Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 13,262, Stewart Hazard, Conn. New York
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(3 - 1776)
SERVICE
Conn.
New York

Hazard, Stewart
Hazzard
NUMBER
S 13.262

CONTENTS
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[No] 913
New York

Stewart Hazzard
of Chenango Co in the State of New York
who was a Private in the Comp. commanded
by Captain Clark of the Regt. commanded
Col. Drayton in the New York
line for 11 months and 28 days
New York and Conn  [Mch 27/16]
recorded/corrected  [ s]

Inscribed on the Roll of New York
at the rate of 39 Dollars 74 Cents per annum
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1834.

Certificate of Pension issued the 21 day of Oct.
1833 and sent to P. B Prindle
Norwich

Arrears to the 4th of Sep 33                   $9935
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sep 34      19.87
                                                                   $119.22
Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7, 1832.}
Recorded by W. L. William, Clerk
Book E Vol. 4  Page 9
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Dead [    ] Fleming May
1834 Order to pay
Date of death not on [At]


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Stewart Hazard
Pension application
18.278
Direct to P. B. Prindle
Norwich
Chenango Co.
N. Y.
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State of New York
Chenango County ss
On this Eighth day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight
hundred and thirty two personally appeared before the Honorable Charles York, One of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Chenango in the State of New York, Stewart Hazard, a resident of New Berlin
in said County of Chenango, aged eighty-seven years and upwards, who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7, 1832.
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated:
That about the first day of April in the year 1776 - he resided at Caughnawaga, now Montgomery County, then called [Fryon] County, That about that time, the citizens of that section of County became excited & alarmed, upon the subject of the war & for the purpose of resisting the aggressions of the British power and [   ] the Indians & Tories, a band or company of men was organized at Caughnawaga of about twenty in number of which company this deponent was appointed by them the leader or Captain,  That shortly after this company was raised which was not done under any authority from the State, orders were received to have every man capable
of bearing arms equipped with gun, bayonet cartridge Box, [horn] and twenty rounds of powder, fire flints, knapsack,
and priming wire and be ready at a minute warning to
turn out into the service, as soon as the order was received. He immediately with this company of men which he had commanded, [range] themselves in a company of militia
the company of Militia of the town Caughnawaga commanded by Captain John Davis in the Regiment commanded by Col. Fisher. After  they had equipped, they marched with their company with Captain [Yates] Company and others, from
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Caughnawaga up to the German Flatts where the
Indian treaty was formed between General
Schuyler and the Indians - He was discharged
from the service there at German Flatts and
returned home. This deponent cannot now recollect 
the precise time they were discharged, but thinks 
it was in harvest time or not long after harvest and
the time he was out in the service and under
arms was between three and four months but
he can't recollect exactly how long.  He was also
in the Company of the said John Davis at the time
of General [Herkimers] expedition against the Indians
and marched from Caughnawaga on the Mohawk
River to near Little Falls, when General Herkimer
asked him if he had the small pay and on his
answering that he had not, the General advised
him to return home and aid in hunting after
the tories - as he was fearful he would catch
the small pox and spread it- and he accordingly
came home, leaving his company
to march on under Herkimer to Oriskany where
the fight took place between the Indians 
and the American Troops and where General 
Herkimer was killed-  This deponent was out
at this time in the service on the occasion
of his marching to near the Little Falls about
three or four weeks-  On his return to
Caughnawaga he commenced scouting after 
the Indians and Tories and took Old John
Olbrandt and his son John Olbrandt, and
one Captain White, Peter [Leross] who were
Tories and whom this deponent took and
carried to Johnstown Sail-  During the year
1776 as this deponent thinks, but at any rate
in the year that the Connecticut troops came up
to Johnstown, he was with the troops under Col.
Dayton which was attacked and took Fort [Johnson] wgich 
commanded by Lie. [John]
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Johnson - while they were engaged in attacking
this Fort, he spent in the service about a
fortnight- among the soldiers who served with
him this season, and different times, were Benjamin 
Davis, Sergeant, One Vandewacker, two Van Brockling - Gilleert- Van Deusen, & one Genit Van Brocklin.
This deponent cannot now remember the order in which some of the events occurred, owing to his advanced age &
from the gradual decay of his memory. He
was a minute man as was called and liable at all times to be called into duty, and for nearly all the time from the time he was required to equip until he left the Mohawk Country, he was called out very frequently on alarms and rumors of attack from Indian & tories- Indeed nearly his whole
time was spent in the service- he had very little
time to attend to his own business-
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He continued to reside at the Conglinawaga until the month of August in 1777 (with the exception of a short time that he was removing his family to Southington Hartford County, Connecticut when he left the Mohawk County and joined his family in Connecticut. He did not remain with his
family longer than two or three days before he volunteered and joined at Southington a company of the Connecticut Militia for the term of three months - commanded by Capt. Ambrose Sloper. He does not recollect the names of the other Company officers or the the Col of the Regiment
but his General was General Putnam- they immediately marched from Southington to Fish Kill on the Hudson River- passing through Oblong he recollects, on account of 
there being tories there- he lay at Fish Kill until the British
Shipping went up the River with a view of meeting
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Burgoyne when he marched with the troops lying
at Fishkill, up the River to Red Hook. Keeping
pace on their march with the British in their
vessels- The third or fourth day after reaching
Red Hook, intelligence was [recd] received of the defeat 
and surrender of Burgoyne, when the British
vessels went down the River, and he with
the troops marched back to the Highlands
on the side of the [Rease]  - He lay at the Barracks
No 2- Highlands until his three months had
expired- when he was discharged, with his company
and returned home to his family in Southington-
his discharge was the last of November as he
now thinks-
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In the next year (1778) in the month
of June as he thinks but cannot State positively 
he again volunteered in the Connecticut troops
at Southington for three months in a company
commanded by Captain Elijah Seymons of New
Hartford- the colonel was Col. Wells- and the
General, General Putnam He marched with
his company immediately after he volunteered
to Horseneck, passing though Cheshire, [Walliford]
North Haven, New Haven, Stratford, Casecole 
& - He lay stationed at Horseneck until his
three months had expired when he was discharged
and returned home to Southington- His
duty and business at Horseneck was to scout
out after the tories- stand guard [  ]- While
he was in this tour at Horseneck he knew among
the soldiers Ruloph Dutcher or [Thos.] Sledd and many
others that he cannot now recollect-
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In the following year 1779 at Southington, he again volunteered in the Connecticut troops at Southington for
the term of three months- in the company commanded
by Capt. Ambrose Sloper, Lieutenant William
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Lewis- Col. Wells was Col. of the Regiment and
Putnam (he thinks was his General- He marched
with his company from Southington soon after we
volunteered to Norwalk, going through the same
places that he marched this when he went
to Horseneck the year before- He volunteered in the
month of June as near as he can remember, at
Norwalk he lay with his company which was
stationed there to protect the town and to prevent
the enemy from landing there from Long Island.
While he was stationed at Norwalk, an alarm was
spread that the enemy were coming to [Danbury]
and he with his company were ordered to
march against them and did march 15 or
twenty miles when on learning that it was a
false alarm, they returned--- When the term
for which he had volunteered or enlisted was
out, he was discharged at Norwalk and
came home to Southington to his family.
During this tour he was acquainted with soldier
Carter, two or three Newells, Asahel Newell, Samuel
Newell, Ashbel Newell, one Byington,

