Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S 12003, Caleb Arnold, Continental R.I.
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Service Continental                     Number 
R.I.                                               S 12003

Arnold, Caleb 
                                                    Carded
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44969
New York
Caleb Arnold 
of [illegible] in the State of N. York
who was a fifer in the [illegible] commanded
by Captain Hitchcock of the Regt. commanded
by Col. ______ in the N. York
 line for 12 1/2 [illegible]
R. J. Sine
Sept. 24/05
Records corrected.
Inscribed on the Roll of N. York
at the rate of 54 Dollars 08 Cents per annum
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831
Certificate of Pension issued the 27 day of July
1830 and [illegible]
Arrears to the 4th of March $108.16
Semi-anl. allowance ending [illegible] 27.04
14969  $13320
Revolutionary Claim, 
Act June 7, 1832

Recorded by [illegible]
Book 6, Vol. 3 Page 41
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[illegible] Arnolds
Affadavit 
Caleb Arnold 
Application 
24578 (partially erased)
Address
P. [illegible]
[illegible]
[illegible]
N. Y. 
[illegible]
13 1/2 mo. [illegible]
$mo. fife margin
57 fifer

416
  15
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1248
   416
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54.08
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State of New York
Chenango County

At a Court of Common Pleas held 
on the thirteenth day of February in the year of
our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty three

Present
Smith M Purdy First Judge

Levi Bigelow Nathan Taylor Hezekiah Reed Associate Judges

appeared in open court said Court being a court of Revered Caleb Arnold of the town of Norwich
Chenango County in said State aged seventy five
years and afterwards who being first duly sworn
according to law doth on his oath make 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 vis

In the year 1776 sometime in the month of
March but the precise day he does not recollect
he went as a substitute for Reuben Rounds for
one month and a half into a company commanded
by Stephen Kymball Captain the
names of the Lieutenant and Ensign he does not
recollect  The regiment was under the command
of Daniel Hitchcock Colnel does not recollect
any other of the regimental officers does not
know who was General - immediately joined
the company at Prospect Hill Massachusets
this deponent at the time he went as a substitute 
resided at Gloucester Providence County
Rhode Island - remained with the company
at Prospect Hill performing duty with his
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company until the expiration of the six week for which he went as a substitute he was then discharged verbally by the Colnel - was engaged in no skirmish or battle during this tour of service. 

In the same year as before he enlisted into
a company of Light Infantry called minute men
standing ready at all times to be called in service.  OneTimothy Willmarth was Captain. Daniel Richmond was Leutenant. Does not know who were the regimental officers. He does not recollect what month it was he enlisted into the Company he enlisted Glocester Providence County Rhode Island a what time after he enlisted his company was called out on  an alarm and he went to Providence and campaigned there Sixteen days performing duty with his company and then went home with his company. A short time after this the company was again called out on another alarm & he marched with his company again to Providence and he remained there one month performing duty with his company and they marched back with his company to Gloucester & what time after  his return his company was again called out on another alarm and he marched with his company to Bristol Rhode Island
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and there remained performing duty with
his company one month and then
marched back with his company to
Gloucester was in no skirmish during
any of these times of service - during the
first service this deponent was a private
at the times of his going to Providence he
was a fifer and at Bristol he was
brevetted of fife Mager and he served in
that capacity
In the fall of 1776 he enlisted for one month
into a company commanded by Samuel May
Captain Caleb Shelden Lieutenant The names
of the regimental officers he does not recollect
except Chad Brown who was Colnel.  
he enlisted at Gloucester and was brevetted fife Mager immediately = at the time of enlisting
he joined his company and the next day
marched with is company to Bristol
and remained there one month fer which
he enlisted and then discharged verbally
by the Captain was engaged in no battle
or skirmish during this term of service

In the year 1777 he retur (crossed through) again joined
the company of Minute men under the command 
of Timothy Wilmarth but what time of the 
year does not recollect but it was in the
first of the year some time early in the
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spring the company were called out and
he marched with his company to Tivertown
Rhode Island at the time of Spensers
expedition and he remained at Tiverton
with his company one month and
then returned back to Gloucester with
his company was engaged in no battle
or skirmish during this term of service
he acted as fife Mager during this term of service

