Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 21,529, for William Kinch, Connecticut
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(3-1776)
SERVICE
Conn

Kinch, William
Ruth.

NUMBER
W. 21.529

CONTENTS
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Albany 3445

Ruth Kinch
widow of William Kinch
Conn.
who died on the 13. May 1821
of Seneca Co. in the State of New York
who was a Private in the company commanded
by Captain Mead of the regt commanded
by Col. Waterbury in the Cont.
line for 6 months & 5 days

Inscribed on the Roll of Albany
at the rate of 20 Dollars 55 Cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 28. day of Sept.
1840 and sent to John Agar
West Dresden, N. York

Arrears to the 4th of March 1841 205.50
Semi=annual allowance ending 4 Sep  10.27
[Total] $215.77

[Revolutionary Claim,
Act July 4, 1836,
Section the 3 -}
Recorded by D. Brown   Clerk,
Book C. Vol. 1. Page 120
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State of New York
Seneca County ss
Be it known that on the 2d day of August 1838 before me, N. B. Wheeler, one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County aforesaid personally appeared Ruth Kinch of the town of Lodi and County aforesaid & being sworn according to law makes on oath, the following declaration in order to entitle her to the benefit of the 3d Section of the act of Congress of the fourth of July 1836 - To Wit That she is Eighty seven years old the 11th day of July next and that she was married to William Kinch, December 25th 1769 & that she had by William Kinch Eight living children - that her first living child was born the 18th day of August 1776 - that her husband, William Kinch, Died May 13th 1821 - that she has not been married since the death of her husband, William Kinch, but remains the widow of William Kinch and that her husband William Kinch was a Soldier in the Revolutionary War and held the office of first Corporal in a company raised by Capt. John Mead, and she thinks in a Rediment Commanded by Colo. Thomas Hobby and that he enlisted, at this time, for six months in the forepart of the year 1776 - that he, with the Company, soon after his enlistment,- went to the North and joined the Army under General Wooster - that he was out in the army at this time, Eight Months before he returned home - that, at the time of his enlistment, he lived in the State of Connecticut, Fairfield County & town of Greenwich and that afterwards in April 1777 her husband, William Kinch, enlisted in a Company Commanded by Captain Odle Close, for during the War and she thinks the Regiment was still Commanded by Colo. Hobby- and that her husband was at the battle of Danbury when General Wooster was killed and was in the army at New York at the time the battle was fought on Long Island-
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and was at the battle of White-Plains & at Horse Neck at the time, when Genl. Putnam narrowly escaped being taken by the British - that her husband was out in the Army during the whole war, except when at home on parole - that he was not employed in any pursuit during the time he enlisted in 1777 untill the war of the Revolution closed - that he then returned home and had with him a written discharge which she has often seen but cannot precisely recollect who signed it but thinks it was General John Mead, and that his discharge was burnt in the County of Delaware, in the state of New York on the 15th day of February 1816, when the house and its Contents with the exception of the family, shared the same fate - that she had a family record that contained the ages of the family &c which was destroyed at the same time - that she was married to William Kinch 6 years and Some Months before the first child was born (living) & that she with her husband moved from the State of Connecticut on the 12th day of April 1806 to the County of Delaware, State of New York, where her husband died and that she afterwards, on the 15th day of February 1833, moved to the place where she now resides and that she has not any documentary evidence in her possession - that she, while her husband was in the Army, was plundered in the fall of 1776 of two Cows, two hogs and one featherbead and clothing - the Cows being all she had - that at three different times afterwards she was robed or plundered of clothing and other articles and a Cow, which she afterwards purchased herself - that she had, at the time she was first rob,d, a child 2 months old and that from the time her husband Enlisted, during the war, she had to provide for
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herself and children.
Ruth
her mark
Kinch

Sworn to and subscribed
on the day and year
above written, before 
me.
N. B. Wheeler, Judge &c

