Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 17462, Elias Hart, Conn. Continental

SERVICE
NUMBER
Conn. Continental
Hart, Elias
S 17462.
CONTENTS
boarded

1763-Connecticut
Elías Hart
Cornwall in the State of Conn who was a Mi - in the Conn commands by Captain [blank] of the Regt commanded by Col Patterson in the Conn & line for 17 1/2 Mos Continental
July 22. 1834
Ad Conn
Inscribed on the Roll of Conn at the rate of 58 Dollars 33 Cents per annum. to commence on the 14th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 3 day of Sept George [blank] Arrears to [blank] 110 66 Pension allowance ending Sept 29 16 $145.82
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by E. K. Druce Clerk 8 Vol. 23 Page 19

Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832
State of Connecticut } ss
County of Litchfield } ss
on this 24 th day of August 1832 Personally appeared in open Court before the Court of Probate for the District of Litchfield in the County aforesaid now sitting Elias Hart a resident of Cornwall in said County of Litchfield and State of Connecticut aged 73 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 he the said Elias Hart entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated viz, on the first of January 1776 he enlisted into the Continental Service for one year in a Company commanded by Capt Hosea of the Connecticut line Mr White was the first Lieut and Mr Johnson was the Ensign said Company was annexed to Col  Gally John Patterson Patterson, Regiment, that he marched in the first place to Cambridge and thence to Bunker- hill in the State of Massachusetts, from thence he marched to the City of New York and from thence to Canada and was discharged at the end of the year at Fort George in the State of New York, he had a written discharge which is now lost, he does not recollect by whom it was signed, under this service he obtained a pension under the act of the 18 th of March 1818 and was afterwards struck from the pension roll in consequence of the amount of his property -

and further That in the Month of April 1777 he was drafted from the Militia for one Month and a half Month and immediately entered the service and continued therein until the end of the term, that he went to Fishkill and Poughkeepsie in the State of New York being Mr Pettibone was the Capt and Seth Prince of Cornwall was the Ensign and was discharged at said Poughkeepsie had no written discharge and further That he was drafted again for two Months and entered the service on the 2 d day of September 1777 and went to Saratoga and was in the Battle at the taking of Genl Burgoyne and continued in the service for the said term of two Months and was discharged at the place now the City of Troy in the State of New York That he had no written discharge, Sarah Whitney was the Capt, the Company belonged to Col Thaddeus Cook's Regiment, That in the Summer of 1778 his father Solomon Hart was drafted for two months from the Militia and he the said Elias Hart went into the service for the said Solomon Hart for the said term of two Months as a Substitute, that he went to Hornbeck in the State of Connecticut  Kentucky , Mr Fletcher was the Capt of said Company and Mr Dibble was a Lieut, that he was discharged at Hornbeck but no written discharge and further That on his return home from the last term he was drafted for two Months from the Militia and immediately entered the service and marched to Fairfield in the State of Conn and continued there for said

on the 15 th day of Nov r 1778 term of two Months and was discharged at said Fairfield but has no recollection of receiving a written discharge, that he was born in the town of Farming ton in the County of Hartford on the 11 th day of May 1759 and believes that his age is recorded on the Records of said Farming ton that at the time of his service in the Army he resided in the town of Cornwall in the County of Litchfield and that since the Revolutionary War he has resided in said town of Cornwall where he now resides that he has no documentary evidence of his service and no evidence of any kind within the present knowledge of the said Applicant except the Affidavits forwarded herewith to substantiate his statement, that he is well known to Oliver Burnham and Samuel Hopkins Esqs both of said Cornwall who can testify to his character for truth and of his general reputation of having been a Revolutionary Soldier. He hereby declares that his name is not on the pension rolls of the agency of any State and relinquishes every claim whatever to any pension or annuity except the present sworn to & subscribed the day of year aforesaid before me Frederick Wolcott Judge of Probate District of Litchfield County
We Oliver Burnham and Samuel Hopkins of Cornwall in the County of Litchfield and State of Connecticut hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Elias Hart of said Cornwall who has subscribed and sworn to the above decla- -rations, that we believe him to be 73 years of age, that he is respected and beloved in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a Soldier of the Revolution and that we con- -cur in that opinion sworn to & subscribed before me Frederick Wolcott Samuel Hopkins Judge of Probate Litchfield County

