Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File 36585, Ezekiel Hotchkiss, Continental (Conn.)
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(3-1776)
SERVICE
Continental (Conn)  
Hotchkiss, Ezekiel  
NUMBER
 36585
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Rolls sent to Leonard E. Wales Esq. 18 July 1822 New Haven, Connecticut

Letter to Wilson H. Clarke Jan 1823


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Connecticut Rolls
1007

Ezekiel Hotchkiss
Capt Pendleton
Sergeant 
Cong rep... Regiment    4
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War
Continental

Inscribed on the Roll of Connecticut
at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 7th of April 1818.

Certificate of Pension issued the 12th of June 1818, and sent to Hon. Simeon Baldwin, New Haven, Connecticut.

Arrears to 4th Sept. 1818.
   4 months 28/30            $ 39.46

        {Revolutionary claim, 
         Act 18th March, 1818}

                     3 years 4.80
Woodbridge. N Haven
Continental Co.
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Ezekiel Hotchkiss
     Copy

S for
M Edwards

Henry C. Flagg Esq
N Haven

Mr. Henry C. Flagg of N. Haven, Con. requested l4th Feb,'22, that report be made to Leonard E. Wales, Esqr. N. Haven Con
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At a County Court, held in and for the County Of New Haven, in the District and State of Connecticut, on the 6th day of July 1820, the same being a Court of Record, and having a Seal, by virtue of the laws of said State.

PERSONALLY APPEARED in open Court, Ezekiel Hotchkiss, a resident of the town of Woodbridge in the County of New Haven in said State, and exhibited and subscribed the following Schedule, and made Oath that the same is a true and perfect Schedule of all of his income and property, necessary cloathing [clothing] and bedding excepted, viz.

1 Yolk oxen $50, 2 Steers $45 2-3 year 
    old heifers $22 -----------------------  $117--
1 cow $11  1-2 year old heifer $8
       1 Steer  $6 -----------------------------     25--
2  [illeg] 4-80  1 Old waggon $8   1 pair 
       Cartwheels $14 ----------------------     26.80  
Old casks $2  Old iron  6.50  Old wood
      Clock   $2  --------------------------   10.50   
 Pots, kettles & chains $4  Table stand
    & Chest drawers 1.75 ---------------    5.75
Pewter & crockery 2.84  Andirons,
    shovel & Tongs 1.65   ---------------    4.49
Part of set of  joiners tools & milk pans - 6--
3 acres rye growing --------------------   18--  
1 acre potatoes  [illegible] D: -------------------
1 1/2 acre corn growing 1/4 D: flax D:}-- 19--
                                                            _________
                                                                           
                                                             $222.54 
                                                           __________   

I am indebted to Hubbard Hotchkiss -   $ 90
                      to   Simeon Baldwin -----    80
                      to   Reuben Hickox ------   300     
                             Small debts ----------   30
                                                          ________                                                                               
                                                             $ 500
                                                          _________

               [Signed]  Ezekiel Hotchkiss
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District and State of Connecticut SS.
Be it Remembered, That in the County Court, held in and for the County of New Haven, in the District and State aforesaid, on this 6th day of July 1820, the same being a Court of Record, and having a Seal, under the Authority of said State, personally came and appeared in open Court, Ezekiel Hotchkiss ages 67 - years, resident of the Town of Woodbridge in the County of New Haven in said State, and being sworn according to Law, doth on his Oath declare that he served in the revolutionary War. as follows:  I am not able to recollect now the year I enlisted as a private soldier and afterwards served as sergeant into Capt Pendleton's company Col Jeduthan Baldions regiment for three years which time I served out & was discharged in New Jersey at the expiration of sd term as will appear by the papers accompanying my application for a pension in 1818 -
that the original Declaration made by him, for the purpose of obtaining a pension, under Act of Congress of the 18th of March 1818, was dated the 7th day of April 1818; that in pursuance thereof he was entered in the list of Pensioners, and received a Pension Certificate No. 1007  And I do further solemnly swear 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, disposed of my property or any part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it, as to bring myself within the provisions of an Act of Congress, entitles :An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War" passed on the 18th day of March, 1818;  and 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 the Schedule hereunto  annexed, and by me subscribed.  And I do further declare that my occupation has been formerly that of a carpenter joiner but lately I have hired land & worked on & for my support when able  I am often lame owing to the rheumatism and impairing my constitution while in the service & that I am 67 years old and that I have a family residing with me  Consisting of a wife 66 years old who is very feeble & has not been able to do any business in ten years-
all which is subscribed by me the day and year aforesaid.
[signed] Ezekiel Hotchkiss
Sworn to, and declared in the Court aforesaid. Whereupon said Court is, on satisfactory proof exhibited in Court, of opinion that the total amount in value of the property contained in the aforesaid Schedule, is 222 Dollars and 54 Cents, and doth order these proceedings to be entered in the records of said Court.
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  District of Connecticut, SS.

