Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 16873, Hawes Higgins, Conn.

SERVICE
Conn.
Higgins, Hawes
NUMBER
S. 16873
CONTENTS
Carded

Bye October. 1 st the 1876
my dear and loving wife I take this opportunity to write to you of my health my love I hope in the mercy of a merciful god these few lines may find you and our child well and as the one is taken may the other be left my sweet companion I now take my pen to write to you and with deep lamentation and with morning I now do write with shaking heart and shaking hands troubled mind our condition I am here and are there we cant comfort one another but only the Lord Support us all in this trying time my dear I must confess your trials are great as well as mine none lose who can make it up unto us Look up to god for Support pray with out losing for you and for me that he may finish all his dealings with us that at last we may be prepared to follow this our daughter I cant write in full as I want to I have have twice to get clear to come home but I cant how hard handled is man father advised me not to come home with out leave I saw father on Sunday he was gaining so well as to do duty I see church he was well I thought I see if aliving I have seen Deane he well oston waterhouse Mr Grant all well give my love to mother and love to all brothers and Sisters I write in a great hurry my pen is poor

we going from here to were, york we are about 24 miles from our lines I have been down to them and have no news to write to you I received a letter from brother Joel the only time I have heard from home B. Gideon is on the giersy side sick but is better I hear. I am well as common blessed be the Lord for it so no more at present best I remain yours loving husband untill Death Hawes Higgins
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Higgins, Hawes Conn 5 16 893

I Lucinda Higgins of Haddam in Middlesex County in the State of Connecticut aged 79 being duly sworn depose & say that I am the wife of Hawes Higgins of said Haddam & was married to him in the 20 th year of my age - that I well recollect that my said husband was during the revolutionary war absent from his home & family (in said Haddam where he then lived) upon service in the revolutionary army as a soldier therein - He was absent on said service several different times or periods - how many I cannot now recollect nor how long at any one period - during one of the said times when he was so absent I received from him the letter hereto annexed which is by him signed - and during one of said times when he was so absent I wrote to him the letter hereto annexed which is by me signed - the body of the letter signed by me I believe to have been written by my sister Temperance Spencer whose letter to my husband below mine is hereto annexed also & is signed by said Temperance - I had lost a child by death previous to writing said letter which was the prin- cipal occasion of my writing said letter & is a circumstance which induces me to recollect said letter more clearly than I otherwise might. Said Temperance has been dead about 23 years. I cannot say positively how long my said husband was absent on service as above stated in the whole but I believe and have no doubt that he was so absent in the whole more than one year - after my husband returned from service & at various times I have heard him relate the circumstances of his service and incidents that took place & happened to him - and this from time to time from the close of said war to the present time - and I distinctly recollect that he has related soon after his return this circumstance that he was in the battle of Stillwater & that his Lieutenant Kelcey was there wounded & that my husband took care of said Kelcey when so wounded & after he recovered that my husband accompanied him somewhere but I do not remember where. & that he has also often mentioned his chopping the Mohawk when barefooted & that of those who were barefooted his feet were cut & torn with the rocks & sharp stones on the bed of the river. With regard to the other anec- dotes & particulars related by my husband respecting his service I cannot detail them more particularly - there were many of them & I have expected to be called on to testify to them - further this deponent saith not. Dated Haddam Nov. 9. 1833. Lucinda Higgins
I do hereby certify that at the town of Haddam

in the County of Middlesex in the state of Connecticut on the 9 th day of November AD 1833 personally appeared before me Lucinda Huggins the signed of the foregoing affidavit or deposition & made solemn oath to the truth of the same - and that I believe said Lucinda to be a person of truth & veracity & entitled to full belief & credit - & that such is her general character.
Haddam bound. Nov. 9. 1833.
William L. Stone Justice of the peace

