Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 14305, John Bissell, R. I.

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R.I.
Bissell, John      W.14305
           Ruth

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Rhode Island - 3328
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Ruth Bissell,
widow of John Bissell, decd-
RI
who died on the 23d of Septr 1799-
of Kent co. in the State of R. Island 
who was a Lt & pri, in the compy commanded 
by Captain Berrington of the of the Regt. commanded by Col. dyer in 
for 3 mos. Lieut.
      3 mos. Private
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Inscribed on the Roll of Rhode Island
at the rate of 50 Dollars -- Cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
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Arrears to the 4th of March, 1840       $ 450.00
Semi-annual allowance ending 4 sept. 25.00
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                                                            $ 475.00

{Revolutionary Claim, 
Act July 4, 1836,
Section the 3d}

Recorded by S.A. Elliot Clerk,
Book A  Vol. 2    Page 82.

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Ruth Bissell

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I hereby certify that John Bissell the sone of Mr. Thomas Bissell, and Ruth Coregdon, daughter of Mr. Benjamin Coregdon y.3d. deceased, both of North Kingstown n the County of [illegible] County & Colony of Rhode Island were lawfully joined together in marriage in 2d North Kingstown the fifteenth day of December in the year of our Lord one thousand & seven hundred seventy three      by Geo. Thomas Jus Peace
Recorded Decem seventeenth, seventeen hundred seventy three  Geo. Thomas T. Clk.

State of Rhode Island & C
Town Clerk's Office North Kingstown November 29, 1839
I Nicholas N. Spink Town Clerk of the Town of North Kingstown in the County of Washington do hereby certify the above marriage certificate to be a true copy of record in this office- with the exception of the date, which is expressed on the record in fair legible figures as follows
the 15th day of December Ad 1773 and also the date of the records which is expressed in fair legible figures as follows "Recorded Decemr 17th, 1773.  /a Geo. Thomas T. Clk."
I, Nicholas N. Spink above named, depose and say; that I hold the Office of Town Clerk in the county town and State aforesaid, and that the above

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is a true extract from the Records of said Town of North Kingstown, with the exceptions above named, as certified by me
Nichl. N. Spink  Clerk of the 
Town of North Kingstown

Sworn to before me, the day and year aforesaid in said North Kingstown
Sylvester G. Shearmer
Justice of the Peace

Washington ss- Town clerk [illegible] of the Town of North Kingstown, 
County of Washington-

I the [illegible] Town Clerk of said town of North Kingston & Clerk of the Court of Probate of said Town - hereby state that Sylvester G. Shearman, before when the [illegible] certificate [illegible] to is a Justice of the Peace,

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State of Rhode Island County of Kent

On this Seventeenth day December AD 1839
Personally appeared before me John Brown
one of the Justices of the Court of Common
pleas within & for said County Ruth Bissell
now resident
in Warwick in said County
aged Eighty eight years, who being duly
Sworn
according to Law doth on her oath
make the following declaration in order to
obtain
the benefit of the act of Congress
of July 4, 1836. Viz. That she is the Widow
of John Bissell formerly of North Kingstown
in said State who was a Soldier and an
officer in the War of the Revolution
that
during said war they resided part of the time
in said North Kingstown and part of the
time in Exeter an adjoining town, that
while we resided in the
latter Town Her
Husband was commissioned as a Lieutenant
and served as such that he was frequently
called out and was gone a month at a
time, that while he was gone the used to
have his & Her own business to attend to
Her Husband was called John Bissell Jr while
living in Exeter from the circumstance that
and another man by the name of John Bissell
His Uncle was then living in said Exeter
and she further declared that she was

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Service
R.I.  Bissell, John
Ruth

Number
W.14305

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Rev. & 1812 Wars Section.
December 21, 1923

Mrs. V.H. Gottschalk,
522 West 183 St.,
New York, N.Y.

Madam:
I have to advise you that from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim w.14305, it appears that John Bissell was the son of Thomas Bissell and resided during the Revolution at North Kingston an Exeter, Rhode Island. He was called John Bissell, Junior, while residing in Exeter, because his uncle John also lived there.
He served from April 1775 for four months as a private under Captain Thomas Cole and Wall in the Rhode Island Troops.
He served from March 1776 for three months in Colonel Dyer’s Rhode Island Regiment.
He was appointed in May 1777, Lieutenant of the Second Company of Militia of Exeter, Rhode Island, and served one year.
He served from August 1778 for one month as a private in Captain Jonathan Bates’ Rhode Island Company.
He served during 1779 for three months as a private in

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Captain Lawrence Peaver's Rhode Island Company.
He married December 15, 1773 at North Kingston, Rhode Island, Ruth, daughter of Benjamin Congdon, and he died September 3, 1799.
She was allowed pension on her application executed December 17, 1839, while living in 
Warwick, Rhode Island, aged eighty-eight years.
Respectfully,
Acting Commissioner.