After this and during the following year (he
thinks) there came on alarm that the enemy
were going to burn and destroy Fishkill- and
he volunteered and rode to Fishkill with
many others- at Oblong on the way to Fish Kill
they all [ranged] under Capt. Ambrose
Sloper (the same Captain he had previously served
under) and marched on to Fish Kill- he
stayed at Fish Kill a week or upwards with
the troops, when the enemy not attempting to land,
they were all dismissed there and returned
home to Southington to his family. He was out
this time four or five weeks.
At the time the enemy landed at West [Haven]
and marched to New Haven he again [volunteered]
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[volunteered] or turned out to fight them-- Captain
Clark of Southington had the command of the men
who turned out from there Southington - He went 
to New Haven and they met the American troops
who were retreating from before the British from
West Haven - the British remained in New Haven
all night and the next morning the Americans 
drove them on board their shipping to East
Haven - He went with the American troops to East
Haven on a fast march to prevent them burning
the town. and they succeeded in driving them
out of the town on board of the shipping-
He was then dismissed at New Haven to
which place they had returned from East
Haven and then returned home - having been
engaged in this expedition about seven or Eight
days.
And he further states that he has
no documentary evidence of these his services
during the Revolutionary War and he knows
of no person whose testimony he can procure 
to testify to his services-

In answer to the interogatories required by the
War Department to issue to applicant for pensions
he answers as follows:
1st He was born in Glasco, (now Blanford) Massachusetts on the 11th day of May 1745 (Old Style)
2nd Has no record of his age- his age was put down
in his father's family Bible- and his own family


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record which contained his age, was lost in moving
his family-

3rd He lived at Caughnawaga, (Tryon County) now
Montgomery County, N. Y. the first year and
after that year at Southington, Connecticut as
stated in his declaration- since the war he 
resided 20 years and more in Southington - then
moved from there to Oxford, Chenango County, N. Y.,
from Oxford (about 22 years since he removed
to Lisle Broome County, N.Y. where he has resided
ever since until last fall (1831) when he
came up to New Berlin, Chenango County to reside
with his relatives and where he now resides.

4th The answer to this question is contained in
the body of his declaration.

