Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 14,610, for Beriah Stiles, Connecticut
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SERVICE
Conn.

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Stiles, Beriah

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NUMBER
S.14,610

carded
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CONTENTS
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1 433
New York
Beriah Stiles
of Monroe Co in the state of New York
who was a Private in the Company commanded by Capt. Fitch of the Reg. commanded by Col Durkee in  the Connecticit line for Three years
Inscribed in the Roll of New York at the rate of 80 dollars and no cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of march 18
Certificate of Pension issued the 14th day of September & $183,.01 and sent to Alexander Sheldon D. Mendon MOnroe County

Arrears to 4th of Sept 1832             120
Semi annnaul allowance ending 
4 Aug 39                                             40
                                                          160


Revolutionary CLaim
Act June 7, 1832
Recorded by R. Eden clerk
Book D vol 5 Page 

1885 Sept 30 M.M. S> [ }
with history
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By dir viz

Beriah Stiles, privt
Declaration
Colonel Durkee's Regt Connecticut
line 1777 to 1780

April 18th 1818

[The following paragraph all marked out with a large "X"]

If the judge will certify that the applicant "by  reason of his reduced circumstances in life is in need of afsistance from his country for support" the claim will be admitted
12 May 1819


AC
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State of New York    )
Schoharie County    )  To wit

Pursuant to an Act of the Congrefs of the United States of America entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the Land and Naval services of the United States in the Revolutionary war" pafsed March 18th 1818--I Beriah Stiles of the Town and County of Schoharie and State of New York aforesaid do make a declaration under oath before the Honorable Olney Briggs Esquire one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in said State (the said Court being a court of record of the County and State aforesaid in which I do reside) in the Terms following that is to say:--I do solemnly and sincearly swear and declare that I am a resident citizen of the said United States to wit in the Town County and State aforesaid and that by reason of my reduced circumstances in life am unable to enjoy that exemption from labor which my age Requires without expressing a want of the necefsaries of life in my family or a rapid diminution of the little property I pofsefs.  [following has been stricken out "I am in need of afsistance from my country for support"] -- I do further declare  that I served in the war of the Revolution against the common Enemy in the capacity of lad being a common Soldier and that I enlisted in the month of October one thousand seven hundred and seventy five at Chatham in the State of Connecticut under Captain Blake colonel Safe's Regiment for Six months and having served at Roxbury until the expiration of my term Received an honorable discharge and returned home to Chatham aforesaid, where in the month of April in the year ["seven hundred" stricken out] one thousand seven hundred and seventy six I again enlisted under a Captain Witmore
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Colonel Cowfort Sage's Regiment for Six months and, proceeded to New York where I staid until the expiration of my time and again received my honorable discharge and in november I enlisted again under Captain Hyde for four months colonels name not recollected and was stationed at Stamford White Plains where after the expiration of the last mentioned term I enlisted for three months and continued in the army until that time expired when at Chatham aforesaid in Connecticut I again enlisted for three years in Captain Audrine Fick's Company colonel John Durkee fourth Connecticut Regiment in the Connecticut Line--during which time and my previous service I was engaged on Governors Ifland in opposing the entrance of the Enemy into New York in the Battle at the White Plains at Germantown--at fort Miflin and at the close of my three years campaign earned my honorable discharge which is in the words and figures following to wit--"Beriah Stiles a Soldier of the 4th Connecticut Regiment having served three years in the army of the United States being the Term of his enlistment is hereby honorably discharged"
"Westfield 26th March 1780"
"J. Sherman (Command Brigade)"

And I do further declare that pursuant to the act of Congrefs aforesaid I do freely and voluntarily relinquish all and every claim I have to any and every pension which has or might heretofore have been allowed me by the Laws of the United States of Americca--in witnefs whereof I have subscribed this declaration
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in the presence of the Said Judge at the Town County and State aforesaid this thirteenth day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen--
Beriah Stiles

Witnefs   Olney Briggs--
                A. Mandell

State of New York     )
Schoharie County     ) fs:

I Olney Briggs Esquire one of the Judges of the court of common Pleas of the County of Schoharie and state of Newyork the said Court being a court of Record of the County and State aforesaid in which Beriah Stiles ["doth reside" stricken out] named in the aforegoing declaration doth reside ) do hereby certify to the honorable the Secretary of the department of war of the United States of America agreeably to the Act of Congrefs entitled "an Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the Land and naval services of the United States in the Revolutionary war" pafsed March 18th 1818. that the said Beriah Stiles personally appeared before me the said Judge on the thirteenth day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred and Eighteen and in my presence subscribed the aforegoing declaration and at the same time in due form of Law took an oath on the holy evangelist of Almighty God that the said declaration was true and I having examined the said Beriah Stiles who stated under the oath
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aforesaid that although he is pofsefsed of from twelve to fifteen hundred dollars he is not in circumstances to enjoy that exemption from labor which his age requires without witnefsing a want of the necefsaries of life in his family or a rapid diminution of the little property he pofsefses and having also examined the discharge produced by the said Berish Stiles which is herewith transmitted with these papers and being satisfied that the discharge is the best evidence the nature of the case will admit of  I do further certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Beriah Stiles did serve in the ["war of the" stricken out] Revolutionary war aforesaid against the common Enemy in the manner and for the time stated in his said declaration and that the said declaration is in other respects true all which proceedings had before me and the testimony produced in the case I do respectively certify and transmit to the honorable the Secretary of war according to the act aforesaid--Given under my hand and seal at Schoharie this thirteenth day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred and Eighteen--
Olney Briggs
JP
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State of New York       )
Schoharie County       ) fs

Robert Stiles of the town & County of Schoharie aforesaid [a second "Robert Stiles" stricken out" being duly sworn deposeth & saith that he ["was" stricken out] is a brother to ["the" stricken out] Bariah Stiles the person named in the aforegoing declaration and was knowing to his service as a soldier in the revolutionary war as stated in his said declaration (he this deponent having been a soldier with him during the most of said time) and further this deponent saith not
Dated Apl 13th 1818   Robert Stiles

Sworn this 13th day of    )
Apl. 1818 before me       )
Olney Briggs                   )
Judge of the Schoharie   )
Common Pleas               )

State of New York
Schoharie County   fs.

I hereby certify that Olney Briggs Esquire whose name is subscribed to the annexed certificate was at the time said certificate [illegible] & still continuing to be a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in & for the County of Schoharie as appears from an inspection of the Commifsions and other Records filed in the office of the Clerk of Said Court.  In Witnefs whereof the seal of the said Court is hereunto affixed this 18th day of May 1818
W.W. Enders Clk
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State of New York   
Schoharie County   fs

I Olney Briggs Esquire the Judge who subscribed the aforegoing certificate still being a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas as in said certificate mentioned do certify that Beriah Stiles in the said certificate mentioned is according to my estimation and opinion founded upon the aforementioned data in indigent circumstances and stands in need of his countrys afsistance for his support
given under my hand and seal this 7th day of July 1819
Olney Briggs
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In the matter of
Beriah Stiles on his
application to be restored to
the Pension list
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Declaration, in order to be continued
on the Pension list under the act of May
first 1820.
State of New York
Monroe County } On this Thirty first day of March in the Year of our Lord one Thousand Eight Hundred and Thirty, personally appeared in open Court, being a court of Record in & for the County aforesaid Beriah Stiles ages Sixty Nine years. u ho(???) being first duly sworn according to Law, doth on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the provision made by the Acts of Congress of the Eighth of march 1818 & the first of May 1820. That the said Beriah Stiles enlisted for the Term of Three Years in the Spring of the year Seventeen hundred and Seventy Eight in the State of Connecticut in the company com-manded by Captain Andrew Fitch in the Regiment commanded by Colonel John Durgee in the line of the State of Connecticut on the Continental Estab-lishment - That he continued to serve in the said Corps until the Spring of 1781 being three years from the date of his Enlistment when he was honorably discharged from the service in the Town of Westfield in the State of New Jersey that he hereby relinquishes every claim (???) to a pension except the present. That his name has been placed on the pension list. That he has a Pension certificate that is not numbered but that it bears date at the war office September Sixth 1819 - And that he never before exhibited a schedule of his property because he supported the
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the pension law required that the applicant should be an absolute pauper, and that he thought he could and would live without a pension, so long as he had health to labour, but that his health has now so far failed him.  that he can do but little light labour not at all sufficient to obtain a comfortable subsistence.  He further states that his discharge was sent to the war office & has not been returned to him, whereby it is not possible for him to say what were the dates of his enlistment & discharge--

