Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 10240, for Charles Stourman, New York
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(3-1776)
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[Column 1] SERVICE  
New York
[Column 2 - No header]     
Stourman  Charles
Stournan, or
Storum, "
[Column 3] NUMBER
R.10240

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State of Pennsylvania
Warren County  ss/ }   On this sixty day of June thousand A. D. one thousand eight hundred and thirty six personally appeared in open court of common pleas of said county now sitting at Warren before the judges of the superior Court , Charles Storiman, a mulatto man, a resident of Conewango Township in said County of Warren & state aforesaid, aged about eighty five 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 enlisted the service of the United States under the following named officers & served as herein stated. In the spring or early in the summer of seventeen hundred seventy six (1776) I enlisted as a private under Col. Hughes, who was then acting as Commissary of stores at Fishkill, Dutchess County, N. York. I entered immediately in the Hospital service, situated about the fourth of a mile from Fishkill. I acted as assistant or waiter to Doct. McNight, who was the surgeon of the hospital. During all that summer & fall I attend on the sick. The hospital & barracks were full of sick & injured I continued then during the winter, cutting & preparing wood for the hospital. Sometime ^in the next summer I went to Fort Montgomery & was then at the taking of said Fort. When the British besieged the fort so closely that we found we would not keep it.  Genl.
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George Clinton was in command, told every man to make his escape that could & he himself plunged into the river & swam away safely. I took a team & baggage wagon & drove it up the river & saved it from the British. I went back to Fishkill & staid [sic] there that winter and attended to the same duties I had formerly been assigned to wit. time in the Hospital.  The next spring, I was sent ^by Col. Hughs with a team to get provisions & forage & followed that business during the summer & fall. I did this during the next winter & spring when I was discharged having served at least three years, after that I went to Virginia & was at the taking of Cornwallis at York town, at this time I was working as waiter to Capt or Col Hopkins. I was in service at this time about [text crossed out] eight months.
The whole time I was actually in service was three years [illegible] the eight months I was in the service at the time Cornwallis was taken, which was as above stated. Col Hughes gave me a discharge at Fishkill but when I went to sea I left it with a man I lived with before that ^time & have never seen it since. I was born in Dutches [sic] County of N. York & lived there until the war of the Revolutionary won
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& then went several voyages to sea, & was gone on the different voyages five years or thereabout. I then went to Windsor in Connecticut resided there about twenty years. I moved to Rome, Oneida County, N. York [how then] & in New Hartford in the same county about twelve years. I then moved to Sugar grove in this (Warren) Co. & lived there till this spring when I moved to my present residence in Conewago Township. He further states that when he lived in Dutchess County He said to be called Stourman but he usually spells his name Storum. -
I hereby relinquish my any claim whatsoever to a pension or annuity except for the present & declare that my name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state or territory & have never made an application for a pension till the present application. I have no documentary evidence to prove my service & know of no persons whose testimony I can process to testify thereto. Linus H. Miller Esq. & Elisha Devereaux can testify as to my character for veracity. I am not much acquainted with any clergyman except Palmer Phillips who lives in Rasti N. York & cannot well get him to come here & testify to my character.
[signed]
his
Charles x Storum  
Sworn and subscribed in
open court this 7th day of June
1836.
[signed] W. P. McDowell Prothy [Prothonotary]
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State of Pennsylvania
Warren County }  Personally appeared on open Court of Common Pleas of said County Linus H. Miller Esq.  Elisha Devereaux who being duly sworn depose & say as follows the said Linus H. Miller Esq saith he has been acquainted with the above named Charles Storum for about twenty years last present & that he considers him a man of truth & veracity & has been & is & considered by his neighbors & [illegible] generally & further more he is generally  [illegible] & believed to be a soldier of the revolution. The said Elisha Devereaux says he has been acquainted with said Charles Storum for about seventeen years & concur in the above affidavit of L. H. Miller, Esq.
[signed] Linus H. Miller
Elisha Devereaux

Sworn & subscribed in open
Court before me this 6th day
of June A.D. 1826 [signed] W. P. McDowell Prothy

And this said court having examined the circumstances declared by the said applicant and having put the interrogatories examined by the War department, do declare their opinion that the Charles Storum was a Revolutionary soldier & served as he states. That the said Elisha Devereaux and Linus H. Miller Esq. are resident citizens of this County is where testimony reliance may be placed

June 6th. 1836  
[signed] Isaac Connely}
Obed Edson } Associate Justices
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33.754

Hn J. Galbraith
H.R. [House of Representatives]
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Warren County ss.}
Pennsylvania }
[There is a seal affixed under the above.]
I William P. McDowell, Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County, do hereby Certify, the foregoing contains the original proceedings in the matter of the application of Charles Storum, for a Pension, and do further certify that Isaac Connely and Obed Edson Esquires, are Associate Judges of said Court, duly commissioned and sworn and that they now comprise the Court aforesaid, the President Judge being absent. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office at Warren this eighth day of June A.D. 1836.

