Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R 5979, for William Kinsey, Pennsylvania
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Services
Penn.
Kinsey William
or Kinsey Catherine
Number 
R5979
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State of Pennsylvania
County of Buck
I Thomas Hall of the city of Burlington and state of New Jersey being duly affirmed accoursing  to las do depose and say that I know that William Kinsey late of Bristol in the county of Buck in the State of Pennsylvania deceased was a soldier in the revolutionary war as a militia man of the State of Pennsylvania and that he marched to Princeton in the State of New Jersey under either Captain John Priestley Captain or Captain John Thompson but I cannot say which of them it was for they such held the station of Captain we said William Kinsey boarded with my mother in Bristol in the county of Buck in the state aforesaid previous to his marriage and I know he took his turn on guard at Bristol most of the time the British were in Philadelphia and at one time the British horsemen came up in the night as far as Greensford which is three miles below Bristol and in the morning they said William Kinsey with the rest that has been on guard all night with him fired off a cannon which was customary for  them to do every and the British hearing it rode into Bristol and as the said William Kinsey was getting into bed after being up all night one of the horsemen rode up to my mother's door and asked her if she had any damn rebels there and she said she did not keep damn rebels in her house and the said William Kinsey hearing him was upon the chamber and hid himself in the old enbard(?) behind the breastwork of the chimney and the horseman rode off not knowing that anyone was concealed in the house.
Affirmed and ascribed before me one of the Judges of the Court of Common Please in and for the County of Bucks in the State of Pennsylvania.
Thomas Hall
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State of Pennsylvania
County of Buck

I Thomas Hall of the City of Burlington and the Sate of New Jersey being duly affirmed according to law XX depose and say I know that William Kinsey , late of Bristol in the County of Buck and the State of Pennsylvania deceased and married to Catherine Kinsey who now lives in Bristol in the County and State aforesaid previous to the Inauguration of General Washington as president of the United States but I do not recollect in what year they married and they lived together until the day of his death which took place on the Ninth day  of December A.D. 1832 and that the said Catherine Kinsey has remained widowed since that period 
Affirmed to and subscribed before me on this eleventh day of June A.D. one thousand eight hundred and thirty nine  
As of the X of the Court of Common Pleas of Buck County 
W.H. Jenks (illegible)
Thomas Hall
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State of Pennsylvania}
County of Bucks}  SS

I Joseph Stackhouse of the Township of Bristol in the County of Bucks and State of Pennsylvania being duly affirmed according to law do depose and say that I was personally acquainted with a part of the services which William Kinsey of Bristol in the County of Bucks and State of Pennsylvania performed in the revolutionary war as a malitia [militia]  man of the State of Pennsylvania.   He was called out and marched to New Town County of Bucks and from there to what was then called [illegible crossed out words] Carrell's Ferry and from there [illegible crossed out word] with the [illegible] of company came back to Bristol.
Affirmed and subscribed to before me one of the Judges of the court of common Pleas in and for the County of Bucks and State Pennsylvania on the eleventh day of June AD one thousand eight and thirty nine}
M.H. Jenks [illegible] Judge
[illegible words in quotation marks]
band before Signed
M. H. Jenks
[illegible].  The above person was from bodily infirmity unable to attend a court of record but was [illegible]
M.H. Jenks
I do hereby certify that Joseph Stackhouse and Thomas Hall the above named witnesses are now and always have been esteemed men of unblemished reputation for veracity to the best of my knowledge and belief
M. H. Jenks
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V
5618

Catharine Kinsey
of Williams Pennsylvania
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State of Pennsylvania
County of Bucks} S.S.

On this eleventh day of June A. D, one thousand eight hundred and thirty nine personally appeared before the subscriber one of the Judges of the Court of Comon [Common] Pleas of the County of Bucks and State of Pennsylvania Catherine Kinsey a resident of Bristol in the County of Bucks and State of Pennsylvania aged seventy nine years, who being first duly affirmed according to law doth on her [illegible] make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed July 7th 1838
That she is the widow of William Kinsey late of Bristol Bucks County and State of Pennsylvania, who was a draughted [drafted?] soldier in the war of the revolution in the militia of the State of Pennsylvania under Capton [Captain] John Thomso but she cannot recollect the name of the company which he was in nor the time when he entered the service nor the period when he left it.  He was a resident of Bristol, Bucks County and State of Pennsylvania when he entered the service , He was called out to meet General Washington previous to the battle of Germantown but did not arrive until the day after the battle was over, He was at the battle of White March and he was at a skermish [skirmish] at the Gulf Mills and he was called out and marched to New Town Bucks County and from there to what was then called [illegible] Ferry and then he with the rest  of the company was obliged to retreat in consequence of the superior force of the enemy and she thinks from the best of her recollection that most of the services
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were performed under Capton [captain] John Thomson 
She further declares that she was married to the said William Kinsey she cannot recollect the day of the month but she declares it was in the autumn of the year seventeen hundred and seventy eight that her husband the aforesaid William Kinsey died on the Ninth day of December 1832 and that she has remained a widow ever since that period as will more fully appear by reference to the proof hereto annexed, [word Sworn crossed out] affermed [affirmed] to and subscribed on the day and year above written, before, me the subscriber one of the judges of the Court of Common Pleas of Bucks County
M.H.Jenks
[illegible] Judge

