Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 41,714, for Levi Kent, North Carolina
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SERVICE N.C. 
Kent, Levi
NUMBER S 41.714
CONTENTS [blank]
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41714
Revy
INVALID. 
File No. 41,714
Levi Kent
Pri Rev War
Act: 18 March 18 [1818]
Index:- Vol 3, Page 268
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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4,664
North Carolina
Levi Kent
Private
Capt Hadley NC 4
In the army of the United States 
during the Revolutionary War

Inscribed on the Roll of North Carolina
at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to
 commence on the 12th of June 1818

Certificate of Pension issued the 30th of 
Nov  18?? and sent to J.J. Strandey Esq 
clerk of the J. of Craven Ct N.C. 

Arrears to 4th of Sept 1818 2 25/00 $ 22.1?
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4 th Mar 1819  48"
$70.1?

{Revolutionary claim, Act !8th March, 1818}
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10th Regiment 
Levy [Levi] Kent privt. Augt 1st 1782. 
18 mons.
The above is a true abstract from the Musterroll of the Nc. Carolina Continental line in the revolutionary war
Given under my hand 10th July 1818
Wm Gill Secretary of State
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To the honorable the Secretary at War of the United States
The Petition of Levi Kent a Citizen of the United States and an inhabitant of the County of Craven & State of North Carolina respectfully
sheweth that he was a Soldier in the Regular Army of the United States in the War of the Revolution, and belonged to the tenth North Carolina Regiment under the command of Colonel Archibald Lytle
first your Petitioner belonged to the company commanded by Captain
Benjamin Coleman, and was then transferred to the company commanded
first by a Captain Hadley and after Hadley was taken sick, by Captain Rhodes formerly Hadley's Lieutenant.-- Your Petitioner continued in service in the said Regiment for about seventeen months and until
nearly the close of the war when the Southern Army of which he was
one was disbanded near Charleston in South Carolina. Your Petitioner received no discharge but had a furlough granted to him until he should be called for which he believes was the course observed in
and to all his fellow soldiers. Your Petitioner has lost his furlough he is now about fifty eight years of age has a wife and six children, this of whom live with him & two of them quite small. He is in such reduced
circumstances as to need the assistance of his country for support
Sworn to in the Court
12th 1802
County
Levi Kent
his mark
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Simeon Moore maketh oath that he well knew Levi Kent a private 
Soldier in the tenth No. Carolina Regiment during the War of the Revolution - that he knows that the said [Levi] Kent did his duty as a soldier in said Regiment for near eighteen months and until the Southern army which said Regiment was attached was disbanded near the close of the war- 

This Deponent had every opportunity of knowing these facts for himself and said [Levi] Kent entered the army at same time, were from the same neighborhood, belonged to the same Regiment, were disbanded at the same time and returned to the same neighborhood
Sworn to 12 June 1818 in open Court 
[signed] Simeon Moore

[several illegible words]

State of North Carolina
Craven County
Court of Pleas & Quarters Sessions Term AD 1818
the following affidavits of Levi Kent and Simeon Moore being taken and subscribed in open court . It is Ordered that it be certified to the Secretary of war of the United States that it appears to the satisfaction of this Court that the petitioner  Levi Kent did serve in the revolutionary war against the  Common Enemy as stated in his petition & that [illegible] Levi Kent is now in reduced circumstances in need of the assistance of his country from his support

Witness James G Stanley Clerk of the Court aforesaid under the [illegible] of said court at Newtown this 30th day of June AD 1818
J G Stanley CC