Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 21410, Silas Hoyt, New York
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New York  | Hoyt, Silas |  W.21410

                  or Hoit

                             Amy
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32.236 (underlined)                                                          | Repd: Nov. 19.1844
New.York
Silas Hoyt-
of Saratoga Co in the State of N. York
who was a private - in the company commanded
by Captain Bouton of the Regt: - commanded
by Col: Thomas - in the N. york mila -
line for 21 months -

Inscribed on the Roll of Albany
at the rate of 70 Dollars - Cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 18th day of
November 1844 and sent to G. G. Scott
Ballston - Spa, N. Yk -

Arrears to the 4th of Sept. 1844        $ 945.00
Semi-annual allowance ending 4 Mar - 35.00
                                                           $ 980.00 (total)

{Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7, 1832.}

Recorded by W M Stewart Clerk,
Book E-2.- Vol. 4 - Page 32.
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Let to L Booth Apl 13/44                        | 3661.
" "   "               May 4 [illegible torn]               | New York Albany
                                                                | Amy Hoyt
Repotd,                                                   | widow of Silas
Feby 5/49                                                | N.Y.
                                                                | who served in the Revolutionary
                                                                |war, as a private
                                                                |Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of
                                                                |70 Dollars -
                                                                |Cents per annum, to commence on
                                                                |the 4th day of March, 1848.
                                                                |Certificate of Pension issued the
                                                                |5 day of feby 1849
                                                                |and sent to L. Booth
                                                                |Ballston Spa
                                                                |NY
                                                                |Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act
                                                                |February 2, 1848, Page 84 Vol. 4
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Silas Hoyt for | N 5.5.3
a Pension under the | Silas Hoyts'
Act of June 7 1832|  New York
     | Act 7th June 1832
     | Comp N.Y. 10 Mo.
     |  "        Con.  11 -
     |             pri 21 mo (total)

     
     | sound        
     | 21 mo pri
      | $ 70 
Aaron Nash    | G. G. Scott Esq
Agent             |  Ballston Spa
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State of New York
County of Saratoga} ss:

On this Eleventh day of April 1843 personally
page | appeared before me Abel Meeker a Supreme Court Commissioner
(1)| with Powers of First Judge of said county Silas Hoyt of the town of Greenfield in the County
of Saratoga and state of New York aged Eighty years
who being duly sworn according to the law doth on his oath make the
following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made
by the Act of Congress passed June 7, 1832,
That he entered into the War of the Revolution under the officers herein 
after named.
That he was born in the Town of Pound Ridge in the County of Westchester
in the State of New York in the year 1762 that at the commencement
of the Revolutionary War he resided with his Father Gideon Hoyt in the Town
of Poundridge in the County of Westchester in the State of New York where he
resided until February or March. 1783 when he with his Father's Family
moved to the Town of Greenfield in the County of Saratoga (then Albany)
in the State of New York aforesaid. where he has continued to reside
ever since and where he now resides, that about the year ___________
when he resided in the Town of Poundridge in the County of Westchester in
the State of New York and belonged to the Company of Militia Infantry
Commanded by Captain Danl. Bouton
in the Regiment Commanded by Colonel Thadeus Crane, and being situated on 
the lines of the Enemy, he with his Company was frequently called into the 
service of the United States to Guard the lines against the Enemy who made
frequent excursions from New York Island, in order to plunder from the
Inhabitants and others horses, cattle and other property (these plunderers
 were called cow boys) they would return to New York with the
property so plundered, such excursions were made in the night season.
that he performed duties as a private in guarding the lines
to Bedford, Kings Bridge and other Towns on and near the lines
from the time aforesaid to wit: (\\\\\) until 1782 or 3, 
he performed duties as a private aforesaid, when so ordered by
his officers, on these tours he served on Guard and Patroling the
lines aforesaid under several different officers of Colonel Cranes 
Regiment to wit Captains Samuel Lawrence, Benjamin Chapman, 
David Bouton besides the officers named above, he served in
Col. Thomas Regiment, in Capt. R. Sacketts Company,
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page 2 | He further states that by reason of Infirmities incidental in extreme
old age having for many years last past labored in much
pain of body on account of a Rheumatic Complaint in consequence
of which his bodily strength and mental faculties have been
and now are greatly impaired, he is thereby (from loss of memory)
unable to state with precision the circumstances of his Revolutionary services.
He therefore relies on the proof hereto annexed, and such other 
evidence as he may hereafter be able to procure, to support his claim
for a Pension
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that in March 1782 a
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even the enemy and you work the plunder with some prisoners.
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State of New York
County of Saratoga

Be it known that before me the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace in and for said county personally appeared. Daniel Creuoford of the Village of Saratoga Springs in said county aged seventy one years, who being by me duly sworn according to law, says that during the period of the Revolutionary War he resided in the town of Pound Ridge in the county of West Chester in the state of New York. That Silad Hoyt the applicant for a pension during the said war resided in the said town of Pound Ridge, about one mile distant of with whom this
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Thirty years last past that he has always sustained a fair reputation for veracity.
J.A. Waterbury

State of New York
County of Saratoga
I Horace Goodrich Clerk of said county do hereby certify that John A Waterbury Esquire whose signature is to the foregoing proceedings was on the day of the date thereof a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, and dwelling therein, duly Elected and sworn, and further that I am well acquainted with his handwriting and verily believe the several signatures "J. A. Waterbury" subscribed thereto to be genuine. 
In testimony whereof, I have here unto set my hand and affixed my official seal this 1st day of May 1843.

Daniel. Crawford's
Appt. for S. [illegible]
June 22, 1835
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In pursuance of a law passed the 27th of April, 1784, entitled "An act for the settlement of the pay of the Levies and Militia, for their services in the late War, and for other purposes therein mentioned," the following certificates have been issued, bearing interest at five per cent per annum, viz: 

June 24th 1781. Silas Hoyt Private. 0 16 0
Nov 15th ". " " ". 6 7 2
" " ". " " " 16 7 9
Aug 6 79. " " " 2 13 9

10. mo pri

State of New York
Comptroller's Office, Albany, March 1st 1843
I hereby certify the above to be true extracts from Book No. 8 now remaining in this office, and that the service for which the certificates above named were issued, were performed under the following officers, viz: 
First- under Capt. Saml. Lawrence in Col. Thaddeus Crane Regt.
Second, " " Benjn Chapman " " " " "
Third, " " Danl Bouton " " 
Fourth, " "
Fifth, " "
Sixth, " "
Seventh, " "
Eighth, " "
Ninth, " "
Tenth, " "

Philip Phelps
Dep Compliance
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State of New York
Saratoga County
I Abil Meeker named in the annexed Deposition do certify that the annexed named Silas Hoyt is in very feeble health and in my opinion not of ability to attend in court at the courthouse and have his examination taken there. Dated Ballinton [illegible] 11 April 1843
A. Meeker Supreme Court
Commissioner
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13281
Amy Hoyt
widow of Silas
NY
Act 7 July 1838
[illegible] husband
died 20 May 1846
Married 1790

