Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 25,787, Asahel Hotchkiss, Conn.
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(3-1776)

SERVICE
Conn.

Hotchkiss, Asahel
Ruhamah

NUMBER
W. 25,787
B.L.Wt. 30770-160-55

CONTENTS
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Connecticut 4/[Illegible]
Asahel Hotchkiss
of Waterton in the State of Connecticut
who was a Pri. Cor in the Company commanded
by Captain Camp of the Regt commanded
by Col. Hooker - in the Militia
line for [Illegible]

Inscribed on the Roll of Connecticut
at the rate of 74 Dollars 17 Cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 26th day of Jany. 1833 and Sent
Hon. S. A. Foot Senate

Arrears to 4th of Septr 1832  $111.25
Semi=anl. allowance ending 4 March 1833.  37.08
[Total] $148.33

Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7, 1832.

Recorded by E. D. Bullock  Clerk
Book D  Vol. 3.  Page 47
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183300   Act March 3rd [18]55
July 13th [18]55

Ruhamah Hotchkiss
widow of
Asahel Hotchkiss
Private and Corporal

Capt. _____
Col. _____

Revolutionary War

Revolutionary Pensioner under Act February 3rd 1853
February [18]53 - 3790
Admitted:160 [illegible] [illegible] 14/[18]56
Boynton

George Woodruff
Litchfield
Connecticut

Volume H = 2 = 63

[Written diagonally across the page:]
Number 30770 of June 19/[18]56
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3. 790
Connecticut
Ruhamah Hotchkiss
widow of Cor Asahel Hotchkiss
who served in the Revolutionary
war, as a Private & Corp

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 
74 Dollars 17 Cents per annum, to commence on the 3d February, 1853.

Certificate of Pension issued the
3d day of March 1854
and sent to
Henry Fruler
Hartford
Ct

Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act February 3, 1853, Page 60 Vol. [Illegible]

183300 E.2  16.
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Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7. 1832

State of Connecticut - County of New Haven
Probate District of Cheshire ss town of Cheshire

