Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 17875, for Levi Stone, Connecticut
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(3-1776)

SERVICE
Conn.

Stone, Levi
Mary

NUMBER
W.17875

CONTENTS
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17.685
Connecticut
Levi Stone of Kent in the State of Con who was a Pri in the Com commanded by Captain ____ of the Regt commanded by Col Waterbury in the Con St Yro for 7 mo

Inscribed on the Roll of Con at the rate of 23 Dollars 33 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 13 day of Sept 1833 and Sent N. P. Perry Kent. Con

Arrears to the 4th of Sept 1833 $58.33
Semi-anl. Allowance ending Mar 4 34 1666
$64.99

{Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832}

Recorded by E D Bullock Clerk,
Book E Vol 3 Page 41
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State of Connecticut
Litchfield County
Court of Probate District of Kent ss at Kent—
On this 4th day of August AD 1832 personally appeared befor Nathaniel P Perry Esquir Judge of the Court of Probate for the district of Kent, aforesaid, holding said court, and sitting and in open court. Levi Stone a resident of said Kent aged seventy seven years who being duly sworn according to the Law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the pension of the act of Congress June 7. 1832, passed.
That in the Spring of the year 1775 he entered the service of the United States by enlisting in Danbury, Fairfield County, into the company commanded by Captain Noble Benedict, Regiment commanded by Colonel Waterbury. General Woorster, was his Genl, Daniel Hickok was Ensign & James Clark was Lieutenant. About a month after he the said Stone enlisted being the 5 day of June
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he marched to Horse Neck first in the first night at Norwalk at Gould Hoyts, states the 2d night at Lieut. Browns House, where he was billeted out to [illegible] about two or 3 weeks he went then to New Rochelle to the City of New York. There remained some time till July then went to Harlaam Remained in Harlaam about a fortnight, then marched at the Hudson River to Albany, to Waterford at which last place they rendered about 2 weeks then went to Ticonderoga by way of Fort Edward, & Skenesborough, and after Ticonderoga, to the Island about Eight miles from St John, and remained there until October. He then returned to [illegible] and was discharged at that place after having served out the term of from seven to nine months; the full time for which he enlisted. is very positive it was nine months, he had a written discharge but it is lost knows nothing what has become of it 
it was signed by an Officer from New York. does not remember his name,
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That he again entered the service of the United States about the 20th day of March AD 1777. That John Wood Assist Quarter Master Genl informed him that if he would procure artificers to the number of forty to enlist in said service he should receive a Commission of Captain over the said Company

That he (illegible) made every exertion and procured the requisite number. This procurement was antecedent to his enlistment. That soon after within a few days of the 20th of March the said Wood fulfilled his promise by procuring & handing over to him (the sd. Levi Stone) The commission (which he thinks was signed by Colonel Painter.) which constituted him Captain in and over said company of Artificers, said Commission he well remembers, but it has been lost for years. That for two years and eight months he was (illegible) and served as Captain in and over said company. Hughes was his major Painter was his Colonel and he served in Colonel Painters regiment enlisted at Danbury aforesaid. That during the whole term of his service as aforesaid
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received Captains pay & wages. That all orders were addressed to him from his superior officers by the name and title of Capt. Stone & that he served in said capacity for said term at Danbury aforesaid was regularly discharged but does not remember that he ever had a written discharge.

Was born in South East. then Dutchess County now Putnam County 22d day of February AD 1755 & resided in Danbury for 24 years after the Revolutionary war & ever since resided & now resides in Kent (has no documentary evidence), He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or an annuity except the present & he declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll, of the agency of any state.
Sworn to & subscribed the day & year aforesaid.
Levi Stone

Sworn to, and subscribed the day & year aforesaid in open court.
Frederick Chittenden Clerk ss Court
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I Daniel Stone of Kent Litchfield County State of Connecticut, aged seventy three years being duly sworn doth depose and say that I have know and been acquainted with Levi Stone in Kent in the said county of Litchfield, who hath applied for a pension under the act 7 June 1832 seventy years. That the said Levi Stone entered the service of the United States in the latter part of March AD 1777. & served two years & eight months I was a greater part of the time with him, he served, and was called, & received pay as a, Captain, during said term, orders were all directed to him by the name of Captain Stone. I always understood that he had a Captains commission, but never saw it as I recollect. 

The corps in which he served was on the continental establishment, Major Hughs & Col Painter were two of his superior officers. The sd. Levi Stone was Captain of Artificers and had forty or fifty men under him.
Daniel Stone
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State of Connecticut Litchfield County ss
Probate Court District of Kent at Kent

Be it remembered that on this 4th day of August AD 1832 Daniel Stone the subscriber of the foregoing deposition personally appeared in open court and made solemn oath to the truth of the same. The said Stone is a credible witness and sustains a good character for veracity & is to be believed
Frederick Chittenden Clerk ss Court
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We John Will McKey & Philip Judd of Kent, Litchfield County & State of Connecticut & residing in said Kent do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Levi Stone who has sworn to and subscribed the foregoing declaration that we believe him to be seventy seven years of age, that he is reputed and believed in the neighbourhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion & that he is a man of truth and veracity.

Sworn to and subscribed the day and year  aforesaid
John W McKey
Philip Judd

Sworn & subscribed this day & year aforesd. in open court
Frederick Chittenden Clerk of sd. Court

And the said court does hereby declare his opinion that after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department that the foregoing applicant Levi Stone was a Revolutionary soldier and served
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as he states

That there is no settled clergyman in Kent aforesaid. That John W McKey and Philip Judd are both residents of Kent aforesaid and signed & made oath to the foregoing certificate are credible persons and their statement is entitled to full credit.

I Frederick Chittenden Clerk of the Court of Probate for the District of Kent aforesaid do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of Levi Stone for a pension 

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said court the 4th day of August AD 1832
Frederick Chittenden
Clerk of said Court
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I Nathaniel P Perry Judge of the Court of Probate for the District of Kent aforesaid, do hereby certify that Frederick Chittenden is Clerk of said Court & that all his signatures to any part of these papers transmitted are his own and genuine signatures and his proper handwriting and that full faith & credit is and ought to be given to his said doings as clerk of said Court. And to the seal which is the seal of sd. court

Nathaniel P. Perry Judge
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Testimony of Uriah Deforest to be improved in the matter of the application of Levi Stone for a pension discovered since the original proceedings were sent to the War Department
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I Uriah Deforest residing in Ridgefield Fairfield County and State of Connecticut aged seventy six years being duly sworn according to law do depose testify and say that in the year 1777 in April or May enlisted in the service of the United States and served as an artificer in Danbury in a company of artificers commanded by Captain Levi Stone. That I am acquainted with the said Levi Stone who resides in Kent Litchfield County in sd. State. and is an applicant for a pension.

And that I well remember he served as Captain of the company of artificers aforesaid and always believed and it was never doubted. That he served as a regular commissioned Captain
Uriah D Forest
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State of Connecticut Litchfield County Probate Court District of Kent ss at Kent

Be it remembered that on this 7th day of August AD 1832 before Nathaniel P Perry Esquire Judge of the Court of Probate aforesd. personally appeared Uriah Deforest subscriber to the foregoing deposition and in open court made solemn oath to the truth facts.

