Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 20,327, for Andrew Kingsbury, Connecticut
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(3-1776)

SERVICE
Conn.

Kingsbury, Andrew
Mary

NUMBER
W. 20,327


CONTENTS
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See letter to Hon. [Illegible] W. Ellis
[Illegible]orth HR. [Illegible] Dec 1833

Suspension - [Illegible] Andrew 
Kingsbury Apl 8th 18[Illegible]4

17,412
Connecticut
Andrew Kingsbury- 
of Hartford in the State of Con
who was a Pri __ in the Com commanded by Captain ______of the Regt commanded
by Col Chester in the Conn 
line for State Troops 14 mo
2 days

Inscribed on the Roll of Con
at the rate of 46 Dollars 88 [66 is marked out and 88 written over it] Cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 19- day of Augt {[Illegible] and sent S. H- Parsons Hartford Ct

Arrears to the 4th of March 33 $93 32
Semi-anl allowance ending Sep 4 23 33
[Total] $111.65

Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7, 1832.

Recorded by E D Bullock  Clerk,
Book E Vol. 3- Page 23-

[Written vertically across the body of the document:]
2 year Hospital Storekeeper
$480
[Signature:] C [Illegible]
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17412
Connecticut
Andrew Kingsbury decd
of Hartford in the State of Connt
who was a Qr Masters Clerk in the  ___ commanded
by Captain ______ of the _____ commanded 
by _____ in the Vermont
line for _____

Inscribed on the Roll of Hartford
at the rate of 100 Dollars 00 cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831. & Endg 7th
October 1837. when he died

Certificate of Pension issued the 24th day of June
1837 and sent to
D.D. Addison [Illegible]
Present
Arrears to the 4th of 
Semi-annual allowance ending

[Illegible] from $480

Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7, 1832

Recorded by H R Weightman   Clerk,
Book E.2. Vol. 3. Page 23.
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3804
Connecticut
Mary Kingsbury
widow of Andrew
who served in the Revolutionary war, as a Hospl. S. Keeper
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of
480 Dollars _____
Cents [Line drawn through word Cents] per annum, to commence on 
the 4th day of March, 1848.

Certificate of Pension issued the 
12th day of Feby 1849
and sent to J Charlton
Conn

Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act
February 2, 1848, Page 301 Vol. 1
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8759
Andrew Kingsbury
Connecticut

16 mo 2 private
$46.88

S H Parsons
Hartford
Connecticut
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WAR DEPARTMENT,
Pension Office,
183

Sir:

The evidence in support of your claim, under the act of June 7, 1832, has been examined, and the papers are herewith returned. The following is a statement of your case in a tabular form. On comparing these papers with the following rules and the subjoined notes, you will readily perceive that objections exist, which must be removed, before a pension can be allowed. The notes and the regulations will shew what is necessary to be done. These points to which your attention is more particularly directed, you will find marked in the margin with a brace,  (thus: } ). You will, when you return your papers to this Department, send this printed letter with them; and you will, by complying with this request, greatly facilitate the investigation of your claim.

Statement, shewing the Service of Andrew Kingsbury Hartford Cty Connecticut

[Column headers:]
Period when the service was rendered | Duration of the claimant's service Years. Months. Days. |  
Rank of the claimant. | 
Names and Rank of the Company officers under whom he served. | 
Names and Rank of the General and Field officers. | 
Battles in which the applicant was engaged. | 
Country through which he marched. |
Place of abode when he entered the service, and age at the present period. | 
Evidence by which the declaration is supported. |

Enlist war 1776
time not stated 
Capt Baron 
Col Willis Col Chester 
Flat Bush 
Norwich to N York 
73 years 

1777
- [Years] 11 [Months.] 13 [Days.]
Clerk
Brigham
Genl Sullivan " Washington
Bronx River
Flat Bush
Long Island
Windham Connecticut

1781 2 [Years.] 6 [Months.] - [Days.]
Clk
Pomroy
Col Chandler
White Plains
N York
Westchester
White Plains
New Rochelle
New Jersey
Morristown
East Town
Bethlehem
Danbury

Documentary Evidence
[Illegible] Witness

I am, respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
J. L. EDWARDS,
Commissioner of Pensions.
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REGULATIONS UNDER THE ACT OF JUNE 7, 1832.

The following regulations have been adopted:
This law has been construed to extend, as well to the line, as to every branch of the Staff of the Army, and to include under the terms "Continental Line," "State troops," "militia," and "volunteers," all persons enlisted, drafted, or who volunteered and who were bound to military service, but not those who were occasionally employed with the army upon civil contracts, such as Clerks to Commissaries and to Store Keepers, &c. Teamsters, Boatmen, &c. Persons who served on board of Private Armed Vessels are also excluded from the benefits of the law, as well as persons who turned out as patrols, or were engaged in guarding particular places at night, and were not recognized as being in actual military service.

Four general classes of cases are embraced in this law:
1. The Regular Troops.
2. The State Troops, Militia, and Volunteers.
3. Persons employed in the Naval service.
4. Indian Spies.

As rolls of the regular troops in the Revolutionary War exist in this Department, all person, claiming the benefit of this law as officers, non-commissioned officers, musicians or privates, will in the first instance, make application by transmitting the following declaration, which will be made before a Court of Record of the County where such applicant resides. And every Court having by law a seal and Clerk is considered a Court of Record.

DECLARATION,
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th of June, 1832.
State, Territory, or District of County of ______ ss

On this _____ day of  _____ personally appeared (a) before _____ A.B. a resident (b) of _____ in the county of _____ and State, Territory or District of _____ aged (c) _____ years, who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provion [Sic] made by the act of Congress, passed June 7th, 1832. That he enlisted in the Army of the United States in the year (d) _____, with _____ and served in the _____ (e) regiment of the _____ line, under the following named officers:

[Here set forth the names and rank of the Field and Company Officers; the time he left the service; (and if he served under more than one term of enlistment, he must specify the particular period, and rank and names of his officers;) the town or county and State in which  he resided when he enered [Sic] the service; the battles, if any, in which he was engaged, and the country through which he marched. [Symbol of hand pointing right] This form is to be varied so as to apply to the cases of officers and persons who belonged to the militia, volunteers, navy, &c.]

He hereby relinquishes every claim (f) whatever to a pension or an annuity, except the present, and he declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any Agency in any State, or (if any) only on that of the Agency in the State of _____

Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
[And then will follow the certificate of the Court.]
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion (g) that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states.
I ______ of the Court of _____ do hereby certify (h) that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of _____ for a pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office (i) this _____ day of _____ &c.

If, on examination of the proper record the names of applicants, making such declaration, cannot be found, they will produce such proof as the rule given in note (j) points out.
Every applicant who claims a pension by virtue of service in the State Troops, Volunteers or Militia, except those who belonged to the New Hampshire Militia and State Troops of Virginia, will make and subscribe a declaration similar to the foregoing, with the following additions, viz:

(k) We. A. B., a Clergyman, residing in the _____ and C. D. residing in (the same) hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with _____, who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be _____ years of age; that he is reputed and believed, in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
[And then will follow the certificate of the Court.]

And 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 it appears to them that A. B.  _____ who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman, resident in the _____ and that C. D., who has also signed the same is a resident in the _____ and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
I, _____ Clerk of the Court of _____ do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the application of  _____ for a pension.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office, this _____ day of _____ &c.
Every applicant will produce the best proof in his power. This is the original discharge or commission; but if neither of these can be obtained, the party will so state under oath, and will then procure, if possible, the testimony of at least one credible witness, stating in detail his personal knowledge of the services of the applicant, and such circumstances connected therewith, as may have a tendency to throw light upon the transaction.
If such surviving witness cannot be found, the applicant will so state in his declaration (l) and he will also, whether he produce such evidence or not, proceed to relate all the material facts, which can be useful in the investigation of his claim, and in the comparison of his narrative with the events of the period of his alleged service, as they are known at the Department. A very full account of the services of each person
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will be indispensable to a favorable action upon his case. The facts stated will afford one of the principal means of corroborating the declaration of the applicant, if true, or of detecting the imposition, if one be attempted; and unless, therefore, these are amply and clearly set forth, no favorable decision can be expected. All applicants will appear before some Court of Record in the County, in which they reside, and there subscribe and be sworn to, one of the declarations above provided, according to the nature of his case.
The Court will propound the following (m) interrogatories to all applicants for a pension, on account of service in the Militia, State troops, or Volunteers, except the Militia of New Hampshire and the State troops of Virginia.
1. Where and in what year were you born?
2. Have you any record of your age, and if so, where is it?
3. Where were you living when called into service; where have you lived since the Revolutionary war, and where do you now live?
4. How were you called into service; were you drafted, did you volunteer, or were you a substitute? And if a substitute, for whom?
5. State the names of some of the Regular Officers, who were with the troops, where you served; such Continental and Militia Regiments as you can recollect, and the general circumstances of your services.
6. To a Soldier. Did you ever receive a discharge from the service, and if so, by whom was it given and what has become of it?
To an Officer. Did you every receive a commission, and if so, by whom was it signed, and what has become of it?
7. State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood, and who can testify as to your character for veracity, and their belief of your services as a soldier of the Revolution.
The Court will see that he [Sic] answers to these questions are embodied in the declaration, and they are requested to annex their opinions of the truth of the statement of the applicant.
The applicant will further produce in Court, if the same can be done, in the opinion of the Court, without too much expense and inconvenience to him, two respectable persons - one of whom should be the nearest clergyman, if one lives in the immediate vicinity of such applicant, who can testify, from their acquaintance with him, that they believe he is of the age he represents, and that his is reputed and believed in the neighborhood to have been a Revolutionary soldier, and that they concur in that opinion. If one of these persons is a Clergyman, the Court will so certify, and they will also certify, to the character and standing of other persons, giving such certificates.
The traditionary evidence of service is deemed very important, in the absence of any direct proof, except the declaration of the party. And the Courts are requested to be very particular in the enquiry whether the belief is general, and whether any doubts have ever existed upon the subject.
Applicants unable to appear in Court by reason of bodily infirmity, may make the declaration before required, and submit to the examination, before a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record of the proper county, and the Judge or Justice will execute the duties, which the Court is herein requested to perform, and will also certify that the applicant cannot, from bodily infirmity, attend the Court.
Whenever any official act is required to be done by a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record, or by a Justice of the peace, the certificate of the Secretary of State or Territory, or of the proper Clerk of the Court or County, under his seal of office, will be annexed, stating that such person is a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record, or a Justice of the Peace, and that the signature annexed is his genuine signature.
No payments can be made on account of the services of any person, who may have died before the taking effect of the act of June 7, 1832; and in case of death subsequent thereto, and before the declaration herein required is made, the parties interested will transmit such evidence as they can procure, taken and authenticated before a Court of Record, showing the services of the deceased, the period of his death, the opinion of the neighborhood respecting such services, the title of the claimant, and the opinion of the Court upon the whole matter.

