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 SERVICES OF SOLDIERS. 379 BiCKKELL, James. Son of Joshua and Ruth Bicknell, b. Feb. 2, 1749. Was a member of Capt. Viall Allen's Co. in 17S0. "Mil. Papers," R. I. Hist. Soc. Bjcknell, Joshua, Jr. Son of Joshua and Jerusha, was born Jan. 14, 1759; m. Amy Brown 1782; d. Dec. 16, 1837. He enlisted in Capt. Thomas Allin's Co., Barrington Militia, 1775, and joined the Co. in Alarm at Bristol April i, 1776. He enlisted for fifteen months in the U. S. service, Capt. Thomas Allin's Co., Col. Crarj's Reg., which was in service in Bristol and Newport Counties. Enlisted in Col. C. Smith's Reg. for fifteen months, June 4, 1777. Bounty, £12. Was a private in Capt. Thomas Allin's Co., Col. Crary's Reg., from March I to June 16, 177S. ■ Enlisted as an express rider, Dept. of Quarter Master General, and stationed at Tiverton, R. I., Oct. 15, 1779- A pension was allowed his widow, Amy Bicknell, for twenty-four months actual service of Joshua Bicknell as a private in the Rhode Island troops. [See brief biographies.] Bicknell, Pero, (colored). Was a slave of the Bicknell family. Served in Capt. Thomas Allin's Co., Col. Smith's Reg., 1781. Bicknell, Winchester, the son of Joshua and Jerusha Bicknell, was born March 31, 1761. He served in Capt. Viall Allen's Militia Co. Was private in Capt, Philip Traffern's Co., Col. Topham's Reg., 1778-1779. In May, 1782, he sailed as a seaman from Provi- dence on board the privateer Cha7ice. This vessel was a new one, owned by Messrs. Clark and Nightingale of Providence, and manned chiefly from that place and vicinity. She was commanded by Capt. Daniel Aborn of Pawtucket, mounted twelve cannon, and sailed with a complement of sixty-five men. A few days after sailing, the Chance was captured by the British ship of war Bcltsart'ns, Capt. Graves, of twenty-six guns. These prisoners of war, with others, were soon con- fined on the prison ship Jersey, in Wallabout Bay, near Brooklyn, New York. The Jersey was originally a British ship of the line, mounting seventy-four guns, now dismantled and used as a prison ship, from 1780, until the close of the war. A description of the ship, and an account of the terrible sufferings of the incarcerated prisoners, are related in " Recollections of the Jersey Prison Ship," from the original MSS. of Captain Thomas Dring, edited by Albert G. Greene. Prov., H. H. Brown, 1S29. The following extract from the narrative of Captain Dring, Commander of the Privateer Chance, captured by a British cruiser off Long Island, May 11, 1782, relates to young Bicknell : ♦' The prisoners were put on board he Jersey May 19, and were released after a close imprisonment of two months, during which time seven- teen had died, and nearly all the others were dangerously sick of diseases contracted upon that loathsome prison-ship. One of our number who was seized by the fever was a young man whose name was Bicknell of the town of Barrington, Rhode Island. He was unwell