Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 44,903, Joseph Hadley, N.H.
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(3 - 1776)
SERVICE
N. H.


Hadley, Joseph

NUMBER
S. 44.903

CONTENTS  (left blank)
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New
18.452
York,
Joseph Hadley, 2nd
Franklin in the State of New York
ho was a private in the Regiment commanded
of the New Hamps
Colonel Bedel
ine, for the term of one year
scribed on the Roll of New York
at the rate of
18,452
New York 

Joseph Hadley,  2nd
of Franklin in the State of New York 
who was a private in the Regiment commanded (by) Colonel Bedel of the New Hampshire line, for the term of one year--
 
Subscribed on the Roll of New York, 
at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 21 of February 1820


Certificate of Pension issued the 7th of January 18(missing) and sent to Hon. R. H. Walworth,
H(ouse of). R(epresentatives).

Arrears to 4th of Sept. 1821 $147. 34
(se)mi-anl. all'ce ending Mar. '22.  48.00
(sum)                                        $195.34

18 months    
8/28 + 4/30 

Died Aug 15 1825
---
{Revolutionary claim,
Act 18th March, 1818.}
&
1 May 1820.
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New Hamp(shire) line
Joseph Hadley of
Col(onel)  Beadles Reg(imen)t
1776 - 1 y(ea)r 


The Judge has not certified
to the credibility and (?) in
testimonys of the witnesses
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Stateof New York}
Franklin County}  ss

On this twenty first day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty before me the subscriber one of the Judges of the court of common pleas of the county and State aforesaid personally appears
Joseph Hadley aged sixty years sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain
the provision made by the late act of Congress entitled "An act to provide for certain persons persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war, 

That the said Joseph Hadley enlisted in Haverhill  in the State of New Hampshire in the company commanded by Captain Samuel Young in a regiment commanded by Colonel Timothy Beadle in the month of February in the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy six that I marched in the spring of that year to St Johns in a place called the Cedars in the province of Lower Canada that in a
skirmish with the enemy there I was taken prisoner & remained as such for eight or ten days when I was with others put on parole of honor that we would not take up arms against the army for the three months and at the expiration of the said three months I joined my former company at Mount Independence where I served out the remainder of the year in the service of the United States with the spring of 1777 when I was discharged from the said
service in Haverhill in the State of New Hampshire and that I am in reduced circumstances and stand in need of assistance of my country for support and that my discharge of the time of service as aforesaid has long since been lost

(signed) Joseph L Hadley 

Sworn to and declared before me the day and years aforesaid  (sighed) James Campbell Judge
-
I James Campbell one of the Judges of the court of Common pleas of the county of Franklin and State aforesaid do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Joseph Hadley did serve in the revolutionary war as stated in the preceding declaration against the common enemy and that said Joseph Headley is in reduced circumstances and in need of the assistance of the Country for support and I now transmit the proceeding & testimony taken and had before me to the secretary for the department of war pursuant to the direction of the aforementioned act of Congress
(signed) James Campbell Judge
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State of New York}
Franklin County} ss 
Jonathan Sanders of the town of Moore? in the County of Franklin & State aforesaid being duly sworn deposeth and say that he is personally acquainted with Joseph Hadley  the person making the foregoing declaration and asking the assistance of his country
that he knows that the said Headley enlisted in the winter of 1776 under Capt(ain) Samuel Young for one year in a regiment commanded by Colonel Timothy Beadle in the town of Haverhill in the State of New Hampshire, that 
in the following spring this deponent knows that the said Joseph Hadley marched to St Johns and the Cedars in the province of Lower Canada and that he knows of Headley being taken prisoner with others that the said
Joseph Hadley joined the said Company at Mount Independence and continued to serve in the same till the spring of 1777   that this deponent was in the same service during the 
term or time and further this deponent says not 

(signed) Johnathan Sanders (by his mark)

