Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 1092, for John Stevens, New Jersey
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(3-1776)

SERVICE
[illegible]

Stevens, John.
Phebe

NUMBER
W. 1092

Contents
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4720
New Jersey
Phebe Stevens
widow of John Stevens
who was a [Illegible] of Dragoons
N J 
in the Revolution

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of
106 Dollars __
Cents per annum, to commence on
the 4th day of March, 1843.

Certificate of Pension issued the
27th day of Jany 1844
and sent to
D. W. Price
Trenton
N J

[Act of March 3, 1843.]
Recorded in Book. I
Vol. 1. Page 126

[Encl?]
F. E. Jr July 21 1853
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New Jersey  30.123

John Stevens
of Middlesex in the State of New Jersey
who was a [Illegible]. in the Company commanded by Captain [Green?] of the Regt. commanded by Col Smith in the New Jersey line for 24 months  [Illegible] of dragoons.

Inscribed on the Roll of New Jersey
at the rate of 100 Dollars __ Cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 18 day of August 1835 and sent to Jas. S
Green Princeton N. J.

Arrears to the 4th of Mar 1835 $400.00
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sept 35  50.00
$450.00
{Revolutionary Claim,}
{Act June 7, 1832.}
Recorded by M Clagett, Clerk.
Book E  Vol. 3  Page 161
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Declaration in order to obtain the benefit
of the act of Congress, passed 7 June, 1832.

State of New Jersey
Middlesex County to wit

On this Eleventh day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two, personally appeared in open court before the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Middlesex, now
sitting, John Stevens, (Major) a resident of the Township of West Windsor in the County of Middlesex and State of New Jersey, aged seventy four 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 7 June 1832. That he entered the service of the United States in the militia of New Jersey, in the month of October, 1776, under Colonel
Isaac Smith, Captain George Green and Lieutenant Ralph Jones_ that he was drafted and served at the time one month- that during that month a part of the militia, of whom this deponent was one, went over to Staten Island and attacked a party of Hessians, and
took about twenty prisoners. General Mifflin was the commanding officer and Colonel Smith was with the party-- we were afterwards driven back by a large party of British soldiers _
in the Spring of the year Seventeen hundred and seventy eight, Captain Head
Carle of the township of Trenton in the County of Hunterdon and State of New Jersey, at the request of General Dickinson, raised a troop of Cavalry, which this deponent joined, the first time I went out with this company was in June 1778.  When we [connected?] different parts of the State on the lines_  we were all the time in the State of New Jersey, I was in service
in Captain Carles Company during the remainder of the War until 1783. General Dickinson was the commanding Officer Captain Carle received his orders from General
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Dickinson_ the company of Captain Carle was with General Washington at Morristown, in New Jersey_ and this deponent was with the Company at that time.
Lieutenant Tobin was one of the officers of Carle's Company_ this deponent has no documentary evidence in his possession, and knows of no person now living who can prove his service except Israel Stevens, of the County of Hunterdon aforesaid. 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 of any State. 
Jno. Stevens
Sworn & Subscribed, at New Brunswick
in open Court this
Thos. France

I, Isaac V. Brown, a clergyman residing in the Township of Lawrence in the County of Hunterdon and State of New Jersey Do hereby cetify that I am well acquainted with John Stevens who [Illegible} the foregoing applicant, and believe him to be seventy four years of age, and to have served in the War of the Revolution as he has above stated. 
Isaac V. Brown

I, Isaac Brearley, residing in the township of Lawrence in the County of Hunterdon and State of New Jersey, Do hereby certify that I am well acquainted with John Stevens who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration, that I believe him to be Seventy four years of age in November last, that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a Soldier of the Revolution _ and that I concur in that opinion 
Isaac Brearley

Sworn and Subscribed, in open Court.
Thos. France
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I, Israel Stevens of the township of Lawrence in the County of Hunterdon and and State of New Jersey, do hereby certify that I am well acquainted with John Stevens, who has
subscribed and sworn to the above declaration - that I believe him to be seventy four years of age in November last - that he is reputed and believed in this neighborhood where he resides, 
to have been a soldier of the revolution - and that I concur in that opinion.
Israel Stevens

Sworn & Subscribed in open
Court
Thos. Hance

And Middlesex County to wit: The Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas of the County of Middlesex in the State of New Jersey do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the Interrogatories prescribed by the department, that John Stevens the above named applicant was a Revolutionary soldier and served as he states. And the Court further certifies, that it
appears to them that Isaac V. Brown who has
Signed the preceding certificate is a Clergyman resident in the township of Lawrence in the County of Hunterdon in said state, living in the immediate vicinity of the said applicant and that full faith and credit is to be given to the said certificate of the said Isaac V. Brown in the same manner as if he had appeared in open
Court, which could not be done without too much inconvenience to him - and that Israel Stevens and Israel Clarke - who have signed the foregoing certificates are residents in the township of Lawrence aforesaid, and are credible persons and entitled to credit.

I Thomas Elden Clerk of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas of the said County of Middlesex, Do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the application of John Stevens for a pension.

In Testimony whereof I have hereto set my
hand and seal of office, this eleventh
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day of September in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and ninety two.
F.S. Vanarsdalen Clerk


Questions propounded by the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas of Middlesex County, to John Stevens,the above named applicant

Question-- Where and in what year were you born?
Answer. I was born in Lawrence in the County of Hunterdon & State of New Jersey in the year 1757.

Question Have you any record of your age, and where?
Answer. The record of my age is in the family Bible.

Question  Where were you living when called into service, where have you lived since the Revolutionary war.
Answer  At the time of service in the war, I was living in the township of               in the County of Hunterdon and since that time have resided partly in the County of Hunterdon and partly in Middlesex in the State of New Jersey, except a short period in the State of Pennsylvania

Question. How were you called into service?
Answer I was as a volunteer

The circumstances of the service of the applicant, are contained in his affidavit, and also the fact that he has no discharge.

I F.S. Vanarsdalen Clerk of the Inferior Court of
Common Pleas of the County of Middlesex, Do hereby certify that the foregoing questions were proposed & answered as above stated. In witness whereof I have hereto set my hand and seal of office, this eleventh day of September in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred & thirty two.
F.S. Vanarsdalen Clk
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9563
Declaration of
Phebe Stevens under acts
of July 7. 1838 & Aug 232. 1842


D.W. Rice
Trenton N. S.
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Declaration of Phebe Stevens of New Jersey
In order to obtain the benefits of the Acts of Congress of the 7th July 1838 and the 23d August 1842.

State of New Jersey }
Mercer County } Ss.     On this Second day of September Eighteen hundred and forty three, personally appeared before the subscriber one of the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for said County Phebe Stevens a resident of West Windsor in the County of Mercer and State of new Jersey aged Seventy four years, who being first duly Sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the Acts of Congress passed July 7, 1838, and the 23d of August 1842, granting pension to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War.
That she is the widow of John Stevens who was a Dragoon in the Army of the Revolution and was a pensioner of the United States at the rate of One hundred dollars per annum under the Act of June 7, 1832, whose declaration on file at the War Department, to which declaration Applicant would respectfully refer the Commissioner of Pensions.
She also declares that she was married to the Said John  Stevens on Thursday the ninth day of November seventeen hundred and eighty six by the Rev'd James F. Armstrong of the City of Trenton then Pastor of the Trenton & Lawrenceville Church who has left no record of marriages in either of the churches under his charge as diligent search has been made for the same.   Attaches the record of their said marriage this day cut from the family bible, which is in the hand writing of her said husband and was written (illegible) of
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fifty - years ago, and has ever since been in the possession of the family.  That her husband the aforesaid John Stevens died on Sunday the thirteenth day of August Eighteen hundred and forty three.  That she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place previous to the first of January Seventeen hundred and ninety four viz at the time above stated.  She further declares that she is still a widow.
(Signed) Phoebe Stevens

