Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 30486, Enoch Hinman, Conn.
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SERVICE
Conn

Hinman, Enoch

NUMBER
S.30486

CONTENTS
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Massachusetts  29.5

Enoch Hinman, Dec 34
Of [?] in the State of Mass who was a Pr in the company commanded by Captain Robinson of the --- commanded by Parson in the Con’t line for 2 years Certificate/T Lyman Hinman & others heirs +c

Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 80 Dollars --- Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831

Certificate of Pension issued the 8th day of Dece 34 and [?] H. W. Bishop Lenox Mapt

Arrears to the 4th of Sept. 31 ---
Semi-ant. Allowance ending [?]
Died 2 June 1833
Amt due  $179.56

Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832

Recorded by Nath: Rice
Book E vol. 2 Page 36
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COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS

County of Berkshire, ss.
On this second day of April A.D. 1834 personally appeared in open Court, before the Honorable WILLIAM P. WALKER, Judge of the Court of Probate, within and for said County of Berkshire, now sitting, Lyman Hinman a resident of the town of West Stockbridge in the County of Berkshire and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, aged thirty nine 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, In behalf of himself & the other heirs at law of Enoch Hinman late of West Stockbridge aforesaid deceased which heirs are as follows, Hamblet Hinman, Permilia who married Rensselaer Weekham & she is now deceased & she left survived children who are all minors; Charlotte who married David Beers, Erastus Hinman, Henry Hinman who is now deceased & who left several children who are minors, Seymour Hinman & Lyman Hinman who makes this declaration. Said Hambolt, Permilia, Charlotte, Erastus, Henry, Seymour & Lyman were sons & daughters of Enoch Hinman who resided at West Stockbridge for many years & who died there on the second day of June 1833 [strikethrough] June [strikethrough] leaving no widow but the heirs above named for whose benefit under the act aforesaid they claim for his serving from 4th March 1831 to the day of his death. 

That said Enoch Hinman entered the service of the United States under the following named officers & served as herein stated viz that he enlisted or was drafted in the spring of the year 1776 & was joined to the Company commanded by Capt James Robinson of Durham in the Connecticut line that he continued in said Robinsons Company & the duty then as a private soldier in New York & vicinity for the term of two months, as he verily believes, as by the testimony of Abraham Scranton hereto annexed appears marked No 1. 

That in the Fall of the same year 1776 the said Enoch Hinman was drafted from the militia aforementioned at Durham in said state of Connecticut & was now in the Company commanded by Capt James Robinson & ensign Jacob Clark which company was under the command of General Putnam & Col Parsons, that he continued to do duty as a private soldier in said company under said officers in the service of the United States at Fishkill in the state of New York as he verily believes & as appears by annexed testimony of Jabez Chalker marked No 2.
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That in the year 1776 said Enoch Hinman an enlister as a private soldier for the term of six months in Capt John Thatchers Company & Lieu’t Amos Forster which company was attached to Col Herman Swifts regiment & Gen’l Waterburys Brigade, that marched from Durham in Connecticut where he enlisted to New Haven & then joined said company & marched from thence to Bennington in Vermont with said Company & to Shunsborough where he was stationed with said Company & did garrison duty for several months & from thence down the lake to Mount Independence opposite Ticonderoga in the state of New York that the term of his enlistment was six months & that he verily believes said Enoch Hinman performed nearly or quited the whole of said term as appears from the annexed testimony of Amos Forster marked No 3. 

That about the month of March or April 1779 the said Enoch Hinman enlisted in the Company commanded by Captain Hyde, Lieu’t Nah & Ensign Joseph Smith at Durham aforesaid & joined said Company at Hew Haven aforesaid & continued to do duty in said company in the service of the United States at Mach Port Fort & east haven & vicinity of New Haven for one year the full term of his enlistment & was discharged in April 1780.

That about the month of September in the year 1780 the said Enoch Hinman was drafted at Durham aforesaid & march to East Haven & then joined the Company in which [strikethrough] Ensign [strikethrough] Joseph Smith was Ensign when he did duty as a soldier in the service of the United States for the term of two months, in which his Cap’t mentioned tours he verily believes said Enoch Hinman serviced one year & two months, as appears by the testimony of Josiah Hull hereto annexed marked No 4.

