Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 16900, for Samuel Kennerley, Virginia
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(3-1776)
Service					Number
Va		Kennerley, Samuel	S. 16900
		or  Kennerly 
					Carded
Contents
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Virginia	29.626
Samuel Kennerly
[torn] in the State of Va [Virginia]
was a Pv [Private]: [blank in MS] in the [crossed] commanded 
[torn] Captain [crossed] of the Regt commanded 
[torn] Christian in the Va [Virginia] [torn] for 9 mo.
Inscribed on the Roll of Virginia [torn] the rate of 30 Dollars [crossed] Cents per annum, [torn] commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 23—day of Jan 35 [blank in MS] and [illegible]
[illegible] Fincastle —Va
Arrears to the 4th of Sept. 34			105.00
Semi-annual allowance ending of Mar [March] 35 	15.00
						$120[crossed]
						{Revolutionary Claim,}
						{Act June 7, 1832.	}
Recorded by Nath Rice Clerk
Book E   Vol. 6 1/2 Page 21
J.J. Fry, Richmond, April 4,’37 
to same May 6, ’31 
P.A. order & to pay same day
at to T W Risque June 1 1844.
Paid at Treasury, under act 6 April 1838, from 4 March 1839 to 3 Feb. 1840.
Agent notified 21 Apr 1846
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J.L. Edwards Esqr
Come. of Pensions
Present.

[perpendicular at left]
June 18 44 
Samuel Kennerley 
Va. or Md roll
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Washington City
June 18th 1844

Sir,

Mr Samuel Kennerly late of Fincastle
Bolton County Virginia engaged to St Louis
Missouri some four or five years ago and and
there some four months after his arrival.

his son Samuel Lockhart Kennerly while acting as the Executor of his father placed the pension paper in my hands for the purpose of having the account one other Mr Lands L. Kennerly and last fall.

I have [smudged] of the will and the pension papers with me, but am not certain as to the time when Mr Kennerly the pensioner died. I would be glad to ascertain up to what time the pension was paid, and would be glad to let the
[illegible] blanks for presenting the claim for payment. I will call again in 10 or 12  days when I would be glad to get the reformation. Yours
T.W. Risque

J.L. Edwards Esq
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On the 11th day of November in the year 1834 personally appeared in open Court before the Justices of the Court of Botetourt County now sitting Samuel Kennerly a resident of the County of Botetourt and State of Virginia aged near eighty one 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 7th 1832 that he was born in the County of Culpepper and State of Virginia and that from his Fathers register (which he has not now in his possession nor does he know what has become of it) it appears that he was born in the month of March or February 1754 that he resided several years in the County of Culpepper after his birth and then removed to the County of Augusta in the State of Virginia
where he resided several years and removed from there to the County of Botetourt and State of Virginia where he has ever since resided and still resides that he Volunteered under a Captain Patrick Buchhanan  of the County of Augusta and State of Virginia and marched in his Company in the month of June 1777 or 8 through the South Western part of Virginia and a part of what he supposes was then the State of North Carolina (but now the State of Tennessee) to the Tennessee River
in what was then the Cherokee Country (a distance of about five hundred miles) against the Cherokee Indians who had been very troublesome in molesting our South Western Frontier  this opperation against the Cherokee Indians was Commanded by Colo. William Christian who after his forces had
rendezvoused at the big Island of Holstine River marched into the Cherokee Indian nation on the Tennessee River and burnt the Tents and Villages and Corn (which was then ripe) of the Indians. The Company of Capt. Buchhanan in which he marched started in the month of June 1777 or 8 on this expedition and returned in the month of November
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 so that he served five months in this expedition during which time he was exposed to great hardships danger and fatigue the march of the troops being almost entirely after they crossed the Alleghany through a wilderness and in the Country of a Savage Enemy  He says that he again Volunteered and entered the service in a Company Commanded by Capt. Thomas Rowland in the County of Botetourt and State of Virginia in the month of January 1781 and marched under him into the State of North Carolina and joined the Army of General Green five days after the battle of the Cowpens and continued in his army until after the Battle of Guilford which battle he was in and took from a British
officer his cocked hat & feather, he was wounded by a ball on the side of his head  after this he was sent to a hospital at Colo.  Perkins on Dan River where he remained nursing and attending to the wounded after his own wound was cured between 7 & 8 weeks when he was discharged in the middle of May so that he was during this tour four months in service and five months in the Cherokee expedition aforesaid will make altogether nine months that he was in the
service of his Country during the Revolutionary war. He says that Colo Otho Williams Colo Wm Washington & Colo Henry Lee were some of the regular officers in addition to those he has mentioned who were with the troops at Guilford. He says that he received a discharge from the service in writing in both the tours he made but has lost them. He says that
William Kennerly who is now in Court knows him and knows that he served in the Cherokee expedition and in the Campaign of 1781 under General Green in North Carolina and Peter Bricky & Colo Wm Anderson who was also in the Army of General Green in the same Campaign (& are now in Court) have been long
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 with him and know that he served in the said Campaign and Mr. Bricky knows that he was in the battle of Guilford and was wounded and Colo William Anderson Colo James Cartmill and John Moore who have long known him can testify to his character for veracity and their belief of his services as a Soldier of the
Revolution. 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 – Sworn to & subscribed the day aforesaid in open Court
SC Dempsey
Jas Cashwell
Wm Anderson


