Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 4804, John Hoggard, N.C.
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(8-1776)

SERVICE
N.C.

Hoggard, John
Penelope.

NUMBER
R.4804

CONTENTS
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[left column]
North Carolina 23.230
John Hoggard
of Bertie in the State of N. Carolina
who was a Pri in the _ commanded
by Captain of the Regn commanded
by Col. Hogan in the N. Caro:
line for 9 months - 

Inscribed on the Roll of N. Carolina
at the rate of 30- Dollars - Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 9- day of Decr
and [illegible] H. Reynolds
Windsor - NC -

Arrears to the 4th of Sept 1830 - 75.00
Semi-ant. allowance ending 4 Mar: 34 15 - 
$90 -

{Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7, 1832.}

Recorded by Nath. Rice - Clerk
Book E Vol. 6 1/2 Page 58 -

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Order to pay 7 March 1838.
Paid at the Treasury under 
Act of the 6th April 1838 [illegible]
4th Sep 1838 to 4 Sep 1839
Agent notified 13th Oct 1840
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John Hoggard
N. Carolina,

Rev.
admitted as private
9 mo $30=

11. 12. 13.
Int. 1.2.6
Apl 29.33
11602
P. 358



Reynolds
Windsor
N C
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BRIEF in the case of John Hoggard
Co. of Bertie in the state of N.C.
(Act 7th of June, 1832.)
1.  Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge?  before the Court
2.  If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?
3.  How old is he?  72
4.  State his service, as directed in the form annexed.
________________________________________________________________________________________
     Period          Duration of Service         Rank       Names of General and Field Officers
                        Years    Months     Days                    under whom he served
     In 1778                         8                   Private     Cap Blount      Col. Hogan

5.  In what battles was he engaged?   None Mentioned
6.  Where did he reside when he entered the service?   Bertie Co.  N.C.
7.  Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, 
     by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls?
     traditionary
8.  Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and is so, in what respect?
     No witnesses of any kind provided
I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
George Tayton
Examining Clerk
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State of North Carolina. }
County of Bertie. -         }  Court of pleas and quarter sessions began & held for the County aforesaid at the court house in Windsor on the 2nd morning of November in the year of our Lord 1833.

On this 13 day of November in the year 1833 personally appeared before the Justices of the said Court now sitting for the County aforesaid in the State aforesaid, John Hoggard, a resident of the county and State aforesaid aged seventy three years, who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress haped June 7th 1832. When he enlisted in the army of the United States in the month of July in the year 1778 with Capt. Redding Blount, and served in the 10th regiment of the continental line, under the following named officers, viz: Col. Hogan, a field officer, Capt. Redding Blount and Lieutenant Reuben Wilkinson company officers. When he left the said service on or about the last of April 1779 - the he resided in the county of Bertie and state aforesaid when he entered the service, that he was engaged in no battle - when he marched from the town of Windsor to the town of Halifax North Carolina - that he encamped near the town of Halifax for a short time and was marched then in to Petersburg in Virginia when he rendevoused (rendezvoused) and was marched then in through the State of Virginia, Maryland, Delaware New Jersey to West Point in the state of New York at which place he arrived some time in the summer of 1778 and worked on the  fork, kept guard and discharged military duty until the 9th of December 1778 when he was ordered to Trenton, New Jersey to which place
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he marched under the said Captain Redding Blount and there took winter quarters - and had the small pock which was amongst the soldiers at that place. That about the first of April 1779 he was ordered to Halifax N.C. to which place he marched which the said Capt Blount and where he arrived about the last of that month and was discharged by Major
Whose name he does not recollect, having served out the term for which he enlisted.
The said John Hoggard further saith that he hereby relinquishes every claim whatsoever to a pension or annuity except the present and he declares that his name is not on the pension roll of any agency in any state

Signed
John Hoggard
Mark

Sworn to & subscribed
before me in open court
the 18 nov 1833
Jona S Taylor CLK

State of North Carolina
Bertie county Court of pleas and quarter sessions - november turn 1883-
I , William Watford, residing in the County of Bertie N.C. do hereby certify that I am well acquainted with John Hoggard, the individual who has subscribed  and sworn to the above declaration for a pension, that I believe him to be 73 years of age as he has stated. I know of my own knowledge that the said John Hoggard, was a soldier in the United States army in the time of the revolutionary war - I served with said John Hoggard for the term of nine months during that war, as a soldier- we enlisted at the same time, served the same length of time, and were discharged at the same time. He thinks the name of the said John Hoggard must have been entered on the muster rolls- but that there may have been a mistake on entering it correctly. He never knew nor heard of any person named John Hoggard in Bertie County nor elsewhere. Alltho such a name appears on the muster rolls. He thinks the name was the identical John Hoggard, the declarant

Sworn to & subscribed before me in
open court this 13 Nov 1833
Jona S Taylor CLK

William Watford
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State of North Carolina}
Bertie County SS.}  Court of pleas & quarter pensions Nov. term 1833.

