Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 4253, for John Kent, Vermont
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SERVICE
Vt

Kent, John
Mary

NUMBER  
W. 4253
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[left side of page]
4085
Ohio  Pittsburg
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Mary Kent
widow of John Kent   Vt.
who served in the Revolutionary war, as a private
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Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 80 Dollars
----Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1848.
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Certificate of Pension issued the 
1st day of [illegible]
and sent to
David Putnam Jr.
Harmony
Washington Co. Ohio
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Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under [illegible]
February 2, 1848  Page 349 Vol. 4

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Let to   A. T. Brown  Sep 23/5
To Cleveland from [illegible]
March 1852
Nov 17, 1857
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8291      New York
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John Kent
of Villenova in the State of New  York 
who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain [blank] of the Regt. commanded by Col Wheelock in the Vermont line for 2 years
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Inscribed on the Roll of New York
at the rate of 80 Dollars ----Cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
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Certificate of Pension issued the 29 day of Mar
1833 and sent J Houghton  Freedonia N.Y.
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Arrears to the 4th of Sept 1833 $10.00
Semi=anl. allowance ending Sep t. '33 40.00

{Revolutionary Claim}
{Act June 7, 1832}

Recorded by Jon Cromwell Clerk,
Book E  Vol. 4  Page 23
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7 Sep  1832
27 No.

[illegible]
detail of minute service required
Jacob Houghton

Fredonia, New York 


101
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No. 10113

BRIEF in the case of John Kent of [illegible] County of Chautauqua in the State of New York
(Act 7th June, 1832)

1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? Before a Judge

2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity? [illegible]

3. How old is he?

4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed.
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Period.
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Enlisted about 6th of May 1778
then again about 1st March 1781
afterwards and
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Duration of Service.
Years, Months, Days
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__, 4, __.
1, 7, __.
__, 5, __.
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Rank.
As a
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Private 
8 mos private 11 mos prisoner
Minute Men
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Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.
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Col. Wheelock's rgt Vermont Militia
Col Benjm Waits Regt. Capt Jefse Safford's comp (Jesse Safford)
Capt Parkland, Lieut Stevens

5. In what battles was he engaged? [illegible]

6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? at Royalton Vermont

7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? By a living witnefs as to his service by tradition is supported by the belief on oath of a Clergyman + another respectable citizen of the same town whose credibility is verified by the Judge

8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? No [illegible]

X Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.

Chas. S Mitch Examining Clerk.
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City of Pittsburgh  ss
Mary Kent being duly sworn says that the paper appended hereto is the record referred to, in her application for a pension under the act of July 1838 and is taken from the family bible in her possession

Sworn and subscribed before me alderman in and for said city the fifth day of October 1838
       her
Mary X Kent
      mark

Leonard G Johns
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Allegheny County  ss

I Thomas Liggett Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of said County do hereby certify that Leonard T. Johns Esq. before whom the foregoing affidavit was made and who has thereunto in his own proper handwriting, subscribed his name, was at the time of taking such affidavit and is now an Alderman in and for the City of Pittsburgh, with all the powers of an acting Justice of the Peace in and for the said County and to all whose acts as such due faith and credit are and ought to be given throughout this Commonwealth and elsewhere.  Given under my hand and the seal of the said Court this 5th day of October Anno Domini 1838.

Thomas Liggett Pro

[shadow of a seal]
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[679]
FAMILY RECORD. 
Children BIRTHS.
Polley Piffer Born Feby. 7. 1794
Amey Piffer B Apr. 3d 1796
Linda Piffer born Feb [illegible] 1798 
[illegible] Piffer B. Oct, 3 1799
Daniel Piffer B. July 3d 1801 
Loranzino Piffer b. Augt. 24. 1803
Lindi Piffer b. Augt. 24. 1803 
Limer Piffer b. Aug. 2d 1805
Infant born Feb. 15 1808
[illegible] Piffer b. July 9 1809 
Reuben Piffer b. Jany 13 1812
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[family record of births & deaths that were x'd out]

A Record of John Kent's
Family
[illegible]

Born.     Married.   Died.

