Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 29946, for Asa Kingsbury, Massachusetts

SERVICE
Mass.
Kingsbury, Asa
NUMBER
S. 29946
CONTENTS
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21.386 Massachusetts
Asa Kingsbury of Norfolk Co in the State of Mass who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Ballard of the Dept commanded by Col Reed in the Mass line for 17 mos & 24 days Pmt 22 days Corporal 13 " Sergeant
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 4 Dollars 17 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 14th day of Sept 1833 and State of Mass Solomon May Jr. M.P.
Arrears to the 4th of Sept 1833 $160.43 Semi-ant. allowance ending Mar 31, 32.00 $192.52
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by W. D. Adams Clerk, Book E Vol. 1 Page 45
77 Norfolk

8882 Wa Kingbury Mapumavith
Plants 17 Mar 24 days Caked - ~ 22 " Supt - ~ 13 " 5. 14. 16. 06
May 9 1933
3 55  66 2.67
P. 386 56.67
56.67 2.16 2.67 2.67  64.17 128.34 32.29  160.43
E S Lihana Agent Penbury Map

BRIEF in the case of  Dea Kingsbury  County of  Norfolk  in the State of  Massachusetts  (Act 7th June, 1832.)
 1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? open Court  2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?  3. How old is he? 75  4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed. 
   Period. Duration of Service. Rank. Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.   Years, Months, Days. As a Gen.     85 May In 1775 28 21 Private Col. Dillaway Col. Dillaway   1776 I think 12 Col. Doyen   1776 4 22 Corporal Col. Clapp   1777 15 Private Col. Humphrey   1778 11 Col. Clapp   1779 4 25 Col. Mason   1780 2 22 Col. Fisher   13 Sergt Col. Mann  
 5. In what battles was he engaged? No battle  6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Walpole Mass  7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditional evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? Documentary traditional and five living witnesses  8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? They are not attached agreeably to the regulations. The periods and times of service are not very exactly specified 
I certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
George Trefethen
Examining Clerk.

Asa Kingsbury 1882
Edwin S. Leland

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
County of Norfolk ss. On this fifths day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two, personally appeared in open court before the Honorable Judge of the Courts of Pleas now sitting at Dedham in and for said County, Asa Hensbury a resident of Walpole in said County, aged seventy five years, who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7th, A. D. 1832.
THAT he was born at Walpole aforesaid on the ninth day of July A. D. 1757, and that there is a record of his birth in the town records of Walpole that he was in the United States service from the 10th day of May A. D. 1775, to the eighth day of January A. D. 1776 8 months as a Private in the Massachusetts Militia : that he was residing at Walpole aforesaid when he entered the service; that he was a volunteer and served for the period aforesaid under the command of Capt Seth Ballard in Col Joseph Reads Regt
: that he marched from Walpole to Roxbury
: that he served with  has forgotten whether there was or was not any of the regular troops; and there, & none of the regular officers were known to him: that he was in no battle
but not in writing : that he left the service on or about the eighth of January 1776 and that since the Revolutionary war he has resided at Walpole & Framingham & that he has no documentary evidence of a part only of his service & that of the service from the first of August 1775 to the first of November 1777 ALSO: that he was in the United States service from the first day of November A. D. 1777, to the first day of April A. D. 1778 5 months as a Private in the Massachusetts Militia that he was residing at Walpole aforesaid when he entered the service; that he was a volunteer
and served for the period aforesaid under the command of Capt Ezekiel Dympton but does not recollect any Col.
: that he marched from Walpole to Cambridge
: that he served with  does not recollect serving with any of the regular troops; and none of the
regular officers were known to him: that he was in no battle
that at the end of his service he received a discharge but not in writing and left the service on or about the first of April 1778 & that he has no documentary evidence of this service
ALSO: that he was in the United States service from the twenty fifth day of September A. D. 1777, to the first day of November A. D. 1777 1 month 7 days as a Private in the Massachusetts Militia that he was residing at said Walpole when he entered the service; that he was a volunteer
and served for the period aforesaid under the command of Capt Oliver Clapp in Col Benjamin Haws Regt
: that he marched from Walpole to Little Compton R. Island through Providence Pawtucket
: that he served with none
of the regular troops; and
no regular officers were known to him; that he was in no battle
that at the end of his service he received a discharge but not in writing and left the service on or about the first of November 1777 Also that he was in the United States service at Block Island, for twenty two days, commencing July the 26th 1776, in the company commanded

