Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 4641, Jonathan Herrington, R.I.

SERVICE
R. I.
NUMBER
R. 4641
Herrington, Jonathan Patience
CONTENTS

Notification sent to Stephen Phelps Esq. 29 Sep. 1820.
New Certificate issue May 5. 1827. and sent to the Pensioner at Monroe Ashtabula Co. at Kedgogsville P.O. Ohio
Susp d see letters to W. B. Welles 12 May 1827 - and to Pension Agent also to L. Moffitt 3 d & 29 Aug. 1827. Suspension removed May 13. 1828. See letter to Hon. D. Marvin H. R. and Pension Agent. (Dead.) See letter May 25. 1847 to
P.A. Letter to W m H. Allen Dist. Atty. June 1. 1847.
To same June 10 th 1847 Let to N. L. Chaffe, July 1. 48 " " Hon. J. R. Coddington Mar 28 48 " " to G. M. Clinton, June 15, 1848.
New York! 16.003
Jonathan Herrington, of Ontario Co. in the state of N. York, who was a private in the regiment commanded, Colonel Olney, of the Rhode Island line, for the term of nine months.
scribed on the Roll of New-York, at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 14. of January, 1820.
Certificate of Pension issued the 28. of April, 1820 and sent to Stephen Phelps, Judge, Canandaigua, N.Y.
  Arrears to 4th of March, 1820.  $: 13.67.    Semi-ann. all'ce ending 4. Sept r  48 "    Amo. 22 } 1820. }  $: 61.67.    31. }  
{ Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818. }
Continued. 4. Sep 1820

base of Jonathan Harrington
Olney
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16803
28 Apr '20
Sep 20

STATE OF NEW-YORK,
ONTARIO COUNTY, ss.
On this twaty first day of August 1820 personally appeared in open Court, (being a Court of Common Pleas in and for said county, and constituted a Court of Record by proceeding according to the course of the Common Law, with a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount, and keeping a record of its proceedings, and recognized as such Court by the laws and judicial decisions of said State,) Jonathan Harrington aged fifty eight years, resident of the town of Harrington 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:
under Captain Allen in Col General Olneys Regiment in the Rhode Island troops Commencing in March in 1780 and continued to serve as a private in the above named Regiment Eleven months and was regularly discharged in February 1782
and that he made application for a Pension on the fourteenth day of January 1820 and that he received a Pension Certificate, No. 16,803 And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, 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 hereto annexed, and by me subscribed, viz.
  one tub 1.00 two pips 1.50 one basin 1.00 one platter .50 4.00   6 knives & forks .75 two pails .75 one axe $1 2.50   4 chairs 1.50 one frying pan .50 2.00   1 kettle $1. one skillet .25 1.25   6 tea cups & saucers .25 one tea pot .25 .50   1 adze .50 three plates .37 .87   1 table 1.00 twelve chickens .75 1.75   three geese .75 shoe hammer & pincers .75 1.50   $14.37 
Jonathan Harrington
And I do further swear and declare that I am by occupation a farmer and that by means of a rupture am unable to do but very little labour and that my family consists of my wife aged forty eight years and by means of a paralytic affection is unable to work my daughter Bathiah aged nine years my son Dexter aged seven years and my son Daniel aged five years and that I am not able to support myself without the aid of public or private charity Jonathan Harrington

Sworn and declared to this 21 st day of August 1820 in open Court before me W m Royen a Judge of Ontario Court Pleas
ONTARIO COUNTY, ss.
I, John Van Doren Clerk of said county, do hereby certify, that the foregoing Oath, and the Schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the Record of the said Court; and I farther 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 fourteen dollars and thirty seven cents. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this twenty second day of August A. D. 1820.
J Van Doren Clerk of the Court aforesaid, in and for said County.

5699 Jonathan Norrington
Declaration Ontario County, N.Y. Jan'y 14, 1820
Col. Olney's regt. R. Island, 9 months.
found on the rolls.
Admitted.
Stephen Phelps, judge Canandaigua, N.Y. Recd. 28. Jan'y, 1820.

State of New York Ontario County ss On the fourteenth day of January 1820 before me the Subscriber a Judge of Ontario Common Pleas personally appeared Jonathan Harrington aged fifty six years Resident in the Town of Farmington in said County who being by me first duly sworn according to Law doth on his Oath make the following declarations in Order to Obtain the Pension 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 he the said Jonathan Harrington entered in the Month of March 1781 in the Town of Gloucester in the State of Rhode Island for the Term of Nine Months and that he was mustered at West Point in the State of New York in the Company commanded by Captain Allen being the 2 d Company of the Regiment commanded by Colonel Olney of the Rhode Island Line on the Continental Establishment and that he continued to serve in said Corps until the month of February 1782 being about two months over the Term of his enlistment) when he received an honorable discharge from Service at Philadelphia in the State of Pennsylvania - and that he was at the siege of taking Cornwall when he received a slight wound and that he is in Redneed circumstances & stands in need of the Assistance of his Country for Support & that having lost his disch- arge he has no other Evidence Now in his power of his said Services - Subscribed to & declared the foregoing before me this 14 th day of January 1820 Jonathan Harrington Mr Stephen Phelps Judge of Ont. Com. Pleas

