Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 4990, Eleazer Hoyt, Conn. Continental
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(8-1776)
SERVICE                                                                                NUMBER

Conn                        Hoyt, Eleazer                            N.4990 
Continental                Clarissa                                  B.L.N 24993-160-55.


CONTENTS
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[handwritten]
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18 Dec 1838
CID to Pen Agt
Paid at the Treasury under the act of the 6 April 1838 from 4 Sept 1837 to 4 March 1838 - Agt notified 15 Jany 1839.
To Albany N.Y. from 4th Sept 1837. 24 Jany 1839 - Notification sent to Marlie Albra Rochester New York
M. G. Wade Jany, 6 1853

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28675 (crossed out) 281
New York Albany
(crossed out) Connecticut

Eleazer Hoyt
of Stratsville In the State of Conn
who was a private in the Conn commanded
by Captain _____________________________ [left blank] of the Regt commanded by Col Bradley in the Con
line for 11 months

Inscribed on the Roll of Con at the rate of 36 Dollars 66 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 8 day of Feb 1834 and sent L. a. Foot. M. of. R.

Arrears to the 4th of Sept 1833 $151.66
Semi-anu. allowance ending March 4 1833
[double line indicating total] $169.99

{Revolutionary Claims Act June 7, 1832}
Recorded by E D Bulloch Clerk,
Book E Vol. 3 Page 17
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504
New York Albany
Clarissa Hoyt [Handwritten]
widow of Eleazer Hoyt [Handwritten to the right of "of"]
who served in the Revolutionary
Conn [Handwritten]
war, as a Private [Handwritten to the right of "a"]
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Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of
36 [handwritten to left of "Dollars"] Dollars 66 [Handwritten to the right of Dollars]
Cents per annum, to commence on
the 4th day of March, 1810. [crossed out to the right of "the"]
3. February 1853 [handwritten]
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Certificate of Pension issued th [page rip to the right of "issued" obstructing word "the"]
26th [handwritten to the left of "day"] day of May [handwritten to the right of "of"] [183?]
and sent to
W.G. Wade [handwritten]
Present [handwritten]
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Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under a [word cut off from the right of "a"]
July 2[?], 1848, [crossed out to the left of "Page"] Page 75 [handwritten to the right of "Page"] Vol. [R?, handwritten to the right of "Vol."]

1832 [handwritten]

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Date of death not [illegible]
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[handwritten] [left side of page]
172882 
June 19/55
Clarissa Hoyt, Wid
Eleazer Hoyt dec priv.

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No 24993 May 15/56

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Revolutionary War Pensioner Ct. line
[?] Feby 53-504
AO: 160 ACns?  May 15/56
  BOynton 

Alfred G. Mudge  atty
Rochester, NY.

Vol. [H?] _ 60
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172882

BOUNTY LAND CLAIM
Act of March 3, 1855
Claim of Clarissa Hoyt
Widow of Eleazer Hoyt

Revolutionary

[faint handwriting]
155 E [too faint]

[signed] Alfred G Mudge
Attorney Rochester N.Y.

Steam Press of A. Strong & Co, Rochester N.Y.
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State of New York
County of Monroe

[there is a large black blotch at top of the page]

I, Laura Newton resident of Rochester in said County upon my oath declare that the annexed declaration, was signed and acknowledged by Clarissa Hoyt in my presence, and that I believe from the appearance and statements of the applicant, that she is the identical person she represents herself to be. and that affiant has known her for 30 years. That ever since the death of Eleazer Hoyt her husband she has remained, continued a widow & is now a widow. 
[signed] Laura Newton 

Subscribed and Sworn to before me the day and year above written, and I certify that I know the affiant to be a credible person, and that I am not interested in this claim.
[signed] P.M. Crandall
Commissioner of Deeds
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State of New York
County of Monroe

I, Amanda Albro resident of Rochester in said County upon my oath declare that the annexed declaration, was signed and acknowledged by Clarissa Hoyt in my presence, and that I believe from the appearance and statements of the applicant, that she is the indentical person she represents herself to be. and that has known her for 30 years and that ever since the death of Eleazer Hoyt her husband said death has remained & continued a widow and is now a widow.
[signed] Amanda Albro

Subscribed and Sworn to before me the day and year above written, and I certify that I know the affiant to be a credible person, and that I am not interested in this claim.

[signed]
P. M. Crandall
Commission of Deeds
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State of New York
County of Monroe: on this 14th day of June 1835
before the undersigned a Commissioner of Deeds duly authorized by law to administer oaths, personally appeared Clarissa Hoyt, a resident of the City of Rochester in said county aged 64 years who being duly sworn deposeth and saith: That She is the widow of identical Eleazer Hoyt deceased who was a private in the Revolutionary War and who as such drew the annual pension of thirty six dollars and Sixty Six cents: That her said husband served over 14 days in said war!  That she is the identical Clarissa Hoyt whom a pension certificate was issued under Act of February 3, 1858 payable for the said sum in the City of Albany N.Y.  She further states that she was married to Eleazer Hoyt at Oxford Connecticut on the 15th day of December 1807 by one Jesse Johnson a Clergyman. That her name before her said marriage was Clarissa Hine: That her said husband died at Rochester N.Y. on the 11th day of March 1840 and that since that time she has remained continued a widow and is now a widow.
She refers to the application of her said husband and her own application for a pension respectively for proof of service marriage & death.  She applys [sic] for Bounty Land under Act of March 3, 1835.
   Clarrisa Hoyt

Subscribed & sworn to before me the day & year first above written and I certify that I believe from the appearance and statements of the applicant that
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she is the identical person she represents herself to be and that I am not interested in said claim.
  P.m. Crandall
   Commissioner of Deeds
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POWER OF ATTORNEY
Know all Men by these presents, That I, Clarissa Hoyt of Rochester County of Monroe, N.Y. do hereby irrevocably make, constitute and appoint Alfred G. Mudge my true and lawful Attorney, for me and in my name, to demand and receive from the Department of the Interior of the United States, the Certificate or Warrant to which I am entitled for my husband's Military Services, as mentioned in the foregoing declaration: and for good and sufficient reasons, do hereby revoke and counterman any and all other powers of attorney, or other authority, that may have been given by me for any such purposes, and vest the same solely and irrevocably in my said Attorney, said Alfred G. Mudge

Attest, 
P.M. Crandall

In Testimony Whereof, witness my hand and seal this 14 day of June 1855
Clarissa Hoyt

State of New York
County of Monroe

On this 14 day of June 1855
personally appeared before me, P.M. Crandall a Commissioner of Deeds, duly authorized by law to take acknowledgements in and for the county aforesaid Clarissa Hoyt subscriber to the foregoing, and acknowledged the same to be her act and deed, for the purposes there described.

