Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 13634, for John Kirkland, Virginia
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Service
Conti. Va

Kirkland, John

Number S. 13634

carded
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7338
Kentucky
John Kirkland
Mercer Co in the State of Kentucky who was a pr of [illegible] in the company commanded by Captain Dandridge of the Reg't commanded by [blank] in the Virginia line for 2 years

Inscribed on the Roll of Kentucky at the rate of 100 Dollars ~ Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 30 day of March 1833 and [illegible] R B McAfee Present

Arrears to the 4th of March 200.00
Semi=anl, allowance ending Sept 50.00
$250.oo

{Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.}

Recorded by Daniel Boyd
Book C Vol. 7 Page [paper torn off]



Death not on [illegible] 13
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John Kirkland
2,019
P Office
July 21 1832

pr'e Kirkland Jno


July 14 Sworn [illegible] Board [illegible]
Bridges
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amend & changed

State of Kentucky
Mercer  County viz
This day John Kirkland senr [senior] personally appeared in open court and made oath that he is now in the seventy ninth year of his age that he was a revolutionary soldier, that in the spring of the year 1776 He enlisted in Capt Theodoric [Theodorick] Bland company of dragoons of the 1st Virginia Regiment, and Capt [Theodorick] Bland was afterwards promoted to be Colonel of Dragoons,

That he enlisted for the term of two & a half years and faithfully served out his time. the sd [said] [Theodorick] Bland being the col [colonel] and Richard Call his captain and I enlisted in Blandford near Petersburg in the state of Virginia.

That he was in the Battles of Brandywine [Battle of Brandywine, Pennsylvania 1777], Germantown [Battle of Germantown, Pennsylvania 1777] and Monmouth [Battle of Monmouth, New Jersey 1778] and several other skirmishs and that he faithfully served out his time and  was [illegible] discharged in fall of the year 1778 at Winchester in the state of Virginia.

That he is not a pensioner of the United States neither has he ever been of the pension list and he hereby releases all other claims to a pension- he further states that he again in the fall of the year 1779 He enlisted with Capt Edward Jones in Col. [John] Green's Regiment- for the term of eighteen 
months and was detached into several other Regiments of the continel [continental line] line of Virginia Troops and He continued to serve as a faithful soldier in Capt [Edward] Jones company until the expiration of his time of enlistment when he was again honorably discharged at Rugley's Mills [Rugeley's Mill] in the state of South Carolina, being in both enlistments a soldier of the Virginia Troops of the continental line.

That I do not of any person by whom I can prove my service except by strong circumstantial evidence. He further says that he has long since lost his discharge 
witness my hand this 6th day of July 1832 -
John Kirkland [his mark] X
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State of Kentucky
Mercer Circuit S [illegible]

I Philip T. Allen clerk of the Circuit Court afs'd do certify that on this 6th day of July 1832 John Kirkland the Subscribed to the within Written Statement made oath in Open Court to the truth of the Statement within & by him subscribed & I do further certify that s'd John Kirkland and is a man of Credibility

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my name & affixed the Seal of Said Circuit Court at the Clerks office in Harrodsburg the 6th day of July 1832 and in the 41st year of the Commonwealth of Kentucky

Phil. T. Allen [signature]

This day I Charles Kirkland of the county of Mercer and state of Kentucky do make the following statement on oath that he is well acquainted with John Kirkland whose name is subscribed above that he recollects of seeing one of the discharges of the s'd Kirkland as a soldier of the Revolutionary ^war about fifty years since and then s'd Kirkland then was reputed & known as a soldier of the continental line and he has no doubt of the fact, as he had always so understood it, in his family from the time of his first recollection and, he is now in the [illegible] year of his age. Witness my hand this 12 day of July 1832. 

