Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 8769, for Samuel Stevenson, Virginia
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Va.     W 8769
Stevenson, Samuel
Stephenson, Jane
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(much of this document is illegible)

Jane Gay Stevenson
was Born the 24th
September - 1808
William Dunlap
Stevenson was Born
on the 23rd(?) of February 1811

Debahah Ann Stevenson
was born the 5th(?) of December 1818
Samuel Stevenson born the 4th of ????
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James Stevenson was
Born the 31st (?) of April
1779
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4696
Kentucky
Jane Stevenson
widow of Samuel Stevenson
who died on the 27th Decr 18(illegible)
of Woodward in the State of Kentucky
who was a Priv in the Company commanded
by Captain (illegible) of the regiment commanded by Col (blank) in the Revolution
for 10 mo. 11 days.

Inscribed on the Roll of Louisville
at the rate of 34 Dollars 54 cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831

Certificate of Pension issued the 17th day of March 1849 and sent to Hon A.M. Johnson

Arrears to the 4th of Present
Semi-annual allowance ending (blank)

Revolutionary Claim, Act July 4, 1836, Section the 3
Recorded by Th. Lumpkin (?Sumpkin) Clerk
Book C Vol 1 page 196
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Col Richard M Johnson
Washington City
D.C.

Stevenson
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I, James Stevenson of Woodford County State of
Kentucky age sixty five years state I have
been aquatinted with my uncle Samuel Stevinson (Stevenson)
and his wife Jane Stevenson and know they lived together as husband and wife ever since my earliest
recollection, I do not believe that my Aunt Jane Stevenson would state any thing but the truth and her children are the age the
says they are. I will further state that I never heard it doubted but what they was married at
the time she states. I never known any person who have retained their reccollection as she
has at her age.
James Stevenson

Woodford County SC
Personally appear before me James Stevenson and
made oath to the truth above stated by him and
further states that the said James Stevensons statements
may be relied when called on to be maid him. Given under my hand as a Justice of the
peace for and in Said County this 28th of September
1842--
J.H. Elliott J P.


State of Kentucky Woodford County ?
Herman Joneman (?name) Clerk of the Court
Woodford County certify that JC Elliott ? ? ?
? as above and that the foregoing signature purport
to be his is genuine. In Testimony whereof I have
hereunto affixed my seal of office and
subscribed my name the 28th day of
September 1842
Connor ?
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Georgetown ? Oct 6th 1842
Dear Sir
The enclosed paper in the Case
of Mrs Jane Stevenson is a good and just
Claims and the Records shows his
service(?) and the enclosed as sufficient to
Identify her marriage to him.
JC Suggate(?)
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5702
Jane Stephenson
of Samuel
Kentucky
act 4 July 36
No 1
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Declaration

In order to obtain the benefit of the third Section of the act of Congress of the fourth of July 1836

State of Kentucky
County of Woodford

On this 22th day of September 1842 personally appeared before the undersign a Justice of the ^peace Jane Stevenson a resident of the County of Woodford Kentucky aged ninety-two years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath make the
following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed July 4th 1836. That she is the widow of Samuel Stevenson who was a soldier of the revolution on the Virginia line he was in the servis five years under different officers: she states that he was in Captain William McConnells Company and Col Benjamin Logan's ridgment in the battle on the Miana river and in Captain James Brown's Company and G'nl Charles Scotts Campaign She states that she with her husband Samuel
Stevenson moved from Virginia to the then Teritory belonging to Virginia now state of Kentucky on the 27th of October 1779 and settled in the County of Fayette where the town of Lexington now stands she further
states that her husband Samuel Stevenson was in the service against the Indians before we moved to K'y and continued in the servis after we arrived herein Kentucky (until the close of the Indian war) she has heard him speak of being under other officers and being in other battles but from her great age and loss of memory she is unable to recolect them at this time but she states that she do well recolect
that he was in the servis the greater part of his
time she states that she had the record of her
childrens the leaf was torn out of the bible
on which their ages was recorded an lost she states their
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ages as follows my eldest son was James was born April 21th 1772 Marthy was born Febuary 23th 1774 John was born July 22th 1776 Mary was born December 23th
1778 Samuel was born May 31th 1781 Thomas was born
October 10th 1783 Robert was born December 8th 1785
June was home January 10th 1788 William and Alexander was born October 10th 1791
She further declares that she was married to
the said Samuel Sevenson on the twenty third
of May Seventeen hundred and seventy one in the
then County of Augusta Virginia that her husband
the aforesaid Samuel Stevenson died on the seventeen day of December eighteen hundred and twenty
five and that she has remained a widow ever since that period, as will more fully appear by reference to the proof hereinto unmarried.  Jane Stevenson

Mrs. Mary Robert and Alexander Stephenson have
examined the Declaration of Jane Stevenson have examined to declaration of Jane Stevenson our mother believe it contains the truth and that we was born at the time stated by her and that she were married to our father the said Samuel Stevenson previous to our birth we believe the statement in her declaration of her children's ages is the ruth and she has remained a widow ever since the death of our father and we further state we have never heard is disputed that they were married at the time and place  set fourth
in her Declaration & Mary Stevenson do well
recollect that our ages was recorded as stated by
my Mother
was lost as stated
by her
Mary Stevenson
Robert Stevenson
A. D Ston Son
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We the undersign neighbours of Jane Stevenson state we have been acquainted with the her and her children Mary Robert and Alexander
for several years and know them to be persons of respectability and truth and have examined the Declaration and affidavit made by them and believe they contain the truth
Thomas Young
Sally Scroggin
John W Stenson

