Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R 5974, for Joseph Kinnard, Pennsylvania
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(8-1776)
SERVICE NUMBER
Penn
Kinnard, Joseph R5974
or Kennard
Mary
CONTENTS
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Declaration. [underlined]
In order to obtain the benefit of the act of
Congress of the Seventh July 1838. Entitled
"An act granting half pay and pensions to
certain Widows". -
State of New Jersey
Sussex County [illegible]
On this Twenty Sixthly day
of March A.D. 1842 personally appeared before the
Court of
Common Pleas of said County (said
Court being a Court of Record,) Mary
Kinnard aged Seventy Eight years, who being
just 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 Joseph Kinnard
sometimes called Joseph Kennard [underlined], and was maried [married] to
said Joseph and on the 8th March 1789.
That subsequent to her marriage with said Kinnard she was informed that he had been
a soldier in the Revolutionary War. that he was
private Soldier in the Continental army - and
in the Pennsylvania Line. and did duty as such
for Several years Deponent believed more than
two years, that from the fact that the Service
referred to was previous to the marriage of
this Deponent - and that said Joseph Kinnard
Died within about three years from
said
Marriage - together with the length of time
which has since elapsed - this deponent is
unable to give a full statement of the
nature & length of the services of said Kinnard
the additional facts which this Deponent recollects are that the said Joseph Kinnard as he informed Deponent was in the battle of German
Town, that he Served a sufficient length of
time to entitle him to a Soldiers Pattent
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from the State of Pennsylvania for such Services - and
that said Joseph actually received a
Patent for Such Right. that Deponent has
Seen said Patent in the hands of said Kinnard
which was as deponent believes for Land in
that was called the Redstone Country.
that the said Warrant or Right was [illegible]
by said Kinnard to Henry Spearing of Easton
Pennsylvania - which was thirty miles off
from Johnsonsburg in Sussex County New Jersey
where Deponent & her said Husband lived. at
the time of and after their marriage-
That about three years after the marriage
of Deponent and said Kinnard in April
or May of the year 1792 - Said Joseph Kinnard was induced by the [illegible] of said
Henry Spearing to enlist as a light horse man
Company in which deponent believed said
Spearing was an Officer - in an Expedition
against the Indians in Ohio or Kentucky
that she recollects Several persons who were in
the same Expedition- besides said Spearing among
whom there Job Fox, David Kilpatrick John
Dunlop & [underline with no word]
Patterson. -
that the time when he went off is stated as
all from her own recollection and from a
reference to a receipt for rent which was paid
Deponent to John Armstrong the year her
said husband left, that one Dillingham or
(Dilly) Downey - was also a private who went
with husband of Deponent - in said Expedition
that her said Husband did not return - that
she never saw or heard anything of him
afterwards, except as she was informed by
the said Dillingham Downey - that said Joseph
had been shot and Killed in said Expedition, since that time she was never heard
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that said Kinnard was alive - and she
verily believes he was killed at that time
that within one - year. after her said
Husband left her she removed to Newton
in the same County of Sussex about Ten
miles further off from Easton. aforesaid and
in a different neighberhood from her
Husbands & friends with whom she has never
Since had any intercourse - she
further Declares that she was married
to said Joseph Kinnard, on the Eighth day
of March 1789 - the said Marriage ceremony
was celebrated by Daniel
Predmore Esquire a
Justice of the Peace of said County of Sussex. - the year of her marriage was as she before stated one thousand Seven Hundred and Eighty
nine, that her Husband died according to
the best of her Knowledge and belief in
the Summer of the year one thousand
Seven Hundred and Ninety two - that she
was not married to him prior to his leaving
the service (during the Revolutionary war)
but the marriage took place previous to the
first of January Seventeen Hundred and ninety
four, Namely at the time above stated,
That the information spoken of by Deponent
is to the Services of her Said Husband previous to
her said marriage was desired for her said
Husband who so informed her. & had repeatedly spoken of his Service to her, That this
ponent has not married the second time,
but that remain a widow - is poor & inform -
five-
Taken & Sworn in open Court this
twenty Sixth day of March 1842
Rob H M Carter Judge
Mary X ["her" above the "x" and "mark" below] Kinnard
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Dr Francis Moran of the County of Sussex
being duly Sworn upon his oath says
that I am acquainted with Mary Kinnard, that
in the year eighteen hundred and twenty
five was married to the Niece of the
said Mary, and being intimate with the
Family I have always heard her called by
the name of Mary Kinnard, and no other
unless her maiden name of Egle, that
in an extensive acquaintance when
persons acquired for her they invariably
enquired for her by the name of Kinnard:
that I never heard that she the said Mary
was married a second time. that she wished
me to make some exertions for her to 
procure a pension, and stated General facts
among which, that she supposed the land
her ^said Husband obtained for his Revolutionary services
was situated at Redstone, or in the
Redstone Country, and that she believed
her husband sold it to Henry spearing. that
in consequence of this information
I wrote to the Secretary of State, of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to examine
the Records in his office, in reply to which
enquiry I received from Edward W. Hutter
Deputy Secretary of [illegible] Commonwealth. by
mail the Certificate hereunto annexed,
that ever since my acquaintance with the
said Mary, Her Husband Joseph Kinard was
reputed & believed to ^have been a soldier of the
Revolutionary War, and that I never heard
the fact of his being so questioned.
