Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 25079, for Martin Stiles, Connecticut
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[preprinted] SERVICE [/preprinted]
Conn.

Stiles, Martin
Candace
or
Candice

[preprinted] NUMBER [/preprinted]
W.25079
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New York N. 24,806

Martin Stiles
of Upper [preprinted] in the State of [/preprinted](crossed out) Canada 
[preprinted] who was a [/preprinted] Private [preprinted] in the [/preprinted] company [preprinted] commanded by [/preprinted] Fitch [preprinted] of the [/preprinted] Regt. [preprinted] commanded 
by [/preprinted] Col. Durkee [preprinted] in the [/preprinted] Connt. Troops 
[preprinted] line for [/preprinted] 2 years

[preprinted] Inscribed on the Roll of [/preprinted] New York 
[preprinted] at the rate of [/preprinted] 80 [preprinted] Dollars [/preprinted] [blank line] [preprinted] Cents per annum, 
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831. [/preprinted]

[preprinted] Certificate of Pension issued the [/preprinted] 2 [preprinted] day of [/preprinted] April 
1834 [preprinted] and [/preprinted] sent to Hon. Gideon 
Hard, H. R.

[preprinted] Arrears to the 4th of [/preprinted] March 1834
[preprinted] Semi-anl. allowance ending [/preprinted] 4 Sept.

240.00
40.00
$280.00

[preprinted] {Revolutionary Claim, 
Act June 7, 1832} [/preprinted]

[preprinted] Recorded by [/preprinted] D. Brown [preprinted] Clerk, 
Book [/preprinted] E. [preprinted] Vol. [/preprinted] 4 [preprinted] Page [/preprinted] 122

See within to I. Fleming P. Agt.
June 3. 1834 go. to Same June 9. 1834
[?]ondert go. to Same 13 June 1834
Let ti Bates Cooke May 26 1840