State of Kentucky
County of Woodford

Be it known that on this day
personally appeared before me the undersigned Justice
of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid Jane Stevenson
who cannot from bodily infirmity attend the court and
subscribed and made oath to the truth of the foregoing
Declaration before me also appeared Mary Robert and
Alexander Stevenson and Thomas Young Sully Scoogin
John W Stevenson. All of whom are well known
to me to be person of respectability and truth and subscribed it and made oath to the truth of the foregoing Affidavits
before me I do further certify that from my personal
acquaintance with Jane Stevenson and her family
That I do most fully concur in the belief of the
truth of the forgoing declaration and affidavits and
believe her children to be the age as stated by her.
The arrased words and interlining was done before signed.
Given under my hands this 22nd of September 1842
J.H. Elliott J.P.

Commonwealth
 of Kentucky Woodford County Jct
Herman Bowman Clerk of the County Court for the
County aforesaid do certify that J H Elliott whose name
is annexed to the foregoing certificate is one of the
Commonwealths Justices of the peace in and for the County
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aforesaid duly commissioned and qualified as such
and that his official acts are entitled to full faith and
credit either in or out of this State
In witness whereof I have hereunto set
my hand and affixed the seal of my office
this 23d day of September 1842 and in the
57th year of the Commonwealth
Herman Bowner ?
By S. Wright
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September 9, 1939

Mr. R. S. King
M. E. Department
Georgia School of Technology
Atlanta, Georgia

XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
James Galloway, S. 2232
John Stephens, S. 31392
Samuel Stevenson, W. 8769
BA-J/MMF:MLB

Dear Sir:

Reference is made to your letter of August 25, in which you
furnish further information in regard to John Stephenson, in whom
you are interested, that is, that his name is borne on the Census of
1810 in Woodford County, Kentucky, and that he is recorded as a
Revolutionary War pensioner. You request, also, to know whether or
not you can have microphoto films made of the papers in the pension
claims based upon service of James Galloway (S. 2232 ) and Samuel
Stephenson (W. 8769) in the Revolutionary War, instead of the
photostatic copies quoted in letter from this office, dated August
22, 1939.
Another careful search of the Revolutionary War records of this
office has been made in your behalf and no claim for pension found
based upon service of a John Stephenson of Woodford County, Kentucky.
It has been noted that many others, reported from that county in that
census as pensioners, have not been found in the United States Revolutionary
War pension records of this office. Some of those pensions
may have been paid by the state from which the soldiers served, and
not by the United States.
In regard to the microphoto films, this office does not maintain
those facilities for making records.
As you have a very full abstract of the data contained in the
pension claim based upon service of Samuel Stevenson (W. 8769),
perhaps the same kind of record in regard to James Calloway (S. 2232)
would aid you materially. Such record will be furnished you without
cost, upon request.
It may be stated that the record of a John Stephens (S.31392),
of Franklin County, Kentucky adjacent county to Woodford) is of
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record in this office and it may be that some error has been made
in copying records in the past, and that your citation pertains
to him.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator
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Sir
Pension Office
October 1, 1845.
In the case of Jane Stevenson, widow of Samuel
Stevenson it is contended by the Agent for the claimant that is
the name of her husband is on the roll of regular soldiers, and the name of McConnel, one of the officers under whom it is alleged he
served is found on the rolls of Col. G. R. Clarkes command, the
claim for service is fully established; but if the husband served
under the command of McConnel, he could not have been a
regular soldier, for McCounel was a militia man; and if he is the same man whose name appears in the roll of Clarks men, he was a
regular soldier, and not a militiaman. It is entirely uncertain
whether Samuel Stevenson was a militia man or a regular soldier.
If he was a militiaman, the service must be established by witnesses.
and if he was a regular soldier, the names of the regular officers under whom he served, must be given in order to identify him as the regular soldier whose name is in the rolls.
The papers, eleven in number, are enclosed.
I have the honor to be,
Very respectfully,
Your Obt Sert.
J. L. Edwards

Hon. W. L. Marcy
Secretary of War
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W.I. Allis
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I John G Harrison of Scott County State of Kentucky aged forty years
state that I was at the house of the late Samuel Stephenson of Woodford County
I was present when his of papers were examined and well recollect of seeing a certificate dated seventeen hundred and eighty certifying he was entitled to something for services in Clarkes regiment it was signed by a person as an officer, I think Lieutenant but I am unable at this time state the name of said officer. Then his widow Jane Stephenson had applied for a pension there has been a diligent search made and enquires made for said benefits and have been in and by her children that the said certificate cannot be found it being condescend of no value and with his old papers I believe is not destroyed.
John G Harrison