Taken & Sworn in open Court
this 26th day of March 1842.
Rob H M Carter Judge
Francis Moran
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[illegible] Whitfield [illegible] Johnson of said County of
Sussex. being duly Sworn upon his oath
says, he has been acquainted with
Mary Kinnard for fifteen years and upwards
even Since deponent has here old enough to
recollect distinctly names & persons - that
he never knew her by any other name
than that of Mary Kinnard - that the
applied to deponent in the year 1839 -
to aid her in procuring a pension - that she
then detailed to Deponent all the
facts she has since embodied in her
Declaration - that the information received
from her was not communicated by him
to any other person - that Deponent was
acquainted with John Armstrong of Johnstonsbury now Deceased - [illegible] Judge
of the Court of Common Pleas of this County
that Deponent is acquainted with the hand
writing said John Armstrong Deceased -
and verily believe the paper hereto annexed
purporting to be a receipt for for four [illegible]. from
Mary Kinnard, Dated April 7. 1792 - is the
proper hand writing of said John Armstrong
that Deponent was informed by William Armstrong Esq -
Deceased, of Johnstonsbury - in a conversation
about two years since that he knew said
Joseph Kinnard and that he went away
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about the time mention by said Mary
that she left the place soon after - Since
which time he said Armstrong had not
Seen or heard of Either of them so far as
he recollected - William Armstrong &
John Armstrong were Brothers - and both
men of inteligence [intelligence] & of the highest standing
for honesty & probity
Sworn & Subscribed in open Court
this 26th day of March 1842-
W. S. Johnson
Rob H M Carter Judge
Nathaniel Pettit of said County of the age of
Seventy one - years being duly Sworn upon his
oath says, I have known Mary Kinnard Since
the year 1783 - She then lived near this place - &
have known her well ever since - I knew Joseph
Kinnard her Husband well, I have a recollection of hearing they were married, they went to
reside near Johnstonsbury (then ( in this County; about
the year 1792. heard he had gone off, & never
him afterwards, or heard of his being alive
knew Dilling Downey, he lived in this neighberhood, also Job Fox, who was born near the
Place, Downey & Fox, went off about same time
with Kinnard, neither Fox nor Kinnard returned
recollect the time when Mary Kinnard returned
to this Place after her Husband had gone off,
and that her Landlord promised her goods to this
Place for Rent, & Deponent believes, got possession
of them, after some trouble, Mary Kinnard [illegible] Deponent believes never married again, has uniformly
[illegible] the name of Kinnard -
Sworn & Subscribed in open Court
the 26th day of March AD 1844
Rob H M Carter Judge
N. Pettit
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Samuel Rorbach Esq. Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of said County aged Fifty Eight years
being duly sworn according to Law, upon his oath
says that when ^Deponent was a boy under 12 years of age
Joseph Kinnard, was confined on the Limits of
the County Jail. for Debt. that Deponents father
at that time had charge of the jail - that Deponent recollects Said Kinnard, also Deponent
Knows Mary Kinnard. & has known her from
the year 1795 -
untill the present time,
except while living at Johnstonsbury soon after
her marriage. she Had resided in or near this
Place. Deponent recollects that it was ^not reported &
believed she had married said Joseph Kinnard,
that the has not to knowledge or belief of
Deponent married again. & always since went
by name of Kinnard - Said Kinnard was 
said to have gone off & Deponent has never
heard of him Since - Deponent
recollects
a [illegible] incident which tends to strengthen
his recollection of the person - While Kinnard was
on the limits. he one day requested Deponent to go to
shop & get some tobacco for him-- that from his
indistinct [illegible] of speaking, or some like cause, Deponent misunderstood him & with the money bought
what he thot better namely ginger Cake - that Kinnard
refused to take it - being angry at Deponent - & that Deponent ate it up -
Sworn in open Court the
26 day of March AD 1842
Rob. H M Carter Judge
Saml. Rosbach
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V no 8249
Mary Kinnard
/Joseph
of New Jersey -
Pension Application
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State of New Jersey
Sussex County Ss.
