Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 13538, for Lory Jencks, Rhode Island

SERVICE
R.J.
Jencks, Lory
NUMBER
S.13538
CONTENTS
carded

H. H. Lyman Esq July 13/57-
58 24858
New York
Gory Tends
Atsego Co in the State of New York who was an Adj't's Lieut. in the Company comm. by Captain [blank] of the Regim t commanded by Col Potter in the R Island line for 15 months
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Inscribed on the Roll of New York the rate of 200 Dollars — Cents per annum, commence on the 4th day of March, 1834.
Certificate of Pension issued the 14 day of March 1834 and sent to Hon. S Page No. Rep t
Arrears to the 4th of Mar. '34 $ 600. 00 Semi-ant. allowance ending 4 Sep '34 100. 00 $ 700. 00
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by Thos Cromwell Clerk Book E Vol. 4 Page 63

A 264 Lowry Leaks
ret. 29. Oct 832
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Aug. 6 1832 Oct. 29. 1832
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James C Walworth Burlington Otsego Co N.Y.

BRIEF in the case of  Sony Jenckes of  Onavutes Otsog  in the State of  New York (Act 7th June, 1832.)
 1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? a judge  2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity? Yes  3. How old is he? 76 years of age  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.     In 1780 was commissioned and served for 3 years a nearly that time previous to the year 1780 the time he received his Commission he had served 4 Campaigns - As a Lieutenant & Adjutant private Orderly Serg. n Serg. t Maj. Gen. Col Thos Potter was transp. d to Col Christopher Olneys Reg. t Col West, Lippet, John Cook Stantons, Tappans   1775 & 1776 - served under  
 5. In what battles was he engaged? Rhode Island. Battle on Prudence Island  6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Coventry R.I. 
Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditional evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? Living Witnesses & Documentary Proof Edmund Kettle served with him -
8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? There is no string passing thro' them and under the Seal
I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
A Reintzel Examining Clerk.

Speck Petition -
By consent of Hon S. Page
adm d
15 mo adf. H. out.
Hon S. Page -

Dedication in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June 7 1832
State of New York Otsego County
On this 28th day of February 1834 personally appeared before James O'Connell Esquire one of the Judges of the court of common pleas of the said county of Otsego. Lord Banks a Resident of the town of Oneonta in the County of Otsego and State of New York, aged seventy eight years (more or less) who being 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 1832
That in the year 1782 in the latter part of June or first of July I was in the service of the United States in the State Militia under Captain William Roy and Col. Easton's Regiment as Sergeant when my Lieutenant's commission came to me as Lieutenant in that Regiment
There was no commissioned Adjutant in the Regiment neither did I take a Subaltern Officer there was an immediate call for soldiers than more than the  the our Regiment captured  Regiment was ordered to North Kingston I was taken for Adjutant and therefore served as such until
the fall of July last of July then moved back to East Greenwich our Col went home Major Gorton took the command we had orders from the Governor to send after Delinquents and absentees arms &c. I was sent with the
arrested warrant and brought them in then orders came for Col. Walt Col. Fitzgerald and Col. Easton to take their Regiments to Bristol returned about the first of October

3m
East Greenwich Col. Waterman was ordered to beardick neck with his Regiment and I was served him as his Adjutant until in December the 10th part Warren in Col. Brown Regiment in January 1781 in South Kingston as his Adjutant
3m
Col. Fitzgursst relieved Col. Brown in March and kept under him as his Adjutant until to beardick neck under Lieut. Col. Lord relieved by Col. Cornado
2m
three in May and served under Col. Cornado as Adjutant then under Col. Potter
1m
one month at part of June and July then under Col. Crary
3m
in Newport three months then again one month under Col. C. Crary was there when the news of Cornwallis's surrender arrived
1m
went home from Newport the latter part November 1782 January or February went out again under Col. Thomas Fitzgursst
1m
to North Kingston served one month under him as his Adjutant he relieved by Col. Lord
1m
lands at South Kingston under him one month he relieved by Col. Phillips
1m
under him one month at the same place then returned home
1m
called out again in May under Col. Potter under Boston one month he relieved
1m
by Col. Potter at North Kingston & East Greenwich relieved him one month called out again
1m
by Col. Brown and served one month at North Kingston he relieved by Col. Fitzgursst
1m
served one month and returned home

