Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 13439, Edmund Hobart, Mass.
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Service Mass.
Hobart, Edmund
Number S13439
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21830
Massachusetts
Edmund Hobart
of Hingham in the state of Mass who was a Sergt. [Illegible] in the Comp. commanded by Captain Stowers of the Regt. commanded by Col. Whitney in the Mass'tts line for 8 months Sergeant
13 days Corpl
11 " private

Inscribed on the Roll of Mass'ts 
at the rate of 78 Dollars 22 cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March 1831.
Certificate of Pension isued the 4th day of Nov. 1833 and [illegible] 
Plymouth
Arrears to the 4th Sep. '33 $195.55
Semi-anl allowance ending 4 M '34 $39.11
(total) $234.66

Revolutionary Claim Act June 7, 1832)
Recorded by Go C Stiles Clerk,
Book E ,Vol 2, Page 35
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Evidence
Town Clerk's certificate of his birth
Thomas Hobart's deposition
Joseph Wilders (ditto)
Jedediah (illegible)
Jared Lane's (ditto)
Thomas Marsh's (ditto)
SEpt 1833
Additional evidence 
Certif of Sec of the Commonwealth (illegible) 10m 28 day, as private (illegible)
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Revolutionary Pensioners
Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 
County of PLymouth SS
On this thirtieth day of August 1832, personally appeared in open Court before (not filled in) the Court of Porbate now sitting at Hingham within and for said county of Plymouth, Edmund Hobart, a resident of Hingham in said Sounty of Plymouth, and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, aged seventy seven 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 pf Congress passed on June 7, 1832. He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, and declares that this name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State. That is to say, that he entered the service of the UNited States under the following named officers, and served herein states.
THat in the winter of the year seventeen hundres seventy four + seventeen hundred severty five he enlisted in a minute company in said Hingham that on the alarm of Lexington battle he marched with said Company commanded by Jotham Loring, by order from Col Benjamin Lincoln for Lexington, that the said company went that day as far as Rxbury and reamined there four or five days (illegible) then ordered back to Hingham and guarded the sea coast there till the next spring. That he was then discharged but has (illegible) written our that in the Spring of the year seventeen hundred seventy six he enlisted at HIngham aforesaid a sergeant in a company commanded  by Seth Stowers in the Regiment commanded by colonel Josiah Whitney & was stationed at Nantasket at the entrance of Boston Harbour remained there till the proceeding winter, a term of eight or nione months. That the said compny was disbanded and the applicant returned home to Hingham. He had no written discharge. During this service the fort at Nantasket fired on a British Ship Brig which cause in expecting to find the British in possession of Boston. 
than in December in the year of our
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Lord one thousand seven hundred seventy five this applicant enlisted in a militia company commanded by Job Cushing of Cohasset, Thomas BUrns and Joseph Beal were lieutenants - the Regiment to which said company belonged was Commanded by Colonel Lovell of Weymouth. That he marched with said company to the attack of fort independence in the State of New York and joined the forces there under the command of General Benjamin Lincoln.
THe fort was not taken but several provision wagons of the enemy were captured that from this place this applicant with the troops crossed the river into New Jersey to Morristown where it remained till the Spring when the company was discharged. This service from teh time of enlistment to the time of this applicant's return to HIngham occupied three or four months.
That in the Spring of the year seventeen hundred seventy eight this applicant again enlisted in HginahM aforesaid for the term of eight months and did duty on castle William oin Boston Harbour and assisted in building the fort. 
That hingham has always been his place of residence. THat he is genreally known in his neighborhood where he resides. that her personaly knew the late Genl Benjamin Lincoln (illegible) personally acquainted with Col Nathan Rice late one of the General's aids. 
That is appears, by a certificate of the town clerk of Hingham that he was born of the fourteenth day of August seventeen hundred fifty five which is here to annexed
1st term of Service 1 Year
2 ditto ditto 8m
3 ditto ditto 4m
4 ditto ditto 8m 
(total) yr 2 8mo
Sworn to & subscribed to the day and year aforesaid att'
Jacob H Loud Reg.
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We, Nicholas B Whitney a clergyman, residing in the town of HIngham and Washington Cushing residing in the said Hingham hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Edmund Hobart who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be seventy seven years of age; that he is reputed and believed, in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the revolution, and we concur in that opinion. Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid 
Nicholas B Whitney 
Washington Cushing
Att'd Jacob H Loud Register
And the said Court hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the abovenamed applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states. And the Court further certifies that it appears to them that Nicholas B Whitney who has singed the preceding certificate is a clergyman, resident in teh town of HIngham and that Washington Cushing who has also signed the same, is a resident in teh same town and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit. 
By the Court, Att'd
Jacob H Loud, Reg. 

I, Jacob H Loud, Register of the Court of Probate do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Edmund Hobart for a pension. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office, this thirtieth day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two
Jacob H Loud
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11073
Edmund Hobart

Sergt  8 months
Corporal  13 days
Private 11 months

Total 19 months  13 days

5 ob May 15 1833

Mr. Bang's certificate re-
(?)  27 Augt 1833
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BRIEF in the case of Edmund Hobart of Hingham in the State of Mass
(Act 7th June, 1832.)

1. Was the declcaration made before a Court or a Judge?  open Court

2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?

3,  How old is he?  7 years

4.  State his service, as directed in the form annexed. 

NOTE: the table will show each column one at a time. 

Period
1775
In 1776
1776
1778

Duration of Service - Years, Months, Days. 
2 mos  13 days
3 or 4 mos
3 mos
8 mos

Rank
As a Corporal 
Sergt
" 
"

Names of General & Field Officers under whom he served. 

Gen. Stowers Col Whitney
Capt. Cushing Col Lovel
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Edmund Hobart, son of Peter Hobart JR and Lucretia his wife - born August 14 1755

A true copy from records
Signature of James L. Lewis  Town Clerk

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Plymouth ss:  August (27?) 1832

Then personally appeared the above named James L. Lewis, town Clerk of said Hingham, and made solemn oath that the above certificate by him subscribed is a true copy from the records of births in said Hingham, that he (?) believes it (?) a record of the truth of Joseph Wilder of said Hingham, who is an application for a pension for military revolutionary service under the law of the United States passed in June last. And thereby  Certify that the said Lewis is personally known to me & that his reputation for truth is unquestionable

Signature of Ebner Gay  Jus: Peace

Commonwealth of Massachusetts 
Plymouth ss. 
I Jacob H Loud Register of the Court of Probate being a Court of Record in the County of Plymouth do hereby certify that Ebenr Gay Esq before whom this & this annexed affidavits were sworn is a Justice of the Peace for said County & that I believe his name subscribed thereto to be true & genuine signatures
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand * the seal of said Court this twenty sixth day of September in the uear of our Lord one thousand eight hundred thirty two. 
Signature Jacob H Loud
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Left side : 
Feby 14 1907

Mrs. Ada L Johnston
Fall River Mass

Right side :  Rev War
13,439
INVALID

File No. 13 439
Edmund Hobart
Serg. Rev. War

Act:  June 7 1832
Index: - Vol. 1  Page 179

[Arrangement of 1879.]
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Certificate of Secy (Secretary) of the Commonwealth

Edmond Hobart's Pension

Mrs Bela Hobart Hingham MA

Boston Sept 24
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Certificate of Secy (Secretary) of the Commonwealth

Edmond Hobart's Pension

Mrs Bela Hobart Hingham MA

Boston Sept 24
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 

Secretary's Office, Sept. 23 1833

I hereby Certify, That, from an examination of the Books and Documents, relating to Military Services in the War of the Revolution which remain in this Department, it appears that the name of Edmund Hobart, as a Corporal, is borne on a list of Train, belonging to Hingham, under the command of Capt. Jotham Loring; April 19th 1775, where he is allowed thirteen days  m 0 d 13

Edmund Hobert's name as a private is found on a Muster Roll of Capt. Seth Stowers' Company, under the command of Col. Josiah Whitney, where he is allowed from Junej 1st to August 1st, 1776 two months  2 = 0 

