Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R.1,050, William Bosworth, R. I.
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SERVICE
R. I.

Bosworth, William

NUMBER
R.1.050
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EX'R            INVALID

REJECTED

1030

P. O. William Bosworth
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Deposition of
Nelson Miller
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I Nelson Miller of Bristol in the State of Rhode Island engaged according to law do testify and say that William Bosworth entered in the company of Capt. (illegible) Peck, in the Regiment of Col. Christopher Lippitt of the R. Island line on or about the 18th of Jany. 1776 and was discharged about a year afterward being Drum Major of the Regiment makes me acquainted with the above facts.
Nelson Miller


State of Rhode Island 
(illegible) at Bristol June 26th 1820 personally came Nelson Miller well known to me as a man of  character & to whom credit ought to be given to his testimony and made solemn oath to the truth of the above statements before me.
Daniel Bradford Just of the Peace
County of Bristol

See letter to Hon. S. Eddy H.R.
30 Jan 1822. See Simeon Bullocks case

Limpets segt. was placed on the contl est. May 11, 1776.
Rejected because W. B. could not have served nine months thereafter, having been discharged in Jan. 1777.
Hon. M. D. Wolf, Sen. N. S. informed
thereof Jun 26, 1822
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State of Rhode Island &c. Bristol ss.
On this 26th day of June AD 1820 personally appeared in open Court, being a Court of Record, and the Court of Common Pleas for the county of Bristol in said state, William Bosworth, resident in Bristol, in said County, aged sixty nine years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath, make the following declaration in order to obtain the provisions made by the Acts of Congress of the 18th of March 1818, and the 1st of May 1820. That he the said William Bosworth inlisted for the term of one year on the 18th of January A.D. 1776 at Bristol in sd. state in the company commanded by Capt. Loring Peck in the regiment commanded by Colonel Christopher Lippitt in the line of the state of Rhode-Island on the continental establishment; that he continued to serve in said corps untill January 18th AD 1777 when he was discharged from sd. service at Morristown in the state of New Jersey. That he was at the battles of Trenton and Princeton, was on the sick list at the battle of the White Plaines; that his first or original declaration was made or dated March 30th 1818.
And in pursuance of the act of the 1st of May AD 1820, I do solemnly swear, that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th of March AD 1818 and that I have not since that time by gift, sale, or in any manner disposed of my property or any part thereof with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring my self within the provisions of an Act of Congress, entitled, "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the Land and Naval Service of the United States in the Revolutionary War." passed on the 18th of March AD 1818 and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property or securities contracts or debts due to me; nor have I any income whatever, nor house hold goods of any kind, having in the Memorable Gale of Sept. 1815 lost my little all, consisting of a small house & house furniture, which was swept away by the sea & entirely lost; that I am a labourer but not able to work, being very infirm and now subsist principally by publick & private charity; I have no family residing with me.
(signed) William Bosworth

Sworn to and declared in open Court, on the twenty sixth day of June AD 1820 before said Court.
Witness Richd Smith Clerk

Rhode Island District, Bristol ss. Clerks Office of the Court of Common Pleas for the County of Bristol
I Richard Smith Clerk of said Court, do hereby certify that the foregoing oath, is truly copies from the records of the said Court, and I do further certify that it is the opinion of the said Court, that the said Willm. Bosworth has no property whatever to exhibit.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court on this twentieth day of July AD 1820
Richd. Smith Clerk of the sd. Court
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Wm. Bosworth
Bristol County, R. I.
30th March, 1818

Col. Lippett's regt.
R. I. line, one year,
January 1776 to January 1777


1050
Richard Smith regt.
Bristol, R. Island
Rec'd Aug 22, 1820
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I William Bosworth do declare & say that I am a resident citizen of the United States & a native of Bristol Rhode Island where I now reside. That I was engaged as private soldier in the land service of the United States one year during the Revolutionary War. There I belonged to the company commanded by Capt. Loring Peck & to the regiment commanded by Col. Christopher Lippitt of the R. Island line, that I enlisted at Bristol on the 18th day January 1776 for one year and was discharged at Morristown in New Jersey on 18th Jany 1777. I further declare that I am in my sixty seventh year, destitute of property and loaded with infirmities.
William Bosworth

State of Rhode Island &c. Bristol ss at Bristol March 30th 1818
Personally came Wm Bosworth who subscribed the foregoing declaration and made solemn oath to the truth of the same before me. I have also set the seal of this Court.
Daniel Bradford, Ch Jus. C.C. Pleas County Bristol

We the undersigned Overseers of the Poor for the town of Bristol do hereby declare that Wm Bosworth who subscribed the foregoing declaration is an aged man, extreme poor being destitute of every kind of property, and loaded with infirmities & depend, wholly on what little labour he does for his support, which is scanty.
Hex Munro
John Howland
Royal Diman