Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 1531, John Almy, R.I. Va.
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SERVICE R.I., Va.
Almy, John (Abigail)
Number W. 1531
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21,580
Rhode Island 
John Almy of Newport in the State of R.I. 
who was a Private in the Company commanded 
by Captain West of the Regt commanded 
by Col Weedon in the R. I. Virginia line 
for 23 month & [illegible] days 
9 months in the Virginia line 
the balance of his service in the R. Island Militia 

Inscribed on the Roll of R. Island 
at the rate of 77 Dollars 45 Cents per annum, 
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831. 

Certificate of Pension issued the 30th day of Sept 
1833 and Sent C.E. Robbins Newport R.I. 

Arrears to the 4th of Sept 1833 $193.62
Semi-ant. allowance ending 4 Mar 34 -38.73 
[=] $232.35

{Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.} 
Recorded by DD Addison Clerk, 
Book E. Vol. 2 Page 107
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John Almy
22195
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Declaration 
State of Rhode Island, &c.
County of Newport, Town of Little Compton, &c. 
On this seventh day of January, A.D. 1838, personally appeared in open court, before the Court of Probate of Little Compton, in the county and State aforesaid, at a special session thereof, John Almy, Physician, a resident of said Little Compton aged seventy four years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following Declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of an act of Congress passed June 7th 1832. 
1. That the particulars of his first entering the service are to the following effect, viz. Having lived with his parents until he was between thirteen and fourteen years of age he adopted the profession of a mariner. The voyage before he entered the service of the State of Virginia, was in a brig belonging to Anthony and Cahoone of Newport, which was sunk in the harbor of Antigua, in the West Indies. She was commanded by Capt. Hezekiah Anthony. After the sinking of the brig, this declarant proceeded from Antigua to St. Eustatia, and took passage in a schooner (belonging to old Gutridge) for Norfolk, in Virginia; but as the English were at Norfolk, this declarant landed five miles below, on the opposite side of the river, with three others that had brought a boat from the West Indies for this purpose. After being there some time, declarant went to Hampton, and not finding employment, Feby, or March 1776, enlisted into a rifle company in the State service, commanded by a Captain West, and in Col Weeden's regiment, belonging to the back part of Virginia. After doing duty for some time in Hampton, the regiment was marched to the Potomac river, below Alexandria, and abreast of the English fleet. From thence the regiment was marched to General Washington's army. While on the march to said army, declarant was taken with the fever and ague, and from that a continual fever; and was left in the hospital at Trenton. After getting better in about two or three weeks, he set off for the regiment and travelled to Princeton-
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There he had a return of the fever and ague; and after remaining about as long as he did at Trenton, went on to Fort Lee, and crossed, as he thinks, to York Island, where he found his regiment encamped near Fort Washington. The same evening there came orders for all the sick, that were able to walk, to make the best of their way in the direction that the baggage went. Fort Washington being taken, and the army obliged to retreat, declarant kept on with the sick, until he arrived at the White Plains, but could not keep so far ahead, but that they would bring the wounded to dress where he had stopped to shake with the ague. The shot from the enemy's artillery frequently passed over his head. When he arrived at the White Plains, he found a few loads of baggage; no provision, or any kind of convenience for the sick:-- of consequence, the sick straggled out to the farm houses, and begged. Declarant continued to wander about, but failed in his health, and could hear nothing of his regiment. He then wrote a letter to his father in Tiverton in the State of Rhode Island, with little hope that it would reach him; but he received it, came on, went to encampment of the sick, there saw one of the company to which declarant belonged, who told him, he did not know