Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S 42908, for Stephen Manchester, Rhode Island

SERVICE
Manchester, Stephen
NUMBER _____
NUMBER S 42908
CONTENTS

11,821 New York 4
Stephen Manchester
of Bern in the state of New York who was a Private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Olney of the R. Island line, for the term of Nine months 1782
scribed on the Roll of New York war at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 20 th of April 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 9 th of June 1818 and sent to Apollon Moore Esq r Rensselaer Ville N. York
Arrears to 4th of Mar 1819  83.96 Semi-ann. all'ce ending Sep. 1819  48.00 Mo. \frac{11}{50} \frac{4}{31}  $131.96
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Continued on the title Under the law of the 1 May 1820
3. to  Heads
April 17/55
Let. C. H. Beman. April 20/55
Notification sent to
Henry Dreyer Esq r
25 June 1820
Albany
New York
Date of death not as yet

Stephen Manchester
Notary Public in and for the State of New York
Albany N.Y.
June 28. 1821.
Continue
11821 9 June 1819
Albany N.Y.

State of New York City and County of Albany Court of Common Pleas
On this fifteenth day of June 1820 personally appeared in open Court being a Court of Record for the said County and being a Court which proceeds according to the course of common law and whose jurisdiction is unlimited in amount. Stephen Manchester, aged sixty six years resident in the Town of Rensselaerville in the County of Albany in said State aforesaid who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on his oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary war as follows. I Stephen Manchester enlisted in Captain Humphreys company in Coll. Olneys regiment in the Rhode Island line and served about ten months in said regiment and was honorably discharged at the close of the war. that I am now on the Pension list Roll of the New York Agency at the rate of eight dollars per month, that I made my application on the twentieth day of April 1818 and that I received the Pension List numbered 11.821 - And I solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the united States on the 18 th day of March 1818, and that I have not since that time by gift sale or in any manner 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 passed on the 18 th day of March 1818 and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property or security 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, and I do further swear and declare that I am by occupation a mason but am unable to support myself and family by labour in consequence of age and infirmity that my family consists of a wife aged 56 years of age who is infirm and unable to perform much labour one daughter aged 35 who is entirely helpless by reason of fits also one other daughter aged ten years who is also subject to fits and unable to do anything towards her support - that I now owe about one hundred dollars which I am totally unable to pay. Schedule of Real and personal estate of estate belonging to Stephen Manchester -    1 Small old Horse valued $10.00     1 Cow valued at $5  2 twine do $2.12    year old heifer do $10  one yearling do $4 - 31. -    one old saddle $1. one bridle 25.  1 single Harrow $10    1 few shovel 37 cents  6 Chairs $1.50 - 13.12    one old loom $2. 1 and iron set $3  knives forks 75.    6 plates 30  cream col. Bowls 16 - 3.71    6 Cups & Saucers 18.  2 iron kettles $1. one iron pot 75.    1 Spider 50.  2 Tables $3. 16 chairs $1.50 6.93    1 Spinning Wheel $1. one small do $1.50  one quill do. 50.    1 Bowl 25  2 pails 18.    stone hammer 50.  one Trammell 50 - 2. -    2 Stone Pits 50.  2 Cupboards 50.     $70.94    Sworn to and declared in open Court on the fifteenth day of June 1820 before H. Williams Deputy Clerk
Stephen Manchester I Henry Truax Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the City and County of Albany do hereby certify that the foregoing affidavit and the schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the record 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 property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is seventy dollars and ninety four cents. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set to my hand and affixed the seal of the said court on this 18 th day of June 1820. Henry Truax Clerk of the Court of Com. Pleas for the City & County of Albany

