JESSE KINNE REVOLUTIONARY WAR PENSION APPLICATION, OSWEGO COUNTY, NEW YORK

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Jesse KINNE Rev. War Soldier, private, Pension #20974 for 8 months 15 days Col. 
HARPER, Capt D. WILLIAMS, Lieut ODLE, age at application 68 years, entered 
Dutchess Co., NY, received 28 dollars and 33 cents per annum beginning on the 
4th day of March 1834. Testimony - "On this 25th day of September A.D. 1832 
personally appeared before me Samuel Freeman a Judge of the Court of common 
Pleas in and for the said County of Oswego and State of New York Jesse Kinne 
aged 68 years old the twenty fifth day of June, last past, who being first duly 
sworn, according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration, in 
order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the Act of Congress passed 
June 7 1832. That he enlisted the services of the United States under the 
following named officers and served as herein stated--That he was born in 
Charlotte Precinct (so called) in the County of Dutchess in the State of New 
York in the year 1764 and that there is no record of his age that he knows of-
that he volunteered in March 1780 in Captain D. Williams Company of Militia the 
name of the first Lieutenant was Odle and the name of the 2nd Lieutenant was T. 
Dykeman or Dickerson, and in Col. Harpers regiment, there he so volunteered in 
Charlott Precinct aforesaid from thence marched to Fishkill or Peekskill and was 
there a day or so and thence marched down to Fishkill landing and went aboard a 
sloop to Albany and from thence to Schenectady there he lay 8 or ten days then 
he drew each man 6 days provision then he started with seven Batteaux loaded 
with provision up the Mohawk River to Fort Stanwix now Rome staid there one 
night and then returned to Fort Herkimer then he lay about two months and a half 
according to the best of his recolection and then a Lieutenant belonging to the 
Continental forces came up with a number of Cattle and a few privates with him 
and serjeant he supposed to assist in guarding the cattle--the name of the 
Lieutenant was Norton, then on that day there took the cattle and drove thenm up 
to Fort Stanwix and then he returned back to Fort Herkimer and the said 
Leiutenant Norton then beat up for volunteers and all of us, out Capt William 
Company except two men volunteered that the name of the Col. Wisenfield of the 4 
New York Regiment Adjt Talmage marched from Fort Herkimer by land to Albany thro 
Coenewagher Schenectady and so to Albany there went aboard sloop and then west 
to West Point there landed; from there, by land on the west side North River to 
New Jersey and lay to Orangetown sometime and there saw Major Andre hanged in 
Oct 1780--that while he lay at Orangetown our Regiment went down about six miles 
opposite Fort Washignton which was on the East side of the River staid there one 
night then returned back--and from thence marched back to West Point, the 
Embarked aboard a sloop and came up to Albany and then was discharged in Cold 
Weather with summer cloathing on and great holes in them--that from that place 
he returned home to Dutchess County aforesaid that the whole time he was in said 
service was eight months and fifteen days as he believes and as he reconed it in 
the time of it--that has no witness to his service and no documentary Evidence 
thereof, except that there is one Ambrose Swift of Herkimer County whose 
affidavit he has obtained, and who was a soldier with him--and that since the 
said War he has resided in Vermont, Manchester Bennington County from thence he 
moved to Menden Herkimer Co., N.Y. from thence he removed into the town of 
Otsego Co. of Otsego N.Y. and from thence he removed to Brookfield Madison 
County N.York and from thence to the town of Amboy (formerly called 
Williamstown) as the County of Oswego N. York where he now resides and has 
resided for five years past that he is known in his present neighborhood to 
Truman Gillet a Clergyman residing near him and also to Truman Kinney who can 
testify to his character for truth and versity and their belief of his serving 
as a soldier of the revolution--He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a 
pension or annuity except the present, and declares that his name is not on the 
pension roll of the agency of any State. Sworn & subscribed before me this 25 
day of September 1832."