Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 4824, for Nathan Stickney, Massachusetts
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Mass
Stickney, Nathan W.
Hepsibah
or Hepzibah
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L.D. Stevens, July, 20158
3529
New Hampshire, Cone
Hepsibah Stickney [illegible] of Nathan Stickney
who served in the Revolutionary war, as a Private
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 37 Dollars, 43 Cents per annum, to commence on the 3d February, 1853.

Certificate of pension issued 31st day of January/54 and sent to L.D. Stevens
Concord
N.H.
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act February 3, 1853, Page 21, Vol. A
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129.920 act March [illegible]
May 12 185
Hepsibah Stickney [illegible]: Nathan
widow of
Nathan Stickney PV;
Col. Garrish
Mass [illegible]
[Cld?] 160 Acre, [illegible]
 [Illegible]
War of Revolution
Pension act Feb 3, 1853
N. H. July 53-3524
L.D. Stevens
Concord,
New Hampshire
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Declaration
In order to obtain this benefit of the 2nd [illegible] act of Congress passed Feb 3, 1853.
State of New Hampshire
Grafton County [illegible] On this 8th day of October A.D. 1853 personally appeared before me JC Churchill a judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County. Hepzibah Stickney a resident of Orford in said County aged 71 years at her residence at the dwelling house of her son Jedidiah Stickney in said Orford being incapacitated from badly infirmity from attending in open court. who being first duly sworn according to law oath on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of an act of Congress passed July 3 A.D., 1853 [illegible].
"An act to continue half pay to certain widows and orphans" 
That she is the widow of Nathan Stickney late of Orford aforesaid deceased who was a native of Boxford Mass and a private in the war of the Revolution that according to the best information she has been able to obtain and as she verify believes he served under Capt Gage and Bodwell in Col. Gerrish's guards Mass State troops (Troops) as a private from Dec 23rd 1777 - 5 months 27 days and in Capt Brown's Company Col Wade's Regt Mass State Troops from July 27 1778 - 5 months and 10 days as will appear from accompanying application and certificates of the secretary of the Common Wealth of Massachusetts, that she had always understood and believes that her said husband enlisted for a term of 3 years and served three years in the Continental line about the last of the war, best that she she has no other documentary evidence of her said husband service other than the daily memorandum of her said husband of his services in Rhode Island in 1778.  Hereto [illegible][illegible] - that her name before she was married was Hepzibah Burpy and that she was
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was married to said Nathan Stickney at Orford aforesaid by Rev Sylvester [illegible] and a minister of the Gospel on the nineteenth day of July eighteen hundred and one and that said Nathan Stickney died in said Orford on the 20th day of May 1812 aged 53 years as will appear from certificates of John Derby and Redford L Beal herewith [illegible] - that she [illegible] is and [illegible][illegible] the decease of said Stickney remarried his widow and has never hereafter made application for or received any pension from the United States.
Hepzebah Stickney (X her mark)
Attest:
John Rogers
John Rogers Jr
Subscribed and sworn to before me - on the day and year first above written mentioned, by the said Hepzibah Stickney the above applicant and I certify that I have no interest in the result of the above case and am in no [illegible][illegible] in the [illegible] of the same. JC Churchill a judge of the Court of common Pleas for said county of Grafton.

John Rogers aged 71. John Rogers Jr aged 42 both of Orford New Hampshire of lawful age depose and say that we have been well acquainted with Hepzibah Stickney the above applicant for a pension for 23 years past and personally known her to be the widow of Nathan Stickney decease a reputed soldier of the Revolutionary War and know her to be the identical person she represents herself to be in the foregoing declaration and [illegible] no doubt of the truth of her statement therein.
John Rogers
John Rogers Jr
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State of New Hampshire
Grafton County
Orford October 8th 1853 Here personally appeared John Rogers & John Rogers Jr [illegible] of the foregoing affidavit and made Oath to the truth of the same respectively before me - and I certify that the said John Rogers & John Rogers Jr are both persons known to me as engaging good characters for truth and certainty and their statement [illegible] to credit.

JC Churchill a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas for said county of Grafton.
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The State of New Hampshire
Grafton County
I [illegible][illegible] Assistant clerk of the Court of Common Pleas within and for the county of Grafton and State of New Hamphire, do hereby [illegible] that David C [illegible] Esq, [illegible] whome the foregoing and annexed declarations was taken to as an one time of taking the same a judge of the court of Common Pleas within and for said count of Grafon, duly commisioned and sworn, and to all whose official acts as such. [illegible] faith and [illegible] are due, and that the foregoing signature [illegible] to be this is genuine as [illegible][illegible].

