Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 20,073, for Noah Sturtevant, Massachusetts

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Sturtevant, Noah Ruth
N. 20,073
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6439
Massachusetts.
Noah Sturtevant
of Boston in the state of Massachusetts who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Sprout of the Massachusetts line, for the term of one year.
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 7th of April 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued the 30th of Jan y 1819 and sent to Genl. Davis, Esq. Judge etc. Boston.
  Arrears to 4th of Sep r 1818  39 46    Semi-ann. all ce ending 4 Mar. 1819  48 C    A. 28/30.  $ 87 46  
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Continued En a M.S.
Notification sent October 24. 1820 to John M c Davis, Boston Massachusetts

Noah Sturtevant
Concord
Oct 39
Jan'y 1819

District of Massachusetts, ss.
ON this Eighth day of July 1820 personally appeared, in open Court, being a Court of Record, viz. The District Court of the United States for the said District, Noah Sturtevant aged Sixty one years, resident in Boston in the County of Suffolk, in said District, Blacksmith who, being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath declare, that he served in the Revolutionary War, as follows: viz Enlisted in July 1781 and marched to White Plains and was there enrolled in the Company Commanded by Captain Stull in the Massachusetts Regiment Commanded by Colonel Proak and served in said corps principally in New York State until August 1782, when he was honorably discharged in writing which discharge he has lost. He made his original application on the seventh day of April 1818 and the number of his pension Certificate is 6. A. 39.
And I do solemnly swear, that I was a resident citizen of the United States, on the 18th 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 18th day of March, 1818; 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.
Noah Sturtevant.
Sworn to and declared, on the A. D. 1820 before
Eighth day of July
John Davis.
{ Judge of the Massachusetts District Court.
I, JOHN WATSON DAVIS, Clerk of the Massachusetts District Court, do hereby certify, that the foregoing oath, and the schedule hereto 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 the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule, is
one dollars and fifty cents.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this twenty first day of July 1820
John W. Davis
{ Clerk of the U. S. District Court, for the Massachusetts District.

Schedule
1 Chest - - - - -
$ 1.50
The above is a true inventory and schedule of all my property. I have no real Estate whatever. I have no family residing with me, but live myself at board. I am a blacksmith by trade but from infirmity am not able to earn my subsistence. I am sixty one years of age
Noah Sutherland.

TO DEPART.
Noah Sturtevant, Boston - Soldier 224 Mass. Roll 80 -
Admire

Certify that Noah Sturtevant was a private in the 2 d Mass. regt. and enlisted July 15. 1861 - for one year
Ap. 4 th 1861.
Eliz za . Major 2 d Mass. regt.
A.

MASSACHUSETTS DISTRICT, ss.
Boston June 10 A. D. 1818
IT appearing to my satisfaction, that Noah Sturtevant subscriber to the annexed declaration, sworn to before me, did serve in the revolutionary war against the common enemy, as stated in said declaration, I now transmit the testimony in the case, with the proceedings had thereon, to the Secretary of the department of war, pursuant to the directions of the act entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war;" the testimony and proceedings in the premises being the declaration aforesaid, with the accompanying documents marked A together with this certificate.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the District Court of the United States for this District to be hereunto affixed.
M c Davis } Judge of the District Court U. S. Massachusetts District.

MASSACHUSETTS DISTRICT, ss.
Boston 10 January 1819.
I AM satisfied that the above named, Noah Sturtevant by reason of his reduced circumstances in life, is in need of assistance from his Country for support.
J. Davis { District Judge U. S. Massachusetts Dist.
TO THE SECRETARY OF THE DEPARTMENT OF WAR.

