Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 5185, for Adams Stevens, Connecticut
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Conn.   Stevens, Adams or 
             Stephens, Adam   W. 5185
R.I.                Rena              B.L.Wt. 9439-160-55
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3774
Vermont
Adam Stevens of Rutland Co. in the State of Vermont who was a Sergeant in the Company commanded by Captain Philips of the Rgt commanded by Halsey in the Connecticutt line for 2 years ___________ $120.

15 mo. 16 days 51:78-
Inscribed on the Roll of Vermont at the rate of 120 Dollars per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 2 day of June of 1833 and sent to R.  Temple

Arrears to 4th of Sept. 1832  $180
Some+anl. allowance ending 4 Mon  1833 60

$240

{Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7, 1832

Recorded by Vinal Luce Clerk
Book D. Vol. 4 Page 84
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Let to Pension ca 17 July 1835
payment de infeuded to again
17 July 1835

same 9 March 1835
Lett to Hon Wm. Slade June 25 1836

Lett to Hon Wm. Slade  June 29  36
Lett to Hon Wm. Slade March 1 1837  V42
Lett to Hon Wm. Slade. Apr 5 1838 - 46
Lett to Hon Wm. Slade. Decr 11 1838
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Vol 312 Page 65
Act March 3, 1855 
77274  Apr 18 / 55 
Rena Stevens widow of Adam Stevens 
Private 
Col Durkee's Regt. Connt Line  
Rev War 
Pensioner 
Dated Oct. 15, 1853 - Page 33 Vol. A 
Wt No. 9439 Issued Nov 10 / 55
Vol Wd 53 - 2464 
Boynton 
Ad 160 acres Nov 5 /55 
Dodge 
Abel Prescott Forge Village Mass
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2464
Vermont
Rena Stephens widow of Adam who served in the Revolutionary war as a private
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 51 Dollars 78 Cents per annum, to commence on the 3d February , 1853.

Certificate of Pension issued the 15th day of October 1853
and sent to 
B. Davenport
Brandon VT
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act February 3, 1853, Page 33 Vol. A

Let. C.C. Moore April 17. 1858

3d Aud. Mch 7/60
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Adams Stevens
application
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State of Vermont }
Rutland County ss. }

On this 18th day of June AD 1855. before me Samuel H. Kellogg one of the Judge of Rutland County Court in the State of Vermont, Rena Stevens, a widow of Sudbury in the County of Rutland and State upon said, 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 benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress, passed on the 3rd February 1853. granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the revolutionary war. That she is the widow of Adam Stevens who was a soldier in the War of the Revolution, and for many years before his death was placed on the pension list roll, by the Vermont agency, and this declarant refers to the evidence filed in his application for a pension, now in the department for proof of his service. 
She further declares that she was married to the said Steven on the 23'd day of April AD 1833 eighteen hundred and thirty three,
that her said husband died, April 4th eighteen hundred and forty nine -- that she was not married to him, prior to the second of January eighteen hundred, but at the time above stated.
She further declares, that she is now a widow.
Rena Stevens

Sworn & subscribed Before me this day & year above written.
Before me [signed] Sam'l H. Kellogg Judge of Rutland County Court

I further certify that the above named declarant is personally
known to me, & by reason of age & infirmity is
unable to go before a Court to make oath to this instrument & that she is a credible witness.
Sam'l H. Kellogg Judge of Rutland C. Court.
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State of Vermont
County Clerk's Office} Rutland, ss.
I, E D Lowery, Clerk of the County Court for the County of Rutland being a court of record and having a seal, as hereto attached, do certify that Hon. S. H. Kellogg was at the date of the paper writings to which this is attached, and now is a Judge of the County Court within and for said County, duly commissioned and qualified; that his signature to the foregoing jurat and certificate is genuine; that the said paper writings are executed according to the laws of this State, and are in due form; and that as such Officer, he is duly authorized by the laws of this State to take acknowledgements of Deeds and Depositions, and to administer oaths, &c.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of Court, at Rutland, this 20th day of June Anno Domini, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three.
E. D. Lowrey Depty Clerk
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I Arvilla Cool of Sudbury in the County of Rutland and State of Vermont of the age of fifty nine years being duly depose testify & say that I was present when Adams Stevens was married to Rena Rumsey. They were married here in Sudbury about twenty years ago. The widow Stevens says they were married in the 23 day of April 1833 & I presume she has stated the true day but I do not remember the particular day. And the said Adam Stevens died about four years ago & was buried in the burying yard here in sight of our house.
Arvilla Cool her mark X
witness B. Davenport

State of Vermont 
Rutland County ss.}
The above affidavit subscribed & sworn to this 18th day of June 1833 before me & I certify the affiant to be a credible witness.
S, H. Kellogg Judge of R. C. Court
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Adams Stevens
Sudbury
No 1565
Capt 9 months
Sergt 33 months

completed
[unk]


Commr 3 March 87
says one year 40$
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STATE OF VERMONT
Rutland count, ss.}
On this 20 day of July A.D. 1832, personally appeared in open Court before the Judge of the Probate Court of Rutland Dist now sitting, Adams Stevens a resident of the County of Rutland and State of Vermont, aged 80 years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress, passed June 7, 1832.
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers, and served as herein stated. In 1775 he lived in Norwich Connecticut & in May he enlisted in Capt Johnson's company, Col Israel Putnam's Regt & was appointed Sergeant & marched to Cambridge, Mass, was in the battle of Bunker Hill & was discharged at Cambridge in Jany 1776 having served 8 months as sergeant, was discharged by Col. Putnam, Lt. Lyon & Ensign Robinson belonged to the compy. Lt. Col Durkee belonged to the Regt honorably.  On his discharge he enlisted for one year in Col. Halsey's Regt of R. Island troops & was appointed Sergeant in Capt. Phillips company, Lt. Harrington (by whom he was enlisted), Lt. Col. Hoxie, Ensign Wert. Genl Babcock commanded the Brigade as first & afterwards Genl Lippet, marched to Connecticut Island, R. Island, & served in that place the whole time of his enlistment, & was discharged at Newport by Genl Lippet- he was at Southern hill & assisted in beating off two of the enemys frigates, the Clego & Erskine [unk] Wallace & was in the battle at the Dumpleys with 2 of the enemys ships. Then marched to Stenington, Laybrook, & to Long Island, & was in the battle of the Cedars, then returned to R. Island where he was discharges as aforesaid . In May 1777 when the news of Burgoyne approach marched Norwich he enlisted for seven months, with the privelage of joining what Regt of Connecticut Troops he please & he joined the Sharp Shooters a Ranger, Col Dearborn Regt & served  in said Regt & in company with Col Morgan of the Rifle corps & was appointed sergeant, marched to Albany then to Saratoga, was in the battles at Stillwater the 19th Sept & 7 Oct & at the capture of Burgoyne the 17th thence to Fishkill where he was discharged by Col. Dearborn, having served seven months as sergeant. In 778 & 1779 he volunteered each year & served three months each time as sergeant at New London in guarding the place, but cannot remember the names of his officers. In 1780 in May he was enlisted by a recruiting officer Goodale & joined Capt Hyde; company Col. Durkee's Regt & the next day by agreement of the officers he went into the commissary Department & received a commission from the commissary Genl Belding, & commanded his boats & boats crews
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& other commissaries & served nine months as captain as aforesaid, transporting stores on the Hudson & received & was discharged at West point Feb 1781 by Lt. Col. Sumner by order of Genl Waterbury. He has lost his commission & discharges, they having been stolen with other papers & surveyor instruments about 20 years ago, at Sheldon, Vt. He served in company with Col. Swift Regt & belonged to Genl Huntington’s Brigade- also with Sheldons Dragoons- but cannot Distinguish many of the Regts. He knew Genl Washington, Gates, Lafayette, Sullivan, Poor, Putnam, Huntington, Wayne, Stack, & many others. He has no documentary evidence & knows of no person whose testimony he can procure except the accompanying affidavits. He was born at Norwich, Connt the 10 Nov. 1757.  His age was recorded there. He lived in Norwich until 1799, when he removed to Vermont since which he has lived in Orwell, Sheldon, Hubbardston & Sudbury - he now lives in Sudbury where has lived since last May. There is no settled clergyman in his immediate vicinity, but he is known to the principal inhabitants of Sudbury, Orwell & Hubbardston. 
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. 
Adams Stevens 
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
R C Royce Reg’r [register]
We Peter Reynolds residing in Sudbury and John Hall residing in the same place, hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with Adams Stevens who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be 80 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. 
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid, 
R C Royce Reg’r  
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 Peter Reynold Esq who has signed the accompanying certificate, is a credible person, resident in Sudbury and that John Hall who has also signed the same, is a resident in Sudbury and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit, and that it would be attended with too much expense & inconvenience to require their attendance in Court. 
I, Rodney C. Royce, Regr. of the Court of Probate do hereby certify, that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Adams Stevens for a Pension. 
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 13th day of Augt. A.D. 1832. 
R. C. Royce Reg
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No 1565
Vermont
Suspd Novr 23 1832
Oby 5.14.16
Admitted
2 years 
Sergeant
$120


C, Temple
Present
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BRIEF in the case of Adams Stevens
of Sudbury, Rutland Co in the State of Vermont
(Act 7 June, 1832)

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

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

3. How old is he?  80 years

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

Period: March in 1775
Duration of Service: 8 months
Rank: Sergeant
Names of General and Field Officer under whom he served: Capt Johnson, Lt Lyon, Col Putnam

Period: Jany 1776
Duration of Service: 12 months
Rank: "
Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served:  Capt Philips, Lt Harrington, Col Haldle, Genl Babcocks's Brigade

Period: May 1777
Duration of Service: 7 months
Rank: "
Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served: Col Dearborns Regt Rangers

Period: May 1780
Duration of Service: 9 months
Rank: "
Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served: And was transferred to the Commis lariate, and recd a commission as Captain from from Connt Genl Belding and commanded boats and crew in transportation store son the Hudson River
Connecticut Troops

