Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 26563, Nathan Tucker, Navy (R I.) Privateer

SERVICE
NUMBER _____
Navy (R. I.) Privateer.
Tucker, Nathan Jemima
N. 26563
CONTENTS

Rhode Island 251
Jemima Tucker
of Providence in the State of R.I.
who was a in the commanded
by Captain of the commanded
by in the
line for Widow of Nathan Tucker
dec. late a Mariner in the
Revolution
Inscribed on the Roll of Rhode Island at the rate of 40 Dollars 00 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1834. (not N. 10th Mar 32 at $40 to be deducted)
Certificate of Pension issued the 26 day of Nov. 1836 and sent to Prov. Lowell Providence R.I.
Arrears to the 4th of Sept 1836 $220.00 Semiant. allowance ending Mar 37 20.00 $240.00
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by Albion Clerk, Book a Vol. 1 Page 119

8,709 Rhode Island
Nathan Tucker 41
of Smithfield in the state of Rhode Island who was a Mariner board ship Alfred in the regiment commanded by Capt n  Colonel Paul Jones of the U d States Navy line, for the term of ten months 78-9
Inscribed on the Roll of Rhode Island at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 3 d of April 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 30 th of March 1818 and sent to Ben a Gowell Esq r of Providence Rhode Island
Arrears to 4th of Mar: 1819 10 mo 78/10 4/21 - 88.49 Semi-ann l all ce ending 4 Sep: 1819 - 48.
$136.49
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Continued
Nathan Tucker - July 30 1818 Paymaster General Rhode Island

Nathaniel Tucker.
Judges certificate as to claimants indigent circum- stances wanting
Rejected
No men were impressed into the service of the U. States
Return of service of service of the same shall be com- pleted & signed by the clerk
J. M.
Post Office 28 March 1819

J. Nathan Tucker

I Nathan Tucker of Smithfield in the District of Rhode Island on solemn oath do declare and say that I was pressed on board the ship Alfred a vessel in the service of the Congress of the United States commanded by Paul Jones Esquire some time in the beginning of the revolutionary war but the year I cannot remember being seventy seven years of age. But I declare that I served on board said vessel on a cruise against the enemy more than nine months. I further declare that I am now in reduced circumstances & alone in need of the assistance of my country for support.  attest B. Cowell Nathan Tucker Mark
Be it remembered that on this third day of April 1818 came before me Nathan Tucker and made solemn oath to the truth of the Deputation to which his Mark is affixed. In witness whereunto set my hand & have caused the seal of the District Court for said District to be hereunto affixed the day and year above written.
David Howell,
District Judge.
The signature of the judge, the seal of the District Court of the United States for R.I. District are hereunto affixed.
witness Benjamin Cowell Clerk of this Court

I Nancy Tucker of Cumberland in the county of Providence being now 42 years of age on oath depone & say that I am the youngest child of Nathan & Jerimiah Tucker - My father died on the thirteenth day of March AD 1832 I was with him when he died & took care of him My Mother the said Jeri- miah has remained unmarried ever since that period & is now my father's widow & resides with me -
Nancy Tucker
Providence Aug 31 1836
Sworn to & subscribed before me and I further certify said Nancy Tucker is a credible witness in the premises
Benja Lowell C. J. C. Pease

State of Rhode Island and
Providence Plantations
Providence I, Dexter Randall Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas within & for said County - being a Court of Record do hereby certify that Benjamin Laurence before whom the aforesaid affidavits were sworn is the Chief Justice of the said Court; that he is by Law duly authorized and qualified to administer oaths & take depositions and that his signature before written are genuine. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at Providence this 21st day of October A.D. 1836
Dexter Randall Clerk

Town Clerk's Office Smithfield October 22 d A.D. 1836
I certify that I can not find the record of the marriage of Nathan Tucker to Jemima Tucker on the records of said Town. I also certify that many marriages take place and have taken place in said Town for many years past which are not recorded.
Witness
Thomas Mason Town Clerk
Providence Is. Smithfield October 31 st 1836 Personally came before me Thomas Mason Town Clerk of Smithfield and made Oath to the truth of the above Certificate by him signed
George Aldrich Justice of the Peace

