Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 5871, for William Kenney, South Carolina
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SERVICE
S.C.
Kenney, William
NUMBER
R. 5871
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24518 Wm. Kenny

Wm. Kenny
Alabama 24518

[Illegible]
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tate of Alabama
Morgan County On this 22d day of
Nov. 1832 personally appeared before [illegible] in Court before the Judge of the orphans Court now sitting William Kenney resident of said County and state aforesaid aged sixty four years on the 10th day of Octr 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 into the service of
the United States under the command
of John Sedapter[?] Col Frederick
Kimball Major Thos Thompson
Capt George Dunlap, the year he
entered the service he does not re
collect but it was while Lord Rawdon lay encamped at Camden [illegible] that he served something like two years that at the
time he entered the service he resided
the  in the Waxaw settlement now
called Lancaster district in South Carolina that he entered as a volunteer & served principally in that country.
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that he was engaged in divers little
skirmishes, that he served generally upon such scouting 
skirmishing parties and not in any
regular establishment, that he
has no documentary evidence
of the fact of his service and
knows no person living who can be
produced as evidence in his favor
I hereby relinquish every claim what
ever to a pension or annuity except
the present and declare that my
name is not on the pension roll of
the Agency of any State
Question 1st Where and in what year
were you born
Just in the Waxaw settlement
State of South Carolina on the 18th
day of Oct 1768

Question 2nd Have you any record of
your age and if so where is it
Just I have now at home and in
my fathers hand write such
record.
Question  3 Where were you living
when called into service where have
the you lived since you the revolution
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war & where do you now live.
Answ. In the Waxaw settlement South Carolina
I resided at that time.
Since the war I have lived in
the State of Tennessee & herein
this county where I now reside.
Question 4th How were you called into
service; were you drafted, did you [illegible]
volunteer were you a substitute. And if
a substitute for whom.
Answ. I entered into service as a
Volunteer.
Question
5th State the names of some
of the Regular Officers who were
with the troops where you served
such continental and Militia
regiments as you can recollect and
the general circumstances of your
service.
Answ. the declaration above
is my answer to these questions.
Question 6 Did you ever receive
a discharge from the service and
if so by whom was it given and
what has become of it.
Answ. I had none.
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Question 7th State the names of persons
to whom you are known in your
present neighborhood and who can testify
to your character for veracity
& good behavior, your services as
a soldier of the revolution
Answer I am acquainted with the Reverend
James Edens & Thomas Craw Esqr. who
will testify to the above interrogatory.
Wm Kenney
Sworn to and subscribed
the day & year aforesaid
M M McKenzie Clk
Mr James Edens a clergyman residing
in the County of Morgan and Thomas
Crow residing in said County hereby
certify that we are well acquainted with
William Kenney [illegible] who has
subscribed and sworn to the above
declaration, that we believe him to be
about sixty four years of age; that he
is reputed and believed in the
neighborhood where he resides, to have been
a soldier of the Revolution and that
we concur in that opinion
Sworn to and subscribed the day
and year aforesaid
sworn to & subscribed
day and year aforesaid in open court
James Edens
Thomas Crow
M M McKenzie Clk
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And I Charles M Peters Judge of the Orphants Court
of Morgan County State of Alabama do hereby
declare my opinion that after the investigation 
of the matter and after [illegible] the 
interrogatories presented by the war Department
the above named applicant William Keney was
a revolutionary soldier and served as he states and
the Court further certifies that it appears to
appeared in open Court and
him that James Edens who appeared in open court has signed the presiding
Certificate is a Clergiman resident in the
County of Morgan aforesaid and that Thomas Crow
who also appeared in open Court and
who has also signed the same is a resident in
the County of Mondon aforesaid and is a credible
person and that their statement is entitled to
credit [illegible] under my hand this 22d of
November 1832
Chrs M Peters Judge
State of Alabama
Morgan County 
M M MacKenzie Clerk of the County
Court of Morgan County and State
aforesaid do hereby certify that the foregoing contains
original proceedings of the said Court in the matter
of application of William Kenney for a pension
In testimony of which I hereunto set
my hand and affix the seal of office
at office this 22nd day of November
AD 1832 and of American Independence
the fifty seventh year
M. M. MacKenzie Clk
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Rejected
See letter 25 May
1836 Hon. Reuben
Chapman
was too young
5871
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Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873.
Rejected
5871
P.O.
Service:
Enlisted: ,18
Discharged: ,18
Application filed: ,18
Alleges:
Re-enlisted:
Attorney:
P. O.
Recognized.
Contract.
Cert. of Dis.
Searched for ,18
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William Kenny
Morgan Co
Alabama
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House of Rep.
May 23 1836