Ontario County ss
I Stephen Phelps Judge etc as aforesaid do certify that it appears to my Satisfaction that the said Jonathan Harrington did serve in the Revolutionary war as stated in the preceding declaration against the common enemies for the term of Nine Months or more on the continental establishment and I now find out the fact that he is in reduced circumstances and stands in need of the assistance of his country for support and I 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 aforesaid act of Congress
Canandaigua } January 14 th 1820 }
Stephen Phelps Judge of Ont. Common Pleas
State of New York Ontario County ss Clerks Office
In Testimony that Stephen Phelps whose name is subscribed to the foregoing Declaration was on the day of the date thereof a Judge of Ontario Common Pleas and that the same is his signature
I hereunto subscribe my name and affix the County Seal at Canandaigua this 15 th day of January 1820
John Van Fossan Clerk

N 717 Patience Harrington wid of Jonathan Who act 17 June '44
H641

State of Ohio Ashtabula County } ss
On this 12 th day of May, AD 1848 personally appeared before me Synder Jones one of the Associate Judges for said County of Ashtabula Patience Werrington a resident of the Township of Denmark in said County of Ashtabula and State of Ohio aged Eighty four Years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the Act of Congress passed on the 2 d day of February AD 1848 granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War. That she is the widow of Jonathan Werrington who was a private soldier in the Revolutionary War and who died in the aforesaid Township of Denmark in said County of Ashtabula on the 4 th day of May AD 1847 and that the said Jonathan Werrington for the last fifteen years or more prior to his death drew a pension from the Government of the United States as a Revolutionary Soldier. That the said Patience Werrington says the original Pension Certificate issued from the Pension Office at Washington at the City of Washington to said Jonathan Werrington was in the month of June or July AD 1847 deposited with the Pension Agent at Buffalo New York for the purpose of drawing the balance of Pensions due the said Jonathan Werrington from the 4 th

of March of that year up to the time of his death and as she is therefore not in the possession of said Original Pension Certificate she cannot at this time state the date of the same neither can she now state name a number of the Regiments or Corps in which said Jonathan Herrington served in said Revolutionary War. That the amount of Pension drawn during the time aforesaid by the said Jonathan Herrington was Ninety Six Dollars a year and that said Jonathan Herrington resided at the time said Certificate was granted to him at Canandaigua in the State of New York and that he afterwards removed to said County of Ashtabula where he died. That said Jonathan always drew his pension at the City of Buffalo New York.
That the said Patience Herrington further states that she is still the  her widow Patience  Herrington marks
Sworn to and Subscribed before me on the day and year above written
Sydney Jones Appointed Judge for Ashtabula County Ohio

Record Division Rev. and 1812 Wars Section AWF/eel Am
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
June 25, 1929
Mrs. Fred J. McNair 422 W 7th Street Leadville, Colorado
Madam:
I advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, R.4641 , it appears that Jonathan Herrington enlisted at Gloucester, Rhode Island, in March, 1781, and served to February, 1782, as a private in Captain Allen's Company, Colonel Jeremiah Olney's Rhode Island Regiment and was slightly wounded at the siege of Yorktown.
He was allowed pension on his application executed January 14, 1820, at which time he was living at Farmington, Ontario County, New York, aged fifty-six years.
He died May 4, 1847, in Denmark Township, Ashtabula County, Ohio.
The soldier married August 11, 1789, in Schenectady, New York, Patience, her maiden name is not stated.
In 1848, she was living at Denmark Township, Ohio, aged eighty-four years.

Their children were:
Sally born August 13, 1790. Pardon " February 1, 1792. Alexander " April 8, 1795. Jessee " May 13, 1797. Agnes " June 2, 1800. Robert " September 8, 1803. Clott W. " April 22, 1805. Bethiah " February 24, 1807. Dexter " May 3, 1810. Daniel " February 22, 1812.
Their daughter, Sally, married in 1814, at Farmington, New York, Jonathan Davis. She was living in 1849, in Pierpont Township, Ashtabula County, Ohio.
Respectfully,
EARL D.CHURCH Commissioner.

