Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 19,100, for Albert Steward, Connecticut
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(3 - 1776)
SERVICE
Steward, Albert
Reuana
NUMBER
W. 19.100
CONTENTS
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6778
Albany
New York
Reuana Steward,
widow of Albert Steward,
who was a Private
in the Rev. War,
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of
23 Dollars 11
Cents per annum, to commence on
the 4th day of March, 1843.
Certificate of Pension issued the
12 day of April 1845
and sent to
Arad Joy Esq
Ovid
N. York
[Act of March 3, 1843.]
and June 17 1844
Recorded in Book A
Vol. 2 Page 83
72 Certs,
1 Act 1838
1 " 1843 / 1844
Arad Joy Ap 25 1832
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11.563
Rowana Steward
Mom of Albert
NY
Act 7 July 1838
admd
6 ms 28 ds pri
23.11
also act 3 March
43 & 17 June 44
No. Act - 1843 - 7082
No. " 1844 - 484
Arad Joy
Ond
Ny
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[illegible]
in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress  of the 7th 

1776 went the Army to the North  probably  to Ticonderoga or Canada. served seven months or one year that he
...the Service   in the States of New York

her husband the Said Albert Stewart made an attempt to obtain a pension that his papers had been filed  She further declares that she was married to the Said Albert Stewart on the 2d day of April 1783,
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the age of [illegible] of his Sister; that it has been in use thirty years or upwards
and that it has always been considered, in his record of his and 
his wifes age; that the said Albert Stewart on the [illegible] day of in the
September 1826 eighteen hundred and twenty six It was as his widow the present applicant for a pension the said Reuana Stewart who still remains his widow.
John C. Wilkinson
Subscribed and sworn before me this 23. day of October 1844
James Gilson a Justice of the Peace
I certify that the within and above named John Wilkinson is a respectable person
James Gilson A Justice of the Peace
State of New York
County of [illegible] ] ss. 
Personally appeared before the subscriber a 
Justice of the peace in and for said County James Wilkinson of 
[illegible] said County, aged fifty two years and upwards, after being
duly sworn according to law deposeth and saith that [illegible]
[illegible] a soldier in the war of the Revolution was [illegible] 
and that [illegible] whose application for a pension
is [illegible], is this deponents mother, that [illegible] deponent
has from a child been told and believed that [illegible] father had 
served in the war of the revolution, that [illegible] is the 
[illegible] child [illegible] 
Father in the sixteen or upwards and
[illegible] now living is of the age of sixty years [illegible] upwards and 
resides in Wilford Connecticut, that the [illegible]
is the old [illegible] family [illegible] deponent [illegible] and
her Sisters age and is true that it has been in use in her family
more than thirty years [illegible] record of his age; that the
[illegible] and [illegible] day of  September 1826.
eighteen hundred and twenty six; leaving as his widow the said
applicant for a pension Reuana Steward, who still remains
his widow.
Anne Wilkinson
Subscribed and sworn before me
this 23. day of October 1844}
James Gilson
A Justice of the Peace
I certify that the above named Anna Wilkinson is a respectable
person 
James Wilson
a Justice of the Peace
State of New York
County Orleans SS. Personally appeared before the Subscriber
a Justice of the peace in and for said County, Rufus Wilkinson
[illegible] said County, aged twenty eight years after being
duly sworn according to law, deposes [illegible] that he has from
[illegible] personally acquainted with Reuana
Steward and her late husband Albert Steward; that the present
applicant for a pension Reuana Steward is the identical
[illegible] and widow of the said Albert Steward who had the
reputation of having served in the war of the revolution;
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(Top of the page is very faint and nearly-illegible. I am just entering what I can read - subject to clarification by other archivists)

... said Albert Stewart died on the 16th day of September, 1826 eighteen hundred and twenty six, leaving his widow......... before him.
This 23 day of October 1844
James Gilson, A Justice of the  Peace 
I hereby state that Rufus Wilkinson has ........ is a respectable person.
James Gilson, A Justice of the Peace


State of New York
Orleans County Clerk's Office is I hereby certify that James Gilson Esquire, before whom the foregoing affidavits and purport to have been taken, was at the date of the same, a Judge of Orleans County Courts, and was also a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, duly commissioned, duly elected, and dwelling in said County, and duly authorized to take the same, and further, that I am well acquainted with the man writing of the said James Gilson, Esqr. and verily believe his signatures herein written are genuine, and that his Term of Office commenced on this 12th April, 1943. Is a fine attorney and Justice of the Peace, and will expire on the 31st. day of December 1844.

