Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 46,004, Samuel Hait, Conn.
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SERVICE                             NUMBER
Conn.          Hait, Samuel         S 46.004
B. L. Wt. 967-200 Lieut.
Issued June 27, 1789.
No papers.
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4,314
Connecticut Roll 4
Samuel Hait 
Capt Silt
Lieutenant
Connecticut line
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War. 
Inscribed on the Roll of Connecticut at the rate of twenty Dollars per month, to commence on the 26th of March 1812- 
Certificate of Pension issued the 11th of November 1812 and sent to Pierpoint towards [illegible] Bridgeport
Arrears to 4th of September ~1818. 5 6/31+4/30 - 106:53
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4th March 1819 - 120:
226:53
Revolutionary calim, 
Act 18th March, 1818
4 years 
Stamford 4 March 1819
Hon. J. Buchanan & W.W. Addisere, May 10.
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Saml Hait Jr
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District of Connecticut 
On this 26 day of March AD 1818 Samuel Hait of Stamford in said district under oath declares before Pierpont Edwards district Judge of the United States for the district of Connecticut in which district the declarant now resides and for more than thirty years last past hath resided that on the 12th day of July AD 1775 the declarant enlisted into the service of the United States (the Colonies) in a Capt. Joseph Hait's company of Colonel Charles Webb's Regiment for the term of six months which the declarant faithfully served out as a private and that on the 20th day of December 1775 he again enlisted int said service in a company commanded by said Captain Joseph Hait of Regiment commanded by said Colonel Webb on the Continental establishment for the term of one year from the first day of January ad 1776 which he faithfully served out part there of as a corporal and that on the 18th day of May ad 1777 he again enlisted into said service also as a private  [illegible] the term of the continuance of the the War of  Revolution in Captain Samuel Connecticut Company and eightth Connecticut Regiment on the continued establishment commanded by Colonel John Chandler and soon after he was appointed a
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commanded by Colonel Isaac Sherman and continued in that capacity to serve until on the twenty seventh day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty two when he received a commission appointing him a Lieutenant in the army of the United States to take control from the twenty ninth day of May preceding and thereafter continued in the said service of the United States as a Lieutenant in the army & lines on the continental establishment until the third day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty three when he was regularly & honorably discharged from said service. Which discharge the declarant hath by time and accident lost.
And the said declarant further under oath that he now is & ever since the declaration of [illegible] hath been a resident citizen of the United States and now exhibits to said judge his commission as a Lieutenant to prove his foregoing declaration of service in that office.
Sam Hait

Hartford March 8 1818 I Saml Hait do further under oath declare that by referring my wherein circumstances in life of I am in need of the [illegible] of my country for support.
Sam Hait

District of Connecticut ss. March 26th AD 1818 the aforenamed Samuel Hait came before me & in my presence subscribed the aforesaid declaration & made oath that the same is true.
Pierpont Edwards
District Judge of said District
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District of Connecticut }ss.
On this 28th day of March AD 1818 before me Pierpont Edwards, District Judge of the United States for the district of Connecticut came James Stevens & Simeon H. Minor Esquires both of Stanford in said District respectable citizens thereof who being duly sworn do depose & say that they are well acquainted with Samuel Hait the aforenamed declarant and also with his circumstances in life and are of opinion that they are so reduced that he is in need of assistance from his country for his support.
And the deponents further say that the said Samuel Hait is now [crossed out "from since to declaration of the [illegible] hath been a resident citizen of the United States"] and for a number of years last [illegible] been an upstanding citizen of the United States.
James Stevens
Simeon H Minor

