Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W 19109, for William Stevens, Pennsylvania
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SERVICE  NUMBER
Penn. Stevens, William W19109
Margaret
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[illegible]
Margaret Stevens widow of William Stevens who was a Pa pensioner under the Act of 1832 and who died on the [illegible] in the State of [illegible] who was a [illegible] in the [illegible] commander Captain [illegible] of the [illegible] commander [illegible] in the [illegible] for 15 months.
Inscribed on the Roll of [illegible] the rate of [illegible] Dollars [illegible] Cents per annum commence on the [illegible] day of [illegible] 1838.
Certificate of Pension [illegible]
Arrears to the [illegible] 
Semiannual allowance ending [illegible]
Act July 7, 1838.
Hon. I. Steinrod 6 Jan '40
certificate made payable at [illegible]
Widow paid  June 12, 1840
[illegible]
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3531
Virginia
William Stevens
of Brooke in the State of Virginia who was a Pvt  [Private] in the company commanded by Captain Jones of the Reg't [Regiment] commanded by Col. Wayne in the Penna: line for 15 months from 1776-
Inscribed on the Roll of Virginia at the rate of 62 Dollars 50 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1834.
Certificate of Pension issued the 26 day of Dec '32 and sent to Adam Kuhn, Williamsburg VA
Arrears to 4th of Sept 1832 
Semiannual, allowance ending 4 Mar: 33  
93.75
31.25
125.00
{Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832}
Recorded  by Nathan Rice Clerk, Book D Vol. 7 Page 127-
[illegible] Agent July 27 [illegibe]
A Kuhn
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William Stevens
Virginia
No 3388
5.14. 1260
[illegible] 14'32
Adam Kuhn
Williamsburgh Va
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BRIEF in the case of William Stevens of Brook County in the State of Virginia

(Act 7th June, 1839.)

1.  Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge?  Court

2.  If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?

3.  How old is he?  79 Years

4.  State his service, as directed in the form annexed.

Period
In 1776

Duration of Service
Years 1
Months 3
Days

Rank
As a Private

Names of Generals and Field Officers Under Whom He Served
General [Illegible] Sullivan
Capt [Illegible] Company of Artillery
Lt. Bob Jones
Col. Anthony Wayne as [illegible]

5. In what battles was he engaged? -

6.  Where did he reside when he entered the service?  Lancaster Cty Pennsylvania

7.  Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls?  One living witness

8.  Are the papers defective as to form or authentication?  and if so, in what respect?

  Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.

[Illegible] Examining Clerk
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William Stephan & Margaret Stolz, both of Hempfield township, Lancaster County, were lawfully married by the Rev. H. Muhlenberg D.D. on the eighteenth day of June A.D. seventeen hundred & eighty.

A true extract from the records of the Evangelical Lutheran Congregation of the Holy Trinity in the city of Lancaster.

Lancaster, Penna.       John C. Baker
October 21, 1839       h.t. Pastor

Lancaster City
Before me an Alderman for the City of Lancaster came the Rev. John C. Baker and acknowledged the above to be his signature and the foregoing to be correctly copies from the records of the Church. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 21st day of October AD 1839.
[Illegible]  Seal

