Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W 13577, for Samuel Kimball, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Kimball, Samuel Mary
W 13577
CONTENTS

11. 306
Massachusetts
widow of Mary Kimball deed who died on the
of in the State of Mass a who was a Ensign  2nd Lieut in the Revolution by Captain of the commanded by in the commanded for 5 mos Ensign 11 days Lieut 2nd Lieut
Inscribed on the Roll of Boston at the rate of 66 Dollars 81 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.
Certificate of Pension issued the 16 th day of April 1852 and sent to E. Clark
Streets to the 4th of Brighton Semi-annual allowance ending Mass a
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act July 7, 1838. }
Recorded by W. H. H. Newman Clerk. Book D. Vol. 1. Page 61

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
WORCESTER, ss.
I, Charles G. Bentz Register of the Court of Probate for the County of Worcester, do hereby certify, that satisfactory evidence has been exhibited to said Court, that Mary Finsell, Widow of Samuel Finsell, who was reported to have been an Officer in the Revolutionary War was a resident of the County of Worcester in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and died in Leicester in said County in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty four on the fifteenth day of June , and that she left four children only, to wit, Ruth Finsell, Lucy A. Hott, Polly Finsell and Sarah McCallum , all believed to be now living.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at Worcester, this seventh day of October in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and fifty one .
Chas. G. Bentz Register.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Worcester, ss.
I, Charles G. Prentiss, Register of the Court of Probate for the County of Worcester, do certify, that Rev. Barton is the Judge of said Court, duly commissioned and qualified - and that his signatures to the papers hereto annexed are true and genuine.
I further certify, that Edmund Lusk is a Justice of the Peace within and for said County, duly commissioned and qualified - and that his signature to one of the papers hereto annexed is true and genuine.
In testimony whereof, I do hereunto set my hand and affix the seal of said Court this twenty second day of October, one thousand, eight hundred and thirty eight.
Chas. G. Prentiss, Register
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Worcester ss. - I, Joseph Newton, Clerk of the Court of the Supreme Judicial Court, within and for said County, certify that Rev. Solomon Strong, whose name appears to the annexed affidavit, is one of the Justices of the Court of Common Pleas for the Commonwealth aforesaid, duly commissioned and qualified to administer the oaths within certified to him, that full faith and credit ought to be given to all his official acts and that his signatures to the within annexed affidavits, are in his own hand writing.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at Worcester, this twenty second day of October A.D. 1838 - Jos. G. Newton Clerk

(Declaration.)
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th July 1838, entitled "An act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows."
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Worcester County ss.
On this seventeenth day of October eighteen hundred and thirty eight personally appeared before the Court of Probate  Common , Pl. in the County of Worcester Mary Kimball aged eighty five years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the Act of Congress passed July 7. 1838 entitled "An act granting half half pay and pensions to certain widows" That she is the widow of Samuel Kimball who served in the Revolutionary war a part of the time as a quarter masters Sergeant and a part of the time as an Ensign. The said Samuel Kimball served as a quarter masters Sergeant in Oliver's ferry in Newton Hampshire and Sewell's swamp for the term of three months. She also served as Ensign in the year 1796 for the term of

five months, part of the time in the City of New York part of the time at Harlan Heights and part of the time near White Plains. She cannot ascertain the name of the Captain of the Company. David Ritter was the Lieutenant. She further says, that she is unable from the great length of time which has elapsed, to make any more particular specifi- cation of her said husband's services. She further declares that she was married to the said said Samuel Kimball on the first day of January Seventeen hundred and eighty three, at said Hamburg by the Reverend Labdick Adams then the settled and ordained Minister of that Town and that she has continued his widow ever since never having since been married. That the aforesaid Samuel Kimball died at said Hamburg on the seventeenth day of June eighteen hundred and thirty one : that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service but the marriage took place previous to the first of January, seventeen hundred and ninety

