Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 5571, for Joseph Jenkins, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Jenkins, Joseph
R. 5571
CONTENTS
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Jo. Jenkins
Me
Rep. Lt. Hon Tho
Davee. May 3 d 1838
Eusebius Weston July 16 1853
5571
1832

5571
P. O.
Joseph Jenkins
Service: _____
REJECTED
Enlisted: _____, 18 .
Discharged: _____, 18 .
Application filed: _____, 18 .
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract.

Petition of Joseph Jenkins

Know all men by these presents that I Joseph Jenkins of Skowhegan in the County of Somerset & State of Maine have constituted & appointed & do by these presents constitute & appoint F E Hasser of Washington City District of Columbia to be my true & Lawful attorney for me & in my name to prosecute any & all claims which may exist & be due to me or him at Law to the Estate of My Father Joseph Jenkins late of Skowhegan deceased or to his heirs in General hereby giving & granting to him full power to do all acts make all investigations necessary in performing the same to the full accomplishment of all that can be done to establish & confirm said claims hereby confirming all that my said attorney may Lawfully do by virtue hereof & agreeing that he said F E Hasser shall have for his compensation one fourth part of all such Monies or Lands which may accrue to me or said heirs when recovered & I hereby agree to draw for myself & them or empower said Hasser or some other person to draw from the Government all such monies and divide in that proportion —
Joseph Jenkins
Done & executed in presence of Eusebius Weston
Somerset ss On this twentieth day of October A D 1852 appeared before me Joseph Jenkins above named & acknowledged the foregoing power to be his free act & deed & I certify that he is known to be him as aforesaid —
Eusebius Weston Justice of the Peace

The petition & representation of Joseph Jenkins of Skow hegan in the County of Somerset & State of Maine — Humbly shews That Joseph Jenkins of said Skowhegan deceased enlisted into the United States Service in Massachusetts in the War of the Revolution & for the location in the army reference (not known to your petitioner) may be had to the Declaration of Joseph Jenkins presented about the 1836 in April or May (as believed) for pension under the Law of June 7 th 1832 — That he served faithfully to the satisfaction of the Government and hoped he was entitled to pension therefor but did not receive any during his lifetime — Subsequent events have inspired your petitioner that by some inadvertence in the examination of his claim or by some subsequent Law or regulation he should be entitled to a stipend for said service and now your petitioner requests, that a careful investigation may be made & the case reported on according to Law — Skowhegan April 15 th 1853
Joseph Jenkins
The mails are flooded with Letters from Washington & other places holding out inducement to believe something is due to every body & The writing pops great Power over the Office Patent for good & it will be so till they the writers are excluded from information
Communications to be addressed to Eustace Weston
Skowhegan
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34.495
Joseph Jenkins Maine
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State of Maine.
Declaration under the act of Congress of June 7 th 1832. —
Somerset County ss.
On this third day of April A.D. 1838 - personally appeared before the Probate Court of said County in open Court holden at Nor- ridgewock Joseph Jenkins of Skowhegan in said County of Somerset & State aforesaid aged Eighty years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the ben- -efit of the act of Congress passed June 7 1832 (viz) That he enlisted (according to his best recollection in the month of June) 1775 in the Town of Scituate Coun- ty of Plymouth & State of Massachusetts into Cap- tain Stockbridge's Company & Col o Bailey's Re- giment for the term of nine months in Copartner- ship with his brother Edward Jenkins & served half the term - & was then discharged. —
That he went to Bristol in Rhode Island as an alarm & then enlisted as a soldier for the term of three months in the Company of Captain How- ard Pierce & Col o Hall's Regiment - & was honor- ably discharged there after having served out the term.

That he was afterwards drafted to go to Rhode Island for the term of three months which he served by himself & substitute under his pay —
That he engaged voluntarily to perform guard duty on the Beach at Scituate for a considerable length of time.
That he further states on oath & declares that he was born at Scituate in the County of Plymouth & State of Massachusetts where he presumes that his age was recorded & where his home was when he was in the service. That he lived in said Scituate till 1795 & from there removed to Abington where he resided about fifteen years & from thence removed to Skowhegan then Maine in the County of Somerset & State of Maine where he has resided ever since — & that he has stated & named all the officers names he can now recollect under whom he served. —
And he further declares that his name is not on any pension roll of any agency in any State.
Sworn & subscribed before me J. W. H.  Geo. H. D. W.  H. D. Harnsworth } Judge of Probate
And the said Court gives its opinion that the said applicant was a revolutionary soldier & served as he states.
D. Harnsworth } Judge of Probate.

To all whom it may concern I hereby certify that I have been well acquainted with Joseph Jenkins of Skowhe- gan, for twenty years past I esteem him a man of irreproachable char- acter, sound morals & unimpeachable veracity & I believe the statement herein by him to be true.
• April 4 1838
Signed
Joseph Merrill
Elder of the Christian Church
To all whom it may concern - I hereby certify that I have been acquainted with Joseph Jenkins of Skowhegan for twenty years past & I esteem him a man of irreproach- able character for morals & integrity & veracity & believe the statement herein to be true -
April 4 1838
Benjamin Eaton
April 20 th 1838 Personally appeared the above named Joseph Jenkins & Benjamin Eaton & made oath to their certificates.
Before me Eusebius Weston Justice Peace