Pennsylvania
Lancaster County

[Illegible}
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Margret Stevens
Declaration
1838
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State of Virginia } ss.
On this 27 day of September 1832 personally appeared before the Subscriber a Justice of the Court of [illegible] County (being a Court of record) Margret Stevens, a resident of the said County aged Eighty three years past who from extreme old age and consequent bodily infirmity, I certify, is unable to attend the Court; and who being duly sworn according to law doth on her  Oath, make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed, July 7. [illegible] entitled " and act for [illegible] pay and pension to certain widows":
that she is the widow of the late William Stevens deceased who was a private of artillery in the army of the revolution, and who was placed on the pension [illegible] Roll of the Virginia agency, by a pension certificate [illegible] with the [illegible] passed the 7th June 1832, from Lewis Cass secretary of war, numbered 3531 and dated 26: December 1832, at the rate of sixty two dollars and fifty cents per annum during his natural life, and which certificate deponent [illegible]  United States for paying pensions at Wheeling, State of Virginia in the [illegible] of March last past on receiving the ballance of  pension due to said deceased pensioner from the 4th of September 1837 until the day of his decease.
She further declares that she was married to the said William Stevens on the 18th day of June in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty in the town of Lancaster in the State of Pennsylvania, by the Revd. [illegible], but has no documentary evidence of her marriage: and that her late husband the aforesaid William Stevens died on the tenth day of January [illegible] year 1838. That she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place previous to the first day of February [illegible], one thousand seven hundred and ninety four, viz: at the the time above stated, and that she continues to be the widow of the said William Stevens, not having again married.
Sworn to and subscribed, on the day and year above written, before me.
Edward Smith, J, P,
Margret X ["her" written above the X and "mark" written below] Stevens
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State of Virginia
Brooke County. ss
Be it known that on the 2nd day of September 1838, before the Subscribed, a Justice of the peace in and for the County aforesaid personally appeared Elizabeth Ray in the said county and state who after being duly sworn according to law deposeth and saith that she is well acquainted with Margret Stevens widow of the late William Stevens, deceased, who was a revolutionary soldier of the United States. That deponent was born in the County of Lancaster in the State of Pennsylvania, the year not being rembered, but was twenty years of age at the time of [illegible] defeat - (1755) that she was personally and well acquainted with the family of Jacob Stultz, of the same county of Lancaster, and [illegible], daughter of said Jacob who married the above named William Stevens then of the said County, but the date of said Marriage not recollected, and that the said William and Margret lived together as man and wife from the time of said marriage until the until the decease of the said William.
That deponent and the said William Stevens and his wife aforesaid were in Lancaster County aforesaid in the neighbourhood until spring of the of the year 1795, when this deponent with the family of her son Thomas Ray, removed to the County of Brooke and State of Virginia in company with said William Stevens his wife and family, and has continued to live in the neighborhood with the said William Stevens, and his family until the time of the decease of said Stevens - and that during all the time aforesaid, the said William Stevens and Margret has always been considered as married man and wife; that they have had a number of children, the [illegible] number of whom are residents of said County of Brooke
Elizabeth X ["her" written above the x and "mark" written below] Ray
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid before me Joseph Rose J. P
I do also certify that deponent is a person of credibility
Joseph Rose J. P
On the same day, and at the same place, also personally appeared Thomas Ray, son of the above named deponent aged sixty six years past, who being duly sworn according to law depose and say that he was well acquainted with William Stevens, deceased [illegible] of the United States and with the widow of said deceased, whose name is Margret and certified on his oath that he always [illegible] and believed that the said William Stevens and Margret were legally married; that they lived together as such in Lancaster County, State of Pennsylvania and removed to the County of Brooke and State of Virginia, in the spring of the year 1795, in company with the deponent; and continued to live as married man and wife until the
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the day of the decease of the said William Stevens.
Sworn and subscribed the day and year first above written in presence of, Joseph Rose J P Thomas Ray
I also certify that deponent is a person of credibility Joseph Rose J. P
State of Virginia Brooke County, Ss.
I Adam Kuhn Clerk of the County Court of the County of Brooke aforesaid do hereby certify that Edward Smith esq. before whom the foregoing declaration of Margret Stevens was made was on the day of this date of said declaration a Justice of this Court aforesaid and that Joseph Rose Esq.  before whom the foregoing depositions of Elizabeth Ray and Thomas Ray were made was at the time of taking the same and now is an acting Justice of the peace of the said County and that the signatures of the said Justices (Smith Rose) are genuine
