Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 42385, for John Stockwell, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER
Stockwell, John
S. 42385
CONTENTS

18/167
New York
John Stockwell
of Washington in the State of New York who was a Private in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Decker of the Infantry line, for the term of three years
Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 4 of May 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 14 of July 1822 and until the death of the holder of this
Arrears to 4th of Sept 1821  320.28
Semi ann. all'ce ending Mar 1822  48
320.28 48 368.28
{ Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818. }
due 1820
vol 5, dms p 192  1851
AR

John Marshall
private
Colonel Beckman's Regt
Massachusetts line
gross pay - $100.00 due at [illegible] - $10.00 [illegible] - $10.00 [illegible] - $10.00 [illegible] - $10.00
total $5-
paid [illegible] - $10.00 due [illegible] - $10.00
Dr. Final Settlement Nights [illegible] / M. [illegible]
admitted
to [illegible]
1822

United States of America;
State of New York, Washington County, ss: On this fourth day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen before me Jonathan Wood Esquire one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of the said County the same Court being a Court of Record. Personally appeared John Stockwell aged fifty six years
Resident citizen of said County, Who being by me first duly sworn according to Law doth on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the provision made by the late 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. That the said John Stockwell Enlisted in the Land Service in Massachusetts Line in the Company Commanded by Captain John Blanchard in Colonel Henry Jacksons Regiment in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty for three years but did not serve the Regiment untill the spring of one thousand eight hundred and eighteen when he afterwards engaged for during the War in the above mentioned Company and Regiment but before the expiration of the time of the United States in the capacity of a private soldier until the day of the War when he was discharged from the service in June seventeen hundred and eighty three from the State of Massachusetts with his discharge certificate and was given a certificate of the expiration of his enlistment and that he was then entitled to his pay at the rate of...
Subscribed and declared before me the day and year aforesaid J. Wood Esq. Judge of the Court of Common Pleas for the County of Washington

United States of America.
By the Honorable Jonathan Wood Esquire one of the Judges of a Court of Record in the State of New York, to wit, of the County of Washington in the said State,
To the Honorable, the secretary of War of the United States of America,
Sir, I do respectfully certify to you that it appears to my satisfaction that the said John Stockwell did serve in the Revolutionary War, as stated in the preceding declaration against the common enemy, and I now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me to the secretary for the War Depar- tment pursuant to the direction of the aforemen- tioned act of Congress. Dated this eighth day of June 1818.
Jonathan Wood one of the Judges of the court of common pleas in and for the County of Washington —
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State of New York, Washington County, ss. Personally appeared before me Jonathan Wood Esquire one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of said County Benjamin Favis a person well known to me after being duly sworn deposeth and saith that he is well acquainted with John Stockwell who subscribed the foregoing Declaration and do believe the same to be true
Benjamin Favis
Sworn and subscribed this fourth day of May 1818 before me Jonathan Wood one of the Judges of Washington Common Pleas
I Jonathan Wood Esq. one of the Judges of said Court of Common Pleas do hereby certify that the foregoing Declaration of the said John Stockwell was made before me this day personally appeared and acknowledged that he is well acquainted with the said John Stockwell and that he is a poor man in circumstances and that he believes the same to be true.
Jonathan Wood Esq. one of the Judges of said Court of Common Pleas

District of New York.
Be This Seven the Day of March 1821 personally appeared in Open Court being the Court of Common Pleas held in and for the County of Washington before the Judges of the same Court who also being a Court of Record in and for said County John Stockwell aged fifty Eight - years resident in Hartford in said County who being first duly sworn according to Law doth in his oath declare that he served in the revolutionary War as follows that he enlisted for the term of three Years in the Year 1785. in the State of Massachusetts in the Company commanded by Captain John Mansfield in the Regiment commanded by General Jackson in the line of the State of Massachusetts and on the Continental establishment but did not join his Company until the Spring of 1781. when he did join said Company and served under said enlistment some time of time enlisted by virtue of the war and served therein until the War closed as is stated in the Declaration and with in the time he was on the 4th Day of May 1818. before Jonathan Wood Esquire and do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 15th Day of March 1818 and that I have not since that time by gift sale or in any other manner disposed of any part thereof with intent thereby to bring myself within the provisions of an 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 16th Day of March 1818. and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property or securities like contracts or Debts due to me; nor have I any income other than what is contained in the Schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed. and that if any part of the above has been brought up in the occupation of the same and still continues and occupation of the same to do so! but that he has not been able to labor substantially. To support himself by his labor in about Four - Years past been with his children has been supported by them for that time except that he was able to do something to his support by his own labor. That he is indebted to me in all more than one hundred Dollars between thirty and forty of which is for a Physicians bills in attendance upon him in sickness of which of which sickness also much of his indebtedness has accrued. and he is unable in his opinion to pay the same and to support himself in future without the assistance of his Country or friends. Given To and declared on the Seventh Day of March one Thousand Eight Hundred and Twenty One in open Court -  John Blackwell A. B. Almy

