Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 2,798, Asa Hickok, Conn.
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Service, Number
1. Conn., Hickok, Asa N. 2798
2. Esther
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4315
Pennslvania, Philad.
Esther Hickok
widow of Asa Hickok
who was a Private
in the Revolution
[add to the side: Conn]

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of
33 Dollars 33
Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843.

Certificate of Pension issued the
11. day of Jan 1844
and sent to H. C. Kelly
Towanda, Pa.

[Act of March 3, 1843.]
Recorded in Book A.
Vol. 1. Page /33.
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11:900
Pennsylvania
Asa Hickok
of Bradford Co in the State of Pennsylvania who was a private in the Company commanded by Captain Hinman of the regt: commanded by Col Hinman in the Ch: line for 10 ms

Inscribed on the Roll of Pennsylvania at the rate of 33 Dollars 33 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 11 day of July 1833 and sent to David Cash Towanda
Arrears to the 4th of March 1833 $66.66
Semi-anl. allowance ending [illegible] 16.66
$83.32

Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.

Recorded by W. L. Williams Clerk,
Book 3 Vol. 5. Page 23
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State of Pennsylvania
Bradford County fs

On this 12th day of February 1839 personally appeared before the court of Common Pleas now sitting in & for the County of Bradford aforesaid Esther Hickok a resident of Warren Township in the county aforesaid aged Eighty years, who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth on her oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by act of Congress passed July 7. 1838 entitled  "An Act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows" that she is the Widow of Asa Hickok who was a private in the army of the revolution and for a part of his services he obtained a pension in person once of the act of Congress passed June 7. 1832 _ she says a part of his services from the fact that his return home from court after making his application for the pension aforesaid he remembered that he forgot to put in one tour of service which he performed of three months - That the [illegible struckthrough] of his pension was $33.33 or threabouts per annum - That after the death of her said husband she drew the amount due from November to the 29th of March 1836 - Declareant , of the time of her knowing the papers to be made out in form to draw the solomn due on said pension of the death of her husband, had his certificate, but she had not been able find the certificate since that time, whether it was sent to the pension Department or lost or misplaced at that time.
She further declares that she was married to the said Asa Hickok on the twentyninth day of December in the year Seventeen Hundred & Seventy Seven that her husband, the aforesaid Asa Hickok, died on the 29 day of March 1836, and that she had
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remained a widow ever since that period, as will more fully appear by reference to the proof hereto annexed- Esther [her mark: +] Hickok
D.W. Hickok

Sworn to an Subscribed on the day & year above written-  David Cash Proc

State of Pennsylvania
Bradford County
I, David Cash Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas in aforesaid County do certify that in the above foregoing application of Esther Hickok for a pension, she the said Esther Hickok on the 12th day February A D. 1839 appeared in open Court & in all due form was qualified to the facts contained therein & Subscribed the Same by making her mark as above-
In testimony whereof I have here unto set my hand & affixed the Seal of said Court of Towanda this 18th day of Jany. 1840
David Cash Prot
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21,151
Asa Hickok

k.

Aom.
10 months
$33.33

David Cash Esq.
Towanda
Bradford County Pa
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WAR DEPARTMENT,
Pension Office,
183

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 a 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 Asa Hickok of Bradford County, Pennsylvania

[Table]
[column headings: Period when the service was rendered, Duration of the claimant's service, Years, Months, Days, Rank of the claimant, Names and Rank of the Company officers under whom he served, Names and Rank of the General and Field officers, Battles in which the applicant was engaged, Country through which he marvhed, Place of abode when he entered the service, and age at the present period, Evidence by which the declaration is supported.]

Voll.
1. 1775, 8 [months],  Capt Hinman, Col. Hinman, None, thru Connecticut, Litchfield, Traortionary Evidence
2. 1776, 2 [months], ", ", Massachusetts & New York to Ticonderoga, aged 78 years

I am, respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
J. 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 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. 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 services.