I, John H. Hall, Clerk of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas, of the
said County of Sussex, do hereby certify that the said Court
is a Court of Record, having a Seal and having a Clerk. And
further that the foregoing contains the original proceedings
of the said Court, in the matter of the application of Mary
Kinnard for a pension. And further that I, at this time, hold
the office of Clerk of said Court, and have the custody of the
files, records and books belonging to said office; and that among said Records is the Docket of Daniel Predmore, Esquire,
Deceased, formerly a Justice of the Peace of said County of Sussex, duly commissioned and sworn; the same being deposited in said Clerks
Office of said County of Sussex, according to law, on the twenty eighth
day of September, A.D. 1810. -
From said Docket, I certify the following to be a true
copy of the entry therein made, with the exception of the
date, which is expressed on the margin of the Record in fair
legible figures
"Married, March Sixth, in the year of our Lord
"one thousand seven hundred and Eighty nine, Joseph
"Kinnard and Mary Egle."
The entry in the Docket being in form words and figures
following: viz.
"Mar. 6th 1789 maried [married] Joseph Kinnard and Mary Egle"
In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto
Subscribed my name, and affixed the seal
of said Court, at Newton, in the County and
State aforesaid, this Eighteenth day of
April, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and forty two, and
in the sixty sixth year of American Independence
John H. Hall
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April 7th
1792 Recd. of Mary Kinnard four pound in full of
the Rent against Joseph Kennard for which I have [illegible] 
Land Warrant in full of all Except the [illegible] Cost Recd.
by me
John Armstrong
M Isaac Lansing
or whom it may Concern
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[illegible] April 5 1791 of Joseph Kinand [illegible]  Shilling
in full of all Demands -
[British pound symbol] 0..12..0
P Leon Jones
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New Jersey. -
Pension Application of
Mary Kinnard
Supplemental Evi.
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Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
County of Northampton ss -
Jacob Diehl. of the Borough of Easton
County of Northampton aged Seventy two
years & upwards, being duly sworn upon his oath
says. I was well acquainted with Joseph
Kinnard formerly of this County. I first knew
him in 1785 - at which time I was bound as
an apprentice to Henry Spearing to learn the
tailors trade. Kinnard was an apprentice
also to Spearing at the time I commenced
with him, - Kinnard got into some trouble
and bought the [illegible] of his term
being a few months - and went into New
Jersey - he their married, I saw him after
this Marriage. he spoke about it. & told
me the maiden name of his wife, which
I believe was Egle. Mary Egle I believe,
a year or two after he was married, I
saw him in this Borough at the House of
Spearing - from this place he went on to
Fort Pitt and afterwards I heard he had
enlisted in the expedition under Gen. St.
Clair - against the indians - if I remember 
right, it was his Brother John Kinnard
who told me. that he had enlisted -
I never saw Joseph after that time - I heard
he was Killed in that expedition,
After Joseph went off - sometime in 1792 -
I saw Henry Spearing had a Warrant, given to
Joseph Kinnard for Land, lying on French buck
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the Warrant was given for his Service in the
Revolutionary War. - the Service of Joseph Kinnard
spoken of, here before I was acquainted 
with him. I recollect that Spearing about
that time (1792.) [illegible] John Kinnard, for the
money for while he was Security for Joseph.
I was a Witness on the trial -
John Kinnard
had been Dead four or five years. .
