Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 44,424, Phinehas Hodgdon, N.H.

SERVICE
NUMBER
U.H.
Hodgdon, Phinehas
S. 44,424
CONTENTS

let to Mrs. H. Johnson Feb 19. 1847.
Notification sent to John William Coggs 19. Sep. 1820 Lancaster, N.H.
10.909 New Hampshire
Phinehas Hodgdon
of Lancaster in the state of New Hampshire who was a Private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Reid of the N.H. line, for the term of 3 years 1776
Inscribed on the Roll of New Hampshire at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 31 st of March 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 25 th of May 1819 and sent to Samuel A. Pearson Lancaster Coos County N.H.
Arrears to 4th of March 1819. 11 mo 31 d $89.29 Semi-ann. all'ce ending 4 th Sept r 1819 48"
$137.29
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Continued
4 Sept 1819.

Copy Phinehas Hadgdon's Declaration & Schedule
July 1820. 10.909
Cons Sept 1019

Coos.
State of New Hampshire
At the Court of Common Pleas holden at Lancaster within and for said County of Coos being a Court of record by law established on the second Tuesday of July in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty
Present the Honorable
William Lovoy Esquire Associate Justices John Penhallow
Personally appeared in open court Phineas Hood aged Sixty one years of age resident in the Town of Lancaster in said County of Coos who being duly sworn according to law doth on his oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows viz I enlisted in seven hundred and seventy six in the Regiment commanded by Col. Need in the Company commanded by Capt. Ross in the line of the State of New Hampshire that his original declaration is dated the thirty first day of March one thousand eight hundred and eighteen and my pension certificate is numbered 10909. And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March 1818 and that I have not since that time by gift sale or in any manner disposed of my property or any part thereof with intent thereby so as to diminish it to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress entitled an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land & naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War passed on the 18th day of March 1818 and I have not nor has any person in trust for 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. I have no real or personal property whatever and further saith not

And I further declare that I am by occupation a labourer and am unable to prosecute any business by reason of the infir- -mities of old age and no other — I have not any wife my children living with me are Sally aged 17 years enjoying good health — Dudley aged 11 years is a cripple and unable to do any labor of consequence And I feel myself dependant on my country for assistance in my decline of life
Attest John Willson
Phinehas his + bloodied mark
Sworn to and declared at Lancaster on the 11 th day of July A.D. 1820 before the Justices aforesaid —
Attest.
John Willson Clerk
I John Willson Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas within and for said County of Coos. do hereby certify that the foregoing Oath and declaration and the Schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the record of the said Court; and I do further certify that it is the opinion of the said Court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is nothing — In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of the said Court on this 11 th day of July A.D. 1820 —
John Willson Clerk

Phinehas Hoddon's application for a Pension under the act of 18 th Mar: 1818 made March 31. 1818
Admitted

State of New-Hampshire.
Coos, ff. ON this 31 st day of March A. D. 1818. before me the subscriber, one of the Justices of the Court of Common Pleas for the second District, in said State, personally appears Phinehas Hodgdon resident in Lancaster in said county of Coos, who being by me first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provision 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:— as hereto annexed viz: —
I Phinehas Hodgdon was a Resident in the Town of Lancaster in the County of Coos & State of New Hampshire of lawful age testify and declare that I have served as a free citizen soldier in the Army of the United States, on the Continental Establishment in the New Hampshire Line more than nine months in the manner following to wit, in the year of AD 1775 I enlisted into Capt. Wadsworth's Company & Col. Pease's Regiment for the term of 12 months. In the year AD 1776 I enlisted into Capt. Norris' Company & Col. Reed's Regiment for the term of three years, and at the expiration of the term of three years, I received an honorable Discharge signed by General George Washington Esquire and I do further declare that I am now an old man, & in need of assistance for support from my country.
And I do further declare that the discharge which I received from Gen. George Washington was lost by time and accident.
Phinehas Hodgdon Mark
Attest Wm Lovejoy Lancaster March 31 st 1818.

that he is reduced in his circumstances absolutely and needs the assistance of his country for support, and that he has no other evidence now in his power of his said services. Sworn to and declared before me the day and year above said.
Wm Lovejoy
I, WILLIAM LOVEJOY, one of the Justices of the Court of Common Pleas for the second District in the State aforesaid, do certify, that it appears to my satisfaction that the said for the full term of nine years Phinehas Hoolgdon at one time served did serve in the revolutionary war against the common enemy, as he has stated in his declaration aforesaid, and that he is reduced in his circumstances, and needs the assistance of his country for his support.---And I do now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me to the Secretary for the Department of War, pursuant to the directions of the before mentioned acts of Congress.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court this 20 th day of December Anno Domini, 1818
I also further certify that I am personally acquainted with Phinehas Hoolgdon the aforesaid applicant and know he is poor & in reduced circumstances and absolutely stands in need of the assistance of his country for support and I also certify that the court of which I am a Justice is a Court of Record.
Wm Lovejoy
State of New Hampshire - Coos Co. John Willson Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, for the County of Coos aforesaid do hereby certify that William Lovejoy Esq. before whom the above declaration was made, was at the date thereof a Justice of the Court aforesaid, that the above signature is in his own proper hand writing and that to his acts and attestations as Justice as aforesaid, full faith and credit is and ought to be given - In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at Lancaster aforesaid, this 20 th day of December A.D. 1818
John Willson Clerk

Philo Hodgdon's
Declaration
31 March
I select for the Blacksmiths and Carpenters and the others to be in the service of the

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File No. 44,424
Phinehas Hodgdon Rev. Rev. War
Act: 18 th March 1818
Index:—Vol. 3 , Page 233
[Arrangement of 1870.]