Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 759, Solomon Hobart, Continental N.H.
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(3-1776)

SERVICE
Continental
N.H.

Hobart, Solomon
.................Nancy

NUMBER
W 739
B.L.Wt. 6033-160-55

CONTENTS
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1283
Vermont, Burlington,
Nancy Hobart  widow of Solomon, Hobart who served in the Revolutionary war, as a private & artificer N. Hampshire
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 117 dollars 78 cents per annum, to commence on the 3d February, 1853. 
Certificate of Pension issued 13th day of Aug't 1853. and sent to Henry Weed, Hinesburgh, Vermont. 
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act of February 3, 1853, Page 28. Vol. A
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Vermont 28908
Solomon Hobart of Chittendon in the State of Vt. who was a pr: Art in the compy commanded by Captain Emmerson (Emerson) of the [blank] commanded by [blank] in the N.H. line for 20 mo. 28 days
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Inscribed on the Roll of Vermont at the rate of 117. Dollars 78. Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831. 
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Certificate of Pension issued the 5 day of July 34 and sent N. B. Haswell. Burlington - Vt.
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Arrears to the 4th of Mar: 34 353.34
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sept. " 58.89
$412.23
{Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.}
Recorded by Nath. Rice. Clerk.
Book E. Vol. 3 Page 72
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[verso]
46.214} Act Mar 3d/55
April 6th/55
Nancy Hobart wid
Solomon Hobart pri Pensioner
Hazen's Reg't of Artificers of N.H. Quota
Revolution War
Ad: Sept: 5" 1855, 160 acres
Boynton
[overwritten: war't No 6033 iss Sept 10/55]
Boynton
Weston & Shaw
Burlington Vt 
Recd.

[recto]
Vt.
July 48 - no 681
FEby 53 - " 1283
Vol. H2 - 48.
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27.960
Solomon Hobart
1834-1760=74
N. B. Haswell
Burlington Vt
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I William Brooks of of Hancock in the County of Hillsborough and State of New Hampshire aged 72 years testify and say, that in the year 1778 I resided in Hollis in said County of Hillsborough in the latter part of September or first part of October in the year aforesaid I enlisted into the United States service as a sergeant in Cap't Nathaniel Chapman company of Artilary and artificers, in Col Benjamin Hazen's Regiment, that Solomon Hobart then of said Hollis now of Westford Vermont enlisted as a soldier in said company, that we marched to Springfield Massachusetts from said Springfield we marched to Philadelphia where we continued to the first of November 1779 we then ['marched' crossed out] return'd to Springfield aforesaid and then continued to work ironing carriages for cannon and for traveling forges untill the latter part of March or first part of April 1780 and was then discharged marking the term of eighteen month, that the said Hobart served the whole of said term
/s/Wm Brooks
State of New Hampshire
Hillsborough County ss. October 15-1832
Personally came William Brooks the above deponent and made solemn oath that the above affidavit by him subscribed is true before me
/s/Thacher Bradford Justice of the Peace
I certify that I am acquainted with Wm Brooks the above deponent that his character for truth & vracity is good
/s/Thacher Bradford Justice of the Peace
I Andrew Wallace Clerk of the Superior Court of Judicature for the County of Hillsborough in the State of New Hampshire, certify that Thacher Bradford above named is a Justice of the Peace for the County of Hillsborough as above and before mentioned, and that the foregoing signatures, purporting to be his, are genuine.
[court seal affixed] In testimony whereof, I have hereunto affixed my seal of Office and subscribed my name, this twentieth day of November AD 1832 - 
/s/A. Wallace Clerk
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I John Brooks of Hancock in the County of Hillsborough and State of New Hampshire aged 72 years, testify and say, that at the commencement of the Revolutionary war I resided in Hollis in the County aforesaid, that I enlisted into the United States, service in Cap't Nathanial Chapman's company of Artilary and artificers, Thos Kemp, & Weston was Lieutenants in said ['said' crossed out] company, that I enlisted the latter part of September or first part of October in 1778, I further say that Solomon Hobart then of said Hollis now of Westford in the State Vermont enlisted in to the same company, we marched to Philadelphia and joined Col'o Benjamin Hazen's Regiment, when we continued untill the latter part of October or first part of November 1779 that we were then marched to Springfield Massachusetts where we continued in the service of United States untill the later part of March or first part of April 1780 and was, then discharged making the term eighteen months, that the said Hobart served the whole of said term
/s/John Brooks
State of New Hampshire
Hillsborough ss October 15, 1832
personally came John Brooks the above deponent and made oath in due form of law that the above affidavit by him subscribed is true before me 
/s/Thacher Bradford Justice of the Peace
I certify that I am acquainted with John Brooks the above deponent that his character for truth and veracity is good
/s/Thacher Bradford, Justice of the Peace
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46.214
Nancy Hobart
Rev'd
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State of Vermont
County of Chittenden ss} On this 22d of March AD 1855 personally appeared before me a Justice of the peace within and for the County and state aforesaid Nancy Hobart aged Seventy two years a resident of Westford in the state of Vermont who being duly sworn according to law declares that she is the widow of Solomon Hobart who was a Soldier in the army of the Revolution and entered the service of the United States at Hollis New Hampshire and served as a private and Artificer and placed on the pension roll of the Burlington Vermont agency at the rate of $117.78  per annum. and the she is also a pensioner of the United States at the same rate and is paid at the same Agency.
She further states that she was married to the said Solomon Hobart in Fairfax in Franklin County Vermont on the [blank] day of December AD 1818 by Joseph Bernan Esq then a Justice of Peace and that her name before her marriage was Mrs. Nancy Merchant and that her husband the said Solomon Hobart died at Westford on the sixth day of April 1849  and that she is his widow. She states she has no family record & has no knowledge of any
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public one - and that she makes this declaration for the purpose & obtaining the bounty land to which she may be entitled under the "act approved March 3d 1855" 
She states she has never received bounty land or applied for any under any act of Congress
/s/Nancy Hobart
We Azro Hacket of Westford and James Fuller of Milton in the state of Vermont upon our oaths declare that the foregoing declaration was signed and acknowledged by Nancy Hobart in our presence and that we believe from the statement and appearance of the applicant that she is the identical person she represents herself to be
/s/A. F. Hackett
/s/James Fuller
The foregoing declaration and affidavit were sworn to and subscribed before me on the day and year above written. And I certify that I know the affiants to be credible persons that the claimant is the person she represents herself to be and that I have no interest in this claim
/s/Amos Hobart} Justice of the Peace
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Solomon Hobart

Admt. as an
Artificer 18 mo.     108.00
Priv (illegible) 2.28   9.78
---------------------$117.78

N B Haswell
Burlington, Vt.
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WAR DEPARTMENT,
Pension Office,

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

 A STATEMENT, showing the Service of Solomon Hobart

Period when the service was rendered
 Years. Months. Days.
19 May '77 = 1 Month. 1 Day.
6 Aug. '78 = 1 Month. 28 Days.
1 Oct. '78 = 1 Year. 6 Months.

Rank of Claimant. Artificer [Skilled craftsman or inventor]

(*The requested names and rank of the officers under whom he served, his age at present and place of abode when he entered service were left BLANK)

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

The following regulations have been adopted:
This law has been construed to extend, as well to the line, as to every branch of the Staff of the Army,
and to include under the terms "Continental Line," "State troops," "militia" and "volunteers," all
persons enlisted, drafted, or who volunteered and who were bound to military service, but not those who
were occasionally employed with the army upon civil contracts, such as Clerks to Commissaries and to
Store Keepers, &c., Teamsters, Boatmen, &c. Persons who served on board of private armed vessels are
also excluded from the benefits of the law, as well as persons who turned out as patrols, or were engaged
in guarding particular places at night, and were not recognized as being in actual military service.
Four general classes of cases are embraced in this law:
The Regular Troops.
2. ┃
The State Troops, Militia, and Volunteers.
3. ┃
Persons employed in the Naval Service.
4.
Indian Spies.
As rolls of the regular troops in the Revolutionary War exist in this Department, all persons claiming
the benefit of this law as officers, non-commissioned officers, mucicians or privates, will, in the first
instance, make application by transmitting the following declaration, which will be made before a Court of
Record of the County where such applicant resides. And every Court having by law a seal and Clerk is
considered a Court of Record.

DECLARATION
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th of June, 1832.
State, Territory, or District of } SS

