Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 6532, Reuben Arnold, R. I.

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R.I.
Arnold, Reuben
S.6532

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North Carolina
Reuben Arnold of Onslow Co. in the state of North Carolina was a --- in the Company commanded by Captain Hammett of the Regt. commanded by Col. St

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State of North Carolina
County of Onslow         
(bracketed){Court of Pleas and Treaties
Sessions
On this seventh day of February 1833 personally appeared in open court befoe the Justices of the County court of the county of Onslow now sitting Reuben Arnold resident of    
?wansborough in the County of Onslow and state of North Carolina aged 70 years who being first duty sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the beneit of the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832.

That he was born in Warwick in the state of Rhode Island in the year 1763 and is now 70 years of age.  That in the year 1777 he enlisted in the state troops-his company consisting of about 75 men more or less. His captain during the first term of service was Malachi Hammett and the colonel of the regiment to which he belonged was he believes named Stannton (?). That he performed duty for about the space of half a year in and around the vicinty of Warwick-and was removed thence to Livertown in the eastern part of the state wherabouts he remained until the expiration of the year for which he had enlisted. After which he was discharged without having been engaged in any action. -His enlistment for the second year was in the regiment of Col. Elliott-John Gargee captain-this being an artillery compay. That he continued in service in and near Warwick for (he believes) the space of six months.  And that in the year 1778 he joined the army unter the command of General Sullivan,-was present in the attack on Rhode Island and the consequent engagement with the British army under General Prescott. That the American army was compelled to retire from the attack in consequence of the (crossed out) as he supposes of the retirement of the French Fleet. And that he colledts of having seen General LaFayette in this battle directing the artillery (crossed out) disposition of the artilleryand that he himself was wounded by the (crossed out) on the thigh by the bursting of a cannon.That after this action he was carried with the American army in its retreat to the main - where shortly after his term of service expired. After this he was drafted in the militia for the protection of the country and served for several

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detached periods but was not in any engagement. That after the expiration of this year he took his final discharge - soon after which he heard of the capture of Cornwallis at Little Gorge (ink smudge). He remembers also of hearing during his early service of the capture of Burgogne's (?) army at Saratoga on the North River. He also states that towards the end of the war he sailed out of Providence and being takenby a British cruizer (cruiser) he was ultimately carried into (illegible) (Jamica?) and after the peace worked his way to York.  He further eclares that he has been in this state about twenty eight years - and has no friend or acquaintance of his early years who he can produce as direct evidence of the facts stated.

He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, and declares that his name is not on any pension roll of any state
aSworn to and susscribed the day and year aforesaid
DW Sanders Clk
Reuben Arnold

Me James Castin a clergyman residing in the county of Onslow. N Carolina and 
Edin Moss (?) residing in the same herby certify that we are well acquainted with Reuben Arnold who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we beleive  (believe) him to be 70 yars of age; that he is reputed and believed in the neighbourhood where he lives to have been a soldier of the revolution and that we concur in that opinion
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
DW Sanders clk
Jas (James) Coston  a methodist clergyman
(illegible)  Morse 
And the said court do hereby declare thier opinion after the investigatin of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department that the above mentioned applican was a revolutionary soldier and derved as he states. And the court further certifies that it appears to that that James Costin a methodist clergyman residing near Evansbrough and that Edin Moss who has also signed the same is a resident in the county of Onslow near Evansborough and is a credible person and that their sattement is entitled to credit
(illegible signature)
James (illegible)
(illegible signature)
James Costin (crossed out)

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Reuben Arnold
23116
State of N Carolina
(illegible) County

I David W. Sanders clerk of the Court of Plains(?) and (illegible) (illegible) for the County of (illegible) Certify that this (previous crossed out) file contains the original proceedings  herd (heard) in the matter of the application for Reuben Arnold (illegible due to smudge) a soldier for America under the (illegible)
June 1832

In testimony where if I have hereunto put my (illegible) of office the 7th day of July AD 1833
DW Sanders clk

