Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 23,336, Peleg Hopkins, R.I.
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Service : RI.
Hopkins, Peleg
Elizabeth.
Number : W.23336
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6233
Rhode Island
Peleg Hopkins
of Providence in the State of R. I. [Rhode Island]
who was a private in the (illegible) commanded 
by Captain Kimball of the Regt [regiment] commanded
by Col Troop [?] in the Rhode Island line for 18 Months.

Inscribed by the Roll of Rhode Island at the rate of 60 Dollars cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 26 day of Feby 1833 and Sent to Hon
DI Pearce H.R.

Arrears to 4th of Sept, 1833                    90.00
Semi=anl. allowance ending 4 March    30.00

                                                               $120.00
{Revolutionary Claim, 
Act June 7, 1832.}

Recorded by Daniel Boyd Clerk,
Book D     Vol. 3       Page 116

Suspd [suspended]  Sent lettr [letter] to P. Agent [Pension Agent]
and Geo E. Brown Feby 27
do Benj. Cowell, Augt [August]2d '38
2' '38-
Pen Agt [Pension Agent] - & B. Cowell,
Nov 10- '38
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686
Rhode Island
Elizabeth Hopkins.
widow of Peleg Hopkins.
who served in the Revolutionary war, as a private.
Inscribed on the Role at the rate of 60 Dollars.
Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of march, 1848.
Certificate of Pension issued the 14 day of July 1848 and sent to 
Anson Smith
Foster, RI.
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act February 2, 1848, Page 11. Vol. 3.

[Right-hand page]
Reported
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Peleg Hopkins
Private
18 Months

Hon
Dutee J. Pearce
H.R.
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BRIEF in the case of Peleg Hopkins of Foster of Providence in the State of Rhode Island
(Act 8th June, 1832.)

1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? Open County
2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?
3. How old is he? 77
4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed.

Period
enlisted may in 1775
ditto Fall of 1776
drafted spring or summer 1778

Years
[blank 
blank
blank]

Months:
8
6
4 [noted: several the witness says]

Days
[blank 
blank
blank]

Rank.
as a 
private 
private
private

Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.

Capt Stephan Kimball, R.I. Troops
Capt Gideon Cornell
Col  Kimball
same officers

5. In what battles was he engaged? not any
6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Scituate, now Foster, R Island
7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? living witness and traditionary evidence
8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? not properly attached

I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned. 
Chas G Wilcox, 
Examining Clerk.
16 Feb 1833
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Peleg Hopkins

Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
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United States of America
Rhode Island District, sc. August Team 1839
County of Providence
On this Seventh day of August A.D. 1839 personally appeared in open Court, being a special District Court of the United States within and for said District, now in session- Peleg Hopkins a resident of Foster in the County of Providence and State of Rhode Island aged 77 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 Act of Congress, passed June 7, 1832, viz. 
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers, and served as herein stated. 
he was born April 29th 1755 in Scituate (now Foster) but has no record of his birth except in the Family Bible and lived there when he entered the service & most of the time since the war has lived in Foster where he now resides - and, this applicant further states that in May 1775 he enlisted in Cap Stephen Kimballs company [strikethrough '& Col Hichcock's regiment of Rhode Island State Troops'] and served eight months ^at least & Boston & vicinity - and this applicant further states that he again enlisted in the fall of 1776 in Cap Gideon Cornells company & Col Kimball regiment of militia and served six months in Rhode Island & Bristol - and this applicant further states that in spring ^& summer of 1778 he was a drafted militia soldier in Cap Gid Cornells company & Col Kimballs regiment and was stationed three several months of Warwick and one month at Providence - 
[partially obscured text appears to be struck through and is illegible] enlisted
all of which he served out as a private and was honourably discharged - and he further says he has no written discharges


 

