Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 21,332, Joel Hinman, Conn.

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SERVICE Conn.   
Hinman, Joel 
Sarah    
NUMBER W. 21332
B.L.WT. 30771-160-55
CONTENTS

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Connecticut 1044
Sarah Hinman
widow of Joel Hinman
Conn
who died on the 9, March 1813
of N. Haven Co in the State of Connt
who was Sergt. & Ensign in the       commanded
by Captain       of the       commanded
by     in the Revolution
for 7 months Ensign             $70.00
      2  " & 12 days Sergt        $12.00
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                                              $82.00

Inscribed on the Roll of Connecticut at the rate of 82 Dollars per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 21st day of June 1837 and sent to Charles B. Phelps, Woodbury, Con.

Arrears to the 4th of March '37    492.00
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sept "  41.00
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                                                       $533.00
wid died Jan 25, 1856
agency Bk

{Revolutionary Claim, Act July 4, 1836, Section the 3}

Recorded by D. Brown
Book A   Vol. 1   Page 4



Letter to Pen Agt 23 Sept 1846

A. Ray 3d Dec. 1853

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182.564 Act Mar. 3/53
July 21st
Sarah wid Joel Hinman

Sarah Hinman
widow of Joel Hinman
Segt & Ensign

Capt. Noble Benedict
Capt. Rogers
Col. Gay
Hon. Royal R. Hinman
Draft Conn. Mil fall 1775
Ent. 1776

Dis. early in Re Wr. 1777
Revol. War

Received pension Act passed 1826
Conn July 36-1044

[unk]: 160 AG per 14/56
[unk]

Phebe Hinman
Southbury
Conn.

vol H= 2-9

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1552
Sarah Hinman
widow of Joel
Conn.



accept
Chas. B. Phelps
Woodbury 
Con

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Table of Joel Hinmans service with reference to  prob duration year

1st part Harford Conn end New York
1775 from [illegible] in Dec 1775 to Feb 1776
2 mo 12D See Eleazer Hoyts Depo p 2d
Isaac Hinmans Dep P7
1776 2nd from May as claimed  1776 to Feb 1777
See Timo Hinman Dep Page 5 & 7
Isaiah Johnson dep P9
10 mo Ensign Certificate see State P4
1777 3rd 6 mo+ at Danbury in the alarm april
See E Hoyt Depo. P3
 Isaac Hinman Dep. P7
Timo Hinman P8
Amos Skeels Dep. P10
Gracey Prindle Dep. P11
1779 4th - At New Haven 2 places adjacent
1 mo 
see Tim Hinmans Dep P9
.J G Graham Dep P12 see it 13
Marriage To WH Whittemore P14
Marriage & widowhood S Osborne . P15
__________
19 mos. 12

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State of Connecticut
Probate Court
District of Woodbury

On this first day of February 1837 personally before said Court Sarah Hinman, a resident of Southburg in the county of New Haven within said District, aged seventy five years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed July 4,1836.
That she is the widow of Joel Hinman formerly of said Southbury now deceased who was an Ensign in the Connecticut militia in the Revolutionary War the said Joel Hinman having served as follows
First As a Sergeant commencing at the close of the month of December 1775 at Stamford Connecticut where he remained four or five weeks in service and from thence marched to the city of New York and continued in service until the close of February 1776 or commencement of March.
2 mos 12 He was in service two months and 12 days as the declarant is informed and believes in this tour. This service was in Noble Benedict's company, Col Waterbury's Regiment

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P2 Secondly the said Joel Hinman was appointed an Ensign in the 3d company of the 2d battalion commanded by Fisher Gay under an act of the colony of Connecticut at the May session 1776. The months of May and June of that year he spent in enlisting soldiers for the Revolutionary army, and afterwards was employed in paying them off.
In the month of July 1776 he marched to Norwalk Connecticut with his company and was transported then to the city of New York by water and continued doing duty in said company as Ensign untill the middle of February 1777 when he returned to [unk]. 10 mo En

The declarant claims that the two months spent in enlisting soldiers in May and June ought to be allowed as a part of his service.

Thirdly The [illegible] Joel Hinman as an Ensign of said company and regiment at the burning of Danbury by the British at the close of April 1777 was called into service for the protection of that place and at that place on the 26 or 27 of April was wounded severly in the hip by a musket ball, he [unk] the wound with difficulty and was after about four weeks

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confinement at said Danbury removed to his own house in said Southbury and was unable by reason of said wound to leave the house for six months from the time he received said wound.
The said Joel Hinman was placed on the invalid pension list in the year 1808 and deceased March 1813.
The declarant thinks the said confinement and inability is equivalent to actual service and claims to have the same allowed as a part of his service. 6 mos

Fourthly The said Joel Hinman when the British invaded New Haven about the 9 July 1779 was called out in the general alarm and marched as a volunteer for the relief of that place and remained in service as an Ensign at New haven and other places adjacent for the period of three weeks. 3 weeks

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P3
The said Sarah Hinman farther declares that she was married to the said Joel Hinman at Southbury aforesaid on the 10th day of April 1778 by the Reverend Mr. Wildman congregational clergyman of the first parish in said Southbury (there belonging to the town of Woodbury) and that her said husband Joel Hinman died on the 9 day of March 1813 at said Southbury and that she has remained a widow ever since that period as will more fully appear by the proof hereinto annexed.
Sworn and subscribed on the 1st day and year above written. 
Chas. B. Phelps Judge of Probate District of Woodbury

