Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 20,300, for Ashbel Keeney, Connecticut

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Keeney, Ashbel _____ Sarah _____
N. 20,300 _____ _____
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3202
Connecticut
Sarah Keeney - (non compos mentis)
Conm widow of Ashbel Keeney
who was a private
in the Connecticut line
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 29 Dollars 33 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843.
Certificate of Pension issued the 4 day of December 1843 and sent to Henry Fowler
Hartford
Conn.
[Act of March 3, 1843.]
Recorded in Book A Vol. 1 - Page 71-
Rep 5 Dec

Richard Kenney for Sarah Kenney.

State of Connecticut Hartford County } ss Hartford.
On this 3 rd day of December 1840 personally appeared, before the Probate Court for the District of Hartford, in the County of Hartford, & State of Connecticut, Daniel Winslow, a resident of East Hartford, in the County & District aforesaid, who being first duly sworn, according to Law, doth on his Oath make the following Declarations in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of the 7 th of July 1838 entitled An act granting half pay & pensions to certain Widows for the benefit of Widow Sarah Freaney.
Viz; that he makes this application in behalf of Widow Sarah Freaney the Widow of the late Ashbel Freaney, of Manchester in said Hartford County, she being in a State of mental derangement and he, the said Daniel Winslow being her Conservator.
He declares under Oath, that he is informed, and fully believes, and expects to prove, that the late Ashbel Freaney, husband of the said Sarah Freaney, performed, as a private Soldier two tours of duty, in the Army of the Revolution. That in the month of January 1776, he enlisted into a Company of State Troops, commanded by Capt Jonathan Wells, of East Hartford, Connecticut that he served under him from about the 26 th of January 1776 to the 6 th day of April 1776 near Boston in Mass.
And that in the month of June 1776, he again enlisted for the term of either Six, or Seven months, under the said

Capt Jonathan Wells, and served under him as a Private Soldier, at New London, in Con- necticut until the first of January, or the fore- part of January 1777: a period of between Six and Seven Months.
And he further declares declares, his belief; that the said Ashbel Keeney, was Married to Sarah Wells, of East Hartford, by the Rev Elphalet Williams Pastor of the Congrega- tional Church, of said East Hartford, in the Winter of the year 1784: viz, Seventeen Hundred & Eighty four: and that he, the said Ashbel Keeney, died at said Manchester, on the Seventh day of January, A 1823. And the said Widow still remains his Widow; and she has never again to intermarried. And declarant requests that Capt Jonathan Wells pay Roll, of his company to Roxbury, in the Winter of 1776, sent with the papers of Catharine Bower, Widow of John Bower of East Windsor, may be examined, where his said Keeney's name, may be found, as he is is informed, and believes. And declarant further declares, his belief, that the said Sarah Keeney, was not married to her said husband, Ashbel Keeney, prior to the last period of his said services, but that the marriage took place, previous to the first day of January, Seventeen hundred and Ninety four, viz, at the time above stated.
Daniel Winslow Commissioner
Sworn to, and Subscribed, on the day and year first named Before me. Seth Tracy Judge

In testimony whereof, I Nathaniel Goodwin Clerk of the Court of Probate for the District of Hartford, in the County of Hartford & State of Connecticut, do hereunto subscribe my name, and affix the Seal of said Court, on this 3 rd day of December 1840.
Nathaniel Goodwin, Clerk.

I Richard Hene, of Manchester aged 74 years, served in the latter part of the Revolutionary War, for which I receive a pension, under the act of June 1832.
There served with me in a part of my tours Jeremiah Hene a Cousin of mine, and after the close of the War he courted Miss Sarah Wills of East Hartford Conn. he Raised his House & the evening after, at a Wrestling ring ring, he received a severe strain by which a blood vessel was broken & he died in two days, & was buried the 8th of July 1783, & his funeral sermon was preached by the Rev Benajah Phelps of Manchester: And a few months, after his Death, Ashbel Hene, of this Town, Married the said Sarah Wills, within not much odds of a year, & lived with her until his death, about seventeen years ago; & his widow still remain unmarried. I myself was Married in the month of Sept. 1785; when I was married Ashbels Wife had one child.
Elizabeth H. Charlton.
Richard his  X Hene mark.
State of Connecticut
Hartford County, } Manchester, on this 26 th day of August 1840, personally appeared, before me the subscribing authority, Richard Hene, a credible man, who then & there subscribed the foregoing deposition in my presence, & made solemn oath to the truth of the same before me. Jesse Charlton Justice of the Peace.

