Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 17,739, John Tucker, R.I.
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SERVICE
R.I. 

Tucker, John

NUMBER
S 17739

carded
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Indiana
John Tucker
of Park Co in the State of Ina
who was a pri in the co commanded by
commanded
Captain Windsor of the regt commanded
by " in the R.I. line for 7 mos. 27 ds

Inscribed on the Roll of Ina
the rate of 26 Dollars 33 Cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 26 day of Augt
1833 and sent
J A
Wright Rockville

Arrears to the 4th of March  52.66
Lemant. allowance ending 4 Sept
13. 16.
1382
65.82
{Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.}

Recorded by Dan Boyd  Clerk,
Book # Vo. 7  Page 131

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Date of death noy on AB
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No. 11.914
John Tucker
fro 1776 Private
7 months 27 days
$26 33/100

Jos. A Wright Indiana
Rockville
18th Feb 1833
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BRIEF in the case of John Tucker
of Park County
in the State of Indiana
(Act 7th June, 1832.)

1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? A Court

2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?

3. How old is he? 81 years.

4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed.

Period.
In 1776
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1777
1778

Duration of Service.
Years, Months, Days.
Six weeks
about two months
about forty days
about forty days
two (own each about 1 month

Rank.
As a
private
do
do
do
do

Names of General and Field Officers
under whom he served.
Capt Stephen Windsor
same
same
same
same

States that he
a minute man & was ordered to hold himself in readiness at (?) and of our  [illegible] for another serving the whole of the Revolutionary War.

5. In what battles was he engaged?

6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Providence County, Rhode Island

7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary 
evidence, or by the rolls? 
Traditionary evidence

8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? No

Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above
mentioned.
B. F. Pleasants Examining Clerk
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State of Rhode
Rock County ss.
On this 15th day of September in the year 1832 person
ally appeared in open court before before John R. Porter
Circuit Judge, and Eliphalet Allen, and Robert Mitchell
associate Judges in and for the Circuit Court of said
County and State now sitting. John Tucker a resident
of Liberty township and said county of Park aged
eighty one years and eight months, 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
That he entered the service of the United States
under the following officers and served as herein
stated, to wit. He enlisted at the town of Gloucester, County of
Providence, state of Rockland, as a minute man
for an indefinite time; and when he enlisted he belonged
to a militia company commanded by Stephen Windsor
(Captain), Lieut Aaron Arnold, Eugh Isaac Ross, that
said Arnold enlisted with him and was the Captain
of the enlisted minute Company and said Ross was 
the Ensign; in the fall of the year 1776 Lord Cornwall
attached Bristol the said Company of minute men was
then called out in which said Tucker also went to
defend Bristol about 40 miles and in which [illegible] 
Chat Brown was Colonel and West (Genl)the
other officers not recollected, at the expiration of six week,
said Tucker returned home to Gloucester where he
remained about two weeks when he was again called
into the service and went to the river Providence
and thence down the river and went in different
directions through the county guarding the same and
was under the same officers and served about
two months the second tour before he returned home
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He remained at home about a month when
he was called to the [illegible] side Rhode island about
forty days when he returned home under the same
Officers, but sometime the officers would occasionally
be changed in the summer of 1779 he served a
fourth tour and went to an Island on Movideur
river where the British were laying for the purpose of
taking the Island in which tour of service May
was his Capt the other officers the same as before stated
served fourth town about 40 days when returned
home, and in 1778 he performed two tours
to New London and in each tour he served about
one month under the same officers - Said Tucker
held himself in readiness from the time he entisted
as aforesaid during the whole of the Revolutionary war,
and wherever he performed one tour of duty and
was sent home he was ordered to be ready to perform
another at a minutes warning. He recollects the
officers than there he has mentioned, his memory having much 
failed him as he states; he never received any written
discharge and has no documentary evidence thereof;
and he knows of no person, whose testimony he can
procure, who can testify to his services
He made the following statements to the questions
propounded by the Court to wit. He was born in
the year 1751 and in said town of Gloucester
State of Rhode Island, he has no record of his age in
this country but there is a record of his age on the
town Clerks book of said town of Gloucester, he was
living in said town when called into the service;
he has revolutionary war unto the state of
Connecticut, thence to the State of New York
thence to the State of Indiana where he now resides
He was called into the service as above stated; he
has stated above the names of his officers and the
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circumstances of his service as near as he can
recollect his age having oblitacted from his memory
of the circumstances of his said service;
he received no discharge in writing, he states that
Edmond Brockway and William Brockway are
the names of the persons to whom he is known in
his present neighbourhood, and who can testify
as to his character for veracity, and their belief
of his services as a soldier of the revolution
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to
a pension or annuity except the present, and
declares that his name is not on the pension roll
of the agency of any State as he knows of
Signature of John )his X mark) Tucker

