Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 40627, Jenks Waits, R.I.
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SERVICE
R.I.

Waits, Jenks or Jencks

NUMBER
S.40627
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14.929
Ohio
R

Jenks Waits
of Franklin Co. in the state of Ohio
who was a Private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Hitchcock of the Rhode Island
line, for the term of One Year.

Inscribed on the Roll of Ohio
at the rate of Eight Dollars per month, to commence on the 7th of April 1818.

Certificate of Pension issued the 27th of Sept. 1819 and Sent to J. R. Parish Esq., Columbus Ohio

Arrears to 4th of Sept. 1819.17M. H 28/30  135:46
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4th March 1820  
48:
$183:46

Revolutionary claim,
Act 18th March, 1818.

Continued on the roll under the law of the 1 May 1820. Notification sent to John N. Parish Esq. Columbus Ohio 
15 July 1820
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Jenks Waite
Priv.
Col. Hitchcocks
R. Island Regt.

1776 - for 1 year

 April (illegible)

The depositions of two credible & disinterested witness, duly to be taken & authenticated, (or the certificates of our offices of the (illegible) proves the service of applicant is (illegible)  pension.

The Courts of this Clks is (illegible)  with the (illegible) of Mich & (illegible)
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Jenks Waits aged about sixty two years deposeth and saith, that about one week after the battle of Lexington in the State of Massachusetts, he enlisted into the Continental service of the United States, in the town of Smithfield in the state of Rhode Island, in a company commanded by Capt. John Angel in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Hitchcock, for Eight Months.  This deponent served as a private soldier in said company during said Eight months and then enlisted for twelve Months in the same Company and Regiment, and served during all that time therein - fought at the Battle of Flatbush under General Green, and also fought at the battle of Harlem Heights.  The (illegible) of said Company and Regiment is forgotten by this deponent.  This deponent was then discharged from the Continental service at Morristown in New Jersey.
This deponent also served Six months or nearly six Months as a (illegible) in the service of the Untied States, during the Revolutionary was, an baled the frigate
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Dean under the command of Capt. McFarland as this deponent believes and was discharged from said frigate at Boston in the year Seventeen hundred and seventy nine or Eighty. This deponent lost both of said discharges on board of the letter of marque called the Happy Returns, which was taken by the British near the Capes of Virginia on her Return from Martinique to Baltimore in Seventeen hundred and eighty two.

This deponent has been a Citizen of the United Sates ever since the Revolution and is now a Resident Citizen of Franklin County in the State of Ohio, and is very poor and indigent, and needs the assistance of his country for his support.
This deponent has never been allowed any pension from the United States although he was several times (illegible) in the Revolutionary service.
Jencks Waits
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State of
Pisanally appeared before
Franklin County and
Jay
President Judge of the Sixth Judicial
act of this Links Wait whose
name is annexed to the foregoing deposit in
and made oath that if the matter and things
contained in said Deposition are as
---
of
and saluted the same
an under
my hand & seal
his Saith and
the 17th day of April 1818
this Parish president Judge as afore
said do certify that it appears to my
satisfaction that the said Jenks Waits
did serve in the Revolutionary war
as stated in the preceding declaration
against the common enemes and
now transmit the proceeding and
testimony to the Secretary of war
pen out to the late act of Congress
April 7th 1818
(
Smith
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I further Certify, from my own knowledge that the said Jenks Waits is in such reduced circumstances that he absolutely needs the assistance of his country for support.

Orris Parish

Jenks Waits
private
(illegible)
Rhode Island Line
1776 - 1 year

John C. Calhoun
(illegible) of
Washington City
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27 Sept 79