John Kent  |July 6 1761 | July 12 1786 |
Mary Whipple | Feb 15 1757 | July 12 1786

Their Children
Mary Kent  Oct. 9. 1789.
John L. Kent    Oct. 4. 1792.
Anna Kent   Mar. 18. 1795.
James Kent  Dec. 10. 1798
Francis A. Dighton  Oct 7. 1812 (Adopted child)
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State of Pennsylvania   ss

On this fifth day of September one thousand eight hundred and thirty eight personally appeared before James Riddle one of the Associate Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny County, Mary Kent a resident of the City of Pittsburgh in Allegheny County, aged seventy one years, who, being 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 7. 1838, entitled "An act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows;"  That she is the widow of John Kent a pensioner, who resided in Chatauque County New York at the time he obtained his pension, which, deponent thinks, was in the year 1832;  that her husband said John Kent, afterwards removed to Eric County in the state of New York where he died on the eleventh day of August 1834 up to which time the pension was paid.

She further declares, that she was married to the said John Kent on the twelfth day of July one thousand seven hundred and eighty six;  that her husband, the aforesaid John Kent died on the eleventh day of August 1834;  that she was not married to him, prior to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place previous to the first of January seventeen hundred and ninety four, viz, at the time above stated.

Sworn to and subscribed, on the day and year above written before James Riddle

        her
Mary X Kent
        mark

I do hereby certify that the above declaration was made before me by said Mary Kent at her house, and that she cannot from bodily infirmity attend the court.
September 5. 1838.     James Riddle
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Allegheny County.   ss

I Thomas Liggett Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Allegheny in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania do hereby Certify that James Riddle Esq before whom the foregoing deposition was made and who has thereunto in his own proper handwriting subscribed his name, was at the time of taking such Deposition or declaration and is now an associate Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of the fifth Judicial District of Pennsylvania, composed of the County of Allegheny and that full faith and credit are due to all his acts as such throughout the United States and elsewhere   Given under my hand and official Seal this fourteenth day of September Anno Domini 1838

Thomas Liggett Pro
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Application for a Transfer
County of Athens, State of Ohio,

On this 2nd day of December 1845 before me the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace for the said County of Athens, personally appeared
Mary Kent, who on her oath declares that she is the widow of John Kent who was a Private in the Army of the Revolution that her name is now on the Pension Roll of the State of New York, (Albany Agency) from which State she has lately removed; thatshe now resides in the State of Ohio, (Cincinnati Agency,) where she intends to remain, and wishes her pension to be there payable in future. The reason of her removing from New York to Ohio, is in order to reside with her daughter in the Town of Athens in said Athens County,

Sworn and subscribed to before me, the day and year aforesaid
Mary Kent
X mark
A.G. Brown J.P.

I Joseph M. Dana, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of Athens County in the State of Ohio, hereby certify that A G Brown is a Justice of the Peace in and for said County
is commissioned and qualified, and that his signature above as written is genuine

In Testimony whereof I have hereunto
my hand and the seal of said County
at Athens, this 2nd day of December
A.D. 1845
J.M. Dana Clerk
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Rufus W. Carley makes oath and says that he is personally acquainted with the within named Mary Kent, and knows her to be the identical
person she describes herself to be in the within
affidavit and who received a Pension in the State of New York as by her stated
Rufus W. Cary

Sworn & subscribed before me, and I hereby
certify that said affiant is a person of veracity
this 18th of January 1846
A.G. Brown J.P.
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Sate of New York}
Chautauqua County ss }

On the 17th day of August, 1832, personally appeared before the Hon. Benjamin Walworth, one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in & for the County of Chautauqua in said state, at the town of Villenova in said County, John Kent now a resident of said town, aged seventy one years, a native of Kent's Parish, Duchess County, N. Y. who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth on this Oath, make this following Declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of this Act of Congress passed June 7th 1832.