where declarant was, or what had become of him. After making diligent search, declarant's father set off on his return; by accident took a wrong road, where he found declarant in the road, and with some difficulty conveyed him home. Fever and ague grew worse, continual fever set in, and declarant did not get well in six months time, nor does he think that he ever got over it. Declarant has no papers to ascertain the precise time circumstances that it must have been in February, or March of 1776. He arrived home in November or December of the same year. Declarant claims to have served in said regiment a period of nine months, and he claims also his pay for the six months ensuring his return to Rhode Island, as he was disabled that time, by diseases contracted in the service, making in the whole fifteen months in this portion of his military service.
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2. Declarant further avers on oath as aforesaid, that after he had so far recovered from the effects of the fever as to be enrolled in the militia, he was called upon by the proper authority to serve as a private in the company of militia, commanded by Captain Isaac Cook of Tiverton, for the purpose of guarding the shores of that town from the incursions of the English at Rhode Island:-  that he was selected out, with twenty five others on account of their knowing how to row, to be employed in going on to Rhode Island, in the night, to get information, and to take a Hessian patrole [sic] of about twenty five men. Said detachment was under the command of Captain Israel Church, and went on three times;-- saw nothing of the patrole of Hessians, but took two dragoons, who came that night in their room and brought them off. In this company of militia declarant served different tours of duty, as guard, in the whole eight months actual duty. 
3. Declarant also further avers on oath as aforesaid, that he served a further term of six months, according to the best of his recollection in several other companies of militia in said town of Tiverton, during the occupation of the Island by the British - but that he is unable to state particularly the officers under whom he served.
4. Declarant claims therefore to have ^served in the Virginia regiment, & at other times in the militia of Rhode Island, during the Revolutionary war --  a period, in the whole, of twenty nine months. He does not remember, that he ever received a cent for any of the above services, except a rifle frock made of tow cloth, and whether gratis or charged to him, he does not know 
5. Declarant further avers, on oath as aforesaid that he was born in the town of Tiverton in the then Colony of Rhode Island March 3rd 1758; that a record of his birth is to be found in the town clerks office of said town, a ^certificate of which, with the attestation of the present town clerk is hereunto annexed; that he was commonant [?] at the time of his entering the service, as aforesaid, in Hampton in the State of Virginia, though his home at that time was Tiverton, Rhode Island; that he has lived in said Tiverton
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and in adjoining town of Little Compton, since the Revolutionary war - that for the last thirty years he has resided in said Little Compton, and that he now lives there: that he is unable to fix with more precision than he has herein done, the day, month, and year, when he entered the service, or when he left the same; that he never received any written discharge from either of the companies which he served as aforesaid; nor was it usual in the Revolution to grant such discharges; that he has no documentary evidence of the services he has sworn to, nor did he ever possess any; that as to the manner of his being called into service, and the names of the officers under whom he served, they are succinctly stated in the preceding part of this Declaration 
August 7th 1833}  By leave of court Declarant amends his declaration and avers on oath that he knows of no living witness to the facts stated in the foregoing declaration 
6. Declarant refers to William Howland  and Amasa Gray, as persons to whom he is known in his present neighbourhood, who can testify to his character for veracity, and to their belief of his services as a soldier of the Revolution 
7. 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 in open Court the day and year before written}
[Signed] John Almy 
Witness [Signed] A.R. Brownell Probate Clerk. 