Rev see
MS
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D.C.
Dear Sir
Will you kindly give me your records on Jonathan Harrington Herrington ; a pensioner Hesington of the Revolutionary War, whose pension was usually mailed to Buffalo but later transferred to Kelloggsville O.
Any data you can give will be most thankfully received
Very truly
Debt S Harrington 801 Lakewood Ave Youngstown O.
11/27/16

Leadville, Colo., Feb 10 th 1929
Hon. Winfield Scott Comm of Pensions Washington D.C.
Dear Sir,
R.H.G.H.
Would you please send me a copy of Jonathan Herrington's pension He was born 1764, served in Captain Allen's Col. Riley's Regt. in 1781-1782 from Rhode Island, afterwards went to New York.
Yours Very Sincerely, Mrs Fred J. McNair Leadville
422 N. 7 st.
Colorado

N 717
Patience Harrington
Q
Little N.H. Chaffey 9 th Dec. 1849.
Same Aug 7 1855.
ad 17 Mar 44

The state of Ohio Ashtabula County ss.
On this 25 th day of July A.D. 1849 personally appeared before me an associate judge of the Court of Common Pleas within and for said County of Ashtabula Patience Herrington (widow of Jonathan Herrington deceased ) who is a resident of the Township of Seneca in said County of Ashtabula aged Eighty five years who being duly sworn by me according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the act of Congress passed July 29 th A.D. 1848. That said Jonathan Herrington was a private soldier in the Revolutionary War and for the last fifteen years of his life drew a Pension as such private soldier in the Revolutionary War from the Government of the United States. The said Patience Herrington further says that the original Pension Certificate issued from the Pension office at Washington City to said Jonathan Herrington. War in the months of June or July 1847 deposited with the Pension agent at Buffalo New York for the purpose of drawing the balance of Pension authorized Jonathan Herrington from

the 4 th day of March A D 1847 up to the time of his decease on the 4 th day of May in the year last aforesaid and that as she is not now in the posses- sion of said Original Pension Certificate she cannot therefore at this time state the date of the same nor the name or number of the Regiment or Corps in the Army of the United States in which the said Jonathan Harrington served in the Revolutionary War nor give any further particulars as to such service. That the said Jonathan Harrington died in the aforesaid Township of Denmark Ashland County Ohio on the 4 th day of May A D 1847 and the amount of Pension as drawn by him for a number of years prior to his death as aforesaid was ninety six Dollars per year and that she believes said Jonathan at the time of his death Pension being granted to him was residing in the County of Ontario in the State of New York and that his said Pension was drawn at Buffalo. That said said Jonathan Harrington some years since removed to Ashland County Ohio where he died at the time above mentioned She further declares that she was married to the said Jonathan

Herrington on the eleventh day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty nine (1889) I hereby certify in the State of New York and that the said Jonathan Herrington her husband died on the 4th day of May A.D. 1887. That she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service but that said marriage took place previous to the second day of January Eighteen hundred and 89 at the time above stated. She further swears that she is now a widow and that she has never before made any application for a pension except such as is herewith enclosed
Her Patience H. Herrington marks
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written Synas Jones Associate Judge
The State of Ohio } Ashtabula County } ss. I Abner Kellogg Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the County and State aforesaid. do hereby certify that Synas Jones is an Associate Judge in and for said County. duly commissioned and qualified: that his commission was dated on the 15th day of December. A.D. 1845 and
will expire on the 1st day of April A.D. 1853. and that his signature above written is genuine. Given under my hand and the seal of said Court & County, this 25th day of July A.D. 1845 Abner Kellogg Clerk

War Department
Pension Office,
May 13. 1828
Sir,
I have examined the affidavits which you left with me in the case of Jonathan Herrington. Being satisfied, from the statements exhibited, that the charge of perjury could not be easily substantiated, the suspension of his pension has been removed; and the Agent for paying pensions at New York has accordingly been directed to pay him on the production of the proper vouchers. His old pension certificate and notification of continuance are herewith returned.
I have the honor to be,
Very respectfully,
Your Obdt. Servt.
J. L. Edwards
Hon. D. Marvin, House of Representatives.

Mr. Edwards
Dear Sir
The inclosed papers have been placed in my hands by a constituent of mine Mr. Field, this evening - He wishes to leave the city tomorrow in the course of the day, and is very desirous in the mean time you should examine the within papers and give him a Certificate of Bld Barrington's restoration before he goes, and he will call on you tomorrow - If you can look into the case this early I shall esteem it a particular favor - Mr. Field informs me the new Certificate which was obtained, was returned to the War Department by a Mr. Moffatt of Ohio - Yours obed t Serv t - Dudley Mann
Wash n May 12 - 1860

The State of Ohio Ashtabula County } p 5
Before me Soah Payne a justice of the peace within and for said County of Ashtabula personally appeared Sally Davis now residing in the Township of Pierpont in said County who being first duly sworn by me according to Law deposes and says that she is the oldest child of Patience Harrington now residing in the Township of Denmark in said County of Ashtabula widow of Jonathan Harrington late of the said Township of Denmark. The said Sally Davis also says that she is the oldest daughter of the said Jonathan Harrington & that the said Jonathan Harrington her father died in said Township of Denmark on the 4 th day of May A D 1847. That the said Jonathan and Patience Harrington had two children of whom the deponent (the said Sally) was the oldest and was born on the 18 th day of August A D 1840 in Greenbush near Albany in the state of New York. That Patience Harrington the next oldest child of said Jonathan and Patience Harrington was born on the first day of February A D 1842. That Alexander Harrington the next or third child of

