Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 39856, for Isaac Sterns, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass
Sterns, Isaac
S. 39856
CONTENTS

Rhode Island.
2056
Isaac Stearns, Capt. Mills private 4 Massachusetts Line
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.
Inscribed on the Roll of Rhode Island at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 1 st of April, 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued the 3 rd of Aug. 1818. and sent to Nich d Taylor Esq r . Providence, Rhode Island.
Arrearages to 4 th Sept 1848
15 mo. 4/30. $ 41.06
{ Revolutionary claims, } { Act 18th March, 1818, }
One Year
Kept by Kept by

Can Spent. Lth Wheaton Ry
Apr. 9. 1821. Providence R.I

39856
INVALID.
Rev
File No. 39856
Isaac Stevens
Rev Her No
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 8 , Page 387
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Isaac Sterns
Com
2055
Sept 1848

United States of America. Rhode-Island District.
Bristol ss. Special Court of Common Pleas. A.D. 1820.
On this Twenty sixth day of August 1820. personally appeared in open Court, being a Court of Record within & for the County of Bristol, Isaac Sterns, aged 62 years residing in the Town of Warren in said County, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath declare, that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows; That on the 4 th of August 1779. he enlisted in the Company of Capt. Mills in the Regiment Commanded by Col. Joseph Dose of the Massachusetts line, and was discharged May 8 th 1780. - I again enlisted in 1782. in the spring in Capt. Holden's Company in the Regiment Commanded by Col. Jeremiah Olney of the Rhode-Island line, and served nine Months, and was discharged at Saratoga. That he made a previous declaration on the first day of April 1818. and that he has received a certificate for a pension, being No. 2036. And I do solemnly swear, that I was a resident Citizen of the United States on the eighteenth day of March One thousand eight hundred & eighteen and that I have not, since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner whatever, disposed of any property, or any part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it, as to bring myself within the provisions of an Act of Congress, entitled, "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States, in the Revolutionary War." passed on the eighteenth day of March One thousand eight hundred and eighteen; That I have not, nor has any person in trust for me any property or securities, contracts or debts due to me; nor have I any income other than what is contained in the Schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed - my occupation is a Cabinet maker, but losing my sight while acting on Board the New-York Frigate as a Marine in 1802 ever since which time I have been supported by the Town of Newport, excepting three Dollars per Month which I recd. from Government on account of losing my sight, I am now entirely destitute depending on the pension I receive as a Soldier of the Revolution. I have no Family Schedule of Property and Income (necessary clothing and bedding excepted) of Isaac Sterns, Nothing.
Isaac his Sterns Mark
Sworn to and declared in open Court, specially holden on the Twenty sixth day of August A.D. 1820. before said Court
Witness Rich d Smith Clerk.
Rhode-Island District
Bristol ss. Clerks Office of the Court of Common Pleas A.D. 1820.
I Richard Smith Clerk of said Court, do hereby certify that the foregoing oath, is truly copied from the record of s d Court and I do further certify that it is the opinion of the said Court, that the said Isaac Sterns has no Schedule of property whatever to exhibit. In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the Seal of the said Court on this twenty eighth Day of August A.D. 1820. Rich d Smith Clerk of said Court

Isaac Sterns
barect
Providence R.I.
Nov 11. 1818

I Isaac Sterns of Newport in the State of State of Rhode Island On oath declare. That I served as a private Soldier in the War of the Revolution during the term of nine Months, on the continental establishment, in a company formed commanded by Captain Mills. Regiment com- manded by Col o Joseph Vose. Massachusetts line of the Army - That I enlisted into said company on the fourth Day of August A.D. 1779, and was Discharged on the fourth Day of May A.D. 1780. I further declare that I served a further term of nine Months in the Rhode Island Regiment commanded by Lieut. Col o Jeremiah Olney & in Captain John Hotchkiss company, that I enlisted into said company in the Spring of 1782, joined the Regiment, soon after at Philadelphia and was Discharged some time in the Winter, following at Saratoga in the State of New York - That having been disabled while serving as a private Mariner on Board the United States Frigate New York, I received, on the 18 th of December 1809, a certificate, under the hand of Paul Hamilton Esq: then Secretary of the Navy Depart- ment, by which I have Received a pension of three Dollars per Month, from the 30 th Day of September 1802 Which certificate and Pension, I am ready to relinquish to the United States, if the Honorable Secretary of the Department of War, shall be satisfied that my case is now embraced by the Act of Congress passed in March, 1818, entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the Land & Naval Service of the United States in the Revolutionary War".
Isaac Sterns marks

State of Rhode Island & Providence plantations Newport ss / Personally came / before me Nich o Taylor Chief Justice Court of common pleas County of Newport / Isaac Stearns subscriber to the within declara- -tion who subscribed the same in my presence and on his Solemn Oath declared the same to contain the truth the whole truth & nothing but the truth In Testimony whereof I have subscribed my name & have caused the Seal of the Court to be hereunto to affixed Newport April 1 st 1818 Nich o Taylor
Clerk's Office Court of Common Pleas County of Newport April 2 d 1818 I hereby certify that Nicholas Taylor Esq r whose signature is affixed to the above Certificate is Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas within & for the County of Newport State aforesaid in Testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed the Seal of said Court Robert Rogers Clerk

Isaac Sterns
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Providence R.I.
correct
April 14 1818