Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 29941, for Benjamin Kingsley, Massachusetts

SERVICE
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Kingsley Benjamin S. 29941 Kinsley or
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27174 Massachusetts
Benjamin Kinsley
of Swan aged the State of Mass who was a Private in the Comp y commanded by Captain Beck of the Brig t commanded by Colo. Daggett in the Mass line for 13 3/4 Months Private 6 " " Artillery P.P. 75 12
Inscribed on the Roll of Mass at the rate of $5. Dollars 80 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 10 th day of Feb y 1834 and sent to A. Bassett Esq r Taunton Mass
Arrears to the 4th of Sep 1833. $189. 57- Semest l allowance ending 4 th Mar. 34. 37- 91 $227 48
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by George Taylor Clerk, Book G Vol. 2 Page 45

Benjamin Kinley Swansey Bristol Co. Mass. 29.454
Adams - 13 3/4 mi 6 th Artillery Capt Peck. Colo Daggett
H. Bassett Taunton Mass

Commonwealth of Massachusetts, } BRISTOL, ss.
At a COURT of PROBATE holden at Dighton in and for said County on the fourth day of October one thousand eight hundred and thirty two  three , before the Honorable HODIAH HAYNES, Judge of the Probate, &c. for said County, personally appeared Benjamin Ringley a resident of Swansey in the County and Commonwealth aforesaid, aged seventy three years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath, in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress, passed June 7th, 1832, make the following declaration.
That he entered the Service of the United States under the following named officers and served as hereinafter stated; to wit: under
as particularly stated under the fifth interrogatory -
and further declares as follows, in reply to the interrogatories propounded by the Secretary of War; to wit:
1. Where, and in what year were you born?
Ans. That he was born in Swansey in the County of Bristol and Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the year one thousand seven hundred and sixty and on the eleventh day of June of said year -
2. Have you any record of your age; and if so, where is it?
A. I know of no record of my age excepting it is written in my Bible -
3. Where were you living when called into service; where have you lived since the Revolutionary War, and where do you now live?
A. I have always lived in Swansey aforesaid - and live there now -
4. How were you called into service; were you drafted, did you volunteer, or were you a substitute? and if a substitute, for whom?
A. I was drafted & voluntarily enlisted and served as a substitute -
5. State the names of some of the Regular Officers who were with the troops when you served; such Continental and Militia Regiments as you can recollect, and the general circumstances of your service.
1870. A - I first entered the service of the United States as a soldier in February Seventeen hundred and Seventy six as a substitute for Edward Martin who I believe is dead, in a Company commanded by Capt. Viall Allen of Barrington in the State of Rhode Island - I served not less than one month guarding the shores of said Barrington. I was then discharged - I know of no person now living who served with me as aforesaid - I am therefore unable to prove said service - I recollect Ebenezer Tiffey, Joseph Bullock Samuel Hunt & one Amos Hovey who was a Sergeant in said Company, who served with me as aforesaid; but I believe they are all dead -
Afterwards some time in April Seventeen hundred and Seventy six I was drafted to serve as a soldier for one and a half months. I was stationed at Slade's Ferry on Somerset Shore, so called, in said County of Bristol, and served in a Company of Militia commanded by Capt. Peleg

