Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 5208, Dennis Hopkins, N.C.
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Service
N.C.

Hopkins, Dennis

Number
R.5208
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State of Kentucky
Clinton County 

On this 15th day of October 1852, before me, James Sutherland, an acting Justice of the Peace with in and for the county and State aforesaid, personally appeared Dennis Hopkins, aged sixty years, a resident of the aforesaid County and State, who being sworn according to law, on his oath makes this following declaration for the purpose of obtaining the benefit of any act or acts of Congress under which this heirs of Dennis Hopkins deceased, may be found entitled to the Pension due on account of the Revolutionary service of the said Dennis Hopkins, deceased, to wit:

That he is a son of Dennis Hopkins, deceased late of the aforesaid county and State, who was a private in the North Carolina Militia in the war of the Revolution, and served for the period of six months in the company commanded by Captain William York. 

That he has often seen the discharge for that length of time, which his father received, but which were lost or destroyed many years since. That he knows of no living witness by whom he can prove his fathers service, for evidence of which he refers to the papers on file with his former application and to the army records and muster rolls.
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State of Kentucky 
Clinton County }      County Court January Term 1848

On this the 2nd day of January A.D. 1843 personally appeared in open court, Dennis Hopkins a resident citizen of the county aforesaid aged eighty two years the thirteenth day of July last, having a record of the same being born in the 13th day of July 1760, being born in Orange County North Carolina, and Raised in Randolph County said state, where he lived in time of the Revolutionary War, and after being duly sworn for that purpose on his oath makes the following Declaration, in order to obtain the Benefit of the act of Congress passed 7th June 1832.
     That he entered the service of the United States a drafted light horse soldier in Randolph County North Carolina in the fall of 1780, believed to be in October cannot give the day of the month with precise certainty, entered for three month under captain William York, and Maj Thomas Dogin and served three months Ralph Low Lieutenant, has now forgotten the names of the ensign and served with John Aldred, Christian MOrris, John Julin, Jacob Staley, Archible Hopper, and Ezekiah Craft, and others, he was drafted at the house of Billy Coal and marched down deep River Ringing and Ranged through the county of Randolph and Chatham, and stationed some considerable time at the Barracks in Chatham county for the plantation of COl. Littrell, and a portion of the time staid at Bells Mills in Randolph, where was our head quarters, and marched Chatham
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and continued travessing the counties of Guilford Orange Guilford and Chatham Had a skirmish with the tories in Randolph was fired on by the, and served out the full Term of three months and had a written discharge from Captain William York having served out the time, believed to End sometime in January 1781, as near as he an Recollect was discharged at the Barracks in Chatham County NC.

Declarant again volunteered about the first of April as near as he now Recollects, and in the Ensuing spring for three months under said officers the time were so difficult that he felt more safe in service, than otherwise   Served as before a horseman being in 1781, marched down Sandy Creek continued down the River and stationed again at Bells mill, and again at the Barracks on Col Littrell plantation and continued to range through the counties of Chatham, Randolph and guilford, and caught many of the tories Whipt killed, and hung many of the tories, and helped to disperse and drive the tories out of the County and having served out the full term of three months marched to Randolph Courthouse and there again had a written discharge from said Captain William York, discharged as he believes in July sometime  cannot state the precise time with further certainly than herein stated, Declarant married in about four years after in Randolph County said state and lived there next after his marriage thirteen years, and
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moved to Clark County State of Georgia lived there ten years, thence to Wayne County Kentucky where has lived about thirty two years, is now stricken off into Clinton County Ky.

Declarant has no written or documentary evidence of his service and know of no person by whom he can prove his service, that has a positive knowledge of the same, but he has no doubt, but he can prove by many of his old acquaintance that he is and has been so reputed by them that has been acquainted with him, for about thirty years last past he well name Reubin Owens  Esq and Benjamin Hancock Esqr of the same church with him, he will mention. Others George Dabney, a Revolutionary man of this county, he will mention Vachel Lessly and Robert A Dabney of his acquaintance, and he believes many other would depose that they have a full belief of his service from the tradition of the county founded on a long acquaintance. He hereby relinquishes every claim to a pension except the present, Declarant has delayed making an application for a pension principally because he knew of no person by whom he could prove his service and not kneeding [needing] the benefit of said law some few years past as much as he does now.

He states his name is not on the Pension Roll of the agency of any state. Declarant lost both discharges in Kentucky some years past.  [signed] Dennis Hopkins
Sworn to and subscribed in open court Jany Term 1843 Rice Maxey Clk
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We & John Wade Residing in the County of Clinton and State of Kentucky and Wesley Owens, Jacob Holsapple Residing in the same certify that we are well acquainted with Dennis Hopkins who has subscribed and sworn to the foregoing Declaration, that we believe him to be Eighty two years old, that he is reputed in his neighborhood where he resides as a soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion
Westley Owens
John Wade
Jacob Holsapple

Kentucky Clinton County Court Sct
January Term 1843
Dennis Hopkins produced in Court his declaration for a pension to which he made oath and also the affidavit of John Wade Jacob Holsapple and Wesley Owens which was sworn to and subscribed in open court and having examined the said Hopkins on oath in open Court, The Court does declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after puting the interrogatories prescribed by the War department that the said Dennis Hopkins as a revolutionary soldier and served as stated and the Court further certifies that John Wade Jacob Holsapple and Wesley Owens are residents the County of Clinton, are credible persons and are entitled to credit, and the Court further Certifies that they are personally acquainted with said Dennis Hopkins, and that he is repu-
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ted in his his neighborhood and amongst his acquaintances to be a man of veracity and of good character in all respects all which is ordered to be certified Kentucky Clinton County Sct I Rice Maxey Clerk of the County Court for the County aforesaid certify that the foregoing contains the original declaration of Dennis Hopkins, the affidavit of John Wade Jacob Holsapple and Wesley Owens, and a copy verbation from the record of the County Court, made on the occasion of the presentation of the declaration
In Witness whereof I have
hereunto set my hand and affixed
my private seal there being
no seal of office provided at
my Office this 3rd day of January
1843
Rice Maxey Clk
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Dennis Hopkins
Ky

F F C Triplett
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State of Kentucky
County of Clinton ⎬ SS.
Clinton County Court,
Nov Term 1832,

If satisfactorily appearing to the Court, it is ordered to be certified and recorded that Dennis Hopkins, late of Clinton County, Kentucky who was reputed to be a Revolutionary soldier, died in said County and stay on the twenty sixth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and fifty, leaving the following his only surviving children, to wit, Dennis Hopkins, Thomas Hopkins, Joshua Hopkins, Mrs Nancy Newkirk, Mrs Martha Leadford, Mrs Sally Leslie, and Mr. Epry Long and that Dennis Hopkins is administrator of the estate of the aforesaid Dennis Hopkins decd
J.S. B. Maxey

Clerk of the County Court in and for the County and State aforesaid, do hereby certify that the foregoing order is truly copied from the Records in my office. In witness whereof I hereto set my hand & seal
of Office, at Office in
Albany this 3rd day of
May 1853.
SB. Maxey Clk
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VETERANS ADMINISTRATION
WASHINGTON
February 5, 1934
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BA-J/EEL  am
Dennis Hopkins R.5308

Honorable Joseph W. Byrns
House of Representatives
Washington, D.C.    

My dear Mr Byrns:

Reference is made to your letters of January 30, 1934, one addressed to this office, the other to the War Department, in which you request the Revolutionary War record of Dennis Hopkins.

The data furnished herein are obtained from the papers on file in Revolutionary War pension claim, R.5208, based upon the military service of Dennis Hopkins in that war.

Dennis Hopkins was born July 13, 1760, in Orange County, North Carolina, and was reared in Randolph County, that state. There are no data in regard to soldier's parents.

After the Revolution, he resided in Randolph County, North Carolina , for about fifteen years: then moved to Clark County, Georgia, where he lived nine or ten years; then moved to Wayne County, Kentucky. 

While residing in Clinton (that part which was formerly Wayne) County, Kentucky, Dennis Hopkins applied for the pension that might be due him on account of his service in the Revolution, and stated that while residing in Randolph County, North Carolina, he enlisted in the fall of 1780 or the spring of 1782, served three months as a ranger in Captain William York's Company of Horse under Major Dogin in the North Carolina Troops and was in a skirmish with the Tories: that he again enlisted about April, 1781 or in 1782, and served three months under the same officers.  [handwritten in right margin:  probably meant for Jeremiah Dugan Major or Rangers]

His claim was not allowed as he failed to furnish proof of service of six months as required by the pension law.

The soldier died June 26, 1850, in Clinton County, Kentucky.
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Dennis Hopkins married in Randolph County, North Carolina, about four years after the Revolution, the exact date of the marriage, the name of his wife and the dates of her birth and death are not shown.

The following children survived their father; their ages and places of residence are not stated.

Dennis Hopkins, Junior
Thomas Hopkins
Joshua Hopkins
Haney Newkirk
Martha Leadford
Sally Leslie
Espy Long.

In 1845, one Laban Hopkins resided in Clinton County, Kentucky: no relationship to the soldier was shown and there are no further family data.

Your letter to the War Department is enclosed herewith.

Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER
Assistant to Administrator.

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Feb 5, 1934 - history sent to Hon Joseph A. Byrns: also to Mrs Rosa M. Clark &reb

[crossed out] Act of July 4, 1862, and Waren 137

5208
P.O. 
Delmar Hopkins
Service: ___
Enlisted: ___ , 18 [stamped across the lines of these] -  REJECTED
Discharged:___, 18

Application filed:  ____, 18
[handwritten] Printed list of 1852
shows cause of suspen- 
Alleges: sion: For lack of
proof of service."
Re-enlisted: ____
Attorney:____
P. O. _____
_____Recognized.  _____Contract.
Cert. of Dis.   Searched for_____, 18
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Let
Hon A.G. Talbot
[crossed out- ] Mar 10 /57
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1921 Sept 4. Photos mailed to Mrs Jno Trotwood Moore and Ac. Div. Notified    MCS
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[margin vertically] 
Anderson
Dennis Hopkins
KY- Sus 1832

A. G. Talbott
M.C.

Hon. Geo. C. Whitney
Comr of Pens [Pensions]
Washington D.C.
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Lick Creek P.O.
Clinton Co Kentucky
January 19. 1843

Enclosed is the Pension Declaration of Dennis Hopkins of this County Claiming a Pension, per act of Congress June the 7th 1832
In his behalf I have the honor to be your humble servant

Robert A Dabney [signature] 