On this
day of
A.
personally appeared (a) before
in the county of
and State, Territory or District
of
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 enlisted in the Army of the United States in the year (d)
served in the
(e) regiment of the
with
and
line, under the following named officers:
[Here set forth the names and rank of the Field and Company Officers; the time he left the service; (and if he served
under more than one term of enlistment, he must specify the particular period, and rank and names of his officers;) the
town or county and State in which he resided when he entered the service; the battles, if any, in which he was engaged,
and the country through which he marched. This form is to be varied so as to apply to the cases of officers and persons
who belonged to the militia, volunteers, navy, &c.]
He hereby relinquishes every claim (f) whatever to a pension or an annuity, except the present, and he
declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any Agency in any State, or (if any) only on that of
the Agency in the State of
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
A. B.
And then will follow the certificate of the Court.
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion (g) that the above named applicant was a revolutionary
soldier, and served as he states.
of the Court of
do hereby certify (h) that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of
the application of
for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office (i) this
day of
& c.
If, on examination of the proper record, the names of applicants, making such declaration, cannot be
found, they will produce such proof as the rule given in note (j) points out.
Every applicant who claims a pension by virtue of service in the State Troops, Volunteers or Militia.
except those who belonged to the New Hampshire Militia and State Troops of Virginia, will make and
subscribe a declaration similar to the foregoing, with the following additions, viz:
(k) We, A. B., a Clergyman, residing in the
hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with
and C. D. residing in (the same)
subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be
who has
years of age; that he is reputed and believed, in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier
of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.
Sworn and subscribed the days and year aforesaid.
And then will follow the certificate of the Court.
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after
putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary
Soldier, and served as he states. And the Court further certifies, that it appears to them that A. B.
who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman, resident in the
and that C. D., who has also signed the same is a resident in the
and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
I,
Clerk of the Court of
do hereby certify that the foregoing
contains the original proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the application of
for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal
of office, this
day of
& c.
Every applicant will produce the best proof in his power. This is the original discharge or commission
; but if neither of these can be obtained, the party will so state under oath, and will then procure, if
possible, the testimony of at least one credible witness, stating in detail his personal knowledge of the services
of the applicant, and such circumstances connected therewith, as may have a tendency to throw light
upon the transaction.
If such surviving witness cannot be found, the applicant will so state in his declaration, (l) and he will
also, whether he produce such evidence or not, proceed to relate all the material facts, which can be useful
in the investigation of his claim, and in the comparison of his narrative with the events of the period of his
of Claimant served in Flower Ry why did he not claim
under act of 1818
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alleged service, as they are known at the Department. A very full account of the services of each person
will be indispensable to a favorable action upon his case. The facts stated will afford one of the principal
means of corroborating the declaration of the applicant, if true, or of detecting the imposition, if one be attempted
; and unless, therefore, these are amply and clearly set forth, no favorable decision can be expected
. All applicants will appear before some Court of Record in the County in which they reside, and
there subscribe and be sworn to, one of the declarations above provided, according to the nature of his
case.
The Court will propound the following (m) interrogatories to all applicants for a pension, on account of
service in the Militia, State troops, or Volunteers, except the Militia of New Hampshire and the State
troops of Virginia.
1. Where and in what year were you born?
2. Have you any record of your age, and if so, where is it?
3. Where were you living when called into service; where have you lived since the Revolutionary war
, and where do you now live?
4. How were you called into service; were you drafted, did you volunteer, or were you a substitute?
And if a substitute, for whom?
5. State the names of some of the Regular Officers, who were with the troops, where you served; such
Continental and Militia Regiments as you can recollect, and the general circumstances of your services.
Did you ever receive a discharge from the service, and if so, by whom was it giv-
To a Soldier on, and what has become of it?
Did you ever receive a commission, and if so, by whom was it signed, and what
one has become of it?
7. State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood, and who can testify
as to your character for veracity, and their belief of your services as a soldier of the Revolution.
The Court will see that the answers to these questions are embodied in the declaration, and they are
requested to annex their opinions of the truth of the statement of the applicant.
The applicant will further produce in Court, if the same can be done, in the opinion of the Court,
without too much expense and inconvenience to him, two respectable persons--one of whom should be
the nearest clergyman, if one lives in the immediate vicinity of such applicant, who can testify, from
their acquaintance with him, that they believe he is of the age he represents, and that he is reputed
and believed in the neighborhood to have been a Revolutionary soldier, and that they concur in that opinion.
If one of these persons is a Clergyman, the Court will so certify, and they will also certify to the character
and standing of other persons giving such certificates.
The traditionary evidence of service is deemed very important, in the absence of any direct
proof, except the declaration of the party. And the Courts are requested to be very particular in the
inquiry whether the belief is general, and whether any doubts have ever existed upon the subject.
Applicants unable to appear in Court, by reason of bodily infirmity, may make the declaration before
required, and submit to the examination, before a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record of the proper
county, and the Judge or Justice will execute the duties, which the Court is herein requested to perform,
and will also certify that the applicant cannot, from bodily infirmity, attend the Court.
Whenever any official act is required to be done by a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record,
or by a Justice of the Peace, the certificate of the Secretary of State or Territory, or of the proper
Clerk of the Court or County, under his seal of office, will be annexed, stating that such person is a
Judge or Justice of a Court of Record, or a Justice of the Peace, and that the signature annexed is
his genuine signature.
No payments can be made on account of the services of any person, who may have died before
the taking effect of the act of June 7, 1832; and in case of death subsequent thereto, and before the
declaration herein required is made, the parties interested will transmit such evidence as they can procure
, taken and authenticated before a Court of Record, showing the services of the deceased, the period
of his death, the opinion of the neighborhood respecting such services, the title of the claimant, and the
opinion of the Court upon the whole matter.
The declarant must appear in open Court, unless prevented from doing so by reason of bodily infirmity; in which case the declarant will follow
the rule laid down for his guidance.
The declarant must make his declaration in the county where he resides. If he should fail to do so, he must assign a sufficient reason for not
conforming to the rule.
The age of the claimant must invariably be mentioned.
The declarant must mention the period or periods of the war when he served.
under whom he served; otherwise a satisfactory examination of the
claimant must state, with precision, the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so
definite as to enable the Department to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled. 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
months, andof
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
days, I served as a . For months and days, I served as a ; and for such service I claim a pension."
It is important, in all cases, to determine with precision the period for which each applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law
of the pensioner and the length of his service. The use of the phrase about three or four months,
the pension to be paid the objectionable. Some persons who apply for pensions merely state that they served two years
in the militia, &C.
the duration of each term of engagement;
every one, be clearly
ed corps called into service by competent aland
for the time during which the service was performed, he was not employed in any civil
The law makes the relinquishment indispensable.
The opinion of the Court is always required.
The Clerk must give his certificate in every case.
The Clerk must fix his seal, and if it has no device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal, or if he has no pubof
office, the certificate of a Member of Congress, proving the official character and signature of the certifying officer, should accompany the
papers.
Mode of authenticating papers.
In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticates the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains
the affidavit, or other papers authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the ends of which must
pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate.
Proof of Service.
⌨ In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses
who are required to set forth in their affiavits the time of the claimant's entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well
is the regiment, company, and line to which he belonged. The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the
nesses, and the official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his role
from to are all equally applicable to the cases of Militia in Volunteers and State Troops. The proof required by rule in
note il applies to continental troops only.
This traditionary evidence is indispensable in militia cases.
If a witness cannot be found, the declarant must state the fact.
The answer to the interrogatories must all be written, and sent to the War Department, with the declaration.
Offices must be stated in order that serve may be traced by rolls
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HANDWRITTEN AT BOTTOM OF TYPED PAGE :
"Officers must be stated in order that service may be traced by rolls"
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Solomon Hobart's Estate

Letters of administration
May 23 of 49

Recorded Vol H. P 229

L E Chittenden Register
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Augt (August) 8th / '53

It is not necessary to keep this among the files
It is requested it may be returned
H Meed
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STATE OF VERMONT,}
DISTRICT OF CHITTENDEN, SS.} The Hon. the Probate Court for the District of Chittenden.

To Bela Merchant of Westford in said District, Greeting.

WHEREAS Jonas Hobart of said Westford named and appointed by Solomon Hobart late of said Westford deceased, as Executor of his the said Solomon Hobart's last will and testament, hath presented to said Court, the will aforesaid, "and the same hath been duly proved and the said Jonas hath filed in said Court his refusal to perform the duties of executor under the same which is accepted of said Court" whereby the power of granting administration of all, and singular the goods, chattels, rights, credits, and estate of the said deceased, and also of hearing, examining, and allowing the account of such administration doth appertain unto said court. 
The Court aforesaid, doth therefore, by these presents, ordain, constitute, and appoint you administrator cum testamento annexo, of all and singular the goods, chattels, rights, credits, and estate aforesaid, and doth hereby grant unto you full power and authority to administer all and singular the goods, chattels, rights, credits, and estate of the said deceased, which to him, while he lived, and at the time of his death did appertain, and the same well and faithfully to dispose of, according to the last will and testament of the said deceased, which is hereunto annexed, also, to demand, collect, recover and receive all and singular the rights and credits of the said deceased and pay all debts in which he stood bound, so far as the goods, chattels, rights, credits, and estate aforesaid, under the orders of said court, will enable you to do. And having accepted the said trust, and given bonds conditioned for the faithful performance of the duties thereof, in the form prescribed by law, you will make or cause to be made, a true and perfect inventory of all the goods, chattels, rights, credits and estate of the said deceased, and the same return or cause to be returned, to the Register of the Probate Court, for the district aforesaid, on or before the 23rd day of August A. D. 1849.

In testimony whereof, I have caused the seal of said Probate Court, to be hereunto affixed, and subscribed my name at Burlington in said District, this 23rd day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty nine.

L. E. Chittenden  Register
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I  Solomon Hobart of Westford in the County of Chittenden and state of Vermont being in an infirm state of health and of an advanced age but in my opinion of sound mind judge it best to make and accordingly hereby do make this my last will and testament.
First my will is that all my just debts and the charges of my funeral be paid and discharged by my executor herein after named and appointed as soon as convenient but may be after my deceased and I leave the charges of my funeral to my Executor.
I give and devise to my beloved wife Nancy Hobart and her heirs forever all the Real Estate. I may die seized of meaning hereby to give and devise to my beloved wife Nancy Hobart and her heirs forever the farm of land now occupied by Bela Merchant.
I also give to my beloved wife afar and her heirs all my household furniture, one horse, two cows, sixteen sheep, and one hundred dollars.
I also give to my son Jonas Hobart of said Westford all my wearing apparel.
I also give to my daughter Emma Wright & heirs thirty dollars.
I also give to my daughter Almira Macumber and her heirs thirty dollars.
I also give to my daughter Sally Chase and her heirs thirty dollars.
I also give to my daughter Emilia Griffin and her heirs thirty dollars.
I also give to my grand daughters Mary Plumb,  Julia Eastman & Harriet A. Davis five dollars each.
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The residue and remainder of my Estate if any I hereby give to my daughter Emma Wright and her heirs. That is to say if any thing remaining of my Estate not herein disposed of otherwise I give to my daughter Emma Wright and her heirs.

I also give to Bela Merchant whatever sum he may owe me at my decease. The design of which is to aid and assist him in supporting his mother who is my beloved wife after my decease.

And I hereby nominate, constitute and appoint my son Jonas Hobart the Executor of this my last will and testament who is hereby required to Execute the same according to its true spirit and meaning and as soon as it may be after my decease.

In testimony whereof I hereto set my hand and seal and publish and declare this to be my last will and testament this 23rd day of March AD 1842.

(signed) Solomon Hobart S.H.

