Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 22,228, for Peleg Slocum, Rhode Island
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SERVICE | [blank] | NUMBER
RI.    | Slocum, Peleg | W.22.228
[blank] | Elizabeth
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Rhode Island 1043
Elizabeth Slocum
widow of Peleg Slocum decd
who died on the 17 January 1827
of Providence in the State of R.I.
who was a Private in the Company commanded
by Captain Wright of the _____ commanded
by _________ in the R.I.
line for 6 months
Inscribed on the Roll of R.I.
at the rate of 20 Dollars 00 Cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 21st day of June
1837 and sent S.G.
Shearman Wickford R.I.
Arrears to the 4th of March 1837 $120.00
Semi-anl allowance ending 4 Sept $10.00
                                                      $130.00
Revolutionary Claim,
Act July 4, 1836,
Section the 3d
Recorded by D. D. Addision, Clerk,
Book A Vol. 1 Page 118
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1793
Appropriation of
Elizabeth Slocum
[unreadable] Pensions
Sylvester G. Shellman
Wickford, Rhode Island
Agent for Applicant
Original - no deduction
Died in 1827
Adm.d
6 mo Pri
20$
S. G. Shearman
Wickford R.Id
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Declaration
In order to obtain the Benefit of the third Section of the
Act of Congress [unreadable] July 4th 1836
State of Rhode Island
County of Providence
On this 18th day of April 1837, personally appeared before
Benjamin Cowell Esq, a Judge or Justice of the Courts of
Common Pleas for said County of Providence Elizabeth Slocum of
the City of Providence, in said County of Providence of State aforesaid,
aged Eighty two years, who being first duly [sworn?] according to Law,
doth on her oath make the following Declaration.  In order to 
obtain the Benefit of the pension made by the Act of Congress
passed July 4th 1836.  That she is the Widow of Peleg
Slocum, formerly of North Kingston, in the County of Washington,
in said State deceased, but who at the time of his Death resided in Bristol
in this State and who was a Private & Sergeant in the Militia of
Rhode Island, in the War of the Revolution.  And that the [two words unreadable] to
the said Peleg Slocum, on the twenty fifth day of March 1776 at
said North Kingston, where they [were?] then united, by Elder Whitman, a
Pastor of the Baptist Church in that town.  We have no Certificate of
the Marriage, nor ever had any, nor is there any record of the same, any
where to be found to her knowledge, either on the record of the Town or
of any Church.  She [unreadable] for proof of her Marriage to the Depositions of
Phebe Sweet, Rowland Chadsy & William Slocum, hereto annexed, as
they were present at the Marriage.  The said Elder Whitman has been dead
many years.  And according to her belief the said Peleg Slocum [unreadable] one
Month as a Soldier in the Company of Militia of which [Thomas?]
Clarke was Captain stationed at Aquidneck Neck in [unreadable]
as is stated in the Deposition of Isaac Hall hereto annexed, previous to her 
Marriage with him.  She believes this because she has been his [unreadable] money
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times of having served as a Soldier [unreadable] Aquidnesett Neck under Captain
Clark previous to her Marriage with him.  In the Fall of the year
1776, she well remembers, that he was gone much from home on duty
in the Militia and understood from him that he was stationed at the
House of Wm Corey in said Aquidnesett Neck under Captain Thomas
Clark.  And she believes that he served ten months in said Company that
July and he was gone two months as is stated in the Deposition of the [Capt?]
Isaac Hall & remembered of his [rest of sentence unreadable].  In the
winter following he was also gone much from home, and [unreadable]
as she understood from him, in said Aquidnesett Neck stationed at
the same House, under Captain Peter Wright and there that he served one
Month in said Company during said Winter, in January or February, as
is stated in the Deposition of the [unreadable] Isaac Hall.  In the summer of
1778, the time of General Sullivan's Expedition, he well remembered of
his leaving home to [unreadable] in said Expedition and of his being absent from
home one Month, in the cause & hearing him talk about it when he
came home & oftentimes since.  And for further proof thereof, [refer?] to the
Depositions of Reuben Chadsy & John Tennent hereto annexed.  In the
summer of the year 1779, he was again absent from home on duty at Boston
Neck.  [unreadable] as she understood at the House of Colonel John Gardner 
and there it is the same time, spoken of by the said Isaac Hall in his 
Deposition.  She knows that he was one Month at Boston Neck that Summer.
She further makes an Oath that her said Husband served at other times and places
in the Militia, but that she did not accompany him, she is unable to
state any particulars relative to the said services, or to obtain any proof
thereof and that she has no documentary or written evidence relative to his
services in her possession nor never had any.  But [rest of line unreadable]
in the Militia during the War.  And we understand that he served as Sergeant,
part of the time.  And after [rest of line unreadable]
Bristol in this State on the seventeenth day of January in the year 1827,
leaving her his Widow & she has remained a Widow ever since.  For proof of
which she refers to the annexed Depositions and she further [unreadable]
that she is unable from Age & Bodily infirmities to appear in Open
Court & make her Declaration.
Elizabeth Slocum
her X mark
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Providence Sc
        In City of Providence April 18th 1837
Sworn to & subscribed before me
and I further certify that from
old age & infirmity said Elizabeth
is unable to attend Court
                       Benjamin Cowell
                          C of C C Pleas

