Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 12,359, Thomas Brayton, R.I.

SERVICE
R. d
Brayton, Thomas Patience
NUMBER
W. 12,359
CONTENTS

Rhode Island 676
Patience Brayton widow of Thomas Brayton
who died on the 17 August 1814 of Providence in the State of R. Island who was a private in the Company commanded by Captain Collins of the Regt t commanded by Col. Watts - in the R. Island Militia time for ten months R.I.
Inscribed on the Roll of Rhode Island at the rate of 33 Dollars 33 Cents per annum, to commence on the 14th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 30 day of March 1837 ————— and sent to Daniel Howard Esq r Foster, R.I.
Arrears to the 14th of March 1837 $ 200. — Semian. allowance ending 14 Sept r 37 16.66
$ 216.66
{ Revolutionary Claim, Act July 4, 1836, Section the 3 d }
Recorded by Book
W. Allison Clerk Vol. 1 Page 97

State of Rhode Island County of Providence ss.
On this Twenty Sixth day of December A.D. 1836,
Personally appeared Before me Daniel Hayward Associate Justice of the Court of Common Pleas within and for the said County of Providence, Patience Brayton a resident in the Town of Foster in the said County of Providence and State of Rhode Island, aged Seventy Four years, who being duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the Act of Congress passed July 4 th 1836, - That she is the Widow of Thomas Brayton who was a Soldier in the Army of the Revolution, that her said husband Thomas Brayton served in said Army at the following times and places, and under the following named Officers, according to the best of her recollection and belief, to wit: -
That he served Eight monthly tours in the Rhode Island Militia as a classman and as a substitute for others, to wit: for one David Brayton and one Stephen Burlingame , commencing in the month of December 1776, and ending in the month of August 1777, at the Town of East Greenwich, and at a place called Quidnessit in the Town of North Kingstown in the said State of Rhode Island, and served a part of said time under Captain Langford Benedict and a part of the time under Captain Benedict Colvin in Major Yeaton Wait's division, That he served one monthly tour at the Island of Rhode Island in General Sullivan's expedition, in Captain Benedict Colvin's company in the Year 1778 -
That he served one monthly tour at said Quidnessit in North Kingstown in the fall of the Year 1779, and two months at the Town of

East Greenwich and at other places in the State of Rhode Island in the fall of said Year 1779, and the winter following, and served a part of said time under Captain Langford Warren and a part of the time under Captain Benedict Colvin,
and that he served one monthly tour in the Year 1780, at the said Town of East Greenwich, in Captain Benedict Colvin's company and was there in the month of June,
And that he turned out and went and performed his duty at all times when he was called on in the General Alarms during the War, and that he went on those occasions several times, short tours.
She is unable to specify his services in the Revolutionary War in a more particular manner than as above —
She further declares, that her said husband Thomas Brayton resided in the Town of Coventry in the County of Kent and State of Rhode Island where he first entered the Revolutionary service, and continued to reside there until after the close of the War, that he afterwards removed to the Town of Pomfret in the State of Connecticut, that he removed from Pomfret to the Town of Foster in the County of Providence and State of Rhode Island in the Year 1791, and that he continued to reside in the said Town of Foster until the time of his death —
She further declares, that she was married to the said Thomas Brayton (who was then called and styled, "Thomas Brayton Junr") on the twentieth day of May in the Year 1779, and that she hath the original certificate of her marriage, to which she refers for proof. That her said husband Thomas Brayton died on the 17 th day of August in the Year 1814, and that she has remained unmarried ever since that period, and is now his Widow, all which will appear by the testimony hereto annexed, and that she has no documentary evidence in support of her claim respecting the services of her said husband, Wherefore she requests that the same pensions which might have been granted to her said husband under the Act of Congress, of June 7 th 1832, if he had been alive may be extended to her,
Sworn to and subscribed before me the day & Year aforesaid
And I further certify that the said Patience Brayton from bodily infirmity is unable to attend the Court and that from the same cause she subscribed said declaration by making her cross, in my presence —
Patience Brayton
Daniel Howard Justice of the Court of Common Pleas - County of Providence

April 23, 1935
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Thomas Brayton-W.12359 Jonathan Knight-W.13597 BA-J/AWP
Miss Annie P. Corson Derry Village New Hampshire
Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letters in which you request to be advised how the name of Abraham Yaw (Yeaw) appears in the pension record of Jonathan Knight of Rhode Island, certificate # 730, also as to a deposition of Benjamin Sweet made in the pension claim of Thomas Brayton of Rhode Island.
You are advised that this name appears in pension claim, W. 13597, based upon the Revolutionary War service of Jonathan Knight (certificate #730), as "Abraham Yaw".
In the pension claim, W. 12359, based upon the Revolutionary War service of Thomas Brayton of Rhode Island, Benjamin Sweet made a deposition in 1836, he was then aged eighty-two years and living in Coventry, Kent County, Rhode Island; he stated that he was on Rhode Island, when the British took the island of said island, and that he served in the militia from East Greenwich from early in December, 1776 until May 18, 1777.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER Executive Assistant to the Administrator

