Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S 35085, for Richard Stephens, Massachusetts
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Service - Navy (Mass.)


Stephens, Richard

Number - S.35085
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(83)

Maryland

Richard Stephens

Sailing Master

Frigate Trumbull Capt. Nicholson
Army U.S.
Mass.

At $ 20 per month
commenced 2nd April 1818

Certificate issued 5th April 1818 and 
sent to Mr. Richard Stephens of the 
City of Baltimore, Maryland

Arrears to 4th Sept. 1818  5  3/31  mos.  $101.93


(Revolutionary Claim,)
(Act 18th March 1818)

Frigate Trumbull, Nicholson

one year
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State of Maryland
City of Baltimore

Be it remembered that on the second day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and Eighteen Richard Stephens aged sixty five years and upwards residing in the City of Baltimore State of Maryland an applicant for a pension under the Act of Congress entitled "an Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War" personally appeared before me the undersigned and then and there did make the following declaration on oath by me administered to him.
That he the said Richard Stephens enlisted on board of the Continental Frigate Providence Captain Whipple Commander at Boston in February 1779 as first mate that they sailed on a cruise in company with the ship Queen of France and Ranger and captured several prizes, that in October 1779 the Frigate Providence was hauled up in Boston Harbour afterwards in February 1780 he arrived in Charleston and was put in requisition
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as a mariner by General Lincoln till that city capitulated in May following when he was made a prisoner and parolled for sixty days and that being exchanged he afterwards in June 1782 entered on board of the Continental Frigate Trumbull Captain James Nicholson Commander as Sailing Master that in August off Cape May the Trumbull was captured by a British Frigate and carried into New York and the officers parolled to Flat Bush Long Island where we continued till the Capture of Cornwallis at York in Virginia when we were exchanged, that he reported himself to the proper officer of Government and was in requisition as a Naval Officer till the Peace in 1783.  That he was in the Naval Service of the United States during the Revolutionary War at different periods exceeding nineteen months and therefore an applicant for a pension under said Act of Congress.
That he has never received any pension from the United States and by reason of his reduced circumstances being now advanced in years is in need of assistance from his country
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for support and that his warrants ? compass in taken from him by the enemy.

Subscribed and sworn to before me this second day of April 1818.

Richard Stevens

Alexander Nisbet
Associate Judge of Baltimore City Court


City of Baltimore to wit:

I hereby certify that it appears to my entire satisfaction from the facts set forth in the foregoing declaration under oath that the said Richard Stephens served in the war of the Revolution against the common enemy in the capacity mentioned in said Declaration.

In witness whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name this second day of April one thousand eight hundred and eighteen

Alexander Nisbet
Associate Judge 
Baltimore City Court
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City of Baltimore to wit.

I Thomas Harwood, Clerk of Baltimore City Court hereby certify that the Honorable Alexander Nisbet before whom the foregoing proceedings appears to have been taken and certified was at the time of taking and certifying the same, and still is an Associate Judge of Baltimore City Courts, duly Commissioned and qualified and to his acts as such full faith and credit is and ought to be given.

In Testimony I hereunto subscribe my hand and affix the seal of Baltimore City Courts this second day of April one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.

Thomas Harwood
Clerk
Baltimore City Court
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INVALID

Revy.

File No. 35085

Richard Stephens
Sailing Master
Frigate Trumbull
Rev. War

Act March 18, 1818

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