March 26th AD 1818 sworn before me Pierpont Edwards, District Judge of the District of Connecticut
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County of Fairfield ss
On this 19th day of April AD 1827 personally appeared in open court being a court of record for the county of Fairfield in the state of Connecticut, Samuel Hoyt resident in said county aged seventy four years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration to obtain the provision made by the acts of Congress of the 18th March 1818 and the 1st May 1820. That he the said Samuel Hoyt enlisted as a private for the term of six months on the 12th day of July, in the year 1775 in the State of Connecticut in the company commanded by Capt. Joseph Hait in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Charles Well in the line of the State of Connecticut in the Continental establishment that he continued to serve in said corpse until the first day of January next following when he was discharged from the service as Winterhill in the state of Massachusetts. That on the first day of January in the year 1776 he again enlisted as a private for the time of one year in the state of Massachusetts in the company commanded by Capt Joseph Hait in the regiment commanded by Colonel Charles Webb in the line of the State of Connecticut in the continental establishment. That he continued to serve in said corpse until the first day of January 1777 when he was discharged from the service at Peekskill in the state of New York. That he again enlisted as a private for the term of five [?] months on the 13th
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day of May in the year 1777. That he again enlisted as a private for the continuance of the war on the 23rd day of said May in the State of Connecticut in the company commanded by Capt Samuel Comstock in the regiment commanded by Col. John Chandler in the line of the state of Connecticut. That he continued in said service having sometime, as he thinks, in the year 1781 received an Ensigns commission and subsequently a Lieutenants commission until the close of the war when he was discharged from the service in West Point in the state of New York. That he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension except the present. That his name has been placed on the pension list, that the number of his pension certificate is now not recollected. The said certificate not being now not here in the possession of the declarant and that he never before exhibited a schedule of his property because he had been in better circumstances & felt reluctant to make a disclosure of the precise condition to which he had been reduced.
And in pursuance of the act of the first of May, 1820 I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March 1818 and that I have not since that time by gift, sale or in any manner disposed of my property or any part thereof with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the pro-

Hait, Samuel
Conn s46004
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visions of "An Act of Congress entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War" passed on the 18th day of March 1818 and that I have not nor had any person in trust for use any property or securities, contracts or debts due to me, nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed. That since the 18th day of March 1818 the following changes have been made in my property: viz, the reduction of the notes in said schedule mentioned from the amount of which they were original given to the [illegible] now therein. The collection of a note of one hundred dollars due me by John Green deceased and also of one of fifty dollars due me by Samuel Lockwood which sums have been necessarily expected by me. Also the sale of 3 1/2 acres of land to John Curtiss for which the note of John Curtiss in said schedule mentioned was given. That since he left the said service his occupations have been various, having sometimes followed the boating business between Stanford in said county and New York and in other places, having sometimes followed merchandising besides several other pursuits. But he is now engaged in no occupation being by reason of old age and the infirmities thereto [illegible] to pursue any active business or to perform any bodily labor, which has been his condition for several years past. That his family couldn't
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of himself & his wife Betsey Hoyt aged fifty five years who is in health as good as ordinary and as able to labor as women of her age generally are.
Samuel Hait

Schedule of the property of Samuel Hait accompanying his declaration, viz:
A note of hand against Jonas Lockwood originally for one thousand dollars on which there is now due eight hundred dollars only. $800
A note of hand against John Curtiss originally for $91.50 on which there is now due only.....$20.00
A note of hand against Gabriel Hubbard & Henry Close originally for $100 on which there is now due only 70.
A note of hand against Isaac Waterbury for 25.
A note of hand against Uzal Knapp whose responsibility is doubtful on which there is due 25.77
Three and a half acres of land in Darien in Fairfield County worth thirty dollars per acre. 105.
One old maple table   1. 
eight windsor chairs 3.
one hogshead & four barrels 1. 
__________________
1050.77

Samuel Hait


Hait, Samuel
Conn s46004
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At a county court holden at Fairfield within and for the county of Fairfield on the 3rd Tuesday of April AD 1827.
Sworn to and declared in open court, whereupon said court is, on satisfactory proof exhibited in open court of opinion and doth find that the total amount in value of the property described in said schedule of Samuel Hait is 1050 dollars and 77 cents and doth order these proceedings to be entered on the records of said court.
Test. T. B. Osborne Clerk

State of Connecticut ss.
Fairfield County
I Thomas B. Osborne Clerk of the county court within and for said Fairfield County do hereby certify that the foregoing is a true copy of the original declaration of said Samuel Hait and of the
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schedule thereunto annexed and also of the record of said county court in said case. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said county court in Fairfield this 26th day of April AD 1827.
Thomas B. Osborne Clerk of said county court

I John Q Wilson, Chief Judge of the county court within and for the county of Fairfield aforesaid do hereby certify that Thomas B. Osborne is clerk of said court & keeper of the seal & records thereof; & that the preceding certificate under his hand & the seal of said court is authentic & in due form of law. I further certify that said county court is a court of record. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in Fairfield this 26th day of April AD 1827.
John Q. Wilson
Chief Judge


Hait, Samuel
conn s46004
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20,307

Samuel Hait's application for a pension

Pension Office
May 8th 1827

Rejected. See letter 9 May 1827 to claimant.
In letter to Col A Ogden, 19 June 1828

