Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 16179, for Lebeus Kimball, Connecticut
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(8-1776)

Conn.

Kimball, Lebeus
or
Libbeus

NUMBER
S.16179

Carded

CONTENTS
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820
New York
Libbeus Kimball
of Montgomery in the State of New York
who was a
private in the compies commanded
by Captain Lyon & others of the Regts. commanded
by Col. Huntington in the
line for 13 months 26 days [illegible]
and
---
Inscribed on the Roll of New York
at the rate of 46
Dollars 21 Cents per Ann
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 19 day of October
1832
---
and sent to
Claimant
Arrears to 4th of Septr. 1832
$69.31
Semi-anl allowance ending 4 Mar '33 23.10
$92.41
Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7, 1832. 
Recorded
Book D
by 820
New York
Libbeus Kimball
of Montgomery in the State of New York
who was a
private in the compis commanded
by Captain Lyon & others of the Regt. commanded
by Col. Huntington in the
line for 13 months 26 days County
and
---
Inscribed on the Roll of New York
at the rate of 46
Dollars 21 Cents per Ann
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 19 day of October
1832
---
and sent to
Claimant
Arrears to 4th of Septr. 1833
$69.31
Semi-anl allowance ending 4 Mar 33 23.10
$9241
Recorded
Book D
Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7, 1832. 
by 820
New York
Libbeus Kimball
of Montgomery in the State of New York
who was a
private in the compis commanded
by Captain Lyon & others of the Regt. commanded
by Col. Huntington in the
line for 13 months 26 days County
and
---
Inscribed on the Roll of New York
at the rate of 46
Dollars 21 Cents per Ann
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 19 day of October
1832
---
and sent to
Claimant
Arrears to 4th of Septr. 1833
$69.31
Semi-anl allowance ending 4 Mar 33 23.10
$9241
Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7, 1832.
Recorded by [illegible]
Clerk,
Book D 
Vol. 5 Page 105
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No. 1993
Pension papers
of Libeus Kimball
of [illegible]
County of [illegible]
Young & State of
New York-
---
P. Randall
Admitted
13 mo. 26 days
$46.21