We William Kennerley & Peter Brickey do hereby certify that we were acquainted with Samuel Kennerley during  he Revolutionary War the former and the said Samuel are Brothers and were raised together  that he saw him start to join the army of General Green in the state of North Carolina some time
before the battle of Guilford and after his return he saw the bullet hole in his hat and the scar of the bullet in the side of his head where he was wounded. He also states that he knows that his brother Samuel
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marched in the Company of Capt’n Patrick Buckhanan under the command of Colo William Christian from the County of Augusta in the month of June 1777 or 8 in an expedition against the Cherokee Indians on the Tennessee River and he thinks that he return from that expedition in the month of November following. Peter Brickey states that he knew the said Samuel Kennerly before he marched into North Carolina to join General Green that he was in the Army of Gen’l Green with him and served part of the time with him under Captain Thomas Rowland. that he knows that he was in the Army and he saw him engaged in the battle at Guilford his Cocked hat shot through with a bullet and the wound made by it in the side of his head he parted him shortly after the battle of Guilford and does not know how long he remained in the army. Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid in open Court

Wm. Kennerley
Peter Brickey

 And the said Court do hereby do render their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories  prescribed by the War department  that the [illegible] [illegible] applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states and the Court further Certify that it appear to him that Abraham C Dempsey who has signed the preceding Certificate is a Clergyman residing in the said county of Botetourt and that Wm Anderson James Cashwell Wm Kennerly and Peter Brickey who have signed the prescribing Certificate are residents in the same county and are Credible persons and that their statements are credible to Court.
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Virginia Botetourt County to wit
I Henry W Bowyer Clerk of the Court of Botetourt Count aforesaid do hereby Certify that the foregoing contains the original preceding of the said Court in the matter of the application of Samuel Kennerley for a pension
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 9th day of December 1834 In the 59th year of the Commonth 
HW Bowyer Clerk

{Image of a seal, which is illegible]
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REVOLUTIONARY WAR RECORDS  SECTION. 	3-525
DEPARTMENT OF INTERIOR
BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
S7.16900				Washington D.C., [blank in MS], 19 [blank in MS]
	In reply to your request of [blank in MS], received [blank in MS] for a statement of the military history of Samuel Kennerley a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information contained in his (or his widow’s) application  for pension file in this Bureau.
DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT.
June 1777 or 1778
Jany [Jan..] 1781
LENGTH OF SERVICE.
Nov 1777 or 1778
4 mos [months] 
RANK
Pvt.
OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED
CAPTAIN.		COLONEL.
Patrick  Buckhanan	William Christian
Thomas Rowland
STATE
Va 
Battles engaged in, in Cherokee Expedition Guilford where he was wounded in head
Residence of soldier at enlistment, enlisted in Augusta Co. Va.
Date of application for pension, Nov. 11 1834 His I was et.
Residence at date of application, Botetourt Co. Va.
Age of date of application, {born Feby [Feb.] or Mah. [March] 1754 in Culpeper Co. Va.
				{died in Feby [Feb.] 3 1840. in St. Louis Mo. 
Remarks: Children are referred to no names are stated other than Samuel Lockhart Kennerley, a son who died in the fall of 1843.
Respectfully,
Brother William Kennerley								Comissioner.
[illegible]-285C
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Samuel Kennerly
Virginia
Suspended
Aom’- certificate withheld
Circular Sent Claimant 
Fincastle_Va
15 Jany [Jan.] 1835
9 mo [months] for 3000
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16.900
INVALID.
File No. 16.900
Samuel Kennerly
Pri [Private] Rev War
Act: June 7 “82
Index:—Vol. 1, Page 204
[Arrangement of 1870.]