The aforenamed John Hoggard the defendant, personally appeared in open court and being first duly sworn according to law answered the following interrogations as herein stated.

1. When and in what year were you born?
ans. I was born in the Bertie County N.C. in or about the year 1761.
2. Have you any record of your age?
Ansr. I have not: my parents had no learning, and did not keep a family record.
3. Where were you living when called into the service, where have you lived since the revolutionary war, and where do you now live?
ansr I lived in Bertie County N.C. when called into the service and have lived in said county since that war and now live in said county.
4. How were you called into service, were you drafted, did you volunteer, or were you a substitute?
Ansr. I enlisted for nine months and served under Lieutenant Wilkinson, Capt. Redding Blount and Col. Hogan for that time. We were called nine months soldiers. We camped at West Point in the State of New York for most of the time we were in the service.

In answer to the 5th interrogatory - I do not now remember the names of any regular officers who were with the troops where I served, other than those I have before mentioned: not do I recollect the name of any continental or militia regiment except the one in which I served. The circumstances of my service so far as is deemed material I have before stated I no not recollect any other thing of importance.
6. Did you ever receive a discharge from the Service: and if so by whom was it given and what has become of it.
Ansr. I received a discharge but cannot remember the name of the officer who gave it - nor do I know what has become of it. I have no learning and did not know it would be of any service to me. I served out my time faithfully and no fault was fount of me that I know of. my discharge cannot now be found. It has no doubt been lost or destroyed long ago. I served in the
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same company with William Watford of this County, and went through the same service that he did, and for the same term of nine months. We set out together & marched together to West Point, and returned together as private soldiers merely. I am known in my neighbourhood by the said William Watford, Henry White, a clergyman, Elijah Rayner, and many others who can testify to my veracity & their belief of my services as a soldier of the revolution.

John his X mark Hoggard

Sworn & subscribed in
open court this 13 day
of november 1833
Jona S Taylor CLK

We, Henry White, a clergyman, and Elijah Rayner, a Justice of the Peace, both residing in the County of Bertie N.C; hereby certify that we are well acquainted with John Hoggard who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration, that we believe him to be 73 years of age, that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood which he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution, & that we concur in that opinion    Henry White
Sworn and subscribed in open court -    Elijah Rayner
thius 13 day of Nov 1833

Jona S Taylor CLK

and the said court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories preserved by the War department that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he stated. and the said court further certifies that it appears to them that Henry White, who has signed one of the preceding certificates is a clergyman resident in the County of Bertie N.C. and that Elijah Rayner and William Watford who have also signed certificates on this paper are residents of the same County of Bertie and are all credible persons and that their statement is entitled to credit.

State of N Carolina }
Bertie County - }    I Jonathan S Taylor clerk of the court of pleas and quarter sessions for Bertie County- do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of John Hoggard for a pension - In testimony where of I have hereunto to set my hand seal of the office this 14 day of November 1833
Jona S Taylor CLK
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11615
Penelope Hazzard
wow of John
January 20, 1845.
N C
Act 7 July 1838
4804
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The application of Mrs. Penelope Hazzard for a pension under the provision of the act of Congress of 1838.

Penelope Hazzard maketh oath that she is the widow of John Hazzard, a pensioner for Revolutionary service under the act of Congress of 1832 at the rate of thirty dollars per Anum which will fully appear by reference to the Pension list no 23.230, that he has been dead upwards of these years that she was married to him in the year 1784 that the nature of his Revolutionary service was proved previous to his receiving by a pension under the act of congress of 1832

Penelope her X mark Hazzard

State of No Carolina}
Bertie County}   Personally appeared at the Court of pleas and quarter Sessions for Bertie County Feby Term 1834 Penelope Hazzard who maketh oath to the above Statement_ 
Giving under my hand and Seal of said Court this
14th day of Feby 1844
Jon S. Taylor Clerk
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North Carolina}
Bertie County}  I James R. Rayner Chairman of the County Court of Bertie do
hereby certify that Jonathan S. Taylor is Clerk of the said Court and that by law 
he is the keeper of the Seal thereof Witness my hand & private seal, having no
seal of office on the 14 Feby 1844   JR Rayner Char Seal
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S. S. Webb maketh oath that Penelope
Hoggard whose affidavit will be found on this
She is the widow of John Hoggard, that he
personally knew both of them that for several
years he aided the said John Hoggard in
getting his pension
SS Webb
Sworn to & Subscribed 
before me in open court
this 14 Feby 1834
Jona S Taylor

