Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 21,708, Eleazer Collins, R.I.
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Service
R.I.

Collins, Eleazer
or Eleazar

Number 
S. 21,708
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15664
Rhode Island

Eleazer Collins of Providence in the state of RI who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Knight of the Reg.t commanded by Col. Waterman the R. Island line for 6 months & 24 days

Inscribed on the roll of Rhode Island at the rate of 22 dollars 67 cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March 1831. 

Certificate of pension issued the 9th day of July 1833 and sent Benj.m Cowell Providence RI

Arrears to the 4th of March '33 $45.34
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sept.  11.33
$56.67

{Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832}
Record by DD Addison clerk
Book E. Vol. 2 Page 104
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United States of America
Rhode Island District
County of Providence

On this 17th day of September AD 1832 personally appeared in open court being a district court of the United States within and for said district now in session.

Eleazar Collins a resident of Scituate in the county of Providence and aged 73 years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath much the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7, 1832.

That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated - 

I was born in Scituate aforesaid on the 22d day of November 1758

I have no record of my age -
I was living in said Scituate when called into service and have lived in the same town ever since - 
I was called into service and served as follows according to my best recollection - 
On the 20th of April 1775 came the Lexington alarm on which I volunteered & marched to Abryville near Providence when we met ... that that on company must supply
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So many men the number I forget I upon this went back to Scituate & the next day our company made out its quote without me - I was gone on this alarm two days either under Samuel William or Peleg Fisher, Captain. 
On the 18th of June 1775 came the Bunker Hills alarm I was again ordered to turn out which I did and marched as far as Providence we then met served as in the Lexington above for one company to furnish a certain number of men, we went back & met next day at Saul Shearman tavern in Scituate as we had been ordered when one officers but up for volunteers and .. turned out without me - on this alarm given two days. 
In the fall of 1776 at the general alarm I served in the militia a month Sictuate Providence in Nathan Ralphs company tho' he and most of his company went to Murriet, we then came to a draft and I was in the second division the whole troops as I think being divided into two divisions - at the expiration of a month I went down to Warwick & served another month under I said Captain Nathan Ralphs stations at Daniel Braytons - it might have been on with once a month before I went - 
In the fall of 1777 on the draft I marched to Providence and from them by water went to Paepperswich and from there to Bristol when I was stationed some I am in Tiverton & some I think in Little Compton.
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at any rate I was stationed some east of the Howlands Ferry - this was in the time of Spencer's expedition and Jonathan Knight - was my captain and I was gone in this tour as near as I can remember a month between Spencer expedition and the next Spring - I served two months, upon draft at Warwick stationed one time at Daniel Braytons and one tour at Benjamin Gortons both tours under service Jonathan Knight, I believe.
In the Spring of 1778 I served a tour of a month at said Warwick upon draft under I said Jonathan Knight - it was at the time that General Esekiel Powell took a barge loaded with the enemy - I was stationed as Amos Lockwood - 
And in the same spring I served a month upon draft at Providence most of our company went to Warwick I think Capt. Knight went and that I was left much a Lieu with some others - I know we dug a French acron near where Deans Tanyard now is. 
I served 20 days in Sullivans expedition in the second division under Capt. Simeon Harrenden - in the both part of any... I think in 1778.
I want twice to Bristol upon two alarms & was gone about a month in both under said Jonathan Knight - these alarms I think were in 1780.
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Col. John Waterman was our Colonel a good deal at Warwick Stephen Kimball who was Lieu. Col. was also there in command and I remember Major Joseph Knight who was in the service at some of the time - my tours of duty were short & I am unable to remember the exact time of their being performed & of the Colone's & other [illegible]

I never received any written discharge and have no documentary evidence of my service, the deposition of such living witness as I have been able to obtain our annexed. 

Eleazar Ralph, David Ralph Williams Hicks & John Knight was my present neighbors and can testify as to my character for veracity & their belief of my services  as a soldier in the revolution. 

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. 
Eleazar Collins

Sworn to & subscribed the day & year aforesaid
all at B. Cowell clrk
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17133
Eleazar Collins
Rhode Island

Priv at 6 mos 24 days 

Benja Cowell
Priv RI
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BRIEF in the case of Eleazer Collins of [blank] in the State of Rhode Island
(Act 7th June, 1832.)


1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? [blank]
2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity? [blank]
3. How old is he? 73 years
4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed.
Period.
Vol In 1775
Baker
1776
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Duration of Service.
Months,
Years,
Days.
is
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2
2
the
1
1
2

Rank.
As a private
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Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.

Sept Fishe
of
mentioned
Capt Relph
at Right Collaterman
An
Capt Knight

5. In what battles was he engaged? None
6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Scituate R.I.
7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? living witness
8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? not property attached

Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above
M Clagett Examining Clerk
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Revolution 
27108
Invalid
File No. 2108
Eleazar Collins
Priv Rev War

Act: June 7, '32
Index: Vol. 2 Page 77

[Arrangement of 1870]
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Eleazar Collins 95
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I Thomas Ralph of Scituate in the county of Providence and state of Rhode Island aged 72 years and being duly engaged according to law do testify and say; that I am well acquainted with Eleazar Collins of said Scituate an applicant for a pension at the time of general alarm in the fall of 1776 said Collins and I with our company turned out and went to Providence I was stationed a about a week at Joseph Browns house and then I was ordered to Warwick lent said Collins was ordered to stay in said procedure but I do not know what [illegible] he was left under for Capt. Nathan Ralph went with us he was not in the division with me after the drafts commanded much of any but I remember if his coming to relieve me several times when my tours were out - he was a regular soldier during the war in the militia & went so far as my knowledge goes in his regular tours - but how much he served I cannot tell; I never learned it objected against him but what he was nearly and willing to do his duty - & serve in his regular tours - he was in the second division in Sullivans expedition and came down to the Whittleberry fellows & relieved us I saw him for he came a few days before my turn was out - Sept 17, 1832 sworn to in open court
Thomas Ralph
R. Cowell clk
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I Benoni Colvin of Scituate in the county of Providence and state of Rhode Island aged 76 years being duly engaged according to law do testify and say that I am well acquainted with Eleazar Collins of said Scituate an applicant for a pension, I am not certain that I ever served a tour of duty with him in the revolution but he was in the other division and I ... to hear when that division went to guard the shores that Collins was one that went & never heard any fault formed with him but that he did his duty faithfully in Sullivan's expedition he came down to relieve us he being in the same division this I remember - I always understood that the division in which said Collins belonged took this ... tours in guarding the shores of the Namaganset Bay - in the revolution - said Collins could not have been at home on resolution his duty without my having of it and I have no doubt he served in his tours - Benoni Colvin
Sept. 17, 1832 sworn to in open court
B. Cowell clk
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Eleazer Colvin
17035
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We Richard Knight clergyman residing in Branston & Isaac Field residing in Scituate hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Elezar Collins who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be 73 years of age; that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a solder of the revolution and that we concur in that opinion. 
Richard Knight
Isaac Field 

Sworn and subscribed the day & year aforesaid in open court B. Cowell clk

And the said court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogation prescribed by the war department that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states & the court further certifies that it appears to them that Richard Knight who has signed the preceding certificate in a clergyman resident in the said town of Cranston & that Isaac Field, Thomas Ralph & Benoni Colvin who have testified or certified for the said applicant are residents as they state and are credible person & that their statement is entitled to credit. 
I Benjamin Cowell clerk of said district court do hereby certify that the preceding contains the original preceding of said court in the matter of application of Elezer Collins for a pension - In testimony taken of I have hereto set my name & affixed the seal of said this 7th of November 1832
Benj.a Cowell clk