Jonas Bemis ⁶⁹

  Noted events in his life were:

• Military Service: Enlisted 1775, 1775, Royalton, Massachusetts. ⁶⁹ Jonas Bemis enlisted 1775 under Capt. Aron Haynes, Col. Asa Whitcomb's Massachusetts regiment. In 1818 he applied for a pension from Royalton, Massachusetts and his claim was granted.

Jonas married Catherine Tower, daughter of Benjamin Tower and Ann Vorce, on 18 Sep 1785 in Sudbury, Middlesex County, Massachusetts.⁶⁹ (Catherine Tower was born on 17 Jan 1765 in Sudbury, Middlesex County, Massachusetts ⁶⁹ and died on an unknown date ⁶⁹.)