And in pursuance of the act of the first of May 1820 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 wale or in any manner disposed of my property of any part thereof with intent thereby so 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 on the Eighteenth day 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 attached and by me subscribed.

That since the 18th of March 1818 the following charges have been made in my property, towit.  I was then in the possession of the farm described in the Lease a certified copy of which is hereto attached agreeably to the terms of said Lease and which was sold by me as appears by the Certified Copy of the assignment, but
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not for Eight Hundred dollars as is therein exprefsed, but for five Hundred only--the word "Eight" being a mistake in coppying as this Deponent believed--

At that time he also owned another house and sold it to W. Bust and took his note which becomes due next Winter, as is mentioned in the Schedule hereto attached...At that time he also made a [illegible] of his personal chattles for which he realized about the sum of forty dollars--He also sold a cow for about eighteen dollars--that the monies arising from the Sale of the Lease aforesaid, and from the property aforesaid, was appropriated in the first place to the payment of debts which he owed in and about Schoharie, to Physicians and Merchants amounting to more than one hundred dollars, and for the purchase of a waggon to move to the County of Monroe, which waggon he now owns, and is mentioned in his Schedule aforesaid, and that the balance of his money which he received in his Goods and Lease aforesaid he appropriated to the purchase of the land mentioned in his schedule aforesaid--and he further says that the persons to whom he paid the sums of money have, some of them moved from Schoharie and this applicant lives at such a distance and is so destitute and helpless that he is unable to procure their affidavits of the payments and further this deponent saith not
Beriah Stiles

Sworn to and declared in open Court
before the Judges of Common Pleas of 
Monroe County this 31st day of March 1830.
H.B. Stanton Dept. Clk Monroe [Common stricken out] Com pleas
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Schedule of personal property

One desk $7.00 Chest $0.50 Clock $5   $12.50
Two Tables $3.00  One Churn $0.50 Two pans $0.25        3.75
3 pails 0.75  Nine Chairs 3.00     3.75
One broken looking glafs $1.00 3 Milk pans 075  1.75
Two Jugs  1 pot 2 Kettles 1 Skillet 1 Spider 1 tea pot    1.00
6 old teaspoons  9 plates  6 Knives [illegible] Skimer   2.00
1 Pitcher 2 bottles 4 Smoke glasses  2 jars  1.30
16 Acres of Land worth $20 per acre
about $40. of the purchase money still due   280.00
old log House worth nothing barn worth $25.00    25.00
1 horse $70.00 harnefs 7.00 Saddle & bridle 3.00           80.00
Sythe pitchfork axe hoe gun    3.00
One cow 15.00  Calf 2.00  Sled .30   17.30
One note to become due Next Winter, from Elal Bust   77.30
[Total of money column]  $509.25
One Waggon                        35.00
[Final total]     $544.25

And the said Beriah Stiles states on his oath aforesaid--that he has no children, that he has a wife ["her" stricken out] near Sixty Years old in feble health.  that he has no relations able to assist him in his necessities--that he is a farmer & his health has been and is now so poor from the infermites of age, and born the hardships he has suffered, that he is not able to do the labour of one hour per day on an average.  That he is justly indebted to Ulisses Woodbury near forty dollars for the Land which he now owns, to Ms. Ball for labour about Eighteen dollars.  To Ms. Loveland for Blacksmith work about four dollars also to Doctr Browning a Physician bill the amount not known & several small sums to different individuals for borrowed money
Beriah Stiles