In the year 1778 still remaining in 
the Company of Captain Wilmarth as
fife Mager.  he was called out with
his company to join the expedition under
General Sullivan he marched with his
company to Howlands ferry at that 
place crossed over to Newport on Rhode Island
the British had possession of Newport City
and his company was stationed with the 
other forces on Quaker Hill he there
remained with his company for one month
and then rema (cross through) marched back with his
company to Gloucester was in no battle
or skirmish during this term of service

In a few days after his return home he
with his company were again called out
on an alarm and he marched with his
company to Situate Beach Rhode Island
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^And there remained

patrolling and performing other duties with
his company fifteen days and then returned 
home with his company - was engaged in no
battle or skirmish during this period of service

In the year 1779 still remaining in the
Company of Captain Wilmarth as fife Majer
some time in the spring his company was 
called out on alarum and he marched
with them to Providence and there remained
with his company one moth performing duty
and then returned back with his company

A short time after his return he again
on another alarum he again marched with
his company to Providence and remained 
there a month and then returned home
with his company

A short time after his return he again 
was called out with his company on another
alarum and marched with them to
Providence and there remained performing
duty one month and then returned home
with his company

He was again called out twice afterwards
in the same year on alarums and marched with
company to S [strike through] Providence and remained a
fifteen days each term and then returned 
home with his company
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In the year 1780 still remaining in the 
company of Captain Timothy Wilmarth as
fife Majer shortly after the time left [word struck through] the
British left Rhode Island he was again
called out with his company and marched
with them on to Rhode Island and there
remained performing duty with his company
one month and then returned home with 
his company was engaged in no battle
or skirmish during this term of service

In the year 1781 still remaining in 
the same company as fife Majer the company
were called out on an alarum and 
he marched with his company on to Rhode
Island  the time of the year he does not
recollect but thinks it was some time in the
summer and there remained one month
performing duty with his company and then
returned home again with his company
was engaged in no battle or skirmish during
this term of service

and the deponent states that he is not
acquainted with any Clergyman in his
neighborhood who can testify to his character
or to their belief of his services as a soldier
of the Revolution
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He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever
to a pension or annuity except the present
and declares that his name is not the pension
roll of the agency of any State

He never received any written discharge
and knows of no persons who could testify to his
services except Jabez Arnold William Arnold
and Stukely Turner whose affidavits are
hereto annexed

Sworn [and] subscribed the
day of February 1833

To the interrogations required
As be put by the war department to
applicants he answers as follows

1st 
Was born at Smithfield Providence
County Rhode Island on the fifth day
of July 1757

2nd
Has a record of his age at home in a
bible which was copied from the bible of
his father

3rd
At each time he was called in the service
he lived at Gloucester Providence County Rhode
Island he remained at Gloucester until
1806 [and] then moved to Norwich Chenango
County New York where he now resides
and has ever since resided
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4th
He went once as a substitute for Reuben
Rounds all other times he was called out
with the company into which he had enlisted

5th
Saw General Sullivan at Howlands ferry
General Spencer at Tivertown General
Washington [and] General Greene at Prospect
Hill the general circumstances of his 
services are stated in the body of his
declaration

6th
He never received a written discharge 
but was always discharged verbally

7th
He would give the names of John
Randall [illegible] Randall Samuel
[illegible] Mark Steere and Thomas Steere

^all of the town of Norwich

as persons residing in his neighborhood
who can certify to his character fer veracity

Subscribed and sworn to
the 13th day of February 1833

Caleb Arnold [signature]
PB Prindle [signature]
Deb Clerk
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We Hezekiah Brown [and] Arthur Westcott
residing in the town of Norwich Chenango
County and State of New York
and in the neighborhood of the within named
Caleb Arnold do certify that we are well
acquainted with Caleb Arnold who has
sworn and subscribed to the above declaration
that we believe him to be seventy-five years
and upwards of age; that he is reputed in
the neighborhood where he resides to have been
a revolutionary soldier and that we 
concur in that opinion and we have never
heard any doubts expressed as to his having been
such soldier