December 9, 1930
Rev.& 1812 Wars Section AWF:MLB
Mrs. T. J. Lewis South Manchester Connecticut
Dear Madam:
You are advised that it appears from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, W. 20300, that Ashbel Keeney (name also spelled Keeny and Keney) enlisted in East Hartford, Connecticut, and served as a private in the Connecticut troops, as follows:
From January 26, 1776 to April 6, 1776, in Captain Jonathan Wells' company, Colonel Erastus Wolcott's regiment; and from in June, 1776, six or seven months in the same company and regiment.
He died January 7, 1823 in Manchester (formerly a part of East Hartford), Connecticut.
The soldier married in the winter of 1784 in East Hartford, Sarah Hills.
1840 She was allowed pension on her application executed December 3, 1838 , at which time she was living in Manchester, Connecticut, aged seventy-three years.
A family of children is referred to, the only names stated being Ashbel who was fifty-five years old in 1840.
Very truly yours
E. W. MORGAN Acting Commissioner

Manchester, Conn.
April 4 th 1926
Department of the Interior
Bureau of Pensions,
Washington, D. C.
Gentlemen:
Will you kindly give me the full record of En- H, 20300 pertaining to pension granted to Sara Hills Kenny widow of Ashbel Kenny .
Thanking you for same, I am,
Yours very truly,
M c Frank F. Spencer

2 Postage Stamps Recd 20 3/4
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Apr. 27, '23.
MRS. J. E. KINNEY, 737 Corona St., Denver, Colorado
U.S. Pension Office Washington, D.C.
Gentlemen; -
Please send me any information which you have connected with Abner Kinney Pension, File No. W. 20300.
Yours very truly
(Mrs. J. E.) Leila B. Kinney
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Rev
WIDOW, &c.
20,300
20300
File No. ....
Sarah Keene
Wid of
Ashbel Keene
Priv. Rev. War
Act: .....
March 3, 1843
Index:—Vol. ....
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Page .....
393
[Arrangement of 1870.]
1920, apl. 15 Hist. to Mrs. Kate K. Parker 406 Main St.,
Glastonbury, Conn. Ev.
1921, apl. 28 hist to Mr. Frank F. Spencer - Ev.
1923 June 18, Hist to Mrs. F. E. Rinney Adv.
1930 Dec. 9 - Hist to Mrs. J. J. Lewis Adv.

So. Manchester, Conn., Nov. 14-1930
United States Department of the Interior Bureau of Pensions Washington, D.C.
Rev
Stamp Enclosed
Commissioner:
Dear Sir:-
Can you please furnish me the war record of Ashel or Ashbel Keeney who served in the Revolution from East Hartford or Hartford, Conn.? Archives 2A 65 A at State Library Htfd. give Ashbel Keeney private half days training 1775 only Were there two men by this name who gave service from same town? I desire war service and date of birth of same.
Would also like the war record of James McKinney Jr. listed on the Lexington Alarm list, he was supposedly from Ellington, Conn.
Yours truly,
Vice Regent Orford Parish Chapter D.A.R.
Bertha L. Leavie (Mrs. T.J.)

Glastonbury Conn
March 31 st 1920
U. S. Bureau of Pensions,
Will you please give information concerning appli- cation for pension, by Sarah, widow of Ashbel Keeney. Widows file 20300.
Respectfully yours
Mrs Kate K. Parker 406 Main St
Glastonbury, Conn.

