Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 25094, for Samuel Stevens, Massachusetts
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(3-1776)
SERVICE
Mass.
R.I.
Stevens, Samuel
or Stephens
Amey
NUMBER
W.25094
CONTENTS
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[left side] 1649.
Rhode Island
Amey Stevens
widow of Samuel Stevens
who was a Private
in the Mass line
for 10 mos & 13 dy
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of
34 Dollars & 77
Cents per annum, to commence on
the 4th day of March, 1843.
Certificate of Pension issued the
30th day of August, 1843
and sent to
B. Cowell
Providence
R.I.
[Act of March 3, 1843.]
Recorded in Book A
Vol. 1 Page 95
[right side] Let to H. H. Sylvester Oct 10th 1844
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Town Clerks office Rehoboth January 27th 1831
I hereby certify that it appears from the Records in this office that Samuel Stephens and Amy Whitford both of Rehoboth were joined in Marriage on the fifteenth day of February A.D. 1781 duly Examined by me
Cyrus M. Wheaton Town Clerk
Bristol & Rehoboth Jany 28th 1837
Personally appeared before me the above named Cyrus M. Wheaton known to me as Town Clerk of Rehoboth and made oath that the above certificate is correct James Bliss Justice of the Peace
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State of Rhode Island
County of Providence &c
On this the tenth day of March AD 1837 personally appeared before me Benjamin Cowell Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas within & for said County Amey Stevens now resident in North Providence in said County aged 77 years who being duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of July 4th 1836. That she is the widow of Samuel Stevens formerly of Rehoboth & after that town was resident of Seakonk in the State of Massachusetts who was a private in the War of the revolution that her husband first enlisted for eight months in Col Hitchcocks regiment of Rhode Island Troops in 1775 & served out his time as a private & he served in various other regiments from that time until the close of the war, but she cannot at this great distance of time enumerate them & the request therefore to refer to the evidence of those who served with him or were knowing to his services in the year 1818. She believes he made an application for a pension for services rendered in the revolutionary war in the Continental services which application she believes was transmitted to the Pension office
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if to be found may show his services better than she can state them & she refers to that application for further proof. Altho she does not believe that that application shows all his services but those only in the Continental Line--And she further declares that she was married to her husband the said Samuel on the 18th day of Feby AD 1781, he was in the service when she married him & at home on a furlough & a short time afterwards returned to the army and she further declares that her husband the said Samuel died on the 15th day of November AD 1826 & that she has remained unmarried ever since that period & is now his widow. Her husband made application for a pension in 1818 as before stated but it was not granted because as she believes he had not served 9 months at one time, but of this she is not confident She now requests that the same pension which he would have been entitled to under the act of June 7 1832 may be granted to her
Amey [her X mark] Stevens
Providence &c March 13 1837.
Sworn to and subscribed before me and I
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further certify that from old & extreme infirmity she is unable to attend court
Benjamin Cowell
C J C Pleas
I Content Stevens of North Providence in said County being now 42 years of age on oath do testify & say that Amey Stevens who has signed & sworn to the preceding declaration is my mother and the Samuel Stevens was my father My father died on the fifteenth day of November AD 1826 & my Mother has remained unmarried ever since & is now my fathers widow
Content Stevens
Providence In North Providence
March 13 1837.
Sworn to & subscribed before me by the said Content Stevens and I further certify said deponent is a credible witness
Benj Cowell
C J Co C Pleas
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I David Benedict of North Providence do certify I am well acquainted with Amey Stevens the preceding applicant& also with Content Stevens her daughter They are both credible supportable persons & full faith & credit are due to their statements
David Benedict
Minister of the Gospel
In North Providence
March 13 1837
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Amey Stevens
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Secretary's Office, 18
I hereby Certify, That, from an examination of the Books an Documents, relating to Military Services in the War of the Revolution, which remain in this Department, it appears that the name of [illegible]
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written
Wm Swifts Depy
Secretary of the Commonwealth
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State of Rhode Island
County of Providence
Personally appeared before me a Justice of the Peace in said County Amey Stevens a resident in North Providence in said County aged 85 years who makes this supplemental declaration in order to obtain and reclaim a pension under the act of Congress of July 4, 1836, she declares & says that when said act was passed she made a declaration setting forth that she was married to Samuel Stevens, Feb 15 1781 Her said husband then  lived in the State of Massachusetts in the town of Rehoboth where she was married She set forth in her said declaration that her husband performed same [illegible] after their said Marriage, several [illegible] tours of duty, but she could not name the officers under whom he served but the fort she well recollected & so stated it in her declaration [illegible] appear by reference to her said [illegible] Not being able to satisfy the Commissioner of Pensions, that her said husband Samuel served as stated, she relinquishes his claim under said act of July 4 1836 & claims a pension under the act of July 7 1839 for services performed before his marriage
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which she has received.
