Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 21919, for Timothy Peckham, Rhode Island
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(3-1776)

SERVICE
R. I.

Peckham, Timothy

NUMBER
S. 21919

CONTENTS
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27072
Rhode Island
Timothy Peckham
of Kingston in the state of Rhode Island who was a Sergeant in the compy commanded by Captain Babcock of the Regt. commanded by Col. Dyer in the R. I. line for 12 months Sergeant 12 month private

Inscribed on the Roll of Rhode Island at the rate of 100 dollars --- cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 9th day of Jany 1834 and sent to Wm. P. Newell Esq Kingston R. I.

Arrears to the 4th of Sep 1833 - $250.00
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4th Mar 34 - 50.00
$300.00
& dec. 20, 1840

Revolutionary Claim Act June 7, 1832.

Recorded by George Taylor Clerk
Book E. Vol. 2 Page 124
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10.164
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DECLARATION
IN ORDER TO OBTAIN THE ACT OF CONGRESS, PASSED JUNE 7, 1832. STATE OF RHODE ISLAND COUNTY OF Washington ss.
On this (illegible) day of September 1832 personally appeared in open court, before the Judges or Justices of the Court of Common Pleas now sitting, Timothy Peckham a resident of South Kingston in the county of Washington and state of Rhode Island, aged seventy five years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration,  in order 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. that is to say; the last of Octr or first of Nov. 1775 at said South Kingston he was either drafted or volunteered from the militia to which he then belonged & marched in to the Island of Conanicut in Narragansett Bay between the Island of Rhode Island & to the east & the main, to guard the island against the enemy & was quartered then in the Josiah Arnold house which was afterwards burnt, where he served under Col. Gideon Hoxsie till April 1776, a period of five months. At the time the enemy took possession of the Island of Rhode Island, which he thinks was early in Decr 1776, he was drafted & marched to Boston Neck in said town of South Kingston, where he was stationed at the (illegible) & served there under Col. Charles Dyer & after having served in that place two months, was discharged. Sometime later in the spring or the first part of summer 1777, the particular time he cannot now recollect, he was drafted for another period of two months to serve in Boston Neck which he served out this term at the station near the South ferry. In October 1777, when he belonged to the independent company of infantry in said county called the Kingston Reds, he was ordered with said company to Tiverton on the east side of Narragansett Bay, he thinks under Capt. John Waite, we were marched to Warwick Neck & from this place passed over to Warren in boots & from there were marched to Tiverton, where he served thirty days, in Genl. Cornell's brigade, tho
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Genl. Spencer had the chief command here. In the month of August 1778, he was enlisd. in said independent company to the Island of Rhode Island under Capt. John Waite where he served 30 days. In July 1780 he served in aid independent company under Capt. John Waite on the Island of R Island thirty days - and again in June & July 1781, he serd. in the same company with Capt. Waite at the same place another thirty days; we were stationed a part of the time at the (illegible) at Brantin's Neck & a part of the time in Newport under Col. Fry. And the said Timothy Peckham declares that from the time he enlisted into said independent company of Kingston Reds, in the spring, he thinks 1777, he was most of the time at short periods, which he cannot particularly (illegible) in actual service in said company or claims & guarding against the enemy on the Narragansett shore & that periods taken together of his military services there during the revolution (illegible) those services already enumerated were twelve months & one; in that he verily believes & is according to him willing to declare that all the periods of his actual military services against the enemy during the revolution exceeded the term of two years. 
And the said Peckham avows that he truly & faithfully performed all the aforementioned services. And he further declares that he was born in the town of Hopkinton in said county of Washington on the 8th day of March 1757 but that he has no record of his age except an entry of the time of his birth in the family bible; that
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Declaration & regarding John W Sherman I believe to be the proper handwriting of the said John T Nichols. In testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand & affixed the seal of the said court this fourth day of December AD. 1833

Saml Helme Clk
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21,919

INVALID

No. 21,919
Timothy Peckham
Sergt Rev War

Act: June 7" 32:
Index:-Vol. 2, Page 317

(Arrangement of 1870.)
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10164
Timothy Peckham

Private 12 months
Sergeant 12 " (months)
Adm'd
Cap Babcock
Col Dyer

Wm P Newell Esq
Kingston R I
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I Samuel R. Potter of South Kingston in the county of Washington & state of Rhode Island aged seventy four years on oath do depose & say, that during the whole of the revolution with (illegible) Timothy Peck then & now of said South Kingston & myself resided in said town within a short distance of each other & that this deponent knows that the said Peckham during most of this revolution belonged to the independent company of Kingston RI in said town, that said company was a company of minutemen & was much in active service during the war & that the said Peckham was an active member thereof & served a great deal in the company (illegible ) in guarding against the enemy - this deponent also knows that the said Peckham served in the army at Spencer's & Sullivan's expedition & also on the island of