Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W 1121, for Samuel Short, Rhode Island
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SERVICE
number
R.J.      Short, Samuel    W1121
Alen, Eleanor       B.L. Wt. 9488-160-55
or Allen
contents   (Former widow)
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2960
Rhode lsand
Samuel Short
Bristol in the State of RI
who was a Private in the Company commander
Captain of the company commander 
by Col Cook in the RI
home for 23 years
Inscribed on the Roll of RI
at the rate of 76 Dollars 66 cents per annum
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 10th day of Dec
1832 and sent Nathanel
Bullock Bristol RI
Arrears to 4th of Sep 1832
$114.99 ┃
Semiannl. allowance ending 4 Mar 33
38.33
$153.32
Revolutionary claim,
Act June 7, 1832
Recorded by 3h [illegible] Blair clerk
book D. Vol. 3 Page 134
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2808
Rhode Island
Eleanor Allen formerly
of Samuel Short
erved in the Revolutionary
R. I.
war, as a private
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of
76 Dollars 66
Cents per annum, to commence on
the 3d February, 1853.
certificate of Pension issued the
8thday of November 1853.
and sent to
Benjn Cowell
Providence
R. Island
recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act
february 3, 1853, Page 49. A
1321
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State of Rhode-Island and }
Providence Plantations. }

TOWN CLERK'S OFFICE,
WARREN, July 14th 1832.

Samuel Short son of John Short and Phebe his wife, was born on the 9th day of March A.D. Seventeen hundred Fifty five

A true copy of record.

Witness   Samuel Randall Town Clerk.
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No. 6174
Samuel Short of Barrington R.I.
Phebe
1 year & 11 months

The credibility of the 
witness not certified, has not mention with known the length of his service paper not properly authenticate.

Nov. 7 1832

$76.66.

Nath'l Bullock
Bristol R.I.
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BRIEF in the case of Samuel Short of the County of Bristol in the State of R. Island 
(Act 7 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 bodily infirmity?

3.    How old is he?  77 years

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

Period.
In 1776 Dec. to Nov. 1779 
Served (illegible) alternate month

Duration of Service.

1 Year, 11 Months, - Days.

Rank.
Private

Names of General and Feld Officers under whom he served.
Gen. Spencer
Cols. Cook & Gray
Capts. Viol & Tho. Allen
Lieut. Kinnicut

5.    In what battles was he engaged?   None

6.    Where did he reside when he entered the service?   Barrington

7.    Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls?   living witness

8.    Are the papers defective as to form or authentication?  and if so, in what respect?   Regular.

* Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.

(Signed) Levin Belt
Examining Clerk.
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Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Court of Common Pleas for the County of Bristol in the State of Rhode Islander, Samuel Short an applicant for a pension, who being fully sworn, deposeth and saith, that, by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service, but according to the best of his recollection, he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades:  For one year, I served as a private soldier, in Captain Thomas  Allen's company, in Col. Crany's Regiment of the state line, commencing in 1778 and ending in 1779; for eleven months I also served as a private soldier, in Capt. Vial Allen's company of militia, a part of which service was performed before my said service in Thomas Allen's Company and apart of it afterwards, so that my whole service as a private soldier in the Revolutionary war amounts to not less than one year and eleven months; and for such service I claim a pension.
(Signed) Samuel Short

Sworn to and subscribed
this 4th day of Nov. A.D. 1832.
Before me (Signed) Wm. Throop
(Illegible) of the Court of
Common Pleas County of Bristol
Rhode Island and Providence Plantations
Clerks Office, Court of Common Pleas, for the County of Bristol.
I hereby certify that William Throop Esqr whose signature is affixed in his own hand writing, to the above declaration of Samuel Short was at the time of taking thereof & now is a Judge or Justice of the Court aforesaid duly commissioned under the seal of said  State and engaged thereon according to Law.
I further certify, that Jonathan J. Drown and Benjamin Martin whose depositions are within contained, are persons of credit, to whose statements full faith ought to be given.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand  affixed the seal of
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our said Court, this the twenty fourth day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty tow (1832).  And of American Independence the fifty seventh.

(Signed) J. Davis  Clk.
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Eleanor Allen
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State of Rhode Island
County of Bristol
on this sixth day of June AD 1853 personally appeared before the Court of Probate a Court of record in the Town of Barrington in said County, Eleanor Allen now resident in said Barrington aged 72 years who being duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions of the act of Congress of February 3d 1853 granting pensions to widows of persons who served in the war of the Revolution.  She declares that on the Eighteenth day of June AD 1816 she married Samuel Short of said Barrington who was a soldier in the war of the Revolution & served as such as a private in the Army of the United States & when the act of June 7, 1832 was passed, granting pensions to those persons who served in said war, her husband the said Samuel Short applied for & obtained a pension at the rate of $78.67 per annum payable at the agency of the U States for paying pensioners in the City of Providence which pension he received up to the time of his death.  And she further declares that she lived with the said Samuel Short as his wife until his death, that he died on the third day of January AD 1836.  And she further declares that she then remained a widow until she married Squire Allen of said
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Barrington, that she married hm on the 20 day of June AD 1841 and that he departed this life March 13, 1844 and since that period she has remained a widow.  She was not married to said Samuel Short prior to second of January Eighteen but her marriage took place at the tie above stated.  And she further swears that she is now a widow & she further swears and declares that she has no record of her marriage other that what is in the remanent of an old Bible (illegible) produced which record is in his the said Samuel's hand writing.  The said Samuels first wife was named Judith Stephens
(Signed) Eleanor Alen