Signed sealed published and declared by said Solomon Hobart as his last will and testament in presence of us who have hereunto subscribed our names as witnesses thereof at the request and in the presence of the testator and of each other.
(signatures)
Henry Stowell
Eli Hobart
George Hobart
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Record of Marriage
of
Solomon Hobart
&
Nancy Merchant
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Copy

State of Vermont}
Franklin County}   Fairfax January 8th, 1819

Be it remembered that at Fairfax this day Solomon Hubbard (Hobart) & Nancy Merchant both of Westford in the County of Chittenden in said state were duly joined in marriage by me Joseph Beeman Justice [of the] Peace Recd and recorded March 31, 1819.
by me (signed) Hampton Lovegrove Town Clerk

I Silas W. Brush depose and say I am the Town Clerk for the town of Fairfax in the County of Franklin & state of Vermont and that the above is a true extract from the records of said Town.
(signed) S W Brush Town Clerk 

Sworn before me
at Fairfax This 22nd July 1853
(signed) James Bellows Justice Peace

State of Vermont}
Franklin County Ss.} I Joseph H. Brainerd Clerk of the County Court of the County of Franklin aforesaid do hereby certify that James Bellows is on this 22nd day of July A.D. 1853 one of the Justices of the Peace in and for the County of Franklin aforesaid duly elected & qualified to act as such Magistrate and authorized to administer oaths for general purposes that the above Signatures purporting to be said Bellows is genuine and that full faith & credit ought to be given to the official acts of said Bellows. In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the County Court aforesaid and Subscribed my name officially at St. Albans in Said County of Franklin this 22nd day of July A.D. 1853.
(signed) Joseph H. Brainerd Clerk
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Declaration of
widow
Nancy Hobart
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Declaration under the Act of July 29th 1848 as passed by Congress

State of Vermont}
County of Franklin}  On this 18th day of September A.D. 1850 Personally appeared before me James Davis, a Judge of the Probate Court for & in said County of Franklin in said State of Vermont Nancy Hobart, a resident of the Town of Westford from the County of Chittenden & State aforesaid. Being first duly sworn according to Law doth on her oath make the following Declaration in order to obtain a Pension from the  United States for Services rendered by her Deceased Husband Solomon Hobart who died in the aforementioned Town of Westford on the 6th day of April A.D. 1849 he was then a Pensioner of the United States at the rate of 117.78/100 cents [$117.78] as this Declarant believes for services he endured as a Soldier and Artificer & Blacksmith in the Army of the United States in the War of the Revolution with Great Britain as this Declarant believes he received his pension under the Act of June 7th 1832 and she thinks it was somewhere about the time of the year of 1834 when he received his first Pension and said Declarant now applies for a Pension from the United States as being now the widow of said Solomon Hobart who was a Pensioner of the United States at the time of his death as aforesaid which received as aforesaid on the Sixth day of April A.D. 1849 and said marriage was lawfully solemnized  as aforesaid and Declarant is now the widow of Solomon Hobart aforesaid.~~~
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and that said Declarant was duly and lawfully
married to her said Deceased Husband Solomon
Hobert before and by Joseph Berman a Justice of the
Peace in the Town of Fairfax in Franklin County and
State of Vermont said Town of Westford & Fairfax
one Joining Towns & said Declarant resides not
for from the line of the County of Franklin aforesaid and that she this Declarant was married
at a meeting in or school house and that Silas
Safford Ansel Sheperdson and a number of
Persons were present at said Meeting and witnessed
said Marriage on the 6 day
of April 1797
and that said Declared
it for the name of Nancy Merchant at and be
fore she was married to said Solomon Robert
and Declarant has two children Viz Rossell
& Beld the oldest is 57 years old & upwards
and Declarant has
always
resided in this Vicinity in the State of
Vermont- This Declarant believes her said Husband
has done a vast amount of services in said war
of the Revolution he was in the Battle of R.I. as she
believes & thinks he served also under a Captain
& Company of Artillery to West Point and to
Philadelpia Declarant is old and fixtful and
cannot now bear to mind the officers names and
the services of her said deceased husband but
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Gratefully refers to his original papers on file
at the Pension office in the City of
Washington
when a full history and information can be had
of his said services and Declarant now applies
to the Department for her Pension as being now
the widow of said Solomon Hobert aforesaid
she now applies under the act of July
1848 provisions made by Congress &c
29th
Subscribed and sworn to before Nauly Hart
me this 18th day of September
A.D. 1850
James Davis, Judge of Probate
State of Vermont
District of St Albans Sept. 18th
1850
certify that it was moved to my
satisfaction that said Solomon Covent was a pension of the United States when he died, and
that he died on the 6th day of April 1849, and
I have full confidence in the truth of the forego
declaration
James Davis, Judge of Probate
Page 26

State of Vermont
Franklin County ss
⎬
I, George F. Houghton Register
of Probate within and for the
of Franklin,
District of Georgia in said County
hereby certify that the foregoing is the
original declaration subscribed and sworn to before the
Hon. James Davis, Judge of Probate within & for the District
of Georgia in the matter of the application of Newly
Hobart for a pension specified therein; and I further
certify that said Probate Court is constituted a Court
of Record by the Statute Laws of this State.
In testimony
whereof I have hereto
subscribed my name and affixed
the office of said Court of Probate
at St Albans this 18th day of September
A.D. 1850
George F. Houghton
Register
Page 27

State of Vermont
Chithea County
On this 20th of Feb
1833 Personally appeared before me John
Pentichter any of the Judges of the County
Court in and for the County of Chittenden
State of Vermont being a Court of record
Whillin
Solomon Hobart of Westford in the County of
Chittenden
and State of Vermont
being 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 the seventh 1832. I was born in
the town of Hollis State of Newhampshire July
21st AD 1760
I have a record of my age which
took from
my Fathers family record. I
not know as my age is recorded in the town
book where I was living. I was living in said
of May AD 1777 I cried
and on the 19th day of
myself and volenteered in the continental Service
and marched to Pertmouth to guard the lite
house at that place, and was dismissed in
the 20th of the same year being on guard each
day and with more or less during that time
After I left the service I returned to Hollis where
was Marion and resided the four
moved to affirst
We
was said State of Newhampshire
and remained in said still untill the
Page 28

Westford in the County of Chittenden and State of
Vermont where I now reside
On my shout town of Seven I voluntered
with others under the command of Capt
Daniel Emerson to go to Ticonderoga
but before
we reached that place we
had nees that the Americans had returned and we were dismissed and retired
home I cannot tell how long I was out
August AD.
this time. On the sixth day of
1778 I volunteered to go to Rhode island I was
put upon the command of Offices who were then
land in the to
of the battle there, and I was discharged Sept 4th
1778 In the above towns I was in the
of the U.S. two months leaving out of the
account the time was out at Ticonderoga
under Capt Emerson. And I further declare
that on the latter part of Sept of the first part of
October AD 1778 I enlisted into the U.S. Service
-
a soldier
2
Capt Nathaniel Chapman
company of Artillery and Artificers
Col. Benjamin Plown Regiment and that
R
marched to Springfield
in Massachusetts
and from
then to Philadelphia where
continued
untill
the first of Nov AD 1779-
Page 29

then returned to Springfield in Massachusets and
then continued at work soning Carriages for
cannon untill the last of March or first of
April 1780 I was then verbally discharged
was in the service this town eighteen months
making in the whole twenty months exclusive of the town to Ticonderoga man
had any written discharge from any office
and I have no documentary evidence to
to shew my service and know of no other
persons living by whom
can prove my
services except those whose
Affidant is hereto
annexed. I am enabled more particular
to defer the time
enlisted and served
by memorandoms left me by my Father
in a book up by him to record the passing
events of that eventful period. And I the
Said Solomon
Hobart do hereby relinquish
every claim whatever to a pension or
annuity except the present and declare
that my name is not on the [illegible]
of the agency of any State
Solomon
Hobart
year aforesaid
Sworn to and subscribed the day and
Before me
1
John Van Sicklen
[illegible]
Page 30

And the said Judge hereby declare my opinion
after the mantigation of the matter and after
putting the interogation prescribed by the War
Department that the above named Applicant
was a Revolutionary soldier and Servis
he states. And I farther certify that the Applicant
by reason of bodily infirmity is unable to apper
or in Court to make his declaration. And that
Danforth Wales is now an acting sister of the peace
in and for the County of Chittenden and State of
Vermont and that Aron Parks is town Clerk
in and for the town of Westford that they are
both residents of the town of Westford and
that their statement is entitled to wit
John Vardicklin Judy of Chitten
County Court
Nathan B Haswell Clerk of the County Court
in and for the County of Chittenden and
State of Vermont do certify that the forgoing
contains the original proceedings of John
Rachel one of the Judges of said Court in
the matters of the application of Solomon
Robert for a Pension
In testimony whereof I have
hereto set my hand and seal
of office this 28th day of Feb. AD 1883
Nathan B Haswell
Page 31

State of Vermont
Chillens County
Wilford Feb 19th 1833 We Danforth
sales and Aaron Parks Residents of the town of
Thetford in the County of Chillord and State of
Ferment hereby certify that we are well
acquainted with Solomon
Hobart of said
town of Whitford who has subscribed the
sworn to the foregoing declaration that
we believe him to be seventy two 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 contin
in that opinion
Danforth Wiles Just
Aaron Parks T. Clerk
Subscribed and sworn to this 20th day of Feb
ruary AD 1833 Before me
Thomas Haynes, Just Peace
Nathan B Haswell Clerk of Chittenden County
Court in and for the County of Chester and
State of Vermont certify that the above
me Thomas Haynes is a Justice of the
of Chittenan as above
Peace for the County
and that the above signature purporting to be
his is genuine
in testimony whereof I have
hereunto affixed my seal of office
and subscribed my name this
20th day of Feb 1833
Nathan B Haswell
Page 32

sion on file in this Bureau.  Solomon Hobart W File 759
DATES OF
ENLISTMENT OR
APPOINTMENT.
May 19 777
June 30, 1777
Aug 6 1778.
Sept or Oct 1778
LENGTH OF
SERVICE.
1 mo 1 da
Few days
29 [illegible]
19 mos
t
RANK.
Guard
Pri
"
artificers
OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED.
CAPTAIN.
at Portsmouth
Daniel Emerson
Nathaniel Chapman
COLONEL.
Brijamin F [illegible] (Benjamin Flower)
STATE.
NH
"
"
Continental

Battles engaged in,
Residence of soldier at enlistment,
Hollis, HIllsborough Co NH
Date of application for pension, Feb 10 1833 [illegible]
Residence at date of application, Westford, Chittenden Co VT
Age at date of application, Hollis NH July 21 1760
Remarks: Westford W. Apr. 1849, in Fairfax, Franklin Co VT Jan 8, 1819 Mrs Nancy Merchant of Westford VT, his second wife. She was allowed pension [illegible] executed  Sept 18, 1850, while (and 67 yrs) residing in Whitford VT with her son  Bela Merchant D. Oct 10 1857, Children alive in 1842 Jonas, [illegible] in 1853 a
his of Westfield VT aged 68 yrs), Emma Wright,
Almira [illegib le] Sally Chase and  Emila
Griffin. Issac was alive in 1804. Grand children Mary Plumb, Julia E Hobart, Harriet Davis. No others [illegible]
Very respectfully,
Hobart
4043653 - 09
1 - 2
Commissioner.
Page 33

