Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 30503, Stephen Humes, Mass.
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Service
Massachusetts

Humes, Stephen

Number
S30503
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10.506
Massachusetts
Stephen Humes
of Cheshire in the State of Mass
who was a Private in the company commanded
by Captain Daggett of the Fourth commanded
by Col Larned in the Mass
line for 2 years Private


Inscribed on the Roll of heads
at the rate of 80 Dollars ___ Cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1834

Certificate of Pension issued the 18th day of April
1833 and Sept 4th 
H. W. Bishop

Arrears to the 4th of Mar 1833                  $160 --
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sep 1833        40 --
                                                                   ____________
                                                                     $200 --

(Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7, 1832)

Recorded by J. H. Mc Blair Clerk,
Book E     Vol. 2     Page 31
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4794
Stephen Humes
Windsor
Berkshire County
Mass

Private 2 years

1606
22 Dec 1832

$80




H. W. Bishop
Mass.
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BRIEF in the case of Stephen Humes
of Berkshire County in the State of Mass
(Act 7th June, 1832)

1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? Open Court

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

3. How old is he? 75 years

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

 Period     Duration of Service         Rank   Names of General and Field Officers
                                                                               under whom he served
               Years,   Months,   Days      As a                           Gen.
In 1775                  8                       Private   Capt A. Daggett - Col. Larned
      "75                  2                           "         Capt Barth Woodbury
      "76                  8                           "         Capt Jonathan Carrol - Col. Whitny
      "76                  4                           "         Capt John Putnam
      "77                  4                           "         Capt Woodbury - Col. Fish
      "77                  2                          "         Capt Nathan Putnam - Col. Fish
      "78                                              "

5. In what battles was he engaged? Lake George

6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Sutton

7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by 
    traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? Traditionary 
    Evidence, Documentary Proof

8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what 
   respect? Defective time of third service not defined

I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
J. H. MC Blair
Examining Clerk
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4794
Stephen Humes
Application for
Pension _ Windsor, Mass
Aug 28 1832
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts

County of Berkshire, ss.
On this twenty eighth day of August A.D. 1832 personally appeared in open court, before the Honorable Wiliam P. Walker, Judge of the Court of Probate, within and for said County of Berkshire, now sitting, Stephen Humes a resident of the town of Windsor in the Count of Berkshire and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, aged seventy five years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on his oath, make the following declaration in ordr to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress, passed June 7, 1832.
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I. Stephen Humes of Windsor Berkshire County, Massachusetts hereby make declaration that in the year of the Lord 1775 about the first of May, I enlisted into the Army of the United States & entered service with the Massachusetts State Troops on the fourth day of May at Sutton, Worcester County was at which place I enlisted under Col. Ebenezer Larned in the Company of Captain Arthur Daggett with Jonathan Carroll. Marched to Roxbury Massachusetts.
The Regiments of Col. Brewer & Col. Denison were at Roxbury at the same time. The period for which I first enlisted was eight months & served until the expiration of that term when I again volunteered at Roxbury for two years as a private to the company of Capt. Bartholomew Woodbury & served also this last mentioned period at Roxbury but received no written discharge at the expiration of the end of Service. While stationed at Roxbury. The Bunker Hill battle was fought at Charleston and first we saw the conflagration of Charleston had the report of the guns at Bunker Hill. Some cannon shots were thrown into the (?) from Boston neck while I was stationed there but our Regiment were not engaged in any battle. In the year 1776 I served a short offensive, I think about three months as a volunteer at Dorchester, was at that place when the British left Boston.
In the Spring of the year 1776 I enlisted again at Sutton Massachusetts for eight months into the Company of Capt. Jonathan Carroll marched to Boston where we joined the Regiment of Col. Whitny. After remaining at Boston after weeks we went by water to Nantucket to help build a fort where we continued to the expiration of the term of enlistment.
About the commencement of the following winter I entered service again at Sutton Massachusetts under Capt. John Putman, Lietu
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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.                                                Stephen Humes

Sworn to, and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid.
                                                        W. P. Walker  I. Probate

We Gordan Dorrance a Clergyman, residing in the town of Windsor and Lebbeus Bales residing in Windsor hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with Stephen Humes who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be Seventy five 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.
                                                            Gordan Dorrance
                                                             Lebbeus Bates

Sworn and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid.
                                                             W. P. Walker I. Probate

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 Gordan Dorrance who signed the preceding certificate is a Clergyman, resident in the town of Windsor in the County of Berkshire and Commonwealth of Massachusetts and that Lebbeus Bates who has also signed the same, is a resident in the town of Windsor in the County of Berkshire and Commonwealth of Massachusetts a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
                                                               W. P. Walker I. Probate

I, Henry W. Bishop, Register of the Court of Probate within and for the County of Berkshire and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceeding of the said Court, in the matter of the application of Stephen Humes for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office of said Court of Probate, this twenty eighth day of August the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and thirty two.
                                                                    Henry W. Bishop  Register of Probate
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3-595

O.W. AND N DIVISION,

Department of the Interior,

BUREAU OF PENSIONS
Jan 5, 1906

Searched by Gill

Claim No. _________
Certifcate No. _____
Claimant ___________
Soldier Andrew Smith
Service Pensioned from Mass

Additional service ___

Remarks
No O.W. Inv. or with
No O.W. Rey
No B.L.

