Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 2633, Samuel Winsor, R.I.
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(3-1776)

SERVICE
R.I.

Winsor, Samuel.
Hannah

NUMBER
W.2633
B.L.Wt. 26944-160-55

CONTENTS
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27384 Rhode Island Samuel Winsor of R Island in the State of RI who was a pri. cor& pro men in the Company commanded Captain Waterman of the Reg commanded by Colo Olney in the R time for 7 mon. pro of infantry 10 corporal 13 mon pro of horse
Inscribed on the Roll of at the rate of 92 Dollars 16 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831. Certificate of Pension issued the 6th day of May 1834 and sent to Hon. D J Pearce W of Rep. Arrears to the 4th of Mar 1834 $276.58 Semi-anl. allowance ending      4' Sep          46-8
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                  $322.66    {Revolutionary Claim,Act June 7, 1832}       
Recorded by George Taylor Clerk,
 Book E Vol 2 Page 136
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1599 Rhode Island === Hannah Winsor Widow of Samuel Windsor who served in the Revolutionary war, as a {private of Inftry Corpe of Horse ]scribed on the Roll at the rate of 92 Dollars 16 cents per annum, to commence on E (crossed out)3 February 1833 Certificate of Pension issued the and 29 day of Aug /33 and sent to Jonah Titus  North Scituate R. Island  Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act bruary 3/53 Page 56 Vol. a 1835
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Hannah Winsor
Claim for bounty land
96454
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State of Rhode Island County of Providence Ss. On this Seventeenth day of April one thousand eight hundred and fifty five before me the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, within and for the County and State aforesaid, personally appeared Hannah Wilson aged 75 years a resident of Scituate in the County of Providence in the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, who being duly sworn according to law, declares that she is the widow of Samuel Winsor, deceased, who was a private of Infantry and private & Corporal of Cavalry in the revolutionary war, and that she is the identical Hannah Winsor to whom under the provisions of the act of February 3, 1853, a pension of ninety two Dollars and sixteen unto per annum has been allowed for the services of her late husband Samuel Winsor a private & as aforesaid of the revolutionary war, of Providence County State of Rhode Island. She further states that her pension certificate under the aforesaid act of March 3, 1853, is numbered to 1599 or 1,599 bears date the twenty ninth day of August one thousand Eight hundred & fifty three and is made payable at the Rhode Island agency. She makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the bounty land to which she may be entitled under the act of March 3d 1855 never having received or known herself entitled or made application for bounty land under any act of Congress. In evidence of her marriage and
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proof of service of her said husband, she respectfully refers to the proof here(^to) fore added, now on file in the Pension office and upon which her annuity as aforesaid was granted. That since being placed on the list of Revolutionary Pensioners, she has not intermarried, but continues the widow of the said Samuel Winsor.   Hannah Winsor(signature) We Phebe B. F. Titus and Eleanor Titus residents of Scituate in the County of Providence and State of Rhode Island upon our oaths declare that the foregoing declaration was signed and acknowledged by Hannah Winsor in our presence, and that we well know her & have for many years, and that we believe from the appearance and statement of the applicant, as well as from our personal knowledge of her and her family, that she is the (^ identical)person she represents herself to be, of which fact we have no doubt - we further say she is the identical person to our personal knowledge, to whom under the act of Congress passed February 3, 1853 a pension of ninety two Dollars and sixteen unto her annum has been granted for the services of her late husband Samuel Winsor, deceased , a private & Corporal of the revolutionary war- That service being placed on the roll of Pensioners the said Hannah Winsor has not intermarried, but remains and now is a widow. That they have known her more than ten years and derive their knowledge of the facts herein named
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from the following circumstances, to wit, we are her grand daughters & reside in the same house, heard her and family talk about the law of Congress allowing her the pension, and when she goes to Providence to get her pension she tells all about it, and we have seen her certificate; and by means of our residence in the same house, we know that she has not inter married with any one-They further state that they and disinterested witnesses (faded signature) Phebe B. F. Titus  Eleanor Titus
The foregoing declaration and affidavit were sworn to and subscribed before me on this day and year above written; and I certify that I know the affiants to be onidible persons; and that the claimant is the person the represents herself to be, and that I have no interest in this claim, and I further certify that I know all the facts the claimant hath stated in her declaration to be true of my personal knowledge except her age. Jonah Titus, Justice of the Peace.
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THE STATE OF RHODE ISLAND AND PROVIDENCE PLANTATIONS. PROVIDENCE, SC. is genuine. CLERK' S OFFICE, COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. PROVIDENCE, April 18 A.D., 1885 I, (handwritten signature)Amosa S Westcott Clerk of the COURT OF COMMON PLEAS of said State, within and for the County of Providence: DO HEREBY CERTIFY, That (handwritten statement)Jonah Titus was on the seventeenth day of April A.D. 1855 a Justice of the Peace in said County of Providence duly appointed and qualified, and authorized to administer oaths and take depositions and the acknowledgement of deeds and other instruments, and that signature to the annexed Certificate, purporting to be his,is genuine.
