Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S 44452, Richard Hughes, N.H.
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N. H.                               
 
Hughes, Richard                                                   

S 44452
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3231.       LL

New Hanpshire
Richard Hughes,
Capt. Frye
Sergeant

New Hampshire line
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.

Inscribed on the Roll of New Hampshire
at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 29th of April, 1818.

Certificate of Pension issued the 2nd of Oct 1818 and sent to Ezra Bartlett, Esq  Grafton (?) N. H

Arrears to 4th of Sept. 1818 4 mt.  6/30.       33.60
Semi-anl.aa'ce ending 4th  Mar 1819 .          48.00
$81.60

3 years 1777

{Revolutionary claim, }
{ Act 18th March, 1818}

Continue under Act May 1820 (?)  Sent to S P Webster Haverhill N. H.   26

June 1820
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Richard Hughes

Correct by Rolls



(Writing that has faded and un
readable)
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State of New Hampshire

Grafton     , 88.

On this 29th day of April 1818, before me the subscriber, one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas for the said County personally appears Richard Hughes   aged 74 years, resident in Plymouth in the said County 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 the said Richard Hughes enlisted in March 1777 in the state of New Hampshire in the company commanded by Captain Isaac Frye   of the New Hampshire line; that he continued to serve in the said corps or in the service of the United States until the 20th day of March 1780, when he was discharged from service in Danbury state of Connecticut  that he was in the battles of Hubberton, two at Stillwater Monmouth & Newtown.  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.

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

Ezra Bartlett

I, Ezra Bartlett Judge, & c. as aforesaid, do certify, that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Richard Hughes did serve in the revolutionary war as stated in the preceding declaration, against the common enemy : and  I now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me to the Secretary for the Department of War, pursuant to the direction of the aforementioned act of Congress.
Haverhill April 29th 1818.

Ezra Bartlett
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Copy

Richard Hughes






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(a Pauper)

3231

2 Oct 1818
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District of New Hampshire

County of Grafton,

At the Superior Court of Judicature of the State of New Hampshire holden at Haverhill within & for said County of Grafton being a Court of record for said County by law established on this twenty seventh day of May in the year of our Lord 1820 personally appeared in open Court Richard Hughes aged seventy six years resident in Plymouth in said County & Distrcit of New Hampshire who first being duly sworn according  to law doth on his oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows    Vix    a Sergeant in Capt Isaac Frye's Company & Colo Scummel's Regiment in the New Hampshire line that his original declaration was made & dated 29th day of April 1818 that he now receives a pension & that his pension certificate is numbered three thousand two hundred thirty one -  
And I do 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  there of with intent  there by to diminish it as to bring myself within the provision of an act of Congress entitled " an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land & naval service of the United States 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 any pension only previous to which I was supported  as  a pauper by the Town of Plymouth - when I could work I was by  occupation a (??)

Richard Hughes
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Sworn to & declared before the Justices of the Superior Court of Judicature of the State of New Hampshire in open Court on this 29th day of May 1820

S. P Webster   Clerk


I Stephen P. Webster Clerk of the Superior Court of Judicature for the county of Grafton do hereby certify that the foregoing oath is truly copied from the record of said Court; and I do further certify that it is the opinion of the said Court, that the total amount of the property of the said Hughes is nothing in value - In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of the said Court on this 30th day of May 1820

S. P. Webster  Clerk
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August 12, 1926

Mrs. Schuyler M. Smith
4602 Cleveland Ave.
St Louis, Mo.

Madam:
I have to advise you that it appears from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claims, S. 44452, that RICHARD HUGHES, while a resident of the parish of Amherst, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, enlisted in March, 1777, as sergeant in Captain Isaac Frye's Company in Colonel Scammell's New Hampshire Regiment, was in the battle of Hubbardton, both battles of Stillwater and the battles of Monmouth and Newtown and was discharged March 20, 1780, from Captain Daniel Livermore's New Hampshire Company. 

He was allowed pension on his application executed April 29, 1818, at which time he was seventy-four years of age and was a resident of Plymouth, Grafton County, New Hampshire.
There are no data on file relative to his family.
Respectfully, 

WINFIELD SCOTT
Commissioner
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Order Drawn for 500 Dollars
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Richard Hughes Sergeant of the  New Hampshire Regiment Formerly an Inhabitant of the Parish of Amherst in the County of Hillsborough Province of New Hampshire aforesaid Haveing Served three Years in the Service of the United States that being the full term of his Inlistment is hereby Honourably Discharged and Permitted to Pass to the  ( two words covered by stitches )

To Whom It May Concern

Daniel Livermore (?)
Commanding Officer ( too dim)

Camp Near Lanbury

March 20 th  1780
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44452

Revy INVALID. 

File No. 44452

Richard Hughes

Sergt. Rev. War.

Act:  18 March 1818

Index.   Vol.   3  Page   244


{Arrangement of 1870.)

1926 Aug 12 hist to Mrs. Schuyler 
M. Smith  M.C.S.
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EDITOR
MRS. LOUISE GRANT SMITH
4602 CLEVELAND AVENUE
ST. LOUIS, MO.

The Kappa Beta Pi Quarterly

June 14, 1926
Superintendent of the Pension Records
Washington, D. C.

Dear Sir:
Will you kindly furnish me with all information which your Bureau has regarding the following pensioners of the Revolutionary War:
Richard Hughes, Sergeant, Grafton County, N.H.
William Hughes, Private, New Haven, County, Conn.

This information is desired for the purposes of applying for membership in the D. A. R.
Thanking you for your kind assistance, I am, 
Very truly yours,
[handwritten sig] Mrs. Schuyler M. Smith

[stamp] U. S. PENSION OFFICE H JUN 16 1926
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THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES
Form VAM- 51
12-5-41

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*

Division of Veterans' Administration Archives

NAME    Hughes, Robert       GRADE     Private      LINE     Massachusetts


WARRANT NUMBER     4312         ACREAGE      160          ISSUED    Mar. 15, 1800