That he entered the service of the United States in the Revolutionary War, under the following named officers and served as herein stated -

He enlisted about the 6th May, 1778, at Royalton in the State of Vermont, for six months in Capt Cushman's Company, in Col Wheelock's Regiment in the Vermont Militia, and was marched to Albany, where he remained till he was discharged by the said Colonel at Albany in September, 1778, having served four months -

That about the first of March 1780, he again enlisted at Royalton aforesaid, for nine months or longer if wanted, into the Company commanded by Capt Jesse Safford, in Col. Benjamin Waite's Regt and was marched to Bethel, Vt. where he assisted in building a fort - That he was sent from the fort by order of the Capt. on the 16th of October following, & was taken by the Indians, and was by them taken by to Montreal, and delivered to the British, and by them detained as a prisoner  until he was exchanged on Lake Champlain on this 24. Septr. 1781, having served & been imprisoned about nineteen months -

That he afterwards served as a minute man and in guarding the frontiers, under Lieut. Stevens & Capt Parkhurst of Royalton five or six months more - making his whole service & imprisonment about twenty eight months -

That he has no Documentary evidence of his services, and that he knows of no person, except Joseph M. Kent
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whose affidavit is annexed, whose testimony he can procure, who can testify to his services - 
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity, except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state 
John Kent

Sworn to & subscribed before me, the day & year first aforesaid 
B Walworth 
Judge [illegible] Chau, Com Pleas

State of New York 
Chautauqua County ss. ⎬ 
Joseph M. Kent of Villenova in said County, being sworn, says, that he is a brother of the above named John Kent - That he knows that said John enlisted into the service in the war of the Revolution and he has heard & believes, that said John was taken by the Indians & taken to Montreal & he believes his Declaration to be true -
Joseph M Kent

Sworn before me, August 17th 1832 ⎬ 
B Walworth 
Judge Chau Com Pleas 

We Daniel Cross, a clergyman residing in the town of Villenova in the County of Chautauqua N.Y. & Jacob Houghton of Pomfret in said County, Counsellor at Law, do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with John Kent, who has subscribed & sworn to the foregoing Declaration; that we believe him to be seventy one years of age, and that he is reputed & believed in the neighborhood when he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion -
Daniel Cross
Jacob Houghton

Sworn before me August 17th 1832 
B Walworth 
Judge Chau Com Pleas
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State of New York 
Chautauqua County ss.}
I Benjamin Walworth one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in & for the County of Chautauqua in said State, do hereby declare my opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the Interrogatories presribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant (John Kent,) was a Revolutionary soldier, and served as he states. And I do further certify that it appears to me, that Daniel Cross, who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman, resident in the town of Villenova in said County, and that Jacob Houghton, who has also signed the same, is a resident in the town of Pomfret in said County, and is a credible person; and that their statement is entitled to credit - And I do further certify, that the said applicant cannot, from bodily infirmity, attend the said Court 
Dated August 17th 1832 
B Walworth 
Judge Chau Com Pleas 

State of New York 
Chautauqua County ss.⎬ 
I, the subscriber, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in & for the County of Chantauqua in the State of New York, do hereby certify that the Honorable Benjamin Walworth was on the 17th day of August, 1832, and now is, a Judge of said Court, duly appointed, commissioned & sworn - that I am well acquainted with his hand writing, and believe the above four several signatures of "B. Walworth, Judge Chau. Com. Pleas," to be in his own proper hand writing - Given under my hand and the seal of said Court, the third day of September A.D. 1832  - 
James B Sanry Clerk
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State of New York}
Chautauqua County fs.}
I, the within named Judge do hereby certify, that from the personal appearance of Joseph M. Kent, he is, in my opinion between sixty and seventy years of age - And I further certify that the said Joseph M. Kent, whose affidavit is annexed, is in my opinion, a man of truth + veracity, + that his said affidavit ought to be received as proof of the facts therein contained - Date Jany 5. 1833 -
B. Walworth
Judge Chair Com Pleas