We William Howland, residing in Little Compton, in the County of Newport and State of Rhode Island, and Amasa Gray, residing in the same Little Compton, hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with John Almy, who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration, that we believe him to be seventy four years of age and that he is reputed and believed in the neighbourhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion; and that we believe him to be a person of veracity.
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Affirmed to and subscribed in open court, the day and year above written.}
[Signed] William Howland
[Signed] Amasa Gray 
Witness [Signed] A.R. Brownell Probate Clerk 

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a soldier of the Revolution, and served as he states. 
And the Court further certify, that William Howland, who has signed the preceding certificate is a resident of Little Compton, and that Amasa Gray who has also signed the same is a resident of said Little Compton; that both are credible persons, and that their statement is entitled to credit. 
The testimony of the nearest clergyman having been requested, if one lives in the immediate vicinity of the applicant, the Court think it proper to state, that the Rev. Emerson Paine, having been recently settled in this place, and the only one who could be conveniently called upon, was not sufficiently acquainted with the applicant to be used is as witness. 
I, Alexander R. Brownell, Clerk of the Court of Probate of the Town of Little Compton, in the County of Newport, and State of Rhode Island, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of said Court in the matter of the application of John Almy for a pension. 
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the Seal of said Court this seventh day of January A.D. 1833. 
[SEAL]
[Signed] A.R. Brownell Probate Clerk
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State of Rhode Island &c 
Town Clerks Office. Tiverton Jan. 14. 1833 
I do hereby certify that Dr. John Almy, now residing in the Town of Little Compton in this State, and the son of Gideon Almy & Sarah his wife, was born in this Town on the third day of March AD. 1758 as appears of Record in this Office 
Witness, [Signed] Asa Gray Town Clerk
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Supplementary Declaration 
State of Rhode Island &c. } 
County of Newport, Town of Little Compton ss. }
On this seventh day of August, A.D. 1833, personally appeared in open Court, before the Court of Probate of Little Compton in the county and State aforesaid, at a special session thereof, John Almy, a resident of said Little Compton, physician, being the same John, who made his declaration to this Court, on the seventh day of January A.D. 1833 (in order to obtain the benefit of an act of Congress passed June 7th 1832) and having been duly sworn, doth on his oath make the following Supplementary declaration to be annexed to his original declaration and duly authenticated. 
That with regard to his service in the Virginia regiment of Riflemen, as set forth in his original declaration, he will state as precisely as he can the date of his enlistment in that regiment, and the time that elapsed before he was carried home by his father, as stated in the original declaration. It was either on the 28th day of February, or on the first day of March A.D. 1776, that he enlisted, as a private, in Col. Weeden's regiment at Hampton  ^Va, in the company commanded by Captain West - whose lieutenant as he recollects was one Taylor, a native of that State, with eyes asquint. Declarant has stated as near as he possibly can recollect all the particulars of his service in that regiment and of the misfortunes which overtook him ^therein in his original declaration. In one particular, however, he is persuaded he was mistaken. The letter he wrote to his father must have been written some time previous to and not after the capture of Fort Washington. That fort was taken November the 16th 1776, and declarant was overtaken by his father, in the manner described in his original declaration, at or near the 28th of November of the same year a few miles to the eastward
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of the Connecticut and New York line; and from that time in about one week ^more he reached home - making it the second week of December 1776, when according to the decision of the Commissioner - his service in the Virginia regiment would terminate. Thus according to the narrowest construction he served nine months and one week in the Virginia regiment. [9M 7d in margin] 
Declarant further avers on oath as aforesaid that with regard to his second period of service as mentioned in his declaration, he was called into service in Captain Isaac Cooks company of Tiverton Militia, June 1st 1777, and that he performed eight months actual duty in this company in various different tours as guard.  [8M in margin] Declarant was never enlisted in the boat service - but was employed as a militia man in the management of the boats in the detachment commanded by Captain Israel Church at the time of Spencer's expedition in the autumn of 1777 and during his above mentioned service in the Tiverton Militia. The Colonel of the regiment to which Captain Isaac Cook's company was attached was Nathaniel Church.  Declarant was discharged from said company September 1778.  Philip Coney was his lieutenant in Cooks company 
It ought to be understood by the department that no such thing as a regiment was ordered out for the defence of Little Compton, during the occupation of Rhode Island by the British. Companies were ordered out, which belonged to regiments and in one of these companies the declarant was enrolled-- but it was rare, if ever, that a Colonel had a command in the field on actual duty 
Declarant further avers that he actually served six months [6m in margin] in other companies of Tiverton militia as stated in his declaration: but he is unable to state any additional particulars, excepting that Peleg Simmons was one of his captains.
Sworn to and subscribed in open Court}
the day and year above written} 
[Signed] John Almy
 Witness [Signed] A.R. Brownell Probate Clerk
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I, Alexander R. Brownell, Clerk of the Court of Probate of the Town of Little Compton, in the county of Newport and State of Rhode Island, do hereby certify that the foregoing papers (attached together by one ribbon, which passes under the seal hereunto set) contains all the original proceedings of said Court (in the matter of the application of John Almy for a pension) held on the seventh day of January A.D. 1833: also the certificate of the Town Clerk of Tiverton to the birth of said John - also an amendment to his original declaration by leave of Court "stating that he knows of no living witness to the facts therein stated ^(page 4th) - the certificate being dated on the 14th day of January 1833, and the amendment being made at the present session of the Court: together with the Supplementary declaration of said John Almy to this court made on the seventh day of August A.D. 1833 and now for the first time to said papers annexed. 
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of said Court this seventh day of August A.D. 1833. 
[Ribboned seal]
[Signed] A.R. Brownell Probate Clerk
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249
Rhode Island
Abigail Almy
widow of John
RI & Va 
who served in the Revolutionary
war as a private 

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 
77 Dollars 45 Cents per annum, 
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1848. 

