Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 6182, for Isaac Stone, Massachusetts
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Mass.
Stone, Isaac
Chloe

W. 6182
B.L.W. 512-160-55
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Ohio  20670  New York[crossed out]
Isaac Stone
of Chatauqua in the State of New York who was a private in the Comp commanded by Captain Wilmot of the Regt. commanded by Col Carpenter in the Mass line for 15 months
Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 50 Dollars     Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 26 day of Sept 1833 and sent to Brown [illegible] Jamestown
Arrears to the 4th of Sept 3[?]  $125
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 M. '34   25
$150
Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7, 1832.
Recorded by [illegible] Stiles  Clerk,
Book E  Vol. 4   Page 86

Letter to Hon J Mathiot [illegible] July 1841. Same person [illegible] to [illegible] agents 23 July 1841
To Ohio from 4th March 1841. 29 July 1841  Notification to Hon J Mathiot House of Reps
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Isaac Stone
14385
[illegible]Bailey
[illegible] in 8[illegible]
aomd
15 mo pri
50 [illegible]
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State of New York
Chautauqua County

On this 12th day of October A.D. 1832 personally appeared in open Court, before the Judges of the court of Common Pleas now sitting, Isaac Stone, a resident of the town of Cherry Creek in the County aforesaid and State of New York, aged sixty-eight years, 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 7, 1832:

That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers, and served as herein stated:

He says that the latter part of November or first of December 1774 there was an alarm and that he this deponent marched from the town of Norton, Massachusetts, where he then resided, to the town of Warwick state of Rhode Island, that he went as a substitute for one Nathan Perry, that he served at Warwick aforesaid for three months when he was discharged, that his Captain’s name was Moses Wilmott, his Lieut. name was Tyler his Christian name is not recollected, that he does not recollect that there was any Ensign that the Colonel’s name was Carpenter, that the Majors name he does not recollect,-

That in the month of June 1779 he enlisted as a volunteer at Norton aforesaid for the space of six months, under the command of Captain Franklin, Lewis, Bates and ensign is not recollected, that said company was raised for the purpose of defending Providence, a city in Rhode Island, that he marched and served at Providence aforesaid for the whole of the enlistment which was six
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months, that the company marched during said six months over to Rhode Island to guard some hay, that they were gone about six weeks, that they had no colonel nor any regiment, for said company  raised for the defence of Providence.

That in the month of June 1780 he enlisted in the continental army as he [saf-forece], under the command of Capt. Abner Howard, Lieut. Mitchell, and no ensign belonged to the company, for six months at Norton aforesaid that they marched from Norton aforsaid to Springfield and were there mustered, that from Springfield they marched to West Point where they joined the regiment, that the Colonel’s name was Bailey, that the Lieut. Col name was Bedlow and that the Majors name was Bailey, that the Brigade was commanded by Gen Lavnell, who soon left the Brigade and after that it was commanded by Colonel Bailey Commandant — that they marched down the North river and crossed over into the state of New Jersey, that while they were in New Jersey they did not stay more than two or three weeks in a place, that they were at Orangetown, English neighborhood, [illegible]way and other places that this deponent does not recollect, that in November as he believes, they marched back to West Point, that they were stationed in Fort Arnold, afterwards called Fort Clinton, that they remained there for a few weeks, that in January 1781 he was discharged at West Point, that his discharge was signed by Col. Sprout who was a person
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appointed to sign discharge, that enlisted for six months and that he served a little more than six months, that during this campaign Baron Steuben commanded the left wing of the Army, that the Baron used frequently to give the word of command to regiments, that Gen. Washington was there that he saw him and quite frequently that Gen. Larned Brigade was on the left, Gen. Pattersons next, Nickersons next a [illegible] Glovers - that he was in no engagement, that he has no written evidence of his service, that his discharge signed by Col: [front] has been lost for more than forty years, and that he knows of no person whose testimony he can procure to prove his service, that he is more than 500 miles from the land of his nativity, that he has not been there for 34 years, and he does not know whether the soldiers who served with him are living or not. He further says that the soldiers who enlisted at Norton aforesaid and marched with this deponent to West Point and New Jersey were Hezekiah Tucker, Benjamin Fuller, Benjamin Holmes, Ichabod Pitts, Daniel Hodges, & John Hall,- 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 of the Agency of any state -
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforementioned
Isaac Stone

