Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 21810, Frederick Hamilton, R.I.
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(3-1776)

SERVICE
R.I.

Hamilton, Frederick

NUMBER
S. 21810

CONTENTS
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15680
Rhode Island
Frederick Hamilton of Kent Co. in the State of R.I. who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Spinks of the Rgt. commanded by Col. Sand in the R. Island line for 22 months Private
2" Sergeant

Inscribed on the Roll of Rhode Island at the rate of 83 Dollars 33 Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 10th day of July 1833 and sent Benjn Cowell Providence R.I.

Arrears to the 4th of March 1833 $166.[illegible]
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sept" 41.6[illegible]
$208.3[illegible]

Died Aug. 15, 1835

{Revolutionary Claim
Act June 7, 1832}
1832

Recorded by D.D. Addison Clerk
Book E Vol. 2d. Page 113

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Decd. Set Letter to P. Agt.
21 Nov. 1836 -
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State of Rhode Island &c Jc
County of Kent

On this twenty ninth day of August AD 1832 personally appeared in open Court being a Court of Common Pleas within & for said County now in Session Frederick Hamilton a resident of Warwick in the County of Kent and State of Rhode Island aged 77 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, viz.

That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers, and served as herein stated.

He was born January 20th 1755 in East Greenwich as by the records of that town will appear, lived in North Kingstown where he entered the service & since the war has lived in Warwick (except 11 years in North Kingstown & 4 years in Exeter) to the present time and this applicant further states that in the fall of 1775 he enlisted & served as a private six months in Cap Eldridge Spinks company & Col Sands regiment of Rhode Island Militia in North Kingstown on the shores and this applicant further states that for September 1776 he again enlisted & served as a private three months at Newport R.I. in Cap James Parkers company & Col John Cookes regiment of R.I. Militia and this applicant further states that in February 1777 he was drafted & served one month as a private on Warwick neck in Cap Reuben Whites company & Col John Watermans regiment of R.I. Militia & in May following served one month at same place in the same company & regiment in the same capacity-

and this applicant further states that in the fall & winter of 1777 he was again drafted & served two months as a private on the shores of East Greenwich in Cap Michael Spencers company & Col Thomas Tillinghast regiment of the R.I. Militia-

and this applicant further states that in July 1778 he was again drafted & served as a sargeant one month on Rhode Island in Cap Allen Johnsons company & Col Tillinghasts regiment & immediately after joined the regiment of Col Henry Lawrence as a volunteer & served one month as a sargeant in the Picket Guard in Sullivans Expedition & was in the battle

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and this applicant further states that early in the year 1779 he served three months as a private & substitute in Cap Elijah Lewis company of the Massachusetts line of the Continental Troops which was then quar [quartered]
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and this applicant further states that early in the year 1779 he served three months as a private & substitute in Cap Elijah Lewis company of the Massachusetts line of the Continental Troops which was then quartered at his house in North Kingston --

and this applicant further states that in Nov 1779 he served one month as a private & substitute for Nicholas Spink in Cap Samuel Dyers company & Col Charles Dyers regiment & served on Rhode Island

and this applicant further states that in Decr 1779 he enlisted & served six months as a private in Cap Samuel Dyers Company & Col Charles Dyers regiment & was stationed on the west shores of Naragansett [Narragansett]  Bay and this applicant further states that in the fall of 1780 he served one month as a private & substitute for Holmes Whiteman [Wightman] in the same company & regiment & served on the shores of South Kingston

all the above enlistments drafts &c he served out and was honourably discharged but never had a written discharge
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He hereby relinquishes every 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.
Frederick Hamilton
Witness John Brown, Clk

We, [blank] a Clergyman, residing in the [blank] and [blank] residing in [blank] hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with [blank] who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be a soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.

And the said Court to hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation  [into the] matter, and after [posing?] 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 Arthur A Ross who has signed the preceding certificate, is a Clergyman, resident in the Town of Coventry in our County of Kent and that James Stafford of Coventry, John Browning of Warwick & Daniel Updike of East Greenwich who also signed the same are residents in the said Towns in sd County of Kent & John Spink of North Kingston in the County of Washington - and are credible persons, and that their statement is entitled to credit. 