[Footnotes:]
[a] The declarant must appear in open Court, unless prevented from doing so by reason of bodily infirmity; in which case the declarant will follow the rule laid down for his guidance.
[b] The declarant must make his declaration in the county where he resides. If he should fail to do so, he must assign a sufficient reason for not conforming to the rule.
[c] The age of the claimant must invariably be mentioned.
[d] The declarant must mention the period or periods of the war when he served.
[e] Every continental officer or soldier must give the name of the Colonel under whom he served; otherwise a satisfactory examination of the claim cannot be had. Every claimant must state, 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 amount of pension he is entitled. 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."
It is important, in all cases, to determine with precision the period for which each 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. Some persons who apply for pensions merely state that they served two years in the militia, &c. without specifying the tours, the names of the officers, and other particulars respecting their service. This form of a declaration is highly objectionable. It must, in every case, be clearly shown under what officers the applicant served; the duration of each term of engagement; the particular place of places where the service was performed; that the applicant served with an embodied corps called into service by competent authority; that he was either in the field or in garrison; and for the time during which the service was performed, he was not employed in any civil pursuit.
[f] The law makes the relinquishment indispensable.
[g] The opinion of the Court is always required.
[h] The Clerk must give his certificate in every case.
[i] The Clerk must affix his seal, and if it has no device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal, or if he has no public seal of office, the certificate of a Member of Congress, proving the official character and signature of the certifying officer, should accompany the papers.

Mode of authenticating papers.

In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticates the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other papers authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the ends 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.

Proof of Service.

[j] 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 claimant's entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the regiment, company, and line to which he 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.
The notes from [a] to [i] are all equally applicable to the cases of Militia men, Volunteers and State Troops. The proof required by rule j[Illegible] note [j] applies to continental troops only.
[k] This traditionary evidence is indispensable in militia cases.
[l] If a witness cannot be found, the declarant must state the fact.
[m] The answers to the interrogatories must all be written, and sent to the War Department, with the declaration.
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Pension Act of 1832.

Declaration of Andrew Kingsbury, in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress, passed June 7th 1832.

State of Connecticut
County of Hartford ss

On this 18th day of September, 1832 before the Probate Court for the district of Hartford, in the County of Hartford & State of Connecticut, being a Court of Record, having a Clerk & seal, personally appeared Andrew Kingsbury Esquire, a resident of Hartford in said County of Hartford, State aforesaid, aged Seventy three years, who being first duly sworn according to Law, doth on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress, passed June 7th 1832 which declaration, in the handwriting of said Kingsbury & appended hereto, is in the words & figures following vis

I Andrew Kingsbury of the City of Hartford in the State of Connecticut aged seventy three years the 24th day of April 1832 testify & say that in the Town of Coventry, then in the County of Windham in said State, in the month of May or June AD 1776 I inlisted into a Regiment of Troops raised for the United States service of which John Chester was Colonel, Solomon Willes Lieut Col, John Ripley Major and Asa Bacon Captain Abner Baron first Lieut Amaziah Rust 2d Lieut (with whom I inlisted) Cleveland Ensign was officer of the Company in which I served about the first of July Capt Bacons Company passed by Water from Norwich to New York where the Regiment were collecting from various places & I believe were first mustered in New York on the 7th or 8th of July & soon after a part of the Regiment were ordered (of which I was one) to West Chester or sent to work on Fort Independence then building & were relieved & returned to N York some time in August & on the 22d or 23d day of that month one half of said Regiment was ordered over to Long Island under the command of Lieut Col Willes who were with other Troops on the 24th marched from the lines to Flat Bush as a piquit Guard, on the 25th we were relieved & returned to the lines & on the 26th returned again to Flat Bush & on the 27th were in the action with British Troops where
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Kingsbury & appended hereto, is in the words & figures following vis

I Andrew Kingsbury of the City of Hartford in the State of Connecticut aged seventy three years the 24th day of April 1832 testify & say that in the Town of Coventry, then in the County of Windham in said State, in the month of May or June AD 1776 I inlisted into a Regiment of Troops raised for the United States service of which John Chester was Colonel, Solomon Willes Lieut Col, John Ripley Major and Asa Bacon Captain Abner Baron first Lieut Amaziah Rust 2d Lieut (with whom I inlisted) Cleveland Ensign was officer of the Company in which I served about the first of July Capt Bacons Company passed by Water from Norwich to New York where the Regiment were collecting from various places & I believe were first mustered in New York on the 7th or 8th of July & soon after a part of the Regiment were ordered (of which I was one) to West Chester or sent to work on Fort Independence then building & were relieved & returned to N York some time in August & on the 22d or 23d day of that month one half of said Regiment was ordered over to Long Island under the command of Lieut Col Willes who were with other Troops on the 24th marched from the lines to Flat Bush as a piquit Guard, on the 25th we were relieved & returned to the lines & on the 26th returned again to Flat Bush & on the 27th were in the action with British Troops where I think General Sullivan had the command of the American Troops [Illegible] Flat Bush before [Illegible] the British Troops to that part of the American lines under the command of General Israel Putnam in this action the Field Pines amunition Waggons, &
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to that part of the American lines under the command of General Israel Putnam in this action the Field Pines amunition Waggons, & all the Horses were lost together with the packs of the soldiers which they were ordered to unsling & pile & were soon driven from them by the enemy We remained in the lines to which we had retreated till the night of the 29th of Augt where we left about daylight, as the rear guard to the army then evacuating Long Island & passing over to New York - I remained with the Regiment in New York till its evacuation by the American Army about the middle of September, when it was removed to Valentines Hill in West Chester & from thence about the middle of October to White Plains, I was on the 27th (as I believe) with part of our Regiment & other Troops marched from the Station at White Plains toward New Rochelle as a piquet guard & was early the next morning attacked by the British Troops & retreated before them crossing the Bronx River by fording & Joining Genl McDougalls command which after a severe action retreated to the lines commanded by Genl Washington who soon removed to North Castle - After the British army left the White Plains for New Jersey Col Chesters Regiment with other Troops under the Command of General Lee were marched to Peeks Kill on the North River & from thence to Morris Town in New Jersey, where the Troops arrived about the tenth of December soon after which General Lee was captured by the Brittish Cavalry - from thence under the command of General Sullivan We were marched to East Town  on
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on the Delaware River, thence to Bethlem on the Lehigh River, which was forded by the army & from thence down the South West side of the Delaware to a Town which I think was called Salisbury some miles above Trenton and on the afternoon of the 25th day of December 1776 Col Chesters Regiment (whose term of service had expired.) was discharged by proclamation; after having been reduced by engagements with the Enemy sickness & remaining in the Hospital, from about one thousand when mustered in New York to about 250 when discharged

2nd
In April 1777 I was one among the drafts made by the State of Connecticut to fill up their line in the Continental Army to serve till January 1st 1778 & was put under the Command of Capt Paul Brigham of the 8th Connecticut Regiment & marched to Danbury where we arrived soon after the Town & Stores were burnt by the British Troops under the command of Gov Tryon, the Col of the 8 Reg was then John Chandler, Lieut Col GiIes Russell, Major David Smith and Pay Master Richard Sill - soon after which Philip Turner Surgeon General of the General Hospital Eastern department at Danbury applied to Col Chandler for some one of his Regimt to assist in the Hospital Store then reorganizing after the burning, upon which he directed me to into the Store & there remain till ordered by him to join the Regmt [Illegible] when I recd such order I was sick of a fever & so reported by Doctr Turner to Col Chandler  - I remained sick till the Regiment was ordered to [Illegible] in Pennsylvania, [Illegible] to join as my time of service would expire by the time I [Illegible]
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when I recd such order I was sick of a fever & so reported by Doctr Turner to Col Chandler - I remained sick till the Regiment was ordered to [Illegible] in Pennsylvania, [Illegible] to join as my time of service would expire by the time I could probably join the Regiment. my Wages was afterwards sent to me by the Pay Master 

From January 1st to December 15th 1778 I was imployed in said Hospital Store as a Clerk and on said 15th day of December 1778 I was by Doctr Foster Director Genl of the department [Illegible] an Assistant Commissary [Illegible] Store Keeper in which capasity I served in Danbury till March 13th 1781 when the Eastern department was discontinued

In the year 1788 John De La Mater [Illegible] Pay master of the department obtained a settlement of my acct for Rations due at the proper office in Philadelphia & paid me the amount
My monthly wages while serving as Store Keeper in the Hospital depart was part of the time forty dollars & the remainder sixty, but I recd from the State of Connecticut my depreciation of pay, at forty dollars only

In the month of May 1781 I entered into the service of the UStates as a Clerk in the Quarter Master Generals Department under Ralph Pomeroy Depy Q M Genl stationed at Hartford where I continued till November 1783 at forty dollars [Illegible] month wages, the last business which I performed in the department was the selling at [Illegible] the [Illegible], Waggons and other Stores of the department remaining at Hartford and Danbury & settling my account with said Pomeroy

The Certificate of my appointment as assistant Commissary or Store Keeper in the Hospital department in Dec 1778 by Doctr Foster Director Genl, & the Certificate of my services and Wages received therefor signed by John Berrien Commissary and John De La Mater
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John De La Mater Pay Master of said Hospital department were lodged in the Office of the Committee of Pay Table as Vouchers of my account of depreciation settled in June 1785 & I believe were either delivered in 1788 to Elnathan Haskell Esq district Commissioner, or forwarded to the Treasury Department of the United States in 1791 with other Vouchers to support the claims of Connecticut against the United States then under examination.

I further declare that at New York I saw General Washington General Putnam & many other General & Field Officers and at Long Island Genl Putnam that I saw part of these together with General Lee & some others at most of the places through which the army passed from N York to North Castle in the State of New York Morristown in New Jersey to Salisbury in Pennsylvania where the Regiment was dismissed on the 25th of December 1776 as before stated having served according to my recollection about six or seven months

Israel Carpenter of Springfield in Massachusetts formerly of Coventry in the State of Connecticut served in the same Company with me & has so testified - that I have not been able to obtain the testimony of any other person who served with me on my second tour commencing in April 1777 and ending January 1st 1778 being about nine months, I have no written discharge [Illegible] never had any but I have a Certificate from the late Doct Phillip Turner who was Surgeon General in the [Illegible] Hospital Department at Danbury 1st of January 1778 & which is marked No 1 which confirms the the [Sic] statement which I have made & shows my relation to the
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but I have a Certificate from the late Doct Phillip Turner who was Surgeon General in the [Illegible] Hospital Department at Danbury 1st of January 1778 & which is marked No 1 which confirms the the [Sic] Statement which I have made & shows my relation to the army at that tine - I have also a written leave of absence from the Hospital Store or Magazine at Danbury dated Oct 16 1780 & signed by John Berrion C H E D marked No 2 together with an original letter from said Berrion & John De La Mater dated at Danbury [Illegible]th July 17th 1783 marked No 3 which shows that I had received & held the appointment of Assistant Commissary & Store Keeper in said Hospital Department, and a Memorial to the General Assembly of the State of Connecticut in 1785 presented by me & the grant of the General Assembly thereon; and authenticated Copy of which is herewith presented (Marked No 4) these among other things my official connection with the public service & the periods of its duration - I might perhaps find other documents corroborative of the truth of my several Statements but the foregoing are believed to be sufficient

My reputed connection with the public service, as a Soldier and as assistant Commissary or Store Keeper in the Revolutionary War and also my Character and Standing in Society is known to the Rev Joel Hawes a Clergyman in said Hartford, and also to John Caldwell Esq Thomas S Williams Esq Mayor of the City of Hartford & William W Ellsworth Esq a member of Congress who will testify their knowledge & belief
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in relation thereto -

And in reply to certain interrogatories prescribed by the War department and propounded by the Court the deponent further declares 
first That he was born at Norwich in the County of New London and State of Connecticut on the 24th day of April 1759

2nd That the day and year of his birth is Recorded in the Family of his late Father a copy of which record he has had in possession for several years past -

3 & 4th That when he was called into service he resided in the Town of Coventry as herein before stated & served in the manner in the preceding declaration that he now resides in Hartford & has resi there from May 1781 to this time being more than fifty one years

5th That the General circumstances of his service are detailed in the preceding declaration and also the names of part of such officers [Illegible] as he distinctly recollects

6th That he never received a Written discharge from Service

7th That he is personally known to Rev Joel Hawes a Clergyman in Hartford - John Caldwell   Thomas S Williams   William W Ellsworth Esquires and [Illegible] who are respectable persons in the neighborhood where he now resides & can testify to his character for veracity and also their belief of his services as a Soldier and in other capacities in the Revolutionary War

And I Andrew Kingsbury hereby relinquish every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present [Illegible] declare that my name is not (to my knowledge) on the Pension Roll

[Written vertically up left margin:]
8759 -
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to a pension or annuity except the present [Illegible] declare that my name is not (to my knowledge) on the Pension Roll of the Agency of any State.

Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid

Andrew Kingsbury

And 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 it appears to them, that the Reverend Joel Hawes is a Clergyman, resident in the Town of Hartford, and that William W. Ellsworth, Thomas S. Williams, John Caldwell & Enoch Parsons, whose affidavits are hereto annexed are credible persons, and that their Statements are entitled to credit.

I, William Whitman Clerk of the Probate Court for the District of Hartford, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceeding of the said Court in the matter of the Application of Andrew Kingsbury for a pension. In testimony whereof, I have hereon to set my hand and seal of Office, this 18th day of September 1832.

Wm. Whitman, Clerk of Court of Probate
for district of Hartford

[Seal with serrated edge is at lower left]
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[Illegible] at $480 per ann,
terminating April 4,
1848, payable to
Maria Goodwin &
Laura Kingsbury,
only surviving 
children
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Declaration

In order to obtain the benefits of the act of Congress of 2nd February 1848, entitled "An act making further provision for surviving Widows and Soldiers of the Revolution."

State of Connecticut
County of Hartford  ss Hartford

On this Twenty-Sixth day of July 1848. personally appeared, before the Court of Probate for the District of Hartford, in the County and State aforesaid, Maria Goodwin of East Hartford, and Laura Kingsbury of Hartford, and both in said District, the former aged fifty nine years, and the latter fifty two years; who being first duly sworn according to Law, do on their oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the act of Congress passed on the second of February 1848, granting pensions to Widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War. That they are the children, and only surviving children, of Mary Kingsbury, late of said Hartford, deceased, who was a pensioner of the United States; that she received under the act of June 17, 1844 at the rate of Four hundred & eighty Dollars per annum; and that, as their said Mother was entitled to the benefit of said act of February 2d 1848, and died without making application for it, they, the Declarants hereby ask the benefit of the amount to which their said Mother was entitled at the time of her
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death. And they furthermore declare, that the said Mary Kingsbury was the identical person pensioned for the services of her husband the late Andrew Kingsbury Esq of said town of Hartford (who was pensioned as Hospital Store Keeper, under the Act of June 7th 1832, at the rate of Four hundred & eighty Dollars per annum.) that the said Mary Kingsbury died in said town of Hartford, on the fourth day of April AD 1848, and that they the declarants are her only surviving children.

Maria Goodwin
Laura Kingsbury

Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written
before said Probate Court, and the Judge of said Court directs me to say that he is himself personally knowing to the fact that the declarants are the children of the late Widow Mary Kingsbury of Hartford aforesaid, whom he knew to be a pensioner, as the declarants say; he is also well knowing to the fact of her recent death, and it has been satisfactorily proved before said Court this day that the said Mary Kingsbury died on the 4th day of April 1848, and left but two children, viz: Mrs Maria Goodwin and Miss Laura Kingsbury the declarants.

In testimony whereof I do hereunto subscribe my name, and affix the seal of said Court, on the day and year first named, in said District and Town of Hartford.

The interlineation between the 10th & 11th lines from the top made before signing

Watson E. Adams   Clerk

[Seal with serrated edge at bottom of document]
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And before said Court on the same day personally appeared Russell G. Talcott, a resident of said Hartford, a person well known to this Court as a credible witness, who being duly sworn did testify as follows.

I Russell G. Talcott, a resident of Hartford in Hartford County, and State of Connecticut, of lawful age, do hereby depose and say. That I have been several years acquainted with Mrs Mary Kingsbury, late of Hartford deceased.
I knew her to be a pensioner on account of the services of her late husband, Andrew Kingsbury Esq. I several times assisted her in drawing her semi-annual stipend. I am well knowing to the fact that the said Mrs 
Mary Kingsbury died in said Hartford, on the 4th day of April eighteen hundred & forty eight.
And I am well knowing to the fact that Mrs Maria Goodwin and Miss Laura Kingsbury now before this Court, are the only surviving children of the said Widow Kingsbury.

Russell G. Talcott

Sworn to and subscribed before said Court, on this 26th day of July in 1848, in testimony whereof I do hereunto set my hand and affix the seal of said Court on the day and year last named.

Watson E. Adams   Clerk

[Seal with serrated edge at lower left]
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State of Connecticut,
Hartford County ss Hartford

On this tenth day of January, AD 1838 personally appeared before the Court of Probate for the district of Hartford in the County of Hartford and State of Connecticut, now sitting, in said Hartford; Widow Mary Kingsbury a resident of said Hartford aged Seventy Six years a credible person, well known to this Court; who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on oath declare,

That she is the surviving Widow of Andrew Kingsbury Esq, deceased, late of said Hartford, who was a pensioner of the United States, under the Connecticut agency, under the act of June 7, AD 1832. And she begs leave to refer to his declaration & the proof accompanying it, (so far as that extends:) and as it is unknown to her, the declarant, whether her said Husband stated the whole period of his services, in the War of the Revolution, or only so far as to make the amount of time requisite to insure him a full pension: She will state the last period of his engagement, and send the proof supporting it.

Viz. That on the fourteenth day of May, AD 1781, he entered the service of the United States under Ralph Pomeroy Esq, of said state of Connecticut, who was Deputy Quarter Master for the State of Connecticut: That he enlisted as a Clerk in the Office of said Quarter Master, and received his regular warrant, under the hand of his superior officer, which will be sent with
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this application; and he served in the capacity of first Clerk, and Book Keeper, under the said Quarter Master, and wholly in the service of the United States, from the aforesaid 14th day of May AD 1781 until the month of September AD 1783, having thus served in various capacities in the army of the revolution for more than seven years as may appear by his own declaration & the accompanying proof in the Pension Office together with this last period of service

And she, the said Widow, Mary Kingsbury furthermore declares, That she was married to the said Andrew Kingsbury at Danbury, in the County of Fairfield and State of Connecticut at the House of her Parents by the Revd Mr Wetmore of Bethel "a parish of Danbury" not the regular clergyman of the parish where she dwelt, who was at this time either sick or absent, That there was present at her marriage among others Mary Jarvis now Mary Rider whose certificate will be sent herewith
That she continued to dwell [Illegible] said husband, as his lawful wife, [Illegible] the Sixth day of October 1837 when he died and she still remains his Widow; all which will more fully appear by reference to the proof hereunto annexed.

Mary Kingsbury

Sworn to and subscribed the day and year first named, before said Court of Probate.

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter That Andrew Kingsbury Esq late a resident of said Hartford was a Soldier of the revolution and served as is stated in the foregoing declaration 
And that the Declarant Mrs Mary Kings
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bury is the surviving Widow of the aforesaid Andrew Kingsbury Married to him before the last period of his services in the Army of the Revolution, That the said Andrew Kingsbury died at Hartford aforesaid, on the 6th day of October AD 1837 And left the present declarant or applicant his surviving Widow; and that she still remains his Widow, and has never again intermarried

In testimony whereof, I Henry Seymour Clerk of said probate Court have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said Court at Hartford aforesaid this 10th day of January, 1838

And I further certify that before the signing and oath the following words were interlined viz "month of"  "a parish of Danbury"

Henry Seymour Clk

[Illegible dark round shape at lower left]
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State of Connecticut
Hartford County ss Hartford
On this 10th day of January AD, 1838, Personally appeared before the Court of Probate for the District of Hartford, in Hartford County aforesaid, James Wells Esq, a resident of said Hartford a credible person aged 82 years who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on Oath declare, 
That he was well acquainted with the late Andrew Kingsbury Esquire, from the time he came to reside in Hartford in the year AD 1781, down to the period of his death:
That he well remembers, his being first Clerk and Book keeper in the Office of the Deputy Quarter Master of the State of Connecticut, Ralp Pomeroy Esquire, from the time he the said Kingsbury came to reside in said Hartford until the close of the War of the Revolution in AD 1783.
That he was intimately acquainted with him down to the period of his death, and well remembers that he was a married man before the close of the Revolutionary War, and that the present widow, Mary Kingsbury, was then his Wife. That the said Andrew Kingsbury died at said Hartford on the sixth day of October AD 1837, and that the present applicant for a pension is his surviving Widow; & that she has never again married
I was employed most of the time in the Quarter Masters office myself.
James Wells

Sworn to and subscribed before said Court, the day year first named: In testimony whereof, I Henry Seymour Clerk of said Court of Probate, have hereunto subscribed my name, and affixed the Seal of said Court at Hartford aforesaid this 10th day of January 1838.

Henry Seymour Clk

[Illegible dark round shape at lower left]
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State of Connecticut
Fairfield County  Danbury
December 25th 1837
I Darius Starr Town Clerk and Register of the Town of Danbury aforesaid hereby certify that I do not find any entry of the Marriage of Andrew Kingsbury and Mary Osborne in the town records of said Danbury under any date: & I further certify that previous to the year 1820, when a new Statute was passed by the State Legislature; the record of marriage in said Town Books are few & irregular, & that no prejudice arises against the claim of any person that they were Married at a given time from there being no record of it in the Town books.  Attest
Darius Starr

On the day & year first named personally appeared before me the subscriber one of the Justices of the peace for Fairfield County aforesaid Darius Starr - Town Clerk & Register of Danbury aforesaid & made Solemn Oath to the truth of the same before me & he is a credible person
[Illegible] Justice [Illegible]

[Illegible dark round shape at lower left]
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bury is the surviving Widow of the aforesaid Andrew Kingsbury Married to him before the last period of his services in the Army of the Revolution, That the said Andrew Kingsbury died at Hartford aforesaid, on the 6th day of October AD 1837 And left the present declarant or applicant his surviving Widow; and that she still remains his Widow, and has never again intermarried

In testimony whereof, I Henry Seymour Clerk of said probate Court have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said Court at Hartford aforesaid this 10th day of January, 1838

And I further certify that before the signing and oath the following words were interlined viz "month of" "a parish of Danbury"

Henry Seymour Clk

[Illegible dark round shape at lower left]
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State of Connecticut
Fairfield County ss

I hereby certify That I cannot find in the record left by the Rev Mr Wetmore late pastor of the Church & Society of Bethel in the town of Danbury & County of Fairfield any entry of the Marriage of Andrew Kingsbury and Mary Osborne under any date and I further certify that the records of the said Church & Society are very imperfect and afford no evidence against the claims of any persons that they were married at a given time.

