Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 4,087, Hezekiah Goff, Conn. Conn. Sea Service Mass. War Of 1812

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State of Vermont
Franklin County Ss} On this 31 day of March 1818 before me the subscriber one of the Judges of the County Court for Franklin County personally appeared Hezekiah Goff aged sixty three years, resident in Rushford in said County of Franklin, who being by me first duly sworn according to Law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provisions made by the late act of Congress entitled "an Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War".

That he the said Hezekiah Goff enlisted at Middletown in the state of Connecticut in the spring of the year 1776 in a company commanded by Cap Meigs for eight months for the term of eight months. That he entered in the service of said corps during the period of said eight months and was discharged at Roxbury.

He further saith that in the year 1778 he believes it to be the year 1778 but cannot be positive of the year - he at Boston enlisted on board of the Oliver Cromwell a twenty gun ship in a marine commanded by Captain Parker. That he was on a cruise over nine months but cannot recollect the exact period of time at Charleston South Caroline was discharged in the month of July but does not recollect the year.

The said Hezekiah Goff further saith that at Sunderland in the state of Massachusetts in the year 1781 he enlisted for three years in a company commanded by Capt Stoves in Col Jacksons

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PENNSYLVANIA NATIONAL GUARD
COMPANY A 111TH INFANTRY
Pottstown, Pa.

[stamped]
U. S. PENSION OFFICE
MAR 13 1925

March 11, 1925
From:  W. F. Maloney 348 South St. Pottstown PA
To: Commissioner of Pensions
Subject: Revolutionary Record

Dear Sir:
I recently wrote the adjutant general regard the service records of ancestor who was in the Revolutionary War. The adjutant general suggests that I might obtain the desired information from your office. Through an historical reference in Vermont I find that Hezekiah Goff of Richford, Franklin Co., Vermont, was on the U. S. Pension Rolls for service in the Revolution. It is said that he drew for four or five years. He and his two sons were also in the War of 1812. If this Hezekiah Goff served in the Revolution can you give me information as to what state he is credited - Conn, Mass or Vermont? Can you give me record of service under all?
There is also a William Goff who lived in Richford, Vermont, about 1824. He was said to have a Revolutionary record - also 1812 record. from what state he enlisted I do not know, but it was from Mass, Conn or Vermont - probably one of the two former He possibly was Wm Goff of Middletown, Conn, who served

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
BUREAU OF PENSIONS
RECORD DIVISION

Briefed by
Orig.
Cert.
Claimant Rebecca Goff - resident Richmond, VT.
Soldier Hezekiah Goff
Service Conn? 1812
any 1850 B. L. for widow?
No......claim, Service record.....,191
........clerk.
no claim, alph'b record............, 191
..........., Clerk
REMARKS: no. 1812 B. L.
Aug 6, 1919

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page 2 of deposition of Laura Goff 

a short time i moved from Middletown + state of Connecticut in the spring of the year of 1798 the same spring after the marriage of said Hezekiah Goff + Rebecca Woodward They was married in February 1798 and the next spring of 1798 I moved to this place as aforesaid from this date I recollect said marriage
[signature] Laura Goff
Subscribed and Sworn to before me this 20th day of September A.D. 1850 And I certify that I am acquainted with Laura Goff the foregoing Deponent She is an aged lady of sound mind and memory + a credible witness
[signature] Silas P Carpenter Justice of the Peace

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[handwritten]
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Franklin
I Rodolphus Dickinson, clerk of the Judicial Courts within and for the said County of Franklin, do hereby certify, that Samuel Church, whose name is subscribed to the foregoing certificate, is a Justice of the Peace within and for the said County, duly appointed and qualified according the constitution and laws of the said commonwealth, and that full faith and credit is and ought to be given to all his acts and attestations as such. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the Western Circuit court of Common Pleas, within and for the said County, this twelfth day of October, in the year of our land one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and in the forty third year of the Independence of the United States 
[signature] Rodolphus Dickinson