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State of No Carolina}
Bertie County}  I James R Rayner Chairman of the County Court of Bertie do
hereby certify that Jon S Taylor is Clerk of the said court and that by law he
is the keeper of the Seal thereof, witness my hand & private seal having no seal
office this 16 Feb 1844
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J. R. Rayner
Char Seal
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[crossed out - Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873)]
REJECTED
4804
P.O.
Penelope Hazzard
Service: widow of John
Hoggard
Enlisted: _, 18  .
Discharged: _, 18  .
Application filed: _, 18  .
Alleges:
Re-enlisted:
Attorney:
P.O.
_Recognized. _Contract
_Cert. of Dis. Searched for _, 18
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No. 11615
Penelope Hazzard
NC
Let. to L. S. Webb April 3. 1845
July 7, 1938
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James L. Edwards Esquire
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington
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Pension Office
Fayetteville July 27 1838
James L Edwards Esqr
Commissioner of Pensions

Sir,
I write for your information
the prosper in the case of John Hoggard pension
line on the 15 March 1836.
1832 from 4 Sep 6th to Sept 3 $30
very respectfully
your obsvt
Jno Huske
[illegible]
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TREASURY DEPARTMENT
Second Comptroller's Office
Oct 6th 1840

Sir:
Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled "An
act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain
Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury
of the United States", John Hoggard
a Pensioner on the Roll of the North Carolina Agency, at
the rate of Thirty - Dollars [crossed out - and] [crossed out -Cents]
per annum, under the law of the 7th of June 1832 has
been paid at this Department, from the fourth of September 1838
to the fourth of September 1839

Respectfully yours,
J Seaver
Acting Comptroller

To the Commissioner of Pensions
Present.
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Payments to be made at Fayetteville - by the Jr. W. S. Br. Bank - 
Agent for paying Pensioners in the Agency of N. Cao:



Recorded in the Pension Office, in Book E Vol. 6 1/2 Page 58 by N. Rice 
Clerk.
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WAR DEPARTMENT
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.

I certify that in conformity with the law of the United States of the 7th June, 1832, John Hoggard - of the State of North Carolina - who was a Private in the line of the Revolution is entitled to receive Thirty - - dollars and - cents per annum, during his natural life, commencing on the 4th of March, 1831, and payable semiannually on the 4th of March, and 4th of September, in every year.

Given at the War Office of the United State, this 9 - day of December one thousand eight hundred and thirty three - 
Lew Cap
Secretary of War.

Examined and}
Countersigned.}

JL Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions.
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Sec. Wm Watfords affidavit.
John Hoggard is no 
doubt the true name.
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State of North Carolina
Secretary's Office
I William Hill Secretary of State in and for the State aforesaid, certify, that it appears from the musterrolls of the Continental line of this State in the revolutionary war, that John Hoggart a private soldier in Capt. Blount's Company of the 10th Regiment enlisted the 20th July 1778 for the term of 9 months nothing is said of his discharge on said rolls. 
Given under my hand this 20th day of August 1832. 
W. Hill
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State of North Carolina
Bertie County - }
Mary Mizells being duly sworn says she
saw & was present when John Hoggard late
a revolutionary pensioner was married to Penelope
Hoggard, then Penelope Mitchell, and that she
is now the widow of said John Hoggard
and that she has known her was since. -
Witness S. J. Webb.   Mary her X mark Mezzells 

Sworn to subscribed
before me this 3rd Jan. 1845.
Willie G. Clary J.P.

State of North Carolina
Bertie County }  I Jonathan S. Taylor Clerk of Bertie County Court of pleas and
quarter Sessions for the County of Bertie & State of North Carolina do hereby certify that Willie G Clary who signed the above affidavit of Mary Mizell is an
acting Justice of the Peace for the County of Bertie and was at the time he signed the same and that it is in his own proper hand writing
Given under my hand & Seal
of said Court at Windsor
the 15 day of Jany 1845
Jona S Taylor
Clk
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11615 Jan 20 '45

Cl. Penelope Hoggard
Aug 7. 1838.
N.C.

vertical: 

J. L. Edwards, Esquire
Com. of Pension
Washington City D.C. 

FREE
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Windsor Jan. 16th 1845.
J.L. Edwards Esq
Comr. of Pensions

Dear Sir
Enclosed I send you what I deem to be the necessary proof to entitle Mrs. Penelope Hoggard to pension under the act of congress of 1838. I send also the certificate of her late husband John Haggard. Should she be so fortunate as to obtain a pension please to enclose her certificate to me If any other proof is necessary I would be very much obliged to you to point it out.
Very respectfully
your obt. svt
L. J. Webb

P.S.
As it is not my business to procure pensions for profit. I have not informed my
self but little on the subject.