Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S 35494, for David Kinnaston, New Hampshire
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(3-1773) SERVICE N.H. Kinnaston, David or Kinneston or Kaniston NUMBER S35494 B.L. Wt 903-100 CONTENTS
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1882 June
G B Kenniston
Military history
Date of oath not on AB

Maine 17034
David Kinnaston
of Lincoln Co in the State of Maine
who was a private in the regiment commanded by
Colonel Scammel of the New Hamp
line, for the term of three years.

Inscribed on the Roll of Maine,
at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on
the 15 of April, 1819.

Certificate of Pension issued the 25 of May, 1882.
and sent to Jeremiah Bailey
judge, Wiscasset, Maine

Arrears to 4th of March 1820 $85.30
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4 Sept
Amos 169
1820.
48 "
& 4
$133.30
{Revolutionary claim,
Act 18th March, 1818.}
suspended
Lincoln
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5510
David Kenniston
Lincoln County,
District of Maine.
15. April, 1819.
Col. Scammel's Regt.
New Hampshire line
July 1779, to June, 1783.
found on the rolls.
Admitted
Jeremiah Bailey, judge
Wiscasset, Maine,
recd. 20. Decr. 1819.
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State of Massachusetts
I David Kenneston a Citizen of the United States, now resident at Boothbay in the County of Lincoln 
in the State aforesaid, do on oath testify and
declare, that in the War of the Revolution, on or about the month of July 1779
 
I entered and was engaged in the land
service of the United States on the continental
establishment, and served accordingly from that time to the 8th day of June 1783
I having enlisted for & during the war
as a private soldier against the common enemy, without any interruption
or absence; that I belonged to Capt. Livermore Company Col. Scammels third New Hampshire Regiment at it, but during the
service said third Regiment was reduced or dissolved & I then
belonged to Col. Henry Dearborns first New Hampshire Regiment
but I still remained in Capt. Livermore's Company
and that I left the service on the eighth day of June 1783 at a place called
Snake hill near Newbery on the Hudson river & received a regular
discharge which I have lost and that by reason of my reduced circumstances in life and poverty,
stand in need of assistance from my country for support, being now of the age of fifty eight
years

And I hereby relinquish all claims to every pension heretofore allowed me by the laws of the United States
, if any may be or hath been so allowed.
[signature] David Kinneston

Commonwealth of Massachusetts-
Lincoln ss  BE IT REMEMBERED, That on this fifteenth day of April in the year of
our Lord one thousand eight hundred and nineteen Pursuant to a law of the United States,
entitled, "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the
United States in the revolutionary war, made and passed on the 18th of March, A. D. 1818,
personally appeareth before me Jeremiah Bailey Judge of the Court of Probate within
for the County of Lincoln in the Commonwealth
being a Court of Record of said County

the abovenamed David Kennaston and
after due examination and caution to testify and declare the whole truth, he maketh oath to
the declaration aforesaid, and subscribes the same in my presence; and, on examination duly made
by me the said Judge, it appeareth to my satisfaction that the said declaration is true.
[signature] Jere Bailey

I John M. Sheppard Register of the Court of Probate for the County of Lincoln hereby
that the aforesaid Jeremiah Bailey is Judge of said Court of Probate above named
his signature to this caption is genuine & that the seal aforesaid is the seal of said court
April 15th 1819-
[signature] John H. Sheppard
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I Jeremiah Bailey Judge as aforesaid do certify that it
appears to my satisfaction that the said David Kinnaston did
serve in the revolutionary war as stated in the preceeding declaration against the common enemy; and I now transmit the
proceedings and testimony taken and had before me to the Secretary for the Department of War, pursuant to the directions of the aforementioned act of Congress. And I do further certify that it appears to
my satisfaction that the said David Kinneston by reason of his
reduced circumstances in life needs the assistance of his country for support.
Given under
my hand & seal this ninth day
of December A.D. 1819
[signature] Jere Bailey
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David Kenniston
NH Line
[illegible] No 903

900
David Kenniston
private
New Hampshire line

Warrant issued April 21st 1820

Hon. M.L. Hill
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20883-
State of Maine
County of Lincoln Wiscasset . April 8th 1820
 
