Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S 35494, for David Kinnaston, New Hampshire

SERVICE
N.H.
Kinnaston, David or Kerniston or Kaniston
NUMBER
S 35494 B.L. 903-100.
CONTENTS
1899-1900 and 1901-1902

1882 June 2 G.B. Kenniston Military history
Date of death not on AB
Maine. 17034
David Kenniston, of Lincoln co y , in the state of Maine, who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Sturmel of the New-Hamp- shire, for the term of three years.
scribed on the Roll of Maine, at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 15. of April, 1819.
Certificate of Pension issued the 20. of May, 1820 and sent to Jeremiah Bailey, judge, Wiscasset, Maine.
  Arrears to 4th of March, 1820.  $ 85.30    Semi-ann. all'ce ending 11. Sept r  48 "    10 mo s 16 } 1820.  $ 133.30    8 4 30 } 31. "  
{ Revolutionary claim, { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Spent on it

5510.
David Keniston Lincoln county, District of Maine.
15. April, 1819.
Col o . Scammon's regt. New-Hampshire line, July 1779, to June, 1783.
found on the rolls.
Admitted
Jeremiah Bailey, judge Wiscasset, Maine, rec d . 20. Dec r . 1819.

State of Massachusetts
I David Reinaston a Citizen of the United States, now resident at Boothbay in the County of Lincoln in the State aforesaid, do on oath testify and declare, that in the War of the Revolution, on or about the month of July 1779
I entered and was engaged in the land service of the United States on the continental establishment, and served accordingly from that time to the 8 th day of June 1783 I having enlisted for & during the war
as a private soldier against the common enemy, without any interruption or absence; that I belonged to Capt. Livermore's Company Col. Scam- mels third New Hampshire Regiment at first, but during the service said third Regiment was reduced or dissolved, & I then belonged to Col. Henry Dearborn's first New Hampshire Regiment but I still remained in Capt. Livermore's Company and that I left the service on the eighth day of June 1783 at a place called Snake Hill near Newburg on the Hudson river & received a regular discharge which I have lost and that by reason of my reduced circumstances in life and poverty, I stand in need of assistance from my country for support, being now of the age of fifty eight years
And I hereby relinquish all claims to every pension heretofore allowed me by the laws of the United States, if any may be or hath been so allowed.
David Reinaston
Commonwealth of Massachusetts -
Lincoln ss. BE IT REMEMBERED, That on this fifteenth day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and nineteen Pursuant to a law of the United States, entitled, "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war," made and passed on the 18th of March, A. D. 1818, personally appeareth before me Jeremiah Bailey Judge of the Court of Probate within & for the County of Lincoln in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts the same being a Court of Record of said County -
the abovenamed David Reinaston and after due examination and caution to testify and declare the whole truth, he maketh oath to the declaration aforesaid, and subscribes the same in my presence; and, on examination duly made by me the said Judge, it appeareth to my satisfaction that the said declaration is true.
Jeremiah Bailey
I John H. Sheppard Register of the Court of Probate for the County of Lincoln hereby certify that the aforesaid Jeremiah Bailey is Judge of said Court of Probate above named & that his signature to this caption is genuine & that the seal aforesaid is the seal of said Court -
John H. Sheppard
April 15 th 1819 -

I Jeremiah Bailey Judge Vt. as aforesaid do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said David Reinaston did serve in the revolutionary war as stated in the preceding declaration against the common enemy: and I now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me to the Secretary for the Department of War, pursuant to the directions of the aforesaid act of Congress. And I do further certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said David Reinaston by reason of his reduced circumstances in life needs the assistance of his country for support.
Given under my hand & seal this ninth day of December A. D. 1819.
Jeremiah Bailey

