Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 14,592, for Henry Stevens, New Hampshire
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(N)H. 
Stevens, Henry
S14,592
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CONTENTS
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805-8 New York     8058
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Henry Stevens 
of Brandon in the State of New York 
who was a Private in the Company by Captain Walker of the Regiment command 
by Col. Jas Reed in the New Hampshire 
line for 2 years 

*
Mass  and N.H. 
Records completed Feb. 1, 1907
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Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 80 - Dollars ___Cents per annum
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
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 Certificate of Pension issued the 8 day of March 1833 - - and sent to Hon: N. Ritcher Sandy Hill N.Y. 
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Arrears to the 4th of Mar 33            $160
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sep 33   40 
                                                            $200
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{Revolutionary Claim, 
{Act June 7, 1832.

Recorded by Glestiles Clerk 

Book E Vol. 4 Page 31 

(Right side)

Letter 21. April 1847 Pen Agent
Pen Agent, May 13, 18 [illegible] 
Dead 
Paid at the Treasury under 
the Act of 6 April 1838, from 
4 Sep. to 22 Dec 1841. Agent 
notified 3 Dec 1844 
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letter to Henry Stevens son
May 20 ‘50
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N. H. 

Henry Stevens 

Admd

On Rolls for 
5 mo 
& 
13 mo
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16. 

P -225 

Hon N. Pitcher
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BRIEF in the case of Henry Stevens 
of Brandon in the State of N. York 
(Act 7th June, 1832.) 

1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? 
in open Court

 2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity? 

3. How old is he? 
75 years, and 9 months 

4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed. 

Period. 
May In 1775 (enlisted) 
May     1776.      " 
decem 1776.     " 
May     1777      " 

Duration of Service. 
Years 

Months
 8
5 or more
3
8

Rank
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Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served. 
Gen.
 Wm Walker }.    New Hampshire
Col J Reed} 

Capt Barron}.             do
Col. Isaac Wyman} 

Capt. Carlish}.         Mass
Col Sparhawk}

Capt Wm Ellis}        N. Hampshire
Col Scammel}

5. In what battles was he engaged? 
Bunker Hill and Still Water 

6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? 
Wilton, New Hampshire 

7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? 
Traditionary evidence, and 3 living Witnesses also his original Discharge from his second enlistment 

8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? 
they are not attached according to the Regulations 

CERTIFY  that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned. 
Wm Gordon  -  Examining Clerk
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(Left side - portrait aspect)

At a Court of Common Pleas 


(Right side)

Henry Stevens 

admd 

2 years pri 
80$
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State of New York}
County of Franklin}Ss. 

