Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 10,087, for Samuel Stearns, New Hampshire
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(3-177)
SERVICE
N.H.
Stearns, Samuel
NUMBER
R. 10.087
CONTENTS
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I was born in the Town of Hollis in the State
of New. Hapshire (Hampshire) on the last day of November
1761 lived in that place till I was 17 years
old moved to Plymouth in New Hampshire &
in the Months of may we had orders to inlist
for six months in the yoar (year) 1780 I passed
muster under Colonel David Webster who was
living in Plymouth as a Millitia (Militia) officer at that
time. I then with 3 others of the same Regiment
viz William Hamblet of New holderness
Asahel Buel of Cooksmouth Samuel Smart of
Rumney all [illegible] to HaverHill in New 
Hampshire the [illegible] appointed for us & there we
Joined others to a Copany (Company) our Capt name was
Samuel [illegible] our Lieutenant name was
Jacob Eliot of old Chester in New Hampshire
our Sargeants were Wingate Koss & Barnard
Corporels Matteus & Man our Drummer & fifers
ames were Larey & [illegible] there was an other
company at the same Place Commanded by Capt stone
& Ensign Odal these two Companeys was commanded
by Major Benjamin Whitcomb & our duty was
to Scout or range the woods from [illegible]
river to lake Champlain through Vermont
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& the Toreys & Indians ranged the same woods
the same Summer & as one of our scoutswas
near [illegible] river going to lake Champlain they were
driven Back to us we were then ordered to the number
of 27 men & 2 Indians names of Indians [illegible) & [illegible]
under the command of Lieutenant Lyford who was
then said to be a continental officer to Start at
day light the next morning with 6 days Provision
we crossed the Connuticut (Connecticut) river went 3 days into the
woods went Down onion river crossed it many times &
at the end of 6 days returned to haverhill this was
in the Month of August Immediately after this
we were ordered to the [illegible] of about [illegible] under
the Command of Lieutenant Eliot to go to Corinth &
we built a fort in Corinth where we generally
staid (stayed) untill (until) winter but some time in October the
Indians & Toreys came Down from CAnada by Onion River
to the amount of several hundred & went Down to
Royalton on white river & burnt it & whiles one
of our Scouts win on the Banks of onion river we
had Sargent Barnard [illegilbe] & 2 men taken prisoner
& some time in December were Discharged.
I was 19 years old when I inlisted (enlisted) & when I was Discharged
I was 20 & am now 72 years old I further state
that some time in the month of August 1832 I with others
sent a petition to washington for the Purpose of reviewing

Stearns Samuel
NH A10087
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a Pension according to the law & I now live in
the township of Stanstead Province of Lower
Canada He has no documentary evidence and knows of no
testimony which he could now procure to the fact of the aforesaid
service. he hereby relinquishes all claim to a pension or
Amity [illegible] the present and declares his name is not
on the pension list of the agency of any state and that
his aforesaid application [illegible] before the court
of probate for the District of O[illegible] in the State of Vermont 
and that he has never [illegible] from the home. 
Saml. Stearns

State of Vermont}
Orleans County ss}
Be it remembered that before me on the Eleventh day of January AD. 1834
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State of Vermont}
Orleans County ss}
I Ira H. Allen Clerk of Orleans
County Court do hereby certify that
James May who has affixed his name
to the within is a magistrate duly
qualified and that I believe the
same to be his genuine signature.
In testimony whereof I [illegible] subscribe my name
and affix the seal of said court this [2nd?] day of
January 1834
Ira H. Allen Clerk

Samuel Stearns 33.303
[illegible] [illegible]
[illegible]
Stearns, Samuel
NH R10087
S Haight Esq

Stone, Co enlist
from [illegible]
[illegible]
[illegible] book No 3

Stearns SAmuel
NH R10087
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War Department
Pension Office
April 23. 1836

Sir
In reply to yours of 19 ulto. I have to state
that there is an informal declaration of Saml
Stearns of Canada on our files and also, the
Deposition of [illegible] Buel, but as the case was
unaccompanied with any paper which showed
that it was in charge of any agent within the
United States to whom an answer could be given,
no action has been had upon it

