Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 44,916, Jesse Haggett, Mass.
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Service   Number
Mass. [handwritten]
Haggett or Hagget, Jesse [handwritten]
S. 44.916 [handwritten]
Contents
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Vermont[handwritten]
Jesse Haggett [handwritten]
Of Cavendish in the state of Vermont who was a Private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Jackson of the 9th Reg’t  Mass  _ine, for the term of 2 years.
__nscribed on the Roll of Vermont at the rate of 8 dollars per month, to commence on the 21st of April 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 5th of June 181_ and sent to William C. Hatch Esq [?]
Cavendish Vermont
Arrears to 4th of Mar. 1819 10 mo [?] 10/30/3[?] =_  83.69
Semi-anl. All’ce ending Sept: 1819                                48.
                                                                                        $131.69
{Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818}

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Jesse Haggett
81 to 83
9th Masstts
Regt
21st April 1818_
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State of Vermont
Windsor County  ss
Jesse Haggett of Cavendish in the County of Windsor and State of Vermont, a resident Citizen of the United States, aged fifty four years, and an applicant for a Pension from the United States under an Act entitled “An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War”, maketh Oath, that he served in the War of the Revolution on the Continental establishment as a private soldier for nearly three years in the manner following, to wit, that he enlisted ^ at Andover in the State of Massachusetts on the first day of January in year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty one for three years, and served from that time, in Capt John Blanchards Company in the ninth Regiment in the Massachusetts Line, untill the fall of the year seven-
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-teen hundred and eighty three, when he was honourably discharged ^ from the service at the North Redoubt near West Point in the State of New York and left the Army, but he has since lost his discharge. And he further maketh Oath, that he is in such reduced circumstances in life, that he needs the assistance of his Country for support; and that he has no other evidence now in his power of his said services.
Jesse Haggett [signature]
State of Vermont 
Windsor County ss
Cavendish April 21st A.D. 1818.
Subscribed, Sworn to, and declared Before me,
Amos Heald
One of the judges of the County Court for the said County of Windsor.
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I Amos Heald, one of the Judges of the County Court for the said County of Windsor, as aforesaid, do certify that it appears to my satisfaction, that the said Jesse Haggett did serve in the Revolutionary War, as stated in the preceeding  declaration, against the Common Enemy; and I now transmit the proceedings and ceremony, taken and had before me, to the Secretary for the Department of War, pursuant to the directions of the aforesaid Act of Congress.
Cavendish April 21st 1818.
Certified By Amos Heald Assistant Judge of Windsor County Court.

I Amos Heald, Judge, as aforesaid, do further certify that from evidence to me addiced, it appears to my full satisfaction that the said Jesse Haggett is in indigent circumstances and stands in need of the assistance of his Country for support
Amos Heald Assistant Judge of Windsor County Court
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Jesse Haggett
81 to 83
9th Masstts Regt.
21st of April 1818
Admitted
Wm.C. Hatch. Esq [?]
C_______ [?]
_________[?]

State of Vermont[?]
Windsor County
Woodstock County Clerks Office June 12 1818
I Benjamine Swan Clerk of the County Court within & for the County of Windsor, do hereby certify that Amos ______ [?] is one of the associated judges of said County Court – and that the Signature written, all in the handwriting of said Judge – In testimony whereof – I have herunto set my hand and Affix the seal of said Court the Day above – Benji Swan
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________ [ indecipherable scribble]
599
Jesse Haggett
Recd. 9 Jan: 1823

Con ILE [?] [in very light pencil]

Myrtle B. Hitchcock
Ogdensburg N.Y.K.
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State of Newyork
St. Laurence County
On this tenth day of January 1822 personally appeared before the Judges of the Court of _______ [?]  ______ [?] in and for said County in open Court being a court of record in said State Jesse Haggett aged fifty seven years resident in the town ____[?] of ____ [?] in said County of St. Laurence who having duly Sworn according to the said ____[?] on his oath ____[?] that he Served in the Revolutionary war as follows, he enlisted at Andover in the State of Massachusetts on or about the first day of January in the year of Our Lord One thousand seven hundred and eighty one for the term of three years that he served in a Company commanded by Capt. John Blanchard in Col. Henry Jacksons Regiment of the Massachusetts line until the autumn of 1789 when he was honorably discharged at the North redoubt in the State of Newyork, that he made his original declaration on or about the twenty first day of April 1818 and has received a pension Certificate No. 11299 – And of the said Jesse Haggett do solemnly Swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March 1818 – and that I have not since that time by gift Sale or in any manner disposed of my property or any part thereof with intent thereby so to diminish it and to bring myself within the provisions of an act  of Congress Entitled an Act to provid for Certain persons engaged in the land and Naval Service of the United States in the Revolutionary War passed on the 18th day of March 1818 – and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property or Securities contracts or debts due me nor have I any income other than what is contained in the Schedule hereto annexed & by me subscribed
Real Estate – I have none
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Personal property – One fine [?]Pail Kettle 1 dish [?] 1 Ket__ 1 two pail pot 4 chairs 1 trammel [?] 2 Sad Irons 1 Doz earthen plates 4 Earthern dishes 2 pails 1 Grid Iron two Pitch forks 5 knives & forks 6 tea cups & Saucers 2 Earthern Pots three spoons 1 looking glass 1 fire shovel 1 Warming pan 1 Gallon Keg 1 __[?] 1 Work [or work?] table 1 Chest 1 Candlestick 1 table 1 Sickle 1 Chain 1 barn shovel 1 churn 1 hatchet 2 Piggs 1 ___ [?] steel ___ [?] 1 hoe two baskets – And the said declarant [?] doth further Say that he has now living a wife and nine children – that his wife is fifty four years and is in a low state of health, that six of his said children are absent from him & unable to render this declarant any assistance in his support – that the remaining children now live with this deponent [?] and are under the age of twenty one years and are not able to support themselves, that he is by occupation a farmer and obtains his living by labouring by the day – that he is often afflicted with the rheumatism & other infirmities of Old age – and at times is not able to labor. (Signed) Jesse Haggett
Sworn before me in Open Court this 10th day of January 1822
M.B. Hitchcock  [MG or MC]

