Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 13,254, Edward Hackett, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass
Hackett Edward
S 13254
CONTENTS

14937
14937
New York
Edward Hackett
of Bayonne in the State of New York who was a Private in the Comp. commanded by Captain Hall of the Reg. commanded by Col. _____ in the New York line for 20 months
★ Mass. Line.
Records corrected Feb. 24/66. P. 2
Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 66 Dollars 66 Cents per annum. to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 26 day of July 1832 and to Martha J. Hackett
Arrears to the 4th of Mar. 31 $133.33 Semi-ann. allowance ending 4 Sep. 33 33.33
$166.66
Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.
Recorded by G. C. Hely Clerk. book E. Vol. 3. Page 61

Edward Hackett's
Return No 1290
August 30 183~
London Offer } answering
Adm d 20m per $666.66

Declaration
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June 7. 1832.
State of New York } County of Cayuga }
On this 19 th day of July 1832, before the subscriber one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in & for the said county personally appeared Edward Hackett residing in Locke in said county aged eighty four years who being first duly sworn, 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 entered the service of the United States under the following named officers, and served as herein stated.
He enlisted in Freetown, Massachusetts, in the fall of 1775, under Capt. Frow, does not recollect the name of his Lieutenant or Ensign as a volunteer for the term of four months served said term out and was regularly discharged. At that time of his enlistment he resided in Freetown Massachusetts.
He next enlisted at Freetown in the summer of 1776 as a volunteer under Capt. Hall does not recollect the name of any other of his officers for four months served it out & was regularly discharged late in the fall. During this term he marched to Scituate and performed garrison duty.
Enlisted again in said Freetown, as a volunteer in the spring of 1776 under Capt. Ingram & was stationed at Benobscot served eight months & was regularly discharged.
Enlisted again at Freetown aforesaid, as a volunteer, in the spring of 1777 under Capt. Dufily served four months and was regularly discharged.
He has no documentary evidence and knows of no person whose testimony he can procure who can testify to his service.
He hereby relinquishes every claim, whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of the Agency of any state.
Sworn & subscribed the day his & year aforesaid, before me } Edward X Hackett Garrison M c Laughlin } mark of Cayuga Com Pleas } In person of Jesse Millard

We William Williams, a clergyman residing in Summerhill in the county of Cayuga, and Jesse Millard, residing in Locke in said county hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Edward Hacket who has subscribed & sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be eighty four years of age; and that he is reputed and believed in the neighbourhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the Revolution, & that we concur in that opinion.
Sworn & subscribed the day and year aforesaid before me Garrison Mott a Judge of Cayuga Com. Pleas
Wm Williams
J. Millard
I do hereby declare my 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 states. And I do further certify that it appears to me that William Williams who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman residing in the town of Summerhill and that Jesse Millard who has also signed the same is a resident of the town of Locke and is a credible person and that their statement is entitled to full credit.
Garrison Mott a Judge of Cayuga Com. Pleas
State of New York Cayuga County ss.
I Michael J Myers, Clerk of said County do certify that Garrison Mott Esquire in whom the two several preceding affidavits purport to be taken, was, on the day the same were taken and subscribed, a Judge of Cayuga County Court, duly qualified by Law to take the same, and that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of such Judge and truly believe the signature purporting to be his and attached to said affidavits, is genuine. Witness my hand and the seal of my said County the 24 July 1832
M. J. Myers

Edward Hackett Melun 701290 Decm 30/32 Peter after answer as a witness H. C. C. 66
State of New York } County of Cayuga }
On this 19 th day of december 1832, before the sub- scriber one of the Judges of the court of common pleas, personally appeared Edward Hackett, who being duly sworn, deponeth and saith, that, by reason of old age and the loss of memory, he can not swear positively as to the precise length of his service, but according to the best of his recollection, he served not less than the periods mentioned below, & in the grade of Private. I served one year & eight months. For such service I claim a pension.
Sworn & subscribed on the day above-mentioned. before me.
his Edward x Hackett marks
Governor Moore a Judge
And I hereby certify that the within Applicant, did satisfactorily answer the seven interrogatories prescribed by the war department, in relation to the pension act of 7 th Jan 1832 - & I also certify, that he was unable to attend court on the 19 th July 1832, on account of the infirmities of his very advanced age.
State of New York } Cayuga County } " "
Governor Moore a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas
I Michael S. Myers Clerk of said County, do certify that Governor Moore Esquire, before whom the above Affidavit purports to have been taken, was on the day it was taken, a Judge of Cayuga County courts, duly qualified to take the same; and that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of such Judge, & easily believe the signature purporting to be his & attached to said Affidavit to be genuine. Witness my hand & the seal of our said County the 24 th day of december 1832.
M. S. Myers Clerk