Sworn to and Subscribed on}
the day & year above written}
Before
Thos. F. Stryker Judge

I hereby certify that Phebe Stevens the above declarant is a person of credibility and truth to me personally known and that on account of bodily infirmity she is unable to appear in Open Court.
Thos. G. Stryker Judge
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Jno Stevens Borne November 21st 1757

Phebe Stevens wife of J. Stevens born March 10th 1769

John Stevens maried (sic) to Phebe VanCleve November 9th 1786
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State of New Jersey

[ SEAL ]

I Charles G. McChesney Secretary of State of the State of New Jersey do hereby certify that Thomas J. Stryker Esq before whom the declaration of Phebe Stevens and affidavit of Israel Stevens was made and taken was at the time of the doing thereof a Judge of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Mercer, that full faith and credit are to be given to his official attestations and that the Signatures there herein are in the proper hand writing of the said Thomas J. Stryker
In Witness whereof I Have hereunto Set my hand and affixed my Seal of Office at Trenton in said State this fourth day of September A.D. One
thousand eight hundred and forty three
(Signed) Charles G. McChesney
Secretary of State
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WAR DEPARTMENT, 
Pension Office,
15th May 1839

Sir:

The evidence in support of your claim, under the act of June 7, 1832, has been examined, and the papers are herewith returned.  The following is a statement of your case in tabular form.  On comparing these papers with the following rules, and the subjoined notes, you will readily perceive that objections exist, which must be removed, before a pension can be allowed.  the notes and regularities will show what is necessary to be done.  These points to which your attention is more particularly directed, you will find marked in the margin with a brace, ( thus:  ]  ).  You will, when you return your papers to this Department, send this printed letter with them; and you will, by complying with this request, greatly facilitate the investigation of your claim. 

A Statement, showing the Service of John Stevens Middlesex County N Jersey

Period when the service was rendered.
Sep to Ob 1776    1 month

Rank of the claimant   Pr. 

Names and Rank of the Company officers under whom he served.
Cap. Green

Names and Rank of the General and Field  officers.
Col Smith

Battles in which the applicant was engaged [BLANK]

Country through which he marched    N. Jersey

Place of abode when he entered the service, and age at the present present period.     74
Trenton, Mercer, N.J.

Evidence by which the declaration is supported.   Traditionary

Period when the service was rendered.  June 1778   5 years
Total time  5Years 1 month

Rank of Claimant.
Pri.

Names and Rank of the Company officers under whom he served.     Cap. Cole

Names and Rank of the General and Field Officers.     Gen. Dickinson

I am, respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
J. L. EDWARDS,
Commissioner of Pensions.
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REGULATIONS UNDER THE ACT OF JUNE 7, 1832.

The following regulations have been adopted:

This law has been construed to extend, as well to the line, as to every branch of the Staff of the Army, and to include under the terms "Continental Line," "State troops," "militia" and "volunteer all persons enlisted, drafted, or who volunteered and who were bound to military service but not those who were occasionally employed with the army upon civil contracts, such as Clerks to Commissaries and to
Store Keepers, &c. Teamsters, Boatmen, &c. Persons who served on board of Private Armed Vessels are also excluded from the benefits of the law, as well as persons who turned out as patrols, or were engaged in guarding particular places at night, and were not recognized as being in actual military service.

Four general classes of cases are embraced in this law:
1. The Regular Troops.
2. The State Troops, Militia, and Volunteers.
3. Persons employed in the Naval service.
4. Indian Spies.

As rolls of the regular troops in the Revolutionary War exist in this Department, all persons, claiming the benefit of this law as officers, non-commissioned officers, musicians or privates, will in the first instance, make application by transmitting the following declaration, which will be made before a Court of Record of the County where such applicant resides. And every Court having by law a seal and Clerk is considered a Court of Record.

DECLARATION,
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th of June, 1832.

State, Territory, or District of [blank] }
County of [blank] } ss.
On this [blank] day of [blank] personally appeared (a) before [blank] A.B. a resident (b) of [blank] in the county of [blank] and State, Territory or District of [blank] aged [blank] 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 provi [provision] made by the act of Congress, passed June 7th, 1832. That he enlisted in the Army of the United States in the year (d) [blank], with [blank] and served in the [blank] (e) regiment of the [blank] line, under the following named officers:

[Here set forth the names and rank of the Field and Company officers, the time he left the service; (and if he served under more than one term of enlistment, he must specify the particular period, and rank and names of his officers, the town or county and State in which he resided when he enered [entered] the service; the battles, if any, in which he was engaged, and the country through which he marched-->This form is to be varied so as to apply to the cases of officers and persons
who belonged to the militia, volunteers, navy, &c.]

He hereby relinquishes every claim (f) whatever to a pension or an annuity, except the present, and he declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any Agency in any State, or (if any) only on that of the Agency in the State of [blank]                              A.B.
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.

[And then will follow the certificate of the Court.]

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion (g) that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states.

I [blank] of the Court of [blank] do hereby certify (h) that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of [blank] for a pension.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office (i) this [blank] day of [blank] & c.

If, on examination of the proper record the names of applicants, making such declaration, cannot be found, they will produce such proof as the rule given in note (j) points out.

Every applicant who claims a pension by virtue of service in the State Troops, Volunteers or Militia, except those who belonged to the New Hampshire Militia and State Troops of Virginia, will make and subscribe a declaration similar to the foregoing, with the following additions, viz:

(k) We, A. B., a Clergyman, residing in the [blank] and C. D. residing in (the same) 
hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with [blank], who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be [blank] years of age; that he is reputed and believed, in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.

[And then will follow the certificate of the Court.]

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories 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 A.B [blank] who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman, resident in the [blank] and that C.D., who has also signed the same is a resident in the [blank] and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.

I, [blank] Clerk of the Court of [blank] do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the applicacation [application] of [blank] for a pension.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office, this [blank] day of [blank] & c.

Every applicant will produce the best proof in his power. This is the original discharge or commission; but if neither of these can be obtained, the party will so state under oath, and will then procure, if possible, the testimony of at least one credible witness, stating in detail his personal knowledge of the services of the applicant, and such circumstances connected therewith, as may have a tendency to throw light upon the transaction.

If such surviving witness cannot be found, the applicant will so state in his declaration (l) and he will also, whether he produce such evidence or not, proceed to relate all the material facts, which can be useful in the investigation of his claim, and in the comparison of his narrative with the events of the period of his alleged service, as they are known at the Department. A very full account of the services of each person
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Revolutionary
Claim of
the heir of
John Stevens
Pensioner
N. Jersey

Filed 30 Apl 1853
F.E. Hassler
Washington
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[illegible]
County of Somerset SS



On the nineteenth day of April in the year eighteen hundred and  fifty three, personally appeared before the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County aforesaid Amos Stevens a resident of [illegible] County and state aforesaid aged sixty four years who being first duly sworn, according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration, ir order to obtain the pension that may due on him as the son of John Stevens who was a Revolutionary pensioner of the County of Morris
State aforesaid who died on the eighteenth day of September A.D. 1833. and also that which may be due him as the son of Phebe Stevens widow of John Stevens aforesaid who died on the 11th day of August 1843.  That he said John Stevens his father this married to the said Phebe Stevens his mother on the first day of 
January A.D. 1775. and that he is the youngest of eight children and the only survivor, and that his mother remained a widow from the time of his fathers death as long as she lived after that period.  And that there is no record proof of any description in existence or that he [illegible] ay eye witnesses being [illegible] the age of his said father & mother the said John & Phebe [illegible] can be proven by.  They furthermore by these presents [illegible] appoints irrevocably A. E. Hassler, [illegible] true and lawful attorney to subscribe [illegible] pension or money in hand that he  may have the right. [illegible] hereby confirming the said attorneys lawful acts in the premises.
Amos Stevens

