Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S 36134, for Stephen Miner, Connecticut
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Navy (Conn.)     Miner, Stephen     S 36134
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5430
Connecticut
Was of Lyme his widow's name was Lydia
Stephen Miner
Ship Alfred   Capt Hinman
Mariner Conn
in the navy of the United States during the Revolutionary War.
Inscribed on the Roll of Connecticut at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 1 of April 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 18 of Jany 1819 and sent to Honble J. G. Brainard  New London Connecticut
Arrears to 4th of Sept. 1818   $41.06
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4 Mar 1819   $48--
$89.06
{Revolutionary claim,}
{Act 18th March, 1818.}
d. June 28, 1831
Continued
Dead See letter to E. Parsons P. Agt. [pension agent] Apl 25 1834
Notification sent July 19th 1820 to William R. Brainard, New London Conn.
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Oct 18 1906
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Miner, Stephen
His name appears on a list of applicants for invalid pension returned by the District Court for the District of Connecticut, submitted to the House of Representatives by the Secretary of War on December 31, 1794 and printed in the American State Papers, class 9, page 142.
Rank: Quarter-gunner
Regt: Colonel Ledyard's corps
Disability: Broke the wrist of his left arm by accident in exercising a field-piece
When and where disabled: 1779, Fort Trumbull
Residence: New London
To what pension entitled: One-half
Evidence incomplete, viz: 1st Only one evidence to prove his being wounded in actual service, the law requiring two. 2d The report of the examining physicians is not upon oath
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Aug 15, 1906
W.J.F.
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Minor, Stephen
His name appears on a list of claimants to the placed on the pension list returned by the Circuit Court for the District of Connecticut, submitted to the House of Representatives by the Secretary of War on April 25, 1794, and printed in the American State Papers, Class g, page 116.
Rank: soldier and quarter-gunner,
Ledyard's matrosses
Disability: had is wrist broken, so that it is now much distorted and his arm withered.
When and where disabled: 1779, Fort Trumbull.
Residence: New London
Monthly allowance: $2.08 1/3
Arrearages: $150.00
Remarks: There are no militia rolls in this office.
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July 16, 1906
L. M. H.
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Minor, Stephen
His name appears on a list of applicants for invalid pension returned by the Circuit Court for the District of Connecticut.  Submitted to the House of Representatives by the Secretary of War on Dec. 14, 1792, and printed in the American State Papers.  Class 9, page 66
Rank: Matross
Regt: Col. Ledyard
Disability: His wrist broken, and his arm withered. while on duty, 1779.
Date of Certificate: Oct. 4 1792
Monthly Allowance: $2.08 1/3
Arrears due: $150.00
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Stephen Minor
Conn
C. Lathrop
5430
March 1819
Cont.
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State and District of Connecticut, ss.
On this 26th day of June, 1820 personally appeared in open Court, before the County Court holden at withing and for the County of New London in said State, on the 26th day of June 1820, the same being a court of record, proceeding according to the course of common law, with a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount, keeping a record of its proceedings, and having power of fine and imprisonment, Stephen Miner aged sixty three yea4rs, resident in the town of Lyme in said state, who first being duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath declare that he served in the revolutionary war as follows: That he the said Stephen Miner shipped for the  term of one year, about the middle of April in the year 1776 in New London in the State of Connecticut on board the United States ship Alfred commanded by Captain  Elisha Hinman on the continental establishment: That he continued to serve in the said Ship until she was there - he was exchanged in Saybrook in the state of Connecticut about Sept 1777 - That he made a declaration to obtain a pension under the law of the 18th of March 1818, as nearly as he can recollect, having no minutes, on the first day of April 1818; and had transmitted to him a certificate for pension from the Secretary for the Department of War No. 5430.
And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March 1818; and that I have not since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner disposed of any property, or any part thereof, with intent thereby to diminish it, as to bring myself within the provisions of an Act of Congress entitled, "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War" passed the 18th of March 1818; and that I have not,  nor has any person in trust for me, any property or securities, contracts or debts due to me, nor have I any income other than what is contained in the Schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed. 
That I am by occupation a farmer or labor on land. My family consists of my wife Lydia, aged 57 years four children being with me viz; Mary aged 25, Nancy aged 23 years, Fanny aged 21 years and Griswold aged 17 years.
My property consists of the articles enumerated in the following schedule - 2 trays worth $4.00 One plough share 2.00.2 has - 75 2 and 1.50 - 1 old desk .75 - 5 old chairs $1.00- 1 anvil & tongs .75 1 [illegible] flat irons 1.00- 1 wefee iron $6.00 - 9 cups & saucers .42
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That I am by occupation a farmer or Laborer on land my
family consists of my wife Lydia, aged 57 years four children
being with me viz: Henry aged 25 Nancy aged 23 years
Fanny, aged 21 years and Griswold aged 17 years
my property consists of the articles enumented in the following
Schedule I hogs worth $4,01 plough shares and has
James 1,50 - 1 old clerk. 75 old chairs Shovel & tongs, 75
lation from $20 cups & saucers 142
silver tea spoons $150. earthen plates 1770 tea pots, 34
iron pots 57 in Sentine, 25 - 3 old barrels 154-4,
Sold tubs, 50 - 2 earthen part 17
ten milk pail 25 1 baskets, 50 1 table $100
pewter spoons, 34-6 old Varns, 50 200 churns,50-
drawing knife, 171 Cooper's ads ,50- old knives & forks 75
fowls & 12 chickens $2,00 $27.05
Stephen Miner
1820
Signed Sworn to and declared on the 26
before said County Court
day of June 1820
Charles Lathrop Clerk
I, Charles Lathrop Clerk of the County Court for New London County, do hereby
certify that the foregoing oath, and the schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the record of the said
Court; and I further certify, that it is the opinion of the said Court, that the
total amount in value of property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule, is twenty
Seven dollars and five
cents.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of
the said Court, on this 26th
day of June
Charles Lathrop
Clerk of the County Court for the County of New London
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 Stephen Minor
            Lyme