Sworn and subscribed to
this 13 day of February 1833
PB Prindle
Deb Clerk

Hezekiah Brown [signature]
Arthur Westcot [signature]

And the said Court do herby declare their opinion
after the investigation of the matter and after putting
the interrogations prescribed by the War Department
that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary 
soldier as he states And the Court further certifies
that it satisfactorily appears to them that there is
no Clergyman residing in the neighborhood of the
applicant sufficiently acquainted with him
to testify with regard to his character or to his
beleif of the services of the applicant * 

[written in margin]
* and also that Hezekiah Brown [and]
Arthur Westcoat who here signed the preceding are
residents of Norwich in said County [and]
of truth and veracity or to character
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I Jarvis I.K. Pike Clerk of the
said County do certify that the forgoing
contains the original proceeding of the 
Court of Common Pleas of said County
in the matter of the application of
Caleb Arnold for a pension  And
that Charles Medbury before whom the
annexed affidavit of Jabez Arnold
purports to have been sworn was at 
the date of the same one of the 
Justices of the Peace in aforsaid
County and that I am acquainted
with his hand writing and verily believe
his name subscribed to the said affidavit
[and] certificate of character to be
his genuine hand writing and [illegible]
true

In testimony whereof
[illegible] hereunto set my name
and the seal of the said 
County [and] Court this 13th
day of February 1833
P.B. Prindle
Deb Clerk

the addition to the Courts opinion
written on the margin before signing [and]
sealing

P.B. Prindle
Deb Clerk

[seal and ribbon affixed]
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I William Arnold of Glocester in the County of Providence and State of RhodeIsland in the Eighty second year of my age and [ingaged??] according to Law Do Testify and Say that I am well acquainted with Caleb Arnold now Residing in Warwick in the State of Newyork he was Born in the State of RhodeIsland [Rhode Island] and Lived in the Town of Glocester in the State aforesaid at the commencement of the Revolutionary war he was here through the war and after the war until he was about fifty years old he is now about seventy six years old and I know of some of his service in the Revolutionary war viz; he was at Prospect hill when the British Landed on RhodeIsand he was there at Tivertown.  the same years called out to Providence and to [??]  In 1778 he was in [Sulivans??] expedition and [Bristol??]. In 1779 he was out several times in Drafts and alarams [alarms], In 1780 he was at RhodeIsland one month, In 1781 he was out several times .  he was Brevetted fife Major in 1776 and served as [??] after that Time.  I cannot assert the precise Time nor the particular places of all he service for we was not out Both to gether [together] at all times  He Lived by me and I was knowing to all the times he was out except in 1775 in the first Campane [campaign] at Boston Eight month I was there.

William Arnold

State of RohodeIsland Providence ss Glocester January 3d AD 1833 personally appeared the above named William Arnold a man with whoom [whom] I am well acquainted and his moral Character for Truth and Veracity is good and made [Sallom??] [Solemn] oath to the Truth of the above affidavit Before me 

David Arnold
Just. [Justice] Peace
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I Stukely Turner of Glocester in the County of Providence and State of Rholeisland [Rhode Island] in the Seventyninth year of my age and ingagid acording [according] to Law do testify and say that I was aquainted with Caleb Arnold in the time of the Revolutionary war altho [although] I was Not with him I frequently heard of his Beging Cald [called] into Service a number of times he was a fifer and served as fife Major

Stukely Turner


State of RhodeIsland Providence Ss Glocester January 3 AD 1833 Personally appeared [crossed out: William Arnold] Stukley [Stukely] Turner signor to the above a man with whoom [whom] I am well acquainted and his moral character for Truth and Veracity. is good and made sollom [solemn] oath to the Truthe [Truth] of the above affidavit Before me

David Arnold Just. [Justice] Peace

State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations
Providence  [Ss??] I William R Watson Clerk of the court of Common Peas within & for the county of Providence in this State, hereby certify that David Arnold is a Justice of the Peace for the Town of Glocester in said county & state_  that the above & preceding signature purporting to be his, are in the proper hand writing of said Arnold_  that he is duly authorized to administer oaths and take depositions and that full faith & credit are due to the official attestations of said [??]