6041. Connecticut.
Reported.
Sarah Hovey , (new Compts) widow of Abel Hovey , decd.
who was a pensioner under the Act of — and who died on the 7th January 1823, of Hartford (in the State of Connecticut who was a private in the Comp y commanded by Captain Wells of the reg t commanded by Col. — in the Conn. Mil a line for 8 months 24 days.
Inscribed on the Roll of Connecticut at the rate of 29 Dollars 33 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.
Certificate of Pension issued the 12 th day of Feby 1841, sent to Hon. Jo: Trumbull House of Rep s .
Arrears to the 4th of March 1841 $ 146.66 Pension allowance ending
Payable to Daniel Winslow, Conservator. { Act July 7, } { 1838. }
Recorded by D. M. Condy, Clerk, Book 4, Vol. 1, Page 191.

I Samuel Spring Pastor of the Congregational Church in East Hartford, in the County of Hartford, & State of Connecticut do hereby certify; that I had the office of Pastor of said Church, & have the custody of its records. That I have not been able to find any entry of the Marriages & Solemnized by the Rev D r Eliph t Williams, under any date.
And I further certify, that before the passage of a Law of this State, in A d 1820, requiring, under a penalty, that all marriages Solemnized by any person, should be recorded, the record of Marriages was very imperfect in this place; & contained; as I fully believe, but a small part of the Marriages which took place in our Town, or Society; And the sd D r Williams was Pastor of this Church, and Society from the year 1748; to the year 1803.
East Hartford, August 24 A d 1840.
Samuel Spring. Pastor of Cong. Church in East Hartford
State of Connecticut)
Hartford County. In East Hartford, On this 24 th day of August A d 1840, personally appeared, before me, the Rev Samuel Spring, well known to me, as the pastor of the Congregational Church in said Town, and as a man of the first res- pectability who then & there made solemn oath to the truth of the truth of the foregoing certificate by him subscribed, in my presence.
Attest. Jesse Charlton Justice of the Peace.

Recd Mr Spring

I, Ashney Simonds of Manchester, in Hartford county, Connecticut, do hereby depose and say; That I served in the War of the Revolution in several different towns, as a private Soldier, for which I receive a Pension under the Act of A 1832.
That in my first tour, in January 1776, I enlisted into a company of State Troops, commanded by Captain Jonathan Wells, of East Hartford, in Connecticut; we marched to Dedham near Boston; I assisted in fortifying Dorchester heights; & in defending our lines: I continued to serve, in my company, until near the last of April, when we returned home; having fulfilled the term of our enlistment, and being honorably discharged.
There served with me through this tour, (which was between two and three months,) Ashbel Hemeney, of the same town; a man with whom I was well acquainted. After the return of Capt Wells, and his company from Boston, he enlisted another company, for Six or Seven Months, to go and serve at New London; and they went away (I think) in June, and did not return until the forepart of the following Winter.
A good number of the person men who served with Capt Wells at Dedh Dorchester, Roxbury, and in that vicinity, enlisted under him again, to serve at New London. I did not go myself, with that company, but went with the Militia to New York in the Month of August of the same year, with Capt Timothy Cheney: That the Ashbel Hemeney whose name is on the Roll of Capt Jonathan Wells Company is the same who served

with me at Roxbury, there is no manner of doubt; I have lived in the same place where I now live 83 years; and was acquainted in the time of the War of the revolution with most of the men fit to bear arms and I know that there was but one Ashbel Keeney until after the said Ashbel Keeney the said Soldier Married after the war & had a Son now living of the same name I will remem- ber that the said Ashbel Keeney the soldier after the war married a Miss Hills of East Hartford the exact time of their Marriage I cannot state but I well know that they lived together as man and wife in this place, and brought up a fami- ly of children together; And the said Ashbel Keeney has been dead several years; & his widow is still living in Manchester and is deranged; & she has never married since the death of the said Ashbel Keeney.
Ashbel Keeney former Soldier
Ashley, Symonds
State of Connecticut } Hartford County, ss Manchester on this 19 th day of August A D 1840 personally appeared before me Ashney Symonds of said town a credible person, and a Revolutionary Pen- sioner, who then & there made solemn oath to the truth of the foregoing certificate by him. subscribed.
Before me Jesse Charlton Justice of the Peace

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Hon. Joseph Trumbull, House of Representatives Washington D. C.
Adams Mr. Wm Mr. Trumbull

