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State of Service: RI
Qualifying Service: Private
Birth: 28 Apr 1764 Glocester / Providence / RI Death: 04 Jun 1837/1840 liv Napoleon / Jackson / MI
Qualifying Service Description:
Private Captain Amaziah Weatherhead Company, Colonel Stephen Kimball Regiment of the Rhode Island Militia 1781
Additional References:
Index to Rev War Service Records Vol 1, pg 224, notes service in RI Militia
Sylvanus Blackman / Blackmar was born in Gloucester County, Rhode Island, on 28 April 1764 to James and Sarah Blackmar (Blackmore) and remained a resident there throughout the revolution.
His first service tour was as a substitute for one month for Jeremiah Ballard in March of 1777. This was with Captain Steven Windsor’s Company of Colonel Chad Brown’s Regiment. With Lieutenant Aaron Arnold, he was stationed at Providence, Rhode Island. The following June (1778), he again served as a substitute for one month for an individual named “Brown,” serving under Ensign Ross under the command of a Connecticut General by the name of Spencer. He was again stationed at Providence, Rhode Island. That summer, he again substituted for a man by the name of “Mowrey” and was stationed for fifteen days in East Greenwich in Captain Convers’s Company in support of General Cornwall. In July of 1779, he again served as a substitute for a month (for a man named John Smith) with Ensign Seth Ross and Lieutenant Perrego. They were ordered to Brinton’s Point, four miles from Newport. At this time, the British evacuated Rhode Island, and French brigs were stationed nearby, with the sailors stationed ashore.
After the revolution, Sylvanus married Mehitable [surname unrecorded]. In 1790, he was a resident of Worthington, Massachusetts, until after his father’s death, and from his estate, he received all of his father’s wearing apparel and five dollars.
In 1800, they lived in Onondaga County, New York, before moving to Michigan in 1804. By 1806, he was renting a farm on the water northwest of Detroit. On 3 September 1811, he was appointed marshal of the District of Huron, and in 1819, he was clerk of the Woodward Avenue Market.
On 24 October 1837, while residing in Napoleon, Michigan, Sylvanus filed his Declaration for a Pension with the Circuit of Jackson County, as provided for under the Act of 7 June 1832. He stated he was seventy-three years of age. Although the Circuit Court Judge found his service worthy of a pension, his application was denied by the pension office because he had not served the requisite six months. According to the 1840 census, Sylvanus was still a resident of Napoleon. In 1854, Sylvanus’ son Wilson (a War of 1812 veteran) of Edwardsburg, Cass County, Michigan, as the executor of his father’s estate, inquired of the pension office whether there were any monies owed to his father. Nothing was forthcoming. Some of his sons are believed to be Charles Blackmar of Cambridge Junction, Michigan, and Nathaniel Blackmar of Jefferson Township, Michigan. The location of his grave is yet to be found.
Source:
Sylvanus Blackman / Blackmar (Pvt., Cpt Windsor’s Co., Col Brown’s Rgt., Rhode Island Militia), pension no. R. 900, Case Files of Pension and Bounty-Land; Warrant Applications Based on Revolutionary War Service, compiled ca. 1800 - ca. 1912, documenting the period ca. 1775 - ca. 1900; Record Group 15; National Archives, Washington, D.C.
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