L. Edwards Esq
Washington City D C
War Dept
Pension
office
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Declaration
In order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832
State of Kentucky }
Clinton County } S.S.
On this 7th day of February 1845 personally appeared before the undersigned a Justice of the peace in and for the County aforesaid Dennis Hopkins aged Eighty four who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his Oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832 - That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated. In the spring of 1782 in Randolph County in the State of North Carolina, he was drafted into the service under Capt William York and Major Dogan, and served three months in what was called the County troops of light horse, drafted & retained in the settlement and adjoining county for the purpose of defending the County, family and property, from the Tories and was duly & regularly discharged by his Capt the afsd [aforesaid] William York - he again in the year 1782, Volunteered into the service for the term of three months, under the same officer in the County and State afsd [aforesaid] and for the purposes for which he was drafted as aforesaid; and having served out his term of three months was again regularly & honourably discharged by his Captain the aforesaid Wm York, he states that he has lost or mislaid both his discharges so that he cannot lay his hand upon -- them he further states that he was born the 13th of July 1760 as appear by reference to the record of his age kept by his parents he further states that he resided in the County of Randolph in the State of North Carolina at the time he entered the service as afsd [aforesaid] and remained there during the term of fifteen years after the close of the Revolutionary war - he then removed to the state of Georgia and resided there some nine or ten years and then removed to the State of Kentucky, Wayne County
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now Clinton County where he has resided ever since.  he would further state that in consequence of the small amount he would have been entitled to of the uncertainty of obtaining the required proof, he did not for several years attempt to make application for the benefit of said act herein refered to that some two or three years ago a Mr Dobney undertook to prepare his papers for him but was unable to obtain proof of the service as required by law_ he would however beg Searce to name some of the officers and soldiers of the company in which he served, by whom proof of his service can be proven if any of them are yet living towit- Archibald Hopper or Freeman, John Aldred, Jesse Stroud John Julian Ezekiel Croft Jacob Staley & John McGee - He hereby refers to George Jones John Wade Henry Guffey, Thomas Stockton Benjamin Hancock, Ezekiel Perdue Jacob Hix Wm Hall Samuel Owens, & William Davis, who reside in his neighbourhood & to whom he is personally known, who can testify as to his character for veracity, and their belief of his service as a soldier of the Revolution. He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the Agency of any State or Teritory
Sworn to and subscribed the day
and year aforesaid
Ephraim Guffey J.P.C.C.  Dennis Hopkin

We Absalem Davis clergyman residing in the County of Clinton & State of Kentucky and Labon Hopkins residing in the same hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Dennis Hopkins who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration: that we believe him to be eighty four years of age; that he is reputed and believe in
the neighbourhood where he resides to have been a
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soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion
Sworn and subscribed the day    A. Davis
and year aforesaid
E Guffey J P.C.C.

I further certify that I have for the last twelve years resided in the immediate neighborhood of the within at Dennis Hopkins, and know him to be a man of the first respectability and of unquestionable veracity, and by reason of bodily infirmity he is unable to appear in court.
Given under my hand this 7th day
of February 1845
E. Guffey J. P. C. C.

And the said Justice does hereby declare his 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 said Justice further certifies that it appears to him that Absalem Davis who has signed the preceeding certificate is a clergyman, resident in the County of Clinton, and that Labon Hopkins who has also signed the same is a resident in the County of Clinton afsd and is a credible person and that their statement is entitled to credit

Given under my hand this 7th
day of February 1845
E Guffey J.P.C.C
State of Kentucky}
Clinton County Court} Sct
March Term 1845
A - The declaration of Mr Dennis Hopkins for
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a pension certified on the 7th day of February 1845 by Ephraim Guffey a Justice of the peace for said County, and member of said Court being submited to the court, it doth approve his proceedings and acts in said case; and hereby direct the Clerk to endorse this approval on the papers-

State of Kentucky}
County Court} Sct

I Ric Maxey Clerk of the County Court afsd do certify that the foregoing is a correct transcript of the entry made upon the order book of said Court in the case herein mentioned. And I further certify that Ephraim Guffey Esqr before whom the foregoing declaration appears to have been made and subscribed is a Justice of said Court, and that his various Signatures above are genuine and his attestation in due form of Law
In testimony whereof I have
hereunto subscribed my name
and and affixed my private
seal there being no seal of office
provided at the Clerks Office this
3rd day of March 1845
Rice Maxey Clk


Kentucky Wayne Co Sct
I George A. Caldwell late member of Congress from the fourth Congressional district in Kentucky (there being no member at present) certify that Rice Maxey whose name appears to the foregoing certificate is clerk of the County Court for Clinton County, in said district And that his Signature to said certificate is in his genuine hand writing Given under my hand and seal this 24th of March in the year 1845
George A Caldwell
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May 2, 1845,
Dennis Hopkins 

June 7, 1832


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Colo J. L. Edwards
Commr of Pensions
Washington
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Richmond 29 April 1845.

Col. J. L. Edwards
Commr of Pensions

Sir

Enclosed is the application of Dennis Hopkins of Clinton Co Ky for a pension under Act 7 June 1832. It is regular, in all respects he gives good reasons for not sooner applying-- He claims for 6 mo. services, in N.C. in 1782.  Unless the records of N.C. of your office shall sustain the claim, nothing can bedone for him. I will write to N.Ca. & if any evidence from there can be got, it will be sent you by yr ost Servt.
Thomas Green
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Kentucky Clinton County Court
November Term 1853
Ordered that Dennis Hopkins on his motion be and he is hereby appointed Administrator of the goods & chattels rights & credits, of Dennis Hopkins deceased and thereupon the said Dennis Hopkins together with Elisha Wade and William Davis entered into and acknowledged bond to the Commonwealth of Kentucky in the sum of $200, Conditioned and according to Law, and thereupon the said Dennis Hopkins had the oath administered as required by law

Kentucky Clinton County Sct
I S. B Maxey Clerk of the Clinton County Court, certify that the foregoing Order is a true Copy of the Record in my Office
att S.B. Maxey Clk

I J. S. Maxey Clerk of the Clinton County Court, certify that the following is a true Copy of the bond of Dennis Hopkins Administrator of the estate of Dennis Hopkins deceased, (towit) Know all men by these presents that We Dennis Hopkins Elisha Wade and William Davis are held and firmly bound unto the Commonwealth of Kentucky in the final sum of $200 the  payment whereof well and trully to be made, we bind ourselves our heirs & jointly and severally firmly by these presents,
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Sealed with our seals and dated this 1st of November 1853.

The Condition of the above obligation is such that if the said Dennis Hopkins, as administrator of the goods and chattels rights and Credits of Dennis Hopkins decd do make a true and perfect inventory of all and Singular the goods and chattles rights and Credits of the said decd which have or shall come to the hands, possession or knowledge of him to the said Dennis Hopkins on in the hands or possession of any other person or persons for him and the same so made do exhibit into the Clinton County Court when he shall be thereto required by the said Court so to do, and such goods, chattels and Credits do will and truly administer according to law, and faithfully do make a just and true account of his actings and doings therein when thereto required by the said Court, and the rest of the said Goods Chattels and credits which be found remaining upon the account of the said Administrators the same being first examined by the Justices of said Court as presiding Judge thereof for the time being, shall deliver and pay unto such persons respectively as are entitled to the same by law and if it shall hereafter appear that any last will and testament was made by the deceased and the same be proven in Court and the
day
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executor obtain a certificate of the probate thereof and the said Dennis Hopkins do in such case being required so to do, render and deliver up his letters of Administration, then this obligation to be said else to remain in full Witness force and virtue
Witness     Dennis Hopkins ℗
S. B Maxey Clk    Elisha Wade ℗
Wm Davis ℗

Kentucky
Clinton County Sct
I J. S. Maxey Clerk of the Clinton County Court certify that the foregoing Order and bond is a true Copy of the Record and papers in my office
Given under my hand and
Seal of Office at the Clerk
Office in Albany this 8th
of March 1853
att S. Maxey Clk
By R. S. Branne D.C.
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D. Hopkins
Ky Sus '32
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Dean Triplett    Louisville March 17/54

Will you please obtain from the Pension Office and Official report of the reason they have for the rejection of the Care of Dennis Hopkins -  the claimant is anxious to know and thinks if the objectives are stated that they be overcome as they alledge they have proof to sustain the claim.

I have nothing new to write I have been down ta work since I returned home & every moment is Closely accufied in getting info with [illegible] defered during my absence last fall.
Write me after
Truly
GH Monsarrat
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State of North Carolina
Comptroller's Office
I, William J. Clarke, Comptroller of public accounts in and for the State aforesaid, do hereby certify that it appears of record in my office, among the payments made by said State to sundry persons for Military services in the Revolutionary War, as follows, to wit 
Dennis Hopkins
Book No. 6 page 9 specie (Nine pounds specie)
" 23 " 14 48 (Forty eight pounds specie)
In testimony whereof I have hereunto
subscribed my name and affixed my
seal of Office this 27th day of January
A.D. 1853.
Wm. J. Clarke Compt.
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Pension Office
21st May 1853

Sir
The additional evidence in the case of Dennis Hopkins of Kentucky do has been received and filed with the original papers under the act of 7th June 1832.

The evidence fails in many points to render this claim admissible. The six months service asserted, has not been proved; and the Certificate of the Comptroller of North Carolina shows a Service nearly three times as great as that claimed. Clearly the Hopkins of the application, and he of the certificate are different persons, no marriage has been proved. No evidence exist as to whether the widow is dead; and if dead, when she died.
Very Respectfully
LP Waldo
Commissioner

F.F.C. Triplett, Esq
Present
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Pension Office.
Mover 10, 1857

Sir,
I herewith return the letter of  Dennis Hopkins, Jr in [illegible] to the by a stake to the day afsd by his father Dennis Hopkins, Sr [illegible] and the Act of 7 1832, and [illegible] the [illegible] to Act, [illegible] [illegible] suspended for the lack of evidence of service. He alleged the two tours of three months each, ordered [illegible] the year 1780 to 1782, and to [illegible] to proof of [illegible] as a Revolutionary soldier, there was filed in 1853,  a [illegible] from the Cap with a North Carolina showing that a Dennis Hopkins served two orders, one for £9 specie and the other for £48 specie for Revolutionary service the said payments would cover a service of more than eighteen months [illegible] [illegible] [illegbile]
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it is believed has he needs to the father of your correspondent, if the statements of the [illegible] [illegibile] to the duration of his service [illegibile] time. Perhaps some further facts leaving open the [illegible] could be charted. if the Comptroller would [illegible] the [illegible] District in which the Dennis Hopkins resided who received theabove payments. 
Hon A. G. Talbott
March 10, 1854
Danville

Hon A.G. Talbott
Danville
Ky
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Mr.F.F.C. Triplett
May 21 /53
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307
Pension Office
21st May 1853

Sir
The additional evidence in the case of Dennis Hopkins of Kentucky decd has been received and filed with the original papers under the act of 7th June 1832.
The evidence fails in many points to render this claim admissible. The six months service asserted, has not been proved, and the Certificate of the Comptroller of North Carolina shows a service nearly three times as great as that claimed. Clearly the Hopkins of the application, and he of the certificate are different persons. No Marriage has been proved. No evidence exists as to whether the widow
is dead, and is dead, when she died.
F.F.C. Triplett Esqr
Washington, D.C.
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Lick Creek Ky
Clinton Co
Augt 18

Fee

James L Edwards
Washington City
War Dept
Pension
office
5208

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Dennis Hopkins
Ky Care
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Lick Creek PO
Clinton Co Kentucky
August 18th
1843


Sir,
I enclosed, to you some time last winter a Pension Declaration in behalf of Dennis Hopkins, of this County, Claiming a Pension under the act of Congress passed June 7, 1832, not having yet. Received any answer in said case, I deem it proper thus to inform you, he is desirous to hea;, he is a highly respectable old man, I hope his business will have the earliest attention practicable
In his behalf I am
your most humble
Servant
R A Dabney

James L Edwards
Com of Pensions ⎬
Washington City DC
War Dept Pension office⎬
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Pension Office
Aug 28. 1843

Sir
The claim of Dennis Hopkins referred to in your letter of the 18th wit, is a
very doubful one. The papers will be taken up for examination in due Season.