Another Regiment took our place that had an Adjutant Adjutant -
Then again in the year 1783 served in the first part of the year under Col. Bastard Browne and Mathewson for the term of at least five months on the west Shore at the way from Warwick to Charlestown And for over a year or more he served under Commission he did the duty of Lieutenants and Adjutants both and for that service he was the possessor of a captain's pay as pay as is stated in his pay abstracts now on file with his former Disbursing Officer in the Pensions Office and that is intended as supplementary or an amended Declaration to that And that the annexed Warrant is the original Warrant that he received from Major Thomas Gorton on the day that it bears date
And from that age and the consequent loss of memory he cannot state any more particularly his services in 1783 nor 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 two years and four months served as under a Lieutenant Adjutant and for such service I claim Pension He was the usual custom for our Col. to serve one month at a time but some times would 2 or 3 before relieved by an Other

He hereby relinquishes all claims to any of his services rendered in his original disembarkation previous to the 17th day of June in the year 1880 the date of his commission all of which is now on file in the Pension office
Subscribed and sworn to
Long James
this 28th day of
February 1884
Before me James
C. Walworth a judge
of Otago County Court
I certify that the above Deposition from Boddy informants is unable to attend the Court
J. C. Walworth a judge of Otago County Court

Long Island
Mr Cole
March 18 1887
H. H. Sylvester

State of New York Cattaraugus County } ss
I William H Shankland Justice of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, do hereby certify that - Satisfactory Evidence has been adduced before me satisfactory to me the said - Justice that Loren Jenks of the County of Albany and State of New York, was a Pensioner of the United States under the act of 7 th June 1832 at the Rate of Two Hundred Dollars Per annum and died on the 1 st day of May A D 1839 and left a Widow him surviving whose name was Mary Jenks who is now dead That at the time of his death he left the following named Children him surviving viz - Joseph G Jenks of Allegany County N.Y. Betsey Bourn of Allegany County N.Y. and Hannah Strait of Seneca County N.Y. and that they are his only Children him surviving and that Each of them is over Twenty One years of age - Sealed February 22 1851 -
W H Shankland
State of New York } ss I Rufus A Reed, Clerk of said Cattaraugus Co. Clerk's Office } County, do certify that Wm. H. Shankland, whose name is attached to the above certificate, is a Justice of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, and further, that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of said Justice and verily believe the signature to the said certificate is genuine, In testimony whereof I have hereunto set

my hand, and affixed the seal of said County, this 22d day of February A. D. 1851.
Rufus A. Reed, Clerk

H H Sylvester Sir, we the children of Lord Jencks do hereby appoint you to be lawful agent to act for us in all things relating to the obtaining an increase of Pension due our said Father at his death Dated July 18 th 1840
Joseph J Jencks Betsey Bowen
Lord Jencks - died 1 May 1839 - left a Widow who was married in 1881 - she died about a year ago - left 3 Chil. The only children now living, are Joseph J. Jencks, Betsey Bowen & Hannah Strick wife of David of Oregon - Writs to Chester Babcock Mc. Grawville, Eastland Co.

February 14, 1912.
Mrs. A. J. Hale, 94 Charles Street, Wilkes-Barre, Pa.
Madam:
In response to your letter dated the 5" and received the 7" instant, you are advised that Lory Jencks , Sur. File No. 13,538 , Rev. War, was allowed pension on his application executed July 26, 1832, while a resident of Owanta, Otsego County, New York.
He stated that he was born in March, 1756, at Warwick, Rhode Island, and resided at Coventry, Rhode Island when he served in the Rhode Island troops as follows.
First enlisted in 1775 and served nine months as Private; one year as Orderly Sergeant; and five months as Sergeant Major; under Captains Reuben Whitman, Benjamin West, William Barton; Colonels West, Lippet, John Cooke, Staunton and Topham, and was in the battles on Rhode Island and Providence Island.
He was commissioned June 19, 1780, Lieutenant, and was attached to the companies of Captains William Roy, Asa Bennet, Samuel Wall, Joseph Hopkins John Whipple and Israel Pierce, but served as Adjutant to Colonels Thomas Potter, Christopher Olney, Kasson, Waterman, Brown, Thomas Tillinghast, Sands,