After service (illegible) of (illegible) (illegible).
The Mar has lived in Forta where he now (illegible) and this app(illegible) (illegible) (illegible) (illegible) in May 1775 the (illegible)  in Cap (illegible) Kriaballs co(illegible) served Eight months
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three several months at Warwick and one month at Providence [illegible] enlistments all of which he served out as a private and was honourably discharged and he further says he has no written discharges. 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. Sworn to and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid. Peleg Hopkins Witness B. Cowell Clk. We, Daniel William a Clergyman, residing in the Town of Killingly and residing in X 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 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 Daniel Williams who has signed the preceding certificate, is a Clergyman, resident as he states & that Robert Hopkins and Ezekiel Hopkins who have testified for said applicant are resident as they state and credible persons and that their statement is entitled to credit. I, BENJAMIN COWELL, Clerk of said District Court, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Peleg Hopkins for a pension. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 5th day of February AD 1833 Benja Cowell Clk.
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1292
Elizabeth Hopkins
[strikethrough '1292 2']
widow of Peleg
R.I
act of July 1838
Married 90
husband died of April 1846
Rejected
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State of Rhode Island County of Providence on this Tenth day of June AD 1846 personally appeared before me Daniel Howard a Justice of the Common Pleas within & for said County. Elizabeth Hopkins of Foster in said County aged 78 years who being sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to attain the benefit of an act of Congress passed July 7 1838 entitled an act granting half pay & pensions to certin widows" that she is the widow of Peleg Hopkins late of said Foster deceased, who was a soldier of the Revolution and served as he states in his declaration which he made to obtain a pension under the act of Congress passed June 7 1832 & to said declaration she refers, so the evidence of her right to the same pension. And she further declares that she was married to the said Peleg Hopkins on the first day of April AD 1790 as will appear by the certificate of the town Clerk of said Foster hereto annexed. That her husband the said Peleg died on the seventh day of April AD 1846, she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place previous to the first of January Seventeen hundred & ninety four to wit at the time above mentioned. Elizabeth Hopkins her mark X
Attest Daniel Howard State of Rhode Island County of Providence Ss. At Providence in said County on this tenth day of June AD 1846. Sworn to and subscribed by the abovenamed Elizabeth Hopkins, I further certify that by reason of old age and bodily infirmity that she is unable to attend Court. I further certify that she made her mark to said declaration in consequence of her hand being palsied, and that she is a credible person with whom I am acquainted. Daniel Howard Justice of the Court of Common Pleas.
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I hereby certify, that Peleg Hopkins, son of Mr. Ezekiel Hopkins and Elizabeth Place, daughter of Mr. Stephen Place Jr., were lawfully joined together in marriage on the first day of April A.D. One Thousand Seven Hundred and Ninety. Dr. John Williams Elder. Recorded April 7th 1790 Dr. John Westcott Town Clerk Town Clerks Office, Foster (R.I.) June 2d 1846. I certify that the above is a true copy of the Record with the exception of the date which is expressed on the Record in fair legible figures as follows; 1st day of April A.D. 1790 Witness Daniel Howard Town Clerk. I Daniel Howard Abovenamed Depose and say, that I hold the office of Town Clerk in the Town of Foster in the County Providence and State of Rhode Island, and that the above is a true extract from the Records of said Town, with the exception abovenamed as certified by me. Daniel Howard Town Clerk. Sworn before me Josiah Westcott JCC Pleas
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I Lucy B. Seamans of the City of Providence in the County of Providence and State of Rhode Island being Seventy Six year of age and duly sworn according to law do depose and say that I was personally acquainted with Peleg Hopkins late of Foster in said County deceased, the late husband of Elizabeth Hopkins and that the said Peleg Hopkins died on the Seventh day of April 1846. I was present at his funeral and that the said Elizabeth Hopkins has never been married since her said husband the late Peleg Hopkins died and now remains his widow. Lucy B. Seamans her mark X Attest Daniel Howard State of Rhode Island County of Providence Ss. At Providence in the County of Providence on this tenth day of June AD 1846. There personally came Before me Daniel Howard a Justice of the Court of Common Pleas within and for the said County Lucy B. Seamans who subscribed the above affadavit by making her cross in my presence and made oath to the tenth of the statements therein contained. I further certify that she is a credible person and is entitled to full credit as a Witness. Daniel Howard J.C.C. Pleas
State of Rhode Island & Providence Plantations Providence Ss. I Albert G. Greene, Clerk of the Municipal Court of the City of Providence, in said State, do hereby certify, that Daniel Howard who has signed two of the aforegoing Certificates, was on the Day of the Dates thereof, a Justice of the Court of Common Pleas, within and for the County of Providence in said State duly elected; and that Josiah Westcott, who has signed one of the aforegoing Certificates, was on the Day of the date thereof, a Justice of said Court of Common Pleas, duly elected. In attestation whereof, I,
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have hereunto set my hand and have affixed the seal of said Municipal Court, this thirteenth day of June AD one thousand eight hundred and forty six. Albert G. Greene, Clerk.