East Windsor hill, Hartford County Conn
Feb 2 nd
Hon ble dear Sir.
1841.
I forwarded to the commissioner of Pensions, on the 11 th of December last, an application in behalf of Sarah Keeney, Widow of Ashbel Keeney, formerly of Manchester, in Hartford County, for a Pension.
I have not yet heard from it. I think the case is clearly proved, & I would patiently wait Mr Edwards time, were it not for the following reasons: during the session of Congress there are so many Members who have the care of Pension cases, and who are urging to have theirs taken up first, that at such times, I believe those are deferred which have not such assistance .
The Widow is extremely poor, & has suffered a great deal, & is deranged: and if she is entitled to anything does exceedingly need it. And if it is not granted before the 4 th of March, They will not pay it before next September.
If you will drop a line to Mr Edwards, requesting him to take it up in a few days, I presume he will do it, which will confer a special obligation on a poor Widow.

I remain Sir with the highest respect Your friend & Servant. Jesse Charlton.
Hon Joseph Tumbull Esq House of Reps Washington D C

I Eunice Brewer, of East Hartford, in Hartford County, do hereby depose & say; That I have been well acquainted with the late Ashbel Hemeny, & with his present Widow, Sarah Hemeny, as long as I can remember any thing; I am now sixty one years of age; and they lived together as man & wife, when I was a small child, not more than six years old, their oldest son, is within about six years of my age. I have been intimately acquainted with the family, from my childhood, & know that they lived together as man & wife from the time mentioned, to the period of his death, Seventeen years ago, & his widow, is still living, & is deranged, & she has never married since Mr Ashbel Hemenys death.
Eunice Brewer
Eunice her Brewer mark
State of Connecticut
Hartford County, Ss East Hartford; On this 24 th day of August 1840, personally appeared, before me the subscribing authority, Mrs Eunice Brewer, a credible person, who then and there made solemn oath to the truth of the foregoing certificate by her subscribed, in my presence.
Attest Josiah Hurlstone Justice of the Peace

Mrs Eunice Brewer

107576
Rept to Hon. J. Dumbull H 2

State of Connecticut } ss. City & County of Hartford }
I James H. Holcomb Clerk of the County Court for said County hereby certify that Daniel Winslow of East Hartford in said County is Conservator of Sarah Runny of Manchester in said County, having been duly appointed by said County Court at its November Term A. D. 1840, as appears of record.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my name & the seal of said Court this 3rd day of December A. D. 1840
James H. Holcomb, Clerk.
State of Connecticut } ss. County of Hartford }
I George Merrick Judge of the County Court for said County hereby certify that James H. Holcomb who has subscribed the above certificate is the Clerk of said Court, that his signature thereunto subscribed is genuine, & that full faith & credit are due to all his official acts. — In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name this 3rd day of December A. D. 1840.
George Merrick Judge

Recd of John Elk - Sarah Hovey

I, Owen P Olmsted, Clerk of the Town of East Hartford, in the County of Hartford, State of Connecticut, and keeper of the records of said town: do hereby certify, That I do not, by diligent search of said records, find, any entry of the Marriage of Ashbel Hemeney, and Sarah Wills, under any date:
And I further certify, that previous to 1820 the records of Marriages in said town record, is very incomplete, so that, the absence of any names from said records, of persons claiming to have been married, at a given time, raises no suspicion against the truth of their declarations.
Owen P. Olmsted Register
State of Connecticut Hartford County, Ss.
In this 24 th day of August, A.D. 1840, personally appeared, before me, the subscribing authority; Owen P Olmsted Esq; a credible person, Town Clerk & Register of said town of East Hartford; who then & there, made solemn oath to the truth of the forgoing certificate by him subscribed,
Before me, and I certify that the present town of Manchester was taken from the Town of East Hartford
Attest Jesse Charlton Justice of the Peace