Providence Sc          State of Rhode Island [illegible]
                       I Dexter Randall Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas [illegible]
                       for said territory, being a Court of Record do hereby certify, that
                       Benjamin Cowell Esq before whom the preceding affidavit
                       was sworn is Chief Justice of said Court, that he is by Law
                       duly authorized & empowered to administer oaths and take depositions
                       and that his signature above written is genuine~
                       In testimony whereof I have hereto set
                       my hand & affixed the seal of said 
                       Court at Providence this Eighteenth
                       day of April AD 1837
                                     Dexter Randall, Clk
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State of Rhode Island and
                   Providence Plantations
Secretary's Office  April 17. 1837.
I certify that at the session of the General
Assembly of said State holden on the first
Wednesday of May last Levi Haile was elected
an associate Justice of the Supreme Judicial
Court of said State for one year and Commis
sioned accordingly as appears of record in
this office.
                   Witness Henry Bowen Secry.
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  BY HIS EXCELLENCY
  John Brown Francis
Governor, Captain-General, and Commander in Chief of the State of Rhode-
            Island and Providence Plantations
BE IT KNOWN, that the name "HENRY BOWEN", to be
afore-written attestation subscribes, is the proper writing of Henry Bow-
en, Esquire, who ar the time of subscribing the same, was Secretary of the
State aforesaid, duly elected and qualified according to law: Wherefore unto
his said attestation full faith and credit are to be rendered.
                                       In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and
                                       cause the seal of said State to be affixed at Prov-
                                       dence, this seventeenth
                                       day of April in the of our
                                       Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven
                                       and of Independence the sixty-first.
                                       john Brown Francis

By His Excellency's Command.
Henry Bowen Secry
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I Phebe Sweet of Warren in the County of Bristol in the State of Rhode Island [illegible] being in the eightieth year of my age and being [illegible] according to law, do testify and say, that I was well acquainted with Peleg Slocum, late of Bristol in said county, deceased that Elizabeth Slocum now resident in the City of Providence, is the widow of said Peleg Slocum and has remained unmarried ever since the decease of her said Husband and I further testify that I was personally present at the marriage of said Peleg Slocum with said Elizabeth whose maiden name was Elizabeth Underwood, and that said Peleg and Elizabeth were lawfully married in the month of March in the year seventeen hundred seventy six. (The precise date I do not recollect by Elder Whitman, (Samuel Whitman I think who was at that time pastor of the Baptist Church in north Kingston in said State and that said Whitman dies several years ago. and I further testify that I well recollect that said Peleg was a Sergeant in the Company of Militia in said
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I James Tenant of Newport in the County of
Newport and State of Rhode Island aged Eighty years, on solemn oath depose and say, that I was a soldier in the revolutionary war and served one month in Sullivan's expedition on Rhode Island, in the regiment commanded by Col. Charles Dyer. I then belonged to South Kingston in the County of Washington and State of Rhode Island. I  was at that time acquainted with Peleg Slocum deceased who belonged to North Kingstown in said County of Washington. He came on to the island and served said month in the same regiment. I was in Capt. Christopher Dyer's company. Said Slocum was in the North Kings
ton Company, but who commanded it I cannot recollect. I do not recollect about any other service of said Slocum. There were two drafts in Sullivan's expedition I served in but one,
Witness
Saml Reed
James Tenant X his mark

State of Rhode Island &c
Bristol fe
At Bristol this 7th day of Apl. 1837
Then personally came the above named James
Tenant and made solemn oath to the truth of
the foregoing deposition by me reduced to writing and by him subscribed by his mark) in
my presence. And I certify that I am acquainted
with said Deponent and consider him a man of truth--
Before me
Jos. M. Blake
Just. Peace
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State of Rhode Island &c
Bristol fe
Clerks Office Supeme (Sp?)
Judicial Court April 17th AD 1837
I Greenwood Reynolds Clerk of said Court for
said County of Bristol, do hereby certify that Joseph M. Blake is a Justice of the peace for said County of Bristol legally authorized to act in said capacity and that the signature of his name at the bottom of the certificate to the Deposition of James Tennent, is in his own hand writing
and is his genuine signature,
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court the day and year
above written
Greenwood Reynolds, Clerk
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I Rowland Chadsy of North Kingston (Kingstown) in the County of Washington, on solemn oath, do testify and say that I am now in the Seventy second year of age - During the War of the Revolution, I was to (too) young to serve in the Militia, as a Soldier. I lived near Peleg Slocum, from North Kingston (Kingtown), now deceased, and lived near him & his wife, at the time of his Marriage. He was married to Elizabeth Underwood in the month of March 1776. I was at the house the Day of the Marriage, they were married by Elder Wightman a Baptist Preacher, who lives in the vicinity. I knew the said Peleg Slocum, to leave home often during the time, the Enemy were at Newport, & he was a Soldier in guarding the shores - And I well understood that it was said in the summer of 1778, the time of General Sullivans Expedition on the Island of Rhode Island, that he was there on duty, he was absent from home, at this time one month, and I well remember that it was publicly talked and known, at this time, that he served in that Expedition - I knew him to leave home, to serve as a soldier, many times afterward, but not being with him, I cannot give times or dates - The said Peleg Slocum if he lived to this time, would have been more than Eighty years of Age, he has been dead some years, and died at Bristol in this State - His widow Elizabeth Slocum is now living in the City of Providence-
Witness
Sylvester E Sherman
Rowland Chadsy - X his mark