Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 21,344, Timothy Hoskins, Conn.
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Conn.   Hoskins, Timothy   W. 21344
                           Rhoda
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1099
Burlington Vermont
Rhoda Hoskins
widow of Timothy Hoskins decd
who died on the 4 April 1803
of Montreal in the Lower Canada
who was a private in the company commanded
by Captain          of the Regt commanded
by Col Butler in the Cont. line for 2 years.

Inscribed on the Roll of Burlington at the rate of 80 Dollars ---- Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 1st day of July 1837 and sent Hon Benj. Swift- St Albans Vt.

Arrears to the 4th of March 1837 $480.00
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sept " 40.00
                                                   ---------------
                                                     $520.00

{Revolutionary Claim, Act July 4, 1836, Section the 3d}

Recorded by D D Addison Clerk,
Book A  Vol. 1  Page 38


see letter to Hon. B Swift
Sept 6 1837
Duplicate certificates issued
11th Sept 1837 and sent to Hon B. Swift Senate U.S.
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Declaration of
Rhoda Hoskins
widow of
Timothy Hoskins



Joseph H. Brainerd Clerk
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State of Vermont
Franklin County ss.}

On this 16th day of June AD 1837 at Franklin in the County of Franklin, personally appeared before me one of the Justices of the Peace within & for said County, Rhoda Hoskins of [unk] of Shefford in the District of Montreal in the Providence of Lower Canada, aged eighty six 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 4th AD 1836. That she is the widow of Timothy Hoskins, who was a private in the army of the revolution, in the service of the United States, and served in that capacity according to the best of her recollection, about three years, and tho she was the wife of said Timothy during the whole time of his service, yet her memory has become so impaired by reason of age that, she is unable to specify the particular terms of the said Timothy's service, or the names of the officers under whom he served, or the particulars where the said service was performed
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she thinks however that a considerable portion of his services were performed at or near West Point in the state of New York. She further declares that she was married to said Timothy at Bloomfield, (then called Wistonbury) in the state of Connecticut on the 30th day of April AD 1772. That she with the said Timothy removed to Johnstown in the county of Montgomery and state of New York, at which place the said Timothy died on the 4th day of April AD 1803, and that she has ever since that period remained a widow, as will now fully appear by refference to the proof hereto anexed.

Rhoda Hoskins her mark X
witness Elisha Bascom
Abram [unk]

Sworn and subscribed on the say and year above written before me.

Elisha Bascom Justice of the Peace
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State of Vermont
Franklin County ss.}

On this 16th day of June AD 1837 personally appeared before me one of the Justices of the Peace within & for the county of Franklin at Franklin in said county, Rhoda Laurence of Shefford in the District of Montreal & Providence of Lower Canada, aged fifty two years, and made solemn oath that she is the daughter of Timothy & Rhoda Hoskins, that her father was the same Timothy Hoskins whose services are mentioned in the foregoing declaration, that her mother is the same Rhoda Hoskins whose signature is affixed to said declaration, & that the same was affixed in her presence, that she was about nineteen years of age at the time of the decease of the said Timothy which took place in April AD 1803 at Johnstown in the State of New York. That she resided with her said father & mother until the decease her said father, and that she continued to reside with her said mother untill they removed together to the said town of Shefford, and that she and her said mother have both resided in said Shefford ever since that period, and that her mother is now a widow, and has ever remained such, since the decease of the said Timothy.

Rhoda Laurence

Sworn & subscribed on the day and year above written before me.

Elisha Bascom Justice of the peace
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I hereby certify that the within named Rhoda Hoskins and Rhoda Laurence an credible witnesses and that their testimony is entitled to full credit.

Elisha Bascom J. Peace



Declaration of
Rhoda Hoskins
widow of 
Timothy Hoskins
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State of Vermont
Franklin County ss.} I Joseph H Brainerd Clerk of Franklin County Courts, do hereby certify to all persons to whom these presents shall come, that Elisha Bascom is one of the Justices of the Peace in and for the County of Franklin aforesaid, for the year ending November 30th 1837, that I am well acquainted with his hand writing and believe the within signatures purporting to his as Justice of the Peace, to be genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed the seal of said County Court and subscribed my name at St Albans in said County of Franklin this 21st day of June AD 1837.