In [??] whereof, I hereunto set my hand and affix the seal of said court at Providence this fourth day of January 1833.

WmRWatson
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Jabez Arnold being duly sworn says that he this deponent of New Berlin County of Chenango State of New York was knowing personally to the services of Caleb Arnold now of Norwich County of Chenango State of New York while a soldier of the State troops during the War of the Revolution_ That the said Caleb Arnold took the place of man who was enlisted in Col. [Colonel] Daniel Hitchcock's regiment in the company commanded by Stephen Kimball of which company the deponent was a member_  That the said Caleb Arnold served in the said company of the said regiment for the time of six weeks at Prospect Hill in the State of Massachusetts_  near to the town of Boston_

And that the said Caleb Arnold was regularly discharged by the return of the person whose services and nation he had [??] for the time being_  And further more your deponent saith not_

Jabez Arnold

Sworn and Subscribed 
this 29th day of September
1832 Charles Medbery
}
Justice of the Peace

The above deponent I am personally acquainted with and from this knowledge can say that he is a man of credit and veracity and entitled to belief as set forth the above instrument.

Charles Medbery { Justice of the Peace

See clerks certificate
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Jabez Arnold being duly sworn says that he this deponant [deponent] of New Berlin County Chenango State of New York did regularly serve in the army of the United States during the Revolution
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Rev. and 1812
Wars Section.
November 15, 1923.

Josephine L. Thompson,
96 Sterling Place,
Brooklyn, N. Y.

Madam;

I have to advise you that from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S. 13003, it appears
that Caleb Arnold was born at Smithfield, Providence
County, Rhode Island, July 5, 1757, and while residing
in Gloucester, Rhode Island enlisted in March 1776, and
served in the Rhode Island Troops as private and Fife
Major, at various times under Captain Stephen Kimball,
Timothy Willmarth, Samuel Meag and Colonels Daniel Hitchcock
and Chad Brown, he was in Spencer's and Sullivan's
Expeditions and served until 1781, in all thirteen and
one half months.
He was allowed pension on his application executed
February 13, 1833, while a resident of Norwich, Chenango
County, New York. There is no data on file as to his family
.
Respectfully,
Commissioner.
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Mch. 16, 1906. History to Leila Arnold  [MR?]
1907 Feby 23.  Hist. to Miss Mildred A. Thomas  c
1923 Nov. 15.  Hist to Josephine L. Thompson

[handwritten] Rev War  12.003
INVALID.

File No.   12,003
Caleb Arnold
Fifer Rev. War

Act:  June 7" 1832
Index:-- vol. A, Page 11
(Arrangement of 1870)
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Danielson, Conn
Feb 5, 1907
[handwritten] OWN
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D.C. 
[stamped] O.W.& N. FILES FEB 11 1907]

Dear Sir: -- Will you kindly send me the war record for Caleb Arnold, the Patriot of Rhode Island.
[stamped] PENSION OFFICE U.S. FEB 9, 1907]
Respectfully,
(Miss) Mildred A. Thomas
Danielson, Conn.
Box 5
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Josephine L. Thompson
96 Sterling Place 
Brooklyn, N.Y.
Oct. 6, 1923
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington, D.C.
Dear Sir;
Can you furnish me with any records concerning the service of Caleb Arnold Jr. in the Revolutionary War? The said Caleb Arnold was born July 5th, 1757, resided in Gloucester R.I. and served as Fife Major, and I believe rec'd a pension after the war. 
Thanking you, I am 
Very truly yours, 
Josephine L. Thompson
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O.W.+N.  
Juneau Wis.
Mch. 10th 1906
Com. of Pensions
Washington D.C. 
[stamped] O.W. & N. DIV. Mar 13 1906 FILES


The information of Leila Arnold recd. and I find it necessary to furnish the war records of Caleb Arnold also from R.I will you please find at your earliest convenience
Resp. 
Leila Arnold 
Juneau Wis. 
P.O Box 167_
[stamped] PENSION OFFICE U.S. MAR 12 1906