Signed and sworn to in
open Court on the day and
year first above written
(Signed) Ebenezer Tiffany
Probate Clerk
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Declaration

Samuel Short

No. 6174
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DECLARATON.
IN ORDER TO OBTAIN THE BENEFIT OF THE ACT OF CONGRESS, PASSED JUNE 7, 1832.
STATE OF RHODE ISLAND, }
COUNTY OF BRISTOL, } ss. 

On this twenty eighth day of July, 1832 personally appeared in open Court, before the Judges or Justices of the Court of Common Please now sitting, Samuel Short a resident of Barrington in the County of Bristol, and State of Rhode-Island, aged seventy seven 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, passed June 7, 1832.
That he entered the service of the United States under the following officers, and served as herein stated.

That is to say that in December 1776 he belonged to Captain Vial Allen's Company of Militia as a private soldier in Barrington aforesaid, and that the whole of said Company were ordered into the public service, and stationed at Rumstick Point and Noyett Point on the shores of Narragansett Bay, in the said month of December.  The reason of this movement of this company of militia was that the British had taken possession of Newport and had command of the whole of the Island which extends to within a few miles of one station and we were employed to restrain their (illegible) up the Bay and into the adjoining country.  Within a few weeks after said Company was ordered out into the service, the commanding officer was who (illegible) the company into two corps, putting half of the company into each and ordered them to rendezvous by turns, half said Company to guard the shores of Noyett and Runistick Points for a certain time, and the other half to succeed the for the same length of time and in this way said company continued to perform martial services by rotation each member of the company performing it for (illegible) half of the time, from the aforesaid December 1776 untill (sic) the enemy left Rhode Island in November 1779 and got all of illegible) Company drew half pay and rations and was stationed all that time at or near the aforesaid (illegible) Points of Noyett and Runisticks except in times of an alarm when the whole Company were marched to repel the enemy and in Spencer's and Sullivan's expeditions.  And the said Short declares that he performed duty in said company as a private Soldier during the whole of said time from December 1776 to November 1779 by station as aforesaid, except for about three weeks when he was engaged and marched from Barrington in General Spencer's expeditions, which was in September and October 1777, when he was detached from said company under Lieutentent Kinnicut and sent to Tiverton and then attached to Col. Cooks Regiments, and excepting one year from March 1778 to March 1779 for which year he enlisted in to Capt. Thomas Allen's Company in Col. Cray's  Regiment in the Stateline which last mentioned year he served out in said Cray's Regiment and was stationed that year at Fort Boston near Howland's Ferry and other places in Tiverton for most of the time, during this last mentioned service he was wounded on to Rhode Island in Sullivan's expedition and was in the battle there on the 29th of August 1778 in Nathaniel Humphrey was Lieutenant of said Thomas Allen's company and Manchester of said Cray's Regiments.  And he (illegible) declares that h was born in that part of Warren now called Barrington where he did and still does resides that his birth was recorded. that he never had any written discharge, but was verbally discharged from all said service that he has no documentary evidence of any of said services.  That the clergyman at the time of the interrogatories, resident of Barrington has long since deceased and that there is at present no clergyman there who has been a resident for more than a year, that Josiah Kinnicut, Joseph Becknall is of Barrington are his neighours (sic) to them would offer as well as to the enclosed depositions.
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during this last mentioned service he was  marched on to Rhode Island in Sullivan's expedition and was in the battle there on the 29th of August 1778. Nathaniel Humphrey was Lieutenant of said Thomas Allen's company and Manchester was (illegible) of said Crary's regiment.  And he further declares that he was born in that part of Warren and now called Barrington where he was has and still does resides., that his birth was recorded, that he never has any written discharge but was verbally discharged from all said services, that he has no documentary evidence of any of said services.  That the clergyman at the tine of the interrogatories, resident of Barrington has long been deceased and that there is at present no clergyman that who has been a resident for more than a year.  That Josiah Kinnicut & Joseph Bucknall Esqrs of Barrington are his neighbours (sic) to them would refer as (illegible) as to the enclosed depositions he lived in Barrington at the time he entered the services, where he & aft and doth still resides.