Dated March 31st 1820
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This Indenture made the fourth day of April in the Year of the Lord one Thousand Seven Hundred and ninety Six between John M Bleecker of the City of Albany County of Albany and State of New York of the first part and Beriah Stiles of Schoharie [illegible] late the County of Albany now the County of Schoharie and State aforesaid of the Second part.  Witnefseth That the said part of the first part for and in Consideration of the Yearly rents Covenants and Conditions hereinafter contained on the part of the said party of the Second part his executors administrators and assigns to be paid kept and performed--Hath granted bargained sold and to farm [illegible] And by these presents doth grant bargain sell and to farm [illegible] unto the said party of the Second part and to his Executors Administrators and assigns--All that certain farm piece or parcel of Land situate lying and being in the County of Schoharie late the County of Albany aforesaid on the north side of Schoharie River--within the limits of a tract of Land granted on the thirtieth day of May one Thousand Seven hundred and Sixty nine to the Said John M. Bleecker Jacob H TenEyck and others.  The said farm is known by being the Easternmost third part of lot number ten of the division of said patent made by William Cockburn and Sons & Contains Seventy nine acres and Three fourths of an acre--and begins at the SouthEast Corner of the Said number Ten by Schoharie River. and runs thence north three degrees East fifty Chains and Twenty links to the rear line of the Said Lot--Then north Eighty Seven degrees West
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nearly fifteen Chains and ninety links--Then South three degrees and nearly fifty Chains to Schoharie River--Then Easterly along the said River to the place of beginning--To have and to hold the said farm piece or parcel of land with the appurtenances, unto the said party of the Second part his Executors administrators and assigns for the term of three lives, towit) The life of him the Said Beriah Stiles and of Lydia his wife--and the life of Bavent Bleecker son of the Said John R Bleecker--Exxcepting and reserving out of the premises hereby granted unto the Said party of the First part his heirs and assigns all mines minerals and ore that may be found in or upon Said premises--and also all Creeks Mill Stream and runs of Water with as much ground within the Said premises as may be useful and necessary for the erection of Mills Mill dams and any works or building, for the convenient working of said mines or for the use of the said mills.  Also such wood-firewood-timber-stone and other materials to be found on the premises as may be useful and necessary in building- repairing and accomodating said mills or in working the said mines, with full power to search for, dig and turn up the ground for eithr of the said purposes and full liberty of ingrefs, egrefs and regrefs through the said premises, with his & their cattle, carriages and servants provided always that for every acre of Land so rendered uselefs by digging-building or used in roads by means aforesaid, and part of the
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Yearly rent above reserved shall be defaultment and abated in such proportion as the acres of land so incumbered and rendered uselefs shall bear to the whole farm hereby granted--Yearly and every Year during the same shall be rendered uselefs and so encumbered unto the Said Beriah Stiles his heirs Executors administrators or assigns yielding and paying therefor--Yearly and Every Year during the continuance of this lease at the dwelling house of the Said party of the first part in the City of Albany--or at such other place in the said city of Albany as the said party of the first part his heirs or assigns shall for that purpose from time to time approint--unto the said party of the first part his heirs and assigns the Yearly rent of thirty bushels of Good merchantable winter wheat, or the value thereof in money on the first day of February in every Year during the continuance of the estate hereby granted--The first [a second "first" stricken out] payment to be made on the first day of February in the year of our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and ninety Seven--And the said party of the Second part for himself his heirs Executors Administrators and assigns Doth Covenant, Grant and agree to and with the Said party of the first his heirs and assigns that he the said party of the Second part his Executors Administrators and assigns will from time to time, well and truly pay or cause to be paid, unto the Said party of the first part his heirs and assigns the Yearly rent above
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reserved at the days and times, and in manner aforesaid--And will also well and truly discharge and pay all taxes Charges and assessments--ordinary and extraordinary--taxed Charged or assessed, or which may be hereafter at any time during the continuance of this lease taxed Charged or assessed to or when the said hereby granted premises, or upon any part or parcel thereof or upon the Said party of the first part his heirs Executors administrators or assigns by any act of Congrefs or the Legislature of the State of New York or County rates or otherwise howsoever for or in respect of of the said premises or any part thereof--and indemnify the Said party of the first part, his Heirs Executors administrators and assigns of from and against all damages Costs and Charges which he or any of them may sustain or be put to by reason of any neglect in the due and punctual discharge and payment of the Said taxes Charges and assessments or any of them and shall and will at the Expiration of the Said term peaceably and quietly give and Yield up the possession of the Said piece of parcel of Land with the buildings and fences which now are or may hereafter be erected thereon in good repair to the said party of the first part his Heirs or assigns--And the Said party of the Second part his Executors administrators or assigns shall and will set apart and reserve twenty acres of the said premises for wood hereby demised and shall not
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and will not cut or destroy, or permit to be cut or destroyed any of the timber or wood growing on the said twenty acres of the said premises hereby demised for wood, and shall not and will not cut or destroy or permit to be cut or destroyed any of the timber or wood growing on the said twenty acres for any other purpose than for building timber, or fuel for one dwelling house only and other necessary buildings on said premises--and will plant one hundred apple trees within three years after the date of these presents on some convenient spot of the said premises at the distance of thirty three feet from each other in straight lines and as often as any of the said apple trees shall be destroyed or decay during the said term shall plant others in their stead so as always to preserve one hundred apple trees on said premises during the term hereby demised--And the said party of the first part his heirs and assigns doth hereby covenant and agree to and with the said party of the Second part his heirs Executors administrators and assigns that they and each of them paying the rent aforesaid, and performing fulfilling and keeping all and Singular the covenants conditions and agreements herein contained on his and their and each of their parts to be performed fulfilled and kept, shall and may Lawfully peaceably and quietly have hold and possess occupy and enjoy the premises hereby demised and every part thereof with the appurtenances unto the Said party of the Second part his Executors administrators and assigns without any
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suit trouble eviction hindrance interuption or disturbance of by or from the Said party of the first part or of by or from any other person or persons whomsoever lawfully claiming or to claim by by from or under him the said party of the first part--Provided always and every thing herein contained is upon this express Condition that if it ["say" stricken out] shall at any time happen that the Said rent hereby reserved or any part thereof shall be behind and unpaid at any of the days limited for that payment thereof, and no sufficient distrefs can be formed upon the premises to satisfy such rent due and in arrear as aforesaid, or if any or either of the Covenants or conditions herein before contained on the part of the Said party of the Second part his Heirs Executors administrators or assigns to be performed fulfilled and Kept shall not be performed fulfilled and Kept or shall be broken then and each & every such case and from thence fourth, and at all times thereafter it shall be lawful to and for the Said party of the first part his heirs and assigns or any of them into the whole of the Said hereby granted premises and into every or any part thereof in the name of the whole to reenter and the same as his or their former estate to have again, repossess and enjoy and the Said party of the Second part his executors administrators and assigns and all other thereout and from thence utterly expel put out and amove.  This indenture or any thing herein contained
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to the Contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding--In witnefs whereof the parties hereunto their hands and Seals have subscribed and set the day and Year first above written--
Jono M Bleeker SS [circle drawn around SS]
Beriah Stiles SS [circle drawn around SS]