State of New York,}
Chautauqua County fs.}
I, the Subscriber, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in + for the County of Chautauqua in the State of New York, do hereby certify, that Benjamin Walworth was, on the fifth day of January, 1833 and now is a Judge of said Court, duly appointed, commifsioned + sworn - That I am well acquainted with his hand writing and believe the last above signature of "B. Walworth Judge Clair Com Pleas," to be in his own proper hand writing - Given under my hand + the Seal of said Court, the twelfth day of January, 1833 -
James B. Sorry Clerk
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John Kent N. Y. (Albany) Act 7 June 32
to what time paid?
Pen Office
Sept 18, 1838
Died 11 Augt. 1834 p@ to that period I.H.
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[round stamp]
PENSION
APR
U.  17  S.
1901
OFFICE.
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Stamp mark:
O. W. [illegible] DIVISION
Apr 18 1901

To the Honorable
U. S. Pension Commissioner
Washington, D. C.

Dear Sir:
I am an applicant for membership in the Society of the "Daughters of the Revolution." A pre-requisite is that I shall give some authenticated service rendered by an ancestor during the struggle for independence.
The ancestor from whom I trace my linage, was John Kent; born July 6. 1761 and died in [illegible] N. Y. Aug. 11. 1834
I am
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informed, that the said John Kent drew pension for Revolutionary services, and after his decease, his widow Mary Whipple Kent drew the pension until her death.
Now, if you will kindly advise me as fully as practicable the particular services rendered by John Kent whereby he was granted pension, it will very greatly oblige,
Yours
Very Respectfully
Anna C. Rosengarten
East Orange N. C.
69 N. Walnut St.
April fifteenth, 1.001
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[illegible]
Feb 22       20[crossed out]

J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions,
Washington,
D.C.
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Harmar, Washington Co. Ohio Feb. 20. 1849

J. L. Edwards,
Commissioner of Pensions.

Herein I return you Mrs. Mary Kent's declaration with the Clerk's certificate attached. Hope to receive new papers soon.
What is the condition of Wm. Dunbar's declaration sent to you at the same time of Mrs. Kent's? - Please forward this business as fast as possible, for the old man is needy & crazy at that.
Yours, one of the Souvreigns,
David Putman Jr
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Feby 16 / 49

John L. Edwards Esq.
Comm. of Pensions
Washington City

Hon S F Vinton
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Washington City, Feby. 15th 1849

John L. Edwards Esqr.
Com. of Pensions

Sir
I last night received the enclosed letter the object of which is explained by the writer. Will you do me the honor to answer the enquiry which it makes and with your answer return me, Mrs Young's letter?
I am very respectfully
Your Most Obt Servt
Saml. F. Vinton
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Stamp mark:
ATHENS
[illegible]
25
O

Mar 4

M

J L Edwards
Pensions
Washin

Mr Evan
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Athens Ohio
Feb 25th 1846

Dear Sir
Some time since I enclosed to you the papers of Mrs Mary Kent, asking the transfer of her Pension from Albany N. Y. to the agency at Cincinnati Ohio. Will you have the goodnefs to inform me whether it has been made
Very Respectfully
Your Obt Servt
C. Morris

J. L. Edwards Esqr
Pension agent
Washington City
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Stamp mark:
ATHENS
JAN
30
O

J. L. Edwards Esqr
Pension Agent
Washington City
D C

feb 5 46
[illegible]
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Athens, Athens Co Ohio
January 29th /46

Dear Sir
I enclose to you the application of Mrs Mary Kent for a transfer of her Pension to the Ohio agency.
Very respectfully
Your obt Servt
C. Norris

J. L. Edwards Esqr
Pension Agent
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MECHANICS'  & FARMERS' BANK,
ALBANY PENSION AGENCY,
Feb. 16th  1846.


James L. Edwards, Esquire,
Commissioner of Pension.

Sir,
In reply to your letter of the 12th inst.
I have to state, that Mary Kent
a Pension under the Act of 3. March 1843 &c
as eighty Dollars per annum was last paid to the 4 day of March  1845.

I am, Sir,
Very Respectfully,
Your ob't servt,
Thomas W Ondt

Pres't and Pension Agent
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Stamp mark:
PITTSBURG Pa
Oct 6

R Biddle
H. of R.

