagement of one month and was dismissed.  3 o He engaged for 6 months at Rhode Island enlisted in the Company of Capt. Beldnap L t Dyer in Col. Wade Regiment he marched to Rhode Island went over to Newport was there in the fall and returned there until after Genl Sullivan's retreat when he was stationed at Updyke in Newton till he completed his 6 months & was dismissed.  4 In A.D. 1780 he engaged of 6 3 months at Rhode Island for 3 months and enlisted for three months in the Company of Capt. David Moses in the Regiment of Col. Haws or Col. Elliot L t Houghton and Bailey who also in that campaign, he was stationed at Bull Hill, there served out three months and was dismissed. 
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He relinquishes every claim, whatever, to a pension or annuity, whatever except, the present, and declares that his name is not on the pension roll, of the agency of any State, Sworn to and
subscribed the day and year aforesaid Before Nathl Green Judge of Probate for the County of Worcester Jonas Houghton
a Clergyman residing in the town of in the county of hereby certify that we are well acquainted with who has subscribed and sworn to the above, and that we believe him to be and believed in the neighborhood, where he resides, to have been a soldier in the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion. Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid,  see deposition -
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, that after the investigation of the matter, and 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 Nathaniel Green who has signed the preceding Certificate is a Clergyman resident in the town of Lancaster & Sibley Holman and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
Theophilus Wheeler Register of the Court of Probate for the County of Worcester do hereby certify, that the foregoing contains, the original proceedings, of the said Court, in the matter of the application of Jonas Houghton for a pension. Whereas Stephen D. Gordon is a justice of the peace In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this fourteenth day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred and thirty two
Theoph! Wheeler Register of the Court of Probate for the County of Worcester in Massachusetts
The said Theophilus Wheeler Register of the said Probate Court for the County of Worcester certify that the affidavits of John Barnard, and Solomon Whitney, together with the Secretary of State's Certificate, have been produced since the making of my above certificate of the 14th of August 1832, and the papers now annexed under the seal of said Court constitute the testimony to support the said Pensioner's claim - and that Hon. Samuel Dana, before whom one of the annexed affidavits was made, is, I believe, a justice of the Peace through the said Commonwealth, and that Samuel S. Houghton, before whom one of the other annexed affidavits was made, is a justice of the Peace in & for the said County of Worcester - and that their names, thereunto subscribed are their true and proper signatures -
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court, this twenty sixth day of December in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and thirty two.
Theoph! Wheeler Reg of said Court

for a statement of the military history of Jonas Houghton a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau. Sur. F. 29,906.
   DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE.   CAPTAIN. COLONEL.     Late in '76 & early in '77 3 mos. Pri Manasseh Sawyer Nicholas Dike Mass   Autumn '77 1 Walter Jon a Gates Josiah Whitney "   Spring 1778 3 or 4 days Pri Jonathan Houghton " " "   Summer 1778 6 mos. Pri Johnizer Belknap Jonathan Wade "   1779 newly 1 wk. " Jonathan Houghton Josiah Whitney "   1780 3 mos. " David Moore Haw or Elliott "  
Battles engaged in, ✓
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Bolton Mass.
Date of application for pension, Aug. 14, 1832. His cl. was al.
Residence at date of application, Bolton, Mass.
Age at date of application, B. Apr. 23, 1760, Bolton, Mass.
Remarks: Soldier's father, Jonas Houghton, lived at Bolton Mass during the Revolution.
In 1832, soldier is referred to as Major Jonas Houghton.

