Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 41723, for John Kennard, New Jersey
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SERVICE
New Jersey
CONTENTS
cesses
per-
28
Kennard, John

NUMBER
S. 41723
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19358

Ohio
John Kennard
Perry County in the state of Ohio
in the rigiment commended 
Storet of this New Jersey 
scribed on the Roll of Ohio
at the rate of 
8 Dollars per month, to commence
the 25 of
April 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 24 June
feet to Charles C Hood
Somerset Ohio
Arrears to 4th of Mar 1819
an alle ending Sep 1819
82
48
$130.65
4th of March 1819 

Revolutionary claim,
Act 18th March, 1818
righ
July 31, 1821

14. Nov. 1820 as appears by Roll
Cond by Mr Lambert
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John Kennard
 Senior being duly sworn deposeth
 and saith that he served in the Revolutionary
 war of the United States that he enlisted
in November 1775 in Baptist town under Capt.
Stout for one year as a private and went
to Canada, that he again enlisted at the expiration ┃
of the year at Albany about the last of
November 1776 for during the war in Capt.
Stout company, second Regiment New Jersey
line and was discharged at Bucking Meeting
in the fall of 1780, that he was discharged by
the General Doctor as unfit for duty, this
deponent being then and for a long time previses
to that time in very bad health.
This deponent further saith that his
discharge being nearly worn out by carrying it
in his pocket as a pass has been since destroyed
by his children. said deponent further
saith that he now relinquishes all pensions heretofore
allowed him and that from his reduced
circumstances in life he news the assistance
of his country for his support
John Kennard
Amos
Reed being duly sworn deposeth a
that this deponent enlisted in Capt. Yords Co
2d New Jersey Regiment of foot in the
1776 - 1777, that he was personally acquainthe

above named John Kennard Senior
in service in the said regiment and that this
deponent  knows that the said John Kennard would for 
several years on the continental establishment
 against the common Enemy
his
Amos
Reed
mark
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State of Ohio, Perry County ss
Noton
Before me Charles C.
●
Hood one of the Associate
Judges of said County personally 
came this 25th
of April 1818 the within
named John Kennard 
and Amos Reed and swore
to and subscribed the within declaration
and affidavit before me and it appearing
to my satisfaction that the above named
John Kennard Sr did serve in the revolution
any war against the common enemy
for a longer period than Nine months
I do hereby certify the testimony in the case
and set my hand and the seal of said county
this 25th
of April 1818
Charley C. Hood


State of Ohio Perry County
In Testimony there the said Charles Good
is a Judge of the Court of Common pleas
of said County and that full faith and credit
are due to all his official acts as such have
hereunto set my hand and seed as
25th day of April AD 1818
attest John Beckwith CLK
P.J.P.G.
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John Kennard
Clerk fees 1877
12, 353
24. June, 1819.
Suspended.

