Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 25109, for William Stone, Massachusetts

SERVICE
SERVICE 1600 S. Glass St.
Stone, William Lucy
NUMBER _____
N. 25/11/9
CONTENTS

1812 Maine William Stone
of Kennebec in the State of Maine who was a Corps Private in the Company commanded by Captain Cobb of the Regt. commanded by Col. Wade on the Mass. (me) line for 11 mos 13 ds for { 13 " Corp. }
Inscribed on the Roll of Maine at the rate of 39 Dollars 65 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 24 day of July 1833 and sent to R. C. Vose Present
Arrears to the 4th of March 1833 $79.30 Pension, allowance ending 4 Sept - 19.82 $99.12
{ Revolutionary Claim, let June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by W. L. Willams Clerk Book E Vol. 1 Page 54

STATE OF MAINE.
Kennebec County, ss.
AT the Supreme Judicial Court, begun and holden at Augusta, within and for the County of Kennebec, on the first Tuesday of October, A. D. 1832, and thence by adjournment on the 27th day of March A. D. 1833.
PERSONALLY appears in open Court William Stone by whom the annexed declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of June 7th, 1832, was made before the Hon. NATHAN WESTON, Jr. on the 20th day of July A. D. 1832, and makes oath, in due form of law, that the annexed declaration, by him made and signed, is true.
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary soldier and served as he states.
Nathan Weston Just S. J. C.
I, JOHN ALPHONSO CHANDLER, Clerk of all the Judicial Courts held within and for the County of Kennebec, do hereby certify, that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of William Stone for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I hereunto affix the seal of said Supreme Judicial Court, and subscribe my name this 27th of March A. D. 1833.
J. A. Chandler

Declaration.
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th of June, 1832.
STATE OF MAINE, } ss. KENNEBEC COUNTY, }
On this term last day of July A. D. 1832 personally appeared before the Hon. NATHAN WESTON, Jun'r, a Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court, of said State, William Stone a resident of Anson in the County of Kennebec and State of Maine, aged Seventy 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 provision made by the Act of Congress, passed June 7, 1832. That he enlisted in the Army of the United States in the year 1776 with Captain Silas Cobb and served in Col. Doggett's regiment of the Massachusetts line or troops under the following named officers: Cobb Captain, Doggett
Colonel, that the first of January 1776 he enlisted as a private for eleven months in that company and regiment. That this period he fully served out and was verbally discharged at Dorchester Massachusetts in April 1776. That in May 1776 he again enlisted as a private for the period of six months, that this period he fully served out, and was verbally discharged at Nantasket in Boston Harbor in November 1776. That in July 1777 he again enlisted as a private for two months in Capt Keith's company and Col. Ebenezer Dane's regiment of Massachusetts troops, that this period he fully served out and was verbally discharged at Howland's ferry in Rhode Island in September 1777. That in July 1778 he again enlisted as a private for the term of two months in Capt Isaac Hodges' company, and regiment commanded he believes by Col Dane of the Massachusetts troops. That this period he fully served out, and was verbally discharged at Howland's ferry in Rhode Island in September 1778. That in December 1779 he enlisted for a period of six months in the  Massachusetts line or troops under the command of Col Wade , being a company of light infantry, and regiment commanded by Col. Dane of the Massachusetts troops. That this period he fully served out, and was verbally discharged at Tiverton Rhode Island in September 1779.
And to the interrogatories propounded under the instructions of the war department, he answers: That he was born in Norway in Massachusetts in 1762, when he supposed his age is recorded, that his home was there during the revolutionary service, and that about 1782 he removed to Cambridge Maine, where he has ever since lived, and now lives. That he enlisted, at the above periods, was not drafted or received as a substitute. That he never took any written discharge. That in his first service he was with the main army. That in his second service, he was employed in fortifying Boston Harbor. That in his third service he was employed in Rhode Island as he was also in his fourth service. That in his fifth service, he served on Rhode Island, where General Sullivan commanded. The Rev John B. Howland and Genl Asa  Robinson will testify to his character for veracity, and brief of his services.
June 1780 he was enlisted as a private for a four months cruise on board the American private Brigantine  John  Dunn , then at Marblehead , Peter  Hendrick commander, that he served out this period and was verbally discharged at Boston in October 1780.

