Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 21631, Daniel Barber, R. I.
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(3-1776)
Barber, Daniel
SERVICE R. I.
NUMBER S.21631
CONTENTS _
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[Paper ripped, some information missing]
21.904
Rhode Island
Daniel Barber[?]
of Washington in the [illegible]
who was a Capt. [illegible]
by Captain _ [illegible]
by Col. Brown in the Rh. Island 
line for 1 year Captain}
3 months private}
Inscribed on the Roll of Rhode Island
at the rate of $250. Dollars 00 Cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 18 day of Nov.
1833 and sent to N. Wilcox
[illegible] [illegible] work D
Arrears to the 4th of Sept. '33 $6.25
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Mar[?] '34 $125.
$750.
{Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.}
Recorded by Lo. C. Stiles Clerk,
Book E, Vol. 2, Page 126
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tish Landed in December of that year and then returned to station on the west side of the Narragant Bay untill Capt [illegible]muel Gatton took my place. I then in the year AD 1778 & the month of August volunteered under Capt. Jonathan Bates on to the Island of Rhodeisland attached to Col Dyers Regiment [illegible]neral Sullivan's Expedition was in this service at Justin and Ferry at the north end of said Island three Months a and was Discharged and through a state of [illegible] No more in the war. I was born in the town of Exeter have always lived in said town to the present day. Have no cord of my age I never had any written discharge I hereto annex tabular statement of my services officers &c on the other side of this subscribed sworn to the day and year aforesaid.
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Statement Shewing the Services of Daniel Barber . Period When the services was rendered 1776 1778 years 1, 1 Months 3, 3 Days - - Rank of Claimant Captain, soldier but acted and [illegible] or Capt by order of Col. Had no Commission. Names of field officer under whom he served Col. Robert Brown Col Charles Dyer Age at present and place of residence 85 years. Exeter. Proof by which the Declaration is supported. Reverend Stafford Green Andres Thomas William Honble Jeffery Hazar Joseph Crandall Benjamin Young
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DECLARATION. IN ORDER TO OBTAIN THE ACT OF CONGRESS, PASSED JUNE 7, 1832. STATE OF RHODE ISLAND, COUNTY OF Washington Ss. On this second day of September 1833 personally appeared in open court, before the Judges or Justices of the Court of Probates for Exeter now sitting, Daniel Barber a resident of the Town of Exetor in the county of Washington and State of Rhode Island, aged eighty five 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 7, 1832. That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers, and served as herein stated. That he entered the service in the war of the revolution in the Month of June AD 176 was appointed Captain over the third company of Militia in Exeter and receivd his commission which is hereto annexed, was duly engaged therein and was in the actual service under said commission for the term of one year on account of the state of health resigned and Samuel Gorton was chosen in my place in this service I was attached to Col Robert Brown Regiment, was stationed on the shores of the Narragansett Bay near Point Judith & part of the time was on the island of Rhodeisland after the He hereby relinquished ever 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. Sworn to and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid. Witness Thomas Phillips for P. Clerk Daniel Barber. We Stafford Green Minister of the Gospell residing in the town of West Greenwich and Thomas Wilcox residing in Exeter hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with Daniel Barber who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be eighty five years of age; that he is reputed and believed, in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion Sworn to and subscribed the day aforesaid. Stafford Green Thomas Wilcox. 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 certifies, that it appears to them that Stafford Green of Westgreenwich who has signed the preceding certificate, is a Minister of the Gospel resident in the Town of Westgreenwich and that Thomas Willcox who has also signed the same is a resident in the town of Exeter and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit. Thomas Phillips Jnr.. P. Clerk I Thomas Phillips Jnr. Clerk of the Court of probate for the Town of Exeter do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the application of Daniel Barber for a pension. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office, this second day of September AD 1833 at Exeter aforesaid Thomas Phillips Jnr. P. Clerk
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January 30, 1931.
Rev. & 1812 Wars Section.
Mrs. P. A. Willoughby
495 Richmond Avenue
Maplewood, New Jersey.
Dear Madam:
You are advised that Daaniel Barber was born in Exeter, Rhode Island, exact date not stated.
While residing in Exeter, Rhode Island, he was commissioned June 16, 1776, Captain of the 3rd Company, or Trained Band of the town of Exeter in King's County, Rhode Island, in Colonel Robert Brown's Rhode Island Regiment and served one year. He volunteered in august, 1778 and served three months as private in Captain Jonathan Bates' Company, Colonel Dyer's Regiment on General Sullivan's Expedition to Rhode Island.
He was allowed pension on his application executed September 2, 1833, while a resident of Exeter, Washington County, Rhode Island, aged eighty-five years.
Soldier died May 21, 1842.
It is not stated that he ever married.
Very truly yours,
E. W. MORGAN
Acting Commissioner.
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Left side:

(illegible) Ms. M.
Comm. M. 
(illegible) to
Westerly Rd


Center:

Revolution
21631
INVALID
File No.  21,631
Daniel Barber
Capt  Rev War

Act: June 7th 32

Index: - Vol. 2, Page 21
[ Arrangement of 1870. ]

Right side:

Mrch. 11/93  (illegible) Hist
H. Sprague, (illegible)

Dec 7. 1903 Hi(missing)
Albert E. Barber

1931 - Jan. 30.  Hist. to Mrs. 
F. A. Willoughby - I L L
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Top Left Corner (seal)   By the Honorable Nicholas Cooke Esquire, Governor, Captain-General, and Commander in Chief, and over the English Colony of Rhode Island, and Providence Plantations, in New-England, in America.

To Daniel Barber, junior  Gent. GREETING.
You Daniel Barber junior being, by the General Assembly of this Colon, elected and chosen to the Place and Office of Captain of the Third Company or Trained Band of the Town of Exeter in the County of Kings County in the Colony aforesaid, are hereby, in the Name of the Governor and Company of the said Colony, authorized, empowered, and commissioned, to exercise the Office of Captain of and over the Company aforesaid; and to command, guide and conduct the fame, or any Part thereof:  And in Case of an Invasion or Assault of a Common Enemy to infest or disturb this Plantation, you are to alarm and gather together the Company under your Command, or such Part thereof as you shall deem sufficient, and therewith, to the utmost of your Skill and Ability, you are to resist, expel, kill, and destroy the fame in order to preserve the Interest of the good People in these Parts.  You are also to follow such Instructions, Directions and Orders, as shall from Time to Time, be further given forth, either by the General assembly, the Governor and General Council, or other your Superior Officers.  And for your so doing, this Commission shall be your sufficient Warrant and Discharge.

GIVEN under my Hand, and Seal of the said Colony, the Eighteenth Day of June in the Year of our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and Seventy-six.

By His Honor's Command,
(signed) Nich's Cooke
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Daniel Barber junior
Captain
Third Company
Exeter



Daniel Barber
R. I. 
S21631

Stamped:  The National Archives
of the United States

Right side:

Exeter September 23th A.D. 1776
Personally appeared nambed (named)
Daniel Baber Junior and was engaged to
this Commission according to Law
by Gerry (illegible) (illegible)
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27706

Daniel Barber 
R I

1 year Captain
3 month Private
Admd

Nathan Willcox
Brand's Iron Hook
R I
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The Deposition of Benjamin Young of Exeter in the County of Washington State of Rhode Island aged 74 years  Being carefully examined cautioned and sworn testifies and says In the Matter of Daniel Barber of Exeter on his application for a pension that I am well acquainted with Daniel Barber and have been from bar youth to this day I am knowing him to have been a soldier in the Revolution I was under his Command as a Captain he was then in the year 1776 called and known by the Name of Daniel Barber Jr.  I was with him in his Company attached to the Col. Robert Browns Regiment was on the shores of the Narragansett Bay Boston Neck and Point Judith I was in his Company as a soldier under him Three Months at start of that year.  I also was with Capt Barber on the Island of Rhode Island but not in the same Company in the Month of August 1778 was in General Sullivan's Expedition was with him at Trenton   He was then a Volunteer the Exact length of Time I cannot recollect, But I am Confident, three months at least, we was discharged at Bristol ferry and we came home together.

(signed) Benjamin Young


State of Rhode Island and providence plantation Washington County ss }  Exeter September 19th A. D. 1833 - 
Personally came before me Benjamin Young the signer to the above deposition and made solemn oath to the truth of the same, and  further certify that the Deponent is a person known to me and is entitled to Credit.
(signed) Samuel Reynolds
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State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations 
Washington County ss. }  I Samuel H.  Clerks Office Court Common Pleas.


