Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 11,519, Edward Willcox, R.I.

SERVICE
Willcox, Edward
NUMBER
R. 11.519
CONTENTS

Division Deputation
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Deborah Gavis of Westerly in the county of Washington & state of Rhode Island on oath saith she is seventy eight years of age, that she is the sister of Edward Williams of said Charleston that they were brought up together and mentioned her mar- riage in the year 1775, up to the present time they have lived near neighbors to each other in said town of Westerly & Charleston & within a short distance of 2 or 300 yards West, which adjoins the sea in said Charleston, on which West for a long time during the Revolu- tionary war there was a military redoubt or a field piece & a military guard kept against the enemy; the deponent remembers that the said Edward in the revolution belonged to Captain Park's company of the militia in said Charleston & that he was from time to time called into the

service against the enemy on the shores of said Charleston. Particular- ly that he served as a guard at the guard house on said Wick for a long time in the revolution as she then well understood from her said brother & others of the family of neighbors but exactly how long he served she has not the means of ascertaining from facts within her own knowledge - & this service she understood at the time of service was in Col. Woy's Regt.
This deponent also remembers that her said brother was several times absent from said Charlestown for considerable periods in the revolution when it was said by the family neighbors he was in the service some times on the Island of N. Island & some times on the shores of South Kingston in said County.
Before Court
State of Rhode Island Washington County ss. Town of Wick July 13 th 1834 - Personal

appeared before me, Desire Gavit, who gave & subscribed the foregoing deposi- tion & was by me duly sworn to the same according to law. I further certify that the said Desire is well known to me, that she is well known to me , that she is a credible witness & that her testimony is entitled to credit.
Benjamin Gavit Justice Peace

Declaration.
In order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress, passed June 7 th A.D. 1832. State of Rhode Island - Washington County ss.
On this 7 th day of October 1834 personally appeared in open court, before the judges or justices of the Court of Probate now sitting in the town of Charles- town in the County of State aforesaid Edward Miller, a resident of said Charlestown, aged seventy four 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 7 th 1832. That he entered the service of the United States under the following named Officers & served as herein stated. That is to say.
In March 1775, when this declarant was a member and only sergeant of the first Company of militia in said town of Charlestown of which, at that time, Thomas Sheffield was Captain, twelve men, of whom this declarant was one, were detached from the Company and instituted a guard & stationed at the military post, on Inanacoung Neck in said Charlestown, where there was a guard house & field piece, to watch & guard against the enemy to watch & guard against the enemy from the Western line of said town of Charlestown round upon the sea shore to Charlestown Beach, so called, a distance of between four & five miles; when under the different officers of the aforesaid company & in Col. Warr's Regt this declarant served in and at the head of said guard against the enemy from the time of the establishment thereof in March 1775 till into the month of August A.D. 1777, a period of full eighteen months. He thinks that John Darks in the Spring of 1777 succeeded the said Sheffield as Captain of the aforesaid first Company & continued Captain then of said Company as this declarant was a member of the company.
Between the 26 th & 28 th of In Sept r 1777 he was at said Charlestown drafted from the aforesaid mentioned first company & marched round by the way of Providence to Swan town in the County

of Newport. State of Rhode Island, when near Howland's ferry in the grade of a private he served out thereon for which he was dis- charged under the thinks, Capt. Thomas Thompson of the the militia in the adjoining town of Westerly, in Col. Woy's Regt.
Between the month of Novr 1777 and May 1778 he was at said Charlestown three several times drafted from the said for a company, first, for a period of two months, which he served out at Point Judith in South Kingston in the afore- said county of Washington guarding against the enemy there and in Col. Woy's Regt. in the grade of order- ly sergeant.
Secondly, for a period of one month which he served mostly on Boston Neck & partly on Town hill in said South Kingston against the enemy - under under Col. Major Sheffield in the grade of sergeant.
Thirdly for a period of one month, which he ser- ved out in the grade of orderly sergeant at the ten Rod Road in North King- ton in said County of Washington in Col. Mather's Regt. The three last upon having done of service he performed under the different officers of said three company, who were, he thinks, during their service Capt. Park, Capt. Hoxie, Lieut. and Babcock Ensign.
Some time in May or June he thinks, of 1778, he joined an Independent Company of Infantry in said Charlestown of which Stephen Hatten was Captain and in May 1778 he volunteered under the said Capt. Hatten and was marched the way of Providence & Bristol on to the Island of R. Island, where he served in the grade of orderly sergeant a period of two months in Col. Woy's Regt. he thinks.
In the Spring of 1780 he was at said Char- lestown drafted for a term of service of one month and ordered under Capt. Wells of the militia of the neighboring town of Hopkinton and onto the Island of