P.M Crandall
Commissioner of Deeds

State of New York
County of Monroe

I, W.B. Williams Clerk of the County Court
in and for the county and State above mentioned, do hereby certify that P.W. Crandall whose genuine signature appears above, is, and was at the time of the signing the same, a Commissioner of Deeds in and for the County and State aforesaid, duly commissioned and sworn; that all his official acts as such, are entitled to faith and credit; and that the aforesaid Court is a Court of Record, having general jurisdiction.

[SEAL] Given under my hand and seal of office, at Rochester this 16 day of June A.D. 1855
W. Barron Williams Clerk
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State of New York
County of Monroe

Oliver Albro of the county and state aforesaid aged fifty years being first duly sworn according to law saith that he is personally acquainted with Clarissa Hoyt widow of Eleazer Hoyt whose Declaration for a pension is hereto annexed and has been personally acquainted with her and her late husband for more than twenty five years past. That Deponent knows her late husband Eleazer Hoyt was a United States pensioner at the rate of about $36 per annum and died on or about the 11 day of March 1840 and that he left Clarissa Hoyt the applicant for a pension his widow h[illegible] surviving and that she has not intermarried but still renders his widow
Oliver Albro

sworn & subscribed
before me this 18 day
of February 1853

H Humphrey 
M[illegible]
I certify that Oliver Albro 
above named is a credible witness

H Humphrey
[illegible]
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[typed form with handwritten entries]
State of New York,
Monroe Co. clerk's office.  
Rochester }
Certify that H. Humphrey, Esquire, was, at the date of the certificate of proof or acknowledgment of the annexed instrument in writing, a [illegible] Judge in and for said county, duly authorized to take same; that I am well acquainted with his hand writing, and verily believe that the signature to said certificate is genuine.  And that the annexed instrument is executed and acknowledged according to the laws of this State.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of said County, this 4th day of [illegible] A. D. 1853
W. B. Williams clerk.
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Clarisa Hoyt [handwritten]
Act 3 Feby 1853,
widow of Eleazer Hoyt
[illegible Act] 7th June 1832
[Underline mark]
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Marriages

Eleazer Hoyt was married to Clarissa Hine at Oxford CT Dec 15 1807
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Amanda Daughter of Eleazer and Clarissa Hoyt was married to Oliver Albro at Salem CT Feb 26 1820
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Thompson son of Eleazer and Clarissa Hoyt was married to Catherine Gallop at Bennington VT April 6 1837

I was married to Laura Hoyt Daughter of Eleazer 
and Clarissa Hoyt at Rochester July 7th 1846
A Newton
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Declaration
  In order to obtain
the benefits of the Act of Congress of the 3d February 1853, entitled an act to continue half pay to certain widows & orphans.
  State of New York -}
  County of Monroe - }  On this 19th day of February 1853, personally appeared before the County Court  of the County of Monroe
  Clarissa Hoyt a resident of the County & State aforesaid aged 62 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 provision of the 2d section of the Act of Congress above mentioned -  That she is the widow of Eleazer Hoyt who was a United States pensioner at the rate of $36.64 per annum from New haven  County Connecticut   She further declares that she was married to the said Eleazer Hoyt on the 15th day of December 1807, at Oxford, State of Connecticut by Rev Jesse Johnson a Methodist Minister
  That her said husband Eleazer Hoyt died on the 11th day of March 1840 and that she still remains his widow - that she knows of no person living who was present at her marriage, that she has a  record which has been kept for more than twenty years which she knows to be the true record of their marriage, and was written by her son Thompson Hoyt while residing in Connecticut that her name before her marriage to said Eleazer Hoyt was Clarissa Hine
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She further declares that she has not intermarried since her said husbands death but still remains a widow -
  Clarrisa Hoyt

