Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 29,477, for Moses Stevens, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER
Stevens, Moses
8.29.477
CONTENTS

N o 11.907 Maine
Moses Stevens
of York Co. in the State of Maine who was a Private in the company commanded by Captain Eaton of the Reg't. commanded by Col. Wade in the Mass. Troops time for 15 months
Inserted in the Roll of Maine at the rate of 50 Dollars — Cents per annum, to commence on the 14th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 12 day of July 1833 and sent to E.E. Bourne Kennebec Me.
Arrears to the 14th March 1833 100.00 Semi-ant. allowance ending 16 Sep 1833 25.00 $125.00
{ Revolutionary } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by D. Brown Clerk, Book E. Vol. 1 Page 53

2008
July 31 1832
Office
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Additional evidence
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State of Maine.
COUNTY OF YORK, SS.
ON this twenty third day of July 1832 personally appeared in open court, before the undersigned Judge of the Court of United States for the District of Maine, Moses Stevens a resident of Kennebec in the county of York and State of Maine aged eighty nine - 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, 1832. That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers, and served as herein stated.
He entered the service in the summer of 1776 - he then - as a substitute for Ebenezer Fith of Wells who was drafted for the term of six months - that he was in the company under the command of Captain Elias D. Dole of which Simon Duford of said Wells was Lieutenant. He does not recollect the Regiment - he believes the Regiment was under Colonel Mac - and that the whole was under the command of General Gates. He was quartered at Ticonderoga and Crown Point during all the time, or in that vicinity, that he served the said six months and was honorably discharged. He was in no battle - and has no recollection of any thing of importance while the company was in service. He also entered the service in the year 1777 in the Militia in a company under the command of Captain Joshua Dason which was in the Regiment of Colonel Joseph Storer of said Wells. That he was at Stillwater, and Saratoga and present at the time of the surrender of Burgoyne, that he did duty in said company between three and four months and was honorably discharged. That on the first of July 1777, he again entered the service of the United States in a company of militia commanded by Capt Brown of Salem for the term of six months. He was first Lieutenant - he went to Rhode Island where he was sick and was discharged at the end of the term. He then went to Wells in the county of York - was home in August 1778 - He does not know of any record of any time since the war has been part of his time in Lyman and the remainder in Kennebec where he now lives - He knows of no man living in the first or last service.
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State, or (if any) only on that of the agency of the State of
Sworn to, and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid.
Handwritten signature: Moses Stevens
WE, Samuel Emerson, a clergyman, residing in the town of Kennebec and Nathaniel Jeffords, residing in the town of Kennebec hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with Moses Stevens, who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be eighty nine years of age; that he is reputed and believed, in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.
Sworn to, and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid.
Handwritten signatures: Samuel Emerson, Nathaniel Jeffords, John Mufsey
AND the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the abovenamed applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states. And the court further certifies, that it appears to them that said Emerson & Jeffords who have, who have signed the preceding certificate, are a clergyman, resident in the town of Kennebec, and that they are credible persons, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
I, John Mufsey, clerk of the District Court of the United States for Maine District do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of Moses Stevens for a pension. And that Emanuel E. Beman is a judge of the said court duly qualified to administer oaths. IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office, this twenty fifth day of July A.D. eighteen hundred and thirty two.
Handwritten signature: John Mufsey, Clerk U.S. Court Maine District

I certify that the within named applicant was at the time that he was sworn to his declaration was unable  unable to attend court being confined to his bed by sickness and that his memory is much impaired by age or sickness.
Arthur Mann Judge of the U.S. Dist. Ct. District of Maine

29 477 Rev INVALID.
File No. 29,477
Mrs. Stevens
Rev Rev Rev
Act: June 1 st 82 nd
Index:—Vol. 9 , Page 95
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Admitted
15 months
$50.00
E. E. Bourne Esq. Kennebec Me

Hennelund Oct 30. 1882
Dr Sir.
Unfortunately, since the making of his application, Major Cowen has been placed beyond the reach of any benefit from his pension. Though some of his children are very poor, and it will be very acceptable to them.
The applicant here dead no alteration can be made in his declaration. The only objection was that one service was said to be about four months. I have taken the deposition anew. That of Joseph Storer is agreeable to your requirement that it was at least 6 months. The same objection in the next service is obviated by the deposition of Samuel Readable.
Storer's declaration is pointed as to two services, each 6 Mo. - the other between three and four months of course possibly for 3 months - which we prefer to take, to incurring the expense of the attendance of a judge at his house, (he being sick, and it being by no means likely that he will ever receive an other pension) - He is desirous of having the money that he may pay the man who has taken care of him, during his sickness, which his own children refused to do. But if dies, then children will

receiving it, where the individual who has taken care of him will lose his pay - That he was out four months I have no doubt - The clerk has connected the papers agreeably to your directions - I should have taken them around to prove the 4 months certain but the deponents live at a great distance -
Hon Lewis Cass                      Yours Respectfully Edward E. Bourn Secty of War Washington D.C.

