Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 15334, for Nathaniel Shaw, Pennsylvania
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(3-1776)
SERVICE
Rhode Island
Shaw, Nathaniel
Prudence
NUMBER
W, 15334
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CONTENTS [blank]
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Massachusetts 1168
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Prudence Shaw
widow of Nathaniel Shaw
who died on the 11th May 1832
of Bristol County in the State of Massachusetts
who was a Private in the [left blank] commanded by Captain [left blank] of the Regiment commanded by Colonel Cook in the Rhode Island military line for nine months.

Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts
at the rate of 30 Dollars per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March 1831.
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Certificate of Pension issued the 17th day of July 1837 and sent to Asa Gray, Tiverton, Massachusetts.
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Arrears to the 4th March 1937   180.00
Semi-anl. allowance ending 14 September 15.00
                                       $195.00

{Revolutionary Claim.}
{Act July 4, 1836}
{[illegible] 3}

Recorded by D. Brown, Clerk,
Book A, Volume 1, Page 68
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V1010
Prudence Shaw
Widow of Nathaniel
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State of Rhode Island & Providence Plantations Clerks Office of the Court of Probate of the town of Tiverton  in the County of Newport and State aforesaid, I, Asa Gray, Clerk of the aforesaid Court of Probate, a Court of Record, do hereby certify that Asa Gray is a justice of the Peace within and for said County of Newport, duly appointed, Commissioned and sworn and fully authorized to act in his said capacity.  And I further certify that the signatures of his name to the certificates on the annexed [illegible] Gideon Church, Noah Shaw, Francis Wilbur and Bridget Whitney, are his genuine signatures.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court this twenty Second day of December, the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & thirty six.  And of American independence the Sixty first.

Asa Gray, Clerk
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Declaration of Prudence Shaw
In Order to obtain the benefit of the third section of the Act of congress of the 4th July, 1836.

State of Massachusetts}
County of Bristol} SS.

On this thirteenth day of December 1836 in New Bedford in said County, personally appeared before me Oliver Prescott, judge of the Court of Probate, for the County of Bristol in the State of Massachusetts, a Court of Record, Prudence Shaw, a resident of New Bedford, in the County of Bristol and State of Massachusetts, aged Eighty-two 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 act of Congress passed July 4, 1836.

That she is the widow of Nathaniel Shaw late of Tiverton in the County of Newport and State of Rhode Island [illegible], who was a soldier int he army of the Revolution.  that said Nathaniel Shaw was born in Little Compton in said County of Newport and State of Rhode Island and there resided at the time of the Revolutionary War - he in the year 1776 she believes was in the service of his Country in a [illegible] company in said Little Compton and was marched on to Rhode Island and was there3 in said Company employed in watching the motion of the notorious Captain Wallace.  This was before their marriage, but she remembers she has often heard her said husband relate it.  After their marriage in December 1776, the enemy having taken Newport and being in full possession of Rhode Island, her husband was called into the public service a [illegible] deal - he resided at his father's in said Little Compton till sometime in the spring of the year 1777 when he went to house keeping ourselves at a house near his father's in said town.  Her said husband belonged to the South Company of Militia in same Little Compton in the Regiment of Colonel John Cook, and she believes all her husband's services were performed in said Company under its proper officers.  said company was commanded at different periods of the war by Captain George Simmons, Captain Ephraim Simmons, Captain Cornelius Briggs and Captain William Southworth.  She remembers her husband went on to Rhode Island in General Sullivan's expedition in 1778 and was there when the great storm was.  From old age and loss of memory, she is unable to state positively how much her husband served in the army of the Revolution.  She knows he was again in the [illegible] much of the time while the British held Rhode Island and a [illegible] to the best of her husband and belief he was in the service [illegible.......] a month at a time as often as [illegible]................] in each of the years 1777-1778 and five months in 1779.
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Bristol SS.
I, Anselm Bassett, Register of the Court of Probate in aforesaid county, do hereby certify that Oliver Prescott of New Bedford in said county of Bristol, is Judge of the law of Probate for said County of Bristol and that the information to the foregoing certificate on the second Judge of this [illegible.....] to be his, is genuine.

In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of said court, this twenty first day of December Eighteen hundred and thirty six.

A Bassett
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Town Clerk's Office, Tiverton, December 22, 1836.  I hereby certify that I have diligently searched the records of Marriages in this Office, and am unable to find any record of the marriage of Nathaniel Shaw and Prudence Shaw.

Asa Gray, Town Clerk
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Honorable Dutee J. Pearce
D. C.
Washington (D.C.)
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J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington