Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 10942, Barnard Eddy, [BLANK]
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Eddy, Barnard       W.10942      
       ,Julia G.
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Ce10751
Sea Service??
Barnard, Eddy
?? in the State of  R Island
who was in ?? on the ?? Seventy?? commanded
[commended?]
--------    ------     -----~~~~   
????
???    13     Captain

Inscribed on the Roll of ??
at the rate of 377 Dollars 20 Cents per annum
?? on the 5th day of March, 1831

Certificate of Pension fund the 22d day of April
?? 
                            Rhode Island
   ??                         $754.40 
     ??                         188.60
                                 $743.00

                       (Revolutionary Claim)
                       (     Act June 7, 1832 )
  
    Recorded by ??son Clerk,
    Book C   Vol. 216   Page 108
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1888 March 29, J M Eddy history prior
Rhode Island
Julia G Eddy
widow of 
Barnard Eddy
who served in the Revolutionary
war, as a
Lieutenant and Captain
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate
of 377 dollars and 20
cents per annum to commence 
on 3d February, 1853 and end
on this 23rd March 1854
Certificate of Pension issued
2nd day of Sept 1862
and sent to DD Addison Esq
[Research]
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act 
February 3, 1853, Page 70 Vol. 76.
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Barnard Eddy
8663
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United States of America
Rhode Island District Jr.
On this ninth
day of August AD 1832
personally appeared in open Court, Barnard Eddy of
Providence in said Rhode Island District, Housewright
aged Seventy years, who being first duly sworn according to law doth on oath declare and say; in order
and to the intent that he may obtain the benefit of 
the Act of Congress passed seventh 1832. That he was born in Providence in the state of Rhode Island on the twelfth day of July AD 1702 but has no certificate
of his birth but that of his word and of the family [illegible]
That he entered the service of the State of Rhode Island and
Providence Plantations in the Revolutionary War in
as a volunteer under the direction of his father, then living and residing in Providence with his father
the 20 day of June 1775 being then under
the age of twenty one years, that he was detached under
the charge of his father Captain Barnard
Eddy of Providence who was appointed by the General
Assembly of that State to take charge of the fortifications then erecting on Fields Point and extending up
Narragansett Bay and Providence River northerly to LaFarge Point; on these 
works I was employed either as guard or at labour in
building them until the 15th day of April 1776. I was then
transferred and placed under the charge of Major Hagg
and employed in the Laboratory in Providence in
making cartridges for the army and continued there until
the 20th day of July 1777. - My father was then appointed
by Congress to the command of a Company
of Artisans to go to Crown Point and build Pattians
for the troops but died before he reached that place.
I continued in the said Laboratory under the charge of
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of Major Flagg until the [1st] of August 1778 and was then ordered to go on Sullivan's expedition on Rhode Island and was  placed on board the Ship [Surley] under command of Capt,. Rutenburg and employed transporting [][ tons of provisions to the army and so continued until the arrival of the French Fleet off Newport in the month of july , I believe 1780 when I was ordered out to assist in piloting in the French fleet then coming from Boston into the Harbor or Newport and Narragansett Bay. in that Ship I continued employed in transporting [] and supplies for the troops employed in the war and stationed on  Rhode Island until about the first of January 1782 when I was discharged having served the command of the ship in the Month of May 1701. And I further declare that I was [] early discharged from the service and was furnished with the usual documents to that effect under the expectation that I should receive the bounty land; all o[][ documents I carefully retained with my other papers until the Month of September 1815 when my house was swept away in the great Flood which occurred in Providence and which destroyed his house, furniture and all his books and papers, none of which have every been  by him since reclaimed   He hereby relinquished every claim [][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
Barnard Eddy
And further declare and say that in the Month of May
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AD. 1779, I received a Commission as Lieutenant of the said sloop Sivily, signed by Governor Cooke, then Governor of the State of Rhode Island & Providence Plantations, bearing date on the 23' day of May 1779, and under said commission I served on board said sloop for about two years, and after that took the command of her as before stated, and which commission was lost by the [illegible] in 1815, with my other papers as herein before described.

Barnard Eddy

Sworn to in open Court August 9th 1832
[illegible] B Cowell [illegible]

Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.

and the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of 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 [illegible] who has signed the preceding certificate, is a clergyman, resident in the City of Providence and that John Lea & Patience Eddy  who [crossed out:  also signed the same is a resident in the ] have testified for the said applicant are credible persons and that their statement is entitled to credit. Note in parentheses on left  (said applicant was resident as they state and [illegible] )
I, BENJAMIN COWELL, Clerk of said District Court, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Barnard Eddy for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 17th day of September 1832

Benjamin Cowell [illegible]
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Julia G. Eddy
widow of Barnard Eddy
Rhode Island
Declaration for a
pension under the
Act of Feby 3d,1853
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Declaration
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress
of February 3, 1833
State of Rhode Island
Providence County
To Wit
On this twenty third day of February
AD 1833 personally appeared before me Thomas Burgess
sole Judge of the Municipal Court of the City of Provi
dence in said County and State, Mrs Julia G. Eddy
a resident of Providence in said State aged sixty one
years who being duly sworn according to Law doth on
her oath make the following Declaration in order to
obtain the benefit of the provision made by the Act of
Congress passed February 3, 1833 That she is the Widow of
Barnard Eddy who was a Lieutenant and Captain in
the Navy of the Revolution and a Pensioner of the United States
at the rate of $377.20 per annum, in the Agency of
Rhode Island.
She further declares that she was married to
the said Barnard Eddy on the 14th day of October in the
Year of One thousand eight hundred and Seventeen
That her husband the aforesaid Barnard Eddy died on
the third day of July AD. eighteen hundred and forty
at home - and that she was a widow at the time of the
passage of the act aforesaid, and still remains his widow
Julia G Eddy
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above
written before me -
Thomas Burgess Sole Judge
of the Municipal Court of
the City of Providence
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State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations,
Providence RI
I Albert G. Greene, Clerk of the
Municipal Court of the City of Providence, in
the County of Providence, in said State, do hereby
certify and attest that Thomas Burgess, who
has signed the foregoing certificate, is sole
Judge of said Court, and that the signature
to said certificate is in the proper hand
writing of said Thomas Burgess.
I further certify that Albert Pabodie, who
has signed the annexed certificate, is the City
Clerk of said City of Providence; and that the
signature to said Certificate is
in the proper hand - writing of said Albert
Pabodie
In attestation whereof I have
hereant set my hand and have
affixed the seal of said Court
this twenty third day of February
A.D. One thousand eight hundred
and fifty three.
Albert G Greene
Clerk
⎬
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State of Rhode Island
This is to certify
that Mo Barnard Eddy son of Barnard Eddy
and Miss Julia G Westcott daughter of John
Westcott all of Providence R [Rhode] Island, were
this day joined in marriage by me, on
the fourteenth day of October 1817
Luther Baker
Paster

Recorded July 23 1853
Witness Albert Pabodie
City Clk [Clerk]

City Clks [Clerks] Office Providence
July 23 1853
I hereby certify that the foregoing certificate
is a true copy of Record in this
office. Book No 5 page 120 of Record of Marriages
Albert Pabodie
City Clk [Clerk]
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Barnard Eddy W. 10942
Here writing this [illegible], see
other data [illegible] has claim
 of Samuel Thurber, R. 10579. [underlined]

[Illegible signature]
Jan. 18 33
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[Illegible}
Barnard Eddy [illegible] Julia G Eddy [illegible]
Oct 1854 [illegible] 1854 Julia G Eddy
[illegible], Scituate Barnard Eddy [illegible]
[remainder of document illegible]
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[illegible]
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Providence, R. I., December 17th, 1903.
Commissioner of Pensions,
Bureau of Pensions,
Washington, D. C.

Dear Sir:
Barnard End of Providence County, received a pension under act
of 1853. Will you kindly send me his war record? also if you have
more than one Barnard Eddy, either in the War of the Revolution or
War of 1812, if so will send record of both and oblige,
Yours truly,
(Mrs) A E. Stevens 
34. Whitmarsh St.,
Providence, R.I.

[Official Seal]
U. S. Pension Office.
D
Dec 18 1903
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.Award
Dec 1897

[Official Seal - Circular]
U. S. Pension Office.
Dec 8 1897

[Official Seal - Rectangle]
[Illegible] & Navy
Dec 9 1897
[Illegible]
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[Illegible]
Commission of Pensons
Washington, D. C. 
Mr. Edward Field, past
President of the S. P. R. [indistinguishable-S. P. R., State Pension Records?] in Rhode Island, 
tells me that Barnard Eddy's [underlined] name 
is on a list of R. I. Revolutionary Pensions in the Government Archives and that his name appears as "Barnard Eddy, Captain and Lieutenant." He has living a daughter who is a real daughter of the American Revolution. Our local chapter, the "Sabra Trumbull" are anxious too have her as one ofits members, but she has no offical proof that her gather was in the war. 
Will you do me the
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great favor of sending me a certificate 
of his pension record.
Very truly yours, 
Jessie McChristie
December the 6th 1897.
Mrs Robert L McChristie
Box 1053
Rockville
Connecticut.
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Rockville Conn
Nov 1897
Bernard Eddy
from R. S. Rev War
Robert L. McChristie
request record
each
ST
NOV 22 1894
-
Record and Pension Office,
WAR DEPARTMENT,
Washington, November 15, 1897.
Respectfully returned to
Mrs. Robert L. McChristie,
Post Office Box 1053,
Rockville, Connecticut.
The name Bernard Eddy has not been
found on the rolls, on file in this office,
of any organization of Rhode Island troops
in service during the Revolutionary War.
It is proper to add, however, that the
collection of Revolutionary war records in
this office is far from complete, and that the
absence therefrom of any names is by no
means conclusive evidence that the person
who bore the name did not serve in the Revolutionary Army.
It is suggested as a possibility that
information on the subject of your inquiry
may be obtained from the Adjutant General of
the State of Rhode Island; or, if the soldier
was a pensioner as stated in your
letter, it is probable that information respecting
his service can be obtained by addressing the Commissioner of Pensions,
Washington, D. C., who is the custodian
of the pension records of all wars, and
whose office is separate and distinct from
the Record and Pension Office of the War
Department.
The two-cent postage stamp received
with your letter is returned herewith.
By Authority of the Secretary of War
Janet
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[illegible[ attached
Rockville, Ct.
Col. F. C. Ainsworth:
Chief of Pension Office:
Mr. Edward Field
of Providence, R.I. tells me that
Lieutenant Barnard Eddy who served
in the Revolutionary War, received
a pension for his services. He
has a daughter living who - if her 
father's services can be proved - 
can become a real D.A.R.
Our Chapter, the Sabra
Trumbull, is anxious to have
her among its members. Will you
please forward a certificate of 
the services of Barnard Eddy a
Revolutionary pensioner from Rhode
Island if you have such
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services on your records.
By so doing you will
greatly oblige.
Very truly yours,
Jessie J. Mc Christie
November 13th, 1897.
Mrs. Robert L. Mc Christie
Box 1053
Rockville
Ct.
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[illegible]

