Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 17,651, for Zachariah Rhodes, Rhode Island
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Continental     Rhodes, Zachariah    $17,651
Navy
R.I. and R.I. Sea Service                       carded
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MASSACHUSETTS
Zachariah Rhodes
Suffolk in the state of Meass~
was a Masters Mate in the Comp commanded
Captain Gardner of the Regt. commanded
Col. Varnum in the Providence
for private 10m. 20d. } $35.54
Masters Mate 5" 5"}       38.70
sailing Master 4" 15"}.    54
R levy [illegible]
Navy and [illegible] service $128.24
Subscribed on the Roll of Measstts~
the rate of 128 Dollars 24 Cents per annum,
commence on the 4th day of March, 1834.
Certificate of Pension issued the 28 day of sept.
1833 and Senth? D.S. Child
Boston
Arrears to the 4th of Mar. '33 $320"60
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4[illegible]'33 64"12
$384"72
{Revolutionary Claim,}
{Act June 7,1832.}
Recorded by G. C. Stetes Clerk,
Book E. Vol. 4. Page [?2.}
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Zachariah Rhodes
15130
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
County of Suffolk ss. On this fifteenth day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two personally appeared in open court before the Honorable Judge of the Municipal Court of the City of Boston now sitting at Boston in and for said County, Zachariah Rhodes a resident of Boston in said County, aged Seventy seven years, 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 7th, A.D. 1832.
THAT he was born at East Greenwich in the State of Rhode Island on the first day of March A.D. 1755, and that there is a record of his birth in the Records of E. Greenwich, that he was in the United States service from the fifteenth day of May a.D. 1775, to the fifth day of April A.D. 1776 (10m 20 d) as a private in the Rhode Island State Troops: that he was residing at Cranston in said Rhode Island when he entered the service; that he entered sometime on the forepart of May not later than the 15th day with one [illegible] and then he [illegible] and served for the period aforesaid under the command of Brigadier Gen Nathaniel Green, in Col [Vannarre's?] Regiment and Capt. Gardner's  company and one Hanokins was and one Potter ensign of the [illegible] company : that he marched from said East Greenwich to Cambridge, thence to prospect Hill where he was stationed: that he served with Hitchcock's regiment and Thompson's Riflemen of the regular troops; and Generals Washington & Lee regular officers were known to him: that he was in no battle and at the end of his service received a discharge but not in writing, that he left the service on said 5th of April and that since the Revolutionary war he has resided at Pawtucket in said Rhode Island and in Boston where he now resides ; He has no document say evidence as of this service and there is none in the archives of Rhode Island, [illegible] to his knowledge 
ALSO: that he was in the united States service from the twenty first day of March a.D. 1777, to the last  day of August A.D. 1777 (5m 5d) as Mater's Mate in the Continental Navy that he was residing at said Cranston when he entered the service; that he entered on board the US Sloop of Providence of 10 Guns and served for the period aforesaid under the command of Com. Jonah Pitcher and one Thanter and Esek Hopkins were Leutinants & [illegible] Capt of Marines,: that he sail from Rhode Island to the Gulf of St [illegible] and these [illegible] and captured the British Brig Sercy of fourteen guns: that he served with none of the regular troops; and no regular troops were known to him: that he was a battle with the Said Brig Sercy which lasted an hour that at the end of his service he received a discharge but not in writing and left the service on [illegible] last day of August.
ALSO: that he was in the United States service from the first day of March A.D. 1780, to the fifteenth day of July - a.D. 1780 (4yrs 15d) as Sailing Master - in the Continental navy that he was residing  at said Cranston when he entered the service; that he entered on board the U.S. sloop of [wa?] Argo of [illegible] Guns, and served for the period aforesaid  under the command of Capt Silas Talbot and Josiah Haynes was  [illegible] Lt. and one Richmond was surgeon on board Argo that he sail from Providence and cruised to Southward and eastward of Newyork
: that he served with none of the regular troops;  no regular officers were known to him; that he was in a battle with a British 74, the Reefs all that at the end of his service he received a discharge but not in writing - and left the service on said fifteenth day of July.  He was also a [illegible] in the army, appointed as aforesaid, and continued to act as such from about the last day of May
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1776 to about the last day of December of the same year. (you?) The general circumstances of his services were as follows to wit; While he was at Cambridge on Prospect Hill Thompson's regiment mutinied because they were ordered on fatigue duty.  They threatened to quit the service. Thenceupon four or five regiments were drawn up at a distance and Washington came out to the Hill and addressed them. I saw him standing with his hat off and talking to those men, who came from the place as himself.  When I was down on [illegible] guard towards Charlestown we were attacked and seen Capt Gardner, run away, and one [Duriton?] a private took the command rallied the men, and drove the enemy and killed one of them the Capt [illegible] tread by [illegible] ?[illegible] he and [illegible] in the Gulf of St. Lawrence we took a [illegible] with fisherman's [illegible] a salt. The [illegible] where we took his had on board a Lt. are Ensign & 18 or 20 Soldiers.  We were [illegible] by surprise into an engagement with the [illegible] 74, and while it lasted a man, named Chilos was killed and another wounded on board the Argo.  For a general description of applicants service, drawn up by himself, see the paper annexed marked A.  The commissions enumerated in the end  having been conferred upon this applicant by Presidents of US & Governors of R.I., together with part of the Argo [illegible- and original missing].  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.
Zachariah Rhodes~
Sworn and subscribed the day and year first aforesaid.
[illegible] Court Supreme Peter O. Thacher. Judge
We Joseph W. Homer Custom officer residing in the City of Boston and Luther Felton distiller residing in Boston hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Zach Rhodes - who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe hem to be seventy seven years of age; that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier &i mariner of the revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.
Joseph Warren Home
Luther Felton
[illegible] Peter O. Thacher, Judge [illegible]
And the said court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, the answers to which are entered in  the foregoing declaration that the abovenamed applicant was a revolutionary Soldier & Seaman and served as he states.  And the court further certify that it appears to them that Joseph Warren Homer and Luther]who have signed the preceding certificate, are residents in the City of Boston; [and that - crossed out] they [who has also signed the same is a resident in-crossed out] and are credible persons, and that their statement is entitled to credit. 
Peter O. Thacher, Judge of the Municipal
Court of the City of Boston-
I______of the ______ do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of for a pension.
In testimony wherof I  hereunto set my hand and seal of office on the day and year first aforesaid.
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Zachariah Rhodes 15130