Sarah Hinman

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Eleazor Hoyt of Waterbury in New Haven County and State of Connecticut of lawful age deposeth and says that in the latter part of the year 1775 Joel Hinman was Sergeant in A company of Listed men under Capt Noble Benedict in whose company I believe he joined the the company at Danbury and passed throu [through] Reding [Redding] and put up at Norwalk the first night and from there went to Stanford and joined the Regiment under Cornel [Colonel] Waterbury and staid [stayed] there I think three or four weeks and went from there to New York where we spent the winter in the Barracks until we were discharged. I think we served three or four months & I saw no more of him until I saw him at Ridgefield wounded in April 1777 where I se [see] the docttor [doctor] examin [examine] the wound and said that to extract the bal [ball] would endanger his life he was carried to Danbury to the house of  Ebanezer Bennadic where he staid [stayed] several weeks until he was able to be carried home to Southbury on a horse litter.
Dated at Waterbury this 22 day of Nov 1836

Eleazer Hoyt

Subscribed and sworn this 22d day of November 1836 before me
Elihu Hitchcock Justice of the Peace

I wil [will] certify that Eleazer Hoyt is a man of veracity and truth and retains his Judgement.
Elihu Hitchcock Justice of the Peace

Probate Courts
District of Woodbury
March 2d 1837
I certify that Elihu Hitchcock was upon the 22d day

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of November 1836 a Justice of the Peace within and for the county of New Haven duly commissioned and sworn and that his name subscribed to the within instrument as a Justice of the Peace is own proper and genuine hand writing.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of said Court on the day and year above written.

Cas. B. Phelps Judge of Probate

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State of Connecticut ss. Office of the Secretary of said State, Harford January 9th 1837
I hereby certify that in June 1776 the Legislature of the colony of Connecticut passed an act for the raising of seven Battalions of Troops, six of which Battalions were to march directly to New York to reinforce the continental army, then at that place, which Troops were to serve til the 25th day of December there next, unless sooner discharged; and that the necessary officers were appointed to command said Troops, of which Joel Hinman was appointed an Ensign of the third company in the second Battalion commanded by Col. Fisher Gay, as appears by the files and records in this office.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed the seal of the State and signed the same.

Royal R. Hinman Secretary

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I Timothy Johnson of Galen in the Count of Wayne & State of New York do testify that I was a native of Southbury formerly a society in the Town of Woodbury Litchfield County and State of Connecticut but now a town annexed to New Haven County in said State, that I resided there till after the close of the revolutionary war and was well acquainted with Joel Hinman a native of said place. I further depose & say that in May 1776 the said Joel Hinman had an ensign commission granted him which he received and immediately took listing orders and enlisted a considerable number of men to serve for the term of six or seven months of whom I was one. I enlisted I think for the term of six months. We started the first part of July for our place of destination which was the city of New York and its vicinity we marched by land to Norwalk & there went on board a vessel to New York where we served for the term mentioned we were in the engagement on Long Island & think in August 1776 and crossed over from there to New York. We returned home the fore part of February 177, the said Joel Hinman served in the capacity of Ensign during the campaign described. Our captains name was Edward Rogers and our company belonged to Col Fisher Gay's Regiment. Col Gay sickened and died early in the campaign and Leiut. Col. Hart assumed the command

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State of New York
County of Wayne} I Cullen Foster Clerk of the county aforesaid do hereby certify that Hiram P Jones whose signature appear to the Jurat of the within affidavit and to the within certificate was at the day of the dates thereof a Justice of the Peace in and for said County duly elected & qualified and that his signatures aforesaid are genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said County this 7th day of January AD 1837.

Cullen Foster Clerk Wayne County

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After our return home the said Joel Hinman received money from the public treasury and was authorised to pay off the men belonging to his enlistment & accordingly in the months of March & April he was engaged in this service I received my pay for my services of the said Joel Hinman but the middle of April for which I signed a receipt. I further depose and say that in April 1777 when the British burned Danbury the said Joel Hinman volunteered and was wounded near Ridge field in an engagement with the enemy while pursuing them and was confined for a long time by sd wound in Danbury and at his father's house in Southbury.

Timothy Johnson his mark X

Subscribed and sworn before me this 7th day of Hany 1837,
H P Lams Justice of the Peace of the town of Galen in the county of Wayne and state of New York

I certify that I am acquainted with Timothy Johnson and have been for three or four years, and that he has [unk] wrote his name, but at the date of the above affidavit on the account of old age and troubles of his hand he could not consequently [unk] Jany 7th 1837
H P Lams JP

I also certify that the said Timothy Johnson is of respectable character whose testimony may be relied upon as being the truth of what ever he [unk] or testifies to. Galen Jany 7th 1837

