Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 41,197, for Roger Stayner, Pennsylvania
Page 1

(3 - 1776)
SERVICE
Penn.
Stayner, Roger
Staynor
NUMBER
S.41,197
B.L. Wt. 1245-300
CONTENTS
Page 2

Informed March
31, 1824, that his
name could not be
restored on account
of his property-
2d schedule $344.50
letter to John Brown
H Reps.  see letter
14 Apl 1824 to Mr
Brown.

0461
Pennsylvania
B Land 1245 [Illinois crossed out]
Roger Stayner
of Mifflin Co in the State of Pennsylvania
who was a Captain in the regiment commanded by
Colonel Dehaas of the Pennsylvania
line, for the term of 3 years
Inscribed on the Roll of Pennsylvania
at the rate of 20 Dollars per month, to commence on
the 27th of April 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 23d of Mar. 1819
and sent to David Beale Esqr
Mifflin County Penna
Arrears to 4th of Mar 6/20 6/30
Semi-anl, all'ce ending 4 Sep1819
205.24
120.
$325.24
Revolutionary claim,
Act 18th March, 1818.}
Discontinued

[middle of page, vertical]
Notif’n sent  8 Dec’r 20 to Eph’m Banks Clk of Mifflin County
Page 3

Roger Stayner Capt
Dehaas Pennsyl'a
Regt

April 27 1818
Adm

The Judge's Certificate of the Pensioner's indigent
Circumstances
required

Roger Stayner, Deposition &
Certificate
Page 4

State of
Pennsylvania, Mifflin County
On the 27th day of April in the year of our Lord
One thousand Eight hundred & Eighteen, Before me the Subscriber one of the Judge of the
Court of Common pleas in and for said County & State aforesaid Personally appeared Roger
Stainer aged Sixty four years, resident of Mifflin County aforesaid who being by one first duly sworn according to Law, doth on his Solemn Oath make the following
Declarations in order to obtain the provisions made by the Act of Congress entitled
An act to provide for certain persons Engaged in the Land & Naval Service
the United States in the Revolutionary War. that he the said Roger Stainer obtained
an Ensigns commission in the year 1775 in the Company commanded by Captain
Thomas Darsey then the first Regiment of Pennsylvania Commanded by Colonel
Dehaas where said Deponant continued to serve in said company in the service of the
United States until he was advanced to a Lieutenanary & from that time until
he obtained a Captains Commission in or about the year 1777 all in the same
Regiment & their continued until in or about the the year one thousand seven
Hundred & Eighty when he resigned that he was in the Battle of the Three Rivers in
in Canada & at the Battle of Brandywine & that he is in Reduced Circumstances
& Stands in need of the assistance of his Country for support & that he has no other
Evidence now in his power of his service.
Sworn & Declared & Subscribed Day & year above Written
Roger Stayner
Before David Beale
N.B. said Deponent on his oath says he never received any pension from the United States. D Beale

I, David Beale Judge as aforesaid do certify that it appears to my satisfaction
that the said Roger Stainer did serve in the Revolutionary War, as stated in the 
preceding declaration, against the Common Enemy; and I now transmit the
proceedings & Testimony taken and had before me, to the Secretary for the
Department of War, pursuant to the Directions of the aforementioned Act of
Congress, Witness my hand this 27th day of April one thousand eight
& Eighteen
David Beale
Page 5

To the Hon J C Calhoun Secretary for the Department of War, I,  the within named Roger
Stayner Do hereby authorize Nominate & appoint my trusty  friend William Boak of Mifflin County
my lawful attorney in my place & stead but for my use to ask demand & receive my pension
from the pension office or where payable & receipt or Receipts to give, allowing & making valid
& good all my said Attorney shall legally do in the premises as witness my hand & seal this first day of May 1818
Roger Stayner {seal}
Witness Wm Martin

Mifflin County 
Personally, before the Subscriber one of the Judges in and for said
County appeared 
Roger Stayner the above named who did acknowledge the above letter of power of attorney to be his Act of Deed, In Testimony whereof I put my hand that this 1st May 1818.
David Beale

Pennsylvania Mifflin County ss
I Ephraim Banks, Prothonotary 
of the Court of Common Pleas in &
for the County of Mifflin, in the State of
Pennsylvania do certify that the before
named David Beale, Esquire is one of our
associate Judges of said Court in & for said
County duly appointed & commissioned and
that full faith credit is and ought to be
given to all his official acts as well in
Courts of Justice as thereout. Witness
my hand and the seal of said Court
at Lewistown, in said County the thirteen
day of May 1818-
E. Banks Prothy
Page 6

Penn

I David Beale Associate Judge in & for Mifflin County do Certify that to my knowledge the within Deponent Roger Stayner is in very Indigent Circumstances & stands in need of the assistance of his Country for support.
(signed) David Beale    Feby 27th 1819

The Hon'ble J C Calhoun Tr'r  for War Department
Page 7

Washington War Department
Bounty Land Office

I hereby certify that it appears by the records of this Office that Warrant No. 1245 issued to Roger Staynor as a  Captain in the Pennsylvania line in the revolutionary war for 300 acres of land on the 6th day of June 1827 and that it appears from the declaration of the said Staynor made upon oath, sustained by the affidavits of William D Beale and Joseph H. Mercy that he served to the end of that war. 
(signed) Robert Taylor C.B. L. O
5th Nov 1828

In addition to the above I further certify that by a list of Officers returned as entitled to bounty land it appears that Roger Stayner a Capt. of the old 2d Regiment of Pennsylvania became a supernumerary in consequence of being a prisoner. 
28 No. 1828
(signed) Robert Taylor
Page 8

