Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W 13919, Thomas Champlin, R.I.

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R.J. Champlin, Thomas W13919
Sparks, Charity (former widow)

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Rhode Island 1602
Charity Sparks formerly widow of Thomas Champlin, deceased who died in the year 1795 of Bristol County in the State of Rhode Island, who was a private + corporal in the company commanded by W. Throop of the regiment commanded by Colonel Cararey in the Rhode Island [illegible] line for 4 mo. Private $13.33. 12 mo. Corporal $44 = $57.33. Inscribed on the Roll of Rhode Island at the rate of 57 dollars and 33 cents, per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1834. Certificate of pension issued the 4th day of December, 1837 and sent to N. Bullock, Bristol, Rhode Island. Arrears to the 4th of March, 1838 = $372.64. Semi annual allowance ending 4 September = $26.66. (Total is) $399.30. Revolutionary Claim, Act July 4, 1836, Section the 3rd. Recorded by S.A. Elliot  clerk, Book A, volume 2, page 98.

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Declaration 
In order to obtain the benefits of the third section of the act of 4th July, 1836, and of the first section of the act of 3rd March, 1837. State of Rhode Island County of Bristol- on this first Monday of June A.D 1837, being the 5th day of said month, personally appeared, before the Court of Probate, now in session at the Bristol, within and for the thrown of Bristol, aged seventy eight years, who after first being sully sworn according 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 July 4th, 1836, and the act explanatory of said act, passed March 3rd, 1837. She declares that she was married to Thomas Champlin, who was a private soldier or corporal in the service of the county for a considerable part of the Revolutionary War, that he commenced his service as a private soldier in a company of the Bristol Militia, commanded she believes by Capt. William Throop, at the time the English got possession of Newport in December 1776, which company was called out at that time for the defense of Bristol, the Aja ent shores, and said Champlin continued in that service until he entered into Col. Crams Regiment of State Trooper, which he enlisted into in the spring of 1777; for at least a year. She is sure he entered this Regiment as early as the month of March because his enlistment expired in March of 1778, that she always has understood he served as a corporal during that year. In the course of this part of his service he was stationed at different places about Bristol keeping guard and was occupied several weeks in Spencer’s expedition to Howlands Ferry and Tiverton heights- and the applicant further declares that after the return of said Champlin from his said service in the Crary Regiment, that is from the time she was married to him which was on the 30th day of March 1778 to the 25th day of May of that year, the day the enemy set fire to a part of Warren, said Champlin was employed in the [illegible] time, believes his time was

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every other week, but she does not pretend to be certain how the service was allotted among the militia at that or at any other particular time but according to the best of of her recollection sometimes, the militia would serve a week, sometimes, a fortnight and sometimes ten days at a time and then be relieved for a like time by the other portion of the company. She well recollects her said husband was on guard the morning the enemy landed on the Neck & that he was then said to be the first man that discovered them through the fog. And the affiant further declares that said Champlin was in the service as a private soldier or as a corporal from the said 25th day of May untill the first of September 1778, either doing duty in the militia or in Captain Veil Allen’s company which was drafted from the Regiment in which company he served a part of the summer of 1778; that her said husband was in Sullivan's expedition that year; And she further declares, that on the return of her said husband from Sullivan's expedition, he made Warren his home where the affiant had till then always lived, that he be came a member of Captain Robert Care’s company or of the company of Warren in which he took his turn in the guard service as he had before done in the Bristol militia serving as near as she can recollect and as she has always understood half the time by rotation till the Fall of 1779, when the Enemy left Newport, - And the affiant further declares that she was married to said Thomas Champlin on the thirtieth day of March in the year seventeen hundred and seventy eight, by William T. Miller, Esquire, who has been dead many years leaving no record thereof that she has been able to find and she believes there is no person now living who was present at the marriage; that said Champlin sailed from Warren on the 8th day of October 1780 for a voyage to the West Indies and neither he nor the vessel nor any one of the crew was ever again heard from; that she afterwards was married to Joseph Sparks of Bristol, who died on his homeward voyage