H P Lams Justice of the Peace

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State  of Vermont
[illegible]
P7
Orleans County ss
Be it known that that on this [illegible] Day of November A.D. 1836 Personally appeared before me Peleg Manfield of Justice of the Peace in and for said county Isaac Hinman of Derby in the County aforesaid to me personally known and whom I hereby certify is honorable intelligent and respectable witness and after being duly sworn according to law on his oath deposes and says he is eighty two years old last December that Joel Hinman and himself both then of Woodbury Con enlisted into the service of the United States the month of January 1776 for the term of two months that they served two months and twelve days that there Capt. [captain's] name was Noble Benedict and their town was Waterbury that they were stationed and performed the above service in the City of New York he further deposes and says that in May or June after the above enlistment the said Joel Hinman had an ensigns Commission and enlisted troops for the term of seven months for the above station that the militia were called for to repair to said city in the month of July next after among whom was the deponent and that he saw said Joel Hinman [illegible] in the garde [guard] of an officer in the service of the United States and that the said Joel did not return to his fathers in Con [Connecticut] until the following winter He also further deposes and says that in the spring of 1777 at the time of Danbury Con was burnt by the British soldiers said Joel Hinman's turned out in common with others that he was wounded by a musket ball in pursuat [pursuit] of the enemy and was confined some two months before he could be removed to his fathers and some ten or twelve months before he was able to perform manual labor and the deponent far then says that in the summer of 1779 at the time the enemy came in and burnt Norwalk and other seaports in Con said Joel was out in the United States service not less than one month and that he the said Joel carried the musket ball above specified in his thigh the last time h the deponent saw him which was thirty years after he received the wound
Isaac Hinman

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sworn to and subscribed the day and year within named.

Before me Peleg Redfield Justice Peace

State of Vermont
Orleans County ss.} I, Samuel C Crafts, Clerk of Orleans County Court, do certify that Peleg Redfield is a Justice of the Peace in and for the county of Orleans, aforesd, duly commissioned and sworn, his commission was dated on the 6th day of Nov. AD 1835 and will expire on the last day of Nov. 1836, and that his name subscribed to the above certificate is his own hand writing.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my name, and affixed the seal of said Court, this eleventh day of Nov. AD 1836.

Saml C Crafts, Clerk

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State of Vermont
Orleans County ss.} Be it known that before me the subscriber being authority a Justice of the Peace in and for the county aforesaid that on the 10th day of November AD 1836 personally appeared Timothy Hinman of Derby in the county of Orleans aforesaid to me personally known, and justify is a credible and respectable witness, and after being sworn according to law, on oath deposes and says that [unk] Joel Hinman, late of Southbury in the State of Connecticut now deceased, entered into the service of the United States in the month of December 1775 or January 1776 for a short tour two or three months, certain it was not less than two month he enlisted as a none commissioned officer, I think, a sergeant his captains name thinks was Bennedict, and [unk] marched for New York and in the spring of 1776 returned home, and in June 1776 he the said Joel Hinman, had a commission and was enlisting men for the army for the term of seven or eight months which dot not recollect, and did enlist several in Southbury and the deponent enlisted, but when the recruits marched for New York which was the last of June or fore part of July 1776, his name was erased from the enlistment on account of his age being under fourteen, in Dec follow deponent enlisted into Capt David Hinman company in Colo Roger Enos Regiment, and immediately marched to the vicinity of the city of new York, and remained in that vicinity untill some time in the month o March 1777 then disbanded, and on my return to Southbury, saw the said Joel Hinman there, in the month of April 1777 the British troops marched into the country and burned the continental stores at Danbury and on their return to their shipping was pursued, and in an attack made by the militia the said Joel Hinman received a musket ball in the fore part of his thigh near his body and lodged in him, which proved to be a bad wound as the surgeon was never able to extract the ball, and it was a long time before he the said Joel could be removed from the place where he was wounded to Southbury his place of residence, untill some time in the month June following, in the latter part of the month June 1777, the deponent joined the standing army

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then so called, and found his Regiment at Stanford Ct. having enlisted for three years and did not return to Southbury but once on a short furlough untill the expiration of the three years, and does not personally know of any further services of the said Joel Hinman except what he learned from him and others, and that was that he Joel Hinman, in the summer of 1779 when the British troops marched into Connecticut and burned the sea port town Norwalk and other towns, that the said Joel Hinman had so far recovered that he went to oppose the British and was out one month, untill the British left the coast, further says that at the last time he say the said Joel he retained the ball in his thigh which was more than twenty years after said Joel received the ball.

Timo Hinman

Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid Before me

Peleg Redfield Justice Peace

State of Vermont
Orleans County, ss.} I, Samuel C Crafts, Clerk of Orleans County Court, do certify that Peleg Redfield is a Justice of the Peace, in and for the County of Orleans, duly commissioned and sworn, (his commission is dated on the 5th day of November, 1835, and will expire on the last day of November, 1836) and that his name subscribed to the above certificate is his own hand writing.
In testimony hereof I have hereunto set my name, and affixed the seal of said Court, this eleventh day of November, AD 1836.

Saml C Crafts Clerk

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I recollect the following service of Joel Hinman in the war of the Revolution, the first was at New York in the year 1776 I myself served in the same company 3 months in the same year said Joel was appointed an Ensign I think for 6 months and he served in Colonel Gays Regiment at the time Danbury was burnt the aforesaid Joel turned out a volunteer and was wounded in the action at Ridgfield in the year 1777 a musket ball lodged in his thigh near his body in the year seventy nine when the British invaded New Haven said Joel volunteered the time then was one month in service  myself was personally knowing the above services.

