Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 5054, Isaac Hitchcock, Md. Sea Service
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Service
MD Sea Service

Name
Hitchcock, Isaac

Number 
R.5054
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Rejected
See letter to applicant 26 June '35
served on board a privateer [illegible] vessel


5054
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33134
Isaac Hitchcock
OHIO
Served in the navy 6 Mo
10 days
OHIO

Rejected served in a private [illegible] vessel
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The State of Ohio
Perry County

Court of Common Pleas June Term AD 1835

On this 18th day of June AD 1835 personally appeared in open court before the Judges of said court of Common Pleas of said county now sitting Isaac Hitchcock a resident of said Perry County aged 72 years on the 4 January 1835 who being first duly sworn in this behalf according to law doth on his said oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of congress passed June 7, 1932 that he entered the service of the United states under the following named officers and served as herein stated, to wit: that on or about the 20th of June 1782 he enlisted as one of the crew in the capacity of a common sailor on board the ship Matilda of 24 guns decreed by congress with letters of mark & reprisal against British Ships & common then commanded by Captain John Bolt & having on board a company of mariners commanded by Captain Michael Moenamann then lying in the bay of Baltimore in the state of Maryland. The Matilda started on a cruising voyage about the 28th day of July 1782 bound for the Havanna having in company a French frigate of 16 guns name of French Ship or Captain not recollected and having under convoy a large number of American merchants' vessels bound for the Havanna and other West India Islands. On or about the 2nd day while on her voyage the Matilda was charged by the British Frigate called the Perseverance, the French Frigate having parted company with the Matilda the day before the appearance of the Perseverance, the said British Frigate continued the charge for 24 hours having fired nine times into the Matilda when she came up with the Matilda & captured her and all her crew counting of 106 persons in all - two of the crew of the Matilda being wounded by the firing from the British ship so badly that they soon after died of said wounds. This applicant & the said crew were carried by the enemy to New York & placed on board the English prison ship called the Jersey prison ship - and there confined until the 1st of January 1783 - when this applicant and eight others of said crew were released as he understood by the intervention of the quakers having suffered great inhumanity from the enemy - the greatest portion of the Matilda crew as he believes perished within said prison ship and some of them previous to said release enlisted in the British and before so soon as this affiance was then released he returned
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to Harford County in the state of Maryland where he was born & where he lived at the time of this said enlistment and also where he resided until 1821 with the exception of an absence of about 17 months in Kentucky that in 1821 he removed to the county of Perry where he now lives and has lived since 1821 with the exception of about one year's residence with a son of his in the county of Muskegan in Ohio, that he has no record of his age, that he has no documentary or other evidence other than the deposition of Crispin Tredway herewith exhibited and that he knows of no person whose testimony he can procure other than said Tredway who can testify to his said services, that he never received any discharge from the said service. He refers to the Honorable Charles C Hood and the Hon. James Wilson of said Perry County and to the Reverand Joseph P Brown a clergyman of said county of Perry as persons living in the neighborhood of the applicant to prove his character for truth & veracity and their belief of his services as a sailor of the revolution - 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 or territory and he responds to the several interrogatories prescribed by the War Department as follows to wit: 

Question 1 - where and in what year were you born - Answer - in the county of Harford in the state of Maryland in the year 1763 4 January.
Q2 - Have you any record of your aged and if so where is it - Answer - he has none
Q4 - Where were you living when called into service, where have you lived since the revolutionary war and where do you now live? Answer - He lived in the county of Harford in Maryland when called into the said service, has lived in the same place until 1821 with the exception of 17 months in Kentucky, and since that time in Perry County in Ohio except one year in Muskegan County in Ohio.
Q5 - State the names of some of the regular officers - Answer - the nature of his services did not bring him to be acquainted with any of the regular officers of the American Army.
Q6 - Did you ever receive a discharge from the said services, if so by whom was it given and what has become of it? Answer - He never received any such discharged.

Isaac Hitchcock
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We Joseph S Brown a clergyman residing in said Perry County & state of Ohio Charles C Hood and James Wilson residing in the same county hereby certify that they are well acquainted with Isaac Hitchcock who has subscribed & sworn to the foregoing declaration, that they believe him to be 72 years of age, that he is reputed & believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a sailor of the revolution and that we concur in that opinion.

Joseph S Brown
C C Hood
James Wilson

And the said court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the war department that the above name applicant was a revolutionary sailor and served as he states and the court further certifies that it appears to them that Joseph S Brown, who has signed the proceeding certificate is a clergyman resident in Perry County and State of Ohio and that Charles C Hood and James Wilson wo have also signed the same are residents in the same county and are credible persons and that their statement is entitled to credit. I John Beckwith Clerk of Common Pleas of Perry County & state of Ohio do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of Isaac Hitchcock for a pension.

In testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand & seal of office this 19th day of June, AD 1835.

John Beckwith - Clk

SEAL
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5054
Isaac Hitchcock

REJECTED
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State of Ohio Coshocton County

Before me one of the acting justices of the peace in and for said county personally appeared Crispin Tredway and made oath that he has been acquainted with Isaac Hitchcock in the year of 1782 and he the said deponent knows of the said Isaac Hitchcock entering into a ship belonging to the United States navy and as near as he can remember the said Isaac Hitchcock was gone six or seven months he further heard that he was taken prisoner by the British, this deponent further states from the acquaintance he has had with Isaac Hitchcock he now must be upwards of seventy years of age - the said Isaac Hitchcock and myself were both born in Harford County in the state of Maryland and in the same neighborhood about four miles apart.

Crispin Tredway

Sworn to and subscribed before me this 7th day of March AD 1835 - Samuel Bernes - JP

The State of Ohio Coshocton County

I John Frew clerk of the court of common pleas for said county certify that Samuel Bernes Esquire before whom the foregoing deposition was made was at the time thereof and now is an acting Justice of the Peace within and for said county duly commissioned and qualified to all his official acts as such full faith and credit are due - and that his signature is genuine.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of my office this 7th day of March AD 1835.

John Frew - Clerk
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FREE

Hon'ble J L Edwards
War Department
Washington City

Somerset Ohio
19 June

June 26

Ohio
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Somerset, Ohio, 19th June 1835

Please communicate to Mr. Hitchcock of Somerset Ohio - I am most respectfully your obedient servant.

J B Orton

Hon. J.L. Edwards
Washington City
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Bounty Land warrant Record Card

Name: Hitchcock, Jared
Grade: Private
Line: Connecticut
Warrant Number: 5903
Acreage: 100 
Issued: June 20, 1795
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