On this 7th day of August 1832 personally  appeared in open Court, before the Court of Probate for the District of Cheshire said Court being a Court of record and having by the laws of the Statute Clerk and Seal and now sitting - Asahel Hotchkiss a Resident of the town of Watertown - County of Litchfield State of Connecticut - aged Seventy two Years the 15th day of February 1832 - 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 7th 1832 - That he entered the Service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated - That in the Spring of the Year 1777 - He then belonging to one of the Militia Companies of the town of Waterbury was drafted for the term of six weeks to go to Peekskill Captain Camp of Durham Commanded applicants Company - Col Hooker commanded the Regiment and General McDougal commanded the Division stationed there - While here an express came for us to go to Danbury at the time the enemy burnt that place - We were marched to Bedford and here learnt that the British had returned to their boats - and we were marched back to Peekskill - where we were verbally discharged at the end of our six weeks tour - In the fall of the same year 1777
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applicant was again drafted to go on to join the army of Genl Gates - he went under the Care of Lieut Israel Terrill of said Waterbury - and at Watertown we were joined by a company from Durham into which Applicant thinks he was incorporated - commanded he believes by Captain Camp - The Regiment in which Applicant was commanded by Col Thaddeus Cook of Wallingford Michael Bronson of Waterbury Adjacent - They went upon Tours to Sheffield and here sent them back - We proceeded direct to Albany from here to the forks of the Mohawk called Little Falls and from here to Saratoga - which we marched about the first of October - Our Division was on the West Side of Burgoine - The Green Mountain boys on the East and the Americans in possession of Ticonderoga in his rear - from the time Applicant forded the river at Little Falls he was sick & unable to do any duty - and on the day of the general engagement he was sent with the sick to Troy to the Hospital in that place - and he did not return again to the Army - And Militia having been dischargd before Applicant was able to join the Army - Applicant went home as soon as he was able to travel - Tho he was sick and unable to do any thing thru the next winter - and he thinks he reachd home after An absence of at least two months for which he here makes a claim - In the year 1778 Applicant was hired by Jonah Mallory who had
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previously enlisted either for three years or during the War - Was Called home the very first of the summer and on account of his Wife's having had three children at a birth he could not well be spared immediately he hired me to take his place for six months in the regular Army - Applicant started from home in the month of June and reached the American Army, which had come across this side the Delaware on Tuesday - And the next Sunday following the American and British Armies fought the battle of Monmouth - In this battle Applicant was in Lee's Division, in Colonel Russells Regiment - Major Hoyt - David Smith of Plymouth was brigade Inspector - and Theophilus Monson was Applicants Captain - In this battle Applicant was so melted down - General  Lee having disobeyed the order to have the troops leave their knapsacs [sic] and cloaths. That afterwards he needed clear tallow in Considerable [illegible] pieces - which Physician said was melted in him on that day - In the fall of the year 1779 Applicant was drafted into a Company commanded by John Lewis of Salem Town of Waterbury for the term of two months - We were first marched to Stratford where we staid about one week next to Milford staid one night - thence to New Haven staid four or five days - Thence to West Haven where we served out our time and were discharged verbally - In the month of April or May 1780 - Applicant enlisted in the town of Waterbury into the Regular Army - and about the first of the month of May of that year we were
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mustered in the town of Waterbury by Capt Isaac Bronson - and he sent us on to a place nearly opposite West Point to a place called Nelson's Point - Here we were drilled together with a large number who were here at the same time, in marching wheeling &c for at least a fortnight Baron Steuben the Inspector General of the Army came up here and picked out of this body men for the light infantry - and their substitutes in case they were sick &c - and Applicant was selected out as one of the light Infantry & he was put into Capt Buels Company of Branford and in Col Heman Swifts Regiment - and he with all the Light Infantry were under the command of the Marquis De Laffayette - who gave applicant a black feather with a red tip, as well as every Soldier of the Light Infantry - very soon after Applicant was put into the light Infantry He was marched down to Peeks kill - and a little below at Kings Ferry he crossed the North River into New Jersey - where he was combined with the rest of the Light Infantry under the immediate Command of Laffayette - Here we lay at different places - Totoway - Haverstraw - Hackensac & last he was in a detachment sent into what was then called the English Neighborhood - While we were upon this scout Andre was taken upon the East side of the River - we being on the West We were left in these parts while the Brethren of the
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rest of the Army. Were overland up to West Point. We were finally ordered to Tarpons and here the army long having returned from West Point and here Applicant saw Andre and was here when he was hung, tho he was not a Spectator of the Execution, the Light Infantry lying a little below. After the Execution we were in the Jerseys moving our Camp now and then until about the 1st of December when we were marched up to the highlands and there assisted in building huts for the accommodation of the troops in winter quarters. Previous to our going into winter quarters this light Infanty was disbanded and sent to their respective Regiments from which they had been picked. In the month of December 1780 -- Applicant was discharged, he cannot say whether under a general order to have the recruits go home or by a written discharge for all these towns. Applicant claims the amount of nineteen months and two weeks. He cannot he thinks be mistaken unless with regard to the last enlistments. And as his name probably will the former on the roll of the Department. The correctness of his recollection can be tested by that. In reply to the queries of the Department Applicant states first- He was born in the town of Waterbury, County of New Haven, State of Connecticut on the 15th day of February 1760. 2nd-He has a copy of the record of his age from the town clerk's office of Waterbury which he presents in court.
3rd- He was living in the town of Waterbury when
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called into service and he continued to live there with the exception of one year until three years since when he removed into Watertown.
4th Question he has answered in the body of his declaration. 5th He has also answered as well as able in the body of his declaration. 6th He never rec'd a commission and never a written discharge unless when enlisted in the regular Army. And now he cannot remember whether he had one or not at that time. When he was a substitute for General Mallory in the regular Army he rec'd a letter to carry to Mallory from Smithe the Adjutant of the Regiment at the expiration of the time he had service for Mallary. 7th He refers to Bennet Bronson late Chief Justice of the New Haven County Court, John Kingsbury late justice of Probate for that District, Ellias Ford Esq. of said Waterbury Holbrook Curtiss Esq. town clerk and Justice of the Peace of the town of Watertown, Samuel A. Foot Esq. Senator in Congress and Silas Hitchcock Esq. Cheshire. He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the Pension roll of the agency of any State.
Asahel Hotchkiss