Isaiah Johnson

Subscribed and sworn this sixth day of September 1836 before me

Philip A Fenner Justice Peace

I well recollect the time that Wait Henman served at Horseneck it was two months, the Captian name David Levesworth Colonel Canfield was the Collonel.

Isaiah Johnson

Subscribed and sworn this sixth day of September 1836 before me

Philip A Fenner Justice peace

State of Connecticut
Probate Court
District of Woodbury
March 2d 1837
I certify that I am personally with the reported aforesaid Isaiah Johnson and knew his reputation. He is a respectable man and a credible witness.

Cas B Phelps Judge of Probate

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State of New York
Herkimer County Clerks Office ss.}

I John Dygert Clerk of the said county do hereby certify that Philip A Fenner Esq before whom the within affidavits of Isaiah Johnson was sworn was at the time of the taking the same a Justice of the Peace in and for said county duly commissioned and qualified to administer oaths, and further that I am well acquainted with his hand writing & believe that his signature within written is genuine.
Given under my hand and seal of said County the 8th September 1836.

E. A. Munson Dep. Clerk
for John Dygert Clerk

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I Amos Skeele of Springfield in the county of Hampdon & commonwealth of Massachusetts of lawful age testify & say on my oath, that in the month of April in the year 1777 I lived in Woodbury in the State of Connecticut & when there was an alarm that Danbury an adjoining town was attacked by the British. I was with the Militia to that place. After it was burnt, I was in Capt David Hinmans company & was wounded in my right arm. I well recollect that Joel Hinman of said Woodbury, afterwards or at that time Ensign Jowl Hinman was, at the same time, that is immediately after the burning of said Danbury in the same David Hinman company was in this battle at the said time between said Militia & the British, & said Joel Hinman then received a wound by a musket ball from the enemy which lodged in his hip, I remember that he was confined a considerable time by means of said wound but how long I cannot now remember.

Amos Skeele

Hamden ss.
January 15th 1837 That Amos Skelle above named personally appeared and made oath before me the subscriber a Justice of the peace within & for said county, that the above deposition by him subscribed is true and I do hereby certify that the said Amos Skeele is a credible witness & his statement entitled to credit.

Justin Willard Justice of Peace

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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Hampden ss. I John Ingersoll Clerk of the Common Pleas Court being a Court of Record within & for the County of Hampden do hereby certify that Justin Willard before whom the within deposition was verified is a Justice of the Peace within & for sd County of Hampden and that full faith & credit are & ought to be given to all acts done by him in said capacity and that his name thereto subscribed is his true & genuine hand writing.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of said Court on this eighteenth day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & thirty seven.

John Ingersoll Clerk

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I Gracy Prindle of Southbury in New Haven County and State of Connecticut now 77 years of age depose and say that at the time Mr. Joel Hinman lay ill of the wound which he received in his thigh at the battle with the British near Danbury which was in the year 1777 I think in the family of Col. Benjamin Hinman of said Southbury (then a society in the town of Woodbury) father of the said Joel Hinman that I commenced my services as a hired girl about the middle of June in said year and left about the last of August or first of September of the same year being in the family about two and a half months that the said Joel Hinman was at his father's home, that a surgeon was sent for and obtained from New Haven for the purpose of having the ball extracted from the wound, that the surgeon was of opinion that it would be dangerous to attempt to extract the ball and did not do it, that I saw a piece of cloth about a half an inch in diameter that worked out of the wound while I was there which was driven into his thigh from his clothes by the ball, that I washed the bandages used for dressing the wound and that from the appearance of the cloths the wound discharged a great deal of matter, and that the said Hinman was wholly confined to his bed while I lived in the family and further this deponent saith not.

Gracey Prindle

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New Haven County ss. Southbury December 3d 1836 Personally appeared Gracey Prindle who is a respectable and credible witness to me personally known, and made oath to the truth of the foregoing deposition by her subscribed before me.

Daniel Hinman Justice of Peace

Probate Court
District of Woodbury
March 2d 1837
I certify that Daniel Hinman Esq whose names is subscribed to the foregoing instrument as a Justice of the Peace was upon the sd day of Dec 1836 a Justice of the Peace within and for said New Haven County, duly commissioned and sworn and that his signature thereto is his own proper and genuine hand writing.
In testimony whereof I have affixed the seal of said Court on the day & year aforesaid.

Chas B Phelps Judge of Probate

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State of New York
County of Westchester} ss. Peace G Graham of the town of Mount Pleasant in said County being duly sworn on his oath saith that he is now seventy six years of age: that he resided in Southbury in the State of Connecticut during the revolutionary war: that he was well and personally acquainted with Joel Hinman during the revolutionary war: that said Hinman also resided in Southbury aforesaid at the same time. And the Deponent further saith that the said Joel Hinman entered the service of the United State some time in the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy nine sometime in the summer of that year the Deponent thinks, at the time New Haven was invaded and Fairfield burnt: that the said Hinman and this Deponent were ordered into the service on the occasion of said invasion: that they assembled at Southbury aforesaid and were ordered and marched in a company of militia from Southbury aforesaid to New Haven in said State of Connecticut and arrived there as the army were leaving it, that they were then marched from New Haven aforesaid to Fairfield in said State; as it was expected that place would also be attacked by the enemy: that this Deponent well recollects that said Hinman was in the service with this depo-

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nent at said time: that this Deponent and the said Hinman continued in the said service on the occasion of said invasion until the enemy left the sound and the Ports thereon and were then Honorably discharged from the said service. And the deponent further saith that he cannot now state how long said term of service continued; but according to his best recollection it was several weeks and until the enemy left that part of the Country and further the Deponent saith not.

