Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 6005, for Jacob Klinginsmith, Pennsylvania
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Penn. Klinginsmith, Jacob R. 6005
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Rejected
Let 20 Jany 1836
[illegible] G L. Kinnard
Hon. J.D. Bright 5, [illegible]
Hon. A. G. Porter, Dec. 7, 1861
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600[possibly 5]
P.O.________________
Jacob Klinginsmith
Service: ____________

Enlisted: [Rejected is stamped.] _____, 18
Discharged: [Rejected is stamped.] ___,18

Application Filed: _________, 18

Alleges: ____________

Re-enlisted: _________

Attorney: ____________
P.O. _________________
_______Recognized.       ________Contract.
_______Cert. Of Dis.   Searched for _______18
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                                                  House of Reps
                                                  Washington City
                                                   Jan.  18th 1836

Sir,

         I have the honor herewith to submit the application of Jacob Klingensmith
 for a pension.
                     I am, sir, your very obedt servt
                                         Geo. L. Kinnard


James L. Edwards  Esq. 
          Com. Pensions
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Washington, April 4th, 1853

Commisioner of Pensions,
Sir-
A constituent of mine filed, through the Hon. Geo. L. Kinnard of Indiana, some 15 or more years ago, in your office, the requisite papers to procure a pension for Jacob Klingensmith for Revolutionary service. It appears that the application was then rejected owing to some stringent rules in force at the Department. Since then, other laws have been passed, and liberal constructions adopted, embracing claims which have hitherto been deemed worthless or doubtful. Can Mr. Klingensmith’s case be re-opened? And are the papers heretofore filed sufficient to entitle his heirs to the amount of pension due him, due proof of their heirship being made? And what steps should be taken to have it re-opened and re-examined?
An early answer is respectfully solicited.

Very Respectfully,
      Your Obt. Servt.
       J. D. Bright
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33.515

Jacob Klingensmith
Indiana

Circular stamp in evidence
The [ illegible] of the United Stated

[Written upside down on partially folded paper]

certificates are be [ fold]
State of Indiana [fold]
Statements are [fold]

I Robert B. D [illegible]
Certify, that the fing[illegible]
[illegible]cution of Jacob Klinginsmith{ illegible]
In testimony 
this thirty-first [fold]
And thirty [illegible]
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State of Indiana
County of Marion Ss:

On this thirty first day of March AD1839 per
sonally appeared before the Marion Circuit Court in the State aforesaid, Jacob Klinginsmith a resident of the said County and State, who being first duly sworn, according to law,  doth on his oath make the following declaration
in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made 
 by the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832

That he is seventy seven years of age and
entered the service of the United States under the following named officers, and served as herein stated

He was drafted to serve a tour of three months, 
about the middle of December in the year 1777, and immediately entered the service and was regularly discharged therefrom  about the mid[dle of] the following April
That Captain George Baird [was] the commandant of the company in which he served. George Grey was 1st Lieut James Cruthin 2d Lieutinant & John Brandon: Ensign Colonel Archibald Loughery (who was afterwards killed by the Indians in  Ohio as deponent un derstood). commanded the Battallein, which was about 300 strong: That at the time of entering the service the deponant] resided
in Westmoreland County  in the State  of Pennsylvania
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the Battallein, which was about 300 strong: That at the time of entering the service the deponant resided in Westmoreland County in the State of Pennsylvania where this detachment in which he served marched to a small town in New Jersey, the name of which he does not now remember, and the inhabitants of of which had fled in consequence of its contiguity to the enemy who were in possession of New York Amboy [Perth Amboy] [illegible]:That his detachment was quartered during that winter in the vacant houses of the inhabitants and distant about 4 miles to Amboy and 9 to New York: That during the winter they were attacked by the British from Amboy, and driven about 4 miles: That  they kept up a running fight from about 9 o’clock in the morning until near sundown, when the enemy in their turn retreated , and were followed by the Americans beyond their encampment, which we afterwards continued to occupy That he does not know that any regular officers were with our troops except General Mansfield or ^Maxwell^ [William Maxwell] who commanded in the last named battle [possibly the battle of Ash Swamp-Spanktown, 23 Feb 1777]: That the company to which he belonged in going to the front at which they were stationed, marched thru Bedford & Harrisburgh  to within 15 miles of Philadelphia, when they took the route to Morristown which was the Head Quarters of Genl Washington where they drew their arms [illegible] , and from thence they went to the quarters above mentioned -
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That he was ^afterwards^ drafted at two several times during the war but served only about two months at each time; That during the said two times he was himself Lieutenant of the company,  and in one occasion was senior officer commanding; That he has no documentary evidence by which to prove his service and knows of no one by whom he can prove his service whose testimony he could procure.