5th General Washington at Southington and several
times in the Army: General Herkimer and General
Vedder on the Mohawk River- Generall [Putnam], 
General Houe at West Point.    He says the
general circumstances of his services are as dated
in his declaration-

6th  He never received a written discharge- was
always discharged verbally by his officers.
7th He gives the names of Elder Timothy Shephard of
the town of Triangle (lately Sisle) and Elder David
Brown of the same place- George Wheeler, a Justice
Peace P.M. and Col. Clark of the same place 
in Broome County- and also Daniel Belden
& James [Haraid] of New Berlin, Chenango County as
men residing in his neighborhood where he now resides
and where he has recently resided who can
testify to his character for truth and veracity.
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He also states that his health is so poor and he
is so disabled by his advanced age and bodily
infirmities that he cannot attend in Court
personally to make this declaration-

He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension
or annuity except the present and declare that
his name is not on the pension roll of the agency
of any State-
Stewart Hazard

Sworn to & subscribed the day & year aforesaid
before me 
[Marles York], Judge of Chenango County Court

We Timothy Shephard, an Elder or Minister of the
Baptist Church residing in the town of [Triangle]
(lately Lisle), Broome County, and David
Brown residing in the same place, do certify that
we are well acquainted with Steward Hazard
who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration, that we believe him to be [*7] years
of age, and that he is reputed and believed
in the neighborhood where he has resided
for upwards of 15 years last past, until last
fall, to have been a soldier of the Revolution,
and that we concur in that opinion and
that we have never heard any doubts expressed
by any person as to his having been such
Soldier and we further certify that he has 
been for many years past a Deacon of the
Baptist Church in Lisle over which
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the said Timothy Mephard is now and has been
for many years the Pastor. We further Certify
that last fall he left the neighborhood where
we reside and came up to New Berlin his
present residence to live with his relatives
     Timothy Shepperd
      David Brown

Sworn & subscribed the day & year aforesaid before me,
Charles York judge 
of Chenango County Court

I, James Hazard of New Berlin, Chenango
County N. Y. do duly certify that I have been
acquainted with Stewart Hazard who has signed
the above declaration, for eight or nine years
that I believe him to be of the age he
represents in the said declaration, that
he came last fall or December from Triangle
(lately Sister) Broome County N.Y. with his
wife [crossed out and] to my house and lived with
me, about three months- they then moved into
a house of mine, where they now reside. He is
not acquainted with any clergyman in the
neighborhood where now resides- I have always
understood that he was a soldier of the 
Revolutionary War, having often heard him detail
his service. He has always been reputed in
his neighborhood to have been a revolutionary
soldier and I never heard any doubts expressed
of his having been such soldier
              James Hazard
Sworn and subscribed to this day & year aforesaid before me
Charles York Judge
of Chenango County Court
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and the said, Charles York, Judge of the Court
of Common Pleas of said County as aforesaid does hereby
declare his opinion, after the investigation of the
matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed
by the war department that the above named
applicant, was a Revolutionary Soldier and served
as he states-    and he further states and Certifies
that it appears to him that Timothy Shepphard
who has signed one of the preceding certificate
is a Clergyman resident in the town of Triangle
(lately Sister) Broome County N. Y.-  and that
David Brown who has also signed same Certificate
is a resident in the same town and that
he is a credible person and that their statement
is true. It also appears to him that James Hazard
who has signed the immediately foregoing certificate
is a resident of the town of New Berlin Chenango 
County N.Y.- that he is a credible person
and his statement is entitled to full credit-
and it further appears to the Court (the said
judge) that there is no clergyman resident in
the neighborhood of  the said Steward Hazard
(said applicant) with whom the said Hazard
[had any] acquaintance & who [crossed out could] knows 
the said Hazard, he not having resided there
but a short time-   and the judge further
certifies that in his opinion the said applicant
cannot, in consequence of being disabled by
be advanced age and bodily infirmities attend
the Court personally, to make the declaration,
Dated September 8. 1833
Charles York Judge of
Chenango County County Court

State of New York
Chenango County: I [Laws] K Pike Clerk of the
said County hereby certify that Charles York Esquire
before whom the foregoing proceedings in the matter
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of the application of Pearl Harded for a
pension purport to have been had, was at the
date of the same one of the Judges of the Court
of Common Pleas in and for said County. that
I am well acquainted with his hand writing
and really believe his name subscribed to the
preceding certificate of the affidavit of the said
Stewart Hazard and of the affidavits [and] 
certificates  of Timothy Shephard & David Brown &
James Hazard-  and also to the preceding
certificate of the proceedings, to be his genuine
hand writing and signature

Witness my hand and seal of Office
this Eighth day of September A.D. 1832
P. B. Prindle
Deputy Clerk
[illegible]
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No 18278
Stewart Hazard Chenango
County New York

Admitted
Private 11 mo 28 days

P B Prindle Norwich Chenango
County New York
[illegible]
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WAR DEPARTMENT,
Pension Office.
183