Isaac G Graham

Sworn to and subscribed this 30th day of January 1837 before me.

John S Mattocks Justice of the Peace

I do hereby certify that the above Isaac G. Graham is a gentleman in good standing and entitled to credit and belief.
John S. Mattock Justice of the Peace

State of New York
County of Westchester} ss. I John W Smith Clerk of the County of Westchester and clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County, certify that John S, Mattocks Esq whose name is subscribed to the above certificate was on the day of the date of the same a Justice of the Peace.

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in and for the said County of Westchester duly commissioned and sworn, and that I well acquainted with the hand writing of the said John S Mattocks and verily believe the foregoing signatures purporting to be his are genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office this 1st day of February 1837.

John H Smith Clk

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Probate Court
District of Woodbury
March 1, 1837

Be it remembered that on the day and year aforesaid personally appeared before said Court Williams H Whittemore of Southbury in said District aged thirty four years to said court personally known and who is a credible & respectable witness and being first duly cautioned on oath declares that he is the Paster of the First [unk] or Congregational Society in Southbury in New Haven County and as such Paster has in his custody and possession a Book of Records purporting to be a record of marriages and baptisms in said Parish & Church containing this entry "at the first meeting of the Church of Christ in Southbury on January 25 1732/3" after this follows in said record carries entries of church proceedings, and at a subsequent page of said Record appears to be an entry of marriages. The following entries are copies from said Record "Nathanel Bristol & Annis Stiles Nov 20 177"
"Abraham Strains Rachel Wheeler Nov 20 1777"
"Joel Hinman Sarah Curtiss April 10

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1778"
"Abijah Curtiss Olive Hicock May 5 1778"
"David Mallory Ruth Trowbridge June 3d 1778"
which said entries follows in said Record under the following Title "Marriages" the said work being in the hand writing of John Graham who was a former minister of said Parish.
The entry "Joel Hinman to Sarah Curtiss" appears to be in the hand writing of the Rev Benjamin Wildman formerly a minister of said Society and was said minister in the year 1778 as the Deponent is informed & believes and as appears by said Church Record.


Williams H Whittemore

Subscribed and sworn on the day and year afrsd

Chas B Phelps Judge of Probate

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Probate Court
District of Woodbury
March 1 1837

Be it remembered that on the day and year aforesaid personally appeared before said court Shadrach Osborne of Southbury in New Haven County aged 89 years to the court personally known & who us a credible respectable witness and being first duly cautioned & sworn on oath declares that he was born at said Southbury and has resided the most of his life.
That the Rev Benjamin Wildman was formerly paster of the church in said Southbury and was such pastor mentioned of said parish in the year 1778. That he has examined a certain record book referred to in the deposition of the Rev Me Whittemore taken in said court this day. That the deponent remembers to have seen said record book thirty or more years since and to have examined the same. The deponent  believes

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he examined to supply certain entries on the Town Records, it was there in the custody of Richard Smith Clerk of said Society as he believes.
The entry in said book under the head of "Marriage" in the following words "Joel Hinman Sarah Curtiss 10 April 1778" is the hand writing of the Rev Benjamin Wildman at that time minister of said Parish.
The deponent sayith that he was well acquainted with Joel Hinman who was neighbor of said deponent that said Joel & Sarah Curtiss lived together many years as husband and wife and that said Sarah is now his widow not having [unk] [unk] matrimony since the decease of said Joel.

Shadrach Osborne

Sworn and subscribed on the day & year aforesaid.

Chas B Phelps Judge of Probate

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182.564

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Clerk's Certificate  Sold by George B. Bassett & Co., 115 Chapel Street, New Haven

STATE OF CONNECTICUT
County of New Haven
County Clerk's Office} ss.

I, Alfred H Terry Clerk, of New Haven County, and of the County Court within and for New Haven County, and keeper of the Seal thereof, and if the Commission of Justices of the Peace for said County, hereby certify" That,
Charles Hicock Esquire was on the 23d day of June 1853 and now is a Justice of the Peace within and for said County, duly appointed, commissioned and sworn, having full power and authority by the Laws of this State, to take the acknowledgements of Deeds and other instruments, and to certify the same; also to administer Oaths, to take affidavits and depositions out of Court, and to give certificates thereof; that full faith and credit may, and ought to be given to his official acts, and attestations; that I am acquainted with his hand writing, and that the signature to the instrument hereto annexed purporting to be his, is his genuine official signature; and that said instrument is executed, acknowledged and duly authenticated according to the laws of this State.

In Testimony Whereof, I hereunto set my hand, and affix the Seal of said Court at the City of New Haven, in said County, and State, on this 26th day of June A.D. 1855.

Alfred H Terry Clerk

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State of Connecticut
County of New Haven} ss.