I Frederick Chittenden Clerk of the Court of Probate aforesaid do hereby certify that I hereunto set my hand and the seal of said court in testimony thereof the day & year aforesaid

Frederick Chittenden
Clerk of sd. Court
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I Nathaniel P. Perry Judge of the Court of Probate for the District of Kent in the said County of Litchfield and State of Connecticut, do hereby certify that Frederick Chittenden is Clerk of Court and that the signatures to the foregoing certificate purporting to be his is his genuine signature & his handwriting. That he is duly empowered to sign the same & that full faith & credit is due and ought to be given to the same. And the seal is the seal of said Court.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 7 day of August AD 1832
Nathaniel P. Perry Judge
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I Joel W Church of the town of Rawlings County of Dutchess and State of New York aged seventy one years shall be seventy two years old the 27th day of this April AD 1833, being duly sworn according to law, do depose, testify and say, that I am a pensioner under the law of Congress of 1818, and my name is inscribed on the pension list roll. I am well acquainted with Levi Stone of the town of Kent in the County of Litchfield and State of Connecticut now an applicant for a pension. I knew him well when he was young, I was an artificer and served as such in the Army of the Revolution in the United States, and was stationed in Danbury Fairfield County State of Connecticut, in the years 1777 and 1778. I served as near as I can recollect about six months in the year 1777 and about the same length of time in the year 1778. I was engaged in drawing in coal shoeing horses & oxen of the Baggage teams & ironing Baggage waggons. Said Stone served his apprenticeship with my father at the Blak smith business, and I  lived within a few rods of the shop. I remember that sd. Stone was at work in sd. service six or eight weeks before I entered, and I commenced in sd. service within one or two days after the British left Danbury, which I believe was the 27th day of April 1777, what time I was not
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engaged in active work in the years 1777 & 1778 & 1779. I lived and resided in said Danbury and know that Levi Stone aforesaid did serve in the United States serving there in said Danbury from the first part of March 1777, during that year and during the whole year of 1778, and the year 1779, until August and in that month I marched for West Point and left Danbury, that sd. Stone served as an artificer and I am positive that said Stone had the command of from 30 to 40 artificers as Captain, he was universally called Captain, he used to pay us off and I remember that some of the bills came in sheets not cut up. The said Stone drew pay as a Captain, I never saw any commission, we, i.e. our corps were under what we called the Quarter Masters department, this corps was raised by Captain Stone under the directions of Maj. Wood Quarter Master. There was a superior officer by the name of Painter I know, under whose control we suffered this corps to be. I recollect well of assisting the said Stone in making what were called anchor chains for the main chain (cheveaudefrise) which was strung across the Hudson River at West Point, these chains were each made
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36 feet long, each link made of inch square bars about 20 inches long.

We were all privates under the sd. Stone and as we were not called out to exercise at arms at all but engaged in work. I cannot tell who were all the superior officers, when I left Danbury I went into Col. Baldwin's Regt. 
Joel W Church

Litchfield County State of Connecticut ss at Kent Probate Court District of Kent

Be it known that on this 11th day of May AD 1833, personally appeared in open court before Nathl. P. Perry Esq Judge of the Court of Probate for sd. District of Kent Joel W Church the subscriber to the foregoing and being duly sworn made solemn oath to truth of the foregoing statements by him subscribed. The deponent is a credible witness and is known to the Court as such

