Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 19,365, for Timothy Kennard, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Kennard, Timothy
S 19,365
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CONTENTS

18.569
Maine Timothy Hammond Eliot in the State of Maine was a private in the Company commanded Captain Lighton of the Regt. commanded Col. Brewer in the clap  for 12 mos
Enscribed on the Roll of Maine the rate of 40 Dollars 00 Cents per annum, to commence on the 14th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 18 day of Sept 1833 and cents M c Hammond  Eliot
Arrears to the 14th of Sept. 1833 $100.00 Semi-ann. allowance ending Feb d 34 20.00 $120.00
{ Revolutionary Claim, } Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by W. L. Williams Clerk, Book 6 Vol. 1 Page 28
Gen. W. B. Parker , July 28/51 Lt W. B. Parker Oct 24/37.

6053
Timothy Kennard
April 9 th 1833
Og. 14. 16.
60.53
P. 324
July 15. 1833
Og. 15
12 mo s
40
W m Hammond Esq. Eliot Maine
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BRIEF in the case of Timothy Hennard  of Eliot — in the State of Maine  (Act 7th June, 1832.)
 1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? Open Court  2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?  3. How old is he? 76 years  4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed. 
   Period. Duration of Service. Rank. Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.   Years, Months, Days.     Aug. 1. 1776 — ✓ 4 As a Col. Francis Reg't Contin.   Aug. 1. 1777 — ✓ Nov. 77 to May 78 8th Capt. D. Lighton Co. 8th   10 Col. Lee — Reg't 8th   Col. Bruns — 8th   Capt. Burkhardt Co. 8th  
 5. In what battles was he engaged? none stated  6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Hittery  7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditional evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? by Witnesses & documentary evidence  8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? not attached according to the regulation 
I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
E. Stephen
Examining Clerk.

Declaration
In order to obtain the benefits of the Act of Congress of the 7 th of June. 1832.
State of Maine County of York } ss.
On this seventeenth day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two personally appeared in open Court before the Judge of the Court of Probate for said County of York now sitting Timothy Hennard a resident of Eliot formerly Hittery in the County of York and State of Maine aged seventy six years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the Act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832. That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and service as herein stated.
I Timothy Hennard was born in Hittery (now Eliot in the County of York and State of Maine) on the nineteenth day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and fifty six I now do and ever have resided in Eliot (formerly a part of Hittery aforesaid). In the month of August (I think) in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy six I enlisted at said Hittery in a company of Continental troops under the command of Captain Samuel Leighton in Colonel Francis's Regiment. Isaiah Magdow, Townsend and Story were the Lieutenants of this company we marched from Hittery to Dorchester heights and were employed in making forts and repairing Boston Castle for four months. When my term of enlistment expired Alexander Goolde of Eliot aforesaid was with me and can testify to my service. I had no written discharge. In the month of August in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy seven I was drafted into the Continental troops and was ordered to Cambridge.

discharge. In the month of August in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventyseven I was drafted to serve in the Continental troops. and was ordered to Cambridge. Fort No 2 I soon after enlisted. on arriving at Cambridge I was put on fatigue duty Colonel Lee commanded at that place at that time after Colonel Lee left the fort I was placed in Captain Pillsbury's company, his Lieutenants name was Sturdivant we marched to Springfield halted and waited for some time for Waggons which we were to guard to Albany, I was transfered to Captain Burbanks company in Colonel Brewers Regiment. one Frost was the Lieutenants of this company we then went on board of a Sloop sailed down to Queens Heights, landed and staid for some time we then sailed down to a place called Kings Ferry, landed and marched to Whitemarsh in Pennsylvania and there halted the British Army retreated before us into Philadelphia we then marched to Valley Forge where we tarried during the winter and untill my term of eight months for which I enlisted had expired when I and is hereunto annexed. I now have served as a private soldier in all the above mentioned service William Staples of Eliot aforesaid was in the Regiment and a part of the time in the same company with me he enlisted at Hattory about the same time I was drafted and went to Cambridge with me -
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and he declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any Agency in any State Timothy Kennebec
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
Before Me. H. Hays Judge of said Court
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion

He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity, except the present and he declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any Agency in any state Timothy Kennard
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
Before Wm. H. Hayes Judge of said Court
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion that the above named applicant was a revolution any soldier of pensioned as he states
Wm. H. Hayes Judge of said Court
I William Cutter Allen, Register of the Court of Probate aforesaid, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Timothy Kennard for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office, this seventeenth day of August, A.D. 1852.
Wm. Cutter Allen, Register of Probate

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Boston:
February 17 1851.
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 the name of Timothy Kennard is borne on rolls of receipts for wages received for Service in Capt. Sam l Leighton's Co. for Sept. Oct. r & Nov. 1776. - 3 mos. last return dated Nov. 29.
On a pay roll of Capt. Samuel Leighton's Co. Col. Francis' Reg t . for travel from Dorchester Heights to their homes, as a private of Hittery; allowed 14 days to return. - roll dated Nov. 1776.
There appears to be no evidence of any other Service by any person of the name.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Secretary of the Commonwealth
No. 81
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, contain all the facts and circumstances within my knowledge, pertaining to the case.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written.
Francis Matthews
Secretary of the Commonwealth.

APPLICATION FOR CERTIFICATE OF REVOLUTIONARY SERVICES,
of the party who rendered the service.
State of Massachusetts , County of Middlesex Town of Lexington
The Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts is hereby requested to furnish evidence from the Rolls in his office, of the service of Timothy Hennard a Private in the war of the Revolution.
He was a native of the Town of Hittery in the County of York and State of Massachusetts .
He enlisted from the Town of Hittery in the County of York and State of Massachusetts in the year 1776 as a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Samuel Leighton in Col. Ebenezer Francis' Regiment and he served as follows, * viz:—
He then he joined Col. Francis' Regiment at Dorchester Heights was in Augt. 1776 according to the best of my knowledge & belief and thereon receiving an honorable discharge from that Regt he entered Col. Brewer's Regt in 1777, & was discharged therefrom May 1 st 1778, & never received any bounty neither in money nor land nor any pension for the time he was in Capt. Leighton's company. Wherefore I the said applicant respectfully asks for the Bounty due to him the said Tim o Hennard & also for an arrearage of pension in conformity with the act of Congress.
* Here describe as fully as may be, the length of service, the rank, &c. of the claimant, or the capacity in which he served, and all other particulars known.

for the relief of Orphans of Revolution- ary Soldiers.
4427.
I am now - 58 years old, and my memory does not enable me to state the services more fully than above stated.
WITNESS my hand, this Twenty first day of January A. D. 1851.
Alpheus S. Kennard
Middlesex Co.
Signed by said
in my presence, me
Alpheus Kennard & sworn to before
William Chandler
JUSTICE OF THE PEACE.

STATE OF MAINE. COUNTY OF YORK, ss.
Court of Probate, Term, A. D. 185
BE IT KNOWN, That on this seventh day of July A. D. 1851, it has been satisfactorily proved, in open Court, being a Court of Record, that Timothy Wernance late of in said County, was a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States , that he died at Eliot on the twenty fifth day of September A. D. 1839, and that Stephen Wernance, John Wernance, Scott Wernance and Mary Irish are the children and only surviving children of said Timothy Wernance .
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of said Court, this seventh day of July , in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and fifty one.
Joshua Hurd } Register of the Court of Probate, York County.

P 19365
INVALID.
File No. 19,365
Timothy Kennard
Pris Gen War.
Act: June 7" 82.
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 217
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Portsmouth R. H. 3 March '51.
Hon. J. E. Heath Comm r of Pensions
Sir:
Enclosed is a certificate of the Secy of State of Massachusetts, that Timothy Kennard deceased served 3 mos. 4 days, which his son Alphus J. K. alleges is in addition to the pension allowed his said Father.
I believe he was placed on the Roll of Maine.
The purpose of this is to request you to investigate this matter to see if he was allowed for this service. Any correspondence necessary to elucidate this claim, please address to me.
I am, Sir, very respectfully,
Your m c Obed Serv t
Wm B. Parker.

