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Sworn to and declared before me, the day and year aforesaid.1
EZRA BARTLETT.
Declaration.
State of New Hampshire ) Joseph Hobart of Middlesex in the County of Washington county of Washington and State of Vermont, being duly sworn, doth declare, depose and say that, on or about the first day of January A. D. 1776, he was duly enlisted into the service of the United States, for the term of one year and that he be- longed to Capt. Everett's company and Col. Bedel's regiment, of the New Hampshire line and that he served therein, against the common enemy for the term one year, as a private and until honorably discharged at Saratoga in January 1777. In January 1777, he again enlisted in service for the term of during the war and belonged to Capt. Stone's company and Col. Alexander Scammel's regiment of the New Hampshire line, and served therein against the common cnemy, until about the 6th day of June 1783 when he was honorably discharged by Gen. Washing- ton at Newburgh, New York. His discharge has been lost many years. He further deposes and says, that he is now, and ever since has been a citizen of the United States ; that he, by reason of his reduced circum- stances, in life, is in need of assistance from his country for support.
JOSEPH HOBART.
Declared, sworn, and subscribed, by the above named Joseph Hobart before me at Montpelier in the county aforesaid, this second day of April A. D. 1818.2
STEPHEN PITKINS, Judge of County Court.
Affidavits by James Hobart and James Hobart, Jr., both of Berlin, Vt.
1 Certificate of Pension, issued the 19th of May, 1820, and sent to Ezra Bart- lett, Esq., Haverhill, N. H.
2 Certificate of Pension, issued the 24th of October, 1818, and sent to George Rich, Esq., Montpelier, Vt. Inscribed on the roll of Vermont at the rate of
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Declaration.
I, John Phillips, now of Danville, State of Vermont, County of Cala- donia, late of New York, aged 58 years, testify, declare and say that some time in the month of march in the year 1777 I enlisted into the service of the United States in the Revolutionary War for three years but was returned during the war. I enlisted under Capt. Benjamin Stone and joined the third New Hampshire regiment commanded by Col. Scammel and if I mistake not in the year 1778 Col. Scammel was taken for Aide to General Washington and the regiment was commanded by Col. Dearborn. I joined the army at Ticonderoga and was in the retreat before Burgoyne until General Gates met us and in the battle of 19th of September I was wounded in the body with a musket ball and was in the hospital Albany and (Schenectady ?) until I recovered and joined the army at Valley Forge and in the year of 1778 at the White Plains in a skirmish I received a wound in my right knee with a bayonet and in the year 1782 I was wounded in my head and shoulder by a blow with the breech of a gun and the butt of a bayonet near Pines Bridge in the State of New York, when and where I was taken prisoner and confined about four months in the City of New York and then exchanged and joined the army and continued until the end of the war. And further state I am in reduced circumstances and need the assistance of my Country for support and that I am a citizen of the United States. I further state that I am an invalid pensioner of the United States at $4. per month which certificate I now send on to be given up if I am placed on the list under the late Act of Congress of the 18th March 1818 at the rate of $8. per month. I also state that I made a declaration sometime last June in the city of New York before Judge [word illegible -looks like " Rikin "] but have received no return. Fearing that has miscarried or was not done right I make this second declaration.
JOHN PHILLIPS.
State of Vermont it's. I, Isaialı Fisk, Chief Judge of Caledonia County Caledonia County S Court do hereby certify that it appears to my sat- isfaction that the within named John Phillips did serve in the Revolution-
eight dollars per month. In a second declaration, dated June 29, 1820, he states that he is sixty-three years of age, resides in Middlesex, Vt .; that he is a farmer by occupation, has no wife living, and no other means of support but what labor he is able to perform ; has one boy named Charles, seven years old, and one girl named Eliza, aged nine years, dependent on him for support. Joseph Hobart removed to Salina, N. Y., a short time before June, 1842, in order to live with his children, who had moved there. His name was transferred to the roll of New York.
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ary war as stated in the foregoing declaration, against the common enemy and I now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me to the Secretary of the Department of War pursuant to the directions of a late act of Congress entitled " An act of provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revo- lutionary War," which said declaration is made in order to obtain the provisions of said act. In testimony whercof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court this 27th day of April A. D. 1819.1
ISAIAH FISK.
Declaration.
On the fourth day of December A. D.
