Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 21,760, Andrew Fry, R.I.
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SERVICE
R.I.
Fry, Andrew
NUMBER
S. 21.760
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Revolution
21 760
INVALID.
File No. 21,760
Andrew Fry
Pri Rev War
Act: Jun 7 82
Index:-Vol. 2, Page 143
[Arrangement of 1870]
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No 32.975
Rhode Island
Andrew Fry
Suspended
Set to Hon J Pearce 14
1835

31.489
Rhode Island
Andrew Fry
of Kent Co in the State of R. I.
Private sale in the company commanded
by Hall of the Regt commanded
by  in the R. I.
for 7months
R. Island
23 Dollars 33 Cents per annum,
of March, 1831
23 day of July
1838 and sent Hon.
Benjn Cowell Present
March 1838 $163.31
Sept 11.66
$174.97
Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7, 1832.
Recorded by D. Addison Clerk,
Book C Vol. 2 Page 109
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32.973

Application of Andrew Fry for a 
Pension
Rhode ISland

[unintelligible]

[unintelligible] Claimant 17 Apr 1835

Set to Hon. D J Pierce 14 Dec 1835

Allow 7 mo [unitelligible]

$23.33 per annum
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State of Rhode Island
County of Kent
On this tenth day of November 1834, personally appeared in open court before the court of probate now holder at Warwick in said county of Kent, Andrew Fry, a resident of said Warwick in the County and State aforesaid, aged seventy two years, who being first duly sworn according to Law, doth and his oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress paper June 7 1832 viz That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated. That he was born at East Greenwich in said County of Kent on the twenty third day of January 1762 and resided there until the spring of the year 1821 when he removed to Warwick aforesaid, where he has ever since resided. That his age is recorded in the records of the said Town of East Greenwich. That in the year 1778 he was enrolled in a company of Militia commanded by Captain William Hall and was drafted in said company and served then and apt under William Hall one  month on Rhode Island in General Sullivan's Expedition. Col. Thomas Holden commanded the regiment. That in the month of November in the same year he was again drafted and served one month at East Greenwich and quartered at the court house. Col. Holden commanded the regiment. That in the winter of
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of 1779 he was drafted and served one month at Warwick neck under the same Capt Hall in Col Holden's regiment and quartered at the house of Benjamin Goston. That in the summer of the same year he was drafted and served on month at said East Greenwich under the same Capt Hall and in the regiment commanded by the said Holden. And in the fall of the same year he was drafted and served one month in the same company and regiment at Warwick neck. That in the month of March 1780 he was drafted and served one month at East Greenwich under the said Capt Hall in the same regiment. That in August 1780 he was drafted and served one month at Bristol under Capt Micah Whitmarsh in Col Holden's regiment and quartered at a meeting house and this is all that this applicant distinctly recollects having served in the war aforesaid making in the whole not up their service months of actual service, for which he claims a pension. He has no documentary evidence and knows of only two persons living who service with him whose testimony he can procure, namely Wilson Spencer and Allen Fry.
He Hereby relinquishes every claim to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of the agency of State.

Subscribed and sworn to in open court Andrew Fry
Alexander Havens Clark
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I Thomas Tillinghast a clergyman residing in the town of East Greenwich and Count of Kent, do hereby certify that I am well acquainted with Andrew Fry, who has subscribed and sworn to the foregoing declaration, that I believe him to be seventy two years of age, that he is respected and believed in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the revolution and that I concur in that opinion. Subscribed and sworn to in open court

Thomas Tillinghast

And the said court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogations prescribed by the War Department, that the before named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier, and served as he states and the court further certifies, that it appears to there that Thomas Lillinghast who has signed the preceding certificate is a Clergyman, resident in the said town of East Greenwich in the county of Kent and that his statement is entitles to credit.

I Alexander Havens, clerk protempore of said court of probate do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of Andrew Fry for a pension.

In testimony whereof I have here unto set my hand and seal of office this tenth day of November in the year one thousand and eight hundred and thirty four.
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I Wilson Spencer of East Greenwich in the County of Kent and State of Rhode Island aged seventy two years, do hereby certify that Andrew Fry formerly of East Greenwich but now of Warwick in said County of Kent, was a soldier in the militia in in the Revolutionary War and belonged to a company commanded by Capt William Hall. I belonged to a company commanded by Capt Isaac Johnson of said East Greenwich  but I served one month in Capt Hall's company in the year 1778 on Rhode Island in General C. Sullinvan's Expedition and the said Fry served the same term of time in the same company. I believe the said Fry also served at other times and places in the war, but I do not recollect being in the service with him at any other time than as above stated.

Wilson Spencer

State of Rhode Island County of Kent
Subscribed and sworn to on this seventh day of November 1834 at East Greenwich in said County and I certify that the deponent sustains a good character for truth
Witness Nathan Whiting Just Peace

I Allen Fry of East Greenwich is the County of Kent and the State of Rhode Island aged seventy four years, do hereby certify that Andrew Fry formerly of said East Greenwich but now of Warwick in said County of Kent was a soldier in the militia in a company commanded by Cap Wm Hall in the time of the Revolutionary War and was enrolled therein in January 1788 and I was a solider in the same company with him. We served together in the company commanded by the said Capt Hall one month on Rhode Island in General Sullivan's Expedition. Col Thomas Holden commanded the regiment and we were both drafted and served together one month at Bristol under Capt Micah Whitmarsh in the summer of the year 1880 and Col Thomas Holden commanded the regiment there. The above are all the times that I recollect serving with
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with him; but I was drafted and served at various other times and places during the war and believe he was also. 
State of Rhode Island Allen Fry
County of Kent [illegible]
Subscribed and sworn before me at East Greenwich in said County on the Seventh day of November 1834. And I hereby certify that the deponent is a person who sustains a good Character for truth.
Witney, Nathan Whiting, Just. Peace The State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations
Clerks office Court of Common Places
I certify that Nathan Whiting is a Justice of the Peace for the Town of East Greenwich in our County of Kent, that the above and forgoing is his proper signature in his own hand writing, that [illegible] faith and credit is and ought to be given to are his official acts. 
In witness whereof I have [illegible] my name and affixed the seal of said court at East Greenwich this Tenth day of November of 1834
John Brown [illegible]