I David Rennaston of Boothbay aged sixty years, a citizen of the United States, do, upon oath, testify
and declare, that, in the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy nine
I enlisted in the army of the revolution, against the common enemy of my country,
for the term of "during the war," and served in the company commanded by Capt. Daniel Livermore
and in the regiment No. three
under command of Colonel Scammell of the
New Hampshire line; and that I continued in the service aforesaid until
the close of the war, in seventeen hundred and eighty three, when I was regularly
discharged from the first regiment, commanded by Colonel
Henry Dearborn
My discharge is now lost or mislaid, so that I cannot produce it to corroborate
the above statement. I further declare that I have never received a warrant for the
Bounty Land promised to me on the part of the United States; nor have I ever assigned
or transferred my claim to that gratuity in any manner whatsoever: therefore,
Know all men by these presents that I, David Kennaston aforesaid, do hereby constitute and appoint Langdon Hill
of the county of Lincoln
and state of Maine
to be my true and lawful attorney, for me and in my name to demand and receive
from the Secretary of War of the United States, or of such other person as is
duly authorized to issue and deliver the same; a warrant for the quantity of Land
due to me as aforesaid, and to sign a receipt or acquittance therefor, and my said
attorney is hereby fully authorized and empowered to constitute and appoint one or
more substitutes or attorneys under him, for the special purposes above expressed.
Attest, [signature] Thomas McCrate
[signature] David Kinneston

I Levi Leathers
aged fifty eight
years, a citizen of the United States, do, upon oath, declare that I have been long
acquainted with David Kennaston who has subscribed
the above declaration in my presence, and well know that he is the identical person
he therein represents himself to be; and further, I know that he did perform the military
service therein stated.
[signature] Levi Leathers
Attest, [signature] Thomas McCrate
-
Before me, Thomas McCrate Esq a Justice of the Peace
Lincoln ss
Personally appeared the above named
David Kennaston subscriber to the foregoing declaration
and in my presence acknowledged the power of attorney thereto subjoined, to be his
free act and deed; and, likewise, personally appeared Leathers
who hath subscribed the above certificate of identity, both
to me well known to be men of respectability and truth, and made solemn oath to the
truth of the depositions by them respectively subscribed, this Eight
day of April 1820
[signature] Thomas McCrate
Justice of the Peace.

State of Maine
In testimony that the above written, Thomas Crate Esq
was a magistrate authorised to administer oaths, and take acknowledgments, &c.
in the state of Maine
at the above date, and that his name there
subscribed appears to me to be the usual signature, I have hereunto affixed the county
and
and subscribed my name and quality, at
day of April
this eighth
[signature] Nath Cofrin Clerk of the Judicial Courts
in the said County of Lincoln
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May 23, 1938
XXXXX
DAVID KINNASTON
S. $5494
BA-J/ALS

Mr. Emery Kenniston Rice
7 Cliftondale Avenue
Saugus, Massachusetts
Dear Sir:

Maine.
Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revolutionary
War record of David Kenniston who served from New Hampshire
and received a pension while residing in Boothbay, Lincoln County, Maine.

You are furnished herein the record of David Kinnaston (surname
shown, also, Kenniston and Kaniston) as found in the papers of the claims
for pension and bounty land under File No. S. 38494, based upon his
service in the Revolutionary War.

The date and place of birth and names of the parents of David
Kinnaston are not shown.

David Kinnaston entered the service in July, 1779, place not stated,
for the period of the Revolution, served as private corporal and sergeant
in Captain Daniel Livermore's company, a part of the time in Colonel
Scammell's New Hampshire Regiment and part of the time in Colonel
Henry Dearborn's 1" New Hampshire Regiment, and was discharged June 8, 1783.

The soldier was allowed pension on his application executed April 18,
1819, at which time he was aged fifty-eight years and a resident of
Boothbay, Lincoln County, Massachusetts (Maine). He signed David Kinnaston.

On account of the Revolutionary War service of David Kinnaston,
Warrant No. 903, for one hundred acres of bounty land, was issued
1819. In 1828, the soldier was still living in Boothbay, Maine.

It is not stated whether the soldier was ever married.

In order to obtain date of last payment of pension, the
and
address of the person paid, and possibly the date of death of this soldier,
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you should write to the Comptroller General, General Accounting
Office, Records Division, this city, and cite the following data:
David Kinnaston, certificate #17034, issued May 20, 1820, rate $8
per month, commenced April 15, 1818, Act March 18, 1818, Maine
Agency.

If you desire information in regard to location of the land
granted David Kinnaston, you should apply to the Commissioner of the
General Land Office, Interior Depart
official the number of the warrant, the acreage and date of issuance.

Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator
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for the purpose of obtaining the benefit of "An Act for the relief
of certain surviving officers & soldiers of the army of the Revolution
approved on the fifteenth of May 1828. I David Kennaston
of Boothbay in the County of Lincoln in the State of Maine, do
hereby declare that I enlisted in the continental Line of the Army
of the Revolution for and during the war, and continued in its
service untill its termination; at which period I was a soldier
and corporal
in Capt Daniel Livermores company, in the first
Regiment of Colonel Dearborn in the New Hampshire troops, 
 And I also declare that I have not received a
certificate for the reward of Eighty Dollars, to which I was entitled
under a resolve of Congress, passed the 15th of May 1778
And I further declare that I was not on the fifteenth day
of March 1828 on the Pension List of the United States
[signature] David Kinnaston

Before me Moses Carleton
a Justice of the Peace in
the
County of Lincoln, in the State of Maine, Personally appeared this
day, Ephraim Alley
and Stephen Carleton
of the said
County, who did severally make oath that David Kinnaston by
whom the foregoing declaration was subscribed, is generally reputed
and believed to have been a soldier
in the army of the Revolution
in manner as therein stated
[signature] Ephraim Alley
[signature]  Stephen Carleton

witness my hand this Nineteenth day of June
one thousand Eight Hundred & twenty Eight
in the year
[signature] Moses Carlton Jus P

I Nathaniel Coffin clerk of the courts of the County of
Lincoln in the State of Maine, do certify that Moses Carleton
before whom the foregoing affidavits were sworn, was at the time
Justice of the Peace, and duly empowered to administer oaths
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and
affixed the seal of the said Court this Twenty first day of June
in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred & twenty eight
[signature] Nath Coffin Cle
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Know all men by these presents, that I David Kinnaston of
Boothbay
in the County of Lincoln, in the State of Maine
do hereby constitute and appoint Thomas McCrate, my true and
lawfull attorney, with a power of substitution, for me and in my
name, to receive from the United States the amount of pay
now due to me under the act for the relief of certain surviving
officers and soldiers of the Revolution, approved 15th May 1828 as a
soldier & Corporal in the regiment of the New Hampshire line of the army
of the Revolution
Witness my hand and seal this Nineteenth day of June
in the year one thousand Eight Hundred & twenty Eight
[signature] David Kinneston
sealed & delivered in the Presence
[signature] John Anderson
[signature] Moses Carlton

Before me Moses Carleton
a Justice of the
Peace, in the County of Lincoln, in the State of Maine, Personally
appeared this day David Kennaston whose
name is subscribed
to the foregoing power of attorney, and acknowledged the same to
be
his act and deed
Witness my hand this nineteenth day of June
in the
year 1828
[signature] Moses Carlton

I Nathaniel Coffin
Clerk of the courts of the County
Lincoln, in the State of Maine do hereby certify, that
Moses Carleton before whom the foregoing power of attorney
was acknowledge is a Justice of the Peace.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand
and affixed the seal of the court
of
June
this Twenty first day
in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred
twenty eight
[signature] Nath'l Coffin
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Before me Moses Carleton
a Justice of the Peace
in the County of Lincoln, in the State of Maine, personally appeared
this day, Thomas McCrate, the attorney named in the foregoing
power of attorney, and made oath that the same was not given to him
by reason of any transfer, or of any attachment, levy or serve, by
any legal process whatever, of the pay therein authorised to be
received, but that the said pay is intended to ensure wholly
to the personal benefit of the person by whom the said power was
executed
[signature] Thomas Mc Crate
Witness my hand this Nineteenth day of June in the year
1828
[signature] Moses Carlton