Sir:
The evidence in support of your claim, under the act of June 7, 1832, has
been examined, and the papers are herewith returned. The following is a statement of your case in a tabular form. On comparing these papers with the following rules and the subjoined notes, you will readily perceive that objections exist, which must be removed,before a pension can be allowed.The notes and the regulations will shew what is necessary to be done. Those points to which your attention is more particularly directed,
you will find marked in the margin with a brace, (thus: } )
You will, when you return your papers to this Department, send this printed letter with them; and you will, by complying with this request greatly facilitate the investigation of your claim.
_____________________________________________________________________

A statement shewing the Service of Stewart Hazard Chenango County New York
_____________________________________________________________________
Period when service was rendered ┃
Duration of the Claimant's service: Years, months, days┃
Rank of Claimant┃
Name and Rank of Company officers under whom he served┃
Names and ranks of the General Field Officers┃
Battles in which the applicant was engaged┃
Country through which he marched┃
Place of abode when he entered the service and age at present period┃
Evidence by which the declaration is supported
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April 1776  ┃3 or 4 months  ┃Captain  ┃marched with Capt. Gates Company to the German Flatts  ┃87 years, Montgomery County New York ┃traditional evidence, witness certified, [   ]. cleryman's certificate, papers not properly attached
                     about 14 days ┃-┃Col. Dayton┃applicant commanded a party and took Old John [Oldtrant] and his son John & one of Capt. White [?] Troop who were tories and put them in jail at Johnstown.

