Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 18,147, for Peregrine Smith, Rhode Island
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SERVICE
R I

Smith, Peregrine
Tower, Zeruiah
Former Widow

NUMBER
W.18.147

CONTENTS
res at enl.  (Foster) Providence Co. R.I.
res after Rev.  in Vt.
d. Mar. 20, 1813
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ermont. 2320

Zeruiah Tower, former widow of Peregrine Smith, who died on 20 March 1813. 
(illegible) in the State of Vermont who was a Pri in the company commanded by Captain Kimball of Regt. commanded by Hitchcock in the Vt. Militia for 10 mos
R. Island

Inscribed on the Roll of Burlington 

the rate of 33 Dollars 33 Cents per annum, 
commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 13 day of Sept. 
38 and Jesse Gove
Roll and vt

Arrears to the 4th of Sept.                 $233.31
Semi-annual allowance ending             16.66
                                                            ---------
                                                           $249.97

{Revolutionary Claim, }
{Act July 4, 1836,        }

Recorded by R. Burdine Clerk,
Book A  Vol. 2  Page 42
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3726
Zeruiah Tower's 
Declaration
Wid of Peregrine Smith dec'd
Vt
Act 4 July 1836
Allen 10 mos  $33.33
per annum

R. J. Melba
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State of Vermont }
Rutland County ss. }

On this 27th day of June, in the year of our Lord, 1838, personally appeared before the Honorable William Hall, Judge of the probate Court of the District of Rutland in said County of Rutland, Zeruiah Tower, a resident of Ira in said Probate District, aged 82 years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the at of Congress passed July 4, 1836:
That she was married to Peregrine Smith of the town of Scituate in the County of Providence and state of Rhode Island, who was a soldier in the American Army in the revolutionary war, and served as follows:
In April, 1775, he enlisted for nine months and served out the time, in a Company of Rhode Island State troops, commanded by Capt. Stephen Kimball in Col. Daniel Hitchcock's Regiment, which wad stationed at or near Boston; at which place he was discharged in January, 1776. 
In the fall of 1777 he did duty one month, at Toverston in said in said Rhode Island in a militia Company from Foster, in said State, commanded by a Capt. Isaac Hopkins of said town of Foster.
In the time of General Sullivan's expedition on Rhode Island in 1778, in August of that year, the said Smith performed another term of service, of one month, in another militia company from Foster aforesaid, commanded by a Capt, Turtelote it might have been a company of State troops.  All of which service was performed by the said Smith as a private.
She further declares that she was married to the said Peregrine Smith on the first day of January, seventeen hundred and seventy eight; that her husband, the
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aforesaid Peregrine Smith died on the 20th day of March 1813; that she was afterwards married to Joseph Tower, who died on the sixth day of September 1822; and that she was a widow on the 4th day of July, 1836, and still remains a widow, as will now fully appear by reference to the proof hereto annexed.
Zeruiah   her X mark  Tower
Witness to the signing  }
Jesse Gove                  }

State of Vermont,    }
Rutland County ss.  }   Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written, before me: and I do hereby certify that the affiant, the said Zeruiah Tower, by reason of bodily infirmity, is unable personally to appear in said Court; for which reason she has appeared before me at her own residence in said town of Ira, and then sworn to the said declaration: and I do further certify that the person of Zeruiah Tower is a person of credibility;
Wm Hall Judge
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I, Joseph Tower, of Ira in the County of Rutland and State of Vermont, aged 68 years and upwards, do depose testify and say, that Joseph Tower when name is mentioned in the proceeding declaration of Zeruiah Tower, was my father, and that he died on the sixth day, of September; 1822; and that the said Zeruiah Tower, who was the lawful wife of the said Joseph Tower deceased hath not intermarried since this said decease of her late mentioned husband.  And I further depose and say, that I was acquainted with the said Peregrine Smith, thee first husband of the said Zeruiah Tower; and that he died on or about the 20th day of March, 1813  And further this deponent saith not,
Joseph Tower

State of Vermont    }
Rutland County ss. }  I, Henry B. Towslee, Clerk of the Probate Courts of the District of Rutland in said County, do hereby certify that the Hon. William Hall is the Judge of said Court; that he is authorized by law to administer oath, to affiant as above written and that he foregoing signature purporting to be his is genuine. 
In testimony where of, I have hereunto subscribed my name, and affixed the seal of said Court, at Rutland in said District, this 28th day of June, A. D. 1838.
Henry B. Towslee
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Copy of Peregrine Smith's 
Marriage


Proof of Marriage
Peregrine Smith with 
Zeruiah Eddy, now
Zeruiah Tower
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Here as to certify that Peregrine Smith and Zeruiah Eddy Daughter of peter Eddy both of Scituate in the County of Providence were lawfully joined together in Marriage on the first day of January AD 1778. 
By me } John Westcott Justice of the Peace   
Recorded January the 8, 1778
John Westcott Lower Clerk

Lower Clerk office Scituate June the 6th AD 1838.  I hereby certify that the above certificate isa true copy from Scituate Records of Recording Marriages the first Book Page 162, duly examined.
Witness  Josiah Westcott Lower Clerk

Providence  In Providence this day of June AD 1838 personally appeared Josiah Westcott subscribes to the above statement and made solemn oath to the truth of the same.
Before me
Walter S. Burges
Justice of the Peace

I further certify that  the signature of said Josiah Westcott is genuine & his own handwriting.
W  S Burges Jus. Peace

State of Rhode Island }
Providence ss. }
I John  W Smith Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas within & for said County of Providence, being a Court of Record do hereby certify that Walter S. Burges, Esq before whom the above affidavit was sworn, as a Justice of the Peace for the City of Providence in the County and State aforesaid; that by law he is duly authorized to administer oaths & take affidavits; and that his signature above written are genuine.  
In testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand & affix the seal of said Court, at Providence this eighth day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & thirty eight [1838]
John W. Smith, Clerk
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REV
WIDOW, &c.

