Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 2700, for Charles King, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass. Va.
King, Charles
S. 2700
CONTENTS
cardinal

allowed as Seyt. Major
John Robb $120 per ann
Chas. King "Andrew McNaughton"

The State of Ohio Muskingum County ss On this 23 d day of October 1832 personally appeared before the Judges of the Supreme Court of the State of Ohio for said County now sitting Charles King of Leeking Township in the County of Muskingum aforesaid who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the follow- ing declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832 That he enlisted as a private soldier in the the company of Capt George Lewis in the Third Regiment of Light dragoons of the Vir- ginia line commanded by Col. George Baylor in Feb y 1777 - said Regiment was afterwards commanded by Col Wm. Washington - That about two or three months after said enlistment he was appointed a quartermaster Master Sergeant in which capacity he acted until he was appointed a Sergeant Major (he cannot rec- lect the date of the latter appointment) in which latter capacity he acted until he was discharged on the 13 th day of February December 1779 - Said Applicant applied for a pension under the act of Congress passed 18 th March 1818 & at that time resided in Brooke County Virginia - He was placed on the Pension Roll, Virginia Agency, certificate dated 30 th September 1819 & numbered 15,052 and was transferred to the Ohio Agency from & after the 4 th day of March 1820 & has been continued on said Pension Roll up to the present time - Said Applicant cannot now recollect what his pay was as a Quarter Master Sergeant or as a Sergeant Major but he remem- bers that of the six months extra pay granted by the State of Virginia he received fifteen dollars per month - Said Applicant

further declares that his name is not on the pension roll of of the agency of any State ex- cept that of Ohio as aforesaid - Subscribed & sworn to in open court the day & year aforesaid
Charles King
I John Willson Jr Clerk of the Supreme Court of the State of Ohio for the County of Muskingum afore- said do hereby certify that the foregoing declara- tion was subscribed & sworn to in open court on the day & year aforesaid -
In testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand & seal of office This 23d day of October 1832
John Willson Jr. Clerk.
The applicant Charles King is a gentleman of respectability and his statement is entitled to full credit
John Root Jany 14. 1833

The applicant in this case now draws a pension but believes himself entitled under the act of June 7 th 1832 to draw a higher one — The commissioner will please return this certificate to Silliman & Stetson attys for 6 Ring, Zanesville Ohio.

let: James Reynolds. - Jany. 19. 1833 - up o again Oct 16. 1833
Chic 431A -
Charles Hine of Muskingham in the State of Ohio who was a Sgt. in the Gregg company commanded by Captain  of the Regt. - commanded by Col Washington in the Va. for 2 years from 1777 -
Mass. and Va. Line Records, etc. inscribed on the Roll of Chic. Jany 31 62 at the rate of 180 - Dollars - - - Cents per annum, to commence on the 14th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 15 th day of Jan: 33 and delivered John Role, Present
  Arrears to 14th of Sept 1832  270 -    Semi-ant. allowance ending     4 Mar: 33  90 -     $360 -  
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Not June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by Nathan Rice - Clerk. Book D Vol. 10 Page 38 -

* Ohio 15,052 R State of Virginia
Charles King
of Brooke county in the state of Virginia who was a Sergt Major in the regiment commanded by Colonel Washington of the Virginia line, for the term of three years.
Inscribed on the roll of Virginia at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 30 th of August, 1819.
Certificate of Pension issued the 30 th of Sept. 1819 and delivered to Maj. H. H. W. W. W. Present
Arrears to 4th of Sept. 1819 2/4 1/30 $101 57 Semi-ann. all'ce ending 4 th Mar. 1820 118 00
$49 57
cont.
{ Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818. }
* transferred from Virginia to Ohio on 28 th April, 1820 4 th March, 1820.
The above is a true copy of the original as shown to the Committee on Pensions Ohio

Charles King Sen r
Certified Affidavit & Schedule.
15.052
March 1820
CM
The County Court of Newington Barnes, Ohio

State of Ohio,
Muskingum county 3/s.
Court of Common Pleas:-
On this 24th day of November 1820 personally appeared in open court being a court of record for said county Charles Kling Senior aged 64 years resident in said county and state who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath declare that he served in the revolutionary war as follows, to wit: Early in May 1775 I enlisted in Cambridge near Boston for eight months in Captain Cranson's company in the Massachusetts line (the Colonel's name and number of the regiment forgot) at the expiration of said term I enlisted again for one year in the same company and Regiment. But shortly after the battle of Bunker's hill I was detached from the regiment as one of Genl. Lees guard in which I served until the enemy evacuated the town of Boston; shortly after we were called into Boston as a guard for General Ward who then commanded there. I served in this guard until August when we were ordered to join our respective regiments at New York, upon our arrival there I applied for a berth in his excellency Genl. Washington's guard and was admitted, and served in that guard until the year was expired, at which time I enlisted again for three years in the first troop of the Third regiment of Light dragoons in the Virginia line under Captain Lewis, the Regiment commanded by Col. Baylor; and at the expiration of said term (two years of which I served as sergeant major) I was honorably discharged in the city of Philadelphia by Col. William Washington Decr 13 th 1779 being the first time I was discharged from the army since May 1775.
My original application was on the thirtieth day of August 1819, the date of my pension certificate is Sept r 30 th 1819, the number 15052
And I do solemnly affirm that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18 th day of March 1818 (and ever before and since) and that I have not since that time by gift sale or in any other manner disposed of my property or any part thereof with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress entitled "an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary

war" passed on the 18 th day of March 1818; and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property or securities, contracts or debts due to me, nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed.
Real estate I have none other than an interest in fifteen acres of wild land which I contracted for last spring with a dependance on Government to enable me to pay for it — . . . . . $ 41.00
Schedule of personal property.
  1 Sow and eight pigs $3.50 + 1 axe & 1 hoe $3.00 — — — — — is 6.50   1 Grubbing hoe, 1.75 — 1 small trunk 2.00 . . . . . 3.75   1 Chest 1.00 — 1 Razor, box & glass .75 — 1 hone, .50 — — — 2.25   1 old butcher knife 12 1/2 — one pen knife, .50 . . . . . 1.62 1/2   1 Small writing Desk 1.50 — 1 Tobacco box & hair comb 6 1/4 — — — 1.56 1/4   1 Pencil, .50 — 1 pocket compass, .25 — 1 pair spectacles, .30 — — — 1.05   1 ink stand 12 1/2 — 1 Flax wheel 1.00 — — — — — 1.12 1/2   1 New testament 1.50 — 1 Holy war old, .50 . . . . . 2.00   1 Boston's four fold state, old, 37 1/2 — 1 infernal conferrences, .50 — — 1.87 1/2   1 Jerusalem sinner, .25 — 1 Fishers Arithmetick, old, .30 — — — .55   1 pocket Dictionary, .75 — 1 spelling book, .20 . . . . . .95   1 Christian world unmasked, .75 — 1 Christ coming to Judgment, .75 — 1 1.50   1 Mute Christian, .75 — 1 Leions Pilgrim, .25 — — — — — 1.00   Several old pamphlets and books — — — — — 2.00   1/2 dozen small slates — — — — — 1.00   Debts due me . . . . . 19.82 1/2 
$87.56
Amount of monies I owe sundry persons is — — — — — 64.50
Balance — — — $23.06
My occupation is hard labor which I am unable to follow constant by reason of Rheumatic pains. My wife Elizabeth aged 44 years, Her daughter Elizabeth aged 14 years, very weakly; her son Caleb aged 10 years; her daughter Catharine aged 8 years; These four is the number of my family residing with me.
Sworn to and declared by Charles Kling Sen. on the 24 th day of November before me,
[signed]
Robert Mitchell Associate Judge

State of Ohio Muskingum County 3/4.
I David Chambers Clerk of the court of Common Pleas of Muskingum County do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and the schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the original on file in the records of said court; And I do further certify that the said court are satisfied that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule does not exceed the amount of Eightyseven dollars fifty six cents. In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said court at Zanesville this 21 st day of November A.D. 1820.
David Chambers Clerk.

Rev War
2700
INVALID.
File No. 2700
Charles King
Sgt. Mass. Line
Act: June 7, 1832
Index:—Vol. A , Page 206
[Arrangement of 1870.]
Mass. and Va. Line. Records corrected Jan'y 21 '64

Charles H. ...
Payable semi-annually. The first payment on this Certificate will be made on the 4th of March next, in Richmond, at the Branch Bank No. States.
30 Sept. 1819
Recorded

War Department.
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.
I CERTIFY that, in conformity with the Law of the United States, of the 18th March, 1818,
Charles King late a Sergeant Major in the Army of the Revolution, is inscribed on the Pension List, Roll of the Virginia Agency, at the rate of Eight dollars per month, to com- mence on the thirtieth day of August one thousand eight hundred and nineteen .
GIVEN at the War Office of the United States, this thirtieth day of September one thousand eight hundred and nineteen .
J. C. Calhoun
Secretary of War.