Revy WIDOW, & c.
File No. 759

Nancy Hobart
Widow
Solomon Hobart
Pri & Act Rev. War
Act: Feb 3, 1853
,
Index: -- Vol. A, Page 340
Arrangement of 1870.]
1894 Sept. 26
Rev. Alvah Hoba
Youkers,
Sept 2/5 Hist to
Herbert Yorker ┃
Mar. 16, 1910
Mr. John E. Allen
Page 34

1283
[illegib le] Burlington
Nancy Hobart
widow of
Solomon
who served in the Revolutionary war
, as a private & Artificer
-
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of
117 Dollars 78 Cents per annum, to commence on
the 3 February 1853
Sd Albans 1833
tificate of Pension issued the
13 day of Augst 1853
sent to
Henry Weed
Hinesburgh
Vermont
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act
Page 28
Vol A.
3 d February 1853
1832
Page 35

Hobart, Solomon
Cont - NH W459
Page 36

681
Vermont Burlington
Nancy Robert
widow of Solomon
who served in the Revolutionary war
, as a Private & Artified
-
-
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of
117 Dollars 78
Cents per annum, to commence on
the 6th  of April 1849
Certificate of Pension issued the
21  day of October 1850
and sent to
Hon H. Walden
M C.
Waldensville
N Y
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act 1848, Page 28.  Vol A 
July 29
[illegbile] Deed
Let a Aug 27 Feb / 51
[illegible]
Page 37

No. 46214
ACT OF MARCH 3, 1855.
Received Apr. 6, 1855 ┃
Salomon Hobart
Rev. War
Warrant No.6033-160-55 
Weston & Shaw
Burlington
VT
-
Page 38

Widow Nancy Hobart
widow of Solomon Hobart Pension and [illegible] under the act of July 29th 1848
[illegible] to Hon H Walden M C
Page 39

6033

No Ans
Page 40

No. 1024
Nancy Hobart
widow of Solomon
Vermont
Sent to Henry Weed
June 9 / 53
Act Feby 3 / 53
Page 41

Montpelier Vt Roll. Act 18 March 1818
Samuel Davis, for $8 per month
to his death
April 28, 1847
Page 42

Burlington Agency
Act 7 June 1832
Solomon Hobart Sir & Artiff 117:78 per annum
to his death, April 6, 1849.
Montpelier
Agency,
Act 18 March 1818
Page 43

[illegbile] act / 53 A 4
Boynton
Page 44

March 25th  1853
No 1855
Appl of Nancy
Hobart widow of
Soloman
Chittenden
Vermt 32
28908
Act 3d Feby:1853
Revey
W681
Henry Weed
Hinesburgh
VT
Adam $117.78/100
per annum
Commencing
3d Feby 1853
Pension Office
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
Official Busine
Page 45


Pension Office
Aug. 10/53
Sir
Please state to whom the
money was paid upon
the certificate issued in
this case on the 21st
October 1850 or
early attention is
specially requested
Very respectfully
Your Obt Servt
S. Cole
for the Commision
Ann F. Burt
Present
See other side
Page 46

Nancy Hobart Act 2 Feb. 48. $117.78-
No payment in this has been made
in this case up to the present date
F. Burt
Auditor
August 12th 1853
---
Page 47

[verso]
1762 - Jorneys of my part
July - once to Concord - 0-18-0
July 7. one to Littleton - 0-12-0
July once to new Epsige(?) 1-5-0
nine times to Groton 3-3-0
once to Salem - 1-10-0
May 12 1763. once to Groton 0-7-0
June once to [illegible] - 1-10-0
once to Concord 3-18-0
Sept one to Salem 1-10-0
four times to Groton - 1-8-0
Once to Boston - 1-10-0
once to Groton - 0-7-0
April 1764. once to Amherst 0-7-0
once to Salem - 2-0-0
once to Concord - 1-0-0
twice to Groton - 0-12-0
once to Boston - 2-5-0
1765. once to Salem - 2-0-0
one to Boston - 2-0-0
5 times to Concord - 7-10-0
once to Wesford (Westford) - 0-15.-0
1767. once to Salem - 1-1-0
three times to Wesford (Westford) 1-3-0
1768. once to Concord - 0-18-0
twice to Groton - 0-12-0
34-16-0

[recto]
[illegible] 27 of may 1778.
[illegible] Begun the 14th of Sep't? - 1752
Dark Day the 19th of May - 1780
on Saturday Nite the 17th Day of May 1794 there was the Greatest frost, that Ever was in my Day of that I Ever heard of at that time of the year it set all the young Froth of trees and some [illegible] trees fifty high Lookt as if they had been burnt with fine. a Great deal of Pines Kild Dead and more much hurt the Spring Grain was so bit that it never all Started again the Grass in many places Lookt as if the fire had Ran throw it and some was Quite Dead. allmost all the appels were Kild. and the other fruit as Cherrys Peached &c but the greater parts of it Spring up again it was as toward Spring. The trees was all Leaved out there was appels as big as the End of a mans finger.
['150 one [illegible]' crossed out]
1804 on Saturday the 12th Day of May Solomon as his two Sons Jonas and Isaac Sat from Hollis to go to Wesford (Westford) in the state of Vermont.
Page 48

[verso]
Isaac Sett off to go to see his ['brot' crossed out] Brother at Campton & [illegible] April 17th 1775
he Returned home may 25th 1775
Isaac Sett from home to joyn the Liberty armey at Cambridge on Sabath Day the 25th of may 1775 - 
he was Either Killd or taken Captive on the 17th day of June 1775
So'l Left the 5th Day of May 1777 to Grafton & {he Returned home the 20th of June 1777
{So'l Listed volentear to Goe to Ticonderoga. & against the Regulars the Thirtyeth Day of June 1777 and Set off the Same Day - he Returned home the Same week on Thursday Night. 
{So'l Listed the 6th Day of August 1778 and set off to go to [illegible] Against the British army fryday the 7th of s'd month he Returnd home fryday the 4 of Sept. 1778
The [illegible] at Concord and went off on 19th Day of April 1775
The Regulars left Boston the 17th Day of March 1776
Burgoyne and his army taken by the Americans at Saratoga the 17th of october 1779

[recto]
[illegible] 16 1796 Leonard listed to Shoing (shoeing) & [illegible] 1-16-0
Mar. 19. 1762. mr'd Emerson to Shoing (shoeing) horses  0-18-0
Apr. 23. to mending plowshead & coulter 0-15-0
May 4. to mending plowirons 0-14-0
June 8. to mending Curtin rods - 0-6-0
June 14. to Laying a plowshead & shoing (shoeing) horse 1-5-0
June 19. to making a plowshead & mend Coulter 1-8-0
June 22. to a [illegible] & mend Shear and Coulter 0-4-0
June 25. to Laying a coulter - 1-2-5-
June to mending a pitch fork - 0-3-0-
July 2. to a plowgrip - 0-5-0
July 6. to Shoing (shoeing) a horse 0-17-0
Aug't 20th to mending Shear & Coulter mak plaits 0-14-0
Aug't 30. to plowplaits and nails - 0-7-0
Sep't - to Shoing (shoeing) a horse - 1-4-0
Sep't 15. to mending a pick - 0-3-0
octor. 16. to Shoing (shoeing) a horse - 0-11-0
octor. 18. to mending a Plowshear - 0-5-0
Nover. to Shoing (shoeing) a horse 0-7-0
11-8-6
Ap'l 6. 1763. Reasoned with Mr Daniel Emerson and Due to him to Ballance 0-13-9
Apr 9. 1763. to mending plowirons - 0-15-0
May 17. to Shoing (shoeing) a horse - 0-10-0
July 8. to Shoing a horse - 0-12-0
Aug't 15. to Shoing a horse - 1-1-0
Sep't 17. to Shoing a horse - 1-3-0
octor 15. to Shoing a horse  - [blank]
Jan'y 25. 1764 to Shoing a horse - 0-11-0
Mar. 8 to mending 4 Chains - 0-8-0
Mar. 22 to mending 2 Chains more - 0-9-0
June 8. to Shoing a horse - 1-0-0
July 17. to Shoing a horse - 0-9-0
Aug't 30. to Laying 2 Setts of plows gavel 1-18-0
to a head wedge & Shoing a horse 0-7-6
Sep't 26. to Showing a horse & mending a Chain 1-2:0
Sep't 27. to Laying plowirons - 0-18-0
octor 22. to Shoing a horse - 1-1-0
Dec'r 11. to Shoing a horse - 0-15-0
13-11-6
March 13. 1765. Reasoned with Mr. Daniel Emerson and Due to him in Silver old [illegible] 1-8-11
Mar. 15. to fixing Stealing and Sherping (sharpening?) harrow teeth - 1-2-6
Apr to mending plowirons - 0-10-0
Apr 8 Digtto - 1-8-0
Apr. 27. to mending Shod Shovel 0-4-0
to Laying plowirons - 1-8-0
July 22. 1767. to Shoing a horse - 0-5-0
March 15. 1768 to Shoing a horse - 0-5-0
Jan'y 23. 1769 to Shoing a horse - 0-5-0
Febr. 7. to Shoing a horse  0-10-0
octor. 2. to Shoing a horse - 0-9-0
octor. 26. 1770. to Shoing a horse 0-17-0
Page 49

John M. Bennet
Gaysville V.T.
Page 50

Gaysville, Vt. Feb. 12, 1853

Mr. Bela Merchant
or Mrs. Nancy Hobart

Respected Friends

I have many times thought since I last saw you that I would write to you the result of my endeavor to procure  you a Pension. Since I made those papers, or rather since Mr. Slingerland sent me to you with his papers I have learned to my sorrow & mortification that I was in the employ of a rascal who has tried to ruin me. But since he is in prison for five years I have been doing business by myself alone & have had good success in the Pension business. 
On the third of the present month I understand that Congress passed an act granting all Widows of Soldiers of the Revolution Pensions, as I have caused you & Mrs. Hobart some trouble I propose to procure Mrs. Hobart's Pension if she still lives a Widow for a trifling sum & will insure her claim if I engage in it. 
I had the good fortune to learn all that Mr. Slingerland had done in his claim before he was imprisoned. Your claim was not injured or prejudiced by him. I have some of your papers now. Will you please write me whether you will pardon me for the past & let me now assist you and I will soon call and see you.
Very Respectfully yours
John M. Bennett
of Gaysville, Vt.