Pension 
US Nov 18 1897
Office
[hand stamped]
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Mrs. Potter
Rockville, Conn
Dec. 31. 1903
. Elen P.
WIDOW, &c.
File No. 10945
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Agreement of 1870
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Dec 1/97
11mo.
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Mrs. Robt. L. Mc Christie
Rockville, Conn.
Dec. 31. 1903. His to
A. E. Stevens Prov. RI
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No 387
Julia G Eddy
widow of Barnard
R. Island
Let to, D. D. Addison
May 21, 1833
S. A. Peugh, Oct. 13/60
D. D. Addison, May 19 1862
Act. Feby 3, 1833
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Julie G. Eddy
formerly widow of
Barnard Eddy
Providence County
Rhode Island
Act 3d Feb 1853
2d Section
Allowed at the rate
of $377.20. per ann. from
3d February 1853 to the
23 March 1854. as the
widow of a Captain &
Lieuntenant in the revo
lution.
Certificate to
D. D. Addison
Present
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Brief in the case of Julia G. Eddy former widow of Barnard Eddy
a Lieutenant and Captain in the revolution.
Providence County and State of Rhode Island
act 3d February 1853
2d Section.
Claim, ("original", or "for increase".)
Proof exhibited, (if original.)

Is it documentary, traditionary, or supported by rolls? If either, state the substance.
Barnard Eddy was a pensioner under act of
7th June 1832 and died on the third day of
July 1847 having the applicant as his
widow.
This application is for the amount alleged
(If for increase.)
Has additional evidence been filed since the admission of the claim? If so, what?
to be due, under the act of 3d February 1853.
from the date of its passage to the twenty third
day of March 1854. when she was again
married to a man named John S. Eddy.
Her marriage to Barnard Eddy the pensioner
occurred in the year 1817 and is proven
by record evidence.  Satisfactory proof 
is adduced that she remained his widow
from the time of his death to the 23d day
of March 1854. She began her applica
Name and residence of Agent
Examining Clerk.
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-tion for a pension while a widow but on her
second marriage discontinued it.
She is entitled to the amount accruing
during the time she remained a widow.
Subsequent to the passage of the act of
3d February 1853
Allowed at the rate of $ 377.20 per ann.
from the 3d March 1853 to the 23d day of
March 1854
Certificate
D. D. Addison Esq
Present.
L.M. Drury
Examining Clerk
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I Aaron Man of Providence in the State of
Rhode oath to testify & say that I was an
office in the war of the Revolution, was
acquainted with some of the officers of Col.
Elliotts regiment of Artilling of Rhode Island
State troops, and I further testify that
Josiah Flagg was a Major in said Elliott's
regiment during the year 1776 & had the
command of the Labratory established in
Providence, it was the duty of those employed
to make cartridges and to give the military stores.
According to my best recollection Major Flagg
had the command of said Labratory about two
years. I further certify that I am well acquainted
with Barnard Eddy who is now present
before me. I have no doubt he served in
said Laboratory as he has stated in his dec
laration
Aaron Man
Feb 27th 1833 Sworn to before me
Benja Cowell
Comucepin Dist
Court RI Dist
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I William Eddy of Providence in the State of
Rhode Island on oath do testify and say that
Barnard Eddy, Father of Barnard Eddy who
is now present before me was a Captain of
Militia in the War of the [illegible-reachition]
that he died during an expedition to Crown
Point in 1776. I was in his company & with
him when he died - said Barnard was also
a Captain in 1775 & had the command of
a Company stationed at a fort at Field
Point at the head of Naragansett Bay and
I further testify that said Barnard Eddy
who is now present before me was a soldier
under him at said fort in his company
& was there I should think ten months
William Eddy

Feb 27 1833 Sworn to before me by the said
William Eddy
Benja Cowell
Commission of Dist
Court for RI Dist
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I Patience Eddy of Providence in the County of Providence
in the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations
aged Seventy one years, on solemn oath do depose &
say, that I am the Sister of Barnard Eddy of said
Providence, who has made the application hereunto annexed
for a pension under the late Act of Congress. That I have
always lived in the House or near to the residence of my brother
and know that he was in the service of the State during the
Revolutionary War from the year 1775 to the year 1822 and
verily believed that he acted in the capacities and under
the duties set forth in his said application having so
been informed and understood at the time by father
was in the service of the United States to the time of his death;
and my brother, Barnard Eddy who is now deceased remained in the
service to the end of the war. I know that my brother
Barnard lost his house, furniture & papers in the
great flood of 1815, Providence- Patience Eddy