Mr R. A. Dabney
Lick Creek
Ken
Ken, Act 32
No.
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R A Dabney
Aug 28 1843
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T. Green
22 July 1845
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Pension Office 307
July 22. 1845

Sir,
I have examined and filed the paper which you sent here in the case of Dennis Hopkins. This claim is wholly unsupported by such proof as we require. We have no record or other evidence from North Carolina to sustain the claim. It is not in my power to admit the claim without some proof other than his own declaration


Thomas Green, Esq
Richmond, Virga


No.35553
act of '32 

Ken Index
Enter the letter
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Nov 18/52
Add Appl. in case
of Dennis Hopkins
Ky

Act 7. June 1832
F.F.C. Triplett
Present

J.E. Heath Esq
Com of Pensions
Pensions
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Washington Nov 17. 1832

Sir,
I transmit an additional declaration in the case of Dennis Hopkins, Act 7 June 1832 Kentucky, suspended. Additional evidence will be hereafter filed
Very Resfy
F.F.C. Triplett
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Know all men by these presents that I, Dennis Hopkins of the County of Clinton and State of Kentucky have nominated, constituted and appointed, and by these presents do nominate constitutes and appoint George H. Monsart of the city of Louisville and State of Kentucky, with full power of substitution, my trice and lawful Attorney, for me and in my name to demand at the City of Washington an investigation of the right of the heirs of Dennis Hopkins, late of Clinton County and State of Kentucky to a Pension on account of his military services in the North Carolina Militia in the war of the Revolution, and to do all things necessary to substantiate said claim; which when done, my said attorney or his substitute is authorized to receive the Pension Certificate which may issue in satisfaction of said claims, and which I request may be made payable at the agency in the City of Louisville Kentucky. I hereby revoke any former power or powers of attorney given by me to any other person or persons whomsoever; and with my said attorney and him only do I desire the Pension Office to hold correspondence touching said claim
Witness my hand and seal this 15th October, 1852. 
Dennis Hopkins Seal
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State of Kentucky 
Clinton County  }
  On this 15th day of October 1852, before me James Sutherland, an acting Justice of the Peace, within and for the county and state aforesaid personally appeared Dennis Hopkins and acknowledged the foregoing Power of Attorney to be his act and deed for the purposes therein specified. [signed] J Sutherland JP

State of Kentucky 
Clinton County   }
    I S. B. Maxey, Clerk of the county court within and for the county and State aforesaid, hereby certify that J Southerland Esq., before whom the foregoing power of attorney was subscribed and acknowledged, is and was at the time of signing the certificate thereto an acting Justice of the Peace, within and for the county and State aforesaid, duly commissioned and sworn, and that all his official acts as such are entitled to full faith and credit.
Given under my hand and seal of office at Albany, this 15th day of October, 1852.  S. B. Maxey  Clk
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Brief in case 
Dennis Hopkins Decd
Ky.
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Brief in case Dennis Hopkins.
Dennis Hopkins (2d Jany: 1843. Open Court.) says he is 82 years having a record of his age. Born 13th July 1760. D. entered service of U.S a drafted light horse solider in fall of 1780. thinks Oct. Entered and served for 3 months under Capt. Wm York and had written discharge sometime in Jny 1781- volunteered about 1st Apl. ensuing spring for 3 months. Served and had a written discharge believes in July. Married about four yrs after Randolph Co. N.C.
Westley Owens. John Wade and Jacob Holsapple- say Dennis is reputed to have been a revolutionary soldier. Court Concurs in belief of Dennis' Statements.
Dennis Hopkins (7th Feby 1845). Says in the spring of 1782 he entered U.S. service under Capt Wm York in what was called  County troops of Lt Horse and served 3 months and discharged. He again in 1782 volunteered for 3 months served and discharged. lost or mislaid both discharges- refer to soldiers who served with him.
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A.Davis (clergyman)
L Hopkins
D. Hopkins  }   Say D. is a man of veracity and reputed to have been a rev. soldier. (15th October. 1852)(son of D. H decd ) says his is son of D. H decd- often seen his fathers discharge for that length of time- which was destroyed many yrs ago. Refers to army records and muster rolls. Dennis died 26th June 1850 leaving following children vix. Dennis, Thomas, Joshua, Nancy, Martha, Sally and Epsy.
Comptroller of N. Carolina  }  (27th Jany 1853) Dennis Hopkins among the payments made by the State to Sundry persons for Military Services in Rev: war, viz Book No. 6 £9- nine pounds specie viz Book No. 23 £48- forty eight pounds specie.
Power Atty of D Hopkins Jr to G H Monsarrat
J.S. B. Maxey Judge Clinton Court Ky (Nov.Term 1852)
order it to be certified that Dennis sr. Died 26th June 1850. leaving children Dennis, Thos, Joshua, Nancy, Martha, Sally, Epsey- Dennis Admr of D [illegible] (Clerk Court certifies to administration Bond of D. Hopkins, Elisha Wade and Wm Davis-
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[back side of letter on Clarkston Hotel stationary]
[stamped]
Received
Jan 30 1934
Mail [illegible]
[remainder illegible]
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FIREPROOF
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315 SEVENTH AVE., N.
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RATES $1.00 PER DAY

NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE

June 27 '34

Pension Dept U.S. Govt. 
(Revolutionary Wat Service)
of Dennis Hopkins

Dear Sirs:

I am very anxious to get your record of the Revolutionary War Service record of Dennis Hopkins, was born in Randolph County, N.C. and received a pension from the U. S. Gov't for that service. He lived in Ga. after the war later moving to Ky. where he died. 
1. Name of Father and mother of Dennis Hopkins his place of birth and
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place of death also dates.

2. How many brothers and sisters did Dennis Hopkins have, their names, place of birth and death. Did he have a brother named Mark L. and one named Tom (?)

3. How many children did Dennis Hopkins have, names, places of birth & death.

4 At what place did Dennis Hopkins die also what date.

Kindly let me know this information as
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early as possible. Many thanks for your kind-ness.

Yours Truly
Mrs. Rosa M. Clark
Clarkston Hotel
Nashville Tenness.
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JOSEPH W. BYRNS
TENNESSEE
MARGARET M. ROBERTSON
SECRETARY
Office of the Majority Leader
House of Representatives U.S.
Seventy-third Congress
Washington, D.C.
Seal postmark:
RECEIVED 
FEB 1 1934
Hon. E.W. Morgan,
Pension Director,
Veterans Administration,
Washington, D.C.
My dear Mr. Morgan:
Dennis Hopkins served in the Revolutionary War and I understand was at one time a pensioner of the Bureau. I do not know anything regarding his service, but he was born in Randolph County, North Carolina and lived in the state of Georgia, following the war, later moving to Kentucky where he died.
If there is any information in your records which would disclose the names of his parents and children and their birthplace, I will appreciate it if you let me know.
Very sincerely yours,
Joseph Byrns
January 30, 1934
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[Stamp] REC'D FEB 3 1934 MAIL SUB-DIV

A.G. 201 Hopkins, Dennis
(1-30-34) ORD 1st Ind. GWS-mvm

War Department, A.G.O., February 1, 1934. To the Veterans Administration, Washington, D.C. Attention: Miss Nevitt.

Attention is invited to the letter of Honorable Joseph W. Byrns, Representative in Congress, who has been informed of this reference by letter, a copy of which is herewith inclosed.

James F Mc Kinley
Major General, The Adjutant General.
By: R

1 Incl only (Handwritten)
Copy of letter.
(Handwritten) Letter from Hon. Jos W Byrnes not incl
g

[Stamped] COMPENSATION SERVICE
RECORD VERIFICATION
FEB 2-1934
VETERANS ADMINISTRATION
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McK
A.G. 201
Hopkins, Dennis
(1-30-34) ORD
February 1, 1934.
Honorable Joseph W. Byrns,
House of Representatives,
My dear Mr. Byrns:
I have your letter of January 30, 1934, in which you request to be furnished with the military record of Dennis Hopkins who, it is stated, was born in Randolph County, North Carolina, and was a pensioner.
The name Dennis Hopkins has not bee found on the records, on file in my office, of soldiers of the Revolutionary War.
It is proper to add that the collection of Revolutionary War records on file in my office is far from complete.
It is suggested as a possibility that the Veterans Administration, Washington, D.C., may have some information relative to this soldier and the names of his parents and children, and I am this day forwarding your letter to that office from which you will doubtless receive an early response.
Very respectfully,
James F. McKinley
Major General,
The Adjutant General.
Seal of REC'D FEB 3, 1934
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Soldiers ap. dated Jan 2, 1843
5 pages
His ap. " (Dated) Feb. 7, 1845 
4 " (Pages)
Deposition of Dennis Hopkins soldier's son, 
Dated Oct. 15, 1852
2 " (Pages)
Deposition dated Nov, Term 1852
1" (Pages)
Deposition dated Nov. Term 1853
Showing ap of Dennis Hopkins administrator
3" (Pages)
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[Handwritten] Rev. & 1812
No.27

Rev. & 1812 Wars Section August 24, 1931
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 541

Rev. War pension of Dennis Hopkins,
R. 5208 Actual 1 of each page

[Handwritten] 
Mail to- Mrs. John Trotwood Moore
State Librarian & Archivist
Nashville, Tenn.

Remitter
Miss Martha Lou Houston
621- 19" St. N.W. Wash DC

xxxx $2.25 15 pages [Handwritten] uncertified

Chief of Rev. & 1812 Wars Sect.

Kindly leave margin of 1½ inches at top of each page and return papers in each case in folder with corresponding name and number

[Handwritten] 9/4/31
Photos mailed to ac. Div. notified $2.25 to be credited to (?) receipts (?)
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Soldiers ap. dated Jan. 2, 1843  5 pages
His ap.  " Feb 7, 1845   4 pages 
Depostion of ennvis Hopkins soldier's son 
dated  Oct. 15, 1852  2 pages 
Deposition dated Nov Term 1813 1 page
showing ap.  of Dennis Hopkins 3 pages 
administrator
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August 24, 1931
The Administrator of Veterans Affairs
Washington, D.C.