Before me Moses Carleton
a Justice of the Peace in the County of Lincoln, in the State of Maine, personally appeared
this day Ephraim Alley
and Stephen Carleton
of the said County, who did severally make oath, that David Kenneston by
whom the foregoing declaration was subscribed is generally
reputed and believed to have been a soldier in the army
of the Revolution in manner as therein stated
[signature] Ephraim Alley
[signature] Stephen Carlson
Witness my hand this Nineteenth day of June in the year
1828
[signature] Moses Carlton

I Nathaniel Coffin Clerk of the Courts for the County of
Lincoln, in the State of Maine, do hereby certify, that before whom
the foregoing affidavits were sworn, was, at the time a Justice
of the Peace, duly empowered to administer oaths
In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand
and affixed the seal of the said Court, this Twenty first day of
June
in the year one thousand Eight Hundred & twenty Eight
[signature] Nathl.  Coffin
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257
315
no of orig pay 257
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIMS.
Allowed act 1828
TREASURY DEPARTMENT.
July 22 1828
David Kinnaston of Boothbay in the County of
Lincoln in the State of Maine
has applied to the Secretary
of the Treasury for the benefits of the act, entitled ""An Act for the relief of certain surviving
officers and soldiers of the Revolution," approved the 15th of May, 1828. He states that he
enlisted in the Continental line of the army of the Revolution, for and during the war, and
continued until its termination, at which period he was a Corporal
in captain Livermore's company, in Col Dearborn's regiment of the New Hampshire line;
and that he received a certificate for the reward of eighty dollars, provided by the resolve of
the 15th of May, 1778; and further, that he was not on the 15th day of May, 1828, on the
pension list of the United States, and that he has received as a pensioner since the 3d of
March, 1826, nothing.

The Third Auditor is requested to report how far the several statements are corroborated by the records in his office.
By order of the Secretary
[signature] A. Dickins

35, 474
TREASURY DEPARTMENT.
THIRD AUDITOR'S OFFICE,
28. July 1828
It appears by the records in this office, that a certificate for the reward of eighty dollars has
been issued to David Kenniston in the New Hampshire line
It further appears that David Kenniston
list of the any
agency, and has been so since the 3 March 1826
at the rate of
[signature] Peter Hagner
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35494
Revy INVALID.
File No. 35,494
David Kenniston
Pri Rev War
Act: 18 March 18
Index:-Vol. 2, Page 220
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Dec 14'98
George Chamberlain
Weymouth Mass
May 22 1902
Mrs. N.L. Shaw
Anamia Iowa

1138 May 23 Hist to Emery Rice MHB
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Custom House, Collector's Ofice, 
WISCASSET, MAINE
A88
Collector.
[stamp] U.S.PENSION OFFICE. JUN 1 1882
No. of Enclosures.
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Custom House, Boothday Maine,
Collector's Office May 29 1882.

Sir:
Will you have the goodness to innform me the Regt. Co. and length of service of David Kenniston formerly a soldier of the Revolution and a pensioner. deceased in 1844. He was my grandfather, and I wish to put his military service on his monument.
I am sr
Respectfully yrs
[signature] G.B. Kinneston

Hon. W. W. Dudley
Am. N. [illegible]
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Weymouth, Mass. Nov. 28, 1898.
To the Honorable, the Chief of the Bureau of Pensions
Washington, D.C.
My dear Sir,
For purposes of
historical publication I desire the full declarations in the
of
original application papers of David Kennerson who was a soldier
in the American Revolution and who is described in the U.S.
Pension List for 1820 on page 408.
The surname I have found Kennerson, Kennison, Kenerson,
Kenison, Kinnerson, Keniston
He lived at different times in New Hampshire, Maine, Vermont,
New York and Illinois. He died at Chicago, Ill. 24 Feb. 1852
aged 115 years. Shall I have the pleasure of a copy of every fact on file concerning this man?
Awaiting your pleasure I am
 Very respectfully,
[signature] Geo. W. Chamberlain
 (member of the Maine Historical Society)
 