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1923-Dec, 21- Hist. Ts Mr U.H. Gottschalk

File No. 14305
               Ruth Bishop
                                  Widow of
                John Bishop
                 Lieut.  Rev.  War

Act: July 4” 1836

Index:— Vol. A, Page 63

[Arrangement of 1870]

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Providence March 18 1840

Sir
I herewith enclose the application of
Mrs Ruth Bissell widow of John Bissell
for a pension under the act of Congress
of July 4th 1836. I take the liberty to
call your attention in the investigation 
of the claim to the order of the General
Assembly October Session 1779 dismissing 
the “militia Gards” on the shares which
Oder shows existence of such Goods &
corroborates the testimony of the witness 
in this case

I am respectfully 
you let not

Benjamin Cowell

J L Edwards Esq

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Mrs. V. H. Gottschalk
522 West 183rd Street
New York, N.Y.

Pension Bureau 
Washington, D.C.

Dear Sir.
Have you record of
John Bissell Jr. Lt. 2nd Co. Militia Exeter May 1777
Private Capt. Bales Co. 1779 who
I. at N. Kingston R.I 1799.
David Vallett of Worcester R.I. served in
R.I-d. 1821 in Worcester R.I.
or Widow Phoebe Vallett- d. 1827 in R.I.
Jeremiah Vallett, Vallitt, Valet. lived in R.I.
1753-1777 d. In Lee Mass after
1806. Was in Birchmond R.I. 1760
1777 in North Kingston R.I. 1760
and in Lee Mass 1790-1800-1806
Pension services wanted for Revolutionary 
War service for DHR papers.
K.C. gottschalk

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I David Bissell of North Kingstown County of Washington and State of Rhodeisland [Rhode Island] on oath do testify and say that I am Seventy nine years old that I was formerly well aquainted [sic] with John Bissell formerly of Exeter in said County & the husband of Ruth Bissell now his widow [crossed out: I Remember] I Remember perfectly well that in the year 1777 Said John Bissell was Lieutenant a Company of militia & to my personal knowledge he served three months in that Company during that year the first term was in June of that year Stationed at place called Bostoneck [Boston Neck] about nine miles from his home where ^he had the ^command of a Company of and served a month the Captain being absent I served under him as a Serjant [sergeant] the Second term was in August in the same year when he again Commanded a Company Stationed at the same place and from thence we went an Expedition on the Island of Connicut [Conanicut] where we made and attacked and took a Hussian [Hessian] Soldier the third was immediately after this I think in October when we served another month stationed at the same place I remember this term the circumstances that ^the Enemy landed troops while we were their Said Bissell then had the Comand [sic] of the Company the Captain being absent from him David Herrington was the Captain name and Charles Dyer was the Col myself served all that Summer for my Self and as a substitute for others and I distinctly remember of these three month Service of Lieut ^Bissell Commanding the Company consisted of thirty men who were present 
And further the Deponant saith not 
David Bissell 
Washington Sc At Northingstown [sic] February 15 1840 personly came before me the above Named David Bissell and made oath to the above Written Deposition
Benjamin Smith Justice C. C. Pleas

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I hereby Certify that I have been aquainted with David Bissell for upwards of fifty years past and he has allways been considered a man of truth and verasity 
Benjamin Smith

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I Job Shearman of Exeter in the County of Washington and State of Rhode Island Do testify & say that I am Now Eighty three years of age that I was well acquainted with John Bissel formerly of North Kingston and the husband of Ruth Bissel Now his widdow, In the year 1776 I was Enlisted Soldier in Capt Samuel Phillips Company & Col Richmonds Regiment and was stationed at the House of John Congdon near the South Ferry in South Kingstown, at which time I have a Distinct Recollection, That Said John Bissel was in a Company Belonging to Said North Kingston Stationed on the North part of Boston Neck Guarding the Shores, Near to the place where I was Stationed and I have a Distinct Recollection he was Stationed there all through the month of March April & May of Said Year, I was there all the time and I frequently Saw him there & know that he Served there, The Name of the Capt of Said Company I ^do not Recollect, the Company Belonged to Col Dyer Regment. He afterwards Served as an officer as I understood. After my Service in Said Richmonds Regments I Served in the Continental Army & Navy and am a pensioner under the act of March 18th 1818 
Job Sherman 
State of Rhode Island & Providence Plantations Washington Ss South Kingstown December 13th 1839 then Personally Came Job Sherman Subscriber to the foregoing Deposition and made Solemn Oath to the truth of the Same I further Certify that I am well acquainted with the Said Job Sherman and that his Carracter for truth is Good 
Matthew Waite Justice of the Peace

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Ruth Bissell
R.I.     5007
Act 4 July '36


m73. d'99 -
Admd
3 mo. L. $40
3 m pri 10
50$

No deduction

Benjn Cowell
Providence
R.I.