Paid at the Treasury under these
Acts of the 6th April 1838 draws 
4 Sep 1838 to 4 Sep 1839. Agt
Notified 20. Oct 1840
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7519 Albany, N. York
Candace Stiles widow of Martin Stiles Con [Connecticut] who was a Private in the Revolution
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 80 Dollars __ Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843.
Certificate of Pension issued the 21st day of January 1846 and sent to Hon. W. Hunt House of Representatives
Act of March 3, 1843. & June 17, 1844
Recorded in Book A, Vol. 2. Page 85.
Repd. let to A. H. Moss Feb 20 1846
1885 Sept 30 Mrs M. S. P Gueld with history
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27.582 Application of Martin Stiles of East Gwillimsbury [Gwillimbury] M. Canada for a Revolutionary Pension
Bates Cooke Lewiston N Y
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State of New York Niagara County SS
On this 26th day of August, 1833, Personally appeared before the Hon. Addison Gardner Circuit Judge, and Nathan Dayton, and Joel McCollum Esquires, Judges of the Court of Req. & Transmission and general Gaol Delivry held at the Court House in Lockport, in and for said County, Martin Stiles a resident of East Gwllimsbury [Gwillimbury], County of York and Home District of the Province of Upper Canada, aged over seventy 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 provisions made by the act of Congress passed June 7, 1832
That according to the best of his recollection, he enlisted in the army of the United States in the month of March 1777 with Captain Andrew Fitch and served in the fourth Connecticut Regiment commanded by Colonel Durkey [Durkee], under which officers he served the term of three years for which he enlisted, and at the expiration of which term he received a written discharge, which is hereunto annexed
He enlisted at Chatham in the State of Connecticut, his then place of residence, he crossed the Hudson River at or near Peekskill, State of New York, passed through the Jerseys, he was at the taking of Stoney Point, and in the battle of Germantown, and was discharged at Westfield in New Jersey
The deponent further declares that he again enlisted at Middlefield, in the State of Connecticut, in Captain David Edgar’s Company for three years, the said enlistment was made as this deponent believes, in the Spring of the year of 1780, the said company of Capt. Edgar was raised to act with and was attached to and com
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posed a part of Colonel Sheldon’s Regiment of Horse, and which company acted under command of said Colonel Sheldon, and were entitled to to more pay than troops of the Regular line, according to his best recollection, he continued to serve in said Regiment, under command of said Capt Edgar, not mounted, until the prepart of the Summer of of 1783, as near as he can now recollect, when he and the company to which he belonged was dismissed at Danbury, in the State of Connecticut,
no discharge was given him during the time he served in said Sheldon’s Regiment, it was employed in many places in Connecticut, along the Hudson River and on Long Island.
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or an annuity except the present, and he declares that his name is not on the pension roll of any agency in any State.
After the deponent left the Army, he removed to New Hampshire, thence to Vermont, thence to the Western part of New York, and about thirty years since to Upper Canada, where he has continued to reside till the present time.
[signed] Martin Stiles
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year first within written before me J. McCollum Judge of Niagara County Courts
And the said court hereby declare their opinion that the above named applicant, Martin Stiles was a revolutionary Soldier, and served as he states.
I, Henry Catlin, Clerk of the said Count of Niagara and of the court aforesaid, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of Martin Stiles for a pension. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 26th day of August in the year eighteen hundred and thirty three. Henry Catlin Clerk
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Province of Upper Canada Home District ss.
I Martin Stiles within named do hereby relinquish every claim whatever to a pension or an annuity, except the present, and he declares that his name is not on the pension roll of any agency in any State.
[signed] Martin Stiles
Sworn to and subscribed this Eighth day of January 1834 Before me James Fitz Gibbon J. P. Home District
The Reverend George Barclay, a Clergyman residing in Pickering in the Home District and Province of Upper Canada, and William B. Robinson residing at Whitchurch in the same District, certify that we are well acquainted with Martin Stiles … and who has subscribed and sworn to the forgoing declaration, that we believe him to be seventy years of age and over, that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the American Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion. Sworn and subscribed this Eighth day of January 1834, George Barclay, Before me James Fitz Gibbon J.P. Home District, W. B. Robinson J. P.
Upper Canada Home District, I James Fitz Gibbon Esquire, one of his Majesty’s Justices of the Peace in said District, do hereby certify that I am acquainted with the Reverend George Barclay, who signed the above certificate, that he is a clergyman as in said certificate stated, and that William B. Robinson, who also signed the said certificate resides as stated in said certificate, and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, this Eighth day of January 1834 James Fitz Gibbon J.P. Home District Upper Canada
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Province of Upper Canada Home District, I William Hepburn, Deputy clerk of the Peace of the said Home District, do hereby certify that the within named James Fitz Gibbon Esquire is a Justice of the Peace in the said District, and the signature annexed is his genuine signature.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this Eighth day of January 18__ William Hepburn Deputy Clerk of the Peace
