Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 13847, for Thomas Remington, Rhode Island

SERVICE
NUMBER _____
R. l
Remington, Thomas Mary
W 13847
CONTENTS

Warwick June 9 th 1796 This may certify all whom it may concern that Thomas Reminton son of Thomas Reminton and Mary Wood Daughter of William Wood both of Warwick were lawfully married the day and year above said in the presents of friends and neighbors by me Charles Holden Elder

Recorded in Winton in the Second book for Recording Marriages No. By James Francis N. G.

3466.
Rhode Island.
Mary Remington, dec'd widow of Thomas Remington.
who died on the 19 th January 1831 of Providence, Co. in the State of R. Island who was a Private in the Comp y commanded by Captain Rice R.I. of the Reg t commanded by Col: Waterman, in the Rhode Island line for 6 mos — R.I.
Inscribed on the Roll of Rhode Island at the rate of 20 Dollars — Cents per annum, to commence on the 4 th day of March, 1831. to 29 th March 1837—
Certificate of Pension issued the 1 st day of Nov r 1840 — and sent to Benj m Cowee, Providence, R.I.
Arrears to the 4 th of 29 March 1837 $121:25 Semi-annual allowance ending payable to Charles, Daniel, & H m Remington, only surviving children of said deceased. —
{ Revolutionary Claim, Act July 4, 1836, Section the 3 d }
Recorded by W m C. Lutzinger, Clerk Book C — Vol. 1 — Page 70

William Westinghouse

State of Rhode Island County of Providence ss On this 29 day of October AD 1836 personally appeared before me Benjamin Correll Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas with & for the County of Providence Mary Remington a resident in Cranston in said County aged 78 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 passed July 4 th 1836 That she is the widow of Thomas Remington who was a a soldier of the revolution army that in said war time he resided in Warwick in the County of Kent & was enrolled in the Militia in Col John Watermans regiment & in Capt Thomas Rice Company & she believes he served in several campaigns but at this distant period of time she cannot specify the times & places of his service she must therefore refer to the evidence of witnesses who in knew him to his service, she believes her husband did a great deal of service during the war

And she further declares that she was married to her husband the said Thomas on the 7 th of June A D 1778 as will ap- pear by the original certificate hereto annexed which has been in her possession ever since her said Marriage - That her husband the said Thomas Remington died on the 19 of January A D 1831. and that she has remained unmarried ever since that period wherefore she requests that the pension which would have belonged to her said husband may be extended to her Attest Berya Lowre Mary Remington Mark
I do hereby certify that I have been admitted a member of the Baptist Church in Cranston Oct 29 1836 and I further certify her age and infirmary she is unable to attend Court
Buya Louie 6 of 666

May 18th 1878

I Mary Bennett of Warwick in the County of Kent and State of Rhode Island &c. being now eighty four Years of age on oath do testify and say that Thomas Remington formerly of Warwick aforesaid and the husband of Mary Remington, was my brother I well remember that said Thomas Remington and my husband Joseph Bennet were Soldiers together in the War of the Revolution and I now distinctly recollect that they went off together one morning to Warwick Neck in Capt. Thomas Rice's Company and were gone one Month they had been drafted and were obliged to go, said Thomas and my husband were both privates in said Company and served a month. This one Month's service of my brother Thomas Remington I well remember and accord- -ing to my best recollection was in the Spring of 1777 my brother Thomas has been dead a number of Years
Warwick Sept. 15th 1837 Signed Mary X Bennett her mark
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year last above written before me And I further testify that the said Mary Bennett is a credible witness —
My Brother Justice Court Com- mon Pleas County of Kent

file N. file 13847 Rev. War.
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
Bureau of Pensions,
Washington, D. C.,
7
In reply to your request for a statement of the military history + of Thomas Remington , 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. STATE.   CAPTAIN. COLONEL.     Sum. 75 2 mos. Reuben Whitman R. I.   Jany 76 1 " "   77 4 " Thos. Rice John Waterman   78 4 " " "   79 4 " " "  
Battles engaged in, none mentioned.
Residence of soldier during war at enlistment, Warwick, R. I.
Date of widow's application for pension, Oct. 29, 1836
Her Residence at date of application, Cranston Providence Co. R. I.
" Age at date of application, 78 yrs -
Remarks: Sol. mar June 2, 1778 Mary dau. of Wm Wood Sol d. Jany 19, 1831 - his died March 29, 1837 at Cranston. + her pension was paid to Charles, Daniel & William Remington, only surviving children.  Modestus for John Bennett of Warwick R. I.

