Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 34221, Stephen Collins, Continental New Jersey & St Clair'S Indian War
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Continental
New Jersey &
St. Clair's Indian War

Collins, Stephen

S34221
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New Jersey Roll
1400

Stephen Collins
Capt. Ross
N. Jersey
Private
In the army of the Unites States during the Revolutionary War

Inscribed on the Rolls of N. Jersey
at the rate of 8 Dollars per month to commence on the 7th of April 1818.

Certificate of Pension issued the 30th ofJune 1818
and sent to Wm J. Bowne, Esq.
Freehold, New Jersey

Arrears to the4th of Sept. 1818
4 months 28/30.                       $39.46   

(VERY faint writing)
Dec'd
June 24 1826
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Agency -?-   Six years -?- War
Continental

Freehold, Monmouth Co.

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Notification sent to Wm. Ten Eyck Esq.
21 Sep 1820

Monmouth, NJ
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Stephen Collins

1400
Monmouth Co.

Con.
June 18

Sch '18
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State of New Jersey
Monmouth County

   On this twenty fifth of July eighteen hundred and twenty personally in Open Court being a Court of record and the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for the said County of Monmouth, Stephen Collins, aged about seventy eight years a resident in the said County, who being first duly sworn according to law, does on his oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary War as following in Capt. John Ross's company and in the 3rd Jersey Regiment commanded by Col. Elias Dayton.  And that his original declaration is dated the seventh day of April eighteen hundred and eighteen, and that the number of his certificate of pension is 1,400 (circled). And 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, sale or in any manner disposed of my property out any part thereof  with intent thereby to diminish it as to being 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 18th day of March 1818.  And that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property or security, contracts on debts due me whatever.
   Declarant saith he has not any occupation to pursue, more has he been able to do any business for several years past to obtain a support, and that previous to his receiving his pension he was supported was a pauper in Burlington County, New Jersey - and that he has no family.
Stephen Collins

Sworn and declared in Open Court on the 26th day of July A.D. 1828
Before Wm. J. Brown
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I William Ten Eyck Clerk of the Inferior Spirt of Common Pleas in and for the County of Monmouth in the State of New Jersey do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and the schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the record of the said Court, and I do further certify that it is in the opinion of the said court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is _____ dollars and ____ cents.
In testimony whereof I have herewith set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court on the fourth day of August in the year of our Lord 1820.
Wm. Ten Eyck Clerk
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State of New Jersey
Monmouth County

   Be it remembered that on the seventh day oof April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen personally appeared before me William J. jBrown Esquire, on of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the county of Monmouth William Lloyd Esquire who being duly sworn  on the Holy Evangelist ofAlmighty God, deposeth and saith that he well knows Stephen Collins the deponent in the within deposition named and well knows that he was a soldier in the company of Captain Richard Lloyd, and Hazen's Regiment, the said Captain Lloyd being the brother of this deponent and this deponent having at different times visited his brother in the camps - had there seen the said Stephen Collins performing duty as a soldier - and has understood and believes that said Collins served with the said Captain Lloyd until the end of the Revolutionary War.  That this deponent as administrator of the said Richard Lloyd came to the possession (among other papers) of the Muster Roll to this affidavit and more - and believes that the said Stephen Collins named in the said Muster Roll is the same person (and no other) who hath deposed to the preceding depositions - and this deponent further saith that the said annexed Muster Roll with the signature thereto is to the best of his knowledge and belief the proper handwriting of the said Captain Richard Lloyd - and further this deponent saith not.
William Lloyd

Sworn and subscribed before me this 7th day of April 18189
Wm. J Browne
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State of New Jersey
Monmouth County

   Be it remembered that on this seventh day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, personally appeared before me William J. Browne Esquire, one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Monmouth, Stephen Collins, aged seventy five years and upwards, who being duly sworn on the Holy Evangelist of Almighty God deposeth and saith that he enlisted in the Army of the United States of America in the spring of the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy six in the company of Captains John Ross in the third Jersey Regiment commanded by Col. Elias Dayton, and served in said company for the term of one year - that shortly after the expiration of said term, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy seven, this deponent again enlisted in the company of Captain Richard Lloyd in the Congress Regiment commanded by Moses Hazen Esquire Colonel commandant and continued in service under the said Captain Lloyd until he was discharged in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty three - that this deponent after served as a regular soldier in the expeditions against the Indians, under the command of General Arthur St. Clair and was in the engagement at the time of the defeat of the said General - that this deponent in the long lapse of time, given he was in service, has lost his discharge, and can give no particular account as to the manner in which said discharge has been lost - and this deponent further saith that from his impaired sight, his age, and reduced circumstances, he stands in need of the assistance of his country for support - and further this deponent saith not.
Stephen Collins

Sworn and subscribed before me this seventh day of April 1818
Wm. J. Browne
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[Initials upper right corner] W.C.S.
Rev. & 1812 Wars Section
Mrs. L. C. Butler
514 E. A St.
Hutchinson, Kansas
Madam:
I have to advise you that from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S. 34221, it appears that STEPHEN COLLINS, while residing in Monmouth County, New Jersey, enlisted in the spring of 1776 and served one year as a private in Captain John Ross' Company, Colonel Elias Dayton's New Jersey Regiment.
He enlisted in 1777 in Captain Richard Lloyd's Company, Colonel Moses Hazen's Congress Regiment, and was discharged in 1783.
He afterward served under General Arthur St. Clair in the Indian War and was at St. Clair's defeat.
He was allowed pension on his application executed April 7, 1818, while residing in Monmouth, County, New Jersey, aged seventy-five years.
He died June 24, 1826.
There are no data on file relative to his family.
Respectfully,
WINFIELD SCOTT
Commissioner
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May 12, 1924
Miss A. Smith
514 E. A Ave.
Hutchinson, Kansas
Madam:
I have to advise you that from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S. 34221, it appears that Stephen Collins, while residing in Monmouth County, New Jersey, enlisted in the spring of 1776 and served one year as private in Captain John Ross' Company, Colonel Elias Dayton's New Jersey Regiment.
He enlisted in 1777 in Captain Richard Lloyd's Company, Colonel Moses Hazen's Congress Regiment, and was discharged in 1783.
He afterward served under General Arthur St. Clair in the Indian War and was at St. Clair's defeat.
He was allowed pension on his application executed April 7, 1818, while residing in Monmouth, County, New Jersey, aged 75 years. He died June 24, 1826.
There are no data on file as to his family.
Respectfully,
_ 
Commissioner
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(Note: right side pf paper torn)