Sworn subscribed before me
this 20th day of June 1842-
Geo. Hess [illegible] a Judge
of the Court of Com. Pleas
of Northampton County
Sarah Diehl
I certify that I am acquainted with Jacob
Dielh the witness above by me sworn, & that
he is a [illegible] of truth & veracity and whose
affidavit is entitled to full credit
Geo. Hess J
Judge [illegible]
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
[illegible] County of [illegible] 
[illegible] of Northampton aged seventy five
[illegible] duly [illegible] oath [illegible]
[illegible] Deponent came to [illegible] in [illegible]
Northampton County in the year 1784. - That
[illegible] that time [illegible] his death which
took place in 1823. . he was acquainted with
General [illegible] Spearing of Easton. that
Deponent also Knew Joseph Kinnard and
Jacon Diehl - that said Kinnard &
Diehl were apprenticed to said spearing
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who was a Tailor, and did the tailoring
Deponent and family - that said
Spearing afterwards the [illegible] & was a
practitioner at Law, and a man of
considerable notoriety, as a public Man
that Kinnard left the neighborhood
about the year 1784 or 1785 that Deponent
did not Know of his own Knowledge
[illegible] of him. .  he did not
return, & Deponent [illegible] because of him
afterwards - that he had Known said
Diehl from that time untill tho
present - that his memory [illegible]
strong and [illegible], that a
[illegible] may be placed on his
testimony - that said Henry Spearing
has been Dead about nineteen years.
Sworn & subscribed before me
this 22nd day of June A.D. 1842-
Geo. Hess Jr. a Judge
of the Court of Com. Pleas
of Northampton County
John Green
I certify that I am well acquainted with
The above named John Green - and
that he is a person of truth and
veracity & whose affidavit is entitled to
full credit-
Geo. Hess Jr. a Judge [illegible]
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Mary Kinnard
of New Jersey
Additional Testimony
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Commonwealth of Pennsylvania,
County of Northampton SS. - Jacob Deihl of
the Borough of Easton of the age of Seventy
Three. being duly Sworn upon his oath says
that he knew Joseph Kinnard as by him
before stated, That Deponent did not know
the father of said Joseph who Deponent
understood from Joseph had died before Deponent
went to the Borough, to learn his trade, but
Deponent knew his Brother, John was the
oldest. he was married and had children
when Deponent went to the Borough in 1785. 
Joseph was the Second child he was considerably 
older than Deponent, James was next
in age to Joseph. Deponent knew him - very
well account of Somewhere to the western
part of this State many years ago and Deponent
had not heard from him Since. the
[illegible] child was Rachel, she was a knew
girl about Ten or Eleven years old when I 
came to this place in 1785. John Kinnard married one of the
Drumhellers a Sister to John Drumheller,
John Kinnard was a tailor and lived with the
Drumlellers.
deponent has heard the name of Joseph
Father, but cannot now remember so as to
state it. he is positive however it was not
Joseph, Deponent never understood that
his Father had been a soldier he has
never knew him nor saw him. believes he died before
1782. - Joseph was not a Quaker, Deponent
[illegible] Land warrant by him heretofore
[illegible] of in the [illegible] of Joseph Kinnard
Situation, [illegible] was told by him that
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he had been in the Pensylvania line
and had receive the Warrant for his
Services, as a Soldier, - and heard him
speak of his places and calculations of
going to find his land when his time
Would be out with Spearing. -
That before his time was quite out,
he got in trouble with a young woman,
that his Brother John interfered for him
Deponent thinks Joseph let the have the
warrant to save him himself for any
thing he might pay for him - And
that when Spearing Sued John as Deponent
before stated, that John paid the judge by
means of this Warrant - This is the impression
of Deponent - Deponent Knows that
Spearing got the Warrant spoken of, and
thinks in the [illegible] yet Deponent
is not positive in his reccollection of the
[illegible] whether Spearing got it in
this way, or directly from Joseph Kinnard,
Deponent was seventeen years [illegible] months
old when he was [illegible] Apprentice, Kinnard
was Several years older, [illegible] apprentices
together a little less than two years.
