Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 17464, Barnard Haile, R.I.

SERVICE
Ad.
Haile, Barnard
NUMBER
S 17464
CONTENTS
Carded

3169.
Rhode Island
Barnard Haile
Bristol in the State of R I
who was a Private in the company commanded by Captain [blank] of the Reg't commanded by Col Elliot in the R I line for 15 from 20 Days.
Inscribed on the Roll of R I
at the rate of 52 Dollars 22 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 13 th day of Dec 1832 and sent Levi Haile Warner R I
  Arrears to 4th of Sept 1832  $78.33    Semi-annual allowance ending 1 March 33  26.11         $104.44  
{ Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by J H [blank] Clerk Book D - Vol. 32 Page 116.

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Declaration
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress, passed June 7, 1832.
The State of Rhode Island & Providence Plantations. County of Bristol ss. On this twenty-eighth day of July A. D. Eighteen hundred thirty two, personally appeared in open court, before the Judges or Justices of the Court of Common Pleas, now sitting at Bristol within and for the County of Bristol in said State; BARNARD HAILE, a resident of Bristol in the County of Bristol in said State, aged seventy four years and upward, 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 the 7 th 1832.
That he entered into the service of the United States under the following officers and served as herein stated viz.
In the fall of the year 1775 Captain Ebenezer Dyer's Company of Militia were drafted or ordered out to guard the shores in said County of Bristol, and were again from time to time drafted or ordered out to perform said guard service until the month of June 1776, the Members of said Company were ordered out by turns in said service; and he the said Barnard Haile being a Member of said Company served as a private soldier in guarding the shores in said County of Bristol from time to time, whenever he was drafted or ordered out from the fall of A. D. 1775 to June A. D. 1776; he served as a private soldier in said Company more than three months during said time in said guard service. He cannot recollect the precise time or length of time of each particular service. But he is confident that he served more than three months during said time.
On or about the 6 th of December A. D. 1776 said Company after Militia were again drafted or ordered out and served in guarding the shores in said County of Bristol through that winter & until the Spring of A. D. 1777 after said Company had been in said service about one month about one half of the company were employed at a time & in this way took turns during the aforesaid time, and he the said Barnard Haile served as a private soldier in said guard service about three months during said time according to the best of his recollection. Captain Ezer Amos was then command said Company, he think during the principal part or the whole of said last mentioned time.
On the 10 th of June A. D. 1777 he enlisted into Captain Gideon Westcott's Company of Artillery in Colonel Robert Elliot's Regiment of the Rhode Island line, and he served as a soldier private of said Company until the 16 th of March A. D. 1778, being nine months & six days when he was discharged from said Company: Amos Gillson was first Lieutenant, Gideon Westcott was second Lieutenant and Isaac Pitman was third Lieutenant of said Company: William Badger was Clerk and afterwards was

appointed Lieutenant of said Company in the place of said Pitman who was promoted. Major Flagg was Major of said Regiment. Said Company was stationed the principal part of the time in Bristol in said State. At the time of General Spencer's expedition on Rhode Island said Company marched to Firetown and afterwards returned to Bristol. Said Regiment was raised for the fifteen months service so called. He the said Flagg served the whole time for which he enlisted, as a private soldier in said Company.
Some time in the month of August 1778, the precise time he cannot recollect he was drafted in Captain William Throop's Company of Militia for the term of twenty days, and he served as a private soldier in said Company on Rhode Island during said term of twenty days, and was in said service during the battle with the British troops. Jeremiah Bicknell was Lieutenant and Benjamin Russell was Ensign of said Company; and said Company was attached to Colonel Nathan Miller's Regiment.
He was born in Warren in said County of Bristol on the third day of May A.D. Seventeen hundred fifty eight; his age is recorded in the Town Clerk's office in said Warren, a copy of which record is here produced to the Court.
He lived in said Warren when he entered said service; he has lived in Bristol after said time the revolutionary war and now lives in said Bristol. He received no written discharge from said service but was discharged verbally at the expiration of each term of service by the Commanding officer. He has no documentary evidence of his service, and he knows of no person but Joseph Munroe,
James Goff and Alexander Mason, whose testimony he can procure who can testify to his service. He is known to the following persons in his neighbourhood who can testify to his character for veracity, and their belief of his services as a soldier of the Revolution, viz. Rev. Doctor Henry Wright and John Corner.
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatsoever to a pension or annuity, except the present, and declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll or agency of any State.
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
Attest Ichabod Dyer Clerk.
[Signature]
We Henry Wright and John Corner residing in said Bristol, do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Barnard Flagg who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration;