I, JOHN BROWN, Clerk of said Court of Common Pleas, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Frederick Hamilton for a pension.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office, this fifth day of September in the year 1832
John Brown
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I hereby Certify that I am personally acquainted with Mr. Frederick Hamilton of Warwick, R.I. and believe him to be a man of strict integrity and that our general government may safely rely on his Testimony respecting his Services in the Revolutionary army of the United States

Coventry August 25th AD 1832.
Arthur A. Ross

Kent Ss personally came before me at Coventry this 26  Day of August 1832 the abovenamed Arthur A Ross and made oath to the foregoing Sertificate
Elisha Whitman Justice CC pleas
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Kent Sc The State of Rhode Island & Providence Plantations
Clerks office Court of Common Pleas

I certify that Elisha Whitman is a Justice of this court that the within is his proper signature and in his own hand writing that full faith & credit is and ought to be given to all his official acts. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of office at East Greenwich the third day of September in this year 1832

John Brown Clk
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15,747
Fredrick Hamilton of Rhode Island

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P. 362

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Benjn Cowell
Providence
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BRIEF in the case of Fredrick Hamilton of County of Kent in the State of Rhode Island
(Act 7th June, 1832.)

1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? Court

2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?

3. How old is he? 77 years

4. [illegible] his service, as directed in [illegible]
[column headings] Period. Duration of Service. Rank. Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.
[Row 1] In 1775. 6 Months. As a Private. Capt Spinks Col. Sands
[Row 2] 76. 3 Months. ". " Parkers " Cookes.
[Row 3] 77. 1 Month. ". " Whitmans " Waterman.
[Row 4] ". 1 Month. ". " " " ".
[Row 5] ". 2 Months. ". " Spencer " Tillinghast.
[Row 6] 78. 1 Month. Sergent [Sergeant]. " Johnston " ".
[Row 7] ". 1 Month. ". " Lawrinse " -.
[Row 8] 79. 3 Months. Private. " Levis.
[Row 9] 1 Month. " S. Dyer " Co Dyer.
[Row 10] 80. 6 Months. ". " " " Char ".
[Row 11] 1 Month. ". " " " ".

5. In what battles was he engaged?

6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? North Kingston R.I.

7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls?

8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect?

I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.

JW Clagett Examining Clerk.
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[initial illegible]

Rev. [illegible] Wars Section.

August 28, 1928.

William E. Horton,
Brigadier General, U.S. Army,
Office of the Q. K. General,
War Department,
Washington, D. C.

Frederick Hamilton S. 21810

Sir:
I advise you that from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S. 21810, it appears that Frederick Hamilton was born January 20, 17[33?] in East Greenwich, Rhode Island.

While a resident of North Kingston, Rhode Island he enlisted and served as follows:

In the fall, 1775, six months, Captain Eldridge Spink's Company, Colonel Sands' Regiment.

September 1776, three months, Captain James Parker's Company, Colonel John Cook's Regiment.

February 1777, one month, Captain Reuben Whitman's Company, Colonel John Waterman's Regiment, and in May 1777, one month, same officers.

Fall 1777, two months, Captain Michael Spencer's Company, Colonel Thomas Tillinghast's Regiment. All of the above service was as a private in the Rhode Island Troops.

In July 1778, one month, sergeant in Captain Allen Johnson Johnson's Company, Colonel Tillinghast's Rhode Island Regiment, immediately after which he volunteered, served one
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month as sergeant in the picket guard in Colonel Henry Lawrence's Rhode Island Regiment in General Sullivan's Rhode Island Expedition and was in the battle.

Early in 1779, three months as private in Captain Elijah Lewis' Massachusetts Company which was stationed at North Kingston.

[Note in margin] The only Elijah Lewis in [illegible] in R.I.
The Mass. S.&S. was out for new [illegible] as this writing -
If verified it should be R.I., then change it; but soldier explains it, so there must have been a Mass. Capt. in this name

November 1779, one month, as private in Captain Samuel Dyer's Company, Colonel Charles Dyer's Rhode Island Regiment.

December 1779, six months, private in Captain Samuel Dyer's Company, Colonel Charles Dyer's Rhode Island Regiment and in the fall of 1780, one month as private in the same company and regiment.

After the Revolution he lived eleven years in North Kingston, Rhode Island, four years in Exeter, thence to Warwick, Kent County, Rhode Island.

He was allowed pension on his application executed August 29, 1832 while living in Warwick, Rhode Island. He died August 15, 1835.

Soldier was survived by children, but their names and name of his wife are not given.

In order to obtain the date of last payment of pension and name of person paid, you should apply to the Records Division, General Accounting Office, this city, citing all
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of the following data: "Frederick Hamilton, Certificate Number 15680, issued July 10, 1833, rate $83.33 per annum, commenced March 4, 1831, Act of June 7, 1832, Rhode Island Agency".

The Revolutionary War records of this bureau fail to afford my information in regard to William Hamilton and John Hamilton as described by you.

Respectfully,
E. W. MORGAN,
Acting Commissioner.

