Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 39019, for Samuel Place, Rhode Island
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R.I. Place, Samuel    S39019
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No 19.790
Rhode Island
Samuel Place
of Newport in the State of Rhode Island
who was a Private in the company commanded
by Captain Dexter's of the regiment commanded
by Colonel Olney in the R. Island
line, for the term of nine months
from March 1782 to (not filled in)

Inscribed on the Roll of Rhode Island
at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 2d day of June 1827.

Certificate of Pension issued the 24 of July 1827
and sent to Henry G. Cranston Es
Newport R. I.

Arrears to 4th of 
Semi-all'ce ending 4 Sept 1827  $24-80
$24-80
Revolutionary Claim,
Acts March, 18, 1818,
and May 1, 1820
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20,167
Samuel Place, 
Newport Co. R.I.

Hon: D.J. Pearce, 
H-R.
Recd. 16 Dec. 1826
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State of Rhode Island & Providence Plantations Newport ? Court of Common Pleas, November term AD 1823 - At its adjourned sessions at Newport on the tenth day of January AD 1824, personally appeared in open court, being a court of record within and for the County of Newport in the State of Rhode Island Samuel Place of said Newport, aged sixty two years, residing in the town of Newport in said County who, being first duly sworn according to law, doth as his oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows - in the regiment commanded by Lieut Col. Jeremiah Olney, as a private soldier, for and exceeding the continued term of nine months in the state of Rhode Island line, an the Continental establishment; that he was duly discharged from said regiment at Saratoga, in the state of New York; that the evident of his discharge then delivereth to him has since been lost.  And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States as the eighteenth day of March AD 1818; and that I have not since that time by gift sale or in any manner whatever disposed of my property or of any part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it, as to bring myself within the provision of an act of Congress entitled "an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War passed on the eighteenth day of March AD 1818.  That I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property as securities contracts or debts due to me.  Nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed.

Signed  Samuel Place  his X mark

Witness Henry Y Cranston  Clk
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I have neither income, nor property /necessary 
bedding and cloathing excepted having assigned the whole to assignees appointed by the Supreme Judicial Court of the State of Rhode Island & for the benefit of my creditors under the Insolvent Act of the State of Rhode Island.

Witness, Henry E Cranston, Clk
Signed Samuel Place, his x mark

Sworn to and declared, on the 10th Day of January A D 1824
Before the Court
Henry E Cranston, Clk

Clerks Office Court of Common Pleas for the County of Newport
I hereby certify that the foregoing oath / and the Schedule thereto annexed are/ is truly copied from the Records of said Court, that the Court was of opinion that Saml Place was not, at the time of making said Declaration, possessed of any property whatever. I further certify that said Court is a Court of Record being so constituted by Statue, possessing original & unlimited Jurisdiction in all civil cases, proceeding according to the course of the common Laws, and keeping a Record of its proceeding
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hands and affixed the seal of said Court this Eighth Day of December in the year of our Lord, 
One thousand Eight hundred and Twenty Six,, 
fifty first of Independence.
Henry Cranston, Clk
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It appears by the Regimental Book, That Samuel Place of Newport in the County of Newport and State of Rhode Island, of whose Person I retain a perfect recollection, inlisted for and faithfully served the full and continued term of Nine Months a private Soldier in the Regiment commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Commandant Jeremiah Olney, in the Rhode Island Line, on the Continental Establishment, and that he was honourably discharged from said Regiment at Saratoga, in the State of New York, on the twentieth day of December in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty two. -

Providence November 16th 1826 -

Maj. Parter (?) Major of said Regiment,
eodem tempore.
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Bureau of the Interior
Bureau of Pensions

Searched by
Claim No.
Certificate No.
Claimant
Soldier
Service
Additional Service
Remarks

Chief of Division

(This form was not filled in.)
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Samuel Place
August 10, 18[illegible]
[illegible] [illegible]
[illegible] Newport Rhode Island
Captain [illegible]
Colonel [illegible]
Private-9 months
Mrs. Blake
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Waupun  Mar 29-03

Pension Office Dp'l -

Gentlemen,: -
Were any of these soldiers ever on the pension list of the Revolutionary War?
Griffin Place born in Vt.
Samuel Place
Elija Flagg
The first was in Washington's command we think.

They might have enlisted in Vermont, but lived in New York after the war.
I am sorry I have nothing
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[Only a pension office stamp on this page.]