Alanson Taylor - Clerk of sd church

On this 25th day of December 1837 personally appeard before me the Subscriber one of the Justices of the Peace for said County of Fairfield at my Office in said County & made solemn Oath to the truth of the foregoing Certificate by him subscribed & he is a credible person, Alanson Taylor who is Clerk of said Church.

Attest Edward Taylor  Justice of Peace
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Certificate of Marriage
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State of Connecticut
Fairfield County ss Danbury,

On this 25th day of December 1837, personally appeared before me, the subscriber, one of the Justices of the Peace for said County.

Mrs Mary Rider a resident of Danbury, in the County aforesaid, a credible person, aged 77 years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on oath declare, That in the time of the Revolutionary War She was well acquainted with Mary Osborne of Danbury, in Fairfield County Connecticut. That she is well knowing to the fact, that the said Mary Osborne was Married to Andrew Kingsbury, who had resided some years in Danbury & connected with the Hospital Department, & who afterwards resided at Hartford, in said State, & who was many years Treasurer of said State, She well remembers that they were married the winter before the peace was ratified & the war of the revolution closed. 
She was present at the wedding & cannot be mistaken as to the time they were married by the Rev Mr Whitmore of the Parish of Bethel in Fairfield County, as this Deponent believes - She is not certain however, as to the name of the Clergyman but is sure it was a Clergyman, and certain also as to the time (Winter 1783)

Mary Rider

Sworn & subscribed the day & year first named  and I certify the deponent is a credible witness said day

Before me Reuben Booth  Justice of Peace
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V3132

Mary Kingsbury
wife of Andrew
Conn

[At bottom of page, upside down:]
Sec. of State
Certificate
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State of Connecticut
Tolland County ss Coventry

On this 8th day of January 1838 personally appeared before me Zelotes Long one of the Justices of the peace for said Tolland County, Jabez Kingsbury a resident of said Coventry a credible person, well known to me aged Sixty Eight years who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on oath declare, That he had been well acquainted with the late Andrew Kingsbury, of Hartford in Connecticut, from his childhood; viz, for the last Sixty five years: and he well remembers, that while he the said Andrew was in the Service of the United States, in the Quarter Masters department under Ralph Pomeroy Esq. He married his present Widow, who at the time of his said Marriage was Mary Osborne of Danbury, in Connecticut. They were married in the winter of One thousand Seven Hundred & Eighty three, Fifty five years ago; And the said Andrew Kingsbury, with his said Wife, soon after, and while he was in the Quartermasters Department, brought his said wife to my fathers, and his fathers, (for I am brother to the said Andrew Kingsbury) and made a short visit there. I well remember his being in the Quarter Masters department for more than two years, as first Clerk, & Bookkeeper, I visited him while he was engaged in this service and am not mistaken in regard to any of the facts stated in the foregoing deposition.

Jabez Kingsbury

Sworn to and subscribed the day & year first named & "the said Andrew" was interlineated before signing

Before me Zelotes Long  Justice of the Peace
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Invoice of Provisions delivered by the State of Connecticut to Ralph Pomeroy Esq D. Q. M. on acct of the United States on the requisition of Congress Nov 4th 1780.
The account commenced Feb 15 - 1781 and extends to July 1783 and is to a great amount
And immediately following the entries of the delivery of articles to him, is the following entry

Invoice of Provisions transported for the use of the Main Army by the State of Connecticut by orders from Ralph Pomeroy Esq, on Account of the United States, on the requisition of Congress November 4th 1780. The disbursements commencing [Nov 1781 has a line drawn through it] Feb 16 AD 1781 and continuing thru the years following to the close of the War and to May 30th 1783

And the following is a Copy of the receipt given by E Haskell Commissioner at the foot of the page at the close of the entries of the disbursements by the said Ralph Pomeroy a similar receipt being given for the vouchers of each separate or distinct account at the foot of the page

Hartford February 22nd 1788
Received of Oliver Wolcott Jun Esquire, Auditor of accounts for the State of Connecticut, sundry accounts and vouchers from No 1, to 64, as stated in foregoing account and amount, 64, 300, 90 Dollars which are to be forwarded by me to the Honorable the Board of Treasury agreeable to the ordinance of Congress of 7th May last

E. Haskell  Coms

I William Field Comptroller of Public accounts for the State of Connecticut hereby certify That the foregoing abstracts & copies from Haskells receipts remaining in this office are correct, and true, according to the entries in sd Book.

Hartford State of Connecticut Jan 10th 1838
Wm Field Comptroller
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State of Connecticut
Hartford County ss Hartford
January 10th AD 1838

I Royal R Hinman Secretary of State for the State of the State of Connecticut hereby certify That Reuben Booth Esq before whom the certificates of Mary Rider and Darius Starr both annexed hereto were taken is at this time and has been for more than four months last past a lawful Justice of the peace for the County of Fairfield in the State of Connecticut and that the Signature of the said Justice Reuben Booth to the certificates of the said Mary Rider and Darius Starr
is his genuine signature, and I further certify that Edward Taylor Esquire before whom the certificate annexed of Alanson Taylor was taken is at this time and has been for more than Four months last past a lawful Justice of the Peace for Fairfield County in the State of Connecticut & that the signature to said certificate purporting to be the signature of the said Edward Taylor Esquire is his genuine Signature
And I further certify that Zelotes Long Esq, before whom the certificate of Jabez Kingsbury was taken, is at this time & has been for more than four months last past a lawful Justice of the peace for Tolland County Conn, & the hand writing of the said Justice Long is his genuine signature affixed to said Certificate.

[Illegible] R Hinman  Secretary of sd State

[Seal with serrated edge placed over what appears to be a ribbon at lower left.]
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Copies of papers on file in the pension case of Mary Kingsbury widow of Andrew Kingsbury of Conn file No 20.327

1"
The bearer Mr Andrew Kingsbury, Hospital Store Keeper at this place, Hath leave of absence to attend to the procuring of his clothing, due to him from the United States
Danbury 16th Octr 1780
John Berrien [Illegible initials]D.

2"
Hospital, Danbury Jany 1 1778
This may certify [Illegible] Andrew Kingsbury two days after Col Chandler left this place was attacked with Billious fever, which prevented him following his redgment agreeable to orders, & that he continued in the Hospital until late in the season before he was perfectly recovered & that ever since he hath been detained as a tender in the Hospital Store, in which employment he hath behaved himself as honest & Trusty

P. Turner, Surgn Genl

3"
Copy of Family record on a bible leaf
Andrew Kingsbury born April 24 1759
Mary Osborn born Oct 3 1761
Married Jany 14 1783
Betty Kingsbury born Oct 18. 1783
Oliver Kingsbury born April 4. 1785
Maria Kingsbury born Jany 5. 1789
Harriet Kingsbury born Dec 23. 1792
Laura Kingsbury born Sept 7. 1795

4"
Copy  of Appointment as clerk in Qr.M. General's Office
To Mr Andrew Kingsbury, Gentlemen, Sir,

By virtue of the powers vested in me as Deputy Quarter Master, for the state of Connecticut, by the plan for conducting the business of the Quarter Master General's Department, agreed to in Congress on the 15th of July 1780: and relying on your abilities & fidelity, I do hereby appoint you to be a Clerk in my office - You are therefore carefully & diligently to perform all the duties of your said office, agreeably to the regulations which are or shall be
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4 Contd

established by Congress relative thereto, and such orders and instructions, conformably to the principles of those regulations, as you shall from time to time receive from me, or any other of your Superior officer; for which this shall be your sufficient warrant.

Given under my hand at Hartford this 14th day of May A.D. 1781 and in the 5th year of our Independence -
Ralph Pomroy
Deputy Quarter Master for the State of Connecticut

Pension Office March 24 1883
The foregoing copies of papers which were filed in the application for a pension, by Mary Kingsbury widow of Andrew Kingsbury (file no 20.327) are a true & correct copies of the originals, which originals have been transmitted to Mary K Talcot at Hartford Conn - a descendant of the said Mary Kingsbury -

Wm H. Webster
Chief of Old War, Bounty land & Navy division

The original papers named hereon were on four separate pieces of paper as numbered in pencil "1" - "2" - "3" - "4" -

WHW
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R[Illegible] WIDOW, &c.

File No. 20327
Mary Kingsbury
Widow of
Andrew Kingsbury
Q.M. Clerk Rev. War

Act July 4th 1836
Index: Vol. A, Page 402

[Arrangement of 1870.]
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Connecticut  No 17,412

Andrew Kingsbury
of Hartford in the State of Con
who was a Hos. S. Keeper in the _______ commanded
by Captain _______ of the ________ commanded
by Col     State in the [Illegible}
line for 2 years

(Special)

Inscribed on the Roll of Connecticut
at the rate of 480 Dollars - Cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

$46.88

Certificate of Pension issued the 17th day of Apl 1834 and
Andw Kingsbury, Hartford

Arrears to the 4th of Mar 1834  1,440.00
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sept "  240.00

[Total]   $1,680.00

Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7, 1832

Recorded by R. Burdine   Clerk,
Book E2  Vol.       Page 23
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[Document is an opened booklet]
[Left page:]

5034
Connecticut
Mary Kingsbury
widow of Andrew Kingsbury
who died on the 7 Oct 1837
of Hartford in the State of Connt
who was a Qr. M. Clerk in the _____ commanded
by Captain _____ of the _____ commanded
by _____ in the Vermont 
line for _____

Inscribed on the Roll of Hartford
at the rate of 600 Dollars 00 Cents
per annum, to commence on the 7th day of 
Oct 1837 and Ending
April 6 1848

Certificate of Pension issued the 24th day of
June 1837 and sent to
D. D. Addison  
Presen[Illegible]

Arrears to the 4th of 
Semi-annual allowance ending
Deducting former paym under act 7 July 1838 [Illegible] 1843 & 17 June 1844 & 2 [Illegible]
at $480 per ann

Revolutionary Claim,
Act July 4, 18[Illegible]
Section   [Page torn]

Recorded by H R Weightman
Book D Vol. 2  [Page torn]

[Right page:]

1883 [Illegible] Mary K Talcott
military & family history
Sent leaf of [Illegible] &c
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Connecticut No 217
Mary Kingsbury
widow of Andrew Kingsbury
who was a pensioner under the Act of 1832
and who died on the 6 October 1837,
of Hartford in the State of Conn.
who was a Hos. S. Keeper in the _____
commanded by Captain _____ of the
_____ commanded by _____ in
the Connt line for 2 years

Inscribed on the Roll of Connecticut
at the rate of 480 Dollars -
Cents  per annum, to commence on the 4th day
of March, 1836 & ending 6 Oct. 1837

Certificate of Pension issued the 10 day of 
Oct. 1842, and handed Mr
D. D. Addison Present

Arrears to the 4th of -
Semi-annual allowance ending -

Act July 7, 1838.

