Person:Jonathan Stoddard (7)

County: Bennington Co.Name: Jonathan Stoddard Rank: Sergeant Annual Allowance: 96 00Sums Received: 187 61 Description of service: Massachusetts continental line When placed on the pension roll: August 9. 1819 Commencement of pension: March 22, 1818 Age: 75 Laws under which inscribed, increased or reduced OR Remarks.: Suspended under act May 1, 1820.

Jonathan Stoddard was a Sergeant during the Revolutionary War in service with Captains David Nobles and William Augustus Patterson's Company, Colonel John Patterson's regiment of the Massachusetts Continental Line [Rev. War Pension Claim S. 41207]. He enlisted at Cambridge, MA in December 1775 and served for a total of one year. He was appointed First Sergeant on 13 October 1776. At "aged seventy-three years", he was granted a service pension of $8.00 per month on 22 April 1818 while a resident of Rupert, Bennington County. Jonathan Stoddard, age 45 and older with a total household of five people, including two males age 25 to 44, appears in the 1820 federal census as a resident of Rupert. According to his pension file he died, presumably in Rupert, in 1821.

Also in the pension file is a letter dated 23 December 1852 from the Pittsfield, Berkshire County, MA town clerk confirming that the Pittsfield record includes the entry "Jonathan Stoddard & Mary Wright both of Pittsfield intend Marriage = April 5th 1777." The town clerk's certificate was further attested on the same date by Julius Rockwell, "Late Member of Congress." According to the referenced file, the widow Mary (Wright) Stoddard died on 18 June 1837 but does not state where.On 13 January 1853 in the Manchester Probate District in Manchester, Bennington County, VT Jonathan and Mary (Wright) Stoddard's son William filed a declaration on behalf of and regarding the then surviving children of Jonathan Stoddard, the deceased pensioner. As sister Lucy (Stoddard) Robinson died in 1834, in 1853 the remaining children of the family, in the order listed, were Jonathan Stoddard, Pomeroy Stoddard, William Stoddard, Polly Stoddard, Josiah Stoddard, and Grove Stoddard. In addition, apparently also deceased by this time was Eleazer Stoddard, the twin brother of Josiah.

According to the declaration made on 13 January 1853 in the Manchester Probate District in Manchester, Bennington County, VT by William Stoddard, son of Sgt. Jonathan and Mary (Wright) Stoddard, latter both deceased by 1837, the surviving siblings of the family were, in the order written in the declaration, were: Jonathan Stoddard, Pomeroy Stoddard, William Stoddard, Polly Stoddard, Josiah Stoddard, and Grove Stoddard. In the above list, it is not possible to assert whether sister Polly was married or still a single person. As will appear below, she apparently was born in or after August 1800, likely in Granville Twp, Washington County, NY.

In the Spring 1791 census of the Town of Benson, Vermont, p. 258, col. 1, line 16: Stoddard, Jonathan, 16200. 1 male 16 or older,--Jonathan Stoddard, Sr. 6 males under 16,---Sons William, Grove, Twins Josiah and Eleazer, and ?* 2 females all ages,--Wife Mary and daughter Lucy. 0 other free persons, 0 slaves.

In the August 1820 census of the Town of Rupert, Bennington County, VT: p. 570, line 7, Stodard, Jonathan-----000021-00011, 3 in agriculture, meaning: 2 males 25-44--------------Twin sons Josiah and Eleazer? 1 male 45 and older------Jonathan Stoddard, b. April 1746. 1 female 25-44-------------The apparent wife of one of the twin sons.* 1 female 45 & older------Mary (Wright) Stoddard, b. Sept. 1750.

1.   US Census 1790.

   Taken 1791 Lists Jonathan in Benson, Rutland Co. 6 males under 16, 1 over 16 2 females

2. ↑ Hill, Don Gleason, Editor. The Record of Births, Marriages and Deaths, and Intentions of Marriage: in the Town of Dedham, Massachusetts, Volumes 1 & 2. 1635-1845 With an Appendix Containing Records of Marriages Before 1800, Returned from Other Towns, Under the Statute of 1857. (Dedham, Mass.: Town of Dedham, 1886)
   v.1 p.75.

   Jonathan, y^e son of Eliazer & Elizebeth Stodard. born Aprill 16^th, 1746.