5. In what battles was he engaged?  Bunker Hill at the Dumplings & Connecticut Island R.I.

6. Where did he reside when he entered the service?  Norwich Con

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

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

I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
Robt Fowler
Examining Clerk
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State of Vermont
Rutland County ss.} Town Clerks Office in Sudbury in said County & State
I certify that I have examined the records of marriages in said Town Clerks Office and find there a record of which the following is a true copy with the exception of the date, which is expressed on the record in fair & legible figures as follows:
"State of Vermont
Rutland County ss} Be it remembered that at Sudbury in said County on the (23d) twenty third day of April AD eighteen hundred and thirty three (1833) Adams Stevens and the widow Rena Rumsey both of said Sudbury were duly joined in marriage by me.
Peter Reynolds Justice of the Peace
Recorded in Sudbury Town Clerks Office August 10th 1853
By me Jas K Hyde Town Clerk"
I James K Hyde of Sudbury in the County of Rutland and State of Vermont depose & say I gold the office of Town Clerk of said Town of Sudbury aforesaid and the above is a true extract from the records as certified by me. And I further certify that I was well acquainted with Adams Stevens while living in Sudbury aforesaid, he & the said Rena lived together in said Sudbury as man & wife & the said Adams died here in said Sudbury I think in 1849, & the said Rena still remains his widow. I also know that the said Adams Stevens was a United States pensioner until the time of his death.
James K. Hyde
Sworn & subscribed at Sudbury aforesaid this 18th day of August 1853.
Before me Henry H. Merritt Justice of the Peace
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STATE OF VERMONT
COUNTY CLERK'S OFFICE,} RUTLAND, SS.
I, Frederick W. Hopkins, Clerk of the County court for the County of Rutland, being a court of record and having a seal, as hereto attached, do certify that Henry H. Merritt Esq. was, at the date of the paper writings to which this is attached, and now is a JUSTICE OF THE PEACE, within and for said County, duly commissioned and qualified; that his signature to foregoing jurat and certificate is genuine; and that the said paper writings are executed according to laws of this State, and are in due form; and that as such Officer, he is duly authorized by the laws of this State to take acknowledgements of Deeds and Depositions, and to administer oaths, &c.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of Court, at Rutland, this twenty fifth day of August Anno Domini, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three.
F. W. Hopkins Clerk
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APPLICATION FOR BOUNTY LAND
(By the Widow of a deceased person who has not had a Land Warrant)
STATE OF Vermont
COUNTY OF Rutland} ss.
On this thirteenth day of April A,D., one thousand eight hundred and fifty-five personally appeared before me a Justice of the Peace within and for the County and State aforesaid, Rena Stephens aged seventy six years, a resident of Sudbury in the State of Vermont who being duly sworn according to law declares that she is the widow of Adams Stephens deceased, who was a soldier in the war of the Revolution. Brief of his services may be found on file which was made when she obtained the certificate entitling her to a pension. Said certificate was from under the act of Feby 3rd 1853 Dated Oct 15th 1853 recorded in the pension office on the Roll of Pensioners under act  at Feb 3rd 1853. Also the proof of the above named Rena Stephens being the widow of Adams Stephens, also of her marriage to the said Adams Stevens.
She further states that she was married to the said Adams Stephens in Sudbury on the twenty third day of April A.D. 1833, by one Peter Reynolds a Justice of the Peace and that her names before her said marriage of Rena Rumsey, that her said husband died at Sudbury on the fourth day of April A.D. 1849 and that she is now a widow.
She makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the bounty land to which she may be entitled under the act approved March 3d, 1855, & she requests that the warrant thereof may be sent for her to per Abel Prescott Forge Village Mass.
Rena Stevens
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STATE OF Vermont
COUNTY OF Rutland} ss.
We, Jacob Goodail and Harriett Goodail residents of Sudbury in the State of Vermont upon our oaths declare that the foregoing declaration was signed and acknowledged by Rena Stevens in our presence, and that we believe from the appearance and statements of the applicant that she if the identical person she represents herself to be. That she is the identical person that received the certificate described in the declaration and that she is now a widow.
Jacob Goodail
Harriett Goodail

The foregoing declaration and affidavit were sworn to and subscribed before me on the day and year above written; and I certify that I know the affiants to be credible persons; that the claimant is the person she represents herself to be, and that I have no interest in this claim.
Sudbury
Rutland Co} ss.             
E, N, Brown Justice of the Peace

I, N. Edwards Deputy County Clerk certify that E. N. Brown whose genuine signature appears above, is, and was at the time of signing the same, a Justice of the Peace for the County and State aforesaid, duly commissioned and qualified; that his Commission is dated on the 13th day of April A.D. 1855, that all his official acts as such are entitled to full faith and credit.
Given under my hand this 13th day of April A.D. 1855
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August 5, 1930

AWF:MLB
Rev. and 1812 Wars Section

Mrs. Reba E. Astone
22 Ralph Street
Beacon, New York

Dear Madam:

You are advised that it appears from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, W. 5185, that Adams Stevens was born November 10, 1751, in Norwich, Connecticut. He stated that his mother's maiden name was Adams. The name of his father is not given.

He enlisted in May, 1755 and served eight months as sergeant in Captain Obadiah Johnson's Company, Colonel Israel Putnam's Connecticut Regiment, was in the battle of bunker Hill. At the expiration of this service, he enlisted and served one year as sergeant in Captain Samuel Phillip's Company, Colonel Hoxie and Richmond's Rhode Island Regiment. He was in the battle of the Cedars and several other engagements with the enemy.
He enlisted in May, 1777, served seven months as sergeant in Captain Clark's Company of Rangers, under Colonels Dearborn and Morgan, was in both battles of Stillwater and at the capture of Burgoyne, and was slightly wounded in the leg below the knee. He served in 1778 and 1779, three months each year, as a sergeant guarding New London, no officers given. He enlisted in May, 1780 and served nine months in the boat service, under General Belding, transporting stores and provisions on the Hudson River.

In 1799 he moved to Vermont and was allowed pension on his application executed July 20, 1832, while living in Sudbury, Rutland Count, Vermont.

He died there April 4, 1849.

His wife is referred to as living during the Revolution. There are no further details as to her.

He married April 23, 1833, in Sudbury, Vermont, Rena Rumsay
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or Rumsey, a widow.

She was allowed pension on her application executed June 18, 1853, at which time she was living in Sudbury, Vermont, and was aged seventy-four years.

In 1851, the following children of the soldier were referred to:- Elizabeth S. Lanpher, Diat Stevens, Dan Stevens and Martin Stevens.

Very truly yours

E. W. MORGAN
Acting Commissioner
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2464
Vermont-Burlington
Rena Stevens
widow of Adams
Conn
who served in the Revolutionary war, as a Sergeant
Increased from $51 78/100. 
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate
of 120 dollars 00
cents per annum, to commence
on the 3d February, 1853.
Certificate of Pension issued
12th day of March 1860
and sent to S. G. Dodge, Present.

Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act
February 3, 1853, Page 182 Vol. H
G. L. Getty
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3774
Vermont
Adams Stephens decd
of Rutland Co in the State of Vermont
who was a Sergeant in the ----- commanded
by Captain ---- of the ----- commanded
by ----- in the Revolutionary war
line for 2 years.

Inscribed on the Roll of Burlington
at the rate of 120 Dollars 00 cents
per annum, to commence on the 4th day of
March, 1831, and end 4th April 1849: deducting
former payments at the rate of $51 78/100 per annum, from 4th March 1831, to 4th March 1849.
Certificate of Pension issued the 12th day of
March 1860 and sent to
S. G. Dodge
Present

(Payable to Rena Stephens, his surviving widow.)
{Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832}
Recorded by G. L. Getty Clerk,
Book H  Vol. 1  Page 87
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Pension Office
11th Oct 1853

Sir,
Please certify the time to which the within named pensioner was paid, or the date of his death.
Very respectfully,
L P Waldo
Commissioner
Adams Stevens, act 1832-
$51.78- Paid to 4th March
1849, no date of death on
our Books.

F. Burt
Auditor

Francis Burt Esq
Third Auditor Treasurer
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see let. to Avery Downer Sept 5, 1837
" " to Saml. W. Wood, Oct 27, 1837
do. to Avery Downer 29 Oct 1838
do Hon. E. Haley, Feby 22-'39
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Let Wm Slade Augt. 2d '39
same Sept 7th '39
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Rec Evi 4 Apl 49
Boynton
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Adam Stevens Vt. 120$ act 7 June when last pd
GWC
3 Apl 38

pd to the 4 Sep 1834
JH
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Adams Stephens, deceased
Rutland Co. Vermont
Readjustment
admd act of June 7, 1832, at
rate of $120 per annum from
4th March 1831 to 4th April
1849 when he died- all payments
made under said act to be
deducted service 2 years Sergeant
Rena Stephens, widow of
above named Adams Stephens
Rutland Co Vermont
Increase
"admttd act February 3/53
at rate of $120 per annum
commencing at date of said act
payments under said act, at
rate of $51.78/100 to be
deducted
Pay widow in both cases
Certificate to
S. G. Dodge Esq
Washington
D.C.
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Adams Stevens
Notes on his
services in the revolutionary war
The [unk] in 1780
on Rolls- not claimed
by A S his comm

Hon W Slade
HR
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in 1775 Capt Thomas Adams and Asa Stiles Esq'r, contractors for the army, engaged Ebzr [Ebenezer] Webb and maself [myself] to take Jacob Perkins and Howards places, for Perkins was a cooper, and Howard a black smith for they needed them at work to work for them. Webb took Perkins place as a private and I took Howards as a Sergeant and marched with Obediah Johnsons copany [company] to Cambridge NY. They listed [enlisted] for 7 months and I at Gen'l Washingtons request served one month more which made 8 months. I served in 1776 one year in Rhode Island troops. In 1777 the assembly of Connecticut made an act for the Capts of companies to class their companies into classes, and each class was to procure a man, and if the class could not agree the Capt should say which of the class should go, and on his refusal to go into the servis [service] he should pay a fine of 10$ and still be a subject to a draft, and in that year it fell to the lot of Sgt Wm Carew of Capt Joseph Ramsfords comp'y of silver grays to go by Ramsfords orders a comp'y.   I was enrolled into by reason of my having a Sargents warrent for every man was enrolled in some com'y even pri and go in army to meet Burgoyne & Mellitia [militia] men  and I was enlisted by Ensign Dan’l Foster in Sergent Wm. Carews place a Sergt to 
join the regmt as a Sergt.  These ridg't were called the gov'rs Ridg'ts (that is Johnathan Trumbal’s [Trunbull] Ridg't - the then gov'r [governor]) for seven months and I with some others were sent on to join the army early in the spring 1777 and Gen'l Washington had procured for Daniel Morgan a Col commission and selected for him a ridg't out of all the compys then raised to be a riffle [rifle] core [corps] and raingers [Rangers].   Morgan had the chief command of the whole (whether Dearborn was a Chief col or Lieu't col I can not tell- I have forgot -  we all went together I know or whether Dearborn was a Col or Col pro tem I can not tell).  And I was selected for one of the riffle core [corps] and rangers; or dear hunters or sharpshooters so called and I conclude for my self that Gen'l Gates made no returns of Col Morgan nor his ridg't nor his battles for he rated him like a Sergent and could not speak peaceable to him tho Morgan and Schuyler were the chief spokes in taking of Burgoyne yet Gates had the undeserving credit of it. Cap't Dan'l Clark was my capt, Col J Latamere [Latimer] was one of the col's of the east part of CT who was Lieu't Col under Col Sam'l Sheldon of the horse in 1776, the other cols name of the two I have forgot.  In the year I served seven months as a ranger or a riffleman in 1780 I listed [enlisted] for nine months and I was sent on to join a command at Danbury with some others early in the Spring who were a guarding our millitary [military] stores there and we joined Sergent Halsey there and stayed until the new levies come up there the last of June or the first of July then we joined Durkey [Durkee] ridg't at Robertsons farm but I went out of the ridg't into the Com'y [commissary] Belden’s boat commander and never served an hour in it.  Untill my nine months were out tho Col Sumner delivered me a ad a final Discharge before that time & yet I was held still under commisery [commissary]  in Belding until my nine months were out.  I was out in the war every year as long as it lasted more or less.   I was out in the year 1781 with Cap't Stevens at N London Ct, at Fort Trumbull when Arnold burnt the town and destroyed all the Soldiers at Fort Griswold and Hero Col Ledyard with his own sword after he had given it up.  And I had ought to be discharge from Durkeys [Durkee’s] redgiment when I went out of it and was enrolled in another part and place in our army  
Adams Stevens
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aditional
papers
Revolution
Samuel Smith
agt
I will call for
the result
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County of Fayette Pa} Jane McRaynds now Jane Smawley being duly sworn deposeth and sayeth that she always considered herself the lawfull child of John McRaynds decd and Sasha his wife and that this deponent has three sisters and two brothers, the children of the aforesaid John McRandle and that her father John McRandle enlisted under Captain John Foster. Sworn and subscribed this     day of               1820.