Catherine her X mark Kinsey

Witness present at signing
Mark Hullings

[illegible] :   The [illegible] for [illegible] over the words sworn made before signing also [illegible]

M. H. Jenks

[illegible]  The widow being unable to attend a court of record, from impunity, was personally waited on by me

M. H. Jenks [illegible] Judge

I do hereby certify that the above named Catherine Kinsey is now and always has been esteemed a woman of unblemished reputation for veracity to the best of my knowledge and belief

M.H. Jenks
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Pennsylvania
Bucks County ss

[Paper seal with words Bucks County attached to left hand side of document]

I John B. Pugh, Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County, do hereby certify that the Hon. Michael H. Jenks before whom the foregoing acknowledgement or Declaration was taken is one of the [word judges is crossed out] associate judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the said County of Bucks duly commissioned and qualified as such according to law

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of the said Court at Doylestown the fifteenth day of June Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and thirty nine

for John B. Pugh, prothonotary
Jas [James?] Gilkeson
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V
Catharine Kinsey
Pennsylvania

Suspended

See let. 28 Aug.1839 H. M. Kinsey [illegible] 17 Sep. 1839

J979

Act of July 1838
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[The following printed sentence is crossed out:
Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 8, 1878.]


REJECTED

5979

P.O.   
Catharine Kinsey

Service: [blank], 18  .

Enlisted: [blank], 18  .

Discharged: [blank], 18  .

Application filed: [blank], 18  .

Alleges: [blank]

Re-enlisted:  blank]

Attorney: [blank]

P.O. [blank]

[blank] Recognized.    [blank] Contract.
Pa Cert. of Dis.    Searched for [blank], 18  .
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356

[illegible]

[illegible] in favor of the claim of Catharine Kinsey [illegible]

March 15th 1833
[illegible]

[The following is written vertically on right side of page]:No 337
W, F, Swift

[Written on far right side of page]:
Phil
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Wm F. Swift
[illegible]
March 12th 1833

The undersigned citizens and inhabitants of the Borough of Bristol do hereby certify that the above named Catharine Kinsey is now and always has been esteemed a woman of unblemished reputation for veracity

John Bessonet
Wm F. Swift
Robert Cabeen
Samuel Allen Jr
James R. Scott
Charles Tonkin


As part of this paper has been lost I cannot say what it contained
H. M. Kinsey
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W. T. Rogers
Senate

Henery M Kinsey

 name Lewis P Kinsey crossed out]

[illegible] below [illegible] as W. B Huskalls
Penna [Pennsylvania?]
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Senate Chamber
Harrisburg P. [Pennsylvania] May 30, 1839

Dear Sir,

After an arduous search by the clerks, they have been unable to find only the enclosed papers, and the original [word duty was crossed out] petition and documents [word and is crossed out] in form of Wm [William] Kinsey for a Pension are not now on file, but mislaid -

Very Truly

Your Friend

W T Rogers

[illegible] Louis P Kinsey

Bristol

I Rec'd this morning these documents [illegible]
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5618
[illegible] 19
pa
7 July 1838

[illegible]
J. L. Edwards Esq [Esquire]
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D.C.
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Doylestown  June 10th/39
J. L. Edwards Esq [Esquire]

Sir

Be good enough to let me know at your earliest convenience wether [whether] the enclosed papers are sufficient to substanciate [substantiate] the [illegible] of the widow to the provision made by the act of Congress passed July 7th 1838. My business calls me to another section of the country and I should be happy to have this business finished before I leave and if you will let me hear from you immediately after the reception of these papers you will confer a [illegible] favour on your
Obedient Servant
H.M. Kinsey

J. L. Edwars [Edwards] Esq [Esquire]
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I do hereby Certify, that William Kinsey of Bucks County was placed on the pension rolls f the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania by an Act of Assembly passed the first day of March 1832 ([illegible] laws page 102)
I do further Certify that Catherine Kinsey of Bucks County, was placed on the pension rolls of Pennsylvania by an act of Assembly passed the 8th day of April 1832 ([illegible] laws page 3119)

Witness my hands and seal of Office this 20th day of June 1839.

