Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 15,002, for Samuel Kingsbury, Massachusetts

SERVICE
Kingsbury, Samuel Sophia
NUMBER
W.15.002
CONTENTS

6859
Massachusetts.
Sophia Kingsbury dead widow of Samuel Kingsbury who was a Private, in the Rev. War. Mass Corr.
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 3 11 Dollars 18
Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843. Ver. 9 To November 1844 when she died
Certificate of Pension issued the 5 day of May 1845 and sent to
Ira M. Barton Worcester Mass
[Act of March 3, 1843.] June 17 1844
Recorded in Book A
Vol. 2
Page 32
2 Certs -
1 act 1838 and one act 1843 & 1844 -
Rep d set. to Agt. 5 May '45.
Pay to Samuel and Sylvia Kingsbury - Nancy Wall, & Matilda Gattell only Rev. children -

"The designs of marriage between Samuel Kingsbury and Sophia Moore both of Upton were entered October twenty ninth day one thousand seven hundred and ninety; and Published in Upton as the law directs, for Samuel Harris Town Clerk."
"Samuel Kingsbury and Sophia Moore both of Upton were married by Ebenezer Sargent Esq December twenty ninth day one thousand seven hundred and ninety."
The above are true extracts from the one hundred and fifty three and two hundred and eight pages of the Second Volume of Records of Births Deaths Marriages & Publications for the town of Upton in the County of Worcester & Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Signed in presence of Mean G. Underwood Justice of the Peace { Willard, Benson Town Clerk
"Mr Samuel Kingsbury Deceased January twenty ninth day one thousand eight hundred and twenty three aged thirty two years."
The above is an extract from the twenty fourth page of the Third Volume of Records of Births Deaths & Marriages for the town of Upton in the County of Worcester & Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Signed in presence of Mean G. Underwood Justice of Peace, { Willard, Benson Town Clerk

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Boston;
Decr 31. 1844.
I hereby Certify, That, from an examination of the Books and Documents, relating to Military Services in the War of the Revolution, which remain in this Department, it appears that the name of Samuel Kingsbury is borne as a private from Oxford upon a mileage Roll of Capt n Benj m Richardson Col d Pike, to Dorchester Heights, 55 miles travel allowed dated Sept r 24. 1776, and upon another Roll of the same Officer for mileage and travel in which 3 days is allowed for 55 miles travel dated Nov r 28. 1776, upon the last is a memorandum noted, "3 months to Dec r 1. 1776;" — Upon a "Roll for additional pay due to the Comp y under command of Capt n John Putnam Col d Hads, from the County of Worcester the 26 th of June 1778 to join Gen l Sullivan at Providence for 21 days" — including time to return home, 26 days; — Upon an abstract of pay due to Capt n Healeys Comp y , Col. John Jacob's Reg t , service at A. S. from Sept r 17. to Nov r 16. 1779, including travel, 2 months 6 days; — And as Corporal, upon a pay Roll of Capt n Benj m Allen, Col. John Hand, service
J. Day Jr. Paris

at That Point from July 9 to Oct 20 1700, including allowance for 100 miles travel, 3 months 11 days. The preceding is all the evidence which appears in the case.
And I further Certify, That, before search made for evidence of said facts, the application hereto annexed was filed in this Office, in the form in which the same now appears; that the search was made by myself and my clerks alone; and that said application, and the certificate above set forth, contain all the facts and circumstances within my knowledge, pertaining to the case.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written.
John G. Pillsbury Secretary of the Commonwealth.