[signed] William P. McDowell Prothy.
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Revolutionary claim
of Charles Stourman, dec.

Act of 7 June 1832

Presented by
Amos W. Muzzy
Attorney

Panama
Chautauqua
County N. Y.
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State of New York
County of Chautauqua }
On this 20th day of June 1854 before me a justice of the Peace in said County, personally appeared William Stourman resident of Busti in said County and made oath according to law, that he is a legal heir of Charles Stourman who was a [blank entry, presumably "private in"] the war of the Revolution and who has heretofore made application for the benefit of the Pension Act of 7th June 1832. 
That he is directly interested as a claimant in said pension and makes this application to be filed with such [illegible] evidence or arguments as [illegible] may use in prosecuting said claim, countermanding and revoking all powers of Attorney and authority heretofore given. I hereby constitute and appoint Amos W. Muzzy of [illegible] N. Y. my true and lawful Attorney, to prosecute the claim of the said Charles Storuman for any amount of Revolutionary pension that may be due
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And I hereby authorize my said Attorney, to examine all papers or documents in relation to said claim on file in the Department at Washington or elsewhere, to file additional arguments or evidence, to appoint one or more substitutes under him for the purposes herfein expressed, and to do all things that I might or could do were I personally present hereby notifying and confirming all my said Attorney shall lawfully do in the premises.
[signed] William Stourman.

Subscribed, sworn to and acknowledged before me on the day and year first above written. And I hereby certify that I believe the said William Stourman to be directly interested in said claims as set forth and to be the identical party therein alleged.
[signed] Emry Davis Justice of the Peace
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State of New York
Chautauqua County } ss
Clerks Office

I certify that Emry Davis Esq. was on the 20 day of June 1853 a Justice of the Peace in and for said County duly elected & sworn and authorized to administer oaths, tc. [etc] and further that I am well acquainted with his had writing and verily believe that his signature to the foregoing instrument is genuine.
[A seal is affixed on the left side of the document.]
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said county this 26th day of June 1854.
[signed] R.O. Green Clerk
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[This is a pre-printed form summarizing the service of a soldier with added written or stamped entries.]

[stamped] REJECTED
10.244
P.O. Charles Stourman
Service: [blank entry]

Enlisted: [blank], 18 [blank]
Discharged: [blank], 18 [blank]

Application filed: [blank], 18 [blank]

Alleges: [blank]
Re-enlisted: [blank]

Attorney: [blank]
P.O. [blank]
[blank] Recognized.  [blank] Cont
[blank] Cert. of Dis.  Searched for [blank], 18 [blank]
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-33,754

Pennsylvania

Chs. Storuman

Suspd. [suspended] 1832

Send to Hon. Jno. Galbraith

June 30 & 36

[written by a different hand] and instrument 102 & 10

1832
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The soldier's heir spelled the name Stourman [the "u" was underlined]. The soldier stated that he was called Stournan [the "u" and first "n" were underlined] but usually spelled his name Storum. [The "u" is underlined.]
He signed by mark and probably knew very little about how to spell has name. The heir writes the name very distinctly.

A[illegible]
Aug 14, 1906
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June 28, 1836

J.L. Edwards, Esq.
I have the honor to enclose an application & papers in relation a pension I mail and see about it in a day or two.
I have the honor to be
Very Respectfully
[signed] John Galbraith
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Chas Storman
Rev. sol.
Act 1832
State Pens [Pension]

Poralt

Jno T. Neely
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Power of Attorney.
Know all men by these presents, That I, William Storam of the County of Chautauqua and State of New York, and one of the children and legal representatives of Charles Storam a Revolutionary soldier, and Polly his wife, who is now deceased, do hereby, irrevocably, constitute and appoint John T Nelly, of Washington D.C., my true and lawful Attorney, for me, and in my name, to examine into and prosecute any claim that may be due, or found to be due, the children and legal representatives of Charles Storam and Polly his wife in virtue of said Charles Storam service in the Revolutionary war, and the several acts and resolutions of Congress relative thereto, and that might have accrued to either of the said parties, and not drawn during their lifetime, and now due to their legal representatives, and to receive the certificate of Pension, &c., when issued by the Department: I hereby confirming whatsoever my said attorney may do, or cause to be legally done, either in person or by substitution, in the prosecution of said claim, except drawing money on the said claim, I revoking any other authority I may have given to any other person or persons in the premises whatsoever.
In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal, this Twenty Seventh day of December, 1852.
Signed in presence of Dwight W Buil  [signed] William Storman SEAL. [stamp]
Sate of Pennsylvania
County of Warren } Sct.
On this Twenty Seventh day of December, in the year 1852, personally appeared before me, William Storman, and acknowledged the within Power of Attorney to be his act and deed.
[signed] G.W. Buil J.P.