Vol -           1777 ┃3 months┃private┃Cap. Ambrose Sloper┃Col. Putnam 
Vol - June 1778  ┃3 months ┃private┃Cap. Seymore ┃Col. Putnam┃marched to Fish Kill to New Hook
Vol -          1779  ┃3 month s┃private┃Cap. Sloper  ┃Col. Wells  ┃marched to [Horsenich]
Vol -          1780  ┃time not stated┃private┃Cap. Sloper ┃marched to Fish Kill
Vol -           -         ┃not stated ┃private ┃Cap. Clark ┃marched to New Haven
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I am respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
J. L. EDWARDS,
Commissioner of Pensions
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REGULATIONS UNDER THE ACT OF JUNE 7, 1832.
The following regulations have been adopted:
This law has been construed to extend, as well to the line, as to every branch of the Staff of the Army,
and to include under the terms "Continental Line," "State troops," "militia," and "volunteers, all
persons enlisted, drafted, or who volunteered and who were bound to military service, but not those who
were occasionally employed with the army upon civil contracts, such as Clerks to Commissaries and to
Store Keepers, &c. Teamsters, Boatmen, &c. Persons who served on board of Private Armed Vessels are
also excluded from the benefits of the law, as well as persons who turned out as patrols, or were engaged
in guarding particular places at night, and were not recognized as being in actual military service.
Four general classes of cases are embraced in this law:
1. The Regular Troops.
2. The State Troops, Militia, and Volunteers.
3. Persons employed in the Naval service.
4. Indian Spies.
As rolls of the regular troops in the Revolutionary War exist in this Department, all persons, claiming
the benefit of this law as officers, non-commissioned officers, musicians or privates, will in the first 
instance, make application by transmitting the following declaration, which will be made before a Court of
Record of the County where such applicant resides. And every Court having by law a seal and Clerk is
considered a Court of Record.
DECLARATION,
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th of June, 1832.
Sate, Territory, District of
County of} ss.
On this --- day of --- personally appeared (a) before ---
A.B. a resident (b) of --- in the county of --- and State, Territory or District
of --- aged (c) --- years, who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth on his oath make the
following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provion made by the act of Congress, passed
June 7th, 1832. That he enlisted in the Army of the United States in the year (d) --- , with --- and
served in the --- (e) regiment of the --- line, under the following named officers:
[Here set forth the names and rank of the Field and Company Officers; the time he left the service; (and if he served under more than one term of enlistment, he must specify the particular period, and rank and names of his officers;) the
town or county and State in which he resided when he entered the service; the battles, if any, in which he was engaged,
and the country through which he marched. This form is to be varied so as to apply to the cases of officers and persons who belonged to the militia, volunteers, navy, &c.]
He hereby relinquishes every claim (f) whatever to a pension or an annuity, except the present, and he
declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any Agency in any State, or (if any) only on that of
the Agency in the State of ---
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.  --- A. B.
[And then will follow the certificate of the Court.]
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion (g) that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states.
I --- of the Court of ---
do hereby certify (h) that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of --- for a pension,
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office (i) this
---- day of --- & c.
If, on examination of the proper record the names of applicants, making such declaration, cannot be
found, they will produce such proof as the rule given in note (j) points out.
Every applicant who claims a pension by virtue of service in the State Troops, Volunteers or Militia,
those who belonged to the New Hampshire Militia and State Troops of Virginia, will make and
subscribe a declaration similar to the foregoing, with the following additions, viz:
(k) We, A. B., a Clergyman, residing in the --- and C. D. residing in (the same)
hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with --- , who has
subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be ---
years of age; that he is reputed and believed, in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid,
[And then will follow the certificate of the Court.]
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after
putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier, and served as he states. And the Court further certifies, that it appears to them that A.B. --- who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman, resident in the ---
and that C.D., who has also signed the same is a resident in the ---
and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
I, --- Clerk of the Court of --- do hereby certify that the foregoing
contains the original proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the applicacation of ---
for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office, this --- day of --- &c.
Every applicant will produce the best proof in his power. This is the original discharge or commission; 
but if neither of these can be obtained, the party will so state under oath, and will then procure, if
possible, the testimony of at least one credible witness, stating in detail his personal knowledge of the services of the applicant, and such circumstances connected therewith, as may have a tendency to throw light upon the transaction.
If such surviving witness cannot be found, the applicant will so state in his declaration (l) and he will
also, whether he produce such evidence or not, proceed to relate all the material facts, which can be useful in the investigation of his claim, and in the comparison of his narrative with the events of the period of his alleged service, as they are known at the Department. A very full account of the services of each person
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will be indispensable to a favorable action upon his case. The facts stated will afford one of the principal means of corroborating the declaration of the applicant, if true, or of detecting the imposition, if one be attempted; and unless, therefore, these are amply and clearly set forth, no favorable decision can be expected. All applicants will appear before some Court of Record in the County, in which they reside, and there subscribe and be sworn to, one of the declarations above provided, according to the nature of his case.
The Court will propound the following (m) interrogatories to all applicants for a pension, on account of service in the Militia, State troops, or Volunteers, except the Militia of New Hampshire and the State troops of Virginia.
1. Where and in what year were you born?
2. Have you any record of your age, and if so, where is it?
3. Where were you living when called into service; where have you lived since the Revolutionary war, and where do you now live?
4. How were you called into service; were you drafted, did you volunteer, or were you a substitute? And if a substitute, for whom?
5. State the names of some of the Regular Officers, who were with the troops, where you served; such Continental and Militia Regiments as you can recollect, and the general circumstances of your services.
6. To a Soldier - Did you ever receive a discharge from the service, and if so, by whom was it given and what has become of it?
To an Officer - Did you ever receive a commission, and if so, by whom was it signed, and what has become of it?
7. State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood, and who can testify as to your character for veracity, and their belief of your services as a soldier of the Revolution.
The Court will see that he answers to these questions are embodied in the declaration, and they are requested to annex their opinions of the truth of the statement of the applicant.
The applicant will further produce in Court, if the same can be done, in the opinion of the Court, without too much expense and inconvenience to him, two respectable persons -one of whom should be the nearest clergyman, if one lives in the immediate vicinity of such applicant, who can testify, from their acquaintance with him, that they believe he is of the age he represents, and that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood to have been a Revolutionary soldier, and that they concur in that opinion. If one of these persons is a Clergyman, the Court will so certify, and they will also certify, to the character and standing of other persons, giving such certificates.
The traditionary evidence of service is deemed very important, in the absence of any direct proof, except the declaration of the party. And the Courts are requested to be very particular in the enquiry whether the belief is general, and whether any doubts have ever existed upon the subject.
Applicants unable to appear in Court by reason of bodily infirmity, may make the declaration before required, and submit to the examination, before a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record of the proper county, and the Judge or Justice will execute the duties, which the Court is herein requested to perform, and will also certify that the applicant cannot, from bodily infirmity, attend the Court.
Whenever any official act is required to be done by a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record, or by a Justice of the peace, the certificate of the Secretary of State or Territory, or of the proper Clerk of the Court or County, under his seal of office, will be annexed, stating that such person is a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record, or a Justice of the Peace, and that the signature annexed is his genuine signature.
No payments can be made on account of the services of any person, who may have died before the taking effect of the act of June 7, 1832; and in case of death subsequent thereto, and before the declaration herein required is made, the parties interested will transmit such evidence as they can procure, taken and authenticated before a Court of Record, showing the services of the deceased, the period of his death, the opinion of the neighborhood respecting such services, the title of the claimant, and the opinion of the Court upon the whole matter.

