Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 44,913, Caleb Hammet, R.I.
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SERVICE R.I. 
Hammet, Caleb
NUMBER S.44,913
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3135. 4
New York Roll
Caleb Hammet 
Capt Hawkins 
private
Rhode Island Line 
in the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War
Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of eight Dollars per month, to commence on the 11 of April 1818 
Certificate of Pension issued the 29 of Septem 1818 and forwarded to Stephen Phelps Esq. Canandaigua N York
Arrears of 4th of Sept 1818 $38.40
Semi-anl. all'ce ending Mar 4. 1819 48.00 
Arr$ 4 mos. 24/30
$86.40
[illegible] 
{Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818}
9 months 1777
Continued 
Phelps 
Ontario Co
Notification sent to Stephen Phelps Esq 29 Sep 1820 Canandaigua New York
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N Yk
Claims of pr Caleb Hammet
April 11th, 1818
Not on the rolls
To,
The Honorable
Sectry of War

Stephen Phelps
Canandaigua
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State of New York
Ontario County 
Clerks Office
ss: In Testimony that Stephen Phelps whose name is subscribed to the foregoing certificates was on the day of the date of the same one of the judges of the Court of Com. Pleas in & for the County of Ontario acting under the authority of said State & that the same is his signature I hereunto subscribe my name & affix the County Seal at Canandaigua the 13th day of April A.D. 1818
H. McNaw Clk
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State of New York Ontario County ss
Caleb Hammet of the town and state of New York formerly from the town of Warwick in the state of Rhod Island being duly sworn does depose say and declare that he the deponant was a natural born and now is a citizen of the United States and that he the deponent served this country in the War of the Revolution against the common Enemy and that he enlisted as a private soldier in June 1775 for eight months in Capt. Thos. Holden's Company in the Regiment commanded by Col. Varnum in the Rhode Island line and that after having served his time out he enlisted for one year in Capt. Crary's Company in the Regiment commanded by Col. Varnum aforesaid and served out the same. And that he the deponent enlisted again in June 1777 for nine months in Capt. Hamet's Company under General Varnum and served out the said time and that he enlisted in June following for nine months in the artillery under Capt. Garzee and after having served out said nine months he was dismissed and that he the deponent enlisted and served six months under Lieut. Burlinggam in the Regiment commanded by Col. Green. And the deponent further saith that he never received any discharges for the above services. And that he is sixty nine years of age and is reduced to indigent circumstances and is unable to provide for himself and he the deponent therefore prays that he may be placed on the pension list pursuant to an act of Congress passed March 18th 1818, entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War" and further the deponent saith not.
Caleb Hammet
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The foregoing Declaration sworn to and subscribed at Canandaigua this eleventh day of April 1818 before me.
Stephen Phelps
A Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the county of Ontario and state of New York
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State of New York}
Onondagua County} ss.
Gideon Potter of the Town & County of Onondagua aged sixty one years being duly sworn saith that he is personally knowing to the fact that Caleb Hamet of Phelps in the County of Ontario did serve for the term of nine months from some time in June 1778 until about the sixteenth day of March 1779 in Captain Garzee's Company of Artillery of the Rhode Island line and was discharged at Warwick in the state of Rhode Island at the date last aforesaid - that this deponent was a soldier in said company at that time & was discharged with him - That he was acquainted with him before he enlisted & has been ever since-  further saith not 
also Caleb Potter of the Town & County of Onondagua aged fifty six years who being duly sworn doth depose that he was personally knowing that Caleb Hamet of Phelps in the County of Ontario was a soldier in Captain Garzee's Company of Artillery of the Rhode Island line from some time in the month of June 1778 until some time in the month of March 1779.  That this deponent served for the same period on a Guard Ship stationed in Narragansett Bay and was discharged in March 1779-  that he staid [stayed] a short time on the way from his return home found the said Hamet there, that he was not present-  did not see him discharged, but there understood & believed that he had served out the term of his enlistment & was regularly discharged, that he was acquainted with him before he enlisted & has been
the Honorable Secretary of War if my claims are allowed will please to forward a certificate of the same to Stephen Phelps Esqr of Canandaigua who is my Agent
Canandaigua april 11th 1818-
[signature] Caleb Hammet
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was [illegible] & further saith not.
Gidon Potter - X his mark
Caleb Potter - X his mark

I certify that on the fifteenth day of September in the year 1818 the above named Gideon Potter & Caleb Potter came before me & testified to the facts set forth in the foregoing affidavit by them prescribed & that I am personally acquainted with them & they are in my judgment of truth & veracity & worthy of credit. In witness whereof I have hereto set my hand the day & year first aforesaid.
Joshua Forman
First Judge of the Court of Comm. Pleas in & for the county of Onondaga

Onondaga County Clerks Office September 15, 1818
I certify that on the date of the above certificate Joshua Forman was duly commissioned and sworn as first Judge of the said county and the signature to the same is his proper hand writing. In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed the seal of said county and set my name at the time of the date above written.
Truman Adams Clerk
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State of New York
Ontario County

One the Eleventh day of April 1818, I Stephen Phelps a Judge of the Court Common Pleas in and for the County of Ontario and State of New York do hereby certify that it hath satisfactorily appeared to me that Caleb Hammet of the Town of Phelps whom I know and whom I have cautiously examined on oath touching the facts set forth in his said[crossed out] declaration or deposition hereunto attached served his country in the War of the Revolution against the common Enemy and that the facts set forth in the said declaration are sunstantially true and correct and that he is in indigent circumstances and in need of support from government and in my judgment and belief is entitled to the Benefit of provisions of the Act refered to in said declaration or deposition--
Given under my hand at Canandaigua the day and year above written--
Stephen Phelps

