Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 15997, for Stephen Sweet, Rhode Island

SERVICE
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Sweet, Stephen
NUMBER _____
NUMBER D. 15997
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CONTENTS

17260 17260 Vermont - Stephen Sweet
Greensboro in the State of Vermont who was a private in the Company commanded by Captain Potter - of the Regt. commanded by Col Dyer - in the R.I. Mass line for 18 mos - Rhode Island
In W.G. Harrington Aug 15 1838 do - do - 20 Jan '39
Entered on the Roll of Vermont at the rate of 60 Dollars 00 Cents per annum to commence on the 1st day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 13 day of Augt. 1833 and sent to J Allen N. Hero
Arrears to the 1st of March 1833 $ 120.00 Semestral allowance ending 4 Sept - 30.00 $ 150.00
Revolutionary Claim, } Act June 7, 1832. } Recorded by W. L. Williams, Clerk Vol. 3 Page 41

6700 Stephen Sweet Alburgh Frank D. King Vermont
7 Feb'y 1833 Obj - 14.
Hon Th. Allen Ho. Reps
1 Page 237 Admitted 18 mos

BRIEF in the case of  Stephen Sweet of Albany, Rhode Island  of  in the State of Pennsylvania  (Act 7th June, 1832.)
1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? In open Court
2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?
1832 69 1763 14 1/2
3. How old is he? 69 in 1832
4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed.
   Period. Duration of Service. Rank. Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.   Years, Months, Days.     Enl. at Providence april 10 1777 — 7 — Private Gen. Charles Lee Rhode Island Capt. William D. S. Mowatt   drafted 1. April 1778 — 1 — " Lt. Col. Dyer   d. 1. Apr. 1779 — 4 — " Capt. John Locke Same officers  
5. In what battles was he engaged? Not any
6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Boston Neck Rhode Island
7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditional evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? By a living witness & by traditional evidence
8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? Not properly attached
X  Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
Chas. E. Miller Examining Clerk. 22. Jan. 1843

I James Sweet of Champlain in the State of New York of lawful age do testify say that I shall be seventy two years old in Feb next and brother to Stephen Sweet I have recollected of my Brother being in the service in the year 1777- guarding the sea coast in the early part of the season to the last of Sept. Then there went to Tiverton but how long he was out that year cannot say. This service my Brother performed as a substitute but for whom do not recollect. In the year 1778 he was in the service for several months the early part of the sea- son he was guarding the coast the latter part he was at Newport in Rhode Island This service was performed as a substitute for one Jeremiah Brown or so much of it as was performed at Newport I also will recollect of my brother being in the service in 1779 but how long he was out whether he was in office or went as a substitute cannot say. I further say not  James Sweet
Sworn to and subscribed this 8 th day of December A.D. 1838 before me  Justin of the Peace  Joseph Sweet  State of Vermont } Joseph Sweet Justin Peace Grand Isle County } as age do certify that I have been acquainted with the above named James Sweet for about forty years and that he is reputed to be a man of good character & reputation That I believe his statements above entitled to full credit & belief  Joseph Sweet Justin Peace

State of Vermont                      Clerk's office North Hero Grand Isle County ss.              December 22. A.D. 1838.
I, Paul Allen Clerk of said Grand Isle County Court, do hereby certify that Joseph Snow before whom the within affidavit hereto be had been sworn and subscribed is a justice of the Peace in and for the County of Grand Isle duly commissioned and qualified, that his term of office commenced on the first day of December A.D. 1838 and will expire on the last day of November A.D. 1839. and that I the attested signature within written to be genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of said Court the day and year aforesaid.
Paul Allen Clerk

State of Vermont } On this 13 th day of August Grand Isle District } A.D. 1832 Personally appeared in open Court before the Honourable Court of Probate for the District of Grand Isle a Court of record now sitting, Stephen Swift a resident of the Town of Alburgh in the County of Grand Isle and State of Vermont aged sixty nine years , who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832 That he entered the service of the United States under the following named Officers and served as herein stated: That he entered the service of the United States in April 1777 at Boston neck in the State of Rhode Island as a private Soldier in Capt. Potter's Company, Timothy Lock Lieutenant and Daniel Skiff Ensign in the Regiment commanded by Col. Charles Dyre and that his Company mustered at Boston neck aforesaid, that he was stationed at this Place for the term of six months that his service was keeping garrisons and guarding the shores from the depredations of the Enemy at the expiration of which time he was drafted from the Regiment to join General Spencer's detachment at Tiverton and marched from Boston neck to Tiverton and remained there for the space of one month when he was discharged by Capt. Potter the last of October 1777. This term of service was seven months.