June 4 
Mrs. Randolph Coyle
2818 “P” st. md
1917 Nov. 10 Hist. to Mrs. S. Radford de Meissner
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Pension
O
Nov
U. 8 S.
1917
Office
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13-24, 31st etc
Washington, D.C.
Rev Sec
To the 
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington, D.C.’
 Dear Sir, 
	Enclosed please find a letter which explains itself, & if you can give me any information in regard of Samuel Kennerly’ I should be greatly obliged. 
Very truly,
(Mrs.) S. Radford de Meissner
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Pension
O
Nov
U. 8 S.
1917
Office
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13-24, 31st etc
Washington, D.C.
May 1st “17,	
Chief of the Record and Pension Office, War Departments
Dear Sir,
	Could you kindly have me informed as to whether there is any record of the services of “Samuel Kennerly,” who is said to have been a drummer by us the battle of Cowpens (Continental Army) and to have used a flag for which he was promoted
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& flag-bearer by “Colonel Howard.” The following extract appeared in the “Missouri Republican” of St. Louis at his death in 1840: “Another Revolutionary soldier gone. Died at the residence of his sons, Capt. George Hancock Kennerly, at Jefferson Barracks, Missouri, Monday, February 3rd 1840, after a short illness, Samuel Kennerly of Fincastle, Botetourt County,
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Virginia, in the 86th year of his age Deceased was born in Augusta County, Virginia, in 1755, and when the war commenced which secured to our country its freedom he joined the lines of the American Army & fought under its standard until victory crowned the triumph of our flag, etc. Any information for regard to “Samuel Kennerly” service would greatly oblige.
Yours truly
(Mrs.)  S. Radford de Meissner
Received A.G.O. Nov 2 1917
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L.W.B
I. 16900.
	This Bureau can furnish military record of only Revolutionary soldiers as were pensioned or whose widows were pensioned for services. 
	Such of the original muster and pay rolls of the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812 as are now in the possession of the Government are on file in the Record and Pension Office, War Department. Original rolls and other records pertaining the service in the Revolutionary War may also be found on file in the archives of many of the original States.
O.W. & N. DIV.
REVOLUTIONARY.

DEPARTMENT OF INTERIOR,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS,
WASHINTON D.C.,
June 6th, 1898.
Madam:-
	Replying to your recent communication you are advised that Samuel Kennerly made an application for pension on November 11th, 1834, at which time he was 81 years of age and residing in Botetourt County, Virginia, and his pension was allowed for nine months’ actual service as a private in the Virginia troops, Revolutionary war; a part of the time he served under Capt. Buchanan and Col. Chittenden. He enlisted in Augusta County, Virginia.
Very respectfully,
Deputy Commissioner.
Mrs. Randolph Coyle,
	2818  P  Street, N.W., 
			City.
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Samuel Kennerly
Va.
32.485
Dec 20 1834
Pension Office

To Honorable Secretary of War
Washington
[Stamped: FREE]
Pension

[Stamped, round, containing: FIRCASTLE VA. DEC 13]
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Fincastle Botetourt, April 21, 1834
Dear Sir
	Enclosed is Samuel Kennerly Papers which was forwarded by me to Joshua J. Fry of Richmond Va. and by him forwarded you for the purpose of enabling him to discuss his Pension, which Papers was returned by you to Mr. Fry as you was not satisfied of the genuinely of Mr.  Kennerly signature._ The certificate of the clerk of  our County has since been obtained and the County seal attached – should you be satisfied with this evidence Please enclosed the Papers to my Joshua J. Fry of Richmond, with the necessary order to the agent there to enable him to discuss the money, and if not satisfactory Please direct the course necessary to enable Mr. K hand his money.
Respectfully yours Mo.obt. st. [Most obedient servant]
Morgan Tutz
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Richmond 18 Mar 
Dear sir
Please order the payment of the within & much oblige yours J.J. Fry
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Samuel Kennerly, Virginia RM, act June 7 1832 at $30 per annum
	Be pleased to say to what time he was last paid.
Pension office}
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[illegible] to 4 March 1839
		JH
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TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
SECOND COMTROLLER’S OFFICE,
March 6th 1846
Sir: 
	Under the act of the 6th of April. 1838, entitled “An Act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States,” and the third section of the Act of August 23, 1842, extending the time within which pensioners may receive their pensions from the pension agents, childs [children] of Samuel Kennerly, dect.[deceased] a Pensioner on the Roll of the Richmond, Va Agency, at the rate of Thirty Dollars and [crossed] Cents per annum, under the law of the 7th June 1832, has been paid at this Department, from the 4th of March 1839, to the 3 Feby [Feb.] 1840. 
	Respectfully yours,
Albion K. Parris 
	Comptroller
To the Commissioner of Pensions,
				Present.