COPIED BY ADY
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Revolution
21810
INVALID.

21,810
Frederick Hamilton
Sergt Rev War

Act: June 7" 32"
Index:-Vol. 2, Page 167

[Arrangement of 1870.]

19[28 Aug.] 28 - Hist. to Brig. Genl. [William E.] Horton. MMNF.
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WAR DEPARTMENT
OFFICE OF THE QUARTERMASTER GENERAL
WASHINGTON, D.C. 

August 20, 1928.

[Stamp] U.S. Pension Office AUG 21, 1928

Commissioner of Pensions,
Pension Office,
Washington, D.C.

Dear Sir:
I write to ask if you can give me some help in tracing some of my ancestors who served in the Revolutionary War. Frederick Hamilton who lived in North Kingston, Rhode Island (as shown by the comms of 1790) later removed to Kent County, Rhode Island and in 1833 was drawing a pension for Revolutionary Services. Will you have your records searched for the following facts:

1. Name of Frederick Hamilton's wife.
2. Names of his children.
3. Date of Frederick Hamilton's birth and date of his death. 
4. Statement of his service. 

I would also like to have similar information, if it is in your records concerning one William Hamilton, who was a Sergeant of Marines and one John Hamilton, a corporal of Marines, both on the "Alfred" commanded by John Paul Jones. They may have been brothers or cousins of Frederick Hamilton.

Thanking you for your kindness in this matter, I am
Sincerely yours,
William E. Horton

William E. Horton,
Brigadier General, U.S. Army,
Assistant to the Quartermaster General.
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Arcade Bank
Providence Nov 15, 1836

Sir
The heirs of Frederick Hamilton a dec'd pensioner under the act of June 7, 1832, have applied for payment of arrears of pension due their late father. Be pleased to inform me, if I shall pay the same on the accompanying vouchers.

Also please inform me if the 3d section of the Comptrollers circular of the 29th Sept ult, applies to the payment of arrears of pensions.

Very respectfully
yr obt Svt
for S Waterman Prest
H Green Clk

J. L. Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington
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We Arthur A Ross a Clergyman residing in the town of Warwick and Joseph Burton residing in the town of Warwick hereby certify and say that we are well acquainted with Frederick Hamilton who has subscribed and sworn to the annexed Declaration, that we believe him to be 77 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

Arthur A. Ross Pastor of Baptist Chh of Warwick and Coventry
Joseph Burton

Kent Sc In Warwick May 11th 1833
Personally appeared before me the above named Arthur A. Ross & Joseph Burton and they both made oath to the truth of the same and I further certify that that said Arthur is a Clergyman residing in said Warwick & that he and the said Joseph Burton also residing in said Warwick are both credible witnesses & entitled to full credit
Whipple A Arnold Just Peace

Kent Sc The State of Rhode Island & Providence Plantations
I testify that Whipple A Arnold is a Justice of the peace for the Town of Warwick in our county of Kent, that the above is his proper signature in his own hand writing, that full faith & [credit] ought to be given to all his official acts - In witness whereof I have hereunto set my name & seal of office at East Greenwich - this 26" day of May in the year 1833.
John Brown, Clk
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I John Browning of Warwick in the County of Kent Sc pose and say that I was acquainted with Frederick Hamilton in the beginning of the revolutionary was and has been ever since that said Hamilton in September 1776 enlisted in James Parkers [Parker's] company in Col John Cooks [Cook's] regiment for three months and served at Newport till [until] the enemy took possession of said town and afterward at Tiverton where said term expired that this deponent was with said Hamilton during said times that in August 1778 this deponent saw said Hamilton ["Browning" crossed out] on Rhode Island in Sullivans [Sullivan's] expedition and in the battle there fought and this deponent further says he saw said Hamilton in Capt Samuel Dyer's company in Col Charles Dyer's regiment and served on the Western shore of Narragansett Bay and saw Hamilton served I think about six months
John Browning

Kent Sc. Court of Common Pleas August Term AD 1832
Sworn to in open Court the seventh day of the Term
Witness John Brown Clk
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I James Stafford of Coventry aged 84 years on oath do depose & say that in Decr 1776 I served one month at Warwick neck in Cap Reuben Whitmans [Whitman's] company & Col John Watermans [Waterman's] regiment of R.I. Militia

& in April 1777 I served one month at the same place & under the same Officers

& in October 1777 I served one month at East Greenwich in Cap Michael Spencers [Spencer's] company & Col Thomas Tillinghast's regiment of R.I. Militia -

