Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 25366, Asa Hoskins, Conn.
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(3--1776)

SERVICE
Conn

Hoskins, Asa
Adams, Hetty
  former widow.

NUMBER
W. 25366
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CONTENTS
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8918
Connecticut
Hitty Adam dec'd form
widow of Asa Sleskins
who was a Teamster
in the Revolution
for two years
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate
 of 192 Dollars 00
Cents per annum, to commence
on the 4th day of March, 1843.
Send 7 Dec 1844, when she died
Certificate of Pension issued
the 17th day of Dec 1850
and sent to
Abija Catlin
Present.
[Acts of March 3, 1843, & June
17, 1844.]
Recorded in Book A
Vol. 2  Page 50
Payable to only survny children
See back of this file

Reported
Only surviving
Children, viz.
Hitty Allen
Gaylord Hoskins
&
Cleona Loomis
Erving Tainter Sept 11 1854
Same  Nov 3 1854
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Declaration in order to obtain the
benefits of the act of Congress [illegible] July
4th 1830 - or of the acts of July 7th 1836, Aug
23d US 42 - March 3rd 1843 & June 17th 1844.
State of New York
Crowleyee County  for on this 24th day of August
1846 personally appearance,
before the court of Common Pleas held at
the Court House in the village of Syracuse
in & for the county of [illegible] [illegible]
Cleonee Loomis aged fifty two years &
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ever heard of him by his family was that said Asa Hosking was seen at Hartford about the time of his leaving home, and has never been heard of by his family & friend to declarants knowledge or belief since that time
Declarant further states that after after the departure & supposed death of the said father the said Asa Hoskins her said mother intermarried with Rhoderick Adams at Bloomfield (formerly Windsor) aforesaid & soon thereafter & about the year 1807. She with her said second husband removed to the
Town & County of Onondaga in the State of
New York & resided there for several years as 
husband & wife & cohabited as such until
his death, which took place in said Town of
Onondaga on the 18th day of December A.D.
1827 and that the said Heitty Adams never
again intermarried, but continued a widow,
& resided for many years in the family of
this declarant, until her death, which took
place at declarant's house in the Town of
Marcellus in said County of Onondaga, on the
Seventh Day of December 1844. At the time
of her death she left the following children by her first husband Asa Hoskins, her
surviving, Viz. Aliona Loomis (this declarant)
wife of Erastus Loomis of the said Town of
Marcellas, Gaylord Hoskins of the Town of Springport in the County of Cayuga & State of
New York & Heitty Allyn wife of Augustus
Allyn of the Town of Bloomfield aforesaid
and that they are the only surviving children
of declarants said father & mother
She further declares that her father the said Asa Hoskins was, as he has understood from her said mother & other relatives & friends of her family & verily believes, an enlisted
Teamster under Captain Gurdon Wadsworth of
Hartford in Connecticut aforesaid, for several
years during the time of the Revolutionary war.
Next Declarant is unable to state whether said first named marriage took place before or after the last period of service of the said Asa Hoskins, but that such
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marriage took place about the time herein before stated to the best of her knowledge
information & belief-
Cleona Loomis
Subscribed & sworn in
open Court before the day
& year first above mentioned
John L Stevens
a Judge of Onon Co Courts
N.B. "life" interlined
J. L. S.


State of New York}
Onondaga County} Ss
On this 24th day of August 1846- before the Court of Common Pleas of said County
personally appeared Gaylord Hopkins & made oath in due form of law that he is the identical Gaylord Hoskins named in the foregoing Declaration of Cleona Loomis & that he has heard the same read & knows the contents thereof the same is true to the best of deponents knowledge & belief-
Deponent further says he was born at
what is now the Town of Bloomfield (formerly
Windsor) named in said declaration on the 7th June 1791 That deponents recollection of the fact that his father the aforesaid Asa Hoskins, left home for the last time, is perfectly district & vivid & took place when deponent was a boy not more than six or seven years of
it was generally understood & believed
in the neighborhood of his said father's said
residence that he had come to his death
& that for that reason he never returned
home-- & deponent has no doubt but his
said father died not long after his leaving home as aforesaid & that his said departure was prior to the year 1800
Deponent further says that his said father was reputed to have been an enlisted Teamster in the Revolutionary war under
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Captain Gurdon Wadsworth of Hartford
deponent further says that the second marriage of his said mother Heitty Hoskins with Rhoderick Adams, the death of said Adams & of said Heitty 
took place at the respective times & places set forth in the foregoing Declaration of said Cleona Loomis
deponent further says he does not pupes and
record evidence of the services of his said father 
 Asa Hoskins nor the marriage of his father & mother but believes said marriage took place
1780 or 1781
Gaylord Hoskins
Subscribed & sworn to 
in open Court the
day & year first above
mentioned before
John L Stevent
a Judge of Onon Co Courts
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To the Judge of the Court of Common Pleas for
the County of Onondaga N.Y.

Hon Sir

This may certify that I John Tompkins pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Marcellus was acquainted with Mrs Hetty Adams who resided in the family of Erastus Loomis of Marcellus and that she died on the seventh day of December in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty four and that I attended her funeral on the ninth day of December following
Yours Respectfully
John Tompkins
Marcellus Aug 24. 1846
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Onondaga County SS
I Charles T Hicks, Clerk of the County of Onondaga & the Court of Common Pleas in said County do hereby certify that Satisfactory evidence has been exhibited to the same court that the above name Cleora Loomis & Gaylord Hoskins are the lawful children of Asa Hoskins & Heitty Hoskins who were formerly residents of the Town of Bloomfield (formerly Windsor) in the County of Hartford & State of Connecticut. That said Asa Hoskins was the son of Abel Hoskins & that sometime prior to the year 1800 he departed from his residence in said State of Connecticut & was never afterwards seen nor known to be alive by his family & friends. That said Heitty Hoskins afterwards & in the year 1807 intermarried with Roderick Adams with whom she cohabitated until his death which took place December 26th 1827 That said Heitty never afterwards intermarried, but saed a widow at the Town of Marcellus in the County of Onondaga. On the 7th day of December 1844 leaving the following children of said Heitty & said Asa Hoskins her surviving & that their residences are sussiatinals as is herein after stated, viz Heitty Allyn wife of Augustus Allyn now residing at Bloomfield aforesaid Gaylord Hoskins, now residing at Springport in the Count of Cayuga & State of New York & Cleora Loomis, wife of Erastus Loomis, now residing at the Town of Marcellas in the County of Onondaga aforesaid And that there are no other surviving children of the said Asa Hoskins & Said Heitty Y that said Asa Hoskins & Heitty his wife were residents of Bloomfield (formerly Windsor) In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name & affixed the Seal of said County of Onondaga at the village of Syracuse this 24th day of August 1846
Chas T Hicks Clerk
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 Washington City Dec 4th 1859
Hon Commissioner of Pensions
I herewith submit the requisite proof of the heirs of Hitty Adams on the Connecticut roll which by letter of the 19th [illegible] appears to be lacking.  A reexamination of the evidence on file will satisfy you that more than two years service has been proved. The Service of Asa Hoskins having commenced in April 1777 & continued as late as Sept 1779
I beg leave to say that should two years
service be found proved the rate of Pension should be $192. per annum and not $180. Asa
Hoskins was one of the teamsters enlisted by
Jeremiah Wadsworth D 2 M Gen'l and those
teamsters received $16 or £4.16 per month. The
second pay roll on file in this case shows that
Asa Hoskins received that same. Pensions have
been granted to Wadsworth's teamsters at that
rate. I respectfully refer to the case of William
and Abigal Gellet on the Penna Roll of Abel
& Phebe Stannard on N York rolls and the evidence on file furnished by myself & granted on a full hearing. Others have been pensioned at that rate I refer to the cases of one Levas Andrews and Thomas Lyon on Cont rolls - there are probably other cases not known to me. With these remarks I respectfully submit the matter to your consideration.  Please send the certificate
to the address of Loren P Waldo Member House
Representative & oblige
Yr obt Servt
Abijah Catlin
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State of Connecticut}
Hartford County} SS County Courts

I Wm W Easton Clerk of the Court for Hartford County, holden at Hartford in and for said County on the 27th day of November AD1850, do hereby certify that satisfactory evidence has been exhibited to said Court, that the widow Hitty Adams formerly the widow of Asa Hoskins, died on the seventh day of December A.D. 1844 having the following named children, to wit, Hitty Allen, wife of Augustus Allen, Gaylord Hoskins and Cleona Loomis wife of Erastus Loomis, all of whom are now living.
In testimony whereof I have set my name and affixed the seal of said County Court, this 27th day of November AD 1850
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6821
Hilty Adams
dec d formerly Widow
of Asa Hoskins
Con. Act 4 July '36
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 I Hilty Allen of the town of Bloomfield
in the county of Hartford and State of Connecticut aged sixty two years and upwards and the wife of Augustus Allen of the aforesaid town county and State do on oath testify and say that I was born in said town of Bloomfield (then a part of the town of Windsor & adjoining the said town of Hartford) on the tenth day of January in the year seventeen hundred and eighty three and have been married to the said Augustus Allen rising of forty years
I further testify and say that I am a Daughter
of Asa and Hitty Hoskins who was also born in said town of Bloomfield and resided in said town with my mother the said Hitty up to about the year eighteen hundred when he very unexpectedly left my mother and her family of children in said town of Bloomfield
for parts unknown, and no information or tidings have been had of him since, and it is generally supposed and believed by his family and friends, that he long since died.  He was in very embarrassing circumstances at the time of his leaving his family which is supposed to be the cause of his doing so, and his never returning My mother the said Hilty some eight or ten years after my said father left her, married Roderick Adams then a resident of the town of Onondaga in the State of New York where she resided with the
said Rod'k Adams up to the time of his death, and then soon after, she went to live in the family of my sister Cleona Loomis the wife of Erastus Loomis in the town of Marcellus in the aforesaid county & State where she resided up to the time of her death which took place
on the seventh day of December in the year eighteen hundred & forty four and the only surviving children she left is myself & Gaylord Hoskins now residing in the State of New York, & the said Cleona the wife
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 of Erastus Loomis now residing in the said town
of Marcellus in the State of New York
I have no date of my birth, nor is there any record of the births of my said father and mothers family to my knowledge & belief.  I have a family of four children and the oldest of which is about forty years of age
Hitty Allyne

State of Connecticut}
County Of Hartford} Ss  Bloomfield Sept. 3rd 18 [illegible]
Personally appeared before me Hilty Adams
the wife of Augustus Adams with whom I am well acquainted and subscribed to the above foregoing and made oath to the truth of the same and I further certify that she is a Daughter of Asa and Hitty Hoskins formerly residents of the aforesaid town of Bloomfield (which town was formerly a part of the town of Windsor and adjoining the said town of Hartford) and she is reputed to be in the neighborhood where she resides a very respectable and credible woman.
Thomas Brace Justice of the Peace
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I Mabel Skinner of the town and county
of Hartford and State of Connecticut  aged
eighty five years and upwards do on oath testify and say that I was born in the said town of Hartford and resided there up to the time of my marriage which was at the age of twenty years and after that went I moved with my husband Isaac Skinner to the town of Bloomfield (then a part of the town of Windsor in adjoining the said town of Hartford) and there resided twenty six years and rising and during that time I resided
in the neighborhood with Asa Hoskins and
Hitty Clark the Daughter of Solomon Clark all
of which I was familiarly and intimately acquainted with, and that I was invited and attended the wedding of the said Asa Hoskins and Hitty Clark, which took place in the said town of Bloomfield on or about the tenth day of December in the year Seventeen hundred and eighty one (1781) The marriage ceremony was performed by Peletiah Mills. Esqr then a Justice of the Peace in said town of Bloomfield (then a part of the town of Windsor)
I am confident and certain that I attended the wedding of the said Asa Hoskins and Hitty Clark in December seventeen hundred & eighty one (1781) which fact and circumstance I recollect that I was married in March seventeen hundred & eighty one (1781) and
I distinctly recollect from that circumstance as well in others, that the marriage of the said Asa & Hitty took place in December following.
The said Asa and Hitty about two years after 
their marriage had a Daughter born who they named Hitty, and she afterwards married Augustus Allen then residing in said town of Bloomfield, where they now and ever since have resided, and the said Hitty Allen is now about the age of sixty two or three
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years and I had the pleasure of seeing her a few weeks since. 

I was well and intimately acquainted with Cleona Loomis, now the wife of Erastus Loomis, now residing in Marcellus in Onondaga County in the state of New York, and the said Cleona was also a daughter of the said Asa and Hitty Hoskins and born in the said town of Bloomfield in the County and state aforesaid, and I was also acquainted with Gaylord Hoskins now residing in the State of New York and who is a son of the said Asa and Hitty Hoskins and was also born in the said town of Bloomfield and said Hitty Allen Cleona Loomis and Gaylord Hoskins to the best of my knowledge and belief are the only surviving children of the said Asa and Hitty Hoskin formerly residents of the said town of Bloomfield in the county of Hartford and state of Connecticut.

I will and distinctly recollect the fact and circumstance of the said Asa Hoskins leaving his wife and family and children then residing in said town of Bloomfield for parts unknown, and I was at that time residing in said town of Bloomfield, and for the last time I saw him pop through said town, and no information or tidings has been had from him by his friends or any one else since that time, which was forty five or six years since, and it is the general opinion and belief by all his friends and neighbors that he has long since died, as he was at that time rather infirmed habits.

I distinctly recollect that the said Asa Hoskins in the year 1777 enlisted into Capt. Gordon Martsworth's company of Continental Teams and my brother Jared Olcott, Moses Filley, Solomon Clark and [illegible] Clark all enlisted into the said company and are all from the same neighborhood and that they were principally in service two or three years as Continental Teamsters. The said Gordon Martsworth was born in the said town of Hartford and resided there up to the time of his death.
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I also well and distinctly recollect the fact and circumstance that the said Hitty Hoskins formerly the wife of said Asa Hoskins as number of years after he left her and his family of children in the said town of Bloomfield, married Roderick Adams then a resident of the town of Onondaga in the state of New York and removed with him to said town and state where from common reports and general belief they resided up to the time of there respective deaths
Mabel (her X mark) Skinner

State of Connecticut
Hartford County SS Hartford
Sept 4 1846
Personally appeared before me Mabel Skinner with whom I am acquainted and subscribed to the above & subscribes to the truth of the same and I further certify that she [illegible] made oath  - an strength of mind and memory and her deposition is entitled to full confidence

Jeremiah Brown
Justice of the Peace
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State of Connecticut

I, CHARLES WM. BRADLEY, Secretary of the State of Connecticut, and Keeper of the Seal thereof, do hereby certify and make known to whom it doth or may concern, That Thomas Brace & Jeremial Brown, are, and since the 20th day of June last past, have been Justices of the Peace within and for the County of Hartford in said State, duly appointed and commissioned, having full power and authority by the laws of said State to take the Acknowledgment of Deeds and to certify the same ; also to administer Oaths, to take Affidavits and Depositions out of court and to give Certificates thereof; and that full faith and credit may and ought to be given to their official acts and attestations.
And I further certify, that I believe the foregoing signature of the said Thomas Brace & Jeremiah Brown to be genuine.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said State, at Hartford, this 4th day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty six.
Charles Wm Bradley,
Secretary of State
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I hereby certify that it appears by the State records of this State, at their Session in Hay 1781 that Peletiah Hills was appointed a Justice of the Peace in the county of Hartford

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said State, at Hartford, this 4th day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty six
Charles Wm Bradley
Secretary of State
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I George Lattimer now a resident of the town and County of Hartford & State of Connecticut a Revolutionary pensioner at the rate of one hundred & eighty Dol'r per annum aged eighty nine years & upward do on oath testify & say that I was born in the town of Bloomfield Formerly a part of the town of Windsor & adjoining town to Hartford) and was until within three years past resided in said town of Bloomfield and that I was well & intimately acquainted with Asa Hoskins who was also born in said town of Bloomfield and I distinctly recollect of his marrying Hitty Clark then all residing in said Bloomfield and from the best of my memory and recollections the marriage took place about the year seventeen hundred and eighty one
I also recollect of the said Asa Hoskins leaving his wife & family about forty five or six years since for parts unknown  & has never since been heard from & the general opinion among his neighbors & friends is that he has long since been dead
I served in Cap't Gurdon Wadsworth and Cap't Daniel Jones Comp..y of Teams in the Revolutionary war and was in service as a Teamster in said war up to the latter part of the year seventeen hundred & seventy nine, and have recently had my pension increased for said Team Service up to one hundred & eighty dol'rs per annum 1811 Dol'rs
I well and distinctly recollect that the said Asa Hoskins enlisted into the said Gurdon Waddsworth's Comp..y of Teams and who recollect that he was in service as a Teamster in said war about as long as I was which was about three years
I also recollect that Solomon Clark, Moses Filly, & Jared Olcott served in the same company and all belonged in the same neighborhood
Further this Deponent sayeth no
George Latimer
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State of Connecticut
County of Hartford} Ss
Hartford Sept 3 1846

Personally appeared before me George Latimer with whom I am well acquainted & subscribed to the within deposition and made oath to the truth of the same and I further certify that he is a very respectable and credible person
Thomas Brace Justice of the Peace
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Comptroller Office
Hartford Conn Sept 45h 1846
On application for evidence of the Service of Asa Hoskins as a teamster in the war of the Revolution. I have examined the documents remaining in this office relating to that Service and certify as follows that in a book in this office containing Settlements with teamsters, I find that Asa Hoskins as teamster rec'd May 19th 1779
Cash to and for Ninety pounds.
Searching other settlements appear in said Cook, Percy to October 16th 1779 when he is [illegible] £259.19.0 [illegible] rendered that day. Nov 10th 1779 He is charged as teamster  £12/0/0  to amount for
I further certify that the name of George Latimer appears in the above named book many times in different places and at different times
Mason Cleveland
Comptroller
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Comptrollers office
Hartford Connecticut
Sept 4th 1846

I hereby certify that the following is a roll of Cap'n Gurdon Wadsworths Company of Teams as it appears of a Waist Book or Blotter that belonged to Quarter Master Gen'l Jeremiah Wadsworth late of said town and which Book is now in this office and the following is a true and correct copy

"Hartford Sep't 26th 1777"
"Gurdon Wadsworth"
"By his Payroll del'd in this day from the time of enlistment to the 1st of June 1777" -
                                         Time  of enlistment Time p'dnp tp
Gurdon Wadsworth Conductor March 25th      June 1st  m 2 d 6 at 12£26.8.0
Jesse Pain Teamster                      "   27             ""      "   m 2 d 4 at 
90£9.12.0
Moses Filley ditto                           " 27              ""      " m 2 d 4 at 
90£9.12.0
Solomon Clark ditto                      " 27             ""      "  m 2 d 4 at 
90£9.12.0
Reubin Andrus  ditto                      "  28            ""      "  m 2 d 3 a
90£9.9.0   
Asa Hoskins       ditto                   April 7           ""      "   m1 d24
90£8.2.0
Amos Lawrence Junr  ditto              "  8            ""      "   m1 d23
90£7.19.0
Jared Olcott       ditto                      "    9           ""      "   m1 d22
90£7.16.0
Benoni Clark       ditto                     "   12          ""      "   m1 d19
90£7.7.0
Amos Westland Junr    ditto             " 26           ""      "   m1 d5
90£95.5.0
Gideon Loomis  Junr    ditto           May 1          ""      "   m1 d 11
90£4.10.0
Asel Hill                         ditto          "  12             ""      "   m0 d19
90£2.17.0
£1118.9.0
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Revy
WIDOW, &c.