Four general classes of cases are embraced in this law:
1. 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 the law as officers, non-commissioned officers, musicians, or privates, will in the first instance, make application by transmitting the following declaration, which will be made before a Court of Record at the County where such applicant resides, And every Court having law a seal and Clerk 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.
County of
On this     day of      personally appeared (a) before      A.B. a resident (b) of     in the county of    and State, Territory or District  of     aged (c)     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)     , with    and   served in the     (e) regiment of the    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 county through which he marched. [pointing finger] 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 the year aforesaid.

[And then will follow the certificate of the Court.]
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinions (g) that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served in the states.
I                                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 the 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       and C.D. residing in (the same) hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with              , who has  subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be       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 day 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 an,ed 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 applicant 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 of 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 transactions.
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 alleged service as they are known at the Department. A very full account of the services of each person
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3.

 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 forward, 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 too, 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, Sate 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 live now? 
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.
6. {To a soldier {Did you ever receive a discharge from the service, and if so, by whom was it given and what has become of it?
{To an Officer{ did you ever receive a commission, and if so, by whom was it signed, and what has become of it?
7. State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood, 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 he answers 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 he lives in the immediate vicinity of such applicant who can testify from acquaintance within, that they believe he is of the age he represents, and that he is reputed 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 will also certify, to the character and standing of the 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 shall 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  the Court of Record, or a Justice of the Peace, [illegible folded paper] 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 7th 1832; and in case of death subsequent thereto, and before the declaration herein required is made, the party's 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.

(a) 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.
(b) 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.
(c) The age of the claimant must invariably be mentioned.
(d) The declarant must mention the period or. War when he served.
(e) Every continental officer or soldier must give the names of the colonel under whom he served; otherwise a satisfactory examination of the claim cannot be had. Every 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: quotation mark personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a justice of the peace, &c.
A.B. Who, being duly sworn, disposeth and saith, that, by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length service; but, according to the best of his recollection , he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades: For----year----months, and ----days, I served as a period for months and days, I served as a; and for such service I claim a pension quotation mark 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 is too indefinite and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable. Some persons who apply for pensions merely state that they serve two years in the militia,  & without specifying the tours, the names of the officers, and other particulars respecting their service. This form of a declaration is highly objectionable. Must, in every case, be clearly shown under what officers the applicant served; the duration of each term of engagement; the particular place or places where the service was performed; that the applicant served with an embodied core called into service by competent authority; that he was either in the field or in garrison; and for the time during which the service was performed, he was not employed in any civil pursuit.
(f) The law makes the relinquishment indispensable.
 (g) The opinion of the court is always required.
(h) The clerk must give his certificate in every case
The clerk must give his certificate in every case(i) The clerk must affix his seal, and if no other device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal, or if he has no public seal of office, the certificate of a member of Congress, providing 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 comet or other papers authenticated, the certificate must be attached there too 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.

(j) In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the department, he must prove his service by 2 credible witnesses, who are required to set forth their affidavits the time of the claimants entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the regiment, company, and line to which he belonged. The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the witnesses, and the official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office.
[pointing hand] The notes from a two illegible are all equally applicable to the cases of militia men, volunteers and state troops,. The proof required by the rule in note J applies to continental troops only
 rule in note J applies to continental troops only
(k) His traditionary evidence is indispensable in military cases
His traditionary evidence is indispensable in military cases(l) If a witness cannot be found, the declare must state the fact.
(m) The answers to the interrogatories must be all written, and sent to the War Department, with the declaration.
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Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
Bradford County

