Ensign (1780-1785)

On 19 June 1780, Governor William Greene signed his commissioning papers for Oliver Wickes as Ensign of the 2nd Company (Coventry), Kent County Regiment.

According to his pension documents, he attested to being called to alarm and serving for 15 days in Bristol, Rhode Island as Ensign of 2nd Company (Coventry) [Captain William Ray’s Company], Kent County Regiment [Lieutenant Colonel Commandant Archibald Kasson’s Regiment].

According to Congressional records from no less than May 1780 to May 1785, he served as an Ensign in the 2nd Company (Coventry) [Captain William Ray’s Company], Kent County Regiment [Lieutenant Colonel Commandant Archibald Kasson’s Regiment] of the Rhode Island Regiment in the Continental Army. (ref. a/b: page 407)

Sources:

a. Civil and military list of Rhode Island. 1647-1800. A list of all officers elected by the General assembly from the organization of the legislative government of the colony to 1800. Comp. from the records by Joseph Jencks Smith, pages 392, 407, 423, 433, 443.

b. Civil and military list of Rhode Island, 1800-1850: a list of all officers elected by the General assembly from 1800 to 1850, also, all officers in revolutionary war, appointed by Continental Congress, and in the regular Army and Navy from Rhode Island, to 1850, including volunteer officers in war of 1812 and Mexican war, and all officers in privateer service during colonial and revolutionary wars, and the war of 1812. Comp. from the records by Joseph Jencks Smith, pages 392, 407, 423, 433, 443.

c. Revolutionary War Pensions