Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 21,559, Willard Wade, R.I.
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(3 - 1776)
SERVICE
R. I.
Wade, Willard
NUMBER
S. 21,559
CONTENTS
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21.28h
Rhode Island
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Willard Wade
of Providence in the State of R.I.
who was a Private in the Company commanded.
by Captain Winsor of the Rgt commanded
by Col Brown in the Rhode and
line for 10 months
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Inscribed on the Roll of Rhode Island
the rate of 33. Dollars - 33 Cents per annum
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
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Certificate of Pension issued the 29   day of Aug
1833 and sent S.Y.
Atwell Glouster R.I.
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Arrears to the 4 of March 1833  $66.66
Semi-anl. allowance ending
Helcht             16.67
$83.33

{Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by D.D. Addison Clerk
Book E  Vol. 2   Page 135

1884 June 7 Sent history pr Copnssr
1837 Oct 9 Wm. Durant history copied  3rer
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No 18863
William[crossed out] Williard Wade Providence
County Rhode Island
Private 10 months
10.11. & 12 db
July 10 1833
P  1123
S. Y. Atwell Glouster
Rhode Island
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   BRIEF in the case of Williard Wade
   County of Providence in the 
           State of Rhode Island
             (Act 7th June, 1832.)

1.  Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge?  Court

2.  If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?

3.  How old is he?  75 years

4.  State his service, as directed in the form annexed.

                   Period         Duration of Service.
Called ord  In 1776 Dec   Years, Months, Days.
Drafted           1777 Jan                  1
Sub                    "      Feb                1
Sub                    "      May               1
Drafted              "      Autumn         1
Drafted             1777 Winter           1
Drafted              1778 Aug              1
Drafted                 "                         1
Drafted              1780  Summer      1


Rank                 Names of General and Field
                         Officers under whom he  
                         served.
Private              Cap Abr. Winsor Col. Brown
Private
Private         
Private              Same Company
Private              Same Company
Private              Same Company
Private              Cap Winsor, Genl Sullivan
Private              Said Company
Private              Said Company

5. In what battles was he engaged?  Butts & (illegible) Hill

6.  Where did he reside when he entered the service?  Gloucester Rhode Island

7.  Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls?  traditionary & 2 living witnesses certified, credible,  no clergy man certificate

8.  Are the papers defective as to form or authentication?  and if so, in what respect?  not properly attached, no clerks seal

X Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.

                          Years-month-days
Sub 1780 Sept                 1
Private

                       Rick A Keybrath
                       Examining Clerk.
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Attest S. Cooke P. Clk
State of Rhode Island & Providence Plantations
County of Providence Sc

On this third day of November
1832 personally appeared in open Court before the Judges of
the Court of Probate of the town of Glocester in said County
now sitting, Willard Wade, a Resident in said Glocester
aged 75 years who being first duly sworn according to laws
doth on his oath make the following declaration in order
to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7th
1832 viz I (the said declarant) was born in said Glocester
on the 20th of June 1757. I have no record of my age. I have
always live in said Glocester. In December 1766 I was
called out upon an alarm in Capt Abraham Winsors Company
Col Browns regiment R I militia I was stationed at Bristol
R.I. one month. The British took possession of Newport RI
& all the militia were called out. In January 1777 I was
drafted as a soldier in said Company & was stationed at Providence
R.I. one month. I was quartered in a School house. In February 
1777 I went as a substitute for my Father in the same Company 
& was stationed at said Providence one month I was quartered near
the Court house. In May 17 I went as a substitute for my[crossed out]
Henry Saunders in the same Company & was stationed at Said
Providence one month. In the autumn of 1777 I was drafted
in said Company & was stationed at Warren, Bristol & Bristol
Ferry R I. one month. We were then on guard. In the Winter
of 1777 I was drafted in same County & stationed at
Providence R I one month. & quartered near the Market. In August
1778 I was drafted in said Winsors Company & joined the troops
under Gen Sullivan on Rhode Island-- a day or two after
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I arrived on the islands I was sent to the fort on Butts hill
when I remained on guard until after the battle on the
29th of August. Capt Benjamin Tourtellot commanded
in the battle was fought between Butts & Quaker Hills
Gen Cornell & Sullivan, & Col Brown were officer that
I recollect on the island, After the battle we left the
island & went to Tivertown R I where I remained until I
was discharged. I served about one month. I was drafted
in said Company &  was stationed at Providence R I one month
& was quartered in the College, I do not recollect the time.
In the Summer of 1780 I was drafted in said Company
& was stationed in said Providence on the west side of the
bridge one month. The French engineers were there. In
went as a Substitute for Saml Phittiplay
September 1780 I went as a substitute for said Phill May in said company & was
stationed at the 4 Chimney house on Brenton Point near
Newport R. I. one month I never received any written
discharge & have no documentary evidence. The testimony
of such surviving witnesses as I know of is hereunto annexed
Jeremiah Swert Timothy Swert Joseph Davis are persons
to whom I am known in my present neighborhood and
who can testify as to my character for veracity & their
belief of my service as a soldier of the revolution. I
hereby relinquish every claim whatever to a pension or
annuity except the present & declare that my name is not
on the Pension role of the agency of any State
Willard Wade
Sworn to & Subscribed in open Court the day & year aforesaid
S. Cooke Probate Clerk
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We Jeremiah Sweet & James Bowen residing in
said Glocester hereby certify that we are well acquainted
with Willard Wade who has subscribed & sworn to the
above declaration, that we believe him to be 75 years of
age that he is reputed & believed in the neighborhood where
he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution & that
we concur in that Summon
James J Bowen                      his               
Attest Seril Cooke   Jeremiah X  Swert
                                              mark

