Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File B. L. Wt. 1945-300, for Aaron Stevens, Connecticut
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(3-1776)

  SERVICE     [5 PT STAR]                NUMBER
  Conn.       Stevens, Aaron  Invalid pensioner &
                                           B.L.LvT.1945-300-Capt.
                                           Issued April 10, 1795.
                                           no papers
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                            Montour, Iowa. May 16, 1927.

Pension Office,                     [Pension Office 
Washington, D.C.                  stamp affixed, 
                                          dated May 13 1927]

             [written in diagonally: 
               3 c stamp returned]

Gentlemen:
   In looking for line of ancestors for eligibility to D.A.R. I fail to find complete record of a father and son, both named Aaron Stevens, whose service my father remembers hearing of in his boyhood.
   We have family record of the younger Aaron born in 1761 married to Phebe Post in 1785, died in Jefferson, N.Y. November 12, 1831; from Guilford, Conn. son of Aaron Stevens of Killingworth, Conn.
    Do the records show that either of these received a pension?  If so, will you kindly give me any data that will be of assistance to me.

                                                 Very truly yours,
                                                  Lucie Stevens
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Montour, Iowa.  August 4, 1927

Commissioner of Pensions,
Washington, D.C.

Dear Sir:
   Do your records show Revolutionary services of Aaron Stevens of Guilford, Conn., or of his father of the same name of Killingworth, Conn. or possibly  Woodbury?  If any of them received pension, where was he at that time, and if the widow later received pension, what was her name and address?

 The Adjutant General's Office suggested I write your office, since their record was not complete.
                                              Very truly yours,
                                              (Miss) Lucie Stevens

 A Pension Office stamp dated Aug, 
 with illegible day and year affixed. 
 at bottom of page]
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[The following is stationary bearing an coin-like image of Col Wood centered under the fisrt two lines and between the list of officers and committees]

        Colonel Jeremiah Wadsworth Branch
Connecticut Society of the Sons of the American 
                 Revolution


[List on left side of image]
                             F.G. Bissell
                             [illegible] Conn & A [illegible]
                              ..19 W Boulevard
                             GUILFORD, CONN
     President
F. Clarence Bissell
   Vice-President
Charles G. Stone
        Historian
Frank B. Gay
      Chaplain 
Rev. Arthur Adams, Ph.D.
      Necrologist
Leverett Belknap
         Auditor
Edmund F. Freeman

[List on right side of image}
 Standing Committee

Walter S.G. Harris, Chairman
J. Allen Whey

William B. Case
Charles E. House
Stuart M. Hunt
  Executive Board

William H. Judd
   Term expires in 1925
Frederick T. Murlless Jr.
   Term expires in 1926
George I. Clapp
    Term expires in 1927

Hartford, Connecticut.  June 25, 1925
U.S. Pension Office

   Please send Revolutionary Record for Eber Munger, New Haven [Conn inserted] County 1832    Aaron Stevens       etc.  etc.
     FNY    F.C. Bissell, Prs
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Rev.&1812 Wars Section

September 29, 1927

Lucie Stevens
Montour, Iowa

Madam: I have to advise you that from the Revolutionary War records of this Bureau it appears that Warrant No. 1245 for three hundred acres of bounty land was issued April 19, 1795 on account of the services of Captain Aaron Stevens of the Connecticut Line, War of the Revolution.

Alas, in the report of the Secretary of War printed in 1835, in the list of Invalid Pensioners of Middlesex County, Connecticut, it appears that Aaron Stevens, Captain of Colonel Swift's Regiment, was pensioned from February 24, 1898 and died August 29, 1820.

There is no further data on file as to his service and no date as to his family, owning to the destruction of papers in such claims when the War Office burned in November 1800 and in 1814.

The above is the history of the only soldier by that name (all spellings of surname searched) found on the Revolutionary War records of this Bureau.

                                     Respectfully.

                                     WINFIELD SCOTT
                                         Commissioner
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August 15, 1925
 F.C. Bissell
1009 West Blvd.,
Hartford, Conn.

Sir:

    I have to advise you that the Revolutionary War records of this Bureau fail to afford any information in regards to Aaron Stevens noted by you as a pensioner of New Haven County, Connecticut in 1832.
    You are herewith furnished the history of the only Aaron Stevens (under any spelling if the name}  found on said records.
    It appears that Warrant No. 1945 for three hundred acres of bounty land was issued April 10, 1795 on account of the service of Captain Aaron Stevens of the Connecticut Line, War of the Revolution.
    Also, in the report of the Secretary of War printed in 1835, in the list of Invalid Pensioners of Middlesex County, Connecticut, it appears that Aaron Stevens, Captain of Colonel Swift's Regiment, was pensioned from February 29, 1821.

There is no further data as to his service and no
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data as to is family, owning to the destruction of papers in such claims when the War Office was burned in November 1800 and 1814.

                                            Respectfully,


                                           WINFIELD SCOTT
                                                 Commissioner