United States of America.
- State of Massachusetts, Suffolk ss. Boston April 7 1818.
I, Noah Sturtevant — a citizen of the United States, now resident at Boston in the County of Suffolk in the State aforesaid, do on oath, declare, that I served, in the War of the Revolution, the full term of time required by a Law of the United States, made and passed in the month of March, A. D. 1818, entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States, in the Revolutionary War," as one requisite to entitle me to be placed on the pension list of the said United States, having entered the Land service of the said United States, on the Continental Establishment, and served as a private Soldier against the common enemy; from July 15 th A.D. 1781 until the 19 th of August A.D. 1782 , being about the term of thirteen months .
That I belonged to Captain Sewall's company, in the Regiment commanded by Col o Ebenezer Sproat, and in the Massachusetts Line. and that I left the service on the aforesaid 19 th of August 1782 and received an honourable discharge , which said discharge I have lost, or mislaid. I also served besides the above term, three months in Boston, six months in the city of New York, and two months at the time when Burgoyne was taken, & as a soldier against the common enemy.
And I hereby relinquish all claim to every pension heretofore allowed me by the laws of the said United States, if any may be, or hath been, so allowed.
By reason of my reduced circumstances in life, I stand in need of assistance from my Country for support.
Noah Sturtevant
BE IT REMEMBERED, That on this Seventh day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen , Pursuant to a law of the United States, entitled, "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war," made and passed on the 18th of March, A. D. 1818, personally appeareth before me
the abovenamed Noah Sturtevant , and after due examination and caution to testify and declare the whole truth, he maketh oath to the declaration aforesaid, and subscribes the same in my presence.
M c Devitt Dist Judge Mass Dist

Albany 660
Ruth Sturtevant widow of Noah Sturtevant
who was a pensioner under the Act of 18. March 1818 and who died on the 10 th March 1828 of Genesee Co. in the State of N. York who was a Private in the company commanded by Captain _____ of the Reg't, commanded by Col. Sproat in the Mass. time for 1 year
Inscribed on the Roll of Albany at the rate of 40 Dollars _____ Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 11 th day of Oct. 1838 and sent to Mason G. Smith, Perry, Genesee Co. N.Y.
Arrears to the 4th of Sept. 38. 100.00 Semi-annual allowance ending Sept. 39. 20.00
$120.00
{ Act July 7, } 1838. }
Recorded by D. Brown Book 14. Vol. 2
Clerk Page 100

X 3393
Declaration of Ruth Sturtevant, in order to obtain the benefit of the 3 d Section of the act of Con- gress of July 4, 1836.

Declaration of Ruth Sturtevant, in order to obtain the benefit of the third section of the act of Congress, of July 4 th , 1836.
State of New York, } ss. County of Genesee, }
On this 28 th day of March, 1838, before me, Rufus H. Smith, a Judge of the Courts in and for said County, appeared personally, Ruth Sturtevant, of the town of Castile, in the County and State aforesaid, aged seventy-nine 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 4, 1836: — That she is the widow of Noah Sturtevant, late a pensioner of the United States, under the act of March 18, 1818, and who was a private in the war of the Revolution; — She further declares that she was married to the said Noah Sturtevant in the month of February, in the year seventeen hundred and eighty-three; — that her husband, the aforesaid Noah Sturtevant, died on the tenth day of March, in the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, and that she has remained a widow ever since that

period, as will more fully appear by reference to the proof hereto annexed.
Sworn to, and subscribed, } Ruth Sturtevant on the day and year } above written, before me, } Rufus H. Smith
I certify that the said Ruth Sturtevant cannot without great inconvenience attend Court, by reason of age and bodily infirmity.
State of New York, } Rufus H. Smith County of Genesee, }
James B. Sturtevant, of Castile in said County being duly sworn, says that his mother, Ruth Sturtevant, who has subscribed and sworn to the forego- ing declaration, has remained a widow since the death of his father Noah Sturtevant, as set forth in said Declaration. James B. Sturtevant
Sworn to, and subscribed before me, this 28th day of March 1838, } Rufus H. Smith a Judge of Genesee County Court
I certify that the deponent is a credible person, and that his statement is entitled to credence. Rufus H. Smith

State of New York Genesee County ss. Clerk's Office                      30.      J. Horace
We Soper clerk of Seneca County do hereby certify that Rufus H. Smith Esquire who has subscribed his name to the preceding certificates is a Judge of Genesee County Courts duly qualified and authorized caused to act as such, that his term of office commenced on the nineteenth day of April 1836 and will expire on the eighteenth day of April 1841. and that I am well acquainted with his hand writings and verily believe his signature to the preceding certificates is Genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of the Court of Common Pleas of said County at Batavia this 30th day of March 1838
J. H. Soper
By W. L. Brown Dep. Clerk
(Clerk being absent from his office)