County of Fayette Pa} ss. Andrew Byers and             being duly qualified depose and say they they and each of them well knew John Mc Randles Decd late in the army of the united States and that the
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Washington, June 25, 1836
J. L. Edwards Esq 
Sir 
I presume by your letter of this date relative to the claim of Adams Stevens, that you require the evidence of "the comptrollers certificate" to ascertain his claim to the service of 1776 in Phillips compy, & Halseys Regt. If you mean the Comptroller of Connt, I have been frequently mistaken in supposing that Halsey's Regt was a R. Island Regiment. It would seem by your letter to Mr Stevens of the 9th March 1835 that you so considered it; and I understood you to say in a communication of few weeks ago, that there were no rolls of Halseys Regt in the Archives of R. Island. It was upon that ground that I confidently claimed that Mr Stevens service for the year 1776 was satisfactorily proved, having the testimony of three witnesses to sustain it, what I supposed sufficient in the absence of any roll of the company & Regt which the
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witnesses swear that he served during the whole of that year.
I suppose that all the evidence that Howard served in 1775 is derived from the mere facts that his name is found on the pay roll. His name would, of course appear there, I suppose, if Stevens served as his substitute as he declares he did.
An early reply is desired.
Your obedient servant
William Slade
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Wm Slade's
letter of explanation

J L Edwards Esq
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House of Reps
June 21 1836
Sir
I send herewith the additional affidavit of James Austin in the case of Adams Stevens; and also the certificate of the Comptroller of Connt. showing that the name of Howard, for whom Mr Stevens says in the statement herewith sent, he served as a substitute in 1775 is borne on the roll of Capt Johnsons Company for 7 months.
I have to request that you will cause this case to be immediately reexamined with the additional evidence herewith sent, and inform me before the adjournment of Congress of the extent to which you will allow Mr. Stevens' pension. I have not his certificate in my possession, but, on being informed of his restoration to the roll, and the amount, I will obtain his certificate & transmit it to you.
Mr. Stevens, in the first place, declares that he served 8 months in 1775 as a sergeant, under Capt Johnson, Col Putnams Regt. This is proved by the testimony of Beriah Sturns & Gershom Justin on file in our office;
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There can it seems to me be no doubt of the fact of his service in 1775, with their testimony. It is true the roll of Johnsons company does not bear his name; but the certificate of the Comptroller of Connt. shows that it bears the name of Howard, in whose place Mr. Stevens says he served.
Mr. Stevens further claims to have served during the whole of the year 1776 in R. Island in Col. Halseys Regt & Capt Phillips company; This service is proved by the testimony of Sturns & Justin and by the additional testimony of Mr. Austin herewith sent. Justin who I know to be a very upright man, says that Stevens was his bunk mate during the whole of the year. It is submitted whithin, in the absence of any roll of Halseys Regt this testimony of three witness is not sufficient to establish the service of 1776.
I have not the slightest doubt of the fact of Stevens service as he states in 1777, from the manner in which he states that service to me. It is true there was no such Col. as Dearborn; but I have no doubt that Stevens served under a [unreadable] officer of that name as he states. He is a very honest man, of a devotedly religious character, and carries conviction to every man
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who hears him relate his service, that he states the truth. 
Mrs. S. claims to have served 9 months in 1780, on Col. Durkee Regt, Capt Hydes company. This service is proved by Mr. Justin’s and Buriah Stevens says that the applicant enlisted in the spring of that year, went away & was gone until the winter of 1781. Austin states that he frequently saw during that term Mr. Stevens in the boat service to which he says he was transferred, and which amounts for his not being on the rolls. 
The truth is that Stevens seems to be in danger of suffering on account of his very [unreadable] as a soldier while in the service. He is, at this present advanced age a very large & strong built man, and evidently was a man of extraordinary power & was a the time he was in the revolutionary service the very man I should judge who would be selected, as he says he was in 1777 and 1780 to go upon service requiring extraordinary strength & courage. 
I have become very deeply convinced from my frequent conversations with Mr. Stevens that his statements are true & have therefore taken some pains to look into his case. Pray give as early attention as
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possible to this case, and advise me of the result.
Respectfully your obedient servant
William Slade

J L Edwards Esq


Wm Slade's
letter of explanation
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Comptrollers Office
Hartford June 15th 1836
Sir
In compliance with your request of the 8th instant I have examined the Records &c remaining in this Office and find on the copy of "a pay roll of the 4th company of the 3d Regiment raised per order General Assembly Colony Connecticut May th 1775" the name of Sergeant John Howard in which he is noted as having served 7 months, amount of wages £16.16 and at the head of this roll is the name of Major Obediah Johnson.
I have the Honor to be Very Respectfully your Obedient Servant,
Wm Field Comptroller

Hon William Slade
Member of Congress
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James Austin's
affidavit
C


Hon. W. Slade
HR
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I the deponent in my 78th year do testify and say that Adam Stephens of Norwich Conn was enlisted a Sergeant by Lieut. Paul Harrington of Richmond State of R. Island for one year and served as a sergeant in said compy Lieut Col Hoxie regiment of RI troops and served as a sergeant in said company= and I was a soldier in said compy at the said time untill July of 1776- and that I was in Capt Carns company in the year 1780 Col Bruns Regiment R I Troops and we were often in the  co guard boat and I saw Adam Stephens a number of times a commander of a large continental boat and our station was at West point NY, and our boat passed by him a great many times that year in the Summer of 1780- I was in Capt Parr's Company 17 months.
dated at Sudbury Jany 7th 1836
James Austin

State Vermt
Rutland Co} Sudbury Jany 7th 1836
Personally appeared the deponent James Austin and made oath that the above deposition by him subscribed contains the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
before me Jas. K. Hyde Justice Peace
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Jas [James] K. Hyde

State of Vermont }
Rutland County ss. }

I Robert Pierpoint Clerk
of the County Court for
the County of Rutland
certify that James K Hyde
is a Justice of the peace
for said County by Commission
dated Nov 10, 1835 which
will Expire Nov 30, 1836
and that I believe his
Signature above is
Genuine
In testimony whereof I have
hereunto set my hand and fixed
the seal of said Court of Rutland
this 25. day of March AD 1836
R. Pierpoint
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I Enos E Brown of Highgate in County
of Franklin and State of Vermont, do
certify and say that I have been acquainted with
Mr James Austin for twelve years and
do consider him to be a man of truth and
veracity
Enos E Brown Justice Peace
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[postage] free

to
J L Edwards in the war
Department at the City of
Washington --
with case and Speech

Vt Feb 12

Sudbury Act
Feb'y 6th
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Sir
Searys office. Providence July 14 1836
Sir
In answer to yours of Jun 30 I would
observe that there never was such a
Regiment as "Halseys" in the service
of Rhode Island
Very Respectfully
Yr obt Sevt
Henry Bowen

Hon. Wm. Slade
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Secrys Office R Island
Sept 19, 1836
Sir, In answer to your of 12 inst, I find that in Oct 1775, Gideon Hoxie was elected Lieutenant Colonel of Richmonds Regiment. In May 1780 and until May 1782 the said Hoxie was Lt Col Commandant of the Senior Class Regt of Militia in Kings Co now Washington.
There are no Rolls in this office.
Very respectfully yr obt servt
Henry Bowen
Richmonds Reg was I believe in service on R Island in 76 but how long and whether after that year I am unable to say.
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Hon Wm Slade
Feby 1st 1837
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Washington Feb. 1, 1837
Dear Sir
I send herewith, sundry papers in the case of Adam Stevens, the payment of whose pension has been suspended.
Mr. Stevens declared, if I recollect right that his service in R Island during the year 1776 was in  Regt commanded by Col. Halsey. It would see from the statement of the sundry of R. Island herewith sent, that there was a Regiment in service in that State in 1776 in which Gideon Hoxie was Lt Colonel. If I remember right, Mr. Stevens in some of the papers now in your office, states his service in 1776 to have been under Col. Halsey or Hoxie. At any rate I know he has always so expressed it in his
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communications with me relative to his service of that year. Hoxie was probably in the active command of the Regt during a portion or the whole of the year, which has occasioned the mistake of not introducing the name of Richmond as the Colonel. That he should have mistaken the name of Halsey for Hoxie is not surprising.
As there is amply parol proof in the files of this case (see affidavits of B. Sturns, G. Justin, & Jas. Austin) of Mr. Stevens service in 1776, I presume you will not hesitate, in the absence of any rolls of the R I service, to allow him for the year 1776. His name appears on the Rolls of 1780, for 3 1/2 months. He is therefore entitled to a pension (making no account of his declared service for 1775 & 1777 which I have no doubt he performed) for 15 1/2 months. If he has not already stated
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that his service of 1776 was under Halsey or Hoxie, and it should be necessary for him to do so, under oath, please inform me, as soon as practicable, and I will write him.
I do not know whether his pension certificate has been returned. Please inform me when you decide upon the question of his service in 1776.
Respectfully your obedient servant
William Slade

J L Edwards Esq
P.S. The accompanying letters from you are sent for your convenience to save reference to your words. Will you please return them.
W. S.
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Adam S Stevens
To J. L. Edwards
January 31 1837
It is requested that this
letter may be read