[illegible] Apprenticeship on the 25 February
1715 [illegible]
Sworn & subscribed
the 22nd April 1843
Before me
Geo. Hess J
A. Judge of the Com. Pleas
of Northampton County
Pen a [Pennsylvania] 
Jacob Biehl
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[illegible]
[illegible] County - Mary Kinnard widow of Joseph
Kinnard, being duly sworn upon her oath says
that Since the making of her application for a
Pension, & within two months last past, she had found
the Family Bible of her Father Anthony Egle,
among some old Books, at the house of Dr.
Francis Moran of [illegible], who [illegible] a
[illegible] of Deponent, that the said Bible contained
the family Record in the hand writing of her
Father, that from said year it appear that
Deponent was born on the 9th October 1762.
the said entry [illegible] is in German), being
[illegible], as Deponent is [illegible] by [illegible]
persons, and as she verily believes.) is as
follows - "My Daughter Mary was born on the
9th October 1762, in New York. her
God Father Elias Gott." - 
God Mother Mary Ann Gaffeny".
From the record of his marriage already Known
it appears that she was [married] to said Kinnard
on the Eighth day of March 1789.  She was
therefore in the 27 year of her age when
married. that Deponent has a distinct reccollection
that her Husband was older than
she was, at least two or three years older.
that he so informed her & that his
appearance justified that information,
that the has no other means of learning
his exact age, that she verily believes
he was of legal age, long before he left
the Service of Henry Spearing who was a
[illegible] to him and her impression is
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[illegible] from her said Husband, that he was
of age before he went to learn the trade. That 
she does not remember to have heard the name
of her Husbands father, who as her Husband
informed her was dead before their marriage.
She reccollects her Husband informed her
that his father was a Quaker - this she
remembers letter from the fact that her
husband was a wild & lively man -
That she knew two of her Husband's Brothers
John the oldest & James. also the Sisters Mary
& Rachel- but Deponent has [illegible]
[illegible] of the [illegible] 1792 & that [illegible] informed
they are all dead,
She distinctly reccollects [illegible] and
[illegible] spoken off. that she has
seen it in her Husbands chest - that 
reccollects to have heard him & they
Spearing talking about it- and understood
that Spearing afterwards got it.
that she remembered well. her Husband
said he given the warrant
for his own Services - that he was
soldier in the Pensylvania [Pennsylvania] Line-
Sworn and subscribed before me 
this 19 day of June 1847
the same having lawfully
had as to the [illegible]
Rob H M Carter
Judge of the Court of Common
pleas of this County [illegible]
Mary X Kinnard ["his" written above the "X" and "mark" written below]
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[illegible] April 18. 1845
Dear Sir
In consequence of having received the misfortune
of being secretary of war for [illegible] eleven months, all the
old soldiers and old soldiers widows in this region seem
to think they have a right to call on me to get them one of
the difficulties what time, indecency of memory and
the death of Witnesses have wherefore to prevent them
from getting pensions - More especially as they know that
I [illegible] considered an unhallowed thing in me as the
Son a Revolutionary officer to charge any thing for assisting
them.
A case has recently been brought under my notice of
Mrs Mary Kinnard of Newton Sussex County New Jersey, the
widow of Joseph Kennard, a revolutionary soldier in the Pennsylvania
Line - The records of the grant of Donation Land in
Pennsylvania, shew that he was a private and by one act granting
donation Lands he must have served, "in the Pennsa [Pennsylvania] Regiments in
independent [illegible] acknowledged by this State as of the quota of Pennsylvania
in the federal Army [illegible] until the end of
the war" to be entitled to donation Land - see act of [illegible]
1785. [illegible] Law vol 2 pa:290. -
The Evidence of service
named therefore be made out by the copy of the record of the
grant of Donation Land ^as the roll of the papers [illegible] or lost - Him as to the marriage
and identity - I understand the proof of the marriage
is sufficient and that the only difficulty is as to the identity
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of her husband Joseph Kinnard, with the Joseph Kinnard
who performed the service -
On the [illegible] of the case she relies, on the testimony of
Jacob Diehl of this place, as well as that of John Green of
this place & some others.
