Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 16426, for Anthony Jenkins, Virginia

SERVICE
NUMBER
Va.
★ Jenkins, Anthony Jenkins
S. 16426.
CONTENTS
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16.426 INVALID.
File No. 16.426
Anthony Jenkins Pr. Sec. War
Act: June 7 th 82
Index:—Vol. 8 , Page 446
[Arrangement of 1870.]

5006
Kentucky
Anthony Jenkins -
yellowed in the State of Va; who was a Pvt. in the Company commanded by Captain Sellard of the Regt commanded by Col. Henry - in the Va: line for 21 months from 1776
Entered on the Roll of Kentucky at the rate of 70 - Dollars - Cents per annum, to commence on the 14th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 1 st day of Feb y 33 and sent to Hon R. L. Johnson Sec y of War
Arrears to 14th of Sept 1832 105 - Semi-annual allowance ending 1 st Mar: 33 135 -
$240 -
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by Nathan Rice Clerk Book D Vol. 9 Page 44

Cadizier County 1781
This is to certify that Anthony Jenkins initial is Draughted as a soldier to serve in the Continental Service for the space of Eighteen months agreeable to an act of Assembly before this present governor general assembly had this & similar
Day of March 1781
Ja s Barbour Clk for the Governor

Anthony Jenkins -
12 893
from 1776 private 21 months
$70.
Wm R. G. Johnson

State of Kentucky } Mercer County } On this 3 rd day of September per- sonally appeared in open court before the justices of the county court of Mercer County now sitting Anthony Jenkins a resident on Indian creek in the said county of Mercer and state aforesaid aged seventy three 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 the 7 th day of June 1832 - viz I do hereby state that I am now in the 73 rd year of my age That I was born in the county of Culpepper and state of Virginia when I resided when the revolutionary war commenced That I resided there in the said county until I removed to the state of Kentucky where I have resided ever since That in the month of February 1776 I was drafted into the Militia service of the state of Virginia in Capt John Sollards company and part of my time under Col Harry - for three months and we marched to Alamance Barracks - where we were sta- tioned until my time expired and I was honorably discharged at S th place  and again on the 19 th day of March 1781 I enlisted agreeably to the pro- visions of an act of the Virginia Legislature for eighteen months in Capt Reuben Fields company in the Regiment commanded by Col Scott -  and we marched to Fredericksburg, and to Richmond and then to Cumberland where I was placed under Capt Stokes and we then marched to Port Royal under Major John Willis and in the service about four have in captured some prisoners we marched to Alamance Barracks to guard them and a short time before Lord Corn- wallis was taken I was taken sick and had a furlough to return home, when I again continued

in service until my time expired and I was honorably discharged at Allenton Barracks from Capt. Stockley's company having been employed the greater part of my time in guarding the Prisoners at that place. I have no documentary evidence ex- cept a Certificate of my enlistment from the Clerk of my court and the evidence of George Shelton who saw me on my eighteen months service but my first term of three months, I do not know of any evidence now living, I am now a resident of Clinton County and State of Kentucky where I have resided about seven years, and seven years before that, I lived in Lincoln & Wayne counties of the same state having about fourteen years since mov- ed from Culpepper county Virginia to this state. I hereby relinquish all claim I may have to a pension or annuity except the present and I am not now a pensioner of the United States, or of any state. Witness my hand this 3 rd day of September 1832 —
Anthony his + J. M. Kincaid mark
Union County Ky. This day George Shelton an aged revolutionary soldier came into open court and made oath that he has known the above Anthony J. M. Kincaid in the year 1776 and ever since, and I know that he enlisted for eighteen months or was drafted in the spring of the year 1781. I lived his neighbor at that time, and was

well acquainted with him I know he was out in the army, and I also remember that he served out his term as a faithful soldier, and I also recollect of hearing of his being out for three months previous, at Albemarle Barracks, and I recollect of sd Jenkins being drafted, but my recollection cannot ascertain his officers - Witness my hand
This 3 rd day of September 1832
his George F. Shelton mark
Whereas on this day Mr Martin C. Duncan a clergyman and William  Thos Royalty and Sandy Holman Esq. came into open court and by them stated as follows - That man well acquainted with Anthony Jenkins a resident of sd county and state as we are ourselves, and we certify that we believe that he is of the age he has stated and that he is respected and beloved by the neighborhood in which he resides to have been a revolutionary soldier and we concur in this opinion, and we further state that he is a man of truth and a good citizen - Witness our hands this 3 rd day of September 1832
Martin C. Duncan
Sandy Holman
Thomas Royalty
State of Kentucky Murray County ss
On this 3 rd day of September 1832. Anthony Jenkins the subscriber to the foregoing application for a pension and George F. Shelton Martin C. Duncan Sandy Holman and Thomas Royalty the subscribers to the annexed Certificate came into open court and severally made oath to the truth of the statements by them respectively subscribed and the said court declare it as their opinion after investigation and after putting the inquiries required by the War department that said applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as

he has stated to the Court further Certificate that Martin C Duncan who has signed the foregoing Certificate is a Clergy- man residing in Monroe County & that George Shelton Lundy N Coleman & Thomas Royallton the subscribers to said Certificate are Citizens of Monroe County and Credible Men and that their statements are entitled to Credit
I Thomas Allen Jr Clerk of the County Court of Monroe County do Certify that the foregoing Contains the original proceedings in the Matter of Anthony Sirakino's petition for a Pension In Testimony Whereof I have hereunto Set my hand & Seal of said County at the Clerk's office in Pottsville the 6 th day of Sept r 1832. In the 57 th year of the Commonwealth Phil. L. Allen

Anthony Jenkins for examination
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Know all men by these Presents, That, I, Anthony Jenkins, son of Anthony Jenkins dec d a Pensioner of the United States, who died the 22 nd day of April 1837, and whose wife died the October before him,
in the Army of the Revolution, do hereby constitute and appoint who was a Soldier R. M. C. Inflect 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 I have to arrears of pay or Pension money, under any Act or Acts, Resolution or Resolutions, of the Congress of the United States, and especially the Acts 4th July, 1836, 7th July, 1838, 3d March, 1843, 17th June, 1844, 2d 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 Department of the said Government, a re-consideration 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 herein conferred upon my said Attorney hereby ratifying and confirming all that said Attorney may do by virtue of these presents.
WITNESS hand and seal this day of 185 Attest Sam l H. Stevenson Anthony his Jenkins mark J. P. Munday
State of _____ County, set.
BE IT KNOWN, that on the 18 th day of April 1853 before the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace in and for the County and State aforesaid, personally appeared Anthony Jenkins subscribers to the foregoing Power of Attorney, and acknowledged the signing, sealing and delivering the same to be his own voluntary act and deed for the uses and purposes therein set forth.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I do hereunto subscribe my name. J. P. Munday, J. P.

State of Kentucky Mercer County
I, Thos Allin Clerk of County Court in and for the County & State above written, do hereby Certify that S. P. Munday Esq., before whom the within power of Attorney was made, and who has thereunto subscribed his name, is, and was at the time of so doing, a Justice of the Peace in & for the County and State above mentioned, duly Elected, Commissioned and sworn, and authorized to administer oaths, and that his said signature is genuine.
In testimony whereof I have here- unto set my hand, and affixed the seal of my office, as Clerk of the Mercer County Court. This 20 th day of April 1855
Thos. Allin Clerk Mercer County Court