David Kenniston N H line W ipd No 903-
(900)
David Kenniston private New Hampshire line
Warrant ipd April 21 st 1870
Hon. M. L. Hill

fo 20883-
State of Maine County of Lincoln } Wiscapit . April 8 th 1820.
I, David Ranniston of Boothbay - aged sixty - years, a citizen of the United States, do, upon oath, testify and declare, that, in the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy nine I enlisted in the army of the revolution, against the common enemy of my country, for the term of "during the war," and served in the company commanded by Capt. David Leavitt and in the regiment No. three - under command of Colonel John Noble Scammon of the New Hampshire - line; and that I continued in the service aforesaid until the close of the war, in seventeen hundred and eighty three, when I was regularly discharged from the first - regiment, commanded by Colonel Henry Dearborn .
My discharge is now lost or mislaid, so that I cannot produce it to corroborate the above statement. I further declare that I have never received a warrant for the Bounty Land promised to me on the part of the United States; nor have I ever assigned or transferred my claim to that gratuity in any manner whatsoever: therefore, Know all men by these presents that I, David Ranniston of Boothbay aforesaid, do hereby constitute and appoint Nath. T. Gannett Esq. of the county of Lincoln and state of Maine - to be my true and lawful attorney, for me and in my name to demand and receive from the Secretary of War of the United States, or of such other person as is duly authorized to issue and deliver the same; a warrant for the quantity of Land due to me as aforesaid, and to sign a receipt or acquittance therefor; and my said attorney is hereby fully authorized and empowered to constitute and appoint one or more substitutes or attorneys under him, for the special purposes above expressed.
Attest, Thomas M'Graw
David Ranniston
I, Levi Leathers aged fifty eight years, a citizen of the United States, do, upon oath, declare that I have been long acquainted with David Ranniston who has subscribed the above declaration in my presence, and well know that he is the identical person he therein represents himself to be; and further, I know that he did perform the military service therein stated.
Attest, Thomas M'Graw
Levi Leathers
Before me, Thomas M'Graw Justice of the Peace personally appeared the above named David Ranniston subscriber to the foregoing declaration, and in my presence acknowledged the power of attorney thereto subjoined, to be his free act and deed; and, likewise, personally appeared Levi Leathers who hath subscribed the above certificate of identity, both to me well known to be men of respectability and truth, and made solemn oath to the truth of the depositions by them respectively subscribed, this Eight - day of April - 1820
Thomas M'Graw - Justice of the Peace.
State of Maine In ss.
In testimony that the abovewritten Thomas M'Graw Esq. was a magistrate authorised to administer oaths, and take acknowledgments, &c. in the state of Maine at the above date, and that his name there subscribed appears to me to be his usual signature, I have hereunto affixed the county seal, and subscribed my name and quality, at Wiscapit this eighth day of April 1820
Nath. Coffin Clerk of the Judicial Court in & for said County of Lincoln

May 23, 1938
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Mr. Emery Kenniston Rice 7 Cliftondale Avenue Saugus, Massachusetts
DAVID KINNASTON S. 35494 BA-J/MLB
Dear Sir:
Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revolutionary War record of David Kenniston who served from New Hampshire and received a pension while residing in Boothbay, Lincoln County, Maine.
You are furnished herein the record of David Kinnaston (surname shown, also, Kenniston and Kaniston) as found in the papers of the claims for pension and bounty land under File No. S. 35494, based upon his service in the Revolutionary War.
The date and place of birth and names of the parents of David Kinnaston are not shown.
David Kinnaston entered the service in July, 1779, place not stated, for the period of the Revolution, served as private, corporal and sergeant in Captain Daniel Livermore's company, a part of the time in Colonel Scamell's 3 rd New Hampshire Regiment and part of the time in Colonel Henry Dearborn's 1 st New Hampshire Regiment, and was discharged June 8, 1783.
The soldier was allowed pension on his application executed April 15, 1819, at which time he was aged fifty-eight years and a resident of Boothbay, Lincoln County, Massachusetts (Maine). He signed David Kinnaston.
On account of the Revolutionary War service of David Kinnaston, Warrant No. 903, for one hundred acres of bounty land, was issued April 21, 1819. In 1828, the soldier was still living in Boothbay, Maine.
It is not stated whether the soldier was ever married.
In order to obtain date of last payment of pension, the name and address of the person paid, and possibly the date of death of this soldier,