I, Henry C Flagg Clerk of the County Court in and for the County of New Haven in the State and District of Connecticut, do hereby certify that the foregoing and the Schedule thereunto annexed, are truly copied from the records f said Court; and I do further certify, that it is the opinion of said Court that the total amount, in value, of the property exhibited in the aforesaid Schedule, is 222 Dollars and 54 -Cents.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said Court on this 6th day of July 1820

Attest  Henry C Flagg Clerk .

          [Seal affixed lower right corner]


I, Isaac Mills presiding Judge of the County Court in and for the County of New Haven in the State of Connecticut, do hereby certify that Henry C Flagg is Clerk of said Court, and keeper of the Seal and Records thereof; and that the preceding Certificate, under his hand and the Seal of said Court, is authentic, and in due form of Law. 
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in New Haven the 6th day of July 1820.
[signed] Isaac Mills Chief Judge
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   He died in April 1829
   She died in 1834 or 183_ [last number written over, appears to be  6 or 8]
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State of Connecticut
County of New Haven} Js

  On the 31st day of January one thousand eight hundred and fifty three at a Probate Court holden at New Haven within and for the District of New Haven in the County of New Haven and State aforesaid before me Frederick Croswell the Judge holding said Court, personally appeared Mabel Neale a resident of the Town of Southington in the County of Hartford who first duly cautioned and sworn doth on her oath declare and say that she is sixty three years of age next March and that she is the daughter and only surviving child [several words crossed out] of Ezekiel Hotchkiss & Rebecca Hotchkiss of the town of Woodbridge in said County.  That her father said Ezekiel Hotchkiss enlisted in the War of the Revolution in Capt D. Pendletons Company Col Jeduthan Baldwins Regt of Artificers in the 12th day of October A.D. 1777 and served three years, that he was pensioned under the act of [all words to the end of the page are underlined] March 1818 and under the subsequent acts to the time of his decease which took place on the 9th day of April A.D. 1829 - and for more accurate information see his declaration on
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 [this paragraph is underlined]
file in the Pension Office & bearing date the 7th day of April 1818 upon which declaration  pension Certificate was issued No. 1007.

She further declares that her said Mother died on or about the {blank] day of [blank] 1834 or 1835 at the Town of Bethany (formerly Woodbridge) in said County.
and she further declares that she verily believes that there is due her, as heir in the case of her father Ezekiel Hotchkiss, arrears of pay which was not drawn by him in his life time, & still remains unpaid from the United States for his services in said War as artificer and that the highest rate of pay was never allowed him, as has since been to others and the heirs of other members of the same Company & Regiment of Artificers (reference is made to single case of the heirs of Caleb Miller - and for which arrears she makes this application and respectfully asks the attention of the Commissioner -

And the intent of this is furthermore as to appoint Wilson H. Clark of the city town & County of New Haven my time and lawful attorney for me and in my name to receive from the government of the United States all such monies -drafts, arrears of pay that
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may be due as heir at case of my father.  In witness whereof I have subscribed the  [illegible] and foregoing affidavit and power attorney this 31st day of Janny [January] A.D. 1853 -

         [Signed  Mabel Neale]

Sworn to before me ["this" is crossed out]  in open Court, this 31st day of January 1853.
           [Signed] F. Croswell, Judge
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State of Connecticut,
County of New Haven}

I, Frederick Croswell, Judge of the Probate Court, within and for the District of New Haven, in said County of New Haven, hereby certify that satisfactory evidence has been presented to this Court, showing that Ezekiel Hotchkiss late of the town of Woodbridge in Said District was a pensioner of the United States, at the rate of 96 dollars a year, under the act of 1818 & 1828; and that he died in the month of April, 1829, in the town of Bethany in Said District, and that his widow died either in the year 1834 or the year 1835, and that his only surviving child is Mabel Neale, now living in the town of Southington in the County of Hartford in said State, and is a resident of said town.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and the Seal of said Court this 31st day of January, 1853 -  
                                                                    