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Suffolk ss
     I, Thomas W. Phillips, Clerk of the Municipal Court of the City of Boston a Court of Record do hereby certify that the foregoing Contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Zachariah Rhodes, for a pension; also that the Honorable Peter O. Thatcher  is sole Judge of said Court and that the signatures on the papers, purporting to be his are genuine.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & the Seal of said Court at said Boston this fifteenth day of October A.D. Eighteen hundred and thirty two. 
Thomas W. Phillips, Clerk
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I Esau Rhodes of Warwicke in the County of Kent in the State of Rhode-Island a man of colour testify and say that during the revolutionary war I was the servant of John Rhodes the grandfather of Zachariah Rhodes now of Boston in the State of Massachusetts and well know the said Zachariah during that time and untill he removed from Rhode - Island to Boston that I perfectly recollect that the said Zachariah went in to the army in the early part of the War and served in Colonel Vernum's  Regiment which went from Rhode-Island to a place somewhere near Boston, but I cannot say how long he served
        his
Esau X Rhodes
       Mark
Witnesses

     I Joseph Aborn of Cranston in the county of Providence in the State of Rhode-Island Surveyor of the Port of Pawtuxet testify and say that I was well acquainted with Zachariah Rhodes who formerly lived in Cranston, afterwards in Providence and now in Boston, from my childhood till he went to Boston.  That I verily believe the said Zachariah served in the Revolutionary army at an early period of the revolution under Col. James Mitihel Vernum my belief is grounded on information that I have heretofore received from them, and especially from what I learned at the time from Thomas Howard a near neighbor of mine whom I knew to be in the United States service on an expedition from Rhode Island to Roxbury or someplace near Boston [illegible-missing word] The command of Col. Vernum. I have a perfect recollection that the said Howard and after his return informed me that the said Zachariah served with him, and of diverse incidents of the said Rhodes live while they were together And I further testify that the said Howard has been dead a number of years; and that I am well acquainted with Esau Rhodes above named, that he sustains [that he sustains - crossed out] a fair character and that, in my opinion, full faith and credit ought to be given to his testimony.
Joseph Aborn

