Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 33728, for William Stives, New Jersey
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(3-1776)

SERVICE
New Jersey

Stivers. William

NUMBER
S. 33728

CONTENTS
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1735
New Jersey
William Stives
of Hunterdon in the State of New Jersey who was a private in the company commanded by Captain Cox of the regiment commanded by Colonel Taylor in the New Jersey line, for the term of five years from the year 1777 to the year 1783

Inscribed on the Roll of New Jerey at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 11 day of April 1818

Certificate of Pension issued the 30th of June 1818 and sent to James Ewing Esquire Trenton New Jersey

Restored to the Roll on the 17th day of August 1827 and notification sent to J H Blackwell at Flemington New Jersey. Pension commencing on the 13th of August 1827

Amount due on 4th of September 1827 $5.96

Revolutionary Claim, Acts March 18, 1818, and May 1, 1820. 1 March 1823
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(left side)
Discontinued 
July 24, 1821, and sent to J. H. Blackwell
Flemington N. Jersey

See letter to James H Blackwell 15 March 1827

(right side)
New Jersey Roll.
7735
William Stives
Private, Jersey Line 4
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.

Inscribed on the Roll of New Jersey at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 11th of April 1818.

Certificate of Pension issued the 30 of June 1818, and sent to Jas. Ewing, Esqr. Trenton, N. Jersey.

Arrears to 4th of Sept. 1818.
4 months 24/30. $38.40

Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818.
5 years
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William Stives
affd. for pension

Discnd July 24, 1821, and sent to John T. Blackwell Flemington N. Jersey
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Hunterdon Inferior Court of Common Pleas of the Term of August 1820.
Hunterdon, District of New Jersey.
Be it remembered that on the third day of August eighteen hundred and twenty personally appeared in open court being a court of record for the aid county of Hunterdon, William Stives aged sixty years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the act of Congress of the eighteenth of March one thousand eight hundred and eighteen and the first of May one thousand eight hundred and twenty - That he the said William Stives enlisted during the revolutionary war (the day and year not remembered) in the State of New Jersey in the company commanded by Captain Richard Cox belonging to the regiment commanded by Col. Barber in the New Jersey line - that he continued to serve in said corps five years and two months when he was discharged from the said service at Newburgh in the state of New York. That he was in the battles of Monmouth & Springfield in New Jersey and at the taking of Cornwallis at Little York and also at the battle of Newton in the state of New York with the Indians, the United States forces commanded by General Sullivan.
That in conformity with the law of the United States of the 18th March 1818 he has received a certificate from the war department bearing date the 30th day of June one thousand eight hundred and eighteen and numbered 1735 -  And the said William Stives doth further declare upon his oath that he was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March and that he has not since that time by gift or sale or in any manner disposed of his property or any part thereof with intent thereby to diminish it so as to bring himself within the provisions of an act of Congress entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary army" passed on the 19th March 1818 that he has not nor has any person in trust for him any property or securities contracts or debts due to him nor has he any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by his subscribed.
A lot of twenty two acres of mountain land with a small improvement. - two horses - two cows and a young calf - two hogs - seven sheep - 1 old waggon - 1 plough - 1 sled - 1 set waggon gears nearly worn out - 1 hay fork & dung fork - 1 axe 1 beatle of wedges. 1 shovel - 1 pr tongs 1 trammel 2 iron
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2 iron pots, 1 kettle, 1 tea kettle, a frying pan & griddle. 6 old chairs, 6 tablespoons, a dresser, 15 old earthern plates, a pewter basin, an iron candlestick 2 smoothing irons,- steelyards - a table, an old case of drawers - a small cupboard 6 knives & forks - 4 earthern bowls - 7 cups & saucers - a teapot - 3 earthern pots - 2 milk pans 1 wash tub 1 grass scythe, a scythe & cradle 3 pails 1 cedar barrel 1 meat tub a fish barrel a soap barrel 2 meat barrels a looking glass a chest  a spinning wheel a bible - appraised at $465.03.
Amt of debts - 301.13
Balance $163.90
appraised by David Stout Junr & John Heart Junr.
William Stives X his mark

Witness - Wm H Han 

William Stives aged 60 years by occupation a farmer but very infirm with a lame leg for a number of years and severely afflicted with the rheumatism. - Hs wife Catharine aged 50 years in tolerable health but a cripple in one hand. Stacy his son aged 19 years. - Stanford aged 15 years Letitia aged 12 years Presence 10 years. Betsy Ann nine years 
William Stives X her mark

Sworn and subscribed to in open court the 3rd day August 1820 before 
Elvian Stevenson

I John T Blackwell Clerk of Hunterdon Pleas do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and th schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the record of the said court. And I further certify that it the opinion of the said court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is one hundred and sixty three dollars & ninety cents.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court this 3d day of August eighteen hundred and twenty. 
J T Blackwell
Clk of Hunterdon Pleas
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State of New Jersey Hunterdon County SS 
Before me James Ewing one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in said County of Hunterdon personally appeared William Stives at the County of Somerset in the State afd. who being duly sworn do deposeth and saith that he served the United States upwards of five years in the Revolutionary War having enlisted in Captain Cox's company in the Jersey Regiment commanded by Col Elias Dayton in the winter of the year 1774, 5 and served in the said Regiment until discharge hereunto annexed is the discharge which he received from Genl. Washington at the close of the war, and that from his reduced circumstances he needs the assistance of his country for support.
William Stives X his mark

Sworn at Trenton April 11 1818 before me
Jas Ewing
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Pension Office
August (faded-illegible)

William Stives
New Jersey
Act 1 March 1823
Sep 18