Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 2708, for Sanford Kingsbury, Connecticut

SERVICE
NUMBER
Conn. Ut.
Kingsbury Sanford
S. 2708
CONTENTS
carded
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1870.
1889
July 22 Prof H. M. H. Dal. H. Ruby - Br.
1207.
New Hampshire
Sanford Kingsbury
of Fullerville in the State of N.H. who was a Major in the [blank] commanded by Captain [blank] of the [blank] commanded by Major [blank] in the [blank] line for [blank] [blank] [blank] Captain [blank]
Glenn and W. Linn. Records corrected
Inscribed on the Roll of [blank] [blank] [blank] at the rate of 5 6 Dollars [blank] cents per [blank] to commence on the 1st day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 2nd day of Oct [blank] [blank] 1832 [blank] [blank] [blank]
Arrears to 1st of [blank] 88 85 Pension, allowance ending [blank] 20 [blank] 5 80
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by [blank] Clerk Book [blank] Vol. [blank] Page 60

5901 Sandford Kingsbury
M.C.E
1 year to Mr. May -2 to Capt
Adm tag
5590
F.A. Warner Charleston MTJ
x

5901
BRIEF in the case of Sandford Kingsbury of Claremont  of  Sullivan Co. in the State of New Hampshire (Act 7 June, 1832.)
 Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? a Court of Probate  If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity? —  How old is he? 89  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.     In 1776 20 June to 20 Nov. — 5 — 2 d Lieut. in a Company to join the Continental Army   2 Dec — to 15 March '77 — 3 13 Captain Maj Genl Spencer   27 March '77 — 2 April '78 1 — 6 Ed d de Camp (Rank of Major) to Maj Genl Spencer   fall of the year 1778 was reported in 1778 — — — Deputy Muster Master —   18 th July 1781 till 1 Dec — 4 14 Major in Col Benj. Waits Regt. to guard the frontiers  
 In what battles was he engaged? none mentioned  Where did he reside when he entered the service? Windham Cont. — Claremont 
7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditional evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? — By a Commission of Lieut. — one of Capt. one of Aid de Camp — &c and Muster Rolls — one living witness
 Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? 
No Clergyman's Certificate
I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
W. C. Easton Examining Clerk.
X does not say how long he served as Deputy Muster Master

5901.
Sandford Kingsbury

State of New Hampshire Sullivan County ss
At a court of Probate held at Claremont within & for the county of Sullivan aforesaid on the fifth day of August A.D. 1832 Before Frederick A. Sherman Judge of the Probate of Wills &c for said county, Personally appeared Sandford Kingsbury of Claremont aforesaid age in open court, aged eighty nine years who being first duly sworn, according to his oath, 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 the 7 th 1832.
That he lived in Windham in the county of Windham & State of Connecticut before & at the commencement of the revolutionary war with Great Britain in the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy five, that on the twentieth day of June Anno Domini seven hundred & seventy six he received from his Excellency Jonathan Trumbull then Governor of the State of Connecticut by the authority of said State a second Commission in a company to join the Continental Army, which commission he accepted & joined the army and served until about the twentieth of November 1776 when he was discharged & on the second of December 1776 he was appointed Captain by his Excellency Jonathan Trumbull then Governor of the State of Connecticut which commission he accepted & entered the service accordingly and on the 10 th Jany 1777 he was ordered to march his company to Providence in the State of Rhode Island & to put himself under the command in Chief of the Continental Army then he continued in service until the 15 th of March 1777 when he was discharged by Maj Genl Spencer. The above services will distinctly appear by his commission as second Lieutenant, Captain, Commission a letter Jonathan Trumbull & his discharge by Genl. Spencer herewith exhibited. He further states that on the 2 nd day of March A.D. 1777 he was appointed Aid de Camp to the Honorable Major General Spencer with the rank of a Major by order of Congress and his commission was signed by John Hancock President which commission he accepted & served in that capacity until the second day of April 1778 his commission being attained in the course of that service. He was then appointed Deputy Master Master in which capacity he served until the fall of the year 1778 when he thinks in September or October when he was discharged & went home, the evidence of this service is the master roll his discharge & he believes