He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or an annuity, except the present, and he declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any agency in any State.
William Stone
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid, Before
Nathan Weston Jun Rank S.J. Clerk
And the said Judge does hereby declare his opinion that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier, and served as he states.
Nathan Weston Jun

William Stone Private - Moultonborough troops, Cobb's Co. } 3 months Daggett's regt. } Redington's Co. } 6 " 6 " 7 Whiting's regt. } Keith's Co. } 2 " 13 days Lane's regt. } Hodges' Co. } 2 " 13 Caporall } Walter's D. Inf. } 2 " 13 Lane's regt. }
Pr 3 mo 13 days Pr 8 mo 13 days Pr 13 days
13 days as a corporal 8, 13 days as private 8, 26 Proof of B. D. Bangs certificate 3 months as private } Proof of Mary Stanley 2 " as corporal } General knowledge 5 " }
11 mo. 13 ds pri 13 ds corp
36.66 1.43 1.56 39.65
Re. C. Rose, Augusta, Me.
State of Maine
I Mary Stanley, wife of William Stanley of Sidney Maine, aged seventy three years, upon oath testify and declare that I know that my brother William Stone went into the land service in the war of the revolution early in the war, and that he went for several successive years, particularly of that he served near Boston, and that he went two or three campaigns to Rhode Island. I further testify that I well remember that he afterwards went two cruises in the sea service.
Mary Stanley
Subscribed and sworn to, July 20. 1832. the deponent being a credible witness. Before Nathan Weston Jun. Just S. J. C.
State of Maine.
KENNEBEC, ss.—I, JOHN A. CHANDLER, Clerk of all the Judicial Courts held within and for the County of Kennebec, hereby certify that the HON. NATHAN WESTON, Jun'r, before whom the within proceedings was had, is a Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of said State; I also certify that the within contains the original proceedings of the said Judge, in the matter of the application of William Stone for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of the said Court, this 20th day of July
A. D. 1832,
J. A. Chandler

Maine 4777
Lucy Stone widow of W m Stone
who served in the Revolutionary war, as a Private
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 39 Dollars 63 Cents
per annum, to commence on the 3 rd day of March June, 1848.
Certificate of Pension issued the 9 th day of May, 1845 and sent to
George W. Merrill, Augusta, Me.
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act February 2, 1848, Page 34 Vol. 1

Lucy Stone Pension. Act Feb 2. 1848
No Lucy Stone Wid of William Mr act 2 July 1848 Marmo 1786 Inst due, 1848 at m $39 65 pan Mr 3 June 1848
Geo W Martin Augusta Maine,
Geo W Martin Augusta Mr

Declaration, In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress entitled "An Act making further provisions for the surviving widows of the Soldiers of the Revolution", Approved Feb. 2. 1848. State of Maine,
Wenatchee County S. S.
On this second day of February A. D 1849, personally appeared before the undersigned Judge of the Court of Probate for said County, it being a Court of Record, Lucy Stone a resi- -dent of Augusta in the County of Kennebec and State of Maine, aged Seventy eight years who being first sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the Act of Congress, Approved February 2. 1848, entitled "An Act making further provisions for the surviving widows of the soldiers of the Revolution, That she is the widow of William Stone who was a Revolutionary pensioner of the United States, under the Act of June 7. 1832 at the rate of Thirty Nine dollars and Sixty five cents per annum , which was last paid to him at the United States Agency for paying Pensions in Portland in the State of Maine, to March 4. 1848, that she refers to a declaration made by him of his services in the Army of the Revolution, presumed to be in possession

of the War Department. She further declares that her maiden name was Lucy Baraye, that she was married to the said William Stone in the town now called Augusta, in the then District, now State of Maine, on the first day of December in the year Seventeen hundred and eighty five , that her husband the aforesaid William Stone died in the said town of Augusta on the third day of June One thousand eight hundred and forty eight, since which time she has remained unmarried.
Attest
Dan t Williams
L. H. Stone
Number 7. February 2 d 1849 Sworn to this day upon my Oath me
Dan t Williams Judge of Probate
The above named Lucy Stone from old age & infirmity being unable to attend in open Court, the oath was duly administered to her at the residence of Mr r Arnold where she is for the present residing.
Dan t Williams Judge of Probate

State of Maine,
Wennebec County, S. S.
I the subscriber, Register of the Court of Probate, for said County, do hereby certify that the Hon. David Williams, before whom the foregoing proceedings were had, is the sole Judge of said Court, and that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Judge, in the matter of the application of Lydia Stone for a pension. I also further certify that it has been satisfactorily proved in Open Court before said Court, that William Stone the husband of the said Lydia, was a revolutionary pensioner of the United States, and that he died, in the town of Augusta in the County of Wennebec and State of Maine, on the third day of June A. D. 1848.
Witness my hand and the Seal of the said Court the fifth day of February A. D. 1849.
Francis Davis

Under the head of marriages I find the following, to wit:
"• Mr William Stone and • Miss Lucy Savage, December first seventeen hundred and eighty five."
which is a true copy of the record with the exception of the date which is expressed on the record in fair legible figures as follows viz "Dec. 1. 1785."
Daniel Pike Clerk of the Town of Augusta
State of Maine.
County of Kennebec ss:
I, Daniel Pike, above named, depose and say that I held the office of Town Clerk of the Town of Augusta in the County and State aforesaid, and that the above is a true extract from the records of said Town, with the exception above named as certified by me.
Daniel Pike Clerk of the Town of Augusta
Sworn to before me the 27th day of February 1849.
J. Dillingham
Just. of the Peace.