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
Washington, D. C., _____, 19_____
In reply to your request of _____, received _____ for a statement of the military history of Edward Hackett , 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. S.F. 13254.
   DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE.   CAPTAIN. COLONEL.     Fall 1775 4 mos Pvt. Trout Mass.   Summer 1776 4 mos Hall   Spring 1777 4 mos Surphy   Spring? 8 mos Lt. { or Ingram   } Manasseh Kempton  
Battles engaged in, none stated.
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Freetown, Mass.
Date of application for pension, July 19 1832. His claim was allowed.
Residence at date of application, Lockport, Cayuga Co. N.Y.
Age at date of application, 7 June 5 1748 or 1753
Remarks: there is no family data on file.
Soldier received a pension of $66.66 per annum under Act June 7, 1832 from mtd. 4. 1831.
Respectfully,
I have put the 8 mos. service last as from the soldiers Commissioner. Even statements it could not have been in 1776 or 1777.

Re War AWF/ILL
June 18, 1950.
Mrs. J. D. Seagers Lock Box 469 Westfield, Pennsylvania.
Dear Madam:
I advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S. 13254, it appears that Edward Hackett, while residing at Freetown, Massachusetts, enlisted and served with the Massachusetts troops as follows:
Service From the fall of 1775, four months as a private in Captain Sew's Company; from the summer of 1776, four months as a private in Captain Hall's Company; from the spring of 1777, four months as a private in Captain Durphy's Company; and eight months, dates not shown, as a sergeant in Captain Manasseh Kempton's Company.
He was allowed pension on his application executed July 19, 1832, while a resident of Locke, Cayuga County, New York, aged eighty-four years.
There are no family data.
Very truly yours,
E.W.MORGAN, Acting Commissioner.

1916 May 5: History to Mrs H. W. B. Masters. M. B. H. 1916 Dec. 21. Hist. to Mrs. Mary R. Wolcott. P. 1917, Apr. 25: To Mrs. Mary R. Wolcott - To auditor for fr. date of death etc. 1924 - June 18 - Hist. to Mary R. Wolcott 1930 - June 18 - " " Mrs. J. D. Seager
Reckman
13.254 ✓ INVALID.
File No. 13.254
Edward Hackett
Brn. Rev. War
Act: June 7 th 1832
Index: — Vol. 1 , Page 284
[Arrangement of 1870.]

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June 18, 1924.
Mary R. Wolcott, Williamsport, R. D. 2, Pa.
Madam;
I have to advise you that from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S. 13254, it appears that Edward Hackett, while residing at Freetown, Mass- achusetts, enlisted → served with the next 3 years as in the fall of 1775 and served four months months as a private in Captain Trow's Massachusetts  company  Regt.
He enlisted in the summer of 1776 and served four months as a private in Captain Hall's Massachusetts Com- pany.
He enlisted in the spring of 1777 and served four months as a private in Captain Durphy's Massachusetts Company.
He also served eight months as a sergeant in Cap-

tain Manasseh Kempton's Massachusetts Company.
no dates of this pension given
He was allowed pension on his application executed July 19, 1832, while a resident of Locke, Cayuga County, New York, aged eighty four years.
There is  all no data on file as to his family.
Respectfully,
Commissioner.