my
hand
and
[illegible]
my [illegible]
of [illegible]
this 10th day of August A. D. 1832
Geo: D. Ferguson
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Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the
act of Congress passed June 7, 1832.
State of New York
Montgomery County
On the sixth day of August in the
year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred
& thirty two personally appeared before me
Henry diefendorf Esquire one of the Judges
of the Court of Common Pleas in & for the
County of Montgomery aforesaid it being a
Court of Record. Libbens Kimball a resident of Cauafo House at
his residence in said County
of Montgomery and state aforesaid aged eighty one 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 & served as herein after stated
that in the latter part of June 1775- the deponent
was a resident in the town of Pomfret & County
of Windham in the State of Connecticut
about 70 miles from Boston in Massachusetts  not being liable to do military duty
in the Militia on account of [illegible]
on a call of militia to go to Boston as [illegible].
 He enlisted as a volunteer at the
above date for six months under Captain
Daniel Lyon Lieutenant Elijah Sharpe &
Ensign John Sumner in Col. Jedediah
Huntingtons Regt. going from his native town
to wit Pomfret as aforesaid, went through
the town of Dudley Douglas & so on to Boston
[illegible] or Rosebing as it was called & there
remained as guard- his employment was
in standing sentry & building forts -
He then remained under those same office
in the above named service for the six months
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was discharged & returned home about the last of December as near as deponent can recollect & immediately on his return to Pomfret 
his native town he joined himself to the militia [illegible] at that [illegible] The company chose
him sergeant in which office he remained until the
close of the war. In the year 1776. their was a
call for soldiers to go to Lake Champlain
at Mount Independence Deponent enlisted
at Pomfret as before, for six months on or
about the first of June 1776 under Capt
Elijah Sharpe who was raising a company
for an excursion to the North.  Lieutenant Robinson & Ensign
House in Col Motts Regt
which formed at Skeensborough now White
Hall in New York. In passing from his
native town to Steensborough deponent
posed through Westfield & Pittsfield in
Massachusetts- Through Bennington
Vermont. On arriving at Bennington
the commanded provisions to support
time through the Wilderness to pass
rough a distance of about 60 miles
on arriving there their were two
companies selected from Col Motts Regt
to and in cutting a road from Fort Ann to
Fort Edward to facilitate the transfer [illegible] of provisions for the army at the
north which companies Capt Sharpe was
one in what deponent served to the expiration
of the said six months. They went in Baltons
from Greensborough to Fort Ann - on Wood
Creek a distance of about 14 miles. They then 
them commanded the labor of making the
road building a causeway until the
experation of his term when he was discharged
& return home to Pomfret a
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distance of about 200 miles from Fort Ann- on the last of November or first of December 1776 - In consequences of the hardship of the campaign deponents constitution was so severely affected he has never been a healthy man since.  After that there was a draft of Militia & the company to which deponent belonged divided into so many classes as there were men to go & each class sent a man,  The Class to which deponent belonged sent a man who served through the war   This was about 3 years before its close - Again in the summer of 1781 - Deponent thinks it was in June - Than it was another draft of Militia to go to New London as a guard and after the burning at that place by the enemy under the command of Genl. Arnold -  Deponent was then drafted and went to New London from Pomfret - as before - a distance of 40 miles - under Capt. Samuel Williams Lieutenant Gregg & Ensign Ephraim M Gals- as first Sergeant - Capt Williams said company which were blockading N London - Deponent was on duty in that service eight weeks - When his company was relieved by others of the Militia taking our places - deponent was discharged with his company & returned again to his native town - Deponent from that time remained subject to Militia duty until the close of the war  was frequently called out on Alarms & as frequently obeyed the call-
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the deponent saith further, that previous to the first mentioned term of his enlistment when the alarm was that the enemy had gone from Boston to Lexington to destroy the stores of that latter place, deponent started for Lexington equipped for service, & had traveled but 20 miles when he learned the British had returned to Boston - Deponent then returned to Pomfret his native place - And again at the rumor of the expected battle of Bunker Hill - Deponent again hired a horse & rode 70 miles toward the battle ground with as much haste as possible - & on arriving found the battle over & returned home again  Deponent was born in 1757 - After the close of the war Deponent moved to the Town of Camplain his present residence in the County of Montgomery & State of New York - The evidence of deponents enlistment & discharges are lost - Deponent has sent to Connecticut to enquire for his fellow soldiers & officers. He claims they are all dead - or gone out of his knowledge -- Deponent was not during his services in any regular battle. Deponent was well acquainted with General Israel Putnam, saw him, Genl Washington and together with Genl Lee at Cambridge & other officers of  an inferior grade whose names he does not now recollect - Deponent has no documentary evidence of his services knows of no persons whose testimony he can procure who can testify as to his service except what is hereto attached -  He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present & declares that his name is ________________
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is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state and that he is unable to go to Court.
                 [Signed]  Lebeus Kimball
Sworn to & Subscribed the day
& year aforesaid
    [Signed]  Henry J. Dievendorff

We Phipps W. Lake, a clergyman residing in the town of Camplain - County of Montgomery and State of New York, & Simeon Marcy of the town County & state last aforesaid a Physician hereby certify that we are  & for many years past have been well acquainted with the above named Libeus [sic]Kimball who has subscribed & sworn to the above declaration - that we believe him to be 81 years of age - that he is reputed and believed in the very neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution
& that we concur in that opinion - We also certify, that he is in .... health & we believe not able on account of bodily infirmity to go to
Court
                   [Signed]  Phipps W. Lake
                                  Simeon Marcy
Sworn &s subscribed thi
6th day of August 1832
    Henry J. Dievendorff
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And the said Judge doth hereby declare his
opinion after the investigation of the matter & after putting the interrogatories presented by the war department that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier & served as he states and the said Judge further states and certifies that it appears to him that Phipps W. Lake who has signed the preceding certificate is a reputable clergyman in the same town County & State with the said applicant - And that Dr. Simeon Marcy who has also signed the same is a resident of same place and a credible person. And that their statement is entitled to full credit - And the said judge Do further certify that the applicant can not from bodily infirmity attend Court
Dated 6th Augt-1832   Henry Dievendorff
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State of New York
Montgomery County Js}