In witness whereof I have hereto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said court 
 this 28 day of Sept 1838 and in the 63d year of the Commw
Adam Kuhn
C. [illegible]
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William Steven’s
No. 3388
~~~~~~~~

A or not legible
Wellsburgh, Brooke County

Living +
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William Steven’s

From 1776 private
Of artillery 15 months
$62.50 (not legible under the 50 cents, it may be a squiggle line)
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State of Virginia
County of Brook
In this thirtieth day of July 1832 personally appeared in open court before the Justice of the Court of Brooke county now sitting, William Stevens, resident in the said county and State aged seventy three years past; 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 enlisted as a private in the army of the United States in the beginning of the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy six, with Lieutenant Gil Jones, in the town of Lancaster in the State of Pennsylvania, for the term of one year, and served in Captain (illegible) company of artillery, after enlistment, was marched to Philadelphia, thence to New York, and thence proceeded up the north river into Canada - Col. Anthony Wayne and Gen'l Sullivan were in the same service.  Gen'l St. Clair was commander.  When the troops had advanced about one day and an half's march beyond (illegible), they were ordered to retreat, which was done as far as Ticonderoga, where they remained all the summer of 1776 and until March 1777.  The declarant having been detained three months over the time for which he was enlisted.  This over time was ordered to be performed by Gen'l Wayne of the Pennsylvania line there not being at the time of the expiration of his enlistment, any other artillery divisions at Ticonderoga.  When permitted to leave that plan, we marched over ice and through snow to Philadelphia, where we were discharged, or rather permitted to retire from the service, as there was then there no regular officer to sign a written discharge; nor was any pay or allowance given, and declarant had to sell his coat, on his return home, in order to procure provisions.
All my applications were made for our settlement and pay, before we left Philadelphia and although often promised by a person who acted as our lieut. commandant (Andrew Caldwell) yet none such was ever obtained, and we were oblidged {sic} to return home, penniless and bare of cloathing {sic}, and without a written discharge.
At the time of enlistment, declarant resided in the county of Lancaster, in the State of Pennsylvania.
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or an annuity except the present, and he declared that his name is not on the pension roll of any agency in any State.
Sworn to and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid.  
William Stevens (X is his mark)
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On the same day, and before the said Court, personally appeared Robert Cummins, a resident in the county of Brooke aforesaid, aged eighty years past, who being first duly sworn according to law, deposes and says that in the beginning of the year 1777 this deponent became acquainted with the declarant, William Stevens, while the said Stevens was in the service of the United States as a private soldier in Capt. Romains company of artillery.  It was where the said Declarant was on his retreat from Quebeck (sic), after the fall of Gen'l Montgomery; deponent became personally acquainted with Declarant at Ticonderoga,  that previously the troops to which the Declarant belonged joined the troops with the deponent at the Three Rivers, from there we were marched to (illegible), which place we burned, then to the Isle of moat on the lawn and of lake Champlain, thence to crown point, the English still in pursuit; and thence to Ticonderoga; and that he is perfectly confident that the said Declarant, William Stevens, was a soldier in the army of the United States in the year 1777, as stated in the amended declaration.
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
Robert Cummins
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he stated.

I Adam Kuhn clerk of the County Court of Brooke Virginia do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of William Stevens for a pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and Seal of office this 6th day of August 1832
Adam Kuhn Clerk
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State of Virginia
County of Brooke
As a court holder for the county aforesaid on the 26th day of November A. D. 1832 personally appeared the within named William Stevens, who being first duly sworn according to law, says that he served as a private soldier in the Army of the revolution, as stated in the amended declaration, the full time of fifteen months, and for which time the said William Stevens claims pension.
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
William Stevens {X is his mark}

I, The Rev'd Edward Smith, a clergyman residing in the county of Brooke aforesaid do hereby certify that I am well acquainted with William Stevens, who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that I believe him to be seventy nine years of age past, that he is reputed and believed in the neighbourhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution, and that I concur in that opinion.
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.  Edward Smith

