Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W 1186, for Joseph Hyde, Connecticut
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(3 - 1776)
SERVICE
Conn Sea Service
Hyde, Joseph
Betsey
NUMBER
W1186
CONTENTS
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No 11.775
Vermont
Joseph Hyde
of Orleans Co. in the State of Vermont
who was a Mariner in the Randolph commanded
by Captain Buckley of the ___ commanded
by ___ in the Connecticut
for 2 years Mariner $96.00
Inscribed on the Roll of Vermont
at the rate of 96 Dollars - Cents per annum
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 18th day of June
1833 and sent to Ira H. Allen
Barton Vt.
Arrears to the 4th of March 1833 192.00
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sept. 1833 48.00
$240.00
{Revolutionary Claim, 
Act June 7, 1832.}
Recorded by D. Brown Clerk,
Book E. Vol. 3, Page 68
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225
Vermont
Betsey Hyde
widow of Joseph Hyde
who served in the Revolutionary
Ship Randolph
war, as a Seaman
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of
96 Dollars ""
Cents per annum, to commence on
the 4th day of March, 1848.
Certificate of Pension issued the
19th day of June, 1849
and sent to I. D. Kimball
Barton
Vt.
1186
(1186)
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act
29th July, 1848, Page 145 Vol. 1
book D

Reporte
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Jos. Hyde
No. 8409
admitted.
24 mo. Mariner $96.00
Ira H. Allen
Barton
Vt.
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BRIEF in the case of Joseph Hyde
of Orleans Co. in the State of Vermont
(Act 7th June, 1832.)
1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? Probate Court
2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?
3. How old is he? 67 years
4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed.
Period.
In 1781 Feby.
Duration of Service.
Years, Months, Days.
More than 2 years,
part of the time a prisoner}
Rank.
As a
Private
Names of General and Field Officers
under whom he served.
Gen.
the Randolph 18 guns, Capt. Buckley
5. In what battles was he engaged? at sea, when he was taken prisoner
6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? New London, Con.
7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by
incidental evidence, or by the rolls? Living & traditionary
8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect?

Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above
mentioned.
D. Brown
Examining Clerk.
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State of Vermont ⎬ 
Orleans County 
At Barton on this
Eleventh day of January 1849
Personally appeared before the Hon. Jacob
Bales, Judge of Probate for the County
and Dept. of Orleans, Betsey Hyde
a resident of Barton in said Orleans County - aged 71 years, who being duly Sworn
according to law, doth, on her oath make
the following declaration, in order to obtain
the benefit of the provisions made by the
Act of Congress, pass July 29-- 1848,
That she is the Widow of Joseph Hyde
who was a Mariner and served in the
War of the Revolution, and drew a pension for
said service at the rate of $96.00 per annum
She further declares that she was married
to the said Joseph Hyde, "October 27th A.D. 1796"
That her husband the aforesaid Joseph Hyde
died on the 22d day of September 1846,
That she was not married to him prior to his being
the service, but the marriage took place previous
to the 2d Jany A.D. 1800 - viz, at the time above
Stated, She further swears that she is now
a Widow and that she has never before made any application for a Pension and that her maiden name
was Betsey Utley,
Betsey Hyde
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State of Vermont
Orleans District
At Barton in said
District on this Eleventh
day of January AD 1849 the before named
Betsey Hyde personally appeared and subscribed
and made oath to the foregoing declaration
before me
Jacob Bates
Judge of Probate
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State of Vermont
Orleans District
I John H. Prentiss Register of Probate
for the State and District aforesaid
Certify that a Probate Court was held for said
District at Barton on the Eleventh day of January
AD1849, that Jacob Bates is Judge of said Court
duly appointed to act as such, and that the
foregoing signature purporting to be his is
genuine.
In testimony whereof I hereto subscribe
my name and affix the
Seal of said Court at Irasburgh
in said District this seventeenth day
of January AD 1849 -
John H Prentiss, Register
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W. Woodstock Ct
Aug 30
5
Kimball
Barton, Vermont
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I, Wheeler Phillips Town Clerk of the town of
Woodstock in the State of Connecticut, do
make the following extract from the records of Marriages in said town in my possession copying the figures, in words at full
length which figures on said record are
expressed in fair legible figures to wit,
"Joseph Hyde & Betsey Utley were Married
in Woodstock October twenty seventh, One
Thousand Seven hundred and Ninety Six"
Jedidiah Morse Justice of Peace
Certified by Wheeler Phillips Town Clerk
State of Connecticut
Windham County ss Woodstock August 28th A.D. 1848
I Wheeler Phillips above named, depose and say
that I hold the office of Town Clerk in the town of
Woodstock, County of Windham and State of Connecticut aforesaid and that the above is a
true extract from the records of said town with
the exception above named, as certified by me
Wheeler Phillips Town Clerk


