Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 13656, for Jeremiah Kinner, New York

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New York
Kinner, Jeremiah
S. 13656
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New York
Jeremiah Skinner of Suffolk Co in the State of New York who was a private in the Company commanded by Captain Strong of the Regt. commanded by Col. Smith - in the N.Y. line for 12 mos.
Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 40 Dollars 00 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 2 day of May 1833 and sent to J. Strong
Arrears to the 4th of March 1833 $80. 00 Semi-annual allowance ending Sept. 1833 20 00 $100. 00
{ Revolutionary Claim, acted June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by W. I. Williams , Clerk, Book C Vol. 4 Page 23

Rechar
13656 INVALID.
File No. 13656
Jeremiah Wimmer Pris Prev War
Act: June 19 th 32
Index:—Vol. 1 , Page 205
[Arrangement of 1870.]

13. 19.3
Jeremiah Kenner Suffolk 6° W York
admitted
12 mo. Private
I B Stray

BRIEF in the case of Jeremiah Skinner  of Brookhaven, Suffolk Co in the State of New York.  (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? 74 years.  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.     Feby. In 1776 — 6 — private Gen. Woodhull Cap Isaac Hving Col Isiah Smith Col McDonell Col Thibeton   3 "   3 "  
 5. In what battles was he engaged? A skirmish with Indians  6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Brookhaven N York  7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditional evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? — by a living witness & traditional  8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? Correct 
I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
N. Schoolcraft
Examining Clerk.

State of New York } County of Suffolk }
On this second day of October in the year 1832 personally appeared in open court before the judges of the Court of Common Pleas of the said County of Suffolk being a Court of record of the said County and State, now sitting, Jeremiah Renner a resident of the Town of Brookhaven in the said County of Suffolk and State of New York aged seventy four years on the fourteenth day of July last, who being first duly sworn according to law with in his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7- 1832.
That he was born in the Town of Brooklyn in the County of Kings and said State of New York in the year 1758. That he has not any record of his age. That he was living in the said Town of Brookhaven when called into service as hereafter mentioned and has always resided there since that time except whilst serving in the Revolutionary war and still resides there. That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated. That some time in the month of February 1776 but the particular day he cannot recollect he enlisted as a volunteer to serve as a private for six months and upwards but how much longer he does not distinctly recollect in a company of Militia commanded by Captain Selah Strong and of which Lieutenant Caleb Brewster was the first Lieutenant and Lieutenant Nathaniel Brewster was the second Lieutenant. That he enlisted in the said Town of Brookhaven. That he entered immediately into active service with the said company and was stationed at Mount Morris to guard the country from the apprehended invasion of the British and the Tories. That he remained and served at Mount Morris which is in the said Town of Brookhaven until August following his enlistment when he went with his company to the West end of Long Island where they composed a part of the Regiment commanded by Colonel Israel Smith in General Nathaniel Woodhull's Brigade. That he retreated with the American troops under General Washington into the City of New York where they remained some time under the command of Lieutenant Caleb Brewster, Captain Strong being sick at home with a fever. That this Regiment remained in and about New York in the service until his said term of enlistment had expired when he was regularly discharged from service by Lieutenant Caleb Brewster. That

He has not now any written discharge and cannot state the exact time when he was discharged; but this deponent is positive that he was actually engaged in active service under the said enlistment for the term of six months and upwards. That he returned to Northam afterwards when he remained until the British took possession of that part of Long Island when he left there and went to Goshen in Orange County in the state of New York where he remained until Minisink was burnt by the Indians. That he then entered the service under Captain De Doyl in Colonel Thurston's Regiment, as a volunteer. That this deponent in company with five others of whom Squire Bradley and Priest Bradley's sons were two, left Goshen on the day when Minisink was burnt and not that night as far as Stout's Tavern where they staid all night. That the next morning they rode to the fort at Minisink which was then invested by the Indians. That the Indians supposing that the light horse were coming into the road where this deponent and his associates entered the fort. That the militia commanded by Colonels Thurston, Haythorn and Mamer entered the fort on the same day when this deponent joined Captain De Doyl's company. That this deponent in company with a detachment consisting of about one hundred and thirty three men on the same day followed in pursuit of the Indians who were commanded by Butler and Brandt. That they had several skirmishes with the Indians in one of which Colonel Thurston was killed close by this deponent's side, and this deponent was wounded by a ball in his knee. That the American forces were eventually defeated and dispersed and this deponent reached Minisink the next day. That this deponent then returned home to Goshen where he was confined by his wound and unable to do any business for about three months. That during this period this deponent was ordered by Captain De Doyl to go to West Point but the sergeant who was detailed to call on this deponent on seeing him reported him unfit for duty and he was thereupon suffered to remain at home. That soon after this deponent's recovery he was ordered by Captain De Doyl to proceed to a log fort about ten miles North of Minisink near the residence of Captain De Witt. That this deponent accordingly proceeded to that fort and remained there in the performance of his duty as a private soldier for a period of three months when his term of enlistment of service being up he went home. That this deponent has not any written discharge, and as the transaction is of a remote date he cannot state

the exact times when the services performed by him subsequent to the retreat from Long Island commenced or terminated, but this deponent is positive that the times when he was engaged in fighting the Indians, was confined by his wounds and was stationed at the two last mentioned posts as herein before mentioned taken together exceeded six calendar months and this deponent further says that he has no other documentary evidence, but that the Honorable Thomas S. Strong who is the son of Captain Silas Strong can from his services in Captain Strong's company, and this deponent does not now recollect any person now living who served with him. 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.
Jeremiah Strong
Sworn to and subscribed in open Court the day and year aforesaid
Joseph H. Huntington Clk
I Thomas S. Strong residing in the Town of Northhampton in the County of Suffolk and State of New York do hereby certify that I am the son of the late Silas Strong Esquire who was the Captain of the company mentioned in the foregoing deposition that this deponent was eleven years old when the said company was formed and served with his father in the neighborhood where it was formed that the company was a part of the Regiment commanded by Colonel John Smith which was usually called Coe's boys, that the said Silas Strong held a commission as Captain as aforesaid, that the said company was stationed at several places in Northhampton aforesaid to guard the coast until such the time when the American forces retreated from Long Island when they went to the West end of Long Island and joined the other American forces there. That according to the list of this deponent, mentioned the said Jeremiah Strong was a private in the said company and this deponent further says that he has always understood and believes that the said Jeremiah Strong was engaged in fighting the Indians during the Revolutionary war.
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
Joseph H. Huntington Clk
Thos S. Strong

We Samuel Davis Esquire and Richard W. Smith Esquire residing in the Town of Northham in the County of Suffolk hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Jeremiah Renner who has subscribed and sworn to the foregoing declaration, that we believe him to be seventy four years of age that he is reputed and believed in the neighbourhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution and that we concur in that opinion known and subscribed the day and year aforesaid Joseph H. Huntington (Clerk) Richard W. Smith
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogations prescribed by the war department that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and used as he states, and the said Court further certifies that Thomas S. May Esquire who subscribed the within affidavit was formerly Vice Judge of the Court and that it appears to them that Samuel Davis Esquire and Richard W. Smith Esquire reside in the Town of North ham in the immediate neighbourhood and that they are credible persons and that their statement is entitled to credit.
I Joseph H. Huntington Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the said County of Suffolk do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Jeremiah Renner for a pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this Second day of October in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty four.
Joseph H. Huntington (Clerk)
Jeremiah Renner Pension to former Rev. War Pension