James B Lowry Clerk
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The following answers were made to the questions propounded by the court:

1st – He says he was born in the town of Norton, Bristol County, State of Massachusetts, the last day of June 1764 –

2 – He says that he expects there is a record of his age in the town Clerk’s office of the town of Norton, Mass.

3 – He says during the revolutionary war he lived at Norton aforesaid, that in 1785 he and his family left Norton and went to Augusta, in the province of Maine, said there two years, then went to Hebron, Oxford Co St of Massachusetts [crossed out] a province of Maine staid there about ten years [crossed out] till 1815, when he left Hebron and went to Phelps, Ontario Co New York, then he resided there and in the towns of Lyons + Wolcott till May 1831 when he came to the town of Cherry Creek, Chautauqua County with his family, where he has since resided.

4 – He says during his first service in the army he served as a substitute for one Nathan Perry, during his second service he volunteered, during his last service he enlisted. 

5 - He says that Gen. Washington, Gen. Steuben & Gen. Greene were with the troops, during his last term of service of this deponent, that there were no militia regiments there to the knowledge of this deponent - further says that he was at the execution of Major Andre at Tappan in  Autumn 1780

6 – He received one discharge and that one which was signed by Col. Sprout, at
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that it is lost and has been for more than forty years-
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He says that he is well acquainted with Mr. Nathan Worden of [illegible] Villenova who lives about 1½ miles from this deponent, that he has been acquainted with him for about seventeen years. [illegible] he is also acquainted with the Rev. Daniel Crop of Villenova, which town adjoins Cherry Creek
Sworn to & subscribed the day & year aforesaid
Isaac Stone
James B Lowry, Clerk

We, Daniel Crop, a clergyman residing in the town of Villenova and Nathan Worden, residing in the same town, hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Isaac Stone, who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be sixty eight years of age; that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution; and that we concur in the opinion and further that he systaubs a giid character and is a man of truth and veracity

Sworn & subscribed the day & year aforesaid
James B Lowry, Clerk

Daniel Crop
Nathan Worden
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And the Said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary soldier, and served as he states. The Court further certifies that it appears to them that Daniel Crop, who has signed the preceding certificate, is a clergyman resident in the town of Villenova in the County of Chautauqua, and that Nathan Worden, who has also signed the same, is a resident in the town of Villenova aforesaid, and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.

I, James B. Lowry, clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Chautauqua, do hereby certify, that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Isaac Stone for a pension—

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office, this 12th day of October 1832—
James B. Lowry, Clerk

State of New York
Chautauqua County SS.

I, James B. Lowry, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Chautauqua, do hereby certify in addition to my former certificate, that the foregoing contains the original genuine copies of the proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of
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Isaac Stone for a pension, that no additions or alterations have been made to said papers or proceedings, & that they are the same that were originally filed in said Court & upon which the Judges of said Court acted—

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of office this 10th day of June 1833—
James B. Lowry, Clerk
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5.918
This
Chloe Stone
[illegible] of Isaac Stone
[illegible] served in the Revolutionary
[illegible] as a private
[illegible]cribed on the roll at the rate
50 Dollars
[illegible]ts per annum, to commence
[illegible] the 4th day of March, 1848.
[illegible]tificate of Pension issued
13th day of May 1852
and sent to
JJ Coombe
Mast
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act February 9, 1848 page 30 vol 4
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11561
Chloe Stone
Ohio Ohio
June Oct 1849 July [illegible]8
Chloe [crossed out] Stone
h.d 27th April 44

Hon A Harber [illegible]
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