Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 21055, Asa Bartlett, R.I.

SERVICE
NUMBER
R.I.
Bartlett, Asa
S 21055
carded
CONTENTS

27470 Rhode Island
Asa Bartlett
Cumberland in the State of — No 1 who was a sipher in the — comp commanded by Captain Brown of the Rig d commanded by Colo Peck — in the — No 1. time for
21 Months sipher
Enscribed on the Roll of — No 1 at the rate of 77 Dollars — Cents per annum, commence on the 4th day of March, 1834.
Certificate of Pension issued the 10 th day of June 1834 and Sintto Benj m Cowell Esq r Providence
Arrears to the 4th of Mar 1834  $231 Pens ant. allowance ending 11 th Sep r  38.50 $269.50
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by George Taylor Clerk, Book C Vol. 9 Page 138
Due to Pen Age 83 rd and 31 st May 1839.
Paid at the Treasury under the Act of the 16 th April 1838 from 4 March 1837 to 11 Sept 1838. Notified 10 June 1839.
1889 No 1. History by M m Bartlett Pen.
R R

Rhode Island District 11 County of Providence
On this 27 day of May A D 1834 personally appeared in open court being a Special District Court of the United States now in session Asa Bartlett of Cumberland in said County aged 76 years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of an act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832 viz - In answer to the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department he answers and says
To 1 st He was born in Gloucester in said County September 2 d 1759.
2 d His birth was recorded in the Town Clerks office in said Cumberland after his fathers removal from said Gloucester, which was when he was between three & four years of age —
3 d He lived in Cumberland when called into service & has always lived in said town
4 th He volunteered in manner hereafter stated.
5. He served under General Sullivan Col. Greene Pack.

6 He never received any written discharge -
7. John Butterworth Oliver Bly Rev Leonard Wakefield & George Aldrich 3 d can testify in his behalf -
And this applicant further saith that in the Spring of 1776. He volunteered & joined a Company of minute men, under the Command of Col. George Pugh as fife & continued in said corps in that capacity until the end of the war. Said corps was an Independent Corps chartered by an act of the Legislature not attached to any regiment. The Commander had the rank of Colonel. It was the duty of said corps according to its rules & regulations always to be in readiness at moments warning & during the three years the British had possession of Newport. Its duties were very arduous & constant. The first time he remembers of being called into actual service was in December A.D. 1776 when the enemy took possession of Newport. He then marched in said Company to Bristol & served there in said capacity one month & then returned. During the three succeeding years this corps was on duty according to best recollection.

one half of the time, - He cannot particularize the months or stations, but it was at Providence & below that town along the shores of Narragansett Bay all in the State of Rhode Island, He further avers that between January & December AD 1877, he served six months at least, Jim said Capt and he also remembers and avers that during this year, he served two extra months as a fife in Captain Joseph Brown's Company of Militia a month at a time on said shores - Altho he was not obliged to serve in this Company yet his father having been drafted, & said Puck Company not being called out, he went & served his father's term of a month at a time, during this year. His father was drafted as a private but he being a fife, served for him, yet continued to act in his said Company - He avers he served eight months during said year - In 1878, he served six months in said corps in like manner, & in 1879 six months He does not remember of serving any after the enemy evacuated the Island of Rhode Island

He declares that he served twenty one months during the War of the Revolution as a fifer in the Companies before mentioned for which he claims a pension. He has no documentary evidence of his services but relies on the testimony of witnesses produced.
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension except the present & declares that his name is not on the pension Roll of the agency of any State.
He further states that he remembers of serving one month in 1780 in the summer, at the time the French were on Rhode Island. This was omitted above. which makes twenty two months in all. This last service was also in said Regt company altho Edward Thompson had the Command the said Ptk having been promoted
Asa Battell
May 27 1834
Sworn to in full Court Blount Clk

sion on file in this Bureau.
Asa Bartlett Sur Life 1705-1785
   DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE.   CAPTAIN. COLONEL.     Dec. 1776 1 mo. Fifer ✓ George Pack R.I.   Aug. 1777 6 mos. " George Pack   * 1777 2 mos. Joseph Benson ✓   1778 6 mos. " George Pack   1779 6 mos. " George Pack   Summer 1780 12 mos. Edward Thompson  
* Sub. for his father whose name is not stated
Battles engaged in, ✓  Residence of soldier at enlistment, Cumberland Providence Co. R.I.  Date of application for pension, May 27. 1841. Hotel Bristol  Residence at date of application, Cumberland R.I.  Age at date of application, born at Gloucester Providence Co. Sept. 2. 1755-7  Remarks: _____

Provisions
21055
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File No. 21,055
St. Bartlett
Hyde Nov 20
Act: June 7 1896
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 25
[Arrangement of 1870.]
1900 June 11 High Lo James A. Bartlett V. Sch.

