Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 3675, for Stephen Pitkin, Connecticut
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SERVICE   Conn.
Pitkin, Stephen
NUMBER  S. 3675
carded
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Ohio Pittsburg 13214 
Stephen Pitkin 
of  Portage in the State of Ohio who was a Private in the Company commanded Captain Griswold of the Regt commanded Col Ellmore in the Connecticut Militia 7 months 28 days
Inscribed on the Roll of Ohio at the rate of 26 Dollars 44 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831. 
Certificate of Pension issued the 27 day of May 1833 and sent Clerk of Portage Ravenna Ohio 
Arrears to the 4th of Mar 1833 $ 52.82  
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sep 33  13.20 
$66.02 
{Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832. }  
Recorded by Geo. B. Whiting Clerk
Book E  Vol 8  Page 123
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15005
Application of Stephen Pitkin a Revolutionary Soldier for a Pension
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Declaration of Stephen Pitkin a soldier of the Revolution in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress 7th of June 1832.    
The State of Ohio 
Portage County ss}  On this nineteenth day of October AD 1832 personally appeared before the Court of Common Pleas of Portage County & State of Ohio Stephen Pitkin a resident of Rootstown in the County of Portage & State of Ohio aged Seventy 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 provision made by the Act of Congress passed June 7th 1832.   That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated.  
I  Question where and in which year were you born? Answer, At New Hartford in the County of Litchfield and State of Connecticut on the 19th day of September in the year of our Lord seventeen hundred & fifty four.  
II  Have you any Record of your age & if so whereis it?   
Answer - I have no record of my age.
III  Where were you living when called into service. Where have you lived since the Revolutionary war and where the you now live?  
Answer - I lived in New Hartford in Litchfield County Connecticut when called into service & remained there from the close of the Revolutionary War untill the year 1822 when I removed to Rootstown Portage County Ohio where I have ever since resided and do now live.
IV How were you called into service, were you drafted, did you volunteer or were you to substitute and if a substitute for whom? 
Answer - I enlisted in the State service in April 1775 for seven months.  I volunteered & bore arms and went to Danbury Connecticut at the time that town was burnt.  And I went to Albany as a Guard of military stores after Burgoyne was taken   
V State the names of the Regular officers who were
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with the troops where you served; such continental and Militia Regiments as you are recollect and the General circumstances of your service. 
Answer I enlisted at New Hartford in the State service in the month of April 1775 in the company of Capt Griswold - the majors name was Elmore, was stationed for about two months at Crown Point and there went to St Johns when it was taken, remained there some time.  Before that time went as a guard to [unreadable]  - there was a captain by the name of Sedgwick in the Regt,  my first Lieutenants name was Benjamin Mills,  the 2nd Lieutenant was Aaron Austin. The Ensigns name was Daniel Grant.   I volunteered and bore arms and went to Danbury in Connecticut at the time that town was burnt & was in service two weeks.    
I also volunteered and was in service bearing arms as a guard of military stores for two weeks at Albany after Burgoyne was taken.  
VI Did you ever receive a Discharge and if so by whom was it signed & what has become of it?  
Answer  At the end of my service of Seven  months before stated I received a Discharge but by whom it was given whether by the Captain or other officer I do not remember.  My Dwelling house was burnt in 1817, and all my papers and books were lost & suppose this discharge was burnt as that time.  
VII State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood and who can testify as to your character for veracity & and their belief of your services as to Soldier of the Revolution. 
Answer for this purpose I refer to the Rev Joseph Merriam of Randolph and Alpheus Gibbons of Rootstown both in Portage County Ohio.  
I hereby relinquish every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declare that my name not on the Pension Roll of the Agency of any
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State      Stephen Pitkin 
Sworn to & subscribed the day and year aforesaid.   
We Joseph Meriam a Clergyman residing in Township of Randolph in the County of Portage and State of Ohio and Alpheus Gibbons residing in Rootstown in the same County & State hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Stephen Pitkin who has subscribed and sworn to the above Declaration that we believe him to be Seventy 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 that opinion.   
