Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 10,107, for George Stuver, New York
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New York
Stuver, George
Mary
R.10.107
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New York 1836
Mary Stevens
10107

826  3. Sec.
M.J. Bovee
 Mary Stuver

Hon. M.J. Bovee
 HR
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County of Schenectady to wit.  Mary Stuver of the town of Ballston in the County of Saratoga and the State of New York being duly sworn do depose the she  is the widow of George Stuver deceased who departed this life on the twenty first day of September AD 1832. And this deponent further says that he the said George Stuver was a soldier in the war of the Revolution and was a musician in said war. And this deponent further says that she this deponent was married to him the said George Stuver in the year 1778 that this deponent at that time resided near Rhinebeck and there said George Stuver resided at Rhinebeck and this deponent further says that she was married in the Spring of the year 1778 and this deponent further says that after her said marriage with the said George Stuver she and her said husband commenced immediately to keep house together and after they had commenced keeping house and in the Summer of the year 1778 the said George Stuver was drafted to go out from home as a soldier and that he went and was gone from home about one month during which time he was engaged as a soldier in the militia of the State of New York deponent is very confident he was out as a soldier at that period not less that a month and this deponent further says that at the expiration of the said term of service the said George Stuver returned home and remained home a few weeks and then was again called our to do military duty again and left home and went out as a soldier in the service of the United States a short period at least two weeks and served faithfully as a musician in said service and then returned home
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And did not go out again to the knowledge of deponent as a soldier. And this deponent further says that she well knows that the said George Stuver was engaged as a soldier in the army of the Revolution for at least five months to the knowledge of this deponent before his marriage besides the period of five months mentioned in the affidavit of Mayhew Daggett after which five months this deponent has no actual personal knowledge except on the information of the said George Stuver and other persons as it happened before her acquaintance with him and further this deponent says not.
 Mary Stuver  her x mark

Subscribed and sworn before me this 15th day of December AD 1836 
 Stephen A. Daggett Commissioner of Deeds
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County of Schenectady Ss: Mayhew Daggett
of the Town of Clifton Park and Isaac Lewis
of the Town of Glenville being duly sworn
do each depose and say of follows the
said Mathew Daggett says that he has
been well acquainted with the said
Mary Stuver widow of George Stuver 
deceased for the period of at least sixty
five years and that he well knows
that the said Mary Stuver has always
sustained a very fair character for
truth and veracity and that he has
heard her deposition annexed read
and that he verily believes the same
to be in all respects true and that
he was acquainted with the said George
Stuver for a great length of time and
that he always sustained a very high
reputation for truth and veracity and
the said Isaac Lewis says that he

has been acquainted with the said
George Stuver up to the time of his death
which happened Sept 1832 and with the
said Mary Stuver for a period of
more than thirty years and that they
both sustained high and unblemished
character for truth and veracity and
also in all other respects. And further the
deponents say that the said George Stuver
was always reputed a soldier of the Revolution 
and further the deponents say not
  Mayhew Daggett    Isaac Lewis
Subscribed and sworn before me
this 15th day of December A.D. 1836 Stephen A. Daggett
Commissioner of Deeds
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County of Schenectady Ss: Stephen A. Daggett  the commissioner of Deeds before whom the foregoing affidavits of Mary Stuver and Mayhew Daggett
and Isaac Lewis were sworn to doth depose
and say that he this deponent is well acquainted with
each and every of the said deponent
and that each and every of them sustains a
high and an unblemished character for
truth and veracity and this deponent further
says that he this deponent was well acquainted with
George Stuver in his life time and that
he the said George Stuver who is the same person mentioned in the foregoing affidavit was a very worthy and highly moral and  religious man that deponent
well knows that the said George Stuver sustained a very good character for truth and veracity and in all other respect among all persons to whom he was  in any wise known and further this deponent says not.
  Stephen A. Daggett
Sworn before me
this 16 day of December
A.D. 1836. J.W. Jones, First Judge of
Schenectady County
.
State of New York
Schenectady County
Clerk's  } Ss:
Office

