Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 35716, Samuel Westcoat, R.I.
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(3 - 1776)

Service
RI

Number
S.35716

Westcoat, Samuel
Or Westcore,
Or Westcott
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12,574 4
From Rhode Island to Connecticut
James Westcott of  in the state of who was a Private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Olny of the R. Island line, for the term of 9 months.
Inscribed on the Roll of R Island at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 17 of March, 1819.
Certificate of Pension issued the 22 of July 1819 and sent to Benjamin Cowell, Providence, R Island.
Arrears to the 4
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Samuel Westcott
12574
Sept 1819
[illegible]
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 SCHEDULE of Property and Income {necessary clothing and bedding excepted} of Samuel Westcott
Said Samuel declares that he has no property of any discription
whatever That he is a labourough works when he is able for the
maintainance of himself & family That he has three children relying
and on himself for support [illegible]Samuel ages 5 years Marcey Ellanora
twins aged three years That he has been aplied by the Town
as a pauper for some time That he is so infirmed as to be incapable of the very little labour
Samuel Westcott 
Sworn to and Declared in the open Court on the fourteenth day of
August 1820 before The Hon David Howell U S Justice Judge
[illegible] Benjamin Cowell GA
RHODE-ISLAND DISTRICIT.
Clerk's Office of the District Court, A.D. 1820
I, Benjamin Cowell Clerk of Said Court do hereby certify,
that the foregoing oath, and the schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the record of the said
Court; and I do further certify, that it is the opinion of the siad Couirt, that the amount in value of the property
exhibited in the aforesaid schedule, is nothing dollars and
cents. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this
fourteenth day of August 1820
Benjamin Cowell Clerk of said Court
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Samuel Westcott
private
Colonel Olneys Regt
Rhode Island line
1782 9 months
Admitted upon the
Certificate of
Major Dexter
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The application of Samuel Westcott of Cranston in the state of Rhode Island who being now in the 55th year of his age & in reduced circumstances maketh oath to the following facts that on the nineteenth day of March 1982. he enlisted as a private soldier in Capt. Pearles Company & Col. Jas. Abney,s regiment which regiment was of the Confederate Army of the United States & of the Rhode Island Line from the term of nine months, - In which regiment he remained until the 19th day of December of the same year when he was honorably discharged. - This applicant further maketh oath that he is now in indisc [illegible] circum=stances & needs the assistance of his Country for support according to the provisions of the Cote art of Company. 
Samuel Westcoat

Rhode Island District Js
I hereby certify that on this Seventeenth day March 1819 personally appeared before me the above named Samuel Westcott & made oath that the facts set forth in the declaration by him [illegible] signed are true. - I further certify that I believe that said Westcott served nine months in the revolutionary army and that he is poor and needy as he has declared. And have caused the seal of this court to be hereto affixed.
David Howell
District Judge.
The signature of the judge & the seal of the District Court of the United States for Rhode Island District are hereto affixed
Attn of Benjamin Cowell
Clerk of [illegible] Court
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Rev. and 1812
Wars Section
AWF /eel

January 29, 1929
S. W. Comstock
4 Farrington Avenue
Allston District
Boston, Massachusetts
Sir:
I advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War
pension claim, S.35716, it appears that Samuel Westcoat, Westcote or Westcott, enlisted March 19, 1782, and served nine
months as a private in Captain Sayle's [crossed out] Sayles' Company, Colonel Jeremiah Olney's Rhode Island Regiment.
He was allowed pension on his application executed March 17, 1819, at which time he was living at Cranston, Rhode Island, in the fifty-fifth year of his age.
In 1819, seven children are referred to, no names are
given, and in 1820, the soldier refers to three children; Samuel, aged five years; and Marcy and Mary, twins, aged three years.
In 1832, he was living in Connecticut.
Due to the lack of a clerical force available for
the purpose, only two histories are furnished each inquirer.
Respectfully,
WINFIELD SCOTT
Commissioner.
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Southington 6th Free
July 311
John C Calhoun Esq
Sec of War
Pension Office
Washington
DC
For transfer
Rec 3 Aug 1822
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Souithington on July 25th 1822
H C Calhoun Esq
Sir, I have procurred the authentication required
and herewith transmit my certificate that
my name may be transferred so that I may be
enabled to draw any pension at Middletown in Connecticut
G W Lent
Samuel Wescott
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Samuel Westcott must
in affidavit agree
to the written form
transmit it to the War de
partment before his name
can be transferred
13 May 1822
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APPLICATION FOR A TRANSFER.
State of Connecticut
County of Hartford
ss Southington June 4th 1822
On this fourth
day of June D 1822, before
me, the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace for the said county of
Hartford
personally appeared
Samuel Wescott
who, on his oath, declares that he is the same
person who formerly belonged to the company commanded
by Captain    Sayles
in the regiment commanded
by Colonel Jeremiah Once
in the service of the United States; that his name was placed on the pension roll of the state of
Rhode Island Agency [crossed out] from whence he has lately removed;
that he now resides in the state (district, or territory) of Connecticut where he intends to remain, and wishes his pension to be there payable, in future. 
Sam Westcoat
Sworn and subscribed to, before me, the day and year aforesaid.}
Roger Whittlesey Justice of Peace

WAR DEPARTMENT, Pension Office, August 13, 1818. The oath to be taken before a duly qualified magistrate,
whose official character and signature must be properly authenticated.
The Official character and signature of the Magistrate before whom the above affidavit purports to have been made, must be properly authenticated before the name of the applicant can be transferred
June 20th
1822
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Samuel Westcott
application for transfer
from Rhode Island to
Connecticut
Transferred 7th Aug 1822
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I Thomas Chester Clerk  of the 
County Court in the County
of Hartford in the State of
Connecticut certify that Roger 
Whittlesey Esquire on the fourth
day of June 1822 was a Justice
of Peace of said county I
believe that the signature of
his name within in his signature
[illegible] my hand & the seal   of said hand at Hartford
July 4th 1822 Th. Chester Clerk
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It appears by the Regimental Book that the bearer Samuel
 Westcott inlisted for and served the full term of Nine Months a
Private Soldier in the Regiment commanded by Lieutenant Colonel
Commandant Jeremiah Olney in the Rhode Line on the
contiental Establishment and that he was honorably discharged
from his Regiment at Saratoga in the State of New York on the
nineteenth day of December 1782 being the expiration of the term
of his said intermint
Jno S Dexter [illegible]
Providence March 15th 1819
Regiment [illegible]
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35716
Revy INVALID
File No 36716
Samuel Westcott
[illegible] [illegible] [illegible]
Act 18th March 182
Index Vol 2 Page 444
Arrangement of 1870
1929 Jan 29 His to S.W. Comstock see letter
in Samuel Comstock W 22163 [illegible]
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Service R.J.
Westcoat, Samuel
or
Westcote
or 
Westcott   

Number S. 35716

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