Westfield, Pa., April 24, 1930.
Bureau of Pensions Washington, D.C.
Dear Sir:
Will you kindly
give me information regarding the Pension of Edward Hackett, Revolutionary War Veteran. Record Dept. of Interior Sec. 5-525 S. 7.13-254 Pensioned by Certificate 14937 Albany N. Y. roll. Last pay of pension 1836.
Would like to find out if his pension was for Revolutionary War service, and please give the Volume and page where it can be found. Am enclosing self addressed envelope. Thanking you in advance.
Mrs. J. N. Seagers P.S. Would also like to know if his wife's name is listed.

Williamsport Pa 5/12 1924
Commissioner of Department of Interior Bureau of Pensions Washington D.C.
Dear Sir
Kindly send me the Rev-war history of Joseph Hackett of Freetown Bristol County Mass where he enlisted.
Edward Hackett who enlisted at Freetown Bristol County Mass was not-listed in the Mass. sol. rolls. so I was advised by the Secy. of the commonwealth of Mass. some years ago when I asked for the information. I since looked over the Mass. sol & roll books did not find the name of my ancestor Edward Hackett Mass. sol. I am positive he served in the Mass. Militia having seen an affidavit of Josiah Hackett that was at the Bureau of Pensions office made by the aforesaid Josiah that Edward Hackett was in service at Penobscot served 9 mo was a sergeant also served at Roxbury near Boston and an alarm that he served in Abiel Pierce Col. Nathaniel 1st one of the 2nd  3rd companies were organized at Freetown Mass. in time to respond to the first call now known as the Lexington alarm and on this memorable occasion participated in the spring act of the bloody drama under the lead of Capt Abiel Pierce (also other companies)

24. made when Edward Hackett applied for his pension in 1833.
I see listed under the Mass. Pools of sol. & sailors to look for the name Hackett under the names of Hallet Heallek Heallek Halford Healliet Halledford Halford and Wallak. Hammond.
would you kindly ascertain for me if Edward Hallett of Barnstable who is listed under the Mass. sol. & sailors was my Edward Hackett my Edward Hackett received a pension of $66.66 cents resided at time he applied for a pension at Locke Bayuga Co. N.Y. hence the affidavit of Josiah Hackett was made.
In order to ascertain if Edward Hallett and Edward Hackett was one and the same man you can ascertain by looking up to see if Edward Hallett applied and received a pension if so send me a copy of some his war history. Thanking you and trusting to hear from you at an early date
I am yours truly
Mrs. Mary R. Wolcott
Williamsport R.D. 2. Penna

Rev.-1 6 B 26.
Williamsport Pa. Dec 5. 1916.
Department of Interior Bureau of Pensions Washington D.C.
G.M. Saltzgaber Commissioner Dear Sir
Will you kindly inform me where the Muster roll can be found when Edward Hackett enrolled for service in the revolutionary war. Or can you give me the company? He served in during the time he served in the rev. war.
I knew he received a pension my daughter Mrs Mastus wrote you for his rev war record he is my great great grandfather we expect to extend the Hackett genealogy and do not know where he was born we wrote to the Boston state House asking for the Muster roll copy of him and my other great-g grandfather John McFarland. They told us there was no Edward Hackett in the Rev war only an Edmund and they weren't the same persons now we know our g.g.g father Edward Hackett rec a pension his granddaughter who was 85 years old told us so she just died about two months ago and you sent us his rev war history last year which can

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be found Rev was section 3-525
I. F. 13. 254 He lived at Locke Cayuga Co. N.Y. rec a pension of $64.66 per annum under act of June 7th 1832.
Can you give me the date of his death when his pension stopped, I suppose that would give the date of his death.
Is there no way of ascertaining what company he served in, by the officers he served under, which were Captain from Hall Durphy and Dugram. and he enlisted at Free town Mass My great grandmother Father John McFarland also served in the war was you out-one his rev was record he served under Sergeant Carpenter Captain Ebenezer Lovell Capt Joseph Pierce Col. Major Stanford Timothy Bigelow
Attached to Gov. John Hancock's guard
served 1776 5 weeks May 1778 5 weeks 1778. 6 weeks May 1779. 6 weeks 1779 3 mo. April 1781. 9 mo. 1782. 3 or 4 weeks enlisted
Worcester Mass his claim was not allowed for the reason that he failed to furnish satisfactory proof of his alleged services required by the pension law of June 7th 1832. under which he applied
Can you tell me where to find his pension This can be found J. McFarland Rev was record section 3-525 J. S. C. R. File 6.705 He lived in New York state after the
Rev was. Hoping to hear from you at an early date and Thanking you I am very truly yours Mrs. Mary R. Wolcott Henry House Williamsport Pa.