An Inventory or Schedule of the whole Estate & income of John Stockwell an Applicant for a Pension, his necessary clothing and bedding excepted. To wit.
  One Old Chest - valued at  $1.12 3/4    One Pocket Book " "  0.37 1/2    One Sickle " "  0.50    One Scythe and Snath " "  1.75    Two old Hats " "  87 1/2     $5.00  
I have no income nor any other property except as above stated nor have I any securities contracts or debts due to me whatever.
Dated at Salem this 7 th day of March 1821.
John Stockwell

Matthew D. Downes Clerk of the County of Washington hereby certify that the foregoing Schedule the Schedule hereto annexed are truly copied from the records of said Court; and I further certify that it is the opinion of the said Court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid Schedule is Five Dollars.
whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court on this Seventh Day of March 1821.
A. B. Downes Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Washington.

State of New York Jefferson County ss I Thaddeus Stockwell of the Town of Brancaville in the County of St. Lawrence  Jefferson and State of New York being duly sworn do depose declare and say that I am well acquainted with John Stockwell of the Town of Hartford County of Washington and State aforesaid and that said John Stockwell enlisted as a private Soldier in a Company commanded by John Blanchard in the Sixth Regiment commanded by Colonel Henry Jackson - and in the Massachusetts line as this deponent verily believes - and that he enlisted as aforesaid sometime in the year One Thousand Eighteen Hundred and Eighty and as this deponent verily believes in the Month of September of that year and he served in said Company and Regiment about Two Years and Six Months according to the best of his depo- ments recollection and as he verily believes in the War of the Revolution against the common enemy and on the Continental establishments at which time he was honorably discharged. And this deponent further says that he served during the said time in the same Company and

Regiment with said John Stockwell and further said deponent says that the said John Stockwell enlisted at first for the term of Three Years and after having served under said enlistment for one Year he enlisted during the War and served for about One Year and Six Months and until the Conclusion of the War and Peace declared. making in all about Two Years and Six Months as above stated.
Gradus Stockwell
Sworn and Subscribed to Before me this 24th Day of February 1821 Elijah Field Jr. Judge of Jefferson County Court
I hereby certify that I am personally acquainted with Moses Stockwell the person who subscribed the above certificate & believe him to be a person of truth & veracity. I know him to remain in this County. Moses Stockwell Sheriff Jefferson County
Clerk's Office Jefferson County I hereby certify that Elijah Field was taken before me on the day of the date of the said affidavit a judge of the Jefferson Common Pleas duly commissioned & sworn as such & that I am acquainted with the hand writing of the said judge & verily believe the said signature of "Elijah Field Jr." to be his proper hand writing. Witness my hand at the seat of the said County this 24th Feb 1821 D. Williams Dist. Clerk

January 30, 1926
Mrs. Charles H. Ferguson Ticonderoga New York
Madam:
I have to advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S. 42385, it appears that JOHN STOCKWELL enlisted, place not stated, in September, 1780, and served as a private in Captain John Blanchard's Company, Colonel Henry Jackson's Massachusetts Regiment, and was discharged in June, 1783.
He was allowed pension on his application executed May 4, 1818, at which time he was fifty-six years of age and a resident of Washington County, New York.
In 1821 he was living in Hartford, Washington County, New York, with his children whose names were not stated.
He died August 22, 1851.
There is no further data on file relative to his family.
Respectfully,
WINFIELD SCOTT Commissioner

This man's name should appear on the list of final settlement certificates. He served as stated. — His name does not appear thereon. and I think it ought to be inserted.
Jan 6 1921