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

In at Oct 10.
pa
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Pittsbgr. 5 Oct. 1838

Sir

I enclose to you the Affidavit of Mary Kent & the leaf from the Family Bible therein referred to
very [illegible]
R Biddle
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Stamp Mark
PITTSBURG Pa
SEP
14

R Biddle
H. of R.

J. L. Edwards Esq
Comm Pensions
Washington

1192 In at Sept 18
pa
7 July 1838
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Pittsbu. 12 Sept. 1838

Sir

Enclosed is the 
application of Mary Kent for a Pension.

Very res
R Biddle
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War Department
Pension Office
September 18 1838.

Sir
In answer to that part of your letter of the 22@. instant, which relates to the case of Mary Kent, I have to inform you that the regulation under the law of July 7 1783, requires that the original family record be sent to the Department. In some cases when other evidence than the family record has been produced, it has not been deemed necessary to require the original. It is not necessary to send the Bible or other book containing the record, to the Department. The leaf containing the original entry of the marriage should be cut from the book, and some one in whose possession it has been kept should swear that it is the original. I enclose a printed sheet containing an explanatory note on this subject.
I have the honor to be
very respectfully,
Your obt sevt
J L Edwards

Hon. R. Biddle,
Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania
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Mary Kent
Pennsylvania
---
Act 7 July 1838
---
Suspended
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See let 18th Sept.
1838 to Hon. R.
Biddle - do. to same Sept.
28. 1838
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667
Pittsburgh Penna
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Mary Kent 
widow of John Kent decd.
who was a pensioner under the Act of 1832
and who died on the 11th, Augt. 1834
of Pittsburgh in the State of Penna.
who was a private in the company commanded
by Captain ___ of the Regt. commanded
by Col. Wheelock in the Vt.
line for 2 years
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Inscribed on the Roll of Pittsburg
at the rate of 80 Dollars -- Cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1834
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Certificate of Pension ifsued the 11th day of Octo.
1838 and sent
Hon R. Biddle Pittsburgh Pa.
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Arrears to the 4th of Sept 1838 $200.00
Semi-annual allowance ending 4 Mar 39, 40.00
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$240.00
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{Act July 7, 1838.}

Recorded by D. D. Addison Clerk
Book A. Vol. 2@. Page 156
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Ohio 5043
Albany
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Mary Kent
widow of John Kent
who was a Private
in the Revolution
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Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 80 Dollars -
Cents per annum, to commence on
the 4th day of March, 1843.
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Certificate of Pension issued the
8th day of March 1844
and sent to Rev. John P. Kent
Lodi Peria
Cattaraugus Co.
N. York
===
[Act of March 3, 1843.]
Recorded in Book A
Vol. 1. Page 261

Reported
Letter to Hon S. F. Newhan 19 Dec '45
Cin to Pen Agt. 12 [illegible] 1846
----
To Ohia [illegible] 4 March 1845
21  - Feb. 1846 Modification to Hon C. Morris. Athens Ohio
----
Letter to Hon C Morris, 1 March 1846
Letter to D. Putnam Feb 14, 1849
Letter Hon. P. F. [illegible] Feb 16, 1840
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apl. 29 - 1901 mr. P. Rosengarten
E. Orange NJ

Revy WIDOW, &c
File No. 4253
Mary Kent
Wid.
John Kent
Prt. Rev. War

Act: Feby. 3d /48
Index: Vol. a, Page 390
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Ans
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1192 V1192
Mary Kent
Pennsylvania

admitted,
Pr. $80

Hon R. Biddle
Pittsburgh
Pa
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City of Pittsburgh fs
Personally appeared before me Mary Kent and produced a bible in the english language and the said Mary being duly sworn according to law doth depose and say that said bible was procured by her husband John Kent a long time ago and was in his pofsefsion until his death which occurred the 11th day of August 1834 and since that period it has been in her pofsefsion and custody up to the present time. that the record of her marriage with the said Kent and of the births of their children was made by the directions of said Kent in said bible.
Mary Kent (her x mark)

Sworn and subscribed before me an alderman in and for said City, the 13th day of September 1838.
Leonard S Johns