(MT 42)
Date Aug. 23, 1921
Name Thos. Remington No. W. File 13847 U.S. Troops. War Dept.
Photographic copies wanted of 1 pieces, consisting of 1 pages.
Remarks: _____ A. Nelson Ext. 244 Chief Record Div.
Serial _____ Law Clerk. No. _____

3357 Mrs. Mary Remington's heirs late wid. of Thomas Set. to Benj m Cowell July 6 th , 1838.

Marriage record
Sto Penugton W13847

Providence March 14 1858
Sir
I herewith enclose the application of the children of Mary Remington widow of Thomas formerly a soldier in the War of the Revolution, for the arrears of pension - It will be seen that she herself made an application in her life time but departed this life before thewidowhood was completed
I am respectfully yours -
Benjamin
J. L. Edwards Esq

Providence Nov 12 1840
Sir your letter of July 6, 1838 respecting the claim of Mary Remington, widow of Thomas Remington was duly received. I did not answer it because I was in hopes of finding further testimony for there was no doubt he did a great deal of service. The Mi- litia were by law required to serve every third month & Thomas Remington lived in a shore town (Warwick) & one of the most exposed to the incursions of the enemy. But the survivors of the Regiment are most all dead & no better hard testimony can be expected. The law, & all the circumstances, however, consider- rate the evidence of it. Miller who is among the few who retains his mind unimpaired by time. And as a further

corroboration of his testimony, I have now found his name on an old Roll of Capt Rives containing a return of Arms &c which by law they were required to do after every term of duty. This Roll I now enclose. I found it myself among Capt Rives papers and it corroborates of the Miller who testifies Remington belonged to his Company a greater part of the time. Mrs Remington is now dead, a certificate of which fact & the names of her children are now in the pension office. The evidence of Miller is also corroborated by Betsy Carpenter & Mrs Bennett - All I have to ask is that whatever is right may be allowed
may be allowed I am respectfully yours Betsy Lowell
J L Edwards Esq

Nathan Miller
75. May. Capt. Whitman Warwick Neck — 208 " Aug " " Lindsey — 15- " Dec. " " Warwick Neck 1. c 76 Jan " " Prudence 1. c " Feb " " Warwick 1. c 77 Jan " Rose Warwick 1. c " May. " " 1- " Aug " " 1. a " Nov. " " 1 c & in 78 & 79 four mo. same place each year 8-

O.M.Y.
15-667
East-Springfield N.B.C May 14 1906
Commissioner of Pensions
In the name of Thomas Remington of Warwick R.I. on the Pension roll of Rev-Soldier Please let me know
Yours
Mrs Mary E. Walradt- Cooperstown New York N.Y.D. Nos -
Also John Bennett of Warwick R.I.

BUREAU OF PENSIONS Finance Division
Aug. 25 1921
Chief Rev. War Sec.
Sir:
I have this day received from Eben Putnam draft  cash No. _____ for $ 15 / 100 photostat copy requesting post office addresses as per letter herewith.
Laws Div. noted of mailing of copies Aug. 25 1921 AW
Very respectfully C. J. Randall Chief of Division.

✓ OW Cash 15¢ recd. from Ellen Putnam Wellesley Farms, Mass., for copy of one page from Rev War claim of Mary widow of Thomas Pennington, R.I. Troops, W. 7. 13847-
Proctor Jan 8/22/21

Rev
WIDOW, &c.
File No. 13847
Mary Remington Widow of Thomas Remington Pro Recd War
Act: July 4th 86
Index:—Vol. M , Page 155
[Arrangement of 1870.]
1906 May 21 - History to Mrs. M. E. Y. Walradt - 4
1921. Aug. 23. Photostat of mss. cit. mailed Eben Putnam, Wel- lesley Farms, Mass.

I Benjamin Carpenter of Warwick in the County of Kent being now in my 77 th year of age on oath do testify & say that I was well acquainted with Thomas Remington formerly of said Warwick & the husband of Mary Remington. In 1778. we were both of us en
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 afore-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 Provi- dence, this thirteenth day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty- eight and of Independence the sixty- second
John Brown Francis
By His Excellency's Command.
Henry Bowen Secy