TOWN CLERK'S OFFICE, FORT EDWARD. GEORGE SCOTT, TOWN CLERK.
FORT EDWARD, N. Y., March 4 1901
Commissioner of Pensions Washington D.C.
Dear Sir:
I wish to find out the Co, and regiment of John Stockwell a soldier of the revolutionary war, who enlisted from the town of Jamaica Vermont.
The object of this inquiry is to place a stone over his grave with a proper description of his services.
We don't know his Co - or regiment, but he was a pensioner who drew his pension at Kingsbury Wash- ington County, New York.

and died in 1851.
By giving me this information you will be doing me a great favor
Yours Truly Sheldon A. Vile Fort Miller Washington County New York

John Stockwell's case Report to the Hon ble Mr. Pitcher, H. R. Jan. 3, 1822.

Inconderoga, N.Y. Dec. 28, 1925.
Commissioner of Pensions, Washington, D.C.
Dear Sir;
Can you tell me where I can get information concerning the war record of any or all of the following men:
John Stockwell (or Stockwall) soldier in the Revolutionary war; buried in Hartford, New York State.

Obediah Menio, blacksmith in the war of 1812.
William Stewart, soldier in war of 1812. Overcome by heat at Battle of Plattsburg, N.Y. Born in 1775. Buried at Streetroad, little hamlet outside of Ticonderoga, New York in 1847.
I will send check for any charges made for this information.
Yours truly
Mrs. Chas. H. Ferguson

42385
INVALID.
Reef
File No.
82,585
John Stockwell P. R. R.
Act: 16 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 8, Page 889
[Arrangement of 1870.]

March 26 1901 Sheldon A. Vile Ft. Miller N.Y.
1926 Jan 30 hist - to Mrs. Chas. H. Ferguson

State of Vermont Rutland County ss Robert Jennison of the Town of Castleton in the County of Rutland and State of Vermont being duly sworn doth depose and declare that he is acquainted with John Stockwell a soldier of the Revolutionary War that said John enlisted as a private soldier sometime in the year One Thousand Seven Hundred and Seventy Eighty - in a Company commanded by Captain John Buel - in the ninth Regiment commanded by Henry Jackson Colonel and served in said Regiment for Two - Years and about Six - Months in said revolutionary War against the common enemy and on the Continental establishments. and this deponent served during said time in the same Compa- ny with said John Stockwell - the service was done by said John in the Massachusetts line -
Robert his Jennison mark
Castleton 13 th Feb y 1821
I generally believe Robert Jennison to be of the above affidavit and made knows that according to his best recollection & judgment the foregoing recital is true before me
Benj. Green Clerk

I hereby certify that I have been personally acquainted with Robert Conner. Agreeable to the within declaration and consider him to be a man of truth and veracity and good moral character
Benj o Conner Justice Peace
State of Vermont
Rutland County ss
Robert Rippon Clerk of the County Court for the County of Rutland do hereby certify that Benjamin Conner was on the 23 rd day of February A D 1821 a justice of the peace for said County of Rutland & that the foregoing are his signa- tures
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court this 23 rd day of February A D 1821
R Rippon

To The Secretary of the War-Department Washington City.

Hartford Washington County New York Dec r 11 th 1821.
Sir
I received a letter Dated "October 20 th 1821. from the Pension office War-Department" some days since signed by Mr J. L. Edwards who is I presume a Clerk in said office informing me that "the papers in the case of John Stockwell had been fully examined" but requested Proof more positive of service by the "Certificate of the Officer" under whom he served as "his name was not to be found on the roll or in the final settlement Certificate Books". Those papers were probably destroyed in the conflagration at Washington in time of the last War. If so Mr Stockwell ought not to sustain so serious a defeat to his appli- cation, as he will if his Pension is not allowed on that account. especially as he has procured not only the best but all the Proof he has in his power as appears by an Affidavit which is inclosed subscribed and sworn before a Justice of the Peace and which Also I believe will appear by the papers now on file. if not and the affidavit now inclosed being taken before a Justice (instead of a Judge as they are usually taken) shall be any objection to receiving the facts therein as proof on its being returned it will be sworn before a Judge in due form, as they would have been now were it not that no one lives nearer than 12 or 16 Miles from this place and Stockwell has ill the means of paying the expense of going and the conveyance unless certain of its being of some benefit especially. Mr Stockwell is a worthy man, and deserves the good which his Country intended to bestow by Passing the Act in question. it is therefore to be hoped it will not be withheld