Mifflin County ss:  State of Pennsylvania

On this 23d day of August 1820 Personally appeared in open Court Roger Stener of Turbett Township in Mifflin County late a Captain in the United States Army in the Revolutionary War with Great Britain, who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary war as follows, to wit, that in August 1775 he went from Philadelphia a volunteer to Boston and served about two months soon after that he was commissioned as an ensign in the Company of Capt. Thos. Dorsey in the first Penna Regiment first commanded by Col. John Bulls, and then we marched under the command of Col. Philip Dehop to Quebec that he served that in the capacity of an ensign for more than one year when he was advanced after he returned from Canada and that a Captains Commission after they returned as above the Regiment was called the 2d Penna Regiment he continued to serve in that capacity for more than two years he was at the Battle of Brandywine and some time after that Battle he was taken prisoner by the British outside of Philadelphia and he continued a prisoner he thinks about two years and untill (sic) the general exchange of prisoners near the close of the war.  That he has been entered on the United States Pension lists, as will by his original Certificate from the was department dated 21 of March 1819 and numbered 8461 which said Pension commenced on the 27th day of April 1818,  And that the said Roger Stener doth solemnly swear that he was a resident
Page 9

citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March 1818 and that he has not since that time by gift, sale or in any manner disposed of his property or any part thereof with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring him within the provisions of an Act of Congress Entitled an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War passed on the 18th of March 1818 and that he has not nor has any person in trust for him any property or securities contracts or debts due to him, nor has he nor has he any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by him subscribed,  His property is as follows to with 100 hundred acres of stony broken land near the foot of Tuscarora mountain bought from James Cummin at L 100 some shilling a few years ago valued at                                $300.00
about 50 acres joining the above & between it and partly on the spur & foot of said Mountain in said Turbett Township Mifflin county where said Stener resides with a family has a cabin house erected thereon a small stable or bar also on the same with about 15 acres of rough stony land cleared the whole valued at      $200.00
1 Sorrell Mare valued at $50.00
1 Brown horse said to be strained or sliped (sic) in the back   12.00
1 light brindled Cow at  11.00       
1 Red Cow with a white face  11.00
1 Sow & pigs x six shoats worth say  10.00
1 Ewe & lamb          1.50
1 stove 2 old table some pots wheel & Reels & a few trifling other- dresser & kitchen furniture and a few cooper tools 1 plow 2 pair of old horse gears all valued at $30.00
Total   $625.50
Page 10

And further that the said Roger Stiner declares that he is indebted to  divers persons about  $420.00 and that he has coming in little dribs or or sums due to him from divers persons about $20.00
He further declares that his occupation when he was able to follow it was some times cooping a little and sometime farming and that he was 69 years of age against January next and that by reason of the Piles, groute [gout] and the diseases and infirmities subject to old age is very often not able to work or labour (sic) any to support himself & family and when at best he is able to do but very little of any kind of labour (sic), and that his wife Sarah was 50 years of age last April that she is very much fairly best when in good health is able to do the business of the house midling (sic) well according to a woman of her age.  That his children are all of age and  working for them except four to wit.  Joshua Stener who is 14 years of age, Stewart Stener who was 12 years old the 30th of May last, Ellis who is 10 years old the 20th of July next, Polly Stener who is 7 years old the 2nd of June last who all live in the house with him.  That I the above named Roger Stener has one other daughter that lives in the house with me aged 20 years past she is Blind and has been so since she was six weeks old that she can do nothing towards supporting herself that she is a great burthen [burden] charge and expense to the subscriber. 
The foregoing and before mentioned 50 acres of land stated to be the property of the said Roger Stener is held by improvement and James Cummins has the same survey and said to be the patented to him.  And also that John Patterson claims this 50 acres of land as well as the foregoing 100 acres.
Page 11

The said Roger Staner further declares the foregoing statement of his real and personal property (except necessary beding (sic) and the cloathing (sic) of himself & family) and the said situation in the [illegible] [world or whole?] is correctly fairly & honestly stated.
Sworn & Subscribed in open court
August 23rd 1828
Signed.  Roger Stayner
E Banks Proth.

Mifflin County ss:  William Beale & John Cummin Esqrs being duly sworn according to law do say that they appraised the porperty in the foregoing schedule mentioned and that they value therein stated is the Just and reasonable value of the said property to the best of their knowledge.
Sworn & Subscribed in open Court }  Signed Wm Beale
this 23d day of August 1820           }               John Cummin
E. Banks, Prot.

I Ephraim Banks Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas being a court of Record having general jurisdiction do hereby certify that the foregoing above and the Schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the record of the said Court.  And I do further Certify that it is the opinion of the said Court that the total amount in value of the said property exhibited in the aforesaid Schedule is $625.50
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court on this 23d day of August A.D. 1820
Roger Stayner

E. Banks, Prot.
8461     $625.50
Mifflin Cty

Sept 19
Page 12

February 17, 1934
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
Roger Stayner-S.41197
BA-J/AWF
Mr. J. C. Stewart
9419 St. Lawrence Avenue
Chicago, Illinois
Dear Sir:
Reference is made to your letter in which you
request the Revolutionary War record of Roger Stayner.
The data furnished herein were obtained from the papers on file in pension claim, S. 41197, based upon the Revolutionary War service of Roger Stayner. This is the record of the only soldier by that name, found on the Revolutionary War records of this office.
The date and place of birth of this soldier are not shown, nor are the names of his parents given.
Roger Stayner volunteered in August, 1775 and
went from Philadelphia to Boston, served about two months, when he was commissioned ensign and served in Captain Thomas Dorney's company in Colonels John Bull's and Dellaas' Pennsylvania regiment, was in the battle of Three Rivers, Canada and served about one year, when he was advanced to Lieutenant; in 1777 he
was commissioned captain of the 2d Pennsylvania regiment, was in the battle of Brandywine and a few days later was taken prisoner by the British and held about two years, when exchanged.
He was allowed pension on his application executed, April 27, 1818 and gave his age as sixty-four years, then a resident of Mifflin County, Pennsylvania.
On August 23, 1820, he was living in Turbett Township, Mifflin County, Pennsylvania and stated that he was sixty-nine years of age "against January next"; at at this same time he referred to his wife, Sarah, as [page ends]
Page 13

fifty years of age "last April" and to the following children - Joanna aged twenty-two years; Joshua aged fourteen years; Stewart aged twelve years "the 30th of May last"; Ellis aged ten years "the 25th of July next"; Polly or Mary aged seven years "the 23d of June last", and that his other children were all of age, their names not stated.
In 1824 the soldier, Roger Stayner, gave his as about seventy years and in 1827 stated that he
was seventy-seven years of age. He died in 1839,
leaving a widow, and a son and other heirs were
referred to in 1856, no names stated.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER
Assistant to Administrator
Page 14

