Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 15,879, Elisha Hallet, Mass. Sea Service Mass.

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Mass Sea Service Hallet, Elisha Mass.
S 15879
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18.111
Merrill
Elisha Hallet
of Hancock in the State of Maine who was a private in the Company commanded by Captain Lewis - of the Regt : commanded by Col. Gorton in the Mass. S. M. line for Porpoise . & Mass. Rec. Service
Inscribed on the Roll of Maine at the rate of $3 Dollars 33 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 24 day of July 1833 and sent to R. C. Vose Presenting
Arrears to the 4th of March 1833 . $ 86.66 Semi-ant. allowance ending Sept - 21.66
$108.32
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by W. L. Williams Clerk, Book E Vol. 1 Page 21
See letter to R. C. Vose Aug. 16. 1890 Dec 30. Examined by consular clerk State Dept. 1891 Jan 12 Ed. Whitehouse. History Pres.
Note of death not recorded

Declaration.
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th of June, 1832.
STATE OF MAINE, } ss. KENNEBEC COUNTY, }
ON this 15 th day of August A. D. 1832 personally appeared before the Hon. NATHAN WESTON, Jun'r, a Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court, of said State, Elisha Hallet a resident of Waterville in the County of Kennebec and State of Maine, aged seventy four years, who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth on his oath make the following dec- laration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the Act of Congress, passed June 7, 1832. That he enlisted in the Army of the United States in the year 1775 with Captain George Lewis and served in Col. Graton's regiment of the Massachusetts line or troops under the following named officers: Lewis Captain, Graton
Colonel. That in October or November 1775 he enlisted as a private in that company and regiment for the term of two months. That this period he served out, and was verbally discharged at Cambridge the last of December 1775. That on the first of January 1776, he again enlisted as a private for one year in Capt Elisha Hays's company and Col. Carey's regiment of the Massachusetts troops. That under this enlistment he continued to serve until the last of November 1776, when he was verbally discharged on Washburn Island That on the first of December 1776 he ship'd on board the continental, or Massachusetts sloop Adams of six guns, for a voyage to the West Indies after munitions of war for the public service, the Allen Hallet commander. That he enlisted as a mariner, served five months, and was verbally discharged at Boston in May, 1777.

and under the provisions of the war department, he answers: That he was born at Yarmouth on the 11th day of March in 1750, where his age is recorded, and where his home was during his revolutionary services. That in 1789 he removed to what is now Waterville, Maine, where he still lives. That he never took any written discharge. That at the above periods he enlisted, was not drafted or received as a substitute. That in his first service he was with the main army. That Capt Nye will testify to his second service. That he knows not of any living witness who can testify to his first or last services. That in his last service he went to Martinico, procured munitions of war, and returned to Boston That Capt Elisha Nye, a revolutionary pensioner, will testify to his character for veracity and belief of his other services.
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or an annuity, except the present, and he declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any agency in any State.
Elisha Hallett
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid, Before
Nathan Weston his not S.P.C.
And the said Judge does hereby declare his opinion that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier, and served as he states.
Nathan Weston

Elisha Hallett 24/90
Private Mass. troops.
Lewis (P: Greaton's regt) 2 months
Mye's (P: Gary's regt, 11 months Manner-Ship Adams - 5 - "
13 months as a private
5 " as a Manner
8 " Proof 11 months Capt. Mye.
7 " applicant cannot produce further evidence of than Capt. Mye's statement.
R. C. Rose Augusta, Me.
State of Maine
I Elisha Hye, aged eighty seven years, an officer in the war of the revolution, upon oath testify and declare, that I know that Elisha Hallett, then of Yarmouth, now of Waterville Maine, served in the war of the revolution, as a private in 1776, and Eleven months, and that he was honorably discharged. I have long known the said Hallett as a man of character and veracity, and I don't know he served in 1775 and on board the ship Adams, as he has within stated. In 1776 he served in the company I commanded.
Elisha Hye
Subscribed and sworn to, August 15 1832, the deponent being a credible witness.
Nathan Weston

Subscribed and sworn to, August 15 1832, the deponent being a credible witness.
Nathan Weston
I Elisha Hallett, within named do further on oath declare that I do not know of any person living who served with me on board the Sloop Adams as within mentioned, nor know of any evidence I can procure of her being a publick armed vessel of the United States or of Massachusetts, although I fully believe that the said Sloop Adams was a publick armed vessel of either the United States or Massachusetts as I predimed the latter as we were employed by the Board of War of that State.
Elisha Hallett
State of Maine, Subscribed & sworn to this 22 d day of June 1833. Kennebec, p: - Before me, Wm. Ward, Justice of Peace.
STATE OF MAINE.
KENNEBEC, ss.—I, JOHN A. CHANDLER, Clerk of all the Judicial Courts held within and for the County of Kennebec, hereby certify that the Hon. NATHAN WESTON, Jun'r, be- fore whom the within proceedings was had, is a Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of said State; I also certify that the within contains the original proceedings of the said Judge, in the matter of the application of Elisha Hallett for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of the said Court, this 15 th day of August
A. D. 1832,
J. A. Chandler
I further certify that William Ward, J. before whom the above declaration was sworn is a magistrate as above, & the above signature purporting to be his is genuine. Witness my hand this 22 d day of June 1833.
J. A. Chandler