Dear Sir,
Please send me uncertified photostatic copies of 15 pages from Rev. War pension claim of Dennis Hopkins, R. 5208.
Very truly yours,

Mail to
Mrs. John Trotwood Moore
State Librarian & Archivist
Nashville, Tenn

Remitter
Miss Martha Lou Houston
621 19th St. N.W. City

Received payment
$2.25
August 24, 1931
Ms. Christine Stokes
Rev. & 1812 Wars Section
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February 5, 1934
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
BA-J/EEL
Dennis Hopkins-R.5208

Mrs. Rosa M. Clark
Clarkston Hotel
Nashville, Tennessee


Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letter in which you request the record of Dennis Hopkins, a soldier of the Revolutionary War and a pensioner.

The data furnished herein are obtained from the papers on file in Revolutionary War pension claim, R.5206, based upon the military service in that war of Dennis Hopkins.

Dennis Hopkins was born July 13, 1760, in Orange County, North Carolina, but was reared in Randolph County, that state. There are no data in regard to soldier's parents or to his brothers and sisters.

After the Revolution, he resided in Randolph County, North Carolina, for about fifteen years: then moved to Clarke County, Georgia, where he resided nine or ten years: then moved to Wayne County, Kentucky.

While residing in Clinton (that part which was formerly Wayne) County, Kentucky, Dennis Hopkins applied for the pension that might be due him on account of his services in the Revolution and stated that while residing in Randolph County, North Carolina, he enlisted in the fall of 1780 or the spring of 1782, served three months as a probably ranger in Captain William York's Company of Horse under Major Dogin [handwritten in margin here - probably meant for Dugan as there was a Major Jeremiah Dugan Major of Rangers - end handwriting] in the North Carolina Troops and was in a skirmish with the Tories: that he again enlisted about April 1881 or in 1782, and served three months under the same officers.

His claim was not allowed as he failed to furnish proof of service of six months as required by the pension law.
The soldier died June 26, 1850 in Clinton County, Kentucky.

Dennis Hopkins married in Randolph County, North Carolina, about
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four years after the Revolution, but the exact date of the marriage,
the name of his wife, and the dates of her birth and death are not
shown.

The following children survived their father, Dennis Hopkins.
their ages and places of residence are not stated.

Dennis Hopkins, Junior
Thomas Hopkins
Joshua Hopkins
Many Newkirk
Martha Bradford
Emily Leslie
May Long.

In 1845, one Laban Hopkins resided in Clinton County, Kentucky:
no relationship to the soldier was shown and there are no further
family data.

Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER
Assistant to Administrator.
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THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES
Form VAM-51-
12 - 5 - 41  
Division of Veterans' Administration Archives
BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*

NAME Hopkins, Driver  GRADE Private  LINE Pennsylvania
WARRANT
NUMBERs 9280 and 9540    ACREAGE     100  ISSUED May 21, 1792
to John P. Scholt, or Schott,
assignee
(surname written both ways)
MMSH

*The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800. Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.
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(3 - 1776)
SERVICE    NUMBER   
VT.  

Hopkins, Ebenezer   W. 7781
Rachel



CONTENTS
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2 fold
left side:  blank

Right side:

Ohio Pittsburgh 29.003.
Ebenezer Hopkins
Geaugu, to in the State of Ohio
was a prvt in the Company commanded [torn]
Captain Sawyer of the Regt commander [torn]
Genl Cooley in the Vermont
Troops
2 yr py @ $80.00

Inscribed on the Roll of Ohio. P. A.
of the rate of 80 Dollars - Cents per annum
commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 9th day of Feby
1834 and Sent to
1839 Hon C Whilttisey. H. Re

Arrears to the 4th of Sept 1833  200.00
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Mch 34. 40.00

$240.00

{Revolutionary Claim,}
{Act June 7, 1832. ⎬

Recorded by J.T.Sprague Clerk,
Book C  Vol. 8  Page 114
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2 fold
Left side:

71.
Ohio Pittsburg
Rachel Hopkins,
widow of Ebenzer Hopkins
Vt
who served in the Revolutionary war, as a private

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of
80 Dollars -- 
Cents per annum, to commence on
the 4th day of March, 1848.

Certificate of Pension issued the
12th day of June 1848
and sent to
James Hathaway
Chardon
Ohio

Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act
February 2, 1848, Page 343. Vol. 4

Right side:

Reported
Date of widows doth
not [illegible] [illegible]
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Ebenezer Hopkins
Pension Declaration
5
7823
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The State of Ohio
Geauga County ss }  On this 10th day of September 1832, before the Court of common pleas in open court in & for said County personally appeared Ebenezer Hopkins a resident in Welshfield in said County, aged Sixty nine 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 June 7th 1832. That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers, and served as herein stated to wit - 
In the forepart of May 1779 he being then a resident in Pittsford in the County of Rutland State of Vermont, there was a requisition made by Captain James Lawyer, who then command ed a Fort at Rutland in said State, upon Captain Cooley, commander of a Company of Militia in said Pittsford. for a number of men to proceed down Lake Champlain to watch the motions of the enemy, who was then threatening an invasion, that after a draft had been made from said Company, one of the men drafted, became unable to proceed upon the service by reason of sickness, and the said Ebenezer Hopkins being then about sixteen years of age, and not subject to Military duty, Volunteered in the place of the Soldier thus unable to do duty that he forthwith proceeded upon said service under the immediate command of Sergeant Ephm
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Stevens, and on the fifth day after leaving home was captured, together with the said Benjamin Ephraim Stevens and one Benjamin Stevens, near the month of Otter Creek by a party of Indians & Tories, and carried to Montreal where he was detained sometime, and from thence was carried to Chamble, and after considerable detention at that place was carried to Quebec, where he arrived in Sept 1779 at which place he was detained a prisoner upwards of two years and six months and was kept in close confinement more than two years- He was finally exchanged & returned to his home_
That he has no documentary evidence by which he can prove his service. That he resided in Pittsford in the State of Vermont at the time he entered the service of the United States. That he afterwards removed to Crown Point in the State of New York, and resided there from the year 1812 to the fall of the year 1831 when he removed to the State of Ohio, and now resides in Welshfield aforesaid-
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a Pension or annuity except the present. and declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any State-
Sworn & Subscribed the day      Ebenezer Hopkins
& year aforesaid in Open
Court before me
D. D. Aiken, Clerk
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We Willard W. Beals & Amy Pratt residing in Welchfield County of Geauga & State of Ohio hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Ebenezer Hopkins who has subscribed & sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be Sixty nine
years of age; that he is reputed and believed in the neighbourhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution; and that we concur in that opinion-    Willard W. Beals
Sworn to & subscribed the day & year}   Amy Pratt
aforesaid in open Court, before me}
D. D. Aiken, Clerk

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 Willard W Beals
& Mary Pratt who have signed the preceeding certificate resident in the township of Welshfield in said County, are credible persons, and that their statement is entitled to credit.

The State of Ohio}
Geauga County SS}  I David D. Aiken Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in & for said County do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceeding
the said Court in the matter of the application Ebenezer Hopkins for a pension.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of Office
eleventh day of September A.D. 1832.
D.D. Aiken Clerk
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Ebenezer Hopkins


refd to Edward
This cannot be
allowed. The proof
is not satisfactory -
7823-file the
papers



Orrin Metcalf
Chardon
Geauga County
Ohio
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BRIEF in the case of Ebenezer Hopkins of Geauga in the State of Ohio
(Act 7th June, 1832.)

1. Was the declaration 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? 69
4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed.
Period.  | Years,  |  Duration of Service. Years, Months. Days. | Rank  |  Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.

May In 1779 substitute on the 5th day of his  |  private  | Cap Sawyer Cap Cooley
March he with others were captured by Tories Indians  |
taken to Montral thenc to Quebec and
Delamed a close prisoner
on more than-  2 years 6 months  

5. In what battles was he engaged? None mentioned
6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Pittsford Vermont
7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? traditionary see living witnesses
8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? the papers are not attached agreeably to the regulations nor are the witnesses, or magistrates regularly Certified
 * Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned. -
George Taylor
Examining Clerk.
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3367
Rachel Hopkins
Pension Application

M. 83. a 38
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State of Vermont 
Rutland County ⎬ On this fifteenth day of September AD 1838 before me the Subscriber a Justice of the Peace in & for said County of Rutland personally  appeared Samuel H Kellogg who on his oath declared that the following is an extract from the Records of the Town of Pittsford in said County__ viz

Ebenezer Hopkins of Pittsford was married to Rachel Mead of said Pittsford December the second Seventeen hundred and eighty three.- Josiah Hopkins Son to Ebenezer Hopkins and Rachel Hopkins was born in the year Seventeen hundred and eighty six in April the eighteenth- Ebenezer Hopkins son to Ebenenzer Hopkins & Rachel Hopkins was August the sixteenth seventeen hundred & eighty seven Soriah Hopkins daughter of Ebenezer Hopkins & Rachel Hopkins was born January the twenty seventh seventeen hundred & eighty nine. Charlotte Hopkins daughter to Ebenezer Hopkins and Rachel Hopkins was born October twenty fourth seventeen hundred & ninety Acksah Hopkins daughter to Ebenezer & Rachel Hopkins was born July the nineteenth seventeen hundred and ninety two Minerva Hopkins daughter to Ebenezer & Rachel Hopkins was born April twenty second seventeen hundred & Ninety four Mathew Hopkins Son to Ebenezer & Rachel Hopkins was born April the seventh seventeen hundred ninety six and died the thirteenth day of May Seventeen hundred ninety six. 
Attest Benjn Cooley Town Clerk 
I certify the foregoing to be a true copy of [illegible] with the exception of the different dates which are expressed on the Record in fair legible figures as "December th 2d 1783"
Att Saml H Kellogg J. Clerk

I Samuel H Kellogg of above named depose & say that I hold the office of Town Clerk of the Town of Pittsford in the County of Rutland & State aforesaid, and that the above is a true extract from the records of said town now in my office with the exception above named as certified by me Saml H Kellogg Town Clerk of Pittsford
Sworn & subscribed this
15th day of September A.D. 1838}
Before me
Abel Penfield Justice of the Peace
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State of Vermont}
Rutland County ss}  I Robert Pierpoint Clerk of the County Court for the County of Rutland certify that Abel Penfield is a Justice of the peace for said County, and that his signature to the within Certificates is Genuine

In testimony whereof I have hereto as and and affixed the Seal of said at Rutland this 15th day of September A.D. 1838  R Pierpoint
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The State of Ohio
Geauga County ⎬  On this Ninth day of November in the year of our Lord One thousand Eight hundred & thirty eight personally appeared before the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Geagua aforesaid Rachel Hopkins, a resident of Troy in the County of Geauga & State of Ohio, aged seventy one years, who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth, on her oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress, passed July 7th 1838, entitled "An act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows" That she is the widow of Ebenezer Hopkins who was a private in Captain Benjamin Cooley's Company in Col See's Regiment of Vermont Militia; that he entered the service, as this declarant is informed & believes, in the month of May 1779, as a substitute for his brother who was drafted to serve, and was, with four others commanded by Seargant Ephriam Stevens employed as a scout and as such marched to Lake Champlain, thence down to the month of Otter Creek for the purpose of discovering where the enemy lay, and on their return were all taken prisoners by Indians & Tories and taken to Quebeck when the said Ebenezer remained a prisoner for three years; that the said Ebenezer Hopkins in the year 1834 obtained from the United States for his Revolutionary services a pension, and to his declaration, and other documents & evidences relating thereto, on file in the War Office, she respectfully refers for the particulars and evidences of his Revolutionary services: That she has no documentary evidence in support of the claim, having parted with the possession of his certificate of pension at the time she drew the arrears of pension due at the decease of said Ebenezer.