[Seal affixed]
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I Ezekiel Hopkins of Foster in the County of Providence in the State of Rhode Island on oath do testify and say that I am personally well acquainted with Peleg Hopkins of said Foster & have known him ever since we were children he being a brother of mine. I also know that in the spring of 1775 he enlisted for eight months in Capt. Stephen Kimball's Company to go to the American Army near Boston & he did go & was gone about that time before he returned. And I further testify that in the Fall of the year 1776 he again enlisted in Capt Cornell's company & Col Kimball's regiment of RI militia & was gone about six months in the services I served with him a part of the time when our Company was stationed at Bristol. And I further testify that in the summer of 1778 I also was with him at Warwick we were in the
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in the same company & regiment
and remember that he was with me
three months at Warwick when he left & remained- he afterwords servened one month in Providence as believe as he has stated in his said declaration -  Ezekiel Hopkins

Jany 8 1833 Personally
appeared before me the above named Ezekiel Hopkins & made to the truth
of the above deposition by him
signed

Benja Cowell
Commiss [Commissioner] Dist [District] Court RI Dist [District]
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for a statement of the military history of Peleg Hopkins a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (and his widow's) applications for pension on file in this Bureau. 

[TABLE]
DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. |  LENGTH OF SERVICE  |  RANK.  |  OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED: CAPTAIN. / COLONEL.  |  STATE.

May 1775  |  9 mos.  |  Pri.  |  Stephen Kimball / Hitchcock  |  R.I.
Fall, 1776  |  6 mos.  |  Pri.  |  Comer Smith,  Gideon Cornell / Kimball  |  R.I.
1777  |  1 mos.  |  Pri.  |  Gideon Cornell  |  [check]  |  R.I.
Sept., 1778  |  3 mos.  |  Pri.  |  Gideon Cornell  |  Kimball  |  R.I. 

