Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 13631, for Benjamin Kimball, Connecticut

SERVICE
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Conn.
Kimball, Benjamin
S. 13631
CONTENTS
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3657.
Massachusetts Benjamin Kimball of Amherst in the State of Mass who was a Private in the company commanded by Captain of the  Regt commanded by Col Smith in the Mass line for 15 mos
Conn. Line. Records corrected June 4 th 1866
Inserted on the Roll of Mass at the rate of 50 Dollars — Cents per annum to commence on the 4 th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 28 th day of Dec 1832 and sent to Benjamin Kimball Amherst Mass
Arrears to 4 th of Sept 1832 $75— Semi-annual allowance ending 2 nd March 33. 25— $100—
{ Revolutionary Claim, { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by J H B Blair Clerk, Book D — Vol. 2 nd Page 62.

4598
Buyk Kimball Purd
15 Months
Adm
550-
Thaman Cankey & Amherst Mass

BRIEF in the case of  Benjamin Trumbull  of Hampshire Cty in the State of Mass.  (Act 7th June, 1832.)
 1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? Gen Court  2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?  3. How old is he? 71 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.     In 1775 June -- 2 -- As a private Gen. Richard Mitten Col. Smith   " 1776 April -- 2 -- " Chas. Wibbee "Pease   " 1776 July 4 -- 2 -- " Genl. Wright "Scott   " 1776 June -- 2 -- " Col. Morris Chapman   " 1776 June -- 6 -- " " Wright Col. H. Swift  
 5. In what battles was he engaged? None  6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Connecticut  7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditional evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? Traditional evidence living witnesses  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.
Examining Clerk.

August 20. 1832 — 11
Jeremiah Smith Clerk
Ms 6.5.98

DECLARATION, IN ORDER TO OBTAIN THE BENEFIT OF THE ACT OF CONGRESS OF THE 7TH OF JUNE, 1832 STATE OF MASSACHUSETTS, } ss. COUNTY OF HAMPSHIRE. }
ON this Sixteenth day of August 18 32 personally appeared in open court, before me Samuel Hinsdale Judge of the court of Probate now sitting, Benjamin Kimball a resident of Amherst in the County of Hampshire, and State of Massachusetts, aged Seventy one 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 provision made by the act of Congress passed June 7, 1832. That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers, and served as herein stated. (viz) That he was born in the Town of East Windsor in the State of Connecticut on the first day of August A.D. 1760 where he supposes his birth was recorded in the town records, he resided in said town until he was seven years old when his parents removed to Holland in said State, and resided there until A.D. 1787. He then removed to Amherst in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts his present place of residence, where he has ever since resided - he has no record of his age in his profession. That he enlisted in the town of Holland aforesaid in the Militia for three months as a private the fore part of June A.D. 1778 under Capt. Richard Ditchie then of East Hartford, in the Regiment commanded by Col. Smith and served in Rhode Island until the term of enlistment expired, he was in the retreat from Rhode Island under Genl. Sullivan, and was discharged the twelfth day of September following. He does not recollect as he had a written discharge. Some time in the summer of 1779 - he does not recollect the precise time he was detached in the Militia at Holland aforesaid for two months and served as a private at New London under Capt. Charles Tibbetts in the Regiment commanded by Majr. Dyer and was discharged by that officer at New London at the expiration of the term, his discharge if he had any is lost. The fore part of April A.D. 1780 - he was detached in the Militia aforesaid for two months and served under Capt. Benjamin Wright in the Regt. commanded by Col. Mead, at house-neck in the State of Connecticut and was discharged at the end of the term by Capt. Wright, his discharge is lost. July 11, A.D. 1780 he was again detached in the Militia aforesaid for two months and served at New London in the State of Connecticut under Capt. Benjamin Dyer in Col. Chapman's Regiment he was there employed in repairing fort Independence and fort Trumbull, and was dischar- ged at a place called Mohegan in said State by Brigade Major Dyer at the end of the term. his discharge is lost. In June A.D. 1781 he enlisted for six months in the State Service and served under Capt. Wright in the Regiment commanded by Col. Heman Swift - he joined the Regt. at Phillipsburg in the State of New York and marched to White Plains was at Peek's hill and the high lands where he was discharged by Col. Johnson in the December following, his discharge is lost. Making in the whole one year and three months Service as a private.
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or an annuity, except the present, and he declares that his name is not on the pension roll of any agency in any State, or (if any) only on that of the agency in the State of
Sworn to, and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid.
Before me Samuel Hinsdale Judge of Probate for said County
We, Nathan Perkins , a Clergyman residing in the town of Amherst and Leah Dikeman residing in Amherst hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with Benjamin Kimball who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be Seventy one years of age; that he is reputed and believed, in the neighbor- hood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.
Sworn, and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid.
Samuel Hinsdale Judge of Probate
Nathan Perkins Leah Dikeman
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 certifies, that it appears to them that Nathan Perkins who has signed the preceding certificate, is a Clergyman resident in Amherst and that Leah Dikeman who has also signed the same, is a resident in Amherst and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
Samuel Hinsdale Judge of Probate
I, J. F. Lyman Register of the Court of Probate do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Benjamin Kimball for a pension.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office, this Sixteenth day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two.
J. F. Lyman Register

