Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 41,208, for Daniel Stearns, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass
Stearns, Daniel
S. 41,208
CONTENTS

2168
Vermont.
Daniel Stearns Nixon's private Regiment Massachusetts line 77. Byears in the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War
Inscribed on the Roll of Vermont, at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 10 th of April, 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued the 8 th of Aug. 1818, and sent to Gilbert Denson Esq. Brattleborough Vt.
Arrearages to 4 th Sept. 1818 4 mos 25/30 $: 38. 66
{ Revolutionary claims, { Act 18th March, 1818, }
J. P. Sept. 18 Brattleboro, Windha
This pension sent October 1818 to James Elliot of Brattleboro, Vermont

N o 67.
Daniel Stearns. Application for Pension. Windham County, Vt. 1 Copy.
2168 Sept 18/14
CM
265

STATE OF VERMONT.
COUNTY OF WINDHAM ss.
At the County Court, begun and held at New-Fane, within and for the County of Windham, on the second Monday of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty.....
PRESENT—Hon. PHINEHAS WHITE, Esq. Chief Judge. Hon. JOHN ROBERTS, } Assistant Judges. Hon. GILBERT DENISON, Esqrs. }
ON this 20 th day of June, A. D. 1820, personally appeared in open court, being a court of record for the said county, proceeding according to the course of the common law, with a civil jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount, keeping a record of their proceedings, and having, in certain cases, the power of fine and imprisonment, Daniel Stearns aged fifty nine years, resident in Brattleborough 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: in the Company commanded by Capt. Abel Holden in the Regiment commanded by Thomas Nixon in the Massachusetts line in the Continental establishment, that he enlisted the 12 th day of June in the year 1777 for the term of three years, that he served the said term and longer, and that he was honorably discharged from said service—
That he has received a pension under the act of the Congress of the United States of the 18th March, 1818, that the number of his pension certificate is 2158. and the date of his original declaration is tenth day of April 1818.
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 and eighteen: and that I have not since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner whatever, disposed of my 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, who were pensioned on the eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen: And 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. Daniel Stearns
SCHEDULE of real and personal estate, necessary clothing and bedding excepted. one house & ten acres of Land. small house $150. — 1 cow 16 — 1 pig 1.50 — hay, shoal & axe 1.25 — bold chain 1. — old brookery Ware very little — same brookery old & poor 3 — 2 old beds & cords 1.50 1 old Table 75 — Stand old 50 — one small Looking Glass 37 1/2 Daniel Stearns.
AND I do also swear that my occupation is that of a common laborer, though I am not able to labor but little as wounded in my left arm & wrist & have for a long time drawn three dollars per month as a pension — my wife is fifty six years of age, has not been able to help herself for more than eighteen months, have 4 children at home — Charlotte age 19 — Samuel age 17 — Lydia age 13 — Harriet age 11 years — I was wounded Feb 3 rd 1780 — 3 miles above the White Plains —
SWORN to and DECLARED in open court on the 20 th day of June, A. D. 1820, Before Gilbert Denison JUDGE.
James Elliot Clerk of the County Court for the County of Windham, in the State of Vermont, do hereby certify, that the foregoing oath, and the Schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the files and records of the said Court: And I do further certify, that it is the opinion of the said Court, that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is Thirty one dollars, and eighty four cents. Personal property and income of real estate. IN testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court, in open Court, on this seventeenth day of June 1820.
CLERK OF THE COURT FOR THE COUNTY OF WINDHAM. James Elliot

Daniel Stearns .
Application for Pension .
Windham Co. Vermont.
10 April 1818.
correct
Invalid pension
correct.
except Judge's certificate
ent. and

State of Vermont- Windham County ss-
Brattleboro within said County April 10 th Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and eighteen-
Be it Remembered That on the Day of the above date - Came personally before me the undersigned Gilbert Denison Assistant Judge of the County Court of said County of Windham Daniel Stearns resident in and of Brattleboro aforesaid and made the following declaration under oath by me administered in pursuance of the Act of the Congress of the United States enti- tuled "an Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War passed March A.D 1818 - And it appearing to me the said Judge to my satisfaction that the said Daniel Stearns served in the revolutionary war agreeably to the provisions of said Act -
I Do hereby Certify and transmit to the Honorable the Secretary of the War Department the following Testimony in the case with the conditional Release to the United States duly executed by the said Daniel Stearns for his pension heretofore granted to him by the United States as a disabled soldier - and the proceedings had thereon under my official signature and the seal of said County Court. Gilbert Denison Ass't Judge of the County Court
I Daniel Stearns of Brattleboro in the County of Windham and State of Vermont

