Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 1779, for Richard Kimball, Massachusetts
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556
        Massachusetts
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Lucy Kimball
widow of Richard Kimball                                                                              Reported

who served in the Revolutionary
war, as a Private
Mass Line
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Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of
38 Dollars   54
Cents per annum, to commence on
the 4th day of March, 1848.
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Certificate of Pension issued the
23rd day of Apr 1850
and sent to
Hon. Jas H. Duncan
House of Reps
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Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act
February 24 1848. Page 41 Vol. 1  
July                                                  Book A
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Declaration

In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 29th July 1848, entitled "an act for the relief of certain surviving widows of officers and soldiers of the Revolutionary Army.

On this sixteenth day of October 1849 personally appeared before the judge of probate for the county of Essex in the commonwealth of Massachusetts, Lucy Kimball, a Resident of Haverhill in the County of Essex and State of Massachusetts aged seventy nine years, who being first sworn according to Law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of provision made by the Act of Congress passed July 29th 1848: - That she is the widow of Richard Kimball, who was a private in the Revolutionary Army, and as she believes, entered the service sometime in May or June 1775, In Cap. Nathaniel Gages Company & Col. James Frye's Regiment and served in said Company at & near Cambridge (he the said Richard being at the time he entered the service a Resident of Bradford in the County of Essex & Commonwealth of Massachusetts) a period of about eight months, in what was called the eight months service - she further declares that she had made enquiry, and can find no living witness of her said husbands services - that the paper hereto annexed, purporting to be a list of Capt. Gages Company at the decease of her said Husband was found among his papers, and has been ever since in her possession, and that the memoranda at the bottom & on the backside of said list are in her said Husband's handwriting - that she has been informed that Free Parker, deceased, the same person, whose name is
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born on said list, in his lifetime, received a pension for military services performed in the army of the Revolution, and she thinks that by referring to said Parker's Declaration made in order to obtain his pension, supposed to be on file in the proper Department of Washington, the period of service performed in Cap Gages Company in 1775 may be ascertained. 
She further declares that her said Husband again entered the service in said Gage's Company & Col. Jacob Gerrish's Regiment, as a private December 19th 1777, and served in said Company at Winter Hill from that time to April 3d 1778, a period of three months & 17 days. She further declares that was was married to the said Richard Kimball on the 6th day of April seventeen hundred and ninety four; that her husband the aforesaid Richard Kimball died March 17. 1823, and that she has remained a widow ever since that period, as will more fully appear by reference to the proofs hereto annexed.
Sworn to and subscribed, on the day and year above written before,
Lucy Kimball
Dan White judge of probate.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts,
County of Essex, es. Probate office.
I Nathaniel Lord junior, register of probate for said county, hereby certify, that the honorable Daniel A White, before the foregoing declaration
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declaration purports to have been made, in the judge of probate for said county; and that his name, subscribed to the certificate thereon, is his genuine signature.

Given under my hand and seal of office this sixteenth day of October, A.D. 1849.
Nath. Lord jr.
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Richd Kimball's
Cambridge      August 8th
                       1775
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[page split into 3 columns]
[column 1]
Cap. Nathaniel Gage
Lieu. Thomas Stickney
Lieu. Eliphalet Hardy
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Serg. Moses Pearson
Serg Ieremiah Kimball
Serg Ephrim Hardy
Serg Phinehas Cole
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Corp. Amos Pilsbury
Corp Ebenezar Mulliken
Corp Ioseph Gennings
Corp Abijah Gage
---
Stephen Plummer Drunn

Richard Ayer
Ioseph Atwood
Archelus Balch
William Bacon
Nicholas Boswell
Ioseph Brown

[column 2]
Giles Burrows
Enos Bisho
Iosiah Bacom
Simeon Currier
Samuel Clough
David Cheney
Ebenezar Davis
Caleb Foot
[illegible] Gage
Ionathan Gage
Thaddious Gage
Iohn Greenough
Nathaniel Greenough
Nathaniel Griffen
Iohn Hagget
Iohn Hall
Nathan Hardy
Moody Hardy

