Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 7207, for Livy Stoughton, Massachusetts
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Service
Mass
Stoughton, Livy
Cynthia
Number W.7207
B.L. Wt. 53746-160-55.
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New York 14814
Livy Stoughton
in Renpelaer in the State of N.Y.
who was a private in the Company commanded by Captain ---- of the Reg't commanded by Col. M. Miller in the Mafs (?) for 1 year 5 mo. 3 days --

Inscribed on the Roll of N.Y.
at the rate of 57 Dollars '' cents per annum
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension ifsued the 27. day of June '33 Geo. Gould, (?) N.Y.

Arrears to the 4th of March 1833. 114.''
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sept. '' 28.50
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$142.50.

{Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.}

Recorded by FF Franciosi Clerk, Book E. Vol 4- page 78.

Per letter to Hon H.P. Hunt
H'R Feb 15. 1837-

(faded word, followed by faded) 1837 -
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19.071
In the matter of 
Livy Stoughton
Washington Co. NY
for pension

Hon: H C Martindale, H.R.
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Rec'd 29 Dec: 1823.

Rejected - (?) letters 29 Dec:
1823 - and 3 April 1824 - & Feb 14. 1825.

See letter to Livy Stoughton 31. Augt 1832. Palmer
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State of New York Washington County (?) - 

Albert Baker of Fort Edward in said County being a friend doth affirm that he served in the Revolutionary War part of the year 1782 & the whole of the year 1783 in Capt Jab Wrights Company in Col. Willets Regiment and during that time he was well acquainted with Livy Stoughton a private in Capt. Simeon Newels Company in Col Willets Regiment and served with him at Fort Plain and in the Expedition to Oswego in the Winter of 1783 and knew him in the regiment as a soldier until about the 24th of January 1784 when he the deponent was discharged at the close of the war. and this deponent hath examined the declaration of the said Stoughton made in open Court the 6th Instant and verily believes it is true. and further his deponent said he has no hesitation in saying that he knows him at least Eighteen Month in the Col Willets Regiment

Albert Baker

Sworn before me this 15th day
of December 1823
and I have hereto offered my 
notarized seal
J B Lathrop
Notary Public

I certify that the above named Alfred Baker is known to him & is a credible (?)
J B Lathrop Notary Public
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State of New York
Washington County (?) - Josiah Burnham of Moreau in Saratoga County State of New York being duly sworn doth depose and say that he was a private soldier in Capt Pierces or Piercy's Company in Col Willet's Regiment a part of the year 1782 and well knew Livy Stoughton in Capt Newels Company in Col Willets Regiment most of the above time and well remember to have served with him at Fort Plain and many other places during the Revolutionary War and verify believe he served faithfully the full time set forth in his affadavit as sworn in open Court the 6th Instant which deposition or affadavit I have penned - 

Josiah Burnham

Subscribed and Sworn before me the
fifteenth day of December 1823.
J. B. Lathrop
Notary Public

I certify that the above named Josiah Burnham is a credible witnefs - 

J. B. Lathrop
Notary Public
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State of New York Washington County (?) - On this 6th day of December 1823 personally appeared in open Court a Count of Record being the Court of Common pleas for the said County of Washington which proceed according to the course of common Law with a jurisdiction inherited in point of (?) Keeping a Record of Claim proceedings and having the paneer of fine & imprisonment, Livy Stoughton aged fifty six years resident in Fort Edward in said County of Washington who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on his oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary Was as following. That he enlisted a private at Nobletonan in the State of New York the last of April or first of May 1782 in the Company commanded by Capt Pierce in Col Willet's Regiment and that soon after was transfered onto Capt Simeon Newels Company in Col Willets Regiment enlisted to serve three years but was discharged in about twenty two months at the close of the War - 

And I do so solemnly swear that I was a resident Citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March 1818 and that I have not since that time by gift sale or in any manner disposed f my property or any port thereof with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring my self within the provisions of an act of Congrefs entitled an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the Land and Naval Service of the United States in the Revolutionary War pafsed on the 18th day of March 1818 and that I have not nor has any person for me in trust any property or (?) contracts or other due to me no have I any income other than what is contained in the Schedule here unto anexed and by me subscribed - to wit