Then certify that Mr Thomas Brayton junr Son of David Brayton of Coventry Coventry and Mrs Sarah Brayton Daughter of Mr Stephen Bullingame of Coventry Coventry lawfully joined together in Marriage this twentieth day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight Hundred Twenty Nine by me Joas Johnson
The above Certificate Recorded in Coventry in the Book for Recording Marriages Births and Burials belonging to said Coventry August 30 th A.D. 1779 page 162 Witness John Rice S.C.H.
BRAYTON, THOMAS

Know All Men by these Presents That Mr Thomas Brayton Junr of Coventry in the County Kent and State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations Son of David Brayton of Said Coventry and Patience Burlingame of Coventry aforesaid Daughter of Mr Stephen Burlingame Have Declared unto me Their Intention of Marriage I Do therefore hereby make public Said Intention If any Person knows any Just Cause or Impediment Why these two Persons should not be joined together in Marriage they may declare the Same as the Law Directs Given Under my hand and Seal at Coventry aforesaid this Thirteenth Day of April In the Year of our Lord one Thousand Seven Hundred & Twenty Nine
1779
Isaac Johnson Justice of Peace

R.S.
1935 - April 23 - Miss Annie P. Corson - adv. as Ld. dep. of Benj. Sweet - curg
Rev WIDOW, &c.
File No. 12359
Patience Brayton
Wid. of
Thomas Brayton
Priv. Recv. War
Act: July 6 th  1836.
Index: - Vol. a , Page 86
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Hon. J. L. Edwards Court of Pensions
Washington City D. C.

Foster January 7 1837.
Hon ble J. L. Edwards, Commissioner of Pensions — Sir
I herewith transmit the Declaration of Mrs Patience Brayton, the Widow of Thomas Brayton late of the Town of Foster, deceased, in order for her to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the Act of Congress, passed July 4 th 1836, together with the evidence in support of her claim, including her original Certificate of her marriage with the said Thomas Brayton herewith inclosed —
Please to send her pension Certificate (in case the same is granted) or any other communications relating to her case, to me, at Mount Vernon Post Office, Foster, Rhode Island —
I am very respectfully
Your Ob t Serv t
Daniel Howard

2 I Francis Brayton of the Town of Foster in the County of Providence in the State of Rhode Island being Seventy One years of age, and duly sworn according to law do testify and say, That I was well acquainted with Thomas Brayton late of the said Town of Foster deceased, and that the said The said Thomas Brayton was a Soldier in the Army of the Revolution, and that the first knowledge I had of his services was in the Year Seventeen Hundred and Seventy Eight and that the said Thomas Brayton then lived in the Town of Coventry in said State, I came to live with his Grandfather in the Spring of the Year 1778, and lived in the same house with the said Thomas Brayton, from that time until the fourteenth day of July in the Year Seventeen Hundred and Eighty at which time I enlisted into the Continental service and went away - and I well recollect that during the time I lived there the said Thomas Brayton served several tours in the Rhode Island Militia at different places in said State during the time that I lived there, and served as much as two tours in the fall of the Year Seventeen Hundred and Seventy Nine, and the winter following. I don't particularly recollect the places where he served his tours, but he was at East Greenwich and other places in said State nor do I recollect the length of time he served each tour, but think that he was gone generally about a month at a time - he belonged at that time in Captain Benedict Colvin's Militia Company -
Francis Brayton

State of Rhode Island County of Providence } ss — In Witness whereof in said County on the twelfth day of September 1836
Personally came before me Daniel Howard Associate Justice of the Court of Common Pleas within and for said County Francis Brayton aforesaid and being first duly sworn according to law, made solemn Oath to the truth of the foregoing Affidavit by him subscribed. And I further certify that the said Francis Brayton is a credible person and entitled to full credit as a Witness, —
Daniel Howard Justice of the Court of Common Pleas County of Providence

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 Bow- en, 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 Prov-
idence, this sixth
day of January in the year of our
Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty- Six
and of Independence the sixty- first
John Brown Francis
By His Excellency's Command.
Henry Bowen Secy

State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.
Secretary's Office Jan y 6. 1837.
I certify that at the session of the General Assembly in June last Samuel Arnold was elected a Justice of the Peace for the town of Coventry in the County of Kent for and until the first Wednesday of May next, and has been commissioned accordingly, as appears of record in this office.
Witness Henry Bowen Secy.

