Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 25115, for Zillia Stickney, Massachusetts

SERVICE
SERVICE Mass.
NUMBER _____
Stickney Gullia f. Olive
11 25 11 5
CONTENTS

424.
Vermont. Burlington.
Oliver Stickney
widow of William Stickney who was a Private in the Massachusetts line for two years
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 80 Dollars — Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843.
Certificate of Pension issued the 19th day of June, 1843. and sent to Harvey Mansill Bristol, W.
[Act of March 3, 1843.]
Recorded in Book 4 Vol. 1 Page 30.

5936
Oliver Stickney
Yrs
Oct 7. July 38.
m o 90. d 17-
adm d
2 yrs pri
80 $
No deduction
Harvey Mansill
Bristol
Yrs

State of Vermont District of New Haven ss }
On this sixteenth Day of July, one thousand Eight hundred and thirty nine, Personally appeared before the Probate Court for the District of New Haven Olive Stickney a resident of Bristol in the County of Addison aged seventy three years who being first duly 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 passed July 7 th 1834 Entitled An act granting half pay and pensions to certain Widows. That she is the Widow of Zilla Stickney who was a Soldier in the War of the Revolution and as she believes that he served in the year Seventeen hundred and seventy five Eight months in a Company commanded by Capt John Jones of Princeton in Col Doolittle's Regiment and that he was in the Battle of Bunker Hill and also stationed a part of the time on Prospect Hill and Winter Hill near Boston, that he resided in the town of Haddam in the County of Hampshire and State of Massachusetts when he entered the service and a part of said Eight months service may have been performed in Capt Blackburn's Company in Col. Moads Regiment whether he was drafted a Volunteer or substituted she can not tell and that he afterwards enlisted for three years and served in Capt Oliver's Company in Col Grattan's Regiment nearly or all of said three years and as she believes some part of the time he held an other or higher grade than that of a private Soldier and that this last service was commenced in the spring of Seventeen hundred and seventy seven and that he was paid a Bounty for enlisting by said town of Haddam and that he left the army same time in the month of December Seventeen hundred and seventy nine and she says that she has no Documentary Evidence in support of her claim and that there is not to her knowledge any Record of her marriage either in the Bible or else where

She further Declares that she was married to the said Zillah Stickney on the tenth Day of November in the year Seventeen hundred and ninety by Giles Pittibone then a justice of the peace of the County of Litchfield in the state of Connecticut at her Father's house in Canaan in the aforesaid County (said Giles Pittibone lived in Norfolk a town adjoining to said Canaan) that her husband the aforesaid Zillah Stickney Died at Haverbridge in the County of Addison and State of Vermont on the nineteenth Day of July one thousand Eight hundred and Seventeen that she was not married to him prior to his having the divorce but the marriage took place previous to the first of January Seventeen hundred and ninety four (P.P.) at the time above stated and that she has remained his widow ever since never having been since married
Olive Stickney
Sworn to and subscribed on the Day and year above written Before
Harvey Munnell Judge
I certify that I am personally acquainted with Olive Stickney who has subscribed the above Declaration and that she is a credible person
Harvey Munnell Judge
State of Vermont District of New Haven } I John Pierpoint Register of the Probate Court for the district aforesaid do hereby certify that Harvey Munnell Esquire is the judge of said Probate Court & that the name affixed to the foregoing certificate is his genuine signature.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand & the seal of said Court at Fayston in said district this 17 th day of July 1839 -
J. Pierpoint Register

