Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 19367, for John Kincaid, Virginia
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Service - Va.


Kincaid, John


Number - S.19367



carded
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John Kincaid

Va.
No.30584


Admitted as private
10 months 33.33



Samuel Price
Nicholas

orig. dec allowed from 10 to 12 months
the add "not allowed"
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State of Virginia
County of Fayette ss.

On the 17th day of February 1834 personally appeared in open court before the Court of the County of Fayette now sitting the same being a court of record John Kincaid a resident of said Fayette County and State of Virginia aged 73 years to the best of his knowledge on the 10th day of March last who being first sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the Act of Congress of the United States passed June 7 1832.  That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and  served as herein stated, that he was drafted in the month of February in the year 1781 under Capt. John Henderson and Lieut. John Woods and Major Andrew Hamilton had the command. He then lived in Greenbrier County Va.  He started to the place of rendezvous on or about the 14th day of February and met at James Byrnesides the place of rendezvous on the 15th day of that month 1781.
He was drafted as a private in said Company but if there were any stated time for the termination of his services he does not now recollect.  He served more than six months perhaps seven.  But he thinks he did not serve as much as seven by a very few days.  He served his whole time in Western Virginia.l The company was assembled in Greenbrier County Va.   they were then marched to Fort "Chisel"? then in Montgomery County Va. After remaining there some six or eight weeks he was marched back to Woods' Fort near New River in Greenbrier Co. and was kept employed in guarding indians and Tories.  He was here under Capt. Archibald Woods.  He aided in retaking eleven American prisoners from the
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indians, after killing two indians in the engagement.
After having served the foregoing period and performed the foregoing services he was discharged by Capt. Wood and Henderson both signing a written discharge - which discharge is either lost or mislaid.
In the spring of 1782 he was again drafted under Capt. Archibald Woods.  He does not know in what month.  This was in Greenbrier County Va. He served to the best of his recollection under the draft.  He was stationed in Greenbrier Co. but was frequently sent as a spy out of that County in pursuit of indians.
From the service he was discharged but not in writing.
In the summer of 1783 the month he does not recollect he was again called into the service as a drafted militia man under the same Capt. A. Woods and served one month guarding the County from the depredations of the indians. This was generally in Greenbrier Co. after which time he was verbally discharged by his captain. 
He served his whole time as a private and never secured a commission. He has no documentary evidence of his services but he believes he can prove his services by a living witness. He was born on the 10th day of March 17060 to the best of his knowledge.  He has no record of his age. He was born in the County of Amherst in the State of Virginia.  He has generally lived in the County of Greenbrier and Kanawha until the formation of Fayette County in which he now lives - Major Andrew Hamilton was the highest officer in command under whom I served. There is no clergyman in the neighborhood. But he is known to Joseph ? and James ? of his neighborhood who can testify to his character for veracity and the General belief of his services as a soldier in the Revolution - He 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.

John Kincaid

Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
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WE Joseph Skaggs and James Likins 
residing in the neighborhood of the aforesaid John Kincaid do certify that we are well acquainted with the said John Kincaid who has subscribed and sworn to the foregoing declaration that we believe him to be about 73 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.
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid

James Likins
Joseph Skaggs

And the said court do hereby declare their opinion of the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states - And the court further certifies that it appears to them that there is no clergyman residing in the neighborhood of the said John Kincaid and that James Likins and Joseph Skaggs who have signed the preceding certificate are residents in the neighborhood of the said John Kincaid and are  credible persons and that their statements are entitled to credit.

I Hiram Hill clerk of the County Court of Fayette County do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of John Kincaid for a pension

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office this 17th day of February in the year AD 1834 and in the 58th of our foundation
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Virginia

23913

John Kincaid
Fayette in the State of Va
who was a private in the Company commanded
by Captain Henderson of the .....
commanded   in the Va
line for 10 months


Inscribed on the Roll of Virginia
at the rate of 33 Dollars 33 cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.


Certificate of Pension issued the 21st day of April 1834 
and sent to Samuel Price 
Nicholas Court House Va.


Arrears to the 4th of March 1834        $99.99
Semi-anl allowance ending  4 Sept. 1834  $16.67

$116.66


{Revolutionary Claim,}
{Act June 7, 1832}

Recorded by Nathaniel Rice Clerk
Book E Vol. ? Page 21



Letter Agent August 19 1835  ? (This letter cannot be found)
Letter Pension 24 1835
Letter to Owen Williams July 21, 1836

John Kincaid

Aug 17/60


(bottom is too light)
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October 27, 1923


John Kincaid, S.19367
BA-J/MCS


Honorable John Kee
House of Representatives 
Washington
D.C.


My dear Mr. Kee:

The data which follow were obtained from papers on file in the pension claim, S.19367, based upon the military service of John Kincaid.