Navy Department

Admitted
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State of Connecticut
Js  New London
On this first day of April 1818 before me Jeremiah G. Brainard a Judge of the Superior Court of the State of Connecticut personally came Stephen Miner of the town of Lyme in New London County in said State & being duly sworn according to law in [last two words inserted] the usage of said State doth on his oath by me to him administered declare & say that on or about the Month of April 1777 he shipped as a Sailor on board the Continental Ship Alfred at Boston  Elisha Hinman Esq. Commanded & sailed in her on a cruise in the Continental service.  He was on board said ship as a seaman eleven months & fifteen days when she was taken off the windwane of Barbados by two English ships the Cyreus or Sirius or some such name & the Ariadne & sent into Barbados with others in the Prize.

He is a native & resident citizen of the United States sixty two years old, poor & in need of support from his country & from his reduced circumstances needs its assistance for his support.
                [Signed]  Stephen Miner
Sworn to before me the Day and Date aforesaid.
    In witness [next three words illegible]  I have  [illegible] the Seal of the Superior Court of said State to be hereunto affixed the Day and Date aforesaid
            [Signed]  Jeremiah Brainard Judge of
                          Superior Court of said State -
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State of Connecticut Js
  On the 14th Day of December 1818 before me Jeremiah G. Brainard One of the Judges of the Superior Court of said State personally appeared Stephen Miner the applicant for a Pension in this Case and being by me Since sworn according to Law - on his Oath declares that he is not now and never as yet has been to hos knowledge [last two words inserted] a pensioner of the United States - nor ever to his knowledge placed on any Pension List.  That he never made any Application for that Purpose until he made the written Declaration on the First of April 1818 -
Stephen Miner

