Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 2189, for Frederick P Stevenson, New York

SERVICE
NUMBER _____
New York
Sternson, Frederick P. Hannah.
Nr. 2189 B.L. Nr. 9447-160-55
CONTENTS

76,301 / Act March 3/55 April 18/55
Hannah Stevenson widow of Frederick P Stevenson
N.Y. Hoop
Rev d Rensselaer
July 48-587
60 Ac. No. 37855
Boptu
1700
Vol 82, page 65.
V B Livingston New York N.Y.

587. Co. 2 New York.
Hannah Stevenson widow of Frederick P. Stevenson who served in the Revolutionary war, as a Lieutenant NY Service
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 94 Dollars 21 .
Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1848.
Certificate of Pension issued the 14 day of June 1850 and sent to
Capt N. Lyon of N. York, Present
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act February 24/1848, Page 83 Vol. 1
July Bort
Lt Capt N. Lyon 20 Dec r 1850 Reported

Act March 3 d 1855. Bounty land claim. of Hannah Stevenson.
Presented by. Y. B. Livingston. Jr. New York City.

State of New York } ss New York City and County } ss
On this 16 th day of April 1855, before me a Notary Public, in and for the State and County of New York, personally appeared Hannah Stevenson, a resident of the city of New York, aged eighty two years, who on her oath declares, that she is the widow of Frederick P Stevenson, deceased, who was a Lieutenant in the Revolutionary War, that her said husband, continued in actual service in said war, for fourteen days, and over, as will appear from the evidence already produced, and on file at the Pension Office at Washington; that she now receives a pension of ninety four dollars, and twenty one cents, per annum, under the act of Congress, of July 29 th 1848, on account of the services of her said husband, in said war. She makes this declaration, in order to obtain the bounty land, to which she may be entitled, under the "act approved March 3 rd 1855", and further declares, that she has never before applied for, nor received any bounty land, under this, or any other act of Congress. She furthermore declares, that she is now a widow.
Witness Emmeline Stevenson. Hannah Sheriff x Stevenson. mark
We Emmeline Stevenson, and Gloriana Heath, residents of the city of New York, on our oaths declare, that we are personally acquainted with the above

affiant Hannah Stevenson; that we know her to be the same person she represents herself to be, in the foregoing affidavit, to which she has subscribed in our presence; and that she is now a widow.
Emmeline Stevenson
Gloriana Scott
The foregoing declaration and affidavit were sworn to and subscribed before me on the day and year before written; and I certify that I know the affiants to be credible persons; that the claimant is the person she represents herself to be, and that I have no interest in this claim.
M. G. L. Notary Public.
I hereby certify that Hannah Stevenson, who has signed the foregoing declaration, is a pensioner on the roll of this Agency, as therein set forth; viz. act July 29 th 1848. New York City Pension Agency. Van Brough Thompson P.A. April 16 th 1855.

State of New York
City and County of New York ss. Frederick P. Stevenson of the City of New York being known to me to be the person described in and who executed the foregoing instrument and known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same for the purposes and consideration therein expressed. Given under my hand and the seal of the City of New York this _____ day of _____ 19____ Notary Public in and for the City and County of New York

he is not, and never has been on the pension list of any State.
Inver before me this } fourth day of Jan'y 1877 } P. P. Re
W. Stevenson
New York ss. —
I William Baldwin of the City of New York Physician do depose and say on oath that I am of opinion from the examination of the above named Frederick P. Stevenson on oath, that the nature of his disability in consequence of his wound received in the revolutionary war, is an affection of the hip which debilitates him, to such a degree, as in a great measure prevents him from acquiring a subsistence by manual labour, — And I do further depose that I have examined the said wound, and from such examination, as well as from the oath of the said Frederick P. Stevenson, I believe he was shot through the thigh with a musket ball, and that a part of his thigh bone near the left hip was carried away by such shot so that it continues to this day to be affected by storms and colds, and grows worse with his age in such a manner, as in my opinion, entitles

him justly to a free pension Given this fifth                      William Baldwin Day of Jan y 1817 R Riker

No 334 Application of Hannah Stevenson under
Pension Act of July 29. th 1848.
Frederick Stevenson, appt Seal 16 Feb 1778. See Field Staff Roll, Col Mum Graham's Regiment

