Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 22346, for William Stevens, New Hampshire
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(3 - 1776)
SERVICE N.H.

Stevens, William, Martha
NUMBER
W.22346
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1013.
New Hampshire, Ports [PORTSMOUTH]
Martha Stevens N.H. widow of William Stevens who was a Private in the N.H. line for 11 months 

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 25 Dollars - Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843.

Certificate of Pension issued the 20th day of July, 1843. and sent to David Murray New Market [sic] N. H.

[Act of March 3, 1843.]

Recorded in Book A. Vol. 1. Page 21.
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Extract from the records of the town of
Newmarket in the County of Rockingham and State of New Hampshire under the head of Marriages by Nathaniel Ewen.

William Stevens to Martha Bennet, June
Second, Seventeen hundred and seventy seven. I certify that the above is a true extract from said records with the exception of the dates, which are expressed on the records in fair legible figures thus Jun 2 1777

Charles M. Kehew Town Clerk Newmarket

I Charles H. Kehew of Newmarket aforesaid depose and say that I held the office of Town Clerk in said town & that the above is a true fact from the records of said town with the exception above named as certified by me
Charles M. Kehew Town Clerk.

State of New Hampshire
Newmarket Jan 14 1841
Subscribed and sworn to before me 
David Murray Notary Public
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I David Watson of Newmarket, County of Rockingham and State of New Hampshire, aged eighty two years and upwards,
depose and say that I am a Revolutionary pensioner under the "Act of March 18th 1818" That I first enlisted under Capt. Baker of this town for six weeks in the fall of 1775 and went
to Winter Hill near Boston Mass, and before my time was out, I enlisted under Captain Phillip Tilton in Colo Enoch Poors [sic] Regt for one year and marched in said company to New London and from thence by shipping to New- York and Albany, and from there to Canada and back to Mt Independence, and from thence New Jersey and was at the Battle of Trenton - I further depose and say, that I very well knew Captain Jonathan Wentworth who commanded a Company in a company in said Enoch Poors [sic] Regiment in the years 1775 and 1776 - I further depose and say that I was well acquainted with William Stevens the husband of Martha Stevens, late of said New Market, decd [DECEASED] from my youth age to the time his decease who was a private under said Jonathan Wentworth in said Enoch Poors [sic] Regiment in the year 1775. That the words "I was well acquainted" were interlined before signing - David Watson

State of New Hampshire
Rockingham Ss.  July 1 1841

Subscribed and sworn to by the said David Watson who, I hereby certify is a respectable, intelligent witness. before me
David Murray, Justice of the Peace and Notary Public
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I Mary Stevens of New Market [sic] in the County of Rockingham aged forty nine years and upward depose and say that I am a daughter of William Stevens late of said Newmarket, and Martha Stevens, his Widow, now living in said Newmarket; That I have frequently heard my father say that he was in the army during the year the Battle of Bunker Hill was fought but I never heard him say that he was in the Battle. I have heard him say while in the service he was at Charlestown, Bunker Hill and Cambridge

I further depose and say that my father, the said William Stevens died on the thirtieth day of April AD 1831 and that my mother the said
Martha Stevens has never intermarried but
continues as the widow of the said William Stevens. That the words "year the" were interlined before signing -.
Mary Stevens

State of New Hampshire
Rockingham Ss. July 1 1841

Subscribed and sworn to by the said Mary Stevens, who, I hereby certify is respectable intelligent witness.
before me,
David Murray Justice of the Peace and Notary Public
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I Eleasar Bennet of Durham, in the County of
Strafford and state of New Hampshire aged ninety years, depose and say that I was a private under Capt. Winborn Adams in Col. Enoch Poors [sic] Regiment in the Fall 1775 as a substitute for Timothy Durgin. I further depose and say that I very well knew Captain Jonathan
Wentworth who commanded a company in
said Poors [sic] Regt same year. I further depose and say that I was well acquainted with William Stevens late of New Market in the County of Rockingham from his youth up to the time of his decease who was a private in said Jonathan Wentworth's Company in said Enoch Poors [sic] Regiment - I further depose and say that the said William Stevens [sic] wife
was a daughter of Arthur Bennett late of sd [SAID] Newmarket decd. [DECEASED]

Eleasar Bennett 

State of New Hampshire
Strafford ss, July 1 1841
Subscribed and sworn to before me David Murray Notary Public

I certify that the affiant is a respectable, intelligent witness.

David Murray Notary Public
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State of Hampshire
Rockingham ss

I John Kelly Register of the Court of Probate for said County of Rockingham do hereby certify that David Murray Esquire of Newmarket in said County is an acting Notary Public for said State of New Hampshire, duly commissioned and qualified; that his commission was dated on the 24th day of June AD 1839 and will expire on the 23d day of June AD 1844: and that his signatures within, and also his signature on each of the three annexed papers, are genuine and in his own proper handwriting.

Given under my hand and the seal of said Court of Probate this second day of July A.D. 18[illegible].

John Kelly
Register of Probate
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State of New Hampshire
Rockingham On this 30th day of June one thousand eight hundred and forty before the subscribed judge of the court of probate within and before said county, [personal for pension Martha Stevens, a resident of New Hampshire in said county aged eighty three years who
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[three lines crossed out]

State of New Hampshire Rockingham ss
I John Kelly Register of the Court of Probate for said County of Rockingham, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings before the Hon John Sullivan as judge of probate for said County, in the matter of the application of Martha Stevens for
Pension and I further certify that the said John Sullivan is the Judge of Probate in said County of Rockingham and that the foregoing signature purporting to be his is genuine and in his own proper handwriting.

