Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 16905, for Jacob Kinnison, Virginia
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93-1776)


SERVICE
Va.

Kinnison, Jacob

NUMBER
S. 16905

Carded

CONTENTS
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Virginia 29.896

Jacob Kinnison
of Pocahontas in the State of Va.
who was a pr [private] in the compy [company] comma [page torn]
by Captain Arbuckle of the --- com [page torn]
by -------in the Va. Ma.  [Virginia Militia]
[crossed out-line] for 10 months.-
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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.
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Certificate of Pension issued the 4- day of Apr. 35
     and Sent to Pensioner 
Jordan P.O, Va.
_____________________________________________________________________
Arrears to th 4th of Mar 35                 133.32
Semi-anl allowance ending  4 Sept       16.67
                                                             _________
                                                            $149.99
                                                             _________
                             {Revolutionary Claim,}
                             { Act June 7, 1832.     }

Recorded by N Rice--  Clerk
Book   E    Vol. 67   page 21.

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Let, [Letter] to Wm. Cackley,
                                      May 21, 1837.
      "             "  Pen. Agt.   "   21. 1837.         

             Dead
Paid at the Treasury under
[illegible]  Act of [illegible April, 1838
from 4th March 1837 to 10th Aug 1838.  Agt. Notified 26th
March 1841
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Virginia State          }
Pocahontas County} To wit
                              On this tenth day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty four personally appeared before me Joseph Moore a Justice of the peace for the County and State aforesaid Jacob Kinnison a resident  of the Said County and State aforesaid aged Seventy Six years on the 19th day of May last 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 7th.. 1832
                                   That he entered the Service of the United States in the Month of March 1777 as a Volunteer for a tour of six months under the command of Captain Arbuckle to march to Point Pleasant a place situate on the Ohio River at the mouth of the great Kanawha river
 that he served out his tour of six months and at the expiration of which time his captain informed him that he had been drafted for another tour of three months which he readily consented to perform-: that at the expiration of the said three months service he was requested to remain until General Hand should arrive with a reinforcement from Pittsburg which was one month longer before he did arrive which he readily consented to and did perform making in the whole ten months services which he performed at that time at Point Pleasant: that at the time he volunteered to go to Point Pleasant he resided in the little levels of Greenbrier where he now resides then called West Augusta now Pocahontas County, that the officers who commanded him were Captain Arbuckle, Lieutenant Gilmor and Ensign Williams
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that he marched directly from the place of his risidence [residence] to Point Pleasant where he first volunteered and then remained until the arrival of General Hand who discharged or rather dismissed him for he gave him no written discharge: that for a considerable part of the time that he was stationed at Point Pleasant there was no other soldiers there except the company to which he belonged until a few days before he was discharged when about seven hundred Soldiers came down the Ohio River from Pittsburg under the command of Colonel Dickinson and Colonel Skillerns.  That the nature of his services were to guard the frontier Settlements of Virginia against the hostile Indians and that he was not engaged in any Skirmish or Battle during said term of Service.
          That in the latter days of the Month of April or the first of May 1778 he entered the Service as an Indian Spy and Continued in Said Service until the first of November following making a term of six months Service; the nature of his Service that Summer was to guard Ellis's Fort in the Little levels of Greenbrier, thence traverse the mountains to a place called the Fork lick on Elk River, thence to include the waters of Stoney Creek, thence to the trace heading to Tygarts Valley including the Valley Mountains thence to a place called Clover Lick, thence to Dunmores Fort and thence to Ellis's Fort again; that he was generally out from three to four days in each week and that an oath was administered to him as a spy; that he again entered the Services as an Indian
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Spy on the first of May 1779 and was discharged on the first day of November following making another tour of six months during which Services he performed precisely the same kind of service which he had performed in the Summer of 1778 and during both summers he had for his companion as a Spy a man by the name of Jon Bridger who was killed by the Indians in the Spring of 1780.  That again on the 15th day of April 1780 he entered the Service as an Indian Spy and was discharged the first of November following, that the nature of his services this summer was mostly to guard Ellis's Fort and the Settlers in the neighbourhood while planting working and gathering their corn; that again on the 15th day of April 1781 he entered the Service as an Indian Spy and continued in Service until the 15th of October following when he was discharged and again on the first day of May 1782 he entered the Service as an Indian Spy and continued in Service until the 15th of October following; that the nature of his Services in each of the Summers of 1781 and 1782 were the same as those discribed [described] in the Summer of 1780 that the Captain to whose company he belonged during the whole time that he acted as a Spy was one Captain John Cook by whom he was ordered out or employed to Spy the Indians and that he was not engaged in any civil pursuit during the time aforesaid while acting as an Indian Spy.
     That he received no written discharge for any of the aforesaid Services; that he has no documentary evidence and knows of no person living whose testimony he can procure who can testify to his Services or any part of them.
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He relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity of pension except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the Agency of any State
                     [signature] Jacob Kinnison
Sworn to and subscribed
the day & year aforesaid before
me Joseph Moore a Justice
of the Peace for the County & 
State aforesaid.
           Joseph Moore