And whereas some circumstances have brought to her recollection the name of Capt Bank as one of the officers under whom her said husband served after their marriage She therefore requests the Honorable Senator of Massachusetts to examine the Rolls of said Role of Military services during the War of the Revolution & ascertain if there was a Captain by that name & if so if the name of Samuel Stevens is on the Roll of his Company either as a non Commission officer or private & to attach his certificate to this instrument, meaning to forward the same to the Secretary of War to claim her rights according to the [illegible] of the act of July 4, 1836. 
Amey [her X mark] Stevens
In presence of
Saml Greene
Providence Ss. In North Providence, on this 3d day of June, 1844.
Personally appeared before me, the abovenamed Amey Stevens and made oath to the truth of the foregoing Instrument, by her signed; and I further certify that she is a credible person, and that I believe her statement entitled to full credit.
Saml. Greene 
Just Peace
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I Benjamin Cossens of Providence in the State of Rhode Island &c make oath that in the spring of the year Eighteen Hundred and Eighteen, I then being in the practice of Law in the County of Bristol in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Samuel Stephens then and till his decease residing in said County of Bristol and near me applied to me to assist him in obtaining his Pension as a Revolutionary soldier under the first act for the relief of said Persons. I accordingly assembled the necessary Papers and assisted him in processing evidence to support his claim In doing which I well remember going with him to Wrentham  in the County of Norfolk in said Commonwealth and taking the affidavit of a material witness before the late Judge Jairus Ware of that County, but I do not recollect the name of the Witness nor his testimony. The papers were made out with great care and I believe they both substantially and formally established the fact of Mr Stephens having served as much as nine months in the Revolutionary War as a private soldier, and I think but am not positive the service was in the Continental Line. I transmitted the Papers to the War Department at Washington where they were examined and the application was rejected under  Mr Calhoun's rigid construction of the Pension act, because the Documents although they showed nine months service as I have above stated did not show successive months service or nine months service at one time and under one enlistment. I well remember this was the ground and the only ground of the rejection of the application, and according to my recollection there was no defect in the Papers and no exception taken to them in respect to them wanting the names of the officers under whom Mr Stephens served or any other form or substance required by the act or the Rules of the Department. The charge on my Books to Mr Stephens for doing said business is dated May 6th 1818
Benj Cossens
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State of Rhode Island &c.
Providence Ss. In Providence Oct 31 1838
Then the witness was subscribed and sworn to before me. And I further certify that said Benj Cozzens is a credible witness
William Aplin Public Notary
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I Rhoda Jenks of North Providence in the County of Providence and State of Rhode Island on oath do testify and say that I am seventy four years of age that I am well acquainted with Amey Stevens widow of Samuel Stevens late of Seekonk deceased, which town was formerly a part of Rehoboth in the State of Massachusetts. I was well acquainted with said Amey before she married said Stevens, and I lived a near neighbor to her in said North Providence at the time of her marriage, and I have a clear recollection that when he married her he belonged to the army and came home on a furlough and was married, and in about a week returned to the Army, but I am unable to say who his officers were, or where he was stationed; but the fact of his coming home and returning to the Army after he was married I have a distinct recollection for I remember she remained at her fathers for several months, waiting his return, and soon after his return, he carried her to Norton, where they lived for some years Afterwards he returned to Seekonk and lived there until his death. I also remember another circumstance with regard to the marriage. He had courted her for some time, and their intentions
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of marriage, had been published in the usual manner, for nearly a year and it was said unless they were married within a year from the time they were published, their intentions of marriage would have to be published again, and to prevent this he came home on a furlough, was married and returned as I have before stated. He was at the time an enlisted Soldier, but as I before stated I do not remember his officers names. I well remember also after she was married, I used frequently to see her at her fathers and she used to visit me and we used to talk about his being in the Army, and she often expressed her fears and apprehensions about his coming back
Rhoda Jenks
State of Rhode Island &c
Providence Oct 31. 1838
Then the aforenamed Rhoda Jenks subscribed and swore oath to the foregoing deposition before me, and I further certify that said Rhoda is a credible witness.