State of New Hampshire ? County of Grafton SS. 1839, personally appeared before the sub- scriber, Edward Webber, Judge of the Court of Probate for said County of Grafton being a Court of Record, Anna Phillips of Plymouth in said County of Grafton and who is a resident of said town, aged seventy five 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 pro- vision 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 John Phillips late of Westhaven in the county of Rutland and State of Vermont, deceased, who was a private in the war of the revolu- tion and who was a pensioner of the United States in the Vermont Agency ; his pension certificate she believes was dated July 16, 1819, and is signed by J. C. Calhoun, Sec. of War. He was a pensioner to the period of his death at the rate of ninety six dollars per annum. She believes he served in Col. Scammel's regiment in Capt. Benjamin Stones company as she has often heard her late husband state. She refers for further proof of her late husband's services in the war of the revolution to the evidence which she believes to be on file in the War Department at Washington, D. C. on which her late husband was pensioned in the Vermont Agency in July 1819 as before stated. She further declares that she was married to the said John Phillips on the eighteenth day of December in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty three as will appear by the affidavit of Jonathan Cummings, Esq. hereunto annexed. That her husband the aforesaid John Phillips died on or about the fifteenth day of August A. D. eighteen hundred and twenty five at Westhaven aforesaid as will more fully appear by the affidavit of John Barns and Isaac Jakway hereunto annexed; that she was not
1 Certificate of Pension, issued the 16th of July, 1819, and sent to Isaiah Fisk, Esq., Lyndon, Vt.
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married to him prior to his leaving the service but the marriage took place previous to the first of January, seventeen hundred and ninety four, viz : - at the time above stated and that she has not been married since the aforesaid period of her husbands decease but is now his widow.1
ANNA PHILLIPS.
Witnesses
to signature
Edward Webber Jonª Cummings. Mary L. Spaulding.
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year first above or before written. Before me, Edward Webber, Judge of Probate.
And I hereby certify that the above named declarant cannot from bodily infirmity attend the Court and that she is a creditable witness.
EDWARD WEBBER, Judge of Probate.
Declaration.
I, Nehemiah Phillips of Wheelock, county of Caledonia and State of Vermont, aged fifty seven years, testify and say that in the spring of the year A. D. 1779, I enlisted into the service of the United States, during the war, in the New Hampshire line. I went to Exetor to draw clothing ; from thence to New Windsor and North River and the New Hampshire troops having gone into the Indian Country with Gen. Sullivan before I got there, consequently I was stationed there through the summer under Continental officers, until the Hampshire troops returned late in the fall, to Danbury in Connecticut, when I joined Gen. Poor's brigade and the third New Hampshire regiment, commanded by Col. Scammel and Capt. Ellis' company and we tarried there - through the winter, I remained in this regiment about 18 months, then I was draughted into the light infantry of Gen. Marquise De La Fayette and Col. Barbour's Regiment, Capt. Monroe's Company and marched to Virginia and was gone about one year and was at the taking of Cornwallis and then returned to Sara- toga & North River, joined the New Hampshire regiment again then commanded by Col. Henry Dearborn. I continued in the New Hamp- shire line until the war was ended and I was honorably discharged and my discharge is herewith transmitted. I further say I am in reduced circumstances and need assistance from my country and am and ever have been a citizen of the United States.
NEHEMIAH PHILLIPS.
1 Certificate of Pension, issued the 20th day of April, 1840, and sent to Hon. H. Hubbard, Senate U. S.
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State of Vermont
LYNDON April 13th A. D. 1818.
Caledonia Personally appeared Nehemiah Phillips, signer of the foregoing deposition and made solemn affirmation to the truth of the same before me. 1
ISAIAH FISK, Judge Cal. County Court.
[Copy of discharge.]
By His Excellency George Washington, Esq., General and Commander in Chief of the Forces of the United States of America.
These are to Certify that the Bearer hereof Nehemiah Phillips, Private in the New Hampshire Regiment, having faithfully served in the United States Four years & Two months and being enlisted for the War only, is hereby Discharged from the American Army.
Given at Head-Quarters the 7th June 1783.
GEO WASHINGTON.
By His Excellency's Command,
J. TRUMBULL, Jr. Sec'y
Registered in the Books
of the Regiment, J. BOYNTON, Adjutant.
[On the back.]
HEAD-QUARTERS, June 7th 1783.