29906 INVALID.
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No. 29,906
Jonas Haughton Rev Rev
Act: June 1 st 1894
Index: Vol. 9, Page 193
[Arrangement of 1870.]
March 23. 1897. History Mrs. Henry Hall of Henry Hall. N.Y. Tribune N.Y. City.
March 7. 08. Hist. to Henry Hall.
1909 Aug. 10. Hist to Educ. J. Lockwood. V.P. etc.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Worcester ss. July 31 st 1832 -
Personally appeared before me the Subscriber a Justice of the Peace, within and for all the Count ies in said Commonwealth
Jonas Welch who subscribed the annexed Deposition and who is a credible and disinterested witness and made solemn Oath that the same is just and true in all its particulars according to the best of his knowledge and belief.
Sam d Dana

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Boston;
April 28 1845.
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 Jonas Houghton of Bolton, is borne as a private upon a Muster roll of Capt. Manasseh Sawyers' Comp y in Col. Dikes' reg t ; taken for the months of Dec r 1776 & Jan y . and Feb y . 1777; — Upon a pay roll of Capt. Jon a Gates for service at Tienderoga from Oct r 1, 1777 — 26 days, including allowance for travel; — Abel Piper was the 1 st Lieut. of this company; — Upon a number of Muster rolls, pay rolls & abstracts, from all which it is shown that he served as a private in Capt. Eben r Belknap's Comp y , Col. Nathaniel Wades' Reg t . from July 9, 1778 to Jan y 1, 1779 — 5 months, 27 days, including allowance for 80 miles travel; — and upon a pay roll of Capt. David Moore, Lt. Col. Enoch Hallet from Aug t 15 to Oct r 31, 1780, — 2 months, 21 days, including allowance for 75 miles travel. No one of the name is found upon rolls of Capt. Jonathan Houghton, Col.
+ Supt. of Public Inst. Archives
2 mo 15
26
5 27
2 21
11 29

Josiah Whitney - and the preceding is all the evidence of service in the case, shown by any of the records.
[A large, decorative flourish or signature mark.]
Shadesland, in the time I rendered Langston was living Langston Jr. but in
And I further Certify, That, before search made for evidence of said facts, the application hereto annexed was filed in this Office, in the form in which the same now appears; that the search was made by myself and my clerks alone; and that said application, and the certificate above set forth, contain all the facts and circumstances within my knowledge, pertaining to the case.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written.
[Signature: John G. Palfrey.] Secretary of the Commonwealth.

I Jonas Houghton of Boston in the County of Worcester and Commonwealth of Massachusetts a Soldier of the Revolution, depose and say that I have good reason to believe that I do not receive a Pension for all the service I rendered in the Revolution, and I request the Secretary of this Commonwealth to examine the Rolls and documents in his office for proof of all the service I rendered, and according to the best of my recollection I rendered three months service at Dorchester Heights in 1776 under Capt. Manasseh Sawyer, in 1777 I rendered near one months service at the capture of Gen. Burgoyne the Capt. I do not recollect but I was waiting to meet Abel Phipps, in the Regiment of Col. Josiah Whitney as I think, I was also called out on an alarm and went part of the way to Rhode Island, was gone two or three days, as I think belonged to Capt. Jonathan Houghton Company at that time, and in seventeen hundred seventy eight I rendered six months service at Rhode Island under Capt. Bicknell, and soon after that service I was called out on an alarm towards North River in the State of New York was out near one week in Capt. Jonathan Houghton's Company and Col. Whitney's Regiment, and in 1780 and in I rendered three months service at Rhode Island in the Company of Capt. David Moore at the time I rendered the above service my Father Jonas Houghton was living in this Town I was called here Jonas Houghton Jr. but in the service was called Jonas Houghton there was another Jonas Houghton in one of the services which I rendered I am not certain which service it was
Jonas Houghton
Worcester SS Boston Dec 19th 1844 Subscribed to before Lewis W. Lakin Justice of the Peace

Salmon Whiting offered for Jonas Houghton
Salmon Whiting in the case of Jonas Houghton
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Salmon R. Whitney in the case of Jonas Houghton
Salmon R. Whitney Offer for Jonas Houghton