I Abner Fisk of Wells in the County of York and State of Maine do hereby certify and say that I have heard my father frequently say during his life time, that it was his turn to go out in the Rev- olutionary war - and that he hired Moses Stevens then of Wells, now of Farmstead to go for him. And that he gave him a cow and an old gun - and that said Stevens did go once serve for him - My father has been dead a number of years -
Abner Fisk
State of Maine
York ss. July 23 d 1832 Personally appeared Abner Fisk, who is a credible and demented witness and made oath to the truth of the foregoing declaration by him subscribed
Before me
Edward E. Bourn
Justice Peace
State of Maine
York ss. I William Cutter Allen, Registrar of the Court of Probate for said county, hereby certify that Edward E. Bourn is a Justice of the Peace for said county of York, and that the signatures pur- porting to be his, to the depositions of Nathaniel Conner, Samuel Gillpatrick, Samuel H. Jefferds, Nathaniel Gillpatrick and Abner Fisk, are genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this thirteenth day of October A.D. 1832.
Wm. Cutter Allen, Registrar of Probate.

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I Nathan's Cousin of Herkmount in the County of York and state of Maine Gentleman ninety one years of age, do on oath testify and say, that I was Adjutant of Colonel Joseph Storer's Regiment of the Massachusetts Militia in the service of the United States in the year 1777. Was at Saratoga & Stillwater in the autumn of that year was present at the surrender of Burgoyne I do further testify and declare that Moses Stevens then of Wells now Herkmount was orderly corporal in a company under the command of Capt. Joshua Nason in said Regiment and continued doing duty in the same during the service which I believe was between three and four months, though he was never good for much.
State of Maine
7/11/32 (C.W.M.) York ss. July 19 1832 Personally appeared Nathan's Cousin, who is a credible & disinterested witness, and made oath to the truth of the foregoing declaration by him subscribed.
Before me
Edward E. Burrough
Justice Peace

Nat l Geographic Mag Moses Glenn.

I Nathaniel Gifford of Kennebec in the County of York and State of Maine yeoman ninety one years of age, do on oath testify and declare that my father John Gifford was Lieutenant of a company in the United States service in the year 1778 - and was at Rhode Island at the time of the defeat of General Sullivan He was absent six months in the summer and fall of that year - I do further testify that my father is now dead, and that during his life time he often told that Moses Stevens then of Mills near Kennebec was out with him and was his waiter - I always understood that the name of the Captain was Brown and that he belonged to Salem - From what I have heard my father say I have no doubt that said Ste- vens was with him during said term of six months.
Nathaniel Gifford
State of Maine
York ss. July 20 th 1832 Personally appeared Nathaniel Gifford, who is a credible and disinterested witness and made oath to the truth of the foregoing declaration by him subscribed -
Before me Edward E. Brown Justice Peace.

Joshua Greenleaf and Sam l de Lappan for Moses Stevens

I Joshua Giffpatrick of Lyman in the County of York and State of Maine, seventy four years of age, do on oath testify and say that my father John Giffpat- rick about the first of July 1778 was detached or draft- ed as Lieutenant in a company of Militia in the service of the United States and was ordered to Rhode Island - I do further testify and declare that Moses Stevens went with him at the same time as a substitute for John Taylor - I went to York with the soldiers to bring back my father home - he rode and the rest of us among whom was Stevens went on foot - They were drafted for six months - Just before the term was out, I had a letter from my father telling me to set out with two horses on the third day of January and meet him at Portsmouth - which order I obeyed and met my father and said Moses Stevens at Portsmouth on their return home they were gone a little more than six months which was the term for which they were detached - Stevens was my father's master - and I have often heard my father tell about his being very sick once during their stay at Fort Greenwell - since that they were there, when General Sullivan was defeated and they liked all to have got kidnapped I have always known Moses and he now lives in Vermont All the soldiers are dead - Joshua Giffpatrick
State of Maine
York ss July 24 th 1832 Personally appeared Joshua Giffpatrick who is a credible and disinterested witness and made oath to the truth of the foregoing decla- ration by him subscribed Before me Edward E. Bourn Justice of the Peace

I Samuel M c Clure Jeffords of Wells in the County of York and State of Maine yeoman, of the age of sixty eight years, do on oath testify and say, that my father Simon Jeffords then of Wells, now deceased, was a Lieutenant in a company of Militia enlisted in the year 1776, to go to the Northward, for the term of six months, and that Moses Stevens was in the same company and that he returned home with my father at the end of six months, or a little more, the said company was under the command of Captain Eaton and was at Ticonderoga and Crown Point. I know nothing about his services except what I have heard my father tell of him, and excepting his going away and returning with him. I have heard him tell about Stevens one time going into another company and showing them some of his tricks; for which my father reprimanded him. Stevens was taken from the company as my father's waiter. I know of no other individual now alive who was in my father's company - as the company was made up from Wells to Haverill. I have no doubt whatever that Stevens served said six months, and further say not as I have frequently heard my father and Stevens talk about what took place while they were out. My father has been dead a number of years.
State of Maine July 23 1832 Personally appeared Samuel M c Clure Jeffords who is a citizen and understands the language of the foregoing declaration and made oath to the truth of the same. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 23 rd day of July 1832.
Saml M c Clure Jeffords
Before me Edward E. Dourne jur.