Battles engaged in, [check]
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Foster, R.I. 
Date of application for pension, Aug 7, 1832. His cl was al. 
Residence at date of application, Foster, Providence Co., R.I.
Age at date of application, B. Apr. 29, 1755, Scituate (late called Foster) R.I. 
Remarks: Soldier (who was the son of Ezekiel Hopkins) Mar. at Foster, R.I. Apr. 1, 1790, Elizabeth  ^daughter of Stephen Place, Jr.^  Place He died Apr. 7, 1846, and she was allowed pension on an application dated June 10, 1846 at which time she was 78 years of age and a resident of Foster R.I. Very respectfully,
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History to Putnam, Conn.
Revy WIDOW, &c. File No. 23336 Elizabeth Hopkins widow of Peleg Hopkins Pri. Rev War Act: Feb 2d 48 Index: Vol. A, Page 331 [Arrangement of 1870.] April 13, 1897 Mr. L. H. Fuller, Feb 24 1911 Hist to Mrs. Chas T. Crane F.W. 1921 Dec. 1 Hist to Mrs. Leon T. Wilson Aw
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244 Rhode Island Elizabeth Hopkins widow of Peleg Hopkins who was a Private in the Revolution. Husband died Apl 7 1846. Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 60 Dollars Cents per annum, to commence on 7th April 1846. Certificate of Pension issued the 24th day of August 1846 and sent to Benjamin Cowell, Providence R. Island. [Act of JUNE 17, 1844.] Recorded in Book A Vol. 2 Page 44. D H. Wood, Clk. Repd
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To J L Edwards Esq. Commissioner of Pensions Sir I have seen a letter from you to Benjamin Cowell Esq. of the 2nd inst. in which you give as a reason why my pension was suspended that I gave a deposition for John Seamans which upon comparison of my own declaration upon file inspired a distrust of my memory. You also observe that before my pension can be restored, I must make a deposition of each term of service for which I expect an allowance, in answer to which I now declare upon oath that when I gave my deposition for John Seamans, all I intended to testify was that I saw him at Bristol when I was stationed there, but how long he served I did not mean to state. I am now eighty three years of age, but although so old, my memory is pretty good, especially as to transactions in my younger days. I consider I enjoy my mental faculties very well for one so old, except that I am very deaf and it may be in consequence of this infirmity I did not hear & understand the deposition for John Seamans when it was read to me, so well as I ought, but all I intended to say and to subscribe to, was what I have above stated. As to my own services in the War of the Revolution I have a distinct recollection of them and they were as follows. In 1775 I enlisted for eight months as a private but served nine months in a company commanded by
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Capt. Kimball, Jonathan Smith was a Lieutenant in the same company, and the Regiment was commanded by Col. Hitchcock and stationed near Boston. I served a month more than my enlistment before I returned home. 
2nd, In 1776 I served six months as a private in Capt Comer Smith's Company, stationed at Bristol, Rhode Island. This company did not belong to any regiment, but was an independant corps called I think the "Scituate Hunters" it was enlisted in Scituate (Foster and Scituate were not then separate towns) principally. I do not exactly remember the month we marched to Bristol but think it was September & what makes me think so is that when we arrived at Bristol we had no house to quarter in, and I remember of sleeping upon some sheaves of barley, before quarters were procured. About the first of January 1779, during this enlistment I remember a house was burnt down. I was then standing sentry upon Poperquash [Poppasquash] Point & saw the blaze. I served from September to March, six months for which I was paid and received rations. This company consisted of about seventy, it was first commanded by Capt Conner Smith & afterwards by Gideon Cornell. 3rd, In 1777 I served a month, stationed at Providence as a private in same company, this was in the summer and I think in June for which I was paid and received rations. Capt. Gideon Cornell then Commanded said Company.
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4th, In 1778 I served three months as a private in same Company, the first month according to my best recollection, was September, stationed at Warren from thence, they went by boat to Warwick-neck where they were stationed through October and November two months, and I further declare that I can remember stations better than dates and it is possible I may have erred as to dates but I am very confident as to the stations and the number of months that I served and the above specification is correct according to the best of my recollection. I have been cripple for some years by reason of bodily infirmities, yet I have much cause to be thankful that my mental faculties are so good and I now make a further declaration, that notwithstanding I am poor and needy & my pension is necessary to my support, I would not willingly & knowingly mistake any fact, for the sake of obtaining any thing that did not belong to me, with this statement I submit my case to you & request my pension may be restored. Peleg Hopkins. 

Providence Ss. In Foster August 29th AD 1838. Personally appeared Before me the abovenamed Peleg Hopkins and made oath to the truth of the above Affidavit by him subscribed. And I further certify that said Peleg is well known to me and he is a man of truth and veracity & his statement entitled to full credit. Bennett L. Holden Justice of the Peace.
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Providence Ss in Foster August 28 AD 1838 
We the undersigned, members of the Town Council of the town of Foster, do certify that we are well acquainted with Peleg Hopkins of said town. The said Peleg has always sustained a good character for truth & veracity, in said town. He is a cripple but his mental faculties are good nowithstanding his age. He is very deaf, but otherwise his faculties are good. Amos Jencks
Seba Adams
Henry Easten

Providence Ss. In Foster August 28 AD 1838 Sworn to and subscribed before me, and I further certify that the abovenamed are all known to me as members of the Town Council of the Town of Foster. 
Bennet L Holden Justice of the peace. 

