Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 1770, Azel Hovey, Conn.
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SERVICE 
Conn.

Hovey, Azel
Lucy

NUMBER
W. 1770
B.L.Wt.39223-160-55
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New York

Lucy Hovey
widow of Azel Hovey
who served in the Revolutionary War, as a private
       [Con Sine]
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 28 Dollars per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1848.

Certificate of Pension issued the 8th day of August, 1849 and sent to 
   Ephraim Schutt
   Statenville  Tompkins Isl
             New York

Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act [strikethrough February 8, [strikethrough] 1818, Page 1/13 vol. 1 29 July,  Book D


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238276
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let to W.S. Lincoln,  Nov 6 '46

14443
197 87    New York
Azel Hovey
of  Tioga Co in the State of New York
who was a private in the Company commanded 
by Captain Williams of the Regt; commanded
by Col. Willis in the Ch: new time for 8 1/2 mos.

Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 28 Dollars 00 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 27th day of May 1833 and send to Wm H Moore

Arrears to the 4th of March 1833  $56.00
Semi-anl. allowance ending [Indeph] $14.00
                                                              
                                                                $70.00
Revolutionary Claim
Act June 7, 1832

Recorded by W. L. Williams Clerk,
Book E  Vol. 4. Page 10
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238.376   Mar. 3.  '55
                Mar. 17.  '56

Lucy Hovey wid
Azel Hovey, pri
Lucy wid: Azel Hovey, Pri

during war

[    ]  4 Mar 1848, p. 163.  Vol 1,  Book D

July 48 - 287

[Att]:  Hovey, Aug 20/54

 Boynton

V. P. Low,
Belvedere, Ill.

{Written across the document}
No 39225 dpo Augt 23/56
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No 19781
Azel Hovey
Tioga C'.  N. York
admitted
8 mos. 15 days Private

27.77
1.33
______________
29

Wm H. Moore agt
Berkshire P.B. N. York
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                            WAR DEPARTMENT
                                    Pension Office,
                                                                       183


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

  A Statement, shewing the Service of Azel Hovey Tioga Co. N. York
_________________________________________________
{11 column table} | Period when the service was rendered. |  Duration of the claimant's service. - Years. | Duration of the claimant's service - months. | Duration of the claimant's service - Days | Rank of the claimant. | Name and Rank of the Company officers under whom he served. | Names and Rank of the General and Field officers. | Battles in which the applicant was engaged. | Country through which he marched. | Place of abode when he entered the service, and age at the present period. | Evidence by which the declaration is supported. |

Sub. by his Fath as does not know for when

| 1778 | --- | 1 | --- | Private | Capt [?Williams] | Col. Mason | --- | New London Con. | aged 19 Meriden Co. Con | [?tionay] |

| Enlisted 1779 | --- | 2 | --- | Capt Eagerton | Col Willis | ---| Groton Chatham in Con. | --- | --- |

| 1780 | --- | 3 | --- | --- | --- | --- | ---| [Rein 10?] New London | --- | --- | 

| Vol 1781 | --- | 2 | 15 | ---| Cap Robbins | Col McSallens | --- | Winthrop pt Mohegan [?] | ---| --- |

I am, respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
J. L. EDWARDS
Commissioner of Pensions.
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REGULATIONS UNDER THE ACT OF JUNE 7, 1832.

