Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 5948, for Henry King, Massachusetts

SERVICE
Mass
King, Henry
NUMBER
R 5948
CONTENTS
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Henry King
New York
Act 7 th June 1832
Rejected. See letter
to Hon. M. Pitcher
House of Representatives
January 22 nd 1833.
5948

Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873.
5948 REJECTED
P. O. _____
Henry King
Service: _____
Enlisted: _____, 18 .
Discharged: _____, 18 .
Application filed: _____, 18 .
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract.
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18 .

Henry King
Rejected
Hon
Walt. Pitcher
H. R.

Compts  BRIEF in the case of  Henry King of Whitehall  of Washington in the State of New York  (Act 7th June, 1832.)
 1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? In open Court  2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?  3. How old is he? 62 -  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.     Enlisted 1. June In 1780 S 11 Private Gen. Putnam  Col Bradford  Capt Zeb. du Bois  Capt Crocker  Lieut Miller   
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 5. In what battles was he engaged?  6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Sutton, Dorset Co. Mass.  7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? No evidence whatever  8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? No 
X Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
Chas S Wilcox Examining Clerk.  19. June 1853

Henry King's
Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832
See Rolls
enlisted 20 July '80 disch? 10 Nov? 80 - 4 mo 20 days
S. 15
Rejected
See letter to
Hon: N. Pitcher
Jan'y 1833
Don

State of New York } Washington County }
On this 29 th day of August 1832 personally appeared before me
The court of Washington county Com. Pleas Henry King a resident of the town of Whitehall in the county of Washington and State of New York aged sixty nine years on the 29 th day of December last past Who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832. That he enlisted in the arms of the United States in the year of our Lord 1780 with Lieut. Col. this absence of the Capt Hovey and served in the 14 th regiment of the Massachusetts line under the following named officers
That I resided in the town of Fulton county of Herk and state of Massachusetts and on the first day of June in the year of our Lord 1780 I enlisted in the continental line for six months And was sent to the town of Springfield under the command of Lieut. Miller with about two hundred Soldiers marched to West Point on the North river (otherwise called Hudson) where we were organized and formed into companies. I was enrolled and went under the command of Capt. Lebede Reading, who after some time resigned his commission and Capt. Crocker Samson commanded the company in Col. Bradfords regiment. Lieut. Col. Waples and Major Wilder or Wiler were the officers of the Regiment We belonged to Brig. Genl. Patterson's Brigade and were stationed at West Point. I was put in the drill under Sergeant John Allen, about one month after which we marched to Verblank's Point or Kings Ferry where we remained about one week crossed the river and marched to Warrenstown where we encamped and lay sometime, then marched to the English neighbourhood and encamped for a week after which we marched back to Warrenstown where we were encamped until October we then marched to Tottoway and again encamped for one month and then we marched back to West Point for Winter Quarters where we remained until the first day of December, at which time the term of my enlistment expired, and I with Aaron Currob, Edmund Potter and

Stephen Hazleton received a written discharge, all of us included and that Aaron Carol took and kept it, and I have not seen it since.
I hereby relinquish every claim whatsoever to a pension or an annuity except the present. And I do hereby declare that my name is not on the pension roll of the agency in any State.
Given to and subscribed } the day and year aforesaid } I. S. Leigh C.R.
Henry King
And the said court do hereby declare their opinion that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states.
I. S. Leigh clerk of the court of Washington county Com. Pleas do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceeding of the said court in the matter of the application of Henry King for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal at my office this 29 th day of August 1832 I. S. Leigh C.R.