appointed Lieutenant of said Company in the place of said Pitman who was promoted. Major Hazz was Major of said Regiment. Said Company was stationed the principal part of the time in Bristol in said State. At the time of General Spencer's expedition on Rhode Island said Company marched to Tiverton and afterwards returned to Bristol. Said Regiment was raised for the fifteen months service so called. He the said Haile served the whole time for which he enlisted, as a private soldier in said Company.
Some time in the month of August 1778, the precise time he cannot recollect he was drafted in Captain William
State of Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations. } TOWN-CLERK'S OFFICE, } WARREN, July 20 1832. Barnard Haile son of Anas Haile and Ruth his wife, was born on the 3 rd day of May A. D. Seventeen Hundred fiftyEight A true copy of record. Witness Samuel Randall Town Clerk.
in the Town Clerk's office in said Warren, in 1832, was produced to the Court. He lived in said Warren when he entered said service: he has lived in Bristol since the revolutionary war and now lives in said Bristol. He received no written discharge from said service, but was discharged verbally at the expiration of each term of service by the commanding officer. He has no documentary evidence of his service, and he knows of no person but Joseph Morris,
James Guff and Alexander Mason, whose testimony he can procure who can testify to his service. He is known to the following persons in his neighbourhood, who can testify to his character for veracity, and their belief of his services as a soldier of the Revolution, viz. Rev. Doctor Henry Wright and John Corner.
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 or agency of any State.
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
Attest Ichabod D. Dorr Clerk.
We Henry Wright Clerk of the Gospel in Bristol above and John Corner residing in said Bristol, do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Barnard Haile who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration.

That we believe him to be seventy four years of age and upwards, that he is reputed and believed in the neighbourhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.
Sworn to and subscribed the day & year aforesaid.
Attest Ichabod Dyer, Clerk.
Henry Wight John Corner
And the Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that Barnard Flail, the above named Applicant, was a Revolutionary Soldier, and served as he states. And the Court further certify that it appears it appears to them, that Henry Wight, who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman resident in the Town of Bristol aforesaid and that John Corner, who has signed the same is a resident in said Bristol, and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
Attest Ichabod Dyer, Clerk.
I Ichabod Dyer, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Barnard Flail for a Pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 24th day of July A D 1832.
Attest Ichabod Dyer, Clerk.

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Barnard Waile
R.P.
W.P.E.
has not mentioned with precision the length of his service, papers not properly authenticated
Levi Waile
Warren R.I.

BRIEF in the case of Barnard Heile  of Bristol Bristol by in the State of  Rhode Island (Act 7 June, 1832.)
 1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? a Court  2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity? —  3. How old is he? 74  4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed. 
   Period. Duration of Service. Rank. Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.   Years, Months, Days. As a Gen.     fall of 1775 till June '76 * more than 3 — — private Capt Ezra Ormsbee Guard Service   on about Dec '76 to spring of '77 about 3 — — " do do   1777 to June - 16 March '78 — 9 6 " Capt. Gideon Westcott * Col R. Elliott   sometime in Aug. '78 — — 20 " Capt Wm. Throop Col Miller  
5. In what battles was he engaged? None mentioned
6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Warren
7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditional evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls?  3 living witnesses — Tradition
8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect?  all right
I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
H. C. Eastman Examining Clerk.
* Ordered out by turns.  * The Regt was raised for 15 months but Heile says he served only 9 mos & 6 days

17 464 INVALID.
File No. 17 464
Barnard Haile
Dis. Theo. M.
Act: June 7 th 32
Index:—Vol. 1 , Page 165-
[Arrangement of 1870.]