November 9, 1931
RA-J/EEI
Miss Alice E. Hanson 195 Audubon Road Boston, Massachusetts
Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letter relative to Elisha Hallet, a soldier of the Revolutionary War.
The data furnished herein are obtained from the papers on file in the Revolutionary War claim for pension, S.15879, based upon the military service of Elisha Hallet in that war.
Elisha Hallet was born in 1758, in Yarmouth, Massachusetts.
While residing in Yarmouth, Massachusetts, he enlisted in October or November, 1775, served as a private in Captain George Lewis' Company, Colonel Greaton's Massachusetts Regiment and was discharged the last of December, 1775. He enlisted January 1, 1776, served as a private in Captain Elisha Nye's Company, Colonel Garay's Massachusetts Regiment and was discharged the last of November, 1776.
December 1, 1776, he went on board the sloop "Republic", Captain John Allen Hallet (no relationship to soldier shown), served as a seaman, went on a voyage to the West Indies for munitions and was discharged in May, 1777.
In 1789, he moved to Waterville, Massachusetts (Maine).
He was allowed pension on his application executed August 15, 1832, while residing in Waterville, Kennebec County, Maine.
There are no data as to his family.
Date of death not on QB

The foregoing is the history of the only soldier named Elisha Hallet found on the Revolutionary War records of this office.
No charge is made for this service.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER Assistant to Administrator.

Oct. 25-1931
U.S. Pension Office Washington, D.C.
I have found a list of soldiers of the Revolutionary War who applied for pensions, and the name of Elisha C. Hallet, 82 years old. It must have been about 1840 when he made the application which was in "list '40, House of Congress list" according to the book from which I got this information.
Of this application gives names of his wife, children or grand children. I should like to know for genealogical purposes. Please let me know if you could find this list, and how much it would cost me for a copy of the parts I need. Alice E. Hanson, Boston .. Mass. 195 Audubon Rd.

P
15849
INVALID.
1981- Nov 9 - Dist to Miss Alice E. Denson Est.
File No. 15879
Elisha Hallet
Pri. Rev. War
Act: June 7 th 32
Index: —Vol. 1 , Page 164
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Elisha Hallet
Pensioner on Maine Roll under act of June 7 th 1832. Certificate No. 18.111.
additional or explanatory Declaration of Naval Service.
Re. b. Vose, Augusta, Me.

I Elisha Hallet of Waterville, Kennebec County, Maine aged seventy five years, as pensioner on the Maine Roll under the Act of Congress of June 7 th 1832, / my pension certificate being numbered 18.111. / in explanation of my declaration now on file in the War Department upon oath say, that I entered at Boston in December 1776, as a seaman on board the Sloop Republick, commanded by Allen Hallet Esq. for a cruise to the West Indies after munitions of war. That said Sloop belonged to the State of Massachusetts, mounted as I believe twelve guns, & was fitted out by the Board of War of that State for a voyage to Martinico for munitions of war for the Publick service. That we sailed in said Sloop from Boston in January 1777, went to Martinico & returned to Boston sometime in May of the same year. That my service on board said Sloop in the service aforesaid was for at least five months. That in my said Declaration now on file in the War Department I stated that said service was performed on board the "Sloop Adams" commanded by "John Allen Hallet Esq." - I am now convinced on reflection that I was mistaken in calling the "Republick" the "Adams" & must have made the mistake from having been much at sea in different vessels & having once been

been a voyage at sea in a "Sloop Adams." as it regards the name of the commander, I well knew Capt. Hallett, whose real name as given him on his Baptism was John Allen Hallett. I supposed he would so be called in all official documents, although he was usually called "Allen Hallett" & by that name answered all hails at sea. I further state that I am fully satisfied that my service as stated in my said declaration to have been performed on board the "Adams" was in fact performed on board the "Republick" in manner as I have stated. Elisha Hallett
State of Maine,
Kennebec, ss: } Subscribed & sworn to this 13 th day of August A.D. 1833, the said Elisha Hallett being well known to me as a highly respectable citizen, & a man of undoubted veracity.
Before me, Wm. Morton Justice Peace.
State of Maine
Kennebec, ss: I John A. Chandler clerk of the Judicial Courts, Kennebec County, hereby certify that William Morton, Jr. is a Magistrate as above & that the above signature purporting to be his is genuine.
In testimony whereof I hereunto subscribe my name & affix the seal of the Supreme Judicial Court of said State this 1 st day of January 1834.
J. A. Chandler