1 July 80 to 16 Oct. 80
[illegible] 3 mos 6 days
this was not the claimant
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Honorable Sir I perceive you do not understand me in my blundering way of communication therefore please to read my letter through and I will try to inform you better if I can for I can remember my services in the revolutionary war better than I can things done an hour ago in the year 1775 I served a Sergt for 7 months in Capt Obediahs Johnson company and was inrolled on the roll of Johnson company instead of John Howard of Windham Ct as Howard was blacksmith and Asa Witter and Capt Thomas Adams was contractors for the army and by an agreement I was inrolled on the roll of Capt Johnson company and Howard stayed at home in said Windham Ct to do the blacksmithing for said contractors 90 miles from Cambridge Ms [Massachusetts] where Col Putnams regiment lay, now you say that Sergt Howard if alive is intitled to a pension and [unreadable] of note Sir which is the most intitled to a pention Sgt Howard that stayed at home that he was in actual service for our army & I that was in the field esposed to danger every moment or are we not both intitled to a pention & as I shall leave the question to your honest judgement to answer & also at Genl Washingtons request served one month more after out 7 month were out which makes 8 months. Secondly I was inlisted by Lieut Paul Herington [Herrington] of R Island a sergt for a year in Saml Phillips company which was called when I listed Col Halseys regiment and he belonged in it in Stonington and he went to Neport Island R Island with about half of the regiment and leit col Hoxie went on too Jamestown Island R. Island with the other half, so being on Jamestown Island never see Halsey in the campain and I have been very lately crediblely informed that Halsey was transfered to some other place in the army or went aboard some armed vessel and Col Richmond took his place at New Port R Island and I knew that Richmond led our brigade from New Port to the Cedars on Long Island NY,  chief commander for Genl Lippet was transfered to some other place or station and now here sir I by some of my great blunders have blundered you a little or you ordered the honorable Wm Slade to go to the comptroller at Hartford Connecticut to find the roll my name was on in 1776 of Capt Saml Millers company when at the same year my services was in Rhode Island not Ct,   it is true part of our regiment was from Ct and part from R Island and as for the rolls of R Island in 1776 and 1776 of their companies I know R Island had none I could tell the names of every officer and soldier in our company and where they belonged but that would swell my letter to much I now come thirdly to tell of my third campaign in the year 1777 in that year what we use to call the general assembly of Connecticut agreed to raise two regiments of malisha [militia] and appointed Lettemore [Latimer] to be the Col of the eastern part of Cont or regiment of that part who was of N. London and Lieut. Col. of Sheldons horse in 1776 as [unreadable] man told me who belonged to Sheldons horse and also the genl assembly made a law that on the refutial [refusal] of men inlisting the company should be classed and one of the class should for a soldier and on their reputed the capt should draft one of the class and on his reputial [refusal] he should pay a fine of ten dollars and in  case then it fell to the lot of sergeant Wm. Carew of Jospeh Ramford’s company to be drafted and of inlisted in his stead a sergeant for 7 months but the men that were directed to go refused to go and paid their fine for continental [unreadable]  at that time [unreadable] failed to raise soldiers on this plan and governor Jonathan Trumbell took another plan and raised two regiments and thiee drew to about 40 that was raised for Latamores [Latimer’s] regiment went on with Ensign Daniel Foster of Canterbury to guard the stores for our army at Peckskill NY and I with then and Capt Daniel Morgan returning from [unreadable] Genl Washington procured a col comission for him [Morgan] and ordered him to take his choice out of the whole line of soldiers in the army for rangers and riflemen and Genl Washington also procured a Col Commission for Capt Dearborn a melist [militia] Capt, whether a col or Leiut Col I am not certain now,  he took me for one of said riflemen  and again by some great blunders I have blundered you a little you say,  Dearborn did] belong to it & know it he belonged to some of the Southern governments &  know not where, neither do I know where Morgan belonged only in Virginia some where the two Ct. regiments did not come on untill the first of August and then Genl Gates took the chief command of our troops for the northward department in Genl Taylors land and we went on to Stillwater NY and genl Gates hated Col Morgan and never spoke posively  to him the of one altho we beat the Canadians, indians and tories in Stillwater woods on the day of a great battle the nineteenth of Sept and also cut of the rear guard of Genl John Burgoyne near Tylers creek and took a part of his posessons and baggage in genl Burgoynes retreat from Stillwater to Saratoga after the battle of the 7th of Octr yet genl Gates made no mention of Col Morgan nor returns of his regiment mentioned - they returned no way
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and now come to my fourth campain and here in 1780 the gen’l assembly of Ct. made the same laws as they did in 1777 and failed on their purpose as they did in 1777 for congress bill loud that a man could pay to do [unreadable] time for days work or lagr [longer] and men were loth [loath] to go soldier for Congress bills and in this year 1780 Sergent John Palmer of Norwich Ct was drafted by Capt Nathaniel Bishop of said Town and I enlisted in his stead for nine months and I went on with one Goodall a recruiting officer with about 50 men to Danbury to gard the stores at said town for our army and it took another way to raise soldiers for 6, 9, 12, 18 months, 3 years and during the warm  and Col Durgey [Durkee] of Norwich came to Robertsons farms in N.Y. with his melishe [militia]  men, three years men, and during the war men and each went and joined their own regiment and I went from Danbury and joined his rigement at said farms. This was the last of June 1780 and this was the year that count Rochambeau with the French Fleet came to support R. Island which was great joy to us and in the midst of our joy Benedict Arnold proved traitor and now Honorable Sir, I never belonged to the standing army as you may see only to the provential [provincial] melisha [militia] and there is no other State only N Hampshire and another Southern one I understand that have kept rolls of their melisha [militia]  and very irregular rolls of their provential troops and you say is to late a day for to take witness or words to that purpose then be so kind sir to as tell me how I or any other melishe man can prove their servises [services]  as at the time I got where my pention I had a number of witnesses alive that are now dead and I have one now alive that knows of all my servises tho he lived 140 miles from me and I have not seen him in fourteen years and also I have another witness a 130 miles from me that can witness for me for he was a soldier with me in same company in 1775, tho I have not seen him this twelve years, you say there was a man of [unreadable] in Durkeys [Durkee’s] rigement as for the man Durkeys [Durkee’s] do not know him and he must be of the standing troops a Col but Durgey [Durkee] of Norwich was my neighbor and I could not help but know him, there was a man in Brookline Ct of my name the son of Asa Stevens and we both were named Adams after our mothers maiden name, it may be he I know not we lived a distance apart and now Sir I am poor, old and infirm and pennyless and it look hard to see my fellow soldiers of the same rigements and some of the same companys & served in the revolutionary war draw pentions and I can draw none when I have served more years then some of them and also have left part of my blood in the field of battle or in my four campains I served three years,  for in 1775 I served 8  months,  1776: 12,  1777: 7,  1780 9 months which makes 3 years besides other melisha [militia] towers [tours] and two years intitles me to a full pention and now Sir you have three witnesses before you of my four campaigns and I conclude I can get more if you say so if not I want you to say so, I don ot want to be in a suspense, it was not money I served my country for, if so I got disappointed fir the money I got was but of a little value at it was for LIBERTY  and I thank and indorse the Almity God of heaven and earth [unreadable] through his kind providence he granted us LIBERTY and I will try to content myself as well as I can whether I draw any more pention or not and that God still for upholding us in our LIBERTY dear LIBERTY of how sweat [sweet] it sounds tho it has cost the best blood of our country I could not read your writing at first not a word of it for I am illitrate [illiterate] and no learning but what I got myself and could not in some time find anyone that could so as to fully understand you my letter is three times as long as I exspected to write and I know the Honorable Wm. Slade as member of Congress for my agent and I wish you to look over my papers and see what is wanting some thing as nothing and do my bussiness with said Salde but I must close my letter by subscribing myself your well wisher and humble servant.
Sudbury Jan’y 31 AD 1837    Adams Stevens  
to your honour J. L Edwards
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Feb. 13. 1837
Dear Sir
I sent you the papers in Adams
Stevens case some time since. I have
lately recd. the enclosed, to which I wish
to call your particular attention. I have
left it several days for the purpose
of making a fair copy of it, that you
might head with less trouble, but
I cannot for my life, find time, and
and send it as it is I think you
will  find the whole difficulty with
as said to the service
of '77 satisfactorly
explained, as well as that of 1780, then
was it seems, another Adams Stevens 
who probably performed the service
found in your rolls. If you could see
and talk with Mr Stevens 15 minutes
you would be satisfied that all he
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States is true. I cannot give up this
case, for I have conversed so much with
this poor old man that I have
become fully satisfied that he has
served,  the full terms that he states.
I beg you will have the case
examined immediately & import to
me the result.
If it is necessary,
for Mr. Stevens to make oath to
the contents of his letter to you please
return it and I will have the
oath administered
Your obedient servant
Wm Slade

J L Edward Esq
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Adam Stephens 
Sudbury Ma 
March.12 
[unreadable] history
120.00
51.71
65.21
3 1/3
34.10
204.63
238.73
4th August [unreadable] copy of certificate when pen stopped when it comm’d [commenced] how much rec’d &c 
[unreadable] as withheld about 238.73
Dec 18 1830 wrote for executing power atty [unreadable]
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Dear Sir I received your letter dated August 8th 1847.  I must check you a little for writing my name Adam Stevens instead of Adams Stevens for Adam Stevens is a name I do not own and this you may see by the signing of my letters to you Adams Stevens, if you had payed attention to it.
And now Sir I will try to answer your request as well I can  and may swear once that my old pention rate was $120 dated Jany 2nd 1833. And my new pention certificate $51.78 dated September 1839 so that I was cash shorted 68 dollars and 22 cents a year in March 4th 1833, I drew on my $120 pention  certificate $140 and in September 4th 1833 I draew $60 [unreadable] which makes $260.  The first was for 2 years pention, the third 6 months $60.  Now my new pention certificate puts me back to 1831 March 4th the time I began to draw pention so that year by year mounted to   $260 which made it 5 years and 2 ¼ months, [unreadable] of pention in certificates has misread it greatly in his finding the name as I crediably hear from Wm Slade a member of them in Congress & Adam Stevens inroled in [unreadable] it is true my kinsman.  And the certificate is his tho draw from by his practice that he thought I was as big a villun [villain] as rob at temple, was God forbid.  And I have said to hm by letters I never listed into a standing troops any minit. All my servises was in collony troops.  And if this stumbing block can be moved out the way everything would be right at once and my witnesses affidavits can be found there is nothing in the way, which he ought to keep.  I think it would be well to let him see this part of my letter for there is no man perfect that ever I saw or heard of exspecially if they get a little [unreadable].  I think it very hard that I can not draw a pention equal to my fellow soldiers that have not been in the servise to must as I have been and been wounded too and by it made a cripple of me in my old age. Not that I think that he wilfully could but supposed he was doing right as you may see by my name in your letters.  And his in the pention certificate the gross error.  I write this for light take to give you all the light I can, and if you want any more light write to me and I will give it to you if I can.  And as for my old certificate of $120 Wm Slade afore said that did some business for me in Congress told me they in a letter demanded it.  And here though forget  [unreadable] made another mistake.  And I write this to show them that they was and miss juger as well as they.  And if my witnesses can be found there is no bar in the way of my obtaining my right and that is all you will find it as is told you in my other letters concerning my witnesses & some of yours &c
Adams Stevens
To William Slade Esqr
Sudbury Sept 30 1847
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War department, Revolutionary claims. I certify that in [unreadable] with the law of the United States of the 7th June 1832 Adam Stevens of the State of Vermont who was a private in the war of the Revolution is entitled to receive fifty one dollars and seventy eight cents per annum during his natural life, commencing on the 4th of March 1831 and payable semiannually on the 4th of March and the 4th of September in every year.  Issued in lieu of one dated 2 Jany 1833 for $120 per annum which has been lost and which if found will be returned to the Pension Agent. 
[seal] 
Given at the war office of the United States This twenty fifth day of September one thousand eight hundred and thirty nine.  
A Cooper 
Actg Secretary of War
Examined and countersigned}  J. Edwards Commissioner of pentions.   
Adams Stevens
Sudbury Ma Sept 31 / 47
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[unreadable] Sudbury April 28th 1847 
I received your letter dated April 2nd 1847. Requesing [requesting] me for to give a detail of all my services in the revolutionary war, which is a task for so old a man as I am between 90 and 100. But I will try to do the best I can to do it. I was born and brought up in town of Norwich Ct. And when I listed as a Collinal [colonial] Sargent in 1775 under Capt Obediah Johnson, Ephraim Lyon lieutenant, Levi Robinson Ensign, Israel Putman [Putnam] was Col of said regiment (Putman [Putnam] was made den’l afterwards by Washington).   I then lived in Canterbury joining North on Norwich in  Windham Co Ct.  ( Here I must observe our army was not in reguler order nor reguler returns made of it).  In 1776 I lived in said Norwich New London Ct And listed as Sargent in Rhode island colinal [colonial] troops under Capt Saml Philips, Paul Harrington Lieutenant, West ensign, Henry Babcock was our first gen’l then Lippet [Lippitt]  of our brigade.  Here I served a year (Here I must observe again there was no return made of the whole brigade).  But I have proved by Gershom Justin and James Austin both then in Vt that I served in Rhode island a year; if their affidaffits can be found, and also by Gershom Justin that I served 7 months in 1775 ( I will here observe also again that it looks something like pregudies [prejudice] instancies of was why they have not paid any more attention to my letters I sent to them; and also to Wm Slade then a member in Congress  for they denied receiving my certificate of $120 which Wm. Slade telled me he delivered to them and other writings also and if they have 
pregudice it will make them both deaf and blind.  But too return: in 1777 I lived in Canterbury aforesaid: and I listed a Sergeant in Ojediah or Obediah Clark company as I told ou in my other letter for seven months, Gov’r Jonathan Trumble [Trumbull] regmt so called.  Lettemore [Latimer] was the Col.  And at our mark in NY stated how Gates [unreadable] him; also how he Tyler and Morgan was served for the other letter.  In 1780 I lived in Norwich aforesaid and I went voluntarily with hundreds of others to [unreadable] land opposite West Point.  And here I listed a year under commersary Cain as his capt aboard his boat, a boat about 15 tons and a boat to carry compt Stores; and also a boat for a look for the ennimies of ours.  I served a year and he gave me a discharge and paid me such as it was.  And here I must say we did not serve for any money but for Liberty.  And this made us turn out so liberally this year; we knew France had joined us and we were told we were going to take NY by the help of the French and this enamered us with joy and caused us to turn out by hundreds to help them with our fowling pikes.  This year Ben’t Arnold treason was found out and Major Andree I saw hung; he was by Randing and two others taken; and Capt Johnson follishly delivered to Arnold his Andrees letter; which caused Arnolds escape from Justice; and terrible time we had of it; after Arnold’s treason was found out my boat with my crew ran the river up and down all the night afterwards [unreadable] and disorder with our cannon all through at West Point.  And if you want light on Something else write to me and I will try to help you to it.  I sir wish you to write and spell your words more plainer and not to blot them as you did; some of them were not speld well and some blotted.  I am an old man therefore Sir because my baby words in my letters if your find any I can write a [unreadable] of name of gen’l, col, major and officers of places be that know.
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I want you to send me letters when you want any of me or other times from yours &c Adams Stevens 
William B. Slade Esqr
Rose NY
Adams Stevens
Sudbury Vt.
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Sir I am one of those unfortunate ones that have been tricked out of a full pension by having the name of being a confederate with Robert Tample of Rutland who killed himself in order for to escape the States prison.  When he did nothing more than do some wrighting for which was my affidaffit which was signed by Judge Williams Judge of the Suprem Court; and getting one of the clerks of the pension commisistor to take my pension certificate and seal it up and send it to me.   For the Clark of Court of Rutland did my business chiefly.  In the first place I got a pension of $120 per annum; And I had to hard work to find new witnesses for my old ones was refused and also dead: and their witnesses ought to be laid up in the pension Commisioned office.  Gershon Austin of Whiting Adison Co Vt was my first witness, by which I got my first pension; and he was in several campains with me.   James Austin of [unreadable] Franklin Co Vt is my second witness was a soldier with me in  several campains by which I got 51.79 cents, not half so much as I ought to have.  For I was a Ct Colonies soldier 7 months, Obadiah Johnson Capt, Ephraim Lyon Lieut., Levi Robbinson Ensign, Col. Israel Putmans [Putnams] regt, afterwards made gen’l in 1775 and in 1776 I was a Rhode Island colonies soldier a year, Sam’l Phillips capt, Paul Harrington Lieut, Ensign West, Genl Lippit’s [Lippitt’s] Brigade.  In 1777 I was a Ct. colonies soldier raised by gov’r Jonathan Trumbul [Trumbull] gov’r.  This year he raised two regt for 7 months and I listed under Obediah Clark Capt. in Lattomores [Latimer] ridgt [regiment] and I forget wheather his name was Obediah or Jedediah, he was shot in the head in the battle at Stillwater puttin 19th Sept the same year and we found him the next day alive, striped of his broad cloth blue coat, vest and pants shoun with silver buttons and lace on them all.  And I was one that helped bring him into cam and he lived a few hours after he was brought in.  Capt Clark belong to Presson Ct.  And I was took out of Capt Clarks company and put into Col. Morgins [Morgan’s] rifle core [corps].  For Washington made him a Col and gave him leave to pick his   rigt [regiment] out of his whole line, and the new recruits that came in in 1780 was returned to the secretary of war I can not tell.  At my discharge I received my pay of him old cont [continental] money.  I have served other campains I shall not mention.  If I can find my servesses in the Secretary of Wars Office at Hartford Ct, returned by Gen’l Israel Puman [Putnam] and the office of Gov’r Trumbuls [Trumbull].  It is enough to make me out full pension.  I want to know how you ask little and great for your troble in looking up pensions.  I had given it up even trying any more to get my pension.  For I put into one of the pensions agents hands and he never tryed to do anything, tho I let him know I had found a new witness [unreadable] to and a hundred years old, since dead, he was in the same company with me in 1775 aforesaid.  & if there is anything more wanting, write to me and will try to help you to it; or at any rate write to me perhaps I may think of more something that will help you .  I am old and forgetfull between 90 and 100.  I hope you will not do as the other did.  1776 servis they have allowed me and 3 months of 1780 from your $c  Adams Stevens at Sudbury March the 12th 1847
Sudbury Rutland Co Vt.
Willim G. Slade Esqr
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March 29. 1855