On this eleventh day of October AD 1832 personally appeared in open Court before the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas now sitting at the Court House in the Town of Malone in and for the County of Franklin in the State of New York Henry Stevens a resident of the Town of Brandon in the County of Franklin & State of New York aged seventy five years and seven months who being first duly sworn according 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 was born at the Town of Westminster in the State of Massachusetts on the 22d day of February in the year 1757 as he has been informed and verily believes, that he believes there is a record of his birth at the office of the Town Clerk of the said town of Westminster but he has never seen it and he has no record of his age 
that at the commencement of the war of the Revolution he resided at the Town of Wilton in the County of Hillsborough in the State of New Hampshire 
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated 
That on the [crossed out-first] second day of May as he believes in the year 1775 he voluntarily enlisted into the Company of Captain William Walker in the Regiment commanded by Col James Reed in the Troop of the State of New Hampshire for the term of eight months and marched with said company & Regiment to Cambridge near Boston and remained at and near Cambridge and served as a private during during the said Term of Eight months and was honorably 
discharged at Winter Hill about the first of
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January in the year 1776 during which term of service the said Regiment was stationed a part of the time on Winter Hill that some days previous to the Battle of Bunkers Hill he was with said Regiment under Col Reed on Bunker Hill engaged in erecting a Breast work 
that he was engaged & fought in the said Company & Regiment at the Battle of Bunker Hill that at the time of his discharge he received a written discharge signed by Colonel James Reed which he soon after lost [7 illegible words crossed] 
he then returned home to Wilton That in the month of May in the year 1776 he enlisted at Wilton as a private in a company commanded by Capt Barron in the Regiment commanded by Col Isaac Wyman in the New Hampshire Troops immediately entered the service & marched in said company & Regiment to Ticonderoga & joined the Northern army under Genl H Gates where he continued to serve as a private Soldier in the said Company & Regiment till the eleventh day of October 1776 when he was honorably discharged from the service at Ticonderoga on account of sickness having served five months or more, which discharge Signed by Gen Gates is annexed hereto his engagement was for six months. 
that he then went to Westminster in the State of Massachusetts and in the month of December 1776 he enlisted for three months in a company commanded by Capt David Carlish in the Regiment commanded by Col Sparhawk's Regiment of the Masschusetts line & marched with the said Regiment to New Jersey and served as a private in said Company & Regiment at a place called Bound Brook till the end of his said
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time of three months when he was discharged at the last mentioned place in the month of March 1777 received no written discharge [crossed out - which he afterwards lost.] 
that he then went to Brattleborough in the County of Windham & State of Vermont then called Hampshire Grants and In the month of May in the year 1777 he enlisted at Brattleborough for eight months into the Company of Captain Wm Ellis and joined the Regiment commanded by Col Scammel in the New Hampshire line  & marched to Ticonderoga and joined the Northern Army in the month of July- 1777 and that he served as a private in the said Company & Regiment & was with the Army in the retreat from Ticonderoga and continued in the same till the time of the battle of Stillwater 
that he was in engaged in that battle and was [crossed out -on a scout]then taken prisoner by the enemy & put in irons & kept a prisoner till the surrender of Genl Burgoyne in October when he was released and again joined his company & regiment and marched with the same in Genl Poors Brigade  to a place called Valley Forge in the State of Pennsylvania where he remained in the same till some time in the month of January in the year 1778 when he was honorably discharged at that place obtained no written discharge [crossed out -which he kept a number of years and finally lost it it does not remember by whom it was signed]  
having served in the different times a little over two years in all that he then went to Dummerston in the County of Windham & State of Vermont where he resided till the month of March in the year 1820 when
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he removed to his present place of residence in the Town of Brandon in the County of Franklin & State of New York where he has continued to reside to the present time 
that he has no documentary evidence except what is herewith submitted- 
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension Roll of the agency of any State 
Henry Stevens [signature]
Sworn to and subscribed 
the day & year aforesaid 
John H. Russell Dep. Clerk 

We Joel Griffin residing in the town of Malone in the County of Franklin in the State of New York, and Harvey Doty of the town of Bangor in the said County & State hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Henry Stevens who has subscribed & sworn to the above declaration, that we believe him to be seventy five 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 
Joel Griffin [signature]
Harvey Doty [signature]
Sworn to & Subscribed in open Court 
Oct 11th 1832 


John H Russell Dep. Clerk 
On the first page of the declaration, the word "first" ceased and the word "second" interlined, on the second page, the word "Signed by Colonel James Read" interlined & the words "and does not recollet by whom signed" was also the words" at Wilton" interlined on the third page, the word "no" interlined. the words" which he
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afterwards lost, erased-- & the words "in the New Hampshire line interlined, and the words" which he kept a number of years and finally lost it, does not recollect by whom it was signed" erased, all done in open Court before signing= 

And the Court do 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 a revolutionary Soldier, and served as he states. 
And the Court further certify, that it appears to them, that Joel Griffin who signed the preceeding certificate, is a resident in the Town of Malone in the said County of Franklin, and that Harvey Dotty who also signed the same, is a resident in the Town of Bangor in the same County, and are credible persons, and that their statement is entitled to credit  - 

I John H. Russell Deputy Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and the County of Franklin, do hereby certify, that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Henry Stevens for a pension- 