Edmund Hobart's name is found on a Pay Roll of Capt. Seth Stowers Company, in Col. Josiah Whitney's Regt. where his is allowed, from the last day of July to the last day of November, 1774, four months.   4 = 0

Edmund Hobart's name is found on a Pay Roll of Capt. Seth Stowers' Company, where he is allowed from the last day of Novemr to the last of Decemr 1776  one month  1 = 0  7 = 13
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Amount brought over             m 7  ds =13
Edmond Hobart's name is borne on  pay roll of Capt. Job Cushing's Company, in Col. Solomon Lovell's Regt. where he is allowed from December 18th 1776. to April --- of 1777, for services and travels, three months and fifteen days 3=15/10=28.

Edmond Hobart claims for further service under Capt. Jotham Loring, in 1775, the roll of which are not found, after the 19th April, 1775, in this office.

Edward D. Bangs, Secy.
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Edmund Hobart
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 

Secretary's Office, Sept 26 1832

I hereby Certify, That, from an examination of the Books and Documents, relating to Military Services in the War of the Revolution which remain in the Department, it appears that Edmund Hobart was a private soldier in the company commanded by Steth Stowers in Col. Whiting's Regiment at Hull (formerly call Nantasket) from May 1776 to the first of January 1777 a term of seven months. 

Signature of Edward D. Bangs
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Edmund Hobarts
additional declaration
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Plymouth County Ss.

Personally appeared before me the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace within and for the County aforesaid - Edmund Hobart of Hingham in said county the same person who made application, under date the thirtieth day of August now last past, in order to obtain the benefits of the act of Congress passed June 17 1832. and who, being duly sworn, deposeth & saith that by reason of old age and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot positively swear as to the length of his Service, but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the period mentioned below 

 served for the term of one year as a private in the service first stated i my application for a pension. I served for the tems of eight months at least as a Sergeant in the service stated in the second specification in said application. I served for the term of three months at least in the service stated in the third specification in said
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application as a private soldier
and I served for the term of eight months at least in the service stated in the fourth specification of said application as a private soldier. For all which I claim a pension

It is impossible for me to recollect the name of a single officer in this last service, y memory is impaired by age and domestic afflictions all the men who served as privates in that service, who went from Hingham (there were several) are dead. 

I further swear that during the time of said services I was not employed in any civil pursuit
Hingham  25 May 1833  Edmund Hobart

Plymouth ss:  25 May 1833
Then personally appeared Edmund Hobart above named, the same person who made his declaration at a Probate Court held at Hingham aforesaid on the thirtieth day of August last past, in order to obtain the
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benefit of the act of the act of Congress passed June 7 1832 I made solemn oath to the truth of the preceding declaration by him subscribed and I certify that the said Edmund is a man of veracity & that his testimony is intitled to full credit

Eben Gay  Jus: Peace
for said County

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Plymouth ss. 
I Jacob H Loud Register of Probate for the County of Plymouth, do hereby certify that Ebenezer Gay Esq is a Justice of the Peace in & for said County & that the foregoing signature purporting to be his is genuine. 

In testimony where of I have hereunto set my hand & seal of office this twenty eighth day of June A.D. 1833. 
Jacob H Loud
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11075
Edmund Hobart

It having been recently ascertained that he is on Rolls of Service of the Militia & (?) Troops of Mass in the office of the (?) of the State of Mass, application must be made to that office for evidence of the claimant's service. 

Aug 27. 1833

J.H. Loud Esq
Plymouth
Mass
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BRIEF objections to the admission of Pension Claims, of which those answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of Edmund Hobart  Hingham  Mass which require further proof or explanation.  

I.  Does the declaration show where the applicant resides?   yes

II.  Did the declarant make the declaration in the county where he resides?  yes

III.  If the applicant did not make the declaration in the county where he resides, is there any reason assigned for his not doing so?

IV.  Has the declarant mentioned the period or periods of the war when he served?  yes

V.  *Has he mentioned with precision the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the department to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled?  No (crossed out) (?)