The following regulations have been adopted:
This law has been construed to extend, as well to the line, as to every branch of the Staff of the Army, and to include under the terms "Continental Line," "State troops," "militia," and "volunteers," all persons enlisted, drafted, or who volunteered and who were bound to military service but not those who were occasionally employed with the army upon civil contracts, such as Clerks to Commissaries and to Store Keepers, &c. Teamsters, Boatmen, &c. Persons who served on board of Private Armed Vessels are also excluded from the benefits of the law, as well as Persons who turned out as patrols, or were engaged in guarding particular places at night, and were not recognized as being in actual military service.
Four general classes of cases are embraced in this law:
1. The Regular Troops.
2. The State Troops, Militia, and Volunteers.
3. Persons employed in the Naval service.
4. Indian Spies.
As rolls of the regular troops in the Revolutionary War exist in this Department, all persons, claiming the benefits of this law as officers, non-commissioned officers, musicians or privates, will in the first instance, make application by transmitting the following declaration, which will be made before a Court of Record of the County where such applicant resides. And every Court having by law a seal and Clerk is considered a Court of Record.
DECLARATION,
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th of June, 1832
State, Territory or District of
County of
ss.
On this ___ day of ____ personally appeared (a) before ________________A. B. a resident (b) of ___________________ in the county of _______________ and State, Territory or District of _______________ aged (c) _____________ years, who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress, passed July 7th, 1832. That he enlisted in the Army of the United States in the year (d) ___________, with _________ and served in the _______________ (e) regiment of the ________________ line, under the following named officers:
[Here set forth the names and rank of the Field and Company Officers; the time he left the service; (and if he served under more than one term of enlistment, he must specify the particular period, and rank and names of his officers;) the town or county and State in which he resided when he entered the service; the battles, if any, in which he was engaged, and the country through which he marked. [pointing finger symbol] This form is to be varied so as to apply to the cases of officers and persons who belonged to the militia, volunteers, navy, &c.]
He hereby relinquishes every claim (f) whatever to a pension or an annuity, except the present, and he declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll or any Agency in any State, or (if any) only on that of the Agency in the State of _____________
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid A. B.
[And then will follow the certificate of the Court.]
And the said Court de hereby declare their opinion (g) that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states.
I ______________ of the Court of ______________ do hereby certify (h) that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of ____________ for a pension. 
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office (i) this ____________ day of ______________ &c.
If, on examination of the proper record the names of applicants, making such declaration, cannot be found, they will produce such proof as the rule given in note (j) points out.
Every applicant who claims a pension by virtue of service in the State Troops, Volunteers or Militia, except those who belonged to the New Hampshire Militia and State Troops of Virginia, will make and subscribe a declaration similar to the foregoing, with the following additions, viz:
(k) We,  A.B., a Clergyman, residing in the ________________ and C.C. residing in (the same) hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with ________________, who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be ______________years of age; that he is reputed and believed, in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a solider of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.
Sworn and subscribed the day and year afroresaid.
[And then will follow the certificate of the Court.]
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier, and served as he states. And the Court further certifies, that it appears to them that A.B. ____________ who has signed the preceding certificate, is a clergyman, resident in the ____________ and that C.D., who has also signed the same is a resident in the ________________ and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
I, ______________ Clerk of the Court of _______________ do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the applicacation [sic] _____________________ for a pension. 
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal _______________ of office, this ____ day of ____ &c.
Every applicant will produce the best proof in his power. This is the original discharge or commission; but if neither of these can be obtained, the party will so state under oath, and will then procure, if possible, the testimony of at least one credible witness, stating in detail his personal knowledge of the services of the applicant, and such circumstances connected therewith, as may have a tendency to throw light upon the transaction.
If such surviving witness cannot be found, the applicant will so state in his declaration (i) and he will also, whether he produce such evidence or not, proceed to relate all the material facts, which can be useful in the investigation of his claim, and in the comparison of his narrative with the events of the period of his alleged service, as they are known at the Department. A very full account of the services of each person
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will be indispensable to a favorable action upon his case. The facts state I will afford one of the principal means of corroborating the declaration of the applicant, if true, or of detecting the imposition, if one be attempted; and unless, therefore, these are amply and clearly set forth, no favorable decision can be expected. All applicants will appear before some Court of Record in the County, in which they reside, and there subscribe and be sworn to, one of the declarations above provided, according to the nature of his case. 
The Court will propound the following (m) interrogatories to all applicants for a pension, on account of service in the Militia, State troops, or Volunteers, except the Militia of New Hampshire and the State Troops of Virginia. 

