Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 10219, for Samuel Stone, New Hampshire
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(3-1776)
SERVICE 
N.H.  

 Stone, Samuel 

NUMBER
R.10219

CONTENTS
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31300
Sam. Stone
Pension Papers
31300
Hon. M Fillmore
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31300
Samuel Stone
H.Y.
Act 7 June '32
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New Hampshire Militia
State of New York
Erie County ss.  On this 4th day of June
1834 personally appeared in open Court before the Court of Common Pleas now sitting at Buffalo in said County Samuel Stone a resident
of the ;said town at Buffalo in said County of Erie
and State of New York aged 68 years who being
first duly sworn according to Law doth
on his oath make the following declaration
in order to obtain the benefits of the act
 of Congress passed June 7, 1832. That he entered & served in the service of the United States during the War of the Revolution under the Officers herein named & served as herein stated.
And this deponent further says that he was
born in the year 1760 at Piermont in the County
of Grafton in the State of New Hampshire.
That he has no record of his age and does
not know of any but he states his age from
the information of his parents & others. That 
he was living at Piermont aforesaid at the
commencement of the War & at the time he
entered the service and continued to reside
there until about the year 1796 when he
removed to Berkshire Franklin County Vermont
where he resided until about four years since
when he removed to Buffalo aforesaid
where he has ever since been a resident.
That in the early part of the year 1779
as he thinks although it might have been
earlier or later, his father Uriah Stone 
retained a Commission as Captain from the 
Governor of New Hampshire which this 
Deponent has [illegible] but which he does [illegible] to be in existence now his father having been dead nearly thirty years. That soon after his father got said commission a fort was agreed to be built for the safety of the Inhabitants on that frontier and his father raised a company of about fifty men & commenced building a fort at Piermont aforesaid and his father commanded the Comp0any & deponent had a brother in it as a private soldier and that in the month of May in the year 1779 (as near as he can recollect) he
entered his father's Company & was enrolled there
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in as a Drummer & the only drummer in the 
Company this deponent then being a young lad of only thirteen years old. That he drew a drum & a pair of snow shoes from the state & 
his father & brother each drew a pair of 
snow shoes & this deponent returned the drum at the close of the War. That he continued in said Company & done duty as such Drummer until the close of the War. That during the season of 1779 he not only done his duty as Drummer but for as much as six months assisted the common Soldiers in building the fort. That in 1779 Sergeant Clough from Col. Waits Regt. was detached with about a dozen men to assist in building the fort among whom he recollects Bill Jackson, Saml Bell, Saml Hinckson, John & Wm Patton & Chester Poole. They were there at different times during parts of two seasons and he thinks those Seasons were '79 & '80. That Poole & Bell he thinks were there till the close of the War.
That he thinks Col. Joseph Hutchins was the
Col & Ephm. Morris Major of the Regt to 
the Company to which this Deponent was attached belonged. He is not positive but what the Co. might have belonged to Col. Obadiah Clemens or Col. Charles Johnson Regts as the Regt was merged together while he served as Drummer.
That he served continually as such drummer until about the close of the War & he thinks until about the First of December in the year of our Lord 1782, when the company was disbanded. That during all the time aforesaid he was actually & entirely engaged in the Service of the United States in and about said Fort either as such drummer or in labouring on the fort & was engaged in no civil pursuit. That he thinks the First of his Company was Solomon Bailey & the Ensign he can't recollect.
He hereby relinquishes any claim whatever to a pension or an annuity except the present & he declares that his name is not on the pension roll of any agency in any state.
Sworn to & subscribed the day & year aforesaid Noah P Sprague, Clerk of Erie County         Samuel Stone
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And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion that the said Samuel Stone was a Revolutionary Soldier and served as he states.
I Noah P. Sprague Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Erie aforesaid do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of said Court in the matter of the application of Samuel Stone for a pension.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & Seal of Office this 4th day of June, A D 1834. Noah P Sprague, Clerk
[official seal]
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I George Washington Stone of Durham in the County of Missisquoi, District of
Montreal and Province of Lower Canada
of lawful age, to wit, sixty one years old
and rising, do testify and say that before
the year one thousand eight hundred and
nine that time, having an occasion to
examine the books and papers of
my father Uriah Stone who lived
and died in the State of New Hampshire
and found among them a commission
bearing date in the time of the revolutionary war and signed by the Governor of New Hampshire, making him Captain of an alarm list company.
