Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W 2737, for John Kitchen, Virginia
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(3 - 1776)
SERVICE


VA.


Kitchen, John
Mary
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NUMBER
W2737
CONTENTS
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5716
East Tennessee
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John
Kitchen
of Anderson in the State of Tennessee
who was a (illegible)
in the _____
commanded
by Captain - of the Regt. commanded
by Col. Lee
in the (illigible)
line for 6 months from 1781
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Inscribed on the Roll of East Tennessee
at the rate of 20 Dollars -- Cents per annum
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
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Certificate of Pension issued the 15 day of Feby
1833 and sent Hon J.
Standifer, Ho. of Rep
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Arrears to 4th of Sept 1832
36 -
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Mar '33
30-
10-
___
$40-

Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7, 1832.

Recorded by Nathan
Clerk
Book D
Vol. 9
Page 104

Letter to James M White & and
29th Nov 1841
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Paid at the Treasury under the
Act of the 6th April 1838 from
4 Sep 1840 to 1 March 1841 agt
Notified 20 Dec. 1841.
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899
Tennessee   Kno
Mary Kitchen
widow of John Kitchen
who served in the Revolutionary war, as a Private Va Line
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Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 20 Dollars -- Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1848.
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Certificate of Pension issued the 3rd day of February 1852 and sent to Hon. A G Watkins
H. of R.
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Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act July 29,1848, Page 183  Vol A
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John Kitchen
Tennessee
No 6788.
for 
1781, private 

6 ,months
$20
Mr. J. Standefer
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Brief in the case of John Kitchen
of Anderson County in the State of Tennessee
(Act 7th June, 1832.)
1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? Court
2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?
3. How old is he? 74 years
4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed.
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Period. Duration of Service. Rank. Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.
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In 1781 drafted  
Years, Months, Days
"3 "
As a Private
Gen. Green
(illegible) MAjor Skipworth
Capt. Huston
(illegible) 1781

"between 3&4 months"
Major George Maller
"six months in all" Capt Owen Ruttle
5. In what battles was he engaged? -
6. Where did he reside when he entered the service?  (illegible)
7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls?
Traditionary
8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect?
certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above

Examining Clerk.
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The certificate to this applicant, or these papers, if sent back, will be (illegible) to Knoxville Tenn. 
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W 6788
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State of Tennessee
Anderson County circuit court at August (illegible) 1832 on this day of August 1832 at a circuit court opened and held for the county and state aforementioned, being a court of record and having the power of fine and imprisonment, before the Hon. Edmond Scott one of the judges of said courts, personally appeared in open court John Kitchen in said county , aged 74 years, who having been duly owed according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of an act of Congress passed June 7th 1832 - that he was (illegible) in Bedford County Virginia on the 25th of April 1837 that he continued to live there until sometime after the payments ceased of the Revolutionary war, when he moved to Henry county Virginia and where he was when he was drafted (illegible) February (illegible) Henry Courthouse (illegible0 in said county (Illegible) by Captain George Huston (illegible) which company was under the commandment of Major Skipworth, and (illegible) Hendersons old houses (illegible) county (illegible) where we were the day the battle at (illegible) was fought here all the (illegible ) from Henry County (illegible) a few days, when they (illegible) General Greens - a few days after reaching the (illegible) occupied the same camp (illegible) had left in the morning (illegible) to the south and from the (illegible)
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at the time lay down on the Cape fear river - after joining Col. Lee he told captain Haston that if he could get --- Hastings men to join his Regiment of  ---, he would discharge the balance of his company In conformity with this arrangement twelve men out of Captain Hastings
company joined Lee and the remainder, of which 
applicant was one, were marched home under the ensign Jesse Corn, and then discharged - applicant -  states that he had been drafted for three months, and owing to the arrangement above in time with Col. Lee he got home a few days before his three months had expired -  applicant states that sometime in the first of August following he was again drafted for a tour of three months, and was enrolled at Henry Courthouse into a company commanded by captain Owen Ruttle  he thinks, Lieutenant William McVeaty which company was under he command of Major George Waller - his company marched on to Petersburg - and on to --- old Jamestown where they crossed James river --- there they marched on the --- Williamsburg  --- to Yorktown where Cornwallis  with the British army there lay - here applicant  remained several days until after the surrender of Cornwallis when he was discharged and --- home - applicant states that he was in the service in this campaign between three and four months from the time he was drafted until he ----- the whole period of his services in the Revolution --- at least six months - he states that he  continued to reside in Henry County 10 or 15 years after the close of the war, when he moved to Tennessee, and has been living in the neighbourhood in Anderson County where he now lives thirty three years - he has a record of his age in his family bible - he states that he received a written discharge at the termination of both his said
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--- but he has lost them - he states that he has
no documentary evidence whatever of his service nor does he know of any person whose testimony he can ---who can testify to his services - he hereby relinquishes every claim to a pension or annuity whatever, except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension
roll of the agency of any state 
Sworn to and subscribed in open court this 30th August 1832 - 