We the undersigned citizens of the town of Foster do certify that we are acquainted with Peleg Hopkins of said Town and that the said Peleg has always sustained a good character for truth and veracity and concur in the statements above made by the members of the Town Council respecting his situation & faculties. 
Gideon Bangh
William G. Stoner
Wm Potter

Sworn to and subscribed at said Foster on the 28th day of August AD 1838 before me And I further certify that the persons last abovenamed are well known to me and that they are all entitled to full credit as witnesses. Bennett L Holden Justice of the Peace
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State of Rhode Island &c. 
Secretary's Office Sep. 3 1838 
I certify that at the session of the General Assembly of said State holden on the third Monday of June last, Bennett L. Holden was elected a Justice of the Peace for the town of Foster for and until the first Wednesday of May next and commissioned accordingly as appears of record. 
Witness Henry Bowen Secry.
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By His Excellency
William Sprague
Governor, Captain-General and Commander in Chief of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.
BE IT KNOWN, That the name, "HENRY BOWEN", to the aforewritten attestation subscribed, is in the proper hand writing of Henry Bowen, Esquire, who at the time of subscribing the same, was Secretary of the State  aforesaid, duly elected and qualified according to law : Wherefore unto his said attestation full faith and credit are to be rendered. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of said State to be affixed, at Providence, this third day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty eight and of Independence the sixty third.
Wm Sprague
By His Excellency's Command,
Henry Bowen Secry
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admitted Anson Smith Foster R.I.
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State of Rhode Island 
County of Providence Ss. 
On this twenty sixth day of April 1848 personally appeared before the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid Elizabeth Hopkins a resident of Foster in the County of Providence aged about Seventy six years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the act of Congress passed on the 2d February 1848 granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary war. That she is the widow of Peleg Hopkins who was a Private in the Revolution and that she received a pension of Sixty Dollars per annum under the Act of June 17th 1844. She further declares that she is still a widow. 

Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written. Before me, Anson Smith Justice of the Peace. 
Elizabeth Hopkins her mark X Attest Mary Cornell 

I certify that the above named declarant is personally known to me and that she is the same individual who drew a pension under the Act of June 17th 1844 as stated by her in the above declaration 
Anson Smith, Justice of the Peace.
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State of Rhode Island 
County of Providence Ss. 
I, John W. Smith Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas within and for the County of Providence aforesaid being a Court of Record, do hereby certify that Anson Smith Esquire before whom the aforegoing declaration was made, is a Justice of the Peace for the town of Glocester in said County of Providence, and is duly qualified to act in said capacity, and that the two preceding signatures purporting to be the signatures of said Smith are genuine. 
In witness whereof I hereunto set my hand and affix the seal of said Court at the City of Providence this fifth day of July AD 1848. 
John Smith Clerk.
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No 12922 
Elizabeth Hopkins 
widow of Peleg 
R.I. 
Act 7 July 1838 
Rejected husband 
died 7 April 1846 
322 
Adm^d act 17 June 1844 
18 mo per 
$60.00 per annum 
from 7 April 1846

Benjamin Cowell 
Providence 
R.I.
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Pension Office 
August 1846 
Sir, The papers in the case of Mary Howell widow of John Howell under the act of 7 July 1838 have been examined and filed. The certificate of the Comptroller of North Carolina. 

[ENTIRELY STRUCK OUT]
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Providence July 13 1846 
Sir 
I herewith enclose the application of Elizabeth Hopkins widow of Peleg Hopkins for a pension under the act of July 7 1838 

I am Respectfully 
your obt srvt 
Benja Cowell 

J L Edwards Esq.
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Providence June 20 1838 
Sir 
I send the enclosed from Mr Peleg Hopkins who wishes to know the reason why his pension has been suspended. I think there must be some mistake about it as he produced when he obtained his pension satisfactory evidence if I rightly remember. 
I am very respectfully yours
Benja Cowell 