                                      Fred. Croswell, Judge
[A seal is affixed to the left side of the page.]
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Clerk's Certificate
STATE OF CONNECTICUT
COUNTY OF NEW HAVEN} SS.
COUNTY COURT CLERK'S OFFICE
[Seal affixed below the above heading]

I, Robert H. Osborn Clerk, of the County Court within and for New Haven County, and keeper of the Seal thereof, and of the Commission if Justices of the Peace for said County, hereby certify- THAT,

Benjamin Beecher Jr., 
Esquire
was on the 31st day of January 1853 and now is a Justice of the Peace within and for said County, duly appointed, commissioned and sworn, having full power and authority by the laws of this State, to take the acknowledgement of Deeds and other instruments, and to certify the same; also to administer Oaths, to take Affidavits and Depositions out of Court, and to give certificates thereof;  that full faith and credit may, and ought to be given to his official acts, and attestations; that I am well acquainted with the handwriting and that the signature to the instrument hereto annexed purporting to be his, is his genuine official signature; and that said instrument is executed , acknowledged and duly authenticated according to the laws of this State. 

In Testimony Whereof, I hereunto set my hand, and affix the Seal of said Court at the City of New Haven, in said County, and State, on this 31st day of January A.D. 1853

                    [Signed] Robert H. Osborn Clerk.

[A second sheet has been attached to the above; the first line is covered]

a pension at the rate [word inserted] of Ninety six dollars a year and is now dead, and that said Ezekiel Hotchkiss was a soldier in Capt Pendleton's Company Col. Baldwin's Regt of Artificers,  That he resided in the town of Woodbridge (now Bethany) [last two words inserted] to the time of his death, and that his widow is also dead and that his only surviving child and heir at law is Mabel Neale the Deponent -
[seal marking on the lower right]

Mabel Neale
Sworn and subscribed before me the day & year above written.
B. Beecher Jr. Justice of the Peace
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State of Connecticut             New Haven
County of New Haven} ss.     January 31st, 1853.

Be it known that before me Benjamin Beecher Jr - a Justice of the Peace duly Authorized by the laws of this state to administer oaths within and for the County of New Haven, personally Mabel Neale of the town of Southington in the Hartford County and made solemn oath hat she is the identical daughter of Ezekiel Hotchkiss who in his life time drew a pension at the rate of ninety six dollars a year and is now dead, and that said Ezekiel Hotchkiss was a soldier in Capt Pendleton's Company Col Baldwin's Regt. of Artificers.  That he resided in the town of Woodbridge (now Bethany) [last two words inserted] to the time of his death and that his widow is also dead and that his only surviving child and heir at law is Mabel Neale the deponent-

    [Signed] Mabel Neale

Sworn and subscribed before me the day & year above written -

      [Signed] B Beecher Jr  Justice of the Peace
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Ezekiel Hotchkiss

April 7. 1818

Admd-
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Connecticut  Js
I Ezekiel Hotchkiss of Woodbridge in New Haven County in sd State, a resident citizen of the United States do on oath depose & declare that I served my country in the revolutionary war on the continental establishment as an artificer for the period of three years -  That I enlisted for the sd term of three years in the month of October or Novr. [last two words inserted} in the year [last word inserted]1777 into a company of artificers commanded by Capt. Daniel Pendleton which company was enlisted from men belonging to Connecticut & the men considered by resolve of Congress as part of the quota of that State, that sd Company afterwards made part of the regiment of Artificers commanded by Col Jeduthan Baldwin.  That I faithfully served the period of my enlistment  & was at the expiration thereof in Octr. or Novr. [last two words inserted] 1780 honourably discharged a Sergeant, but by time & accident my discharge is lost & cannot now be produced. -

I further on oath declare that by reason of my reduced circumstances, I now need assistance from my Country for support-
Therefore pray that I may be placed on the pension list of the United States according to the provisions of the Act of Congress of the 18 Mar 1818 entitled "an Act to provide for certain persons in the land & naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war. -