Phillips and Cornell; two years and four months.
Soldier married about 1801, Mary ---; he died May 1, 1839, and she died about 1849, leaving only three children ; viz. Joseph G. Jenoks and Betsey Bowen of Otsego County, New York, and Hannah wife of David Strait of Owego, Tioga County, New York, who were alive in 1851.
Very respectfully,
Commissioner.

Larry Jencks S. File 13538. of Lowry Jencks Commission as Lieut. of 2nd Co. in Country, Kent Co. As I signed on 14 Decr 1780 19, 1780, has been removed from the case for safe keeping Also Pay abstract of Lt. Lowry Jencks Co. Col. Thos. Potter's regt. dated July 8, 1781, Newport.
Order for him to bring in delinquents signed by Thomas Gorton, Maj. at East Greenwich Aug. 2, 1780.
Order to him, as Adjt. 2 d Regt Kent Co. Mil., to collect delin- quents' fines signed by Archibald Kason, Lt. Col. Comdt at Country Sept. 9, 1781, have been removed from the case for the purpose of my

forwarding the same to the War Dept. at some future time — all papers may be found in the safe in the room of the chief of the Old War and Navy Division
J.S.C. July 18, 1904
The pay abstract and two orders were for- warded to the War Dept. Nov. 8, 1905. All done

By his Excellency William Greene Esquire, Governor, Captain-General, and Commander in Chief, of and over the State of Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations.
Larry Jencks
Gentleman, GREETING.
Y OU Larry Jencks being by the General Assembly elected and chosen to the Place and Office of Lieutenant of the Second Company or Trained Band of the Town of Coventry in the County of Went in the State aforesaid, are hereby, in the Name of the Governor and Company of the said State, author- rized, empowered, and commissioned, to exercise the Office of Lieutenant of and over the Company aforesaid: And to command, guide and conduct the same, or any Part thereof: And in Case of an Invasion or Assault of a common Enemy to infest or disturb this Plantation, you are to alarm and gather together the Company under your Command, or such Part thereof as you shall deem sufficient, and therewith, to the ut- most of your Skill and Ability, you are to resist, expel, kill and destroy the same, in order to preserve the Interest of the good People in these Parts. You are also to follow such Instructions, Directions and Orders, as shall from Time to Time, be further given forth, either by the General Assembly, the Governor and General Coun- cil, or other your superior Officers. And for your so doing, this Commission shall be your sufficient Warrant and Discharge.
G I V E N under my Hand and Seal of the said State, the Nineteenth Day of June in the Year of our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and Eighty and in the fourth Year of Independence.
By his Excellency's Command, Henry Ward Lany
W. Greene
S. File 13,538.
AM RT

Burlington Vt July 30
Majors Loring French Owensville Laurens Abingdon

State of New York } Otsego County ss. }
I, Horace Sathrop, Clerk of the said county do certify that Samuel J. Cooke Esq. before whom the annexed affidavit of Lucy Jencks purports to have been sworn to at the date of the same one of the Justices of the Peace in & for said county; and that I am acquainted with his hand writing & hereby believe his name subscribed to the said affidavit to be his proper hand writing & signature.
Witness my hand & seal of office this 3 rd day of September 1873.
Horace Sathrop By A. C. Luce Deputy

