Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 22,169, Abraham Colby, R.I.
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SERVICE
R. I.
Colby, Abraham
Sephton, Sally
(Former Widow)
NUMBER
W. 22,169
CONTENTS 
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Paid at the Treasury under the Act of the 6 April 1838 from 4 March 1837. to the 19. Nov. 1837. the day of her death _ Agent notified 20th Aug 1838.
Dead
Rhode Island 1.107
Sally Sephton formerly widow of Abraham Colby decd.
who died R. I. in 1779 of Kent Co in the State of R. I. who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Dexter of the Regt. commanded by Col. Green in the R. I. line for 17months
Inscribed on the Roll of R. Island at the rate of 56 Dollars 67 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 5th day of July 1837 and sent by Benj. Cowell Providence R. I.
Arrears to the 4th of March 1837 $340.02
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sept. 1837 28.33
$368.35
{Revolutionary Claim,}
{Act July 4, 1836,}
{Section the 3 & act 3d Mar.}
Recorded by D. D. Addison Clerk, 
Book A. Vol. 1. Page 118
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I hereby certify that Richard Septon an invalid pensioner of late of some part of Great Britain but now residing in Warwick in the County of Kent & State of Rhode Island Sc and Sarah Colebee (widow of Abraham Colebe Decd) of Warwick in the county & State aforesaid was lawfully joined together in marriage in said Warwick on the 29th day of December 1791 by me the subscriber
Jas Jerauld Just Peace

State of Rhode Island Town Clerks office
County of Kent Sc } 
Warwick April 19 1837
I George A. Brayton Town Clerk of said town of Wac do certify that the forewritten certificate of marriage is a true copy duly compared by me as appears of record on this office and I do further certify that I have made diligent search in the records of Marriages in this office for the record of the marriage of the said Abraham Colbye to said Sarah and that I have been unable to find the same
George A Brayton Town Clerk
And I further certify that I have reason to believe that many marriages have taken place in said Warwick which are not recorded
George A Brayton Clk
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State of Rhode Island} SS In Warwick the
Kent County} 22day of April AD 1837
Personally appeared George A. Brayton known to me as Town Clerk of the Town of Warwick and made solemn oath that the certificate by him subscribed is true and I further certify that his a credible Person _
Before me Wm Harrison Justice of the Peace
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County of Kent Sc.
On this seventeenth day of April One thousand and eight Jundred and thirt seven personally appeared before me William Carden one of the Justices of the Court of common Pleas within and for said County of Kent Sally Sephton now resident in said county aged Eight five years who being duly sworn according to Law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of congress of July 4th. 1836. and March 3. 1839 that his [illegible] in name was Sally Gammett was born in the town of Warwick aforesaid where she has always resided that in the Month of December 1771 on the twenty sixth day of the Month She was Married to Abraham Colby also of said Warwick and she was Married in said Warwick by Elder Holden a Baptist Clergyman and has a certificate of his Marriage for many years but it now lost. - Nor is said Marriage recorded as she knows or believes in any Public or private record, and she in not certain that any person now is living who was present at the wedding - After the revolutionary War broke out, her husband the said Abraham entered the Army of the United States as a private he enlisted for three years or during the War as he informed this applies and but she cannot now remember either his Captain or his Colonel name only that it was in the continental service in the Rhode I Troops. She must therefore refer to the evidence of those who were knowing to his services, after he enlisted he marched to the westward and was afterward, killed in the Battle of Monmouth as she understood he never returned._ After the War was over in the Month of December on the 29th day of the Month in the Year 1791. She again Married one Richard Sephton but she has no record of this Marriage,_ She lived with said Richard Sephton until June 22, 1822 when he Died in said Warwick since his Death she has always remained unmarried and is now his Widow, where upon She requests that the same pension which her first husband the said Abraham Colby would have been entitled to under the act June 7th 1832 may be granted to her agreeable to the provision of the Act of Congress
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passed March 3d 183dated at Warwick this 17th of April 1835
Signed
her signature [hand drawn X] Sally Sephton
Kent SC 
{Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year
above written before me-  And I further
Certify the within named applicant from old
Age and bodily infirmities is entirely unable
to attend in Court-}
Wm Carder Justice
Court Common Pleas County of Kent
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I Mary Bennet of Warwick in the county of Kent being now Eighty four years of age, on oat do testify and say, that I was formerly well acquainted with Abraham Colby and Sally Gammett and have a good recollection of the time they were Married I well remember that I was invited to the wedding but did not attend but they were then Married. this was several years before the Revolutionary War. I was Married to my husband several years before said War as will appear by the certificate of the town Clerk in my claim for a pension and I well remember said Sally was Married to Said Colby before I was Married, when the War broke out said Colby enlisted and went away into the service and never returned.
signed Mary X her mark Bennet
Dated at Warwick this 14th day of April AD 1837
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written before me _
and I further certify that Mary Bennet signed to the above written affidavit is a credible witness
Wm Carder Justice C. C. Pleas
_ County of Kent
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Rev
WIDOW, &c.
File No. 22169
Sally Septon
Widow of 
Abraham Colby
Priv. Rev. War
Act: July 4 " 1836
Index: - Vol. M, Page 201
(Arrangement of 1870.)
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Mr Evans Aug 14
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Treasury Department,
Second Comptroller's Office
August 14, 1835