[a] The declarant must appear in open Court, unless prevented from doing so by reason of bodily infirmity ; in which case the declarant will follow the rule laid down for his guidance.
[b] The declarant must make his declaration in the county where he resides. If he should fail to do so, he must assign a sufficient reason for not conforming to the rule.
[c] The age of the claimant must invariably be mentioned.
[d] The declarant must mention the period or periods of the war when he served.
Every continental officer or soldier must give the name of the Colonel under whom he served; otherwise a satisfactory examination of the claim cannot be had. Every claimant must state, with precision, the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the Department to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the
loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words:
"Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A. B. who, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that, by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service; but, according to the best of his recollection, he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades:--For---year----months, and ----days, I served as a ----. For ----months and ---- days, I served as a ----; and for such service I claim a pension."
It is important, in all cases, to determine with precision the period for which each applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service. The use of the phrase about three or four months, is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable. Some persons who apply for pensions merely state that they served two years in the militia, &c. without specifying the tours, the names of the officers, and other particulars respecting their service. This form of a declaration is
highly objectionable. It must, in every case, be clearly shown under what officers the applicant served; the duration of each term of engagement; the particular place or places where the service was performed; that the applicant served with an embodied corps called into service by competent authority , that he was either in the field or in garrison; and for the time during which the service was performed, he was not employed in any civil pursuit.
[f] The law makes the relinquishment indispensable.
[g] The opinion of the Court is always required.
[h] The Clerk must give his certificate in every case.
[i] The Clerk must affix his seal, and it has no device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal, or if he has no public seal of office, the certificate of a Member of Congress, proving the official character and signature of the certifying officer, should accompany the papers.

Mode of authenticating papers.
In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticates the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other papers authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the ends of which must pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate.

Proof of Service.
[j] In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses, who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimant's entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the regiment, company, and line to which he belonged. The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the witnesses , and the official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer under his seal of office.
[ ] The notes from [a] to [i] are all equally applicable to the cases of Militia men, Volunteers and State Troops. The proof required by rule in note [j] applies to continental troops only.
[k] This traditionary evidence is indispensable in militia cases.
[l] If a witness cannot be found, the declarant must state the fact.
[m] The answers to the interrogatories must all be written, and sent to the War Department, with the declaration,
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August 25, 1936
Mrs. Clarence Hutton
187 Prospect Drive
Wollaston, Massachusetts
XXXXXXXXXXX
STEWART HAZARD,    S. 13262
BENJAMIN McALLASTER.   S [  ]075
BA-J/ML[ ]

Dear Madam:

Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revolutionary War records of Stuart Hazard who served as a minuteman in
Mohawk Valley, New York, lived in Connecticut for a time, returned to
New York, and died at the age of ninety-six years in Lisle, Broome
County, New York, and of Benjamin McCollister or McAllister, a pensioner
who, you state, died at Colrain, Massachusetts, August 24, 1822.

You are furnished herein the records of of the only soldiers
named Stewart Hazard and Benjamin McAllaster, under any spelling,
found in the Revolutionary War records of this office.

Stewart Hazard
S.13262
The data herein were obtained from the papers on file in pension 
claim S. 13262, based on service of Stewart Hazard or Hazzard in 
the Revolutionary War.

Stewart was born May 11, 1745 (Old Style), in Glasse which
was later Blandford, Massachusetts; the names of his parents are not given. 

While residing on Caughnawaga, Tryon County which was later Montgomery County, New York, he was made captain of acompany of Minutemen held in readiness to serve anytime and in 1776 he served a tour of fourteen days as private under Colonel Dayton in the New YOrk troops at Johnstown and was in the attack on Fort Johnson. He enlisted about April 1, 1775 and served three and one half months as private in Captain John Davis' company, Colonel Fisher's New York Regiment.  He afterwards served three months as private in Captain John Davis' New York Company. In August 1777, he served [crossed out], New York, to Southington, Hartford County, Connecticut, where he joined
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his family, and after remaining at home two or three days, volunteered
and served three months as private in Captain Ambrose Sloper's Connecticut
company, and was discharged the last of November, 1777. He
volunteered in June, 1778, served three months as private in Captain
Elijah Seymour's company, Colonel Wells' Connecticut regiment,
stationed at Horseneck, and after being discharged returned home. He
volunteered in June, 1779, served as private in Captain Ambrose Sloper's
company, Colonel Wells' Connecticut regiment, and was discharged after
having served three months. He again volunteered about the following
year and served four or five weeks as private in Captain Ambrose
Sloper's Connecticut company. He volunteered at the time the British
entered New Haven and served seven or eight days as private in Captain
Clark's Connecticut company and assisted in driving the British from
New Haven.

Stewart Hazard continued to reside in Southington, Connecticut,
more than twenty years after the Revolutionary War, then moved to
Oxford, Chenango County, New York. About 1810, he moved to Lisle,
Broome County, New York, where he was a deacon in the Baptist Church
and where he remained until the fall or in December, 1831, when he
moved to New Berlin, Chenango County, New York, to reside with his
relatives.

The soldier was allowed pension on his application executed
September 2, 1832, at which time he was a resident of New Berlin,
Chenango County, New York. He signed Stewart Haward but his name was
borne on the pension roll as Hassard. He was still a resident of
New Berlin, New York, in 1833.

Reference was made to Stewart Hazard's wife and family but no
names in the claim were designated as such

In 1832, one James Huzzard was a resident of New Berlin, New York,
and stated that he had known the soldier, Steward Hazzard, eight or nine
years, and that when the soldier and his wife moved from Lisle to New
Berlin, New York, they lived in his (James') home for about three
months, then moved into a house of James', no relationship between
them shown.