Portsmouth N.H. 1 st Oct 1851
Sir :
I take leave, very respectfully, to remind you of the claim of the Heirs of Timothy Kennard dev. d of the State of Maine, for an arrearage of pension claimed by them, for a short allowance to their said Father under the Act of June 7. th 1832.
I am, Sir, respectfully, Your m c Obedient Servant
W m B. Parker
Hon. J. E. Heath Comm r of Pensions

Portsmouth, R. H. 22 o March 1851.
Hon: J. E. Heath, Com r of Pensions.
Sir:
Herewith enclosed is the Pension Certificate of Timothy Hubbard for Forty dollars or one years service; his son alleges that the Certif. of the Secy of War a for three months service, lately transmitted you, should have been allowed his Father, making his pension about $50 instead of $40.
I am, Sir, respectfully,
Your Ob t Serv t
W m B. Parker.

at Portland Payments to be made by Am. M. B. Bank Agent for paying Pension- ers, in the Agency of Maine.
Recorded in the Pension Of- fice, in Book B Vol. 1 Page 28 by H. L. Williams Clerk.

WAR DEPARTMENT.
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.
I certify that, in conformity with the law of the United States of the 7th June, 1832, Timothy Kennard of the State of Maine who was a Private in the revolutionary war
is entitled to receive Forty dollars and ~ ~ ~ ~ cents per annum, during his natural life, commencing on the 4th of March, 1831, and payable semi-annually on the 4th of March, and 4th of September, in every year.
Given at the War Office of the United States this Eighteenth day of September one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three
L. D. Colp Secretary of War.
Examined and Countersigned. }
J. L. Edwards Commissioner of Pensions.
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Portsmouth N. H. 12 th July 1851.
Hon: James E. Heath, Commissioner of Pensions.
Sir:
Several months since, I had the honor to transmit you, a pension certificate of Timothy Kennard (dece d ) late a Revolutionary Pensioner on the Rolls of the State of Maine, together with a Certificate of the Territory of State of Massachusetts, certifying to a term of service, which Alpheus, his son, declared that his said Father had not been allowed for, when the said pension was awarded to his Father.
I have had no letter from the Office since that claim was made in regard to it:—
I therefore pray you, Sir, to decide this claim, as soon as the Rules of your Office will permit.
I herewith send a Certificate from the Probate Court, showing the number and names of the surviving children of this pensioner.
I have the honor to be,
With perfect respect, Sir,
Your most Obedient Servant
W m B. Parker.

Portsm o . N. H. 1 st of August of 1851. Hon: J. E. Heath, Commissioner of Pensions.
Sir:
Your favor of the 24 th ultimo, informing me "that before the application for an increase of the pension granted to Timothy Kennard (dev.) under the act of June 7, 1832 can be examined the first of the within regulations must be complied with." and those regulations are dated April 18, 1851.
In accordance to this order I now transmit the papers required.
I am, Sir, respectfully,
Your most O bt Serv t
W m B. Parker.

State of Maine
York ss.
I William Cutter Allen, Register of Probate for the county of York, hereby certify that William Hammond is a Justice of the Peace for said county of York, and that the within signature purporting to be his is genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal official this seventeenth day of August, A.D. 1832.
Wm. Cutter Allen, Register of Probate.
Alexander Goolde Deponent
State of Maine, York ss
I certify that the within named Alexander Goolde is to my knowledge a reputable man
Eliot April 20 th 1833 William Hammond Justice of the Peace
State of Maine
York ss. I Wm. Cutter Allen Register of the Court of Probate for said county hereby certify that Wm. Hammond is a Justice of the Peace for the county of York and that the above signature purporting to be his is genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal official this sixth day of May A.D. 1833.
Wm. Cutter Allen, Register of Probate.

