Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 36599, William Hughes, Conn. Continental
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Conn     |     Hughes, William
Continental

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14628
Connecticut
[double line]
William Hughes 
of Southbury in the state of Connecticut
who was a Private in the regiment commended [by]
Colonel Webb of the Connecticut line, for the term of Three Years
[double line]
Inscribed on the roll of Connecticut at the rate of 8 Dollars per month,
to commence on the 3rd of April 1818
[double line]
Certificate of Pension issued the 15 of Sep 18[18]
and sent to Nathaniel Smith
Woodbury Connecticut
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Arrears to 4th of Sep 1819        |    $135.53
Semi-anl. all'ce ending Mar 1820  |    48.00
17 mo 9/30                                  | $184.53

{Revolutionary claim,
Act 18th March, 1818}
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Wm Hughes
Copy

14.62[?]

March 1820
[initialed) CM
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At a County Court, held in and for the County of Newhaven, in the District
and State of Connecticut, on the 5th day of July 1820, the same being a Court of
Record, and  having a Seal, by virtue of the laws of said State.
Personally appeared, in open Court, William Hughes a resident in the town of
Southbury in the County of Newhaven in said State, and exhibited and subscribed
the following Schedule, and made Oath that the same is a true and perfect
Schedule of all his income and property, necessary cloathing and beding 
excepted, viz:
the estate for my natural life in one [ illegible] fourth of an acre of land situated
in said Southbury with a small one story house on the same the annual of which is
$14.50
           his
William X Hughess
          mark
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District and State of Connecticut, ss
Be it remembered, That in the County Court, held in and for County of New Haven,
in the District and State aforsaid, on this 5th day of July 1820, the same being a 
Court of Record, and having a Seal, under the authority  of said State, personally
came and appeared in open Court, William Hughes - aged Sixty five- years,
resident in the Town of Southbury in the County of New Haven in said State,
and being Sworn according to Law, doth on his Oath declare that he served in the 
Revolutionary War, as follows:  that enlisted into Capt Stephen  Betts Company in Col Webbs regiment and Connecticut Line in the continental army and was at the battle at the White Plains [ny, ny?]
that the original Declaration made by him for the purpose of obtaining a pension under the Act of Congress of the 18th day of March, 1818;  that in pursuance thereof he was entered in the list of Pensioners,  and received a Pension Certificate No. 14628 And I do further solemnly [blank space] 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 as to diminish it, as to bring myself within the provisions of an Act of Congress, entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service if the United States in the Revolutionary War," passed on 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 to me;  nor have I any income other that what is contained in the Schedule hereunto   annexed, and by me subscribed. And I do further declare that my occupation  of A Farmer
and that I have in my family residing with  me my wife Elizabith Hughes who for some 
years has been [illegible] entirely unable to labour & has for some time past been
supported by the Town of Southbury being unable to support herself
all which is subscribed by me that day and year aforesaid.
William x Hughes  [his mark]
Sworn to, and declared in the Court aforesaid. Whereupon said Court is, on satisfactory proof exhibited in Court, of opinion that the total amount in value of the property contained in the aforesaid Schedule, is 14 Dollars and 50----Cents, and doth order these proceedings to be entered in the records of said Court,  [signed] Mesr?Henry C. Flagg
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District of Connecticut, ss
I, Henry C Flagg Clerk of the County Court in and for  the County of New Haven in the
State and District of Connecticut, do hereby certify that the foregoing and the Schedule
thereunto annexed, are truly copied from the records of said Court: and I do further certify, that it is the opinion of the said Court that the total amount, in value, of the property exhibited in the aforesaid Schedule, is 14  Dollars and 50 Cents.
In testimony whereof I  have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the Seal of said Court
on this 5th day of July  1820.
[Mesr?] Henry C Flagg  Clerk [followed by Seal]

I, Isaac Mills presiding Judge of the County Court in and for the County of NewHaven in the State of Connecticut, do hereby certify that Henry C. Flagg is Clerk of said Court, and Keeper of the Seal and Records thereof; and that the preceding Certificate, under his hand, and the Seal of said Court, is authentic, and in due form of Law.
In testimony  whereof I have hereunto set my hand in  NewHaven
this 5 day of July 1820
[signed] Isaac Mills  Chief Judge
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Rev.  & 1812 Wars Section
Mrs. Schuyler M. Smith
4602 Cleveland Ave.
St. Louis, Mo.
Madam
I have to advise you that it appears from  the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claims, S. 36599, that WILLIAM HUGHES enlisted in Norwalk, Connecticut, July 19, 1781, as private in Stephen Betts' Company in Colonel Samuel B. Webb's Connecticut Regiment and served until September 4, 1782. He stated that he was in the battle of White Plains and served three years but there are no further details of his service given.
He was allowed pension on his application executed April 3, 1818, st which time he was a resident of Southbury, New Haven County, Connecticut.
In 1820 he stated that he was sixty-five years of age and then referred to his wife, Elizabeth.
There are no further data on file relative to his family.
Respectfully,