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
M.E.C.
Bureau of Pensions,
Washington, D. C.,
May 16, 1895.
Miss:-
In reply to your request for a statement of the military history of --- Noah Sturtevant --- a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau.
   DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE.   CAPTAIN. COLONEL.     He served as a private in Capt. Sewall's company, Col. Ebenezer Sproat's Massachusetts regiment, from July 15, 1781, to August 19, 1782. State d app that he then served 3 months at Boston, 6 months at New York City, and 2 months at the time Burgoyne was captured -- officers names not mentioned. He does not state in his declaration that he participated in any battles but the widow, in her declaration, stated that he was in the battles of White Plains, Saratoga, Crown Point, Bennington, and Bunker Hill.  
Battles engaged in, See above. Residence of soldier at enlistment, Plympton, Mass. Date of application for pension, April 7, 1818. Residence at date of application, Boston, Mass. Age at date of application, Fifty-nine years.
Remarks: He married Ruth Bishop in February, 1783, and died March 10, 1828.
Miss Kate E. Cousins, Very respectfully, 71 Commonwealth Ave., Brookline, Mass.
Commissioner.

Brookline, Mass. May 5, 1895
Pension Bureau, Dear Sir,
I understand that, on application, the military history of any Revolutionary soldier may be obtained for gene- alogical purposes. You will greatly oblige me by sending the history

of Noah Sturtevant, a soldier, enlisting from Brookline Mass. An immediate response will be appreciated.
Yours respectfully, Kate Elizabeth Converse 71 Commonwealth Ave. Brookline Massachusetts.

MARY LOVERING HOLMAN GENEALOGIST 4 PARK VALE AVENUE ALLSTON, MASS.
Rev. S. S.
Pension Bureau Washington D.C.
Gentlemen:
Will you see if you have a Revolutionary Pension record of Noah Stertrant? I find his name in a printed volume of pensioners in 1820. He is quoted as of Mass. but there may be one also of Vermont, New York or any other New England State. The name is spelled Stertrant, Stirdefant etc.
Thanking you, Sir,
Yours most sincerely Mary Lovering Holman.
Nov. 25, 1915
Will you also see if you have any record of a Thalmeno Bishop of Conn., Mass., or N. Y.

Downey
2145 Sixth St. Boulder, Colorado. April 23 - 1904
E. F. Ware, Commissioner of Pensions, Washington, D. C.
Sir:
Please send me a copy of the Revolutionary War record of Noah Sturteant of Plympton, (Plymouth) Mass., afterward a resident of Colerain, Mass., and later of Vermont.
I do not know that he drew a pension but his widow Ruth (maiden name Bishop) did. She died in Castile, N. Y. in 18 1840 some time. Noah Sturteant was my great-grandfather -
Yours respectfully Laura Sturteant Dodge. (Mrs. H. O. Dodge.)

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
Washington, D. C., _____, 19_____
In reply to your request of _____, received _____ for a statement of the military history of Noah Sturtevant a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau.
   DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE.   CAPTAIN. COLONEL.     ✓ 3 mos ✓ no officers stated Served at Boston   ✓ 6 mos ✓ " Served at N.Y. City   1777 2 mos ✓ " When Burgoyne was taken   July 15. 1781. Aug. 19. 1782 Pvt Sewall Ebenezer Droot Mass.  
Battles engaged in, Bunker Hill, White Plains, Brimton Point, Bennington, Saratoga. Residence of soldier at enlistment, Plympton, Mass. (Plymouth Co.) Date of application for pension, Apr. 7. 1818 - His claim was allowed. Residence at date of application, Boston, Suffolk Co. Mass. Age at date of application, 61 years in 1820.
Remarks: he married in Feb 1783 in Plympton Mass. Ruth Birkrop he died near Boston Mch 10. 1828 and she was allowed pension on an ap. ev Mch 28. 1838 while a resident of Castile, Benesee Co., N.Y. aged 79 years. They had children: James B. Sturtevant only name given.
Respectfully,
Commissioner.

Hof B. April 21. 1858
Sir
I have the honor to transmit herewith a communication from Doct. M c G Smith containing the information required by your letter of the 10 th inst. in relation to the application of Ruth Stewart for a pension
Very Respectfully M c G Smith A. G. Peck
How J. L. Clevener Comd. Pensylvania

Perry, Genesee Co. N.Y. April 16, 1838.
Dear Sir,
Please inform the Commissioner of Pensions, that Noah Sturtevant, was, at the time of his decease, a resident of the State of Massachusetts; and his name was, I believe, originally inscribed on the Pension Roll of that State. The information is required in order to facilitate the investigation of the claim of Ruth Sturtevant.
Very respectfully, Your Obedt. Servt.
Mason G. Smith.
Hon. L. C. Peck, House of Representatives.