Sworn to & Subscribed in said Court the day & year aforesaid
S. Cooke Probate Clk.
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 that 
the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier
and served as he states. And the Court further certify that
it appears to them that Jeremiah Swert & James Bowen
who have signed the preceding certificate an credible person
& an resident in said Glocester & that these statement is
entitled to credit. I Seril Cooke Clerk of said Court of
Probate do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the
original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the
application of Williard Wade for a pension. In Testimony
whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of office at said
Glocester this third day of November 1852,
S. Cooke Probate Clerk
(over)
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Providence July 30th 1833 I hereby certify that Seril
Cooke was on the third day of November 1832 reputed to be the Clerk of the
Court of Probate in & for the town of Glocester County of
Providence & that the signatures to the before going documents
& certificates purporting to be his an in the proper hand writing
of said Cooke as I believe
In witness whereof I have hereunto
set my hand the day & year first written
M R Knight

Glocester July 31" 1833
I hereby certify that I prepared the within
papers for Willard Wade & that the fact that no clergyman resided
in the vicinity of said Wade was 
omitted in the Certificate of the Court
through inadvertancy
Saml Y Atwell
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Revolution

21559
INVALID.
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File No. 21,559
Willard Wade
Pri[Private] Rev War
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Act: June 7th 32"
Index: -- Vol. 2 Page 434
{Arrangement of 1870.}
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Seal of the court
Attest. Wm R Watson Clerk of Court of
Common Pleas County of Providence R.I.

State of Rhode=Island and 
Providence Plantations.

PROVIDENCE, SC.

I WILLIAM R. WATSON, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, within and for
the county of Providence in the State of Rhode-Island, do hereby certify, that Ira P
Evans-- is a Judge of the court of Common Pleas aforesaid,
which court is a Court of Record; that the signature to the annexed document
purporting to be his, all in the proper hand writing of the said Evans;
and that full faith and credit are due to the official attestations of the said Evans
In witness whereof I hereunto set my hand and affix the
seal of said Court, at Providence this 8th
day of November in the year of our
Lord 1832. Wm R Watson
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I James Bowen of Glocester in the County of
Providence State of Rhode Island being duly Sworn
on oath do testify & say that I was a soldier of the
Revolution & am now an applicant for a pension under
the act of June 1832. I further say that I well
Know Williard Wade of said Glocester, He was a
soldier with me in Capt Abraham Winsor Company
Col Chad Browns regiment of R.I. Militia & was
stationed at Warren & Bristol R I one month. The
month & year I have forgotten. I also saw him as a
soldier on Rhode Island in Sullivan expedition.
I lived a near neighbor to said Wade during a part
of the war & frequently knew him to serve in the
militia as a soldier but I have forgotten the
particular periods.
James J Bowen

Sworn 3 Nov
State of Rhode Island &
Providence Sc.
In Glocester the 3d day of November 1832
before me personally appeared James Bowen who being duly
Sworn on oath says that the above deposition by him signed
is just & true in all its parts. I further certify that the said
Bowen is well known to me that he is a credible person and
that his statement is written to credit.

Attest Ira P. Evans Justice C. C. P.
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I Jeremiah Swert of Glocestor in the County of
Providence State of Rhode Island being of lawful
age & duly sworn on oath do testify & say that I was a
Soldier of the revolution & am now an applicant for a
pension under the act of June 1832. I further say that
I well know Williard Wade of said Glouster. I
knew him as a soldier in Capt Winsor Company Col
Chas Brown Regent R I militia in December 1776
we were stationed together at Bristol R.I. I knew him
as a soldier in said Company once on Rhode Island
while the French were there, and once he went as a
substitute for his Father in said Company. I have
always find in the neighborhood of said Wade & knew
of his frequently serving as a soldier in the militia
during the war
Sworn Nov 3
            his
Jeremiah X Swert
            mark

State of Rhode Island &c
Providence Ss. In Glocester November 3d 1832 before me
personally appear Jeremiah Swert who being first duly
sworn on oath says that the deposition by him above signed
is just & true in all its parts. I further certify that the said
Swert is well known to me, that he is a credible person &
that his statement is entitled to credit
Attest Ira P. Evans Justice C. C. Pleas
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Application of Williard Wade } for pension
18863
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TO THE HON. LEWIS CASS
SECRETARY OF WAR OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

HUMBLY REPRESENTS
Williard Wade
of Glouster in the County of PROVIDENCE, State of
RHODE ISLAND; that he was a Soldier in the Revolutionary War as will appear by the annexed
documents. He therefore requests that a pension may be granted to him in conformity with the provisions
of an Act of Congress passed June 7, 1832, entitled "An Act supplementary to the" Act for the
relief of certain Officers and Soldiers of the Revolution "
and his in duty bound will ever pray.
Williard Wade
by his Atty
Saml Y Atwill

Please address me at Glouster R I
S.Y. Atwell
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THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES
Form VAM-51
12 - 5 - 41
Division of Veterans' Administration Archives
BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*

NAME Wade, William GRADE Private  LINE Pennsylvania

WARRANT NUMBER 10603
ACREAGE 100
ISSUED January 17, 1792
to George Moore, assignee

*The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants issued Prior to 1800" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800. Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.
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THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES
Form VAM-51
12-5-41
Division of Veterans' Administration Archives
BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*

NAME Wade, William   GRADE Private    LINE Pennsylvania

WARRANT NUMBER 10640
ACREAGE 100
ISSUED January 8, 1796
to Robert Prise, assignee

*The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants issued Prior to 1800" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800. Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.