I said Jonathan and Patience was born on the 8th day of April AD 1795 that daughter Herrington the next or fourth child was born on the first day of May AD 1797. That Agnes Herrington the fifth child of said Jonathan and Patience was born on the second day of June AD 1800. That Robert Herrington the sixth child of said Jonathan & Patience was born on the 8th day of September AD 1803. That Jonathan Mr Herrington the seventh  eighth child of said Jonathan and Patience was born on the 28th April AD 1805 and Elizabeth Herrington the eighth  ninth child of said Jonathan and Patience Herrington was born on the 24th day of February AD 1807 and Deborah Herrington the ninth  tenth and youngest child of said Jonathan Herrington was born on the 3rd day of May AD 1810. That Daniel Herrington the tenth and youngest was born 22 July AD 1812 That said Deborah says she is now fifty eight years old which will be she has until the 18th day of August next will be fifty nine years old. That I lived at home with my Father and Mother that said Jonathan and Patience Herrington until I was twenty four years old when I was married to Jonathan Davis at Farmington Ontario County New York at which place my Father & Mother lived at that time. That said Jonathan & Patience my said Father & Mother removed from Ontario County NY to to this Ashtabula County Ohio about nineteen years since and I removed to this County about

two years since. Since my remembrance I have never lived in any other County but that in which my said Father & Mother was at the same time residing over Yates  Sturges and that was after my father & mother removed from Ontario to this County and before I removed here - Since my remembrance my Father & Mother always lived together as husband and wife up to the time of his death on the 4 th day of May AD 1847 and always treated each other as husband and wife and I never heard nor supposed but that they were lawfully married. I often heard my Father and Mother say that they were married in the year 1789 at Schenectady in the State of New York and I think in the month of August of that year. I have often heard my Father and his brother Abram Werrington (who is now dead) talk about their wedding day on the day on which my Father & Mother were married and heard both of them & my uncle Abram say that said Abram was present at the marriage of my Father and Mother. My Father for a number of years before his death drew a Pension from the United States as a Revolutionary Soldier and after he removed to this County he drew his Pension I believe at Buffalo New York but previous to his removal to this County & while he lived in Ontario County New York
1849 1830

he drew his Journal at Canandaigua in Ontario County or at least I know he used to go there to get his money) and further this deponent saith not
Sally Davis
Sworn to and Subscribed before me this 28 day June A.D. 1849
Noah Payn Justice of the Peace
The State of Ohio Ashtabula County
I Abner Kellogg Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Ashtabula and State of Ohio do hereby certify that Noah Payn before whom the foregoing deposition was taken and who has subscribed his name thereto in his own proper hand mastering was at the time of giving said deposition and still is a justice of the Peace in and for said county and State duly commissioned and qualified agreeably to the laws of said State, and that his official acts as such are and ought to be entitled to full faith and credit throughout the United States & elsewhere. In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of our said Court this 25 day of July A.D. 1849 Abner Kellogg Clerk

Jefferson Ashtabula Co. O June 14 1848
Dear J. S. Edwards
Friend Sir
An old man by the name of Jonathan Herrington lived in this County for a number of years & was a Revolutionary soldier and drew from the Genl Government a Pension. He died on the 4 th of May 1847 leaving Patience Herrington his widow. Soon after the death of old Mr Herrington his pension Certificate issued from your office was forwarded to Buffalo N.Y. for the purpose of drawing the pension in arrears
The old Lady thinks she is entitled to a pension & for the purpose of applying for it she wants a copy of the original pension Certificate which is supposed on Record in your office
By your forwarding to me a copy of Jonathan Herrington's Pension Certificate you will confer a favor upon his widow & oblige
Yours Obh Servt H. L. Chaplin

CHAFFEE & WOODBURY,
Attorneys at Law,
JEFFERSON,
Ashtabula Co., Ohio.
N. L. CHAFFEE.
E. B. WOODBURY.
June 22 o 1855
Dear Comr of Pensions Sir Sir
Please inform me if there is any thing further necessary to complete the proof so as to obtain the Pension for Patience Harrington of Denmark in this County the widow of a Revolutionary Soldier. This Application has been a very time consuming & I should like to hear from it. Please let me know your reply to this as to how this matter stands & oblige
Yours Respectfully
N. L. Chaffee

N. L. Chaffer Esq
9 th Nov 1849
2

Pension Office
Novm 9 th 1844
Sir
The papers transmitted by you in support of the claim to a pension under the act of June 44, in the case of Patience Harrington widow of Jonathan Harrington have been examined and filed
As there has been some attempts at fraud in regard to the death of Jonathan Harrington, very satisfactory proof as to the time it occurred will be required. The Affidavit of the Minister or Minister who officiated at his funeral or the Physician who attended him in his last illness should be procured. The date of the marriage should be established by record or documentary evidence, if such can be obtained. It must be made to appear that no such evidence can be procured before the testimony of witnesses can be received. The evidence now furnished upon this point is not satisfactory.
N. L. Chaffee Esq Jefferson Atholston Co a