The State of Rhode Island & Providence Plantations. Bristol ss. in witness whereof the 27 th A.D. 1832.
This day personally appeared before me, the undersigned a justice of the Court of Common Pleas for the County of Bristol in said State, BARNARD HOILE, a resident in Bristol in said County, who on the 28 th day of July A.D. 1832, made his declaration on his oath before said Court in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June the 7 th 1832, and being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear more positively as to the precise length of his service, than he has stated in his said declaration, but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned below, in the war of the Revolution in the manner stated in his said declaration, and in the following grade: For nine months and six days I the said BARNARD HOILE served as a private soldier in Colonel Robert Elliot's Regiment of the Rhode Island line, and for six months and twenty days I served as a private soldier in the militia, making my whole service fifteen months and twenty days; and for such service I claim a pension.
Sworn to and subscribed before me on the day and in the year above written Daniel Bosworth Just. Com. Pleas
The State of Rhode Island & Providence Plantations. Bristol ss. I, Ichabod Davis, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for the County of Bristol in said State, do hereby certify, that the above named Daniel Bosworth, who has certified the above written affidavit, is Chief Justice of said Court, and that the signature above written is the genuine signature of said Daniel Bosworth.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office at Bristol in said County this 27 th day of November A.D. 1832.
I. Davis Clk.

I Joseph Munro, resident in Bristol in the County of Bristol in the State of Rhode Island & Providence Plantations, aged seventy years and upward, on solemn oath, do testify and that that I have been well acquainted with Barnard Flaile, resident in said Bristol for more than sixty years. That in the Fall of the year 1775 Capt. Ezra  Ames company of Militia were drafted or ordered out to guard the shores in said County of Bristol, and were again from time to time drafted or ordered out to perform said guard service until the month of June A.D. 1776; the members of said company were ordered out by turns in said service; and said Barnard Flaile being a member of said company served as a private soldier in guarding the shores in said County whenever he was drafted or ordered out in said company from the Fall of 1775 to June 1776. I cannot recollect the precise period of each service but am confident that said Barnard Flaile served in said guard service at different times more than three months during said time.
In the fore part of the month of December 1776 said company of Militia were again drafted or ordered out to guard the shores in said County of Bristol, and said Barnard Flaile being still a member of said company served as a private soldier in said guard service about three months during said time, according to the best of my recollection. I think Ezra Ames was Capt. of said company at this time. said company belonged to Col. Nathaniel Martin's Regiment. I served the same time in Capt. Daniel Bradford's company in guarding the shores in said Bristol County. On or about the 10 th of June A.D. 1777 said Barnard Flaile enlisted into Captain Gideon Prescott's company of Artillery in Colonel Robert Elliot's Regiment of the Rhode Island line, and served as a private soldier in said company for a little more than nine months. I think he was discharged about the middle of March A.D. 1778. I was in the public service at the same time and saw said Flaile every week and some times oftener in said service in said Capt. Prescott's company of Artillery and am confident that he served in said company from about the 10 th day of June A.D. 1777 until said company was discharged about the middle of March A.D. 1778. said Barnard Flaile in the month of August A.D. 1778 was drafted in Capt. William Throop's company of Militia & served twenty days as a private soldier in said company on Rhode Island. I was in the service at the same time.
Joseph Munro Sworn to and subscribed in open Court this 24 day of July A.D. 1832 Attest John D. Dyer, Clerk.

I James Goff, resident in Bristol in the County of Bristol in the State of Rhode Island &c. aged seventy two years & upward, on solemn oath do testify and say, that I have been acquainted with Barnard Flaile resident in said Bristol for upwards of sixty years. That said Barnard Flaile on or about the 10 th of June A.D. 1777 enlisted into Captain Gideon Westcott's Company of Artillery in Col. Robert Elliot's Regiment of the Rhode Island line and served as a private soldier in said Company for a little more than three months, & was discharged from said Company about the middle of March A.D. 1778. I was in the public service at the same time in the in Capt. Thomas Allen's Company in Col. Archibald Crary's Regiment. Said Barnard Flaile from the Fall of 1775 to June 1776 at different times was drafted or ordered out in the militia and served as a private soldier in guarding the shores in said County of Bristol, from the best of my recollection, I am confident that he served in said guard service more than three months during said time.
James Goff ✓
Sworn to and subscribed in open Court this 24 th day of July A.D. 1824 Attest John D. Davis Clerk
The Court hereby certify that it appears to them, that Joseph Munn, James Goff and Alexander Mason who have subscribed and sworn to the annexed depositions, are credible persons, and that their statements are entitled to credit.
Attest John D. Davis Clerk

