REVOLUTIONARY WAR PENSION APPLICATION - STEPHEN NORTON

Contributed by: Mary S. Norton [marysnorton@earthlink.net]


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My 3rd great-grandfather, Stephen Norton, applied for a Revolutionary
War Pension in 1832 when he was 75 years old.  He appeared before the
Court of Common Pleas on August 8, 1832 in Thomaston, Lincoln (now Knox)
County, Maine, Nathaniel Coffin, Clerk and the Honorable John Ruggles
presiding.  He was awarded a pension of $44.65/year and received a total
of $135.95 before his death on 7 May 1834.  He was born in Newburyport,
Essex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony on 11 August 1757 to Jonathan
Norton and Mary Couch Norton.  His first enlistment was on July 18,
1776, Service Number S16214.  He served as a private under Captain Moses
Nowell's Newburyport Company for 4 months and 5 days to November 19,
1776, (Virgil D. White's "Abstracts of Revolutionary War Pension Files")
stationed on Plum Island (Essex County, Massachusetts) for the defence
of the seacoast. (In his Declaration to the Court, he said he served 6
months). He enlisted a second time in Newburyport on July 3, 1780
(White) or  (1778 Declaration) and again was a private, this time in
Captain Richard Titcomb's company, Nathaniel Wade's regiment.  They were
to reinforce the "Continental Establishment"  for 3 months.  Under
General Arnold, they marched to West Point. According to White he was
discharged on October 10, 1780 having served 3 months, 21 days including
13 days (260 miles) travel home.  In the
Declaration, however, it states that he "served the full term of six
months".  Finally he enlisted a third time (in 1778) under Captain
Darius David, in Col. Wade's regiment of state troops which marched to
Rhode Island.  He was there at the time of Captain Sullivan's defeat.
He served six weeks and was discharged.  In the Declaration it states
that he served a total of thirteen and a half months

His older brother Jonathan Norton had enlisted in 1775 and was killed at
the Battle of Bunker Hill..

Stephen Norton is buried in the Thorndike Cemetery in South Thomaston,
Maine.