VI.  Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with the regulations?  no

VII. Has he made a relinquishment of every claim to any other pension than the one under the Act of June 7, 1832?  yes

VIII.  Has the Court given their opinion  yes

IX.  Has the Clerk given his certificate?  yes

X.  Is the Clerk's seal affixed? And if so, has it a device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal?  yes
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XI.  Has the applicant obtained the evidence of a clergyman and another respectable citizen as to their belief respecting his age and the general belief in his neighborhood relative to his revolutionary service? 

XII.  +If the applicant's name is not found on the rolls of military service, has he produced a witness or witnesses as to his service?  yes
  If he has produced direct proof as to service, has the magistrate who administered the oath certified to the credibility of the witness or witnesses?   yes
  Has the proper officer certified to the official character and signature of the magistrate at the regulations direct?  yes

XV.  Does it appear from any of the papers that the witness was in such a situation, or of such an age, as to have a personal knowledge of the applicant's service?  yes

XVI.  ++Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct?  yes

XVII.  Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily? And if not, which of them is no so answered?

EXPLANATORY NOTES. 
* QUERE V.  In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words: 
**Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, & A. B. who, being duly sworn deposeth and saith, that, by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service, but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades: 
For ____ year_____ months, and ______days, I served as a ______For _______months and _____days, I served as a _______; and fur such service I claim a pension.
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It is important in all cases to determine with precision the period for which each applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service. The use of the phrase "about three or four months? is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable. Some persons who apply for pension merely state they served two years in the militia. &c. without specifying the tours; the names of the officers, and other particulars respecting their service. This form of a declaration is highly objectionable. It must in every case be clearly shown  under what officers the applicant served; the duration of each term of engagement; the particular place or places where the service was performed; that the applicant served with an embodied corps called into service by competent authority; that he was either in the field or in garrison; and for the time during which this service was performed, he was not employed in any civil pursuit. 

+QUERE XIV.  Proof of Service. 
  In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses, who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimants entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the regiment, company, and line to which he belonged. The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the witnesses, and the official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office. 

++QUERE SVI.  Mode of authenticating papers. 
  In every instance where the certificate of certifying officer who authenticates the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other paper authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the ends of which must pass unthe seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate. 
   {Drawing of Hand pointing to the right} In every case where the clerk of the court, or other certifying officer, has no public seal of office, the certificate of a number of congress, proving the official character and signature of the certifying officer, should accompany the papers.
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I Jared Lane of Hingham in the county of Plymouth and Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the eighty first year of my age testify and say that in the month of December in the year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred seventy six Edmund Hobart of said Hingham & myself enlisted in a militia Company at said Hingham commanded by Job Cushing of Cohasset in the Regiment commanded by Col. Lovell of Weymouth - we marched to the attack of Fort Independence in the state of New York and then joined the forces there under the command of Genl. Benjamin Lincoln. We did not take the fort. From this place we crossed the river into New Jersey to Morristown where we remained till the succeeding spring - When we were discharged - The time of service was three months. 

Signature of Jared Lane

Plymouth ss:  20 August 1832
When the above named Jared Lane personally appeared before me the subscriber & made solemn oath to the truth of the above deposition by him subscribed.  An I hereby certify that I
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am personally acquainted with the said Jared Lane, that he is a credible person of that his testimony is entitled to full credit

Eben Gay Justice Peace
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I Thomas Marsh of Hingham aforesaid in the eighty fourth year of my age testify * say that I was in the expedition mentioned in the preceding deposition of Jared Lane that Edmund Hobart therein mentioned was in the expedition & served the term of three months

Signature of Thomas Marsh

Plymouth ss.  20 August 1832
Then the said Thomas Marsh personally appeared & made solemn oath to the truth
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I Joseph Wilder of Hingham in the County of Plymouth & Commonwealth of Massachusetts testify and say that I am now in the seventy eighth year of my age, that I am personally acquainted with Edmund Hobart of said Hingham, that he served in the company commanded by Set Stowers, in the Regiment commanded by Josiah Whitney at Nantasket in Boston harbour for the term of eight or nine months from the spring of 1776 - that we were discharged in cold weather, the precise time I do not recollect - that we had no (?) discharges - that 200 not recollect whether he was a sergeant or not. 