State of New York
Seneca County ss
Be it known that on this 2d day of August 1838 before me N. B. Wheeler, one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County personally appeared Richard Woolsey, a Clergyman of the town of Covert, in said County, aforesaid & being duly sworn according to law deposeth and saith that he is personally acquainted with Ruth Kinch, and has been for the last 20 years, and that he considers her to be a woman of the strictest integrity, and that she is a member of the Methodist Church, and that he should consider himself bound to put the utmost confidence in what she might say, on oath, in relation to the services of her husband rendered in the Revolutionary War - 
Richard Woolsey [signature]

Sworn and subscribed 
this 2d day of August
1838 before me
N. B. Wheeler Judge &c
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State of New York
Seneca County ss  I. N.. B.. Wheeler, one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of said County do certify, that Ruth Kinch is unable from bodily infirmity, to appear in Court for the purpose of making the foregoing declaration, and from my acquaintance with her I have no hesitancy in saying that she is a woman of strict integrity and that the foregoing declaration is entitled to full credit.

N.. B.. Wheeler

State of New York
Seneca County ss
I do certify that Nathan B. Wheeler Esq was on the second day of August 1838 a Judge of the court of Common Pleas of said county of Seneca and duly commissioned and sworn and that his several signatures to the above certificates & Deposition are genuine. Witness my hand & the seal of said county this 9th day of October A.D. 1838.

Cyrus D. Hanks Dep Clerk of Seneca Co.
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State of New York
Seneca County - ss
Be it Remembered that on the Twenty Seventh day of June 1838 Personaly appeard before me John Ingersoll one of the Judges of the Court of Common pleas in and for the County aforesaid Gilbert Townsend he being Sworn according to Law Deposeth and Saith that he is well acquainted with Ruth Kinch and has been for 30 or 35 years and that she has belonged and now belongs to a Christian Church and in good Standing and this deponent Saith that he thinks and believes that she has lived up to her profesion as near as what is common for profesors Generally Speaking And that he should put the utmost Confidence in any Statement She should make to him respecting her husband Services in the Revolution war or any other Statement Especially under oath as this [illegible]- [illegible] and I am knowing to her residing in the town of Lodi in Said County at the present time.

Gilbert Townsend [signature]

Sworn & subscribed this
27th day of June 1838
before me
John Ingersoll
Judg of Seneca County
Courts

I certify that I am well acquainted with Gilbert Townsend Esqr the person mentioned in & who subscribed his name to the above affidavit & that he is a man of strict integrity & full reliance should be given to his statements.
John Ingersoll
Judg Seneca County Courts
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State of New York
Seneca County ss
I do certify that John Ingersoll Esq was on the 27th day of June 1838 a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of said county of Seneca, and duly commissioned & sworn and that his several signatures to the foregoing and subjoined certificates are genuine. Witness my hand and the seal of said county this 9th day of October A. D. 1838.

Cyrus D. Hanks
Dep Clerk of Seneca Co.

Rec 4/.r for 2 certificates of J. B. Farr Esquire
C. D. Hanks dep clk.
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State of New York
Seneca County ss - 
Be it known that on this 27h Day of June 1838 before me John Ingersoll one of the Judges of the Court of Common pleas in and for the County aforesaid personally appeared Heth P. Kinch of the Town of Lodi County aforesaid & being Sworn according to Law Deposeth & Saith that his Father William Kinch has often Told him about his Services in the war of the Revolution that he Told him 35 or 40  years ago that he Enlisted under Captain Odle Close in 1777 - for During the war and that he Served During the war & that he served from 1777 - until the war Ended in 1783 that he never Left the service onley on parole to visit his family that he has heard his father & Capt Odle Close Talk with whom he was well acquainted about the past of his fathers Services During the war from 1777 - until its Close & that Capt Odle Close always  [illegible] in this Statement that his father William Kinch Served his Time out faithfully that is Served until the war Closed in 1783 - that he is now forty five years of age & that Capt Odle Close Died about 25 years ago that his Father Died May the 13 the 1821 - that his father with his family mooved from the State
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of Connecticut to the County of Delewar in the State of New York on the 12th Day of April 1806 - that his Father William Kinch Died in Delewar County May 19th 1821 & that his Mother Ruth Kinch mooved from the County of Delewar to the County of Seneca & Town of Lodi where she now resides on on the 15th Day of February 1833 & that his Mother has not been Married since the Death of his Father William Kinch he says that he with his Father and Mother moved from the State of Connecticut to the State of New York in the County of Delaware, Town of Delhi now the town of Hamden, started from the State of Connecticut on the 12' day of April 1806
Heth P. Kinch [signature]