claim, S. 17462, it appears that Elias Hart was born May 11, 1759 at Farmington, Connecticut. Also
While residing at Cornwall, Connecticut, he enlisted in January 1776 and served one year as a private in Captain Samuel Sloan's Company, Colonel John Paterson's Massachusetts Regiment and was in the expedition to Canada; enlisted in April 1777 and served one and one half months in Captain Pettibone's Company, Colonel Joshua Porter's Connecticut Regiment; enlisted September 2, 1777 and served two months
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in Captain Tarball Whiting's Company, Colonel Thaddeus Cook's Connecticut Regiment; and was in the battle and capture of Burgoyne; served in the summer of 1778, two months, as substitute for his father, Solomon Hart, in Captain Fletcher's Connecticut Company; and immediately afterward served two months in Captain Tobe's Connecticut Company, and was discharged November 15, 1778. Timeline Date
He was allowed pension on his application executed October 7, 1819, at which time he was living in Cornwall, Connecticut. He died February 22, 1834. *****

LAND AND LOANS
MANISTEE COUNTY ABSTRACT OFFICE
Pearl M. GEORGE A. HART MANISTEE, MICH.
405 Oak Street.
U. S. Pension Office Washington D. C.
Dear Sir: - Will you kindly tell me if Captain Elias Hart, (who was born May 11, 1759 in Cornwall Conn., & engaged in Farmington Conn., and died in Cornwall Conn. February 22, 1834) obtained his title of Captain in the War of the Revolution, or whether it was conferred upon him later. At the age of fifteen he entered the Revolutionary War as a substitute for his father. Will you also inform me of his services during the said war. Thanking you very much for your information I am, very respectfully, Pearl Marguerite Hart.

C. W. & N. Div. L. T. R. V. 17483.
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, BUREAU OF PENSIONS,
WASHINGTON, D. C.,
April 11th, '06.
Sir:-
Replying to your inquiry for the military record of Elias Hart you are advised that he made an application for pension on August 24th, 1832, at which time he was residing in Cornwall, Conn. and 73 years of age, and his pension was allowed for seventeen and a half months actual service as a private in the Conn. troops, Revolutionary war; a part of the time he served under Capt. Sloan and Col. John Patterson. He enlisted from Cornwall, Conn.
Very respectfully,
Acting Commissioner.
Mr. Elias Purson Hart, 59 East 70th Street, New York City.

From the papers in the Revolutionary War pension
REVOLUTIONARY WAR RECORDS SECTION.
3-525
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
Washington, D. C., _____, 19_____
14.17.462
In reply to your request of _____, received _____ for a statement of the military history of Ebenezer Stark a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau.
   DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE.   CAPTAIN. COLONEL.     Ex R Jan'y 1776 1 1/2 year Pat. Samuel Sloan John Paterson 15th Conn Inf.   Apr. 1777 1 1/2 mo. Pittsborough Isaac Packer Mass.   Sept. 2 1777 2 mo. Isaac Packer Isaac Packer Conn.   * Summer 1778 2 mo. Isaac Packer Isaac Packer "   Immediately after 2 mo. 2 days ending Nov 15 1778 Isaac Packer "   Substituted for his father Solomon Stark  
Battles engaged in, Capture of Burgoyne X
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Cornwall Conn.
Date of application for pension, Oct 7 1819 His d. al.
Residence at date of application, Cornwall Litchfield Co. Conn.
Age at date of application, born May 11 1759 at Farmington Conn.
died Feb 22 1834
Remarks: No date on file as to his family.
Sub for father Solomon Stark
It is not stated in the cl. that soldier was a Captain.
Respectfully,
Commissioner.

