Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 17,990, Peleg Hart, Conn.
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( - 1776)

SERVICE |                                                NUMBER

Conn.            Hart, Peleg                   W. 17. 990
                                Hannah


CONTENTS


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Albany, 30.286

Peleg Hart

of Saratoga Co. in the State of N. York
who was a Private in the company commanded
by Captain Cook of the Regt. commanded
by Col. Look in the Cont. militia
line for 7. months

Inscribed on the Roll of Albany
at the rate of 23 Dollars 33 Cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 8th day of Dec,
1835 and sent to Hon. John
Cramer, H.R.

Arrears to the 4th of Sept. '35.      105.00
Semi-anl. allowance ending 10 March '36  11.66

                                                            $116.66
                                         Revolutionary Claim,
                                        Act. June 7, 1832.

Recorded by D. Brown                      Clerk,
Book E-2  Vol. 4      Page 30
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State of New York
County of Saratoga} ss.
On this 6th day of September 1832 personally appeared in open court before the court of common pleas & general sessions now within Peleg Hart a resident of Providence in the County of Saratoga and State of New York aged seventy one years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to attain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832.
That he was born in the town of Rivertown Newport County State of Rhode Island in the year 1761 has no record of his age. That he resided in the state of New York for forty three years next preceding this declaration and that he now resides in Providence County and state aforesaid. There they resided the last eight years, that he entered the service of the United States in February 1777 [crossed out] company of militia in which he was enlisted was divided into three parts - Capt Isaac Cook commanded one third of the company Lieut Phillip Corey one third and Ens. Phillip Manchester the other in this manner the company served one third at the same time in continual succession for two years and seven months. That he in this manner served one third of the said term of two years seven months. That this service was [illegible] and performed in Rivertown aforesaid. The regiment to which our company was attached was commanded by Col. John Cook Lieut Col Pardon Gray. That in August 1778 he was ordered out by Col. Cook for half a month to build boats for the army commanded by Gen. Sullivan. That he served the said term at Fratown State of Massachusetts. That in September 1778 he was drafted one month and served the same in company commanded by Isaac Cook. That this service was performed on Rhode Island commanded by Gen. Sullivan.
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That he served as a substitute in Capt Cooks company in the years 1778-1778 & 1779 one month but does not recollect the names of those he served for. That he never rec'd any written discharge, has no documentary evidence, that he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state.
Peleg Hart

Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid in open Court
Thomas Palmer Clerk

State of New York
County of Saratoga} ss.
Personally appeared [crossed out portion] in open court Aaron Hart being duly sworn saith that he was personally acquainted with Peleg Hart who has signed the preceding declaration, at Riverton in the State of Rhode Island during the revolutionary war. That this deployment was part of his time served in the same company of militia that the said Peleg Hart served in the war of the revolution as a soldier in 1777 and in the two succeeding years in Capt Isaac Cooks company of militia. one third of the time, two years and seven months, that he knew he had been out as a substitute in the militia several times at least two months.
Aaron Hart X his mark

Taken and subscribed in open court this sixth day of September 1832. Thomas Palmer, Clerk
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The Elnathan Finch a clergyman now residing in the town of Wilton and Calvin Wheeler residing in the town of Providence hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Peleg Hart who has subscribed the above declaration. That we believe him to be seventy one years of age. That he is reputed and believe in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution and that we concur in that opinion.
Elnathan Finch
Calvin Wheeler

Sworn & subscribed the day and year aforesaid in open court.
Thomas Palmer Clerk

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in testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 6th day of September 1832.
Thomas Palmer Clerk
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And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter 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 Elnathan Finch who has signed the preceding certificate, is a clergyman, resident in the town of Wilton, County of Saratoga & State of New York, and that Calvin Wheeler, who has also signed the same is a resident in the town of Providence in said county late a member of Assembly in the state of New York, and is a credible person and their statements is entitled to credit.

I Thomas Palmer, Clerk of the court of common pleas, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceeding of the said court in the matter of the application of Peleg Hart for a pension. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of Office this 6th day of September 1832.
Thomas Palmer, Clerk
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State of New York
Saratoga County} ss.
Personally appeared before me Edward M Fuller, one of the justices of the peace in and for said county, Peleg Hart who being by me duly sworn saith that he is the same identical Peleg Hart who made the declaration for pension in open court of common pleas of said county hereunto annexed on the 6th day of September 1832 to which this is an addition and that his military service therein state to have been performed the one third of two years and seven months more fully is as follows viz the company in which this deponent was enrolled was divided into three parts. The Capt, Lieut and Ensign each commanded a respective third and that one third of said company served at the same time alternately not less than half a month generally for one month at a time in continued succession and that this deponent served in the third commanded by Lieut Phillip Corey for two years and seven months terminating in September 1779 which made the service of this deponent ten months and one third of a month - which service was performed under an officer regularly commissioned and called into the service and attached to the regiment commanded by Col. John Cook brigade commanded by Gen. Ezekian Cornell during the term of the service of this deponent. And this deponent further states that the service of one month under [illegible] in September 1778 under command of Capt Isaac Cook was in the vocation of his other term of service the two years and seven months. His other services stated in his said first declaration he can state nothing in addition or documentation from what is stated and further saith not.
Peleg Hart