Sworn & subscribed before
me this 27th day of June
1838 John Ingersoll
Judg of Seneca County
Courts

I certify that I am well acquainted with Heth P Kinch Esq the person mentioned in & who subscribed his name to the above affidavit & that his statements are Entitled to full Credit

John Ingersoll
Judg of Seneca County
Courts
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Rev
WIDOW, &c.
File No. 21529
Ruth Kinch
Wid. of
William Kinch
Priv. Rev. War

Act: July 4, 1836
Index :-Vol. A, Page 403

[Arrangement of 1870.]
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V N. York
Ruth Kinch
Letter to John Agar 5 Dec. 1835
to same 24 "  "
to Hon M Mallory 10 Sep. 1840
to John Agar 15 Sep. "

Act 4 July 1836
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M. Mallory
MC

J. L. Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington 
D.C

Sept 9. 1840
N.Y.
Ruth Kinch

[illegible]
Sept 5
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M. Mallory
MC

J. L. Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington
D.C

Sept 9. 1840
N.Y.
Ruth Kinch

[illegible]
Sept 5
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18 3/4

Mr
John Agar Esqr
West Dresden
Yates County State New york

N[illegible]
[illegible] Aug 31
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Greenwich 6th August 24th - 1840
I hereby certify that I have examined the Record of marriage of the Town of Greenwich and do not find recorded the marriage of William Kinch and Ruth Peck on said Records.
Attest

Samuel Close Town Clerk
of the Town of Greenwich Ct.

To John Agar Esqr
Sir I can inform you that the office of Town Clerk is a town office & I presume that the County Clerk cannot certify to the fact of my being a Town Clerk. The certificate of a Town Clerk has alway been sufficent in all Courts without any other certificate, as far as I am represented. I have not Seen Mr Close our Representative to enquire about your other business. I will see him soon & let you know
I am Respectfully yours
Samuel Close
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West Dresden Sept 8 1840

Dear Sir
Enclosed I Send you the Certificate of the Town Clerk for the Town of Greenwich Connecticut -
the other Evidence I have Sent through the Hon M Mallory - and with good Respect

[illegible] [signature]

J.. L.. Edwards Esqr
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State of New York
Yates County ss   Be it known that on this 4th day of September 1840 Personally appeared before me one of the Justices of the peace in & for the County aforesaid John Agar & being Sworn according to Law Deposeth that on or about the 20th of April 1840 he the Deponent Called on the Resident Clergyman at Horse Neck in the Town of Greenwich in the State of Connecticut for the purpos of ascertaining whether the Marriage of Ruth & William Kinch was on Record in in his said Church - & was Informed by the Said Resident Clergyman that if William & Ruth Kinch was Married by a Justice of the Peace that this Marriage would not (according to the Rules & Regulation of the Church) be Recorded in his Said Church

John Agar

Sworn to & Subscribed this
7th Day of September 1840.

John A. McLean A Justice of the Peace
of Yates County

I believe John Agar to be Man of good reputation from a longe acquaintance with him

STATE OF NEW-YORK,
YATES COUNTY CLERK'S OFFICE, ss.

