Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 6191, for Charles Stevenson, Pennsylvania
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(3 - 1779)
SERVICE
Penn.

Stevenson, Charles
Margaret

NUMBER
W. 6191
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CONTENTS
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5482
Ohio Cincinnati
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Margaret Stevenson
widow of Charles Stevenson
Penn
who was a Private
in the Revolution
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of
30 Dollars
Cents per annum, to commence on
the 4th day of March, 1843.
Certificate of Pension issued the
15th day of May 1844
and sent to
Wesley Lee
West Union, Ohio.
[Act of March 3, 1843.]
Recorded in Book A
Vol. 1
Page 162
Reported
[illegible] Hon J S Taylor
May 5th 1848.
Certificate iss
under W. Redo
23rd Jany 45
No 572.
[illegible] Hon J S Taylor [illegible]
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7014
Ohio
Charles Stevenson
of Adams Co in the State of Ohio
who was a private in the Company commanded
by Captain Savage of the regt commanded
by Col. McCollister in the line
for 11 mo. from '76
Inscribed on the Roll of Ohio,
at the rate of 36 Dollars 66 Cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 25 day of Feby 1833 and sent to
William McColen Esq West Union O
Arrears to 4th of March 1833 - $ 73.32
Semi=anl. allowance ending 4 Sept '33. 18.33
$91.65
⎨ Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7, 1832.}
Recorded by
W. L. Williams Clerk
Book E. Vol. 8. Page 24

Paid at [illegible] under the
Act of [illegible] 1838 from
4th March [illegible]1839. Agent
modified [illegible] 1840
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The State of Ohio, Adams County [illegible]
On this twenty seventh day of September in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty three personally appeared before the subscriber, one of the associate Judges of
the Court of Common Pleas of said County, which is a Court of Record, Margaret Stevenson, a resident of said County of Adam, aged seventy two or seventy 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 7. 1838, entitled "An act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows;" and to obtain, also, the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress, passed on the 3rd March
1843, granting pensions to the widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War. That she is the widow of
Charles Stevenson, who was a Revolutionary soldier and pensioner. The particulars of said Charles Stevenson's Revolutionary services she does not recollect, if she ever knew; but she recollects, or recollects to have heard, that the
said Charles Stevenson, at the time of entering the Revolutionary service lived in York County, State of Pennsylvania. Under the act of Congress passed 7th June 1832, said Charles Stevenson became entitled to a pension from the United States, of thirty six dollars and sixty six cents per annum, during his natural life, as appears from his original pension certificate non- present dated 25th February, 1833, and he regularly drew his said pension up to the 4th of March 1841. The said Margaret Stevenson further declares and says, that she was lawfully married to the said Charles Stevenson in Mifflin County, State of Pennsylvania, and that the marriage rite was performed by James
Johnson, Pastor of Dry Valley Congregation. She could not from mere recollection state the precise day of her marriage with said Charles Stevenson, but she recollects that she was then twenty one years of