On this tenth day of December A.D. 1832 personally appeared in open Court, before the Honorable Edward Hedrick presidenet and his associate judges now sitting and holding a court of Common Plea for the County of Bradfor. Asa Hickok a resident of Warren Township in the County of Bradford aforesaid, and State of Pennsylvania aged Seventy eight years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on his oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress proposed June 7, 1832.
That he entered the service of the United States and under the following named officers and served and hereinafter stated.
He enlisted in the Connecticut State troops for the term of eight or nine months cannot be positive which is induced to believe it was eight months from the impression on his mind that the time commended with April and ended on the first of December the commencement of ninten-her entered the service at Woodbury in Litchfield, Connecticut, (where he then resided) on or about the first day of April A.D. 1775 under Col Benjamin Hinman, Capt. David Hinman Lieutenant Benjamin Hangerford. From Woodbury he marched with a part of the Regiment to Litchfield and [illegible] in com. Sheffield in Massachusetts, Albany, in New York, from there to Fort George on Lake George, from there to the garrison or fort of Ticonderoga on Lake Champlain when they move stations and joined by them more companies of Col. Hinman's Regiment  he thinks four companies of Col. Hinman's Regiment were stationed at Crown Point.-while deponent was at Ticonderoga Lunt. Schuyler came there in advance of some New York troops-on receiving the  intelligence of the Declaration of American Independence, which arrived while Genl. Schuyler was at was at Ticonderoga, he order the troops at that place to be handed give three cheers. The [crossed through full] troops at Ticonderoga in the fall of that year,  men attacked with and many of them died of fever and dysentery- late in the fall deponent
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was taken sick with a fever, which rendred him unable to go with the troops to sait john to which latter place they had been order to march, in consiqunce of which sickness deponent was discharged from further service with a view to get to his brother's - who resided nier the head of South Bay as it was then called, - Col. Hinman, before marching to said john sent deponent in a boat to the head of the bay from thence his brother mooved him to his house where he remained until he was able to ride home to his father's in Woodburry aforesaid- Deponent has now no recollection what become of his discharge, but supposes it was lost during his sickness - nor does he recollect by whom it was signed. but he well recollects the kind attention of Col. Hinman (who was a friend of deponents father) in procurring a boat and hand to row it with deponent and other sick soldiers to the head of south bay with direction to deponent to go to his borther's and from thence home as soon as he was able -
In 1776 then was a call for volunteers - deponent, on or about the first day of November in that year voluntered. for two months in the company commanded by Capt Elijah Hinman. the company march from Woodbery aforesaid. to the horse neck where the troops awaited further orders - the Brittish were then expected to land some where along the frontier of Connecticut, there and other vounters were raised to guard the lines as it was caller deponent does not know who had the chief command upon this part of the frontier. but while the voluntiers were at the Horse nick a Major whose name he does not now recollect come and order Capt. Hinman to march his company, with the exception of a guard to remain at Horse neck, lower doen the sound towards Ne York. the name of the place where the company were stationed along the Sound he does not recollect, except to name of Jaggers Guard as it was called- deponent remained as one of the guard the at the Horse Neck for several weeks when the guard joined the balance of the company. where he remained until the expiration of the time for which the company volunterred the company were all dischared at the same time- there were no written discharges given to the best of the deponents knowledge and belief - Deponent was twenty one years of age when he first enlisted- he is now old and infirm and many of
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the name of officers. and circumstances of the campaings have called from his memory- He was born at woodbury in Ct. in the 4th of June 1754- resided in Connecticut until 1812 then moved to Sulivan County N. York from thence he moved to Warren township. Bradford Co. Pa. in 1820 where he now resides-
William Russell and Jacob D. Burbank of deponents neighborhood known to him and can testify to his character for verasity and as to their belief of his Services as a Soldier in the Revolution that he has no documentary evidence, and that he know of no person, whose testimony he can procure, who can testify to his Service-.
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State or (if any) only on that of the State of Connecticut- -
Sworn to and Subscribed the day and year aforesaid-
JPBull Prot      Asa Hickok
Mr. William Russell treasurer of Bradford County, and Jacob D. Burbank of Warren Township in Bradford County Pa. hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with Asa Hickok who has Subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be Seventy Eight years of age: that he is reputed and believe, in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a Soldier of the revolution and that we concur in that opinion-
Sworn to and Subscribed the day and aforesaid-
William Russell
Jacob D Burbank
Sworn & subscribed
Dec. 10. 1832
JPBull Prot

And the said court do hereby declare their opinion after the Investigation of the matter and after putting the Interrogations prescribed by the war department that the above named applicant was a revolutionary Soldier and served as he states- and the Court further certified that it appears to thence that William Russel and Jacob D. Burbank who have signed the proceeding certificate. are person
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of credibility and that their statement is Entitled to credit

