Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 32944, for Joseph Kemp, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER
Kemp, Joseph
S 32944
CONTENTS

15th 10
Dana Esquire Groton Massachusetts
Joseph Hanks Esquire

32 944 Rev INVALID.
File No. 32,944
Joseph Kemp Pri Rev War
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 9, Page 220
[Arrangement of 1870.]

By His Excellency GENERAL WASHINGTON, Esq.
Commander in Chief of the Army of the United States, &c.
Joseph Camp Soldier in the first Regiment of Massachusetts having been certified by a Board of Officers appointed for the Examination of the Invalids of the Army, as unfit for any further Duty either in the Field or Garrison,
On Account of a chronic Disordered Rheumatism is hereby discharged from the Service of the United States
Given under my Hand, at Head-Quarters, Newburgh this 27 th Day of December 1782.
By His Excellency's Command,
John Walker Q.M.
Secretary.
G. Washington
REGISTERED in the Books of the Regiment.
Joseph H. Brooks  Adjutant

4,101
Massachusetts Roll
Joseph Kemp Capt Boynton Private
Massachusetts line 1780 2 years In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of Eight Dollars per month, to commence on the 20 th of April 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued the 3 rd of Nov r 1818 and sent to Samuel Dana Esq. Judge Groton Mass.
Arrears to 4th of Sept 2 1818. 4 m th  \frac{15}{30} — 36: Semi-annual pay ending 4 th March 1819 — 48:
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{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Groton, Middlesex Co

Joseph Kemp—
Admitted

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Be it remembered, that on this twentieth day of April - in the year of our Lord, One Thousand, Eight Hundred and Eighteen before our Lord Samuel Dana Esq., Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, for the middle Circuit, comprising the Counties of Essex, and Middlesex, in the Commonwealth aforesaid, comes Joseph Kemps of Boston in said County. Middlesex, and on Oath declares, that he served in the War of the Revolution against the Common Enemy, for the space of Three years and five months, He entered the service at the commencement of that war, and served at Cambridge eight months, He next served nine months, at Roxbury under Capt. Joseph Bangs in Col. Henry Webb Regiment, and was discharged. The next year he went to Christchurch, again three months, under Capt. John Porter in Col. Hovey's Regiment. - And in January in the year of our Lord One Thousand seven hundred and eighty, the First of January, in Massachusetts, procured him to go into the Army, for the term of three years, where the Continental establishment he was mustered at Cambridge, in Massachusetts by Jonas Hovey Esq.; and then proceeded to Boston, where was received by Capt. Peabody of the Army, who conducted him to Natick where he was mustered in to Capt. Green's Company, in Col. Joseph Vose's Regiment; in this Company he did duty until the last of December in the year Seventeen hundred and eighty, by reason of infirmity he was discharged from the Army. He is now Twenty eight years old, wholly destitute of property, and by reason of his reduced circumstances, in life he stands in need of assistance, from his Country for support Joseph Kemps mark X in presence of
David Lakin
Thus made, taken, subscribed and sworn to at Boston in said County of Middlesex the day and year aforesaid - Sam. Dana
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To the Honorable JOHN C. CALHOUN, Secretary of the Department of War of the United States.
I, the undersigned Samuel Dana , Chief Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, for the Middle Circuit, (comprehending the Counties of Essex and Middlesex) in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, being a Court of Record, duly established by Law, Do hereby certify, That on the twentieth day of April in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen Personall appeared
Joseph Kemp and made and subscribed the declaration which is hereunto annexed.
And at the same time he exhibited to me, a discharge purporting to be signed by George Washington Commander in Chief of the Revolutionary Army
from which it appears to me, that the said Joseph Kemp did serve in the War of the REVOLUTION, against the common Enemy, upwards of nine months. Upon the Continental establishment
Wherefore, in pursuance of the directions of an Act of Congress, made and passed the eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, entitled, "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States, in the Revolutionary War," I have transmitted the said Declaration and the discharge aforesaid to you the said Secretary, that such further proceedings may be had in the premises, as the said Act may require.
In testimony of all which, I have caused the Seal of said Court to be hereunto affixed.
Given under my hand within the said Circuit, the twentieth day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen .
Sam d Dana