Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 36017, Major Hitchens, Del.
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(3 - 1776)
Hitchens, Major

SERVICE
Del.

NUMBER
S.36017


CONTENTS
[blank]
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Delaware
17,689
Major Hitchens
of Sussex Co.
in the state of Delaware
who was a private in the regiment commanded by
Colonel Hall of the Delaware
line, for the term of two years.
Inscribed on the Roll of Delaware
at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on
the 24 of June, 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued the 7 of Sep. 1820,
and sent to W. B. Cooper, ag
Laurel, Sussex co Delaware
[A]rrears to 4th of Sept. 1820. $210.93.
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4 March
26 mos: 11/30 } 1821
48"
$258.93.

{Revolutionary aim,
Act 18th March 1818.}

and 1st May, 1820
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[Along the left edge "Major Hitchens" is written]

[Left side of paper]

[illegible]
Major Hitchery
Private
Delaware Regiment
1778, 5 years
[a flourish is here]
[3 lines are scribbled out here]
This declaration is returned
to the applicant, this
the hands of Judge Cooper
in [illegible] that he may inspect
the within certificate of the
[illegible] of the State of Delaware,
[illegible] amend his declaration, if
it be in his power.

[Right side of paper below]

Let the day, month &
year be setforth _ the
term he enlisted for under
each enlistinent, if there
were more than one, &
the time he served under
each inlistment; also the
Colonel under each
enlistment stating the
different Captains
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The State of Delaware
Sussex County to wit
I do hereby certify that William [illegible]
Cooper Esq. is one of the Judges of the
Court of Common Pleas in and for the State of
Delaware Aforesaid and that full faith and
Credit is and Ought to be given all his acts and
Deeds as such In Testimony whereof I have
hereunto Set my hand and Affixed the Seal
of the Court of Common Pleas at George Town
in the County of Sussex aforesaid the twenty
second day of July in the Year of our Lord
one thousand eight hundred & eighteen
Francis Brown Pro [illegible]
Office of the Secretary of the State of Delaware
Dover 28 June 1819
There are not in this office any pay roles or muster rolls of a company
commanded by Captain William McCannon in the revolutionary war: and
it is believed that no person of that name we was a captain in the Regiment
of regular Troops furnished by the State of Delaware, in the service of the Unites States
of the continued establishment during the war of the revolution.
A person of the name of "William McKennan" acted as Lieutenant in
[illegible] of the companies that belonged to the said regiment; and might [illegible],
occasionally have commanded our in men of the said companies, but
to late after 27 January 1780 his rack in the said regiment was no higher than
first lieutenant, his appointment as such being bearing date the 4 Jan 1777:
There are in this office no pay rolls for the said regiment later than March 1780,
and if William McKennan we was a captain in the said regiment it was after
that period.
Lieutenant McKennan may have enlisted this applicant; but the name of
the captain of the company, into which he was enlisted, must be [illegible] 
me to furnish proof of his service from the pay roles.
Certified fa this United States War Depart
[a piece of the paper tore and obscured the beginning of the signature] he Ridgely
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[along the left side]
Wm. B. Cooper, agent, Laurel, Sussex co. Delaware
the above endorsement is ungentlemanly and untrue

Major Hitchens,
private,
of
Sussex County, Del.
24 June, 1818
Delaware Regt. on
Contl. Estabt. 1781,
to 1783.

Service proved by the
testimony, on oath
of several persons

It is required, that
the persons who have
given their testimony,
on oath, relative to
the applicants service,
should be certified by
the judge, as disinterested
and credible
witnesses.
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On the third day of July in the year of our Lord
one thousand eight hundred and twenty came personally
before me William B. Cooper one of the Judges of the
Court of Common pleas for the State of Delaware
Major Hitchen named in the above annexed certificate
or declaration, and being by me first duly sworn, upon
his oath further declares that he may perhaps be
mistaken as to the year in which he enlisted as a private
soldier in the Delaware Regiment upon the Continental
establishment, and altho his memory and recollection from
eyo infirmity does not at this time enable him to
recollect the names of all the different officers under
whom he served further than is stated in his original
declaration, yet he over and declares upon his
solemn Oath that he served as a common soldier
during the revolutionary war
upon the Continental establishment
for a longer period
of time than nine months and that he has no other
evidence of his services than the deposition to this and
his preceeding declaration annexed.
Sword to and subscribed before
me the day and year aforesaid
Wm Cooper