Recorded by Theo. S. Moody  Clerk,
Book A  Vol 1  Page 191

A new certificate was issued in this case under the opinion of the Attorney General of the 2 Sep. 1842 which was given in consequence of the Resolution of Congress of the 16 August 1842

For report see letter to P Agent Oct 11, 1842
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Connecticut ([Illegible])

Mary Kingsbury the
wid of Andrew, who was 
a clerk in the Quarter Masters
Department under Ralph
Pomeroy No 7721
[Illegible] Act July 6, 1836

2 years service
$600 per ann

To com. Oct. 7. 1837, when
he died, and end April 4,
1848, when she died, former
payments under the act of
Jul 7, 1838 at the rate of
$480 per Ann to be deducted

Payable to
Laura Kingsbury
[Illegible]

D D Addison
Pre[Illegible]

[Written vertically up right margin:]
Consulted chief Clerk &
Capt. Triplett.
Jun 23 1851
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Andrew Kingsbury
of
Hartford Connt.
Application under the
Pension Act of 1832

8759
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3,132. V. - Connt

Mary Kingsbury
Wid of Andrew
Conn.
Set. Hon H L. Ellsworth
[Illegible] 2 1838
Rejected
Same termd 78 a 81
Mard 1783
died 1837

Set. to Hon. H L Ellsworth, Com. of
Patents, July 25, 1838.
" [Illegible] 17 38
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Andrew Kingsbury. Con: act. f. June '32 when last pd?
G.W.C.

Sept 5. 38 -
paid to the 4th Sep 1837
JH
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Mary Kingsbury Con: act 7 July 38 - when her pension commenced?
GWC
[Illegible] Oct 42

Comd 7th Oct. 1837
BLB
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Connecticut ([Illegible])

Andrew Kingsbury, dcd
who was a clerk in the
Quarter Master's Department,
under Ralph Pomeroy,

[Illegible] Act June 7, 1832
at $600 per Ann

To commence March 4, 1831
and end Oct. 7, 1837, when
he died - former payments
at the rate of $480 per
ann to be deducted.

Payable to
Laura Kingsbury,
[Illegible] child,

Certificate to
D. D. Addison
P[Illegible]

[Written vertically up the right margin:]
Act after consulting
chief Clerk & Capt. Triplett,
June 23, 1851
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939

Connecticut

Mary Kingsbury
widow of Andrew Kingsbury
who was a Hos. S. Keeper
in the Conn. line
for 2 years

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 480 Dollars - 
Cents per annum, to commence on
the 4th day of March, 1843.

Certificate of Pension issued the
17th day of July, 1843
and sent to J.H. Charlton
East Windsor
Conn.
Act of March 3, 1843.
Recorded in Book A
Vol 1  Page 71
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[Left page:]

[Illegible] Henry L. Ellsworth
March 31st 1841

Certificate issued Oct 10 1842
for the amt due from 4 March 
1836 to 6 Oct. 1837, being amt
deducted on her paymts & handed to
D. D. Addison, Present.

Special notice to P. Agent
[Illegible] letter to A H. Pomroy
Oct 11, 1842

[Right page:]
Connecticut 217

Mary Kingsbury
widow of Andrew Kingsbury
who was a pensioner under the Act of June 7, 1832
and who died on the 6 October 1837
of Hartford in the State of Connecticut
who was a Hos. S. Keeper in the _____ commanded
by Captain _____ of the _____ commanded
by _____ in the Connt
line for 2 years

Inscribed on the Roll of Connecticut
at the rate of 480 Dollars - Cents per annum,
to commence on the 7th day of Oct. 1837

Certificate of Pension issued the 7 day of Sept 
38 was sent to and H L Ellsworth, 
P[Illegible]
 
Arrears to the 4th of Sept $ 1,200.00
Semi-annual allowance ending 4 [Illegible] 240.00

[Total] $1,440.00

Act July 7, 1838.

Recorded by R Burdine  Clerk,
Book A Vol. 1 Page 191
(See Endorsement)
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[Page is dark and torn, very little is visible:]

Inscribed [Illegible] Roll of [Illegible]
[Illegible] Dollars -
Cents per annum, to commence on
the 4th day of March, 1848

Certificate of Pension [Illegible] the
and sent to 
J[Illegible] C[Illegible]
East Windsor
[Illegible]

Recorded on Roll of [Illegible]
[Illegible]
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A Kingsbury

Payments to be made
at Hartford
by Res. [Illegible] Br. Ban[Illegible]
Agent for paying Pension-
ers, in the Agency of
Connecticut

Cancelled

Recorded in the Pension Of-
fice, in Book E Vol. 3
Page 23 by E D Bullock
Clerk.
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WAR DEPARTMENT.
Revolutionary Claim.

I certify that, in conformity with the law of the United States
of the 7th June, 1882, Andrew Kingsbury
of the State of Connecticut
who was a Private during the Revolutionary War
is entitled to receive Forty Five dollars and
Eighty Eight cents per annum, during his natural life, commencing on
the 4th of March, 1881, and payable semi-annually on the 4th of March, and
4th of September, in every year.

GIVEN at the War Office of the United States, this - 20 - day of August one thousand eight hundred and thirty-Three

Lew Cass
Secretary of War.

[A folded paper with what appears to be a seal affixed lower left]

Examined and
Countersigned.

J L Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions.
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Danbury July 17th 1788

Dear Sir.

We received your favor of 14th inst, enclosing sundry certificates, and your accot, current with the United States, for services as Storekeeper to the Genl Hospital, requesting our examination and correction (if necessary), as also the signing of the annexed Certificates, retaining the old ones formerly given, and carrying out the sums you had received of the pay master, to the Cr side of the accot, agreeable to the dates of your rect for the same, all which we have done, as you will see by a view of the returned account, endorsed - the altering the dates and sums on the Dr side, was in consequence of finding your pay advanced to 60 Ds, 3 months earlier than charged in the accot.

We are at a loss to know what Mr. Thomson means, by having the Establishment certified, as which you recd your appointment, as we know of none within the period of your service, except that of April 77 noticed in the annexed Certificate, in which establishment, it will be found, that the Assistant Commiss. and Store Keepers Salaries, was left to the discretion of
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the Director - but if he would wish to know what was the first salary affixed to the Office, on the above establishment, by the Director, we can certify that it was 40 Dollars. pr. month, in the spring of 77-: if any other certificate on this subject is found necessary you can write us by next post, and enclose such form as Mr. Thomson shall direct, and we will do anything to Serve you, that we can, consistant with truth and justice - in the interim we remain your
Affectionate friend and Servants
John Berrien
John De La Mater


Mr. Kingsbury


Pension Office March 23 - 1883

This Certifies that the above is a true & correct copy of the original, filed in the application for a pension by Mary Kingsbury, widow of Andrew Kingsbury, file No 20,327 - The original is forwarded to Mary K Talcott, of Hartford Conn

Wm H Webster
Chief of old war, Bounty Land & Navy Division
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Hon. Lewis Cass Secretary of War.

Sir.


I write not to complain (not doubting your intention to do me justice) but to give some information of what my services were in the Hospital Department, in the 1779, 1780, & 1781, & to inquire, why I am not from those services, entitled to a pension - Danbury, where I was stationed, was established as the place of deposit for Stores, and for the General Hospital in the Eastern Department, where a large Hospital was built; others in the same department were built, one at Fishkill, one at Peekskill, and the house and out buildings at Robinsons farm, was occupied for the same purpose - I received Hospital Stores, such as Wines, Molasses, Sugars, Coffee, Teas, Rice, Pearl Barley, Blankets, Sheets, Bedsacks, &c from the purchasing Commissaries, principally from Boston, and fresh beef, Veal, Mutton, and flour, from the purchasing Commissaries in Connecticut, and issued to the Officers, and sick and wounded, in the Hospitals in Danbury, and forwarded to those Hospitals near the Hudson River procured hundreds of barrels of Cider, in exchange for empty casks, which was made into vinegar and used for washing the floors, and fumigating the Hospitals, in
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the department - Forage was also Secured by me for the teams belonging to the department and employed in transporting Stores and cutting wood for the Hospitals at Danbury. I was not absent from Danbury from December 15th 1778 to March 18th 1781. (except for Serving Supplies for the department) more than two weeks - The Officers of the department that were stationed at Danbury were Isaac Foster, Director General, Philip Turner, Surgeon General, William Eustes and Samuel Adams Senior Surgeon, Timothy Hosmer and Stephen Ramsey Junior Surgeons, Josiah Bartlett, Philimon Tracy, Christopher N. Babcock _____Gardiner & _____Farming, Surgeons Mates _____, Ich[Illegible] Apothecary, Francis Wainwright Asst Apothecary, John Bensin Commissary, myself Assistant and John De Lamater Pay [Paster] (Master)

Hezekiah Ripley Issuing and forwarding Commissary at Danbury for the troops out of the Hospital and whose service was somewhat  similar to mine has obtained a pension - Philemon Tracy Surgeons mate, Josiah Root Asst. Apothecary and John Turner, Ward Master in the same Department with me have been placed on the pension list - I make the above communication requesting that my papers may be reviewed and that
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if it should be found that I am justly [entitled] to a further allowance in addition to what has been made for service as a soldier, that I may be placed on the pension list accordingly.

With due respect
I am Sir.
Your humble Servant
Andrew Kingsbury

Pension Office March 24, 1883

This is to certify that the above is a true & correct copy of the original filed in the application for a pension by Mary Kingsbury, widow of Andrew Kingsbury file No 20,327 - The original is forwarded Mary K Talcot of Hartford, Conn

Wm H. Webster
Chief of old war, Bounty land & Navy Division
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J L Edwards Esq
Commissioner of 
Pensions
Washington 
D C
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East Windsor Hill, Hartford County
Conn.
July 21 1838

Sir.

In Jany last, I forwarded the application of Widow Mary Kingsbury, relict of Andrew Kingsbury Esq of Hartford Connecticut.

In your letter, in answer, the only objection stated, was that the law did not extend to those widows whose husbands died after the passage of the law of July 4th AD 1836:  As by the last Pension act this case is evidently embraced I conceive that nothing more will be required in her case and would request that as soon as is convenient you would take it up

I am Sir very respectfully
Your obdt Servant

Jesse Charlton


J L Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D C
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Letter to
J L Edwards Esq
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East Windsor Hill Hartford County
Connecticut
Jan
1838

Sir,

I herewith transmit the application of Mrs Mary Kingsbury, Widow of the late Andrew Kingsbury Esq, of Hartford, in Connecticut, long Treasurer of said State; a sketch of whose public offices, in given in an unfinished fragment, in Mr Kingsburys own hand writing; which not having been finished at the time of his death, is not signed by him, with his name: but as it is a document corobborating the declaration, in regard to the last period of his services, and the time of his Marriage, I will request the Commissioner of Patents, to call on you, and certify to the genuineness of the hand writing of that fragment.

