Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 11,332, Daniel Westcott, R.I.

SERVICE
NUMBER
R. I.
Westcott, Daniel or Westcot.
R. 11,332
marcy
CONTENTS

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February 16 th Day
A.D. 1788
Daniel Westcot his Book of Records of the Births and Deaths of his Relation
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My Granfather
Benjamin Westcob was Born in the year of our Lord 1684 July the 4 th Day and Deceased this Life august 25 th Day AD 1765 aged 81 years his wife Bethiah Westcob was Born in the year of our Lord AD 1684 February 2 nd Day and Deceased this Life April the 22 nd AD 1760 aged 73 years and two months
My father Samuel Westcob was Born in the year of our Lord 1719 August 28 th Day his wife Anna Westcob was Born in the year of our Lord 1719 March 7 th Day and Deceased this Life November 20 th Day AD 1772 aged 53 years and 8 months Samuel Westcott Deceased this life May 24 th Day 1803 aged 83 years and nine months

The Births of my Sisters and Brothers
Dorcas Westcot was Born in the year of our Lord 1745 April the 3 Day
Phebe Westcot was Born in the year of our Lord 1747 March the 12 Day
Sarah Westcot was Born in year of our Lord 1749 August 6 Day
Uriah Westcot was Born in the year of our Lord 1755 July the 18 Day
Jonathan Westcot was Born in the year of our Lord 1759 March 26 Day
Dorcas Westcot Deceased This Life October 22 Day 1749 Aged 4 years and six months and nineteen Days

Daniel Westcott was Born in the year of our Lord A.D. 1751 August the 4 th Day My Wife Marcy Westcott was Born in the year of our Lord 1754 January 17 th Day And we was Married April the 24 th Day A.D. 1774
Daniel Westcott Deceased this life March the 9 th Day 1823 aged 71 years and 1 month and 15 days

The Births of my Children Warner Westcot was Born in the year of our Lord 1775 January the 11 th Day and the fourth Day of the week.
Anna Westcot was Born in the year of our Lord 1776 September the 7 th Day and the Six Day of the week.
Penelope Westcot was Born in the year of our Lord 1778 April the 3 rd Day and the Six Day of the week.
Anna Westcot was Born in the year of our Lord 1780 January 22 nd Day and the Seventh Day of the week.
Samuel Westcot was Born in the year of our Lord 1781 November 18 th Day and the first Day of the week.
Sarah Westcot was Born in the year of our Lord 1784 July 8 th Day and the fifth Day of the week.
John Westcot was Born in the year of our Lord 1786 October 6 th Day and the Six Day of the week.
and Deceased this life September 14 th day 1823 aged 53 and 8 months and three days
Anna Westcot Deceased this life October 13 th Day 1778 aged 2 years and 1 month and 6 days
Anna Westcott Deceased this life Nov 29 th 1835 aged 55 years - 10 months and 7 days
Sarah Westcott deceased this life Sept 28 th 1838 aged 54 years - 2 months and 20 days

Mary Westcot was Born in the year of our Lord 1788 December 27 Day And the Seventh Day of the week
Dorcas Westcot was Born in the year of our Lord 1791 June the 4 Day and the Seventh Day of the week
Daniel Westcot was Born in the year of our Lord 1793 September the 3 Day and the third Day of the week
Davis Westcot was Born in the year of our Lord 1796 June the 12 th Day and the first day of the week

I hereby certify that this is the record referred to in the Declaration of Mary Hastnott and in the Affidavit of Samuel Hastnott A. Dyer

State of New York Allegany County } ss: On this 16 th day of December, 1845, personally appeared before me Samuel C. Wilson, Surrogate of the County of Allegany, being a Court of Record, in and for said County, Samuel Westcott, a resident of the town of Rushford in the County of Allegany and State of New- York, aged Sixty four years, who being first duly sworn by me, doth, on his oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress, passed July 14 th 1836; That he is together with Penelope Chapman, John Westcott, Mercy Westcott, Dorcas Westcott, Daniel Westcott and Davis Westcott, were the children and only lawful heirs (living at the time of their Mothers death,) of Daniel Westcott and Mercy Westcott, deceased, and that they were all over the age of twenty one years; That his father the said Daniel Westcott was a Soldier and Sergeant in the Army of the Revolutionary War. That at the commencement of the War he enlisted or entered the service in the State of Rhode Island from the town of Cranston in the County of Providence, was out on tours during the war, was drafted under Captain Anthony Potter, had an Ensigns Commission sent on to him, which he did not accept of but served as Orderly Sergeant in Captain Potter company, and this deponent recollects having seen the Book and minutes of Accounts of Rations kept by his father while Orderly Sergeant; that his father was on Rhode Island twice, was in the Battle there, and retreated from the Island with Sullivan, was stationed at Warwick Neck two or three tours for a month each time, was at Bristol several times, was out on alarms to Pawtuxet several times, and also at Butts Hill and at Providence. does not know all his Officers names, thinks he served at some time in the Providence Regiment, and thinks the Colonel name was William Barton; and that at some of the time he stood as Minute Man in readiness to be called out at any time whenever the British Vessels should appear in sight; that he understood his father was in service two years or more during the war; also thinks that he was at one time in Colonel Dyer Regiment —