[illegible] person that her husband was an apprentice
of Henry Spring of Easten, at the time he was - that he was
at least 3 years older than himself - that he  ^uncle came to Spearing
to learn the trade in 1785. - The widow proves that when
she married Kinnard in 1789 she was 27 years of
age and she thinks that her husband was older than
herself. That he was the same man who did the
[illegible] is manifest from the fact that he transferred 
his Land warrant to Spering, to whom the patent [illegible]
Diehl may have been mistaken as to her age and yet
he need not be mistaken as to the man and the 
circumstance of his transferring the land warrant.
I have known Diehl for 25 years. He was the
[illegible] of our Coral and I am sure he would
not intentionally mistate or misrepresent
anything in relation to it, although he might
be wrong in his opinion as to the man's age, who
might have served in the army when a [illegible]
and again have [illegible] with Spering who
was her relative, in leaving she [illegible] after he
mary age and had left the army. If
he served until the end of the war, that would
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have brought him to the fall of 1783 - and [illegible] of
he [illegible] together with Spearing in 1785, say 18 months
after he left the army -
Will you please reexamine the case & if
the Evidence will allow it grant the pension or [illegible]
satisfied there is nothing wrong in it
Very Truly Yours
J M Porter
Col James L Edwards
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There is some probability that this case is identical with S. 36681, Joseph Kinard or Kinnard. This widow's husband was from Northampton Co., Pa., was apprenticed to a tailor, probably served in a Penn. regt. during the Rev. War, and in 1792 went off in an expedition against the Indians in Ohio or Ky., from which he never returned- She was told he has been killed. She was not sure as to his service, and the case was rejected on "the ground of not sustained by adequate proof"- In S. 36681, soldier lived
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in Ky. in 1818 and 1820, enlisted in Easton, Penn. (which is in Northampton Co.), was a tailor by trade and the oldest child then "living with him" was 13 yrs. old in 1820- As the evidence of identity does not appear conclusive, I have not put the cases together, but leave this notation in case, because there may be a connection between the two. The widow could really prove that her husband was the man who rendered service in Penn. regt., though I think it probable 

[SEP 18 1911 typed on the left in vertical orientation] 

[W.R. handwritten on the left in vertical orientation]
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Acts of July 14, 1862 and March 3, 1873. [crossed out]
REJECTED
5974.
P. O.
Mary Kinnard
Service:
Enlisted: , 18  .
Discharged: , 18  .
Application filed: , 18  .
Alleges:
Re-enlisted:
Attorney:
P. O.
Recognized.
Contract.
Cert. of Dis. 
Searched for , 18  .
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New Jersey -
Mary Kinnaids
Application.
Certificate of Court. -
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Sussex County Court of Common Pleas
of the Time of August one
thousand Eight Hundred & forty two.
ther of
Mary Kinnards
Application for Pension. - 
and the affidavits of
Francis Moran Samuel
Rorbach Whitfield S. Johnson
and Nathaniel Pettit made
therein.
The Court do hereby Certify that the
above named Dr Francis Moran Samuel
Rorbach Esq a Judge of Said Court, Nathaniel
Pettit [illegible] s. Johnson Esquer
witness who have testified in this Case - are
each of them credible witnesses & whose
statements are entitled to full credit.
Done in open Court this twenty first day of August
A.D. 1842.-
Rob H M Carter [illegible] Judge
[illegible] Jerseuy Sussex County Ss.  I John H. Hall Clerk
of said Court Do herby Certify that the signature of the
Judge Robert H. McCarter Esq above made who is a Judge of said
Court is genuine and that the above proceeding
were had & the above Certificate made in open
Court-Witness my hand
and the seal of said Court, at [illegible]
in the County of Sussex this nineteenth. day of August
one thousand Eight Hundred & forty two.
John H. Hall
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Mary
Kinnard
widow
of Joseph
New Jersey
---
Suspended
See let 6 May 42
W. S. Johnson
to same 4 Oct 42
Let to Hon. James M Porter
Apl 24 1845
Let to Charles Sitgreaves Sept 27 '45
5974
Act 7 July 1838
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Apr 25 1842
208269
NJ
July 7 1838
Mary Kennard

FREE

Pension Department
Washington City
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The
undersigned transmit to the
Pension Department the papers in
relation to a claim for pension for
Mrs Mary Kinnard
of the State of New Jersey.

Which it is hoped
may prove sufficient, and satis
factory. An early attention is
respectfully & earnestly solicited.