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 stated. The Applicant is personally known to the court, as a person in whose statement implicit confidence may be exposed, and Elisha Munson whose declaration will accompany this
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declaration has orally under oath in this court affirmed the truth of the facts stated in the samedeclaration. Under these circumstances this court have deemed it proper not to require of the Applicant the usual Certificate of the clergyman considering his case as proved by the positive testimony contained in the Deposition & supported by the oral testimony.
Silas Hitchcock Judge of Probate for the District of Cheshire

I Clement Peck clerk of the court of Probate for the District of Cheshire do hereby certify that the foregoing cointains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of Asahel Hotchkiss for a penion and I hereby certify that John A. Foot Esq. before who the depositions of Elisha Munson & Eben Hotchkiss [words obscured by seal] of any this Declaration purport to have been taken [words obscured] is a Justice of the Peace for New Haven County & that his signature to the same are his genuine signature.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of Probate Office this 21st day of August 1832
Clement Peck
Clerk
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State of Connecticut : Litchfiled County ss. Watertown On this 24th day of January 1834 personally appeared before me Leman W Cutler judge of the probate court of the District of Watertown in Open Court Ruhama Hotchkiss a resident of Watertown in the County and State aforesaid aged eighty one years who first being duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by act of Congress passed on the 3rd February 1833. Granting pensions to Widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War- That she is the widow of Asahel Hotchkiss who was a private and corporal in the Army of the Revolution and a pensioner of the United Stated on the roll of the Connecticut Agency in Hartford Connecticut under the Act of June 7th 1832 at the rate of Seventy Four dollars seventeen cents per annum ($17.17). she further declares that she was married to the said Asahel Hotchkiss by the Rev. Frederick Holcomb in the town of Watertown aforesaid on the 23rd day of November 1835, and that her name before her marriage to the said Asahel Hotchkiss was Ruhama Wakeman. That her said husband did on the 13th day of December 1841- that she was not married to him prior to the second day of January 1800 but at the time above stated. and she further declared that she has ever since his death remained now his widow.
Sworn to and subscribed on the day & year above mentioned before me and I cerify that she is the identical person she represents herself to be. 
Leman W Cutler 
Judge of Probate for the District of Watertown CT
I Leman W Cutler Judge of Probate for the District of Watertown hereby certify that November int he foregoing declaration was erased and December was interlined by me attest Leman W Cutler
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State of Connecticut Litchfield County Ss. Watertown
I Leman W Cutler Judge of the Probate Court for the
District of Watertown do hereby certify that satisfactory
evidence has been exhibited to said Court is the
affidavits of Austin Sperry & Dayton Mattoon of Watertown
who are known to me to be respectable and credible witnesses
that Asahel Hotchkiss was a pensioner of the United States
at the rate of Seventy four dollars 17 Cents per annum
was a resident of Sharon
in the County of Litchfield
and died in said Sharon

on the thirteenth day of December
one thousand eight hundred & forty one
That he left a widow whose name before her marriage
was Ruhama Wakeman and whose name now is
Ruhama Hotchkiss and that she is the identical person
who has signed the foregoing Declaration in order to
claim a pension
In testimony whereof I have hereunto
Signed my name and affixed the Seal
of said Probate Court at Watertown
this 24th day of Jan 1854
Leman W Cutler
Judge of Probate
for the District of
Watertown
CT
I hereby certify that November in the above
Certificate was erased and December interlined
by me
attest
Leman W Cutler
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State of Connecticut
By his Excellency CHARLES H POND, Governor of said State.
TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:
Know ye, That Leman W. Cutler, was, at
the time of subscribing the within at
testations, and were is Judge of Probate
for the District of Watertownin
the said State, duly constituted and commissioned, and
that to his acts and attestations as such, full faith and
credit are and ought to be given in and out of Court:
Chas H Pond
that the within attestations in in due form and by the
proper officer; and that I believe the signatures of said
Leman W. Cutter thereto, to be genuine.
In testimony whereof, I have caused the public Seal of the State to be hereunto
affixed, this 22 day of February A.D. 1854, and in the seventy
eighth year of the Independence of the United States of America
By His Excellency the Governer
Jno. P. C. Mather,
Secretary of State.
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This certifies 
that I married Asahel
Hotchkiss to Ruhama
Wakeman
in Watertown Conn.
before witness Nov 23d 1835

Frederick Holcomb
Clergyman of the Pro Epis. Church
This may Certify that on the 23d day of November
AD 1835 Asahell Hotchkiss and Ruhama
Wakeman were married by Rev Frederick
at appears of Record-
Leman W Cutter
Town Clerk
Holcomb
Watertown
Jan 10 1854
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State of Connecticut
I, JOHN P. C. MATHER, Secretary of State, hereby certify and make known
whom it doth or may concern, that Leman W. Cutler
Town Clerk of the town of Watertown in
the County
Litchfield - in said State, duly appointed, for the term of
year from and after the 4th day of October
A.D. 1853, that
foregoing attestation is in proper form, and that the matter of record thereby attested is
paper matter of record in the office of said town clerk
And I further certify, that I believe the foregoing signature of said Leman
W. Cutler to be genuine

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto
set my hand, and affixed the Seal of said
State, at Hartford, this 22d day of February
A.D. 1854
Jno P. C. Mather,
Secretary of State
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183.300
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State of Connecticut
County of Litchfield
Watertown
On this 1 day of June AD.
one thousand Eight hundred and fifty five, personally
appeared before me a Justice of the Peace within & for
said County in the State aforesaid Ruhama Hotchkiss aged Eighty two years a resident of Watertown in
said County & State who being duly sworn according to
law declares that she is the widow of Asahel Hotchkiss deceased who was a private   & corporal in the
military service of the United States in the war of the
Revolution, but she does not know in what Regiment
nor who commanded his company or Regiment, nor
power when or when he entered said service nor
how long, but that he continued in said service for
more than one year, & was discharge he knows
not when nor where
she further declares & states that she was married
to the said Asahel Hotchkiss in said Watertown in
the year 1835, day month not recollected, by the
Rev'd Frederick Holcomb a Minister of the Gospel
and that her name before her said marriage was
Rahama Wakeman; that her said husband
died at Sharon Conn. on the 13th day of December
1841, and that she is now a widow
The declares that her husband was a pensioner
under the act of June 7th 1832 at the rate of Seventy
four 17/100 Dollars per annum on account of such
Military service; & that she is a Pensioner of the
United States under the act of Feb 3d 1853 at the same
rate as his widow, & for evidence necessary
in this application, she refers to the evidence in
which they were pensioned
She makes this declaration for the purpose of ob-
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-taining the bounty land to which she is entitled
under the act approved March 3rd 1855
 Ruhamah
Hotchkiss

We Dayton Mattoon
and Belinda Morehouse
residents of Watertown in the State of Connecticut
upon our oaths declare that the foregoing declaration
was signed & acknowledged by Ruhama Hotchkiss
in our presence; and that we believe from the
appearance & statements of the applicant that the
is the identical person she represents herself to be
And we further depose that we have been well acquainted with her for at least ten years &
that she during all that time has been a still
is the widow of Asahel Hotchkiss deceased the word
Fifteen has been altered to Ten before our signing our names
Dayton Mattson
Belinda Morehouse
The foregoing declaration & affidavit were sworn

State of Connecticut}SS LITCHFIELD.
County of Litchfield,
,Henry B. Gravel
Clerk of the County Court
in and for the County and State above mentioned, do hereby certify that Leman W. Cutler
Esquire
whose genuine signature appears to the accompanying instrument,
is and was, at the time of signing the same a Justice of the Peace in and for the County and State aforesaid,
duly elected and sworn, and by law authorized to administer oaths, and to take the acknowledgment of Deeds;
and that all his official acts, as such, are entitled to full faith and credit; and that the aforesaid County Court is a
Court of Record, having general jurisdiction.
COUP
Given under my hand and the seal of said Court at Litchfield, this
third day of July
A. D. 1855.
Henry B. Grant
CLERK.
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taining the bounty land to which she is entitled under the act approved March 3d 1855.