As I stand when in the town of Newport where he served out said term in the grade of ordinary sergeant, guarding against the enemy there at the end of which he was discharged, and then at said Newport immediately after his said discharge he volunteered under the said Capt. Mills & performed there against the enemy in the grade of ordinary sergeant another term of service of two months under Col. Rogers or Col. Greene.
This declarant also performed between the commencement of the year 1777 & the close of the Revolution many short terms of service from five to thirty days each, guarding against enemy which all of them amount to at the "six" months in Col. Westley's Regt. on the shores of Charleston and Westley. Mostly in the grade of sergeant. — And the said Richard Williams declares that he faithfully served out all his appointments and periods of service & he further declares that he was born, as he has been informed by his parents & he believes, in said adjoining  adjoining  Charleston  Westley on the 27th day of Decr.  Jan. 1750. That he has no period of near birth or age; that he has always from his birth (except in the year 1788, — 9 that he resided in the adjoining town of Westley) resided in said town of Charleston.
That he does not remember ever to have received any written discharge from any of his said services; but that he was a voluntary discharged by them from by his own free will. That he has no documentary evidence of any of his said services; that he is not acquainted with any other person residing in his vicinity; but he refers to Robert Hazard & Samuel Stanton of said Charleston his neighbours.

who testify to his his character for veracity and their belief of his services as a soldier of the Revolution and to the accompanying dispositions -
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity, except the present, and declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of the agency of any state.
Taken Subscribed & sworn to in open Court before the Court aforesaid. Edward W. Wilson Witness Samuel Stanton B. Clerk.
We Robert Hazard & Samuel Stanton in Charleston in the county of Washington & state of Rhode Island hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Edward Wilson, who has subscribed & sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be seventy four years of age; that he is reported & believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution & that we concur in that opinion.
Taken Subscribed and sworn to in open Court before the Court aforesaid. Robt. Hazard Samuel Stanton.
And the court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter & after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier & served as he states. And the court further certify that it appears to them that Robert Hazard & Samuel Stanton who signed the preceding certificates are residents of said town of Charleston, that they are persons of veracity & that their statement is entitled to credit.
I Samuel Stanton Clerk of the aforesaid Court of Probate do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Edward Wilson for a pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand and Seal of office this 17 th day of October. 1834.
Samuel Stanton Probate Clerk.

Supplemental Declaration.
Edward Wilcox of Charlestown in the County of Washington & State of Rhode Island, as Supplemental to, & Explanatory of his Original declaration made by him before the Court of Probate of said Town of Charlestown on the 27 th day of October 1834 in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832, On Oath now he 4 th day of January AD 1836 at Charlestown aforesaid Court of Probate further declares on Oath that as he stated in his said Original Declaration, he performed one Month's Service in the grade of a Private at Tiverton in September 1777 under Captain Thompson in Col. Noyes' Regiment but he is now convinced upon more mature consideration that his eighteen months Service mentioned in his Original declaration at the head of the Guard, in the grade of orderly Sergeant on Quoniamtuxet Neck in said Charlestown, did not commence in March 1776, and terminate in August 1777; but that it commenced in October 1777 just after his aforesaid Service at Tiverton while he was yet a member of the first Company of Militia in said Charlestown commanded by Captain Barks; and not by Captain Sheffield, and continued until May 1779: with the exception of one month, and not two months, as he then his is mistakenly stated in his original declaration, which he served on Rhode Island at Sullivan's Expedition in August 1778. That his two months Service at Point Judith in the grade of Sergeant in Colonel Noyes' Regiment, his one month's Service partly on Boston Neck and partly on Tower Hill under Major Sheffield in the grade of Sergeant, and his one Month's Service in North Kingstown in the grade of Sergeant under Colonel Noyes, and all with Captain Barks, and under Drafts from said first Company were not as he supposed in his original Declaration, performed between November 1777 and May 1778; but they were performed between the month of May 1779 and January 1780. This Declarant further says he is satisfied upon reflection that he belonged to, and owed to be a member of the Independent Company commanded by Major Stanton, previous to any of his aforesaid Services; that all his Services stated in his original Declaration as performed on the Island of Rhode Island in 1780 are correct as therein set forth; except he belonged when they were performed to Captain Barks' Company, and that they were performed under Colonel Noyes, or Colonel Church; he also says that his last item of General Services which he claims in his original declaration as amounting altogether to six months, were he now thinks per-