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
State of New-York. } TO WIT: CITY AND COUNTY OF ALBANY.
IN conformity with the provisions of the Act of the Congress of the United States of America, passed March 18th, 1818, entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the Land and Naval Service of the United States in the Revolutionary War," the following DECLARATION , in writing, is made under oath, by Stephen Manchester of the Town of Bern in the County of Albany in the State of New York before the Honorable Spencer Moore Esquire, one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in & for the County of Albany in the said state, which Court is a Court of Record of the County and State, in which the said Stephen Manchester doth reside, that is to say:
DECLARATION.
I Stephen Manchester aged fifty three years in due law of the Town of Bern in the County of Albany in the State of New York on this Twentietth day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen,—Do solemnly, sincerely and truly swear and declare, that I served against the common enemy in the Army, in the War of the Revolution, for the term of nine months during the said war on the Continental Establishment and that I am a resident Citizen of the United States, to wit, in the Town County and State aforesaid; and that by reason of my reduced circumstances in life, I am in need of assistance from my country for support.—I do further swear and declare, that I served in the said Revolutionary War, in the capacity of, and being a private Soldier that I belonged to the Army, to wit, I belonged to Capt Humphreys Company Colonel Brant Regiment and Rhode Island Line—That I entered the said service the about the tenth of April in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and Eighty two and left it the about the tenth day of February or January in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and Eighty three in the manner following, to wit: I left it by reason of the expiration of my term of Service that I received a document concerning the same service and discharge , which has been curiously destroyed by fire that I was in no Battle and that there is no other evidence in my power to my knowledge, concerning the matters deposed by me than John Simmons and Nathaniel Dyer who have made a deposition accompanying this declaration. —And I further declare, that in pursuance of the requisitions of the aforesaid Act of Congress, I do hereby freely and absolutely, and to all intents and purposes, relinquish all claims to any Pension under any of the Laws of the United States, except the Pension contemplated to be allowed me under the Act of Congress aforesaid mentioned, and under which this Declaration is made.
IN WITNESS of the truth of this Declaration, I have subscribed the same in presence of the said Judge, and have solemnly deposed to the truth thereof, on the day herein before, for that purpose, specified.
Sworn before me, this Twentietth day of April 1818.
Spencer Moore
Stephen Manchester
First Judge of Albany Common Pleas

United States of America.
By the Honorable Apollon Moore Esquire, one of the Judges of a Court of Record in the State of New-York, to wit, of the _____ Court, of Common pleas in & for the County of Albany in the said State.
To the Honorable the Secretary of the Department of War of the United States of America.
SIR,
I do respectfully certify to you, in pursuance of the Act of the Congress of the United States of America, passed March 18th, 1818, entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the Land and "Naval Service of the United States in the Revolutionary War," that Stephen Manchester of the Town of Bern in the County of Albany and State of New-York, personally appeared before me, at the City of Albany, in the said State, on the Twentieth day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and then and there was carefully and minutely interrogated and examined by me, under oath, touching the facts stated in his foregoing Declaration, and thereupon he then and there subscribed the said Declaration in my presence, (after the same was deliberately read and explained to him by me) and at the same time made solemn oath before me, on the Holy Evangelists of Almighty God, that the said Declaration was, in all respects, true—Whereupon, I required of him to produce such other evidence as was in his power, to support the truth of his said Declaration—Accordingly he produced as testimony,
The Deposition of S tephen Manchester and Joseph Taylor
(and which accompanies this Certificate)—And I having duly considered the said Declaration and the said testimony produced in support thereof, I DO CERTIFY to you, Sir, that I am fully satisfied that the said Stephen Manchester did serve in the Revolutionary War, against the common enemy, for the time and in the manner by him stated in his said DECLARATION; and I am likewise satisfied, that the other facts in that Declaration stated, are, in like manner, true—I do therefore, respectfully transmit to you the testimony in the case, and the proceedings had thereon, according to the Act of Congress aforesaid.
GIVEN under my Hand and Seal, at the City  Rensselaer in the County of Albany , the Twentieth day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and Nineteen  Eighteen .
Apollon Moore First Judge of Albany. Common pleas

August 5, 1932
Stephen Manchester-S.42908
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BA-J/EL
Am
Mrs. J.M.Boyce 612 Madison Avenue Albany, New York
Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letter in which you request information in regard to Stephen Manchester, a soldier of the Revolutionary War and a pensioner.
The data furnished herein are obtained from the papers on file in the Revolutionary War claim for pension, S.42908, based upon the military service of Stephen Manchester in that war.
Stephen Manchester enlisted in April, 1782, served as a private in Captain Humphrey's Company, Colonel Jeremiah Olney's Rhode Island Regiment and was discharged January 10 or February 10, 1783.
He was allowed pension on his application executed April 20, 1818, at which time he was aged fifty-three years and was residing in Berne, Albany County, New York.
In 1820, he was residing in Rensselaer, Albany County, New York, and stated that he was aged sixty-six years. In the same year, he referred to his wife as aged fifty-six years and to two daughters, aged thirty-five and ten years, respectively, but gave no names, and there are no further data as to his family.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER Assistant to Administrator.
Dat of death on 9/20/20

Stephen Manchester
Payable Semi-annually. The first payment on this Certificate will be made on the 4 th of September next, in New York at the US Branch Bank.
Cap. Allanson Humphrey - Colo, Olneys Regiment
Recorded
11 ys - March 1829

War Department Revolutionary Claim
I certify that, in conformity with the Law of the United States, of the 18 th of March, 1818.
Stephen Manchester late a Private in the Army of the Revolution, is inscribed on the Pension List, Roll of the New York Agency, at the rate of Eight dollars per Month, to commence on the Twentieth day of April one thousand eight hundred and Eighteen.
Given at the War Office of the United States this Ninth day of June one thousand eight hundred and Nineteen
Signed J. P. Edwards in the absence and on behalf of the Secretary of War
Seal

Treasury Department, Third Auditor's Office April 18 th 1855
Sir,
I return herewith the papers in the case of Stephen Manchester of N. Y. received from you under date of yesterday, and have to inform you that it appears on record in this Office that his pension has been paid up to 4 Sept. 1845.
I am, Sir, your obedient Servant Robert M c Kim Auditor
J. P. Waldo, Esq. Comm r . of Pensions.