[stamp] U.S. PENSION OFFICE H NOV 30 1898

ERROR HE REFERS w. [ILLEGIBLE] dAVID s42782
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I Levi Leathers of Phipsburg in the County of Lincoln
& Commonwealth of Massachusetts on oath do testify and
declare that I am well acquainted with David Kinnaston of
Boothbay in said County the person who has made the fore
going application & that I was about four years is with
him in our Revolutionary war he enlisted in the
year 1779 for & during the war in Capt. Livermore
Company
Col. Scammels 3 New Hampshire Regiment
& faithfully served until the eighth day of June 1783 when
he was regularly discharged he belonged the whole
time to said Capt. Livermores Company but I understood
that in some part of the service said Company
was attested
to the first New Hampshire Regiment commanded by Col. Henry
Dearborn I was a soldier in the second New Hampshire Regiment commanded by Col. George Reed was also discharged
in June 1783, when we were of duty I used to see said
Kinnaston very often & know that he was in the service &
performed his duty as he has stated in his foregoing application we were both born in one town & I have always been
acquainted with said Kennaston & we kept up our
acquaintance while in the army
[signature] Levi Leather
(over)
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Lincoln ss. April 15, 1819 Personally appeared before me
Jeremiah Bailey Judge as aforesaid the aforenamed Levi
Leather and after due caution to testify the whole truth
the solemnly made oath to the truth of the foregoing
deposition by him signed, which deposition was written by
me & signed in my presence and said deponent is a
credible person & his statement entitled to credit
& belief.-
[signature] Jere Bailey
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7 Cliftondale Ave.
Saugus, Mass.,
April 18, 1938.

The Adminstrator
Veteran's Adminstration
Washington, D.C.
Sir:
I respectfully apply for the military record of my
great, great, great grandfather, David Kenniston, a soldier
and pensioner of the Revolution who lived at Boothbay, Lincoln
County, Maine, June 1, 1840, aged about eighty-three. He perhaps
served from New Hampshire.
Sincerely yours,
[signature] Emery Kenniston Rice

[stamp] RECEIVED APR 19 1933 MAIL SUB-DIV.PENS.ADM.READER #29
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onl
#35.494
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Wiscasset June 20th 1825
To the Hon Richard Rush
Secy U.S. Treasury
Sir the undersigned, attorney,
for David Kinnaston, named in the Declaration which this accompanies
having lost or mislaid his discharge begs leave to give you a statement
of his services in the Revolutionary Army. said Kinnaston
enlisted in 1779 in Capt Daniel Livermore. Company, in Col Scammons
regiment, in the New Hampshire line and continued in the same
company untill the close of the war, the Regiment was divided and
disposed into the first & second, which brought him into the
first regiment commanded by Col. B. Dearborn, in which he continued untill the end of the war & was discharged in June 1783
at Newburgh, N. York, State, and continued untill the winters
following in the Army, having during his service the last two
years acted as a corporal, and since June 1783 as Sargent till the
time of his pual discharge, said David Kinnaston received in
1820 or 1821 a Land Warrant for his services in said army, 100
acres of Land, being Lot No 5, in the first quarter, of the tenth
Township, in the third range of the Tract appropriated for satisfying
warrants for Millitary services, agreeable to an act passed March
23 1799. the 11th February 1800 & March 3rd 1843
The proof of his enlistment and time of service is in the Secretary of war
Office, to which I would refer you I think there can be no
doubt of your finding his name in the War Office, he is now far of
advanced in life and rather supernated, the subscribing name to be
identity Ephraim Ally & Stephen Carleton and both men of respectable
standing, Alley receives
now a pension from the U. State, and served in the same
Regiment with said Kennaston, and has known him ever since, the
other Stephen Carleton, an old soldier who does not come under the act
of 1820 or 28 passing some property having served two years
The certificate to which Kinnaston was entitled by act of Congress 1778
he says he did not receive, and I altered the form of his declaration as you the
although I did not distinctly perceive necesity, the form being given us
it was in compliance with his request that it was done, as he did not receive
the certificate for the reward of Eighty Dollars as then stated and
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to which he was entitled, all of which is humbly submitted with Respect, yours Oc
[signature] Thomas McCrate