J L Edwards Esq
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Providence Sept. 15 1838 
Sir 
Since the reception of your letter of August 2d [illegible] respecting the pension of Peleg Hopkins, which had been suspended I have seen him & conversed with him respecting the deposition he gave for John Seamans and I have much reason to believe he was imposed upon on account of his deafness. All he intended to depose with regard to his service was what he has now stated in his affidavit herewith enclosed. He is very deaf yet his memory is good & when made to hear & understand the questions I put to him his answers were distinct & unequivocal. He is a cripple, having lost the use of his lower limbs but his faculties otherwise are good.
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He sustains a good character for truth & veracity among his neighbors & townsmen as will appear from the enclosed affidavits. He appears to be a fair & candid man and I have no doubt of the correctness of his statements. Under these circumstances I have to request his pension may be restored. 
I am very respectfully 
your obt. srvt. 
Benja Cowell



J. L Edwards, Esq
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B Cowell And now on this 22 of Jany 1833 the said Peleg Hopkins maketh this further declaration in addition to the one made on the 7th of August last part viz. said Peleg declares that he has no documentary evidence of his services. That Ezekiel Hopkins is his brother & knows that he was a soldier of the Revolution & his deposition is herewith annexed. Taken since his first declaration. Elder Daniel Williams also can testify to his character and to his reputation as having served as a soldier & so can Robert Hopkins & their certificates are herewith annexed. 
Peleg Hopkins. 

Jany 22 1833 Personally appeased before me the above named Peleg Hopkins & made oath to the above declaration by him signed. 
Benja Cowell 
Commissioner Dist. 
Court R. I. Dist



Mr. Daniel Williams a Clergyman residing
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Mr Daniel Williams a Clergyman residing in the town of Killingly & Robert Hopkins residing in Foster hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Peleg Hopkins who has subscribed & sworn to the above declaration. That we believe him to be 77 years old that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution & that we concur in that opinion. 
Robert Hopkins 
Daniel William 

Providence Ss. At Foster January 24th AD 1833 personally came Robert Hopkins named in the above Certificate Subscribed and made solemn oath to the truth of the same before me 
William G. Stone Justice of the Peace. 

Providence Ss. At Foster January 26th AD 1833. Personally came Daniel Williams named in the above certificate subscribed and made solemn oath to the truth of the same before me. 
William G. Stone Justice of the Peace. 

Providence Ss. I hereby certify that I am personally acquainted with Peleg Hopkins named in the above certificate that I believe him to be 77 years old that he is respected and believed in the neighborhood where he resides that I believe he was a soldier of the Revolution. 
William G. Stone Justice of the Peace 
Foster January 26th 1833
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oath to the truth of the same before me. 
William G. Stone Justice of the Peace. 

Providence Ss. I Hereby certify that I am personally acquainted with Peleg Hopkins named in the above certificate that I believe him to be 77 years old that he is respected and believed in the neighborhood where he resides that I believe he was a soldier of the Revolution. 
William G. Stone Justice of the Peace 
Foster January 26th AD 1833

State of Rhode=Island and Providence Plantations. 
Providence Ss. I, WILLIAM R. WATSON, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas within and for the County of Providence, in said State, do hereby certify that William G. Stone is a Justice of the Peace for the town of Foster in said County and State:- that he is by the laws of said State, authorised to administer oaths and take depositions: and that the signatures to the annexed document, purporting to be his, are in the proper hand writing of said Stone. 

In witness whereof, I hereunto set my hand and affix the Seal of said Court, at Providence, this 28th day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three Wm R. Watson
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Judge Cowell Providence 

[Words seen through a hole in the paper]
get it got all the
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I was a soulderen att Bristol through thte Cold Season of the year as much as six months I am very sure I Do not know but more I think I was next at Providence one month I was next att Warren and Warwick about three months as near as I can recollect. I think that Gideon Cornell was my Captain there and Ezekiel Cornell general. Do not forget me or Delay the time for I am very needy
Foster June 12 1838 Peleg Hopkins 

