Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 22,157, for Jonathan Salisbury, Rhode Island
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Salisbury, Jonathan w22157
Salsbury, 
Amy
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885
Rhode Island
_______________________________
Amey Salsbury
....ow of Jonathan Salsbury
R.I.
....dies on the 22 February 1816
of Providence in the State of R. Island
who was a private in the Company commended
by Captain Kimball of the regt. commanded
by Col Connoll in the R. Island [illegible]
for nine months.
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Inscribed on the Roll of R. Island
at the rate pf 30 Dollars ---- Cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
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Certificate of Pension issued the 19 day of May
1837 ---- and sent to Benj Cowell Esq. Providence
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Arrears to the 4th of March 1837          $180
Semi-Anl. allowance ending 4 Sept '37     15
                                                               $195
                                     { Revolutionary Claim}
                                       Act July 4, 1836
                                       Section the 3
Recorded by [illegible] Allison Clerk
Book      Vol. 1       Page 117
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State of Rhode Island
County of Providence

Be it remembered that on this 13 day of October
AD 1836 before me [illegible] Smith a Notary Public
dwelling & functioning on Scituate on said county
and duly sworn personaly appears Amey
Salisbury of said Scituate know to me 
as the  widow of Jonathan Salisbury of 
said Scituate discussed and at the same
time produces her Family Bible on a Blank
leaf in which is the following record of the
marriage of said Jonathan and Amey
Apparently written many years ago and
is the hand writing of said Jonathan as
the said Amey maketh oath
"Jonathan Salisbury was married May 6 1779"

In testimony whereof I have herewith set my hand
and aforesan? may [illegible]
seal on the day and year first above written
Scituate October 13 AD 1836
[illegible] Smith Notary ...blic
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I [illegible] certify that the Marriage of Jonathan Salisbury
and Amey Kimball is not on [Record] in the Town of
Scituate. County of Providence State of Rhode Island
Scituate October 12 AD 1836. Witness Josiah Westcott. Town Clerk
                                                      of said town of Scituate


State of Rhode Island
Providence Sc....... The day and year above within
the above certificate was Sworn to by the Said Josiah Westcott
Before me
[illegible] Smith Notary Public

State of Rhode Island [illegible]
Providence Se   I Dexter Randall Clerk of the
Court of Common Pleas within aforesaid County
being a Court of Records do hereby testify: that
[illegible] Smith Esq before whom the within
and above documents were sworn: as a Notary
Public within afore said County: that he is [illegible]
duly authorized and empowered to administer oaths
and take depositions: that his signature before
written and attested by a Credible witness now
before me was the proper hand writing of the said
[illegible] -    In testimony whereas I have
                     [illegible] set my hand and affixed
                     the seal of said Court in
                     Providence this 17th day of 
                     October AD 1836
                          Dexter Randall Clk
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State of Rhode Island
                        County of Providence Sc.
On this 13th day of October AD 1836 personally
appeared before me Josiah Westcott on of
the Justices of the Court of Common Please
within afore said County - Amey Salisbury
a resident in Scituate in said County
aged 76 years who being first sworn
according to law doth on her oath make the 
following declaration in order to obtain the
benefit of the provision of the ace of Con-
gress passed July 4th 1836 and that she is
the widow of Jonathan Salisbury who
was a private in the war of the revolution
she cannot specify all hos service & therefore
refers to the evidence [illegible] annexed
she remembers that her said husband was
in Capt. Kimballs Company in 1776
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& served several monthly tours of duty
during that & the few following years
to 1781. She [illegible] & believes he served as
many as sixteen monthly tours of duty
during three years. He never hired a 
substitute but always went when it came
to his turn & during the time the enemy
was in possession of Newport she said
her husband was in the service as much as 
four Months each year- And she further
declares that she was married in said
Scituate by Benjamin Hack, Esq a Justice of
the Peace on the sixth day of May AD 1779
but she has no certificate of her marriage
nor does she remember she ever 
had one- Nor is her marriage recorded
in the Town Clerks office in said town
or in any other public record - but her
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marriage is recorded in the family Bible
that her husband the said Jonathan died 
on the 22nd day of February AD 1816 and
she has remained a widow ever since
that period she therefore requests that the 
pension which would have belonged to 
her said husband under the act of 
June 7th 1832 if being may be granted 
to her-      Amey Salisbury