Daniel Spencer of Camplain & County of Montgomery & State of New York aforesaid being duly sworn saith he is about 69 years of age & has been acquainted with Lebeus Kimball whose declaration for a pension is hereto annexed which he has heard read - that in 1775 he this deponent lived with the applicants Father in Law Samuel Croft - then living in Pomfret Connecticut - Deponent recollects at the time , stated in said Declaration - when the applicant declares he enlisted & went to Roxbury or Boston such - said applicant with they were called into the Church at that place before their departure & received a Solemn Benediction of the Clergyman by the name of Lyon - they went off - the talk in the family was that said Kimball had gone into the Army some months thereafter - said Kimball & his comrades returned as he was then informed & recollect seeing said Kimball - Before he went his northern [illegible] -
Recollects well the frequent conversations in the families when he was gone to the North as stated in his declaration & that when he returned from the North he has the fever & ague - It was understood he was in the [illegible]   Deponent conversed with said applicant about his Tour after his return as aforesaid with the fever & ague  Does not recollect - inn the Latter case, whether he lived with said S. Croft - or his son Griffin Croft - as he lived alternately with both
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From what deponent recollects of said applicants absences- at the period - from the understanding of the families in which he was connected in the neighborhood at that time - Deponent has no dobt said applicant served in the Revolution as he has set forth in his said declaration-  
& further this deponent
saith not -         [Signed] Daniel Spencer

Sworn & subscribed the
6th day of August 1832 -
before me            Henry J. Dievendorff a
Judge of the Court of Common Please in and for Said County

State of New York
Montgomery County Js
Charles Morris of Camplain & County of Montgomery  aforesaid, being duly sworn saith he has been acquainted with Libeus Kimball the applicant whose declaration is hereto annexed - while he has [illegible] - for about 29 years, has in very many instances heard said applicant retell the history of his services as is therein stated - deponent saith it has always been proverbial in the Community in which he lives that he was a soldier in the Revolution & has never been doubted by any to his knowledge - & this deponent has so doubt of the Truth of his statement - & further saith not -
           [Signed]  Charles Morris 
Sworn & subscribed
the 6th August 1832 before
me Henry J. Dievendorff a
Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and
for Montgomery County
Montgomery County Js
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Rufus Morris of Camplain - County & state aforesaid being duly sworn saith that he is aged 60 years that he has heard the annexed declaration of Lebeus Kimball and that he has been very intimately acquainted with him for nearly forty years - had heard him at various times in early life & since state the events & services therein detailed that it has always been understood by the family, friends and neighbors of said applicant that he served in the Revolutionary service as is in his declaration stated that the deponent has been a member of the same church with said applicant for about 37 years - more than 20 years of which time said applicant was an acting deacon of said Church - is now a member in regular standing in said church -possessing the confidence & charity of the church & his neighbors
                          [Signed] Rufus Morris
Dated 6th August 1832 -
Sworn & subscribed before
me Henry J. Dievendorff
a Judge at Common Pleas
in and and for Said County 

State of New York
Mont County Js
                I hereby certify that  I am 
                personally acquainted with 
 Rufus Morris - Charles Morris & Daniel Spencer - whose affidavits are hereto annexed that they are credible persons in whose statements full credit is due - 
  Henry J. Dievendorff
Dated 6th Augt -1832










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Dated 6th Augt. 1832-'
Sworn & subscribed before
me Henry J. Dievendorff
a Judge of CT Common Pleas
in and for Said County
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State of New York
Montgomery County
Clerks Office Js}
  I George D. Ferguson, Clerk of the Court Of Common Pleas of the said County of Montgomery, do hereby Certify that Henry I. David I. Devendorff, Esquire, whose name is subscribed to the preceding affidavit Lebbeus Kimball
Phipps Lake & Simeon Marcey, Daniel Spencer, Charles Morris, Rufus Morris, was at the date of the respective affidavits a Judge of the court of Common Please of the County aforesaid Commissioned & Sworn & duly authorized to act as such  And that I am well Acquainted with the hand writing of the said Judge & verily believe that the Signatures of Henry J, Devendorff, subscribed to each of the Said affidavits is genuine,
           In witness whereof I have herewith to set my hand and affixed my seal of Office this 13th day of August A.D. 1832.
                               [Signed]  Geo. D. Ferguson
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                16,179
            INVALID.

     File No.    16179
     Libbeas Kimball
        Pri. Rev War

    Act June 7" 32
Index: - Vol 1, Page 208

[Arrangement of 1870.]