Samuel Kingsbury of Amherst  in the County of Hampshire Commonwealth of Massachusetts, aged seventy  eighty years, do hereby & say, that I am a native of Scotland in the State of Am- herst, & that Benjamin Kimball of said Amherst came to that town when a child, & lived there many years, in my neighborhood, and I was intimately acquainted with him from a child: in the summer of 1779, orders came for a draft from the Militia, to go to New Bedford to guard that place; I was drafted & sent to New Bedford, I was in Capt. Kittredge's Company & Col. Pease's Regiment; I stayed at New Bedford, there or four weeks, was wounded & returned home. I well remember, that said Benjamin Kimball was a member of the same Company, & a writer to one of the officers, which I do not remember; I left him in the officer new, when I returned; I saw him often for long I do not remember, he was known as having wound out his time of enlistment, or time drafted for. We were stationed in a large building, used by the King as a customhouse. The next year I went to live at Sukee, and lived there several years. Samuel Kingsbury 
Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Hampshire ss. August 6. 1832 Personally appeared Samuel Kingsbury, unknown to the above deposition, well known to me as a credible witness, & made oath to the truth of the same - Before me Samuel S. Dickinson a justice of the peace

Hampshire ss.
I Solomon Stoddard Clerk of the Inferior Courts of the Commonwealth for the County of Hampshire do certify that Samuel F. Dickinson Esquire whose signature is affixed to the within Certificate was at the date thereof, one of the Justices of the Peace within and for said County, duly Commissioned and acting under the authority of this Commonwealth - and that full faith and credit is and ought to be given to his acts and attestations done in that capacity - and that the signature to said certificate is known by me to be the hand writing of the said Samuel F. Dickinson - In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of the Court of Common Pleas for said Commonwealth this Seventh day of August in the year of our Lord One Thousand eight hundred & thirty two
S. Stoddard Clerk
George ...
Sam ...

I Samuel R. Kingsbury of Tolland in the County of Tolland and State of Connecticut of lawful age do testify and say that Benjamin Kimball now a resident of Amherst in the County of Hampshire and State of Massachusetts lived in my family about twelve years from the year 1770 to the year 1782 (and that during said term he was absent in the service of the Revolution several times, three of which are particularly in my recollection at the present time. One was in the year 1778 when he was in the State of Rhode Island a period of three months. The other two tours were at New London in Connecticut and embraced two months each according to my best recollection. - I cannot say when he returned from other service, altho, I remember he was absent several times. - That the said Benjamin Kimball is now present and is the same identical person that lived in my family as aforesaid and performed the service above named, and further the deponent saith not. -
Sam l R. Kingsbury
Tolland County ss. town of Tolland Aug st 8. 1832 Then personally appeared the above named Samuel R. Kingsbury who signed the above deposition in my presence and made solemn oath to the truth of the same. - I further certify that the said Deponent is a credible witness and that his word is entitled to the most implicit belief. -
Sworn & subscribed before me
Loam P. Waldo Justice of Peace

Solland County, s.s. } Clerk's office } s.s. Solland
I Jeremiah Parish Clerk of Solland County, County, do hereby certify that Levi S. Waldo Esq. before whom the within deposition of Samuel R Kingsbury was on the 8 th day of August, instant made and sworn was at the time of making sd dep n was, for a long time before & still is a justice of Peace in and for sd County of Solland legally appointed & duly in- vested in this office as such, and by law authorized to administer oaths and take depositions — and that the signature to the within certificate purporting to be his is genuine — In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of sd Court, at said Solland this 9 th day of August A.D. 1832 —
Jeremiah Parish Clerk