In answer to the Questions prepared he says or deposes as follows.
In answer to the first He says, he believes said Enoch was born in Durham in Connecticut in the year 1756, as he understood & verily believes. 
In answer to the 2nd He says he knows of no record of said Enochs age.
In answer to the 3rd He says said Enoch was living in Durham aforesaid when called into the service, that he moved from said Durham to West Stockbridge in the year 1781, where he resided to the time of his decease as he understood & verily believes. 
In answer to the 4th He says he does not know how said Enoch was called into the service except from the testimony annexed that he never understood he was a substitute.
In answer to the 5th He says he is unable to state any of the officers or regiments when he served or any of the generals, knowing nothing of them except from the testimony annexed.
In answer to the 6th He says he does not know that said Enoch ever received a discharge from the service.
In answer to the 7th He says he can name the Rev Nathan Shaw, Robbins Kellogg, Henry W. Bishop & John Z. Goodrich.
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He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity, except the present, and declares that [strikethrough] his [strikethrough] the name of said deceased s name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State - the forgoing facts he states from his current knowledge and belief –
Lyman Hinman

Sworn to, and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid. 
William P. Walker Judge of Probate

We Nathan Shaw, a Clergyman, residing in the Town of West Stockbridge and Robbins Kellogg residing in said West Stockbridge and Henry W Bishop and John Z. Goodrich residing in Lenox hereby certify, that we [strikethrough] are [strikethrough]were well acquainted with Enoch Hinman deceased and Lyman Hinman who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe [strikethrough] him [strikethrough] Enoch to have been 75 years of age; that he is reputed and believed, in the neighborhood where he resided to have been a soldier of the revolution, and that we concur in that opinion & that said Lyman Hinman is a man of truth and veracity
Nathan Shaw
Robbins Kellogg
H W Bishop
J. Z. Goodrich

Sworn and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid.
William P. Walker Judge of Probate

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matters, and after putting the interrogatories, prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states And the Court further certifies, that it appears to them that Nathan Shaw who signed the preceding certificate is a Clergyman, resident in the town of West Stockbridge in the County of Berkshire and Commonwealth of Massachusetts and that Robbins Kellogg John Z Goodrich & Henry W. Bishop who have also signed the same [strikethrough] is a [strikethrough] are resident of the F Kellogg in the town of West Stockbridge and F Bishop & Goodrich in the town of Lenox and Commonwealth of Massachusetts and are a credible person and that their statement is entitled to credit.
W. P. Walker Judge of Probate

I, HENRY W. BISHOP, Register of the Court of Probate within and for the County of Berkshire in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceeding of the said Court, in the matter of the application of Lyman Hinman for a pension. 

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office of said Court of Probate, this second day of April in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and thirty four.
Henry W. Bishop Register of Probate

There is an attached seal.
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Dr. C. J. Hinman
3413 Percy Street
Los Angeles, California.

BA-J/MCS

Dear Sir:
Reference is made to your letter of September 25th, requesting the Revolutionary Was record of Enoch Hinman.

The data furnished herein are obtained from the papers on file in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S. 30486.

Enoch Hinman was born in 1758 in Durham, Connecticut.

While a resident of that place he enlisted and served as private with the Connecticut troops as follows: in the spring of 1776, two months in Captain James Robinson's Company; from the spring of 1776, six months in Captain John Thatcher's Company in Colonel Heman Swift's Regiment; from the fall of 1776 or 1777, two months in Captain James Robinson's company in Colonel Parson's Regiment; from March or April, 1779, one year in Colonel Captain Hyde's Company; from about September, 1780, two months under Ensign Joseph Smith.

Enoch Hinman died June 3, 1833, at West Stockbridge, Berkshire County, Massachusetts, leaving no widow.

On an application executed April 3, 1834, the pension that was due Enoch Hinman was allowed the following heirs at law; Lyman who in 1834 was thirty-nine years of age and was a resident of West Stockbridge: Hamblet: Charlotte was a resident who married David Beers; Erastus; and Seymour (all children of the soldier); and the minor children (names not given) of Permeiia (daughter of the soldier) who married Rensselaer Weekham and who was dead in 1834; and the minor children of Henry (son of the soldier) who was dead in 1834.
Very truly yours,
A.D. Hiller
Assistant to Administrator
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No 1
I Abraham Scrantom of Durham in the County of Middlesex & State of Connecticut being 82 years old depose and say that in the time of the Revolutionary War I was in the service of the United States a number of different times, and in particular in the spring of the year 1776 I was drafted to go to New York for two months under Capt James Robinson of Durham & I verily believe that Enoch Hinman then of Durham but now residing in the town of West Stockbridge in the state of Massachusetts was with me through the aforesaid tour. We were stationed the most of the time on Long Island.

I also recollect that the aforesaid Enoch Hinman was in the service of the United States a number of other times one tour with Lieutenant Joseph Smith another tour with Lieutenant Amos Fowler & I believe at other times on the North River. I was well aquainted with the aforesaid Enoch Hinman in the time of the Revolutionary War we lived in the same neighborhood and further the deponent saith not.
Durham Nov 8th 1832 Abraham Scrantom

State of Connecticut Middlesex County for Durham Nov 8th 1832 personally appeared Abraham Scrantom known to me as a person of truth & veracity and made oath that the above Deposition by him subscribed is the truth before me.
John White, Justice of the Peace

(B)
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State of Connecticut
County of Middlesex
I John Fisk, Clerk of the County Court for said county of Middlesex, do certify that John White Esquire is a Justice of the Peace within and for the county of Middlesex as per commission on file in my office and that his name subscribed to the within certificates marked A, & B, are his proper hand writing & signatures. 
In Testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand and affixed the seal of said court at Middletown in County this ninth day of Nov A.D. 1832.
John Fisk, Clerk
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Jabez Chalker     [illegible seal]
AGT Scranton
Dep 0

Enoch Hinman
Application for Pension
West Stockbridge
Mass


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10
Mr. Enoch Hinman
West Stockbridge
Mass
Durham Ct. Nov 12
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10
Mr. Enoch Hinman
West Stockbridge
Mass
Durham Ct 
Nov. 12

[upside down on same envelope]
Jabez Chalker
AGT Scranton
Dept.-0

Enoch Hinman
Application for Pension
West Stockbridge
Mass
[illegible seal]
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No 2,
I Jabez Chalker of Durham in the county of Middlesex and State of Connecticut being 75 years of age depose & say that in the time of the Revolutionary War I was in the service of the United States a number of times & particular in the fall of the year 1777 I was drafted to go to Fishkill for the term of two months & I verily [strikethrough] will [strikethrough] believe that Enoch Hinman then of Durham but now residing in the town of West Stockbridge in Massachusetts was with me through the aforesaid tour. Our officers were Brigadier Gen’l Putnam Our Col I think was Parsons, Cap’t James Robinson of Durham Lieutenant I do not recollect. Jacob Clark I think was Ensign and further the deponent saith not.
Jabez Chalker
Durham Nov 8th 1832

State of Connecticut Middlesex County foresaid Durham Nov 8th 1832 personally appeared Jabez Chalker known to me to be a person of truth and veracity and made oath that the above deposition by him subscribed is the truth before me.
John White, Justice of the Peace

(A)
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No 3
I Amos Fowler of Warren County of Litchfield & State of Connecticut do testify & say that in the spring of the year 1776 Enoch Hinman, with whom I was then well acquainted & who resided at that time with myself in the town of Durham in said State of Connecticut, enlisted in said town of Durham as a private into Capt John Thatchers company, Col. Herman Swift's Reg’t of the Connecticut line & the number of the Reg’t company I don't remember. Gen’l Waterbury, Brigade, I then being 2nd Lieutenant of the same company.

Soon after his enlistment, he with the rest of the company assembled at New Haven in the state of Connecticut & marched from there to Bennington, Vermont, from thence to [?borough] where we were stationed several months, performing Garrison duty. From thence [?] then later to Mount Independence opposite Ticonderoga. The time of enlistment was for six months, according to the best of my recollection.

The Reg’t was discharged at Mount Independence after having served the full period of their enlistment. Prior to the discharge of the Reg’t & after their arrival at Mount Independence said Hinman was discharged on account of Sickness. Further the deponent saith not.
Amos Fowler

State of Connecticut
County of Litchfield for Warren Jan’y 14th 1834

Personally appeared the above named Amos Fowler & made solemn oath to the truth of the above statement by him subscribed. And I do hereby certify that I am well acquainted with the said Fowler & know that he is considered a man of truth & veracity, & his statement entitled to full credit.
Before me George Stower, Justice of the Peace
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I Frederick Wolcott, Clerk of the County court within & for the County of Litchfield, in the State of Connecticut certify that George Stower, his swearing the law and affidavit I can [?] and which subscribed me Justice of the Peace with and for said county legally commissioned & qualified of said county at this time, to the following. Hereby certify which [?] to be his signature & his hand for [?]. In certifying wherein I hereto put my hand & affix the seal of said Court at Litchfield and this 24th day of January 1834.
Frederick Wolcott, Clerk
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Free