Rhode Island District L
In Providence July 21 1832.
Personally appeared before me the above
named Patience Eddy & made solemn oath to the
truth of the above deposition by her signed
and I further certify [illegible] said Patience is a
credible witness in the premises
Benja Cowell
Commission of the Dist
Court for R I Dist
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I John Searl of Providence in the County of Providence in the State of Rhode Island& Providence Plantations aged 67 years on solemn oath, do depose and say that I have been well acquainted with Barnard Eddy of Providence who has signed the accompanying application from his youth having always lived either in the family or the vicinity with him. I verily believe him to be of the age he has mentioned in his application. I perfectly recollect him when a boy and young man, and know that he was in the public service during the Revolutionary War, and verily believe that he rendered all the service and continued therein during the time he was in the service, he was occasionally at home for short terms of time to visit his friends. I know that he lost his house and furniture in the great Flood of 1815 in Providence and then understood and have ever since understood & believed that he lost all his papers at the same time. He is highly esteemed as a man of truth & veracity and his declaration is entitled to the fullest confidence.
John Searle

Rhode Island District L
In Providence July 21 [illegible - 1833?] Personally appeared before me the above named John Searle & made solemn oath to the truth of the above deposition by by him signed and I further certify that said John is a credible witness in this hearing.
Benja Cowell
Commission Dist Court R. J. Dist
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I hereby certify that Barnard Eddy is a highly worthy and esteemed member of the Society of which I am Pastor. He has been connected with it, as I find from its records, and learn from other sources ever since its formation which is a term of nearly thirty years, And the said Society have testified their confidence in his judgement, integrity on several occasions by entrusting to his hands their most important pecuniary and other interests. On the purchase of their real estate in this city, it was conveyed to the said Barnard Eddy in trust, until such time as they should become incorporated by law, since which period he has served in several responsible offices with great fidelity. Indeed, he has even been considered both by the members of this institution and this community at large as a man of unblemished character and undoubted integrity. his habits have always been virtuous, though by various misfortunes he has lost his prosperity; his life has been laboriously devoted to the business of his calling; he belongs to a family of known reputation of long standing in this city and every reliance may be placed in his
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statements, concerning the services which he render
ed his country in the war of the Revolution
Certified by one Pharcellus Church Pastor of
Pine St Box Soc. Providence
Providence August 3 AD 1832
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State of Rhode Island & Providence Plantation,
City and County of Providence RI
Certified with the city of Providence.
May 10 1862
[Illegible] that it has been this day made
to appear to the satisfaction of this court that Bar
nard Eddy [illegible] of said city and county deceased who
was an American of the United States died on the
third day of July AD 1847 leaving surviving him
Julia G. Eddy, his [illegible], that the said Julia
 G. Eddy, by whom he was married on the fourteenth
day of October 1817 is still living, but has since the
death of said Barnard Eddy [illegible] on the twenty-third
day of March 1854 intermarried with John S. Eddy
who is also still living.
The object of the said Julia
G. Edly in procuring this certificate is for the purpose
of obtaining the amount of pension due her under
the act of February 1853 from the date of its passage
to the date of the intermarriage with the said John
S. Eddy on the twenty third day of March 1854.
As witness whereof I have hereto set
my hand and the seal of the said
Court the day and year before
written.
Leu Salisbury
Clerk
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Julia G. Eddy
widow of
Barnard Eddy
Act 1853
Ada Eirdence
R. Island
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State of Rhode Island
This is to certify
that Mr Barnard Eddy, son of Barnard Eddy and
Miss Julia G Westcott daughter, of John Westcott
all of Providence R. Island, were this day joined
in marriage by me on the fourteenth day of
October. One thousand eight hundred & seventeen
Luther Baker
Pastor
Recorded Feby (23) twenty third. Eighteen hundred fifty
three.   Witness Abel Pabodie
City Clk
I certify that the above is a true copy of the
record with the exception of the date which is expressed
the record in fair legible figures as follows
"on the fourteenth day of Oct 1817"
"Recorded Feby 23, 1853"
Albert Pabodie City Clk
I Albert Pabodie above named depose and say
that I hold the office of City Clerk in Providence
State aforesaid, and that the above is a true
copy from the records of said City, with the exception
above named as certified by me
Albert Pabodie
City and County of Providence State of Rhode Island
Subscribed and duly sworn to before me this Sixteenth
day of June AD 1853
Henry Martin
Justice of the Peace
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Providence June 16. 1853
I hereby certify that I am personally
acquainted with the Julia G Eddy of this City and
know her to be the widow of the late Barnard Eddy of Providence
who was a pensioner on the Rhode Island Rolls at the rate of
three hundred seventy seven 20/100 dollars, $377.20 and that
Susan Cashen of the [illegible] 
Office of R.I. is kept in said [illegible] and the [illegible]
agent has given me [illegible] to [illegible] to ascertain the
amount of the pension paid to Ms Eddy.
Benjamin W. Ham
Providence County J
Per Precedence this Seventeenth
day of June AD 1853. [Illegible] Benjamin W. Ham
a credible witness to me personally known, appeared
before me and made oath that the statements contain
ed in the preceding certificate by him signed all
wholly and strictly here.
Henry Martin
Justice of the Peace
Joseph Belcher of the City and County of Provi
dince in the State of Rhode Island in oath did certify
and say that I am personally acquainted with Julia
G. Eddy and have known her for something like
twenty years and know her to be the Widow of
the late Barnard Eddy
Joseph Belcher
Providence June 17 1853
Providence County
Per Precedence this Seventeenth day
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of June A.D. 1833. Then Joseph Belcher a [Illegible] witness to me personally known appeared before me, and made oath that the statements contained in the proceeding certificate by him required are wholly and strictly true.