In reply to your request of _____, received _____ for a statement of the military history of Benjamin Kimball a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pen- sion on file in this Bureau. S. F. 13,631.
   DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE.   CAPTAIN. COLONEL.     June, 1778 3 mos. Pri Richard Pitkin Smith Conn   Summer, 1779 2 " Charles Hibberd Major Pease   April, 1780 2 " Benjamin Wright Col. Dineen   July 4, 1780 2 " Benjamin Morris Chapman   June 1781 6 " Wright Heman Root  
Battles Engaged in, General Sullivan's expedition to R.I.
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Tolland, Conn.
Date of application for pension, Aug. 16, 1832. His cl was a 6.
Residence at date of application, Amherst, Hampshire Co., Mass.
Age at date of application, { B. Aug. 1, 1761, at East Windsor, Conn.
Remarks: { Died Nov. 12, 1835.
It is not stated whether he was ever married.
Respectfully,
{ Date of death taken from Agency Book.
Commissioner.

1915, Nov. 19. History to Miss Mary A. Todd. Ltr.
Reiman
13631 INVALID.
File No. 13631
Benjamin Kimball Brn. Nev. War
Act: June 7 th 1882
Index: Vol. 1 , Page 207
[Arrangement of 1870.]

BRIEF objections to the admission of Pension Claims , of which those answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of Benj. Kimball  Stambsire  bty  if  app - which require further proof or explanation.
I. Does the declaration show where the applicant resides? yes II. Did the declarant make the declaration in the county where he resides? yes III. If the applicant did not make the declaration in the county where he resides, is there any reason assigned for his not doing so? yes IV. Has the declarant mentioned the period or periods of the war when he served? yes V. * Has he mentioned with precision the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the department to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled? yes VI. Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with the regulations? yes VII. Has he made a relinquishment of every claim to any other pension than the one under the Act of June 7, 1832? yes VIII. Has the Court given their opinion? yes IX. Has the Clerk given his certificate? yes X. Is the Clerk's seal affixed? And if so, has it a device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal? yes

XI. Has the applicant obtained the evidence of a clergyman and another respectable citizen as to their belief respecting his age and the general belief in his neighborhood relative to his revolutionary service? yes XII. If the clergyman's affidavit has not been produced, is there any reason assigned for not obtaining it? no XIII. If the applicant has no documentary evidence, and has not obtained the testimony of at least one living witness, has he stated in his declaration that such proof cannot be had? no XIV. † If the applicant has produced a witness or witnesses as to his service, has the magistrate who administered the oath certified that he, she, or they are persons of credibility? yes Has the official character and signature of the magistrate been certified by the proper officer under his seal of office? yes XV. Does it appear from any of the papers that the witness was in such a situation, or of such an age, as to have a personal knowledge of the applicant's service? yes XVI. ‡ Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct? yes XVII. Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily? And, if not, which of them is not so answered? yes
EXPLANATORY NOTES.
QUERE V. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words:
“Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A. B. who, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that, by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service, but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades: For _____ year _____ months and _____ days, I served as a _____. For _____ months and _____ days, I served as a _____; and for such service I claim a pension.”

It is important in all cases to determine with precision the period for which the applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service. The use of the phrase about three or four months is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable.
QUERE XIV.  Proof of Service.
In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses, who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimants entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the regiment, company, and line to which he belonged. The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the witnesses, and the official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office.
QUERE XVI.  Mode of authenticating papers.
In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticated the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other paper authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the end of which must pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate.

GENERAL SOCIETY DAUGHTERS OF THE REVOLUTION No. 156 FIFTH AVENUE
Rev Sec H
MISS MARY A. TODD REGISTRAR-GENERAL
NEW YORK Nov 13 1915
Commissioner of Pensions, Bureau of Pensions Washington D.C.
Dear Sir,
Will you please send me statement of military service of Benjamin Kimball of Connecticut said to have been a soldier of the Revolutionary War. Later he moved to Amherst, Mass, and may have been living there at time of application for pension.
Yours respectfully Mary A Todd Registrar - Gen. D.R.
22 Mace Place Lynn, Mass.