Frederick Chittenden
Clerk of said Court
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I Daniel Hickok of the Town of Danbury in the County of Fairfield and State of Connecticut aged Eighty four years and upwards, being duly Sworn do depose and say that in the Spring of the year 1775, Levi Stone now a resident of the Town of Kent in the County of of Litchfield in said State, then of Danbury aforesaid, entered the service of the United States Connecticut State troops, and served as a private Soldier, in the Company commanded by Noble Benedict, Regiment commanded by Col. David Waterbury. I was an Ensign in the said Company, and served therein as such Ensign, from some time in the Month of May 1775 until the end of the Campaign in December. And the said Stone served during said Campaign of that year in Canada, he enlisted for the term of Seven months. I know that he served at least seven months in said Campaign
Daniel Hickok
State of Connecticut
Fairfield County} Ss Danbury Probate District
Personally appeared in open Court before the Court of Probate for the District of Danbury on the 1st day of May 1833 Daniel Hickok the above named deponent, and made solemn oath to the truth of the above deposition, and the said Court of Probate certifies that said Deponent here __tains a good character for truth and is a credible witness. witness my hand and Seal of Office
Albert Edward Taylor Clerk
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I Reuben Booth of Danbury in the County of Fairfield and State of Connecticut Judge of the Court of Probate within and for the District of Danbury in the County and State do certify that Edward Taylor Esq. who has certified the [illegible] of the foregoing affidavit, of Daniel Hickok is clerk in said Court duly appointed and Sworn, that the signature Subscribed to said Certificate [illegible] to be his, is in his [illegible] hand writing- and that the Seal [illegible] affixed is the Seal of Said Court of Probate. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand this [illegible] day of May 1833
Reuben Booth Judge
of the Court of Probate
for the District of Danbury
Court
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I Ebenezer Nichols of Danbury Fairield County  [of Fairfield crossed out] State of Connecticut, aged Seventy four years being duly Sworn doth deposed & say- That I am well acquainted with Levi Stone of Kent in the County of Litchfield in said State who hath made application for a Pension and that in the year 1776 the said Levi Stone was in the Service of the United States in this State Militia for the term of two months as a private Soldier in the company commanded by Captain David Hoyt, in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Joseph P Cook, said company proceeded to NewYork in the month of July & Served said Regiment at New York & was stationed a little west of St Pauls Church- and said Levi Stone remained there in said Service one month, when he was taken sick & returned home
Ebenr. Nichols
State of Connecticut
Fairfield County} Ss
On this 25th day of July 1832 Ebenezer Nichols the above named Deponent Subscribed the foregoing Deposition and made oath to the truth of the Same before me. And I do further certify that the Deponent is personally well know to me and sustains a good character for the truth and is a credible witness. Edward Taylor Justice of Peace.
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I Eli Wildman of Danbury in the County of Fairfield in the State of Connecticut, aged sixty seven years being duly Sworn, do depose and say , that I am well acquainted with Levi Stone of Kent in the County of Litchfield in the said State. And knew him during the Revolutionary War.
The Said Done in the Spring of the year 1777, entered the Service of the United States, being appointed or commissioned a Captain of  Artificers. He had a number of men under his command but how many I do not recollect
He was with with Said Service principally at Said Danbury I should think more than two years. [illegible] not positive as to the length of time. And I understood at the time that he Served as aforesaid, on the Continental establishment- 
Eli Wildman
State of Connecticut
Fairfield County} s.s.
Sworn and Subscribed by the above named Deponent on this 25th day of July 1832 before me. And I certify that the Said Deponent is personally well known to  me, that he Sustains a good Character [illegible] and is a credible witness
Edward Taylor Justice of Peace
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I Samuel Wildman of Danbury in the County of Fairfield and State of Connecticut aged sixty nine years being duly Sworn, do depose and say, that I have known and been acquainted with Levi Stone of Kent in the County of Litchfield in the said State who hath applied for a Pension Sixty years.
The Said Levi Stone in the year 1777 in the months of March & April , [illegible] the Service of the United States as a Captain of Artificers, in Colonel Painters Regiment. I should judge he had thirty or forty men under his command - they were all Black Smiths and he served in the said capacity at said Danbury
 between two and three years. I never saw his Commission but he was called Captain Stone, orders from Continental Officers for works were all addressed him as Captain. And he had the pay of a Captain. 
I further Say that the Said Corps in which he Served was on the Continental establishment-. the Said Stone during Serving about eighteen Months of his said term of Service, lived in my Fathers family
Sam Wildman
State of Connecticut
Fairfield County }s.s.
On this 27th day of July 1832 at Danbury in the Said County personally appeared the above named Samuel Wildman & subscribed the foregoing Deposition and made oath to the truth of the Same before me. Further certify that the said Wildman is here a man well known to me that he sustains a good character [illegible] for truth & is a credible witness
David Foot Justice of Peace
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Vide certificate of Clerk of Court
of Probate for District of Kent,
State of Connecticut
Fairfield County } s.s.
I Reuben Booth of Danbury in the Said County and State Notary Public [illegible] and for the said County duly admitted and Sworn dwelling in Danbury aforesaid do hereby certify and make known to all whom it may cover- that David Foot Esquire and Edward Taylor Esquire are Justices of the Peace within and for the Said County of Fairfield duly appointed and Sworn and duly authorized to administer Oaths and take Depositions. And that they were Such Justices respectively at the Several times when the preceding depositions herefore to have been [illegible] and sworn before them. and that the certificate of the taking of said Depositions of [illegible] Nichols and Eli Wildman are subscribed by said Edward Taylor in his proper handwriting. And that the Signature within- written- purporting to be the Signature of the said Daniel Foot is genuine, and in his proper hand writing.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my Notarial Seal in Danbury aforesaid this 27th day of July 1832
Reuben Booth
Notary Public
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7 mo private
23.33
Nath P. Perry
Kent
Ct
with a letter ca[illegible]
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State of Connecticut,
Litchfield County } Probate office
District of Kent 
SS at Kent
I Frederick Chittenden Clerk of the Court of Probate for the District of Kent in County do certify that Edward Taylor and David Foot whose names purport to be signed to the foregoing deposition are Justices of the Peace within and for the County of Fairfield and were Justices of the Peace at the time of these signing in said State, and that their [illegible] subscribed are in their own hand writing and are true & genuine.
In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand & the seal of sd. Court this 24th day of May AD 1833
Frederick Chittenden
Clerk of Probate
for sd District
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2208
Mary Stone 
widow of Levi
Con.
Act 7. July 38
In. 76. d '36
aomd
[illegible] pri
2_ 33/100
died 31. Dec. '36
pen: com: 1 Jany '37
Rufus Fuller
 Kent
Con
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Kent County of Litchfield Ct
Sept 12th AD 1838
Sir
The documents herewith enclosed contain what is supposed to be the necessary proof in support of a Pension claim in behalf of Mary Stone of said Kent widow of Levi Stone deceased Formerly a resident of said Kent and a Pensioner of the United States 
very Respectfully your
Obedient Servt
Rufus P Fuller Jr
Hon J.L.Edwards
Commissioner of
Pensions
City of Washington
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State of Connecticut
County of Litchfield} Ss at Kent
On this the 18th day of August AD 1838 personally appeared before the Court of Probate for the District of Kent in said Litchfield County Mary Stone a resident of Kent in the County aforesaid aged Seventy nine years when being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on her oath, make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provisions made by the act of Congress passed July 7th 1838 entitled "An act granting half pay and Pensions to certain widows 
That she is the widow of Levi Stone lately of said Kent deceased, who was a soldier in the Revolutionary Army and previous to his death a pensioner of the United States. That her husband the said Levi Stone served as a private in the Revolutionary Army. She further declares that she was married to the said Levi Stone on the fourth day of July in the year seventeen hundred and seventy six that her husband the aforesaid Levi Stone died on the thirty first day of December eighteen hundred and thirty six. That she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service but the marriage took place previous to the first day of January seventeen hundred and ninety four vis: at the time above stated That ever since
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the said Levi Stones death she has remained a widow. She also further declares that the Pension certificate of the said Levi Stone was delivered up in said state, directed to the city of Hartford in order to draw the arrearages due to the said Levi Stone at the time of his death. said Certificate was delivered up the present year
her mark
Mary X Stone
Russell Stone
Pierpont Edwards
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written before
Nathl P. Perry Judge of
Probate for the District of Kent

KENT PROBATE
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I Henry Gilbert of Kent in the County of Litchfield and State of Connecticut aged Thirty eight years depose and say that I was well acquainted with Levi Stone formally & of said Kent deceased and had been for many years previous to his death. That I [he crossed out] was nearby when he the said Levi Stone died and that he died on the thirty first day of December one thousand eight hundred and thirty six I assisted in laying him out after his decease and attended his funeral I am also acquainted with his widow Mary Stone of said Kent and have been for 
some years both before and since the said Levis decease and since the said Levi Stones death the said Mary Stone's has remained a widow.
Philetus Winegar.     Henry Gilbert 
Rufus Fuller
State of Connecticut
County of Litchfield} Ss at Kent
On this 10th day of September AD 1838 Personally appeared Henry Gildbert signer of the foregoing Deposition Known to me as a credible witness and being duly cautioned and Sworn according to law made solemn oath to the truth of the facts therein stated before me
Rufus Fuller Justice of the Peace
Kent Litchfield County Ct
Sept 10th 1838
I hereby certify that the interlination between the fourth and fifth lines from the top of the page and the erasure in the fifth lines between the words "That" and "was" were made before signing and execution of the above deposition
Rufus Fuller Justice of the Peace
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Samuel Wildman of Danbury in the County of Fairfield and State of Connecticut aged Seventy five years being duly Sworn doth depose and say that he is the brother of Mary Stone of Kent in the County of Litchfield in said State. This deponent was present and saw the Said Mary ( Mary Wildman) married to Levi Stone on the fourth day of July Seventeen hundred and Seventy six  They were joined in marriage at said Danbury Rev W Baldiwin [illegible]  Presbyterian Clergyman - at said Danbury and residing there.
The Said Levi and Mary after married and until the death of the Said Levi lived together as husband and wife and had a family of children. the Said Levi died in December 1836 and was a Pensioner of the United States at the time of his death and the said Mary has never [illegible] married since his death 
Samuel Wildman
Eli Wildman of  Danbury in the County of Fairfield and State of Connecticut aged Seventy three years being duly Sworn in doth depose and say that Mary Stone of Kent in the County of Litchfield in said State is his Sister
She was married to Levi Stone, late of said Kent now deceased, in the [illegible] year 1776. This Deponent was hereunto at the marriage- they were joined in marriage by a Presbyterian Clergyman then living in Danbury where said Levi and Mary then lived. Said Clergyman's name was Baldwin. The Deponent cannot recollect the Presents or the day of the [illegible] when said marriage took place.
Said Levi & Mary lived together as husband & wife from the time they were married until December 1836, when said Levi died and Said Mary has remained a widow ever since that time
Eli Wildman
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Levi Stone was married to Mary Wildman July fourth, seventeen hundred and Seventy Six
I David Starr, Town Clerk of the Town of Danbury in the County of Fairfield and State of Connecticut, do hereby certify that the foregoing is a true copy of the record of the marriage of Levi Stone and Mary Wildman on the records of said town, with the exception of the date, which is extracted to record, in fact, legible figures as follows "July 4, 1776"
David Starr 
I David Starr above named depose and say, that I had the office of Town Clerk in the Town County and State aforesaid, and that the above is a true extract from the Record of Said Town with the exception above named and certified by me David Starr
State of Connecticut 
County of Fairfield}S.S.
Probate District of Danbury
On this 27th day of August 1838, before the Court of Probate with in testimony in and for the District of Danbury in Said Court, and State, personally appeared Samuel Wildman, Eli Wildman, and David Starr , all [illegible] known to the Court as persons of good character truth, and credible witnesses, who [illegible] subscriber the foregoing [illegible] and being duly Sworn [illegible made oath to the truth of the same - by them subscribed
In testimony & here of I have Sworn to Set my hand and affixed the Seal of Said Court this Twenty Seventh day of August
Gilead G Taylor Clerk
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I Edward Taylor of Danbury Fairfield County & State of Connecticut Judge of Probate for the District of Danbury in said County and State do hereby certify, that Gilead G Taylor who hath subscribed the foregoing certificate is Clerk of said Court of Probate, and that the signature to the said certificate is in the proper hand writing of the said Gilead G Taylor and that he was such Clerk at the time the same purports to have been made duly appointed and sworn according to law, That the seal impressed upon said certificate is the Seal of said Court of Probate. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 27th day of August 1838
Edward Taylor Judge
State of Connecticut County of Litchfield
Office of the Clerk of the County Court of said County.
I Origue S. Seymour Clerk of said Court do certify that Nathaniel Perry Esq is judge of the Court of Probate for the District of Kent & has so been since the session of the General Assembly May 1828 and that the foregoing signature which purport to be his is genuine And also that Rufus Fuller Esq is a Justice of the Peace to Said County duly commissioned & that his commission is dated May 29.1838 and will expire June 20 1839 & that the several signatures to the annexed document which purport to be the signature of said Justice are genuine
Certified under my hand and the seal of said Court Sept 27. 1838
Orique S. Seymour Clerk
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5.370
Connecticut.
Mary Stone decd.
widow of Levi Stone.
who died on the 31st Dec 1836
of    in the State of 
who was a Lieutenant, of  commanded
by Captain Artefecens of the    commanded by Conn in the Revolution
line for
Inscribed on the Roll of Hartford
at the rate of 600 Dollars 00 Cents
per annum, to commence on the 1st day of
[illegible] January 1837 and end
26th September 1845
Certificate of Pension issued the 7th day of 
April 1837. and sent to 
Hon. John Woodruff W Haven
6h
Arrears to the 4th of
Semi-annual allowance ending
Deducting $23 33/3 per annum, during the continuance of said pension under acts 1838. '43 & '44  {Revolutionary Claim,
Acts July 4, 1857}
Recorded by: G.V. Getty  Clerk,
Book 26 Vol. 1 Page 115.
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Dolly Fuller X
Russell Stone
To
Edwards & Smith
power of atty.

