Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 10,168, for Samuel Stewart, Connecticut
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SERVICE  Conn.
Stewart, Samuel
NUMBER  R. 10168
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Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832 
State of New York 
Onondaga County } ss  On this 9th day of June 1878 personally appeared in open Court before the Honorable Grover Lawrence, Nathan Saule & Johnson Hall three of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas & General Sessions of the peace now sitting at Syracuse in the Town of Salina in said County,  Samuel Stewart a resident of the Town of Otasco in said County, aged Eighty one years, who being first duly sworn according to Law, doth on his oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832 – 
That he and the service of the United States under the following named officers & served as herein stated.   
That in the year 1775 he resided in the town of East Haddam in the State of Connecticut, where he was born & in December of that year he first enlisted as a volunteer into a company of State troops commanded by Captain John Willey, and the name of one of his Lieutenant was  Thomas Harvey.  Said company was mustered at East Haddam & marched to Boston in Massachusetts, but he does not remember that the company was attached to any Regiment & that it was not formed or paraded with any Regiment.  That he enlisted as aforesaid, & left home to go to Boston as aforesaid, the last of January or fore part of February 1776, & served two months as a private in said Company, & was discharged the fore part of April. While in said service the
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the company was stationed at Brooklyn & was employed on fatigue  & assisted in building the fort at Dorchester, he recollects seeing General Washington there & General Spencer who went from the same town & that he recollects that the British were in possession of Boston & cannonaded more or less during the said two months service was discharged the fore part of April but not in writing. In September of the same year 1776 there was a general call for the Militia to go to New York, that he belonged to a company of local Militia in East Haddam whose was Captain Elmer Dutton but he did go with the Company,  his Lieutenant Nathan Jewet called the company together & marched to East Chester in the State of New York, staid there about a week, from there the company was marched to Rye Ponds & remained there as the principal station during the term of this service - that he was there serving on guard in said Company at the time of the battle of White Plains and near enough to hear the firing - that this term of service commenced in September & continued three months, but the declarant cannot remember the day in September when he left home, nor the day in December when he got back.  Col Chapman of East Haddam was Col of the Regiment, but he did not go out, but the Regiment was commanded during said three months by Lieutenant Col Dyer Throop.  The company was dismissed as he believes, in December 1776 at Rye Ponds, but the men received no written discharge. The declarant was drafted & served two months under Captain Dutton, in the spring of 1777 at New London
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but cannot remember particularly the month of the day of the month when he went from home or returned, but he remembers well that his duty was keep Guard, & work on Fort Trumbull & that there was other Militia troops there at the same time.  That he served two months again in the fall of 1777 commencing in September, & ending in November at New London, in a Sergeants Guard commanded by Sergeant Asa Harvey, & the duty was the same keeping Guard & working on Fort Trumbull.   Again in the fall of the year of 1778 or 1779 he service two months at New London performing precisely the same kind of duty, in a Sergeant Guard, under command of Sergeant Jonathan Killam at the same time he thinks there was some few other Men serving in Guard & working on the fort from Colchester - he cannot, from age & the lapse of time remember precisely the year, month nor day when this service was performed, but thinks the year was 1779.  But he does recollect that during this two months service at New London Sergeant Kilbourn have notice of his election appointment as a captain at home in the local Militia, & that he treated the men of his guard, then at New London on the occasion of his promotion. After this last mentioned service it must have been in 1779 or 1780, in the fall of the year he served two months in a Sergeants Guard at Saybrook keeping guard but has forgotten the name of his commanding Sergeant, thinks it was in the month of October & well recollects the farmers were taking up their flax, after being noted that the flax was extraordinary good. That for the four last mentioned tours of service he was drafted every time
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but he knows of no person, whose testimony he can procure, who can testify to any part of said service.  
In the fall of the year 1781, the declarant was again drafted and served two months at Lyme & New London, in a company of drafted Militia commanded by Captain Ichiel Fuller  of East Haddam, old Society, but the infirmities of age & the long time since prevent him from recollecting the precise month when this service began and ended.   the company service by itself & was first employed at [unreadable], cutting branch for fascines, went next to Winthrop creek & & remained there about two weeks, and then to Pockatonack near Norwich  where the company was dismissed after being in service two months.   The declarant further says that he was born in the town of East Haddam aforesaid, in the year 1757 as he was informed by his parents & believes, that he has no record of his age, nor does he know of any, but supposes, if there is any such record it must be in said Town.  That he removed from East Haddam to Granville, Washington County in this State, from there to Poultney, Kirtland County in Vermont from there to Mitchell, Warren County in this State & from Whitehall to Otasco  aforesaid where he now resides - that Jonathan S Davis, Henry Minance, & Myron Wheaton are the names known to him in his present neighborhood who can testify as to his character for veracity & their belief of his services as a Soldier of the revolution.  
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity, except the present, and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency at any State, & that his [unreadable] & absence from his friends till lately have delayed his application to the present time. Sworn to & subscribed the day & year aforesaid
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Samuel Stewart 
We Henry Minard, a Clergyman residing in the term of Otasco in the County of Onondaga & State of New York, & Jonathan S.. Davis residing in the same place hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Sam Stewart who has subscribed & sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be Eighty one years of age that he is reported & believed, in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.
Sworn & Subscribed the day & year aforesaid 
Henry Minard
Jonathan S. Davis
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion of to the instigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogations prescribed by the War department, that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states. And the Court further certifies that it appears to them that Henry Minard who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman resident in the town of Otasca  in the County of Onondaga, and that Jonathan S. Davis who has also signed the same, is a resident in the same place, and are both credible persons & that his statement is entitled to credit.   
Grover Lawrence First Judge 
Nathan Saule Judge
Johnson Hall Judge
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I Elijah Rhodes Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas and General Sessions of the peace do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Samuel Stuart for pension. 
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and Seal of my office this 6th day of June 1838 
E Rhodes Clerk
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Know all men by these presents that I Henry Stewart of the town of Otasco, County of Onondaga and State of New York, do hereby constitute and appoint George C Ames, of Washington City my true and lawful attorney for me and in my name to prosecute the claim of Samuel Stewart, deceased, who was a soldier of the war of the Revolution__ and my said attorney is hereby fully authorized to examine all papers in relation to said claim on file in the Department at Washington or elsewhere, and to do all lawful things in relation to said claim, that I myself might or could do were I personally present 
Witness my hand and seal this 7th day of October 1851  In presence of S. C. Hemenway,}  Henry Stewart