Chief of Division
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30503
INVALID
Revy

File No. 30.503
Stephen Humes
Pri Rev War

Act: June 7 1823
Index: Vol. 2, Page 198

(Arrangement of 1870)

(Notes on the right side of the page is as follows)

Dec. 16/94 - To Mr. C.
R. Hume Anadarko Ok

1908 Jan 31. Chas R. Hume
history of service
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4794 Stephen Hume


H.W. Bishop
Senior Map
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BRIEF objections to the admission of Pension Claims, of which those answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of Stephen Hunes, Berkshire County which require further proof or explanation.

I. Does the declaration show where the applicant resides? yes

II. Did the declarant make the declaration in the county where he resides? yes

III. If the applicant did not make the declaration in the county where he resides, is 
     there any reason assigned for his not doing so? ---

IV. Has the declarant mentioned the period or periods of the war when he served?
      yes

V. Has he mentioned with precision the length of this service, and the different 
    grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the department 
    to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled?

VI. Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity 
     with the regulations? yes

VII. Has he made a relinquishment of every claim to any other pension than the 
      one under the Act of June 7, 1832? yes

VIII. Has the Court given their opinion? yes

IX. Has the Clerk given his certificate? yes

X. Is the Clerk's seal affixed? And if so, has it a device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal? yes
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XI. Has the applicant obtained the evidence of a clergyman and another respectable citizen as to their belief respecting his age and the general belief in his neighborhood relative to his revolutionary service? yes

XII. If the clergyman's affidavit has not been produced, is there any reason assigned for not obtaining it? ---

XIII. If the applicant has no documentary evidence, and has not obtained the testimony of at least one living witness, has he stated in his declaration that such proof cannot be had? ---

XIV. If the applicant has produced a witness or witnesses as to his service, has the
       magistrate who administered the oath certified that he, she, or they are persons of credibility? ---
       And is the official character and signature of the magistrate certified by the
       proper officer under his seal of office? ---

XV. Does it appear from any of the papers that the witness was in such a situation, or of such an age, as to have a personal knowledge of the applicant's service? ---

XVI. Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct?

XVII. Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily? And, if not, which of them is not so answered? yes
EXPLANATORY NOTES. QUERE V. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words: “Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A. B. who, being duly sworn deposeth and saith, that by reason of old age, and 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 served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades: For [blank] year [blank] months and [blank] days, I served as a [blank]. For [blank] months and [blank] days, I served as a [blank]; and for such service I claim a pension.”
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It is important in all cases to determine with precision the period for which the applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service. The use of the phrase [italic] about three or four months
is to indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable.

[single dagger] QUERE XIV. Proof of Service.
In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses, who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimants entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the regiment, company, and line to which he belonged. The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the witnesses, and the official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office.

[double dagger] QUERE XVI. Mode of authenticating papers.
In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticated the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other paper authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the end 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.
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CHARLES R. HUME,
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON,
ANADARKO, OKLA.

Dec. 26, 1905

Commissioner of Pensions,
Washington, D.C.

Sir - I should like a copy of the application of Stephen Humes of Sutton Mass. for pension for services in the Revolutionary War. Application is dated Aug. 28, 1832.
If Andrew Smith of Coventry, Conn. made application from Berkshire Co. Mass., I should like a copy of his application also.
Stephen Humes lived in Hinsdale, Mass. at time of his application.

Respectfully
Chas. R. Hume
Anadarko,
Okla.
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United States Indian Service

Kiowa Etc Indian Agency,
Anadarko Oklahoma
Nov.  39th

Office of Commissioner
of Pensions, Washington D.C.

Sir,
I desire to procure from the Revolutionary War Pension rolls information regarding the service of Stephen Humes private, in Massachusetts Militia, who drew a pension for many of years on account of gun shot wound, I am told.
Would like to know date and place (or battle) where wound was received, nature of disability, Time he drew the pension tc, tc, such as would form a narrative of interest to his descendants.
Please advise one how I can procure such information.

Respectfully,
Chas R. Hume
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Stephen Humes                                       no copies

Aug 28, 1832 (application)    } 75
Windsor, Berkshire Co. Mass.}

(1)
Where Sutton, Worcester Co Mass.
When May 1, 1775
Term 8 mos
as.
Capt Arthur Daggett
Col. Ebenezer Learned
State Mass.