She further declares that she was married to the said Ebenezer Hopkins on the second day of December in the year Seventeen hundred and Eighty three at Pittsford, Rutland County State of Vermont, that her husband, the aforesaid Ebenezer Hopkins, died on the seventeenth day of July in the year Eighteen hundred and thirty at Troy in the County of Geauga aforesaid where he then resided; that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place previous to the first of January, Seventeen hundred and ninety four, viz: at the time above stated; that she has ever since the
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cease of the said Ebenezer Hopkins remained, and now is his widow, not having since married.
Sworn & subscribed, on the day & year  Rachel her X mark Hopkins
above written, in open Court Before me
D.D. Aiken Clerk

I, Bradley Hopkins, being duly sworn, depose & say that I am the son of Ebenezer Hopkins & Rachel Hopkins late the wife and now the widow of said Ebenezer Hopkins, that I am aged years, that the said Ebenezer Hopkins my said father was at his decease a Revolutionary Pensioner; that he died at Troy in the County of Geauga & State of Ohio on the Seventeenth day of July A.D. 1838, that the said Rachel has since continued to reside at said Troy, has not again married, but still remains his widow; that I have always understood & believe that her name before her marriage to my said father was Rachel Mead, that she is the identical person who in my presence has subscribed the above declaration.  And further I say not.
Sworn to & subscribed this 9th day
of November A.D. 1838 in open Court ⎬   Bobby Hopkins
Before me
D. Aiken Clerk

And the said Court the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter that Ebenezer Hopkins above mentioned was a Revolutionary soldier as stated in said declaration, that Rachel Hopkins was his wife and now remains his widow. And they certify that Bradley Hopkins who has subscribed the above affidavit, is a credible person and his statement above entitled to credit.
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The State of Ohio}
Geauga County}
Seal affixed

J. D. Aiken Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for said County, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of said Court, in the matter of the application of Rachel Hopkins for a pension.
In testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand & seal of Office, this twentieth day of November A.D. 1838.

D.D. Aiken, Clerk.
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May 9, 1939
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

EBENEZER HOPKINS
W. 7781
BA-J/MLS

Aileen Brower
Lakeside
Nebraska

Dear Madam:

Reference is made to your letter in which you request the record of Ebenezer Hopkins who served in the Vermont troops in the Revolutionary War, married Rachel Mead and they had a daughter, Achiah, born July 19, 1792, who married February 16, 1817, Alba Tinkham who was born September 18, 1790.

You are furnished herein the record of Ebenezer Hopkins as found in pension claim, W. 7781, based upon his service in the Revolutionary War.

Ebenezer Hopkins was born June 1, 1761. The place of his birth
and names of his parents were not given.

While residing in Pittsford, Rutland County, Vermont, Ebenezer Hopkins volunteered early in May, 1779, in Captain Sawyer's company in the Vermont troops, went on a scouting party to Lake Champlain under Sergeant Ephraim Stevens, and May 12, 1779, was taken prisoner by Tories and Indians, carried to Montreal, then to Chambly and from there to be, reaching there in September, 1779, and held there until exchanged June 9, 1783. It was stated that at the age of sixteen years, he served, also, as a substitute for his brother, Ashbel Hopkins, who was sick, as a private in Captain Benjamin Cooley's Vermont company, no further details of that service given.

After the Revolution, the soldier resided in Pittsford, Vermont, until 1812, when he moved to Essex County, New York, to an adjoining town to Crownpoint, lived there six years, thence to Crownpoint, where he remained until August or September, 1831, then moved to Shalersville, Portage County, Ohio, and in December, that year, to Welshfield, Geauga County, Ohio.

Ebenezer Hopkins was allowed pension on his application executed
September 10, 1832, while a resident of Welshfield, Ohio. He died
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in Troy, Geauga County, Ohio, July 16, or 17, 1838.

Ebenezer Hopkins married December 2, 1783 or 1784, in Pittsford,
Rutland County, Vermont, Rachel Mead who was born January 28, 1768,
place of her birth and names of parents not stated. At the time
of her marriage, she was living in Pittsford.

Rachel Hopkins was allowed pension on account of the service
of her husband, Ebenezer, on her application executed November 9, 1838,
at which time she was living in Troy, Ohio.


The following names of children of Ebenezer Hopkins and his wife,
Rachel, are shown in the claims:

Josiah  Hopkins Born April 18, 1786
Ebenezer, Jr. " " August 16, 1787
Sophia  "   " January 27, 1789
Charlotte "  "  October 24, 1790 or 1791
Achsah  "  "  July 19, 1792
Minerva  "  " April 22, 1794
Mathew  "  " April 7, 1796; died May 13, 1796
Bradley  "  "  aged forty years in 1836.

In 1844, Joseph Durfey, aged fifty-eight years, a son-in-law of
Ebenezer Hopkins and his wife, Rachel, was a resident of Troy, Geauga
County, Ohio, and Rachel, the widow, was living with him. The name of
Joseph Durfey's wife was not designated.

Martin Hopkins, brother of the soldier, Ebenezer Hopkins, in 1830
was living in Cornwall, Addison County, Vermont, his age not given.

In 1833, one Nehemiah Hopkins, a resident of Somerset, Niagara
County, New York, stated that during the Revolution he lived in
Pittsford, Vermont, and testified in regard to the service of Ebenezer,
but did not state his relationship.

In order to obtain the date of last payment of pension, the name
and address of the person paid and possibly the date of death of
soldier's widow, Rachel, you should write to the Comptroller General,
General Accounting Office, Records Division, this city, and cite the
following data: Rachel Hopkins, widow of Ebenezer, certificate #71,
issued June 12, 1848, rate, $80 per annum, commenced March 4, 1848,
Act of February 2, 1848, Pittsburg, Ohio Agency.

Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator
- 2 -
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3 sections:
Left:
97 - Hist to Mr.
Durfee
Columbus Barracks
Ohio.

1926 - Aug. 10 Hist to
Charles F. Dodge au

1927 Dec. 15. Hist to H.[dark illegible]
Letter sent to Rec. Div. [dark illegible] ly
to Civil War inquiry [dark illegible]
1939. May 9 - Hist to Arleen Brower [dark illegible]

Middle:
7781
Revy WIDOW, &c.
File No. 7781
Rachel Hopkins
Wid
Ebenezer Hopkins
Prvt, Rev. War
-
Act: Feby, 2/48
Index: -- Vol. A, Page 343

[Arrangement of 1870.]


Right side:
Dec. 29
L L.
Page 81

Rachel Hopkins
of Ebenezer
Ohio
Rejected
let: 13 March 1839
to A. Phelps,
let: 19 Aug 1841 Hon:
S. J. Andrews
husband died
after passage of the Act
Let to Elliott & Hathaway Sep. 1944
Act 7 July 1838
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2 fold

Left side:

9004
Ohio
Rachel Hopkins
widow of Ebenezer Hopkins
who was a pensioner under the Act of 1832
and who died on the 17 July 1838
of Geauga in the State of Ohio
who was a private in the Company
commanded by Captain Sawyer of the
Reg commanded by Col Cooley in
the Vermont line for 2 years

Inscribed on the Roll of Pittsburgh Pa
at the rate of 80 Dollars 00o
Cents per annum, to commence on the 
17 July 1838

Certificate of Pension issued the 14 day of
Jany 45 and sent to Elliott
& Hathaway Hambden Ohio

Total amount,  $
[Act July 7, 1838.]
Recorded by F.S. Swann Clerk,
Book D Vol. 1 Page 389

Right side:

April 28th 1845
Call ind under joint Rev
of Jany 27. 1843 at $80 per
annum Comm of on the 
Roll March 1836 &
sent to
Mason
ending 17th July 1838
& sent to
Mo 197 Elliott & Hathaway
Rev?
Hampton Ohio
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Page 2 fold:

Left side:

6601
Ohio
Pittsburgh Agency
Rachel Hopkins
widow of Ebenezer Hopkins
who was a Private
in the Vermont Line

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of
80 Dollars 00
Cents per annum, to commence on 
the 4th day of March, 1843.

Certificate of Pension issued the
the 14th day of Jany 1845
and sent to 
Elliott & Hathaway
Hambden
Ohio

[Act of March 3, 1843.]
Recorded in Book A Vol. 2 Page 204

Right side:

Repod 2 Cert. issued.
1 under Act 1838.
1 "  " 1843.
[illegible] Reso: of Jany 23. 1845
No. 197

[illegible] Payt May 17 1845.
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Ebenezer Hopkins Pittg. Act 7 June 1834
to what time paid?
Pen Office
page torn - of  4 March 1838   March 13, 1839
JH
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Stamped:
BURLINGTON VT
NOV 
6

25

Messrs Elliot & Hathaway
Hambden
Geauga-County
Ohio
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State of Vermont
Secretary of State Office
Montpelier Nov. 2. 1844
J. M. M. Shafter Secretary of State of Vermont hereby certify
that the following is a true copy of a record remaining this office

State of Vermont Clarenden Aug. 14, 1783.
for the Pay-Table

This is to certify that Benjn Adams and Eben Hopkins
were taken prisoner when in the State service upon 
Lake Champlain on the 12th of May AD 1779. & carried
to Canada, with Ephraim Stevens and at the same time
lost their guns and accoutrement, were exchanged "
9th of  June [illegible].