15.663 R Connecticut, _____
Elias Hart
of Cornwall in the state of Conn's who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Fallows  Putnam , of the Massachusetts  Continental line, for the term of one  two years.
inscribed on the Roll of Connecticut at the rate of Eight Dollars per month, to commence on the 1 st of October 1819.
Certificate of Pension issued the 1 st of Nov 1819 and paid by George Wheaton Esq Cornwall. Conn's
Arrears to 4th of March 1820 . . . $ 48
Semi-annual ending
(Nov 29/19)
Class = 39.48
{ Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818. }
see letter to George Wheaton 27 Oct 1832

I Ambrose Collins of Goshen in the County of Litchfield & State of Connecticut, aged 77 years, being duly sworn, do on my oath depose & say, that in the fall of the year 1777, I was drafted from the militia to do duty two months at the Northward, of that I did accordingly serve two months in the company of Captain Sarahel Whitney, & in the Regiment of Col Cook, I was then, & still am well acquainted with Elias Hart of Cornwall in said County, and know that said Hart did duty in the same company with me, the full term of two months. We left home in September and according to the best of my recollection early in the month and were in the battle connected with the taking of Burgoyne. I was a sergeant of Capt Whitney's company, & Mr. Hart was in the same tent with me, through this term of service, Ambrose Collins
State of Connecticut } Litchfield County } p Litchfield May 27 th 1833
Then personally appeared Ambrose Collins, to me well known to be a credible witness, and made solemn oath to the truth of the facts stated in the foregoing deposition, by him in my presence subscribed, Before me
Origen S. Seymour Justice of the Peace

I Frederick Wolcott Clerk of the County Court within & for the County of Litchfield in the State of Connecticut, certify that Origen S. Seymour Esq. is a Justice of the Peace for said County legally commissioned & qualified, & that his name subscribed to the within Certificate is as I verily believe his genuine signature & his proper hand. Given a Testimony whereof I have

nd at 79° 24. eig- NY
17. 462 INVALID.
No. 17. 462
Elias Hart
Pris Rev War
Act: June 7 th 82
Box: —Vol. 1 , Page 165
[Arrangement of 1870.]
Apr 11 '96 sold pen to E B Hart 59 Ea newport
S.M.B. 1916 Jan 14 Hist. to Pearl H. Hart
1928 Aug 28 Tombstone Data to Elias R. Hale See letter in Oliver Burn ham S. 15 333 a 7.

I Elias Hunt of Cornwall in the County of Litchfield and State of Connecticut do desire and declare that in the Month of January A.D. 1776 I enlisted as a private into the Service of the United States in the Revolutionary War in a Company commanded by Capt. S. Stone in Col. John Pattison's Regt. in the Continental establishment on the Massachusetts line for the term of one year that I continued and served as a private in said Company ten Months I was then taken sick and unable to do duty in said Company and was discharged therefrom I feel the desire that by reason of my age and reduced circumstances in point of property I stand in need of the assistance of my country for my support.
B If a certificate is granted on this declaration please forwarded it to Geo. Wheaton Esq. Commissioner Litchfield County Ct. E Hunt

I Phineas Hunt of Cornwall in the County of Litchfield and State of Connecticut of lawful of age depose and say that I was a private and served in the same company with the said Elias Hunt at the same time and know that the facts stated by him in his said affidavit in respect to his service in said company are true and I further depose that I am well acquainted with the said Elias Hunt and know that he is poor and stands in need of the assistance of his country for his support. Phineas Hunt
Personally appeared Phineas Hunt the above deponent and made oath that the facts stated in his affidavit by him subscribed are the truth before me This 5 th day of Oct r 1819
Geo. Wheaton Justice of Peace
I Jacob Brownson of Cornwall in Litchfield County depose and say that I am acquainted with the facts stated in Elias Hunt's affidavit within written and know they are all true and I further depose that I am acquainted with the said Hunt and know that he is poor and stands in need of the assistance of his country for his support Jacob Brownson
Litchfield County ss Cornwall Oct 5 th 1819 Personally

