Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 10,122, for Asa Stevens, Vermont
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(3-1776)

SERVICE
Vt.

NUMBER
R. 10.122

Stevens, Asa

CONTENTS
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[upper portion of document is illegible]

Claimant
Lockport
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State of New York
County of Niagara} ss

Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed the Seventh of June In t he Year of our Lord 1832

On this 1st day of May in the year of our lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty foure personally appeared before the hounorable Franklin Butterfield one of the judges of the court of common pleas in and for the county of Niagara & state of New York. Asa Stevens of Said county who is not Able to attend court from bodily infirmity and is up-wards of seventy four years old and who first being duely sworn according to law before said judge who on his oath doth make the following Declaration in - order to obtain the benefit of the act of congress passed the Seventh of June 1832

That he entered the service of the United States in the Revolutionary War with Great briton in the month of July Seventeen hundred and Eighty in Captain John Serkes is company under Col - Siletehers Regiment as a Substitute for Elias Cross for the term of nine months and that this claimment served as above at a place called Casselton Fort in the State of Vermont and according to the best recollection of this claimant the said Elias Cross had inlisted or was drafted for one year and this claimant served nine months of. the time, as a Substitute for the said Elias Cross In Captain Sterkes is company and when t his Claimant entered the service as above he then lived in the town of WElls on the State of Veromont.
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and during this campaign this claimant was offten on scouting parties from Casselton Fort to Lake Champlain and offten on a creek or river called Limmon Fare, and several times in contact with the british and Indian Scouts and in the Summer of that year or the fore part of the fall this claimant was parled from the scouting party he was attached to by the assect of the british and indians and las on a vast wilderness for several days destitute of provision and the winter of that campaign this claimant recollects was exceeding cold and the garrison Suffred both cold and want of provision and clothing as the nort hern part of Vermont bordred off the enemies line and on Canada the Savages is offten made attacks upon the country in the winter on snow shoes which rendered it necessary to keep continually on the Elert and this claimant can remember the next April and this claimant further declares that not withstanding the hardships and priveation he Suffred  through this campaign he never received but two months pay and no clothing accept what was furnished by his friends at home and what payment he received  he lost by the deprivation of continental money and one months pay of it on hand now which he can produce if called for - - 

And this claimant further Declares on oath before the said judge that he entered the Service of the united States again in the Revolutionary War in the month of June seventeen hundred and eighty one
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In Captain Parmerly Allens Company as a privat soldier for the term of one year that this claimant when he inlisted in Captain Allens company as above stated he volunteered and at the time he inlisted he resided in the same place as when he inlisted the year before and served in Cassleton Fort; and t his claimant marched from ohis place of residance in Captain Allens Comopany and marched to a place called Sheensborrough near the nead of lake Champlain and joined a regiment commanded by Col- Walbridge and in fore part of that campaign assisted in building a fort and other fortifications no great distance from the falls at that place and  this claimant whilest station at that place was detached on Scouting parties as he was t he year before when he served at Cassleton fort and was [illegible] attacked by the british and indians which were at all times through the revolutionary war makeing war [illegible] is upon the frontiers of the State of Vermont and t he northern frontiers of the State of New York and during this campaign this claimant Suffred greatly as did others by being some times wholly destitute of provision and want of clothing and other privations incident to a campaign through the inclement season of the year in a country bordering upon t he Enemies lines and this claimant served through that campaign of one year and returned home some time in the month of June Seventeen hundred and Eighty two haveing served out his time he inlisted for and discharged by Col Walbridge - 