Ruhamah Hotchkiss her mark X

We Dayton Mattoon and Belinda Morehouse residents of Watertown in the State of Connecticut upon our oaths declare that the foregoing declaration was signed & acknowledged by Ruhamah Hotchkiss in our presence; and that we believe from the appearance & statement of the applicant that she is the identical person she represents herself to be. And we further depose that we have been well acquainted with her for at least ten years & that she during all that time has been & still is the widow of Asahel Hotchkiss dcd- the word Fifteen has been altered to Ten before our signing our names.

Dayton Mattoon
Belinda Morehouse

The foregoing declaration & affidavit were sworn to & subscribed before me on the day & year above written; and I certify that I know the affiants to be credible persons; that the claimant is the person she represents herself to be, and that I have no interest in this claim.

Leman W Cutler Justice of the peace
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Rev. & 1812 Wars Section

February 16, 1928

Theodora R. Artz,
302 S. Michigan St.,
Plymouth, Indiana

Madam:

I advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim W. 25787, it appears that Asahel Hotchkiss was born February 15, 1760 in Waterbury, Connecticut.

While residing in said Waterbury, he enlisted and served as private and corporal with the Connecticut Troops, as follows:

In the spring of 1777, six weeks in Captain Camp's Company, Colonel Hooker's Regiment; in the fall of 1777, two months in Captain Camp's Company, Colonel Thaddeus Cook's Regiment; from June 1778, six months in Captain Theophilus Monson's Company, Colonel Russell's Regiment, and was in the battle of Monmouth; in the fall of 1779, two months in Captain John Lewis' Company; and from April or May 1780, eight months in Captain Buell's Company, Colonel Heman Swift's Regiment.
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He was allowed pension on his application executed August 7, 1832, while a resident of Watertown, Litchfield County, Connecticut. He died December 13, 1841 at Sharon, Connecticut.

Soldier married November 13, 1835 at Watertown, Connecticut, Ruhamah Wakeman.

She was allowed pension on her application executed January 24, 1854, while a resident of Watertown, Connecticut, aged eighty-one years.

There are no data as to children.

Owing to the very large number of similar inquiries and the lack of a clerical force for the purpose, the Bureau is unable to make immediate reply to inquiries as rapidly as possible in the order of their receipt.

Respectfully,

WINIFIELD SCOTT
Commissioner
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[Two columns. Right column:]
Widow, Etc.
File Number 25,787
Ruhamah Hotchki(ss) presumed because edge of page is missing
widow of 
Asahel Hotchkiss
Corporal Revolutionary War
Act February 3rd 53
Index: Volume A, Page 352
[Arrangement of 1870.]

[Left column:]
1911, January 27 History to
Mrs. E. A. Dow
1911 April. 14. Mrs. E. J. Abbott 
1915 March 5, 20 to Sylvia C Mounce
1928 February 16 Theodara P. Artz  any
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30.770
Revolutionary Army
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Connecticut 4717
==============
Asahel Hotchkiss
of Watertown in the State of Connecticut
who was a private in the Company commanded
by Captain Camp of the Regt commanded
by Col. Hooker in the Militia
line for 8 months 17 days
================
Inscribed on the Roll of Connecticut
at the rate of 74 Dollars 17 Cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
=================
Certificate of Pension issued the 26 day of Jany
1833 and sent
Hon. S. A. Foot, Senate
==================
Arrears to 4th September/32  42.76
semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Mar/33 14.25
$57.01
==============
{Revolutionary Claim}
{Act June 7, 1832.}
Recorded by Francis F. Franciosi Clerk,
Book D Vol. 3d Page 47
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12.518
8 Sept 1832 TA Tod

Asahel Hotchkiss
Appn for Pension
Certified that the 
witnesses are credible
Eben Hotchkiss is well
known to me as a 
man of strictest integrity
& Truth & John A Foot
is a Justice of Peace
& his signatures are genuine
Saml A Foot
Senate US
recd
8.17
Claims 19 months & 2 weeks
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Jon L P Waldo
Commr of Pensions
Washington City
DC
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Hon L P Waldo
Commr of Pension
Washington City
DC
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No. 5.14217 Conn
32
Ruhanna Hotchkiss
Ashel
[stamp] HARTFORD CT GE 3 22
Allowed $74.17/100
per an to com. Feb 3/53
Boynton
Feb 25/54

L P Waldo Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington
D.C.
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1 March Pension Office
Feb 27/54
$74.17 NC Nov 41 pd

Sir,

Please report time of last payment to, or death of within named pensioner.

Respectfully,
S Cole
for Commr

F Burt Esq
3 aud
Reunt

Asahel Hotchkiss, act 1838
$74.17 per annum, died 13 Nov 1841, paid

F Burt
Auditor
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3-871
RECORD DIVISION
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
BUREAU OF PENSIONS

Briefed by A. Maed 25/1/11
Claim No
Certificate No
Claimant
Soldier Asahel Hotchkiss
Service
Additional Service Rev.
No........claim, State records..........., 191.....
No claim, combination records..........., 191.....
REMARKS:
No Wid. any service, exc. Wed 7,25,787{Conn. Conn.
No Ryiatall
No Rev War Sur aw



Chief Division
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188.300
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Litchfield Conn July 3d 1855
Hon L P Waldo
Commr of Pensions

Dr Sir,

I enclose Ruhamah Hotchkiss' application for Bounty Land. When granted she wishes the warrant sent to me,

Respy yours

Geo. Woodruff
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Elisha Monson
Deposition

New Haven County

Cheshire September 12th 1832
I certify that Alisha Monson subscriber to the within Deposition taken before me on the 23d of July 1832 is a credible  person.
Attest Jno A Foot Just Peace
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I Elisha Monson of Wolcott County of New Haven of lawful age depose and say - that in the spring of the year 1777 - I was a member of a company of drafted militia commanded by Captain Camp. I was at the time a resident of the town of Waterbury County of New Haven and was drafted (I think) from the militia company in said Waterbury. At the same time Asahel Hotchkiss, then a resident of said Waterbury, now residing in Watertown County of Litchfield was drafted - for the same term with myself - to wit for the term of six weeks - into the same company commanded by said Captain Camp. We were immediately marched to Peekskill & lay there untill the alarm of the descent upon Danbury. We were then marched all night to Bedford where we heard the British had returned to their boats & we were marched back to Peekskill & there we staid untill our time was out. And said Asahel Hotchkiss served thro the whole campaign. In the year 1778 I then being a member of Col. Russels Regiment - and Jonah Mallory being a member of the same regt, Mallory belonging to Capt. Capt. Theophilus Monson's company & I capt. Smiths company. Mallory recd word from home in the spring of that year that his wife was put to bear with three children at a birth & he got a furlough and hired said Asahel Hotchkiss to take his place & I remember said Hotchkiss was there during the summer of that year.
Elisha Monson

New Haven County Ss. Cheshire Feby 23d 1832
Personally appeared Elisha Monson signer of the foregoing deposition and made solemn oath to the truth of the same.
before me
Jno. A. Foot Just Peace
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New Haven 
County S.S. Cheshire
Sept 12th 1832
I certify  that Elisha Monson subscriber to the within Deposition taken before me on the 23 of July 1832 is a credible person
Attest Jno A. Foot Just Peace

Elisha Monson 
Deposition
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Brief in the case of Ruhamah Hotchkiss widow of Ashahel
Litchfield County and State of Connecticut act of February 3, 1853

