Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 32955, for Benjamin Kingsbury, Massachusetts

SERVICE
Mass.
NUMBER
Kingsbury, Benjamin S 32955
CONTENTS

(2,647)
Massachusetts Roll -
Benjamin Kingsbury
Capt Lunt Private
Massachusetts line - 1776. 1 year
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of Eight Dollars per month, to commence on the 1 st of April 1810.
Certificate of Pension issued the 19 th of Sept r . 1810 and sent to Daniel A. White Esq r Judge Essex Cy Mass t .
Arrears to 4th of Sept r . 1810 - 5 m th 4/30 - 41 6 Semi-ann. all ce ending 4 th March 1819 - 48 -
$ 89 6
n
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Continued
Newburyport Sept 1810
Notification sent Oct r 23 1820 to Jn l W. Davis Boston

Benjamin Kingsbury - Newburyport - Mass.
Daniel A: White, Esq; Judge Essex County, Mass.
Benjamin Kingsbury, Massachusetts line, Revolutionary claim.
Adm. Not on the rolls - Returned for farther evidence -
See endorsement in the case of Benjamin Griffin.

I, Benjamin Kingsbury, of Newburyport, in the County of Essex, and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, on oath do testify and declare as follows, viz d . That I served, as a private soldier, in the Army of the United States, in the War of the Revolution, on the Continental Establishment, for more than nine months; viz d I first enlisted in the year 1776, in the company, commanded by Captain Ezra Lunt, in the 12 th Massachusetts Regiment, under Colonel Moses Little, in General Greene and General Nixon's Brigade, in which I served twelve months: That in 1777 I enlisted in the company, commanded by Captain Stephen Jenkins, Colonel Greene's Regiment, in which I served about 4 months: afterwards, in the year 1778 I enlisted in the company commanded by Captain Evans, under General Sullivan in which I served
Benj r Kingsbury
I do further swear that I never had any other discharge than a verbal one - also that by reason of my reduced circumstances I am in need of the assistance of my Country for support. Benj r Kingsbury

I Samuel House of Newburyport in the County of Essex Commonwealth of Massachusetts Gentleman do testify and say, that I was a lieutenant in the Company commanded by Capt. Jacob Gerrit, in the service of the United States in the war of the rebellion, and I do know that Benjamin Kingsbury who is now making application to the Government of the United States for a pension, was a private soldier in Captain Ezra Lunt's Company Colonel Moses Lattimer's Regiment, and that he served in that Company Twelve months in the year 1776.
Samuel House
April 3 1818.

Certificate for Benj a Kingsbury

We the subscribers Do hereby Certify, that Benjamin Kingsbury, who is now making application to the Secretary of War for a pension allowed by an act of Congress of the United States to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war is known to us as a Citizen of the said United States, residing in Newburyport; and in need of assistance from his Country for his support. Given under our hands at Newburyport, this thirtieth day of March in the year of our Lord 1818.
Steph Howard
Arthur Gilman
John Scott
Selectmen of Newburyport
Dussett Spalding
Aaron Parden
Nathl Marsh
Nicholas Johnson
Overseers of the Poor

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Essex ss:
I Daniel A White Judge of the Court of Probate of the said County of Essex, do certify that Ben- jamin Kingsbury of Newburyport in said County personally appeared on the 11th day of April A.D. 1818, and made the declaration aforesaid before me an oath before me & thereupon, in like manner the additional declaration afo- resaid. That Samuel Huse also personally appeared & made oath to the truth of the affidavit annexed by him signed & reduced to writing from his statement in my presence. and that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Benjamin Kingsbury served in the Revolutionary war as set forth in his said declaration.
Given under my hand & seal of the said Court the twentieth day of April in the year aforesaid.
D. A. White