I, ABNER WOODWORTH, Clerk of said county, hereby certify, that John A McLean Esquire, before whom the annexed proceedings were had, was, on the days of the dates thereof, a Justice of the Peace in and for said county, legally authorized to act as such : and that I am well acquainted with the hand-writing of the said Justice, and verily believe that his signature, to the annexed certificate, is genuine.
Witness my hand and Official Seal this Seventh day of September 1840
[illegible] [signature] Clerk.
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State of New-York
Yates County ss Be it known that on this 4th day of September 1840 Personally appeared before me one of the Justices of the peace in & for the County aforesaid John Agar & being Sworn according to Law Deposeth that on or about the 20th of April 1840 he the Deponent Called on the Resident Clergyman at Horse Neck in the Town of Greenwich in the State of Connecticut for the purpos of ascertaining whether the Marriage of Ruth & William Kinch was on Record in in his said Church - & was Informed by the Said Resident Clergyman that if William & Ruth Kinch was Married by a Justice of the Peace that this Marriage would not (according to the Rules & Regulation of the Church) be Recorded in his Said Church

John Agar

Sworn to & Subscribed this
7th Day of September 1840.

John A. McLean A Justice of the Peace
of Yates County

I believe John Agar to be Man of good reputation from a longe acquaintance with him
J.A. McLean


Witness my hand and Official Seal this Seventh day of Sept
[illegible] [signature] Clerk.
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Comptrollers Office
Hartford Augt 5th 1840

I Certify that on application for evidence of the Services of William Kinch who claims service in the Revolutionary War in the Regiment Commanded by Gen Wooster in 1775 - 8 Months - and subsequently enlisted under Captain Odle Close and served at White plains and Horse Neck and through the War - that I have examined the Books & papers Remaining in this office and find on a Pay Roll of Majr. Thomas Hobby Company in the Regiment of the Forces of the United Colonies under the command of Col David Waterbury Raised in the Colony of Connecticut on the day in which they entered service and ending with the discharged to get home at 15 miles per day from May to Decr 1775 - William Kinch entered service as a private May 16 Discharged Sep 17 having served one hundred Twenty five days - that no Pay Roll of Capt Odle Close Can be found in this office - that on Pay Table Book is the following  Account -
Under the Head of War - DC

1779  July 19 To. order on Ins for Cap Odle Close Pay Roll his Company  [illegible] for defence of this state
  -L 843.3.9

1779 May 29 To. order on Ins to Cap Odle Close Pay Roll  his Company at Horse Neck [illegible] Feby 1779
15.0.5

1779 Oct 1 To. order on Ins for Cap Odle Close Pay Roll his Company at Horse Neck
156.2.0

"  To. Ditto   "  Ditto
587.19.11

" To Ditto  "  Ditto
42.3.0

1780 [illegible] 14 To. order on Ins for Cap Odle Close Pay Roll His Company at Horse Neck
403.3.4

25 To order on Ins his Company Coast Guards
1409.9.6

Apr 19 To order on Ins Cap Odle Close Pay Roll Coast Guard " Light Dragoons
3655.0.3 over
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Henry Kilbourn Comptroller
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Hammonds Port Steuben Co. N.Y 5 Sept - 40
J L Edwards Esqr
Dear Sir
Enclosed is the pension papers of Ruth Kinch which you will please examine. I understand that her application has been presented to the department some time since. You will please inform me if any thing is yet lacking.
Permit me to ask your opinion in the following Case. Under the Law of 1836 Granting five years pay to widows of Revolutionary Soldiers whos marriage took place before January 1794 and after the last period of the husbands servis in the Revolutionary war. Directly after the Law of 36 is passed an application is made by a widow whos husband died a pensioner, she fails for want of proof of marage, three years after she dies, and after his death proof of his marage is found which would have been sufficient to entitled her to pension. Is the Heirs Entitled to the amount
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of Said pension from the date of the Law to the date of the death of said widow being 3 years
Your answer will much oblige.
your friend & Humble servant

M Mallory
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3891
Ruth Kinch
Act July 4 1836

Married 25 Dec 1769
Husb dd 13 May 1821

Col Waterbury
Maj Hobby
Capt Mead
Connt

Admitted
Private 6 mos & 5 days
$20.55

John Agar Esq
West Dresden
N.Y.
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Pension Office
Sept. 1840
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[illegible]

Hon. J. L. Edwards
Washington D. C.