The Court appraise the property in the above Schedule at twenty tree dollars & twelve Cents
By Order of the Court 

M.B. Hitchcock ___[?]
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State of Newyork
St. Laurence County Clerks Office 
I hereby Certify that the above is a true Copy of a Schedule and affidavit on file in this office, that the original proceedings were had in open Court & the Property contained in the said Schedule valued by the Said Court as is above mentioned
In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name & affixed the Seal of the Said Court this 10 day of January 1822 
Myrtle B. Hitchcock ___ [?]
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State of Vermont Windsor County __ [?]
Cavendish April 13th 1818 [1818 is underlined]
This may certify that in the year of 1802 Jesse Hagget of said Cavendish lived with me and for the three years previous, within which time, the sd  Hagget gave Me his Discharge ^ from the Continental server [?] for the purpose of Obtaining Sum Clothing said to be Due him from a Paymaster (I think) by the Name of Williams, then said to be living in Boston, at the time I made application Williams was Dead [dead is underlined] and whether ever I returned said Discharge to the sd Hagget or Not, Cannot Say, but have Carefully Examined and find ‘A Not’ in my Possion [?] I further say Not
Jona Atherton
State of Vermont 
Windsor County
At Cavendish April 14th 1818 
Jonathan Atherton Personally appeared and made solemn oath that the foregoing statement by him Subscribed contains the whole truth and nothing but the truth
Before John Adams Justice of the Peace
I Reuben Washburn of Cavendish in the County of Windsor and State of Vermont testify and say that I am well acquainted with Jonathan Atherton of Cavendish in the County and state aforesaid, whose affidavit is hereunto annexed – that he is a man of truth and veracity and that full faith and credit ought to be given to the affidavit aforesaid – 
Reuben Washburn
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I Uriel C. Hatch Judge of the Court of Probate for the District of Windsor in the State of Vermont do certify that on this seventeenth day of May 1819 personally appeared Reuben Washburn subscriber to the foregoing affidavit a credible witness and made solemn oath that the same contains the whole truth and nothing but the truth, and I do further certify that I have 
been well acquainted with the said Jonathan Atherton for more than seventeen years past and that his is a man of truth and veracity and that full faith and credit out to be given to his affidavit hereunto annexed
In testimony whereof I have unto set my hand and have affixed the seal of said Court of Probate at Cavendish in the District of Windsor this seventeenth day of May in the year of our Lord Eighteen hundred and nineteen – Mr [?] Hon [?] Amos Heald not now holding the office of Judge of the County Court for the County of Windsor is the reason of taking this affidavit before me
Attest Uriel C. Hatch Judge of the Court of Probate for the District of Windsor

[Affixed on left side of paper a round, embossed seal, illegible]
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44916
Recy [?]
INVALID 
__le No. 44916
Jesse Haggett
Priv. Rev [?] __ar [?]

Act: 18th March 1818
Index: -- Vol. 3, Page 213
(Arrangement of 1870.)
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Jesse Haggett
Transfer to
Newyork Jany 10. 1823 from Vermont from 4 March 1820 [?]
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Unto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said County of S. Laurence this 27 [?] day of December 1822
Myrtle B. Hitchcock
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APPLICATION FOR A TRANSFER
State of Newyork
County of S. Laurence County SS.
On this Sixteenth day of December 1822, before me, the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace for the said county of S. Laurence personally appeared Jesse Haggett who, on his oath, declares that he is the same person who formerly belonged to the company commanded by Captain John Blancherd in the regiment commanded by Colonel Henery Jackson I the service of the United States; that his name was placed on the pension roll of the state of Vermont from whence he has lately removed; that he now resides in the state (district, or territory) of New York where he intends to remain, and wishes his pension to be there payable, in future.
Sworn and subscribed to, before me, the day and year aforesaid.
John B. Andrews Justice Peace [signature]
Jesse Hagget [signature]
[below text is part of the letterhead]
WAR DEPARTMENT, Pension Office, August 13, 1818. The oath to be taken before a duly qualified Magistrate, whose official character and signature must be properly authenticated.
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Jesse Haggett
Transfer to New York Jany 10. 1823 from Vermont from 4 [?] March 1820 [?]
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State of Newyork S Laurence County __ [?]
I Myrtle B. Hitchcock C__ [?] of the County aforesaid do hereby Certify that John B Andrews before whom the _____ [?] aff___[?] ___[?] appears to have been made is a Justice of the peace acting under the authority of this State, and that the ___[?] is his Signature
In testimony wherof I have herein [?] unto set my hand and affixed the Seal of Said County of S. Laurence this 27 day December 1822
Myrtle B. Hitchcock