A Record of John Kent's Family
Born Married Died

John Kent July 6. 1761}
Mary Whipple Feb 15 1767} July 12 1786

Their Children
Mary Kent Oct 9.1789
John P. Kent Oct 4. 1792
Ayna Kent Mar. 18. 1795
James Kent Dec. 10. 1798
Francis A Dight Oct. 7. 1812 (adopted child)
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I, Leonard S. Johns the alderman above named do certify and declare that I carefully examined the bible produced to me by Mary Kent, the above deponent, and referred to in the foregoing deposition - that the title page of said bible is torn out but that it has the appearance of being a very old book. The above is a true copy in words and figures taken by myself from the family record mentioned by deponent, which said record could not, from the appearance thereof, have been recently made, and has upon it every mark of being genuine and authentic.
September 13 1838} Leonard S Johns

City of Pittsburgh fs
Personally appeared before me, an alderman in and for said City Amos Lee and Mary Ann Carley who being duly sworn according to law depose and say that Mary Kent the person mentioned in the above certificate, who is an applicant for a pension under the act of Congrefs, pafsed July 7. 1838. entitled an "act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows:" is the widow of John Kent who was to our knowledge formerly a pensioner residing in Chataugua County New York - whence he removed to Erie County in the same state where he died August 11. 1834 and the said Mary Kent has not been married since his death -
Amos Lee
Mary Ann Carley

Sworn and subscribed before me the 13th day of September 1838
Leonard S. Johns
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City of Pittsburgh fs
Personally appeared before me an alderman in and for said City the Revd Samuel E Babcock who being duly sworn according to law doth depose and say that he was well acquainted with John Kent who resided in Chataugua County New York and was told by Kents family and others that he the said Kent was a pensioner; that Mary Kent the present applicant was always represented to him as the wife of said John Kent - and since the death of said John Kent which occurred in 1834 she has not again been married. And the said deponent further says that he has examined the bible referred to in the above certificate and the foregoing is a true copy from a leaf in said bible marked family record, that the said bible appears to be a very old book and the record has the appearance of being genuine and authentic.
Samuel E Babcock

Sworn + subscribed before me Sept. 13. 1838
Leonard S Johns

Alleghany County}
Pennsylvania} ss. I Thomas Liggett Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of said County do hereby certify that Leonard S. Johns Esq before whom the foregoing depositions were made and who has thereunto in his own proper handwriting subscribed his name, was at the time of taking such deposition and is now an Alderman in and for the City of Pittsburgh in said County, with all the powers of an acting Justice of the peace, duly commifsioned and sworn, and to all whose acts as such due faith and audit are vz of eight - ought to be given throughout this Commonwealth and elsewhere - Given under my hand and Official seal this thirteenth day of September Ammo Donini 1838.
Thomas Liggett Pro
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5404 feb 26 44

Stamp Mark
BUFFALO N. Y.
FEB 21

Com.
N. Y.
Mar 3d 1843
Mary Kent
wid John
$80 per ann

Rev. Jn. P. Kent
Lodi Peria
Cattaraugus Co
NY

free

J. L. Edwards Esq.
Comm. of Pensions
Washington City
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State of New York}
County of Erie ss.}
On this 17th day of Febuary1844, personally appeared before me Zinni Howe, a Justice of the Peace of the said County, Mary Kent, a resident of the Town of Collins, in said County, aged Seventy Seven years, who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on her oath, make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provisions made by the act of congress, passed on the 3d March, 1843, granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War. That she is the widow of John Kent, who was placed on the New York Agency under the act of the 7th of June 1832 at $80 per annum, and that she also drew a pension for five years at $80. per annum under the act of the 7th July. 1838. at Pittsburgh Pennsylvania and that she has changed her residence to the Town of Collins and County of Erie aforesaid, and wishes to be paid at Albany instead of Pittsburgh aforesaid.
Mary Kent (her x mark)
Witnefs [illegible] Kent

Sworn to + subscribed before me on the day & year first above written, and I certify that the said Mary Kent is personally know to me -
Zinni How Justice of the Peace

I certify that the reason the Pensioner made her mark was that her hand trembled very much so that she would not undertake to write her name
Zinni Howe Justice