Safford Ashtabula Co
July 27 1849
Wm L. Edwards Comm of Pensions
Dear Sir
Enclosed I send you at the request of old Mrs Patience Herrington an application for a widows pension for her She is the reidow of old Mr Jonathan Herrington who died in this County and was an old Revolutionary Soldier and for a long time before his death was a Pensioner as such from the General government
This application is made under the Act of Congress of 20 August 1848
The proof of Marriage is the deposition of Sally Davis the oldest child of the said Jonathan Herrington & Patience Herrington who was born on the 18th day of August 1790. & who swears that her father & mother lived and Jonathan & Patience from the time of her earliest recollection down to the 4th day of May 1847

always lived together as husband & wife & at all times treated each other as such. That the said Sally is the oldest of ten Children of the said Jonathan & Patience. This to be shown is not position evidence of the marriage. But it is unquestionably such evidence, from which that a Court of Law in any of the United States would presume a marriage and under the act of Congress approved May 7 1846 of the First Session of the 29th Congress page 10 section 2 will be sufficient to establish the marriage. If I am right in this then Mrs Kerrington is entitled by the rules of your Department to a Pension. The fact that her husband Jonathan Kerrington was a Revolutionary Pensioner is established by evidence in your Department. Mrs Kerrington is quite aged has not now in her possession the original Pension certificate granted to her husband as that was surrendered up to the Pension agent to obtain the amount due her husband from the A. G.

March 1847 up to the time of his decease on the 24th day 1847 & therefore I hope you will exert & over- -look any extra trouble you may be put to in this case to examine the proper papers & Records in the Department to ascertain the fact that Jonathan Harrington was a Revolutionary Pensioner.
I wish you would write me so soon as convenient within Mrs Harrington's pension is allowed & if not the same & c and oblige
Yours Friend & J. H. Smith J. L. Chaffed
P.S. I send you also an application of Mrs H's which was drawn under the act of Congress of 2 nd Feb 1848 but never before forwarded to your department. I now forward it that if there be any difference in the rules of evidence applicable to the two different acts of Congress that that one may be used as her application which will be the

most advantageous for her. I also send some papers which were a long time since issued from Genl Department showing that Jonathan Harrington was in fact a Revolutionary Pensioner
Yours sincerely M. C.
L. L. Edward Com. 9 Pennus
I have been thinking about you and your dear children and how much I should like to see you all again after so long a time. I hope to hear from you soon and to hear that you are all well and happy. I am truly your loving friend and sister, Mary.

Washington City
Feb. 28. 1848
Sir
Enclosed is a letter from N. L. Cheyffer which I wish Mr. Edwards to examine and if the request comes within the rules of his office I wish he would furnish the information requested.
Very respectfully
D. W. Meigs
J. L. Edwards Esq. and Purvis

Pension Office. July 12, 1853.
Sir;
It does not appear that any application has been made by Patience Harrington of Ohio, or by any one in her right for a pension for the services of her husband.
Some further information must be given. When did she apply? who was her husband? under what act did she ask to be pensioned? Was the receipt of her application been acknowledged by this office? If so, when and to whom?
I am, respectfully, Your Obed Servt. N. C. Hale
For Commissioner.
Dr. L. Chaffee, Esq. Jefferson, Ashtabula Co., Ohio.

Jefferson Athlete 60 Ohio
July 26 1855
Dear Sir
Yours as citizen is at hand Since the application of Mrs Patience Herrington was drawn up by me and forwarded to your Department by me my office has been destroyed by fire with all my papers therefore I cannot now refer to copies of said Application & Affidavits & proofs retained by me the originals of which were by me forwarded to your Department at the time
But this much I distinctly recall. I drew up the Application for Patience Herrington as widow of Jonathan Herrington a

Revolutionary soldiers. Old Mr Harrington lived & died in Denmark & his Court here had for quite a number of years pensions to his death across his pension at Buffalo N.Y. or it was then paid to him Old Mrs Harrington at the time of her application lived in Denmark when she lived at the death of her husband. I also took proof showing the marriage of Patience Harrington which I also forwarded to Genl Department the receipt & certificate was duly acknowledged by the Department since which time I have heard nothing from it. I now wish you would slam it into it & again write me & oblige Yours &c N. Schaeffer

Pension Office
August 7 1853
Sir
No additional evidence has been received filed in support of the case of Patience Har- rington of Ohio since Nov r 9 1849, when a letter was written to you of which the 1844 enclosed is a copy
N. L. Chaffee Esq
Jefferson Ashtabula Co. Ohio

Kelloggsville O. June July 23 rd
Tenison office August 2 nd
The Secretary of War Washington City D. C.