I certify that I am well acquainted with the within deponents Elias Hart, Phineas Hart and Jacob Brownson and know that they are witnesses of unquestionable truth and veracity. Cornwall Oct 15 th 1819
Geo. Wheaton Justice of Peace
Frederick Wolcott Judge of the Court of probate within the District of Litchfield in the State of Connecticut do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the aforesaid Elias Hart did serve in the Revolutionary War as stated in the preceding declaration against the common enemy. I also certify that Phineas Hart & Jacob Brownson the aforesaid Deponents are credible witnesses. And that George Wheaton Esq before whom the aforesaid affidavits were taken was at the time thereof a Justice of the peace for said Litchfield county, his name thereunto is in my opinion the hand writing of said Wheaton. — And it is proved to my satisfaction that the said Elias Hart is in indigent circumstances & absolute- -ly needs the assistance of his country for support. And I now transmit the proceedings & testimony taken there before to the Secretary for the Department of War pursuant to the direction of the aforementioned Act of Congress.
Witness my hand and seal of Office at Litchfield this 7 th day of October 1819. Frederick Wolcott, Judge of Probate

10 m. Patten
free
5048 Case of Elias Hart. K Geo: Wheaton agt Cornwall Conn. Recd Feb 16. 1819.
Southum Esq. Secretary for the War Department Washington City

State of Connecticut County of Probate District of Litchfield ss,
On this 7 th day of October A D 1810 before me the Subscriber Judge of the Court of Probate for the said District (which Court is a Court of Record) personally appears Elias Hart aged sixty years resident in the town of Cornwall in the aforesaid District, who being 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 & naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War." That he belonged to, served as a private soldier in the American Army in the War of the Revolution & on the Continental establishment that he enlisted into said Army in the month of January A D 1776 for the term of One Year at the aforesaid town of Cornwall into a Company commanded by Capt. Samuel Sloan of Col. John Patterson Regiment in the Massachusetts line, that he immediately joined said Regiment at Cambridge near Boston, that soon after he marched with said Regiment to the City of New York after remaining at that place a few weeks he marched with said Regiment to Canada from whence he soon after retreated to Ticon- deroga where he remained at Mount Independence until about the expiration of ten months from said enlistment when being

I Jacob Brownson of Cornwall, County of Litchfield and State of Connecticut depose and say, that he was well acquainted with Elias Hart of Cornwall aforesaid during the Revolu- tionary War that the declaration of said Hart made to obtain a pension under the act of Congress of the 7 th of June 1832 has been read to me and the facts therein stated are to my knowledge true I was knowing to the said Hart performing the several terms of services stated in his said declaration
his Jacob X Brownson mark
State of Connecticut Litchfield County ss Cornwall November 20 th 1832 Personally appeared Jacob Brownson to me known to be a credible witness and made oath to the truth of the facts stated in his affidavit above Subscribed Before me
George Wheaton Justice of the Peace
I Ruth Brownson of Cornwall depose and say that I was acquainted with Elias Hart of said Cornwall during the Revolutionary War and I was knowing to the said Hart being in the Army at several times during the War I well remember that he went to Canada and Fishkill and at other places which I can not now remember the names
Ruth X Brownson mark
State of Connecticut,

I Frederick Wolcott Clerk of the County Court within & for the County of Litchfield in the State of Connecticut, certify that George Wheaton Esq. is a Justice of the Peace for said County, that as such he hath a right to administer Oaths, & that the signature to the preceding Certificate which purports to be his is genuine. In testimony whereof I have to set my hand & affix the Seal of said Court at Litchfield in said County this 20 th day of November A.D. 1832.
Frederick Wolcott, Clerk.

Concord Nov 26 th 1832
Sir Mr Elias Harts Pension papers are herewith return with the accompanied Dispositions for further examination
Yours Respectfully
J S Edwards Esq George Wheaton

12 mi private Cornwall on for $58.33 Sept 3
Sept 24
Genl Lewis B. Cass Secretary of War Washington City
George Wheatley Rensselaer Papers Cornwall Co

Sir Please forward my Certificate if one is granted to George Wheaton of Cornwall Conn te and if any further Evidence is required communicate with the Wheatons yours, Elias Hart

