Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 19,007, for William Scriven, Rhode Island
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Service RI
Scriven, William Mary
Number W. 19,007
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20.567 New York
William Scriven of Reupellear in the state of New York who was a Sergt. Ic. in the comp commanded by Captain [illegible] of the Rgt commanded by Col. Babcock in the Rh Island line for 280 $95.62
13 m. priv. 23.90
$119.53
$43.44
4.48
$47.81
Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 47 dollars 81 cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 21 day of Sept. 1833 and sent to A.G. Hammond Berlin
Arrears to the 4th of Sep. '33 $119.52
Semi-ant. allowance ending 4 Mar '34 23.90
$143.42
{Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.}
Recorded by [illegible] Clerk, Book E. Vol. 4 Page 86
Let to Hon. B Jabbson May 20 '44
Letter to A.G. Hammond, Esq. May 4, 1836
Letter to Hon. N. Vail & Pension Agent Oct 17, 1837
in Thos. Harley W. 17059
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5515 New York Albany
Mary Scriven widow of William Scriven R.I. who was a Segt. [inelligible] in the Revolution
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 47 Dollars 81 cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March 1843.
Certificate of Pension issued the 21st day of May, 1844 and sent to Hon. CD Tappan Senate M States
[Act of March 3, 1843]
Recorded in Book A Vol. 1 Page 262
[illegible]
 No. 39
Joint resolution Jan. 23, 1845 
certificate issued March 31, 1845
Set to W. B. Pierce July 11 '45
Paid at Treasury, under [illegible] 6 Apl '38 from 4th March to 19 April, 1842. Agent notified 23 March '46
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Petersburgh December 1814
William Scriven [illegible] his Book 
P born in February 23 the year 1756
Mary Scriven my wife
born in June the 12 [illegible] 1755
William Scriven born April six in the yr 1782
[illegible] Saunders Scriven born September the fifth in the yr 1785
Polly Scriven born May 4th in the year 1788
Solire Scriven born December 28th in the year 1795
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William Scriven Application for a Pension 
14642
5 mo claimed as Sergt. for various unspecified tours [illegible] allowed
[illegible]
28 days Sergt. 13 mo. pre
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That in the year 1776 resided in the town of Charlestown in the State of Rhode Island. That on the 18th January of this year he enlisted into the Rhode Island troops and as Captain Augustin Stanton, for [illegible] [illegible] was his Lieutenant and Thomas [illegible] was his Ensign in a Regiment then commanded by Colonel Harry Babcock after wards commanded by Colonel Christopher [illegible] that he enlisted for one year and was stationed on Rhode Island until about the last of August when they were ordered to New York to which last place they marched by land and [illegible] the regular troops under command of General Washington at Harlem a little after the battle at Harlem [illegible] when they marched to a place called [illegible] toward White Plains where they remained about two weeks during which was the battle at White Plains when he this deponant was on the [illegible]- they went from this pace under the command of General Lee to Peekskill or to Kings ferry where the [illegible] went to Morristown in New Jersey, about this time General Lee was taken and then troops were under command of General Sulivan - they continued their march to [illegible] in Pennsylvania when the (this deponant) was [illegible] to Middletown to take charge of the teams there when he remained until a few days before his time of enlistment expired where he went to Morristown and on the 18th of January 1777 he was discharged with the Regiment four miles below Morristown and returned home a distance of about 250 miles as he travelled without having received any of his pay - That in the fall of 1777 he was drafted as a militia man and entered the service under Captain John Parks in the aforesaid town of Charlestown and marched a [illegible] to [illegible] ferry a distance [illegible] of about 80 miles that this was at the time of General [illegible] expedition against Rhode Island and that they were engaged in this service before this deponant got home as much as five seeks that in the year 1778 in the month of August he was again drafted at Charlestown aforesaid and entered the service as a Sergent under Captain John Parks aforesaid and was engaged in General Sulivans expedition of Rhode Island and he had the command of over half of his company for five days that he was engaged in this service about four
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weeks that [illegible] the time the British troops had possession of New York he was engaged as a drafted man and did the duty of a Sargent at different times at Point [illegible] for as much as three months. And that also during the same time he also served in the character of Sergent two towns at [illegible] in the town of Charlestown of a month each and had the command each of there last times of a Sargent guard that in the last services including five months they were engaged in guarding the sea shore. That he has no documentary evidence of this service as that he know of no person [illegible] testimony he can conveniently procure who can certify to his services except what is hereunto annexed.
