Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 37,888, Thomas Dexter, R.I.
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[typed] (3-1776)
SERVICE [written] R. I. Dexter, Thomas [typed] NUMBER [written] S. 37,888
[typed] CONTENTS [blank]
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[written] Cont 8,712 Cont:
Rhode Island [crossed out]
Connecticut
Thomas Dexter 4
[typed] of [written] Coventry [typed] in the state of [ written] Rhode Island
[typed] who was a [writen] private [typed] in the regiment commanded by
Colonel [written] Green [typed] of the [written] Rhode Island
[typed] line, for the term of [written] 3 years 
[typed] Inscribed on the Roll of [written] Rhode Island
 [typed] at the rate of [written] 8 [typed] Dollars per month, to commence on
the [written] 7' [typed] of [written] July 1818
[typed] Certificate of Pension issued the [written] 31st [typed] of [written] Mar 1819
[typed] and [written] sent to Benjamin Cowell Esq
Providence Rhode Island
[typed] Arrears to 4th of [written] Mar 1819 8 mos 29/31 71.48/48"/$119"48
[typed] Semi-anl. all'ce ending [written] 6 Sep: 1819
[typed] {Revolutionary claim,
Act 18th March, 1818.}  
[written, faded] Connecticut
State Sept 19
Dead
Settled to Simon Davis 27 April 1841.
Paid at the Treasury under the
Act of the [illegible] April 1838 from
4 March to 5 June 1831. Agent
notified 3 June 1841
[faded writting on the side /illegible]
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Thomas Dexter
Private
Col. Green's R. Island 
Regt.
1779 - 3 years.

       
Adns

The Judge certificate as to 
belief of service of [illegible]
circumstances of [illegible] [illegible]
wanting.
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It appears by the Regimental Book of Occurences, That the bearer Thomas Dexter [illegible] for and [illegible] the full
term of three years a Private Soldier in the Regiment first commanded by Colonel Christopher Greene, afterward by Colonel Israel Angell, again by the first Colonel Greene and lastly by Colonel Jeremiah Olney, in the Rhode Island [unintelligible] Establishment, and was discharged from Said Regiment on went fourth day June 1782, being the explanation of the [unintelligible] -
Providence July 9th, 1818
Mg. Baxter Majpr of the Rhode Island Regiment at the end of the war.
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I Thomas Dexter of Coventry in the District of Rhode Island being now about Sixty four years of  age solemnly do declare [illegible] that in the month of June 1779 [illegible] as a private soldier in Capt [illegible] of Coventry & Col Christopher Greens regiment - [illegible] regiment was of the Continental army of the United States & of the the Rhode Island [illegible] in which regiment I [illegible] three years being the for which I indicated. I was then honorably discharged - but my discharge is now lost - I also [illegible] in said army in the years 1775 and 1776 - under Colonel Varnum & Hitchcock. I performed my duty of all terms said - in second Battle of Bunker Hill [illegible] in the Battle of Trenton, [illegible] the taking of Cornwallis - I further declare that  [illegible] now in [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] -
Thomas Dexter
Rhode Island [illegible]

(attached below)

Be it remembered that on this Seventh day of July 1818 [illegible], the above [illegible] of Thomas Dexter [illegible] truth of the above [illegible] by his [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] -
Daniel Hordell
District Judge.

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Thomas Dexter
8712
Septr 10/19
C
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United States of America
Rhode Island District
Special District Court, October 9, [crossed out] A D, 1820.
On the ninth day of October, 1820 personally appeared in open Court, being a Court of Record within and for said [illegible] Thomas Dexter - aged 65 years, residing in the town of Scituate in said [illegible]  who being first-duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath declare, that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows: that he served as a Private in Col Green and Col [illegible] regiment of the Rhode Island line upwards of five years that he made a previous declaration on the 7th day of July 1818, and that he has received a certificate for a pension, being No. 8712 and I do solemnly swear, that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen; and that I have not since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner whatever, disposed of my property, or any part thereof, with intent thereby so to dimish it, as to bring myself within the provisions of an Act of Congress entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States, in the revolutionary war," passed on the eighteenth day of March, one thousand and eight hundred and eighteen: that I have not, nor has person in trust for me, any property or securities, contracts or debts, due to me; nor have I any income other than what is contained in the Schedule here to annexed, and by me subscribed.