Henry Martin
Justice of the Peace
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THE STATE OF RHODE ISLAND AND PROVIDENCE PLANTATIONS

PROVIDENCE. SC

CLERK'S OFFICE SUPREME COURT,
PROVIDENCE, Jane          A.D. 1853

1. Edwin Metcalf
Clerk of the SUPREME COURT of said state, within and for the
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Colony of Rhode Island and
Providence Plantation

In General Assembly October session AD 1775.

It is noted and resolved, that the Honorable Nicholas Cooke, Esq. Ambrose Page, Esq. James Arnold Jr. Esq. Jonathan Randall Esq. John Sayles Jr. Esq. and Henry Ward Esq. Metcalf Bowler, Joseph Anthony, William Bradford, Joshua Babcock, John Jerechs, John Smith, John Mathenson, John Dexter, Jol Olney, Stephen Whipple, William Greene, Paul Mumford and John Potter Esquire, or any seven of them together also with all such members of the General Assembly as shall be present, be and they are hereby appointed a Committee to act during the run of the General Assembly upon any sudden important emergency, with full power to take all precedent and necessary measure for the safety of the United Colonies in general, and the Colony in particular. That they be empowered to employ the two armed vessels, and the whole force of the Colony, in such manner as they shall think the public interest and safety shall require; and that this act continue in force until the next session of Assembly.

True copy of record - Witness
Henry Bowen Secry.
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Colony of Rhode Island JC
In General Assembly August seven1775.
It is voted and resolved that his honor the
Deputy Governor, the members of the upper house
who live in the County of Providence the deputies
of the town of Providence, Metcalf Bowler, William
Bradford, John Dexter, Joseph Anthony, Daniel Merory
Jim and Joshua Babcock Esquires, or the major part of
them, together with such other members of the
General assembly as may be present, be and they
are hereby appointed a committee during the recess
of the General Assembly to act upon any sudden
important emergency; with full power of taking all
prudent and necessary measures for the safety of this
Colony and the colonies in general that they
be particularly empowered to employ the two armam
ments in the service of this Colony or either of them
in such manner and upon such voyage as they
shall think conducive to the public interest; and
that this act continue in force until the next
session of Assembly
True copy - Witness
Henry Bowen Fury.
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Washington July 18th 1862
[illegible]
I have most respectfully to request 
that you will reconsider your decision
in the case of Mrs. Julia G. Eddy [illegible]
widow of Barnard Eddy died under the
act of Feby 3d. 1853, communicated to me
in your letter of the 14th of May AD.
Mrs. Eddy made and filed her applic
cation in 1853, under the act of Feby
3d 1853 but before her claim was al
lowed, she on the 24th of March 1854, mar
ried again. She did not abandon her
claim as stated in your letter, but be
living that an erroneous construction
had been placed when that act, by the
Pension Office, by fixing the commencement
of the pension from the date of the passage.
She concluded to await the decision of
that question, then pending before the Court
of Claims. The decision of the Court was
favorable, but as Congress has not yet con
firmed that decision she'll perhaps [illegible]
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[illegible] she is anxious Now to because the amount due [illegible] the 3d of February 1833 to the 24th of  of March 1834, the date of her Second Marriage

By defering to the act of July 29, 1848,
to which the Act of Feby 3d 1853 is 
Supplementary, you will see that the first
Section presides, in the [illegible] of a second
Marriage that the widow shall be entitled 
to a pension during such Widowhood"

You say that the law of August 
23, 1842, requires that she should be a
widow at the time she makes application-
[illegible] was a widow at the time she made and filed her application - I State this fact although I believe the Act of August 23th 1842, has no [illegible] whatever to this class of claims, And, that it has never been so regarded by the Pension Office, as apparent from the fact that it had never [illegible] the allowance of a claim on the ground that the applicant was not widow when she made applications. I refer you to the
case of Mrs Leah Temple of Illinois formerly
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the widow of Capt. Achilles Morris, who
after her marriage to M. Temple (who
is still living) applied for and waived
an [illegible] of pension up to the date of her
second marriage.  From this [illegible]  the 
office has never before denied as
you will find by looking in to the matter -[illegible]  Pension Certificate issued to a widow
from your offices acquired on its face payment to be  made, in the office of Marriage to the day of such Marriage 

To the objection argued against the
advance of Mrs Eddys Claim on the ground
that the laws of Rhode Island, the amount
named would not belong to her but would
at once become the property of her husband,
you will find an answer in the second
Section of the act of July 29. 1848. By this
mode of Arguing no married woman in Rhode 
Island, Could receive a legacy which
was willed expressly for her use & benefit - 
[illegible] Eddy is in great need of the Small
amount due I beg for your Early attention to the matter
J Add
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I am Sir, very respectfully [illegible]
D.D.Addison
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Washington July 2nd 1853

[Illegible]
enclosed here with you will find the additional evidence asked for in your letter of the 21st of May last in the case of Mrs Julia G Eddy, Widow of Barnard Eddy, an application for a pension under the lot of February 3rd 1853, and have respectfully to request your immediate attention thereto.
[illegible] very respectfully,

[illegible
D.D. Addison
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Julia Eddy, Wife of Barnard Eddy [Illegible]