File No. 2536
Heitty Adams
formerly wid. of
Asa Hoskins
Teamster. Rev. War

Act Mrh 3rd 1843
June 17th 1844

Index:--Vol. A, Page 4
[Arrangement of 1870]

opposing page
notes taken by
..s Sept 1883
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Nov 22/?0
Enclosing from of
Allun m Can
Hitty Allen


J Edwards
Com'r of Pensions
Washington City
D.C.
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page is mostly unreadable due to dark copy obscuring writing

Hitty
Let to Hon T. 
Let. to Bay Colton August
24th 680
Abijah      22d     1850
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11007

Connecticut
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Hitty Adams dec.
formerly
Widow of Asa Stoskins
who was a pensioner under the Act of
and who died on the ________
of                        in the State of Cinn
who was a Tennent in the
commanded by Captain                              of the
                          commanded by                       in
the Revtuten   line for 2 years

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Inscribed on the Roll of Naitford
at the rate of    192     Dollars    00
Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836. Fend 7 Dec. 1844, when 
she died

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Certificate of Pension ifsued the    17th     day of
December 1837 and sent to
Alijah Catlin Prenet

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Payah to hin my innurray
Total amount, Chil$hin, vig
aubait of till
                     [Act July 7, 1838.]
Recorded by J P Chase clerk,
Book          Vol.     /                Page 77
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No 14258
Hitty Adams dec'd formerly
wid Asa Hoskins
Ct

Act 7 July 1838
Act 2 yr Teamster
under Wadworth
$192 per ann from
4 Mch 1836 to 7
Dec 1844, when she died

Payable to Hitty 
Allen, Gaylord Hoskins
& Cleona Loomis, 
her only surviving 
children

given unto
Abijah Cailen
Present
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Hon J. L. Edwards

Dear Sir

I enclose your papers apparently from a prolific pen which I  have not time to read. Please give over muh answer or you claim proper & nature the letter addressed to me
Washington 22 Feb 47

 Your obt hist
Timothy Jenkins
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Resolve of Congress
Spt 12 1778

Resolvd that the Qtr Master Gn'l be directed to consult with the commander in chief whether a reduction of the Stationary Teams cannot be made consistently with the good of the Service or whether Ox? Teams cannot in the present seat of the war be substituted in a great measure for Horse Teams and if Ge''l Washington should be of opinion that both or either of these measures are advisable that Qtr Master Gn'l take measures for carrying the same into execution in such manner as shall be deemed most consistent with the good of the army and a regard to public economy

Tuesday March 11, 1779
Whereas discontent loss of discipline & diminution and loss of the strength of the army have arisen by employing the Continental troops as wagoners and it will be of public advantage to enlist propper persons for that service during the war
Resolved - Therefore that the commander in Chief be authorized and directed to take proper measures for causing to be enlisted such a number of Wagoners as he shall judge necessary for the service to continue therein to the end of the hour. That each wagoner voluntarily engaging for that period shall be entitled in addition to the present monthly pay clothing and subsistence allowed to Wagoners to the same bounties in all respects as are granted to volunteers who shall enlist in the Continental Battalions for the term of the war [ That the Qtr Master Gn'l shall establish such regulations for the Conduct of the Sd Corps of Wagoners as shall be judged expedient and approved of by the
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commander in chief in which case Shall be taken
that regulars returns Shall be made to the
board of war of the number of Wagoner ordered
to be revised as well as of those who shall actually
engage in the Service- That the Same form as
[illegible] be Shall be [illegible] in mustering and paying
the sd Corps of Wagoners as is practiced with
respect to the troops of the line-  That the 2d
Master [illegible] be authorised [authorized] to appoint a pay
Master and muster master for the sd Corps of
wagoners and transmit their Names and the
regulations hereby authorised [authorized] to be made to the
board of war to be respectivly [respectively] registered,
Saturday Apl. 17 
Resolves That the commander in Chief be authorised [authorized]
and directed to take Such measures for enlisting a
competent Number of wagoners to continue in
Service for 9 months or during the ensuing Campain [Campaign]
as Shall by him be deemed most efficatious [efficacious] and
propper [proper]  That the wagoners So enlisted Shall
receive a sum Not exceeding 40 Dolrs. pr. month
and a Suit of Cloths [Clothes] as a bounty
That Such regulations be established by the [illegible]
Master Genl. for the Conduct of Mustering & paying
of the Sd Corps of Wagoners as shall be judged
expedient and approved of by the commander
in chief
That all regulations made in virtue
hereof & the Number of Wagoners inlisted [enlisted] be from
time to time returned and reported by the 
Qtr. master Genl. to the board of war
Resolved That the Act of Congress of the 16 of
March on the Subject of inlisting [enlisting] Wagoners be
& the Same is hereby [illegible]
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J L Edwards Esq
Comm of Pensions
Washington
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Hartford Connt.
Sept. 4 1846
Sir
I send you herewith enclosed the claim of
the heirs of Hilly Hoskins alias Hilly Adams formerly the wife of Asa
Hoskins for the Services of the Said Asa as a Teamster
in the Revolutionary and have delayed in Sending it
for the reason that I have been daily expecting
the return from your Dept. of the Small red covered
Qtr Master Genl. Wadsworth Book containing the Original
roll of Teamsters; which Book was left at your
Dept. by A. W. Birge Esqr. to Show proof of the Service
of Abel Stannard and Others at our late visit
at Washington about the 20th of July
I would remark that there is abundant proof 
of Asa Hoskins Services as a Continental Teamster
and you will Notice by a Certificate Signed by
the Comptroller that he was allowed the greater
part of the time as far as the Wadsworth Books
& records Show [illegible] Dolrs. per month, and you will
Notice also by the deposition of George Latimer
that Hoskins was in Service as Teamster about
as long as he was and that was 3 yrs.
Through the agency of L. T. Pease of this place
George Latimers pension has been increased up
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to 18" Dolrs. per annum and from the evidence
I now send you and from other Sources, there cannot
be any doubt but that Asa Hoskins performed
about the Same lenght [length]of Service that Latimer
did, and that the Service was equally meritorious
and that the heirs of Hilly Hoskins or Hilly Adams are Now
intitled [entitled] to be allowed the Same amount pr annum
that was allowed George Latimer and I hope and shall
expect your early attention to it, and that you will
allow the heirs of the Said Hilly 18" Dolrs. per annum
from March 4th 1836 to the date of her death
If the Small red covered Wadsworth Book is now
in your Dept. I respectfully ask you to refer to it
to ascertain the commencement of Asa Hoskins Services
as a Teamster on Gurdon Wadsworths roll
L T Pease informs me that he left at your
Dept. as proof in the Case of Latimer or Moses Filley
the papers that belonged to Capt. Gurdon Wadsworth
which was given up to me by his Son Saml. Wadsworth
of New Haven, and among said papers is a roll or rolls
of the Sd. Gurdon Wadsworths Company of Teams of
much later date than the Wadsworth Books Show, and
I also ask you to do me the favor to refer to those
papers for additional proof of the Service of Asa
Hoskins. Mr Pease had No authority from Saml.
Wadsworth or myself to leave those papers there
and I think I am Now intitled [entitled] to Some little
benefit from them at least
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The Letter from John Tompkins showing the date
of the death of Hilly Adams is not in Such a form
as is presumed will be acceptible [acceptable] to your Dept. and
I have written to have it in the form of a Deposition
and properly authenticated, and on its arrival I
will transmit it
I am Very respectfully
Yr. Obt. Servt.
Benjn. Colton
J. L. Edwards Esqr
Commr. of Pensions
Washington
P.S. I hope I Shall Soon hear of the result of
your action on the case of the Heirs of Roy Bunce
which was forwd. to your Dept by L. T. Pease
us urgent for me
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Hartford, Connecticut
Sept. 29th, 1846

Sir,

I send you herewith the deposition of John Tompkins showing the date of the death of Hitty Adams, formerly the wife of Asa Hoskins which is a substitute for the said Tompkins statement in the form of a letter accompanying the papers in support of the claim of the heirs of the said Hitty for the balance of the pension supposed to be due them, forwarded to your Dept some two or three weeks since.

L. G. Pease of this place informs me, that he left at your Dept some two or three months since as proof in the case of George Latimer for his services as a Teamster, a Master roll of Capt. Gordon Wadsworth's company of Teams on which the name of Asa Hoskins appears for over two years service as a Teamster and I respectfully ask of you to do me the favor to refer to that roll to show the services of the said Asa Hoskins as a Teamster. 

I [illegible] have to remind [illegible] Crump of his promise on the eve of his leaving this place of returning the small Wadsworth Book left with your Dept and who forwarding on the certificate
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in the case of the heirs of Stephen Partridge and as he has allowed 180 dollars per annum in the case of George Latimer and some others of like character unto grade and length of service.  I hope he will be uniform in his actions and decisions.  There is proof here to show that the Teamsters were allowed 16 dollars per month up to 1778 and at later periods they were allowed a still higher rate of pay per month.

I am very respectfully your obedient servant, 
Benjn Colton

J. L. Edwards Esquire
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington
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Asa Hoskins
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State of Connecticut
Comptrollers office
Hartford Aug. 22d 1854
I certify, that on application for evidence
of the service of Asa Hoskins as a Teamster, in the war of the Revolution, I have examined the books kept by Nehemiah Hubbard, Deputy Quartermaster General, in said war and
find as follows, viz
1st Under date of Hartford June 5th 1778, an entry on said Books as follows, "Quarter Master Genl To Gurdon Wadsworth Dr.
"To the wages of myself as Conductor of Teams in the Cont. Army with ye following Teamster in my County viz", Then follow the names of ten teamsters, among which is that of
Asa Hoskins, who is credited with service from March 2d to May 31st 1778 - 89 days a 96 [illegible] £14.4.9
2nd Under date of Oct. 8th 1778, I also find an entry "Quarter Master Genl Dr To Gurdon Wadsworth Jr bill & Rect for advanced pay of a Teamsters, viz, then follows the names
among which is that of Asa Hoskins, "for ye months of June & July 1778 a £3.4, each pr. month."
3rd Under the same date of Oct. 8th 1778 in another entry where
the said Asa Hoskins is credited with service as a Teamster
from Aug 1st to Sep. 30th 1778 inclusive, 2 months a £8, in [illegible] £16.
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4th Under date of Feb 6th 1779 is an entry as follows viz,
"Quarter Master Genl Dr. To Gurdon Wadsworth Condt. Pay
Roll My own pay as Condt from Oct 1st 1778 to Jany 31st 1779 inclusive being 4 months a £12 pr mo. £ 48.
"Subsistence money during the above time 123 days @ £424.12
"To the service of eleven Teamsters for the above time at £8. pr month    352.
                                              £424.12
(no names of Teamsters are entered in the above ofc)
5th Under date of May 8th 1779 I find an entry where the said Asa Hoskins is credited with service as a Teamster from Feb. 1st to April 30th inclusive 3 months a £8. pr. month £24.
6th Under date of Sep. 14th 1779 is another entry when the said Asa Hoskins is credited with service as a Teamster from May 1st to 11th 1779 11 days in 5/4 £2.18.8. and also
from May 11th to Aug. 31st 1779, 3 months & 20 days a £16=£58.13.4
7th Under date of Feb 24th 1780 is an entry, "To paid Gurdon Wadsworth Pay Roll for himself & 7 Teamsters from Sept 1st to Dec. 31st 79=£ 556.
8th Also under the same date as above is another entry for Gurdon Wadsworths Pay Roll for himself & Teamsters from Jany 1st to Feb. 29th 80=£265.
John Denham Comptroller
by Geo. Robinson Clerk
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J Edwards Esq
Comm of Pensions
Washington
D C
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Woodbury Connt
Febry. 16 1847
Sir
In a Letter from the Honl. Timothy Jenkins
[illegible], addressed to Lemuel Jenkins Esqr. of Albany (a copy of 
which has been transmitted to me) I am inform'd & that the Secry.
of War has decided the questions Submitted by your Dept.
relating to the teamsters Service services in the Revolutionary War
and Consequently you are Now prepaired [prepared] to act upon those Cases
which have been So long Suspended for the reasons above referred
to. When I was in Washington in Novr., Doct. Crump
[illegible] to the war Dept. the Claim of the heirs of Hilly Adams
for the Services of her first husband Asa Hoskins as a Teamster
[illegible] instructed by the Secry. of War what action Should
be made on the Claim, and he incouraged [encouraged] me with the
expectation that I Should have the decision of your Dept.
between then, and the approaching Session of Congress, and I
have flattered myself with the hopes and expectation, that
you would receive Such instructions as would warrant
and induce your Dept to allow the Same [illegible] per month
you had done in Some half of a doz cases principally
presented by L. T. Pease viz 15 Dolrs. per month
The Objections raised by Doct. Crump that Teamsters did not
receive a higher rate of pay per month then a private Soldier
in the Revolutionary war I think is [illegible], and by
referring to the Journals of Congress in 1779 he will find a
Number of resolves of Congress Showing that it was attended with
No Small difficulty in Obtaining Such a body of Teamsters as
was from time to time Necessary for the benefit and well
Organization of the Army and one of those resolves the
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the commander in Chief was authorised [authorized] to raise a large body
of Teamsters by enlistment for 9 months or a longer period and
to pay them Not exceeding 40 Dolrs., per month. In a [illegible]
[illegible] resolve the commander in Chief was authorised [authorized] to raise
another body of Teamsters on the best terms that they could
be Obtained & all the resolutions goes to Show that the Teamsters
were an important and responsible branch of the Army and
that their duties were Such as to induce Congress to offer
a much higher rate for their monthly pay then that was given
to a private Soldier and the Wadsworth Book containing
rolls of Conductors and Teamsters Clearly Shows that they did receive
15 Dolrs. pr. month in 1777 & 8. I think the only questions for
your Dept to decide upon in relation to that Book or record
is first Is there Sufficient evidence that that Book or record
was kept and belonged to Qtr Master Genl. Jeremiah Wadsworth
and if So, whether it is a genuine & authentic record and
rolls of [illegible] and Teamsters which he was undoubtedly authorized
& impowered [empowered] to commission & in-list [enlist] Secondly Does that Book 
give Sufficient evidence on the face of it, that the rolls of Teamsters
were enlisted and enrolled & Consequently Subject to Military Law
& punishment. Thirdly, Does the evidence Shown in that Book against
each Teamsters Name of 15 Dolrs. exhibit the actual Sum that they
did receive for their Monthly pay As to the first question I think
from the antiquated appearance of the paper and writing there cannot
be any dout [doubt] by your Dept. but what it is an authentic & genuine
Book or record and from the action of your Dept in allowing 6 or 7
Cases that appear in the Book it would Seem as if it was not
doubted. As to the Second question the heading of such roll would
Seem to be Sufficient & Conclusive evidence of their being enlisted &
enrolled which is like as follows. "Acct. book rations [illegible] Capt.
Phineas Merrills Compny of Teams from the time of their enlistment or
entering the Service until they draw continental provisions &c &c"
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Against each Teamsters Name is the amt. due them for their
Monthly rations.  Who ever hear'd [heard] or Saw Such a compny [company] of hired
Men with Such a handing and drawing their rations & pay from
the Qtr. Master Genl [illegible]. The Third question is probably
a question of more doubt and uncertainty then the two others 
although the evidence that they actually received 15 Dolrs. pr. month for their
Monthly pay is equally plain and conclusive. The sum of [illegible] 4 [illegible] is
set against each teamsters name and they are regularly [illegible] up
at the bottom of each roll and regularly receipted by each Capt.
of the Compny [Company] to the Qtr. Master of Deputy Qtr. Master Genl.
To Corroborate Such a position & evidence, you have been Shown
small piece of ancient paper on which is written Something like
as follows "We hereby enlist ourselves into the Continental
Service as Teamsters for 3 yrs. at 15 Dolrs. per month & two rations per
day and Signed by Reuben Smith and James Harrington both
of which Names appear in Capt. Ozias Binghams rolls in that
Wadsworth Book. That ancient piece of paper containing the enlistment
was left in a wrapper in the forepart of the Book when left at
your Dept & is Supposed to be there now
With all this clear and it would Seem to be conclusive evidence
of en-listment and en-rollment, and the amt. of monthly pay
allowed them, and after your deliberate action from Such
evidence in allowing probably one half of all the cases
that will hereafter arise out of that record I am not
a little Surprised that you Should Suspend your action
& refuse to allow a few other cases equally meritorious
and precisely the same proof or evidence of Service, and I am
inclined to believe that on further examination of the proof
& on candid reflection and view of the whole Subject
as it appears before you, you will come to the conclusion
that your first view of the evidence that the Wadsworth Book
or record afforded was correct, and that you will allow the
few remaining cases that may occur from that record at the Same rate
as you have done
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This law provides that each officer and soldier shall be entitled for their pension to half the monthly that they received which in actual service and what better evidence can you have than an original payroll emanating from the proper and official officer whose duty it was to enlist, commission, forage and ferry such a body of troops.  You have sufficient evidence in the history of the Revolutionary War that Col. Jeremiah Wadsworth of Hartford was from most the commencement of the war 2nd master general of the American Army and a very efficient and active officer, and after his assignation to that office, he was I think to the close of the war commissary to the French Army by which he accumulated a grand fortune, which his only surviving son and child now residing in Hartford still lives to enjoy, and has most all his lifetime has very liberally dispensed no little part of his rich inheritance to various charitable objects as they have occurred to him from time to time and it was through his generosity and kind feeling for the benefit of the Revolutionary soldiers or his widow that I was permitted to overhall and examine a map of his deceased fathers Revolutionary Books and papers, and in doing so I selected the Image Book containing the rolls of Teamsters which has been exhibited so often at your deposition.

The son informed me that many of his father's Books and papers had been lost or destroyed which accounts for not being able to find among the remaining a more extensive and perfect account of the Teamsters and length of their service.

If you should still have a doubt and make it a question whether the Teamsters as they appear on that Wadsworth's Book were enlisted and enrolled and consequently entitled to pensions, I would refer you to an original  letter from Col. Charles Pillet to Dept of the Military Jeremiah Hubbard under date of August 1778 in which he states that many of the Connecticut Teamsters had deserted to the great inconvenience and damage of that branch of the Revolutionary service and requests him to employ Capt Paul Guthridge to take all proper means and measures to reclaim them and finish them by Military law in order to deter others from like conduct.
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I would also refer you to your letter to the Hon S. James Discon reporting the claim of the heirs of Stephen Partridge in which you observe "it appears from the records in this office that Stephen Partridge enlisted into Capt. Gaylor's company of Teams for 3 years"
Capt. Giles Gaylors' Company of Teams is in that Woodsworth Book and I would candidly ask whether there is any more evidence of his company's being enlisted and enrolled there then is in any of the other rolls of Teamsters as they appear in that Book.  You have allowed pensions in 3 of the cases of conditions as they appear in that Book at 480 dollars per annum viz, Officers Bingham, the widow of Phineas Merrill, and the widow of Johnathan Parker.  If the Capts. of those Teams were entitled to 480 dollars per annum, would it appear unjust and unequal that the Teamsters rec'd 15 dollars per month for their monthly pay and were consequently entitled to that in their pension?
It would seem to me that the evidence contained in the several resolves of Companies in 1779 and one of which authorises the Commander in Chief to enlist a body of Teamsters and pay them not exceeding 40 dollars per month had confirmed bearing to warrant a a strong and most conclusive presumption that that class of Teamsters in the Woodsworth Book actually recieved 15 dollars a month for their monthly pay and if so they would be entitled to it in their pensions.
In the case of the heirs of Hitty Adams for the services of Asa Hoskins as a Teamster you have among the proof the deposition of George Latimer stating that Asa Hoskins was in service with him in
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as a Teamster and that he was in service as long as he (G. Latimer) was and you allowed within a year past through the agency of L.T. Peuse an increase on Latimer's pension up to 180 dollars per annum
George Latimer is a man of large wealth and no children to inherit it, and resides in the neighborhood of Hartford, and the increased pension allowed to him could not be of any benefit to him personally and Hitty Adams formerly the wife of Asa Hoskins lived a number of years since poor and destitute of property to leave for the benefit of her children by Asa Hoskins, who is reported to have been in faithful service to the Cause of the Revolutionary War, and the children of Hoskins are as I am candidly informed poor unto property. I would most respectfully appeal to your candor and love of justice and equity whether it would be just and right to allow the rich George Latimer 180 dollars per annum for his services as a Teamster through the agency of L.T. Peuse, and allow only 80 dollars for the children of Asa Hoskins for providing the same kind of service as that for George Latimer now receives 180 dollars per annum. I cannot believe that you intentionally wish to make such distinction in your official action, although circumstances may make it necessary for you to do so at this time.