I Alexander Goold of Eliot (formerly Hattery) in the County of York in the state of Maine aged eighty years testify and say that about the last of July (I think) in the year 1776. I enlisted in a company commanded by Captain Samuel Leighton in Colonel Francis's Regiment Continental troops we immediately marched to Dorchester in the state of Mas- -sachusetts, were employed in fatigue duty repairing forts &c for the term of four months when the term of my enlist- ment expired Timothy Hennard of Eliot aforesaid enlisted in this company as a private about the same time that I enlisted he was in and did duty in the company during the time that I belonged to it we were discharged about the same time from this service but did not receive a written discharge. Alexander his Goold mark witness John Hammond
York ss August 16 th 1832
Then personally appeared the above named Alexander Goold and made oath to the truth of the foregoing deposition by him subscribed Before me William Hammond Justice of the Peace

I William Staples of Eliot in the County of York and State of Maine aged seventy two years do testify and say that about the first of August AD 1777 I enlisted in the United States service was ordered to Cambridge to fort No 2 soon after I arrived at Cambridge I was placed in Captain Pillsbury's company ordered to Springfield near Connecticut River, guarded waggons to Albany when I arrived at Albany I was placed in a company under command of Captain Donald in Colonel Brewer's Regiment I was in the service above mentioned for the term of eight months Timothy Kennard of Eliot in the County of York was drafted about the same time that I enlisted went from Hittery to Cambridge with me and was placed with me in Captain Pillsbury's company and continued in that company until we arrived at Albany when he was placed in Captain Burbanks company in Colonel Brewer's Regiment and continued in that company until I was discharged from the service making eight months he served as a private his
William Staples mark
York ss Eliot August 16 1832 Then personally appeared William Staples above named and made oath to the truth of the foregoing deposition by him subscribed Before me William H. Rice of the Peace

State of Maine.
York ss. I William Cutter Allen, Register of the Court of Probate for said county, hereby certify that William Hammond is a Justice of the Peace for said county of York, and that the within signature purporting to be his is genuine.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal official this seventeenth day of August A.D. 1832.
Wm. Cutter Allen, Register of Probate.
William Hammond Justice of the Peace
State of Maine York ss
I certify that I the subscriber have been acquainted with the within named William Staples for twenty years last past and that his reputation for truth and veracity is good.
Elec 6 April 20 th 1833
William Hammond Justice of the Peace
State of Maine.
York ss. I Wm. Cutter Allen, Register of the Court of Probate for said county hereby certify that William Hammond is a Justice of the Peace as above stated and that the above signature purporting to be his is genuine.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal official this sixth day of May A.D. 1833.
Wm. Cutter Allen, Register of Probate.

Know all Men by these Presents, that I, Alpharus Kennard of Kittery in the County of York and State of Maine, one of the children of Timothy Kennard (dec) a Revolutionary Pensioner, under the Act of 1832, do hereby constitute and appoint William B. Parker of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, my true and lawful Attorney, for me, and in the name of the children of said deceased pensioner, to claim and receive from the proper officer or Agent of the United States, an arrearage of pension, which was not made by said Pensioner, at the time he was placed on the Pension, list or if made by him sufficient proof was not produced for allowing it to him and which proof has lately been sent to the Pension Office in order to a re-examination of his the said pensioners claim.
Witness my hand and seal this thirtieth day of July 1851
Sealed and delivered
in presence of
Jos. M. Edmonds.
Alpheus Kennard
State of New Hampshire, County of Rockingham ss.
Be it known that on the thirtieth day of July 1851, before the subscriber, a Notary Public in and for the State aforesaid personally appeared Alpheus Kennard above named, and acknowledged the foregoing power of Attorney to be his act and deed.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed my Notarial seal the day, month and year above written.
Jos. M. Edmonds,
Notary Public.

I, Alphens Kennard of Kittery in the County of York and State of Maine, one of the Children of Timothy Kennard late a Revolutionary pensioner, depose, testify and say, that I am one of the children of said Timothy Kennard deceased, that there is no widow of said pensioner alive, that there are now four children alive and no more, namely John, Alet, Mary Fisk, and this deponent. That he has reason to believe that the administration of said pensioner's claim was erroneous and that proof of said error has already been sent to the pension Office.
Alphens Kennard
State of New Hampshire Rockingham County } ss
Sworn and subscribed to before me this 30 th day of July 1851; I also certify, that in my opinion, this affiant is a credible and respectable witness.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my Notarial seal the day, month and year last above written
Wm B. Parker Notary - Public

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