Sir
Adam Stevens, a pensioner in my District
was struck from the roll on Temple's account
and the rate of his pension reduced. He is
very poor  and in distress, and I desire to know
at what time his reduced pension will
commenced. I think his original certificate has
been returned to your office. Please inform
me how much he is to draw, and when
it will commence.
Respectfully  your
William Slade
J. L. Edwards Esq
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State of New York 
County of Warren}  ss  Benjamin Rathbone personally appeared before the under signed a justice of the peace of the Town of Chester in the County of Warren aforesaid on the 8th day of October 1838 and being duly sworn according to Law make oath and says that he this deponent was in the time of the war acquainted with Adams Stephens when he lived in the Town of Canterbury in the County of Windham State of Connecticut.  Saith the said Adam Stevens listed in the continental service to his knowledge 3 years to wit: 1775 and 1776 and 1777 and left home and did not return untill some time in the Winter following, and at one of the enlistment was out a year.  And in the year 1780 he listed early in the spring and did not return until the next winter. In 1781 was out some three four months in the Malitia, think he was at New London, this deponent lived close to Mr. Stevens in the Town of Canterbury, thinks he could not have been at home any length of time without his this deponent knowing of it, and that Capt. Johnson was out at the time but does not know who or what officers he served under when in the malitia was under Capt N. Bishop Company of Norwich and further that the wife of Mr Stevens lived with his this deponents father when the said Adams Stevens was in the service and he this deponent lived at home at the same one season.   Mr Stevens lived in a little house near by his fathers and he this deponent did the necessary work about for Mrs Stevens in her husbands absent.  And further this this deponent saith not 
Benjamin Rathbone x his mark
Subscribed and sworn according to law before me this 8th day of October 1838 attest Hiram Mead 
Hobby Mead Justice of the Peace  
I hereby certify that the above deponent made his mark says that he never learned write.  Hobby Mead Justice
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I hereby certify that Benjamin Rathbone the within Named deponent is a man entitled to credit that I am personally acquainted with him and from  my knowledge that he is of a sound mind and [unreadable] and that his statement is entitled to credit at Chester this 8th October AD 1838
Hobby Mead Justice
State of New York 
Warren County ss}  I Thomas Archibald Clerk of the said County do hereby certify that Hobby Mead before whom the within affidavit purports to have been sworn was at the date of the same one of his Justices of the peace in and for the said County duly Elected and Sworn and residing in said County and further that I am well acquainted with his hand writing and verily believe his name subscribed to the within affidavit and the above certificate to be his proper hand writing and signature.   
In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of the said County this 7th day of October 1838 
Thomas Archibald Clerk
D. Benj Rathbones affd’t
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Ho. of Reps Dec 7 1838 
Sir
At the request of Adam Stevens, whose pension has been suspended on account of Temples frauds, I send you the accompanying affidavit of Benjamin Rathbone, which I wish to have examined in connexion with the other papers in the case.   
Your letter of March 11 1837, to myself, states that Mr. S. may be allowed for one & year. That year I presume is 1776, being a service in R. Island proved by Beriah Stevens & Gershom Justin. The same witnesses support Mr Stern declaration of 9 months service in 1780, and the service in 1780 is further shown by the accompanying affidavit of Mr. Rathbone. Is not the testimony of the three witnesses sufficient to show the alleged service in 1780 and ought not that sworn to be added to the year for which you have expressed
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a willingness to allow Mr. Stevens?   
But if you should not consider the alleged nine months service in 1780 as sufficiently proved, is not Mr Stevens entitled to an allowance of 32 months in that year, agreeably to your letter to him of the 17th of February 1835?   
Please cause the case to be examined in connexion with the accompanying affidavit & report to Your obedient Servant 
William Slade 
J. L. Edwards Esq
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[stamp] BURLINGTON VT FEB 8
Feb 13 1857
Respecting heirs of Adams Stevens
FREE Vt. d. 32
Rev Levi A. Lampher
Colchester
Chittendon  Co. Vermont
To the Commissioner of Pensions 
Washington City
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Commissioner of Pensions. Hon sir I have layed in my hands a Pension Bill together with Affidavits, Records and other papers delivered to me by the heirs of Adams Stevens late of Sudbury Vt, Diseased who served in the revolutionary war and pension bill purports to have been given in lieu of one dated Jany 22 1833 for $120 pension which has been lost, and which if found will be returned to the pension Agent as mentioned in the bill and the bill in my possession bears date 25th Sept. 1839, given for the annul recpt of fifty one dollars and seventy eight cts to the said Stevens - has been dead about two years - he left no widow. I wish you to inform in behalf of the heirs whether they can be entitled to land on this claim also whether they can draw a balance in money as withheld pay during the life of the lost pension bill equal to the amount of the first bill, or equal to the amount of a privates pay, as he was a sergeant in the war but evidence to that effect cannot be obtained now in as much as those who served with him all dead, and his discharge is lost.   
I mailed a letter directed to you in the same business about the 1st in having received no reply I forward this. If you will have the goodness to give me some information concerning the matter it will be gratefully received by those directly interested.   
Respt yours
Please  address to Levi A Lampher 
Colchester, Chittenden Co. Vt.
Feb 3d / 51
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Adam Stevens
Payment to be made Vermont
at Montpelier Decd 4th Apl 1849
by A Clark, Esq
Agent for paying Pensioners in the Agency of
Vermont
Recorded in the Pension
Office, in Book E 2 Vol. 3.
Page 100 by
R Burdine Clerk
1844 8 years in Sudbury  previous
in Huthvarton
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WAR DEPARTEMENT.
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.
I certify that in conformity with the law of the United
States, of the 7th June, 1832, Adam Stevens of
the State of Vermont
who was a Private in the War of the
Revolution-
-
is entitled to receive fifty one dollars and
Seventy eight cents per annum, during his natural life com=
mencing on the 4th of March, 1831, and payable semi-
annually on the 4th of March and 4th of September, in
every year Issued in lien of one dated 2 Jany 1833
for $120 Per ann, which his [illegible] lost, and what if found
will be returned the per annum
Given at the War Office of the United States
this twenty fifth day of
September one thousand eight
hundred and thirty -nine
S. Cooper
Act.g Secretary of War
Examined and
Countersigned.}
-