Benjamin Kingsbury
2647
19 Sep 1818
Con-

District of Massachusetts, ss.
ON this twenty Second day of July 1820 personally appeared, in open Court, being a Court of Record, to wit The District Court of the United States for the said District, Benjamin Kingsbury aged about sixty three years, resident in Boston in the County of Suffolk, in said District, who, being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath declare, that he served in the Revolutionary War, as follows: vizt. that sometime in the month of January 1776 he enlisted into the company of Capt n Ezra Lunt in the Regiment, in the Continental Establishment and in the Massachusetts line, of which Moses Little was Colonel, and served in said company and regiment as a soldier against the Common Enemy without interruption or absence until sometime in the month of January 1777, when his term of Enlistment having Expired he was honourably discharged. That he made his original declaration on the first day of April 1818 before the Honourable Judge White in the town of Newbury Port in the County of Essex in the District aforesaid, where he then resided and that he afterwards received a pension certificate from the department of war, bearing date the 19 th day of September 1818 and numbered (2.647) the said Benjamin Kingsbury
And I do solemnly swear, that I was a resident citizen of the United States, on the 18th 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 so to diminish 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 and Naval Service of the United States, in the Revolutionary War," passed on the 18th 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 what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed, and by me subscribed.
Benj m Kingsbury
Sworn to and declared, on the twenty second day of July A. D. 1820 before
John Davis { Judge of the Massachusetts District Court.
I, JOHN WATSON DAVIS, Clerk of the Massachusetts District Court, do hereby certify, that the foregoing oath, and the schedule hereto annexed, are truly copied from the record of the said Court; and I do further certify, that it is the opinion of the said Court, that the total amount in value, of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule, is
thirty seven dollars and fours cents.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this twenty fourth day of July 1820
John Davis { Clerk of the U. S. District Court, for the Massachusetts District.

Schedule of My whole Estate (property and income) (my necessary clothing and bedding excepted) with
   Two old Tables $4.50 3 old Chains 3 $ Looking Glass 1 $ Light Stand 1 $ 8.50   one bible 1.50 12 Good Books 2 $ 30 Pails 50 cents 4.50   one Tea kettle 50 cents 1 Iron Pot 50 cts 3 Kettles 1 $ 2.00   one Spider 30 cts 1 Pallet 20 cts 5 Candlesticks 20 cts 70   Three Coffee Pots 50 cts 4 Tin Dippers 20 cts 1 $ Shovel & Stong 50 cts 1.20   Three old Chests 1 $ 2 Trunks $1.50 3 Boxes 50 cts 3.00   1/2 doz Knives and Forks 30 cts 2 Tumblers 20 cts 2 Stone Jugs 50 cts 1.00   4 Small Jugs 50 cts 10 Ink Bottles 30 cts 1 Iron Spoon 6 cts .86   7 Small silver Spoons $1.16 2 Brushes 20 cts 1.36   5 Bowls 40 cts 10 Forks 20 cts 12 plates 30 cts .90   2 Pitchers 25 cts 6 Cups & Saucers 20 cts 1 Coffee milk 20 cts 65   1 Mortar 25 cts 1/2 doz Flat Irons 50 cts 1 Gridiron 20 cts 95   1 Roasting iron 20 cts 1 Candle box 25 cts 5 Wooden Boxes 50 cts 95   1 Broom 60 cts 1 Lamp & holder 12 cts 2 Mugs 20 cts 92   2 Decanters 50 cts 4 Tumblers 20 cts 2 Salts 10 cts 80   1 Pepper box 6 cts 1 Mustard 3 cts 2 Sugar bowls 20 cts 29   1 iron basin 50 cts 1 axe 40 cts 1 Hopchek 25 cts 1.15   Set of old Wooden Measures 50 cts 1 Tin Pail 20 cts 70   2 Pewter plates 20 cts Set of tin measures 1 $ 1.20   1 Tin Kettle 1 $ 1 Ladle 40 cts Skimmer 40 cts 1.80   1 Bow Saw & hand Saw 75 cts 1 Clothes horse 50 cts 1.25   2 Wash tubs 30 cts 1 Hammer 12 cts 1 Tin pan 12 cts 54   4 Baskets 40 cts 1 Milk Pail 6 cts 3 Old Table Cloths 60 cts 1.06   6 Towels 60 cts 1 Tray 20 cts Small Scale and weights 1 $ 1.80   1/2 doz Andirons 50 cts 50  
$ 37.04
Most of the above articles have been in wear ever since my youth and many of them much longer. Many of them are broken, or much shattered. I was originally bred to the trade of a house Carpenter, but for many years did business as a retail Grocer, which loss of property obliged me to give up. My advanced age and infirmities of body render me altogether unable to work at the trade aforesaid, or at any other trade or business, and my poverty prevents my engaging again in the latter business, and I am now therefore in no business at all. My family consists of my wife and myself. My said wife Hannah Kingsbury, is about sixty years of age, and is through much bodily infirmity, able to do scarcely any work at all, and her constitution is so much impaired that I see no

no room to flatter myself that she ever will be again well and I have no relation or friend in the world to whom I can look for any assistance whatever, indeed so reduced and straightened are my circumstances in life that were the pension which I have received as a revolutionary soldier for some time past under my Certificate aforementioned to cease, I should not be able to support myself except by pri- vate or public charity
Benj Kingsbury.