Sworn and subscribed before me this 26th day of August 1833.
Edward M Fuller Justice of the peace
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State of New York
Saratoga County}ss.
I Alpheus Goodrich clerk of the County of Saratoga do certify that Edward M. Fuller before whom the within affidavit purports to have been sworn was at the date of the same, one of the Justices of the peace in and for the said county, and that I am acquainted with his hand writing and verily believe his name subscribed to the said affidavit to be his proper hand writing and signature.
Witness my hand and seal of office the twenty seventh day of August 1833.
A. Goodrich Clerk
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Town of Providence

county Aaron Hart who being by me duly sworn deposeth & saith that he is personally acquainted with Peleg Hart who has signed the preceding declaration at Riverton in the state of Rhode Island. During the revolutionary war that he this deponent was a part of the time enrolled in the same company of militia that the said Peleg Hart did serve in the war of the revolution as a soldier in 1777 and in the two succeeding years in Capt Isaac Cooks company of militia one third of the time. Two years and seven months. That he knew he had been out as a substitute in the militia several times, thinks at least two months.
Aaron Hart X his mark

Sworn and subscribed before me this 24 day of August 1833
Edward M Fuller justice of the peace. I do hereby certify that I am personally acquainted with Aaron Hart who has made the preceding affidavit and that he is a person of credibility.
[illegible] this 24th day of August 1833. Edward M Fuller Justice of the peace

State of New York
Saratoga County}ss.
I Alpheus Goodrich Clerk of the county of Saratoga do certify that Edward M Fuller before whom the above affidavit purports to have been sworn was at the date of the same one of the Justices of the peace in and for the said county, and that I am acquainted with his hand writing and verily believe his name subscribed to the said affidavit to be his proper hand writing and signature. Witness my hand and seal of office this 27th day of August  1833.
A. Goodrich, Clerk
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State of New York
Orleans County}ss.
On this twenty sixth day of March 1844 personally appeared before me Sidney Burrell a Judge of Orleans County Courts. Hanna Hart a resident of the town of Barre in the county aforesaid aged eighty one years. Who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration, order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the act of Congress passed July 7 1838 entitled "An act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows. That she is the widow of Peleg Hart who was a private and soldier in the Army of the Revolution and a pensioner of the United States. She further declares that she was married to the said Peleg Hart in the month of April in the year seventeen hundred and eighty one, as near as she can recollect, and that her husband the aforesaid Peleg Hart died on the sixth day of June 1840. That the marriage took place previous to the first of January seventeen hundred and ninety four, viz at the time above stated.
Hannah Hart X her mark

Sworn and subscribed before me this 26th day of March 1844
Sidney Burrell Judge of Orleans County Courts
Attest Joseph Hart

I Sidney Burrell a Judge of Orleans County Courts before whom the foregoing declaration of Hannah Hart was taken, do hereby certify that the said Hannah Hart is unable on account of
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old age and bodily infirmity to appear in open Court & make the foregoing declaration. And also by reason of her age and infirmity is not able to write her name. All of which
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State of New York
Saratoga County}ss
George Hart of North [illegible] in the County of Saratoga State of New York being duly sworn says that he is the brother in law of Peleg Hart deceased formerly of Dartmouth and Riverton Rhode Island and at the time of his death a resident of Falkirk Erie County New York. That said Peleg Hart was married to Hannah Potter at Riverton Rhode Island by one [illegible] Burroughs a Baptist minister on the 6th day of April 1781. As I was informed and also had an invitation to attend the proceeding with them on that day (but other business preventing, that I was not present at the marriage ceremony but was knowing to the Forties leaving for the purpose of hearing the ceremony performed and [illegible] that day it was common deport that they were married and further that I have known them ever since and that they lived as man and wife up to the death of the said Peleg Hart which took place as I have been informed on the 6th day of June 1840 and further says not. George Hart

Subscribed and sworn before me this 27th day of April 1844.
Abram Manchester Justice of Peace in and for the county of Saratoga
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STATE OF NEW YORK } SS.
Saratoga County Clerk's Office.

I, HORACE GOODRICH, Clerk of the County of Saratoga,
Do Certify, That Abram Manchester
before whom the annexed affidavit purports to have been sworn, was at the date of the same, one of the Justices of the peace in and for said county, and that I am acquainted with his hand writing, and verily believe his name subscribed to the said affidavit, to be his proper hand writing and signature.

