Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 42,793, for Joseph King, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
King, Joseph
S. 42,793
CONTENTS

950
New-York.
Joseph Kling, private, Col Jackson Massachusetts line
10 3 years In the Army of the United States during the Revolutionary War
Inscribed on the Roll of New-York - at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 15. of April, 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued the 9. of June, 1818, and sent to the care of Samuel Drake Esq; Waterford, Saratoga County, New-York.
Arrears to 4th of Sept. 1818. $: 37. 33. Service also ending
4 months, \frac{20}{30} $: 37. 33.
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818 }
Jackson
Waterford, Saratoga

42 793 INVALID.
Rev y
File No. 42 793
Joseph King Dr Rev Mr
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index: —Vol. 3 , Page 276
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Circuit.
8 th June, 1818.
The judge must certify, that the applicant is indigent, and needs the support of his county from his own knowledge.

State of New York Saratoga County 3
Joseph King being duly sworn saith that he is a native of the province of lower Canada that he came out of the province with the Ame- rican army in the spring of the year after the Siege of Quebec & during the same spring entered the service of the united the united States under Captain Abraham Livingston in the regiment commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Duggan of united states rangers for three years & that he served the whole of his time & at the end thereof was regularly & honorably discharged & that he was present at the taking of General Burgoyne & received a wound in his knee from the effects of which he has never recovered.
And he further saith that he entered the service a second time under Captain Ephraim Cleveland in the regiment commanded by Colonel Ephraim Jackson of the — regiment of the massachusetts line & that he served the whole of his time & at the end thereof was regularly & honorably discharged & that he was at the taking of Cornwallis.
And he further saith that he now is & ever has been since the revolution a resident citizen of the united States That he is near eighty two years of age & by reason of his wound ad- vanced age & reduced circumstances in life is in need of assistance from his country.
And he further saith that he has lost his discharges & that his memory will not enable him to state with accuracy the several dates of his enlist- ments & discharges & the names of his officers.

Done at Watertown in said county this 11th day of April 1818.
Sworn before me this 11th April 1818.
his Joseph H. King mark
Sam Drake one of the Judges of Saratoga Co. Pleas
William Stillwell Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in & for the County of Saratoga do certify that Samuel Drake Esquire is one of the Judges of the said Court, and that I am acquainted with the Hand writing of the said Samuel and know the name of the said Samuel and subscribed to the above affidavit to be the of his hand writing of the said Samuel - In Witness Whereof I have Caused the Seal of the said Court to be hereunto affixed the seventeenth day of April in the Year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and Eighteen
Wm Stillwell Clerk
I Samuel Drake the Judge aforesaid do hereby certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Joseph King did serve in the revolutionary war as stated in the preceding affidavit against the common enemy & I now transmit the proceedings & testimony taken thereon, to the se- cretary for the department of war pur- suant to the directions of the late act of con- gress entitled - an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land & naval service of the the united States in the revolutionary war. Dated at Watertown this 15th April 1818
Sam Drake