Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 15697, for Joseph Kincaid, Virginia

SERVICE
NUMBER _____
Kincaid, Joseph or Kinkead
R 15-697
Va Half Pay
CONTENTS

Joseph Rinehard Ensign - m & Quirk - 20 Dec 1770 - p. 49 - -

Know all men by these presents That I Thomas U. Rinkhead of Versailles Woodford County State of Kentucky Son and one of the heirs of Ensign Joseph Rinkhead otherwise Ensign Joseph Kincaid of the Virginia State Line during the war of The Revolution and Administrator "de bonis non" of the estate of Joseph Rinkhead otherwise Joseph Kincaid deceased officer Ensign by rank in the said Line and late of said County and State do hereby as administrator aforesaid nominate constitute and appoint George W. Hardin of Bloomington Monroe County State of Indiana my true and lawful attorney with the power of substitution to demand and receive of and from the proper accounting officer or officers of the State of Virginia and of the Agent or Agents of the United States, of America a warrant or warrants for the commutation of five years full pay with interest thereon or for half-pay for life under the acts of Virginia and by acts of Congress of the United States. My said attorney is hereby more especially authorized and instructed to ask and receive of and from the United States, or its agent or agents, a warrant or equivalent issued in my name for the amount of half-pay for life due my said Father Joseph Rinkhead otherwise Joseph Kincaid officer abovementioned by virtue of the act of Congress of July 5 th 1832. "Entitled an act to provide for liquidating and paying certain claims of the State of Virginia" and also to demand and receive all pensions, bounties and claims due the said officer from the State of Virginia and from the United States for the Revolutionary services of said officer; and to give receipts for all warrants or certificates received by him by the virtue of these presents and to do any and all legal acts necessary

in the premises to be done in accomplishing my interest and purposes, in having a full and complete settlement with the United States and the State of Virginia. I hereby revoke all power and authority heretofore given any other person or persons relative to the above mentioned claims and hereby confirm and ratify any act or deed of my said attorney by virtue of these presents. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal this 28 th day of May in the year of Eighteen hundred and fifty
Signed sealed and delivered in presence of us
Seal
C. Sublett
John G. Gavit
Thos W. Smith (Seal) admr. of Joseph Kinkead deceased officer in war of the revolution
State of Kentucky } Woodford County } ss. Be it known That on this 28 th day of May 1850 before us H. P. Holloway and Isaac Whittington acting Justices of the peace in and for said county personally appeared Thomas W. Kinkead above named and acknowledged the foregoing power of attorney to be his act and deed for the purposes therein contained. Given under our hands and seals the day and year a- -bove mentioned
H. P. Holloway Jp (Seal) Isaac Whittington Jp
State of Kentucky Woodford County ss. I, Ceman Turner, Clerk of the County Court for the County aforesaid do hereby certify that H. P. Holloway and Isaac Whittington Esqrs. are the

names are subscribed to the foregoing Certificate as and were at the date thereof two of the Common- wealth, Justices of the Peace in and for said County duly commissioned and qualified as such according to law, with full power and credit is due and should be given to all their official acts either in or out of the State and the said Justices further protesting to be their own genuine.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the Seal of said Court at Viroqua, this 20 th day of May 1880 and in the 58 th year of the Commonwealth. Gerrit Brumley Clerk.

December 19, 1933
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Mrs. George E. McKinnon Mercer Hall Columbia, Tennessee
JOSEPH KINCAID R. 15697 BA-J/MAHF:MLB
Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letter in which you request the records of Joseph Kinkead, of Kentucky and Tennessee, and David Kinkead.
There is no claim for pension or bounty land on file based upon service of a David Kinkead. Such claims which have been made to the United States are the source of Revolutionary War data furnished by this office. The record of only one Joseph Kinkead has been found and is given herein as shown in pension claim, R. 15697, based upon his service in the Revolutionary War.
On September 22, 1835, at a court held in Woodford County, Kentucky, Thomas U. Kinkead was appointed administrator of the estate of his father, Joseph Kinkead. The date of death was not stated. On May 28, 1850, in Woodford County, Kentucky, Thomas U. Kinkead, of Versailles, Kentucky, son and one of the heirs of Joseph Kinkead, applied for half pay pension or any money which might have been due under the Act of July 5, 1832, on account of the service of his father, late of Woodford County, Kentucky, as ensign in the Virginia line, War of the Revolution. It was found that Joseph Kinkead or Kincaid served seven months ending in July, 1779, and as a captain in the militia for a short time engaged in defense of the western frontier of Virginia.
The claim was not allowed as the service in the Virginia line terminated before the close of the war, and the service in the militia was not included in the provisions of the act under which the application was made.
The names of the heirs referred to are not stated and there are no further data relative to the service or the family of Joseph Kinkead.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER Assistant to Administrator

No 15694
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Joseph Kincaid Ensign Va Line Revolution Discharged _____, 18
It cannot be ascertained whether this claim was granted. At.
Nov. 1, 1926 If a letter of request is addressed to Hon. Jas. Duncan - W. J. Ray - Act. 32 - true that date is prior to date of recorded letter submitting claim, however, there had been previous letters in regard to the same as one of Feb. 23, 1850 is referred to in which Received _____ 78/ is is prior to date of Power of Att. - M.W.E.
1926 Nov. 1. Heir to Miss Emma Canthorn - Cur 1933 Dec. 17- " Mrs. D. E. M c Ginnon - M.L.B.
Attorney.