State of Rhode Island
Providence Sc}
on this 13th day of October AD 1836 then the foregoing
Declaration was Subscribed and Sworn to by the said Amey
Salisbury before me the Subscriber and I certify that I am
well acquainted with Amey Salisbury above named who is
a credible person and her Statement or Dictation is entitled
to full credit and by [illegible] of old age and infirmity is
wholy unable to attend court
Josiah Westcott [illegible] of the Court 
of Common Pleas County of Providence
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I [illegible] Salisbury or Scituate in the
County of Providence being now 55
years of age on oath do testify & say that
Amry Salisbury who has signed the pre-
ceding declaration is my mother and
the said Jonathan Salisbury was my
father My father died in the year
1816 on 22nd of February I was with him
when he died- My mother has re
mained unmarried ever since that 
period & is now my fathers widow
Abel Salisbury

Providence Sc
    In Providence Oct 17 1836
Sworn to & subscribed before me
and I further certify that said Able
is a credible witness.
Benja Cowell
C.J CC Pleas

[sideways note]
Samuel Kimball
Deposition
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State of Rhode Island
Providence Sc   I Dexter Randall Clerk of the Court
of Common Pleas within afore said County being
a Court of Records do hereby certify that
Benjamin Cowell Esq before whom the witness
affidavits were sworn is Chief Justice of the 
said Court that he is by [illegible] duly authorized
and empowered to take depositions & administer
oaths and that his signature within written
is genuine-     In testimony whereof I have
hereto set my hand & affixed 
the seal of said court at 
Providence the sixth day of
December AD 1836
Dexter Randall Clk
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February 24, 1934
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Mrs. B. M. Latham                 Jonathan Salisbury
Box 27                                                 W. 22157
North Scituate, Rhode Island          BA-J/MLB

Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revolutionary War record of Jonathan Salisbury, of Scituate, Rhode Island.

You are furnished below the record of Jonathan Salisbury as found in pension claim, W. 22157, based upon his service in the Revolutionary War.

The date and place of soldier's birth and name of his parents are not shown.

While residing in Scituate, Providence County, Rhode Island, he enlisted in January 1776, and served at various times until sometime in 1781, amounting in all to about sixteen months, as a private under Captains Connor Smith, Joseph Kimball, Jonathan Knight, and Colonels Colwell, James Williams, Ezekiel Cornell and Stephen Kimball, in the Rhode Island troops, was in General Spencer's Expedition in 1777 and in General Sullivan's Expedition to Rhode Island in 1778 and was in the battle of Rhode Island.

The soldier died February 22, 1816, in Scituate, Rhode Island.

Jonathan Salisbury married May 6, 1779 in Scituate, Rhode Island, Amey or Amy Kimball (no relationship between her and the officers surnamed Kimball under whom the soldier served).

Soldier's widow, Amey or Amy Salisbury, was allowed pension on her application executed October 13, 1856, at which time she was aged seventy-six years and a resident of Scituate, Rhode Island.
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The only reference in the claim to children of Jonathan Salisbury and his wife, Amey or Amy, was to a son, Abel Salisbury, who in 1836 was fifty-five years of age and residing in Scituate, Rhode Island.

In 1856, one Samuel Kimball, "aged seventy-four years and upwards", formerly of Killingly, Windham County, Connecticut, but then of Foster, Providence County, Rhode Island, stated that at the time of the Revolutionary War he resided in Scituate, Rhode Island, and served several tours in the war with the soldier, Jonathan Salisbury, but did not state any relationship to soldier's wife, Amey or Amy.

Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER
Assistant to Administrator
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Amy Salsbury
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I Amey Salisbury of Scituate County of Providence [residence]
of Jonathan Salisbury who was a soldier in the was of the
Revolution, do hereby further declare in addition to my first
declaration
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I William Callow? of the Scituate, County of Providence State of Rhode Island being of lawful age and sworn according to Law to testify and say that I was well acquainted with Jonathan Salisbury of Scituate who is now deceased who was a soldier in the Revolution and served as a private, as I believe I was with him on tour of duty in the year 1776 at Bristol in Rhode Island on one month was under Capt. Joseph Kimball, James Williams ? John Colwell Lt Col in the later part of said year I was with said Jonathan Salisbury at Warrink in said State doing duty one month in the year 1777. I was with said Salisbury at Hunton one month and a half under gen Speries? and Cols Cornawll and Calwell I was with said Salisbury in Gen. Sullivan's Expedition on the Island of Rhode Island was then in the Great War? and was in the Battle on said Island, with him the said Salisbury we were then or on duly that year one month and a half. I cannot say what Captain said Salisbury was under both in men in Col Stephen Kimball Regiment in the year 1779. I was with said Jonathan Salisbury in a tour of duty at Warwick one month and in 1780 was On a tour of duty, on the Island of Rhode Island one month with said Salisbury, one month a man at Bristol in the year 1781. According to my best ? he might have ? Dame man starty in said war but the above is all I can now admit all the Able bodied men were often on duty during said war I am will acquainted with Amey Salisbury the widow of the said Jonathan Salisbury Deceased, and she has remained a widow ever since the death of her said husband the said Jonathan Salisbury
William Cologrca?
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State of Rhode Island
Providence
At Scituate this 16th day of September 1836 personally appeared before me the Soldier, William Dalgin who after being ? and sworn according to Law for the ?foregoing deposition which was reduced to writing by in the presence of the said deponent?. And I further
Certify that I am well acquainted with the said William Colgrence?, who is a credible person and his statement of evidence is entitled to full credit.
Josiah Westall ?fisher? of the Court
of Common ? County of Providence.
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I Samuel Kimball of Killingly County of Windham State of Connecticut but now in the Town of Foster County of Providence State of Rhode Island aged Seventy four years and upwards being Sworn according to Law do testify and say that I formerly Lived in Scituate ^Rhode Island and was well acquainted with Jonathan Salisbury of Said Scituate, who is now deceased, who was a Soldier in the war of the Revolution and served as a private [note in left margin] 2 [/note] as I believe I was with him on tour of duty in the year 1777. at Warwick in Rhode Island about two months I think was under Capt Joseph Kimball Ezekiel Cornell was Col. in the spring of said year in the latter part of the same year I was with him the said Jonathan Salisbury at several times while at Providence Bristol and Howland’s Ferry and other places around the coast in said State of Rhode Island. in the year 1778. I was with the said Jonathan while at Warwick and at other places we being accordingly ordered from one place to another around the Shores of Narraganset Bay. We were under Capt Jonathan Knight while at Howland’s Ferry, [crossed out] In the [illegible][illegible] [/crossed out] the spring of 1779. 
I was with said Jonathan Salisbury on a tour of duty [note in left margin] 1 [/note] on the Island of Rhode Island one month I am positive I was with him the said Jonathan as such as nine months in all. in the latter part of the year 1779. I was with [not in left margin] 2 [/note] him two or three tours ^of one month of duty. ^each guarding the shores as aforesaid. We were minute men, so called, during the time we performed the above service and Liable to be called upon at any time. and were out on duty often. I am well acquainted with Amy Salisbury the widow of the said Jonathan who now resides in Scituate, Rhode Island. I was present in the month of Mary 1779. And saw the said Jonathan Salisbury and Amy Kimball, that being her maiden name joined together in marriage and that she remains the widow of the said Jonathan until this period
Samuel Kimball
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State of Rhode Island  Providence} ss Foster October 11th AD 1836
Personally came before me the Subscriber, Samuel Kimball and after being duly cautioned and sworn according to Law Gave the within deposition which was subscribed in my presence and was reduced to writing by me in the presence of the deponent
And I further Certify that I am well acquainted with the said Samuel Kimball who is a credible person and his Statement or Evidence is entitled to full credit.
Josiah Westcott Justice of the Court of Common Pleas County of Providence
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William Colgrams Deposition
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I Oliver Cornell of Glocester in the County of Providence being now 76 years age on oath do testify & say that I was formerly well acquainted with Jonathan Salisbury of Scituate in said County & the husband of Amey Salisbury now his widow ^as I believe & who was a soldier in the revolutionary army I served with him a number of tours of duty and as near as I can recollect as follows I served with him two months stationed at Warwick [left margin note] 2 [/note] neck for which we were paid and received rations we were together in Capt Comer Smiths Company in January & March 1776. as privates & I think Col Colwells regiment I also served with him another month in the summer at Warren – [left margin note] 1 [/note] in a corps called the Scituate Hunters under Joseph Kimball-- In 1777. in Spencers Expedition in October we served together one month and a half ---[left margin note] 1 ½ [/note] at Tiverton, I also served with him a month in [left margin note] 1 [/note] Sullivans expedition in August 1778 we were  together in the battle on 29 of August - In 1798 I [left margin note] 1 [/note] served one month with him in same Company at Warwick neck also in August 1780
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I served a month with on Rhode Island in same Company also in March 1781 another month These are all I can recollect [left hand margin note] 1 [/note] but I have no doubt we served together at other times during the war of the revolution
Oliver Cornell 
In the City of Providence Mar 29 1836 
Sworn to & Subscribed before me and I further certify said Oliver Cornell is a credible witness in the premises
Benja Cowell
C of CC Pleas
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Amey Salsbury
778. 3.Sec