Sworn and subscribed to the day and year aforesaid
or Wallice Real
M L  Peirce
the Edmond Brockway and William Brockway
residing in the township of Liberty and County of
Park aforesaid and in the neighbourhood of
said Tucker hereby certify that we are well
acquainted with said John Tucker who has
subscribed and sworn to the above declaration.
that we believe him to be of the age of 81 years
that he is reputed and believed in the neighbor
hood where he resides, to have been a soldier
of this revolution, and that we concur in that
opinion
Signatures of 
Edmon Brockway
William S Rookery
Sworn and subscribed to the day and year
aforesaid
For Wallice Rea Clerk
M L Peirce
And the said Court do hereby declare their
opinion, after the invest
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aforesaid for Wallice Rea Clerk
M L Peirce
And the said Court do hereby declare their
opinion, after the investigation of the matter
[illegible]
opinion that it appears to them the said Shirk who has
signed the preceding certificate is a Clergyman
---
[illegible]  Liberty County of York aforesaid and the
son is a credible person and that his statement is entitled
to and credit.
May 10th 1833 Signature of Lewis Hall
I John Davis Clerk of the Book
late Court do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the
original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of
the application of John Tucker fora pension  [illegible]
set my hand and seal of
office this 20th day of May 1833
Signature of John G. Davis Clk
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and after putting the interrogatories prescribed
by the War Department, that the above mentioned
applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and
served as he states. And the Court further
certifies, that it appears to them that Edmond
and William Brockway who have signed the
preceding certificate are residents in the neighbourhood
of said John Tucker and reside in
the said township of Liberty, and are credible
persons and that their statement is entitled
to credit
John R Pater
Eliphalet Allen
Robert Mitchell
I Wallice Rea a Clerk of the circuit court
in and for said County of Park do hereby certify
that the foregoing contains the original proceedings
of the said court in the matter of the
application of John Tucker for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set
my hand and seal of said Court and the
office thereof this 15th day of September in
the year 1832
Signature of Wallice Rea, Clerk


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John Tucker
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John Tucker 11914
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State of Indiana
North County   ⎬ss
Personally appeared before me the
undersigned a Justice of the peace John Tucker who being
duly sworn deposeth and saith, that by reason of old age
and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot [illegib;e]
as to the precise length of his service, but according to the
best of his recollection he [illegible] not less than the periods
below and in the following grades. For 1776 Four
months and eighteen days I served as a minute man in a capacity of a private [illegible]
and nine days I served as a minute man in the capacity oof a Private Soldier and for such service I claim a Pension
Signature of John )his X mark) Tucker

Sworn and subscribed the 20th 1833
Matthew Noel [illegible]

State of Indiana
North County   ⎬ [illegible]

I David Shirk a Clergyman residing in the
City and County aforesaid hereby certify that I am
acquainted with John Tucker who has subscribed and sworn
to the above declaration that I believe him to be eighty
two years of age that he is reputed in the
neighbourhood where he resides to have been a soldier
of the Revolution and that I concur in that opinion
Sworn and subscribe this 9th day
of May 1833
Signature of David Shirk
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November 6, 1935
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BA-J/EEL
John Tucker - S.17739
John Tucker - S
Isaac Levi-@.773

Mrs. Minnie E. Wycoff
219 Maplewood Avenue
Batesville, Indiana

Dear Madam:

Reference is made to your letter in which you request the
records of John Tucker-S.17739 and John Tucker, S., soldiers of
the Revolutionary War.

The records of those soldiers have been found and are given
herein.

John Tucker
John Tucker-S.17739

The data which follow are obtained from the papers on file
in Revolutionary War pension claim, S.17739, based upon the military
service in that war of John Tucker.

John Tucker was born in 1751, in Gloucester, Rhode Island
the names of his parents are not shown.

While residing in said Gloucester early in the Revolutionary War
, John Tucker belonged to a company of minutenen commanded by
Captain Stephen Winsor. He was called out in 1776, and joined
Captain Aaron Arnold's Company of Rhode Island Troops, and from
that time until the summer of 1779, stood ready at all times to
be called out on alarms and served as a private for four months
and eighteen days in 1776; three months and nine days in 1777.
two months in 1778; and forty days in 1779, under the above named
Captain Aaron Arnold and Captain May and Colonel Chad Brown in
the Rhode Island Troops.

Immediately after the close of the Revolution, he moved to Connecticut; thence to New York and thence to Indiana.

[written text on left]
{illegible] this captain in (?) mass
Could not find Capt Arnold or Mag

[written text to right]
He is in Heitman as col of R.I.. Militia
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John Tucker was allowed pension on his application executed September 15, 1832, while residing in Liberty Township, Parke County, Indiana.

There are no data as to soldier's family.

In order to obtain the date of last payment of pension, the name and address of person paid and possibly the date of death of the Revolutionary War soldier, John Tucker (S.17739), you should address The Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, Records
Division, this city, and cite the following data:

John Tucker, Certificate No. 19328, issued August 26, 1833, rate $26.33 per annum, commenced March 4, 1831, Act of June 7, 1832, Indiana Agency.

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John Tucker
S.

The data furnished below are obtained from the papers on file in Revolutionary War pension claim, S. based upon the military
service of John Tucker in that war.

The date and place of birth and the names of the parents of John Tucker are not shown.

John Tucker enlisted in the state of North Carolina, date of enlistment and names of officers not given and was in the battle of
Eutaw Springs: he enlisted in June, 1782, served as a private in Captain Brickle's or Brinkley's (name of captain not clearly
written) and John Coleman's Companies, Colonel Archibald Lytle's North Carolina Regiment and in the battle of James Island: he was discharged in July, 1783.

He was allowed pension on his application executed April 19, 1818, at which time he was aged sixty-five years and resided in
Scott County, Kentucky.

In 1820, he stated that his family then residing with him consisted of his wife, aged sixty-two years and a son, aged seventeen
years but he did not give their names.

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