On this 25th day of June, one thousand eight hundred and fifty five, personally appeared before me, a Justice of the Peace, within and for the county and state aforesaid, Sarah Hinman, aged ninety three years and resident of Southbury, in the state of Connecticut, who being duly sworn according to law, declares that she is the widow of Joel Hinman, deceased, was a Sergeant in the company commanded by Captain Noble Benedict, the company and commander not recollected, in the war with Great Britain, declared by the United States, on the 4th of July A.D. 1776, that her said husband was drafted at Woodbury, in the summer or fall of A.D. 1775, and continued in actual service in said war, for the term of two months and twelve days, and was honorable discharged at New York, according to the testimony of Isaac Hinman; a fellow soldier in the campaign described above.
She further declares that she met said Joel Hinman with thirteen others, several of whose countenances were familiar to her being neighbors, when on their march to join said Captain Benedict and company, at Danbury, the place of rendezvous that she was not then married, being but thirteen years of age; but that said Captain Benedict was a near relative of her mothers, and that was the first war like movement she had ever witnessed. These circumstances, with the idea that these fourteen young men, several of them neighbors, were going to shoot men and perhaps be shot themselves, so affected her mind that it was never obliterated from her memory; and now after the laps of eighty years; the scene appears as vivid as her recollection, as when it was transpiring.

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She further declares, that her said husband Joel Hinman, deceased, was an Ensign in the company commanded by Captain Rogers; in the regiment commanded by Col. Gay, in the war described above; that her said husband enlisted at Woodbury in the summer of A.D. 1776, and continued in actual service in said war for the term of six months; and was honorably discharged in the vicinity of New York: according to the testimony of Timothy Johnson, a fellow soldier in the company last described.
She further declares, that she has in her possession a certificate, written and forwarded to her by the Hon. Royal R. Hinman, formerly secretary of the state; while holding that office; in Connecticut, in which he certified that he found on the state records at Hartford, that Joel Hinman was an Ensign in the company commanded by Capt. Rogers, in the regiment commanded by Colo Gay; that he enlisted in June 1776, and was discharged early in the year 1777; and that he returned seven guns loaned to him at his departure by the town of Woodbury for the use of the men under his control.
She further declares that her said husband performed many other services for said war, which it may not be necessary to describe in this Declaration.
She further declares that she is a pensioner of the United States, on ac act passed in 1836, granting pensions to widows, and if any further proof of her said husband's services should be necessary it may be found deposited at Washington.
She further declares that she was married to the said Joel Hinman in Woodbury, on the 10th day of April A.D. 1778 by one Benjamin Wildman, a clergyman; and that her name before her marriage was Sarah Curtiss, and that her marriage is recorded in the congregational book of records in this place and in Cothren's history of ancient Woodbury.
She further declares that her said husband died March 9th A.D. 1813, and that she is now a widow.

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State of Connecticut
County of Southbury
She makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the bounty land to which she may be entitled under the "act approved March 3, 1855."
Sarah Hinman

We Elliott Pulford and Julia Pulford, residents of Southbury in the State of Connecticut, upon our oaths, declare that the foregoing declaration was signed and acknowledged by Sarah Hinman in our presence, and that we believe from the appearance and statements of the applicant that she is the identical person she represents herself to be.

We also declare that the records of the congregational church and society in this place are now before us in which we find recorded the following sentence "Married April 10th 1778 Joel Hinman and Sarah Curtiss".
Elliott Pulford
Julia Pulford

The foregoing declaration and affidavit were [illegible] so and subscribed before me on the date and year above written; and I certify that I know the applicant to his credible person; that the claimant is the person she represents herself to be; and that I have no interest in this claim. I also certify not and remember Col. Joel Hinman the husband of the claimant and the event of his death; but I do not recollect the date of the [illegible]; and I have this day visited his grave for the purpose of ascertaining the [illegible]; and I find concurrent one his home to [illegible].
Col. Joel Hinman 
March 9th A.D. 1813
[illegible]

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May 19, 1932
BA-J/MLB
JOEL HINMAN
W. 21332

Mrs. Anna M. Latourelle
Box 62
Troutdale, Oregon

Dear Madam:

Reference is made to your letter of recent date, relative to Joel Hinman, a soldier of the Revolutionary War.

The data which follow are obtained from the papers on file in pension claim, W. 21332, based upon the military service of Joel Hinman in the Revolutionary War.

Joel Hinman, son of Colonel Benjamin Hinman, was born in Southbury, New Haven County (which was then a part of Woodbury, Litchfield County), Connecticut, date not stated.

While living in Southbury, Connecticut, he entered the service the latter part of December, 1775, or in January, 1776, as a sergeant in Captain Noble Benedict's company, Colonel Waterbury's Connecticut regiment, and served two months and twelve days. He was commissioned in May, 1776, ensign, in Captain Edward Roger's company. Colonel Fisher Gay and Heart's Connecticut regiment, and served to the middle of February, 1777. He volunteered about April 26 or 27, 1777, at the burning of Danbury, in Captain David Hinman's Connecticut company (relationship to him not shown); was severely wounded in the hip in the battle of Ridgefield by a musket ball which was never removed from his body, and on account of which he was confined two months at Danbury at the house of Ebenezer Bennadic, and six months at his father's home in Southbury. About July 9, 1779, when the British invaded New Haven, Norwalk, and other seaports, he volunteered and served about one [unk] in the defense of the towns, names of officers not stated.

On account of disability resulting from the above noted wound, he was pensioned June 8, 1808.

