Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 18,881, Jeremiah Hoit, Green Mt. Boys Mass. Vt.
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SERVICE           
Green Mt Boys       
Mass.
VT     
       
 [NAME]
Hoit, Jeremiah 

NUMBER
S. 18881
Carded

CONTENTS
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Vermont 18.633
Jeremiah Hoit
Rutland in the State of Vermont
he was a private in the Compy [company] commanded [by] Capt. Porter of the Regt [Regiment] commanded [by] Col. Brewer in the Mass. Ma for 2 years & Vt.  & Green Mt. Boys
Inscribed on the Roll of Vermont at the rate of 80 Dollars 00 Cents per annu. [to] commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 21 day of Sept. 1833 and sent to R. Temple 
Rutland, VT
Arrears to 4 Sept '33 $200.
Semi-anl. [semi-annual] allowance ending 4 Mar. '34 40.00
==== $240.00
Revolutionary Claim,}
Act June 7, 1832.}
Recorded by Eli Brown Clerk
Book 8 Vol. 3, Page 64
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State of Vermont}
Rutland}
On the 8th day of May 1833, personally came before the undersigned authority William Noble, a credible witness, who being duly sworn doth depose & say, that he was a soldier in Capt. Sawyer's company in Maj. Ebenr [Ebenezer] Allen's detachment of Vermont troops in 1780, & was stationed at Castleton - around same time serving the regiment of that year Jeremiah Hoyt of Pawlet, an applicant is on pension, joined said company as a volunteer and served three months at Castleton Fort & in scouting & was discharged he thinks the latter part of Sept. 
Sworn before me the day & year aforsd [aforesaid]
R. Temple Jus. Peace

State of Vermont 
Rutland ss.

I Robert Pierpoint Clerk of Rutland County Court do certify, that Robert Temple before whom the above affidavit was taken, is a Justice of Peace for said County duly commissioned and that the above is his signature. 
In testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand and affix the seal of said Court this 8 day of May 1833
R Pierpoint
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State of Vermont
Rutland
On the 15 day of May 1839 personally
came before the undersigned authority, Eli Gale of said County, a credible witness, who being duly sworn doth depose and say, that he & Jeremiah Hoit were both at the taking of Ticonderoga in May 1775 - soon after which they both enlisted into Capt. Primmer's Company, Col. Eastman's Regt & marched into Canada, served together until the spring of 1776, when the deponent was taken prisoner as related in his declaration & he saw no more of said Hoit that campaign - but he knows they served together in the same company & Regt one year. He does not recollect seeing said Hoit again until they met in the [illegible]of 1780 at the Fort at Pittsford [Fort Vengeance], when they both belonged to Capt. Sawyer's company, the deponent being a sergeant & said Hoit a private - said Hoit joined that part of the company that was stationed at Castleton, & the deponent cannot say how long he served.  He has not seen said Hoit for about 30 years past, & lives about 40 miles from him, & had almost forgotten him, but knows him to be the same man with whom he served as aforesaid Sworn before me the day & year aforesaid.
R. Temple
Jus. Peace
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State of Vermont

I, Robert Pierpoint Clerk of Rutland County Court  do certify that Robert Temple before
whom the foregoing affidavit was taken, is a Justice of Peace for said county, duly accompanied, and that his name hereto is in his own known writing.

In testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand & affix the seal of said court this 3rd day of June 1833.

R. Pierpoint
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Jeremiah Hoit
26 months
21586

[faded text illegible]

2 years
R Temple
Rutland
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STATE OF VERMONT}
RUTLAND COUNTY, SS.}
On this 30th day of Sept A.D. 1832 personally appeared in open Court before the Judge of the Probate Court of Rutland Dist, now sitting, Jeremiah Hoit a resident of the County of Rutland and State of Vermont, aged 74 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 herein stated.  In 1775 he lived at Pittsfield, Mass. and about the 1st of May he was at Shoreham looking after some land [illegible] to his father, when he volunteered & joined the expedition under Col. Ethan Allen against Ticonderoga, & assisted in taking that place &  Crown Point a few days after, and after serving about a month as volunteer, he enlisted for six months in Col. Eastman's  Regt of Mass. Capt. Painter, & went into Canada under Genl Schuyler & was, at the taking of the St. John & Montreal -  at the end of his six months he enlisted for another 6  months, & in the winter marched to Quebec under Genl Wooster & joined the army there,
& retreated in the spring, & reached home the 1. June 1776, having been in service 13 months. About the 1. July following he volunteered & served three months at Ticonderoga in Col. Brewer's Regt Capt. Porter, & was discharged about the 1 .Oct having served out his 3 months.  In 1777, about the 1.Aug. he thinks, when Burgoyne was coming down from the North, he volunteered & served four months in Col. Rand's Regt. Capt. Heighton, marched to Saratoga & was present at the capture of Burgoyne, then marched to Albany with prisoners, & was discharged there about the 1. Dec. having served 4 months. In 1778, when troops were wanted in R. Island he volunteered & served 3 months in Capt. Belknap's Company, Col. Jacobs, marched to R. Island [Rhode Island] the better part of summer & was discharged at Providence in Nov. having served three months. He was in the battle of R. Island under Genl Sullivan. He afterward came to Vermont & in June 1780 he volunteered & served three months in Capt Sawyer's company under Maj. Ebenr [Ebenezer] Allen at Castleton & in scouting in the neighborhood of the lake, & was discharged in Sept at Pittsford after serving 3 months. He never received a written discharge & has no documentary evidence & knows of no person whose testimony he can procure who can testify to his services
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He knew Genl Montgomery, Wooster, Sullivan, Gates, Schuyler, Rand & many others whose names he has forgotten - but can't remember to as to distinguished other Regt except Greene's black Regt at R. Island. He was born at Cheshire, Mass. June 3, 1758 - his age was recorded in his father's Bible. Since the Revolution he has lived in Poultney about 10 years, then returned to [illegible] & lived in Pittsfield 15 years, then returned to Vermont & has lived in Pownal, Shaftsbury & Pawlet, where he now lives.
There is no clergyman living near him but he is known to most of the people in the vicinity. He has a [illegible] hand caused by rheumatism, so that he cannot write his name.

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 and subscribed the day and year} aforesaid.}
Jeremiah Hoit his mark
RC Royce Regr

We, Avery Strong, residing in Pawlet and William Gould residing in the same place, hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with Jeremiah Hoit who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be 74 years of age; that he is reputed and believed, in the neigbourhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.
Avery Strong
Wm Gould
Sworn and subscribed the}
day and year aforesaid.}
RC Royce Regr

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 named applicant was a Revolutionary soldier and served as he states. And the Court further certifies, that it appears to them that Avery Strong who has signed the preceding certificate, is a credible person, resident in Pawlet and that William Gould who has also signed the same, is a resident in Pawlet and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
I,Rodney C. Royce Regr [Register] of the Court of Probate do hereby certify, that the foregoing contains the original proceedings
of the said Court in the matter of the application of Jeremiah Hoit for a Pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 30 day of Sept
A. D. 1832
RC Royce
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P. 18.881
INVALID

File No. 18.881
Jeremiah Hoit
Pri Rev War [Private Revolutionary War]

Act:  June 7" 32
Index: Vol. 1, Page 182
(Arrangement of 1870.)