[column 3]
Benjamin Hardy
Isaac Hardy
Moles Kimball
Edmund Kimball
Aquila Kimball
Richard Kimball
David Kimball
Thomas Kirby
Daniel Mulliken
Moody Morse
Benjamin Miils
Free Parker
Moses Plats
Richard Perry
Iesse Rolings
Charles Walker
Caleb Whitney
Ionathan Woodman

[written across bottom of all 3 columns]
This is a list of Capt Nathaniel Gage's Company when at Cambridge 1775 - printed by Elias Richardson [illegible] Cambridge - Rich Kimball's
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Mrs Kimball [illegible]
April 6th 1794
born Sept 30 1770
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts

Secretary's Office, Boston:
November 15th 1848.

I hereby certify, that, from an examination of the Books and Documents relating to Military Services in the War of the Revolution, which remains in this Department, it appears that the name of Richard Kimball is borne when a Muster Roll of Capt Nathaniel Gage's Company in Col James Frye's Regt as a private of Bradford, no service named, said Roll is dated Cambridge, September 6 1775. The muster roll of said Capt Gage's Company showing service to August 1 1775 is not in this Office nor the [illegible] Roll of his company.

Upon a Pay Roll of Capt. Nathaniel Gages Company in Col Jacob Gerrish's Regt at Winter Hill as a private from December 19 1777 to April 3 1778, 3 months and 17 days,
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And I further Certify, That. before search made for evidence
of said facts, the application hereto annexed was filed in this
Office, in the form in which the same now appears ; that the
search was made by myself and my clerks alone ; and that said
application, and the certificate above set forth, contains all the facts
and circumstances within my knowledge, pertaining to the case.

                               In Testimony Where of, I have hereunto affixed the Seal
                                   of the Commonwealth, the date above written.

                                                                W B Calhoun
                                                                  Secretary of the Commonwealth.
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APPLICATION FOR CERTIFICATE OF REVOLUTIONARY SERVICES, MADE
       BY THE WIDOW OF THE PARTY WHO RENDERED THE SERVICE.
                                      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

     The Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts is hereby requested to
furnish evidence from the Rolls in his office, of the service of my husband, Richard
Kimball, deceased in the war of the Revolution.

     He enlisted from the town of Bradford in the County of
Essex                and State of       Massachusetts      in the year
1775 as a Private in the Company commanded by Captain
Nathaniel Gage in Col:
Regiment                                and he served as follows,  viz:-for a
Period of eight months including the time of Bunker Hill Fight






I am now  seventy eight years old, and my memory does not enable me to state
my husband's service more fully than above stated.

        Witness my hand, this     Sixth         day of      October
A.D. 1848.

Signed by said   Lucy Kimball
in my presence,                                 }  Lucy Kimball
John J Marsh
     JUSTICE OF THE PEACE
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600  Jany 
Lucy Kimball
ww of Richard
M
[?] July 1848
Married 1794
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Extract from the records of the town of
Haverhill, County of Essex and Commonwealth
of Massachusetts.

Richard Kimball
Lucy Snow } both of Haverhill married April sixth one thousand seven hundred and ninety seven

I hereby certify that the above record is a true copy, with the exception of the date, which is expressed in fair, legible figures, and follows, married April 6th 1794,
Attest,
A. B. Jaques, Town Clerk

Haverhill Oct 16. 1849,
I Addison B Jaques, above named depose and say, that I hold the Office of Clerk in the County, Town and state aforesaid, and that the above is a true extract from the records of said town with the exception above named, as certified by me.
A. B. Jaques, Clerk of the town of Haverhill.
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Essex ss Oct 16th 1849
Then Addison B. Jaques within named made oath that the within certificate by him subscribed is true before me
Alfred Kittridge
Jus. Peace


Washington D.C. July 18 1850 I hereby certify that the above is the signature of Alfred Kittridge Esq and that he is a Justice of Peace for the County of Essex
James H Duncan
Member House of Reps