I am Sir very respectfully
Your Obdt Servant
Jesse Charlton

J L Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
City of Washington D C
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24 [Illegible]

I inclose a letter said [Illegible] in behalf of Mrs Kingsbury [Illegible]

Yours Resp
H L Ellsworth

Hon J L Edwards
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East Windsor Hill Hartford County
Conn Sep 22n
1848

Hon J L Edwards

Sir.

Mrs Elizabeth Kingsbury, of the City of Hartford, Conn, was Pensioned for the services of her Husband, Andrew Kingsbury of said Hartford, who was Hospital Store keeper in the War of the Revolution; she was pensioned at the rate of $480 per annum

An agent has applied to the family for a Power of attorney to petition, or apply for an increase of the pension, and requiring from them, one half of all he may obtain, for his services. I have informed them that there is no need of their making any such sacrafice, that if there are any grounds for the application, you would inform me, in answer to a pertinent enquiry made in their behalf.

The enquiry is this, Has a Hospital Store Keeper, or his widow, received any other rate of Pension, than that granted to Mr Andrew Kingsbury, & afterwards to Mary Kingsbury his widow, viz, $480. pr Annum and if so how much per annum.
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When convenient Sir, please give me an answer, and oblige a worthy family; and your obedient servant.

Jesse Charlton


Hon J L Edwards,
Commissioner of Pensions,
Washington,
D. C.
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Mary Kingsbury widow of Andrew Kingsbury -

Andrew Kingsbury was appointed Clerk in the Hospital Dept on the 1st of January 1778 & served in that capacity at $40 pr. mo until Dec 15th 1778, when he was appointed Asst Commissary & Store Keeper and served in that capacity at $60 pr. mo until March 13, 1781.

On the 12th of May 1781 he was appointed by Ralph  Pomroy Dept Q Master Genl. a Clerk in the QMaster Genl Dept. & served in that capacity until Sept 5th 1783 when he was discharged - His Commission on file shews the date of this appointment & the endorsement on the back shews he was in service until Sept 5th 1783

The family record shews the marriage to have taken place on the 14th of Jany 1783, and this being Eight months before the termination of his service, she is of course entitled to the benefit of the Act of July 4th 1836-

His pay while Asst. Commissary & Store Keeper being over $50 pr mo. as shewn by the letter of the Commissioners, his pay as Clerk in the QMasters Genl Dept. being likewise over $50, she is entitled to $600 instead of $480 pr. an-

We
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We therefore claim a pension for Mrs Kingsbury under the Act of 1836 instead of the Act of 1838 and an increase at the rate of pension from $480 to $600 pr an.
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W. City Sept 4

Sir

Mrs Kingsbury's friends have reviewed her application made the [Illegible] which I hope will now be [Illegible] -

Yours Resp

H L Ellsworth
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East Windsor Hill Hartford County, Conn.
31st August 1838

Sir.

I herewith transmit the application of Mrs Mary Kingsbury; widow of Andrew Kingsbury Esq; for a Pension under Act of July 7th 1838 entitled "An act granting half pay & pensions to certain Widows."

The proof is with Mrs Kingsburys first Declaration on your files: sent by me Jany 12th AD 1838.

I am Sir with the highest respect your Obdt Servant.

Jesse Charlton

P.S   As I thought it expedient to send Doct Whitmans certificate as that was attached to the Declaration made under the act of July 4 AD 1836, & the joint resolution I have not seperated it from the certificate; as it is [Illegible]; perhaps you expected I should not send it but it can do no harm - 

J L Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
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Hartford March 15. 1851

To J E Heath Esq
Commissioner of Pensions

Sir

Mr S A Peugh of the City of Washington, or any person or persons he may employ under him is hereby authorized and empowered to act as my attorney in establishing my claim to an increase of pension. Should he desire to refer to papers on file in your office relating to this claim, you will confer a favor by permitting him to do so,   The amount which may be found due I wish payable to myself by the United States Pension Agent at Hartford in the State of Connecticut

Laura Kingsbury

In presence of
Russell G. Talcott

[Illegible] D.D. Addison will please attend to the [Illegible] for me

S A Peugh
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East Windsor Hill, Conn,
Aug. 9th 1848.

Hon J L Edwards,
Commissioner of Pensions.

Sir

I herewith transmit the [Illegible] of the daughters of Mary Kingsbury, late of Hartford in Conn; for a pension under the Act of 2nd Feb. 1848.

And am, very respectfully,
Your obdt Servt
Jesse Charlton
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Oct 3 1842

Connt

M Kingsbury 

D D. Addison
Pres[Illegible]

James L. Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pensions

D.D. Addison -
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Washington October 3rd 1842

Dr Sir,

I this morning received the within, enclosed to me by George Goodwin Jr. Esq. Executor of Andrew Kingsbury decd

It is an application (made out in conformity with verbal instructions recd from Dr Crump, during your late absence for the arrears of pension due Mrs Mary Kingsbury from the 4th of March 1836 to October 1837, the time when her husband died & consequently the former commencement of her pension under the Act of 1838.

This application is made under the recent decision of Attorney General, which directs all pensions under the Act of July 7th 1838 to commence on the 4th of March 1836.

May I respectfully solicit an Early action in this case and that I may be informed of the result.

I have the honor to be
Very respectfully,
Yr mo. obt St

D. D. Addison

J. L. Edwards Esq.
Comr of  Pensions
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Hartford September 19th 1832

Sir

I herewith forward the application of Andrew Kingsbury Esq of this City to be placed on the Pension Roll of the State of Connecticut under the Act of June 7, 1832.  The papers accompanying his declaration are

1st. A certificate from Phillip Turner Surgeon Genl dated Danbury Hospital Jany 1, 1778 Re [Illegible] of applicant

2nd - Certificate from John Berrion [Illegible] dated Danbury 16th Oct 1780, Re [Illegible] &c

3d  Letter from Mssrs Berrion & De Lambert dated 7th July 1783 Re settlement of accounts &

4th Resolu of the General Assembly of Connecticut granting depreciation of pay

5th Affidavit of Israel Carpenter, [Illegible] &

6th Affidavit of the Hon Thomas S Williams, a Judge of the Supreme Court of this State - Enoch Parsons Esq President of the US Branch Bank and John Caldwell Esq one of our eldest & most highly respectable citizens re character of the applicant
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7th Certificate from the Reverend Joel Hawes D.D. a distinguished Clergyman residing in this City, and also the Affidavit of the Hon William W. Ellsworth member of Congress from this District -  [Illegible] general report at [Illegible] of applicant Services in the Revolutionary war. 

It is hoped that these documents will place the claim of Mr Kingsbury beyond a question and ensure a speedy reply to his application.

With the highest respect
I am Sir: Your Obed Servant
Samuel H. Parsons

Hon. Lewis Cass
Secy of War
Washington
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Agreement in the case
of Andrew Kingsbury dcd,
Hartford CT
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Hartford October 26 1850

Sir

I have been engaged as the Agent of the Heirs of Andrew Kingsbury and Mary Kingsbury decd his widow who drew a pension at the rate of four hundred & eighty dollars per annum to ask an increase in their case - If you will act for me at Washington as Agent I herewith give you full authority to do so in my behalf for them

Respectfully Yours
Henry Fowler


S A Peugh Esq
Washington City
D C
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State of Connecticut
Hartford County ss

I Isaac C Perkins Clerk of the Court of Probate for the District of Hartford do hereby certify that satisfactory evidence has been exhibited to said Court that Andrew Kingsbury was a pensioner of the United States on the roll of the Connecticut Agency at the rate of Four hundred and eighty dollars per annum, was a resident of Hartford in the County of Hartford in the State of Connecticut and died in said Hartford in the Year One thousand eight hundred and thirty seven (1837) on the sixth day of October - leaving a Widow whose name was Mary -

And I further certify that proof sufficient and satisfactory has been also exhibited to said court that Mary Kingsbury above named was a pensioner at the rate of four hundred and eighty dollars per annum on the roll of the same Agency was a resident of Hartford aforesaid and died in said town in the Year One thousand eight hundred and forty eight (1848) on the fourth day of April - and that Laura Kingsbury of said Hartford is the sole surviving child of Andrew and Mary Kingsbury above named

In testimony whereof I have hereunto signed my name and affixed my Seal of Office at Hartford this 15th day of March eighteen hundred and fifty one

Isaac C Perkins, Clerk 

over

[What appears to be a folded item is affixed lower left]
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State of Connecticut
District of Hartford

Hartford March 15, 1851

I Henry Perkins Judge of the Court of Probate in and for said District of Hartford hereby certify that Isaac C Perkins is Clerk of said Court of Probate and that the foregoing Certificate by him subscribed is in due form of law

Henry Perkins
Judge of Probate
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Andrew Kingsbury
Memorandum

W W Ellsworth
17,412
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Memorandum for Hon Wm W. Ellsworth

In the campaign of 1776 I served in the army in Col John Chesters Regiment. In 1777 I belonged to Col John Chandlers Regiment, but served as a clerk in the Hospital Department at Danbury, for which I have been placed on the pension list at $46.80 pr year. I continued in the Hospital Department as a clerk till December 15th 1778 when I was appointed by the Director Genl of the Department an assistant commissary or Store Keeper in which capacity I served in the General Store or Deposit at Danbury till March 13th 1781 for which I was paid $40. pr mo during this last term & my depreciation of pay was made up at the same rate by the State of Connecticut for which I recd army notes so called. My duty was to receive Hospital Stores such as Wines, Molasses, Sugar, Teas, Chocolate, Coffee, Rice, Pearl-Barley, Blankets, Sheets, Bedsacks &c. from the Purchasing Commissaries in Massachusetts which were issued to the sick & wounded in the Hospitals in Danbury and forwarded on to the Hospitals at Fishkill, Peekskill & Robinsons Farm, all near the Hudson River; and also, to receive provisions from the Purchasing Commissary in Connecticut, which were issued to the officers in the department & the sick, wounded & nurses in the Hospitals; to procure Cider to make Vinegar which was used to wash the floors & purify the rooms of the Hospitals & to procure Forage for the Teams belonging to the Department employed for transporting Stores & Carting Wood for the Hospitals.

The officers of the Department stationed at Danbury were a Director General, a Surgeon General, two Senior Surgeons, two Junior Surgeons, five Surgeon Mates, One Commissary and Assistant, one Apothecary & assistant, a Paymaster & a Ward Master. The number or names of those in the other Hospitals, I did
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not know.

Hezekiah Ripley Issuing & Forwarding Commissary at Danbury whose duties for the well were much the same as mine were for the sick has been placed on the Pension List. Philemon Tracy Surgeons-Mate, Josiah Root Assistant Apothecary, and John Turner Ward Master in the same department with me have also obtained Pensions.

A Kingsbury

Extracts from my papers forwarded for the purpose of obtaining a Pension.