Major Hitchens
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Delaware district set
Before me John Fisher district Judge
of the United States for the Delaware district, personally came Jacob
Furbee a resident in the said district, Esquire, aged about sixty one
years, a person to me well known hereby certified to be worthy of credit
who being by me solemnly sworn on the Holy Evangels of Almighty God,
deposes and declares to the best of his knowledge & recollection, That Major
Hitchens, late a soldier in the Delaware regiment, entered into the
service of the U. States in the spring or summer of the year 1781 &
joined a recruiting party at Christiana Bridge in the State of
Delaware; that in the month of September in the same year
the said Majer Hitchins marched with the Delaware troops,
consisting partly of old soldiers, with a number of recruits, to the seige
of York-town; and immediately after the capture of Lt Cornwall,
that portion of said regiment (in which was the said Majer Hitchens)
was sent on to South Carolina to join the Delaware troops there
under the command of General Green, when we continued
until the fall of 1782, when the remnant of the Delaware
regiment returned home and arrived at Christiana Bridge
aforesaid under the command of William McKennan & Paul
Querault, who were both at that time Captains, that the
deponent was discharged on or about the 23d of March 1783 this
the aforesaid Mager Hitchens in the service, who this deponent persames,
was discharge, when the continental troops were disbanded, & further
this deponent saith not.
Taken, sworn subscribed at Dover, 15. May 1820
Before John Fisher Dist. Judge Delaware district.

Jacob Furbee
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Sussex County
State of Delaware

admitted
Mr. B. Cooper, ag
Laurel, Delaware
Recd 7. Aug. 1820.

 I WmB Cooper one of the Judges of the
Court of Common Pleas for the State of Delaware afi
to certify that I am personally acquainted with all
the persons who have given Testimony relative to the
service of Major Hitchens as a common Soldier in the
continental establishment during the Revolutionary war
and that in my opinion, they are intitled to full faith
and credit, that I have no knowledge of their having
any interest in the application of Major Hitchens nor
do I believe they or either of them will ever derive any
benefit thereby or for or on account of any pension that
may be granted to the said Major Hitchens
July 20 1820
WmB. Cooper
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Sussex County
State of Delaware

On this twenty fourth day of June -------- 1818 before me the subscriber one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas for the State of Delaware aforesaid, personally appeared Major Hitchens ----- aged seventy five years resident in the County of State aforesaid who being by me first duty sworn, according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the provision made by the late 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" that he the said Major Hitchens enlisted in 1777 or 1778 ------- in the State of Delaware in the company commanded by Captain William McCannon of the Delaware Regiment

that he continued to serve in the said corps, or in the service of the United States untill the close of the revolutionary war when he was discharged from service in the town of New Castle in New Castle County State of Delaware

that he was in the Battles of Guilford Court House Cambden the Cowpers and several others not now recollected.

and that he is in reduced circumstances, and stands in needs of the assistance of his Country for his support and that he has not any other evidence of his services now and his hours beside the certificate hereto annexed.

Sworn to and declared before me the day and year aforesaid.  -- Major Hitchens. his mark.

Wm B. Coopers
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Sussex County 
State of Delaware

June 24th 1818 Personally appeared before me the Subscriber one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas for the State of Florida aforesaid Jesse Royal and Mitchell Lecatt and upon their oaths respectively do make the following declaration that they were and now are personally acquainted with Major Hitchens the within named deponent and that to their knowledge he served nine months and upwards in the revolutionary war as a common soldier sworn to an subscribed before me the day and year above.


Jesse Royall his mark
Mitchell Lecatt his mark

Sussex County
State of Delaware

I William B. Cooper Judge as aforesaid do hereby certify that from the forgoing affidavits am satisfied that the within names Major Hitchens did serve as a common Soldier in the Continental army of the Revolutionary war for a longer period than nine months, and from my own personal knowledge of his circumstances, that he stands in need of the assistance of his Country for his support.

Witness my hand this 24th June 1818

Wm. B. Cooper
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Com(missioner)

J L E(dwards)
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March 19th 1821
The opinion of the Court is that
the property contained in the foregoing Schedule is of
the value of Twenty two Dollars and Eighty Seven & half Cents
James Anderson Clk Ge

the State of Delaware
[illegible - words partially obscured and partially faint - I believe one is "county"]
I do certify that the above and foregoing
is a true copy of the Original remaining on the
files in the Office of the Supreme Couty, I
[illegible, obscured] hereto set my hand and affixed the Seal
[illegible, obscured] the Supreme Court at George Town the
fifth day of April anno domino Eighteen
Hundred and Twenty one,
James Anderson Clk Ge
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District of Delaware

On this nineteenth day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and Twenty One, personally appeared in open court of the Supreme Court of the State of Delaware  in and for Sussex County, it being a court of record and having the power of fine and imprisonment, Major Hitchens, aged about Sixty – resident in Little Creek Hundred in the said county who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows, in the Delaware Regiment, in the company of Capt. McCannon in the Delaware line, the first declaration made by the deponent was on the twenty fourth day to me in the year one thousand eight hundred and eighteen  - and the pension he has received has been on the pension certificate No. 17.689. And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the eighteenth day of March eight hundred eighteen, that I have not [illegible] that time by gift sale or in any manner dispensed of my property or any part thereof, with intent thereby to diminish it, so as to bring myself within the provision 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 eighteen hundred and eighteen and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me my property or security, contracts in debts owe to men, nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed, and by me subscribed.
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The Inventory of the Goods & Chattle (sic) of Major Hitchens

