Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 12851, Willard Eddy, R.I. Navy
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Service - R.I.
Navy


Eddy, William

Number - S. 12851



carded
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New York
14806

Willard Eddy
died April 13 1854

of Richfield in the State of N.Y.
who was a Seaman private in the Company commanded by Captain Blackman of the Regt. commanded by Col. Lippetts in the R.I. State troops line for 
1 year 5 months Seaman   $68.00
7 months private   $23.33

$91.33

Inscribed on the Roll of N.Y.
at the rate of 91 Dollars 33 cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.


Certificate of Pension issued the 27th day of June '33 
and sent to 
V. Green Richland N.Y.

Arrears to the 4th of March 1833 182.66
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sept. 1833  45.66

Died April 13, 1854    $228.32

{Revolutionary Claim,}
{Act June 7, 1832.}

Recorded by J.T. Franciosi Clerk,
Book E  Vol. 4 Page 55


Reported to Agent 

March 29 F.M. Eddy - history
1890
May 10 do. history Prior
Jan. 29/95 militia E. S. Crittenden
St. Paul Minn.
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In the matter of 
Willard Eddy
a Pensioner

16427

annexed Declaration


Admitted
1 year and 5 months Seaman
7 months priv. Infantry

2 years
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Otsego Court Pleas

?? of October in the year of our Lord one thousand Eighteen hundred and thirty two

State of New York
Otsego County ss.  On this fifteenth day of October 1832 personally appeared in open court before the Judges of the court of common pleas now sitting Willard Eddy a resident of the town of Richfield in the County of Otsego and State of New York aged seventy two years who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath makes the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832.
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated

That he enlisted on the first day of January 1776 in a company of Rhode Island State Troops commanded by Captain Nathaniel Blackman for one year and served in said company during said Term and was discharged on the last day of December 1776.
When his time was out - that he was stationed at Newport in the State of Rhode Island from the first of January 1776 to the first of September of that year and was attached to a Regiment commanded by Colonel Christopher Lippitts.
That he marched from Newport about the first of September 1776 with said Regiment to the State of New York since went on to York Island and remained there about one month. That he ? from there to White Plains in the State of New York. While he was on York Island he was attached to General
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Lew's Brigade - That he was in the battle of White Plain in October 1776. That he marched from White Plains northward to a place called Phillips Manor and from there he crossed the river into the State of New Jersey where he remained until the last of December 1776 and was then notably discharged.
The names of the officers ? during the above term of his engagement by this deponent in the Regiment and company to which he belonged and in which he served are Colonel Christopher Lippitt, Lieutenant Colonel Adam Comstock - Captain Nathaniel Blackman, Lieutenant Randall whose Christian name is not recollected.  Ensign Dawson, whose Christian name is not recollected, Orderly Sergeant afterwards promoted to Ensign, Joseph D. Bowin.
That he ? and any continental regiments being at Newport the time he was there - That at White Plains and while he was at York Island, there was Continental Regiments and he recollects seeing Generals Washington, Lee, and Putnam there.
That on the first day of February 1777 he again  entered into the service of the United States in Gloucester Providence County  and State of Rhode Island where this deponent  ? in a company of Sailors as a substitute for Lippitt Eddy fro one month and served out said time at Providence in the State of Rhode Island in a company commanded by Captain
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John Eddy and was attached to a Regiment commanded by Colonel Chad Brown.

That on the first of March 1777 he again entered the service of the United States as a drafted soldier for one month and ? said service in a company of Militia at Providence in the State of Rhode Island The company was commanded during said time by Lieutenant ? Pruitt and Lieutenant Colonel ? had the command of that part of the Regiment which was at Providence during the term last aforesaid - That he was honorably discharged on the first of April 1777 - 

That he again entered the service of the United States for one months having been hired to perform the same by the authority of Gloucester, and served said term in May 1777 at Providence in said state of Rhode Island in a company commanded by Lieutenant Thomas Collins - 

That he again entered the service of the United States on the first of July 1777 as a drafted soldier for fifteen days in a company commanded by Lieutenant Stephen Olney and served said term in said company at Providence Rhode Island.