State of Rhode Island & Providence Plantations 
Kent Ss}
     Be it known & remembered that on this 15th day of September AD 1832, personally came and appeared before me H.A. Anthony a notary Public within and for the County of Kent.  Joseph Aborn  and Esau Rhodes signed to the above deposition which they subscribed in my presence and severally sworn their respective depositions contained the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth -
In witness whereof I have hereunto subsinded my name and affixed my Seal of affair - 
H.A. Anthony P.n
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Exhibited in Municipal Court
Attest Thomas W Phillips
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Zachariah Rhodes
Map

Private 10 Mon. 20 day
Master's Mate  5    5
Sailing Master   6   15 ______________________________
16 ob

May 18 1833
P. 409
15130

D.L. Child
Book a
May,
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BRIEF  in the case of Zachariah Rhodes
Co of Suffolk  in the state of Mass
(Act 7th June, 1832.)

1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? Open Court
2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?
3. How old is he? 77
4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed.

Period. |  Duration of Service. | Rank |
R.I. state Troops
May In 1775 enlisted  10m..20d  Private
August. 1777  5m...5d... entered on Board US 
  Sloop of War called the Providence [illegible] 
  as Masters Mate
entered 1780 US Sloop Argo  4m..15d-Sailing 
  Master-
1st May 1776 [aitier as sutlen?]  7m as 

Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.
Cap Gardner an Col Varnum
Com Pitcher - [illegible] in =the Gulf of St Lawrence  [illegible] service.
Cap Silas Talbot

5. In what battles was he engaged? Cap [illegible] on a British Sloop of War a Battle with a British 74
6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Cranston Rhode Island
7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? Traditionary and four Living witnesses
8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect?
The witnesses are not Certified or Credible

Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
George Taylor  
Examining Clerk.
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O. W. and  N. Division   3--525.
[illegible]  DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
[illegible] File 17651  Bureau of Pensions,
Rev. War.  Washington, D. C.,

     In reply to your requestfor a statement of the
military history of Zachariah Rhodes, a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his [(or his widow's - crossed out]) application for pension on file in this Bureau.
Grandson of John Rhodes

Dates of Enlistment | Length of | Rank
or Appointment          Service
May 15. 75 _______10 mos 20 days  Pvt.
May  76 _________7 mos._________Sutler         
Mch 25. 77_______5m. 5d. sailing masters mate
Mch 1. 80________4mos. 15 d Sailing master

OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED.
Captain.______Colonel.
Gardner______James M. Varnum
--------______Reed
Lt. Com Jonathan Pitcher. "Providence" 
Captured Brit Brig  "Lucy"
Capt. Silas Talbot   "Argo"

R.I.
Mass regt.
Navy
"
Battles engaged in. it the British "Luc" & "Russell"
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Cranston R.I.
Date of application for pension, Oct. 15, 1832.
Residence at date of application, Boston, Mass.
Age at date of application, B Mch. 1, 1755 East Greenwich, R.I.
Remarks:
Commissioned by Gov. of R.I. as Justice of Peace in 1789 & 1790. Com. by Pres. of the US., as mayor for Port of Pawtuxet 1790, [illegible] Revenue for port Pawtuxet 1791 & 1792 & as leiut in US Navy 1798.
Very respectfully,
Commissioner

20581b3m11-05
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Stamp: O. W. & N. DIV  NOV 2 1905 [illegible]

OFFICE OF COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE

TREASURY DEPARTMENT
WASHINGTON
Nov. 1. 1906

To the Commissioner of Pensions,
Sir:
     Will you kindly inform me whether Zachariah Rhodes of Boston, Mass. and at one time of Pawtuxet R.I who was appointed a Leutenant in the U.S. Navy after the peace establishment in 1783, was the recipient of a pension for Revolutionary War services either in Army or Navy.  Our family records were burned in Boston some years ago.  Among them My grat grandfathers Commission. . We wish to connect his identity with certain matter now before
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his decendents.
respectfully yrs
Ada Rhodes.

PENSION OFFICE.
NOV 2 1906
U.S.
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1906 Nov. 9 - History to Mrs. Ada Rhodes -
[illegible] Mr. Rhodes Eastern Div.