I am very respectfully your obedient servant
Benj Colton
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P.S. If it is not inconsistent with the rules and regulations of your department you will please forward to me the written decision of the Secretary of War upon the question submitted by your department relating to the Teamsters Service as if it is adverse to allowing those cases that appear on the Woodsworth I intend at a proper time to refer the whole proceedings and action of your department before the Committee on Pensions and indevour to get their views and explanation upon that record of Revolution Service et et
Benj Colton
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Col JS Edwards,
Sir, I herewith send a letter from B. Colton Esq. in the case of Hitty Adams.  He is inquring as to the claim  - and certainly has written you a long letter - I hope you will honor it with a careful examination.
Yours truly
H. Preston
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Doc t G. W. Crump
Pension Dept.
Washington
DC
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Woodbury, Connecticut
July 31st 1848

Dear Sir

I send you herewith a Book that belonged to Qtr Master Gen'l Wadsworth containing roll of Teamsters referred to in my argument forwarded to your department in short time since by the Hon'l Harvey Putnam, and after examining it to your satisfaction, you will please hand or send it to the Hon'l Mr. Putnam, who will return it to me.
The rolls you will observe are extended, as shwon by that Jewell Book you had for some time in your office, from March and Ap'l 1777 to May 1778 and June, and is as far as any records using the Woodsworth records and effects can be found, it being supposed by the son of Col. Woodsworth that many of his father's papers have been lost or destroyed which renders them imperfect.  I think the entries and undistinguished appearance of these rolls for pay and rations, must satisfy your department beyond a reasonable doubt, that all the Teamsters that appear enrolled on the Book, were regularly enlisted and rec'd for their monthly ... or fifteen dollars and I confidently hope you will be convince that they are entitled to pensions at some rate or other at least. Can it be for a moment supposed or believed, that if the Teamster served in a civil capacity as hired man or contractor, that their rolls would be presented to the Qtr Master Gen'l Department for their daily rations?
Samuel Jenkins, Esq. of Albany has expressed to me no little dissatisfaction of the actions and decision of the Sec'y of War, upon which you have reported claims for Team Service, and has importuned me to cooperate with him in bringing the subject again before the Sec'y of War, with the new arguments and proof
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and knowing as I did that the Sec'y of War was overwhelmed with his official action growing out of the Mexican War, I thought it impracticable and almost impossible to obtain a hearing from him on the subject, and in consequence I have discouraged him for the present, until more favorable circumstance may arrive.

I am very respectfully
Yr Obt Servt
Benj Colton
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Augt 4 48
Hon. J. L. Edwards
Sir,
I am requested to forward this Roll of Teamsters of Wm Woodsworth to you, or rather to ... who I ... is absent - but to the Head of the Bureau I suppose is always right 
It seems to be just for examination and not for permanent deposit. Please return it to me after the close of the session.
Respectfully
Lann ...
H Putnam
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20th July 1850
I have recovered the original
                                           within
book from which the above is  
copied
                        Abijiah Caitlin
                               Halweather
                                     60


Copy from 
Wadsworth Books
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Copy Page 108 headed
Thomas Mefflin Esq Qr Mr Genl Dr
1777
Sept
26 To ditto paid Gurdon Wadsworth the amount of his
pay roll for himself and Teamsters from the time of enlistment
to the 1" of June 1777
Gurdon Wadsworth from March 25th to June 1. 2 months 6 days  @ 12 L [British pound sign?] 26.8..
Jesse Pain       "  " 27th  "  do  2  "  4 @ 90/  9 12
Moses Filley          "  " 27th  "  do  2  "  4      "     9  12
Solomon Clark      "  " 27th     do  2  "  4      "     9  12.
Reuben Andrus     " " 28th      do  2  "  3      "     9 . 9     
Asa Hoskins        April 7th   "  do  1  '  24     "     8 . 2
Amos Lawrence Junr   8th   "  do  1 .   23     "     7 . 19
Jared Olcott                 9th   "  do  1    22            7 . 16
Benoni Clark               12th  "  do  1    19            7 . 07
Amos Westland Junr   26th     d    1     5             5   05
Gideon Loomis Junr May 1     do  1     "              4 . 10
Asel Hills                          12   do   "     19            2 . 17
                                                                        _______________
                                                                          L 108.9
copy 109
1777
Sept 26 To Each paid Gurdon Wadsworth the amount of
his pay roll for himself and Teamsters from the 1st of
June 1777 to Sept 1' following viz
Gurdon Wadsworth Conductor   3 Months @ 240/  L 36
Jesse Pain                Teamster      3 ditto      @ 96/       14  8
Moses Filley               ditto          3 ditto          do         14  8
Solomon Clark           ditto          3 ditto          do         14  8
Reuben Andruss        ditto          3 ditto          do         14  8
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'-
Asa Hoskins                       ditto    3 ditto    do  14 8
Amos Lawrence Junr         ditto    3 ditto    do  14 8
Jared Olcott                      ditto    3 ditto    do   14 8
Benoni Clark                      ditto   3 ditto    do   14 8
Anson Westland Junr        ditto    3 ditto    do   14 8
Gideon Loomis Junr         ditto     3 ditto    D     14 8
Asel Hills                           ditto    3 ditto     D    14 8
                                                                           _______
                                                                          194.8
Copy Page 195
1778.
May 25th
To Each paid Gurdon Wadsworth [illegible] 
The amount of his pay roll for him & Compy [Company] of Teamsters
from 1" September 1777 to 2" March 1778 viz
Gurdon Wadsworth [illegible] from 11th Sept 1777 to 2 March 1778 @ 12 [illegible] 72.8
Moses Filly Teamster        from do to do @ L4. 16 [illegible] do  28.19 2
Solomon Clark do            from do to do  @ do      [illegible] do. 28.19 2
Reuben Andruss do         from do to do  @ do       [illegible] do 28.19 2
Asa Hoskins do                from do to do  @ do      [illegible]  do 28.19 2
Amos Lawrence Junr do  from  do to do @ do      [illegible]  do 28.19 2
Jared Olcott  do              from  do to do @  do      [illegible]  do 28.19 2 
Benoni Clark do              from  do to do  @ do      [illegible]  do 28.19 2
Amos Westland Junr do  from do to do   @ do     [illegible]  do 28.19 2
Gideon Loomis do          from do to do  @ do       [illegible]  do 28.19 2
Asall Hills  do                  from do to do  @ do       [ilegible]  do 28.19 2
                                                                                                   ____________                                                              
                                                                                                 L  361.19.8
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Washington City D.C.
July 18 1850

I Loren P. Waldo member of Congress from the State of Connecticut certify that I have carefully compared the foregoing with the original book from which it is copied and find the same to be true copied and from the apparent age and antiquity and general appearance of the book here which these copies were made I have no hesitation in saying that in my opinion the book is authentic and genuine.

Loren P. Waldo

He the undersigned, Clerk, in the Pension office, have examined the above copy, comparing it with the original contained in a book bearing evident marks of antiquity, and find it to be a correct extract from the account in the said book.  

Pension Office
July 20 1850

Alexander Steeras
Office of Pensions
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I Hitty Allyn of Bloomfield in the County of Hartford and State of Connecticut depose and say that I am the Daughter of Hitty Adams dead who was the former Widow of Asa Hoskins dead that I have heretofore made application for to obtain the pension for my Mother Hitty Adams as the Widow of Asa Hoskins Dead and that I verily believe that said pension out to be allowed for such purpose I make the affidavit is made

Hitty Allyn

State of Connecticut, County of Hartford fs Bloomfield May 22nd A.D. 1850

Personall appeared Hitty Allyn above named and made oath to the above statement and subscribed the same before me

Shaylor L Burnham
Notary Public
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STATE OF CONNECTICUT.

----------------------------

By his excellency THOMAS H. SEYMOUR
Governor of said State

TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERT:
Know de, that Shaylor F. Burnham
is, and since the finish day of May
cash part, hath been a Notary Public
in the said State, duty constituted and commissioned,
and that to his acts and attestations, as such, full
faith and credit are and ought to be given in and out
of Court: that the within attestation is in duel form
and by the proper officer and that I believe
the foregoing signature of the said Shalor F. Burnham to be genuin.
In testimony whereof, I have caused the public leaf of the State to be here.
unto affixed, this 26th day of June, A. D. 1820 and in the
seventy. fourth year of the Independence of the United States of America.

By his excellency the Governor
Jno TC Mather
Secretary of State
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Washington City DC
21 Nov 1850

Hon JL Edwards
Coun'l of Pensions

Herewith is a power of attorney to use in the application of Hitty Allen for arrears of Pension due her mother Hitty Adams in right of her husband Asa Hoskins teamster on Conductor Gordea Wadsworth rolls in the Revolutionary War.  As the application was filed in July last ... you have only been waiting for the power in order to report an answer to me at the Survey house will much oblige.

Yours respectfully
Abyab Catlinn
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Bloomfield 1 Aug 1850

Hon J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Mr Abijah Catlin i my agent and Attorney to prosecute receive any certificates of Pensions that may be issued upon my application for the arrears of Pension due my mother Hitty Adams
Hitty Allyn
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Hartford N.Y. Sept 6th 1854

Sir
I have the honor herewith to transmit additional evidence in the case of Heitty Adams widow of Asa Hoskins of Connecticut, who was a pensioner of the Unted States at the rate of 192 dollars per annum, under the Act of July 4h 1836 for the services of the said Asa Hoskins as a Teamster in the Revolutionary War.
You will perceive from the evidence now transmitted that the said Asa Hoskins was paid at the rate of "96/" or $16 dollars per month previous to June 1st 1773 and that from and after that date up to and including May 11th 1770 he was paid at the rate of "£8" or "$26.66 per month and that from and after the said 11th day of May 1779 he was paid at the rate of "£16" or $53.33 per month.
It is now claimed that the pension in this case should be increased to the amount of his full pay". Please address me.
Respectfully Yours
Erving Taintor
for Eli Taintor

Hon. L. P. Waldo
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D.C.
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Harford Cortland Co N.Y. Oct 30, 1854.

