Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 37,459, for Edward Steen, Pennsylvania
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Penn
Steen, Edward 
Stein or
S. 37.459
B.L. Wt. 1007-100
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6,9117
Kentucky
Edward Steen of Montgomery Coy [county] in the state of Kentucky who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Irvin of the Pennsylvania line, for the term of 3 years.
Inscribed on the Roll of Kentucky at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 8th of July 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 13th of Feby 1819 and sent to Hon D. Trimble H. of Reps. 
Appears to 4th of Septem 1818/ mo
"1319 "sa 15.25 Semi-Anl. all'cc [illegbile]
48"
$63.25
Revolutionary claim Act 18th March, 1818.
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Edward Steen

[very faint calculation of amount owed]

Found on Roll

Correct

[Appears to be total of 79.58]
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THE COMMONWEALTH OF KENTUCKY,
Montgomery County, Set.
On this eighth day of July 1818, before me the subscriber, one of the Judges of the circuit court, in and for the state aforesaid, personally appeared Edward Steen aged
fifty four years;--who being by me first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath, make the following statement and declaration, in order to obtain the provision made by the late law 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;" that he is a citizen of the state of Kentucky and resident in the county of Montgomery; and that he was enlisted for three years at Carlisle in the state of Pennsylvania on or about the 15th day of April 1777 by one John McGallows and served in the company commanded by Captain Bratton of the 7th Pennsylvania Regiment commanded by Col Erwin & sometimes
by Maj. Parr.
that he continued to serve in the said corps, or in the service of the United States, in the continental army, against the common enemy, until about the Winter, or [crossed out: day of] Spring 1780 when he was honorably discharged from service at Trenton in the state of New Jersey; that he was in service three years and was in the battles of Brandywine, Monmouth, and several Skirmishes and at the end of his three years, he enlisted in the spring after his discharge, for during the war and served until 1783 - when he was again discharged
and that he is in reduced circumstances and stands in need of the assistance of his country for support; and that he has lost his discharges and has no evidence in his power, of his services and discharge, other than that which is here transmitted.
Sworn and declared before me the day and year aforesaid.
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I, Benjamin Miller Judge, & as aforesaid, do certify, that it appears to my satisfaction, that the said Edward Steen did serve in the revolutionary war, as stated in the preceding declaration, against the common enemy, for the term of nine months and upwards, on the continental establishment; and I now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me, to the Secretary for the Department of War, pursuant to the directions of the aforementioned act of Congress and it further appears to my satisfaction, that said applicant is in such indigent and reduced circumstances as to require the aid of his country, pursuant to the above recited act. Given under my hand this day and year first before written
SEAL OF THE COURT B. Miller
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State of Kentucky Montgomery Circuit Court

I Hugh Land, Deputy Clerk of the Court of the Circuit aforesaid, do hereby certify that Benjamin Mills Esq. whose name appears to the foregoing certificate of the Claim of Edward Steed was at the time of signing and certifying the same, and now is and of the Judges of the Circuit Court in this State, and that due faith and credit is and ought to be given to all acts by him so certified as well in Courts of 
Justice as thereon.

In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the Court aforesaid to be hereto affixed at Monnisterling this 14th day of Sept1818. In the 27th year of the Commonwealth.

