Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 38709, Winsor Fry, R.I.

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Rd

Fry Winsor or Windsor

38709

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Rhode Island Roll

Winsor Fry, W.
[?] Green
private
Rhode Island Line
in the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.

Inscribed on the Roll of Rhode Island at the rate of eight Dollars per month, to commonce on 3 of April 1818

Certificate of Pension issued the 25 of Sept. 1818 and forwarded to Benj. Cowell Esq. Providence Rhode Island

Arrears to 4th of Sept. 1818.   $40.53
Semianl. all'ce ending 4 Mar. 1819   $48.00
Arr. 5 mos 2/30  $88.53

Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818.

6 years

Died Feb. 1, 1823

[illegible handwriting across side of second page]

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Windsor Fry

2961

Con

March 1819

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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
RHODE-ISLAND DISTRICT 
County of [?]  
Special Court of Common Pleas, July 7th A.D. 1820.

On this 7th day of July 1820, personally appeared in open Court, being a Court of Record within and for the said County, Windsor Fry, a man of colour aged 57 yers, residing in the town of [?] in said District who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath declar, that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows: that he served as a private [???] Col. Greene & Col. J. Olney regiemtn of the Rhode  Island [?] that he made a previous declaration on the [third?] day of [October?] 1818, and that he has received a ceertificate for a pension, being No. 2961.  And I do solemnly swear, that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen; and that I have not since that time by gift, sale, or in any manner whatever, disposed of my property, or any part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it, as in being myself within the provisions of an Act of Congress, entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States, in the revolutionary war," passed on the eighteenth day of March, one thousand and eight hundred and eighteen, that I have no, norhas any person in trust for me, any property or securities, contracts or debts, due to me; nor have I any income ether than what is contained in the Schedule herein annexed, and by me subscribed.

[signed] Windsor his X mark Fry

a SCHEDULE of Property and Income (accessory clothing and bedding excepted) of Windsor Fry--said Windsor declared that he has no property of any description--said Windsor further and ans. that he is a Labourer and depends upon his laborer but is much "out of health" and broken down with infirmities and without his pensinon hge must depend on Charity.

Windsor his X mark Fry

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Winsor Fry
privt.
3d April
To Ben Cowell

Admitted (on Major Dexter's certificate}

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We the subscribers, being Personally acquainted with Winsor Fry a Man of Colour of East Greenwich now resident in this Town and who for many years past served the Country as a Soldier in the Revolutionary Army, under the Continental establishment, do consider him to be almomst entirely destitute of Property even for the upholding of Life, and in very indegent circimstances, and fully entitled to the Benefit and Provisions of an Act of the Congress of these United States lately passed, for the relief of the Surviving  Officers, Soldiers, Seamen, and Marines of the Revolutionary Army and Navy

North [Rangston?] April 5th, 1818

To whome Concerned

Jon Reynold
William Hammond
John Hall
Stukely Brown Jr.
Richard Thoms
Wm. Brown
Thoms Arnold [?]

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I Winsor Fry (a man of Colour) of East Greenwich in the District of Rhode Island on solemn oath do declare and say in the month of March [?] 1775 I enlisted as a private soldier in Thomas Holdens company and Col Varnums regiment alternately Co. Eacens in the continental army of the United States and in the Rhode Island [?] [?] in which service I continued during the whole war between this Country & great Britain - and think I may say, without, during all that time having been absent but once. At the close of the war I [?] my regular discharge whicih is not lost. I further declare that I am now in reduced circumstances & stand in need of the assistance of my Country for support.

Undersigned attest B Cowell   Winsor Fry (his X mark)

Rhode Island District [?]

Be it remembered that on this third day of April 1818 came before me the above Winsor Fry & made solemn oath to the truth of the above declaration to which his mark is affixed. In witness where of I have hereto set my hand & have caused the seal of the District [?] for said District to be hereto affixed.

David Howell
District Judge

Rhode Island District in Providence 3 April 1818

I hereby certify that the signatures of the Judge and the seal of the District Court of the United States for said District are hereto affixed.
Attorney Benjamin Cowell
US Dis Court

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38790

INVALD.

File No. 38,[?]09
Winsor Fry

Priv Rev War

Act: 18th March 1817

Arrangement of 1870.

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[illegible] David Howell
District Judge for R.I. District
Providence

[illegible note upside down at bottom of page]

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The Deposition of Daniel Peirce of East Greenwich in the County of [illegible] who, being engaged according to Law, testified and said that in the year one thousand seven hundred & Seventy Six I was first acquainted with Windso Fry, a man of Colour, who now lives in North Kingston, and who was at that time a Soldier in the United States Service, and I knew him to be in the United States Service against the Common Enemy for the Period of Four years after, and have been credibly informed that he served till the Close of the War. In June 1779 I left the Service, and while I continued in the Service I knew the said Windsor Fry, and that he was a Soldier during all that time. And I am now acquainted with the said Windsor, and know him to be in poor circumstances and in need of assistance for a comfortable living. And further the deponent saith not.

Daniel Peirce

At East Greenwich Sept. 4th, 1818. Personally appeared Daniel Peirce Subscriber at the above Deposition and made solemn oath to the truth of the Same. Taken at the Request of Windsor Fry, now residiing in North Kingstown in the County of Washington to be used asEvidence in his favor under the Act of Congress of the United States providing for the poor and reduced Officers, Soldiers and Marines, who served in the United States Service in the Revolutionary War. The above Deposition is taken in my hand writiing & seael up by me.

[illegible] Nathan Whiting Just. Peace

Full faith and credit [?] by given to this testimony.

D. Howell
District judge

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It appears by the Reigmental Book of Occurrences, that the bearer, Winiso Fry a coloured man, by [?] recollected, on the 20th day of July 1777 inlissted a private soldier to serve during the then existing war, into the service of the United States; That he served in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Christopher Green and afterward, in the Rhode Island Line on the Continental East [?] Greene and afterward by Colonel Jeremiah Olney from the time of his said inlistment, (excepting from the 1st day of March 1970, to the first day of November next following, during which time he was absent without leave) until the fifteenth day of June 1783, when he received a furlough, granted in pursuance of General Orders, which as the ratification of the definitive Treaty of Peace, became an absolute discharge from said Regiment and from the service of the United States.

[illegible] Major of said Reg. at the close of the War.

Reviewed Sept. 5th 1818.

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To Whom it may Concsearn

I Thhos. Holden of Warwick was a captian in Cemal Vernum Regiment in the Year Seventeen Hundred and Seventy five and Went to Boston the first Companies and Winsor Fry was a Soldier in my Company.  Thos. Dalton

Warwick April 3 [illegible] 1818