New Haven  April 7, 1818 - Ezekiel Hotchkiss
I certify that on the day above the sd Ezekiel Hotchkiss to me well known personally appeared & made
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to the truth of the foregoing Declaration by him in my presence then subscribed  before me
       [Signed  Simeon Baldwin a Judge 
          of the Supr Court of Connecticut

I John Peck of New Haven in New Haven County, State of Connecticut, do depose and say that I was a Lieutenant in Capt Daniel Pendletons company of Artificers from the 5th day of June in the year 1777 untill the 17th day of October 1778 - that in the fall of the year 1777 Ezekiel Hotchkiss who has subscribed the within declaration enlisted into said Company, as I then understood for the term of three years, and continued faithfully to serve, till I retired from the army, where I left him still in service - Capt Pendleton who commanded said Company has been dead several years - and further the deponent is not.  New Haven April 7 1818
                    [Signed]  John Peck

Simeon Baldwin a Judge
of the Supr Court of Connecticut
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To the Hon. The Secretary of the Department of War

I certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Ezekiel Hotchkiss served in the revolutionary was as he has stated inhis Declaration & that he needs assistance from his Country for support - Therefore I certify & transmit the evidence in his case -

              April 7th 1818 -

        [Signed]   Simeon Baldwin a Judge
                        of the Supr Court of Connecticut

State of Connecticut Ne Haven County Js
                     New Haven Apl 25 1818

I Dyer White Clerk of the Supr Court of sd State for sd County - certify that the name Simeon Baldwin annexed to the foregoing certification is the signature of Simeon Baldwin a Judge of sd Court known to me
In testimony whereof I affix the Seal of sd Court
             [Signed]  Dyer White

[NOTE:  A seal is affixed to the left of the above text}
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                     36585
   Revy         INVALID.

    File No.  36, 585
     Ezekiel Hotchkiss
        Serg. Rev War
        
   Act:  18" March 18"
   Index: - Vol 2, Page 232

         [Arrangement of 1870]
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Let. MH Clark 2 June 1883
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Applicant aged 67 yrs
Rheumatism Vz-

Wife 66 yrs old - very feeble-
-no other family. -
The 1st Sched exhibits property to the amt of $222.94.
The { schedule exhibits  sd property to amt 
      only of $26 [underlined]
but states that since 1st schedule property has been dispersed of to buy staples -

Served 3 yrs

 [ In different handwriting under the above}

  M inquire on the known way disposed of


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Mr. Flagg was informed July 13  1821 that the Pensioner must state how he disposed of his propy

See evidence secured within
recd. 19 Sept. 1821
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New Haven Conn.
May 5, 1853

Dear Sir

I sent to the Commr of Pensions early in February last I think  {next word crossed out] application by Mabel Neale, to receive arrears of Pension due her as the Surviving child & heir at law of her father Ezekiel Hotchkiss, whom was an Artificer & Soldier in the Revolutionary War, and up to this time I have heard nothing from the matter - I do not know whether the same was recd.  What dispisition [sic] has been made of it if recd & oblige
Yours Most Respectfully
Wilson H. Clark
Attorney for M. Neale

To the Hon
Loren P. Waldo
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D.C.
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Ansd. 2d June 1853
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New Haven Conn:
Jany 21. 1853

Dear Sir
   Enclosed please find application of Mabel Neale for arrears of Pension due Ezekiel Hotchkiss late of Woodbridge (now Bethany) deceased   
Early attention to her case will be greatly [illegible]

                                   Most Resp'y
                                      Your Humble Sevt
                                        Wilson H. Clark

[illegible]:
       Commissioner of Pensions
                Washington 
                           D.C.
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Deposition in the
Case of Ezekiel
Hotchkiss
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We Reuben Hickox & Silliman Hotchkiss of Woodbridge in New Haven County in Connecticut, of lawful age depose & say, that the schedule of property and declaration relative there to, exhibited & made by Ezekiel Hotchkiss the 2nd day of April 1821 is just and true, and that since said Hotchkiss' declaration made the 6th day of July 1820, he has disposed of his property in the manner stated in the first mentioned declaration, & that he is worth no more property & possesses no more property than is contained in the schedule annexed to said first mentioned declaration viz the value of Twenty six dollars and thirty four cents.