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from sea on the 8th day of January 1795; that she was a widow on the 4th day of July 1836, and has been ever since the death of said Joseph Sparks as will more fully appear by reference to the proof hereto annexed Charity Bank Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written before said Court of Probate. Attest Wm Throop Prob. [illegible]. I, Wm Throop Clerk of the Court of Probate aforesaid do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the Original proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the application of Charity Sparks for a pension, for the services of Thomas Champlin, her former husband. In testimony whereof I have hereunto at my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court this fifth day of June A.D. 1837. 
Wm Throop Probate Clerk

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I, Betsey Heath wife of Jabez Heath of Bar-
rington in the State of Rhode Island, on 
solemn oath depose and say that I was
fifty five years of age in May last; that I
was married to Thomas Champlin, the son
and only child of Thomas Champlin and
Charity his wife, whose maiden name was
Hicks, on the eighth day of June in the year
of our Lord Eighteen hundred, that the 
first mentioned Thomas Champlin, to 
whom I was so married, died on the tenth
day of January in the year of our Lord
Eighteen hundred and two, in the twenty
third year of his age, and had he lived
until the fourteenth day of February, then 
next following he would have been
twenty three years old, as appears by the Re-
cord in my family Bible, which states that
the same Thomas Champlin was born the
14th day of February, in the year seventeen 
hundred and seventy nine, as appears by the 
said record which is as follows
copy
"W Thomas Champlin was born February the
14th day in the year of our Lord A.D. 1779
W. Thomas Champlin departed this life on the 
[illegible], January the 10th 1802 in the 
23 year of his age", which copy I testify is a true
and correct copy
Betsey Heath [signature]

State of Rhode Island Bristol Sc / Barrington
October 2d A. 1837 - Personally came Betsey Heath
and made solemn oath to the truth of the above
deposition and subscribed the same on my presence
and before me and I also certify that I am person-
ally acquainted with her and that she is a woman of
the truth and veracity - I also certify that the coppy
to which she has sworn is genuine
Benjn Medbury Justice Peace

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I Lydia Johnson wife of Stephen Johnson of [illegible] in the County of Bristol in the State of Rhode Island do testify & say, on solemn oath, that previous to my marriage to my present husband, I was the wife of William T. Miller Esq. formerly of this town, deceased, that my said first husband was a Justice of the Peace, for many years and was occasionally in the habit of joining persons in marriages, and I recollect to have seen many years ago, a book in which a record or memorandum of marriages by him solemnized, were entered, but no such book is now to be found & I presume, it has been destroyed or used up long ago. I have searched for the book at the insistence of Mr Sparks, and I testify that no such book is now to be found. Mr. Miller lest a number of books of his doings as a Justice of the Peace, but none are now to be found here, I supposed these books of no use & took no care to preserve them. Lydia Johnson State of Rhode Island Bristol [illegible]. Warren, Oct. 2nd A.D. 1837 Personally came Lydia Johnson, subscriber to the above Deposition & made solemn oath to the truth thereof before me & subscribed the same in my presence and I further certify that I am personally acquainted with said Deponent & that she is a person of truth & veracity. Samuel Randall Justice Peace

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I Edward C. Sparks of Warren in the County of Bristol in the State of Rhode Island aged forty nine years on solemn oath depose & say that I am the son of Joseph & Charity Sparks, that my father died at sea many years ago. That I lived at home with my parents until about the time of my fathers death, when I was put to a trude. & I further testify that I never saw any family or other record of the marriage of my mother to her first husband Thomas Champlin nor of that to my said father Joseph Sparks and that if there had been any such record in the family bible I must have seen it-- I further testify that diligent search has been made for such record both in the town Clerks office in said Warren and at the house of the late William T. Miller Esqr. by whom my said Mathers first marriage is said to have been solemnized, but such record not to be found. Edward C. Sparks State of Rhode Island & Bristol [illegible] Warren, Oct. 2d 1837 Personally came before me the Subscribed the afore named Edward C. Sparks, & being sworn according to law, made oath to the truth of the aforegoing deposition by him subscribed in my presence, and I further certify that I am personally acquainted with said Edward C. Sparks & that he is a credible person & his statements entitled to credit. Samuel Randell Justice Peace