The above was interlined in one place and attend in another before signature. 
Henry ? JP
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State of Kentucky Scott County Jct.
Be it known that on
this day personally appeared before the undersigned a Justice
of the Peace in foresaid County John G. Harrison who is
well known to me as a man of truth & respectability and
subscribed & made oath to the truth of the foregoing of
affidavit. Given under my hand this 4th December 1845
 Henry Haun(?) J.P
Kentucky
Scott County Sch
I John T. Johnson Clerk of the Court of Scott County do certify that Henry Haun whose signature
is attached to the foregoing certificate was at the
time thereof and is now an acting justice of the
peace for the County of Scott  aforesaid duly commissioned and qualified and that full faith and credit
are due to all his official acts as such
In Testimony whereof I have
hereunto set my hand and affixed
the seal of Office for the County
aforesaid this 5th day of December
1845 and 54th year of the
Commonwealth
John T. Johnson Clk
by Thos C. Kelly ?
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Washington, Dec 13. 45
SIr,
Enclosed is record evidence
having service of the claimant's husband
under Genl Clark with evidence of a
witness, corroboration of evidence heretofore exhibited, showing that the claimants husband served under Genl Clark. There was no other Samuel Stevenson belonging to Clarks
command as an enlisted soldier and the
Samuel Stevenson returned as being
entitled to said could have been no
other then the claimants husband. A
favorable decision, it is hoped will therefore the made.
James
I am respectfully Your Obedient Servant
 
Wm Allison

J. L. Edwards Esq
Commiss of Pensions
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Long Lick Scott Co May 14. 1844
Dear Sir,
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appeal
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I appeal in the case of the Widow of Samuel Stephenson upon the following
facts-- we prove that the
husband went to the west
in 1799 & located (found?) himself within
the command of Genl George Rogers
Clarke. We prove that he was
in service the greater part of the
4 years which caused the revolution
1778. The record presents officer
or one of them under whom he
? he served ??? Connce(?) - & the record of G. R
Clarke proves that I Samuel
Stephenson served 3 years under
his command in absence of
any proof of any other person
of that no one will contend that the
proof is complete in favor
of Samuel Stephenson we Represent
Rh(?) Johnson
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Pen: Office
Nov. 14 1842
Sir
The papers in the case of
Mrs Jane Stevenson widow of Samuel
Stevenson, deceased have been examined
and filed with suspended cases
It is alleged that her husband was a
soldier of the Virginia line. His name
is not borne on the list in the office
of those who were paid for service
in that line. There are muster rolls
in this office recently received here
showing the service in each company and
regiment of the Virginia line. The name of
the captain and Colonel under whom
the claimants husband served and the pension should be instated in an amended declaration when an examination of those rolls will be made. The campaign under Genl Charles
Scott was before the commencement of
the revolutionary war for which the pension
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laws do not provide. If any of the
service was as a militia man, each term
should be specified and proved by witnesses from personal knowledge. The witnesses relation to the marriage are ? of some of the claimants children and a nephew He was born long after the alleged period of the marriage and
was not old enough to have had a
reciliation of the claimant having been a
married woman before the termination
of her husband revolutionary service. The
dates of the birth of the children are given. The paper from which they were take should be sent to this office with the affidavit of a /espectable witness relative to said paper. The
power of Attorney of Mrs Stevenson is herewith returned
Hon
R. M. Johnson
White Sulpher
Scott Co.
Ken


OC 5702 Act '38
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Pen Office
Dec 14, 1842
Sir,
I have received the
statement made by you in the
case of Jane Stevenson Widow
of Samuel Stevenson, dec'd and
the papers have been re-examined. If the name of the captain and Colonel under who
her husband is alleged
to have served, could be given
an examination of the company rolls
would be made so soon as they shall
have been properly arranged, but
unless their captains names be given it
would be impossible to make a
search of the rolls for the name of
the claimants husband. The testimony of
the children as to what they recollect of
dates cannot be received as satisfactory
evidence from the accuracy in which the
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day, month and year are given in the declaration in which each child was born, it was supposed that there was some memorande in existence from which the dates were given.
The nephew of the claimant only states that he knew her as being married from his earliest recollection. He should state the year in which he first recollect her as a married woman. No proof of the service has been exhibited
Hon. R. M. Johnson
White Sulpher
Ken

OC 5702 act 36

14. Decr 1842
Hon R. M. Johnson
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W.S. Allison
June 29. 1843
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Pension Office 
June 29. 1843
Sir,
In regard to the case of Jane
Stephenson I herewith enclose a copy
of a letter addressed to the Hon'ble
R M Johnson on the 11th of February
1843 from which you will learn the
objections which exist to her claim in
its present for. You will at once
receive(?) that the deposition of Margaret(?) Masterson does not meet the
most served difficulties in the case
Wm S. Allison Esq
Washington City
No 5702.
Act of 4 July 36
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Sept 22,1843
Lewis C Signet (Suggett?)
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Pen Office
Sep 22, '43
Sir,
In the case of Elizabeth
Shiff let the testimony may be deemed
satisfactory as to the 2 terms of service
in the militia but the alleged
date of the marriage should be established by a certified copy of the
Marriage bond or by any original
family record of births made more than
20 years ago
The renewal of the claim of Jane Stevenson is unaccompanied by any evidence whatever to remove the objections indicated in my letter of 11 Feby last as well in relation to the proof of the date of the marriage as of the service claimed
Lewis C. Suggett Esq
Long Lick
Scott Co
Ky
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 Sec. War
4 Oct. 1845
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Pension Office
October 11, 1845
Sir,
In the case of Jane Stevenson,
widow of Samuel Stephen it is contended by the agent
for the claimant that as the name of her husband is in the roll of regular soldiers, and the name of McConnell, the of the office under whos ? he served is found on the rolls
of Col. G. R. Clarke's command, the claim for
serve is fully established; but if the husband
served under the command of McConnel, he could not have been a regular soldier, for McConnel, he could not have been a regular soldier, for McConnel was a militia man; and if he is the same man who'd name appears on the roll of Clark's men, he was a regular
soldier, and not a militia man. It is entirely uncertain whether Samuel Stevenson was a militia man or a regular soldier. If he was a militia man
the service must be established by witnesses, and if he was a regular soldier, the names of the regular officers under when be saved must be given in order to certify him or the Regular Soldier whose name is (make roles??)
I have to honor the papers, eleven in number, are enclosed. 
Hon. W. L. Marcy
Secretary of War