In order to obtain date of last payment of pension, the name of
person paid and possibly the date of death of Stewart Hazard, you should
write to the Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, Records
Division, this city, and cite the following: Stewart Hassard, Certificate No. 20913, issued October 21, 1833, rate $39.74, commenced
March 4, 1831, Act June 7, 1832, New York Agency.
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Benjamin McAllister
S. 33073
The data which follow were found in the papers on file in claim
for pension, S. 38073, based upon service in the Revolutionary War
of Benjamin McAllister.

Benjamin McAllister was born May 11, 1752, the place of his birth
and names of parents are not given.

Benjamin McAllister enlisted in 1775, place not stated, served as
private in Captain Reynolds' New Hampshire Company, and was discharged after having served four months. He enlisted in 1776, served as a
private in Captain Daniel Wilkins' company, Colonel Bedel's New Hampshire
regiment and was discharged at the expiration of one year, the
term for which he enlisted. He enlisted in 1777, served as private
under Captain Nathaniel Jarvis and Captain Lieutenant Patrick Phelon
in Colonel Henry Jackson's Regiment and was discharged after
having served three years.

The soldier was allowed pension on his application executed April
5, 1818, at which time he was a resident of Colrain, Franklin County,
Massachusetts, where he had lived nearly thirty years and was still
living in 1830. He signed Benjamin McAllaster.

No mention was made to wife and children.

In order to obtain the date of last payment of pension and name 
and address of the person paid, you should address the Comptroller
General, as directed in the preceding record, and furnish that official
the following data:
Benjamin McAllaster
Certificate #[4042]
issued October 29, 1818
rate, $8 per month
commenced April 5, 1818
Act March 18, 1818
Massachusetts Agency
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November 21, 1939
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
Mrs. Clarence Hutton
127 Prospect Drive
Wollaston, Massachusetts

STEWART HAZARD
S. 13262
BA-J/MLB

Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letter of November 15, 1939, in which you request further information relative to Stewart Hazzard (S. 13262), whose record was furnished sometime past. You desire to know whether he gave any earlier date of residence in Tryon County, New York, then 1776, when he enlisted there, also wish to know if he gave any reasons for leaving Caughnawaga in August, 1777, and you would like any further details in regard to that soldier this office might have, than those shown in the report furnished you. You request, also, the Revolutionary War record of David Hull, of Morris County, New Jersey.

There is no claim for pension or bounty land on file based upon service in the Revolutionary War of a David Hull who served from New Jersey, or in which it is shown that he ever resided in that state.

A careful reexamination has been made of the papers in pension claim, S. 13262, based upon service of Stewart Hazard or Hazzard in the Revolutionary War, and the date that soldier left the place of his birth Glasco(later Blandford), Massachusetts, or when he moves to Caughnawaga, Tryon County, New York, where he resided when he enlisted, is not shown, nor is the reason given for his leaving that place in August, 1777. No further details were given in regard to Stewart Hazard or Hazzard than those shown in the report furnished you August 25, 1936.

Very truly yours
[no signature]
A.D. HILLER
Executive Assistant to the Administrator
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REVOLUTIONARY WAR RECORDS SECTION.
3 -- 525
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
Washington, D. C., 19--
SF 13262
In reply to your request of ---, received ---
for a statement of the military history of Stewart Hazard
a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired
information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for
pension on file in this Bureau. [illegible] Hazzard
[Table columns: DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. | LENGTH OF SERVICE. | RANK. | OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED.
CAPTAIN./COLONEL. | STATE.]

1776 | 14 days | Pvt. | -/Dayton | NY
Apr 1776 | 3.5 mos. | Pvt. | John Davies/Fisher | -
1777 | 3 weeks | Pvt. |  John Davies/Fisher | -
1777 | 3 mos. | Pvt. | Ambrose Sloper | - | Conn.
June 1778 | 3 mos. | Pvt. | Elijah [illegible]/Hills | Conn.
June 1779 | 3 mos. | Pvt. | Ambrose Sloper | Hills | Conn.
[illegible] | 4 weeks | Pvt. | Ambrose Sloper | Hills | Conn.
1779 | 1 week | Pvt. | Clark/- | Conn.