Jenks Wait

Copy


continue
(6'/4 cents)
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State of Ohio
in County ⎬ Franklin Court of Common Pleas
On this 14th day of June in the year of
Lord one thousand Eight hundred and twenty personally
peared in open Court the same being a land of record
pressly made such by the Constitution and laws of said
State Anks Waits aged Twenty five years resident in
said County who being first duly sworn according to
law
doth on his oath declare that he inlisted in the month of
December 1776 into a company commanded by Captain
Olney in a Regiment commanded by Colonel Hitchcock
and which he thinks was the second Regiment in the
Rhodeisland line of Continental troops, for one year
this declarant has forgotten the number of said Company
but he served faithfully in said Company during the full
time of the year for which he enlisted as aforesaid and had
also served Eight month immediately preceding said year
in the same Company and Regiment under a former
inlistment, this declarant also served fifteen months on
board a frigate in the United States Service, called the Grand
frigate and was imprisoned, and performed other service
behalf of the United States in the Revolutionary war
as stated in his original declaration of the 7th
day of April 1818 to which with the affidavit of Capt
Stephen Olney under whom this declarant served this
declarant refers for a more detailed account of his
Survey -- This declarant has received a pension
certificate from the war office of the United States
dated September 27th 1819 and mundred 14.929-
And I the said Links waits do County Sear
that I was a resident citizen of the United States on
the 18th day of March 1818 and that I have not
since that time by gift, sale or in any manner
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disposed of my property or any part thereof with
intent hereby so to diminish it as to bring myself with
the provisions of an act of Congress entitled An act to
provide for certain persons engaged in the land and
Naval Service of the United States in the Revolutionary War
"" passed on the 18th day of March 1818 and that
I have not nor has any person in trust for me
any property or securities contracts or debts due
to me nor have I any other income than what is
contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by me
Subsribed, necessary wearing apparel excepted
Picks Wait
Schedule of property owned by sinks Wall
One red bed rock or walking leave to support his
lattering limbs north perhaps six and a forthcuty
and no other property
this declarant has a wife nearly seventy four
years of age but who has not lived with him for
1
seven years this declarant has no family that he support
and is unable to labour or men to walk without the
assistance of his case
links west
Subsribed and sworn to in open Court June Term 1820
Dowell lock
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I, Abram J. McDowell Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Franklin and State of Ohio do hereby certify that the aforegoing oath and schedule there to anexed are truly copied from the words of said Court, and I do further certify that it is the opinion of the said Court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is Six & one forth cents.

In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court this 23rd day of June 1820

Abram J. McDowell Clk

[imprint of seal is illegible]
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September 22, 1939

BA-J/MCS
Jenks Waits, S.40627

Mrs. J. C. Johnson
West 16th Street
Hays, Kansas

Dear Madam:

Reference is made to your request for information relative to the Revolutionary War soldier, Jenks Wait, who was pensioned while living in Franklin County, Ohio.

The data which follow were taken from papers on file in the pension claim, S.40627, based on the military service of Jencks Wait.  His personal signature appears as Jencks Wait but he was pensioned as Jenks Waits.

The date of his birth and the names of his parents are not shown.

He enlisted at Smithfield, Rhode Island, one week after the battle of Lexington and served eight months as private in Captain John Angell's company in Colonel Hitchcock's Rhode Island regiment.  Immediately after this service he enlisted and served one year in Captain Olney's company in Colonel Hitchcock's Rhode Island regiment and was in the battles of Flatbush and Harlem Heights.  He then served as seaman on board the frigate, Dean, under the command of Captain McFarland and was discharged in 1779 or 1780, having served fifteen months.  He stated that he was wounded several times and was imprisoned during his service.

Jencks Wait was allowed pension on his application executed April 7, 1818, at which time he was living in Franklin County, Ohio, and he then stated he was about sixty-two years of age.

In 1820, he stated he was seventy-five years of age and that his wife (name not given) was nearly seventy-four years of age.  There are no further data relative to his family.

(handwritten note:  "He said Stephen Olney but it was Capt. Jeremiah Olney according to Heitman Stephen Olney was the Lt.
MCS")
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Jencks Wait died February 22, 1824.

In order to obtain the date of last payment of pension of this soldier and the name and address of the person to whom it was paid, it is suggested that you address the Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, Records Division, this city, giving the following data:

Jenks Waits, Certificate 14929, issued September 27, 1819, rate $8 per month, commenced April 7, 1818, Act of March 18, 1818, Ohio Agency.

Very truly yours

A. D. HILLER
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator
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40 627
Rwy
INVALID.

File No. 40,627
Jenks Wait
Pri Rev War

Act:  18  March  18
Index:-Vol. 3,  Page 334
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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1847 Apr 25
Hist to M.D. ?hadwick
J.S.

1908 Nov. 6. Hist. to
Mr. G.W. Patterson &
1909 Mch. 31. to Mrs H.B. Tillotson &
1939. Sept. 22. hist
to Mrs. J. C. Johnson
W C S
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War a Pension
40627
Jenks Wait
Died in
Franklin Co. Ohio
Revolution

[stamped
O. W. & N. DIV
APR 26 1893
CHIEF'S DESK]

The Files
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Honble John C Calhoun
Sir if I am continued on the pension roll please forward notice of it to J K Parish, Columbus Ohio

Jencks Wait
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[stamped
U.S.
PENSION OFFICE
A
MAR 5 1909]

1920 Firth Street S. E.

Bureau of Records and Pensions

Gentlemen.
[I.F. 40627 Wait]
Kindly send me the war records of
Jenckes Weight (or Wait)
Enlisted - April - 1775
at Smithfield, R.I.
(Lousdale.)
Thanking you in advance
I am very truly
(Mrs. H.B._
Lunessa Merion Tillotson
1320 - 5th St. S.E.  Minneapolis
2-23-09.                    Minn.
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He is said to have served all through the Revolution.
L. M. T.