Hon H White
HW
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State of New York
Saratoga County 
Be it known that before me Richard Hewit a Justice of the peace in and for said county, personally appeared Elihu Wing of the Town fo Greenfield in the county of Saratoga and state of New York. Aged sixty eight years old who being duly affirmed according to law, doth depose and saith that on the 28th of March 1793 that he came to reside in the said Town of Greenfield with his parents, and now resides on the same farm where they first settled and at that time Silas Hot and Amy his wife resided in the Neighborhood almost in sight and that this Deponent was intimately acquainted with the said Silas Hoyt and Amy Hoyt his wife for more than fifty years and in every Relation in life this deponent was satisfied that they were legally and lawfully husband and wife. And he the said Silas Hoyt often stated to this deponent that the said Amy Hoyt was his lawful wife, and she always acknowledged him to be her lawful Husband and they often stated in the presence of this deponent that they were legally and lawfully married, and this Deponent further saith that when he first formed an acquaintance with the said Silas Hoyt and Amy Hoyt his wife they had but one child an infant Daughter named Eunice, afterwards they had four other children born in the said Town of Greenfield whose Names are as follows, Betsey now wife of Eli Weed, Jesse Hoyt, Warner Hoyt, and Almon Hoyd, the youngest of them is over forty years old, and this Deponent further saith that the said Silas Hoyt Died about the Twentieth day of May One thousand Eight hundred and forty six leaving the above named Amy Hoyt his lawful Widow and that she is still living and continues to be the Widow of said Silas Hoyt. And this deponent further saith that the said Silas Hoyt was a Revolutionary pensioner of the United States of America at the time of his death, and at the time of his death, he resided in the said Town of Greenfield. 
Elihu Wing
subscribed and affirmed to the 13th Day
of February 1847 before one Richard Hewitt Justice of the Peace

State of New York
Saratoga County
I do hereby certify that Elihu Wing the above named Deponant is well known to one of the undersigned, and that his character for truth and veracity is good and is strictly a creditable witness.
Richard Hewitt Justice of the Peace
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State of New York Saratoga County Clerks' Office
I, James W Horton, Clerk of said county
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State of New York
County of Saratoga
Be it known that before me Richard Hewit a Justice of the peace in and for said county, Personally appeared Abigail Ingerson of the Town of Greenfield in the county of Saratoga and State of New York aged sixty nine years old who being by one duly sworn according to law. Doth Depose and say, That she with her parents moved into the said Town of Greenfield when she was Nine years old, and that she from that time was well acquainted with Silas Hoyt until his death, and this Deponent further saith that when this Deponent was about thirteen years old her father and mother attended the wedding of said Silas Hoyt and Amy his wife, the next day after they were married, at the Dwelling House of Gideon Hoyt in said Town of Greenfield, who was father of the said Silas Hoyt and this Deponent further saith that afterwards she resided in the same House with the said Silas Hoyt and Amy Hoyt his wife in said Town of Greenfield who resided together as Husband and wife, and she has often heared the said Silas Hoyt and Amy his wife state that they were legally and lawfully married- and further this deponent says that while she lived in the house with the said Silas Hoyt and Amy his wife, their first child was born, and from that time to the death of the said Silas Hoyt. She was well and intimately acquainted with them both and that this deponant has no doubt that the said Silas Hoyt and Amy Hoyt were legally and lawfully married, and this deponent further saith that she said Silas Hoyt Died in the said Town of Greenfield about the twentieth of May One Thousand Eight hundred and forty six, leaving the said Amy Hoyt his lawful widow and that she is still living and continues the widow of the said Silas Hoyt- And this deponent further saith that she said Silas Hoyt was a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States of America at the time of his death subscribed and sworn to the 13th Day 
Abigail Ingerson
of February, 1847 before me 
Richard Hewitt Justice of the Peace

State of New York
Saratoga County
And I do hereby certify that Abigail Ingerson the above named deponant is well known to me the undersigned and that her character for truth and verasity is Good and is strictly a credible Witness.
Richard Hewitt Justice of the Peace
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State of New York

State of New York
County of Rensselaer 

Amy Hoyt of Pittstown in the County of Rensselaer and state of New York widdow of the late Silas Hoyt the deceased Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States who died at Greenfield in the county of Saratoga and state of New York on the 20th day of May 1846, who being duly sworn according to law deposes and says that she is the identical person named in an origin of declaration for a pension made before the Honorable John Willard Vice Chancellor of the State of New York 4th District on the 29th day of September 1846 at the Village of Saratoga Springs in the county of Saratoga State of New York. She declares that she has not been able to procure evidence of her marriage to the said Silas Hoyt and does not know or believe that any person is now living who was present and able to testify to the date of said marriage and further she states that her husband the late Silas Hoyt kept no family Register and she does not know or believe that any Public or private record now exists showing the date of said marriage

Sworn and subscribed
this 6th day of January 1847
before me
Wm Sturges Justice Peace

Almon Hoyt
X
Witness
Wm Sturges

Amy Hoyt
X
Her Mark
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Almond Burlingham
On the 6th day of January 1847 appeared before me and by me being duly sworn, deposed, & said that he knew the said Amy Hoyt whom made the within affidavit to bet he same individual described therein which is to me satisfactory evidence thereof.
Wm Sturges Justice Peace
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State of New ork
Rensselaer County Clerk's Office
SS.

I, Ambrose H. Sheldon, Clerk of said County, do hereby Certify, that William Sturgess before whom the annexed affidavits were made and whose name is thereunto subscribed, was at the day of the date thereof a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, and duly authorized by law to take the same; and that I am well acquainted with the handwriting of the said Justice and verily believe that his signature to the said affidavits is genuine. In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said County, this Eleventh day of January 1847

A. H. Sheldon Clerk.

Amy Hoyt's affidavit
6 Jany 1847
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State of New York
County of Saratoga
SS.

On this 20 day of September 1846 before John Willard Vice Chancellor of the 4th Circuit in Open county personally appeared Amy Hoyt a resident in Greenfield in the county of Saratoga and State of New York aged eighty two years, who being 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 July 7th 1838 Entitled And Act Granting half pay and Pensions to certain widows and of the Act of January 17th 1844

That she is the Widow of Silas Hoyt late of Greenfield in the county of Saratoga and State of New York deceased

That according to be best of her information and beliefs her husband the late Silas Hoyt during the period of the Revolutionary War resided in Poundridge in the county of West Chester in the state of New York where he resided when he entered into the service of the United States and in the War of the Revolution and served as a private under the following named officers to wit: Colonels, Canfield, Colonel Crane, Captain Lawrence, Captain Samuel Lewis and other officers named in the declaration made by him for a Pension under the Act of Congress passed June 7th + believed to be on file at the war office of the War Department

And she further declares that the said Silas Hoyt at the time of his death was a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States at the rate of seventy dollars per annum and died at Greenfield in the county of Saratoga and state of New York on the 20th day of May in the year 1846.

That she was married to the aforesaid Silas Hoyt on the 4th day of March 1790, her name before marriage was Amy Warner and her place of residence Stillwater in Saratoga County (then Albany) and State of New York. She was not married to him previous to his leaving the Service of the United States but the marriage took place previous to the first day of January 1794 to wit at the time above mentioned.
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As will more fully appear by the evidence which may hereafter be procured and presented with this her declaration. And she states that she knows of no documentary evidence by which the date of their marriage aforesaid can be proved.

The name of the Deponent Amy Hoyt X Her Mark
written by me, she being unable by bodily infirmity to write, and the Deponent was sworn to the truth of the above in open Court Sept 29 1846 John Willard V. Chancellor 4th Circuit
N.Y.

