Schenectady, N.Y.
Nov. 30th 1843
Sir/.
The claim of Catharine Jones, widow of James Jones, under the act of 4th July 1836, has recently been placed in my hands. The former agent, George R. Davis Esq. of Troy (N.Y.) was unable to give me any information about this claim, except what I could gather from a letter you had addressed him under date of July 24th 1838.
Although asserted & believed that James Jones was an officer (an Ensign) during a part of the War, I can find no documentary evidence of the fact. He may however, have served as an Ensign without a regular commission.
He hailed from the same part of the Country with Fisher, Young, and the others named in the paper marked A, herewith sent; and I present this paper giving the name of Jones as an Enlisted Soldier under said officers, in June 1775, under the conviction that the James Jones whose name appears to that paper is the same James Jones, whose widow applies for a pension. All those whose names are subscribed to said paper as voluntarily enlisted
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James Jones Military Pension Record, page 13. Fold3.com, image 24197533, 6 July 2019.
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