Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 21483, for Caleb Shippee, Rhode Island
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SERVICE
R.I.

Shippee, Caleb

NUMBER
S.21483
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Rhode Island 27970
Caleb Shippee of Kent in the State of R.I. who was a [illegible] in the [null] commanded by Captain -- of the R.I. commanded by Col. Waterman in the R.I. Mil [illegible] for [illegible]

Inscribed on the Roll of Rhode Island at the rate of 30 Dollars -- Cents per annum. to commence on the 4th day of March, 1834. 

Certificate of Pension issued the 13th day of Oct. '34 [blank] and [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] East Greenwich R.d. 

Arrears to the 4th of Sept '34
Semi-ani. allowance ending [handwritten] Dollars: 34

105--
15.00
-------
120.00

Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7, 1832.

Recorded by [illegible] Rice Clerk,
Book E Vol. 2 Page 130
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S. 21,483
Caleb Shippee

Sept 27, 1834 res East Greenwich
Kent Co R.I. b. “ “
Aug 23, 1746. W “
At enl.
Winter 76
Capt Wm Hall
Col Waterman
1m
Same year
Capt Michael Spenser
Same regt  1mo
77 same Capt in Spencer’s Exped 1 m
Capt Benj. Gorton
Col. Carson 1 m
78 Capt Michael Spencer
Col. Tellinghast 1m
79 same co.
“ 2m
80 “ 1”
Alarms 2”
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222 Sansome St.
San Francisco, Calif
Dec. 14, 1904.

Mr. J.L. Davenport.
Acting Commissioner of Pensions 
Department of the Interior 
Washington, D.C. 

Sir:- 
Will you kindly send me the military history in the Revolutionary War ancestor Caleb Shippee of East Greenwich Rhode Island, who received a pension for services in the war? This information is desired to qualify me admission into the D.A.R. 
And you will greatly oblige, 
Yours very Respectfully 
Inez Shippee Dam
(Mrs. F.H. Dam) 
[stamp] U.S. P.B. OLD WAR & NAVY FILES DEC 20 1904
[stamp] U.S. PENSION OFFICE DEC 19 1904
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OFFICE OF State Record Commissioner.
Providence, R.I. February 7th. 1905
Commissioner of Pensions, 
Bureau of Pensions, 
Washington, D.C.
 
[stamp] U.S. P.B. OLD WAR & NAVY FILES FEB 9 1905

Dear Sir: Will you kindly send me the pension record of my great- great -grandfather Caleb Shippee wo served in the Revolutionary War and received a pension. 
There was a Caleb Shippee who receised a pension under act of June 7, 1832; name added since August 1834, but do not know whether it was my ancestor or not. 
Will be pleased to receive an early reply and would thank you for your courtesy in this matter. 
Very truly yours, 
Inez Shipper Dam. 
Care of State Record Commissioner. 
State House, Providence, R. I.
February 7th. 1905
[stamp] U.S. PENSION OFFICE A FEB 8 1905
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Application of Caleb Shippee for a Pension
9mo 32.022

admd as pr
9mo & 30

N Whiting
E. Greenwich
R.I.
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State of Rhode Island
County of Kent Ss
On this Twenty seventh day of September AD. 1834 personally appeared in open Court, before the Court of Probate in the Town of East Greenwich in the County of Kent & State of Rhode Island, now in session: Caleb Shippee, a resident of said East Greenwich, aged Eighty Eight 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 7th 1832. viz - That he entered the Service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated - That he was born at said East Greenwich on the Twenty third day of August AD 1746. and lived there until the winter of the year 1776. when he removed to West Greenwich in said County of Kent and State aforesaid, where he resided during the war and until the year 1789. when he removed to Coventry in said County of Kent and lived there three years, and then removed back to said East Greenwich, where he has resided ever since. That he has no record of his age. That immediately after he removed to said  West Greenwich, in the Winter of 1776. he was hired by Rufus Spencer, and served one month as his Substitute at Warwickneck in a Company commanded by Capt William Hall in Col. Waterman's Regiment and quartered at Thomas Greene's - That he was afterward drafted and called to East Greenwich, in the same year, and served there one month under Capt. Michael Spencer in the same Regiment, and quartered at the Courthouse. That in the year 1777. he was drafted and called out to said East Greenwich and served there not less than two months, a month at a time, under the
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the said Capt. Michael Spencer, and one month at Tiverton in General Spencer's Expedition. That Capt. Benjamin Gorton commanded the Company that he served in, and Col. Carson commanded the Regiment; and that he quartered at a School house. That in the year 1778 he was called out and served not less than a month at said East Greenwich under Capt. Michael Spencer, in Col. Tillinghast's Regiment. That in the year 1779. he was drafted, called out and served under the said Michael Spencer not less than a month at said East Greenwich, and one month at Quidnesett neck in North Kingstown, in the same Company & in Col. Tillinghast's Regiment; and quartered at the Guard house. That in the year 1780. he was called out and served at said East Greenwich one month at least under the said Michael Spencer and that beside the above service he was repeatedly called out on sudden alarms, and served, he is confident, not less than two months in the war by short tours of a few days at a time. making Eleven months at least, (and he verily believes that he served more) of actual military service in the war. He has no documentary evidence or discharge. He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity and declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of the agency of any State.
Caleb Shippee his X mark
Sworn and subscribed the year and day aforesaid
[signed] James Miller, Clerk
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I George Potter of West Greenwich in the county of Kent and State of Rhode Island, aged seventy-three years, do hereby certify that I have been well acquainted with Caleb Shippee from the beginning of the war until the present time; that I lived in Coventry ^a part of the time, he in West Greenwich in the count of Kent, and I well remember seeing the said Shippee in the service at Warwick neck, at Tiverton and at Quidneset neck in North Kingstown; and I also saw him in the service at various times at East Greenwich. I never served in the same Company with him, but I was in the service, when I saw him at the places aforesaid. 
George Potter

Sworn and subscribed the year and day aforesaid.
James Miller Clerk

We Thomas Tillinghast, a clergyman, and Wilson Spencer, both residing in East Greenwich in the county of Kent & state of Rhode Island, hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Caleb Shippee, who has subscribed and sworn to the foregoing Declaration that we believe him to be eighty-eight years of age; that he is reported and believed in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion. 
Thomas Tillinghast
Wilson Spencer
his mark

Sworn and subscribed the year and day aforesaid
James Miller Clerk

And the said Court do hereby delcare this opinion after the investigation of the [illegible], and after printing the interrogations published by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier, and served as he stated-- And the said Court further certifies that it appears to them that Thomas Tillinghast, who has signed the preceeding certificate, is a clergyman, rendent in the said [[DOCUMENT ENDS]]
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Town of East Greenwich, and that Ginger Potter, who also signed the same, is a resident in the town of West Greenwich in the County of Kent, and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.

I James Miller Clerk of said Court of Probate do hereby verify that the foregoing contains the original proceeding of the said Court in the matter of the application of Caleb Shippee for a pension. 

The Testimony whereof, I have here unto set my hand and seal of office, this twenty seventh day of September, A.D. 1834. 
James Miller
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21483
INVALID.
File No. 21483
Caleb Shippee

Act: 
Index: -- Vol. 2, Page 363

[Arrangement of 1870.]


Dec. 31, 1904 [illegible] to Mrs. F.H. Dam
San Fransisco, Calif. 

Febry. 24, 1905 [illegible] to Inez Shippee
Dam, Providence, R.I.