Jones Family - James Jones Pension - page 5

and it is not in her power to
recalled the names or rank of the
officer who went out or were
associated with her late Husband
in those various services.
                              That the [desponent] does not
know whether her late Husband was
in the Battle of Saratoga, or not, but
thinks he was- Knows he was
in the Bennington battle for soon
after that he returned home to his
fathers in Stephentown & where on his way
home in Company with several other militia soldiers he called out
Caleb Sweet, a neighbors of the deponents
father there of little Hosick now of
Stephentown this deponent was their. &
assisted the family in preparing a dinner
for him & his compane [?] of which they
all [?], that the incident, of the
battle were all they talked over -
              What this deponent knows that
her said Husband left home in the service of the United States as a militia
Ensign in July or August 1778 & after
their marriage aforesaid, and went
to Albany [?] thence she does not now
recollect, and did not return until 
the leaves of the forest trees had
fallen, a fact well recollected by
her, from a circumstance, fresh in her
memory, that on the day of his return
she walked out with him in Company
to the other through a piece of woods & of walking on the newly fallen leaves

James Jones Military Pension Record, page 5. Fold3.com, image 24197533, 5 July 2019. 

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