Sworn and subscribed before the Monroe County Court  the day and year before written,
  H Humphrey
 Monroe County Judge
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Clarissa Hoyt
widow of
Eleazer Hoyt
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State of New York
County of Monroe }  I Aaron Newton Esqr of the County and state aforesaid aged Fifty Nine years     duly sworn according to law saith that he is personally acquainted with Clarisa Hoyt widow of Eleazer Hoyt whose Declaration for a pension is hereto annexed, and has been personally acquainted with her and her late husband for more than Twelve years past that deponent knows her late husband Eleazer Hoyt was a United States pensioner at the rate of about $36 per annum, and died on or about the 11 day of March 1840, and that he left Clarissa Hoyt the applicant for a pension, his widow him surviving, and that she has not intermarried but still remains, his widow.
 Sworn and subscribed before me this 18 day of February 1853
  H Humphrey    Aaron Newton
[Monroe County?]  Judge
  I certify that Aaron Newton Esqr above named is a credible witness.
  H Humphrey
    [Monroe County?] Judge
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Eleazer
Eleazer Hoyt
app for pension
2 years
No 1326
August 4 1832
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State of Connecticut
County of New Haven} ss
[(State of Connecticut) - crossed out]
District of Waterbury
  On this 28th day of July 1832 personally appeared in open court before the Court of Probate for said District now [sitting?] Eleazer Hoyt of Waterbury in said District & County aged 77 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 passed June 7 1832  That he entered the service of the United States under the following named office [uz?] and served as herein stated.
  To wit:
   That about the middle of december 1775 he enlisted in a company commanded by Capt Noble Benedict then of Danbury Con..t [Connecticut] for four months and very soon marched to new York by land and joined the Regt in Stamford Ct. commanded by Col. Waterbury of Stamford.  Lt. Col. Hobby and remained in New York a few days excluding the four months in the State Troops & was dismissed without any written discharge and got home to Danbury some time in April '76
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A.
4 months New York
  1775-76
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B.
That in the month of May ^ 1776 after he got home from New York. Some? when about the middle he again enlisted in a company commanded by s aid Capt Noble Benedict for eight months and marched in to New York when they joined the Reg't commanded by Col. Bradley Lt. Col. Hobby = & adjutant Amos Benedict and remained in New York until the American Army was defeated in Flatbush when they were ordered in to the New Jersey shore at [Bayain?] Point apposite Staten Island, when the Anemy [sic] were then encamped, and remained there some time when the men marched up Hudson River about 14 ^ miles to Fort Lee  and remained there some weeks (6 or 8) & during the time they were at Fort Lee about half of our company who had been stationed &the day before in Fort Washington opposite fort lee were taken prisoners - They then retreated towards New Brunswick in New Jersey and remained there a short time when they retreated again up the River to Newburgh, then over to Fishkill and remained there untill [sic] discharged. When he returned home sometime his [Captain?] who had been taken in Fort Washington
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[returned home and then - crossed out] his Lieutenant paid him off & gave him a discharge which he has lost - It was about the 12th day of January 1777 or between that & the first when they were discharged. This was State Troops
C.
  That about [the him? - crossed out]  Genl Burgoyne was taken an alarm came and he volunteered men Lieut David Bouton who commanded the alarm  ist company and want to Peekskill and remain 3 or 4 days then to Fishkill & joined the Regt commanded by Col Joseph Platt Cook. [m??] Genl Putnam - and then Lt. Col Bru?y was sent up to Red Hook & his company went with them and often would return to Fishkill and was then discharged having served  two months. Forgets whether he had a written discharge or not

D
  That in the first part of May or last of April 1780 he then belonging to the Militia Light Horse he was drafted for nine months and joined the Continental at Crumb Pond in the Hudson River in a Regt Commanded by Col. Sheldon. - Lt. Col James on, part of the time. & Major

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 2 months Fishkill 1777
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Talmmage. And the Regt remained in the vicinity of Crumb Pond during pretty much of the Time of nine months. And the Light Horse was sent about in small parties - that was [?] sent to New Haven Ct. and from New Haven he recollects he carried a letter from Genl Parkins to Genl Arnold at Robertson's [House?] near West Point and [?]  at Paramus New Jersey and was there when Genl [Poas?] was killed in a duel - and was sent to various other places which he does not recollect.  he served out the whole nine months but  cannot say what day he was discharged and had not written discharge as he thinks - as he was not paid off until the next Spring when he was paid in Continental Army
[on side]
 7 month Crumb Pond 1780

E.
 That in the summer of 1779 at the time Norwalk was [burnt?] he was called out in same Company of Light Horse he was called in an alarm to Norwalk and served then about five weeks - and was dismissed in Stamford.
  Benjamin Hicock was Captain

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1 month Norwalk
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F.
That at the time Cornwallis was taken he was drafted as body guard for Col. Lawrence and served as his guard for about ten days - and that during the War he enlisted a tour of Six or Seven months as teamster for the Army but does not recollect the time -
[on side]  10 ten days

That he was born in Danbury Ct in the year 53 and that his birth was recorded in his fathers bible.  That he lived in Danbury untill [sic] about 35 years ago and lived in New York a while ^ at Norwalk a while  and has lived in Waterbury about five years he was in Oxford Ct about twenty twenty years -
 [different handwriting]
  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. Sworn to & subscribed the day & year aforesaid
  Eleazer Hoyt

NB  Thomas J Davis & J.  B. Richardson clergymen residing in the Society of Salem Bridge in Town of Waterbury hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Eliann? [Eleazer] Hoyt who has subscribed & sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be 77 years of age that he is reputed & believed in the
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neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution and that we concur in that opinion    Sworn & subscribed the day & year aforesaid
  Thos J Davis     John B. Richardson
And the said Court hereby declares the opinion after the [in? gation?] of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department that the above named applicant was a revolutionary Soldier & served as he states & the Court further certifies that it appears to them that Thos J Davis & J B Richardson who have signed the preceeding certificate are clergymen resident in the Town of Waterbury Salem Bridge Society and that their statement is entitled to credit

I Robinson S Hinman Clerk of the Court of Probate for the District of Waterbury do certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the    court in the matter of the application of Eliam [should be Eleazer] Hoyt for a pension   In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of Office the 28 day of July 1832
  R Hinman  Clerk
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I William Patch of Danbury in the County of FairField and State of Connecticut, aged seventy one years being duly sworn do depose and say that in the Spring of the year 1780 Eleazer Hoyt now of Waterbury in the County of New Haven in the said state, entered the se [smudged] United States, and as I be [smudged] continued therein during the [smudged] and fall of that year - I recall he was in the said service  from seven to nine months - I did not serve with him, [underline] but had  knowledge at the time of his entering the said service and resided in his family during his absence [/underline] - and understood and believed at the time that he served in the [Dons?] Regiment of Cavalry in the Continental Line - and have ever since believed that he so served
  Wm Patch