Sir,
I have the honor to enclose you
herewith, the papers relating to the
application of the Wm Kenny of Morgan County
Ala, to be placed on the revolutionary
pension list. The declaration appears
to have been amended under the
regulation of your department, since it was
laid before you. I hope the papers
will upon examination be found in
[illegible] to make out his case. I know
the old man well, and consider him
fully entitled to credit. He is in very
reduced circumstances, infirm, and diseased,
with a large family. An answer is requested
as early as may be convenient.
Hon. J. L. Edwards
-
Your Ob. St. R Chapman
Court of Pensions
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Amended Declaration
In order to obtain the benefit of the
act of Congress of the 7th of June 1832
State of Alabama,
Morgan County
on this 20th day of June 1833
Personally appeared in opencourt in the 
Orphants court of Morgan County State of 
Alabama - before the judge thereof Hon. Kittering William King
a resident of said County of Morgan State of
Alabama who being first duly sworn
according to law doth on his oath make
the following amendments to his original
declaration heretofore to wit on 22d day of
November 1832 filed in this Court in
order to obtain the benefit of the provision
made by act of Congress passed [illegible]
1832 in August on the 18th day in the year
1780 he entered the service under the command of the officers mentioned in his original declaration to wit his Colonel Frederick
Kimble he served as a private until peace
was proclaimed to the army which was in March 1783 and he prays this may be received 
as a [illegible] of his original Declaration
Wm Kenney
Sworn to and subscribed
the day and year aforesaid
M M Mackenzie Clk. c.c.
[illegible] presided
And I Charles M Peters Judge of the Orphants Court of
Manga County State of Alabama do declare my opinion
that the above applicant was a revolutionary solder and served as he states
Ch M Peters Judge
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personally appeared before me the undersigned a justice of the Peace in and for the County of Morgan
State of Alabama William Kenney who being duly sworn deponeth and saith that by reason of old age and the
consequent loss of memory he cannot swear positively
as to the precise length of his service but according to
the best of his recollection he served not less than
the periods mentioned below For two years and
six months as a private and for such service
I claim a pension
Wm Kenney
Sworn to and subscribed
before me this 20th day June 1833
Jonathan L Owens 
State of Alabama I MM MacKenzie clerk of the County Morgan County Court of Morgan County and state aforesaid do hereby certify that the foregoing contains
the original and amended proceedings had by the said
court in the matter of the application of William
Kinney for a pension and that the signature of Jonathan L Owens as above is genuine
In testimony whereof I hereunto set
my hand and affix the seal of office
at office this 20th day of June in the
Year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and thirty three and of American
Independence the fifty Seventh Year
Testo MM Mackenzie Clk
.c.c
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Hon R Chapman
HR
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Amended declaration in order to obtain
the benefit of the act of Congress of the 7th
of June 1832
State of Alabama
Morgan County
On this 21st day of
October 1834 
Personally appeared in open court in the
orphans Court of said County before
the Judge thereof now sitting William
Kenney a resident of said County & State
who being duly sworn according
law doth on his oath make the following amendment to his original declaration he [illegible] filed on the 22d day
of Nov. 1832 & also to an amended
declaration filed on the 20th of
June 1833 in this court in order
to obtain the benefit of the act
of Congress of 7th of June 1832 for
the benefit of revolutionary pension
soliders.
He States that immediately after the
defeat of General Gates at Camden which was in the month of August
1780 & near the middle of said month
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General Gates army retreated
thro' the Waxaw settlement in South
Carolina where he resided with his
father in that part of said State
now called Lancaster district some
fifteen or twenty of the foremost in
the retreat came by his father house
& compelled him to go with them
to share them the road into N Carolina
which he did. On his return
home he heard in a day
or two that the
tories threatened vengeance against him for this
act of friendship to the rebels as they
called
the Americans and he immediately
went up to Charlotte & joined Capt.
George Dunlaps company attached
to Sumpter's brigade of which he thinks
Andrew McIlvaine was at 
that time Lieutenant and in which
his father Alexander Kenney had 
been for some time before I was
then a private soldier. He entered
said company he thinks certain by by
the 20th of August 1780. During the
time he was in it he was in several
skirmishes between the scouting part-
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ties of his company & the tories
and recollects particularly to have
been in a skirmish with a company 
of tories commanded as he
thinks by Cap. Bryant near the
river Catawba and that part of it
which he thinks was called the
Wateree where the tories were
defeated, and another one between
the Waxaws & Camden where
the tories of a Capt. McCulloch's
company were defeated almost
without a contest. That he [illegible]
though he did not see it himself
the reports of the time about the
battle of Camden where Genl.
Green commanded and about
Lord Rawdon's burning Camden
and evacuating it, during which
time he was on duty in Capt.
Dunlaps Company aforesaid
in the Waxaws about forty
miles above Camden. When Rawdon left Camden & went to
Charleston Capt. Dunlap dismissed
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his men except those be drafted &
those who volunteered to pursue
the British which they overtook
as he always heard at Eutaw
Springs where a battle took
place but in which company he
was not concerned [illegible] kept
him at home after his dismissal
by Dunlap. He recollects that 
at the battle of Camden just before
he entered the army Gen. Gates
retreated alone thro' the Waxaws
and at a Major Barkley's four
miles or thereabouts from his
fathers Gates exchanged a steed
horse for another horse and the
steed horse died that day &
when he was opened it was said
his tallow was melted.
After he was dismissed by Dunlap
after the evacuation Carden
by Lord Rawdon [illegible] was as
he thinks about the last days of
April 1781 or the first of May, said
dismissal was not considered
a final discharge and he remained
attached to said company & consid-
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ered himself a soldier of the
American army ready & prepared
to do & perform military duty
at any & all times until the
war closed which gave us 
independence & a national existence
and that during all this period he
considered himself as on duty
as as entitled to be so considered
& altho so very young he was well
grown for his age able to do duty
& did do it.
And he prays this may be made a 
part of his original declaration.
Wm Kenney
Sworn to and subscribed
in open Court this 21st
day of October 1834
M. M. Mackenzie Clerk
of Morgan County Court
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the war department that the
above applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states
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The State of Alabama 
Morgan County 
I M Mackenzie Clerk 
of the County Court of the
County and in the State aforesaid do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original and amended proceedings of the said Court in
the matter of the application of William
Kinney for a pension
In testimony whereof I hereunto
set my hand and affix the seal
of said office at Office this 21st
day of October in the year of our
Lord Eighteen hundred and thirty
four and of American Independence
the fifty ninth year
Testo M M MacKenzie
Clerk of Morgan County Court