He was born March 10, 1760 in Amherst County, Virginia.

While a resident of Greenbrier County, Virginia, he enlisted and served as private with the Virginia troops as follows:  from February 15, 1781, six or seven months under Captains John Henderson and Archibald Woods and Major Andrew Hamilton; in the spring of 1782, three months under Captain Archibald Woods.

He was allowed pension on his application executed February 17, 1834, at which time he was living in Fayette County, Virginia, having previously lived in Kanawha County, Virginia.

The papers in the claim contain no data relative to the soldier's family.

Very truly yours,

A.D. Hiller 
Assistant to Administrator


Death not in A.B.
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The Rev. War pensioner John Kincaid, Va. Troops, S File 19367 - a resident of Fayette Co., Va. was erroneously dropped from the pension roll on account of the report from Singleton the U.S. District Attorney dated Feb. 13, 1835 being filed by mistake in his claim, said report is headed, "John Kincaid, Pensioner Allegany Co."

I have left all these papers in this claim because all of the correspondence is endorsed on the jacket, also because a John Kincaid of Fayette Co. wrote a letter of inquiry in regard to the man of Fayette Co. and also because there were two Rev. War pensioners of that name, one in Allegany Co. Va, and the other in Allegany Co. Pa.  and as I did not know how far the district of the U.S. Attorney extended in 1835 and the borders of those states were disputed.  I do not wish to apply it to the wrong case again.
The statement made in the report is so vague that no pensioner should have been dropped without further investigation anyhow.

Wilson July 6, 1915
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Rev. section


1136 Highland St.
Covington, Va.
Dec. 10, 1821

The Commissioner of Pensions
Washington, D.C.


Dear Sir,  I am anxious to join the Sons of the Revolution and would appreciate what information you can furnish of the two following soldiers of the Revolution.

John Kincaid who served from 1780 and was pensioned in 1835 in Fayette Co. Va now in W. Va. S 19637

John Kincaid who served from Augusta County Va, and received a pension in 1835 and was living in Bath County, Va. (Error) and was born in 1759 Alleghany Co, Va W3428
Kincaid is sometimes spelled Kinkaid and Kinkead.
Thanking you in advance for any help you can give me.  
I am 
Very truly yours,
Ernest Kincaid
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W.S. Johnson
Treasurer


State of West Virginia
Office of Treasurer,
Charleston.

Feb. 1, 1924.



U.S. Pension Bureau
Revolutionary Department,
Washington, D.C.



Gentlemen:

Will you kindly send me the record of John Kincaid of Fayette County, West Virginia, and oblige?

Very truly yours,

W.S. Johnson
Treasurer of West Virginia







J:C
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Kincaid, W. Va.
March 24, 1931

Commissioner of Pensions
Washington, D.C.


Dear Sir:

Will you please give me any information obtainable from your office in regard to John Kincaid a soldier who served in the Revolutionary war.
He received pension, lived in Fayette, at the time he received the pension but I do not know at what place he lived.
Do you have any record of his service?
At what place did he reside at time he received pension?
Do you have any record of
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any members of his family?
Would it be possible to obtain other information of this soldier than what is recorded in Pension Office
Some members of his descendants desirous of joining DAR and can not do so without more definite information than we have.
Thanking you for any information you may give me of above soldier or of any suggestions as to receiving further information.

I am 

yours truly

Mrs. Laura M. Blake
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19367

INVALID

File No. 19367



[Arrangement of 1870]

Right side


March 19/96 Copy of declaration 
Hon. John J. Hall Asst. Atty Gen.
by order of Chief Clerk 

1915 July 6 History to Miss Lois Hall AW

1922 Jan. 6 Hist. to E.L. Kincaid, 1136
Highland St. Covington, Va. (see his letter in John Kincaid, Va.
W3428 

1924 Feb. 13 Hist. to W.S. Johnson

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1930 July 12 W.S. Johnson adv. as to whom pen ctf. was sent etc. Letter of inquiry returned to sender

_____________________________________________
1931 May 5 hist. to Mrs. Laura W. Blake

1933 Oct. 23 - Hon. John Kee adv. cost of photos.  See corres. in Geo. Swain 
R.10329 
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1933 Oct. 27 hist. to Hon. John Kee see Rev. claim of Geo. Swain C.10329
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Rev. Sec.


R.F.D. 1 Marshall Mo.
June 28-1915

Commissioner of Pensions
Washington,
D.C.


Dear Sir:-

Please send me copies of records (Revolutionary) of John Kincaid of Bath Co., Va. (W 3428 really Allegany Co. ) and John Kincaid of Fayette Co., Va. - (S19367)

Respectfully,

Miss Lois Hall
R.D. 1 Marshall
Missouri
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John Kincaid
Aug. 17