Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 35504, for Hezediah Kimball, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Kimball, Kezediah
S 35504
CONTENTS

0553 Name 
Hezekiah Kimball
of Trumbull in the state  dist of Maine who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Tupper of the Massachusetts line, for the term of 3 years
Inscribed on the Roll of District of Maine at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 9th of April  1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 21 st of Mar. 1819 and sent to Geo: W. Wallingford Esq.  Kennebec Maine
Arrears to 4th of Mar: 1819  $6.89
Semi-ann. all'ce ending 5 p: 1819  48.
71.20  71.20  $134.89
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Continued
Application sent to Mr. J. Small Esq. 19 Feb.
Kennebec Maine

To be returned to Geo. W. Wallingford — Remembrance Me.
2 cases
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35 504 Rey INVALID.
File No. 85,504
Elizabeth Kimball Phila Penn 1800
Act: 18 March 1842
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 223
[Arrangement of 1870.]
Oct. 2 '96. Soldier pensioned Mr G. P. Sharpe Boston, Ma See Aid. 12.041

Certificate.
Jeremiah Kimbal.

COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
SECRETARY'S DEPARTMENT, Feb. 20 th 1819
BY THIS I CERTIFY, That it appears by public, official documents remaining in this Department, that Heradiah Kimball served as a Soldier in Capt. the Lieut. Col's Company, and Col. Tupper's Regiment, (being one of the Regiments in the Massachusetts Line, and on the Continental Establishment,) in the American Army, in the War of the Revolution, from January first  1779 to Decr. 31 1780, being one year and  month
Alden Bradford
Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

Hezekiah Kimball
Con
of

SCHEDULE of the real and personal estate, (necessary clothing and bedding excepted) belonging to me the subscriber, viz:
No real nor personal estate whatever
SCHEDULE of the family residing with me Hezediah Kimball who, by occupation am a farmer — — which I am unable to pursue by reason of blindness — having lost the sight of both of my eyes —
NAMES. AGES. Capacity of each to contribute to their support. wife Mary — 65 — able to do some work though out of health —
Hezediah Kimball his mark
STATE OF MAINE.
York ss. I, W.B. Sewall Clerk of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for said Circuit, within the county of York do hereby certify, that the foregoing oath, and the schedules thereto annexed, are truly copied from the Record of the said Court; and I do further certify, that it is the opinion of the said Court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule, is nothing dollars and cents. IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this twenty second day of July — A. D. one thousand eight hundred and twenty.
W.B. Sewall
{ Clerk of the said Circuit Court for the County of York

STATE OF MAINE.
York ss.....At a Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the First Eastern Circuit, begun and holden at York within and for the County of York on the first Tuesday being the fourth day of July and by adjournment at Alfred from day to day, on the eighteenth day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty, before the Honorable Benjamin Greene Chief Justice Judge of said Court.
ON this eighteenth day of July — in the year 1820, personally appeared in open Court
the same proceeding according to the course of the common law, having jurisdiction unlimited in amount, keeping a record of their proceedings, and having "the power of fine and imprisonment," and being a Court of Record for said County , Hezediah Kimball aged seventy one — years, resident in Strandell — in said Circuit, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows, viz. as a private — in the company commanded by Capt. Samuel Sawyer in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Nathl. Scamman in the line of the State of Massachusetts — on the Continental Establishment, as is more particularly mentioned and described in his original declaration, made on the ninth day of April — A. D. 1818, and on which said declaration his Certificate of Pension, numbered 8553 — was granted. And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March 1818; and that I have not since that time by gift, sale, or in any manner disposed of my property, or any part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an Act of Congress, entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States, in the Revolutionary War," passed on the 18th day of March, 1818: and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property or securities, contracts, or debts due to me; nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereunto annexed, and by me subscribed; that my occupation and ability to pursue the same, together with the number and other particulars of my family, are in fact and in truth as is herein particularly described, also subscribed by me.
Hezediah  his  X Kimball mark
Sworn to and declared, on the 18 th day of July — A. D. 1820. }
BEFORE Benj a Greene Ch: Justice { One of the Judges of the said Court. Atty Daniel Sewall, Clerk

Hazadiah Kimball
Abolitionist born March 4, 1810 C. W. Coddington
Further evidence of service required
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9. At. 1810

COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
YORK, ss.
ON this ninth day of April 1818, before me, the subscriber, Chief Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, for the first Eastern District, in said Commonwealth, personally appears Hercules Kimball a resident in Wendell in said county of York and state aforesaid, who being by me first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath, make the following declaration—in order to obtain the provision made by the late act of Congress, entitled “an act to provide for certain persons, engaged in the land and naval service of the United States, in the revolutionary war.” That he, the said Hercules , (now being sixty six years of age) about the first of January 1775 enlisted in the army of the United States, for the term of twelve months under Capt Samuel Sawyer of Col Patten's regiment of the Massachusetts Line, who marched from Cambridge to Montreal, through Mayhew and was discharged at Morristown in Pennsylvania when his term of service had expired;—That in the month of February 1780, he was again enlisted, by Lt Col. Noah Litchfield, during the war . and joined the army at West Point where he was attached to the company commanded by Capt Nehemiah Emerson of the eleventh Mass. Regiment, commanded by Col Tupper.—That after the consolidation or derangement of y e regiments he was attached to the company commanded by Capt Turner, of the regiment commanded by Major Moses Knapp.—That he was honorably discharged from y e army in June 1783.—That he had a written discharge which is now lost.
And that he is reduced in his circumstances and stands in need of assistance from his country for support, and that he has no other evidence now in his power of his said services.
Sworn to and declared before me the day and year aforesaid.
Benj a Greene
I BENJAMIN GREENE, Chief Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the first Eastern District, in the Commonwealth aforesaid, do certify, that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Hercules did serve in the revolutionary war, as stated in the preceding declaration against the common enemy, and I do now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me to the Secretary for the department of war, pursuant to the directions of the aforementioned act of Congress. And is reduced in his circumstances and in need of assistance from his country for support
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said Court at Wells — this
twelfth day of April in the year of our Lord 1818
Benj a Greene