Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 30,080, for Stephen Sage, Connecticut

SERVICE
NUMBER
Conn.
Sage, Stephen
S 30,080
CONTENTS

31.29611 S.S.A. Springfield
When I age of Hampshire in the State of Mass who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Turner of the 1st Regt. commanded by Col. Chester Conn. Vols. time for 7 mos & 9 days
Inscribed on the Roll of Mass at the rate of 24 Dollars 33 Cents per annum, to commence on the 14th day of March, 1834.
Certificate of Pension issued the 19 day of Decr 1837 and sent to Mary L. Ebenezer W. of the P. Arrears to the 14th Sept. 1837 $158.14 Semi-ant. allowance ending Mar 38. 12.16
$171.30
Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.
Recorded by N.H. Allen Clerk, Book 6 Vol. 2 Page 81
Paid at the Treasury under the Act of 6 April 1838 from 4 Sep 1840 to 4 March 1841. Age Notified 25 Feb 1842.
Dead Paid as above from 11th Sep 1841 to 25 March 1842. Age Notified 4 Decr 1844.

Simeon Sage of Sheffield in the County of Berkshire and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, of lawful age testifies & says -
That he was fifteen (nearly sixteen) years of age when the Battle of Lexington happened and that he well recollects that soon after the news of that battle reached Middletown, where he then lived, troops were raised to go to Boston and that his brother Stephen Sage, who now resides in Sandisfield, enlisted under Abijah Savage who was afterwards a Captain as this deponent believes, in Col. Chester Regiment of Connecticut troops; that said Stephen Sage left home with the soldiers and was gone several months; as this deponent understood and verily believes in the Army; that in the subsequent fall or winter, (in December as the deponent believes) this deponent was sent by his mother to meet said Stephen on his return from Roxbury, and that he met him at Glastenbury and carried him home; that this deponent then understood and verily believes that said Stephen had been with the army, all the time of his absence. This deponent has conversed with said Stephen about making application for a pension, but he objected, that he could get but little pay and he fears the expense and trouble would cost too much. Deponent knows that the Stephen Sage of Sandisfield, who is now making application for a pension, is the same Stephen Sage who enlisted into the Revolutionary Army.
Simeon Sage
Berkshire ss: Sheffield 27 July 1836. Then the said Simeon Sage personally appeared and made oath to the above deposition by him signed. And I do certify that that I am well acquainted with Simeon Sage and that he is a man of truth and veracity & worthy of belief -
Attest. Edward F. Cuddeback Justice of the Peace

Commonwealth of Massachusetts Bev 1 1 ss ss - I Henry W Bishop Register of the Court of Probate in & for said county do certify that Edward S Ensign Esquire before whom the within deposition was taken was at the time of the taking of said deposition & now is one of the Justices of the Peace within & for the said County duly and regularly appointed, and that I am well acquainted with his handwriting & have no doubt that signature subscribed to the foregoing certificate purporting to be his is genuine. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of said Court of Probate This fifteenth day of August AD 1836 Henry W Bishop Register of Probate.

Stephen Sage 33,739 Application for Pension Sandfield Mass.
Adm pn 7 m. 9
As. $ 24.33 per
Ann. -
Coal Melba 1775-
Hon. L. Phelps H.R.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
County of Berkshire, ss.
ON this third day of, May A. D. 1836 personally appeared in open Court, before the Honorable WILLIAM P. WALKER, Judge of the Court of Probate, within and for said County of Berkshire, now sitting,
Stephen Sage — a resident of the town of Sandisfield in the County of Berkshire and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, aged eighty three 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. I  Stephen Sage aged eighty three years say that soon after the battle at Saratoga in the year seventeen hundred seventy five I enlisted at Middletown in the state of Connecticut where I then resided, in the company commanded by Colonel Ebenezer Sisson and Abijah Savage Second Lieutenant of said company by whom I was enlisted and Robert Mearns was the ensign of said company and in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Chester of Wethersfield Connecticut and Major  Moore was the Major of said Regiment and I marched in said company from Middletown to Hartford Connecticut on the road to Bethlehem Massachusetts and from thence to Boston and there joined the Regiment of Colonel Chester and continued in the service in said company and Regiment until about the first of January after Bunker Hill . I had been at Boston about one month at the time of the battle of Bunker Hill and the company was ordered to march to Bunker Hill and a ball came and knocked down the man standing on my right and Major  Moore directed me and three others to carry the man to a house and we then marched to a place called Winter Hill and there met General  Putnam and remained at that place about twenty four hours and then returned to Boston and remained at Boston until about the first of January after which I was discharged. Afterwards at the time Danbury in Connecticut was burnt I was drafted at Middletown where I then resided, in the company commanded by Captain  Joseph White and marched in said company to New Haven Connecticut and there went to Derby and there we found the British had left Danbury and we returned to New Haven and remained there until I was discharged and I was in the service at that time about one month. I have no documentary evidence of my service and discharge excepting the evidence contained in the certificate signed by W m Field , Comptroller Dated Comptroller's Office Hartford, Connecticut 4 th February