Certificate of Pension issued the
3d day of July 1849 
and sent to Otis Wilbor 
Little Compton R .I.

Died Jan 8, 1853 
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act [February 2 stricken] July 29, 1848, Page 103 Vol. 1, Book D
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No 358.
Abigail Almy,
widow of John,
R.I.
Act 29 July 1848
Married 1796
Husband died 1844

Admd 23 Mos 7 days 
pri. $77.43 per ann,
fr 4 March 1848

Otis Wilbor
Little Compton, R.I.
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State of Rhode Island} 
Newport County S.S. }
Town of Little Compton}
On this Twelfth day of March in the year Eighteen hundred and Forty nine before the Court of Probate in the Town of Little Compton in the County of Newport, personally appeared in Open Court Abigail Almy, a Resident of Little Compton in said County, aged Seventy four years who, after being sworn, in due form of Law, doth on her Oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits, of the Act of Congress, of 29th July 1848 -- that she is the Widow of John Almy who was a soldier in the War of the Revolution, and who drew a Pension under the Act of 7th June 1832- at the rate of $77 45/100 per Annum, that she was Married to the said John Almy on third day of July Seventeen hundred and Ninety Six in the Town of Little Compton in the State of Rhode Island, by Max Shepard - Clerk, and that her Husband the aforesaid John Almy died on the Twentieth day of March Eighteen hundred and Forty four, - that she was not Married to him prior to his leaving the Service but the Marriage took place previous to the Second day of January, Eighteen hundred at the time above stated - She further swears that she is still a Widow and has never
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before applied for a Pension 
[Signed] Abigail Almy
Sworn to and Subscribed in Open Court before 
[Signed] Nathaniel Church, Judge 

I certify, that satisfactory Evidence has been adduced before said Court, to shew that John Almy died on the Twentieth day of March Eighteen hundred and Forty four and that Abigail Almy the above-named Applicant for a Pension, is his Widow.
[Signed] Nathaniel Church, Judge 

State of Rhode Island} 
County of Newport} ss.
I Daniel C. Denham Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in the County aforesaid being a Court of Record do hereby certify that Nathaniel Church is a Judge or the President of the Court of Probate of the town of Little Compton duly appointed and fully authorized to act in his said capacity  And that his signature afore written is Genuine 
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court at Newport on this sixteenth day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty nine. 
[SEAL]
[Signed] Daniel C. Denham Clerk
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State of Rhode Island 
County of Newport S.S. 
Town Clerks, Office, 
Little Compton March 12, 1849 
I Otis Wilbor, of Little Compton, County and State aforesaid, do certify that I am Town Clerk of said Town, and have the custody of the Records of the Births and Marriages which have taken place in said Town, and I further certify that it appears, from said Records that John Almy and Abigail Bailey were joined in Marriage, on the Third day of July Seventeen hundred and Ninety Six. The Record is as follows, word for word, and figure for figure - 
"This may certify that Doct. John Almy the Son of Gideon & Sarah his Wife of Tiverton, & Miss Abigail Bailey the Daughter of Isaac & Sarah his Wife of L. Compton, were joined in Matrimony by me
Max Shepard, Clerk 
L. Compton July 3d 1796."
[Signed] Otis Wilbor Town Clerk 

Newport S.S. In Little Compton March 12, 1849 Personally appeared before me the above named Otis Wilbor Known to me as the Town Clerk of said Town, and made oath to the above Certificate, by him signed 
[Signed] A. R. Brownell Justice of the Peace for the County of Newport
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State of Rhode Island}
County of Newport} ss. 
I Daniel C. Denham Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in the County aforesaid being a Court of Record do hereby certify that Alexander R. Brownell is a Justice of the Peace in the town of Little Compton in the County aforesaid duly appointed by the town of Little Compton and commissioned by the Governor of this State and is fully authorized to act in his said capacity. And that his signature aforewritten is Genuine. 
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court at Newport on this sixteenth day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty nine. 
[SEAL]
[Signed] Daniel C. Denham Clerk.
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Rev. and 1812 Wars Section 
MEE/HMM ow
January 9, 1930.

