Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 17772, Charles West, R.I. New York
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Service: RI, NY
West, Charles
Number S 17772
Carded
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Massachusetts 15365
Charles West
Of Worcester in the state of Massachusetts
who was a private in the company commanded
by Captain Smith of the Regiment commanded 
by Col. Livingston of the Rhode Island 
time for 13 months and NY

Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts 
at the rate of 43 Dollars 33 Cents per annum
to commence on the 4th day of March 1831

Certificate of Pension issued the 18th day of June 33
and Talent Lewis Child
Southbridge, Mass

Arrears to the 4th of March '33 - 86.66
Semianl. allowance ending 4 Sept '33 - 21.66
$108.32

Revolutionary Claim
Act June 7, 1832

recorded by William Miller Clerk
Book E Vol 2 Page 92
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21787
Charles West
Mass
claiming as private
Pens $43.33
Lewis Child
Southbridge
Mass
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BRIEF in the case of Charles West
to of Worcester in the State of Mass
(Act 7th June, 1832.)
1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? Open Court
2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?
3. How old is he? 72
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)

In 1778 enlisted |  7mo | private | Capt Hopkins Col. Livingston
Spring 1779 enlisted | 3 mo | private | Capt Smith
Aug 1779 enlisted | 1 mo | private | Captain Kimble Lieut. Smith Genl Spencers Troops
And con't to serve | 2 more | private | "

5. In what battles was he engaged? Battle of Rhode Island 
6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Situate R.I.
7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? traditionary a documents and two living witnesses
8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect?
Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above
George Taylor, Examining Clerk
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DECLARATION, in order to secure the benefit of the Act of Congress, passed June 7, 1832.
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
County of Worcester as 
Nineteenth day of December in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and thirty
two personally appeared in open Court, before the Court of Common Pleas
now sitting in Worcester Charles West a resident of Southbridge
in the County of Worcester and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, aged seventy two
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 7th 1832.
THAT he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated.
Viz. that in the spring of the year 1778 I enlisted  as a soldier in Captain
Jonathan Hopkins Company for the term of seven months, and with
said Company I joined the Regiment of Continental troops
under the command of Col. Livingston, on Rhode Island at which
place and at Pawtuxet in the State of Rhode Island we served
for the space of seven months I was engaged in the battle on
Rhode Island in August of the same at the expiration
of said seven months I returned to Scituate in the State of Rhode
where then lived I further state that in the spring of the year
1779 that as a private in the companies of Militia commanded by
Captain Homer Smith and Stephen Kimball went to Warwick
in said State where we were stationed, in guarding the coast
for the term of three months - I further state that about the
first of August in the same year in said Capt Kimball
company of Militia I went to Warren and
served one month. I further state that from Warren we
crossed over to Rhode Island and joined General Spencer
expedition on Rhode Island where I service two months Lieut. Smith
commanded said Company on Rhode Island Capt. Kimball being ill.  
sent the whole of said lines of service making in all thirteen month
1 I was born in Scituate in the State of Rhode Island in the year 1750 (1760)
2. My age is recorded in the town books for said town of Scituate
3 When called into the service I lived in said Scituate, where I continued to
live till the year 1803. when I removed to Sturbridge which is now South
bridge aforesaid where I have ever since lived and where I now live
4. The first term of service was seven months I enlisted and the remainder I was
drafted  -- 5. In  addition to the names of officers stated above I state that the
first term of seven months service I was under General Sullivan, at Warwick
Col John Colwell, 6 I never received any discharge- 7.  I can state my case
of the Rev Jason Park and Moses Plumpton Esq to whom I am known in my
present neighborhood & who can testify as to the character for truth & 8 I have 
some documents as evidence which are hereunto appended-- and this said West says that
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.
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
Charles West
Attest. Abijah Bigelow, Clerk
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We Jason Park a Clergyman residing in the Son of Southbridge
Moses Hampson residing in the same town
certify that we are well acquainted with Charles West who has subscribed and sworn
to the above declaration, that we believe him to be seventy two years of age, that he is reputed and believed in the
neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the revolution, and we concur in that opinion.
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
before me Linus Child Justice of the Peace Jason Park
Moses Plimpton