State of New York}
County of Onondaga} ss
On this 7th day of October 1851 personally appeared before the undersigned a Justice of the Peace in and for the County and State aforesaid Henry Stewart who acknowledged the foregoing power of attorney to be his act and deed for the purposes therein mentioned.
S. C. Hemenway JP
Justice of the Peace


Let it be known that on this 7th day of October 1851 before the undersigned a Justice of the Peace in and for the County and state aforesaid, personally appeared Henry Stewart a resident of Otasco in said county and State and made oath according to law that he is a son of the late Samuel Stewart deceased who was a Revolutionary
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Soldier__that he is directly interested as a claimant in said pension and makes this affidavit to be filed with such additional evidence as he (may attorney) may use in the prosecution of said claim
Henry Stewart
Sworn and subscribed before me the day and year above written}
S. C. Hemenway Justice of the Peace
JP
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Rev. and 1812
Wars Section 
AWF/HMM

September 7, 1929.

Mrs. William H. Mansfield
56 Ring Street
Putnam Connecticut.

Dear Madam:
I advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim R. 10168, it appears that Samuel Stewart was born in East Haddam, Connecticut, in 1757.

He alleged that while a resident of East Haddam, Connecticut, he enlisted and served as a private with the Connecticut Troops as follows:

From December, 1775, two months under Captain John Lilley; from September, 1776, three months under  Lieutenant Nathan Jewett and Colonel Chapman; in the spring of 1777, two months under Captain Dutton; from September, 1777, two months in a sergeant's guard which was commanded by Sergeant Asa Harvey; in the fall of 1778 or 1779, two months in a sergeant's guard commanded by Sergeant Jonathan Killum; in the fall of 1779 or 1780, two months in a sergeant's guard at Saybrook; in the fall of 1781, two months under Captain Jehiel Fuller.
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While living near his son, Henry, in Otisco, Onondaga County, New York, he applied for pension, June 6, 1838.  The claim was not allowed as proof of service as required by the pension law was not furnished.

