Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W 1353, Pardon Angell, R.I.
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Service R.I.
Angell, Pardon
Susanna

Number
W1353
BLWT 2627916055
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Susanna Angell
82.677
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State of Rhode Island, &c. 

County of Providence
On this 9th day of April A.D. One Thousand Eight Hundred and Fifty-five, personally appeared before me, Lucius C Ashley a Justice of the Peace within and for the County aforesaid, Susanna Angell aged 82 years, now resident in the Town of Scituate in said County, who being duly sworn according to law, declares and says she is the widow of Pardon Angell who was a private & Sergt in Capt.  [blank] Company, and in a Regiment commanded by Col. [blank] in the war of the Revolution, and that her said husband was in actual service more than twelve months in said war, and was honorably discharged.

And she further declares that she was married to said Pardon Angell on the Eleventh day of December A. D. 1806 by Abraham Walker Justice of the Peace and that her name before marriage was
Susanna Wills and that her said husband died on the 2 day of June A. D. 1838 and that she is now a widow.

And she further & declares that she is now a pensioner of the United State
rate of $56.87 per annum; which pension was granted her on account of her said husband's services in said war; which pension is payable at the Agency for paying pensions in the City of Providence. And she further declares that when she made a declaration to obtain her said pension she produced satisfactory evidence of her said marriage to her said husband and of his death, to which declaration and the evidence therewith filed, she now refers for proof of her said marriage, of her said husband's
death, and her claim to Bounty Land under the Act of Congress of March 3d, 1855, and she makes this declaration for that purpose. She further declares that she has never made any application for Bounty Land before the present. 
Susanna her X mark Angell

Witness
Lucius  C. Ackley

We Pardon Angell and Phebe A Angell residents of Scituate
in said County & State upon our oaths declare that the foregoing declaration was signed & acknowledged by Susan Angell
in our presence & that we believe from the appearance & statements of the applicant that that she is the identical person she represents herself to be 
Pardon Angell
Phebe A. Angell
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State of Rhode Island &c. 
Providence
In Scituate in said county 
April 9th 1855
The within declaration and affidavit was sworn to and subscribed before me the day and year afore written; and I certify that I know the appiant to be credible person; that the claimant is the person she represents

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The State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations
Providence Sc. 
Clerks Office court of Common pleas, 
Providence April 18th AD 1853

I Amosa S. Westcott Clerk of court of common pleas of said state within and for the county of Providence; 
Do hereby certify that Lucius C. Ashley was on the ninth day of April AD 1855 a Justice of the Peace in same county of Providence --
Duly appointed and qualified and authorized to administer oaths and take depositions and the acknowledgment of deeds and other instruments and that the signature to the annexed certificate purporting to be his is genuine. 
In attestation whereof I hereto subscribe my name and affix the seal of said court the day and year above written. 
Amosa S. Westcott clerk
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State of Rhode Island &c.
Providence
In Scituate in said county
April 9th 1855
The within declaration and affidavit was sworn to and subscribed before me the day and year afore written; and I certify that I know the appiant to be credible person; that the claimant is the person she represents herself to be and that I have no interest in this claim. 
Lucius C. Ashley

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Do hereby certify that Lucius C. Ashley was on the ninth day of April AD 1855 a Justice of the Peace in same county of Providence --
Duly appointed and qualified and authorized to administer oaths and take depositions and the acknowledgment of deeds and other instruments and that the signature to the annexed certificate purporting to be his is genuine.
In attestation whereof I hereto subscribe my name and affix the seal of said court the day and year above written.
Amosa S. Westcott clerk
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Cir. B. Cowell Nov 12/55

April 20/55
82.677
Act 55

Susanna Angell Wid.o
Pardon Angell Priv.t 

Rev.o Pensioner

R.I. July 53-1415

Av; 160acr May 20/26
[illegible signature]

B. Cowell Providence
R.I. 

Vol. A 94

[written across document] 
No 26279 May 22/56
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I Albert H. Angell of the city and county of Providence, aged thirty years do on oath testify and say that I was acquainted with Pardon Angell late of Scituate, deceased, he was my grandfather, he married for his second wife Susannah Wells & they always lived together as man and wife until his death.  My Grandfather was a pensioner of the United States up to the time of his death.  I was with him several times to get his pension.  Susannah Angell who is now an applicant for a pension is his widow & has remained a widow since his death.

Albert H Angell

State of Rhode Island & Providence Plantations Providence.  In the city of Providence Aug 1st 1853.

Then personally appeared before me the above named Albert H Angell and made oath to the truth of the above affidavit by him subscribed & I further certify that he is a credible witness.

