DAR PATRIOT INDEX JOHN EMMONS, PVT. NJ PNSR BORN 7/2/1757 NJ DIED 3/12/1845 NY MARRIED CATHERINE X........ NO WIDOW PENSION NO CHILDREN PENSION JOHN EMMONS, PVT. NJ BORN 1764 NJ DIED A 8/24/1833 NJ MARRIED ANN X........ JOHN EMMONS, PVT. BORN 1727 DIED 1789 MA SPOUSE ELIZABETH DEERING # 1) JOHN EMMONS, SGT B 19 FEB. 1755 NJ DIED 2 JAN. 1821 OHIO SPOUSE JOHANNA HAMPTON #1.) Descendant of John Emmons and Corp. James Long, as follows: 1. Courtenis S. Emmons (1831-1905) m., 1854, Elizabeth J. Long (1827-82). 2. Jonathan Emmons m. Anna Thorpe; Samuel Long (1801-93) m. Mary Cunningham. 3. John Emmons m. Johanna Hampton Emmons; James Long m. Elizabeth Douglass. John Emmons (1755-1821) enlisted, 1777, for three years in Capt. John Ross' company, Col. Elias Dayton's New Jersey regiment. He was born in Monmouth County, N. J.; died in Hamilton County, Ohio. James Long (1758-1841) served as corporal in Capt. Persifer Fraser's company, Col. Anthony Wayne's 4th Pennsylvania regiment. He was born in Lancaster County, Pa.; died in Warren County. I show a John Emmons on the Rev War Pension application files enlisted NJ then moved to Elmira, Tioga Co NY - no family info or vital dates in his application  Filed for pension from Elmira, Tioga Co. NY in Sept 1832.  Served as a private in the 3rd Reg NJ line under Capt. John Ross This is the only Emmons in the pension file database that served from NJ. Jackie Tom wrote: I am searching for the family of Ann(ie) EMMONS, wife of Nathaniel A. OSBUN. >Ann was born about 1771 in NJ. A short biography (late 1800's) of Elmer >Osbun, a grandson of Ann and Nathaniel (through their son Nathaniel O. Osbun >and wife Jane MAHON HARTMAN), stated that Elmer's "paternal >great-grandfather and the latter's brothers were soldiers in the War of the >Revolution." I have determined that Nathaniel A. Osbun's father, Samuel Osbun (Osborn) >(and my 4th Gt. Grandfather) served in the Revolution, but he had no adult >brothers, only sisters. I am left to conclude that if the biography is >correct, then Ann Emmons' father and uncles were the Patriot ancestors to >whom Elmer was referring.