Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 4906, for Elijah Stinson, Pennsylvania
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Penn                Stinson, Elijah       S4906
                              or
                         Stimson

                                                    Carded
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5290
Pennsylvania
Elijah Stimson

In the State of Pennsylvania
who was an Adjutant in the company commanded
by Captain Jamison of the ? commanded
by Col. Hart in the N. Army?
line for 2 mo. Adjutant     $26.66
         2 mo. ? Sergeant       12.34
         3 mo. in ?                  11.55
                                          ________
                                          $50.55

Inscribed on the Roll of Pennsylvania
at the rate of 50 Dollars 35 Cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831
Elijah Stinson, Penn. Line.  Records corrected
Certificate of Pension ?  the   ? day of ?
1833 and ? to Hon. J. A. Smith
Honr. Reps.

Arrears to the 4th of Sept. 1832                    $75.82
Semiannual allowance ending 11 Mar. 1833   25.27
                                                                       _______
                                                                    $101.09
{Revolutionary Claim
Act June 7, 1832}

Recorded by Vinal Jlue?   Clerk
Book D   Vol.   ?   Page 94
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Bucks County Court
of Common Pleas--
Application of Elija
Stinson--

Samuel A. Smith

by Consent of Genl
Smith Service is estimated
at
2 mo. Adj[utant]
2 & 10 mo  Q. M. Sergt
? Private
_____
8 mo

admd

2 mo Adjt
2 14 ds Lt & Q.M. Sergt
3 16 ? Pri
____________
8 mo
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State of Pennsylvania
County of Bucks

On the Eleventh day of December 1832--
Personally appeared in open court before the Hon. John Fon Esquire President
and his associates Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in & for the County
of Burks and Commonwealth aforesaid, Being a Court of Record now in
Safecon Elijah Stinson a resident of Warwick Township in the County aforesaid
aged Eighty 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 papered June 7, 1832--

In answer to the question, Where and in what year were you
born?, He replied that he was born near the River Schuylkill
then County of Philadelphia now County of Montgomery
in the year Seventeen Hundred and fifty or fifty one or two.

To the second, Have you any record or your age and where is it?
He replies that he has no record of his age and believes there is none.--

To the third, Where were you living when called into service?, where
have you lived since the Revolutionary War, & where do you
now live? He replies--
That he lived in the Township of Warwick in the County
of Bucks & state aforesaid when called into service, That he hath
lived in the same place ever since the Revolutionary War and
now lives there--

to the fourth, How were you called into service; were you a substitute,
did you volunteer or were a substitute; and if a substitute
for whom?
He replies--That he entered the service of the United States
as a Sergeant  in the militia of the State aforesaid under the following named
officers and served as herein stated, In the summer of 1776 he served
a tour of two months under Captain John Jamison, during that service
 he marched from the township where he now resides to and ? the
Delaware River into New Jersey and ? to Ambry immediately
after he arrived at that place he was detailed as Quarter Master Sergeant
under William Scott Quarter Master, he cannot certainly remember
the commandant of the regiment but believed it was Col. Joseph Hart ? 
Jamison was Lieutenant and Hugh Long ensign of the company, and that he
served as Quarter Master Sergeant during the remainder of the tour,
when he was regularly discharged and returned home, He further states
that there were regular troops at amboy, but cannot recollect by whom they
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by whom they were commanded, and that of all the company which was
Corps James Polk Francis Baird and himself only now survive--

That afterwards in the following year he served another tour of
two months as a Substitute, not for an individual but  ? what were termed
County Lieutenants of whom Col. Joseph Hart was one, he first marched to
Newtown ? to Dr. Lughams Great Spring and thence to Coryell Ferry now
called Newhope where he compleated his tour of duty, was discharged
and returned home. The Regiment was commanded by Col. Tomb, Robert Robinson
was a major and Nathanial Furton adjutant, he thinks that the company
was commanded by Captain Pugh but is not certain, during this tour he
served as a private--

