Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 4468, for William Keneda, Virginia
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VA.
CONTENTS
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Keneda. William
NUMBER
S4468
Carded
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19.357
West Transfer
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William Keneda-
Williamson Co. in the State of Tennessee
who was a private in the company command
by Captain Pollard of the regt
command
by Col daughter in the vingt
for 10 mo & 10 days for 1780
Inscribed on the Roll of West Tennessee
at the rate of 34 Dollars 44 Cents per annum
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 28 day of August
1833-
and sent to Thomas
M. Sconce, Franklin
Arrears to the 4th of March 1833 $68.88
Seman. allowance ending 4 Sep " 17.20
$86.18
Recorded by
Nok E
Vol.
⎨ Revolutionary Claim,
son
of June 7, 1832.
Page 86
Clerk
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24.405.
William Keneda
Williamson Co
Tennessee
from 1780 pr
to the 10 day
$34.44
Thomas M. Sconce
Franklin Williamson
Tennessee
Co
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WAR DEPARTMENT
Sir:
Pension Office,
183
The evidence in support of your claim, under the act of June 7, 1832, has
been examined, and the papers are herewith returned. The following is a statement of
your case in a tabular form. On comparing these papers with the following rules, and
the subjoined notes, you will readily perceive that objections exist, which must be removed,
before a pension can be allowed
The notes and the regulations will show what is
necessary to be done. Those points to which your attention is more particularly directed,
you will find marked in the margin with a brace, (thus: }). You will, when
you return your papers to this Department, send this printed letter with them; and
you will, by complying with this request, greatly facilitate the investigation of your
claim.
A Statement, showing the Service of William Keneda Williamson of
Tennessee
1780
1781
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the
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┃ Rank of
claimant.
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Names and rank of the Field officers
under whom he served.
Cap. Yancy
of the
when he entered
┃ Col. Slaughter
┃ Cap. Pollard
┃ Gen Lafayette
the service.
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Proof by which the declaration is supported.
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I am
years
10
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Va
Hully
Traditionary.
Your obedient servan
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will be indispensable to a favorable action upon his case The facts stated will afford one of the principal
means of corroborating the declaration of the applicant, if true, or of detecting the imposition, if one be attempted
; and unless, therefore, these are amply and clearly set forth, no favorable decision can be exexpected
. All applicants will appear before some Court of Record in the County in which they reside, and
there subscribe and be sworn to, one of the declarations above provided, according to the nature of his
case.
The Court will propound the following (m) interrogatories to all applicants for a pension, on account of
service in the Militia, State troops, or Volunteers, except the Militia of New Hampshire and the State
troops of Virginia.
1. Where and in what year were you born?
2. Have you any record of your age, and if so, where is it?
3. Where were you living when called into service; where have you lived since the Revolutionary war
, and where do you now live?
4. How were you called into service; were you drafted, did you volunteer, or were you a substitute?
And if a substitute, for whom?
5. State the names of some of the Regular Officers, who were with the troops, where you served; such
Continental and Militia Regiments as you can recollect, and the general circumstances of your services.
Did you ever receive a discharge from the service, and if so, by whom was it giv-
10 stern, and what has become of it?
Did you ever receive a commission, and if so, by whom was it signed, and what
has become of it?
7. State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood, and who can testify
as to your character for veracity, and their belief of your services as a soldier of the Revolution.
The Court will see that the answers to these questions are embodied in the declaration, and they are
requested to annex their opinions of the truth of the statement of the applicant.
The applicant will further produce in Court, if the same can be done, in the opinion of the Court,
without too much expense and inconvenience to him, two respectable persons--one of whom should be
the nearest clergyman, if one lives in the immediate vicinity of such applicant, who can testify, from
their acquaintance with him, that they believe he is of the age he represents, and that he is reputed
and believed in the neighborhood to have been a Revolutionary soldier, and that they concur in that opinion.
If one of these persons is a Clergyman, the Court will so certify, and they will also certify to the character
and standing of other persons giving such certificates.
proof, except the declaration of the party. And the Courts are requested to be very particular in the
enquiry whether the belief is general, and whether any doubts have ever existed upon the subject.
Applicants unable to appear in Court, by reason of bodily infirmity, may make the declaration before
required, and submit to the examination, before a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record of the proper
county, and the Judge or Justice will execute the duties, which the Court is herein requested to perform,
and will also certify that the applicant cannot, from bodily infirmity, attend the Court.
Whenever any official act is required to be done by a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record,
or by a Justice of the Peace, the certificate of the Secretary of State or Territory, or of the proper
Clerk of the Court or County, under his seal of office, will be annexed, stating that such person is a
Judge or Justice of a Court of Record, or a Justice of the Peace, and that the signature annexed is
his genuine signature.