I furthermore testify and say, that
in years after the same year, in listening to the tales of the war, I often heard mention made of the name of Samuel Stone serving as drummer
to my father, in the fort, same part 
of the revolutionary war. Furthermore your deponent saith not
Geo. W. Stone
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Franklin County ss} Berkshire  April the 5 day
1838 personally appeared George W. Stone
a Clergyman and made oath that the within
Affidavit by him subscribed contains the
truth and that he is a credible witness in
the previous
Certified by Cromwell Bowen Justice Peace

State of Vermont}  I William Bridges Judge
Georgia District ss} of the court of Probate in &
for the District of Georgia
do hereby certify that Cromwell Bowen
Esq. who has affixed his name to the within
was at the time the within was executed &
made is a Magistrate duly commission
and gratified to act as such and that the
signature purporting to be his is genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office at St Albans in said District this 1st day of April 1811
Wm Bridges Judge
[seal at left] Probate Court  Georgia District
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New York _
Revo. _
[illegible]
Samuel Stone
Let to N. K. Hall
Sept. 22, 1835
Let to Wm Bridges  Aug
20, 1836
[illegible] June 15, 1837
Let. to John Smith, July 6, 1840
"     to Ro. Gales Oct 10, '44
10219
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10219
P. O.
Samuel Stone
Service:
Rejected
Enlisted:........................18
Discharged...................18
Application filed:.........18
Alleges:.....................................
Re-enlisted:.............................
Attorney:..................................
P. O............................................
Recognized........................Contract
Cert. of Dis.   Searched for..................18
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Ho. of Reps.
Washington June 30, 1840
Sir
Permit me to call your attention
to the application of Samuel
Stone of Berkshire Vermont which
I understand has been on file
in your office some time.  I 
send you inclosed a letter from'W. Bridges and also the affidavit
of G W Stone.  Your early attention
is requested
I am respectfully
yr. obt. servt
Hon J L Edwards       J Smith
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Saml Stone
[illegible]
1836
Wm Bridges
St. Albans
Vt
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St Albans  Oct 7th 1836
Hon J L Edwards
Dear Sir
You will please have the goodness to examine the enclosed, in support of the claim of Samuel Stone and return an answer as soon as convenient.
Very Respectfully,
Your Obt Servt.
W. Bridges
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Hon J. L. Edwards
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St. Albans  July 30th 1836
Hon J. L. Edwards
Dear Sir,
I herewith transmit
to you the deposition of Samuel Bell, in
support of the claim of Saml Stone to a Pension.
Mr Stone informs me that his
declaration was made in Buffalo N. York
that Mssrs Filmore & Hall had the agency
of his business & that he then resided in
Buffalo, he now resides in Berkshire
Vt.  You will please direct your answer
to this, to me at St. Albans
Very Respectfully
Your Obt Servt
W. Bridges

Hon. J. L. Edwards
[illegible] of Pensions
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Genessee County ss.
Samuel Bell of the Town of Batavia in said County being Duly sworn saith that he is well acquainted with Samuel Stone of Piermont County of Grafton State of New Hampshire and also states that he this Deponent was a soldier in the Company of Capt Samuel Adkins in the state service of Newhampshire & that he was Directed by his Captain to work as Laborer on the Fort which was built around the House of Uriah Stone & that said Fort was considered by the offices stationed at that place as a very important post to guard the frontier[.]  there were also Ensign Dustin Sargant Clough William Jackman and many others belonging to the same company who labored on the same Fort; & this Deponent further saith that he afterwards understood that Captain Uriah Stone was the Commander of the Fort above mentioned after he left said Fort; &  that his son Samuel Stone was at the time this deponent labored on said fort about thirteen years of age and that he afterwards understand that Samuel Stone served as a musician at said Fort this was Generally understood in the vicinity of said Fort [.] this deponent further saith that he is now drawing a pension for the services he rendered on the Fort above mentioned & for other services rendered in the Revolutionary war[.]  this deponent further saith that he is seventy Eight years of age & that said Samuel Stone is about sixty nine or seventy years of age and further saith not
[signed] Saml. Bell
Subscribed & sworn to this 17th day of June 1836
before me [signed] E. D. Davis Just of the Peace

I certify that I am acquainted Samuel Bell Esq both personally & by Reputation & that he is a Man of truth & veracity & that his statement is entitled to credit
[signed] E. D. Davis Just
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State of New York
County of Genesee } ss.
