Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 19826, Elisha Hoit, Continental Mass.
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Service
Continental Mass
Hoit, Elisha
Hannah
Number
W.19826
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9300

R

Massachusetts
Elisha Hoit

of Groton in the state of Mass who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Crane of the Mass. line, for the term of six years

Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 7th of April, 1818.

Certificate of Pension issued the 15th of Apl 1819 and sent to Paul Saml Dana Esq Groton Mass.

Arrears to 4th of Mar 1819 10 [mo?] 24/30 11/31. 87.43
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4th Sept. 1819 48.00
$136:43

Revolutionary claim,
Act 18th March, 1818.

Continued.
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Massachusetts  $46
Hannah Hoit
widow of Elisha Hoit decd
who was a pensioner under the Act 18 mar 
and who died on the 5 March 1827
of Norfolk in the State of Mass who was a Pri in the Company commanded by Captain Vose of the Regt commanded by Crane in the Massachusetts line for 2 years

Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 80 Dollars ___Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836

Certificate of Pension issued the 2nd day of Oct 1838 and (?) H Montgomery Boston

Arrears to the 4th of Sept  $200.00
Semiannual allowance ending $40.00\
Total $240.00

Act July 7 1838

Recorded by R Burdine  Clerk, 
Book A  Vol. (12?)  Page 94
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United States of America District of Massachusetts

On this twenty fourth day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty eight personally appeared before the district court of the United States for the district of Massachusetts Hannah Hoit a resident of Ma[illegible] in the county of Norfolk and Commonwealth of Massachusetts aged seventy five years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the Act of Congress passed July 7 1838 entitled An Act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows that she is the widow of Elisha Hoit formerly of [illegible] in the County of Middlesex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts who as I have often heard him say enlisted as a private in the American Army in the regiment commanded by Colonel Grant in a company commanded by Captain [illegible]ose some time in the spring of the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy seven for three years or during the war that he was a volunteer at Concord
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Lexington and Bunker Hill battles that, he served till the end of the war where he receive a written discharge which I have often seen but it is now lost and Hoit was a pensioner at the time of his death which took place on the fifteen day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty seven that he lived in Groton aforesaid at the time of enlistment and that Groton and (?) were the places of his residence until the time of his death that he served as seargant during the last part of his said service she further declared that she was married to the said Elisha Hoit on the fourteenth day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety that her marriage took place at Boston at the home of the (?) John Lathrop j/p that the marriage ceremony was  performed by said (?) j/p and that he maiden name was Hannah Blood that her husband the aforesaid Elisha Hoit died as above stated on the fifth day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty seven  that she has no since been married that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service but the marriage took place previous to the first of January seventeen hundred and ninety for viz : at the time above stated that she
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is very poor and entirely dependent on her children for her support

Signature of Hannah Hoit

Massachusetts District ss  August 24 1838
Then personally appeared Hannah Hoit and made oath to the truth of the above declaration by her subscribed before me 
In Service
Judge U.S. District Court
(?)

I Francis Bassett Clerk of the District Court of the United States for the District of Massachusetts hereby certify that the foregoing signature of John Davis is his own hand writing and that the said John Davis was at the time of writing the same and no w is Judge of the said District Court

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand & the seal of said court this twenty fourth day of August 1838 and in the sixty (?) year of the Independence of the United States of American

Signature of Francis Bassett (?)
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

City of Boston, August 18, 1838.

I the subscriber do hereby certify, that it appears by the Registry of marriages in the town (now City) of Boston, there is the following record of marriages, viz:

Elisha Hoit & Hanna Blood, married by Revd. John Lathrop, fourteenth Sept. one thousand seven hundred & ninety. That the above is a true copy of the record, with the exception of the date which is expressed in the record in fair legible figures, as follows.

Elisha Hoit & Hannah Blood, married by Revd. John Lathrop 14 Sepr. 1790.

Samuel F. McCleary, City Clerk.

I Samuel F. McCleary above named depose & say, that I hold the office of City Clerk of the City of Boston, in the County of Suffolk & State aforesaid and that the above is a true extract from the records of marriages in said Boston, with the exception above named as certified by me.