State of Maine
County of Kennebec So—
I William M. Stratten Clerk of the Judicial Court for the County of Kennebec, hereby certify that George W. Morton and Joseph P. Dillingham Esquires are Justices of the Peace in & for said County, duly commissioned & qualified, & that the signatures hereto affixed purporting to be theirs respectively are genuine.
Witness my hand and the seal of the Supreme Judicial Court this Sixteenth day of March Anno Domini 1849.

I Ephraim Ballard of Augusta, in the County of Kennebec and State of Maine aged upwards of fifty years, do depose and say that from my earliest recollection I was well acquainted with William Stone who died in said town of Augusta in the month of June 1848 the said Stone was a Prisoner of the United States. I also well acquainted with the said Stone's reputed widow Lucy Stone now living in said Augusta, the said William & Lucy were living together as husband & wife as long ago as I can remember and so continued to live till his death I resided in the same neighborhood with them for upwards of forty years, was intimately acquainted with their children several of whom are older than myself. The said Lucy Stone is a reputable person I entitled to belief. I have no doubt of the truth of the statements made by her in her declaration sworn to before Hon Dan d Williams on the second day of February 1849 for the purpose of obtaining a pension.
Eph m . Ballard
State of Maine,
Kennebec County S.S. On this fifteenth day of March 1849 personally appeared before the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, Ephraim Ballard above named (who is well known to me to be a reputable person now a Selectman of the town of Augusta) and made oath to the truth of the above affidavit by him subscribed.
Geo W . Mooton Justice of the Peace.

Pay
WIDOW, &c.
File No. 25109
Lucy Stone Wid. of M m Stone Brn Rev War
Act: Feb 2 nd 1848
Index: —Vol. V Page 279
[Arrangement of 1870.]

William Stone, Mr act 7 June 1832 p 39 15
To what time was he last paid
66. A
Pension Office May 17 th 1849
pa to 1 st Mar 1848.
12/13

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, November 24 th 1832.
I hereby Certify, That, from an examination of the Books and Documents, relating to Military Services in the War of the Revolution, which remain in this Department, it appears that the name of William Stone is borne on a pay roll due to Capt. Isaac Hodges company in Col. John Draggett's regiment being for travel from Boston to Freetown in the Alarm in Dec r . 27 th & Jan y . 1777 for days spent in service, as having been paid for six days service.
And that the name of William Stone is borne on a pay roll of Capt. M c Intosh's company in Col. Cushing's regiment that marched from Brookfield July 30 th 1777, to Bennington that moon in the service of the United States, as having been paid as a private for one month & four days service.
And that the name of William Stone is borne on a pay roll due to Capt. Isaac Hodges company in Col. George Williams regt, in a late secret expedition from the 25 th of September till the last day of October 1777, as having been paid for twenty six days service.
And that the name of William Stone is borne on a pay roll of the company commanded by Capt. Israel Keith in Col. Isaac Dean's regiment, raised in the County of Bristol for the service on Rhode Island, as having been paid for thirteen days service.
And that there are no rolls of Capt. Cobb's company in Col. Draggett's regt, for 1776, or of Capt. Redington's company in Col. Whitney's regt, 1776, or of Capt. Hodges company, Col. Lane's regt, 1778, or of Capt. Wade's company of P. Infy. in Col. Lane's regt, 1779, to be found in this Office.
Edward D. Bangs Secy

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, May 15 th , 1833.
I hereby Certify, That, from an examination of the Books and Documents, relating to Military Services in the War of the Revolution, which remain in this Department, it appears that the name of William Stone is borne on a pay roll of Capt. Zebedee Redding's company in Col. Josiah Whitney's regt. in the service of the State of the Massachusetts Bay from four days before they marched for their first encampment to the 18 th day of August 1776, as having been paid for two months & seven days service as a private. On another roll of the same company from Augt. 18 th to November 18 th 1776, he is paid as a private for three months service. And on another roll of the same company he was paid as a private for one month's service, November 1776. In all six months & seven days service.
Edward D. Dangs Secy
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Augusta, Maine
March 16 1849
Sir,
I transmit the papers enclosed with this for the purpose of having a claim for Pension to which Mary Stone (widow of William Stone) is entitled under the Act of Feb 2, 1848. allowed Her late husband was a Pensioner under the Act of June 7, 1832 at the rate of $39.65 per Ann. and died on the 3 rd day of June 1848. She was married to him Dec 1, 1785. As the papers are satisfactory I would respectfully request you to send me, as her agent, a Pension Certificate for her.
Very Respectfully,
Yours & M c Lean
Per W. Norton
James L. Edwards Esq
Commons of Pennsylvania
Washington D.C.