5702 Ken act '36
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The deposition of Mrs Samuel Stephenson taken at the house of Mr John Gay on the 8th day
of January 1819 in Woodford County to be made as evidence in a suit in Chancery
now pending in the Wodford Circuit Court
wherein Augustine Easton JC(?) are complainants & John McKinney and others are Defendents, the said Deponent being 73 years of age and first duly sworn deposeth(?)
and saith that he came to this country in the year 1779 with his family that he
landed at Lexington, that he remained till the next spring in Lexington and then went to McConnels station, where he remained with
his family till the first day of March  1784 when
he left there, and came to the
where he now living
four or five miles from Dickinson
on John Dickinsons Survey of three thousand acres where he has lived ever since that he repeatedly heard Dickinson Survey spoken of at ? ? and  Lexington as lying on the head waters of Glens Creek formerly called Turkey creek about five or six miles from Kentucky
river as early as 1780, 1781, 82.83.84 that
sometime in December 1780 he went
on Dickenson survey with Frances McConnel
who went to the wit(?)  to Allexander
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Dunlap, he Dunlap went to look at it with
a view of (illegible), that he this deponent and McConnel wanted and advised
him to purchase it; that said Dickinsons
3000 acres survey was notorious and generally
known by a majority of people in and about
the neighborhood of said survey as early
as 1781.82.83.84, that the lines and corners
of said survey could have certainly been found
by any person, with reasonable inquiry &
dilligence about, those years, that said
survey was frequently spoken of by localers
land John and persons interested in taking
up and purchasing lands as lying on the head
waters of Glens Creek formerly called (illegible) key creek about four or six miles from (illiegible) and further this (illegible)

Samuel (Stevenson?)
A true copy of the original
(Illegible)
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I James Craig of Woodford County State of Kentucky
aged seventy-five agreeable to my Fathers record of
his childrens ages. My Father moved to Kentucky in the
fall of 1781, from the state of Virginia, and settled on
Gilbert Green Garrard County Kentucky and lived their
until the year of 1784 in that year we moved to Fayette County Kentucky at which time I became aquainted with Samuel Stevenson who was living about six
miles from my Fathers he was living with Jane Stevenson
his wife they had several children at the time. I
first became acquainted with them. I have never heard
it doubted but what they were legally married. I have
not lived further from where Samuel Stevenson lived
and died than six miles from the year seventeen hundred
and eighty four up to the present time. I have been
aquatinted with the family all the time from 1784
until the present time and have frequently had
dealings with the family and know them to be a family
of respectability and standing in their neighborhood
and that Samuel Stevenson and his wife Jane are member of
the Presbyterian Church and remained in the said
Church until his death which was in the year of 1825
at which time I was appointed one of the appraisers of
of this estate his wife Jane Stevenson has remained
a widow ever since and a member of the above named
Church and has good recollection for her age and any person of my knowledge giving from send in my hand
this tenth day of December 1842
JP Craig
Subscribed and sworn to before me (illegible) this of the piece
in and for the County of Woodford
J. H. Elliott J.P.
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Personally appeared before me the undersign a Justes of the piece in and for the County of Woodford and State of Kentucky James Craig a man of respectability truth and subscribed and made oath to the truth of the above affidavit and from appearance is the age as set forth by his affidavit given from under my hand this tenth day of December 1842
J.H. Elliott J.P.

Commonwealth of Kentucky Woodford County S.s
I Herman Bowman & Clerk of the County Court for the County aforesaid do certify that J H Elliott Esqr whose name is annexed to the above Instrument of writing is one of the Commonwealths Justices of the peace
in and for said County duly commissioned and qualified as such and that his official acts are entitled to full faith and credit either in or
out of this State

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my
hand and affixed the seal of my office this
10th day of December 1842 and the 51st year of the Commonwealth
Herman Bowman J [illegible]

Col J. L. Edward 
I send you a strong affidavit from a man of high character, Now
have known fifty year [illegible] Stevenson had
several children in [illegible] it strenghtens the
other proof already imposing & conclusive
please [illegible] we know & obey 
[illegible] Johnson
14 Dec [illegible]
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5891
No 5
Jane Stevenson
Ky.
act 4 July 36
Admo(?),
10 ? 11 day, ?
$34.34 
(?) 4 March 1831
Hon R. M. Johnson
Present
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Amended Declaration
In order to obtain the benefit of third Section of the act of Congress of the 4th July 1836
State of Kentucky
County of Woodford
Be it known that on
this 13th day of July Eighteen Hundred and forty three personally appeared before me the
undersign a Justice of the Peace in and for the
County aforesaid
Jane Stevenson a residenter
of the County of Woodford and State of Kentucky
Aged Ninety three years who being first duly
Sworn according to Law do on her oath make
the following declaration in order to obtain
the benefit of the provision made by the act of
Congress Passed July 4, 1836 That she is the
Widow of Samuel Stevenson who was a
soldier on the Virginia line in the
war of the revolution as set forth in
her former declaration to which suffers(?)
owing to her infirmity of age and the length
and the loss of her memory she is not
Positive as to the officers under whom all
the service was rendered or performed that
he served as alleged in particular under Cap
William McConnel and Col Logan and Cap Brown
and Gen Scott he may have performed
served under other officers as he was a
long time engaged in the serves against
the British and Indians and in the Service
at various times under different officers
the Particulars at this great length of time
at her great age she is unable to detail
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and she refers to the revolutionary records for
evidence of his service. she further declares
that she was married to the said Samuel
Stevenson on the Twenty Third day of May
Seventeen hundred and seventy one in Augusta County State of Virginia and she has caused the Clerk office to be examined and she is informed and believes the record
of marriages does not extend back to
the time of her Marriage. she had a
family second of the ages of her children which has been lost or destroyed by the long use of
her Bible that her husband the aforesaid Samuel
Stevenson died on the Seventeenth day of December
Eighteen hundred and Twenty five and she has
remained a widow ever since that period as well
more fully appear by the proof hereto ?
Jane Stevenson
X
(her mark)
State of Kentucky
County of Woodford
Be it known that on the day
and year above first written personally appeared
before me the undersigned Justice of the Peace
in and for the County aforesaid Jane Stevenson
who cannot from bodily infirmity attend the
Court and Subscribed and made oath to the
truth of the foregoing declaration
I do certify that she is well known to me to be
an aged and respectable lady and to be a
Woman of truth and piety and from the appearance (?) of her children she must have been
married before the commencement of the War of the revolution I do most fully concur
in the belief of the truth of the (Gorgen?)
declaration made by James Stevenson given from under my hand. 
J H Elliott J.P.
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Commonwealth of Kentucky Woodford County Court
Herman Bowman Jr Clerk of the County Court for the County
aforesaid do certify that James H Elliott Esqr whose name is
annexed to the foregoing certificate is one of the Commonwealth
Justices of the peace in and for said County duly commissioned
and qualified as such
In Witness Whereof I have hereunto
set my name and affixed the seal
of my office
this 13th day of July 1843
Herman Bowman Jr
Clerk of Woodford County Court
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Pension Office
Feby 10th 1843
Sir,
The papers in the case of Jane Stevenson
transmitted by you under date of 14th Decr
last have been received and placed up
on file in this office. The affidavit of
James Craig only goes to show that the 
affiant knew Samuel Stevenson and his wife
in 1784 and that, at that time, they had children and were living as man and wife
The claim at issue is made under the act
of 4th July 1836 and it must be shown, in the
first place, that the services which it is
founded were performed during the Revolutionary war and in the second, that
the parties were married anterior to the
termination of those services. The Declaration assert that Samuel Stevenson served
in Captain William McConnell's company
and Coll Benjamin Logan's Regiment of
the Virginia Line and also in Captain James
Brown's Co under Genl Charles Scott. No
such names as those of Capt William
McConnell and Coll Benjamin Logan
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to be found on the Virginia Rolls and the
services of Genl Charles Scott were subsequent
to the termination of the Revolutionary war.
The claimant alleges that she was married
to Samuel Stevenson her deceased husband
on the twenty third day of May 1777 in the then
County of Augusta Virginia. If such be the
case there must be some record of the marriage in the Clerk's office of which a copy
may be obtained under the seal of that of
pieces(?). In addition to the above objections the
Declaration has not been made before a
Court of Record in open Court as required
by our regulations nor have the proceedings before the Magistrate received the
sanction of the Court, as is required when
parties declare out of Court on account
of bodily infirmity. as the case at present stands there is no such testimony
before the Department as would authorize the  allowance of a pension, the one 
dibility(?) of the witnesses were not being
properly attested by the officiating magistrate
Honab
Rich M Johnson
Georgetown Kentucky