Samuel F. McCleary

Suffolk, ss. Boston August 18 1838. The above named Samuel F McCleary personally appeared & made oath to the truth of the above certificates by him subscribed.

Before me.

Hugh Montgomery Justice of the peace
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Elisha Hoit

correct.

Saml. Dana, Esqr.
Groton,
Mass.
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COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.

BE it remember, that on this Seventh day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and Eighteen before me, SAMUEL DANA, Chief Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, for the Middle Circuit, (comprehending the Counties of Essex and Middlesex, in the Commonwealth aforesaid) comes Elisha Hoit of Groton in said county of Middlesex and on oath declares that he serve din the war of the revolution, Seven years and two months and was in service at the end of that war – He first engaged for eight months service in the State of Massachusetts & finished that service next year he was six months in Service at Ticonderoga - and on the first day of April in the year of our Lorde One thousand seven hundred and Seventy seven he enlisted upon the Continental establishment into the artillery in the company of Capt Thomas Nare in Colo. Cranes Regiment during the war, and in their Company he returned to the end of the war his [Leut?] [said?] Hammond and Bass his Lt. Colo. was Popkins, his Major Doughty, at Westpoint as he believes on the tenth day of June AD 1783 he received a discharge by the hand of Capt. Nase, his discharge was stolen from him in his pocket Book at Charleston Massachusetts, with thirty dollars of money.

He is now Sixty three years of age, wholly destitute of property and has for several years been unable to labor, and
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To the Honorable John C. Calhoun, Secretary of the Department of War of the United States. 

I, the undersigned Samuel Dana, Chief Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleases, for the Middle Circuit, (Comprehending the Counties of Essex and Middlesex) in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, being a Court of Record, duly established by Law, Do hereby certify, That on the Seventh day of April in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and Eighteen  Personally appeared Elisha Hoit and made and subscribed the declaration which is hereunto annexed. 

from which it appears to me, that the said Elisha Hoit did serve in the War of the REVOLUTION, against the common Enemy, upwards of nine months.  and he is well known to one to be in poor and distraught circumstances

Wherefore, in pursuance of the directions of an Act of Congress, made and passed the eighteenth of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, entitled, 
An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States, in the Revolutionary War," I have transmitted the said Declaration to you the said Secretary, that such further proceedings may be had in the premises, as the said Act may require. 

In testimony of all which, I have caused the Seal of said Court to be hereunto affixed. 

Given under my hand within the said Circuit, the seventh day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and Eighteen. 

Signature of Saml. Dana
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Elisha Hoit

(Remainder of test too faint to transcribe.)
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 
Middlesex ss. 

At the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the Middle Circuit, begun and holden at Concord, within and for the County of Middlesex, on the second Monday of June A.D. 1820
Before the Hon. Samuel Dana, Esquire, Chief Justice, 
and 
William Wetmore, and 
Stephen, Esquires Associate Justices of said Court. 

In open Court here, being a Court of Record for said Circuit, proceeding according to the course of common law, with a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount, keeping a record of its proceedings, and having the power of fine and imprisonment, Elisha Hoit resident in Groton in said County Circuit, who is named in Pension Certificate No. 9.300 now in possession, of which the following is a true copy, to wit, 

"WAR DEPARTMENT ....REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.
"I certify that, in conformity with the Law of the United States, of the18th March, 1818, Elisha Hoit late a Private in the army of the Revolution, is inscribed on the Pension List, Roll of the Massachusetts Agency, at the rate of eight collars per month, to commence on the seventh day of April one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.

"Given at the War Office of the United States, this fifteenth day of April one thousand eight hundred and nineteen
J.C. CALHOUN, Secretary of War,"

appears, and exhibits to the Court here a Schedule, subscribed by him, as follows, to wit, 

SCHEDULE, 
containing his whole estate and income, his necessary clothing and bedding excepted, to wit. 

:Real estate - house
Personal estate viz. 
1 cow of the value of $17.00
In presence of Caleb Butler
Elisha Hoits  MARK X

And the said Elisha Hoit having been first duly sworn according to law does on his oath depose that he enlisted into Capt. Thomas Vose's Company first Regiment of Artillery Massachusetts line commanded by Col. John Crane in the Revolutionary war April 1777 for and during the war and served accordingly - was in the battles of Bunker Hill, Bennington, Still-water, Germantown and Monmouth as is more particularly set forth in his original declaration o file in the war office April 7th
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1818 -  that he is seventy one years of age and by reason of an accident has been a cripple for more than twenty years and has long been supported as a pauper by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts   Elisha Hoit's mark X

In presence of 
Caleb Butler
Sworn & declared to before me
S. Dana Judge
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and at the same time he produces to the Court the following Oath, taken and subscribed by him, before the Hon. Samuel Dana a Judge of said Court as aforesaid, to wit, 

1.  Elisha Hit do solemnly swear, that I was a resident citizen of the United States, on the eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and that I have not, since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner whatever, disposed of my property, or any par thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself with the provisions of an act of Congress, entitled "an act to provide for certain persons engaged i the land and naval services of the United States in the revolutionary war." passed on the eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property, or securities, contracts, or debts, due to me; nor have I any income, other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed So help me GOD. 
Signature of Elisha Hoit's  Mark X

In presence of Caleb Butler

Middlesex ss. C.C.C.P.  June term, A.D. 1820
Then the abovenamed Elisha Hoit took and subscribed the aforewritten Oath before me
Signature of Saml Dana  Judge of said Court. 

I Abraham Biglow, Clerk of the Court aforesaid, do hereby certify that the foregoing Oath, and Schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the record of the said Court ' and I do further certify, that it is the opinion of the said Court, that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is seventeen dollars

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court, at Cambridge, in said County of Middlesex on the 20th day of July 1820

Attr.  Abrrm Biglow
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Elisha Hoit
Prvt. Rev. War
Act  July 7th 1838
Vol. A  Page 349

[Arrangement of 1870]
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835
Hannah Hoit 
widow of ELisha
Mass. 

act 7 July 38
5 years

married in 1790
died in 1827

aomd
of Goshen
80$
no deduction
H. Montgomery
Boston
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 

Secretary's Office, August 25th 1838.

I hereby Certify, That Hugh Montgomery Esqr. is a Justice of the Peace for the County of Suffolk, in the said Commonwealth, duly 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; and he was so at the date of his several attestations. 

On testimony whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the dat above written. 

Signature of John P Bigelow
Secretary of the Commonwealth
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I Sarah Lawton of Boston in the County of Suffolk and Commonwealth of Massachusetts hereby certify that I have been for many years past and now am well acquainted with Hannah Hoit whose declaration is hereunto annexed & know her to be the widow of Elisha Hoit the person named in the annexed declaration and that she has never been married since the death of her said husband Elisha Hoit and I believe her declaration aforesaid entitled to full credit.
Signature of Sarat Laughton

Suffolk ss  Boston  August 24th 1838
Sworn to before me  Hugh Montgomery Justice of the Peace

I hereby certify that I believe the statement of Sarah Lawton above written entitled to (?)  
Hugh Montgomery  Justice of the Peace
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 

Secretary's Office, August 21st 1838.

I hereby Certify, That, from an examination of the Books and Documents, relating to Military Services in the War of the Revolution, which remain in this Department, it appears that Elish Hoit, served as a Bombr in Captain Eustis's Company Colonel Crane's Regiment  April 28th 1777 to December 31 1779.  Thirty two months and three days at 34/pr mop. and Elisha Hoit also served as Sergeant in Vose's Company  Colonel Crane's  Regiment from January 1st to December31st 1780  Twelve months at 43 per mo.

In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written. 

Signature of John  P Bigelow
Secretary of the Commonwealth.
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The National Archives    Division of Veterans' Administration Archives

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*

Name Hoit, Elisha   Grade  Private
Line Crane's Continental Artillery (Massachusetts)

Warrant Number 4444
Acreage   100
Issued  Jan 7, 1796

to Calvin Sanger

+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-commission 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 found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.