WITNESS my hand and seal of Office, the 29th day of April 1844

Horace Goodrich Clerk [Handwritten]
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the said Children it is with regret that I sit down to write you a few lines especially when I am convinced that you are all ways glad to receive a line from me even when I cannot write you any very good nuse. I received your letter by [illegible] informing us that your youngest child was some sick hoping that these lines may find your family in a better state of health than they leave us. [illegible] is sick with a fever. She has been sick a week. She was complaining some with a pain in her side 8 or 11 days before she was taken sick but she had nearly got over that. Last Friday night she was taken with cold chills and a fever set in. But the pain in her side has not been very much trouble so that we do not call it the pleurisy but rather an inflammatory [illegible]. She is so that she does not sit up more than to have her bed made. It is some sick [illegible] in this neighborhood Richard Macombe the wheel wright was taken last Saturday. Very violent with the pleurisy and appears to be dangerously ill. He lives in [illegible] wheelers old house where we lived when you was here. There was a woman died with the pleurisy at John Cransons. His wifes sister that lived in Black River. She came down on a visit and was taken sick and died. John Clark was buried yesterday that lived a little this side of Mills Stove. Lucynea Waters has been laid up the week past with a lime bark. But has got almost well again. The rest of our friends are as well as common as far as I know you or Jonathan wrote to me respecting Dores Haster. I have not heard from them since last winter. I had a letter from them about a year ago they were all well then. You wrote to me wishing a record of our ages. We have not any penned down but we will make them out as well as we can. I am 72 years old this day. I was born the 8th day of February 1761. Your mother was born October 6th 1762.
Betsy was born May 20th 1784
Phebe was born May 21 1787
Permille was born March 17 1789
Abel Hart was born July 17 1791
Hannah was born April 9 or 10 1793
Joseph Hart was born March 22 1795
Lucynda was born April 15 1797
Lyortha and Malytha born June 7 1800
Lucy was born September 1802
Honey was born February 19 1804
[illegible] was born November 27 1807
I wrote you and Jonathan each a letter intending to send them by Frederik [illegible] son but missed of the opportunity. Therefore
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that had taken place before that date of Saturday of the death of Deacon Haster and Shipman. Both of which took place in the space of five weeks and three days. Thus Elder Finch and our two Deacons have all Died in the couple of one year and six days. But I had I had like to have forgot Rescom as you wished to hear from him. He is in a feeble state of health much as he was when I wrote you first. There is no prospoect of his being any better at present if ever. He can travel as far as the meeting house and back the same day, but Cannot do any work of consequence. He thought he could [illegible] some sash timber he did few [illegible] one day last week but done none since. There was five or some built a Samuel Moshers last night by the exploding of [illegible] aqua forts his wife was badly burnt in the face and eyes.
I am requested by Elisha Waters and Lucynda to write a line to Jonathan Delons and let him know that they received his letter in five days after mailing and that they send their respects to him and his family.

Sunday Morning February 10th
Betsy has become very weak and no appearance of her getting better at present. As soon as there is any material change I shall endeavor if I am well to write you a line. You will find it in the post office in Gains.
Send this to Jonathan Delane after you have read it. So no more a present but remain your affectionate parents.
Providence February 10th 1833

Peleg Hart
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1st Brief No 7913.
Peleg Heart

5.14.16 P-58
patrol-+c-

[written sideways] 24 Sep 1832
14 Nov 1832

[illegible] Wheeler 
Agt.
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No 7913
BRIEF in the case of Peleg Hart of Providence County of Saratoga in the state of New York.
(Act 7th June, 1839.)

1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge?
In Open Court

2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?

3. How old is he?
71 Years.

4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed.

[columns]
Period
Duration of Service
Rank
Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.

Feby 1777 [hash marks under duration] As a substitute Gen Sullivan, Capt Cook, Col John Lock
Sept 1778  Genl Sullivan
1779 Capt Cook

5. In what battles was he engaged?
None stated

6. Where did he reside when he entered the service?
Freetown State of Massth

7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls?
By one living witness & traditionary evidence

8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect?
They appear to be in due form

I certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.

James Ord Examining Clerk.
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BY HIS EXCELLENCY
John Brown Francis

Governor, Captain-General and Commander in Chief of the State of Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations.
BE IT KNOWN, that the name "Henry Bowen" to the afore-written attestation subscribed, is the proper hand writing of Henry Bowen, Esquire, who, at the time of subscribing the same. was Secretary of State aforesaid, duly elected and qualified according to law: Wherefore unto his said attestation full faith and credit are to be rendered.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of said State to be affixed at Providence, this twenty fourth day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty-four and if Independence the fifty-eighth.
John Brown Francis
BY HIS EXCELLENCY'S COMMAND.
Henry Brown Seevy
[seal affixed bottom left]
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State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.

Secretary's office Jan 24 AD 1834.

I certify that at the occasion of the General Assembly of said State holden on the first Wednesday of May last, Asa Gray was elected a Justice of the Peace for the town of Riverton in the County of Newport for the term of one year and commissioned accordingly as appears of record in this office.
Witness Henry Bowen secry.
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State of New York
County of Montgomery}
Appeared before me Chauncey Hutchinson one of the Justices of the Peace in the county aforesaid Thomas Dennis who being duly sworn deposeth now with that he knew Peleg Hart a citizen of the town of Riverton county of Newport and state of Rhode Island during the Revolutionary War with Genl [illegible] but now a resident of the town of Providence county of Saratoga and State of New York and that the said Peleg Hart did serve as a military soldier on the western shore of Riverton in a company of regular enlisted military soldiers commanded by Captain John Cook, Lieutenant Philip Cory and ensign Philip Manchester and that he knew said Hart did perform a monthly service in a division of said company and that the above officers were duly commissioned and under the same discipline and regulations as the enlisted soldiers were and he did have one month in said company in addition to the above service under General Sullivan in his expedition on Rhode Island and further than he did have half a month at Fall River in guiding boats for said expedition and also the said Captain Cooks company belonged to Colonel John Cook Regiment whos regiment was [illegible] the [illegible] into command of Brigadier General Ezekel Conwell whose [illegible] was near the center of the western shore of Riverton the half month service was performed under the direction of Colonel John Cook.
Thomas Dennis

Subscribed and sworn [illegible] July 1835 before me.
Chauncey Hutchinson, Justice

Also, I certify that I am acquainted with the aforesaid Thomas Dennis and know him to bear the name of a man of truth and veracity.
Chauncey Hutchinson
Justice of the peace
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State of New York
Montgomery County}ss.
I Richard H Cushney Deputy Clerk of the County of Montgomery do hereby certify that Chauncey Hutchinson Esquire whose name is subscribed to the first of the within affidavit was at the date of the same a Justice of the peace in and for said County. And that I am well acquainted with his hand writing and do believe that the signatures to the first of the written affidavit and also to the within certificate are genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said county this 3rd day of July 1835.
R. H. Cushney Dep Clerk
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We the subscribers, inhabitants of the Town of Riverton, in the County of Newport and State of Rhode Island, hereby certify, that we are personally acquainted with Peleg Hart, now said to reside in the State of New York; at the time of the Revolutionary War, he resided in our said Town of Riverton, and was within the bounds of and did belong to a company of militia in said Riverton commanded by Capt Isaac Cook, of which company Philip Cory was Lieut and Philip Manchester Ensign, and it belonged to the Regiment of Col John Cook; these officers were duly appointed and commissioned and fully authorized to [illegible] their respective order aforesaid; while the British were on Rhode Island to wit, from December 1776 to the Fall of the year 1779 that part of Riverton being opposite to Rhode Island was on continual line of camps; the company of Capt Cook was mostly stationed from [illegible] northerly and was called into the service in tours of a month at a time, while the British were on Rhode Island; and when so called out they were considered to be a regular embodied military corps, in actual military service, and under the order of Gen Ezekiel Cornell, who has his head quarters near Howlands ferry. We fully believe that said Peleg Hart was a soldier in said militia company, and performed his regular tours of actual service in the same, in a regular military encampment on the west shore of Riverton.
William Cook aged 79 years
Thomas Wilcox aged 76 years
Abraham Manchester aged 74 years

State of Rhode Island
County of Newport}ss
Be it known that on the tenth day of August AD 1835. Before the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in & for said county, personally appeared William Cook, Thomas Wilcox & Abraham Manchester, and severally made solemn oath to the truth of the above certificate by them subscribed, and also to the truth of their ages affixed against their respective names. And I do hereby certify that the deponents are well known to me and are credible persons; In testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand, the day & year last above mentioned.
Almer Simmons, Justice of the Peace
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State of Rhode Island & Providence Plantations
Clerks office of the Court of Probate for the Town of Riverton in the County of Newport in the State aforesaid.
I Asa Gray Clerk of said Court of Probate a Court of Record, do hereby certify that Abner Simmons is a Justice of the in and for said County of Newport, residing in said Town of Riverton, duly appointed by the General Assembly of this State, commissioned by the Governor thereof & fully authorized to act in his said capacity; and I further certify that the signature of his name to the certificate on the within deposition is his own proper handwriting.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said court, this eleventh day of August AD 1835.
Asa Gray, Clerk of Court of Probate
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An additional asset in case of Mrs Hannah Hart
Barre Orleans Co NY
10.9466

Hannah Hart
NY

Act 1843
N 6175

adm&
7 mo per
_____________
23.33 from
6 June '40 the day of husbands death

Act 3 March '43
$23.33

HOn J. R. Giddings
Jefferson
Ashtabald Co
Ohio
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State of New York
Orleans County} ss
On this 23 day of May 1844 personally appeared before me Amnon Blair a Justice of the Peace in and for the county aforesaid Calvin Wheeler a resident of the town of Milton, County of Saratoga and state aforesaid, who first being duly sworn according to law on his oath deposeth and saith that in the year 1835 he this deponent then residing in the town of Providence County of Saratoga and State aforesaid that Peleg Hart then a resident of said town and county made application to the War Department of the United States for a pension for revolutionary services that the deponent made out his papers for the department and that he was allowed a pension and was paid him at the pension agency in Albany in said State that he soon after removed from said County. That in 1836 or 1837 to Erie County in said state where he died in the summer of 1840 as this deponent is informed and duly believes having his wife Hannah with when this deponent has been acquainted and well known for forty years last past as well as with her late husband Peleg Hart that all the time aforesaid the said Peleg Hart and the said Hannah until his death lived together as husband and wife as this deponent is informed and verily believes and that the said Hannah widow of the said Peleg Hart is now living in the county of Orleans state of New York. That the said Peleg Hart and Hannah his wife have repeatedly told this deponent they were  married in the state of Rhode Island near the close of the revolutionary war and that they uniformly sustained a fair character.
Calvin Wheeler

Sworn & subscribed this 23 day of May 1844 before me.
Amnon Blair
Justice of the peace in and for said county
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State of New York
Orleans County Clerks office}ss.
I hereby certify that Amnon Blair Esq before whom the within affidavit purports to have been taken was at the date of the same a Justice of the Peace in and for said county and duly authorized to take the same and that I am well acquainted with his hand writing and verily believe the signature to said certificate is genuine and that his term of office commenced on the first day of January 1840 and will expire in four years from that date. Witness my hand and official seal this thirtieth day of May 1844.
E Dana Clerk of Orleans County
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2 cents

1838
1843 rep 17 July 44

Joint Reso No 157

Sent to E. S. Andrews
Warsaw NY

5856
Albany

Hannah Hart
widow of Peleg Hart
who was a Private
in the Conn Line

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 23 Dollars 33 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843.

Certificate of Pension issued the 17 day of July 1844
and sent to Hon J. R. Giddings
Jefferson, Ashtabula Co, Ohio

(Act of March 3, 1843)

Recorded in Book a
Vol. 1   Page 261
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[envelope]

Hon. J. L. Edwards
Commision of Pensions
Washington D.C.

1.0

in attention Sept 25

[stamped]
WATERFORD
SEP NY
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Mr Edwards

hi. I enclose you affidavits supplementary in the case of Peleg Hart, Saratoga County. I am satisfied he is well entitled to a pension and that his statements are to be relied on.
I wish you would examine these as soon as your conscience shall allow, and let me know the results.

Yours truly
Jno Cramer

Waterford Sept 21 1831
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10946

Hannah Hart
N. Y.
Act July 7th 38
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Washington City
May 18 1844

Sir
Herewith I transmit the papers of Mrs Hart with the request that you will bestow upon them early attention as she is said to be in great want.

Very respectfully
your obt svt
J R Gridigs

J L Edwards Esq
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Hall of Rep
June 7 1844

Sir
I herewith transmit additional evidence in [illegible] of Mrs Hart and request you to communicate the result to E. W. Andrews, Warsaw New York.

Respectfully
J. R. Gridigs

J. L. Edwards Esq
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2nd Brief

No 7913

Peleg Hart

7 mo to be allowed on this claim - see letter to J. Cramer
Sept 30 '35

Admitted 
Private
7 months

Hon. John Cramer
House Reps
N.Y.
[crossed out "C. Wheeler agent"]
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No 7913

BRIEF objections to the admission of Pension Claims, of which those answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of Peleg Hart which requires further proof or explanation.

1. Does the declaration show where the applicant resides?
Yes

II. Did the declarant make the declaration in the county where he resides?
Yes

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?
Yes.

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?
No. The act contemplates a military service in some embodied corps ordered out & commanded by a competent authority. His alternate service does not appear to any order than that of general [illegible]

VI. Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with the regulations?
Yes.

VII. Has he made a relinquishment of every claim to any other pension than the one under the Act of June 7, 1832?
Yes

VIII. Has the Court given their opinion?
Yes.

IX. Has the Clerk given his certificate?
Yes

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?
Yes.
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XI. Has the applicant obtained the evidence of a clergyman and another respectable citizen as to their belief respecting his age and the general belief in his neighborhood relative to his revolutionary service?
Yes

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?
____________

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?
No.

XV. Does it appear from any of the papers that the witness was in such reputation, or of such an age, as to have a personal knowledge of the applicant's service?
Yes.

XVI. Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct?
Yes.

XVII. Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily? And if not, which of them is not so answered?
7th not ansd.

EXPLANATORY NOTES
QUERE V. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words: "Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A. B. who, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that, by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service, but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades: For __________ year ____ ______ months and _________ days, I served as a ______. For ______ months and ___________ days, I served as a __________; and for such service I claim a pension."
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It is important in all cases to determine with precision the period for which the applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service. The use of the phrase about three or four months is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable.

QUERE XIV. Proof of Service.
In a case where the name of the applicant is not found as the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses, who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimants entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the regiment, company, and line to which he belonged. The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the witnesses, and the affidavits must be properly authenticated, as above directed.