I,  Timothy Fitch Clerk of the County of Genesee certify that Eleazer D. Davis before whom the within affidavit purports to have been taken and made was at the date thereof a Justice of the Peace in and for said County - and that his signature subscribed to said affidavit and to the within certificate is genuine
In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed my official seal this eighteenth day of June 1836
 Timothy Fitch Clerk
By [signed] B. Pringle Ass. Clerk
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I Jeremiah Virginia of St. Albans in the County of Franklin & State of Vermont aged seventy six years, testify & say that in the year 1781, I was a soldier in Capt Seeleys company in Col Waits Regt, stationed at Corinth Fort where I served from about the first of June to the last of October of the same year according to the best of my recollection.  While I was at Corinth Fort aforesaid, I was sent to Piermont to Col Webbs several times for provisions.  Col Webb furnished  the troops at Corinth with stores.  While I was at Corinth I became acquainted with one Captain Stone who was then a resident of Piermont and had charge of a Fort at that place.  the way I happened to be acquainted with Capt stone, was a son of his by the name of John Stone, who served as a substitute for one Chester Pool, who I believe belonged to Capt Nelson's company in the same Regt and stationed at the same place with me. As soon as my time expired at the Fort I went from thence to Piermont where I stayed nearly or quite two years, and during my residence at Piermont I become acquainted with one Samuel Stone a son of Capt Uriah Stone who was a Drummer in his fathers company who had the command of the Fort at Piermont.  How long said Saml served as a Drummer I am not able to say. I became acquainted with said Samuel in the fall of the year 1781, and according to the best of my recollection he served in said company till I left Piermont which I think was in the spring of the year 1783, according to the best of
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my recollection. In the latter part of season I return co-back to Piermont where I lived until the next spring. While I resided in Piermont I lived about one mile from the Fort and was as well acquainted with the said Samuel Stone, and his family as any person in the town and know that he served as before stated. When the fort where he was stationed was built I am not able to say, Captains Stane; father of the said Samuel resided in the fort and the inhabitants  occasioned there for safety at night and the fort was kept in repair for that purpose. I will recollect that the fort was strengthened while I lived at Piermont by an additional watch tower or sentry box on the walls of the fort. The fort was built with timber and picketed at one corner at the entrance of the fort. The pickets and watch towers was built while I lived in the neighborhood of the fort by the soldiers. The informant further says that at the time he first became acquainted with Col Webb, he was then called Capt Webb but before I left that part of the country he was appointed Col. of Militia. The said Samuel Stone is now a resident of Berkshire in the county of Franklin and state of now present before me and I know him to be the same man who served as a drummer at Piermont as before stated and further say not. 

Jeremiah Virginia X his mark
Attest
Samuel Brackett
Sworn to and subscribed before me.
Sept 24th, 1836.
W. Bridges, Justice Peace
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State of Vermont Enosburgh Sept 21st
Franklin County 1836
I, Eliphalet Stevens of Enosburgh of lawful age, do depose and say that I was acquainted with Uriah Stone of Piermont, Grafton County, New Hampshire in the time of the Revolutionary War; I also well remember that he held a commission as Captain toward the close of that war. I was also acquainted with Samuel Stone, son of the above-named Uriah Stone, and knew that he served under his father at the time above mentioned. I certify also that I am 70 years of age. Eliphalet Stevens
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year above written 
Before me, Horace Eaton, Justice Peace
I certify that I have been acquainted with Eliphalet Stevens the above named deponent and believe him to be a man of truth and 
veracity and that his statements are entitled to credit. 
Horace Eaton, Just. Peace
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I further certify that I am personally acquainted with the within named deponent and consider him a man of truth and veracity.
William Bridges Justice of the Peace
State of Vermont
Franklin County
I, Joseph H.. Brainerd, Clerk of Franklin County Court do hereby certify that William Bridges and Horace Eaton Esquires who have affixed their names to the within and foregoing depositions are Magistrates duly qualified to act as such, and that I believe the same to be their genuine signatures. 
In testimony whereof I have 
hereunto set my name and affixed the seal of said court at St. Albans in said county this 10th day of October AD 1836. 
