Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 41612, Phillip Hawkins, Md.
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SERVICE
Md

Hawkins, Phillip or Philip

NUMBER
S.41612
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RV. 432

Ohio 
PIttsburgh Agency

Phillip Hawkins of Guernsey Co in the State of Ohio who was a private in the company commanded by Captain S. Smith of the Regiment commanded by Colonel Smallwood in the Maryland line, for the term of three years from May 1776 to 1780

Inscribed on the roll of Ohio Pittsburgh Agency at the rate of eight Dollars per month, to commence on the 12 day of April 1832

Certificate of Pension issued the 18th of April 1832 and sent to Hon. Wm Kennon H.R.

Arrears to 4th of sept 1832   $38.12
Semi-anl. all'ce ending           _______
                                               $38.12
{Revolutionary Claim}
{Acts March 18, 1818}
{And May 1, 1820     }

Rec:  Book D
Vol: 2 fol:  133
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Original Claim

Declaration in order to be placed in the pension List under the act of 18th March 1818.

The State of Ohio Guernsey County } ss

On this twenty third day of arch 1832, Personally appeared in open Court, being a Court of Record by reason of the  Constitution and laws of said state, for the county of Guernsey aforesaid in the fifth Judicial circuit of the state of Ohio, Philip Hawkins resident in said county, aged 76 years, who being first duly worn according to Law, doth on his oath, make the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the acts of Congress of the 18th March 1818, and the first of May 1820 that he, the said Philip Hawkins enlisted for the term of during the war on (blank) day of May 1776 at Baltimore in the state of Maryland in the Company commanded by Captain Samuel Smith in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Smalwood, in the line of the state of Maryland in the Continental establishment, that he continued to serve in the said corpse, (corps) until the Morristown in he state of New Jersey.  That he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to any pension, except, the present; that his name is not on the roll of any state except the state of Maryland; and that the following are the reasons for not making earlier application for a pension, that he heretofore made application but had no proof of his enlistment or discharge having lost his discharge and he did not know until last winter that Captain Samuel 
smith was living, that immediately after hearing that he was living he made application to obtain his certificate; and obtained it and now avails himself of the first opportunity of appearing before the proper authority to make his year 1780, when he was discharged from the service in declaration.  And in pursuance of the act of the 1st May 1820 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, sales, 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 on the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolution
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ary war".  passed on the 18th day of March 1818, and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me my property, or securities, contracts or debt due to me; nor have I any income other that that is contained the schedule hereunto annexed and by me subscribed that is to say 60 acres of unimproved land                                valued at $1.25 per acre         $75.00
One mare & colt                "       "   32.                            32.00
One cow & one heifer       "            14.                            14.00
1 Bureau                                            6                               6.00
1 sow & some shoats                        3                               3.00
Pot mettle                                          2                               2.00
1 old shovel plow & one old }
used & some pewter             }         1.50                            1.50
1 note of hand due for                    16                             16.00                                                                                       
                                                                            ______________
                                                                                     $149.50
That his occupation is that of a farmer, and that he is verry (sic) much debilitated and unable to work, that his family consists of himself and two daughters one aged 28 years and the other 23 years.  That since the 18th of March 1818 the following changes have been made in my property.

Description of Property
Fifty acres of improved land situate in 
Belmont county of said state

Name of the persons to whom disposed
Samuel Titlett

Time of sale
May 1827

Amount of money received
$134 & note for 16$ mentioned in schedule amounting to $150.
(signed)
Philip   his X mark  Hawkins

I Moses Sarchet Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of Guernsey County ,Ohio, do hereby certify, that it appears, to the satisfaction of the Court that the said Philip Hawkins did serve in the Revolutionary War, as stated in the preceeding (sic) declaration, against the common enemy, for the term of  nine months, under one engagement, on the continental establishment.  I also certify that the foregoing oath and the  schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the records of the said Court; and I do further certify that it is the opinion of the said Court, that
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the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is One hundred and forty nine dollars & fifty cents.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court on this twenty third day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty - two.
Moses Sarchet Clerk
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41612
Revy

File No. 41.612
Phillip Hawkins
Pri Rev War

Act: 18th March 18
Index: - Vol. S,  Page 212

[Arrangement of 1870.]
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Cambridge 2d April 1832

