Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 22,346, for Samuel Kimbal, New Hampshire

SERVICE
NUMBER
N.H.
Kimbal Samuel or Kimball
S 22346
CONTENTS

No 33.491
New Hampshire
Samuel Kimball
Suspended
Let to Hon R Burns 10 Dec 1835

New Hampshire 30620
Samuel Nimball
of Grafton Co. in the State of N. Hampshire who was a Private in the company commanded by Captain Colfe of the Reg't, commanded by Col. Gilcomb in the Revolutionary  N.H.  war , time for 7 months
Letter to Portsmouth Guardian Agency, Sept 19. 1836
Inscribed on the Roll of N. Hampshire at the rate of 23 Dollars 33 1/3 Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 11 th day of May 1836 and sent to Hon. Robert Burns, W.R.
Arrears to the 4th of Sep. 1836. 128.00 Semi-ant. allowance ending 4th March 1837. 11.66
$139.66
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by D. Brown Clerk. Book 6 Vol. 1 Page 28

Resolution
22 346 INVALID.
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File No. 22,846
Samuel Kimball
Rev War
Act: June 7 th 1821
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 221
[Arrangement of 1870.]

17 Dec. 35
Recd of the Compt of Pensions the papers in the case of Sam l Kimball of New Hampshire under the act of 7. June 1832
Robert Burns M.P.

10/20/21 H N
Declaration v Samuel Kimball N o 33421
in Rolls.
L9.18.
Cash 2
M o . $ 23:33 1/3 per ann.
Am P.C. Bonds H R

New Hampshire State County of Grafton - 3
On this fourteenth day of November here anno Domini eighteen hundred and thirty five personally appeared in open court before the Justices of the Court of Common Pleas for said state now sitting Samuel Kimball a resident of Plymouth in the county of Grafton aforesaid aged eighty years and being first duly sworn according to Law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the act of Congress passed June 7. 1832 that he enlisted into the service of the Uni- ted States under Capt n John Colfe of Hampstead in the coun- ty of Rockingham in said state of New Hampshire in the month of August or September in the year 1775 at Portsmouth in said county of Rockingham - An alarm was made that the enemy were about landing at Portsmouth - whereat reached Newtown in said county of Rockingham where this declarant then was that he volunteered went to Portsmouth & there enlisted for a short period under said Colfe or Colip was fitted in erecting a breast work on Great Island remain- ed in said service about three weeks - that in the last of June or early part of July in the year 1776 he said declarant again enlisted into said service at Newtown aforesaid & im- mediately repaired to Chester in said county of Rockingham where a company was organized under Capt n David Pease by of Hawks - Lieut Webster of Kingston Ensign Giles of Chester - from Chester said company this declarant march- ed to Charlestown No. 4 in the county of Sheffield in said state thence to Fort Independence on Lake Champlain where he served until the last of November of that year was dismissed at said fort returned home to Newtown hav- ing served five months - that in August or September in the year 1778 he again enlisted at Amherst a town adjoining said Newtown into a company commanded by Captain Clark of Newbury Pat Lieut French of Salisbury Ensign John Patten of Amherst for three months or ninety days said company this declarant proceeded to Rhode Island & joined the army under General Sullivan served there

till near the close of said last mentioned term of enlistment, when he was dismissed & returned home to Newtown - that in all these several services he was a volunteer was not in any engagement - was not in the retreat from Rhode Island having been drafted with some others a few days previous to man the boats at Bristol ferry he thinks in the transport of baggage - thinks the regiments to which he belonged was commanded by Col o Titcomb - that in his service at Fort Independence he was under General Gates - Colonel Wingate & Lieut Col o Connor & Major Baker - that he knows no person living by whom he can prove his service or any part of it - that he has no documentary evidence thereof that he was born at said Newtown on the ninth day of April in the year 1755 - has no record of his age - had one a book of accounts belonging to his father in which his birth was recorded which has long been lost or destroyed that he lived when called into the service at the place aforementioned - that after his last service aforesaid he resided in Newtown about seven years - thence to Amesbury where he resided one year - thence to Salisbury in Massachusetts where he resided in three years - thence to South Hampton where he resided seven years - thence to Andover in New Hampshire where he resided twenty nine years & removed thence to Plymouth in said county of Grafton where he has ever since resided & now lives - that he never to his recollection received any written discharge from the service - states the name of Elijah Blandell Esquire & Humphrey Webster the latter of Plymouth the former of Lebanon in said county of Grafton now attending said courts as solicitor of said county to whom he is known who can testify to his character for veracity & their belief of his services as a soldier of the Revolution - that he resides about four miles distant from the clergyman of Plymouth in a remote part of the town & having remained a good deal at home is not well acquainted with him by having relinquished every claim whatever

to a pension or annuity except the present I declare that his name is not on the Pension roll of the agency of any state
Samuel Kimball
Sworn to & subscribed the day & year aforesaid
Nathan B. Felton Clerk of said Court
We Elijah Mardell of Lebanon in said county of Grafton & Humphrey Webster of Plymouth in said county hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Samuel Kimball of said Plymouth who has subscribed and sworn to the foregoing declaration - that we believe him to be after 70 years of age - that he is reputed & believed in the neighborhood where we have known him residing to have been a soldier of the Revolution & that we concur in that opinion -
Elijah Mardell
Humphrey Webster
Sworn to & subscribed the day & year aforesaid -
N. B. Felton Clerk of said Court
and the said Court do hereby declare therefrom after the investigation of the matter & after putting the interrogatories proposed by the War Department that the abovenamed applicant was a revolutionary soldier of service as he states - and the Court further certifies that it appears to them that Humphrey Webster & Elijah Mardell Esquires who have signed the preceding certificates respectively as aforesaid in said Plymouth & Lebanon are credible persons & their statements are entitled to credit -
I Nathan B. Felton Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas aforesaid do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of said Samuel Kimball for a pension In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of office this 14 th day of November 1835
Nathan B. Felton Clerk of said Court

Sept 17 1836
N.B.
Dr Crump
J. L. Edwards, Esq. Chairman of Committee, City of Washington

Concord, N.H. Sept. 12, 1836
J. L. Edwards Esq.
Sir, The name of Certificate of Samuel Kimball, issued May 9, 1836, that he is entitled to receive Twenty-Three Dollars and 30 Cents for the interest during his natural life, commencing on the 4th of March 1831, has been exhibited to me. Shall his name be entered on the Concord, N.H. Agency? And shall it be paid here?
Respectfully,
Samuel Kimball