He died prior to October, 1851,
There are no further data relative to his family.

Very truly yours,
E. W. Morgan
Acting Commissioner.
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[unreadable]
Onondaga County New York
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State of New York 
Onondaga County } ss On this 26 day of June 1838 personally before me the undersigned Justice of the peace in & for the said County Samuel Stewart who being duly sworn, deposeth & saith that he served as a private Soldier in the War of the revolution in the service of the United States, as set forth in his original declaration, but by reason of old age & the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively to the particular years in which all the several terms of service were performed, nor to the names of all the officers with whom he served, or who were present in other corps on the several stations where he so served as aforesaid but has stated them in said declaration according to the best of his recollection that the annexed certificate of the Comptroller of the State of Connecticut had been procured previous to the declaration aforesaid, but was not forwarded with it, became it was deemed unimportant;  in this that the years & months mentioned therein are connected with the names of Captains Willey & Jewitt did not accord with deponents best recollection, but principally because it was hoped & expected that the the evidence would be found on the rolls referred to in the Comptrollers subjoined letter, as having been “carried to Washington soon after the War.”  That “the reasons for having been so long delayed to make his application,” are because he was told it would be of no avail unless he could furnish proof of his service by living witnesses that he knew of no such witnesses till he lately learned the residence of Mr Harvey. That he was destitute of means & absent, till recently, from his friends who were able & willing to furnish money for expenses, & take upon themselves the trouble of hunting up the necessary testimony and being very old, he calculated the time in which he could expect to need & enjoy a pension would be short, but after coming to live near his Son in Otasco, who proffered his assistance to search for the requisite proof & money to defray expenses, deponent concluded to avail himself of his kindness & make the application. 
Samuel Stewart 
Sworn & subscribed before me the day & year first above written & I certify that I am well acquainted with Samuel Stewart & know him to be a man of truth & credibility.  
 Thaddeus Thompson Justice of the peace
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State of New York 
Onondaga County Clerks Office }  ss 
I William M. Clarke Deputy Clerk of the said County do certify that Thaddeus Thompson, before whom the within affidavits purports to have been sworn, was at the date of the same one of the Justices of the Peace in and for the said County, and that I am acquainted with his hand writing, and verily believe his name subscribed to the said affidavit to be his proper hand writing and signature.   
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of the said County at Syracuse this 27th day of June in the year 1838 
W. M. Clarke Dep Clerk
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Hartford Connecticut February 24th 1832 
I certify that Capt John Willey is credited on Haskells Receipts under the following head to wit, “The United States Dr to the State of Connecticut for the service of State Troops & Militia raised for the defence of the state and allowed by act of Congress December 28th 1779 computed according to the continental establishment of pay”  it appears by said book that said account is for services from April to November, amount £ 443.8.3 
Capt Nathan Jewett is credited on Haskell Receipt under the head of Militia service from April to November 1779 £505-12-2, he is further credited on the same book Feby 12. 1779, for services rendered at New London Alarm £20-6-2.   
I further certify that the name of Samuel Steward has not been found. 
Wm Field Comptroller
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Hartford Feby 24. 1832 
Sir
Annexed is a certificate to substantiate the claim of Mr Steward to a pension & is all that the books or paper in this office will afford that will be of any service to him.   
There is no rolls of the companies commanded by these Captains in this office therefore Stewards name does not appear. Nearly all the rolls were carried to Washington soon after the war.  
I am Respectfully Yours 
Wm. Field
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34520 Joseph Stewart affidavit
Samuel Stewart of Otasco, Onondaga County N.Y. application under the Act of June 7  1832
 George Pettit 
Fabius Onondaga County N.Y Agent 
Hon W. Taylor HR
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State of New York
