Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 13300, Jesse Hayden, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
★ Hayden, Jesse
S/3300
CONTENTS
bearded

Vermont 18.835
Depe Hayden (deq?)
Rutland in the State of Vermont
was a private in the Company commanded
Captain Gats - of the Regt. commanded
Col. Reed in the Mass. service
for Ohio - Rep. 7 Oct. 33
Widow of July 1833
Enscribed on the Roll of Vermont at the rate of 20 Dollars 00 Cents per annum commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 7 day of Oct 1834 and sent to R. Temple. Rutland
Arrears to the 4th of . . . . . Pension allowance ending . . . . . and due from Spalding 31 11 July 33
Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.
Recorded by W. L. Williams Clerk Book 6 Vol. 3. Page 70
Not paid from the

Archman
13300 INVALID.
File No. 13 300
Jesse Hayden Dist. Wis. Wis.
Act: June 7th 1832.
Index:—Vol. 1 , Page 135
[Arrangement of 1870.]

1718 Levi Hayden
husband.
Adm by Commt. cert. to widow Dms
Retax R Temple Rutland Dist Vermont

BRIEF in the case of  Isaac Hayden  of  Rutland Dist  in the State of  Vermont  (Act 7th June, 1832.)
 1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? In open Court  2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?  3. How old is he? 77  4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed. 
   Period. Duration of Service. Rank. Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.   Years, Months, Days. As a Gen.     before In 1775 at Lexington Concord & Bunker Hill about 15 Private Capt Horatio Gates   Enlisted August 1776 at the time the British came off Rhode Island 5 Private Col Reed   was frequently called out on alarms, but does not recollect how long at different times 21 " Capt Gates  
 5. In what battles was he engaged? Not any  6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Framingham Middlesex Coy. Massachusetts  7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditional evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? Traditional evidence  8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? No 
I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
Chas. Wilson Examining Clerk. 26. July 1833

1 Jesse
Jesse Hayden
Proof of his death, & name of his widow
See rendered
in Court Library
paper mantle

STATE OF VERMONT, ) RUTLAND COUNTY, ss. }
On this 13 th day of July — A. D. 1832 personally appeared in open Court before the Judge of the Probate Court of Rutland District now sitting, Saps Hayden — a resident of the County of Rutland and State of Vermont, aged 77 th 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, 1832.
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers, and served as herein stated. — In the year 1775 he enlisted at Framingham in the County of Middlesex & State of Massachusetts and was at that time a minute man and at the time the British troops came out of Boston he was called out under Capt. Horatio Gates, Lieut. Asa Biglow, Ensign Joseph Nichols, he met the British at Lexington and Concord and at Lexington on the 19 th of April 1775 he believes he was in service at that time about ten weeks at Lexington Concord & West Cambridge. — In August 1776 he enlisted into Capt. Gates Company Col. Rains Regiment Massachusetts, for the term of five months. He enlisted at Framingham and marched through Charlestown N. H. & Rutland Vt. to Ticonderoga, in the fall his Company marched to Albany, and at the expiration of his term of enlistment he was discharged & returned to Framingham. — At the time the British came off Rhode Island he was called out in the Militia and marched to Swanton 70 miles from his then residence and was in service according to his best recollection three weeks. He was frequently called out for a short time on alarms but does not recollect how long nor how many times. He was born in North Sudbury Mass. on the 23 rd July 1754, his birth is recorded in Sudbury. — After the revolutionary war he removed to Fitzwilliam N. H. and lived there until about twenty years since when he removed to Chittenden in this County and has resided in Chittenden & Rutland ever since — Capt. Gates commanded at Ticonderoga when he was at Ticonderoga.

Jesse Hayden
Rutland
7 months No 6718.
July 27 1882
Lending Office

his Company & Regiment were attached to Brekitt's Brigade. He knew Genl. Arnold, - he never received a written discharge - Col Samuel Brown Regiment (said to be Continental) was at Mount Hope when he was at Scituate - he is known to the Rev Mr Walker (who is now absent to Mass; Gershon Cheney, and to most of the old inhabitants of the East Parish of Rutland.
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 to and subscribed the ? day and year aforesaid.
Al Royce Regt
Joseph Hayden Mark
We Charles Walker a Clergyman residing in Rutland and Gershon Cheney residing in the same place, hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with Joseph Hayden who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be 77 years of age; that he is reputed and believed, in the neighbourhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that we con- cur in that opinion.
Sworn and subscribed the ? day and year aforesaid.
Al Royce Regt
Gershon Cheney Charles Walker
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 applicant was a Revolutionary soldier, and served as he states. And the Court further certifies, that it appears to them that Charles Walker who has signed the preceding certificate, is a Clergyman, resident in Rutland and that Gershon Cheney who has also signed the same, is a resident in Rutland and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
I Rodney C. Royce Regt Clerk of the Court of Petitions do hereby certify, that the foregoing contains the original procee- dings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Joseph Hayden for a Pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 20 th day of July A. D. 1832
Al Royce Regt

State of Vermont
Rutland p — 3
On this 16 th day of September 1833, per- =sonally came before the undersigned authority, Luke Hayden of Rutland, to me well known & a credible witness, who being duly sworn doth depose & say, that his father, Jesse Hayden, who applied for a pension under the late act of Congress, died at Rutland on the 11 th day of July 1833 - and that his mother, Joanna Hayden, was the wife, and is the widow, of said Jesse Hayden - and that his said father was unable from the state of his mind during his last illness, to give any information as to his services, & his children know not where to look for testimony.
Known before me this day & year aforesaid
Robert P. Brattle his Com
State of Vermont
I Robert Brattle, Clerk of Rutland County Court do certify, that Robert Brattle, before whom the above affidavit was taken, is a Justice of Peace for said County, duly commissioned - and that the above is his signature.
In testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand & affix the seal of said Court this 16 th day of September 1833.
R. Brattle