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Joel Hinman died March 9, 1813, in Southbury, Connecticut.

He married April 10, 1778, in Southbury, Connecticut, Sarah Curtiss; a record of the marriage is found in the church of Christ, in Southbury, Connecticut.

Soldier's widow, Sarah, was allowed pension on her application executed February 1, 1837, at which time she was living in Southbury, Connecticut, aged seventy-five years.

In 1855, she was still a resident of Southbury, Connecticut, and stated that Captain Noble Benedict under whom her husband served was a near relative of her mother.

Sarah Hinman died January 25, 1856.

In 1836, the following names appeared in Sarah Hinman's claim for pension, but relationship to soldier was not shown; Isaac Hinman, aged eighty-two years, and Timothy Hinman, both residents of Derby, Orleans County, Vermont; Wait Hinman and Daniel Hinman who was justice of the peace in Southbury, Connecticut.

In 1837, Honorable Royal R. Hinman was Secretary of State of Connecticut (relationship not stated).

On May 5, 1778, Abijah Curtiss was married to Olive Hicock at Southbury, Connecticut, and in 1855 Charles Hicock was justice of the peace in New Haven County, Connecticut (relationship to widow not shown).

In 1853, Phebe Hinman, daughter of the soldier and his wife, Sarah, was living in Southbury, Connecticut, and stated that her mother had fifteen children, but no other names than hers were given.

The Revolutionary War records of this office fail to show a claim for pension or bounty land on file on account of the service of Colonel Benjamin Hinman, father of the soldier, Joel.

Very truly yours,

A.D. HILLER
Assistant to Administrator

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Southbury Nov. 14th 1853
Alexander Ray, Esq.
Sir, yours of the 7th instant I received on the 9th; but absence prevented an earlier reply. My mother was between 90 and 100 years of age was married more than three fourths of a century ago; raised 15 children of her own, all to the lawful age of a freeman; and has been a widow more than 40 years, is yet living, and in comfortable health both of person and intellect. The amount of her pension is ?2 dollars per annum. I do not know that I perfectly understand your meaning respecting the agency at which her pension was paid. Her government certificate was dated June 21st 1837 since which she has received her semi annual pension from Hartford, Connecticut. Arrearages due from said date back to 1831 by the act of 1836, I do not recollect whether she received from Washington or Hartford, but presume I can ascertain of necessary.

Phebe Hinman


Alexander Ray, Esq.
Washington City

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Southbury Ct. Nov. 4th 1853
A Ray Esq.
Sir, Through the favor of E Osborne Esq a worthy neighbor, you have been introduced to the notice of myself & friends, as an able & faithful agent on Revolutionary claims. I write to known what terms you will undertake the prosecution of a claim in favor of my mother; if after ascertaining the peculiar facts, you shall find good prospect of success. My mother, Sarah Hinman a pensioner on the act of thirty six in favor of soldier's widows; received a letter some three months since, from a gentleman styling himself agent for government claims & informing her that she is entitled to a considerable increase of pension; & that if authorized by a duly executed power of attorney & accommodated with an advance fee; he would undertake the prosecution for a compensation of one tenth part of the sum total to be recovered. Thinking his communication friendly, & his terms reasonable I replied to his letter in substance much as follows, That I had long been aware of the injustice done my parents in their limited pension grants, that his letter came opportunity to hand, as I had meditated writing another agent on the subject; that I did not know

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on what evidence he founded his belief that my mother is entitled to an increase of pension; but that I too was acquainted with facts apparently calculated to increase her pension, and that I might be acquainted with some facts not familiar to him; that I would relate some on that letter, which though perhaps not calculated to increase her pension; were evidently sufficient should justice be done, to warrant remuneration for my father's great loss of cash of time and labor in consequence of a wound received in war; and for which, neither he nor his; has ever received a fraction: and I did make a detailed statement of facts on that part of my father's war history; asking his opinion on the subject; and remarking that I much desired a mutual understanding by the contracting parties of all facts in the case; and I would record to the extent of my knowledge in future letters if he would evidently strengthen, and establish confidence in each other's integrity being strangers; and would enable the agent to select from all the facts in the case such as would authorize action, and the power of attorney would be forwarded in due time with the advance fee.

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I received no answer to the above described letter: and again wrote that I would once more trouble him with the reading of a few lines as I considered it uncertain whether he received a former letter or not. After forwarding a second letter, I received a reply in which no allusion was made to any thing contained in either of my letters except I was informed that no step would be taken nor any opinion given until he should receive a duly executed power of attorney and the advance fee: and for encouragement he referred me to his first letter which says my mother is entitled to a considerable increase of pension. Sir, I need no gift of property to foretell that on reading this letter your mind's soliloquy will run in substance as follows, "Surely I have no concern in the affairs of these strangers and what is all this correspondence between them to me, a business man I think the signature at the close of this letter must be Ignoramus!" Please accept my apology when I inform you I am aware this letter might be considered a breach of etiquette, though I did not so intend it: by my late correspondence with the gentleman described above I almost involuntarily

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penned the foregoing.
And so having penned it I'll venture to sent it. This triplet shall end it.

Phebe Hinman

Alexander Ray Esq.

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Techny Road
Techny, Illinois
September 23, 1825

The Commissioner of Pensions
WASHINGTON, D. C.