Claim, ("original", or "for increase")

Proof exhibited, (if original)

Is it documentary, traditionary, or supported by rolls? If either, state the substance.
Husband a pensioner under act of June 7, 1832 at $74 17/100 per annum & paid to his death Nov. 13, 1841
Allowed $74 17/100 per annum to com. Feb 3, 1853

(If for increase)
Has additional evidence been filed since the admission of the claim? If so, what?
Marriage proved by public record
Death of pensioner proved by Auditors report
Identity & widowhood proved by credible witness

Examining Clerk
J L Gray

Name and residence of Agent
Henry Fowler
Hartford, Conn
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Hartford Feb 22 1854

Sir

Herewith I transmit the papers of Ruhama Hotchkiss widow of Asahel Hotchkiss decd claiming a pension under the 2 Section act February 3, 1853, please make returns to me.

I am very respectfully your obt servt

Henry Fowler


L P Waldo
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington
DC
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Payments to be made
at Hartford
by Pres: US: br: bank
Agent for paying Pensioners,
in the Agency of Connecticut


Recorded by Francis F Franciosi
Clerk, in Book ? Vol. 3d
page 47
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WAR DEPARTMENT
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.

I certify that in conformity with the Law of the United States, of the 7th June, 1832, Asahel Hotchkiss of the State of Connecticut who was a private in the Army of the Revolution is entitled to receive Twenty-eight dollars and fifty-one cents per annum, during his natural life, commencing in the 4th of March, 1831, and payable semi=annually, on the 4th of March, and 4th of September, in every year.

Given at the War Office of the Unites States, this Twenty-sixth day of January one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three.

Lew Cass
Secretary of War

Examined and Countersigned}
J L Edwards
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I Eben Hotchkiss of Prospect in New Haven County Connecticut depose and say that I am well acquainted with Asahel Hotchkiss now of Watertown but lately of Waterbury. That in the year 1780 I lived in Waterbury, that said Asahel resided in the same family with me, that in the spring of said year I was present and saw the said Asahel enlist as a soldier in the Revolutionary War fort the term of eight months, that soon after he and another soldier who lived in the neighborhood, left the place as I supposed to join the army, that he was absent eight or nine months and when he returned he represented to me that he had been in the service while he had been gone, and I verily believe he served the said eight months as a soldier. July 14, 1832.

Eben Hotchkiss

New Haven County ss. Cheshire Aug 7th 1832 personally appeared Eben Hotchkiss and made oath the truth of the above deposition by him subscribed before me.

Jno A Foot Just Peace
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New Haven County ss. Cheshire Sept 12th 1832

I certify that Eben Hotchkiss subscriber to the within deposition taken before me on the 7th of August 1832 is a credible person.

Attest
Jno A Foot Just Peace
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Daughters of the American Revolution
Quivari Chapter, D.A. R.
Fairbury, Nebraska

Fairbury Nebr. Feb 25 1915

To the Commissioner of Pensions
Washington DC

Dear Sir,

Will you kindly furnish me with a copy of the pension papers of Asahel Hotchkiss who it is said to have obtained his pension at the age of 80 yrs in the year of 1840. He was
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from Sharon Ct or died there I believe and was born at Waterbury.
Thanking you in advance for this paper.

I am yours Truly,

Sylvia Clark Mounce
1009-6 st Fairbury Nebr
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Plymouth, Wisconsin Jan. 18, 1911