State of Connecticut
Fairfield County } S.S.
  Sworn & subscribed this 25th day of July 1832, at Danbury in said County, before me - And I further certify that the Deponent is personally well known to me and sustains a good character for truth and is a credible witness
  Reuben Booth  Justice of t Peace
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I Thaddeus Morehouse of Danbury in the County of Fairfield and State of Connecticut, aged Eighty three years being duly sworn do depose and say that I know and am acquainted with Eleazer Hoyt of Waterbury in the County of New Haven in the said State - That in the year 1777, and in the latter part of the month of August or the first of September and of that year, the said Hoyt belonged to the Connecticut Militia, and was a Private Soldier in the Company commanded by Lieutenant David Boughton in the Regiment commanded by Col. Joseph Cooke, and that the said Regiment was then called on a tour of service on the Hudson River in the State of New York. And the said Hoyt served therein and in the service of the United States,  the term of two months principally at Peekskill and Fishkill - to wit, from about the 1st of September 1777, until about the 1st of November of the same year - I served in the same Company with the said Hoyt during the said tour of his service -  Being blind the said Thaddeus Morehouse Subscribes this Deposition by making his mark-
  Thaddeus Morehouse  his X mark
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State of Connecticut
Fairfield County } S.S.
  Sworn and subscribed by Thaddeus Morehouse the within named Deponent  before me - And I do further certify that the Deponent is personally well known to me, and sustains a good character for truth; and is a credible witness
  Reuben Booth  Justice of Peace
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 I Nimrod Benedict of Danbury in the County of Fairfield and State of Connecticut, aged seventy two years, being duly sworn, do depose and say, that I have known and been acquainted with Eleazer Hoyt now of Waterbury in the County of New Haven in the said State, ever since I was a boy - That he always resided in said Danbury until about thirty five years ago - that the said Eleazer Hoyt in the month of December 1775 enlisted in the Regiment of Connecticut State Troops commanded by Colonel David Waterbury in Captain Noble Benedicts Company, and       as I believe until the Spring
 I resided with the said Noble Benedict at the time, as his Lieutenant, and     that the said Hoyt enlisted at aforesaid, and that it was immediately after the return of the said Noble Benedict from the Northern Campaign I did not however [live?] in the said town with the said Hoyt but know that he entered and was [??dent]in the said service in the City of New York until some time in the Spring of 1776 -
  On his return from the aforesaid Service, and in the Spring of said year 1776 the said Eleazer Hoyt again enlisted in the same Company and Regiment, which Regiment was then commanded by Colonel Philip B. Bradley, for the term of [underline] eight Months [/underline]: And served therein under the said  enlistment, until the 1st of January 1777 - and was then dismissed at Fishkill Barracks in the state of New York - He [?med] with said Company at first for a short time in the City of New York, and the residue  of the Campaign - principally in the state of New Jersey - At the time of the capture of Fort Washington, the said Captain, the
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[Endign? - Ensign?]] of the said Company and about half the soldiers were in the said [?ost] and were taken prisoners - The residue of said Company including said Hoyt and myself, were at that time in Fort lee in the opposite side of Hudson River - He served as a Private.
  I also depose and say that I served in the same Company with the said Hoyt, during the last mentioned period of his service having enlisted     therein at the same time he did -
   Nimrod Benedict

State of Connecticut
Fairfield County } S.S.
  Sworn & subscribed this 23d day of July 1832 at Danbury in the said County, before me -
  The said Nimrod Benedict is personally well known to me, is a person of good character for truth, and a credible witness.
  Reuben Booth
  Justice of Peace
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I, THOMAS DAY, Secretary of the State of Connecticut, and Keeper of the Seal thereof, do hereby certify and make known to whom id doth or may concern, That Rueben Booth Esquire, before whom the foregoing Affidavit, of William Patch, Thaddeus Morehouse, and Nimrod Benedicts were taken, is, and at the time such caption, was, a Justice of the Peace within and for the County of Fairfield in said State, duly appointed, commissioned and qualified, having full power and authority, by the laws of said State, to administer oaths to witnesses and to take Affidavits and Depositions out of Court, and to give certificates thereof; that I verily believe the foregoing signature purporting to be his, is genuine; and that full credence is due to his official acts and attestations. 
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my Hand, and affixed the Seal of said State, at the City of Hartford, in said State, the eleventh day of April in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and thirty- five.
Thomas Day
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[top line covered up]    years being
Duly sworn do depose and say that I have known and [illegible] with Eleazer Hoyt now of Waterbury in the County of Newhaven in the S'd state ever since I was A girl that he [illegible] resided in Danbury in S'd County and state as affore sd [sic] until about twenty five years ago that the sd Eleazer Hoyt did enlist into the service as a Soldier under Captain Noble Benedic [sic] in Colonel John O Beardley's Redgement [sic] and was gone in the service About eight months as near as I can recollect and further he was gone into the service at other [defencement?]   times but how long term I do not recollect or near as I can recollect it was [crossed out] in the year 1774
 When S'd Eleazer Hoyt enlisted in the service and went to New York and further I recollect hearing that fort Washington was taken when S'd  Eleazer was in the service and that he had a brother taken at the time of the fort   was taken
  Elizabeth Bearss