[Signed]  Reuben Hickox
                Silliman Hotchkiss

New Haven County Js. New Haven the 3d day of April 1821 personally appeared before me, a Justice o the Peace for said County, Reuben Hickox & Silliman Hotchkiss, & being duly cautioned & sworn, declared the foregoing deposition to be true.
  Sworn before me

   {Signed]Noyes Darling, Justice of the Peace
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                                  [stamp]  FREE

                       Hon John C Calhoun
                             Secretary of War  
                                   Washington
[Postmark]                              D.C.
New Haven Co
  Mar 8

 [Written vertically, right of address}  
      Recd 7 March 1821
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                               New Haven March 3d  1821

Hon John C Calhoun
Dear Sir,
  Will you have the goodness to inform me whether the application of Ezekiel Hotchkiss of Woodbridge in New Haven County & State of Connecticut for a pension under the late justice law of Congress has been received at the War Office.  The application  to which I allude was made through the County Court for New Haven County held at New Haven on the 4th Tuesday of June 1820.  Mr. Hotchkiss bears a respectable character, and is [illegible] as having been a faithful soldier in the Revolution.  This inventory is trifling, and on this account he has indulged the hope that he has not applied for relief to government in vain.

                                      With great Respect
                                                  I have
                                            the honor to be
                                               Your Obt Srv
                                                 H C Flagg

John C Calhoun
Secy of War
Washington
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Reuben Hickox of the town of Woodbridge of lawful age, deposeth and saith that on the eleventh day of February one thousand eight hundred and nineteen, Ezekiel Hotchkiss of said Woodbridge made & executed to him a jint & several note for the sum of Sixty dollars, which note was a renewal of a former note given for the rent of a farm leased by him to said Ezekiel Hotchkiss - that on the sixth day of March one thousand eight hundred & twenty said Ezekiel made & executed to him one other joint & several note for the sum of Two hundred & twenty seven dollars & sixty cents which note was a renewal of several other notes given him by said Ezekiel for the rent of a farm leased by him to said Ezekiel - and deponent further says, that for the payment in
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and deponent further says that for the payment in part of the note dated the 6th of March 1820, said Ezekiel sold & delivered to him two oxen, one cow, one heifer &a pair of cart wheels at the price of eighty seven dollars on the the 3d day of April 1821. which sum was then endorsed on said note - and deponent further says that the aforementioned notes were true & bona fide notes to him for the payment of said debts of Ezekiel Hotchkiss and further the deponent saith not.

   [Signed]  Reuben Hickox

New Haven County Js Woodbridge 16th August 1821.  On this day the aforesaid Reuben Hickox was examined , cautioned and sworn, agreeable to law, to the foregoing deposition, taken at the request of Ezekiel Hotchkiss, to be used in his application for a pension,  Sworn before and certified by me

[Signed[ Noyes Darling Justice of Peace
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Hubbard Hotchkiss of the town of Woodbridge of lawful age, deposeth and saith that in the spring of the year 1818 Ezekiel Hotchkiss of said Woodbridge made and executed to him a note of hand for the sum of One hundred and eight dollars, which sum was then actually , justly & bona fide due him for labour & money lent to said Ezekiel - and that in part payment of said note said Ezekiel did at sundry times in the fall of the year 1820, sell & deliver to him eight bushels of corn in the ear - fourteen bushels of potatoes - one bushel of rye - at the price of four dollars & nineth cents 7 & deponent further says that said sale was a true & bona fide sale to him for the payment of said debt of Ezekiel Hotchkiss - and further saith not -

   [Signed] Hubbard Hotchkiss

New Haven County Js Woodbridge -

On the 16th day of August 1821 the aforesaid Hubbard Hotchkiss was examined, cautioned & sworn, agreeable to law, to the foregoing deposition taken at the request of Ezekiel
Hotchkiss, to be used in his application for a pension.  Sworn before & certified by me

   {Signed]  Noyes Darling  Justice of Peace.
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District & State of Connecticut Js  New Haven