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State of Rhode Island &c Bristol County for Clerks Office Supreme Judicial Court Oct 6, 1837. I Greenwood Reynolds Clerk of said Court for said County of Bristol do hereby certify that Benjamin Medbury before whom the deposition of Betsey Heath, purports to have been taken is a Justice of the Peace for said County of Bristol duly qualified to act in said capacity and that the signature of his name at the bottom of the certificate to said deposition is his genuine signature, And I further certify that Samuel Randall before whom the depositions of Lydia Johnson, and Edward C Sparks is a Justice of the Peace for said County of Bristol duly qualified to act in said capacity, and that the signature of his name at the bottom of the certificates to said depositions is his genuine signature. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court the day and year above written. Greenwood Reynolds Clerk 
Charity Sparks .

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I Mary Cranston of Warren in the County of Bristol and State of Rhode Island aged eighty years, on oath depose 
That in the year 1777 I moved into the house where Charity Hicks and her parents then lived and where I lived for a year or more- During my residence there and in the fore part of the year 1778, said Charity as I well remember was married to Thomas Champlin deceased. There was no clergyman in town and she was married by a Justice of the Peace. I think it was by William T. Miller Esq. They lived together as man and wife until 1780 when he died. He left one child by said Charity. She afterwards married Joseph Sparks deceased whose widow she still remains. He had been a soldier in the army when she married him the said Champlin. The child was born when I lived in the house with them and I moved from their house in May 1779. The child was not only born, but I well remember of Mrs Champlin's not doing well and remaining sick some time after her confinement, to that I am quite certain the marriage took place in the fore part of the year 1778. I also well recollect that in August 1778 was a soldier and I think in Sullivan's expedition. I cannot say in what company or regiment- 
Mary Cranston
Bristols at Warren this 12th day of June AD 1837 when personally came Mary Cranston above named and gave and made solemn oath to the truth of the foregoing deposition by her who subscribed in my presence - and I certify that said deponent is personally known to me and is a woman of truth and veracity. Before me Jos. M. Blake 
Just. Peace

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 I John Sisson of Warren in the County of Bristol and State of Rhode Island aged seventy nine years on solemn oath depose and say That on the Sixteenth day of March AD 1877 I enlisted as a private soldier in Capt. Caleb Carr's company of State Troops belonging to Col. Archibald Crary's regiment and served therein one year the period of my enlistment. Thomas Champlin of Bristol in said County served in said company all the time I did, as a private or corporal, I think as a corporal. The company was raised for fifteen months but I served twelve months only. Rufus Barton was Lieutenant of the company. We were stationed at Bristol a part of the time and in the course of the year we were marched to Howland’s Ferry in Spencer's expedition and then returned back to Bristol 
John Sisson 
Bristol Sc. At Warren this 12th day of June AD 1837. Then personally came John Sisson above named and gave and made solemn oath to the truth of the foregoing deposition by him subscribed before me. And I certify that said deponent is personally known to me and is a person of truth and veracity. 
Jos. M. Blake 
Just. of the Peace