Subscribed & sworn to 
before me the 21st day of
February 1820
(signed) James Campbell Judge}
Franklin Com(mon) Pleas}

State of New York}
Franklin County}  ss


(Supplementary affidavit of Jonathan Sanders)
Jonathan Sanders the above named deponent
being further duly sworn deposeth and says that he is in no way or manner of kin or relation to the above named Joseph Hadley  the person claiming a pension either by affinity or consanguinity and further that he has no interest in the event of his proving the said pension by pensioner or expecting or in any manner whatever further this deponent
says not

(signed) Johnathan Sanders (by his mark)

Subscribed and sworn to before me
the 2 day of October 1820
(signed) James Campbell Judge}
of Franklin Com(mon) Pleas}
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State of New York
Franklin County} ss 

(Supplementary affidavit of John Sanders,
John Sanders being further duly sworn
deposeth and says that he is in no way or manner of kin or relation to the said Jonathan Hadley the person making application for a pension and that I have no interest in the event of his procuring his pension or not in any way or manner whatever & further says not

(signed) John Sanders

Sworn to before me this 
18th day of Nov(embe)r 1820
(signed) James Campbell Judge}
Franklin Com(mon) Pleas 
Next
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State of New York}
Franklin County} ss I  John Simons of the town of Fort Covington in the County and State aforesaid being duly sworn deposeth
and says that he is personally acquainted with Joseph Hadley the person making the foregoing declaration that he knows that 
the said Joseph Hadley served as a private in a company in raised by Samuel Young in the town of Haverhill in the State of New Hampshire a regiment commanded by Colonel Timothy Beadle the year 1776 that the said Hadley continued to serve during the
(illegible) of that year

(signed) John Sanders 

Sworn to before me the 21st day of
February 1820
(signed) James Campbell Judge
of Franklin Com(mon) Pleas


State of New York}
Franklin County} ss

I Asa Wheeler Clerk of the County aforesaid do hereby certify that James Campbell Esquire whose signature appears affixed to the fore going depositions was on the 21 day of February AD 1820 the time the same were made before him, a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Franklin duly commissioned qualified and sworn to act as such Judge, and the the signatures of James Campbell subscribed to the same are in his own proper handwriting as I verily believe 

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Public Seal of the said County this 10 day of March the 1820 at Marboro? in said County 

Asa Wheeler Clerk by 
Tho(ma)s A. Tomlinson Dep(uty) Clerk 

State of New York}
Franklin County} ss

I James Campbell the person before whom the above affidavits and supplements were taken do certify that the above named Sanders are men of truth and veracity and ought to be believed under oath and they are in no way interested as appears by their affidavits Nov(embe)r 28th 1820  (signed Ja(me)s Campbell Judge
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Copy of the Schedule and Oath of Joseph Hadley
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State of New York. At a Court of Common Pleas held at the Court house in the town of Malone in the County of Franklin on the 10th day of October 1820 Present Hiram Horton, Gates Hoit and Corc Andrus Judges.

Franklin County ss: On this 11th day of October 1820 personally appeared in open Court being a Court of record proceeding according to the course of the Common land & which have the power of fine and imprisonment for the said County of Franklin
Joseph Hadley aged sixty years residing in the town of Fort Covington in said County who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath declare that he served in the
revolutionary was as follows    that I belonged to a company commanded by Captain Samuel Young in a Regiment commanded by Colonel Timothy Beadle in the New Hampshire line in the year 1776 for one year when I was honorably discharged   that I was in the fighting at St John & the Cedars in 
lower Canada, that the date of my original declaration is on the 21st February 1820 that my papers were sent back by the Secretary of the war for want of the witnesses stating their
disinterestedness & the Judge certifying to the credibility of the same   that I have not received any pension or certificate  And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of
the United States on the 18th day of March 1818, and that I have not since that time by gift sale or in any manner disposed of my property or any part thereof with intent thereby so to diminish it, as to bring myself within the provisions of an Act of Congress entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of
the United States in the revolutionary war"" passed on the 18th day of March 1818 and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property or sureties contracts or debts
due to me, nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by
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Me Subscriber

Schedule of property belonging to declarant.-
Real Estate I have none. 

