Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File B. L. Wt. 2298-300, for Richard Kennon, Virginia
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(3-1776)

SERVICE
Va.

Kennon, Richard

NUMBER
B.L.Wt. 2298-300

CONTENTS
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Certificate of kinship
Capt. (illegible) Heirs
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State of Virginia Henrico County 
At a County Court held in and for said county on the seventh of November 1842 on motion it was proved in open court to its satisfaction - That Erasmus Kennon deceased of Mecklinburg County Virginia - Doctor Geo. T Kennon of Henrico County Va, Commodore Beverly Kennon of Washington City, Wm H Kennon of Powatan Doctor Richard Kennon (deceased), late of Norfolk Virginia and Sarah S (deceased) wife of the late Commodore Arthur Sinclair are the children and only heirs at law of Richard Kennon (deceased) late of Mecklinburg County Va who was a Captain of the Virginia Continental line of the Army of the Revolution. That George (deceased), Elizabeth B. wife of Doctor Silas H Harris Nancy wife of Oliver Kennon Lucy wife of Edward A William, Sally wife Wm. D Ligon Roberta Richard, and William Kennon all residing in Mecklinburg County Va are the children and only heirs at law of Erasmus Kennon deceased - That George deceased son of Erasmus left two infant children one of whom is since dead - the other Alice is only heir at law of said George, that Emily, E is the infant daughter and only heir at law of Dr Richard Kennon deceased and resides with her mother in Norfolk and lastly that Arthur Sinclair Elizabeth wife of Wm C Whittle, George T Sinclair Wm Henry Sinclair and Gilberta M Lafayette Sinclair are the children and only heirs at law of the said Sarah S. Sinclair deceased. the three males being officers in the Navy of the United States and the two females residing in Mecklinburg County Va all of which is ordered to be certified.
I Loflin N Ellett Clerk of the County Court of said County do hereby certify the foregoing to be a true copy from the records of the said Court. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said court at Richmond this 8th day of November 1842
Loflin N. Ellett C.H.C.
The county seal is not affixed because since writing the above the same is ascertained to have been lost and is believed to have been stolen. Nov: 8" 1842  
Loflin N. Ellett C. H. C.
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Power of attorney
George T Kennon
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Know all men by those present that I George T. Kennon of Henrico County and State of Virginia do hereby constitute and appoint Henry Northup of Washington CIty my true and lawfull attorney with powers of substitution for me and in my name to prepare the papers and collect all the proofs and vouchers necessary to enable me as one of the heirs at law to obtain from the United States bounty land in right of the services of my late father Richard Kennon as a Captain of the Virginia Continental line of the Army of the Revolution And to ask demand and receive from the secretary of war of the United States a warrant for the proportion of county land thus due me. And to locate and enter the same when so obtained on any of thee publick lands subject to entry of private sale and receive the patent for the same. And to surrender the same at the general land office at Washington City for landscript And to ask demand receive and receipt for the certificates or landscript due thereon And to indorse assign transfer and make sale of the same, each either or all of said woods as he shall think proper. In witness of which I have set my hand and seal this 24th day of October 1842
Geo. T. Kennon

Witness 
John F Wren

State of Virginia City of Richmond Henrico County Va
Personally appeared before me the subscriber  a Justice of the peace in and for said city Doctor George T Kennon signed and (smudged illegible) to the foregoing power of attorney and acknowledged the same to be his voluntary act and did for the purposes therein named. Also being duly sworn according to law saith that to the best of his knowledge and belief his late father Richard Kennon was a Captain in the Virginia line of the Army of the Revolution. He says that he has never at any time received a warrant from the United States for the bounty land due in right of his said fathers services neither does he believe that his late father received it or assigned or alimated his right to the same in any manner whatever.
W D Wren J.P.

State of Virginia, City of Richmond, Towns.
I Charles Howard, clerk of the Court of Hastings for the said city, hereby certify that William D. Wren, whose name is subscribed to the above certificate, is an alderman and (illegible) a justice of the peace in & for the caporation of said city, and a member of the said court of Hastings, and I believe his said signature to be genuine. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said court of Hastings, this 2nd day of November one thousand eight hundred and forty two.
Chs. Howard, clk
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1812 Wars Section

November 6, 1928

Mrs. John Rae
Eldorado, Texas

Madam:
I advise you from the records of this bureau it appears that Richard Kennon of Mecklenburg County, Virginia, served as Captain in the Virginia Line during the War of the Revolution. His age and date of death not stated, nor is the name of his wife given.
In 1842 his children were named as follows: Doctor George T. Kennon of Henrico County, Virginia, Erasmus Kennon, deceased, of Mecklenburg County, Virginia, Commodore Beverly Kennon, of Washington, D.C., William H. Kennon, of Powhatan, Doctor Richard Kennon, deceased, late of Norfolk, Virginia, and Sarah S., deceased, wife of the late Commodore Arthur Sinclair.
The children of soldier's son, Erasmus, were named as follows in 1842: William Kennon, Richard Kennon, Roberta Kennon, Sally, the wife of William D. Ligon, Lucy, the wife of Edward A. Williams, Nancy, the wife of Oliver Kennon, Elizabeth B., the wife of Doctor Silas H. Harris,
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Rev. &
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and George Kennon, deceased, who left two children, Alice, the only one alive in 1842, all of Mecklenburg County, Virginia. Name of said George's wife not given.
The wife and only child, Emily E., of soldier's son, Doctor Richard Kennon, were living in Norfolk, Virginia, in 1842; wife's name not stated.
The children of soldier's daughter, Sarah S. Sinclair, were named as follows in 1842: Arthur Sinclair, Elizabeth, the wife of William C. Whittle, George T. Sinclair, William Henry Sinclair, and Gilberta M. LaFayette Sinclair, the two daughters living in Mecklenburg County, Virginia, and the three sons, officers in the United States Navy.
Doctor George T. Kennon, of Henrico County, Virginia, son of Captain Richard Kennon, on October 24, 1842, applied for bounty land, on account of the services of his father as Captain in the Virginia Line, in behalf of himself and the  other heirs, on which application Warrant No. 2298, for three hundred acres, was issued November 22, 1842.
Respectfully, 
E.W. Morgan
Acting Commissioner.
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San Angelo, Texas,
Jan. 15, 1928.

Commissioner of Pensions
Dept. of the Interior
Old Records Division
Washington D. C.

Dear Sir:
Will you kindly give me a copy of the Revolutionary services of Richard Kennon and his father Wm. Kennon of Va. and N. Carolina.
Also a copy of the services of Robert Martin of king and Queens County and Prince Edward County, Va. and N. Carolina.
Richard Kennon married Celia Ragland.
Wm. Kennon married Elizabeth Lewis.
Robert Martin married Mary Venable and had a son Dr. George Martin that married Mary Kennon, a daughter of Richard Kennon.
If there is no record of these men in this department, will you kindly advise me where I can likely obtain this information?
Thanking you for kindness of this favor, I remain,
Very respectfully,
Mrs. John Rae

Mrs. John Rae
Eldorado, Texas.
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Richard Kennon
Warrant No. 2298
for 300 acres
issued Nov. 22, 1842
to Geo. T. Kennon & others
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Genl Armand
Power of Attorney to
John Covington Burche
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MMHF
v.&1812 Wars Section
her letter in Claim B.L. Wt. 597 Wm Davies
February 24, 1927
Beverly Githens
4438 Greenwood Ave.,
Chicago, Ill.

Madam:
I have to advise you that from the records of this Bureau it appears that Richard Kennon of Mecklenburg County, Virginia served as Captain in the Virginia Line during the War of the Revolution. His age and date of death not stated, nor is the name of his wife given.
In 1842 his children were named as follows: Doctor George T. Kennon of Henrico County, Virginia, Erasmus Kennon, deceased, of Mecklenburg County, Virginia, Commodore Beverly Kennon of Washington, D. C., William H. Kennon of Powhatan, Doctor Richard Kennon, deceased, late of Norfolk, Virginia, and Sarah S., deceased, wife of the late Commodore Arthur Sinclair.
The children of soldier's son Erasmus were named as follows in 1842: William Kennon, Richard Kennon, Roberta Kennon, Sally the wife of William D. Ligon, Lucy the wife of Edward A. Williams, Nancy the wife of Oliver Kennon, Elizabeth B. the wife of Doctor Silas H. Harris, and George Kennon, deceased, who left two children, Alice, the only one alive in 1842, all of Mecklenburg County, Vir-
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ginia. Name of said George's wife not given.
The wife and only child, Emily E., of soldier's son Doctor Richard Kennon, were living in Norfolk, Virginia in 1842; wife's name not stated.
The children of soldier's daughter Sarah S. Sinclair were named as follows in 1842: Arthur Sinclair, Elizabeth the wife of William C. Whittle, George T. Sinclair, William Henry Sinclair, and Gilberta M. LaFayette Sinclair, the two daughters living in Mecklenburg County, Virginia, and the three sons, officers in the U. S. Navy.
Doctor George T. Kennon of Henrico County, Virginia, son of Captain Richard Kennon, on October 24, 1842, applied for bounty land, on account of the services of his father as Captain in the Virginia Line, in behalf of himself and the other heirs, on which application Warrant No. 2298, for three hundred acres, was issued November 22, 1842.
Respectfully,

WINFIELD SCOTT
Commissioner.
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AW
Rev. War Section.
Sept 20, 19-3.
Honorable William J. Harris,
United States Senate.
My dear Senator:
In response to your letter of the eighteenth instant, I have to advise you, that from the records of this Bureau, it appears that Richard Kennon of Mecklenburg County, Virginia, served as a Captain in the Virginia Line during the War of the Revolution. The date of his death is not on record.
His son Doctor George T. Kennon, of Henrico County, Virginia, on October 24, 1842, applied for bounty land on account of his father's service, in behalf of himself and the other heirs, and it was then stated that the children of Richard Kennon were, the said George T. Kennon, Erasmus Kennon, deceased, Beverly Kennon of Washington, D. C., William H. Kennon of Powhatan, Doctor Richard Kennon, deceased, formerly of Norfolk, and Sarah, deceased, the wife of Commodore Arthur Sinclair.

All heirs not given as Senator Harris only asked for records of the four sons in 1812 and this was used as introduction of something back as families names not given in 1812 claims
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Warrant No. 2298 for three hundred acres of bounty land was issued November 22, 1842, to the heirs of Captain Richard Kennon.
From the records of this Bureau, it appears that Beverly Kennon entered the U. S. Navy, in 1809 and was a Captain in said service when killed by an explosion of a cannon on the U. S. Ship Princeton, February 28, 1844. 
He married December 5, 1842, Brittania W. daughter of Martha Custis and Thomas Peter. She was born January 28, 1815, at "Tudor Place," Georgetown, District of Columbia, and died there January 27, 1911.
She was allowed pension, as the widow of Beverly Kennon. (Old Act Navy File 589.)
From the records of this Bureau, it appears that George T. Kennon was appointed a Surgeon in the U. S. Navy, July 24, 1813 and resigned December 20, 1823. He died in Henrico County, Virginia, March 18, 1855.
He married February 22, 1817, at Norfolk, Virginia, Anne N. Baush, or Boush, and she applied for bounty land on account of his services, November 20, 1855, while living in Henrico County, Virginia, aged fifty-seven years. She was allowed one hundred and sixty acres of land on Warrant 56967.
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This Bureau is unable to furnish the history of a acldisr or sailor of the War of 1812, unless a claim for pension, or bounty land has been made on account of his services and a careful search of the records fails to show such claims on file on account of the services in the War of 1812, of Erasmus, William and Richard Kennon (see negative slips), the sons of Captain Richard Kennon.
Respectfully,
Washington Gardner
Commissioner.