Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R 5976, for Jonas Kinney, Connecticut

SERVICE
NUMBER
Conn.
Kinney, Jonas
R 5976
CONTENTS
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Jonas Kinney Rev: New York
Rejected. see letter to claimant 28 th
Nov. 1832.
Act 7 June 1832
5976

Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 2, 1873.
RECEIVED
5946
P. O. _____
Jonas Himmey
Service: _____
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract.
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18

State of New York Onida County ss. On this 10th day of September in the year of our Lord one Thousand eight hundred and thirty two personally appeared in open court before The Honorable the court of Common Pleas of the county of Onida now sitting, Jonas Hovey a resident of Bridge water in the county of Onida and state aforesaid aged sixty seven years on the 27th day of June last who being first duly sworn according to law, 10th, on his oath, make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7, 1832 that he entered the service of the United States on or about the 20th June 1780 in the Connecticut State Troops under Capt Miles whose given name is not now recollect that he resided in the town of Preston at the time of his enlistment that he marched from thence under said Captain to Hartford from in company with about fifty men a distance of about fifty miles from Preston there drawn rations and on the next day marched for Danbury a distance of about 40 miles from Hartford and was there mustered by Col. Durgee and from there marched to Pekskill hill a distance of 35 to 40 miles from Danbury and there joined the Connecticut line commanded by Genl Washington & was attached to Col. Hovey's regiment till was detached Col and Lieut. Avery adjutant in said regiment are Read [redacted] Captain in one of the companies in said regiment and from there we marched to Orange Town and remained there till after the capture of Major Andre

and from there we marched to Pocomoke then to Totkey Plains and from there to west Point a lot of West Point across the River served out the time for which he enlisted that he enlisted for six months and at the expiration of the time was honorably discharged but whether the Gen. or Col gave the discharge does not now recollect that the same is lost that Giffney was a lieutenant in some regiment also Shumway was Captain in the same regiment that Ruben Park Wright Warden, Abel Brown, Underwood Ingalls or Ingalls were soldiers in the Regular line that he has no documentary evidence of his service and that he knows of no person whose testimony he can procure, who can testify to his service that he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his service is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state that he was born in the town of Preston, county of New London and state of Connecticut on the twenty fourth day of June in the year 1765 that he has no record of his age that if ever there was one it is now lost that he lived in the town of Preston at the time he entered the service that after his return from here he went to Preston and resided there 12 or 13 years where he removed to South Berwick Chittenden County and remained there 14 years where he removed back to Preston and remained 4 or 5 years then he removed to Bridgewater where he has resided ever since that he is kin to Samuel Jones and Isaac Brown
who reside in his immediate neighborhood and can testify to his character for truth and veracity and their belief of his services as a soldier of the revolution sworn to and subscribed this day and year aforesaid Josiah Hinsley Jas Brown Clerk
100032

We Samuel Jones farmer residing in the Town of Bridgewater in the county of Onondaga and Isaac Brown farmer residing in the town of Bridgewater and county of Onondaga hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with Jonas Kinsey who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration, that we believe him to be of the age of sixty seven years on the twenty seventh day of June last. that he is reported and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion and that we believe the said Jonas Kinsey to be a man of good character for truth and veracity subscribed and sworn the 10th day of September 1832
Samuel Jones Isaac Brown
Geo. Brown Clerk
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 above applicant was a Revolutionary soldier, and served as he states. And the said Court further certifies that it appears to them that Samuel Jones who has signed the preceding certificate is a resident in the Town of Bridgewater in the county of Onondaga and that Isaac Brown who has also signed the same is a resident in the town of Bridgewater and is a credible person and that their statement is entitled to credit
C. Hayward, J. H. Matthews
J. H. Matthews Nathan Kimball
Judge of Onondaga County Court

I George Brown clerk of the court of common Pleas do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of James Kinney for a pension
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and seal of office this 14 th day of September 1832
Geo. Brown Clerk