Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W 21050, Joseph Edwards, R.I.
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(8-1776)
SERVICE  | | NUMBER
R.I. | Edwards Joseph | W 21050
| Olive |

CONTENTS
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Continued - Transferred on the 17 March 1821 from the 4 Mar 1820 from the Vermont rolls Ne. York roll

Notification sent to Hon E.C. Gross Elizabeth @ Ho Encl copy 17 Mar 1821

Death see letter to Hon R Whallon & P. Agt Jan 7 1835 do to R. Marvin & Co. March 25 1835 & to P. Agt May 20 1835

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New York Roll from the Vermont R
Joseph Edwards of Chester in the state of Vermont who was a Private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Hitchcock of the Rhode Island line, for the term of one year.
Inscribed on the roll of Vermont at the rate of 8 dollars per month, to commence on the 9 of April 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued the 26 of Nov 18 and Sent to Amos Heald Chester Vermont
Arrears to 4th of Sep 1819 134.93
Semi-anl all'ce ending Mar 1820 48.00
$182.93
16 Mar 26/30
{Revolutionar claim, Act 18th March, 1818}
Continued & Transferred
# 26 Nov. 1819
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2671 New York Albany Olive Edwards R.I. widow of Joseph Edwards who was a Private in the R.I. line for one year Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 40 Dollars - Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843. Certificate of Pension issued the 9th day of Nov. 1843 and sent to H.D. Smith Gouverneur N. York [Act of March 3, 1843.] Recorded in Book A Vol. 1 Page 105

Rep. Nov. 9
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Declaration of Joseph Edwards No. 22 Soldier 76 to 77 Hitchcock R. Island Regt. 

Proof of service under Col. Crary required.
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District of Vermont, Windsor County Ss. At Chester in said County of Windsor, on the 9th day of April 1818. Before me the subscriber one of the Judges of the County Court for the County of Windsor, aforesaid, Personally appeared Joseph Edwards, aged Sixty Five years, Resident in Chester in said County of Windsor; 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 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 Joseph Edwards enlisted in Gloucester in the State of Rhode Island on the first of July 1775 in the Company commanded by Capt. James Williams, in the Regiment commanded by Col'o. Hitchcock in General Greens Brigade of Rhode Island troops. That he continued to serve in sd. corps, or in the service of the United States, untill the first day of January 1777 when he was discharged at Peekskill - in the state of New York. That he afterwards served nine months in Capt. Nathan Olney's Company in the Regiment commanded by Col'o. Archibald Crary's Regiment in 1779. That he was in the Battle of Long Island and that he is in reduced circumstances, and stands in
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FINAL PAYMENT VOUCHER
Received from GAO
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Olive Edward
Administrator
$15 -42
June 1844
FINAL PAYMENT VOUCHER
Received from GAO