From January 1st to December 15th 1778 I was employed in said Hospital Store as a Clerk & on said 15th of December 1778 I was by Doctor Foster Director General of the department appointed assistant commissary Store Keeper in which capacity I served in Danbury till March 13th 1781 when the Eastern Department was discontinued. In the year 1788 John De La Mater late Paymaster of the department obtained a settlement of my account at the proper office in Philadelphia for Rations due &c & paid me the amount of my wages while serving in said department which was part of the time $40 - the remainder $60 -  but I received from the State of Connecticut my depreciation of pay at $40 - per mo. The Certificate of my appointment as assistant Commissary and Store Keeper in the Hospital Department in December 1778 by Doctor Foster Director General & the Certificate of my services & Wages received therefor by John Berrien Commissary & John De La Mater Paymasters of sd Department were lodged in the office of the Committee of Pay Table as Vouchers of my account of Depreciation settled in June 1785 & I believe were either delivered in 1788 to Elnathan Haskell Esq District Commissioner or forwarded to the
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Treasury Department of the United States in 1791 with [Illegible] Vouchers to support the claims of Connecticut against the United States then under consideration - I have also a written leave of absence from the Hospital Store or magazine at Danbury dated October 16th 1780 & signed by John Berrien C.H.E.D marked No 2 together with an original letter from said Berrien & John De La Mater dated at Danbury July 17 1783 marked No 3 which shows that I had received & held the appointment of Assistant Commissary & Store Keeper in said Hospital Department, and a Memorial to the General Assembly of Connecticut in 1785 presented by me, & the grant of the General Assembly thereon.
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733

Mary Kingsbury

Mary Kingsbury
widow of Andrew
Con
Act 7 July 38
5 years

aomd
2 years - Hospital Storekeeper

480$ -

deduct - died
6 oct 37 - Her pension
to commence 7 Oct '37

H. L. Ellsworth Esq
Com Patents



Whitman
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Declaration

State of Connecticut
Hartford County ss Hartford

On this 30th day of August 1838 personally appeared before the Court of Probate for the District of Hartford in the County of Hartford and State aforesaid Mary Kingsbury a resident of said Hartford aged seventy six years, who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the Act of Congress passed July 7th AD 1838 entitled, "An act granting half pay & pensions to certain Widows." 
That she is the Widow of Andrew Kingsbury Esquire, late of Hartford deceased who was a soldier of the Revolution and who was pensioned for his services therein under the Act of June 7th AD 1832. and who was placed on the Pension Roll, April 17th AD 1834: at the Rate of $480 per annum.

She further declares that she was married to the said Andrew Kingsbury, on the 14th day of January 1783, viz on the fourteenth day of January, Seventeen Hundred and Eighty three. That her husband, the aforesaid Andrew Kingsbury, died at said Hartford on the sixth day of October Eightteen Hundred and thirty seven. That she was not married to him before he left the line of the service as Hospital Store
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keeper, but the marriage took place previous to the first of January Seventeen Hundred and Ninety four; viz, at the time within named. She refers for proof to her first declaration & accompanying documents

Mary Kingsbury

Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written before me.

Seth Terry Judge

And the said Court hereby declare that they were well acquainted with the late Andrew Kingsbury Esq, and with his present widow and know her to be the identical person who has lived with him, as his wife in the City of Hartford for, thirty eight years past, viz, as long as the Court has been a resident there. And the said Andrew Kingsbury died in October 1837, and the present applicant is his surviving Widow.

In testimony whereof, I Nathaniel Goodwin, Clerk of the Probate Court for the District of Hartford in the County of Hartford hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceeding before said Court this day, in the matter of the application of the Widow Mary Kingsbury, [Illegible] of Andrew Kingsbury Esq. for a pension.

In testimony whereof
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I do hereunto subscribe my name, and affix the Seal of said Probate Court at Hartford aforesaid this 30th day of August AD 1838

Nathaniel Goodwin

Clerk of the Court
of Probate for the
District of Hartford

[Square paper with trimmed corners affixed over what appears to be ribbon at lower left]
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Declaration

State of Connecticut
Hartford County ss Hartford

On this 6th day of August 1838 Personally appeared before the Court of Probate for the District of Hartford in the County of Hartford and State aforesaid Widow Mary Kingsbury a resident of Hartford aged 76 years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on Oath make the following Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the Act of Congress passed July 4th 1836 and the joint resolution of July 7th AD 1838 That she is the Widow of Andrew Kingsbury Esq late of Hartford deceased who served in various capacities and grades in the War of the Revolution from the year 1776 to the year 1783 to the month of September as is more fully detaild by himself in his own Declaration on which he received a pension under the Act June 7th AD 1832 and was placed on the Pension Roll April 17th AD 1834 to which Declaration & proof she begs leave to refer the Commissioner for a more full and satisfactory account than she herself can give of the various services of her husband She also begs leave to refer the Commissioner to the Declaration & Certificate accompanying
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sent by her in Janry 1838 and now on file in the pension office

She further declares that She was Married at the House of her Father in Danbury in Connecticut to the aforesaid Andrew Kingsbury on the 14th day of January AD 1783 And lived with him & brought up a family. Her said husband died at Hartford aforesaid on the sixth day of October AD 1837 and She Still continues his widow and has never again intermarried all which well fully appear by the proof on file in the Pension Office & by that [Illegible]

Mary Kingsbury

Sworn and subscribed before said Court the day and year first named

And the said court hereby declares that they well acquainted with the late Andrew Kingsbury Esq and with his present Widow & know her to be the identical person who has so happily & honorably sustained the marriage relation with the venerable Andrew Kingsbury for a period beyond the remembrance of the court and of the fact of her Still remaining unmarried as well as of the death of Mr Kingsbury which occurred in October 1837.
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In testimony whereof I Nathaniel Goodwin Clerk of the Probate Court for the District of Hartford in the County of Hartford & State of Connecticut hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings before Said Court in the Matter of the application of Widow Mary Kingsbury for a Pension

Whereupon I do hereunto subscribe my name and affix the Seal of said Court at Hartford aforesaid this sixth day of August AD 1838.

Nathaniel Goodwin, Clerk
of the Court of Probate
for the District of Hartford

[Seal affixed over what appears to be ribbon at lower left]
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State of Connecticut
County of Hartford  Hartford

On this 2nd day of August 1838 personally appeared before the Court of Probate for the District of Hartford, in the County of Hartford, & State aforesaid, Doct William Whitman, a resident of said Hartford & who is town Clerk of the same, a credible person, who being first duly sworn according to law doth on Oath declare, That he had the honor to be on terms of intimacy & friendship with the late venerable Treasurer of the State, Andrew Kingsbury Esq, and he is well knowing to the fact that he died last autumn & that the widow Mary Kingsbury Still survives him & has never again married but remains his widow.

Wm Whitman

Sworn & subscribed before said Court the day & year first named.

Attest

Nathaniel Goodwin, Clerk
of the Court of Probate
for the District of Hartford
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Hartford Con: Septem: 28 1842

I hereby authorize D.D. Addison of Washington City D. C. to act as my Agent and to prosecute any claim I may have against the General Government, as the Widow of Andrew Kingsbury, who died in the month of October 1837 - and who was a Pensioner of the United States, under the Act of June 7th 1832 at the Rate of $480. pr annum for Services Rendered in the Hospital Department during the War of the Revolution.

I also Received a Pension under the Act of July 7 1838, from the date of his Death, up to the 4th March 1841, when the Law Expired by limitation - Whatever amount may be found due me, I wish payable to me in Hartford Con:

Mary Kingsbury

In presence of

Laura Kingsbury
Russell G Talcott
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Account of Notes recd
for depreciation of 
pay -
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Statement of Andrew Kingsbury Account for Services as Store Keeper in the eastern department of the General Hospital of the United States, for depreciation of Pay as made out by the Committee of Pay Table of the State of Connecticut as appears on the Records of the Revolutionary Army accounts now in the Comptrollers Office of said State.

[Table follows with Column Headings of:]

Names | Office | Term of Service | Years | Months | Days | Wages Month | Amount in Lawfull Money | Value of Pay Received | Clothing & Refreshments Received | Balance due in Lawful Money |

Andrew Kingsbury
Store Keeper
from Decem 15 1778 to Jan 1 1780
1
0
16
40 dollars
150 - 8 - 0
10 - 4 - 5
0 - 0 - 0
L140 - 3 - 7

d
d
from Jan 1 1780 to Jan 1 1781
1
0
0
d
144 - " - "
 [Blank] - 15 - "
4 - 0 - 0
139 - 5 - 0

Interest 17 months add
11 - 16 - 8

d
d
from January 1st to March 13 1781 
[Blank]
2
13
d
29 - 4- [Blank]
[Blank]
[Blank]
29 - 4 - [Blank]

[Totals]
2 [Years]
2 [Months]
29 [Days]

L323 - 12 [Blank]
[Amount in Lawfull Money]

10 - 19 - 5
[Value of  Pay Received]

4 - [Blank] - [Blank]
[Clothing & Refreshments received]

L320 - 9 - 3
[Balance due in Lawful Money]



Notes issued for above balances viz
For services before 1780 1 Note No 18193 payable June 1 1782 L35. 0, 10,3/4

"   " 1 d  18,194   d 1 1783 35,,0,10.3

"   " 1 d  18,195 d 1 1784 35,,010.3

"   " 1 d  18,196  d 1 1785 35,,010 3  140"3.7

For service in 1780 1 d  11,935  d 1 1786 75 10 10 

" " 1 d  11,936 d 1 1787 75 10 10  151"1"8

For services in 1781 1 d 11,937 d  1 1788 14 12 -

" " 1 d  11,938  d 1 1789 14 12 29"4

[Total] L320"9"3

Comptrollers Office State of Connecticut August 16th AD 1838 - As Comptroller of Public accounts for the State of Connecticut
I certify that the first of the above Statement of an entry in a Book of Records of the late Committee of Pay Table of said State of Connecticut of the Settlements made with the Connecticut Line of the Continental Army in the Revolutionary War in the years 1777 - 1778 1779, 1780 & 1781  And that the second statement is a Copy of the Record of Notes issued by the late John Lawrence as Treasurer of said State of Connecticut upon an order of said Committee of Pay Table dated June 10th 1785 for the above stated Balances due to said Kingsbury, the said Records are deposited in the said Comptrollers Office

Elisha Phelps Comptroller
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State of Connecticut
Hartford County ss Hartford

On this tenth day of January 1838 personally appeared before the Court of Probate for the District of Hartford aforesaid Widow Mary Kingsbury, relict of Andrew Kingsbury Esq, late of said Hartford a credible person aged 76 years and made solemn oath that the within sketch of the publick life of the said Andrew Kingsbury is in his own hand writing drawn up by himself, and so far as her knowlege of the facts set forth extends is strictly true.

