Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 13432, Eldad Hotchkiss, Conn. Privateer

SERVICE
NUMBER
Conn. Privateer
Hotchkiss, Eldad
S. 13432
CONTENTS
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486
Connecticut
Elaad Holchris
of prospect in the State of Connecticut who was a private in the Company commanded by Captain Johnson of the Regt commanded by Col. Hays last in the Connecticut line for seven months
Privateer of Conn. Apr. 19/16. Records completed.
Inscribed on the Roll of Connecticut at the rate of 23 Dollars 33 Cents per month to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 8 th day of Sept r 1832 and sent to Hon. S. A. Root
Arrears to 4th of March 1832. 23.33 Semi-ant. allowance ending 4 Sept 1832. 12.66
$35.99
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }

Eldad Hotchkiss.
app d for Pension

Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of "bounty of paper" June 7. 1832 State of Connecticut County of Litchfield } Is town of Prospect within Probate District of Cheshire - District
On this 28 th day of July 1832 personally appeared in open Court before the Court of Probate for the District of Cheshire I said Court being a Court of record and having by the laws of this State a blank and seal and now sitting - Edward Hotchkiss a resident of the town of Prospect in the County and State aforesaid - Aged seventy six years the 21 st day of April 1832 - That he entered the service of the United States and served as herein stated under the following named officers - In the Spring of the year 1776 he enlisted into the Company - Commanded by Captain Nathaniel Johnson - Lieut. Andrew Hine - Portion of Durham Ensign - In the Regiment Commanded by Col. William Douglass - Lieut. Col. Housley - Major Porter Waterbury - The term of my enlistment was either seven or eight months and I think either April or May was the month in which I enlisted - And the Regiment was as charged in North Castle State of New York on the 23 rd December 1776 - I was discharged at Housatonic - The officers thinking me unfit to take along with the troops on account of my being sick - a short time before the expiration of my term of service - After my enlistment I was taken to the City of New York and camped in the City - lay there principally thro' the summer - In the month of August I should think about the middle - our Regiment was ordered a camp to Long Island - but I was left behind being amongst the people - When our Regiment returned from Long Island, after the battle there I again joined them and we marched to protect the stores at Northbury - After remaining at the stores more than a week - One of the enemy's vessels then lying off in the stream I went with

the Sick a crop skins bridge to Housatonic - He was at Housatonic at the battle of White Plains - and became so weak that he never left the Housatonic until he rec d his discharge which was a verbal one merely and which he received he thinks from his Captain - Then he got word home and his brother came & brought him home - and those who enlisted into the same Regiment came home pretty soon after he rec d home -
In reply to the queries of the Department Applicant states first that he was born in the town of New Haven in the Society of Bethany in the year 1756. on the 21 st day of April of that year.
2 nd I have no record of my age unless it is recorded in the town records of New Haven & I lived with my father when I was born when called into service - About fifty years since I moved into the town of Watertown Society of Prospect - and I have ever since lived there - This is now the town of Prospect anno 1840.
4 th Question I have embodied in my declaration 5 th I have stated as fully as I am able all the general circumstances of my service - As I was only with my own Regiment while in New York City - I cannot particularize and under my information & at this distance of time mention the names of the officers of other Regiments - In addition to the time I have specified I was out in a private for two months - and the day before we should have arrived at home - I was taken a prisoner and detained about a seventy four gun ship under a prison ship one month - more making two months imprisonment - and if Applicant can obtain for this - He would like to be informed by the department if he will make out his proof - He also started for Danbury when British came in there - He never was other than a private or rec d other than a verbal discharge - 7 th Hon. Daniel Bronson - John Hinsley Deacons Isaac Smith, Abner Little - and the justices of the Peace for the town of Prospect will testify as to my character for truth - & I believe they are acquainted with my reputation of having been in the Revolution - He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present one he claims that his name is not on the pension roll of any State. I soon & truly believe the day of year aforesaid Ebenezer Hotchkiss

We John E Bray a Clergyman residing in the town of Prospect and Samuel Peck residing in said Prospect hereby Certify that we are well acquainted with Ebenezer Hotchkiss - who has subscribed - and known to the above declaration that we believe him to be seventy six years of age - that he is reputed & believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a Soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that Opinion & we further state he is a member of the Presbyterian Church in this place
John E Bray - Samuel Peck
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 affi- -cant was a Revolutionary Soldier and served as his Master and from a personal acquaintance with the General and private character of the Applicant the Court expresses its unqualified confidence in his veracity, and the Court further certifies that it appears to them that John E. Bray who has signed the preceding certificate is a Clergyman residing in the town of Prospect and that Samuel Peck Esq. who has also signed the same is a resident in the said town of Prospect and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit
Silas Hotchkiss Judge of Probate for the District of Caledonia

I Clement Peck Clerk of the Court of Probate for the District of Cheshire do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceed- -ings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Eldad Hotchkiss for a pension And I further certify that Joel Hinman before whom the accompanying deposition of Nath Warren purports to have been taken is a Justice of the Peace and that his signature to the same is his genuine signature
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of Probate Office this 21 st day of August 1832-
Clement Peck Clerk
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Yours truly John G. [?] I hope to hear from you soon I am Yours truly John G. [?]
Sept 30 1825 Yours truly John G. [?]
Yours truly John G. [?]

State of Connecticut
County of New Haven
By Watbury July 30 1832
Be it remembered that on the day & year aforesaid before me Job Hemen Esq Justice of the Peace for New Haven County duly commissioned & sworn personally appeared Nathaniel Warren of Watertown in Litchfield County to me personally known & who is a credible witness & being duly sworn on oath declares & says that he entered the service of the United States in the spring of the year 1776 he enlisted in Capt Nathaniel John's company Col. Douglass Regt of State Troops That he joined the Regt at New York and continued to do duty & service therein until the 25 th of December 1776 on which said day when he was discharged That he did duty & service in said Regt for the term of Seven months according to my best recollection This Deponent knows that Eldad Hotchkiss of Prospect New Haven County enlisted & joined the same Regt same Company & was in the same mess with this deponent The Deponent has known said Hotchkiss from his boyhood said Hotchkiss was sick a little before The Regt was discharged & was permitted to leave the service
e Nathaniel Warren
Sworn & subscribed the day & year aforesaid Before me Job Hemen and Justice of the Peace

Mch. 5/86 Ex. by Mr. Aspinwall B. J. Ker.
Chatham
13432 ✓ INVALID.
File No. 13.432
Eldad Hotchkiss
Brn Rev. War
Act: June 7 th 1832
Index:—Vol. 1 , Page 179
[Arrangement of 1870.]