Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 44,475, for Thomas Kemp, New Hampshire

SERVICE
NUMBER
Continental (N.H.)
Kemp, Thomas
S. 44,475
CONTENTS

13.907 R
New Hampshire
Thomas Kemp
Essex in the state of New Hampshire who was a Lieutenant in the regiment commanded by Colonel Stearns of the Continental for the term of Three Years
scribed on the Roll of New Hampshire at the rate of 20 Dollars per month, to commence on the 1st of September 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 7 of July 1818 and to the sum of the sum of
trears to 4th of March 167 91 mi-anl. all'ce ending 121 21 121 21 1227 91
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Continued
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Letter to Don M.B. Coruun April 3, 1950.
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Copy Thomas Kienh

District of New Hampshire County of Grafton
At the Superior Court of Judicature of the State of New Hampshire holden at Weaverville within & for the said county of Grafton being a Court of record for said County by law established on the twenty ninth day of May in the year of our Lord 1820 personally appeared in open Court Thomas Kemp aged seventy four years re- -sident in Oxford in said District of New Hamp- -shire who first being duly sworn according to law doth on his oath declare that he served in the revolutionary war as follows Viz a Lieutenant  private soldier in Capt. Nathaniel Chapman's Company of Col. Benj o Flower's regiment in the Independent Corps line . that his origi- -nal declaration was made & dated twenty third day of Septem- -ber 1818 that he has received a pension & that his pension certificate is numbered Thirteen thousand nine hundred and seven
And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18 th day of March 1818 and that I have not since that time by gift sale or in any manner disposed of my property or any part thereof with intent thereby to di- -minish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land & naval service of the United States in the Revolu- -tionary War" passed on the 18 th day of March 1818 and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property or securities, contracts or debts due to me, nor have I any income other than my pension money  which is contained in the schedule hereto annexed & by me subscribed. I further declare that I am by occupation a black- -smith, but my health is such, that I cannot labour. I have no family, but live on my pension money, having no one to depend upon for my support.
Thomas Kemp
I hereby certify that from what I know of Mr. Kemp and his circumstan- -ces I have no reason to doubt of the truth of the above statement & believe the same true - John Rogers Select man of Oxford -

Sworn to & subscribed before the Justices of the Superior Court of Indictment for the State of New Hampshire in open Court on this 29 th day of May 1820-
Attest S. P. Webster Clerk
Stephen P. Webster Clerk of the Superior Court of Indictment for the county of Grafton do hereby certify, that the foregoing oath & is truly copied from the record of said Court, and I do further certify, that it is the opinion of the said Court, that the said Kings has no property, which by law can be inventoried - In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of the said Court on this 30 th day of May Anno Domini 1820-
S. P. Webster Clerk

Thomas Kemp
Lieutenant
Leal Flower's Regiment of Artillery —
1778 — 2 years
1
Admitted

Know all Men by these presents that We whose Names are under Written and Seals hereto affixed being the Lieutenant and Soldiers in Captain Nathaniel Chapman Company of Artificers in the Continental Service have made, ordained, constituted and appointed and by these presents do constitute make, ordain, nomi- nate, constitute and appoint, and in our place and stead put Noah Cooke of New Ipswich in the County of Hills- borough and State of New Hampshire Gentlemen, our true and Lawful Agent and Attorney for us and each of us respectively to act, and for each of us to draw and receive all Monies that shall now or may be due to us and each of us by virtue of our being in the Service of the Uni- ted States of America for our Wages and Rations and Clothing or whatever else may be our due and to each of us payable, and upon receipt thereof to give due acquittances and discharges for the same - And we do by these presents and each of us ratify and confirm what our said Attorney shall do in and about the Premises or to the obtainment thereof in as full a Manner as if each of us were present. In witness whereof we have hereunto set our hands and Seals this tenth day of August Anno Domini 1784 Signed Sealed and delivered in presence of us
Joshua Goyton Eleazer Parker We the undersigned Signed Sealed and delivered this in presence of us
Sarah Brooks
Thomas Kemp
David Emery Signed Sealed and delivered this in presence of us
John Emery Solomon Hobart
Thomas Kemp
Thomas Kemp Let William Adams Jacob
Jacob Taylor William Brooks
David Emery
Solomon Hobart

