Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S 37753, Job Bennington, Continental (Penn.)

SERVICE
NUMBER
Continental (Penn.)
★ Bennington job
837753
CONTENTS

18,909
Job Bennington's
declaration
On roll-

Virg a Rockbridge County to wit on this 5 th day of May 1823 personally appeared in open court being a court of record for the said county Isab Bennington resident in said County aged Sixty Seven years who being first duly sworn according to law doth in his cabb make the following Declaration in order to obtain the provisions made by the Act of the 18 th of March 1818 and first of May 1820 and the act of the first of March 1823 that he the said Isab Bennington Enlisted for the term of three years or during the Revolutionary War on the Sixth day of May in the year 1777 in the Pennsylvania line in the State of Pennsylvania in the company commanded by Capt Porter that he was enlisted James M c Vair who was killed at the battle of Monmouth that he belonged to the regiment commanded by Colr Proctor in said Pennsylvania line or continen- -tal Establishment that he continued to serve during the war which was six years, and afterwards that he was discharged at Philadelphia in the State of Pennsylvania, and I do solemnly swear that I was a citizen resident of the United States on the 18 th day of March 1818 and that I have not since that time by gift Sale or in any manner dispose of my Property or any part thereof with intent thereby so to diminish it so as to bring myself within the provisions of the act of Congress Entitled an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States during the revolutionary War passed on the 18 th of March 1818 that I have not nor any person in trust for me any any property or Securities Contracts or debts due to me nor have I any income other than them what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed that I am a carpenter by trade but from age and infirmity not able to pursue so as to provide a support thereby that I have no family living with me to contribute to my support.
Isab Bennington
Schedule of Jacob Bennington's Property three augers three planes four chisels one hand saw one

one Broadax one foot adze one falling ax one drawing knife I have no other property of any kind Either Real personal or mixed, except a debt due me for thirteen dollars & eleven cents which is uncertain as to my recovering
Job Bennington
Virginia
Rockbridge county to wit;
I Andrew Reid clerk of the court of said County do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and the schedule annexed thereto are truly copied from the records of said court and I do further certify that it appeared to said court from the evidence of Thomas Bodkin & his wife that said Bennington had enlisted and served agreeably to said declaration. It further appeared to the court that the property of said Bennington is fully set forth in said schedule and that the total amount of the value thereof is not more than ten dollars
In testimony whereof I have herunto subscribed my name and affixed my official seal at Lexington in said county the 5th day of May 1823 and in the 47th year of the Commonwealth
Andrew Reid

19,036 Virginia
Job Bennington,
of Rockbridge Co. in the state of Virginia who was a Private in the company commanded by Captain Porter of the regiment commanded by Colonel Proctor in the Continental Artillery line, for the term of 3 years from May 1777.
Inscribed on the Roll of Virginia at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 1 st of May 1823.
Certificate of Pension issued the 24 th of July 1823. and sent to Andrew Reid Esq. Lexington, Va
Ancars to 4th of Semi anl. all'ce ending 15 Sept. 1823 $ 32 00 2 3 months 27 4 11 31 30
{ Revolutionary claim, Acts March 18, 1818, and May 1, 1820, } March 1823.
1858 Dec 18. Let to Hon J. Setchell

37753
INVALID.
Revge
File No. 37753
Job Bennington Rev Rev Mrs
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index: Vol. 2 , Page 85
[Arrangement of 1870.]
1926 Apr. 17. visit to Hon Franklin Menges Esq

Congress of the United States House of Representatives Washington, D. C.
April 15, 1926.
General Winfield Scott. Commissioner , Bureau of Pensions , Washington, D. C.
My dear General Scott :
One of my constituents , Mr. Charles J. Kinsler , has asked me to find out whether or not Mr. Job Pennington and William Pennington , soldiers in the Revolutionary War , ever received pensions from the government . It is thought that these men enlisted in Pennsylvania but there is a possibility that they may have enlisted in Maryland instead. I would appreciate any advice you can give me on the matter .
Very cordially yours ,
Franklin Menges

Rev.-& 1812 Wars Section
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April 17, 1926.
Honorable Franklin Menges, House of Representatives.
My dear Mr. Menges:
In response to your letter of the fifteenth instant, requesting data for Mr. Charles J. Kinsler, I have the honor to advise you, that this Bureau is unable to furnish the history of a soldier of the Revolution, unless a claim for pension, or bounty land has been made on account of his services and a careful search of the records fails to show such a claim on file on account of the services of William Bennington.
From the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S. 37753, it appears that Job Bennington enlisted in Pennsylvania, (place not stated) May 6, 1777 and served for six years as a private, in Captain Porter's Co., Colonel Proctor's Continental Regiment.
We was allowed pension on his application executed May 5, 1823, at which time he was sixty-seven years old and a resident of Rockbridge County, Virginia.
There is no data on file as to family,
Very truly yours,
Commissioner.