from him merely on Account of an Officers Certificate when the facts it would prove already appears by the papers now on file ; and he has no other proof of any description in his power while others who are mere debauchees and are daily in habits of intoxication from their use of their Pension Money and whose Midnight revels are conveying lessons of Immorality, to the Youth who surround them receive the gratuity of their Country. Mr Stockwell is an honest (and as far as age will permit) an Industrious man. he has already traveled 7 or 800 Miles to procure Proof of service &c. and has made the most faithful enquiries in order to procure Proof at all for Three Years. and since he procured the Proof of Derrison and Stockwell already sent he has not heard of any other person by whom he could prove any thing additional. Undoubtedly by referring to the Papers at Washington it will be found that Colonel Henry Jacksons Captain John Whanchard and Mrs Robert Derrison & Mr Thaddeus Stockwells names are there (& probably some other facts) which will test the veracity of the Applicant and his Witnesses. I hope therefore his Pension will be allowed and thus be applied at least in one case as was intended by congress in passing the Law to an honest but poor man relief while hundreds who are not deserving and still less in need of it are receiving the benefit of the Law. J. D. Brown Agent.

Old case 1893
John Stockwell, Washington 6 th N.Yk.
or John Brown Agt R.D. Brown Hartford, N.Yk.
Recd. 17 Mar. 1891.
Hartford N.Yk. 12 Church
See if this man's name is on the final settlement list of creditors.
His name does not appear on the final settlement list - he was not the prob. in any official.

Sir
I send you inclosed Papers for obtaining a Pension for Mr John Stockwell an old worn out veteran of the Revolution who has been unable before from his poverty to supply the evidence of his service his name not appearing on the Roll at Washington as is alledged on the back of the papers forwarded to your department in May 1818. He claims pay from that time if his papers are regular as he believes them to be. if allowed you will please forward the Warrant to me as soon as possible. Hartford Washington County New York March 12 th 1821.
C. D. Brown
Hon J. C. Calhoun Esq. Secretary of War Washington

State of New York Washington County ss
John Stockwell an Applicant for a Pension being duly sworn doth depose and say that the Colonel of the Regiment to which he belonged whose name was Henry Jackson died in the Town of Boston in the State of Massachusetts about six years ago as he this deponent is informed and fearfully believes true. And this deponent further says that his company was commanded by Captain John Blanchard under whom this deponent served all the time he was in the Army of the Revolution. and that he has enquired with great pains for him and could not hear of him later than about six years ago when he was in New York but whether he resided there or not this deponent could never learn, nor has he been able to learn any thing of him since all the frequent enquiries have been made by this deponent for him in order to get his Certificate of service of this deponent. And this deponent also says he has never heard any thing of his Lieutenant nor of his Ensign since he left the Army. And this deponent does not know of any other Officer Non-Commissioned Officer or Private now living who belonged to the same Company with this deponent Except Robert Jennison and Thaddeus Stockwell whose Affidavits or declarations under Oath have already been forwarded to the War Department with this deponent's Declaration. And this deponent also says he was unable to hear of any one of the Members of his Company being still living for

about Three Years after the passing the Pension Act and then he heard of the above-named Robert Tennyson by mere accident and soon after by accident also heard of Thaddeus Stockwell who lived in the Town of Woonville in the County of Jefferson in the State of New York which is Two Hundred Miles from this deponents residence & which distance this deponent travelled in order to procure his Testimony of the service of this deponent. And this deponent also says he has no other Evidence of his service & Enlistment &c. in his power other than has already been forwarded by this deponent to the War-Department, all the while he has travelled more than Six Hundred Miles to get information and Evidence on the subject. And further this deponent says he is informed and believe that the above-named Captain John Blanchard if still living is upwards of Seventy Seven Years Old from which circumstance he thinks it highly probable he is not living. John Stockwell
Sworn this 11 th Day of December 1821.
Before me
Archibald Day
Justice of the Peace in & for the County of Washington and State of New York.
I certify that I am well acquainted with the above named Archibald Day, and know him to be one of the Justices of the Peace of the County of Washington N.Y.
Nathl Fletcher M.C.

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
NAME Stockwell, John GRADE Private LINE Massachusetts
WARRANT NUMBER 5012 ACREAGE 100 ISSUED Mar. 25, 1790
to — not shown —
*The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800. Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.