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RECORD DIVISION. 3-525.
 DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, 
BUREAU OF PENSIONS. 
Washington, D. C., 19 
In reply to your request of ____, received_____ for a statement of the military history of Thomas Champlin a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau. DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. 
Dec., 1776 to Mar 77
Mar., 77 1 year
Mar. 30 1778 to May 25 1778
July 1 1778-Sept. 1778
Sept 78 to Fall 1779
LENGTH OF SERVICE. 
RANK. 
Pvt.
Corpl.
OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. 
CAPTAIN. 
Wm. Throop
Caleb Carr 
Vial Allen
Wm Throop
Robert Carr, co of Warren [illegible] on guard duty
COLONEL 
Nathaniel Martin 
Crary 
on guard duty in the militia of Bristol 
Nathan Miller 
John Cook 
Battles engaged in, Spencer’s and Sullivan’s & burning of Bristol. 
Residence of soldier at enlistment, with his grandfather John Throop on Bristol 
Date of application for pension, June 3, 1837. His claim was al 
Residence at date of application, Bristol, Bristol Co. R.I.
Age at date of application, 18 yrs. 
Remarks of Mar Mar. 30, 1778, Charity Hicks of Warren R. I. and he sailed from said place Oct.  8, 1780 on a voyage to the West Indies and neither he, the crew or vessel were ever heard of again, she mar. Joseph Sparks of Bristol R.I.  who died at sea Jan. 8, 1795. This only child Thomas Champlin b. Feb. 14, 1779 D. Jan 10, 1802. Mar. June 8, 1800 Belsey - who afterwards M. Jabez Heath of Barrington R.I. Very Respectfully, her son Edward C Sparks age 49 yrs & res of Warren RI in 1837 
Very respectfully, 
Commissioner

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I Thomas K. Coomer of Bristol in the State of Rhode Island aged seventy nine years on oath depose, that Thomas Champlin formerly a soldier in the Revolutionary war was brought up within a few rods from myself. I live at that time within the town of Bristol but near Warren Village and he directly opposite across the road at what is called the Troop Place. Said Champlin belonged to Crane's regiment which was raised early in the 1777 for a fifteen months service. He was in that service and I have no doubt served out the whole of it. I well remember that in the month of May 1778 he was the first man to give the alarm of the landing of the enemy under Col. Campbell between the compact part of Bristol & of Warren when they burnt the meeting house, blew up the magazine in Warren, burnt the boats at Kickamuet River, returned to and burnt a part of Bristol. Said Champlin's wife lived in Warren but he was stationed on Bristol Neck. He had had permission to spend the night with his family there which he occasionally did, and was returning to his station on the neck, between day break and sunrise when he saw the enemy landing. Champlin immediately spread the alarm. He hollowed to my father and told him the British had come, but my father was taken by them as well as many others on the neck, before he had time to escape. Champlin run immediately to Bristol & gave the alarm to our forces there, which were rallied as soon as possible and finally repelled them. Said Champlin did a good deal of other service in the war but I cannot further specify. I was well acquainted with Champlin’s wife before and after his marriage. Her name was Charity Hicks. She lived in Warren but

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within a half of mile of where I have always . They were married in the revolutionary war and were married as I well remember when the  enemy landed in May 1778 as before stated. 
Thomas K. Coomer 
Bristol at Bristol this 11th day of May AD 1837  Then personally came Thomas K. Coomer above named and gave and made solemn oath to the truth of the fore written deposition by him subscribed before me and I certify that said Coomer is personally known to me and that he is a man of truth and veracity 
Jos. M. Blake 
Just. Peace

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I Ichabod Munro of Bristol in the State of Rhode Island aged seventy three years, on solemn oath depose and say that I was brought up from my childhood at the former John Throop's on Bristol Neck near Warren line, & was living there when the revolutionary war broke out, and I also testify that Thomas Champlin the first husband of the present Mrs Charity Sparks lived there at that time, he was a grandson of said Throop. Said Champlin enlisted into the service of Col. Crary's regment at an early period of the war and served in it at least a year, at the termination of that service he returned home to his Grandfather Troops where I was still living and where also he made it his home until after his marriage. He was married to Charity Hicks the spring before Campbell landed on the Neck and a few weeks before that event. I well remember the time of that landing. Mr Throop was taken a prisoner but made his escape before they arrived at the Ferry. From the time of Col. Campbell's landing and burning the boats at The Rament, which was May 25th 1778 the whole Militia of the County were kept under arms for a number of weeks and most of them till after Sullivan's expedition on the Island. Said Champlin I remember was out with them, I am not certain whether in a Warren of Bristol Company, for even after his marriage he made Warren his home but it was within half a mile of his Grandfather Throops, and he was on guard on Bristol Neck the morning of Campbell's landing and as I then and ever since that understood, was the first man that discovered their approach & give the alarm. I cannot be more particular in specifying the service of said Champlin as I was at that time but a lad and too young for the service myself 
Ichabod Munro