I Moses Stickney of Jaffrey in the County of Cheshire and State of New-Hampshire aged Eighty Eight years before Samuel Foster Justice of the Peace within and for the County of Cheshire personally appeared and being duly sworn according to Law Deth on his Oath Depose and say that he was well acquainted with Zillea Stickney he being a Brother of mine and that he the said Zillea was a private Soldier in the Revolutionary War & that he served Eight months as I believe in Capt John Farris's Company in Col. Dootittle's Regiment as he might have been a part of said time in Capt Clarkburn's Company in Col. Mands Regiment in the year one thousand Seven Hundred and Seventy five and that he the said Zillea was in the Battle at Bunker Hill and that he was with the Company stationed on Bunker Hill and that he after wards Enlisted for three years in the Capt Oliver's Company in Col. Grafton's Regiment and served all or nearly the whole term of said three years and that for the last forty or fifty years he resided (at what time he lived) in Haverbridge in the County of Addison and State of Vermont I have been to Haverbridge of old and visited him and that he Dred. as I have been informed in the year one thousand Eight Hundred and Seventeen at Haverbridge of old and that his Widow's name before she was married to him was Olive Lawrence from Canaan Connecticut and he was from Haver in Massachusetts Sworn to and subscribed this 28th 29th 4th Day of June A.D 1839 Before me
Samuel Foster Justice Peace
State of New Hampshire ) I hereby certify, that Moses Stickney Cheshire County ) who has sworn to & subscribed the above affidavit is a credible credible witness
Samuel Foster Justice of the Peace

State of New Hampshire Cheshire County } }
I Henry Boolidge, clerk of the Superior Court of Judicature, in and for the County and State aforesaid, hereby certify, that Samuel Fother, is a Justice of the Peace in the County of Cheshire aforesaid, duly commissioned and qualified - and that his signature within written is genuine
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at Keene in said County this eighth day of June AD 1839.
H. Boolidge clerk

I James Lawrence of Blythbridge in the County of Middlesex and State of Vermont aged Sixty Seven years the 10 day of September next being Duly sworn according to Law Depose and say that I am the Brother of Oliver Stickney of Bristol in the County and State of Vermont Widow of Zillah Stickney late of Blythbridge Vermont deceased and that her name before she was married to said Stickney was Oliver Lawrence of Canaan in the County of Litchfield and State of Connecticut and that I was present at my Father's dwelling House in said Canaan and see the said Oliver and Zillah Stickney married by Esquire Pettibone of Charlton a town adjoining to said Canaan in the presence of many persons I do not remember in the fall of the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety and think it was in the month of October or November I know it was in the fall of the year Eighteen Hundred and ninety for in the Month of December following the said Stickney and his Wife removed to Blythbridge they removed from my Father's House and the time my Brother Joseph Lawrence was of Canaan and my Brother Benjamin Lawrence of Middlebury in the County of Middlesex Vermont and my Father's mother and a girl by the name of Caroline Steel that lived in my Father's family were all sick with the Small Pox and were in the Pest House a distance of about two miles from my Father's House and I well remember that said Stickney and his Wife both came to the said Pest House to see us and had a good time but they were not permitted to enter the House for fear of spread from the Small Pox but we talked with them from the Windows (my sister had previously had the Small Pox)

and in the Month of March Seventeen Hundred and ninety two being then in my twenty eighth year of age I went to the forward bluffbridge my self to live and have resided there ever since being a little more than forty seven years and during the whole time that said Stickney lived after I removed to said bluffbridge I lived within three miles of him and four or five years of the time within a half a mile and some part of the time in his family and I well know that when I first came to bluffbridge in March Seventeen Hundred and ninety two that my sister Olive Stickney had a daughter Barn and was then about eight months old as I should think, and that they raised a large family of children and that said St. Died in bluffbridge aforesaid on or about the nineteenth day of July one thousand Eight Hundred and Seventeen I was present when he Died and attend his funeral and know that his widow now lives in Bristol unmarried
Simon Lawrence
State of Vermont Addison County ss } bluffbridge July 10 th 1839 Personally appeared the above named Simon Lawrence and made solemn oath that the above affidavit by him subscribed contained the truth before me
Harvey Morris Justice of the Peace I certify that I am well acquainted with the above affiant Simon Lawrence and that he is a credible witness
Harvey Morris Justice Peace

Thos
State of Vermont Addison County ss
I Samuel Swift, Clerk of the County Court for the said County of Addison, do hereby certify that Harvey Munnell before whom the foregoing affidavit of Jennie Lawrence was made, was at the time a Justice of the peace for said County, and his name subscribed to the certificate attached to the deponent in his own signature.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said Court this 18 th day of July 1839.
Sam l Swift Clerk

Rev WIDOW, &c.
File No. 25115-
Oliver Stickney
wid. S. D.
Gillia Stickney
Paris Prov. Mass.
Act: March 3 rd 1843.
Index:—Vol. 1 , Page 250
[Arrangement of 1870.]