for her at the time above stated. She further declares that her name before she was married was Mary Goodridge. She further says that she formerly had in her possession her husband's Commission and other documents tending to prove his service; but they are not now in her possession and she does not know where they are. She further declares that she has not now in her possession any document tending to show her husband's service; nor is she able to procure any farther evidence of his service than what is annexed. She further declares that her said husband, Samuel Kimball on both of the occasions when he went into the service, resided in the town of Leominster aforesaid. She further declares that when her said husband served in New Jersey in 1777, he served under Capt David Carlisle and Major Beeglow of Westminster in said County of Worcester was his Lieutenant.
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year first above written. For me Mary Kimball Williamstown Judge of the Court of Probate for said County of Worcester And I certify that the words "then" were stricken out and the word "Probate" was substituted before the oath and subscription. Williamstown July 18.

I Daniel Wood of Leominster, County of Worcester and Commonwealth of Massachusetts aged eighty two years testify and say, that I was in the Revolutionary War with Samuel Hinckell late of said Leominster. I know that he served three months in the State of New-Jersey in the year seventeen hundred and seventy seven either as quarter master sergeant or as private soldier. Capt. Daniel Carlisle was his Captain, and Lieutenant John Biglow of Westminster in said County of Worcester was his Lieutenant. I served in the same company and mess with said Samuel Hinckell during said three months. The said Samuel Hinckell afterwards married Mary Goodridge. I am on the Pension list.
Subscribed Solomon Strong.
Daniel his X mark. Wood

Commonwealth of Massachusetts,
Worcester County ss. On this twenty fifth day of August eighteen hundred and thirty eight personally appeared Daniel Wood within named and subscribed the within affidavit by making his mark, in my presence, and I witnessed the same. And the said Daniel Wood made oath to the truth of the within affidavit before me. And I certify that the within named Daniel Wood is a credible person.
Solomon Strong Judge P.P. Pleas.

I Abijah Goodridge of Fitchburg in the County of Worcester and Commonwealth of Massachusetts aged eighty four years testify and say that I was out in the Revolutionary war with Samuel Hinckell late of said Fitchburg. I know that he served five months in the year 1776. part of the time in the City of New-York. part of the time at Harlem heights and part of the time near White Plains. I served with him the whole five months. He was the Ensign of the Company of which I was a private. I cannot recollect the name of the Captain. David Ritter was the Lieutenant. The said Samuel Hinckell afterwards married Mary Goodridge. I am on the Pension list Commonwealth of Massachusetts Worcester County ss. } Abijah Goodridge.
On this twenty fifth day of August eighteen hundred and thirty eight personally appeared Abijah Goodridge above named and made oath to the truth of the above affidavit, by him submitted, before me. And I certify that the above named Abijah Goodridge is a credible person. Solomon Strong. Judge C. C. Pheas.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
County of Worcester Town of Lunenburg } ss.
"Samuel Hinsball & Mary Goodridge January first seventeen hundred and eighty three."
I Nathaniel H. Cunningham Town Clerk of said Lunenburg certify that the above is a true copy from a Record of marriages by the Reverend Isadiah Adams now in my possession with the exception of the date which is expressed on the Record in fair legible figures as follows "Jany 1 st 1783"
Nath l H. Cunningham - Town Clerk

I Nathaniel F. Cunningham within named depose and say: that I hold the office of Town Clerk in the County State and Town of said and that the above is a true extract from the Records of the Reverend Tabitha Adams in my possession, with the exception above named. as certified by me
Nath F Cunningham - { Clerk of said Town of Framingham
{ Commonwealth of Massachusetts Worcester County ss. On this twenty fifth day of August eighteen hundred and thirty eight personally appeared Nathaniel F. Cunningham above named and made solemn oath to the truth of the above affidavit by him subscribed. before me.
Solomon Strong Judge C.C. Pleas.

I Thomas James of Leominster in the County of Worcester and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, aged fifty seven years testify and say that Samuel Fimbolt late of said Leominster died about seven years ago, I should think it was in the month of June 1877. I saw the corpse, the day before the funeral. I have been well acquainted with his widow since Mary Fimbolt ever since, and she has resided in the same house with me since the 15 th day of December last. She has remained a widow ever since the death of said Samuel Fimbolt, never having since been married.
Thomas James
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Worcester County ss. On this twenty fifth day of August eighteen hundred and thirty eight personally appeared, Thomas James, the signer of the above affidavit and made oath to the truth of the same before me. And I certify that said Thomas James is a credible person.
Solomon Strong. Judge. C. C. Pheas.