Lane D.C.Miles
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$16

E Steene

Schedule
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Additional Claim.
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Montgomery County [illegible]
on this 12th day of October 1820 personally appeared in open court (a) [being a court of record (b) for the circuit, & county appeared Edward Steen aged 54-5 years, who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth, on his oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the provision made by the acts of Congress of the 18th March, 1818, and the 1st May, 1820, that he, the said Steen enlisted, for the term of 3 years on the  (blank) day of April May in the year 1777 in the state of Pennsylvania in the company commanded by captain Bratton in the regiment commanded by colonel [illegible] & Major Hays in the line of the state of Pennsylvania on the (blank) continental establishment; that he continued to serve in the said corps until his time was over when he was discharged from the said service, in Trenton in the state of (c) Jersey.
That he was in the battles named in his original statement and that he has no other evidence, now in his power, of his said services, except what he has said heretofore.
And, in pursuance of the act of the 1st May, 1820, I do solemly swear or affirm (as the case may be,) 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, or any part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provision of an act of Congress, entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land a 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 securities, contracts, or debts, due me; nor have I any income other that what is contained in the shedule hereto annexed, and by me subscribed.(d)
Sworn to , and declared on the Twelfth day of October before the Judge of Montgomery Circuit Court then sitting
I, [illegible] Harrison, clerk of said Circuit Court do hereby certify, that the foregoing oath and the schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the records of the said court; and I do further certify that is is the opinion of the said court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is Fifty Nine dollars (blank) cents. in testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said court, on the Twelfth day of October 1820
Clerk of the Court of the Circuit of Montgomery 
M. Harrison
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The Schedule of Edward Steen

He has no land or Negroes and is a single man and has no children.

1 Horse - worth - $40
1 Saddle -   $15
1 pair Saddle Bags - $4
[TOTAL]  $59

He has no other property save his money [illegible].  He has $26 due him from one man of $23.5-; from another - doubtful debts from another.  He owes nothing
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March 9, 1932
Mrs. James H. Samuel
Hartz Road
Morristown, New Jersey.
Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letter for information in regard to Edward Staines, who received a pension in 1819 in Montgomery County, Kentucky.
The data furnished herein are obtained from the papers on file in pension claims, S. 37459, based upon Revolutionary War service of Edward Steen or Stein. The name never appears as Stains.
He enlisted at Carlisle, Pennsylvania, April 15, 1777 and served as private in Captain Bratton's company in Colonel Irvine's seventh Pennsylvania regiment, was in the battles of Brandywine and Monmouth, length of service three years. The spring after being discharged her enlisted and served in Captain Bankson's company in Colonel Walter Stewart's Pennsylvania regiment, and was discharged in 1783.
He was allowed pension on his application executed July 8, 1818, then a resident of Montgomery County, Kentucky, and was aged fifty-four years. 
He stated in 1820 that he "is a single man and has no children".
You letter has been forwarded to the proper division of this office for reply to the service of Lenon Stains in the Civil War.
Very Truly Yours A.D. Hiller Assistant to the Administrator
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REV   3-525
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR.
BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
Washington, D. C.,

S.37459

In reply to your request of _____, received _____ for a statement of the military history of Edward Steen, a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau.


[aligning information for readability]

DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT/LENGTH OF SERVICE/RANK/OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED/STATE

April 15, 1777 / 3 years / Private / Bratton / Irvine / PA
[illegible] / 3 years until 1783 / Rankin / Walter Stewart

Battles engaged in:  Brandywine, Monmouth, sev[eral] skir[mish]
Residence of soldier at enlistment:  Enl[listed] at Carlisle PA
Date of application for pension,  July 8, 1818; has claimed war allowance
Residence at date of application, Montgomery Co, KY
Age at date of application, 54 years
Remarks: in 18xx, soldier states that he "is a single man and has no children"

Respectfully,

The bounty land [illegible] was issued to Stein
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[across the left:] Rev Sec [illegible]

[At top: a circular stamp, reads:
U.S. PENSION OFFICE.
SEP 2 1913]

[Circular stamp next to the first, reads: "TIDIOUTE PA. 
AUG 29 
8[illegible]-M 
1913]

[A one-cent US Postal Card stamp in the right hand corner, featuring a man's portrait facing left]

Commissioner of Pensions,
Department O.
Washington, D.C.
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Kindly send me a copy of the pension records of the following Revolutionary soldiers:

Alexander Galbraith, p Pa Line, Oct. 21, 1818; 63, d. Jan. 15, 1823.
(Cumberland Co. Pa.)

James Galbraith, pr. R. A. Unknown, Mar. 4, 1789 (Penn. Arch. Vol. 23; p. 441)

Edward Steen, pr. Pa Line, Feb. 13, 1819; 68. Montgomery Co. Pa.