And that his father the said Daniel Westcott was married to his Mother the said Mercy Westcott in the town of Cranston in the State of Rhode Island, thinks in the year 1774, in the month of April, Proof of which marriage he believes will fully appear by reference to his Mothers Pension papers now on file in the Pension Office, she having had a claim for a pension pending at the time of her death on account of the services of her husband the said Daniel Westcott; He further declares that his father the said Daniel Westcott died in the town of Mendon in the County of Monroe in the State of New York in the year Eighteen hundred and twenty three on the Ninth day of March, and that his mother the said Mercy Westcott died in the town of Rushford in the County of Allegany and State of New York in the year Eighteen hundred and forty one, on the twenty-second day of September; And he further declares that Abraham J Lyon of the said town of Rushford, is the duly authorised Attorney for all the Heirs to present their claims to the Pension Office and receive Stipend for them - and further this deponent saith not.
Samuel Westcott
Sworn to and subscribed before me in open Court this 16 th day of December 1845.
Sam l C. Wilson Surrogate
With Witness whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed my Seal of Office at Rushford in the County of Allegany, this 16 th day of December A.D. 1845
Sam l C. Wilson, Surrogate

State of New York Allegany County } ss: I, Samuel C. Wilson Surrogate of the County of Allegany, being a Court of Record in and for the county aforesaid, do hereby certify that satisfactory evidence has been exhibited to said Court that Mercy Westcott had a claim for a pension pending at the Pension Office of the United States, under the act of 11th July 1836: on account of the services of her husband Daniel Westcott, deceased in the war of the Revolution at the time of her death: and that she was a resident of the county of Allegany in the State of New York, and died in the town of Rushford in said County and State of New York, in the year, 1841, on the 22 d day of September. That she left children whose names are Samuel Westcott, Penelope Chapman, John Westcott, Mercy Westcott, Dorcas Westcott, Daniel Westcott and Davis Westcott, and that they were the only surviving children and lawful heirs of the said Mercy Westcott deceased, and that they were all over the age of twentyone years at the time of her death.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office at Rushford this 16th day of December, in the year of our Lord, 1845.
Samuel C. Wilson Surrogate

4279 Pension Application of Mercy Westcott of Rushford Allegany Co N.Y.
A. B. Lynn Agent Rushford Allegany Co N.Y.
'36
No specification of the service
H. L. C. Peck H. R.

State of New York County of Allegany } ss
On this twentieth day of December in the year of our Lord Eighteen hundred and thirty eight Personally appeared before me William Hicks Esquire one of the judges of the County of Allegany Mercy Westcott a resident of the Town of Rushford in the County of Allegany and state of New York aged Eighty four years on the seventeenth day of January last who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on her oath make the following declarations in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress pas- =sed July the fourth Eighteen hundred and thirty six that she is the Widow of Daniel Westcott who was a Soldier of the revolution and was attached to the Militia of the state of Rhode Island in the year Seventeen hundred and seventy five and that she lived with the said Daniel Westcott in the Town of Cranston in the County of Providence and state of Rhode Island and the said Daniel Westcott was attached to a Company of the Militia of the state of Rhode Island aforesaid com- =manded by Anthony Patter for the defence of the said state in the year of Seventeen hundred and seventy five and took his turn in the ser- =vice for that year and in the fall of seventeen hundred and seventy six was called into service and stationed at a place called Warwick from that fall and winter and was called out frequently on alarm during the year of seven- teen hundred and seventy seven and one time stationed at Pawtucket about a month that year and she further declares that the said Daniel Westcott in the summer of seventeen hundred and seventy eight was called into Rhode Island and stationed at that point

