Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R.1,049, Benjamin Bosworth, R. I.

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Bosworth, Benjamin
Sarah
R 1,049

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I Benjamin Bosworth 2nd, do declare and say that I am a resident citizen of the United States and a native of Bristol R. Island [illegible] reside, that I ever engaged in a non Commifioned & Commifioned Officer in the land [illegible] of the United States, a considerable fear of the [illegible] the [illegible] Were I fired enlisted on an Orderly [illegible]. Billings Throop, Company in [illegible] Richmond Regiment of the R.I. [illegible] I served [illegible] of mine [illegible], I first enlisted in & Company 1775 and was promoted to the Ensigner after the Death of Capt. Throop and see the [illegible] Commifion, in the Month of July 1776 I asked [illegible] to resign, having a family dependent on my earnings for a living, my pay no being sufficient for their supper endeared to me resign [illegible] my [illegible] at sea but [illegible] unfortunately [illegible] on Board the accompanying Commifion a an Ensign in the Alarm Company and was in [illegible] services on Rhode Island during the [illegible] of Gen. Sullivan, after the [illegible] of that [illegible] was a number of times called on occasion required during the whole [illegible] of the War, was promoted [illegible] a [illegible] I [illegible] that I am nearly sixty five years of age, having been [illegible] in [illegible] in late years has obliged me to [illegible] from my country, having only 1/2 of a Dwelling [illegible] an acre of land being all the property I [illegible] hold good and

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considerably in debt, my age and infirmities preventing me from coming but a little by my Industry
Benjamin Bosworth
State of Rhode Island
Bristol at Bristol April 16th 1818
Personally Came Benjamin Bosworth 2d who
subscribed the foregoing declaration and made Sole Oath to the truth of the same Witness my hand and the Seal of the count Daniel Bradford Ch Just CC Pleas
County of Bristol
The Subscriber Overseen of the Poor for the Town of Bristol do hereby certify that Benjamin Bosworth who subscribed the foregoing declaration is an aged man in reduced circumstances, having only part of a Dwelling
hous and about an Acre of land, and that he is soon in Debt
Tho. Church
Royal Dimen

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598
In the matter of the application of Sarah Bosworth for a pension

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State of New York
Erie County ss:
On this 16th day of May A.D.
1849, personally appeared before me, Frederick P. Stevens, County Judge of said County, Sarah Bosworth, who, I do hereby certify is unable from bodily infirmity to attend court, who being by me duly sworn doth depose and say that she is the widow of Benjamin Bosworth 2nd late of Bristol, Rhode Island deceased that she is now seventy eight years of age, and was lawfully married to the said Benjamin Bosworth on or about the year 1800.; that she lived and cohabited with him from that time until his death;- that he died on
the first day of July 1825, and that she was
never afterwards married; that she was
born in said town of Bristol in the month
of February 1771; and has some recollection of
the revolutionary war, and of the military
movements in said town at that period;-
that she was acquainted with the family
of her said husband during the latter part of
that war, they resided in said town of
Bristol;-- and she remembers of hearing
that her said husband was in the army dur
ing much of the war and served in the
Rhode Island line, some part of the time;
that when she married said Bosworth
she was about 29 years of age; and well knew
from her own recollection and the general
and familiar conversation among the
people of Bristol, that deponent's husband
served his country during the greater

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part of the Revolutionary war, either
as a private or an officer, that she well
remembers of hearing that he was in Captain
Billings Troop's Company in Col. William
Richmond's Regiment,- that she recollects
Col. Richmond as an officer who did great
service through the war, that she has a
distinct recollection of the storming of said
town of Bristol, and the burning of the
Church there, by the British during the
war; that she has often heard her said
husband speak of his own sufferings on
board the Whitby prison ship near New-
York; that the people of Bristol, at the time of
her said marriage, and long afterwards
used to talk of the Revolutionary services
of her husband Benjamin Bosworth, and
it was then & has ever since been a matter
of common remark among the people of 
Bristol and other parts of Rhode Island
that he was an officer of the revolutionary army and was active in defence of his country against the British during the whole war;-
that he was in General Sullivan's expedition
and before the close of the war held a
Lieutenant's commission; and, according to
her best recollection the said Benjamin
Bosworth was about seventy two years
old at the time of his death.
Sarah Bosworth
State of New York, Erie County ss: On this 16th day of May 1849 the above named Sarah Bosworth personally appeared before me, and
being by me duly sworn deposes says that she has heard the foregoing statement by her subscribed, read, & knows the contents thereof and that the same is true of her own knowledge, except as to the matters that 
an therein stated to be on her information

