Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 32,843, John Hobbs, Mass.
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(B-1776)

SERVICE: Mass. 
Hobbs, John 
NUMBER: S.32.843

CONTENTS
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16977
Massachusetts

John Hobbs
of Boston in the State of Massachusetts 
who was a Private in the regiment commanded by Col. Phinney of the Massachusetts line, for the term of one year.

Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 1st of April 1818.

Certificate of Pension issued the 16th of May 1820 and sent to William Watmore Esq.
Boston Massachusetts

Arrears to 4th of March 1820 - 185. 03
Semi-anl, all'ce ending 4 Sept. 1820   - 48.00

23 months 4/30

$ 233.03

{Revolutionary Claim,}
{Act 18th March, 1818}

Continued

Suffolk Co.

Notification sent to Abraham Bigelow, Esq.
22 Sept. 
Cambridge, Mass.
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S. John Hobbs

Private

Phinney's Mass Regt.

1 year

Certified by the Commanding Officer

1776- 1777

12 April 1810

Admitted


Certified accordingly with further evidence
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State of Massachusetts

I John Hobbs  a Citizen of the United States, now resident at Boston in the County of Suffolk, in the State aforesaid, do on oath testify and declare, that in the War of the Revolution, on the year Seventeen hundred and seventy five in the spring I think in the month of April, 

I entered and was engaged in the Land service of the United States on the continental establishment, and served accordingly from that time to the years One thousand seven hundred and seventy eight. 

as a private against the common enemy, without any interruption or absence:  that I belonged to Colonel Phinney's Regiment and the Company of Capt. Abraham Tyler for the space of eight moths and in the same Regiment in the Company of Captain Jeremiah Hill during one year; and one year afterwards, as an artificer to wit the year 1777.
and that I left the service on the expiration of said time of service in December 1777.
and that by reason of my reduced circumstances in life and poverty, I stand in need of assistance from my country for support, being now of the age of sixty four years - after the expiration of my service for eight months in December 1775 and I enlisted in the same Regiment in Capt. Hill's Company for the year 1776 - on the expiration of which I enlisted for the year 1777 as an artificer being by trade a blacksmith.   I have walked to Biddeford to obtain a certificate of my Captain now towards eighty years old, of my service in 1776, as also that of our orderly Sargent, Daniel Hill, both annexed.

And I  hereby relinquish all claim to every pension heretofore allowed me by the laws of the United States, if any may be or hath been so allowed.

John Hobbs his X mark

BE IT REMEMBERED, That on this first day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen Pursuant to a law of the United States, entitled, "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war,"  made and passed on the 18th of March, A.D. 1818, personally appeareth before me the Subscriber, one of the Associate Judges of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas within the State aforesaid and presiding pro hac vice*
the above named John Hobbs and after due examination and caution to testify and declare the whole truth, he maketh oath to the declaration aforesaid, and subscribes the same in my presence; and, on examination duly made, by me the said Judge, it appeareth to my satisfaction that the said declaration is true.

In testimony whereof I hereunto affix name to the Seal of said Court this day and year abovewritten.

William Wetmore


August
*[pro hac vice means for this occasion]
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August 26,1819. I now further certify that the within named Deponent Leonard Parks, a pensioner under the late act of Congress for service in the revolutionary war, is well known to me and that he is a credible and disinterested witness. I am also well acquainted with Jeremiah Hill Esq. signer of the annexed certificate and with his hand writing and have no doubt that the writing and signature are both his.  Witness my hand and the seal of this said Court as within affixed.

William Wetmore

November 30th 1819.  I now further certify the evidence of Joseph Cox in this case and that it appears to my satisfaction that the said John Hobbs did perform the service stated by him and that he is in great poverty and in such reduced circumstances that he stands in great need of assistance from his Country for support.  Witness my hand and the seal of the Court aforesaid  as within annexed.