J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
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Hon. Wm Slade
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APPLICATION FOR A NEW CERTIFICATE. 
State of Vermont
County of Rutland ss}  
On this seventeenth day of Sept 1839, before me, the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace for the said county of Rutland personally appeared Adams Stevens who, on his oath, declares that he is the same person who formerly belonged to the company commanded by Captain Samuel Philip in the regiment commanded by Colonel Holley in the service of the United States; that his name was placed on the pension roll of the State of Vermont that he received a certificate of that fact under the signature and seal of the Secretary of War; which certificate on or about the 20th day of December 1837 was sent to the Hon Wm. Slade a member of  of Congress then at Washington City D.C. and the said Certificate has not since been returned to me Adams Stevens 
Sworn and subscribed to before me the day and year aforesaid.   James K. Hyde Justice Peace
NOTES -- The last four blanks are left for the applicant to set forth the time, place, and manner of the loss or destruction of the original certificate. 
The oath to be taken before a duly qualified magistrate, whose official character and signature must be properly authenticated . 
If the pensioner has never received a formal certificate, but has drawn his pension on a mere notification, as was the case in a few instances many years ago, he should leave out the above words in italics and insert, in lieu thereof, "but has never received a formal certificate, and now wishes to obtain one.” 
The pensioner's oath must be supported by the evidence of another person as to identity. The person must swear that he well knows him to be the same person described in the above affidavit. The magistrate must certify that the deponent is a person of veracity. This oath must also be authenticated by the certificate of the proper officer, under his seal of office, setting forth that the officer before whom the affidavit may be made is a Justice of the Peace, Judge, or Notary Public, as the case may be. 
When a person acting as an Agent or Attorney for a pensioner, loses the certificate, the affidavit of that person is also required, which must be authenticated as above. 
In every case where the Clerk of the Court, or other certifying officer, has no public seal of office, the certificate of a member of Congress, proving the official character and signature of the certifying officer, should be sent with the papers. 
Mode of Authenticating papers - In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticates the papers is not written on the same sheet which contains the affidavit, or other paper authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or small ribbon, the ends of which must pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate. 
No attention will be given to applications from persons who act as agents, unless they are known at the War Department or are vouched for as respectable persons by some one who is known to the Department.
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Your new Certifi-
cate lost & reducd
15 Mo. 16. ds pri
-
$51.78
---
deduct what was
pd. on  former certifc
Hon Wm Slade
Middlebury
Vt.
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I Daneil Woods of Sudbury in the County of Rutland & State of Vermont of lawful age being duly sworn do certify depose & say that I am well acquainted with Adams Stevens  of Sudbury aforesaid and know him to be the identical Adams Stevens described in the within affidavit Sudbury Sept 17 1837- Daniel Woods 
State of Vermont 
Rutland County ss}  Sworn and subscribed to before me the day & year aforesaid & furthermore I  am well acquainted with the above subscribing Daniel Woods & hereby certify that he has the highest reputation for truth & veracity 
James K. Hyde 
The above James K Hyde is a justice of the peace acting under the authority of this State; and the above signature of his name is in his proper hand writing. 
William Slade M.C.
September 17, 1837
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Middlebury, Vt Sept 18. 1839.
Sir
I send herewith the affidavit of Adams
Stevens, touching the loss of his pension
certificate, and the affidavit of Daniel
Woods to his identity
I suppose it is unnecessary for
me to make affidavit in the case. I can
say that I have no distinct recollection,
though I have a general impression that the
certificate came to my hands.
I am quite sure that if I received it
I sent it to your office. I cannot
find it among my papers
Respectfully yours
William Stale
J. L. Edwards Esq
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Middlebury Vt. August 27.39
Sir
I have communicated to Adams Stevens your
letter informing me that his old certificate
must be returned before a new one can be
issued. I send herewith his reply. It was
my impression, when I received your letter
that he had sent me his certificate, and that
I had returned it to your office. I have not
now the slightest doubt that he did send
to me, and I am very sure I sent
it to you if I received it
If it is necessary to have M. Stevens
affidavit please send me the form. I cannot
State positively from district recollection that
I returned the certificate & you though
such is my impression. I am sure indeed,
that I must have sent to you if I
received it
Respectfully
William Tate
J. L. Edwards Esq
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[unreadable]
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Dear Sir 
I have received [unreadable] before he [unreadable] new one this [unreadable] and have sent it to you with [unreadable] therefore it must be in the pension office and the [unreadable] the certificate of [unreadable] 
Sudbury August 26 1837 [unreadable]  
Adams Stevens
[unreadable]to let him know how the matter [unreadable]
A. S.
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Middleburg, Vt. July 19. 1839
Sir
By your letter to me of the 11th of
December last, it appears that it was decided
to allow to Adams Stevens, to whom too large
an allowance had been originally made
a pension for 15 months. 16 days service,
and that the over payment under the first
allowance, would be absorbed previous to the
fourth of September next. I believe the new
pension for 15 months & 16 days commenced
on the 19th June last. The original certificate, I believe, was time returned. Please send me the new one as soon as convenient.
Very respectfully yours
William Slade
J.L. Edwards Esq.
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Received from Stephen
Thomas of West Fairlee
Vt.
S. G. Dodge
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Know all Men by these Presents, That I, Rena Stevens of Sudbury State of Vermont, widow of Adams Stevens deceased, and a pensioner of the United States, under the second section of the act of Congress of 3d of February, 1853, do hereby constitute and appoint, Stephen Thomas of West Fairlee in the State of Vermont my true and lawful attorney, for me, and in my name and behalf, to prosecute in the United States Court of Claims, and before Congress and the Executive Departments, my claim for arrears of pension under the act aforesaid, from the 4th day March, 1848, to the 3d day of February, 1853; also, to prosecute any claim I may have for increase of pension, with full power to substitute any other attorney in his stead. This power of attorney to be irrevocable for the term of eighteen months from date. 
Witness my hand and seal, this 18th day of Feby 1860 
[SEAL.] 
Executed in presence of Rena Stevens 
James K Foster 
Charles M Shaw 
STATE OF Vermont 
COUNTY OF Rutland}SS.  
On this 18th day of February 1860, before me, a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, personally came the above named Rena Stevens and acknowledged the foregoing power of attorney to be her act and deed. 
James K Foster J. P. 
STATE OF  
COUNTY OF  }  SS. f do hereby certify that whose genuine signature appears to the foregoing certificate, at the date thereof, a in and for said County. and qualified. testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and the seal this day of 185 
Clerk
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STATE OF VERMONT.
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE
Montpelier, July-21 1860
I Certify that James R. Foster Esq. whose name is
subscribed in his own proper handwriting to the foregoing Certificate was at the date therefore Justice 
of the Peace within and for in the County of Rutland
duly qualified, with full power and authority under and by [illegible] of the laws of said State to administer Oaths and take depositions, and Acknowledgement of Deeds and that to his official acts and attestations 
and certify full faith and credit are and ought to be given.
Given under my hand and the Seal of this office, this 21st day of
February A.D. 1860
G. W. Bailey Jr. Deputy Secretary of State.
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Brief in the case of Rena Stevens Widow of Adam 
Rutland County and state of Vermont 
Act 3. Feby. 1853 
Claim, (“original")   
Proof exhibited, (if original.) Is it a documentary, traditionary or supported by the rolls?  If either state the substance.  
Husband was a  pensioner under the Act of 7 June 1832 
Record evidence of Marriage 
(If for increase.)  Has additional evidence been filed since the admission of the claim? If so, what?  
B. Davenport Esqr Brandon Vermont
Name and residence of Agent 
S. C. Boynton
Examining Clerk
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Cancelled March 2 / 60
R. Stephens 
Payment to be made at Burlington by  
Wm. J. Odell 
Agent for paying Permanent in the Agency of Vermont 
Payable on the 4th September and 4th March  
Recorded in the Pension Officion the Roll of Pensioners under act February 3d, 1853, Page 33 Vol A 
G. L. Getty Clerk
1835  Sept, lived in Sudbury 22 years pension started in Hubbarton
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR. 
WIDOW'S PENSION. 
I certify that in conformity with the 2d section of the act of February  3, 1853, Rena Stephens widow of Adam Stephens who was a private in the revolutionary war, is inscribed on the pension list at the rate of Fifty one dollars and Twenty eight cents per annum, commencing on the 3d of February, 1853, and continuing for life, unless she should again marry; in which case the Pension is not payable after the time of such marriage. 
Given at the Department of the Interior, this fifteenth day of October  one thousand eight hundred and fifty three,
[unreadable]
Secretary of the Interior.
Examined and Countersigned.  
L. P. Waldo   Commissioner of Pensions
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Brief in the case of Adams Stephens, deceased, and Rena Stephens, his widow Rutland County and State of Vermont 
act June 7, 1832 and February 3, 1853 
Claim, (original " or " for increase.”) 
Proof exhibited, (if original.) 
Is it documentary, traditionary, or supported by rolls? If either, state the substance. 
Adams Stephens was originally pensioned at rate of $120 per annum, under act of June 7, 1832, and was paid at said rate until 4th September 1834, when the payment of his allowance was stopped. His pension was subsequently adjusted at rate of $51.78/00 per annum, at which sale be was paid from 4th March 1831 to 4th March 1849 the payments at rate of $120 being deducted. He died 4th April 1849.  His widow was allowed a pension under act of February 3 1853.
(If for increase.) Has additional evidence been filed since the admission of the claim? If so, what? 
At same rate her husband received and is now a pensioner. Her certificate has been rendered upon a reexamination of the papers in these cases and the discovery of the other and material record proof it satisfactorily appears that the original allowance made by the office was correct. The difference between the amount then allowed and the moment said Stephens Deceased has consequently been granted this widow by a new certificate, and her pension as also been increased accordingly.  
S. G. Dodge Esq 
Name and residence of Agent 
Washington, D. C. 
R. Geddes
Examining Clerk
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Honorah L. P. Waldo 
Commr of Pensions 
Dear Sir 
I enclose the papers for Irena or Rena Stevens Widow of Adams Stevens a Revolutionary Soldier, And I ask the favor 1 to make enquiry for the widow of Ephraim Jackson, whether her papers, have been received (Phebe Jackson) She is anxious to learn the result of her application before the 4th of Sept next.
 Very Respectfully 
B. Davenport 
Brandon Vt. August 25th 1853
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Washington Decr 27. 1859 
Sir
In the case of Rena Stephens, widow of Adams pensioner on the Vermont roll, act Feb 3d 1853, 2d Section, in which her increase has been applied for the soldier, who was pensioned under the act of 1832, and reduced from $120 to $51.78 per annum, he alleged, that he served as Sergeant in Col Halsey's regiment of Militia, under Lt Col Hoxie.   This service was reduced to that of a Private.   
He alleged a service under Col Henry Dearborn in 1777 in a regiment of militia rifle sharp shooters; which it seems was not allowed to him, under the assumption that Col Dearborn did not command such a corps.   
He also alleged that he served under a Commission as Captain from Commissary Genl Belding in command of a boat in the Batteau service on the Hudson now in 1780-81. 
The rolls of Count Militia service are probably better understood now than when the pension was reduced. The rolls and records of service under Col
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Dearborn have recently been arranged in better order than before. There is I think, a list of batteaus [bateaus] in service on the Hudson river, now in the Pension office, as well as a running correspondence on the subject of this service, in which the names of some of the commander of boats are mentioned. 
I have to request that the above mentioned rolls may be examined with the view to ascertain whether evidence confirmatory of Adam Stevens’ service may not be found among them.   
I am, Very respectfully Your Obt Sert 
S. G. Dodge 
Hon Geo. C. Whiting, Commr of Pensions
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Rene Stevens widow of Adams 
Pensioner on Vermont roll, act of 1853, 2d Section for increase 
Adams Stevens declared that he served as Sergeant Eight months in 1775. the entire year 1776, and Seven months in 1777 - and as Boat Captain nine months in 1780 - 81 
Making 28  months as Sergeant and 9 as captain.   
He was pensioned under act of June 7, 1832 for two years service as Sergeant, at $120 per annum, having failed to establish his rank as Captain by evidence of the grade required in such cases. 
Robert Temple was Stevens agent, and on the discovery of his fraud, in 1836, the case was reexamined and his pension reduced to $51 78/100 by allowing for the service of the year 1776 and three months and 16 days in 1780, the latter service appearing on the rolls of Col. Durkee’s regiment, and by reducing his rank in 1776 from Sergeant to that of a private
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The alleged service of Stevens was all clearly proved by abundant parol evidence. The same witnesses by whom his service was proved testified with equal positiveness to his rank; and, as it is apparent that there was no record evidence of any portion of his service excepting the 3 months and 16 days in 1780, it is plain that the reduction of his rank in 1776 was an arbitrary act of the Pension office, based on the same suspicions that dictated the registration of his service in 1775 and 1777.   
It appears that the Pension Office registered the service of Stevens in 1775 because the name of Sergeant Howard, for whom he proves he served as substitute, is borne on the rolls, while Stevens name is not. This rejection must have originated in ignorance of a very common military usage, of a substitute answering to the name of his principal.   
By reference to the pension papers of Gershom Justice on the Vermont rolls under the act of 1832, it will be seen that he was pensioned for a portion of the service
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in which he swore that Stevens was engaged, both in 1775 and 1776, or at least, it was a part of the service for which he declared.   
Hinmans Hist page 75, shows that Stevens was correct in his statement concerning the officers of his company in Putnam's regiment,  In 1775, as he is further firmed in his statement that Col. Richmond commanded his regiment late in 76, by the same p. 391.   
As to the service in 1777, the Pension Office appears to have entirely discredited Stevens statement and to have denied that Col. Henry Dearborn was in service at the time.  
In a book of Genl Schuyler's accounts, recently indexed, at page 21, is an entry charging Major Henry Dearborn for pay for himself and his subordinate officers. This charge is dated early in June 1777, and indicates that he was then in command of a corps of some kind. This book is in the Pension Office. 
On the rolls of Col. Alex Scammell's regiment
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the name of Henry Dearborn occurs as Major and Lt. Col.
In Barstow's Hist. of N.H. at page 288, it is stated as follows. "For the service of 1777, three regiments under the command of Col. Jos. Cilley, Nathan Hale and Alexr Scammell were raised for long enlistments, and rendezvoused at Ticonderoga under the immediate command of Brig. Genl Poor. Here they remained until the approach of the British army under Genl Burgoyne rendered it advisable to abandon that post &c” 
In Hildreth’s Hist U.S. Vol 3  p. 204, under date of August 23 1777, is this paragraph: “just at this moment when a turn in the affairs of the northern department became fully apparent, the two brigades at the Highlands having arrived and the militia fast pouring in, Schuyler, much to his mortification, was superseded by Gates. He still remained, however, at Albany, and gave his assistance towards carrying on the campaign. The day after Gates assured the command Morgan arrived with his rifle corps five hundred strong, to which were presently added two hundred and fifty picked men under Major Dearborn of Scammell’s New Hampshire regiment.” 
In Lossing's Pictorial Field Book of the Revolution, Vol. 1, page 51, in the description of the battle of Stillwater
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Sept 19th, 1777, the words occur: "The corps of riflemen under Morgan, and infantry under Dearborn,” &c.
In Allen's American Revolution, Vol. 2d, in describing same battle, the movements of Morgan's rifle corps those of Scammel's regiment are described as separate.   
In “New Hampshire as it is”, page 76, Lieut Col Dearborn is mentioned as in the battle of Monmouth in 1778. 
These extracts are quoted not only to confirm, as they do most strongly, the statements of Stevens respecting his service in 1777, but also to illustrate the general veracity of his narrative of concurrent events. His narratives will not only repay a careful perusal, but must carry conviction, by their correspondence with concurrent history of the entire truthfulness of the man, assisted so emphatically in the letters of Governor Slade, on file in the case.  
For the same purpose, reference is asked to the book lettered "Col. Durkee's Reg. Master Rolls-1778-1780" near the end of the book, on the
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roll of Capt John McGregier's company for October 1780, is the name of "Lieut Simeon Belding D.L.M.G. settling his account.”  