Thomas Dexter

A Schedule of Property and Income (necessary clothing and bedding excepted) of Thomas Dexter - said Thomas declares that he has no property of any deception whatever, that he is a labourer and works by the days work when he is able [illegible] has such a [illegible] flesh as [illegible].
Thomas Dexter
[illegible]
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Thomas Dexter,
Application for
transfer
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State of Connecticut
County of Windham [illegible]
On this 28th day of March A.D. 1826 personally appeared Thomas Dexter formerly of Scitiate in the State of Rhode Island, but now residing in the town of Thillingly [?] and State of Connecticut, and on oath makes the following declaration, that he is now a Revolutionary Pensioner in conformity with the Act of Congress of March the 18th 1818 and the several subsequent provisions in relation thereto; that his certificate is dated the 31st day of March 1819 and his pension to commence on the 7th day of July 1818; the No of his certificate is 8,712, payable at the Branch Bank in Providence R.I.; that having removed to the State of Connecticut, he is desirous that his Pension should be transferred from the Rhode Island Agency, to that of Connecticut, and therefore prays that the Hon Secretary of War would direct that he be transferred accordingly, and that all the payments now due as well as those hereafter occurring, be paid in the same manner as they would, had he been originally placed on the Roll of said Connecticut Agency. 
Thomas Dexter [signature]

Sworn and subscribed before me}
this 28th day of March AD 1826 }
David C. Bolles Justice of the Peace
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I David C Bolles Clerk of the County Court within and for the county of Windham in the State of Connecticut do certify that David C. Bolles before whom the foregoing application for a transfer hath been sworn to, is duly enrolled as a Justice of the Peace within and for said Windham County and that the preceding signature of his name is in his hand writing to -- In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Publich seal of said Court at Brooklyn in said County this 28th day of March Anno Dominic 1826
David C. Bolles Clerk [signature]
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TREASURY DEPARTMENT, 
Second Comptroller's Office,
May 29th, 1841

Sir:
Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled "An act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States," The child of Thomas Dexter, dec... a Pensioner on the Roll of the Connecticut agency, at the rate of eight - Dollars per month, under the law of the 18th March 1818, has been paid at this Department, from the 4th of March to the 5th June 1831. 
Respectfully yours, 
Albion K. Parris
Comptroller. 

To the Commissioner of Pensions,
Present.
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INVALID.
_________
File No. 37,880
Thomas Dexter
Priv. Rev War
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Act: 18 March 18
Index:--Vol. 2, Page 125

[Arrangement of 1870.]

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Hon. J. L. Edwards
Comm. of Pensions
Washington [illegible]
DC.
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Thompson, Windham Co
Ct, April 20"1841

Sir,
I send you the enclosed papers, for authority of directions, to the proper office for the payment, of the arrears of the pension therein named, to Thomas Dexter.
He has heretofore, delayed any application, for the arrears of Pension due, on his fathers death..from an appehension [sic] that no such arrears, were due, or could be rece'd. All the papers that can be found, in relation, to the title of Thomas Dexter, to a pension, are hereunto annexed, which on reference to the records of the Department will abundantly show the fact, all the others have been, lost & destroyed by time or accident.
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your directions & communications, on the subject, are respectfully, requested, to be made to me, with all convenint [sic] speed, in favour of a poor but honest man. 
I am respectfully your obe. servant
Simon Davis [signature]


Hon. J. L. Edward
Comss of Pensions.
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for Thomas. Dexter.
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The Deposition of William F Greene of Providence in the State of Rhode Island who being engaged according to law says that he is well acquainted with Thomas Dexter of Sactuate in said State an applicant for a pension that he has known him for the last forty years  - that he has also been acquainted with his circumstances - during that [illegible] part of that time. This deponent does not believe that said Dexter posses [sic] any property of any value but believes him to be poor & needy & deserving the assistance of his Country.
Wm F. Greene

5 March

Rhode Island District
I certify that on the fifth day of March 1819 personally appeared before me the above named William F. Greene & made oath to the truth of the deposition by him.
signed
Benjamin Cowell
Commiss Dis Court

Rhode Island District 15 March 1819. Hon. Perry at War. [?] I am satisfied that s Thomas Dexter is poor and needs the assistance of his country for his support. and that he served the 9 mo as required by statue.
David Howell
District Judge.