Pension Commissioner
Washington

Dear Sir

I am desirous of learning more of some of my ancestors. I have the record of Samuel Hotchkiss (probably from Essex England) was at New Haven as early as 1641. In 1642 he married Elizabeth Cleverly & died Dec 28 1663 leaving 6 children of whom Joshua was the fourth. He was born Sept. 16, 1651 & lived at New Haven, was married twice, had 8 children of whom Stephen was the 2nd, & born Aug 12, 1681, settled at Cheshire (part of Wellingford). Stephen married Elizabeth Sperry at New Haven Dec 12, 1704, moved to Cheshire 1707, had 12
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children. The sixth was Gideon born Dec 5, 1716, settled in Waterbury, married Anne Brocket June 18, 1737, she died Aug 1, 1762 & he married Mabel, daughter of Isaac Stiles of Southbury. He served in both the French & Revolutionary Wars, died Sept 3rd 1807. His nineteenth child was Amzi born July 3, 1774. He married Aruby Henry. Robt Henry Hotchkiss was one their children born Dec 24 1818. He married Janette Bartholf July 3, 1851. I believe Gideon Hotchkiss is a possible revolutionary ancestor, but from all I have learned, the records do not prove his service altho the statement is made in Bronson's Waterbury & repeated in the Brockett genealogy.
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He is referred to as "Capt Hotchkiss", his son Jesse, & his grandson Asahel, all served in the Revolutionary war, an unusual family record.

Can you kindly furnish me any further information as to pension etc. I am anxious to know whether I am eligible to any of the societies that require a direct lineal descendant.

I also desire information regarding the Bartholf line. The names of James & Stephen Bartholf appear in the lists from Orange Co N.Y., & that is where my grandfather & James Bartholf lived.

Any information you can give me regarding these parties will be very
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much appreciated and if you will send the bill with the records it will be promptly paid.

Thanking you in advance.
I am Very Truly

Mrs. E. A. Dow
(nee Ida Janette Hotchkiss)
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Waterbury Conn
April 8 1911

Dept of the Interior
Bureau of Pensions
Washington DC

Gentlemen;

I am looking up the military history of a soldier of the Revolutionary War; named Asahel Hotchkiss of the State of Connecticut, said to have been granted
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a pension in 1840.

Any information relative to him would be much appreciated and I will gladly pay any charges[unk].

Very respectfully

(Mrs) E J Abbatt
252 Willow St
Waterbury Conn
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302 S. Michigan St.,
Plymouth, Indiana
February 10, 1928

Bureau of Pensions
Washington, D.C.

Gentlemen:

On November 15, 1927, I requested the pension record of Asahel Hotchkiss, a Revolutionary soldier.

To date, I have not received the record and wish you would sent it.

This soldier was a private in Capt. Couch's New Milford Conn. Militia.

Thanking you, I am,

Very truly yours,

(Miss) Theodora P Artz
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302 S. Michigan St.,
Plymouth, Indiana
November 15, 1927

Commissioner of Pensions
Washington, D.C.
Gentlemen:

Please send me the pension record of Asahel Hotchkiss, a revolutionary soldier, private in Capt. Couch's New Milford Conn. Militia.
Thanking you in advance, I am,

Very truly yours,

(Miss) Theodora P Artz
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information as contained in his ([crossed out] or [/crossed out] and his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau. Asahel Hotchkiss W. File 25787

DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. | LENGTH OF SERVICE. | RANK. | OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. | CAPTAIN. | COLONEL. | STATE.

Spring 1777 | 6 wks | Prv. & Cor. | Camp | Hooker | Conn.
Fall 1777 | 2 mos | [blank] | Camp | Thaddeus Cook | [blank]
[checkmark] June 1778 | 6 mos. | [blank] | Theophilus [illegible] | Russell | [blank]
Fall 1779 | 2 mos | [blank] | John Lewis | [blank] | [blank]
Apr. & May 1780 | 8 mos | [blank] | Buell | Herman Swift | [blank]

Battles engaged in, Monmouth [checkmark]
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Waterbury, Conn.
Date of application for pension, Aug 7 1832. His cl. was al.
Residence at date of application, Watertown, Litchfield Co., Conn.
Age at date of application, [illegible] Waterbury, Conn. Feb. 15, 1760
Remarks: d. Sharon Conn. Dec. [crossed out] 10 [/crossed out] 13, 1841. m. Watertown, Conn. Nov. 23, 1835, Ruhama Wakeman. She was al. pension on an application executed Jan. 24, 1854, while a resident of Watertown Conn. aged 81 yrs.
Very respectfully,
Commissioner.
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