State of Rhode Island
Providence
On this 31 st day of August A.D. 1836 per- sonally appeared before me Benjamin Caver chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas within of said County. Jermina Tucker & resident in Cumberland in said County aged 88 years who being duly sworn according to Law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of July 4 th A.D. 1836. That she is the widow of Nathan Tucker who was mariner on board the Frigate Alfred a vessel of War of the United States under the com- mand of Paul Jones & who for his services on board said Frigate

was placed on the pension list of the Rhode Island Agency & she refers to the series pension for proof & the evidence annexed to the declaration upon which it was obtained, he was also in the land service in the Army she remem- bers he was in Sullivans Expedition but she cannot state his services - And she further declares that she was married to her said husband Nathan Foster several years before the War by John Dexter Esq. in Smithfield where we then lived, - I cannot state the year in which I was married but at the time of the battle of Bunker hill I remember I had two children born I was about 24 years old when I was married. And she further declares that her said husband died on the 13 day of March

At 1832. in said Smithfield & that she has remained a widow ever since - & unmarried - she requests that the pension which would have belonged to him under the act of June 7 1832 may be extended to her Jemima Tucker Mark
August 31 1836 In Cumberland - Sworn to & subscribed before me by the above Jemima Tucker and I further certify that her feebleness rendered her unable to appear in court Benja Lawrence C. J. C. C. Mass
And the said Jemima Tucker further declares that there is no record of her marriage in any place whatever that she knows of nor is it recorded in any private record. Nor is there any person living as she knows who was present at the

at the wedding - she remembers that her husband's brother & sister were present at the wedding but both of them are dead - she does not know with certainty whether he took a certificate of his marriage but if he did it is lost - altho she thinks he did carrying away a paper which was the certificate
Jemima F
October 1, 1836 In kindred - Mark Sworn to & subscribed before me -
notary Public at Lowell C. J. C. Phelps
Jemima Perkins

Nathan Tucker
0.709.
30 March 1819.
(Sept. 1819.)
Continue.

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
RHODE-ISLAND DISTRICT.
Providence, sc.
District Court, Special Term, June Fifth A. D. 1820
On this Fifth day of June 1820, personally appeared in open Court, being a Court of Record within and for said District  Nathan Sleeper aged 79 years, residing in the town of Smithfield in said District County who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath declare, that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows: That he served in the revolutionary war in Brigadier General Alfeld commanded by Paul Jones Esqr - about eleven months that he made a previous declaration on the Third day of April 1818, and that he has received a certificate for a pension, being No. 5709 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 to bring 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 eight hundred and eighteen: that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property or securities, contracts or debts, due to me; nor have I any income other than what is contained in the Schedule hereto annexed, and by me subscribed.
Nathan Sleeper Mark!
A SCHEDULE of Property and Income (necessary clothing and bedding excepted) of Nathan Sleeper
He said Nathan declares that he has no estate of any description whatever That he has no occupation or employment on account of his age and infirmities - That before he received his pension he was so poor as to receive assistance from the said Town of Smithfield as one of its poor -
Nathan Sleeper Mark!
Rhode Island District
District Court
Sworn to and declared in open Court on the Fifth day of June before
David Howell
District Judge
RHODE-ISLAND DISTRICT.
Clerk's Office of the District Court, A. D. 1820
I, Benjamin Cowell Clerk of said Court do hereby certify, that the foregoing oath, and the schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the record of the said Court; and I do further certify, that it is the opinion of the said Court, that the amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule, is nothing dollars and cents. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this Tenth day of June 1820
Benjamin Cowell Clerk of said Court

WIDOW, &c.
File No.
26563
Jemima Tucker Wid of Nathan Tucker Mariner Rev-war
Act:
June 7th 1832
Index:--Vol.
M
Page
287
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Up to what time was Nathan mariner Tucker of R. G. paid? a pension under the Act of 18 March 1818.
H. A. J.
Nov 25. 36.
Died 13 th March 1832 paid to that period JH

Nancy Tucker
No 530
wid of Nathan Tucker
1818
Adm d 10m. Mainers, $40.00 pr. Ann, comm g 14 March 1832 The sum paid her husband under the Act of March 18 1832 from that time to the 13 th of March 1832.
Asa C. C. C. Providence