Pennsylvania
Roger Stayner Captain
 served 3 years from 1776.
1st Schedule, dated 23 Aug 1820, 
contains 100 acres of stony broken
land $300.00

50 acres adjoining the above 
with a cabin small stable
 and barn, and about 15
acres of stony land cleared  200.00

1 mare & 1 horse 62.00
2 cows, [illegible] & [illegible] 23.50
1 sow & pigs & six shoats 10.00
sundry articles of furniture 29.50
pots [illegible] [illegible] 20.00
$645.00
Claimant owes 420.00

He states that he holds the foregoing
 50 acres of land under a title acquired
 by improvement; but that they were 
conveyed by James Cummins and
 [illegible] to be [illegible] to him and
that John Patterson claims the other
50 acres, as well as the foregoing [illegible]
acres.

2d Schedule under act of [illegible]
3, dated 11th March 1824

100 acres of $200.00
[end of left side of page]

[this column begins with $ carried over from end of first column]

amount brought up $200.00
2 horse 1 colt [illegible] 77.00
2 stoves and pipes 26.00
Grain on hand 30.00
Sundry articles of furniture 11.50
$344.50

Claimant states, that since the date
his first schedule, he has learned the
 heirs of James Cummins have the 
said paper title to the land on
which he lives and produces. The
affidavits of John Patterson & George 
Gilliford, stating that they have found
the claimant has no office title to
 the land. Hon. J. Brown states that 
the manner of procuring titles to land,
since the year 1792, in Penn’a has been
by settlement & improvement, such as 
is fit for the habitation of a family, and 
having raised grain-- The settler was then
 entitled to a warrant; that in Stayner’s 
case, before he had complied with the
 Requisites of the law, he discovered that the title was in another person’s name, thereby debarred from a title.
Claimant aged 70, by occupation a cooper
but unable to pursue it. Wife’s age not given. Two daughters, 1 aged 26, blind. The other aged seven & a son aged 13.

Subscribed 6 May 1824 and sent to
Hon J. Brown,
H. R.
Stricken off the Roll, 14th March 1829
under Act 15 May, 1828.

[superimposed notes written vertically on top of main document]

See letter Nov 17, 1828 to see if the original decl’n cop’d frm
[illegible] Sept 17, 1836

See let 23 Feb 41 to Andrew Parker
Page 15

At an adjourned Court of Common Pleas held at Lewistown in and for the county of Mifflin Commencing the eighth day of March Anno Donvi in 1825 (intu Alia) it is thus contained
Declaration of Roger Stayner in order to be restored to the Pension list under the act of the March 1823
Pennsylvania Mifflin county
On this 11th day of March 1821 personally appeared in open Court, being a court of records for the county of Mifflin aforesaid, Roger Stayner resident in said county aged about seventy years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the Acts of Congress of the 18th March 1818 and the first May 1820. That he the said Roger Stayner entered the service of the now United States in the year of one Lord 1775 for one year as an Ensign in Captain Dorsey's Company of the first Pennsylvania Regiment on the day of September in said year on the continental establishment, that he continued to served in the said Regiment afterwards Commanded by John Bull and Philip Dehaus; and that he continued to served in the said Corps or in the Services of the service of the United States as ensign, Lieutenant or Captain until he was taken prisoner the next day at the battle of Brandywine: that he remained a prisoner until the guard exchange of prisoners near the close of the war: that he was in a skirmish near Quebec as well as the battle of Brandywine that his name has been placed on the pension list and dropped there from on account of his property That he drew a pension as a Captain while his name was on the pension list
Roger Stayner
And in pursuance of the act of the first May 1820, I do Solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March 1818: and that I have not since that time by gift, sale, or in any manner disposed of my property or any part thereof with
Page 16

intent thereby so to diminish it as to being myself within the provisions of an act of Congress entitled "An act to provide certain persons engaged in the land  trade service of the United States in the Revolutionary war" passed on the the 18th day of March 1818: and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property or securities, contracts or debts due to me: nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by me Subscribed the following schedule containing all the property which I own at this time: necessary clothing bedding excepted: two horses value $45.00 one year old colt value $25.00 one cow value $7.00, two stoves and pipes valued $26.00 7 pigs value $3.50, one plow and irons value $5.00, horse gears $1.00 , one set of cooper tools $2.00, some grain for bread value at this time unknown, valued on the 27th December at $30.00 but myself and family have lived on it since.
Roger Stayner 
That I am by occupation a cooper, but from age and infirmity unable to pursue it, that I have a wife and three children residing with me. the eldest of my children is a daughter twenty six year old and blind, her name Joanna-the next a son thirteen years old called Ellis and the youngest a daughter seven years old called Mary, neither of them able to do more than support themselves and the eldest and youngest a charge upon me for support.
That since the exhibition of my first schedule I have learned that the heirs of James Cummin deceased has the legal paper title to the tract of land mentioned in that schedule on which I now live in Turbeto Township county aforesaid one hundred acres.  Sworn to and declared on the 14th day of March 1824 in open Court as aforesaid W. Mitchell Prothy.
Roger Stayner
Page 17

A true and perfect inventor and conscionable  appointment of all the lands and ten herewith and goods and challis which belong to Roger Stayner at the present date. 
100 acres of land at $2.00 per acre $200.00
2 horses 45.00
1 year old colt 25.00
1 Cow 7.00
2 Stoves and pipe 26.00
7 pigs 3.50
1 plow and irons at 5.00
Horse gears 1.00
grain on hand 30.00
one set of copper tools 2.00
Taken and appraised by us the subscribing the 27th day of December 1823
John Patterson 
George Gilliford
Mifflin County
Before me David Beale Esq one of the associate Judging of the Court of Common Pleas for the County of Mifflin and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania personally appeared John Patterson Esq and George Gilliford and after being sworn and the law certify do depose and say that the above property is appraised at the full value according to the best of their knowledge and that in appraising the lands deponents say that they only appraised Roger Stayner's claim, that they found he had no office right for the same.
John Patterson 
George Gilliford
Sworn and Subscribed this 20th December 1823 Before David Beale
Page 18