Subscribed + sworn in open court, in witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand + affixed the seal of the Court of Chancery of the State of New York, this 29th day of September 1846
G.M. Davidson
Clerk

Amy Hoyt declaration
29 Sept 1846
before the Court of Chancery
Sworn
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State of New York
County of Saratoga
SS.
Be it known
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And I hereby further certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the above named Mary Robertson is unable to write her name, because she is partially blind & her hands decriped, and further I certify that from many years acquaintance with her, residing within about one mile, I verily believe her to be a person of strict integrity, and is a credible witness.
Aaron Nash
Commissioner of Deeds
11 B an erasure on the 3 line above
Aaron Nash Commissioner of 

[one full paragraph of crossed out text]

State of New York 
County of Saratoga
SS:
I Horace Goodrich Clerk of the County Courts of the County of Saratoga hereby certify that Aaron Nash is a Commissioner of Deeds in and for said County duly qualified and Commissioned that his Commission is dated the 11th day of November 1839. and will expire on the 11th day of November 1843. And further that I am well acquainted with his hand writing. and believe the several signatures "Aaron Nash" subscribed to the written affidavit and certificates to be genuine,
Witness my hand and seal of office the
2d day of May 1843
Horace Goodrich
Clerk
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Rev
WIDOW, &c

File No. 21,410
Amy Hoyt
widow of
Silas Hoyt
Pri Rev War
Act: Feb 2d 48
Index:-Vol. A, Page 380

[Arrangement of 1870]
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13281
Amy Hoyt
New York
Set to Hon. H. White
March 6th '47
Set to same March 18 '48
Act of July '38
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no 35.513
Silas Hoyt
New York
Suspendid
Aaron Nash June 17 1843
A Meeker July 27 1843
Geo G Scott July 24/44
to same 7 August 1844
Act 7th June '32
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Sept 8, 481
Amy Hoyt
Widow of Silas Hoyt
deed
S Booth
J Res NY
[illegible] Business
FREE
Jos. L. Edwards Esqr
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City
D.C.
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492
New York Albany
Amy Hoyt
widow of Silas Hoyt
who was a private
in the Revolution

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 70 Dollars - Cents per annum, to commence on 20 day of May 1846
Increased from 33.33

Certificate of Pension issued the 5 day of Feby 1849. and sent to L. Booth Ballston Spa N.Y.
[Act of June 17, 1844]
Recorded in Book A
Vol. 2 Page 77
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492 Albany
New York
Amy Hoyt
widow of Silas Hoyt
who was a Private
in the Revolution
Husband died 20 May, 1846

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 
33 Dollars 33
Cents per annum, to commence on
the 20 day of May, 1846

Certificate of Pension issued the 
1st day of June, 1848
and sent to
Hon. Hugh White
House of Reps

[Act of June 17, 1844]
Recorded in Book A
Vol. 2, Page 77

Reported
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Renfield NY. FEB 16
Mr Cole
Pen. Cert. returned

free

J.L. Edwards Esqr.
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington.
D.C.
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J.L. Edwards. Sir, The enclosed certificate came to me in connexion with Mrs. Matthews, certificate without any explanation, I know of no person in this section, of that name. I conclude it was a mistake in sending to me, hence I return it.
Renfield Feb 15th 1849 C.W. Owen

Pension Office, Official Business
J.L. Edwards Commissioner
By J G Bourt
Calvin W. Owen Esq.
Renfield
Monroe Co
New York
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Silas Hoyt Albany NY Act 7 June 1832 $70 per an
To what price was he last paid? GLA
Pension Office
May 30 1848

Died 20th May 1846
Paid to his death
WLB
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For the Commission of Pensions at Washington
Enclosed herewith you will view the declaration of Amy Hoyt for a Pension under the Act of Congress passed Feby 2. 1848. She has recd. the annual amount of Pension of Seventy dollars under the Act of June 17, 1844. Please examine her claim + make return to me at this P.O. as soon as convenient.
Ballston Spa
April 2, 1849
Respectfully,
L. Booth
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Ballston Spa Feb. 22nd 1847
J.L. Edwards Esq.
Enclosed herewith you will view the papers of Mrs Amy Hoyt, widow of Silas Hoyt, late a Revolutionary Pensioner of the U.S. and under the Act of June 17th 1844. Please examine the papers + make returns to me at this P.O. at your earliest convenience.
Very Respectfully
Your Obt. Svt.
L. Booth
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Pension Office
April 13, 1849
Sir,
In answer to the application of Mrs Amy Hoyt for renewal of pension under the Act of 2d Gebruary 1848, I have to inform you that her certificate under this act and for increase under the Act of 17 June 1844 were issued on the 5th February last and sent to your address.
I am, very respectfully
Your Obt. Servt.
J.L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions

Lebbens Booth, Esq.
Ballston Spa
NY
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Ballston Spa May 2, 1849
J.L. Edwards Esq.
Com. of Pensions

Dear Sir, Your communication of the 13th ult. in answer to my application for a renewal of pension for Mrs. Amy Hoyt under Act of 2nd Feb. 1848 was recd. at the time I was leaving home to be absent on business some two weeks. This will explain the delay in answering your communication. I have to say in relation to the facts set forth in that communication that, only one certificate of Pension was recd. by me, to wit the one under the Act  of June 17th 1844. The certificate under the Act of 2nd Feb. 1848 has not been recd. Although I find on enquiring at the Pension agency in Albany, that directions have been given to the agent to pay that amount of pension to Amy Hoyt ($70) annually. If the original certificate cannot be found in the pension office at Washington, please send me a duplicate in lieu of the original one which must be lost.
Very Respectfully Your
Obd. Servt.
L. Booth
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Ballston Spa Sep. 4th 1848
Jos. L. Edwards Esq.
Commissioner of Pensions

Sir, I herewith transmit an application from Amy Hoyt, widow of Silas Hoyt, died late a Revolutionary pensioner of the United States, for the same amount of pension which her husband recd., to wit 70 dollars per an. instead of 33.33 dollars. This application is made under the joint resolution of Congress, approved July 1, 1848.
Respectfully your
Obt. Servt.
L. Booth
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Act 44.575
No 13281
Amy Hoyt
wid of Silas
NY
Act 7 July 1838
[illegible], husband died
20 May 1846
Act 17 June 44
11 mo One
$33 33 per anm
from 20 May 1846

Hon Hugh White
House of Reps
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Washington 18 April 1848

Hon J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Dear Sir
Whether I have heretofore called your attention to the case of Silas Hoyt, I do not now remember; nevertheless it appears that the widow is unable to prove any additional [illegible] relating to
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Pension Office
May 1st 1848

Sir,
I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 18th ultimo, in reference to the case of Amy Hoyt, and n reply to state, that there are several applicants for pensions from the state of New York in that name. It will be necessary, therefore, in order to unable us to identify the claim to which your refer Mrs. Hoyt's Christian name, as well as the name of her husband, and also the Act, under which her application was made, should be communicated.
I have the honor to be,
Very respectfully,
Your Obt. Servt.
J. L. Edwards

Mrs Amy Hoit, widow of Silas Hoit

Hon. Hugh White,
House of Representatives
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Pension Office
March 6th, 1847

