Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 32,842, Ivory Hovey, Conn. Mass.
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SERVICE                                                                     NUMBER
Conm.                     Hovey, Ivory                               S. 32,842
Mass. 

CONTENTS
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560 
Massachusetts Roll 
Ivory Hovey 
Capt Robinson Sergeant
Connecticut before 1776 1 yr.
in the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts 
at the rate of Eight Dollars per month, to commence on the 15th of April 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 16th of May 1818
and sent to Hon. Samuel Putnam, Salem, Mass
Arrearages to 4th Septr 1818
4 months 20/30
$37.33
{Revolutionary claims,}
{Act 18th March, 1818}

[Written sideways:]
Notification on Acct Oct 18, 1820 to Ichabod Tucker, Salem, Mass
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Ivory Hovey Serg.
15th Apr.

not on Rolls, but I think
it ought to be adm.
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I Ivory Hovey aged thirty seven years
declare and say that I am a Resident Citizen of the United States and that I reside in Boxford in the County of Essex Commonwealth of Massachusetts. I also say that I entered the Servis in the Revolutionary War and served in Capt William Pearly Company in Col. James Leys Regiment in the Massachusetts line from the nineteenth of April to the last day of December in the year 1775. and I further say that I enlisted in January 1776 as a Sargent in Twentieth Regement as will appear by my Warrant in Capt John Robensons Company in Col. John Derkee Regement in the Connecticut line and served in said Regement till the second day of February 177 as will appear by my discharge and I further say by reason of my advanced age in life I have need of assistants from my [illegible] Country for Support and I relinquish all claim to any Pension to which I am or might be entitled in virtue of any Law of the U. States.
Ivory Hovey

I Isaac Perkins of Salem in the County of Essex do on oath declare that I served in the year on thousand seven hund. seventy six & until 2. Feb. 1777 in the same Company with Ivory Hovey above named & know that he served as a good soldier during that time -- Apr. 13 1818
Isaac Perkins

13 Apr. 1818
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
ESSEX, ff.
On this The eleventh day of April,
in the year of our Lord one thoufand [thousand] eight hundred and eighteen, perfonally [personally] appeared before me Samuel Putham one of the the Justices of the Supreme Judicial Court of laid Comm once earth
the aforenamed Ivory Hovey & Isaac Perkins and in my preferce [preference] feverally [severally] fubfcribed [subscribe] and made folemn [solemn] oath to the aforewritten [afore written] Declaration and Affidavit, by them refpectively [respectively] made as aforefaid [aforesaid]:- And it appearing to my fatisfaction [satisfaction], that the aforenamed
ferved [served] more than Nine Months, to wit, from the
day of January A.D. 1776 to the second day of July A.D. 1777 at one period of the Revolutionary War, on the Continental Eftablifhment [Establishment], againft [against] the common enemy, I do hereby cer-tify [certify] the teftimony [testimony] in the cafe [case], and the proceedings had thereon, to the Secretary of the Department of War.
Given ender my hand, and the seal of the Court a-forefaid [aforesaid], at Salem, this Thirteenth day of April, in the year of our Lord one thoufand [thousand] eight hundred and eighteen.
S. Putham Just
S. J. Court of Massts [Massachusetts]
}
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Exxex I Ichabod Tucker Clerk of the Supreme Judicial Court of said Commonwealth for said County of Essex certify that Hon. Samuel Putnam is a Judge of said Court that the signature within is his handwriting and the seal affixed is the seal of said Court.
Ichabod Tucker, Clerk
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Ivory Hovey 560
May 1818
Boxford Court 25 Sep 1820
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 
ESSEX, ss. 
At the Circuit Court of Common Pleas of the Middle Circuit, begun and holden at Salem, within and for the Country of Essex, on the third Monday of June, A.D. 1820. 
Prefent, Hon. SAMUEL DANA, Chief Justice. 
               Hon. WILLIAM WETMORE, and 
               Hon. STEPHEN MINOT, Associate Justices. 
In open Court herem being a Court of Record for faid Circuit, proceeding according to the court of the common law, with a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount, keeping a record of its proceedings, and having the power of fine and imprisonment, Ivory Hovey 
resident in Boxford in said Circuit, who is named in Pension Certificate No. 560 now in his possession, of which the following is a true copy, to wit,  
"WAR DEPARTMENT.........REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM. 
"I certify that, in conformity with the Law of the United States, of the 18th March, 1818, 
Ivory Hovey late a sergeant
"in the Army of the Revolution, is inscribed on the Pension List, Roll of Massachusetts Agency, at the rate 
"of eight, dollars per month, to commence on the fifteenth
"day of April one thousand eight hundred and eighteen 
L.S.
"Given at the War of Office of the United States, this 16th day 
"of May one thousand eight hundred and eighteen 
J.C. CALHOUN, Secretary of war," 
appears, and exhibits to the Court here a Schedule, subscribed by him, to wit, 
SCHEDULE, 
containing his whole estate and income, his necessary clothing and bedding excepted, to wit, (no real estate) 
a horse 25 years old 5.00 two calves 1 year old 12.00 - $17.00 
though 5.00 oxwagon which he has owned 14 years 10.00 - 15.00 
two oxes, iron bar, draft claim 3.75 iron harrow teeth 1.50 - 5.25 
hose, rakes, chovel 50c 3 pewter dishes 50c 11 pewter plates 60c - 1.60
8 knives and forks 40c 18 earthen plates 80c 6 iron spoons 8c --- 1.28
16 old chairs 1.00 2 maple and 1 pine tables 1.75 desk 3.00 --- 5.75
drawers 3.00 chest 1.00 3 kettles and pot 3.55, tea kettle 40c --- 7.95
tea cups and spoons 1.30 Cooking glass 3.00 glass bottles, shovel and tongs 1.90 6.20 
Hogshead 2 barrels 1.00 hay forks 40c - - - - - 1.40 
Bible, Dictionary, g, g a, Constitutions - 7.65
old pamphlets 20c wash tub and pails 40c - - - - - .60
$69.68
He is seventy years old, a laborer, is infirm with rheumatism
his wife is all his family and is 67 years old --
He served as a years man all 1776 in Capt. Robinson's Company in Col: Durkee's Regiment in Connecticut line --
Ivory Hovey
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and at the same time he produces to the Court here the following Oath, taken and fubfcribed [subscribed] by him, before the Hon. Wm Wetmore
a Judge of said Court as aforefaid [aforesaid], to wit, 
I, Ivory Hovey do solemnly swear, that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the eighteenth day of March one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and that I have not, since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner whatever, disposed of my property, or any part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress, entitled "an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war," passed on the eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and that I have not, nor has any person in trust of me, any property, or securities, contracts, or debts, due to me: nor have I any income, other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed. So help me GOD. Ivory Hovery
Essex, ss. C. C. C. P. June, Term, A. D. 1820. 
Then the abovenamed Ivory Hovey 
took and subscribed the aforewritten Oath before me 
Wm Wetmore Judge of said Court. 
I, ICHABOD TUCKER, Clerk of the Court aforefaid, do hereby certify that the foregoing Oath, and Schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from from the record of the said Court; and I do further curtify, that it is the opinion of the said Court, that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid Schedule is 
sixty nine dollars sixty eight cents 
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the feal [seal] of the said Court, at Salem, in said Country of Essex, on this 17th day of July A.D. 
Attr. Ichabod Tucker
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O. W. & N. Division. 
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, 
P. S. 
M. E. C.  Bureau of Pensions, 
Washington, D. C., February 25, 1896. 
Miss. 
In reply to your request for a statement of the military history 
of --- Ivory Hovey --- a soldier of the REVOLUTION WAR, 
you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his 
widow's) application for pension file in this Bureau. 
DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE. 
CAPTAIN. COLONEL. 
He stated in his declaration that he listed on April, 1775, and served as a private until the latter part of december of the same year in Capt. Wm. Pearley's company, Col. James Frye's Mass. regiment; January, 1776, enlisted as a sergeant in Capt. John Robinson's company, of the Conn. regiment commanded by Col. John Durkee, and served in that company and regiment until February 2, when he honorably discharged no other details of his services are given. 