And the said court do hereby declare their opinion, and further certifies, that it appeared to them that The Rev'd Edward Smith, who has deposed the preceding certificate is a clergyman resident in the county of Brooke aforesaid and Robert Cummins who has testified to the service of the said William Stevens, and is also a resident on the same county; and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
Attest.  Adam Kuhn R. C.
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October 23, 1935
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
BA-J/MCS
William Stevens.W.19109

Mr. H. Finley
Hotel Field
445 Field Avenue
Detroit, Michigan

Dear Sir:
Reference is made to your letter of October 14, 1930, requesting information relative to William Stephens who received pension for service in the Revolutionary War or the War of 1812.

The data which follow were obtained from papers on file in the pension claim, W.19109, based upon the Revolutionary War service of
William Stevens or Stephen Stephan.

He was born in March, 1754, in Germany and came to America when he was ten years of age. The names of his parents were not given.

While living in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, he enlisted early in 1776 and served fifteen months as private in Captain Romans'
Company of Pennsylvania Artillery.

He was allowed pension on his application executed July 30, 1832. at which time he was living in Brooke County, Virginia, where he had
moved from Lancaster County in the spring of 1795.

He died January 10, 1838.

This soldier married in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, June 18, 1780, Margaret Stolz or Stultz, the daughter of Jacob Stolz or Stultz.
At the time of their marriage both the soldier and Margaret were residents of Hempfield Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.
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Said Margaret was allowed pension on her application executed September 27, 1838, at which time she was of eighty-three years of age and was living in Brooke County, Virginia.

It was stated that William and Margaret Stevens or Stephan had number of children but no names were given.

The War of 1812 records of this office fail to afford any information in regard to pension having been claimed on account of service
of this soldier in that war.

No charge is made for furnishing this information.

Very truly yours
D. HILLER
Executive Assistant to the administrator
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J. L. Edwards Esq
Pension Department
Washington
Jan 4 1840
Hon Steenrod
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Washington
Jan 3rd
Sir
I enclose the written letter for your consideration & respectfully request your attention to it
Your obt sevnt
L Steenrod
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Jan 20, 1840
Ans'd same day
(illegible) McCurdy

Hon. L. Steenrod
H. R.
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Washington
Jan 19th
J L Edwards, Esq.
Sir
I return the Pension paper of Wm. Stevens, that the payment may be ordereded {sic} & made at Wheeling instead of at (illegible)
I am Sir
Your obed't serv't ,
L Steenrod
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Vertical on left of page - Dec 4 below it vol.

Appears to be an envelope addressed to Hon. JL Edward’s
War Department
Pension Office
Washington City
DC

Vertical on right side of page Attn L. Steenrod with initials below it H.R.

Upside down at the bottom of page is an illegible word.
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Washington
J L Edwards
Sir
Please advise me if this case of Marg. Stevens
(illegible) & if (illegible) her Pension has as will be granted
Your ob't serv't
L Steenrod
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Margaret Stevens
Declaration 
1836
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State of Virginia } ss.
On the 26th day of November 1839, personally appeared [illegible] the subscriber a justice of the court; [illegible] being [illegible] a resident of said county and state [illegible] old age and [illegible] is unable to appear at [illegible] doth on her oath, make the following declaration in [illegible] entitle "an act for granting [illegible] pension to [illegible]
That she is the widow of [illegible] William Stevens deceased who was a private [illegible] in the army of the [illegible] and [illegible] the pension list, Roll of the Virginia Agency for a pension [illegible]
with the law of Congress passed the 7th June 1832 [illegible] of war, numbered 3531 and dated 26December 1832, a the rate of sixty [illegible] dollars and fifty cents per annum [illegible]; and which certificate deponent [illegible] for [illegible] at Wheeling, State of Virginia in the [illegible] 1838, [illegible] the ballance of pension due to said [illegible] of September 1837, until the day of his decease.
She further declares that she was married to the said William Stevens  on the eighteenth day of June in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty in the Town of Lancaster, in the State of Pennsylvania by the Rvd. Wm. Millburg (or as at present pronounced Muhlenberg) and Submits the annexed Certificate of his marriage, from the records of the Church to which herself and her late husband belonged. That her late husband, the aforesaid William Stevens, died on the tenth of January 1838. That she so married to him prior to his leaving the service, but the Marriage took place previous to the first day of January, one thousand Seven hundred and ninety four, viz: at the time above stated; and  that she continues to be the widow of the said William Stevens, not
having again remarried.
Sworn, and subscribed, on the day and year aforesaid, before me
Samuel L [illegible] JP
Margret O ["her" written above the O and "mark" written below] Stevens
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State of Virginia Ss
Brooke County  
