Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 29925, for William Jenkins, Massachusetts
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(3-1776)
SERVICE | * | NUMBER

Mass. | Jenkins, William | S.29925

CONTENTS
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27230
Massachusetts
William Jenkins
of Salem in the state of Mass who was a private in the Army commanded by Captain Mann of the [illegible] commanded by [lined out] in the Mass 
line for 8 months 18 days Infant., 6 Months ..Artilery

Inscribed on the Roll of Mass at the rate of 53 Dollars 64 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of Mar, 1834.

Certificate of Pension issued the 10th da of Mar 1834...Sent to Benj'n [Benjamin] Merrill Esqr. Salem Mass

Arrears to the 4th of March 1834 $160.92
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sep " [1834] 26-82
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29925
Revy INVALID.
File No. 29925
William Jenkins
Pvt Rev War
Act: June 7th 92"
Index: - Vol. 2, Page 209
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress, passed June 7, 1832.
STATE OF MASSACHUSETTS: CONTY OF ESSEX, ss.
On this eighteenth day of February A. D. 1834 personally appeared in open court, before the HONORABLE DANIEL APPLETON WHITE, Judge of the Court of Probate for the County of Essex aforesaid, now sitting, William Jenkins, a resident of Salem, in the County of Essex and State of Massachusetts, aged 72 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:
in the summer of 1777 at Wrentham in Massachusetts the said Jenkins voluntarily enlisted as a private soldier in Capt. Mann's Company of Massachusetts Militia and served therein one month and marched on a campaign to Bristol and Providence in Rhode Island and to Obidike's Newtown: he cannot recollect the name of the Colonel of the Regiment: Timy [Timothy] Hancock was Lieutenant of the said Company: he served one month when the Company was dismissed and said Jenkins was honorably discharged: 

Again, in 1778 he enlisted as a private soldier voluntarily in Capt. John Ellis' Company in Col. Thomas Poor's Regiment in the Massachusetts Line on the Continental Establishment to serve there in for the term of nine months and did serve therein all that term from the time he was mustered till he was discharged at the expiration in the Spring of 1779 at Kingsbridge - he marched to Peekskill, White Plains, and Westpoint & Kingsbridge: he knows he served the whole term of nine months, and cannot account for its being recorded that he served only 7 mo. & 18 days: he has honorably discharged at Kings bridge as aforesaid:

And again in 1780, the month and day he cannot recollect, he enlisted as a private artificer in the Company commanded by Capt. Treadwell, Capt. St. George, in Col. Cranes Regiment of Artillery in the Massachusetts Line of the Continental Army and marched from Boston to Westpoint and served the full term of six months for which he enlisted - [words crossed out], he has a regular written discharge but has lost it:

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 recollection he served not less than the full
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periods above stated:

That on 14th Augt. 1832 the said Jenkins made application for a Pension and then caused his said application to be duly forwarded to the Pension Office at Washington, and has been informed and believes that the same application is lost or mislaid and cannot be found:

That he is poor & infirm and cannot find witnesses who know of his services aforesaid:

That he was born in Malden in Massachusetts: and lived there till he was 21 years old: and then removed to Salem and has ever since resided at Salem:

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] William Jenkins

Sworn to an subscribed the day and year aforesaid
[signed] D. A White, Judge of Probate. 

We, John P. Cleaveland, a clergyman, residing in Salem aforesaid, and John Punchard: Esquire, a magistrate, residing in Salem aforesaid, do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with William Jenkins who has subscribed and sworn to the above declarations; that we believe him to be 72 years of age; that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.

[signed] John Punchard
[signed] John P. Cleaveland

Subscribed and sworn to before 
[signed] Benj. Merrill Just: Peace
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The undersigned citizens of Salem in Massachusetts do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with William Jenkins, a Revolutionary Soldier, long a resident at said Salem, and know that he is a worthy, honest, upright man, in indigent circumstances. We have full belief in his veracity
Feby 18, 1834
[signed by the following}
Joseph Beach Selectman
[indecipherable] Selectman
H. J. Breed Selectman
Jos [illegible] Town Clerk
[illegible] Neals
Jos. Winn
John Daland
M. Townsend
Stephen Field
[illegible] 

Daniel Sage
John Edwards
Zach Burchmore
Samuel [Illegible]
William Duncan
Benjamin Fabery
Joseph Rosse
John Stone
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William Jenkins
29896
Salem Mass

Adm'd
Pri Infantry 8yr 18 days
Artillery 6 months
Capt Mann 

Benj'n Merrill Esqr
Salem Mass
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William Jenkins
29.896
Mass

Private of Infantry 8 mo 18 days
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Adnell
Capt Mann
Please reply to Benj. Merrill
Salem. Masstts
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

Secretary's Office, Jany. 10 1834 
I hereby Certify, That, from an examination of the Books and Documents, relating to Military Services in the War of the Revolution, which remain in this Department, it appears that the name of William Jenkins is born on a Pay Roll of Capt. John Ellis' Company, in Col. Thomas Poor's regiment, where he is allowed for services, from June 11, 1778 to Jany 29. 1779, seven months and eighteen days.                    m 7. 18.

[signed] Edward D Bang. Secy

EWL.
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And the said Court hereby declares its opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the abovenamed applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier, and
served as he states. And the Court further certifies that John P. Cleaveland who has signed the preceding Certificate, is a Clergyman resident in Salem and that the said John Punchard Esqr who has also signed the same is a Magistrate resident at Salem
and is a credible person and that their statement is entitled to credit.
[signed] D. A. White       Judge of Probate

I Benjamin Mervin Esqr of Salem do make
oath that William Jenkins at above Court of Probate held in Salem on 14th August 1832 made application for a Pension I prepare his papers & after Court forwarded the same
with the applications of others to the War Department & on inquiry will have been informed that the same cannot be found.
Benj. Merrill
Essex: Feby 18, 1834
provate and subscribed before
D. A. White
Judge of Probate

I, Nathaniel Lord Junior, Register of the Court of Probate for the County of Essex aforesaid, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of William Jenkins for a pension, and that Benjamin
Merrill aforenamed is a Justice of the
Peace in and for said County and his
Signature on the preceding page is
genuine

IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this eighteenth day
of February A. D. 1834
Math Lord jr.