I Salmon Whitney of Harvard in the County of Worcester and Commonwealth of Massachusetts aged seventy years on the sixteenth day of last February upon oath that I enlisted into the service of the revolution under Capt. Maraph Sawyer & Lt. Samuel Sargent for seven Months in the year 1776 and I further depose and that Jonas Houghton of Bolton in said County was in service in the same Company & under the same officers with me for the space of three months during and performed the duties of a private faithfully in my belief & remembrance & further saith not - Dated at Harvard Sept. 3 d 1832 Salmon Whitney
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Worcester ss. September 3 d 1832 The above named Salmon Whitney personally appeared before me one of the Justices of the Peace in and for the County of Worcester aforesaid and made solemn oath that the above instrument by him subscribed is true before me Samuel S. Houghton Just. of the Peace
I hereby certify that I am acquainted with the said Whitney and that full credit may be given to his testimony Samuel S. Houghton Justice of the Peace

Affidavits of Rev. Isaac Allen Hon. Silas Holman in the case of
Jonas Houghton
For Jonas Houghton

We the subscribers, viz, Isaac Allen, clergyman, of the Town of Bolton in the County of Worcester and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and Silas Holman of said town.
a Justice of the Peace through said Commonwealth, hereby certify that we believe have been personally acquainted with Jonas Houghton, an applicant for a Pension, of Bolton aforesaid for many years, and believe he is of the age he represents, viz, seventy two years, and that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood to have been a Revolutionary Soldier, and that we concur in that opinion - and that his character is that of Veracity -
Isaac Allen Clergyman Silas Holman
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Worcester ss. Bolton August 13. 1832 Then the Rev. Isaac Allen and Silas Holman Esquire made oath that the above certificate by them subscribed is true in every particular -
Before me Stephen D. Girdner Justice of the Peace

No. 21
Affidavit of Jonas Welch in the case of Jonas Houghton
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I Jonas Welch of Bolton — in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts aged seventy eight years, do depose and say that I served in the war of the Revolution, as by my declaration on file in the Pension office, will appear
And I further testify that I did know Major Jonas Houghton now of Bolton and that he also was a soldier in that war and that he was stationed at Rhode Island in 1778 in Capt Belknaps Company 1st regiment — And that then in the year 1780 he served three months in the Company of Capt David Moore and that he also served 30 days on the Northern frontier, in 1777 at the capture of Burgoyne in Capt.
Gates Company of Ashburnham, I was in the same Company with him the three campaigns, Jonas Welch

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Oct. 25 1832.
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 Jonas Houghton served as a private soldier in the company of Capt. Sawyer, in the regiment of Col. Nicholas Dike, from the 14th of December 1776 to the 1st of March 1777.
Edward D. Bangs, Secy
Secretary's office Nov. 24 1832
I further certify that Jonas Houghton is borne on a Pay roll of Capt. Clemener Belknap's company in Col. Wadsworth's regiment of the Massachusetts State troops in service at North Kingston, for the space of 8. months and 27. days from the 9th of July 1778. Date of discharge January 1 st 1779
(over)

Again, Jonas Houghton is borne on a Pay roll of Capt. David Mose company in Lieut. Col. Enoch Hallett regiment in service in the State of Rhode Island for the space of 2. months and 21. days, time to return home included, from the 15. th of August. Date of discharge Oct. 31. st 1780.
I further certify that there is no roll of Capt. Gates company on file in this office.
Edward D Bangs Secy
Jonas Houghton

Oct. 27. 1848.
Recd of Thomas Houghton for account J. J. Wilson commission merchant Washington, D.C.
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Oct. 28. 1848.

Brighton October 25. 1875
Sir,
Your letter of date the 20 th inst. respecting the claim of Jonas Houghton for an increase has been received, but no certificate of his has up to this date been received.
Very Respectfully Yours Colt. St. & Co Elijah Hawk
Hon J. L. Edwards Commissioner of Pensions Washington, City. D. C.