State of Connecticut  Fairfield County this 25th day of July 1832 at New fairfield in the S'd County before me the said Elizabeth Bearss is personally known to me is a person of good character for truth and A credible witness
  John O Beardley
    Justice of Peace
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I, THOMAS DAY, Secretary of the State of Connecticut, and Keeper of the Seal thereof, do hereby certify and make known to whom it doth or may concern, That John O Beardsley Esquire, before whom the foregoing Affidavit, of Elizabeth Bearss was taken, is, and at the time such caption, was, a Justice of the Peace within and for the County of Fairfield in said State, duly appointed, commissioned and qualified, having full power and authority, by the laws of said State, to administer oaths to witnesses and to take Affidavits and Depositions out of Court, and to give certificates thereof; that I verily believe the foregoing signature purporting to be his, is genuine; and that full credence is due to his official acts and attestations.  In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my Hand, and affixed the Seal of said State, at the City of Hartford, in said State, the eleventh day of April in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and thirty- three. 
Thomas Day
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July 15, 1932
Eleazer Hoyt-W.4990
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BA-J/EEL
Mr. Howard Randall
423 Clifford Avenue
Rochester, New York
Dear Sir:
Reference is made to your letter in which you request information in regard to Eleazer Hoyt, a soldier of the Revolutionary War.
The data furnished herein are obtained from the papers on file in the Revolutionary War claim for pension, W.4990, based upon the military service of Eleazer Hoyt, the only soldier of that name found on the Revolutionary War records of this office.
Eleazer Hoyt was born in 1753, in Danbury, Connecticut. 
While residing in Danbury, Fairfield County, Connecticut, he enlisted and served as a private with the Connecticut Troops, as follows:  from about the middle of December, 1775, four months in Captain Noble Benedict's Company, Colonel David Waterbury's Connecticut Regiment:  from the middle of May, 1776, eight months in Captain Noble Benedict's Company, Colonel Philip B. Bradley's Regiment:  from about September 1, 1777, [handwritten at left side of letter] Sol. was uncertain as to date & as witness said Sept. 1, 1777 used that date  Sol. also mentioned a Capt. Barnham but as I did not know where to place him, & he did not give in any of his first declarations, I omitted him. [resume transcription of typed letter] two months under Lieutenant David Bouton (Boughton) and Colonels Joseph Platt Cooke and Bradley:  from July, 1779, about five weeks in a company of light horses commanded by Captain Benjamin Hickok and was at the burning of Norwalk:  About May 1, 1780, he enlisted and served as a private in Captain Hoogland's Company, Colonel Sheldon's Regiment of Light Horse, was detached, and sent to Danbury where he served under Colonel Durgee (probably meant for Durkee) as an express rider, length of entire service, nine months.  At the time of the capture of Cornwallis, he served about ten days as a body guard for Colonel Lawrence.  He stated that he also served six or seven months as a teamster, no details of this service given. 
After the Revolution, he continued to reside in Danbury, Connecticut until about 1797, after which time he resided in New York, in Norwalk and in Oxford, Connecticut, in which latter place he lived for twenty-two years.
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He was allowed pension on his application executed July 28, 1832, while residing in Waterbury, Connecticut, where he had then resided for about five years.  In 1838, he had removed to Monroe County, New York.
He died March 11, 1840, at Rochester, Monroe County, New York.
The soldier married December 15, 1807, at Oxford, Connecticut, Clarissa Hine.
Soldier's widow, Clarissa, was allowed pension on her application executed February 19, 1853, at which time she was aged sixty-two years and resided in Rochester, New York.  She was still there in 1855.
Three children of Eleazer and Clarissa Hoyt are referred to:  Son Thompson Hoyt, who married April 6, 1837, at Bennington, Vermont, Catharine Gallop:  daughter Amanda, who married February 26, 1820, at Salem Connecticut, Oliver Albro;  Oliver Albro was aged fifty years in 1853 and then resided in Monroe County, New York; Laura, who married July 1, 1846, at Rochester, New York, A. Newton:  in 1853, one Aaron Newton was aged fifty-nine years and was living in Monroe County, New York, no relationship to the family was shown.  The dates of birth of the above children are not given.
The soldier had a brother who was also in the Revolutionary War and who was captured at Fort Washington; his name is not stated and there are no further data as to family.
Very truly yours
A. D. Hiller
Assistant to Administrator
[handwritten] Widows death date not on 9B
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Revy WIDOW, &c.
File No.  4990
 Clarissa Hoyt  Wid.
Eleazer Hoyt
  Pvt Rev: War
 Act: Feby 3d/53
Index: - Vol.  A  Page 342

[on side]  1932 July 15 - Hist. to Mrs. Howard Randall
 EEL
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24.993
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New York
Albany
Eleazer Hoyt
1832

WG. Wade July 6 1853
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Rochester Monroe Co. N.Y.
Dec. 1. 1838.

Sir,
I send enclosed the application of Eleazer Hoyt, for a transfer of his pension Certificate You will please direct the same to me.
Respectfully
Your Obt. Servt
Martin Albro
Hon J.L. Edwards
Comr. of Pensions
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[H R?]  July 6

Sir  your attention to this case is requested - as the question is already dissided [sic] - Nothing remains but to make out the Certificate of Pension for Eleven Months - please return this with the Certificate
  [Loblys?] yours &c
  Saml A. Food [Ford?]
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Stratesville  Feb 1st 1834
Dear sir  
  I have seen the Letters you sent to Elias Ford Esqr those letters state that I can draw a pension for eleven months only  if that is all I can be allowed according to the present testimony. I must be contented  with that for I am very unwell and not able to make any  more proof at present. I am in hopes hereafter [words crossed out] my life is spared to make satisfactory proof to further services, But my necessities are such that I should like what is allowed me. I am very thankful for the [favour?] you have done  me in writing to E.y. Ford  If you will take the trouble to see that my certificate for eleven months is forwarded to me as soon as may be you [I?] will very much oblige your obed  servent
  Your &c      Eleazer Hoyt

P.S. If My certificate can be direct to Stratesvill post office in Bethany it will accomodate me very much as I live nere [sic] there, and am not able to get about much

Dear Sir  [mr?] Hoyt not being acquainted with you he wishes me to request you to forward his certificate as soon as may be for he is much in want of his money and as he is quite unwell  I hope it will be forwarded soon that he may see som [sic] of the reward of his services in the Revolutionary War
 yours with high Esteem    Elias Ford
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State of Connecticut
County of New Haven} S.S.
District of Waterbury

  On this  day of April 18?3
personally appeared  before said Court Eleazer Hoyt who is the same Eleazer Hoyt who made the original declaration to which this is annexed and under oath made this supplemental declaration.  To wit:

He says that, with regard to the service in the Cavalry stated in his original declaration, in Col. Sheldon's Regiment, he first was [underline] drafted [/underline] among the troops among the troops called the [underline] New levy [/underline] in the [underline] Sixth Troops [/underline] in Sheldon's Regiment - That about eighteen men of the new levy started from Danbury Ct. together & were sent by order of Major Stan of Danbury (in which Battalion the applicant belonged as a Militia Light Horseman) to join the army at Crumb Pond where the Regiment then lay - The Sixth Troop he thinks was commanded by Capt Hoaglin or Hogan or Logan [and - crossed out] he cannot say which way the name was spelt, but it something like that - That he remained in said Troop about 4 or 5 weeks when he with five other men were sent to Danbury to attend under Col. Dungee? (who had [underline] one withered arm [/underline] caused by a wound) and who was
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overseer of the stores at Danbury: to act as express riders - That among the five who were  sent from the Regiment with applicant, was Oliver Stone, Elijah Betts, ---- Jessup, and ---- Fitch, & he think the other was Stewart,  That he remained at Danbury for four or five months (the most of the Summer) That while he used to be sent sometimes to New Haven with letters to Genl Parson's which Regiment was in New Jersey, but he was at New Haven a good deal to attend the [comt?] That at the end of  4 or 5 months he was sent from Danbury with one Osborn who was then a prisoner and under sentence of death, that he delivered up the prisoner to General Parsons at a little after sunrise in the morning, having left Danbury the evening before & having [?on?]    all night
  [vertical lines drawn at right and left side]
 That sometimes he was sent to West Point with letters to the commanding officers there.
  That Parson's informed Osborn that if he would disclose his accomplices  his crime was having visited the enemy with others & having then   brought from them counterfit money &c) - he himself should be pardoned - That Osborn did disclose [and was pardoned - crossed out] and in consequence of his disclosures two men were taken & were sentenced to
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New Gate.  That said Osborn was kept after this about a fortnight at New Haven and said Osborns punishment was commited from death to imprisonment  Then applicant & five other men were  then sent with Osborn to take him to West Point when they delivered him to Arnold who then commanded them. That from West Point they went to Paramus in New Jersey when they went to, & did meet Genl Parson's where they remained a few days & about ten days & then returned to Danbury (applicant says he was acquainted with Oliver Lawrence who was then aid to Genl. Parsons)
  That while he was at Danbury as express rider, he was sometimes sent to West Point with communications to the commanding of the army there - That he recollects having carried letters to Arnold who commanded them -
  That he remained in Danbury after his return from Paramus, under  said Col [Dnge?] untill his term expired.  That they had to go out most every day somewhere, and he says that while he acted as express rider his duty was laborious and more fatiguing than any other part of his service during the war.
  Eleazer Hoyt

Subscribed & sworn
this 15th of April 1833
  R.S. Hinman  Clerk
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State of Connecticut
County of New Haven} SS.
District of Waterbury
  On this 14th day of January A.D. 1833 personally appeared before this the Court of Probate for the said District, Eleazer Hoyt - of said Waterbury, who signed the original declaration to which this is annexed & who is the same Eleazer Hoyt that subscribed said declaration and on oath made this his supplemental declaration.  To wit:
 Question 1 objections
  In answer to the first objection in Brief he says That he resided in the town of Danbury, in Fairfield County, Cont at the time he entered the service of the United States and untill several years after the close of the Wars.

Question IV of objective
  In answer to the fourth objection in Brief he says: That in his original declaration he had mentioned the period of the War when several except in the Tour marked (C.) (E.) & (F) and in those Tours he recollects the time only by the events which he has named That the Tour marked (C.) was about the Time Burgoyne was taken which he believes was on the 17th of October
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1777, so that it must have been in the fore part of October ^ or in the later part of September 1777 he was called out.
  That the Term marked (E.) of 5 weeks was when Norwalk was burnt which was about the middle of Summer - he thinks in June or July 1779
 That the Term of Ten days marked (F.) was at the time Cornwallis was taken which was he thinks in October 1781.

Question V. of objections
 In answer to the fifth objection in Brief He says that The first Term marked (A.) he served four months that the 2. marked (B.) he served eight months, the third marked (C.) he served two months, the 4th marked (D.) he served nine months - the 5th (E.) he served five weeks and the 6th marked (F.) he served ten days. Making all the time he served during the war as a Soldier [underlined] two years and seventeen days [/underline] besides Seven months in which he served as teamster
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Question XIII. of Objections
  In answer to the thirteenth objection He says That after the most diligent search he cannot find any one except Thadeus Morehouse and Nimrod Benedict who served with him whom affidavits he has hereto annexed. That said Morehouse was with him in the Tour of two months. And that said Benedict was with him in his tour of eight months in 1776. And lived in the family of Capt Benedict when applicant enlisted, and which he was absent in service to which facts said Benedict in his affidavit certifies That when he left home to look for his fellow soldiers, he did not & know one single one whom he supposed to be alive, but by enquiry he found the two above named. That he annexed the [underline] next best evidence [/underline] he could procure.. To wit: the Affidavit of [underline] Wm Patch who lived in the applicants family during his absence [/underline] and who testifies that he verily believes he was in the service -  And he also annexes the Affidavit of Elisabeth Burss who also knew of his enlisting, at Several different times.
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Question XV
  In answer to the fifteenth objection He says That all the witnesses state [underline] their ages [/underline] and two of them testify they were in the service with him. And another that [underline] he lived in his family [/underline], while he was gone on the New York Tour And applicant knows of no other circumstance that they possibly could state, which would sh[??]  them in a situation to know the fact of his service. And he knows of no other witness who can testify to his service.
  Sworn and Subscribed the day and year aforesaid
  Eleazer Hoyt

R.S. Hinman  Clerk
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Rose [?] New York
Aug 30th 1852
Sir,
  In the month of January last I left at your office some papers - certificate of [Can't] proof of kinship and a letter requesting a reexamination of the papers of [underline] Eleazer Hoyt pens Act 32 New York [/underline] (or transfered to NY from Ct)
 No report having been recd I respectfully came to call your attention to the same.
  I have the honor to be Respectfully
  Your Obt Servt
  W G Wade