John (his X mark) Kitchen

A Crozier clk
by his deputy
Jas M. McCann

State of Tennessee }
Anderson County }
We John Lay and Anselm L Carden residing in the county and state aforesaid do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with John Kitchen who has subscribed the foregoing declaration and ---- so acquainted for twenty years; that we believe him to be seventy four years old; that he is reputed & believed in the neighbourhood where he resided to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion
Sworn and subscribed in open court --- August 1832

John Lay
A L Carden

A Crozier Clk
by his deputy
Jas M McCann

--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 named applicant was 
a Revolutionary soldier and served as he states and the Court further certifies that the said
John Lay and A L. Carden, who have signed the fore-
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going certificate are residents of this county county; are credible persons and that their statements are entitled to full credit
Edw Scott one of the Judges of the Circuit
County of Law and Equity in and for the
State of Tennessee aforesaid

I Arthur Crozier Clerk of the Circuit Court for the County of Anderson and State of Tenn. do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of John Kitchen for a pension
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and private seal having no seal of office, at office this 30th day of August 1832
A Crozier

I certify that Arthur Crozier is Clerk of the Court for Anderson County and that his signature
is genuine and that there is no oficial scale of
office for said Court
Febuary the 14th 1833
James Standefer A C

>>The certificate to this applicant on these papers, if sent back, will be directed to Knoxville
Tenn
N 6/88 (?)
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Declaration of Mary Kitchen for a Pension under the act of Congress passed July 29, 1848
State of Tennessee }
Anderson County } ss
On this 23th day of August 1851 Before the subscriber a Justice of the peace in and for the County and State aforesaid personally appeared Mary Kitchen aged ninety years and being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed July 29 1848 That she is the widow of John Kitchen who
who was an United States Pensioner and drew a pension of twenty dollars per annum at Knoxville East Tennessee She further swears that she was married to the said John Kitchen In Jan or February 1796 by a man name Frederick Miller Esq that her husband the aforesaid John Kitchen died on the 29th day of August 1845, that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service but the marriage took place previous to the second of January Eighteen hundred viz
at the time above stated She further swears that she is now a widow and has never before made any application for a Pension
Sworn and subscribed this twenty third day of August  A D 1851 Before me Moses B. Wright Justice of the Peace Anderson County

Mary (her X mark) Kitchen 

I certify that I am personally acquainted with Mary Kitchen the above affiant and that she is unable (to get out of bed by herself and of course she is unable to appear before the County Court of this County Given under my hand and seal this 23th day of August A D 1851
Moses B Wright {Seal}
Justice of the Peace for
Anderson County Tennessee

State of Tennessee }
Anderson County } ss  November 1851
This day was presented in open court for the approval of said Court the declaration of Mary Kitchen for a pension and the said Court do hereby approve and Ratify the said declaration with the affidavits hereto annexed and also
taken by Moses B  Wright Esqr one of said
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said Court and I further certify that the signature
of the aforesaid declaration and affidavits purporting to be the signature of Moses B. Wright Esqr appears to be Genuine.
In Testmony whereof I have unto set my hand
and affixed the seal of said Court at office in
Clinton this 11th day of November A D 1851

John Key Clerk
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Rev. & 1812 Wars Section
M.E.E. aw

July 6, 1928

Mrs. Julian P. Kitchin
5 Swan Street
Biltmore, North Carolina

Madam:
I advise you that from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim W. 2737, it appears that John Kitchen was born April 25, 1757, in Bedford County, Virginia.
While a resident of Henry County, Virginia, he enlisted in February, 1781 and served about three months as a private in Captain George Haston's Company, under Major Skipworth of the Virginia Troops.
In August 1781, he enlisted, served three  and four months in Captain Owen Ruble's Company, under Major George Waller of the Virginia Troops. 
He was allowed pension on his application executed August 30,1832 while a resident of Anderson County, Tennessee, where he had lived for thirty-three years.
He died August 29, 1845.
Soldier married in January or February, 1796, Mary Whitten.  Said Mary was allowed pension on her application executed August 23, 1851, in Anderson County, Tennessee, at which time she was aged
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ninety years.
No reference is made to children.
The above history is that of the only solider named John Kitchen of Tennessee, found on the Revolutionary War records of this Bureau.

Respectfully, 
E. W. MORGAN
Acting Commissioner.
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Rev War
WIDOW, &c.

File No. 2737
Mary Kitchen
Widow
John Kitchen 
Pri. Rev. War

Act: July 29, 1848
Index: - Vol. A, Page 400

[Arrangement of 1870.]

1929, July 6, Hist to Mrs Julian P. Kitchen, M.E.E.
1938. Oct. 18 Mrs Julia Kitchin advised no John Kitchin of Ga.  See --- for John Kitchen - ILL
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MRS. JULIAN P. KITCHIN
S SWAN STREET
BILTMORE, N. C.

Department of the Interior,
Bureau of Pensions,
Washington,

Dear Sir,
Will you please send to the above address a copy of the pensions and family history of Manoah Dyer and John Kitchen both of whom served in
the Revolutionary War from Tennessee.
Sincerely yours,
Rossie R. Kitchin
(Mrs. J. P.)