William Aplin
Public Notary
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State of Rhode Island & Providence Plantations,
Providence Ss., I John W. Smith, clerk of the Court of Common Pleas within & for the County of Providence in said State, being a Court of law do hereby certify, that William Aplin Esquire, before whom the foregoing affidavits were sworn is a Notary Public for the County of Providence aforesaid: and in his said capacity is by law authorized and qualified to administer oaths & take depositions: and that his two aforewritten signatures are genuine.
In testimony whereof, I hereunto set my hand and affix the seal of our said Court, at the City of Providence, this first day of November AD 1838
John W. Smith Clerk
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I Cyrenius Burney of the town of Pawtucket lately Seekonk Massts being now thirty two years old on oath do testify and say that I was well acquainted with Samuel Stephens late of said place whose widow Amy Stephens is now seeking a Pension on account of her husbands services in the Revolutionary War I went to live with said Samuel Stephens to learn the trade of a carriage-maker when quite young and lived with him about six years. During my residence with him I often heard him tell over services in the War of the Revolution which according to the best of my recollections were spread along at "intervals" from near the beginning to almost the close of the War. I have often heard him say that he was always ready and willing to go into the service of his country.
I well recollect hearing him say that he came home on a furlough to be married in February 1781 and that in a few days he went off again to his post in the Army which I think was then on Rhode Island or on the shores nearby. I also heard him say that he came home once after this before his time of service in that company had expired. And also that in the summer of 1781 he removed his young wife to Norton Massts  the residence of his Father and that during that summer he was called out on an alarm to go down to Rhode Island or in that region and I well remember hearing him say that he dropped his hoe in the field to go off in this Alarm. 
In the month of October 1822 I was with Mr Stephens on business in the town of Cumberland R.I. the residence of Amaziah Weatherhead commonly called Col Weatherhead and he met us on the road near to the house of Amasa Waterman in said Cumberland and that he and Mr Stephens had considerable conversation together about the affairs of the War and of their connexion with them and I distinctly recollect that Mr Stephens said to me after we
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had parted from Mr Weatherhead that is the man that I served under in the War of the Revolution whom I have told you so much about.
I also heard Mr Stephens say that he served under Capt. Moses Wilmarth of Attleborough Massts
Cyrenius Burney
Bristol Ss. Novr 5th A.D. 1838 Then the above named Cyrenius Barney personally appeared and made oath to the truth of the foregoing Affidavit by him subscribed. I further certify said Deponent to be a credible Witness
Before me Collins Darling Justice of Peace
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I Amaziah Weatherhead of Cumberland in the County of Providence being now Eighty years of age do testify & say that in July 1781 I was a Captain of a Company of Militia. The Company was composed of men drafted from said Cumberland Smithfield North Providence & Glocester. We marched down to Brentons Point on Rhode Island & were stationed & attached to Col Stephen Kimbals regiment Among the men who served under me was Samuel Stevens the husband of Amey Stephens of or lately resident in North Providence we served a month from the sixth of July 1781. The reason why I remember so distinctly is that I had a pay Roll of said Company for that town but the Roll is not to be found whether it has been sent to the Pension office or what has become of it I cannot say I think it is [illegible] but I well remember the name
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of Samuel Stevens was on it as having served the tour at that time as having been paid by me for the service
I was well acquainted with said Samuel he served his time as an apprentice in said Cumberland. Amaziah Weatherman
Providence Ss
In City of Providence
December 9 1837
Sworn to & Subscribed before me and I further certify said Affiant is a credible witness
Benja Cowell
C of CC Pleas
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I Maryann Lee of Cumberland in the County of Providence , being near 42 years of age on oath do testify & say that some time last November Amaziah Weatherhead was at my fathers house in said Cumberland, we had previously sent for him to come there to make inquiries about one Samuel Sprague & to bring his old Rolls; he came there accordingly & while there I looked over his old papers with a view to find Samuel Sprague's name, but could not find it but I saw the name of Samuel Stevens upon it & I immediately turned to my father & asked him if that was not the name that the Revd Mr Benedict was making inquiry about & he said it was & might be of service.