In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of the Court of Probate for said County this second day of July AD 1841

John Kelly
Register of Probate
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Martha Stevens
wid [WIDOW] of William
N.H. Rockingham Co
Act July 7 1838
Married 1777
died 1831
Allow [ALLOWANCE] 7 1/2 mos. for Capt Wentworth for Poor NH Militia
$25 per ann. [ANNUM]
On Roll. pen. [PENSION] files
David Murray Esq.
New Market [sic] N.H.
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Newmarket NH Oct 13, 1841
Sir,
Yours of the 17th ult [ult means previous month] informing me that the claim of Mrs. Martha Stevens to a pension, under the act July 7 1838 is suspended in consequence of the withdrawal of the New Hampshire rolls from the War department [illegible]
Mrs. Stevens [sic] claim for service of her late husband performed under Captain Jonathan Wentworth in Col Enoch Poors [sic]
Regt 7 mos in 1775 [illegible] of that year
No certified copy has been furnished by Mr. Thomas in support of the claim nor did she deem it necessary to furnish any. The Secretary of State says that the roll at the War Department showing the Service of Stark, Poor and Reeds [sic] Regiments [illegible]
August 1. 1775 have not been returned to
this office.
The two witnesses in this case entered the service until September 1775. Now the roll at Washington therewith shows service to August 1. 1775 and [illegible] who and not enter the service until September, should the witnesses act of other and prevent the examination of this claim?
 I therefore hope that this claim may be an exception to the general rule and that her claim may be allowed.
 Further furnish of required [illegible] can be furnished showing that [illegible] witness, or was paid for availability a [illegible] Oct 4, 1775, but can only be furnished by a certificate from the Secretary of State; and I believe that has been settled by the department that no person [illegible] in October that belief to [illegible] Stark, Poor or Reed, was discharged before Jan 31 1775.

I am, very respectfully your obt serv [OBEDIENT SERVANT],
David Murray
James L Edwards, Esqr
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington, D.C.
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Martha Stevens N.H.
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New Market [sic] NH Feb 19, 1842
Sir
Enclosed is a recd [RECORD] showing that William Stephens a private in Capt Wentworths [sic] Regimental Co as a Regiment Coal Oct. 12 1775 and as you have the recds [RECORDS] of that Co to August 1 1775 I suppose that this is all the evidence now required in support of the claim of Martha Stevens wid [WIDOW] of the said William [illegible] pension for 7 months and some days.
 
I am very respectfully your obt servt [OBEDIENT SERVANT] David Murray

James L Edwards Esqr
Commissioner of Pension
Washington, DC
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Newmarket, N H July 5, 1841
Sir, 
Enclosed is the application of Mrs. Martha
Stevens for a pension under the act of July
7 1834. Please communicate the result of the examination to the Subscriber.

I am, very respectfully your Obt. Servt [OBEDIENT SERVANT]

David Murray

J L Edwards Esqr
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington, D.C.
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7.907
Martha Stevens
Act 7 July 1838
N.H.
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Rev [REVOLUTIONAY]

WIDOW, &c. [ETC.]

File No. 22,346

Martha Stevens wid [WIDOW] of William Stevens
Priv Rev. [PRIVATE REVOLUTIONARY] War
Act: March 2d /[18]43

Index:-Vol. M, Page 249

[Arrangement of 1870.]
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1379
Martha Stevens
$25 per ann. [ANNUM]

David Murray
New Market, N.H.
Agent
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State of New Hampshire
Rockingham County, ss ⎬ 

On this nineteenth day of May 1843, personally appeared before the subscriber a Justice of the peace within and for said County of Rockingham, Martha Stevens a resident of New Market [sic] in said County aged eighty four years, who, first being sworn according to law, doth, on her oath, make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the Act of Congress passed March 3d 1843; that she is the widow of William Stevens late of said New Market, [sic] decd, [DECEASED] who was a private in the Revolution under Captain Jonathan Wentworth in 1775, and that she has received a pension under the Act of July 7th 1838, at the rate of twenty five dollars per annum She further declares that she is still a widow.

Martha her X mark Stevens

Witnesses Parker H Wilson David Murray

Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written, before me, and I hereby certify that I am personally acquainted with the declarant.

David Murray, Justice of the Peace
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State of New Hampshire
Rockingham Ss Probate office in said County.

I David A. Gregg, Register of the Court of Probate in & for said County & State aforesaid certify that David Murray is an acting Justice of the Peace in & for said County duly commissioned and sworn; that his commission is dated the 14th day of June AD. 1842 and will expire the 14th day of June A.D. 1847, and that his signature above written is genuine.

Given under my hand & the seal of the
the court of Probate aforesaid the 24th day of May A.D. 1843.

David H. Gregg Regt. [REGISTER OF] Probate
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This case is not to be examined
until the return of the N.H. rolls
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Martha Stevens
let [LETTER] to David Murray Sept 17, 1841
let [LETTER] to same 26 Oct. 1841

Act 7 July 1838
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Agt [AGENT] notified 3d March [illegible]

6569
N. Hampshire
Martha Stevens widow of William Stevens decd [DECEASED] ["who was a pensioner under the Act of" crossed out] and who died in the year 1831 of Rockingham Co in the State of N. Hamp [HAMPSHIRE] who was a private in the Comp [COMPANY] commanded by Captain Wentworth of the Regt commanded by Col. Poor in the N. H ["line for" crossed out] Militia for 7 1/2 months

Inscribed of the Roll of N. Hampshire at the rate of 25 Dollars -- Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March 1836.

Certificate of Pension issued the 3 day of March 1842 -- and sent to David Murray Esqr. Newmarket N.H

Arrears to the 4th of March [18]41 125 - ["Semi-annual allowance ending" crossed out] $125.00

{Act July 7, 1838.}
Recorded by Theo Smoody, Clerk.

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