Sworn and subscribed on the day and year aforesaid written before the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County aforesaid -- done in open Court.
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State of New Jersey
County of Somerset } ss
On this nineteenth day of April in the year eighteen hundred and fifty three, personally appeared before the Court of Common Pleas
of the  County & State aforesaid Phebe Cory and Elizabeth Willet residents in the County and seventy seven years, who being first duly sworn
according to law declare at they were well acquainted with John Stevens & Phebe Stevens aforesaid and that they lived within two miles of their the said witnesses fathers [illegible] from 
the earliest period of their recollection.  The said John & Phebe Stevens were living together as husband and wife and had children older than they were, and they further state that they knew the said John Stevens and Phebe Stevens 
to live together as husband and wife ever since they the said witnesses were six years old.  And that the said John Stevens was a Revolutionary
Pensioner and died on the Eighteenth day of September A.D. 1833, and that Phebe Stevens
his widow died on the Seventh day of August AD 1843, and that Phebe Stevens was never  married after the death of her husband the said John Stevens, and they further state that Amos Stevens who makes the foregoing declaration 
was always treated by the said John Stevens 
and Phebe Stevens as their son and is believed to be their son by the said witnesses and that he is the only surviving child.
Phebe Cory
                her
Elizabeth  X  Willet
                mark

Subscribed and sworn to on the 
day and year above written before 
me in open Court.

I hereby certify that the foregoing declaration, some attorney and affidavits were made on the day & year above written before the Court of Common Pleas in open court & that the aforesaid witnesses are credible peresons.

Henry D Johnson Clerk
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State of New Jersey
County of Somerset } ss.
I Henry D. Johnson Clerk of the Court Common pleas holden at Somerville in and for said County hereby certify that satisfactory evidence has been[illegible] to said Court that John Stevens was a pensioner of the United States at the rate of ninety six dollars per
annum was a resident of the County of Morris
State of New Jersey and died in the County of Morris state aforesaid in the year 1833 on the eighth day of September that he left a widow surviving [illegible] who died on the 11th of August 1842 and that [illegible] were absent.  Gersom & Amos and [illegible] are [illegible] Amos the only surviving child of the aforesaid.

In testimony whereof I hereto set
my hand and affixed my seal 
office the ninth day of April in the
year eighteen hundred and forty three.
Henry D. Johnson Clerk
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Essex Common Pleas, January term, 1830

New Jersey
Essec County } SS.
On this twelfth day of January 1830 Personally appeared before the Court of Common Pleas, 
in and for said county, in open court it being a 
Court of Record John Stevens resident in said county aged Seventy years and abou some months 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 act of 18 March 1818 and the
18 March 1828.   

That he the said John Stevens enlisted for the Term of one year on or about the 28 day of December as he believes of 1781.  In the 
State of New Jersey in the  [illegible] 
as he believed in the regiment commanded by Capt John Scudder in the regiment 
commanded by Colonel Seely and as he believes in the line of the State of Jersey on the
New Jersey Continental establishment  That he
continued to serve in said compy until
December 1781 when he discharged from the service in Rahway in the State of New Jersey
the hereby relinquishes every claim whatever
on except the present, that his name is
on the roll of any state of New Jersey.

That he hereby relinquishes every claim whatsoever to a pension except the present.   That his name is not on the roll of any state except New Jersey and that the following are the reasons for not making earlier application for a pension.  That he had sufficient property wherein to live and have a support till the year 18279 when it became exhausted when that property nearly exhausted he did apply to
the Government for a pension but did not obtain
it in consequence as he understood of not giving sufficient proof of his Colonel and the [illegible] office returned to the [illegible] were employed by him [illegible] and were as was said mislaid or lost and having obtained evidence of his Colonel with
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sufficient certainty, a considerable time elapsed
before he he could find a person to do the business for him without being paid and he not having wherewith to pay.
then being said and is not have to death

And in pursuance of the act of the 14 May 1820 I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of United States on the 18th day of March 1818 and that I have not since that time  by gift sale or any manner disposed of my property or any part thereof thereby so to diminish it as to bring 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 18th day of March 1818 and that I
have not nor has any person in trust for me any [illegible] or securities contracts or debts due to me that could be collected nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed.

Schedule of property                  
1 bed childs                                          .50
1 yr on record                                     1.00   
Shovel  & [illegible]                             .50
[illegible]                                              .50
1 stand                                                1.50
4 chairs                                               1.00
2 [illegible]                                         2.00
1 frying pan                                          .75
1 [illegible]                                          1.50
1 [illegible] fork                                  1.00
                                                       ______
signed John Stevens                     $10.25

And the said John Stevens states that he is a
weaver by trade and that he is now infirm 
that he is unable to work at it that he has a
Wife who has been very infirm[illegible] and is not able to contribute to their support at all
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and as he is now [illegible] has been since 1827 
in reduced circumstances as to be made to [illegible] himself and without public or private thanks [illegible] had in some measure actually [illegible].

And the said John Stevens further States that the following changes have taken place in his
property viz - That in 1818 he owned a small farm of twenty eight acres and now owned by him that was under the necessity of [illegible] it [illegible] debt.

Description of property sold
twenty eight acres of
land with a small house on it
one Heifer

When sold
sold to Moses Thompson
on the 20th day of February 1824
Luther Littell

Sum of sold In
for the sum of
three hundred
& all [illegible]
about seventeen Dollars

Sworn & subscribed in 
[illegible] 18th day of January 1830.
J. Burnell, presiding judge

Signed
John Stevens

State of New Jersey
County of Essex } ss.  I  Elias subscribing junior clerk of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas
of the said County of Essex Do hereby certify  that it appears to the satisfaction of the Court that the said John Stevens did serve in the Revolutionary War as stated in the receding declaration against the common enemy for the term of nine months under one engagement on the continental establishment.  I also 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 it is the
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opinion of the said court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid Schedule is ten dollars and twenty five cents-

Testimony Whereof I have hereunto set my hand and and the seal of the said Court at Newark in the said County of Essex  the fifth day of February in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and thirty.
E. Van Arsdale Clk

New Jersey }
Essex County ss }  Came Personally before me Abraham Reynolds one of the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for said County Benjamin Crane who being sworn according to Law on his oath says that he is acquainted with John Stevens that he the said
John Stevens enlisted in the years service about the last of December 1780 or the first of January 1781 in the Company commanded by Captain John Scudder which Company he verily believes was in the line of the State of New Jersey on the Continental establishment
and together with two companies commanded by Captain John Craig and Captain Ward was attached to the Regiment commanded by Colonel Seely in which -- Ely was a Lieutenant Colonel and that the said John Stevens continued in the service till about the last of December 1781 when he was discharged in Rahway in said State of New Jersey.
Benjamin Crane

Sworn and Subscribed
before me this 12th day
January 1830
A. Reynolds
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New Jersey }
Essex County SS }  Came Personally before me Abraham Reynolds one of the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for said County of Essex Jonathan Badgley who being sworn according to Law on his oath says that he is acquainted with John Stevens, that he the said John Stevens enlisted in the years service
about the last of December 1780 in the Company Commanded by Captain John Scudder which Company he verily believes was in the line of the State of New Jersey on the Continental establishment and was attached to a Regiment commanded by Colonel Seely in which a man by the name of Ely was a Lieutenant Colonel and that the said John Stevens continued in the service till about the last of December 1781 when he was discharged in Rahway in the said State of New Jersey- that Samuel Hicks was in the same Company who he understands is on the Pension Roll and draws
a pension and has for several years - Jonathan Badgley

Sworn and Subscribed
before me this 12th day
of January 1830
A. Reynolds
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The suppplemental declaration of John Stevens
an applicant for a pension under the act of Congress of June 1832.