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recollection or belief and as to those matters she
believes the same to be true, and do further
certify that I have seen the said Sarah Bosworth
this day that she is very feeble & infirm, and
in my judgment utterly unable to attend
Court or to go out of her house
Francis P. Stevens
Judge of Erie County

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State of New York,
Erie County Clerk's Office,}ss
I, MOSES BRISTOL, Clerk of said County, and of the Courts thereof, do hereby certify, that Hedrick P Henry Esquire, whose name is subscribed to the annexed Affidavit
and thereon written, was at the time of
taking the same, a Judge of said County duly elected + sworn, and acting as such, and further, that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of the said H. P. Henry and verily believe the signature thereto to be his genuine signature.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said
Court and County, this 17 day of May 1849

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February 14, 1927

Mrs. George R. Cole
32 Luther St
Warren, PR. L.

Madam:
I have to advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim R. 1049, it appears that Benjamin Bosworth was a native of Bristol, Rhode Island and resided there during the Revolutionary War.

He enlisted in October 1775 as Orderly-Sargeant in Captain Billings Throop's Company, Colonel William Richmond's Rhode Island Regiment, he was commissioned, March 4, 1776, Ensign of the Second Company of said regiment, and resigned in July 1776.

He was captured and put on board the Whitby prison ship at New York, and held about three months, no details of this service given; on his return home, he served various times in an Alarm Company, as Ensign and Lieutenant, was in General

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Sullivan's Expedition, and was in this service until the close of the war.

He applied for pension April 16, 1818, while  a resident of Bristol, Rhode Island, aged nearly sixty-five years, but his claim was not allowed as he served in the Militia, and not on the Continental Establishment, as required by the pension law.

He refers to having a famiily to support in 1776 and he stated in 1818, that he had had a numerous family of children to bring up, no names are given.

He married about 1800, Sarah (her maiden name not stated), he died July 1, 1825, and his widow, Sarah, was living in 1849 in Erie County, New York, aged seventy-eight years.

Respectfully,
WINFIELD SCOTT
Commissioner.

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Th James Esq
May 28/50

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855
Pension Office
May 28 1850.
In reply to your letter of the relation
to the orders of Sarah Bosworth
and do of Benjamin Bosworth you
are informed that under a rule of this office in count of [illegible] on superior [illegible] or testimony where it is properly presented in connection with the facts it is entered to
establish. If she can produce Record evidence of her marriage to Benjamin Bosworth prior to
the 1st of January 1820, she should make a declaration according to the form of the accompanying printed sheet, and sustain the alleged service of her husband by a certificate from the Secretary of the Note of Rhode
Island in whose office evidence of all the same in the Rhode Island Line should be found. When the claims examined one ought to be attached to the commission filed with the papers
Respectfully
H. Tanner, Esq Buffalo, N.Y.

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Feb 3 1850
Recd of Sarah Bosworth 
L. Edwards Com of Pensions Washington City DC

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Feb 3 1850
Recd of Sarah Bosworth 
Hon L. Edwards Com of Pensions Washington City DC

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Buffalo Jany 32 1850
S. L. Edwards Esq
Com of Pensions
Sir Yours of 26 Jany relative to the claim of Sarah Bosworth for pension on account of services of Benj Bosworth then recieved this AM. will you be good enough to inform me whether in case his marage is established prior to Jany 1 AD 1800. the commisiere I forwarded of the rank of Benj Bosworth is evidance on that point. Satisfactory to the department. or if not what evidence would be required. the time has now so long elapsed that I fear nothing can be known by living witnesses. + I know of no other documentary evidence except what was forwarded unless the same can be found in your department of which I am unadvised. Should others be required I feel I should have to abandon the case as hopeless tho I think his marage can be  proven to have been prior to the year 1800- 
Respectfully yours Th James

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680
Pension Office, January 26th 1850. Sir, The papers in the case of Sarah Bosworth widow of Benjamin Bosworth have been examined and filed with papers under [illegible] 29 July 1848. She alleges that she was married on or about the year 1800. [illegible] she was married from to January 1, 1800 she would not be entitled to a pension. The clearest evidence on this point should be produced, in case she was married before 1800. Records or documentary evidence of the service will be required.

