Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 23321, Ambrose Hotchkiss, Conn.
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Conn.
Hotchkiss, Ambrose
Lucretia
W23321
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11.083
Connecticut
Ambrose Hotchkiss
of Southington in the state of Connecticut
who was a Privat in the regiment commaanded by
Colonel Meigs of the Connecticut 
line, for the term of three years

Inscribed on the Roll of Connecticut
at the rate of 8 dollars per month, to commence
the 7th of October 1818

Certificate of Pension issued the 24th of May 1819
and sent to Stephen Titus Hosmer
Middletown Connecticut

Arrears to 4th of Mar. 1819  39.48
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4 Sep. 1819  48.00

4 Mo 29/31                               87.48
est 1 July 80 - 18 mo enlistment
disch 12 Dec. 81

Revolutionary claim,
Act 18th March 1818
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5438

Illinois
Lucretia Hotchkiss 
Widow of Ambrose Hotchkiss
Who was a pensioner under the Act of March 18, 1818
And who died on the 25th January 1825
Of Southington in the State of Connecticut
Who was a Private in the Comp commanded
By Captain Potter of the Reg. Commanded
By Col. Meigs in the Connecticut
Line for 17 months 12 days 

Subscribed on the roll of Illinois
At the rate of 58 Dollars ——— Cents per annum
To commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.

Certificate of Pension issued the 23rd day of May
1840 & sent to J. Harding, Esq.
			Paris, Illinois

Arrears to the 4th of March 1840 $232.00
Semi=annual allowance ending 4 Sept. ’40 29.00
							$201.00
					Act July 7, 
					1838
 Recorded by Wml. Lantzinger, Clerk
Book A Vol 2 Page 223
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Ambrous Hotchkiss 
Copy 11,0013

Sept. 1019
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At a County court, held in and for the County of 
New Haven, in the District and State of Connecticut, on the 6th 
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 Ambrous Hotchkiss a resident in the town of Meriden in the county of New Haven 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 in-
Come and proper, necessary clothing and bedding excepted, viz:

1 Cow $18	1 Swine #3	1 Cane Drawers $7 —— $28
3 Chests $4	4 Cider Barrels $3 	4 Old Do $2 — 9
12 Old Chairs $3	3 Ha? 1.50	1 Ax 75/100	12 Fawls 1.50 — 6.75
6 Pails 1.50	1 (can’t read) Demand 1.50 - - - 3
Book accounts against secondary persons — 15
1 Brass kettle $4	Porridge pot tea kettle $2 — 6
2 sets teacups + saucers/50	3 Pewter plates 1.15  - 2-25
1 Dozen plates $1	Spoons $1	1 Table $2 — 4
							$79 —
I owe to sundry persons $200 
Ambrous Hotchkiss

(Can’t read) wooden leg cost one $1 Dollar
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District and State of Connecticut, ss.

Be it remembered, that in the County Court, held in and for the County 
Of New Haven, in the District and State aforesaid, on this 6th 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, Ambrous Hotchkiss aged 54 years, resident in the Town of Meriden 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: I served in Col. Jonathan Return Meigs regiment under Capt. Stephen Potters Parsons Brigade Eighteen months commencing 1780 and was in several little skirmishes during my service. 
That the original Declaration made by him, for the purpose of obtaining a pension under the Act of Congress of the 18th of March 1818, was dated the 7 day of October 1815; and that in pursuance thereof he was entered in the list of Pensioners, and received a Pension Certificate No. 11083 and I do further solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States, on the 18th day of March, 1818, and that I have not since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner, disposed of my property or any part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it, 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 of the United Stated in the Revolutionary War,” passed on the 18th day of March, 1818; and that I have not, nor has any person, in trust, for me, any property or securities, contracts or debts due to me; nor have I any income other than what is contained in the Schedule hereunto annexed, and by me subscribed. And I do further declare that my occupation is shoemaking when I ever worked
And that I have a family residing with me Yiz a wife a son Ambrous age  20 a Daughter Andrea aged 15 years a son Armana aged 13 years a son Alfred aged 11 I am much disabled having but one leg

All which is subscribed by me the day and year aforesaid.
Ambrous Hotchkiss
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 80 Dollars and —— Cents, and doth order these proceedings to be entered in the records of said Court. 