Amended Declaration Heather of New York Otsego County
Personally appeared before me the undersigned Justice of the Peace Long Islands assistant of the town of Oyster in said county, who being duly sworn accord- ing to law deposes and saith that by reason of Old age and the consequent loss of memory he cannot now swear to all the particulars relating to his services but he well remembers that his captain was William Proy then he was transferred and was served under captain Asa Bennett & Captain Samuel Wall & captain Joseph Hopkins Captain Heath John Whipple and also captain Israel Divers all this service was while he was a holding the commission of a Lieutenant (annexed to his original Declaration now on file in the Pension Office) And that the reason that he was out all the time under Military commission was that he was a Young & a single man (and was poor and had to work out for a living) and the field Officers would say to him now Lieutenant Dinkins you have no family and you have served so long you understand the duty you must stay and serve and other bower of duty as Adjutant and he

thought he would make more in that way than he could to work out by the month and that is the reason he was continued in service only on duty for three  four or five months years, as assistant and Lieutenant And that the Rhode Island Militia some part of it was kept constantly on duty to defend its Rivers and Bays & harbors from the enemy and that he had no acquaintance with Ensign Seth Thomas except over short time of duty that the said Thomas was out as mentioned - on his boundary abstract now on file in the Pension Office and has never seen him since the said abstract was drawn and that this Declarant lives more than 90 miles from any part of the County Caganga & that he does not know what part of that County he lives in and that it is a very large County and that this depon- ent is a poor ignorant old man and has been confined to his house for more than Six years and if he cannot obtain his pension until he can get and look up Seth the Thomas he will call on him and that I wish to have the attached to my original Declaration now on file in the Pension Office as a part of it Very Respectful.
Seal of the said Declarant the ninth day of August 1830
Before me a Justice of the Peace of Allegany County
Samuel J. Cooke Justice

Wayuga County } ss. Seth Thomas being duly affirmed deposes and says that he was acquainted with Jerry Dinks in the Revolutionary war that he served in the same Regiment with said Dinks and acted in the capacity of Lieutenant, that deponent and said Dinks was both stationed at Brintons neck on the South part of Rhod Island I believe said Dinks was in the service there three months that he was an active officer and discharged his duty well, and believes said Dinks was in the service on Rhode- Island in Year 1781. Further this deponent sayeth not.
Affirmed I subscribed this 21 st day of January 1834 before me H. Thomas. Just. peace
Seth Thomas
I hereby certify that Seth Thomas is a credible witness July 8. 1834
R Day M.C.

State of New-York.
CAYUGA COUNTY, } ss. CLERK'S OFFICE, }
I, MICHAEL S. MYERS, Clerk of the County of Cayuga, and Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, in and for the said County : Do hereby certify, that Allen Thomas Esquire, was on the 11th day of January one thousand eight hundred and thirty four a Justice of the Peace, in and for said County, duly commissioned and sworn, and that full faith and credit are to be given to his acts in that capacity : And that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of the said Justice and verily believe the signature to the annexed Deposition to be his proper hand writing.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto affixed the seal of the Court of Common Pleas of the said County, and subscribed my name this twenty Second day of January A.D. 1834.
M. S. Myers

State of New York Broome County
J. B. Marvin Clerk of said County do
hereby certify that Thos Blakslee Esq. before whom the within affi- vit purports to have been taken was on the date thereof a Judge in and for said county of Broome And that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of said Judge and verily believe the signature of Thos Blakslee is genuine
In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 28. day of Dec 1832
J. B. Marvin Clerk
I Thos Blakslee do certify that I am well acquainted with Edmund Flettle & believe him to be a man of truth & veracity & the within named deponent is reputed to be a credible person in the town of Colesville where he resides
Colesville Dec 28 th 1832
Thos Blakslee Edmund Flettle

State of New York } On the 20 th day of July 1832 Personally came Broome County ss: } before me Thos Blakslee one of the judges of Broome Common Pleas Edmund Little who being by me duly sworn deposeth and saith that he was formerly acquainted with Lory Jenkins in the state of Rhode Island that he the deponent served with said Jenkins in the Revolutionary War as a soldier under Capt Ruben Whitman Col Cooks Regiment from Sept 1 st 1776 to Dec 1 st of the same year. also was enlisted by the above named Lory Jenkins as orderly sergeant under Capt Benjamin West Col Stanton's Regiment June 15 th 1777 where the aforesaid Jenkins faithfully served for nine months and further saith not The words in the state of Rhode Island Interlined
Sworn & subscribed the day & year first above written Before me Thos Blakslee
Edmund Little 