You might remember that I left a good fathers home and a tender mother with an aching heart to fase the enemy of my Country my father after words lost all his property by Contenal money and was not able to help his sons any
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Judge Cowel I want you to undertake to find out why my pention [pension] is stopped and try to get it for me again. I think it very hard while my neighbors that have good homes are gitting [getting] thears [theirs] while I in my Eighty fourth year and have not walked one step in more than ten years without the help of two cretches [crutches] and after faithfully serving my country while young as a souldier [soldier] and being paid in Contenal [Continental] money that did me no good and have tilled the ground as long as I could walk and yet what few days I have to live have nothing before me for a home for this infirm body but the gloom of a poor house when I depart this life I have full confidence that I have a home Eternal in the heavens but while I live I want something for the body only make my case your own and do try to get it for me when I obtained my pention [pension] I got all the proof that was required and now they are all dead my own memory very much gone. My most petickular [particular] aquaintance [acquaintance] in the war are all most all dead or lost their reason they ^people^ tell me. I think I shall remember the hardships I endured in the war as long as I remember any thing yet I cannot remember some things about it as well as I wish I could. I was in the nine months service and was stationed on prospect hill there I suffered cold and hunger and all the hardships of the soldiers life. Joseph Kimball or Coman Smith I think was my Capt. there William Eddy was one of my most particular aquaintance [acquaintance] there and I believe was Ensign but they tell me he died long ago.
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Nov 17 1921 Division
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Rev Sec.
Department of the Interior 
Bureau of Pensions 
Washington D.C. 

Dear Sir, 
Will  you please send me a copy of the Pension of Peleg Hopkins Born in Scituate R.I. 1755 his pension commenced Mar 4 1831 he died April 1846. 
Yours very truly 
Mrs. Leon T. Nelson 
57 Laurel St. 
Putnam 
Conn. 

[Round date stamp:]
U.S. PENSION OFFICE
Nov 12 1921. 


Nov 12-1921
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Ao 
3-871. 
RECORD DIVISION. 
Department of the Interior, 
BUREAU OF PENSIONS. 

Briefed by M. Wave D. 20/2'/11
Claim No. 
Certificate No. 
Claimant 
Soldier Peleg Hopkins 
Service R.I. 
Additional Service Rev. 
No.....claim, State records.....191...
No claim, combination records.....191..

REMARKS: 
Wid. 7. 23,336 
No Rev. Sur. 

6-1944 Chief Division
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$1 currency attached 
(One dollar bill returned to Mrs Crane on Feb. 16. 1911. K. M. Fin. Div.) 

To Commissioner 
of Pensions 
[strikethrough 'Record & Pension Office, 
War Department,] 
Washington, 
D.C.,

Dear Sir: - 
As Registrar of the Savannah Tufts Chapter D.A.R. of Weymouth, Mass., Mrs. Charles H. Kaler, a great grand-daughter of Peleg Hopkins of Foster R.I., has requested me to write to the Pension Office for a certificate of the pension granted to her

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U.S. PENSION OFFICE
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ancester, who, according to the State Record Commissioned of Providence R.I. was "placed on pension roll Feb. 26, 1833; commencement of pension Mar. 4, 1831; age 79" Enclosed is one dollar for a copy of the certificate of the pension, which I desire to receive at the earliest possible date. 
Respectfully yours
(Mrs.) Charles T. Crane, 
100 Quincy Avenue,
East Braintree, 
Mass. 

February Ninth 
Nineteen Hundred and eleven. 

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One dollar bill returned to writer Feb. 16, 1911.
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ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE FEB 11 1911 1746204 WAR DEPARTMENT 

Respectfully referred to the Chief Record Division for consideration and reply to writer. One dollar bill has this day been returned to writer. 

A. H. Thompson (kn) Chief Finance Div. 
Feb 16, 1911. 

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Address: "The Adjutant General, 
War Department, Washington D. C." 
1746204 

WAR DEPARTMENT, 
THE ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE,
WASHINGTON. February 11, 1911. 

Respectfully returned to 

Mrs. Charles T. Crane,
Registrar, Susannah Tufts Chapter, 
D.A.R. of Weymouth, 
Massachusetts, 
100 Quincy Avenue, 
East Braintree, Mass. 

Requests such as that made within should be addressed to the Commissioner of Pensions, Washington, D.C. 
The one-dollar bill received with this letter is returned herewith. 

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FC Ainsworth 
The Adjutant General. 
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