James A. Bartlett P.O. Box 73. Attleboro Mass.
Attleboro Mass. June 2 nd 1910.
Commissioner of Pensions Bureau of Pensions Washington D. C.
Gentlemen. I have been informed that you have on Record. the name of Asa Bartlett of Cum- berland. R. I. a Revolutionary soldier and Pensioner of that war.
I am his Great Grand. Son. and would like to get such Record.
Will you kindly send it to me. Yours Truly.
James A. Bartlett. attleboro mass

131194 Asa Wallette of Cumberland—
Admitted 21 Months Life
Capt Brown Colo. Peak
Benja. Cowell Esq. Providence

We Leonard Wakefield a U.S. Marshal residing in the Town of Smithfield and George Hanrich 3 d residing in Smithfield hereby certify and say that we are well acquainted with Asa Bartlett  Joseph Capron who has sub- scribed & sworn to the preceding declaration we believe him to be 78 years of age that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution & that we concur in that opinion. He has always sustained a good character for truth and veracity —
May 27 1834
Leonard Wakefield George Hanrich 3 d
Sworn to in open Court
B Lowell Atty

I John Butterworth of Cumberland in the State of Rhode Island being now 74 years of age on oath do testify and say that I am well acquainted with Asa Bartlett of said Cumberland, who was formerly a fife in Col George Packer's company of minute men in the Revolutionary war. - I believe said Asa belonged to it from the time said company was formed to the end of the war. I joined in 1777. and he then belonged to it. and I further testify that during the three years the British were in possession of Newport said Company was in active service some a great part of the time. and I well remember said Asa was always with us.
JOHN BUTTERWORTH May 16 1834
Sworn to before me and I further certify that said deponent is a credible witness in the premises
Benjamin Lowell Criminal District R.I. Dist

I Oliver Bly of Cumberland in the State of Rhode Island on oath do testify and say that I am well acquainted with Asa Bartlett of said Cumberland who is now present before me, and I further tes- tify, that we were members of an Independent Company of Minute Men, commanded by Col. George Putnam during the War of the Revolution said Asa was a fifer and I was a private He joined it before I did, I believe about a year. I joined in the Spring of 1777, and he about a year before, - During the three years the British were in possession of the Island of Rhode Island, all the Militia & Independent Companies had a great deal of active service to perform, they were all called to guard the Shores against the enemy who made frequent incursions

I should think said Corps was on duty half of the time during those years or nearly half. Said Asa who was our fifer was always with us. I do not remember that he was ever absent, and I have no doubt he served in said Corps one half of the time, from December 1776 to the fall of the year 1779.
Oliver Bly
May 16 1834 Sworn to before me and I further certify said Deposition is a credible witness in the premises
Benja Lowell
Comm't Dist Court
R.I. Dist

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after investigation of the matter & after putting the inter- rogatories, prescribed by the War Department that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary soldier and served as he states And the Court for their certifies that it appears to them that Leonard Wake- field who signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman residing in said Smithfield & that George Aldrich who also signed the same also John Buttsworth & Oliver Bly whose affidavits are annexed are resi- dents as they state & are all credible persons & their statements entitled to credit
I Benjamin Linnell Clerk of said Court do hereby cer- tify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of said Court in the matter of the application of Asa Borthwick for a pension - In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of said Court This 3 d day of June 1834
Benja Linnell Clerk

TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
Second Comptroller's Office,
June 3 d , 1839.
Sir:
Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled "An act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States," Asa Bartlett, _____ a Pensioner on the Roll of the Rhode Island Agency, at the rate of Seventy Seven Dollars and _____ Cents per annum, under the law of the 7 th June, 1832, has been paid at this Department, from the 4 th of March, 1837, to the 4 th Sept., 1838.
Respectfully, yours,
William H. Harrison Comptroller.
To the Commissioner of Pensions,
Present.