Wmm. Henry Flagg
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District and State 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 said Court that the total amount, in value, of the property exhibited in the aforesaid Schedule, is 
80 Dollars and —— Centers.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the Seal of said Court on this 6th day of July 1820. 

I, Isaac Mills presiding Judge of the County Court in and county of New Haven 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 New Haven
This 6th day of July 1820.
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Ambrose Hotchkiss - Priv.
Col. Meig Regt. Connecticut
Line 1780 - 1 Year - dee 7th
October 1818
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State of Connecticut, SS. Middletown.

On this 7th day of October 1818, before me the subscriber, 
One of the Judges of the Superior Court for the State of Connecticut, personally appears Ambrose Hotchkiss aged 52 years, resident in 
In the said State, 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 the 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 he said Ambrose Hotchkiss on the month of May 1780, enlisted in Wallingford in the state of Connecticut in the company commanded by Captain Stephen Potter Meigs of and in the regiment commanded by Col. Rasem Jonathan and in the brigade commanded by Gen. Samuel H. Parday

That he continued to serve in the said corps, or in the service of the United States until the month of November 1781 - when he was discharged from service in Highlands near the (can’t read) state of New York; that he was in 

And 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 services; + that he has lost his discharge 

Sworn to and declared before me, the day and year aforesaid.
Titus Hosmer

I, Titus Hosmer a Judge of the Superior Court for the State of Connecticut, do certify, that it appears to my satisfaction, that the said Ambrose Hotckiss  — did serve in the revolutionary war, as stated in the preceding declaration, against the common enemy, and that he is in reduced circumstances, and stands in need of the assistance of his country for support: and I now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me, to the Secretary for the Department of War, pursuant to the directions of the aforementioned act of Congress.

Connecticut, ss. Middletown, October 7th, 1818
Titus Hosmer
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State of Connecticut, ss. Middletown, 

ON this 	day of	181	, before me the 
Subscriber, one of the Judges of the Superior Court for the State of Connecticut, personally appears	
			of			in the said State,
A persons	to me, to be of good character and worthy of belief, who being by me first duly sworn according to law, doth, on his oath, declare and say, that he is well acquainted with 			of			the person who made the preceding declaration on oath, and 	









And that he is in reduced circumstances, and stands in need of the assistance of his country for support. 
Sworn to and declared before me the day and year aforesaid.
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State of Connecticut, ss. Middletown, 

ON this 	day of	181	, before me the 
Subscriber, one of the Judges of the Superior Court for the State of Connecticut, personally appears	
			of			in the said State,
A persons	to me, to be of good character and worthy of belief, who being by me first duly sworn according to law, doth, on his oath, declare and say, that he is well acquainted with 			of			the person who made the preceding declaration on oath, and 	









And that he is in reduced circumstances, and stands in need of the assistance of his country for support. 
Sworn to and declared before me the day and year aforesaid.
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I IW. Frisk 
Clerk of the Superior Court for the State of Connecticut, do hereby certify, That the Honorable S. T. Hosmer of Middletown in said State, is one of the Judges of the said Court, and that his name subscribed to the preceding Declarations and Certificates marked A.VB in his proper hand writing and signature. 

In witness whereof, I have hereto set my hand and affixed the the Seal of the said Court, at Middletown on this 30 day of December. 1818. 

IW. Frisk
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6097
Lucretia Hotchkiss 
Of Ambrose
Illinois
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State of Illinois fs. Paris
County of Edgar

On this third day of September AD. 1839, personally appeared before the circuit court for said county, Lucretia Hotchkiss, a resident of the neighborhood of Grandview in the state and county of aforesaid, aged sixty-nine years eleven months and some days, who being first duly sworn according to law, who doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the Act of Congress passed July 7th 1838 entitled an act granting hand pay and pensions to certain widows. 
That she is the widow of Ambrose Hotchkiss formerly of Meriden in the county of New Haven and state of Connecticut, who was a private in the war of the Revolution, and a Revolutionary Pensioner at the time of his decease. She further declares that she was married to the said Ambrose Hotchkiss, on the 25th day of December AD 1791 — that her husband, the aforesaid Ambrose Hotchkiss, died on the 25th day of January AD 1825 — that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service but the marriage took place previous to the 1st day of January 1794 (viz.) at the time above stated.
 She further declares that she lived with the said Ambrose Hotchkiss until the time of his death as aforesaid and that she has never since married, and that she is now the widow of said Ambrose Hotchkiss.

