Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 21,498, for Wilson Spencer, Rhode Island
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Service RI
Spencer, Wilson
S.21.498
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21498
Revolution
21498
Wilson Spencer
Pri Rev War
June 7 38
Vol 2 Page 389
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Rhode Island  27969
Wilson Spencer
of Kent R. I.
pri
of the Reg
Col. Tillingford R. I.  Miltia
7 months
Rhode Island
23 dollars 33 cents
4th day of March, 1831
issued 13th day of Oct 34
Nathan Whiting
Carl Greenwich-R.I.
Sept. 34 81.66
Oct 35   11.66
              93.32
Revollutionary Claim,
Act June 7, 1832
Nath. Rice
Book E Vol. 2 Page 130
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Application of
Wilson Spencer for a pension

32.023

admit as pvt
7 mo. 23.35

N. Whiting
E. Greenwich
R.I.
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State of Rhode Island
County of Kent
On this Twenty Seventh day of September AD 1834 personally appeared in open Court, before the Court of Probate of the Town of East Greenwich in the County of Kent & State of Rhode Island, now in session: Wilson Spencer, a resident of said East Greenwich, aged Seventy two 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 7th 1832 [unknown]: That he entered the Service of the United States under the following named officers, and served as herein stated: That he was born in Johnson in the County of Providence in the State of Rhode Island on the Twenty second day of February AD. 1762, and resided there about two years when he removed with his father to said East Greenwich, where he has ever since resided, That his age is recorded in the Town Clerk's office at said East Greenwich. That in the year 1778. he was drafted in the Militia and served one month in the winter under Capt Allen Johnson at said East Greenwich, and quartered at the Courthouse, Col. Thomas Tillinghast commanded the Regiment, That in the Spring he served in the same Company one month, at Warwick, and kept guard under the command of a Sergeant. That in the Summer of the same year he served one month on Rhode Island in Capt. William Hall's Company. General West, he remembers, commanded there, but he does not recollect the Col. of the Regiment. That he received a contusion in his head while there by a cannonball from the enemy, while at work in an entrenchment. That in the fall of the same year he served one month under Capt. Allen Johnson at said East Greenwich and Warwick. That in the year 1779. he was called out and served at East Greenwich under the same Capt., Allen Johnson one month in the spring, and one month in the fall of the
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the same year. That in the year 1780, he was called out and served at said East Greenwich, one month under the said Allen Johnson. That besides the before mentioned service, he was repeatedly called out on [illegible] and ordered to carry three days provision, and served n the war more than a month, by short tours, of a few days at a time. Making he is confident, not less than eight month of active service in the war for which he claims a pension. He has no documentary evidence or discharge.
He hereby relinquished every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, and declares that his name is not in the pension roll of the agency of any state.
Wilson Spencer his mark X

Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
James Miller, Clerk

I Andrew Fry of Warwick in the County of Kent and State of Rhode Island, aged Seventy two years do hereby certify that I have been well acquainted with Wilson Spencer of East Greenwich in the County, of Kent ever since & before the commencement of the Revolutionary War. I resided in said East Greenwich during the war and served in the Militia. but did not belong to the same Company that the said Spencer was in, and I do not recollect being in the service with him at any other time, except on Rhode Island in General Sullivan's Expeditions. I remember seeing him there and served one month in Capt William Hall's Company. He belonged to Capt Allen Johnson's Company and was subject to being drafted the same as the rest of the militia.
Andrew Fry

Sworn & subscribed the day &year aforesaid
James Miller. Clerk
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I Thomas Tillinghast a Clergyman, residing in the Town of East Greenwich in the County of Kent & State if Rhode Island, here by certify that I am well acquainted with Wilson Spencer, who has subscribed and sworn to the foregoing Declaration; That I believe him to be Seventy two years of age; That he is reputed and believed, in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution and in that opinion I concur.
Thomas Tillinghast

Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
James Miller, Clerk

And the said Court [illegible] hereby declares their opinion, after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories presented by the war Department, that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary soldier and served as he stated. And the Court further certifies, that it appears to them that Thomas Tillinghast who has signed the [illegible] certificate, is a Clergyman resident of said East Greenwich, and that Andrew Fry, who also signed the same
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same is a resident in the Town of Warwick in the County of Kent is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to [illegible]

I James Miller, Clerk of said Court of Probate, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceeding of the said Court in the matter of the application of Wilson Spencer for [illegible]
For testimony whereof, I have [illegible] set my hand and said office, this Twenty seventh day of September AD 1834
James Miller