In the matter of the application of Hannah Stevenson to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed on the twenty ninth day of July one thousand eight hundred and forty eight, entitled "An Act for the relief of certain surviving widows of officers and soldiers of the revolutionary army."
I hereby certify that on the eleventh day of October one thousand eight hundred and forty eight, Hannah Stevenson, Stephen Lyon, Hezekiah Lyon, Caroline Stevenson Floyd T. Ferris and Edmund Anderson the persons respectively named in the depo- sitions hereto attached, personally appeared in open Court before the Honorable D. P. Ingraham, one of the Associate Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the City and County of New York, and that I as clerk of the said Court, did then and there administer to each of them severally and respectively an oath that the contents of said depositions, by them severally and respectively signed, were true, and that they did then and there severally and respectively make oath that the same were true.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed my signature and the seal of the said Court this twelfth day of October one thousand eight hundred and forty eight,
James Bower Clerk

State of New York
City and County of New York ss. On this Eleventh day of October one thousand eight hundred and forty eight before the honorable  honorable  Daniel P. Ingraham  Daniel P. Ingraham associate  for Judge of New York Common Pleas,
in open Court appeared Hannah Stevenson a resi- dent of the City and County of New York, aged seventy seven years, who being duly sworn according to law, doth in her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the Act of Congress passed on the twenty ninth day of July one thousand eight hundred and forty eight, as the widow of Frederick P. Stevenson who was a lieutenant in the army in the regiment commanded by Colonel Morris Graham during the revolutionary war, that she cannot specify when he entered the service of the United States nor when he left the same, as she was not mar- ried to him until the year seventeen hundred and ninety six, after her said husband had left the said service, that she cannot specify the particular periods, and the rank and name of the officers under whom his service was performed, except as aforesaid, that he resided, as she has heard and believes in the town and County of Westchester at the time when he entered the service, that she does not know whether he was drafted, or a volun- teer, or substitute, nor whether he was engaged in any battles, that as deponent believes from information she marched while in said service through Westchester County along the British line. She further deposes that the paper hereto annexed marked A. is to the best of her knowledge and belief a certified copy of a certificate on the

records of the War Department, and that the same was in the possession of her husband from the time of giving the same until the time of his death in eighteen hundred and twenty and has been in her possession ever since, and that she is the widow of the said Frederick P. Stevenson referred to therein.
She further declares that she was married to the said Frederick P. Stevenson on the twelfth day of January seventeen hundred and ninety six, at Greenwich in the County of Fairfield, State of Connecticut, and the marriage ceremony was performed by the reverend Mr. Finch, a clergyman residing at Greenwich aforesaid, but that she has no documentary evidence of said marriage, and does not believe that any such evidence is in existence as she has never seen or heard of the same, that the said Frederick P. Stevenson died on the seventeenth day of July eighteen hundred and twenty that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but that her marriage with him took place previous to the second day of January eighteen hundred viz; at the time before stated. She further swears that she is now a widow and has never been married since the death of the said Frederick P. Stevenson and that she has never before made application for a pension.
Hannah Stevenson
Sworn before me in open Court this 11 th day of October, 1848
James Warner Clerk

City and County of New York ss - Stephen Lyon of said City and County being duly sworn says that he is acquainted with Hannah Stevenson whose name is subscribed to the foregoing dec- laration or deposition. That the said Hannah is his sister. That the said Hannah to the best of deponent's knowledge information and belief, was married to Frederick P. Stevenson in the year seventeen hundred and ninety six that in the year eighteen hundred and three deponent went to reside with the said Frederick P., and the said Hannah in the City of New York That he resided with them until the death of the said Frederick P. in eighteen hundred and twenty, and that he has since resided with his said sister, and still continues to reside with her in said City. That this deponent was acquainted with Frederick P. Stevenson the late husband of said Hannah Stevenson from the period of his marriage in seventeen hundred and ninety six, until his death as aforesaid. This deponent was not present at the marriage but was present at home at the house of the parents of said Hannah and deponent on the day when as he understood the said marriage took place, and recollects the fact of the said Hannah's return from the house of the minis- ter by whom the said marriage ceremony was performed. That the minister by whom the said ceremony was performed, was, as de- ponent has been informed and believes, the Rev Mr Finch of Greenwich, Fairfield County Connecticut where the said Hannah and her family then resided, who has been dead for about twenty years. This deponent further says

that after the period when said marriage was represented to have taken place, the said Frederick P. Stevenson, and the said Hannah lived together as man and wife and were recognized and regarded as such by their acquaintances, and that they had a family of nine children whom they brought up and attended to, and that as deponent believes five of said children are still living. This deponent further says that he never heard a doubt expressed of the legality of said marriage, though for a period of nearly fifty years he has been intimately acquainted with the family and an occupant of the same house. This deponent further says that the said Frederick P. Stevenson at the time of his death, was an Inspector of Customs of the port of New York, and that this deponent was the executor and the said Hannah the executrix of the last will and testament of the said Frederick P. Stevenson. That this deponent is sixty five years of age and upwards. This deponent further says that about two weeks ago this deponent went to the office of the Town Clerk of Greenwich, Fairfield County Connecticut, for the purpose of making searches in the papers of his office with the view of ascertaining whether any record was to be found of the marriage of the said Hannah. That this deponent was unable to find any, but was informed by the said Town Clerk that until about the year eighteen hundred and sixteen it was not necessary by law that marriages in the state of Connecticut should be recorded - but that it was optional with the parties

to record them or not. That this deponent about the twenty fifth of August last called on Ferris Finch of New York, a son of the said Reverend Mr Finch in order to ascertain whether the said Ferris Finch had any papers of his father's in his possession which would be likely to contain any record or minute of the said marriage. That the said Ferris said that he left home when he was about eighteen that he had no papers of his father's in his possession and was unable to say what had become of them but that he thought that the best person to apply to would be Mrs Anderson the daughter of his father's third  second wife. That this deponent has also made diligent search and inquiry of persons in the said town of Greenwich whom deponent thought most likely to afford him some information respecting the papers of the said Reverend Mr Finch, but that he could not ascertain whether any such papers were in existence, nor if so, in whose possession they were. That the said Reverend Mr Finch was as deponent has been informed and believes married three times, and that among the persons of whom deponent made such inquiries as aforesaid was the grandson of the third wife of said Reverend Mr Finch, who could give no information on the subject and that deponent also caused inquiries to be made of the said Mrs Anderson, the daughter of the third wife of said Reverend Mr Finch, but that she also could give no information on the subject.
Sworn in open court this
11 th day of Oct 1828
James Clancey Clerk
J. Williams Esq

the 77 the ist, 4 the 8th ght at City & County of New York. Hezekiah Son of said City and County. Shipmaster being only known says that he is one of the brothers of the said Hannah Stevenson whose name is subscribed to the foregoing declaration or deposition; that the said Hannah Stevenson whose name is the eldest of her father's family and this deponent the youngest. That this deponent remembers the time of the said Hannah's marriage to the said Frederick P. Stevenson that the said marriage took place in the year 1796, and that the said Frederick P. and the said Hannah for the year following resided with the parents of the said Hannah and this deponent, that said marriage took place in Greenwich in Fairfield County Connecticut where this deponent's parents then lived. that in the spring following said marriage the parents of deponent moved from the state of Connecticut to the state of New York, and that the said Frederick P. and the said Hannah continued to reside with them until the spring following, when a child having been born to the said Hannah and the said Frederick P. they took a house for themselves in the neighborhood and this deponent being her youngest brother, went to live with her and her husband and keep her company; that this deponent continued to live with them about three years, after which he returned to his father's house. that in 1803, the said Frederick P. and the said Hannah having moved to the City of New York, this deponent went there to reside with them, and continued to reside with them until the year eighteen hundred and ten, when this deponent went to sea, that since that time until within about three years past, he has been engaged in a seafaring life, but has always — 44 —

made his home when in New York, with the said Frederick P. and the said Hannah, and since the death of the said Frederick P. which took place, as deponent believes, in eighteen hundred and twenty, with the said Hannah. This deponent further says that the said Frederick P. and the said Hannah had a family of nine children whom they brought up and educated, five of whom are still living, and that he never heard a doubt or suspicion expressed of the validity and legality of said marriage. That to the best of deponents' knowledge information and belief the said Hannah has never been married since the death of her said husband. This deponent further says that he is sixty three years of age.
Sworn in open court } this 11 th day of Oct 1848 } James Warner Clerk
Hezekiah Lyons

the 77 the ist, t the th ght at City and County of New York ss. Caroline Stevenson of said City and County of New York being duly sworn says that she is one of the children of Frederick P. and Hannah Stevenson referred to in the preceding affidavits. That her father the said Frederick P. Stevenson died in the year eighteen hundred and twenty, that as long as she can remember she has lived in the City of New York with her father and mother while they were living, and since the death of her father, with her mother. That her father was at the time of his death an Inspector of the Customs at the Port of New York. Deponent further says that she has five sisters four of whom are now living, and one dead. That she has two brothers born before her as she has been informed and believes, who are dead, and one born after her, who is also dead. Deponent further says that she is forty five years of age & upwards.
Sworn to then, const Caroline Stevenson this 11 th day of Oct 1878
James Conner Atty