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to Mrs Stevens his widow This Roll bore date sometime in the year 1781 & according to my best recollection in August of that year
Maryann Lee
Providence &c
In City of Providence April 23 1838
Sworn to & Subscribed before me and I further certify said affiant is a credible witness
Benja Cowell
C oc CC Pleas
[written vertically in right margin- Mrs Stevens]
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I Amaziah Weatherhead of Cumberland in the County of Providence do further testify and say in reference to the services of Samuel Stevens, who served under me I was appointed Captain of Militia in May 1781 and as I have before stated, said Samuel served under me as a private in July of that year and I had a roll of my Company until lately but it is by some means or other now lost, I well recollect that Samuel Stevens name was on this roll, for I remember the man and remember his name. I served four years and upwards during the war, under enlistment and this was the only service I did as Captain and when I made my applications, I talked with Judge Pitman about it but it was not put into my declaration as there was enough service without it.
But since I understood it would increase my pension considerably, I have once or twice determined to do it, and once had a conversation with Mr. Cowell about it as to the proof necessary.
Amaziah Weatherhead
State of Rhode Island &c. Providence Ss In Providence August 4.1838 Then the aforegoing deposition was signed and sworn to in my presence and the same were reduced to writing by me in the presence of said Amaziah and I further certify that
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said Amaziah is a credible witness and his statements entitled to full credit
before me
William Aplin
Justice of the Peace
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I Abel Jillson of Attleboro in the County of Bristol and Commonwealth of Massachusetts aged sixty three years on oath do testify and say that Oliver Jillson formerly of Attleboro was my Uncle he was the son of Daniel Jillson and my fathers name was Daniel also, all my uncles, sons of my Grandfather are now dead. I can remember fifty years and to my knowledge there never was any other Oliver Jillson but my uncle in said Attleboro nor to I believe there was during the war of the revolution. Soon after the revolution my uncle moved to Providence Rhode Island when he followed the seas many years and when he died, he was a pensioner I believe
Attleboro Sept 6.1847 Abel Jillson
Bristol Ss. Sept 6th 1847 personally appeared before me the above named Abel Jillson and made oath to the above affidavit by him signed and I further certify he is a credible witness
Lemuel May Jus of 7th Peace
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I Jeremiah Pierce of Attleboro in the County of Bristol and Commonwealth of Massachusetts on oath do testify & say that I am now Eighty three years of age, I was well acquainted with Oliver Jillson formerly of said Attleboro and the Husband of Nancy Jillson now living in Providence-a widow of said Oliver; that said Oliver was the son of Daniel Jilllson whom I also knew the family lived in this neighborhood, said Oliver had a brother by the name of Daniel. To my knowledge there never was any other man by the name of Oliver Jillson in said Attleboro but the one above mentioned and I think if there had been I should have heard of him I believe all the sons & daughters of Daniel Jillson are now dead
Jeremiah Pierce
Attleboro Sept 6.1847
Bristol Ss. September 6th 1847. Personally appeared before me the above named Jeremiah Pierce and made oath to the above affidavit by him signed and I further certify he is a credible witness
Lemuel May Jus of the Peace
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Boston Sept. 1 AD 1847
I hereby Certify, That for the three months last past Lemuel May has been serving as a Justice of the Peace [illegible]
in the said Commonwealth, duly commissioned and constituted; and that to his acts and attestations, as such, full faith and credit are and ought to be given, in and out of Court.
In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written.
John G Palfrey
Secretary of the Commonwealth
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I Jonathan Peck of Cumberland in the county of Providence & State of Rhode Island do testify & say that I am in the Eighty first year of my age: that I was well acquainted with Samuel Stephens formerly of Rehoboth in the State of Massachusetts the husband of Amey Stephens now resident in the village of Pawtucket. I knew said Samuel Stephens well during the War of the Revolution and know of his serving his country in that war as a private soldier.
