Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 26728, for Caleb Kimball, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass
Kimball, Caleb Elizabeth
W. 26728
CONTENTS

Massachusetts,
Elizabeth Kimball widow of Caleb Kimball who was a Private in the Mass. line for 11 months
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 36 Dollars & 66 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843.
Certificate of Pension issued the 21 st day of Nov. 1843 and sent to Isiah Walcutt His executors & heirs.
[Act of March 3, 1843.]
Recorded in Book C Vol. 1. Page 46.
Copy No 21-

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
COUNTY OF ESSEX, ss. PROBATE OFFICE.
I Nathaniel Lord junior, register of probate for said county, hereby certify, that
Daniel A. White is judge of probate for said county of Essex, and that his name subscribed to the declaration of Elizabeth Kimball , hereto annexed is his genuine signature.
I further certify that Josiah Caldwell is a justice of the peace for said county, and that his signature to the affidavits annexed of Thomas Kimball  and  Joseph Dennis and David T. Kimball is his genuine signature.
as appears by the records in said office.
Given under my hand and seal of office, this seventeenth day of August , A. D. 1838.
N. Lord Jr.

I. David D. Kimball, Pastor of the first church in Ipswich, in the County of Essex, and State of Massachusetts, hereby certify, that, in the record of Marriages, of said Church kept by my predecessor in office, Rev. Levi Dinslee, the following is a true copy of the record, with the exception of the date, which is expressed on the record in fair legible figures as follows "March 25, 1704 Mr Caleb Kimball to Miss Elizabeth Hammon both of Ipswich. Ipswich, Aug. 6, 1838. David D. Kimball
I. David D. Kimball, above named, depose and say: That I hold the office of pastor in the county, town and state aforesaid, and that the above is a true extract from the records of said Church, with the exception abovenamed, as certified by me, David D. Kimball, Pastor of the First Church in Ipswich. Ipswich Aug. 6, 1838.
State of Massachusetts
Essex ss. } S.S. Aug. 6, 1838. Rev. D. D. Kimball above named deposes that the above is a true copy of the record as true before me Josiah Lee, Clerk of Justice of the Peace.

V 548 1658 Elizabeth Kimball widow of Caleb.
Mass.
Act 1. July 38
Mass.
Married in '84
548
7mo. 22ds. Dodge Co. 3. 8 11 u
Adm'd
11 mo pri
36. 6le
no deduction Hon. G. Saltonstall

Declaration
In order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress, of the 7th of July 1830, Entitled "An act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows" -
State of Massachusetts
Essex County ss. On this seventh day of August in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and thirty eight, Personally appeared before the Honorable Daniel D. White Esquire, Judge of Probate for said County, Elizabeth Kimball a resident of Haverhill in the County and State aforesaid, aged seventy eight years, who, being first duly sworn according to law, cloth, on her oath, make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed July 7, 1830 - entitled "An act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows." That she is the widow of Caleb Kimball late of said Haverhill who was a soldier in the war of the Revolution for and during the term, as she believes, of three years. She has no documentary evidence which can be adduced in proof of his services but respectfully refers to the revolutionary documents on file in the Department of War for confirmation of the following statement. He was a private and sergeant in the companies commanded by Captains Dodge, Wade, Perkins, Ford and others in the Regiment of Colonels Little, Boggs, Dicker, and Wade was at the battle of at Long Island, Rhode Island, Plattsburg, White Plains, and in Princeton New Jersey at the surrender of General Burgoyne's Army. The foregoing statement is made believing it to be true. She further declares that she was married to the said Caleb Kimball on the 25th day of March 1784 - That her husband, the aforesaid Caleb Kimball died on the 14th day of July, A.D. 1807 That she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place previous to the first day of January, seventeen hundred and ninety four, viz. at the time of her conversion.
Elizabeth Kimball
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written
before D. D. White Judge of Probate

State of Massachusetts,
Essex County } ss. Thomas Kimball of Ipswich, in said county, Mariner, maketh oath and saith, that he is a pensioner of the United States, and that he knew Caleb Kimball to be at White Plains in the year 1776 a private in a Company attached to Col. Little's Regiment - and that the said Caleb Kimball was in the service in other Companies and Regiments during the Revolutionary War but is unable to recollect how long he served in said War. but has no doubt his services amounted in all to two or three years, and that the statement of his widow is true. Sworn to and subscribed this fifteenth day of August A.D. 1830.
before me Josiah Caldwell } Justice of the Peace
M rs Kimball
State of Massachusetts,
Essex County } ss. J. Joseph Dennis of Ipswich, Esquire, depose and say - That in a Muster Roll of Captain Abraham Dyer's Company in the year 1776 Caleb Kimball is enrolled as a soldier in said Capt. Dyer's Company. And I further say that from a long acquaintance with the character of Elizabeth Kimball, widow of Caleb Kimball aforesaid, I believe her to be a woman of unquestionable truth and veracity, and that her statements in relation to the services of her said husband is true -
Jos. Dennis. Justice of the Peace
Sworn to and subscribed this fifteenth day of August A.D. 1830 before me Josiah Caldwell
Justice of the Peace.