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Bristol At Bristol this twelfth day of June AD 1837. Then personally came Ichabod Munro and gave and made solemn oath to the truth of the aforegoing deposition by him subscribed before me And I also certify that I am personally acquainted with the said deponent and that he is a man of truth and veracity 
Jos. M. Blake 
Just. Peace

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I Samuel Randall Town Clerk of the town of Warren and State of Rhode Island, on oath depose that I have made search on the records of marriages for said town for the marriage of Thomas Champlin and Charity Hicks but that said marriage is not recorded-- I also testify that but few marriages were recorded in this town in the Revolutionary war, but eleven only from 1775 until the enemy evacuated Newport in December 1779 
Samuel Randall 
 Bristol at Warren this 11th day of May AD 1837 Then personally came Samuel Randall above named and gave and made solemn oath to the truth of the foregoing deposition by him subscribed before me and I certify that said deponent is personally known to me and is a man of truth and veracity 
Jos. M. Blake 
Just. Peace

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I Betsey Brown of Warren of the County of Bristol and State of Rhode Island aged seventy seven on oath depose, that I have been acquainted from my youth with Widow Charity Sparks whose maiden name was Hicks - & we lived near each other in the Revolutionary war, as well as before-- We were married not far from the same time, she to Thomas Champlain and I to John Brown. I was married in January 1778 and she but a month or two afterwords. They lived together as husband & wife until his death which took place a year or two after the marriage. They had one child and I believe but one. She was afterward married to a Mr Sparks who also has been dead for many years. She still remains the widow of said Sparks. 
Betsey Brown 
Bristol at Bristol this 11th day of May AD 1837 then personally came Betsey Brown above named and gave and made oath to the truth of the aforegoing deposition by her subscribed in my presence and I also certify that said deponent is personally known to me and is a woman of truth and veracity 
Jos. M. Blake 
Just. Peace

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V2238
Charity Sparks
[illegible]
TW Champlin
Allace 16 1/322in pr
Rhode Island
Bristol [illegible]
RI
[illegible]
4 mo. / [illegible] 13.33
12. mo. corps 44 -
$57.33
A. Bullock
Bristol
RI

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State of Rhode Island County of Bristol 
Clerks Office Supreme Judicial County Court June A.D. 1837 
I Greenwood Reynolds Clerk of said Supreme Judicial Court for said County of Bristol, do hereby certify that William Throop in the present Clerk of the Court of Probate for the Town of Bristol and has been such for several years last part, and that the signature of his name at the bottom of the certificate to the declaration of Charity Sparks, is in his own proper hand writing. And I further certify that Joseph M. Blake, before whom the depositions of Joseph Munro, John Sisson, Mary Cranston Thomas W Coomer, Ichabod Munro, Samuel Randall and Betsey Brown purport to have been taken, was at the several dates of the caption of said depositions, a Justice of the Peace for the Town and County of Bristol aforesaid, and has been for several years last past, and is duly authorized to act in his said capacity and that the signature of his name at the bottom of the certificates to said deposition is in his own hand writing and his genuine signature.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court the day and year above written
Greenwood Reynolds Clerk

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Suspended.
Let to N. Bullock
August 29, 1837

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Thomas Champlin 
Dec 7th (W Throop ) 
Sp. 77 12 mo. corpl. (on Crary's rgle ) 
Married 30 Mar 78 
then half the time till fall of 1779 
Jo. Munn. unit 7h. ser together 3 - 3 mo
77 Crary's Regt -
July 78 2 mo - 1.10
16.10

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Mrs. Louisa P Bates for list on Sept. 20, 1912 Rev WIDOW, &c. File No. 13919 Charity Sparks Wid of Thomas Champlin Corporal Rev War Act: July 4 of Wall 1896. Index:--Vol. M, Page 234 [Arrangement of 1870.]