In Testimony Whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and impressed my Official Seal at Albion, this 24th day of October A.D. 1844.

Elijah Dana, Clerk & Attorney, Deputy Clerk of Orleans County.
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FAMILY RECORD.
BIRTHS.
John Wilkinson who was
born may the [illegible] the
year 1782
Anna Wilkinson who was
born february the 12 the 
year 1792
Lois Stuart who was
born the year 1796
July the 12
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FAMILY RECORD.
MARRIAGES.
John Wilkinson
He was married may
the 23 the year 1813
this Record Ben in use
thirty years John Wilkinson
and Ann Wilkinson Daughter
of Reuana Stuart [illegible]
to the same
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State of Connecticut
Fairfield County ss Personally appeared before the Subscribed
a Justice of the Peace in and for said County Edmund
Tuttle of Westport in said County Eighty one years of age
after being duly sworn according to law deposes and
says that he was aquainted with Albert Stuart
a soldier of the war of the Revolution. that deponents
Father inlisted the service of the Revolution the forepart
of the year 1775 seventeen hundred seventy five and
marched to the North and was gone about nine months
that the said Albert Short entered the service of
the war of the revolution about the same time and
marched to the North in company with deponents
of Father deponent believes under the command of Capt
Matthew Mead, but how long the said Albert
Stuart remained in the service deponent is unable
to state but recollects that he returned home in the
fall of the same year Edmund Tuttle
Sworn to and subscribed before me
the 16th day of November AD 1844
Erastus Sturges Justice of the Peace
I certify that the above named Edmund Tuttle is a
Credible person
Erastus Sturges Justice of the Peace
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State of Connecticut
Fairfield County ss
personally appeared before the Subscriber
a Justice of the Peace in and for said County Thaddeus Waterbury
of Wilton in said County aged seventy five years after being
duly sworn according to Law depose and says that Albert
Stuart who was a soldier of the war of the revolution
and married deponents sister Renana the present widow Renana
Stuart who is applying for a pension from Orleans County
New York. that the said Albert was married to this Deponent
Sister Renana the present applicant for a pension from
Orleans County New York at the close of the war of the
Revolution, deponent believes in the year seventeen hundred
Eighty three by the Revd Isaac Lewis, deponent cannot State
the month nor day as he has lost the family Record, but
but recollects that it was about the close of the war of the
Revolution by which this deponent is governed in his
knowledge of the date of the said marriage, that this Deponent
record of the death of the said Albert Stuart more that
fifteen years since and that the said applicant widow
Renana Stuart is the identical person and widow of the
identical person and Soldier Albert Stuart above named
Thad Waterbury
Subscribed and sworn before me 
this 16th day of November AD 1844
Erastus Sturges Justice of the Peace
I certify that the above named Thaddeus Waterbury is a
respectable person
Erastus Sturges Justice of the Peace
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I hereby certify that Erastus Sturges is a Justice of the
Peace of the State of Connecticut duly appointed by
the Legislature thereof and that full faith and credit
is due to his official acts
Wilton Novr 16. AD 1844
Samuel Belden Notary public
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11363
Dec 26 1844
Cl Rehana Steward
July 1 1838
Ny
Hon J L Edwards
Com of pensions
Washington
DC
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Ovid Dec 20th 1844
Hon J.L. Edwards
Court of Pensions
Dr Sir
I beg leave
to enclose application & proof in the case of
Renana Steward I offer the papers in good
faith, I know of no objection to them, I
submit the case upon the papers as they
are asking only justice to the widow, as
pension, or no pension-
I am Respectfully
Your Most Obd Servt
Arad Joy
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Hon J. L. Edwards
Com of Pensions
Washington 
D.C.
Apl 1. 1845 
Ny
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Ovid March 26.
Dear Sir