I R Nicholls deputy of Adam Kuhn Clerk of the court of said County, certify that Samuel L Marks Esquire, one of the justices of said Court, produced the annexed declaration of Margaret Stevens at November term of said Court, and that said Justice [illegible] having waited upon said declarant, who legally swore to the [illegible] statements made in said Declaration, and that said Justice, is satisfied from personal observation, and from long acquaintance with said declarant, that from extreme old age and bodily infirmity, she is unable to appear before this court and that [illegible] believe the statements made in said declaration to be true.
And the said Court approved of the said proceedings and orders the Clerk to certify the same under his hand and the seal of the said Court.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of the said Court this 27th day of November 1839 and of the Commonwealth the 64th
Adam Kuhn, clk by R Nicholls Dpy
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William Stephens
Pen. Brook cty.
Drawn too much.
Mr. Edward will examine  this case, [illegible] Richard Matthews & Robert Cummins of Brook county & James Holliday of Ohio County - they [illegible] in its [illegible] [illegible] new year, by so [illegibe] draws too much.
W. G [illegible] Not. Holliday & Cummins [illegible] claim 15 mo. - No two belong both same compay [illegible] regt. - 
H H L
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William Stephens
alleges in his declaration to have
Served one year in the Pennsylvania line
under Captain Romain and Colonel Wayne Evans,
abstract per Brook [illegible]
I the undersigned William Stephens, In pursuance
of the requisition of the secretary of war give the following true declaration of my Revolutionary service to wit.
I shall be 82 years old on March instant, am a native of Germany. Called to the revolution when [illegible] years old. I lived in the county of Lancaster Pennsylvania during the war
[illegible] [illegible] [illegible] in Burk County in 1795.
Early in the year of 1776 (I cant recall what month,
I enlisted at the [illegible] of Lancaster for one year. Was attached
Captain  Romains company of artillery in which a man
by the name of Land my was Lieutenant. My company marched [illegible] Ticonderoga. There near our [illegible], protected the [illegible] and went to Albany [illegible] [illegible] New York. [illegible] a [illegible] in the county to Lake George and from there to Ticonderoga. Lieutenant [illegible] and Chamberlin. [illegible] [illegible] at Ticonderoga. We then went to Quebeck [sic]. Was [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] ten days [illegible]. From this [illegible] place where [illegible] was received [illegible] British army from Quebec[k]. which was their march to meet with General Wayne. [illegible] [illegible] to [illegible] the [illegible] person in any way we [illegible]. I cant recollect when we left Ticonderoga, but it was still cold weather-[illegible] we got [illegible] in the last [illegible] [illegible]. We were then marched to meet us. We returned to Ticonderoga [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] and part of the succeeding winter, and marched until [illegible] Niagra [sic]. [illegible] as to make the [illegible] person in every way we [illegible]. I cannot recollect when we left Ticonderoga but it was still cold weather- we got warm in the best way we could. We then got marched [illegible] the direction of officers- I was [illegible] from the year [illegible] [illegible] [illegible], but I [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] was fifteen months from the time of my leaving Lancaster until I returned to that place.-I was thereafter in the militia and hired a substitute-this completed the sum total of my service. Captain M. Clancy wrote my declaration. I told him that I had been fifteen months in the service. In witness hereto I have subscribed my-
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my name July 12. 1835
William Stephens
Witness
W. McCluney
a copy W. G. Singleton
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Hon. L Steenrod
(illegible) 26, 1840

G. L.


Record 7 50 page 114
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Pension Office
June 26 1840
Sir,
Mrs. Margaret Stevens of Brooke Co in her declaration states that her late husband, William Stevens, died Jan'y 10 1838.
The Pension agents returns then that Wm. Stevens was paid up to March 4 1838, nearly two months after the day of his alleged death

As you received Mrs. Steven's pension for her, I have thought it advisable to apprize you of the facts above stated.  Mrs. Stevens should claim her certificate & I can (illegible) this office more satisfactory proof as to the time of her husband's death.  {signature illegible}

Hon. L Steenrod
H R
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The (illegible) should have been reported to the Wheeling Agent.  Please attend to it. 
H H 
M mcCurdy
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George W. Crump Esquire
Acting Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City
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Wellsburg, Brooke County, V'a. Dec 26 1839
Sir,
I received from the Honorable Lewis Steenrod the Pension certificate of Mrs. Margaret Stevens, and observe that the pension is made payable at Richmond, a distance exceeding four hundred miles from this place, and from where it would be difficult and expensive to obtain payment; Mrs. Stevens therefore most respectfully prays that you will order her pension to be paid at Wheeling, being in her neighbourhood, and at which place all the pensioners in this (illegible) of the country are paid.
I have the honor to be,
Your Ob't Servant
(signature illegible)

George W Crump Esquire
Acting Commissioner of Pensions