1. Where and in what year were you born?
2. Have you any record of your age, and if so, where is it?
3. Where were you living when called into service; where have you lived since the Revolutionary war, and where do you now live?
4. How were you called into service; were you drafted, did you volunteer, or were you a substitute? And if a substitute, for whom?
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State of Illinois     }
County of Boone } ss,
On this Eighth day of March one thousand eight hundred and fifty six personally appeared
Lucy Hovey, before me a County Justice within and for the County and State aforesaid, Aged Seventy Seven years a resident of said County and State, who being duly sworn according to law declares that she is the widow of Azel Hovey who was a Private in the revolutionary war, that tho neither the Captain or Colonel, under whom he served, are now known to her, that her said husband was drafted in the year A.D. 1779 or 1780 and served (she believes) about nine months, that she knows nothing
about his discharge. And she further saith that she was married to the said Azel Hovey in Nauticook in the state of New York on the fourth day of March AD 1795 by Isaac Martin a Presbyterian Minister, then residing in said 
town of Nauticook and that her name before her said marriage was Lucy Rockwell, that her husband died in Newark, Tioga County and State of New York on the fourteenth day of 
September AD 1838, that she has not since married but remain a widow.  And she further declared that she has heretofore made
application for and received a Pension of twenty eight dollars per year commencing the 4th day of March 1848 (to which application 
she now refers to for further evidence) (see record in the Pension Office
on the Roll of Pensions under act 1848 page 163 Vol 1 Book D") ehe furthur declared that she has not received nor applied for bounty 
Lands under any act of Congress. She makes this declaration to obtain the bounty land to which she may be entitled under the act of Congress approved the 3rd day of March 1855.
Lucy Hovey
her X mark
Seal

We Leander King and Eliza Swain of the County Boone and State of Illinois upon our oaths declare, that the forgoing declaration was
signed and acknowledged by Lucy Hovey in our presence and that we believe from the appearance and statements of the applicant that she is the identical person she represents herself to be, and that we have no interest in this claim.
Leander King Seal
Eliza Swain Seal
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The Foregoing declaration and affidavit were sworn to and subscribed before me on the day and year there(first) written and I certify that I know the affiant and believe then to be credible persons, that the Claimant is the person she represents herself to be, that I know that she has in her possession a Certificate for a pension 
payable at Albany in the State of New York and from my acquainace with her together with her statements under oath I believe her to be the identical person to whom it was issued and that I have no interest in this claim also that the applicant is unable to write by reason of age and nervous debility. 
Frederic P. Low, C.J. Seal

State of Illinois
County of Boone
I hereby certify that Fredric P Low Esq before whom the forgoing declaration and affidavit were made is and was at the time of taking 
the same an acting County Justice within and for the County and State aforesaid duly commissioned and qualified and that his signature above is genuine. In testimony where of I have here unto set my hand and affixed the seal of my office this tenth day of March A.D. 1856. 
Leonard M Beebe  Clerk of the County of said Co

My Post Office Address is "Belvedere Boone County Illinois" 
Lucy Hovey 
by Frederic P. Low
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If more Evidence is required to establish the foregoing Claim Please inform me of what more is necessary and Confer a favor upon the aged widow of a Revolutionary Soldier

To thee
Very respectfully 
F P Low

Com of Patents
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No 402
Lucy Hovey
wi of Azel

Act 29 July 1848
Married 1795
Husband died 1838
[anow?] $28.00
from 4 March 1848

No 402
The claim of Lucy Hovey

Answer to be made to Ephraim Schutt
Slaterville
Tompkins Co
N.Y.
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Family Record.
MARRIAGES.