And this Claimant further States on oath t hat he entered the Service of the United States again in the fore part of September of the fall of
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of the Same year this claimant served at Sheensborrough that he was called out on short notice as a melitia man and joinied a company commanded by Captain Deuwe in a case of alarm and joined a rigement commanded by Co. Brookings and marched in Prosute of a party of british and Indians from Canada who had invaded the entry and plundered cattle here is and sheep and other property and captured and made prisonrs of a number of the inhabitents and when this Claimant mention this expedition he resided where he formerly had in the tow of Wells in the county of rutland and State of Vermont and after several days and nights march overtook the enimy at a place called Gillilans Creek some distance below Crown point and this claimant recollects the the attact was made, on the Enemy a short time before day light and captured the british and Indians and see one the principle part of the property and retook the prisnors recollects the Indians had taken a man prisner by the name of Blackman and had bound him in their common way for torture and would- have burnt him before they left that place, had not the American army arrived in time to save him this man by the name of Blackman had been taken prisner by. the Indians from Canada the year before taken on a Scouting party near Crown point and In the night whilst on their way to Canada with him he escaped from t hem and in doing this he killed two of the Indians and one of the Savage is that had taken Blackman prisner recognised him to be t he same man t hat escaped from them the year before and Said it was his brothers Blackman killed. and this claimant was out in this expedition untill some time the next December before he returned home makeing upwards of three months service in this campaign making in the three campaigns
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two years service besides several short towers in cases of alarms to repel the sudden attac of the Enemy during which time this claimant never received but very little pay and no clothing accept on his own expenses or that of his friends and suffered every privation both by hard fighting-duty and want of provision want of shoes and being in gaged on the cold northern regons bordering on lower Canada and lake Champlain as also on t he territory of. the Enemies country

And this claimant further states that he was borno in the town of Canterberry in the State of Conneticut in t he month of june one thousand seven hundred and sixty and thinks his father had a record of his age but his parents both being dead a long time think the record is lost he further states that he emigrated with his father from the State of Conneticut to the State of Vermont before the revolutionary war

And this claimant further States and Declares on oath that he was discharged from t he service according to his best recollection by Col Walbridge after the campaign at Skeens borough but from the laps of time this Claimant thinks the discharge is are worn out or lost and this claimant further declares on oath that he is not on any pension list within the united States and hes never drawn any pension and be relinquishis claim to a pension accept the above claim

Asa Stevens

Subscribed and sworn to before me the Said Franklin Butterfield the thirty first day of may one thousend eight hundred and thirty four -

Franklin Butterfield
Judge of Niagara County Court
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This certifies that I Benagah Mallory of backport in the county of niagara am acquainted with Asa Stevens applicant for a pension as Soldier of the Revolution under the act of Congress of the seventh of June one thousand Eight hundred and thirty two that I the Said Benagah Mallory was acquainted with the Said Asa Stevens before and through the Revolutionary War and after said war was over that his deponant is knowing that said Asa Stevens said applicant served in Col. Fletchers Regiment and Captain Starkes is Company nine months as a Substitute for one Elias Cross of Casselton fort in the State of Vermont in the year Seventeen hundred and Eighty as a privat soldier - as this deponant lived in the same town in t he State of Vermont the Said applicant did and served in the war under Captain Starkes in his company and Col. Fletchers Regiment the same year and in the same fort recollects the circumstances of said applicant servcing as above stated, and this deponant further states that the said Asa Stevens Said applicant inlisted, again in Seventeen hundred and Eighty one In Captain Parmerly Allens Company as a privat soldier and marched to Skeensborough and joined Col - Walbridge's  Regiment and Served one year this deponant served the Sameyear as a Sergent and under the Same officers and at the same place and both returned home in June Seventeen hundred and eighty two as near as this deponant can recollect but well knows they served one year togather and in the same part of September of that year the Said Asa Stevens the Said applicant turned out again in case of an Alarm and joined Captain Deuwees Company and Co Brookings Regiment as a militiaman and marched on short notice in prosute of a detachment
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of british and Indians who had made an attack upon the frontiers of. the country and plundred the inhabitants of cattle and other property and made prisnors of Several of the inhabitants and ware on their march down Lake Champlain towards Canada and ware overtaken and killed and captured at a place called Gillibens Creek some distance below Crown point in this Expedition the Said claimant served as much as three months as this deponant turned out on the Same Expedition and Served as a Serjent in Captain Deuwees Company and Col - Brookings regiment recollects they did not return home until some time the next december Benajh. Mallory Subscribed and Sworn to before me the Said Franklin Butterfield said Judge the thirty first day of may 1834.