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, July 3 d , 1833.
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 Sloop Republic Allen Hallett, Master, was in February 1777, in the service of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, & went to Martinico St. Lucia. But there are no rolls of said Sloop to be found in this Office. I further certify that the following is a copy of the instructions to Capt. Hallett War Office. Boston Jan y . 18 th 1777. Capt. Allen Hallett.
Sir You being Master of the Sloop Republic now loaded & ready to sail your orders are to proceed direct for Martinico or St. Lucia, where you are to dispose of your cargo for the most you can obtain, & invest the proceeds in the several articles in the annexed schedule, giving the preference to those first mentioned. If you cannot purchase warlike stores in either of the above mentioned places, you will proceed for Cape Francois, where you can without doubt, procure what you may want. You are to purchase two pair of cannon Six. Four or Three pounders, Brass if to be had, if not Iron Four pounders, together with ammunition for the cannon you will mount on the carriages you have with you, which together with the cannon, swivels &c you carry from hence, together with the crews of the several vessels that may have been sold, will put your Sloop in such a State of defence as to keep off every armed vessel except Sloops or Frigates, & possibly enable you to take some prizes. However as the Effects you may have on board will be of the greatest importance to us, you are by no means to go out of your way upon any pretence whatever; But you are to observe not to take

take on board the proceeds of more than two vessels besides your own, but as many of their crews as you may want or can accommodate.
If you should not take on board any effects besides your own, you are to purchase as much salt as will ballast your vessel & come home.
On your return you are to make the first harbour in this State or New Hampshire, from whence you will give the earliest notice to the Board by Express.
By order of the Board.
Saml: Phips Savage. Pres.
Edward D. Damps. Secy.

Upon reexamination it is decided that the service on board the Republic is not military - G.W.C.
20 Jan'y 1834
Adm d
13 mo. pri
$43.33
Service as Seaman on board of the Adams dis- closed - no evidence that she was a public ship or that the ship Republic ever bore that name -

War Department Pension Office April 29. 1833
Sir,
Thes papers in the case of Elisha Mallett have been examined, and are herewith returned to you for further evidence of services.
He must procure proof from the Secretary of the State of Massachusetts, that the "Adams" was a public-armed vessel of that State, as there is no evidence of it in the Department.
I am respectfully Your Obt. Servt.
R. C. Vose Esq r , Augusta Maine

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, July 1 st , 1833.
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 there are no papers or books which shew that the Sloop Adams was at any time during the Revolutionary war a publick armed vessel of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Edward D. Pumps, Secy

STATE OF MAINE.
Kennebec County, ss.
AT the Supreme Judicial Court, begun and holden at Augusta, within and for the County of Kennebec, on the first Tuesday of October, A. D. 1832, and thence by adjournment on the 25 th day of March A. D. 1833.
PERSONALLY appears in open Court Elisha Wallett by whom the annexed declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of June 7th, 1832, was made before the Hon. NATHAN WESTON, Jr. on the 15 th day of August A. D. 1832, and makes oath, in due form of law, that the annexed declaration, by him made and signed, is true.
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary soldier and served as he states.
Nathan Weston Just S c
I, JOHN ALPHONSO CHANDLER, Clerk of all the Judicial Courts held within and for the County of Kennebec, do hereby certify, that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Elisha Wallett for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I hereunto affix the seal of said Supreme Judicial Court, and subscribe my name this 26 th day of March A. D. 1833.
J. A. Chandler

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Augusta, Me. Augt. 15 th . 1834,
[Faint, mirrored bleed-through text] Sir,
On the first of February last, I left in your office, the original pension certificate of Elisha Hallett under the act of Congress of June 7, 1832, together with his application that a further sum might be allowed him, & a particular statement of the whole case made by Mr. Ela, for your consideration. You then stated, that you would shew the papers to the Secy. at War, & immediately notify me of the result. Since that time, altho' I have written you several times upon the subject, I have received no answer to the claim, or been notified of any further evidence being necessary. Capt. Hallett is very anxious to receive his pension, & have his allowance increased

according to his additional declaration, which is annexed to his certificate.
Your early answer to this is particularly requested.
I am, Sir,
Very respectfully Your obedt Servt Robert C. Vose
Col. J. L. Edwards. Commr. of Pensions. Washington.

By the extracts of the records of Massachusetts it appears that by resolve of General Court passed 20 th April 1776 the Hoop now building at Braintree, be called the "Republic".
In February 1777 the Hoop Republic was sent to Martinico with a cargo under orders from the Board of War of the State of Massachusetts for the purpose of procuring military stores. The orders under which she sailed may be seen in Mr Bangs' Certificate.
Was this naval service of such a character as should be allowed within the act of 7 June 1832.