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I Joseph Munn of Bristol in the County of Bristol and State of Rhode Island, aged in my seventy seventh year do testify on oath That I was intimately acquainted with Thomas Champlin from my youth and until his death. We were brought up near each other and were both soldiers during a part of the Revolutionary War . In 1776 we served together in Col. Nathanial Martin's regiment for three months in Bristol. I in Capt. Bradford's company and he in Capt. William Throop's Militia Company. I was stationed at the old Wardwell House, so called, serving as a substitute. He was stationed at the Bait House nearly opposite. This service commenced when the enemy came into Newport in December 1776 and continued till some time in March 1777. Our business was to guard the shores and be in readiness to repel the enemy. At the expiration of this service said Champlin enlisted into Col Crane's regiment of State troops in what was called the fifteen months which he served out I believe. In 1778 I served with said Champlin in Sullivan's expedition about two months in Sullivan’s. There were two drafts for this expedition of twenty days each. Champlin and I served through both drafts. In the first draft I served as a substitute in Capt. Robert Carr's company, said Champlin served in Capt. Vial Allen's company of Militia. Both companies were in the regiment commanded by Col. Nathan Miller. In the second draft we both served in Capt left William Troop's company of Militia. John Cook commanded the regiment. Champlin served in one of said drafts, in which I do not recollect as a substitute. This service commenced in July, about the first of the month, 1778 and did not terminate till the fore part of September. Our draft had expired but we were detained at Howland's ferry after Sullivan's retreat so that

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the service in both drafts lasted two months. After this service, said Champlin used to take his turn in standing guard in the Warren Company of Militia which was repeatedly called into service all of them at a time when there was an alarm, and would be kept up on these occasions a week or two at a time. When there was no special occasion the company were divided into two detachments and turned out half at a time until the enemy left Newport, when the coast being in some measure clear I went privateering and can’t speak of his further services. I further testify that I was acquainted with Charity Hicks long before she was married to said Champlin as I lived very near Warren and where I now live. She was married to said Champlin before his said service in Sullivan's expedition. I well recollect her marriage and her confirment by her only child by said Champlin, from the circumstance that Mary Eddy, whom I afterwards married, took care of her in her confinement. I returned from [illegible] in August 1780 and said Chaplin died soon after my return. Said Champlin lived with John Throop just out of Warren but in the town of Bristol in the fore part of the war. He afterwards lived in Warren until his death. The town of Bristol extend to the compact part of Warren. 
Joseph Munn
Bristol at Bristol this tenth day of May AD 1837 Then personally came Joseph Munn above named and Joseph and gave and made oath to the truth thereof the aforegoing deposition which was by me reduced to writing in his presence and by him subscribed before me. And I also certify that said deponent is personally known to me and that he sustains a good character for truth and veracity-
Jos. M. Blake 
Just. Peace

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J.L. Edwards, Esquire,
Commissioner of Pensions