State of New Jersey }
Middlesex County } SS.  Personally appeared
before me John J. Van Dyke one of the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Middlesex John Stevens who being duly sworn doth depose and say that on the 8th day of December 1776, he again enlisted in the service as a volunteer in the army of Genl. Washington who was then retreating 
into Pennsylvania, the army passed over the 
Delaware in ferry boats & this deponent ran guard at Yardley's Ferry 4 miles above Trenton on the Pennsylvania shore & remained there till Genl. Washington crossed the River & took the Hessians.  This deponent was in the action & the [illegible] of it, this he thinks was on the 26th of Dec. 1776. The Hessians were commanded by Col Rank who received his death wound in that engagement. Genl. 
Washington commanded our forces. After the engagement we recrossed the Delaware with the Prisoners who were sent off towards Lancaster Pennsylvania, as he thinks.  This Deponent further states that in the early part of January 1771 he was selected by Genl Joseph Reed, who was afterwards Gov. of Pennsylvania to accompany him to ascertain the different roads & situation of the country, they went to near where Lt. Israel [illegible] now resides in the County of Middlesex and took ten British Light Infantry & carried them as prisoners to Trenton. He was out upon this tour
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one month tour from the 8th of December
1776 till the 8th of January  1777. In the month
of June 1777 he was again in service and recd
[illegible], carrying a letter from Genl Dickinson who was then in Allentown to Gen Washington - when he found in the neighborhood of Kings on
the night before the battle of Monmouth.  In the
months of September and October 1778, of Genl Dickinson called out the militia and took
command & this Deponent then in the Company
of Capt. Carle was stationed for two months at 
Elizabethtown in this State, In the month of
January 1779 the Company of Capt. Carle was 
called out by order of Genl Dickinson & this deponent with the company was quartered at New Brunswick for two months as a reconnoitering.  In the Spring and early part of the summer of 1777 Gov. Livingston called upon Capt Carle for one of his troops to attend him and to ride expresses and this deponent was selected and remained in this service for two months.  He then returned home & remained there until the fall of 1779 where he was again called upon by Gov. Livingston and remained in his service for two months as an express and as such rode to different parts of the State to the Militia Colonels - in the 1780 he was out in actual service during the month of June, remained home during July and was out during the whole of August at Amboy & other places in the neighborhood-  In the winter 1780-81, Capt Carles Company was stationed as a guard at New Brunswick. This was in December 1780 & in January 1781-
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This deponent was in actual service in the
year 1781 after January for a period of four 
months.   In the year 1782 he was in actual
service for two months and further this Deponent saith not.
John Stevens

Sworn & Subscribed
before me the twenty
sixth day of August 
1833. John S. Vandyke
Judge of the Court of Common
Pleas and justice of the peace
in and for the County of Middlesex
.
State of New Jersey }
Middlesex County } SS.
Personally appeared before me as aforesaid Isaac Stevens aged sixty eight who being duly sworn according to law saith that in the fall of 1776 he took his brother John Stevens the above deponent in a chair to place that is called Ten Mile Run in this state, to join the Company of Capt George Green for which was attached to the Regiment of Col Isaac [illegible] This
Deponent understood they marched to Smiths ferry.  His brother John was absent on this tour - one month.  Thise Deponent remembers that his Brother John was with Washington in Pennsylvania & at the Battle of Trenton, His Father objected to his going as the times were dangerous but he would go and did go & remained out & gone for a month
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This Deponent was well acquainted with Capt
Israel Carle who raised a troop of men & his
Brother John joined the troop among the first 
this deponent recollects that his Brother John 
was out on service at Elizabeth town one tour
or more, He was at New Brunswick for a considerable time perhaps two months, while a member pf Capt Carle's Company. He recollects that his brother John at one time called at home for a horse & said that he was on his way with a letter from Dickinson to Genl
Washington.  He recollects at another time that
his Brother John returned home towards morning & said, that he had been taking a letter to Genl. Washington to Genl Dickinson & this deponent doth further state, that he verily believes that his Brother John was from 1776 to the making of peace constantly out of tours either as a Militia man or as a member of Capt Carles troop & that he verily believes that he was in actual service as such for two years & upward.
Israel Stevens

Sworn & subscribe before me as aforesaid the day and year mentioned.
John S. Vandyke
Judge &c

State of New Jersey }
Middlesex County   } SS:⎬
Personally appeared before me Dr. Israel Clarke aged 74 who being affirmed doth say
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that he is well acquainted with John Stevens  the foregoing applicant and that he is a man of good repute for truth & veracity and that his statement may be relied upon with confidence that this affirmant remembers  well Genl Joseph Read Captured the British soldiers & took them as prisoners to Trenton  a day or two before the battle of Princeton &  that this affirmant has always understood that John Stevens was with Genl Read on that occasion. This affirmant has frequently seen the said John Stevens in the company of Capt. Israel Carle in the years '77 & '79 through to the close of the war.
Israel Clarke

Affirmed & subscribed before
me the day & year above mentioned.
John S Vandyke
Judge &c

I do hereby certify that John Stevens, Israel Stevens and Israel Clarke are persons of truth and credibility and entitled to full belief.
John S. Vandyke

August 26th 1833
John Vance
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I, Nicholas Booraem, Clerk of the Court of Common pleas in and for the County of Middlesex in the State of New Jersey do hereby certify, that Robert McChesney, Thomas Hance and Ichabod Potter Esquires, whose names are subscribed to the original application of and 
for John Stevens were at the time they so subscribed their names and still are judges 
of the said Court of Common Pleas, and that their signatures are genuine and I do further certify, that John S. Vandyke Esquire before whom the supplemental declaration and
the examination of Israel Stevens and Israel Clarke were taken was then and is now a 
judge of the said court and a justice of the peace, and that the signature is genuine.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said County this thirty first day of August Eighteen hundred & thirty three.
N. Booraem Clerk
[seal affixed at left]
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Extract from a law of the State of New Jersey entitled "the act for better regulating the militia"  [illegible] the fifteenth day of March, seventeen hundred and seventy seven.


"23 and whereas Light Horse are extremely useful and  and wife and necessary, Be it therefore enacted by the authority aforesaid that three Companies of Horse shall be embodied in this State and no more; that each Company shall consist of thirty three privates, and be officered by a Captain, Lieutenant, and Cornet, who shall be considered as of equal 
rank with the Captains first mention and
original of Foot Militia."

State of New Jersey ss:
I James D. Westcott Secretary of State of the State of New Jersey do hereby certify that the foregoing is a true extract from one of the laws of said state passed the fifteenth day of March
in the year of our Lord one thousand seventeen hundred and seventy seven entitled "The act for better regulating the militia" was taken from  and compared with the original now on file in my office.   In testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand and affixed my seal of office at the City of Trenton this seventeenth day of July, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and thirty five (1835).
James D. Westcott
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We the subscribers do voluntarily agree to serve in a "Troop of Horse now raising for the service of the State of New Jersey under the command of the following officers viz:

"Israel Carl Capt"
"Thos.Tobin Lieut."
"Zebulon Burton Cornet"

Signed
Elijah Smith
Benjami Blackwell
John Stout
Stepen Blackwell
John Drake
Elijah Stout
Jonathan Hunt
James Wourth
William Howell
Charles Saxton
Timothy Baker
Fisher Smith
John Harris
Jesse Christoper
Samuel Colmon
John Yerges
John Stevens
Jos. Smith

Endorsed " Capt Carls Troop Cornt. dated 6th of  October 1777"
State of new Jersey ss:
I James D. Westcott Secretary of State of the State of New Jersey do hereby certify that the foregoing is a true copy of a roll of the New Jersey Company of Company commanded by Captain Israel Carl during the revolutionary war, as taken from and compared with the original 
now remaining on file in my office.   In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office at the City of Trenton 
the seventeenth day of July AD. One thousand eight hundred and thirty five (1835).
James D. Westcott
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Statement of John Stevens applicant for Pension, to be forwarded at the request of the Department of War in their letter to him
dated Nov. 7th 1833 [illegible] Esqr. 