[Right side of page]

[strikethrough] Azel Hovey [strikethrough]

Azel Hovel was Married to Lucy Rockwell March 4th 1795

David Councilman was Married to Eliza Hovey October 27 1819

George Hovey was Married to Rhonda Baron June 2nd 1821

Harlow King was Married to Julia R Hovey Jan' 18th 1826

[Left side of page]

Newel Watkins was Married to Clarinda Hovey October 9th 1829

Leander King was married to Lucian Hovey December 1829

Allen Watkins was Married to Hannah Hovey February 2 1831
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Family Record

(Left side of page)

Births

Azel Hovey Was Born Nov 5 1763

Lucy Hovey his wife was Born May 8 1778

Julia R Hovey Was Born February the 7th 1796

Eliza Hovey was born April the 11th  1798

George Hovey Was Born June 29th  1799

Azel Hovey Jun was Born October 29th 1800

Hannah Hovey Was Born August the 8th 1802

Clarinda Hovey Was Born November 8th 1804

Jedidiah Hovey was Born Sept the 30 1806

Calvin Hovey Was Born April 20th 1809

(Right side of page)

Births 

Lucy Ann Hovey Was Born Dec the 29th 1811

Sabiena Hovey Was Born June the 27th  1814

Francis H Hovey was Born Sept the 22 1816

Amanda Melvina Hovey Was Born Nov the 12th 1819

William Franklin Hovey Was Born March the 14th 1822
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State of New York
County of Tioga  Personally appeared before the Subscribed  a Justice of the Peace in and for said county duly authorized by law to administer oaths, Francis H. Hovey of Newark in said county and State - aged thirty two years and upwards, After being duly Sworn according to law, deposeth and saith that Widow Lucy Hovey late widow of Azel Hovey who is applying for a pension from Said County and State is This deponents Mother,  and that the amended family record is the old family record of this deponents aforesaid father and Mothers Children  and that the record was made by this deponents father, that it is the true record of the ages of this deponents brothers and sisters
Sworn and Subscribed before me
this 16th day of March 1849 
Francis H Hovey
Joseph W Leonard  Justice of the Peace
         
 I Certify that the above named Francis H Hovey is a very respectable person 
     Joseph W Leonard Justice of the Peace
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State of New York 
County of Tioga   Personally appeared before the Subscriber a Justice of the peace in and for Said county, duly authorized by law to administer oaths--- Betsey Collins of Berkshire in Said County and State aged 74 years  after being duly sworn according to law deposeth and saith that she has been personally acquainted with Lucy Hovey and her late husband Azel Hovey late a pensioner of the United States -- for more than thirty years -- and at this deponents first acqantence with the Said Lucy Hovey and her husband Azel Hovey they were living together as man and wife, and had many Children that this deponent has full confidence in the attached family record as containing the true ages of the above named Lucy Hovey and her late husbands Children.

Sworn and subscribed before me this    16th   day of March  1849

Betsey Collins

Joseph W Leonard Justice of the Peace    

      I certify that the above named Betsey Collins is a respetable person 

    J WLeonard Justice of the Peace

State of New York 
Tioga County 
Clerks office       I Moses Stevens Clerk of said County certify that J.W. Leonard. Esq before me in the foregoing & above declaration was made, was when the Same bars date a Justice of the Peace of Said County duly Commissioned & sworn and that his several Signatures  subscribed are genuine.

Witness my hand & Seal of Office this 30 day of March 1849
  Moses Stevens Clerk
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           Declaration 
In order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congresss of the 29th of July 1848 

State of New York
County of Tioga     On this 30th  day of March ___1849 - personally appeared before the Court in and for said County duly authorized by law  Lucy Hovey of Newark in Said county and State aged seventy (70) years and upwards who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the privision made by the Act of Congress of the 29th July 1848.