Pennsylvania Mifflin county
I William Mitchell Prothonatory or clerk of the Court of Common Pleas (being a Court of Record having the power to fine and imprison) do hereby certify that it appears to the satisfaction of the Court that the said Roger Stayner did serve in the Revolutionary War stated in the preceding 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 Schedule of property are truly copied from the records of said Court. That the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid Schedule as three hundred and fourteen dollars and that Davis Bank Esq before whom the preceding affidavit of the appraisers was mad in a regularly commissioned and acting Associate Judge in and for said County said to where official acts about full faith and credit is and ought to be given.
in Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court on this eleventh day of March 1824.
W. Mitchell Prothy
Page 19

A
Form of a Declaration to be made by the Officers.
For the purpose of obtaining the benefits of an act, entitled "an act for the relief of certain surviving Officers and Soldiers of the Army of the Revolution, " approved on the 15th of May 1828, I Roger Steiner of Turbett township in the county of Mifflin in the State of Pennsylvania do hereby declare that I was an officer in the Continental Line of the Army of the revolutionary, and served as such to the term when the arrangement of the Army provided by the Resolve of Congress of the third and twenty first of 
October 1780 was carried into effect and that I was reduced under that arrangement at which period I was a Captain in the Second (of Infantry) regiment of the Pennsylvania line. And I also declare, that I do not recollect, nor do I believe that above was received certain certificates (commonly called commutation certificates) for a sum equal to the amount of five years full pay which sum was offered by the resolve of Congress, of the 22nd March of 33 instead of the half pay for life, to which I was entitled under the resolve of the 2nd of October 1780 but I do recollect that when [illegible] they were so much depreciated that I considered them not worth taking up.
And I do further declare, that I have received of the United States as a pensioner since the 3rd day of March 1826, The sum of four hundred and Eighty dollars.
Witness my hand, this Nineteenth day of September in the year of our Lord Eighteen hundred and twenty eight .
Roger Stayner
Before me in the County of Mifflin Robert Wood a Justice of the Peace in the State of Pennsylvania Wm Gilbson & Thomas Finney personally appeared, this day and Wm Gilbson & Thomas Finney of the said county, who did severally make oath that Robert Stayner by whom the foregoing declaration was subscribed, is generally reputed and believed to have been an officer in the Army of the Revolution, in manner as therein stated, Witness my hand this the nineteenth day of [September] in the year AD 1828 William Gibson Thomas Finney
Rob't Woods
I  William Mitchell Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the county of Mifflin in the State of Pennsylvania do hereby certify, that Robert Woods before whom the foregoing affidavits were sworn, was at the time a regularly Commissioned and acting Justice of the Peace and duly empowered to administer oaths.
Page 20

And I do further declare, that I have received of the United States as a pensioner since the 3rd day of March 1826, The sum of four hundred and Eighty dollars.
Witness my hand, this Nineteenth day of September in the year of our Lord Eighteen hundred and twenty eight .
Roger Stayner
Before me in the County of Mifflin Robert Wood a Justice of the Peace in the State of Pennsylvania Wm Gilbson & Thomas Finney personally appeared, this day and Wm Gilbson & Thomas Finney of the said county, who did severally make oath that Robert Stayner by whom the foregoing declaration was subscribed, is generally reputed and believed to have been an officer in the Army of the Revolution, in manner as therein stated, Witness my hand this the nineteenth day of [September] in the year AD 1828 William Gibson Thomas Finney
Rob't Woods
I William Mitchell Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the county of Mifflin in the State of Pennsylvania do hereby certify, that Robert Woods before whom the foregoing affidavits were sworn, was at the time a regularly Commissioned and acting Justice of the Peace and duly empowered to administer oaths.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court, this 20th day of September A.D. 1828
W. Mitchell, Prothy

*Here insert, To the end of the war, or, (as the case may be,) to the time when the arrangement of the Army provided by the resolves of Congress of the 3d and 21st of October, 1780, was carried into effect; and that I was reduced under that arrangement.
+Here insert, The sum of [blank] dollars, paid to me by the agent for paying pensions in the State of [blank].
If the claimant has not been a pensioner, this part of the declaration
may be omitted.
Page 21

Mifflintown Juniata Co. Pa.
April 19. 1836.
Mr Stayner, One of the Heirs of Capt.
Roger Stayner, who served in the Penna
Line, during the Revolutionary War, and who
was a pensioner, (the will be found on the
Pension Roll) called on me this morning
and states that his father was entitled
to a sum of money, from the U. States, as a
compensation for his service as an officer
during said war, that when he left the
service, he was offered "Continental money
in payment, but refused to receive it
owing to its depreciated character, and
that he never did receive any money,
for said service. The Heirs wish information
from your Department, concerning
the matter.
Respectfully yours
Samed E. Hench,
To
Hon. Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D.C.
Page 22

Act 1828
Settled at
Treasury
Consd with
Invalid file
# 41. 197
be
Page 23

No. 2  1083
No. 2 of original payment 907
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIMS.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT.
30 Sept 1828.
Roger Stayner
of Turbett township in the County of Mifflin in
the State of Pennsylvania has applied to the Secretary
of the Treasury for the benefits of the act, entitled ""An Act for the relief of certain surviving
officers and soldiers of the army of the Revolution,” approved on the 15th of May, 1828.
He states that he was as an officer on the Continental line, and served as such until the
Reduction of the army under the resolves of Congress of 1780,
at which period he was a Captain in the Second regiment of the Pennsylvania
line; and that he does not attest to have received commutation certificates for the five years full pay granted by the resolve
of 22 March, 1783; and, further, that he has received as a pensioner since the 3d of March,
1826, Four hundred and Eighty
dollars, paid to him by the agent
in the State (not mentioned )
The Third Auditor is requested to report how far these several statements are corroborated
by the records in his office.
By order of the Secretary
Fet Dickins
TREASURY DEPARTMENT.
THIRD AUDITOR'S OFFICE,
6th October 1828