[illegible] Court this [illegible] day of June A.D. 
1834 before me [illegible] City of S[illegib le] State of New Jersey personally came 

John Stevens of the Township of West Windsor
Middlesex County, State of New Jersey being duly sworn according to law deposes and says that in November inst. he will be 77 years old - 
It was in the month of November 1776 that I first enlisted in the service of the Revolution being then nineteen years old.  I then enlisted for one month - We were ordered to Woodridge, the enemy being upon Staten Island- Whilst I was there the whole regiment was ordered to attack the enemy on Staten Island at a place I think called Ruckstown, which I have been told is now called Richmond.  A portion of militia stationed at Perth Amboy was also ordered to cross to Staten Island, to meet us at that place, and join us in the attack on the enemy at daylight - I in company with the regiment crossed over to Staten Island, at the blazing Star ferry -we then marched for Ruckstown, near to which we met the troops from Perth Amboy and immediately just at dawn of say, commenced the attack upon the enemy - the action was very [illegible] for about twenty minutes it did not last much longer - We took 20 or 30 prisoners who were all Hessians or at least all that I saw - We then heard that reinforcements of the enemy were advancing towards us and were ordered to recross to our quarters in Jersey.  We then crossed to Perth Amboy, where the troops who had started from then halted, and we 
whether the white men and we remained guarding the lines during the remainder of thte month for which we were enlisted - The commander of our regiment then was Colonel  Isaac Smith - the company to which I belonged was commanded by Captain Philip Philips
and Lieut. Ralph Lanning - at the end of the month we were discharged and returned tto our homes - A few days after my return, General Washington, situated through New Jersey to Pennsylvania. A few of my neighbors, about twenty or thirty, constituted ourselves into a company of volunteers-  we had no officers, but one captain who was Philip Philips who commanded me before -  I made a mistake in saying Ralph Lanning was our Lieutenant at Woodbridge, I should have said Ralph Jones - Jones did not choose to volunteer with us, so we had no Lieutenant on the 10th day of December 1776 we crossed over the Delaware and were [illegible] to General Dickinson to 
station ourselves at Yardleyville with the other troops there - in which place we quartered - whilst there about 140 of us under command of 
Ephraim Anderson then a major marched to 
the river opposite to Bordentown about two hundred of us volunteered the command of the same Ephraim Anderson to cross into Jersey and cut off communication between Trenton and Princeton - we crossed at Taylor's ferry 
(now so called) in the night, passed through Pennington and Anderson stationed
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Anderson stationed us in a piece of woods at Maidenhead near the old York road between Trenton and Princeton and Midway between those places information was communicated
to the enemy at Princeton, by some disaffected person. We were obliged to retreat to our quarters at Yardleyville where we remained until General Washington crossed the river -   On the night of the 25th of December I crossed the river with the army. I marched with the Division that came down the Pennington road- and was
engaged, throughout from the commencement to the close of the action at Trenton, and without boasting or claiming merit - I will say engaged in the hottest part of that action.  
I crossed again with General Washington into Pennsylvania and crossed with General Washington a few days after into Jersey -
When the enemy arrived at Trenton and General Washington had crossed the Assanpink, my company with others were ordered to assist
a company of Artillery in defending the bridge on that stream.  No small arms were used on that occasion with the exception of a few at the Mill between the bridge and the river, so though prepared, I was not actually engaged in that occasion, being stationed about twenty yards above the bridge on the shore of the Mill
Pond  - at the close of the action or skirmish at the Assanpink Bridge Col. Vancleve, General Hurdo, Col. David Brearly, Captain Benjn. Vancleve and one other whom I do not now recollect and myself went after dark about a mile into the country to a farmer whom, we all knew to procure refreshment and lodging-- we remained untill an hour before daybreak when
we returned to where we had left the army - they had left, we were unable to find where they had gone to but supposing that the army had gone to Bordentown, as the baggage was
ordered to be taken there - we went down with the waggons as far as Bordentown - arriving there near about sunrise - when we heard the firing at Princeton which assured us the army was at that place, and was the first information we received of its situation - this will account 
for my not being in the battle at Princeton. The same day we heard of the result of that battle and that Genl. Washington was returning to Morris Town- Most of my company got
together again, and agreed to follow the same to Morristown. We did so and remained at Morristown untill the 10th or 12th February 1777 when we were discharged and returned to our homes - This was all the infantry service that
I performed-

In the months of March and April 1777 Captain [illegible] Carroll had news from Genl. Philips [illegible] to raise a Troop of Cavalry which was 
to said several who has done in the course the said two months being a neighbor and my brother in law I joined his troop.

In the months of May and June following General Dickinson [illegible] that our troop with him at Elizabeeth town - I was stationed there with the troop two months - whilst there Genl. Dickinson visited General Washington's headquarters at Morristown.  General Washington there inspected  our Troop.  After serving two months we were discharged - i the month of September, of the same year (1777).  One half of our Troop was ordered to the County of Bergen or the [illegible] - I served as one of them and at the end [illegible] month was discharged again-  I think it was in December 1777 that Captain Carroll's whole Troop was called with General Dickinson to Elizabeth Town.  we laid there two months, whilst I was there at that time I recollect I was sent Express to General Dickinson to General Washington at Valley Forge - from there I went on to General John Dickinson in Maryland and 
returned back to Elizabeth Town - in March 1778 Captain Carroll was called upon by Governor Livingston to furnish him with two Troopers to attend him and ride expresses Josph. Christopher and myself were those two troopers - we continued with him
two-
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two months - in June 1778 the British Army left Philadelphia and  marched through New Jersey, on their crossing over to Camden, General 
Dickinson immediately called Capt Carrolls whol Troop out - we kept on the left bank of the British army until they arrived at Mount Holly.  General Dickinson there ordered me to carry a letter from him to General Washington.  I started at nine o'clock at night and found General Washington at Kingston at 12 o'clock of midnight, his army was then on their march for Englishtown - the General was lying in a buffalo skin his head on a stump for a pillow - I had  no 
sleep for the two days and nights previous, and was sick three days altogether, which prevented 
me from being in the battle of Monmouth - the troop was in service one month and was then discharged-  In the month of September 1778, Captain Carroll was ordered out to Elizabeth Town [illegible] with his whole Troop we laid there about a month and was discharged in NOvember 17778  Captain Carroll with his Troop was ordered to New Brunswick N.J. We were stationed there two months and discharged - in February 1779 Governor Livingston again called on Captain Carroll for use of his Troopers as a guard and as a [illegible]. I was one of them and  continued in his service two months that tine which I do not particularly [illegible] but do recollect that when Governor Livingston discharged me, he told me as I had performed such hard duties I should not be called into service again for two months - in the month of July 1779 one half of Capt. Carrolls Troop was ordered out to Elizabeth Town or Newark.  I was one of them, Lieutenant Toben was our commanding officer - we remained on the lines there one month and was then discharged - In the month of September 1179 our Troop was under the command of Captain Carroll and Lieutenant Toben was ordered into service in Bergen County.  We were in service two months and discharged.  In the month of January 1780 Captain Carroll with the whole Troop was ordered into service to New Brunswick N.J.  We remained there two months and got our discharge.