was in writing if so it is lost, the attached muster roll is all the evidence of his service as Muster Master - Your deponent further states that he resided in Windham in Connecticut from the time of his last discharge upward until the month of August 1780 when he moved from Windham upward to Claremont - aforesaid, where he has resided ever since. Your deponent further states that on the eighteenth of July A.D. 1731 he recd. a Major's commission in Col. Benjamin Wight's Regiment, to guard the frontier of the state of Vermont signed by his Excellency Thomas Chittenden then Governor of said state of Vermont which commission or appointment he accepted & performed the duty until about the first of December when the Regiment was disbanded & he was discharged. The only evidence of this service is the commission hereto annexed. The attached muster roll is the first I ever made & he thinks he kept. As for a sample of there is any other evidence of this service it must be in the returns which he made monthly or oftener and they may be in the War Office
That he hereby relinquishes every claim thereto to a pension or annuity except the present & declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state. -
Isaac D. Kingsbury
sworn to & submitted the day & year aforesaid
Frederick Schuyler, Judge of Probate
I Ebenezer Sperry of Claremont in the county of Sullivan and state of New Hampshire twenty six years of age depose and say that I moved from New Haven in Connecticut to Claremont aforesaid in February 1780. That he was knowing to Maj. Kingsbury moving into the same Claremont with his family in the summer following and went within half a mile of your deponent, & that the same Maj. Sandford Kingsbury, he well recollects in about one year after he came into town was appointed Major & commissioned as he understood in Col. Wight's Regiment to guard the frontier in Vermont. he well remembers the Major going away & his return, which he thinks was late in the fall of the same year (1781.) Your deponent further states that he lived in the same Claremont with Major Kingsbury

and been well acquainted with him ever since that time as they have lived in the same town, & the said King- bury is now living and is count with friend further depon & say that the said Kingbury moved from Wind- ham in Connecticut to said Gloucester as he then under- stood by him at the time he first came to this place and have ever since so understood by him.
Ever Sperry
Sworn & subscribed the day & year aforesaid
In open court before
Frederick A. Sumner judge of Probate
We Silas H. Labaree & Uriel Dean both of Farmington in said county.
Hereby certify that we are well acquainted with the Honorable Sandford Kingbury, who has subscribed & sworn to the foregoing objection or declaration; that we believe him to be eighty nine years of age, that he is respected & beloved behind him as an officer in the revolutionary war, in the neigh- borhood where he resides & that we concur in that opinion.
Silas H. Labaree
Uriel Dean
Sworn & subscribed the day & year aforesaid
Frederick A. Sumner judge of Probate
And the court do further declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter & putting the interrogatories presented by the War department, that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier & served as he states. And the court certify that it appears to them that Silas H. Labaree & Uriel Dean to the of Gloucester aforesaid who are residents in the town of Farmington have signed the foregoing certificate as credible persons & are entitled to credit as such persons.
Frederick A. Sumner judge of Probate
I Aaron Metcalf the Register of the court of Probate a- foresaid do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the ori- ginal proceedings of the said applicant in the matter of the appl- ication of Sandford Kingbury for a pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & the seal of the said court the 10th day of August 1832 Aaron Metcalf Register of Probate

Pomona, California
July 27 1970
Received from the Division of the Washington State, through W. E. Trusk of the following names:
 1. A Commission as Capt in the Continental Army from Fort Ticonderoga of Massachusetts dated Dec 2 1776 to Sanjour, Massachusetts  2. Order of service to Col. John Trumbull dated June 10 1777  3. Commission as Major for service in the Continental Army from Fort Ticonderoga dated March 2, 1777  These are the only documents in the possession of the family of S. K. Trusk

Rev War
2708
INVALID.
File No. 2708.
Landford Hings Capt. A. H. Line
Act: June 7, 1832
Index:—Vol. A , Page 206
[Arrangement of 1870.]
Conn? Mt. H. Line. Records corrected Jan. 23rd 9