Sir,
I have the honor to inform you that the claim of Amy Hoyt has been examined and her papers filed.
In 1843 her husband, for the first time, asserted a claim in Col. Crane's Regiment of Westchester Militia, through the Agency of Aaron Nash, (who is also the draftsman of her declaration) with a knowledge that certain terms of service were credited to his name. After all the evidence which Nash procured and prepared, down to November, 1844, had been filed, and its sufficiency advocated by G.G. Schoot, Esq., the claim was allowed and the certificate transmitted to him. t is now discovered that Silas Hoyt, of Orange County, applied in the very year the Act was issued for service in the companies and Regiment in which service is credited to that name, without any knowledge of the existence of those rolls. He was allowed a pension for the service claimed, upon the testimony of Sands Raymond. Her husband never applied until he or his agent had obtained information of the particular terms of
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service credited to the name of Silas Hoyt, in the designated companies and Regiment, and for which Silas Hoyt of Orange County had successfully asserted a claim as soon as the law passed. He is, probably, a resident of Tompkins County, at this time.
You will readily perceive that the foregoing facts justice the inference that her husband was not entitled to all the service credited to that name, if, indeed, he was entitled to any.
I have the honor to be,
Very respectfully,
Your Obd. Servt.
J.L. Edwards

Hon H. White,
Cohoes,
New York
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Ballston Spa N.Y.
January 30th 1844

Sir,
Herewith you will receive the papers of Silas Hoyt claiming a Pension under the Act of June 7th 1832 (being his second application under said Act the first previously sent to this department, as will appear by the Inclosed Letter) all which please to examine + make returns to me at Ballston P. Office as usual.
I am Respectfully
Your mo. obt. servt.
Aaron Nash atty
for Silas Hoyt

J.L. Edwards Esquire
Com. of Pensions
Washington City
D.C.
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Pound Ridge 26th October 1785

Col Crane Sir please pay unto Enoch Hoyt all my wages that is due me from Capt. Samuel Lews and this shall be your receipt for said Hoyt has paid me for said wages to my full satisfaction as witness my hand.
Isaiah Hoyt

Silas Hoit
X
His Mark

Comptroller Office
Albany July 15th 1843
I hereby certify the above together with the script on the opposite side to be correct copys from an order + receipt now remaining on file in this office.
Philip Phelps
Dep Comptroler
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Received 31st October 1785 of Thads Crane a certificate for nineteen pounds five Shillings & nine pence for the service of the within named Silas Hoit in [illegible] Cranes Regiment for the year 1779 1780 & 1781.
Enoch Hoit

Comptroller July 15 1843
Certificate not identified
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52
13
65 - 59

65
20.90
59.50

July 22 1844

Col [illegible]

Jon. J. L. Edwards
Com of Pensions
Washington D.C.

Ballston [illegible] 10

Geo G. Scott
July 24/44
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Ballston Spa July 18 1844
Dr Sir,
Will you inform me what is the situation of the application of Silas Hoyt for a pension?
Yours Respt
Geo. G. Scott

Hon J.L. Edwards
Com of Pensions

Geo. G. Scott
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Hoyt

Aug 3d 1844
[illegible]

Frm
James L. Edward Esq.
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington
D.C.

Ballston NY
Aug 1

70
13
_
210
70 
35
_
945
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Ballston July 31, 1844
Sir,
In the matter of the application of Silas Hoyt for a pension I have received yours of the 24th inst. By examining your papers you will find that the [illegible] you speak of have been supplied. On the 30th of [illegible] last, the second declaration of Silas Hoyt made before Hon. Nicholas B. Doe a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of Saratoga County in the 29th of June 1843, and in which the reason for not appearing in open court is stated, and which if authenticated by the certificate and seal of the Clerke of the court, was forwarded to the department by putting the same in this Post Office. The certificate of the Comptroller of Connecticut was also forwarded in the same package.
Please direct to me at Ballston P.O.
Very Respt.
Geo. G. Scot
Att for Silas Hoyt

J.L. Edwards Esq.
Com. of Pensions
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Ballston Spa 22d July 1848
Dear Sir
The Declaration of "Silas Hoyt" a person claiming a pension under the Act of June 7 1832 was made before me as Supreme Court Commissioner he being unable to appear in open court. And I am informed that it has been returned as not having been made before a proper officer nor accompanied by the seal of a court of record and requiring the same to be made before "a Judge or Justice of a Court of record" our Supreme Court and our County Courts or Court of record and by the Revised statutes of this state "Supreme Courts Commissions" are severally authorized and required to perform all the duties and execture very oath power and trust which a Justice of the Supreme Court may perform and exectue out of court +c "And by the Laws of New York 1843 be the powers of the first Judge of the County Courts are conferred upon "the Supreme Court Commissioner residing at Ballston Spa"
I wish to know if my certificate accompanied by the seal of the Supreme Court or the County Courts would not entitle a declaration in a like case of Mr Hoyt to be used as evidence in your department.
Yours very respectfully
A. Meeker

Hon. J. L. Edwards
Comr. of Pensions
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Hon.
J.L. Edwards Esq.
Commr. of Pensions
Washington
D.C.

N.Y. Addressed
Silas Hoyt

[Illegible] 1844

Ballston N.Y.
SEP 4
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Ballston Spa Sept 2 1844

Dear Sir,
In the matter of the application of Silas Hoyt a Pensioner I enclose an affidavit (of Eli Weed), with a Clerk's Certificate attached, which accounts for the delay in making the application. If this is regarded by the department as satisfactory, it obviates, I believe, all difficulties. If it is not sufficiently satisfactory it can be made more so.
Yours Respt.
Geo. G. Scott

J.L. Edwards
Com of Pensions
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Saratoga County SS.

Eli Weed of Greenfield in said County being duly sworn deposeth and saith I was sixty years of age last November that for the last fifty years I have resided in Greenfield in said County that I have been well acquainted with Silas Hoyt for the past forty years that for the past eighteen years [illegible] Silas Hoyt has made it his home at my house in Greenfield aforesaid in 1832 he made it his home at my house I understood at that [illegible] he went to the Court to make an effort to obtain a pension but did not apply to the Court for the want of evidence in 1833 or 1834. I know he did call on Aaron Nash of Ballston Spa of said County some papers was made out preparatory to obtaining his pension that the proceedings was delayed to procure evidence that in 1834 in the said Silas Hoyt became entirely deranged that he continues deranged I think about six years that he resident of my house in Greenfield during said time + has to the present [illegible] in 1841 he had partially recovered when he again called on Aaron Nash [illegible] complete his [illegible] papers but at that time his memory was very imperfect + his intellects much impaired
Subscribed and sworn [illegible]
this 2d August 1844
In Saratoga Springs
F. Hoag
Justice of the Peace

Eli Weed
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State of New York
Saratoga County Clerk's Office
SS.