And the said court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interogatories
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 Jason Park
who signed
the preceding certificate, is a clergyman, resident in the Town of Southbridge and that Moses Plimpton who has also signed the same is a resident in the Town of Southbridge
and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit, and that the said Jason Park
and Moses Plimpton live at such a distance from the Court that
their attendance could not be procured without too much expense
and inconvenience to the applicant. John M. Williams, Jr. C. C. ___
Abijah Bigelow, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, do hereby certify
that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the Court in the matter of the application of Charles West for a pension.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the Seal of said Court this
nineteenth day of December in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and thirty two.
and I further certify that Linus Child Esquire before whom
Jason Park and Moses Plimpton were sworn to the truth of
the above certificate by them signed, is a Justice of the Peace in
and for said County, and that the signature of said child thereto
I believe to be in his own proper hand writing
Abijah Bigelow, Clerk
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July 13, 1939
Mildred Carver Carpenter
17 Medfield Street
Worcester, Massachusetts.
Dear Madam:

RA-J/ILL
Charles West
S. 17772

Reference is made to your letter in which you request
information in regard to Charles West, a Revolutionary War
soldier who received a pension in Southbridge, Massachusetts.
The data which follow were obtained from the papers on
file in pension claim, S. 1772, based upon service of Charles
West in that war.
Charles West was born in the year 1750, in Scituate,
Rhode Island, in which town his birth was recorded: the day of
his birth and the names of his parents are not shown. He resided
in Scituate at the time of the Revolutionary War.
Charles West enlisted and served at different times as a
private in the Rhode Island troops, amounting in all to thirteen
months; he was under Lieutenant Smith in General Spencer's
Expedition, was in Captain Jonathan Hopkins' company from the spring of
1778, in General Sullivan's Expedition and was in the battle of
Rhode Island, subsequently, under Captains Comer Smith, Stephen Kin
ball and Colonel Colwell.
The soldier moved from Scituate, Rhode Island, in 1803 to
Sturbridge, later called Southbridge, Wester County, Massachusetts.
Charles West was allowed pension on his application executed
December 19, 1832, at which time he resided in Southbridge, Massachusetts. He made no reference to wife or children.
In September 1832, John West, of Gloucester, Providence
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County, Rhode Island, stated that he served with Charles West in
August 1778, but he did not state any relationship between them.
In order to obtain the date of last payment of pension, name
and address of person paid, and, possibly, the date of death of
this pensioner, you should address The Comptroller General, General
Accounting Office, this city, and furnish the following data:
Charles West
Certificate #15365
Issued June 10, 1833
Rate $43.33 per annum
Commenced March 4, 1831
Act of June 7, 1832
Massachusetts Agency.

Very truly yours,

A. D. HILLER,
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator.
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21787
Charles West
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BRIEF objections to the admission of Pension Claims, of which those
answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of Charles West
which require further proof or explanation.
I. Does the declaration show where the applicant resides? yes
II. Did the declarant make the declaration in the county where he resides? yes
III. If the applicant did not make the declaration in the county where he resides, is there any reason
assigned for his not doing so?
IV. Has the declarant mentioned the period or periods of the war when he served? yes
V. Has he mentioned with precision the length of his service, and the different grades in which he
served, in language so definite as to enable the department to determine to what amout of pension
he is entitled? Yes
VI. Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with the regulations? Yes
VII. Has he made a relinquishment of every claim to any other pension than the one under the Act of
June 7, 1832? yes
VIII. Has the Court given their opinion?
IX. Has the Clerk given his certificate?
from any other seal? yes
X. Is the Clerk's seal affixed? And if so, has it a device or inscription by which it can be distinguished 
from any other seal? Yes
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I Josiah Westcott of State County of Provindence
being of Lawful age and engaged according to Law
do testify and say. That I have been well acquainted with
Charles West formerly of Scituate but now of South
Bridge for more than thirty years. I consider him
to be a man of truth and veracity and he
always has been considered so by People in General
so far as I ever knew or heard said West was always
considered to be a Revolutionary soldier Josiah Westcott

