Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 14,308, for Asa Rice, Massachusetts
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SERVICE: Mass.
Rice, Asa
NUMBER: S.14,308
carded
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Rev War
14308
INVALID.
File No. 14,308
Asa Rice
Priv Rev War
Act: June 7" 1832
Index:-Vol. 1, Page 317
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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I hereby certify that Stephen Kenyon who made one of the annexed affidavit is of good moral character and a man of truth and veracity and that I have been well acquainted with said Stephen Kenyon for the last [ten?] years 
[Signed] Reuben Wells Justice
September 18th AD 1832
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14905
New York
Asa Rice
of Luzern [sic] in the State of N. York
who was a private in the Comp commanded by Captai  Averall of the Reg. commanded by Col. -- in the *N. Hamp line for 8 months
* Mass. Line
Records corrected Febr.1/078 [?]

Inscribed on the Roll of N. York at the rate of 26 Dollars 66 Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 25 day of July 1833 and sent to Clt, Luzern Warren [Co.]

Arrears to the 4th of Mar '33 [?]  $53"33
Semi=anl. allowance ending 4 Sept '33 13.32
[=] $66.65

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

Recorded by G.C. Stiles Clerk,
Book E. Vol. 3. Page 74

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8mo pri
26.66$

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Eighteenth day of September AD 1832 
NB the words Eighteen & September & [illegible] 3 Wrote [illegible] before Signing and Swearing [?] the above.
[Signed] Thomas Archibald Clerk of Warren County Courts
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Warran [sic] County} ss  Town of Luzern
Comes Martin Rice of the Town of Loraine in the County of Jefferson and State of New York being in the Eighty fourth year of his age - Being first duly Sworn according to Law, doth depose and say that he this deponant was personaly knowing to Asa Rice doing duty as a Privet Soldier in the Revolutionary Servis at the following times and places. That is to say - at Camberage [sic] in the State of Massachusetts for the Term of one Month in the year 1775. And also this deponant further says that he was personally knowing to the said Asa doing duty in the said Revolutionary Servis as privet Soldier at ["New York" stricken] Kings Bridge and its Vesenity Near New York for the term of two months in the year 1776 - And also this deponant further says that he was personally knowing to the said Asa doing further duty as a privet Soldier in the said Revolutionary Servise for the term of one month at Bennington in the State of Vermont in the year 1777.  And also this deponent further says that he was personally knowing to the Said Asa doing duty as aforesaid at Stillwatter and it Versinety in the State of New York at the takeing of the army under General Burgoyne in the year 1777 for the term of two months. And further this deponant says not.
[Signed] Martin Rice
Subscribed and Sworn
August 21st 1832 before me
[Signed] Josiah Fasset a Justice of the Peace of the town and County aforesaid.

