Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 2,642, Stephen Dana, Mass.
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Declaration
In order to obtain the benefit of the third Section of the Act of Congress of the 4th of July 1836.
State of Massachusetts ⎬
Middlesex ss:
On this nineteenth day of April, One thousand eight hundred and thirty seven, personally appeared before the Judge of Probate for the County of Middlesex, Elenor Dana, a resident of the town of Brighton, in the County of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts aforesaid, aged Ninety three 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 4, 1836: That she is the widow of
Stephen Dana who was a Colonel in the Militia of Massachusetts in the service of the war of the Revolution;
that according to the best of her knowledge and belief her said husband first went to the Lexington fight, he then being a captain in the Militia, and remained in the service in the vicinity of Boston with his company until he was promoted to a Colonel, and went to Rhode Island, where he stayed until the English left for the South. She further declares that she was married to the said Stephen Dana, on the sixteenth day of September Seventeen Hundred and Sixty two; that her husband the
aforesaid Stephen Dana died on the fifteenth day of October 1822 and that she has remained a widow ever since that period, as
will more fully appear by reference to the proof here annexed.
She further states that her said husband did not receive a pension under the law of 1818, by reason of his then being possessed of property. She further states, that she cannot now recollect the names of the officers under whom her husband served, nor the places where he went, except
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except that he was in the neighborhood of Boston until the British troops evacuated it. He left home at the head of his company, on the nineteenth day of April 1775 & continued in service as it now seems to her for the greater part of the war. At least he was from home a great part of the time, altho she cannot be certain of the service he was engaged in. She does not recollect when he was promoted. She is confident he was in service in Rhode Island as she recollects hearing him speak of their mode of getting in & stacking their hay in Rhode Island & she presumes he
was there in the summer season-- She has no papers or documents relative to his services, as all old papers belonging to her husband
have been lost or destroyed many years- nor does she know any person now living who can testify to her husband's services &
she must refer to the records files in the public offices for the particular proof of his services, beyond what she has stated as above.
She & her husband lived in Cambridge in that part since incorporated into a new town by the name of Brighton, at the time the revolutionary war broke out. She now lives in the same house that they occupied when they first married & which she has occupied ever since - Her husband was for many years in public life as a town officer & representative in the general Court & State Convention & was
extensively known. She has stated that she could not tell when her husband was promoted to the command of a Regiment, but according to her impression it was at or soon before the time when the British troops
left Boston - her maiden name was Eleanor Brown
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Witness Ann Welles
Elenor Dana
Subscribed & sworn to by said Eleanor Dana
at her own house, she being unable from age
infirmity to attend in open Court before me
S.P. P. Fay Probate.
And the said Judge does hereby certify his
opinion, after investigation
of the matter, that the
statement made by said Declarant is true that
she is a credible person & entitled to belief as a person of undoubted integrity P. P. Fay Judge of Prob
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Supplemental Declaration
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
County of Middlesex, ss,
On this thirtieth day of November Eighteen hundred and forty four
Personally appeared before me Elijah Clark, a justice of the Peace in
and for the County of Middlesex, William Brown, a resident of Cambridge in said County, fifty eight years of age, who being first duly
sworn according to Law, doth on his oath make the following Declaration as Executor of the Estate of Elanor Dana late of Brighton in
said County deceased in order to further claim the pension which was due the said Elanor Dana at the time of her death, agreeable to
the benefits of the provisions made by the Act of Congress passed
July fourth A.D. 1836. That the husband of the said Elenor Dana whose name was Stephen Dana of that part of Cambridge now Brighton
rendered service as he verily believes in the War of the Revolution and held the commission of a Captain, and commanded a Company in and about Boston at several different times, and amounting in all to near five months service, between the year 1775 and 1779, and
that he afterwords rendered the service Colonel of a Regiment and rendered near six months service in that capacity at different places and that he was in the service in the State of Connecticut & Rhode Island
at which time he resided in that part of Cambridge now Brighton.
He further declares that the marriage of the said Elanor, to the
said Stephen Dana took place previous to his last service "Viz"
at the time stated in her former declaration, that the said Stephen
Dana died on or near the sixteenth day of October in the year eighteen
hundred and twenty two, and that his widow the said Elanor Dana
died on or near the nineteenth day of November eighteen hundred &
thirty seven, & further he saith not
William Brown
Sworn to and Subscribed, on the day and year above writen
Before me, the word, Administrator being eral & the word Executor inserted
before signing & making at Elijah Clark, Justice of the Peace
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Middlesex County ss
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
I Isaac bithe Register of
Court of Probate in and for said County
of Middlesex
hereby certify that satisfactory evidence has been
exhibited to said Court that Elanor Dana was the
widow of Stephen Dana late of Brighton in the
County of Middlesex, deceased who was reputed
to have been an officer in the Revolutionary War.
put the said Elanor Dana died after the death
of
the said Stephen Dana her said husband never
having been
married again, attount, at said Brighton
on the nineteenth day of November in the year
Eighteen hundred & thirty seven & that she left no
child or children.
I further
certify that at a Court of Probate
holden at Cambridge in the ninth day of January
in the year Eighteen hundred & thirty eight, the
last will & testament of the said Elanor Dana
was duly proved allowed & established & that
William Brown of said Combridge was duly appointed
the Executor of said Will I give and duly approved
by the Judge of said Court for the performance of and
trust, which appointment remain in full force
in name received, revoked or annulled.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my
hand & affixed the seal of said Court this sworth
day of December in the year Eighteen hundred
July yours
Isaac hurke M.