I Nathan Miller of Warwick in the County of Kent and State of Rhode Island w. being now eighty six Years of Age on oath do testify and say that I was well acquainted with Thomas Remington late of said Warwick the husband of Mary Remington from the time he was Fourteen Years of age up to the time of his Death. I well Remember his having served in the War of the revolution I served with him the following tours in the summer of 1775 I served with him in Cap t . Reuben Whitman's Company twenty days at Warwick Neck in the Months of May & June & carried our provisions from home with us. Also at Quidnessett Neck in the Town of North Kingston fifteen days in the month of August; and also one month in December of the same Year at Warwick Neck which was all under Cap t . Reuben Whitman. The next tour of duty he performed was in the month of January 1776  at  one  month on the Island of Prudence. I served with him and in the same Company as before one month in October at Warwick Neck. In December 1776 I joined the Kentish Guards and continued in said Corps until the end of the War but I know said Thomas served in Thomas Rice's Company. In the Year 1777. he served four months in said Thomas Rice's Company and Col d . John Waterman's Regiment at Old Warwick and Quarters at the Old Castle I well recollect that the first was the month of January and.

was placed under Capt. Rice, one month in May one in August and one in October or November. Also in 1778 he served four months in the same company at the same place. And as near as I can specify them one month in February or March one in June one in August and one in the Winter afterwards. Also in the Year 1779 he served four months in the same company and was stationed a part of the time at Old Warwick and a part at Newport the first month in March one in June and one in August at Newport one in the Winter after- wards and froze his feet at Old Warwick all in the same company he was in the service much more but it is out of my power to spec- -ify anything further than the services already mentioned and described. Our companies were frequently stationed together & I know of his serving I was well acquainted with him from a boy.
Warwick March 9th 1832
Signed. Nathan Miller
State of Rhode Island & County of Kent ss
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and above written before me. And I further certify that the said Nathan Miller is a credible witness in the premises.
My Order Justice Court Commrs Pleas County of Kent

I Benjamin Carpenter of Warwick in the County of Kent being now in my 77 th year of age on oath do testify & say that I was well acquainted with Thomas Remington formerly of said Warwick & the husband of Mary Remington. In 1778. we were both of us en- rolled in Capt. Thomas Rines Company of Militia & Col. Holden's regiment & we both served a month in August of that year stationed on Rhode Island - I also re- member that we served together another month stationed at Warwick neck. This was in the Spring in April or May 1778 before the above service in Sullivan's expedition which was in August - we were in the same Company & regi- ment
Benjamin Carpenter
Sworn to & Subscribed before me. I certify the deponent to be a creditable Witness
John Brown Jr. Clerk
[Handwritten signature]

State of Rhode Island & Providence Plantations.
City of Providence, sc;
Municipal Court of the City of Providence in the County of Providence, and State aforesaid, (being a Court of Record.)
February 27 th A.D. 1838.
Be it Remembered, that Satisfactory testimony is produced before said Court, that Thomas Remington late of Cranston in said County, who was a soldier of the Revolution, intermarried with Mary Wood daughter of William Wood, on the seventh day of June A.D. 1778. That they continued to live together, as man and wife, until the nineteenth day of January A.D. 1831, when the said Thomas died, leaving the said Mary his widow. That on the twenty-ninth day of October A.D. 1836, the said Mary made an application for a pension from the United States, under the Act of Congress of July 4 th 1836, and continued to live a widow afterwards, until her death, which took place on the 29 th day of March A.D. 1837, at said Cranston.
And be it also remembered, that Satisfactory testimony is also produced before said Court, that when said Mary died she left the following-named children only living, and who are not living, whom she had by her said Husband the said Thomas, to wit: Charles Remington and Daniel Remington, now resident in said Cranston, and William Remington of Warwick in the County of Kent, in said State; and that they, the said Charles, Daniel and William are now all over twenty-one years of age.
In Attestation whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and have affixed the seal of said Court, this twenty seventh day of February A.D. 1838.
Albert Greene, Clerk

Mary Remington heirs Heirs of Mary Remington late widow of Thomas R. Island.
m 78 a 37-
adm 6 mo pr 20 $
To Charles, Daniel & Wm Remington only surviving children of Mary Remington dec. widow of Thomas R. from 24 march '31 to 29 march '37 the day of her death
Benja Combs Providence R.I.

State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.
Secretary's Office. March 13. A D 1838.
I certify that at the session of the General assembly of said State holden on the first Wednesday of May eighteen hundred thirty six Benjamin Correll was elected Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas within the County of Providence, for one year.
That on the first Wednesday of May last, William Gardner and John Brown were severally elected associate Justices of the Court of Common Pleas within the County of Kent for one year: and have been severally commissioned accordingly. as appears of record.
witness Henry Bowen Secy