Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S 38544, Samuel Billings, R.I.
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(3-1776)
SERVICE
RJ

NUMBER  
S38544

Billings, Samuel

CONTENTS
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2341)
Rhode Island
Samuel Billings
Capt Hughes
Private. 4

Rhode Island Line
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.
Inscribed on the Roll of Rhode Island
at the rate of Eight Dollars per month, to commence on
the First of May 1818
[ineligible]
Certificate of Pension issued the 16th of Sept 1818 and sent to Nicholas Taylor [ineligible] Newport Rhode Island
Arrears to 4th of Sept. 1818..4 Months 33-6
Semi-anl, all'ee ending 4 March 1819 -- 40
of months  $$81.6
April 1783
[july] 1783
Revolutionary claim,
Act 18th March, 1818.
One Year
Continued
Newport
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Sam Billings
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It appears by the Regimental Book, That the bearer, Samuel Billings was inlisted [enlisted] for, and served, the term of Nine Months in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Jeremiah
Olney in the Rhode-Island Line on the Continental establishment and was honourably [honorably] discharged from said Regiment at Saratoga on the nineteenth day of January 1783.
Providence April 29th 1808
Inez Dexter
Major of said Regt at said time
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State of Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations. NEWPORT, SS.
On this First day of May 1818, before me the subscriber, one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas for the County of Newport, personally appears Sam'l [Samuel] Billings aged Seventy Eight years, resident in Newport in the said [strike out "district"] county, who being by me first duly sworn, according to law, doth, on his oath, make the following
declaration, in order to obtain the provision made by the late act of Congress, entitled ""An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary War". That he the said Samuel Billings enlisted in Newport in the State of Rhode Island in the company commanded by Captain Tho [Thomas] Hugh
of the Regt [regiment] Com [commanded] by Col [Colonel] Jn [John] Olney that he
continued to serve in the said corps, or in the service of the United States, until the 19th day of Jan 1780, when he was discharged from service in Saratoga State of New York having served nine months in the battles of [blank]
and that he is in reduced circumstances, and stands in need of the assistance of his country for support; and that he has no other evidence now in his power of his said services.
Sworn to and declared before me, the day and year aforesaid, Nich Taylor
I, Nich Taylor Judge, &c. as aforesaid, do certify, That it appears to my satisfaction, that the said Sam'l [Samuel] Billings did serve in the revolutionary war, as stated in the preceding declaration, against the common enemy; and I now transmit the  proceedings and testimony taken and had before me, to the Secretary for the Department of War, pursuant to the directions of the aforementioned Act of Congress.
Newport May 1st 1818
Nich Taylor
Clerks Office Court of Common Pleas 
County of Newport May [illegible] 
Newport I hereby certify that Nicholas Taylor Esquire whose Signature is affixed to the above statement of certificate is chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas within & for
the County of Newport in testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed the seal of said Court
[signed] Robert Rogers Clerk
State of Rhode Island &c, Newport August 1818  I hereby certify the above named Sam [Samuel] Billings is an inhabitant of the town of Newport is very poorly dependant on his labour for his support & needs the assistance of his Country
[signed] Nich Taylor
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hereby Certify, That I have known and been acquainted with Samuel Billings of Newport in the County of Newport and State of Rhode Island &c a Tailor by trade, for upwards of Fifty years, that he has been one of the Watchmen of the Town for several years, and continued a
Watchman as long as he was able to do his duty, he is now in the Seventy ninth year of his age, weak afeeble needy and destitute of the comforts of life, he not being able to work but very little at his trade if he could get it to do.
In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my
hand and affixed the Seal of the said Town of
Newport this Thirty first day of July in the year of our LORD. One thousand eight hundred and Eighteen.
[signed] Jonathan Almy
Town and Council Clerk for the Town of Newport
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List or Schedule of property comprising the whole estate of Samuel Billings and referred to in annexed affidavit by him subscribed. (Viz) valued at Seventy five Dollars. One desk, one Table, three Coffee potts, one pair of Andirons,
one Chest, Ten Chairs, three Kettles one Iron Stove pipe five plates two milk Kittles over [illegible]
Sam Billings
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Samuel Billings  r 841
March 1819
Con
State of Rhode Island Providence Plantations
Court of Common Pleas for the County of Newport
[illegible] 1820. I hereby certify that the foregoing
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On the Twentieth day of May AD. 1820 personally appeared in open Court being a Court of Record for the County of Newport,
State of Rhode Island & Providence Plantation United States of America, Samuel Billings in the Eighty first year of his age a native Citizen of and resident in said County, who being first duly sworn according to Law, doth on his oath
declare, that he served in the Revolutionary War, in the Regiment Commanded by Lieut. [Lieutenant] Col. [Colonel] Co[illegible] Jeremiah Olney and in Captain Thomas Hughes Company as will fully appear by documents lodged in the office of the Secretary of War accompanying his original
declaration dated on the first day of May AD. 1818, and on which documents & declaration a pension certificate, dated 16 Septemr [September] AD 1818 was granted from the War office, and I do solemnly swear that I was a resident Citizen of the United States 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 provisions of an act of Congress, entitled an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the Land and Naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War, passed on the 18th of  March AD 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 subscribed. My occupation is that of a tailor, but from my advanced age & infirmities, I can procure or do but very little Work. My family consists of two Daughters, both of whom are over forty years of age, and who [illegible strike out] have no property, but are dependent upon their own labour & Industry for their daily
support.
[signed] Saml Billings
Sworn to and declared in open Court this
Twentieth Day of May 1820
[signed H.Y. Cranston Clerk
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State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantation Court of Common Pleas for the County of Newport [illegible] Term 1820. I hereby certify that the foregoing oath and the schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the record of said Court, that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in said schedule is in the opinion of said Court Twenty five Dollars. I further certify that said Court is a Court of record within and for the County of Newport, State of R.I. [Rhode Island] being so constituted by Statute and proceeding according to the course of the common law, possessing original unlimited jurisdiction in civil cases, keeping a record of its proceedings.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand [illegible] affixed the seal of said Court this twenty sixth day of June in the year of our lord One Thousand Eight Hundred Twenty and forty fourth of Americas Independence.
Order of Court
[signed] H. Y. Cranston Clerk
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38544 INVALID Revy [Revolutionary]
File No. 38544
Samuel Billings Pri [Private] Rev. [Revolutionary] War
Act 18 
March 18 [1818]
Index [blank] Vol 9, Page36
[Arrangement of 1870.]