Steuben County } ss On this eighth day of March in the year 1838 before me John Gulick one of the Justices of the peace in and for said County came Joseph Stewart of Pultney in said County who being duly sworn by and before said Justice according to law doth on his oath depose and say that he is 79 years old and resides in the Town of Pulteney in said County that he was well acquainted with Samuel Stewart, an applicant for a pension now residing in the Town of Otasco, County of Onondaga and State of New York in the period of the revolutionary war, that said Samuel Stewart resided in the Town of East Haddam County of Hartford and State of Connecticut and deponent resided in the same Town, County, and State, that said Samuel entered the service as near as this deponent can now recollect, or was absent the latter part of the year 1775 and former part of 1776 as long as six or seven months and it was generally said and understood that he was in the army at Roxbury serving as a private soldier in the Connecticut State troops and further this deponent saith not. 
Joseph Stewart 
Sworn and Subscribed before me this eighth day of March 1838 and I do hereby certify that I am well acquainted with the above deponent Joseph Stewart and know him to be of good character for truth and veracity and credibility.   
John Gulick Justice of the peace 
State of  New York 
Steuben County } S.S. I William H. Bull Clerk of the said County do hereby certify that John Gulick Esquire, before whom the above affidavit was taken and subscribed was at the time of taking the same a Justice of the Peace in & for said County duly commissioned and sworn, that I am well acquainted with his hand writing and verily believe his signature above written to be Genuine.  
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of the Court of Common Pleas at Bath this 10th day of March 1838 
Wm. H Bull
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State of New York 
Onondaga County} ss On this 7th day February 1838 before me John Parsons Esquire one of the Justices of the Peace in & for the County of County came Robert Harvey of the Town of Litchfield & County of Herkimer who being duly sworn by me and before me the said John Parsons Justice as aforesaid and according to Law doth on his oath depose and say that he is seventy Eight years of age and resides in the Town of Litchfield County of Herkimer and State of N York - that he was well acquainted with Samuel Steward an applicant for a pension now residing in the Town of Otasca County of Onondaga and State of New York during the period
of the Revolutionary war - that said Samuel  resided in East Haddam and State of Connecticut and this deponent resided at the same place the said Samuel and this deponent served two months together in the year 1776 at Boston.  They were stationed chiefly at Brooklyn in Captain John Willeys Company State Troops volunteers.  That we entered the service about the last of January or first of February and were dismissed about the first of April and had no written discharges.  
That in September 1776 the said Samuel and this deponent served together  three months at Morrisania, at East Chester and at White plains as Militia and they were dismissed at the Rye Pond four or five miles from White Plains, received no written discharge. This service was performed under Lieutenant Nathan Jewett (the Captain did not go out). Col Chapman was the col of the regiment but he did not operate and the regiment was actually commanded by Lieutenant Col Byer Troop.  
That in the year 1781 the said Samuel and this deponent were drafted and went into the service of the United States and continued in said service two months.  This service was performed at Lyme and New London and their employment at Lyme was to cut fascines, and at New London they were stationed on Winthrops Neck
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Jehiel Fuller was Captain, [unreadable] and this Deponent thinks Charles Williams was Lieutenant - but of this part he is not certain.   
That the said Samuel and this Deponent were dismissed from this service a mile or two below North Landing at Parkatanock but received no written discharge.  That all of said services were performed during the war of the Revolution and in the service of the United States as privates and when at home the said Samuel  and this deponent belonged to the same Company. 
Robert Harvey
Sworn and Subscribed this 8th day of February 1838 before me and I do hereby certify that I am well acquainted with the said Robert Harvey and know him to be a man of good character for truth and veracity - John Parsons Justice of the Peace 
State of New York 
Oneida County } ss
I, James Dean Clerk of the County Courts of the County & State aforesaid, do hereby certify that John Parsons is a Justice of the peace in & for said County, duly commissioned and qualified; that his commission was dated on the first day of January 1835, and will expire on the 31 day of December 1838. That his signature above written is genuine. Given under my hand and the seal of said Court, this 8 day of February 1838. 