Sworn before me on the day and year last aforesaid.
John F. Williams Justice of the Peace
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I, Leonard M. Dean Clerk of the Probate Court for the District of Woodstock
in the State of Connecticut, the same being a Court of record with a Common
Seal, hereby certify that John F Williams Esquire before whom the foregoing affidavit
was made is duly enrolled as a Justice
of the Peace in and for Windham County
aforesaid. that the foregoing signature of
his name is in his hand writing and
that full faith and credit ought to be
given to his acts as such
In testimony whereof
I have hereunto set my hand
and affixed the public seal of
said Court at said Woodstock
this 29 day of August A.D. 1848
Leonard M Dean
Clerk of Probate
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No 309
Betsey Hyde
wid of Joseph
N
act 29 July 1848
Married 1796
husband died 1844
Adm. 2 years service
$96.00
4 March 1848
S.L. Kimball
Barton
Vt
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I, Harry Baxter of Barton, Orleans County, Vermont
of Lawful age depose and say
that I had been
acquainted with the late Joseph Hyde - and
Betsey Hyde - for more than twenty years.
that the said Jos. Hyde died in the fall
of 1846 and left the said Betsey Hyde his 
Widow, who is still living & resides with her
son Jared Hyde in this Town, said Jos.
Hyde was a pensioner of the United States,
Harry Baxter
State of Vermont
Orleans County ss
at Barton on this
5th day of Feby 1849 personally appeared H.
Baxter signer of the above affidavit and
made oath to the truth of the same before
me. I certify that deponent is a man of
truth,
Amos C Robinson Justice Peace
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State of Vermont
Orleans County
I Henry M Bates Clerk of Orleans
County Court do hereby certify that Amos
Robinson of Barton is a Justice of the
Peace within and for the County of
Orleans - duly qualified and further that the
foregoing signature purporting to be his
is true and genuine
In testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand and seal
of said Court this fifth day of February AD 1849
Henry M Bates Clerk
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I Jos Owen of Barton, Orleans County, Vermont
of lawful age depose & say that I have
been acquainted with the late Jos. Hyde and
Betsey Hyde for more than thirty years that the
said Jos. Hyde was a pensioner of the United States and died in the fall of 1846 - and
left Betsy Hyde his Widow who is still
living & resides with her Son Jared Hyde
in this Town.
Joseph Owen