West Dresden NY
Sep 24th

[illegible] Sept 28 1840
NY
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West Dresden Sept 21t 1840

Dear Sir
you will be so good as to transmit to me the Certificat in Ruth Kinch Case She has concluded to except one So far as She has proved the Services of her Husband Reserving the Right of presentations aditional Evidence with grate Respect I Remain yours
John Agar

Hon J. L. Edwards
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Ruth Kinch

Free

J. L. Edwards - Esqr -
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D.C.

West Dresden NY
Decr 14

Dec 21.
[illegible]
NY.r
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Dec 12th 1838
West Dresden N. york
Dear Sir I Received yours of the 5th distant in which you Request more Proof of the Services of Wm. Kinch & one Witness to prove the Date of the Marriage of Ruth Kinch to her Husband  William Kinch it may be Impossible for the old Lady to Do this but I think that she can but if She cannot she can Bring affidavits from the whole Town of Lodi in Suport of her Credibility the Evidence that she can make will be given as Soon as Posible She is verey Needy & verey Respectable

I should be glad to hear from the application of Us States application as soon as Convenient yours with Grate Respect

John Agar

Hon-J-L-Edwards
Com- of Pensions
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Fre

J.. L.. Edwards Esqr-
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D.C

W Dresden NY
Oct 1[illegible]

(3891)
NY. Oct 18r
4 July 1836
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Yates County West Dresden oct 11th 1836
Dear Sir Enclosed I send you the Declaration & affidavit In Relation to the application of Ruth Kinch for a pension.
& I am informed by the Lieutenant Governer of the State of Connecticut that William Kinchs Name is Registered at Washington with the Rest of the State Troops & I therefore ask you to Refer to the List of the State Troops Engaged in the Revolution from that State as further Evidence if any more is wanted 
Yours Truly
John Agar
J,, L,, Edwards -Esqr-
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State of Connecticut
County of Fairfield ss on this 21st Day of April 1840 personally appeared before the under-Signed a Justice of the peace Gilbert Close and being Duly Sworn according to law deposith & Sayth that he is now 75 years of age that he was well acquainted with William & Ruth Kinch in the State & County aforesaid before & During the Revolutionary War & before & after their Marriage & that he lived in the Imedeat Neighborhood at the Time of their Marriage & to the best of his Recolection & beliefe their Marriage Took place on the 25th Day of December 1769 or about that Time & that the said William & Ruth Kinch lived to gather as man & wife before the Revolution & after in his Imeate Neighborhood for some 30 or 40 years & that he never Saw it Disputed or questioned by any one that Said William & Ruth Kinch was legally Married Deponant knows that William Kinch was in the armey During the Revolution a number of Difrent Times that he was always Considered in the Neighborhood as an old Revolutionary Soldier & that he Never heard it questioned or Disputed by any one & that he never heard any one Doubt the Truth of William Kinch the Husben of Ruth Kinch being a good & faithfull Soldier & further this Deponant Says that he is the son of Capt Odle Close & that William & Ruth Kinch Both lived at his fathers House before and after their Marriage & that to the best of his Recolection & beliefe they boath lived there at the Time of their Marriage

Gilbert Close [signature]

Sworn to & Subscribed before
me this 21st Day of April 1840

Bartow F. White Justice of Peace for
Fairfield County
I certify that the affiant is Entitled to Credit in all Respects
Bartow F. White Justice of Peace
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State of Connecticut
Fairfield County ss
I Thomas Robinson Clerk of the County Court within and for the County of Fairfield in sd State of Connecticut and keeper of the Seal thereof and of the commissions of the Justices of the Peace for said County, Do hereby certify that Bartow F White Esq before whom the foregoing Deposition of Gilbert Close was taken & sworn to and Conklin Husted Esq before whom the foregoing Deposition of Joseph Close was taken and sworn to, are now and since the 20th day of June last past, have been, Justices of the Peace for said County, duly commissioned & acting as such, and duly authorized to administer oaths and take the acknowledgment of Deeds, that their commissions are dated the 29th day of May 1839 and will expire with the 19th day of June 1840 and I further certify that the signatures annexed to said Depositions respectively purporting to be theirs, are their genuine official signatures

