Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 38892, for Benjamin Kennard, Pennsylvania
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Penn                 Kennard, Benjamin      S.38892
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R13796
S,Carolina
Benjamin Kennard
of _____ in the state of S. Carolina
who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Craig of the Pennsylvania line, for the term of three years.
Inscribed on the Roll of South Carolina at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 4th of June 1819
Certificate of Pension issued the 31st of July 1819 and sent to James Wardlow Esq. clerk of the Court, Abbeville S.C.
Arrears to 4th of portion of 
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4 Sep: 1819    $21.60
2mo 21/30                                           $21.60

                                {Revolutionary claim.}
                                {Act 18th March,1818}
  

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 138892
INVLAID
Revy

File No.   38892
Benjamin Kennard
Priv.     Rev War

Act: 18th March 1818
Index:-Vol. 3,  Page  268

{Arrangement of 1870}
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State of South Carolina
Abbeville District.

Personally came before me who on his Benjamin Kennard who on his solemn oath deposeth and saith that he is a little upwards of sixty eight years of age that he enlisted into the United States service in the year 1777 at Princeton under Capt Thomas Loyd Moore, Commanded by Colo Thomas Craig of the 3rd Regiment in Pennsylvania, for the term of three years, or during the war, that he continued in the service of the United States until about the 15th January in the year 1781. at which time  he received a regular discharge at Trenton singed by Gen' Waine, that he left his discharge in Pennsylvania upwards of thirty years since, which he supposes is long since lost, and if not, that he is unable to seek after it ----This deponent further saith that he is very infirm, being subject to the rheumatism, that he is unable to support himself and must suffer or become a County Charge unless relieved by the bounty of the United States----This deponent also states that he does not know any other evidence in his power to procure his services, that the officers under which he serv'd  are either dead, or if alive their places of residence unknown to him, and if known from his infirmity and old age and poverty combining that it would be utterly out of his power to travel any distance, and further saith not- sworn to this fourteenth day of June 1819 before me. 
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A. Hamilton              Benjamin X Kennard
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So. Carolina
Abbeville District

  This is to certify that we the under signed citizens of said state and district are and have been acquainted with Benjamin Kennard (a single person) who has been living hereabout twenty years or upwards, whos trade was that of a carpenter, he is an honest and a peaceable man, and is generally esteemed as having been a faithful soldier in the Revolutionary War this 28th April 1819.                           J.H. Baskin

Wm Hall      Ezekell Hall        Hugh Maxwell
(Illegible)                               John McMahen
A. Cunningham                     Ralph Hardin
Israel (??)ermitt                      Bart Hall
James Gosher                         Wm. McDorell


I do hereby certify that I have examined the within named petitioner Benjamin Kennard, and I am satisfied that he served during the war in the Pennsylvania line, and was discharged as he stated. The evidence relied upon is drawn chiefly from himself, but his details are full of satisfactory, in facts & circumstances which an ignorant man could not have known from history.
   The annexed paper signed by (above) respectable citizens know that he is poor & requires aid - He is aged & infirm.
                                  Henry Mcde(??)
                                   Judge of the Court
                                   of (??)
    Abbeville, 15 June 1819
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( Two words illegible) knows him and believe him to be poor. If (illegible) in other (illegible) the certificate as to reduced circumstances may be (illegible) with 
                                L.C. C

 Send to James Wardlaw Esquire Clerk of the Court Abbeville So. Carolina



Clerk of the Court Abbeville S.C.
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Abbeville
11th Apr

Honorable Secretary of War
Washington
District of Columbia. 23, April 1824 

S.C. 370
Benjamin Kennard 13.796
Rec

0 Mail

(Illegible initials written over the address)
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State of South Carolina

    On this twenty first day of March 1821 personally appeared in open court, being a court of record for the District of Abbeville Benjamin Kennard aged seventy three years resident of a Abbeville District, who being duly sworn, according to law, doth on his oath declare, that he served in the Revolutionary War that he was in the 3 Pennsylvania Regiment commanded by Col. Thomas Craig, in the Company of Capt. Loyd Moore. He was a pensioner under the old law.  I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the eighteenth of march 1818; and that I have not since that time, by gift sale or in any manner disposed of my property, or any part thereof, with an intent in any manner as to diminish as to bring myself within the provisions of an Act of Congress entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval services of the United States in the Revolutionary War passed on the eighteenth of March 1818 and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me, any property, securities, contracts or debts due to me nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule thereunto annexed & by me subscribed.
                                           Benjamin Kennard
  One trunk, 1 spade, 1 harness, 1 hammer, a pair chisels, a ruler & a pair of compasses (valued 10 dollars.  (??) is a open boxed.
23 March 1821.  Jcpt. JA Mardkaw
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                                      Benjamin X Kennard
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   My occupation is a Carpenter, but unable to work at it for many years past. I have niether wife, nor child.
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                                          Benjamin  X Kennard
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March 22nd 1821

    I do hereby certify that nothing has appeared to induce me to doubt the contents of the schedule furnished in this case & I believe the values of the property to be no more than ten dollars.

                                Daniel C. Huges
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I James Wardlaw Clerk of the court of Common Pleas and General sessions for Abbeville District in the state aforesaid do hereby certify that the foregoing oath & the schedule hereto annexed are truly copied from the record of the said court and I do further certify that it is the opinion of the said court that the total amount in value of the property (??) in the aforesaid schedule is ten dollars.

        In testimony whereof I have herewith set my hand and I affixed the seal of the said court this 10 April 1821

                                Ja(mes) Wardlaw
                                                 Clerk