you should write to the Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, Records Division, this city, and cite the following data: David Kinnaston, certificate #17034, issued May 20, 1820, rate $8 per month, commenced April 15, 1819, Act March 18, 1818, Maine Agency.
If you desire information in regard to location of the land granted David Kinnaston, you should apply to the Commissioner of the General Land Office, Interior Department, this city, and furnish that official the number of the warrant, the acreage and date of issuance.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER Executive Assistant to the Administrator

For the purpose of obtaining the benefit of "An Act for the relief of certain surviving officers & soldiers of the army of the Revolution," approved on the fifteenth of May, 1828. I, David Kinnaston of Boothbay in the county of Lincoln, in the State of Maine, do hereby declare that I enlisted in the Continental Line of the Army of the Revolution, for and during the war, and continued in its service until its termination; at which period I was a soldier and corporal in Capt Daniel Livermore's company, in the first Regiment of the line. Colonel Doodson, in the New Hampshire Troops, have not And I also declare that I afterwards received a certificate for the reward of Eighty Dollars, to which I was entitled under a resolve of congress, passed the 15th of May 1778. And I further declare that I was not, on the fifteenth day of March, 1828, on the Pension List of the United States.
David Kinnaston
Before me Moses Carlton a Justice of the Peace in the county of Lincoln, in the State of Maine. Personally appeared this day, Ephraim Atley and Stephen Carlton of the said county, who did severally make oath that David Kinnaston by whom the foregoing declaration was subscribed, is generally reputed and believed to have been a soldier in the Army of the Revolution in manner as therein stated.
Subscribed my hand this Nineteenth day of June in the year one thousand eight hundred & twenty eight
Stephen Carlton
Moses Carlton Justice of the Peace
I Nathaniel Coffin clerk of the courts of the county of Lincoln in the State of Maine, do certify that Moses Carlton before whom the foregoing affidavits were sworn, was, at the time a Justice of the Peace, and duly empowered to administer oaths. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said court this Twentyfirst day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & twenty eight.
Nathaniel Coffin Clerk

Know all men by these presents, that I David Kinnaston of Brookbay, in the county of Lincoln, in the state of Maine do hereby constitute and appoint Thomas Mcbrat, my true and lawfull attorney, with a power of substitution, for me, and in my name, to receive from the United States the amount of pay now due to me, under the act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the Revolution, approved 15th May, 1828 as a soldier & corporal in the first regiment of the New Hampshire line of the Army of the Revolution
Witness my hand and seal this Nineteenth day of June in the year One thousand eight Hundred Twenty Eight.
Sealed & delivered in the presence of David Kinnaston
John G. Anderson
Moses Carlton
Before me Moses Carlton a Justice of the Peace, in the county of Lincoln, in the state of Maine. Personal appeared this day David Kinnaston whose name is subscribed to the foregoing power of attorney, and acknowledged the same to be his act and deed
Witness my hand this Nineteenth day of June in the year 1828.
Moses Carlton
J. Nathaniel Coffin Clerk of the courts of the county Lincoln, in the state of Maine. do hereby certify, that Moses Carlton before whom the foregoing power of attorney was acknowledged, is a Justice of the Peace.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said court this Twenty fifth day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred Twenty eight
Nathaniel Coffin