in what was called Sullivan's Expedition does not recollect what officers commanded the several companies and the said Daniel Westcott served as an orderly sergeant in said Expedition after the retreat from the Island he was stationed at a place called Bristol in said state & returned home late that fall And in the summer of Seventeen hundred and seventy nine was called out to Bristol in the said state of Rhode Island and returned in the month of September or October of that year and she further declares that the said Daniel Westcott was frequently called out into other service on alarms until the close of the war that he was absent from home during the war in service over one year.
And she further declares that she was married to the said Daniel Westcott on the Twenty fourth day of April in the year of Seventeen hundred and seventy four at the house of her mother in the town of Cranston County of Providence said state of Rhode Island by Thomas Patter who was then a justice of the peace of the said Town and County and she further declares that she lived with the said Daniel Westcott from the day of her marriage until the day of his death which was on the fourth day of March Eighteen hundred and twenty three in the Town of Mendon County of Monroe and state of New York and that she has remained a widow ever since that period.
And this deponent further declares that her husband had no documentary evidence of his services but she has a record of her marriage to the said Daniel Westcott and the ages of her children kept by the said Daniel Westcott until the

day of his death which was on the day aforesaid and herewith inclosed. And she further declares that she is now in indigent circumstances and needs assistance from her Country
In presence of A. H. S. S.
Mercy her Westcott mark.
Subscribed & sworn before me this 20th. day of December A.D. 1838. Wm. Hicks, a Judge of Allegany County Courts.
I hereby certify that from personal observation of Mercy Westcott, the within applicant I am satisfied that she is unable from bodily infirmity to attend in open court.
Dated at Rusford December 20th. 1838 Wm. Hicks a Judge of Allegany County Courts.
State of New York Allegany County, Clerk's Office
J. Samuel Van Wickle Clerk of the County of Allegany do hereby certify that William Hicks was on the day of the date of the above Affidavit and Certificate, a Judge of Allegany County Courts in and for said County, duly appointed and qualified and that the signatures above purporting to be his is genuine.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto affixed my seal of Office, and subscribed my name this 19 th day of January in the Year 1839.
Jam s Van Wickle Clerk

State of New York } Albany County } 3
Samuel Westcott of the Town of Rushford County of Albany and State of New York being duly sworn according to Law deposes and says that he is the son of Daniel Westcott and Mercy Westcott that he was born in the town of Cranston County of Providence and State of Rhode Island on the Eighteenth day of November Seventeen hundred and Eighty one and that he resided with the said Daniel and Mercy Westcott or near them until the death of the said Daniel Westcott which took place in the town of Mendon in the County of Monroe and State of New York on the ninth day of March Eighteen hundred and twenty three and that his wife Mercy Westcott has remained a Widow until the present period. And this deponent further saith that he has frequently heard his father the said Daniel Westcott state that he was a soldier and Orderly Sergeant in the Militia of the State of Rhode Island and was frequent- ly called out on service during the years of Seventeen hundred and seventy-five, six, seven & eight in the revolutionary war and has heard the said Daniel Westcott frequently converse with men that was in the service with him during the war and till circumstances that took place and the move- ments of the armies and also that he was on Rhode Island at the time of Sullivan's the retreat off Rhode Island and at Bristol and Point- upit and Warwick Neck —
And this deponent further states that he knows the records herewith sent to be the record made and kept by his father the said Daniel

Westcott and has seen him make entries in the same and that the entries of his birth Marriage and childrens birth is in his hand writing
Samuel H. Westcott
Sworn and subscribed before me this 20 Day In 1838 At Hyron gustin of the town of Allegany County
I hereby certify that I am well acquainted with Samuel Westcott the person who signed the above affidavit and that he is a man of truth and veracity A Hyron gustin
State of New York Allegany County Clerks Office } I Samuel Van Wickle
Clerk of the County of Allegany do hereby certify that A. J. Lyon was on the day of the date of the above affidavit and Certificate a Justice of the Peace in and for said County duly appointed and qualified and that the signature above purporting to be his is Genuine
In Testimony Whereof. I have hereunto affixed my Seal of Office and subscribed my name this 19 th day of January 1839
Sam L Van Wickle Clerk

