Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 19405, for David Stebbins, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER _____
Mass.
Stebbins, David Mary
N 19 40 5-
CONTENTS

4921 Massachusetts Mary Robbins, of David Robbins served in the Revolutionary Frate
on the Roll at the rate of 10 Dollars 00 annum, to commence on 1st of March, 1848.
of Pension issued the day of June, 1849, W. B. Morris Springfield Mass.
List of Pensioners under act 2. B, Page 136 Vol. 2

15 984 Massachusetts
David Stebbins, Hampden in the State of Mass who was a Private in the Company commanded Captain Burt of the ... commanded for 6 months in the Camp
Mr
inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts the rate of 20 Dollars — Cents per annum, to commence on the 14th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 13 day of Aug 1833 and sent to Morrill Sprague Mass. Bears to the 14th of March 1833 $41.00 Remnant allowance ending Sept 10.00 $50.00
{ Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832 }
Recorded by H. H. Anderson Clerk. Book 2 Vol. 2 Page 79
74 Hampden

8334
David Stebbins
Prints 6 Months
14. 16 06
March 20 1833
P. 304
R o Morris
Springfield
(Mass.)

BRIEF in the case of David Stebbins  of Wilbraham, Hampden Co 3  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? Seventy two 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.     In 1777 July 1 6 As a Gen. Capt Bur.  
 5. In what battles was he engaged? none stated.  6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Wilbraham  7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditional evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? James Stebbins proves the service John Shaw also proves the service  8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? 
I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
D. A. N. H. Examining Clerk.

8334
David Stebbins?
Declaration accompanied with the Depositions of James Stebbins & John Shaw

Commonwealth of Massachusetts Hampden County ss.
On this Ninth day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight Hundred and thirtytwo personally appeared in Open Court before Oliver P. Morris Judge of the Court of Probate within and for the County of Hampden now sitting in Springfield in said County of Hampden David Stabbins a resident of Milbraham in said County of Hampden and Commonwealth of Massachusetts aged Seventy two 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 th 1832 That he entered the service of the United States under the following named Officers and Served as herein stated
That on or about the first day of July in the year 1777 at Milbraham Mass ts he enlisted in a Company of Mass ts Massachusetts State troops and Marched to Springfield where he joined the Company under the command of Capt Gideon Root of Longmeadow that he was stationed at Springfield Mass ts as a Guard to protect the Magazine public stores and other public property at that Post belonging to the United States That he enlisted for the term of six Months that he remained at Springfield performing duty until the period of his enlistment expired and was discharged on the first day of January in the year 1778 That he very well recollects that he was discharged on New Years day by Verbal Orders that he had no written Discharge, that he has no evidence of any kind to offer to substantiate his declaration other than the Depositions of John Shaw and James Stabbins who were both in the Company and served at the same time which Depositions are herewith annexed That he was born at Milbraham in the year 1760 on the 29 th day of February and has resided at Milbraham ever since and that he now resides at Milbraham in the said County of Hampden That there is a record of his age in the Office of the Town Clerk at Milbraham That he does not recollect that any paid Officer

was Stationed at Springfield during his term of service and that he never joined any Regiment that Stephen Merrill John Shaw Louis White & John Ashley were in the same company with him
We hereby relinquishes every Claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declare that his name is not on the pension roll of any the agency of any State.
Sworn to & subscribed the day & year aforesaid
David Stebbins
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter & after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the abovenamed applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier & served as he states
I Justin Willard Register of the Court of Probate within & for said County of Hampden do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of said Court in the matter of the Application of David Stebbins for a Pension
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of said Court this eighth day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & thirty two
Justin Willard Register

I Joseph Vail of Somers, in Tolland County & State of Connecticut, on oath, depose & say, that on examination of the records of Marriages, Solemnized, in the Town of Somers, aforesaid, by the Rev. Charles Barker, deceased, formerly Pastor of the Congregational Church in said Somers, & whose Ministry extended from 1774 to 1803. — I find, in the records of Marriages kept by him, in its regular place, in the series of entries, the following entry to wit, — "Marriages, Seventeen hundred & Ninety, March Eleventh, David Stebbins of Willerabarn and Mary Charter of Ellington" — And I certify, that the foregoing entry is a true copy of the records, with the exception of the date, which is expressed in the record, in fair legible figures, as follows, "Marriages, 1790, March 11 th David Stebbins of Willerabarn and Mary Charter of Ellington"
Joseph Vail
I Joseph Vail, abovenamed, depose & say, that I hold the office of Pastor of the Congregational Church, in said Somers, & have the custody of the Marriage records of said Church, kept by the above named Rev. Charles Barker, and that the above is a true transcript from the said record, with the exception, abovenamed, as certified by me
Joseph Vail
State of Connecticut Tolland County ss Probate District of Somers
I W m Henry Kibbe Clerk of the Court of Probate for the District of Somers do hereby certify that at a Probate Court held at
Somers in the District of Somers on the 15 th day of January A.D. 1829 Present Walter R. Kibbe Esq. Judge holding said Court, personally appeared in open Court the Rev d Joseph Vail a resident of Somers in said District and being first duly sworn according to law, subscribed and made oath to the truth of the deposition and certificate by him subscribed.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at said Somers on the day and year last above written
William H. Kibbe Clerk