Pension Office,
September 11. 1845.
Sir,
The certificate of the Secretary of the State of Massachusetts has been re-examined, and it proves but 11 months and 29 days service of Jonas Houghton, for which he has been granted a pension.
His pension certificate is herewith enclosed.
I am respectfully,
Your Obt. Servt.
J B Edwards
Elijah Clark, Esq. Brighton, Massachusetts.

Sept. 24, 1845. Brighton 22 Sept 1845
Elijah Clark Returns the pension certificate of Jonas Houghton.
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Brighton. Sept 22. 1895.
Dear Sir,
I enclose to you herewith the Pension certificate of Jonas Houghton of Ballston, which has been returned from the Pension Office the second time, as you will discover from the enclosed letter from that Office, without an increase which has been claimed.
Although the Documents do not show all the short services which he mentions he rendered, yet the old Gentleman is really worthy of all the pay for so much service as can be proved, and is shown to be 12 months 14 days by the Service certificate herein enclosed.
Very Respectfully Yours, O. A. S. &c. Elijah Clark
Hon. W. L. Macey A.D. Secretary of War, Washington City, D.C.

Brighton June 22 1845.
Dear Sir,
I enclose to you herewith the Pension certificate of Jonas Noaghtons of Bolton, with his documents, claimed for an increase
Very Respectfully yours W. T. Dyer. Elizabeth Clark
Hon J. L. Edwards commissioner of Pensions Washington City, D. C.

Brighton July. 22 nd 1845.
Dear Sir,
Your letter of date the 17 th respecting the service of Jonas Houghton has been received. I am sorry to trouble you for the, with a revision of the proof of the service of Jonas Houghton. But Sir, I believe you will find the certificate of the Secretary of this State, shows, he served twelve months and fourteen days at least, and if his service at the alarms could be proved, it would make his service amounted to 13 months or more. I hear & see, that Mr Houghton, is a very worthy old gentleman, and deserves every cent he is entitled to receive for the service he rendered his country.
Very Respectfully Yours W. H. St. L. Elizabeth Clark
Hon J. L. Edwards Commissioner of Pensions Washington City, D. C.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Boston;
Sep 15 1845.
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 Jonas Houghton of Bolton is borne upon a Roll of capt Manasseh Sawyer's Company Col Dike's regt. for the month of December 1776 and January & February 1777. 3 months. Upon a Pay Roll of capt Jonathan Gates' Company for service at Saratoga as a private from October 1 to 19. 1777. 26 days, including allowance of 7 days for travel. Upon another of capt Ebenezer Belknap's Company, Col Wade's regt as a private from July 9. 1778. to January 1. 1779. 5 months & 27 days including allowance of 80 miles travel. Upon another of capt David Moore's Company Lt Col Enoch Hallett's regt for service at Rhode Island as a private from Aug 15 to October 31. 1780 2 months & 21 days, including allowance of 45 miles travel. The above facts
3 mo
26
5. 27
2. 21
12. 14

were given in a certificate issued April 28 1845, which contained evidence of 12 months & 14 days service, as shown by rolls, and Record Book in this office.
And I further Certify, That, before search made for evidence of said facts, the Commissioner's letter of Sep. 11. 1845. was filed in this Office; that the search was made by myself and my clerks alone; and that said letter, and the certificate above set forth, contain all the facts and circumstances within my knowl- edge, pertaining to the case.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written.
John G. Parris;
Secretary of the Commonwealth.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts Worcester County ss.
On this twenty eighth day of May in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty five, personally appeared before me Joseph Sawyer a justice of the Peace within and for the County of Worcester and State aforesaid Jonas Houghton of Boston in said County aged eighty five years, who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following additional declaration in order to obtain an increase to his pension which he now receives agreeable to the benefits of the provision made by the act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832. That in the last part of the year 1776 and the first part of the year 1777 he rendered three months service at Dorchester heights in the company of Capt. Manasseh Sawyer, and in the autumn of 1777 he rendered near one month's service at the capture of Gen. Burgoyne, and his army. That he was winter for Brattle. Abel Piper, in the Regiment of Col. Josiah Whitney, and in the Spring of 1778 he was in the service of an alarm at Rhode Island for three or four days in the company of Capt. Jonathan Houghton and in the summer of 1778 he engaged and rendered six months service at Rhode Island in the company of Capt. Belknap, and in the year following he was on an alarm towards North River in the state of New York and rendered near one week's service in the company of Capt. Jonathan Houghton aforesaid, and in the year 1780 he rendered three months service at Rhode Island in the company of Capt. David Moore, and it is his belief that all the services which he rendered would amount to thirteen months or more. He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the pension which he now receives and the increase thereto which he here in claims, and declares that his name