I've desire to see
this happens in this 
case
11. Oct. '52
Edwards & Smith
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Know all Persons by these Presents, that
We Dolly Fuller & Russell Stone, residents of Kent Litchfield Co Connecticut 
have made, constituted and appointed and by these presents do make, constitute,
and appoint Edwards & Smith of Washington City, D.C.
our [my crossed out] true and lawful attorney for [illegible] and in our name, place and stead,
To collect receive, and examine each and every paper now on file, in Washington City D.C. relative to our father & Mother
 Pension Levi Stone & Mary Stone both of Whom are deceased

giving and granting unto our said attorney full power and authority to do and 
perform all and every act and thing whatsoever requisite and necessary to be done in and about the premises, as fully, to all intents and purposes, as We might or could do if present, with full power of substitution and revocation, hereby satisfied and confirming all that our said attorney or his substitute shall lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue here of.
Witness our hand this eighth day of October in the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty Two
Russell Stone
Dolly Fuller
Acknowledge before me, this eighth day of October A.D. 1852
[ Stamp reads: KENT PROBATE]
Russell Fuller, Judge of Probate
for the district of Kent
Sealed and delivered in presents of
Ru[illegible] Fuller
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State of Connecticut
Litchfield County Ss Kent this
4th day of April 1857
I hereby certify that Satisfactory evidence has been exhibited before the Probate Court of the Town, County,State aforesaid by the affidavits of Jeremiah Fuller Sons. Jeremiah Fuller Jr & Ashbel Fuller & hereunto accompanying that Levi Stone was a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States at the rate of about $23. per Annum, that he died in Said town leaving a Widow whose name was Mary Stone, that said Mary Stone drew a pension from the United States of the Amount of $23. per Annum and that she died in Said town on the 26th day of September one thousand Eight hundred and forty five (1845) leaving surviving her three Children only- whose names are Russell Stone, Dolly Fuller and Nancy Swift and that they each now Survive & are the only surviving children of the Said Levi & Mary Stone deceased
In testimony whereof I have hereunto Set my hand and affixed the Seal of the Probate Court of Kent the day and year first above written
Attest Leman Beecher
Probate Clerke
[stamp reads: KENT PROBATE]
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Copy of a Letter from John Wood, Asst. Dr. Al. General, to Col. Jeremiah Wadsworth, dated "Danbury, March 20. 1777.
"Dear Sir,
"By order of General McDougal, provided
"Henry Greenleaf with a Carriage to transporting the
"baggage of some privates and one woman belong-
"ing to the 7th Reg.t to be transported to Hartford, and 
"would be glad you would discharge the Cart as
"soon as convenient. Pray be so good as to send me
"a good Salmon or two by the Cart in a proper chest."
"Your Humble Servt.
"John Wood,
"Asst. Q.M.G."
"To Col. Jere. Wadsworth,
"Hartford."}
From the same, to the same, dated
"Danbury, 3. Nov. 1777.
"Dear Sirs, I would interest you to forward the Cole as
"soon as possible, as I have some New Orders respect-
"ing sum works which cannot be well finished without
"And also send the Nail Rods to Springfield the first
"opportunity."
"From your Humble Servt
"To Col. Jere. Wadsworth,   "John Wood."
"Hartford, "pr. Express."
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Letter from Col. Hughes to Col. Wadsworth, dated
"Fishkill, 10th May, 1778.
"Dear Colonel,
"Here am I sweating in my grease, without Cash or Credit almost. I have written General Greene two Letters since you were here, informing of my situation, and begging to be relieved, but nobody appears, General Gates is not arrived, but hourly looks for. When he arrives my Stay will be but short, as I am fix.d as Fate, in my determination. I suppose the old General will swear a little at me, &c. but that will not avail if I am not worth mentioning, nor a Commission,, which others have, who inter.d the Department since I did, I'm not worth pay.
I saw several York Papers this day, that came by a Flag, by with it appears the Ministry are exerting every reserve to push over Troops, and gain time. I expect there will be some scampering the ensuing Campaign. they are daily filling the Country with Spies and Emissaries. I wish we may not be surprized.
Adieu, Dear Colonel,
And believe me yours,
H. Hughes.
Col. Jeremiah Wadsworth,
Hartford.
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State of Connecticut
City and County of Hartford, August 1856.
I Charles Hosmer, Recording Secretary of the Connecticut Historical Society, do hereby certify that among the original Manuscript account Books, and Letters and Papers on File, formerly belonging to the late Jeremiah Wadsworh, Commissary General in the War of the Revolution, and presented by his son, the late Daniel Wadsworth, Esq.to said Society. I find among the Letters on File, several from Hugh Hughes, D. J. M. G. to Col. Jeremiah Wadsworth, copies and Extracts from which are as follows, viz:
Danbury, March 11th 1777.
Dear Colonel- McClean is either a Fool or a knave, perhaps a little of both. He has refused to comply with Doct. Wood's orders for Provision for the Artificers. He said his order was not worth a chip, and that, it really did not belong to my Department, and advis.d the Master of the Wheelrights to go to Peekskill for an Order but yet tho't that as I was so well know, there was not much Danger in complying; but w'd not let them have any on the Doct. tho' he let him have some on his own. this, if I am rightly inform.d is the effects of a little spleen that he has against the Doct.r
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on acct. of his appointment as he has said that I had no right to give him the place, or something to that effect. I wish you would be good enough to instruct the Gentleman a little so that he may not injure the service in gratifying his good nature. He says that there is no Rum here, which may be true, but we shall, and do want some exceedingly, as the Man will not be satisfied without
Mr Loyd is here, and I waited on him relative to the Iron, &c. Some 4d Nails will be sent up for the Com.y General's stores as soon as I get to P. Kill. Fishkill will fetch me up tomorrow, if I don't founder by the way. 
I was obliged to send an Express as far as New Haven, and order him to wait on you with this. Apropos.Here are Shoemakers who offer to make shoes for 2/ pr.pr.
Doct. Wood has engaged.d 2000# of Saddlers Leather at New Haven with one Dougal, who is to receive Hides for the values. I am glad he did, as the Saddles are just out. I intend establishing a Nailorery here forthwith, and have desir.d that a large Shop be immediately erected for that and other purposes.
If you think of any thing that will promote the service, do mention it.
Adieu, Dear Colonel,
And believe me most unfeignedly Yours,
Col. Jeremiah Wadsworth
Hugh Hughes
S. L. M. G.
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Extract of a Letter from Col. Hughes to Col. Wadsworth, dated "Fishkill, 16th March, 1777.
Dear Colonel, Lamb will deliver you fifty Thousand Dollars, (Fifteen Quires, of Sheets & 80 Dollars,) which I found here on my arrival yesterday as I came by the way of Fishkill. When you see Major Ruggles, desire him to order an exact acct. to be made out of all the Leather, &c. furnished for our Department and credit me for the two Thousand Dollars sent, and let me have the State of the Account when all is delivered that Mr. Hallet gives Directions for.
General Knox informs me that he bo't 15000 lbs. of Steel for our Department at Boston, and that it is in the hands of Livingston and Trumbull. It is to be divided nearly equal between General Schuyler, the Laboratory at Springfield, and our Store at Danbury where you will please to order our Pack before you come away
Adieu, Dear Colonel and believe me
Sincerely Yours,
Hugh Hughes,
D.Q.M.G.
Col. Jeremiah Wadsworth
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Extract of a Letter from Col. Hughes to Col. Wadsworth, dated "Fishkill, 3d Novb. 1777.
Dear Colonel, I am greatly oblidg.d by your favour of this 27th [illegible] but it did not get to hand as soon as you intended it should, by some fatality or other - I have just written to General Mifflin, by a Person sent on purpose, the situation of the Department, both in your State and in this, and desir'd his answer in the most pressing terms, as well as that cash may be sent in proportion to the Demands of the Department in both States. I mention.d the substance of your's, and so I have three or four times. We want Horses for ten Waggons more, and the Saddle Horses, you will please to sent to this Post, by some safe hand, that wont abuse them. Doct. Wood is directed to build a Stable 100 Feet long and width in proportion, covering the whole and every part with Straw, to save Boards and Nails.  
I am, with Great Regard,
Dear Colonel,
Your Friend & Humble Servt.
H. Hughes.