2/97. To Mrs John Ene, Prophetstown Iels.
26/28 Key WIDOW, &c.
File No. 22701 22878
Elizabeth Kimball
wid of
Caleb Kimball
Rev. Rev. war
Act: Prob. 370 1843.
Index:—Vol. A, Page 403
[Arrangement of 1870.]

(12.) Col. Dodge 31. Aug. 1847
Massachusetts - 1658
Elizabeth Kimball widow of Caleb Kimball, decd.
who was a pensioner under the Act of and who died on the 30 th of July, 1807, of Essex co. in the State of Mass ts - who was a private in the company commanded by Captain Dodge of the Reg t commanded by Col. Little in the Mass ts line for the months private.
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 36 Dollars 66 Cents per annum, to commence on the 24th day of March, 1834.
Certificate of Pension issued the 18 th day of Janu- ary 1839 and sent to Hon. G. Saltonstall, H. R.
Arrears to the 24th of Sept. 1838. $91.65 Semi-annual allowance ending Feb. '39 = 18.33
$109.98
{ Act July 7, } 1838. }
Recorded by S. A. Elliot, Clerk, Book A, Vol. 1, Page 101.

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Yrs let. to Josiah Caldwell, Sept. 25, 1838.
 59.16   18.33  28.82   36.66 

Mr. Sallori
OKW N. DEPUTY
19
ILL
Prophetstown Aug 15, 1898
J. L. Davenport Acting Commissioner Bureau of Pensions Department of Interior Sir
I write to inform you that my Grandfather Name Was
Caleb Kimball of Ipswich Mass, He was a soldier in the Revolutionary War

fought at the battle of Bunker Hill
My Grandmother Name Was —
Elizabeth Hammond Kimball & she drew a pension after my
Grandfather's death
I wish to join the "Daughters of the Revolution" & have ascertained that that gives an the proper pension to assist me in securing the the necessary endorsement to these facts
Will you please inform me what year he entered the service

Was he an officer & all other facts necessary & gratefully oblige
Please address — Mrs John J. Greene Prophetstown Illinois

State of Massachusetts
Essex county ss. I Nathaniel Wade of Ipswich in the county & state aforesaid aged sixty years, depose and say that I am a son of Col. Nathaniel Wade who was late a Colonel in the Army of the Revolution - and that in files of his papers, now in my possession, it appears that Col. Kimball, late husband of Elizabeth Kimball, was a private in the Company commanded by Col. Nathaniel Wade - Col. Allen's Little's Regiment. The muster roll bears date January 1. 1776 - Col. Nathaniel Wade Capt. James Lord 1st Lt. Nathaniel Wade 2nd Lt. Timothy Dinsmore - By said roll Col. Kimball enlisted Feb'y. 6. 1776 and does not appear to have been discharged until the termination of that service June 16. 1776.
Nath l Wade
Sworn and subscribed this second day of October A.D. 1830 before me
Josiah Calthwell Justice of the Peace

Oct. 8.
Ms. 8.
Acc: per Eliz. Kimball.
7 July 5748
James L. Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pensions Washington City D.C.
Hon. J. Saltonstall H.R.

Wrentham October 2 d , 1838
Sir,
Your favor of 25 th ult. is now before me. The enclosed affidavit is the only proof I can offer to your consideration in relation to the alleged services of Col. Col. Kimball in the companies under Captains Dodge, Waite, Perkins & Lord. His widow & daughters say much of his services in the Revolutionary war and I have no reason to doubt their statements while I cannot find facts to confirm them. One of his daughters says that he was in most or all of the battles and campaigns in which Lieutenant, and afterwards, Col. Josiah Hodgkin, late of Ipswich, was engaged. I cannot offer any other proof than the accompanying paper, and if the rolls in the Pension Office fail to corroborate the statements of Elizabeth Kimball we must content ourselves with the results. Please do all you can in examining the rolls, for evidence before issuing a pension certificate.
In respect to the case of Mrs. Sarah H. Harley-Merrill Ross & Kimball are quite positive that her husband - Robert Harley - was, while quite a youth of 16 or 18 years, in the service at White Plains in 1776 - Mr. Ross, says that he Robert Harley and one or two other young men visited him in camp while he was stationed at or near White Plains, near the time the American Army retreated into New Jersey - and that he said he was in Col. Gwynn's Regiment. But as this is not supported by the rolls we must acquiesce in your decision - Permit me to say that in relation to the statements Mrs. Mary Staniford, and Mrs. Tryphena Lord whose husbands are sometimes designated junr. senior that I do not learn that there was more than one Jeremiah Staniford or Samuel Lord from this town in the Revolutionary war - there were other men living here of the names of each of the above men I mention this in order to a favorable construction of their widow's claims as they may each be sometimes named in the rolls with or without the addition of jr. - or 4 th etc.
I am greatly obliged by your communication and am with great respect yr. ob t . serv t . Josiah Caldwell
P.S. I have rec d certificates for Mrs. Martin & Mrs. S. H. Harley