performed between the month of June 1779 and the close of the Revolutionary War, not in Colonel Hoyer's, but Col Mayson's Regiment. Now this Declarant avers that he actually performed all his aforesaid services in defence of his country, that said Guard at Quoniamtague neck, this Declarant well understood at the time it was instituted, though he never has seen the Law, was authorized by some act of the General Assembly, to be established under the superintendence of Colonel Hoyer, who was then Colonel of the first Regiment in this King; but now the County of Washington. That for all his aforesaid services he was paid as other Troops were paid, and had Rations the same; and in fact that he himself actually drew from the Quarter-master, Benjamin Neill at Colonel Hoyer's Head Quarters the Rations for said Guard, at the head of which he served as before stated; and although he knows of no person now living who served with him on said Guard, yet he cannot but think that the War Department will, upon mature consideration, when they are satisfied that these services were authorized, (which they certainly must have been) see that his services are fully proved as could reasonably be expected after a lapse of nearly sixty years which have passed away since they were performed. He finally declares that he verily believes all his aforesaid services are of a duration and character fully recognized by Law.
Taken Subscribed and Sworn to in open Court. Edward Wilson Witness. Samuel Stanton Clerk of the Court of Probate of the Town of Charlestown.
We Joseph Croft (of Gideon) and Samuel Berry Jr of Charlestown in the County of Washington & State of Rhode Island,
hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Edward Wilson who has Subscribed and Sworn to the above Supplemental Declaration, that we believe him to be Seventyfive years of age; that he is respected in the Neighbourhood where he resides as that a Soldier of the Revolution.
Taken, Subscribed & Sworn to in open Court Witness - Samuel Stanton Clerk of the Court of Probate of the Town of Charlestown  Joseph Croft of Gideon  Samuel Berry Jr 
And 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 that he is a person of Respectability & veracity. And the Court further certify that it appears to them that Joseph Croft (of Gideon) and Samuel Berry Jr

Who have signed the foregoing Certificate are Residents of Charlestown aforesaid.
and are Credible persons, and that their Statement is Entitled to credit.
I Samuel Stanton Clerk of the said Court of Probate, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the Original proceedings Supplemental proceedings of the said Court in the mat- ter of the Application of Edward Wilcox for a Pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the Seal of said Court this 4 th day of January A D 1836.
Samuel Stanton. Clerk of the Court of Probate of the Town of Charlestown.

Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873.
11.519 P. O. Edward Wilcox
Service: _____
REJECTED
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Con
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 1

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Mr P. Hendle
Kingston
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State of Rhode Island & Providence Plantations
Washington County ss.
I, Samuel Hulme Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of this County & State aforesaid do hereby certify that on the tenth day of October 1832 Hoxie Perry was a justice of said Court of Common Pleas duly commissioned qualified and that Signature annexed to the preceding certificate regarding Thomas Brightman I believe to be the proper hand writing of the said Hoxie Perry that Benjamin Gavit was on the Thirteenth day of June 1834 a justice of the Peace in and for said County of Washington duly commissioned and qualified and that Signature annexed to the preceding certificate regarding Darius Gavit and Samuel Champlin I believe to be the proper hand writing of the said Benjamin Gavit. that Job Taylor was on the Eighth day of October and the Sixteenth day of November 1834 a justice of the peace in and for said County of Washington duly commissioned and qualified and those Signatures annexed to the preceding certificates regarding Sanford Noyes Henry Babcock and John Johnson. I believe to be the proper hand writings of the said Job Taylor and that Asa Church on the Ninth day of October 1834 was a justice of the Peace in and for said County of Washington duly commissioned and qualified & that Signature annexed to the preceding Certificate regarding Joseph Stanton I believe to be the proper hand writing of the said Asa Church

In Testimony whereof I have I. have hereunto set my hand & Affixed the Seal of said Court of Common pleas this fifteenth day of December 1834
Edward Wilson
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Sam. Helme D r

