Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 14,614, for John Stroud, New Hampshire
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SERVICE
NH
 
Stroud, John
 
NUMBER
S14614

CONTENTS
Carded
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14225
New York
John Stroud
Just Co in the State of New York of [illegible]
who was a Private in the company commanded by
Captain Mann of the regt commanded by Col.
Reed, in the line for 12 mo
N.H. line
Records corrected Feb 18 1907

Inscribed on the Roll of New York
the rate of 40 Dollars Cents per annum
commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued at the 6 day of May
1833 and Sent Caliv J. Cuyler Esq

Arrears to the 4th of March 1833 $80.00
allowance ending 4 Sept  20
$100.00

Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7, 1832 
Recorded by W.L. William Clerk
Book E Vol. 4 Page 76
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John Stroud
Application for a Pension
13.793
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State of N York
County of Essex

On this Twenty fourth day of date of September
in the year of Our Lord 1832 personally appeared before the Judges
of the Court of Common Pleas of the County aforesaid now
Sitting John Stroud to resident of Essex in the County
and State afsd of New York aged Eighty three
, who being first duly sworn according to Law
doth on his oath make the following declaration, in order
to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the Act
Congress passed June 7th 1832.
that he enlisted
in the Army of the United States in the spring of the year 1775
with one Sergeant Carpenter, and served in Colonel James
Reeds Regiment of the Continental line as he supposes under the
following named Officers, as hereinafter stated Lieut
Colonel James Reed of Fitzwilliam Captain Benjamin Mann
Lieutenant of Brown & Ensign Pettingill, that he enlisted
for Eight months, and found his company and Reg
at Winterhill in Massachusetts, and was stationed the
most of the time during his service, but was employed most
of the line in Fortifying at Charleston, on Bunker Hill
Dorchester Height s& on the South to Michick River, was
not engaged in any Battle during the period of service
but was in several skirmishes with Parties of Britishh
Soldiers who were plundering about the Country of that
winter of 1775 that at the Expiration of his service he was discharged but was dismissed with the rest of the  company. on parade and returned homeThat some time the latter part of July
four part of August in the year 1777 he volunteered in
the New Hampshire Militia under the Captain Stone of Fitzwilliam
& Lieutenant Perry. in Col Stickney Required to plant to the
State of New York to Join Genl Schuyler Army under the command
of Genl Stark They marched to Bennington in the State of
Vermont and was in both engagements with the detachment of the British army under Col Brun on the
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Sixteenth of August 1777 After the Battle & retreat of the British army [illegible] at Bennington while Keeping
was scouting about the County making out a term of four months the before he was dismissed 
[illegible] discharged & has no
Documentary evidence of his service & knows no person
living whose testimony he can procure what could testify to his service. 
he resided at Pickenfield in the
State of Massachusetts when he entered the seat both the
period, was born at Nattick in Massachusetts July 15th 1769.  he believes has no record of his age it is on record in the town where he was born, he continued
to reside in Picketnstown after the war for four or five years moved to Danbury [illegible] lived there about your years removed to Petersborough New Hampshire lived there three or four years removed from there to Lock Hollow in the State of  New York lived there untill the year 1830 when he removed to Esson Essex County in New York and
has resided them since & now resides there he thinks he did not
receive a written discharge from the army for either period of his service. He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever eto a pension or annuity except this present
and declares that his name is not on the roll of any agency or State.

Sworn to & Subcuribed ed the day & year aforesaid
[signature] John Straw

We Jeseph Tishetz town clerk of the comm pleas  residing in the town of
Essex and Edward Carter in the
Town of Essex do hereby certify that we are well
acguainted with John and who has erected and
Sworn to the above declaration that in case her to be
Eighty three years of age. That he is reputed & believed in the
Neighborhood where he was to have been a soldier of
the petition & that we concur in that opinion

[signature] Joseph Tishetz
[signature] Edwd J Carter

Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
[signature] Leonard Trow Clerk of Essex Com Pleas
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And the said do hereby declare their opinion after the
Investigation of the matter and putting the interrogatories
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
Joseph Tippets who has said the preceeding certificate
  and that Edward [illegible]
who has also signed the same is a resident in the
town of Essex are credible and also that it was[illegible]
in Court a certain from the Town of Land on this
signed By order of the court  [signature] Leonard How Clerk of the Court Com Pleas

I Leonard How Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas
of the County of Essex do hereby certify
to the foregoinging contains the Original proceedings of the said
Court in the matter of the application of John Strand
for a Pension-
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand
Seal of Otter this 27th day of September 1832
Leonard How Clerk
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13,793
John Stroud
Essex County New York.