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Connecticut No 28.
Hawes Higgins
of Haddam in the State of Connecticut who was a pri. & sup. in the Comty. com. by Captain Brannan of the Regt. com. by Col. Gurns in the Connecticut line for
  12. M th pri.  40.00    2. M th sup.  10.00     50.  
Inscribed on the Roll of Connecticut at the rate of 50 Dollars - Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 12 th day of April 1834. and W. L. Storm, Middletown C.
  Arrears to the 4th of Mar. 1834.  150.00    Semi-ant. allowance ending 4 th Sep.  25.00     $175.00  
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by R. Bruns Clerk Book E. 2. Vol. Page 17
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State of Connecticut County of Middlesex ss Huddam March 27 th A D 1833
On this 27 th day of March A D 1833 personally appeared in open court before Charles Arnold Esq r Judge of the Court of Probate for the District of Haddam having a court of said sitting James Higgings a resident of Haddam in the County of Middlesex in the State of Connecticut aged eighty years, who being first 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 entered the service of the United States, under the following named officers, and served as herein stated. That on or about the 14 th day of August 1776 he was drafted as a private from the militia of the State of Connecticut into the service of the United States and was attached to a company com- manded by Capt Eliakim Brainard and a regiment commanded by Col. Gray whose Christian name he does not recollect. That with said company he marched to New Haven where they stayed a few days, and from thence marched to Poughkeepsie in the State of New York and remained there about a week. From Poughkeepsie he marched with his company to Fort Washington on the north river where he remained about a month. From thence he marched to Valentine Hill where they had an alarm, and from thence he marched with his company to White Plains where a greater part of the then American Army was. That he was drafted for the period of three months which he faithfully served and was dismissed some time in November of the same year but never had a written discharge.
That soon after his return home and in the course of the winter 1777 he enlisted as a private into a company of State troops commanded by Capt. Hine for the period of four months, and was attached to a Regiment commanded by Col. Wooster. That he marched with this company to West Chester in the State of New York & on the night succeeding their arrival there, during a heavy snow storm, a retreat was ordered, and they marched fourteen miles that night.

to avoid being surrounded by the enemy) - That he served out the term of service for which he enlisted at West Chester & its vicinity and returned home with the permission of his Officer - That he never had a written discharge.
That afterwards in the year 1779 he was again drafted into the service of the United States and did duty in a company of State Troops at Housatonic in the State of Connecticut under the command of Captain Josiah Baldwin for the period of two months as a sergeant.
That in 1780 he performed a tour of duty in the service of the United States at Saybrook in the State of Connecticut in a company commanded by Captain John Ventres - & that he was drafted as a private for the term of two months and served the full term for which he was drafted -
After this he was again drafted into the service of the United States from the militia of the State of Connecticut and was attached to a company commanded by Captain Edward Shipman and a Regiment commanded by Colonel Cook whose christian name he does not recollect. With this company he marched to a place in the State of New York called the Ox Bow - From this place they waded across the Mohawk the bed of the river being covered with rocks and sharp stones which occasioned the feet of those who were barefooted to be cut & their tracks bloody - That from thence he went with his Company to Saratoga and was engaged in the battle of Stillwater - in which battle Lieutenant Kelley of his said company was wounded and his water & two others killed - That he was ordered to take care of Lieut Kelley and as soon as he was able to be moved he went with him to Albany where he staid thirteen days and then returned home, having served three months the period for which he was drafted - That he never had a written discharge - That he knows of no person living by whom he can prove any of his services during the war of the revolution herein stated - That Augustus Lewis whose testimony he had when he made his application for a pension on the 9 th day of August 1832 is now dead.
Q ry 1 st Where and in what year were you born? -
Ans. At Haddam in the County of Middlesex in the State of Connecticut in the year 1752 -
2. Have you any record of your age, and if so where is it? -
Ans. The record of my age was kept in my Father's family bible, which is now in the possession of my older brother.
3. Where were you living when called into service, where have you lived since the revolutionary war, and where do you now live? -
Ans. I lived in the town of Haddam in the County of Middlesex in the State of Connecticut when I was called into service where I have lived ever since and where I now live.

4 th How were you called into service; were you drafted, did you volunteer, or were you a substitute? - And if a substitute, for whom? -
Ans. These questions I have already answered -
5 th State the names of some of the regular officers who were with the troops where you served; such continental and militia regiments as you can recollect - and the general circumstances of your service -
Ans. - Gen l Putnam, Gen l Green. When I was at White Plains about the whole of the American Army was there. I cannot at this distance of time distinguish the Regiments - The circumstances of my service have already been given. -
6 th Did you ever receive a discharge from the service; and, if so, by whom was it given and what has become of it? -
Ans. I have no recollection that I ever received a discharge - If I ever did it has long since been lost by time and accident.
7 th State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood, and who can testify as to your character for veracity, and their belief of your services as a soldier of the revolution -
Ans. Rev John Marsh Gen l John Brainerd, Esq y by Warner Esq y Rev Simon Shailor, Jonathan Huntington, Esq y , Samuel Arnold, Esq y Jonathan Lusher, Esq y and others -
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, & subscribed, the day and year aforesaid
Oliver Huggins
We Nathaniel Kellogg a clergyman residing in the town of Haddam in the County of Middlesex in the State of Connecticut, and Simon Parmach residing in the same town hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Oliver Huggins who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be eighty years of age; that he is upright and beloved, in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the revolution, and that we concur in that opinion. Nathaniel Kellogg
Sworn & subscribed, the day & year aforesaid Simon Parmach
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 Nathaniel Kellogg who has signed the