105911. May 1843
Ver to Oliver Stebbins, Act 3 March 1843
Bristol May 5
$80 per an
Send cut: to Harvey Munsill Bristol vt
J. Richards
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City
D. G.
Free

Bristol, Somerset May 9 1843
Dear Sir J. Edwards
Dear Sir Enclosed I send you the declaration of Olive Stickney for the purpose of obtaining a pension for her under the act of 6 and 7 passed March 3 d 1 1843 granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the revolutionary war
Harvey Munnell

I Artemas Dugden of Haden in the county of Worcester and state of Massachusetts aged eighty two years who being duly sworn according to Law before Samuel Dunning Justice of the peace within and for the county of Worcester, on his oath deposes and says that he was Born in Haden aforesaid and that he has resided there ever since. And that he was well acquainted with Zillea Stickney formerly of said Haden and that he the said Stickney served in the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy five in the eight months service in the company commanded by Capt John Foss of Princeton in of Princeton in Col. Doolittle's Regiment. We were stationed on Prospect Hill and a part of the time on Winter Hill Capt Foss's company was engaged in the Bunker Hill Battle Major Moor was killed I was a Sapper in the same company with said Stickney and had frequent opportunities of seeing & conversing with him I do not know but he served a part of the time of the eight months in Capt. Northcote's company in Col. Mclane's Regiment, there never was any other Zillea Stickney or Barn-zilla Stickney as he was sometimes called in said Haden to my know- ledge and as I have been informed said Stickney lived for the last forty or fifty years in the town of Weybridge in the county of Addison and state of Vermont and died there in the year one thousand eight hundred and seventeen and further say not. sworn to & subscribed this 10 th day of June A.D. 1839 Before me Samuel Dunning Justice of the Peace

I hereby certify that Arthur L. Landon who has subscribed the within affidavit and sworn to the same is a creditable witness and entitled to full belief in all matters of fact.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Worcester, ss.
I, Charles G. Prentiss, Register of the Court of Probate for the County of Worcester, do certify, that Samuel D. Amos is a Justice of the Peace, within and for said County, duly commissioned and qualified - and that the foregoing signa- tures of his name are genuine.
In testimony whereof I do here- unto set my hand and the seal of said Court this twenty fifth day of June, one thousand, eight hundred and thirty nine.
Chas. G. Prentiss, Register

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, June 6 th 1839.
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 Tilia Stickney is borne in an account in the Army books in this department, as a private of men in late Capt Olivers Company. Col d Grates Regiment, and thereon, found charged with 30 £ as bounty, "paid him by, or in behalf of, the town of Holden March 1777." And credited by his services from 10 th February 1777. to 31 st December 1779. being 34 months & 21 days at 40/ Per Month.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written.
John P. Bigelow
Secretary of the Commonwealth.

State of Vermont Addison County ss
on this tenth day of April one thousand Eight hundred and forty three, personally appeared before me Harvey Munsill justice of the peace, within and for the county of Addison Oliver Stickney a resident of Bristol in the county of Addison and State of Vermont aged seventy seven years, who being first duly 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 passed on the 3 d of March 1843, granting pensions to widows, of persons who served during the revolutionary war. That she is the widow of Zilla Stickney who was a private soldier in the war of the revolution, and served as she believes in Capt John Farris company in Col Doolittle's Regiment in the year seventeen hundred and seventy five, and that he afterwards served in Capt Oliver's company in Col. Graton's Regiment about thirty four months or more, for which she was placed on the pension list under the act of July 7 th 1834 at the rate of Eighty dollars per annum for five years.
She further declares that she is still a widow
Oliver Stickney
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written before
Harvey Munsill justice of the peace
I hereby certify that the above named Oliver Stickney the signer of the above declaration is personally known to me, she having resided in my family for the last six or seven years and I know her to be the identical Oliver Stickney who was placed upon the pension list under the act of July 7 1834
Harvey Munsill justice of the peace

State of Vermont Addison County ss.
I, Samuel Swift Clerk of the County Court for the said County of Addison, do hereby certify, that Harvey Mearle, before whom the within declaration purports to have been made, and whose name is subscribed thereto in his capacity of the peace for said County, and his name subscribed as aforesaid in his own signature. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court this 4 th day of May 1843.
Sam d . Swift Clerk