It further appears that Roger Stayner
dollars is now on the pension
list of the Pennsylvania agency, and has been since the 3 March
1826
at the rate of Twenty Dollars per month.
It appears that Capt Roger Stayner became 
a supernumerary officer in the Pennsylvania line
in consequence of being a Prisoner
J Thompson
Chief Clk
Page 24

1083
Revolutionary Claims.
Under the act, entitled "An act for the relief of certain surviving Officers and Soldiers of the Army of the Revolution,” approved 15th May, 1828.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
15 Nov 1828.
The annexed paper, relating to the claim of Roger Stayner under the abovementioned act, is respectfully referred to the Secretary of War, with a request that he will be pleased to cause me to be informed whether a commission, and, if
so, what commission, was received at the War Department, from the claimant, on an application stated to have been heretofore made by him for a pension.
Richard Rush
The Hon. the SECRETARY OF WAR.
Letter from the War Department 17 Nov 1828.
Page 25

Mr A. Dickens
To: Department

Bounty land Office
28 Nov 1828
If Mr Hodgson has left in the Department of the Treasury my certificate of the Service of Captain Roger Steyner of the Pennsylvania and his case has not been acted on, I will thank Mr. Dickens to send it to me.  - perhaps it will want correction or an addition Robert Taylor
Page 26

Bounty Land Office
28 Nov 1828
Robert Taylor presents with respect and thanks to William Dickens for his prompt compliance with his request. R.T. inform W.D. That he has made an addition to his former certificate preferring that made of correction as the former was precisely correspondent with the truth. Mr D could not have failed to remark  the change of language from records in the first paragraph to declaration in the second. The officers book at the time was in the possession of Mr Hagner with whom it generally stayed to enable him to answer the Treasury inquiries, as  it would have superseded the necessity of recurring to the declaration of the party.
Page 27

Rec'd 11 Feb 1829
Auditor General's Office
February 9th 1829
Sir,
Some time in the month of December last letter was received at the office from a gentleman in Washington City requesting the enclosed document which was prepared in compliance with is request but unfortunately the letter was mislaid and the name of the gentleman not recollected. We retained the document until this time under the expectation that a second application would be made but as that has not been done. I take the liberty of enclosing them to you in the hope that as the application must have been made at your office, you will be able to apply them to their intended purpose.
Very respectfully
Your Obedient Servant
David Mark
Hon. Richard Rush
Seal of the Treasury
Page 28

Re 11 Feb 1829  No 5
No. 779 Certificate for L393.16.11 Specie
We do certify that the state of Pennsylvania is indebted to Roger Stayner late Captain of the Second Pennsylvania Regiment, in the sum of Three hundred and ninety three thousand sixteen shillings 11 pence Specie with lawful Interest from the tenth day of April 1781; being the amount of the residue of the Depreciation of his Pay. Pursuant to two acts of Assembly passed at Philadelphia on the 18th of December 1780 and the 10th of April 1781. 
Jn Nicholson
Philadelphia 
Sept 20th 1783
Auditor Generals Office December 16th 1828
I Certify the above to be a true copy of the original on file in this office
Witness of my hand and seal of officethe day and year aforesaid
David Maur
Auditor General
Page 29

Return of the Pennsylvania Line, entitled to Donation Saves reported by the later Comptroller General
_____________________
Stayner Roger
Rank

Captain 
Regt
....
Acres
500
Nos.
....
Pension included your Restitution of January 1st 1780
I hereby certify that the above is an extract from a Book remaining on the Office of Secretary of the Land Office of Pennsylvania
In testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said office at Harrisburg the 16th day of December 1828.
Joshua Dickerson
Secretary L'd Office 

500
Page 30

It appears from the Books of the #rd Audtior that Roger Stayner Captain $20 per month has been paid for the 4th of March 1828, beyond that period no further payment has been made.
Benj'n L Beale
 Clerk Pension Office
23 February 1829
Page 31

Washington April 24 148284
Dear Sir:
I wish to inform you that I am of opinion that the evidence contained in the application of Roger Stayner is conclusive that there is no title in the said Stayner. The manner of Procuring to this to Land since the year 1792 in Penn'a has been by settlement and improvement by making an improvement such as is fit for the habitation of a Family and having raised grain. The settler was then entitled to a Warrant. It appears in Stayners case that he settled with the intentions of Procuring a title but before he had complied with the Requistes of the Laws he discovered that the Legal title was in another person and he was thereby debarred from procuring a title, and the Land can not be appraised to him. You will therefore find that he is justly entitled to the provisions of the Act of Congress.Your Humble s't Jn Browne
Hon JC. Calhoun
Page 32

War Department
Pension Office April 14th 1824
Sir, 
In answer to the enclosed letter of Mr. Allison, I have the pleasure of informing you that on Saturday last Dedrick Ourhand's name was restored to the Pension List, and a formal notification was on the same day forwarded to Matthew St. Clair Clarke Esq Clerk of the House of Representatives by whom the papers in the case was forwarded to this office.
The decision in the case of Roger Stayner cannot be reversed. Two persons have appraised the property which they state belongs to Stayner, at $344.50 which is more than that of any other person whose name has been continued on the Roll except in one or two extraordinary cases, The mere declaration of the claimant that he has learned that the legal title of the land which he owns is in the heirs of James Cummin deceased cannot be received as evidence; nor can the statement of the appraisers who attest that Stayner has no "office right" for the property, be considered satisfactory proof. I am very respectfully your Obt. Sevt. J.L. Edwards 
Hon. John Brown of Pennsylvania House of Representatives
Page 33

S E Hench
Mifflintown Pa
1828
Page 34

Pension Office
May 12, 1836
Sir
Roger Stayner of Pennsylvania was a pensioner under the Acts of 1818 and 1828 for the full amount to which he was entitled on account of his services in the War of the Revolution.
1828
S.E. Hench Esq
Mifflintown
Juniata Co
Pa
Page 35