   I William J; Browne one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Monmouth in the State of New Jersey do hereby certify to the Honorable J.C. Calhoun Secretary of War, that it satisfactorily appears to me that the applicant Stephen Collins mentioned in the preceding affidavits served in the Revolutionary War against the Common enemy, is far advanced in years and appear to be in indigens circumstances.
Wm. J. Browne
Freehold NJ 8 April 1818

I the subscribers Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Monmouth, do hereby certify that William J. Browne, Esquire, before whom the foregoing depositions appear to have been taken, and whose name is also subscribed for the foregoing Certificate was at the date of the same and yet is one of the Judges of the said Court and the full faith and credit are due to all lawful acts done by him as such.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal alf the said Court at Freehold, the eighth day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eighteen hundred and eighteen.
J. Phillips Clk.
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However it may be that the name of Stephen Collins is not to be found enrolled amongst the soldiers of the Revolutionary army in the war office.  it is nevertheless a fact to my knowledge that he was a regular enlisted soldier in the Regt. in which I had the honor to serve commonly called the Congress Regt commanded by Brigadier Genl. Moses Hazen and that he continued in F. Regt. until the close of the War, and to the best of my recollection was enlisted in the 3d. Regt.  on his return after the first years campaign in Canada, he is now old, almost blind, very needy - and rambling from one old friend to another in order to get subsidence and anxiously waiting for the assistance expected from his country - under these circumstances I would beg leave to take the Liberty of expressing my wish that his pension may (if consistent with the law) commence from the date of his first application notwithstanding it was not algether satisfactory he tells me he had his discharge but lost it and I have not the least reason to doubt it as I always knew him to be an honest brave and faithful soldier.
June 27th 1818
James Anderson late a Lieut. in the above Regt.

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Application of Stephen
Collins a Soldier in the
War of the Revolution
for a pension under the
late law of congress

Freehold NJ 7 Apl. 1818
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James Anderson Esq. whose name is subscribed to the within writing being duly sworn on the Holy Evangelist of Almighty God deposeth and saith that the facts within stated are just and true.  That he has examined the deposition to which this is annexed, has been well acquainted with the deponent thereto - and believes the same also to be true - he further saith that the Stephen Collins named in the annexed depositions and Muster Roll is the same Stephen Collins mentioned in the deposition.
James Anderson

Subscribed and sworn to before me this 27 day of June 11818
Wm. J. Browne
One of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for there County of Monmouth
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Freehold NJ 29 June 1818

The Hon. J. C. Calhoun
Secty. of War

Sir -
   The application of Stephen Collins lately returned to me from the Department of War, with information that his name could not be found on the Rolls of the Revolutionary Army therefore requiring further evidence in corroboration of his affd't - I now retransmit the application and testimony to this Department, with there additional affd't thereto annexed of James Anderson, who was a Lieutenant in the Congress Regiment being the same in which said Collins served - I most respectfully solicit the reexamination of all the affd't and testimony - 1st the Declaration or affd't of S. Collins, 2nd - the affidavit of Wm. Lloyd  Esq. - 3rd The Muster Roll of Capt. Rich'd Lloyd in which said Collin's name appears - 4th The affd't of Lieut. Jas.Anderson.
     Lieut. Anderson has suggested that this Congress Regiment did not belong particularly to any one State, and probably does not appear on the New Jersey Rolls - But on a Record or Roll by itself.

Yours most respectfully
& Obd. Servt.
Wm. J. Browne one of the Judges of the Court Common Pleas of Monmouth County NJ
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U.S. Pension Bureau
Washington D.C.

Dear Sirs:
    New Jersey Pension Rolls Vol.  gives (?) Stephen Collins a private of the Pennsylvania Line as having received a pension of $96 per---.  He received all told $788.80.  He died June 24 - 1825.
   I shall appreciate all information coulaimed in his application.
Respectfully
Mrs L. C. Butler
Hutchinson Kansas
514 East A. St.
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514 East A. St.
Hutchinson Kansas
April 8 1924

Comm. of Pensions
Rev. War Dept.

Dear Sir:
    Will you please send me what information may exist in your official records of Stephen Collins a Revolutionary soldier who served in Pennsylvania Line.  He drew a Pension.
He d (underline) June 24 - 1825 -

Miss A. Smith
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34221

Revy   INVALID

File No. 34221
Stephen Collins
Pri  Rev. War

Act: 18 March 18--

Index:- Vol. 2,  Page 83

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Dec 8 03
Roll Of Lloyds Co
to War Dept.  the Sec Int
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1924 May 12 Hist. to
Miss A. Smith MCS

1926 July 20. History to Mrs LC. Butler  MCS
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Collins, Stephen Private  New Jersey

Warrant number S8166 and 12901

issued July 7, 1795
to Jonathon Rhea ,assignee