Pension Office U.S. April 1 1903
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more definite but you are used to letters just like this I am sure.
Hoping you will help me a little I am very truly yours
Mrs. George Heath
Waupun Wis

[stamped]
U.S. PENSION OFFICE
C
APR 1 1903
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[stamped]
U.S.
P.B.
OLD WAR & NAVY FILES
APR 3 1903
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Apr. 7 1903
Geo. Heath
Waupun Wis

39019
INVALID
Revy
File No. 39,109
Samuel Place
Pri Rev War
Act: 18th March 18th
Index: Vol 3, Page 395
(Arrangement of 1870.)

Histy to Mrs
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Newport RI 17th July 1837
Hon. James Barbour
Sir
I have the honor, herewith, to return the papers of Samuel Place with the additional evidence by Mr. Edwards.

very respectfully
your obt sbt
Henry E Cranston
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20,167
Samuel Place,
Newport Co R.I.

Hon. D. J. Pearce H.R.
rec'd Feb 23 1827
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Providence January 25th 1827

Henry Y Cranston, Esquire,
Sir,
I am unable to ascertain the time when Mr. Place inlisted, [sic] or entered into the service of the United States: H was one of 198 men raised in 1782 to complete the quota of the Rh. Island Regiment, and inlisted expressly to serve for the term of nine months from the time of passing muster: Colonel Olney was in this State when those Men were inlisted and he mustered them; but at what precise period,I have no document to shew; Their names and the time of their respective discharges only, are inserted in the Regimental Book.

I am Sir, respectfully
your obedient Servant
Jnos Dexter
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Be it remembered that at this present Term of the Court came Samuel Place of the Town and County of Newport. [illegible]holder and represented to the Court that he petitioned the Hon General Assembly at their last June Session for the benefit of the Insolvent act, that he has according to the provisions of said act passed in Jany AD 1822 notified his Conditions to appear before this Court ot nominate an Assignee to receive and Assignment of his estate and effects for and in behalf of his Creditors and in case of the non appearance of his Creditors as aforesaid that he prays this Hon Court to appoint such Assignee or Assignees under the provisions of said act as they shall deem such. And afterwards viz on the day of the Term the Creditors not appearing the Court appointed Thomas H. Mumford an Assignee as aforesaid, to whom the said Samuel Place forthwith in open court maketh and sealeth a perfect and absolute assignment of all his estate to and for use of his one [obscured]

State of Rhode Island ss
Clerks Office Sup Jud. Court February 14 1827
I Certify the above to be a true Copy from the second of said Court August Term AD 1823. In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed the seal of said Court the day and year above written.
Holmes Weaver Clerk
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State of Rhode Island &c
I certify that the seal affixed to this Paper is the true seal of the Supreme Judicial Court of a'd state & also that the a'd Holmes Weaver Esq is the legally authorized Clerk to a'd Court for the County of Newport.
Witness Isaac Wilborn
Ch. Just. Sup. Jud. Court
Feby 14 1827
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Newport ss
State of Rhode Island &c
Clerks Office of the Court of Commissioners for the relief of Insolvent Debtors 14th February 1827

I hereby certify that on the 13th February AD 1826 Samuel Place of the Town and County of Newport Innholder filed in this office his Petition praying for the benefit of an act entitled "an act for the relief of Insolvent Debtors; passed by the Hon General Assembly of the State at their January Session AD 1822 which said petition was accompanied by a Certificate from Christopher Fowler Esq stating that he had appointed Joseph H Patten Esq Assignee of the estate and effects of the said Samuel and that he the said Samuel "had executed & delivered to the said Joseph a Deed of Assignment of all his estate and effects of what what kind or nature soever" I further certify that the following is a copy of the Inventory at the same time exhibited viz
one Side Board
Two Beds
Twelve old Chairs
Two Beadsteads
Crockery ware valued at $3
Glass [ware] [valued at] 1 50
Pots kettles [valued at] 1
everything else not to 5
[total] 10.50

I further certify that afterwards to wit at the January term of said Court AD 1827 the said Samuel Place obtained Judgment of said Court for the benefit of said act his creditors not appearing to oppose him after being notified according to law for that purpose
In testimony whereof I have hereunto
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[affixed seal]
affixed the seal of said Court and signed the same with my hand at Newport this fourteenth day of February in the year 1827
Holmes Weaver Clerk
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Henry Y Cranston Esquire

Newport, R. Id
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Samuel Place
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The State of Rhode Island & Providence
Plantations
Washington ss Supr Judicial Court April
Term AD 1827