Thos Sawyer Capt
Burlington Aug. 17th 1782.
This may certify, that the within
named prisosers were exchanged on or about the 9th "
of June as mentioned within
Jos Fay. C.J.P.
State Vermont

State of Vermont, To Eben Hopkins, Benj Stevens
Soldiers in Capt Thos Sawyers Comp stad at Rutland
Dr
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to their wages when prisoners from the 12th of May 1779 up to June 9th 1783 as so certificate from Capt. Sawyer & [illegible] [illegible] of Prisoners, being 36 months & 28 days each at 40/- per mark  £147-14.8
Benjn Stevens
Eben Hopkins

Pay Table Office}
Bennington Aug 17.1782}  The above act being approved of the 
Treasurer to hereby directed to pay unto Ebenr Hopkins
Benjn Stevens on their order. One hundred and forty seven
pound fourteen shillings and eight pence, it being
£73.17.4
Isaac Pickenor
£147.14.8  Nathl Brush Comr

Treasurers Office
Sunderland Aug 1782} Rev of the Treasurer, the contents
of the within order being one hundred and forty seven
pounds fourteen shillings and eight pence
Nehemiah Hopkins
£147.14.8    for Ebenr Hopkin
Benjamin Stevens
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Seal affixed


In testimony whereof I have herewith subscribed my name and affixed the seal of this Office this 2nd day of November AD 1844.
J. M. M Shafter

Forward me the fee at Burlington Vt post paid.
J. M. M Shafter
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3367
Rachel Hopkins
Ohio
Act July 7 '38
and
2 years
priv
$80

to commence July 16 '38.

also Act of Mar 3d '43  No. 6892
Elliott & Hathaway
Hambden
Ohio
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Pension Agency

Pittsburgh May 14th 1845

J.S. Edwards Esqr

Dear sir
The certificate and Voucher of Rachel Hopkins, widow of Ebenezer Hopkins pensioner under act of 7th July 1838, has been presented for payment
from the 18th March 1836 to 17th July 1838, 
But as I have not been instructed to place her and on the Roll I have  detained the voucher until receive your instructions
I am most espectfully
Your Obedient Servant
-
Thos M Stowe
Pens Agent
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Hambden  Novr 21. 1844 

Hon J. L. Edwards Comm of Pensions

Dear Sir
We have the honor to submit the inclosed which is further Proff in the Claim of Rachael Hopkins widow of Ebenezer Hopkins
Respectfully your O.B. Servents
Elliott & Hathaway
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H. Reps. Aug. 18. 1841-

L. Edwards Esq.

Sir
Will you have the goodness to give me the information asked for in the
inclosed letter, and oblige 
yours very respectfully
S.J. Andrews
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7.823.
Ebenezer Hopkins
Ohio-
Adm 2 years

Hon E Whittlesey
Ho of Rep
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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  Ebenezer Hopkins which require further proof or explanation.
1. 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 amout of pension he is entitled? yes
VI. Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with the regulations? yes
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. 
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?
Certified by Citizens
XII. If the clergyman's affidavit has not been produced, is there any reason assigned for not obtaining it?
XIII. If the applicant has no documentary evidence, and has not obtained the testimony of at least one living witness, has he stated in his declaration that such proof cannot be had?
XIV. 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 as the regulations direct? No
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?
XVI. Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct? No
XVII. Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily? And, if not, which of them is not so answered?
Yes Est 1-2

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, &c. 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 --- For--- months and --- days.  I served as a ---; and for such service I claim a pension.
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Wm Slade
Letter July 7. 1832
Page 97

Washington July 7. 1832

Mr. Ebenezer Hopkins

Sir
Since the passage of the general pension law, Congress have refund to purs special acts giving pensions to particular individuals by name, leaving all who have a right to a pension to obtain it under the general law. I therefore return to you your papers. The testimony which you funded to me will I presence, be sufficient to obtain for you a pension under the late law. you will have to apply your County Court, who will know what to do.
Yours respectfully
Your obt Servant
William Slade
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Hon. J. L. Edwards
Com of
Pensions
Washington City
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Chardon Nov. 22, 1838
Hon J.L. Edwards
Com of Pensions
Sir
Enclosed herewith I send
you the Pension Application of Rachel Hopkins
the widow of Ebenezer Hopkins late of Troy in this
County deceased a Revolutionary Soldier & pensioner-
Please direct returns to me at Chardon, Geauga
County, Ohio
Respectfully Yours &c
Alfred Phelps
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Chardon, Geauga Co, Ohio.
April 24th 1848,

Sir
I herewith transmit to your office the declaration of Mrs Rachel Hopkins made under the act of February 2d 1848,
Very Respectfully your most
O.B. Servent,
the Deed
James Hathaway


Hon J. L. Edwards, Com of Pensions,
Washington City,
D.C.
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Hon James L. Edwards Comm of Pensions
Dear Sir
we have the honor to herewith submit the application and proofs
in the case of Rachel Hopkins praying that a
Pension may be granted her under the act of Congress
passed July 7. 1838 and also under the Act of Congress
Passed March 3d 1844 all of which are respectfully
submited
Respectfully your O.B. servents
Hambdin Geauga County   Lewis Elliott
Ohio April 6. 1844    James Hathaway
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The State of Ohio
Geauga County ss}

I DD Aiken, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for said County, do hereby certify that Alvora Beals Esquire, before whom the annax [folded over] affidavit of John Barnett appears to have been taken, on the 29th day of October A.D. 1833, and whose signature, in his own proper hand writing, is affixed to the certificate that was, at that time, and still is, a Justice of the Peace, within and for said County, duly comm. signed and sworn, according to law.

In testimony whereof, I here to set my hand, and affix the Seal of said Court, at Chadow, this 30th day of October A.D. 1833

D.D. Aiken, Clerk
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State of Ohio }
Geauga County } SS  Before me Alvand Beals One of the Justices of the peace for said County personally came John Barnett a Minister of the Gospel who being duly sworn according to law deposeth and saith that he verily believes that Ebenezer Hopkins is a man about Seventy years of age and served Three years in the Revolutonary service and that he is personally acquainted with the sd
Ebenezer Hopkins and believes him to be a man of truth and verasity 
John Barrett
Sworn to and subscribed to before me at the Township of Welshfield and County
aforesaid this Twenty ninth day of Nov 1833
Alvand Beale Justice of the peace
-
This certifies that that the above named John Barnett is a regular Minister of the Gospel
Alvand Beale SS
Justice of peace
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The State of Ohio}
Geauga County} ss I Thomas Scott of Welshfield in said County, being duly
sworn do on my said oath depose & say that during a period of about nineteen years extending from the year 1812 to the year 1831 I resided at Crown Point, in the County of Essex in the State of New York, and that during the whole of said term of time I was well acquainted with Ebenezer Hopkins who also resided at Crown Point. That he the said Ebenezer Hopkins is reputed & believed, in the 
neighborhood of his residence at Crown Point, to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that it is generally understood & believed in the said neighborhood that he was taken prisoner in the month of May 1779 near Lake
Champlain by a party of Tories & Indians & carried to Montreal & from thence to Quebec, and that he was detained a prisoner about three years-- & that I concur in that opinion-
In the fall of the year the said Ebenezer Hopkins & myself removed our 
families to Wilshfield aforesaid where we now reside-  Thomas Scott
Sworn & Subscribed this 7th
day of August 1832} 
Before me
John Nash Justice Peace
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Geauga County ss
I certify that I am personally acquainted with [struck through]Ebenezer Hopkins who has signed & made[end strike through] Thomas Scott who has signed
made oath to the within affidavit that I believe him to be a man of truth & veracity
Welshfield August 7th 1832
John Nash Justice Peace


The State of Ohio}
Geauga County} ss  I, D. D. Aiken Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for said County do hereby certify that John Nash Esquire whose signature, in his own
proper hand writing is affixed to the within and foregoing certificates, was, at the time of subscribing the same, a Justice of the peace within and for said county, duly commissioned and sworn, agreeably to the Laws of said State_ In Testimony whereof, I hereunto set my hand and affix the seal of said Court this 17th day
of September A.D. 1832.
D.D. Aiken, Clerk
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Ebenr Hopkins
No. 5
Page 107

The State of Ohio}
Geauga County}   In the Court of Com Pleas Sept Term 1832
I Ephraim Chapman of Shalersville in the County of Portage & State of Ohio
being duly sworn, on my said oath depose & say, that during a period of about forty years extending from the year 1791 to the year 1832, I have been acquainted with Ebenezer Hopkins. I first knew him when he resided at Pittsford Rutland County & State of Vermont, for about fifteen years, when he
removed to Crown Point County of Essex & State of New York that about the same time the said Hopkins removed to Tye in the said County of Essex & the town adjoining the one in which I resided_ where he resided about six years
that then he removed into the town of Crown Point where he resided four or five years, when I removed to Shalersville aforesaid, where I have continued to reside until this time_ that about one year ago in August last said Hopkins
removed to said Shalersville where he resided until December last when he removed to the township of Welshfeld in this County; that I was well acquainted with said Hopkins during all the time I resided in the State of Vermont & New York after he came to Shalersville; that the Ebenezer Hopkins was & is reputed in the neighbourhood of his said residence in Vermont, & believed & was also reputed & believed in the neighbourhood of his late residence in the State of New York as well as in Shalersville State of Ohio, to have been a Revolutionary
Soldier, & that it was & is generally understood & believed in all the said neighbourhood that he was taken prisoner in the year 1779 near Lake Champlain by a party of tories & Indians & carried to Montreal & from thence to Quebeck & that he was detained a prisoner about three years, & I concur
in that belief
Sworn to & subscribed before me
in open Court September 10th 1832⎬  Ephraim Chapman
JD. Aiken Clerk.
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Affidavit of
Martin Hopkins,
Clark Stowe &
Nathan Smith
relative to the revolutionary
service of Ebenr Hopkins
Page 109

I Martin Hopkins of Cornwall County of Addison and State of Vermont of lawful age testify and for part of May 1779, my brother Ebenezer Hopkins then resident in Pittsford in this State, being about sixteen years of age,
volunteered to take the place of a soldier of the militia of Vermont drafted to proceed to the frontier to defend against the incursions of the enemy from Canada, that he left home on the expedition, and within five days was taken
prisoner by the enemy, as understood, and carried to Quebeck, where I understood he was holden a prisoner of war, until his return home, which was a little more than three years from the time of his leaving home as aforesaid. I saw him immediately after his return from his imprisonment, and learned from him that he had been holden a prisoner as aforesaid, and moreover heard from him several times during his said imprisonment.