1836 I was born at Middlestown Connecticut, in the year 1752.
I have a record of my age in my Family Bible.
I was living at Middlestown Connecticut, when I entered the service as before stated, and immediately after my return from the service at New Haven I removed to Sandisfield Massachusetts in June 1777 where I now reside and have resided since. I met General Putnam, General Ward, General Spencer & General Washington while at Roxbury and General Washington came then after I arrived there and Colonel Chester and Major Higgs, I do not now remember among other officers. I never had any written discharge but was discharged with the rest of the company as aforesaid.
I was called into the service as stated, in my application.
Heath J. Kelley and Uriah Smith of Sandisfield are known to me and can testify to my character for truth and veracity and their belief of my service 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
Sworn to, and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid. Stephen Sage
William P. Walker Judge of Probate We Platt T. Holley a Clergyman, residing in the town of Sandisfield , and Orion Smith residing in Sandisfield do hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with Stephen Sage who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be Eighty three 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.
Orion Smith Platt T. Holley
Sworn and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid.
W. P. Walker Judge of Probate
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 above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states And the Court further certifies, that it appears to them that Platt T. Holley who signed the preceding certificate is a Clergyman, resident in the town of Sandisfield in the County of Berkshire and Commonwealth of Massachusetts and that Orion Smith who has also signed the same, is a resident in the town of Sandisfield in the County of Berkshire and Commonwealth of Massachusetts and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
William P. Walker Judge of Probate
I, HENRY W. BISHOP, Register of the Court of Probate within and for the County of Berkshire in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the application of Stephen Sage for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office of said Court of Probate, this thirteenth day of May in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and thirty six
Henry W. Bishop

Massachusetts
Stephen Sage
Am. h.
Am. self Jan 15 '36.
let to H. W. Bishop 25
Aug 18 36 D. 6
L. Phelps Apr 5 1837
Admitted

INVALID.
Rev 30080
File No. 30080
Stephen Sage
Rev Rev
Act: June 7 th 80 th
Index:—Vol. 9 , Page 352
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Aug 24 Mop. Senex 110 3 Augt 20m 3
Sir
Stephen Sase
Hon J L Edwards Commissioner of Pensions Pension Office Washington City D.C.

TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
SECOND COMPTROLLER'S OFFICE.
Oct. 16 th 1843.
Sir:
Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled "An Act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States," and the third section of the Act of August 23, 1842, extending the time within which pensioners may receive their pensions from the pension agents, The adm n : of Stephen Sage, dec d : a Pensioner on the Roll of the Massachusetts Agency, at the rate of Twenty four Dollars and 33 Cents per annum, under the law of the 7 th June 1832, has been paid at this Department, from the 4 th of Sept. 1841, to the 25 th March 1842.
Respectfully, yours,
William L. Marcy Comptroller.
To the COMMISSIONER OF PENSIONS, Present.

TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
Second Comptroller's Office,
Dec. 29 th 1841.
Sir:
Under the date of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled "An act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States," Stephen Sage — a Pensioner on the Roll of the Massachusetts Agency, at the rate of Twenty four Dollars and 33 Cents per annum, under the law of the 7 th June 1832, has been paid at this Department, from the 4 th of Sept. 1840, to the 4 th March 1841,
Respectfully, yours,
William H. Parris
Comptroller.
To the Commissioner of Pensions,
Present.

State of Pennsylvania Crawford County ss.
Before me the subscriber one of the Justices of the Peace in and for the said County of Crawford personally appeared Elijah Hollister of the town- ship of Conneaut in said County, who upon his solemn oath according to law doth depose and say - I am personally acquainted with a person of the name of Stephen Sage, and have been so acquainted with him since he was eighteen years of age - He was a native of Middletown Upper-Housatonic in the State of Connecticut - The said Stephen Sage enlisted as a priva- -te soldier at the said Middletown - and marched under the command of Major Savage to Roxbury Massachusetts soon after the news of the battle of Lexington in the year 1775 - The said Stephen Sage served in the same Regiment in which I served at Roxbury near Boston - After he left the army and returned to Middletown I knew of his marriage in the year 1777 to a person of the name of Esther Hottester and soon after removed from Connecticut, to Sandisfield Mass. - I have seen the said Stephen Sage frequently at the said Sandisfield where he now resides, and know him to be the identical Stephen Sage who served in the army of the Revolution at Roxbury Mass. And further this deponent saith not -
Sworn to and subscribed the 13 th day of October A.D. 1837 before me - Noddlebury Denny Justice of the Peace Crawford Co Pa
Elijah Hollister

Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
Cornwall County ss
I James Lockman Brother of the several counts in and for the County of Cornwall and State aforesaid do certify that Rudolphus Dewey Esqr before whom the foregoing Deposition was taken is a Justice of the peace duly appointed and acting as such and to whom official Oaths full faith and credit is to be given and the hand writing purport- ing to be his is genuine Witness my hand and seal of Court this 17 th Day of October A.D. 1837
James Lockman Brother
ms.
Hon. J. P. Shultz

Hitchcockville Ct 3 Apr. 1 3
Apr 5
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J. L. Edwards Esq. Comm. of Pensions. Washington City

Hatfieldville April 1. 1837
J. L. Edwards Esq.
Sir I am requested to ask of you the favor to inform me, whether you have Rec d the deposition of Simon Laph. in support of the Claim of Stephen Laph for a Pension. —
Stephen Laph belongs at Lendresfield Massachusetts. The deposition of Simon Laph was forwarded from Lendres Mass. some of the last days of July or first of August last.
Respectfully I am your ob t Serv t
Samuel Phelps

Comptroller's Office Hartford Connecticut 11 February 1836.
On application for Mr. Stephen Sage, I have examined the Books and Papers remaining in this office relating to Revolutionary services, and certify that the name of the applicant appears in the copy of the "Pay Roll for the 4 th Company in the 2 d Regiment raised by order of the General Assembly of the colony of Connecticut May 1775," in which John Return Meigs is entered as Major, Ebenezer Sumner "Capt. after 1 st July," & Abijah Savage Lieut.; and he is entered as serving 7 months, and 9 days.
I also certify that the name of Cap. Hugh White has not been found - not has that of the applicant, in any other case than that above mentioned.
Wm. Field Comptroller

I Stephen Sage of Sandisfield in the County of Berkshire and Commonwealth of Massachusetts having made appli- cation for a pension for services in the revolutionary war and having been required by the War Department to state the reasons for so long a delay in making application do hereby state the following reasons 1 st I had got to be an old man and thought the trouble of proving my claim more than it was worth 2 nd I entered the service in Middletown Connecticut and after the service I removed into this Town and could not find the proof necessary to prove my claim until within a few months Stephen Sage In presence of Julius A. Rising
Berkshire ss Sandisfield November 28 1837 Personally appeared the above named Stephen Sage and made oath to the truth of the foregoing statement by him subscribed, and I further state that the above named Stephen Sage has to my certain knowledge lived in this Town of Sandisfield for more than forty years and I am well acquainted with him and believe him to be a man of truth and integrity.
I ably Bosworth feeling the Power