That he again entered the service of the United States the 1 st of April 1778 at Boston neck aforesaid in Capt. Timothy Lock's Company, Gideon Babcock Lieutenant. David  William J. Steadman Ensign in Col. Charles Dyres Regiment aforesaid and there remained until the French Fleet came in which he thinks was in July following at which time he was drafted to join General Sullivan's detachment at Rhode Island and marched to that place where he remained twenty days and then returned home at Point Judith, when in a few days, he was again called out under the same officers aforesaid and served two months at Point Judith and was there dis- =charged the 1 st of October 1778. He calculates this at six months.
That he again entered the service the 1 st of April 1779 under the same officers aforesaid, at Point Judith aforesaid and there remained five months when he was discharged by Capt. Timothy Lock aforesaid, that his service at this place was keeping garrison and guarding the shores against the depredations of the enemy. That he never had any written dischar- =ges; that he knows of no person by whom he can prove his service except Mary Parr of Alburgh. That he was a private soldier during the three terms of his service above mentioned and that he has no documentary evidence whatever of his service. And that he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, and declares that his name is not on the pension roll.

Of the agency of any State
Stephen Sweet
Sworn to and Subscribed the day and year aforesaid
Joel Allen Judge
We Jesse Smith a Clergyman residing in Albany and Nathan Viles residing in the same place hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Stephen Sweet who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be sixty nine years of age that he is reputed and believed in the neighbourhood where he resides to have been a Soldier of the revolution and that we concur in that opinion.
Jesse Smith
Nathan Viles
Sworn to and Subscribed the day and year aforesaid in open Court
Joel Allen Judge

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogations prescribed by the war Department that the above applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states:
and the Court further certifies that it appears to them that Jesse Smith who signed the preceding certificate is a Clergyman residing in the Town of Alburgh also and that Nathan Wiles who has also signed the same is a resident of the Town of Alburgh, is a creditable person and that their statement is entitled to credit.
Joel Allen Judge
Nov 6/32
J. C. H. Burgess Register of the Court of Probate for the District of Grand Isle, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Stephen Gervet for a pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 13 th day of August 1832
C. H. Burgess Register

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15994
INVALID.
Mar. 9-1901 Waldo Sweet Sheboygan, Wis.
File No. 15997
Stephen Sweet
Pr. Rev War
Act: June 7 th 32
Index:—Vol. 1 ; Page 366
[Arrangement of 1870.]

A FINE PROPERTY WITH UP-TO-DATE MANAGEMENT
172.60 JOHN C. MANN, PROPRIETOR. DeLuxe House.
Houghton, Mich. Feby 1 1901.
Commissioner of Pensions Washington D.C.
Dear Sir,
My Great-Grand Father, Stern Sweet was a Soldier in the Revolutionary War, but I do not know from what state he enlisted or anything further than that he was a pensioner and died at Allburg Springs in Vermont in 1845 aged 85 Yrs.
I wish his record if there is any on file in your office.
Enclosed find reply to my letter addressed to the Sec. of War.
Yours Resp ly
Waldo Sweet
150 Sheboygan St. Fond du Lac Wis.

Record and Pension Office, WAR DEPARTMENT,
Washington, Jany. 29, 1901.
Respectfully returned to
Mr. Waldo Sweet, No. 60 Sheboygan Street, Fond du Lac, Wisconsin.
The name Steven Sweet has not been found on the rolls, on file in this Department, or any organization of Vermont or Continental troops in service during the Revolutionary war.
It is proper to add, however, that the collection of Revolutionary war records in this office is far from complete, and that the absence therefrom of any name is by no means conclusive evidence that the person who bore the name did not serve in the Revolutionary army.
In view of your statement that your ancestor was a pensioner, it is suggested as a possibility that information relative to his military service can be obtained from the Commissioner of Pensions, Washington, D. C., whose office is separate and distinct from the Record and Pension office of the War Department.
By authority of the Secretary of War:
Chief of Office.

