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Jonathan Howell
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 |