State of New-York County of Otsego ss
Be it remembered that on the Eighth day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty seven Penelope Chapman of the town of Otsego in said County being duly sworn deposeth and says that she is the daughter of Daniel and Mercy Westcott that she was born in the town of Cranston in the county of Providence and state of Rhode Island on the third day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy eight that she has often frequently heard her Father say that he was in the Revolutionary Army at a number of different times that he was at the battle at New Port Rhode Island that she emigrated with her Father and Mother in 1797 to the state of New York where she now resides and further this deponent saith not
Subscribed and sworn to before me this eighth day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty seven
Penelope Chapman
Shezekiah B. Sprague Justice
County of Otsego ss I the said Justice before whom the above affidavit was taken do further certify that I am well acquainted with the said Penelope Chapman that she is a woman of good character for truth and veracity and her statement is entitled to credit
Shezekiah B. Sprague Justice

State of New York County of Otsego ss
Be it remembered that on the ninth day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty seven Jesse Leffs and Richard Bates of the town of Otsego in said County being duly sworn depose and say that they have been well acquainted with Daniel Westcott and Mercy his wife for about thirty years and that they were persons of good character for truth and veracity and that their statements are entitled to credit And further these deponents say not
Subscribed and sworn before me this ninth day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty seven
Jesse Leffs Richard Bates
Hosekiah B. Sprague Justice
County of Otsego ss. I, the said Justice before whom the above affidavit was taken do further certify that I am well acquainted with the said Jesse Leffs and Richard Bates that they are men of good character for truth and veracity and their statements are entitled to credit
Hosekiah B. Sprague Justice
State of New York Otsego County ss
I George C. Clyde Clerk of the County of Otsego do hereby certify that Hosekiah B. Sprague Esquire before whom the within and foregoing Affidavits purport to have been sworn was on the days of the date of each of said Affidavits a justice of the peace in and for the said County of Otsego duly elected and qualified according to Law - And further that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of the said Justice and truly believe his signature or name subscribed to each of said Affidavits and the Certificate of identity & Credibility annexed to each of said Affidavits is his genuine hand writing & signature
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and Affixed the Seal of said County this ninth day of March A.D. 1837
George C. Clyde Clerk

Cranston R. I. March 18 th 1837
Mr. Samuel Westcott Sir, Your letter of the 19 th of February last, in relation to the application about being made by you for a pension for Mercy Westcott widow of Samuel Westcott directed to the "Town Clerk of Cranston" has been received by me and I am sorry to say that the persons you referred to for testimony in her behalf are all dead to wit Unan Westcott, Sarah Westcott, Ezekiel Searle, William Searle, Anthony Potter, John A. Benton, Reuben Turner and William King nor do I know or think of any person living here that will be likely to know anything of the services of Samuel Westcott. — Rufus Warner is also dead, Moses is living, I have shown your letter to him, he says he will make enquiry among old people and if any evidence can be found you will be informed of it. Unan Westcott died last fall, his son Miles Westcott living on the same place that his father lived on will be a suitable person to refer to for any further enquiries you make

has may have to make here - Rufus Warner died four years ago last fall his mother is still living the other persons named by you have been dead much longer.
Yours respectfully
Levi Howard
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State of New York Allegany County Clerks Office } S.S.
I Samuel Van Wickl Clerk of said County do hereby certify that A. J. Lyon Esq r . before whom the annexed affidavit purports to have been taken, was at the date of the same one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County, duly Com- missioned and qualified, and authorized by law to take the same. And that the signature annexed purporting to be his is genuine — In witness whereof I have hereunto affixed the seal of said County and subscribed my name this 16 th day of April 1840
Sam d Van Wickl Clerk

state of New York
Albany County
On this 14 Day of April 1840 personally appeared before me Abraham Hays one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of the said County Mary Hestrott a resident of the town of Rushford in said County aged Eighty six years who being duly sworn by me doth on her oath make the following additional Declaration in support of her Claim that she is still the Widow of Daniel Hestrott and that she is the same person that made the Declaration before Hon Hicks in the month of Jan 1839 and that in addition to what is set forth in that Declaration she further declares that at the commencement of the war or in the year 1775 she lived with her husband the said Daniel Hestrott at Cranston in the State of Rhode Island and that her husband the said Daniel Hestrott was a soldier or sergeant in a Company of Militia of that town commanded by Capt Anthony Potter in Col Dyer's regiment and that the place was much exposed to the Enemy during the war British vessels were often seen in the river and alarms were frequent and her husband was called out a great many times. during the war he with others took turns in guarding the place he was a great Liberty man and always went when called for she recollects of his being in the army in the year 1775 soon after her oldest son was born was drafted or took his turn was absent for some time She further declares that in the year 1776 in the month of December he was called out to Warwick neck and was gone all winter and did not return till some time in the spring this circumstance she recollects by her then having two children and by her going to her father's Hestrott's and staying through the winter and she further declares that in the year 1777 he was called out to Pawtucket and was gone one month or more to guard that place

