Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 30492, Jonas Howard, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Howard, Jonas
S. 30492
CONTENTS

27535 Massachusetts
Jonas Howard
of Plymouth in the State of Mass who was a private in the Comp commanded by Captain Pool of the Brig , commanded by Colo. Jacobs in the Mass line for
9 Months pri.
Mch
Inscribed on the Roll of Mass at the rate of 30 Dollars — Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 12 th day of Aug th 1831 — and sent to J. H. Esq. Private Office Ply th Mass
Arrears to the 4th of Mar. 1831 — 90. 00 Pens-ans. allowance ending 10 th Sept. .. 15
$ 105
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded By George Taylor Clerk, Book 6 Vol. 2 Page 36
74 Physick

Probate Office
Nyem Map
Aug 6. 1834
Sir
I send herewith the pension application of Jonas Howard & a Deposition.
Yours &c
J. H. Lord
J. L. Edwards Esq

Aug 11 th
Major
FREE
James L. Edwards Esq Commission of Pensions City of Washington D.C.

31537
Declaration of Jonas Howard. —
Adm d 9 M th M ch Capt. Post. Colo. Inf ty
J. H. Lona Esq r Probate Office Plymouth Mass

Commonwealth of Massachusetts County of Plymouth } B.
On this fifth day of August 1834 - personally appeared in open Court, before Wilkes Wood Esq. Judge of the probate of Wills &c. for the County of Plymouth now sitting in Middleborough in said County - James Howard of North Bridgewater in said County of Plymouth and Commonwealth of Massachusetts aged seventy four years - who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on his oath make the following Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of an act of Congress passed June 7. 1832.
That he entered the United States service as a private soldier in the year 1778 under Capt. Jacob Pool of Abington in the County of Plymouth - and in Col. Canby's Regiment - The Company went to Providence - and thence by water to New York, - when I served under Capt. Pool during the whole time of his command there, which was accord- ing to my best recollection the full period of five months. At this time the Enemy held possession of the City of New York - Capt. Pool died while I was in the State of Maine. - Afterwards in the year 1780 - I again enlisted under the same Capt. Pool - Lieut. Fuller of Bridgewater - and went here then.

= Woventhem - then to Springfield - where we passed Mount - and then Claverick and Albany - and then to Schoharie in the State of New York - The Regiment to which our Company was attached was commanded by Col. Searles - While we were stationed at Schoharie the Enemy composed chiefly of Tories and Indians attacked and destroyed the the greater part of the Town - they surrounded our Fort - and we had considerable skirmishing with them - about this time our term of Service expired - and I returned home - On this expedition I was absent about four Months - altho the time of enlistment was only three Months. -
I was born in Bridgewater - now North Bridgewater where I now reside - and shall be seventy five years old in July next - I have no documentary evidence to prove either of the above services - and know of no person living who was with me in the first expedition. I have been residing in Maine ever since the passage of the pension law till recently & could not so freely avail myself of the evidence of my service. And I hereby relinquish all claims to a pension or annuity whatever except the present - and declare that my name is not borne on the pension role of the agency of any State.
Signed and sworn to the day and year aforesaid JONAS H. HOWE Sworn to and subscribed the day & year aforesaid Attest J. H. Lord Reg. Prob.

I William Thompson a Clergyman residing in the Town of North Bridgewater, and Minister of the Gospel to which the above named Jonas Howard belongs - and Ephraim Sturtevant an inhabitant of said North Bridgewater and neighbor to the said Howard, do certify that the said Howard has had the reputation among his neighbors of having been a Soldier in the Revolutionary war and in this opinion we fully concur - and from our knowledge of his character, together with other corroborating circumstances, we have no doubt that the statements by him given above is just and correct.
Ephraim Sturtevant Wm. Thompson
Plymouth Jan. 10 th 1834 -
Personally appeared the above named Wm. Thompson and Ephraim Sturtevant and made oath to the truth of the above statements by them made - In being my sworn words for either of them to appear in open Court and make oath to the same is the cause of their appearing before a justice of the Peace.
Before Jesse Perkins Just Peace
And now the said Court after an investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, do hereby declare their opinion that the above named at

pliant was a Revolutionary Soldier as he states. And the said Court do further certify that the Rev. William Thompson is a Clergyman resident in the town of North Bridgewater & that the above is made to appear to this Court to be the genuine signature of said Thompson & that Ephraim Hnterant who has also signed the same is a respectable citizen of said town & a credible person & that their statement is entitled to full credit.
By the Court Attest
Jacob H Lord Reg.
Jacob H Lord Register of Probate for the County of Plymouth, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original papers in the matter of the application of Jonas Howard for a Pension
Witness my hand & seal of Office this sixth day of August A.D. 1834
Jacob H Lord
231537 Declaration of
Jonas Howard.
Adm 9 AM Fri Capt. Phil. Cook. Sheriff
26. Jonas Log Probate Office Plymouth Mass

I Matthew Moyer of Abington in the County of Plymouth and State of Massachusetts - aged seventy six years do testify and say that I served as a Soldier in Capt. Suck Pool's Company - Col. Suck's Regiment - in the year 1780 - and that Jonas Howard of North Bridgewater was also a Soldier in the same Company - and served the whole time the term of service according to enlistment was three months but we were gone nearly four months. The Place where the Company was stationed was Claverick and Schoharie in the State of New York -
Matthew Moyer
Plymouth Jp. July 10. 1834
Personally appeared the above named Matthew Moyer and made oath that the above & deposition by him subscribed is just and true. And I hereby certify that the said Moyer is a Person of truth and full confidence may be reposed in his statements.
Jared Whitman Justices Clerk -
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Plymouth Jp. I Jacob H. Lord Register of Probate for the County of Plymouth do hereby certify that Jared Whitman Esq. is a Justice of the Peace in for said County & that the foregoing is his true & genuine signature.
Witness my hand & Seal of Office this sixth day of August A.D. 1834
Jacob H. Lord

30 492 INVALID.
File No. 30 492
Jonas Howard His Rev. Mrs.
Act: June 7 th 82 nd
Index:—Vol. 9 , Page 198
[Arrangement of 1870.]