preceding certificate is a clergyman resident in the town of Haddam in the County of Middlesex in the State of Connecticut, and that Lewis Parmelee, who has also signed the same is a resident in said town of Haddam and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit. And that Augustus Lewis late of Haddam but now deceased whose testimony was taken and sworn to in open Court on the 9 th day of August 1832 was a person of credibility -
I, Ely Warner Clerk of the Court of Probate for the District of Haddam, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the Court in the matter of the application of Hester Huggins for a pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of said Court this 27 th day of March A D 1833 -
Ely Warner Clerk
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I Augustus Lewis of Haddam in the County of Middlesex of lawful age do hereby say that I am well acquainted with David Hissin that I am knowing of his having served in the Company commanded by Capt John Ventres a term of two months at Saybrook in the War of the Revolution Spoken the Deprecal faith not
Sworn to Subscribed & sworn to Augustus Lewis in open Court
Chas. Warner Clerk

three months, not having any date, cannot tell precisely how long but was not less than five months that he had no written discharge but went home by permission of his officer
For the truth of the foregoing facts & for the support of his character for truth & veracity, he would refer to Rev Simon Shailor, Superior Searg, Simon Barnicle Organ
& that other than these he is unable to find any person who can testify to the services specified in his declaration aforesaid
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present & declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of the

Reference to the annexed depositions of that accom- panying Hawes Higgens application: The tour of service under Capt. Eliakim Bremond is proved by the affidavits of Isbell Griswold Jasper Stannard -
The tour under Capt. Hine, by those of Sylvanus Clark -
The tour under Capt. Jonah Baldwin, by those of David Buel Walker Knowles Elias Ebel -
The tour under Capt. Ventris, by those of Augustus Lewis (see application)
& The tour under Capt. Shipman, by those of Jasper Stannard Elias Ebel Abraham Scranton -
Of the 14 months service, Mr Higgens proved 2 months as a sergeant.

I Abraham Scranton of Madison in the County of New Haven in the State of Connecticut, I aged seventy nine years - depose and say - That in the year seventeen hundred and seventy seven I was well acquainted with James Higgins of Haddam in the County of Middlesex in said State of Connecticut - and that said Higgins was, in said year 1777 - a private in a company commanded by Capt. Edward Shipman, and attached to a regiment commanded by Colonel - Cook - I was a lieutenant in said company and know full well that said Higgins was in said company and was in the battle of Stillwater - I recollect that Lieutenant Kelsey of the company to which I belonged, was wounded in said battle, and I believe that the said Higgins was ordered to take care of him - and further this deponent saith not - signed - Abraham Scranton
State of Connecticut County of New Haven } ss. Madison December 20 th A.D. 1833. Personally appeared before the Subscriber a justice of the Peace for said New Haven County, and residing in said Madison - Abraham Scranton of said Madison, well known to the Subscriber Authority to be a person of truth and veracity, and made solemn oath to the truth of the foregoing deposition by him subscribed -
Before me - Reynold Webb Justice of Peace

I David Buell of Hillingworth in the County of Middlesex and State of Connecticut aged seventy two years. Depose and say that I was born in said Hillingworth and have resided there ever since when at home and I further say that about the first of August 1779 I was drafted into a Company of State Troops commanded by Capt Josiah Baldwin and stationed at said Hillingworth and when I joined said company I became acquainted with Haws Higgins who was then and who now is a resident of the Town of Haddam in said Middlesex County and I know that said Higgins served as sergeant in said Capt Josiah Baldwins company during the time that I belonged to it, which was about one month at which time I entered into another company and went to Haverneck and said Higgins continued with said company at the time I left it - I understood, and believe, that he served in said company the term of two months -
I am well acquainted with said Haws Higgins at the present time and know him to be the same man who did said military service and who has recently made application for a Pension - Further the deponent saith not
David Buell
State of Connecticut County of Middlesex ss Hillingworth the 6 th day of November A.D. 1833 Be it remembered that on the day aforesaid David Buell who hath subscribed the foregoing deposition appeared before me, and after being examined and cautioned to speak the whole truth made solemn oath to the same deposition and I certify that I am well acquainted with the aforesaid David Buell and know him to be a person of Credibility
George Caster Justice of the Peace