Franklin Butterfield
Judge of Niagara County Court

[Binajab Mallory signature stricken]

And I the Said Franklin Butterfield Judge of the court of common pleas in and for the said County of niagara do after intarrigating the Said applicant and Examening the witness in this case with other corroberating circumstancis and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the war department do believe that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier and served as he states and that the said Benagah Mallory who has testified to his personal knowledge of the service of the said applicants a credible witness and from my personal knowledge of said witness his testimony is every way intitled to credit and I further certify that I have no knowledge that there is any clergyman liveing near or in the neighbourhood of Said applicant nor do not believe there is and. that he is not able to attend court from bodily infermity - -  given under my hand this 31st day of May 1834

Franklin Butterfield
Judge of Niagara County Court
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Niagara County
Clerks office} ss

 I Henry Caitinhul of said County so hereby certify that Franklin Butterfield before whom the within a [illegible] affidavits purports to have been sworn and [illegible] you when the within certificate was [illegible] subscribed to was on the [illegible] of the same one of the Judge's of Niagara County Courts duly appointed and qualified to [illegible] as such - And that I am well acquainted with this hand writing and verily [illegible] his name such [illegible]to the said affidavit & abets the said [illegible] paper have writing & signature

Give under my hand and seal of office this 9th day of June 1834

Henry Caitinlead
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Asa Stevens - 

1st July '80. Cap. Jna. Starke - Col. Fletcher -  9 mo as a private Substitue for Elias Cass at Castleton

2nd June 81. " Parmalee Allen - Col. Walhedge -   12 pri: at Skeenerboro V

3d Sept '81 " Dewey - Castleton -
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Asa Stevens. S. rej F 10.122.

An $8 note - Con-
tinental currency, 
has been removed 
from this case and
placed in a frame
in the room of the
Chief of the Old
War and Navy Div.
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10122
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$8
Continental
Money
Framed in Chiefs Room
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Continental money
Framed
$8
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Stevens, Asa
Vt. R10122
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191 - Sept 15

In lib to Asa Stevens

Aug; 12. 1835.
Set to Allen Wardner 17
July 1838

Rejected

July 30
1838

Set to. [illegible]
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Asa Stevens - 

1st Term
July 80. Cap: Jna Starke - Col. Fletcher - Substitute for Elias Cross -  9 mo as a private at Castleton?

2nd
June 81. Cap: Parmelee Allen - Col Wallndye - 12 mo private at Skeens borough & Castleton

Sep. 81 Capt Dewey - 3 mo as a private - 

State of Vermont
Treasurer's Office, Windsor,
July 23d. 1838

Sir

I have carefully examined all the Rolls known to exist in this office bearing the name of the Captains refered to tin the foregoing brief, & I do not find recorded there on any services of Asa Stevens whatever

Very Respectfully
Yr. Obt. Serv.
Allen Wardrus Treas. of
State of Vermont

J. L. Edwards Esq.
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington
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Lockport February 19th 1838

Sir

The last letter I Received from you respecting my pension you stated a decision of my Claim was Suspended for further consideration I seposed I had - - furnished all the proof accompanied with a history of the campaign and several military posts I had served in the corse of the Revolutionary War to put my claim beyond a doubt - for a Pension at least on the lowest grade. It's not difficult to state circumstances and events that occured sixty years a-go but from the Elaps of that time it is some what difficult to find men now living to prove many of these Events - I am one of those patriots who assisted to obtain t he Independancy of the United State - and though I am advanced in years though I am reduced by age and other infirmeties yet I consider my claim just For sum small allowance to assist me in my declining years it is not long I shall want any thing of t his words goods - pleas. to bestow some further examination on any papers and if you consider me not entitled to a pension of some grade pleas to inclose my papers to me with what ever alteration you deem proper for the Establishing my claim