Joseph H. Brainerd, Clerk
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Charles Crook
Affidavit in favor
of Samuel Stone
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Cattaraugus County; Charles Crooks of Napoli in said county being duly sworn says that in the Revolutionary war he was acquainted with one Samuel Stone then of Piermont Grafton County and State of New Hampshire and believes said Stone now to be 68 years of age and further this deponent saith that in the latter part of the war, Uriah Stone had a Captain's Commission residing in place above mentioned under the command of one Colonel Timothy Beadle as this deponent verily believes and that one Hutchins was also a Colonel and further this deponent says that a fort was by the orders of Col. Beadle and others authorized to locate and erect several forts built and erected around S Uriah Stones house he leaving the particulars of this said Samuel Storm above named as was then understood and that said fort became a garrison for soldiers in the latter part of said war and further that the above named Samuel Stone was a Drummer in the company Garrison and at said for and command in by the said Uriah Stone and further this deponent claims that the said Samuel Stone did service in said company commanded by the said Uriah Stone from the year 1779 or 80 to the end or close of said Revolutionary War further this deponent says that the said fort was on the promontory for a defense against the Indians and for the defense of the inhabitants of said place and further this deponent saith not. Charles Crook
Subscribed and sworn this 13th day of October 1834 before me. 
[illegible] Smith a commissioner of deeds Randolph
Subscribed and sworn this 13 day of October 1834 before me
A.G. Bush, Justice of the Peace of Randolph in said County
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I do hereby certify that I have been acquainted with the within subscriber Charles Crooks and from my acquainted with him and from all other 
information, I believe him to be a man of truth and veracity and I believe it's about 11 years since I was first acquainted with him and have personally known him every since.
A.G. Bush
Randolph October 13, 1834
State of New York
Cattaraugus County 
John M. Staunton, Clerk of the County aforesaid do certify that Abraham G. Bush Esquire before whom the within affidavit purports to have been sworn was at the date of the same a Justice of the Peace in and for the said county duly elected and qualified and that I am well acquainted with his hand writing and verily believe the signature A. G. Bush subscribed to the said affidavit and the above certificate to be the name and proper hand writing.
Witness my hand and seal of office this 15th day of October A.D. 1834.
John W. Staunton, Clerk
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State of New York
Erie County
Thomas Crook of the town of Aurora in the county of Erie, state of New York being duly sworn deposeth and sayeth that he is 82 years and upwards and that he is acquainted with Samuel Stone formerly of Piermont in the county of Grafton and state of New Hampshire and now of the town of Buffalo in the said county of Erie and state of New York and this deponent further says that he lived in the neighborhood with the said Samuel Stone in the time of the war of the Revolution in the aforementioned town of Piermont and this deponent further says that the father of said Samuel Stone had command of a Fort as a captain as he believes and that said fort was built around the said Captains House on the then frontier in said town of Piermont, and this deponent further says that he verily believes said Fort became a garrison as the inhabitants fled to it as a stronghold and this deponent further says that he was frequently at said Fort and saw Samuel Stone acting and doing duty under his father as a drummer and this deponent further says that he believes he first saw said Stone in the Fort in the year 1779 and he was often at said Fort and saw said Stone officiating as a drummer from that time until the close of the war and he believes said Stone is now about 68 years old and further this deponent says not. Thomas Crook
Sworn and subscribed before me this 29 May 1834
Jonathan Hoyt a Judge of Erie Count Courts
I certify that I am acquainted with Thomas Crook and that he is a man of truth and veracity and his statements are entitled to belief. 
Jonathan Hoyt a Judge of the Erie County Courts
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State of New York
Erie County
I, Resign Hadley, of the town of China in the county of Genesee and State of New York aged 77 and upwards do certify and declare that I was well acquainted with Samuel Stone formerly of the town of Piermont in the county of Grafton and State of New Hampshire and now of the town of Buffalo in the said county of Erie and state of New York. I further testify that I lived in the house with said Samuel Stone when young and while he resided in the town of Piermont and was knowing of a fort being built in said town and was in said fort and Uriah Stone, father of the said Samuel Stone was captain and commanded said fort and I further testify that said Samuel Stone served as a drummer in said Uriah Stone's company served as a musician as near as this deponent can recollect commenced in the spring of 1779 and was in the service in said fort and under said captain Stone till the end of the war and according to the best of my recollection said Stone is about 68 years of age and further this deponent declareth not.
Mallard May 27th, 1834 
her mark X  Resign Hadley
Sworn and subscribed on the 27th day of May 1834 before me.
Chase Fuller, J.P.
I certify that I am well acquainted with the above named Resign Hadley and she is a person of truth and veracity and her statements are entitled to belief. 
Chase Fuller J.P.
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State of New York
Erie County
I, Jonathan Hadley of the town of China in the county of Genesee and state of New York aged 82 years and upwards do testify and declare that I was well acquainted with Samuel Stone formerly of the town of Piermont in the county of Grafton and State of New Hampshire and now of the town of Buffalo in the Low County of Erie and State of New York; I further testify that I lived in the house with said Samuel Stone when young and while he resided in the town of  Piermont there was a fort in said town and Uriah Stone, father of the said Samuel Stone was/ had a captain commission from the governor of the state of New Hampshire and commanded the fort and I further testify that said Samuel Stone was a musician in said Uriah Stones company and carried a drum [illegible] as a musician in the fort as near as he can recollect commenced in the spring of 1779 and was in the services in said fort till the close of the war and I further testify and declare that said fort was on the frontier at that time and I was in said fort at the same time with said Stone and according to the best of his recollection said Stone is about the age of sixty eight years and further this deponent further saith not.
Helland May 27th 1834
Jonathan Hadley
Subscribed and sworn on the 27th day of May 1834 before me
Chase Fuller, J.P.
I certify that I am well acquainted with the above named Jonathan Hadley and that he is a man of truth and veracity and his statements are entitled to belief. 
Chase Fuller J.P.
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State of New York
Erie County
Samuel Stone of Buffalo in said County of Erie being duly sworn deposes and says that he is the same person who made a declaration in Erie Common Pleas on the fourth day of June 1834 that he cannot recollect the name of the Colonel to which his father's company was attached at the time he served in said company of his father as stated in that deposition so made in Court in June 1834 that this deponent was in the company aforesaid engaged in the service of the United States from the month of May 1779 (he thinks about the first of the month) to the first of December 1782 as near as he can now recollect and he has no hesitation in saying that he was thus actually and continually engaged in service as stated in his aforesaid declaration from the first day of June 1779 to the first day of November 1782 and longer and during all that time he was engaged in no other business or pursuit and was continually doing military service or working upon the fort under the command of his father--that he was the sole drummer in the company and was always ready for duty during all that time and being so ready was daily called on to do duty and did daily do duty in said fort as stated 
[illegible] has [illegible]
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hope of obtaining further evidence of his service than the affidavits hereunto annexed but from the great trouble and pain he has already taken to get additional evidence without success he fears he can get no other. That he served his country faithfully and at a time when he was not legally bound to do military duty and at this great distance of time, he cannot properly recollect all the facts as well as he should have known had he been a few years older. That his father 's company was the only company in the fort but sometimes some few soldiers from other companies would come there and be stationed or serve there for a while -- that his father has been dead about 28 years and his brothers and sisters who are older than he are all dead and his other brother and sister are so much younger that they can have no knowledge of his services as he fully believes and they also reside at a distance.
Samuel Stone.
Sworn and subscribed before me this 7th day of September 1835, 
Harry Slade J.P.
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State of New York
Erie County: I, Horace Clark, Clerk of the County of Erie and of the Court of Common Please thereof do hereby certify that Jonathan Hoyt whose name is subscribed to the jurat of the annexed affidavit of Thomas Crook and to the certificate following the same was on the day of taking such affidavit and making such certificate a Judge of the County Court of said county duly commissioned and sworn and that the signature to said jurat and certificate purporting to be his are genuine.
And I further certify that Chase Fuller, Esquire, whose name is subscribed to the Jurat of the annexed affidavit of Jonathan Hadley and Resign Hadley was, at the day of the date of said Jurat, a Justice of the Peace in and for said county duly elected and from [illegible] to act as such and the signatures to said Jurat and the certificate following are the same and genuine.
And I further certify that Harry Slade Esquire whose name is subscribed to me, Jural of the annexed and asst of Samuel Stone was in the day of the date of such Jurat a Justice of the Peace in and for said County duly elected and sworn and that the signature to so said Jural is genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and official seal this 7th day of September A.D. 1835. 
Horace Clark, Clerk by C. K. Anderson, Dep. Clerk