David Sturgeon
State [illegible]
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June 27

pa
[illegible] proof
Catharine Kinsey

FREE

J. L. Edwards Esq [Esquire]
Commissioner of Pension
Washington D.C.
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Bristol   June 25th/39

J L Edwards Esq


Sir

I send you the enclosed papers to more fully establish the marriage of the widow previous to 1794.  Since writing the declaration of Mr. Hall in relation to the claim of Catherine Kinsey to the provisions made by the Act of Congress I have ascertained that it is necessary to prove that the claimant's husband was more than six months in the service as a revolutionary soldier.  If you are not satisfied with the papers I sent you, Mr Hall can state that he [illegible] Kinsey [illegible] claimant] served more than two years to his knowledge as a revolutionary soldier in the molitia [militia] of the State of Pennsylvania but as they were the first papers that I ever drew up of the kind and not knowing the law in relation to the matter you must errors excuse

Very Respectfully
Your obedient
Servant
H.M. Kinsey


[illegible]
Please have the goodness to answer my letters at your earliest convenience and oblige your humble servant
[illegible]
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Sept 11
[illegible] 
Ny

[round stamp shows following]:
NEW YORK
SEP 9

J. L. Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D.C.

Catharine Kinsey
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New York Sept 9th1837
Sir
Yours of the 28th [illegible] is before me And in answer I can say I think there has been some mistake in the examination of the papers of Catherine Kinsey's.  Not that I think there has been any want of care on your part, but owing I presume to the papers being sent at diferent [different] times, and the last perhaps have been mislayed for the last that were sent I thought established the marriage of the Widow beyond the shadow of a shade of doubt previous to 1794. There was a certificate from the Treasurer of the State of Pennsylvania under his hand and great seal of State that Catherine Kinsey was placed on the pension list of the State of Pennsylvania as this widow of William Kinsey deceased.
Also an authenticated copy of the family record in relation to the births of the children with the testimony of Joseph Stackhouse that he knew they were married some time previous to 1794 and that they lived together as man and wife until the day of his death [illegible].  Unfortunately for the claiment [claimant] in this case all the witnesses are dead from which her husband obtained a pension from the State of Pennsylvania - and the papers at Harrisburg have been mislayed.  [illegible crossed out words]
Be good enough to drop me a line by the returning mail.
I am very Respectfully
Your obt. [obedient?] Servt [servant?]
H. M. Kinsey
360 Broadway  N. [New] York
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J. L. Edwards Esq.
War Department
Pension office
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356

Rogers

[illegible] of Catharine Kinsey [illegible]

March 7th 1833
[illegible]
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To the Honourable the Senate, and House of Representatives, of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, in general Assembly met

The Petition of Catharine Kinsey widow and [illegible] of late Wm [William] Kinsey, of the Borough of Bristol in the county of Burks, a Revolutionary Soldier, Respectfully represents that she is aged upwards of seventy three years that she was married to the said Wm Kinsey in the year 1778 by the Reverend Mr. Boyd, Pastor of the Presbyterian Church at Newtown in said county that she lived with the said Wm. Kinsey from that time to the ninth day of December 1832 at which time he said husband deceased, she further represents that she is very poor and destitute, being entirely dependent on her friends for support.
She therefore solicits from your honorable bodies such relief as you in your wisdom can grand and she will pray [illegible]
Catharine her X mark Kinsey

In the presence of Wm F. Swift

Lewis P. Kinsey one of the sons of Wm and Catharine Kinsey being duly affirmed according to Law deposes and says that upon looking at the family record kept by his father and mother it appears that his sister Rbecca was born on the 16th day of March 1779, and that your deponent was born on the 11th January 1782, they being the two oldest children and that his said father and mother always had the 
Bucks County, ss
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reputation of living in lawful wedlock 
Affirmed and subscribed before me one of the Justices of the Peace in and for said County this first day of March A.D. 1833

S. I Allen Jr
Bucks County, ss

I Joseph Stackhouse of the Township of Bristol in the County of Bucks being duly affirmed according to law do depose and say that I was personally acquainted with the foregoing name a Wm Kinsey and Catharine his wife during the revolutionary war that they at that time lived together as husband and wife and that they lived together as such from that time to the time of the decease of the said Wm Kinsey, that they brought up a large family reputably, and that the said Catharine Kinsey is entirely destitute of any means of support

Joseph Stackhouse

Affirmed & Subscribed before me this 1st day of March A.D. 1833
S I Allen Jr.
[illegible]

Bucks County, SS

John Bessonett, and Wm F. Swift, both of the Borough of Bristol in said County being duly sworn according to Law do depose and say the foregoing named Catharine Kinsey is a very reputable old woman and entirely destitute and that they are and have been long acquainted with the above named Joseph Stackhouse and Lewis P. Kinsey, and that they
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are reputable citizens and worthy of the highest reputation for veracity

John Bessonett
Wm F. Swift

Sworn and subscribed before me this 1st day of March A. D. 1833

S I Allen Jr. 
[illegible]


Perhaps it is necessary to say that all the witnesses are heard from whose testimony William Kinsey husband of Catherine Kinsey received a pension from the State of Pennsylvania