That he served another tour of two months, certainly, perhaps more as adjutant
in what was termed the winter campaign in that service he marched from
the same township to the Delaware opposite Trenton after lying there until
after the ? of the missions at Trenton in which they were unable to
participate in consequence of the floating ice in the Delaware--
They crossed the river marched as a part of General Washington's army to Princeton--
was at that battle, from thence he marched to Morristown in New Jersey
at which place he continued in the service until regularly discharged.
The Regiment was commanded by Col. Joseph Hart, Major James Wharton--

That afterwards he served on another tour of two months, at and after
the arrival of the British army in Philadelphia--? which tour he served
under Major Folwell ? he believes for two or three weeks as Quarter Masters
Sergeant under John Sample Quarter Master, who in consequence of sickness,
returned home and this applicant served the remainder of the tour as
Quarter Master, the first part of the campaign, under General Potter on the East of
the Schuylkill, the latter part on the west side under Captain ? Lott--
he was present at the Battle of Germantown.  That he was regularly discharged
and returned home--The whole service above stated was as a Militia
man of the State of Pennsylvania--

He further states that he has continued to reside within two miles
of his present residence since his return from the last tour above
mentioned, and that he has no documentary evidence in the case--
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension of annuity
except the present and declares that his name is not in the Pension
Roll of the agency of any State--

To the fifth question--State the names of some of the regular officers
who were with the troops where you served, such continental and
militia regiments as you can recollect and the general circumstances 
of your service--
In reply to the fifth question he refers to his answers
to the fourth question which contained all his recollection
on the subject.
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To the 6th question--Did you ever receive a discharge from the
service and if so by whom was it signed and what has become
of it?--

He replies that he never received a written discharge
that he recollects from the service, but if he did they are lost
and he believes he was discharged by Parol and by the officers
under whom he served as mentioned in his fourth answer--

To the 7 question, State the names of persons to whom you are known
in your present neighborhood, and who can certify
as to your character for veracity and their belief in your
service as a soldier of the Revolution--

He replies that all of the persons of his neighborhood
that have any knowledge of him or his service as a soldier
of the Revolution are dead except Francis Baird, Andrew
Dennison and James Polk--and that there are no Clergymen now
alive who had any knowledge of him at that time--

Sworn & Subscribed in open
Court December 11th, 1832.

Ellijah Stinson
Wm. Purdy Proth

We Francis Baird and Andrew Dennison residing in the neighborhood
of the above named Elijah Stinson, do hereby certify that we are
well acquainted with him and that we believe him to be
eighty years of age, that he is reputed in the neighborhood where
he resides to have been a Revolutionary soldier and to our
knowledge he was such, and is a man of veracity--

Francis Baird
Andrew Dennison

Sworn & Subscribed in open
court before me December 11th, 1832
Wm Purdy Proth
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and the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after investigation
of the matter and after putting the interrogations prescribed by the War
Department that the written named applicant was a Revolutionary
Soldier, and served as he states, and the Court further certifies
that it appears to them that the said Andrew Dennison and
Francis Baird who have signed the within Certificates are
credible persons and their statement is intilled to credit--

John Ron Puro Judge
Wm Pratt one of the apos
William Long?

Pennsylvania
Bucks County

I William Purdy Prothonotary of the Court of Common
Pleas in & for the County of Burke & state of Pennsylvania
do hereby certify that the foregoing and within contained the original
proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of Elijah
Stinson for a pension--The Testimony whereof I have hereunto
set my hand & seal of office this eleventh day of December A.D.
one thousand and eight hundred and thirty two--
Wm. Purdy Proth
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Rev.&1812 Ware Section             [initials?]

January 15, 1927
 
Robart P. Shick
??07-1110 Liberty Bldg.,
Broad and Chester Sts.,
Philadelphia, Penn.