I Elphas Clah of Wolfpole in that county of Norfolk & Commonwealth of Massachusetts, aged seventy three years, testify & say that I was a soldier in the Revolutionary War, & served as a officer in the company of Massachusetts Militia stationed at Cambridge, under the command of Col. Ezekiel Flynt, for five or six months, commencing about the first of November 1777; that Asa Hingsbury & I and Wolfpole was also a soldier & served as a private for the same time & did in Col. Flynt's company.
Elphas Clah
Norfolk ss May 21 st 1833 Subscribed & sworn to, & I hereby certify that said Elphas Clah is a credible witness.
Hezekiah Root

by Col Samuel Goss & Col Benjamin Hovey, Regiment of the Massachusetts Militia: That he was a volunteer & served for the period of service with other Militia troops at the end of his term remained a volunteer. Also that he was in the United States Service, at White Plains New York, for two months, commencing the first of September 1776, as a private in the Massachusetts Militia, under the command of Captain John Doyen but of the above named he does not recollect. That he was a volunteer & marched from Walpole to White Plains through Hartford & New Haven. That he does not recollect that he served with any regular troops, was in no battle at the end of his term received a verbal discharge. That he has no documentary evidence of this service.
Also that he was in the United States Service, at Tiverton Rhode Island for thirteen days, commencing July 20th 1780 as a Sergeant in the Massachusetts Militia, under the command of Captain Timothy Moore of what Regiment he does not recollect. That he was a volunteer & served the period of service with other Militia troops, was in no battle at the end of his term remained a volunteer.
And on this foundation fifteenth day of May 1833, the said Asa Kingsbury, again personally appeared before the Honorable Judge of the said Court of Probate now sitting at Roxbury in & for said County, & by way of amendment to his former declaration, on oath, says that he was also in the United States Service, at Warwick, in the state of Rhode Island, twenty two days, commencing December the 29th 1776, as a private in the Massachusetts Militia, under the command of Captain Joseph Lovell of a detachment of the fourth Regiment. That he was a volunteer & served for the period of service with other Militia troops; was in no battle at the end of his term received a verbal discharge. Also that he was in the United States Service in Rhode Island, twenty five days, commencing June 20th 1778 as a private in the Massachusetts Militia, under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Ware of Colonel Ward's Regiment. That he was a volunteer & served the period of service with other Militia troops, was in no battle at the end of his term received a verbal discharge. Also that he was in the United States Service at Point Judith Rhode Island fifteen days, commencing July 1st 1777 as a private in the Massachusetts Militia, under the command of Captain Samuel Hovey. That he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State.
Asa Kingsbury
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year first aforesaid.
We Daniel Kingsbury Esq.
and Josiah J. Fiske Esq.
residing in the said Walpole
residing in Wrentham
hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Asa Kingsbury who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be seventy five 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 and subscribed as aforesaid.
Daniel Kingsbury
Josiah J. Fiske
And the said court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the abovenamed applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states. And the court further certify that it appears to them that Daniel Kingsbury Esq. who has signed the preceding certificate, is a resident in the said Walpole; and that Josiah J. Fiske Esq. who has also signed the same is a resident in Wrentham and the credible person; and that their statement is entitled to credit.
The court further certify that Daniel Kingsbury is a justice of the peace for said County of Norfolk & the same signed & the certificate of the appointment of said Kingsbury is provided here with by deposition of said Kingsbury.
I Samuel Hovey, Register of the Court of Probate aforesaid do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of Asa Kingsbury for a pension.
In testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand and seal of office on the day and year first aforesaid.
Samuel Hovey

In reply to your request of _____, received _____ for a statement of the military history of Asa Kingsbury a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his ( or his estate's ) application for pen- sion on file in this Bureau.
8.29.946
   DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE.   CAPTAIN. COLONEL.     1- May 8, 1775 Jan. 3, 1776 Private Both Ballard Joseph Read Mass.   5- Sept. 25, 1777 Nov. 1, 1777 Private Oliver Clapp Benjamin Haws   6- Nov. 1, 1777 Apr. 1, 1778 " Ezekiel Plympton   7- June 20, 1778 25 days " Asa Kingsbury ✓ Mass   8- July 28, 1780 13 days Sergt. Timothy Mann ✓   2. July 26, 1776 27 days Private Samuel Cowell Benjamin Haws   3. Sept. 1776 2 mos. " John Boyden MacIntosh   4. Dec. 29, 1776 22 days Corporal Joseph Lovell ✓  
Battles engaged in, none
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Walpole, Mass.
Date of application for pension, Sept. 5, 1832.
Residence at date of application, Walpole, Mass.
Age at date of application, born July 9, 1757 at Walpole, Mass.
Remarks: This claim was allowed. There is no family data on file.
Respectfully,
Commissioner.

29946 INVALID.
Rev
1915 Jan. 16. Hist. to A.M. Kingsbury &
File No. 29,946
Miss Kingsbury Rev War
Act: June 7 th 1824
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 222
[Arrangement of 1870.]