"Col. Wadsworth.
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Levi Stone Con: 23 33/100 p. ann act 7. June when last po.
9 Apl 39
Died 31st Decr. 1836 pt. that period
LH.
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Revo. Pension
Mary Stone
Con
Ex by EA Smith
JE Heath Esq
levin Pension
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Triplett
Hon J. Minot
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington
B
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Hartford
Connt
Feb 21th.. 1843
Sir
Herewith you have the claims of Mary Stone for arrears of Pension
Respectfully yr.
obt. Servant
Benj Colton
Hon J. L. Edwards
Comm of Pensions}
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Levi Stone
of Connecticut
Act of 1832
B.B. Chapman
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Levi Stone Act 1832, Ct. Roll his widow, Mary Stone applied cannot say what act
B. B. Chapman
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34TH CONGRESS,
3d Session,}
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, 
{ REPORT
No 21,
HEIRS OF LEVI AND MARY STONE.
[To accompany Bill H. R. 603.]
DECEMBER 12, 1856.
Mr. WOODRUFF, from the Committee on Revolutinary Pensions, made the following
REPORT,
The Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Levi Stone, beg leave to report;
That the petitioner, in his application for pension, states, under oath, tat he served seven or eight months as private in the revolutionary war, commencing in March, 1775. After this term of service expired, he was promised by John Wood, assistant deputy quartermaster general, a commission as Captain, provided he would raise a company of Artificers. That he accordingly did raise a company of about forty, and was regularly commissioned its Captain. Said company was stationed at Danbury, Connecticut, and he served as Captain of the same for two years and eight months; that all orders which were addressed to him, were addressed as Captain; and that he received the pay and wages for that grade of service, and at the termination of his service he was regularly discharged. In support of the truth of his statement, the judge of the court, before whom his statement is made, certitles to his credibility from his personal knowledge.
In addition to this, the affidavit of several persons are presented, all of whom served under him, and are pensioned for this very service as Artificers.
Daniel Stone swears that he well knew Levi Stone, and knows that he was Captain of the corps of Artificers stationed at Danbury, Connecticut; that Captain Stone entered the service in March, 1777, and served as such for a period of two years and eight months; that he served as private of Artificers a greater part of the time under Captain Stone, &c.
Uriah De Forrest, a revolutionary pensioner, swears that in 1777 (April or May} he enlisted in the service of the United States, and served as an artificer at Danbury, Connecticut, in the company commanded by Captain Levi Stone; that he is well acquainted with said Captain Stone, and that he never heard it doubted that he served as a regularly commissioned Captain.
Samuel Wildman, a revolutionary pensioner, swears that he knew Levi Stone as Captain of Artificers; Stone lived in his father's family
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HEIRS OF LEVI AND MARY STONE.
eighteen months; knows he was appointed captain in March, 1777, and served in thar capacity at Danbury, Connecticut, from two to three years; he had thirty or forty men under him, and that said company was on the Continental establishment.
Eli Wildman swears that he knew Captain Levi Stone in the revolutionary war; that in the spring of 1777 he was commissioned Captain of Artificers, had a number of men under his command, and served, he should think, more that two years as Captain on the Continental establishment.
Joel W. Church, a pensioner under act of 1818, swears that he knew Captain Levi Stone during the war of the revolution; said Stone was  an apprentice to his {deponent's} father. that he served six months in the years 1777 and 1778, respectively, as an artificer under said Stone, and his residence, during the war, was in sight of the artificer's shop; and he knows that said Stone, and his residence, during the war, was Captain of the artificer corps from March 1777, to August 1779. That he had thirty or forty Artificers under his command; that the corps was under the quartermaster's department; that said company was raised by said Captain Stone, under the directions of Major Wood, quartermaster general. That he worked on the anchor chains for the main {chevaux-de-frise) which was strung across the Hudson River at West Point. We were all privates under Captain Stone, and in August, 1779, I left Danbury, and went into Colonel Baldwin's regiment. Accompanying these are various extracts from documents in the Connecticut Historical Society, from John Wood, assistant quartermaster general at Danbury, Connecticut, and Colonel Hugh Hughes, running from March, 1777, to May, 1778, in which reference is made to the materials used at Danbury by this artificer corps.
The claimant has been granted a pension by the department of $23 per annum, and also to his widow of the same amount , since the decease of said Captain Stone. The evidence of marriage being a certificate from the records of the town Clerk where it was performed.
The committee, after a careful examination of the case, cannot withhold its surprise that to one so well fortified by proof of the most reliable character, viz; that of the personal knowledge of those who served, in the same corps of Artificers under Captain Stone, there could be a doubt as to the correctness of the allegation of the claimant, which is also corroborated by the known history of the times; and it is the more remarkable that the soldiers who served under Captain Levi Stone should be pensioned for the very term of service which their Captain is denied. It is a well authenticated fact, that the records of the revolutionary services in many instances have been entirely destroyed, and at best these records were very meagre. Hence, it would be a denial of the bounty tendored the officer or soldier if his claim rested entirely upon record proof. The committee therefore report a bill.
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2.311
Connecticut
Mary Stone
widow of Levi Stone dec.d
who was a pensioner under the Act of 1832
and who died on the 31st December 183_
of Litchfield in the State of Ct.
who was a Private in the compy. commanded
by Captain Elliot of the __ commanded
by __ in the Ct.
line for _ mos [& 12 days crossed out]
Inscribed on the Roll of Ct
at the rate of 23 Dollars 33 Cents per annum,
to commence on the [4th day of March 1836 crossed out} 31st
December 1836
Certificate of Pension issued the 9th day of Api
of 1839 and sent Rufus
Fuller Kent Ct.
Arrears to the 4th of Mar. '39. $92.66
Semi-annual allowance ending 4 Sept.  20.66
$113.32
{Act July 7,
1838.}
Recorded by D. D. Addison Clerk,
Book A Vol. 1st Page 208
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Connecticut 2.311
Mary Stone
widow of Levi Stone
who was a pensioner under the Act of 7 June
and who died on the 31 December '35
of Litchfield Ct in the State of Ct
who was a private in the Co
commanded by Captain Elliott__ of the
__ commanded by __ in
the Connecticut line for 7 mos
Inscribed on the Roll of Connecticut
at the rate of 23 Dollars 33
Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March 1836 & terminating 31 Dec. 36
Certificate of Pension issued the 7th day of 
March 43 and Sent to B. Colton
Hartford, Ct.
Arrears to the 4th of
Semi-annual allowance ending
$19.44
[Act July 7, 1838.]
Recorded by   Clerk,
Book A  Vol. 1  Page 208
Rept Made 10.'43
A new certificate has
been issd in the case
see the opinion of the
attorney General of the 
2.d of September 1842
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Connecticut 2'337
Mary Stone
widow of Levi Stone
who was a Private 
in the Connecticut Line
for 7 Months
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of
Twenty three Dollars thirty three cents per annum, to commence on
the 4th day of March, 1843.
Certificate of Pension issued the 21 day of October 1843
and sent to Rufus Fuller Jr
Kent
Connecticut
[Act of March 3, 1843.]
Recorded in Book. d
Vol. 1 Page 76
Hon. Jacob Broom
July 21 1836
Same Aug 1 1836
Hon JWoodruff Aug 9 1836.
 Same 7 March 37
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17.685
Connecticut
Levi Stone, decd.
of __ in the State of
who was a Lieutenant of months Artificers commanded
by Captain __ of the __ commanded 
by _____ in the Revolution
line for Increased from $23.33p
Inscribed on the Roll of Hartford
at the rate of 600. Dollars  00 Cents
per annum, to commence the 4th day of 
March, 1831 and end 31st Dec. 1836.
Certificate of Pension issued the 7th day of
April 1857 and Sent to
Hon John Woodruff
New Haven
6p:
{Revolutionary Claim, 
Act June 7, 1832 &
March 3, 1857.}
Recorded by G.T.Getty Clerk,
Book 26. Vol. 1. Page 91
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Rev WIDOW, &c.
File No. 17875
Mary Stone
Widow of 
Levi Stone
Lt. Rev. War
Act July 4th 1836
Index:--- Vol. W Page 246
[Arrangement of 1870]
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Brief in the case of Levi and Mary Stone, dec.
Litchfield County and State of Connecticut
Special act of March 3, 1857
Claim, ( " original or" crossed out) ("for increase")
Proof exhibited, (if original)
Is it documentary, traditionary, or supported by rolls? If either, state the substance.
Increased by Special Act of Congress, approved
March 3, 1857
(If for increase)
Has additional evidence been fixed since the admission of the claim? If so, what?
Name and residence of Agent
John Woodruff,
New Haven
Ct
[illegible]
Examining Clerk
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Pension Office
March 1 1857
Sirs
Before the claim of the heirs of Levi and Mary Stone can be adjusted a certificate of same Court of Record be furnished showing the date of the death of Mrs. Stone and the number and names of the children.
I have the honor to be
Very respectfully,
Your Obt. Serv't.,
SCole
for Commissioner
Hon. John Woodruff
M. G.
New Haven,
Conn.
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Levi Stone, decd.
Capt of Artificers
CT
Act 7 June 1832 & 3 March 1857
$600 per annum, Comy.
4 March 1831 & Ending 31 Dec
deducting former pay at $33.33 
1836. Payable To
Russell Stone
Dolly Fuller and
Nancy Swift only
Surviving children
also
Mary Stone, dec wid
of Levi Stone,
Ct
Act 4 July 1836.
$600 per annum, com
1 Jany 1837 & Ending [illegible] 26
Sept 1845, ded'g former
proofs under Acts 38, '43 & 44
$23.33 per annum during the
continuance of deced pension,
payable as above
Hon John Woodruff
&co
New Haven
Ct
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State of Connecticut
County of Litchfield}
On this Seventeenth day of March 1857, before me the Subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid personally Ashbel Fuller a resident of the town of Kent County aforesaid who being by me duly sworn deposes and says that he was well acquainted with Levi Stone, late of said Town, that said Levi Stone was always reputed and believed to have been a Captain of Artificers in the War of the Revolution that he drew a small pension from the United States for his Revolutionary Services thinks it was about $23 per annum, and that he died some twenty years ago in the town of Kent, leaving a Widow whose name was Mary Stone, that the said Mary Stone drew about the same amount of pension her said husband drew, until her decease, that she died on the 26th day of September 1845. (Eighteen hundred and forty five,) leaving three children only at her decease, whose names are Russell Stone, Dolly Fuller, and Nancy Swift, and they each now Survive, and that they are the only surviving children of the said Levi and Mary Stone deceased, and that deponent has no interest whatever in the matter of said affidavit.
Ashbel Fuller
Subscribed and Sworn to before me this Seventeenth day
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of March 1857 and Further Certify that her son Ashbell Fuller is a respectable resident of the town of Kent County aforesaid and one in whose statements full faith and credit should be given, that he has lived here many years and in a situation to have knowledge of the facts to which he has testified
The word aforesaid, on the first page having been intended before [illegible]
John Wilson Justice of the Peace
STATE OF CONNECTICUT
County of Litchfield, } ss. LITCHFIELD.
I, Frederick D. Beeman, Clerk of the Superior Court of the State of Connecticut within and for the county of Litchfield aforesaid, do hereby certify that John Wilson Esq
whose genuine signature appears to the accompanying instrument,
is and was at the time of signing the same a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid, duly elected and sworn, and by law authorized to administer Oaths, and to take the acknowledgment of Deeds; and that all his official acts, as such, are entitled to full faith and credit; and that the aforesaid Superior Court is a Court of Record, having general jurisdiction.
Given under my hand and the seal of said Court at Litchfield, this 24th day of March A.D. 1857,
Frederich D. Beeman Clerk.
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Kent Ct Apr 5.
Apl 8
[illegible] at Ct.
[illegible] EE
Stone & Hale
Hon. J.S.Edwards
Commissioner of 
Pensions
City of Washington
D.C.
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Kent, Litchfield County, Ct.
April 3d Ad 1839
Sir,
In Oct of 1838, Documentary proof was sent to Washington directed to Your Honor, in support of a claim for a Pension in favor of Mary Stone widow of Levi Stone, deceased, and late a Pensioner of the United States,  Over six months having gone by since that nears and nothing determinate having been received respecting the Claim. We are led to suppose, that returns have been made which have miscarried.
It is also some months since the papers in the case of Charity Hall, Widow of Lyman Hall, deceased, late a Pensioner of the United States, were forwarded to the Pension Office for the third time, since which period nothing has been heard respecting them. Attornies who act for them, do not escape the importunities of these Revolutionary Relics, into whose needy and trembling frame hope reenters, and continually haunts them with the Specter of Relief, until it comes
With much Respect, Your
Obedient Servt
Rufus Fuller
Hon. J.S.Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions,
City of Washington,
D.C.
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Levi Stone
Page 66