State of New York City and County of New York }
I, Lloyd T Ferris of said City, and County being duly sworn, say that he is a physician practising in said City - that he is fifty five years of age and has been a President of said City for fifty years last past.
That he was well and intimately acquainted with Frederick P. Stevenson mentioned and referred to in the foregoing declaration or deposition of Hannah Stevenson. That this deponent is also well and intimately acquainted with the said Hannah Stevenson, and has known her intimately since this deponent was a boy, to wit since about the year 1803. That the said Frederick P. and Hannah were acquaintances of this deponent's father, and they the said Frederick P. and Hannah were very frequently at the house of this deponent's father in said City. That this deponent always understood and heard, that the said Hannah, was the wife of said Frederick P. That she was always received among the friends and acquaintances of said Frederick P. as the wife of said Frederick P. And this deponent saith that he has frequently heard the said Frederick P. call and apply the epithet of wife to the said Hannah. That this deponent was not present at the marriage ceremony of the said Frederick P. and Hannah, but this deponent saith that from long intimacy with the said Frederick P. and the said

Hannah, and with their family and friends he is fully satisfied and verily believes that they the said Frederick P and Hannah were lawfully married.
I am in open court
this 11 th day of Oct 1848
J. G. F. [Signature]
James Clance Clerk.

State of New York City and County of New York ss.
Edmund Anderson of said city and county being duly sworn, says that he is by occupation a Builder. That he is sixty years of age. That he was intimately acquainted with Frederick P. Stevenson the same person mentioned and referred to in the annexed affidavits and papers. That he is also intimately acquainted with Hannah Stevenson whose name is subscribed to the foregoing declaration, and has been acquainted with her since the spring of the year 1810. That Frederick P. Stevenson was also known to this deponent from said year 1810 until the time of the death of said Frederick P. in the year 1820. That this deponent was an intimate friend and acquaintance of the family of said Frederick P. and knows of his own knowledge that the said Hannah was always deemed considered and believed to be the wife of said Frederick P. and although this deponent was not actually present at the solemnization of the marriage ceremony of said Frederick P. and Hannah, still he verily believes, that the said Hannah was the true and lawful wife of said Frederick P. That this deponent was well acquainted with the children of said Frederick P. and Hannah, and always heard the said Frederick P. call the said Hannah and acknowledge her to be his wife. This deponent saith that he is well acquainted with Stephen Lyon and Hezekiah Lyon the persons by whom two of the annexed affidavits are made. That this deponent has known

said Stephen and Hezekiah for 35 years last past and upwards. That they are gentlemen of high character and any statement made by them or either of them is entitled to full credit and belief.
Given in open court this 11 day of Oct 1828
Edmund Anderson
James Cannon Clerk
I hereby certify that Hannah Stevenson, Stephen Lyon Hezekiah Lyon, Caroline Stevenson, Floyd T. Ferris and Edmund Anderson, the persons whose names are subscribed to the foregoing depositions, are persons of respectability and credibility.
James Cannon Clerk of N.Y. Comm. Pleas

Certified Copy of 1 st of P Stevens Pension Certificate

copy War Department (A)
I certify, that in conformity with the law of the United States of the third day of March, 1817 Frederick P. Stevenson a Lieutenant in the regim. commanded by Col Morris Graham, during the revolutionary war is inscribed on the pension list, Roll of the New York Agency at the rate of Eight dollars. fifty cents per month to commence on the sixth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and seventeen,
Given at the War Office of the United States this twenty fourth day of March one thousand eight hundred and seventeen
Geo Graham Acting Secretary of War Countersigned
William Lambert
E. L. B.
State of New York; I hereby certify the above to be a true copy of a pension Certificate to me produced and shown by Frederick P. Stevenson of the City of New York in the original Certificate named to me personally known -
Given under my hand and seal of office the third day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen
Chas G. Ferris
Notary Public

New York. Act 3 d March, 1817.
Frederick P. Stevenson, Lieutenant, Col. Morris Graham's reg t . during the revolution- ary War.
Inscribed on the New York roll, at $8: per month to commence on the 6 th January, 1817. determined by the act afore- said.
Certificate of pension issued on the 24 th March, 1817. and sent to William Jew. Esq. Agent for invalid pen- sioners, City of New York.
arrears to 14 th March, 1817.
1 month, 30 days. $15.74 pension and allow n . to 14 th Sept. 1817. 38.48.
$63.74
Total, Total, 33

N 334 Hannah Stevenson N Lt. to Hon. Ogden Hoffman June 26 '47
act 29 July 1848

Triplett Ruth Carr Hannah Swenson and Frederick P.
Rev Haw W. Underhill A.R.
M. Heath Commissioner of Pensions Washington D.C.