I, Horace Goodrich, Clerk of the County of Saratoga, Do Certify, that Franklin Hoag 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 duly qualified and that I am acquainted with his hand writing, and verily believe his name subscribed to the said affidavit + the accompanying certificate to be his proper hand writing and signature.
Witness my hand and seal of Office, the 27th day of August A.D. 1844
George Satterlee Deputy Clerk
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Saratoga County SS
I certify that I am acquainted with Eli Weed who made the written affidavit and know him to be a man of truth and veracity whose statement is entitled to full credit Saratoga Springs
August 26th 1844
Franklin Hoag
Justice of the Peace
of Saratoga Springs in said county
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In pursuance of a law passed the 27th of April, 1784, entitled "An act for the settlement of the pay of the Levies and Militia, for their services in the late War, and for other purposes therein mentioned," the following certificates have been issued, bearing interest at five per cent per annum, viz:

6th Augt 1779 Silas Hoyt private 2 13 9

State of New-York
Comptroller's Office, Albany, May 15th 1843

I hereby certify the above to be true extracts from Book No. 7. now remaining in this office, and that the service for which the certificates above named were issued, were performed under the following officers, viz:

First- under Capt. Saml. Lawrence in Col. Sam C. Drake Regt.
Second, " " " " N.C. Flagg.  [illegible"
Third, " " " " "
Fourth, " " " " "
Fifth," " " " "
Sixth," " " " "
Seventh," " " " "
Eighth," " " " "
Ninth," " " " "
Tenth," " " " "
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Ballston Spa May 16 1843

Sir
You will receive, inclosed herewith the Coptroller Certificate of Services rendered by Silas Hoyt the applicant for a pension under the Act of June 7, 1832 which please to annex to his papers transmitted on the 3d ins that he may have the benefit of the same all which please to examine and make returns to me at Ballston PO. as usual. early as convenient
I a Respectfully
Your Obt. Servant
Aaron Nash

J.L. Edwards Esquire
Com. of Pensions
Washington City
D.C.
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Ballston Spa May 3d 1843

Sir
Inclosed herewith you will receive the papers of Silas Hoyt for a Pension under the Act of June 7 1832. With all the proof in support of hiss claim to a Pension that he has been able to procure is herewith presented.
As to the services alleged to have been rendered in 1782 & 83 in Colonel Canfield's Regiment, Connecticut, line
In reply to my letter relative to the services in that Regt the Comptroller of Connecticut says that he has examined the records of that office and the name of Silas Hoyt is not found on the rolls of Col. Canfield, or in that office.
Please examine his papers and make returns to me at Ballston P.O. early as convenient.
I am Very Respectfully
Your Mo. Obt. Servant
Aaron Nash

J.L. Edwards Esquire
Com of Pensions
Washington City
D.C.
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State of New York
County of Saratoga SS

Be it known that before the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for the said county personally appeared. Mary Robertson of the Town of Prattston in the County and State aforesaid aged over seventy nine years, who being by me duly sworn according to law, says that during the period of the Revolutionary War, she resided in
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Saratoga County SS: I do hereby certify that Mary Robertson the within named deponent, is to me well known to be a credible witness, and I further certify that she is unable to write her name on account of the infirmities of old age.
James Ladow
Justice of the Peace

State of New York
County of Saratoga SS: I Horace Goodrich clerk of the county of Saratoga Do certify that James Ladow 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 well acquainted with his hand writing, and verily believe his name subscribed to the said affidavit and also to the certificates, to be his proper hand writing and signature.
Witness my hand and seal of office the 20th day of December A.D. 1843
Horace Goodrich
Clerk
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Ballston Spa Feb. 1848
In the case of Amy Hoyt, Widow of Silas Hoyt for a pension under the Acts of 1838 + 1844, presented in the winter of 1847 and in reply by the Commissioner of Pensions addressed to your Honor, under date of March 16th 1847- he says:
"That it is now discovered that Silas Hoyt, of Orange County, applied in the very year the Act was passed for services in the Companies and Regiment, in which service is accredited to that name without any knowledge of the existence of those rolls.
"He was allowed a Pension for the service claimed upon by the testimony of Sands Raymond.
Her husband never applied until he or his Agent obtained information of the particular terms of service, asserted to the name of Silas Hoyt, in the designated Companies and Regiment, and for which Silas Hoyt of Orange County, has successfully asserted a claim as soon as the Law passed. He is probably a resident of Tompkins county at this time.
"You will readily perceive that the foregoing facts justify the inference that her husband was not entitled to all the service accredited to that name, if he was indeed entitled to any.
"To the Hon. H. White, M.C. Cahoes
Signed "J L Edwards, Commissioner DC"

Now the claim of the said Silas, was made, in part, on account of service rendered in Col. Crane's Reg't and in companies commanded
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by Captains Samuel Lawrence, B. Champan, and Bouton in the year 1781.
And in the year 1779 one tour is stated to have been performed by him in Cap. Lawrence's company, in Col. Drake's Regiment.
The above named officers appear to be all under whom said Silas Hoyt claims under the officers of the state of New York.
He also claimed for services rendered in Col. Canfield's Regt of Connecticut troops, in Captains Granger + Curtis' company in 1782 + 1783. about 10 months, which was supported by the evidence of Alexander Weed, who served in said Regt and also by his sister, Mrs. Mary Robertson, both credible witnesses, in all of which a Pension Certificate was issued, at the rate of $70 per annum
There has been obtained from the N.Y. Comptroller's Office a Certificate showing that Silas Hoit, (not Hoyt) received of Col. Crane by order given by him for his wages due from Capt. Samuel Lewis, in the year 1779, 1780 + 1781. The said order was signed "Silas Hoit X his mark" which Certificate is here: with enclosed
The said Certificate (to wit: of Silas Hoit X his mark) was not presented to the Dep't because the mark (Silas Hoyt) did not claim for the services contained in said Certificate, and at the date of the order, to wit: October 1785, he was not at Poundridge, but was a resident of this county, + has been for the spring of 1783, when he left, and did not return to Poundridge. No other evidence of service to the name of Silas Hoit, or Silas Hoyt has been found on the Comptroller's Books.
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This department have now on file the original certificate of Silas Hoyt, and the above Certificate of Silas Hoit, s herewith forwarded, being all the evidence which has been found at the Comptroller's Office of the State of New York.

Washington 2 March 1848
Hon J.L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Dr Sir
Herewith I sent you some papers purporting to be further evidence in support of the claim of Silas Hoit, or [illegible] for pension; not being in possession of the original papers, or acquainted with the case, I must leave the whole matter in your hangs, and request as early attention as your accumulated business will allow.
I have the honor to be
Sincerely Yours
Hugh White
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State of New York
County of Monroe SS
Be t known that before me Addison Moors a justice of the peace in and for the county aforesaid personally appeared Alexander Weed of Rochester in the county and state aforesaid, who being first duly sworn according to law doth depose and say that he is aged seventy four years and eight months; that in the period of the Revolutionary War he resided in the County of Westchester in the state of New York and was well acquainted with Silas Hoyt who then resided in Pound Ridge in the county and state aforesaid and who now resided in the town of Greenfield in the county of Saratoga in said state of New York, where he has resided for many years and is applying for a pension on account of his Revolutionary Services. As this deponent is informed and verily believes, and deponent further states that the said Silas Hoyt served as a private in Colonel Samuel Canfield's Regiment in the years 1782 & 1783 the said regiment was of Connecticut, troops that be enlisted into said regiment in Captain Abner Grangers Company in the spring of 1782 and served in said regiment and company to the best of deponents knowledge + recollection for at least ten months at Fort Necessity and this deponent further saith that he served as soldier for Capt Abner Granger for six months of the time at said Fort Necessity and that during said period of six months said Silas Hoyt did serve as a private in said company and regiment at said Fort and that at the expiration of the said six months this deponent and also the said Silas Hoyt was discharged from the service and that for about four months previous to this deponents going to said Fort as duty he was frequently there (living only seven miles from the said Fort) and said the said Silas Hoyt there and doing duly in said regiment + Company at said Fort
Subscribed and sworn to
before me the 24th day Jany 1844
A. Moors J.P.