I hereby certify, That in the Books of the pay Table, relating to the Revolutionary War, remaining in this office; That Col. Erastus Wolcotts, regiment was raised for two months to serve at Cambridge and that, Captain Wells is one of the Captains in said Regiment, Hospital Bills £3.12.1 And corresponding entries on Pay Table Book, under the head of United Colonies, To Col Erastus Wolcott Reg. Raised Jan y 76; by Gen Washingtons requisition to reinforce his Army before Boston, to April 1 st . And to order on Treasurer Capt Wells Company, Col Wolcotts two months Regiment for arms Post £1.06.
And again under date of January 7 th A d 1777 Capt Jonathan Wells; Col Wolcotts Reg t at New London, To order on Treasurer £818.17.11
And Supra Cr By his acct rendered for his company £1041.0.3 Billings 36 5 6 Mileage 33 4 2 Premium Enlisting 75, at 20/; 75 Do Blankets, 79, 12/; 47 = 8 = Do Guns & Boxes 74 8/; 29 " 12 Do Bayonets 64 2/ 6 08 £ 1268.17.11
There are no pay Rolls of either of these Companies remaining in this office Hartford Dec r 3 rd A d 1840 Henry Nibboun Camp

I, Royal R. Kinnman, Secretary of State of the State of Connecticut do hereby certify, That Jesse Charlton Esq, before whom the annexed Depositions, of Noah Runey, Sedidah Runey, Ashney Simons, Richard Runey, James Wills, Samuel Arnold, Eunice Brewer, Owen Olmsted, & Samuel Spring were taken, is at this time, & has been, for more than one year last past, a Lawful Justice of the peace for Hartford County, in the State of Connecticut; & that his signature to those several depositions is his genuine signature to me well known.
In testimony whereof; I have hereunto set my hand, & the Seal of said State at Hartford, in the County of Hartford on this 3 rd day of Dec r 1840 Royal R Kinnman Secretary
Comptroller Abel Hovey

East Windsor Hill, Hartford County, Conn.
December
3 rd 1840.
Hon d Sir.
I herewith transmit the application made in behalf of Sarah Hreeney, Widow of Ashbel Hreeney, late of Manchester, in d Hartford County, under the act of July 7 th 1838.
And am, most respectfully, your old Servant.
Jesse Charlton.
Hon. J. L. Edwards Esq.
Commissioner of Pensions Washington
D. C.

Sarah Keeny Pension
W. Shadlow 146.65 v
Sarah Keeny
Payment to be made at Hartford by A. H. Pomroy, Agent for paying pension- ers, in the Agency of Connecticut
Payable on the 4th March and 4th September in each year. First payment to be made on the 4th day of next.
Recorded in the Pension Office, in Book A, Vol. 1, Page 19 th by
L. M. Curdy
Clerk.

W A R D E P T. P E N S I O N S Five years' Pension.
I certify that in conformity with the act of July 7, 1838, Sarah Keene of Connecticut, a non compos widow of Ashbel Keene, deceased, who was a private in the Revolution, and died on the 7th day of January 1823, is entitled to receive five years' pension at the rate of Twenty nine dollars and thirty three cents per annum, commencing on the fourth day of March, 1836; and in case of the death or marriage of said widow before the expiration of said five years, the pension will cease on the day of such marriage or death. Payable to her conservator,
Abiel Winslow.
Given at the War Office of the United States, this twelfth day of February one thousand eight hundred and forty one.
J. P. Kirtland
Secretary of War.
Examined and Countersigned.
J. L. Edwards Commissioner of Pensions.

W 20 200  DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
Washington, D. C., _____, 19_____
In reply to your request of _____, received _____ for a statement of the military history of Ashbel Keeney , a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau. name also spelled Keeny & Keney
   DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE.   CAPTAIN. COLONEL.     26 Jan. 1776 apt 16.76 Pvt. Jonathan Wells Erastus Wolcott Conn.   June 1776 6 or 7 mos. " " " " "        
Battles engaged in, None stated
Residence of soldier at enlistment, East Hartford Conn.
Date of application for pension, Dec. 3, 1840. Her  an ch. al
Residence at date of application, Manchester Conn. (formerly a part of East Hartford)
Age at date of application, 73 yrs.
Remarks: Sol. mar. in winter of 1784 at East Hartford Conn. Sarah mother of Jeremiah Keney. Her maiden name was Hills & she lived at East Hartford Conn. of Sol. died Jan 7, 1823 in Manchester Conn. A family is referred to, no names stated except the eldest son Ashbel who was 55 yrs old in 1840.
Respectfully,
X B W Keeney
Commissioner.