Mrs. Nancy Hobart
Page 51

State of Vermont
Chittenden County} I Nathan B Haswell Clerk of Chittenden County Court do hereby certify that Jacob Macomber, and Nathan B. Haswell, before whom and at the time when the within affidavits and declaration was taken, were  each of them Justices of the peace duly qualified acting under the authority of this State and that their names thereto subscribed are their own proper signatures. 
[court seal affixed] In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said court this 7th day of April AD 1834
Page 52

State of Vermont
Chittendon County ss} Personally appeared before me Nathan B Haswell a Justice of the Peace for Chittenden County, Solomon Hobart of Westford in Chittenden County to me known as the same person who made his Declaration before the Hon John Van Sicklin Jun, on the 20th of Feby 1833. for the purpose of obtaining a Pension under the act of June 7. 1832, who being duly sworn doth make the following additional declaration that since his papers have been returned from the Pension Office, he has sent them to New Hampshire and obtained an addition certificate of credibility signed by Thacher Bradford Justice of the Peace - doth further state in explanation of his not applying for a Pension under the Act of 1818. - that he was then in good circumstances and did not require a Pension. - doth further state that the best evidence he can obtain for some of his short services stated in his declaration is the memorandum, made by his father in an old book which is now in his possession, and from which he has taken therefrom a leaf which is hereto subjoined, in which was written by father the time I entered those services. (marked 1 thru 5)
/s/Solomon Hobart
Sworn and subscribed this 7th day of April AD 1834 and I hereby certify that the above named Solomon Hobart is a credible person}
Before me /s/Nathan B. Haswell Justice of the Peace
Page 53

I Simeon Parnell a Clergyman in the Town of Westford hereby certify that I am well acquainted with Mr. Solomon Hobart who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that I believe  him to be 73 years of age that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a Soldier of the Revolution and that I concur in that  opinion
/s/Simeon Parnell
Subscribed to and Sworn to this 3d day of March AD 1834 
Before me /s/Jacob Macomber Just Peace
Page 54

No 807
Nancy Hobart, widow of Solomon Vt
Act 29 July 1848. 
Married 1797
Hus died 6 Apl 1849
Adm Pri & Artificer
$117:78 per annum from 6 Apl 1849
Burlington Roll
Hon H. Walden M.C. 
Waldenville NY
Page 55

Hon. L. P. Waldo
Washington D.C.
Page 56

[handwritten letter]
Hinesburgh August 3d 1853

Sir
You will receive herewith such further evidence in the case of Nancy Hobart as you require by your letter of the 9. of June last
I was somewhat surprised to find by your letter that his was one of the cases that Slingerland had been trying his hand at & as will appear by the papers that he was assisted by one Bennet 
I wish I could think he acted the part as detailed by Mrs. Hobart & be guiltless, but he may be, I inclose his letter to Mrs H. as part of the explanation required. I cannot for a moment believe Mrs H. or her sons know that use was to be made of the papers executed by Bennet's agency
You will find the record attached to by Mr Merchant in  his former affidavit - in which the name of Hobart is recorded Hilbard - I also inclose a copy of the will of Solomon Hobart in which he bequeathed to his beloved "wife" &c not only as proof of Marriage but of identity of the claimant.
I am respectfully your Obedient Servant
/s/Henry Weed
Hon L. P. Waldo
Com Pensions
Washington }
Page 57

Brief in the case of Nancy Hobart, widow of Solomon Chittenden County and State of Vermont, 
act 3d February 1853
Claim, ("original," ['or "for increase"' crossed out})
Proof exhibited, (if original.)
Is it documentary, traditionary, or supported by rolls? If either, state the substance. 
Husband was a pensioner under the act of 7th June 1832. 
Marriage proved by certified copy of Town Records. 
(If for increase.)
Has additional evidence been filed since the admission of the claim? If so, what? [blank]
/s/R Geddes Examining Clerk. 
Henry Weeds Esqr
Hinesburgh Vermont
Name and residence of Agent.
Page 58

Decl Nancy Hobart and of Solomon Hobart - law of Feb. 3d 1853 - and 
Affdt's of Bela Marchant James Jonas Hobart A. J. Harket and Oliver Gilbert
Page 59

 I Belee Merchant of Westford in the County of
of Chittenden & State of Vermont aged fifty years
depose and say I am the son of Nancy Hobart
who now resides in my family and is the widow
of Solomon Hobart deceased late a Revolutionary
pensioner of the United States.
I further depose that
in A D 1850 one John M Bennet who was a [illegible] called at my residence & stated he was employed by one Kingerland to obtain pensions, and that he
could obtain and for my mother & that she was
entitled no matter when married,
and by hisr epresentation

my mother went with him to some
court in St Albans, I do not know what he then
stated but he told said Bennett before
she left that she was married in January 1819
to Solomon Hobart. sd Bennet presented to my
---
mother that the law provided for her notwithstanding
the period of marriage, and that's Singerland
paper a knowledge of it that was not known to
other agents. I further depon that I Soloman
Hobart was frequently called Hubbard and
& have ascertained that it is so written in the
Page 60

the record made of his marriage to my
mother, which is found in the Town Clerks
fee at
Fairfax, I believe my mother
heirs see Role Slingerland and am confident
the never recd any money an account of a pension
which may have been allowed. I sustamed
there had been a mistake in recording the marruage
of my mother to Mr Hobart, been she applied
for a pension under the law of Feb 3d 1853
Wood
Ess
W. H. French Williston
⎬
Bell Merchant
the [illegible] July 27. 1853
in personally appeared before
me Bell Merchant above named
made oath to the facts above stated
for
---
Jury
small know the
to be a man of credibility
W. H. French Judge of Probate
Page 61

I Jonas Hobart of Westford in the County of
Chittenden & State of Vermont aged Sixty Eight
years upon and say I am the son of Solomon Hobart
deceased late a Revolutionary pensioner, of the United States
at the rate of $1177/100 pr annum & who died on the 6th
day of April AD 1849. I further depose my father
Marned for his second wife Mrs. Nancy about
the first of January 1819 and she is now his widow and
lives on a farm near my own & which was given her
by my father
I further depose that about three years ago
a stranger who said his name was Bennet and said
he was agent for one Slingerland who was engaged in
the Pension business, called on me for my affidavit, saying
that Mrs Hobart the widow & my father was entitled to
a pension, I gave my affidavit in which the substance
of what I have stated above I then stated, & if any other
statement was written I was not aware of it. I was not
particular to read it myself-- I was assured that it
would only be necessary for my fathers widow to show
she was sick in order to entitle her to a pension
Jonas Hobart
Sworn before me on this 22 day of July 1853. And
I certify he is a credible witness, and that I have
interest in obtaining a pension for Mrs Hobart
Amos Hobart Justice of the Peace
Page 62

State of Vermont
District of Chittenders
ss}
the
At a Court of Probate holden
at Williston on this 27th day of July A.D. 1853 personally appeared
Nancy Hobart a resident of Westford in said district aged
Seventy years and being duly sworn makes the following declarration as an amendment to her declaration made before the
Hon. John Lyman for the benefit of the act of Congress passed
Feby 3. 1853
That she is the widow of Solomon Hobart dec
late of Westford Vermont a Revolutionary pensioner of the
United States at the rate of $117/100 per annum. She further states
she has been told that her claim for a pension as the widow of
Solomon Hobart was allowed on the 21st October 1850. by papers
prepared by and Jacob Slingerland and that she was first informed ┃
of it by the letter of the Commissioner of Pensions of the date of
June 9th 1833, addressed her agent Henry Weed of Hinesburgh
she further states that she never received any money on account
of such allowance or had any knowledge it had been presented and
allowed until so informed by said letter of the 9th of June. The
further states that all the knowledge she has ever had of said Jacob
Slingerland or his agency in prosecuting her claim was, that one Bennet
called at her residence in the summer of 1850 and stated that he
was the agent of one Jacob Slingerland a pension agent and that
she was entitled to a pension as the widow of said Solomon
Hobart and that in order to obtain it, would have to make
oath to it before a court of Record she accordingly went with
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said Bennet before some court in St. Albans Vermont, the name of which she does not remember, and then stated she was the widow of Solomon Hobart and was married to him in January 1819 by one Joseph Beaman- a Justice of the Peace at Fairfax Vermont. She further states that at that time she informed said Bennet who was a stranger to her that she was married at the time above stated. She states she was answered that the time of marriage would make no difference. She had no knowledge or thought that any fraud was going to be attempted in order to obtain a pension for her. She never saw Jacob Slingerland to her knowledge and first heard of him by Mr. Bennet at the time above stated as a successful agent to obtain pensions, who said he could obtain for all widows no matter when married. She further states her husband, the said Hobart, was sometimes called Hubbard and that his name is so spelled in her record of marriage made in Fairfax Vermont which is an error as she is the identical Nancy Merchant who was married to said Solomon Hobart at the time married in said record and that his name was not Hubbard but Hobart.
(signatures)
Bela Merchant
Nancy Hobart
A. F. Hackett
Witnesses

Sworn to before me on the day and year above written. And I hereby certify that the declarant and the witnesses are well known to me to be credible persons.
(signed)
W. H. French, Judge
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State of Vermont}
District of Chittenden}

I J. S. Adams [John Sullivan Adams] Register of the Court of Probate in and for the District of Chittenden & state of Vermont do hereby certify that William H. French is the Judge of the Court of Probate in said District. And that his signature to the Declaration of Nancy Hobart and the affidavits of A. F. Hacket and Bela Merchant are in his own hand writing.
I further testify that Amos Hobart is a Justice of the peace in & for the county Chittenden & I believe his signature to the affidavits of Jonas Hobart and Oliver Goodrich to be genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto signed my  name and affixed the seal of said court at Burlington this 24th day of July 1853.
(signed) J. S. Adams,  Register
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I Oliver Goodrich of Westford in the County of Chittenden & state of Vermont aged sixty years depose and say I have known Nancy Hobart widow of Solomon Hobart for more than thirty years past, my farm adjoins & [is] near her residence-during this whole period she has resided with S. Hobart as his wife, & since his death as his widow- I was not present at the marriage of said Hobart & wife but believe the parties were married in Fairfax an adjoining town- I further say said Solomon Hobart was called Hubbard or Hobard- very often. He was a Revolutionary pensioner & died about three years ago- I have several deeds and papers in which he signed his name Solomon Hobart.
And further say not-
(signed) Oliver Goodrich