The State of Rhode Island & Providence Plantations Clerks office Court of Common Pleas & General Sessions of the Peace for the County of Newport.
I hereby certify that Thomas Dyer whose signature is affixed to the annexed attes- tation is Chief Justice of the Court aforesaid duly commissioned and engaged under the Seal of the State aforesaid.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my Hand and affixed the Seal of said Court, this Thirteenth Day of Feby in the Year of our L rd 1800 one thousand eight hundred and nineteen & forty third of American Independence.
H. G. Brantley Clerk

July 14, 1932.
MRS. J. M. BOYCE 612 MADISON AVE. ALBANY, N. Y.
Pension Bureau, Washington, D. C.
Guilem -
Did you kindly send me the record of one Stephen Manchester , Israel Albany Co., N. Y. Pensioned June 9-1818. Com. Apr. 20.-1818 age 68.
I am copying this as it was given to me.
Yours very truly Mrs. J. M. (Elizabeth) Boyce

42 908
Pay INVALID.
File No. 42 908
Stephen Manchester Pr Rev Ind
Act: 1 st March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 8 , Page 807
[Arrangement of 1870.]
1932 Aug 5, Hist. to Mrs J. M. Boyle EEL

Stephen Manchester
private
Colonel Olney's Regt Rhode
Island Line April 1782 to July
1783
Prob on Roll
111 111 111
Admitted

State of New York County of Albany  ss
Joseph Taylor of the Town
of Berne in the County of Albany and State of New York do being duly sworn made oath, That he well knows Stephen Manchester the Soldier in the preceding declaration and Certificate mentioned, That sometime in the Months of May or June in the Year Seventeen hundred and Eighty two, he saw the said Stephen Manchester doing duty as a private Soldier in the Army of the Revolution on the Continental Establishment That he was once acquainted with the said Stephen Manchester from the said Months of May and June for the term of about three Months, That they were then stationed at a place called Verplank's Point. That the said Stephen Manchester was Marched from that place to the Northward, That he has subsequently conversed with the said Stephen Manchester there is for some years past, and has heard him tell of being in the Army, in the Revolutionary Wars, and of his having been enlisted for the term of nine Months on the Continental Establishment, and that he belonged to Col. Jeremiah Olney's Regiment, and Rhode Island Line - And this Deponent further saith that the said Stephen Manchester is a Man of Strict Integrity, Truth and Veracity and that he firmly believes the facts and circumstances stated in the said foregoing declaration & Certificate to be substantially true -
Joseph Taylor
Sworn & subscribed this
31 st day of March 1819
before me
Joseph B. Moore Justice of the Peace for the County of Albany -

It appears by the Regimental Book of Occurrences, and Casualties, That Stephen Manchester enlisted for, and served the full term of, nine months, a Private Soldier in the Regiment commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Commandant Jeremiah Olney, in the Rhode-Island Line, in the Continental Establishment, and was Honourably discharged from said Regiment at Saratoga in the State of New York on the fifteenth day of January 1783, being the expiration of the term of his said enlistment.
W. G. Dexter Majr of said Regiment eodem tempore.
Providence January 26 th 1819. —

I Ichabod Simmons of Tiverton in the county of Newport y ea rs ago being duly sworn on said my oath say, that I was in the year 1702. acquainted with Stephen Manchester who was a Soldier of Col l Jeremiah Olney regiment in the continental Establishment in the Rhode- Island line, and continued in said Service during the term of his enlistment, the same being for nine months The company to which he belonged in said regiment I
do not recollect July 1 st 1814
Ichabod Simmons
Tiverton 3 rd day of Feb y 1814
Newport ss. Personally appeared the above named Ichabod Simmons and made solemn oath to the truth of the foregoing Affidavit by him subscribed, which affidavit was taken at the desire of Stephen Manchester above named, to be used for the purpose of obtaining the provisions of an act passed the 10 th March 1810 entitled an act to provide for persons en- gaged in in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war
Before me
W m D. Russell Jus. of Peace Conn. plus County of Newport