Sir:
Under the act of the 6th of April, 1833, entitled "An act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States, The children of Sally Sephton, deceased, a Pensioner of the Roll of the Rhode Island Agency, at the rate of fifty six Dollars and sixty seven Cents per annum, under the law of the 4th July, 1836 has been paid at this Department, from the 4th of March, 1837 to the 19th  Nov. 1837, the day of her death _ 
Respectfully, yours,
Albion K. Parris
Comptroller
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I Mary Budlong of Warwick in the county of Kent and State of Rhode Island aged Eighty three years on oath do testify and say that I have lived in Warwick ever since I was about six years of age that I was acquainted with Sally Gamet from my youth I well remember the time when she was said to be married to Abraham Colby her Mother came to my fathers house where I then lived and invited Mary Wood and Waitly Wood to attend at their wedding that after the said Colby was married they commenced keeping house at [illegible] in Warwick that some time afterward she was left a widow and since that time has been married to Richard Septon and she now remains the widow of said Richard Septon and lives at [illegible] in Warwick
Mary her X mark Budlong
Witness Betsey Burke
State of Rhode Island}
County of Kent} In Warwick this 28th day of April AD 1837 personally appeared Mary Budlong the above named deponant before the subscriber a Justice of the Peace within and for the county of Kent, who subscribed and was duly sworn to the truth of the above deposition according to Law 
I further certify that I am personally acquainted with the said Mary Budlong and that she is a credible witness
Wm Harrison Justice of the Peace
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I John S. Dexter of Cumberland in the county of Providence do solemnly testify, That I retain a clear and perfect recollection of Abraham Colby formerly residing in Warwick in the County of Kent. _ That he was an enlisted Soldier to serve for three years or during the War (for which term I cannot ascertain) _ that he did serve under said enlistment in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Christopher Greene, in the Rhode Island Line, on the Continental Establishment in the campaign of 1777 and was serving in paid Regiment in the beginning of January 1778, when I was detached from said Regiment (in which I was Captain,) and did not afterwards join it, (having been appointed assistant Adjutant General) until July 1781. _ at which time the said Colby was not in paid Regiment. 
I further testify that during my absence from paid Regiment I was informed that the said Colby had been killed in battle and the impression on my mind is that it took place at the battle of  Monmouth, on the 28th day of June 1778. _
John S. Dexter [signature]
Providence Sc
In Cumberland April 25 1837
Sworn to and Subscribed before me and I further certify said deponent is a credible witness
Benja Cowell 
C J C C Pleas
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Sarah Sephton
1974
widow of Abraham
Colby dec
R R
The Roll Capt Dexter Co
Col Green R I line
Adm for 17 mo. $ 5h h h 
per ann. commencing
4 March 1831

Benj Cowell Esq
Providence R I
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I Joseph Arnold of Warwick in the county of Kent aged 82 years on oath do testify and say that I was formerly well acquainted with Abraham Colby the husband of the now Sally Sephton of said Warwick. I will remember said Abraham Colby was in the Battle of the Red Bank below Philadelphia in the Year 1777. He then belonged to the Rhode Island Continental Troops and [illegible] have enlisted either for three years or during the War. I knew said Abraham before he enlisted - what became of him after said Battle I do not certainly remember but believe he was afterward killed in Battle
Dated at Warwick this 17th day of April AD 1837 
Joseph Arnold (L.G.)
Kent Sc} Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written before me - And I further certify that Joseph Arnold Signed to the above affidavit is a credible witness -
Wm Carden Justice Court common pleas County of Kent -

I Joseph Arnold above named do further certify that at the time said Abraham Colby belonged to the continental troops in 1777 he was a married man the husband of the said Sally Septon and had been for some time but how long I do not remember said Colby and myself both belonged to Warwick
Joseph Arnold (S.C.)
Kent Sc In Warwick this 18th day of April AD 1837 Sworn to and subscribed before me and I further certify that the said Joseph Arnold is a credible witness
Wm Harrison Justice of the Peace
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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 Peantations.
BE IT KNOWN, that the name, "HENRY BOWEN," to the afore-written attestation subscribed, is the proper hand writing of Henry Bowen, Esquire, who at 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 caused the seal of said State to be affixed at Providence, this sixteenth day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven and of Independence the sixty-first 
[Seal]
John Brown Francis [signature]
By His Excellency's Command.
Henry Bowen Secre
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State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.
Secretary's office May 16, 1837.
I Certify that at the session of the General assembly of said State on the first Wednesday of May eighteen hundred thirty six, Benjamin Cowell was elected Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas within the County of Providence:  William Carder an associate Justice of the Court of Common Pleas for the County of Kent, and William Harrison a Justice of the Peace for the town of Warwick in said County:  each for one year and Commissioned accordingly as appears of record in this office.
Witness
Henry Bowen  Secry.