[illegible] whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and offixed the seal of [illegible][illegible] at Haverhill this tenth day of October A.D. 1853
[illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible]
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State of New Hampshire
Count of Grafton SS. On this [illegible] day of May [illegible] in the year eighteen hundred and fifty five personally appeared before the subscriber a Justice of the peace in and for the state and county aforesaid Hepzibah Stickney aged seventy three years a resident of Orford in said State, who bring duly sworn [illegible] at law declares that she is the widow of Nathan Stickney who was a soldier in the war of the Revolution and died in said town of Orford on the twentieth day of May A.D. 1812.
She further declares that she was married to the said Nathan Stickney in the Town of Orford [illegible] on the nineteenth day of July A.D. 1801 by [illegible][illegible][illegible] a [illegible] [illegible][illegible][illegible][illegible] that her name before her said marriage was Hepzibah Burpy and that she still remains a widow that she refer to the evidence filed in [illegible][illegible] claim for [illegible] under the Act of Feb 3d 1853 for proof of the service after said husband and after other facts above stated that she now in receipt of a pension from the United States
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at the rule of thirty seven dollars and forty three cents per annum under the said act of Feb 3rd 1853:
She makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the bountys and to which she may be entitled under the act approved March 3d 1855
Hepzibah Stickney

We [illegible][illegible] and [illegible] [illegible][illegible] resident of Orford in the State of New Hampshire after our oath declare that the foregoing declaration was signed and acknowledged in our presence by the aforesaid Hepzibah Stickey and that we know the said application in the identified person represent herself in this [illegible] declaration and that we have no interest in her claim.

[illegible][illegible]
[illegible][illegible]

the foregoing declaration and affidavit were subrscribed and sworn [illegible] the
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State of New Hampshire
Secretary's Office, Concord, May 9, 1855
I hearby certify, that as the date of the annexed attestation John Rogers was a Justice of the Peace for the County of Grafton-
in the said State, duly commssioned and qualified; and that to his acts and attestations, as such, full faith and credit are and ought to be given, in and out of Court.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the State, the date above written

John L Hadley (signature)
Secretary of State.
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The State of New-hampshire
Grafton County, SS.
I J.D. Sleeper, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas within and for the County of Grafton and State of New Hampshire, do hearby certify that Theodore [illegible] Esquire, before whom the foregoing annexed affidavit were taken, was at the time of taking the same, a Justice of the Peace within and for said County of Grafton, duly commissioned and sworn, and to all whose official acts as such, full faith and credit are due, and that the foregoing signatures purporting to be his are genuine as I believe.

In Witness Whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name, and affixed the Seal of said Court, at Haverhill, this Eighteenth day of March A.D. 1853,
J.D. Sleeper Clerk.
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Certificate of Marriage
[illegible] Derby Scribe
July 26,1853

Capt. Nathan Stickney
&
Hepzibah Burpee
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Extract from the first Congregationalist Church [illegible] of the Town of Orford Grafton County New Hampshire - were married by Rev. Sylvester Dame on page three hundred and forty six "July nineteenth Anno Domini One Thousand Eight hundred and one Captain Nathan Stickney and Hepzibah Burphy"
Attest John Derby Scribe
I John Derby of Orford aforesaid depose and say that I hold the office of scribe for the first Congregational Church in said before and that the above extract from said Church Records now in my possession in true copy except that in the original the date is expressed in fair by [illegible][illegible][illegible] July 19th 1801 as certified by me
, the, [illegible][illegible]
words and
interlined before
signing
John Derby
Scribe of the first Congregational Church in Orford aforesaid
State of New Hampshire
County of Grafton
Before February 26th 1853
[illegible] personally appeared John Derby Scribes above named and make solemn oath to the truth of the above affidavit by him subscribed and I am personally acquainted with the above named John Derby and know him to be creditable disinterested witness.
Before me Theodore Dame Justice of the peace.
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Orford L Clerks Certificate
Death of Nathan Stickney
May 20, 1812
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Extract from the records of the Town of Orford, Grafton County New Hampshire.
"Died at Orford, May 20th, 1812.
Nathan Stickney, Aged 53 years
Attest Rufus C Beal "Town Clerk"
I, Rufus C Beal of Orford depose and say that I hold the office of town clerk for the town of Orford and that the above extract from said town records no in my possession is a true copy except that in the original the date is expressed in fair legible words and figures this "May 20th 1812" as certified by me.
Rufus C Beal a clerk of Orford aforesaid.
State of New Hampshire, County of Grafton [illegible] Orford, March 12 AD 1853.
Then personally appeared Rufus C Beal above named and made solemn oath to the truth of the above affidavit by him subscribed and I am personally acquainted with the above named.  Rufus C Beal and know him to be a credible disinterested witness before me.
Theodore Dame, Justice of the peace.