Battles engaged in, attack on Fort Johnson
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Canajohorie Tryon Co NY
Date of application for pension, Sept 8 1852 et al
Residence at date of application, New Berlin Chenango Co NY
Age at date of application, born May 11 1745 (old style) at Glasco, Blanford, Mass.
Remarks. Soldier moved to Southington Hartford Co Conn about 1777. His wife is before + to but her name is not stated and there is no other family data on file.
Respectfully,
Commissioner
* see [illegible] vol 1 page 155 for record of the application
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Rev Sev

126 East 11th St 
Atlanta, Ga
Oct 9 - 1918
Commissioner of Pensions -
Washington, D.C.
Dear Sir: In a book of New York pensioners of the revolutionary war, I find my ancestors "Steward Hazzard [name is underlined], Yates Co. N.Y. 1833 aged 88" and "Godfrey Byard, Herkimer Co. 1818, aged 81"
Will you please send me their records of service and any family records their papers, may contain, and greatly oblige.
Yours Very Truly
[Signed] Mrs E. J. Prescott 
126 East 11th St
Atlanta, Ga.
[Round stamp]
U.S. PENSION OFFICE L OCT 14 1918
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127 Prospect An.
Wollaston Mass
Nov. 15, 1939
[Round Stamp with numbers 1-12 on the outer rim] RECEIVED NOV 17 1939 MAIL SIB DIV Reader No. 20 VETS ADM

Mr. A.D. Hiller
Veterans Administration
Washington D.C.
Dear Sir-- In regard to the papers on file in the pension claim S. 13262, Stewart Hazzard in the Revolutionary War, will you kindly inform me whether began any earlier date of his residence in Tryon Co. N.Y. than 1776, did he say why he left Caughnawaga in Aug 1777. You sent me his service under date of Aug. 1936. I am asking for any rambling details about his history in Tryon Co. to use in a family sketch. There is a family legend about his being "burnt out by Indians & Tories, being a grist and a carding mill." It will be deeply appreciated if his papers are examined for any such details and the enlisted date of his residence there
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I should like to have any record there may be on file in your department for David
Hull, Morris County, New Jersey.  
Thanking you for any information
Very truly yours,
[Signed] Estel M. Hutton
(Mrs. Clarence)
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1918 Oct. 23 . Hist to Mrs. E. J. Prescott
1936 Aug 25- Hist to Mrs. Clarence Hutton
(see ltr in elm D 33070 of Beny Mcalister)[?] 
1939 Nov 21- Mrs.C. Hutton adr'd [?]the
infr as to earliest [?] reasons for [?]
same.




13.262
INVALID.
-
13-262
Stewart Hazzard
Priv. Rev. war
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Act: June 7th 1832
Index:-- Vol. 1, Page 434

Arrangement of 1870.
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Amended Declaration.
State of New_ York
County of Broom ss:


Personally appeared before  me the under-
signed a Justice of the Peace in and for the said
County Stewart Hazard a revolutionary soldier,
lately of the town of New Berlin, Chenango County
who being sworn, says, that by reason of old age &
the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear posi-
tively as to the precise length of his service, but
according to the best of his recollection he served
not less than the periods mentioned below and in the
following grades to wit:
3 mos & For three months and 15 days I served as
15 days   a private in Capt. John Davis Company under Col
Fisher in the New York State Militia, in 1776 as
I think-

21 days. For three weeks I served as a
private in the said Capt: Davis Company of the
New York Militia in the year in which Genl Her-
Kimer was killed _
14 days.    For fourteen days I served as a pri-
vate under Col Dayton in the New York State
Militia _ in the year in which the Connecticut
troops came to Johnstown and Fort Johnson was ta-
ken
3 mos.     For three months I served as a private
in Capt. Slopers  company, under Genl Putnam
in the Connecticut State Militia, in 1777-

3 mos. For three months I served as a private
in Capt. Seymours Company under Col. lls,
& Genl. Putnam  of the Connecticut State troops mili-
tia in 1778

3 mos:       For three months I served as a private under      F
             [?] company under [Cap  childs]   in the Connecticut
               State troops militia in 1779
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28 days... For four weeks I served as a private in Capt: Slopers company of the Connecticut Troops- this was in the year that the British threatened to burn Fishkill_
7 days... for one week I served as a private under Capt. Clark -in the Connecticut State troops or militia as before this was in the year that the British entered New Haven.

And for all the above periods of time combined I claim a pension
He states that he during all of the above periods of time for which he claims a pension, he was engaged exclusively in the military service and was not any of the time employed in any civil pursuit_  the corps into which he served were embodied corps called into service by competent authorities of the State of Connecticut and New York, as stated in his declaration- He also says that his officers under whom he served and the general circumstances of his service are given as fully in his declaration as he can possibly give theirs_ His memory is now poor and feeble and he cannot state any more particulars than he has done. And further saith not_
[Signed] Steward his X mark Hazard                                                       
Sworn and subscribed before me this 10th day of June 1833           
[Signed] John Burghardt Justice of the Peace_

I certify that the reason the above named Steward Hazard made his mark in stead of writing his name  was on account of sickness and being weak
[Signed] John Burghardt Justice of the Peace
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State of New York
Broom County I B. Marvin Clerk of said county do
certify, that John Burghardt Esqr before whom the annexed
affidavit purports to have been sworn was on the date thereof
a Justice of the peace in and for this County, Also I am well
acquainted with his hand writing and believe the signature
to be genuine
In witness whereof I have hereunto set
my hand and seal of office this 19th
day of June 1853
B. Marvin Clerk