Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 21622, Benjamin Barton, R. I.

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(3-1776)

SERVICE
R.I.

Barton, Benjamin

NUMBER
S.21622

CONTENTS

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[left-hand page]
10.372
Rhode Island

Benj Barton of Kent in the State of R. Island who was a Private in the Compay [Company] commanded by Captain Miller of the Regt commanded by Col. Waterman in the R Island line for 10 months

Inscribed on the Roll of Rhode Island at the rate of 33 Dollars 33 Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 6th day of Apl. 1833 and sent N Whiting East Greenwich RI

Arrears to the 4th of March 1833 $66.66
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sept.  16.67
$83.33

{Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.}

Recorded by DD Addison Clerk
Book E Vol. 2d Page 103

[right-hand page]
1893
April 13 Job L Duncan Jr history [illegible]

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No. 9368.

Benjn. Barton
Private
10 Months

papers not properly authenticated
Nov 13 1832

33.33
2
66.66
16.67
83.33

N. Whiting Esqr.
E. Greenwich R.I.

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BRIEF in the case of Benjamin Barton of the County of Kent in the State of R. Island
(Act 7th June, 1832.)

1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? Court

2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity? [blank]

3. How old is he? 88 years.

4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed.

Period. Duration of Service. Rank. Names of General and field Officers under whom he served.
[Row 1] In 1776. 3 Months. Drafted. Col. Waterman, Capt. Miller
[Row 2] "77 [1777] Spring. 1 Month. ditto. Same
[Row 3] "" [1777] Summer. 1 Month. do. Same
[Row 4] "" [1777] Fall. 1 Month. do. [illegible] Waterman
[Row 5] "78 [1778]. 3 Months. do. Capt. Miller
[Row 6] "" [1778] Fall. 1 Month. do. Capt. Waterman

5. In what battles was he engaged? R. Island

6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Warwick

7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? living witnesses

8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? [blank]

I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
Sevin [Levin?] Belt
Examining Clerk.

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State of Rhode Island
County of Kent Sc [flourish bracket]

Court of Common Pleas August Term AD. 1832.

on this 29th day of August AD. 1832 personally appeared in open Court before the Justices of the Court of Common Pleas now sitting, Benjamin Barton, a resident of Warwick in the County of Kent & State aforesaid, aged Eighty eight years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the act of congress, passed June 7th 1832. That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated.- That he was born at said Warwick on the fourth day of August old style, in the year 1744, where he has always resided. That he has not record of his age. That he served in the Militia at Warwick neck in the course of the year 1776. and he believes, for a month at a time for the term of three months being drafted, each time, under Capt. Nathan Miller; Col. John Waterman being the Commander of the Regiment; That in the year 1777 he was drafted and served one month at Warwick neck under the said Capt. Miller early in the Spring. That he served at Tiverton in the Summer of the same year one month under Capt. Nathan Miller, and afterwards in the fall of the year 1777. he was drafted and served on [one] month at Warwick neck under Capt Waterman. That was in the year 1778. he was drafted at three several times for a month at a time, and served under Capt. Miller for two months of the time. on Rhode Island. that he was in the battle on Rhode Island in August 1778 in Sullivan's Expedition. and in the fall of the same year, he served at Warwick neck one month

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Month as he thinks under Capt. Waterman. This Claimant well remembers serving at Quidnesett [Quidnessett] neck and at other places on the Narraganset [Narragansett] Bay, and of being called out on sudden alarms repeatedly during the War and especially while the enemy were in possession of Rhode Island and the water's [waters] of the Narraganset [Narragansett] Bay; and that he was in the service on the Island of Prudence when the enemy burnt the houses there, and thinks he served about five months in the whole over and above the times herein particularly stated, and believes his services may be computed at fifteen months at least during the war. He has no Documentary evidence.

Benjamin Barton

Her hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state

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REVOLUTIONARY WAR RECORDS SECTION.

3-525
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
Washington, D. C., [blank], 19[blank]

S21622

In reply to your request of [blank], received [blank] for a statement of the military history of Benj Barton 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. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. CAPTAIN. COLONEL. STATE.
[Row 1] 1776. 3 mon. Pvt. Nathan Miller. John Waterman. RI
[Row 2] 1777. 2 " [mon]. [blank]. "" [Nathan Miller]. [blank]. [blank]
[Row 3] Fall 1777. 1 " [mon]. [blank]. Wm Waterman. [blank]. [blank]
[Row 4] 1778. 2 " [mon]. [blank]. Nathan Miller. [blank]. [blank]
[Row 5] Fall 1778. 1 " [mon]. [blank]. Wm Waterman. [blank]. [blank]
[Row 6] [blank]. 5 " [mon]. at various times, no details of service

Battles engaged in, Rhode Island
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Warwick RI
Date of application for pension, Aug 29 1832 [illegible]
Residence at date of application, Warwick, Kent Co. R.I.
Age at date of application, b. at Warwick Aug 4 1744 ([illegible])
Remarks: No data as to family

Respectfully,
Commissioner.

6-2856

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Revolution

21622
INVALID.

File No. 21,622
Benjamin Barton
Pri Rev War

Act: June 7" 32" [1832]
Index:-Vol. 2, Page 21

[Arrangement of 1870.]

[vertical handwriting]
1917 Jan. 9. Hist. to Sarah Barton and

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I Pardon Tillinghast, a clergyman, residing in East Greenwich in the County of Kent, aged sixty two years, do hereby certify, that, from my childhood I have been well acquainted with Benjamin Barton, Esqr of Warwick in said County, an applicant for a Pension; and that his character has always been good for truth - I believe him to be of the age he has stated in his Declaration: and that he is reported and believed in his neighbourhood where he resides to have been a Soldier of the Revolution, and that I concur in that opinion.