Charles King
Adm o
Wm. M c Clurey,

State of Virginia } ss. County of Brooke }
Charles King, Senior, of the same county and State, upon oath makes the following declaration:
That the said declarant in the month of December, in the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy six enlisted as a private on the continental establishment in the Virginia line, in the company, or troop of light dragoons commanded by Capt: Lewis to serve the term of Three years; that the said Captain Lewis resigned and was afterwards commanded by Lieut: Baylor of the Third Regiment of Virginia Cavalry at first commanded by Col: Baylor, who resigned and was succeeded by Col: William Washington; that the declarant was appointed Sergeant Major, and acted as such the two last years of his enlistment, and that he faithfully and honorably performed the term of his said enlistment, and on the 13 th day of December 1779 was discharged at the city of Philadelphia.
The said declarant further states that when so discharged he received from Col: Washington his discharge, of which the following is a true copy:
Philadelphia Dec r 13 th 1779.
"Charles King, Sergeant Major of the Third Regiment of light dragoons, having served "Three years, the term of his enlistment, is hereby discharged. The said King has conducted himself with "the greatest propriety in the execution of his duty - he was diligent and attentive, being a man of integrity "and Sobriety.
W m Washington Lt. Col. L. D."
That in order to obtain a settlement of pay and evidence of bounty land from the State of Virginia, agreeably to the terms of enlistment, the said declarant (then residing in Frederick County in the State of Maryland) on the 11 th day of March A.D. 1786 forwarded his said discharge by the hands of a certain Charles Swan to a Mr. William Barret, as evidence of the claim of the said declarant against the State of Virginia - that the said declarant obtained his demand against the said State by the agency of a certain Thomas Beatty, and was informed by the said Beatty, that his said discharge was retained by the Auditor of the said State. The said declarant received the balance of his pay together with a land warrant for Two Hundred acres of land; and that he surely believes his said discharge is now in the Office of the Auditor of the said State of Virginia.
That the declarant is Sixty three years of age, and from his reduced circumstances in life, is now in need of assistance from his country for support; and that he hereby relinquishes his claim to every pension heretofore allowed him by the laws of the United States.
Chas. King Sen r

Virginia Brooke county
At a court held for the said county, at the Court House thereof on Monday the 30 th day of August 1819.
Among the records & entries of the term aforesaid is the following. To wit, "The declaration of Charles King for. a soldier of the Revolutionary War, is produced here in Open court praying for a pension under the act of Congress passed the 18 th day of March 1818. and being by this court examined, and the facts therein stated being sworn to in court by the declarant, and it appearing to the satis- faction of the court, that the said Charles King for. served the period therein mentioned, on the Continental Establishment against the common Enemy; It is ordered to be certified to the Secretary of the War Department, And that it be further certified that to their knowledge the said declarant is in indigent circumstances.
In Testimony that the foregoing is a true copy from the minutes of said court, now of record, I John Connell clerk of the county aforesaid have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of my office this 14 th day of December 1819. in the 44 th year of the Commonwealth.
John Connell, Clerk

free The Honorable J. C. Calhoun Secretary of War Washington City
Will be paid at the rate of
Make the transfer requested J.P.G. Charles Ming Respectfully & truly yours, -

Make the transfer requested. J.L.E.
Charles King Sergeant Major, 88 th B. Mo. -
J. C. Calhoun Secretary of War Washington City
The Honorable
Spec
William L. Marcy

State of Ohio } ff. County of Muskingum
Be it known that before the subscriber, one of the Justices of the peace in and for the county aforesaid, personally appeared Charles King Esq. of the same county and State, and made oath that he is the identical Charles King named in an original certificate in his possession of which the following is a copy:
"War Department. "Revolutionary Claim.
"I certify that in conformity with the law of the United States of the 18 th March 1818, Charles King, late a Sergeant Major in the Army of the Revolution, is inscribed on the pension list, Roll of the Virginia Agency at the rate of Eight Dollars per month, to commence on the thirtieth day of August one thousand eight hundred and nineteen.
Exhibit A
Given at the War Office of the United States this Thirtieth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and nineteen.
J. C. Calhoun "Secretary of War."
That he has heretofore resided in the county of Brooke and State of Virginia, but has removed to the county of Muskingum, in the State of Ohio, - and respectfully prays the Honorable the Secretary of War, to have his name, as a revolutionary pensioner, transferred from the list of the Virginia agency to that of the State of Ohio - as it is the intention of the said Charles King hereafter to reside in the latter State.
Chas King Esq.
Sworn and subscribed this 22 nd day of March 1820
Before me J. and Brugh } J. G.

Charles (King) requests to be transferred from Virginia to Ohio. -
22 d March. Transferred to 28 th April 1820
Mar 20

State of Ohio
Muskingum County
3 d Jct. I David Chambers clerk of the court of common Pleas of Muskingum County do hereby certify that Jared Brush Esqr. before whom the within deposition was taken was at the time and now is an acting justice of the peace in and for the County of Muskingum duly qualified and commissioned and to his official acts as such and credit is due as well in courts of Justice as thereout.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my official seal at Zanesville this 28 th day of March 1820.
David Chambers Clerk

Muskingum County - Ohio March 22 d 1820
Sir
Amused you have my deposition of my intention to reside hereafter, in the state of Ohio - If you will have the goodness to grant my request, as to having my pension made payable in this state, in place of that of Virginia, please address to me at Zanesville Post Office, Ohio.
I have the honor to be
Your most Obdt. Servt.
Chas. King Ser m
The Honorable J. C. Calhoun Secretary of War.