Be it announced that on the fourth day of this Present Term here came Samuel Place of the town & county of Newport in the State aforesaid and in open Court being a Court of Records, on solemn oaths declares and says in Explanation of and addition to his application for a pention [sic] hereto annexed that he enlisted as a private soldier in Capt Dexters Company in Col Olneys Regiment Rhode Island since some where about February or March 1782 in which Company he served more than nine months and was afterwards honorably discharged as appears by Maj Dexters certificate annexed to his original application

Witness Matthew Waite
Samuel his X mark Place
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State of Rhode Island & Providence Plantations

Washington ss April 26th AD 1827
on the day and year lent above written in Open Court in his own proper Person came and appeared Samuel Place signee to the above declaration or affidavit, and made solemn oath to the hereto of the same
witness Matthew Waite Clerk of said Court
[affixed seal]

State of Rhode Island & Providence Plantation
Washington ss I Isaac Wilborn Chief Justice of the Aforesaid Court, do hereby certify that Matthew Waite Esqr is the Clerk of said Court and that the seal to there proceeding affixed is the proper seal thereof
Isaac Wilborn
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[title across two sides of page]
Dn Estate of Samuel Place in ap with Thos H. Mumford Assignee Cr

[left side]
1824 Jany Feby
To Cash for expenses to Wickford | 2.75
[To Cash for expenses to] ditto | 3.40
[To Cash for] npm Battery Auct. for selling estate | 4.00
[To Cash for] State duly 1 pct on $565 | 5.65
[To Cash for] Recording Deed & Certificate | .30
[To Cash for] Drawing 2 deeds | 1.50
[To Cash for] Acknowledging do | .50
[To Cash for] Wm Simons afc for advertising | 5.16
[To Cash for] R.B. Cranston Jail fees | 1.75
[To Cash for] Commissions | 31.50
[To cash for] this amount divided amongst the creditors of said S. Place being 41 pr cent on $1296. 94/100 claims allowed as per schedule annexed | 531.37
[total] $587.88

[right side]

 By cash for S Place's right title and Interest in his estate at Wickford | 565."
" Cash of W. Lovie afc Sales of Furniture sold at auction | 22.88
Errors Excepted
T. H. Mumford Assignee
May 31 1824
[total] 587.88
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I Nathaniel Sweet of the Town and County of Newport and Sate of Rhode Island Attorney and agent for Phebe P. Mumford the widow and administratrix on the estate of Thomas H. Mumford late of said Town and County deceased who in his lifetime was Assignee of the estate and effects of Samuel Place, upon solemn oath declare and say, that the account hereunto annexed is a true and exact copy of the original Assignees account, found among the papers of the said Thomas H. Mumford deceased, and now in my possession, and that according to the best of my knowledge and belief it presents a true, faithful and perfect account of all the acts and doings of the said Thomas H. Mumford, in his said capacity of Assignee, and of the property and estate of the said Samuel Place at that time.
Nathaniel Sweet

The State of Rhode Island 
and Providence Plantations
Newport ss
Be it remembered that I George Turner a Public Notary for the Count and the State aforesaid, by authority duly authorized, commissioned and sworn, and residing in the Town of Newport, at the request of Mr. Nathaniel Sweet of said Newport then present

[affixed seal]
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then present, the possessor of the original account whereof a copy is hereto annexed, did diligently compare the said copy with the original and found the same to be a true and correct copy thereof and at the same time the said Nathaniel Sweet who is to me well knows as a man in whose integrity full confidence may be place and who is nowise interested in the property or concerns of the said Samuel Place, subscribed the declaration hereto prefixed in my presence and made solemn affirmation to the truth of the matters therein contained.
In testimony whereof I the said Public Notary have hereunto set my hand, and affixed my Notarial seal of office, at said Newport, this Second day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven
George Turner
Public Notary
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12
Henry Y Cranston Esq
Newport RI
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Inventory
[?]  and 14 acres of land in N Kingstown under certain encumbrances, which was put up at auction May 7 1823 and which was vid in the highest bid being $1230 - $1230
two feather beds at $15 each   30
two common tables  4.50
one set Windsor chairs $3, one set common [?] 4.50
two looking glasses 3.
andirons shovel & tongs 7.
crockery and glass ware 2
iron ware and kitchen utensils 8
1289.50

Debts due me
Widow Holts note  $40
There were sundry debts due me, but the books got out of my hands and I am totally unable to say what the amount may be, but I imagine they would amount to about $300 or $350- among them one debt due from John Frazers estate of 80 [?] $350
Losses    $390

George Fowler 600, Hannah Fowler 350
various misfortunes in being thrown out of business and doing nothing for the last two years   500
$ 1450

Debts which I owe
Jonathan Reynolds, Henry Bull, Charles M Thurston  secund by mortgage in the above estate   $370