In the year 1781, in July and August of that year, I was stationed in the island of Rhode Island, in Captain Elihu Gifford's company of Massachusetts militia; Benjamin Bosworth was our Lieutenant, William Turner was our Colonel. During that time, I remember the said Samuel Stephens was a private in a company of Rhode Island Militia, commanded by Capt. Weatherhead stationed in the island of Rhode Island at the same time I was. Said Stephens and myself both then belonged to Rehoboth and saw each other while on the island a number of times. I was a Sergeant in Capt Gifford's company, I had a Sergeants warrant; and when I petitioned Congress for a pension that Warrant was sent on as one of the vouchers. Whether it was ever put with my other papers when I obtained a pension I do not know, but I suppose it is now in the Pension office.
Jonathan Peck
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State of Rhode Island &c
County of Providence Ss. In the city of Providence on this Seventh day of January A.D. 1840 Jonathan Peck subscriber of the aforegoing statement made oath before me that said statement is true.
I certify that the said Jonathan Peck is a credible witness
William H. Smith Justice of the Peace
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State of Rhode Island &c
Providence Ss. I John Wilson Smith, of Providence in said County, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas within & for said County of Providence, being a Court of Record do hereby certify, that William H. Smith Esquire before whom the aforegoing affidavit was sworn is a Justice of the Peace for the City of Providence in said County: that by law he is duly authorized & qualified to administer oaths & take Depositions and that his aforewritten signature is genuine.
In witness whereof I hereunto set my hand and affix the seal of in said Court, at Providence, this tenth day of February AD 1840.
John Wilson Smith
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Mrs Amey Stevens
No 7808
Admd
10 mo 13 days
$134.77
see papers act 4 July
1836
Benjn Cowell
Providence
R.I.
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State of Rhode Island &c
County of Providence Ss
On this 14 day of November 1840 personally appeared before me Zuriel Potter one of the Justices of the Court of Common Pleas within & for said County, Amey Stevens now resident in North Providence within said County aged 82 years who being duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed July 7 1838 entitled an act granting half pay pensions to certain widows viz that she is the widow of Samuel Stevens late of Seekonk in the State of Massachusetts who was a soldier of the Revolution that he served as a private soldier in various regiments as will appear by the evidence which she [illegible] to be [illegible] to the War Department when she made her first declaration under the act of Congress of July 4 1836 to which she [illegible] , for said purpose and also for the evidence her marriage to the said Samuel Stevens is herein stated. And the said Amey further declares that she was married to the said Samuel Stevens on the fifteenth day of February AD 1781 as will appear by the evidence, that her husband the said Samuel departed this life on the 15 day of November 1828 and since then she has remained a widow when she made her first declaration under the act of July 4 1836 she thought she was entitled to a pension under said act, but from the examination of the [illegible] in the War Department it does not appear that her said husband performed any service after
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the marriage she therefore relinquishes her claim under said act and says that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service but the marriage previous to the first of January seventeen hundred and ninety four to wit at the time above stated
Amey [her X mark] Stevens
Attest 
Zuriel Potter
Providence Ss In North Providence Nov 14th AD 1840
Personally appeared before Amey Stevens subscriber to the aforegoing declaration and made oath to the same and I further certify that said Amey from age and infirmities is to feeble to attend Court
Zuriel Potter Just C Co Pleas
State of Rhode Island and Providence [illegible]
Providence Ss. I Albert G. Greene Clerk of the Municipal Court of the City of Providence, in the State aforesaid being a Court of Record do hereby certify that Zuriel Potter who has signed the preceding certificate was on the day of the date thereof, a Justice of the Court of Common Pleas for the County of Providence in said State, duly elected.
In attestation whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and have affixed the seal of said Municipal Court this 30th day of April, A.D. 1841.
Albert G. Greene Clerk
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I Caleb Parmenter of Attleborough in the County of Bristol & State of Massachusetts being eighty two years of age do testify & say that I was a soldier of the revolution and served a number of campaigns or terms of service in that war; and I further testify & say that I was well acquainted with Samuel Stephens who was (and I believe) at the time of the said war an inhabitant of the Town of Norton in said county & state. And one of my terms of service was for six month in the year seventeen hundred and seventy eight and in a company commanded by Captain Caleb Richardson of Attleborough and was stationed in Tiverton & at other places in the state of Rhode Island during said campaign & in Col Jacob's Regiment and I well recollect of seeing the said Samuel Stephens under arms & doing service as a soldier during said term or campaign a number of times but he was not in the same company with me neither do I now recollect who did command the company in which he served, but I know he the said Stephens was there and I believe he served six month at that time, and during the said campaign Sullivans Battle (as it is called) took place. I further testify & say that I have no interest whatever in the obtaining a pension for the widow of the said Stephens.