I Israel Arnold of Smithfield County of Providence State of Rhode Island now 81 years of age on oath do testify and say that I was first acquainted with Nathan Tucker & his wife Jerimiah a great number of years before the war of the Revolution being neigh neighbours and they must have been married as early as the year 1771 they was married and had two children before I was married I was married in the year 1775
Israel Arnold
Providence ss in Smithfield September 1 th Day 1836 Personally came before me Israel Arnold and made oath to the truth of the above deposition by him signed in my presence. And I further certify the said Israel Arnold is a Credible witness in the premises.
George Aldrich 3 Justice of the Peace
State of Rhode Island & Providence ss. Providence Plantations I DeForest Randall Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas within & for said County having a custody of Records. do hereby certify that George Aldrich 3 d before said time the foregoing affidavit was sworn to as a true copy of the same of the Town of Smithfield in said County. That he is duly authorized & qualified to administer oaths & take depositions and that his signature above written is genuine. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of said Court at said Providence this first day of October A.D. 1836.
DeForest Randall Clerk

Watson Tucker of Smithfield, who made oath to his declaration before the District Judge for Rhode Island District on the 3 d April 1818 & whose application has been returned from the War Department for better evidence, further deposes, - that in the year 1797 he was a mariner private on board the Privateer Schooner Eagle , - after cruising about two months in the Eagle they returned to a place called Holmes Hole , to refit, - on their arrival at that place they found the United States Ship Alfred commanded by Paul Jones Esq was lying there also recruiting for men, - that soon after their arrival there, the Alfred being in great want of men, the Commander sent his Lieutenant, a Gentleman by the name of Pitcher , on board the Eagle - who demanded in the name of the Commander of the Alfred , that about twenty of the Eagle , & new recruits go on board the Alfred & enlist, - We accordingly, not knowing but what we must obey, went with the Lieutenant on board the Alfred - & when arrived on board we were induced to enlist, - that after our enlistment the Alfred sailed on a cruise, - that according to this applicant's best recollection he was on board of said Alfred more than ten months viz from August 1797 to June 1798, - after the arrival of the Alfred in Boston the Crew were paid off, & this applicant recd his wages as the others, - this applicant also recollects of taking several prizes - but few of which got in before they were retaken, - This applicant further maketh

oath, that he does not know that any of the above crew are now living, except one Nathaniel Cooke , whose deposition is herewith transmitted, - if any others are a living he does not know where they reside, - This applicant is now almost seventy eight years old entirely destitute of property greatly affected with the Rheumatism & incapable of labour the only means he has for his support without becoming a pauper. This applicant humbly trusts that justice will be done him under the act of Congress of the 18th March 1818, & that he will receive his pension from the date he first made application.
His Nathan X Tucker Mark
Providence Island District. 20 March 1819. H on . Sir, at War. The 1 Nathan Tucker made solemn oath to the above written declaration by his mark signed. I also certify that his appear- -ance and clothing give me satisfactory proof that he is a very poor man. I also believe that he served in the Navy as he has so often.
David Howell District Judge.

Nathan Tucker
Better evidence produced - a certified & required -

The Deposition of Nathaniel Cooke of Cumberland in the District of Rhode Island who being now in the  the 78 th year of age on oath testify & says that I  this Deponent personally well acquainted with Nathan Tucker of Smithfield in said District, & formerly a marine on board the Ship Alfred  Paul Jones Commander - This Deponent further testifies that in the year 1777 in the month of August he entered on board said Ship Alfred which was then a Ship of War in the Service of the United States & commanded by said Paul Jones ; that at the same time said Nathan Tucker entered on board also - said Ship was then lying at a place called Holmes Hole - That this Deponent & the said Nathan were shipped on board from a Private Schooner then lying said Place - That after said Ship Alfred had obtained a sufficient number of men, she sailed on a Cruise - said Ship cruised down towards Halifax & so between that place & New England until the month of June following in 1778, - while we were on this Cruise we took seven prizes, viz five Ships a Brig & a Snow - one of which got in - the rest being retaken - We arrived in Boston from said Cruise in June, 1778 having been on board said Ship rather more than ten months, - said Tucker was on board said Ship during all our Cruise - The Alfred mounted 30 Guns - Said Jones was Commander - one Pitcher was 1 st & one Saunders 2 d Lieutenants - We were paid off & discharged in Boston, - & further this Deponent saith
Nathaniel Cooke
Not, 21 Dec

Rhode Island District
I certify that on the twenty first day of December 1818 The within named Nathaniel Cooke personally appeared before me & made oath to the within deposition by him signed, -
Watrop Benjamin Cowen Commissioner of the District Court for R. I. District
We the subscribers of Connecticut hereby certify that we are acquainted with Nathaniel Cooke the within named Deponent, & that he is a man of respectability & integrity & that his deposition is entitled to the fullest credit Barri Bartlett Bennett Shipley Otis G. Ballou for Stephen Tucke