5 9447
} 160 Ams

ren act 29 p. 1, n. 1.
B. G. ...

New York. Nov. 30. 1848.
Sir,
On the 12th ult o I had the honor to transmit to you the petition of Hannah Stevenson, an applicant for the benefit of the Pension Act of March 1848, together with various depositions annexed thereto. I am aware, that the great increase of business connected with the Pension office must necessarily retard the adjustment of such claims applications, but owing to the advanced age of the petitioner, and the consequent importance of a decision on the merits of her case memorial application with as little delay as may be consistent with the absolute rights of other claimants, I have taken the liberty, in consideration of the exigency of the case, of again requesting  calling your attention to the papers above referred to and hope that in so doing, you will not consider me unnecessarily urgent or obstructive.
I am Sir
Very respectfully yours C. Hoff.

Petition of Frederick P. Stevenson
January 31-1817
Ref d to the Committee on Pensions & Revolutionary Claims.
full pension of a Lieutenant allowed viz. $17. per month commencing the 6 th of July 1817.
New York
Ms. A. 9. 2. 20. Pensions

City and County } p: of New York
William Brown of the township of Arze in the County of West Chester and State of New York being duly sworn saith that he will be of the age of sixty six on the seventh day of April next and that he is well acquainted with Frederick P Stevenson of the City of New York And this deponent further saith that the said Frederick P Stevenson was a lieutenant of Militia in the said County of West Chester during the revolutionary war and employed during part of said war in the service of the United States, that this deponent frequently served as a soldier under the command of the said Frederick P Stevenson and that about the month of October in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy eight a battle or skirmish took place between a party of English and refugees under the command of Major Baymore as this deponent was informed at the time and a party of the American Militia in which the said Frederick P Stevenson was serving as lieutenant that the said Lieutenant Frederick P Stevenson was wounded in the said battle and that this deponent assisted in carrying the said Frederick P Stevenson from the place where he was wounded to

the house of James Banks in the town ship of Greenwich in the State of Connec- ticut being somewhere about two miles from the place where the said Frederick was wounded as aforesaid. That this deponent called several times after- wards at the house of the said James Banks and saw the Surgeon dress the said wound of the said Frederick which was in the hip, and further this deponent saith not
Sworn before me this - William Brown fourth day of January 1817
Richard Pike Recorder of the City of New York
I Richard Pike Recorder of the City of New York do hereby certify that David Hunt & William Brown in the aforesaid affidavits named, and who have made their affidavits the same respectively in my presence, are in my opinion entitled to full credit, one of them, to wit, David

Hunt being well known to me and the other court William Brown being proven to me to be a man of good charac- ter - And I do further certify that William Baldwin the Physician who made out of his examining the wound of Frederick P. Stevenson as appears by his deposition hereto annexed is known to me and is reputable in his profession as a Physician Surgeon. In testimony of all which I have hereunto set my hand in the city of New York this ninth day of January One thousand eight hundred seventeen.
P. Piker
I do hereby certify that I am acquainted with Richard Piker Esq: upon whom the preceding Depositions purport to have been taken - and that I am well acquainted with his hand writing and know his signa- ture to the above to be in his proper hand writing - and also that he was at the time of signing the same and is still the Record or of the City of New York - Dated Jan. 23. 1817 Theron Rudd Clerk to of the Southern District of New York