No 5702 Act 4th July 1836
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In the case of Widow Stevenson - It is well known
that Genl. Charles Scott Served during the whole
revolutionary war & he moved to the west
& was conspicuous & commanded expedition
I was conspicuous as an officer during the
western Indian wars after the
termination of the revolution in 1783(?). I do not
understand the following quotation from the
teller read in this case. the campaign under
Genl Charles Scott was before the commencement of the revolutionary war for which the
Pension Laws do not provide, If the widow
sets up a claim a part of which runs into
a time not provided for at that period of
? to the proof of marriage, please look at
that again you will see that the old
Bible or record which is positively proven to have existed in this case now no longer has existence, therefore it is an impossible things(?) as it does not exist we resort to
next best proof, the number of children
no doubt of their legitimacy & the proof of a Nephew that they lived together as man
wife for 60 years, if I am right, is this
all together not sufficient!!
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look at the declaration proof there were
five of her children born during
revolutionary war & a positive Statement that the Bible leaf(?) upon which
the ages were set down is lost yet
the letter calls for that lost paper;
this is done by mistake please examine and 
I have no doubt that the proof of marriage is sufficient. Now as to service
the records of Genl Clarks Regiment or regiments will prove the services of her husband. she is poor & afflicted
and has been for a year. I have a
right to ask the examination of the late
rolls or records as she has made her
claim. If this is denied is distinctly
to know the ground this is a female
living 12 or 13 miles from me for
50 year & was one of the first white
women that ever come to this part of Kentucky.
Akin Johnson
20 Oct 1842
I authorize you to grant the whole or any part of her claims.
Akin Johnson
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5891
No 6.
Jane Stevenson
Kentucky
addl evidence
act 4 July 1836
Adm 10 mnth 11 days
pen.  $34.54
Am(?) 4 March 1831

W.S. Allison
Prest
May 22 43
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Margaret Martinson a resident of ? county Kentucky aged seventy five years states that
was in the year seventeen hundred and eighty when my father was moving to Kentucky. Samuel Stevenson with his wife Jane overtook us in the west (illegible) with us in Kentucky and ? with (illegible)
where the City of Lexington now stands. I well recollect that their his or her children (illegible)
in the said each other as husband
never eat or who
and have always believed that
they was not thy thou
the
are a restore all James of children given
from under my hand this 
attest Mr Metcalf
Margaret Martinson
X (her mark)

Personally, appeared before me the justice (illegible)
of the peace in and for the County of Fayette Kentucky
Margaret Masterson who is a lady of respectabiliity and if with(?) and 
the subscribed and  (illegible) truth 
and the above affidavit given from under my hand this
3rd day of May, 1843
Dan Bradford JP
Commonwealth of Kentucky Fayette County to wit:
as Clerk of the Fayette County Court, I James C. Rodes do certify
that Danl Bradford who's name is signed to the above certificate is and was at its date an acting Justice of the peace in & for said County, duly
Commissioned and sworn and as such, full faith is due to all his official acts
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed
my seal of Office this 3rd day of May 1843 and
of the Commonwealth the 57 year

SG Rodes C.F.G.G.(?)
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i, James Stevenson of Greene County State of Ohio
his aged Seventy two years old twenty first of
April last by the Family Record of my Father, Samuel Stevenson late of Woodford County Kentucky
the above leaf contains my ? Family Record and a true Copy of my age taken from my Fathers
family record made on a leaf of his bible and copyed
by myself were than forty years ago and I believe
my Father the said Samuel Stevenson and my Mother
Jane Stevenson who now resides in Woodford
County Kentucky was Married previous to my (birth?) in the County of Augusta State of Virgina
I know to to my own personal knowledge that they
were both pious religious persons and they were living
together as man and wife in the year Seventeen
hundred and Seventy Nine in Fayette County State of
Kentucky being the same year that we moved to
Kentucky and settled in Fayette County Kentucky
near Lexington and my father Samuel Stevenson
was engaged against the Indians untill the close
of the war Revolution and I have heard him speak of
being under General Scott and General Clark and
Captain John Brown and have no doubt of the
truth of the statement and have never heard
at doubted that my Father and mother the said
Samuel and Jane Stevenson were lawfully
married. I well recollect of my Father having
Preaching at his house in Virgina before the
moved to Kentucky and do well know that
they have lived together as man and wife
from my earliest recollection and well recollects
when General Begoin  was taken we were
forted at Lexington Kentucky Fayette County
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at that time and my father the said Samuel
Alverson Died in Woodford County Kentucky
December the seventeenth Eighteen Hundred and
twenty five and my mother Jane Stevenson has been a widow ever since his death
James Stevenson
County of Greene
State of Ohio

Be It Known that on this day Personally appeared before me the undersign a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid
James Stevenson and age(?) and respectable Citizen
of the County of Greene and State of Ohio and is
well known to me to be a man of truth
and respectability and subscribes and makes oath
to the truth of the foregoing affidavit and the
foregoing leaf was taken from his bible in
my presence which shows he was born at
the time stated in his Declaration which
I believe to be his true and genuine family record
and have no double from his appearence
that he is the age stated in his Declaration
given from under my hand this 10th day of May 1844.
Ed  Bennet J.P.C.G.