Sir:

I have to advise you that from the papers in the 
Revolutionary War pension claim S. 4906 it appears that Elijah
Stinson (pensioned Stimson) was born in 1750, or 1751, or 1752
near the Schuylkill River, Philadelphia County.

While a resident of Warwick Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania
he enlisted in the summer of 1776, served two months
as sergeant in Captain John Jamison's Company, and soon after,
was detailed as Quartermaster Sergeant under Quartermaster
William Scott in Colonel Joseph Hart's Pennsylvania Regiment,
served two months.  He also served two months as private
in Captain Pugh's Company, Colonel Tomb's Pennsylvania Regiment.

He enlisted in 1777, served two months as Adjutant under
Colonel Joseph Hart and was in the battle of Princeton, and
afterwards served two months as Quartermaster Sergeant under
Quartermaster John Sample and Major Folwell, and as Quartermaster
under Zephania Lott, and was in the battle of German-
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town, all of the above services in the Pennsylvania
Troops.

He was allowed pension on his application executed
December 11, 1832 while a resident of Warwick Township,
Bucks County, Pennsylvania.

There is no data on file as to his family.

Respetfully,

WINFIELD SCOTT
Commissioner.
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1911 Aug. 12.  History to R.P. Shick & Wm H. Puvhan?
1927-Jan-15-Hist. to Robt. P. Shick

4906  
INVALID
File No. 4906 
Elijah Stinson
Adgt. Rev. War
Act:  June 7, 1832
Index:--Vol. M, Page 357
(Arrangement of 1870.)

Elijah Stinson, Penn. Line.  Recend? corrected ???
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In reply to your request    , received
for a statement of the military history of Elijah Stinson [faded]
a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired
information as contained in his [struck out" (or his widow's)"] application for 
pension on file in this Bureau.

[column titles were]  
Dates of Enlistment of Appointment
Length of Service
Rank
Officers Under Whom Served Was Rendered
     Captain    Colonel
Statf.

[all entries were too faded to decipher]

Battles engaged in, [faded reply)
Residence of soldier at enlistment, [faded reply]
Date of application for pension, [faded reply]
Residence at date of application, [faded reply]
Age at date of application, [faded reply]
Remarks:  [faded, if any reply at all]
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ROBERT P. SHICK
Attorney at Law
1107-1110 Liberty Building
Broad and Chestnut Streets
Philadelphia

November 22, 1926

Commissioner of Pensions,
Washington, D. C.

Re re:  Elijah Stinson, Pensioner.

Der Sir:

In looking over some family records I
find a reference to the fact that my maternal great
grandfather, Elijah Stinson, was a pensioner for his
Revolutionary services.  The record I have shows
him to have been a member of Colonel Hart's Flying
Battalion, raised in Bucks County, Pa.  I do not
have, however, any more details of his record of
services in the Revolutionary War.

I therefore write to inquire whether
you will be good enough to give me the record as
disclosed by your files of the Revolutionary pensioner
Elijah Stinson, who died near Hartsville, Bucks County,
Pa., and is buried in the grave-yard of the Presbyterian
Church at that point.

Thanking you in advance for the information, I am

Very truly yours,

RPS : EWH
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'PHONE:  BELL., FILBERT 2732

ROBERT P. SHICK
Attorney at Law
Philadelphia

August 10th, 1911.

Commissioner of Pensions,
Washington, D. C.

Dear Sir:-

In an old account filed in the Orphans' Court of
Bucks County, this state, I find that a great-grandfather
of mine, Elijah Stinson, of Warwick Township, Bucks County,
Penn'a., was a pensioner and I would like, to know whether
he was carried upon the rolls of the pensioners of the
United States, and for what service he received such a
pension.  He was in the Revolutionary War and it may
be that he received his pension for such service.

I would appreciate it very much if you will give
me the record of your office3 as to any pension paid him,.
The last payment received as about the year 1843.

Respectfully yours,
[signed] R. P. Shick