I Stephen Greene of County County of Kent and State of Rhode Island being now 88 years of age on solemn oath do testify and say, that I was acquainted with Thomas Brayton Late of Foster Deceased, in the time of the revolutionary war, I remember his doing the following service in said war. Viz. In 1776 I was with him at Bristol R.I. and we served one month, in the summer, in Capt. Langford Weaver's company Col. Mason's regiment, In 1777 I was with him at Quidnesset, North Kingston, and we served there two months part of the time under Capt. Langford Weaver, and part of of the time under Capt. Benedict Colvin, in Major Gilmerton Walter division, I served my own tour and then took the place of Henry Johnson, and said Thomas Brayton served his own tour and then took the place of some other person, I do not recollect whose, In 1778 I was with him in Sullivan's Expedition on Rhode Island where we served one month, In 1779 I was with him at Quidnesset in North Kingston, in the fall, where we served one month, part of the time under Capt. Langford Weaver and part of the time under Capt. Benedict Colvin in Major Gilmerton-Walter division, The duty performed at Quidnesset in 1777 was in the months of June and July, And I further testify that said Thomas Brayton at the time of performing said service lived in the town of Country near what is now termed Washington village, And I further certify that I was well acquainted with Patience Brayton wife of said Thomas Brayton that her maiden name was Patience Burlingame, daughter of Stephen Burlingame Late of Country County of Kent and State of Rhode Island deceased
Stephen Greene
State of Rhode Island &c County of Kent &c
Country December 23 d 1836
Personally appeared before me, Stephen Greene, above named, and made solemn oath to the truth of the above deposition, by him signed, And I further certify, said Stephen Greene is a credible witness in the premises, and his deposition entitled to full credit
Samuel Arnold Justice of the Peace

Benjamin Sweet of the Town of Coventry in the County of Kent in the State of Rhode Island being Eighty two years of Age and engaged according to law do testify and say that I was well acquainted with Thomas Brayton late of the Town of Foster in the County of Providence in said State deceased and that the said Thomas Brayton was a soldier in the army of the Revolution the first time I saw the said Thomas Brayton in the army was at the Town of East Greenwich in the State of Rhode Island in the forepart of December 1776. I was on Rhode Island when the British took possession of said Island we left the Island and came to the town of East Greenwich the Militia were at that time clapped into three claps and were required to perform service a month at a time for each clap I served in the Militia all the time from the forepart of December 1776 until the eighteenth day of May 1777. I served my own time and the time of Michael Sweet and Jonathan Johnson. The said Thomas Brayton served the whole of the same time. he served in his own time and the time of David Brayton and Stephen Burlingame in Captain Benedict Colvins Militia Company.
I enlisted into the Continental service for three years commencing in May 1777. I further testify and say that the said Thomas Brayton served one time on Rhode Island in the year 1778. I was there the Continental service in General Sullivan's expedition I served in Captain Benedict Colvins Militia Company. The said Thomas Brayton was there. After my term of service expired in the Continental army I arrived at home about the last days of May 1780. I immediately went into the Militia service and served one month at East Greenwich in said State and the said Thomas Brayton served the same time with me. He belonged to Captain Benedict Colvins

Militia Company the said Thomas Bangs lived at the time near the place where the Washington factory (so called) was situated in this Town. he afterwards removed as I understand into the Town of Pomfret in the State of Connecticut. he afterwards removed to the Town of Foster in this State where he lived until the time of his death which happened about twenty two years since
his Benjamin X Sweet marks
State of Rhode Island County of Kent } Sc. In Coventry in the County of Kent on the Nineteenth Day of December AD 1836 Personally appeared before me Jonathan Whaley a Justice of the Peace in and for said Town of Coventry in this County Benjamin Sweet aforesaid and being first duly sworn according to law made solemn oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavit by him subscribed. I further certify that the said Benjamin Sweet is a credible person with whom I am well acquainted and that he is entitled to full credit as a witness
Jonathan Whaley Just ice peace

Wilt for Clerks Office Court of Common Pleas I Certify that Jonathan Whaley is a Justice of the peace for the Town of Coventry in said County of Wilt, that the annexed is his proper signature in his own hand writing, & that full faith and credence is & ought to be given to all his official acts —
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand & the seal of said Court, at East Greenwich this 20 th day of December in the year of 1836 —
Jer. J. Hlocum C.W. " " "

I John Cook of the town of Lounsbury in the County of Otago in the State of New York being Eighty — years of age and duly sworn according to Law do testify and say that I was well acquainted with Thomas Brington late of the town of Foster in the County of Providence in the State of Rhode Island and and that the said Thomas Brington was a Soldier in the army of the Revolution he served three or four months in Captain Benedict Collins Military Company at East Greenwich in said state during the winter of seventeen hundred and seventy six and 1777 I was a sergeant in the same Company at the same time — he also served one hour at Rhode Island in the year Seventeen hundred and seventy eight in General Sullivan's expedition and was there one month in Captain Benedict Collins Company he also performed service in said Company with me several other times during the Revolutionary war from five to twenty days each time those short tours amounting in the whole to at least three months actual service according to the best of my recollection and belief We then resided during the Revolutionary War in the town of Coventry in the County of Kent and State of Rhode Island he afterwards removed from said town of Coventry into the town of Pomfret in the State of Connecticut he afterwards removed to the aforesaid town of Foster where he lived until the time of his death which happened about twenty two years since as I have been informed. I further testify and say that I was well acquainted with his wife Patience Brington her maiden name was Patience Burlingame. I do not know that she has ever been married since the death of her husband Thomas Brington
John Cook