Aug. 18, 1927
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BRIEF objections to the admission of Pension Claims, of which those answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of John Kitchen
which require further proof or explanation.

I. Does the declaration show where the applicant resides? Yes
II. Did the declarant make the declaration in the county where he resides? Yes
III. If the applicant did not make the declaration in the county where he resides, is there any reason assigned for his not doing so?
IV. Has the declarant mentioned the period or periods of the war when he served? Yes
V. * Has he mentioned with precision the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the department to determine to what amout of pension he is entitled?  Yes
VI. Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with the regulations?  Yes
VII. Has he made a relinquishment of every claim to any other pension than the one under the Act of June 7, 1832? Yes
VIII. Has the Court given their opinion?  Yes
IX. Has the Clerk given his certificate? Yes
X. Is the Clerk's seal affixed? And if so, has it a device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal?  No
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XI. Has the applicant obtained the evidence of a clergyman and another respectable citizen as to
their belief respecting his age and the general belief in his neighborhood relative to his revolutionary service?   no
XII. If the clergyman's affidavit has not been produced, is there any reason assigned for not obtaining it?  no
XIII. If the applicant has no documentary evidence, and has not obtained the testimony of at least one living witness, has he stated in his declaration that such proof cannot be had? yes
XIV. + If the applicant has produced a witness or witnesses as to his service, has the magistrate who administered the oath certified that he, she, or they are persons of credibility?
Has the official character and signature of the magistrate been certified by the proper officer under his seal of office?
XV. Does it appear from any of the papers that the witness was in such a situation, or of such an age, as to have a personal knowledge of the applicant's service?
XVI.+  Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct? yes
XVII. Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily? And, if not, which of them is not so answered?
2 of 7 not answered

EXPLANATORY NOTES.
QUERE V. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words:
"Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A. B. who, being duly sworn, deposeth 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, and in the following grades: For ____ year ______ months and _____ days, I served as a ______ . For _____ months and _______ days, I served as a ________ ,  and for such service I claim a pension."

and days, I served as aand
for such service I claim a pension."
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It is important in all cases to determine with precision the period for which the applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service. The use of the phrase about three or four months is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable.
+QUERE XIV. Proof of Service.
In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he
must prove his service by two credible witnesses, who are required to set forth in their affidavits
the time of the claimants entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the regiment, company, and line to which be belonged. The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the witnesses, and the official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office.
+ QUERE XVI. Mode of authenticating papers.
In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticated the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other paper authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the end of which must pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate.

In every case where the Clerk of the Court, or other certifying Officer, has no public seal of Office the certificate of a member of Congress, proving the official character & signature of the certifying Officer should be sent with the paper
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Brief in the case of Mary Kitchen, widow of John Kitchen, Anderson County and State of Tennessee
act 29 July 1848

Claim ("original,")
Proof exhibited, (if original.)
Is it documentary, traditionary, or supported by rolls? If either, state the substance. 

Husband was a pensioner
Marriage proved by living witness

(If for increase.)
Has additional evidence been filed since the admission of the claim? If so, what? 

Name and residence of Agent
Hon A. G. Watkins
H of R.

S. Cole
Examining Clerk.
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TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
Second Comptroller's Office,
Dec. 8th, 1841.

Sir:
Under the date 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," John Kitchen -
a Pensioner on the Roll of the Knoxville, Ten. Agency, at the rate of Twenty Dollars per annum, under the law of the 7th June 1832, has been paid at this Department, from the 4th of Sept. 1840 to the 4th March 1841.
Respectfully, yours,
Albion K. Parris
Comptroller.

To the Commissioner of Pensions,
Present.
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No 1043
Mary Kitchen
widow of John
Te
Act 29 July 1848,

Married 1796
He died 1845
Adm 6 mos pri $20
per annum, comg
4 March 1848,

Knoxville

Hon A G Watkins
H of R
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State of Tennessee Monroe County
To wit, personally appear Before the Subscriber a Justice of the peace within & for sd County Rhoda Duncan aged 81 years and made oath in due form of law that she was well acquainted with John Kitchen Deceased (late a Revolutionary
Pensioner of Anderson County Tennessee) also with his wife Mary Kitchen formerly Mary Whitten That the aforesaid John and Mary were married some time in the winter of the year 1796 by E-- Miller This affiant was at the wedding and saw the the said John Kitchen & Mary Whitten married

Rhoda (her X mark) Duncan

Sworn to and subscribed this 20th day of January 1851
Before me Charles  S. P. Davis
Justice of the Peace

I certify the above affiant is a person of veracity, and and is personally known to me Given under my hand & seal the day and year last above written
Charles S. P. Davis {Seal}

State of Tennessee }
Monroe County }
I William Stephens Clerk of the County Court of the County and State aforesaid do certify that Charles S P Davis Esq whose name appears to the foregoing affidavid is now and was at the time of signing the same an acting Justice of the peace
in and for said County duly Elected and qualified
and that his Signature appears to be in his own
proper hand writing

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my my hand and affixed the seal of my office at Madisonville this 20" day of January AD 1851
John A Stephens --