Invalid
Navy
File No. 17651
Zachariah Rhodes
Masters Mate
U.S. Navy
Rev War
Act June 7. 1832.
Index: Vol.4, Page 72

[Arrangement of 1870.]
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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 Zachariah Rhodes which require further proof or explanation.

I.   Does the declaration show where the 
      applicant resides? yes

II.   Did the declarest made the declaration in 
      then 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? yes

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 amount of pension he is entitled? yes

VI.  Has he given the names of the officers 
       under whom he served, in conformity with 
       the regulations?

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 hiven 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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2
XI.   Has the applicant obtained the evidence of 
        a clergyman and another resectable citizen 
        as to their belief respecting his age and the 
        general belief is his neighborhood relative 
        to his revolutionary service? [illegible] by 
        two Citizens

XII.   If the clergyman's affidavit has not been 
        produced, is there any reason assigned for 
        not obtaining it?

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 tha such proof 
        cannot be had?

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? yes
         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? No
         Has the proper officer certified to the 
         official character and signature of the 
         magistrate as the regulations direct? yes

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? yes

XVI.   Are the papers authenticated as the 
          regulations direct? yes

XVII.  Are the seven interragatories prescribed 
          by the War Department answered 
          satisfactorily?  And, if no, which of them is 
          not so answered?

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 my 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 sith, 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 belowm and in the following grades;  For_____year______months, and ______days, I served as a _______For ______months and _____days, I served as a ______; and for such service I claim a pension.
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D. Lee Child Esq.
Boston.
NWRhodes 606 Washington ST} 

STAMP:
PROVIDENCE

Henry Bowen Esq.
See [illegible] R.I..
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Providence Aug. 27. 1832.

Sir,
    Yours of 22 in addessed to the Secry of R.I. reached me via Newport.
   There are no documents in this office by which the information asked for can be obtained.
   The record of the officers.appointed is have - but them are no rolls of enlistment.
Respectfully yo ob Serv
Henry Bowen  Secry.

D Lee Child Esq.

Exhibited in Municipal Court
Albert T.W. Phillips
*The information asked for was whether there were any rolls on other documents in the archives of the State Rhode island containing [illegible] of Revolutionary services in the army or Navy. 
D. Lee Child
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May session 1775.


James Mitchell Carnum  Colonel
James Babcock.       Lieut col.
Christian Greene   Major.
of the Reg. of Kings & Kent Counties.

Christopher Gardner  On  Capt
Nathan Hawkins    Lieut
William Potter   Ensign.     

   I do not find "Philip Pierce" among the officers of the Reg...
Respectfully yo Ob Serv
Henry Bowen.

Mr. Child. 
Exhibited at Municipal court 
Albert, T.W. Phillips
Clerk
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Secretary of R. Islands

D Lee Child Esq
Boston

STAMP:
Providence
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To all people whom the same may concern

  I Alpheus billings first Senator of the State of Rhode Island & Providence Plantations and first Justice of the Peace within and for the city of Providence within said State do certify that I am personally acquainted with Desire burrows Crops, Joseph Aborn, James Rhodes and Arthur Fenner whose names are Subscribed to diverse depositions hereunto annexed; that they are persons whose reputations are good for truth and veracity and that full faith and credit ought to be given to their respective depositions
   And I further certify that I have made diligent and full and and satisfactory [illegible] into the character and reputation of Esau Rhodes whose 
mark is subscribed to one other deposition hereuto annexed and find on that enquiry that the said Esau Rhodes sustains a fair and unblemished character for truth and varacity and that full faith and credit ought to be given to his said deposition and therefore I certify the same.   
   In witness whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name to said City of Providence this thirteenth day of June in the year of our LORD one thousand eight hundered and thirty three.
Alpheus Billings
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BY HIS EXCELLENCY,
Lemuel H. Arnold

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 State to be affixed, at Providence, this twentieth day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two and of Independence the fifty-Seventh.

Lemuel H. Arnold

BY HIS EXCELLENCY'S COMMAND.
Henry Bowen Secry
Exhibited in Municipal Court 
Albert Thomas W Philips, Clerk
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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 Plantations.
  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 ne rendered.
     In testimony whereof I have hereunto set by hand and caused the seal of said State to be affixed at providence, this thirteenth day of June in the year of our LORD one thousand wight hundred and thirty-three and of Independence the fifty-Seventh.