Sworn & declared the day and year aforesaid
Before me - Jeremiah G. Brainard a Judge as aforesaid
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I Nathl. Richards of the City & County of New London & State of Connecticut do Certify that I was Second Lieutenant of Marines & Purser on board the U.S. Ship Alfred  Elisha Hinman Esqr Commander, from some time in the Spring of the year 1777 to her capture by two of his Britanic Majesties Ships the Ariadne & Ceres, Captains
Pringle& Dakins on the 9th day of March 1778 - That during the whole of that  period Stephen Miner described in the annexed declaration was a Mariner on board said vessel -
 Nathl. Richards

New London
April 1, 1818 -
I Jeremiah G. Brainard Judge etc, as aforesaid do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Stephen Miner did serve in the Revolutionary War as stated in the preceding declaration against the common enemy   I now transmit the proceedings * testimony taken & had before me to the Secretary of the Department of War pursuant to the directions of the aforementioned Act of Congress - the foregoing declaration was made to me in order to obtain the provision made by the late Act of Congress entitles " An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War."
New London  April First 1818
     Witness the Seal aforesaid
 Jeremiah G. Brainard a Judge of Sup. Court

State of Connecticut
I Jeremiah Brainard Judge aforesaid do certify that Stephen Miner the applicant in this Case is in reduced indigent and [illegible] circumstances
 Jeremiah G. Brainard Judge of
                Sup. Court State of Connecticut
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And the said Stephen Miner the Applicant in this Case in addition to and Explanation of my [word inserted] said Declaration - on solemn Oath do further declare and state that when shipped from the Continental Ship Alfred as in my Declaration  as stated  I signed the article at New London while the Ship lay at Boston - Then I went by land and or first from New London to Boston and went on board at Boston and lay thrre sometime - and proceeded then to Portsmouth in New Hampshire - and there joined the Raleigh [illegible]  Commander - and sailed thence 1 mo  Lt Orial - that in Passage We took Four Prizes - on Board of One of which I was put (called the Ann Susannah) and arrived with her in Le Orient [?]- That the Alfred also soon after arrived at LeOrient - on about the same time - that she was there refitted - That I sailed again  thence on Board said Ships Alfred on a Cruise and proceeded to the Coast of Barbary and thence to the Coast of Senegal where we captured a Sloop at Anchor -stopped and burnt her - that soon after we proceeded to the Cape devard Islands - and put I think into St. [illegible]  - that thence we made for the West Indies and off and to the Windward  of Barbados fell in with and was captured by two British Ships of War and were carried into Barbados - That I went thence in a Dragoon  to Martinique thence in an American vessel to Savanna In Georgia - thence in a Dragoon Coaster to Charleston South Carolina - thence in a Coaster to Wilmington South Carolina - where I went on Board a Ship called The Betsy of New London  William Packwood Captain [illegible word] New London that on the Back of Long Island we were taken there by A British Man of War and carried into New York and put on Board a Prison Ship lying in North River where I was kept about four weeks and then out on Board a Flag  for Exchange which went into East River and was detained about
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Four or Five weeks - and went thence to Say Brook in sd Connecticut and was there landed I think sometime in October 1779 -
            [Signed]  Stephen Miner

Sworn before me the Day and
year first mentioned.
   And I further certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Stephen Miner did serve in the Navy of the United States in the War of the Revolution in manner as in his Supplementary Declaration as he has stated and against the Common Enemy -
   [Signed]  Jeremiah Brainard a Judge
                     of Superior Court, State of
                           Connecticut
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REVOLUTIONARY WAR RECORDS SECTION 3-525
      DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
              BUREAU OF PENSIONS
S.F. 36134     Washington, D.C.  .........., 19.....