After he had served out said term last aforesaid he continued in said company for fifteen days, longer doing duty in said company as a substitute, but for whom he can not now remember.  That he was
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honorably discharged about the first of August 1777 having done duty in said ? for one month.

That on the first of October 1777 he again entered into the service of the United States as a substitute for one months, for Nathaniel Blackmar and performed said service at Tiverton, near Newport Rhode Island in a company commanded by Captain Stephen Whipple - There was Continental and State Troops during the term last aforesaid, near where he was but he can not remember any of the officers except General Spencer and Colonel Cornell.

And the said Willard Eddy further declares that in March 1778 I enlisted in the naval section of the United States in the Town of Glocester in the County of Providence and in the State of Rhode Island what was the place of his residence during the revolutionary war and shipped on board the continental ship Providence, commanded by Commodore Whipple, 1st Lieutenant Pitcher, Sailing Master Goodwin, Midshipman Gardner.  That on the twenty ninth day of April 1778 he sailed on board of said ship from Providence and passed the Boston fleet then lying at Newport harbour, as we passed the British fleet, we gave them a broadside which they returned. That he sailed directly for France and arrived at  Belbeuf Harbor there on the twenty ninth day of May 1778
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and continued there and port Brest in France between three and four months, repaired our ship and sailed for the United States in company with the Ships Boston and Ranger and arrived at Portsmouth Harbor New Hampshire and lay about one week and from there to Boston, where he was discharged honorably the last of October 1778 and returned home having served in said ship a few days short of eight months.
And the said Willard Eddy further upon his oath declares that in September 1779 he again entered the service of the United States on board the Continental Ship Boston, commanded by Captain Samuel Tucker Lieutenant Gardner and Silas Daver. 
That he sailed from Boston on board of said ship in company with Ships Providence, Guerre of France and Ranger and arrived in Charleston harbour South Carolina and remained there during the winter - That about the first of April 1780 the British ships appeared off the bar.  That we then drove our ships up to the Wharf took out our Guns and ? out forts.  That we were besieged until the twelfth day of May when we surrendered to the British army as prisoners of war.  That on the twelfth day of June 1780 we sailed on board the British carter ship for Philadelphia and were discharged on the twenty ninth day of June 1780 which discharge pass is hereto attached -
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And the said Willard Eddy further says that he has no documentary evidence except the above discharge or pass, and that he knows of no person whose testimony he can procure who can testify to his service except Hopkins Burlingham, whose affidavit is hereto attached.

He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state - 


That he was born in the Town of Glocester County of Providence and State of Rhode Island January 21st 1760.

That he has a record of his age in his Bible taken from his father's Bible.

That he lived in Glocester County of Providence and State of Rhode Island when first called into service and continued to reside in said town of Glocester after the war until February 1796 when I moved to the Town of
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Norwich County of Tioga and State of New York 
From there in February 1797 I moved to Sherburne then County of Herkimer and State aforesaid.  From there I moved on the 27th March 1803, to the Town of Richfield County of Otsego and State of New York when I moved to Tioga and since.
That he was called into service as set forth in the above declaration.

That the names of the officers who arose with the troops when he served, such continental and militia regiments as he can recollect and the general ? of his services is set forth in the above declaration as fully as he can now remember.
That the above discharge or pass is all he ever received and that was given him by Bradford and ought to have been signed by him, but through inadventure or mistake might ?

And he refers the court to the Reverend William B. Curtis and George Round to whom he is known in his present neighborhood and who can testify to his character for veracity and their belief of his services as a soldier of the revolution.

Willard Eddy

Sworn to and subscribed
the day and year aforesaid

Horace Lathrop Clerk
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I William Curtis residing in the town of Richfield Otsego Co. New York and George Round residing in the same place hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Willard Eddy who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be seventy two years of age; that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he enlisted to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion.