And for proof of the service of her said Husband
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She would refer to his application for a pension, made as she believes in the year A.D. 1818, 1819, or 1820, and to this certificate returned in the spring of 1825, in order to draw arrears of his pension.

She further states that she removed from Meriden, Connecticut, to the State of Illinois, the summer of 1837; and that her husband formerly drew his pension from the office at Hartford, Connecticut. 

For further proof of her marriage she would refer to the proof hereunto annexed here.
Lucretia Hotchkiss X mark

State of Illinois Circuit Court
Edgar County September A.D. 1839 

I, Justin Harlan, Judge of the 4th Judicial Circuit of the State of Illinois do hereby certify that the foregoing declaration was sworn to and subscribed in open court this third day of September A.D. 1839, and that from the testimony of credible witnesses examined in open court, I believe the applicant Lucretia Hotchkiss, is a credible person; and also, that she has within the years removed
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Connecticut
New Haven County
Cheshire October 24 1838

I find on the Records, of the Congregational church of this place, Repeat the time of the date below mentioned by the Rev. John Foote, Pastor, the second marriage of the following persons, thus:
Seventeen hundred ninety one
December Twenty five Ambrose Hotchkiss and Lucretia Baldwin.”

I hereby certify, “that the above is a true copy of the record, with the exception of the date, which is expressed on the second in fair, legible figures, as follows: 
“1791
Dec 25 Ambrose Hotchkiss & Lucretia Baldwin” 

Erastus Cotton
Pastor of the Above 
Conn. Church

New Haven County of Cheshire at Oct. 24 1838
Personally appeared Erastus Cotton and made Oath to the above certificate. 
Before me H. L. Foot
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I Burrage Beach Clerk of the Court of Probate for the District of Cheshire in the County of New Haven in the State of Connecticut do hereby certify that William L. Foot is a Justice of the Peace for New Haven County and that the within is his genuine signature and further that Erasmus Cotton is the Pastor of the Congregational church in Cheshire and that the written signature is genuine. 

In (can’t read) of whereof I have hereunto set my (can’t read) + seal of officer this 10th day of November AD 1838.
Burrage Beach, Clerk
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State of Illinois
County of Edgar

I, Jonathan Mays Clerk of the Circuit Court of the County of Edgar aforesaid
Hereby certify that Justin Harlan, who has subscribed his name as Judge of said Court is the Judge of said Court, that said Court is court of Record, and that the signature of the said Justice Harlan, purporting to be his is his genuine signature. 
In testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said court 
Paris 3rd day of September 
A.D. 1839
Jonathan Mays, Clerk
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July 12, 1934
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

Ambrose Hotchkiss-W.23321
BA-J/AWF

Mrs. Charles R. Hale
30 Oak Street
Hartford, Connecticut

Dear Sir:

Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revolutionary War record of Ambrose Hotchkiss of Connecticut, whose pension number you state is W.25787.

The data furnished herein were obtained from the papers on file in pension claim, W.23321, based upon the Revolutionary War service of Ambrose Hotchkiss. The number W.25787 does not draw the Revolutionary War pension claim of Ambrose Hotchkiss.

The date and place of birth of Ambrose Hotchkiss are not shown in pension claim, W. 23321, not are the names of his parents given.

Ambrose Hotchkiss enlisted in Wallingford, Connecticut, in May, 1780, served as a private in Captain Stephen Potter’s company, Colonels Return Jonathan Meigs’ and Butler’s Connecticut regiments; he was in several skirmishes and was discharged in November, 1781.

He was allowed pension on his application executed October 7, 1818, at which time he was living in Southington, Hartford County, Connecticut, aged fifty-two years. In 1820 he was living in Meriden, New Haven County, Connecticut.

Ambrose Hotchkiss married December 25, 1791, Lucretia Baldwin; their marriage was recorded on the
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Records of the Congregational church in Cheshire, New Haven County, Connecticut.

The soldier, Ambrose Hotchkiss, died January 25, 1825. His widow, Lucretia Hotchkiss, moved from Meriden, Connecticut, in the summer of 1837 to Illinois. 

The widow, Lucretia Hotchkiss, was allowed pension on her application executed September 3, 1839, then residing near Grand View, Edgar County, Illinois, and was aged sixty-nine years, eleven months, and “some days”.

In 1820 their son, Ambrose, was twenty years of age; daughter, Amelia or Aurelia was fifteen years old; son, Amasa, was aged thirteen years; and son, Alfred, was eleven years of age.

In 1818 Simeon Baldwin was of New Haven County, Connecticut, and Bryant Hotchkiss is 1840 was living in Edgar County, Illinois; their relationship to the family not stated.

Very truly yours,

A.D. Hiller
Assistant to Administrator
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Revy. Widow, &c.

File No. 23321
Lucretia Hotchkiss
Widow of
Ambrose Hotchkiss
Priv. Ill Vols. 
Act July 7th 1838
Index: Vol. A Page 33-1
Arrangement of 1870
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Lucretia Hotchkiss
Illinois
Suspended
Act 3 (Dec. 1839 [crossed out]
J. Harding [crossed out]
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Ambrose Hotchkiss Conn. Act 18 Mar 1818

When paid HHL
Died 7 Jan 1825 p7. That period
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Potter Meigs Con

1780

Ambrose Hotchkiss

July 1 780 18m
12 Dec 1781 on roll

12.
5.12
17.12

56.66
1.33
7.99
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Pen. on May 3rd '41

Sir, 

In obedience to your order I have the honor to submit the following report upon the case of Lucretia Hotchkiss referred to the in the letter of Mr. Harding herewith returned. 

Amber Hotchkiss died the husband of the claimant enlisted in the Connecticut Line of the Continental army on 1 July 1780 for 18 months and was discharged on 12 Dec 1781. He applied for & obtained a pension under the act of 18 March 1818 which provided a stipend of $8  a month for those who may have served as much as 9 mo under one engagement in the Continental army.

The claimant as the widow of the above deceased pensioner affected her claim in 1839 under the act of 7 July '38. That act accords to her for 5 years such pension as her late husband's services moved have entitled herein to under the act of 7 June '32. The latter act provides a pension to [illegible] to be certained by the amount & grade of the service rendered at the rate of half pay allowed in the
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revolutionary army. When claimants pen was adjusted under the act of 7 July '38 by The provisions of that of 7 June '32, the half pay of her late husband from 1 July '80 to 2 Dec was the amount to which she was entitled. His halfpay for 17 mo. 12 days (all the service rendered agreeably to the record evidence which may not be controverted) was 58$; and a certificate for that amount was paid 23 May 18[illegible] under which she has drawn all that she claim under the existing laws in [illegible] of her late husband's revolutionary services.

Hon. John Bell
Secretary of War
3 May 1841
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J. Harding
Oct 21 1840
JH

Recorded 30 Page 302
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J. Harding
Oct 21 1840
JH

J. Harding Esq
Paris
JH
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Pen office 
Oct 21 1840

Sir, 

In reply to your letter of the 13 in the case of Mrs. Lucretia Hotchkiss widow of Ambrose Hotchkiss deceased. I have to inform you that she has been allowed the highest rate of pension to which she is entitled under the act of March 18, 1818, those who served nine months under one enlistment were $8 per month or $96 per annuum. Under acts of 7th July 1838, eighty dollars per annuum is allowed for two years service as a private of Infantry, and a proportionate rate of pension for a period of service. The widow's husband served seventeen months and twelve days. The rate of pension for that time is $58, which has been allowed.