William Wetmore
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I Leonard Parks, of Cambridge, late a soldier in the Revolutionary army in Col Patterson's regiment & Capt. Ashley's company in the Massachusetts line, testify that I well knew John Hobbs, the within declarant at Ticonderoga in the year 1776, as late as the month of October, begin then a private soldier in the years service in Col. Phinney's regiment, in which I know he served all that year & he served therein Eight months before; and that I saw him frequently doing duty as a soldier at Ticonderoga & he then belonging to Capt. Jeremiah Hill's company. 
Leonard Parks

August 26, 1819. Sworn to Before me
Wm. Wetmore the Judge within named.
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24.
John Hobbs
West Cambridge

GW
16977
May 1820
Contd 22  Sep
1820
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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 MINOT, Esquires,} Associate Justices of said Court. 

In open Court here, being a Court of Record for said Circuit, proceeding according to the course of the common law, with a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount, keeping a record of its proceedings, and having the power of fine and imprisonment, John Hobbs resident  at West Cambridge in said Circuit, who is named in Pension Certificate No. 1977. now in his 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 the 18th March, 1818, John Hobbs 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 dollars per month, to commence on the first day of April one thousand eight hundred and eighteen"
[a square containing the initials L.S.]
"Given at the War Office of the United States, this sixteenth day of May one thousand eight hundred and twenty 
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, 
"He has no Real Estate, his personal estate consists of four or five old chairs, table, a small looking glass, a few kitchen utensils and a little crockery was just sufficient for himself and wife in one room the whole not worth twenty dollars, he has no income but his pension, except from daily labour he is sixty six years old and has an infirm wife aged about fifty and has no children, he served in the Massachusetts line, Col Percys' Regt eight months in 1775 in Capt Turner company- twelve months in 1776 in Capt Hills company the same in 1777 and six
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months in 1778 and afterward in Col Baldwins Regt of Artificers making seven years in all was then by trade a blacksmith and is now a husbandman & destitute 
John Hobbs [signature]
Sworn to & declared before Wm Wetmore Judge"
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and at the same time he produces to the Court here the following Oath, taken and subscribed by him, before the Hon. Wm Wetmore a Judge of said Court as aforesaid, to wit, 

"I, John Hobbs 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 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 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. 
John Hobbs [signature]

Middlesex ss. C.C.C.P. June Term, A. D. 1820 
Then the abovenamed John Hobbs took and subscribed the aforewritten Oath before me, Wm Wetmore 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 twenty 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 this 20th day of July 1820
Attr. Abrm Biglow [signature]

[faint seal to the left of this]
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32 843
Revy INVALID.
File No. 32,843
John Hobbs
Pri [private] Rev War

Act: 18 March 1818

Index: -- Vol. 9,  Page 194
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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Buxton August 16  1819

This may certify that John Hobbs is knowing to a good many that was with us in 1776 when we weer [were] at Saratoga with us


This man nows James Cambell Mike Ferris 
John Smitt John Davis Micael Jurgen & a good many other things that I am noing [knowiing] too be true
[signatures]
Daniel Hill
Jeremiah Hill
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Biddeford August 16, 1819
This may certify that I have reason to believe that the within named John Hobbs was a Soldier in my Company in Col. Phiney Regt. in the Continental army in 1776 & went to Ticonderoga but how long he served I can't say.  I believe his time out but I am old & far advanced in life.
Jere. Hill  late Capt.
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I Joseph Cox of Woburn in the State of Massachusetts a pensioner of the United States, having lost a leg in the Battle of Monmouth, testify that I well know John Hobbs now present, and that he was a Soldier in Col. Phinney's Regiment in the year 1775 in the eight months service in the Massachusetts line of the army at first at Cambridge and afterwards in the State of New York to which plan we marched from Cambridge. I know also that he was in the years service of 1776 in the same Regiment and in Capt. Hollis company, and that he was at Ticonderoga all the fall of that year in the service above stated.  I was always well acquainted with him and we were frequently on duty together both in the year 1775 and 1776.  I was myself in the revolutionary army during the war, and am a pensioner for the loss of my leg abovementioned.

Joseph Cox his X mark

Boston Sept. 3rd 1819. Duly sworn to by the said Joseph Cox the said John Hobbs petitioner for pension, being present and the said deponent a credible and disinterested witness.

Before me William Wetmore
Judge within named