State of New York Otsego County ss
Sworn to Declaration
Personally appeared before me this undersigned Judge of the County of Otsego and State of New York, James  James  Smith  Smith who being duly sworn, deposes and says that he is now of the age and the consequence of his injury he cannot earn a farthing as to the present benefit of his service but that according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the period mentioned herein and in the following grades for two years and eight months I served as a Lieutenant under the annexed commission and for all of that term of two years and eight months I did the duty of an Adjutant and Lieutenant at the same time for five months I served as a Sergeant Major For one year I served as an Orderly Sergeant For nine months I served as a private and for such service I claim a Pension. Long Fenwick Subscribed and sworn this 21st day of December 1852 before me Samuel C. Haines Judge of Otsego County Courts

Otago County ss Personally appeared before me the undersigned Judge of Otago County John Cook a resident of the said county who being duly sworn deposes and saith that he is Seventy seven years of age that he was in the United States Service in the State of Ohio island in the year 1880 and that he has then lived Lord Lanes now a resident of the town of Oamaru in said county of Otago and that he therefor served as a Lieutenant and Adjutant for two months or more in Col. Galt's Regiment and that this deponent has served as a private in the same Regiment and that he has been a neighbor to him in Otago County for forty one years past and well knows him to be a man of truth and veracity John Cook Subscribed and sworn this 20th day of December 1882 Before me James C. Manserth a Judge of Otago County Court
I certify that I am personally acquainted with John Cook that has sworn to the above Affidavit before me that he is a creditable person and entitled to full credit
James C. Manserth Judge of Otago County

Ulster County ss
Be it remembered that
on the 20th day of July 1892 personally appeared Lory, Linder Jewels of the town of Coeymans in the county of Ulster aforesaid before James C. Wardroster Esquire clerk of the judges of the said county of the court of common pleas to him a court of record proceeding upon the principles of common law having a clerk and seal In order to obtain the benefits of the provi- sions of the Act of Congress passed June 7th 1852 being first duly sworn according to Law deposes and saith that he was born in the town of Warwick in the state of New York county of Ulster in the year 1756 and is now 78 years of age but does not know of any record of his age that in the year 1780 he received the unexpired commission from the then Governor of the State of Rhode Island and went immediately into service under it that he then lived in the town of Coeymans in the State of New York age and other bodily infirmities and fears on a complaint that I have been long afflicted with I am so afflicted that I have been here entirely confined to my house for about seven years past and am entirely unable to attend the court it is 20 miles to the court House of the said county from my residence and has resided in the State of Rhode Island and state of Vermont and has resided in the county of Ulster aforesaid for 43 years past where he now resides

and was immediately appointed to as the duty of an Assistant to the Regiment of Col. Thomas Potter and afterward was transferred Col. Christopher Okey Regiment and there acted as Adjutant again and held under the same commission the same for three years or nearly that time into the close of the war either as Lieutenant or adjutant apart of the time as Lieutenant and quartermaster of a company and that his pay as Lieut. and Adjutant was thirty three Dollars and fifty six cents and ten per cent on shelling and (since service half pay) amounts as well after from a pay abstracts were in his possession and certified to by Lieut. Col. Potter July 8th 1787 and that previous to the year 1780 at the time he received the above described

Commission We had served four campaigns under several officers Col. of the state troops of the State of Rhode Island either as a private or an orderly Sergeant and Sergeant Major was in the Battle of Rhode Island Gen. Sullivan expedition in the year 1778 was in the battle on Prudence Island under Capt. Williams Battalion in December year next recalled Service under Col. Hets in the state service in the year 1775 next Col. Lippett's name in the year 1776 and 1777 next Col. John's books next next Col. Stanton's Regiment next in Col. Tappan's Regiment and in the same until I received the annexed commission - - - - -
and I further state that from my advanced age and other bodily infirmities and from a complaint that I have been long afflicted with I am so disabled that I have been entirely confined to my house for about seven years past and am entirely unable to attend the court it being 20 miles to the court House of the said county from my residence and has resided in the State of Rhode Island and State of Vermont and has resided in the county of Otsego aforesaid for 45 years past where he now resides