815 Asylum Ave.
Hartford, July 15 th , 1889.
To the Commissioner of Pensions
Dear Sir
Would it be possible for you inform me whether the names of the fol- lowing persons are to be found on the pension rolls of the Revolutionary soldiers, or their widows' names? viz: Sanford Kings- bury, Lieut. and, perhaps Major; Ephraim Kingsbury, commissary; Daniel Kingsbury, sergeant; Asa Kingsbury, 2, one a Captain, the other a surgeon; Samuel Kingsbury, prob- ably a private, all I think in the Connecticut line. As information relating to Revolutionary soldiers has been sent me, in the past, from the Pension Office I venture to apply again, although I feel that it is a very great favor

I am asking.
Hoping for a favorable reply, I remain,
very respectfully yours
(Miss)
Mary K. Talbot

1000 Department of the Interior. PENSION OFFICE.
Washington D.C. March 21 st 1870
Sir.
To enable this office to determine whether your request of the first addressed to Hon. J. A. Logan, M.C., can be granted you will furnish the number of the Regiment the name of the commanding officer, and of the state to which the Regiment belonged, in the case referred to. State, also, the Agency at which the pension was paid.
Respectfully, J. M. Smith Chief Clerk for Commissioner.
E. A. Kingsbury, Peoria, Ills.

Peoria Illinois March 28
Dear Sir
General Williams,
Sir,
My Grandfather,
Samuel Kingsbury, at 60 in Army of the Potomac was from New Hampshire not in the line but on the staff of Gen John G. Sullivan. The conversation that on file in your great house when it was run by a friend. If I can have it I should like it.
Yours respectfully
S A Kingsbury

Sanford Kingsbury
He was arrested, Aug 18 32, in Claremont. Sishua 40 14 aged 89 years Stated that he was living in Windham Co before the Convincer end of Purguac & rec'd a Comf as S. of in Continental Army dated Jan 20 1775 signed by Genl Jonathan Trumbull under which he served until about Nov 20 1775 when he was discharged - On Dec 2 1775 he was Comf as Captain by Genl Trumbull & By an order dated Jan 10 1777 he marched to Providence R.I. where he Continued in Service until March 15 1777 when discharged by Genl Spencer & on March 27 1777 he was appointed Lieut Colonel to Genl Spencer's with rank of Major the Commision was signed by John Hancock Presd of Congress under his Service to April 2 1778, after which he was Appd Deputy Master at Arms & served to the fall - (he thinks Sept or Oct) 1778 when discharged In Aug 1780 he re-enlisted from Windham in Claremont
On the 18 July 1781 he was Comf as Major in Col Bingham Hall's Mt Regt to guard the frontiers of Vermont, Brigaded by Genl John Chittenden Vt. under which he served until about Dec 1 st when the Regt was disbanded
A Letter is on file from his grandson S. H. Kingsbury dated Peach 3000 March 28 1870
Vol X, p 467 14 State papers he appears May 8 1784 in picture of Peace for the State Condy.

JONATHAN TRUMBULL, Esquire, Captain-General, and Commander in Chief, of the English Colony of CONNECTICUT, in NEW-ENGLAND, in AMERICA.
To Sanford Kingsbury Esq GREETING.
YOU being by the General Assembly of this Colony appointed to be second Lieutenant in a Company  and to join the continental Army now ordered to be raised for the Defence of this Colony, reposing especial Trust and Confidence in your Fidelity, Courage, and good Conduct, I do, by Virtue of the Laws of this Colony, me thereunto enabling, appoint and impower you the said Sanford Kingsbury to be second Lieutenant you are therefore carefully and diligently to discharge the Duty of a second Lieutenant in leading, ordering and exercising said Company in Arms, both inferior Officers and Soldiers, in the Service aforesaid, and to keep them in good Order and Discipline, hereby commanding them to obey you as their second Lieutenant and yourself to observe and follow such Orders and Instructions, as you shall from Time to Time receive from me, or the Commander in Chief of said Colony, for the Time being, or other your superior Officer, according to the Rules and Discipline of War, ordained and established by the Laws of this Colony, pursuant to the Trust hereby reposed in you.
Given under my Hand, and the public Seal of said Colony, at Hartford the twentieth Day of June Anno Domini, 1776.
By His Honor's Command,
George Wyllys Sec ry .
Jon. Trumbull
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