A.M. Clapp, Printer.
==========
State of New-York,}
County of ERIE,} ss.
I, MANLY COLTON, Clerk of the County of Erie, and of the Court of Common Pleas thereof, do hereby certify that Zinni Howe Esq. whose name is subscribed to the annexed certificate Jurat was at the time of Subscribing the same a Justice of the Peace in and for said county, duly ___ and sworn, and acting as such. And further, that I am acquainted with the hand writing of said Justice and verily believe the signature to said Certificate Jurat to be his genuine signature.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my name and affixed the Seal of the Court of Common Pleas of said County, this twentieth day of Feby A. D. 1844
Manly Colton Clerk
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The commifsioner will please direct his communication to Rev John P. Kent Lodi Peria Post office Cattaraugus County N. Y. Respectfully yours
Zinni Howe
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$40.00

United States of American.
State of Ohio, Washington County - fs.
Be it known, that before me, John Crawford a Justice of the Peace in and for the Count aforesaid, personally appeared, Mary Kent and made oath in due form of law, that she is the identical person who drew a pension under the act of the 3d of March, 1843 on account of the Revolutionary service of her husband, the late John Kent at the rate of Eighty dollars per annum; that she now makes this affidavit for the purpose of drawing a pension under the act of Congrefs pafsed on the  ____ that she has not intermarried, but continues to be a widow; that she now resides in Harmar, in the County of Washington, and State of Ohio, and has resided there for the space of one year past; and that previous thereto she resided in Athens County,
Sworn to and subscribed this sixteenth day of September, 1848 in presence of Jacob Young
Mary Kent (her x mark)
Before me
John Crawford Justice of Peace

I certify that the above named affiant is personally known to me and that she is the same individual who drew a pension as stated by her in the foregoing affidavit.
John Crawford Justice of Peace

Pension Agency, Cincinnati
September 16 - 1848
Received of James Hall, Pension Agent, Forty Dollars, being for pension due to Mary Kent from the 4th day of March, 1848, to the 4th day of September, 1848, for which I have signed duplicate receipts.
Witnefs:
Jacob Young
Mary Kent (her x mark)

Pension Agency, Cincinnati
September 16 - 1848
Received of James Hall, Pension Agent, Forty Dollars, being for pension due to Mary Kent from the 4th day of March, 1848 to the 4th day of September, 1848, for which I have signed duplicate receipts.
Witnefs
Jacob Young
Mary Kent (her x mark)
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The State of Ohio}
Washington County fs} I Thomas W Ewart Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas within and for said County hereby certify that John Crawford was in the sixteenth day of September last past a Justice of the peace within and for said County legally commifsioned and qualified as such and that his signatures within written are genuine
In testimony whereof I hereunto set my name and affix the seal of said Court at Marietta February 20th AD 18419
Thos. W. Ewart Clerk

Make application to Washington
for new papers under act of 2nd February 1848
when sent to this office you shall [illegible]
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Mary Kent
application for increase of pension
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From
M. T. Brown
Athens
AthensCo.
Ohio
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The State of Ohio Athens County set 
On this sixth day of September A.D. 1851. Before me Henry T. Brown, a Notary Public within & for said County, personally appeared Mary Kent who being duly sworn according to law, upon her oath make the following declaration for the purpose of obtaining the benefit of the act of Congress of the 29th July 1848, & the joint resolution of July 1st 1848 that she is the widow of John Kent late of the County of Erie in the State of New York who was a private in the war of the Revolution, and received in his life time a pension from the United States at the rate of Eighty dollars per annum, that since the decease of her said husband she has been allowed a Pension at the rate of Eighty dollars per annum, and is now in the receipt of the same, she further states that she believes from information, that by virtue of said acts she is entitled to an increase of Pension to said amount of $80.00 per annum, she therefore herewith returns the certificate she now holds & asks that a new certificate may issue to her for such amount of Pension as she may be entitled to by law Attest H. T. Brown Mary Kent mark Sworn and subscribed before me this Witness my hand & official seal 6th day of Sept 1857 H. D. Brown Notary Public