I James P. Bull Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of Bradford County do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the Said Court in the matter of the application of Asa Hickok for a pension on testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 15th day December A.D. 1832

for J. P. Bull Prot
E. S. Goodrich Dep.
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Asa Hickok
21157
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crawford
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6715 Esther Hickok
of Asa
Pennsylvania
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State of Connecticut
County of New Haven

I Oliver. B Butterfield the present Pastor of the Presbyterian Church in South Britain in the town of Southbury in the County of New Haven, hereby, certify that it appears by the records of the church of which I am Pastor that Asa Hicok was married to Esther Hinman on the twenty nineth day of December A.D. Seventeen hundred and seventy seven which veow is as follows,
"Marriages"
January 18, Seventeen hundred seventy seven John Johnson Love Dorris
-------- 9th ----------------- Samuel Pears Martha Edmonds
August 7th ---------------- Israel Square Contest Ward
December 15th ----------- Aamosiah Griswald Bethea Parks
---------- 29th ------------ Asa Hicok Esther Hinman
And I certify that the foregoing is an exact copy of said record with the exception of the date which is in figure fair & legible & is 1777"-
Oliver B Butterfield
Pastor of the Presbyterian Church in South Britain Town of Southbury County of New Haven State of Connecticut

State of Connecticut
New Haven County
Personally appeared before me a Justice of Peace for said county this 27th day of August A.D. 1839 Oliver B. Butterfield whom I know to be the present pastor of said parrish and made oath to the truth of the above certificate by him subscribed and that the same contained an exact copy of said record except the date
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as above written, and I further certify that said Oliver B. Butterfield is a credible witness and that I have examined said record and found the above copy to be correct.
Daniel Hinman Justice of Peace
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Rev. and 1812
Wars Section
MOS/HHM

May 16, 1930.

Lulu E. Martin
Cranbury
New Jersey.

Dear Madam:

I advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim W. 2798, it appears that Asa Hickok was born June 4, 1754 at Woodbury, Litchfield County, Connecticut.

While a resident of that place he enlisted and served as a private with the Connecticut troops as follows:

From sometime in April 1775 eight months in Captain David Hinman's Company Colonel Benjamin Hinman's Regiment: sometime in 1776 two months in Captain Elijah Hinman's Company.

He moved from Woodbury, Connecticut to Sullivan Count, New York in 1812, and from there to Warren Township, Bradford County, Pennsylvania, in 1823.

He was allowed pension on his application executed December 10, 1832, at which time he was a resident of Warren Township, Bradford County, Pennsylvania.

He died March 29, 1836, in Warren Township, Pennsylvania.

The soldier married December 29, 1777, Esther Hinman.

She was allowed pension on her application executed February 12, 1839, at which time she was a resident of Warren Township, Pennsylvania, and stated that she was then eighty years of age. in 1845 she was a resident of Warren Township, Pennsylvania, and then state that she was eighty-six years of age.

There are no data relative to children.
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This is the history of the only soldier by the name of Asa Hickok that is found on the Revolutionary War records of this bureau.

Very truly yours,

E. W. Morgan
Acting Commissioner.
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WIDOW, &c.
Ray
File No. 2798
Esther Hickok
Widow
Asa Hickok
Pri. Rev. War
Act: March 3, 1843
Index:-Vol. A, Page 333
[Arrangement of 1870.]

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1900, May 16. list to Lulu E. Martin
W. C. S.
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5770
Pennsylvania
Esther Hickok
widow of Asa Hickok, dec.
who was a pensioner under the Act of 1832-
and who died on the 29 March 1836-
of Bradford Co in the State of Pennyslvania
who was a private in the company commanded
by Captain Hinman of the regt
commanded
by Col hinman in the Connt.
line for 10 months.

Inscribed on the Roll of Philadelphia at the rate of 33 Dollars 33 Cents per annum, to commence on the 24 day of March, 1836.

Certificate of Pension issued 18 day of March 1840, I sent to Hon S. W. Morris, house of Reps.