John Brown Francis

BY HIS EXCELLENCY'S COMMAND
Henry Bowen Secry.
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State of Rhode Island and 
Providence Plantations

Secretary's office June 13. D 1883.

I Certify that Alpheus Billings is First Senator of said State duly elected and qualified.  I further Certify that said Billings is first Justice of the Peace for the City of Providence duly elected and commissioned, as appears of record in this office, and as such authorized to administer oaths [illegible]: and that Charles F Tillinghast and Henry A Anthony whose certificates are affixed to the papers annexed, are not now in office.
Witness Henry Bowen Secry
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State of Rhode Island and 
Providence Plantations
Secretary's office Sept. 20 1832.

I Certify that at the date of the annexed certificate signed H.A Anthony, Henry A Anthony was a Public Notary within and for the County of Kent:  That at the date of the certificate signed by Charles F Tillinghast, the said Charles was a Justice of the Peace for the town of Providence in the County of Providence:  That at the date of the certificate signed David Philips the said David was a Justice of the Peace for the town of Scituate in said County of Providence: They having been severally elected to said offices and commissioned accordingly: as appears of record in this office.

Witness Henry Bowen Secry.
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Providence ss
in Scituate September 17 D 1832-
Then came Arthur Fenner subscriber to the within deposition and testified to the same to be the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth and was duly engaged under oath before me
David Phillips Just, Peace
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I Arthur Fenner of Scituate in the County of Providence and State of Rhode Island, being called on to state whether I ever had my knowledge of Zachariah Rhodes formerly of Pawtuxet in the Town of Cranston in the State.  Aforesaid, and whether I am acquainted or knowing to his being employed in the service of his County at any time during the War of the Revolution, do testify and say:
     That I was well acquainted  with the said Rhodes when he was a resident of Pawtuxet.  It is also within my knowledge that he was in this army in Col. Mitchell's Regiment when stationed at Prospect Hill;  being myself Stationed there at the same time in Israel Angell's Regiment.
     I likewise know that he served as Lieutenant onboard of the ship George Washington under the command of Capt. Fletcher fitted out from Providence: of the length of time that he was in the service I do not know.
Scituate Sept. 17.1832, Arthur Fenner
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I James Rhodes of Pawtuxet in the town of Warwick in the County of Kent and State of Rhode Island Testify and Say that I was well acquainted with Zachariah Rhodes who formally lived in Pawtuxet in the Town of Cranston and now in Boston and known him for Sixty years and that I verify believe, that the Said Zachariah served in the Revolutionary Army at the first [illegible] of the Revolutionary War at Roxbury or near Boston my belief is grounded by general information or more particular from Thomas Howard a near neabour (neighbor) of mine now dead after he returned from the Army who sometime after I employed as a Baker that he served in Col James Mitchel Farnum's Regiment near Boston and that he was selected to bake for the Regiment and that Zach Rhodes was selected [illegible] with him I cant recollect that he ever Noted [illegible] Long they served but I have no doubt but he served in the United States army in the first part of the Revolution
James Rhodes

State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations Kent ss}
     Be it known and remembered that on the 15th day of September A.D 1832; personally came and appeared before me H.A. Anthony a notary Public with and for the County of Kent James Rhodes signed to the above deposition which he [illegible] in my presence and sworn that the above Statements contained the truth the whole truth & nothing but the truth -
     In witness whereof I have been unto subscribed my name & affixed my seal of office - H.A. Anthony Peace
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Exhibited in Municipal Court
Albert thomas W Phillips
Clerk
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I Desire Burrows Crapo of Providence in the County of Providence in the state of rhode Island wife of Philip Crapo of said Providence aged sixty five years testify and say that Zachariah Rhodes formerly of Cranston in said County, but now, as I am informed, residing in Boston in the State of Massachusetts was well known to me from the earliest period of my recollection up to the time he removed from Rhode-Island to Boston That is a family connection of mine and formerly lived in the same village with my father the late Samuel Aborn and spent much of his time in my father's family when I was a child.  That my late brother John Anthony Aborn at an early period of the Revolutionary War entered into the United States service in the Regiment commanded by colonel James Mitchel Vernum served under him on an expedition somewhere near Boston, but in what years of for what period of time I cannot say.  I have a perfect recollection of being informed at the time of my brother's absence on that expedition that the said Zachariah Rhodes was with my brother in the same service and I have no doubt of the fact as he was about at the same time and I have since considered the fact to be so. 
     And I further testify that all the aged men who resided in the village with the said Rhodes at the period lluded to and who would be most likely to  know of his service in the army are now deceased 
Desire B. Crapo