State of New York County of Westchester (SS) Ebenezer J. Raymond being duly affirmed, says that he resides in the town of Bye county of Westchester, and State of New York, and is now of the age of forty six and is the Pastor of the Baptist Church, near King Street, in the town of Greenwich, State of Connecticut, and that this affirmitant has been such Pastor, and had charge of said church, and its Records, Books and proceedings since the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty six, that this affirmitant, was well acquainted with Nathaniel Finch who was the predecessor, of this affirmitant as Pastor of said church, that said Finch, as appears from the church records of said church, was Pastor of said church, from the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety, and continued as such Pastor until his death the which took place in the summer of the year, one thousand eight hundred and twenty nine, And this affirmitant further says that he has examined the church records of said church and also all the proceedings of the same, and is also well acquainted with the customs of said church, and the pastors thereof relative to the solemnization of marriages, and that there is no records of marriages now kept by said church in the records of their respective churches or in any other way, except to file the certificate thereof with the town clerks of the town, where marriages are celebrated or solemnized in said State of Connecticut, And this affirmitant further says that according to his best information knowledge and belief that it has never at any time before been customary to keep any records, of marriages, in said church and particularly

so since the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety, And this affirmant further says that it also appears from said church, Records, that said Elder Nathaniel French was present and presided at the meetings of the said church in the Month of January in the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety six
E. S. Raymond
United States of America
County of Westchester State of New York (SS) Be it known that on the twenty fourth day of October 1849 before me James E. Beers, Notary Public, in and for the state of New York, duly commissioned and sworn, dwelling in the town of Rye, in said county of Westchester personally came Elder, Ebenezer S. Raymond with whom I am well acquainted who being by me duly affirm- ed, did say that he knew the contents of the above affidavit, that the said contents were true of his own knowledge, except as the matters therein are therein stated on his information and belief and as to those matters, that he believes them to be true, and that he had signed the same on his act, and deed, In testimony whereof, I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed my seal of office the day and year last above written
J. E. Beers
Notary Public

June 14/50
William
L. d. 17 June 1820
17 months 22 days / 9421 Lieutenant ad 29 July 1818
Capt H. Lyon of N. York Present

New York, Nov 30. 1849.
Dear Sir,
Allow me to introduce to your kind notice and attention, Capt H. Lyon of this City, who is visiting Washington on matters of business, and among others, a claim of Mrs Hannah Stephenson on the pension fund, which has been under my professional care, and in reference to which I addressed you a letter on the 12 th Oct. 1848, and another on the 3 rd Sept 1849. All the evidence necessary to establish this claim, has been obtained, with the exception of the proof respecting the duration of Lieutenant Stephenson's service, and Capt. Lyon is desirous of examining any documents on the files of the War or other Departments, that may tend to throw light on this question. He is a gentleman of respectability, intelligence and integrity, and any facilities that you may be able to render him in conducting his researches, will be duly appreciated.
Hon: J. L. Edwards.
I am, Very Respectfully, Your Ob Sub- O. Hoffman

Town Clerks Office Greenwich 6 th October 23 d . 1849. I hereby certify that I have carefully examined the Records of said Greenwich, and cannot find recorded the marriage of Frederick P. Stevenson, to Hannah Lyon at the time that the said persons above named were so to be married. viz 1796. there was no law that made it legally necessary that marriages should be recorded. Attest. Samuel Close Town Clerk
State of Connecticut } Fairfield County } ss. Greenwich October 23 d . 1849. Personally appeared Samuel Close maker of the foregoing certificate and made oath to the truth of the same Before me Solomon Mead Justice of the Peace
State of Connecticut } Fairfield County } ss
I Thomas Robinson Clerk of the County Court in & for the County of Fairfield & keeper of the seal thereof, & of the commissions of the Justices of the Peace for said County, do certify that Solomon Mead Esq, whose own proper signature, known to me to be genuine, is above written is, & at the date of the above certificate, was a Justice of the Peace for said County, duly commissioned & qualified as such & duly authorized by the laws of this State to administer oaths & take the ac- knowledgment of deeds - That his commission is dated June 20 th 1849, and will expire with the 3 d day of July 1850 - and "known" by me duly written
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of said County Court this 27 th day of October A D 1849 Thomas Robinson Clerk

New York, Oct. 11/48
Sir,
I have the honor herewith to transmit the declaration of Hannah Stevenson, an applicant, for the benefit of the pension law of July, 1848, together with certain depositions in corroboration of the facts stated therein. I have endeavored scrupulously to comply, in the preparation of these papers, with the instructions issued by the Pension Office, and I trust that they will be found satisfactory both as regards form and substance. I am personally acquainted with Stephen Lyon, Hexekiah Lyon, and Floyd T. Ferris, three of the deponents, and know them to be most honest, and upright men.
May I request you to do me the favor of giving the subject your attention at as early a period as may be consistent with your convenience, and the rights of other claimants. Yours
Hon:
J. L. Edwards,
Commissioner of Pensions
Very Respectfully Yours G. Allen Hoffman

