REVOLUTIONARY WAR PENSION APPLICATION - ABRAHAM JENKINS

Contributed by:  Linda Gamel (glgamel@flash.net)

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NOTE: Words in parentheses are those which are difficult to
read, and are what I believe is written. Question marks in
parentheses are words or parts of words that I cannot
decipher at all. Also, this application contains that of
Abraham and also that of his wife, after he died. Following
these is an affidavit written by his son.

State of North Carolina, Bertie County, Court of Pleas and
Quarter Sessions, held for the County aforesaid at the Court
House in Windsor on the Second Monday of May AD 1821. On
this 18th day of May AD 1821 personally appeared in Open
Court, being a Court of record for the County of Bertie and
State of North Carolina and providing according to the Court
of the common Law with a jurisdiction unlimited in point of
(?) keeping a record of its proceedings and having the power
of Fine and Imprisonment/ Abraham Jenkins aged about 64
years residing in the said County of Bertie who being first
duly sworn according to Law, doth on his oath makes the
following declaration in order to obtain the provision made
by the Acts of Congress of the 18th March 1818 and the 1st
May 1820 that he, the said Abraham Jenkins, enlisted for the
term of two years and six months on or about the 27th day of
April 1776 in the said County of Bertie and State of North
Carolina in the Company commanded by Captain John Pugh
Williams in the fifth regiment commanded by Colonel Buncombe
in the Line of the State of North Carolina and the
Continental establishment, that he continued to serve in the
said Corps until expiration of the first term for which he
enlisted - That he served as a private soldier from the said
time of his enlisting until on or about the 15th May 1778
when he was appointed and entered upon the duties of a
Sergeant, in which Services he was employed in the said
Corps until the month of June in the same year 1778, when he
was appointed and entered upon the duties of a corporal, in
which Service he was employed in the said Corps until the
expiration of term for which he enlisted, (whereas) in the
Month of October 1778 he was discharged from said service in
the State of New Jersey - that he was in the Battles of
Germantown, Brandywine and Monmouth, that he has no other
evidence than that which may be hereto annexed whereby to
prove his said services - And in pursuance of the said Act
of Congress of the 1st May 1820. I, the said Abraham
Jenkins, do hereby solemnly swear that I was a resident
citizen of the United States aforesaid County of Bertie in
the State of North Carolina 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 provision of the Act of Congress entitled an Act to
provide for certain persons engaged on the land and (?)
service of the United State in the Revolutionary War
(copied) 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 hereto
annexed and by me (recorded). Viz

2 Horses - 9 Head of Cattle - 18 Sheep - 12 Hogs - 3 Axes -
4 Hoes - 2 Ploughs -1 Chissel - 1 Augur - 2 Iron Pots - 1
Skillet - 1 Frying Pan - 2 Beds only - A few plates, cups
and pieces of earthen ware.

And the fact Abraham Jenkins further saith that his family
is composed of five persons besides himself, viz - Elizabeth
his wife aged 56 years - Winny his daughter aged about 28
years - Polly, his daughter aged about 18 years - Willie, an
orphan boy aged 10 years - and James, an infant aged 17
months, son of his Eldest daughter Winny - that his
daughters Winny and Polly are able to contribute to their
support and the orphan boy Willie able to do a little - that
the rest of his family are able to do but little toward his
or their support -and that he, the said Abraham Jenkins, is
a farmer by occupation able to work but little, by reason of
old age and infirmity - He further saith that he made his
first declaration in order to obtain a pension on the 21st
day of March 1820 before the Hon'ble John R. Donnell, one of
the Judges of the Superior Courts of Law & Equity of the
said State of North Carolina, that he made a second
declaration for that purpose on the 16th day of November
1820 in Open Court then fitting in the said County of
Bertie.

(Signed) Abraham Jenkins

Sworn to, Subscribed and declared by the said Abraham
Jenkins in Open Court on the 18th day of May 1821 -

Attest E. A. Rhodes Clk. I Elisha A. Rhodes, Clerk of the
Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions for the said County of
Bertie, do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and
schedule 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 on the aforesaid Schedule is one
humdred and sixty dollars - I further certify that the said
Abraham Jenkins made oath and exhibited the aforesaid
Schedule of his property to obtain a pension on the 16th of
November 1820 in Open Court.

In testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand and affixed
the seal of said Court on this 2d day of June AD 1821.

E.A. Rhodes

Clerk of the Court of the County of Bertie - NC

State of North Carolina, Bertie County Court of Pleas and
Quarter Sessions May Term 1842. On this 11th day of May AD
1842 personally appeared before the Court of Pleas and
Quarter Sessions aforesaid Elizabeth Jenkins, a resident of
Bertie County State of North Carolina, aged 78 years in
August 1841, who being first duly sworn according to law
doth on her Oath make the following declaration in order to
obtain the benefit of the provision made by the Act of
Congress passed July (4th) 1836 granting provisions to
certain widows. That she is the widow of Abraham Jenkins who
was a soldier in the Revolution - that the said Jenkins
first enlisted in the service and served about 2 years and
one half, when he returned home to Bertie County, North
Carolina. In something more than two years, he was again
draughted into the service and served 3 months. She has
heard her husband speak of being in one general engagement,
she thinks Brandywine, and a number of small affairs. He
served both in South Carolina and in the North - part of the
time she has heard him say he was sergeant & when he came
home the last time, she thinks he was a lieutenant. His
Captain in the first service was John Pugh Williams of this
County and in the last was John Folk. She can not state
further as to the officers under whom he served, assessing
that he served under General Washington in person during the
first tour, after leaving the South. She has no documentary
evidence of his service but has often seen his discharge
which he kept up to his death, but she does not know what
has become of it. She further states that her husband was a
pensioner of the United States receiving Ninety Six Dollars
a year - that he rec'd his pension about three years before
he died - that she does not know where the pension
certificate is, but supposes it was in the hands of
(Hustads?) Reynolds Esq of Windsor, N.C. who is dead, and
who (was?) to draw the pension of her husband.

She further declares that she was married to the said
Abraham Jenkins on the 30th of January 1781, after his first
service and previous to his last - that she has no record of
the said marriage nor was any made - that her husband the
said Abraham Jenkins died the 12th day of September 1823.
That she has never married since, but still remains a widow,
as will more (factly) appear by reference to the proof
hereto annexed.

Sworn to and subscribed in open Court on the day and year
first above written.

Elizabeth Jinkins X (her mark)

State of North Carolina Bertie County

I Jonathan Taylor Clerk of the Court of Pleas and Quarter
Sessions of Bertie County do certify that foregoing is the
declaration of Elizabeth Jenkins made in open Court for the
purpose therein stated. I do further certify that the said
Elizabeth is a person of reputable character and as such
entitled to belief. Given under my term and the seal of my
office this 11th day of May AD 1842.

Jon. L.(or S?) Taylor

The affidavit of Lodwick Jenkins, the affiant saith that he
is the son of Abraham and Elizabeth Jenkins - he has seen
repeatedly the old family bible of his father's in which the
ages of his children were kept - this now is an old book and
the ages were copied into another book after the death of
his father and he has searched for the old Book and cannot
find it, but affiant himself has a copy of his own age taken
from the original which was in the hand writing of his
father - he never saw any record of the marriage of his
parents and thinks none was made - but this affiant was
recorded to have been born on the 5th of Dec'r 1781 and was
always told by his parents that was the time of his birth -
and he was always told by them that they married the last
day of 1780 or first of 1781 - He further saith that his
father often spoke in his life time to this affiant of his
being drafted for (three) months (?) going to the great
Bridge after he was married to this affiant's Mother - He
has often heard his father and an old man named (Folmes),
long since dead, speak of their trip to that great Bridge in
the State of Virginia - affiant has always resided in Bertie
County but knows of no one who can testify to the service of
his father (?) those whose affidavits are hereto annexed.

Lod" Jinkens

Sworn to & subscribed before me this 13 day of May 1845 in open Court - Jonathan 
Taylor Clk