Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 8108, for Jencks Perkins, Rhode Island
Page 1

(3-1776)
SERVICE 
R.I. 
Perkins, Jencks. 
Elizabeth 
NUMBER 
R. 8108
CONTENTS
Page 2

Hnr. J.G. Floyd 
A02
Page 4

State of Rhode Island ss. 
Washington ss.
Clerks Office Supreme Judicial 
Court November 17th 1844
I Powell Helme, Clerk of the Supreme Judicial 
Court of the County of Washington do hereby certify that 
Matthew Waite Esq is a Justice of the Peace for the Twon 
of South Kingstown in said County of Washington, duly appointed 
by the General Assembly, commissioned by the Governor and otherwise 
qualified as the Law directs, and that his name subscribed to the 
aforgoing certificate is his genuine signature. 
The testimony whereof I have hereunto 
set my name and affixed the seal 
of the Court aforesaid the day and 
year above written. 
Powell Helme 
Clerk
Page 8

Richmond April the 18 AD 1795
This may certify all persons whom it 
May concern that Jenks Perkins of South 
Kingston Son of Nathaniel Perkins Deceased 
and Elizabeth Wanton of Newport Daughter of 
Zebulon Wanton Deceased these two person 
were published at three publick Meeting Days 
according to the Law of this State by me the subscriber
Charles Boss Elder
Page 11

1913. Aug 11.
"Relative to 
Volume and Page" Frr.
(see carbon)
[blacked out]
REJECTED 
8108
P.O. Elizabeth Perkins 
Service: 
Enlisted: _______________________, 18.
Discharged: ____________________, 18.
Reason for Rejection
Printed Volume- Rejected-
Suspended Pensions. 
Application filed:_________________, 18 .
Page 182- "for further
proof and specification."
Alleges: 
Elizabeth-widow of Jencks. 
Whitestown, Oneida. 
Co. NY. 
Re-enlisted:
Attorney:
P.O. 
Recognized. 
Contract. 
Cert. of Dis. 
Searched for_____________, 18 .
Page 12

U. S. PENSION OFFICE.
[illegible letter]
AUG 7 1913

Lawrenceville, Pa.
Aug. 5, 1913.

Commissioner of Pensions
Washington, D. C.

Dear Sir, - 

Would you please give me the volume and page of document on which the record of Jinkes (now spelled Jenckes) Perkins, served in the Revolutionary War as a private in Captain Stephen Babcock's Company, Colonel William Barton's Light Corps, Rhode Island Troops.
Page 13

are enclosing a stamp.  Would appreciate a prompt reply.  Are very anxious to know if I can really be a Daughter of the Revolution.  have all the other questions answered but this.  The national number of D. A. R. is 96374.  
Very truly yours,
Ellen Perkins Darling

Mrs. Walter W. Darling,
Lawrenceville, Pa.
Tioga Co.
Page 14

Frr. 
Rev. War Section 
August 11, 1913.
Mrs. Walter W. Harling 
Lawrenceville, 
Tioga County, Pa. 
Madam: 
In response to your letter dated the 5th and received 
the 7th instant, you are advised that the Revolutionary War 
pers in this Bureau are arranged in files and the official 
reference to your ancestor is Jencks Perkins, R. File No. 
8,108, which is recognized by the Society of the D.A.E. 
Very respectfully, 
E. C. Tieman 
Acting Commissioner.