QUERE XVI. Mode of authenticating papers.
In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticated the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other paper authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the end 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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[2 pieces of paper but only 1 is light enough to read]
No. 10946

Hannah Hart
NY

Susp'd
Set to Hon J. R. Giddings
June 28 '44

Act 7th July '38
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[envelope]

Free

J. L. Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D. C.

H Hart 5856

[stamped]
BUFFALO
N.Y.
NOV 11
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Pension Office, Official Business.
J. L. Edwards Commissioner.
By J. G. Benet

Samuel Lake, Esq
Buffalo , New York

[various tabulations all over the page]
$717.83
.9555
358915
358915
358915
646647
685886565

1.67827/160,2000/00.9
151040

.0955

1678.28
.0955
849115
849115
1510407
160.3409
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Rev  WIDOW, &c.

File No 17995
Hannah Hart
Widow of 
Peleg Hart
Pri Rev War

Act: Feb 29 48
Index: Vol. A, Page 313

(Arrangement of 1870)
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State of New York
County of Saratoga}
Personally appeared before me Edward M Fuller one of the Justices of the Peace in and for said County, Aaron Hart, who being duly sworn deposeth & saith, that he was personally acquainted with Peleg Hart, who during the time of the Revolutionary War belonged to Riverton, County of Newport & State of Rhode Island, and now a resident of Providence in the County of Saratoga & State of New York, and I knew the said Peleg Hart to be a Revolutionary Soldier in the militia. He was enrolled in Capt Isaac Cooks company to which company Phillip Cory was Lieutenant & Phillip Manchester Ensign. He did serve in said company in the year of 1777, 1778 & 1779, one year at least, in the following manner, (to wit) ten months, one month at a time, and one half a month, on the west shore of Riverton the south end of said town, the deponent further saith that he served in the part of the company with the said Peleg Hart the greatest part of the time and knew him to serve as a regular embodied militia soldier under the command of Lieutenant Phillip Cory, and further I knew said Peleg Hart to serve one month under Capt Isaac Cook in General Sullivans Expedition on Rhode Island in August 1776 and also half a month in building boats at Fall River for said expeditions in the State of Massachusetts under the direction of Col. John Cook, to whose regiment Capt Isaac Cooks company belonged, which regiment was under the command of General Ezekiel Cornell whose headquarters was near Howlands Ferry which was near the center of the western shore of said Rivertown; the deponent further saith that he knew the whole of said shore of Riverton to be a continual line of encampments under duly appointed officers, all the time that the British held possession of Rhode Island, which was nearly three years, for he resided in said Riverton for the greater part of said time & further saith that the said Riverton shore formed the American Lines, and the Eastern Short of Rhode Island the British Lines, only the river, or rather the Eastern Branch of the Narragansett Bay, parted them; and further the deponent saith not.
Aron Hart X HIs Mark

Sworn and subscribed before e this 22nd day of August 1835.
Edward M Fuller, J. Peace

I do hereby certify that I have been acquainted with Aron Hart for five & twenty years past & know him the said Aron Hart to be a [illegible] credible man. August 22 Day 1835.
Edward M Fuller J. Peace
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STATE OF NEW YORK,
SARATOGA COUNTY CLERK'S OFFICE,}ss.
I, ALPHEUS GOODRICH, Clerk of the county of Saratoga, Do Certify, that Edward M Fuller before whom the annexed affidavit purports to have been sworn, was at the date of the same, one of the Justices of the Peace in and for said county, and that I am acquainted with his hand writing, and verily believe his name subscribed to the said affidavit, to be his proper hand writing and signature.
WITNESS my hand and seal of Office, the 26th day of August 1935.
A. Goodrich Clerk
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Peleg Hart.

Free

John Cramer Esq
Member of Congress
Washington City DC
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Dear Sir
After my respects to your honor I would inform you that I have not received any returns from the Commissioner of Pensions at Washington since you wrote last. I am sorry to put you to so much trouble but as I am so needy I cannot refrain from requesting your honour to be so kind as to call on Mr. Edwards for my certificate and forward it to me as soon as convenient. [illegible] to me in Providence Saratoga County and you will confer on your friend and humble servant.
Peleg Hart

Providence November 28th 1835
Signed John Cramer Esq

I am authorized by Peleg Hart to receive his Pension for the term of seven months service.
John Cramer
December 5 1835
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I Ichabod Williston of Riverton in the County of Newport and State of Rhode Island, aged eighty three years on solemn oath, depose and say that for upwards of seventy years I have been acquainted with Peleg Hart, now residing in the State of New York, until the time of his moving away from Riverton we lived near neighbors to each other. At the time of the Revolutionary War we served together in the company of militia in said Riverton commanded by Capt Isaac Cook and in the Regiment of Col. John Cook of said company Philip Cory was [crossed out "ensign"]Lieut and Philip Manchester Ensign. We were called into the service for periods of a month at a time during the whole time the British held Rhode Island. In the years 1777-1778 & 1779. I well recollect of said Peleg Hart being in actual service with me in said company. We were stationed together on the western shore of said Riverton opposite Rhode Island. Some of our monthly  tours we were stationed at the house of Joseph Almy in some at the house of Nancy Almy. How much said Peleg served I am not able fully to say but I recollect we served together in each of the years while the enemy were on Rhode Island, and at different months tours in each of said years, in said Capt Cooks company; and I verily believe from the knowledge I have of his services that he served not less than one third of the time in each of the years the British held the Island. I think he served more than one third in different tours of a month duration each.
Icabod Willestone