Joseph H Brainerd Clerk
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I Zadock Brown of Bloomfield County of Hartford and State of Connecticut in my eighty seventh year of age, do testify and say that I was well acquainted with Timothy Hoskins and Rhoda Gillett, both of the town of Windsor, now the town of Bloomfield aforesaid, from they youth up to the time the their marriage and some years afterwards. I was present at the marriage of Timothy Hoskins to Rhoda Gillett, now the widow Rhoda Hoskins, which marriage was celebrated by the Reverend Hezekiah Bissell, at the house of the sd Rhoda Gilletts Father in the spring of about the year 1772 or 1773. The aforesaid Timothy Hoskins belonged to the same company of militia, with the Deponent, and during the Revolutionary War he the said Timothy left the company of militia to which we belonged, and enlisted into the continental service as I there understood and now believe.
Bloomfield APril 19th 1837

Zadock Brown

State of Connecticut
Hartford County} ss. Bloomfield April 19th 1837

Personally appeared Zadock Brown to me personally known and made oath to the truth of the aforesaid affidavit and subscribed the same before me.

Ammi R Palmer Justice of the Peace

State of Connecticut
Hartford County} ss. Bloomfield April 19 1837

I certify that Zadock Brown the above deponent is a resident of the aforesaid town of Bloomfield, to me personally known, that he is a person of truth and veracity and that his statements is entitled to credit.

Ammi R Palmer Justice of the Peace
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I, ROYAL R. HINMAN, 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 Ammi R. Palmer Esquire, is, and for more than six months last past, has been a Justice of the Peace within and for the County of Hartford in said State, duly appointed, commissioned and qualified, 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 witnesses and to take Affidavits and Deposition out of Court, and to give certificates thereof; and that full faith and credit may and ought to be given to the official acts and attestations of the said A R Palmer in Court and Country. 
In testimony whereof, I have, in my capacity of Secretary as aforesaid, hereunto set my Hand, and affixed the Seal of said State, at the City of Hartford, in said State, the 25th day of April in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and thirty seven, and further certify that the name of Ammi R Palmer hereto attached is his genuine signature to me known.

Royal R Hinman Secretary of sd State
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I Cornelius B. Everest pastor of the church in Bloomfield, Conn. testify and say that I have examined the church Records of said Bloomfield and find there recorded the following words and figures, viz-
"Account of the persons that I have married and when.
April 30th 1772, Timothy Hoskins and Rhoda Gillett."

The above record of marriage is a true copy of the church record in my hands which records was kept by Rev. Hezekiah Bissell former pastor of the above named church.
Bloomfield April 19th 1837

Cornelius B. Everest,
Pastor of the Congregational Church in Bloomfield, Conn.

State of Connecticut
Hartford County} s.. Bloomfield April 19 1837

Personally appeared Cornelius B Everest to me personally known and made oath to the truth of the aforesaid affidavit and subsended the sance before me.

Ammi R Palmer Justice of Peace

State of Connecticut
Hartford County} ss.

I certify that Cornelius B Everest the above deponent is a resident of said Bloomfield, to me personally known that he is a person of truth and veracity and that his statement is entitled to credit.

Ammi R Palmer Justice of the Peace
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Revy WIDOW, &c.

File No. 21344
Rhoda Hoskins
widow of
Timothy Hoskins
Priv. Rev. War

Act July 4th 1836

Index:- Vol. A, Page 349

[Arrangement of 1870]
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Rhoda (Gillett-crossed out) Hoskins
widow of
Timothy Hoskins dec'd
Lower Canada


dec. returned. see [unk] Hon
Benjm Swift May 25
1837
ad'd pm 2 q. $80 per ann
commencing 4 March 1831
Colo Butler Cont. line
Is this to be placed on the Burlington or Mendon Agency?

Act 4 July 1836
Hon Benjm Swift Esq
St Albans Vt.
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Pere Hoskins
affidavit
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I Pere Hoskins of Shefford in the Providence of Lower Canada of the age of fifty five years, and the son of Timothy & Rhoda Hoskins. The said Timothy died at Johnstown in the State of New York on the 4th day of April AD 1803 and the said Rhoda whose maiden name was Rhoda Gillet, is yet living at said Shefford, & has never been married since the decease of my father: and has ever since that went, been called, Widow Hoskins, but in making her declaration in Canada, for the purpose of obtaining a pension as the widow of sd Timothy, under an act of Congress of July 4th AD 1836. She was required to sign in her original name, it being according to the custom of Canada. I further say that in the life time of my father, I held much conversation with him respecting his services as a soldier in the army of the Revolution, and have often heard him speak of his services at different places in the State of New York, and particularly at West Point, & have heard him say that he was in said service at the time of my birth which was in Dec. 1781, and I have no
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doubt from any conversation with him, & from various circumstances that he served in the while as a soldier during the Revolutionary War not far from three years, and that he was in the service about the time of the close of the war, and was discharged with the other troops, but owing to the way time since his decease, no papers relating to his services or discharge have been pursued.
St Albans May 9, 1837

Pere Hoskins

Subscribed and sworn to before me

Wm Bridges Justice Peace

State of Vermont
Franklin County ss.} Franklin May 9th 1837

I further certify that that the above named deponent who has subscribed and sworn to the above and foregoing is a credible person and entitled to full faith and credit.