Sworn & subscribed before me & I hereby certify I am personally known to the facts above stated & that witness is a credible person- I further Certify I have no interest in procuring a pension for Mrs. Nancy Hobart.
(signed)
Amos Hobart, Justice of the Peace
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I A. F. Hacket (Hackett) of Westford, Chittenden County Vermont depose and say I am acquainted with Mrs. Nancy Hobart widow of Solomon Hobart deceased late a pensioner of the United States. 
I knew both her and her husband for several years living together as husband and wife and I am a witness to an annexed declaration made by said Mrs. Hobart in order to obtain a pension as the widow of said Solomon.
(signed) A. F. Hackett
W. S. Wood
of Essex

Sworn before me on this 27th day of July 1853. and I certify said Hacket (Hackett) is a man of credibility.
(signed) W. H. French, Judge of Probate
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State of Vermont} Ss.
Chittenden County}

On this 16th day of March A. D. 1853 personally appeared before the undersigned one of the Judges of the County court for said County & State Nancy Hobart a resident of Westford in the County of Chittenden and state of Vermont aged Seventy years who being duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by [an] act of Congress approved February 3rd 1853, extending pensions to widows who were married after the first day of January AD 1800.
That she is the widow of Solomon Hobart late of Westford in said County & state deceased who was a pensioner of the United States under the act passed June 7, 1832 at the rate of one hundred and seventeen dollars and seventy eight cents per annum ($117.78) and his name inscribed on the Vermont Roll for Chittenden County.
She further declares she was married to the said Solomon Hobart on the 8th day of January AD 1819 by one Joseph Beaman Esq., a Justice of the Peace and that her husband the aforesaid Solomon Hobart died on the 6th day of April AD 1849.
(signed) Nancy Hobart
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Nancy Hobart who has signed the foregoing declaration personally appeared on this day before written and made oath to the facts therein stated. And I certify that she is a credible person. And by reason of age and infirmity not able to attend the regular sitting of the Court at Burlington.
(signed)
J. Lyman, Ast. Judge of Chittenden County Court
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I  Bela Merchant of Westford Vermont of lawful age depose and say I am the Executor of the last will and testament of Solomon Hobart deceased late of Westford Vermont and have a duly authentic copy of said Will and that the following is a true extract from said Will & Testament.
2. "I give and devise to my beloved wife Nancy Hobart and her heirs forever all the Real Estate I may own seized of meaning hereby to give and devise to my beloved wife Nancy Hobart and her heirs forever The farm & land now occupied by Bela Merchant."  "In testimony whereof I hereto set my hand & seal and publish & declare this to be my last Will & Testament this 23rd day of March AD 1842.
(signed) Solomon Hobart {L.S.}
(signed) Bela Merchant
In presence of}
Henry Stowell}
Eli Hobart}
George Hobart}   

Sworn & subscribed before me on this 16th day of March 1853.
J. Lyman, Ast. Judge of Chittenden County Court
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I Bela Merchant of Westford in the 
County of Chittenden and state of Vermont aged
fifty
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I Jonas Hobart of Westford in the County of Chittenden & state of Vermont aged Sixty seven years depose, testify & say I am the son of Solomon Hobart deceased late of said Westford, That my father, the said Solomon married to his second wife one Mrs. Nancy Merchant in the month of January AD 1819- I fix the date from some record as well as my own memory. I was not present at the marriage but understood & believe it was solemnized by Joseph Beeman Esq., of Fairfax.
I further depose & say that my father before his marriage informed me of his intention to marry the said Nancy Merchant and after the said marriage my father & his wife, said Nancy, lived on the farm with me, they occupying a house near my own and they continued & cohabitated together as husband and wife until the death of my father which occurred on the sixth day of April AD 1849. and his widow said Nancy has remained a widow since that period.
I further depose that my said father was a pensioner of the United States at the rate of one hundred seventeen dollars & seventy eight cents per annum. I have often heard him state he was an Artificer in the Artillery during his service in the Revolutionary War.
(signed) Jonas Hobart 

Sworn to before me on this 15th day of March 1853. And I certify the words " fifty seven & Merchant" were (illegible) before signing
(signed) Amos Hobart } Justice of the Peace
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 hereby certify James Hobart who has signed & made
oath to the foregoing affidavit is a man & endibility
& Deacon of one of the churches of town of Westford. And
I further certify the aforementioned Solomon Hobart
was pensioner of the United States, personally known to me
and died as stated. And that his widow Nancy Hobart
C
now resides near me Amos Hobart Justice of the Peace
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State of Vermont is
Chittenden County
I Daniel B. Buckley Clerk of the
County Court in and for the County of Chittenden and
State of Vermont do hereby certify that I Lyman before
whom the foregoing declaration of Nancy Hobart and the
deposition of Bela Merchant were taken is and was
at the dates thereof one of the Judges of the County Court
in and for the County aforesaid, Also that Amos Hobart
before whom the foregoing depositions of Bela Merchant
and Jonas Hobart well taken is and was at the dates
thereof a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid
duly authorized by law to administer oath and that their
signatures to the foregoing hapen are genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto
affixed the seal of said Court and
subscribed my name at Burlington
in said County this 1 day of March 1833
Daniel B Buckley
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J L Edward Esq
Burlington April 7. 1834
I return herewith the papers
of the Solomon Hobert he has sent
them to New Hampshire to be rectified
he that down to me an old Book
Kept by his Father, from which I took
a leaf and have attached
it to the
additional declaration - Please
forward the certificate when granted
to me
and all
Yours Respectfully
Nathan B Haswell
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I Bela Merchant of Westford Chitt
ender County Vermont aged fifty
two years depose and say on the
son of Mrs Nancy Hobart the widow
of Solomon Hobart who was a Revolute
on any pensioner of the United States; my
mother is also a pensioner, and resides in
my family. She was married to the said
Solomon Hobart when I was about six
teen years of age, and I then went
& lived with the sd Solomon & mother in
Westford until I was nineteen years old
& know that my mother & said Hobart
and together as husband & wife until the
death of said Aaron Hobart which
land in April 1849-I belien there
is no carrit record of my mother marrage
to Solomon. My mother is persioned
under the law of February 3d 1853. And
further say not
Bela Mahant
Then personally appeared Bela Merchant
above named to me well known as a indible
witness and made oath to the fact above
stated
Before me
the Peace
Wisford March 22, 1855. 
Amos Hobart Justice the peace
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We Oliver Goodrick and Ayr & Hacket
both residents of Westford in the State of
Vermont of lawful age depose and say that

we live in the neighborhood where
Solamon Hobart lived and is well acquainted with
him till his death which occured in
the spring of 1849. He was a Revolutionary
pensioner and married Mrs Nancy Merchant
---
for a second wife - he and the said Nancy
lived & cohabited together as husband & wife
from the time of the reputed marriage to the
day of the death of sd Solomon. his widow
the sd Nancy Robert now lives in the family
of her son Bell Merchant and is a pensioner of the United States-- we have no interest
in obtaining Bounty land for Mrs Hobart and
further say not
A. F. Hackett
Oliver Goodrich
Personally appeared before me the above affi
ants to me well known as endible persons and
made oath to the facts above stated, and
I certify the above facts stated by affiants
are within my person knowledge
Amos Hobart Justice of the Peace
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STATE OF VERMONT
-
Office of the Secretary of State,
Montpelier
April 2d AD 1855
I certify that
Amos Hobart
Esquire, whose name is subscribed in his own proper handwriting
to the foregoing certificate, is and was at the date
thereof, a
Justice of the Peace
within and for
the county of Chittenden
duly elected and qualified,
with full power and authority under and by virtue of the laws
of said State to administer oaths and take depositions, and that
to his official acts and attestations, as such, full faith and
credit are, and ought to be given
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto subscribed my name
and affixed the Seal of this office, this the second
day of April
in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and fifty-five
Geo. Thompson
Deputy Secretary of State
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Sir
Hinsburgh March 22 1853
Inclosed you will receive the declaration & proof in support of the claim of
Nancy Hobart widow of Solomon Hobart
for the benefit of the law of Feb. 3. 1853
Ha
I am respectfully your
Obedient servant
L. P. Waldo
Com Pensions
Washington
Henry Weed
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State of Vermont
A
Chittenden County
On this 30th day of
September AD 1851. personally appeared before the
number one of the sting
on the cares of eventy Nancy
Hobart a resident of Westford in sd County aged
Sixty Eight years & being duly sworn saith that the
is the widow of Solomon Hobart, deceased, that the said Solomon was a Revolutionary soldier &
pensioner of the United States under the law of
June 7, 1832 at the rate of one hundred and
seventeen dollars & Seventy Eight cents for his service
as Artificer in war. That her sd husband was a
resident of Hollis, New Hampshire when he entered
the service as she belives & that he often told
applicant that he served for a period of one year
---
Nine months. That the Solomon Hobart
and on the 6th day of April A.D. 1849
Deponent further states that she was married to the
Solomon Hobart on the 30 day of December AD
1818 and that he is now his widow. She states
that she makes this affidavit for the purpose
of obtaining an increase & arearage of pension
due her late husband the sd Solomon Hebert
Nauly Hobart
Sworn to on the day above written before me
And I certify he is personally known to me &
person of truth & credibility
Henry Weed Justice
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Know all men by these presents the I Nancy Hobart of Westford in the County of Chittenden & state of Vermont widow of Solomon Hobart deceased Do hereby constitute & appoint Lyman Mason Esq of the City of Boston Commonwealth of Massachusetts my true & lawful attorney for me & in my name to claim from the Government of the United States an increase and arrearage of Pension, that is due the s'd Solomon Hobart & to do all lawful acts in my name & to appoint substitutes if need be. And I hereby ratify & confirm all lawful acts he may do in perform in the case. 
[court seal affixed] Witness my hand & seal this 30th day of Sept. 1851. 
/s/Nancy Hobart
Sealed & delivered in presence of 
/s/Bela Merchant
/s/Henry Weed
State of Vermont
Chittenden County ss Westford Sept. 30, 1851
Nancy Hobart above named personally appeared & acknowledged the foregoing power of attorney to be her act & deed 
Before me /s/Henry Weed Just. Peace
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Bela Merchant a resident of Westford County of Chittenden & state of Vermont being sworn saith that he is forty eight years old & that he well knows Nancy Hobart widow of Solomon Hobart deceased. That the s'd Solomon was a pensioner of the United States at the rate of one hundred & seventeen dollars & seventy eight cents & that he died on the 6th day of April 1849 And that his widow the s'd Nancy Hobart now resides in  his own family 
/s/ Bela Merchant
Sworn to before me on the 30th Sept 1851 And I certify he is a man of credibility 
/s/Henry Weed Just. Peace
State of Vermont
Chittenden County ss
I Daniel A. Buckley Clerk of the County Court in & for the County of Chittenden and state of Vermont Do hereby certify that Henry Weed before whom the foregoing affdt's & Power of attorney was taken is & was at the date thereof a Justice of the Peace in and for the county aforesaid duly elected & qualified and that his signature thereto is genuine 
[court seal affixed] In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed the seal of s'd Court & subscribed my name at Burlington in s'd County and state this 30 day of September 1851
/s/Daniel B. Buckley
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State of New Hampshire
Secretary of State's Office. 
I do hereby certify that from an examination of the Books and Documents, relating to Military Services in the war of the Revolution, which remain in this office, it appears that the name of Solomon Hobart is borne upon a "A Return of part of Capt. Nathl. Chapman's Compy that are inlisted New Hampshire State in Colo. Benj. Flowers Regt. of Artillery and Artificers late from Philadelphia now under the direction of Maj. Joseph Eayrs Com'd of detachment of said Regiment. Springfield April the 4th 1780" as a private. - Time engaged Sept. 1. 1778"; 
"Pay per month 30 Dls. £9. s0;" When pay raised July 1, 1779"; "Pay pr. month when raised, 60 Dls £18. 0s; Time ending or discharged March 18, 1780."
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[state seal affixed] In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said State this 24th day of November 1851.
/s/John L. Hadley
Secretary of State.
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State of Vermont
Chittenden County ss}
I Bradford Rixford Register of the Court of Probate in and for s'd district of Chittenden do hereby certify that satisfactory evidence has been adduce to show that Solomon Hobart who was a pensioner of the United States died at Westford in s'd district on the 6th day of April A.D. 1849 leaving a widow named Nancy Hobart who still survives.
[court seal affixed] Given under my hand and the seal of said ['of said' crossed out] court at Burlington this 8th day of October 1851
/s/Bradford Rixford Register
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[handwritten letter]
Boston Dec 3d 1851