Alex Weed
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State of New York
County of Monroe SS I the subscriber a justice of the peace in and for the county aforesaid, do certify that Alexander Weed who subscribed to the foregoing is to me known to be a creditable witness
A Moors J.P.

Monroe County
Clerks Office SS I certify that Addison Moors Esq was a justice of the peace in + for the said county of Monroe at the date of the above affidavit and that I am well acquainted with his hand writing and verily believe that the above signatures purporting to be his are genuine
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the court of common pleas of said county this 24th day of Jany 1844. Charles J. Hill Clerk
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State of New York
County of Rensselaer SS
On this 27 day of March 1849 personally appeared before me James N Halsted Justice of the Peace in and for the county aforesaid duly authorized by law to administer oaths Amy Hoyt a resident of the town of Pittstown in the county and state aforesaid aged eighty four years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration n order to obtain the benefits of the, made by the act of Congress passed on the 2d day of February 1848 granting pensiosn to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War.
That she is the widow of Silas Hoyt who resided in the time of the Revolutionary War in Pound Ridge in the county of Westchester and State of New York and who was a private in the war of the Revolution and served as a private in the Militia Infantry Regiment Commanded by Col. Thaddeus Crane at different tours viz under Captain Samuel Lawrence Chapman and Bouton of said Regiment, he also served as a private aforesaid in Col Canfield's Regiment of Connecticut Troops at Fort Necessity.
And that she drew a pension under the act of June 17th 1844 at the rate of $70 per annum. And she further discloses she is still a widow.
Sworn & subscribed before me this
27 day of March 1849
James N Halsted Justice Peace
with Eunice Burlingham
Amy Hoyt
X
Her Mark

State of New York
County of Rensselaer SS
And I the aforesaid Justice do hereby certify that the aforesaid Amy Hoyt is to me well known to be the identical person described
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in and who made oath to the foregoing declaration and I further certify that it appears fully to my satisfaction the said Amy Hoyt is unable to write by reason of the infirmities incidental in extreme old age. She is nearly blind and her limbs palsied and that in the 9th line 1st page the word "Pension" allowed to provision before execution 
James N Halsted Justice Peace
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State of New York
Rensselaer County Clerk's Office SS.
I, Ambrose H. Sheldon, Clerk of said County, do hereby certify that James N. Halstead before whom the annexed Declaration was made, and whose name is thereto subscribed was at the day of the date thereof, a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, duly commissioned and sworn, and that his signature thereto subscribed is genuine.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of said County, this 28th day of March 1849
A H Sheldon Clerk
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State of New York
County of Rensselaer SS.
On the 15th day of August 1848 before the subscribed a Justice of the Peace in and for the county and state aforesaid, duly authorised by the laws of the state to administer oaths, personally appeared Amy Hoyt, a resident of Schaghticoke, in the county of Rensselaer in the state of New York aforesaid, aged eighty three years; who being first duly sworn according to law, deposes and says that she is the Widow of Silas Hoyt, late of Greenfield, in the county of Saratoga and state of New York, deceased, who died on the 20th day of May, 1848, and was a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States at the time of his death under the Act of Congress passed 7th June, 1832, at the rate of Seventy Dollars per annum;
And she further states that an application by her for a Pension under the Act of 1838, a pension Certificate was issued in her favor under the Act of June 17, 1844, signed by Archibald Campbell, Sr. acting Secretary of War; bearing date 1st June, 1848; which entitled her to receive a Pension at the rate of thirty three Dollars and thirty three cents per annum: From the 20th day of May, 1846 to the 4th day of March, 1848, instead of annual amount of Pension drawn by her said husband, the late Silas Hoyt, during his lifetime.
She therefore Humbly claims the same annual amount of Pension allowed her said husband the late Silas Hoyt in his life time, to wit: She claims seventy Dollars per annum, instead of thirty three dollars and thirty three cents, allowed her by the aforesaid Certificate, which was surrendered to the Albany Pension Agency on application for her Pension money. She makes this claim under the Joint Resolution of the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America Approved July 1st, 1848
Subscribed and sworn, this
15th day of August, 1848
Amy Hoit
Her mark ^
Witness Eunice Burlingham Henry Burch, Justice
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492.44
W Res
Ad ct 17 June 1844
at $70 per annum
com'g 20 May 1846
ded'g former payts
at $33.33 per am.

Ad act '48 at $70 per
annum.
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Rensselaer County SS: I, the within named Justice of the Peace, do hereby Certify, that the within named declarant, Amy Hoyt, is to me well known to be the identical person described in the foregoing declaration.
And I further believe she is unable to write, by reason of bodily infirmities, incidental in extreme old age, she is almost totally blind.
Henry Burch Justice +c.