State of Rhode Island 
Providence Sc.
In Providence this nineteenth day of September AD 1832 the above named Desire B. Crapo made oath to the truth of the above statement by  her subscribed,
Before me 
Charles F. Tillinghast 
Justice of the Peace 

Exhibited in Municipal Court
Albert Tho W. Phillips, Clerk

   I the above named Charles F. Tillinghast, who at the date of the above Certificate was a  Justice of the Peace certify that I am and for many years have been well acquainted with the above named Desire B. Crapo, and know her to be a Credible person & that her statements are entitled to Credit -
In witness whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name this Eigth day of june 1833.
Charles F. Tillinghast
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Exhibited in Municipal Court this fifteenth day of October AD 1832
Albert Tho W. Phillips, Clerk
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A
Memorandum}       I was born in east Greenwich, State of fRhode Island in the year 1735 march 1st.  Some time in the fore part of May 1775, bein then 20 years of age, I inlisted as a private soldier, into Captain Gardners Company, of James Mitchel Varnum, Regiment, of the Rhode Island Line, General Nathaniel Greene's Brigade, marched for Boston and incamped on Prospect Hill where I continued to do duty as a soldier the latter part of the campain was detached command to assist in Baking Briad for the Regiment, some time after the British [illegible] Boston, the army Broke up and part of it marched for[illegible] New York, I was dismissed or discharged having serve about eleven months.  I also, went New York and from New London in the same  vessel which general Greene was a passenger.  Soon after I enlisted at New York I was appointed By General Greene further to a massachusetts Regiment commanded by Col Reed and Lieutenant Col Baldwin, during the time I was attached to this Regiment the army retreated from New York to the White Plains, North Castle, and Peekskill, here at about Christmas the [illegible] part of the troop being disbanded, and the [illegible] gone to the Southward, I went home to Pawtuxet, in Rhode Island.
   In  the Spring of 1777 at [8?], having been early bred to the Sea, I entered onboard the vessel of war the Sloop Providence 10 guns Commanded by Lieutenant Comandent Jonathan Pitcher, we sailed to the Eastward and off NewfoundLand captured an english Brig, with salt and Fishing stores [illegible] in the gulf of St. Lawrence captured another Brig. from Bristol England, Bound to Quebec with military stores and [illegible] for the British army. this Brig mounted fourteen guns, and we had hard work to take him, I entered as Sailing Masters first mate and served in that capacity about five months
   In the Spring of the 1780, Ientered as Sailing Master onboard the United States Vessel of war, the Sloop Argo, of 12 guns Commanded by Captain Silas Talbot, we cruised off to the Southward and Eastward of New york, sparing our mast put into port and repaired it, went out again cruised untill our[illegible] water and [illegible] into the [dalis] eve, get wood and water, went out again and cruised as before fell in with an English of war. come near being taken. had one man killed and another wounded, [illegible] along time but took nothing to this vessel I belonged five months , a first mate has 20, and a Sailing Master 40, dollars p. month- 
I have now by me part of the journal I kept onboard the Argo, ~  
The following commissions are here noted in order to [illegible] my declaration of services [illegible] the United States during the Revolutionary War,~
Commissioned by Governor Collins of Rhode Island as a Justice of the peace 1789.
Commissioned by Governor Fenner of Rhode Island as a Justice of the peace 1790.
Commissioned by President Washington surveyor off the port of Pawtuxet- 1790,
Commissioned by President Washington Inspector of the [illegible] for the port of Pawtuxet 1791.
Commissioned by President Washington, Inspector of the [illegible] for the port of Pawtuxet 1792.
Commissioned by President Adams as Lieutenant  in the Navy of the United States 1798-
arthur Fenner in his deposition calls James Mitchel Varnum Regiment, Col Mitchels, the secretaris Letters States that the Rash of the private of Varnus Regiment and in his official