Monroe (Ashtabula Co) July 25 th 1827
Sir,
After Mr S. Harrington's receipt of his duplicate certificate he executed a power of attorney to me receive his pension which was due on the 4 th of March last but on presenting the papers learned that he had been guilty of a gross fraud & corrupt perjury in obtaining his duplicate. I advanced him about $30 not suspecting him capable of so base an act estimating his character in some measure by that of his son who had resided in this town for more than a year & had the reputation of an honest industrious citizen. I called on the Cashier of the Utica Branch Bank at Canandaigua in whose possession I found his original certificate & who told he had advanced thereon $3 & that Mr Harring ton had left it in his hands himself. It was suggested to me that the Pension agent at N.Y. that if the advance to Mr Wells was paid & our certificate returned that Mr Harrington might again receive his pension. Before my return from N.Y. Mr Harrington had received a letter from Mr Wells & thought proper to leave this place & perhaps his return is doubtful.

I have in my possession the Duplicate Certificate & wish for information how to to dispose of it Mr Wells retains the original & wished for the opportunity of returning the the Duplicate through his hands but I thought fit to retain it until I communicated with the War Department. I should be glad of some arrangement by which the advances made might be received & which are less than the semiannual payment. I am very sensible that the bounty of the Government is in many cases misapplied & that the conduct of Mr Harrington ought in justice to deprive him of participating in that bounty but from his appearance no one could have thought him capable of such a contrivance & such base fraud & I had entertained any suspicion of his honesty & fairness I would have withheld the little aid I afforded him in obtaining his Duplicate Certificate I should be glad to receive as early information on the subject as convenient Respectfully Yours Samuel Moffitt

Pension Office May 11 th 182
FREE
Hon James Barbour Secretary of War U.S. Washington City

Utica Br Bank An on va jugé May 4 th 1827
Sir
I have understood that Jonathan Harrington a pensioner of the U.S. intends to make application to the Secretary at War, for a renewal of his pension Certificate under pretence that the original has been destroyed. The original Certificate of Jonathan Harrington and notification of continuance are at this time in my hands. — Harrington after getting in debt during the last winter to all his neighbours, (he lived at Sodus Point N.Y.) about two months since absconded and has gone it is said to the State of Ohio. He is utterly unprincipled , and will not hesitate to make oath that his papers have been destroyed or to resort to any other device to obtain a duplicate of his certificate. At the request of several of his former neighbours and creditors I state that his original Certificate is in this office that he has drawn his pension through this office for several years, the Certificate having been deposited here directly after he first obtained it, and I am bound to request that a new Certificate if applied for by him may be refused.
I have the honor to be
Very Respectfully Yrs. &c. &c. &c.
Hon. J. P. Bartol Secy at War
Wm B Wells Cashr

APPLICATION FOR A NEW CERTIFICATE.
State of Ohio
County of Ashtabula
ss.
On this sixteenth day of April 182 7 , before me, the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace for the said county of Ashtabula personally appeared Jonathan Harrington who, on his oath, declares that he is the same person who formerly belonged to the company commanded by Captain Allen in the regiment commanded by Colonel Jeremiah Orne of Rhode Island in the service of the United States; that his name was placed on the pension roll of the state of New York that he received a certificate of that fact, under the signature and seal of the Secretary of War; which certificate, on or about the tenth
day of February 182 7 , at the  near the town of Garnington, County of Ontario & State of New York , by loosing his pocket book which he contained said Certificate from his pocket, that he being in pursuit of swine & running hastily thro' a piece of woodland , lost it from his pocket in said pursuit as he supposes, for he missed it on his return home upon the same day Jonathan Harrington Sworn and subscribed to, before me, the day and year aforesaid. Wm. Origen Justice Peace
NOTES.—The last four blanks are left for the applicant to set forth the time, place, and manner of the loss or destruction of the original certificate.
The oath to be taken before a duly qualified magistrate, whose official character and signature must be properly authenticated.
□ If the pensioner has never received a formal certificate, but has drawn his pension on a mere notification, as was the case in a few instances many years ago, he should leave out the above words in italics, and insert, in lieu thereof, "but has never received a formal certificate and now wishes to obtain one."
The pensioner's oath must be supported by the evidence of another person as to identity. The person must swear that he well knows him to be the same person described in the above affidavit. The magistrate must certify that the deponent is a person of veracity. This oath must also be authenticated by the certificate of the proper officer, under his seal of office, setting forth that the officer before whom the affidavit may be made is a Justice of the Peace, Judge, or Notary Public, as the case may be.
When a person acting as an Agent or Attorney for a Pensioner, loses the certificate, the affidavit of that person is also required, which must be authenticated as above.
I Jesse Harrington of lawful age do testify & say that I am personally acquainted with the above named Jonathan Harrington

I know him to be the identical person described in the above affidavit that I have been acquainted with him for more than ten years & have seen him in possession of a pension certificate as before stated
J. C. L. H. 11/2/27 to JC
State of Ohio } Ashtabula County ss }
On the 16th day of April A D 1827
Personally appeared the above named Jesse Harrington before me the subscriber a Justice of the Peace for the said County of Ashtabula & made oath that the above affidavit by him subscribed is true
Wm. D. L. H. 11/2/27 Justice Peace
State of Ohio } Ashtabula County ss }
April 16th 1827
I hereby certify that Jonathan Harrington who has sworn to & subscribed the within affidavit is a person of veracity
Wm. D. L. H. 11/2/27 Justice Peace

The State of Ohio Ashtabula County
I Samuel Hendry Clerk of the court of Common Pleas in and for said County do hereby certify that William Eusign whose name is subscribed to this instrument was at the time of the execution thereof and now is a Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Ashtabula aforesaid duly commissioned and sworn agreeably to law and also that I am well acquainted with the hand writing and signature of the said William Eusign and that I verily believe the hand writing and signature of the said William Eusign subscribed to the foregoing instrument to be his own proper hand writing and signature. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of our said court to be affixed at Jefferson in said County this 17 th day of April Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and twenty seven.
Sam t . Hendry Clerk

Kelso, with O. D. April 25
Free Office on Washington City D. C.
Rec d May 5. 1827
Department Pension Office Washington City D. C.

1827 Monroe (Ashtabula Co) April 16 th
Sir,
Yours of April 2 d is received & I have filled the blank agreeably to your direction to have a new certificate issued. - I have thought best to omit the transfer until I have drawn the sum due March 4 th as I have no opportunity to send to Pittsburgh & can easily send to N. York
Respectfully yours Jonathan Harington

Monroe August 20th 1827
Sir,
A communication from the War Department was duly received in which I am requested to send to the Pension Office the Duplicate Certificate of Jonathan Harrington which I enclose accordingly & hope the case & manner of his obtaining it may be investigated
Respectfully Yours
S. Moffitt

War Department,
PENSION OFFICE,
September 28 th
1820.
15883
SIR,
You are hereby informed that the schedule of your property has been examined; and the Secretary of War has directed your name to be continued on the Pension Roll.
I am, respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
J. G. Edwards
To Mr.
Jonathan Herrington Ontario County New York

Ontario County Town of Manchester
Personally appeared before me Peter Mitchell Esq. one of the Justices of the peace in & for the County of Ontario Joseph Wells Esq. & being by me duly sworn doth depose & say that he is well acquainted with Jonathan Harrington a soldier of the revolution & has known him for about twenty five years that said Harrington received a Pension certificate & drew a pension until within about one year past when the said deponent understood that said Harrington in consequence of some misconduct of his in relation to his Pension certificate was deprived of receiving his pension -
And this deponent further deposes & says that for several years past the said Harrington has been in the habit of frequently getting intoxicated, that this deponent is now a tavern keeper & has been requested by the authorities of the town not to let the said Harrington have any spirituous liquor -
And further that said Harrington is poor & has no property excepting his wearing apparel & one cow - & in the opinion of this deponent the said Harrington stands in need of his pension for support -
Joseph Wells
Ontario County ss.
Sworn & subscribed to before me this 18 th day of April 1828 - Peter Mitchell J.P.

Ontario County } Town of Manchester } ss
Personally appeared before me Peter Mitchell Esq. one of the Justices of the peace in & for the said County Jonathan Davis Johnson Nicholson & B.M. Harrington & being by me duly sworn doth depose & say that they are personally acquainted with Jonathan Harrington a soldier of the revolution, that he is accustomed to habits of intemperance, is very poor & in meager circumstances - And that said deponents Davis & Harrington further depose & say that when said Jonathan Harrington is intoxicated, he is easily persuaded to do that which will be against his interest. And the said deponent B.M. Harrington further depose & say that he was informed by several persons that when Jonathan Harrington obtained his last certificate they knew him to be intoxicated - & which was the common reports in the neighbourhood where the proceedings for a new certificate was then had.
Witness Peter Mitchell
Jonathan Davis, Johnson Nicholson & B.M. Harrington marks
Ontario County } Town of Manchester } ss.
Personally appeared before me Peter Mitchell Esq. one of the Justices of the Peace in & for said County Jonathan Harrington to me well known & being by me duly sworn doth depose & say that he was a soldier in the war of the revolution

that after he received a Pension certificate he drew his pensions for several years that said certificate was lastly deposited with W m B. Wells Cashier of the Union B. Bank at Canandaigua Ontario County, that the last of February 1827 the said deponent further says he then went to the State of Ohio to the town of Monroe Ashtabula County where his son Dardus Harrington resided - that some time in the month of April following proceedings were had for a new certificate which was obtain- ed - that this deponent further deposes & says that at the time proceedings were had to obtain the certificate he was intoxicated & has no distinct recollections as to the particulars relating to the same. That he firmly believes he was persuaded to do what he did & being intoxicated gave his sanction to that which he most sincerely regrets. And this deponent further says that he is poor has a family to support & is not able to do hard labour by reason of a break & his advanced age - And that he prays to be again reinstated
Jonathan Harrington
Ontario County ss
Personally appeared before me Jonathan Davis John- son & Richard G.W. Harrington & Jonathan Harrington & being by me duly sworn solemnly made oath to the facts & statements as set forth in the above affidavits by them subscribed, & subscribed there- names thereto before me - this 18 th day of April 1828 - Peter Mitchell Justice of the Peace