WINFIELD SCOTT
Commissioner
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36599
[illegible]  INVALID

File No.    36,599
William Hughes
Pri       Rev    War

Act: 18 March 18
Index:---Vol. 2 , Page 199
{arrangement of 1870}

1926 Aug 12 hist. to Mrs Schuyler
[illegible] See letter
in case of RIchard Hughes 
[illegible]
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William Hughes
Private
'77 to '83
Webb Connecticut Regt.
On Roll
81 - 3 yrs

Admitted
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State of Connecticut           (?) Woodbury April 3, 1818
Litchfield County

On this third day of April 1818 before me, on of the Judges of the Superior Court of the said State personally appears William Hughes, resident in the town of Southbury, New Haven County, State of Connecticut, who being by me first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the provision made by a late act of Congress entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War." That the said William Hughes enlisted into the service of the United States in the year 1779 or 1780 in the company commanded by Capt. Stephen Betts in the Regiment commanded by Col. Samuel B. Webb and served in said Regiment for the term of three years successively when he was honorably discharged, which discharge he has since lost by time or accident. 

That he is in reduced circumstances, and stands in need of the assistance of his country for support, and that he has no other evidence now in his power of his said service except the following affidavits. Sworn to before me the day and year aforesaid.

                                                             Nathaniel Smith, a Judge of the Superior Court

On this seventeenth day of December 1818 personally appeared Galloway Peters, who being by me first duly sworn according to law deposeth and saith, that he was in the Army of the United States in the same Regiment with William Hughes, and knows that he was in the service of the United States more than two years. Sworn to me this 17 day of December 1818.

                                                           Nathaniel Smith, a Judge of the Superior Court
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On this seventeenth day of December 1818 personally appeared _ummy Simon of Southbury in New Haven county, State of Connecticut, who being by me first duly sworn according to law deposeth and saith that he was in the Army of the United States in the same Regiment with William Hughes and knows that he was in the service of the United States more than two years. Sworn to before me this 17 day of December 1818.

Nathaniel Smith
Judge of the Supr Court

I Nathaniel Smith Judge as aforesaid do Certify [illegible] that it appears to my satisfaction that William Hughes did serve in the revolutionary war as stated in the preceding declaration against the common enemy. And I do certify that the said William Hughes is in reduced circumstances and stands in need of assistance of his country for support. An I now transmit the procedings taken and had before me to the Secretary for the Department of War pursuant to the directions of the aforementioned act.
of Congress.

Nath^l Smith, a
Judge of the Sup Court

Woodbury December 21 1818

I Nathaniel Smith Judge as foresaid further certify that Cummy Simon and Galloway Peters the within named deponents [illegible] good characters for truth, and reliance may be placed on their testimony.

Nath^l Smith
a Judge of the Sup^r Court
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I Frederick Wolcort, Clerk of the Superior Court within the County of Litchfield in the State of Connecticut, certify that the Hon^ble. Nathaniel Smith, Esq, is a Judge of said Court, that the signature to the foregoing Certificates is his hand writing & that the Seal hereto annexed is the Seal of said Court.

January 26th A.D. 1819.

Frederick Wolcort, Clerk

[Seal]
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State of Connecticut
County of [Fairfield?] 
 [ bracket then ] [Newhaven?]
July 26th 1819
On examination of my Rolls & other papers I find- that WIlliam Hughes
inlisted into my company in Norwalk Conn & July 19th 1781- for one year
and I find that he in fact served with me till Sept 4th 1782 - he must have
[uninlested?] and I believe transferred to some other conpany I think I wll remember
Hughes to have been a faithful Soldier & have no doubt but he had an honorable Discharge-
Stephen Betts Capt
Revolutionary Army Col S B Webbs Reg't  Conn 13th  [Illegible]
[transcriber note--this could be Samuel Blachley Webb who participated in the Battle of Yorktown]
personnaly appeared the above Steph Betts & made oath that the above statement
relative to William Hughes is true from before me this 26th day of July 1819
Isaac Richards  Justice of Peace