William Wilber in execution
A V Allen & G "
Washburn (one half)  30
John Woman " 7
Daniel Brown " 5
[?] Sweets " 4
William Battey " 10
David Holloway " 7
Freeborn Coggeshall  24
John Cannon  350
R & G C Shaw 70
Jesia Talmy 20
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Elijah Thurman 24 Note given to John Rose 7.50
James Lawton 20 Benj Harard [illegible] 130
Job Sherman 13 Roth Holt 15
Harvey Sessins 4 J & R Sherman15
John Wood 8 W Simons 30
Sanford Bell 9.88 Marsh Jr 1.29 sundry other small debts not recollected 75
774
Newport Sc. Newport June 8 1823 Then 
appeared Samuel Place and upon solemn oath declared that the paper annexed contains a true and perfect inventory of his property and estate of every kind and nature and also of his debts and loans so far as he is able to as certain the same. before me
William J Patten Justice of the Peace
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State of Rhode Island &c
Secretary's Office Feby 5th AD 1827

I certify that the annexed paper contains a true copy of the inventory list of losses, list of debts and certificate of the Justice thereunto; filed by Samuel Place of Newport Innholder at June session of Assembly AD 1823 with his petition for the benefit of the act entitled "an act for the relief of insolvent debtors' wich petition at May session AD 1824 was tried and granted; taken from the files of my office.
Witness Henry Bowen Secy
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BY HIS EXCELLENCY,
James Fenner
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 the aforewritten 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 the said State to be affixed, at Providence, this fifth day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty seven and of independence the fifty first.
[affixed seal]
BY HIS EXCELLENCY'S COMMAND.
Henry Bowen Secy
J. Fenner
$1.25
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The State of Rhode Island & Providence Plantations Bristol ss Court of Common Pleas January term A.D. 1827

Be it remembered that on the fourth day of this present term here came Samuel Place, of the Town and County of Newport in the State aforesaid, and in open Court being a Court of Record, for the County of Bristol aforesaid, on solemn oath declares and says in explanation of and addition to his application for a pension hereto annexed and made before the Court of Common Pleas for the County of Newport in the State aforesaid at the November Term thereof AD 1823 that he cannot of his own knowledge state with certainty the precise time of his enlisting nor the time of his leaving the service in which he was engaged as a soldier, during the Revolutionary War; that he has no doubt and verily believes that the time when he was honorably discharged from said service is correctly and truly stated in the certificate of Major Dexter annexed to his original application. This applicant further declares that it is his misfortune to be altogether destitute of learning, so much so, as to be unable to read or write, that he has always been engaged in very small business, and that from sickness in his family and personal infirmities he has been unable to keep himself clear of debt that the only changes in his property which have taken place since March 1818 will fully appear by the annexed certificates whereby it will be seen that all his property and effects have been assigned by him for the benefit of his creditors agreeably to the Insolvent Laws of this state. This applicant further declares on oath that the reason why he did not make an earlier application for a pension is, that by keeping a boarding house he was able to support himself and family down to the time of making his application as aforesaid, that in November 1823 or January 1824 William S. Patten Esquire at Providence in this state undertook to assist this applicant in obtaining his pension; that from January 1824, almost to the present day, this applicant has been in the constant habit of enquiring of said William S. Patten Esquire and of Henry Y. Cranston Esquire the clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for the county of Newport why his pension was not granted; that since the Honorable J. Pearce has been a member of Congress, this deponent has frequently solicited his aid in endeavoring to obtain his pension; that he was
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informed by Maj Pattin and Cranston, that his papers had been duly forwarded to the War Department, and never knew that his papers had not been received at the pension office until he was so informed by Hon Mr. Pearce. This applicant hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension except the present, applied for in Jany 1824 as aforesaid.-
his mark x
Samuel Place
Witness Richard Smith

I, Richard Smith, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for the County of Bristol, in the State of Rhode Island Do hereby certify, that on this Twenty fifth day of January in the year 1827 personally appeared in open court, the above named Samuel Place and made solemn oath to the truth of the foregoing statement or Declaration by him subscribed by his mark in my presence. 

In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of said Court, this twenty fifth day of January AD. 1827.
Richard Smith Clerk

I, John Howland Esquire Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas for the County of Bristol, do hereby certify, that Richard Smith, whose signature is affixed to the foregoing certificate is Clerk of the Court aforesaid, duly commissioned and qualified as such.-John Howland Clerk judicial court of common pleas

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and thereunto caused the seal of said Court to be affixed, the day and year last above written.-John Howland Clerk judicial court of common pleas