State of Rhode Island
County of Newport}ss.
Be it known that at Riverton in said county on the 21st day of December AD 1833 before the subscriber a Justice of the Peace within & for said county of Newport, personally appeared Ichabod Willestone, a disinterested and a credible person, and made oath to and subscribed the above deposition before me.
Asa Gray Justice of the Peace
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I Ichabod Simmons of Riverton, in the County of Newport and state of Rhode Island aged seventy two years, on solemn oath depose and say that at the time of the revolutionary war and previous thereto, I was well acquainted with Peleg Hart, at that time residing in said Riverton, now said to reside in the State of New York. From the commencement of the year 1777 until the autumn of the same year I served in the same company of militia in said Riverton under Capt Isaac Cook & in the regiment of Col. John Cook. I, while in said company, have been on duty with said Peleg Hart, and stationed at the Guard houses on the western shore of said Riverton North of Fogland. I have seen him in actual service in said company at different period of time [illegible] times from the beginning of the year 1777 till the fall of the same when I enlisted into the Continental service. I particularly recollect of said Peleg being on duty at the time we drove a ship out of the river near Fogland in the year 1777.
Ichabod Simmons

State of Rhode Island
County of Newport}ss.
Be it known that at Riverton on the 21st day of December AD 1833 before the subscriber a Justice of the Peace within and for said county of Newport personally appeared Ichabod Simmons, a disinterested and credible person, and made oath to and subscribed the above deposition.
Before me,
Asa Gray Justice of the Peace
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aa

Hannah Hart
Application for Pension

Samuel Lake Atty
Buffalo
NY
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State of New York
Orleans County}ss.
On this 27th day of October 1848 personally appeared before the subscriber a Justice of the Peace of the county aforesaid, Hannah Hart a resident of Barre in the said county of Orleans and state of New York aged eighty six 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 made by the act of Congress, passed on the 2nd of February 1848, granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War. That she is the widow of Peleg Hart who was a Revolutionary soldier and was a Revolutionary pensioner of the United States when he died. That she was also a Revolutionary pensioner of the United States and that she received the annual pension of twenty three dollars & thirty three cents under the act of the 17th of June 1844. She further declares that she is still a widow.
Hannah Hart X her mark

Sworn to and Subscribed on the day and year above written. 
Arad Thomas Justice of the Peace
of Orleans County N. York

State of New York
Orleans County}ss. 
I hereby certify that I am personally acquainted with the above named Hannah Hart and that she is known to me to be the person above described. And that by reason of age and infirmity she is unable to write her name. 
Arad Thomas
Justice of the Peace of Orleans County N. York
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State of New York
Orleans County}ss.
I certify that Arad Thomas was at the date of the within affidavit a Justice of the Peace in and for said county, duly elected and sworn and authorized to take the same. That I am well acquainted with the hand writing of the said Justice and that his signature to the [illegible] of the said affidavit and certificate are genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said county this 4th day of November 1848.
Harmon Goodrich Clerk
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Hannah Hart
under joint resolutions of 23rd Jany, 1845 & act of July 7, 1838

Admd: $23.33 per anum
from 4 March 1838 to 6 June 1840


157

E. W. Andrews Esq
Warsaw
N. York
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Hon. J. L. Edwards
Hereto annexed I send you the declaration of Mrs. Hart to obtain the benefit of the Resolution of Congress 23 of January 1845. The [illegible] Mrs Hart then per year was $23.33 thought highly put in can he sevd.
Truly yours
EW Andrews

Warsaw N.Y
March 4th 1845
PS. Mrs Hart is in depressed circumstances and an early examination of her case would greatly relieve her wants.