I hereby extinguish all claims and every claim to a pension or annuity from whatsoever source the present and declare that my name is not on the Pension rolls of the agency of any State Sworn and subscribed this day and year aforesaid before me Harriet L. Murchett a      Mary Jenkins Judge of Allegheny County
State of New York

State of New York Otsego County ss
I James C. Wainwright a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of the county of Otsego affirm it being a court of record having a seal and was to certify that I attended at the dwelling house of Lord Jencks Esq. at the town of Oneonta in said county and I know from general reputation that he has been so infirm and debilitated as to be unable to leave his house and that he is a man of standing and respectability and entitled to full credit and being under Oath or otherwise and I do further certify and declare it to be my opinion that he is rightly unable to attend a court of the said county at its regular terms at the court-house and I presume never will be and I further declare it is my opinion that he has never been the services stated in his Declaration as an Officer as well appear by the annexed commission and that I put all the interrogatories according to the instruc- tions issued from the War Department and I declare it is my opinion that he is as able as he states himself to be In testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand this 20th day of July 1862 at the county of Otsego aforesaid
James C. Wainwright a Judge of Otsego County

State of New York Otsago County ss.
I, Horace Lathrop, Clerk of the said County of Otsago, do certify, that Daniel Melvick, before whom the foregoing Declaration or Affidavit of Long said person to have been subscribed & sworn, and whose name is subscribed to the foregoing certificate, was, at the date of the same, one of the Judges of Otsago County Court, duly commissioned & sworn as such, and also, that I am well acquainted with his hand writing and verily believe his name subscribed to the said Affidavit and certificate, to be his own proper handwriting and signature. Given under my hand, and seal of Office, the 11th day of August, 1832. Horace Lathrop, Clerk.
Subs. to the above Long Lathrop
[Faint, mirrored bleed-through text from the reverse side of the page, mostly illegible.]

Otago County ss.
Personally appeared before me the undersigned Judge of Otago County Joseph Doherty who being duly sworn deposeth and saith that he is a resident of the town of Oamaru in the said County, aged years twenty five, that he was well acquainted with Lord Gough in the Revolutionary war that from the year 1780 until about the close of the War Lord Gough Gough served in the Philadelphia Militia as a Lieutenant & Adjutant for as much as two years and four months and that this Defendant served under him for most part of that time either as an Ensign or a private and that I would reside within one mile of him and have for twenty years past and that he is a man of the strictest veracity and further saith not
Joseph Doherty Subscribed and sworn this 22 nd day of December 1832 Before me
J. C. Mansel a Judge of Otago County Court
I certify that Joseph Doherty who has sworn to the above affidavit is personally known to me to be a man of truth & veracity and intitled to credit. J. C. Mansel a Judge of Otago County

Record Division.
Department of the Interior,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS,
March 4, 1908
Searched by L. D. Lamparter
Original No. _____
Certificate No. _____
Claimant, _____
Soldier, Lory Jenkins
Service, Co. I.
Rev. War
Remarks: No claim as above except Invd # 13538

Pension Bureau.
Washington D. C.
Will you please send me the Revolutionary Pension Record, of my ancestor 8.13.538 Lieut. Louny Jencks. who enlisted in 1780 2 nd Coventry Co. of Providence R.I. He resign- -ed in 1817. I found in our Library in "Vol. 2 - R.I. - U.S. Pension Rolls 1835" that he was a Pensioner. I would like to get as much information of him & his Family as possible for which I would be very grateful. Any expense it may incur. I will defray. Yours Very Sincerely Mrs. A. J. Hale
Mrs. A. J. HALE 94 CHARLES ST. WILKES-BARRE, PA.
Feb 5 - 1912