Attleborough Decr 1st 1840
Caleb Parmenter
State of Massachusetts
Bristol County} Ss Be it known that on the 1st day of December 1840 personally appeared the above named Caleb Parmenter a credible witness and made oath that the above affidavit by him subscribed is true in al its parts
Before me Croml Leonard Justice Peace
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I Amos Martin of Rehoboth in the county of Bristol & State of Massachusetts being eighty six years of age do testify and say that I was a Revolutionary soldier & served about two and a half years as a non commissioned officer & soldier in the Revolutionary war in six several campaigns, on terms of service as follows the first term was for eight month under Captain Silas Cobb of Norton in the year 1775. the second term was also eight month under Captain Zebudee Riding (I believe) in the year 1776. the third term was six weeks under Captain Isaac Hodges of said Norton in the year 1777. the fourth term was six month also in the year 1777, & under Capt. Silas Cobb of said Norton. the fifth term was for six weeks in Capt. Icabod Leonards Company and as a substitute for Daniel Wilder of Taunton and my sixth campaign or term was for three month in Captain Ismail Trow, company of Norton and in the year 1778 & in the state of Rhode Island also some other short terms of service. I was an inhabitant of the Town of Norton during the Revolutionary war and was acquainted with Samuel Stephens of said Norton and have known him, the said Stephens in the Army (and according to the best of my recollection & belief) he the said Stephens served in a company with me as a soldier some one or more of the above mentioned campaigns. But I cannot now possibly tell which of them.
My services under Isaac Hodges was in Col John Daggetts Regiment, under Cobb in Col. Danforth Keys Reg. and under Ichabod Leonard in Col. Thomas Carpenters Regiment
Rehoboth December 24th 1840
Amos Martin
State of Massachusetts
Bristol County} Ss. Be it known that on the 24th day of December 1840 personally appeared Amos Martin above named a credible & disinterested witness and made oath that the above written affidavit by him subscribed is Just & true in all its parts.
Before me Croml Leonard Justice Peace
[left margin] I certify that the interdelineation in this affidavit  of the year 1778 & I state of Rhode Island, was made before the same means executed. Croml Leonard Justice Peace
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
By his Excellency JOHN DAVIS, Governor and Commander in Chief in and over said Commonwealth
To all whom it may concern:
Know Ye, That Cromwell Leonard of Norton, is a Justice of the Peace for the County of Bristol,
in the said Commonwealth, duly constituted and commissioned, and that to his Acts and Attestations, as such, full faith and credit are and ought to be given in and out of Court;
In Testimony Whereof, I have caused the Public Seal of the Commonwealth to be hereunto affixed, this twenty ninth day of April A.D. 1841, and in the sixty fifty year of the Independence of the United States of America
By His Excellency the Governor
John P. Bigelow
Secretary of the Commonwealth.
[left margin] John Davis
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BY HIS EXCELLENCY
William Sprague
Governor, Captain-General and Commander in Chief of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.
BE IT KNOWN, That the name, "HENRY BOWEN," to the  aforewritten attestations subscribed, is in the proper hand writing of Henry Bowen, Esquire, who at the time of subscribing the same, was Secretary of the State aforesaid, duly elected and qualified according to law: Wherefore unto his said attestation full faith and credit are to be rendered.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of said State to be affixed, at Providence, this third day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty eight and of Independence the sixty third
By His Excellency's Command
Henry Bowen Secy
Wm Sprague
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State of Rhode Island &c
Secretary's Office August 3d 1838
I Certify that at the service of the General Assembly of the said State held on the fourth Monday in May seventeen hundred eighty one Amaziah Weatherhead was elected Captain of the first Company of Militia in the town of Cumberland County of Providence until the first Wednesday of May then next:
as appears of record
Witness
Henry Bowen Secry
I also certify that William Aplin whose proper signature is to the certificate annexed was at the date thereof a Justice of the Peace for the town of Providence duly elected and commissioned Witness
Henry Bowen Secy
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I Joel Bowen of Seekonk in the County of Bristol in the State of Massachusetts now in my 77 year of age on oath do testify & say that I was well acquainted with Samuel Stevens formerly of Rehoboth. In the year 1778 we both of us served six weeks together as privates in Captain Stephen  Bullocks Company having been drafted for that purpose. This service was in General Sullivans expedition during August & September of said year. We were stationed on Rhode Island until our retreat after the Battle. In 1780 I well remember that said Samuel served three weeks in Captain Nathaniel Ides
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Company & Col Thomas Carpenters regiment of Massachusetts Troop stationed at Tiverton in Rhode Island & I was in the same regiment but in another company. I was in Capt Jabez Bullocks company-we were both privates. These two tours of said Stevens I well remember
Joel Bowen
Providence &c 
In City of Providence May 26 1837
Sworn to & Subscribed before me & I further certify said deponent is a credible witness
Benja Cowell
C o JCC Pleas
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Providence April 27 1838
Sir
Yours of June 23d last respecting the claim of Mrs Amey Stevens widow of Samuel was duly received & the contents made known to her through the Revd Mr Benedict who you may recollect attended to her claim while in Washington last spring. Mr Benedict after your letter was received made frequent enquiry after those who served with Stevens & at last found one in whose company he served after the marriage, Capt Weatherhead, & his affidavit is herewith enclosed. Mr Joel Bowen was also found to have served with Stevens & his affidavit is also enclosed. The reason why there affidavits have been delayed so long
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in being sent is that I was in hopes Mr Weatherhead would be able to find his papers But from what I hear from Miss Lee I think he lost them in returning home from his fathers house
I am very respectfully
yours Benja Cowell
JL Edwards Esq
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Providence [illegible] 10 1840
Sir
I was requested to send you the [illegible] & affidavit of Jonathan Peck in support of the claim of Mrs Amey Stevens widow of Samuel Stephens whose claim for a pension has been pending for some time. I hope it will prove satisfactory
Yours respectfully
Benja Cowell
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Providence August 8th 1838
Sir
In answer to your letter of 11 May record at Washington respecting the claim of Mrs Stevens widow of Samuel Stevens I herewith enclose a further affidavit of Amaziah Weatherhead also a certificate of his appointment as Captain in May 1781 which I presume will be satisfactory I can also say in confirmation of his statement that he has conversed with me once or twice respecting the issuance of his pension on account of his months service as Captain I have no doubt he did serve as he states-- I am respectfully 
yours
Benja Cowell
JL Edwards Esq
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War Department
Pension Office
March 29 1839
Sir,
The additional evidence in the case of Amey Stevens widow of Samuel Stevens deceased, is in no respects calculated to remove the objections to the claim. Her first statement, that she was married to him in '81, while at home on a furlough from the Continental Army, and that he immediately thereafter returns to the Army is inconsistent with the evidence since addressed to show that he served in '81 a short militia tour under Capt Weatherhead in July '81 and the depositions are inconsistent with one another. As to the testimony of Amaziah Weatherhead, it is not consistent with his own declaration He alleges no such service, either as to length and grade, and no evidence has yet been addressed to show that he was a Captain. The papers authorized the conclusion that she has no claim whatever to a pension under any Act.
Very respectfully
your obt
JL. Edwards
Benjamin Cowell, Esqr
Providence,
R. Island.
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Providence March 19 1839
Sir
I take the liberty to make some enquries respecting the claim of Mrs Amey Stevens widow of Samuel Stevens which has been pending for a great length of time the only objection was in the first place that there was no proof of service after  the marriage, an affidavit of Captain Weatherhead was produced showing that Stevens did serve in his company in July 1781 all that was then wanting as I was informed when at Washington was a certificate of Captain Weatherheads appointment showing he was a Captain at that time. This certificate was furnished by the Secretary of State & forwarded to the Pension office, a further
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objection was then made (Sept 15 1829) that her general allegation was discredited as Mr Stevens "never applied for or obtained a pension under the act of March 18 1818" By a reference to her declaration it will be seen she never alleged he obtained a pension but only he applied for one which was refused; In answer to your letter of the above date two affidavits were sent, one of Benjamin Cozzens Esq who declared upon oath that soon after the act of March 1818 was passed he did prepare for Mr Stevens an application for a pension & sent it to the Pension office & that he received an answer giving the reasons why the pension was refused, another affidavit of Rhoda Jenks was also sent by me showing Mr Stevens