Revolutionary Claims.
Under the act, entitled "an act for the relief of certain surviving Officers and Soldiers of the Army of the Revolution," approved 15th May, 1828.
______
Treasury Department
24 Feb 1829
Sir: I have the honor to inform you, that Roger Stayner formerly a Captain in the Second Regiment of the Pennsylvania line of the Continental Army; and who has heretofore received a pension at the Pennsylvania agency, has been admitted to the benefits of the above mentioned act.
I have the honor to be, Very respectfully, Your obedient servant, Richard Dick
The Hon. The Secretary of War
No 132
Page 36

Washington 9 Sept 1836
Dear Sir
Having been authorized and requested to present to Congress the claim of Roger Stayner, now a pensioner under the act of 15 May 1828 and formerly a pensioner under the Act of 1818 and finding a copy of his declaration and accompanying evidence under the act of 1818 necessary I shall be much obliged to you if you will cause me to be furnished with a copy thereof I have a copy of the evidence filed under the act of 1828. Stayner resides in Mifflin county Pennsylvania.
Your Servant
Francis A Dickins
D.G.W. Comptroller
Acting commissioner of Pensions
Page 37

A. parker
February 23rd 1841
G C
Record 41 Page 33
Page 38

Pension Office
February 23 1841
Sir,
In reply to your letter of the 18th inst in the case of the widow of Roger Stayner deceased I have to inform you that the act of 7th July 1838, does not provide for her case. It would appear that her husband died in 1839 and that she was married after her husband left the army. The act of 7th July 1838 does not provide for any widow who was not a widow at the time of the passage of that act.  G.C
Andrew Parker Esq
Mifflintown
Pa
Page 39

Miffletown Feb 18th 1841
Dear Sir
The widow of Roger Stayner a Captain in the Pennsylvania line and during the revolutionary war desires me to write to you to know whether she could receive relief under The Act of Congress approved July 7 1838 granting half pay and pensions to certain widows or under any other act or law of the land She could establish the following facts. 
That Roger Stayner was a Captain in the revolutionary war that he was a Pensioner under The Act of 1832. That he died in 1839. That she is a widow. That she was married to him after the expiration of the last period of his service and before the 1st day of January 1794.
These facts being fully authenticated could she draw and obtain a pension under the Act of July 7th 1838 or in other words does the act of July 7 1838 embrace the case of a widow of a revolutionary soldier, who was a pensioner under the act of 1832, and who was living in 1839.
Page 40

The old lady is infirm and it would be some what inconvenient to have the facts duly authenticated and as there seems to be a difference of opinion in reference to her rights to the pension even if all the facts were fully established. She has therefore requested me to obtain your opinion in the matter before she proceeds further in the case. Your early attention to this will  confer a special favor on a worthy old lady.
Respectfully yours 
Andrew Ranken
Page 41

See old War File  W 41197
Jan 24/87 To J.M Stayner-The office has jurisdiction only in pension and bounty land cases and both have been granted Soldier Omnibus Lin. Par 5 attached to letter.

No 1245
Rev War 
claim good
4 June 1827
Page 42

State of Pennsylvania
county of Mifflin
I Roger Stayner aged Seventy Seven years or there abouts do upon oath testify and declare that I was a Captain in the Second Pennsylvania Regiment one Continental establishment in the Army of the Revolutionary war and that I served as such until the close of said war.
Therefore know all Men by these presents that I Roger Stayner as aforesaid do hereby constitute and appoint  Colonel Joseph Watson of Washington City my true and lawful attorney for me and my name to demand and receive from the Secretary of War of the United States a warrant for the quantity of land due me as Captain as aforesaid.
And my said attorney is hereby fully authorized and empowered to constitute and appoint me or substitutes or attorneys under him for the special purposes above examined and the same to revoke at will. In witness whereof I have herewith set my hand and Seal this Twelfth day of May 1827
William D Beale
Joseph H Mccoy
Roger Stayner
Personally appeared before me the Subscriber a Judge of the Court in and for said County Roger Stayner signed and Sealed to the foregoing power of attorney and declares the same to be his voluntary act and deed for the purposes therein mentioned, who being duly sworn made oath to the truth of the above statement and further says that he has never received a Warrant for any land from the United Staes for his said services or transferred his right to it in any manner whatever Sworn Subscribed and acknowledged before me this Twelfth Day of May 1827.
David Beale
Page 43

State of Pennsylvania
County of Mifflin
Personally appeared before me the subscribed a Judge of the Court in and for said County 
William D Beale and Joseph A McCoy both credible disinterested witnesses who being duly sworn saith that they have been well acquainted with the before named Roger Stayner who has signed the foregoing power of attorney in my presence for many years and feel confident that he is the identical person that he therein represents himself to be and that he did perform military service in the manner as by him set forth and further say that they know that the said Stayner is a United States revolutionary Pensioner and further saith not.
Sworn Subscribed and acknowledged before me this Twelfth Day of May 1827 William D Beale
Joseph H McCoy 

David Beale

Pennsylvania Mifflin county
I William Mitchell Prothy of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Mifflin in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, do certify that David Beal Esquire before whom the foregoing power of Attorney is acknowledged and the above deposition made is and was at the time of taking the same, one of the associate Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the said County of Mifflin and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania duly commissioned and appointed and that to all his official acts as such full faith and Credit are and of might should be given.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of the said Court at Lewistown the 14th day of May A.D. 1827.
W Mitchell Prothy
Page 44

Milford Mifflin Co March 12th 1824
Sir 
I have at length Gott Roger Stiner’s application
Prepared and Now Inclose it to you. He had got
Judge Beal to file this application, but on receiving
the form from him, that you was good Enough to send
on,  I found they were not in order. The old man was
not able to go to Lewistown at Jany Court but got
up to an adjourned Court this week and got Banks to 
sign his application which I hope will Now do.
You will please to  [illegible] his application [illegible] [illegible]
is a just one. And he should never have been struck
Of[f].  I do think (his Lands) if he had a title for it, would
Not bring more than valued at. But he has no title
Only Possession, the little suposed to be in the name of
James Cummins.
Yours most respectfully
John Patterson

John Brown Esq
Page 45

Warrant No. 1245 fined to Captain Roger Stayner, a private in the Pennsylvania line for 300 acres of land. June 6th 1827
and delivered to Jos Watson
Page 46