April 25, 1917
Mrs. Mary R. Wolcott, Henry House, Williamsport, Pa.
Madam:
In response to your letter of the nineteenth instant, relative to the claim of Edward Hackett, S. File No. 13,254, Rev. War, you are advised that for the date of last payment of the soldier's pension, probable date of death, and name of the person to whom the last payment was made, you should address the Auditor for the Interior Department, Washington, D. C., giving all of the following data: "Edward Hackett, Cert. No. 14,937, issued July 26, 1833, at $66.66 per annum, from March 4, 1831, under the Act of June 7, 1832, payable at the New York Agency."
Very respectfully,
Commissioner.

Henry House
H. W. B. MASTERS PROPRIETOR
WILLIAMSPORT, PA., April 29 191 6
Department of the Interior, Washington, D. C.
Can you give me the war record of Edward Hackett, who came from Plymouth, Mass., to Locke, Cayuga Co., N. Y.?
Did he receive a pension of six dollars a month?
Thanking you, I am
Yrs. H. W. B. Masters.

Jonah Hackett's Affidavit for Edward Hackett.

State of New York } Chenango County }
Josiah Hackett, being sworn in due form of law, saith that he is 74 years of age, that he resides in Oxford in Chenango County and State of New York, that he was well acquainted with Edward Hackett of Locke in Cayuga County, during the Revolutionary war, that said Edward Hackett is an applicant for a pension under the Act of June 7th 1832, and that he has frequently seen the said Edward Hackett since the Revolutionary War, that as this deponent believes the said Edward Hackett will be eighty years of age on the 5th day of June next, that he lived with the said Edward at New Sareton in the State of Massachusetts in the year 1775, and that in the year 1775 the said Edward joined Captain David Dinsleys Company of Militia and the said Edward was absent from New Sareton in the said Company for the term of three months at Lenoxscot Point, that he this deponent was during the year 1776 in the Continental Service at Roxbury in the neighborhood of Boston for the term of 6 months in Captain Beal Pierce's Company, and that the said Edward Hackett was to this deponents knowledge at Roxbury in another company of Massachusetts Militia for the term of three months in the year 1776, - that the said Edward Hackett was in the year 1777 absent from New Sareton in the Revolutionary Army, at Tienderoga and other

places for the term of nine months, that he this deponent did not accompany him during the said term of nine months, but he saw the said Edward when he left home and when he returned home and it was understood in the family of said Edward and by others in New Sarepta that he was absent in the year 1777 nine months in constant service in the American Army, and he never heard any doubt expressed as to the said Edward being absent in active service for the said term of nine months in the year 1777. That in the year 1778 or 1779 the said Edward Hackett was absent from New Sarepta at Penobscot point for the term of nine months in Captain Mansfield Hampton's company of Artillery. That in consequence of old age and consequent loss of memory he cannot distinctly state the times when the said Edward went into service or the days of the month when he returned home, but he does distinctly recollect that the said Edward was absent in active service in the American Army for the term of two years as above related, and that the said Edward was a Sergeant during the nine months, that he the said Edward was at Penobscot point under Captain Hampton, and further this deponent saith not.
Josiah Hackett

State of New York } Chenango County } ss
On this 18 th day of February 1833, personally appeared before me a Notary Public in and for the County aforesaid, Josiah Hackett above named, who subscribed and swore to the truth of the above statement, and I certify that I am well acquainted with the said Josiah Hackett, and that he is a credible person and that his statement is entitled to full faith and credit.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office the day and year aforesaid.
Henry R. Mygatt Notary Public for Chenango County State of New York