Dear Sir:

I would be very grateful to receive a report of the war records of my great-great grandfather, Col. Joel Hinman (born Apr. 3, 1748 and died Mar. 9, 1813) and of my great-great-great grandfather, Col. Benjamin Hinman (born in March, 1720, and died on Mar. 22, 1810), respectively, both of Southbury, Connecticut.

Respectfully yours,

William Hall Robertson

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WIDOW, &c.

File No. 21332
Sarah Hinman
widow of
Joel Hinman 
Sergt. Rev. War

Act: July 4th '36
Index:- Vol. A, Page 336
[Arrangement of 1870]

Oct. 21 1903- Harry H. Brown Southbury Conn
1925 Oct. 24-Hist to Wm Hall Robertson MDG
1932 May 19- Hist. to Mrs. Anna M Latourelle MLD

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HARRY H. BROWN
SOUTHBURY, CONN.

Commissioner of Pension Washington D. C.

Dear Sir
Will you please send me the Record of service in the Revolutionary war of Col Joel Hinman who was the son of Col Benjamin Hinman and Molly Stiles, who rendered so much service. I know Joel Hinman was in the battle of the burning of Danbury, and I have the bullet he received at that time and which he carried 33 years, aside from that I know nothing.

Respectfully yours

Harry H. Brown

Southbury, Conn.
Oct 12th 1903

Was Joel Hinman a pensioner?

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Washington
Nov 26/53

Hon. L. P. Waldo
Commissioner of Pensions

Sir/

In the case of Sarah Hinman, a pensioner under act 36 Connecticut, you were kind enough to say to me on the two letters enclosed, the case should be re-examined and a report made to me thereon.
On a hasty glance at the papers filed in the case, O observed an affidavit by Shadnick Osborn, he was an assist commissary Gen. of Purchases, his widow was pensioned under act 4 July 1836, Connecticut roll at $600 per annum.

I remain very respectfully your most obt servt

Alex Ray

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182.564

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Southbury Ct.
June 30                                Free

L.P. Waldo Esq.
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City
DC

182.564

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Southbury Connecticut June 29th A.D. 1855

Mr. Waldo,

There is no bounty land agent convenient to this place, nor any person in this vicinity with sufficient self confidence to act for my mother in this thins, so I send you her declaration, in this humble garb; and if it will not bear action, please notify me, and inform of the cause; and you will much oblige.
I thank you for the instruments, and forms, you sent me: They were very opportune.

Yours affectionately
Phebe Hinman

Hon. Waldo

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Frontdale, Oregon
Mch 1, 1832

Commissioner of Pensions
Washington
D. C.

Dear Sir:
Will you be so kind as to send me the war record of Col. Benjamin Hinman and Col. Joel Hinman of Connecticut.
Col. Joel Hinman was the

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son of Col. Benjamin Hinman and my great great Grandfather, they were both commissioned Officer in the Revolutionary War.
I wish to establish this record, so that I am join The Daughters of the American Revolution.
this information will be greatly appreciated.

Yours truly
Mrs. Anna M. Latourelle
Box 621
Frontdale, Oregon

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30.771

Rev army

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On the 1835 printed list, on the list of invalid pensioners of Conn whose residence etc could not be ascertained in consequence of the destruction of papers in the War Office in 1800 & 1814 appears as follows:
Joel Hinman- Pvt Rev Army, annual allowance $60 per ann, pens. commenced June 8, 1808.
act Mar3, 1809 Died in 1813

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Rev. & 1812 Wars Section.                  MDG

October 24, 1925

William Hall Robertson,
Techny Road, 
Techney, Illinois

Sir:

I have to advise you, that from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, W. 21332, it appears that Joel Hinman, the son of Colonel Benjamin Hinman was born in Southbury, New Haven County, Connecticut, date not stated.

He enlisted in December 1775 or January 1776 and served two months and twelve days as a Sergeant in Captain Noble Benedict's Company, Colonel Waterbury's Connecticut Regiment.

He was commissioned in June 1776, Ensign of Captain Edward Roger's Third Company, Colonel Fisher Gay's Second Connecticut Battalion. He was at the battle of Long Island and served until February 1777.

In April 1777 he went out as Ensign of said company and regiment and at the battle of Bridgefield was wounded in the hip by a musket ball.

In July 1779 when New Haven was invaded he was out

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for three weeks as an Ensign.

On account of the disability resulting from said wound he was allowed pension from June 8, 1808. He died at Southbury, Connecticut, March 9, 1813.

He married at Southbury, Connecticut April 10, 1778, Sarah Curtiss. She was allowed pension on her application executed February 1, 1837 while living at Southbury, Connecticut, aged seventy-five years. They had fifteen children, only names stated being that of Phebe.

This Bureau is unable to furnish the history of a soldier of the Revolution unless a claim for pension or bounty land has been made on account of his services and a careful search of the records fails to show such a claim on file on account of the services of Colonel Benjamin Hinman, the father of Joel Hinman.

Respectfully,

WINFIELD SCOTT,
Commissioner

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Woodbury 14 June 1837

J L Edwards Esq
Comr Pensions

Mrs Sarah Hinman widow of Joel Hinman consents to have her claim [unk] on the principles all claim to services while he was wounded. 
Please to transmit the certificate to me at Woodbury Con

Respectfully yours

Chas B Phelps