Shearman not less than one and a half months - I served in guarding the Shores of said Somerset - There is no person living by whom to my knowledge, by whom I can prove this service -
Afterwards sometime in January Seventeen hundred & seventy seven I voluntarily enlisted (as I verily believe) in a Company commanded by Capt Peley Peck of said Swansea & served as a soldier in said Company at Warwick in the State of Rhode Island, not less than three months - Col. John Baylett commanded a Regiment at that place, to whose Regiment Capt. Peck's Company belonged - I refer to the affidavit of Nathaniel Knowles herewith annexed to prove this service -
Afterwards sometime in September 1777 I was drafted as a soldier to serve in Capt. Peley Peck's Company in Spencer's Expedition, so called, & served in said Company not less than two months - I refer to the deposition of Thomas Peck herewith annexed attesting to prove this service -
Afterwards in April 1778 I served as a soldier in a Company commanded by Capt Michael Moulton, at Fogland Ferry in the State of Rhode Island, not less than one and a half months - whether drafted or voluntarily enlisted for that service I do not now recollect - There is no person living, to my knowledge, by whom I can prove this service -
Afterwards in the latter part of July 1778 I entered as a soldier in a Company commanded by Capt. Peley Peck, in the Regiment commanded by Col. Thomas Carpenter whose Lieut. Col. was Lane and served not less than two months in Tiverton in Rhode Island - I was in Sullivan's battle, so called, in said Rhode Island on the 29th day of August 1778 - A man by the name of Harkins belonging to the town of Tiverton in said County of Bristol, who stood at my right shoulder was shot through the head by a musket ball & killed - In this campaign I served as a substitute for my father Asa Kingsley who died in 1807 - I refer to the affidavits of Asa Peckham and Nathaniel Knowles to prove this service -
Afterwards in July 1780 I entered commenced service as a soldier in a Company commanded by Capt. Nathaniel Ide whose Lieut. was a man by the name of David Hicks and served in said Company not less than one and a half months at Providence in the State of Rhode Island - I refer to the affidavit of Grindal Chase herewith annexed to prove this service -
Afterwards in the same year last aforesaid, the precise time I do not recollect, I served as a soldier in a Company commanded by Capt. Peley Peck not less than one and a quarter months, at Tiverton in the State of Rhode Island - I refer to Grindal Chase's affidavit attesting to prove this service -
Afterwards in April or May in 1781 I voluntarily enlisted into as a soldier into an in a Company of Artillery commanded by Capt. Joseph Mason whose Lieut. was William Peck, and served as a in said Company originally Minute Man, so called, for the term of six months and actually served not less than two days in each week during said time at Swansea aforesaid - I refer to the affidavit of Thomas Peck sup. herewith annexed attesting to prove this service -

6. Were you a Soldier or an Officer? if a Soldier, did you ever receive a discharge from the service; and, if so, by whom was it given, and what has become of it? if an Officer, did you ever receive a commission, and if so by whom was it signed, and what has become of it?
A. I was a Soldier — I never received a written discharge to my satisfaction —
7. State the names of the persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood, and your character for veracity, and their belief of your services as a Soldier of the Revolution.
A — The Rev d Jesse Briggs, Thomas Peck Esquire, Mr. Job Mann Martin —
testify as to Jonathan
And the said Benjamin Kingsley doth further declare that he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, and that his name is not on the Pension Roll of the Agency of any State, or (if any) only on that of the agency of the State of
Sworn to and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid.
Benjamin Kingsley H. Baylies, Judge of Probate.
WE Jesse Briggs a Clergyman — residing in Swansey and Thomas Peck Esq. and Jonathan Martin residing in the same Swansey hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Benjamin Kingsley — who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be Seventy Three years of age; that he is reputed and believed, in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion
Sworn to and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid. Thomas Peck Jesse Briggs Jonathan H. Baylies, Judge of Probate.
AND the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter and after putting rogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the abovenamed applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier, and as he states. And the Court further certifies, that it appears to them that the foregoing certificate is a Clergyman resident in the Town of Swansey in said County of Bristol, and that Thomas Peck & Jonathan Martin who have also signed the same are residents in said Town, and are credible persons and that their statement is entitled to credit.
H. Baylies, Judge of Probate. Register of Probate.
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS, } BRISTOL, ss. }
I Anselm Bassett Register of the Court of Probate in and for said County do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Benjamin Kingsley — of Swansey — in said County, for a Pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of the said Court the day and year first written.
Anselm Bassett

Deposition of Nathaniel Round —

I Nathaniel Round of Ashford in the County of Western in the State of Connecticut aged Seventy four years do testify and say that I was in the Revolutionary war a Soldier on Rhode Island in the year one Thousand Seven hundred and Seventy eight on Sullivan's Expedition so called in the Regiment commanded by Colo. Thomas Carpenter in the Company commanded by Capt. Stephen Bullock and I hereby certify and say that Benjamin Kingsley of Swansey in the County of Bristol in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts was a Soldier in the same Regiment with me in the Company commanded by Capt. Poley Puck and that the said Benjamin Kingsley served as a Soldier in said Regiment and Company two or three months which I cannot say, I also testify and say that I was with said Benjamin Kingsley as a Soldier Stationed at Warwick in the State of Rhode Island in the Regiment commanded by Colo. John Baggett in the Company commanded by Israel Hicks and that the said Kingsley was a Soldier in the same Regiment with me in Capt. Poley Puck's Company and that he the said Kingsley served as a Soldier in said Regiment and Company three months ————— Nathaniel Round  his X mark  attest Thomas Dack September the 10 th 1832 —
Bristol ss. September the 10 th A.D. 1832 —
Then Personally appeared the above named Nathaniel Round and made Oath to the truth of the above Deposition by him subscribed and I further certify that the Deposition of the above named Nathaniel Round is entitled to Credit Before me
Thomas Dack Justice of the Peace