Ruth Supturant NY

Gov Rags April 7, 1838
Sir
I have the honor to enclose your honor the application of Auto statement for a Pension
please communicate to me the determination of the Department
Very Respectfully Sir Yours Obedient Servt L. G. Peck
Genl L. C. Merrill Commr Pensions

4 Ruth Sturtevant New York Suspended see. let. to H. M. L. C. Peck April 11. 1838 to same G. May '38, do. to D. M. G. Smith, Aug. 15. 1838.
Act July 4. 1836

Bureau of Pensions.
Noah Sturtevant
Apr. 7. 1818
Boston Mass
July 15-81 Plympton Mass Capt Sewell Col Sproat
Pst 13 m
Also served 3 mos in Boston and 6 m in city of New York & 2 mos in fall of 77 at Sur. of Burgoyne
mar Ruth Bishop
Feb - 83 -
Died 10. 28

Rev
WIDOW, &c.
File No. 20073
Ruth Sturtevant
Noah Sturtevant
Rev. War
Act: July 7 th 1838
Index:—Vol. M , Page 248
[Arrangement of 1870.]

16 May 95 71 H. D. to Miss Kate E. Cousens Commonwealth Ave. Brookline Mass. M. E. L.
May 7-1904- Hist to Mrs. N. O. Dodge Boulder, Colo.
1915. Dec. 2. History to Mrs. Mary L. Holman. M. B. H.

I Ebenezer Wright of Plympton in the County of Plymouth and State of Massachusetts of the age of Seventy four years Testify and say that I knew Noah Shattuck and Ruth Washburn of Plympton and saw them joined in Marriage by the Reverend Ezra Sampson who was the Minister of the First parish in Plympton at that time the year and Month I cannot recollect but think it was in the winter season always after their Marriage I knew them untill they Moved from Plympton
Ebenezer Wright
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Plymouth County ss. February 17th. 1838 Then Personally appeared Before the Subscriber Ebenezer Wright and made oath that the above deposition is true by him subscribed I further certify that I know the said deponent to be a man of good reputation for truth and veracity and is a credible witness Jonathan Parker Justice of the Peace
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Plymouth ss. I Jacob H. Lord Register of Probate for said County do hereby certify that Jonathan Parker Esquire who has subscribed the above Certificate is a Justice in & for said County duly commissioned & qualified & that the above is his true & genuine signature.
In testimony whereof I have here unto set my hand & the seal of the Court of Probate for said County this nineteenth day of Febua- ry A.D. 1838.
Jacob H. Lord

993 Declaration of Ruth Sturtevant, in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of July 7, 1838.
Admitted
Private 12 months
Mason G. Smith, Agent, Perry, Genesee Co. N.Y.

Declaration of Ruth Sturtevant, in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress, of the 7 th July, 1838, entitled "An Act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows."
State of New York, } ss : - County of Senesee, }
On this 25 th day of August, 1838, before me, Rufus H. Smith, one of the Judges in and for said County, personally appeared Ruth Sturtevant, a resident of the town of Castile, in said County, aged seventy-five years, and more upwards, who being by me first duly sworn, 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, 1838, entitled "An act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows": - That she is the widow of Noah Sturtevant, who was a private in the army of the revolution; - that said Noah, resided in Plympton, Massachusetts, when he entered the service; that his first engagement was as a substitute; - that he was at the battles of White Plains, Saratoga, Crown Point, Bennington, and Bunker Hill; but she cannot recollect the names of the Officers under whom he served, nor the period of his service; that she believes he was in the

service in all, more than four years; that he was a Pensioner under the act of Congress of March 18, 1818, and that his name was inscribed on the roll of the Massachusetts agency; - and that she has no documentary proof of his service.
She further declared that she was married to the said Noah Sturtevant in the month of February, in the year seventeen hundred and eighty-three, by the Rev. Ezra Sampson, at Plympton, in the County of Plymouth, and State of Massachusetts; that, as she has been informed, and verily believes, her husband the aforesaid Noah Sturtevant, died near Boston, in the State of Massachusetts, on the tenth day of March, in the year eighteen hundred and twenty-eight; - that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place previous to the first day of January, seventeen hundred and ninety-four, viz: at the time above stated.
Sworn to and subscribed, on the day and year first above written, before me,
Ruth Sturtevant
Rufus H. Smith } a Judge of Genesee County Courts }
I certify that the age and bodily infirmities of the above named deponent, make her unable, without great inconvenience, to attend the Court.
Rufus H. Smith } a Judge of Genesee County Courts }

