Morrison's Pensions
Pension Application for Jellis A. Fonda
S.10684
For the
purpose of obtaining the benefits of the act entitled “an act supplementary
to the act for the relief of the surviving officers and soldiers of the revolution” approved
June 7th 1832, I Jellis A. Fonda now residing in the City of Schenectady in
the County of Schenectady and the State of New York, aged about seventy-three
years, do hereby declare that I served in the war of the revolution as an Adjutant
for the term of three years and as a Captain for the term of about eleven months
making in all a period of nearly four years which I served at the dates and
in the Regiments & Brigades following.
In the year
one thousand & seven hundred and seventy-seven, I served for four months
as adjutant in General Glover’s Brigade. In the spring of the
next year I was attached to General Frederick Fisher’s Brigade and served
therein about four months being the whole of the period serving which said
Brigade was out on Duty that year. In the spring of the year then next,
to wit, in the year One thousand Seven hundred & Seventy-nine I was attached
to the Regiment of Colonel Thomas Butler, being denominated the fourth Pennsylvania
Regiment I served in said Regiment last named during the campaign of that year
for about the term of four months. In the spring of the next year; to
wit one thousand seven hundred and eighty-one I was attached to Colonel Willett’s
Regiment of State Troops, and served in the same as Adjutant until the first
day of November One Thousand seven Hundred & Eighty-two, when I received
the appointment of Captain & continued to serve as such for the term of
eleven months in the Regiment last aforesaid, to wit until the month of October
One thousand seven Hundred & Eighty three when the war closed.
I hereby
relinquish every claim whatever to a pension except the present, and am not
entitled to any benefit under the act for the relief of certain surviving officers
and soldiers of the revolution, passed the fifteenth day of May Eighteen hundred & Twenty
eight, not having served during the whole war on the Continental line as required
by that act—and further that I have never received any annuity or pension
under any law—of the United States providing for revolutionary officers
and soldiers. (Signed) Jellis A. Fonda
County of Schenectady SS.
Jellis A.
Fonda above named maketh oath and said that the facts set forth in the foregoing
declaration by him signed are true according to the best of his knowledge recollection
and belief. (Signed) Jelles A. Fonda
Subscribed
and Sworn this 14th day of June 1832 before me, Henry Fuller Commissioner of
Deeds &c County of Schenectady
SS. Daniel
Darran? Of the town of Princetown in said County maketh oath and saith, that
he was during the war of the revolution well acquainted with Jellis A. Donda
whose name appears to the foregoing declaration and deposition, and that this
deponent served in the Regiments of colonel Morris Graham & Colonel Willett
and distinctly remembers that said Jellis A. Fonda served in said Regiments
in the years One Thousand Seven hundred and Eighty, and one thousand [document
ends here].
State of New York
County of Schenectady
Surrogate’s Court
In re: Jellis A. Fonda Dec’d
Be it known
that it appears for the records of this court that on the 18th day of September
1834, letters of administration on the estate of Jellis A. Fonda deceased,
were in due form of law granted & committed to Alexander G. Fonda a son
of said deceased & that said Jellis A. Fonda died on the 27th (twenty-seventh)
day of August one thousand eight hundred and thirty-four.
It further
appears from said records, that the affidavits of James J. Fonda and Giles
F. Yates taken on the 19th day of April & 10th May 1847, that at the last
named dates the following named children of said deceased survived, and that
they were then all of them, over twenty-one years of age, namely Susan Fonda,
Widow of Jellis Fonda, Jane Helen Whiting wife of Nathan N. Whiting, Mary Austin
Fonda, Alexander G. Fonda (the above named Administrator) and Ann Groot wife
of John S. Groot. And further that said Jellis A. Fonda deceased was
at the time of his death a pensioner of the United States under the act of
Congress passed 7th June 1832.
All of which
is hereby accordingly certified.
And it is
further certified, that satisfactory evidence, to wit, the affidavit of said
Administrator Alexander G. Fonda, has been redduced? to this Court to prove,
that his only children now surviving viz, said Alexander G. Fonda, Susan Fonda,
Anna Groot, and Mary A. Fonda (the said Jane Helen Whiting having since 1847
departed this life)—
And it is
further certified, that said letters of administration issued to said Alexander
G. Fonda still remain in full force un repealed and unrevoked.
In testimony
whereof the said County Judge hath hereto set his hand and affixed the seal
of the Surrogate’s Court of the County of Schenectady this 9th day of
June 1853. S. H. Johnson County Judge of Schy Ct.
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