No 6958 Mary Stebbins mo of David Map
act March 43, 17 Mo 44 12 Feb 48
Marius 1790 Inst. aid - 21 st Jan 1844,
adm d of 20 th p er son p er - 21 st Jan 44
Geo. B. Morris Springfield Map

State of Massachusetts 3/6 Hampden County 3/6
On this twenty second day of February in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty nine personally appeared before the Hon Oliver B Morris Judge of the Court of Probate for said County of Hampden Mary Stobbins a resident of Wilbraham in said County of Hampden aged eighty eight 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 provisions of the act of Congress passed on the 3 d of March 1843 granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary war and of the act of Congress passed on the 17 th of June A.D. 1844 entitled "An Act to continue the pensions of certain widows" and of the act of Congress passed February 2 d 1848 entitled "An Act making further provisions for surviving widows of the soldiers of the revolution" that she is the widow of David Stobbins who was a Pensioner under the act of June 7, 1832 and who served in the army of the Revolution as stated in his declaration on file in the War Department of the United States. She further declares that she was married to the said David

Stebbins at Somers in the county of Tolland and State of Connecticut on the eleventh day of March in the year eighteen  seventeen hundred and ninety, that her husband the aforesaid David Stebbins died on the twenty first day of January in the year eighteen hundred and ninety forty four that she has not intermarried since the death of the said David Stebbins but continues a widow, that she does not now and never has received a pension from the United States, that she was not married to the said David Stebbins prior to his leaving the service but was married to him previous to the first day of January 1794 viz on the 11th of March 1790 the time above stated.
Mary Stebbins
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Hampshire
Subscribed and sworn to before me the day and year first above said, and I do certify that the said Mary Stebbins by reason of age and infirmity is unable to attend the court, and I do declare my opinion that the statements of the said Mary in her declaration made are true. In witness whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and caused the seal of said court to be affixed
WILLIAM MORRIS Judge of the court of Probate for said county of Hampshire

Commonwealth of Massachusetts County of Hampden ss.
I Justin Willard Clerk of the Court of Probate within & for said County of Hampden do hereby certify that the Honorable Oliver B. Morris is the Judge of said Court of Probate and that his signature subscribed to the foregoing certificate of the declaration of Mary Stebbins is genuine being his own proper hand writing
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of said Probate Court at Springfield this second day of March A.D. 1849
Justin Willard Clerk.

Jan'y 28, 1905 - His to thro. Mr. Marsh
Rev
WIDOW, &c.
File No. 19485
Mary Steblins Wid" of David Steblins Priv B.W. War
Act: Febry. 2 nd /48
Index:—Vol. M , Page 217
[Arrangement of 1870.]

John Shaw
Deposition

Additional declaration
I David Stebbins of Milbraham who have subscribed and sworn to the annexed declaration in order to obtain a pension, under the act of June 7 th 1832. on do further declare That I do not recollect that any Colonel or other Field Officer was at Springfield where I performed any duty as mentioned in the annexed declaration and that I never joined any Regiment and do not know that the Company to which I belonged was attached to any Regiment, that there was but one Company at Springfield while I was in Service and that was commanded by Capt Gideon Burt. The other Officers of the Company were Lieut Aaron Nighills and Lieut Solomon Brewster. That my whole Service was performed at Springfield Massachusetts performing Guard duty for the protection of public Stores and other property belonging to the United States at that post, and that I served full Six Months as specified in the annexed declaration.
David Stebbins
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Hampden County ss.
On this Twentyninth day of March in the year of our Lord One thousand Eight hundred and thirty three before me Oliver B. Morris Judge of Court of Probate within and for the County of Hampden personally appeared the above named David Stebbins and made solemn oath to the truth of the foregoing declaration by him subscribed.
Oliver Morris Judge of the Court of Probate
Commonwealth of Massachusetts ss. County of Hampden
I Justin Willard Register of the Court of Probate within & for said County of Hampden, the same being a Court of Record, do hereby certify that Oliver B. Morris Esq. before whom the above additional declaration of David Stebbins, was sworn & executed, is the Judge of Probate said Court & that the above is his own proper signature & hand writing.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & the seal of said Probate Court at Springfield this Thirtieth day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & thirty three.
Justin Willard Register