I, Walter Threlkeld of Haverden in the County of Massachusetts and State of Connecticut - aged seventy three years on the 10 th day of April last past do hereby testify that I was born in said Haverden and have lived therein since at the time of my birth - that I am well ac- quainted with Horace Higgens of said Haverden and that Defendant according to the best of his recollection on the 10 th day of August A.D. 1779 he went into a Company of State Troops commanded by Capt. Gilead Bordin as substitute for my Father Michael Threlkeld late of said Haverden deceased. That he was marched with said Company to Shilling- worth in said State of Connecticut - for the purpose of guarding the sea coast at that place - and Defendant further says that the said Horace Higgens was a member of said Company and marched therein to said Shil- lingworth with Defendant - and served therein with Defendant - from said 10 th day of Aug- A.D. 1779 to the 10 th of October then next following a period of two months - and the Defendant further says that after said Company arrived at said Shillingworth the said Higgens was chosen Sergeant of the same and during the whole of said period of two months served in said Company in that capacity.

And Deponent further says that at the expiration of said time therein, to wit, on the 1st day of Oct 1779 Deponent & the said Hoffsins were discharged — further the Deponent saith not but at Haddam this 9th day of Nov 1833 — Walker knows
Middlesex County ss Haddam Nov 9/1833 Personally appeared Walker Thomas Haddam — criber to the foregoing Deposition and made solemn oath to the truth of the same And I do hereby certify that I am well acquainted with the said Walker Thomas and that he is a credible witness —
Deponen
Smith Clark Justice of Peace

State of Connecticut Middlesex County ss Say Brook November 12 th 1833
I Jasper Standard of the Town of Say Brook in the County of Middlesex and State of Connecticut and of eighty six years of age. Testify and say that some time in the fall of the year 1776 I went down to Kings-bridge in the State of New York to the American Army - to carry some cloths to my Brother - who was then a Soldier in said Army - but since dead , and I well remember that Hawes Higgins of Haddam in said County was then & there a Soldier in and belonging to said Army, that I then and there saw him and conversed with him. I particularly recollect it from the circumstance that at this time I carried a letter from his family to him and delivered it to him with my own hand - which letter gave him information of the death of one of his Children; I had previously been well acquainted with the said Higgins for a number of years - he having Married his Wife in said Town of Say Brook. close by where I then and now live. I also understood and believe that the said Higgins was in the United States service as a Soldier, considerable during the Revolutionary war: and that he was a Soldier and performed a tour of duty in the United States Service up to the Northward - about Saratoga & Still Water about the time Burgoyne was taken. I think I well recollect I heard the said Higgins state the part of his being there and relate many circumstances about it, soon after that event took place, but how long he was there or how many times he was in the United States Service I cannot say, I was have been well acquainted with the said Higgins before and during the war and since, and know him to be a credible person, and his statement or declaration may be depended upon. and I also know that Hawes Higgins now of said Haddam & who has made application for a pension is the same man that performed said Military duty & is the same man to whom I carried said letter and further the deponent saith not
Jasper Standard

Middlesex County ss Saybrook ss the 12 th of 1888.
Personally appeared Gasper Stannan Subscribed to the within Deposition and made oath to the truth of the same Indone Before me.
Jedediah Post justice of Peace
and I hereby certify that I am Well- acquainted with the above Gasper Stannan and that he is a man of truth and veracity full equal to men in general
Jedediah Post justice of Peace

I Sylvanus Clarke of Haddam in the County of Middlesex & State of Connecticut, now residing with my Son in Guilford, County of New Haven in said State, being eighty years of age - Do depose and say that in the month of December A.D. 1777 - and while living in Haddam aforesaid I Enlisted in the State service as a soldier under Lieut - James Smith of said Haddam and was marched on through New Haven, Stratford and the intermediate Towns on that Road to Rye in the State of New York and was there attached to a Company commanded by Capt. David Hine of Milford and I believe in Col. Gallup's Reg't. Genl. Wooster's Brigade and when I joined said Company at Rye Hawes Higgens of Haddam with whom I was well acquainted, was a Soldier in said Company, and I continued in the service in that vicinity viz Rye - New Rochelle - East- and West-Chester three months or more, and that the S d Hawes Higgens during that term of time remained in the same service as a Soldier in S d Company and we were Verbally discharged from that service & returned with in company with each other to S d Haddam where we have resided ever since (when at Worms) until within the last two Years since which I have lived with my Children in Durham & Guilford - and further say not
Silvans Clarke