(2)
Where Roxbury
When 
Term 2 mos
as
Capt. Bartholmew Woodbury
Col.
State

(3)
Where Sutton Mass.
When spring 1776
Term 8 mos
as.
Capt Jonathan Carroll
Col Whitney
State

(4)
Where Sutton Mass.
When following winter
Term 4 mos
as.
Capt John Putnam
Col
State Mass

(5)
Where 
When Aug 1777
Term 4 mos
as.
Capt. Bartholmew Woodbury
Col. Drury
State

also as scout under Col John Brown

Wounded in an arm as engagement near Lake George

(6)
Where 
When Summer 1778
Term 2 mos
as.
Capt. Lt Nathaniel Putnam
Col. Fish
State

In battle on R.I.
In Battle and retreat from R.I

born { Uxbridge Mass
         {1757
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3-1851.
___________

Department of the Interior,

BUREAU OF PENSIONS,

Washington, D.C. ------, 1904 --
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[letter, typed]

[upper left, printed in box]
This Bureau can furnish the military record of only such Revolutionary soldiers as were pensioned or whose widows were pensioned for their services.
Such of the original muster and pay rolls of the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812 as are now in the possession of the Government are on file in the Record and Pension Office, War Department. Original rolls and other records pertaining to service in the Revolutionary War may also be found on file in the archives of many of the original States.

O. W. & N. DIV.
REVOLUTIONARY.

L. W. B.
I. 30503.

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS, 
WASHINGTON, D.C., 
December 16, 1897.

Sir:-
Replying to your request for information concerning Stephen Humes, a soldier of the Revolutionary war, you are advised that he made an application for pension on August 26, 1832, at which time he was 75 years of age and residing at Windsor, Mass., and his pension was allowed for two years' actual service as a private in the Mas. troops, Revolutionary war; a part of the time he served under Capt. Daggett and Col. Larned. He enlisted at Sutton, Mass.

Very respectfully,
[unsigned]
Commissioner.

Mr. Charles R. Hume,
Anadarko, Oklahoma.
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts

Berkshire, ss.   I, Henry W. Bishop, Register of the Court of Probate in and for said County, do hereby certify that Noah Green Esquire, before whom the annexed deposition was taken is one of the Justices of the Peace within and for said County, duly and regularly appointed, and that I am well acquainted with his hand writing, and have no doubt that the Signature annexed to said deposition is genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court this twelfth day of January A.D. 1832.
Henry W. Bishop Register of Probate
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In the Summer of 1778 enlisted under Lieut. Nathanel Putnam I believe in the Regiment of Col. Fish. Marched to Rhode Island & was at the Island of Newport under Gen. Sullivan at the time the American Army under his command retreated the Island. While on the Island we had a severe engagement with the British but did not succeed in taking the Island as was intended by Gen. Sullivan and we retreated by night taking with us all the gun stores & belonging to the forts, to the main land & marched to Providence when I continued with the expiration of the term of two months from the time of enlisting. I never received a written discharge. I was born at Uxbridge Mass in the year of our Lord 1727. I have no record of my age. When called into the service I lived at Sutton Mass. Since the Revolutionary War I have lived at Windsor Mass to which place I moved in in the year 1781 where I now live. The accompanying certificate signed by Bartholomew Woodbury was given me at the time of its date. Subcard the signature of the same Bartholomew Woodbury before named in this declaration as an officer under whom I served in the Army. Humes served in the Army of the United States at different periods in all more than three years.


Sutton October 2 1787 this may certify that Stephen Humes has been in the Army of the United States the term of two years and 15 fifteen days whilst he Lived in Sutton for himself at Sundry time.
Bartholomew Woodbury Lt. Col.
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as substitute for Archilas Putnam of Sutton marched from Sutton & Branch Brook New Jersey the British were then at Brunswick N. J. about four miles from our encampment. Served the period of his enlistment which was four months, a longer period of time. About the middle of August 1777 I enlisted again for four months under Capt. Bartholomew Woodbury, Lieut. Jonathan Woodbury & if I mistake not was in the Regiment of Col. Drury, marched from Sutton through the western part of Massachusetts & Vermont arrived at Bennington Vt a few days after the Battle at that place continued march to Pawlet Vt. when I volunteered to Scout through the woods under the command of Col John Brown. marched thru days in the woods and arrived at Lake George where we discovered an encampment of British soldiers belonging to Burgoynes Army with whom we had an engagement about four hundred were taken by our party as prisoners. A detachment of men was sent after this engagement to take possession of a block house used as a fort then in possession of a British guard about a mile distant, I was one of the detachment. We were fixed upon by the guard from the block house & I then received a bullet wound in my arm. The guard surrendered at length & with the rest of the prisoners were taken across Lake Champlain to Vermont. I being at this time unable to do duty in consequence of the wound received was sent with other wounded soldiers to Johenesboro at the head of Lake Champlain to be placed in care of a surgeon while our Army marched on towards the Hudson River in pursuit of the main body of Gen. Burgoynes Army. I afterwards went to Bennington & there received a furlough which extended to about the expiration of the term of my enlistment.
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Berkshire Co. Windsor, Jan 10th 1833

Personally appeared before me the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace for the County Berkshire in Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Stephen Humes of Windsor in said County who being duly sworn deposeth & saith that by reason of old age and consequent left of memory he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service in the Army of the United States in time of the Revolutionary War but acording to the best of his recollection he served not less than the period mentioned below & in the following graded vis.
For two years and eight months as private.
For two months I served as a Sargeant & for such service I claim a pension.
Noah Green Jus' Peace