406627

[stamped
U. S. 
PENSION
OFFICE
A
Mar 
6  
1909]

[stamped
RECORD
DIVISION
MAR
13
1909]

[stamped
FEB
25
1909
1493347
WAR DEPARTMENT]
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Pennsylvania Lines West of Pittsburgh
South West System
Offices of the General Superintendent.
R. E. McCarty
Columbus, O.
Oct. 26, 1908.

Information Bureau, Pension Dep't,
Washington, D.C.

Gentlemen:-

In connection with a prospective membership in the Daughters of the American Revolution for a member of my family, I desire to make inquiry of you with reference to Mr. Jenks Wait, who was a soldier in the Revolutionary War, and died in Franklinton, Ohio, in 1824.  Franklinton has since become a part of the City of Columbus, Ohio.

Jenks Wait married Sarah Brown of Kingston, R. I., in Kingston in September 1778, and upon his death in Franklinton in 1824 was receiving a pension.  If you can tell me where he was born, where he enlisted and such other information as your records may show that will be of advantage in the application for membership in the above order, I shall be very glad, and if there are any charges in connection therewith, let me know what they are.

Yours very truly,
G W Patterson

[stamped
U. S.
PENSION
OFFICE
O
OCT
28
1908]
33 North High St
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[stamped
RECEIVED
AUG 25 1939
MAIL SUB-DIV
Reader No. 9
VETS ADM]

West 16 th St.,
Hays, Kansas
Aug. 20, 1939

Veterans Bureau,
Washington, D.C.

Re:  Jenks Wait (1759-1824)
Rev. War Soldier
Pensioner Franklin Co.
Ohio

Dear Sir:

Will you kindly give me information on the above named Revolutionary War soldier.

Names of children if given in pension papers

Addresses of children

Place of residence at time of death

Very truly yours,
Mrs. J. C. Johnson  (hand written)
Mrs. J. C. Johnson
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O. W. and N. Division.

Department of the Interior,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS
 Washington, D. C., April 25, 1893

Sir

In reply to your request for a statement of the military history of Jenks Wait, a soldier of the Revolutionary War, you will please find below the desired information as contained in his application for pension on file in this Bureau.

DATE OF ENLISTMENT./LENGTH OF SERVICE./RANK./OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED./CAPTAIN./COLONEL./STATE

Apr 7 1775/20 mo*/pri/John Angel/Hitchcock/RI.

not stated/6 mo/Seaman/Frigate "Dean"

Battle engaged in, Flatbush, Harlem Heights

Residence of soldier at enlistment, Smithfield R. I.

Date of application for pension, April 1818

Residence at date of application, Franklin Co R.I.

Age at date of application, 62 years

Remarks:  His pension was allowed. *A portion of this service may have been undered in Capt Olney's Co as his name is mentioned in one of the papers on file in his case.

W D Chadwick Esq
Act. Commissioner
Bureau of Pensions
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In reply to your request of ________, received______ for a statement of the military history of Jenks Wait a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find  below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau.
S. File 40627

DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT./LENGTH OF SERVICE./RANK./OFFICERS UNDER WHO SERVICE WAS RENDERED. CAPTAIN./COLONEL./STATE

"check mark"/8 mos./Pri/John Angell/Hitchcock/2 R.I.

Imm after above, Jan 76/1yr/        /Olney/Hitchcock/11 Continental

"check mark"/15 mos. to 1779 or 1780/Seaman/Frigate "Dean"/Capt McFarland

"check mark"/"check mark"/        /Letter of Marque "Happy Return"

1782 was captured by British near Capt of Va.

He stated that he was wounded sev time and was imprisoned - no further particulars.

Battles engage in, Flatbush & Harlem Heights.

Residence of soldier at enlistment, Enl at Smithfield R.I.

Date of application for pension, Apr 7, 1818  His claim was allowed

Residence at date of application, Franklin Co.  Ohio.

Age at date of application, about "62" yrs.  In 1820 - "75 yrs."  Date & pl, of birth not stated.

Remarks:  In 1820 he ref to his wife nearly 74 yrs of age but did not mention her name.  He  d. Feby. 22, 1824 (agency book)

office note:  Hitchcock Col. 2 R.I. May to Dec 1775.  11th Cont. Jan 76 to Dec 31, 1776.
Angell Capt May to Dec 1775.  11th Cont Jan 76 to Dec. 31, 1776 Capt. Olney