 IN ATTESTATION WHEREOF, I hereto subscribe my name, and affix the Seal of said Court, the day and year above written. Amos S. Wester(signature)Clerk.
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Seal of Court Attest. Wm. R Watson Watson State of Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations. PROVIDENCE, SC. I WILLIAM R. WATSON, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, within and for the county of Providence in the State of Rhode-Island, do hereby certify, that Ira P. Evans (handwritten)--- is a Judge of the court of Common Pleas aforesaid , which court is a Court of Record; that the signatures to the annexed (handwritten)documents purporting to be his, are(written)in the proper hand writing of the said Evans (handwritten)and that full faith and credit are due to the official attestations of the said Evans (handwritten)In witness whereof I hereunto set my hand and affix the seal of said Court, at Providence this 29th day of September in the year of our Lord 1832. Wm R Watson
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State of Rhode Island and Providence⎬ Plantations} County of Providence- On this 28th day of September A.D. 1832 personally appeared before me ,Ira P Evans, of glocester one of the Justices of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County of Providence,which said Court in a Court of record, Samuel Winsor, a resident of said Glocester in the said County of Providence and State of Rhode Island & aged 74 years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth 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 under the following named officers and served as herein stated- I was born in said Gloucester on 13th day of June  1758 - I have a record of my age in my(^insert)fathers/family bible- I have always lived in said Glocester and of course now live in the same town- In the fore part of the war, I think in 1775 the officers in Captain Abraham Winsors company lived a man named Charles Olney, who lived in (insert)^ North Prov-
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dence, to come up to Glocester, and learn them the martial exercises, I belonged in the same company and did duty in it under said Abraham Winsor for some time. I did regular duty as a soldier in this company in the revolutionary war upon all the claims and in guarding the shores ^except as below stated untill I enlisted into the troop(underlined) called the "Captain general Cavaliers." I cannot say exactly when this took place, but think it was after had I ^had done duty, in said war considerable in the said Abrahams Winsor's company-- The first service, which I remember was at a time, when it was said ,upon alarm, that a British vessel was coming in I then on the above marched to providence, thence to Bristol, and Newport, as I now think in said Winsors Company, it is however possible that I had enlisted into a company of minute- men, commanded if I mistake not by Captain Andrew Waterman,of this howan I cannot be certain, but I am told that I did some duty in a minute Company, but at any rate I did duty often upon alarms for a few days at a time, in one or other of said companies before the general alarm in the fall of 1776 at which time I went in said Abraham Winsor company I believe to Bristol where I was stationed a month, then and after this time I did duty in said Windsor company in my turn  till Spencers expedition in the fall of 1777 & I also served a time of about a month in this expedition part of the time I think at Bristol. From this time untill Sulivans expedition, in august 1778 I did duty in said Winsor company in my turn, when I took the place of Christopher Windsor, in the first division of said Sullivans expedition- for about a month it might be
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for twenty days, & when this tour was out it was my own tour of about the same length of time, in the same division, I served out both tours stationed some at Newport. I suffered in the great stone during these tours of service & was one of the men who helped dig the entrenchment on the Island of Rhode Island, the day upon which the American troops retreated,I well remember a French officer who was in some command, I think it was a Colonel Floy, who came along as we were doing the entrenchment and would say digger, digger pointing at our work. It is my impression that about this time that I joined said company & horse, but I am not certain as to the time, but feel very sure that Benjamin Such commanded it when I found it according to the best of my recollection I did duty in said company horse said war
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I do not think myself able to give a full account of all my services, or the names of all my officers I have been [illegible] [illegible] in December and cannot remember so well as I could before;  I do not feel able to take care of my own business, by reason of my ill health, I remember that the said company of [illegible] was pecularily under the command of the Governor and that the commanding officer of said company was ranked or [illegible] Colonel__ when we were on duty, we were attached to the army and under the orders of our superior officers, but in what particular way the charter of the company was I do not know
Whilst I was on service as whom stated for my brother Christopher Winson; I think that I was in the Town of Trenton, and there I saw three regiments of men one under a Col. Elliot one under Col. Crany and the other under Col. Topham all so off in flat  bottomed boats destined for Rhode Island under the command of Gen Ezekiel Cornell__I remember this, because I {illegible] said Cornell, he being a man whom I knew , order off the boats in doing which he struck one of the men with his sword for being so slow in getting off a boat___
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Declaration of Hannah Winsor
Widow of Samuel Winsor
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Declaration of Hannah Winsor
Widow of Samuel Winsor
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Winsor
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Jonah Titus Letter
96456
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B.

New Evidence