James L. Edwards Esquire, Commissioner of Pensions, Washington City D.C.
Marlin Foley

James L. Calhoun Esquire, (Commissioner of Pensions) Washington
Ypsilanti Aug. 17. 1838.
Sir:
I herewith enclose the Declaration, with annexed documents, of Sarena S. Harley, Sarena Martin, Sarena R. Harley and Elizabeth Reinbalt, to obtain Pensions under the act of Congress of July 7 th 1838 granting Pensions to Captain Widows.
The husband of Sarena S. Harley, John Harley - and the husband of Sarena Martin Edward Martin having been Pensioners - viz. John Harley under the act of Congress of June 7 th 1832 - and Edward Martin under that of March 18 th 1818 - it was thought that a reference to their respective Declarations in the War Department would be sufficient without attempting to furnish a minute statement of the services of the said Harley and Martin.
In respect to the Declarations of Sarena R. Harley and Elizabeth Reinbalt, permit me to observe, that there may be some inaccuracy as to dates when the services of their respective husbands were performed in the War - and the names of the Officers under whom they served - but, that those upon record, in all, the amount, or about the amount, set forth in their Widows' Declarations I feel a strong confidence that the Revolutionary Documents of this Commonwealth, now in possession of the Department of War, will fully confirm. It is in the absence of documentary evidence extremely difficult to arrange and set forth correctly all the facts necessary to ensure a successful result to the application for widow's pensions. This difficulty I flatter myself is already duly appreciated by the Pension Department and I respectfully solicit, in behalf of these aged widows, a faithful research of the appropriate papers to establish their respective claims - Having heard much of General Sibley, among the aged in this place, of the justice of the claims of these widows to pensions under the provisions of the late act on account of their respective husbands' services I respectfully request you to write me should any additional evidence be needed. Further affidavits of the character now apparent can be furnished if required.
Very respectfully yours
Obedient Servant
Josiah C. Calhoun

E. Kimball
$ 36: 66 per an
Josiah Caldwell Ipswich Mass.

State of Massachusetts County of Essex } ss.
On this seventh day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty three, personally appeared before the subscriber, a justice of the peace for and in said County of Essex — Elizabeth Kimball a resident of Ipswich in the County of Essex aged eighty three years, who being duly sworn according to law doth on her oath, make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the Act of Congress, passed on the third day of March 1843 granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary war, that she is the widow of Caleb Kimball, who was private in said war. — And the annual amount of the pension she received under the Act of July 7 th 1838 was thirty six dollars and sixty six cents.
And she further declares that she is still a widow
Elisabeth Kimball
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written before me Josiah Colburn Justice of the Peace.
J. Josiah Colburn, the abovenamed Justice of the Peace, do hereby certify that I am acquainted with widow Elizabeth Kimball the signer of the foregoing declaration, and that she was a pensioner under the Act of July 7 th 1838. Josiah Colburn Justice of the peace.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
County of Essex, ss. Probate office.
I Nathaniel Lord junior, register of probate for said county, hereby certify, that Josiah Caldwell esquire, before whom the foregoing declaration of Elizabeth Kimball purports to have been made, is a justice of the peace for said county; and his name, subscribed to the certificates thereon, respectively, is his genuine signature, to me well known.
Given under my hand and seal of office this fourth day of September, A.D. 1843.
Nath. Lord Jr.
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L. W. B. W. 26728.
This Bureau can furnish the military record of only such Revolutionary soldiers as were pensioned or whose widows were pensioned for their services.
Such of the original muster and pay rolls of the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812 as are now in the possession of the Government are on file in the Record and Pension Office, War Department. Original rolls and other records pertaining to service in the Revolutionary War may also be found on file in the archives of many of the original States.
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS,
WASHINGTON, D. C.,
O. W. & N. DIV.
REVOLUTIONARY.
September 2nd, 1897.
Madam:-
Replying to your request for information concerning Caleb Kimball, a soldier of the Revolutionary war, you are advised that Elizabeth, widow of Caleb Kimball, made an application for pension on August 7th, 1838, at which time she was 78 years of age and residing at Ipswich, Mass., and her pension was allowed for the actual service of her husband as a private in the Mass. troops, Revolutionary war, for a period of eleven months; a part of the time he served under Capt. Dodge and Col. Little. Place of his enlistment not stated.
Very respectfully,
Commissioner.
Mrs. John J. Greene,
Prophetstown, Ills.