Sealed & delivered in   )
presence of                  )
G.W.V. Schank
Ezra Tower

Know All men by these presents that I Beriah Stiles the within named Lessee in consideration of the sum of Eight Hundred dollars lawful money of the State of New York to me in hand paid by Sylvester Kibbe of Sharon in the County of Schoharie the rent whereof is hereby acknowledged have bargained Sold assigned and set over and by these presents do bargain Sell afsign and set over unto the Said Sylvester Kibbe his executors administrators and assigns the within Indenture of demise and the premises thereby granted and demised or mentioned or intended so to be and every part thereof with the appurtenances and all my estate right title interest term to come property claim and demand whatsoever either in Law or Equity of in and to the same or any part thereof to have and to hold the Said land and premises with their appurtenances unto the Said Sylvester Kibbe his Executors administrators and assigns from henceforth, for and during the residue and remainder now to come
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and unexpired of the within lease, subject nonetheless to the covenants, restrictions, reservations and retns reserved in the within lease. And I the said Beriah Stiles, for myself my executors and administrators Covenant, promise and agree to tand with the said Sylvester Kibbe his executors, administrators and assigns that the said lands & premises are free and clear from all Mortgage or Mortgages Judgments or other incumbrances whatsoever except the Covenants, rents and Conditions Specified in the said Case. And that I have full power and lawful authority to sell and Convey the aforesaid lands and premises.
In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this twelfth day of March in the Year of our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and twenty seven
Beriah Stiles [seal]
Sealed and delivered in presence of
A Crockshank

