Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 4944, Israel Hibbard, Continental Mass.
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Service
Continental
Mass.

Hibbard, Israel
Abigail

R. 4944
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03.303
New York
Israel Hibbard 

Genesse County in the state of New York
Who was a Private in the regiment commanded by colonel Phinney of the Mass ts 
[e,], for the term of one year 1777-

[..scribed] on the Roll of New York
at the rate of [8] Dollars per month, to commence on the 11, of May 1818

Certificate of Pension issued the 8 of July 1819 and Sent to
Rosewell Babbit Esq
Rochester, New York

Arrears to 4th of March 1819 78.45
Semi-anl. all’ce ending [Sep?] 1819 48 —
[Gen?] 25/31  $126.45

{Revolutionary claim
Act 18th March, 1818}

[Notif] Sent to Moses Chapin Esq [Unk]
New York 27 June 1822

[Let to] Justis Ingersol April 3 1837
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Ismail Hibbard
Application
Mass [line]
[Car] Phinney
11 May 1818
January [7769]
Janry [7775] [yr]

Services must be proved by two [respectable] (rertnes] or the Certificate of a Commission [Officer].
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State of New York Genesee County ⎬ On this Eleventh day of May in the year 1818 before me the Subscriber one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Genesee and State of New York personally appears Israel Hibbard aged fifty nine years resid ent in the County of Genesee and State aforesaid who being by me first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the late act of Congress entitled an act to proved for certain persons enga and in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary was that the said Israel Hibbard enlisted in the month of James in the year 1776 in the town of Harriages in the State of Massachusetts in the company commanded by Captain Daniel Merrill in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Phinney of the Massachusetts line that he continued to serve in the said corps and in the service of the United States untill the month of January in the year 1777 when he was discharged from service in Fort George in the State of New York that he was in the battle during this year but that he was in the service of the United States 1775 and in the battle of Bunker Hill and that he is in reduced circum stances and stands in need of assistance of his country for support
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and that he has no other evidence now in his power of his said services Israel Hibbard sworn to and declared before me the day and year aforesaid I Ralph Parker One of the Judges [^Joseph Parker] of the Court of Common pleas of the County of Genesee in the State of New York as aforesaid do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the 3d Isreal Hibbard did serve in the revolutionary war as stated in the preceding declaration against the Common Enemy and I now Transmit the procedings and Testimony had and Taken before me to the Secretary of the department [of ?] pursuant to the directions of the Act of War Congress Ralph Parker and I do hereby further certify that from the Oath of Elias Wilder I am satisfied that the said Israel Hibbard is in reduced circumstances and absolutely needs the assistance of the Country for his support of Ralph Parker Judge Genesee County  I hereby certify that the Court of Common Pleas of Genesee County is a Court of Record in the State of New York and that Ralph Parker Esquire was on the eleventh day of May in the year 1818 one of the Judges of the said Court, and that the official signatures --- to the declaration and certificates hereunto annexed are his signatures In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed the seal of the said Court the 8th day of June
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Return this to Mr. Chapin
Rochester NY

N.Yk.
Recd 4 June 1822. 
Israel Hibbard 13213 

Moses Chapin, Rochester, N.Yk.
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State of New York
Monroe County
For on this fifteenth day  of May 1822, 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. I  Israel Hibbard ages sixty five years, resident  in the town of Henrietta in said county who being first duly sworn according to the law doth in his oath declare that he served in the revolutionary war as follows; that in December 1775 he enlisted in colonel Finney's regiment of the Massachusetts line in which regiment he continued  one year in Captain Daniel Merrill's company and performed the service sworn particularly set forth in the declarations accompanying his original application for a pension -  that after said service of one year he received a regular discharge at Fort George - that he made application for a pension on the eleventh day of May 1818 and that he received a pension certificate dated July 8th  1819 marked 13.213.

