Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 11400, for Gardner Lillibridge, Rhode Island
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SERVICE
R. I.


Lillibridge, Gardner

NUMBER
S. 11400
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10474
Rhode Island
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Gardiner Lillibridge
of Washington in the State of R. I. who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Crandall of the Regt commanded by Col Dyer in the R Island line for 2 years
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Inscribed on the Roll of Rhode Island at the rate of 80 Dollars ------Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
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Certificate of Pension issued the 9th day of April 1833 and sent [illegible] [illegible] King, in R. I.
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Arrears to the 4th of March 1833 $160.00
Semi-anl allowance ending 4 Sept "   40.00
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$200.00
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[Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7, 1832.}

Recorded by D D Addison Clerk,
Book  E   Vol. 20  Page 119
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16991

Gardiner Lillibridge
Private 2 years
Adm

W.C.E.

??5.10.416
Jany 22d. 1833
P-209

Wm Pearce [crossed out]

W. Updike
Kingston
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16991 
BRIEF in the case of Gardiner Lillibridge of Washington in the State of Rhodisland 
(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? 73 
4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed. 
Period. | Duration of Service. Years, Months, Days. | Rank. As a | Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served. Gen.

Dec In 1776 | - 3 - 20 | private | Cap Crandall Col Dyer
from March ‘77 to Dec 80 he says, he served every second month ┃ 1 – 10 – 00 | private | }Cap Wilcox Cap Gorton
-	| - 4 - | substitute | } Cap Kinyon Cap Herrington
- July 1780 | - 1 - | Private | Cap Bissel
 - | - 1 - | Substitute | Cap Taylor

5. In what battles was he engaged? 
6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Exeter R. I. 
7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? four living witnesses 
8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? defective in every respect 
Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned. 
Wm. C. Easton 
Examining Clerk. 
17 Jany 1833
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Declaration
of Gardiner Lillibridge
[illegible]

Gardiner Lillibridge
1 [0 or 6] 991


Mr Pearce
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Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832

State of Rhode Island County of washington on this 5th of Septem AD 1832 personally appeared in open Court before the Court of Common pleas for said washington County now sating Gardner[sic] Lillibridge resident of the tow of exciter in the County of washington and State of Rhode Island and was a resident of said town County and state above said at the time of entering the Service____Aged seventy three 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 of June the 7th 1832 that he entered the Service of United states under the following named officers and served as herein stated viz in December 1776 I was called into the service in the Militia under Captain Uriah Crandall in a Regiment commanded by Col Charles  Dyne and marched from Exeter in said R. I. where I then resided _ to Northingeton to a place called Bostonneck and was there stationed employed i guarding against the enemy then in possession of Newport and against the British fleet in the bay a term of three months and twenty days near as I can recollect was then discharge and returned home to Exter which I think was in the month of March 1777 at this time the Militia in said town of Exteer was Classed into two classes I then served my towers which was every other month in bostonneck up to December 1780 which space of time is one year and ten months  Nearly in the other Class served as a substitute for my Brother Josiah Lillibridge two months and for Stephen Reynold two months  Both then residents of  Exeter Serving in Bostonneck a space of time two years and five months the abve [sic] named service was done as a soldier under the following Captains Viz
Cap Uriah Crandall Cap George Willcox Cap Samuel
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Gorton Cap Phinehas Kinyon Cap David Herrington in Col Dyers Regiment in the year 1780 I was called by Draft to Newport island and served one month it being in July under Cap Samuel Bessel and in august in the same year I served one on Newport island as a substitute for Josiah Lillibridge under Captain Spencer Tarler in Col Thomas Potters Regiment serving in the whole Term of Time two years and seven months and that he has no documentary evidence  he hereby relinquishes Every Claim What Ever to  A Pension or annuity Except the present and Declares [illegible] of his age, and is not that his Name is not on the Pension Roll or the Agency of any State sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid, he has [illegible] with my clergyman, who can testify to [illegible], an to the extent of his [illegible]
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For a statement of the military history of…… a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his [crossed out] (or his widow’s) [/crossed out] application for pension on file in this Bureau. Gardner Lillibridge SF. 11400

|DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. | LENGTH OF SERVICE. | RANK. | OFFICERS UNDER WHOME SERVICE WAS RENDERED. CAPTAIN | COLONEL. | STATE. |
|Dec 1776 | 25 mos | Pvt | Uriah Crandall | Charles Dyer | R.I.
| | | | Samuel Bissell | Thomas Potter | |
| | | | George Willcox | | |
| | | | Phinehas Kinyon | | |
| | | | David Herrington | | |

