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fully satisfied until I got home from school at night and learned by my parents that the inlistment was but for nine months- He went into the service I did not see him until the nine months [lapsed] and he returned home from the service verry late in the fall as [?] part of [?] - In what year that nine months service was endured I cannot say for certainty further than to say it was to [face] the battle at Saratoga in which the British army surrendered to the american forces but I think it [was] [?] been the last year before that event, but he was in the service as above stated one [time] before the nine months service as the [having] the small [Peach] I think the first tour must have been in 1775. I have heard him mention the name Allen Colonel Allen- The said James was in the service in the same year of the Saratoga Battle and I believe the whole of that season until some time after the defeat & surrender of Burgoyns Army. In the time of that battle I heard the guns very plain, My mother first called my attention to it She said to me how can you be so playful hark don't you hear the cannon [I] expect the two great armies are now fighting and you have two brothers there they may be killed and if the british are [trying][?] they will March through here and I know not what our fate may be- but the cheering was soon reached us that Burgoyn was defeated and had surrendered his army to the American troops - And in the same fall some time after brothers James and Wm returned home - She said James was afterwards in the service but I believe for a shorter period, and when he was not otherwise in the service he was out in Alarms he was in a district where the Tories and Indians were troublesome
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James Jones Military Pension Record, page 13. Fold3.com, image 24197533, 6 July 2019.
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