William Bridges Justice Peace
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28th June
B Swift

add [unk]
Mrs Hoskins
Sylvester
Ira Allen


Colo. J. L. Edwards
Commr of Pensions
War Dept
Washington D.C.
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Colo. J. L. Edwards
Commr of Pensions
War Dept
Washington D.C.
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St Albans June 22d 1837
Sir,
I herewith inclose a further declaration from Mrs Hoskins, with the affidavit of her daughter accompanying it, and inasmuch as you say that, the proof already on file in your office is sufficient to establish the part of her intermarriage with Timothy Hoskins, and also the fact of his service I trust that these papers will under the evidence of her claim to a pension complete. I have generally declined to attend to business of this sort, except while at Washington, and have not made myself much acquainted with your forms, but I think the declaration for the purpose for which it has now been taken, is sufficient. Had the proof of services depended on her declaration, she might perhaps have been a little more particular in her statement, tho she is/as you
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will notice) very aged and her memory is no doubt greatly impaired, but I pursunce you do not make much reliance on her declaration as proof in the case. No exception was mentioned in your letter to the former declaration in consequence of its having been sworn to before a Justice of the Peace, & I believe it is in conformity with your rules tho, had it been convenient it would have been taken before a higher court but this could not have been effuted without a travel (in going & returning of about 120 mile) which her condition would hardly admit of, yet in order to give her declaration within this state. She has been obliged to travel about half that distance, but it was done with great difficulty.
I presume the affidavit of Mrs Lawrence will be sufficient to establish the identity of of the applicant.

With great respect your obedt servt

B Swift
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Rhoda Hoskins

Payment to made at Burlington Vt. by Presat. Bk. of Burlington Agent for paying Pensioners, in the Agency of Vermont.

Recorded in the Pension office, in Book A Vol. 1 Page 38 by D. D. Addison
Clerk
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WAR DEPARTMENT
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM

I certify that in conformity with 3d section of the law of the United State, of the 4th July, 1836, Rhoda Hoskins of Lower Canada widow if Timothy Hoskins dec'd who was a private in the war of the Revolution is entitled to receive eighty dollars and ---- cents per annum, during the time she may remain unmarried, commencing on the 4th of March, 1831, and payable semi=annually, on the 4th of March and 4th of September.

Given at the War Office of the united States, this 1st day of July one thousand eight hundred and thirty seven.

Examined and Countersigned}
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Comptrollers Office
Hartford Connecticut
April 24th 1837

I certify that Timothy Hoskins is credited on the Books of the Connecticut Line in this office as a private, in the Regiment commanded by Col Zebulon Butler, from Dec 21st 1780 to Dec 31st 1781, being 12 months & 10 days services amount of the wages L 24.13.4
The name if Timothy Hoskins also appears on a "List of persons in the Connecticut Line who received family supplies, before 1780 with the sums & money paid."

Wm Field Comptroller


Zeb Butler Regt Tim Hoskins, Dec 24 1780 [unk] decd July 13 83 for [unk]
See Conn Rolls
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St Albans May 9th 1837
Colo J L Edwards

I herewith inclose you the papers of widow Hoskins, who claims a pension under the act of Congress of 1836. Her declaration was made in Canada in her original name the reasons for this, are given in the deposition of her son, Pere Hoskins.
As the proof for two years service may not be satisfactory and as it is not difficult, owing to the decease of the said Timothy, to state the particulars of his service, & the principle officers under whom he served, I am under the necessity of asking you to examine such proof as you have at your command, for the purpose of ascertaining more fully the amount of service which the said Timothy performed. Judging from the appearance of the son (Pere Hoskins and I have no other evidence} I should think the family very respectable. He appears like a gentleman and a conscientious  intelligent man, and I can not therefore but think that Timothy Hoskins performed the amount
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of services stated by him and his mother. 
Should there be any differently growing out of the papers, or other proof necessary in their power to obtain, please inform me.

With great respect your obedt servt

B Swift

Should you allow a pension certificate for any amount of service, please forward the same to me. I have that Judge Bridges before whom the affidavit of Pere Hoskins was taken is a Justice of the Peace.