5936
Aug 14
Qt.
July 7. 1838.
FREE
Hon James L Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City
District of Columbia

Bristol Vermont Augt 9 1839
Enclosed I send you at the request of the Widow Abner Stickney her Declaration together with the accompanying affidavits
There are two affidavits of Joseph Lawrence the first has judged to be not particular enough as to identity and a second one has been obtained and as the first is connected with the other of Judge Augustus Pittsbane and the Town Clerks of Canaan I send them both Respectfully yours,
Harvey Merrill
Hon J L Edwards Commissioner of Pensions

I Benajah Douglas of Canaan in the county of Litchfield and State of Connecticut of lawful age do depose & say that I am the Clerk of the town of Canaan & have the records in my possession and that I have carefully examined the same & can not find any record of the marriage of Zillah Stickney to Oliver Lawrence (now Olive Stickney) and believe there is none further the deponent saith not.
Benajah Douglas
Litchfield County p. Canaan 2 July, 1839.
Personally appeared before me Benajah Douglas Esq. the signers of the above deposition and made solemn affirmation to the truth of the same & also certify that the deponent is of good character for truth & integrity
John Elmore Jr. Justice of Peace

I Joseph Lawrence of Lancham in the County of Litchfield of lawfull age do hereby say that I am the Brother of Oliver Stickney formerly Oliver Lawrence and that I was present when the Olive was married to Zillah Stickney by Giles Pittsbon Esq then a justice of the Peace for the County of Litchfield which marriage ceremony was performed at my fathers house in Lancham and from recollection here no doubt it was celebrated in the year of our Lord 1790 but cannot be particular as to the time but will remember the marriage & the justice who celebrated the marriage & further I do not know not.
Joseph Lawrence
Litchfield County ss 2 nd July 1839.
Personally appeared before me Joseph Lawrence acknowledged the foregoing deposition by him subscribed & made solemn oath to the truth of the same & I also certify I am well acquainted with the deponent & his character for truth & integrity is good & cannot be doubted
John Elmer Jr. Justice of Peace

I Augustus Pettibone of Norfolk in the County of Litchfield and State of Connecticut of lawful age do depose & say that I am the Son of Gil Pettibone Esq. late of said Norfolk deceased & know that he officiated as a Justice of Peace for and within the County of Litchfield for a great number of Years and that in the year A.D. 1790 he officiated as such Justice of the Peace - The deponent also says that for a few years he has been frequently called on to find records of the marriages celebrated by him and that after having made diligent search among his papers I can find no record of any marriage so celebrated and I am satisfied that they are lost and destroyed by time and accident being considered worthless & for the deponent soh. not.
Augustus Pettibone

Litchfield County ss. Norfolk 11 th July 1839
Personally appeared before me Augustus Pittbone Esq. and made solemn oath to the within deposition by him subscribed and I also certify that I am well acquainted with the P. Augustus & know that his character for truth, honesty and integrity is good & undoubted
STATE OF CONNECTICUT, } ss. Litchfield. LITCHFIELD COUNTY, }
I Origen S. Seymour Clerk
of the County Court of the County and State aforesaid, do hereby certify that John Elmore Esq. is a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, duly commissioned and qualified, and by Law authorized to administer Oaths and to take the acknowledgment of Deeds . And that his commission was dated on the 27 th day of May A. D. 1839 and will expire on the 20 th day of June, A. D. 1840. And that the several foregoing signatures which purport to be those of said Justice are genuine.
Given under my hand and the Seal of said Court this 3 rd day of July A. D. 1839
Origen S. Seymour Clerk

