Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 22357, for Samuel Sweet, Rhode Island

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SERVICE
R.I.

Sweet, Samuel
Hannah

NUMBER
W. 22357

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5736
Rhode Island
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Hannah Sweet
widow of Samuel Sweet, decd   R. I.
who was a pensioner under the Act of 7 June, 1832.
and who died on the 7th of April, 1836
of Kent Co. in the State of R. Island
who was a private in the compy commanded by Captain [blank] of the Regt commanded by Col. Waterman in the R Island line for 13 months & 5 days private 
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Inscribed on the Roll of Rhode Island
at the rate of 43 Dollars 88 Cents per annum
to commence on the 8th day of April 1836.
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Certificate of Pension issued the 9th day of Sept 1840  and sent to George A. Brayton Warwick, R. Island
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Arrears to the 4th of March, 1841.  $215.25
Semi-annual allowance ending 4 Sept  21.96
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$237.19
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{Act July 7, 1838.}
Recorded by S. A. Elliot Clerk,
Book A  Vol. 2  Page 23

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10419
Rhode Island
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Samuel Sweet
of Kent in the State of RI
who was a private in the company commanded
by Captain [blank] of the rest commanded 
by Col Waterman in the RI
line for 13 mos 5 days
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Inscribed on the Roll of RI
at the rate of 43 Dollars 88 Cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
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Certificate of Pension issued the 6th day of Apl 1833 and sent R Whiting Greenwich RI
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Arrears to the 4th of [illegible] 1833  $87.76
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 [illegible] 21.94
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$119.70
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{Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.}
Recorded by JH McBlair  Clerk,
Book E.  Vol. 2nd  Page 129

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[illegible]  Son of Joseph Peckham
Son of Doctor Robert Hayard
Son of Thomas Remington  Deceased
Daughter of Mr Joseph Croford of Providence


A

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No. 9370

Saml Sweet
Private
13 mos & 5 days
Papers not properly
authenticated, has not
 mentioned   with [illegible]
the length of his service
Nov 17 1832

$43.88

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State of Rhode Island &c
County of Kent ss

Court of Common Pleas
August AD 1832

On this twenty ninth day of August AD 1832 personally appeared in open Court now sitting, Samuel Sweet a resident of Warwich in the County and State aforesaid, aged Seventy Seven 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 twenty eighth day of February AD 1755. and has always resided there ever since his birth.  That he has no record of his age, but expects that it is recorded on the town Records of said Warwick.  That he was drafted in the Militia at said Warwick in December 1776. and served in a Company commanded by Capt Reuben Whitman one month at Warwick Neck in Col. Waterman's Regiment.  That in the Spring of the year 1777 he was drafted again and served in Capt. Miller's Company at Warwick neck one month and immediately after he was hired and served as a substitute for another month in the same Company at said Warwick neck. and in the fall of the same year he was drafted and served one month more at said Warwick neck under the same Captain.  That in the Winer of the year 1778 he was hired by Rufus Spencer and served at East Greenwich in his room and month, under Capt. Wm Peirce.  That in the Summer of the same year he was drafted and

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and served about twenty days on Rhode Island in Capt Miller's Company. He remembers seeing General Cornell and General Glover there.  He was there when the battle took place with the enemy, but was not called into the engagement.  That in the fall of the year 1778 he was hired and served fifteen days in a Company commanded by Capt Wm. Waterman at Warwickneck  and was afterwards in the same fall drafted and served a month at said 
Warwick neck in Capt. Miller's Company__That in the Winter of the year 1779 he was drafted and served about a month at said Warwick neck un Capt Miller & was afterwards hired and served one month more in said Company as a Substitute.  That in the Summer of the same year he served a month at Bristol under Capt. Miller, as a drafted soldier.  And again in the fall of the same year he served another month at Warwick neck under as he thinks the same Captain.  Besides  the above services, he was repeatedly called to the shore, on sudden alarms, and served on these occasions in the whole as he thinks as much as three month in the Course of the War making the whole as he has alway born it in his mind, from fourteen to fifteen months and has no documentary evidence___
He Hereby relinquishes every claim  
to a pension or an annuity except the present, and declares that his name is not on the pension Roll of the agency of any State. 

his
Samuel X Sweet
mark

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Saml Sweet       9370

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[printed document with fill ins]

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  [blank] who has signed the preceding certificate, is a Clergyman, resident in the [blank] and that William Waterman & Benjamin Barton who also signed the same are residents in the town of Warwick in our sd County and are credible 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 origanl proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Samuel Sweet 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 [signature]

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State of Rhode Island
County of Kent  ss.