B Swift
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Issue duplicate certificate on the witness statement.
V. D. W.

Colo. J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
War Dept.

Sept 4

Hon. B. Swift
Senate U.S.
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I hereby certify that some time during the last summer, I forwarded through the mail from St. Albans Vermont to Colo. J. L. Edwards Commr of Pensions a declaration in behalf of Rhoda Hoskins, of Lower Canada, in which she claimed a pension as the widow of a Revolutionary soldier, which declaration was accompanied by proof in support of her claim. And not receiving any return from said commissioner, I lately called on him & found from the records in his office that, a pension certificate had been issued in behalf of said Rhoda in July last and forwarded to me at St. Albans through the mail. I further certify, that since that time untill the 28th day of August last I have constantly resided in said St. Albans
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and have almost daily recd letters & papers from the Post Office in said St. Albans, yet I have never recd said certificate, nor do I believe any such ever reached said Post Office or know what has become of the same. 
Washington Sept. 8th 1837
Benjamin Swift

Colo J. L. Edwards,
Dear Sir,
Should the above certificate be deemed by you satisfactory proof of the loss of the pension certificate issued in bahalf of Mrs. Hoskins, will you have the goodness to forward to me at the Senate Chamber a duplicate of said certificate, and I assure you that if the original is found that either that, or the duplicate shall be returned to your office.
Very respectfully
your obedt servt
B. Swift
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State of New York
Montgomery County Ss.
Stephen Gillet being duly sworn says that he now resides in the town of Johnstown county of Montgomery & state aforesaid & has resided in said town for fifty years last past and upwards and before he came to reside in Johnstown he resided in the town of Windsor in the county of Hartford & state of Connecticut, when deponent was born which said town of Windsor is deponents native place. That he knew Timothy Hoskins of the town of Windsor county of Hartford & state of Connecticut. That the said Hoskins enlisted in the army of the United States against the then Common Enemy Great Britain about the remainder of the war and served as deponent believes but is unable to tell exactly. That said Hoskins enlisted at said town of Windsor deponent does not now remember the names of the officers under whom he enlisted but deponent well knows that said Hoskins entered the army & served in the revolutionary army but how long deponent cannot say but is certain he served a year & upwards. Deponent cannot say where Hoskins was stationed nor his manner
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nor the particular services in [illegible] be rendered as is deponent is near eighty four years of age and his memory has failed him [illegible]

That said Hoskins was older than deponent which fact [illegible] as well [illegible] as deponent was brought up in the same town with him. Deponent knows that said Hoskins was married. He married town of Windsor in the in the County of Hartford & State of Connecticut before the Revolutionary war if deponent recollects right. Deponent is certain that the said Hoskins was married before sd Hoskins enlisted or joined the army as of [illegible] & before the end of the Revolutionary war, Said Hoskins married Rhoda Gillet of the said town of Windsor, she was the [illegible] sister of Jonathan Gillett of the same place and sister of our parents. The said Rhoda  is now about eighty-six years of age & is about two years older than deponent, the said Hoskins is deceased he died in Johnstown County of Montgomery and State of New York about thirty four years ago now last past and left behind Rhoda his widow, who is still living - 
the widow of the said Hoskins and unmarried & single not having married again since the marriage as aforesaid to the said Hoskins. sd Hoskins & his wife Rhoda had continued to live together as Husband
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and wife from the time of their marriage as aforesaid to the time of his death -
further this deponent says not
Stephen Gillet [signature]

Subscribed & Sworn to this 22 day of April A.D. 1837
Before me
Abm Morrell First Judge of Montgomery County Court

State of New York
Montgomery County 

I certify that I am well acquainted with Stephen Gillet the [illegible] who subscribed and made the enclosed affidavit and have been acquainted with him for thirty years last past & upwards. That the said Stephen Gillet is a man of strict integrity sustaining an unimpeachable character and is a credible person & his affidavits as above made is entitled to credit. Given under my hand at [illegible] County & state aforesaid this
22 day of April 1837
Abm Morell First Judge of Montgomery County Courts
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State of New York Montgomery
County Clerks Office

I Richard H. Cushney Deputy Clerk of the County of Montgomery do hereby certify that Abraham Morrell Esquire the person whose name is subscribed to the Jurat of the foregoing affidavit was at the date of the same First Judge of the County Courts in and for said County. And that I am well acquainted with his handwriting and verily believe that the signature to the Jurat of the foregoing affidavit and also to the accompanying certificate is genuine

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said County this 22d day of April 1837
R.H. Cushney Dep Clk