Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 8,780, for Job Kent, New Hampshire
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SERVICE  N.H.

Kent, Job

NUMBER  S.8780

carded
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10,787
New Hampshire
Job Kent
of Rockingham in the State of N.H. who was an Ensign in the Company commanded by Captain [blank] of the Regt commanded by Col Bartlett in the N H line for 
3 mos 26 Days Ensign
8 mos Private 

Inscribed on the Roll of NH at the rate of 65 Dollars 32 Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 25 day of Apl 1833 and sent Isaac B Hovey  Atkinson N.H.

Arrears to the 4th of Mar 1833 - - - $130.64
Semi-anl. allowance ending  4 Sept  -  14.17
[total] $163.30

{Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.}

Recorded by I H McBlain Clerk
Book E  Vol.1,  Page 98.
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Job Kent
No 9707
New Hampshire

14 ob
Jany 25. 1833

Ensign   3 mos & 26 days
Private  8 Mo
[total]  11 mos 26 days

P. 215.
$65.32
Isaac B Hovey Esq
Atkinson
[J. B. Ha?, crossed out]
N H
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BRIEF in the case of Job Kent of thje County of 
Rockingham in the State of N. H. 
(Act 7th June, 1832.) 

1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? Judge

2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily injury? bodily infirmity

3. How old is he? 89 years 

4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed. 
In 1775 - 3 months, private, Capt. Webster
'76 Sept 1776 - (X) 3 Months, ditto. Capt. Caley 
immediately after - 1 month, do, Capt. Caley
'77 - 1 months, volunt., Cap Hutchins
'80 - 3 X, Lieut, Capt Bartlett, Capt Eastman
(X) on roll of service

5. In what battles was he engaged?  Surrender of Burgoyne

6. Where did he reside when he entered the service?  Hampstead

7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls?  Depositions & documents

8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and, if so, how?  No Clergyman's Certificate

I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case
[signed] Levin Belt  Examining Clerk.

X Ensign 3 - 26 days per roll of same
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State of Newhampshire
County of Rockingham ⎬ ss.
On this fourth day of August AD 1832 personally appeared before me Samuel Green an associate Justice of the Superior Court of Judicature in and for said State, Job Kent a resident of Hampstead in said County of Rockingham aged eighty nine years, who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7, 1832.
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated - 
That in the year 1775 he enlisted at Hampstead aforesaid Jacob Webster's company in which Lieutenant Wheeler and Gill were Lieuts and soon after his enlistment, which was about the first of November, he marched to Portsmouth N.H.  Stayed there but a short time and then marched to Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he was stationed for the term of three months, the term for which he enlisted, at which time he was discharged but being in the militia received no written discharge.  He knows of no person living who served with him at this time excepting Capt. Jacob Webster whose deposition is hereto annexed.
And he further states that in the year 1777 about the first of September he enlisted at Hampstead for the term of three months, Capt. Caley commanded the company, Ezekiel Belknap was lieutenant, and a Taylor Ensign; said Kent was a  sergeant in the company; soon after enlistment marched for the army, through Springfield, Mass to New York, was stationed at Fish Kills for the time of enlistment, three months, was then discharged, but not in writing, and again immediately enlisted for the term of one month, for the purpose of guarding the tories from New York to Exeter in Newhampshire and was dismissed and paid at Plaistow, Newhampshire at the end of half a month [.]  Lieut. Belknap  commanded the guard of said tories.  Daniel Little of said Hampstead was with him in the service the three months last mentioned, whose deposition is hereto annexed.
Also in the year 1777 he the said Kent left Hampstead  as a volunteer with about 20 others and went on to the army at Saratoga for the purpose of opposing the progress of the army under General Burguoin [Burgoyne], joined the company of Capt Hezikiah Hutchins and was present at the surrender of Gen Burguoin, was one of the guards of the prisoners to Prospect Hill in Cambridge, Massachusetts; was then in service for the term of one month;, he knows of no person living who was with him in this [illegible] except Daniel Little whose deposition is annexed.
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The said Kent also declares that about the first of July 1780 at which time he held an Ensigns commission in the militia of Newhampshire he received the order hereto annexed dated July 4, 1780 and signed by Jacob Gale Lieut Col, Joseph Welch 1st Maj. and John Webster 2nd maj. to which order reference is hereby made; and that in obedience to said order he marched immediately from said Hampstead to Springfield, Mass. and thence to West Point in New York, where he was stationed for the term of three months at the end of which term he was discharged by Col. Bartlett.  While on service during this last term of 3 months he received the pay and performed the duty of 2d Lieutenant and was so styled; - Capt. Eastman commanded the company, and James Webster was first Lieutenant; during this last term Gen. Benedict Arnold deserted. He has no documentary evidence ,in proof of this service and knows of no person living who was with him in this last service excepting Benjamin Gill whose deposition is hereto annexed
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State.
[signed] Job Kent

Sworn to & subscribed the day & year first above mentioned
Before me [signed] Saml Green - Ass. Jus[tice]

And I the said Saml. Green Ass. Jus[tice] & do hereby declare it as my opinion that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier & served as he states -  that he has the appearance of being eighty nine years of age, [illegible] a good moral character & of veracity undoubted & that his recollection appears to be but little if in any degree
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I, Daniel Little of Hampstead in the County of Rockingham and State of Newhampshire, do testify and say that I served in the Newhampshire militia in the war of the Revolution at Fish Kills in the State of New York in the year seventeen hundred and seventy six, in a company commanded by Captain Caley of Kingston in New Hampshire for the term of three months and that Job Kent now of Hampstead aforesaid then and there served with me in the same company as a sergeant for the same term of time.
I further testify and say that the said Job Kent also served as a Sergeant in the Newhampshire Militia for the term of one month in the year seventeen hundred and seventy seven at the taking of the army of General Burguoine [Burgoyne] and in guarding the captured army from New York to Charleston in Massachusetts.  Capt Hezekiah Hutchins commanded the company to which the said Kent belonged and I was a private in the same company for the same time
Atkinson June 23d 1832
[signed] Daniel Little

Rockingham ss June 23 1832
Then the above named Daniel Little personally appeared and made oath that the above deposition by him subscribed is in his belief true
Before me, [signed] John Kelly, Justice of the Peace

Rockingham ss. Feb. 4. 1833
I hereby certify that the above named Daniel Little is a man of undoubted veracity
[signed] John Kelly Justice of the Peace
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I Peter Chadwick Clerk of the Superior Court of Judicature for the County of Rockingham in the State of New Hampshire do hereby certify that Samuel Green whose signatures appear to the foregoing certificates is an associate Justice of the Superior Court of Judicature for the State aforesaid and that the foregoing are the original proceedings had before the said Samuel Green in his said capacity in the matter of the application of Job Kent for a pension
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court this eleventh day of August Anno Domini 1832
 [signed] [I?] Chadwick Clerk of the Court Rockingham County