APPLICATION FOR CERTIFICATE OF REVOLUTIONARY SERVICES, MADE BY THE WIDOW OF THE PARTY WHO RENDERED THE SERVICE.
The Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts is hereby requested to furnish evidence from the Rolls in his office, of the service of my husband, Samuel Kingsbury in the war of the Revolution.
He enlisted from the town of Offord in the County of Worcester and State of Massachusetts in the year 1777 as a Private in the Company commanded by Captain not known in not known Regiment and he served as follows, viz:— as Private at Dorchester, at Rhode Island & West Point in all I should think about two Years a part of the service was as private & a part as corporal.
I am now seventy two years old, and my memory does not enable me to state my husband's services more fully than above stated.
WITNESS my hand, this thirteenth day of November A. D. 1844
Signed by said Samuel Kingsbury in my presence,
Jonathan Day JUSTICE OF THE PEACE
The word Twelfth was erased, & thirteenth substituted by me before signing J. Day for Paris
Sophia Kingsbury By her atty Samuel Kingsbury

Know all men by these presents, that I Sophia Kingsbury of Webster County of Worcester and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Widow, do hereby constitute and appoint Samuel Kingsbury of said Webster to be my true and lawful Attorney for me, and in my name, and for my sole benefit, to make application to the several departments to obtain a Pension to which I am entitled as the Widow of Samuel Kingsbury of Oxford deceased. And for the purposes aforesaid, I do hereby grant unto my said Attorney full power to execute and deliver all needful instruments and papers whether under seal or otherwise; to appoint one or more substitutes under him, and the same to revoke at his pleasure; and generally to do and perform all such acts, matters, and things as my said Attorney shall deem necessary or expedient for the complete and effectual execution of the authority herein before granted, as fully as I might and could do if I were personally present; hereby ratifying and confirming all the acts of my said Attorney, or of his substitutes, done by virtue and in pursuance of these presents.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal at Webster this Thirteenth day of November in the Year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty four. Signed sealed and delivered.
in presence of
Sophia her Kingsbury mark
Nancy Kingsbury Sylvia Kingsbury

Worcester ss Nov 13th 1844 Then personally appeared Sophia Hingham and acknowledged the within power of attorney by her subscribed to be her free & voluntary act
Before me
Jonathan Day Jus Pacis "

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Worcester ss.
I Charles G. Prentiss, Register of the court of Probate for said county of Worcester do certify, that satisfactory evidence has been exhibited to said court that Sophia Dinsmore, late of Webster in said county and widow of Samuel Dinsmore, late of Oxford, in said county, died on the twentieth day of November, in the year eighteen hundred and fifty-four, and left four children whom she had by the said Samuel, and who still survive her to wit: Samuel Dinsmore, Nancy Wallis, wife of James Wallis Jr. Sophia Dinsmore and Matilda Bartlett, wife of Asa Bartlett, all residing in said Webster, except the said Nancy, who resides in Forestville in the same county.
In testimony whereof I do hereunto set my hand and the seal of said court, at Worcester this ninth day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand, eight hundred and fifty-five.
Charles G. Prentiss, Register.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts Worcester County ss.
On this ninth day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred fifty five, personally appeared before the Court of Probate for said County of Worcester, Samuel Hunsbury a resident of Webster in said County of Worcester aged fifty three years, who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his Oath make the following de- claration, as well on his own behalf as in behalf of his Sisters, Sylvie Huns- bury, Nancy Wallis & Matilda Babbitt the only children of Samuel Hunsbury late of Oxford in said County of Worcester deceased, and Sophie Hunsbury his widow now also deceased, and surviv- ing the said Sophie, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the Act of Congress passed July 7, 1838, entitled 'an Act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows' and the Act of Congress of the 3 d of March 1843, granting pensions for one year to certain widows who have

receive pensions under the Act of July 7, 1838.
That he the said declarant, together with his said sister Sylvie Hensley Sangster and Matilda Hensley are the lawful children of the said Samuel Hensley and Sophie Hensley both deceased, and now surviving the said Samuel & Sophie, and that their said father Samuel Hensley was a private and corporal in the army of the Revolution, and since as he widely believes and has heard him say for more than the term of one year, for the particulars of which, so far as the same has been ascertain- ed he respectfully refers to the Certificate of the Secretary of War, Commonwealth and such other proofs as may be found assisted or found in the War de- partment. He further declares that he has always understood that his said father was born once since in said town of Ossipee, and he has no doubt he went into the service from that town, that he died in the month of January and he believes in the year eighteen

hundred and twenty one; That his mother, the deceased Sophia Kingsbury was married to his father the said Samuel Kingsbury, on the twenty ninth day of December in the year eighteen hundred and ninety, that she died on the twentieth day of November in the year eighteen hundred and seventy four, that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place previous to the first day of January seventeen hundred & ninety four, to wit at the time above stated; And that the reason an application was not earlier made for a pension for her, was owing to the erroneous in- formation that in order to be entitled to it she must have been married previous to the first of January 1790 instead of 1794. Samuel Kingsbury Subscribed & sworn to the day & year first above written, the word "not" being first interlined, also the words "January 1794" & "1790" respectively. Before me
J. M. P. S. M. S. Deputy Clerk of Probate

9271
Massachusetts
Sophia Kingsbury decd
widow of Samuel Kingsbury who was a pensioner under the Act of ... and who died on the ... Jan'y 1821 ... in the State of Mass ... who was a ... in the Com ... commanded by Captain ... of the ... commanded by ... in ... time for 9 Mts & 2 days
Inscribed on the Roll of Mass ... at the rate of 30 Dollars 88 Cents per annum, to commence on the 15th day of March, 1836 & ending 21 Mar. 1841.
Copy of Pension issued the 5 day of May 1845 and sent to Mrs M Garter, Worcester, Mass. Total amount.
Act July 7, 1838.]
Recorded by J. Swan Clerk, Book: Vol. 1 Page 61
Pay to Saml & Sylvia Kingsbury Nancy Wallis & Matilda Bartlett only sur. children
Rep d let. 5 May '45

Rev WIDOW, &c.
File No. 15,902
Sophia Kingsbury
Widow of
Samuel Kingsbury
Prv Rev War.
Act: Mar. 3 rd /48 and June 17 th /44
Index:—Vol. a , Page 40 l
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
WORCESTER COUNTY, ss.
I, Joseph G. Kendall , Clerk of the Judicial Courts for the County and Commonwealth aforesaid, do hereby certify, That Jonathan Day, Alvah G. Underwood, and Stephen Davis, Esquires , are Justices of the Peace in and for said County, duly commissioned and qualified; and that their signatures to the certificates on the depositions of Saxon Jr. S. Kingsbury, Alvin Lamb, G. Harwood, and Mr. Benson , hereunto annexed, are genuine. And I certify that the Hon. Benjamin F. Thomas is Judge of the probate of Wills &c, a Court of Record of this Commonwealth, for said County, and that his signature to the certificate of the oath of Samuel Kingsbury on his deposition hereto annexed, is genuine.
Given under my hand, and the Seal of said County, this seventeenth day of February , in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty five.
Jos. G. Kendall Clerk

Edwards Eugene
Com t Pensions
Washington

Wenatchee, Mass. July. 17/62
Sir enclose you will receive the Deed of Samuel Hensley, in behalf of himself & sisters, for a pension under Acts of July 7, 1838 and Mar 3 1843, in right of their late mother Sophia Hensley the widow of Samuel Hensley, a revolutionary soldier. Please let the Certificates be forwarded to me.
I am very Respectfully
Wm M. Brown

Samuel Kingsbury on behalf of him self &  himself  Sister (Sister) Sylvia Kingsbury Nancy Wallis & Matilda Bailliff heirs as children of Sam d Kingsbury & Sophia Kingsbury both deceased.
Certificate of Sec y of Com. of M p . to 9 mo. 15. d. Service of Sam d Kingsbury. made in application of Sophia Kingsbury, dated 13. Nov. '44. Certificate of Town Clerk as to the date of the marriage viz. 29. Dec r 1790.
Sam d Kingsbury died Jan y 29. 1823. Sophia Kingsbury died 20. Nov. r 1844
Certif. of Register of Com t Worcester of the death of Sophia Kingsbury as above stated thereby leaving the children above named.