The Honorable Secretary of War if my claims are allowed will please to forward a certificate of the Same to Stephen Phelps Esqr of Canandaigua who is my agent
Canandaigua April 11th 1818 - Caleb Hammet
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Case of Caleb Hammet

3133
29 Sept 1818
May 19
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STATE OF NEW-YORK,
ONTARIO COUNTY, ss.
On this Nineteenth day of August 1820 personally appeared in open Court, (being a Court of Common Pleas in and for said county, and constituted a Court of Record by proceeding according to the course of the Common Law, with a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount, and keeping a record of its proceedings, and recognized as such Court by the laws and judicial decisions of said State,) Caleb Hammet aged seventy one years, resident in the town of Phelps in said county, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath declare, that he served in the Revolutionary war as follows:
For the term of one year-  that he enlisted in November in the Year 1775 as a private in Capt Hawkins company in Col. Farrian's regiment in the Rhode Island line & then served under Capt Hawkins & was [the word then crossed out] discharged under the command of Capt Crary of the same regiment on the last day of December 1776-
and that he made application for a Pension on the eleventh day of April 1818 and that he received a Pension Certificate, No. 3135  And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, 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, viz.
one third of an acre of land with a house on the sixteen feet by eighteen clapboarded with a battlement roof & a stick chimney and not finished 35.00
1 bible, .50 - 1 meat bbl .50 - 1 sugar tub - .25 
=1.25
3 pails .75 - 1 damd. pot .25  =1.00
1 damaged tea kettle .25 - 2 dish kettles 1.50 = 1.75
1 spider .50 - 1 bake kettle 1.00 - 1 lad iron .25 = 1.75
1 warming pan .50 - 4 cups & saucers .19 = .69
6 pewter plates .75 - 1 teapot .12 = .87
7 iron spoons .25 - 1 linen wheel .50 = .75
1 axe .25 - 1 wedge .25 - 1 look'g. glass .25 = .75
five old chairs .62 - 5 milk vessels .62 = 1.24
1 ^poor kitchen table .25 - 1 cow 12.00 =12.25
1 hog $4 - some old knives & forks .12 = 4.12
total 14.92
[signature] Caleb Hammet
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And I do further swear and declare that I am by occupation a farmer and that by my old age and infirmities of body, I am not able to do any labor more than one third part of the time & that my family consists of my wife aged seventy one years and very infirm in body -- Caleb Hammet

sworn & declared this 19th day of August 1820 in open Court before me S. Bates -
a Judge of Ontario Com Pleas

ONTARIO COUNTY, 56.
I, John Van Fossen Clerk of said county,' do hereby certify, that the foregoing Oath, and the Schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the Record of the said Court; and I farther certify, that it is the opinion of the said Coirt, that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid Schedule, is seventy four dollars and 92 cents. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this 22nd  day of August 1820

J Van Fossen Clerk of the Court aforesaid, in and for said County.
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In reply to your request of Aug. 26, received Aug. 29, 1910 for a statement of the military history of Caleb Hammet 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.

Swl. File. 44.913.

DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT.
June 1775

June 1777
June 1778

LENGTH OF SERVICE.
8 mos
1 year
9 mos
9 mos
6 mos

RANK.
Pvt.

OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED.
CAPTAIN
Thomas Holden
Hawkins and Crary
Hammett
Garzia [illegible]
Lt. Burlingame

COLONEL.
Varnum
Varnum


Greene

STATE.
R.I.

Battles engaged in, [blank]
Residence of soldier at enlistment, [blank]
Date of application for pension, Apr. 11 1818. His claim was allowed
Residence at date of application, & in 1820; Phelps Ontario Co. N.Y. No later residence given
Age at date of application, 69 yrs.
Remarks: In 1820 he referred to his wife aged 71, but did not state her name
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The above is the only Caleb Hammet, Hamet, or Hammett found on the Rev War pens records.
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3 -- 871.
RECORD DIVISION.
Department of the Interior,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
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Briefed by A. Mac D. 1/9'/10
Claim No. [blank]
Certificate No. [blank]
Claimant Sardinia Erie Co. N.Y.
Soldier Caleb Harmet
Harmett
Service [blank]
Additional Service. N.Y.
Rev.
No. [blank] claim, State records [blank], 191 [blank]
No claim, combination records [blank], 191 [blank]
REMARKS:
[illegible] 7. 44.913
Hammet
No other [illegible] of any [illegible]
" Wid, - " " "
" Rejes atall.
6 -- 1944
Chief Division
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Rev See
105 Carlton Ave. S. E.
Grand Rapids, Mich.
October 26, 1915.

Commissioner of Pensions,
Washington, D. C.

Dear Sir:
Will you kindly inform me if the war record of Caleb Hammett, aveteran of the Revolutionary War, is on file in your office, and the charge for making a certified copy in that event.
Very Truly Yours,
Irene M. Ridge.
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Stamped:
PENSION
U. S.
OFFICE
O
OCT 28 1915

Stamped:
PENSION 
U. S.
OFFICE
O
OCT 28 1915
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44913
INVALID.
Recy

File No. 44.913
Caleb Hammet
Priv. Rev. War.

Act: 18th March, 1818.
Index:--Vol. 3, Page 213

[Arrangement of 1870.]

1910 Sept 9 - Hist to Miss E. D. Dakin. M.13.H.

1915 Oct. 29: hist to Mrs. I. M Ridge.
M.13.H
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Stamped:
RECORD DIVISION
AUG 31 1910
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Buffalo Aug. 26th 1910
Pension Bureau
Rev. Records, Dept.

Gentlemen,
Will you kindly send me the Pension Record of Caleb Hamet (Hammett) who is credited to Sardinia Erie Co. N. Y., in the published list 1840 and oblige Miss E. D. Dakin 256 Hudson St Buffalo N. Y.