I also certify that Samuel Merrill whose name is subscribed to the following affidavit as a Justice of Peace is well-known to me that it is his signature and that he is a Justice of the Peace for the County of Essex, Massachusetts
James H Duncan
Member House of Reps
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I Moses Merill of Haverhill in the County of Essex & Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Esqr, aged seventy two years the 12th day of September last being first sworn, an oath depose & say, that early in life I became acquainted with Richard Kimball, a native of Bradford, a town lying on the southerly side of Merrimack River, which separates it from said Haverhill - soon after the close of the Revolutionary War said Kimball came to reside in the North Parish in said Haverhill of which Parish my father, the Rivd Gyles Merrill, deceased was the minister, and resident there till the time time of his death, with the exception of an interval of two or three years, or thereabout, during which he resided at Haverhill Village, about three miles distant. We belonged to the same school district, the same highway district, & for the most part attended the same meeting, and much of the time sat together in the same pew. We belonged to the same Militia Company, in which company I trained under him, as Captain for several years till he was made a Colonel of our Regiment. Said Kimball was accustomed frequently and familiarly to speak to me about his having been in the army of the Revolution, and to relate anecdotes of what occurred, while he was in the service I have heard him repeatedly state that he was prevented
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from being in the Battle of Bunker Hill, by a breeding sore, a very bad one, on his foot, which he had at the time, & which disabled him from walking. He has talked about his father, Jeremiah Kimball's being in the same company with him, I well knew said Jeremiah, & have often heard him speak about his own & his son Richard serving in the Revolutionary war. The serving of both, in the said war, even, after its close, were as notorious and as much credited in the vicinity where they lived as any similar facts whatever, nor have I any particle of doubt that said Richard served about eight months, including the time of Bunker Hill Fight, at or near Cambridge, or that he served, as a private from December 19 1777 to April 3d 1778, a period of 3 months & seventeen days, as stated in the certificate of Wm. B. Calhoun, Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts - I further say that my sister Lucy Snow, she being at the time the widow of Isaac Snow deceased was married to this said Richard Kimball some time in the month of April, 1794, by my Father Gyles Merill aforesaid. The marriage was solemnised at my father's House and I was present at the wedding. Said Richard Kimball died March 17 1823, & my said sister Lucy is still living a widow, & has not since been married.
Moses Merill.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Essex County SS. Dec 12th 1848
Subscribed & sworn to by said Moses Merill, whom I certify to be a man of good character for the truth & [illegible] before me,
Samuel Merill, Justice of Peace
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I Samuel Merill of Andover in the County of Essex, being first sworn, depose testify & say that I am aged about sixty three years, that I was well acquainted with Richard Kimball who married my eldest sister, Lucy, that when a boy & after he was married to my said Sister, I used to be often at his house, which was about three quarters of a mile from my Fathers & frequently passed a night there. I recollect very distinctly to have hard him talk of his services in the Revolutionary War and more particularly of his service at and near Cambridge a period including the time of Bunker Hill fight - I have heard said Richard mention the circumstance, stated in the Deposition of my brother Moses Merrill, which prevented his being in the battle of Bunker Hill - viz - a breeding sore on his foot, a bad one, which disabled him from walking. Like other Revolutionary soldiers he loved to talk over matters relating to the Service and I have no doubt he served as stated in the application for a pension of my sister Lucy Kimball. My said Sister Kimball was married at my Father's House House to said Richard Kimball, as she states in her application, and I know that she is the widow of said Richard, who died in the month of March 1823, at Haverhill
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that she has not since married, but still remains his widow.
Samuel Merrill.


Essex, ss. October 16, 1849, Samuel Merrill esquire, whom I well know as a credible and respectable witness, above named makes oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavit of him subscribed before.
Nath Lord jr
Justice of the peace


Commonwealth of Massachusetts
County of Essex, ss. Probate office,
I Nathaniel Lord junior, register of probate for said county, hereby certify, that Nathaniel Lord junior, before whom the foregoing affidavit purports to have been taken, is now, and was at the time of taking the same, a justice of the peace for said county, and that his name, subscribed to the certificate thereon, is his genuine signature, to me well known; and that Samuel Merrill esquire therein named is, as therein stated, a credible and respectable witness.
Given under my hand and seal of office this eleventh day of December, A.D. 1849.
Nath Lord jr
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WIDOW, &c
File no. 1779
Lucy Kimball,
Widow,
Richard Kimball,
Priv. Rev. War