Thomas Kemp of Orford in the County of Grafton and State of New Hampshire depose & say that the Regiment of Artillery & Artificers to which I was attached in the year 1779, in the Continental army, I considered to be an independent Regiment not attached to any line; that the second Lieutenant (Nathan Wesson) & myself as first Lieutenant were inhabitants of the State of New Hampshire; that our Captain (Nathaniel Chapman) was an inhabitant of the State of Massachusetts, & our Colonel (Benjamin Flowers), I believe, was an inhabitant of the State of Pennsylvania; that our Major (— Ayres) who had the Command of that portion of the Regiment which was stationed at Springfield, was an inhabitant of Boston in the State of Massachusetts: that I enlisted thirty two privates, one half of which number were inhabitants of the State of New Hampshire & the other half of the State of Massachusetts — I state this to show that we were not attached to any line, but we were under the immediate direction of the Board of War, to whom regular monthly returns were made of our Regiment. June 7 th 1819. — Thomas Kemp
State of New Hampshire Grafton ss — June 7 th 1819. This day Thomas Kemp personally & made oath to the truth of the above affidavit by him subscribed, before me Ezra Brattle Just. Peace

Jacob Taylor of Grafton in the County of Grafton State of New Hampshire of the age of Sixty two years upon and say that I enlisted as a private soldier into the Company of Nathaniel Chapman in Col Benja Flowers Regiment of Artillery & was in the Month of September A D 1778 said Regiment belonged to the Continental establishment in the revolutionary war for the American Liberty That I was well acquainted with Thomas Rump than a resident of Gorham in the County of Hillsborough in said State who was at that time a Lieutenant in said Nathaniel Chapman company and he the said Thomas Rump enlisted me for the term of one year in the said month of September A D 1778 in March following orders came for us to form the Regiment at Philadelphia at which place we arrived in June following in June A D 1779 & further upon and say that the said Thomas Rump served as first Lieutenant in said Company and served his country as a good and faithful Officer, under whom I did duty as a soldier for the term of one year and I the deponent do further say that the said Thomas Rump is poor and in indigent circumstances and in need of his Country's aid for his support - I the deponent do further say that I saw the said Thomas Rump commission a number of times while I served under him as a soldier in said term
Jacob Taylor
Grafton h State of New Hampshire Sept 28 1818
Personally appeared Jacob Taylor known to me to be the person described in and made solemn oath that it is just and true
Before me David Gibson Just Peace

William Brooks of Hancock in the county of Hills borough & State of New Hampshire depose & say that I have long been well acquainted with Thomas Hemp formerly of Hollis now resident in Orford in the county of Grafton in this State. That the said Hemp served as a Lieutenant in the service of the United States in the Revolutionary War, that in the year 1778 I enlisted under him into Capt. Nathaniel Chapman's company belonging to Col. Benjamin in Flower's Regiment of Artillery & Artificers. That in the month of March 1779 we marched from Hollis to join the Regiment which we did at Philadelphia on the 22 d of June then next following. I am well knowing that the said Hemp served as a Lieutenant in said company one whole year together immediately before & after we joined said Regiment. From my own know- ledge I can state that he was commissioned and did the duty of a Lieutenant faithfully, having myself served as a Sargeant under him. I am further of the opinion that the said Hemp is in indigent circumstances and stands in need of assistance from his country for his support.
Hancock Sept. 15. 1818
Wm Brooks
State of New Hampshire Hillsborough ss. September 15. 1818 Then the above named William Brooks appeared and made solemn Oath to the truth of the foregoing Affidavit by him subscribed
Before me Andrew Wallace Jus. Peace

John Brooks of Hancock in the County of Hillsborough State of New Hampshire depose and say that I am well acquainted with Thomas Kemp of Orford in the County of Grafton in this State, that the said Kemp was a Lieutenant in the service of the United States in the Revolutionary war, that in the year 1778 I enlisted under him as a private soldier into Capt Nathaniel Chapman's company belonging to Col. Benjamin Flower's Regiment of Artillery & Artifi- cers. That in the Month of June 1779 we joined said Regiment at Philadelphia. I am also knowing to the said Kemp having served as a Lieutenant in said Company one whole year together immediately before & after we joined said Regiment. From my acquaintance with him during said term I am satisfied that he did his duty faithfully as a Lieutenant having myself served under him during said term. I am further of the opinion that the said Kemp is in indigent circumstances and stands in need of assistance from his Country for his support.
Hancock Sept. 15. 1818.
John Brooks
State of New Hampshire. Hillsborough ss. September 15. 1818 Then John Brooks above named appeared and made solemn Oath to the truth of the foregoing Affidavit by him subscribed
Before me Andrew Wallace Justice of Peace