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THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA IN CONGRESS ASSEMBLED
To Samuel Hait Gentleman......Greeting.
We reposing special trust and confidence in your Patriotism, Valour, Conduct and Fidelity, DO by these presents ensitute and appoint you to be a Lieutenant in the Connecticut Line in the Army of the United States, to take rank as such from the twenty ninth day of May 1782. You are therefore carefully and diligently to discharge the duty of a Lieutenant by doing and performing all manner of things thereunto belonging. And we do strictly charge and require all Officers and Soldiers, under your command, to be obedient to your orders, as Lieutenant. And you are to observe and follow such orders and directions, from time to time, as you shall receive from this, or a future Congress of the United States, or Committee of Congress for that purpose appointed, a Committee of the States, or Commander in Chief for the time being of the Army of the United States, or any other your Superior Officer according to the rules and discipline of War, in pursuance of the trust reposed in you. This Commission to continue in force until revoked by this, or a future Congress, the Committee of Congress before mentioned, or a Committee of the States.
Witness His Excellency Elias Bondinot, President of the Congress of the United States of America at Philadelphia the twenty seventh day of November A.D. 1782 and in the Seventh year of our Independence.

Elias Bondinot

By Order of Congress
B. Lincoln Secretary at War

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Samuel Hait
CT

CT Line
Ref File no 4.444
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Oct 3, 1853
Let. in Haines case

R. T. Queen
[illegible place]
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McAlister
May 23/51
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S4314

[letterhead]
DIOCESE OF NEWARK
CHRIST CHURCH PARISH
HACKENSACK N.J.

The Rectory, 219 State St. May 9 1896.

the Hon. Commissioner of Pensions:
You were so kind as to send to me a transcript of a Revolutionary Soldier & Pensioner last October, in reply to our inquiry from one. He did not prove to be the one I was looking for. On correspondence with the state librarian at Hartford Conn, I have reason to believe that the man I want was Samuel Hait, of Stanford, Conn, who was a pensioner under Act of 1818, and is so mentioned in the book, "Conn. men in
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the Revolution". May I ask therefore for a statement as to his services, for which I thank you in advance, & enclose postage.
Faithfully Yours,
(Rev.) Wm Welles Holley

[stamped]
U.S.
PENSION 
OFFICE
D
MAY 11 1896

[stamped]
OLD WAR & NAVY
MAY 18 1896
FILES
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rolls Sherman - March 1780
Saml Hait 2 m Sergt
for May 1780
Abiel Linsley 2 m. Sergt
June 1780
ditto
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[left side cut off and illegible]

37083

Revy. INVALID.

File No., 37083
Samuel Hait
Lieut Rev War

Act 18th March 18
Index: vol 2, Page 177

(Arrangement of 1870.)

May 14 96
sold pensd
Wm. W. Holley
Hackinsack
[illegible]
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P. O. _______________
Samuel Hait
Service: ___________________

Enlisted: ________________, 18
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Augst 3rd 1781, Saml Hait Ensign Cap Richd Sills company Col. Shumans Regn
Staff Rolls & Com Regt for June 1781 - Saml Hait reissued ensign Cap Sills company - Marked "on duty"

Do co for July 1781: "Command at Stoney Point"
Promoted to vacancy 29 May 1782 see Rolls 8 [illegible] 5 Revy for dep #1782 transferred to 6 Company
Sent & Adjt July 30 Act 1782 Company Cap Dr
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staff Roll Col Sherman's regiment
"Abstract of Pay due to the following ensigns of the 5 Conn. regiment to make their pay equal to the ensigns from the date of their appointments to April 1780"

Samuel Hait Ens May 5 1779/Aug 18 1779/ 3 in 13.
Aug 18/April 1780 7.14

On  Roll Le Cols Company as ensign May 1780
Capt Sentfried [?] company Ensign June 1780
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Washington April 20th 1847

Dear Sir:
Enclosed herewith you will find the application of the children of Saml Hait, decd for an increase of pension. Mr. Hait received a pension under act 1828 of $320 per ann. for his services as a Lieutenant in the Connecticut Line; and his children now claim a pension, under the act of 1832, at the rate of $600 pr. an. for his services as Lieut Paymaster, Clothier &c. If the rolls in your office do not afford the necessary evidence of his staff service, you will please make application for an examination of the "Washington papers" for proof thereof.
If the proof of the date of Mr. Haits death is not satisfactory, I request that you will procure it from the office of the Third Auditor.
Hoping soon to hear from you
I remain
very respectfully
your mo obt st
D. D. Addison

J. W. Crump Esq
Acting Comm of Pensions
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Department of state
Washington May 29th 1847

James L. Edwards, Esquire
Commissioner of Pensions.