is not on the pension roll of any agency, except that of the agency of the State of Massachusetts and further he saith not.
Jonas Houghton
Sworn to and subscribed by the aforesaid Jonas Houghton the day and year first written -
Before me
Joseph Sawyer Justice of Peace
Worcester ss. Boston May 28. 1845 I certify that I have known the above named Jonas Houghton for fifty years, and can say that he has always sustained a good character and is at this time of sound mind
Joseph Sawyer J. of Peace

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Boston June 2 1845.
I hereby Certify, That at the date of the annexed attestation Joseph Sanger was a Justice of the Peace for the County of Worcester,
in the said Commonwealth, duly constituted and commissioned; and that to his acts and attestations, as such, full faith and credit are and ought to be given, in and out of Court.
In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written.
John G. Packer, Secretary of the Commonwealth.

Affidavit of N. 2 John Barnard in the case of Jonas Houghton

I John Barnard of Lima, in the County of Livingston, & State of New York, do hereby testify and say that I the said John was in the service of the Massachusetts Militia, at Dorchester-Point, in said Commonwealth, in the year One seven hundred Thousand, and Seventy six or Seventy seven, in the Revolutionary War, so called. — And that Jonas Houghton then of Bolton, in the County of Worcester & Commonwealth of Massachusetts, was in the same actual service with me, the said John for the space of Three Months — that during said term of time, the said Houghton enlisted, and performed faithful service — And that I the said John and said Houghton were under the Command of Captain Sawyer, of Sterling, in said Worcester County.
Dated at Lima aforesaid the 14 th day of Aug. A.D. 1832.
John Barnard
State of New York Livingston County ss.
Personally appeared before me, one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas, in and for the County of Livingston, aforesaid, the above named John Barnard, and after being carefully examined & duly cautioned to testify the whole truth and nothing but the truth, made oath that the above deposition by him subscribed is true.
Matthew Warner one of the Judges of Common Pleas in and for Livingston County

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THE SPACE BELOW IS FOR THE ADDRESS ONLY.
Department of Interior, Pension Bureau, Washington, D.C.

1. Perhaps I should have stated in my inquiry that Jonas Houghton was from Bolton or Lancaster, Mass., & is my gr. grandfather on my mother's side as is also Reuben McAlister who, I think came from Worcester, but I think lived in Windsor, Vt., at the time he applied for a pension.
Edna Isabella Greenwood Springfield, Vermont
July 2-1909

Record Division.
Department of the Interior,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS,
March 3, 1908
Searched by S. D. Lamparter
Original No. _____
Certificate No. _____
Claimant, _____
Soldier, Jonas Houghton
Service, Mass.
Rev. War
from Bolton, Mass.
Remarks: No claim as above except. Wid. #15683 Jwd #29906 from Bolton, Mass.
Chief of Division.