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Declaration
In order to obtain the benefit of the resolution of Congress of the 23 Jan 1845.
Whereas the act of the 30th of April 1844 prohibited me from drawing a pension for the same period during which my husband was a pensioner, I now make the following statement under oath, to obtain the benefits of the resolution above mentioned. I am the widow of Peleg Hart, who was a private in the war of the Revolution; I have drawn a pension at the rate of twenty three dollars and thirty three cents per annum from the 6th day of June 1840 & now ask for the amount due me from the 4th of July 1836 to the 6th day of June 1840 when my former pension commenced.
Hannah Hart X her mark

Sworn & subscribed before me on this 27th day of February 1845
(A)   Thomas J Royce Justice of the Peace
Attest Truman Straight

State of New York
Orleans County Clerks Office ss. I hereby certify that Thomas L Royce Esquire, before or by whom the above affidavit purports to have been taken, was at the date of the same, a Justice of the Peace in and for said county, duly commissioned and sworn, and legally authorized to take the same. And that his term of office commended on the 18th day of April 1843 and expires on the 31st day of Dec 1846. Witness my hand and official seal at Albion this 27th day of February 1845.
Elijah Dana Clerk
Ed Y Strong Deputy

and I further certify that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of the said Thomas J Royce, and verily believe his signature above written at Letter (A) is genuine. Feb 27 1845.
Elijah Dana Clerk
Ed Y Strong Deputy
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8540
New York

Hannah Hart widow of Peleg Hart who was a pensioner under the Act of 1832 and who died on the 6 June 1840 of Orleans in the state of NY who was a Priv in the Co Commanded by Captain Cook of the reg commanded by Look in the Conn line for 7 mos.

Inscribed on the Roll of Albany at the rate of 23 Dollars 33 Cents per annum, to commence on the [crossed out "4th day of March 1836"] 6 June 1840.

Certificate of Pension issued this 17 day of July 1844 and sent to Hon. HJ. R. Giddings Jefferson, Ohio

Total Amount $_________

(Act July 7, 1838.)

Recorded by F. L. Swann Clerk,
Book 1 Vol. 1 Page 161

[left side of page]
Cert. No 137
Issued under the J. Reso Jan 23 '45
on the 18 April 1845
Sent to E.W. Andrews
Warsaw NY
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State of Rhode Island
County of Newport}ss. Town Clerks Office at Riverton in said County this 24th day of December 1835.
I hereby certify that Peleg Hart son of Constant Hart & Deborah his wife, was born the 8th day of February 1761 as appears of record in this office.
Asa Gray, Town Clerk
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I Charles Durfee, Town clerk of the town of Riverton in the County of Newport and state of Rhode Island do on oath certify that by virtue of my office, I have the custody of the records of birth and marriages of said town; and I further certify that I have examined said records, through the period, to wit, from AD 1775 to 1800 and that I cannot find the record of the marriage of Peleg Hart to Hannah Potter. I also certify that I have reason to believe that many marriages have been solemnized in said town, certificates of which have never been exhibited at this office to be recorded.
Charles Durfee Town Clk.

Newport Co In said Riverton April 11th 1844
Personally appeared before me, the above named Charles Durfee, known to me as the Town Clerk of the town of Riverton, and made oath to the truth of the above certificate by him subscribed.
Asa Gray, Justice of the Peace
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State of Rhode Island
County of Newport}ss.
I Daniel C Denham, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in the County aforesaid being a court of record do hereby certify that Asa Gray is a Justice of the Peace duly appointed, and commissioned by the Governor of this State, and is fully authorized to act in his said capacity. And that his signature aforewritten is genuine. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said court at Newport on this fifteenth day of April AD one thousand eight hundred & forty four.
Daniel C Denham Clk
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State of New York
Orleans County}ss.
On this fourth day of May 1844 personally appeared before me Thomas J Royce, a Justice of the Peace in and for the county aforesaid, Joseph Hart a resident of the town of Barre in said county aged forty nine years who first being duly sworn according to law on his oath depose & say that he is a son of Peleg Hart & Hannah Hart, formerly of Dartmouth & Riverton Rhode Island, & Saratoga County New York, but more recently of Falkirk Erie County New York. That he has often heard his parents say they were married at Riverton in the State of Rhode Island, in the month of April 1781 by one Peleg Burroughs a Baptist clergyman of said town of Riverton. That at the particular request of this deponent the accompanying letter (written February 10 1833, dated Providence & signed by his father, the said Peleg Hart containing the ages of his father & mother, also the births of their children) was written. That at the time of his death his father was a pensioner of the United States. That his pension was obtained while residing in Saratoga County in this state & that he died at Falkirk Erie County New York on the 6th day of June 1840. That the said Hannah Hart his mother, lives with this deponent & has remained a widow since the death of her husband.
Joseph Hart

Sworn & subscribed before me this fourth day of May 1844}
Thomas J Royce { a Justice of the peace in & for said county
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I hereby certify that Joseph Hart, who has subscribed + sworn to the annexed affidavit is a person of good character + credibility. 
Thomas J Royce} a Justice of the peace

Orleans County Clerks Offices I hereby certify that Thomas J Royce Esq before whom the foregoing affidavit purports to have been taken was at the date of the same a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, and duly authorized to take the same, that I am well acquainted with his hand writing and verily believe each of his signatures herein written to be genuine, that his term of office commenced on the 13th of April 1843, and will expire on the 31st Dec 1846.
Witness my hand and Official Seat at .
Albion this 7th day of May  1844.
E Y Strong Deputy Clk