Sir:
In compliance with your request, I have caused the Washington papers to be examined "for evidence of the services of Samuel Hait, Lieutenant, Paymaster and Clothier, in the Connecticut Line after 1781", and have to report as follows:

In Vol 19 of the Washington papers, page 81 there is on file, a paper purporting to be "a return of clothing &c of the 8th Connecticut Regiment, commanded by J. Sherman, Lieut Colonel Commandant" dated December 15th
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1780 which is signed "Samuel Hait, Ensn regt Cothier P. T. and J. Sherman, Lieut Col Commdt"
In Vo 14 of the Washington papers, page 48, there is on file, a certificate dated 14th August 1780, signed by Samuel Hait, P. Master P. T. stating that Captain Barnes of the 8th Connecticut Regiment is not indebted to said Regiment.
In Vo 22 of the Washington papers page 112, there is on file a paper signed J. Sherman, Lieut Col. Conndt, and Samuel Hait Ensign, P. M. P. T 5th Connt Regt which is endorsed "Pay Roll of the [illegible] of the 8th Connt Regt for the year 1780, and in a return of the Officers of the 3 Connecticut Regiment, dated 16 April 1783. S. Hait is returned as Lieutenant and N. Beers returned as Pay Master.
I am
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I am, Sir, respectfully
Your Obet Sevt
James Buchanan
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I, Joel Hinman, one of the Judges of the Superior Court of the State of Connecticut, said court being now in session at Fairfield in said state, & in & for the county of Fairfield, do hereby certify that it has been proved to my satisfaction, that the said Samuel Hait died on the 30th day of December 1832; that the said Rufus Hoyt & Ann S. Tillman are the only surviving children of the said Samuel Hait; that there is no widow of the said Samuel Hait now surviving, & that the family now spell the name Hoyt, in conformity to the custom of others in Fairfield County, instead of Hait, which latter was the mode adopted by the said Samuel Hait. The certificate, hereunto annexed, was handed to me by the said Rufus Hoyt; and I do further
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certify that I find all the above mentioned facts upon disinterested evidence, except the fact in relation to the day of said Samuel Haits death; in regard to which, I find upon disinterested evidence, that he died at some day previous to the 16 day of January 1833, but as to the precise day of his death being on the 30th of December 1832, I rely upon the foregoing declaration, which I have no doubt states the fact correctly.
Joel Hinman
of the Judges of the Sup Court of Connecticut

Fairfield April 16 1847
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State of Connecticut
Fairfield County
On this 16th day of April eighteen hundred and forty seven, personally appeared before me Joel Hinman one of the Judges of the Superior Court for the county of Fairfield and state aforesaid, Rufus Hoyt a resident of Fairfield in said county and state, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the act of June 7th 1832. That he is one of the children of Samuel Hait, decd who was a pensioner of the United States under the act of May 15th 1828, at the rate of $320 p an. for his services as Lieutenant in the Line, and drew his pension at that rate up to thirtieth of December Eighteen hundred & thirty two, when he died.
The object of this application is to claim the difference between his former pensions of $320 per annum, and the pension he was entitled to under the act of June 7th 1832, for his additional services as PayMaster, Clothier &c in the staff from the 4th of March 1831 to the thirtieth day of
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December eighteen hundred and thirty two, the day of his death.
Rufus Hoyt for himself & the other child of Saml. Hait

Sworn & subscribed before me this 16 day of April 1847
Joel Hinman, one of the Judges of the Superior Court of the state of Connecticut.
The words "court of" in the fourth line of this declaration were erased by me before said declaration was signed or sworn to.
Joel Hinman Judge of the Supr Ct of CT

State of Connecticut

I Bryant Smith Clerk of the Superior Court within + for the County of Fairfield +  keeping the seal thereof certify that Joel Hinman Esq who hath signed the foregoing Certificate is Judge of the Superior Court of Connecticut + was record Judge at the date thereof-I am acquainted with his handwriting and that the signature to and foregoing certificate from [illegible] to be in his proper hand writing- In testimony whereof and have hereunto set my hand +  deal if Court of Fairfield this 17th day of [illegible] AD 1847 Bryant Smith Clerk
[seal]
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Samuel Hayt
Payable on the 4th March and 4th September of each year at the U. States Branch bank Middletown Con

Saml Hait
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WAR DEPARTMENT

Revolutionary Claim

I CERTIFY, That in conformity with the Law of the United States, of the eighteenth day of March 1818 Samuel Hait late a Lieutenant in the Army of the Revolution is inscribed on the Pension List, Roll of the Connecticut Agency, at the rate of Twenty dollars [crossed out "cents"] per month to commence on the 26th day of March one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.