Admitted
12 mo. Private

[illegible]
Essex
NY
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WAR DEPARTMENT
Pension Office,
183
Sir

The evidence in support of your claim, under the act of June 7, 1832, has
been examined, and the papers are herewith returned. The following is a statement of
your case in a tabular form. On comparing these papers with the following rules, and
the subjoined notes, you will readily perceive that objections exist, which must be removed,
before a pension can be allowed. the notes and the regulations will show what is
necessary to be done. Those points to which your attention is more particularly directed,
you will find marked in the margin with a brace, (thus: }).
You will, when
you return your papers to this Department, send this printed letter with them; and
you will, by complying with this request, greatly facilitate the investigation of your claim.

[Chart]
A Statement, showing the service of John Stroud

Period when the service was rendered:
Enlisted 1775
Vol 1777

Duration of the claimant's services.
Years
Months
8. 
4 
Days


Rank of
claimant
Private
pr


Names and Rank
of the Company
officers under
whom he served.
Capt Mann
Lt. Brown
Let Carpenter
Ensign Poltingill

Capt Stone
Lt Perry

Names and Rank 
and Field officers.
Col Reeds
Col Stickney
joined Gen Scheyters army

Battles in which 
the
applicant was 
engaged.
none
Benningham

Country through
which he marched
Winterhill
Dorchester Heights
Benningham

Place of abode when he entered the service and age at the present period
Pickersfield Massachusetts
Aged 83

Evidence by which the declaration is supported.
Traditionary

I am, respectfully
Your obedient servant,


J. L. EDWARDS,
ported.
Traditionary
Commissioner of Pensions.
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REGULATIONS UNDER THE ACT OF JUNE 7, 1832.
The following regulations have been adopted:
This law has been construed to extend, as well to the line, as to every branch of the Staff of the Army,
and to include under the terms "Continental Line," "State troops, Militia and volunteers" all
persons enlisted, drafted, or who volunteered and who were bound to military service, but not those who
were occasionally employed with the army upon civil contracts, such as Clerks to Commissaries and to
Store Keepers, &c. Teamsters, Boatmen, &c. Persons who served on board of Private Armed Vessels are
also excluded from the benefits of the law, as well as persons who turned out as patrols, or were engaged
in guarding particular places at night, and were not recognized as being in actual military service.
Four general classes of cases are embraced in this law:
1. The Regular Troops.
.
The State Troops, Militia, and Volunteers.
3. Persons employed in the Naval service.
4. Indian Spies.
stance, make application by transmitting the following declaration, which will be made before a Court of
Record of the County where such applicant resides. And every Court having by law a seal and Clerk is
considered a Court of Record.
As rolls of the regular troops in the Revolutionary War exist in this Department, all persons, claiming
the benefit of this law as officers, non-commissioned officers, musicians or privates, will in the first in
On this
DECLARATION,
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th of June, 1832.
State, Territory, or District of
County of
.
day of
A.B. a resident (b) of
personally appeared (a) before
and State, Territory or District
years, who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth on his oath make the
following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provion made by the act of Congress, passed
June 7th, 1832. That he enlisted in the Army of the United States in the year (d)
andserved

