Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 43,692, Leonard Hoare, Mass.
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Service
Mass. 
Hoare Leonard

Number
 S.43.692

Contents
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13.390 
New York 
Leonard Hoare 
of Sidney in the state of New York 
who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Shepards of the Massachusetts line for the term of one year 1776

Inscribed on the roll of New York at the rate of 8 dollars per month, to commence on the 14 of April 1818

Certificate of Pension issued the 30 of June 18 and sent to Abijah H. Bache Esq.
Unadilla New York

Arrears to 4th of Mar. 1819  85.56
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4 Sep. 1819 48.00
Mo [19?]/30  4/31   133.56

Continued
{Revolutionary claim
Act 18th March, 1818
Notification sent Nov.20th
1820 to Abijah H. Beach
Unadilla
N.Y.
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Leonard Hoare
No 13.390
Otsego Coy [county]
$44.63
Sept. 19
Con
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State of New York 
Otsego County - ss [seal]
On the 7th day of June 1820 before me Abijah H. Beach one of the Judges in & for the said County of Otsego being a Court of Record personally appeared Leonard Hoare ^ of the Town of Unadilla in Otsego County, aged 71 years and 6 months who being first duly sworn before the according to law doth on his Oath declare and say that I the said Leonard Hoare served the United States in the Revolutionary War in the company commanded by Capt. Silas Ball in the Regiment commanded by Colo. Shepard  in line of the State of Massachusetts on the Continental Establishment that I made application for Pension on the 14th day of April 1818   that I received a a certificate dated the 10th of June 1819-   No 13. 390 and I do further solemnly swear and declare 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 sale or in any manner whatever disposed of my property or any part thereof with intent so to diminish the same it as to an act to bring myself with the provisions of an act of Congress entitled an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the Land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War passed the 18th day of March 1818 and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property or securities contracts or debts due to me nor have I any income other than what is contained in in the schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed that I am by occupation a Cooper, but by reason of age and Infirmities I am unable to work at it Except some light work a little-- My wife is 71 years of age I have no other family except a Daughter Sally 39 years old who is a cripple and has been helpless since she was 4 years old   She requires care and assistance and is expensive every day- 
Leonard Hoare {signature]

Sworn to & declared the 7th day of June 1820 before Abijah H. Beach one of the Judges as aforesaid [signature]

[along left side:]
Note: The within interlineations were made previous to the Last Oath taken from the Court on the 11th Oct 1820 - A.H. Beach
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A Schedule containing the whole estate and Income of Leonard Hoare necessary clothing & bedding excepted  taken & subscribed by the said Leonard Hoare before Abijah H. Beach one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas as aforesaid on the 7th day of June 1820 - 

One Cow 13 years old- ____ $10
One horse 13 years old (bought with pension money) ___ 15. -
Ten Sheep let out on chains Do ____ 8. 25 
One pig 1 year old-- 7 hens -_____ 3.30
One Old Ax &  some old Cooper tools ___ 4.50
Some few articles of house hold furniture old adz an old table two pails & a wood  dish and an old cooking kettle }  ____ 3.50
=  44.63 
Leonard Hoare [signature]

State of New York 
Otsego  County Clerks Office ss: I George Morell Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Otsego & State of New York do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and the schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the Record of the said Court and I do further certify, that it is the opinion of the said Court that the total amount in value of the property exhibit in the aforesaid schedule is forty four Dollars & sixty three cents 

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of the said Court this 24 June 1820 
George Morell Clk [signature]

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State of New York 
Otsego County ss} 

On the 11th day of Octo 1820 the aforesaid Leonard Hoare personally appeared in Open Court and made oath that the aforesaid affidavits and schedule by him subscribed are true 
Leonard Hoare [signature]

Sworn this 11th October 1820 before the Court 
Geo Morell Clk  [signature]

State of New York 
Otsego County Clerks office ss} 
I George Morell Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Otsego aforesaid being a Court of Record do hereby certify that the above named Leonard Hoare personally appeared in open Court on the 11th October 1820 & took and Subscribed the above affidavit 

In witness whereof I have hereunto Set my hand & affixed the seal of the said Court this 11th October 1820 
Geo Morell Clk  [signature]

[seal]
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Leonard Hoare
Priv,
76-14 m
Col. Sheppard's Regt
Massts Line
14 Ap 1818 
1776 -- for 1 year-
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14 April 1818
Admitted

The Line must be mentioned in the declaration-
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The testimony of two disinterested & credible witnesses [both] known the service of the Applicant duly taken & authenticated is required.