I Samuel Helme Clerk of the Court aforesaid do hereby certify that Isaac Greene Esq. whose Signature in his own proper hand writing is hereto prefixed and Samuel Reynolds whose Signature in his proper hand writing is hereto prefixed are Justices of the Peace for the Town of Exeter Legally chosen and Qualified as the Law requires.  And that Thomas Phillips Junior Clerk of the Court of Probate for the Town of Exeter Legally chosen and Qualified as the Law requires that full faith and Credit ought to be given to their several (illegible) throughout the United States of America


In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set
my hand and Affixed the Seal of the 
Court aforesaid this Thirty first day of October in the year 1833.
(signed) Sam Helme Clk
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The Deposition of Jeffrey Hazard and Joseph Crandall Esqrs of Exeter in the County of Washington State of Rhode Island and providence plantations being examined cautioned and sworn, testify and say in the case of Daniel Barber of said Exeter in an application for a pension that we believe said Barber to be of the age he states himself to be that his general character is good and is entitled to credit and we have no doubt of abut he was a soldier in the Revolution.
(signed)  Jeffrey Hazard
(signed) Joseph Crandall


The State of Rhode Island and providence plantations Washington County ss}  at Exeter September the 7th A.D. 1833
Personally came the above named Deponents and Subscribed and made oath to the truth of the above deposition before me the subscribed and I further certify that the above Deponents are well known to me and are Entitled to full Credit.

(signed) Isaac Greene Justice of Peace
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Stamped upper left corner:
PENSION OFFICE
FEB
13
1895

To
Hon. Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D. C.

I herewith enclose slip requesting information of Revolutionary service of Daniel Barber who is an Ancestor of mine.  Slip was given me through the courtesy of Adjutant General Dyer of R. I.

Respectfully, 
M. Hattie Sprague
 Moosup Conn.

February the Ninth 1895
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REVOLUTIONARY SERVICE.
O. W. & N. DIV.

MEMORANDA.
B

Please supply as much as possible of the data called for below.

Full name of soldier:
D
Daniel Barber

Place of residence before service:
(Town, county, and State, if possible.)
Exeter Washington Co. R. I.

Place of residence after service:
(Town, county, and State if possible.)
Same as above

Date of Death (as near as possible)
About 1832

Christian name of widow:
(Blank)

Did either he or his widow receive a pension?
He received a pension.

Your name and address:
M. Hattie Sprague
Moosup, Windham Co, Conn

6--870
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495 Richmond Ave.,
Maplewood  N.J.

N. S. Commissioner of Pensions,
Washington, D. C.

Dear Sir:
Kindly send me a copy of the pension papers of Captain Daniel Barber of Exeter, R. I.  who served in American Revolution.

Thanking you in advance I am.

Very truly,
Mrs. P. A. Willoughby

Jan. 13/31

Stamped:
PENSION OFFICE
JAN
17
1931
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O. W. & N. Division

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
Bureau of Pensions,
Washington, D. C. , 

F. B.

M.R.C.

March 11, 1895

Miss:-

In reply to your request for a statement of the military history of Daniel Barber, Jr. , a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's ) application for pension on file in this Bureau.

DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT
June 1776

LENGTH OF SERVICE  1 yr.

RANK  Capt.

OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED.
CAPTAIN (blank)
COLONEL  Robert Brown

STATE  R. I. 

DATE OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT 
Aug. 1778

LENGTH OF SERVICE   3 mos.

RANK  Pvt.

OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED.
CAPTAIN  Jonathan Bates
COLONEL Charles Dyer

STATE  R. I.

At the expiration of his year's service as a Captain he resigned on  account of ill health.

Battles engaged in:   None mentioned
Residence of soldier at enlistment,  Exter, Rhode Island
Date of application for pension,  September 2, 1833.
Residence at date of application,  Exeter, Rhode Island.
Age at date of application,  85 years, Born at Exeter, R. I.

Remarks:

Very respectfully, 

Commissioner.

Miss M. H. Sprague,
Moosup, Conn.