One Cooken of Stone ..... 30
One Brafs kettle .... -2
1 bake pan .... 1.25
1 spider .... 75
1 skillet .... 50
1 pot and dish Kelle ... 2.50
1 pair andirons .... 3
3 flat irons .... 87
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1 Shovel & tongs ..... 1.00
1 doz cups & saucers ..... 1.25
1 dox dining plates ..... 75
2 lamp terrenes ..... 1.12
1 tea pot sugar (?) & milk cup } 62
1 doz knives & forks ..... 1.50
2 soaking glafses ..... 3.00
6 tea spoons ..... 1.50
6 Iron table spoons ..... 25
8 chairs ..... 10.00
2 tables ..... 5 ....
1 candle stand ..... 1 ....
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67.86

Livy Stoughton

And I do furhter declare that I am by occupation a Merchant and reduced to indigent circumstances an unable to support by self and family without the aid of public or private charity and that I have a wide & five children who are dependant on my means for support - (to wit) Cynthia my wife aged about 36 years - Delia daughter aged 15 - Alexander L Stoughton aged 13 - John E Stoughton 10 - Chloe Stoughton aged 7 and Norman C Stoughton 5 - and further that I have the seasons past been obliged to exonerate my body from imprisonment for debt by the Insolvent Law of the State of New York

Sworn and declared in Open COurth the 6th day of December 1823 } Livy Stoughton

M. D. Danvers (?)
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I Mathew D Danvers Clerk of the County of Washington do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and the schedules there unto anexed are truly copied from the (?) of the said Court and I do further certify that it is the opinion of the said Court that the total amount in the value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is Sixty Seven Dollars & Eighty Six Cents - 

In testimony where of I have here unto put my hand and affixed the Seal of the Saif Court on this 6th day of December 1823

M. D. Danvers
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7748. In the matter of Sing Stoughton applicant for pension enlisted Pape 82 War ended 3 Sept 83 and 1. mo. 3 pri
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State of New York 
County Rensselass City of Troy
September 1832 of. On this 5th day of August personally --- appeared in open court, before the Mayors Court of the said City of Traynor sitting, in Stoughton being first duly sworn ac cording to law, doth, on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June 7, 1832. That he entered the service of the United States, under the following named officers & served as herein stated. That he was born at the town of May 11th 1766, but has no record of his age. When he first entered the service, he resided in the town of Lenox in Massachusetts. In April 1782, he enlisted for the term of 3 years, in Captain Simeon Newell's company of which Royal Bingham was Lieutenant, under the command of Colonel Marie is Willett. He marched to Albany, then to fort Plains, then to fort Herkimer, where the regular forces were commanded by Major Wait, under whom were Captain McGregor & Lieutenant Wheaton. He was in an excursion to Oswego to attempt to storm a fat there, but did not arrive till daylight, & so the expedition failed. After peace was declared he remained in service, to build a block house at fort Stanwix, & clear out wood Creek: Came to Schenectady, & was there discharged in February 1784, having been in the actual service one year & ten months as private. He received a written discharge signed by General Washington, but has since lost it. He sent, in 1823 & 1824 to Congress the War Department, the affidavits of Albert Baker & Josiah Burnam, (then living witnesses of his services) together with his own affidavit, for obtaining a pension, but failed, for the reasons assigned in the accompany letters of J.L.Ed words, & Henry C. Martindale; which show his papers to be on file in the War Department. He cannot now procure the timony of living witnesses, without very great expense, & he is quite infirm. and he prays that the testimony on file, as above stated, may be referred to, & received as proof. Since the war, he lived at Lenox - In 1793 he moved to New Britain, County of Columbia State of New York; afterwards lived in Pittston, in Rensselac County 12 years - then in the City of Tray of years-- then in the town of Hoo sick 2 years, & in 1811 moved to fort Edward & stayed 12 years, the in 1828 moved again to pray, where he has resided ever since He is well known to Archibald Bull & Robert Christie of said City of Troy, who can testify as to his character for veracity,
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& as to their belief of his having been a revolutionary soldier. He has no documentary proof to produce He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity, except the present, & declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state. Sworn to & subscribed the day and year aforesaid Archibald Bull Clerk ⎬ Long Houghton We David Butler a Clergyman, residing in the City of Troy, and We, Archibald Bull & Robert Christie residing in the said City of Troy hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Sing Stoughton, who has subscribed & sworn to the above declaration, that we believe him to be 66 years of age; that he is reputed & believed, in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution, & that we concur in that opinion Sworn to & subscribed the David Bath day & year aforesaid in paper D and Garden of Grey Archibald Bull Clerk Archibald Bull Robert Christie And the said Court hereby declare its opinion, after the investigation of the matter, & after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the abovenamed applicant was a revolutionary soldier, & served as he states. And the court further certifies that it appears to it that David Butler who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman resident in the City of Troy, & that Archibald Bull & Robert Christie who have also signed the same, are residents of said City, & are credible persons, & that their statement is entitled to credit I, Archibald Bull Clerk of the Mayor's Court of the City of Troy, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court, in the matter of the application of Sing Stoughton for a pension In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand & the seal of my said office this 5th day of September 1832 Archibald Bull Clerk
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New York A Curthen Stoughton widow of New Jersey Staughter who served in the Revolutionary war , as a Private 11. Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 57 dollars cents per annum, to commence on the 3d February, 1853. of Pension issued day of Novr 1856. Jenkins Albany N York Certificate 3d and sent to Samuel Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act of February 3, 1853, Page 28 Vol.
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State of New York
Justices Court
The city of Albany ss. On this 20th day of October in year one thousand eight hundred & fifty six personally appeared before the Justices Court of the City of Slaughter, a resident of the City of Albany, in the State of New York, aged seventy years, who first being duly sworn, ascending to law, doth, on her oath, make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the act of Congress, passed in the 3d February 1853, granting pensions to Widows of persons who served during the revolutionary War ; That she is the Widow of Live Stoughton who was a private in the theme of the Revolution, and may, in his life time a pensioner of the United States , at the rate of fifty seven dollars per annum under the Act of Congress passed June 7. 1832-- --- 18 to the said Live Stoughton, in the third day of December in the year one thousand eight hundred and fifteen: that her said Husband died on the third day of January in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty seven. That she was not married to him prior to the second of January eighteen hundred, but at the time above stated- She further declares that she is now a widow that she was married to her said Husband, at Fort Edwards, and the money was performed by a Minister named Sibbens Annition who resided in the Town of Moran in the County of Saratoga, but whither he is now living or not she does not know. that her maiden name was Cynthia Clark he was a daughter of
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William Clark who is now deceased. She further declares that the Family and hereto annexed by been cut out of an old Family Bible, which she has known ever since the year she was married to the said Livy Stoughton and that thise record of their marriage as entered in said family record hereto aforesaid, is in the hand writing of her said Husband and is correct & time & Sworn to and subscribed this 20th day John A.D. 1856, in open Cynthia Stoughton Witness the seal of said - Court & the signature of the Clerk thereof the war the same being a County of Record" interlined H.P. Nugent Clerk 2 1
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678
Family Record