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State of New York Monroe County ss
Also at the same time & place & together with the said Candice Stiles, personally appeared Lotan Stiles, at his own house in the town of Mendon in said County, where she’s confined by reason of bodily infirmity, personally appeared before the aforesaid Samuel Miller, Judge as aforesaid, the said Lotan Stiles being a resident of said town of Mendon, aged seventy five years, who being first duly sworn, says that
He was the was the brother of the said Martin Stiles named in the foregoing declaration of Candice Stiles, that he this deponent boarded at his father’s house in the town of Chatham in the County of Hartford & State of Connecticut, that he well remembers the time of his said brother’s marriage with the said Candice, whose maiden name was Cone, that he went with a team by his father’s direction to move his brother Martin & his wife the said Candice from her fathers house to his fathers house after the wedding, & in said marriage took place in the fall of the year seventeen hundred & eighty two, that his brother was married in the same year that he was discharged from the service, & as he was almost twenty one years old, & this deponent was then about fourteen years of age, that he ever since has known & often met his said brother & his said wife, that he knows the said Candice now present to be the same individual to whom his brother was married
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in 1782, that the eldest child of this brother & the said Candice is now fifty nine years old.
[signed] Lotan Stiles
Sworn to & subscribed on this fourth day of November 1844 before me Samuel Miller Judge of Monroe County Court
State of New York Monroe County SS
I hereby Certify that I am acquainted with Lotan Stiles the above deponent, & that he is entitled to full faith & credit, & that he is so feeble that he cannot come into Court, & that she said Candice Stiles, the other deponent who appeared at the same time before me, is evidently very old & feeble, & in my opinion would not be able to come from her present place of residence into the next County Court, to be held in aforesaid County, & which is in December, and Given under my hand at the house of said Lotan Stiles in the said town of Mendon in said County, the fourth day of November 1844 Samuel Miller Judge, Monroe County Courts
State of New York Monroe County SS
I certify that Samuel Miller Esqr. Is a Judge of the County Courts in and for said County, and that I am well acquainted with his hand writing and verily believe that the above and within signatures purporting to be his are genuine. Witness my hand and Seal of office this fifth day of November 1844. Charles J. Hill Clerk
11,450 L. d. July 25th ‘41
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State of New York Monroe County SS
On this fourth day of November 1844 personally appeared before Samuel Miller, Judge of the County Courts of Monroe County in the State of New York, Candice Stiles a resident of East Gillingsborough [Gwillinbury] in the County of York in Canada West, aged eighty four years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision of the Act of Congress passed July 7, 1838, entitled “an act granting half pay & pensions to certain Widows.”
That she is the widow of Martin Stiles, who was a private in army of the Revolution, who served in the war of the Revolution in the manner … the seventh day of June 1832 entitled "An act supplementary Act or the relief of certain surviving officers & soldiers of the Revolution,
that as such soldier, he for many years received a pension pursuant to said law, which he drew at Lewiston, in the County of Niagara, in the said State of New York, from year to year until the twenty fifth day of July 1841, when he died at the town of East Gillingsborough [Gwillimbury] aforesaid, that she resided with him at the time of his death, she further declares that she was married to the said Martin Stiles on the ninth day of September in the year one thousand seven hundred & eighty two at the house of her father in East Haddam
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in the State of Connecticut, her husband the aforesaid Martin Stiles died on the 25th of July 1841, that she was married to him before the expiration of the last term of his enlistment, although she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, by reason that the said Martin was discharged as in termination of the revolutionary war, that the said marriage took place previous to the first day of January seventeen hundred & ninety four, viz: at the time above stated, that she has not been again married since the death of her husband, that she was married to the said Martin by Israel Spencer Esq, a Justice of the said town of East Haddam, that there is not to her knowledge any record of their marriage in existence, that her husbands family bible was burnt in their dwelling house in Canada about twenty years ago.
[signed] Candice her-X-mark Stiles
Sworn to & subscribed on the day & year first above written at the house of Lolan Stiles, & in the presence of said Lolan, in the town of Mendon in said County of Monroe before Samuel Miller Judge of Monroe County Courts
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CHAP IV.
Blessings to those that fear God
Before CHRIST CIR. 39
16 Then they that feared the LORD spake often one to another; and the LORD hearkened and heard it and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the LORD, and that thought upon his name.
17 And they shall be mine saith the LORD of hosts, in that day when I make up my jewels and I will spare them as a man spareth his own son that serveth him.
18 Then shall ye return, and discern between the righteous and the wicked between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not.
CHAP. IV.
1 God’s judgment on the wicked, 2 and his blessing on the good. 4 He exhorteth to the study of the law, 5 and telleth of Elijah’s coming and office.
For behold the day cometh that shall burn as an oven and all the proud yea and all that do wickedly shall be stubble and the day that cometh
The study of the law recommended
shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.
2 But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall.
3 And ye shall tread down the wicked for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I shall do this saith the LORD of hosts.
4 Remember ye the law of Moses my servant which I commanded unto him in Horeb for all Israel with the statutes and judgments.
5 Behold I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD.
6 And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children and the heart of the children to their fathers lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.
The End of the OLD TESTAMENT.
He was born in the year 1761 Martin Stiles November 20, Candice Stiles Ag 29
Elizabeth Cone was born in the yeare 1784 december the 29
Polley was born December the 30 1785
Lydia was born February the 12 1789
Edgar was born December the 31 1792
Martin was born April the 15 1796
Carry was born May the 15 1798
Henery Dodd was born october the 27
Joel was born July the 3 1805
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State of New York Niagara County SS
Elizabeth C Milne a resident of East Gillingsbury in the Province of Canada, being duly sworn doth upon her oath depose and say
that she is the daughter of Martin and Candice Stiles, that her father is own dead and her mother resides in East Gillingsbury in the said Province of Canada, that she this deponent is now Sixty years of age and upwards. That her father and mother, the said Martin & Candice Stiles, from her earliest recollection, lived and resided together as man and wife until her fathers death in Eighteen hundred and forty one,
that from her earliest recollection her father kept a family Record in his family bible, in which he entered in his own hand writing the names and time of the births of his Several children, that something more than twenty years since, her fathers house was burned, and with it was also burned his family bible containing said Record. That immediately thereafter her father procured another Bible and made another Record, which is hereto annexed, written upon a partly blank leaf of a bible, and in which he entered his own and his wifes birth and the names and births of his children.
This deponent is the oldest of said children, that her maiden name was Elizabeth Cone Stiles. That the names of all the persons following her in said Record are her brothers and Sisters. She further States that this Record was not made up entirely from Recollection of the time of the births of the Several children, but partly from recollection and from
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Written Records, which some of said children then had of their own ages and births, and she further States that the time of the birth of the Several Children of Martin & Candice Stiles, as entered upon this Record is Count and line and corresponds with the original Record burned, according to her best knowledge, and as she firmly believes, and she well recollects the former Record, and the circumstances of her fathers making this soon after the original was destroyed; and she further States that her father kept this Record as his family Record from about the time of said fire until about the time of his death, and that it is the only family Record of his now in existence, to her knowledge, kept in his own hand writing,
That the bible in which said Record was kept got much worn & torn to pieces, and unfit for use as a bible, so that about the time of her fathers death it was laid aside & packed away in a case or desk then belonging to her brother, and then remained among books and papers not used until looked upon by this deponent within the last four months, for the purpose of being used for this occasion, and when found this deponent separated and tore the leaf containing said Record, which is hereto attached, out of said bible.
This deponent further says that according to said Record, and according to the fact as she has always understood and believes true, that she this deponent, her sisters Polly & Lydia, and her brother Edgar, were each and every [one] of them born prior to the first day of January in the year Seventeen hundred and ninety four, & further says not.
[signed] Elizabeth C Milne
Subscribed & Sworn before me this 9th day of July 1845 A T Prentice, Justice of the peace
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I hereby certify that the above named deponent is a person of good moral character and that her Statements are entitled to full credit and belief
Lockport July 9th 1845. A. T. Prentice Justice of the peace
State of New York Niagara County Clerks office SS
I, Edwin Shepard, Clerk of said County do hereby certify that Alonzo T. Prentice, before whom the foregoing deposition was taken, was at the time of taking the same, a Justice of the peace in and for the County of Niagara, duly Elected and sworn and authorized by law to take the same, and that I am well acquainted with his hand writing, and that his signatures above written are genuine.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed my official seal this 9th day of July 1845. Edwin Shepard Clerk
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O. W. & N. Division. F. S.
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR. Bureau of Pensions, Washington, D. C., January 12, 1895.
Sir: In reply to your request for a statement of the military history of MARTIN STILES a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau.
DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. | March, 1777 | Spring, ‘81 to Summer, 1783
LENGTH OF SERVICE. | 3yrs.
RANK. | Pri. | Pri.
OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. CAPTAIN. | Andrew Fitch | David Edgar | COLONEL. | Durkee | Sheldon
STATE. | Conn. | Conn.
Battles engaged in, Stoney Point, Germantown.
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Enlisted at Middlefield, Conn.
Date of application for pension, Aug. 28, 1838
Residence at date of application, E. Gwillimsbury [Gwillimbury], York county, Canada
Age at date of application, Born November 29, 1761.
Remarks: his widow, Cadence [Candice], was also a pensioner.
Very respectfully, Commissioner.
William Rumsey, Esq., Bath, N. Y.