Joseph Meriam 
Alpheus Gibbons 
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid Geo. Kirkum Clerk 
And the said Court 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 to soldier of the Revolution and served as he states.  And the Court further certifies that it appears to them that Joseph Meriam who has signed the preceding certificate is a  Clergyman resident in the Township of Randolph adjoining the township of Rootstown and that Alpheus Gibbons who has also signed the same is a resident in the Township of Rootstown and is a credible person and that their statement is entitled to credit.   
I George Kirkum Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of Portage County Ohio do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the Application of Stephen Pitkin, for Pension.   In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of Office this 19th day of October AD 1832 
Geo. Kirkum Clerk
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Rev. and 1812 War Section. AWF 
June 20, 1924. 
R. M. Slutz, 
Ohio University, Athens, Ohio. 
Sir;
I have to advise you that from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S. 3675, it appears that Stephen Pitkin was born September 19, 1754 at New Hartford, Litchfield County, Connecticut. 
While residing at said New Hartford, he enlisted in April 1775 and served seven months as a private in Captain Griswold's Connecticut Company, and was at the capture of St. Johns. 
He went to Danbury, Connecticut, when it was burned and was out two weeks, he was also guard of military stores at Albany, for two weeks, the fall of 1777, officers not stated. 
He was allowed pension on his application executed
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October 19, 1832, while a resident of Rootstown, Portage County, Ohio. 
There is no data on file as to his family. 
The above noted soldier, is the only Stephen Pitkin, found on the Revolutionary War records of this Bureau. 
Respectfully, Commissioner.
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Rev. & 1812 War Section   M.C.S.
May 22, 1928 
Honorable E. Hart Fenn 
House of Representatives 
Washington, D.C. 
My dear Mr. Fenn: 
In response to your letter of May 17th, I have the honor to advise you that from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S. 3675, it appears that STEPHEN PITKIN was born September 19, 1754, at New Hartford, Litchfield County, Connecticut. 
While residing at said New Hartford, he enlisted in April, 1775, and served seven months as a private in Captain Griswold's Connecticut Company; he was at St. Johns when it was captured. He served two weeks at Danbury, Connecticut, at the time it was burned, and was guard of military stores at Albany for two weeks in the fall of 1777, officers not stated. 
He was allowed pension on his application executed October 19, 1832, while a resident of Rootstown, Portage County, Ohio. 
There are no data on file relative to his family. 
Very truly yours, 
WINFIELD SCOTT 
Commissioner
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Ohio University 
ATHENS, OHIO 
STATE NORMAL COLLEGE 
May 16, 1924
The Commissioner of Pensions  
Washington, D. C. 
Dear Sir: 
I would like to know if you have information in your records of Abel Tylor or Tyler private of Captain Amasa Mill's company, Colonel Roger Enos' regiment, Connecticut state troops engaged in the service of the United States for three months. His name appears on company muster rolls dated White Plains, July 19, 1778, West Point, August 8, 1778, and Fort Clinton, September 5, 1778.   
I should also like to have such information as might be obtained in regard to Stephen Pitkin of unknown rank of Lieutenant Lemuel Hide's company. This company of Lieutenant Hide's was either in Webster's regiment New York militia or in Colonel Warren's regiment Vermont militia. It was thought that he was in service for about nine days in the alarm of October, 1781. 
If you have any information in regard to either or both of these men I would very much appreciate receiving it.
 Yours truly, R. M. Slutz 
RMS: BL 
[stamp] U.S. PENSION OFFICE  L MAY 19 1924
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SEVENTIETH CONGRESS 
E. HART PENN, CONN., CHAIRMAN
CLARENCE J. MCLEOD, MICH., JOHN E. RANKIN, MISS. 
HAYS B. WHITE, KANS. ARTHUR H. GREENWOOD, IND. 
LLOYD THURSTON, IOWA  RALPH F. LOZIER, MO. 
FREDERICK W. MAGRADY, PA. MEYER JACOBSTEIN, N.Y. 
HENRY L. BOWLES, MASS. SAMUEL RUTHERFORD, GA. 
FLORENCE P. KAHN, CALIF. HENRY D. MOORMAN, KY. 
ALBERT JOHNSON, WASH. JAMES M. FITZPATRICK, N.Y. 
DANIEL A. REED, N. Y. RENE L. DE ROUEN LA. 