Sarah Keeneey Widow of Ashbel Keeneey Manchester Connect.
Dec r - 1840
By Jesse Charlton
Rept to Hn. J. M. Hull N o 2

Jesse Charlton Esq. East Windsor Conn.

7576 Sarah Keeney Wid of Asahel Conn
Ad July 1838
Marned 1784
died 1823
Allow 8 mo 24 days for Capt Wells Conn Mortgage $29 33 3/4 conn
Hen J P Trumbull H R

Ashbel Keeney d 1823
Baraboo m 1784 S.
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Feb 8. 1841
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Mr. Schwartz
Sarah Keeny in Dec.
Pension Office
Hon. Jos. Trumbull H 02

Washington City
House of Rep s . Feb. 7 th 1872
My Dear Sir
I have the honor to enclose a letter from Mr. Charlton of Connecticut, to which I hope you will permit me to solicit your attention -
Respectfully
Yours
J. M. Tuckerman

I James Neills, a resident of East Hartford, in Hartford County, do hereby depose & say, That I have lived in East Hartford in Hartford County from my birth That my age is Fifty nine years: And that from my earliest recollection I have been acquainted with Ashbel Keeney, & his wife, Sarah Keeney, from my earliest recollection the said Ashbel and the present Widow have lived together as man & wife, and their oldest Son, the present Ashbel Keeney, is about four years younger than myself; or fifty five years old. Ashbel Keeney Sen; husband of the present Widow Sarah Keeney, died Seventeen years ago, last January, his present Widow, is living, as his Widow. She has never again intermarried, & is now, as has been for many years, deranged. James Neills
State of Connecticut Hartford County, ss East Hartford, On this 14 day of August 1840. Personally appeared, before me the subscribing authority, James Neills, who is a credible witness, & who then and there, made solemn oath to the truth of the foregoing certificate, by him subscribed, in my presence.
Attest Jesse Charlton Justice of the Peace
Ashbel Keeney Marriage
James Neills for Sarah Keeney

I hereby certify That the Books and papers of came into my possession at the time of his death, but I have never found among them any records of Marriages solemnized by him, and if he kept any such record I fully believe they are entirely lost or destroyed.

Noah Henry & Jedidah Henry for Sarah Ramey

I Noah Toeneey of Manchester, in Hartford county Connecticut, do hereby depose, & say, that I was acquainted with Ashbel Toeneey of sd Man- chester in the time of the Revolutionary War, and I well remem er that he performed a tour of duty as a private soldier at New London of several months continuance; I remember his going; and his returning several months after; and I well remember, that after the War, viz Fifty five years ago, he married Sarah Neills of East Hartford. The said Ashbel Toeneey died at said Manchester in Jan y 1823. & his widow is still living in this neighborhood, & has never again intermarried, & is now, & for a long time has been deranged.
Noah Toeneey
State of Connecticut
Hartford county Ss Manchester
On this 19 th day of August A 1840 personally ap- peared before me Noah Toeneey of said town a credible person an aged man and a Brother of the said Ashbel Toeneey who then and there made solemn Oath to the truth of the foregoing certificate by him subscribed, in my presence, and the deponent has no pecuniary interest in the event of the application.
Attest Jesse Charlton Justice of the Peace

I Jeddah Keeney of Manchester, do hereby depose and say, that I was well acquainted with Ashbel Keeney, formerly of Manchester in Hartford County; said Manchester was taken from the Town of East Hartford; I well remember his going into the service under Captain Jonathan Wells of East Hartford in said Hartford County, the next year after the War of the Revolution began; I well remember, that he, the said Ashbel Keeney went and performed a tour of duty at New London, of several months continuance. I have a clear remembrance of his going & being gone, & after his time was out, of his returning home; and I well remember, that in the Winter of 1784 or 5 he was married to Sarah Wells of East Hartford in Connecticut. Their oldest Son is Fifty five years old & they had been married about five or six months before Ashbel, their Son, was born. I have lived in the same neighborhood more than Seventy years. The said Ashbel Keeney, the Soldier died in Manchester Hartford County 7 th day of January 1823, & his Widow has never again intermarried but remains his widow, & has been deranged more than thirty years.
Jeddah her Keeney mark
State of Conn te } Is Manchester Hartford County } on this 19 day of August A 1840 personally appeared before me Jeddah Keeney of said Manchester a credible person, who then and there made solemn Oath to the truth of the above certificate subscribed by her in my presence. Attest Jesse Charlton Justice of the Peace