I am well acquainted with Peter Mitchell within named, and with his hand writing - He is a Justice of the Peace of Ontario County, N.Y. and a highly respectable man. His name as subscribed to the within certificates, is his hand writing - I am also acquainted with Joseph Wells within named - He is a respectable citizen, and has been an acting Magistrate of the same County a great portion of the time for the last ten years - His statement is entitled to the fullest credit -
I have also known Jonathan Harrington for many years - He has always from my first knowledge of him been exceedingly poor - I knew him to be a pensioner and in the habit of receiving his money through the Ulster Branch Bank at Canajoharie - I had not before been informed of his having been suspended, and hope and trust on examining the within papers no objection will be found to continuing him to his pay -
Washington May 12 - 1848
Dudley Marvin of the Co. R. from Ontario Cy. N.Y.
Washington & others Affidavit
18 April 1828

1908 Mch. 20. History to Miss Florence E. Ward. & 1916 Dec. 15. To Bert S. Harrington 1929 June 25 - Hist. to Mrs. B. J. McNair copy
4641
P. O. _____
Patience Harrington
Service: widow of Jonathan
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: REJECTED _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract.

Albany Pension Agency May 22 d 1847.
James L. Edwards Esquire, Commis r . of Pensions,
Sir,
I enclose a letter just received from Mr. Benj m B. Gaylord, of Jefferson (Ohio) stating certain facts in relation to Joseph Harrington's Pension under the act of 18 March 1818, and implicating David Burt of Buffalo, in a transaction similar to that of the case of George H. Payne. I have replied to Mr. Gaylord, giving him the information he requests —
I am, Sir,
Very Respectfully Your obed t Serv t
Thomas W. O'Leary
Pen Agent
The said Harrington's pension on the 16 th of March last, on Vansbury's proposition to have been executed before Robert M c Kelie, Justice of the Peace of Erie Co. N.Y. & witnessed by David Burt. The payment was made to Jas d A. Christy a Clerk in the State Bank in this City —

Bureau of Pensions,
Washington, D. C., _____, 190__
In reply to your request of _____, received _____ for a statement of the military history of Jonathan Herrington , 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. R. 4641
   DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE.   CAPTAIN. COLONEL.     Mch. 1781 to Feby. 1782 discharged at Philadelphia Pvt. Allen Jeremiah Olney R. I.  
Battles engaged in, siege of Yorktown - sustained slight wound. Residence of soldier at enlistment, ✓ Enlisted at Gloucester, R.I. Date of application for pension, Jany 14. 1820. His claim was all'd. Residence at date of application, Farmington, Ontario Co., N.Y. Age at date of application, fifty-six years.
Remarks: _____  He was born Aug. 11, 1789 at Schenectady, N.Y. Patience  his d. May 4, 1847, Denmark Twp.  his appl. May 12, 1848 res Denmark Twp, Ashtabula Co., Oh. ae 84
Very respectfully,
1848 82 1764
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Record Division.
18 C P March 20, 1908.
Miss Florence E. Ward, Iowa State Normal School, Cedar Falls, Iowa.
Madam:
In addition to the military history of Jonathan Herrington R. File 4641, you are furnished the names of his children as given in 1849 by his daughter Sally who married at Farmington, New York in 1814 Jonathan Davis. res Richard - Jap - all - C Ellis
Sally Herrington -----born August 18, 1790, ~ Pardon Herrington -----born February 1, 1792. Alexander Herrington --- born April 8, 1795. Jesse Herrington ----- born May 13, 1797. Agnes Herrington ----- born June 2, 1800. Robert Herrington ----- born September 3, 1803. Clott W. Herrington ---- born April 22, 1805. Bothiah Herrington ----- born February 24, 1807. Dexter Herrington ----- born May 3, 1810. Daniel Herrington ----- born February 22, 1812.
Very respectfully,
Commissioner.

Iowa State Normal School
CEDAR FALLS, IOWA.
Pension Dept. Washington D.C. Gentlemen
Can you give me any information regarding the records of Jonathan Herrington who was a drummer in the Revolutionary War. Was with Woodf (Schenectady) at Valley Forge and drew a pension at Schenectady, New York? Thanking you for any information you may be able to give me,
I am, Your Very Sincerely Miss Hattie E. Rand