Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 18049, for Alvan Hyatt, Connecticut
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(3--1776)

SERVICE
Conn.

Hyatt, Alvan

NUMBER
S 18049

carded
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CONTENTS
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28157
Connecticut
Alvan Hyatt
Fairfield Co. in the State [of] Connecticut who was a Cor & Sgt. in the Compy com[ma]nde[d] by Captain Mead of the Regt commande[d] by Col Waterbury in the Connecticut line for 10 months 23 days Corpl. Infy 13 months 7 days Sergt. Arty

Inscribed on the Roll of Connecticut at the rate of 105 Dollars 85 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 24 day of Mar 1834 and sent B Isaacs Esq Present

Arrears to the 4th of Mar '34 - $317.55
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sep '34 52.92
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$370[.] 47
{Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.}

[R]ecorded by Jno. Cromwell
[B]ook E Vol. 3 Page 26

Let to G. R. Cowles
May 19. '49
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PAID
5
Hon J. L. Edwards
Com. of P[illegible]
City of Washington
D. C.

[Postmark reads:]
[illegible]LK CT SEP 29

Oct 2d 48.
Widow Sarah Hyatt
G R Cowles
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Norwalk Conn. Sept 29th 1848
Hon J L Edwards
Sir
I desire to lay before your department a claim by Widow Sarah Hyatt of Wilton for a pension and its arrears.
The grounds of the claim are these; Alvan Hyatt served through the (whole of the) Revolutionary War and at the time of his death was drawing a pension of $105 per annum. He died in the year 1834. He married the present claimant in the year 1814. She is now old and though in good health is in a state of great destitution and has applied to me to aid her in procuring the help which it is believed Congress has extended to her.
I wish to inquire if proof of the above facts be furnished whether she is entitled to a pension; and if so to how much.
If proof of the above facts be insufficient please state what other is required.
I would like you to send me a blank form exhibiting the requisites necessary to obtain a pension, - as well for soldiers as their widows.
Yours &c
George R. Cowles
Address Norwalk Conn
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State of Connecticut, 
County of Fairfield, ss.
On this 3 day of Augst. 1832 personally appeared, in open Court, before the Court of Probate within and for the District of Norwalk in said County now sitting, Alvan Hyatt - a resident of Wilton - in the County of Fairfield, and State of Connecticut, aged Eighty two - years, who being first sworn according to law, doth, on his oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress, passed June 7, 1832.
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named Officers, and served as herein stated. That in the Spring of the year - 1775 I enlisted in said Norwalk into Capt Mathew Meads Company. Col. Waterbury under Genl Montgomery and Marched through Albany to Canada and was at the taking of Fort St John and a skirmish with the Brittish and Indians and returned to Albany in Guarding the Prisons and served in said Companies over Seven Months and was discharged at Albany never had a Written discharge -
In the Spring of the year 1777 I Inlisted in said Norwalk into the Matross or artillery Company as a Sergeant and had a Sergeant Warrant which I have lost. under Lieut Command William Seymour and served in said Company in guarding and protecting the Sea coast. and [illegible]ly in the lines was in the battles when Danbury, Fairfield, and Norwalk, was burnt. and had the principal charge of the Company in placing the guards &c. and was actually engaged and Served therein until the end or close of the Revolutionary War and assisted in firing a Salute on the news of peace and I was then discharged never had any Written discharge and have no documentary evidence of my service. 
Was born in Norwalk on the 19 day of Nov. 1750. Recorded in the family bible and lived in said Norwalk until the Town of Wilton was set off as a town from said Norwalk since which time I have lived in said Wilton and now live  there
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State of Connecticut
Fairfield County ss Probate Court District of Norwalk in said County June 27, 1833 Personally appeared the within named Alvan Hyatt and being duly Sworn in open Court According to Law depose and says in explanation of his declaration having set. forth-
that on the 8 day of May 1775. I enlisted into Capt Matthew Mead Company as a Corporal under Col David Waterbury Gen Montgomery as served as above stated and was in actual and constant Service. Two hundred and three days as [illegible] Certificate of Elisha Phelps Comptroller of Public Account for the State of Connecticut and is hereto annexed -
that in December 1775 I again Served in the same Company as above stated and was marched to New York and was in actual and constant service through the winter. and was dischard in said New York on the first of April 1776. having served four Month as a Corporal in said  Company -
that in the Spring of the year 1777 I enlisted in said Norwalk into [illegible] Matross or Artillery Company as a Seargeant under Lieut. Comd William Seymour Major Stephen S John. Col John Mead Genl Sullivan and was in constant and in Actual Service in said Company and had charge of the [illegible] as the Orderly Sergeant and was stationed at Norwalk and was on the lines at Horse Neck [illegible] and returns until the fall of the year 1782 making over five years -
Alvan Hyatt [Signature]