Arad Joy
In the case of Renana Stewart
widow of Albert Stewart who applied from Orlean
Co. N.Y. under the law of 38 I beg leave
most respectfully to remark, that if I mistake
not, the affidavit of Edward Tuttle is to the
exact point of identity of Albert Stewart with
the service in his name, this evidence backed
up with other proof of his Albert Stewart served as
during the revolution & other of the same facts.
to the same points, if carefully put together
& judge will remove the objection to a pension
in the case pardon me for referring to the case
as I apprehend an omission has taken place in
the examination of E. Tuttle evidence, which is
presiding to the point [illegible] Justice & no man
Respectfully your
Your Obt Sevant
Arad Joy
Hon J L Edwards
Court of Pensions
Washington 
D.C.
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10
J. L. Edwards
March 21. 45
Albert Stewart
from
Arad Joy
See 6 is copy hist
declaration
for Washington
Feby 1854
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Pension Office
March 4. 1843.
Sir
The papers in the case of Renana Stewart widow of
Albert Stewart under the Act of July 7th 1838, have been examined
and filed. The certificate of the Comptroller of Connecticut, 
shews that a person being the same name as claimant
husband served six walls and twenty eight days under Capt. Mead, Col
Waterbury; but before she can receive the benefit of that service
some better evidence to identify that soldier with her husband
must be produced. The certificate of the Town Clerk, or of
the Register of the Church in which the Rev Thos Lewis Officiated
must be exhibited, showing what evidence the records
in their possession afford of the marriage in this case. The
part of a leaf purporting to be a family record, appears
to have been too recently made to the received as
proof of that fact
I am, Very respectfully
Your Obt Servant
J L Edwards
Arad Joy. Esq
Ovid
New York
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Renana Stewart
wid of Albert
Pens N.Y. Case '38 '44
23.11
an Ad case of mine
from
Arad Joy
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Arad Joy Esqr
Ovid
N.Y.
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Comptrollers Office
Hartford Connt 13 Decemr 1844
I certify that an application for evidence of the service of
Albert Steward in the War of the Revolution, I have examined the
document remaining in this office relating to that war, and find a
paper headed
"Pay Roll of Cap. Matthew Mead's company in the Regiment of
"forces of the United Colonies under command of Colonel David Waterbury, 
"and in the Colony of Connecticut commencing on the day in
"which they entered said service and ending with the line of their
"dismission including time for the discharged to get home", in which
appears the name of Albert Steward who is mentioned as entering
the service 12th May & discharged 5 Decem 1775, and serving 208 days. 6.28
Including discharged time for discharged to get home at 15 miles per dicm.
A Carrington, Comptroller
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Renana Steward
NY [illegible] 43
No papers filed under
act 1818 [illegible]
Hon L P Waldo
Coms of Pens
Washington
DC
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Ovid N.Y. April 1956
Sir
Albert Stewart of N.Y. was an applicant
under law of 1818, his widow Renana
Stewart was a pensioner of New York under
law of 1838 I was and am her agent
that [illegible] is a copy the alledged
service of Albert Stewart in 1818 or 1820.
his papers are not with his widow, and
she has not had the benefit of his knowledge
this leads me to ask for a copy of his alledged service
[illegible]
your Obt Serv
Arad Joy
Hon L. P. Waldo
Com
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9165
New York
Renana Steward
widow of Albert Steward
who was a pensioner under the Act of
and who died on the 16 Sept 1826
of in the State of NY
who was a Pri in the Co
commanded by Captain of the
commanded by
the line for 6 mos 28 day
of the
Inscribed on the Roll of Albany
at the rate of 23 Dollars 11
Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day
of March, 1836
Certificate of Pension issued the 12 day of
Apl 1845 and sent to
Arad Joy. Ovid N. York
Total amount
(Act July 7, 1838.)
Recorded by F L Swann Clerk.
Book D Vol. 1 Page 189
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Rev
WIDOW, &c.
File No. 19100
Renana Steward
Widow of
Albert Steward
Pri. Rev. War
Act: Mar. 3d 1848
Index:- Vol. M. Page 247
(Arrangement of 1870.)