The Honorable Lewis Cass, Secretary at War

Sir   I have herewith enclosed to the Honorable William Kennon our Representative the papers of Philip Hawkins of this county applying for a pension as a Revolutionary Soldier.  In addition to his declaration made before the court he states that he enlisted in Baltimore in the Spring of 1776 under Captain Samuel Smith (now Senator from Maryland).  In Col. Smallwood's Reg. of Infantry 2d Reg Maryland line for the during the war, he thinks on condition that he was not to go out of the State, afterwards it was agreed that if he would go to Long Island that he should be discharged at the end of three years, went and was at the Battle of Flatbush on Long Island, was afterwards at the taking of the Hessians at Princeton, helped to guard the prisoners to Lancaster in Penna. Then was permited (sic) to go home that winter, be the Spring of 1777 went out under Captain James Winchester who was Lieutenant under Capt Trueth but was promoted in consequence of Capt Smith's being promoted to Lieut. Colonel, and was in the Battle of Staten Island with the Tories & was also at the taking of Stony Point under Genl Wayne.  Served three years and was Honorabbly (sic) discharged at Morristown New Jersey, lost his discharge in a few months afterwards, after he was discharged he entered on board the Letter of Marque Jolly Tar Capt Smith of Baltimore.   Sailed in her and was captured off the Havanah by the British.  Frigate Jason Capt Picket was taken to New York and put on board the Jersey prison ship where he was kept a prisoner about four months was then let out on parole for three months before the expiration of which time the war terminated.  He attempted to make application once before but not knowing that any of his officers were living could not then get subsequent proof of his Service.  He is 76 years of age & for nearly the last six years his wife was entirely helpless
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with the palsey.  She died I think sometime last June, he is nearly helpless and could not have maintained himself & wife if it had not have been for two daughter that lived with him or he could not now maintain himself without charitable assistance, one of his daughters is now 28 years of age and the other 23 years, he has no sons, his Land is not worth much and is unimproved and of no use to hin unless he could sell it, his other property is I think estimated at its full value & probably more than he could sell it for, the $16 returned in his Schedule is due to him is doubtful & probably can never be collected.  If his daughters were to charge him only quarter wages for the labour (sic) they had in taking care of him & their mother all his property would not be near sufficient to pay them & they are poor, have no property of their own only thier (sic) clothes and a few trifling things they have in the House of but little account which they have earned by their own Labours (sic).  I have been acquainted with him for several years, he lives within about three miles of this place and I think him a man well worthy of the charity of his country.  Indeed much more so than some that I know have heretofore & some that are now enjoying it.  All his neighbours (sic) speak well of him and are anxious that he should be placed on the pension Roll because they think him worthy and in need of it.  If the Testimony is not Sufficient or anything is wrong please to inform me and I will endeavour (sic) to attend to it for him,  Gen'l Smith of the Senate can probably give some further information.

I Remain
Sir, Very Respectfully
Your Obt Servant

T. A. Beatty
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Land Office, Annapolis   April 13th 1832,

Dear Sir,

Your's of the 10th that was received; Therewith send you enclosed, certificates from the pay and muster rolls of the revolution; which is all the evidence that can be furnished from the records in this office of the revolutionary services of Philip Hawkins.  It does not appear by the rolls, that Mr. Hawkins enlisted for, and during the war, as he states he did.   I should presume that he only enlisted for the term of three years, as all those soldiers of the Maryland line who enlisted for during the War, have entered, in the margin of the rolls opposite their names, the letter W in red ink; and opposite the names of those who enlisted for three years is entered the the words "3 years".  I am therefore inclined to believe that Mr. Hawkins is mistaken as to the time for which he enlisted.  Wherever the letter W is entered in the margin of the roll opposite the name of a soldier as above mentioned, we have considered it as sufficient evidence of his having enlisted for during the war.

I am very respectfully
Yr. Obt. Svt.

George G. Brewer

William Kennon Esqr
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LAND OFFICE.
Annapolis, April 12th 1832

I Certify, that it appears by the Muster rolls remaining in the Office that Philip Hawkins enlisted as a private in the Second Maryland Regiment on the 15th day of January 1777 and was discharged on the 10th day of January 1780.

George G. Brewer
Register Land Office, W. S. Md.
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LAND OFFICE.
ANNAPOLIS,   April 12th 1832,

I Certify, that it appears by Depreciation Pay Roll remaining in my Office, that Philip Hawkins a private 2nd Reg't of the Maryland Line, received L 9  8p  9sh  Depreciation Money, Issued to the Maryland quota of troops on Continental Establishment, on the fourth day of November 1783.

George G. Brewer
Register Land Office, W. S. Md.
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Brewer Walter
March 10th 1832

April 16, 1832

Pension Office

pen. to com. April 12, 1832

Pitt'sg Agency

Hon. W. Kennon H.R.
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Department of War
April 9 1832

Sir,

I have the honor to transmit the enclosed report of the Officer in charge of the Pension Bureau, from which you will perceive, that the claim of William Hawkins submitted by you on the (illegible) (illegible) be allowed and the evidence necessary to authorize the Department to place him on the pension roll.

I have the honor to be
very respectfully your obedt servant

Lew Cass
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The Honorable 
Gen'l  Samuel Smith certificate
In case of Wm. Hawkins
Revolutionary Soldier
a p n  for pension
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I do certify, (illegible) (illegible), that Philip Hawkins then about twenty years of age did enlist in my company of Smallwood's Regiment in the month of May 1776.  The he remained under my command until the last day of December of that year when I was promoted and left the Regiment.  That I have every reason  to believe that he reenlisted in one of the seven Regiments of Maryland.  I believe so because in his letter to me, he states several parts and circumstances that he could not have known unless he had been a soldier in one of those regiments.  I believe that his service the three years for which he had enlisted, and is entitled to pension provided his other papers are in form of law.

S. Smith

Formerly a Captain in Smallwood's Regiment and afterwards Lieut Colonel of third Maryland Regiment.