32955 Rev INVALID.
File No. 32955-
Benjamin Kingsbury Rev Rev War
Act: 18 th March 1818 n
Index:—Vol. 9 , Page 223
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Additional Proof
In support of the declaration of Benjamin Kingsbury, in his application to the Honorable Daniel A. White, on the first day of April 1818 for the benefit of the act of Congress, of the 10th of March last, to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War. —
I Timothy Palmer of Newburyport in the County of Essex & Commonwealth of Massachusetts, on oath do testify and declare, that I am well acquainted with Benjamin Kingsbury of Newburyport, who is making application to the Government of the United States for a pension. I do know that said Benjamin Kingsbury enlisted into the Army of the United States in the year 1776 on the 26th of January of that year to serve for one year and that he entered the Company commanded by Captain Ezra June in Colonel Mose Little's 14th Massachusetts Regiment and faithfully served therein twelve months. — I was a Sergeant in the same company in the same service — said Kingsbury had an honorable and honorable discharge in the service the latter part of January or the beginning of February of the said year.
Timothy Palmer —
Ebenezer July 20th 1818.
I Amos Pearson of said Newburyport on oath do testify and declare that I am well acquainted with Benjamin Kingsbury above named, and in his request to me several times a list of the Officers and Soldiers composing the Company which was commanded by Captain Ezra June, in Colonel Mose Little's 14th Massachusetts Regiment, which list belonging to the heirs of said Mose Little appears to me to be genuine. — I feel therefore that the name of said Kingsbury as having enlisted on the 26th of January 1776 and having no doubt the nature of the service in the army of the United States in the same Regiment was of the free. — I was in the army of the United States in the same Regiment and am from my knowledge of the service and said Kingsbury I have no doubt on my mind that he did faithfully serve therein. Therefore I have the honor to certify that the above is true.
Amos Pearson
Ebenezer July 20th 1818.

I Samuel Huse of the town Newburyport, in addition to the declaration by me made on the third day of April last before the Honorable Daniel S. White at the request of Benjamin Kingsbury, within named, then making application to the Government of the United States for a pension, and in explanation thereof do on oath testify and declare that I held a commission in the Army of that trust State in the war of the Revolution as lieutenant colonel as such in the Company commanded by Captain Jacob Gerrish in Colonel Moses Little's Regiment being the 12th Massachusetts Regiment in the year 1776. and afterwards held a commission in 1778. with the rank of Captain in the Regiment of Guards at Winter Hill - guarding the British troops captured with General Burgoyne's Army - I do further that said Kingsbury enlisted in January 1776. to serve in Captain Ebenezer Dyer's Company, Pictou's Battalion - and that he served in the said Pictou's Company then in Colonel Moses Little's Regiment as a soldier faithfully for said term.
Sam Huse
Given 6 July 1818.
I Thomas Harvey of Newburyport affirm and declare that I do know that Benjamin Kingsbury within named was a soldier in the Army of the United States in the war of the Revolution and that he served thereunder three years in the continental establishment in the year 1776. - I saw him with the army on Prospect Hill in 1776. a great many times - I had a Brother in the same Regiment as said Kingsbury serving as a soldier in the Company commanded by Capt. Benjamin Gerrish - and another Brother in Captain Dyer's Company in the same Regiment - and I frequently visited them when they were in the Army - and then knew said Kingsbury as a soldier in Captain Dyer's Company - I have known him many years and particular when he was in said service - I have no interest whatever in said Kingsbury's application for a pension sum and am an applicant myself.
Thomas Harvey
Given 2 July 21 st 1818.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Edes B. Dyer of Newburyport
Be it known by these presents, that on the twentieth day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, before me William Woore, Notary Public for the county of Middlesex by legal authority admitted and sworn, and a Justice of the Peace and Inquisition in and for said County, residing therein personally came Timothy Palmer, Samuel Huse

and Amos Pearson and made solemn Oath (Sincerely) to the truth of the foregoing Affidavit by them respectively subscribed. Also that on the tenth first day of the month of July personally I came Thomas Harvey and made oath to the truth of the foregoing Affidavit by him subscribed. - And I do certify that the said Timothy Holmes Amos Pearson Samuel Howe and Thomas Harvey are all interested in the sum of one hundred and fifty dollars personally loaned to me - that they are Witnesses entitled to Credit and disinterested.
In testimony whereof I have also hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of Office this day, month and year last above written.
William Sterling U. S. Comr.
I Daniel A. White, the wife within named do further certify that Timothy Holmes Amos Pearson Samuel Howe & Thomas Harvey a- foresaid are credible witnesses & that the said Benjamin Kingsbury by reason of his reduced circumstances in life is in need of assistance from his country for support.
Given under my hand & seal of Office this 24 day of Augt 1818 D. A. White.