Sir
I herewith present the claim of Nancy Hobart for an increase of the pension of her late husband Solomon Hobart for services as an Artillery Artificer during the war of the Revolution and respectfully ask that she may be paid the arrears of said pension at the rate of Wages paid him according to the act of 1832 or the rate allowed to others in his regiment - 
Very Respectfully Your obt Serv't
/s/Lyman Mason 
Robert St
James E. Heath, Esq
Com'r of Pensions.
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Payment to be made at Burlington Vt by John H. Peck Esq
Agent for paying Pensioners, in the Agency of Burlington Vt.
Payable on the 4th September and 4th March
Recorded in the Pension Office on the Roll of Pensioners under act ['February 2d' crossed out] July 29, 1838, Page 28. Vol. A
/s/H. R. Weightman Clerk.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,.
WIDOW'S PENSION. 
I certify that in conformity with the act of July 29, 1848, Nancy Hobart widow of Solomon Hobart who was a private & artificer in the revolutionary war, is inscribed on the pension list at the rate of one hundred and seventeen dollars and seventy eight cents per annum, commencing on the ['4th of March, 1848' crossed out] 6th of April 1849, and continuing for life, unless she should again marry; in which case the Pension is not payable after the time of such marriage. 
Given at the Department of the Interior this twenty first day of October one thousand eight hundred and fifty. 
/s/Will A. Graham 
Acting Secretary of the Interior.
Examined and Countersigned
/s/J L Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions.
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State of Vermont
Chittenden County} ss Personally appeared before me Amos Hobart a Justice of the Peace in & for said County of Chittenden Bela Merchant a Resident of the Town of Westford in said County aforesaid Being first duly sworn according to Law Deposes and Says I have been acquainted with Solomon Hobart & his wife now his widow for many years I was acquainted with them before they were married to each other they were Lawfully married by Joseph Beeman a Justice of the Peace in the adjoining Town of Fairfax in my presence in the spring of the year of 1779 - And said Solomon Hobart Died in the aforesaid Town of Westford in the month of April A.D. 1849 I visited him while in his last sickness and I was at his Funeral & saw the last remains of said Solomon Hobart carried to the Tomb his Grave; and his wife now his widow Nancy now lives with me She is single and unmarried and she is now the Widow of the aforesaid Solomon Hobart - he was a Pensioner of the United States at and before his Death and he was reputed as a Soldier of the War of the Revolution Said Nancy's name was Nancy Merchant at and before she married to said Solomon Hobart - they lived together in all the relations of husband and wife from the time of their marriage up to the time of the death of said Solomon Hobart they was Lawfully married as aforesaid I was present at a Public Meeting
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said Nancy is my sister I recollect the year of said marriage distinctly from many circumstances & know it occurred April 1797
/s/Bela Merchant 
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 28th day of August A.D. 1850 and I certify that I am well acquainted with Bela Merchant the foregoing Deponant he is a very creable (credible) Gentleman of sound mind and memory and a credable witness}
/s/Amos Hobart Justice of the Peace
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State of Vermont
Chittenden County}ss
Personally appeared before me Amos Hobart a Justice of the Peace in and for said County of Chittenden Fanny E. Merchant wife of Bela Merchant a Resident of the Town of Westford in said County of Chittenden aforesaid being duly and Lawfully sworn according to Law Deposes and says - I have been acquainted with Solomon Hobart and Nancy his wife now his widow, before they was married to each other her name was Nancy Merchant at and before she was married to Solomon Hobert (Hobart) they was Lawfully Married at Fairfax the adjoining Town by Joseph Beeman a Justice of the Peace I witnessed said marriage in the spring of 1797
And said Solomon Hobert Died in this Town (in Westford) on the 6th of April 1849 I recollect the time of the month distinctly of his death I visited him while sick and was at his Funeral and his widow said Nancy - resides & lives with us in our family - she is now single and unmarried & she is now the widow of said Solomon Hobert (Hobart) he was reputed here while living as a Pensioner of the United States and a soldier of the War of the Revolution and they lived together in all the relations of husband and wife up to the time of the death of said Solomon Hobart aforesaid I am sister in law to said Nancy & I was then married myself I was married in the year 1795 - and said Solomon Hobart
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and said Nancy was married in April 1797 I recollect distinctly from my age and her age and from my own marriage & ages of my own children and many other circumstances - 
/s/Fanny E. Merchant
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 28th day of August A.D. 1850 and I certify that I am well acquainted with Mrs. Fanny E. Merchant the foregoing Deponent - She is a very credable Lady of sound mind and memory and a credable witness}
/s/Amos Hobart, Justice of the Peace
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State of Vermont
County of Chittenden}ss
Personally appeared before me Amos Hobart or Justice of the Peace In & for said County of Chittenden Jonas Hobart a Resident of the Town of Westford in the aforesaid County & State - being first duly sworn according to Law Deposes and Says I have been acquainted with Solomon Hobert (Hobart) & Nancy his wife for many years past & up to the time of the death of said Solomon Hobert (Hobart) - he Died her in this Town of Westford in the month of April 1849 I am a Close neighbour to them & visited him during his last Sickness and was at his Funeral he lied entomb'd in the Grave yard near me - Departed & gone to return to us no more forever his wife Nancy how his widow lived with Mr. B. Marchant in this Town she is single & unmarried and she is now the widow of said Solomon Hobert - he was reported here as a Soldier of the War of the Revolution at and before his death and a Pensioner of the United States for services he had endured as a Soldier in the War of the Revolution said Solomon Hobert (Hobart) & Nancy was married in the Town of FairFax the adjoining Town as was reported here & always has been the report by Joseph Beeman a Justice of the Peace at Public Service at a school house before an Audience of People - said Joseph Beeman Died several years ago and his family are all dead and moved out of the Country to the western states I have known said Solomon
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and Nancy his wife as husband and wife for more than 50 years ago they was married previous to 1800 - to my knowledge I was not present at their marriage their oldest children is over 50 years old - 
/s/Jonas Hobart
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 28th day of August A.D. 1850 and I certify that I am well acquainted with Jonas Hobart the foregoing Deponant he is a very credable old Gentleman sound mind & memory and a credable witness}
/s/Amos Hobart Justice of the Peace
State of Vermont
Chittenden County ss} I Daniel B. Buckley Clerk of the County of Chittenden do hereby certify that Amos Hobart Esquire was in the 28th day of August AD 1850 a Justice of the Peace within and for the County of Chittenden duly commissioned and sworn - that he was commissioned on the first day of December AD 1849 and that his term of office will expire on the 30th day of November AD 1850. that I verily believe his signatures to the preceding three certificates to be genuine. 
[court seal affixed] In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Chittenden County Court this thirtieth day of August AD 1850. 
/s/Daniel B. Buckley
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State of Vermont
Franklin County} ss Personally appeared before me Joshua Brush a Justice of the Peace in & for said County of Franklin Silas W. Brush well known to me as being now Clerk of the Town of Fairfax in said County of Franklin aforesaid Being first duly sworn according to Law Does Testify and say I am now acting Town Clerk of the Town of Fairfax in said County of Franklin and I have the Records of said Town in my possession and I have searched the records of said Town of Marriages - to find the marriage of Solomon Hobart & Nancy Merchant purported to have been married by Joseph Beeman a Justice of the Peace - said Joseph Beeman died a number of years ago & there is no record made at all of the aforesaid Marriage of said Solomon Hobart and Nancy Merchant - as their names and marriage is not on the Town Records of Fairfax aforesaid and I would certify that our Town Records are Defective or irregular as to the records of marriages of so early dates. ['many of those Early Marriages have been neglected and are not recorded' crossed out]
/s/S. W. Brush Town Clerk. 
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 29th day of August A.D. 1850 and I certify that the above named Silas W. Brush is Town Clerk as stated by him in the foregoing & is a Credable witness}
/s/Joshua Brush Justice of Peace
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State of Vermont
Franklin County} ss Personally appeared before me Joshua Brush a Justice of the Peace in & for said County of Franklin Ansel Sheperdson a Resident of the Town of Fairfax in said county of Franklin aforesaid Being first duly sworn according to Law does Testify and say I have been acquainted with Solomon Hobart & Nancy his wife many years I was present and witnesses their marriage their marriage was solemnized by & before Joseph Beeman a Justice of the Peace in the Town of Fairfax aforesaid at a School house before a number of people in the spring of the year of 1797 - 
and said Solomon Hobart Died as was reported here in Westford the Adjoining Town in the spring 1849 - he was reported here as a Soldier of the War of the Revolution and a Pensioner of the United States at and before his death said Nancy his wife now his widow is still living she resides in the Town of Westford aforesaid & she is now the widow of said Solomon Hobart she is single & unmarried and they have lived in all the relations of husband & wife together up to the time of the death of said Solomon - and they were Lawfully Joined in marriage as aforesaid in my presence by Joseph Beeman a Justice of the peace in the Town of Fairfax before a number of people at a school house & Meeting as aforesaid in the spring of the year of 1797 I was then married and we had one
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Child at this time I remember the year of said marriage from the age of my children I am 74 years old & upwards
/s/Ansel Sheperdson
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 29th day of August A.D. 1850 and I certify that I am well acquainted with the foregoing Deponant Ansel Sheperdson he is an old Gentleman of Sound mine and highly respectable and a credable witness} 
/s/Joshua Brush Justice of the Peace
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State of Vermont
Franklin County}ss Personally appeared before me Joshua Brush a Justice of the Peace in & for said county aforesaid Silas Safford a Resident of the Town of FairFax in said County of Franklin & State of Vermont - Being first duly sworn according to Law does Testify and Say I have been acquainted with Solomon Hobart and Nancy Merchant his wife now his widow before they was married to each other her name was Nancy Merchant at & before she was married to said Solomon Hobart - they were Lawfully in my presence by Joseph Beeman a Justice of the Peace in said Town of Fairfax in a schoolhouse at Meeting I witnesses said marriage in the spring of the year of 1797
and said Solomon Hobart Died as was reported here in the spring of the year of 1849 he Died in the Adjoining Town of Westford and Nancy his wife now his widow is left to survive him she lives in Said Town of Westford she is now the widow of said Solomon Hobart - he was reputed here as a Soldier of the War of the Revolution and a Pensioner of the United States at and before his death - Said Solomon Hobart and Nancy his wife aforesaid lived together in all the relations of husband & wife up to the time of the death of her Said Husband aforesaid & they were Lawfully married in my presence by Joseph Beeman a Justice of the Peace who officiated in Marriages as aforesaid I can remember the date of said Marriage from my own I was
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married in January 1778 and said Solomon Hobart & Nancy Merchant was married in the Spring of the year previous to my said Marriage I believe they was married in the month of April I am positive that they was married in the year and spring of 1797
/s/Silas Safford
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 29th day of August A.D. 1850 and I certify that I am well acquainted with Silas Safford the foregoing Deponant he is a very credable old Gentleman sound mind & memory and a credable witness}
/s/Joshua Brush Justice of the Peace