No payments can be made on account of the services of any person, who may have died before
the taking effect of the act of June 7, 1832; and in case of death subsequent thereto, and before the
declaration herein required is made, the parties interested will transmit such evidence as they can procure
, taken and authenticated before a Court of Record, showing the services of the deceased, the period
of his death, the opinion of the neighborhood respecting such services, the title of the claimant, and the
opinion of the Court upon the whole matter.
The declarant must es in open Court, unless prevented from doing so by reason of bodily infirmity; in which case the declarant will fol-
The declarant must make his declaration in the county where he resides. If he should fail to do so, he must assign a sufficient reason for not
it mat invariably be mentioned.
The declarant must mention the period or periods of the war when he served.
Every continental officer or soldier must give the name of the Colonel under whom he served; otherwise a satisfactory examination of the
claim cannot be had. Every claimant must state, was origin, to IS SERVICE THE SERIES in which he served, in lange 20
definite as to enable the Department to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the
loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words:
"Personsay appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A. B. who, being duly sworn, deposes and saith, that, by reason
of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service; but, according to the best of his
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, he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades:--For---year----months, and
-- days, I served as a ; and for such service I claim a pension."
is marriage, in all cases, to determine with precision the period for which each applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law
directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service. The use of the phrase about three or four months,
is the idealis, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable. Some persons who apply for pensions merely state that they served two years
in the militia, &c. without specifying the tours, the names of the officers, and other particulars respecting their service. This form of a declaration is
highly chiconsense. It must, in every case, be clearly shown under what officers the seperant served; the duration of each term of engagement;
the particular place or places where the service was performed; that the applicant served with an embodied corps called into service by competent authority
; that he was either in the said or in garrison; and for the time during which the service was performed, he was not employed in any civil
pursuit.
The law makes the relinquishment indispensable.
The son of the Court is always required.
The Clerk must give his certificate in every case.
a wet affix his seal, and if it has no device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal, or if he has no pubhis
seal of office, the certificate of a Member of Congress, proving the official character and signature of the certifying officer, should accompany the
papers.
Mode of authenticating papers.
In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticates the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains
the affidavit, or other papers authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the ends of which many
pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate.
Proof of Service.
lease where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses
who married to a brain shall lawles the time of the claimant's entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as
the regiment, company, and line to which he belonged. The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the witnesses
, and the official character and signature of the magistrate mus be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office.
The notes from to are all equally applicable to the cases of Militia men, Volunteers and State Troops. The proof required by rule in
note apples is estinental troops only.
Territory evidence is indispensable in militia cases.
If a witness cannot be found, the declarant must state the fact.
⌨ The answers to the interrogatories must all be written, and sent to the War Department, with the declarations
Joseph Rowen
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State of Tennessee
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Williamson Conty February term of the circuit court held for Williamson
County Tennessee at Franklin 1833
On this 13th day of February 1833 personally
appeared in open court before Thomas Ster-
art Judge of the circuit court of Williamson
County now sitting at Franklin William
Keneda a resident of said County aged
77 years and ten months who being first
duly sworn according to law doth on his oath
make the following declaration in order to obt
am the benefit of the provisions of an act
of Congress passed 7th June 1832 that
he entered the service of the US under the
following named officers and served as herein
stated
He was born in Culpeper County Virginia
in the year 1755 where he lived until after
the revolution. He entered into Capt. Lewis Yan
's company, being drafted or by lot accord
ing to division in the year 1780 he was manted
from Culpepper under Capt. Yancy from
a ford on the Rappahannock River towards
Fredericksburg but before he got there orders
were received that this company was not wanted
Whereupon he was marched back and discharged
for serving a tour of two months He does
not recollect the time of the year in which this
his
first tour was served but thinks it was
in the winter of 1780. The next entered in the
year 1781 into Capt. Robert Pollards company
in which Corley James was orderly serge
his company Col James Slaughter's
ment. He was marched from Culpeper
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County Plough down to Fredericksburg
crossing
James River Sandy
point, then down south of James River
or black waters. There in consequence
of the superior forces of the british his Col
halted, and then his men were pursued
by the British to Petersburgh where his Col halted and engaged 
with the enemy. This was
first battle this declarant was in sustaining
the fire of the enemy for an
hour or two, he was retreated to Richmond
where he joined Lafayette. He was
marched down on the north side of
James River or nine miles below
Richmond under Lafayette where the
Americans encamped. While here
this declarant with a piquet guard of
about 120 men under Joseph James of
Fauquier County VA, was sent to
orfield on an expedition against
parcel of British and in an engage-
ment
while in this rout, this declarant
with about to other men were taken
prisoner and sent to Norfolk where
he remained four months and ten
He at the time he was taken prison
had served two months, taking one day
He was taken prisoner in May 1781 and
literate in the latter part of September of
the same year. He states 8 months and
days service. He never not
recollect no other officer
word of his age in
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