In the month of April 1780 Captain Carroll was ordered into service at a place called Pompton in the County of Bergen.  We were there one month and then discharged - in the month of June 1780 our whole troop was ordered to New Brunswick about this time my brother had joined the troop being two years younger than myself-  Whilst at New Brunswick we heard that the British had crossed over to Elizabeth Town point and all the troops at New Brunswick were ordered immediately on - we were all militia - we were on the skirts of the enemy as far as the Short hills or Springfield  - Our Troops was on the ground all the time the battle was fought there - I was in service with the troops during that time two months.  We were then discharged.  From on or about the first of August 1, 1780 one half of the Troops was constantly kept in service guarding the lines from Perth Amboy to Pompton - Lieutenant Toben always commanded when only half of the troops was called out-  My brother and myself served alternately month about (one of us having to remain at home) until near the close of that year - 

From the  commencement of the year 1781, as the general above had gone retreat to the south in its altercations against Cornwallis N. Jersey was left to its own militia for its defense -  Captain Carrols Troops was then engaged in guarding the lines from Perth Amboy to Pompton, at the least, four months during that year - I was with the troop during the whole of that time. I mean by four months to sa that the whole service I performed during the year 1781 to the time Cornwallis was taken amounted altogether to at least four months.
Jno Stevens
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State of New Jersey
County [illegible] SS.
[illegible] I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the Court [illegible] and year 
first above written.  I also further certify that I have known John Stevens the above deponent for the space of [illegible] years and known him to be a man of great respectability & probity.
[illegible]

admd.
24 mo. Dragoons

J.S. Green
Princeton
N.J.

Abstract of the above Deposition - Length of Service as above stated.

[table follows]
[1st column:]
Years
November 1776
December 1777
{January February} 1779
[across 1st 2 columns:]. Country Service
May 1777
September 1777
December 1777 February 1778}
March to May 1778
June 1778
September 1778
November to January 1778
February to April 1779
July 1779
September to November 1779}
January to March 1780
April 1780
June to August } 1780
from August 1780 to close of the year}
from January 1781 to the taking of Lord Cornwallis

[2nd column:]
Length of Service
1 month
2 months
2 months
1 month
1 month
2 months
2 months
1 month
2 mos.
2 mos.
1 mo.
2 mos.
3 months
11 mos.

[3rd column:]
[illegible]
{[illegible, Trenton, Morristown}, Morristown

[4th column:]
Commander of Regiment was Col. Isaac Sh[illegible], "  ", "  "

[written across 3rd & 4th columns:]
County of Bergen [illegible] guarding the lines
Elizabeth Town                              "         "      "
Trenton [illegible] for Gov. Livingston
{in taking the life [illegible] of the enemy for Mount Holly}
{in their [illegible] to cross Jersey from Staten Island}
Elizabeth Town           "                   "       
New Brunswick New Jersey     "    "
Trenton Express Springfield Gov. Livingston
Elizabeth Town [illegible] 
Bergen County N J (Pompton)
New Brunswick to [illegible] of Short Hills or Springfield
{one half of the Troops was constantly on the about guardinn about [illegible] og the lines from about [illegible] another having served the old [illegible] two months.}
{while troop guarding the lines from Amboy to Pompton}

[5th column:]. 
under what officers
{Captain Philip Philips}
{[illegible]}
Capt. Philip Philips
Captn. [illegible]
Capt. Carroll
Capt. Carroll
Captain Carrol
Capt Carroll
Capt. Ernster

for Lieut. Toben
{Capt. Carroll
Lieut. Toben}
same officers
same officers
[end of table]
-------------------

[following written below the table:]
whole amount of service    31 months
being 3 mos. infantry service and
           28 mos. Country service --
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State of New Jersey

Hunterdon
County } Personally appeared before me Daniel
Cook one of the Judges of the court of Common pleas in and for said county this the [illegible] day of July Anno domina 1835 Jonathan Huishead of the township of Hopewell in said county who being duly sworn according to law deposeth and saith that he recollects 
in the time of the American revolution Captain Carle of New Jersey raising a troop of [illegible] troop that he ever knew of in the state and that John Stevens was then belonging to said troop as a private and that he saw said John Stevens frequently on parade and in service with said troop and in particular recollects seeing him at Elizabeth town and at the battle of Monmouth and at a number of other places that he cannot now name in particular and that he the said John Stevens continued to belong to that troop 
during the revolutionary war and for a time after the war belonged to said troop and further saith not.
Jonathan Huishead

Subscribed and Sworn to
before me Daniel Cook Judge

I do hereby certify that the above named Jonathan Huishead is a man of respectability and truth & credit is to be placed in what he says. 
Dated Hopewell
July 18. 1835

Daniel Cook one of the
Judges of the Court of
Common pleas in & for
County of Hunterdon
State of New Jersey
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I do hereby certify that the witn
named Daniel Cook resides within
three miles of my house in Hunter
Hall County, that he is an acting
Justice of the Peace & Judge of the
Court of Common Pleas in & for
said county & has been in com
Mission a number of years
Isaac Brown Lawer in N.J.
minister of the Gospel
July 18 1835
Presby Church
State of New Jersey
I James D Westoll Secretary of State of New Jersey
do certify that Daniel Cook Esquire beefore whom the within
Affidavit was taken and who hath attested the same pay at the
time thereof, and now is, a Judge of the Inferiour court of common
Pleas in and for the county of Hunterdon in said State duly appointed
con missioned and sworn, and that full faith and credit are to be
in to official attestations.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my
hand and affixed my seal of office this twenty
first day of July AD one thousand eight hundred
and thirty five
James D. Westroll
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Declaration

In order to obtain the benefits of the Act of Congress of 3d March 1843

State of New Jersey }
Mercer County } S.S.
On this Sixteenth day of November A.D. One thousand eight hundred and forty that presently
appeared before the Subscriber one of the Justices of the Peace in and for the County of Mercer in said State Phebe Stevens a resident of West Windsor in the County of Mercer in said State aged Seventy four years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the act of Congress passed on the 3rd March 1843 granting pensions to widows of persons who
served during the Revolutionary war. That she is the widow of John Stevens who was a Private of Dragoons, and the annual amount of the pension which he received under the Act of July 7, 1838, was one hundred dollars.

She further declares that she is still a widow.
Phebe Stevens

Sworn to and Subscribed on the 
day & year above written Before    
Wm. C. Howell

State of the State of New Jersey
I Charles G. McChesney Secretary of State of the State of New Jersey do certify that William C. Howell Esqr. before whom the foregoing 
Declaration of Phebe Stevens was taken, was at the time of the doing & thereafter Justice & the Peace in and
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for the County of Mercer in said State duly
appointed Commissioned and sworn that
full faith and credit are to be given to his official
attestations, and that the signature thereto, is in the proper handwriting of the said William C. Howell.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal office at Trenton, in said State the seventeenth day of November A D one thousand eight hundred and forty one.
Charles G. McChesney
Secy. of State
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Princeton N.J. August 2nd 1835

To Geo. Wm. Crump

My dear Sir

Mr Green is about forwarding to your office some additional testimony in the case of John
Stevens who has been for some time an applicant for a pension.  The old man called on me yesterday and informed me that the
difficulty appeared to have been the want of evidence as to the fact of there ever having been such a corps, as Carles Troop. he has taken some pains to procure this evidence and also to prove that he belonged to the Troop. He has the reputation in this County of having been a soldier of the revolution, and if with the document now sent in and the papers already on file, you can do anything for him, it will aid greatly to the comfort of a very respectable old man.  Old Mr. Ferguson whom you raised from the dead is still alive, though his mind begins to fail as he say now that he server will be in Maryland during the revolutionary war.

Very truly yours,
Wm C. Alexander
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L. Edwards Esquire
Commiprisoner of Pensions
Washington City
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Princeton Sept. 9. 1833

J.L. Edwards Esq.:

Respected Sir

At the request of Major John Stevens I once more return ihs papers . He has taken the testimony of his brothers and of Israel Crane  - men of higher character for truth.  General reputation gives Major Stevens the character of an active and constant soldier during the revolution - and I know of nothing to impair his character for truth or courage.

With great re
Yr. obt servt
Jas. S. Hess
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The Hon.
John H. Eaton Esquire
Secretary of the 
Department of War
Washington City
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Feb 12th 1830

Sir as some have doubted whether (under the
Laws and regulations of the department of war)
declarations and affidavits taken before a Justice of the Peace in the State of New Jersey be sufficient and come within those laws and regulations I shall be gratified and pleased if the
Department will send me their opinion on
the question-- I believe there is no doubt
but a Justices Court in New Jersey is a Court
of Record. It is always open without any
formality-- The Justice is his own Clerk and
use his own private seal.