Mr Robbins Kellogg
West Stockbridge
P.M

May

Paris N York
13th March
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No 4
State of New York
Oneida County
Josiah Hull a resident of the town of Paris County and state aforesaid who first being duly sworn according to law upon his oath deposeth and saith that he is now more than seventy five years of age and this deponent further saith that he was well acquainted with Enoch Hinman. The said Enoch and this deponent were both born and brought in the town of Durham Middlesex County & state of Connecticut this deponent further saith that in the last of March or the first of April 1779 this deponent and Enoch Hinman both enlisted into Capt Hydes company of Connecticut State for the term of one year in the Revolutionary War. Lieut Hale and Ensign Joseph Smith were commissioned officers in said company. This deponent further saith that a part of Capt Hydes were raised in Durham and a portion in other towns all those who enlisted into said company that belonged to Durham were ordered to March New Haven Connecticut and there join said company and this deponent further saith that in the fore part of April and very soon after the enlistment Enoch Hinman and himself march at the same time from the town of Durham to New Haven and there joined Capt Hydes Company said company was stationed at Black Rock Fort about three miles below New Haven City this deponent further saith that soon after [strikethrough] the [strikethrough] Capt Hydes company went to the Fort said company were divided into three sections or parts Ensign Joseph Smith took the command of all the troops that enlisted in the town of Durham and march with them to East Haven and were stationed there as a guard to prevent any boat or vessel of any kind entering the harbor This deponent saith that the said Enoch Hinman and himself were on Ensign Smiths section or part of the Company this deponent saith that Enoch Hinman continued in the service and did duty regularly in said Company for  and during the year for what this deponent and the said Enoch Hinman enlisted and this deponent saith that Enoch Hinman and himself were discharged at the same [?] in April 1780 and returned home to Durham in company together and this
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deponent further saith that Capt Hydes company were raised expressly for a guard to guard New Haven East Haven West Haven and the sea shores against an invasion of the enemy this deponent saith that Capt Hydes company did not belong to any Regiment nor was Capt Hyde under the command of any Col. to this deponents knowledge as there were no other troops [strikethrough] to this  [strikethrough] stationed very near to said company had there of been any Col who had any command of said company this deponent saith he believes that he must have known it this deponent saith that Capt Hydes Company were three months at Fort Black Rock before that it was divided there were a number of [?] of command at the Fort and this deponent saith that there were no battles or actions fought during the year for which said Company was raised this deponent saith that he well remembers the time that [strikethrough] of [strikethrough] the said Enoch Hinman enlisted the time he march to New Haven that the said Enoch was in that section of the Company commanded by Ensign Joseph Smith and this deponent was in the same section or part of said company and the said Enoch & himself were both discharged verbally at the same time and  [strikethrough] together [strikethrough] and returned home in company together,  and this deponent further saith that according to his best recollection in the fall of the year and this deponent believes it to be in [strikethrough & after August] September 1780 this deponent and Enoch Hinman were drafted for a tour of two month service in the Revolutionary War and this deponent further saith that the said Enoch and himself then resided in Durham and marched in company together to East Haven and were stationed in East Haven Village. This deponent saith Ensign Joseph Smith was one of the officers in said Company this deponent saith that Enoch Hinman & himself joined the Company at East Haven but cannot at this time remember the name of the Capt who had the command of said company this deponent saith that the said Enoch Hinman served two months under that draft and was discharged at the same time this deponent was, after the expiration of two months and returned to Durham this deponent saith the company were drafted to serve as
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a guard and were not attached to any Regiment nor under the command of any officer of higher rank than a capt. This deponent saith that Enoch Hinman was a good and faithfull soldier and did duty regularly as one of the guard under the enlistment for a year and also under the draft for two months and was honorably discharged at the expiration of the time for which he enlisted and that for which he was drafted and further this deponent saith not.
Josiah Hull

Subscribed & sworn this 11th day of February 1834 before me Jon’a Richardson Justice Peace.
State of New York
Oneida County
I do hereby certify that I am well acquainted with the above named Josiah Hull who subscribed and made oath to the foregoing affidavit. That he is a credible person.
February the 11 1834
Jonathan Richardson Justice of Peace

State of New York
Clerks Office
Oneida County
I George Brown clerk of said county do hereby certify that Jonathan Richardson Esq whose name is subscribed to the foregoing affidavit and also to the foregoing Certificate of Credibility and before whom the foregoing affidavit purports to have been sworn was on the day of the date of the same a Justice of the Peace in and for said County and duly authorized to act as such, and further that I am acquainted with his hand writing & verily believe his name subscribed to the said affidavit and to the said certificate of credibility to be his proper handwriting & signature.
Witness my hand & seal office at Uttica this 11th day of March A. D. 1834.
George Brown Clerk
by Tho’s J. Rudd Dep’
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Fowler 
Dep