Charles Kirkland [signature]

Mercer County Kentucky Sct

This day Charles Kirkland appeared before me a Justice of the Peace in and for said County and made oath that the above Certificate Contains the truth to the best of his Recollection given under my hand this 12th day of June 1832

George T. Kirkland J P [signature]
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We the undersigned two Revolutionary soldiers being first sworn do hereby certify that we have been acquainted with the above named John Kirkland for many years and we have always believed him to be an honest man and a good citizen, We have also [illegible] with the s'd Kirkland and he is now present before us, and we have no hesitation in saying that we believe that he was a soldier of the Revolution and engaged in many of the [illegible] in which we [illegible] our [illegible] concerned and we also concur in opinion that he is of the age he has stated, which statement we hereby make in open court_

Witness our hands this 14. 'July 1832
Phi'l Board [signature]
John Bridges  X his mark

State of Kentucky Mercer Circuit [illegible]
July Term 1832

I Philip T. Allen clerk of the Circuit Court afs'd do certify that the above & foregoing named Philip Board & John Bridges this day made oath in open Court to the truth of the Statements by theem Severally signed & I do further Certify that it is the opinion of the Court (after Interrogating said Board & Bridges) that Said Board & Bridges are Credible men and their Statements entitled to Credit.

In Testimony whereof I as Clerk of Said Circuit Court have hereunto set my name and affixed the Seal of Saod Circuit Court at the Clerks office in Harrodsburg the 14th day of July 1832 and in the 41st year of the Commonwealth

Phil. T. Allen [signature]
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May 6, 1940

BA-J/MCS 
John Kirkland, S. 13634

Brig. Gen. George Willcox McIver
The Cordova
Washington, D.C.

Dear Sir:

Reference is made to your request for information relative to John Kirkland, a Revolutionary War soldier who lived in Mercer County, Kentucky.

The data which follow were taken from papers on file in the pension claim, S.13634, based on the military service of John Kirkland.

John Kirkland was born in Prince George County, Virginia, and was reared in Dinwiddie County, Virginia. The date of his birth and the names of his parents are not shown.

While a resident of Dinwiddie County, Virginia, John Kirkland enlisted in the spring of 1776 in Captain Theodoris Bland's Virginia Company of Dragoons; Captain Bland was promoted to Colonel of said Regiment of Dragoons which then belonged to the Continental Line and Captain Richard Call was made Captain of the Company and John Kirkland was in the battles of Brandywine, Germantown and Monmouth and was discharged from said company in the fall of 1778. He enlisted in the fall of 1779 and served eighteen months in Captain Edward Jones' Company in Colonel Green's Virginia Regiment. After the surrender of Cornwallis in the fall of 1781, he served in the militia and moved to Kentucky to that part which was later Mercer County where he served as Indian spy-and also served against the Indians on the Big Miami for three months in the fall of 1782 and was in Captain Doherty's Company under General Clark.

John Kirkland was allowed pension on his application executed July 6, 1832, at which time he was living in Mercer County, Kentucky, aged seventy-eight years.


Dec 3rd [illegible] Report
[illegible] Correspondence
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In 1853, John Kirkland, son of the soldier, stated that the soldier died in the fall of 1837 but the exact date of his death is not shown.

In 1832, one Charles Kirkland was living in Mercer County, Kentucky, aged fifty-nine years, and in that year one George T. Kirkland was Justice of the Peace in that county, relationship not shown.

There are no data on file relative to the wife of this soldier and no further data relative to his family.

Very truly yours

A. D. HILLER
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator
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Rev War

13634.
INVALID.
File No. 13.634
John Kirkland
Corpl. Rev. war

Act: June 7th 1832.
Index:- Vol 1, Page 207

[Arrangement of 1870.]

May 29 1901
T. W. Hubbard
San Francisco Cal

June 4, 1906 To Auditor for Dept for dates of death and last [word cut off] and to whom paid.

1940 May 6 hist. to Brig Gen. Geo. Willcox McIver
W. C. S.
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July-1954
Mrs Mary Carico
2130 8th Ave
Huntington W. Va

I have info on John Kirkland for descendants-wishing to contact the members of family there is no charge for inf.