William B. Curtis
George Round


Sworn to and subscribed
the day and year aforesaid

Horace Lathrop Clerk 

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states 
And the Court further certifies that it appears to them that William B. Curtis who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman is resident in the Town of Richfield Otsego Co. N.Y. and that George Round who has also signed the same is a resident in the same place and is a credible person and that their statement is entitled to credit.

T.O. Morse
James Wadsworth     Judges

I Horace Lathrop Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of Otsego County do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application for Willard Eddy for a pension.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this nineteenth day of October 1832.

Horace Lathrop Clerk
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State of New York
Otsego County ss.  

Personally appeared before me the undersigned a Justice of the Peace of the Town of Richfield in the County of Otsego aforesaid Willard Eddy who being duly sworn deposeth and saith that by reason of old age and the consequent loss of memory he can not swear positively as to the precise length of his service but according to the best of his recollection he served no less than the  periods mentioned below and and in the following grades. For one year and five months I served as a private soldier For one year five months I served as a private sailor and for which services claim a pension.

Willard Eddy


Sworn to and subscribed 
before me this 19th day of 
February 1833 

Loring Dow Justice of the Peace
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State of New York
Otsego County ss.

I Horace Lathrop Clerk of the said County do hereby certify that Loring Dow Esquire before whom the within affidavit purports to have been sworn was at the date of the same a Justice of the Peace in and for the said County, and that I am acquainted with his hand writing and verily believe his name subscribed to the said affidavit to be his proper hand writing and signature.  

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office the 22nd day of February 1833.

Horace Lathrop Clerk
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Otsego County

Hopkins, Burlingham of Hartwick in said County being duly sworn says he is 73 years of age and that he well knew Willard Eddy as a soldier in the Revolutionary War. That on the 1st day of February  1776 the said Willard Eddy entered into Capt. Nathaniel Blackmar's Company in which company this deponent was a soldier that he enlisted for the term of one year and served out the whole term. They were attached to Col. Lippit's regt. ? and from thence to New York and marched then to White Plains then to New Jersey and discharged the last of December or first of January 1777. 
And this deponent afterwards understood that the said Willard Eddy afterwards served in the Revolutionary war but how long he cannot tell nor  under which officers but he has no doubt fo said service as above noted.

Hopkins Burlingham

Sworn ? before me this 15th day of October 1832 in open court

Horace Lathrop Clerk


I do hereby certify that Hopkins Burlingham the person who subscribed and swore to the above affidavit before me, is a man of fair character and that his statement is entitled to full credit.
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In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 22nd day of February 1833.

Horace Lathrop Clerk
Otsego County of the court above mentioned
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Sur. File No. 13,851, Willard Eddy, born January 21. 1760, at Gloucester, Rhode Island, where he enlisted January 1, 1776, as Private under Captain Nathaniel Blackmar, Colonel Christopher Lippitt, was in the battle of White Plains, 1 year.
Enlisted in March, 1778, Seaman, Commodore Whipple's ship "Providence"; 8 months. Enlisted September, 1779, on board Captain Samuel Tucker's ship "Boston", was taken prisoner at the siege of Boston, discharged June 29, 1780, at Philadelphia. In 1832 he resided at Richfield, New York, and died April 13, 1854.
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? June 30th 1780
added three days nations

? July E. Hallwell
served with three days
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The Bearer hereof Willard Eddy late a Prisoner of War to the British, at South-Carolina, hath permission to Pass from hence to his Place of Residence, in the State of Rhode Island he behaving as becometh.
And all Commissaries of Issues will furnish him with Substance agreeable to a Resolve of Congress, of August 4, 1778, till the twelfth day of July next being a reasonable Time for him to get Home, take a Receipt. ? the Quantity drawn on this Pass, and charge the same? agreeable to the above Resolve.

Given at my Office, in Philadelphia, this 29th Day of June 1780.