Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 32951, for Stephen Kibbee, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Kibbee, Stephen
S. 32951
CONTENTS

No 18 Stephen Kibbee
At the Rock
Found in the 12 th Reg t of which Colo Sprout was the Co Col. for 9 months.
Major C Gibbs certi- fies that he served three years - the signature is his and he is the Officer that commanded Gen- Washington's life guard
Admitted

I Stephen Hibbe of Boston in the County of Suffolk and Commonwealth of Massachusetts formerly of Lawden in the County of Berkshire and state aforesaid Certify and Declare, That I entered into the United States service in the Revolution ary war I think some time in May one thousand seven hundred and seventy eight, in the second Massachusetts regiment Col Sprant, and in the second company of said regiment, commanded in summer by Captains Lord, Walker, Hildang or Hildang. what time I do not recollect but when I joined the regiment it was stationed at a place called the York Huts near west point. And the deponent further declares That he entered the service as a minute man from the County of Berkshire in the first of the war joined the troops at Cambridge in Massachusetts, and from there went with Genl Arnold on his expedition to Quebec was with him at the siege and attack of that City where he served as a corporal and was very badly wounded in the right leg. He was then discharged (having served the time out for which he enlisted) and went home, That a short time after he again entered into the service in

in the regiment and company first before named and was attached to said regiment and company and served therein during the war and until peace was declared, and when the army was disbanded he had a regular discharge, which together with one other were burnt in his brother's house in the town of Lawton and County of Berkshire about one year after the peace Stephen Kilb.
Mass Dist. Ct.
March 28. 1818
Sworn to before me
Wm Dyer Mass. Dist. Ct.
Mass. Dist. Ct. No. 2. June 1818. And now the said Stephen Kilbe doth further on oath declare and say, that he is in such reduced circumstances as to stand in need of assistance from his country for support.
Mass. Dist. Ct. No. 2. June 1818. Stephen
Sworn to before me
Wm Dyer
District Judge Mass. Dist. Ct.

6,465 Massachusetts Roll.
Stephen Kibbee Capt Shadock Corporal Mass
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of Eight Dollars per month, to commence on the 28 th of March 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 29 th of Jan y 1819 and sent to John Davis Esq r Judge Boston
Arrears to 4th of Sept r 1818 5m s  \frac{4}{30} - 42.9 Semi-ann. all'ce ending 4 th March 1819 - 48: -
$ 90.9
Ex ts Wright { Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Continued
Boston
Notification sent to John W Davis Esq r 2 Oct 1820 Boston Massachusetts

Stephen Kilbee 6.464
March 1819
Cm

District of Massachusetts, ss.
ON this Sixteenth day of September , 1820 personally appeared, in open Court, being a Court of Record, viz. the District Court of the United States for the said District, Stephen Tibbee aged Seventy eight years, resident in Boston in the County of Suffolk, in said District, labourer who, being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath declare, that he served in the Revolutionary War, as follows: viz Enterted in may 1776 in the Company commanded by Captain Shaddock and afterwards Captain English in the Massachusetts Regiment commanded by Colonel Brewer, and served in said corps nine months. Then enlisted in the Company commanded by Captain Lord and afterwards by Captain Fludang in the Massachusetts Regiment Commanded by Colonel Sproul and served in said Corps three years when he was honorably discharged. He made his original application on the 28 day of March 1818 and the number of his pension certificate is 64.65.
And I do solemnly swear, that I was a resident citizen of the United States, on the 18th day of March, 1818; and that I have not, since that time, by gift, sale, or in any 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 18th 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.
Patneph Macnamara
Stephen Tibbee marks
Sworn to and declared, on the Sixteenth day of September A. D. 1820 before
Ebenezer Davis
{ Judge of the Massachusetts District Court.
I, JOHN WATSON DAVIS, Clerk of the Massachusetts District Court, do hereby certify, that the foregoing oath, and the schedule hereto annexed, are truly copied from the record of the said Court; and I do further certify, that it is the opinion of the said Court, that the total amount in value, of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule, is
one dollars and fifty cents.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this twentieth day of September 1820
John W. Davis
{ Clerk of the U. S. District Court, for the Massachusetts District.

Schedule
6 Chairs _____ $1.50=
The above is a true inventory and schedule of all my property I am seventy eight years old. My oc- cupation is that of a labourer but from age and infirmity am unable to pursue it. I have no family residing with me
Witness P. Munwright
his Stephen L. Ribben mark

A
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I do certify that Stephen Kidney was a private in the 2 d Mass s Regiment for three years & enlisted March 2 d 1781 — Elyabbs Major 2 d Mass s regt

MASSACHUSETTS DISTRICT, ss.
Boston 10 January, 1819.
I AM satisfied that the above named, Stephen Kibbe , by reason of his reduced circumstances in life, is in need of assistance from his Country for support.
M. Q. Adams
{ District Judge U. S. Massachusetts Dist.
TO THE SECRETARY OF THE DEPARTMENT OF WAR.

MASSACHUSETTS DISTRICT, ss.
Boston June 5 A. D. 1818
IT appearing to my satisfaction, that Stephen Kibbee subscriber to the annexed declaration, sworn to before me, did serve in the revolutionary war against the common enemy, as stated in said declaration, I now transmit the testimony in the case, with the proceedings had thereon, to the Secretary of the department of war, pursuant to the directions of the Act entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war;" the testimony and proceedings in the premises being the declaration aforesaid, with the accompanying document marked A. together with this certificate.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the District Court of the United States for this District to be hereunto affixed.
J. M c David
} Judge of the District Court U. S. Massachusetts District.

32 957 Rev INVALID.
File No. 32,957
Stephen Kibbee
Corp Rev Rev
Act: 18 th March 1815
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 298
[Arrangement of 1870.]