Morrison's Pensions
Pension Application for Jonas Belknap
S.36408
Belknap, Jonas
His name
appears on a list of applicants for invalid pensions returned by the District
Court of the District of New York, submitted to the House of Representatives
by the Secretary of War on April 25, 1794 and printed in the American State
Papers, Class 7, page 72.
Rank: Sergeant
Regt.: col.
J. Brooks
Disability:
Wounded in the left side in action with the Indians.
When and
were disabled: May 30, 1778, Cobuskill (Cobleskill)
Residence:
Cherry Valley, Otsego County
Remarks:
There are no militia rolls in this office. Evidence transmitted by the
District Court. Comp.
State of Kentucky
Hardin County
District
of Kentucky Hardin County on the 11th day of December 1820, personally appeared
in open court being a court of record in the county and district aforesaid
Jonas Belknap aged sixty two years resident in said county and said district
who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath declare that he
served in the Revolutionary War as follows:
That he
was enlisted for the term during the war in the month of January in the year
1777 in the Town of Northampton in the State of Massachusetts in the company
commanded by Keith, the regiment commanded by Colonel Jackson and continued
to serve in said corps until about the month of November 1777 when he was transferred
into Captain Luke Day’s Company of foot in the 7th Massachusetts regiment
commanded by Colonel John Brooks at Albany, New York in which corps he served
until during the term of two years when he was discharged from the said service
at Newburg in the State of New York by General George Washington.
That he
was in the Battles of the taking of Burgoyne, the taking of Lord Cornwallis
Battle of Newburn and CobesKill where he was wounded. The number of his
pension certificate is 13360 payable in New York.
And I do
solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th
day of March 1878 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 moving 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,
contract or security due to me nor have I any income other than what is contained
in the schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed. Viz. Property, I
have none, my family consists of my wife named Tanner aged fifty-four years
and one daughter, Diantha aged nine years. My occupation is coopering
and I am very unable to follow the ??? (Signed) Jonas Belknap
March 25, 1916
Honorable Willie C. Hawley
House of Representatives
My Dear Mr. Hawley:
In response
to your personal request of the twenty-fourth instant, I have the honor to
advise you that from the papers in the claim S. File No. 36,408 Rev. War, it
appears that Jonas Belknap enlisted in Massachusetts, in 1775, names of officers
not stated, and served eight months, during which he was in the battle of Bunker
Hill. He enlisted at Northampton, Massachusetts, In January 1776, in
Captain Keith’s Company, Colonel Jackson’s regiment, and served
until November 1777, when he was transferred, as a Sergeant to Captain Luke
Day’s Company, Colonel John Brooks’ Massachusetts regiment, and
served until June 1782. He was in the battles of Bemus Heights, Cobleskill
and Yorktown.
He was wounded
in the left side at the battle of Cobleskill and was pensioned from September
4, 1793, on account of said disability.
In 1818,
he was a resident of Naples, Ontario County, New York aged fifty-nine years.
In 1820,
he resided in Hardin County, Kentucky, and referred to his wife, Tanner, aged
fifty-four years, and his daughter, Diantha, nine years of age.
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