State of Vermont
Orleans County
At Barton in
said Orleans County on this 5 day of Feby
1849. Personally appeared deponent and
made oath to the truth of the same before me. I further Certify that deponant is a man of truth,
A. C. Robinson
Justice of Peace
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State of Vermont, 
Orleans District 
On this 8th day of September A.D. 1832 personally appeared in
open court before the Hon. Probate Court now
sitting 
at Barton within and for the the District of Orleans
aforesaid Joseph Hyde a Resident of Barton in the
County and District of Orleans aforesaid aged
sixty seven years who being first duly sworn
according
to law on his oath made the following declaration
in order to obtain the benefit of the provision of the
act of Congress passed June 7th
1832. That I entered the
the service of the United States and served as herein
after stated
that in 1781 I Resided in Woodstock
in the State of Connecticut and enlisted at New
London in the month of Feb. 1781 as a private on board
the Randolph a vessel of War carrying eighteen guns
for the term of one year under Capt. Buckley or
Bucklin & sailed from said New London in about 
one week after my enlistment, we took a Gun boat
the Spring following which was carrying provisions
to the Enemy at New York
and brought her into the port at New London -
we remained in part about one week when we sailed
again and continued cruizing on the American coast
until the month of April 1782 when we were
Captured by a British brig of twenty four guns
after a [illegible] action and carried into New York and
I was first onboard of the Jersey prison ship and there detained
a prisoner of war there on four months [illegible]
[illegible]
[illegible] New York where
I was kept a prisoner five or six months. making
nine months or more that I was a prisoner. I was then exchanged
and returned to my friends at Woodstock - I cannot
be certain as to the precise time I was kept a
prisoner but I have a distinct recollection that I
was absent from aboard the vessel or prisoner a little more than two years
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the name of the vessel that captured us I do not
remember nor the name of the captain of the
enemy's
vessel-- whether the Randolph was commissioned by
the State of Conn. or the Government
of the United
States. I do not know but suppose by the
[illegible] were six with myself who enlisted from the same Town
the time I did and sailed and served in the same
vessel - viz: Thomas Cutler, James Ritter
Benjamin Ledit or Deer, Henry Morris and George
Morris and John Nedd an Indian who enlisted
at other time but sailed with us three of
[illegible] died in the prison ship and
on Mackwells Island. I have no documentary
evidence and know of no one living who was with
me in the service -
I was born in [illegible]
in the State of Massachusetts. I lived in Woodstock
for many years before the Revolutionary War
and continued to live there until twenty
eight years ago when I removed to [illegible]
Vermont where I resided eleven years since which
I have resided in Barton Vt -
I hereby relinquish every claim whatever to
a pension or annuity except the present
declare that my name is not on the Pension Roll
of any Agency in any state
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
Joseph Hyde
I Joseph Skinner residing in the Town of
Masbrough in the County of Orleans do certify that 
I am well acquainted with Joseph Hyde who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that I
believe him to be 67 years of age that he is reputed
and believed in the neighborhood where he resides
to have been a soldier or mariner in the revolution
and that I fully believe that he served and was
Imprisoned according as he has set forth in his
declaration
and I further state that at many
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times more than twenty years since when the said Hyde and
myself have been at work together heard him relate
the circumstances of his services and Imprisonment
much as he has related in his declaration
Sworn and subscribed the day and year
aforesaid
Joseph Shannon
I Joel Benton a resident of Barton in Orleans County
and 
State of Vermont aged seventy years - do hereby certify
that I am well acquainted with Joseph Hyde who
has subscribed & sworn in the foregoing declaration
that many years ago and previously [illegible]
1818 I have heard him relate the circumstances of his serving
aboard a man of war during the Revolutionary
war and his being confined by the enemy a prisoner
on board a prisons ship (after they had been captured)
and other ways detained - I took more interest in
the conservations with the Hyde from serving
in the Revolutionary War, and for when
[illegible] his brother die in New York when a prisoner confined
by the British. He is reported and believed in
the neighborhood where he resides to have been a sailor in the Revolutionary & believe
he served as he states.
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid -
Joel Benton
And the said Court do hereby
declare their opinion after the investigation of the
matter and after the interrogatories proscribed
by the war Department that the above named applicant
was a Revolutionary soldier and served as he stated
And the Court certifies that Joseph S. Kimball and
Joel Benton who have signed the preceding certificates are
residents of [illegible] and Barton aforesaid, and are
credible person and that their statement is entitled credit.
I John H. Kimball Register of the Court
aforesaid hereby certify that the foregoing contains the
proceedings of the said Court in the matter of
the application of Joseph Hyde for a pension
In testimony thereof I have hereunto set my
name and seal of office this 8th day of September
1832
John H. Kimball Register
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Joseph Hyde Vt. act of June 1832
$96th per annum
To what time was he last paid
G C A 
Pension Office
June 13th 1849
Died 22 Sept 1846 pd in full
W. Tyson
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Wid. File 1186.
Betsey widow of
Joseph Hyde
Rev. War.
Orig file Jacket lost
Feb. 25, 1909. case given
out by Mr Tingley to some one
name unknown and returned
in this condition.
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ARMY Division.  
3-456  
__,Ex.
Certificate No.
Co. __, __Reg't __
The above title should be indorsed on every paper
relating to this claim.