Deposition of Grindal Chase —

I Grindal Chase of Barrington in the County of Bristol in the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations aged Seventy Six years do testify and say that I was in the Revolutionary army in the year Seventeen hundred and eighty at Providence in the Company commanded by Nathaniel Ide: capt. the other officers not by me recollect that Benjamin Kingsley belonged to the same company with of Swansey in the County of Bristol in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts belonged to the same company that I did and served in said company six weeks. I the deponent do further testify that I was a Soldier with said Benjamin Kingsley at Giventon in the State of Rhode Island and that said Kingsley was a Soldier in capt. Pels Puck company and Served in said company as near as I can recollect four or five week further your deponent saith not. Dated at said Swansey the 29 th of August A.D. 1833 -
Grindal Chase
Bristol ss. August the 29 th A.D. 1833 -
Then Personally appeared the above named Grindal Chase and made his oath to the truth of the above Deposition by him subscribed and I further certify that the above Deposition of the above named Grindal Chase is intitled to credit Before me Thomas Pels Justice of the Peace

I Thomas Peck of Swansea in the County of Bristol and Commonwealth of Massachusetts aged sixty six years on the 12 th day of February last past, testify and say that I have resided in Swansea ever since my birth, and within fifty rods of the residence of Benjamin Kingsley of said Swansea, now an applicant for a pension under the Act of June 7. 1832. That I have known said Kingsley for sixty years or not far from that time - I however recollect him as long as I can any of my neighbours -
I further testify and say that my father Peleg Peck, was a Captain in the Revolutionary War and served seven campaigns therein - I further testify and say that declare that I have heard my father say that Benjamin Kingsley above-named was a soldier in his company at the time of Spencer's Expedition so called - I also recollect that said Benjamin Kingsley was absent at various times during the war of the Revolution - I have no doubt that he served at several campaigns as a soldier during said war - It has always been currently reported in the vicinity where said Kingsley himself now resides I have resided for more than sixty years last past, that said he the said Kingsley, was a soldier in the war of the

Revolution and that he was at Sullivan's battle so called in Rhode Island —
I further testify that I have often heard my father say that said Kingsley served under him at Warwick in the State of Rhode Island —
I further testify that I recollect there a company of Artillery commanded by Capt Joseph Mawm and that my brother William Peak who has long since deceased, was second in command in said company — That said company was raised as I verily believe, as minute men, & were stationed at said Lwansey — That I recollect of seeing said company exercising or manoeuvring at said Lwansey at their place of rendezvous, about one mile from my place of residence — I was with them several times while exercising as aforesaid — I also recollect seeing my brother & said Kingsley in said company at the several times aforesaid — Thomas Peak
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Bristol ss. Oct. 3. 1833. Thomas Peak, who is a respectable Magistrate of said County and a credible person made oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavit by him signed — Before me J. Basset Just. of the Peace

I Aaron Peckham of Rehoboth in the County of Bristol in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts aged Seventy Seven years and engaged according to Law do testify and say that I was in the Revolutionary army in the year Seventeen hundred and Seventy Eight in Capt. Stephen Bullock's company in the Regiment commanded by Col. Thomas Ganjuntz on Rhode Island in Sullivan's Expedition So called that I knew Benjamin Kingsley of Swansea in the County and Commonwealth aforesaid to be a Soldier in said Regiment in the company commanded by Capt. Deleg Peck and that the said Benjamin Kingsley served in said Regiment and said company two months Swansey September 2 nd 1833 - Aaron Peckham
Bristol ss. September the 2 nd A.D. 1833 -
Then Personally appeared the above named Aaron Peckham and made oath to the truth of the above Deposition by him subscribed and I further certify that the above Deposition is intitled to Credit Before me Thomas Peck Justice of the Peace

Commonwealth of Massachusetts Bristol ss. I Anselm Barrett Register of the Court of Probate in for said County hereby certify that Thomas Nick and Anselm Barrett, before whom the foregoing deeds were taken and sworn an oath of the Peace for said County.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court this eleventh day of November Eighteen hundred thirty five Anselm Barrett

29941 INVALID. Rev
File No. 29941
Benjamin Kingsley
His Rev. Wm
Act: June 1 st 1897
Index:—Vol. 9 , Page 993
[Arrangement of 1870.]