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FREE
The Honorable                   
Lewis Munro,
Member of Congress
Washington City

[Round Postal Stamp]
WELLSBURG VA
DEC 27
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Wellsburg, Brooke County, Va. Dec. 26 1839
Dear Sir,
I have the pleasure to acknowledge the receipt of your letter concerning the pension certificate of Mrs. Margret ({sic} Stevens; and as by endorsement on it, the pension is made payable at Richmond, a distance of more than four hundred miles from here, have written to the acting commissioner of Pensions, praying that the pension may be paid at Wheeling, where all the pensions in this part of the country are now paid.
Mrs. Stevens humbly thanks you for the favors rendered, and respectfully requests that you will please state to the Commissioners the (illegible) of her desire, to have her pension paid at Wheeling.
Rendering to you the compliments of the season
I have the honor to be
Your Most Ob't Servant
W Mc Cluney

The Honorable
Lewis Steenrod
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William Stevens Wheeling Va. A D Mar 7 1832
private Act 7   $12.50 per annum d 1838
(illegible) her hand 
(initials illegible)
pd. 4 March 1838 
L H
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1919 June 19, History to Lena C B Williams, Lardned Kans. (see her letter in 80622 Tom Stevens) AW

1935 October. 23 Hist. to Mrs. H (illegible)

1935 Nov. 9  Hist. to (illegible) L, Esther Armitage

1936 July 25 L Esther Armitage ref. to C. G. for (illegible) of last payment - M C

Rec
Widow, & c.
No. 19109
Margaret Stevens
Widow of 
William Stevens
Priv. Rev. War
Act: July 7th 1838
Vol. (illegible), Page 247

(Arrangement of I-70)
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REVOLUTIONARY WAR RECORDS SECTION
3-525
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
BUREAU OF PENSIONS
————.   Washington, D.C. —————-19—

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     In reply to your request of ———, received —Stephen—-for a statement of the military history of ————————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.
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Dates of               Length of      Rank
Enlistment or       Service
Appointment

1776.                       15 months.      1 year

OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED
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CAPTAIN.                        COLONEL
NOT LEGIBLE

4 BLANK LINES ACROSS THE PAGE
Battles engaged in ,  (blank)
Residence of soldier at enlistment, (blank)
Date of application for pension, Not legible
Residence at date of application (blank)
Age at date of application, (first two words are too light to read) 1784, is the only thing legible on the line)
Remarks: The words are too light to read only a few are legible. Children , no names stated. Then the next line show 1838 as and nothing else is legible. 
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Respectfully,
June 20 1919
On file of —-state District Attys statement that soldier did not serve 15 mos. His widow’s not legible was later not legible served for 15 mos service. (Also history bears out his statements)
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Muncie, Indiana
Nov. 2nd, 1935

Bureau of Pensions,
Washington, D.C.

Dear Sir:

I am writing to ask about one [illegible] William Stevens. He was a Revolutionary soldier a Private in Rangers of the frontier from 1778-1783 from Bradford Co., Pa. 

I have this information just lately - A statement showing names of Pennsylvanians residing in the State of Virginia or West Virginia who have been inscribed on the Pension List under the Act of June 7th, 1832.

Brooke County - Stevens Wm.
Pr. of Art, P.L. Dec. 26, 1832; 81

Meaning, at the above date he was 81 years and living in Brooke Co. VA. or West Va.

Do you have any records showing date of birth or death or marriage?

Now I have a date of birth showing he was born June 27, 1759. Polly Stevens, wife of William Stevens, was born Feb. 10th 1768.

Any information you can give concerning William Stevens will be much appreciated.

Respectfully
Miss L. Esther Armitage
Muncie, Indiana
414 S. Jefferson St. Apt.I
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Hotel Field
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Oct 14. 1935
Veterans Bureau
Pension Dept. Rm 2
Navy Bldg
Washington D C
Sirs
Wm Stephens {sic}, a pensioner of the Rev. War (or 1812 or both) was living in 1832 in Brooks County Va. (now West Va.).
Will you kindly supply something of his record, for genealogy purposes.
Would like his childrens names as well as his military regiment
Any charges for this information I will (illegible) remit
Thanking you I am Yours Truly
H. Finley
Field Hotel 
Detroit Mich
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Muncie, Ind. 
July 22, 1936. 
Gentlemen:-- 

I am writing to ask about the date of the death of one, Margarat Stevens. In a record I have from your office of William Stevens, W. 19109 and then these initials, which I suppose are the initials of the persons who sent me the copy, BA-J/MCS. This record says that his wife, Margaret Stevens, was allowed pension on her application executed Sepcember 27, 1838, at which time she was eighty-three years of age. Do you have a record of when her pension was discontinued? That would tell me, at least, the year of her death. I think you said the name was spelled two ways -- Stevens and Stephan. Sometine it is spelled -- Stephen. 
Any information you can live along this line would be very acceptable and many thanks. Respectfully, 
Miss L. Esther Armitage, 
Muncie, Ind. 
414 S. Jefferson St. Apt. 1.
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July 25, 1936