James Dean, clk
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STATE OF NEW YORK
 Onondaga County Clerk's Office,} ss   I certify, S. C. Hemenway whose name is subscribed to 
To the Jurat of the annexed instrument was, at the time of taking the same a  Justice of the Peace in and for said County, and duly qualified and authorized to take the same. And I further certify that I am well acquainted with his hand-writing, and verily believe the signature to said Jurat is genuine. 
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said County, at Syracuse, this 21 day of October 1851
Rupert Cossit Clerk
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New York 
Samuel Stewart 
Susp’d. [suspended]  Act June 7 32 
1838 to Geo. Pettit. 9 July ‘38
10168
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Washington October 27 1857 
James E Heath Esq 
Sir
Enclosed you will please find Power of attorney in the case of Samuel Stewart, who was an applicant for the benefits of the act of 7 June 1832 from New York.   
I wish to have the privilege of examining the papers now on file in support of this claim.   
Very Respectfully Your Obt sevt 
Geo C Ames
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Sir 
I enclose herewith the amended declaration of Mr. Steward which I hope will receive your early attention. Please direct your answer anouncing your decission to George Pittit Esq Fabius N.Y.
Your obt svt 
W. Taylor 
Hon J L Edwards 
House Reps July 8th 1833
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June 13, 1838
O.C.
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War Department 
Pension Office 
June 12 1838 
Sir 
The papers of Samuel Stewart an applicant for a pension under the act of June 7th 1832 have been examined. If the claimant served as alleged in his declaration some evidence thereof may be had by application to the Comptroller of the State of Connecticut.  Should assign as sufficient reason for having so long delayed to make application for pension. His papers are placed on file.  
The letter of G. Pettit Esqr is herewith returned.  
Hon William Taylor 
House Reps
NY
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84
G. C. Ames
Aug 28 / 32
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400 
Pension Office Augt 26. 1852 
Sir
The application of Saml Stewart of N.Y. under act of 7 June 1832 having been allowed to remain here since 1838 without an effort to establish it, cannot now be examined without the production of important additional testimony which could obtained not have been at the time of making the original application. 
Geo. C. Ames, Esq Present
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1929  Apr 25 Hist to Hon Richard P. Freeman – See Timothy Hatch S. 13296 MCS
1929 Sept 7 Hist to Mrs William H. Mansfield EWF
10,168
Samuel Stewart
REJECTED
1852 List gives fol [following] reasons for suspension.  “Suspended for adequate proof.”
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Putnam, Conn 
June 3  1929  
Dept of Int
Bureau of Pensions Revolutionary War 
Dear Sir 
May I have a copy of the Pension Papers of Revolutionary Soldiers 
Samuel Stewart R. 10168. 
Joseph Joslin S 17518 
Sincerely Mrs William H. Mansfield 
56 Ring St Putnam Conn
[stamp] U.S. PENSION OFFICE JUN 5 1929
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Rev and 1812 Wars Section 
April 25, 1929
Honorable Richard P. Freeman 
House of Representatives 
Washington, D.C. 
My dear Mr. Freeman:  
In response to your letter of April 21, 1929, I have the honor to advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, R.10168, it appears that Samuel Stewart was born in East Haddam, Connecticut, in 1757. 
He alleged that while a resident of East Haddam, Connecticut, he enlisted and served as a private with the Connecticut Troops as follows: 
From December, 1775, two months under Captain John Willey; from September, 1776, three months under Lieutenant Nathan Jewett and Colonel Chapman; in the spring of 1777, two months under Captain Dutton; from September, 1777, two months in a sergeant's guard which was commanded by Sergeant Asa Harvey; in the fall of 1778 or 1779, two months in a sergeant's guard commanded by Sergeant Jonathan Killum; in the fall of 1779 or 1780, two months in a sergeant's guard at Saybrook; in the fall of 1781, two months under Captain Jehiel Fuller.
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While living near his son, Henry, in Otisco, Onondaga County, New York, he applied for pension, June 6, 1838. The claim was not allowed as proof of service as required by the pension law was not furnished. 
He died prior to October, 1851. 
There are no further data relative to his family. 
Very truly yours, 
E. W. MORGAN 
Acting Commissioner.