To enable the Department to ascertain without
trouble I send a copy of the Section of the Law
Constituting Courts for the Trial of small causes" in New Jersey which declare Justices Court to be Courts of Record.

"Sec 1. Be it enacted by the Council and General Assembly of this State, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, that every suit of a civil nature at Law where the debt balance or other matter in dispute, does not exceed exclusive of Costs the sum or value of One hundred Dollars, shall be and hereby is made cognizable before any Justice of the Peace of any County of this State, who is hereby authorized to hold a court within such County to hear try and determine the same according to Law although the cause of action did not arise in said County  And further, that the said Court shall be a Court of Record and vested for the purposes aforesaid, with all such power as is usual in Courts of Record of this state-

Provided always that this act shall not extend to any action of replevin, slander, trespass for assault, battery or imprisonment, or to any action, wherein the title to any lands, hereditaments or other real estate, shall or may
in anywise come in question"-  Revis. Laws N. J. Page 629
Respectfully John Little

J. H. Eaton Esqr. Sec. at War -
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February 12th 1830

Dear Sir I send herewith the declarations affidavits and certificates documents to obtain Pensions for John Stevens and Jonathan Badgley of the County of Essex. after a great deal of Trouble in Travelling and searching they have as is thought and believed obtained sufficient evidence of their service in the Revolutionary War to come under the Laws of the Congress for the relief of Indigent soldiers. They have each travelled no doubt more than one hundred and fifty miles on foot to accomplish what they have done. It is hoped the documents will now be satisfactory to the war department.

If so it will be very desirable that they may be enabled to draw on the 4th of March next as they are both very poor.

Any communication can be made to me at New Providence Essex County N .Jersey

Very Respectfully
Your humble Servt
John Littell

John H. Eaton Esquire
Secretary at War
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7845

New Jersey
Phebe Stevens
widow of John Stevens
who was a pensioner under the Act of 1832
and who died on the 13th August 1843,
of Mercer in the State of N. Jersey
who was a                                in the Company
commanded by Captain Wrenn of the 
Regt commanded by Col Smith in 
the N. Jersey fine for

Transcribed on the Rott of New Jersey
at the rate of 100 Dollars _______
Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day 
of March, 1836.
_________________________________________
Certificate of Pension issued the        day of 
Nov 1, 1843 and 

Trenton, NJ
________________________________________
Total amount, 500.00
[Act of July 7, 1838.]
Recorded by                                Clerk.
Book D.  Vol. 1  Page 207.
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WIDOW, &c.
Revy
File No. 1092
Phebe Stevens
Widow
John Stevens
Priv, Dreg, Rev War.
Act: March 3, 1843
Index:-Vol. M. Page 238
[Arrangement of 1870]
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Dr Sir

I had the pleasure a few days ago, to receive 
through Col. Walnough your letter to Major Jno Stevens of N.J. I herewith send you Mr. Stevens' statement under oath 'the to go to town of New
hereth one year in this statement under oath.  The old Gentleman has perhaps gone too much into detail, but I thought it best to let him tell his story his own way.
 
I entered but lately upon this matter, and am
therefore unable to say what evice Mr. Stevens has already produced - but if this statement should not enable the department to satisfied of the justice of claim, if you Sir will be kind enough to let me know, upon what particular points the department  to wish to be satisfied
we will take great pleasure in procuring and forwarding to you all the evidence attainable.

Yours very respectfully
Theodore M. Hart
113 Vine St. Phila.
June 28th 1834

J.L. EdwardsEsqr.
Pension Office
War Department
Washington
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Abstract of Pay-rolls discharged by Jesse Hart Pay-master to the militia of the Counties of Somerset and Hunterdon

[table follows with 7 columns; column headings as follows:]
(1) No.
(2) Date
(3) Officers Names
(4) Regiment
(5) Where served
(6) Under Whom
(7)  Amount

[text beneath column headings as follows:]
(1) 18, 19, 20, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 170, 207, * 3
(2) Nov. 14, 1777, Dec. 10 ", " " ", July 2 1778, Apl 18 ", Nov 7 ", " " ", July  8 ", Oct 6 -78, June 20 1779, Jany 1787
(3) Captain Carle, " ", " ", Capt Carles, " ", " ", " ", " ", Capt Carles ", Capt Carle ", Capt I. Carle
(4) 3 Horse, ", expresses for repulse, Cavalry, ", ", expresses of do, " ", Cavalry, Hunterdon Horse, Col. Philips
(5) Elizabethtown, ", Monmouth, Haddonfield, Valley Forge, Passaick, Mount Pleasant, Trenton & Brunsk.
(6) Genl. Dickinson, ", Gen. Dickinson, Col. Ellis, ",  Brigr. Heard, Col. Holmes, Genl. Dickinson
(7) 180 3 3, 13 6 4, 70 16 1,143 15 1, 143 11 3, 35 15 10, 4 9 10, 17 5 ", 49 17 2, 30 2 11, 43 13 4, 215 16 2
[end of table]
*This last extract is from the "Abstract of Pay-rolls discharged by Nathaniel Hunt Pay-Master to the Militia of the Counti of Hunterdon.
James D. Westcott
Secy. of State

State of New Jersey ss:
I James D. Westcott Secretary of State of New Jersey do hereby certify that the foregoing are true extracts from our account headed "Abstracts of Pay-rolls discharged by Jesse Hunt Pay-master for the Militia of the Counties of Somerset and Hunterdon"recorded in Book A of Auditors Accounts Folios [illegible] now remaining in my office.  In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office at the city of Trenton this seventeenth day of July A D One Thousand Eight Hundred and thirty five (1835).
James D. Westcott
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No 9563
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Phebe Stevens
N. Jersey
Act July 7th 38
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Admd
2 years
Drag priv
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$100 per an.
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D W Rice Esq
Trenton
N. Jersey.
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John Stevens

P.S. Schenck
H R

Memorandum of inquiries 
made at the  pension office in 
behalf of John Stevens
an applicant for a pension
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Major John Stevens - Private in the Troop 
of Horse commanded by Israel Carle
and raised in the Bounds of Col. Isaac Smith's
Regiment in the Township of Trenton and County of Hunterdon - and raised in the year 1777-
Said troop was raised by the order of General
Philemon DickINson with the approbation of
Genl Washington - said Dickinson was at that
time Major General of the State of New Jersey.

The declaration of Major John Stevens stating
the amount of his services has heretofore been sent to the Department by Mr Theodore Hart Esqr. of Philadelphia - by request of the department as communicated by Joel B Sutherland to said Hart -

Said applicant was introduced to Mr Edwards at Mr Lafoncharie's Brother in Law to said Edwards -
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New Jersey
Revol
John Stevens
Suspended
see letter
Joseph S. Green
23d Oct 1833
do.  to claimant Nov. 7. 1833.
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do Hon. T. Frelinghuysen
June 3. 1834.
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Let. F.S. Schenck and Sons
1835
Act 7. June '33.
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21.143
John Stevens
Essex Co. N. Jersey
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Act 18 March 1818
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Rejected see letter to
John Littell Esq
19th February 1830
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Princeton Augt 3d 1835

J. L. Edwards Esq

Sir

Within a few days past Mr. John Stevens, who has made application for the benefit of the pension laws, learned that there was on file in the office of the Secretary of State on paper containing the names of those persons, who composed the first company of horse under the
command of Capt. Carle. He has procured a certified copy of that paper together with an
extract from the law of 1777 under which the company was organized. He also has procured
an abstract from the pay rolls recorded in a book. in that office. He send to the deposition officer
Jonathan Muirhead, to prove that he was a member of Capt Carles company-

Are not the following facts established by the enclosed documents?