          That she is the widow of Azel Hovey who was a pensioner of the United States (Revolutionary pensioner) at the Rate of twenty eight (28) dollars per annum.  She further declares that she was married to the said Azel Hovey on the 4th day of March 1795 Seventeen hundred and ninity five  that her husband the aforesaid Azel Hovey died on the 14th day of September 1838 Fourteenth day of September eighteen hundred and thirty eight, and that she has remained a widow ever since that period, as will more fully appear by reference to the proof hereto amended---
Sworn to and subscribed on the day
and year above written before the Court 
Charles P Avery           Lucy Hovey  X her mark
County Clerk 
of Tioga County 
          I Certify that the above named --- Lucy Hovey is a respectable person and aught to have full credit in her delaration and that I consider her of the age she  represents herself to be -
                               Charles P Avery
                                County Judge 
                                 of Tioga County
State of New York
Tioga County 
Clerks Office
I Moses Stevens Clerk of Said County do certify that Charles P Avery Esq before whom the forgoing declaration was made. or and make was when the Same bears date. County Judge of Said County duly Commissioned  & Sworn and that his signature above subscribed is genuine 
Witness my hand and  Seal of Office this 30th day of March 1849

  Moses  Stevens Clerk
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Azel Hovey's Papers relating to a Pension 

19781
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The scan of this page is too light to adequately transcribe

Declaration
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June 7, 1832.
State of New York
County of Tioga
On this 19th day of November 1832 personally appeared in open court before the Judges of a Court of Oyer + Tirminer held at the court house in the town of Owego in said county of Tioga Azel Hovey a resident of Newark in the county of Tioga and State of {illegible} {illegible} {illegible} {illegible} nine years who being first duly sworn according to law
 {illegible} the oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June 7, 1832.
That he {illegible} a the service of the United States under the following named officers and served herein stated.
That he hired out as a substitute by his father (Azel can't remember for whom) for one month in the {illegible} of the revolution in the fall of the year of 1778  thinks in {illegible} was in a company commanded by Capt. Williams in Cl Mason's Regiment went from the town of {illegible} in the county of Windham, and in the state of Connecticut, to New London in the same state and then {illegible} at Fort Trumbull until his time was out.
That in the months of September of the year 1777 he enlisted for two months in the said town of Lebanon in a company commanded by Capt. Edgeston, marched from that place to Groton and was then stationed until his two months was out. That in the free part of the month of July of the year 1780, he again enlisted for three months in the said town of Lebanon in Col. Willis Regiment of Hartford, the company to which he belonged was called the Major's Company {illegible} then {illegible} to {illegible} on the Connecticut River marched from there to New London and to Winthrop {illegible} and there the tents were pitched and from that place he was marched up the river about seven miles to a place called {illegible}, and from that place a {illegible} and from that place to {illegible} and then back to New London where he staid until his time was out, and was dismissed.
That in the month of October 1780, he volunteered with Capt. Rolling in Col. McSalings Regiment he was then marched to Fort Griswold, was there two months and one half, in a {illegible}
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the [?]  keeping ground. That he has no documenting evidence and that he knows of no person [?] testimony of said person
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I Green M Tuthill, clerk of the Court Tioga County do hereby certify that the forgoing contain the original proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the application of Azel Hovey for a pension.

In testimony where of I have sworn to and set my handed seal of office this 19th day of Nov in the year  of my Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two.

Green M Tuthill
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We do severally certify, that we reside in  he same town and vicinity with Azel Hovey, who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration, that for the last thirty years we have had an acquaintance with him, during which we had no reason to doubt his integrity or veracity; that he sustains a respectable and fair character; and that, we believe, that the services as set forth in his declaration above were in service to his country. Given under our Hands at Newark, in the county of  Taiga and State of New York, this 19th day of November 1832.
Ezbon Slosson
Jonas Muzzy
Peter Wilson
Abraham Hutchins
Uriah Simons
Solomon Williams
John Harmon
Levi Branch
Joseph Waldo
Nathaniel Ford
Stephen Balls
Asa Leonard
Daniel Gleazen
Ransom Williams
Josiah Ball
David Williams
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{Typed} REVOLUTIONARY WAR RECORDS SECTION.  3-525
DEPARTMENT OF PENSIONS
Washington, D.C,, ________________. 19____