S E Hench May 4th 1856
Page 47

Roger Stayner
Penn'a roll
Act May 15 1828
let to J Hughes
Nov 5 1836
Page 48

$4716,81
Page 49

Roger Stayner Pennsylvania roll Act May 15 1828 Be pleased to say to what time he was last paid?
Pension Office Nov 5. 1836

To 4th Sept 1834
3d Aud Off
S K [illegible]
Page 50

Roger Stayner
Act 1828
Mr John N Moulden acting comptroller Washington City
Revolution Claims
Tuscanora Valley Pa
Oct 26 
Free
Page 51

Respectfully referred to the Commissioner of Pensions
2nd Comptroller Office Act 31 1836

Roger Stayner Captain 
480 Philadelphia Roll
pd to Sept 1834
757 Roger Staynor
Private 
 41197
Page 52

Juniata county Turbitt Township October 16th 1836 To the Honorable John N Moulder acting comptroller first Sir a Certificate was granted to Roger Stayner a Capt of the Revolution under the act approved the 15th of May 1828 for revolution Clams No 757 whitch has not come on Since September 1834. The cause we don't know. There cant be no [illegible] in his Claim. Pleas to write to us what is the cause. direct it to Tuscarana Post Office formerly Mifflin but now Juniata county Pennsylvania. Yours Respectfully James Hughes agent for Robert Stayner
Page 53

41.97
INVALID 
Revy
File No. 41.197
Roger Stayner
Capt Rev War
Act: 18 March 18
Indes-Vol 3 Page 488
Page 54

1886 Feby 17 Hon L E Atkins on stating Com'g [commencing] of Service, comp'y [comply?] Reg & sending of published archives of Pen. Vol 2 Prior L p. 55 & 398

1926 Sept 17 Hist to Edmale A Halley-awf

1926 Nov 16 photos to S.A. Halley - awf

1932 Sept 30 hist to L. W Stayner Esq -eel

1934 Feb 17 Hist to G .Stewart - awf
Page 55

September 30, 1932
BA-J/AWF
Roger Stayner
S. 41197
L. W. Stayner
McCook
Nebraska
Dear Sir:
Reference is made to your request for the Revolutionary War record of the pensioner, Roger Stayner.
The data contained herein were obtained from
the papers on file in pension claim, S. 41197, based upon the Revolutionary War service of Roger Stayner.
He went from Philadelphia sometime in August,
1775 as a volunteer to Boston and served about two months, when he was commissioned ensign and served in Captain Thomas Dorsey's company in Colonels John Bull's and DeHaas' Pennsylvania regiment, was in the battle of Three Rivers, Canada and served about one year, when he was advanced to lieutenant and in 1777 was commissioned captain, was in the battle of Brandywine and a few days later was taken prisoner by the British and held about two years when exchanged.
He was allowed pension on his application executed April 27, 1818 and gave his age as sixty-four years, then a resident of Mifflin County, Pennsylvania.
On August 23, 1820 he was living in Turbett Township, Mifflin County, Pennsylvania and stated that he was sixty-nine years of age "against January next"; at this same time referred to his wife, Sarah, as fifty years of age "last April, and to the following children- Joanna aged twenty-two years; Joshua aged fourteen years;
Stewart aged twelve years "the 30th of May last"; Ellis aged ten years "the 25th of July next"; Polly [handwritten] many aged seven years "the 23d of June last", and that his other children [page ends]
Page 56

were all of age, their names not given.
In 1824 he gave his age as about seventy years and in 1827 stated that he was seventy-seven years of age.
He died in 1839, leaving a widow.
The place of his burial is not shown in this claim nor can this office aid you in ascertaining the place where he was buried.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER
Assistant to Administrator
Page 57

[initialed]
Rev. and 1812
War Section.
September 17, 1936
Ednah A. Halley
Lindsay,
Calif. R. 1, Box 122
Madam:
I have to advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim S. 41197, it appears that Roger Stayner or Staynor was born in January 1752, place not stated.
In August 1775, he went from Philadelphia to Boston and served two months, soon after he was commissioned Ensign and served in Captain
Thomas Dorsey's Company, Colonels John Bull and DeHaas' Pennsylvania Regiment, he was at the battle of Three Rivers, served about one year as ensign, then advanced to Lieutenant, and in 1777, was commissioned Captain, and was in the battle of Brandywine, was taken prisoner the next day, and held two years, when exchanged.
He was allowed pension on his application executed [page ends]
Page 58

executed April 27, 1818, while a resident of Mifflin County (which was later Juniata County), Pennsylvania.
In 1820, soldier referred to his wife, Sarah, born in April 1770, and children - Joanna, aged
twenty-two years; Joshua, aged fourteen years
Stewart born May 30, 1808; Ellis, born July 25,
1811; Mary or Polly, born June 23, 1813. He also stated at this time that his other children were of age, but did not give their names.
Soldier died in 1839, leaving widow.
Respectfully,
WINFIELD SCOTT
Commissioner.
Page 59

Ret To
J. C. Stewart
9419 St Lawrence Ave
Chicago, Ill
Page 60

Rev
Pension Department Chicago Illinois Washington DC Jan 30-34
[Stamp:] Received Feb 3 3934 Mail Sub-Div Vets ADM Branch

I have been looking up the records of Captain Roger Stayner Great Grandfather of the Revolutionary War who may have need a Land Grant but not a pension for his services. Who I think Enlisted Bucks County Pennsylvania, was prisoner on Long Island. Exchanged for another officer and served to the end of the Revolutionary War-Whose Records are in Washington and Harrisburg Pa. He has no marker on his Grave and is Buried at McKees Grave yard near Spruce Hill Pa. for Reference Write to John Mcmullen case taken McKees G Y [Grave yard] Spruce Hill Juniata County Pa.  I understand the D of Rev [DAR] decorate it or did until recently. But there is no marker. I understand they have him listed as buried in Academia Juniata County Pa. Lately, this is a mistake. If so why not put up a marker for him and settle all disputes as he is entitled to one Yours Truly J.C. Stewart 9419 St Lawrence Ave  Chicago Ill
Page 61