War Department
Pension Office
27. November 1832
Sir
The papers in support of the claim of Levi Stone are herewith returned. They are not authenticated by any Seal of Court, nor is the official character and signatures of the magistrate before whom the affidavits were taken, properly prooved. A notary Public is not a certifying officer for that purpose.
There is a difficulty in this case far greater than these formal objections: The improbabilities and incongruities of the declaration are such as to render it doubtful whether Mr. Stone served in the corps of
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of Artificers, upon the rolls of which in this office, is name is not found. He says he was Commissioned as Captain by Col Printer, but has lost his Commission. No Colonel of that name belonged to the Corps, nor were Commissions granted by the Colonels of Regiments in the Army of the Revolution. The claim of Mr. Stone, to the pension of Captain, cannot be admitted, unless he produces more satisfactory evidence than that which accompanies his declaration
The time during which Mr Stone, alleges to have served as private of infantry, is so indefinitely stated, that no computation can be made of the amount of pension to which he is entitled under
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under the law.
The declaration of David Whitehead is also herewith returned, with a brief pointing out the objections to admission.
I am respectfully
Your Obt. St
J.S. Edwards
Nathaniel P. Perry, Esq.
Kent
Litchfield County
Conn.
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State of Connecticut
County of Litchfield
On this Seventeenth day of March 1857, before me the subscribed a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid personally appears before me Jeremiah Fuller, Ser. and Jeremiah Fuller Jr. each of whom being by me duly sworn depose and say that they were well acquainted with Levi Stone, late of the Town of Kent, County aforesaid for many years prior to and up to the time of his decease, that said Levi Stone was always reputed and believed to have been a Captain of Artificers in the War of the Revolution, that he drew a small pension from the United States Government for his Revolutionary services thinks it was about $25. per annum, and that he died some twenty years ago, leaving a Widow whose name was Mary Stone & three children only whose names are Russell Stone, Dolly Fuller & Nancy Swift, that the said Mary Stone also drew a small pension from the United States of about $23. per annum and that his said widow died on the 26th day September 1845, leaving surviving her three children only- whose names are Russell Stone, Dolly Fuller, & Nancy Swift and that they each survive and further that these Deponents have no interest in such matter.
Jeremiah Fuller Ser.
Jeremiah Fuller Jr
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Subscribed and Sworn to before me this Seventeenth day of March 1857, and further certify that the aforesaid Jeremiah Fuller Ser. & Jeremiah Fuller Jr. are respectable residents of the Town of Kent County aforesaid and that their statements are entitled to full faith and credit in any statement they make and are thus in a situation to have knowledge of the facts to which they have testified
John Wilson Justice of the Peace
STATE OF CONNECTICUT
County of Litchfield, Ss. LITCHFIELD.
I, FREDERICK D, BEEMAN, Clerk of the Superior Court of the State of Connecticut within and fr the county of Litchfield aforesaid, do hereby certify that
John Wilson Esq
whose genuine signature appears in the accompanying instrument
is and was at the time of signing the same a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid, duly elected and sworn and by law authorized to administer Oaths, and to take the acknowledgment of Deeds/ and that all his official acts, as such, are entitled to full faith and credit; and that the aforesaid Superior Court is a Court of Record, having general jurisdiction.
Given under my hand and the Seal of said Court at Litchfield this 24th day of March A.D. 1857
Frederick D. Beeman Clerk
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House of Reps.
Washington July 17. 1856
Dear Sir
Will you please send me the papers (or certified copies) relating to the application of Mary Stone, (of Connecticut) Widow of Levi for a Pension. (Act of 1836 admitted $23. per an.)
[illegible]
Yours Respectfully 
Jacob Broom 
Chairman Committee on
Revolutionary Pensions
Hon Josiah Minot
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington
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Pension Office
August 11. 1856