Amosa S. Westcott
Justice of the Peace
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Susanna Angell
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State of Rhode Island

County of Providence.  On this 3 day of March 1853 personally appeared before me Richard W Green Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the State of Rhode Island  Susana Angell now resident in the City Of Providence aged 80 years who being duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions of the act of Congress passed February 3, 1853 granting pensions to the widows of officers  & soldiers of the Revolution married since the year Eighteen Hundred viz. that she is the widow of Pardon Angell late of the town of Scituate in said County deceased who was a soldier of the Revolution and when the act of June 7th 1832 was passed applied for and obtained a pension at the rate of $56.87 per annum payable at the agency for paying pensions in the City of Providence which pension he received up to the time of his death & to the declaration which he made to obtain said pension she refers for proof of her claim to the same.  And she further declares that she was married to the said Pardon Angell on the twenty first day of December AD 1806 by Abraham Walker Esq a Justice of the Peace as will appear by the original certificate of the marriage hereunto annexed

And she further declares
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that her husband the said Pardon Angell departed this life on the second day of June 1838, that since that period she has remained a widow & is now a widow and never before has made an application but is now entitled to the same pension her said husband received in his lifetime

Susannah her X mark Angell

witness 
RW Greene

Sworn to and subscribe before me the undersigned the day & year found above written & I further certify that from age and infirmity she is unable to attend court.

R W Greene
Chief Justice of Supreme Court

I hereby certify that Pardon Angell Scituate and Susanna Wells of Foster were lawfully joined together in marriage on the 21th day of December 1806. by me the Subscriber-

Abrahma Walker
Justice Peace
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I Mary Codding of Iles City of Providence aged 62 years do testify & say that Pardon Angell the husband of Susanna Angell who has signed & sworn to the preceeding declaration departed this life on the second or third day of June AD 1838 and since hid death the said Susanna Angell has remained his widow & is now is his widow; I was present at his the said Pardon funeral in Scituate where he lived when he died. 
Mary Codding

March 3, 1853
Sworn to & subscribed before me the day & year above . I further certify the appiant is a credible witness. 
Richard Greene
Chief justice Department

State of Rhode Island & Providence Plantation Providence
I Amosa L. Westcott clerk of the court of common pleas within and for said county of Providence being court of record do hereby certify that Richard W. Greene before whom the aforegoing instruments were sworn to is chief Justice of the Supreme of said state that by law he is authorized to administer oath, and that the above is his genuine signature. 
In witness whereof I hereunto  set my hand and affix the seal of said court this fourth day of March AD 1853
Amosa L. Westcott clerk
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1.413
Rhode Island
Susanna Angell widow of Pardon Angell who served in Revolutionary war as a private & Sgt. 
Rhode Island Mil

Inscribed on the roll at the rate of 56 dollars 57 cents per annum, to commence on the 3d February 1853

Certificate of pension issued the 19th day of Aug /53 and sent to 
B. Cowell Providence 
R.I. 

Recorded on roll of pensioner under act February 3/53, page 49 Vol. A
1832
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30713
Pardon Angell
of Scituate R.I. 