We George G. Brooke a clergyman and Thomas Hill both residing in the County of Pocahontas and State of Virginia do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with the Jacob Kinnison of the County aforesaid who has Subscribed and Sworn to the foregoing declaration that we believe him to be Seventy Six years of age; that he is reported and believed in the neigbourhood where he resides to have been a Soldier and Indian Spy in the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion.
                       [signatures]  George G. Brooks
                                            Thomas Hill
Sworn to and Subscribed the 
the day & year aforesaid before
me Joseph Moore a Justice of 
the Peace for the County &
State aforesaid.
              Joseph Moore

And I the said Joseph Moore a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid do hereby declare that it is my opinion after the investigation ^ of the whole matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the war department that the above name applicant was a Soldier and Indian Spy in the war of the Revolution and Served as he States
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and that from age and bodily infirmity he is entirely unable to attend the Court of Pocahontas County and I do further certify that George G. Brooke who has Signed the preceding certificate is a Clergyman resident in the Said County of Pocahontas and that Thomas Hill who has also Signed the same is a resident in the Said County of Pocahontas and is a credible person and that their statement is entitled to credit.    
                                   Joseph Moore

I Henry M. Moffett Clerk of the County Court of Pocahontas County do hereby certify that Joseph Moore whose signature appears to the foregoing certificate is and was at the time of making the same an acting Justice of the peace in and for the County of Pocahontas duly commissioned and qualified as such and that the signature purporting to be his are genuine.
                             In testimony whereof I
                             have hereunto set my hand
                             and affixed the Seal of
                             my office at Huntersville
                             this 15 day of January 
                             1834
                                       H. M. Moffett
[seal attached at left side]
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                   16905
                 INVALID.
                 ---***---
File No.     16905

        Jacob Kinnison
          Pri   Rev   War

              ---***---

      Act:   June 7"  32

Index:-- Vol.  1,    Page   208

        [Arrangement of 1870]
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                                       TREASURY DEPARTMENT
                                                       Second Comptroller's Office,
                                                       February 22, 1841.

Sir: 
               Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled " An
 act directing the transfer of Money remaining unclaimed by certain
Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury
of the United States," The childn.. [children] of Jacob Kinnison,
decd.. [deceased], a Pensioner on the Roll of the Richmond, Va.. 
[Virginia] Agency, at the rate of Thirty three Dollars and 33 Cents
per annum, under the law of the 7 June 1832, has been paid at this
Department, from the 4th of March 1837,
to the 10th of August 1838.
                                                          Respectfully yours,
                                                          Albion K. Parris
                                                                 Comptroller.

To the Commissioner of Pensions, 
                                                      Present.
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Jacob Kinnison--Applicant.
      I the applicant , Jacob Kinnison, being called
[words illegible] agent of the Pension office [illegible]
[ink blot over words] [words very faint] Soldier in the war of the Revolution and
[ink blot over words] -------------------------------------------------------------
[ink blot over words] [illegible] be eighty years old- I was [illegible] Shenandoah County. - when 73 years old I moved to when I now live have lived there ever Since- In the year 1777. I hired for five months to relieve the company to which I belonged for a draft- I went on under the command of Ensign John Williams to the Mouth of the Big Kanawha and was there put under the command of Capt. [Captain] Mathew Arbuckle. who had command of about one hundred men & [illegible].  I remained with Capt [Captain] Arbuckles Service [illegible] five months. after my tour expired and I was about returning home, Capt. [Captain] Arbuckle told my Self and others that if we returned home we would immediately on our arrival be drafted for 3 months, and that we had better volunteer & remain with [illegible] tours-we took his advice myself and others immediately volunteered and remained at the Point under Capt. [Captain] Arbuckle for 3 additional months-[words crossed out] about the time that this last mentioned tour expired, Col [Colonel] Dickenson Col [Colonel] Killison came to the Point with about nine hundred men. they were on their way to the war against the Indians.- On their arrival I volunteered under Capt [Captain] Arbuckle for two additional month- and remained with him at the Point until Col [Colonel] Dickinson & Col [Colonel] Killison were at the Point with his 900 men before mentioned. Genl [General] [illegible] came down from Fort Pitt [illegible] expedition. - I was in this whole ten months [illegible] Service at Point Pleasant-which is all the regular Service I [illegible] I [illegible 4 words] Indian Service in my neighbourhood - in protecting the settlement right which I [illegible].  I know of no one living by
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Jacob Kinnison--Applicant.
      I the applicant , Jacob Kinnison, being called on by 
[illegible] agent of the Pension office [illegible]
[ink blot over words] [words very faint] Soldier in the war of the Revolution and
[ink blot over words] -------------------------------------------------------------
[ink blot over words]  [illegible] be eighty years old- I was [illegible] Shenandoah County. - when 73 years old I moved to when I now live have lived there ever Since- In the year 1777. I hired for five months to relieve the company to which I belonged for a draft- I went on under the command of Ensign John Williams to the Mouth of the Big Kanawha and was there put under the command of Capt. [Captain] Mathew Arbuckle. who had command of about one hundred men & [illegible].  I remained with Capt [Captain] Arbuckle [illegible] five months after my tour expired and I was about returning home Capt. [Captain] Arbuckle told my Self and others that if we returned home we would immediately on our arrival be drafted for 3 months, and that we had better volunteer  & remain in with him for other tours- we took his advice & myself and others, immediately volunteered and remained at the Point under Capt. [Captain] Arbuckle for 3 additional months [words crossed out] about the time that this last mentioned tour expired Col [Colonel] Dickenson Col. {Colonel] Killion came to the Point with about nine hundred men. They were on their way to the war against the Indians. this tour expired. I volunteered under Capt [Captain] Arbuckle two additional months- and remained with him at the Point- until Col [Colonel] Dickenson & Col. [Colonel] Killion were at the Point. with his 900 men before mentioned.  Genl [General] Hand called down from Fort Pitt [illegible] this expedition- I was in this whole ten month of actual Service at Point Pleasant-which is actual regular Service.  I came home. I [4 illegible words] Indian Service in my neighbourhood- in protecting the Settlement right which I was now living.  I know of no one living by
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by whom I can prove my Services. While in Service I provided my own arms and clothing and never reced [received] one cent of pay- the pay was Sent to me Some years after I had left the Service, but in deficient [ink blot]
currency which I refused to have.  Wm. McCord [ink blot] my Declaration.  I agreed to [several illegible words] - In [illegible] of [illegible] which I here to set my name  February 3, 1835.
                       Jacob Kinnison   his X mark
                       Attny W. G. Lingletrs [?]