Signature of Joseph Wilder  Jus Peace

Plymouth ss.  20 August 1832
Then personally appeared the above named Joseph Wilder & made solemn oath to the truth of the above declaration by him subscribed before me . And I hereby certify that said Joseph Wilder is personally known to me, that he is a credible person & that his testimony is entitled to full credit. 

Signature of Eben Gay  Jus
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I Jedidiah Joy of Hingham aforesaid seventy eight years of age testify and say that Edmund Hobart of said Hingham was a sergeant in Captain Stower's company in Nantasket in the year seventeen hundred & seventy six and did military duty there eight or nine months, till the company was discharged

Signature of Jedidiah (his X mark) Joy
 Witness (?)
27 Aug 1832

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Plymouth ss.  287 August 1832
Then personally appeared before me the subscriber the above named Jedidiah Joy and made solemn oath that the above deposition by him subscribed is true and thereby certify that I personally know the said Jedidiah Joy & that his reputation for truth is unimpeached & that full credit is due to his testimony

Signature of Eben Gay  Jus: Peace
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Ashburnham MS
Aug 25

Mr. Edmund Hobart
Hingham
Mass


The official Character & signature of the (?) named Magistrate must be (?)
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts

By His Excellency Levi Lincoln, Esquire, 
Governor and Commander in Chief in and over said Commonwealth. 

To all whom it may concern:

Know Ye, That Joseph Jewett, Esquire 
is a Justice of the Peace, for 
the County of Worcester in the said Commonwealth, duly constituted and commissioned, and that to his Acts and Attestations, as such, full faith and credit are and ought to be given in and out of Court. 

Signature of Levi Lincoln
ln Testimony Whereof, I have caused the Public Seal of the Commonwealth to be hereunto affixed, this twenty fifth day of June, A.D. 1832, and in the Fifty seventh Year of the Independence of the United States of America. 

By His Excellency the Governor 
Edward  D Bangs
Secretary of the Commonwealth.
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O Thomas Hobart of Ashburnham in the County of Worcester & Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the seventy second year of my age, testify and say that Edmund Hobart of Hingham in the County of Plymouth & Commonwealth aforesaid was a Soldier in the Revolutionary War - that in the year seventeen hundred & seventy five he belonged to an independence company in said Hingham under the Command of Jotham Loring & did duty there in guarding the Show - he was engaged and in that duty I cannot distinctly recollect - That in seventeen hundred and twenty six he was a Sergeant in a Company commanded by Seth Stowers & did duty with said company in Nantasket about eight or nine months

Signature Thomas Hobart

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Worcester ss.  August 24 1832
Then the above named Thomas Hobart personally appeared & made oath that the above affidavit by him subscribed is true. 
before me  Joseph Jewett  Jus. of the Peace

I certify that I am well acquainted with the above named Thomas Hobart & that hi is a credibly witness

Joseph Jewett, Jus of the Peace
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Pension Office

I wish to know if Pensions were granted to the Revolutionary Soldiers named below, if so I would like the papers necessary to forward to Society of D.A.R. Edmund Hobart, Hingham Mass. served as Corporal and Private [illegible] [illegible] Lexington-Alarm [illegible] Capt Jortham Loring (Hingham) also in Capt James Lincoln (Independent) Co. May 22-1776 Enlisted Feb-12, 1776 also in Capt. Seth Stowes Co. Col Josiah Whitney Regt
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Ebenezer Cushing, Private - Hingham Mass  Capt P Cushing's Co. Solomon Lorello Regt. Mar 4 - 1776 also in Capt Herman Lincolns Co.  COl Lovells Regt Dec 14 1776

Yours very respfy
(Mrs) Ada L. Johnston
410 Prospect St
Fall River
Mass