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to establish the grade and duration of the service. Hon. Hugh White Jan 26 180

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Extract from History No 4

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Col. Talbot, [illegible] to Leut. Greene, married a sister of Col. Wm Richmond.
James Miller - a pensioner in Greenwich, R.I a commissioned officer who fought in defence of the fort at Greenwich - he had [commissioned] of the general force stationed at Prudence Island, in Narragansett Bay, at the service of the [illegible] after the British led by Wallace. He was then ensign in the Regt, [illegible] Col. Wm Richmond of Little Compton. See Life of [illegible] Barton, Capt. Olney Appendix Page 303.24 (note)

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Mrs. George R. Cole, 22 Luther Street, Warren, R.I.
United States Pension Bureau. Will you kindly send me any information you may have on file concerning Benjamin Bosworth, Esq. who died in Bristol R.I July 1, 1825 aged 72 years. On pages 279-280 of Vol. XVIII of Arnolds Vital Records of R.I., it says he was Patriot of the Revolution,

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was Presiding Justice of Court of Common Pleas for the County and President of Bristol Town Council. Thanking you for any information you may be able to give me, I am Yours very truly Emeline Munro Cole (Mrs Geo R) Regent, Nellie Easter [illegible] West Chapter D.A.R.

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1927 - Feb 14 Hist to Mrs. George R. Cole aug
INVALID
1049
P.O. Sarah Bosworth

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Report today to Hon. Hugh White HR Jan. 26 1850

et 98 Sarah Bosworth widow of Benjamin
N. York, Suspended
1049 Sat 29 July 1848

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Benj. Bosworth
[illegible] 
Col. Richmond of R.I. met on the Continental [illegible]

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By the Honorable Nicholas Cooke, Esq; Governor, Captain-General and Commander in Chief, of and Over the English Colony of Rhode Island, and Providence Plantations in New-England in America, To Benjamin Bosworth [illegible] Gentleman. Greeting. Whereas for the Preservation of the Rights and Liberties of His Majesty's loyal and faithful Subjects in this Colony, and other Colonies in America, the General Assembly, at the Session held at Providence on the last Wednesday in October A.D. 1775, ordered a Regiment, to consist of Five Hundred Men, to be trained; and at the Session held at Providence on the Second Monday in January, A.D. 1776, augmented said Regiment to Seven Hundred and Fifty Men, exclusive of an Artillery Company to the same belonging; and at the same Session passed an Act ordering another Regiment, consisting of Seven Hundred and Fifty Men to be [illegible], and embodying the said Two Regiments into One Brigade: And whereas you the said Benjamin Bosworth are appointed ensign of the Second Company in the said first mentioned Regiment.
I do therefore hereby, in His Majesty's Navy George the Third, by the Grace of GOD, King of Great-Britain &c. authorize, empower, and commission you the said Benjamin Bosworth to have, take and [illegible] the Office of Ensign in the Second Company in the said first mentioned Regiment and to command, guide and conduct the same, or any Part thereof. And in the case of an Invasion or Assault of a common Enemy, to infect or disturb this or any other of His Majesty's Colonies in America, you are to alarm and gather together the Company under your Command, or any Part thereof, as you shall deem sufficient, and therewith, to the utmost of your Skill and Ability, you are to Resist, Expel, Kill and Destroy them, in order to preserve the Interest of His Majesty, and His good Subjects, in these Parts. You are also to follow such Instructions, Directions and Orders, as shall from Time to Time be given forth, either by the General Assembly or your Superior Officers. And for your so doing this Commission shall be your sufficient Warrant. Given under my Hand , and the Seal of the Said Colony, this Fourth Day of March in the Year of our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and Seventy-six. Nichl Cooke. Honor's Command, Henry Ward [illegible]