   In reply to your request of ..........., received .............. for a statement of the military history of Stephen Miner as soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as  contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau.
DATE OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT.  Apr. 1777   LENGTH OF SERVICE.  11 mo. 15 days   RANK.   Jailer on board U. S. Ship Alfred  commanded by Capt. Elisha Hinman
When said ship was captured near Barbados in the West Indies, he was afterwards carried to New York put on a prison ship in North River and then exchanged and returned to Saybrook Conn. in Oct. 1779
Battles engaged in ........
Residence of soldier at enlistment  ...... enlisted 
in New London Conn.
Date of application for pension, ... April 1, 1818   His cl. was al. [his claim was allowed]
Residence at date of application, .....  Lyme, 
          New London Co .Conn
Age at date of application. ... 62 yrs old.  Died 
         June 28, 1831
       Remarks:  In 1820 his wife Lydia was 57 years old and children Mary 25 years, Nancy 23 yrs,  Fanny 21 yrs. & Griswold 17 years old
    Respectfully,
     Commissioner.
See Lossing Vol 2 p 645 & 640
The Alfred captured by Ariadne & Ceres in Mar. 1778 so he could not have been exchanged in 1777, or enl [enlisted] in 1776.
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INVALID

Navy
File No. 36134
Stephen Miner
    Mariner
Ship "Alfred"
    U.S. Navy

Act Mar 18.1818
Index:  Vol ....,  Page ....
  {Arrangement of 1870.]

[RIGHT PAGE]

1917 Apr 3 Hist to John A. Dimon
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                             3-871

                    RECORD DIVISION
              Department of the Interior
                 BUREAU OF PENSIONS

Briefed by ..........  J. H. B.   3/21/17
Claim No. .............................................
Certificate No. ...................................
Claimant ..............................................
Soldier ..... Stephen Miner .............
Service ....Conn. War 1812..............
Additional Service ............................
No ........ claim, State records ....., 191
No claim, combination records ...., 191

                  REMARKS:

No 1812, OW, Navy.

                                W.F. Waite
6-1944                                Chief Division.
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                                7257

                      Connecticut
                      Stephen Miner,
                           Mariner
                       Ship Alfred,

In the navy of the United States during the Revolutionary War.

Inscribed on the Roll of Connecticut -
at the rate of  -8- Dollars per month, to commence on the 1st of April 1818.-
 
Certificate of Pension issued the 1st of Dec. 1818 and sent to Jeremiah G. Brainard,
Esq., New London, Cont.

Arrears to the 4th of Sept. 1818      41.06
                     5 [illegible] 4/30
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4th Mar.      48.00
                                     1819.          ______
                                                    $:  89.06

{Revolutionary claim,
Act 18th  March, 1818}

    1 months
Lyme    New London, Co
  
5
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Payable semi-annually the first payment
on this certificate will be made
on the 4th of March next,
at the Branch Bank
       Middletown,
          Connecticut

C5430
   dated Jany 18.1819

One, a D. Janner
on the Roll of the named

Lydia Miner
    of Lyme
       Conn
he living in Lyme
from his birth
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                 WAR DEPARTMENT
                 Revolutionary Claim


I CERTIFY That, in conformity with the Law of the United States, of the 18th of March a [illegible word] Stephen Miner late a Mariner in the Navy of the Revolution,  is subscribed on the Pension List, Roll of the Connecticut Agency, at the rate of - eight-dollars - per month, to commence on the first day of April, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.

Given at the War Office of the United
States, this first day of December, one 
thousand eight hundred
and eighteen.-
                    [Signed] J. C. Calhoun

[A seal is affixed to the left of the above paragraph.]
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John N. Dimon,
  197 Montauk Avenue., New London, Conn., 
                                          Mar. 17, 1917         
Bureau of Pensions, Washington, D.C.
                                               1812 off Record

On behalf of my wife, Annie Louis Dimon, (b. Quinn) I desire information as to the following:-

STEPHEN MINER. said to have been a prisoner of war on an English prison ship, during the War of 1812.  He was a native of Waterford, Conn.  His wife, LYDIA CROCKER, of Waterford Ct., received a pension on account of his service.  Dates will be valuable, as my wife is a direct descendant  of said Miner.

JOHN HAVENS, a Conn. pensioner in 1818, and his wife, MARY SAUNDERS HAVENS, a pensioner.  (War of the Revolution.)
  Any information will be greatly appreciated.
                            Very truly yours, 
                              [Signed] N. Dimon.

Member of Conn. Society, Sons of the Revolution.  (Thomas Filer, N.Y. Regulars, ancestor.