The within Certificate shall not avail the Bearer as a Discharge, until the Ratification of the definitive Treaty of Peace ; previous to which Time, and until Proclamation thereof shall be made, He is to be consid- ered as being on Furlough.
GEORGE WASHINGTON.
Declaration.
State of Vermont I, Paul Wells, aged sixty eight years, of Barnet Caledonia County SS. in the county of Caledonia and State of Vermont, being duly sworn, declare, depose and say that I enlisted into the United States' service on or about the first day of February A. D. 1776, passed muster the 27th of said February, I joined the service of the United States for the term of one year, that I belonged to Capt. Edward Everett's company and Col. Bedel's regiment of the New Hampshire line ; that
1 Certificate of Pension, issued the 16th day of September, 1818, and sent to Isaiah Fisk, Esq., Lyndon, Vt. Inscribed on the roll of Vermont at the rate of eight dollars per month.
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about the first of March, same year, I marched from Plymouth in N. H. the place where I enlisted in company with some others under command of Ensign Amos Webster for Quebec. I retreated with that part of the regiment sent to Quebec to St. Johns where I joined part of the regi- ment, that went to a place called the Cedars, commanded by Col. Bedel in person. At St. Johns Col. Wait took the command of the regiment, Col. Bedel having been taken prisoner at the Cedars. The regiment aforesaid continued their retreat to Ticonderoga. After we arrived at Ticonderoga, I with others of my regiment were directed to join the fleet on Lake Champlain under Gen. Arnold. I went on board the vessel, commanded by Capt. Simmons, as a carpenter ; soon after the Lieut. of Marines was taken sick and I was ordered to take his place though I never received a commission I remained on board said fleet until taken by the British when I again joined my regiment at Saratoga and received a Lieutenant's pay from the time I entered on board the fleet until the regiment to which I belonged was discharged on the 29th day of Decem- ber 1776 ; at the time of the discharge of said regiment I had the com- mand of said regiment and discharged the same by order of Gen. Gates and received the order to discharge said regiment which I now have in possession and is herewith transmitted. Col. Wait at this time was dead and the other field officers had gone home. I further depose and say that I now am and ever since have been a citizen of the United States and from my reduced circumstances and infirmities of [illegible] need the assistance of my country for support.
PAUL WELLS.
Declared, sworn and subscribed by the above named Paul Wells before me at Danville in the county aforesaid this 7th day of April A. D. 1818.
JOHN RANKIN, Assistant Judge Cal. County Court.
I, Starling Heath, of Danville in the county of Caledonia and State of Vermont depose and say that I was personally knowing to Paul Wells, now of Barnet in said county, enlisting into the service of the United States at Plymouth in the State of New Hampshire, into the company commanded by Capt. Edward Everett, Col. Bedel's regiment in February 1776 for one year. I also enlisted into the said company and we passed muster at said Plymouth on the 27th day of said February and marched soon after to Burlington in Vermont ; from thence said Wells went down the Lake to Quebec and after a short stay at Quebec in company with said Wells, we retreated to Ticonderoga in the State of New York and after a service of ten months we were both discharged together at
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Charlestown, Mass. on the 29th day of December 1776, and further deponent saith not.1
STARLING HEATH
Sworn and subscribed before me at Danville in the county of Caledonia the 14th day of July A. D. 1819.
JOHN RANKIN, Judge of Cal. County Court.
Declaration.
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress, passed June 7, 1832.
State of New Hampshire Grafton County Iss. On this seventeenth day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & thirty two, person- ally appeared in open Court before the Judge of Probate now sitting at Plymouth in and for said county, the Hon. Moor Russell, a resident of Plymouth in said county, aged seventy four 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, 1832. That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated - viz : - That he on the 13th day of April in the year of our Lord 1778 at Haverhill in said county of Grafton where he then resided ; enlisted into Capt. Timothy Barron's company of New Hampshire State troops in the regiment commanded by Col. Timothy Bedel, Lieut. Col. John Wheelock and Josiah Stow, Major, in the service of the United States (as continentals as he supposes) for the term of one year and immediately thereafter entered said company and served therein as a soldier said term of one year in defence of the frontiers on and adjacent to Connectient River in the Northern part of New Hampshire & what is now Vermont; and at the expiration of his said term of service or within a few days thereafter received payment therefor in Pierce's final settlement notes. That they marched in detach- ments in various directions on said frontiers and were employed in the occupation and defence of certain forts which were in said Haverhill; and
1 Certificate of Pension, issued the 2d of August, 1819, and sent to Hon. Wm. A. Palmer, Danville, Vt. Inscribed on the roll of Vermont at the rate of eight dollars per month. In a second declaration at Danville, Vt., the 23d of June, 1820, Paul Wells states that he is by occupation a carpenter, crippled in his left arm, but otherwise in usual health for his years. His family consists of his wife Rachel Wells, aged 62 - her health being tolerably good for her age. A very old and much torn paper, which appears to be an appointment of Paul Wells as Second Sergeant in the company commanded by Capt. Edward Everett, and signed by James Osgood, is filed with his claim.