He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, and declares that his name is not on the pension role of the Agency of any State.

Sworn to and subscribed the day & year of aforesaid Robert B. Duncan Clerk     Jacob [his X mark] Klinginsmith 

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We Peter Anthony & Jacob Sourwine residing in the county of Marion & State of Indiana hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Jacob Klinginsmith who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration, that we believe him to be Seventy seven years of age; that he [illegible}
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Klinginsmith was [illegible] 
the above declaration, that we believe him to be seventy seven years of age; that he is [illegible] in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution, and we  concur in that opinion.

I Jacob Sourwine have been acquainted intimately with said Klinginsmith since I can remember, both in Pennsylvania & Indiana [illegible] twenty years.

And I Peter Anthony have been acquainted with said Klinginsmith for about 20 years first in Pennsylvania and then in Indiana, more than 20 years ——

Subscribed and Sworn to on the thirty first day of March AD 183[5?] Robert B. Duncan   Clerk

Jacob Sourwin
Peter Antoney
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Questions propounded by the Court to the
deponent

1. Where and in what year were you born?
Answer - In Northampton County State of Pennsylvania, —-in the year 1757 or ‘58.

2. Have you any record of your age, and if so where is it?
Answer — I have none.

3. Where were you living when called into service; where have you lived since the Revolutionary War, and where do you now live?
Answer - I lived in Westmoreland County in Pennsylvania where I entered the service. I was between 18 & 19 when I entered —-My father moved ^from Northampton Co^ to Maryland and we lived there 4 [illegible] years when we moved to Westmoreland County where I resided ever since until about two years ago, when [illegible] removed to Marion County Indiana where I now reside

4. How were you called into service: did you volunteer  were you drafted or were you a substitute, and if a substitute, for whom.
Answer- I was drafted-

5. State the names of some of the Regular officers who were with the troops when
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Answered- I was drafted. -

5.  State the names of some of the Regular
officers who were with the troops when 
you served such continental & militia
Regiments as you can recollect, and the
general circumstances of the service
Answer - I do not remember any Regular
Officers except Gen Manfiel[illegible] or Maxwell [William Maxwell] who commanded at the battle with the enemy near Amboy [Perth Amboy NJ]. The general circumstances of the service in which I was engaged are that we marched from Bedford through Harrisburgh & Lancaster to within 15 miles of Philadelphia, where they struck off and crossed the Schuylkill [Delaware?] about 40 miles above Philadelphia. They then went to Morristown in the Jersies to the head Quarters of Gen Washington & then went to a little town between Amboy & New York at both of which places the British were; That during the winter we were attacked by the British, who were in about 3 or 4 miles, when they retreated and we followed them having killed a good many of them, with but little loss to the Americans [possibly the battle of Ash Swamp-Spanktown, 23 Feb 1777]; and afterwards both parties resumed their former positions; That he was in the service at that time upwards of 3 and a half months and then returned home and married _ He
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afterwards with the commission of a Lieut of Militias and was again in the service twice for about two months at a time, on the frontier

6 Did you ever receive a discharge from service, and if so by whom was it signed and what has become of it?
Answer. I did- It was handed to me by Lieut Brandon and suppose it was signed by a Capt Baird but do not remember. The discharge is lost long since. 

7 State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood who can testify as to your character for veracity and their belief of your service as a soldier of the Revolution.
Answer Peter Anthony & Jacob Sourwine
of my neighborhood have both known me will for upwards of twenty years in Pennsylvania and Indiana.

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories presented by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a Soldier of the Revolution and served as he states. And the court further certifies, that it appears to them, that 
Jacob Sourwine & Peter Anthony who signed the preceding
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Revolution and served as he states. And the court further certifies, that it appears to them, that Jacob Sourwine & Peter Anthony, who signed the proceeding certificate , are residents of said county of Marein & State of Indiana, & are credible persons, that their statements are entitled to credit. 

I Robert B. D [illegible] Clerk of the Court of Marien County in the State of Indiana, do hereby certify, that the foreg[illegible]  aims the original proceedings of said Court, in the matter  of the application of Jacob Klinginsmith for a pension.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this thirty first day of March in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty five. 

Robert B. Duncan
Clerk
 [Circular stamp which reads The National illegible of the United States]]

Hon. G. L. Kinnard
H R

33515 

Jacob Klingensmith 
Pennsylvania