Samuel Kimball died June 17. 1830 aged 81 Years I Nathaniel H. Cunningham Clerk of the town of Lunenburg, County of Worcester and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Certify that the above death is a true copy from the Records of said town of Lunenburg. — September 3 rd 1838. — N H Cunningham town Clerk. —
Worcester ss September 4 th 1838 Personally appeared N H Cunningham above named, Clerk of the town of Lunenburg, and made oath that the extract from the Records of said town as by him above certified is true.
Before me E. Merrill Cushing Justice of the Peace

2772
Mary Kimball widow of Samuel Mass.
Act 7 July 1838.

Mary Kimball - $2.00

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE.
Secretary of State's Office.
I, JOHN L. HADLEY, Secretary of State aforesaid, do hereby certify that Robert Moore is an acting Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Hillsborough duly commissioned and qualified, and duly authorized by the Laws of said State to administer Oaths, take the acknowledgment of Deeds, &c. His Commission was dated on the 5th day of January 1847, and will expire on the 5th day of January 1852.
Given under my hand and the Seal of the State, this eleventh day of September 1851.
John L. Hadley Secretary of State.

We the Subscribers, Ruth Kimball, and Lucy Nott, of Nashua, County of Hillsborough, State of New Hampshire, formerly of Lunenburg, County of Worcester, & Commonwealth of Massachusetts, of lawful age, Depose and say, that Mary Kimball late of said town of Lunenburg was claimant for a Pension from the United States at the time of her decease, we therefore for ourselves and in behalf of our Sisters, claim the "amount of Pension that was due her, at the day of her death, that she was the widow of Samuel Kimball, who resided in said Lunenburg, and according to the best of our knowledge, he was in the first engagement of the Lexington & Concord Alarm April 19 th 1775, as commissioned officer in the Minute Company from Lunenburg, and that we have the impression, that he may have been in the service in the year of 1775, and that in the year of 1776, he engaged agreeable to a Resolve of June 28, 1776, and rendered not less than five months service at New York City, as Lieutenant or Ensign in Capt. Houghton's or Capt. Niles's Company in Col. Smith's Regt, and that in this Campaign, or one immediately following, he was at White Plains, on the Jersey side of the River, & that he may have rendered the Extra Service of a quartermaster, at the same time he rendered the service of lieutenant, or the service of Ensign,

That the said Samuel Kimball, our father was in the service, at Saratoga in the autumn of 1777, as lieutenant, or Quartermaster, in the Regiment of Col. Bridge or Col. Wheelock, which service was at the capture of General Burgoyne and his army, and that he may have been in the service at other places which they are not able to discover at this time, and for further proof, would refer to the claim made by the said Samuel Kimball, under the Act of May 15. 1828, or the Act of 1828, which claim, and his original commissions, & other original papers, they refer to, for examination, in this claim, that it is their belief that the claims & other papers of their late mother are also on file in the Pension Office, at Washington, and were presented by the Hon. Levi Lincoln, then a Member of Congress.
Truth Kimball
Lucy H. Holt
State of New Hampshire
Hillsborough County ss. ss. August 21 st 1837.
Then personally appeared Ruth Kimball, & Lucy Holt, and made oath to the truth of the above affidavit by them subscribed, they being entitled to keep it. Before Me,
Roberts Moore Justice of the Peace

