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

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2320 Indiana
Heath Kendrick
Serving in the State of Indiana who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Blackshey of the Regt commanded by Col. Fletcher - in the Vermont line for 6 1/2 months from 1780
Enrolled on the Roll of Indiana at the rate of 21 - Dollars 66 Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 23 day of Nov. 31 and sent to Pensioner Vernon, Indas
Arrears to 4th of Sept 1832 32.49 Pension allowance ending 4 Mar 33 10.86
$43.32
{ Revolutionary Claim Act June 7, 1832
Recorded by Nathan Rice Book D Vol. 9 Page 187

6859 Heath Kendrick Indiana.
from 1780 print 6 1/2 month,  21.66
   Date the account is rendered to the person entitled Duration of service Rate Amount allowed for service      
1. If the person entitled to the benefits of this act is a minor, the amount of the benefits shall be paid to the person entitled to the benefits of this act.  2. If the person entitled to the benefits of this act is a minor, the amount of the benefits shall be paid to the person entitled to the benefits of this act.  3. If the person entitled to the benefits of this act is a minor, the amount of the benefits shall be paid to the person entitled to the benefits of this act.
(Act Jan. 11th, 1851.)
Respectfully, I am,

6859
BRIEF in the case of Heath Kendrick of Jennings County in the State of Indiana. (Act 7th June, 1832.)
1. 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.
   Period. Duration of Service. Rank. Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.   Years, Months, Days.     about the middle of June In 1780 — Served 60 15 Private  Gen.  Col: Wm. Fletcher  Capt James Blakesley  Lieut. Cochran     as a substitute for his Father Samuel Kendrick
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 traditional evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? traditional 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.

Answers to interrogatories propounded by the court according to instructions from the War Department
1 st I was born in the town of Brattle- borough in the State of Vermont on the 22 nd day of Decr. in the year 1764
2 nd I have at home a transcript of a record kept by my father
3 rd I was living in the town of Brattleborough Vermont. I moved from thence to Onondaga county New York thence to Otsego co. thence to Cayuga co. thence to Ontario co. thence to Cataraqui co. in the same state, thence to Adams co Ohio and thence to Jennings co. Indiana where I now live
4 th I entered the service as a substitute for my father Samuel Kendrick
5 th I believe there were no regular troops at fort Warren while I was there
I was under the command of Col. Fletcher Capt. Blackwell & Lieut. Cochran  Hendon I be- lieve that Genl. Stark had the command of the division & that his head quarters were at Skeneateles
6 th I received a written discharge from Col. Fletcher which is lost
7 th I am known to Col. Smith Vawter Patrick Hudson Esq and John Walker of the court
John H. H. H.

State of Indiana ss On the 3 d day of Jennings County ss September in the year 1832 personally appeared in open court before Robert Elliott Patrick W. Ducey and Samuel Wagner the Board of County Commissioners of the county aforesaid now sitting Neth Kendrick a 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 7 th 1832
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers (to wit) Col. Wm. Fletcher Capt. James Blakeley & Lieut. Cochran  Brooks about the middle of June in the year 1780, and con- tinued in the said service for six months and fifteen days, that he entered the said service as a substitute for his father Sam- uel Kendrick that he was then 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 whole of his said service, of capt. when he was engaged in scouting parties, that these scouting parties generally explored the

Country north as far as the Big Spring in the town of Shoreham on the border of Lake Champlain, that he received a written dis- charge from the Service from Col. Fletcher which has been long since lost, and that he has no documentary evidence and that he knows of no person whose testimony he can procure who can testify to his Service — that he lived in the his native town of Brattleboro for eight or ten years after the close of the revolution and then removed to Exeter, Chautauqua Co. N.Y. thence to Richfield Otsego Co. thence to Meentz, Cayuga Co. thence to Lima Ontario Co. thence to Plainfield, Clinton Co. all in the State of New York. Thence to Adams Co. Ohio and thence to Jennings Co. Indiana where he now lives. He hereby relinquishes every claim whatsoever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that he is not on the pension rolls of the agency of any State. Keith Kendrick
Sworn to and subscribed this day and year aforesaid. John Walker Clerk
We William Sanford, Sheriff of the county of Jennings & Ezra F. Peabody one of the Judges of the Circuit Court of the same hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Keith Kendrick who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration and we believe him to be sixty eight years of age, that he

is reported and befriended in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution and that we concur in that opinion Wm Sanford
E. F. Pabody Sworn and subscribed this day & year aforesaid John Walker 6/18/66
And the said Court do hereby declare their 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 Allison
Pat H. Wilson Samuel H. Haggerty
I John Walker Clerk of Board of County Commissioners of the County Linnings do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Mark Hendrick for a Pension
John Walker Clerk B6/66

Major Kendrick, Long Hill Kendrick Admitted cases
J. H. Chipman

Know all Men by these Presents, That I, Major Kendrick heir of Seth 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 21 66 /100 per annum and who died in Jennings County in the State of Indiana on the 24 th day of August A.D. 1843, leaving no widow, the having died before him
who was a Soldier in the Army of the Revolution, do hereby constitute and appoint GEORGE H. MONSARRAT, my 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 to have to arrears of pay or Pension money, under any Act or Acts, Resolution or Resolutions, of the Con- gress 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.
Said Attorney is moreover authorised in my name to demand at any Depart- ment of the said Government, a reconsideration of any decision hitherto or hereafter to be given, touching my interests, and to obtain from any Department or the archives thereof, any and all information or evidence of whatever character relating to or in anywise bearing upon the claim or claims we hereby seek the investigation of.
Said Attorney is moreover authorised to do any and all things necessary to carry out the foregoing purposes, and to receive the Certificates of Pension or other character of drafts or evidences of the amounts due me 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. Monsarrat hereby ratifying and confirming all that my said Attorney may do by virtue of these presents.
WITNESS my hand and seal this 22 nd day of April A.D. 1853
Witnesses. James H. Cleveland } Wattley Kendrick }
Major Kendrick.
State of ..... County, ss..... BE IT KNOWN, that on the ..... day of ..... 1853, before the undersigned, a ..... in and for the County and State aforesaid,
personally appeared acknowledged to the foregoing Power of Attorney, and acknowledged the signing, sealing and deliv- ery the same to be his free act and deed for the uses and purposes therein expressed.

16176 INVALID.
No. 16176
Heith Kenrick
Pre Ben War
Act: June 7" 32
Index:—Vol. 1 , Page 204
[Arrangement of 1870.]

BEFORE objections to the admission of Pension Claims, of which those answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of Heith Rendrich which require further proof or explanation.
I. Does the declaration show where the applicant resides? yes
II. Did the declarant make the declaration in the county where 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
V. Has 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 amount of pension he is entitled? yes
VI. 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
VIII. Has the Court given their opinion? yes
IX. Has the Clerk given his certificate? yes
X. Is 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

XI. Has the applicant obtained the evidence of a clergyman and another respectable citizen as to 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 has not 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 testimony of at least one living witness, has he stated in his declaration that such proof cannot be had? 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? Has the official character and signature of the magistrate been certified by the proper officer under his seal of office? 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? yes
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: For _____ year _____ months and _____ days, I served as a _____; For _____ months and _____ days, I served as a _____; and for such service I claim a pension."

It is important in all cases to determine 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 he 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 authenticating 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 improperly attached to the certificate.

Vernon Ind Sept 5.
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Vernon Ind. 2 nd Sept r 1832
Sir — Enclosed is my declaration to obtain a Pension under the Act of Congress of the 7 th June last
Respectfully Yours &c.
Heth Hendrick
W. H. Harrison Esq. President of the U. S. Washington