Mary Kingsbury

In testimony whereof, I Thos N Seymour Judge [Henry Seymour Clerk is lined through] of the said Probate Court have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of Said Court & do further Certify that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of the [Illegible] Andrew Kingsbury Esq and the within is in the hand writing of the said Kingsbury and declare that the name of Henry Seymour Clerk was erased and my own name inserted owing to the Clerks having overlook it and being at this hour absent

Thos. H. Seymour Judge

[Dark circular image at lower left]
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[Document appears to be cut at off the left margin, and is torn through much of the center]

Andrew Kingsbury son of Ephraim & Phebe Kingsbury, born in Norwich Farms (now Franklin) in New [Document cut off] County April 24 1759, removed in April 1761 with his parents to Coventry (then in Windham County where [Document cut off] till June 1776, when he inlisted as a private soldier in Colonel John Chesters Regiment of Connecticut [Document cut off] the American Army in New York July [Illegible] in the action with the British Army at Flatbush on [Document cut off] August 27th & in the rear guard of the A[Illegible]n Army under the command of General Washington in [Document cut off] from Long Island to New York August 30th [Illegible] & in the action at White Plains October 1776, after [Document cut off] with General Lees Command through New [Illegible] where he was captured & made a prisioner by the British [Document cut off] Pensylvania, & discharged with the Regim[Illegible] [Illegible]bury December 25th 1776, & returned to Coventry, in [Document cut off] entered service again joined Colonel John [Illegible] Regiment of the Connecticut Line of the Continental [Document cut off] stationed at Danbury, & in May was by the Colonel transfered to the General Hospital Department, where he [Document cut off] till December 15th 1778, was on that day appointed Store Keeper to said Department & served in that capacity [Document cut off] till March 13th 1781, In May following was appointed first Clerk & Bookkeeper in the Office of Ralph [Document cut off] Deputy Quarter Master General in Hartford in Connecticut in which service he continued till September [Document cut off] Married to Mary Osborne of Danbury January 14th 1783 - In May 1784 was appointed as first [Document cut off] office of the Pay Table of Connecticut in [Illegible] Comptrollers Office he served till May 1791, [Document cut off] General Assembly of said State appointed [Illegible]troller of the Public Accounts of State which Office he [Document cut off] appointment in May 1792 till May 1793 [Illegible] was elected Treasurer of the State by the Freemen [Document cut off] to the same Office & from October[Illegible] 1818 Treasurer to the School Fund & one of the M[Illegible] [Document cut off] May 1810 & as accountant & Bookkeeper of [Illegible] Fund in the Office of the Commissioner of said Fund [Document cut off] 31st 1827, has also held the Office Treasurer to the M[Illegible]sionary Society of Connecticut from May 1799 & of the Con [Document cut off] branch of the A H[Illegible] from July 1830, the [Illegible]rtford Grammar School from May 1806 & the Ministers [Document cut off] from May 1811 The last 4 offices he holds at date hereof, he was also one of the Commissioners for this State [Document cut off] Valuation of Real Estate in Connecticut for the direct Tax of the United States laid by Congress in 1798 [Document cut off] Commissioners for building the Bridge over the Connecticut River in the summer of -  & one of 

Patent Office  [Illegible] Aug 15 1838
I certify the above to be Andrew
Kingsbury hand writing

Henry L Ellsworth
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[Document appears to be an envelope]

Addl evidence for
Andrew Kingsbury
of Connt as Store Keeper
8 Feby 1836

J L Edwards Esq
War Department
Pension Office
Washington
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State of Connecticut Hartford February 4th 1834

J L Edwards Esq

Sir

Yours of Decem 12th 1833 to the Honble Wm W Ellsworth has been forwarded to me, & from the information therein contained, I have thought proper to forward to you a Statement of my depreciation account & the Notes issued for the balance found due, Copied from the Books of the late Commr of Pay Table & Treasurer & of the State of Connecticut, Certified by Elisha Phelps Esq Comptroller of Public Accounts of said State; which was prepared to be sent on with my claim for a pension the last summer, but as a copy of the Resolve of the General Assembly of said State directing the said settlement to be made, was then forwarded it was thought unnecessary to forward the Statement - I now send it forward, and a further Certificate from said Comptroller, for the purpose of showing what the Legislature & Committee of Pay Table in 1785 from the evidence then before them forwarded their opinion of what I was intitled to, for services in the Hospital Department. It is a [Illegible]faction to me that I served my Country faithfully for seven years without then having any expectation of ever receiving more than what has heretofore been paid to me, & I do not now wish to receive what shall not be thought to be my due under the provision made by the United States in June 1932.

I am Sir your humble Servant

A Kingsbury
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Clergyman Certific
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WE, Joel Hawes a clergyman, residing in the town of Hartford in the County of Hartford and State of Connecticut and William Ellsworth residing in the same town hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with Andrew Kingsbury Esq a resident of said Town who is an applicant for a pension under the Act of Congress passed June 7, 1832; that we believe him to be Seventy three years of age; that he is generally reputed and believed, in the neighborhood where he now resides, to have been a soldier & an assistant Commissary, in the Army of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion. & further, that we believe there has in this Town existed no doubt upon this subject.

We also certify that said Kingsbury sustains a fair reputation for sobriety, integrity & veracity & that his standing through the State is highly respectable.

Joel Hawes

Wm W Ellsworth

STATE OF Connecticut
COUNTY OF Hartford ss Hartford


On this 14 day of Sept 1832 before me the subscriber a Notary Public for the County aforesaid, personally appeared the Revd Joel Hawes D. D. who is a clergyman residing in the said town of Hartford and the Honabl Wm Ellsworth, a Rep in Congress residing in the same town - and made oath that the preceding certificate by them subscribed is true, and I further certify that their statement is entitled to credit.

Samuel H Parsons
Notary Public

[Seal with serrated edges at lower left]
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Comptrollers Office
February 3rd 1834

I Elisha Phelps, Comptroller of Public Accounts of the State of Connecticut do certify that in the settlement with the General and Staff officers of the Connecticut line before January 1780, it appears that Andrew Kingsbury served as a Store Keeper from the 15th December 1778 to January 1st 1780 being one year and sixteen days, and was allowed & paid therefor [Pound symbol]150,8,0; being forty dollars per month.

That in the settlement with the General and Staff Officers of the Connecticut Line for the year 1780, it appears he served as Store Keeper from the first day of January 1780 to the first day of January 1781 being one year, & was paid therefor [Pound symbol]144,0,0, being forty dollars per month.

And that in the settlement with the General & Staff Officers of the Connecticut Line for the year 1781, it appears that he
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served as Store Keeper from the first day of January 1781 to the 13th day of March 1781, being two months & thirteen days, and was paid therefor [Pound symbol]29.4,0.

The whole term of said Kingsbury service, as Store Keeper, appears to have been two years two months & twenty nine days; and that he received pay therefor at the rate of forty dollars per month amounting to [Pound symbol]323,12,0.

E. Phelps

I further certify that the pay allowed to the said Kingsbury during the time he served as Store Keeper, was the same, as that allowed to the Captains in the Connecticut line during the same period; [last phrase is lined through].

E. Phelps
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Certificate of
Hon Thomas S Williams
John Caldwell
&
Enoch Parsons Esquire
[Illegible] to the general character
&c of [Illegible] Kingsbury
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The Undersigned, Citizens & residents of the Town of Hartford in the County of Hartford & State of Connecticut, hereby certify & declare, that they have for many years, been personally acquainted with Andrew Kingsbury Esq. a resident of the same Town, & who is an applicant for a pension under the act of Congress passed the 7th of June 1832. That we believe said Kingsbury to be seventy three years of age

That in the Town of Hartford it has, we believe, been uniformly & pretty universally understood & believed that he the said Kingsbury, performed several tours of military service as a soldier, - & in that capacity & also as an Assistant Commissary &, was connected with the army during the greater part of the revolutionary war: & we fully & entirely concur in that opinion.

We also certify that said Kingsbury, who was formerly the Treasurer, & also the Comptroller in the Treasury department of the State of Connecticut, is a highly respectable citizen, sustaining a very fair character for integrity & veracity. & that his statements are entitled to full credit - Dated at Hartford this 31st day of August 1832

Th. S Williams
John Caldwell
En. Parsons

State of Connecticut
County of Hartford

On this 17th day of September 1832, before me the subscriber a Notary Public for the County of Hartford, personally appeared the Honourable Thomas S. Williams, John Caldwell & Enoch Parsons Esquires and made oath that the preceding declaration by them subscribed is true and I further certify that the above named deponents are gentlemen of the first respectability & standing and that their statements are entitled to implicit credit

Witness my Seal of Office
& signature the day & year above written

Samuel H. Parsons Notary Public

[Seal at left]
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Payment to be made
at
by
Agent for paying Pen-
sioners, in the Agency of







Recorded in the Pension 
Office, in Book     Vol.
Page     by


Clerk.
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WAR DEPARTMENT.
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.

I certify that, in conformity with the law of the United States, of the 7 July 1838 Mary Kingsbury [first written as Queensbury with Queens then lined through] widow of Andrew Kingsbury [first written as Queensbury with Queens then lined through] decd who was a Hospital Store keeper (having been paid at the rate of of 480 $ pr anm from 6 Oct 1837 the day of the death of her late husband to the 4 March 1841 to which time the act is limited) is entitled to receive under the said Act a pension of 480$ pr anm from 4 March 36 to 6 Oct 37 when her said husband died -


Given at the War Office of the United
States, this 10 day of
Oct one thousand eight
hundred and forty=two

Secretary of War.

Examined and
Countersigned.

Commissioner of Pensions.
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5
Israel Carpenters
Testimony
de appln of
Andrew Kingsbury
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I Israel Carpenter of Springfield in the county of Hampden and Commonwealth of Massachusetts aged eighty years testify and say that I know Andrew Kingsbury of the City of Hartford in Connecticut - that he & myself resided in Coventry in sd Connecticut in the year 1776 that I then knew him. - I enlisted into Capt. Bacons company in Col. Chesters Regt in April or May 1776 and the said Kingsbury enlisted into the same company, about the time (I think) that I did, though the precise period of his enlistment I cannot recollect, as we did not muster for actual duty till arrived at New York. I knew that said Kingsbury was enlisted some time before setting out for New York - I knew him at New York doing duty. But after doing duty awhile in the Regiment I was taken sick & placed in the Hospital & do not know of the particular service of the sd Kingsbury after that time, except that when I returned home discharged by reason of sickness & remained there during the winter, & at nearly, or quite the close of the year 1776 said Kingsbury returned with arms & a soldiers equipage & it was then said & believed that he & the others accompanying him were returned from the army regularly discharged in Pennsylvania. We enlisted to serve till the 25th Dec. 1776 & I am sure that it was after that time when sd Kingsbury returned home.

Aug. 13. 1832 -  

Israel Carpenter

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Hampden ss   Aug. 13th 1832.  There personally appeared Israel Carpenter subscriber to the foregoing Deposition and made oath to the truth of said Deposition before me. And I certify that said Carpenter has resided in this vicinity several years; [and his character for truth and veracity is lined through] has been personally known to me during that time, & his character for truth & veracity is good.

William Bliss   Justice of the Peace
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Hampden County ss

I John Ingersoll Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas being a Court of Record in sd County do hereby certify that William Bliss Esq. before whom the within deposition was executed & verified by oath is a Justice of the Peace within & for sd County -
And that the signature of his name subscribed to the within Certificate is in his hand writing.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set
my hand & affixed the seal of said Court
at Springfield on this 13th day of Aug. A.D. 1832

John Ingersoll Clerk