To the prescribed interrogation is put by the Court he answered.
1. He was born in the town of Westerly in the State of Rhode Island in the year 1756
2. He expects there is a record of his age in the town Clerks office in the town of Westerly aforesaid
3. He resided when he entered the service in the town of Charlestown aforesaid and continued to reside there till about the year 1786 when he removed to Petersburgh in the county of [illegible] in the state of New York when he has ever [illegible]. 
4. He entered the service first by voluntary enlistment and was subsiquently engaged under draft and [illegible] as above stated.
5. To this interrogatory he refers to the above statement
6. He never received a written discharge
7. He is known in his present neighborhood to General Aaron Washington [illegible] & [illegible] to who can testify as to his character for [illegible] and this belief of his services as a soldier of the Revolution
William Scriven
State of New York [illegible] county Js
Gideon Grandall of Grafton County state last aforesaid being duly sworn deposeth & says that he was once acquainted with the within named William Scriven during the revolutionary war and that he known the said William was engaged in the [illegible], that he served with him at Point [illegible] and knows that he was at [illegible] and that he was in Sulivans expedition and served as a Sargent and that he also knows of his enlisting for war in 1776 & [illegible] he served out his said enlistment and he believes he was engaged as he has above stated & further this deponant says not
Gideon Crandall
Sworn & subscribed this day & year aforesaid Archibald V [illegible]
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And the said William Scriven hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or an annuity, except the present, and he declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State, or (if any) only on that of the agency of the State of 
Sworn to, and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid William Scriven
Archibald Bull Clerk
We, Zebulon Lewis a Clergyman, residing in the town of Petersburgh and Ziba Hewitt residing in Grafton hereby certify that we are acquainted with William Scriven who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be seventy-six years of age; that he is reputed and believed, in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion.
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
Z Lewis
Ziba Hewitt
Archibald Bull Clerk
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 as a Revolutionary Soldier, and served as he states. And the court further certifies, that it appears to them that Zebulon Lewis who has signed the preceding certificate, is a Clergyman, resident in the town of Petersburgh and that Ziba Hewitt & Gideon Crandall who has also signed the same, & affidavits residents in the [illegible] and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
Archibald Bull Clerk of the Court of Troy Mayor & Court do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of William Scriven for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office, this ninth day of August 1831
Archibald Bull Clerk
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Declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of June 7, 1832.
Printed & Sold by Kemble & Hooper, 8 State St Troy, NY
Form for State Troops, &c.
State of New York, County of [illegible] ss.
On this ninth day of August 1832 personally appeared in open court, before the Judge of Mayor Court of the city of Troy now sitting, William Scriven a resident of Grafton county of [illegible] and state of New York, aged seventy six years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on his oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7, 1832.
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers, and served as herein stated.
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14642
William Scriven Rensaliar County New York
issued 14
16 ob. May 6 1833
P. 376
16
30
680
28
16
168
78
448
A.G. Hammond Berlin
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Brief in the case of William Scriven of Rensaliar in the state of New York (Act 7th June, 1832.)
1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? Court
2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?
3. How old is he? 76
4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed.
Period. | Duration of Service. | Rank. | Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.
Entered in 1776 | 1 Year  | Capt. Stauton, Col Babcock
Drafted 1777 | 1 month 5 days | Capt Parks
Drafted 1778 | 28 days | Sargeant Capt Parks
different times 3
two tours 2
5. In what battles was he engaged?
6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Charleston Rhode Island
7. In his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? living witness & tradition
8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? Not connected as required
Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
J.E. Bradford Examining Clerk.