I Alexander Mason, now resident in Seekonk in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, of the age of seventy four years and upwards, on solemn oath do testify and say, that early in the fore part of the year 1777, I enlisted into Captain Gideon Westcott's Company of Artillery in Colonel Robert Elliot's Regiment of the Rhode Island line, and served in the capacity of corporal of said Company until the 16 th day of March A.D. 1778, when I was discharged with said Company. That same time in the month of June A.D. 1777 Barnard Flaile, of Bristol in the County of Bristol in the State of Rhode Island & Providence Plantations enlisted into said Captain Westcott's Company and served as a private soldier in said Company until said 16 th day of March A.D. 1778, when he was discharged with said Company; he served the whole time for which he enlisted. Said Company was raised for the fifteen months service, (so called.) Amos Gillson was first Lieutenant, Uriah Westcott was second Lieutenant and Isaac Pitman was third Lieutenant of said Company; and William Braden was Clerk and afterwards was appointed Lieutenant of said Company in the place of said Pitman who was promoted. Major Flagg was Major of said Regiment. Said Company was stationed the principal part of the time in Bristol in said State. At the time of General Spencer's expedition on Rhode Island said Company marched to Tiverton and afterwards returned to said Bristol.
Alexander Mason
The State of Rhode Island & Providence Plantations. Bristol ss. in Warden July the 26 th A.D. 1832.
Then the above named Alexander Mason personally appearing before me the subscriber, and being sworn according to law made oath to the truth of the foregoing deposition to which he subscribed his name in my presence. Taken at the request of Barnard Flaile of Bristol in the County & State aforesaid to be used in his application for the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June the 7. 1832, entitled an Act supplementary to an Act for the relief of the surviving officers & soldiers of the Revolution. I hereby certify that I am well acquainted with said Alexander Mason and that he is a credible person & his statement is entitled to credit.
Levi Flaile Justice of the Peace

The State of Rhode Island & Providence Plantations Bristol ss in Bristol this 24 day of July A D 1832
I Ichabod Davis Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in the County of Bristol in said State do hereby certify that Levi Hail who has testified the taking of the within Deposition is as justice of the Peace for said County of Bristol authorized by Law to take Depositions and the signature annexed to the certificate of caption of said Deposition is the genuine signature of said Levi Hail In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 24 day of July A D 1832
Attd Ichabod Davis Clerk

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Barnard Haile
Prob
15 Mos & 20 days
Adm
$52.22
Gen Haile
Ware RJ

BRIEF objections to the admission of Pension Claims, of which those answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of Barnard Waile which require further proof or explanation.
I. Does the declaration show where the applicant resides ? Yes
II. Did the declarant make the declaration in the county where he resides ? Yes
III. If the applicant did not make the declaration in the county where he resides, is there any reason assigned for his not doing so ? _____
IV. Has the declarant mentioned the period or periods of the war when he served ? Yes
V. *Has he mentioned with precision the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the department to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled ? No
VI. Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with the regulations ? Yes
VII. Has he made a relinquishment of every claim to any other pension than the one under the Act of June 7, 1832 ? Yes
VIII. Has the Court given their opinion ? Yes
IX. Has the Clerk given his certificate ? Yes
X. Is the Clerk's seal affixed ? And if so, has it a device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal ? Yes

XI. Has the applicant obtained the evidence of a clergyman and another respectable citizen as to their belief respecting his age and the general belief in his neighborhood relative to his revolutionary service ? Yes
XII. If the clergyman's affidavit has not been produced, is there any reason assigned for not obtaining it ? [Signature]
XIII. If the applicant has no documentary evidence, and has not obtained the testimony of at least one living witness, has he stated in his declaration that such proof cannot be had ? [Signature]
XIV. † If the applicant has produced a witness or witnesses as to his service, has the magistrate who administered the oath certified that he, she, or they are persons of credibility ? Yes
XV. Does it appear from any of the papers that the witness was in such a situation, or of such an age, as to have a personal knowledge of the applicant's service ? Yes
XVI. ‡ Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct ? no
XVII. Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily ? And, if not, which of them is not so answered ? Yes
EXPLANATORY NOTES.
* QUERE V. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words:
“Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A. B. who, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that, by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service, but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades : For _____ year _____ months and _____ days, I served as a _____. For _____ months and _____ days, I served as a _____; and for such service I claim a pension.”

It is important in all cases to determine with precision the period for which the applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service. The use of the phrase about three or four months is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable.
†QUERE XIV. Proof of Service.
In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses, who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimants entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the regiment, company, and line to which he belonged. The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the witnesses, and the affidavits must be properly authenticated, as above directed.
†QUERE XVI. Mode of authenticating papers.
In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticated the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other paper authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the end of which must pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate.