Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 29948, for Eliphalet Kingsbury, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass,
Kingsbury, Eliphalet S. 29948
CONTENTS

5587.
Massachusetts
Eliphalet Ringsbury
Norfolk in the State of Mass
who was a Private in the company commanded by Captain Fulton of the Regt commanded by Capt Patterson in the Mass
time for 84 Days
Inscribed on the Rolls of Mass at the rate of 29 Dollars 66 Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 12 th day of Febry 1833 and sent to S Seland Ringsbury Mass
  Arrears to 4th of Sept 1832  $44.49    Semi-ant. allowance ending 21 March 33  14.83     $59.32  
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by J. H. S. Blair Clerk Book D Vol. 27 Page 62

29 948 Resy INVALID.
File No. 29.948
Eliphalet Kingsbury Dr Rev War
Act: June 7 th 82 nd
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 299
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Elizabeth Kingsbury
19799
Pwah
8 Mo 4 27 days
adm
E S Leland
Roxbury
Mass
$ 29.66

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
County of Norfolk ss. On this Second day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two, personally appeared in open court before the Honorable Judge of the Court of Sessions now sitting at Dedham in and for said County, Eliphalet Kingsbury a resident of Needham in said County, aged Eighty two 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 Needham on the twenty fifth day of February A. D. 1750, and that there is a record of his birth in the Town Book of Needham: that he was in the United States service from the twenty eighth of April A. D. 1775, to the first day of January A. D. 1776 8 months as a private in the Massachusetts Continental Troops: that he was residing at Needham when he entered the service; that he was a volunteer and served for the period aforesaid under the command of Captain Milton of Needham of Colonel Patterson's Regiment
: that he marched from Needham to Cambridge : that he served with other Continental Service of the regular troops; and General Washington of the regular officers were known to him: that he was in the battle —
but not in combat : that he left the service on or about the first of January 1776, and that since the Revolutionary war he has resided at said Needham & Natick — & that he has reason to believe that said Continental Troops were in the State Service until August 1st 1775 & afterwards in the Continental Service until they were discharged ALSO: that he was in the United States service from the twenty eighth day of June A. D. 1778, to the first day of August A. D. 1778 for one month as a private in the Massachusetts Militia that he was residing at said Needham when he entered the service; that he was a volunteer
and served for the period aforesaid under the command of Captain Moore of Newton of which regiment he does not recall : that he marched from Needham to Boston : that he served with other Militia
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 combat and left the service at the end of his engagement
ALSO: that he was in the United States service from the twenty third day of March A. D. 1778, to the twentieth day of April A. D. 1778 27 days as a private in the Massachusetts Militia that he was residing at said Needham when he entered the service; that he was a volunteer and served for the period aforesaid under the command of Captain Ebenezer Battles of Colonel William St. Litchfield's Regiment : that he marched from Needham to Boston
: that he served with other Militia 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 combat and left the service on or about the 20th of April 1778

I Moses Mann of Rottingriss in the County of Norfolk & Commonwealth of Massachusetts testify & say that I am well acquainted with Eliphalet Kingsbury of Wrentham & that I was a soldier in the revolutionary war & served at Cambridge in what was called the first eight months service in 1775 & well remember that said Kingsbury served in the company commanded by Captain Hutton of Colonel Patteron's regiment & have no doubt that he served for the period of eight months as stated by Kingsbury
Moses Mann
Norfolk ss October 2 nd 1832 Subscribed & sworn to before me. I hereby certify that said Moses Mann is a man of veracity J Leland Judge of Probate

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.
Elizabeth Kingsbury
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year first aforesaid.
We Jonathan Ellis residing in the said Medford and William A Kingsbury residing in said Needham hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Elizabeth Kingsbury who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be eighty two years of age; that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a colonel of the revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.
Sworn and subscribed as aforesaid.
Jonathan Ellis William A Kingsbury
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 Jonathan Ellis who has signed the preceding certificate, is a resident in the said Medford and that William A Kingsbury who has also signed the same is a resident in said Needham and a credible person; and that their statement is entitled to credit. Sherman Leland Judge of Probate
I Samuel Haven , 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 Elizabeth Kingsbury , for a pension.
In testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand and seal of office on the day and year first aforesaid.
Samuel Haven

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Oct. 26 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 Eliphalet Hingsbury is borne upon a Pay Roll of Capt Ebenezer Battell's Company in Col William M c Intosh's Reg d for the period of twenty seven days commencing March twenty third 1778 —
The name of Eliphalet Hingsbury is also borne upon a Muster Roll of Capt Samuel Hilton's Company in Col John Patterson's Reg d for the period of three months & ten days commencing April twenty eighth 1775 —
I further certify that there is no other roll of said Hilton's Company for the year 1775 —
Edward D. Bangs, Secy