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

[Arrangement of 1840.]
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N 1,00 Lucy Kimbull 
vi
Hon. J. H. Duncan  Feb 7 1850
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J L Edwards Esq
Com Pensions
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House of Reps Mar 18 1850
Sir
I inclose some further evidence in the application of Mrs Lucy Kimball for a pension. And with it the letter of Hon Samuel Merrill giving his verdict to me on the case. 
Respectfully yours
James H Duncan
J L Edwards Esq

PS Will you please direct five copies of the "Pension Laws" and five copies of instructions in applications for Bounty Land and Pensions to be sent to me to [illegible] applications from my constituents
JHD
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Additional.
Secretary's Office, Boston:
March 13 1850

I hereby certify, that, from an examination of the Books and Documents relating to Military Services in the War of the Revolution, which remain in this Department, it appears that there is no roll of Capt Nathaniel Gages Co in the 8 mos service among the general return of May. The return of the state of his Co which bears the name of Richard Kimball of Bradford is dated Sept 6 1775, and from entries on this roll it appears the Co. was in service previous to June 8 + after Sept 8. - No coat roll of the Co has been found. There appears to have been no other Co from Bradford in the service.

In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written.
W. B. Calhoun, Secretary of the Commonwealth.
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Pension Office,
February 2d 1850.

Sir:
I have the honor to inform you that, the papers in the case of Lucy Kimball, widow of Richard Kimball, under the act of 29th July 1848, have been examined and filed.

The evidence in relation to the marriage and also of the service for three months seventeen days, under Capt Gage from December 1777, is satisfactory, we are also satisfied as to his identity with the soldier of Capt Gage Company in 1775, but the length of that tour has not established. Some proof showing the duration of that tour is required, before this claim can be understandingly adjusted.

It is possible that some evidence may be found in the Secretarys office at Boston, showing the period for which the men under Capt Gage enlisted in 1775.

I have the honor to be,
Very Respectfully,
Your [illegible]
J L Edwards


Hon James H Duncan
House of Representatives
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Lucy Kimball
Widow of Richard
Massachusetts Essex Co
Admitted
Private 11 mo, 7 day
$38.54
{Illegible} 4 March  1848
{illegible], 17 March 1823
Act 29 July  1848
Hon Jas. R. Duncan
H.R.
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Stamp:  FREE
Hon. James H. Duncan 
M. C.
Stamp:  Boston MAR 15 [Illegible]
Washington City D.C.
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Andover March 14th, 50

Hon. James H. Duncan,
Dr. Sir,
I give you many thanks for your kind attention to the care of my Sister Mrs Lucy Kimball, and, as frequently happens, show my gratitude by giving you further trouble.

In conformity with the suggestion contained in yours of 2d Feby last, I have caused further investigation to be made, and enclose an additional certificate of the Secretary of State, which I think contains material evidence; viz - The return of the state of Capt Gage's Company dated Sept 8th 1775, bears the name of Richard Kimball of Bradford, & it appears from entries on this roll that the Company was in service previous to June 8th and after Sept 8th. This appears to me to prove that Richard Kimball served from June 8th to Sept 8th 1775, and to afford very strong presumption that he served this whole period stated in the Declaration viz. 8 months in 1775.
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I have no doubt he really served out the 8 months - for in all his talk about his services, and like other soldiers, he frequently spoke of them in my hearing, he never said anything to cause a doubt in my mind of his having served the full period.

Among the papers left by my Sisters Husband, she found a list of the Officers & Soldiers of Capt Gage's Company, which bears the name of Richard Kimball. That list was annexed to her declaration on file in the Department at Washington. The name of Free Parker is born on that list - I understand that in his lifetime he had a pension, and I believed reference was made to his case either in the Declaration, or in my letter which enclosed it. If I had the names born on that list I think I might find other cases, which would then satisfactorily the time of service in 1775 of Capt Gages Company.

The letter of the Edwards Commissioner of Pensions, I return. It is attached
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to Secretary Calhouns Certificate.
Most respectfully yours
Saml Merrill