Washington Dec r 11 th 1880
Sir,
I very respectfully ask for a re-consideration of the application for, and evidence on file in your department, in support of the claim of the widow of Frederick Phillipus Stevenson, for a full pension, for services rendered by her husband in the revolutionary war.
It is understood that the late commissioner decided upon the merits of the case, without considering all the evidence which was presented to the department, and allowed for some seven months service, viz from the time of his (Stevenson's) entering the service, until he was wounded . (It is further understood that the reason why the evidence above referred to, was not fully considered, was on a mere technicality, and will hereafter be given.)
The evidence to which I allude is the affidavit of David Hunt, the adjutant of the regiment in which said Stevenson served. In that affidavit Mr Hunt affirms that he was well acquainted with the said Stevenson, and that he served the whole time for which he had engaged, which time can be shown, by reference to other papers, to have been for three years and during the war.
(The reason why the affidavit of Mr Hunt was not fully considered, as above stated, is understood to be because it was not accompanied by a certificate of some Judges of the Peace , that he (Hunt) was,

a man of good moral character. The omission of such a certificate, in the opinion of the undersigned, ought not, and cannot vitiate any part of the said affidavit, consequently the affidavit ought to be allowed as proof of service to the full extent therein stated.
The late Commissioner allowed service of the said Stevenson from the time he entered service, till the time he was wounded. It is but just to presume that he was also in the service from the time he received the wound till he was able to resume active service, and the affidavit of Mr Hunt the adjutant states he was in the service during all that time.
With this brief statement of the reasons why a reconsideration of this case is asked for, (and a number of good reasons can be given) it is hoped that you will order its reconsideration, and that justice, long delayed, may now be given to the claimant.
All of which is Very
Respectfully Submitted
for Mr Stevenson Hezekiah Lyon
Brother to Clement
To the Hon
Commissioner of Pensions.

New York, June 13. 1849.
Sir,
On the 12th October, 1848 I had the honor to transmit to the Pension Office, the declaration and accompanying papers, authenticated and verified according to the rules prescribed by the office, in the case of Hannah Stevenson, an applicant for the benefit of the pension law of July 1848. Since the papers were forwarded, I have received no information respecting them, beyond what is conveyed in the ordinary printed circular addressed to petitioners who apply by letter to the Pension Office, and I am therefore induced, at the urgent request of my client, after a delay of eight months, to inquire at what period she may expect her claim to be investigated by the Department.
I am, Sir,
Very respectfully Yours &c
Hon: J. L. Edwards. Commissioner of Pensions.

City and County of New York J. B. David Knight of the City of New York being duly sworn doth depose and say, that he is about fifty six years of age, and that he was during the Revolutionary War Adjutant to a Regiment of Militia commanded by Colonel Morris Graham and was - during the time aforesaid well acquainted with Frederick P. Stevenson of the said City who was a Lieutenant in the said Regiment; that about the month of October in the year one thou- sand seven hundred and seventy eight a battle or skirmish took place between a party of Eng. M. and Refugees under the command of Major Barmore and the said Regiment in which the said Frederick P. Stevenson was serving as Lieutenant; that in the said - Action the said Frederick P. Stevenson while so serving was wounded left on the field and carried off: that this de- ponent assisted in carrying him off.

and saw him several times after while ill of his wound. That the said Frederick P. Stevenson served the time for which he engaged and was by profession a Farmer; that he resided many years after the said war in the County of Westchester and since he left Westchester he has resided in the City of New York And further this deponent saith
not
Sworn this 6. day of January 1817. Before me
J. Miller
David Hunt
Recorder of the City of New York

State of New York County of Westchester (SS) Ebenezer S Raymond being duly affirmed says that he resides in the town of Rye county of Westchester and State of New York and is now of the age of forty six and is the Pastor of the Baptist Church, near King St in the town of Greenwich, State of Connecticut and that this affirmant has been such Pastor, and had charge of said Church, and its records, Books and proceedings since the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty six, that this affirm- =ant was well acquainted with Nathaniel Finch who was the predecessor, of this affirm- =ant as Pastor of said church: that said Finch, as appears from the church records of said church was Pastor of said church from the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety, and continued as such Pastor until his death, which took place in the summer of the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty nine. And this affirmant further says that he has examined the church Records of said church and also all the proceedings of the same, and is also well acquainted with the customs of said church and the Pastors thereof relative to the solenization of marriages  and there is no records of marriages ever kept by said Pastors in the records of their respective churches or in any other way, except to file the Certificate thereof with the town Clerks of the town, where marriages are celebrated or solemnized in said State of Connecticut. And this affirmant further says that according to his best information knowledge and belief that it