Agreeable to your regret I enclose herewith a copy of the negotiations for the guidance of claimant.
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who was married before the termination of her husband's service.
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J. Harding
Dec 4, 1839
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War Dept. Pen. Office
Dec 4, 1839

Sir, 

The papers in the care of Mrs. Lucretia Hotchkiss widow of Ambrose Hotchkiss deceased have been examined and filed with mishandled cases. Before a final decision can be had the testimony of Ms. Lucretia Hotchkiss witness as to the claimant's identity etc. should be exhibited.

J. Harding, Esq
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Postmarked 
Paris October 13
J.L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pension
War Department
Washington City, D.C.

Received October 21, 1840
File of Mrs. Lucretia Hotchkiss
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Postmarked
Paris October 13
J.L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pension
War Department
Washington City, D.C.

Received October 21, 1840
File of Mrs. Lucretia Hotchkiss
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Paris, Fr Oct 13, 1840

Dear Sir, 

The Pension certificate lately issued from the War Department under the act of July 7th,1838 to Mrs. Lucretia Hotchkiss, all [illegible] her to draw only $58, per annuum instead of $96, the amount formerly drawn by the deceased husband, & the sum which she ought to receive. An explanation of this case is respectfully requested, and if there has been any mistake made information is desired as to the best [illegible] of the proceedings to correct it. She draws her Pension at Gainie, Ill. The number of her certificate, I do not recollect. 

I hope you will also have the goodness to send me the forms necessary to see observed an application for a pension on behalf of the widow of pensioner, who was married in the year 1775.

I have the honor to be with great respect.
Your [illegible] Servant,
J. Harding

J.L. Edwards
Com. of Pension
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Postmarked Paris, IL
Sept 5
Addressed to 
Mr. J. L. Edwards
War Department
Pension Office
Washington City, D.C.

Received Sept 17
6097 
IL
July 7, 1838
File of Lucretia Hotchkiss
Widow of Ambrose Hotchkiss
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Paris, IL Sept 4th, 1839

Dear Sir,

Inclosed I send to the War Department, the application of Mrs. Hotchkiss for pension. Should it be granted, please send the certificate to me at this place. If the application is informal or insufficient, please advise me of it as soon as convenient.

Most respectfully yours, etc,
J. Harding

Sent to J.L. Edwards
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Lucretia Hotchkiss
Widow of Ambrose
Illinois
Act July 7, 1838
Married 1791
Deceased 1825
Allowance $58 per annuum
17 mo. 12 days in Capt. Potter's 
Meig's, Connecticut
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Postmarked March 7 Paris, IL
Addressed to J.L. Edwards, Esq.
Commissioner of Pensions
War Department
Washington City, D.C.

Received Mar 21, 1840
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State of Illinois, S.S.
Edgar County
On the 2nd day of March A.D. 1840, personally appeared the in the Circuit court, Lucretia Hotchkiss, and made oath in due form of law, that she is the identical Lucretia Hotchkiss (widow of Ambrose Hotchkiss deceased late a pensioner of the United States) named in an application for a pension under the act of Congress of July 7th, 1838, lately forwarded to the War Department. That she formerly resided at Meredin in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, that she now resides in the neighborhood of Grand View, Edgar County, Illinois, and that she has resided there for the space of two years and seven months past.

Signature of Lucretia Hotchkiss

State of Illinois, S.S.
Edgar County
On the 2nd day of March A.D. 1840, persons appeared in the Circuit court, Bryant Hotchkiss and Emily Carolina Farmington, of the county of [illegible] and made oath in due form of law, that Lucretia Hotchkiss whose name appears to the above deposition, is a person of credibility, that we have been acquainted with her for the space of twenty years; that she formerly resided at Meridian in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, that we were personally acquainted with Ambrose  Hotchkiss who at the time of his death was a pen-
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-sioner of the United States, and that the said Lucretia Hotchkiss is the identical widow of the said Ambrose Hotchkiss and that she has resided in the neighborhood of Grand View in the county of Edgar aforesaid, for the space of two years and seven months past. 