Anderson Stewart

[Illegible]
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Some years since I filed in the [Illegible] Office the application of Mrs. Julia G . Eddy of R.I., 
widow of Barnard Eddy [Illegible] who was [Illegible] under the Act of Feb. 9, 1853. The matter now requiring my attention. I have to request that you will take charge of her claim and  [Illegible] the allowance thereof
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Washington May 13th 1862

Sir
I enclose herewith a certificate of Court 
shewing the date of the death of 
Bernard Eddy late a pensioner under the Act of June 7 1832, on the Rhode island 
Rolls, and the fact that  that he left a
widow, Julia G. Eddy and her subsequent 
Marriage to John S. Eddy

[illegible] Eddy claims a pension under the Act of 
February 1853, from the date of its passage, to the date of her subsequent marriage Viz  March 23. 1854.

Any proof your [illegible] offer you and the issue of a Certificate in her behalf


I am Very respectfully your ob St

D. D. Addison

Hon ble J.H. Barrett
Comm {illegible] Pensions }
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Julia E. Eddy
Widow
of
Barnard Eddy
R Island

S. A. Pugh
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Washington D.C
29th Sept 1860

Geo C. Whitney, Esq.
Comm of Pensions

Sir

I respectfully request
the examination of the claim of Julia G
Eddy Widow of Bernard Eddy.
Her husband was pensioner under
act 1832 on the R. I. Roll for $377.20/00
and his widow is entitled to the benefits
of the act of 1855.  She is yet alive & if
the office requires proof of this
fact it can be exhibited

I am very Respy
Your
S.A. Peugh
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Washington March 3d 1853

Sir
Enclosed herewith you will find the declaration of the [illegible] of J. Eddy widow of Barnard Eddy 
65 for a pension and the [illegible] 
Feb 3d 1850 - As Eddy was a pensioner under the act of June 1832
If the state of pension for his service

We Respectfully request an [illegible] decision

[illegible]
DD Addison
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Providence      B    12

Road

per (illegible)
 
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Barnard Eddy
Act 32 R. I

Mr. C [illegible]
August 27, 1887

DD Addison
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Providence  (illegible)
Commissioner of Rhode I

Sir,

Mr. D.D. Addison of the city of (illegible) is rely in these and confirm to act is my attorney, in establishing my claim to an increase, a (illegible) of Pension.   (illegible) he desire to offer for my husband's papers in file, we your office under the act of 7th in  1(illegible) for will confer a farm on me, by permitting a (illegible)  do.

The amount which may be found due, I wish payable to in person at the Providence office, Allied Bank, Providence, R.I. by the United States Pension Agent 

Very Respectfully
Mrs. Prudance Eddy
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(Letterhead with flag)

(faint writing illegible)
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said was v(illegible)
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Providence Feb 27 1833

Sir
I have the honor herewith to enclose the
supplemental declaration of Barnard Eddy
correcting the former declaration in several
particulars, together with additional
testimony respecting his services and I will 
appear by the testimony that his father
was a commissioned officer - and [illegible]
the time he was at the labratory he 
was under the command of Major
Flagg -
Yours  with great
restpect
Benja Cowell

Hon Lewis Cass
The [illegible] of [illegible]
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The case of Barnard Eddy has been examined he appears to have been Employed in a variety of situations but merely as a laborer.  unless he can Clearly show that he was an enlisted soldier he cannot be call (illegible) pension.  There is no evidence whatever that his father under whose direction he worked held a military commission, service under him could not therefore be considered Military service his employment in the laboratory did not change the character or his engagement on
board of a vessel enjoyed in transporting provisions or his breach but did not constitute such service as the act contemplates   The Law provides for no seamen who was not in a public armed vessel.
his papers will remain on our files

J L Edwards
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Providence April 7th 1833
Hon James L Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Sir
Your letter enclosing certain papers of Barnard Eddy, dated the 12th March was recd on the 15th. It appears by this that the supplemental papers of Mr Eddy had not been  recd at your department for otherwise  you would have found his statements as sheriff in as you require. However lest those papers may have been miscarried in some of the errant movements of the mail Mr Eddy has furnished a supplemental affidavit stating privately which time he served as Lieutenant and whose time as Captain on board the armed vessel the Lively;  But he could not State what rank his commissions gave him, Nor
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nor, as I believe, can that be at all necessary. Is not the pay which he received in that service that much govern the amount of his pension? The Lively was a cutter built vessel &, on account of her power of swift sailing, was employed in perilous movements, the success of which depended on the rapidity of their execution. You can by refering to the Journals of the Continental Congress ascertain the rank of officers in the sea service when compared with those of the land.

You require of me a certificate that the "Vessel in which Mr Eddy served was a public armed vessel in service of the Government." I send you a copy of a Resolve of the General Assembly of R Island.  The two named vessels alluded to in that Resolve were the Lively & the Washington. These vessels were undoubtedly
employed by Governor Cook & the Committee
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ainmatic with him according to the resolve of the Gen Assembly in the term of the Government. I can & do certify that according to the best of my knowledge & belief the Lively in which Barnard Eddy served was a public armed vessel in the service of the Government of the State of R. Island for & on account of the U States. The accounts of this service, which was, by the R. Island as I understand charged to the U States were sent
to the Treasury department for examination
settlement.  There must now be among the
papers of that department, if they have created the conflagrations to which it has been exposed.  Mr Eddy is a man of such accurate memory & of such unquestionable integrity that no man who has known him so long & so well as I have
known him would think of doubting the correctness or the fidelity of his statements.