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were not engaged with other regiments or troops or officers than those above named ; that he does not recollect that he had an written discharge but was regularly dismissed at the expiration of his said term of one year and received payment as aforesaid. That he was born at Litchfield in said State of New Hampshire on the 30th day of October A. D. 1757 and has no record of his age and does not know of any; that after the Revolutionary War he resided at said Haverhill until the year 1801 when he removed to said Plymouth where he has resided ever since and now does. That he has not in his possession any documentary evidence of his said services but learns from Gen. Moody Bedel of Bath in said county of Grafton, who was commissary in said regiment, & is son of said Timothy Bedel, Colonel of said regiment, that he the said Moody has the muster roll of said company and regiment on which is his enlist- ment or memorandums & evidence thereof and his service. And the said Moor Russell names the said Moody Bedel & Jonathan Barron of said Bath and Noah Moulton of Lyman in said county, persons who were in said service with him & can testify to his said service; and he names Col. William Webster and Capt. David Webster, both of said Plymouth, being in his neighborhood and long acquainted with him, who can testify to his character for veracity and their belief of his services as a soldier of the Revolution ; and that the clergyman in said Plymouth has lived there but two or three years and consequently has had limited acquaint- ance with him as to his said service which is the reason of his not referring to him. 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.
Sworn to & subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
Before me Edward Webber, Judge of Probate.
MOOR RUSSELL.
We, William Webster & David Webster, residing in the said town of Plymouth and in the neighborhood of the said Moor Russell, hereby certify that we are well acquainted with the Hon. Moor Russell who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration ; that we believe him to be seventy four years of age ; that he has been a Senator in the Senate & a representative in the Legislature of the said State of New Hamp- shire ; that he is a person of undoubted veracity and is respected and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier in the Revolutionary war and that we concur in that opinion.
Sworn to and subscribed WILLIAM WEBSTER
the day & year aforesaid DAVID WEBSTER
Before me Edward Webber, Judge of Probate.
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And the said Court does hereby declare his opinion, after the investi- gation of the matter and after putting the interrogations prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a Revolution- ary soldier and served as he states and the Court from this certifies that it appears to him that William Webster, who has signed the above certificate, is resident in said Plymouth & is President of the Bank there and the said David Webster, who has signed the same certificate, is a resident in said Plymouth, and are both credible persons and that their statement is entitled to full eredit.
EDWARD WEBBER, Judge of Probate.
I, Moses Dow, Register of said Court of Probate, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Moor Russell for a Pension. In testi- mony whereof I have hereto set my hand and the seal of office this 17th day of October Anno Domini 1832.1
MOSES DoW.
Declaration.
State of New Hampshire SS.
County of Grafton On this fourteenth day of August A. D. 1832, personally appeared before the Hon. Edward Webber, Judge of the Court of Probate in and for said county, in open court now sitting, Joshua Thornton, Esq., a resident of Lyman in said county of Grafton and said State of New Hampshire, aged sixty eight 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 provision made by the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832. That he enlisted in the army of the United States in the year 1777 in March with Lieutenant Pennyman and served in Capt. Gray's company in Col. Alexander Scammel's regi- ment, the third I believe in the New Hampshire line under the following named officers, in the several services he performed all as follows in his narrative here following, viz : - In 1775 I lived in Uxbridge in Worces- ter County in Massachusetts. I there enlisted into a company of Minute men immediately after Lexington battle in April 1775. I marched with same company to Charlestown, Mass. and there I enlisted for eight months service into Capt. Wyman's company in Col. Patterson's regi- ment and served it out; we were stationed near Lechmere Point. I was in no battles. We guarded a redoubt between Bunker Hill & Mystic River at the time of the battle of Bunker Hill. I was then very young but belonged to the music. I was a fifer to the company at home and
1 Certificate of Pension, issued the 1st day of June, 1833, and sent to Jona. Bliss, Haverhill, N. H. Inscribed on the roll of New Hampshire at the rate of forty dollars per annum.