Before me the Moses Carleton a Justice of the Peace in the County of Lincoln, in the State of Maine, personally appeared this day, Thomas McGrath, the Attorney named in the foregoing power of attorney, and made oath that the same was not given to him by reason of any transfer, or of any attachment, levy, or seizure, by any legal process whatever, of the pay therein authorized to be received, but that the said pay is intended to ensure wholly to the personal benefit of the person by whom the said power was executed
Thomas McGrath Witness my hand this nineteenth day of June in the year 1828
Moses Carleton
Before me Moses Carleton a Justice of the Peace in the County of Lincoln, in the State of Maine, personally appeared, this day Ephraim Kelley and Stephen Carleton of the said County, who did severally make oath, that David Kenniston by whom the foregoing declaration was subscribed, is generally reputed and believed to have been an a soldier & corporal in the Army of the Revolution in manner as therein stated
Ephraim Kelley Stephen Carleton Witness my hand this nineteenth day of June in the year 1828
Moses Carleton
I Nathaniel Coffin Clerk of the courts for the County of Lincoln, in the State of Maine, do hereby certify, that before whom the foregoing affidavits were sworn, was, at the time a Justice of the Peace, duly empowered to administer Oaths
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the Supreme Judicial Court, the twentyfirst day of June in the year one thousand eight hundred & twenty eight
Nathl. Coffin

Ch of orig Pay 257- REVOLUTIONARY CLAIMS.
allowed not 1825
TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
July 22 1828
David Linnafon of Boothbay in the County of Lincoln in the State of Maine has applied to the Secretary of the Treasury for the benefits of the act, entitled "An Act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the Revolution," approved the 15th of May, 1828. He states that he enlisted in the Continental line of the army of the Revolution, for and during the war, and continued until its termination, at which period he was a corporal in captain Livermore 's company, in Col. Dearborn's regiment of the New Hampshire line; and that he has not received a certificate for the reward of eighty dollars, provided by the resolve of the 15th of May, 1778; and further, that he was not on the 15th day of May, 1828, on the pension list of the United States, and that he has received as a pensioner since the 3d of March, 1826, nothing .
The Third Auditor is requested to report how far the several statements are corroborated by the records in his office.
According to Secretary, A. D. Kim.
$35,494 due
1950
TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
THIRD AUDITOR'S OFFICE,
28. July 1828
It appears by the records in this office, that a certificate for the reward of eighty dollars has been issued to David Linnafon in the New Hampshire line
It further appears that David Linnafon is now on the pension list of any agency, and has been so since the 3 d March 1826 at the rate of  dollars per month.
Richd Hagner Secy
not allowed
not 1825
1825

35 494 Rev INVALID.
File No. 35, 494
David Keniston
Rev Rev War
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 220
[Arrangement of 1870.]
Dec 14 '78 Geo W Chamberlain Weymouth Mass
May 22-1902
Miss N. L. Shaw Anamosa Iowa
1938 May 23 Rec'd to Emery J. Rice / — 807213

Custom House, Collector's Office, WISCASSET, MAINE,
, 188
Collector.
No. of Enclosures.

9364 C.H. Smith 35494 N.H. Smith 42782 J. H. Henson
Boothbay Custom House, Boothbay H. H. Maine,
Collector's Office. May. 29- , 1882.
Sir:
Will you have the goodness to inform me the Regt. Co. and length of Service of David Kenniston formerly a soldier of the Revolution and a pensioner. He died in 1844. He was my grandfather, and I wish to put his military record on his monument.
I am Sir
Respectfully yours.
G. B. Kenniston
Dear W. W. Sibley
Com. M. Pensions -

SH 100 28 34 5 memo from...
Weymouth, Mass. Nov. 28, 1898.
To the Honorable, the Chief of the Bureau of Pensions, Washington, D. C.
My dear Sir:
For purposes of historical publication I desire the full declarations in the original application papers of David Kennerson who was a soldier in the American Revolution and who is described in the U.S. Pension List for 1820 on page 408.
The surname I have found Kennerson , Kennison , Kenerson , Kenison , Kinerson , Keniston .
He lived at different times in New Hampshire, Maine, Vermont, New York and Illinois. He died at Chicago, Ill. 24 Feb. 1852, X aged 115 years. Shall I have the pleasure of a copy of every fact on file concerning this man?
Awaiting your pleasure I am
Very respectfully,
Geo. W. Chamberlain
(Member of the Maine Historical Society)
His wife D. August 2 David 84278 2
not author on the post, his request was for the other