Enoch Hinman
32.205

died 2 June 1833

2 years private
$88

Lyman Hinman &
the other heirs of
Enoch Hinman

HW Budcop
Lenox Ma

[written upside down on the same envelope]
Robbins Kellogg Esq
West Stockbridge
Berkshire County, Mass
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Robbins Kellogg Esq
Post Master West Stockbridge
Berkshire County Mass

[upside down on same envelope]

Amos Fowler Dep

Enoch Hinman
32.2.05
died 2 June 1833

2 years private
$88
Lyman Hinman &
the other heirs of Enoch Hinman

HW Budcop
Lenox Ma
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Fee,
Taking Deposition $1.00
Getting Clerk's certificate $1.00
_____________________
$2.00
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30 486
Revy INVALID.

File No. 30,486
Enoch Hinman
Priv Rev War

Act: June 7th 32
Index: - Vol. 2, Page 187

{arrangment of 1870.}

1920 May 21 hist to 
Hon E. Hart Fenn for
Mrs. Mary Francis
The case of Stephen 
Pitkins S. 3675. NCS

1931 Oct 12 Hist to Dr. C.J.
Hinman N.C.S.
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Rev. d 1812 War Section

May 22, 1928

Honorable E. Hart Fenn
House of Representatives
Washington D.C.

My dear Mr. Fenn:
In response to your letter of May 17, I have the honor to advise you that the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, 30486, it appears that ENOCH HINMAN was born 1758 in Durham, Connecticut.

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

In the spring 1776, two months in Captain James Robinson's Company.

From the spring of 1776, six months in Captain John Thatcher's Company in  Colonel Heman Swift's Regiment

From the fall of 1776 or 1777, two months in Captain James Robinson's Company in Colonel Parson's Regiment

From March or April, 1779, one year in Captain Hyde's Company.

From about September, 1780, two months under Ensign Joseph Smith.

He died June 2, 1833, at West Stockbridge, Berkshire County, Massachusetts, leaving no widow.
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On an application executed April 2, 1834, the pension that was due Enoch Hinman was allowed the following heirs at law: Lyman who in 1834 was thirty-nine years of age and was a resident of West Stockbridge, Massachusetts; Hamblet; Charlotte who married David Beers; Erastus; and Seymour (all children of the soldier); and the minor children (names not given) of Permelia (daughter of soldier) who married Rensselaer Weekham and who was dead in 1834; and the minor children of Henry (son of soldier) who was dead in 1834.

Very truly yours,
WINFIELD SCOTT
Commissioner
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OFFICE [strikethrough] PHONE ANGELES 0222 [strikethrough]

RES ANGLES 3349


C. J. HINMAN, M. D.
3404 [strikethrough] WHITTIER BLV'D. [strikethrough]
3413 Percy St.

LOS ANGELES. CAL. Sept. 25, 1931

U. S. Veterans Bureau, Washington, D. C.

Should like if possible to verify the record of my paternal ancestor Enoch Hinman who served as a soldier in the Revolutionary War and after the War was granted a pension . The data I have was obtained several years ago by a relative and is as follows:-
Claim S. 30486 Revolutionary War Pensions- Enoch Hinman born 1758 in Durham, Conn. and served as private with Conn. troops as follows:-

In the Spring of 1776, two months in  Capt. Jas. Robinson’s Co. From the Spring of 1776, six months in Capt. Jno. Thatcher's Co. in Col. Heman Swift's Regiment. From the fall 1776 or 1777 two months in Capt. Jas. Robinson's Co. in Col. Parson's Regiment. From March or April 1779, one year in Capt. Hyde's Co. From about Sept. 1780 two months under Ensign Jos. Smith

He died June 2nd 1833 at West Stockbridge, Berkshire Co. Mass. leaving no widow. On an application executed April 2nd 1834 the pension that was due Enoch Hinman was allowed the following heirs- at - law.
Lyman, who in 1834 was 39 yrs. of age and a resident of West Stockbridge, Mass.
Hamlet (Hamblet)
Charlotte, who married David Beers.
Erastus
Seymour
All children of the soldier
The minor children of Parmelia (daughter of the soldier) who married Reneselaer Weekham and who was dead in 1834- the minor children of Henry ( son of the soldier) who was dead in 1834.
(Signed) Winfield Scott
Commissioner

Just the procedure to follow to have this verified I do not know but if there is any expense attached there to or different department to handle this matter kindly let me know.
Respectfully,
C.J. Hinman, M.D.

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