Communications in relation
thereto, may be made to the under signed-
With Respectful co- rations
I remain
W. S. Johnson
Newton Sussex Co. N.J.
Apr. 18. 1842

J. C. Edwards
Esq.Courts of Pensions
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Hon. J. L. Edwards
Com of Pensions
Washington City.
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Sir
The enclosed is additional evidence
on the application of Mary Kinnard - Being
the Certificate of the Court of the credibility
Witnesses whose affidavits have heretofore been taken
and additional evidence of identity. -
These being the points on which
the Case was [illegible], it is hoped that this
is sufficient, to show that the person who obtain
the Land Warrant is the identical Jos. Kinnard
who was with H. Spearing of Easton, & [illegible] been
of the Petitioner, [illegible] is [illegible] that [illegible]
to be proved at this distance of time & indeed
all the Case calls for -
the statements of the
applicant are coroborated [corroborated] in each important
particular by witnesses [illegible] total strangers to her
The undersigned respectfully request
early attention to the Case
I have the Honour to be
Your [illegible]
W. S.
Johnson
Newton Sussex Co. N.J.
Sep. 28. 1842-

Hon. J. L. Edwards [illegible]
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Sept. 1, 1845
Ad al te can
Mary Kinnard

Hon. J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
City of Washington
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A D 1835
August 28
opposite Easton. Penna [Pennsylvania]
Sir
your letter of April 24th to Col
Porter relative to the application for of Mary Kinnard
of [illegible] New Jersey for a penoison [pension]
has been handed
to me for the applicant -
when Col Porter
wrote to
you prohibiting a reexamination of the
the
case. He wrote under the impression that the
supplemental affidavits of the applicant & Diehl
(which I have endorsed) had been ["was" crossed out] before you.
and did
not discover the mistake untill [until]
I
informed him
the character of the witness Diehl
as a man of veracity can be certified by Col
Porter and Hon Richard Brodhead member of
Congress, who both reside in
the same of town,
coupled with the fact that there are
many cases of soldiers of the Revolution after the
war apprenticing themselves to trades after the legal age
it is presumed will be sufficient ^reason for you to look again.
at the case as presented by the additional affidavits
I feel a [illegible] in this
[illegible] this case to
your notice & but feel
assured it will be a pleasure to you, when
satisfied of the justice of the claim, to cheer
with the County
the goverment [government] the last
[illegible] of a [illegible] of '76
very respectfully
Chas Sitgreaves
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[stamp reading "HARRISBURG Pa. FEB 25"]
Francis Moran
Newton
Sussex County
N. J.
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Extract from the Donation Land Book.
Names | No. of the Lots┃Quantity of acres | No. of the District |
Joseph Kennard | 921 | 200 | 5 | Patent issued to Henry Spering
in right of Jos. Kennard, private
April 29th 1795.
Extract from the same book
"Return of that part of the tenth district of Pennsylvania
"Donation Lands, that on running the northern boundary
"were found to lye without the state.
"Patentees | Rank in the army | No. of Lots | Quantity of the Lots |
"Joseph Kinnard | Private | 2012 | 200" |
Extract from the Book containing a
"Return of the Pennsylvania Line entitled to Donation lands
"reported by the late Comptroller General.
Names | Rank | Regiment | acres |
Joseph Kinnard | Private | 2d Penna. | 200 | drawn
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Pennsylvania, SS.
I hereby Certify the within to be time extracts from
the records remaining in the office of the Secretary
of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my
hand and the seal of the said office, at Harrisburg, 
this 25th day of February A.D. 1842.
Edw. W. Hutter
Dep. Secy.
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Secretrary's office, 
Harrisburg February 25. 1842
Sir
I [illegible] you herewith extract from the records in this office,
duly authenticated, shewing that Joseph Kinnard, a soldier
of the revolution, has received certain donation lands as a
remuneration, in part, for his services in that war
Diligent Search has been made to ascertain the
duration of his services, but unfortunately we have failed
in arriving at any information that would lend to shew
the period which he engaged or served. The fact, 
however, of his having obtained certain donation lands,
proves that his services cover the requirements of
the law under which those lands were granted.
I am very respectfully
you most obt: servt: 
E. W. Hutter
Depy. Secy
Mr. Francis Moran,
Newton, Sussex Co. N.J.