Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 5067, Leonard Hoar, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Hoar, Leonard
R. 5067
Hobart
or Hobert
CONTENTS
Lydia

Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873.
REJECTED
5064
P. O.
Service.
Lydia Hoar
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized.
_____ Contract.

No 7147 Lydia Hoard du NY
Left Am. I. G. H. August 9. '48
5067
act 4 July 1836

Declaration
In order to obtain the benefit of the third section of the act of Congress of the 4th July 1836
State of New York
County of Seneca ss On this 12th day of May 1848 personally appeared before the Court held at Ovid in and for said county Leonard Hobart at present a resident of said county, after being duly sworn according to law, deposes and says that he was born in 1777 during the war of the Revolution, doth on his 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 this declaration is made in the name of the widow Lydia Hoar, or as she was called at the time of her death Lydia Hobart, widow of the late Leonard Hoar, and in behalf of all of her surviving children
That this deponent said mother Lydia Hoar, or Hobart, was the widow of Leonard Hoar, who was as this deponent understands and believes a soldier in the war of the Revolution, that he was a resident of Brimfield and Leicester, Worcester County Massachusetts during the whole war of the Revolution, that he resided part of the time in one and part of the time in the other of those two towns, that as this deponent understands and believes, his said father Leonard Hoar served in the early part of the war of the Revolution, went to Boston in 1775 was in the Northern army, or Fort Stanwix, was at Fort Stanwix all of one season, was at White Plains, was in service mostly from 1775 to 1783 as this deponent believes, that he was under various officers and stationed at numerous places, & that he returned home from the service in October 1783 as this deponent believes, and strange as it may seem, this deponent deposes & says, that he can well recollect of seeing his said father return home from the army, of his arrival at home, and where this deponent first saw him, at the door, that he had been absent a long time, and that he was much of the time absent during the war of the Revolution; That this deponent's said father & mother were married as this deponent believes in 1765 and at any rate before the commencement of the war of the Revolution, that this deponent has one own brother now living who was born in 1773 or before the Revolution, that this deponent's said father died in 1813 leaving his widow Lydia Hoar above named, and who remained his widow till her death and that she died on the 11th day of February 1840 leaving at her death, the following named children her surviving & who still survive, being her only children her surviving & that each of them is over twenty one years of age Dix Hobart of Courtland Co. N.Y. Leonard Hobart now of Seneca Co. N.Y. Lydia Gillett of Onondaga Co. New York & Benjamin B Hobart of Michigan; that the original name was Hoar, but by a law of the State of New York, it was changed to Hobart, which is the present name, that the said Leonard Hobart is a respected person - Subscribed & sworn before the Court in Open Court at the date above written
J. K. Richardson County Judge of Seneca County.
Leonard Hobart

State of New York
Seneca County ss: I certify that James H. Richardson Esq. before whom the within proceedings were had, & whose name is subscribed to the within Surat, was at the date of the same, the County Judge of said County, duly elected & sworn and that the said within proceedings were had in Open Court, and that the said James H. Richardson was the presiding Judge at said Court, - and further that I am well acquainted with the handwriting of said Judge & believe his signature to said Surat is genuine.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of said County & of the Court thereof, this 12th day of May 1848.
J. H. Montgomery Dep. Clerk
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Wartburg Feb 27 1848
Col J. L. Edwards
Sir I have the honor as to allusion to your the papers in the case of Lydia Hoss.
Permit me to ask your attention to this case & also to the case of Mrs Catherine Sauer as your costliest concern.
I am Sir yours
Abt Snodgrass
D Galt

No 7147 Lydia Hoar and wid of Leonard N.Y. Act- 4 July 1836

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Boston:
May 19 th 1848.
I hereby Certify, That, from an examination of the Books and Documents relating to Military Services in the War of the Revolution, which remain in this Department, it appears that the name of Leonard Hoar is borne upon a Pay Roll of the 6 months men of Rumfield, as a private from July 10 to December 5 1780, including allowance of 7 days to return home, 3 months 12 days. Upon a Descriptive List of 6 months men in 1780. as a private of Rumfield - age 38 years.

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And I further Certify, That, before search made for evidence of said facts, the application hereto annexed was filed in this Office, in the form in which the same now appears; that the search was made by myself and my clerks alone; and that said application, and the certificate above set forth, contain all the facts and circumstances within my knowledge, pertaining to the case.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written.
W. L. G. D. Deputy Secretary of the Commonwealth.

Application for certificate of Revolutionary Services made by a Son of the party who rendered the service State of New York County of Seneca, town of Ovid
The Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts is hereby requested to furnish evidence from the Rolls in his office, of the service of my late father Leonard Hoar in the war of the Revolution -
He was probably a native of the town of Brimfield where he was married in 1765 during a part of the Revolution he resided there, also resided in Leicester during the Revolution, Worcester County Massachusetts - He enlisted from the town of Brimfield, or Leicester in the County of Worcester State of Massachusetts, in the first part of the war, probably Spring of '75 went to Boston, cannot name his officers or the Regiment
The most that is recollected is, that he went to Boston in the early part of the war, probably Spring of 1775 - was called to the North Leicestershire & Crown Point & was in Battle of White Plains, had one tour up the Mohawk in the State of New York, was stationed some time at Fort Stanwix, was at West Point, New Jersey, & in service four or five years, and probably some three years from 1780 to Oct 1783, the Son recollects of his father returning in Oct 1783 after an absence of two or three years, probably as a private or it may be as a non commissioned officer
Witness my hand this 29th day of April 1848 - Leonard Hobart By Arad Joy his agent
Signed by said agent Arad Joy in my presence M m Foster Justice
I certify that the said Arad Joy appears from a written authority to be the lawful agent - M m Foster Justice
The name has been changed by a Law of the State of New York from Hoar to Hobart, by which last name the family are now known