Sir- by Reference to the Declaration of Kinnison that the Statement now given of his Service differs [illegible] from what he is meant to say to his agent William McCord- Kinnison's details ^ to the [illegible words] Indian Service-
Such as forting in the vicinity of his Settlement [illegible] working his corn and guarding against the Indians as other Settlers did- as the Service then directs did not come within Act Seven of June 1832.  in my opinion.  I declare [illegible] it in writing-- I believe that Kinnison has list the truth about his Service at the Point- am also changed of opinion-that he is entitled to a certificate for ten months Services-- If Mr. Edwards concurs- 
[illegible words] his certificate to Kinnison himself at Jordans Post Office.  this  [illegible words] W. McCord [illegible words] Kinnison [illegible words]

[? W. G. Lingletrs]
Febry 15. 1835
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[front of envelope]

                                Free

J. L. Edwards
        Commissioner of Pensions
                        Pension Office
                                    Washington City
                                                 D C

[sideways on left side of envelope]

Mr ab                   Mar 18
Jac. Kennison
Va[illegible]
Ans.d Mar 21, 1837

[cancellation stamp]
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                                                                     House of Delegates              }
                                                                      Richmond March 15th 1837}

Hon. J. L. Edwards                }
   Commissioner of Pensions}
          Sir
               The enclosed power of attorney of J Kinnison
has been forwarded to me for the purpose of enabling
me to draw the pension therein mentioned--
                                    Will you be good enough to
examine the same and direct the agent here to pay
the amount and return the same to me as soon as
communicated--
               I hope you will attend to this subject
with as little delay as possible.  The Legislature of 
Virginia of which body I have the honour to be a
member, will most probably adjourn in the course
of a [few-crossed out] ten days when I shall leave here for
my residence in Pocahontas County, -And it is 
very important to Mr. Kinnison who is a poor man
to receive his money if it can possibly be obtained.
                              I am [illegible] Very Respectfully
                                     Your Obt. Servt. [Obedient Servant]
                                                  William Cackley
                                                      [flourish]
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Jac [Jacob] Kinnison
        30.167

Admit. [illegible]
10 months   $33.33

Send Cert to
Pen. [Pensioner] at Jordan P. O.  Va


[written upside down]

                                              Free

The
Hon [Honorable] Secretary of War
 Washington City

for the
Pension office [flourish]

[written perpendicular on right side]
Virginia original
27 July 34

[cancellation stamp]
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Huntsville Pocahontas County 15th Janry [January] 1834

Sir,
        I send you the pensions certificate of Jacob Kinnison this third time.  It was returned the first time for "a more detailed acccount [account] of his service as an Indian Spy" which was given in his second, but contrary to expectation it was returned the second time "for an explanation of his ten months Services at Point Plesant" which is now given and I do hope that no further dificulty [difficulty] will be presented.  If these should be my the humane intentions of Congress in passing the act of the 7th June 1832 so far as it relates to a my worthy and venerable soldier will in all human probability be lost as he is very fast sinking and hastening to that house from whereas no traveler returns

                                                  Yours Respectfully
                                                   Wm.. McCord