For the purpose of further elucidating his claim Reuben Arnold personally appeared  for August terms this (no date) day of August 1833 and gave the following AnswerS to the questions (?)oropounded
1. Where and in what year were your born? Ans. I was born in the year 1763 and in the town of Warwick in the STate of Rhode Island.
2. Have your any record of your age? I have (crossed out) Ans. I have not. There may probily (probably) be a record of it at home among my friends but I know not.
3. Where were you living when called into service? Ans. In Warwick R.I. I have resided permanertly (permantly) in the state of N Carolina only, since the war. I have been here abut 28 years. Have been residing in Onslow County, near or int he village of Evansborough all the time_have been (until some years past) mostly sailing from the port of Evansborough. And I reside there now.
4. How were you called into service? I enlisted as a state soldier_a volunteer in
State the names ? _Ans._They were Col. Stanton, Lieut. Colonel Barton, Major Hawkins. The Company officers were Capt. Gibbs, Capt. Wammoth (?), Capt Dyer Capt. Phillips. Also Col. Elliott and Capt. George and others

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I recollect Col. Green's Continental Regiment and (crossed out) but my memory not being charged with them I do not particularly recollect The circumstances of service are detailed within. I marched with Col. Cranes regiment of artillery (Col Elliott having joined in the year '78 from Providence to Howlands (?) ferry (alias Livertown)
where we took boats and went over to Rhode Island with Sullivans army_in which action I  participated as related. IC (?)
6. Did you ever receive a discharge? No written discharge
7. State the names of persons (??) Ans. I am known to Da Sanders, James Wade, Josiah Ward, James Chadwick, William P. Ferrand and many others, justices and respectable citizens of the County of Onslow who I think can (???) (crossed out) testify to my character for veracity ,_ and reputation as a Revolutionary soldier.
List of Officers

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at the return(?) of my

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The multitude of people being in Govt and such (illegible) of gold not exactly (illegible) the whole (illegible) of any time in the war but have taken from more time and by these two amendmenth have got the (illegible) of my (illegible) as (illegible) a (illegible). The names of officer of high rank

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June 20, 1939,
BA-J/CC
Reuben Arnold
S.6532

Miss Irene Smith
Portland Hotel, room 416,
Vermont Avenue at Thomas Circle,
Washington, D.C.

Dear madam:
The data which follow were obtained from papers on file in pension claim, S.6532, based upon service Reuben Arnold in the Revolutionary War.
Reuben Arnold was born in the year, 1763, in Warwick , Rhode Island, Reuben Arnold volunteered sometime in 1777, served one year as private in Captain Malachi Hammett's company, Colonel Stanton's Rhode Island regiment; volunteered served six months as Private in Captain John Gazee's company of artillery, Colonel Elliot's Rhode Island regiment; volunteered some time in 1778, served under General Sullivan, was in the battle of Rhode Island, was wounded in the thigh by the bursting of a cannon and "was carried with the American army in its retreat to the main where shorty after his term of service expired, enlisted and served several detached periods,  " that after the expiration of this year he took his final discharge, soon after which he heard of the capture of Cornwallis". Part of his service  was under Colonel Greene. Towards the end of  of the war he sailed out of Providence, was taken by a British cruiser and carried to Jamaica. After peace was declared, he worked his way to New (crossed out) York."
After the Revolution, Reuban Arnold move to Onslow County, North Carolina. He was allowed pension on his application executed February 7, 1833, at which time he was  a resident of Swansboro, Onslow County, North Carolina,and stated that he resided in Onslow County, in and near Swansboro for the past twenty- eight years.
No family data are shown.

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In order to obtain the date of last payment of pension, the name and address of person paid and possibly the date of death of Reuben Arnold, you should address the Comptroller General, General Accounting office, Records Division, this city, and cite the following data:

Reuben Arnold
Certificate #16918
Issued October 15, 1833
Rate $90.00 per annum,
Commenced March 4, 1831
Act of June 7, 1832
North Carolina Agency


Very truly yours

A.D Hiller
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator.

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6532.

