Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 5463, for Joseph Hyde, Connecticut

SERVICE
NUMBER
Conn.
Hyde, Joseph
P. 5463
CONTENTS

Know all Persons by these Presents, that I
Emmice Porter of Huntington Norfolk County State of Conn have made, constituted and appointed, and by these presents do make, constitute, and appoint H. J. Brown Esq. late Chief Clerk in the Pension Office near the corner of Washington By D.C.
my true and lawful attorney for me and in my name, place and stead, being the only surviving child, of Joseph Porter late of Hartford New Britain County, State of Conn. deceased who was a soldier of the Revolutionary War entitled to a pension under Act of 7th June 1832.
giving and granting unto him the said attorney full power and authority to do and perform all and every act and thing whatsoever requisite and necessary to be done in and about the premises, as fully, to all intents and purposes, as I myself might or could do if present, with full power of substitution and revocation, hereby ratifying and confirming all that the said attorney or his substitute shall lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.
Witness my hand this Fourth day of November in the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty two
Emmice Porter Daughter of Joseph Porter of Hartford Acknowledged before me, this Fourth day of November 1852
Sealed and delivered in presence of
DeWitt Upson Harriet Upson
DeWitt Upson, Notary Public

Joseph Hyde Application for Pension.

Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832,
State of Connecticut, County of New Haven ss.
On this 27 th day of October A. D. 1835 personally appeared in open Court before the Court of Probate for the District of New Haven now sitting Joseph Hyde a resident of the Town of Oxford in said County of New Haven aged 76 years, who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his Oath make the following Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832 That is to say,
In the month of July 1777 and this applicant believes on the 15 th day thereof, (although by reason of his great age he cannot be certain that he remembers the exact day without mistake) he commenced a tour of Military duty as a drafted Militiaman, (being then a private soldier in the Oxford Company of Militia) & marched to a place called West Haven a little South of New Haven where he joined a Company under the command of Captain Silas Kimberly of West Haven and served therein for the period of one month and was discharged & returned home as he verily believes on the 15 th day of August 1777. One Booth was Lieutenant & one Huggins Ensign of said Company, but this Applicant cannot remember their christened names. While we were thus stationed, it was said that our Company was part of a Regiment under the command of Col. Thompson of New Haven, but I have no recollection of seeing any Field Officer during said service. and our Company was never paraded or mustered with any other Company.

This Applicant would further state that afterwards in the month of July 1779 and he believes on the 20 th day thereof, he commenced a tour of Military Service as a drafted Militiaman under Captain Joseph Lordland at New Haven and continued to serve in said Company under said Lordland for the space of one month, viz until the 20 th day of August following. Of this Company Jonathan Lyman was Ensign & as this Applicant very believes Abraham Smith of Derby was Lieutenant. This Applicant cannot remember the names of any Field Officers, if said Company was attached to any Regiment as he thinks it was.
Between the 1 st day of April & the 1 st day of June 1780 this Applicant served as a drafted Militiaman for the period of Two months at said New Haven in a Company commanded by Captain John Riggs of Derby. The Orderly Sergeant of this Company was Isaac Durand of Derby & one Green of Milford was also a Sergeant, but this Applicant does not remember the names of the Lieutenant & Ensign.
This Applicant performed a further tour of Military Service at said New Haven between the 1 st day of October & the 1 st day of December 1781 according to his best recollection & as he very believes, in a Company of Militia under the command of Captain Joseph Lordland; of which Joseph Riggs of Derby was Lieutenant and Thaddeus Baldwin of Derby was Ensign, as this Applicant very believes, and Nathaniel Holbrook of Derby was Orderly Sergeant.
This Applicant is unable to recollect whether the said Companies of Captain John Riggs & that last above named were attached to & made part of any Regiment. If they were he either never knew or has wholly forgotten the officers of such Regiments and all facts concerning them.

This Applicant never had any written discharge, nor has he any paper or memoranda relating to any of the above mentioned periods of service. He knows he served the periods & under the Officer above stated & although by reason of his age his memory is infirm, he very believes he has stated the times of such service correctly.
The foregoing periods of service amount to six months, for which this applicant asks a pension, under 2 d act of 7 th June 1832 & in addition to his own testimony above set forth he refers the Department to the Depositions of Eleazer Lewis, Abel Holbrook and Isaac Davis attached hereto for proof of the same.
This Applicant was born in that part of the Town of Derby now called Oxford on the 15 th day of October 1759. But he does not know of any Record of his age or birth. He has always resided in said Oxford while it was a Parish of Derby and since it has become a Town.
I am well acquainted with Samuel Meigs Esq and Russel Wooster of said Oxford
James Prescott, David W Buckingham, Richard Stone of New Haven and others who will testify to my character for veracity & to their belief of my Revolutionary services.
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to any pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on any pension roll of the Agency of any State Sworn to & subscribed the day & place aforesaid Joseph Hyde
We David W Buckingham, Richard Stone & Russel Wooster hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Joseph Hyde who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration: that

we believe him to be 76 years of age; that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the revolution, and that we concur in that opinion — Sworn and subscribed the day & year aforesaid
Richard Stone David W. Buckingham Rufus Wooster
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the war department, that the above named Applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier and served as he stated. And the Court further certifies that it appears to them that Richard Stone David W. Buckingham and Rufus Wooster who signed the preceding certificate are credible persons and that their statement is entitled to credit
Col. S. Gurnee May 7, 1835 I Anthony Sanford Clerk of the Court of Probate for the District of New Haven do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Joseph Hyde for a Pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 27 th day of October Anno Domini 1835
Anthony Sanford Clerk —

Otsego County ss Town of Middlesex
July 24 th 1885 Appear before me Isaac Davis and made oath in due form of law that that he became acquainted with Joseph Hyde at New Haven in Connecticut in the years of 1879 or 80 as near as this Deponent can recollect served with with the said Joseph as a drafted Matilda man and was a mess mate with him and knows that said Joseph served as a drafted Matilda man the term of one month under Capt.
Joseph Loretan and thinks that Mansfield Whitney was an officer in said company what rank does not recollect Sergeants Plenzard Herman and Nathaniel Holbrook and this Deponent further says that he and the said Joseph was discharged from said service within two days after the news reached them them of the surrender of the army to Sherman and further said that not
sworn and subscribed before me this 24 th day of July 1885
Isaac Davis
Solomon Davis justice peace
State of New York Otsego County ss George C. Clyde clerk of said county of Otsego Do certify that Solomon Davis Esquire before whom the preceding affidavit purports to have been sworn was on the day of the date of the same a justice of the peace within and for the county of Otsego aforesaid duly elected and qualified - And further that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of the said Justice and truly believe his name subscribed to said affidavit to be his genuine hand writing and signature -
Witness my hand and seal of office this Fifth day of October 1885
George C. Clyde Clerk of Otsego County

I Eleazer Lewis of Oxford in the County of New Haven and State of Connecticut of lawful age being duly sworn depose and say That that I have been well acquainted with Joseph Hyde of said Oxford ever since my childhood, having been born & brought up within a very few miles of him. We were often together before the war of the Revolution. In the month of July 1777 principally, this Deponent became the substitute of Timothy Johnson who was a militiaman belonging to the same Company with said Joseph Hyde and was drafted together with said Hyde to serve for one month at West Haven a little South of New Haven in Connecticut, and this Deponent performed said service of one month as such substitute as a private soldier under Capt. Silas Kimberly, One Booth being Lieut. and one Huggins Ensign of said Company. And this Deponent says that he well remembers that said Joseph Hyde was drafted as a militiaman and served in said Company as a private soldier in said Company for the said period of one month.
And this Deponent further says that afterwards principally in the months of April & May 1780 as he believes, he performed a tour of military service at said New Haven, as a substitute for John Northbrook who was a militiaman belonging to the same Company with this Deponent and was drafted to perform a tour of 2 months; which period this Deponent served in his stead as a private soldier in a Company under the command of Capt. John Riggs of which this Deponent does now remember the other officers. But he does remember that said Joseph Hyde was drafted and served with him as a militiaman in said Company during said period of two months.
And this Deponent further says that afterwards he thinks principally in the months of October & November

1781 he performed a tour of Military duty for the period of two months as a drafted Militiaman at said New Haven in a Company commanded by Capt Joseph Loveland of which as he believes one Thaddeus Baldwin was Lieutenant and Ensign And that said Joseph Hyde also served as a drafted Militiaman in the same company at the same time & for the same space of time. And further this Deponent saith not. Dated at Derby Septmber 30 th . 1835. George Lewis
I Abel Holbrook of Derby in New Haven County and state of Connecticut. Being duly sworn depose and say; that I have been well acquainted with Joseph Hyde of Oxford ever since I was a lad having lived always within a few miles of him. I well having often seen & conversed with each other. In the months of October and November 1781 principally as this Deponent verily believes, he served as a Substitute Substitute for Charles Wooden then of said Derby who was drafted as a Militiaman to perform a tour of duty for two months at New Haven under Capt. Joseph Loveland. This Deponent as such substitute and a private soldier performed said two months service in said Company & he well recollects that S r Joseph Hyde served in said Company as a Drafted Militiaman for said period of two months and further saith not. Dated at Derby this 30 th day of Septmber Anno Domini 1835
Abel Holbrook

State of Connecticut County of New Haven
On this 20 th day of September 1835 personally came and appeared before the subscribers the above named Hazard Lewis and Abel Holbrook who subscribed the affidavits by them respectively above given to which their names are respectively attached and being duly sworn each made solemn Oath that the said deposition by him subscribed contained the truth. In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name & style of office at Derby in said County on the date above.
Isaac J. Gilbert Justice of Peace I further certify that said Lewis & Holbrook possess a fair reputation for truth & are deserving of credit.
Isaac J. Gilbert Justice of Peace
County of New Haven State of Connecticut
I John L. Smithson a Notary Public duly commissioned and sworn in for the County of New Haven hereby certify that Isaac J. Gilbert Esq. before whom the foregoing affidavits were taken was on the day of the date thereof a Justice of the Peace within & for said County duly commissioned and sworn & that his name attached to the above certificate is his own proper hand writing. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of office this 8 th day of December 1835 John L. Smithson Public Notary

5463 P. O. Joseph Hyde Service:
RECEIVED
Enlisted: _____, 18 .
Discharged: _____, 18 .
Application filed: _____, 18 .
Alleges: _____ _____
Re-enlisted: _____ _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____ _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract.

Joseph Hyde Con Aug 32 No ad Case on Con of old rolls
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Washington
General Post Office
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No. 33,347

113347 3324 333 47 Connecticut
Joseph Hyde Suspended
Set to J. Tomlinson 1 Dec 1843 Set. a n. Wake field May 20/54
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Capt Col
July 77. Kimberly Thompson 2 mo. Lewis " 79. Loveland 1 apt 80. Riggs 2 Lewis - don't know. Oct 81. Loveland 2. Lewis -

Laurens Osgood N.Y. May 12 1852
Esq
Will you please inform me whether there is an unpaid pension, either in whole or in part due "Joseph Hyde" of Oxford New Haven Co Conn?
The pension was applied for and I believe granted many years since - for service during the Revolution in the defense of New Haven at the time it was besieged being drafted at that time - and subsequently honorably discharged. I write at the request of his son (and heir) Alvah Hyde from a resident of this place
I hope also trust you will take the pains to obtain the information desired and send me - and confer a favor on the heirs of the above named Hyde - who are entitled to the portion of said unpaid pension should there be any due. Proper means will be taken to get the same if you will direct what will be necessary
Truly Yours A. W. Haskins

Derby Conn't Novem. 16 th 1835
Hon J. H. Edwards Commr of Pensions
Sir Herewith I forward to your Department Joseph Hyde's Application for a Pension for 6 mos Service, under the Act of Janu. 1832. Also Eleazer Lewis' Supplemental Declaration and further proofs. It was made out more than a year ago that it had been delayed waiting for an additional Affidavit from the State of New York. The persons yet living Members of the Asaversworth Company are so far advanced in age & so much time has elapsed since that Company was in service that few can be found who can recall the circumstances with which at the time they were well acquainted. Joseph Fairchild is the only one as yet found who recollects Eleazer Lewis's service. In addition to his affidavit of this fact, there is the testimony of Clarina Garrison Sister of Mr Lewis, then resident in the family, of the neighbors Abel Holbrook and Nathan Mansfield. So that I flatter myself the service is established within the rules of the Department.
I ought to inform the Department as these papers have been delayed so long that the parties and witnesses are all yet living except Nathan Mansfield, who died the present month.
On referring to Ethel Neary's case, I find he cannot recollect, a single circumstance not already distinctly & fully stated & detailed in his original & supplemental declarations which are now in the Department. If it will serve any purpose to renew a statement of them, I will assist him to do it. I thought it possible that it might

have escaped the recollection of the Commissioner that a supplemental Declaration had been filed & forwarded.
With much respect Your very obed Servt
John L. Tomlinson