Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 10,290, for Moris Simmons Sturges, Connecticut

SERVICE
NUMBER
Conn
Sturges, Morris Simmone R. 10290 Lois
CONTENTS

No 15.036
Lois Sturges.
Ohio!
Let Blankfeffer Got 15/83 pmt
10290
July 7. 18 4 38.

REJECTED
10.290
P. O. _____
Louis Sturges
Service: _____
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contra
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18

no Lois Sturges, mag of M. S. Sturges
Ohio.
July 1. 1838
Rev. S. Keppler, Priest,

Claim of Mrs Lois Sturges, Widow of M. S. Sturges for Revolutionary Service s: under Act July 7 1838
Case filed Sept 23/53 by Saml Keppler Washington City DC
Mr. Pole

No Low Sturges to Mr. L. Sturges
of the Court of Common Pleas in the County of ... was a practice of the Peace ... in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ... the day of which said ... before matter is ...
of such Court at ... day of September, 1833. John B. ... P. D. ...

State of Ohio 3.88 Medina Co. 3.88
On this 17 th Day of September 1853 personally appeared before the subscribers justice of the peace of Medina County Ohio. Lois Stenger a Resident of said County aged Eighty seven 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 7 th 1838 entitled an act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows that she is the widow of Morris Simon Stenger who was a soldier in the Revolutionary war he enlisted in Newtown Fairfield County State of Connecticut and served under officers Booth and Nickels soon after Enlisting he was marched to White Plains. She further Declares that she was married to the said Morris Simon Stenger March 12 th 1786 and that her husband died the 26 th of May 1826. That she is now a widow and has never before made any application for a pension and that their family record by her husband till his decease since which time it has been kept by her son J S Stenger
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 17 th day of Sept. 1853. J. Barnard justice of the peace
Daniel Bicket Esq. after being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following Statement that he was personally acquainted with the above named Morris Simon Stenger that he enlisted and served as a soldier in the Revolutionary war and that the above named Lois Stenger is the widow of the above named Morris Simon Stenger and that her said residence was in Fairfield State of Connecticut at this time a Resident of Medina County Ohio that he is now eighty two years of age Daniel Bicket
Sworn to and subscribed this 17 th day of Sept 1853 Before me J. Barnard justice of the peace

J. S. Sturges after being duly sworn, avowing to the best of his knowledge and belief that the within statement is true, that he believes that Maria Bismarck Sturges was enlisted and served her country as a soldier in the Revolutionary War, he being her son he became familiar with the history of the war by hearing his father relate the incidents and trials he passed through in time of his service as he resided in his father's family till his father's death, he further states that he enjoyed his father's family before his father's death and has had it in his possession ever since as his mother lives with him and has since his father's death. J. S. Sturges sworn to and subscribed before me this 17th day of Sept. 1853.
J. Bannard, Justice of the Peace.
The State of Ohio } Medina County } ss
I John B Young Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the County aforesaid do hereby certify that J. S. Bannard is a Justice of the Peace duly and lawfully qualified in said Court duly commissioned and qualified; that his Commission was dated on the 15th day of April A.D. 1853 and will expire on the 15th day of April A.D. 1856 and that his signature before written is genuine.
Given under my hand and the seal of said Court at Medina this 17th day of September A.D. 1853.
John B Young Clerk By G. O. Smith Deputy
No 1853 J. S. Sturges John B Young Clerk