Battles engaged in, | None mentioned.
Residence of soldier at enlistment, | Boxford, Mass.
Date of application for pension, | April 13, 1818.
Residence at date of application, | Boxford, Mass.
Age at date of application, | Sixty-eight years.

Remarks: His application was allowed.

Very respectfully,
[unsigned]
Commissioner.

Miss Harriet C. Hovey,
18 Fourth St.,
Lowell, Mass.

[form number, lower left] 1832b2m
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[page is dark in sections, somewhat illegible]

[right side]
Ivory Hovey
of Boxford
[illegible]

[left side, inverted, somewhat illegible]
[looks like Lt. C] 
of Boxford
[looks like Lt. C]
of Boxford
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Febry the 2nd 1777 --
There [illegible] Certifie. that Sergeant Hovey the Bearer, with the men with him from Col. Durkees Regt. have faithfully served out there [their] time and now have Liberty to return Home.

To -
whom it may Concern -
[signed] Jno Robinson Cap'n.
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32842-9

I would information in regard to Capt. [underlined] Ivory Hovey of [underlined]Boxford, Mass. 
 His name is on the pay and muster roll of those who marched to Lexington on the Alarm of April 19, 1775.  According to the statement in the Archives in the Boston State House; also in the history of the town of Boxford his name is
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in the list of "Minute Men".  I would like to know if he ever received a pension, as the fact if he did receive one, would facilitate my entering the Society of the D.A.R.  Will you kindly direct to
   Miss Harriet C. _Hovey
   18 Fourth St.
   Lowell, Mass

Lowell, Jan 24, 1896
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32 842

Revy INVALID
______________
File No.  32, 842
Ivory Hovey
Serg,  Rev War

Act:  [August - written over] March 18, 1818
Index:  Vol. 8, Page 194
([Arrangement of 1870.])

[right side]
February 25, 1896
Mil. histy to
Miss Harriet C Hovey
Lowell, Mass
________

Sept. 26 '99
  C.L. Chapin,
      Melrose, Mass.

[illegible]
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This appears to be the back side of a printed page.
32842
[at bottom of page]
Hovey, Ivory
Conn - Mass S32843
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John Durkee, Esq.       Colonel of the 20th Regiment of Foot, in the Continental Army of the United Colonies

To Ivory Hovey [small written number] 46
GREETING.

By Virtue of the Trust reposed in Me by the Honorable Continental congress, I Do hereby appoint You the said Hovey to be the first Serjeant in the [blank] Company commanded by John Robinson. Esq.; Captain in the said 20th Regiment: You are therefore carefully and faithfully to discharge the Duty of Serjeant, and to obey the lawful Commands of your superior Officers, according to the Rues and Discipline of War; and this shall be your sufficient Warrant.

Given under my Hand this fourth day of September, 1776.
[signed] John Durkee

[circular stamp] THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF THE UNITED STATES
[small, handwritten number] 46