I John Hopkins, of West Greenwich in the County of Kent in the State of Rhode Island do on oath testify and say that I am now eighty seven years of age that during the war of the Revolution in the year seventeen hundred and eighty one, when I was about Eighteen years of age I served a month as a private, in the month of September in Captain Joseph Hopkins Company of Militia stationed on the Island of Rhode Island and it was the only month I ever did serve.
I further testify I have a distinct recollection that Lowry Jencks, with whom I was well acquainted both before and afterwards, for he was always a neighbor of mine although he lived in Coventry, was the adjutant of the Regiment during the month I served the Regiment according to my best recollection was or had been under the Command of Colonel Crary how many months the said Lowry had served before that time I do not know but he had been in service before that time on Rhode Island after the war the said Lowry, moved away into the State of New York, to a County called Otsego I believe, I recollect of going up into that Country once many years ago and seeing and visiting him there. John Hopkins
State of Rhode Island &c
Kent ss, In West Greenwich personally appeared the above named John Hopkins and made oath to the above deposition by him signed and I also certify he is a credible witness. Cyrus Holden Justice of the Peace -

State of Rhode Island & Providence Plantations
County of Kent SC
I Joseph T. Dillingham of East Greenwich Clerk of the Supreme Court of this State, within and for the County of Kent, a Court of Record do certify that Cyrus Holden whose signature is under the affidavit of John Hopkins on this sheet is a Justice of the Peace of the Town of Warwick, in said County, that he has been duly appointed
to that office and commissions by the Governor of this State for the present year and that full faith and credit, is due him in all his official acts.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court this 12 th day of November AD 1850
Jos. T. Dillingham Clerk Sup. Court

Rowland Day Member of Congress from Cayuga County a particular acquaintance of Mrs Seth Thomas

add. Proof Long Island, N.Y.
file with papers of Long Island No.

Hon. J. L. Edwards born of Passions

J. L. Edwards Esq. Commissioner of Pensions Sir I send you enclosed my amendment to Lord Teynham's Declaration now on file in your Office (as appears by your Letter to me enclosed) We wish you attach it to his papers and give them an other examination
I am Sir yours &c J. Mansel-Pleydell

New York
Recd.
4264
Lowry Jinks suspended
See letter 28 June 1857.
to J.C. Walworth
Burlington
N.Y.
See letter of July 34 to Hon J. Page HR
Act J. June '32
adm d . 15 mo C.P.
adg d .

1905 Nov. 8. Pay abstract of Lt. Loy Jencks co. Col. Thos. Potter P.D. Regt. dated July 8, 1781. Newport.
② Order to take up delinquents signed Thos. Gorton Mayor at East Greenwich Aug. 2, 1780.
③ Order to Loy Jencks Adj. 2 d Regt. Militia of Kent Co. to collect fines signed Archibald Kasson Lt. Col. Command at Coventry Sept. 9, 1781. These three papers have been forwarded to War Dept. Nov. 8, 1905 1912. Feb. 14, Hist. to Mrs. A. J. Hale
Per man
13538 INVALID.
File No. 13 538
Loy Jencks Lieut. Rev. War
Act: June 7 th 1832
Index:—Vol. 1 , Page 192
[Arrangement of 1870.]

34 West St.,
Ilion, N. Y.,
Mar. 2, 1908,
Commissioner of Pensions, Washington, D. C.,
Sir,
I am desirous of obtaining information regarding one Lory Jencks, who was a major in the Revolutionary war and probably enlisted from Rhode Island. He must

have enlisted in 1777, as the family records say, and served until the close of the war.
Please give me all the information possible and notify me in regard to any required fee.
Yours truly,
M. Eva Parsons.

War Department Pension Office 28. June 1833.
Sir,
The claim of Lourey Jenkins has been again examined and suspended. He neglected to state the name of the Captain of the Company to which he belonged in the Militia of Rhode Island, or to allege the character of his service, - whether continuous or composed of tours. If the latter, each tour should be separately recited, as to period & term, where marched or stationed &c. - If the former, it is proper to apprise you that two or three of continuous service could not have been rendered under a Militia Commission. Upon the Abstract of a Company roll, accompanying the papers, the name of Seth Thomas is borne as Ensign. He now resides in Cayuga County, and his

his testimony could be obtained. The Regulations require the best evidence, within the power of the Claimant to produce. This papers are placed on file.
I am, respectfully Your ob st Servant. J. L. Edwards
J. C. Walworth, Esq. Burlington N. Y.

Burlington Green July 7th Major Lory Jenkins Sir I have just the annexed Letter from the Pension Office I wish you to send it