Stephen Ellis Stoughton
was Born the 6th November in 1806
Delia Stoughton was Born the 9th of January in 1808
Alexander Livy Stoughton was Born the 4th day of May 1810
John Ellis Stoughton was Born the 8th day of December 1812
Chloe Ellis Stoughton was Born the 4th day of September in 1816

Norman Clark Stoughton was Born the 24th July 1818
Hugh, son of Norman C. Stoughton, and Sarah, his wife, was born at Athens N.Y. the 8th Oct. 1849
Norman, son of Norman C. Stoughton and Sarah, his wife, was born at Athens, N.Y. the 7th April 1857
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State of New York Albany Justices Court ss:

Robert Christie, being duly sworn deposes that he is seventy six years of age & upwards, & resides in the City of Troy - That he is well acquainted with Mrs. Cynthia Stoughton, now residing in the City of Albany, and was well acquainted with her late husband, Livy Stoughton in his life time & knew him many years. That according to this deponents knowledge & recollection the said Livy and Cynthia were married in the year eighteen hundred & fifteen, and deponent has been acquainted with the said Cynthia ever since.

That the said Livy died at the house of this deponent in the City of Troy, in the month of January eighteen hundred and thirty seven, leaving the said Cynthia his widow, and that she has ever since continued to be & now is a widower.

That said Livy was this deponent's brother -in-law - deponent having married his sister

Deponent understood by common repute that said Livy was a pensioner at the time of his decease.

That the said Livy and Cynthia are the same persons married & described in the annexed declaration by said Cynthia.
Robert Christie

Sworn to & subscribed this 21st day of October A.D. 1856 in open court, & it is hereby certified by all of this court, that the above deponent, Robert Christie is a credible witness - Witness the seal of said court and the signature of the Clerk thereof
H. P. Nugent clerk