Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 16176, for Heth Kendrick, Vermont
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State
VT

Seth Kendrick
S16176

Carded
Contents
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2320
Indiana
Hieh
Kendrick
Jenings in the State of Indiana
Private in the compy
Blackesley of the Reg
Col. Fletcher in the Vermont line
6 months from
1780

Inscribed on the Roll of Indiana
at the rate of 21 Dollars 66 Cents per annum
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1834.

Certificate of Pension issued the 23 day of Nov.
and sent to Pension
Vernon, Ind.

Arrears to 4th of Sept 1832
32.
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Mar. 10.
$43.32
Revolutionary Claim
Act June 7, 1832

Recorded by Nathan Rice Book D Vol. 9 Page 187
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6859
Heth Kendrick
Indiana
from 1780 private
6 1/2 month,
21.66
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6859
BRIEF in the case of Heth
Kendrick 
of Jennings
County in the State of Indiana
(Act 7th June, 1832.)

Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? In Open Court
2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?
3. How old is he? 68 years
4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed.
[chart]
Period.
about the middle
June In 1780

Duration of Service.
Years. Months,
Days.
served 6 & 15
as a substitute for
his Father Samuel
 Kendrick
Rank.
Private
Names of General and Field Officers
under whom he served.
Col. Wm Fletcher
Capt James Blakesley
Lieut Cochran

5. In what battles was he engaged?
6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Brattleborough
Vermont
7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence,
incidental evidence, or by the rolls? traditionary evidence
8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect?
 
I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
Examining Clerk
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Answers to interrogatories propounded by the
Court according to instructions from the
War Department
He was born in the town of Brattleborough in the State of Vermont on the 22
of Dec. in the year 1764
I have at home a transcript of a record
kept by my father
I was living in the town of Brattleborough
Vermont. I moved from thence to Chenango
County New York thence to Otsego Co. thence
Cayuga Co. thence to Ontario Co.
thence
Catarges Co in the same State, thence to
Adams Co Ohio and thence to Jennings Co
and where I now live
entered the service as a substitute
for my father Samuel Kendrick
the same is regular troops
for Warren while I was there-
I was under the command of Col. Fletcher
Capt Blakesly & I be
that Gen Stark had the command
of the division & that his head quarters
son
X
served a writen discharge from Col
when is lost
known to Col Smith Vawter
[illegible]
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6859
State of Indiana

On the 3d day of
 September in the year
1832 personally appeared in open court before
Robert Elliott Patrick W. Dixon and
Samuel Wagner the Board of County
Comissioners of the County aforesaid of
sitting Heth Kindrick
resident of the
County and State aforesaid aged Sixty
eight 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
.
That he entered the service of the
United States under the following named
Officers (to wit) Col Wm Fletcher Capt.
James Blakesly & Lieut about the
middle of June in the year 1780
an continued and
in the said service for six months
fifteen
days, that he entered the said
service as a substitute for his father 
Samuel Kendrick that he was their living in the
town of Brattleborough, Vermont where he
was born, that he marched from thence to Fort
Warren in the town of Castleton in the said State
and continued at the said fort during the
hold of his said service is except when
my
scouting part
[illegible]
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Country north as far as the Big Spring in
the town of Shoreham on the borders of Lake
Champlain,
that he
received a written discharge
from the service from Col. Flett
which has been long since lost, and that
has no documentary evidence and that he
of no person whose testimony he can procure
who can testify to his
service - that he lived in
the his native town of Brattleborough for
eight or ten years after the close of the
revolution and then removed in Chenango Co
thence to Richfield Otsego Co. thence
Mentz, Cayuga the Lima Ontario
thence to Oban Cataras to all in the
State of New York. thence to Adams
and
where he
thence to Jennings Co Indiana
lives. He hereby relinquishes
every claim whatever to a pension or annuity
except the present and declares that he
not on the pension roll of the age of
State
Heth Kendrick
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
John Walker Cl

We William Sanford, Sheriff of the County
Jenning & Ezra F. Pabody one of the
of the Circuit Court of the same hereby certify
that we are well acquainted with with
Heth Kendrick who has subscribed and sworn
above declaration and we
believe believe him to sixty eight years of age, that he
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is reputed and believed, in the neighbourhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution and that we concur
in that opinion
Wm Sanford
C.F. Pabody

sworn and subscribed the day & year
aforesaid
John Walker Clk

And the
said Court do hereby declare
the 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 & served
as he states
and that the above named witnesses are
entitled to credit. 
Robert [illegible]
[illegible]
Samuel Wagner
I John Walker Clerk of Board of County
commissioners of the County Jenning
hereby certify that the foregoing contains
the original proceedings of the said Court
the
in the case of the application of the
Heth Kendrick for a Pension
John Walker Clk
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Major Kendrick, son of Heth Kenrick admitted 

[illegible]
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Know all men by these Presents, That I
Major Kendrick
heir of Heth Kendrick, who was a soldier in the war
of the Revolution, and a Pensioner of the United States
on the Rolls of the Indiana Agency at the rate of 1 66/100 per annum
and who died in Jennings County in the State of Indiana
on the 24th day of August A.D. 1843, leaving no widow,
before him
who was a Soldier
in the Army of the Revolution, do hereby constitute and appoint GEORGE H. MONSARRAT,
true and lawful Attorney, for me and in my name to prosecute against the Government of
the United States, before any Department thereof, any and all claim or claims I
have to
arrears of pay or Pension money, under any Act or Acts, Resolution or Resolutions, of the Congress
of the United States, and especially the Acts 4th July 1836, 7th July 1838, 3rd March
1843, 17th June 1844, 2nd February 1848, and 29th July 1848-as well as the more ancient
Acts of 18th March 1818, 15th May 1828, and 7th June 1832.
moreover authorised in my name to demand at any Department
of the said Government, a reconsideration of any decision hitherto or hereafter to be given,
interests, and to obtain from any Department of the archives thereof, any
and all information or evidence of whatever character relating to or in anywise bearing upon the
out the foregoing purposes, and to receive the Certificates of Pension or other character of drafts
and to appoint one or more Sub-Attorneys, and to
confer upon him or them all the powers therein conferred upon the said G.H. Monsart
said Attorney may do by virtue of these
WITNESS my hand and seal this 22nd
day of April A.D. 1853
Major his x mark Kendrick
Heath Kendrick
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INVALID.
16. 126
Heth Kendrick
Pri Rev War
Act: June 7" 32
ex: --Vol. 1, Page 20
Arrangement of 1870.}
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to negative, in red ink, will app
Heth Kendrick
further proof or explanation.
1.Does the declaration show where the applicant resides? yes
II. Does
the declaration show we
ere he resides? yes
III. If the applicant did not make the declaration in the county where he resides, is there any reason
assigned for his not doing so?

IV. Has the declarant mentioned the period or periods of the war when he served? Yes
he mentioned 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 amout of pension
VI.
he is entitled? yes
Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with the regulations? yes
VII. Has he made a relinquishment of every claim to any other pension than the one under the Act of
June 7, 1832? yes
VII. Has the Court given their opinion? yes
in the
Has the Clerk given his certificate? Yes
the
the Clerk's seal affixed? And if so, has it a device or inscription by which it can be distinguished
from any other seal? yes
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[illegible]
XI. Has t
in taste
their belief respecting his age and the general belief in his neighborhood relative to his revolutionary
service?
Certified by one of the Judges of the
Court & by the Sheriff of the County

XII. If the clergyman's affidavit hasnot been produced, is there any reason assigned for not obtaining it?  no
XIII. If the applicant has no documentary evidence, and has not obtained the traditionary of [illegible] living witness, has he stated in his declaration that such proof cannot be hand?  yes
XIV. If the applicant has produced a witness or witnesses as to his service, has the magistrate who
administered the oath certified that he, she, or they are persons of credibility?
his seal of office?
Has the official character and signature of the magistrate been certified by the proper officer under
XV. Does it appear from any of the papers that the witness was in such a situation, or of such an age,
as to have a personal knowledge of the applicant's service?
XVI. Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct? yes
XVII. Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily? And,
if not, which of them is not so answered?
and --
EXPLANATORY NOTES.
QUERE V. 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: Foryear
months and days, I served as a month
days, I served as a -; and for such service I claim a pension."
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It is important in all cases to do
with precision the period for which the 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.
QUERE XIV. Proof of Service.
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 claimants entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as
the regiment, company, and line to which be 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
-
QUERE XVI. Mode of authenticaling papers.
In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticated the papers is not
written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other paper authenticated, the
certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the end of which must
pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being in
properly attached to the certificate.
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Vermon In
Sept 5.
FREE

War Department
Pension OFfice
Washington City
6859

Jan 15
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Vernon Ind
Enclosed is my declaration to
obtain a Pension under the Act
June last
Respectfully yours &c

Congress of the 7th
Heth Kendrick