Do Testify declare and say That I served in the War of the Revolution for more than the Term of Nine Months as a private soldier in the Continental establishment -
That is I Testify Declare and say - That on the 12 th of June 1777 - I enlisted as a private in Captain William Twopoads Company in Colonel Thomas Nixons Regiment General John Nixons Brigade of the Massachusetts line and I continued in said Regiment being part of the time transferred to the Company of Capt Abel Holden until December the 21 st 1780 - when I received my honorable discharge signed by Col Thomas Nixons at West point - I enlisted in said Regiment for the Three year service but I was wounded and taken prisoner on the Third of February 1780. and did not receive my discharge until I was exchanged and joined my Regiment. In consequence of my wound I was on the 17 th of March 1786 placed upon the Pension List agreeably to a resolution of Congress of the 7 th of June 1785 - I had lost my discharge before my obtaining my pension having obtained the same by Certificate lodged in the Pension Office -
And I do further Declare and say, That from my reduced circumstances I need the assistance of my Country for support - and Do request to be permitted to relinquish my claims on the United States for the pension heretofore allowed me and to be placed on the Pension List under the provisions of the Act of the Congress of the United States passed March 1818 -
Daniel Stearns
Sworn to - Before me -
Lyellot Densmore Asst Judge of the County Court

To the Hon: Secretary of War of the United States.
I the undersigned assistant Judge of Windham County Court - State of Vermont - do further certify that I am personally acquainted with the above named deponent Daniel Stearns that I am well knowing that said Daniel Stearns is and has for a long time past been in indigent circumstances and that he stands in need of the assistance of his country for support and maintenance.
Gilbert Denison Asst. Judge

To all whom it may concern -
Greeting -
Whereas I Daniel Stearns of Brattleboro in the County of Windham and State of Vermont have made application to be placed on the pension List of the United States - under the provisions of the act of Congress passed March 1818 entitled an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war -
Know ye That in consideration & on condition that I am placed on said pension List under the provisions of said act I Do Release and Relinquish to the United States my claim to every pension heretofore allowed me by the Laws of the United States and more especially to a pension of Eighteen Shillings per month - commencing the 17 th of March 1786 - granted agreeably to a resolution of Congress of the 17 th of June 1785.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal at Brattleboro aforesaid this 10 th day of April Anno Domini 1818 -
Signed Sealed & Conditionally Daniel Stearns delivered in presence of -
Gilbert Denison Jr Elisha Denison
State of Vermont Windham County ss
Brattleboro - April 10 th 1818.
Then personally appeared Daniel Stearns whose name is signed to the above Release and with whom I am personally acquainted and acknowledged the same to be his voluntary act & Deed Before me - Gilbert Denison Jr Asst. Judge of the County Court

State of Vermont .
Windham County Court Clerk's Office, Brattleborough, 8 th May, A.D. 1818.
I certify that the Honorable Gilbert Denison, Esquire, is one of the Assistant Judges of the County Court aforesaid, and that the signatures of the preceding certificates are in the hand writing of the said Judges.
Witness my hand and the Seal of said Court the day and year above written.
Attest.
James Elliot, Clerk.

This certifies, that, the wife of Daniel Stearns, of this town, has been sick, from Nov. 1819 to Aug 6 1820, since she died - & was under the care of Physicians during the whole time —
J. D. Kimball Physician
Brattleboro. Vt. Aug. 18 1820.

Certificate of Physicians in the case of Daniel Stearns.
Forwarded to the War. Office by particular request -

This certify, that the wife of Daniel Stearns of Brattleborough, a pensioner of the United States, has been sick for several months past, until the beginning of August inst. when she died - that her sickness was tedious, severe, and expensive to her husband - and that I was one of her attending physicians during the whole time.
Brattleborough August 18. 1820.
Levi Dikerman

41 208
Rev INVALID.
File No. 41 208 Daniel Stearns Rev Rev War
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index: —Vol. 8 , Page 388
[Arrangement of 1870.]