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to Capt. Wyman's also. The fore part of winter I was discharged my time being out and I returned to Uxbridge to my home. That year in December or January 1776 we moved to Moultonborough in New Hampshire and in March 1777, the 19th, I think, I enlisted with Lieut. Pennyman, with whom I lived, into Capt. James Gray's company in Col. Alexander Scammel's regiment, Jonathan Cass father of the Secretary of war was our Ensign; Lieut. Col. Coburn and Major H. Dearborn were our field officers. I enlisted as a fifer for three years. I joined the army at Ticonderoga having gone with Lieut. Pennyman there. Our company were sent to Skeensborough, New York to guard stores and forward communications and we were there when our troops evacuated Ticonderoga. The main army retreated by land through Hubbardton ; we went to Fort Anne and then to Fort Edward & then to Fort Miller, then we united with the main army. Then General Schuyler ordered us to Halfmoon near the mouth of the Mohawk & soon after Gen. Gates, who took the command, marched us back to Bemis Heights or Stillwater & there and at Saratoga we had two battles with Burgoyne's army and our Lieut. Col. was killed & Col. Scammel was wounded. After the capture of Burgoyne, our regiment and others marched down to the Mohawk and were stationed near the - falls a few weeks and then we marched to Peekskill in New York State on North River and were stationed there a few weeks. While we lay there, a meeting in our regiment took place and Capt. Beal was killed by a soldier of our com- pany, one Sanderson, who went from Moultonborough, N. H. and Beal killed him too. Then we went to the woods in Valley Forge and made our huts and wintered there in the front line. Then I had the small pox and many others, and early in June we marched without tents or baggage to Monmouth and there fought a battle on a very hot day : We were detached to the left to get round the Brittish to their rear ; we had marched that day over a [three words illegible] plain & in the night some of our recruits fired on each other by mistake and produced much confusion for a few moments. On the 4th day of July we were at Brunswick and celebrated the day for the first time. Then we went across North River to White Plains and then to Reading to winter, where we built huts and wintered. In the spring of 1779, we recrossed the North River, went into Pennsylvania to Easton on the Deleware, then to Wyoming & then up the Susquehanna about one hundred and ten miles & then crossed over to Tioga Point between Chemung River and East Branch, we marched all night up the river to surprise a party of Indians lying at a place called Chemung, we got there just daylight ; the Indian dogs began to bark; the Indians fled & we took their tracks and about four miles above, the Pennsylvania Brigade under
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Gen. Hand fell into an ambush & had several killed and wounded. We returned to Tioga Point, there we built a redoubt and left our invalids and heavy baggage and went into the Indian country northwest, up Chemung River to a place called Watertown & there had a general battle with the Indians. The Indians lay in ambush & our Indians discovered it and gave us notice in an open field, the woods before and behind us. We retreated back to the woods we had left and then our brigade was ordered to go to the left of the Indians to get into their rear and as the river was on their right, to hem them in. The battle began before we had reached their outer rear and some escaped between us & the river and ran between our regiments and some were killed and Lieut. M&Auley of our brigade was killed and some others. And then we traversed the shore of Seneca Lake and some others and crossed the Genesee River & destroyed all the Indian towns to Genesee Castle so called. We were put on half allowance for all the [three words illegible] & were to be paid for it but never were. We returned to Tioga Point, then in boats down the Susquehannah to Wyoming, then back to our winter quarters at Reading or Newtown in Connecticut & there wintered, and in the spring we marched to West Point by Hartford, and soldier fortune and then on the dark day I was discharged in May 1780 the 19th I think. Col. Dear- born signed it I think. I kept it several years. It was an honorable discharge. I was made fife Major and had a warrant from the Col. for near two years of the seven. I have lost that too. I never saw Capt. Gray after we lay at Skeensborough or at Fort Anne where we had a battle. Lieut. Pennyman was our commander after that and Ensign Cass Lieutenant to our company. Gen. Poor was our Brigadier General. Lieut. Cass in the Indian country after a battle found a large Indian wounded with a tomahawk in his hand. I was near them. The Indian said Cass wrested the tomahawk from him & killed him. I
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