Sir,
In reply to your letter of the 9th inst. I have to State that the name of Hezekiah Rowland is found upon the New York Roll under the act of March 18, 1818 as having received a pension at the rate of 96 dollars per annum; Joel W Church on the N. Y. roll under act June 7. 1832 at the rate of 240 dollars per annum, and Daniel Stone on the Connecticut roll under the act March 18 1818 at the rate of $96 pr annum.
The name of Uriah De Forest & Samuel or Eli Wildman have not been on the Roll of either of the above states.
I am very Respy
Your Obt St
JMinot
Commissioner
Hon. John Woodruff
House of Rep.
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House of Rep
Washington Aug 1. 1856.
Hon J. Minot
Dr Sir
Will you please send me the papers in the Suspended case of Mary Stone,/ widow of Levi/ an application for a Pension
Yours &c
Jacob Broom
Chairman Committee
on Revolutionary Pensions
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Pension Office
July 21st 1856
Sir:
In reply to your note of the 17th [illegible] I have to State that I do not find that there are on file in this office any papers of Mary Storer widow of Levi of Connecticut. I do, however, find a Mary Stone, widow of Levi of Connecticut, pensioner under the Acts of 1838 & '43 at $23.33 a year. Is this the widow to whom you refer?
I am, Sir
Very Resply
Your Ob Sert
JMinot
Comm
Hon. Jacob Broom
Chm Com. Rev. Pens.
H. Reps.
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Mary Stone
Widow of
Levi Stone
praying for arrears of
Pension
Augt 5. 1856 Ref to the
Com on Rev Pensions
1856 Dec 12 Bill 603
Mr E. Clark Jr
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Pension Office,
August 2nd 1856
Sir
I have the honor to enclose the papers in the case of Mary Stone, widow of Levi, of Connecticut, admitted under the Acts of 1838 & 1843, at $23.33 a year
I am very Resply 
Your Obt Servt
GMinot
Comm
Hon. Jacob Broom
Ch. Com. Rev. Pens.
H. Reps.
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Pension Office
August 9. 1856
Sir,
 I have the honor to state that Levi Stone of Conn. was pensioned under the Act of June 7. 1832 at $23.33 a year and paid to his death, on the 31st Dec. 1836.
His widow Mary, was pensioned at the same rate under the Act of July 7. 1838
Very Resp.
Your ob. Servt
JMinot
Comm.
Hon J. Woodruff
HoReps
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Mary Stone
Con.
Act 7. July 38
$23.33 from 4 March
36 to 31 Dec. 36
Benj Colton
Hartford
Con.
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State of Connecticut
County of Litchfield} S.S. at Kent
On this 31st day of January AD 1843 personally appeared before me Rufus Fuller Jr a Justice of the Peace in and for said County 
Mary Stone a resident of said Kent who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain arrears of Pension. That she is the widow of Levi Stone who was a pensioner up to the day of his death which took place on the thirty first day of December 1836 and that she was pensioned under the act of July 7th 1838 and her pension commenced on the day of the death of her said husband and she now claims arrears from the 4th day of March 1836 to the thirty first day of December 1836 at the rate of Twenty three Dollars and thirty three Cents per annum.
In Presence of Russell Stone
Betsey M. Shear
her
Mary X Stone
mark
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year first above written before me and I certify that the declarant is the widow of Levi Stone who was a pensioner & that she was also a pensioner as she has stated and is a respectable and credible person 
Rufus Fuller Jr. Justice of the Peace
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State of Connecticut
Office of Secretary of State.
 I do hereby certify that Rufus Fuller Jur is and was the 20th day of June last part has been a Justice of the Peace within & for the County of Litchfield in said State, duly appointed & commissioned, as appears of record in this office- and that in my opinion, the written signature purporting to be his is genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of the said State this 21st day of February AD 1843. 
Noah A. Phelps
Secretary of State
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2442
Mary Stone
$23.33 per ann
Rufus Fuller Jr
Kent
Connecticut
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State of Connecticut
County of Litcfield} Ss at Kent
On this the second day of June AD 1843 personally appeared before me Rufus Fuller Jur a Justice of the Peace within and for said Litchfield County Mary Stone a resident of Kent in said County aged Eighty four years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath makes this following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the act of Congress passed on the 3d March 1843 granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary war.
That she is the widow of Levi Stone who was a private in the Revolutionary war and belonged to a Regiment commanded by Col. David Waterbury and that she received under the act of July 7, 1838 a pension of Twenty three Dollars and thirty three Cents per annum she further declares that she is still a widow
her
Mary X Stone
mark
In Presence of 
Lucy Stone Rufus Fuller
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written before Rufus Fuller Jur Justice of the Peace
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State of Connecticut
County of Litchfield} SS at Kent this second day of June Ad 1847. I hereby certify that Mary Stone subscriber to the preceding declaration is personally known to me and that her declarations are entitled to full credit and belief
Rufus Fuller Jur Justice of the peace
STATE OF CONNECTICUT,
LITCHFIELD COUNTY, } ss. Litchfield
I Geo. Woodruff Assistant Clerk of the County Court of the County and State aforesaid, do hereby certify that Rufus Fuller Jr Esq [illegible] was on the 2d day of June 1843 a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, duly commissioned and qualified, and by Law authorized to administer Oaths and to take the acknowledgment of Deeds. And that his commission was dated on the 10th day of June A.D, 1842 and will expire on the 20th day of June, A.D. 1849 & that the foregoing signatures which purport to be his are genuine
Given under my hand and the Seal of said Court this 30th day of June A.D. 1843
Geo. Woodruff
Assistant Clerk
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Kent June 28th 1843
Sir
I herewith transmit in behalf of Mrs Mary Stone of this Town, her declaration in support of her claim for a Pension, under the pension Act of March 3d 1843.
Please address all communications to be made relating to such claim to the undersigned at Kent, Litchfield County, Ct. Very Respectfully yours
Rufus Fuller Jur
Hon JLEdwards
Commissioner of pensions
City of Washington
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2443
July 6, '43
Connecticut
Hon. J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
City of Washington D.C.
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H.R. No 603
Mary Stone
widow of Levi Stone
15
[illegible]
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I, David Wood of Danbury in the County of Fairfield and state of Connecticut aged 85 years being duly sworn do depose and say that in the spring of the year 1775, a regiment by [illegible] by the state of Connecticut for the [illegible] service of the United Colonies States, said regiment was enlisted for seven months and was commanded by Colonel David Waterbury one company of the troops of said regiment was [illegible] in said Danbury and commanded by Captain Noble Benedict  I enlisted at said Danbury in the said company Captain Benedict and was a Corporal stationed at [illegible] early on & the first day of May in said year and received therein until the month of September of the same year. I marched with said Company from Danbury to Stamford in said County which latter was a [illegible] place of rendezvous of Said Regiment , from thence to New York and Half Moon Point, now Waterford. There I was taken [illegible] and proceeded no farther, and after a short time was sent to the [ illegible]. The said Regiment [illegible] northward from said Waterford to [illegible] and reduced that Roll. I returned to my home in said Danbury in the month of October or November. I further depose and say that I was then well acquainted with Levi Stone now of Kent in the County of Litchfield and State of Connecticut. He then resided in said Danbury [and was born there crossed out]. He enlisted as a Private Soldier in the said Company Commanded by Captain Benedict, on the same day I enlisted, joined the Company at the same time I did and Served therein as a Private Soldier during the whole Campaign of seven months. I have knowledge that he served as aforesaid
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until the said Regiment left Waterford in September or October and it is my confident belief that he served the residual of the Campaign because he left Waterford as a soldier in the said company and returned to said Danbury with the then soldiers of his company in the month of December [illegible] I further say not. The words "and was born there" erased before signing. David Wood