J E Heath Esqr 
 Commr of Pensions
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Washington, D.C.
 Jany 20th 1852
Sir,
  I beg leave to request a reexamination of the papers of Eleazer Hoyt, decd late a pensioner from New York under act of 7th of June 1832, in order that the proper allowance for his services as [underline] Express Rider [/underline] may be allowed, with other services set forth in his Declaration.
 Enclosed is his pension certificate and proof of [?inship].
  I am Respectfully
  Your Obt Servt
  W G Wade

J E Heath Esqr
  Com of Pensions
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Eleazer Hoyt
[underline] Pens Act 7th June 1832 [/underline]

Eleazer Hoyt died 11 March 1840
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State of New York
County of Monroe }Ss
 I, Moses Sperry Surrogate in and for said County, do hereby certify that at a Surrogates Court holden at my Office in Rochester on the 3d day of March 1851, satisfactory evidence was addressed before said Court, to show that Eleazer Hoyt late a pensioner of the United States at the rate of $34 66/100 formerly of Connecticut and late of Rochester, New York, died on the eleventh day of March (1840) One thousand eight hundred and forty  that at his decease he left a widow viz Clarissa Hoyt - who still remains his widow , and who is the identical person whose affidavit is hereto annexed, - that she now resides in the City of Rochester New York, - that said pension certificate of Eleazer Hoyt is hereby [san?] enclosed.
  In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of said Court this 3d day of March 1851. -
  Moses Sperry
  Surrogate of Monroe County N.Y.
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Clarissa Hoyt
[Revlutn W? - Revolutionary War?]
16 July-Aug 22
certifed history

Eleazer Hoyt
Pens Act 32 in [underline Con- transfered to N.Y. [/underline]
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Rochester July 16th 1850
H G Wade Esqr
  Sir
  I have noticed in our Daily Papers your a advertisement relative to the settlement of Pension affairs & tho't that I take the liberty to address you in behalf of Mrs. Clarissa Hoyt.   You will readily perceive the nature of her business. I enclose her papers that you may better understand.
  Her husband died in the year 1840. She has made no effort for any pension up to this time   You will please examine into the matter & write her & myself, what course to take (if any) to secure what may be coming. she can give you authority to take such action as the matter as may be necessary   [Thu?] Hoyt
  Please give it your early attention & write as soon as convenient
  I am Sir
  Respcty yours
  Aarne Newton

Reg 1261
  N Haven Co. Ct

[WS? W9W]
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WAR DEPARTMENT
PENSION OFFICE

24th July 1839.

Sir: 
In conformity with the regulations of this Department, you have this day been transferred from the Roll of Connecticut to that of Albany- New York to take effect from and after the 4th Sept 1839

I am, Sir, respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
 J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions

Mr. Eleazer Hoyt
U.S. Pensioner
Care of Martin Albro Esq
Rochester
[1807] New York
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TREASURY DEPARTMENT
Second Comptroller's Office,
January 7th, 1839.

Sir:
Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838 entitled " An act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States," Eleazer Hoyt, a Pensioner on the Roll of the Connecticut Agency, at the rate of Thirty Six Dollars and sixty six Cents per annum, under the law of the 7th June, 1832, has been paid at this Department, from the 4th of Sept., 1837, to the 4th March, 1838.

Respectfully, yours, 
Albion K. Parris
Comptroller.

To the Commissioner of the Pensions, 
Present.
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Pension Agency
Hartford 21 Dec 1838

Sir
In answer to your inquiry as to what time Eleazer Hoyt a Pensioner on the Roll of this agency under the act of June 7th 1832 at 36 66/100 dollars per annum was last paid, I have to inform you that he has been paid to the 4th day of September 1837. 

I am Very Respectfully
Your Obedient Servt.
Sam L Pitkin
Agent

J. L. Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington
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[typed form with handwritten entries]
APPLICATION FOR A TRANSFER
State of New York
County of Monroe ss.
On the 28th day of November 1838, before me, the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace for the said County of Monroe personally appeared Eleazer Hoyt who, on his oath, declares that he is the same person who formerly belonged to the Company commanded by Captains Benedict & Barnham & Hogan & Seymour in the regiments commanded by Colonels Waterbury and Bradley in the service of the United States; that his name was placed on the pension roll of the State of Connecticut from whence he was lately removed; that he now resides in the State (District, or Territory,) of New York where he intends to remain, and whishes his pension to be there payable, in future.  The follow- (sic) are his reasons for removing from the State of Connecticut to the State of New York the strong solicitation of relatives who are at this time entirely unable to render me the nesisary (sic) means of support or trans shipment.  Eleazor Hoyt
Sworn and subscribed to before me, the day and year aforesaid.}
N. B. Wheeler J. P.
[footnotes]
The oath to be taken before a duly qualified Magistrate, whose official character and signature must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office.  The County Clerk, Secretary of State, or some other officer, must certify, under his seal of office, that the officer who administered the oath is a Justice of the Peace, Judge, Mayor, Alderman, or Notary Public, as the case may be, and that the signature purporting to be his is genuine.
The oath must be supported by the testimony of some respectable person, as to the pensioner's identity.  He must swear that the person who has taken the above oath, is the person described in the affidavit.  The Magistrate must certify that the witness is a person of veracity; and the affidavit must also be authenticated in the manner above directed.
In every case where the Clerk of the Court, or other certifying officer, has no public seal of office, the certificate of a member of Congress, proving the official character and signature of the certifying officer, should be sent with the papers.
Mode of authenticating papers. - In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officers who authenticates the papers in not written on the same sheet which contains the affidavit, or other paper authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or small 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.
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State of New York
Monroe County {
  Martin Albro being Dully [sic] sworn deposes and says that he is well acquainted with the said Eleazer Hoyt named in the foregoing application for a transfer and that he knows him to be the person who did take the Oath and subscribe his name [the ?ts] and further this deponent saith not
  Martin Albro
Subscribed and sworn before me this 1st of December 1838
  E B Wheeler   J.P.