I Asa Kingsbury of Walpole in the County of Norfolk and Commonwealth of Massachusetts Testify and say that I enlisted and served two Months as a Soldier in the Revolutionary War near White Plains so called in the State of New York in the Company commanded by Capt. John Boyden of said Walpole being in the fall of the year 1776 I also served as a Soldier one Month in the same War at Little Compton in the State of Rhode Island in the year 1777 in the Company commanded by Capt. Oliver Gage of Walpole Asa Kingsbury
I Seth Kingsbury of Walpole in the County of Norfolk and Commonwealth of Massachusetts Testify and say that the above Declaration subscribed by the above named Asa Kingsbury is true for I served as a Soldier in the same Companies the two campaigns aforesaid Seth Kingsbury
Norfolk ss At Walpole August 17 th 1832 Then the above named Asa Kingsbury and Seth Kingsbury appeared and made Oath that the above Declarations by them subscribed is true Before me Daniel Kingsbury Justice of the peace I hereby certify that said Seth Kingsbury is a credible witness according to law See annexed to Probate

Capt. Ezekiel Thompson that I served as a Soldier I think from about the first of November in the year 1777 to April 1778 being for the most part I also served as a Soldier one Month at Warwick in Rhode Island State I think in the year 1776 in the Company commanded by Capt. Oliver Chap I also served one Month as a Soldier on Rhode Island in the Company commanded by Capt. Cowell in the year 1778 I also served as a Soldier at Pettaquamcutt one Month in said Rhode Island State in the year 1777 Capt. John Mow
Ezra Kingsbury
I, Eliphas Chap of Walpole in the same County & Commonwealth do hereby Testify and say that the above Deposition subscribed by the above named Ezra Kingsbury Esq. is true for I served as a officer in the same Companies with said Kingsbury the four Campaigns which said Kingsbury has above stated.
Eliphas Chap
Norfolk ss. At Walpole August 16 1832 Then the above named Ezra Kingsbury and Eliphas Chap appeared and made Oath that the above Deposition by them subscribed is true Before me Daniel Kingsbury Justice of the peace

I Asa Kingsbury of Walpole in the County of Norfolk and Commonwealth of Massachusetts Testify and say that I enlisted into the eight months service and went to Roxbury and there served as a Soldier in the Revolutionary War in the Company commanded by Capt. Seth Bullard in the year of our Lord A.D. 1775 Asa Kingsbury
I Josiah Hall of Walpole County of Norfolk and Commonwealth aforesaid Testify and say that the above Deposition subscribed by Asa Kingsbury Esq. is true for I enlisted and served as a Soldier in the same Company commanded by Capt. Seth Bullard in the year A.D. 1775 Josiah Hall
Norfolk ss At Walpole August 16 1832 Then the above named Asa Kingsbury and Josiah Hall appeared and made solemn Oath that the above Deposition by them subscribed is true Before me Daniel Kingsbury Justice of the peace Shuly certifying that said Josiah Hall is a credible witness Daniel Kingsbury
attesting the true Josiah Hall

I Asa Kingsbury of Walpole in the County of Norfolk and Commonwealth of Massachusetts Testify and say that I served as a Soldier for the Revolutionary war about one Month at Trenton in the State of Pennsylvania in the year 1780 and in the Company commanded by Capt Timothy Mann of Walpole Asa Kingsbury
I Timothy Mann of Walpole County of Norfolk and Commonwealth of Massachusetts Testify and say that the above Deposition subscribed by the above named Asa Kingsbury Esq. I think is true for I Commanded the Company as stated by said Kingsbury Timothy Mann
Norfolk ss At Walpole Augt 16 1832 Then the above named Asa Kingsbury and Timothy Mann appeared and made Baff that the above declarations be the...

Asa Knapp

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Sept 3 d 1832.
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 Asa Kingsbury is borne upon the Muster Roll of Capt Seth Bullard in Col Joseph Read's Regt for the period of three months & one day, from the eighth day of May 1775.  Also that the name of Asa Kingsbury is on the Rolls of Capt Oliver Clapp's Company in Col Benjamin Haines Regt for the period of one month & seven days from the twenty fifth day of September 1777.  Also on the Rolls of Capt Samuel Cowell's Company in Col Haines Regt for the period of twenty two days from July twenty sixth 1778.  The name of said Asa Kingsbury is borne upon the Pay roll of Capt Timothy Munroe's Company for the period of thirteen days from the twenty eighth of July 1780 in the capacity of a sergeant.
Edward D Bangs. Secy
Further certify that the name of Asa Kingsbury is borne upon a pay roll of Lieut Hosea Kimball's Company, in Col Webb's Regt, & is therein stated to have served, as a Private, for the period of twenty five days, commencing June 20 th 1778.  Also

Also upon a Pay roll of an Independent Company mounted and in the command of Capt Joseph Lovell, & is therein stated to have served, as a Corporal, for the period of twenty two days commencing December 29 th 1876
Edward D Bangs Leg
Asa Wmpley

Stamped envelope ret'd One stamped envelope m. C Lee JSC PVS Pence, S.D. 1/8/15.
Pension Office, War Dept. Washington, D.C.
War Record Asa Kingsbury, Mass.
L 29946 Mass (outline)
Will you kindly inform me if Asa Kingsbury's name appears on any of the Revolutionary War rosters.
Either he or his son, Ezekiah Kingsbury served in a Captain West's command in the early war or that of 1812.
Thanking you for any information that you may be able to give.
Yours truly
A.M. Kingsbury