and fifty
Joseph B. Brainerd Clerk fees 25th pd
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State of Vermont
Franklin County ss} I Joseph H. Brainerd Clerk of the County Court for the County of Franklin aforesaid do hereby certify that Joshua Brush is one of the Justices of the Peace in & for the County of Franklin aforesaid for the year ending with the 30th day of November A.D. 1850 as appears by his commission dated November 30th A.D. 1849 and I verily believe that he is qualified to act as such magistrate and that the signature to the Certificates ['and the affts' crossed out] on the foregoing Affidavits of S. W. Brush Ansell Shepardson (Sheperdson) & Silas Safford purporting to be the Signatures of said Brush are genuine, and that full faith & credit ought to be given to the official acts of said Brush. 
[court seal affixed] In testimony whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the County Court aforesaid and subscribed my name officially at St. Albans in the County of Franklin aforesaid the second day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty
/s/Joseph H. Brainerd Clerk
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3-871.
[margin note: Adj.]
RECORD DIVISION. 
Department of the Interior,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
Briefed by W. T. Conboye
Claim No. March 9, 1910
Certificate No. [blank]
Claimant [blank]
Soldier Solomon Hobart
Service N.H. Rev. War 
Additional Service [blank]
No [blank] claim, State records [blank], 190[blank]
No claim, combination records [blank], 190[blank]
REMARKS: 
No claim as above except OWWid File #759.
[blank] Chief Division
O-8
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[typewritten letter]
STATE OF VERMONT
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
JOHN E. ALLEN
COUNTY EXAMINER
CHITTENDEN COUNTY
[receipt stamp: U.S. PENSION OFFICE. A FEB 28 1910]
Westford, Vermont, February 25, 1910.

Pension Department,
Washington, D.C.

Will you please inform me if the names of David Macomber, Solomon Hobart and Zebadiah Allen are enrolled in the Pension Department as pensioners of the Revolutionary War?
Solomon Hobart enlisted from New Hampshire; David Macomber and Zebadiah Allen from Massachusetts. The latter was first lieutenant, seventh regt., Worcester, Mass.
Any information that you can give will be gratefully received.
/s/John E. Allen
Westford, Vermont.
[receipt stamp: MAR 1-1910]
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[handwritten letter]
WARBURTON AVENUE BAPTIST CHURCH.
ALVAH S. HOBART, PASTOR.
29 ASHBURTON AVE.
B. F. BOGART, CLERK.
45 PROSPECT ST
[margin notes: F & H F. not I. H not I. 2]
Yonkers, N.Y., Sept 3 1894

Commissioner of Pensions
Dear sir:
The enclosed refers to a matter as follows:
I desire to secure evidence of the revolutionary services of Solemon (Solomon) Hobart (blacksmith)
Francis Faxon (soldier)
both of whom were pensioners, and died in Vt about 1845 or 50. Any information you may be able to give me will be greatly appreciated
/s/Abrah S. Hobart
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[stamp]  U.S. Law Received P. B. Sep 20 1895

hon Wm Lochern
Commissioner

Dear Sir:
You kind compliance with my request for information above the marriage of Solemon hobart is duly received May I make a final request, and ask for the names of the parties testifying to the marriage in the application dated Sept 18 1850.  Probably they are now dead, but some may have left word which I can get at.
Very truly yours
Alvah S Hobart
Yonkers N.Y.
Sept 16 1895
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[ stamp ]  Old War & Navy
Sep 8 1895
Files
P. R. 
[handwritten to the side]  Jan 8 - 1817

Pension Bureau
Washington, D.C.

Dear Sirs:

Last year a statement was sent me from the Dept. of the Revolutionary Serv of Soloman Hobart, Hollis, N. H. I this statement it is said that he married Nancy Merchant in 1797.  Will you inform me whether this is a statement on file, or a conclusive made by some clerk -  It does not tally with other facts of his life and no desire to deceive the  any

[stamp]  US Pension Office Sep 6 1895
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Please reexamine the records and say whether some has been made - 
Truly Yours
Alvah S Hobart
Yonkers N.Y.

Sept 4 95
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To the Hon. Secretary of War
of the United States
My dear Sir:
Will you kindly send me the address of the office where I can get a certified statement of the Revolutionary record of the following soldiers.

Solomon Hobart
  a pensioner in 1848 living at Westford Vt

Francis Faxon
  a pensioner living at Essex VT about the same time.
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By so doing you will greatly oblige
Very truly yours
Abrah S. Hobart
Yonkers NY

Aug 22 1894
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War Department,
Washington, D. C.
August 24. 1894

Sir
Your letter dated August. 22. 1894 relating to Revolutionary records of Solomon Hobart and Francis Faxon pensions, has been received and referred to the Interior Department (Commissioner of Pensions) to which the subject matter properly pertains
Very respectfully,
Daniel T. Lamont,
Secretary of War

Alvah S. Hobart, Esq.
Yonkers,
New york
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Commissioner of Pensions
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War Department,
Washington, D. C.,

August 24. 1894

Sir:
Your letter dated August. 22. 1894 relating to Revolutionary records of Solomon Hobart and Francis Faxon pensions, has been received and referred to the Interior Department (Commissioner of Pensions) to which the subject matter properly pertains
Very respectfully,
Daniel T. Lamont,
Secretary of War.

Alvah S. Hobart. Esq.
Yonkers, New York,
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O. W. & N. Division, F. S.

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS,
WASHINGTON, D. C., 

Sept. 9, 1895.

Sir:-

Replying to your  communication of the 4th. inst., in which you question the correctness of the date of marriage (Apr. 8, 1797), of Nancy Merchant to Solomon Hobart, a soldier of the Revolutionary war, as given in a statement of his services supplied you by this Bureau on Sept. 28, 1894, I have the honor to advise you that the widow's pension papers have his day been carefully examined and in her first declaration, dated September 18, 1850, she swore that she was married to Solomon Hobart during a meeting held in a school house in Fairfax, Vt., on April 8, 1797.  To substantiate the date and place of this marriage she produced the affidavits of six different persons in which they testified that she was married to Solomon Hobart at the time and place above stated.
On September 30, 1851, a second declaration for pension was made by the widow in which she swore that she was married to Hobart on Dec. 30, 1818, and on the 16th. of March, 1853, a third declaration was made in which she swore that she was married to him on January 8, 1819.  This last mentioned date is the correct date of her marriage to the soldier as it was proven by the official records of the
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town of Fairfax, Vt.
The act under which the widow first applied (July 29, 1848), did not allow pensions to widow unless they were married to the soldier prior to the year 1800, and she was, therefore, not entitled, at that time, to a pension for the services of Solomon Hobart, having been married to him in the year 1819.

At the time of her marriage she was a widow having previously been married to one James Merchant.  It is quite likely that it was James Merchant to whom she was married on April 6, 1797, and that this date was used a the date of her marriage to Hobart for the reason that unless it could be made to appear that her marriage took place prior to 1800 she could not receive a pension.

The last act under which she applied (February 3, 1853), provided for all widows who were married subsequent to the year 1800, and under that act she was legally entitled to a pension.
Very respectfully,
Rev. Alvan S. Hobart,   Commissioner.
Yonkers, N.Y.