Morrison's Pensions
Pension Application for Jellis A. Fonda, Adjutant
S49226
Jellis A. Fonda had a pension of $189.22 per annum, commencing the 4th day
of March 1831.
I Jacob Van
Vechten of the city & county of Schenectady residing in said city do hereby
certify that I am well acquainted with Jellis Fonda an applicant for a pension
under a low of Congress; that he is reputed & believed in the neighborhood
where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution & that I concur
in that opinion.
Subscribed
this 25th day of October 1832. (Signed) Jacob Van Vechten, Pastor
of the Ref. D. Church, Schenectady.
At a Court
of Common Pleas held in and for the County of Schenectady at the City of Schenectady
on the twentieth Day of October One Thousand Eight Hundred & thirty-two,
it was decided, and the said Court hereby Declares their opinion, after a due
investigation of the matter, that the above named applicant Jellis Fonda is incompetent
to make the declaration required by the regulations of the War Department under
the “Act for the relief of the Surviving officers & soldiers of the
revolution” passed June 7th 1832, by reason of Dotage &b Defectiveness
of memory consequent thereon and the said Court further declare their opinion
that said applicant was a revolutionary officer & served as he stated in
the preceding depositions—and the said Court further declare their opinion, & certify
that it appears to them that Jacob Van Vechten who signed the foregoing certificate
is a clergyman resident in said City of Schenectady & that Daniel J. Toll,
James H. Leek, John Sanders, Cornelius T. Van Santook and AdamVrooman, who have
subscribed & sworn to the preceding depositions, acredible persons,
and that their statement is entitled to the fullest credit.
I John L.
Vrooman Clerk of said County do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the
original proceedings of said Court in the matter of the applications of Jellis
Fonda, for a pension witness my hand & seal of office this 20th day of October
1832. John L. Vrooman, Clerk
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