The State of Ohio
Greene County S.S. 
I Thornton Marshall Clerk of the County of
common pleas of said County certify that Ed Bennet is a
Magistrate as above and that the foregoing signature
part(Illegible) be his is genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto
affixed my seal of office and subscribed
my name this 10th day of May AD
1844
T. Marshall Clerk
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Long Sick Scott Coty  July 15 1843

Dear Sir,
The enclosed Declaration of Mrs Jane Neverson Widow of Samuel
Stevenson as amended I hope will be
Satisfactory for the benefit of the
Act of July 4, 1836 which I hope
you will have scanned(?) as from
Convent it being of Tony Stranken(?)
I am yours with
Great Respect
Lewis C Luggett
Col James L Edward
Commission of Pension
Washington City  DC
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Jane Stevenson of Samuel
Ken
act 4 July 1836

W.?. Allison
???
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Pay Roll of Captain John Williams Company
of Infantry stationed at Kaskaskias under the
command of Col George Rogers Clarke Commencing
July 12th 1778 and ending 31st May 1779
Names
Rank
When Eslisted
When Discharged
Remarks
John Williams
Capt
12July78
31 May 74
Richard Brasheur
1st Lt
D
D
John Bailey
2nd Lt
D 
D
James Montgomery
Ent
Private
D
D
John Brann
Sergt
D
D
Sewes Campo
D
D
Samuel Stephenson
D
D
D
The above is a ? extract from a pay roll now on file in this Office. 1 Vol. Ill. papers
Given under my hand at the Auditors Office
Richmond this 12th day of Novembe 1845.
AW Morton ? Clerk
Auor. abvent ??
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1838. Aug 12. hist to
Mr. R. S. King
MCS
1838. Aug. 30. Mr. R.S. King
furnished further inq(?) relative to this pension claim
MCS
1939.Aug 22 -  R.S. King adv. cost
of plates(?). His letter in Ja(illegible)
Galloway S.223 MN?
1939 - Sept. 9. R.S. King inf. in
micro-photo files, etc MH
Hislet. in James Galloway - S22(?) A M

WIDOW, &c.
File No. 8769
Jane Stevenson
Wid, of
Samuel Stevenson
Pvt. Rev. War
Act: July 4th 36
Index:-- Vol. M, Page 242
(Arrangement of 1870.}
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Jane Stephenson
of Samuel
Kentucky
-
Suspended
-
The following lines are crossed out:
? let, 14th Nov 1842, Hon. R.M. Johnson, let:14
Dec 4 to same
Letter to same illegible 1843
Letter to W.S. Allison June(?) 29
Letter to S.C. Suggett Sep 22 (?)
Col R. M. Johnson ? others in this one
do do June 3 41 many others ? in this letter
Lee ? Oct 4 1845


Act 4 July 1836
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N 5891
Jane Stevenson
Ky
Following lines are crossed out:
Lee Set. to Hon R.M. Johnson 14 ? 1842
Lee Set. same Decem 14 '42
Lee Set. same Feby 11 '3?
Lee Set. M.S. Allison June 2? ?
Lee Set. S.C. Suggett Sept 2? '43

Not crossed out:
Lee Set. Hon RM Johnson Mr. 28 ?
Lee Set.     ao   ao    June 3 '44 &lt;- others ?
Lee Set. Sec. War Oct 4, 1845
act 4 July 1836

allow for 10 months and 11 days 
Hon R.M. Johnson
Present

Lel. to lel. S. Allison Feb 9 ?
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Mr. R. S. Wing
Mechanical Engineering Dept.
Georgia School of Technology
Atlanta, Georgia
Technology
?/?ady
JAmes Galloway, S. 2232
Samuel Stevenson, W. 8769

Dear Sir
Reference is made to your letters of July 5, and August 3, 1939, in which you request photostatic copies on file in the claims for pension on file under W. 8769, based upon service of Samuel Stevenson in the Revolutionary War of the papers in the claims for pension on file under S. 3232, based upon service of James Galloway in the Revolutionary War and of those in the claim for pension for John Stevenson (Stephenson), Revolutionary War soldier, who, you state applied for pension from Woodford County, Kentucky.
In order to identify the record of the John Stevenson, cited above, please furnish as much as possible fo the following sata in regard to him, as one has not been loated at of Woodford County, Kentucky: approximate dates of birth and death, place of residence at enlistment and after service, other than Woodford County, and given name of wife or widow, also, the name of the volume or pension list upon which you found his recorded ? pensioner.
Photostatic copies of ? in the Revolutionary War claims for pension of the other two cited above will be furnished you at the rate of twenty-five cents a page.  The number of pages to copied in claim, S. 3232, James Galloway, is ten. The number to be copied in claim, W. 8769, Samuel Stevenson, widow Jane, is thirty-eight, making the total cost, $12.00.
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Remittance should be made by money order drawn to the order of the Treasurer of the United States and mailed to the Veterans Administration.
It is regretted, indeed, that your letters could not have been answered at an earlier date.
Upon receipt of your remittance the copies will be made and mailed to you promptly.
Very truly yours

A.D. Hiller
Executive Assistant to the Administrator
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Mr. R. C. King
Georgia School of Technology
Atlanta
Georgia
August 30, 1938
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
RA-J/MCS
Samuel Stevenson, W,8769
Dear Sir:
Reference is made to your letter of August 20, 1938, requesting
further information relative to data shown in papers on file in Revolutionary
War pension claim, Samuel Stevenson, W.8769
This soldier's son, James, (born in 1772) was living in Greene
County, Ohio, in 1844 and he then furnished the evidence given in
letter sent you August 15, 1938, in order to aid his mother in
establishing her claim as the widow of the Revolutionary War soldier,
Samuel Stevenson or Stephenson,
There is no claim for pension on file on account of the service
in the War of 1812 of this James Stevenson or Stephenson.
The Revolutionary War records of this office fail to show claims
for pension on file on account of services of a John Gay of Woodford
County, Kentucky, and John Stevenson, brother, and John Stevenson, father,
of the James Stevenson who was sixty-five years of age in 1842 and in that
year referred to the Revolutionary War soldier, Samuel Stevenson, as his
uncle. All spellings of the surname were searched.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator
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Mr. R. S. King
Georgia School of Technology
Atlanta
Georgia