Martin Hopkins

State of Vermont
Addison County⎬     Middlebury October 28. 1830
Personally appeared Martin Hopkins above named, well known to me as a credible witness, and made solemn oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavit
by him subscribed
Before me William Slade Justice of the peace
Page 110

I Clark Stow of Maybridge of Lawful age do testify and say that in the fall of 1779
first became acquainted with Ebenezer Hopkins when he was brought into prison with me in quebeck in company with Ephraim and Benjamin Stephens that they remained with me in prison more than two years
Clark Store


State of Vermont  Weybridge Oct 21. 1830
Addison County⎬

Personally Appeared Clark Stow the signer of the above writen instrument and after being duly sworn and carefully examined made solemn oath that the
foregoing deposition by him subscribed contains the whole truth and nothing but the truth
before me TW Twitchell Just the Peace
And I hereby certify that the above named Clark
Stowe is well known to me as a credible witness
TW Twitchell Just Peace
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Deposition
of
Clark Stow
Page 112

I Nathan Smith of Bridport of Lawful age do depose testify and say That in September 1779 I first became acquainted with Ebenezer Hopkins than of Pittsford, at Quebeck brought their a prisoner of war under the command of Ephriam Stephens then sergent of a scouting party one of the party being
killed and three survived I left Quebeck the 25th of April then next and left Mr Hopkins in Prison
Nathan Smith


State of Vermont
Addison County ⎬  Bridport October 12th 1830
Personally appeared Nathan Smith the signer of the above written instrument after being duly sworn and carfully examined made solom oath that the foregoing deposition by him subscribed contains the whole truth and nothing but the truth
before me Joseph C. Eldridge Justice peace

And I hereby certify that the above named Nathan Smith
is well known to me as a credible witness
Joseph C. Eldredge Justice peace
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Deposition of
Nathan Smith
Page 114

State of Vermont}
Addison County}   I. Samuel Swift, Clerk of the County Court, for the Said County
of Addison, do hereby certify that William Slade, before whom the foregoing
affidavit of Martin Hopkins was made, Timothy W. Twitchel, before whom
the affidavit of Clark Stowe was made; and Joseph C. Eldridge, before
whom the affidavit of Nathan Smith was made, were at the respective times
Justices of the peace for the Said County, fully authorized to administer oaths.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and
affixed the seal of said Court, this 4th day of November
A.D. 1830
Samuel Swift Clerk
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Admitted

James
Hathaway
Chardon
Ohio
Page 116

The State of Ohio 
Geauga County ⎬ On this 14th day of April, A.D. 1848.
Personally appeared before me James Hathaway a justice of the peace in and for said County Rachel Hopkins, a resident of Troy in the County and State aforesaid aged 80 years who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on Oath make the following Declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provisions made by the act of Congress passed on the 2d of February 1848, granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary war; that she is the widow of Ebenezer Hopkins who was a Revolutionary soldier and pensioner, and that she has drawn a pension at the rate of $80. per annum, on account of the Revolutionary service of her said husband, under the acts of July 7th 1838, March 3d 1843, and June 17th 1844, that she further declares that she is still a widow.
Executed in presence of}
Joseph Dunfry}    Rachel her X mark Hopkins
James Hathaway}
      
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year
above written. And I further certify from my own
personal knowledge that the above declareant is a 
person of truth and probity and the identical person
who drew a pension as stated by her in the
Declaration.
James Hathaway Justice of the peace
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THE STATE OF OHIO,
GEAUGA COUNTY, SS.
I Lorenzo J Riderl
Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, in and for the County of Geauga, in the State of Ohio, do by these presents certify and make known, that James Hathaway Esquire, before whom the annexed and foregoing affidavit was taken
and who has thereunto, in his own proper handwriting, subscribed his name, was at the time of the date thereof, and now is Justice of the Peace in and for said county, duly commissioned and sworn, agreeably to the laws of the State of Ohio, and to all whose official acts as such, full faith and credit is, and ought to be given throughout the United States, and elsewhere.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of said Court, at Chardon, in said county, this 24th day of April A.D. 1848
Lorenzo J Riderl CLERK.
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THE STATE OF OHIO,}
GEAGA COUNTY, SS.}
I Reuben St. John, Clerk of the Court
of Common Pleas in and for the county of Geauga, in the
State of Ohio, do by these presents certify and make known, that
Neri Wright Esquire, before whom
the annexed and foregoing Application and depositions
were has [struck out] taken, and who has thereunto, in his own
proper hand-writing, subscribed his name, was at the time of taking such[struck out] the same and now is an associate Judge in and for said county, duly
commissioned and sworn, agreeably to the laws of the State of Ohio, and to all whose official acts as such, full faith and credit is, and ought to be given throughout the United States, and elsewhere.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of said
Court, at Chardon, in said county, this fifth day of April
in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and forty- four
Reuben St. John, Clerk
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The State of Ohio}
Geauga County} ss   On this the 21st day of March A.D. 1844 Personally appeared before me Neri Wright an Associate Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Geauga and State of Ohio Rachel Hopkins a resident of Troy in said County of Geauga Aged 76 years who being first duly
Sworn according to Law doth on her said Oath make the following Declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provisions made by the act of Congress passed July 7th 1838 and also the benefit of the provisions made by the act of Congress passed March 3d 1843 That she is the widow of Ebenerer [Ebenezer]
Hopkins a Revolutionary Soldier and Pensioner who died at Troy in the County of Geauga and State of Ohio July 16th 1838 That she was married to the said Ebenezer Hopkins December 2d 1784 in Pittsford Rutland County and State of Vermont and that in the year 1839 She made a Declaration for a five years pension under the act of July 7. 1838 and that she made proof of her marriage
which was forwarded to the Pension office together with her Declaration and other proofs by her agent Edwin F. Phelps of Chardon in said County of Geauga and that she was informed that her application was received at the office but that the pension was not granted on account of her husbands death being after the passage of said Act of July 7. 1838 that she has been informed that she is now intitled under said Act and that she has indeavered to obtain said papers containing her proofs but cannot her said agent thinks that the papers might have been detained at the office as it was desided that she was not intitled that her name was before married to said Ebenezer Hopkins Rachel Mead That her said husband was a private in the Revolutionary war and was taken prisoner and remained a prisoner about three years before exchanged that her said husband drew a pension She thinks of eighty dollars per annum that the family Record hereunto attached was made was made [strike through] more then twenty years ago and contains the date of her marriage and the
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births of her oldest children that she remains a widow and
refers to the annexed proofs and prays that a Certificate
may be granted her to draw said Pensions
          her
Rachel X Hopkins
          mark
The above and foregoing declaration sworn to and subscribed
before me the day and year above written and I hereby
Certify that from common report the said Rachel Hopkins
is a person of truth and verasity and that from bodily
infirmity unable to attend Court
Neri Wright Asst Judge
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Ebenezer Hopkins was born
June 1st ----- 1761.
Rachel Hopkins was born
January 28th ----- 1768
Were married Dec. 2nd 1784.
Josiah Hopkins was
born April 18th -----1786.
Ebenezer Hopkins Junr was ┃
born August 16th ----- 1787.
Sophia Hopkins was born
January 27th ---- 1789.
Charlotte Hopkins was
born October 24th ---- 1791.
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The State of Ohio}
Geauga County} ss  Deposition of Joseph Durfey of Lawful age
Taken in the Town of Troy County of Geauga and State of Ohio before me Neri Wright an Associate Judge in and for said County of Geauga and State of Ohio this the 21st day of March A.D. 1844 Being first duly sworn according to Law doth on his said oath depose and say that he is a son in law of Ebenezer and Rachel Hopkins and that he is 58 years old and that the said Ebenezer Hopkins was a Revolutionary soldier and Pensioner and that he died in Troy Geauga County and State of Ohio July 16. 1838 and that Rachel Hopkins widow of said Ebenezer Hopkins now resides with him the said Joseph Durfey in said Troy and remains a widow and that he believes the statements made in the said Widows Declaration for a pension are true which is hereunto attached
Joseph Dumfrees
Sworn to and subscribed before me the day and year above
written and I hereby certify from common report that the said Joseph Durfey is a person of truth and verasity
Before me Neri Wright Asst Judge
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The State of Ohio}
Geauga County}  I Alfred Phelps being duly sworn make oath that about four or five years ago I made out the declaration & proofs for Rachel Hopkins widow of Ebenezer Hopkins a Revolutionary pensioner then deceased, for the purpose of obtaining a pension on account of the services of her said husband under the Act of July 7th 1838. That said declaration & proofs were duly authenticated before the Court of Common Pleas of Geauga County State of Ohio, among which according to my best reccollection was a certificate to prove the marriage of said Rachael, and were attached together as required by the rules of the Pension Office, and forwarded to the same either by myself or my brother E. F. Phelps; That some time after a letter was received from the Commissioner of Pensions, stating that said pension was not allowed for the reason that the said Ebenezer had died a few days after the passage of the Act of July 7, 1838; whether the original papers were returned. I am not certain, but it is my impression they were retained. I have searched among all my papers and cannot find them and have enquired of my said brother who has without effect caused search to be made for them also among his pension papers, and for this, as for other reasons I believe they must now be in the pension Office at Washington
Sworn & subscribed this       Alfred Phelps
5th day of March 1844, by
the subscriber Alfred Phelps whom
I certify to be a person of truth &
veracity, from my own personal
knowledge.
Before me Neri Wright Asst Judge
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Ebenezer Hopkins
Petition of Eleenr Hopkins
to be placed on the pension
roll of the United States.
-
Dec 19 1831
Refrd from Rev Pensions
Dade RO Rev Sen
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aged 68

To the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America
in Congress assembled,_
The petition of Ebenezer Hopkins of Crownpoint in the County of Essex, and State of Newyork, humbly sheweth;_ That in the fore part of the month of May A.D. 1779 he being then a resident in Pittsford, in the County of Rutland and State of Vermont, there was a requisition made by Capt. James Sawyer, who then commanded a Fort at Rutland in said State, upon Capt. Cooley, commander of a company of militia in said Pittsford, for a number of men to proceed down Lake Champlain, to watch the motions of the enemy, who was there threatening an invasion; that after a draft from said Company had been made, one of the men drafted, became unable to proceed upon the service by reason of sickness, and the said Elenezer, being there about sixteen years of age, and not subject to military duty, volunteered in the place of the soldier thus unable to do duty; that he forthwith proceeded upon said service, under the immediate command of Sergeant Ephraim Stevens, and on the fifth day after leaving home was captured near the mouth of Otter Creek, together with the said Ephraim Stevens, and one Benjamin Stevens, by a party of Indians and tories, and carried to Montreal where he was detained some time, and from thence was carried to Chambles, and after considerable detention there, was carried to Quebeck, where he arrived in the month of September 1779. at which place he was detained a prisoner until the expiration of three years and twenty eight days from the time of his said capture, about two years and four months of which time he was
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confined in close prison, night & day, part of the time on board a guard ship, and part of the time in the main prison in Quebeck; and that, during said
confinement he endured great sufferings from cold, hunger and sickness, which resulted from treatment of the enemy, rendered particularly severe & appussion
for the evident purpose of inducing him to enlist into their service, which he was repeatedly urged to do, but which he obstinately refused. He was finally exchanged, and returned to his home.