State of New York
Schoharie County Ss. } I Sylvester Kibbe of the Town and County of Schoharie and State of New York do hereby depose and say, That the above written Instrument is a true Copy of the Original assignment made to me by Beriah Stiles of his farm in the said Town of Schoharie. And that the within Indenture of demise is a true Copy of the original deed delivered over to me on that occasion by the
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said Stiles - and I do hereby further certify that the Consideration money for said farm as agreed upon between us, and the sum which was in fact paid by me to the said Stiles, was five Hundred dollars and no more, which sum has been paid to said Stiles. And further this deponent saith not
Sylvester Kibbe
Sworn this 2d. day of February 1830. before me
Elias Holliday a Judge of Schoharie County Court

State of New York Schoharie County Clerks office Ss. I John Gebhard Jr. Clerk of said County do Certify that Elias Holliday Esqr. before whom the above affidavit was taken and whose name is subscribed thereto was at the time one of the judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the said County, and duly authorized by law to take affidavit &c. In witness whereof I have hereto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said County this 2d day of February 1820
John Gebhard Jr. Clk

I William Graves Clerk of the Court of Common pleas in & for the County of Monroe in the State of New york do hereby certify that it appears to the satisfaction of the Court that the said Beriah Stiles did serve
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In the Revolutionary war as stated in the preceeding [preceding] declaration against the Common Enemy for the term of nine months under one Engagement on the Continental Establishment, I also certify that the foregoing oath and the Schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the records of the said Court, and, I do further Certify that it is the opinion of the said Court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is five hundred and forty four dollars and twenty five cents. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court on this ninth day of April 1830
Wm Groves Clerk
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State of new York
Monroe County Ss. Be it known, that before me, James Smith one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Monroe aforesaid, personally appeared Beriah Stiles and made oath in due form of law, that he was inscribed on the Pension List Roll of the New York agency, under the act of March 18th 1818. That he has been stricken from the same on account of property, that he was a private in the army of the Revolution, that during the last three years of service in said army, he served in the Regiment of Col. John H Durqee [Durkee], that he served in other Regiments previously, but does not recolect [recollect] the names of the commanding officers; that he now resides in the town of Mendon County of Monroe and State of New York aforesaid and that he resided in the town of Schoharie in the County of Schoharie and State of New York when he first applied for a pension under the act of the 18th of March 1818.

Beriah Stiles

Sworn to and subscribed this 25th day of August 1832 before me
James Smith Judge of Monroe County Common pleas & General Sessions
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[same as previous page]

State of Newyork [New York]
Monroe County Ss: I certify that James Smith Esqr. before whom the above affidavit purports to have been sworn, was at the date of the same a Judge of the county courts, in & for said county, and that I am well acquainted with his hand writing and verily believe that the above signature is his proper hand writing and signature.
Witness my hand and official seal this twenty eighth day of August 1832.
Leonard Adams Clerk
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State of Newyork [New York]
Monroe County Ss: I certify that James Smith Esqr. before whom the above affidavit purports to have been sworn, was at the date of the same a Judge of the county courts, in & for said county, and that I am well acquainted with his hand writing and verily believe that the above signature is his proper hand writing and signature.
Witness my hand and official seal this twenty eighth day of August 1832.
Leonard Adams Clerk
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Beriah Stiles
Discharge
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Beriah Stiles a Soldier of the 4th Connecticut Regiment having served three years in the Army of the United States, being the term of his Inlistment is hereby honorably discharged

J. Sherman } Commandr Brigade

Westfield 26th March
1780