in the
(e) regiment of the
Here set forth the names and rank of the Field and Company Officers the time he left the service; (and if he servthan
one term of enlistment, he must specify the particular period, and rank and names of his officers;) the
town or county and State in which he resided when he enered the service, the battles, if any, in which he was engaged
the country through which he marched. This form is to be varied so as to apply to the cases of officers and persons
who belonged to the militia, volunteers, navy, &c.]
He hereby relinquishes every claim (f) whatever to a pension or an annuity, except the present, and he
declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any Agency in any State, or (if any) only on that of
the Agency in the State of
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
A. B.
And then will follow the certificate of the Court
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion (g) that the above named applicant was a revolutionary
soldier, and served as he states.
of the Court of
do hereby certify (h) that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of
the application of
for a pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office (i) this
day of
K.
If, on examination of the proper record the names of applicants, making such declaration, cannot be
found, they will produce such proof as the rule given in note (j) points out.
except those who belonged to the New Hampshire Militia and State Troops of Virginia, will make and
subscribe a declaration similar to the foregoing, with the following additions, viz:
We, A. B., a Clergyman, residing in the
hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with
and C. D. residing in (the same)
who has
subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be
years Regenthat he is reputed and believed, in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
And then will follow the certificate of the Court.
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after
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 certifies, that it appears to them that A.B.
who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman, resident in the
and that C.D., who has also signed the same is a resident in the
and a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
Clerk of the Court of
do hereby certify that the foregoing
contains the original proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the applicacation of
for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal
of office, this
&c.
Every applicant will produce the best proof in his power. This is the original discharge or commission
; but if neither of these can be obtained, the party will so state under oath, and will then procure, if
possible, the testimony of at least one credible witness, stating in detail his personal knowledge of the services
of the applicant, and such circumstances connected therewith, as may have a tendency to throw light
upon the transaction.
If such surviving witness cannot be found, the applicant will so state in his declaration (l) and he will
also, whether he produce such evidence or not, proceed to relate all the material facts, which can be useful
in the investigation of his claim, and in the comparison of his narrative with the events of the period of his
alleged service, as they are known at the Department. A very full account of the services of each person
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will be indispensable to a favorable action upon his case. The facts stated will afford one of the principal
means of corroborating the declaration of the applicant, if true, or of detecting the imposition, if one be attempted
; and unless, therefore, these are amply and clearly set forth, no favorable decision can be expected.
All applicants will appear before some Court of Record in the County in which they reside, and there
subscribe and be sworn to, one of the declarations above provided, according to the nature of his case.
The Court will propound the following (m) interrogatories to all applicants for a pension, on account
of service in the Militia, State troops, or Volunteers, except the Militia of New Hampshire and the State
troops of Virginia.
1. Where and in what year were you born?
2. Have you any record of your age, and if so, where is it?
3. Where were you living when called into service; where have you lived since the Revolutionary war
, and where do you now live?
4. How were you called into service; were you drafted, did you volunteer, or were you a substitute?
And if a substitute, for whom?
5. State the names of some of the Regular Officers, who were with the troops, where you served; such
Continental and Militia Regiments as you can recollect, and the general circumstances of your services.
Did you ever receive a discharge from the service, and if so, by whom was it given
and what has become of it?
Did you ever receive a commission, and if so, by whom was it signed, and what
has become of it?
7. State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood, and who can testify
as to your character for veracity, and their belief of your services as a soldier of the Revolution.
The Court will see that he answers to these questions are embodied in the declaration, and they are
requested to annex their opinions of the truth of the statement of the applicant.
without too much expense and inconvenience to him, two respectable persons -one of whom should be
the nearest clergyman, if one lives in the immediate vicinity of such applicant, who can testify, from
their acquaintance with him, that they believe he is of the age he represents, and that he is reputed
and believed in the neighborhood to have been a Revolutionary soldier, and that they concur in that opinion.
one of these persons is a Clergyman, the Court will so certify, and they will also certify, to the character
and standing of other persons, giving such certificates.
The traditionary evidence of service is deemed very important, in the absence of any direct
proof, except the declaration of the party. And the Courts are requested to be very particular in the
enquiry whether the belief is general, and whether any doubts have ever existed upon the subject.
Applicants unable to appear in Court by reason of bodily infirmity, may make the declaration before
required, and submit to the examination, before a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record of the
proper county, and the Judge or Justice will execute the duties, which the Court is herein requested to
perform, and will also certify that the applicant cannot, from bodily infirmity, attend the Court.
Whenever any official act is required to be done by a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record,
or by a Justice of the peace, the certificate of the Secretary of State or Territory, or of the proper
Clerk of the Court or County, under his seal of office, will be annexed, stating that such person is a
Judge or Justice of a Court of Record, or a Justice of the Peace, and that the signature annexed is
No payment can be made on account of the services of any person, who may have died before
the taking effect of the act of June 7, 1832; and in case of death subsequent thereto, and before the
declaration herein required is made, the parties interested will transmit such evidence as they can procure
, taken and authenticated before a Court of Record, showing the services of the deceased, the period
of his death, the opinion of the neighborhood respecting such services, the title of the claimant, and the
opinion of the Court upon the whole matter.
The declarant must appear in open Court, unless prevented from doing so by reason of bodily infirmity; in which case the declarant will fol-
The declarant must make his declaration in the county where he resides. If he should fail to do so, he must assign a sufficient reason for a
The age of the claimant must invariably be mentioned.
The declarant must mention the period or periods of the war when he served.
very continental officer of other must give the name of the Color
under whom he served; otherwise a satisfactory examination of the
claim cannot be had. Every claimant must state, with precision, the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so
demnite as to enable the Department to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the
loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words:
of age, and the contents of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service; but, according to the best of his
recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned below, in the following year -- months, anddays
, I served as a . For months and days, I served as and for such service I claim a pension."
It is important, in all cases, to determine with precision the period it was implicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law
ments the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the fourth of his service. The use of the phrase about three or four months,
is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable. Some persons who apply for pensions merely state that they served two years
in the militia, &c. without specifying the tours, the names of the officers, and other particulars respecting their service. This form of a declaration is
highly objectionable. It must, in every case, be clearly shown under what officers the applicant served; the duration of each term of engagement;
the particular place or places where the service was performed; that the applicant served with an embodied corps called into service by competent authority
; that he was either in the field or in garrison; and for the time during which the service was performed, he was not employed in any civil
The law makes the relinquishment indispensable.
The opinion of the Court is always required.
The Clerk must fix his seal, and if it has no device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal, or if he has no pubthe
seal of office, the certificate of a Member of Congress, proving the official character and signature of the certifying officer, should accompany the
papers.
Mode of authenticating papers.
In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticates the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains
the affidavit, or other papers authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the ends of which must
pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate.
Proof of Service.
In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses,
who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimant's entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well
cent of the wit-
The notes from are all equally applicable to the cases of Militia men, Volunteers and State Troops, The proof required by rule in
This traditionary evidence is indipensable in militia cases
be found, the declarant must sta
The answers to the interrogatories must all be written, and sent to the War Department, with the declaration.
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1812 Wars Section

M.E.E.
Copied by E from
letter by MMHF
dated Jan 22, 1927

October 3, 1928.

Winifred Stroud Clements,
1740 G. Street,
Lincoln, Nebraska,

Madam;

I advise you that from the papers in the Revolutionary
War pension claim S. 14614, it appears that
John Stroud was born July 15, 1749 in Natick, Massachusetts,
While a resident of Peekersfield (?) Massachusetts
he enlisted in the spring of 1775, served eight months as a
private in Captain Benjamin Mann's Company, Colonel James
Reed's New Hampshire Regiment and was in several skirmishes.
He enlisted about August 1, 1777, served four months
as private in Captain Stone's Company, Colonel Stickney's
New Hampshire Regiment and was in the battle of Bennington.
He was allowed pension on his application executed
September 27, 1832 while a resident of Essex, Essex County,
There are no data on file whatsoever in regard to
New York.
his family.
Respectfully,
WINFIELD SCOTT,
Commissioner.
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Rev. 1812 Wars Section   MMHF
Mrs. John Blyman
11 Franklin Ave.,
Oshkosh, Wisconsin
Madam:
M H
January 23, 1927
I have to advise you that from the papers in the Revolutionary
War pension claim S. 14614 it appears that John
Stroud was born July 15, 1749 in Natick, Massachusetts.
While a resident of Peakerfield (?), Massachusetts he
enlisted in the spring of 1775, served eight months as a private
in Captain Benjamin Mann's Company, Colonel James Reed's
New Hampshire Regiment and was in several skirmishes.
He enlisted about August 1, 1777, served four months as
private in Captain Stone's Company, Colonel Stickney's New
Hampshire Regiment and was in the battle of Bennington.
He was allowed pension on his application executed September
27, 1832 while a resident of Essex, Essex County, New York
.
There are no data on file whatsoever in regard to his
family.

Respectfully,
WINFIELD SCOTT
Commissioner.

After Red. in Peekersfield Mass., Rockinham, Vt.
Coos, - Newberry, Vt- Peterborought, N.H. LookHollow, NY
Essex, N.Y.
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Nov 20, 1926.
MRS. DONNELYMAN
191 FRANKLIN AVENUE
OSHKOSH, WIS.
to the
Commissioner of Pensions,
Washington, D.C.
Dear Sir:
I am writing to ask you
if you have any record of John
stand, soldier of the Revolutionary War
John Strand was born in Natick,
Mass. July 15, 1749, died in Hillsborough,
N. Y. about Feb. 1840.
He was a
soldier in the Rev. serving in Col.
Peter Gates regiment
Albany Co. N.Y.
Militia. He drew a pension after
the war
He was buried in Williboro
What I wish to know is is
there any other record concerning
him,
name of his wife or children,
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date of his marriage, or any
particulars whatsoever about
his life.
In explaination I will say
I am his lineal descendant
through his son William, & my
father was the son of said
William
to John Strand was
my great grandfather. I
would appreciate any facts
concerning him or his family.
Thanking you for a reply
I remain
Yours truly
Irene M. Stroud Blyman
(Mrs. John Blyman)
P.S. I was referred to you by the
Record & Pension Office.
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1927 Jan Fisk or
John Durman M
28. Oct. 3. Hist to Winifred
Stroud Clements M.E.E.
 
14614.
INVALID.
File No. 14,614
John Stroud
Priv. Rev. War
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