In reply to your request of _____________, received_________ for a statement for the military history of Azel Hovey a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR , you will find the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in the Bureau.
DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT | LENGTH OF SERVICE | RANK | OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED | STATE
 | | | CAPTAIN | COLONEL. |
Oct. 78 | 1 mo. | PVT | Williams | Mason | Conn.
Sept 79 | 2 " | | Edgerton | | 
July 80 | 3 " | | Willis |
Oct. 81 | 2 1/2 " | Robbins  | McLellan
Battles engaged in, [check mark]
Residence of soldier at enlistment Lebanon Conn
Date of application for pension  Nov, 18, 1832  His cl. was al.
Residence at date of application, Newark, Tioga Co NY
Age at date of application, born at Lebanon Wiridham Co Conn Nov. 5 1763 
Remarks: Sol. mar. at Nanticook NY Mar. 4 1795, Lucy Rockwell. She was born May 8, 1778. He died at Newark, N.Y. Sept. 14 1828. She was allowed pension on au ap. {illegible} Mar. 8, 1849 while resides Newark NY.
See supplement for family data.
Respectfully.
Commissioner
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Rev. War Section.

                                             January 6, 1917.

Mrs. W. A. Duringer,
Forth Worth, Texas.

Madam:

           In addition to the military history of Azel Hovey, Revolutionary War pensioner, W. 1770, you are furnished the following data as to his children.

                Children of Azel and Lvoy Hovey

Julia R.  born Feb. 17 1796, married Harlow King Jan. 18 1826.

Eliza born Apr. 11, 1798, married David Councilman Oct. 27, 1819.

George  born June 24, 1799, married Rhoda Bacon June 2, 1824.

Azel  born Oct. 24, 1800.

Hannah born Aug. 8 1802, {married Allen Watkins Feb. 3, 1831.

Clarinda  born Nov. 8, 1804, married Newel Watkins Oct 9, 1828

Jedediah   born Sept, 30. 1806.

Calvin     born Apr. 20, 1809.

Lucy Ann   born Dec. 24, 1811, {married Leander King Dec. 3, 1829.

Sabina   born June 27, 1814.

Francis H.   born Sept. 23, 1818.

Amanda Melvina      born Nov. 13, 1819.

William Franklin        born Mar. 4, 1822.

                 Very respectfully,


                                           Commissioner.
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Oct. 29/93 L. A. Hovey
Belvidere, Ill. MEL,
1915 Mar. 4, History to Miss Ethel B. Hovey
1917. Jan 6 {illegible} to Mrs. W.A.Duringer 
 