On this eleventh day of February AS 1839 personally appeared in open Court before the Court of Probate of the town of Warwick iii the county aforesaid Hannah Sweet a resident of the aforesaid town of Warwick aged seventy one years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the act of Congress passed July 7 1838
That she is the widow of Samuel Sweet late of said Warwick deceased who was a private in the army of the revolution that the said Samuel entered the service of the United States in the militia of the said town of Warwick and served 
therein many different time at different placed in the said state of Rhode Island during the war of the revolution all which services are 
particularly set forth and described in the declaration made by the said Samuel in his life time in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7 1832 now on file in the War department whereon a pension was granted to the said Samuel on the sixth day of April AD 1838  the certificate whereof is hereto annexed and he now refers to the said declaration 
and the accompanying papers for the particulars

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of said services.
And that he further declares that after the last period of services of the said Samuel and before the first day of January Seventeen hundred and Ninety four to wit vz  The month of February Seventeen hundred and Eighty six she was married to the said Samuel Sweet
she is not now able to recollect the day of the month on which she was married   that she had within a few years past the original certificate of marriage given her by Elder John Porter by whom they were married which certificate is now lost  That her husband the aforesaid Samuel Sweet died on this seventh day of April Eighteen hundred and thirty six and that she has ever remained and [illegible] is the widow of the said Samuel Sweet deceased as will more fully appear by reference to the proof hereto annexed

her
Hannah X Sweet
mark

Witness [illegible] Buck

Subscribed to and sworn to in open Court by the said Hannah Sweet the day and year aforesaid 
Witness Geo A Brayton  P. Clk

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State of Rhode Island}
County of Kent }  ss.
Town Clerks office
Warwick Decr  10 or 11 AD 1838

I George A Brayton town Clerk of the said town of Warwick do hereby certify that I have diligently and carefully examined the records of marriages in this office and that I do not find any record of the marriage of Samuel Sweet to Hannah Carpenter therein,
In witness whereof I have here unto set my hand the day & year aforesaid
Geo A Brayton town clerk

I George A  Brayton above named depose and say that I hold the office of Town Clerk in the town of Warwick aforesaid and the aforewitten certificate by me made and signed is true
And I the said George A Brayton do further depose and say that I hold in my possession many of the papers of Elder John Gorton who was for many years before and after the revolution a minister of the Gospel in the town of Warwick and by whom the said Samuel Sweet and Hannah Carpenter are said to have been married that I have among other papers diverse papers containing memorandum of the publishment of the [illegible] of marriage of different persons and among this that of the said Samuel Sweet

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and Hannah Carpenter which memorandum is in the words and figures following to wit
"Mr Samuel Sweet and Mss Hannah Carpenter Both of Warwick intend marriage
1st 2nd 3rd [crossed out] 
out January the 1st 1786"
George A Brayton


State of Rhode Island
County of Kent

In Warwick the 11th day of February 1839 Subscribed and sworn to before me and I further certify that the said George A  Brayton is a Credible witness
Wm Harrison Justice of the Peace

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Let Geo A Brayton 
June 24  '39-

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4758
Hannah Sweet
widow of Samuel
R. I

act  7 July 38

m86 & 3g

admd

13 mo. 5 ds pri
$43.88

Died on 7 April 36
Pen:com: 8 April 36

Geo A Brayton
Warwick
RI

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Kent Lc The State of Rhode Island &c
Clerks office court of Common pleas

I certify that John Brown Esq of East Greenwich in said county of Kent is a Justice of said Court, & that William Harrison Esq is a Justice of the peace in and for the town of Warwick in said County of Kent, that the annexed are their proper signatures in their own hand writing & that full faith and evidence is and ought to be given to all their official acts.___

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand the the seal of said Court at East Greenwich this 12th day of February AD 1839
Jer. S Slocum Clk

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additional Evidence 
on the application of 
Hannah Sweet
for a Pension

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I Christopher Vaughn of East Greenwich in the county of Kent & State  of Rhode Island aged sixty seven years on oath do testify & say that given my [illegible] years until his death I was well acquainted with Samuel Sweet late resident in Warwick in [illegible] County & state who was a Pensioner of the United States.  He married about fifty four years ago Hannah Carpenter who now remains his widow  I was not present at the marriage but was told of it at the time  I was frequently at their house where they lived as man & wife   I well remember that in the Spring of the year 1791 my Father hired the Potowomeet Farm so called or so much of it as belonged to one Rufus Spencer then a minor___and that the marriage of Mr & Mrs Sweet aforesaid was four or five years prior to said year 1791__I never heard a doubt that they were not married and they lived together as man & wife in my vicinity until his death
Christopher Vaughn

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I Ebenezer Vaughn of East Greenwich in the county of Kent & state of Rhode Island aged seventy two years -- On oath do testify & say, that I was well acquainted with Samuel Sweet family resident in Warwick and who was at the time of his death a Pensioner of the United States, He always resided in my neighborhood until his death,  He is among my earliest recollections & about fifty four years ago he married Hannah Carpenter who now remains his Widow, I was not present at their marriage but heard at the time, that Elder John Gorton married them -- what
makes me more certain as to the time of their marriage is that it took place some four or five years before my Father [illegible] the Potowomeet Farm and Mr Sweet was occasionly to work for my Father who used to send me to Mr Sweet's house where he lived
together as man & wife prior to the [illegible] said farm by my Father & that they had one or two children then