I have the honor
To be your obedient
humble Servant
Asa Stevens

PS

Pleas let me have an answer as soon as conviniant if I should obtain a [stricken] Pension certificate In close it to Asa Stevens Lock port Niagara County if any thing more is wanting to obtain my pension, it is not past pleas to in [illegible] my paper with intentions what may be painted and if you send the papers back pleas to spare the. continental 8 dollar bill that was sent with them it was all the pay I had [illegible]1 month and then it was worth 8 penee or no mor my friends think's. I cannot obtain a small pension I have best petition congress

J L Edwards Esquire
Commissionar [illegible]
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Asa Stevens Hme Y
NY

The Honourabl J L Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Pension Office}

Washington City
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Royalton May the 9th 1835

Honourable J L Edwards

Sir

Some time ago my son took a letter out of. the post office at Lockport in which he said it stated something more in my claim for a pension as a revolutionary soldier was wanting from the Judge before whom my affidavat and other proof was taken representing my claim as a Soldier in the Revolutinary Army I have for a long time been so much reduced by Rheumatism and other bodily infirmity I have not been able to go from my dwelling for a long time and prohaps never shall again my cousin who assisted in takeing the testimony and ot her writings before the Judge said I had done all that was required and all I could do under my present situation - my proof of service was as a soldier indisputable it was by a gentleman who served with me in the old war and he served as Major of a Rigement through the late war I cant obtain better proof should I go all [illegible] the united Stated I am so much. reduced in my helth and so for Advaned in age, if I do not - obtain my pension soon I never shall want it should you write me please direct your letter to Asa Stevens Lockport Niagara County and my friends will get it and lend at me though I live some ways off - 

I am sir
Yours Respectfully
Asa Stevens
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State of New York
Niagara County } ss

Personally appeared before me Theadore H Chapin Esqr one of the justices of the peace in and for Said county of Niagara Joseph Smith and Mertin Braley - -

of Said County who after being duly Sworn Sayeth they are well acquainted with Asa Stevens applicant for a pension as a Revolutionary Soldier under t he act of Congress of the Seveth of June 1832

And have ben acquainted with said applicant for eight years past and have all ways heared said Asa Steves said applicant when in conversation on that subject say and state to the said deponants an others that he the said applicant had ben a soldier in the revolutionary war with great britain and had served as such several campaigns in Said war and from the personal knowlege of said deponants of the conversation and general deportment of said applicant they do believe he has ben a revolutionary soldier and hes served as he states and that is is generally believed and considered in the neighbourhood where the said applicant lives he has ben a soldier of the revolution as he states --

M S Braley
Joseph Smith

Subscribed and Sworn
before me the 26th day of
April 1834
T.H. Chapin

And I the said Justice before whom the above affidavat was taken and sworn to do certefy that. the above said Joseph Smith and Mertin Braley - the Said deponants are credible witnesses and their statement is entitled to credit - 

[illegible] April 26th 1834 - T.H. Chapin  [illegible]
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State of New York
Niagara County
Clerks office} ss

I Henry Catlin Clerk of said County do hereby certify that Theodore H Chapin before when th preceeding affidavit purports to has been [illegible] on the date of the [illegible] on &. th justices of the Peace in and for said Courts were elected and qualified to act [illegible] - And that I am acquainted with his handwriting and [illegible] believe him [illegible] to the said affidavit is his [illegible] hand writing and signature

Given under my hand and seal of office this 19th day of June AD 1834

Henry Caitlin Clerk
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10,122

P.O. Asa Stevens
Service:____

Enlisted:____, 18  .
Discharged:____, 18  .
[stamped with text REJECTED]

Application filed:____

1852 Printed Book
Rejected or Suspended
Claims gives Reasons 
for rejection:
"He did not serve six months."

Alleges:____
Re-enlisted:____

Attorney:____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized.     _____ Contract.
_____Cert. of Dis.     Searched for _____, 18  .