I Joseph Lawrence of Canaan in the County of Litchfield & State of Connecticut of Lawful age Depose and say that I am a Brother of Oliver Stickney of Bristol in the County of Adderian and State of Vermont Widow of Zilla Stickney late of Hlyfordge in said Adderian County Deceased and that I was present at my Father's House in Canaan aforesaid in the fall of the year Seventeen Hundred and ninety and there in the said Zilla Stickney married to my Sister Olive Lawrence (now Olive Stickney) by Giles Pittibane Esq. of Coleridge a town adjoining to said Canaan then a justice of the peace within & for the County of Litchfield aforesaid and think it was in the month of November but would not be positive as to the month but I am confident that it was in the fall of the year Seventeen hundred and ninety because in the December following of that year I was sick with the small Pox and in the Port House a distance of about two miles from my Father's my Father & mother and two of my Brothers were sick and in the Port House at the same time and I well remember that after my Sister was married and about to remove from Canaan aforesaid to Hlyfordge aforesaid she & her husband the aforesaid Stickney called on us at said Port House to Bid us Farewell they did not come in to said house but came so near that we could talk with them, and say that I was live in the same house in Canaan aforesaid where the marriage was solemnized and I further say that said Giles Pittibane for a great number of years acted as a justice of the peace for the County of Litchfield aforesaid Before and after the year Seventeen hundred & ninety & know of no family Record Joseph Lawrence
Litchfield County ss Canaan 25 July 1839 Personally appeared before me Joseph Lawrence sign of the foregoing deposition and made solemn oath to the truth of the same and I certify that his character for truth is good and unimpeachable John Elmore Jr. Justice of Peace

STATE OF CONNECTICUT, } ss. Litchfield. LITCHFIELD COUNTY, }
I Geo. C. Woodruff Assistant Clerk of the County Court of the County and State aforesaid, do hereby certify that John Elmore Jun r is a
Justice of the Peace in and for said County, duly commissioned and qualified, and by Law authorized to administer Oaths and to take the acknowledgment of Deeds . And that his commission was dated on the 27 th day of May A. D. 1839 and will expire on the 20th day of June, A. D. 1840 and that the signature annex- ed to the certificate herewith attached is genuine purporting to be the signature of J d Elmore is genuine
Given under my hand and the Seal of said Court this
26 th day of July A. D. 1839
Geo. C. Woodruff Assistant Clerk

I Benjamin Lawrence of Middlebury in the county of Addison and State of Vermont Aged sixty five years Being Duly Sworn according to Law Depose and Say that I am a Brother of Oliver Stockney of Brattle in the county of Addison former Widow of Zillah Stockney Late of Haverbridge in said county former deceased and that said Stockney Died at Haverbridge former sometime in the month of July Eighteen Hundred and Seventeen I was present when he Died and attended his funeral and was one of the Executors of his Will and settled his Estate and I further say that said Oliver Stockney was married in Brattle former and that she remains the Widow of said Stockney and unmarried and that Before her marriage to said Stockney her name was Oliver Lawrence and she lived in Canaan in the county of Litchfield and State of Connecticut and as I have been infor- med the said Stockney was from Halden in the county of Worcester and State of Massachusetts I know that said Stockney and his wife removed from Canaan in Connecticut to Haverbridge in Vermont at the time that I and my Brother Joseph Lawrence of Canaan former and my Brother Zimri Lawrence now of Haverbridge former and my Father and mother were sick with the Small Pox and in the Post House and that said Stockney & his wife came near the said Post House so that we could talk with them from the window - I can not say that I was present at the wedding but know that it was so understood that they were married and I do know that they lived together as man and wife until his death

and that they have a large family of children the oldest of which I should think was forty eight years old Mrs Betsey Mason of Melan in the County of Franklin and State of New York And I further say that I removed myself from the aforesaid Canaan to Middlebury, aforesaid in the month of October Seventeen hundred and ninety seven and have always lived within two miles of said Sturminster ever since I came to Middlebury until his death and further say that there is no bible or family record to my knowledge ————— Benjamin Lawrence
State of Vermont
Addison County ss Middlebury July 17 A D 1839
Personally appeared before me Benjamin Lawrence who has sworn to & subscribed the foregoing affidavit and made solemn oath to the truth of the same and I certify that I am well acquainted with said Benjamin Lawrence and that he is a man of truth and honesty and entitled to full credit
Before me Harvey Munnell Justice of the peace

State of Vermont Addison County ss 3 I, Samuel Swift Clerk of the County Court for the said County of Addison, do hereby certify that Harry Munsell, before whom the foregoing affidavit of Benjamin Lawrence was made was at the time a Justice of the peace for said County and his name subscribed to the certificate annexed to the same is his own signature.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said Court this 18 th day of July 1839.
Sam. Swift Clerk