Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 36,798, for Isaac Stevens, New Jersey

SERVICE
NUMBER
New Jersey
Stevens, Isaac Stephens or
S. 36,798
CONTENTS

12,809 R
Indiana
Isaac Stevens
of Vigo County in the state of Indiana who was a Private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Dayton of the New Jersey line, for the term of Six Years
Inscribed on the Roll of Indiana at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 14 of June 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 16 of July 1819 and sent to Sarah Benjamin  Stevens Vincennes Indiana
Arrears to 4th of Sep. 1819  21. 60
Semi-ann. all'ce ending
29 mo 21 30
$ 21. 60
{ Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818. }
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Ms. A. 1. 6 v. 1 p. 101 Rev. War. Pensions Isaac Stevens

The bearer Isaac Stevens Solare the first Regiment of New Jersey having served the term of his enlistment is hereby discharged
Given at Jersey City near Rock Hill Feb. 28. Day of A. D. 1861
H. G. D. L.

36798 Rev INVALID.
File No. 36798
Isaac Stevens
Rev. Rev. 1860
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 398
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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Isaac Stevens Private 77 Warr Dayton N. Jersey. Prest.
Admitted
on Roll
Vincennes Indiana 14 June 1819 Vigs

United States of America Indiana District - S
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Be it remembered that on the fourteenth day of June Eighteen hundred and nineteen, personally came before me the undersigned judge of the District Court of the United States, in and for the said District, Isaac Stevens, of Vigo County, in the said District, who being duly sworn, declareth and saith, - That lately in April, he believes the first or second day, Seventeen hundred and seventy six, at Hackett's Town, in New Jersey, he enlisted for one year in the company commanded by Captain Sharp, of Col. Elias Dayton's, Third Jersey Regiment, of General Maxwell's Brigade. That he served the said term for which he enlisted, in the said Corps, and was discharged the same at Poughkeepsie, in New York. That on his return home, shortly after, in the month of April, the present day he does not recollect, of the year Seventeen hundred and seventy seven, in Morris County, New Jersey, he enlisted for three years or during the war, in the company commanded by Captain Joseph Anderson, of Col. Elias Dayton's, Third Jersey Regiment, of General Maxwell's Brigade. That in the Spring, he

believe, of the year Seventeen hundred & eighty one The Third Regiment being reduced, he was transferred to the first Army Regiment commanded by Col. Matthias Ogden - That he continued to serve in the said Corps, until the Eighteenth day of December, Seventeen hundred and Eighty one, when he was Discharged the service of the United States by Col. M. Ogden, near Battle Hill, in New Jersey, - That he had no written Discharge on account of his first enlistment, but his Discharge by Col. Ogden, is herewith transmitted - and has no other evidence in his power of his said service that he was in the engagements at Shiloh, Springfield, Monmouth - Several skirmishes with the Indians, - and at the capture of Boonsville - That he is in the sixty fifth year of his age, has long been in bad health, frequently affected with the Rheumatism, and entirely destitute of property, his chief dependence for a subsistence being on his son, who is also a poor man, and supports the family by day work - He therefore seeks the assistance of his country, for support, and applies for a pension, under the act of Congress, entitled, "An act to provide for

certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States, in the revolutionary war"
Sworn to before me the day and year first before written }
A. Parke
I Benjamin Parke, judge as aforesaid do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Isaac Stevens did serve in the revolutionary war, as stated in the preceding declaration, against the common enemy, and further that he is in reduced circumstances. And I now transmit proceedings and testimony had and taken before me, to the Secretary for the Department of War, pursuant to the directions of the aforesaid act of Congress -
Given the fourteenth day of June Eighteen hundred and Nineteen
A. Parke

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District of Indiana ss.
On this twenty third day of October 1821 personally appeared in open court (being a court of record, made such by the laws of this State) Isaac Stephens aged sixty seven years, resident in Vigo County in said district who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath declare that he served in the revolutionary war as follows, in the third regiment of the Jersey line in Captain Sharp's Company under continental establishment for one year, was at the surrender of Cornwallis, got an honorable discharge after five years and eight months service which discharge accompanied the original declaration made in June 1819 upon which a pension Certificate has been issued dated on the 16 th day of July 1819 and numbered (12809). And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the eighteenth day of March 1818, and that I have not since that time by gift, sale or in any manner disposed of my property or any part thereof with the intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of the act of Congress entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war" passed on the 18 th day of March 1818 and that I have not now has any pension in trust for me any property, securities, contracts or debts due me nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule herunto annexed and by me subscribed, I have no property no family except my wife who is aged 55 years, my occupation is a farmer but unable to pursue it for a living.
Isaac Stephens
Sworn to and subscribed in open court the day and date above written.
State of Indiana Vigo County ss.
C. Gilbert, Clerk.
I, Curtis Gilbert Clerk of the Circuit Court of said County do hereby certify that the foregoing declaration & oath are truly copied from the Record of said court filed in my Office.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of said Court at Terre-Haute the first day of Novem- ber A.D. 1821.
Curtis Gilbert Clerk.