The State History Society at Frankfort Ky has inf.
also genealogical Bureau Salt Lake City.
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3-397
(Old No. 3-399)                        F.W., Ex'r.
(on desk) __________Division
S.F. No. 13634
John Kirkland
Rev. War
Department of the Interior
Bureau of Pensions
Washington, D.C., June 4, 1906

Sir:
For use in the above entitled claim for pension, you are requested to furnish this Bureau with a report in the case of John Kirkland pensioned under the Act June 7 1832 No. 7330, issued March 30, 1833 Kentucky Agency showing date of death, date of last payment, and to whom paid

Pension Office, U.S. June 7 1906

Very Respectfully,
V. Warner Commissioner
The Auditor for the Interior Department, Treasury Department

Office of Auditor
Interior Dept.
June 6 1906
Pension Division

 O.W. & N. DIVISION
JUN 7 1906
RECEIVED [ink stamp]
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OFFICE OF AUDITOR FOR INTERIOR DEPARTMENT

Treasury Department,
Washington, June 6th 1906

The Commissioner of Pensions.

Sir:  In reply to your letter of 4th inst, in case of 
John Kirkland, Certificate Rev War Act. 32
Lexington Ky Agency, [blank] Roll,
you are informed that, according to the latest account rendered by the U.S. Pension Agent, the records of this office show last payment to have been made at $50,- per 6 months to 4 March 1838 in April 1838.  Date of death is unknown.  Payment was made to John G. Chiles, Atty for the pensioner.

O.W. & N. DIVISION
JUN 7 1906
RECEIVED [ink stamp]

U. S. 
PENSION
OFFICE.
H
JUN
7
1906 [ink stamp]

Letter herewith returned.
Respectfully, Robert S. Person Auditor 

By G P Dunham Deputy Auditor.

Reply Showing Payments.
Pension Division-Form 3577. _Ed. Nov, 26-04-3,000.
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DENTAL DEPARTMENT
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
SAN FRANCISCO, CAL.
[this letterhead crossed out]

7330
OW&N

May 18th 1901
H Clay Evans, Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington, D.C.

OW&N
25- DEH

Dear Sir:
Will you kindly furnish me with the Revolutionary War record for John Kirkland as the same appears on the records of your office.  John Kirkland served from Virginia and was pensioned as a soldier of the Revolutionary War under the Act of June 7, 1832.  He was pensioned Mch. 1833 and was there residing in Mercer Co., Kentucky.

Very respectfully
T. W. Hubbard
436 Parrott Bld.
San Francisco, Cal.
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No Remit

April 26, 1940
Brig. Gen. George Willcox McIver
The Cordova
Washington, D. C.

The Pension Bureau
Dear Sirs:
A pension was issued to John Kirkland born in Scotland died in Mercer Co. Ky. He was born in 1753 I think. On May 29, 1901 a statement to this effect is added O.W.& N. Division.
J.R.W.
#13634
Rev. Serv.

No Remittance enclosed
when received in
[illegible] Accts. * Coll. [illegible] 
[ink stamp]

Can you tell me whether mention is made of wife of children is made?

Thanking you, I am very truly 
G.W. McIver [signature]

P.S. Have you a record of his death?
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Stae of Kentucky
Mercer County viz
On this 4th day of February 1833 personally appeared in open court before the Justices of the Mercer County court now sitting John Kirkland senr [senior] 79 years of age a resident citizen of sd [said] county and state who being first sworn according to law makes  oath to the following declaration for the purpose of obtaining a pension under the act of Congress passed the 7th day of June 1832
viz

I John Kirkland now seventy nine years of age a resident citizen in the county of Mercer and state of Kentucky. do hereby declare that I entered the service of my country during the revolutionary war at the time and under the officers hereafter named.

In the spring of the year 1776 according to my best recollection I enlisted in Capt Theodoric [Theodorick] Bland company of Light Dragoons for two years and a half at Petersburg in the state of Virginia and we first marched to Williamsburgh [Williamsburg, Virginia] where we was stationed and were employed with Capt Dandridge's [Alexander Spotswood Dandridge] company in collecting provisions and on occasional excursions in the neighborhood as a guard and late in the fall we were marched to the north and met the Prisoners taken by Genl Washington [General George Washington] at Princeton 
between, Philadelphia [Pennsylvania] and Trenton [New Jersey]- and at Trenton [New Jersey] we Halted sometime and thence Joined Lord Sterling [William Alexander, Lord Stirling] at Basking Ridge [New Jersey] and Morristown [New Jersey], and soon  after Capt [Theodorick] Bland was promoted to a Major and then Colonel of our Corps, and then Capt Richd [Richard] Call was my captain the whole time as well as I now
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can recollect, and when this millist [militia] from New Brunswick in [New] Jersey, we took possession of that place and I was also in Elizabeth town [New Jersey] and at Newark and had several skirmishes with small parties of the enemy, and when the British sailed round for the  Delaware [River], we returned and was stationed at different places above Philadelphia [Pennsylvania] 

