Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 13933, for Jonathan Stevens, Massachusetts
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SERVICE Mass

Stevens, Jonathan
Susanna

NUMBER W13933
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Declaration
In order to obtain the benefit of the 3d Section of the lot of Congress of 4th July,1836 State of Massachusetts, Essex County SS. On this Twenty fourth day of November 1836 
personally appeared before me David Cummings a judge in the of the Court of Common Pleas in said State, Susanna Stevens a resident of Andover in the County of Essex and State
Massachusetts widow aged 81 years and three months who first being 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 4th1836. That she is the widow of Jonathan Stevens who served in the [crossed out] army in the Revolutionary [crossed out] war, pensioner at the time of his decease reference being had to the application of the said Jonathan Stevens now on file for the war Department for the term and particulars of his service in the Revolutionary war that she was married to the said Jonathan Stevens on the fifteenth day of December of 1773 - that he died at Andover on the third day of April A.D. 1834 - and that she  ever since has been and is now his widow - as will more fully appear by the reference to the proof here to annexed
[signature] Susanna Stevens
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Essex ss. I John Prince Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas within and for the County of Essex hereby certify that Hon David Cummins is a Judge of said Court; and that the [illegible] Stevens of [illegible] is a Justice of the Peace in and for the said County and that their respective signatures in the annexed papers are genuine. Witness my hand and the seal of said court of Salem on tis twentieth day of September A.D. 1837
[signature] John Prince Clk.
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I Bailey Loring resident at Andover in Massachusetts on oath testify -  
That it appears by the Records of the First Church in Andover of which Church I am now the minister and
which Records I now have in custody, that Jonathan Stevens and Susannah Bragg were lawfully married on the fifteenth day of December A.D.1773
[signature] Bailey Loring
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Essex ss. December 30, 1836 - Personally appeared Bailey Loring above mentioned made oath to the truth of the foregoing by him above Subscribed Before me William Story Justice of the Peace
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Jonathan Stevens
Maps
Admit as a pension
9 months
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Jonathan Stevens
18377
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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.

Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid Jon Stevens

David Cummins Judge of C. C. P

We, Bailey Loring a clergyman, residing in Andover aforesaid, and Gayton P. Osgood Esquire, a magistrate, residing in Andover aforesaid, do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Jonathan Stevens who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be 84 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.

Subscribed and sworn to before Bailey Loring Gayton P. Osgood D. Cummins of C.C [illegible]
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And the said Justice hereby declare his opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the abovenamed applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier, and served as he states. And the said Justice further certifies that Bailey Loring who has signed the preceding Certificate, is a Clergyman resident in Andover and that the said Gayton P. Osgood who has also signed the same is a Magistrate resident at Andover and is a credible person and that their statement is entitled to credit.
And the said Justice further certifies that the abovenamed applicant cannot by reason of bodily infirmity attend in open court for the purpose of making the foregoing declaration.
David Cummins Judge C.P.

I, John Prince Junior Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for the County of Essex aforesaid, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Jonathan Stevens for a  pension, that David Cummins is a Justice of said Court and that his signature above is genuine - that N. Swift and Gayton P. Osgood are Justices of the Peace in said County and that I believe their signatures above are genuine. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this seventh day of November A.D. 1832
John Prince; Clerk
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April 16, 1931

Mrs. W. N. Searcy
Durango
Colorado

Rev. & 1812 Wars Section
ANF: MLB

Dear Madam:

You are advised that it appears from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claims, W. 13933, that Jonathan Stevens was born in 1747 in Andover, Massachusetts.

While residing there he was a minuteman in 1774 and 1775 and on April 20, 1775 marched to Cambridge and enlisted and served eight months as a private in Captain Benjamin Farnum's company, Colonel Frye's Massachusetts regiment and was in the battle of Bunker Hill.

He was allowed pension on his application executed September 13, 1832, at which time he was living in Andover, Massachusetts, where he had always lived.

He died April 3, 1834 in Andover.

The soldier married December 15, 1773, Susannah Bragg. The marriage was recorded in the "First Church" in Andover, Massachusetts. 

She was allowed pension on her application executed November 24, 1836, at which time she was living in Andover, Massachusetts, and was eighty-one years and three months of age.

One William Stevens was a justice of peace in Andover, Massachusetts in 1837;  no relationship stated.

Very truly yours

E. W. Morgan
Acting Commissioner