Arrears to the 4th of Mar 1840 $ 130.55
Semi=annual allowance ending 4 Sep 40 16.66
147.21
{Act July 7, 1838}
Recorded by D. M. Curdy Clerk,
Book A. Vol. 2 Page 153.
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Esther Hickok of Asa
Pennsylvania
-
admitted
P~ 10 mo. $ 33.33
Cap Hinman
Oe Neuman. Ct.
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dies 29 March 1836

Act of July 1838

Hon. Saml W. Morris
H. R.

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3.33
  55
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2.78

133.33
  2.78
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130.55
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Mar 5. 1840
pa.
E Hickok
act 38. 6718
Reed 24 Jan 3
Ams. S W. Morris

J L Edwards Esq
Pension Office
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Washington March _ 1840
JL Edwards Esqr
Sir
I shall be pleased to be informed whether the papers in respect to the claim of Mrs Esther Hickok have yet come to hand - & if received, allow me to request your early attention thereto
yr Obsrvt
Saml W Morris
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Asa Hickok
21151
Pennsyvania
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In the case of the application of Asa Hickok for a pension under the act of Congress passed June 4. 1832 whose papers and declaration [illegible] number 21 151 in the War Department in support of which the following additional evidence is offerd-
I, Salmon King, a clergyman, residing in the township of Warren in the county of Bradford and State of Pennsylvania hereby certify that I am well acquainted with Asa Hickok of the township and county aforesaid, and who has subscribed and Sworn to the declaration to which this certifficate is attached; that I believe him to be between Seventy and Eighty years of age; that he is reputed and believed, in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a revolutionary [struck-through] soldier of the revolution, and that I concur in that opinion -
Swornto and subscribed in open court this 9th May of May A.D. 1833 J.P.Bull] Salmon King.
And the court of com. Pleas of Bradford county
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in addition to their previous certifficate further certifies, that it appears to them that Salmon King who has Signed the preceeding certificate is a clergyman residing in the township of Warren in the County of Bradford aforesaid and that his Statement is culitted to full faith and credit-
State of Pennsylvania
Bradford Count fs.
I. James P. Bull, Prothonotory of the Counrt of Common Pleas of said county, do hereby certify contains [struckthrough] that the forgoing contains the Supplemental proceeding of said court in the care of the application of Asa Hickok for a pension -
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 9th of May 1833
J.P.Bull
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4/46  Oct. 30, 1843
[postal stamp] WANDA OCT 25
[illegible] initials
pa
Mar 3rd 1843
Esther Hickok

$33.33 per an

H. C. Kelly
Towanda
Pa.

[written the other direction]
Gw Charles Esq
Comm. Pensions
Washington 
D.C.

[crossed through] 1814
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State of Pennsylvania
Bradford County fs

On this Fourteenth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and forty three. personally appeared before the subscribed, one of the Justices of the Peace in and for the County of Bradford Esther Hickok, a resident of Warren in the County of Bradford before said aged Eighty - sic - years, who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on her oath, make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provisions made by the Act of Congress, passed on the 3d March, 1843, granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War.
That she is the widow of Asa Hickok, who was a private soldier in the army and served in the regiment commanded by Col Benjamin Hinman, in the division of the army under General Striker and that the annual amount of the pension which she received under the Act of July 7th 1838, was thirty three dollars and a third.
She further declares that she is still a widow. Witness Reben Hickok.
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written before.
Parley Coburn J. P.
Esther X Hickok
Her mark
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State of Pennsylvania, Bradford Co fs.
I. Parly Coburn a Magistrate in the County above named do certify that I have the most satisfactory evidence, viz: from personale knowledge, that Esther Hickok, who has this day appeared before me is the identical person named in the foregoing declaration by her subscribed. Given under my hand at Warren, in said County, on the day and year above written.
Parly Coburn J. P.
State of Pennsylvania Bradford County fs.
I. Aaron Chubbuck Prothonotery of the Court of Common Pleas in & for Bradford County, do hereby certify that Parley Coburn is a justice of the Peace in afore said County duly commissioned and qualified and that his signature above written is genuine.
Given under y hand and the seal of the said County this twenty fourth day of October A. D. 1843
Aaron Chubbuck Prothonotary
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Oct 24th 1863
Dear Sir: - 
Herewith I send you the Declaration of Esther Hickok oc_ On looking over I do not know that I drew the certificate of the Magistrate strictly according to the formulae.
But I suppose that the fact of her having previously drawn a pension will not render it so strictly necessary that the form should be exact, provided the substance is there-
Respectfully Youres
H. C. Kelly
Atty for Pensionre
R . B. Direct as above
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Mr. David H Hicok
Rush
Susquahannah Courts
Penn-
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State of Pennsylvania
Bradford County Fs