Mrs. Charles O. LeNoir 
536 Riverside Avenue 
Jacksonville Florida. 

Dear Madam: 
From the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim W. 1531, it appears that John, the son of Gideon and Sarah Almy, was born March 3, 1758 in Tiverton, Rhode Island. 
While residing in Tiverton, Rhode Island, when he was between thirteen and fourteen years of age, John Almy became a mariner and sailed on a brig to the harbor of Antigua in the West Indies, where the brig was sunk. He proceeded from Antigua to St. Eustatius and took passage in a schooner for Norfolk, Virginia, where he enlisted in February or March 1776, served nine months and one week as a private in a rifle company commanded by Captain West in Colonel Weedon's Virginia Regiment and then returned home to Tiverton, where his father then resided. 
He enlisted in June 1777 and served eight months under Captains Isaac Cook and Israel Church, guarding the shores of Rhode Island. 
During the British occupation of Rhode Island he enlisted and served six months, a part of the time under Captain Peleg Simmons. 
He was allowed pension on his application executed January 7, 1833, at which time he was a physician and resided in Little Compton, Newport County, Rhode Island. He stated that since the Revolution he had lived in Tiverton and Little Compton, Rhode Island. 
He died March 20, 1844. 
The soldier married July 3, 1796, at Little Compton, Rhode Island, Miss Abigail the daughter of Isaac and Sarah Bailey, of the said Little Compton. She was allowed pension on her application executed March 12, 1849, at which time she was seventy-four years of age and resided in Little Compton, Rhode Island. She
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No reference is made to children.
The above noted is the only soldier named John Almy that is found in the Revolutionary War records of this Bureau; and said records fail to afford any information in regard to Henry Matthews.

Very truly yours,
EARL D. CHURCH
Commissioner.
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Left side:
Revy WIDOW, &c.
File No. 1531
Abigail Almy
Widow
John Almy
Priv. Rev War
Act: July 29, 1848.
Index:-Vol. R, Page 7
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Right side:
1930 Jan 9 - Hist to Mrs. Chas. O. LeNoir - M.E.E.
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Same Roll & Act.
John Almy, Private $77.45 per annum,
To what time last paid? Died 22 Mar 1844. Pd to his death [initials illegible]
Pension Office, 
July 2, 49 
C
To Third Auditor's Office


Mr J. L. Edwards, 
Dear Sir, Enclosed are Abigail Almy's Papers, for Pension, hope they are all right -- you have her Husband's Certificate, John Almy. She will of course draw from the Agency Providence R.I. direct any, communication you may make to "Abigail Almy, Little Compton P. O. R.I." or to me.
Otis Wilbor, Town Clerk of Little Compton-- 
acting for her
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Left side:
76.67
+ .78
[=] 77.45
154.90
+ 38.72
[=] 193.62