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Bristol, October 11th 1837 
Sir, 
I herewith forward additional testimony in behalf of the claims of Charity Sparks, Betsey Brown & Lydia Attwood for pensions respectively. In the case of Mrs Sparks, we present the deposition of Betsey Heath, whose first husband was the son of the applicant by her husband, Champlin, on account of whose services she claims a pension, also the copy of Mrs Heath's Bible record of the birth and death of her first husband, as this Bible is the property of another family, it is presumed the original will not be required in evidence, but if required it shall be procured if practicable, that it is a very large [illegible]Bible and if I recollect right, the record in question is on the same leaf, that contains, on its opposite side, the title page of the New testament. We prove by Lydia Johnson, the wife formerly of W.T. Miller, who solemnized the marriage between the applicant and her first husband , Champlin, that no record of said Magistrates marriages are now to be found, the search has been made, at the instance of the son of the applicant, by which son, we also prove that there is no family record of said marriage. By the deposition of the town Clerk of Warren, already forwarded, it will appear, that but very few of the marriages celebrated in that town, during the revolution, had been recorded-- There is no record evidence of the marriage and the reason why there is not is obviously found in the confusion of the times. There being no evidence then, on record of the time of the marriage, the best evidence, the nature of the case admits, is the testimony hereto fore submitted and to be found, in the Depositions of Mrs Cranston, Mr Coomer, Joseph Munn, Ichabod Munro and of Betsey Brown, all of whom testify the ap-

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plicant marriage took place, before his services, as a soldier, terminated, and several of the deponents assign reasons why they recollect the time of this marriage-- It is true, as you remark, proof of this kind made out, on the recollections of aged people, who have no particular data, upon which to base their opinions, may not be satisfactory; but where reasons are assigned for their recollections, and circumstances referred to, as data, such evidence may become conclusive. That a witness might not be able to state the precise day, month or year of his neighbours or companions marriage, he would be most likely to recollect distinctly, whether it took place, before or after his own marriage. He might not be able, without some retrospection of mind to name the year, when his house and home were invaded, by a destroying enemy, or his next neighbor’s was burnt, still it would be strange, if he could not distinctly recollect, whether, at those events he and his neighbour were married men, and had families or not. I am unwilling to give you the trouble of a comment, on all the evidence, as to the time of Mrs Sparks marriage, but must beg you to review it, unless this new evidence now furnished shall supersede it. The case of Mrs Attwood, in respect to the kind of evidence of the time of her marriage, is much the same, as the preceding. It will be seen by reference to David Anthony’s deposition, now on your files, that he moved into the house, with Lee, the then husband of the applicant, in September 1779, and that he had there married Lydia Dellolf, and had a child. We now exhibit the testimony of her Brother, Judge Dellolf, who states that he was at Lee’s, when his first child was born, and that it was in the winter of 1778-; that Lee served subsequent to this period, is proved by David Anthony, who swears he saw Lee in the service of Sullivan’s expedition, which was late in August, 1778; and several others of the deponents, extend his service, much beyond the period of

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 the marriage, upon the legal presumption, that the first child was begotten in marriage. Besides, all this, we prove by evidence, already submitted, that Lee was in the Coastal service, as Captain, as late as 1782. We show there is no record of the marriage, or of the births of a number of children of the marriage, and for the reasons, must refer to the evidence of Mr B. Luther, already in the case, and to the testimony of Houey Bradford now produced. As respects the case of Betsey Brown, she has on file already, the deposition of a creditable witness, who was present at her marriage, which it is apprehended must have been overlooked, in the consideration heretofore, given to her case. However, she is now so fortunate as to be able to furnish record evidence of the births of her children. I also transmit the application of Freelove Drown, for the renewal of the pension to her, as the widow of Daniel Brown, deceased, to whom a pension was heretofore granted. In compliance with your requisition, by letter of 21st August, I shall forward the original Bible, as evidence, in the case of Polly Brown, the first opportunity of private conveyance. The book is in a state too much mutilated to be committed to the mail, and the record two much worn by thumbs, and too fragile of itself, to be separated from the body of the book, without endangering its legibility. With that evidence, I shall also forward evidence from the State archives, to show such a company was raised, and stationed, as set forth, in the testimony now on file in Polly Brown’s case I am sir very Respectfully N. Bullock 
J. L. Edwards, Esquire
 Comr of Pensions