Stevens described Belding as Deputy Commissary Genl but the boat Service on the Hudson was mostly under charge of the Quarter Master department, and the date corresponds with that Stevens assigns for his having been in service under Belding, as Captain of a batteau.   
It is not deemed necessary to comment at length on the evidence already on file in the case, as that has been ably done in the brief of Mr W. G. Wade, already on file, but the object of presenting the evidence, all of it new as to this case, above referred to, is to remove every trace of suspicion against the veracity of Stevens declarations, and to add such corroborative proof as to to use the language of the pension law, to lead to the issue that the Commissioner shall be satisfied that the soldier served as he states, and thus make it his
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as it would, doubtless be his pleasure to restore the widow of a brave soldier to the pension to which he was first adjudged to be entitled; and in addition thereto, that she be allowed for the nine months service he performed as captain of a batteau on the Hudson, nine months and in 1780-81, his statements respecting which are now further confirmed by the record respecting his superior officer, Simeon Belding
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Adams Stephens Vt.
Pension Act '32
Vermont
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State of Vermont 
County of Franklin ss 
I William Bridges Judge of the Probate Court in and for the aforesaid County, do hereby certify that at a Probate Court holden in St Albans in said County on the 2 day of April 1851 satisfactory evidence was adduced before said Court to show that Adams Stevens late a United States pensioner at the rate of $51 per annum died in said County on the 4th day of April 1851 that at his death he left no widow him surviving but left the following mind children Viz Elizabeth S. Lampher, Diat Stevens, Dan Stevens, Martin Stevens, and that they are this only children him surviving, and that where of the age of Twenty one years and upwards, 
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and impressed the seal of said Court this 2d day of April 1851 
William Bridges 
Judge of Probate
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Act Decmb
Adams Stevens
Dec 4th Apr 49
Ex [examined] by Mr. Wade
Dec 8 '51
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State of Vermont 
County of Franklin } ss 
Elizabeth S Lampher being duly sworn saith she is one of the children Adam Stevens late a United States Pensioner who died on or about the 4th day of April 1849 that she makes this affidavit for the purpose of reopening the claim of said Adam Stevens to the pension that was with held from him during his life he being originally pensioned at $120 per annum, and reduced to $51. before his decease, 
Elizabeth S. Lampher 
Sworn and subscribed before me Judge of Probate Court this 2nd day of April 1851 
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal at St Albans in the District of Georgia the day and year above written – 
Wm Bridges Judge of Probate
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S. Cole 1833
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Case of Widow of Adam Stevens, 
Sudbury Vermont 
Under 2d section act of Feb. 3. 1853, it in supposed she is entitled to five years arrearages of pension 
Stephen Thomas Pension Agent Brandon,  Rutland Vermont has claim in charge  
Please inquire if any action has been made in the case 
Address C. C. Moore Esqr 
National Hotel 
Wash
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Sir I am [unreadable] information that suspension of my pension [unreadable]  by a letter to you placing the services and battle the person has been in would intitle him to draw for all the [unreadable] case you the whole as necessary as my old age and broken [unreadable]   will have 
[unreadable]  in Norwich State of Connecticut born 1751 and lived there until I was 18 year old and in 1775 I listed a Sergeant in comp of Obadiah Johnson’s company seven months in Col. Israel Putnam [Putnam] ridgement and after gen’l Washington joined the army of Putman was made Brigadier Genl and at Genl Washington’s request I served one month longer which made eight mos, this was with Col Halsey [unreadable]   generally known by the name of Durkey [unreadable]   and I was discharged by Genl Israel Putman [Putnam] with a Sargents warrant and before [unreadable]  I come home from [unreadable] a Sargent in Capt Saml Phillips company, Col Halsey rigement for a year and I was in a battle with [unreadable] float which lay at Goat Island with  [unreadable]  and was at Lantern Hill on Rhode Island and [unreadable]   I was in a battle with Col Halsey at the Dumplings on Connecticut of Jamestown so called with two British Ships of the line and two [unreadable]   that lay anchored near that bridge over whole Briggade of Rhode Island trooped moved into Long Island in NY State to the ending so called a [unreadable]   I was in battle with the British Troops with Col Halsey and I was [unreadable]   discharged at my years end by genl Lipot [Lippitt] with a sergents warrant in the was in the year 1776 and the year 1777 in Major Hixie regt a Sergent to join what troops I pleased and I joined the same rigment of Sharp Shooters rigement a picked rigement of Green Mountain men of [unreadable]   those men commanded by Col Dearborn and was at the taking of Burgoine [Burgoyne] and we belonged with Col. Morgan and [unreadable] said battle with Burgoine [Burgoyne] on the 19th day of Sept oand one on the 7th of Octr and on the 7th of Octr if my memory serves me right I was wounded by a cannister ball on my leg just below my kneed my right leg and knee been a cripple ever since, I also was in a number of the smaller battles with the British and other troops and at the taking of [unreadable]  
months enlistment [unreadable]   serves me right and I served in two [unreadable] Sergent in 1778 and 1779 and in 1780 I also listed a Sergent [unreadable] office a new [unreadable]   for 9 months to join what [unreadable]  line and I joined Col. Durkey’s [Durkee] regiment Capt Lyles company and [unreadable]   for artificers and of [unreadable]   of commissary General Beldings boat about ten or twelve months with [unreadable]   and sails &c with a company of sailors to row said boat and do other business it [unreadable]  to boat and lorry up and down Hudson River and carry equipment and stores &c and I was [unreadable] discharged at [unreadable] months by order of Genl Washington by Lieut Col Sumner of Durkey’s [Durkee’s] rigement by my discharges and warrants were stolen from me with other valuable things which was together with them, [unreadable] Hubbardton when I revisited my pention but [unreadable] and now I live at Sudbury Vt. my pention is for a a sergent for 120 dollars and I have down on four times the last was time was lost Sept the forth I have wrote the commr on four times [unreadable]   money blunders [unreadable]   febles and forgetfull age and blunders
Sudbury February the 5th AD 1835 I remain your [unreadable]  Servant Adams Stevens
Mr. J. L. Edwards  
P. S. Sir please to write me soon and if I have made any great blunders I will try to mend them if my forgetful ness & age [unreadable]  a man of property but it is all gone from me not at my own bad memory but by others and I am as poor as a howlat and I do not wish to judge any more by others bad conduct it is enough for me to suppose in your [unreadable] is one thing raised over that is where I lieved when I petitioned for a pention of the [unreadable] in Hubbardton Vt and my [unreadable] money and [unreadable] mine own person and to him petisioned
Mr. JLE
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Adams Stevens
Additional Declaration
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State of Vermont 
Rutland ss}   On the 28th day of November 1832 personally appeared before me the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace for said County of Rutland Adams Stevens, an applicant for a Pension under the act of June 7, 1832 who being duly sworn, deposeth & saith, that by reason of old age & the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service but according to the best of his recollection he sowed not less them the period mentioned below and in the following grades namely, for nine months he served as a captain, and for thirty three months he served as a Sergeant and for such service he claims a pension.  
Sworn before me the day & year aforesaid 
R. Temple Just Peace
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A & B
Adams Stevens
A & B
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We Peter Reynolds and John Hall both of Sudbury in the County of Rutland hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Adams Stevens of said Sudbury (who we understand has made a declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7 1832) that we believe him to be 80 years of age, that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he lives to have been a soldier of the revolution and that we concur in that opinion.   
Peter Reynolds
John Hall
Subscribed & Sworn before me  this 8th day of August A.D. 1832  
Moses Hall Jr Justice Peace of the Peace  
I the Deponent seventy two years old do testify and say that Adams Stevens listed and went away to Cambridge before planting time and was gone more than eight months, who his officers was  I have forgot, this was in 1775.  And also that the said Adams Stevens was listed in the begining of winter 1776 by Lieut Paul Herington [Harrington] Hopkintown Rhodes Island for a year and came home in the year 1777.  And also that the said Adams Stevens listed and was at taking of Burgoine [Burgoyne]  in the 1777 he went away some time in the spring same year and was gone untill the begining of the year 1778.  That the said Adams Stevens listed in the year 1780 (that year that Major. Andre was hung) and went away in the spring of the same year and was gone untill 1781 and also that the said Adams Stevens was my near neighbour 
Beriah Stevens
Orwell July the 7th 1832  
State of Vermont
Rutland County} July 7th 1832   the above deposition was sworn to  before me 
Ira Young Justice peace 
B  
I the deponent eighty years old do testify and say that Adams Stevens listed under capt Obediah Johnson of Canterbury Connt company Col Isaac Putnams rigament in Connecticut (Israel Putnam was afterwards made a brigade Gen.)  the first of May 1775 and was discharged in Jany the first 1776, by said Putnam and also that the said Adams Stevens was listed by Lieut Col Herington of Hopkintown Rhode island under Samuel Phillips of South Kingston Rhode Island Col Halseys rigament, gen Lippets [Lippitt’s]  brigade in the Rhode island line and was discharged Jan’y by genl Lipet [Lippitt] in 1777 and was my tent mate through that whole year. And also that the said Adams Stevens was my near neighbour. And also that the said Adams Stevens was listed by recruiting officer by the name of Goodall of Norwich Connt for nine months and joined Capt hides [Hyde] company in the first Col Durgey’s [Durkee’s]  regiment in Genl Huntington brigade and was in Connt line and was Discharged in Feb 1781, after he had served nine months by Col Sumner our Lieut Col.  
Gershom Justin x his mark.  
Sworn to before me this 3 day of July AD 1832 
C. H. Williams Just Peace the State of Vermont
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State of Vermont 
I Robert Pierpoint Clerk of Rutland County Court do certify, that Hon. Charles H. Williams before whom one of the annexed affidavits was taken, is one of the Judges of the Supreme Court & that Moses Hall & Ira Young, before whom the others were taken are Justice of Peace for said County, duly commissioned and that their names subscribed thereto are genuine.
In testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand affix the seal of said Court this 13 Aug 1832
R. Pierpoint
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Vermont - 3774 
Adam Stevens 
Rutland in the State of Vermont 
a Pri. in the Compy command by Captain Philips of the Reg. commander Halsey in the Conn
15 mos 16 days
Reduced from $120
Inscribed on the Roll of Montpelier at the rate of 51-Dollars 78 Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831 
 Certificate of Pension issued the 2 day of Sept 39, the Hon. Wm Slade Middlebury Vt
Arrears to the 4th of Sept   $440.13 
anl allowance ending 25.89 
$466.02 
Special – old case lost
{Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.} 
Recorded by R. Burdine Clerk. 
Book E Vol. 3 - Page 100
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I certify that I have been acquainted with Beriah Stevens of Lowell and Gershom Justin of Whiting Vt., Adams Stevens witnesses for his pension for  forty years and they are good witnesses in any case whatsoever 
Sudbury Dec 19th 1832   Peter Reynolds Just peace
I Robert Pierpoint Clerk of Rutland County Court certify that Peter Reynolds of the above certificate is a Justice of peace for said County duly commissioned and that his certificate is entitled to credit.   
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my and affixed the seal of said Court 15th Decr 1832 
R. Pierpoint,
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Adams Sevens 
C Warner 
Nov 17 / 51 Burlington Vt 
Paid 3 ½ mo $120 per annum 
Reduced to $51.78 per annum
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Burlington Nov 19 1857 
Sir
Adams Stevens was paid to Sep 1834 at $120 and then reduced to $51.78 and the 3½ years at $120 per annum was deducted when the next payment was made, which was 10 Mar 1840 
Resply 
C. F. Warner 
W. G. Wade 
120
51.78
68.22
3 ½
204.66
34.11
238.77
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Washington, Mch 17th 1852 
J. E Heath Esq Com of Pensions 
Sir 
Some time in April 1851 a certificate of heirship in the claim of Adams Stevens of Vermont, was forwarded to your office, requesting an adjustment of his claim for pension withheld.  
In the reexamination of his papers I beg leave to call the attention of the Department to the following facts, - 
Adams Stevens, was pensioned under act of 7th June 1832, from Vermont, for services as follows 
1775. 8 mos as a Sergant - Capt Johnson, Lt. Lyon & Ensign Robinson 
1776  12 mos as Sergeant  - Capt Philips, Rhode Island Troops
1777   7 mos as Sergeant – with Sharp Shooters, Col Dearborn
1780   9 mos as Captain of Boat on Nroth River in the Commissary Department, was disallowed, he was stricken from the Roll, on Sept ‘34.  The service in 75 is claimed to have been done as a substitute.   
The certificate of the Secretary of Conn. or Comptroller fully established this service, moreover it is sworn to by Beriah Stevens & Gershom Austin 
12 mos as sergeant in 1776 in Capt Saml Philips [unreadable]  is admitted, in the readjustment of his claim but by error pension was computed as a private, the 6 mos as Captain on the North River in 1780, is fully set forth as the regulations require as this is the most important service claimed it will be more particularly referred to.  Adams Stevens claims in his first & each declaration, made
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under oath, as well as in each letter he has ever written respecting his claim, during a period of near seventy years, that he faithfully performed such service enlisting in March 1780. for 6 months in Captain Hyde Co Col Durkee Regt. was enlisted by Officer Goodale - the next day after his enlistment he entered the boat Service as Captain and served nine months, and was honorably discharged by Lieut  Sumner at expiration of his Service.  States he recd his commission as Captain from Commissary Genl Belding, was engaged in transporting Military stores on the North River.   In support of this service he produces the affidavits of  Beriah Stevens, 1st  paper A. who swears to his knowledge Adams Stevens went away from home into the service of the United States in the spring of the year 1780, and was absent untill the winter of 1781, 
2d Gershom Justin  (see paper B.) certifies to Adams Stevens, having enlisted in Mch 1780 with Capt Hyde knows he was enlisted by Officer Goodale, who was a recruiting officer and knew of his absence & 
3d James Austin - paper C – states he was a private in the same Co. in 1776 in which Adams Stevens was a Sergeant, that in 1780, he was stationed at West point was in Capt Carrs Co., Col Graves Regt, R. I. Troops, during the summer,  he saw said Stevens, many times who was a captain of a barge, Continental Boat, pass & repass West point and knows said Stevens was engaged as Capt of a North River boat in 1780.
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4th Benjamin Rathbone (see paper D) swears positively, being at the time of the service a near neighbour of said Adam Stevens, he speaks from personal knowledge, knew of Adams Stevens service of his his enlisting in 1775, 76 + 77, and also of his enlisting in 1780, early in the Spring, and did not return untill the winter following.  The wife of said Stevens lived with his fathers family at the time he Stevens was absent in this service, deponent was at home at his fathers at the time, and knows these particulars to be true.  
Each of these four Witnesses are certified to be credible persons.  I would also ask the attention of the Department, to the letters of Hon William Slade, late Governor of Vermont filed with the papers in this claim, as adduced to the Comr of Pensions. In his letter of the 13th Febry 1837, Mr Slade states, “if the Comr could see and talk with Mr Stevens 15 minutes he would be satisfied all he states is true,” & says further, “I cannot give up this case for I have conversed so much with the old man that I have become fully satisfied that he served the full  times he states." -  also see letters of 21st June 1836, & Dec 7 ‘ 38,- this opinion, as to the justice of the claim, the credibility of the claimant, and the satisfactory evidence of the service having all been performed as stated coming as it does from one of immently high standing and one entirely disinterested, in the claim, is worthy of more than a passing notice, as he was acquainted with the claimant and Witnesses, he was better enabled to give a just decision than a person in apparent circumstances,
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Adam Stevens was stricken from the roll Sept
4 - 1834, and reduced to $57.78 per annum, his
pension was withheld untill March 10th 1840
after which date his stipend at then reduced
rate was paid untill his death,-
In re adjusting his claim, only 12 M
of his service claimed was admitted that was
the 12 months performed in 1776. Capt Samuel
Philips of the R I Troops,-- this service was claimed to have been performed as a Sergeant, and it is so fully established, by (?sworn?) undoubtedly, -his pension was computed as a private, for this term the other term of 2 or 3 months allowed, is disclaimed by Mr. Stevens, as not having been done by him
The service for which a pension is claimed
is
9 months as Captain
15  "           "  Sergeant, and which
upon a close examination of the papers filed, it is believed, it will be admitted, is fully established.
Of the service as Capt. two witnesses, swear to his enlisting, answer to his absence in service, and swears positively to his seeing him doing duty as Capt. on Continental boat, many times during the summer, and our swears to time of discharge & by whom,
I am Respectfully
Your obt servt,
W G Wade
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Revy WIDOW, &c.
File No. 5185