F. A. HAMMOND.
Plaza HOTEL
LOCATED AT THE MAIN ENTRANCE TO CENTRAL PARK. 5 TH AVENUE 58 TH & 59 TH STREETS. ABSOLUTELY FIRE PROOF. American & European Plans.
New York Feb. 18 1892
Commissioner of Pensions Washington D. C.
H. R.
Dear Sir:-
Please send me a copy of the Pension papers of Capt. or Major Jonas Houghton of Bolton, Mass. - in the Revolutionary war. also of John Reed of Weymouth, Mass. - I need them for genealogical purposes. If there is any charge will gladly pay it.
Yours truly

hear from you soon, Very Truly Yours, Virginia Doughton Hall,
Address
Care, my husband, Henry Hall, Business Manager New York Tribune New York.
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HENRY HALL 52 BROADWAY TELEPHONE 2188 BROAD NEW YORK
Feb. 20. 1907.
The Secretary of War, Washington, D.C.
Sir:
In working out the genealogy of my wife, I need to get whatever there is on record, concerning Jonas Houghton, of Bolton or Lancaster, Mass., who was said to have been a Major in the American Revolution. If he was pensioned for services in that war, may I have a transcript of his record? Will pay whatever is necessary.
Yours respectfully, Henry Hall.
(Long former Pres. Mgr. N.Y. Tribune)

ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE
FEB 24 1344546 1908
WAR DEPARTMENT
1344546
WAR DEPARTMENT,
THE ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE,
WASHINGTON, February 25, 1908.
Respectfully returned to
Mr. Henry Hall, 52 Broadway, New York, N.Y.
New York City. Feb. 20, 1907. (8)
Jonas Houghton Major - Mass. Rev. War.
Henry Hall, Desires a transcript of the record of above named, if he was pensioned for service.
The name Jonas Houghton has not been found on the rolls, on file in this Department, of any organization of Massachusetts or Continental troops in service in the war of the Revolution. It is suggested as a possibility that the desired information can be obtained from the Secretary of State, of Massachusetts, or from the Commissioner of Pension, Washington, D.C.
J. P. Williams The Adjutant General

HENRY HALL 52 BROADWAY TELEPHONE 2188 BROAD NEW YORK
Feb. 20. 1907.
The Secretary of War, Washington, D.C.
Sir:
In working out the genealogy of my wife, I need to get whatever there is on record, concerning Jonas Houghton, of Bolton or Lancaster, Mass., who was said to have been a Major in the American Revolution. If he was pensioned for services in that war, may I have a transcript of his record? Will pay whatever is necessary.
Yours respectfully, Henry Hall.
(Longfellow Bds. Mgr. N.Y. Tribune)

New York. 52 Broadway. Feb. 27. 1908
The Commission of Pensions.
Sir:
Can you give me the information, called for within? If this manner of forwarding the correspondence is unconventional, I respectfully beg pardon.
Very respectfully Henry Hall
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This Bureau can furnish the military record of only such Revolutionary soldiers as were pensioned or whose widows were pensioned for their services.
Such of the original muster and pay rolls of the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812 as are now in the possession of the Government are on file in the Record and Pension Office, War Department. Original rolls and other records pertaining to service in the Revolutionary War may also be found on file in the archives of many of the original States.
L. W. B. I. 29906 I. 33544.
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS,
WASHINGTON, D. C.,
O. W. & N. DIV.
REVOLUTIONARY.
March 23, 1897.
Madam:-
Replying to your request for information concerning the military records of Jonas Houghton and John Reed, soldiers of the Revolutionary war, you are advised that Jonas Houghton made an application for pension on August 14, 1832, at which time he was 72 years of age and residing at Bolton, Mass., and his pension was allowed for eleven months and twenty-nine days' actual service as a private in the Mass. troops, Revolutionary war; a part of the time he served under Capt. Sawyer and Col. Whitney. He enlisted at Sterling, Mass.
John Reed made an application for pension on April 6, 1813, at which time he was 60 years of age and residing at Acton, Mass., and his pension was allowed for one year's actual service as a private in the Mass. troops, Revolutionary war; a part of the time he served under Capt. Morse and Col. Prescott. He enlisted at Hollis, Mass.
Very respectfully,
Commissioner.
Mrs. Henry Hall, c/o Henry Hall, Business Manager, N. Y. Tribune, New York City.