Worcester ss. February 14 th 1843. Then personally appeared William Bensen. Clerk of the town of Oxford in the County of Worcester, and made oath, that the three extracts of Records, which are herewith annexed are true copies, from the original records, of the said town of Oxford. Before me—
Alvan G. Underwood, Justice of the Peace _____ "_____

At Boston February 1 st 1865 This Certificate that Mrs. Sophia Kingsbury late Widow of Sam l Kingsbury who died in Webster November 20 th 1864 at the age of 72 years has been recorded in the record of Webster as the law directs
John D. Dixon Jr Town Clerk November 15 th 1865 Then personally appeared John Dixon Jr & made solemn oath to the truth of the above certificate by him subscribed Before me
Jonathan Day, Not. Public

11727
Feb. February 21, 1885,
Sophia Kingsbury dec?
Mass.
abt 7 July 38
m 90. d 23.
abt 1843-7/17/4 abt 1840-5/4/2
acom d
9mo 88
30.88
So Also abt 3 March 43. $30.88 to 20 Nov. '44 the day of her death - To Saml. Sylvain Kingsbury - Nancy Wal- lis H Matilda Bartlett only surviving child Ira M. Barton Worcester Mass.

I David Lamb of Oxford in the County of Worcester State of Massachusetts being of lawful age & sound mind herein seem to testify, to the knowledge I had of Samuel Kingbury late of Oxford - do hereby depose & say That my age is Eighty-Six years on the 5 th Oct. 1844 That at the time of the revolutionary war I was a resident of the town of Charlton, adjoining the said town of Oxford That soon after the war I removed to Oxford, and have ever since lived in said town of Oxford - I became acquainted with Samuel Kingbury soon after I removed to Oxford; and I frequently conversed with him as to his being in the revolutionary war, as I myself had served in that war - There was no other person by the name of Samuel Kingbury residing in Oxford, excepting a son of the said Samuel - The said Samuel Kingbury was married to one Sophia Moore of Oxford, after I removed into the town of Oxford - Dated at Oxford this 8 th day of February in the Year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred forty five - The word "Samuel" interlined before David Lamb Signing - Signature in presence of A. G. Underwood
Worcester ss Oxford February 8 th 1845. Then the above named David Lamb appeared & used under oath that the above statements are true - Before me -
Alvan G. Underwood Justice of the Peace
Oxford Feb 8 th 1845 I certify that the above named David Lamb is regarded as a man of truth & veracity Alvan G. Underwood Justice of the Peace

I Elisha Harwood of Oxford in the County of Worcester and State of Massachusetts, of lawful age and sound mind being sworn to testify to the knowledge I had of Samuel Kingsbury late of Oxford, do depose & say that my age will be eighty two years the 16 th day of Feb y instant. That at the time of the revolution any war I was a resident of the Town of Sutton in the westerly part and adjoining said Oxford, that soon after the revolution I removed to Oxford, and that for about two years previous to removal and ever after till his decease I was well acquainted with Samuel Kingsbury of said Oxford, have frequently heard him speak of being in the service during the revolutionary war & events relating thereto. That I never knew of there ever being any other Samuel Kingsbury in Oxford than the one above referred to excepting a son of said Samuel.
I also testify that I was knowing to the said Samuel being married to Sophia Moore of said Oxford, and that at his decease he left the said Sophia his widow.
Dated at Oxford this tenth day of Feb y in the year of Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty five.
Elisha Harwood
Worcester ss Feb y 11 th 1845 Then the above named Elisha Harwood appeared and made solemn oath that the above deposition and statements by him subscribed are true - Before me Stephen Davis Jus. of Peace
I hereby certify that the above named Elisha Harwood is regarded as a man of trust and veracity.
Stephen Davis Jus. of Peace