State of New York County of Otsego
In Lawrence in the county of Otsego on the 9 th day of November 1836 Personally appeared before me Abel Morse a Justice of the Peace in and for said County of Lawrence in said County, John Cook aforementioned and being first duly sworn according to law made solemn oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavit by him subscribed - I further certify that the said John Cook is a credible person with whom I am acquainted and that he is entitled to full credit as a witness
Abel Morse Justice of the Peace State of New York
Otsego County ss: I George C. Clyde Clerk of said County Do hereby certify that Abel Morse Esquire before whom the within affidavit
purports to have been sworn was on the day of the date of the same 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 name subscribed to said affidavit and the foregoing Certificate of identity and credibility to be his genuine hand writing and signature -
Witness My hand and seal of office this twenty second day of November A.D. 1836 -
George C. Clyde Clerk

I Sabra Brayton of Foster in the County of Providence and State of Rhode Island being Fifty Four years of age, and duly sworn according to law, do testify and say - That I was well acquainted with Thomas Brayton late of the said Town of Foster deceased, and that the said Thomas Brayton died at said Foster on the 17 th day of August 1814. I was present with him when he died, I further testify and say, that I am well acquainted with Patience Brayton the Widow of the said Thomas Brayton who now resides in said Foster, and that the said Patience Brayton has never been married since her said husband Thomas Brayton died, but now remains his widow -  Sabra + Brayton
State of Rhode Island } ss County of Providence }
In Foster in said County of Providence
On this 26 th day of December A.D. 1836,
Then personally came Sabra Brayton abovenamed and made solemn Oath to the truth of the above Affidavit by her subscribed, before me, I further certify that the said Sabra Brayton is a credible person with whom I am acquainted, and is entitled to full credit as a Witness -
Daniel Howland Justice of the Court of Common Pleas County of Providence

State of Rhode Island
Providence ss I Dyer Randall Clerk of The Court of Common Pleas within and for said County being a Court of Record do hereby certify that Daniel Howard Esq. before whom the foregoing affidavits were sworn as a Justice of the said Court; That by Law he is duly authorized & empowered to administer oaths & take depositions and that the depositions before written are Genuine
In testimony Whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said Court at Providence This sixth day of January AD 1837
Dyer Randall

VETERANS ADMINISTRATION
WASHINGTON
March 25, 1935
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IN REPLY REFER TO:
BA-J/AWF
Annie P. Corson Derry Village New Hampshire
Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revolutionary War record of Samuel Wilbor of Scituate, Rhode Island, Captain 5th company, Rhode Island militia, and the Revolutionary War record of Samuel Wilbor, pensioned under Act of June 7, 1832, also wish to be advised "how the name of Abraham Yaw (Yeaw) appears on the pension record of one- Jonathan Knight".
The name Jonathan Knight appears many times on the Revolutionary War pension records of this office. You will please furnish the number of the pension claim of Jonathan Knight in which the name of Abraham Yaw (Yeaw) is found; upon receipt of this, a search of the records can then made, and a report will be sent you.
The Revolutionary War records of Samuel Wilbur, Rhode Island service, are furnished you herewith; the data were obtained from claims for pension based upon their service in that war.
Very truly yours
A. D. Hiller
A. D. HILLER Executive Assistant to the Administrator
1 enc. W.D.
Dear Sir: I am enclosing letter from State Record Commission of R.I. in regard to pension number of Jonathan Knight. I would also appreciate a reference as to deposition of Benj. Street in Thomas Brayton Pension record as I am trying to verify
place the General Benj. Bracts who fought. Thank you very much. A. P. Corson.

HERBERT O. BRIGHAM COMMISSIONER
STATE RECORD COMMISSIONER STATE HOUSE PROVIDENCE
April 3, 1935.
Miss Annie P. Corson, Derry Village, N. H.
Dear Madam:
The number of the pension claim of Jonathan Knight which includes the name of Abraham Yaw is given as R. I. 730. There is no pension claim number given in our records for the pension application of Thomas Brayton containing the deposition of Benjamin Sweet substitute for Michael Sweet. There is, however, only one Thomas Brayton in Rhode Island who received a pension.
Very truly yours,
State Record Commissioner.
HOB-P