15994 Stephen Sweet
Aug 13, 1832. Alburgh Vt. - 69
Ap 177 Boston neck      Rob. Capt Patterson Col Chas Dyer Det 7 mas
Ap 178 Capt. Pinney Took Col Chas Dyer Det. 6 mas
Ap 179      Dyer - 5 m Det
No Det
Quinn

The Hon. Secretary of War Pension Office Washington D.C.
North Platte March 16

North Mtn March 1 st 1833.
The Hon. Secretary of War - Sir,
The application of Stephen Sweet of Alburgh Vermont for a pension has been returned for amendment together with the objections filed with the name of Nathan Wiles. I suppose that there have been a mistake in putting up the paper and that the papers of Nathan Wiles would come back with the objections of Stephen Sweet, but the last night it brought a certificate for Nathan Wiles, upon which I suppose that the name of Nathan Wiles was wrongfully entered for that of Stephen Sweet, and I have accordingly noted it as such - I have endeavored to amend them accordingly, and herewith enclose them for a final action, or further instruction and request the department to transmit the result to me when decided at North Mtn Grand Isle County Vermont.
Isaac Allen Judge of the Probate Court for the District of Grand Isle

Mary Parr's Deposition

I Mary Parr of Alburgh in the County of Grand Isle and State of Vermont of the of the age of twenty five years testify and say that in the time of the Revolutionary War, I lived at Point Judith in the State of Rhode Island which is about four miles from Boston neck, that I was acquainted with Stephen Sweet of Alburgh who has this day made his declaration for a pension. That I know him as a Soldier stationed at Boston neck that I do not know how long he served that year but think he served nearly the whole season. That I was knowing to his being a Soldier at two other times during the war of the Revolution but the year I can not tell, that I recollect that he went over to Pictou and was gone one month that I recollect that his company was commanded by Captain Samuel Potter Lieutenant Timothy Dack and in Colonel Dyer's Regiment, that he was very young I recollect the first time he went into the service that he was under sixteen years not being liable to do duty in the Militia, that my husband Moses Parr was in the service

with him nearly all the time he knows that he was intimately acquainted with him, and has a constant conversation of his, and further this deponent saith not. he-
Mary H. Parr mark
State of Vermont } Grand Isle District } On this 13 th day of August A.D. 1832 Personally appeared before the Honorable Court of Probate for the District of Grand Isle a Court of record Mary Parr of Alburgh in said district and made solemn oath that the fore- going deposition by her subscribed contained the whole truth and nothing but the truth
Done in open Court.
Joel Allen Judge
And the said Court on this 9 th day of March 1833 certifies that Mary Parr is he has sworn, and subscribed the foregoing deposition is a credible person
Joel Allen Judge
State of Vermont } District of Grand Isle } J. C. H. Burgess
Register of the Court of Probate for the District of Grand Isle do hereby certify that the foregoing is the orig- affidavit of Mary Parr, taken in open Court on the 13 th day of August 1832 for the purpose of proving the service of Stephen Sweet for a Pension and at the time of making his affidavit whereof I have hereunto

Subscribed my name and affixed the seal of said Court this 9th day of March A.D. 1833 at North Moor in said district C. H. Burgess Register
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VB Dec 22 June 7 1832 add proof Stephen Street arrived at 32
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J L Edwards Esq
In Sir agreeably to your last letter we forward you the Explanation of Esq Sweet's revolution services, Also the Additional Sir I proof for Mrs Parr, I have noticed the discrepancy (also the secret) between the statement of Maynards & Sweet, each think the other mistaken, at least Sweet's statements are less favorable than the witness, both think they are right. I suppose we have removed all difficulty in Mrs Parrs case, the old lady is in great anxiety for the return, I am Sir with respect your Humble Servt
G Harrington
Edinburgh 23 Dec 1838

State of Vermont } on this 19 th day of Grand Isle County } December AD 1838
personally appeared before me Giles Hamington Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Grand Isle Stephen Sweet a resident of Alburgh in the County of Grand Isle and State of Vermont aged seventy six years. Who being first duly sworn on according to law doth on his oath make the following Additional Declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the Act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832.
In relation to the manner and character in which he served in the revolutionary war in the spring of 1777 his father was drafted for fifteen days and he entered the service as substitute for his father being at this time in the fiftieth year of his age but very large of his age, and when the draft of his father expired he kind sent as sub- -stitute for others and continued in the service untill the last of September 1777 at which time his father was again drafted. I took his place and the 3 rd day of October marched for Trenton and returned the first of Nov 1777 In 1778 in April a draft was made for men to guard the coast I then entered as a substitute for one George Patten and after that for others as the drafts expired & other drafts were made which generally as often as once in fifteen days or a month. In August of that year one half of our Regiment was detached to go to Rhode Island as stated in my first Declaration I then sent there a substitute for one Jeremiah Brown