Pardon Tillinghast

Kent Sc. Court of Common Pleas August Term AD 1832
Sworn to in open court on the eighth day of the Term
Witness John Brown, Clk

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[Insignia]
BOSTON ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION
EXETER STREET

Chas. W. Filer Esq.
Chief O.W. & N. Dept
Pension Office Washington D.C.

Dear Sir,
Please send me at your convenience copy of sworn statement made by Benjamin Barton (or Benjamin Barton Jr?) when he applied for a pension for services in the Revolutionary War. Said pension as granted.

Respec yours.
J. Linfield Damon Jr.
The Thorndike
Back Bay
Boston, Mass.

Send usual statements
Jan 28, 1893

[stamp]
JAN 31 1893

[stamp]
OW&N DIV
JAN 31 1893
CHIEF'S DESK.

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BRIEF objections to the admission of Pension Claims, of which those answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of Benjamin Barton which require further proof or explanation.

I. Does the declaration show where the applicant resides? yes

II. Did the declarant make the declaration in the county where he resides? yes

III. If the applicant did not make the declaration in the county where he resides, is there any reason assigned for his not doing so? [blank]

IV. Has the declarant mentioned the period or periods of the war when he served? yes

V. *Has he mentioned with precision the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the department to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled? yes

VI. Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with the regulations? yes

VII. Has he made a relinquishment of every claim to any other pension than the one under the Act of June 7, 1832? yes

VIII. Has the Court given their opinion? yes

IX. Has the Clerk given his certificate? yes

X. Is the Clerk's seal affixed? And if so, has it a device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal? yes

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XI. Has the applicant obtained the evidence of a clergyman and another respectable citizen as to their belief respecting his age and the general belief in this neighborhood relative to his revolutionary service? yes

XII. If the clergyman's affidavit has not been produced, is there any reason assigned for not obtaining it? [blank]

XIII. If the applicant has no documentary evidence, and has not obtained the testimony of at least one living witness, has he stated in his declaration that such proof cannot be had?

XIV. +If the applicant has produced a witness or witnesses as to his service, has the magistrate who administered the oath certified that he, she, or they are persons of credibility? yes

XV. Does it appear from any of the papers that the witness was in such a situation, or of such an age, as to have a personal knowledge of the applicant's service? yes

XVI. ++Are the papers authenticated as to the regulations? ["yes" crossed out] no

XVII. Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily? And if not, which of them is not so answered? yes

EXPLANATORY NOTES.
*QUERE V. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words:
"Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A. B. who, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that, by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service, but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades: For ____ year ____ months and ____ days, I served as a ____. For ____ months and ____ days, I served as a ____; and for such service I claim a pension."

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I William Waterman of Warwick in the County of Kent, aged 88 years, do certify that Benjamin Barton of said Warwick was a soldier in the revolutionary War; that I think he sometimes served under me; that I have always been acquainted with him and have no Doubt of his having done a good deal of duty in the water in the Militia. He has always lived a near neighbour to me, and has always sustained a good character for truth and veracity - 
William Waterman

I Samuel Sweet of Warwick in the County of Kent do hereby certify that Benjamin Barton of said Warwick was a soldier in the Revolutionary war; that he was often drafted and called out on alarms; and I think I have sometimes served with him: he has always lived in my neighbourhood and he has always sustained a good character for truth; and I believe he rendered all the services stated by him in his Declaration.
Samuel Sweet
x his mark

Kent Sc. The State of Rhode Island & Providence Plantations Court of Common Pleas August Term AD 1832
The above sworn to in open Court on the seventh day of the Term
Witness John Brown, Clk

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And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier, and served as he states. And the Court further certifies, that it appears to them that Pardon Tillinghast who signed the preceding certificate, is a Clergyman resident in the Town of East Greenwich and that William Waterman & Samuel Sweet both of Warwick who [illegible] the same are residents in the County of Kent aforesaid and [illegible] persons, and that their statement is entitled to credit.

I, JOHN BROWN, Clerk of said Court of Common Pleas, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Benjamin Barton for a pension.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office, this sixth day of September in the year 1832

John Brown

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9368
Benjamin Barton

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[stamp]
DEC 21 1916

East Greenwich, R.I.,
December 19, 1916.
State Record Commissioner

Dear Sir; Will you kindly send me a certified statement from the Pension Office of the services of my ancestor, Benjamin Barton, of Warwick who was a private in the Revolution. He was granted a pension April 6, 1833. J. L. Edwards, Commissioner of Pensions, Recorded in the Pension Office in Book E. Volume 2, page 103.

Very respectfully yours,
Sarah Barton.

[stamp]
PENSION OFFICE U.S.
JAN 3 1917

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State Record Commissioner.

Herbert O. Brigham, Commissioner.

Providence, R.I.
December 21, 1916

Miss Sarah Barton,
East Greenwich, R.I.

Dear Madam:-
I herewith return your letter, as it should properly be addressed to the Commissioner of Pensions, Washington, D.C. He will be glad to comply with your request for a single record.
Yours very truly,
Herbert O. Brigham (signature)
State Record Commissioner
HOB/MGJ

[stamp]
PENSION OFFICE U.S.
JAN 3 1917

The enclosed letter will tell you what I wish. Your help in this matter will be greatly appreciated.
Very truly yours,
Sarah Barton.