State of Connecticut
Fairfield County; On this 17th day of May 1833
before the Commission of Probate for the District of Danbury in said county and state, 
[illegible]
appeared David Wood well known to the court as a man of good character for truth and veracity and that said subscribed the foregoing declaration duly sworn, made oat to the truth of the above. In [illegible] herein to served and seal of my said office the year aforesaid. Attest: Edward Layton Clerk
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H. R. 603
A Bill
For the relief of the children and heirs of Levi and Mary Stone.
December 12, 1856; read twice and committed to a committee of the whole house tomorrow.
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An Act
For the relief of the children and heirs of Levi and Mary Stone. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the USA in congress assembled. That the secretary of the interior is hereby authorized and required to place the name of Levi Stone, who was a captain of artificers at Danbury, CT during the war of the Revolution from March 1777 to November 1779 on the pension roll of said State under act of 7 Jun 1832 at the rate of pension due for said service; and also the name of his widow, Mary Stone, on said
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pension roll, under act of 4 Jul 1836 at the same rate deducting $23.33 per annum during the continuance of said pension and the balance so found due be paid to the children of said Levi and Mary Stone, deceased or their legal representatives.
approved 3 Mar 1857
Dep of State 
6 Mar 1857
A true copy carefully collated with the original roll.
W. G. Center
Chief Clerk