HUBERT H. PEAVEY, WIS. 
ROBERT H. CLANCY, MICH. 
J. HOWARD SWICK, PA.
C. G. SELVIG, MINN. 
J. ROBERT CONROY, CLERK  
COMMITTEE ON THE CENSUS 
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
WASHINGTON, D. C. 
May 17, 1928
Hon. Winfield Scott
Commissioner of Pensions. 
Dear Mr. Scott: --  
I enclose herewith letter from Miss Mary Francis of Hartford, Connecticut, asking for the pension records of Stephen Pitkin, S. 3675, and Enoch Hinman, S 30486. I will appreciate it if you will send me what you have with regard to these soldiers at your convenience, and remain, 
Very truly yours, 
E. Hart Penn
EHF/G.
Enc. 1
[stamp] U.S. PENSION OFFICE  A MAY 18 1928
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1924. June 20 - Hist to R. M. Slutz AWF 
1928. May 17 hist to Hon. E. Hart Penn Miss Mary Frances MCS 
Rev War INVALID. 
File No. 3675 
Stephen Pitkin 
Privt Rev War 
Act: June 7. 1832 
Index: -- Vol. A, Page 291 
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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Stephen Pitkin
Portage Co, Ohio
$26.44
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BRIEF objections to the admission of Pension Claims, of which those answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of Stephen Pitkin which require further proof or explanation. 
I. Does the declaration show where the applicant resides? 
II. Did the declarant make the declaration in the county where he resides? 
III. If the applicant did not make the declaration in the county where he resides, is there any reason assigned for his not doing so? 
IV. Has the declarant mentioned the period or periods of the war when he served? 
V. * Has he mentioned with precision the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the department to determine to what amout of pension he is entitled? No 
VI. Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with the regulations? 
VII. Has he made a relinquishment of every claim to any other pension than the one under the Act of June 7, 1832? 
VIII. Has the Court given their opinion? 
IX. Has the Clerk given his certificate? from any other seal? 
X. Is the Clerk's seal affixed? And if so, has it a device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal?
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XI. Has the applicant obtained the evidence of a clergyman and another respectable citizen as to their belief respecting his age and the general belief in his neighborhood relative to his revolutionary service? 
XII. If the clergyman's affidavit has not been produced, is there any reason assigned for not obtaining it? 
XIII. If the applicant has no documentary evidence, and has not obtained the testimony of at least one living witness, has he stated in his declaration that such proof cannot be had? Not on Rolls 
XIV  If the applicant's name is not found on the rolls of military service, has he produced a witness or witnesses as to his service? No 
If he has produced direct proof as to service, has the magistrate who administered the oath, certified to the credibility of the witness or witnesses? 
Has the proper officer certified to the official character and signature of the magistrate as the regulations direct? 
XV. Does it appear from any of the papers that the witness was in such a situation, or of such an age, as to have a personal knowledge of the applicant's service? 
XVI. Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct? 
XVII. Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily? And, if not, which of them is not so answered? 
EXPLANATORY NOTES. 
QUERE V. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words: Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A. B. who, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that, by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service, but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades; For months , and --- days, I served as a For -- months days, I served as a and for such service I claim a pension.
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It is important in all cases to determine with precision the period for which each applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service. The use of the phrase about the or four months is too in definite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable. Some persons who apply for pensions merely state they served two years in the militia, &c. without specifying the tours; the names of the officers, and other particulars respecting their service. This form of a declaration is highly objection ( able. It must in every case be clearly shewn under what officers the applicant served; the duration of each term of engagement; the particular place or places where the service was performed; that the applicant served with an embodied corps called into service by competent authority; that he was either the field or in garrison; and for the time during which the service was performed, he was not employed in any civil pursuit. 
QUERE XIV. Proof of Service. 
In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses, who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimants entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the regiment, company, and line to which he belonged. The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the witnesses, and the official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office. 
QUERE XVI.  Mode of authenticating papers.  
In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticates the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other paper authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the ends of which must pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate. 
In every case where the clerk of the court, or other certifying officer, has no public seal of office, the certificate of a member of congress, proving the official character and signature of the certifying officer, should accompany the papers. 
Will prove his service