I Levi Leathers of Phipsbury in the County of Lincoln Commonwealth of Massachusetts on oath do testify and declare that I am well acquainted with David Reinaston of Boothbay in said County the person who has made the fore- going application & that I was about four years with him in our Revolutionary war — he enlisted in the year 1779 for & during the war in Capt. Livermore's Company Col. Scamell's 3 d New Hampshire Regiment & faithfully served until the eighth day of June 1783 when he was regularly discharged — he belonged the whole time to said Capt. Livermore's Company, but I understood that in some part of the service said Company was attached to the first New Hampshire Regiment commanded by Col. Henry Dearborn — I was a soldier in the second New Hampshire Regi- ment commanded by Col. George Reed & was also discharged in June 1783 — When we were off duty I used to see said Reinaston very often & know that he was in the service & performed his duty as he has stated in his foregoing applica- -tion — we were both born in one town & I have always been acquainted with said Reinaston & we kept up our acquaintance while in the army —
Levi Leathers
(over)

Commonwealth of Massachusetts Lincoln ss. April 75. 1816 Personally appeared before me Jeremiah Bailey Judge V.P. as aforesaid the aforesaid Levi Seathers and after due caution to testify the whole truth he solemnly made oath to the truth of the foregoing deposition by him signed, which deposition was written by me & signed in my presence, and said deponent is a credible person & his statement entitled to credit & belief. —
Levi Bailey —

7 Cliftondale Ave., Saugus, Mass., April 18, 1938.
The Administrator Veteran's Administration Washington, D.C.
Sir:
I respectfully apply for the military record of my great, great, great grandfather, David Kenniston, a soldier and pensioner of the Revolution who lived at Boothbay, Lincoln County, Maine, June 1, 1840, aged about eighty-three. He perhaps served from New Hampshire.
Sincerely yours,
Emery Kenniston Rice

and # 35,299
11111

Wiscasset June 20 th 1825
To the Hon Richard Rush Secy U.S. Treasury
Sir the undersigned, attorney, for David Kinnaston, named in the declaration which this accompanies, having lost or mislaid his discharge, begs leave to give you a statement of his services in the Revolutionary Army. Said Kinnaston enlisted in 1779 in Capt Daniel Livermore's Company, in Col. Scammon's Regiment, in the New Hampshire line and continued in the same company until the close of the war; the Regiment was divided and disposed into the first & second, which brought him into the first regiment, commanded by Col. B. Dearborn, in which he continued until the end of the war & was discharged in June 1783 at Newburgh, N. York, State, and continued until the winter following in the Army, having during his service the last two years acted as a corporal, and since June 1783 as sergeant till the time of his final discharge. Said David Kinnaston received in 1820, or 1821 a Land Warrant for his services in said Army, 100 acres of Land, being Lot No 5, in the first Quarter, of the tenth Township, in the third range of the tract appropriated for satisfying Warrants for Military services, agreeable to an act passed March 2 d 1799, the 11 th February, 1800 & March 3 rd 1803.
The proof of his Enlistment and time of service is in the Secretary of War Office, to which I would refer you. I think there can be no doubt of your finding his name in the War Office. He is now far advanced in life and rather superannuated. The subscribing names to the identity are Ephraim Olley & Stephen Carleton, both men of respectable standing. Olley receives now a pension from the U. States, and served in the same Regiment with said Kinnaston, and has known him ever since. The other Stephen Carleton, an old soldier, who does not come under the act of 1820 or 28 passing some property, having served two years. The certificate to which Kinnaston was entitled by act of Congress 1778 he says he did not receive, and I altered the form of his declaration as you observe although I did not distinctly perceive its necessity, the form being given us. It was in compliance with his request that it was done, as he did not receive the certificate for the reward of eighty dollars as then stated and

to which he was entitled, all of which is humbly submitted with Respect, yours &c
Thomas M c Grath