9  months

admitted
$30

Benj Cowell
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I Pardon Angell of Scituate County of Providence State of Rhode Island being aged eighty seven years and upwards being sworn according to law do testify and say, That I was acquainted with Jonathan Salisbury of Said Scituate who was a Soldier in the army of the Revolution Said Salisbury belonged to the Company called the Scituate Hunters Commanded by Capt Joseph Kimball I was with said Salisbury I think in the year 1776. one tour of duty about Eleven days ^at Bristol and was with him at Providence one tour of duty about two weeks and was with said Salisbury one tour of duty on the Island of Rhode Island in the month of August in the year 1779. twenty days. further the deponant says not
Pardon Angell 
State of Rhode Island Providence} This 13th day of October AD 1886. personally came Pardon Angell and after being duly cautioned and Sworn ^according to law gave the foregoing deposition which was reduced to writing by me in the presence of the deponent And I certify that I am well acquainted with the Said Pardon Angell who is a credible person and his statement or evidence is entitled to full credit.
Josiah Westcott Justice of the Court of Common Pleas County of Providence
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State of Rhode Island &ccc
Providence Sc I Dexter Randall Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas within & for said County being a court of Record, do hereby certify that Josiah Westcott Esqr before whom the preceding Documents were sworn, is a Justice of said Court: that he. by Law, is duly authorised and empowered to administer oaths and take depositions and that his Several signatures before written are Genuine   In testimony whereof I have thereto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at Providence this 17th day of October 1836 
Dexter Randall Clk
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North Scituate, R. I.
Feb. 10. 1934.
U.S. Bureau of Pensions
Washington, D.C.

Gentlemen:
Have you among your files any record of a Jonathan Salisbury of Scituate, R.I., as a Pensioner or one having been given his wife
Amey (Kimball) Salisbury.
Kindly advise and address
Mrs. B. M. Latham
North Scituate, R.I.
Box 27
Registrar Moswansicut Chapter
D. A. R.
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1934, Feb 24 - Hist to Mrs
B. M Latham MLB

Rev WIDOW, &c.
File No. 2215
Amy Salsbury
Wid of
Jonathan Salsbury
Priv. Rev. War
Act: July 4th
Index: -- Vol. M, Page 190
[Arrangement of 1870.]