Be it remembered that at a special County Court held in & for the County of New Haven on this 15th day of September 1821, the same being a court of record & having a seal under the authority of said state, personally came & appeared in open court Ezekiel Hotchkiss aged 67 years resident in the town if Woodbridge in the county if New Haven in said State, & being sworn according to law doth on his oath declare, that on the 7th day of April 1818 he made a declaration for the purpose of obtaining  a pension & in pursuance thereof he was entered in the list of pensioners & received a pension certificate No.1007 -  that on the 6th day of July 1820 he made a second declaration & gave a schedule of his property & debts - that on the 3rd ay of April1821 he made a third declaration & gave a schedule of his  property  wherein he stated that he had disposed of all his property exhibited by his schedule made on the 6th day of July 1820  in payment if his debts due at the time of his said declaration & in support of his family except the articles exhibited in his schedule made the 3d day of April 1821 and being required to show in a legal manner how he disposed of said property , he makes the additional declaration that, having ever since the year 1813 taken on lease a farm belonging to Reuben Hickox at an annual rent of sixty dollars he became at sundry times indebted to said Hickox for said rent and gave to said Hickox his notes of hand therefore that on the 11th of February
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1819 he gave said Hickox his note for the sum of sixty dollars jointly & severally with his surety, which was a renewal of one of his own notes previously given as before mentioned for rent & then remaining unpaid - that on the 5th day of March 1820 he gave said Hickox his note for the sum of Two hundred and twenty-seven dollars & sixty cents, jointly & severally with his surety which sum was due for principal & interest of sundry notes previously given as before mentioned for rent - that on the 3d day of April 1821, for the payment in hand of the notes held by said Hickox he sold & delivered to said Hickox two oxen, a cow, a heifer & a pair of cart wheels at the price of eighty seven dollars. which sum was endorsed on his note dated 5th of March 1820 which said cattle & wheels are exhibited in his schedule made the 5th of July 1829 & therein appraised at the sum of eighty dollars - said Hotchkiss further declares that when the notes dated the 11th of February 1819 the 6th of March 1820 were given, the sums, for which they were respectively given were justly , actually & legally due from said Hotchkiss to said Reuben Hickox - & that said sums so continued to be due until the 3d day of April 1821 - & that the sales
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made as before mentioned to said Hickox on said 3d day of April were real & actual, without fraud or deceit, & for the purpose of paying the debts due as aforesaid - & said Hickox further declares that in the opening of then year 1818 he gave his note of hand to Hubbard Hotchkiss for the sum of one hundred eight dollars, which sum was then actually, justly & legally due said Hubbard for labour done for & money lent to him the said Ezekiel - & to pay said debt in part he sold & delivered to said Hubbard, in the fall of the year 1820, eight bushels of corn in the ear -fourteen bushels of potatoes, & one bushel of rye, at the price of four dollars & ninety cents, which corn, potatoes & rye are exhibited in his schedule of the 6th July 1820 as crops growing - & that the sales so made to said Hubbard were real & actual, without fraud or deceit, & for the purpose of paying in part the debt due said Hubbard Hotchkiss  as aforesaid.  All which is subscribed by said Ezekiel Hotchkiss the day and year first mentioned.

Sworn to and declared in the Court aforesaid. Whereupon said Court is, on satisfactory proof exhibited in Court, of opinion that said Ezekiel Hotchkiss did on the 3d day of April 1821 actually & truly sell & deliver to Reuben Hickox three steers, one waggon, two oxen, one cow, one heifer & a pair of cart wheels, & to Hubbard Hotchkiss in the year 1820 eight bushels of corn in the ear, fourteen bushels of potatoes & one bushel of rye, at the price of One hundred & fifty dollars & ninety cents, exhibited & appraised in his schedule dated
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6th of July 1820, exclusive of the corn rye & potatoes at one hundred & thirty one dollars -  & that said sale & delivery was made for the payment of debts jointly & bona fide due to said Reuben Hickox & Hubbard Hotchkiss, as set forth in the foregoing declaration - & doth under oath order these proceedings to be entered in the records of said Court.
       Attest      [Signed]   Henry C. Flagg Clk  

District of Connecticut Js  New Haven

I Henry C. Flagg Clerk of the County Court in & for the County  of New Haven in the State & district of Connecticut, do hereby certify, that the foregoing is truly copied from the records of said Court.  In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of said court on this 15th day of Septr  1821

                  [Signed] Henry C. Flagg Clk

[Seal affixed]

I Isaac Mills Chief Judge of the County Court in & for the County of New Haven in the State of Connecticut, do hereby certify that Henry C. Flagg is Clerk of said Court & keeper of the seal and records thereof; & that the preceding certificate, under his hand, & the seal of said Court is authentic, & in due form of law.  In testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand in New Haven this 25th day of Septr 1821.
                [Signed] Isaac Mills
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District & State of Connecticut Js  New Haven

Be it remembered that in the County Court held in & for the County of New Have in the District & State aforesaid, on this third day of April1821 the same being a court of record & having a seal, under the authority of  said State, personally came & appeared in open court Ezekiel Hotchkiss aged 67 years resident in the town of Woodbridge in the county of New Haven in said State & being sworn according to law doth on his oath declare that he served in the revolutionary was as follows -  In what year I am not able to recollect now, I enlisted as a private soldier (and afterwards served as sergeant) into Captain Pendleton's Company, Col. Jeduthen Baldwin's Regiment for three years which time I served out & was discharged in New Jersey at the expiration of said term, as well appear by the papers accompanying my application for a pension in 1818 - also that in the first year of the revolutionary war I enlisted in Capt. Samuel Wilmott's Company Col Wooster's regiment for the term of six or seven months & served out the said time, & was in the retreat from Long Island, at the taking of St. John, & was discharged at Montreal -  That the original declaration made by him for the purpose of obtaining a pension under the act of Congress of the 18th of March 1818 was dated the 7th day of April 1818; that in pursuance thereof he was entered in the list of pensioners & received a pension certificate No. 1007.  And I
do further solemnly swear 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 disposed of my property or any part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the
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provisions of an act of Congress entitled " An act to for certain persons engaged in the land & naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary war" passed on the 18th day of March 1818; & 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 that that what is contained in the schedule hereunto annexed & by me subscribed.  And I do further declare that my occupation has been formerly that of a carpenter & joiner, but lately I have hired land and & worked on it for my support when able. I am often lame, owing to rheumatism & impairing my constitution while in the service.  That I am 67 years old, & that I have family residing with me consisting of a wife 66 years old, who is very feeble, & has not been able to do any business in ten years - all which is subscribed by the day & year aforesaid.
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District of Connecticut Js

I Henry C Flagg Clerk of the County Court in & for the County of New Haven in the State & District of Connecticut, do hereby certify that the foregoing & the schedule thereunto annexed, are truly copied from the records of said County; and I do further certify, that it is the opinion of said Court that the total amount in value, of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is $26_ dollars and 34 - cents.

IN testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand, and affixed the seal of said Court on this 3d day of April 1821.

   Attest [Signed] Henry C Flagg Clk

[Seal affixed lower left of signature]

I Isaac Mills presiding Judge of the County Court in & for the County of New Haven in the State of Connecticut, do hereby certify that Henry C Flagg is clerk of said Court & keeper of the seal & records thereof; & that the preceding certificate, under the hand of the seal of said court is authentic & in due form of law.

In testimony whereof I have [illegible] out my hand this 3d day of April 1821,

 [Signed and underlined] 
                 Isaac Mills Chief Judge 


[Written vertically in left margin]
       Additional declaration 
         of Ezekiel Hotchkiss
                     Con


[Written in center area, vertically]
  [ first two lines illegible]
        Woodbridge
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At a County Court, held in & for the County of New Haven in the District & State of Connecticut on the third day of April 1821 the same being a Court of Record & having a seal, by virtue of the laws of said State 
Personally appeared in open court Ezekiel Hotchkiss a resident in the town of Woodbridge in the county of New Haven in said State & exhibited & subscribed the following schedule & made oath that the same is a true & perfect schedule of all of his income & property, necessary clothing & bedding excepted - and that since his declaration made on the sixth day of July 1820 he has disposed of all his property exhibited by his schedule of said date in payment of his debts due at the time of his said declaration & in support of his family, except the following, viz-
   Old iron    -----------------------     $ 6.50
   Old carts   -----------------------       2.00
   Potts kettles & chains   ----               4.00
   One table, one stand, one chest -     1.75
  Old pewter & crockery, one chest -   2.84
  One pair of handirons, heal & tongs
       & trammels          --------------     1.65
Part of a set of joiners tools & milk 
       pans ----------------------------    6.00
                                                          ______
                                                       $ 24.74
           One swine ------------------     1.60
                                                          ______
                                                      $  26.34