Revy Widow, %c.
File No. 1770
Lucy Hovey
 Widow
Azel Hovey Pri. Rev. War
Act. July 29, 1948
Index:__ Vol. A, Page 841
Arrangement of 1870
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39223
Nev Assy
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Revd Sec
{Postal Stamp Fort Worth Texas Dec 26 7-AM 1916}
Bureau of Pensions 
Washington D.C.
Durmger 29
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Revd. Sec.
{stamp} FORT WORTH, TEXAS DEC 26 7-AM 1916
Bureau of Pensions
Washington D.C. 
{written on the side} Durmger 29
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Slaterville April 12th 1849
Hon J.L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pension
Washington D.C.
Sir
I hand you the Claim of Lucy Hovey- if the Proof be Sufficient to establish the Claim May I expect a Pension Soon
Most Respectfully
Ephraim Schutt
Slaterville
Tompkins Co
N.Y,
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Newark Valley N.Y.
J. L. Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D.C.
Azel Hovey
{illegible} '32
{written on the side} {illegible} 1846
{illegible}
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Newark Valley N.Y. {stamped} Paid 10
Oct 29th
J. L. Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pensions Washington D. C.
Azel Hovey {illegible} "32
{ Written on the side} {illegible} 1846 {illegible}
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Newark Valley Tioga Co. N. Y.
Oct, 29th 1846
J.  S. Edwards Esq
DrSirs
Mr. Azel Hovey was a Private in the war of the Revolution and drew a pension of $28. 00 of 100 annually till he died. His "Pension Certificate" is signed by Lewis Cass and countersigned by yourself and is dated May 27th 1833.
Mr. Hovey died on the 14th September 1838 and his Widow is now living in this town. Mr. Hovey lived for many years in this town and his widow has lived here since his death  and can exhibit abundant proof of her marriage and she is still a widow.  Now is there any Law by which she can draw a pension- She has been told that she can draw the pension which her husband formerly drew or that there was some way by which Widows of the Revolutionary Soldiers drew a Pension and she is a worthy old Lady + poor and if she could get it it would do her good. Is there any way for her to do so. I have no interest in the matter but write at her be esteemed with particular favor by her + request. Your early answer directed to me will myself.
Very Respectfully Yours
W.S. Lincoln
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Revd. Sec,
To the Bureau of Pensions,
Dear Sir;-
Will you send me if possible a certified copy of my nearest relative Azel Hovey's War Record Se. Wid. File 1770.
My Cousin, Miss Ethel Hovey of Troy, Pa. has been a member of "The Daughters of the Revolution" for several years and through her record, probably mine can
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[Handwritten letter]

be traced.
My papers are all ready to send in when I get this record.
Thanking you for your trouble I am
Respectfully
Bernice Hovey Duringer
(Mrs. W.A. Duringer.)
envelope lone post mark [faint text]
Fort Worth, Tex, [faint text]
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[Handwritten letter]

[Illegible]
R [illegible]
" W
Belvidere Ills Oct 13  '95
US Pension Office
Washington-D.C.
Gentlemen
Will you please send me what information you have in regard to pension granted the widow of Azel Hovey who enlisted from N.Y. & died Tioga Co N.Y. Sep 14th 1838 also in regard to military service of Abner Rockwell. I am a direct decendent of both & wish the information in order to join the sons of the Revolution
Yours Respectfully
T A Hovey
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Troy, Pennsylvania.
February 24, 1915.
Pension Department,
Washington, D.C.
Gentlemen:-
I am interested in joining the local Chapter of the D.A.R. and would be interested to know of any information regarding Azel Hovey, a revolutionary soldier, that you may be able to tell me. He was born in New Lebanon, Conn. I believe. 
Thank you in advance for your courtesy, I am
Very truly yours,
(Miss) Ethel B. Hovey

U.S. Pension Office D Feb 25 1915 [stamp in black ink]
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M.B.H.
Rev. War Section.
March 4, 1915.
Miss Ethel B. Hovey,
Troy, Pennsylvania.
Madam:
In addition to the military history of Azel Hovey, Revolutionary War pensioner, W. File 1770 you are furnished the following data as to his children.
Children of Azel and Lucy Hovey.
Julia R. born February 17, 1796, married January 18, 1826 Harlow King.
Eliza  born April 11, 1798, married October 27, 1819 David Councilman.
George born June 24, 1799, married June 2, 1824 Rhoda Bacon.
Azel born October 24, 1800.
Hannah born August 8, 1802, married February 2 18831 Allen Watkins
Clarinda born November 8, 1804, married October 19, 1828 Newel Watkins.
Jedediah born September 30, 1806.
Calvin born April 20, 1809.
Lucy Ann born December 24, 1811, marrieDec. 3, 1829. Leander King
Sabina born June 27, 1814.
Francis H. born September 22, 1816.
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Amanda Melvine born November 12, 1819.
William Franklin born March 4, 1822.
Very respectfully,
Commisioner.

--Azel Hovey 2 --