I, Rufus Sandon of Salisbury in Litchfield County in the State of Connecticut aged Seventy four years, do depose and say that in the month of April in the year 1777, I was drafted to go in the United States Service in the Connecticut State Troops, for the term of six weeks, and that I then resided in Canaan said Salisbury, and that I marched from thence in a company under the command of Capt. Pittibone then of Norfolk in said County, to Peks kill on the Hudson River, and from thence proceeded to Fishkill, and there remained till the expiration of said term of six weeks. The regiment which I was in was commanded by Col. Joshua Porter then of said Salisbury. I further depose and say that Elias Hart of Cornwall in said County was drafted at the same time that I was, as aforesaid, and was during the said term of six weeks, in the same company with me, and I well recollect that during said term, we, said Hart and myself belonged to the same mess. I further depose and say that I have this day seen Elias Hart of Cornwall who has made application for a pension under the Law of the 7 th June 1832, and I know him to be the same man, with whom I was in the service as aforesaid. Rufus Sandon V
State of Connecticut } of Canaan May 1 st 1833. County of Litchfield. }
On the day and year abovementioned personally appeared before me Rufus Sandon, and subscribed the above deposition, and having been duly cautioned, made solemn oath in due form that the facts therein stated are true. I further certify that I am well acquainted with the said Rufus Sandon and that he is a man of unimpeachable character for truth and veracity. Wm P. Burrall Justice of the Peace

I Frederick Wolcott, Clerk of the County of Curt within & for the County of Litchfield in the State of Connecticut, certify that William D. Burrall Esq. was on the first day of May 1833, to all the intents & purposes of the Peace for said County le- gally commissioned & qualified, and that his name subscribed to the preceding Certificates is as I verily believe his genuine signature & his proper hand writing. —
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the Seal of said Court at Litchfield in said County, this 27 th day of May A. 1833.
Frederick Wolcott, Clerk

May 3 rd AD 1833 Darius Hand of the Town of Maryland in the County of Otsego, came before me John Mason a justice of the Peace of the Town of Westford aforesaid and saith that he and Elias Hunt of Cornwell in the state of Connecticut did enlist into the United States service in January AD 1776. we joined the army at Cambridge near Boston we marched from thence to New London and from thence by water to New York and Staten Island and from thence by the way of North river to Montreal in Canada and that we were at this time under the command of Col. John Patterson in the Massachusetts Line and in the company of Capt Samuel Hlean when after serving our time out we were discharged in the AD 1777. we served two months at the Schoharie Burgoyne we were then commanded by Col. Theodorus Cook and Capt David Whitney and also that in the year 1778. that he the said Hunt served two months in the army and was stationed at Danbury, after being discharge- d we returned home and soon after enlisted for two months and joined the regiment under Capt David Whitney and were both quartered in the same room we were discharged from that service in Novr. 1778 and further saith not
Sworn and subscribed this 2 nd day of May before me John Mason J.P.
Darius Hand
This is to certify that I have been personally acquainted with

This may certify that I have been acquainted with the within named Darius Hand of the Town of Maryland for many years and believe him to be a man of truth and veracity John Mason J. D.
This is to certify that I have been personally acquainted with the within named Darius Hand for a number of years and consider his statements entitled to full credit as he has always sustained a fair character for truth and veracity
John Drake, Postmaster Westford Otsego co. N.Y.
State of New York Otsego County — ss: I Horace Bathrop, Clerk of the said County do hereby certify, that John Mason Esquire before whom the foregoing Affidavit of Darius Hand purports to have been sworn, & whose name appears to the above certificate, was at the date of the same, one of the Justices of the Peace in & for the said County; and that I am acquainted with his hand writing, and verily believe his name subscribed to the said Affidavit and Certificate to be his

Payable semi-annually. The first payment on this Certificate will be made on the 4th of March next, in Middletown, at the
U. S. Pr. Bank
Claire
1877

War Department.
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.
I CERTIFY that, in conformity with the Law of the United States, of the 18th March, 1818,
Elias Hart
late a private —
in the Army of the Revolution, is inscribed on the Pension List, Roll of the Connecticut Agency, at the rate of Eight dollars per month, to commence on the seventh day of October one thousand eight hundred and nineteen .
GIVEN at the War Office of the United States, this 1 st day of November one thousand eight and nineteen
John C. Calhoun
Secretary of War.