INVALID.
Revolution

File No. 6532
Reuben Arnold
Priv Rev. War

Act: June 7th 1832
Index:- Vol. A, Page 11

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1939 - June 23, Hist to Irene Smith - cc

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Providence September 30th 1833.
Sir
I neither possess a sufficient knowledge on the subject, nor know the means of obtaining it, to enable me to answer, with any degree of satisfaction, the enquiry made in your letter of the 11th instant relative to the Militia Service in the State of Rhode Island during a considerable portion of the War of the revolution:- Altho’ I served a commissioned or field officer from the 8th day of May 1775 to the end of the War no part of that service was in the State of Rhode Island;-- Even while Coll Greenes Regiment, in which I had a company. was stationed in this State, I was appointed and employed as an assistant to the Adjutant General at the Head Quarters of the Army under General Washington from May 1778 to May 1781. The mode therefore of guarding the shores in this State or of detaching the Militia for that of any other purpose, I am entirely ignorant of.
I continue to date from, and have letter addressed to me at Providence, that being the most convenient Post Office, altho’ my present residence is and has been for more more than three years past, about six miles from thence; from the date of your letter I presumes it must have laid over a few days in the Providence Offices, I not having been in Town before the Receipt of it for nearly a week 
Accompanying yours of the 23d ins’t are the application and other papers of Reuben Arnold for a Pension, which I now return.
I regret that it is not in my power to furnish you with any other information on the subject, than the expression of my full and entire conviction that Arnold did actually serve in the different Corps and for the time he alleges & testifies- In

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In his statement he has not named a military character which I did not know sustained the office which he has stated: The Movements of the Troops and their stations at different times are such as I have always before understood:-
The names of the Field Officers and commanding Officers of companies in Greene Regiment, in which I had a company is critically correct; - He may have erred a month or to in the chronology of some of the important events which he narrates, but I am convinced that he served as he has stated.- 
I am, Sir,
your obedient Servant
Jno Dexter
J. L. Edwards Esquire 
Commissioner of Pensions

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JOHN A. THOMPSON, Manager 
THE PORTLAND HOTEL R. 416 
VERMONT AVE., AT THOMAS CIRCLE 
WASHINGTON, D. C. 
April 26, 1939. 
The administrator 
Veteran's Administration 
Washington, D.C 
Sir:
I should like very much to know if you can give me the pension certificate number, date of last death and when and to whom the case payment was made in the case of each as of the following named soldiers and pensioners of the Revolutionary War.
Caleb Smith - enlisted in Wilmington, N.C. in 1775 or 1777. Served under Col. Gee and Gen. Wash. Was wounded and taken prisoner during the siege of Charleston S.C.
Moved to Sullivan Co. Tenn prior to 1820. It appears that this soldier also served in the battles of Brandywine Monmouth and Princeton.

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John A. Thompson, manager
The Portland Hotel
Vermont Ave., At Thomas  Circle
Washington, D.C.
Reuben Arnold born in Warwick, R.I. Enlisted in 1777. Served under Col. Elliot and Capt Hammett, was wounded and taken prisoner during the battle of Tiverton R.D.
He lived in Swansboro, Onslow Co, N. Carolina 28 years prior to 1888.
Thanking you for an early reply.

Very truly,
(Miss) Irene Smith

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June 19, 1939.

BA-J/CC
Caleb Smith
S.39085
Reuben Arnold
S.6532

Miss Irene Smith
Portland Hotel, Room 416,
Vermont Avenue at Thomas Circle,
Washington, D.C.

Dear Madam:

Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revolutionary War records of Caleb Smith, who enlisted in Wilmington, North Carolina, in 1775, or 1777, was wounded and taken prisoner at the siege of  Charleston, and that of Reuben Arnold born in Warwick, Rhode Island,  enlisted in 1777, was wounded and taken  prisoner during the battle of Liverton, Rhode Island.

You are furnished herewith the Revolutionary War record of Caleb Smith and that of Reuben Arnold .

Very truly yours

A.D Hiller,
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator