Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 36624, for Calvin Jinkins, Connecticut

SERVICE
NUMBER
Coon
Jinkins, Calvin or Jenkins
S. 36624
CONTENTS

4.315
Connecticut Roll
Calvin Jenkins Capt Galtin Musician. 4 Connecticut line, 5 years.
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.
Inscribed on the Roll of Connecticut at the rate of Eight Dollars per month, to commence on the 1 st of April 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 11 th of Nov 1818 and sent to Pierpont Edwards Esq Judge Bridgeport
  Arrears to 4th of Sept 1818.  487 4 / 20  39:20    Semi-ann. all'ce ending 4 th March 1819   48:—     $ 87:20  
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818 }
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Redding

Notification, Lieut T. David Burr Esq 27 June 1822 Stratford Connecticut

Calvin Jenkins
Wedding Fairfield County
Connecticut.
4315
March 1819

At a County Court held in and for the County of Fairfield in the District and State of Connecticut on the 18 th day of April 1822 the same being a Court of Record and having a Seal by virtue of the Laws of said State.
Personally appeared Calvin Jenkins a resident in the Town of Redding in the County of Fairfield in said State and exhibited and subscribed the following Schedule and made oath that the same is a true & perfect Schedule of all his income and property necessary clothing and Bedding excepted, viz
  One acre of land $25 one two year old heifer $8 $33.00   Two swine $2.80 six chairs $2.17 one maple table $1.00 — 5.97   one single wheel 0.75 one great wheel $1.25 one porringer 0.75 — 2.75   one tea kettle 0.25 one dish kettle 0.75 one spider 0.40 one small copper kettle 3.00, 4.40   one candle stand 0.34 two old chests 0.75 one chest 0.87 three tin pans 0.58 — 2.54   4 earthen pots 0.42 four earthen bowls 0.25 one set cups & saucers 0.20 — 0.87   Milk cup 0.06 Earthen teapot 0.12 brown mug 0.05 three earthen plates 0.18 — 0.41   two quart jug 0.12 rumblers 0.04 four table spoons 0.16 five tea spoons 0.10 — 0.42   tin pail 0.25 one set knives and forks 0.58 five plates 0.15 — 0.98   one salt dish 0.04 one candlestick 0.06 Shovel & tongs 0.75 andirons 1.00 — 1.85   bellows 0.12 two cider casks 0.75 one meat cask 1.00 two pails 0.34 — 2.21   three tubs 0.64 frying pan 0.34 Loom 3.00 — 3.98   Reeds and gears 2.00 Shuttle 0.10 Quill wheel & wind blades 0.58 — 2.68   Warping bars $1.00 flail 0.12 two bread dishes 0.25 Saws 0.20 — 1.57   two dry casks 0.34 tub 0.06 Sythe 0.34 three bags 0.75 — 1.49   Shaving knife 0.17 two old axes 0.75 pair flow cards 0.20 — 1.12   $66.24 
Calvin Jenkins
District and State of Connecticut ss.
Be it remembered That in the County Court held in and for the County of Fairfield in the District and State aforesaid on this 18 th day of April 1822 the same being a Court of

Record and having a Seal under the Authority of Said State personally came & appeared in open Court Calvin Jenkins aged sixty three years resident in the Town of Redding in the County of Fairfield in S d State and being known according to law to be the person oath declared that he served in the Revolutionary war as follows in the Company commanded by Capt. Catlin in the Regiment commanded by Col. Philip B. Bradley a part of the time and a part of the time in Capt. Houson's Company in the Regiment commanded by Col. Heman Swift from March 1777 during the war and until the conclusion thereof that he enlisted as a musician and served a part of the time in Said capacity and a part of the time as a private soldier that the original declara- tion made by him for the purpose of obtaining a Pension, under the Act of Congress of the 18 th of March 1818, was dated the 8 th day of April 1818 that in pursuance thereof he was entered into the List of Pensioners and received a Pension Certificate No 4315 - and I do further solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18 th day of March 1818 and that I have not since that time, by gift sale or in any manner disposed of my property or any part thereof with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an Act of Congress entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War" passed on the 18 th day of March 1818 and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property or Securities  securities contracts or debts due to me nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed and I do further declare that my occupation is that of a day laborer and that I have no other means of obtaining a support and that I have a family residing with me consisting of a wife (Emeline Jenkins) aged sixty two years, infirm and unable to labor and a daughter Sarah Jenkins aged fifteen years - all which is subscribed by me the day & year aforesaid Calvin Jenkins
Sworn to & declared in the Court aforesaid. Whereupon S d Court is of opinion proof exhibited in Court is of opinion that the total amount in value of the property contained in the aforesaid schedule is sixty six Dollars & twenty four cents & doth order these proceedings to be entered in the Records of S d Court $ 66. 24 Attest David Burr Clerk