Pri 17 days
11 mos sergeant
Capt. Wilkers Col. Cornell

Benj.n Cowell Esqr. 
Providence R.I.
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County of Providence
on this 22 day of April AD 1834 personally appeared in open court being the Maricial Court of the city of Providence Pardon Angell of Scituate in in said County aged 84 years who being duly sworn according to law doth on this oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of an act of Congress passed June 7th 1832 biz - 
He entered the war of the Revolution and served as follows. - In answer to the seven interrogatories prescribed by the war department he answers & says. 
1st. He was born at said Scituate October 4, 1749
2d. His birth is not recorded in the town clerks office of said town, but is recorded in a family bible.
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3d. He lived in said Scituate when he was first called into service & since the war has always lived there. 
4. he volunteered. 
5. He served under General Spencer, Col. Cornel, Captain Samuel Wilbur, Capt. Joseph Kimball
6. He never received any written discharge. 
7. Jonathan Smith Rev.d Charles Stone & Rev. William C. Manchester
And the said Pardon further declares that on the alarm of the battle of Lexington in the year 1775. he volunteered in Capt. Kimballs company of militia to march to Boston that they began their march but had not
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proceeded a great way beyond Providence before they were ordered to return. This applicant says he served according to his best recollection three days on this alarm and said pardon further says that in 1776 being enrolled in Captain Samuel Wilber's company of militia as a private & in Col. Cornell's regiment in August. he was drafted for fourteen days & he served accordingly. 
And said Pardon further declares that in the beginning of the year 1777 does not remember the month. he joined a company called the "Scituate Hunters", said company was an independent company chartered by the General Assembly of Rhode Island & was also a minute company & by its rules & regulation was always to be in readings at a moments warning
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armed and equipped for camp duty, and he says that after the British took possession of Newport and until they evacuated it, being a space of nearly three years, all the military force was put in requisition, and was divided into three classes and one then was to be on duty all the time or nearly all the time to guard against the incursion made by the enemy along the shores of the Bay. But at this distant period of time this applicant cannot state distinctly the number of times or places he served in each year. He joined said company as a sergeant and continued to act in said capacity until the end of the War, and according to his best recollection he served as such between January and December 1777 and three months at least and in 1778 between January and December not less than four
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months at lease and in 1779 not less than three months at least, and in 1780 when the French fleet came into Newport in August he served one month on Rhode Island.  He performed all those services in the War of the Revolution in manner aforesaid.  He served eleven months as as sergeant and seventeen days as a private for which he clams a pension according to the provisions of the act aforesaid.
He has no documentary evidence of his services but he produces testimony of witnesses which annexed.He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension and declares that his name is not on the pension Roll of the agency of any state.
Pardon Angell
April 22, 1834
Sworn to in open Court
Allend Peck, Clerk
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We William C. Manchester a clergyman residing in Providence and Henry Codding of said Providence hereby certify and say the we are acquainted with Pardon Angell who has subscribed and sworn to the proceeding declaration, we believe him to be 84 years of age, that he is respected and believed in the neighborhood to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in the opinion.
Wm C. Manchester
Henry Codding
April 22, 1834
Sworn to open Court
Allend Peck, Clerk
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I Charles Stone a Clergyman residing in Scituate in the County of Providence do testify and say that I am well acquainted with Pardon Angell who has subscribed and sworn to the proceeding declaration and have known him for fifty years. I well remember of his being a member Scituate Hunters during the War of the Revolution and that he was after called into active service. I remember of serving on month myself in 1780 and know he was there at the same time.  He is well understood in the neighborhood where he resides to have a soldier of the Revolution and I know that to be great, he has always sustained a  [illegible]  character for truth and veracity.
Charles Stone
1834 April 22
Sworn to in open Court 
Allend Peck, Clerk
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State of Rhode Island [illegible]
Providence ss[?]

I Dexter Randall Clerk of the Court of Common Please within & for the County of Providence, being a Court of Record do hereby certify, that Josiah Wescott. before whom the annexed affidavit [illegible] is a Justice of said Court, empowered by Law to administer oath and take depositions, and that the signature to the within certificate is the proper hand writing of the said Josiah and that full faith & credit are due to his official acts & attestations

In testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at Providence this 22d day of April AD 1834

Dexter Randall Clk
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I Jonathan Smith of Scituate County of Providence State of Rhode Island being [illegible] according to Law do Testify and Say. that Pardon Angell of Scituate belonged to the Independant Company of the Scituate [illegible] at the Time of the [illegible] an[?] New part. in Sullivans Expedition and according to my best Recollection the Said Pardon Served as a sergent in Said Company. Said company was [illegible] men and often on duty during the War of the Revolution. I am well acquainted with Said Peardon Angell and any Statement by him made is Entitled to full credit.

Jonathan Smith

Providence ss in Scituate April 17 AD 1834
Personally came Jonathan Smith and made oath to the Truth of the above deposition and I hereby certify that the said Jonathan is a [illegible]
Before me Josiah Wescott J.C.C. Pleas

And the 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, that William C Manchester who has signed the preceding certificate. is a clergyman resident in Providence and that Nancy
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who has also signed the same is a resident in Providence and is a credible person and also that Charles Hine[?] another clergyman resident in Scituate in the State of Rhode Island and Jonathan Smith also of said Scituate are credible persons, and all their several statements entitled to full credit

I Allend Peck Clerk of said Court do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the Application of Pardon Angell for a Pension

In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said Court this Twenty second day of April AD 1834
Allend Peck Clerk
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27392
Rhode Island

Pardon Angell of Situate, in the State of RI, who was a private in the Compy. commanded by Captain Wilbur of the Regt commanded by Cornell in the RI. line for 17 days private 11 months sergeant

Inscribed on the Roll of RI. at the rate of 56 Dollars 87 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1834.

Certificate of Pensions issued the 9th day of May 1834 and sent to Benjamin Cowell Esqr Providence RI.

Arrears to the 4th of Mar. 1834 $170.61
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sep. 48.43
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$199.04
{Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.}

Recorded by George Taylor Clerk, Book E Vol. 2 Page 101
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Rev.
WIDOW, &c.
File No.  1353
Susamah Angell, Widow.
Pardon Angell, Priv. Rev. War.
Act:  Feb. 3, 153.
Index:—Vol. A, Page 13
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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Appl. of Susannah Angell widow of Pardon
Providence R. Island
27392
Act 3d Feby 1853
$56.87/100 per annum
commencing 3d Feby 1853
Revy
Benj Cowell
Providence R. I.
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
Pension Office, Official Business
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No 1229
Susannah Angell widow of Pardon
R. Island.
Let to Benj. Cowell
30" June 1853
Act Feby 3, 1853.
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26,279
Rev
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Town Clerks Office Foster R.I. August 4th AD 1853 I Raymon G. Plau of Foster, Town Clerk of said Town, do Certify, that by virtue of my said office I have the custody of the Records of the Births and Marriages which have taken place in said Town, and after a careful examination of said Records I cannot find the Record of the Marriage of Pardon Angell to Susanna Wells on record, and I believe many marriages have take place in said Town which never have been brought to said office to be Recorded Raymon G. Plau Town Clerk