Roswell Mills
Somerset, Ohio Perry 
100
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State of Ohio, Perry County
Court of Common Pleas July Term
On this 21 day of July 1820 personally appeared in open
Court being a Court of Record in said County
being expressly made a court of Record by the laws
of said State and having the powing mind and
impresenment John Kennard Resident in Reading
Township in said County and aged by years
who being first duly sworn according
Law doth on his red oath declared that he
service in the Revolutionary war as follows
that he enlisted in Ringwood township New Jersey
in the first year of the Revolution for one year and
Captain Stant Col Maxfield and Jersey line
in
and again reinlisted Albany under the same
Officers or during the war and was discharge
in the hospital at Buckingham meeting house
Pennsylvania my original application for
person was made April 25th 1818 and
certificate Numbered 12353. And I do
further more hear 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 disposed of
my property or any part thereof with intent
thereby so to reduce or diminish it as to bring my
self with in the provisions of an act of Congress
an act to provide for certain persons
engaged in the land and naval service of the
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United States in the Revolutionary war, passed March
17th 1818 and that I have not nor has any person
in trust for me any property or securities debts
contracts due to me nor have I any income
other then what is contain in the Schedule
hereunto annexed and by me subscribed
Schedule of John Kennard property
Fifty acres of the late Land mostly in the woods
for which Land I have paid with the money I
have received of my pension one horse 19 years old
one Colt 3 years old 2 Cows one Sheep Plow one old
and Mattock pair of horse geers one small iron pot and
one Small Kettle 3 or 4 Domestic chairs of my own make
half a dozen pewter spoons and three or four old knives
and forks a pewter plates and a base sufficiency of
earthen dishes &c for house keeping. I owe $50 and hand
$26, owing to me I am by trade a shoemaker but
my sight is not good enough to follow my trace
and I am not vacate as much labor again
I have no family living with me but my wife
Sarah
Bed a
aged about 65 and confined to her
great part of the time-
Appraisment
50 acres of Land
house
appraised at
$1250
Carl
5
2 Cows
30
-
-
-
Sheep
---
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Va
place
1
3
50
.
Mattock-
-
on
1 horse Gent
20
to
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Cannin
Q.
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Kittle
50
3 or 4 Chains
$1.00
C Pewter plates
1.
other articles
15
Debts One mee
2400
223.75
Deduct Deas
50
Value
17315
have again thought of the follwinginging
which had escaped my memory
8
augers at
5
Adge
5
value
$1.74.7.5
to
1
John Kennard the
land find the voice of the property to be $174.75
and subscribed
Sworn to in open Court this 21st July 1820
George Trout associate Judge
The State of Ohio Perry County
John Beckwith Clerk of the Court of Common
Pleas for said County do hereby certify that the
foregoing oath and the schedule thereto
annexed volruly copied from the Records of said
Court, And do further Certify that it is the
opinion of said Court that the total amount
of the value the property exhibited in the schedule
.
Intestimony whereof I have hereto
let my hand and find that
of said Court at same this
day of July AD 1820
John Beckwith
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State of Ohio.
Perry County
Jemima Reed being duly
sworn deposeth and saith that
she is a relation of of John Kennard
and who on the 25th of April
1818 made affidavit that in order to obtain
a pension for his revolutionary services,
and this deponent saith that she was
knowing to said Kennard's enlistment
in the continental army of the United
States in the revolutionary war
and that she also knows that he served
one year at one time and that in
all he served more than two years in
the U.S. Army on continental establish
ment in the revolutionary war
And further she saith not
her
Jemima Reed
mark
.
In testimony of that the above named
Jemima Reed appeared before me a Justice
of the Peace in said County this day and
made oath to and subscribed the above
deposition in before me I have hereunto
set my hand and seal this 24th of April
AD. 1819. I do also certify that on enquiry
I find the said Jemima Reed to be a
woman of good character and unimpeach
ed credibility
Roswell Mills J.P.
also certify that Amos Reed who
heretofore made affidavit on the same
a man of good character & credibility
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State of Ohio ⎬
Perry County Ss
I, George Tract one of the
Apociate Judges of said county do
hereby certifies that I have this day
enquired into the circumstance of the
within named John Kennard Sr. on
the oaths of the evidences of full age and
have found and am satisfied that he
is in such circumstances as require
the aid and assistance of his country
for his support. Given under my hand
& seal this 17th of May 1819
George Tract
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41723
INVALID.
Ray
No. 41723
John Kennard
Rev. War
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Act: 18 March 18
Index: -- Vol. 3 Page 267
Arrangement of 1870.]
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State of Ohio
Perry County ⎬
I, John Beckwith Clerk of the
Court of Common Pleas of said
County, do hereby certify that Roswell
Mills was on the 24th of April last
and
now is a Justice of the Peace
in said county and that George Trout
also then was and
nded is
one of the
Associate Judges of said County
both of whom are duly commis
sioned & sworn and that full faith
and
credit is due to all their
official acts as such
In testimony whereof I have
hereunto set my hand &
seal of Office this 17th
day of May 1819
Attest John Beckwith Clerk
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Applicant aged 67 yes
Shoemaker-- but his sight
not good enough to pursue
the trade--
wife 65 yrs old great
part of her time confined
to her bed

who
the
50 an land, for
the pension money
valued at $125-
and of sched: (including
above $223.75-
Debts
50. 00
the
from the 1st Comm to
close of the war
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THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES
Form VAM-51
12 - 5 - 41
Kennard, Joseph
WARRANT 752
NUMBER
BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
Private
ACREAGE
Division of Veterans' Administration Archives
Pennsylvania
ISSUED January 5, 1792
to Stephen
Loudon
assignee
The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of ""Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800"" which are
registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent
dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800.
Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.