Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 10,136, for Moses Stevens, New Hampshire

SERVICE
NUMBER
Stevens, Moses
R. 10.136
CONTENTS

Presented by the Library of Congress Washington D.C.
32.872 Declaration of Moses Stevens Ohio
Rejected did not receive signature
Report to S. W. Allen Grandville Washington County Ohio

State of Ohio Washington County
On this 22 nd day of August 1834 personally appeared before me John Duce a Justice of the peace in & for Salem Township - County of Washington (formerly said state of Ohio). Moses Stevens , a resident of said County & state of Ohio aged 78 years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth in his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832.
That he entered the Service of the United States under the following named officers & served as herein stated,
That in 1775, Deponent then living in Rockingham County State of New Hampshire (he struck out the middle or latter part of April) he volunteered under Capt. Josiah Balch for a tour of one month to go against the British at Lexington and was marched in great haste to and stationed at Cambridge, at which place Deponent was stationed the balance of his time that after serving out his one month for which he had volunteered, he was discharged, he has no recollection of having received any written discharge at this time, To Deponent's Company was attached Lieutenant John Hapkin & Ensign John Morris, at Cambridge he knew Capt. Andrew M c Clary, he thinks of the Militia & several other Officers whose names from the great lapse of time and consequent loss of memory he has forgotten,
That in the latter part of October or first of September of the same year of 1775 (Deponent still living in Rockingham County New Hampshire) Enlisted under Captain, Williams, for a tour of

Six Months , & was marched to and stationed at Portsmouth New Hampshire at which he served out his term of Six Months , for which he had enlisted, & was discharged Comt-me in April 1776. he has no recollection of having received any written discharge at this time, That from the great lapse of time and consequent loss of memory Declarant cannot now recollect the No. of the line in which he served, neither can he, — recollect the names of any of the officers who commanded at that post though he is well satisfied that he was then acquainted with several of the officers of that post,
This last named Declarant's services in the revolutionary war making —
for one month as a volunteer under capt Joseph Batateller
Six Months , under capt Williams (enlisted) making in the whole 7 Months , for which he claimed pension. —
That he was born 26 th day of April 1756 in Rockingham County State of New Hampshire
he has a record of his abode at his present place of abode, that he resided in New Hampshire until 1796 from thence he removed to the State of Maine from thence to Washington County. That from the great loss of memory under which he labours he cannot now recollect the name or No. of any of the Continental or Militia Regiments which he knew while in Service,
That he had no documentary evidence of his services neither does he know of any person now living whose testimony he can procure to prove his services,
That he is known to Chester Solman Emanuel Parkin John Richards David DeLong, Ira Hill Henry Fairbrother Samuel DeLong William Garrott Hugh Packard Ephraim True & others of his present neighbours who can testify as to his character for veracity to their belief

of his Services as a Soldier of the Revolution 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
Subscribed and sworn to this 18th day of the day to year aforesaid before me John Foss J. P.
We Chester Solman & Henry Fairbrother residing in Washington County Ohio do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Moses Stevens who has subscribed & sworn to the present declaration that we believe him to be 78 years old, that he is reputed to be believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution & that we concur in that opinion Chester Solman Henry Fairbrother & your affiant
John Foss J. P.
And I the said Justice do hereby declare my opinion, after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the war department, that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier, and served as he states, and I the said Justice further certify that there is no clergyman residing near to the said applicant whose certificate can be obtained in this case, and I the said Justice further certify that Chester Solman and Henry Fairbrother who has signed the preceding certificate are citizens of said County and Township in which the said applicant resides & are creditable persons and that their statement is entitled to credit and I the said Justice do further certify that the above named applicant resides Fifteen miles from the E. & W. of his said

country which distance from old age & bodily infirmitity, she is unable to travel, given under my hands & seal in the for said county to State aforesaid, the day & year first above written John True Appeal
The State of Ohio, I George Dunaway, Clerk of the Court Washington County, ss. of County aforesaid, do hereby certify that John True, Esquire, who made signed his name to the foregoing certification, was at the time of signing the same, & who is the acting Justice of the Peace in & for said Township in said County, duly elected & qualified according to law, and that said signature is genuine. I do further certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings before said Justice of the Peace, in the matter of the application of said John True for a Pension.
In testimony whereof, I have set my hand & affixed the seal of said Court at Marietta in said County, this twentieth day of October A.D. 1834.
Geo. Dunaway, Clerk.