Warrin [sic] County} ss.  State of New York
Comes Stephen Kenyon of the Town of Hadley in the County of Saratoga and State of  Newyork being duly Sworn according to Law doth on his oath say that he has been for a number of years personally acquainted with the above named Martin Rice the Signer of the above affidavit and that he the said Martin has always sustained a good Cherictter and is a man of truth and Verisety
[Signed] Stephen Kenyon
Subscribed & Sworn the 18th day of September 1832 Bwfore me
Reuben Wells Justice
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State of New York}
Warren County ss.} 
I Thomas Archibald Clerk of of the said County do certify that Josiah Fasset & Reuben B[?] Wells before whom the within affidavits purport to have Been Sworn was at the date of the same a Justice of the Peace in and for the said County and residing in the Town of Luzern duly sworn and commissioned and that I am acquainted with his hand writing and verily their names are subscribed thereto to be their proper hand Writing and signatures.
Witness my hand & seal of Office this 18th day of September A.D. 1832 
[Signed] Thomas Archibald Clerk
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Warran [sic] County} ss.    State of New York 
On this Eighteenth day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred and thirty two personally appeared in open Court before our Judges and assistant Justices of the Court of Common pleas and general Sessions of the peace in and for the said County of Warran now sitting 
Asa Rice a resident of the Town of Luzern in the said County of Warren and State of New York: being in the Eighty Sixth year of his age who being first duly Sworn according to Law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision mad[e] by the act of Congress passed 7th 1832 - 
That he volunteered as a privet Soldier in the Service of the United States under the command of one Captain Oliver Averall and his Liuetanent was one Thomas Nicholas, both of the Town of Charlemount in the County of Hampshire and State of Massachusetts; that he does not recollect any of the field officers then with him, that he resided when entered the Said Service in the Town of Charlemount in the County of Hampshier and State of Massachusetts, that he entered the Said Service some time the last of April (to the best of his recollection) in the year 1775. that he was marched directly from the Town of Charlemont through the State of Massachusetts to the Town of Camberage near Boston in the State of Massachusetts where he continued doing duty untill the last of May or the first of June in the year 1775. that he was in Said Serve the full term of one Month at that time ["1" noted in margin], that he did not receive any written discharge from that service, that there are no Continental troops then known, that he was not aquainted with any of the officers then with him except the ones above Stated; that he was not in any action during that time, that he has no other documentary evidence of this Service except the testimony herewith produced; and that he knows of no person whose testimony he can procure who can testify his Service at that time (except as before) -- This deponent on his oath further says that he was drafted as Express Soldier into the service of the United States in the aforesaid Town of Charlemount for the term of two months ["2" noted in margin] about the last day of September (to the best of his recolection) in the year 1776. that he was Marched from the said Town of Charlemount to Kingsbridge near New York in the State of New York, that he served in a Regiment commanded by Colonel Moseley (Christian name not recolected) in a company commanded by Captain McElealen (Christian name not recolected) that he entered the Service in this Campain about the last of September (the peticular day not recolected) in the year 1776. that he was dismissed from that Service about the last of November or the first of December 1776.
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that he served in this Campain the full term of two months  ["2" noted in margin] that he was activated in this Campain with one Captain Maxfield and one Lieutenant Brown of the Continental troops but dos not Recolect to what Rigement they belonged - that the Corps to which he then belonged was not joind to any Regular troops - that this deponant was in the Sckurmageing of the Battle at White Plains but was not in the main Battle; that he has no documentary evidence of this Service (except the affidavits herewith produced) and that he knows of no person whose testimony he can procure who can testify to his Service at that time except as above - And this deponent on his oath further says that he entered the Service of the United States as a Volunteer privet soldier from the Town of Charlemount aforesaid where he then resided about the tenth day of August in the year 1777 - that the Corps to which he belonged was placed under no Regular officers.  that he marched directly from Charlemount to the Town of Bennington in the State of Vermont where he was placed under the Imediate Command of General Stark where he served untill about the fifteenth day of August in the year 1777, when he was dismised from that Service, that he served that tower [tour] the full term of one Month ["1" noted in margin],that he was not acquainted with any of the Regular troops or office[r]s at that time, that this Service was done at the time of the Battle at Bennington; that he left that Service about the said fifteenth day of August 1777,  that he did not receive any written discharge, that he has no documentary evidence of that service (except the evidence herewith produced) and that he knows of no person whose testimony he can procure who can testify to his Service at that time (except as above). And this deponent upon his oath further Says that he entered the Service of the United States as a Vollenteer privet Soldier from the Town of Charlemont afforesaid about the last day of September 1777  - that he marched directly from Charlemount to the Vecenety of Stillwater in the State of New York, that he was this Service untill the first of December (the peticular day not recolected) 1777 -  that he was in this tower [tour] the full term of two months ["2" noted in margin], that he was in Regiment Commanded by one Colonel Snead (Christian name not recolected) that he was in a Company Commanded by a Captain Ward (other name not recolected) that the Lutanents Name was Thomas Nicholes - that this Service was done at the takeing of the armey under General Burgoyne; that he was not acquainted with any of the Continental officers at that time, that he did not receive any written discharge from this Service, that he has no documentary evidence of this Service (except the evidence herewith produced) and that he knowes of no person whose testimony he can procure who can testify to his Service at that time (except as above) And this deponant further on his oath Says that by the information of his parents he was born in the Town Rutlan[d] in the County of Worcester
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And State of Massachusetts in the year 1747. that he was removed with his parents when an Infant from the Said town of Rutlan[d] to the Town of Charlemount in the County of Hampshier and State of Massachusetts where he resided untill the Eleventh day of June in the year 1755, when he was taken a prisioner from the said Town of Charlemont by a party of Indians belonging to the Tribe of the St Franceway [Francois?] Indians and Carried into the province of lower Canada where he was kept a prisener about Six years and Seven months when he was Released from his imprisonment and Returned to the said Town of Charlemount where he resided untill the year 1782 when he Removed from the Said town of Charlemount to the Town of White Creek in the County of Washington in the State of New York where he Resided untill the year 1825, when he Removed from the Said town of White Creek to the Town of Lorain in the County of Jefferson and State of New York, where he Resided untill the year 1829, when he removed to the Town of Luzern in the County of Warran in the State of New York where he now resides. that he has no written record of his age but received it from his parents 
That 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 in the [illegible].
[Signed] Asa Rice
Subscribed & sworn in open Court this 18th day of September 1832 before me
[Signed] Thomas Archibald Clerk 

We Truman B. Hick and Daniel Stewart both of the Town of Luzern in the County of Warran hereby Certify that we are acquainted with Asa Rice who has Subscribed and Sworn to the above Declaration that we believe him to be Eighty Six years of age, that he is reputed and believed to have Served in the Revolutionary Service in the neighbourhood where he Resides and that we Concur in that opinion 
[Signed] T.B. Hicks
[Signed] Daniel Stewart
Subscribed and Sworn before me in Open Court this 18th day of September AD 1832
[Signed] Thomas Archibald Clerk
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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 & served as he states.
And the Court further certifies, that it appears in them that there is no Clergyman residing in said town of Luzerne aforesaid, but that Truman B. Hicks and Daniel Stewart, the persons who signed the annexed certificate, are residents in the town of Luzerne, and are both or each of them Credible persons, & that their statement is entitled full credit.
I Thomas Archibald Clerk of the Court of Common pleas, do hereby Certify, that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Asa Rice, for a pension 
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of office this Eighteenth day of September AD 1832 
NB the words Eighteen & September & [illegible] 3 Wrote [illegible] before Signing and Swearing [?] the above.
[Signed] Thomas Archibald Clerk of Warren County Courts

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