Your petitioner therefore humbly prays that, in consideration of his sd services & sufferings, and inasmuch as he case does not come within the express provisions of any existing law of the United States, granting pensions, he may be placed on the pension roll of the United States, at such rate as may be deemed proper or that such other relief may be granted him he being in a state of extreme poverty-- as to your Honorable Body may seem meet & proper
and as in duty bound will ever pray-
November 1830_
Ebenezer Hopkins

State of Vermont}
Addison County} SS  Middlebury November 4, 1830

Personally appeared the above named Ebenezer Hopkins, and made oath that the facts set forth in the foregoing petition are true, according to his best recollection
Before me William Slade Justice of the peace
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Mr Hoptons removes, (Sept 1831) to Shalersville
Portage County, Ohio.
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The State of Ohio}
Portage County} ss  The Deposition of Nehemiah Hopkins of Somerset, Niagra County, New York, to be used in the application of Ebenzer Hopkins of Welchfield County of Gaunge, and State of Ohio for a Pension under the Act of Congress of June 7 1832

I Nehemiah Hopkins, of Lawful age do depose and say that on or about the first day of May in the year 1779, I was residing in the Township of Pittsford, in the County of Rutland, and State of Vermont, and heard that orders had come from Govenor Chittenden, for the frontier Towns of said State to send scouts to Lake Champlain for the purpose of watching the Enemy, who were to serve one week and return, and others to go __ four men were accordingly appointed, or drafted in said Township of Pittsford for the first scout, towit, Ephraim Stevens,
Benjamin Stevens, Jonathan Pawley and Ashbel Hopkins_ the last of whom, Ashbel Hopkins, being sick, Ebenezar Hopkins, the applicant took his place as a substitute. and they immediately drew their provisions, took their own guns, and blankets, and set out for Lake Champlain, and nothing more was heard from them for several months, and the first that we heard from them was
that Jonathan Rowley was killed, and the others were taken prisoners, and were in Montreal. This, I think, was in the fall of 1781 - About the last of May, or first of June 1782, having been absent three years and twenty seven or twenty eight days the Applicant Ebenezar Hopkins, returned home- Nehemiah Hopkins
Sworn to & subscribed this 8th day of
June 1833 Before me Brice S. Hunter Dep. Clerk

The above Deposition was drawn up by me at Portage County Ohio, the said Nehemiah Hopkins being here on a visit to his friends. Lucius N. Burns J. Peace
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The State of Ohio}
Portage County}  I Ephraim Chapman of Aabesville, Portage County Ohio, being sworn say that I have been acquainted with Nehemiah Hopkins who has subscribed and sworn to the foregoing Affidavit, for about twenty years, and
that his character for truth and veracity is good
Sworn to & subscribed this 8th}   Ephriam Chapman
day of June 1833 Before me}
Brice S. Hunter Dep. Clerk}

The State of Ohio}
Portage County } ss   I Geo. Kirkum Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Portage in the State of Ohio do hereby certify that Brice S. Hunter before whom the foregoing affidavits were taken is and was at the time of taking said affidavits Deputy Clerk of said Court duly sworn & qualified to act as such - and that the foregoing signatures purporting to be his are genuine-
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at Ravenna the twenty eighth day of June Anno Domini one thousand Eight hundred and thirty three.   Geo. Kirkum Clerk _
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Welchfield in the County of Geauga State of Ohio in according to your direction and i send you these Names wish ware my witnesses when i had my papers made out at Chardon under the Late act for pentions to wit Nathan Smith of Bridport in the County Addison and State of Vermont and Clark Stow of waybridge in the County of Addison and State of Vermont and Martin Hopkins of Cornwall in the County of Addison and State of Vermont and Ephram Chapman of Schulersvill in the county of Portage and State Ohio and Thomas Scott Willard Beels and Amy Pratt all of the town of welchfield and of the County Geauga and State of Ohio the reson why Amy Pratt was a witness was that I was a stranger at Chardon and there was no other persons present that was aquainted with me if you think it wont do please to write to me and i can prokure others and send them to you when i applied to Congress som years ago i a number of witnesses and they are dead but those that are here i made use of under the Sate Pention act Sir when I had my papers, madout at Chardon i think that I was requested to Prokure the affedavit of a Clergiman But I have since been informed that the Law Required it therefore i have obtained one and sent it with these papers, and if any thing further is required Let me know and I will atend to it to
Elisha Whittlesey Esqr a member of Congress
Sir yours Ebenezer Hopkins
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Rachel Hopkins

under joint resolution of 23rd January, 1845 and act of July 7, 1838
AdwD: $80 Per akk
from 4 March, 1836, to 17 July, 1838

Elliott & Hathaway, 
Hampden, 
Ohio
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April 4, 1848
bl Rachel Hopkins
Re Jan 23 1848 
Chardon 
Mar 81

free

Hon J. L. Edwards 
Comm. of Pensions
Washington City D. C.
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Declaration
In order to obtain the benefits of the resolution of Congress of the 23rd of January, 1845, Whereas the act of the 30th of April, 1844 prohibited me from drawing a pension for the same period during which my husband was a pensioners I now make the following statement under oaths to obtain the benefits of the resolution above mentioned, I am the widow of Ebenezer Hopkins who was a Private in the war of the Revolution. I have drawn a pension at the rate of Eighty dollars per annum from the 17th day of July 1838 to the 4th day of March 1841 and also I have drawn a pension of Eighty dollar per annum from the 4th day of March 1843, and now ask for the amount due me from the 4th day of March 1836 to the 17th day of July 1838 when my former pension commenced.
signed in the presence of 
Joseph Durfey
James Hathaway
Rachel her X mark Hopkins
Sworn to and subscribed before me, on this the 27th day of March in the year 1845. The following figure interlined before signed to write "1838" James Hathaway Justice of the peace
I certify that the declarant is personally known to me and that she is the same individual she represents herself to be in the foregoing affidavit. James Hathaway Justice of the peace
I Ruben H. John Clerk of the Court of Common Plea, in and for the County of Geauga in the State of Ohio do hereby testify that James Hathaway Esq. who has signed the foregoing as a Justice of the Pease for the County of Geuaga in the State of Ohio and that the above is his signature.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed any name and affixed my seal of office this 28th day of March 1845 at Chardon in the State of Ohio. Ruben H John Clerk
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Hambden Geauga Co Ohio
March 28th 1845.
Hon J.L. Edwards Comm of Pensions
Dear Sir
We have the honor 
 to herewith transmit to your office for adjustment the Declaration of Rachel Hopkins when acted upon Please to make return to us
Respectfully your O.B. Servants
Elliott & Hathaway
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{date stamps}
REV WAR & NAVY FILES
DEC 18 1897
U S PENSION OFFICE DEC 17 1897
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Stamped:
PENSION 
U. DEC 17 1897 S.
OFFICE


Columbus Barracky O.
December 15th 1897
The Commissioner of Pensions
Washington, D.C.

Dear Sir:
Can you furnish me with copies of the Pension Records in the case of Ebenezer Hopkins soldier of the Revolutionary War, Vermont troops, and of Rachel Mead Hopkins, his wife. Ebenezer Hopkins was
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my great grandfather, and I think he drew a pension.  I am reliably informed that  his wife did. I would very much like to have copies of the record in er case and in his also if such record exists.
Respy
L. L. Durfee
1st Lieut. 17th Infantry.
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June 16 - 1926
Fremont Nebraska

Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D. C. 

Sir: 
Can you give me data on Ebenezer Hopkins (1763-1838)
Placed of pension roll in Ohio - 1831 - died in Welchfield, Ohio. I shall be very grateful for any information. 
Sincerely
Mrs Charles F. Dodge
1219 Park Ave
Fremont Nebraska
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[date stamp only -no data]
RECEIVED 
MAR 16 1989
MAIL SUB-DIV
VETS ADM 
READER 74
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Lakeside, Nebr. 
Mar 14, 1939

G. D. Heller
Veterans Administration 
Washington, D. C. 

Dear Sir:
Would it be possible to send me the Service Record from the Revolutionary War, of Ebenezer Hopkins who served in the Private Vermont State Troops?
Can you verify this record of the ancestors that I will write down, or tell me where to have it done?

I am the daughter of Stephen Brower - born 4/1 - 1894 died - and his (1) wife
Venice Book - born 8/8 1893 died - married 5/2 1917
2. The said Stephen Brower was the son of George Brower born 2/29 - 1859 died 8/18 - 1911 and his (1) wife Mary Livingston born 4/30 - 1867 died 7/11 134 married 3/7 - 1887
3. The said Mary Livingston was the dau. of Stephen Livingston born 6/14 - 1815 died 12/9 - 1905 and his (1) wife Mary Tinkham born 2/7 - 1824 died 3/25 - 1906 married 5/18 - 1861
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4. The said Mary Tinkham was the dau. of Alba Tinkham born 9/18 - 1990 died - and his () wife Achsah Hopkins born 7/19 - 1792 died - married 2/16 - 1817
5. The said Achash Hopkins was the sau. of Ebenezer Hopkins born - died - and his () wife Rachel mead born - died - married - 
Could you possibly help me secure the dates of the birth of Ebenezer Hopkins and Rachel Mead - also deaths and marriage date. I will appreciate any information you can give me. 
Yours truly ,
Aileen Brower
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Rev. and 1812
Wars Section. 

December 15, 1927

H. G. Otis, City Manager
Rocky Mount
N. C.

Sir: 
I have to advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim W. 7781, it appears that Ebenezer Hopkins was born June 1, 1781, place not stated. 

While residing at Pittsford, Rutland County, Vermont, he enlisted in May 1779 in Captain Thomas Sawyer's Vermont Company, and went on a scouting party to Lake Champlain under Sergeant Ephraim Stevens, he was taken prisoner, May 12, 1779, and carried to Montreal, then to Chambly, and then to Quebec, reaching there in September 1779, where he was held until exchanged June 9, 1783. [handwritten is illegible]
[handwritten] 07. Ashbel Hopkins Capt Henry Cooluput Co.

He was allowed pension on his application executed September 10, 1832, while a resident of Welshfield, Geauge County, Ohio. He died July 16 or 17, 1838 at Troy, Geauga County, Ohio. 

Soldier married December 2, 1783 or 1784 at 

[handwritten in right margin] If photo deeds are ever asked of this case. give state report
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2-
Pittsford, Vermont, Rachel Mead.

She was allowed pension on her application executed November 9, 1838, while living in Troy, Ohio. She was born January 28, 1768, place not stated. 

The names of their children are shown as follow:

Josiah born April 18, 1786.
Ebenezer, Jr. " August16, 1787.
Sophia " January 27, 1789.
Charlotte " October 24, 1790 or 1791.
Aokeah " July 19, 1792.
Minerva " April 23, 1794.
Mathew " April 7, 1796, died May 13, 1796.
Bradley, who was forty years old in 1838.

A son-in-law, Joseph Durfey, was fifty-eight years old in 1844. The name of his wife was not designated. 

This Bureau is unable to furnish the history of a soldier of the Revolution, unless a claim for pension or bounty land has been made on account of his services and a careful search of the records fails to show such a claim on file on account of the services of any soldier named Nehemiah Hopkins. 

In order to make a proper search of said records for a soldier named Stephen Mead (Meade, Meed, or Meede) some of the following data is essential- approximate
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dates of birth and death, places of residence at enlistment and after service, and first name of widow. 

Your letter has this day been forwarded to the proper division, for reply relative to the Civil War soldier Captain James Henry Turrill. 
Respectfully, 
WINFIELD SCOTT
Commissioner. 

[handwritten]
For further correspondence see Rev. War pen cl of John Wadsworth W. 18273