And she further declares that in the year 1778 the said Daniel Hirstcott her said husband was called out in the month of July and went on to Rhode Island and did not return till late in the month of October of that year and that in the year 1779 he was again called in to the service in the month of June and was gone a month and then returned home and staid there or four days and harvested some hay and again returned to the army at Bristol and did not return until late in the fall and was out a number of times after that during the war. She further declares that her husband the said Daniel was absent from home and in the service more than one year and was a soldier in Capt. Potter's Company, Belcher's in Col. Dyer's or Col. Christopher Sipp's Regiment but he was attached to other companies while in actual service whose names she cannot recollect and further this deponent says not  subscribed and sworn before  before me the day and year above written
A Lyon judge of the Court of Allegany County { Mary Hirstcott her X mark
I hereby certify that I am well acquainted with Mary Hirstcott the person that signed the above declaration in my presence and that she is unable from age and ill health to attend in open court and that she sustains a Christian as well as a good moral character and that I have no doubt of the truth of her statement
A Lyon judge of the Court of Allegany Co
Nathan C. Kimball
Rev. E. C. Beck A. R.

Ho of Reps May 9. 1840
Sir
I enclose herewith additional evidence in the case of Mary Wiscott widow of Daniel Wiscott deceased
Very Respectfully I am Sir J. B. Beck
Hon J. S. Cerveres Commr pensions

Washington Feb y . 18-1846
Sir
I herewith enclose the statement of the heirs of Mercy Westcott dec d , as well as the surrogates certificate shewing the time of her death & the names of her heirs, while living she made application for pension under the law of 4 th July 1836. I hope the claim will be reexamined in connexion with the additional statement of the son, which it is thought throw additional light on the claim with regard to the services, I enclose also some additional papers in the case of Molly Brasted dec d of N.Y. an applicant under the same law the cert s of the Sec ty New Jersey & proof of heriship &c may I also hope that these papers will be beneficial in the reexamination of this case.
I am Very Respectfully
Your ob t Servant,
Nathan Lake
Hon J. L. Edwards, Comm r of Pensions,

Mary Westcott
widow of
Daniel Westcott
Act 4 th July '36
Suspended N.Y.
Whole

Know all men by these presents, That I A. S. Lyon of the County of Albany and State of New York have constituted and appointed, and by these presents do constitute and appoint, THOMAS EWING, Jr., of Washington City, my true and lawful attorney, irrevocably for me and in my name to receive from the United States all such sum or sums of money as may be due me on any account whatsoever,  under me and by my authority, as the duly appointed and sole attorney of Mary Wascott widow of Daniel Wascott, to present and prosecute her claim for a pension under the act of 4th July 1836, and to receive and transmit to me such Pension certificate or certificates as may be issued.
and in my name to execute such receipts and acquittances for the same as may be necessary, and generally to do all lawful acts and things touching the premises; and an attorney or attorneys under him for the purposes aforesaid, to make and at his pleasure to revoke; hereby confirming all and what- soever my said attorney shall lawfully do or cause to be done in the premises, by virtue of these presents.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 23 rd day of Jan. 185 2 .
A. S. Lyon
State of New York County of Albany } to wit:
On this 23 day of Jan. 185 2 ,
A. S. Lyon personally appeared before me a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid, and acknowledged the above power of attorney to be his act and deed for the purposes therein expressed.
R. D. Lansing J. P.
State of _____ County of _____ } to wit:
I HEREBY CERTIFY, That _____ Esq., before whom the above acknowledgment was made, and who has hereunto subscribed his name, was at the time of so doing a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid, duly commissioned and sworn.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the _____ Court, for the County aforesaid, this _____ day of _____
185_____
Clerk.

N. York Mercy Westcott, dec d . let. to Hon. S.C. Peck 16 March '39. to same 11. May 1840 " to N. Leake, May 13. '46.
Act. July 1836

Acts of July 17, 1862, and March 3, 1879.
REJECTED
11.33p
P. O. Daniel Westcott Henry Westcott Service: _____
Enlisted: Ad 5. _____, 18
Discharged: Oct 2, 1906 _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contra
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18