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court the Seventeenth day of October, one thousand eight hundred and thirty two -
John H. Russell Dep. Clerk
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I hereby certify that the within papers are unaltered since they passed from the hands of the Clk 
Mar. 6. 1833 
William Hogan
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I Gustavus Bingham of Chesterfield in the County of Chester State of New Hampshire of lawfull age do testify and say that in the month of July A.D. 1777, I joined the continental army at a place called Fort Miller in the State of N. York and in the Company of Capt Wm Ellis, in the Regiment of Col Scammel of the New Hampshire Line, and when I joined Henry Stevens of  [illegible] Vt was a private soldier in the same company and Regiment and I lived with the said Stevens till the month of June 1778 when the sd Stevens was honorably discharged at a place called Valley Forge in the state of - Pennsylvania -
I was knowing at Still Water Stevens? was taken prison by Burgoynes army and that at the time of the Surender of sd army the sd Stevens was marched out with them and again joined his company and Regnt - the sd Stevens was [ranked?] a good and faithful soldier -
the time of of the said Stevens enlistment, as I then understood was nine months- 
[signature} Gustavus Bingham 

State of Vermont} 
Windham County} 
January 13th 1829 Then person ally appeared the above named Gustavus Bingham and after being carefully examined and duly cautioned made solemn oath that the above affidavitt by him subscribed contains and whole truth & nothing but the truth 
Before  Phineas White Chief Judge 
of Windham Co. Crt.

The witness is determined as
credible 
[illegible] P White. Crt.
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State of Vermont 
Windham County Court Clerks Office 
New Fane ,August 4. 1832. 

I certify that Phinehas White Esquire 
was on the 13th day of January 1819 
Chief Judge of Windham County Court aforesaid, and that the within 
is his signature- 

In testimony whereof I have hereunto 
set my hand and the seal of the 
said County Court on the day and year aforesaid- 
James Elliot, Clerk.
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John Bemis
Deposition
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I John Bemis of Dummerston County of Windham State of Vermont of lawful age being duly sworn do depose and testify and say, that I was acquainted with Henry Steven resident of Brandon County of Franklin State of New York 

in the year of 1775 I joined the army on the first day of May A.D. 1775 in Massachusetts State Troops in Col Asa Whitcombs Regt and Capt Edmond Bemis Company, 
the said Henry Stevens [belong?] to the army in said year and was stationed on Winter Hill, and he served in said army from the first of May to the last of December in the year of 1776 
I was knowing to the said Henry Stevens engaging in the army about the 15th day December of of the above year and returning about the first of April 1777, and further I say not 
John Bemis 

State of Vermont} 
Windham County}
June the 14. 1832 
Then personally appeared the name the above named John Bemis and after being carefully examined and duly cautioned made Solemn oath that the above deposition by him Subscribed contained the whole truth and nothing but the truth 
before 
David Bemis Justice of the peace
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Affidavit of 
Joseph Bemis - .
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I Joseph Bemis of Dummerston in the County of Windham and State of Vermont of lawful age testify and say - 
That I have been well acquainted with Henry Stevens now residing in the Town of Brandon County of Franklin State of New York -  
that I am knowing that the said Stevens was a Soldier in the first eight months service of the Revolutionary War -  and that said Stevens served said Term of eight months in the Hampshire line - in Col Reads Regiment the name of the Captain the Deponent does not remember —-
And I further say that said Stevens served one other tourr at Mount Independance but for what length of time I know not. 
And I further testify that in the month of December AD 1776 the said Stevens enlisted for three months went to what was then called Bound Brook in the State of New Jersey -  and that said Stevens did not  return home until the month of April then next following- 
I further Testify that in the year 1777 the said Stevens  Enlisted for the term of eight months in Col. Scammels Regiment in the New Hampshire line and the name of his Captain was Ellis and that said Stevens was taken Prisoner at the first Battle with Gen Burgoine at Still Water and when the army of Burgaine Surrendered and marched out, said Stevens again Joined his Company served out his time and was honourably discharged- 
Further the Deponant saith not- 
Joseph Bermis
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State of Vermont }
Windham County ss} 
Dummerston June 15th 1832- 
Then personally appeared the within named Joseph Bemis and after being carefully examined and duly cautioned made Solemn Oath that the within affidavit by him subscribed contains the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth- 
Before me Joseph Duncan Justice of the peace 