1 Cow                                                                  $8.00
1 Bed stead, cover and mat in form of furniture    8.00
1 Old bed stead                                                     0.75
2 Fish barrels                                                         0.37
1 Old chest                                                            0.12
1 Iron pots on hooks                                              0.23
1 Dozen plates                                                      0.30
1 Old spider                                                          0.06
3 Punch bowls cups & saucers                             0.12
3 Ingram/bottles                                                    0.25
2 Tubs on legs                                                      0.25
6 Peter spoons                                                     0.12
3 Old knives and forks                                         0.06
2 Old pans & one earthen pan                             0.75
1 Old Tra & old cole                                             0.12
1 Old table                                                            0.06
Some Bacon                                                         3.00
2 Old basket                                                         0.06
                                                                           $22.87

And the deponent further saith that he is very infirm and unable to work, the deponent has a wife named Saley about sixty five years of age & two grandchildren one about twelve years of age and the other about fourteen years of age who live with him.  Sworn and subscribed he said Major Hitchens, the nineteenth day of March eighteen hundred and twenty one.

Before me Major Hitchens his mark

James Anderson
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36 017
INVALID.
Revy

File No. 36017
Mafo's Kitchens
The Rev War

18th March 18[ILLEGIBLE]
Index: - Vol. 2, Page 188

[ Arrangement of ,
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Proof to the service of
Major Hitchens
an applicant for a Pension

CP Bennett
P Jacquell
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State of Delaware

Before me Edward Rocke notary and tabellion public for the State of Delaware on the seventeenth day of May a.d. eighteen hundred and twenty, personally came Caleb P. Bennett formerly an officer of the Delaware Regiment in the service of the United States during the Revolutionary War. And as such to me the said notary personally well known and herein worthy of full faith was [illegible], who being duly examined by me according to Law and on his solemn affirmation, affirms and says. That he is acquainted with Major Hitchens, who is now an applicant for a pension. That to his certain knowledge the said Major Hitchens enlisted, and joined a detachment of the Delaware Regiment, in the spring of the year seventeen hundred and eighty one which detachment Capt. W., McKennan had the command and this deponent was Lieutenant. That the said detachment was then at Christiana Bridge and shortly thereafter marched to Virginia and served at the siege of Yorktown and at the capture of the British army there. That after the surrender of Lord Cornwallis, the said detachment marched to South Carolina and there joined the remnant of the said Delaware Regiment. Then commanded by Capt. Robert Kirkwood, in the army of General Green. That the said Major Hitchens, did serve as a private solder, in the said regiment as this deponent verily believes, from the spring of the year seventeen hundred and eighty one until the peace, when the army was discharged by proclamation.

(signed) C.P. Bennett

Affirmed and subscribed as at one before me the said notary.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed my notarial seal May 15, 1820
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[handwritten]

State of Delaware [illegible] S:

Be it known that on this seventeenth day of
May a. D. eighteen hundred and twenty, before me
Edward Roche, notary and Tabellion public for the State of 
Delaware, personally came Major P. Jacquett formerly an
officer in the Delaware Regiment in the service of the United
States during the Revolutionary War, and as such to me the
said notary personally well known; and herein worthy of full
faith and credit: who being duly sworn according to Law,
on his solemn oath deposes and says, that Major Hitchens, an
applicant for a Pension, was to his certain knowledge a
Soldier in the aforesaid Delaware Regiment; that he well
remembers the said Soldier as one of the Detachment and in
the command of Capt. Wm. Mc Kennan & Lieut C. P. Bennett,
which joined the Remnant of said Regiment some time
about the month of February Seventeen hundred  eighty two
when lying before the City of Charleston in South Carolina,
and that he verily believes that the said Major Hitchens
did serve as a Soldier in the said Regiment from some
time in the year Seventeen hundred and eighty one until
he was discharged at the conclusion of the war.

P. Jaquett Late Capt. D.R.
sworn to and subscribed as above before me the said notary

In Testimony whereof I have
hereunto set my Hand & affixed my
Notarial Seal, May 17, 1820.

Edw Roche

[possible smudged notary seal on document next to the "In testimony..." statement]
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367
Delaware
Major Hitchins
Recd. 11 Apl. 1821

March 1821 


Geo. Town 
April 6th

The Honorable, 
J. Calhoun
War Department
Washington
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[handwritten]

George Town April 4th,1821

The Honorable
J. Colhoon.

Sir,

The applications of Levi Powell and Edward
Harmon, made last October to the war department as revolutionary
claimants, have not been attended to: information in
relation thereto will particularly oblige

Sir,
Your Obedient servant,
Jno. D. Wells.
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THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES                                                                    Division of Veterans' Administration Archives
         Form VAN-51
            12-5-41
                                                               BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*


NAME Hitcherick, Philip         GRADE  Private             LINE Pennsylvania   

WARRANT  9578                     ACRE AGE  100              ISSUED June 28, 1793      
NUMBER                                                                         to John Wheeler, assignee




*The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800. Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records int he National Archives.