has never at any time before been customary to keep any records of marriages in said church and particularly so since the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety. And this affirmand further says that it also also appears from said church Records, that said Elder Nathaniel Finch was present and presided at the meetings of the said church in the month of January in the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety six
E. S. Raymond
United State of America County of Westchester. State of New York (L.S) Be it Known That on the Twenty Fourth day of October 1849 before me James E Beers a Notary Public in and for the State of New York, duly commissioned and sworn dwelling in the town of Rye, in said county of Westchester. personally came Elder. Ebenezer S Raymond with whom I am well acquainted. who being by me duly affirmed, did say that he knew the contents of the above affidavit, & that the said contents were true of his own knowledge. except as the matters which are therein stated on his information and belief. and as to those matters that he believes them to be true. and that he had signed the same as his act and deed. In testimony whereof. I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed my seal of office. The day and year last above written.
J. E. Beers Notary Public

No. 76301
ACT OF MARCH 3, 1855.
Received Apr 18 th , 1875-5-
Fred. P. Stevenson - Sec. W. S. Troops Rev. War.
9447-160-5-8-
V. B. Livingston P.P. N.Y.

State of New York
County of Westchester SS: Ebenezer H. Raymond, being duly affirmed says that he resides in the town of Scarsdale, County of Westchester, and State of New York, and is now of the age of forty six, and is the pastor of the Baptist Church near King Street, in the town of Greenwich State of Connecticut, and that this affiant has been such Pastor, and had charge of said Church, and its records, Books and proceedings, since the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty six: that this affiant was well acquainted with Nathaniel Finch, who was the predecessor of this affiant as Pastor of said Church: that said Finch, as appears from the Church Records of said Church, was Pastor of said Church from the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety, and continued as such Pastor until his death, which took place in the summer of the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty nine: And this affiant further says that he has examined the Church Records of said Church, and also all the proceedings of the same, and is also well acquainted with the custom of said Church, and the Pastors thereof, relative to the solemnization of marriages - and that there is no record of marriages ever kept by said Pastors in the Records of their respective Churches or in any other way, except to file the certificates thereof with the town clerks of

the town, where marriages are celebrated or solemnized in said State of Connecticut. And this affiant further says that according to his best information, knowledge and belief, that it has never at any time before been customary to keep any Records of marriages in said Church, and particularly so since the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety. And this affiant further says that it also appears from said Church Records that said Elder Nathaniel Finch, was present, and presided at the meetings of the said Church in the month of January in the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety six.
E. S. Raymond
Subscribed and affirmed to, before me the 24th day of October 1849. H. B. B. Justice of the Peace
United States of America
County of the Tolchester, State of New York ss: Be it known that on the twenty fourth day of October, 1849, before me Thomas C. sec a Notary Public in and for the State of New York, duly commissioned and sworn, dwelling in the town of Hyde in said county, of Westchester personally came Elder Ebenezer S. Raymond, with whom I am well acquainted, who being first me duly affirmed, did say that he knew the contents of the foregoing affidavit, that the said contents were true to his own knowledge and as to the matters which are therein stated on his information and belief, and as to these matters that he believes them to be true, and that he had signed the same as his act and deed. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed my seal of office, the day and year last above written. H. B. B. Notary Public.

State of New York,
COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER, ss.
I, MUNSON I. LOCKWOOD, Clerk of the County aforesaid, and also Clerk of the Courts in and for said County, DO HEREBY CERTIFY, That James E. Beers — Esquire, whose name is subscribed to the Certificate of the proof or acknowledgment of the annexed Instrument, and endorsed thereon, was, on the day of the date of the said Certificate, a Justice of the Peace in and for the said County, residing in the said County, commissioned and sworn, and duly authorised to take the same, according to the laws of the said State. And, further, that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of the said Justice, and verily believe that the signature to the said Certificate is genuine.
In Testimony Whereof , I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the Seal of the said County
Courts, the 2 nd day of November 184 9
Munson I. Lockwood Clerk.
Subscribed to me the 24 th

Rev.
WIDOW, &c.
File No.
2189
Hannah Stevenson
Widow.
Frederick P. Stevens
Lieut. Rev. War.
Act:
July 29, 1848.
Index:—Vol.
M-
Page
238
[Arrangement of 1870.]