He must now make a formal declaration before
some court of record of one of the States and comply
fully with the regulations~The service under Col.
Bedel should be established by application to
Col. Moody Bedel at Bath New Hampshire in
whose possession are rolls of his fathers regiment
I am, Very Respectfully
Yr. mo. Obt. St
J. L. Edwards
Isaac F. Redfield, Esq}
Derby}
Vermont}
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I found on the rolls a list of four captains
of companies raised for six months the same
year Stearns claimed to have served. & among
them Leuft Reynolds under who [illegible]
Stearns served. but the names of soldiers
not there. I do not think Stearns served
under [illegible].
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I Samuel [illegible] of [illegible] age [illegible] and say th[illegible] 
[illegible] a Soldier in the [illegible] in the year anno domini seventeen hundred and eithy I served in Captain
Samuel Reynolds Company & Colo. Timothy Bu[illegble]
Regiment for the time of six months I was stationed
a peart (part) of the time at Haverhill in Grafton Couty (County) in
New Hampshire and a part of the time in Newberry
and Corinth in the State of Vermont- I [illegible]
Samuel Stearns of Plymouth in [illegible] County of Grafton
who also served in the same company with me
during said six months I will recollect that
he came to my Fathers house in Rumney in
the Spring- I think  in May in 1780 and that [illegible]
Samuel Stearns and myself and [illegible]sa Buel [illegible]
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State of New Hampshire
Grafton ss is 
I Stephen P. Webster Clerk of the Superior Court of Judicature
within & for said County of Grafton do hereby certify
that Kendall Osgood Esqr before whom the within Deposition
was taken is and for a long time has been an acting Justice
of the Peace and that his signature within written is
genuine

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal
of said Court at [illegible] this sixth day of August Anno Domini 1835.
S.P. Webster Clerk
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I Asakiel Be
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State of New Hampshire
Grafton ss~
I Stephen P. Webster Clerk of the Superior Court of
Judicature within & for said County of Grafton do
hereby testify that James G. Gilley Esqr before
whom the within Deposition was taken was on
the fourth day of August instant an acting Justice
of the Peace, and that his signature within within
is genuine. 

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed
the seal of said Court at Haverhill this sixth day of August
Anno Domini 1835. 
S. P. Webster Clerk
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In Feby. 1834 The case of Samuel Stearns of
[illegible] Canada was suspended for
farther proof.  It was then ascertained by
a memorandum on one of the old New
Hampshires books that such a company
as that of [illegible] Reynolds, in which
he claims to have served, did the service
in Coos, but no roll of the company
was to be found. This testimony
has been [illegible] long coming on account
of the ferocity and old age of the applicant
and the distance of Witnesses.
If any farther testimony as to the character
& reputation of the applicant is
required it can be procured I saw him
yesterday & informed this testimony
would probably be satisfactory without
being at [illegible] as he [illegible]
some ten miles from this and not
[illegible] must come, that
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333[A?]3
Vermont
Samuel Stearns
of Canada-
A 10087
The within imperfect
declaration was found
among the additional
evidences of Vermont
without number or note
of any kind on the Index-
The additional
evidence within, recd.
24 Aug '35 furnishes
no clue as to the source
whence recd. or to whom
an answer can be
addressed- They are therefore
entered on Index
& filed with suspended cases of Vermont
See let to Isaac F. Redfield
[illegible] Apl. 23. 1836
See let to Jn.[illegible] Kimball June 25. 1840
Act 7 June 1832
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Derby March 19th 1836
Sir. Samuel Stearns pension claims has been long on file in
your office and no actions so far as we are
informed. I sent you what ar considered full
proof of his serves. The claim though small is
important to him and I hope you will find
it consistent to determine [illegible] it and give
information of the [illegible] as we have no doubt from
the fact that the works of your office show the [illegible]
of the Co. in which he claims to have served and
his testimony shows him to have been one of the privates
in the Co. that this claim must be considered as sufficiently [illegible]. 
Very truly yours
Isaac F. Redfield.
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Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873.
REJECTED
10087.
P.O. Samuel Stearns
Service:
Enlisted:,18
Discharged:, 18
Application filed:, 18
Alleges:
RE-enlisted:
Attorney:
P.O.
Recognized. 
Contract.
Cert. of Dis. Searched for, 18.