The foregoing Deposition was subscribed & sworn to this 12 th day of November 1833—
Before me George Griswold Justice Peace
I hereby certify that as far as I can learn during the residence of the said Deponent Sylvanus Clark in this place that he is a person of respectability and I have no reason to doubt as man of strict truth & veracity—
George Griswold Justice Peace

I Elias Isbel of the Town of Killingworth in the County of Middlesex and State of Connecticut, being eighty five years of age. Depose and say that I was born in Killingworth and have ever since resided there, whence home except about twenty three years since I resided in the Town of Haddam in said County about two years. That according to my best recollection some time in the summer of the year 1777, there was a company of State Troops drafted from the Militia of the State of Connecticut, sent  and into the service of the United States, a part of said Company was taken from the Militia in this Town and a part from the Towns of Haddam & Saybrook in said County and I believe some from the Town of Guilford. said Company was Commanded by Edward Shipman of Saybrook, and Aaron Halsey of said Killingworth was Lieutenant of said Company and I had a Brother by the name of Eleazer Isbel who joined and marched with said Company up to Stillwater in the State of New York and was there killed in the battle of Stillwater about the time the British army under the command of General Burgoyne was taken; and Lieutenant Halsey was wounded, I resided near by said Halsey and was well acquainted with him before that time and afterwards until his death which I think took place more than thirty years since. I was also acquainted with said Shipman who is since dead. And I further depose and say that I am well acquainted with James Higgins of said Haddam and was about the time said Company was drafted and I have always understood and believe that the said Higgins was a soldier in said Company and performed the tour of duty for which they were drafted - in which my Brother was killed; but how long the period was for which they were drafted I cannot be certain.
I also recollect of performing a tour of duty myself, with the said Higgins in a company of state troops stationed at Killingworth under the command of Capt. Josiah Baldwin, in which company and service the said Higgins was Sergeant - the year I do not recollect but I think it was some time after the death of my Brother was killed, and it was during the revolutionary war and further the deponent saith not.
Middlesex County ss Killingworth November 14 th AD 1833
Elias Isbel
State of Connecticut County of Middlesex ss Town of Killingworth 18 th December 14 th AD 1833 Then and there Elias Isbel the signer of the foregoing deposition personally appeared before me a Justice of the peace for said County and made oath to the truth of said deposition as herein subscribed. And I do certify that the said Isbel is a person of respectability, and a person of creditable creditable person and appears to retain his recollection well, I have been acquainted with him a number of years.
David P. Halsey Justice of the Peace

United States of America State of Connecticut County of Middlesex
SS. Fullingworth November 7 th 1833
I Joel Griswold of Fullingworth in the County of Middlesex in the State of Connecticut aged seventy six years, that I was well acquainted with Mr Hawes Higgins of Haddam in said Middlesex County in said State of Connecticut that in the year 1776 I was drafted in the Militia of the Revolutionary war under Martin Lord Capt under Colonel Sylvanus Graves and joined the Regiment commanded by said Colonel Graves, deponent thinks at Fairfield, and belonged to and was duty in said Regiment the said Hawes Higgins, and was marched with the said Regiment from Fairfield to Dye in the State of New York and from thence was marched with said Regiment to Fort Washington in the said State of New York where we remained about a month and from thence was marched with said Regiment to Valentine hill where there was an alarm deponent cannot say as to the particular time the said Hawes Higgins was with him but thinks he was something over three months in said tour of service
United States of America State of Connecticut Middlesex County
SS. Fullingworth November 7 th 1833
On this 7 th day of November A D 1833 personally appeared before me Jeremiah Hull a Justice of the Peace in and for said Middlesex County Joel Griswold and made solemn oath to the truth of the aforesaid affidavit by him subscribed and I hereby certify that I am well acquainted with the said Joel Griswold and have

been for more than forty years past and that his statement aforesaid is entitled to full credit like a man in whom full credit may be relied on in my opinion as to truth and integrity.
Certified by
Jeremiah Hull Justice of the Peace