State of New York
Rensselaer County Clerk's Office, SS.
I, AMBROSE H. SHELDON, Clerk of said County, do hereby certify, that Henry Burch before whom the annexed affidavit and whose name is thereunto subscribed, was at the day of the date thereof a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, and duly authorized by law to take the same; and that I am well acquainted with the hand-writing of the said Justice and verily believe that his signature to the said affidavit is genuine.
In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said County, this 19th day of August 1848
A.H. Sheldon Clerk
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35573
In the Matter of
Silas Hoyt for a
Pension under the Act of June 7 1832
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State of New York
County of Saratoga SS.
On this 2[obscured] Day of June 1843, personally appeared before Nicholas B. Doe one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of said county Silas Hoyt of the Town of Greenfield in the County of Saratoga and State of New York aforesaid Aged eighty one years; who being duly sworn according to Law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the pension made by the Act of Congress passed June 7, 1832, that he entered into the War of the Revolution under the Officers herein after named. 
That he was born in the town of Poundridge in the County of Westchester in the State of New York in the year 1762; that at the commencement of the said War, he resided with his father Gideon Hoyt at Poundridge aforesaid, where he resided until Feby or March 1783, when he with his Father's Family moved to the Town of Greenfield in Saratoga County (then Albany), New York, where he has continued to reside ever since and where he now resides.
That about the year 1778, when he resided in the said Town of Poundridge, and belonged to the company of Militia Commanded by Captain Daniel Bouton in Colonel Thaddeus Crane's Regiment of Militia Infantry and being situated on the lines of the enemy, he with his Company was frequently called into the service of the United States to guard the lines against the enemy who made frequent incursions from New York Island in order to plunder the inhabitants, and others, horses, cattle cattle and other property, the plunderers were called Cow boys, they would return to New York with the plundered property; such excursions were made in the night season, that he performed duties as a private in guarding the lines to Bedford, _ and other Towns on and near the lines from the line aforesaid (until the Spring of 1782 when he was listed for one year in Colonel Canfield's Regiment of Connecticut troops at Fort Necessity and served in same Regiment as herein after stated) he performed duties as a private aforesaid when so ordered by his officers, and on such terms he served in Patrolling the lines under several different officer of Colonel Crane's Regiment, Viz: Capt. Samuel Lawrence; Capt. B. Chapman, and Captain D. Bouton, besides the officers named above he served in Colonal Thomas Regiment in Capt R. Sacket's Company and in others, but cannot recollect.
He further states that by reason of the infirmities of old age and the excessive labor of climbing up lands in a New Wilderness Country, he has for many years last past labored under much pain of Body on account of a Rheumatic complaint in consequence of which his bodily strength and mental faculties have been & now are much impaired.
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Page 2d
He is thereby, (from loss of memory) unable to state with precision the circumstances of his Revolutionary Services, he therefore relies on the proof transmitted to the War Department, in May 1843, and now, on file in said Office with such other evidence as he may be able hereafter to present to support his claim for a Pension.
And Further he states that in March or April 1782 a Regiment of American troops was raised for one year in the State of Connecticut in the Town of Stanford (or Stamford) in the County of Fairfield to keep guard of Fort Necessity encited by General Waterbury, that in March or April 1782 he went to Fort Necessity and enlisted under Captain Granger, Captain Curtis commanded part of the line in the Garrison aforesaid kept at said Fort which was made of logs and an embankment of Earth thereon up for Embankment on the out side said to have been made two or three years previous; here I enlisted and joined the company (I think) under Captain Granger, Lieutenant Wilson and Ensign Tibbott the privates were encamped in Log Huts or cabbins erected for the purpose within the fall, a map of about the men in each Cabbin or Hut; in my Hut were Jonathan Weed, Gideon Seafield, James Seafield, Beacher and Joshua Ferris, I don't recollect the name or names of any others and they are all dead, as I have heard and verily believe.
There were no other troops in the Garrison, besides our Regiment consisting of about 500 men, here I performed my regular tours of duty on guard and went out of the Fort to cut wood and back it to the Fort for the use of the Regiment and continued performing duty on scout after the refugees who were in the habit of coming out for plundering goods, cattle horses &c we generally went out under a Sergeant in the night the line they choose for plundering, and we frequently capture small parties of the Enemy consisting of British and refugees, who attacked General Putnam at Horse Neck, having under him about 200 men, that the number of the Enemy was supposed to be from 710 to 800 men, and a part of Colonel Canfields turned out of the Fort to assist General Putman, this deponent was one of the party so turned out, the British party was then in possession of horses & cattle plundered from the inhabitants.
But at the commencement of the skirmish the enemy drove General Putnam down a Rocky Steep with his horse which was afterwards called Putnams
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Stairs, but General Putnam soon gained an advantage and retook the plunder and some prisoners. the enemy retreated and our men returned to Fort Necessity where deponent continued and performed duties as aforesaid, except when he went home to visit his friends, (his Fathers residence in Poundridge being about ten miles from the Fort Necessity) by permission of his officers, he recollects at one time in particular, he thinks in December or January in 1782 or 1783, he obtained a furlow to go home on account of a swelling on his back and returned to his Regiment when able to perform duty as before and continued in the service as aforesaid, performing duties as aforesaid until February or March 1783, when he with his Regiment was discharged at Fort Necessity, and he received a written discharge, which to the best of his recollection was signed by Colonel Canfield and delivered to him by Captain Granger or Captain Curtis, is not positive which. Said discharge continued in his possession, until destroyed by fire, among his other papers, in his dwelling house when consumed by fire at the Town of Greenfield aforesaid, in the year 1784 or 1785.
He further states that he knows of no person or persons now living who served with him nor any other persons by whom he can prove any part of his Revolutionary services, except by the certificates of the Comptroller of the State of New York and the depositions annexed to his declaration made before. Abel Meeker Esquire Commissioner of the Supreme Court, on the 11th day of April 1843, and transmitted to the Commissioner of Pensions on the 3d day of May 1843, (as he is informed and verily belieeves) and now on file in the War Department.
The following are the dates and amount of the Certificates of the Comptroller of this state refered to above.
To wit: for services in Colonel Cranes Regiment
1. "1781" June 24th Captain Samuel Lawrence's Company $0.16
2. 1781 Nov. 13 Captain Chapman's Co 6.72
3. Capt Daniel Bouton 16.79
23.10 11
4. An additional Certificate transmitted 16 May 1848 to the Commissioner of Pensions, dated "6" August 1779, this last, under Capt Samuel Lawrence
2.19.9
$26.10 8
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He further states that Alexander Weed now of the Town of Geneseo in the County of Livingston in the State of New York, who he now recollects (but did not recollect when his papers were first made) served in the said Regiment of Colonel Colonel Canfield at Fort Necessity a part of the time deponent served there in 1782 & in 1783 and served as water to Captain Solomon Granger and served as waiter aforesaid for several months and was known to deponent.
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a Pension or annuity (whatever) except the present, and declares his name is not on the Pension List roll of any state
Subscribed and sworn to on the
day and year first above written
before me
N.B. Doe
Judge of Saratoga Common
Pleas Couty