and when the British advanced on that place my Regiment with the main army met them at Brandywine where we had a severe battle, which lasted until near night, [Battle of Brandywine, Pennsylvania 1777], as well as I now recollect Genl Stephens [Adam Stephen (or Stevens)] Brigade first gave way and we then retreated back, and was stationed not far from Germantown [Pennsylvania] 

and not long after I was engaged in that Battle, [Battle of Germantown, Pennsylvania 1777] which was a very warm one for a short time, and after this my company returned to Morris town [Morristown, New Jersey] [Encampment at Morristown Winter 1777] where we continued making excursions during the winter and next spring, 

and in June when the British left Philadelphia [Pa] we were ordered to pursue them and at Monmouth [New Jersey] we had another severe Battle with them [Battle of Monmouth, New Jersey 1778] Genl Lee [General Charles Lee] 
fought in the Battle but Genl Washington [General George Washington] had to come up and restore some unfortunate order which Lee [General Charles Lee] had given  My company
had a sure conflict for a short time

after this Battle, I was marched to the White Plains [New York] where I remained until my time was near expiring in the fall 1778
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When I was marched back to Winchester in Virginia where I was personally discharged, which discharge I have long since lost or mislaid, after this Period I was in the Militia service thirteen months but do not consider it important now to give a full statement as I was in the Regular army as a Light dragoon two years and six months, first under Capt [Theodorick] Bland and then under him as a Colonel during the whole time -
I further state that I was born in the county of Prince George in the state of Virginia and was raised in Dinwiddie county [Va.] where I resided when the war commenced and I enlisted in Petersburgh [Petersburg] Virginia, I was an enlisted soldier in Col [Theodorick] Bland Regiment of Dragoons being a volunteer & not a drafted soldier 

I do not know now of any person alive by whom I can prove my service except by reputation - After Cornwallis [General Charles Lord Cornwallis] was captured [Surrender of Cornwallis, Yorktown Va. 1781] at which time I was in the militia service in Carolina

I removed to Kentucky now Mercer County where I performed several militia tours and guard as an Indian Spy, and was also with Genl Clark [General George Rogers Clark] three months against the Indians on the Big Miami in the fall 1782 in Capt Dohertys company

I further hereby relinquish all claims which I may have to any pension from the united States except the Present or any other annuity, 
Witness my hand this 4th February 1832
John Kirkland [his mark] X
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State of Kentucky
Mercer County

Mr. Benjamin Peck a Clergyman a resident citizen of s'd county and state and John L. Bridges and Ebenzer Carey also resident citizens do hereby stae that we are well acquainted with John Kirkland snr who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration and we believe him to be of the age he has stated, and that he is reputed and believed to have been a revolutionary soldier and we concur in this opinion we also state that we have known him for many years that he is an honest good citizen and a man of Faith

Witness my hand this 4th day of Feb 1833_

Benj Peck [signature]
John L. Bridges [signature]
Ebenezer Carey   X his mark

Mercer County Sct. February County Court 1833

John Kirkland the applicant for a pension herein together with Benjamin Peck a Clergyman and John L Bridges & Ebenezer Carey personally appeared in open Court and swore to and subscribed the foregoing Declaration and Statement and the said Court do [illegible] declare their opinion after putting the interogatories prescribed by the war department that the above named applicant was a revolutionary Soldier and served as he states. And the Court further Certifies that it appears to them that Benjamin Peck who has signed the preceeding Certificate is a Clergyman resident in the County of Mercer and that John L Bridges and Ebenezer Carey who has also Signed the same are residents in the County of Mercer and are Credible persons aged that their statements are entitled to credit. I Thomas Allen Jr Clerk of the Court of Mercer County do hereby Certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the Matter of the application of John Kirkland for a Pension and I do further certify
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from 1776 private
of cavalry 2 1/2 years
$100