Newport May 11 th 1835
Mr. Bane requested to write you a line relative to the Pardon application of Edward Willcox of Star Astoria, in this State - since you let me know the situation or fate of it - what kind of a case he has made out, I know not, but from the responsibility of the man, I am fully persuaded he would not have applied for a pardon if he has not supposed himself well entitled to it - very respectfully your obedient servt
J. H. Edwards, Eda.      Arthur J. Bane Pardon Commissioner

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Edward Wilson R.I.D
W. J. Newell Esq Kingston R.I.D

I James Clark of Otis in the County of Berkshire & Commonwealth of Massachusetts aged seventy years testify & say that I am acquainted with Edward Wilcox of Charlemont in the state of Rhode Island. I was a soldier of the Revolution & was drafted as a Militiaman at Charlemont aforesaid in the month of April 1781. Immediately on being drafted joined the Company commanded by Capt. Dicks the said Edward Wilcox was a member of said Company & was the ordinary Sergeant in said Company how long said Wilcox served in the Revolutionary war I do not know & further I say not.
James Clark
Commonwealth of Massachusetts,
Berkshire ss - June 20 th 1835
Then the above named James Clark appeared & made oath to the truth of the above affidavit by him subscribed, & I further certify that I am well acquainted with the said James Clark & that he is a credible witness.
Lester F. Kelley Justice of the Peace
Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Berkshire ss. I, Wm. S. D. Nichols Clerk pro tempore of the Judicial Court for the County of Berkshire, certify that Lester F. Kelley Esq. before whom the foregoing Deposition was executed, is now living on the 20 th day of June instant a Justice of the Peace duly Commissioned & qualified, & that the above signature purporting to be his is genuine. The testimony whereof a hand hereunto is now hereunto subscribed the seal of the Court of Common Pleas this twenty eighth day of June A.D. 1835. Wm. S. D. Nichols Clerk pro tempore

Samuel Champlin of Westerly in the County of Washington & State of Rhode Island, on Catb deposeth and saith, he is seventy seven years of age, that the military guard which he has here before testified was kept up on Quonontaugue neck in Charlestown in the County of Washington, on which Edward Miller served a long time in the revolution, this defendant thinks was first established some time in the year 1777 and continued, he thinks till the enemy finally evacuated the Island of Rhode Island, which according to his recollection was the latter part of year 1779 — Samuel Champlin
State of Rhode Island, on this 18 th day of March 1836. Washington ss. 2. Personally appeared Samuel Champlin and swore and subscribed the preceding affidavit before me; I further certify that the above Champlin is personally well known to me, that he is a person of veracity, and that his testimony is entitled to credit.
Demas Akbavit Justice Peace

Washington Sc. State of Rhode Island re
I Powell Helme Clerk of the Supreme Judicial Court of the County and State aforesaid, do hereby certify that Benjamin Dorr Esquire whose signature in his own proper hands writ- ing is annexed to the preceding certificate regarding Samuel Bloomfield, was on the Eighteenth day of March at the time of his said signature a justice of the Peace in and for said County duly commissioned and qualified In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal affixed the seal of said Court this 17th day of May 1836
Powell Helme Clk.

State of Rhode Island & Providence Plantations. Secretary's Office April 25. A D 1836.
I certify that at the session of the General Assembly of said State, then Colony, held in May seventeen hundred seventy six Joseph Noyes was elected Colonel of the first regiment of militia in Kings County: and so continued until May seventeen hundred seventy nine, when he was superceded:
That at the session in May seventeen hundred & seventy nine, Jesse Mason was elected Lieutenant Colonel of said Regiment until for one year: That in May seventeen hundred & eighty the said Mason was elected Lieut. Col. Commandant of said Regiment, and so continued until after May seventeen hundred eighty three.
That at the session in May seventeen hundred & seventy eight, Thomas Sheffield was elected Major of said regiment for one year.
That in May seventeen hundred seventy seven, John Parks was elected Captain of the first company of Militia in the town of Charlestown in said County and so continued until after May seventeen hundred & eighty one.
That in May seventeen hundred & eighty, Nathaniel Church was elected Lieut. Col. Commandant of the Second Regiment of Militia in the County of Newport, for one year: all which appears of record in this office.
Henry Bowen Secy

State of Rhode Island & Providence Plantations. In General Assembly September session A D 1777.
It is voted and resolved, That the Colonels or other Field officers commanding in the Counties of King's County and Kent, forthwith call forth as many of the Militia and Alarm Men, in addition to those already doing duty, as they shall judge proper; in order that such suitable Guards be placed upon the Shores in said counties as will prevent any persons going upon any of the Islands in possession of the Enemy.
True copy - witness
Henry Bowen Secy.