& in January 1778 one month at the same place & under the same Officers - 

& from August 1778 two months in Sullivans [Sullivan's] expedition ["in Cap" crossed out; "His Officers he cannot remember" crossed out] in Cap Randalls [Randall's company & Col Tillinghast regiment

in the above services I well remember that Frederick Hamilton now of Warwick was there & served with me in the same companies as I have stated above

James Stafford
x his mark

Kent Sc. Court of Common Pleas August Term AD 1832
Sworn to in open Court the seventh day of the Term
Witness John Brown, Clk
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I Daniel Updike of East Greenwich in the County of Kent being now in my 72d year of age in oath do testify and say that I am well acquainted with Frederic Hamilton who is now present before me, who now resides in Warwick in said County & have known him ever since the year 1773, and I do further testify that when we were young we lived in the same town on the west shore of Narragansett Bay. When the British were in possession of Newport, frequent incursions were made into that Country by them & as often as such incursions were made alarms were given & the Militia were called out to defend the shores - Said Hamilton was fequently [frequently] out upon such occasions & he was always ready for duty & perhaps did as much during the time Newport was in possession of the enemy which was three years as any other man, in garding [guarding] the shores & being upon the alert all the time,- said Hamilton has always been personally well known to me & has always been a man of truth & veracity & entitled to full confidence
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Daniel Updike

Kent Sc. Court of Common Pleas August Term AD 1832
Sworn to in open Court, the eighth day of the Term
Witness John Brown Clk
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Deposition
John Spink for Frederick Hamilton
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I, John Spink of North Kingstown in the County of Washington and State of Rhode Island & Providence Plantations - being seventy nine years of age and under solemn oath do Testify and Say that I am well acquainted with Frederick Hamilton of said North Kingstown (now residing in Warwick within said State-) and have been Intimately acquainted with him for more than sixty years - and was knowing to the said Hamilton & serving and performing many duties in the Militia of that State during the Revolutionary War - I verry [very] well remember that some time in the fall of the year 1775 this deponent and the said Frederick Hamilton enlisted into a militia Company in said North Kingston under the command of Capt Eldridge Spink - and served therein four months and were stationed at diferent [different] places guarding the West Shore of Naragansett [Narragansett] Bay between Wickford and East Greenwich - I further Testify that some time in fall of the year 1776, I was present and was knowing to the said Hamilton enlisting into Captain James Parkers [Parker's] Company of Militia under Colonel Cook - for the Term of three months - and he with said Company went on to Rhode Island a short time previous  to the landing of the British on that Island of Newport - I further Testify that in the summer of the year of 1778 - this deponant [deponent] was on Newport Rhode Island doing military duty under Captain Joshua Davis for the Span of two months - and I was knowing to the said Frederick Hamilton - being on Newport at the time I was there doing duty in a Militia Company commanded by Capt Allen Johnson from East Greenwich - we both served there in the Expedition of General Sullivan -
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I also recollect that some time in the fall of the year 1778 that said Frederick Hamilton was being my nearest neighbour - and that a company of militia men from the State of Massachusetts were Stationed & quartered at the house of the said Hamilton on the shore of the Naragansett [Narragansett] bay - during the fall & Winter of that year - and that the said Hamilton was active in his duties and his [regulations?] on guard during the Winter as aforesaid after that some time the Spring of the year 1779 - the British were frequently Landing on the Shores in North Kingstown - taking stock and other property - burning homes &c - this deponant and the said Hamilton wer [were] during that year and until the British left Rhode Island on duty part of the time under Capt Samuel Dyre [Dyer], and at other times guarding the shores and further say not -
John Spink

Kent Sc. State of Rhode Island &c
at East Greenwich August 14th, 1832
The the above named John Spink appeared before me, and subscribed the aforegoing deposition in my presence and made solemn oath & the truth of the same said Deposition was by me reduced to writing in the [illegible] of the Deponant [Deponent].

The character of the deponant [deponent] for truth and varacity [veracity] is good
Jos J Tillinghast
Just CC Pleas.
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Kent Sc. The State of Rhode Island of Providence Plantations
Court of Common Pleas, Clerks office

I certify that Joseph J. Tillinghast is a Justice of this Court that the aforegoing is the proper signature in his own hand writing, that full faith & credit is sought to be given to all his official acts - In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of office at East Greenwich the third day of September in the year 1832 -

John Brown Clk
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THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES
Form VAM-51
12-5-41

Division of Veterans' Administration Archives

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*

NAME Hamilton, George GRADE Private LINE Maryland

WARRANT NUMBER 11318 ACREAGE 100 ISSUED July 18, 1793 to William Ripton, assignee

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*The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800. Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.