R 1 Box 122 Lindsay Calif
July 21 1926
Pension Office
Dept. of Interior Wash D.C. 
Dear Sirs:
Could you give me the following information in regard to Roger Stayner, a captain in the Revolutionary war? Who were his children? His wife? He was pensioned from Juniata Co as Captain in 1829 and died in 1830. He was in the Second Regiment, Pennsylvania line. I have great reason to believe he was my great-grandfather, and as I wish to join the D.A.R. this information is necessary. The research Librarian in the department of archives of Pennsylvania wrote that I might the information from you. Yours Truly Ederah Allen Halley 
Stamp: Pension U.S. Office H Jul 27 1926
Page 62

Stamp: McCook, NEBR
Sept 15 830 PM 
1932
This Side of Carts for Address 
Post Card Stamp
1 Jefferson 
BUREAU of Pension Dept of the Interior Washington D.C.
Stamp: Received Sep 19 1932 
War Sub Div
U.S.V.B. 
Reader
Stamp:
Received Sep 20 1932
Pension Files sub Division
Record Section
Page 63


McCook, Nebraska, Sept. 15, 1932
WANTED:
Information regarding Cap. Roger Stayner, Rev.War Soldier.
Particulars regarding a so called application for pension made by Roger Stayner March 23, 1819 at the age of 68 years. Is there such an application on file, and was a pension granted.
Please advise as to which Dept. to write to for information as to where Capt. Roger Stayner was buried.
The D.A.R. ladies will place on appropriate marker thereon if the grave can be located.

L. W.STAYNER (L.W. Stayner)signed
McCook, Nebraska
Page 64

6769
3-2233
Bureau of Pensions
Finance Division
Nov. 10 1926
Chief Rev War Section
I have this day received from Elmah Malley
M.O. No. 28984
for $1.75 requesting photstat copy as per letter herewith
1926. Nov. 16 Photos mailed
Treasure Div. Notf AW
O.J. Randall
Chief Finance division
HCL
Page 65

Phone Branch 476
ding this job should refere to Requisition No. 10733
Duplicating Addressograph Photostat, and Blue Print Work.
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
WASHINGTON
CHIEF, Division of Publications, Room G 137 Please furnish work specified below
November 13, 1926
Bureau ordering Pension Deliver to Room No. 5033
(ALL COPY FOR DUPLICATING WORK SHOULD BE PLAIN AND WRITTEN IN ELITE TYPE> EXACTLY LINE FOR LINE AS IT IS TO APPEAR ON FINISHED JOB.)
title and description of job photostate of 10 pages from the Revolutionary War pension claims S. 41197, Roger Stayner.
No. of copies 1 of each page Shall form be kept standing No days
For further information see A.E. Wilson 5033 Room No. 541 Phone No. 
Approved C.L. Laubid Rev
Chief Clerk of Bureau
WE Wilson Chief of Branch
NOTE: No order made "SPECIAL" unless statement showing necessity is written below and approved by Chief Clerk of Bureau ordering.
Seal: Division of PUBLICATIONS DEPT OF INTERIOR RECEIVED Nov 12 1926
_______________
CHECK WORK DESIRED
Duplicate
Multigraph single or double space? Facisimile signature?
Mimeograph one side or both sides? Facsimile signature?
Folding one or twice?
Assembling Stapling Once? Twice? Side? End?Electric typewriter Fill in address? Dated?
Addressograph from lists
Envelopes, size Card size
Proof list Pay rolls
Labels (submit sample) Corrections
Fill in letters Tabulation sheets
all trimmed to size of the largest copy
Photostat Size Netual Official use? Repay? yes $150
Blue pring Size Official use? Repay? 
Remarks 
(over)
Page 66

NOTE: Routine changes of addresses may be made on this blank without formal
Reference though or initialing of chiefs of branches or chief clerks of
Bureaus.

(Date)

INDICATE BY AN X IN PROPER SQUARE ACTION TO BE TAKEN.

Make new addressograph plate

Change present addressograph plate

Destroy present addressograph plate

On List

as follows:

Now reads
1
2
3
4
5

Should read
1
2
3
4
5

FOR USE OF DUPLICATING AND ADDRESSING SECTION
ADDRESSOGRAPH
The above change was made
Operator

MULTIGRAPH
Operator  Date  Type set by  Date
Remarks

MIMEOGRAPH
Operator   Date Cut by
Remarks
Page 67

R 1 Box 122 Lindsay Calif
Nov 4, 1926
Stamp: FINANCE DIVISIO? NOV !) 1926
BUREAU OF PENSIONS
Dec Bureau Pensions
Dear Sirs:
Find enclosed a money order for $1.75 for which you are to copy the Revolutionary War Pension Claim no S. 41197 of Roger Stayner. I would like this Photostat copy as soon as possible. The order includes the 25 cents for certification also
Yours Truly, Edward Allen Halley
Page 68

[cut off] 12 Wars Section.
[initialed] AW
October 28, 1926.
E.A. Halley
R. 1, Box 122,
Lindsay, Calif.
Madam:
I have to advise you, that if you wish photostat copies of papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S. 41197, of Roger Stayner, the same will be furnished at the rate of fifteen cents a page, with twenty-five cents extra for certification, if that is desired.
The number of pages to be copied is ten.
The proper amount should be forwarded to this Bureau by money order drawn to the order of the Secretary of the Interior, Not to the order of the Commissioner of Pensions.
Respectfully,
Winfield Scott
WINFIELD SCOTT,
Commissioner.
Page 69

R1 Box 122 Lindsay Calif
Oct. 9, 1926
Interior
Bureau of Pensions
E.W. Morgan
Dear Sir:
Please have photostatic copy made of Roger Stayners pension claim S. 41196. Remittance sent as soon as Bill of same is received.
Yours Truly,
Edward Allen Halley
Page 70

THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES
Form VAM-51
12-5-41
Division of Veterans' Administration Archives
BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
Name Stayton, Joseph
GRADE Private
LINE Delaware
Warrent Number 10881
Acreage 100
ISSUED July 5, 1797
to -not shown-
The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent
dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800.
Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.