State of New York, } ss: - County of Seneca, }
James B. Sturtevant, of the town of Castile, in said County, being duly sworn, says that in the month of December, 1828, he went to the office of the Agent for paying Pensions, in the City of Boston, in the State of Massachusetts, in order to ascertain the residence of his father, Noah Sturtevant, who had been for three or four years previous, residing with different relatives in various parts of said State of Massachusetts; that the said Agent, after referring to his books, informed this deponent, that the said Noah, died near Boston, on the tenth of March, preceding, and that the last payment on account of the said Noah, was made to his administrator; that Ruth Sturtevant, who has made the foregoing declaration, is the mother of this deponent, and has resided with this deponent since the year 1817, and has not been married since the decease of the said Noah Sturtevant as aforesaid; and further says not.
Sworn to and subscribed, } James B. Sturtevant this 25 th day of August, } 1838, before me } Rufus H. Smith } a Judge of Seneca County Courts }
I certify that I am acquainted with the before named deponent, and that he is a person of credibility. — Rufus H. Smith.

State of New York Genesee County
ss: I Certify that Rufus H. Smith before whom the within declaration and affidavits were taken was at the time of taking the same a Judge of Genesee County Courts and that I am well acquainted with his hand writing and do believe the signatures to the foregoing Certificates are his hand writing —
In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of said county this 27 th August 1838 —
M c Clusker Clerk
99 3 Declaration of Ruth Sturtevant, in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of July 7, 1838.
Admitted
Pirate 12 months
Mason & Smith, Agents,
Berry,
Genesee Co. N.Y.

I, Lewis Bradford of the Town of Plympton in the County of Plymouth, Massachusetts, do hereby testify upon Oath, that I am the Town Clerk of the said Town of Plympton, and also that I am the Parish Clerk of the First Parish in said Town, and that the Town Records of said Town, and the Parish Records of said Parish are in my Custody, and that upon examination of said Town Records I find that the Marriage of Noah Sturtevant and Ruth Bishop, both formerly of said Plympton, is not recorded in said Town Records. Also that I have examined the Church Records in said Parish and find that said Marriage is not recorded in them. Also that I find on examination of said Town, Parish, and Church Records that the Rev. Ezra Sampson was the Minister of the said First Parish of Plympton from February 15. 1775, to April 4. 1796, and that in every year of his Ministry, except in the years 1783 and 1787, he recorded in said Church Records the Marriages which he solemnized and once a year, as the Law required, sent in an account of his Marriages to the Town Clerk to record, except in said years of 1783 and 1787. — Why the Rev. Ezra Sampson recorded no Marriages in 1783 and 1787, I can assign no reason but his neglect. — I was myself at a Marriage which he solemnized in the year 1783, and which he did not record.
I further testify that I was knowing to the said Noah Sturtevant and Ruth Bishop dwelling together as husband and wife before they moved from Plympton and that their oldest Child attended a School which I kept in Plympton in January, February and March in the year 1788, as appears from a written account I have of that School, made at the time the School was kept.
Lewis Bradford { Town Clerk of Plympton, February 1. 1838. { Plympton, M.S.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Plymouth County ss. Plympton February 12th 1838 Then personally appeared Lewis Bradford Town Clerk in Plympton Before the Subscriber and made oath that the above Deposition By him Subscribed is true I further certify that I well know said Deponent to be a man of truth and is a credible witness
Jonathan Parker, Justice of the Peace
Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Plymouth ss. I Jacob H. Lord Register of Probate for said County do hereby certify that Jonathan Parker Esq. is a Justice of the Peace in & for said County duly commissioned & qualified & that the above is his true & genuine signature.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & the seal of the Court of Pro- bate for said County this nineteenth day of February A.D. 1838
Jacob H. Lord