The Clk's cert & seal of Court is wanting.
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State of New York, OTSEGO COUNTY}SS.
Leonard Hoare being duly sworn, saith, that he is a resident of the town of Sidney in the County aforesaid, and has served as a private soldier in the war of the revolution against the common enemy, for the term of nine months and longer, at a certain period of the war herein after mentioned, on the Continental Establishment, and is yet a resident citizen of the United States; and by reason of his reduced circumstances in life, he is in need of assistance from his country for support. And this deponent further saith, that he never has received any pension from the United States, and doth hereby relinquish his claim to every pension that may have been heretofore allowed him by the laws of the United States, excepting and reserving to himself the right of claiming, and he doth hereby claim a pension under an act entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war,” passed 18th March, 1818. And this deponent doth further declare under oath, that the time he entered the army of the United States in the war of the revolution aforesaid, on the Continental Establishment, the officers under whom he served, and the line to which he belonged, together with the time and manner of leaving the service, are all correctly set forth, according to the best of his knowledge and recollection, in the following manner; that is to say, he the said
[handwritten] Leonard Hoare Enlisted for one year as a private Soldier in the Continental Army on the first day of January 1776 in the Compy commanded by Captain Beals in Col Shepards Regt ^in the Massachusetts Line was mustered and joined the troops at Roxbury near Boston from thence marcht to New York and Long Island, then to White Plains and Peek'skill then hast [hastened?] over to the Jersey State was at the taking of the Hessions at Trenton-- was discharged in New Jersey on the first of Jan'y 1777 by Col. Shepard after serving in the United States Army under the Continental Establishment one year against the Common Enemy   The said Leonard Hoare further saith that he has no further Evidence now in his procession of his said services -that he is still a resident of the United States - that he has no claim to any pension from the United States other than the provision made in the above recited Act of Congress-- that he is sixty seven years of age and is infirm & in need as aforesaid
 Leonard Hoare his X mark

Sworn to and subscribed on the 14th day of April 1818 before me 
Abijah H. Beach [signature]
one of the Judges of the Court of Com'n Pleas for the County of Otsego - State of New York}
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State of New York, 
OTSEGO COUNTY, } ss.
Archibald McMullen of the town of Sidney, in the County of Delaware being duly sworn, saith, that he is personally well acquainted with Leonard Hoare the applicant above named, and has been so acquainted with him the said Leonard Hoare for ten years, and during that time the said Leonard Hoare has sustained a good character for truth and veracity, and he this deponent verily believes that full credit ought to be given to the declarations of the said Leonard Hoare when under oath. 
and further this deponent saith that he knows the said Leonard Hoar to be Infirm by reason of his age and hard labor and that he is an Honest Industrious Worthy old man, - and has no means of support but his daily labor, - and that he verily believes the facts set forth in the Affidavit of the said Leonard Hour are true -- &  further saith not --
Archibald McMullen [signature]

Sworn to & Subscribed the 14th day of April 1818 before me 
Abijah H. Beach one of the Judge as aforesaid [signature]

State of New York,
OTSEGO COUNTY, } ss.
I Abijah H Beach one of the the judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County aforesaid, do certify that I am satisfied the said Leonard Hoare served in the revolutionary war as aforesaid, against the common enemy, for a longer term than nine months, as stated in the affidavit of the said Leonard Hoare -- hereunto annexed - And I do further certify that full credit is due to the deposition of the above named Archibald McMullen and also that the evidence on which I have founded my judgment is contained in the affidavit of the said Archibald McMullin and the said Leonard Hoare and I now transmit the same and believe it true 
Abijah H. Beach [signature]