Rena Stephens
Widow
Adam Stephens
Sergt. Rev. War
Act: Feby, 3 1853
Index: -- Vol. M, Page 240 
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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D. A. ASTONE, M. D.
22 RALPH STREET
BEACON NEW YORK
June 27, 1930.
Pension Office,
Washington, D. C.

Gentlemen:
I am desirous of becoming a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution and have been told that you will assist me in tracing my ancestors to determine whether or not any of my relatives served in the Revolutionary War.
An uncle of mine have me the following information which may help in tracing same on my paternal side:
Peter Stevens was my great, great, great, great grandfather and came to America from France. His son, Adam Stevens, was my great, great, great grandfather and was born in America. He is supposed to have gone to the Revolutionary War from Stafford, Conn. and it is said
he served as an aid on General Washington's staff. ( I am not sure of this information ). His daughter, Elizabeth Stevens, was my great great grandmother. She married Theophilas Lanpher. Their daughter was Susan
Lanpher, my great grandmother. She married Rufus Loomis Lanpher. Their daughter was Fidelia Elizabeth Lanpher, my grandmother, and she married Albert Demeritt. Their son was Charles Lovejoy Demeritt, my father.
On my maternal side I am afraid it will be rather difficult to trace as my mother was adopted at the age of six weeks. Her father
was Lucien Caswell of Milton, Vermont, and that is all I know about it. She was Glenn Spray Caswell and she was adopted by a cousin, Homer
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D. A. ASTONE, M. D.
22 RALPH STREET
BEACON, NEW YORK
Caswell, who served in the Civil War.
Thanking you for any information you may be able to give me in regard to this. Kindly let me know if there is any charge.
Yours very truly,
Reba E. Astone
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Received from S. Thomas of
West Fairlee Vermont
S.G. Dodge
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West Fairlee V.T. Feby 23d 1860
Stephen G. Dodge Esq
I herewith enclose a power of Atty
in the case of Rena Stevens. You will please
get her Pension increased and use the power
of Attorney as your authority for so doing
I also herewith enclose her pension certificate
that you may surrender it for the new one
I hope you will get the new certift with
as little delay as possible & forward it to me
I am Truly Yours
Stephen Thomas
P.S. Please have them fill the name correct
in the new certifcate
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Treasury Department
Third Auditors Office
March 9 1860.

Sir 
In reply to your letter of the 7th
inst. I have to state that it appears from
the book of this office that the pension
of Adams Stephens, Burlington Vt roll, act
June 7 1832, was paid at the rate of $120.00 per annum  from the 4th Mar. 1831 to the 4th Sept. 1834
and at the rate of $50.78 per annum from the 14th of April 1839 to the 4th March 1849
the pension of Rena Stephen same
roll act 3 Feb 1853, at the rate of $51.78
per annum, appears to have been paid to
the 4th of Sept. 1839

I herewith return the papers in closed in your letter
Very Respectfully
Your obl Serv
R J Atkinson

Auditor
Geo. C. Whiting Esq
Comm of Pensions
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9439
160 acres
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No. 77274
ACT OF MARCH 3, 1855.
Received Apr 18th 1855.
Adams Stevens, Deo. Pri.
Col. Durkees
Conn. Line
Rev. War.
9409 160-55
Abel. Prescott
Forge Village
Mafs-