Kirkland
John's
papers

McAfee
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State of Kentucky
Mason County

On this 7th day of March 1833 Charles Kirkland came before me a Justice of the Peace in and for said county and made oath to the following statement viz: I Charles Kirkland of said county do hereby state on oath that I am well acquainted with John Kirkland who has subscribed and sworn to the annexed declaration and although I was too young to enter the service of the revolutionary war yet I have often heard the said John Kirkland describe the services he performed at the battle of Guildford, Brandywine & Monmouth as well at Germantown, not many years after the revolutionary war and I well recollect of seeing what was said to be from John Kirkland's discharge from his enlistment as he returned from the army but was but a youth at the time & do not recollect to have had it but have no doubt from what transpired at the time of its being a regular discharge, I also know that the said John Kirkland is a man of truth and have no doubt he performed the service as he has declared. Witness my hand this 7th day of March 1833.

Charles Kirkland

Which said affidavit was this day subscribed and sworn to before me a Justice of the Peace for said county by Charles Kirkland who I further certify is a credible witness and that he lives eighteen miles at best from the courthouse & could not attend without great inconvenience. Given under my hand this 7th day of March 1833.

Tho J Crawford - JP MC
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that Thomas J Crawford Esq whose name is affixed to ta certificate hereto subjoined is an acting justice of the peace in and for the county aforesaid duly commissioned and qualified and as such full faith and credit is and ought to be given to every of his official acts as such.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of office this 7th day of March 1833.

Tho Allen - Cl

SEAL
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Complete

F F C Triplett
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Know all men by these presents, That I John Kirkland, son of John Kirkland Sr dec'd a revolutionary pensioner who died sometime [illegible] 1837 who was a soldier in the army of the revolution do hereby constitute and appoint S H Stevenson my true and lawful attorney for me and in my name to prosecute against the government of the United States before any department thereof any and all claim or claims I may have to arrears of pay or pension money under any act or acts resolution or resolutions of the congress of the United States and especially the acts 4th July 1836, 7th July 1838, 3rd March 1843, 17th June 1844, 2nd February 1848 and 29th July 1848 - as well as the more ancient acts of 18th March 1818, 15th May 1828 and 7th June 1832.

Said attorney is moreover authorized in my name to demand at any department of the said government a reconsideration of any decision hitherto or hereafter to be given touching my interests and to obtain from any department or the archives thereof any and all information or evidence of whatever character relating to or in anywise bearing upon the claim or claims we hereby seek the investigation of.

Said attorney is moreover authorized to do any and all things necessary to carry out the foregoing purposes and to receive the certificates of pension or other character of drafts or evidences of the amounts due me and to appoint one or more Sub-attorneys and to confer upon him or them all the powers herein conferred upon said attorney hereby ratifying and confirming all that my said attorney may do by virtue of these presents.

Witness my hand and seal this 29th day of March 1853

John Kirkland
His X Mark - SEAL

Test: D Collin
S.H. Stevenson

State of Kentucky Mercer County 

Be it know that on the 29th day of March 1853 before the subscriber a justice of the peace in and for the county and state aforesaid personally appeared John Kirkland subscriber to the foregoing Power of Attorney and acknowledged the signing, sealing and delivering the same to be his own voluntary act and deed for the uses and purposes therein set forth.

In testimony whereof I do hereunto subscribe my name:

Daniel Collins - JP
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State of Kentucky
Mercer County

I Thomas Allen Clerk of the court for the county aforesaid do hereby certify that David Collier Esq before whom the foregoing power of attorney was made and who has thereunto subscribed his name is and was at the time of so doing a justice of the peace in and for the county aforesaid duly elected, commissioned and sworn and that his said signature is genuine.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of my office as clerk of Mercer County Court this 2nd day of April 1853.

Tho Allen - Clk

My certificate interlined before me

Tho Allen CLK