James Stebbins age seventy one of Long- meadow in the County of Hampden & commonwealth of Massachusetts testifies & says that David Stebbins of Wilbraham in the County aforesaid did enlist into the Revolutionary Army A.D. 1777 together with the de- ponent for six months under Capt. Gideon Burt of Longmeadow & served at Springfield as a soldier his term out & was regularly discharged James Stebbins
Hampden ss.
July 28 th 1832
Subscribed & sworn before
William S. Burt Justice of the Peace
I further certify that the above named James Stebbins is a man of truth & veracity & a credible witness & that his state- ment is entitled to full credit
William S. Burt Justice of the Peace
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Hampden ss. I John Ingersoll a Clerk of the Common Pleas Court being a Court of Record in the County of Hampden do hereby certify that William S. Burt Esq. before whom the above & annexed depositions were executed is a Justice of the Peace for the County of Hampden & that I believe his name thereto subscribed to be his true & proper signature
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Common Pleas Court at Springfield on this Eleventh day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & thirty two
John Ingersoll Clerk

John Shaw aged seventy  seventy six of Monson in the County of Hampden & Commonwealth of Massachusetts testifies & says that David Stetson of Wilbraham in the County aforesaid did enlist into the Revolutionary Army A.D. 1777 together with deponent for six months under Capt. Gideon Burt of Longmeadow & served at Springfield as a soldier his term out & was regularly discharged John Shaw
Hampden ss.
August 6 th 1832
signed & sworn before
William S. Burt Justice of the Peace
I further certify that the above named John Shaw is a man of truth & veracity & a credible witness, & that his statement is entitled to full credit William S. Burt Justice of the Peace

19405 wid
3-068.
(Old No. 3-649.)
Bureau of Pensions.
David Stebbins
Aug 9, 1832 - 72
Wilbraham Mass
July 1, 77 Wilbraham Mass. Capt. Gideon Burk Col - - Pvt. C.M.
No Bat
Born at Wilbraham Mass Feb 29, 1760
Had no field officers was stationed at Springfield guarding public stores
m. Mary Charter mch. 11, 1790, Somers Conn D Jan'y 21, 1844

8334
Maria Stebbins
Richd C Morris Springfield Mass

BRIEF objections to the admission of Pension Claims, of which those answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of (David Stebbins)  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 his 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? yes VI. Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with the regulations? yes, no 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
* The name of the Colonel who commanded the Regt should be mentioned

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? no XII. If the clergyman's affidavit has not been produced, is there any reason assigned for not obtaining it? no 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? yes XIV. † If the applicant's name is not found on the rolls of military service, has he produced a witness or witnesses as to his service? yes If he has produced direct proof as to service, has the magistrate who administered the oath, certified to the credibility of the witness or witnesses? no Has the proper officer certified to the official character and signature of the magistrate as the regulations direct? yes 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? yes XVI. ‡ Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct? no XVII. Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily? And, if not, which of them is not so answered? unanswered
 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 _____ year _____ months, and _____ days, I served as a _____ For _____ months and _____ days, I served as a _____; and for such service I claim a pension."

It is important in all cases to determine with precision the period for which each 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 about three or four months is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable. Some persons who apply for pensions merely state they served two years in the militia, &c. without specifying the tours; the names of the officers, and other particulars respecting their service. This form of a declaration is highly objectionable. It must in every case be clearly shewn under what officers the applicant served; the duration of each term of engagement; the particular place or places where the service was performed; that the applicant served with an embodied corps called into service by competent authority; that he was either in the field or in garrison; and for the time during which the service was performed, he was not employed in any civil pursuit.
† 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.
‡ QUERE XVI.  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 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 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.
¶ 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 accompany the papers.

James L. Edwards Esq. Washington D.C.

Springfield Mass. March 3 d 1849
Sir
I enclose to you the declaration of Mrs Mary Stubbins widow of David Stubbins late of Milbraham in this state a pensioner also the evidence of the marriage of Mrs Stubbins in March 1790. If a pension is granted to Mrs Stubbins be pleased to enclose her certificate to my address and oblige
Truly Yours Geo B Morris
James L Edmonds Esq } Comm r of Pensions }

Report
8579 Massachusetts
Mary Stebbins widow of David Stebbins, who was a Phil a
in the Revolution
Husband died 21 Jan y . 1844
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 20 Dollars 00
Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March , 1842, 21 st Jan y .
Certificate of Pension, issued the 29 th day of June, 1844, and sent to
Geo. B. Morris Springfield Mass!
[Acts of March 3, 1843, & June 17, 1844.]
Recorded in Book a Vol. 2. Page 38

Dani Stebbins, Mass, act 7 June 1832 p 20 B
To what time was he last paid?
Plus in Office } 46 A June 26 1849 } p a to 4 th Sept. 1843. Billings