Sir
Yours of the 11th day of Sept last in relation to the claim of Hetty Adams widow of Asa Hoskins of Connecticut for increase of pension has been received, and in reply I have to say that I was well aware that the pension in this case had previously been allowed at the rate of 192 dollars per annum, and also that that rate was the highest at which any pension had been granted for services as a Teamster, but I was not aware that your Department had power to fix a pension at any rate other than that established by law.
The Act of June 7, 1832 authorized each person who served a period of two years "to receive" out of any money in the Treasure not otherwise appropriated the amount of his full pay in the same line according to his rank".
Your Department has long since recognized this teaming service as "Military" and coming withing the meaning of the law. You have already granted the pension in this and other cases to the
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amount of their full pay previous to the first day of June 1778. but not to the amount of their full pay after that period.
By reference to the certificates of the Comptroller of Connecticut filed by me in this and other cases, you will perceive that Asa Hoskins and others were on the 8th day of October 1776 paid "Advanced Pay" for the months of June and July £3.4. per month, which was their full pay previous to the said first day of June makes the sum of £8 per month, which amount they continued to receive up to the 11th day of May 1779. at which time there was another advance in their pay to the amount of £16 per month.
Lt us now take a full view of all the facts in the case. These Companies of Teamsters were raised by Col Wadsworth of Conn. under an order from Gen Mifflin in the spring of 1777. to serve three years and their pay was fixed at 15 dollars per month. In July following Co. Wadsworth wrote to Gen Mifflin informing him of a difficulty which had arisen among these Teamsters in consequence of some of them having been engaged at 16 while others received only 15 dollars per month. 
To settle this difficulty Gen Mifflin ordered them all to be paid 16 dollars per month
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which I suppose is the true reason why pensions for this service have been allowed at that rate.Copies of those letters
are on file in your Office
The Hubbard Books as you will perceive by reference to the certificates above reference to show that 16 dollars continued to be the rate of pay up to the first day of June 1778 and that all of those Teamsters who were paid by Mr Hubbard were paid at that rate. But after that date their pay was advanced to £8, per month, which amount was paid them up to the 11th day of May 1779, when their pay was again advanced to the rate of £16 per month, which amount
they continued to receive up to the first day of March 1780 or to the close of the time of service for which they enlisted.
Now the question is which of these rules was their full pay? was it the 15 dollars, the 16 dollars, the £8, or the £16 or rather were not these several rates their full pay for the respective periods to which they refer, and for which they were received?
I believe I have stated the question at issue so plainly that it cannot be misunderstood, and I respectfully ask a decision directly on the question presented
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If 16 dollars per month was the full pay of those teamsters then we have received all we are entitled to. But if there full pay for any portion of the time which they served was more than that sum then we are entitled to an increase.
I have had the honor within the past few weeks to present several claims involving the same question at issue.
A plain straight forward answer based upon the law ant the testimony is respectfully solicited 
Respectfully Yours
Erving Tainter

Hon L.  P. Waldo
Commissioner of Pensions
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Remarks A Catten
Do claim
Hitty Allen
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In the case of Milly Allen who makes application
for the pension due her mother deceased whose
name was Hetty Adams who was the widow
of Asa Hoskins
The extracts from the books of Col Jeremiah
Wadsworth was service from the 7th April 1777
until the 2 March 1778 a period of10 months 25 or 26 days
the last pay rolls show his compensation to have been
$16.00 pr month
And this was in conformity to the order of Gen Mifflin then Q M Genl whose letter whose that subject may be found in the
Pension office among the papers of William Gellett & Abigail Gellett in the Pennsylvania Roll.
Wadsworth went out of the QrMasters department in March or April 1778 & Nehemiah Hubbard preceded him as D M Gen'l & the accompanying extract from the books of Nehemiah Hubbard shows that the Same Conductor Gurdon Wadsworth Continued in Service And the charges in the account of goods delivered Asa Hoskins- shows that he
was for more than two years in said Company,
The extract of a charge to Asa Hoskins & the co to him by making Wadsworth Do for the same all show that
he was teamster consequently more than
two years service as a teamster
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is proved in the compensation or rate of pension established.
Having recently become agent in this case I can say nothing as to the evidence of the right of 
Hitty Adams to a Pension but presence these papers on file in the Pension office are in that point satisfactory
Abijah Catlin
Hamilton
Connecticut
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State of New York }
Onondaga County}. Ss
John Tompkins  of the town Marcellus and County  of Onondaga being duly sworn says, that he is a Presbyterian Clergyman and has charge of a Congregation in the town of Marcellus and County of Onondaga and that he keeps a record of the deaths which was within the bounds of the Presbyterian [unknown] which he has charge, that it appears from said record that Hitty Adams  did the Seventh day of December eighteen hundred and forty four, that he was acquainted with Hitty Adams before her death and that he attended her funeral at the house of Erastus Loomis in Marcellus within the bounds of the [unknown] our which he has charge
                                         John Tompkins
Subscribed and
Sworn to before me
this 9th day of September
1846 Rufus Cossit Justice of the Peace

I hereby Certify that I am personally acquainted with the said, John Tompkins and know that he is a Presbyterian minister and has charge of a Society and Congregation in the town of Marcellus in said County stated Sept. 9, 1846.
                                   Rufus Cossit
                            Justice of the Peace
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State of New York}
Onondaga County}. SS
Clerks Office         }
                 I certify that Rufus Cossit Esquire before whom the within affidavit purports to have been sworn and whose name is subscribed to the within certificate was at the date of the same a Justice of the peace in and for the said County of Onondaga residing in the said County, Commissioned and sworn and further that I am well acquainted with his hand writing and verily believe that the signatures within purporting to be his are genuine. In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of the Count of Common Please  of said County at Syracuse, this 9th day of September 1846, 
                                 Cha. T. Hicks Clerk
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                     Woodbury Litchfield County
                            Connecticut
                                         July 20th, 1848

Sir I beg leave respecftully again to call your attention to the claim of the heirs of Hilly Adams or the services of her first husband Asa Hoskins as a Teamster in Capt. Garden. Woodbury the Comp. of Towns as shown partly by Qtr Master Gen'l Jeremiah Wadsworth Book and records Said also by the rolls, of the said Capt. by Wadsworth presented to your Dept. by L.T Pease
Esq. as proof in the case of George Lattimer
  The case of the heirs of Hilly Adams was presented by me to your dept. some time in the year 1846 and when I was in Washington in Oct of that year, I proposed to the Du't Crump to allow the claim on the pay of a private soldier of 80 dol'r per annum; but he then refused by saying that he would not allow another case for Team service until instructed by the Sec. of War. The amount per month that should be allowed by them.
     I have in my possession a copy of a letter dated Feb. 3rd 1847 [unknown] to the Hon'r Timothy Jenkins M.C. reporting the objections to that claim for an insecure on I [unknown] object pension for Team Service and the following is esctruct  The measure is claimed upon the rate of pay recei'd by Teamsters who were p'd by Col'l Wadworth & Hubbard of the Qtr. Master Gen's dept in Connecticut. the pay of the teamsters in the Book of those officers was $15 at one time  #16 #21.66 & 53 33/100 at either periods. After several claims at one hundred & eighty Dol'rs p'r annum had been allowed upon the force of those Books, that whole subject was submitted to the Service of war for his instruction; and on the 20th M tie, upon a full hearing from Mr Pease and a Thorough examination of all the measurements he has decided 'that when the [unknown] of those engaged in the Team Service after from that allowed to officers of soldier in Regular service or is not according to my hand or resolve of Congress that legal presumption is that the service knows reserved under Civil Contract. The word "presumption" and by the Sec. of war would seem to convey an ambiguous meaning in the sense which it was intended to inpart and his decision therefor, does not appear to be positive and binding on your dept. but would seem to imply a discretionary in timeline.
 I beg leave respectfully to correct a mistake that I have noticed in a number of your reports, objecting to allowing Team service from the decision reported too much by the Sec. of War and that ins in quoting from Col' Wadsworth & Hubbard Book, Showing the different pay allowed to Teamsters of $15-$16
 $ 26 44/100  and $53.33/100 in at older periods.
I was the first that obtained recip to those Book and have at previous times, thoroughly examined then  & particularly the Wadsworth Books, which are the only ones that contains the original rolls of that class of teamsters are shown a  small red covered book, which was for a long time in your department which I suppose you took a copy by direction of the Sec'y of War in my presence in Oct. 1846
I have now in my possesion a number of the Wadsworth book contains a number of rolls of Teamster, and I have not been able to find on any one of them, any entre of instance where Teamster were paid any other sum for this monthly pay than $15 Dol'rs expecting on one of two rolls in 1778, They were pad 16 Dol'rs p'r month.
The only record that I have ever seen of Teamsters having been allowed $26.66 and $53.33 is on the rolls that belonged to Capt. Garden Wadsworth and presented to your Dept' by Judge Pease in the case of George Lattimer, which roll were bound to me by the son of the said G. Wadsworth for my particular benefit and by me left in the hands of Pease for our mutual benefit, and I was not aware that they had been left in your dept. as proof, until shown to me by Dec't Crump in his office in Oct. 1846.
In the report upon the case of Jared Olcott referred too in the following retreat. viz. "On the 20th ultimo upon a full hearing from Mr. Pease and "a thorough examination " se . I beg leave further to correct a mistake that under al circumstances it would not be strange that you should have fallen into, us the sec. of war as will as your Dept. had so many urgent and perhaps impertinent hearing  from Mr. Pease it would not be surprising that you should think that a full hearing was had before the Sec .of war on the subject of Teamster.
Mr. Pease however declared to me, on giving him the information of the action and decision of the sec. of War on the question of Teamster submitted by your dept. that the Sec. had never had a hearing from him on that subject; but on the contrary he stated that he respectfully especially
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asked and requested the commissioner to keep the July Act and question open for a prepared and full argument from him.