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Sarah Keeney
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Henry Fowler
Hartford
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State of Connecticut Hartford County } ss Hartford July 25 1845 }
On this 25 th day of July 1845 personally appeared before the Subscriber a justice of the Peace in & for the County of Hartford Daniel Winslow a resident of East Hartford State of Connecticut conservator of Sarah Kenney a resident of said East Hartford Hartford County & State of Connecticut who is an insane person 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 provision made by the Act of Congress, passed on the 8 th March 1833 granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War.
That she is the Widow of Ashbel Kenney who was a private in the Militia in the War of the Revolution and received a pension as his widow under the Act of 7 July 1833 issued 12 Feby 1834 at the rate of Twenty nine 53 / 100 Dollars per annum & payable to Daniel Winslow as her conservator. She further declares that she is still a widow and incapable of transacting business by reason of insanity & formerly resided in Massachusetts. Daniel Winslow her conservator.
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written
Before me Henry Fowler Justice of the Peace

I hereby certify that I am personally acquainted with Daniel Winslow the Declarant who has exhibited to me satisfactory evidence that Sarah Keney is still living and the identical widow of Ishbel Keney as set forth in the foregoing declaration. In witness whereof I have hereunto signed my name this 25 th day of July 1843.
Henry Fowler Justice of the Peace
State of Connecticut } County of Hartford } P.S. Hartford July 25: 1843.
I Richard D. Hubbard Assistant Clerk of the County Court in and for said County of Hartford do hereby certify that Daniel Winslow above mentioned is Commissioner of Sarah Keney of Manchester in said County duly appointed by the County Court in and for said County of Hartford at the November Term there of 1840.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said County Court this twenty fifth day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & forty three. Richard D. Hubbard Assistant Clerk.

State of Connecticut } S.S. Hartford July 27. 1842. County of Hartford }
I Richard D. Hubbard Assistant Clerk of the County Court in and for said County of Hartford do hereby certify that Henry Howland Esq. whose name is subscribed to the foregoing Certificate is a Justice of the Peace for said Hartford County duly qualified and commissioned that I am acquainted with his signature and that the foregoing as subscribed is his genuine signature.
In witness whereof I have hereunto affixed my hand and the Seal of said County Court this 27. th day of July A.D. 1842
Richard D. Hubbard Assistant Clerk.

Samuel Arnold Sarah Henry

I, Samuel Arnold, of East Hartford, in Hartford county; do hereby depose & say; That I was well acquainted with the late Ashbel Kenney, & with his present Widow, formerly Sarah Nills; before they were married. I attended the Wedding party, in the evening of their Marriage I think that I did not get in until after the ceremony had been performed, & old Doct r Williams who I understood had married them had gone. It was customary to dance at Weddings in those days, and I remembered that tho' they had no fiddler they danced after the Music of several persons who sung. I remember that the following persons sung the Groom himself, was a mighty singer, & he sung a Dick Kenney song beside some others this was in cold Weather, the month I cannot distinctly name, but it was when I was about sixteen years old And I recollect that Mrs Kenney had her oldest child in life than three fourths of a year; my age is 72 in Nov, 1840. Ashbel Kenney has been dead several years & his Widow is still living & at present in a state of derangement. I remember that the said Ashbel Kenney, was in the service as a private, but I cannot say for how long a time. Samuel Arnold
State of Connecticut Hartford county } East Hartford, On this 24 th day of August A 1840 personally appeared

Before me the subscribing authority Samuel Arnold, of said town a credible man with whom I have been long acquainted, who then & there made solemn oath to the truth of the within certificate by him subscribed.
Before me Jesse Charlton Justice of the Peace