And I do solemnly swear that i was a resident citizen of the united states on the eighteenth day of March 1818 and that I
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have not since that time by gifts, sale, or in any manner disposed of my property or any part thereof with intent thereby so to dimminish it as to bring [UNINTELLIGIBLE] 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" [?] on the eighteenth day of March 1818, and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for my 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 [?]: -
Sundry [?] utensil, worth - $1.62
Crockery and pewter ware - .62
Knives and forks - .25
one yoke of steers and one Cow - 43.
chains and yoke - 3.
fanning mill 12. drag [?] 2. 14.
[?] and pickle - 1.50
Hoe .25 - three swine $4.50. 4.75
$68.74
Real estate - I have none
I owe Robert Knap - 21.50
I am by occupation a farmer - but can do little work. My family consists of my wife Abigail aged 63 years who is infirm - my son David aged 20 years rugged to work - and a little girl we have taken to live with us, Calista Newman aged 8 years. 
signed
Israel Hibbard
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State of New York Monroe County 
I Nathaniel Rochester, Clerk of said County do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and the Schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the records of the said Court; and I do further certify, that it is the opinion of the said Court, that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid Schedule is forty seven dollars and twenty four cents after deducting his debt owed. 
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this fifteenth day of May 1822. 
N. Rochester Clerk 
By N. T. Rochester Dep clk
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V1535
[?]397
Abigail Hibbard
4944
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State of New York 
On this Seventh day of March 1837 Personally Came before me John M Culver a Justice of the peace of the Town of Shelby in the County Orleans and State aforesaid ┃ Peter Smith and makes Oath and say that he is acquainted with Abigail Hibbard the widow of Israel Hibbard Deceased and was present at her marriage with the said Israel Hibbard in the fall [^ or winter] of Seventeen Hundred and Seventy Eight according to the Best of his recolection and that they were married by Edger Chadman of the Town of Waterborough County of York then the district of Maine And that since the death of Israel Hibbard in March Eighteen Hundred and twenty five the said Abigail Hibbard has remained his Widow Subscribed and Sworn before me the day and year above written 
John M Culver Justice Pete Smith 
I hereby certify that I am personally acquainted with the above Named Peter Smith and have the utmost confidence in his veracity dated Shelby March 7th 1887 John Mulver Justice 
STATE OF NEW YORK. Orleans County-Clerk's Office, SS. CERTIFY that John M. Culver Esq., before whom the annexed Certificate he purports to have been made was at the date of the same Justice of the Peace in and for said County, residing in the town of Shelby and legally authorized to take the same; and that I am well acquainted with his hand writing, and verily believe the signature thereto subscribed is genuine. 
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand, and impressed my Official Seal, at Albion, this 9th day of March A.D. 1887
? Mills Clerk
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State of New York On this Seventh day of March One thousand Eight Hundred and thirty Seven Personally appeared before me John M Culver Esqr a Justice of the peace of the Town of Shelby in the County of Orleans and State aforesaid Abigail Hibbard Seventy Eight years old who Being first duly Sworn according to Law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provission made by the act of Congress passed July 4th 1836 that she is the widow of Israel Hibbard a Soldier of the Revolutionary war who died on the Eleventh day of March 1825 of a Cancer in the Breast who was at the time of his death a Pensioner she further said that she was married to the said Israel Hibbard on the 8th day of December thousand Seven Hundred and Seventy Eight By Ed. Chadman of the Town of Waterborough County of York then the District of Maine and that she has since the death of her said Husband Remained his widow as will more fully appear by refference to the proof hereto cornered Subscribed and Sworn before me the day and year above written 
John M Culver Justice Abigail [her X mark] Hibbard Mark 
I Hereby Certify the Reason of her making her mark is that she never had wrote her Name as She alledges John M Culver justice And I hereby certify that from Inquiry made the above named Abigail Hibbard is a woman of unblemished character for Truth and Veracity dated March 7th 1837 
John M Culver Justice
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Abigail Hibbard
Law of 1836 - widow
of Israel a Pensioner 
New York
from
[UNINTELLIGIBLE] Joy
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State of New York COUNTY OF Orleans Sarah Acer - being duly sworn according to law, deposes and says that he is a child of Abigail Hibbard - deceased, to whom a pension was probably due, & who was -- an applicant for a pension from the State of New York that this deponent is directly interested as one of the claimants in said claim. 
Sarah [^ her X mark] 
John M. Culver Justice Sworn and subscribed before me this 2 day February 1854 and I do hereby certify that the said Sarah Acer- --- is a respectable person, and that I have full faith in the truth of the above statement sworn to by her as being directly interested in said claim. 
John M. Culver Justice of the peace 
Know all men by these Presents, That I Sarah Ace a child of Abigail Hibbard deceased to whom a pension was probably due, & who was an applicant for a pension from the State of New York do hereby constitute and appoint ARAD JOY, of Ovid, N. Y., my true and lawful attorney for me and in my name as one directly and personally interested, as also for and in behalf of all others interested in the claim or application for a pension as above mentioned. Witness my hand and seal, this 2 day of February 1854 SEALED AND DELIVERED IN THE PRESENCE OF 
John M. Culder Sarah [her X Mark] Acer
STATE Of New York County of Orleans Be it known that on the 2 day of February 1854 before the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace in and for said County and State, duly authorized by law to administer oaths and take acknowledgements, personally appeared Sarah Acer above named, and duly acknowledged the above Power of Attorney and affidavits to be her act and deed. 
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand the day and date above mentioned. 
John M. Culver Justice of the peace
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[Crossed out  - Act of July 14, 1862, and March 6, 1873]
REJECTED 4944
P.O. Abigail Hibbard 
Service: widow of Isreal 
Enlisted: ____,18
Discharged:  ____,18
Application filed:  ____,18
Alleges: ____
Re-enlisted: ____
Attorney: ____
P.O.  ____
____ Recognized. ____ Contract.
____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for ___,18
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New York 
Abigail Hibbard 
funded 
Lef to J. Ingersol
April 3d 1837