In testimony whereof I have hereunto
set my hand and affixed the 
Seal of said County Court 
in Fairfield this 6th day of
May AD 1840
Thomas Robinson  Clerk
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State of Connecticut
County of Fairfield ss on this 20th Day of April 1840 Personally appeared before the under Signed a Justice of the Peace in & for the County aforesaid Joseph Close & being Sworn according to law Deposeth & Sayith that in the year of 1769 he was about 12 years of age & lived within about 1/2 a mile for a [illegible] his uncles (Odle Close) at the Time that Ruth Peck the Said Widow of William Kinch Decd was Married to the Said William Kinch & that he Recolects hearing it Talked of among the Neighbors In relation to the Contemplated Marriage of William Kinch & Ruth Peck before Said Marriage Took place Recolects well the  time when Said Marriage Took place heard it Talked of at the Time by the Neighbors & was well acquainted with David Knapp Esqire who was to the Best of his Recolection & beliefe Justice of the Peace at the Time & that he is well Satisfied that the Marriage Took place as stated above on the 25th Day of December 1769 from the facts as Stated above & that he Never herd it Contradicted by anyone & that William Kinch & the aforesaid Ruth lived together from the Time as above Stated in Relation to their Said marriage as Hsn & wife until they moved to the State of New York Some [illegible] years after William Kinch & Ruth Peck was Married at his uncles Odle Closes House
Joseph Close [signature]

Fairfield County ss Greenwich April 20th 1840
Personally appeared Joseph Close maker and signer of the foregoing deposition and made oath to the truth of the same Before me and I also certify the said Joseph Close is entitled to credit in every respect 
Conklin Husted Justice of Peace
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V 3891
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State of Connecticut
Fairfield County ss Probate District of Stamford

on this 10th day of Septr AD 183[illegible] before the Court of Probate in & for the District aforesd personally appeared Gilbert Close Esq of Greenwich in Said District aged seventy three years who being duly sworn according to law doth on his oath in open Court Depose & say that I well knew William Kinch formerly of said Greenwich now decd late husband of Ruth Kinch an applicant for a pension. In the early part of the Revolutionary War a corps of troops was raised by the State of Connecticut for service against the enemy at the [illegible] commanded by Col. David Waterbury then of Stamford now decd - Thomas Hobby now decd was Major. The Corps served for six months or more - it served at St Johns of Montreal - it was the Same Season St Johns & Montreal were taken by our troops & Montgomery afterwards killed at Quebec - in the year 1775 sd deponent thinks deponent well knew sd Kinch enlisted into this Corp. & saw him when he went away on the expedition & when he returned. He was [illegible] for six months at war & deponent thinks for eight or nine months he thinks the enlistment was for six months. He enlisted under said Major Thos. Hobby - Bezaleel Brown now decd  was Lieut. & Samuel Lockwood now decd 2nd Lieut. & Thos. Hobby now decd  son of sd Major Hobby was Ensign - Said Wm Kinch & sd Ruth were married before he enlisted as foresaid. Sd Ruth lived in deponents fathers family when he went away & when he returned -
Gilbert Close [signature]

Sworn to & Subscribed the
day & year aforesaid before me
& I Certify that the deponent is a Credible person 
Joshua B. Ferris Judge
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And on the Same day before said Court personally appeared Joseph Close of Said Greenwich aged Seventy [illegible] years who being duly sworn doth on his oath Certify that he well knew sd William Kinch & well knows said Ruth - that in the Revolutionary War in the year 1775 as he thinks - sd Kinch enlisted in a corps of troops raised by the State of Connecticut for service at the North - said Enlistment he thinks was for six months - & sd Kinch went away with said Corps & was gone for more than six months - His Service was at St John of Montreal under Montgomery. Col. David Waterbury commanded this Corps Thomas Hobby was major - Bezaleel Brown 1t Lieut - Saml Lockwood 2nd Lieut. & Thomas Hobby Jr. ensign - all are now dead - The major acted as captain as Deponent understood - deponent has personal knowledge of these facts -