I Jonathan C. Burnham Clerk
of the County of Schenectady do hereby certify that Stephen
A. Daggett Esq before whom the foregoing affidavit of Mary
Stuver and the following one preceding affidavit of Mayhew
Daggett & Isaac Lewis purports to have been sworn was on the
date of said affidavits a commissioner of Deeds for the City &
County of Schenectady, and I further certify that J.W. Jones
Esq before whom the foregoing affidavit of Stephen H. Daggett
purports to have been taken was First Judge of the County of
Schenectady aforesaid and that both of said Officers are duly
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authority to administer oaths and that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of the said Judge & Commissioner and verily believe that their names subscribed to said affidavits is genuine.
 In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of said County the 16th day of Decr AD 1836
  J.C. Burnham  Clerk
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George Stuver
18206
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George Stuver
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State of New York
County of Saratoga } Ss.
 Mayhew Daggett of Clifton Park in the County of Saratoga sworn says that for thirty years last past he was ^ & is well acquainted with George Stuver the person whose declaration is hereunto annexed - That this Deponent was a soldier in the Regiment mentioned in the five months service first stated in said Stuver's declaration - that this deponent though [illegible] in the same Regiment with the said Stuver cannot say that he was during the said five months particularly personally acquainted with the said Stuver, yet from the frequent conversations between the deponent and the said Stuver relative to the incident and transaction of the said Regiment this deponent feels satisfied and certain that the said Stuver was a soldier in said Regiment during the said five months, and that no person could so particularly and circumstantially state the events and incidents which took place in said Regiment without his being personally present and an eye witness to the events and movements -      Mayhew Daggett
Subscribed & sworn in open court this 5th day of September 1832
 Thomas Palmer  Clerk
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New York   Stuver, George     R. 10.107
Mary
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as a drummer on an expedition to the South - went by water to Albany then by land to Bemus's [Bemis] Heights in Stillwater. He then belonged to a company of Militia commanded by Capt John Heermance - first Lieut Uriah Heermance the same col. & Lieut. col. as in the five months Stuver before stated, attached to Genl Glover's Brigade - After Burgoyne's surrender the company to which he belonged marched to Albany then to Hurley near Esopus now called Kingston, Ulster co. where they were discharged. He was employed in this campaign on duty three months or a little upwards - That he resided at Rhinebeck from the commencement to near the close of the revolutionary war in service with the Militia at various ^ times & for various periods ^ besides [Kings?] before stated the exact length of which he is unable to state - but was at one time on Militia duty under Captain Andries Heermance for the span of two months ^ under the same Colonel as before, at another time under Captain William Stuart for about one month in the Highlands under command of Col. Langden - [words crossed out] both the last mentioned periods the militia were employed at different places up & down the River - That he was also detached at a different time with some other militia soldiers & spent about two months to guard the Gaol in Poughkeepsie then filled with Tories - he was then under the command of Lieut John Wilson - That he is confident in opinion that his different periods of actual service amounted to some months now, but in regard to the [disulrary?] character of some of ^ his services & the frailty of his memory under his present disability by age and bodily infirmity he wishes to consider his declaration and claim to one year and no more - [in margin - in all 13 months]
 That he has no documentary evidence whatever - and if he ever received any written discharges or other documents (of which he is not certain) they are lost - & knows of no persons living within the present circle of his acquaintances who could from their own actual knowledge from his services as herein stated - that he has for about nine months past been confined to his house and unable to travel under the infirmity of a erspeless decline or consumption - and cheerfully & confidently   ers to neighbors of his acquaintance - for the last twenty or thirty years of his life to testify as to his character for veracity and their belief of his services as a soldier of the revolution - and for this purpose he refers particularly to [Elder?] Abijah Peek, Capt. William Kingsley, William H Fatterlee? Esq, Nathan Garnsey Esqr Capt. David Waterman, Deacon Bargellai Millerd, all residing in Clifton Park & Ballston in this County     George Stuver
 He hereby relinquishes every claim whatsoever for a pension or annuity and the present & declares that his name is not on the pension rolls of the agency of any state -
 [?? ] written [?]  signatures included in Statement. P.S.
 Sworn and subscribed the said 25th day of August 1832. before me and I hereby declare my opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states and I further certify that the said applicant cannot from bodily infirmity attend The Court of this County
 James Thompson  First Judge of Saratoga County
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George Stuver
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We Abijah Peck a Surgeon residing in the Town of Clifton Park in the
County of Saratoga, and William Satterlee residing in Ballston in said County
hereby certify that we are well acquainted with George Stuver, who has
subscribed & sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be
about Seventy six years of age, that he is reputed & believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution and that we concur in that opinion
Abijah Peck
William H. Satterlee
Sworn  & subscribed
the 5th day of September
1832, in the open Court of Common pleas for the County of Saratoga
 Thomas Palmer Clerk
And the said Court certify that it appears to them that Abijah Peck who has signed the preceding certificate is a
Clergyman resident in the town of Clifton Park in the County of Saratoga & that William H. Satterlee who has also signed the same
is a resident in the town of Ballston in said County & is a credible person & that their statement is entitled to credit

I Thomas Palmer Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Saratoga do hereby certify that the foregoing contains
the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of George Stuver for a pension. And I do further certify that James Thompson before whom the foregoing
declaration purports to have been sworn was at the date of the same first Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of
Saratoga & that I am acquainted with his hand writing and verily believe his name subscribed to the said declaration to
be his proper hand writing & signature
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set
my hand and seal of office this fifth
day of September 1832-
Thomas Palmer Clerk
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10,107
P.O. [crossed out - Mary Stevens]
Service: [crossed out - Stuver]
 Mary Stuver widow
Enlisted: George Stuver, 18
Discharged: REJECTED, 18
 Admd Aug 13, 1906 
Application filed:  ___, 18
Alleges:
Re-enlisted:
Attorney:
P.O.
 _ Recognized.  __ Contract
__ Cert. of Dis.  Searched for ___, 18
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Amsterdam August 5 1837
Dear Sir
  I am employed as the Agent in the case of the Widow Mary Stuver N. York Claims - I hope you will forward me a certificate as that family is in need of that which the Husband has [earned?] by [fighting?] for the liberty we enjoy -
  I am your friend
  Matthias J Bovee

Hon J.L. Edwards