BY HIS EXCELLENCY,
John Brown Francis
Governor, Captain-General and Commander in Chief of the State of Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations.
BE IT KNOWN, that the name " HENRY BOWEN " to the aforesaid written attestation subscribed, is the proper hand writing of Henry Bowen, Esquire, who, at the time of subscribing the same, was Secretary of the State aforesaid, duly elected and qualified according to law: Wherefore unto his said attestation, full faith and credit are to be rendered.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of said State to be affixed at Providence, this twenty fifth day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty- six and of Independence the sixty-eth.
John Brown Francis
BY HIS EXCELLENCY'S COMMAND.
Henry Bowen Secy

Thomas Brightman Minister

I Thomas Brightman, of Hopkinton, in the County of Washington, an Eighty one years of age, during the war of the American Revolution, I knew Edward Wilcox now an Applicant for a Pension, in the Fall of the year 1777, I was called out as a Militia Soldier to do duty with the Company, to which I belonged, of which then was George Thurston was Captain, and marched round to Trenton, to join the Forces under General Spencer, who it was our meditated meeting, a landing on the Island of Rhode Island to take the same from the Enemy, I was detained on this expedition, at most as one month, and I saw the said Edward Wilcox, doing duty as a private, in a company of Militia from Charlestown, which belonged to Col. Foster's Regiment of Artillery, and I know that he served as a private, at most as only 1 month, at the time aforesaid - Thomas X Brightman mark witness Sylvester G. Shearn -
Washington L. Octob 10th 1892 -
Personally appeared the undersigned, the above named Thomas Brightman, and just being duly sworn, gave the foregoing deposition, which was reduced to writing in his presence, and of him acknowledged in my full hearing -
Hoosie Berry Justice C. C. Blear

John Johnston of Charlestown in the County of Washington & State of Rhode Island on oath deposith & saith that he is seventy two years of age, that in the Spring and summer of 1780, this deponent under detach- ment from the first company of mili- tia in said town of Charlestown  Charlestown to which he then belonged, was  was assigned guarding against the enemy on the Island off Island in the town of Wickford  Wickford City vicinity a period of two months of the summer last when he arrived on the Island he found there  there in the service Edward Willcox of said Charle- stown in the grade of Sergeant & that the said Willcox continued in said service & grade until he was discharged sometime after this deponent arrived on the Island. But how long the said Willcox continued, this deponent cannot say as he does not know how long he the said Willcox had been there in the service before this deponent arrived on the Island. This

deponent during the Revolution - long been performed a term of ser- vice time of about one month as the for the Road was  was  against  against the enemy in the  service  service - but the said William in this de- an in the grade  rank of sergeant. This deponent also knows that the said William has long been reported to have performed much service in the grade of sergeant against the enemy in the War of the Revolution at Lenoir's Nack in said town of Sher- leston. John Johnson
State of Rhode Island Washington County ss. Town of Charlestown Nov. 17 th 1832 -
Personally appeared the above named deponent John Johnson before me and acknowledged the foregoing deposition to be true and duly sworn according to law. I further certify that the said John Johnson is well known to me to be a credible person & that his testimony is entitled to credit. Job Taylor Justice Peace

Joseph Stanton of Charleston in the County of Washington & State of Rhode Island on the said he is sixty seven years of age That James Kenyon late of said Charleston but now deceased was the near wife born of him known to this deponent. The said Kenyon was in his life time an official for a pension under the act of July 15th of 1832. & since the said Kenyon's demise his children have received a pension certificate on his account. And this deponent further says, that he has repeatedly heard the said Kenyon say in his life time that he the said Kenyon and Edward Willcox of said Charleston, served together in the militia against the enemy on the Island of Rhode Island.

in the Revolutionary War. And this deponent thinks the said Kenyon also said the said Willson his serving was in the grade of a Sergeant. This deponent also says that the said Kenyon was a man of strict veracity. This deponent is also acquainted with the said Willson & knows that both the said Willson & Kenyon resided in said Charleston during the years of the Revolution.
Joseph Stanton