Sworn and Subscribed in open Court the day and year afore said - Benjn. Isaacs Judge

aomd
13. 7 Act 7
13 mo. 7. ds Sergt Artillery
10 - 23 Copl. Infy

5635.
Alvan Hyatt
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The said Alvin Hyatt hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity, except the present, and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State.
Sworn to, and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid.
Alvan Hyatt [Signature]

We, a clergyman, residing in the town of Wilton and Samuel P Randle residing in the same, hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with Alvin Hyatt - who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be 82 - years of age; that he is reputed and believed, in the neighbourhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.
Sworn and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid.
Levi Dikeman [Signature]
Samuel P Randle [Signature]

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the abovenamed applicant was a revolutionary Soldier, and served as he states. And the Court further certifies, that it appears to them that Levi Dikeman who has signed the preceding certificate, is a clergyman, resident in the town of Wilton and that Samuel P. Randle - who has also signed the same, is a resident in the town of Wilton and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
Benjn Isaac Judge

I, Charles Isaac Clerk of the said Probate Court do hereby certify that the foreging contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Alvan Hyatt for a Pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of said Probate Office, this 4 day of Augt - 1832.
Chas. Isaac [Signature] Clerk
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P 18049
INVALID.
18,049
File No. [16,899 is lined through]
Alvan Hyatt
Sergt Rev War
Act : June 7" 32
Index :-Vol. 1, Page 187
[Arrangement of 1870.]

June 12- 1901
Chas G. Phelps
Wallingford Conn.
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Alvan Hyatt, Conn. may be in New York
Did he receive a pension in his life time. -
[Illegible]
Mr. Livingston
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Comptrollers Office
May 8- 1833.
I Elisha Phelps, Comptroller of Public Accounts for the State of Connecticut, do certify, that it appears from a "pay roll of Capt. Matthew Meads Company in the Regiment of forces of the United Colonies under command of Col. David Waterbury raised in the Colony of Connecticut commencing on the day in which they entered said service, and ending with the time of their dismiss[illegible] including time for the discharged to get home, in the year 1775 that Alvan Hyat [Hyatt] entered said company on the 8th day of May 1775 and served therein until the 26th day of November following, as a Corporal, when he was discharged having served Two hundred & three days @ 44/-
E. Phelps
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I Gilbert Fairchild of Ridgefield in the County of Fairfield and State of Connecticut Aged Seventy two years, being first Sworn according to Law, depose and say, that I am personally acquainted with Alvan Hyatt of Wilton in said County, that during the War of the Revolution this deponent resided in Norwalk in said County and well remembers that said Hyatt was Sergeant in a Company of Artillery raised in said Norwalk for the defense of the Coast, that said Hyatt boarded for about two years in the same House with this deponent, and was very actively engaged in the service of his Country. Said Company was raised, as this deponent believes, in the year 1777. That said Hyatt enlisted into the same at the time the Company was first raised, and continued in it until the close of the War, That on the news of peace being received the said Hyatt then belonging in the Company assisted in firing the "Salute" - and further saith not
Gilbert Fairchild

At a Court of Probate held at Ridgefield within & for the District of Danbury County of Fairfield & State of Connecticut- Present Reuben Booth Judge on this 4th day of August 1832 Personally appeared before said Court the above named Gilbert Fairchild and made oath to the truth of the above deposition, and said Court certifies that the said deponent sustains a good character for truth & is a credible witness
Attest Edward Taylor Clerk
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THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES 
Form VAM-51 
12-5-41 
BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD* 
Division of Veterans' Administration Archives
 
NAME Hyatt, Alvin [Alvan] GRADE Private LINE Lamb's Artillery (New York)
WARRANT NUMBER 7290 ACREAGE 100 ISSUED Nov. 27, 1790 to Anna Lacey, Admrx.- 

*The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800. Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.