Silas Hoyt

The words "or April" interlaid between 5th 26th lines from top on 2d paige- and the words "or March" interlaid between 10 + 11 lines on 3d paige from top were so interlaid before the Declaration was signed or sworn to.
June 29 1849
J.M. Doe
Judge of Sara Com. Pleas
I do hereby certify that the above named Silas Hoyt from old age + other infirmities is unable to attend the sitting of the court in this County.
J.M. Doe
Judge of Sara. Com. 
Pleas Court.
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Put.
State of New York
County of Saratoga SS.
I Horace Goodrich Clerk of said County, do hereby certify that Nicholas B. Doe, whose signature is set to the foregoing proceedings was on the day of the date thereof a Judge of the County Courts of the County of Saratoga aforesaid, and dwelling therein duly elected and sworn. And further I am well acquainted with his hand writing and verily believe his several signatures "N.B. Doe" subscribed thereto to be genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my official seal at Ballston Spa this 14th day of July A.D. 1843.
Horace Goodrich Clerk
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State of Connecticut
Comptroller's Office
Hartford 28th June 1840
(2)
This may certify that application having been made to this office in behalf of Silas Hoyt, who, it is claimed was a soldier in Capt Solomon Grangers company in Col Samuel Canfield''s Regt, n the years 1782 and 1783, I have made examination of the files and reveals of this office but find no Pay Rolls of any consistency in Canfields Regt.
On the books of the Pay Table Committee there is an extended account with Col Samuel Canfield's Commencing Febry 11 1782, which is balance Decr 31 1783- he having been paid and accounted for ovr $3577. Among the items an an overcharge of $12.17.6 in his acct. for [illegible] + staff for his Regt- this is charged to "War D to [illegible] of Col Samuel Canfield's own residence for supply expenditures for his Regt of the State Troops $452.18.9" In Harkell Receipt under the prod of "[Illegible] of the Port at Greenwich, there is charged to United States "May 4" 1783 Col Samuel Canfield Port of Greenwich $31.10.6"- "July 2" 1783 Colo Samuel Canfield Port at Greenwich $1319.12.5 "November 15" 1783 Col Saml Canfield Port at Greenwich $84.14.8" Then several sums [illegible by Harkell are supposed to be included in the first named account on the Books of the Pay Table Constn.
Harkell also receipts "for sunday expenditures
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of Troops at Fort [illegible]" 1782 January 29 Col Saml Canfield amot. paid in [illegible] $414.11.6" This sum is entered on the Pay Table Journals as follows viz "United States [illegible] to order on [illegible] of Col Saml Canfield, Pay Roll Field + Staff Offices $414.11.6"
I do not find the name of Solomon Granger on the Books of the Pay Table Comt. But I find a record in the Council of Safety, of which the following is an extract- "Resolved that the recommendation of Capt Peter Curtis of Farmington to be a Captain in the Regiment under Col Canfield in the room of Capt Granger resigned [certain other changes are also interscribed] is appeared and accepted, and his Excellency the Governor is decreed to commissionate them accordingly, and their commission an to for date from this day." This resolution was passed on the 5th of March 1782.
There are various orders and resolutions concerning Col Samuel Canfield's Regiment, in the proceedings of the Council of Safety, commencing in March 1782, + in May, June + December of that year and and in March 1783. On the 24 of March 1783 Lt. Col Canfields is continued in command for two months after his present terms shall have expired, to the command of [illegible] on the fronteirs in place of those same under his command.
The name of Silas Hoyt I have not written no book or file that I have examines.
Gideon Welles Comptroller
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State of New York
County of Saratoga SS.
Be it known that before me Aaron Nash a Commissioner of Deeds in and for said County personally appeared Betsey Weed wife of Eli Weed of the Town of Greenfield in the County of Saratoga and State of New York aged forty nine years who being duly sworn according to Law doth depose and say that she is a daughter of Silas Hoyt of Greenfield county and state aforesaid, the applicant for a pension under the Act of Congress passed June 7 1832 that from her earliest recollection she has been informed by her Father that he was a soldier in the Revolution and has often hears him relate the circumstances of his Revolutionary services, particularly his enlistment at Fort Necessity in Colonel Canfield's Regiment of Connecticut troops and some of the circumstances of his said services (which she has often heard him relate, and are as follows to wit: that a part of time he was employed in chopping and backing wood to the Fort for the use of the Regiment, at said Fort, and another circumstance she has often heard him relate to wit, that the enemy came out from New York and made an attack on Colonel Putnam at horse neck- and a part of Colonel Canfield's Regiment went out of the Fort to assist Colonel Putnam against the Enemy, that he was one of the number so turned out that the enemy drove Colonel Putnam down a Rocky steps with his horse (the place where he went down was afterwards called Putnams Stairs but, soon, Colonel Putnam drove the enemy, and retook the spoils which they had taken from the Inhabitants, and she further recollects hearing him relate that when he was at Fort Necessity as aforesaid, he obtained permission and returned home on account of a swelling on his back and returned to the Fort when he was sufficiently recovered.
Sworn and subscribed, before me
the 29th day of June 1843
No. 31 Aaron Nash
Commission of Deeds

Betsey Weed

And I do hereby certify that the above named Betsey Weed is a credible Witness
Aaron Nash Commissioner of Deeds
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State of New York
County of Saratoga SS.
I Horace Goodrich Clerk of the County Courts of the County of Saratoga aforesaid hereby certify that Aaron Nash is a Commissioner of Deeds within and for said county duly commissioned and qualified that his commission bears date November 11th 1839 and will expire on the 11th day of Novemb 1843 and that his signatures "Aaron Nash" within written are genuine.
Witness my hand and seal of Office
the 14th day of July A.D. 1843
Horace Goodrich Clerk

State of New York
County of Saratoga SS.
I the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid do hereby Certify that Betsey Weed who subscribed and swore to the written affidavit, is to me known to be a credible witness.
29 Nov. 1843
A.T. Davis Justice Peace

State of New York
County of Saratoga SS.
I Horace Goodrich Clerk of the county of Saratoga aforesaid Do hereby Certify that Abraham T. Davis whose name is subscribed to the foregoing certificate of credibility was on the date thereof and now is a Justice of the Peace in and for the county + state aforesaid and hs signature "A.T. Davis" written above is genuine.
Witness my hand and seal of office
the 29th day of November 1843
Horace Goodrich Clerk

Betsey Weed
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State of New York
County of Saratoga SS.

Be it known that before me, Aaron Nash a Commissioner of Deeds in and for the county aforesaid personally appeared Ebenezer Robertson, a resident of the Town of Ballston in the county and state aforesaid, aged eighty - years, who being duly sworn according to law doth depose and say that during the period of the Revolutionary War he resided in the Town of Bedford in the County of Westchester in the State of New York and was the ap acquainted with Silas Hoyt (to wit in the time of said war) resided in the Town of Poundridge, being two or three miles distance from deponent's residence, that the said Silas Hoyt, then belonged to Captain Bouton's Company in Colonel Thaddeus Crane's Regiment of Militia of said county and was frequently called into the service or guard the lines and served under said officers & other officers of said Regiment.
And further deponent recollects that in the year 1782 he thinks in the spring season the said Silas Hoyt went to Stamford in the County of Fairfield in the state of Connecticut and enlisted into the Regiment of Colonel Canfield: stationed at Fort Necessity (being Connecticut troops) as a private for one year and continued in said service until February 1783.
When he with the Regiment was discharged from the service, that some times he returned home to visit his friends by permission and retuned again to the Fort, and deponent has been well acquainted with said Silas ever since the said War, both residing in the County of Saratoga Fifty seven years or more; and immediately on his return from said war, deponent has heard him state to him and others the circumstances of his services in Colonel Canfield's Regiment (he is a brother in law to deponent) his statements made at different periods and to different persons have been uniform in substance, some of which are as follows, to wit: that a part of the time he was employed in chopping and backing wood to the Fort for the use of the Regiment; and another circumstance he has often related, to wit: that the enemy came out from New York for plunder, and attacked Colonel Putnam at Horse Neck and a part of Colonel Canfields Regiment went out of the Fort to assist Colonel Putnam against the enemy, and that the said Silas was one of those so turned out, that the enemy drove Colonel Putnam down a Rocky Steep with his horse but soon afterwards, Colonel Putnam drove the enemy, and retook the spoils they had taken on their route and further the said Silas Hoyt is an applicant for a Pension & he is informed and verily believes, and that the account of his Revolutionary Services especially at Fort Necessity
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as within stated, is familiar to all his Family and Neighbors and by tradition believed.
Ebenezar Robertson
Subscribed and sworn this
18th day of June 1843 before me
Aaron Nash
Commissioner of Deeds

Saratoga County SS. I do hereby certify that the word ("Company") between the 10th and 11th lines and the name "Silas" between the 21st and 22nd lines were interlined before execution.
Aaron Nash
Commissioner of Deeds

Saratoga SS. I certify that the character of the above named Ebenezer Robertson is fair for truth and veracity, and is unimpeachable
Aaron Nash Commissioner of deeds

State of New York
County of Saratoga SS. 
I Horace Goodrich Clerk of the County Courts of the County of Saratoga aforesaid hereby certify that Aaron Nash is a Commissioner of Deeds within and for said County duly commissioned and qualified, that his commission bears date November 11th 1837 and will expire on the 11th day of November 1843 and that his several signatures "Aaron Nash" above written are genuine,
Witness my hand and seal of Office
the 14th day of July A.D. 1843
Horace Goodrich
Clerk

State of New York
Saratoga County SS.
I the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for said County Do hereby certify that Ebenezar Robertson who subscribed and swore to the foregoing affidavit is to me well known to be a credible witness.
Nov 29th 1843 A.T. Davis Justice of Peace