State of Rhode Island Washington County ss. This 9 th day of Octr. 1834 -
Personally appeared Joseph Stanton the whom named deponent, who before me gave & subscribed the fore- going deposition. He was by me sworn sworn to the same according to law. I also certify that the said Stanton is well known to me, that he a person of veracity & that his testimony as is entitled to credit. Asa Church Justice Peace

Henry Babcock of Westerly in the County of Washington & State of Rhode Island in acknowledges saith he is seventy five years of age; That he served at Sullivan's Expedition on the Island of Rhode Island in August & September 1778 in Col. Woy's Regt and remembers that Edward Willcox served there at the same time against the enemy - The said Willcox during the Revolution lived in the town of Charlestown in the aforesaid County where he then resides - This deponent further says, that during the Revo- lution thinks he knew the said Willcox in the service against the enemy at Boston Neck & Point - He also in Col. Woy's Regt in said County & also on the shores of said Charlestown & Westerly, he knew the said Will cox much in the service guarding against the enemy in Col. Woy's Regt but it is not in his power now more partic- ularly to define that the servi- ces of the said Willcox -
Henry his + Babcock Mark

State of R. Island - Washington
County ss. October 8 th 1834 -
Personally appeared the aforementioned deponent Henry Babcock; and before me gave & subscribed the preceding deposition swearing me that only seven according to law - I also certify that the said Babcock is known to me, that he is a credible wit- ness & that his testimony is entitled to credit.
Job Taylor Justice Peace

Sanford Wayes of Westerly in the County of Washington State of Rhode Island do hereby saith that he is now acquainted with seventy three years of age; that he is now ac- quainted with Edward Willcox of Charlestown in the aforesaid County was so acquainted with the said Willcox during the war of the Revolution I remember that the said Willcox belonged to a milita- ry guard which was in the habit of kept up a long time during the Revolution at Luan a company West in said town of Charles- town - How long the said Will- cox served on said guard this deponent is not able to say: but he remembers that for a long time said Willcox had quarters at Col Wayes in the adjoining town of Westerly He distributed the provis- ions for said guard. This deponent also remembers that he & the said Willcox were together at the taking of a Schooner called the Butler Schooner, which came

a Shore was taken at Woyis Beach in the town of Westerly. during the Revolution - said Schoon er was laded with provisions for the British Army - which we took & Hand - And his opponent the said and Willcox was served to gether at dinner other times during the Revolution on the Shores of said Westerly against the enemy landed in taking saving several other vessels than the one aforementioned. - Sanford Noyes
State of Rhode Island - Washington County ss. October 8 th 1834 - Personally appeared Sanford Noyes the above named affirmant ; who before me gave & subscribed the preceding deposition & was by me sworn duly sworn according to law - Further certify that the said Woyis is more known to me than he is person of usual credit. His testimony is entitled to credit.
Job Taylor Justice Peace

Rhode Island Edward Wilcox
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Samuel Chapman of Westerly in the county of Washington & State of Rhode Island, on oath deposeth & saith that he is seventy five years of age; that he is acquainted with Edward Willson of Charlestown in said county, that he was well acquaint- ed with the said Willson in the ward of the revolution & knows that he belonged to the militia in said Charle- stown & he thinks to Capt. Park's com- pany in Col. Woy's Regt. This depo- nent also remembers that there was a very long time in the revolution a guard house a field piece & a militia of a guard kept up on Quonquontaug Wick near the sea in said town of Charlestown, that the said Will- son was of that guard & service and performed service there a long time against the enemy; the guard in which the said Willson served this deponent does not know, other wise than, he remembers well that he drew provisions at Col. Woy's in said Westerly adjoining said Charlestown from said guard & dealt out the rations to the soldiers. The

for like period or amount of the said Willcox term - This deponent can not state. In the revolutionary war the said Willcox lived in said Charleston & this deponent in said Westerly a little over one mile apart & that a short distance from said Westerly Mark. Samuel Champlin
State of Rhode Island Washington County ss. Town of Westerly. June 13 th 1834 - Personally same Samuel Champlin, who gave that described the the preceding depon- tion & was by me duly sworn to the same. I also certify that I am acquainted with the said Cham- plin; that he is a credible witness & that his testimony is intended to endure. Remajad Gadih Justice Peace

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
NAME Willcox, Elias GRADE Sergeant LINE Lamb's Artillery (New York)
WARRANT NUMBER 8046 ACREAGE 100 ISSUED July 14, 1790 to Richard Peatt, assignee
*The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800. Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.