State of New York
Monroe County Ss  I Ephram B Wheeler one of the Justices of the peace of the County aforesaid do hereby certify that Martin Albro the person making and subscribing the foregoing affidavit is a person of [veracity?]
  E B Wheeler  J.P.
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State of New York
Monroe County Clerk's office Ss
  I Ephraim Goss Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of Monroe County, certify that Ephraim B. Wheeler is a magistrate as within and that the within Certificate purporting to be his, is genuine.
  In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed my seal of office and Subscribed my name this first day of December in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty eight.
  Ephraim Goss  Clerk of Monroe County
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Eleazer Hoyt
Rochester N.Y.
 Payments to be made
at Hartford  See Memo within Court 17 July 37
by Pres: of Farmers & Mechanicks Bank

agent for paying Pension ers the Agency of Connecticut

Recorded in the Pension Office in Book  [?]
Vol. 3  Page 17 by E. D. Bullock   Clerk
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WAR DEPARTMENT.
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.

I certify that, in conformity with the United States of the 7th June, 1832, Eleazer Hoyt of the state of Connecticut who was a private during the Revolutionary War is entitled to receive Thirty Six Dollars and Sixty Six Cents per annum, during his natural life, commencing on the 4th of March, 1831, and payable [illegible] annually on the 4th of March, and 4th of September in every year.

Given at the War Office of The United 
States, this 8th day of 
February one thousand eight 
hundred and thirty four

Lew Cass
Secretary of War

Examined and
Countersigned.} 

J.L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions.
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Salembridge CT. Dec 26, 1833

Sir
I wish to inquire what has been done with the application of Eleazer Hoyt, The papers were returned to the office a long time ago and nothing has been heard Sometimes papers miscarry and I thought perhaps his might.
I also wish to inquire as to Stephen Deming. The case I sent you for authority to the agent to pay over the money the original Certificate being out of his hand

Yours with Respect
R.S. Hinman
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War Department
Pension Office
2d April 1833

Sir,
  The papers of Ebenezer Hoyt, are again returned. A notary public is not the proper certifying officer to prove the official character and signature of Magistrates.
  On further examination of the papers it is deemed necessary that Mr. Hoyt should specify the troop in Sheldon's Regiment of Cavalry, in which he served, as well as the particulars of that service - there being rolls of that corps in this office in which his name cannot be found.
  I am, respectfully
  your Obt Svt
  J L Edwards

R.S. Hinman, Esqr
  Salembridge,  Connt
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Mr Hoyt has again related the particulars with regard to his [term?] in the Cavalry - he says, his names not being in the rolls [of Congress - crossed out] in the report is accounted for by his having been a [underline] New Levy [/underline]
 He has related many circumstances with regard to the service and I have put them down as well as I could, so that I presume you can understand the relation - He was, [underline] Express Rider [/underline] in Danbury the most of the time
  R.S. Hinman
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Washington
 Mch 28 1853
Sir:
  I herewith enclose the application of Clarisa Hoyt - widow of Eleazer claiming the benefits of the act of congress of the 3d of Feb 1853
  I am Respectfully
  Your Obt Servt
  H.G. Wade

Hon L P Waldo
 Com of Pensions
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The claim of Eleazer Hoyt was [examined?] & Mr [Foot?] notified that 11? in pension would be [admited?].
  [?] that time the paper have been [?istand]
  Mr Foot in behalf of the claimant agrees to take the 11 m pension
  This paper is filed by way of [capenation?] in lieu of the papers
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Brief in the case of Clarissa Hoyt widow of Eleazer,
Monroe  County and State of New York
 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 act of 7th June 1832.
  Marriage proven by [parole?] evidence, certified to be credible, & presumption record evidence.

(If for increase.)
  Has additional evidence been filed since the admission of the claim? If so, what?

W.G. Wade, Esqr
  Present
Name and residence of Agent

S.C. Boynton, Examining Clerk
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BRIEF objections to the admission of Pension Claims, of which those answers in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of [h/w] Eleazer Hoyt [/ h/w] which require further proof or explanation.

I.  Does the declaration show where the applicant resides?  [h/w] Not when entered  service [/ h/w]
II. Did the declarant make the declaration in the county where he resides?
III.  If the applicant did not make the declaration in the county where he resides, is there any reason assigned for his not doing so?
IV. Has the declarant mentioned the period or periods of the war when he served?  [h/w] No [/ h/w]
V. * Has he mentioned 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? [h/w] No  [/ h/w]
VI. Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with the regulations?
VII. Has he made a relinquishment of every claim to say other pension than the one under the Act of June 7, 1832?
VIII. Has the Court given their opinion?
IX. Has the Clerk given his certificate?
X. Is the Clerk's seal affixed? and, if so, has it a device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal?
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   2
XI.  Has the applicant obtained the evidence of a clergyman and another respectable citizen as to their belief respecting the age and the general belief in his neighborhood relative to his revolutionary service?
XII.  If the clergyman's affidavit has not been produced; is there any reason assigned for not obtaining it?
XIII. If the applicant has no documentary evidence, and has not obtained the testimony of at least one living witness, has he stated in his declaration that such proof cannot be had?
[ h/w]  Not distinctly to all his services [/h/w]
XIV. If the applicant has produced a witness or witnesses as to his service, has the magistrate who administered the oath certified that he, she, or they are persons of credibility?  and is the official character and signature of the magistrate certified by the proper officer under his seal of office
 [h/w]  No  [/ h/w]
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423 Clifford Ave
Rochester, NY
June 8, 1932

Director of Pensions
Washington DC

Dear Sir:
I would appreciate it very much if you could give me the war record of Eleazer Hoyt a soldier of the American Revolution.

Thank you
Howard Randall

[round stamp]  RECEIVED JUN 9 1932