Be it known that on the 20th day of November 1839 before the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace in and for Said County, personally affored George Chillson who being duly sworn according to law doth depose and say that Asa Hickok, a revolutionary Soldier and to this deponent well known for about two years before his decease, died in - Warren Township Bradford - County Pa. on the 29 day of March in the year 1836 leaving Esther Hickok his widow what has remained a widow ever since, & who now asks pleis for a pension - George Chillson

Sworn and subscribed the day and year first above written before me.
Pearly Coburn Justice Peace

I. the said Justice, do further certify that George Chillson whose depostion is above, is a person a person of truth and veracity & his statment is entitled to credit - Pearly Coburn Justice Peace
State of Pennsylvania
Bradford County
I. David Cash Prothornotary of the Court of Common Pleas of Bradford County and State of Pennsylvania do hereby certify that Pearly Coburn before whom the foregoing proceedings were had is a Justice of the Peace in and for said County duly commissioned and qualified and the the foregoing signatures purporting to be his are genuine
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed my seal of Office. and subescribed my name this 18th day of January A.D. 1840
David Cash. Prothornotary
By John M Nattles
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STATE OF CONNECTICUT,
NEW HAVEN COUNTY,
COUNTY COURT CLERK'S OFFICE.

I, Jn Beach Clerk of the County Court, within and for said County, and Keeper of the Seal thereof, and of the Commissions of Justices of Peace, within and for said County, hereby certify that

Daniel Hinman

Esq. is a Justice of Peace,

within and for the said County, duly appointed, commissioned, and sworn, with power of administer oaths and take the acknowledgement of Deeds; that his Commission is dated the 8th day of Juner A.D. 1839 and will expire on the twentieth day of June, A. D. 1840; that I am acquainted with his hand writing, and that the signature hereto annexed, purporting to be his, is his genuine official signature.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and the Seal of said Court, this 3rd day of Sept. A. D. 1839

Jn Beach Clerk

Price for Cutifichty: Postage, [symbol] [symbol]. $ 3.00
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Towands Po. Jan 18th 1840

Sir
In your letter of the 10 of Sept last you remark, "In this code of Mrs. Spalding the Mitress [sp] agr [sp] should be Shown, & he should Stare more particularly the circumstances of his known edge [sp] of the marriage of the Claimants"
Incosed, I herewith Send [sp] you the deposition of the Mitress (Avery Son) which will be found to be full & explicit -
Some three month ago I inclosed to you the concluding deposition in relation to the marriage of Mrs. Mercy Lines, lust [sp] have not returned her certificate -
I herewith send to you the Declaration of Mrs Esther Hickok, together with the Record of her marriage & the requested deposition of the death of her Husband - Her Husband, Asa Hickok du [sp] obtained a pension under the act of 1832 - In his application he omitted to include (through mistake) our town of service, which, it is said, [which [struckthrough]] he Served -  This circumstance, I suppose, will not preclude the widow from obtaining a pension for the whole [underlined] time which the military rolls show that he, served in the Revolution-
As the two former of the above cases have been pending a long time, I should be much satisfied if the these cases could be examined & then certifiecates
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to from order [illegible[
I am very respectfully
your obt. servt.
David Call

J.L. Edwards Esq.
Com, Pensions
Washington
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Grandbury N.J. Feby 25/30

Pension Bureau:
Washington D.C.
Gentlemen:-
Can you furnish me with data conserving  Asa Hickok who was in the Revolutionary War from Woodbury Conn. It is said the he received a pension.
Any data you may furnish I will be very grateful for and very willing to pay for the work.

Very Sincly[sp] yours
Lulu E. Martin