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I Ebenezer Smith of South Kingstown in the County of Washington and State of Rhode Island aged Eighty three years on Solemn oath do Testify and Say that I Was well acquainted with John Bissel formerly of North Kingston Deceased. That in the month of April 1775 I Belonged to Capt Stephen Babcocks Company of Militia Belonging to South Kingstown and were Stationed near the South Ferry in South Kingstown and was Stationed near said South ferry about Six months, one half of said time I Served as a Substitute for other persons, and that Capt Thomas Coles Company of Militia Belonging to North Kingstown were Stationed Near the North in Said North Kingstown about two miles from the South ferry  where I was Stationed and that I will Remember that John Bissel Belonged to said Capt Coles Company and Did Duty therein Guarding the Shores against the Invasion of the Brittish Squadron under the command of Capt Wallace and that to my certain knowledge the Said John Bissel served as aforesaid the months of April June, August and September of Said year. I was in the habit Seeing him almost Every Day having known him well from the time he was a Small Boy from the Circumstance of his farther owning Bissels Mills So called situated in said North Kingstown, as My Father for the most of the time when I was a Boy

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Verally Sent his Grain to said Mills to be Ground. In the year 1777 I enlisted in Capt Christopher Dyers Company of State troops and Belonging to Col John Topham Regment and was Stationed near Howland Ferry in Tivertown [Tiverton] where I Served Nine months While I Was there the Said John Bissel Came there and Belonged to Capt Jonathan Bates Company of Militia from North Kingstown and Exeter (part from each town) where they Remained about three months which was at the time of Spencers Expedition, where I think he Served as Lieutenant I frequently Saw him there and am Quite positive he cited as Lieutenant, at the time Sullivans Expedition in 1778 I Still Belonged to the State troop and was at Said Expedition. The said John Bissel Served as a private the month of August in said Capt Bates Company In the year 1779, he Served three months Guarding the shores ^near the north ferry as aforesaid as a private in Capt Lawrence Pearce Company of Militia Belonging to North Kingstone at the time Last aforesaid I Belonged to Capt Stephen Babcocks Company and was Doing Duty & Guarding the shores near the South Ferry as aforesaid at the same time 
Ebenezer Smith his mark X
Witness Matthew Waite 
At South Kingstown in the County of Washington & State of Rhode Island this Seventh day of January AD 1840 Personally came Ebenezer Smith Subscriber to the foregoing Deposition and made Solemn oath to the truth of the same which was Reduced to writing by me and by him in my presence Subscribed. I also Certify that the said Ebenezer Smith is well known to me and that his testimony is entitled to full credit Matthew Waite Justice Peace

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State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations In General Assembly October 1779. 
Whereas the Enemy have evacuated this State, in consequence whereof the service of the Militia Guards that have been placed upon the shares thereof, are no longer wanted: It is therefore voted and Resolved That the said Guards be and they are hereby dismissed and the commanding officers of Posts where such Guards have been placed, are hereby required to dismiss them accordingly: and that a copy of this Resolve be sent to each of the said commanding officers
True copy of record. Witness Henry Bowen Secy
Secretary's Office Rhode Island &c 
Feb. 18, 1840, 
I Henry Bowen, Secretary of said State, and Keeper of the Records and the Seal thereof, Do Certify that at the session of the General Assembly of said State holden on the first Wednesday of May seventeen hundred seventy seven John Bissell Jun. was elected Lieutenant of the Second Company of Militia in the Town of Exeter for one year; and so continued until the last Monday of June 1778, (seventeen hundred & seventy eight.)
I further certify that at the date of the official Certificates respectively annexed, John Brown was Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas within the County of Kent: Sylvester G Shearman Justice of the Peace for the town of North Kingstown in the County of Washington: Benjamin Smith Justice of the Court of Common Pleas in said County: and Matthew Waite Justice of the Peace for the town of South Kingston in said County as appears of record 
Witness my hand and the Seal of said State at Providence the day and year first above written 
Henry Bowen