Provided in Scituate September the 12 AD 1832
Personally came Josiah Westcott and after being sworn
to tell the Trusth the whole truth and nothing but the
Truth gave the foregoing deposition which was taken at
the Request of the said Charles West to be said in obtain
ing a pention
Before me
Abel Salisbury Just Peace
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Providence- State of Rhode Island and Providence
Plantations
Provided I William R Watson Clerk of the Court
of Common Pleas within & for the County of Providence
in said State, hereby certify that Abel Salisbury
within named is a Justice of the Peace for the
Town of Scituate in the County aforesaid - that he
is duly empowered to administer oaths and take
Depositions-- that the signature within purporting to
be his is in the proper hand writing of said Abel
Salisbury and that full faith and credit are due
to the official attestations of said Salisbury
Witness whereof I hereunto set my
hand and affix the seal of said Court
this eighteenth day of September 1802
Wm R Watson
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Oliver Cornell of land be the
of Glocester in the County of Providence and State of Rhode Island of
lawful age and engaged according to law to
testify and say that I was in the wing of the
revolution at Warwick in the State of Rhode Island
and Charles West was with me in the service about
three months at said Warwick under Capt. Comer
Smith and Capt. Stephen Kimball and the
said West was with me in the service about
one month at Warren in said State of Rhode
it
Island the commanding officer I do not recall
and the said West was with me in the service in
Gen. Spencers expedition about two month Lieut
Smith commanded the Company and the said
West was likewise with me in Gen. Sullivan
expedition on Rhode Island one month at least
and we was both in the Battle in said expedition
and I knew of said West being in the servis it
several times in an alarm
Testified September 14 1832 Oliver Cornell
State of Rhode Island
Providence of Testified September AD 1832
Personally came Oliver Cornell subscriber to
the above deposition and made solemn oath
the
 Justice Peace
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I John West of Glouster in the County of Providence
State of Rhode Island being duly sworn on oath
do testify & say that I was a solder in the Revolutionary war
I am now an applicant for a pension under the
act of June 1832. I further say that in the
Spring 1778 I enlisted as a soldier in Capt Jonathan
Hopkin Company of Livingstons regiment of
continual two. I believe. The regiment was
Stationed principally on Rhode Island & at Pawtuxet
R.I. we were in the battle on Rhode Island in
August 1778. I continued in said Company & regiment
seven months. I further say that I well know
Charles West formerly of Scituate in said County
now of Southbridge in the State of Massachusetts
He was a soldier with me in said Company regiment
during the whole of the aforesaid period of seven months
John West

State of Rhode Island
Providence Co In Glocester the 15" day of September
1832 before me personally appeared John West who being
duly sworn on oath says that the above deposition by him
signed is just & true in all its parts. I further certify that the
said John West is a credible person & that his statement
is entitled to credit
Attorney Ira P. Evans Justice C. C. Pleas
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NATIONAL LEAGUE OF AMERICAN PEN WOMEN
NATIONAL CHAIRMAN OF GENEALOGY
MILDRED CARVER CARPENTER
SEVENTEEN MEDFIELD STREET
WORCESTER MASSACHUSETTS

May 19, 1939
United States Pension Bureau
Washington, D. C.
Dear Sir:
Will you please send me whatever data you have referring to
the following American Revolution Soldier:
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Charles West of Charlton and Southbridge, Mass. Wife Huldah --
He died July 13, 1842 and records at the Worcester Court House filed
with his estate settlement state that he was a Pensioner. He had one
son named Charles and there was another man named George West who I
believe to have been his son also. Doubtless there were other children.
This Charles West probably moved to Southbridge after the Amer. Rev. as
he is not listed in the volumes " Soldiers and Sailors in the Amer. Rev.
Will you please send also any data on Huldah (
West,
widow of Charles, above, if she obtained a pension after his death,
Yours sincerely,
Mildred Carver Carpenter