District of Connecticut ss;—
I David Burr Clerk of the County Court, in and for the County of Fairfield, in the State & District of Connecticut, do hereby certify, that the foregoing and the Schedule thereunto annexed, are truly copied from the Records of said Court; And I do further certify that it is the Opinion of said Court, that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid Schedule is Sixty Six Dollars & twenty four Cents — In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the Seal of said Court, on the 6 th day of May A. 1822. — David Burr —
I Robert Fairchild Chief Judge of the County Court, in & for the County of Fairfield, in the State of Connecticut, do hereby certify, that David Burr is Clerk of said Court, and keeper of the Seal and Records thereof; and that the preceding Certificate, under his hand, & the Seal of said Court, is authentic, and in due form of Law —
In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my Hand in Stratford this 20 th day of May, A. 1822 — Robert Fairchild

District of Connecticut ss
On this 8 day of April D W 10 Calvin Jenkins of Redding in said District underneath before Pierpont Edwards District Judge of the United States for the District of Connecticut in which District the declarant now resides and since the end of the end of the war of the Revolution hath resided that about the first day of April in the year seventeen hundred & seventy eight he enlisted into the service of the United States in Captain Catlin's Company Colonel Philip R. Bradley's Regiment in the Connecticut line on the Continent at establishment of the armies of the United States in the war of the Revolution for & during the continuance of said war and that he faithfully served the United States as a private in said line on said establishment in said war from the said time of his said enlistment until the end of said war when he was from said service honorably discharged for a discharge by a Discharge under the hand of General George Washington bearing date the 2 d day of June A D 1783 which discharge the declarant hath by time & accident lost
And the Declarant further maketh oath that he now is & since the declaration of Independence hath been a resident citizen of the United States and that by reason of his reduced circumstances in life he is in need of a piftion from his country for his support Calvin Jenkins

District of Connecticut ss April 2 nd 1818 The within Named Calvin Jenkins came before me & in my presence subscribed the aforesaid declaration & made Oath that the same is true Herbert Edwards ————— District Judge of D District

District of Connecticut ss
On this 8 day of April A.D. 1810 before me Pierpont Edwards District Judge of the United States for the District of Connecticut came Colonel Asahel Salmon and Captain Benjamin. Meek in both of Redding in said District who being duly sworn depose & say that they know that the aforesaid Declarant Calvin Jenkins is now and for a number of years last past hath been a resident citizen of the United States and that by reason of his reduced circumstances in life he is in need of assistance from his country for his support Asahel Salmon
April 8 th 1810 Sworn before me Benjamin Meek Pierpont Edwards Dist Judge of the US
District of Connecticut ss And on the 8 24 day of March A.D. 1810 came Summers Middlebrook & Isaac Storer both of Bristol in said District who also being duly sworn do depose & say that they well know that the aforesaid declarant Calvin Jenkins some time in the month of March or April A.D. 1770 enlisted into the Continental Army for the during the war of the Revolution and that he served in said army as a soldier to the end of said war Isaac Storer
March 24 th 1810 Sworn before me Summers Middlebrook
District Judge of the District of Connecticut

36624 Rev INVALID.
May 14, 1904 H. S. G. Mrs. N. C. Woodworth Westport Conn.
File No. 36624
Calvin Jenkins Musician Rev. M.D.
Act: 18 n March 18 7
Index:—Vol. L , Page 310
[Arrangement of 1870.]

MAY 12 1904
Commissioner of Pensions, Washington, D. C.
Sir,
Will you please send me the military records of Calvin Jenkins, a musician in the Revolutionary War, and a pensioner under the act of 1818, at that time a President of Redding, Conn.; and of Thurstan Hilliard, an artificer in the Rev- olution, who was wounded at Yorktown. He served in the Massachusetts Line.
Respectfully Yours,
Mrs. H. C. Woodworth,
Westport-
Fairfield Co.
Conn.
May 9, 1904.

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Calvin Jenkins
The
Honorable John C. Calhoun Secretary of the Department of War Washington,

Calvin Jenkins, Private , Musicia Connecticut line, 8 th April, 1818.
Admitted on Coun t Roll
Pierpont Edwards, Esq; Judge, Bridgeport, Fairfield co. Connecticut.
Rec d . 27. May, 1818.

I Purport Edwards District Judge of the District of Connecticut do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that Calvin Jenkins who made & subscribed the declaration contained in the annexed schedule did serve in the Revolutionary war against the common Enemy as stated in his said declaration & I now transmit the proceedings & testimony taken & had before me in his case to the Secretary of the department of war pursuant to an act of Congress in such case made & provided said proceedings & testimony are contained in the annexed schedule May 20 th 1818.
Purport Edwards —