Providence County Sc In Foster August 4th AD 1853. Personally appeared before me the above named Raymon G. Plau Known to me as Town Clerk of said Town of Foster, and made oath to the truth of the above Certificate by him signed. Goerge Fry Public Notary
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THE STATE OF RHODE ISLAND AND PROVIDENCE PLANTATIONS.
PROVIDENCE, SC.
CLERK'S OFFICE, COURT OF COMMON PLEAS,
PROVIDENCE, August 8 A. D., 1853
I Levi Salisbury Clerk of the COURT OF COMMON PLEAS of said State, within and for the County of Providence:
DO HEREBY CERTIFY, That George Fry Esq is a Public Notary in and for the town of Foster in said County duly appointed and qualified, and authorized to administer oaths and take depositions and the acknowledgment of deeds and other instruments, and that the signature to the annexed Certificate, purporting to be his, is genuine.
IN ATTESTATION WHEREOF, I hereto subscribe my name, and affix the Seal of said Court, the day and year above written.
[signature] Levi Salisbury  Clerk.
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I Nancy Angell of Providence aged fifty five years on oath do testify and say that I was acquainted with Pardon Angell late of Scituate, deceased, he was a pensioner at the time of his death, he married for his second wife Susannah Wells as I have always understood & believe, they lived together as man and wife until his death, and she is now his widow and is the same person who is now applicant for a pension as his widow
[signature] Nancy Angell
State of Rhode Island & Providence Plantations.
Providence Sc  In the city of Providence August 1st 1853.
Then personally appeared the above named Nancy Angell and made oath to the truth to the above affidavit, before me, & I further certify that she is a credible witness
[signature] Amasa S. Westcott
Justice of the Peace
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THE STATE OF RHODE ISLAND AND PROVIDENCE PLANTATIONS. CLERK'S OFFICE, COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, PROVIDENCE, August 8 A. D., 1853. I Levi Salisbury Clerk of the COURT OF COMMON PLEAS of said State, within and for the County of Providence: DO HEREBY CERTIFY, That Amasa S Westcott is a Justice of the Peace in and for the city of Providence in said County duly appointed and qualified, and authorized to administer oaths and take depositions and the acknowledgment of deeds and other instruments, and that the signatrues to the annexed Certificates, purporting to be his, are genuine. IN ATTESTATION WHEREOF, I hereto subscribe my name, and affix the Seal of said Court, the day and year above writte. Levi Salisbury Clerk.
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Providence August 18th 1853 Sir In reply to your letter of June 30th [illegible] relative to the claim of Susannah Angell widow of Pardon Angell I herewith enclose further evidence establishing her identity & widowhood & also establing the fact that they lived together as man & wife until his death. There is no further nor can there by better evidence that the original certificate of marriage by Abraham Walker Esq who married them for by the 2d section of the act of May 7, 1846 relative to the proof of marriage of widows to deceased pensioners, such evidence of marriage is required as would be satisfactory in a Court of Justice, and it is a general rule in all Courts of Justice in this County an original paper or instrument is deemed of higher character, as proof, that any copy from the record, and
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Courts of Justice always require original Deeds, original Wills, & Testaments [illegible] to be procured if in existence. Now will they allow copies from the record to be used until it is shown that the originals are lost and hence I can see no good reason why the provision of the 2d section of the act of Congress of May 7 1846 should be repudiated. I am Respectfully your obt svt Benja Cowell
Hon L.P. Waldo
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Providence May 2 1834 Sir I herewith enclose the application of Pardon Angell for a pension under the act of June 7 1834 I am respectfully your abot sert Benja Cowell To J.L. Edwards Esq
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Providence April 29 1853 Sir I herewith enclose the claims of Catherine Angell Widow of Elisha Angell & Susana Angell widow of Pardon angell for pensions under the 2d section of the act of Congress of Feb 3d 1853 I am Respectfully your obt sert Benja Cowell

Hon L P Waldo
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Angell
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Brief in the case of Susannah Angell, widow of Pardon, Providence County and State of Rhode Island act 3d Feby, 1853
Claim, {"original")
Proof exhibited, (if original.)
Is it documentary, traditionary, or supported by rolls?  If either, state the substance.
Jusband was a pensioner, under the act of 7" June, 1832.
Record evidence & parole proof of marriage.
(If for increase.)
Has additional evidence been filed since the admission of the claim?  If so, what?