Signatures of Bryant Hotchkiss
Emily Caroline Farrington

State of Illinois, S.S.
Edgar County 

I, Justin Harlan, Judge of the fourth Judicial Circuit in the State of Illinois, do hereby certify that I have satisfactory evidence, viz. the affidavit of the above named Bryant Hotchkiss and Emily Caroline Farrington, that Lucretia Hotchkiss, who this day personally appeared in open Court and took the oath of identity is the identical widow she declares herself to be in the annexed affidavit. Given under my hand, the second day of March A.D. 1840.
J. Harlan

I, Jonathan Mayo, Clerk of the Circuit Court of Edgar County Illinois, certify that Justin Harlan is Judge of the Edgar Circuit and the foregoing certificate purporting to be his, is genuine. In testimony where of I have hereunto affix my seal of office and subscribed my name, this 2nd day of March A.D. 1840.
J. Mayo, clerk
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Paris, IL

The forgoing additional evidence as to identity of Mrs. Lucretia Hotchkiss, I hope will be satisfactory to the War Department. 

Respectfully your servant,
J. Harding

Received by office of J.L. Edwards, Esq
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New Haven County in Meridian
October 12th, 1818
Personally appraised Isaac I Hough and Patrick Clark both of Meridian in the County of New Haven and State of Connecticut under Solemn oath. Indeed they are [illegible] with Ambrose Hotchkiss now of Southington in the County of Hartford and State of Connecticut that he is a [illegible] and in residence. Circumstance and that he stands in need of relief from his Country. I hereby certify that the above named Isaac I Hough and Patrick Clark, Sgt are much of truth and veracity and worthy of belief. Sworn before and certified by me.
rsonallyNew Haven County - Meridian
Jared Benham, Justice of Peace
Sate of Connecticut
New Haven County

I, Roger Skinner, Clerk of the County Court for New Haven County and keeper of the leaf thereof hereby certify that Jared Benham, Esquire is Justice of the Peace in and for said County duly authorized to take Depositions and that the  above is well known to me to be his signature. In testimony, whereof I have herewith affixed my hand and the Seal of said Court at New Haven this 14th day of Dec 1818.
Roger S. Skinner, Clerk
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New Haven County in Meridian October 12th 1818 - Personally appeared Joseph Cobourn and made Solemn oath that he is well acquainted with Ambrose Hotchkiss now of Southington in the County of Hartford and State of Connecticut and that he was well [illegible] to his being in the Service of his Country in the revolutionary war in Capt. Stephen Bett's Company in a Regiment Commanded by [illegible] Jonathan Meiggs from 1780 to 1781. - Sworn before and certified by me

Jared Benham, Justice of Peace

State of Connecticut
New Haven County

I, Roger S. Skinner, Clerk of the County Court for New Haven County and keeper of the seal thereof, hereby certify that Jared Benham, Esquire, is a Justice of the Peace in and for said County duly authorized to take Depositions and that the above is well to known to me to be his signature and testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed my hand and seal of said Court at New Haven this 14th day of Dec 1818
Roger S. Skinner, Clerk
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State of Connecticut
New Haven County *Frn

I certify at the particular request of Ambrose Hotchkiss, that it appears by the regimental books *kept* by Jno Sherman deceased, late paymaster to Meigs afterwards *Britten* regiment - a part only of which one in my possession - that Ambrose Hotchkiss is entered as a private in Cap. Potters company in that regiment first in the payroll of July 1780 & drew pay for the whole part of that month & so on through bottom of that year beyond which I have not the regular pay rolls - I find his name to a *acct* for *specis* for the months of Feb & Mar 1781 & clothing charged to him in Aug & Oct 1781 is that he was not on the the payrolls in 1782.

Simeon Baldwin
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Headquarters Commandery-in-Chief
Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War
Charles R. Hale, Chairman
Committee on Marking Graves
30 Oak Street
Hartford, Conn.

June 28th, 1934.

Chief Clark
Pension Department,
Washington, D.C.
Dear Sir:
Please send me the Revolutionary War record of Ambrose Hotchkiss, pension number, W. 25787.

We wish to get a Connecticut headstone for him.

Yours very truly,
Charles R. Hale

C.R.H/M.M.E.

Received June 29th, 1934