Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 11,276, Amintus Weeden, R.I.
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Weeden, Amintus
or Mintus

SERVICE
R.I.

NUMBER R. 11.276
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Amintus Weedon
R.I.
Act. 7. June 32


Hon. H. Y. Cranston
Newport
R.I.
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State of Rhode Island County of Newport} sc
On this 27th day of February A.D. 1844 personally appeared before me Joseph T. Perry, one of the Justices of the Court of Common Pleas within and for the County of Newport, and State aforesaid, Amintus Weeden a native citizen of said State of Rhode Island and now resident in Newport in said County of Newport who being first duly [crossed out: sworn] ^affirmed according to law doth on his [crossed out: oath] affirmation declare that he was placed by his Master Peleg Carr with Joseph Spencer Taylor who was a commissary in the army of the United States and was stationed with the Regiment commanded by Colonel Greene & Colonel Jackson at North Kingston in Rhode Island at the time of the evacuation of Rhode Island by the British Troops in the year 1779, that he served under him the said Taylor as a waiter and drew one ration per day that his master received his pay as a waiter as aforesaid that he was in the service for more than a year but that from his ^great age and infirmity he is unable to recollect the month and day when he entered the service or the time when he left with precision - He further declares that he is 78 years of age and that he is poor and possessed of no property whatever, ^except a small one story house and that he has never received a pension from the Government on any account whatever 
Amintus Weeden
Sworn to before me 
this 27th Feb: 1844 set mines when 
Joseph T. Perry Justice C.C. Pleas
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Newport Sc. Feb. 27. 1844. I further certify that I am well acquainted with Mintus Weeden afore named and that his character for truth and veracity is good and his declaration entitled to full faith and credit, and I further certify that from his great age and bodily infirmity that he is unable to attend and make his declaration before the Court- 
Joseph T. Perry Justice C.C. Pleas. 
State of Rhode Island Clerks office Court of Common Pleas County of Newport sc
I Daniel C. Denham Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas within and for the County of Newport a Court of Record do hereby certify that Joseph T. Perry is a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas within and for the County aforesaid duly appointed by the General Assembly and commissioned by the Governor of this State and that he is duly authorized to act in his said capacity. And that his signature aforewritten is genuine. In testimony whereof I have here unto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court on this First day of March A.D. eighteen hundred and forty four.
Daniel C. Denham Clerk
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State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations 
Secretarys office March 15, 1844.
I Henry Bowen, Secretary of said State and keeper of the Records and the Seal thereof Do Certify that at the session of the General Assembly of said State begun and holden on the third Monday of June last, Daniel C Denham was elected a Justice of the Peace for the town of Newport in the County of Newport, for and until the first Tuesday of May next, and Commissioned accordingly, as appears of record. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said State at Providence the day and year above written 
Henry Bowen
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I Margaret Weeden of Newport in the State of Rhode Island Widow aged eighty seven years on solemn oath do testify and say that I am well acquainted with Mintus Weeden who was formerly a servant to my husbands Uncle John Weeden. I well recollect that Mintus lived with Joseph Spencer Taylor who was a commissary in the army of the Revolution at the time of the evacuation of Rhode Island by the British troops-- he lived with Mr. Taylor something like a year I think ^while he Mr. Taylor lived in my Fathers house-- I do not think it was more than a year-- There were a number of [crossed out: troops] companies stationed in North Kingston to guard the shores from time to time and I recollect that Mr. Taylor the commissary paid the Butcher &c-- and that Mintus went of errands for the commissary 
Margaret Weedon her mark X
Witness D. C. Denham affirmed to this 5th day of October A.D. 1843
Before me Daniel C. Denham Just. Peace
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I Thankful Briggs of Newport State of Rhode Island Widow being in my eighty second year on solemn oath do testify and say that I am well acquainted with Mintus Weeden the present applicant for a pension. I lived in North Kingston about a mile from the house were the Commissary lived Joseph Spencer Taylor and I well recollect that Mintus lived with him and went of errands for the commissary. The British Troops had possession of Rhode Island at the time. I do not recollect how long before the evacuation of Rhode Island it was-- I do not now recollect how long Mintus lived with the Commissary-- I was born in North Kingston and lived there until I was more than twenty years of age, Mintus came to my Uncle John Browns house frequently of errands-- and I was in the habit of visiting there frequently sometimes to stay a week or a fortnight at a time
Thankful Briggs her mark X
Sworn to before me this 9th day of November 1843 before me 
Daniel C. Denham Just. Peace
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I Sarah Pratt of the town and County of Newport Widow being seventy five years of age, on solemn affirmation do testify and say that I am well acquainted with Mintus Weeden the present applicant for a pension that I well recollect him while in the employ of Commissary Joseph Spencer Taylor he acted as waiter to the Commissary at that time, which was just before the evacuation of Rhode Island by the British Troops, I lived in the same house where the Commissary [crossed out: boarded] ^lived. I recollect that Mr. Richard Bush was the Butcher & Mr. Thomas Pratt was the Baker who supplied the troops with provisions, there were a large number of troops stationed there, at that time, in North Kingston where I resided, Mintus helped about house and went of errands for the Commissary to the store & elsewhere. I think Mintus lived with the Commissary more than a year as his waiter. I distinctly recollect all the circumstance above stated as well as if they occurred yesterday.
Sarah Pratt
Affirmed to this 9th day of November A.D. 1843 
Before me Daniel C. Denham Just. Peace
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I Harriet Stevens of the town and County of Newport and State of Rhode Island widow being sixty nine years of age on solemn affirmation do testify and say that I am well acquainted with Mintus Weeden of said Newport the present applicant for a pension that I lived in North Kingstown a near neighbor to Joseph Spencer Taylor a Commissary in the army of the Revolution and that Mintus came frequently to my Fathers house after my father who belonged to the army at that time. I was very young at the time and do not recollect what year it was that Mintus came to our house but I have often heard [crossed out: heard] my Father and mother speak of Mintus and his living with the Commissary and a number of years after ward while I lived in Newport my Father was speaking of Mintus who then lived in Newport. I asked him if that was the same Mintus who lived with Commissary Taylor and he said it was. I have since become acquainted with Mintus and am well satisfied from conversation had with him respecting events that took place during the Revolution and his living with the Commissary, that he is the same man, how long he lived there I do not recollect. 
Harriet Stevens
Sworn to this 13th day of November 
Before me 
Daniel C. Denham Just. Peace
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Newport R. I. 3 Augt 1844
Hon: Jas L. Edwards
Dear Sir 
I send you herewith the application for pensions of Mr Card, Mrs Brown & Amintus Weeden, and request your attention to the same, at as early a day as may be convenient. 
I am very Respectfully 
your Obt Sert
Henry G. Cranston
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35.810
Amintus Weeden
R.I.
Let to Hon H. G. Cranston
August 8 1844

11276

Act of 11 June 1832
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[crossed out: Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 8, 1873]

11.276
P.O.
Amintus Weeden

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