johnathan howell rev war pension application

Jonathan Howell
S 35, 419     New Jersey

 

DISTRICT OF KENTUCKY. On the 11th May 1818 before me, the undersigned one of the circuit judges for the Commonwealth aforesaid, personally appeared Jonathan Howell, aged 61, resident of Fayette Co, Ky in the said district, who being by me, first duly sworn, according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the provision made by the late Act of Congress and etc, that he enlisted 1776 in New Jersey in company commanded by Captain Thomas Patterson, Elias Dayton’s regiment, that he continued in the service of the U.S. until the close of the war in 1783, when he was discharged from service in the state of New York at New Winsor, that he was in the Battle of Short Milles, Germantown, Monmouth, Springfield and Siege of York and is now in reduced circumstances.

 

     In schedule, filed Sept 1820, he said he enlisted as a private in Feb.1776, at Princeton in New Jersey, under Thomas Paterson, Captain and marched thence under Col Elias Dayton to Lake Champlain and wintered at Fort Ticondaroga, which was commanded by General Wayne. Returned to New Jersey under Col Dayton, shortly after the Battle of Princeton and Trenton. The first battle I was in after my return was in the summer next succeeding called the Battle of the Short Hills where Lord Sterling commanded. I was at the Battle of Brandywine but did not engage in the fight being casue?  at the time?  I was in the Battle of Germantown, under Col. Dayton in General Maxwell’s brigade in the division of Lord Sterling, wintered at the Valley Forge, was at the Battle of Monmoth and was afterwards at the Middlebrook in New Jersey was at the West Point, marched through Maryland to Richmond. Va, was at the siege of taking of Little York and was then of the infantry commanded by LaFayette.

 

Source: Records of Revolutionary War Pensions of Soldiers who Settled in Fayette County Kentucky

Annie Walker Burns, compiler, Washington DC, 1936

Copy held by the Kentucky Room, Lexington Public Library

Call number: R976.947 B4128r KY1936