October 5, 1938
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Mr. Frank H. Craig Waits River Vermont
MOSES STEVENS R. 10136 BA-J/MLB
Dear Sir:
You are furnished below the record of Moses Stevens as found in pension claim, R. 10136, based upon his service in the Revolutionary War.
Moses Stevens was born April 26, 1756, in Rockingham County, New Hampshire. The names of his parents were not given.
While residing in Washington County, Ohio, Moses Stevens applied for pension August 22, 1834, and alleged that while living in Rockingham County, New Hampshire, he volunteered in April, 1775, to go to the battle of Lexington and that he served one month in Captain Josiah Batchellor's New Hampshire company, stationed at Cambridge; that he enlisted the latter part of October, 1775, and that he served six months as a private in Captain Williams' New Hampshire company, stationed at Portsmouth.
His claim for pension was not allowed as he failed to furnish proof of six months' service in accordance with the requirements of the pension law.
No family data are shown in the claim.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER Executive Assistant to the Administrator

Hon. the Lewis Cass Secretary of War Washington City D.C.

Grandview Washington County Ohio 13 th November 1834
Hon r Lewis Cope Sir
Enclosed herewith you will find the Declaration of Moses Stevens for obtaining a pension under the Act of 7 th June 1832. He alleges to have served a period two months, as he resided in New Hampshire at the time I presume there will be no difficulty in deciding upon his case.
Sir, I also mailed the Declarations of David Freymoyer & William Clutter at this office about the middle of last September. I never have heard from them since please please report their cases with this one also, at this place to me & oblige Your Ob t , Serv t
J. W. Allen;

J. W. Allen 17. March 1835 A. G.
Record Vol. 26 p. 445

March 30 1885
War Dept. Pensions Office March 17. 1885
Sir
The declaration of Moses Stevens has been exp. He alleges to have served one month at Lexington in 1875 and to have enlisted for six months in Dept of State regts. The military did not serve one month in the spring of 1876 were they ever enlisted as set forth in  now did they ever enlist as set forth in the fall of 1875 and forth . The claim has therefore been rejected and the papers filed in this office.
The claims of David Freymayer and William Glatter have been suspended because there is no satisfactory proof that they served during the revolutionary war.
J. W. Allen Esq Grandview. Ohio

Rejected
See letter to
J. H. Allen Esq.
Grandview, Ohio
17 March 1835
10139

Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873.
10,136
P. O. Moses Stevens
Service: Twenty-first 1st Heavy Artillery Regiment claims show record of rejection
Enlisted: "Not six months service" , 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract.
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18
1938 (Oct. 5) - Writ to Frank H. Craig (See No. in obs. 10147N, of John Fellows) - mpx C.

October 5, 1938
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BA-J/MLB
Mr. Frank H. Craig Waits River Vermont
Dear Sir:
Further reference is made to your letters of recent date, in which you requested the Revolutionary War records of Moses Stevens, son of Moses, both of Plaistow, New Hampshire, who was born between 1720 and 1728, and married Prudence Chase, born in Newbury, Hampshire, about 1727-8, and was the daughter of Abraham Chase and Ruth Morse, also the records of John Fellows, Senior, born in 1720 in New Hampshire, and John Fellows, Junior, born at Salisbury, New Hampshire, in 1764, enlisted in the Revolution from that town, and who married Prudence Stevens in 1787.
No claim for pension or bounty land has been found based upon service in the Revolution of a John Fellows born in 1720, and none for a Moses Stevens identical with your description; however, a record was found of one Moses Stevens, only, of New Hampshire, which is furnished you herewith. The record of John Fellows who married Prudence Stevens was furnished you January 9, 1933, and contains no further information than that which was incorporated in that report.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER Executive Assistant to the Administrator