GIVEN at the WAR OFFICE of the UNITED STATES,
this 18th day of November one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.

J. C. Calhoun
Secretary of War
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File #46,004

Revy war

Name: Samuel Hait
Rank: Lieutenant Comp'y: Col Webb
Reg't: 3rd Regt Conn Line Rev

Connecticut Agency.

RATE PER MONTH, AND DATE OF COMMENCEMENT.
1st issue __________ comm'g_________
2nd issue _________comm'g _______
3d issue _____________ comm'g ________

DATE OF CERTIFICATE, AND TO WHOM SENT
1st issue. ________ Sent to ________
2nd issue _________ Sent to ______________
3rd issue __________ Sent to __________

Act 14th July, 1862. Bk G. Vol, ______ Page _____
Registering Clerk:
disability.{ old rej'd claims [illegible]
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1828
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38-294

No of orig pay 294

REVOLUTIONARY CLAIMS.

TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
July 26, 1828.

Samuel Hait, of Darien, in the County of Fairfield, in the State of Connecticut has applied to the Secretary of the Treasury for the benefits of the act, entitled "An Act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the army of the Revolution," approved on the 15th of May, 1828. He states that he was as an officer on the Continental line, and served as such to the end of the war.
at which period he was a Lieutenant in the third regiment of the Connecticut line; and that he received commutation certificates for the five years full pay granted by the resolve of 22 March, 1783; and, further, that he has received as a pensioner since the 3d of March, 1826, nothing, [crossed out "dollars, paid to him by the agent in the State of"]
The Third Auditor is requested to report how far these several statements are corroborated by the records in his office.
Reporter of the Secretary
A. Dickins

TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
THIRD AUDITOR'S OFFICE,
31st July 1828
It appears by the records in this office, that final settlement certificates have been issued for the commutation of five years full pay to Samuel Hait, Lieutenant in the Connecticut line, amounting to sixteen hundred dollars. It further appears that Samuel Hait is not now on the pension list of any agency, and has not been since the 3rd March 1826. [crossed out "at the rate of ____ per month"]
Peter Hagner [illegible]
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For the purposes of obtaining the benefit of an act entitled "An act for the relief of certain surviving officers & soldiers of the army of the Revolution" approved on the 15th of May 1828. I Samuel Hait (ever until recently of Stanford in the County of Fairfield in the State of Connecticut, now) of Darien in the County of Fairfield in the State of Connecticut, do hereby declare that I was an officer in the Continental Line of the army of the Revolution & served as such to the end of the war at which period I was a Lieutenant in the third Regiment of the Connecticut Line as I think commanded by Col. Samuel B. Noble. And I also declare that I afterwards received certificates (commonly called commutation certificates) for a sum equal to the amount of five years full pay; which sum was offered viz the Resolve of Congress of the 22nd of March 1783 instead of the half pay for life to which I was entitled under the Resolve of the 21st of Oct 1780.
And I do further declare that I have received of the United States, as a pensioner since the 3rd day of March 1826, nothing at all.
Witness my hand this seventeenth day of June in the year one thousand eight hundred & twenty eight.
Sam Hait
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Before me Charles Hawley a justice of the peace duly empowered to administer oaths, in the county of Fairfield in the state of Connecticut, personally appeared this day the Hon. John Davenport & the Hon James Stevens of the said County, who did generally make oath that Samuel Hait by whom the foregoing declaration was subscribed, is generally reputed & believed to have been an officer in the army of the Revolution, in manner as therein stated. Witness my hand this seventeenth day of June in the year one thousand eight hundred & twenty eight.
C. Hawley, Justice of Peace

I Thomas B. Osborne, Clerk of the court of the county of Fairfield in the state of Connecticut do hereby certify that Charles Hawley before whom the foregoing affidavits were sworn was at the time a Justice of the Peace in & for the county of Fairfield aforesaid & duly empowered to administer oaths.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of the said court this 23rd day of June in the year one thousand eight hundred & twenty eight.
(the words "court of the" interlined before signature.
Thomas B. Osborne
Clerk of the County Court
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To the Hon. Secretary of the Treasury!
Sir,
I have now enclosed my commission. It was some years since forwarded by me to the War Department together with a Declaration of my services in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War. I presume it will now be found in the office of the Secretary of War.
I am with great respect
your very obedt servt
Sam Hait

Stanford (Connecticut) June 17 AD 182[?]