on his draft for twenty days we were kept by the necessity of the service twenty five days and then discharged, I then entered as a substitute and continued in the service until into the month of Nov 1778. In the Spring of 1779 his father was drafted he took his place after that expired he was himself drafted & continued in the service five months on his own his father's and others drafts, the Applicant says from the frequency of the drafts and the length of time it is now almost impossible for him to recollect the particular individuals also for whom he was substitute, when his father was first drafted he owned a saw mill and had much other business, and succeeded in making the substitution & from that time the Applicant became somewhat attached to the Soldier's life and continued to serve as substitute a great share of the time, and such was the case with many young men so many were drafted who were rather opposed to the revolution, that they would not serve and to save their property from forfeiture they were compelled to hire or procure sub- stitutes. Others whose business would not permit them to enter the service were obliged to hire and much of the Army in that section was made up of substitutes. For the other particu- lars of his service this Applicant refers to his original Application made in 1832 as being correct with the exceptions of the corrections here made.
Isaac Dyer

Subscribed and sworn to at Alburgh in the County of Grand Isle this 19 th day of December A D 1838 before me
Giles Harrington Justice of the Peace
State of Vermont Grand Isle county Alburgh December 19 th 1838 I Giles Harrington Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Grand Isle hereby certify that I have been well acquainted with Stephen Sweet Esq who made and subscribed the foregoing additional Declaration, for eleven years, and that he is a man of unimpeachable character, and is so reputed, That I consider his statements above entitled to full credit. From the old age & bodily infirmities of said Sweet I do not believe he could attend a court of record the nearest being 15 miles distant without endangering his health
Giles Harrington Justice Peace

copy of 28  State of Vermont } Grand Isle County } on this 26 th day of October A.D. 1838 personally appeared before me William Wait a judge of the county court within and for the County of Grand Isle — Eliza Keyes also an resident of Ischialet in the County of Grand Isle aged seventy five years who being first duly sworn according to law doth depose and say that previous to the revolutionary war with Great Britain I was acquainted with Stephen Sweets now of Otterburgh in the County of Grand Isle and State of Vermont then living in the Town of Exeter in the State of Rhode Island, at the commencement of the revolution- ary war in October or November 1776 I was knowing to the said Stephen Sweets concerning services in the revolutionary army have seen him a guarding against the British troops along the shores. did not serve with him in the same company but in the same regiment under Col Charles Dyer my Capt Jonathan Bates I was wounded and did not see him again until August 1778 which was in Sullivan's expedition to Newport in Rhode Island and came off the Island in the same boat with him the S d Sweets served as leader stood from the time first mentioned until we came off the Island that is I did not know of his being out of the service during the two years that is from 1776 to 1778 for we were neighbors at home and should most probably have seen him while I was at home recovering of my wound.

I further say that I have been acquainted with the with in named Stephen Sweet for more than thirty years since he has resided in Alburgh and consider him a man of unimpeachable character for truth and veracity and that his statements are entitled to full faith and credit.  Elisha Reynolds
Sworn to and subscribed this 26 th day of October A.D. 1835 before me William Wait } Judge of Grand Isle County Court
I William Wait hereby certify that I am well acquainted with Elisha Reynolds the above named deponent and have been for some thirty years and that I consider him to be a man of truth and veracity and his statements are entitled to full faith and credit
William Wait } Judge of Grand Isle County Court

State of Vermont Grand Isle County ss. December 22 d . A.D. 1838
I Joel Allen Clerk of said Grand Isle County Court do hereby certify that William Wait before whom the foregoing Declaration purports to have been taken & sworn is a full Judge of said Grand Isle County Court duly commissioned and qualified, and that Giles Harrington before whom the attached additional declaration purports to have been taken and sworn is a Justice of the Peace in and for said Grand Isle County duly commissioned and qualified. That the term of both their said offices commenced on the first day of December A.D. 1838. and will expire on the last day of November A.D. 1839. and that I know each of their said signatures to be genuine, which are attached to these papers.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of said Court the day and year aforesaid.
Joel Allen Clerk