August 15, 1938
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
BA-J/MCS
Samuel Stevenson, W. 8769

Dear Sir:

Reference is made to your request for information relative to
Samuel Stephenson, a Revolutionary War soldier whose widow was Jane Gay Stephenson.
The data which follow were obtained from papers on file in the
pension claim, W.8769, based on the military service of Samuel Stevenson or Stephenson.
The date and place of his birth and the names of his parents were not given.
He married May 23, 1771, in Augusta County, Virginia, Jane whose maiden name was not given.
The place of residence of Samuel Stevenson or Stephenson when he
enlisted was not shown but he served from July 17, 1778, until May 31,
1779, as private in Captain John Williams' Virginia company under
Colonel George Rogers Clark and was stationed at Kaskaskia. It was
stated that he was in service at various times until the close of the
Revolution, amounting to three or five years in all and that in addition to
the above he also served with the Virginia troops under Captains
William McConnell, James or John Brown and Colonel Benjamin Logan and
was in a battle on the Miami River.
It was stated that Samuel Stevenson or Stephenson moved with his
family from Virginia to Kentucky in the fall of 1779 and Lexington on October 27, 1779, and remained there until the spring of
the next year when he moved to McConnel's Station and lived there until
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March, 1784, when he moved to Woodford County, Kentucky, about four
or five miles from "John Dickenson's Survey of three thousand acres.
In 1818 the soldier stated that he was at the house of Mr. John Gay in Woodford County, Kentucky, and that he was seventy-three
years of age.
He died December 17, 1825, in Woodford County, Kentucky.
His widow, Jane, was allowed pension on her application executed
September 22, 1842, while living in Woodford County, Kentucky, aged
ninety-two years.
Samuel and Jane Stevenson or Stephenson had the following children:

James born April 21, 1772, living in Greene County, Ohio, in 1844
Marthy born February 23, 1774
John born July 22, 1776
Mary born December 23, 1778
Samuel born May 31, 1781
Thomas born October 10, 1783
Robert born December 8, 1785
Jane born January 10, 1788
William and Alexander born October 10, 1791
The soldier's son, James, stated in 1844 that the following was his family record:
Jane Gay Stevenson born September 24, 1808
William Dunlap Stevenson born February 23, 1811
Rebakah Ann Stevenson, November 3, 1813
Samuel Stevenson, April 4, 1816

In 1842 one James Stevenson of Woodford County, Kentucky, aged
sixty-five years, referred to the soldier as his uncle. In that year one
John W. Stevenson was referred to as a neighbor of the widow, and Stevenson
or Stephenson, relationship not shown.
There are no further data relative to soldier's family.
Very truly yours
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GEORGIA SCHOOL OF TECHNOLOGY
ATLANTA, GEORGIA
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING DEPT.
Veterans Administration,
Washington, D. C.
August 20 1938.
Refer to BA-J/ICS
Samuel Stevenson, W. 8769.

Dear Sir:
I want to thank you for your fine reply to my letter of
inquiry concerning the pensions of Samuel Stevenson and his wife
Jane Gay.
If I am not imposing I would like to ask for some additional
information if it is available. In your letter you state that the soldiers son, James, stated in 1844 that the following was his
family record etc. Will you please tell me what this application
was for? If it was for a pension as a soldier of the War of 1812. I would like to have any additional information contained therein. This
man was my Great Grandfather, I will be glad to get all the information you will send me.
The James Stevenson, who refered to Samuel Stevenson as his Uncle had a brother John Stevenson, and his father John Stevenson also, to serve in Rogers
Illinois regiment. Have either of these men applications for pensions?
I will be interested in any references they make to the early Stevenson Family.
The John Gay, also of Woodford County Kentucky was a rev.
soldier. If he applied for pension I would like to know if he names his parents.
I know this is asking a lot but I surely will appreciate any help and information you can give me.
Yours very truly, R. S. King
R. S. King, Head of Mech. Eng. Department, Ga. Tech., Atlanta, Georgia.
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GEORGIA SCHOOL OF TECHNOLOGY
ATLANTA, GEORGIA
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING DEPT.
Veterans Bureau
Revolutionary War Division
Washington, D.C.
July 22, 1938.

Gentlemen:
I will appreciate very much if you will look
through your records for any applications for pension of
Mrs. Jane Gay Stephenson, who was the wife of Samuel Stehpenson who served in Clarks Illinois Campaign. Should there be any
application I will appreciate having a copy of all the information which may have been turned in with this application.
These people settled on land in Pisgah, Kentucky, which is just a few miles from Lexington, Kentucky.
Thanking you for any help or assistance, I remain
Yours very truly,

R. S. King,
R.S. King,
Head of M. E. Department.
RSK 1w