Battles engaged in, not stated
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Exeter, R.I.
Date of application for pension, Sept 5, 1832. His claim was allowed
Residence at date of application, Exeter, Washington Co. R.I.
Age at date of application, 73 years
Remarks:
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[left side]
1908 Dec. 1, Hist to Mrs. J. Richard Carpenter. Letter with S.F. 17544. A.E.P.
1911 Dec. 4 Hist to D.L. Cutler. Letter in S.F. 17544 Gideon Lillibridge
1919 May 17. Cert photostat copy of aff of Lillibridge Barber [illegible] to Larry S. Nichols.
1919 June 12. Rowland R. Barber advised no claim for Lillibridge Barber and one dollar bill returned to him. AW

[right side]
Revolutionary
11400  
INVALID.
File No. 11,400
Gardiner Lillibridge
Pri. Rev. War

Act: June 7th 1832.
Index: - Vol. A, Page 542
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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Justice Peace 
STATE OF RHODE ISLAND AND PROVIDENCE PLANTATIONS. Washington County, sc 
I Samuel Helme, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas within and for the County of Washington, & state, aforesaid, do hereby certify that Isaac Greene Esq. before whom the depositions annexed were taken and sworn to, is a Justice of the Peace, duly elected and qualified within and for the county of Washington, in said state and that his signature thereto is in his own proper hand writing In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court, this Eighth day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand, eight hundred and thirty two. 
Sam. Helme Clk
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We, Nathan Willcox of Richmond in the County of Washington Eber Shearman Jr of Exeter residing in (the same) hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with Gardner Lillibridge who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be 73 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 to and subscribed the day aforesaid.
Nathan Willcox
Eber Shearman Jr
And the said 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 was a Revolutionary Soldier, and served as he states. And the Court further certifies, that it appears to them that the who has signed the preceeding certificate, is a resident in the – and that Nathan Willcox & Eber Shearman Jr who have also signed the same are residents in the Town of Richmond are credible persons and that their statement is entitled to credit. And the Court also certify that from their examination and knowledge of Reynolds Barber, Jeffery Hazard Lillibridge Barber and Mary Bates, the preceeding Deponent the Court Consider their Testimony confined in the preceding Depositions Entitled to Credit.
I Samuel Helme Clerk of the Court of Common pleas & General Sessions of the peace hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the application of Gardner Lillbridge for a pension. 
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this Eighth day of September AD. 1832
Sam. Helme Clk
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company Col Dyers Reg, I wrote to [written in between sentences] This is a genealogist not a government clerk.] Miss Laura Nichols Desk 175 North Curlain and she very kindly sent me a Photostat of a declaration for Gardiner Lillibridge signed by Lillibridge Barber 
This Photostat wa certified by you as on file in the Pension Bureau in the claim for Pension of Gardiner Lillibridge Revolutionary war Rhode Island Troops survivor's file No 11400
Mr W. H. Crockett Sec of the society here in Vermont wants 2 certified copies if I can get them of the evidence referred to by Mr Brigham that Lillibridge Barber served with Gardiner Lillibridge, Miss Nichols sent me the declaration of Barber in favor of Lillibridge and what I want is the declaration of Lillibridge in favor of Barber   I wrote to
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Mr Brigham for more definite information and he said at present the papers were in the hands of some company to be arranged in card form would write me later,
Thanking you for all favors I am
Sincerely yours

Rowland R. Barber

[stamp  over inked and illegible except for part of date]

Jun 11 19??