Know all Men, by these presents, that we Ruth Kimball, Lucy Holt of Nashvill, in the State of New Hampshire, and formerly of Lunenburg in the State of Massachusetts, do hereby constitute and appoint Phyllis Clark of Brighton, State of Massachusetts, our true and lawful attorneys, for us, and in behalf of our Sisters, to prosecute any claim we or each of us may have on the General Government of the United States, by virtue of the services of our father, Samuel Kimball, deceased, in the War of the Revolution, and the claims for a pension made by our late Mother, Mary Kimball, late of Lunenburg, State of Massachusetts, And the said Phyllis Clark, is authorized to take all necessary, proper & legal steps in the prosecuting of said claim, on our behalf, and in the same manner as we each of us - ourselves would do, Signed, sealed, & delivered in presence of, (interlinears being first done, on left line between.)
Robert Moore,
Ruth Kimball Lucy H. Holt.
State of Massachusetts , New Hampshire Hillsborough County, ss. August 21 st 1851 Then personally appeared Ruth Kimball & Lucy Holt and acknowledged the above power of attorney by them subscribed to be their free act and deed. Before me, Robert Moore, Justice of the Peace.

9196 Massachusetts
Mary Kimball widow of Samuel Maj who was an Ensign Lieut 2d Lt. in the Revolution
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 66 Dollars 31 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843. 8 cur
15 th June 1844 Certificate of Pension issued the 16 th day of April 1844 and sent to
E. Clark Brighton Mass a
[Acts of March 3, 1843, & June 17, 1844.]
Recorded in Book A. Vol. 2. Page 33.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Boston:
September 1 1857.
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 Kimball is borne on a roll of Capt. George Kimball's Co. marched from Lunenburg Apr 19. 1775. as Lt. 11 days.
5 months according to the per- ish order - there-
On a list of officers of Capt. Gaby Root's Co. Col. Jonathan Smith, Regt in 1776. as Ensign - no service stated & no roll of the Co. for service found - David Ritter appears as Lt. of the same Co.
On a pay roll of Field & Staff officers of Col. Bridges Regt. for service at Saratoga, Sept 1777. as Quartermaster, 25 days.
No roll of Capt. David Carlisle.

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.
Levi Woodbury Secretary of the Commonwealth.

The Secretary of the State of Massachusetts, is requested to examine the Rules, Documents, for proof of the Service of Samuel Kimball, of Lunenburg, County of Worcester, State of Massachusetts. The said Samuel Kimball is believed to have been a commissioned Officer in the Minute Company of Lunenburg and was in the engagement or at the alarm at Lexington & Concord April, 19, 1775, & may have been in some of the services of the year of 1775, & was in the year's service of 1776, or in the service in that year at New York & the Jersey County for not less than five months, as Lieutenant of Capt. Houghton's Company of Worcester County in Col. Smith's Regiment, or as Quarter Master at the same time, in Col. Smith's Regt. and that in the autumn of 1777, he was in the service at Saratoga as a Lieutenant or as Quarter Master in Col. Bridges or Col. Wheelock's Regt. & that he may have been in other services, during the War of the Revolution. Brighton, Augt. 2 Cont. 1851. Eliza Clark, Attorney, for children of said Kimball, deceased.

Mary Hinckall
wid. of Saml.
Mass.
act 7 July 1838 - Susp?
See let. to C. G. Prentiss
31 Jany 1839, Han L.
Lincoln 25 Feby 1839,
E. Clark Dec 26/51

Pennim Office December 26. 1885.
Sir:
The date of the death of Mary Kimball and the names of the children who survived her must be proved in open Court. The former fact should be established by some one who kept a record of it.
Very Respectfully Yours a v er J. Wilson for Comy Pennim
E. Clark Esq Brighton Mass.
✓

Brighton, Mass ts October, 8 th 1887
Dear Sir,
I have the honor to enclose you herewith the claims of the children of Mary Kimball, late of Sunnyside Massachusetts, widow of Samuel Kimball of that town. The children understand that their father made a claim for a pension under the act of 1878 or act of 1828, and by some one presented to the Commissioner of Pensions, his original commission, and other papers of his service, which papers being on file in the the rejected cases under either of those laws, are now referred to you for proof to support the widows claims under the act of 1878, and March 3 rd 1873 & 1874. Samuel Kimball died in Sunnyside June 17, 1831, as stated by the children.
Very Respectfully yours Chas. D. H. C. Elijah Clark
Hon. J. E. Heath Commissioner of Pensions Washington City D.C.

Brighton, Januy. 8 d 1852.
Dear Sir.
The within letter, as I understand it. refers to the case claims of the children of Mary Kimball, late of Lunenburg, Worcester, County, Massachusetts, the widow of Samuel Kimball, of that town, who was an officer of the Militia in the War of the Revolution, and the letter expressed, that the date of Mary Kimball's death, and the children surviving her, has not been proved.
A Probate Court Certificate of the County of Worcester, of date October 7 th 1851, was forwarded with the other papers, on the eight of October last, in which it was proved that she died in Lunenburg on the 15 th day of June 1851, and left four children only viz, Ruth Kimball, Lucy M. Holt, Polly Kimball & Sarah McCollom. The Certificate was under the seal of the Court, in due form.
Very Respect your Ob d Serv t Elijah Clarke
Hon. J. E. Heath, Compt of Penna Washington,

Rev  WIDOW, &c.  am
File No. 1357
Mary Kimball Widow of Samuel Kimball Lt. Rev. War
Act: Mar. 3 rd 1843
Index:—Vol. a , Page 402
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Brief in the case of Mary Kimbell, w/o Saml. County and State of Massachusetts acts 7 July '38 V.C.
Claim, ("original," or " for increase. ")
Proof exhibited, (if original.)
Is it documentary, traditional, or supported by rolls? If either, state the substance.
Evidence of service; Record of parole parole - of manage. record.
(If for increase.)
Has additional evidence been filed since the admission of the claim? If so, what?
Name and residence of Agent
E. Blair Esq. Brighton, Mass.
F. F. Kirby Examining Clerk.

✓ Mary Kimball die wid of Saml.
Mafs.
Accts 7 July '38 H.C.
adm?
5- Mo. Ensign - $ 50.
11 days Scent 4.88.
25 " 2 d Master. 11.43
$66.31
Per An: to 15 June 1844.
when she died.
except 2 years.
Payable to
Ruth Kimball, Lucy R. Holt, Polly Kimball & Sarah McCallam, only children
E. Clark. Esq
Brighton, Mafs.

Mary Reinball case
C. Storsp Present

Affidavit x Name of Atty

AFFIDAVIT AND POWER OF ATTORNEY.
STATE OF COUNTY OF
Massachusetts Mercer } ss.
Be it remembered, That, on this 28 th day of December A. D. 1852, I, Elizabeth Sarah Manning do make known and declare that I am the Granddaughter and heir-at-law to Mary Kimball who was the only wife of Samuel Kimball a Revolutionary soldier, who served two or three  months  months a month to 8 or 9 months under the command of Capt David Cook George Kimball & Capt Keer Dorr in the forces raised by the State of Massachusetts and that he and his said wife were married about the month of January A. D. 1783 that he died about the month of  17 th June 1801 A. D. 1831 and that his said wife also died about the month of June A. D. 1844 and that a pension of $66.33 1/3 dollars a year was drawn by her  Mrs Lucy Holt for herself & by Power of Attorney for her on account of said services, and so continued until the year A. D. 1844, since which time nothing has been received by either, or the heirs of either of said parties.
And that claimant is now 21 years of age; and it is understood and believed that there are arrearages of Pension, and other claims due for said services: Now, THEREFORE, the true intent of all this is to qualify and irrevocably appoint and empower ALFRED J. WORKS, of New Haven City and County, State of Connecticut,
as my Attorney, with power of substitution, to investigate, substantiate, demand, and receive the avails of, said claim or claims, and to say and do all things relative thereto, as amply as I might do: hereby ratifying every thing said or done by my said Attorney, or his substitute, in virtue hereof; ALSO, revoking all Powers of Attorney, or other authority previously given for any such purposes.
Attest, Ezek Whiting Peter Manning
In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal, day and date first above named.
Elizabeth Sarah Manning
Subscribed, sworn to, and acknowledged before me, the day and year first above indicated.
Before me Ezek Whiting Justice of the Peace
only question here is all drawn, to which the case is entitled - is not the above heir entitled to her mother's share of what was drawn as an heir at law