Department of the Interior,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS,
Washington, D. C., 190__

SIR:
You are informed that the above-entitled claim for pension under the act of June 27, 1890, has,
been allowed at the rate of $__ per month from __, 1___, but a
certificate will not issue unless ___ shall so elect, for the reason that this
allowance confers no benefit.
The law prohibits the payment of two pensions to one person covering the same period of time.
Pension has heretofore been allowed under the general law at the rate of $___ per month from
and if a certificate should now issue under the
act of June 27, 1890, no payment could be made thereon for any period covered by payments under the
general law. The actual date of commencement of pension under the act of June 27, 1890, would
be the date to which payment was last made under the general law.
An attorney's fee of $__ would be deducted from the first payment made under the act of
June 27, 1890.
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Barton, V.T. Feby. 5
Dear Sir,
Enclosed I send you
Widow Betsey Hyde's Papers
Claiming a Pension under the
act of 29th July 1848,
Please let me hear from
Son of any old Cases -
Respectfully yours
[illegible]
S. D. Kimball
Hon. J. L. Edwards
Comm. of Pensions
Washington
D.C.
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I Pearlay Thayer of Stonslook in the Province of Lower 
Canada in the County of Stonshood of the age of Sixty
three years do certify that I formerly lived in the town of
Woodstock in the County of Windham and State of Connecticut and was living in said Town of Woodstock during the
whole time of the revolutionary war, I was well acquainted
with Joseph Hyde of Barton in the County of Orleans and
State of Vermont. that I lived within the distance of two miles
of Joseph Hyde, who then lived in said Woodstock and continued to reside there for many years after the close of
the revolutionary war. I know that the said Hyde
towards the close of the war enlisted in the United
State service with Benjamin Doyt and Charles Morris &
some others from the same Town in the the Marine
service as I then understood, that the said Hyde with
the others above referred to left said Woodstock and went
into said service as it now generally [illegible]
believed, and the said Hyde was gone from said
Town of Woodstock according to my best recollection for
term of about two years and then returned to
said Woodstock having been employed in said service
during the whole term of his said two years
service as was [illegible] understood and believed. Among those who enlisted as above only two except the said Hyde all lived to return to said Woodstock
One of these was an Indian called John Nedds who
continued to reside in said Woodstock for many years
after the revolutionary war. I recollect perfectly such
[illegible] the said Indian soon after his return
from said Marine service to the incidents from
his own & the services of said Hyde & their comrades.
and in particular the taking them as prisoners by the 
enemy, when said he "the blue [illegible] think
I told them not to look [illegible] boys."
Pearlay Thayer

State of Vermont ⎬ 
Orleans County
Then personally appeared the said Pearlay Thayer and subscribed and made solemn
oath that the foregoing certificate by him subscribed is
just and true; at Del in said County this first day
September A.D. 1832, before me Jacob Chase Justice of Peace
I certify that Parley Thayer who has subscribed and sworn
to the foregoing certificate is generally reputed and believed
in the neighborhood where he resides to be a creditable
witness and I concur in the belief of his credibility & truth.
Jacob Chase Justice of Peace
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State of Vermont
Orleans County
I Ira H Allen Clerk of Orleans County
Court do hereby certify that Jacob Chan
before whom the within affidavit
was sworn was on the day of the
date of his certificate a Justice of
Peace within and for the County
of Orleans and his signature to the same
and also to the certificate as to the credibility
of P. Thayer I believe to be genuine.
In testimony whereof I hereunto subscribe my name
and affix the seal of said Court this 4 day of
September 1832 -
Ira H. Allen Clk