Judge Pease is now dead and cannot speak for himself, but if it should be necessary I as well as others could make oath that he made such statements, and whether true or false, it is not very important to the subject now under consideration, only to how that the [illegible] of war may have made the decision referred to, without having all the available information and facts fully and clearly layed (sic) before him, and consequently may have altered his opinion and decision. 

I will not at this time go into lengthy argument to show that the [illegible] may have taken a wrong and incorrect view of the question submitted by your department for his instruction, but with all due respect to your views and opinions on the subject, I do however think his decision and instruction does not fully warrant your department shutting out all that club of Teamsters is not being provided for by law and consequently not being entitled to pensions for such services. 

I believe it has never been pretended by your department that if justified evidence shown to you, that if Teamsters were regularly enlisted, enrolled, and judged to military law and diciplined (sic) they were entitled to pensions.

As before stated, I have now have a number of Col. Wadsworth's Books in my possession, which contains a number of rolls of Teamsters, and among them is the roll of Capt Giles Gaylord, who you admit were regularly enlisted Teamsters, and your report of the case of Josiah Hotchkiss so that James Dixon two or three years since you state that it appears by the records in your office that Josiah Hotchkiss served in Capt. Gaylord's company of Teams for two years. (I may be mistaken in the exact phraseology of the words used in the report)

The rolls in the Col. Wadsworth Book referred to are most all of them [illegible] something like as follows

"Hartford  June 131778"
"A Pay-roll of Capt. Giles Gaylord's company of teams from the time of their enlistment till they were [illegible]"  (then follows the roll of Teamsters with #.  I am of [illegible] against each name in in monthly pay).  Capt. Gordon Wadsworth's pay-roll is also in the same book written on the back of it "Continental [illegible] Book begun May 13th 1778" on which the name of Asa Hoskins appears as teamster.  

It is probably well known to your dept that Col. Jeremiah Wadsworth of Hartford was the first Teamster Master General appointed by congress, and continued faithfully to perform the duties of that office, to the justification and approval congress until the year 1778 or 9, when at his urgent solicitude, he resigned that office, and was afterwards appointed commissary to the French Army, and I believe continued in that to the close of the war, and was considered by General Washington one of the most active and efficient officers in the Revolutionary War, and it cannot be supposed, or for a moment believe, that an officer of his character, standing and extensive business, would make, or cause to be made, fictitious and [illegible] entries in his daily regular and official account book, and admitting this fact as conceded, and admitting also that the Books were authentic and genuine, I can hardly think and believe, that any candid and intelligent man, can long doubt on examining the entries of the of the funding and rolls of teamsters as they appear in those books, but what they bear andon the face of them un-doubted conclusive marks, and evidence of enlistment and enrollment and consequently subject to Military law and dicipline (sic).

The Military master roll was submitted to your dept as proof in a case bearing marks of [illegible] by the antiquated appearance of the writing and paper.  Would you not accept of such a document as satisfactory proof and if so why it is respectfully asked, does that the rolls of Teamsters in the Wadsworth Book with the antiquated appearance of the writing and paper bear equal marks and evidence of en-listment and enrollment [illegible] of their being genuine and official documents. 

As before stated, you have admitted that Capt. Giles Gaylord's company of teams were regularly en-listed, and your dept. have allowed the widow of Josiah Hotchkiss a pension of 80 [illegible] per annum for the services as shown on that roll and there is [illegible] and equal evidence that Asa Hoskins was clearly an en-listed teamster as Josiah Hotchkiss, and if so, is not the evidence of Asa Hoskins as much entitled to provisions made by congress as the widow of Josiah Hotchkiss and is the distinctions to grow out of the more technical point or question, whether the one was enlisted and the other not, when their names appear on a proper official evidence, and the [illegible] and one bears equal mark and conclusive of enlistment as the other. 

The fact that this club of Teamsters were allowed 15 and 16 dollars per month shown on Quarter Master Jeremiah Wadsworth Book and $26.66 and $453.33 [illegible]
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as shown on Capt Gordon Wadsworth rolls now in your office, seems to be seized hold of by the Secy of war, and your dept, in strong and almost conclusive argument, that they were not enlisted; but served in a civil capacity, and if Qtr Master Genl Wadsworth Book & records are relied upon by that Secy of War as proof to establish those facts, I can prove to his or any other man's satisfaction that those books & records will {crossed out "not"] show that the regularly enrolled teamsters that appear on them, at any time was paid any higher such as their monthly wages than 15 & 16 Dolr & but a few instances that they were paid 16 Dolr.
It seems to be thought improbably, and almost impossible by your Dept that a Teamster should receive a higher rate of pay for his services than a private soldier and without attempting to show in this place or give reasons why their services, duties, and responsibilities, were probably considered to be more important and vulnerable by the commander in chief or by Congress, I will here give you a copy of a paper I found among Colr Wadsworth's Revolutionary papers, and its antiquated appearance & the place where it was found, would seem to be sufficient & conclusive evidence of its being authentic and genuine and can be exhibited to your dept for examination if asked for & deemed of importance.

"We the subscribers acknowledge to have en-listed ourselves into the service of the United States as Teamsters for the term of three years during which time we will we will serve faithfully for that capacity for fifteen dolrs pr month & one ration of provisions per day"
"Apl 12 Rueben Smith
Apl 22 James Harrington"

The same names appear on Capt. Ozias Bingham's roll of Teamster in Col Wadsworth Book & the following is a copy of the roll

"Hartford June 2 1778" (Continental waste book"
"A Pay-roll of Capt. Ozias Binghams Company of Team for one month from the time of their enlistment
Ozias Bingham Condr March 12 to Apr 12th 1 month at 240/ £12.0.0
Richd Andrus Teamster do 13 " do 13 1 do " 90/ 4.14.0
Wm. Andrus do do 13" do 13 1 do " 90/ 4.10.0
John Alderman do do 13" do 13 1 do " 90/ 4.10.0
Rueben Lewis do do 13" do 13 1 do " 90/ 4.10.0
John Fletcher do do 13" do 13 1 do " 90/ 4.10.0
Nathan Lewis do do 13" do 13 1 do " 90/ 4.10.0
Eliphus Parsons do do 13" do 13 1 do " 90/ 4.10.0
John Weed do do 13" do 13 1 do " 90/ 4.10.0
Jeremiah Weed do do 13" do 13 1 do " 90/ 4.10.0
Lamuel Bull do do 13" do 13 1 do " 90/ 4.10.0
Rueben Smith do do 13" do 13 1 do " 90/ 4.10.0
James Harrington do do 13" do 13 1 do " 90/ 4.10.0
____________
66.00.00

Capt. Bingham was pensioned by your Dept for this identical service as a Wagon Condr, then a resident of Pennsylvania through the agency of Nicholas Carrol Esqr.
There has been three cases pensioned by your Dept for the services of Capt or Condr of Teams as their rolls appear on the Qtr Master Genl Wadsworth Books viz the widow of Capt. Phineas Merrills, the widow of Jotham Parker, and Capt. Ozias Bingham of Pennsylvania, and the two former of which were allowed 480 Dollr p0er annum, and the latter is presumed to have been allowed at that rate. Is it not fair to presume and infer, that if the Capt or Condr of those Company of Teams were officially appointed & commissioned Wagon Condr and came within the provision of the law entitling them to pensions, that the Teamsters that served under them were also properly enlisted, and came within the provision of the law entitling them to pensions?
I send you herewith extracts from the Journals of Congress showing the action of Congress, at various times upon the subject of Teamsters, or Wagoners & shows that no little difficulty was experienced for the want of a competent, suitable, and well organized body of Teamsters, and the power of organizing & enlisting such a class of Teamsters as was thought to be necessary and useful to the practical benefit of the Army, was deligated by Congress to the Commander in Chief, and by him to the Qtr Master Genl, who was directed with respect to the troops of the line. The resolves of March 16th and April 17th 1777, both speak distinctly of inlistment, and the resolve of Apr 17th defines and limits the amount of monthly wages that may be allowed them, which was not to exceed 40 Dolrs per month, and "this is according to law, or a resolve of Congress" which seems to be the foundation of the argument and objections of the Secry of War in his instruction to your Dept by which you now reject the claims of Teamsters and if I comprehend the force of the argument and objections, intended to convey in his instructions, referred too & think this resolve completely distroys them, at least after the date of that
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resolve of Apl 17th, 1777. By that resolve of Congress, it is clearly shown, that "the commander in chief was fully authorized and inpowered to allow Teamsters or Wagoners a sum for their monthly wages, not exceeding 40 Dolrs per month, so that if he should direct the Qtr Master Genl to pay any sum not exceeding 40 Dolr per month it would be done according to law or resolve of Congress" and it explains in some measure why Teamsters were pd varying and different amounts of wages or pay, at different periods, and also in no small degree distroys the argument intended to convey upon that point suggested in your letter purporting the objections to the claim of Jared Olcott.