After sd Kinch's return in 1776 he went down to New York in deponent thinks under Col. Jno. Mead he of sd Greenwich in the Connecticut militia before the City was taken & was then till the retreat of our troops from the city - thinks [illegible] now decd was his Captain - deponent went down to N York at the same time but in another Company - we went the month of August but I cannot state the precise time said Kinch was in this Service in deponent thinks for two months at least he thinks for more -

In 1778 sd Kinch & deponent both were drafted out in a company of Connecticut militia Commanded by Capt Isaac Howe then of sd Greenwich now decd for service against the enemy & at duty served as [illegible] in the State of New York for a term deponent knows five months at least & he believes for six deponent cannot state the precise time when the term began or when it ended - and it began in the fall of 1778 & ended in March or early in April the following spring

After this the deponent cannot give the precise time he knew said Kinch enlisted into a company of Connecticut State troops called Horse[illegible] Company commanded by Capt Odle Close now decd they were engaged in Scouting, attending to alarms &c the length extent
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& [illegible] of this last term of service deponent cannot state. No other services stated were steady military service, the Soldiers being constantly away from home - Said William & Ruth were married before the war began or at least before the earliest of his Services.

Joseph Close

Sworn to & subscribed the day
& year aforesaid before me
& I certify that the deponent
is a credible person

Joshua B Ferris Judge

I Sands Seeley Clerk of the Court of Probate for the District of Stamford in Connecticut do hereby certify that the foregoing Contains the original proceedings of the Said Court in the matter of the application of Ruth Kinch for a pension. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & the Seal of Said Court this 10th day of September AD 1838

Sands Seely Clerk
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Ruth Kinch
Declaration
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State of New York
Seneca County ss  Be it Known that on this 27h Day of March - 1839 before me John Ingersoll one of the Judges of the Court of Common  pleas in and for the County aforesaid personaly appeared Ruth - Kinch of the town of Lodi in the Said County and being - Sworn according to Law makes the following Declaration in order to Entitle her to the benefit of the third Section of the act of Congress of the United States of the 4h of July 1836 to wit that She is now the Widdow of William Kinch who was a Revolutionary - Soldier as stated in a former Declaration made by her before Nathan B Wheeler Esqr Judge of Said County and Sent to the War department by John Agar her agent and that she was married to William Kinch on the 25' day of December in the Year - 1769 in the town of Greenwich and State of Connecticut by David Knapp Esqr a Justice of the peace and that she dont know that any record of her marriage was Kept by him and that none was kept to her knowlage Except the one in the famaly Bible which was Distroyd at the time thare House was burnt in Delaware County in the State of New York and that She Knows of no particular person that was present at her marriage Except probably Some of the Close famaly who lived in the neighborhood at that time
Ruth
her 
X
mark
Kinch

Sworn to and Subscribed
before me this 27th day of 
March 1839 John Ingersoll
One of the Judges of the Court of Common pleas in and for the Said County of Seneca

I Certify that the appliant is a Creditable person and I further Certify that from Bodily Infirmaties She is unable to appear in open Court to make her Declaration
Witness my hand Day and date as above
John Ingersoll
one of the Judges of Said County
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State of New York
Seneca County 
Clerks Office ss:
I Halsey Sandford Clerk of Seneca county do hereby certify that John Ingersoll Esq whose signature appears to the foregoing Jurat of Deposition and to the certificate thereunder written, was on the day of the date of said Jurat and certificate to wit on the 27th day of March 1839, a Judge of County Courts in and for said county duly commissioned and sworn and authorized to perform the duties of a Judge of said county And that I am well acquainted with his handwriting and that his signatures to said Jurat & certificate are severally Genuine. In Testimony Whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said county this 2d day of April A.D. 1839.

Halsey Sandford Clerk