I Thomas Kemp, formerly of Holles in the County of Hillsborough in the State of New Hampshire, now of Orford in the County of Grafton in said State being seventy three years of age, depose & say that in August 1778 I received an appointment, from the Congress of the United States, as a Lieutenant in Cap t Nathaniel Chapman's Company belonging to Col l Benjamin Howers Regiment of Artillery & artificers; that in the month of March 1779 we were ordered to march to Springfield, in the State of Massachusetts, where we drew clothing & provisions, from thence we were ordered to Philadelphia, in the State of Pennsylvania, where we arrived in June 1779, & joined our Regiment, & then I received my Commission, we remained at Philadelphia, on duty, until November 1779, when we were ordered to return to Springfield, where we continued to do duty until the month of May 1780, when that part of the Regiment which were at Springfield were permitted to return home, to appear again on a new summons, which was never issued during the war.
My Commission is not now in being, as I believe, for after the close of the war, the Officers in the revolutionary army being entitled to some land, I sold my right to a Joseph Town then a merchant in Amherst in this State, & to enable him to obtain the land I delivered to him my Commission under a promise to return it to me; that said Town soon after removed from Amherst & has not returned my Commission nor do I know in what part of the country he lives, if he is living.
I further depose & say that I am in indigent circumstances & stand in need of assistance from my country for support, & that I have no other evidence in my power of my said services. I further depose & say that in March last I resided with my Son in the County of Jefferson in the State of New York and that in the month of March I made my declaration before Judge Ellis of Ellisburgh in the County of Jefferson in the State of New York

who informed me that he would immediately transmit it to the War Department, that no evidence was then furnished of my services, and as the evidence resided in the State of New Hampshire & as I am desti- tute of property & have a son living in Oxford in New Hampshire with whom I expect to live in future, I wish that my pension, if granted, may commence at the time of making my first declaration before Judge Ellis & be paid at the Loan Office at Portsmouth N.H. Sept. 23 d 1818. Thomas Henry
Grafton J s Sept. 23 d 1818. —
Sworn to before me
Ezra Dattitt Just. Peace
Thomas Henry Declaration —

STATE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE.
Grafton ss.)
ON this twenty third day of September 1818, before me the subscriber, one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas for said
County personally appears Thomas Kemp.
aged 73 years, resident in
Concord in the said State, who being by me first duly sworn according to law, doth, on his oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the provision made by the late act of Congress, entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war:" That he the said Kemp enlisted in as a Lieutenant in Aug. t 1778.  in an independent Regiment of Artillery in the company commanded by Captain Nathaniel Chapman of the Regiment of Artillery commanded by Col Benj. a Flower ; that he continued to serve in the said corps, or in the service of the United States, until the May 1780
, when he was discharged from service in Springfield State of Massachusetts ; that he was in the battles of
and that he is in reduced circumstances, and stands in need of the assistance of his country for support; and that he has no other evidence now in his power of his said services.
Sworn to and declared before me, the day and year aforesaid.
Ezra Bartlett
I, Ezra Bartlett Judge of the Court of Common Pleas
as aforesaid, do certify, that it appears to my satisfaction, that the said Thomas Kemp is in indigent circumstances & stands in need of assistance from his country for support and 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 aforementioned act of Congress.
Oct. 13 th . 1818.
Ezra Bartlett

44475 INVALID.
Rev
File No. 44475
Thomas Kemp
Lieut. Rev. War.
Act: March 18 th 1818
Index:—Vcl. 3 , Page 269
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Washington July 26 th March 1850
J. L. Francis
My Dear Sir Enclosed is a letter to me from Ralph Kemp an of my Quasi tenants & also of the children & heirs of Thomas Kemp a deceased soldier & pensioner of the Army of the Revolution on the List of Pensioners in the Chesapeake Division. He appears to have been a Lieutenant & pensioner up to the time of his death which occurred in 1825. I suffer the objection on which his pension was originally granted will show the extent & nature of his services in the Army of the Revolution & that of all other persons that may be necessary to entitle his children to whomever may be earning to them under the act of January 11 th of any thing will you please have the goodness to refer to their original papers & advise me of what they show & prove & also whether the services of Lieut. Kemp the deceased pensioner entitle his children to any further remuneration. I have a true thousand letter to me from Ralph Kemp
Respectfully your obed servt M c Lean
J. L. Francis

Received October 12 th 1879 of Lieut Thomas Thompson One Saddle & Bridle the property of the United States and which he received of the D. M. Genl in this City
Q.M. Stores Office
J. Pearson Comt. Q.M. Stores

Amherst 13 th May 1790
Have Received of Thomas Tharp of Hollis his Commission as a Lieut. in Col. Benjamin Howland's Regiment of Artillery & artificers which I promise to return and be or be accountable for
Samuel G. Atkinson

July 2 nd 1730
Received of Lieut Thomas Kempe Two Pounds and 10 pence for the use of Ephraim Blood like with the small John Blood