Right side:
22195
John Almy 
(taking Commissioners decision as to his beginning service) served 23 mos & 1 week in the whole.
Private 23 Mos. 7 days
Capt West, Col Weedon's Reg Va 
Amended, by Declarants 
Supplementary Declaration stating as precisely as is now possible, his tours of service particularly his service in the Virginia regiment of Riflemen with the names of officers &c. Original decl. amended page 4 by avering that he has no living witnesses, to his services. 
Papers duly attached and authenticated  
Chris E. Robbins Esq
Newport R.I.
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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 John Almy 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? No 
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?  No
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?  yes
IX. Has the Clerk given his certificate? 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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XI. Has the applicant obtained the evidence of a clergyman and another respectable citizen as to their belief respecting his age and the general belief in his neighborhood relative to his revolutionary service? Certificate of two witnesses 
XII. If the clergyman's affidavit has not been produced, is there any reason assigned for not obtaining it? yes 
XIII. If the applicant has no documentary evidence, and has not obtained the testimony of at least one living witness, has he stated in his declaration that such proof cannot be had? No
XIV. +If the applicant's name is not found on the rolls of military service, has he produced a witness or witnesses as to his service? 
If he has produced direct proof as to service, has the magistrate who administered the oath, certified to the credibility of the witness or witnesses? 
Has the proper officer certified to the official character and signature of the magistrate as the regulations direct? 
XV. Does it appear from any of the papers that the witness was in such a situation, or of such an age, as to have a personal knowledge of the applicant's service? 
XVI. #Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct? No
XVII. Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily? And, if not, which of them is not so answered? yes

EXPLANATORY NOTES. 
*QUERE V. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words: "Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A. B. who, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that, by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service, but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades; For _____ year _____ months, and ______ days, I served as a ______. For _____ months _____ days, I served as a ______ ; and for such service I claim a pension.
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It is important in all cases to determine with precision the period for which each applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service. The use of the phrase about three or four months is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable. Some persons who apply for pensions merely state they served two years in the militia, &c. without specifying the tours; the names of the officers, and other particulars respecting their service. This form of a declaration is highly objection able. It must in every case be clearly shewn under what officers the applicant served; the duration of each term of engagement; the particular place or places where the service was performed; that the applicant served with an embodied corps called into service by competent authority; that he was either in the field or in garrison; and for the time during which the service was performed, he was not employed in any civil pursuit. 
+QUERE XIV. Proof of Service. 
In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses, who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimants entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the regiment, company, and line to which he belonged. The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the witnesses, and the official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office. 
#QUERE XVI. Mode of authenticating papers. 
In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticates the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other paper authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the ends of which must pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate. 
In every case where the clerk of the court, or other certifying officer, has no public seal of office, the certificate of a member of congress, proving the official character and signature of the certifying officer, should accompany the papers. 

His statement in regard to his having served 8 months in the Boat service is not satisfactory. He should state particularly each tour of active service, when & where performed & the names of all the officer under whom he served. He can not receive any compensation for the time when he remained at home sick. He must therefore state ^with more precision how long he was attached to the Va Regt of Rifleman before his father carried him home.
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Litte Compton R.I.
June 27   [postage] FREE

Hon. J.L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
City of Washington D.C.

Crosswise:
W Cole
will Mr Ames send me the cases named 
Cole
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Little Compton R.I. June 26, 1849 - 
Mr J. L. Edwards 
Commissioner of Pensions 
Washington D.C. 

Dear sir, 
On the 21st day of March last I remitted by Mail from Little Compton P.O. a Package directed to you containing the declarations of 3 widowed Pensioners and evidence relating thereto also the Pension Certificate of Thomas Wilbor deceased -- I have waited for this result so long, I begin to fear the Package has not reached you, on receiving this, will you be so kind as to inform me, whether you have received the Package and if so when I may expect a return from the same - 
Please direct to "Otis Wilbor
Little Compton P.O. Rhode Island" 

yours truly,
Otis Wilbor, in behalf of Abigail Almy, Mary Carr & Ruth Wilbor
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Jacksonville, Fla. 
Nov. 11th 1929

Record Department - Revolutionary Army. 
Pension Office, 
Washington D.C. 

Gentlemen: 
Can you furnish me with any record of pension for John Almy who served as a private in Capt. Benjamin Wilcox [stricken?], enlisting Dec. 8, 1776 and serving at Dartmouth Howland ferry? ["only one" noted in margin]
Also any other soldier from Rhode Island by the name of John Almy, a man born at least before 1715, therefore an old man to give service in 1776 
Vey truly
[Signed] Mollie LeNoir
Mr Charles O. Lenoir 
536 Riverside Ave. 

[Receipt mark] 
Revolutionary & 1812 Wars Section
Bureau of Pensions
Nov 13 1929