Abraham Pierson, p Pa Line, July 15, 1819; 82; d Aug. 13, 1828
(Hamilton Co, Ohio)

Thomas Pearson, pr Pa Mil, Oct. 26, 1833; 94, Penn. Arch Vol  2. 23, p 598

John Hambell, pr. Paxton's 12th Reg. Jan. 25, 1816; M.E.; d Apr 25, 1833
(Butler Co, Pa)

Sincerely yours, Nancy C Morrow

Lidioute PA
Aug 29, 1913
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37459

INVALID

File no 37459
Edward Steen
Private, Revolutionary War

Act 18th March 18xx

Index:  Vol 2, Page 399[

1913 Sept 11 - Hist to Nancy Morrow
1922 March 9 - Hist to Mrs James H Samuel

Letter sent to Rec Division for Civil War [illegible]
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1007

Edward Stein
private
Pennsylvania line


Warrant ipd Dec 12, 1821
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Edward Steen
of the Pennsylvania Line

[illegible] W 1077
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State of Kentucky
County of Montgomery

I, Edward Steen, aged fifty six years, a citizen of the United States, do, upon oath, testify and declare, that, in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty-one (1781), I enlisted in the army of the Revolution, against the common enemy of my country for the term of "during the war," and served in the company commanded by Capt George Bankson and in the regiment No. 2 under command of Colonel Matthew Steward and Major Hambleton, of the Pennsylvania Line; and that I continued in the service aforesaid until the close of the war, in seventeen hundred and eighty-three, when I was regularly discharged from the 1st Pensylvania regiment, commanded by Colonel

Said Steen, further declares that he enlisted for 3 years within the year 1777 in Captain Bratton's Company of the 7th Regiment of Pennsylvania Line.  Colonel Haryes and served out the term and was discharged as a Private.  After which he again enlisted for the before state.  That Col Stewart did not personally attend to comm and this Regiment and that Major Hambleton and Major Edwards usually had the command.  That the [ ] Regiment was consolidated with the [illegible] understood before he was discharged and that he thinks Major Hambleton signed his discharge at Philadelphia.

My discharge is now lost or mislaid, so that I cannot produce it to corroborate the above statement. I further declare, that I have never received a warrant for the Bounty Land promised to me on the part of the United States; nor have I ever assigned or transferred my claim to that gratuity in any manner whatsoever; therefore, Know all men by these presents, that I, Edward Steen aforesaid, do hereby constitute and appoint David Prentice of the county of Montgomery and state of Kentucky to be my truel and lawful Attorney, for me and in my name to demand and receive from the Secretary of War of the United States, or of such other person as is duly authorised to issue and deliver the same, a warrant for the quantity of Land due to me as aforesaid, and to sign a receipt or acquittance therefor; and my said attorney is hereby fully authorised and empowered to constitute and appoint one or more substitutes or attorneys under him, for the special purposes above expressed.

Attest, Witness my hand & Seal,  Edward Steen

John Williams

I, John Brown, aged about 63 or 64 years, a citizen of the United States, do, upon oath, declare, that I have been long acquainted with said Edward Steen who has subscribed the above declaration in my presence, and well know that he is the identical person he therein represents himself to be; and, further I believe that he did perform the military service therein stated.
Attest, John Brown
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Before me, John Williams, a Justice of the Peace for said County & State, personally appeared the above named Edward Steen, subscriber to the foregoing declaration, and in my presence acknowledged the power of attorney thereto subjoined to be his free act and deed; and likewise, personally appeared John Brown, who hath subscribed the above certificate of identity, both to me well known to be men of respectability and truth, and made solemn oath to the truth of the depositions by them respectively subscribed, this 7th day of June, 1828

John Williams Justice of the Peace

In testimony that the above written John Williams was a magistrate authorised to administer oaths, and take acknowledgments, etc in the state of Kentucky at the above date, and that his name there subscribed appears to me to be his usual signature, I have hereunto affixed the county seal, and subscribed my name and quality, at Mountsterling this 6th day of September, 1831

Micah Harrison, clerk