I will not now contend for the 14 Dor Monthly pay that Col Wadsworth's Books & records show they were allowed from March 1777 to May 1778 but I do contend, and insist upon it, that there is clear and conclusive evidence upon the face of the Wadsworth Books, that all that class of Teamsters whose names appear on that small red covered Book, (a copy of which is supposed to be in your Dept) were enlisted & enrolled and subject to military law and discipline, and consequently are intitled to pensions, and I intent that justice shall yet be done to the claimants if it should be delayed until a new administration shall come into power, and I am not without hope, and confidence, that on further consideration, and examination into all the fact and arguments, I have suggested, you will be induced to make a further examination of the evidence in support of the claim of the heirs of Hitty Adams and allow the heirs what the papers & proof in that case show they were entitled too of the pay of a private soldier of 80 Dors pr annum.
If additional proof is asked for it can be readily given. Mr. Gordon Wadsworth left in your Dept by T. Pease in the case of Lattimer I think will show Asa Hoskins services as Teamster up to 1780.
I am very respectfully
yr obt servt
Benj. Colton

J. W. Edwards Esqr
Commr of Pensions
Washington
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Power of Attorney
from
Hetty Allen
daughter of
Hetty Adams
widow of
Asa Hoskins
of
Connecticut
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POWER OF ATTORNEY-Revolutionary Pension Claims,
-----
Know all Men by these Presents, That I, Hitty Allyn of Bloomfield in the County of Hartford and State of Connecticut hereby constitute and appoint Eli Tainter of Ler Massachusetts my true and lawful Agent and Attorney, to prosecute the Claim of Hitty Adams the former widow of Asa Hoskins for any amount of Revolutionary Pension, or Increase of Pension, that may be due; and I hereby authorize my said Agent to examine all the papers and documents in relation to said Claim, on file in the Departments at Washington City, or elsewhere; to file additional evidence or arguments; and to receive the Certificate which may be issued to said Claim, which Certificate I wish made payable to the Children of the said Hitty Adams to appoint one or more substitutes under him for the purposes herein expressed; and to do all things that I might or could do were I personally present. Hereby ratifying and confirming all that my said Attorney and Agent shall lawfully do in the premises.

WITNESS my hand and Seal this 3d day of February A. D. 1854.
Hitty Allyn

Signed and Sealed in the presence of
Henry Whitemore Jr. }
Augustus Allyn }
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                    State of Connecticut.
I, John P.C. Mather Secretary of the State of Connecticut and Keeper of the seal thereof, do hereby certify and make known to whom it doth or may concern, That Henry Whitemore Jr. was from the fourth day of July, A.D. 1852, to the fourth day of July A.D. 1854, a  Justice of the Peace within and for the County of Hartford in said State, duly appointed and commissioned-having full power and authority by the laws of said State, to take the Acknowledgement of Deeds and to certify the same; also to administer Oaths, to take Affidavits and Depositions out of Court, and to give Certificates thereof; and that full faith and credit may and ought to be given to his official acts and attestations.
And I further certify, That I believe the foregoing signature of the said Henry Whitmore Jr. to be genuine. 
                            In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said State, at Hartford, this 8th day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty four. 
                                       Jno. P.C. Mathers
                                        Secretary of State
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Claim of Hitty Adams former widow of Asa Perkins 
Act of July 1836, and subsequent act

State of Connecticut }
County of Hartford    }  Ss. Bloomfield February 3rd 1854.
Be it know, That on this third day of February A.D. eighteen hundred and fifty four before the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace in and for the County and State aforesaid, personally appeared Hitty Allyn a resident of Bloomfield in said County , and made oath according to law, she is the daughter of the said Hitty Adams

who was a Revolutionary Pensioner at the rate of one hundred ninety two Dollars per annum; that she has been informed that the said Pension ought to be increased; that she is directly interested as a Claimant in said Pension and makes this affidavit to be filed with such additional evidence or arguments as my Agent may use in processing said Claim.
Sworn to and subscribed, the day and year
aforesaid, before me, 
Henry Whitemore Jr. Just Peace}
        Hitty Allyn

I Henry Whitmore Jr. Justice of Peace in and for said County, do hereby certify that Hitty Allyn who executed the foregoing paper, is a respectable resident of this County, and is, I believe, directly interested in said Claim as therein set forth. And I further certify, taht I have no interest whatever in said Claim, or the prosecution thereof.
                    Henry Whitmore Jr. Justice Peace

I _____________ Clerk of the ________ Court in the County and state aforesaid, do hereby certify, that ____________ before whom the foregoing papers were executed was, at the date of the same, a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, duly authorized by law to administer oaths; and the name thereunto subscribed is ______ signature.
      In testimony whereof, I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed my official Seal, this _______ day of _________ A.D. 185__.



                                               Clerk.
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FORM-

STATE OF _____}
COUNTY OF _____} SS.

It is hereby certified that satisfactory evidence has been exhibited before me, _____ that _____ was a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States at the rate of $_____ per annum, and that _____ died on the _____ day of _____ eighteen hundred and _____ leaving surviving _____, and that _____ the only surviving child _____ of the aforesaid.

IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my  hand and affixed my self of office, this _____ day of _____ one thousand eight hundred and fifty-_____
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I have received the original book from which the within is copied.
Abijah Catlin
Harwinton Co

copy from Col. [illegible] Hubbard Book
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Washington City 18 July 1850

I Loren P Waldo member of Congress from the state of Connecticut certify that I have carefully compared the within with the original Book from which it is copied & found the said to be true copies and from the apparent age and antiquity of the original book from which their accounts are copied I have no hesitation in saying that in my opinion the book is authentic & genuine.
Loren P. Waldo
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We the undersigned clerks in the Pension Office, have examined the within copy, comparing it with the  original contained in a book bearing evident marks of antiquity, and find it to be a correct copy of the account in t he said book.
Alexander Shiras
Orris S. Paine
Pension Office
July 20, 1850
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Copy Page 11
Gordon Wadsworth Condr of Teams [illegible]
1778
May 21 to cash £9.0.0 (26th cash pr rec £108.   117.0.__
Jun 8 to cash paid you this day in full to Ballc 85.10.9
_______
202.10.9

July 2 to Cash £36.0 July 3 to 1 pr shoes do Sol. Clark 18/   36.18
July 3 to 1 pr shoes do Asa Hoskins    ____.18
July 14 cash pr recd £15.0 20th cash pr recd £18.0    33.00
Aug 7 to cash pr rect which he is to acct for   12.0
Aug 8 to ditto 78/paid Solomon Clark   3.18
______
£86.14

1778 
Aug 18 to cash to acct for pr recd  £9.0
Aug 29 to 1 pr show dd Sol Clark    __.18
Sept 2 to cash this day to acct for     6.00
Sept 7 to 1 pr shoes ad Benona Clark 18/      __.18
to cash this day    9.11.2
Sept 22 to ditto £6.0 Sept 28 to cash pr rect £84   90.0
Sept 29 to 1 pr shoes do B Jacon Andruss  1.4
Oct 2 to cash this day pr rect   30.0
Oct 3 to ditto £36     36
Oct 8  to ditto in full to ballance  137.12.6
_______
£321.3.8

1778
Oct 28 to 1 pr shoes dd Roger Clark   1.4
Oct 30 to cash this day to acct for pr rect  36.
Nov 1st to 1 pr white yarn stockings dd Jacob Andruss pr    .18
Nov 7th to 1 pr shoes dd Asa Hoskins   1.4
Nov 12 to 1 pr do dd Solo Clark    1.4
Nov 20 to 1 pr stockings dd John Clark    .18
to 1 pr shoes dd Amos Lawrence   1.4
Decr 8th to 1 pr shoes & 1 pr stockings dd Roger Clark 2.2
Decr 25 to 1 pr shoes for Gideon Loomis   1.4
Decr 28 to 1 pr shoes & 1 pr stockings dd George Latimer  1.16
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28 to 1 pr shoes & 1 pr stockings dd George Latimer  1.16
Dec 29 to sundries d Sol Clark in day book cashd to Clark 0.0.0

1779
Jany 17 to cash dd himself   pr rect 45.0
Jany 29 to 1 pr stockings dd Jno Wilson  .18
Feby 2 to cash to act for pr rect 12.0
Feby 4 to this day in full to ballance   380.19
________
£486.11

March 16th to cash to acct for   pr rect 60.
April 18th to ditto   pr ditto 39.
to ditto in full to ballance to ditto 270.13.6
___________
£369.13.6

April 6th to 1 pr shoes delivered Roger Clark   .18
May 1 to 3 yds [illegible] do George Latimer @8/   1.4
May 2 to 3 yrd ditto do John Clark  @8/  1.4
May 14 to cash this day for rect  102.0
May 28 to 1 pr shoes dd Roger Clark    .18
June 15 to cash to acct for pr recd   132.
June 18 to 2 pr overhalls dd Roger Clark   3.12
to 1 pr ditto dd John Wilson   1.16
to 1 pr ditto dd Asa Hoskins   1.16
July 3 to cash pr rect £15.0 15th to cash pr rect £60.0     75.0
July 27 to ditto pr do £60 Aug 9th to do pr do £36   96.0
Aug 11 to 5 pr shoes @45/    11.5
Aug 16 to 1 pr shoes dd George Latimer 45/    2.5
20 to Cash this day   pr rect   132.0
Sept 1 to 1 pr shoes dd George Lattimer   2.5
Sept 14 to cash this day in full to ballance   377.3
_______
£941.6.~
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[illegible]
1778
June 5 by your bill for wages up to 31 May  £168.10.9
by 1 Brown horse pr bill   34.00.0
–––––––––
202.14.9

1778
July 7 by his bill no1 rended in this day   3.72
by his do "2 ditto   24.18.6
by cash this day    7.14.4
July 18 by his bill rendered in this day 9.15.9
by cash recd £5.4.3    5.4.3
July 29 by his bill rendered in this day 13.13.3
By cash recd this day   4.6.9
Aug 13 by your bill rended in this day 9.179
by cash this day in full to ballance    7.16.3
______
£86.14.~

1778
Sept 7th by his bill rendered in this day   £24.11.2
Sept 24 by his ditto rendered in     3.12.6
Oct 8 by his bill for service &c 101.2.3 & 4   293.0
_________
£321.3.8

Decr 9 by his bill of expense rendered no   £16.19

1779
Feby 2 by his ditto of do   40.16.3
By cash to ballance his rect of Jany 17th 4.3.9
Feby 4th by his pay roll rendered in this day   426.12
______
£486.11

May 8 by his bill rendered in for expense 51.17.6
by his pay roll rendered in this day   317.16
______
£369.13.6

1779
June 21 by his bill of expense rendered no  £230.7
by cash in part to balance   3.13
Sept 14th by his bills of expense rendd no  170.10
by his pay rolls rendd no 536.16
______
£941.6
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copy page 32

1778
July 3 Asa Hoskins Teamster Dr
to 1 pair shoes 18/   £0.18.0

Pr [illegible]
1778 July 3 by Gordon Wadsworths acct £0.18.0