1. That Capt. Carles company of horse was organized and duly commissioned on 6 of October 1777, and under the act of the 15 of March 1777.
2.  That John Stevens belonged to that company originally and continued to belong to it during the
revolutionary war and ca[??] after.
3. That the company of Captain
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Carle did service during the years 1777-8-9 & 1781 - as appears from the abstract from the pay-rolls.

I am aware that [illegible] in positions have been practiced on the department in these matters of pension and that the scrutiny to which each application must undergo, is all right,yet I do trust that the claim of Mr. Stevens will be favorably received and found sufficiently
sustained by the evidence.  He bears with us a fair character and will be very much relieved from his embarrassments if he should receive from the Government what his friends think him justly entitled to.

With great esteem
& respect
Yr. obt. servt.
Jas. S. Green

P.S. I also enclose a letter to Dr. Crumb on the subject of the application of Mr.Stevens
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This Indenture made the seventeenth day of February in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and Twenty seven Between John Stevens and Phebe Stevens his wife of the township of Morris in the County of Morris 
and state of New Jersey of the first part, and
Moses Thompson of the township of Morris in the county of Morris and state of New Jersey of the Second part.
WITNESSETH, that the said part of the first part, for and in consideration of the sum of three hundred dollars  good and lawful money of the United States, to them in hand well and truly paid by the said Part y of the second part, at and before the sealing and delivery of these presents, the rec[e]ipt whereof is hereby acknowledged, and the said Part y of the first part, therewith fully satisfied, contented and paid, have given, granted, bargained and sold, aliened, enfeoffed conveyed and confirmed;  and by these presents do give, grant, bargain, sell, alien, enfeoff, convey and confirm, to the said Part y of the second part, and to his 
heirs and assigns for ever, all these two 
tracts or parcels of land and premises hereinafter particularly described, situate lying and being in the township of Morris in the county of Morris and state of New Jersey 
butted and bounded as follows:

The first lot beginning in the middle of the
Longhill Road at a corner of Stephen Behouts land - Thence along the road westerly to the
corner of Lands late of Daniel Cory deceased
thence North four degrees west along the
line of said Cory's land to the Road that
leads from the Longhill Road near the
schoolhouse to the forks of the Great swamp
Road near Joseph Crane's thence easterly
on said last mentioned Road to the line of Stephen Behouts land thence South four degrees east along said Behouts line to the place of Beginning Containing twelve acres of Land be there more or less.

The other lot begins in the last mentioned
Road at the northwest corner of the first lot and in the time of the aforesaid Daniel Cory deceased, land on the North side of Longhill Road thence with said David Corys line North four degrees west twenty four chains and twenty four links to a ditch thence North Eighty degrees east along said Ditch and John Williams' line seven Chains and thirty links to said
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Stephen Behouts' line thence on his lines
south two degrees and forty minutes and elven chains thence South one degree east eleven chains to the middle of said last mentioned road thence along the said Road South Sixty degrees west to the place of Beginning Containing Sixteen acres of Land be the same more or less.

Together with all and singular, the profits, privileges and advantages, with the appurtenances the same belonging, or in any wise appertaining: also, all the estate, right, title, interest, property, claim and demand whatsoever, of the said Part y of the First Part, of, in and to the same; and of, in and to every part and parcel thereof --

To have and to hold, all and singular the above described tracts or lots of land and premises, with the appurtenances, unto the said Part y  of
the Second Part, his heirs and assigns, to the only proper use, benefit and behoof of the 
said Party of the Second Part, his heirs and assigns forever: --And the said John Stevens 
does for himself, his heirs, executors and administrators, covenant and grant to and with the said Par y of the Second Part, his heirs and assigns, that they the said Part y of the First Part and the true, lawful and right owners of all 
and singular the above described land and premises, and of every part and parcel thereof; and are now lawfully seized and possessed of the same, as a good, perfect, and absolute estate of inheritance in fee simple; and that the same land and premises, or any part thereof, at the time of the sealing and delivery of these presents, are not encumbered by any mortgage, judgment, dower, recognizance, or limitation, or by any incumbrance whatsoever, by which the title of the said Part y of the Second Part hereby made, or intended to be made for the above described land and premises, can or may be changed, charged, altered, or defeated in any way whatever-- And also, that the Part y of the First Part, now have good right, full power and lawful authority to grant, bargain, sell and convey the said land and premises in manner aforesaid -- Also, that he will warrant, secure, and forever defend the
said land and premises, unto the said Part y of the Second Part, his heirs and assigns forever, against the lawful claims and demands of all and every person and persons, freely and clearly freed and discharged of and from all manner of incumbrances whatsoever.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the said John Stevens 
and Phebe Stevens his wife have hereunto set their hand and seals the day and year first above written.

Signed, Sealed and Delivered ⎬John Stevens
in the presence of-                             {seal}
Jacob Potter witness                   Phebe Stevens
for Phebe Stevens                               {seal}
Israel Stevens
Luther Little
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Personally came before me Amos Potter one of the Commissioners appointed by law for taking the acknowledgement and proof of Deeds and other instruments of writing, John Stevens and Phebe his wife and severally acknowledged that they signd seald and deliverd this within Deed of their own voluntary will being first informed by me of the contents there of and being satisfied that they were the grantors thereof and Phebe Stevens being examined by me separate and apart from her husband acknowledges that the signd seald and deliverd the same without any fear threats or compulsion from her said husband.
This acknowledgement taken before me this twentieth day of February in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and twenty seven.
Amos Potter Commissioner
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New Jersey
Essex County ss

Essex Common Pleas January [?] 1830
Personally appeared in open Court on the 12 day of January 1830 John Littell, who being sworn according to Law on his oath makes the following declaration.  That he has been acquainted with John Stevens (The Person now preparing evidence in Order to obtain the Provision made by the Act of Congress of the 14th of March 1818 and the [?] of May 1810 for more than Twenty years.  That this declarant lives in the Neighborhood wherin the said John Sstevens has lived that lengthof time and that he the declarant together with a partner under the firm of J & L Littell has there kept a Store.  that the sad Stevens was for years in the habit of [---ding] at their Store and by refference to their books his account commenced as far back as 1815 and continued till February 1827. That the account contains the usual articles of clothing and necessaries for a fam8ly who buys a very considerable share of their living at a Store.
That about the 1st of April 1824 a Settlement was made by the firm with the said Stevens and a Bond given them by him for ($125-) One hundred and twenty five Dollars and a Mortgage also executed and delivered by him to them on a lot of Land owed by him for about Twenty eght acres (as he believes to secure the payment of the amount of the Bond and also to secure a debt of one of his Sons due the sad firm of about Sixty Dollars - the said Stevens at the same time became security to the said Firm for another son of his in the sum of thirty three Dollars and that in February 1827 the Land and Real estate of the said Stevens was sold to Moses Thompson for Three hundred Dollars and the money paid - out of which the debt due to the Firm of J & L Littell (including about Twenty Dollars contracted after the date of the aforesaid Bond) together with the amount of the Notes of his two sons for which the said Stevens had become security amounting Principal and Interest to about Two hundred and Seventy Dollars was paid and the Mortgage cancelled as he believes leaving a remainder of about Thirty Dollars in the hands of said Stevens - and he says further that all the other property then owned by the sad Stevens was not worth fifty Dollars as he verily believes -
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And the said John Littell on his oath further
declares that the Copy of a Deed of conveyance
hereunto annexed is a true and literal copy
of the deed as executed by the said John Stevens and his wife to Moses Thompson
and that as he verily believes the whole
transaction with respect to the sale of the
lands and the execution of the Deed was an
honest and bonafide transaction without
any refference or contemplation to an
application to the Government for a Pension
John Littell
Sworn & Subscribed in Open Court
January 1830
 Presiding Judge