I further certify that the said Leonard Hoare is in reduced circumstances of my own knowledge and I verily believe that he is absolutely in need of the assistance of his Country for support - and is in all respects a suitable & proper subject for the aforesaid pension 
Abijah H Beach [signature]
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State of New York 
Otsego County Clerks office ss 

I certify that Abijah H. Beach before whom the within affidavits appear to have been taken & whose signature appears to the within certificate was at the time of taking said Affidavits & signing said Certificate a Judge of Common Pleas in & for said County duly commissioned & qualified as such   And that the within signatures are his- 

In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the Court of Common Pleas for said County this 25th day of May 1819 
Geo Morell Clk [signature]
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Rueben Clark's Testimony in the case
of Leonard Hoar
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State of New York 
Onondaga County ss: 
Reuben Clark of the town of Pompey of the County of Onondaga, Farmer, of the age of sixty years & upwards, - being sworn saith that in the year seventeen hundred & seventy six & for many years before he was very familiarly acq[uaint]ed with Leonard Hoar now of the town of Sidney in the County of Delaware in this State - his Brother Daniel Hoare, having married the aunt of this Deponent had produced an intimacy between the families to that this Deponent knew him well. This Deponent further saith that he knows that the said Leonard Hoar enlisted for one year into the Company of Capt Lebbeus Dall, in Col. Shepherd's Regiment, of the Massachusetts Line, in the Continental service- & that the said Leonard Hoar, faithfully served out the full period of his said enlistment The Deponent having enlisted into the same Company above mentioned for the period of one year, commencing in January seventeen hundred & seventy six & served and the full period of his said enlistment and at the expiration of that time having enlisted for six weeks. The Deponent is confident that the said Leonard Hoar was enlisted in the forepart of January in the year seventeen hundred seventy six - & that he was discharged the day but one before the Battle of Princetown - The Deponent belonged to the same Company with the said Leonard Hoar, the whole year, a part of which time he was waiter to Lieut. Caleb Keep-Lieut. of that Company & the [resider?] of the time he was a mess mate with the said Leonard Hoar & further
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he saith not-- 

Sworn to & subscribed by Reuben Clark, before me this 26th day of April 1819. & I further certify that the said Reuben Clark is a credible witness
Tritory Bridgere [signature]
Justice of the Peace

State of New York 
Onondaga ss: 
I certify that Tritory Bridgere before whom the above Deposition hath been made was at the day of the taking thereof a Justice of the Peace in and for this County duly commissioned & sworn, & that the above is his signature. In witness whereof I have hereto set my hand and the seal of the County of Onondaga  this 27th day of April 1819.
 R. S. Hess Dep. Clk [signature]

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43692
Revy  INVALID.

File No. 43.692
Leonard Hoare
Pri  Rev War

Act: 18th March 18"
Index: - Vol. [S? or G?], Page 232

[Arrangement of 1870.]
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Tompkins County State of New York

Admatha Blodget being duely sworn deposeth and saith, that he personally knew Leonard Hoar, & that he the said Leonard Hoar did actually serve in the army of the United States the whole of the year 1776 in a company command by Capt  Libbeus Ball & Regiment Commanded by Col. Learned and Shepard in the Massachusetts line; and that he was Regularly discharged on the first of January 1777 and further their deponent saith not Admatha Blodget 

Sworn before me this 30th day of April 1819

Jona Bennett Commissioner
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STATE OF NEW YORK, COUNTY OF TOMPKINS, ss.

I, Alpha H. Shaw Clerk of said county,
Hereby Certify that Jonathan  Bennett Esqr before whom the annexed [deed - crossed out]  instrument, in writing, was proven, was, on the day when the said proof was taken, a Commissioner in and for said County, duly commissioned and sworn to take the proof and acknowledgement of deeds, &c; and that I am acquainted with the hand writing of the said Commissioner and verily believe the signature "Jona Bennett" to be his proper handwriting. 

IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my name and affixed the seal of the said County, this Twenty first day of May 1819 
Alpha H. Shaw Dep Clerk [signature]
of Tomkins County


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