Personal property
excepting bedding and wearing Apparel}

one cracked or broken Pot and  Kettle not
worth more than five dollars}  $5.00

one small pot that holds one & half pails
broken-  .75
one broken tea Kettle  .50
one broken spider -.50
one bush hook pretty worn ". 50
and old axe- " .75
two Knives & forks " .34
3  plates-  0.18
(sum) $  8.52

I owe John Aiken merchant five or six dollars
for goods
I am by occupation a farmer. I have no family never was married and about ten or twelve years since I was on to a (?)  piece of land, without the consent or permission of any person five or six miles from any inhabitants
where I built a small log hut and made a Small improvement, that the last season I cut from 2 to three tons of hay which I now have   that in June last my hut was burnt together with the few articles of bedding I had, that the owner of the land has come out and sold out a part of 
my improvement to another persons & ordered me to quit the premises

(Signed) Joseph Hadley
                               
Sworn to & declared on the 11th}
day of October 1820 before the}
Court Asa Wheeler Clerk}
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Stateof New York}
Franklin County} ss

I Asa Wheeler Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas held in and forth County of Franklin do
Certify that the foregoing oath and the Schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the record of the said Court, and I do
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 Eight dollars and fifty two cents.

In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set
my hand & affixed the seal of the said Court this 20 Day of October AD 1820

Asa Wheeler Clerk of the Court
for the County of Franklin by
Tho(ma)s A Tomlinson Dep(uty). Cl(er)k
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October 27, 1932
XXXXXXXXXXXXXX
BA-J/EEL
Joseph Hadley-S.44903
Thomas Mills R. 7260

Alice M. Hadley
Dumbarton
New Hampshire

Dear Madam:


Reference is made to your letter in which you request information in regard to Amos Hadley, Thomas Mills, William Smith, Joseph Hadley, of Franklin County, New York, and Joseph Hadley, of Ontario County, New York, soldiers of the Revolutionary War.

Because of the very large number of requests for Revolutionary War data, and the limited clerical force available for furnishing such data, it has not been possible to make a series of investigations and reports pertaining to soldiers of that war for one person. You are herein furnished the histories of Joseph Hadley, S.44903, and Thomas Mills, R. 7350, the data being obtained from the papers on
file in their claims for pension based upon their military services in the War of the Revolution.

Joseph Hadley was in the battle of St. John's Canada; no details of this service are given. He enlisted in Haverhill, New Hampshire,in February, 1776, served as a private in Captain Samuel Young's Company, Colonel Timothy Bedel's New Hampshire Regiment, was in the battle of "The Cedars" in Canada, was taken prisoner at that place, held for eight or ten days, was then placed upon parole and at the expiration of three months rejoined his company at Mount Independence, and was discharged in the spring of 1777.

He was allowed pension on his application executed February 21, 1820, at which time he was aged sixty years and resided at Fort Covington, Franklin County, New York.

He died August 15, 1825.

The soldier stated that he was never married and there are no data in regard to his parents, brothers or sisters.

(Note in left margin):   He stated that he was "paroled for three months" but as Mrs Finch thought it could not be true.  I re-wrote and changed wording AB 

(Note in right margin):  St John's was in 1775 and as he is given in V(ermon)t book in 1775 service  I need it this May
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Thomas Mills was born in Dumbarton, New Hampshire, date not given.

He married February 18, 1787, Mary, whose maiden name is not given. Mary died December 5, 1819, it was stated that they always resided in Dunbarton, New Hampshire.