File No.  18.147
Zeruiah Tower
Former Widow of Peregrine Smith
Pri Rev War
.
Act: July 4th 36
Index:  - Vol. M, Page 279

[Arrangement of 1870]
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Zeruiah Tower
W,
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Rutland Vt  15 Aug 1838

Sir:

I transmit you, herewith, the declaration and proofs of Mrs. Zeruiah Tower, widow of Peregrine  Smith deceased.  The proofs are - Of the marriage of Peregrine Smith and Zeruiah Eddy; and the depositions of Joseph Ide, Simeon Round, and Jonathan Smith.
Be pleased to communicate to.
Ver respectfully
Your obt. svt
Jesse Gove


James L Edwards Esquire
Com. of Pensions
City of Washington
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Depositions of 
Joseph Ide,
Simeon Round &
Jonathan Smith
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I Joseph Ide of Foster, in the County of Providence in the State of Rhode Island, on solemn oath, do testify that during the war of the
Revolution, I was acquainted with one Peregrine Smith, who belonged to the said Town of Foster, he was married to a wife Eddy during the War,
and after the Peace left this State & went to Vermont -  In the fall of the year 1777, I served one month in a State Regiment to [illegible] [illegible] at Trenton in this State, in the Time of General Spencers Expedition, and I saw the said Smith there on duty in a company of Militia from said Foster, I knew him well encamped near him and saw him daily and knew that he did duty in said Trenton one Month in said Company of Militia under one  Captain Hopkins who was Captain of the company from Foster - In the Summer of 1778, I was on the Island of Rhode
Island in the time of General Sullivans Expedition in a Company of State Troops commanded by a Captain Tourtellot, to which Company I belonged and I there saw the said Peregrine Smith on duty in a Company of Militia from said Foster, under said Captain, he being there one Month & I saw him after on duty there during this time. This last [illegible] was in the Month of August - I am in the eighty first year of my age. 
Joseph Fell

I Simeon Round of Foster, in the County of Providence in the State of Rhode Island on solemn Oath do testify and say that I am in my seventy fifth year of my age during the 
Revolutionary War I was [illegible] with & knew Peregrine Smith of said Foster - In the year 1775 he enlisted & went to Boston, in Captain
Stephen Pimlabs (?) Company for Nine month, I did not enlist myself, but knew of his enlisting and going to Boston as I live near him - 
During the war, after his return from Boston, he married a [illegible] woman Eddy who was our Cousin to me, and they went to keeping
house within half a mile of me, and I knew [illgible] times after his Marriage to leave home, and be absent on duty in the Militia guarding the [illegible] under Captain Isaac Hopkins and once in September I remember of his leaving for home one month in the Fall of 1778, on duty as in said Company as I understood at the time, I remember this time well as he went back after I came home from a tour of duty myself and I am well notified and knew that he was absent many more times from home on duty in the Militia, after marriage after Peace took place he went with his wife up to the state of Vermont. 
Simeon Round
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I Jonathan Smith of Scituate in the county of Providence in the state of Rhode Island on solemn oath do certify and say, that I am in the ninetyeth year of my age, during the War of the Revolution, I knew Peregrine Smith of Foster in this county, in the month of April 1775, I enlisted into a compy of State Troops, in Colonel Daniel Hitchcocks Regiment of which Stephen Kimball was Captain and the said Peregrine Smith enlisted about the same time, into the same company, and we served out the time for which we enlisted nine months, at Boston and we dissmissed in January 1776. Afterwards the said Peregrine Smith went a privateering and was gone some time & then returned andmarried a Miss Zeruiah Eddy. I never belonged to the same company of Militia, that he did, but I knew him well & also his wife, on many times heard of his being on duty as a soldier in a company of Militia, belonging to Foster of which Isaac Hopkins was Captain, spending [illegible] of the Bay, after his marriage with Wife Eddy particularly at Newport & Warwick in 1778, after the peace he left the state & went into the state of Vermont. The [illegible] of Scituate & Foster, made one tour and was called Scitutate in 1775 & were [illegible] into the same during the war.
Jonathan Smith

Providence ss - June 7th 1838
Personally appeared before me the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in said county of Providence, Joseph Ide Simeon Round and Jonathan Smith, whose names are contained [illegible]  foregoing deposition & made solemn oath to the truth of the deposition & to which their names are [illegible] [illegible] depositions, were [illegible] to writing in their & say [illegible] then seem to them, and by [illegible] said in my presence. And I further certify that the said Joseph Ide, Simeon Round & Jonathan Smith are well known to me, and that their characters for truth & veracity are good & their statement are entitled to credit.
Zadock Young J. Peace
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State of Rhode Island &c. Providence ss.
I, John W. Smith, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas within & for said county of Providence, being a Court of Record do hereby certify, that Zadock Young Esquire before whom the aforegoing Depositions were taken, is a Justice of the Peace for the town of Scituate in said county and state; that by law he is duly authorized to administer oaths & take depositions; and that his signature hereto is genuine.
In testimony whereof, I hereunto set my hand and affix the seal of, said Court, at Providence, this eighth day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty eight.
John W. Smith Clerk