Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 20,784, Nero Hawley, Conn.
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(3-1776)
SERVICE                          [stamp of star]                  NUMBER
Conn               Hawley, Nero             S,20,784

Contents
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Connecticut

Nero Hawley  $3.33 1/3
Increased Pension
Conn Regt
ratio of Disability
Certified _____} Total
Octbr 30, 1815 Evidence
closed
Approved by Committee

[two lines illegible]

Died 30th Jany 1817

[illegible] report from Jonathan Bull, Esq.
Agent in Conn 26 June 1817
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20784
Invalid

File No. 20,784
Nero Hawley
Pri Rev War
Conn Regt

Act: ________________
Index: --Vol. 2  Page 167

[Arrangement of 1870]
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Mch 29 Letter to Rowland
B Lacy, Bridgeport Conn M.E. 6
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Increase of Pension

United States
Connecticut 
County 
Middlebrook

District, Ss.  [illegible]
to Doctor Reuben Middlebrook
of Trumbull and Doctor Elijah Middlebrook
[illegible] of Trumbull Fairfield County said District
Pursuant to an Act of Congress of the United States, 
Passed the 25th of April, 1812, entitled "An Act to revive and continue in force an act to provide for persons who were disabled by known wounds received in the Revolutionary War, and for other purposes" --- You are hereby appointed and authorized to examine Nero Hawley now of Trumbull in the county aforesaid who is inscribed on the Pension List of the United States, and is claimant for an increase of pension conformable to the 5th section of the act of the 10th of April 1806, revived as aforesaid; and you are to report inwriting and on oath or affirmation your opinion of the nature of his disability and in what degree it prevents him from obtaining a subsistence by manual labor; and in your proceedings in the premises you are to be regulated and governed by said act.
Given under my hand and seal at said [illegible]
this 18th day of [illegible]
in the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty
Gerhart Eckearth
District Judge of Connecticut
[illegible]
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Original Claim
United States
District, S

I,                      Judge of the District Court of the United States of America for the         District, by Authority of an act of Congress passed the 25th day of April, 1812, entitled [blank] for persons who were disabled by known wounds received in the Revolutionary War, and for other purposes, Do hereby especially authorise and Commission [blank] of the county of [blank] and District of [blank] to take all evidence to the rules and regulations of the said act for substantiating the claim of [blank] of the town of [blank] in the county of [blank] and the district of [blank] to be place on the Pension list of the United States by reason of known wounds received in said war, or since, (as [illegible] in the 4th section of "an Act concerning invaild pensioners" passed the 25th of April, 1808) -- while in the actual service of the United States and in the line of his duty.  And when the same shall be completed to return the evidence, affidavits, certificates and proceedings had thereupon together with this commission, to the Secretary for the Department of War.
Given under my hand and seal at [blank]
the [blank] day of [blank]
the year one thousand eight hundred and [blank]
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We Stephen Middlebrook and Elijah Middlebrook the commissioners named in the annexed commission do hereby Report on oath (having been duly sworn) that we have carefully examined the said Nero Hawley and out opinion is that the nature of said Nero's disability is such that it totally prevents him from obtaining a subsistance by manual labour.
To witness our hands Trumbull this 30th day of September AD 1815
Stephen Middlebrook Physician
Elijah Middlebrook MD

District of Connecticut ss. at Trumbull in Fairfield County in sd. district on the 31st day of October A. D. 1815 Personally came and appeared before me Judson Curtin one of the Justices of the Peace in the town of Trumbull Ct., County aforesaid the said Stephen Middlebrook and Elijah Middlebrook and made oath that they had carefully examined Nero Hawsley (in the annexed commission named) and that the opinion which they have inscribed as to the nature of his disability is their opinion
Sworn before me
Judson Curtis Justice of the Peace
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Department of the Interior
Bureau of Pensions
Washington, D. C. March 29, 1895

O. W. & N. Div.
B. S.
M. E. C.

Sir:-

Replying to your request for information relative to the military history of one Nero Hawley, who was granted a pension for disabilities received while serving as a soldier in the Revolutionary War, you are advised that this Bureau is unable to supply you with the desired information, as the paper in nearly all of those pension claims allowed under old "invalid acts" were destroyed by the burning of the War Department in 1800 or 1814.
Very respectfully,

Commissioner
Rowland B. Lacey, Esq.
Bridgeport, Conn.