I have the honor to be with high respect
you obt ser
Tristam Burges
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Hon Tristan Burger or Honorable N. R. Knight-- Dear Sirs, I am sorry with the multiplicity of business you have before you to honorable you.  But being informed by Hon Thos Burgess it was
necessary to prove my Father was a Commissioned Officer I have found on the Records of the general Assembly that my Father was Appointed Capt of of the second Company of militia
in Providence previous to his Appointment Capt of the forts as
stated in my claim - in 1775 in this same year the General Assembly appointed a committy of Saftey together with the Gov. to grant Commissions and to carry into effect the best measures to fortify our shores against the approach of the enemy Recordingly my Father was commissioned by said authority to
take the command of A Company myself being one of their number to remain there stationary to keep guard while the citizens of the town were daily drafted to assist in erecting works as stated in my claim this company were paid the same as the other soldiers at the different stations.  Att the Expedition to Crown Point June 15th 1776 it appears he was commissioned by the same Authority and not by congress as stated in my Clame
through mistake he then proceeded on through New Providence or otherwise called Houfack where the Enymy had spread the small pox he  the taking it died.  After the appointment of my father to the Expedition to Crown Point he put me under the command of Majr Flay where I served as A guard and
assisted in the work untill Augst 1st 1778 when
the ordered me on bourd the Sloop Lively under the
command of Capt. Thos Rententier and Liet Thos Miller
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to assist in Sullivans Expedition on Rhode Island where I continue is stated on them fair
hope it appears was chartered by Gov. Cook and Experience to assist in  Shereer Expedition on him enters onboard the being about 36 tons was Chimt with two fuoles muskets and boarding pikes in on May 23 1779 the year went with us to Bristol he the Gov. noticing Liet. Millers being internal discharger him and appointed me to said office and Commissioned me accordingly in which I
served untill May 24th 1781 at that time our Capt. Resigned and I succeeded to the Command untill Jan 1787. when we were discharged and received the necesary papers as stated in the Clame. In 1811 my Brother moved away at that time he delivered to me all my Father's papers including three commissions of my Fathers with two of my
owne all signed by Gov. Cook as will appear
by accompanying Statements those I carefully
preserved untill Sept 13 1814 on that morning
the wind blowing very hard from the S.E.
and anticipating Al his live I took all my
papers, flores and most valuable articles and
removed them to the chambers of the Peabody House the wind continued to increase violently
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and being called to the chamber to [illegible] the [illegible] when I returned the tide had risen with such rappidity that I was obliged to make the best Retreat [illegible] with my famyly with bearly what we had on our back to the arm pits in water through the floating timber and fragments of Buildings which had been carried away by the [illegible] of the wind and tide in the short time after we left the whole of the Peabody House was demolisht and the lower part of the New House which I occupied a fair breach was made through not a partition or floor remaining in consequence of which all my papers with my furniture [illegible]
was left the tide raising 12 feet above common
high water mark. Therefore through the combination of the elements of fire and water I am unable to produce  from Records Also I am 
informed by the Secretary that all the Records
and papers of the Gov. and Committy of Saftey
which were transmitted to the War Office as - 
vouchers for the Claimer of R.I. against the
United States were destroid in that Office
when it was burnt
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I hope it may not be improper in conclusion
to state to you other privations which we suffered in consequence of the (illegible) after the death of my Father the administrator with the family that are of age contented to fill all that property exists Eddy Point apprised at Ten Thousand Dollars and Advertised at Six Nine and Twelve month, Creddit.  Accordingly it was sold about the time of the offering of Continental paper money and before the Expiration of the Creddits the money had depreciated so that the Administrator refuses to take it and he being taken sick and died and a new Administrator appointed and it being made a Lawful Tender were obliged to take it at A depreciation of A Hundred for One in consequence of which it prove A total loss to the Heirs.  The proceeds not being Enough fray the expense of Administration.

Yours Respectfully
Barnes Eddy
Providence Jan 16th 1833
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Rhode Island District SC
And now on this 17th day of April A.D. 1833 here comes Barnard Eddy of the City of Providence in said Rhode Island District Honsinight, and in support of his application for obtaining a pension under the Act of
Congress of the United States passed June 7th 1832 and as a summary of his two former declarations bearing date on the 9th day of August A.D. 1832 and on the 27th day of February A.D. 1833, both of which have been
duly transmitted to the War Department of the United States.   The said Barnard Eddy on solemn oath declares and says; that he was in the public service of the State of Rhode Island & Providence Plantation in the Revolutionary War, and actually served from the 20th day of June A.D. 1775 until the 7th day of January AD 1782; That from the 20th day of June 1775
to the 1st day of August 1778, being three years, one month & ten days. He served under his enlistment under Capt. Barnard Eddy's Company as a private; part of the time at the fort on Narragansett Bay and part of the time being transferred to the Laboratory in said Providence. That from the 1st day of August
AD 1778 to the 23d day of May 1779 being nine months & twenty three days he served as a mariner on board of the Public armed vessel called the Lively in the service of the said government. That from the 23d day of May 1779 to the 24th day of May 1781 being two years and one day, he served as
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Lieutenant on board of said public armed vessel the Lively in the service of said government, under his appointment & commission regularly made & issued
by the Governor of said State of Rhode Island
under the seal of said State & bearing date on the said 23th day of May AD 1779. That from the 24th day of May A.D. 1781 to the seventh day of January AD 1782 being seven months & thirteen days served as Captain & Commandant of & on boards the said public armed vessel " Lively" in the service said Government under his appointment &
Commission regularly made & issued by the Governor of said State under the seal of said State under the seal of said State & bearing date on the said 24th day of May AD 1781, which said Commissions were destroyed in the year 1815 in the manner proved by the former declaration & the accompanying documents. And this affiant further on oath says that he is unable to state that he is unable to state what what rank his said Commission as Lieutenant or this said Commission as Captain & Commandant gave to him but he distinctly recollects that his pay & compensation as Lieutenant was $30 per month & his pay &
compensation of Captain & Commandant was $45 per month which pay & compensation he received from the regular (illegible) of the government
Barnard Eddy
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Rhode Island District Le