On September 11, 1832, Thomas Mills, then aged seventy-one years and a resident of Dumbarton, Merrimack County, New Hampshire, applied for pension and stated that he enlisted in Dumbarton, New Hampshire, in July, 1777, served four months as a private in Captain Samuel McConnell's Company, Colonel Stickney's New Hampshire Regiment, and was in the battle of Bennington; that he again enlisted January 1, 1780, and served three months in Captain Nichols' New Hampshire Company.

His claim was not allowed as he failed to furnish proof of six months service as was required by the pension laws.

He died November 5, 1848.

In 1852, a daughter, Emily Perley, was aged forty-seven years, and resided in Dumbarton, New Hampshire. There are no further data
as to soldier's family.


Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER
Assistant to Administrator.

(note in right margin) 
I found sol, in NH. book in first ser. .
but did not find any other service for him.
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(on an envelope)
(horizontally) 
Fort Covington
Dec 7th 1820

(written sideways )
deceased 
Joseph Hadley 
Franklin Co(unty)  NYK.

J. Wallace 
Ag(en)t 
Fort Covington, NYK. 

Rec(eived) 23 Dec. 1820

(written sideways but opposite direction as foregoing) 

Ad(mitted) and Con. 
T. L. E. 
Hon. R. H. Walworth H(ouse of) R(epresentatives) c


(written horizontally) 

Free

J. C. Calhoun Esquire
Secretary of War
Washington
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Fort Covington Franklin Co NY Dec(ember) 7th 1820

To the Hon(orable)  J C Calhoun Esq(ui)r(e)

Sir 

Sometime say in the month of Feb(ruar)y last I sent to you Jos(eph) Hadleys papers for to obtain a pension under the act of Congress, that they were soon after returned, noted that the Judge had not certified that the witnesses were credible & disinterested. 

That I could not promise the supplementary
affi(davits) of the witnesses and the Judges further certifications which are now annexed on account of the distance of the witnesses & the trouble and expense together with the extreme poverty of the applicant.  

at our last October Com(mon) Pleas obtained  the enclosed Petition &c notwithstanding his pension certificate had been granted inasmuch as he had made application for the same previous to the preparation of the (missing) of the 18th march 1820   your communication on this subject will be thankfully had? by your petitioner

I am yours 
Respectfully
(signed) J Wallace
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44903
Rev(olutionar)y INVALID
File No. 44903
Joseph Hadley
Priv(ate). Rev(olutionary) . War


Act: 18 March 1818
Index: -- Vol. 3 , Page 213
[Arrangement of 1870.]


(sideways on right side of record) 
1932 Oct(ober) 27- Hist(ory) to Alice M,. Hadley EEB
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(stamp) 
RECEIVED 
OCT 17 1932 
Accounting Div 3
Pension ? Bureau? 

(stamp) 
RECEIVED 
OCT 17 1932
Mail Unite No 2 
Accounting Div. 

Dunbarton N. H.
October, 11, 1932

Veteran's Bureau.
Washington D.C.

Gentlemen:

Will you please give me a copy of the application for pensions and the service of the following,

Amos Hadley, of New Hampshire, who resided in Dunbarton N. H.

Thomas Mills, who resided in Dunbarton N. H.

William Smith, who resided in Dunbarton N.H. (If this Wm. Smith served at all, he was from another town at the time.  His wife's name was Peggy, and as his grave was never decorated with a flag, he may not have served, but have
been told that he did,

Joseph Hadley of Franklin County, New York,

Joseph Hadley of Rush, Ontario County, N.Y. a sergeant in William's Co. Graham's Regt. New York State Militia. Also where was this last Joseph living when his pension ceased, or when he died.

I am trying to trace my lines back through the above men and thank you many times for the material, which I assure you, I greatly  appreciate,

Yours truly,
Alice M. Hadley
(signed) 

(stamp) 
Receved
OCT 15 1932
DAR IND-?
D.E. V.E 17
READER 

(stamp) 
PENSION SERVICE
OFFICE OF
ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT
oct 18 1932
No. 8
VETERANS ADMINISTRATION