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.
(Signed) Samuel Short
Attest I. Davis, Clerk

We, Josiah Kinnicut residing in the town of Barrington and Joseph Bucknall residing in (the same) hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with said Samuel Short who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be Seventy seven 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 and subscribed the day and year aforesaid,
(Signed) Josiah Kinnicutt
(Signed) Joseph Bucknall

Attest I Davis Clerk

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 Josiah Kinnicutt, Esqr who has signed the preceding certificate, is a citizen resident in the town of Barrington and that Joseph Bucknall who has also signed the same is a resident in the same town and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
(Signed) J Davis  Clerk

I, Ichabod Davis Clerk of the Court of C. Pleas for said County do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the application of Samuel Short for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office, this 28th day of July AD 1832
Attest  I Davis Clerk
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Eleanor Allen
81.656
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State of Rhode Island, &c.
County of Providence

On this tenth day of April A.D. One Thousand Eight Hundred and Fifty-five, personally appeared before me, Eliab D Whipple a Justice of the Peace within and for the County aforesaid, Eleanor Allen aged 74 years, now resident in the Town of Barrington in the the County, who at first being fully sworn according to law, declares and says she was formerly the widow of Samuel Short who was a private in Capt.  _  company, and in a Regiment commanded by Col. Tophanes in the war of the Revolution, and that her said husband was in actual service more than twelve months in said war, and was honorable discharged.

And she further declares that she was married to said Samuel Short on the Eighteenth day of June A.D. 1816 by Eder Abner Lewis in Swanzey and that her name before marriage was Eleanor Chase and that her said husband died on the 30 day of January A.D. 1836 and that she is now a widow.

And she further declares that she is now a Pensioner of the United States at the rated of $76.66 per annum; which pension was granted her on account of her said husband's services in said war, which pension is payable at the Agency for paying pensions in the City of Providence.  And she further declares that when she made a declaration to obtain her said pension she produced satisfactory evidence of her said marriage to her said husband and of his death, to which declaration and the evidence therewith filed, she now refers for proof of her said marriage, of her said husband's death, and her claim to Bounty Land under the Act of Congress of March 3d, 1855, and she makes this declaration for that purpose.  She further declares that she has never made any application for Bounty Land before the present.
(Signed) Eleanor Allen
Attest Eliab D. Whipple
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The foregoing declaration and affidavit were sworn to and subscribed before me on the day and year above written and I certify that I know the affiant to be credible persons that the claimant is the person she represents herself to be and that I have no interest in this claim.
(Signed) Eliab D. Whipple
Justice of the Peace

THE STATE OF RHODE ISLAND AND PROVIDENCE PLANTATIONS.
PROVIDENCE, SC.

CLERK'S OFFICE, COUDRT OF COMMON PLEASE,
PROVIDENCE, April 16th, A.D. 1855

I Amasa S. Westcott Clerk of the COURT OF COMMON PLEASE of said State, within and for the County of Providence:
DO HEREBY CERTIFY, That Eliab D. Whipple was on the 10th day of April a Justice of the Peace in said County of Providence duly appointed and qualified, and authorized to administer oaths and take depositions and acknowledgement of deeds and other instruments, and that the signature to the annexed Certificate, purporting to be his, is genuine. 
IN ATTESTATION WHEREOF, I hereto subscribe my name, and affix the Seal of said Court, the day and year above written.
(Signed) Amasa S Westcott  Clerk
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Ray WIDOW, &c.

No. 1121

Eleanor Allen (formely)
Widow,
Samuel Short,

[Unintelligible]

Act: Feb.3.1853.
Index:-Vol. A, Page 7

[Arrangement of 1870.]
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No. 81656

ACT OF MARCH 3. 1855.

Received Apr 18th, 1895

Samuel Short. Dee. Peni

Col Company.
R.J Turks
Rev. [Unintelligible]

9488-160-5-5-

Benk Barrell
Providence R.J.
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9488 & .160 [unintelligible]
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Mrs [unintelligible] Allen
Lt. Aug 31st
Bray
Bethany Church
Oct21. 1853
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Pension Office
August 29/52
Sin

Please report this of last payment to or death of within named pensioner Respectfully

F. Burl Esq.
S And Pownal
Samuel Short, aet. 72
$76.66 p. an. Died 30th
Jany. 1836, Paid to his death

F. Burl
Aneditor
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June .15.

 Allen formerly wid of Samuel Short 

R. Island 
------------
2960
Act 3rd Feby 1853

Ref:
Allowed $76.66 per annum
Comm Feb 3-1853.

Benj Cowell
Providence R. Island

Department of The Interior, Pension Office, Official Business
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Providence June 10 1853

Sir
I herewith enclose the application of the Eleonor Allen formerly the widow of Samuel Short for a pension under the act of February 3d 1853. The evidence of the marriage to him is contained in a remnant of an old Bible which she cannot
remove in his own hand writing. This remnant also contains the names of his parents and his first wife in her hand writing and an informant.

I am very respectfully your obt servt
Benj a Cowell

Hon L P Waldo