Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 17132, for Stephen Mead, New York
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Company, and went into the army and was gone eight or nine months in 1777 and he was at the battle at Danbury when General Wooster was wounded and was one of the men who helped carry him off from the ground. That in the year 1780 he enlisted again for six months and joined the army at West Point, and was present at the time Major Andre was executed [large inkblot begins here that obscures many words] that he was absent in service this [obscured] months. 
That her husband was absent [obscured] Revolution in active service the [obscured] of the time for seven years. That she cannot in consequence [obscured] bodily infirmity arising from old age and consequent loss of memory more particularly state the service of her husband and the names of the officers than is above mentioned. 
That the last time he returned home from the army he brought with him a discharge which was burned when our house was burned in Greene County about forty years ago. 
She further declares that she was married to the said Stephen Mead in the fall of 1774. at north Salem Westchester County by Elder Cole of the Baptist Church. (Seventeen hundred and seventy four). that her husband the aforesaid Stephen Mead died on the twenty third day of March in the year one thousand eight
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4 New York
Elizabeth Mead
Suspended
Let to A. Mygath Esq. May
26, 1838