Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 4723, Levi Wheaton, R.I.
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R.I.
Wheaton, Levi
S.4 of 23
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[illegible] to the aforegoing deposition and
made oath of the truth of the same,
and I also certify that said Randall
is personally well known to me, and
that he
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State of Rhode Island of Providence Plantations.
Providence, Sc

I, Albert G. Greene, Clerk of the Municipal Court of the City of Providence State, do hereby certify, that Gamalieb L. Dwight who has signed the
aforegoing Certificate, was on the day of the date thereof, a Justice of the Peace, within and for said City of Providence, duly elected.
In attestation whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and have affixed the seal of said Court this 19th day of December A.D. 1893
Albert G Greene
Clerk
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In the spring of the year 1778 I entered the United States Military Hospital in this Town in the character of Surgeon's Mate, in which capacity I served for more than six months, during & after General Sullivan's expedition against Rhode Island.
During the absence of the Army, with one
other Surgeon's mate (Mr Babbit of  Massachusetts), I had the charge of the Invalids & sick, left here in Hospital. When the sick & wounded were returned from that expedition, and the College in this town was taken up for their reception, my services were transferred to that establishment, there continued until the approach of Winter, when I was disabled by a protracted fever. 
The Medical Staff of this division of the Continental army, recent from the capture of Burgoyne, was at this time composed of some of the first physician & Surgeons in the Country, all of whom I believe are since dead. Doctor Hagan of Maryland, the Senior Surgeon who had more particularly the charge of the sick department, was my immediate Superior & died soon after the War in one of the Southern States.
After devoting the two following years to the study of my profession, I again engaged for the two next succeeding years in what I regarded as the public service, as Surgeon to different private armed Ships (then become our only Navy) until the fall of the year 1782, when cruising off the southern coast, I was taken prisoner by the British frigate Vestal & carried into New York.
Soon after my arrival at the then frightful Wall,
about, I was offered by Dr. Rutherford the
Chief.
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chief of that department, the charge of one
of the prison hospital ships called the [illegible]
month, on condition that after three months
service I should be set at liberty without
exchange. I performed this service and,
have the happiness to reflect that during the
time I was enabled by my station to render
many good offices to my countrymen then,
in miserable confinement-indeed I can
look with pride & pleasure (however irrelevent to the present purpose) that from
early impressions- "by ancient story to the
love of ancient freedom fired" I yielded to
none of my compatriots youth in zeal for
the liberites & independence of our country-
from the battle of Lexington to the close
of the war, on different occasions of public
alarm, waiving the privilege of my profession,
I never hesitated to bear arms against the
sworn enemy - when for example, our French
allies then on Rhode Island under  Rocham-
beau, were threatened with an attack from
the British fleet & army I joined the artillery
corps from this town, and marched thither, & performed
the duties of a soldier till the alarm subsided
so that I would say with truth that more than
three of the seven years of war were by me de
voted to the public military & naval service.
Such are my humble pretensions to the bounty
of the government. I have neglected to pre-
fer them till pretty well advanced in my
seventy-third year - but age & infirmities,
the calls of a family, & I might add the ex-
ample of others, whose superior merits I am per-
suaded [illegible] chiefly in their  having helped a
brighter look out than myself for the one thing
needful. I am at length admonished and
submit them respectfully.
Levi Wheaton
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My contemporary Mr Samuel Thurber of this
city is one of the Jew survivors who are likely
to have a clear recollection of my service in
the hospital.  he officiated at the same time
as commissary of supplies to that establishment,
but as he was not a resident in the house
he may not be able to attest the duration
of my service. he cannot fail to remember
however that I was there employed & his
character with all who know him is a
sufficient warrant for the truth of whatever
he may affirm.
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.
Levi Wheaton
August 28 1833
Sworn to in open court
Benja Cowell Clk