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Miss L. Esther Armitage.       WILLIAM STEVENS
Apartment 1.                            W. 19109
414 South Jefferson Street.   BA-J/MLB
Muncie, Indiana

Dear Madam:

     Reference is made to your letter of July 2, in which you request that you be furnished the date of death of Margaret Steven’s, widow of William Steven’s whose record was previously furnished you (W.10109).

     The records of this office show that Margaret Steven’s died June 12, 1840, place not stated.

     In order to obtain date of last payment of pension and name of person paid, you should write to the Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, Records Division, this city, and cite the following:

Margaret Stevens
Widow of William Stevens
Certificate #4686
Issued December 7, 1839
Rate, $62.50 per annum
Commenced January 10, 1838
Act July 7, 1838
Virginia Agency

Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER
Executive Assistant
To the Administrator
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November 9, 1938
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BA-J/MCS
William Stevens, W. 19109

Miss L. Esther Armitage
414 S. Jefferson Street, Apt. 1
Muncie, Indiana

Dear Madam:
     Reference is made to your letter of November 2, 1935, requesting information relative to William Stevens, a pensioner from Brooke County, Virginia, on account of service in the Revolutionary War.

     The data which follow were obtained from papers on file in the pension claim, W. 19109, based upon the Revolutionary War service o William Stevens or Stephan.

     He was born in March, 1754, in Germany and came to America when he was ten years of age. The names of his parents were not given.

     While living in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, he enlisted early in 1776 and served fifteen months as private in Captain Romans’ Company of Pennsylvania Artillery.

     He was allowed pension on his application executed July 30, 1832, at which time he was living in Brooke County, Virginia, where he had moved from Lancaster County in the spring of 1795.

     He died January 10, 1838.

     This soldier married in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, June 18, 1780, Margaret Stolz or Stultz, the daughter of Jacob Stolz or Stultz. At the time of their marriage both the soldier and Margaret were residents of Hempfield Township Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.
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     Said Margaret was allowed pension on her application executed September 27, 1838, at which time she was eighty-three years of age and was living in Brooke County, Virginia.

     It was stated that William and Margaret Stevens or Stephen had a number of children but no names were given. 

    This is the history of the only William Stevens, searched under all spellings, who enlisted from Pennsylvania, that is found in the Revolutionary War records of this office.

Very truly yours,

A.D. HILLER
Executive Assistant to the Administrator
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The Honorable
Lewis Steenrod
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[Breaks added for clarity of transcription]

Wellsburg, Brooke County, Virginia November 28th 1839

Dear Sir

By this days mail I have forwarded to Mr. Edward a declaration of Mrs Margret Stevens for a pension; the first one failed for want of sufficient testimony -- now we have a certificate from the records of her marriage, from the Church to which she belonged, the pastor was the father of our present ambassador to Austria, She pronounced his name Millburg, which by the by, is the proper dutch name- Muhlenberg we call him.

It was really promising to hear the old lady, now in her eighty fifth year, when called upon to make a second declaration; that, said she, won't they believe my Statement, when here are strong dutch almanics [sic], one marked at the day of her birth, the other at that of her Marriage –Well don, she continued in her dutch way, I will send for dat old woman what brought up Samuel (the witch of ender) and Produce a plenty of Witnesses.  I herewith trouble you with the instructions forwarded to me by Mr. Morgan, to shew that they have been complied with, and when convenient, respectfully request that you will please call upon Mr. Edwards, and assist the old lady to claim a pension -- for she is the widow of real Jackson “Clincher.”

I have the honor to be 
Your most Obedient Servant 
W. McCluney

The Honorable Lewis Steenrod.
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[A folded cover as for a legal document; writing on the left side]

2150
Margaret Stevens
Wid of William
Va
Act July 7 1838
Married 1780
dcd. Jan 1838
Allow $250 per an [illegible] /10
1838.

Hon
Hon. JL. Steward
H R

[written vertically along the fold/crease]

The Honorable James L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
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Wellsburg, Brooke County Nov. 28. 1839

Sir

Enclosed you will receive the second declaration of Margret Stevens for a pension. It was very difficult to comply with your instructions of the 5th of February last, owing to the circumstance that all who were at her marriage are now deceased; one however survive until lately; his
testimony was taken and put into the post office at Lancaster, but has never been received, and he is now dead; the certificate however from the records of the Church to which Mr Stevens belonged, it is hoped will be sufficient.  Enclosed you have also the original declaration of Mr Stevens, to shew that it corresponds with the present one. 

I have the honor to be
Your obdt Servant
Wm McClueney

The Honorable
James L. Edwards
commissioner of pensions.