In Providence April 17, 1833
Personally appeared before me the above
named Barnard Eddy & made
oath to the truth of the facts set forth in the
preceding declaration by him signed
Benjam Cowell
Commission & Clerk
of the Dist Court
R I Dist
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RC  Rhode Island 
District (illegible)
and now on the 27th day of February & 
1833 here named Richard Eddy of Providence in said District (illegible) Imdenight
and makes this his additional and supple
mental declaration to the one heretofore
made on the 1st day of August (illegible) 1832
for the purpose of obtaining a pension under the act of the Congress of the United Sates
passed June 7th 1832
And the said Barnard Eddy on solemn
oath declared and says that his father was
named Barnard Eddy and that he lived
with his family in said Providence that his
said father was an officer and held a military
Commission on the State of Rhode Island for
several years before the commencement of the Revolutionary war that in the year 1775 his
said father was appointed and duly Commisioned by the Governor of the said State of Rhode Island to enlist a company of soldiers and take charge of the fort at Field's Point and to defend that fort & the works at the head of Naraganset (Narragansett) Bay that his said father did enlist his said company who were armed, uniformed, supported and paid as other troops in the public service. And did take command  of said fort and works in the month of June 1775. And this affiant the said Barnard Eddy on his said oath declares and sayith that he did enlist as a soldier in the  company. This commanded by his said father in the service of
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the State in the said month of June 1775
that his brother Jeremiah Eddy and a Coloured man belonging to the family and
now both deceased enlisted at the same time
with many others and that in the said
month of June 1775 they marched down to
said fort & were then stationed & employed
under the command of his said father for the
term of ten months until April 1776 at
which time his said father took the charge of
a company enlisted for the term of six months
and marched with his said Company duly
uniformed and armed to Crown Pointe so called on which expedition his said father died.
And this affiant on oath further declared
and says that soon after his said father left
the fort at said Fields Point, he, this affiant
was transferred by order of his commanding
officers and stationed in the laboratory in
said Providence and there employed in making Cartridges for the army of the State, under the command of Major Flagg then an officer duly Commissioned in Colonel Elliot's regiment then in the public service of the State. This affiant continued in said Laboratory under the command of said Flagg for about two years and four months until the 1st of August 1778 when he was ordered by said Major Flagg to so on board one of the public armed Cutter called the Lively then in the service of the State and commanded by Captain Rutenburg and to Proceed to Newport as a part of the force employed
in Sullivan's Expedition on Rhode Island
against the public enemy.
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This affiant went in said Cutter on said Ex pedition according to the order of his officers
& continued on board of her until the 23d May 1779 when he was appointed by the Governor of said State and duly commissioned as Lieutenant of the said Public armed Cutter in the place of Thomas Miller former Lieutenant of said Cutter.  This affiant continued on board of said Cutter in the command as Lieutenant until the 24th day of May 1781 when he was appointed and commissioned by the said for
Governor of the said State as Master & Commander of the said public armed Cutter Lively and
in that command on board of said Cutter he remained in the public service until the month of January 1782 when the war being in a great measure over in Rhode Island he was discharged and received all the actual papers & documents delivered to officers & men to entitle them to the bounty of land as the
Goverment should bestow.  All which documents & commission held as well by himself & by his said father were destroyed with the (illegible) furniture of this affiant in the great flood of September 1815 as particularly state (illegible) his former declaration and the proof accompanying the same. And this affidavit further says & declares on oath that (illegible) pursuance of the various enlistments and
engagements he was in the public service of State in the Revolutionary War from the month of June 1775 to the month of January1782 and from the said 23d day of May 1779
to the month of January 1782 was a Commissioned
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Officer duly appointed and commissioned by the Governor of the said State of Rhode Island
and as such served on board of the said public
named Cutter Lively.  That from the month of
June 1775 to the 7th day of August 1778 he served as a soldier in the public service of the State both at the Fort & Laboratory under the enlistment into the company commanded by his said father and for the said 1st day of August 1778 to the said 23d day of May 1779 he served as a mariner on board of the said public armed Cutter - And further this affidavit says not
Barnard Eddy
Sworn to before me by the above named Barnard Eddy
---
Benjamin Cowell
Commissioner
Dist Court
R I Dist
I also certify that Aaron Man & William
Eddy whose depositions are hereto annexed
are credible & veshutable witnesses with
of whom are well known to me
Benja Cowell
Commissioner