I certify that the Deponant is 
disinterested and credible -
Joseph Duncan Just peace 

State of Vermont 
Windham County Court Clerk's Office 
New Fane August 4. A.D. 1832. 
I certify that Joseph Duncan and David Bemis, Esquires are Justices of the Peace within and for the County of Windham aforesaid, and that the above and within are their signatures respectively 
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said County Court on the day and year above written 
James Elliot, Clerk
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Mech & Farmers Bank 
Albany Pension Agency 
April 14, 1837. 

James L. Edwards Esquire, 
Commissioner of Pensions, 

Sir 

Clark Rood, Invalid claims 18 months pay, and Henry Stevens (act of June 7, 1832) claims two years pay, in the vouchers herewith encl - 

Henry Hillman Invalid claims six months pay on the enclosed Vouchers (copies of same also enclosed) his pension Certificate being 
withheld -  
I am Sir 
Very respectfully 
Your obt Servt 
Tho M  [Cleuth?]
Prsd & [illegible]

* mistake - 6 mos from 
4 March to 4 Sept. 1835
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GIDEON, PRINTER. 

TREASURY DEPARTMENT 
SECOND COMPTROLLER'S OFFICE, 
June 5th 1844. 

Sir: 
Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled "An Act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States” , and the third section of the Act of August 23, 1842, extending the time within which pensioners may receive their pensions from the pension agents, Three of the four childrn of Henry Stevens, decd - a Pensioner on the Roll of the Albany, New York Agency, at the rate of Eighty - Dollars per annum, under the law of the 7th June 1832 has been paid at this Department, from the of 4th Sept. to the 22 Dec. 1841. 
Respectfully, yours, 
Albion K. Parris 
Comptroller.

To the COMMISSIONER OF PENSIONS, 
Present.
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Henry Stevens, 
Albany (N. Y) roll 
Act 7 June 1832- 

He claims pay from 4 March 1835, to 4 Sept. 1835, yet acknowledged being paid to Sept. 1836. The agent does not find his name in the Abstract of payments for the first mentioned period. How stands the case?
He appears to be correct
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Mech & Farmers’  Bank 
Albany Pension Agency 
May 1st 1837 

James L. Edwards Esquire 
Commissr of Pensions, 

Sir,

In my letter of the 14th ult. it was stated, by mistake, that Henry Stevens, a Pensioner under the  act of June 7, 1832, claimed pay for two years, on his Vouchers therein enclosed. -On examining the Vouchers returned to us with your letter of the 27th ult. I find that he claims pay for 6 months only viz - from the 4th of March 1835 to the 4th of Sept 1835, we have examined our Abstract of payments & do not find that he has been paid for that period. I again enclose the Vouchers to you, and ask the favor of your instructions in the case- 
I am, Sir, 
very respectfully 
Your obedt Servt 
The M [Cleuth?]
Prsd & [illegible}
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Rev War
No. 14 .592 
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File No. 14,592
Henry Stevens 
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Act: June 7th 32 

Index:—-Vol. A, Page 361 

[Arrangement of 1870.}
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that the Complaint of Henry Stevens is not fictitious I do  Recommend the said Henry Stevens Soldier in Capt Barrons Company of the Regiment under my command, aged 19 years the 2 day of February last --- 

Five foot six inches high Short Dark Col hair blue eyes and a light complection beloning to the Town of Wilton in New Hampshire New England as a proper person to be Discharged from the army of the United States of America  
Isaac Wyman. Col

To the Hon’ble Gates 
Commanding  at Ticonderoga