Hon J L Edwards Commissioner of Pensions
Present
from J. D. D. 20
Engraving Dept. Library of Congress

Washington
July 6 1850
Sir
Enclosed I forward the claim of Ensign Joseph Kunkaid through his administrator "de bonis non" for pay and interest "by virtue of the act of Congress of July 5 th 1832 Entitled an act to provide for liquidating and paying certain claims of the State of Virginia" Will you do me the favor to have this claim examined and allowed and forwarded through me to George W Hardin of Bloomington Indiana the agent named in the power of attorney annexed
Very Respectfully Jesse E. Dow
Hon J L Edwards Commissioner of Pensions } Present

Rev. Solon Borland
June 11/50

Pension Office 243 June 11. 1850
Sir,
In compliance with the request contained in your letters of Feb y 23 d . and 1 st inst. I have to inform you that a very careful examination has been made of the rolls of the Virginia State Troops in this office; and the name of Joseph Kincaid (or Kinkead) can be found in only two places. It appears that a person of that name was an Ensign in the Virginia State Troops, and served seven months. He is returned in the month of July 1779. He did not acquire any right whatever to half-pay under any acts of the Virginia Legislature, and his heirs are not therefore entitled to the benefits of the act of July 5. 1832. No half-pay was ever by law allowed

to any officer who left the service 244 at that period of the war. He was also a Militia Captain, and was engaged in that capacity for a short time in defence of the western country frontier of Virginia. For such service he was not entitled to any thing more than his monthly pay.
His heirs have no claim on the general government for the same I have mentioned.
I have the honor
Hon. M c Borland, Senate U. S.
Commutation Book. Enter this.

Mexico, Mo. September 2, 1926.
Bureau of Pensions, Washington, D.C. Revolutionary War Records. Gentlemen:
sent 11/6/26
In 9th Annual Report, Va. State Library, 1911-12, p. 330 I find, Philip Wolfenbarger, S. of W. 1835, Pen. 3, Ohio, 84. Also in McAllister's Va. Militia, p. 177, Philip Wolfenbarger, Beaver Twp., Wayne Co. O. age 80.
In Chalkley's Records of Augusta County, Va. John Dickinson was drawing a pension yearly up to 1798. in Vol. 2, p. 173 he owned 502 a. on Campbell Creek, Greenbrier County. Vol. 2 p. 495 Samuel Bills declaration July 1835, he was in John Dickinson's company.
no such John D. Bill or Bills -
In the will of John Dickinson Nancy Dickinson is mentioned as the wife of Joseph Kinkead (Kincaid).
In McAllister's Va. Militia p. 151, in James Kincaid's declaration he says his brother Joseph Kincaid enlisted with him.
He knew about his son
sent - (R 15697 Va half pay)
Will you please send me the Revolutionary war records of service for Philip Wolfenbarger, John Dickinson and Joseph Kincaid.
Very cordially,
Mrs. Emma Cauthorn
222 E. Acad. Ave. St.
not in U.S. list of agents Co. Va. Invalids none spent later there as they are in Va. National Spasmodic Records
but only two furnished Co

Mem. Ctr Hall
Columbia Tenn.
Dec 4 - '33.
Warren Bureau.
Revolutionary - Dept.
My dear Sirs,
I want to ask if you have any statistics giving data on the service of Joseph Kirkhead or of David Kirkhead . Joseph lived in Kentucky - later in Tennessee.
I shall appreciate your assistance
Respectfully
Mrs. Geo. E. McKinnon many co ch of History

State of Kentucky Woodford County ss.
At a County Court continued and held in and for the County of Woodford on Tuesday the 22nd day of September 1853.
On motion of Thomas W. Winhead administrator to the estate of Joseph Winhead deceased whereupon the said Winhead took the oath prescribed by law and exe- cuted and acknowledged bond with said War- ren as his security in the penalty of one thou- sand dollars conditioned according to law. Letters of administration are granted him.
State of Kentucky Woodford County ss.
Before me, Thomas W. Winhead, the County Clerk for the County aforesaid, do hereby certify that the fore- going is a true copy of the order of said Court granting letters of administration to him, one of the estate of Joseph Winhead deceased to Thomas W. Winhead and further certify that said letters of administration have not been revoked or can- celled - Said order being only a copy from the record in my office - In testimony whereof I have here- unto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of said Court at Frankfort this 28th day of May 1854 and in the 58th year of the Commonwealth.
Thomas W. Winhead Administrator

Rev. & 1817 War Section, R. 15397.
Nov. 1, 1928.
Miss E. M. Cantbern, 174 E. Anderson St. De Aro, Mo.
Madam:
I have to advise you, that on May 28, 1850, Thomas u Kinkhead of Versailles, Ky., stated that he was the son and one of the heirs of Joseph Kinkhead, late of Woodford County, Ky., and requested that he be allowed any half pay, that might be due on account of the services of his father, as an Ensign of the Virginia State Line, War of the Revolution.
There is no further data in this claim as to service, or family and it is not stated whether the son's claim was allowed.
Owing to the lack of a clerical force available for the purpose, not more than two records of soldiers of the Revolution are furnished to each inquirer.
Respectfully,
WINFIELD SCOTT, Commissioner.