Joy, 1836 4992
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State of N York on this 30th day of April one Ontario County thousand eight hundred and nineteen personally appeared before me Samuel Scribner & being duly sworn and saith that in that the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy six that Israel Hibbard was a soldier in the United States Service belonging to Col. Finneys Regiment in the State of Massachusetts enlisted the first day of January the date above mentioned and took his discharge on the last day of December following Sworn and Subscribed Samuel Scriber 
before me the 30th day 
April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and nineteen Thomas Leet JP
I do hereby certify that the above is a credible witness and of good reputation Henrietta April the 30th 1819 Thomas Leet JP
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State of New York Ontario County Clerks office. S .  
In Testimony that Thomas Leet whose name is subscribed to the within certificate was on the day of the date of the same one of the Justices of the peace in and for the County of Ontario and that the same is his signature I hereunto subscribe my name and affix the County seal at Canandaigua this 3d day of May AD 1819
McNair
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I, Samuel Henderson of Stow in Washington County & State of Vermont of Lawfull age depose & say that I am well aquanted with our Israel Hibbard, who originated in the Town of Waterborough in the District of Main, that he intestice in the year 1775 to go to Cambridge in the State of Massachusetts, and in the year 1776 when the first period of his inlistment had expired, he enlisted again for the Term of one year, in Colo. Finney Regiment of continental troops, and that the said Hibbard served in the said Regiment for a period not less than nine months and according to the best of in the said Regiment as and according my recollection he served the full term of his enlistment
Stow May 24th 1819 Samuel Hand 
Washington County Stow May 24. 1849 personally appear to Samuel Henderson, the above deponent and made solemn oath, the above deposition containing the truth & nothing but the truth Before 
Rivenius Camp Jus. Peace 
I herby certify that the above named Samuel Henderson is a respectable man and a credible Witness 
Rivenius Camp Just.  Piece 
I hereby certify that the above named Samuel Henderson is a respectable man and a credible ┃ witness Dan Carpenter Justice Peace
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2397 
April 1. 1837
Pension office 
N.Y. 
4 Jul 36
Hon 
B.F. Butler
Sect ? 
Washington 
[circular stamps Medina NY, Mar 23]
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Hon BF Butler 
Act of War
Enclosed is the application of Abigail Hollard for a pensioner handed Or rather sent down to me to forward to the war department The only interest I have in the matter is to benefit the poor old widow. If the papers are not made out as full as they ought to be please to point but the defect and return them, and I will correct them 
Medina 22 March 1837 Your Obt Servant Justus Ingersoll