I Hawes Higgins of Haddam in the County of Middlesex State of Connecticut who have applied for a pension from the U. States under the act of 1832 being duly sworn de- pose & say that I received from Captain Josiah Baldwin of Kingsfield in this State (who was the Captain under whom I did service in the Revolutionary War at a particular period) the Certificate or writing hereto annexed which is by him signed - which was received by me from him about the time it bears date & has been ever since in my possession. Said Baldwin has been dead several years 8 or 10 years the occasion of my receiving  to my impression said Certificate or writing according to my impression was then, that by the laws of this State the facts therein stated would clear or exempt me from performing militia duty in this State - for which purpose I used it and was accordingly exempt- ed from militia duty.
Not wishing to mislead, I write further State that I am under the belief that there is an error in my application to the War Department of March 27 th 1833 in which it states that Reference therein mentioned under Captain Thompson & Col. Cook was after 1780 - I think it was before then and but a reference to the time when the battle of Stillwater was fought will decide whether it is an error or not - I was in said battle of Stillwater and if it was before 1780 there is the error in my ap- plication which I have mentioned. The error is any was unnoticed when it was made and inadvertent accidental & unintentional on my part. The letter annexed to my wife's deposition of this day I will re- collect & she has stated the truth respecting them - I further saith so. dated Haddam Nov. 9. 1833 -
Hawes Higgins
State of Connecticut County of Middlesex: Town of Haddam Nov. 9. 1833
I certify that on the 9 th day of Nov. 1833 at said Haddam Hawes Higgins above named made

Solemn oath to the truth of the above foregoing Deposition or Affidavit. That I believe said Havers Higgins to be a person of veracity entitled to full credit & belief - and that such is his general reputation.
William Storrs Justice of the peace

12 m o p.m. at 5 2 m o long
W L Storrs Esq. Middletown Co
Deane Huggins

We whose names are hereunto signed, inhabitants of Residents in Haddam in the State of Connecticut, being duly sworn severally say that we are & have been per- sonally acquainted with Hawes Biggins of said Haddam for the number of years annexed to our respective names & that we are well acquainted with his general character. that he is an honest & credible man & that his character in those respects is fair & good in all respects unblemished. that we have at various times heard him relate incidents of his services as a soldier in the war of the rebellion - & that we have no doubt of believing that he proved as a soldier therein. Dated Haddam Nov. 7. 1883.
Linus Parmelee 20.75
Jared Arnold 45 "
Ely Warner — 30.
Jonathan Arnold 15.
State of Connecticut County of Middlesex Haddam Nov. 9. 1883 I certify that on the day & year & at the place last above mentioned the above named Linus Parmelee, Jared Arnold

Ely Warner, & Jonathan Arnold —
signers of the foregoing Deposition personally appeared before me & I solemnly made solemn oath to the truth of said Deposition: & I certify that each of said signers of said Deposition are to me personally well known & that they are each credible, res- pectable & intelligent persons. —
William L. Storrs Justice of the peace

We the subscribers inhabitants of the town of Haddam and physicians in Stown hereby certify and depose that for some years past we have been well acquainted with Haves Higgins of Stown that we know him to be a man of strict integrity and surely believe him to have been a soldier of the Revolution
Ira Hutchinson
Benj H. Catlin
State of Connecticut Middlesex County ss Haddam November 9 th 1833—
Before me Linus Parmach a Notary Public duly authorized to administer oaths and to take deposition personally appeared Ira Hutchinson & Benjamin H. Catlin and made solemn oath to the truth of the above deposition by them sub- scribed - and I hereby certify that the s d Ira Hutchinson & Benjamin H. Catlin are persons of credibility. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of office the day and year aforesaid
Linus Parmach Notary Public —

Rev.&1812 Wars Section.
Aug August 23, 1928.
James Hall Long, 163-80 th Street, Jackson Heights, New York City.
Sir:
I advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S. 16873, it appears that Hawes Higgins was born in 1752 at Haddam, Connecticut.
While residing at said Haddam, he enlisted and served with the Connecticut Troops, as follows:
From August 14, 1776, three months as a private in Captain Eliakim Brainard's Company, Colonel Sylvanus Graves' Regiment; from the summer of 1777, three months as private in Captain Edward Shipman's Company, Colonel Cook's Regiment and was in the battle of Stillwater; from December 1777, four months as private in Captain David Hine's Company, Colonel Gallup's Regiment; from August 1, 1779, two months as sergeant in Captain Josiah Baldwin's Company; and in 1780, two months as private in Captain John Ventres' Company.
He was allowed pension on his application executed March 27, 1833, at which time he was living at Haddam,

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Connecticut.
Soldier married Lucinda (her maiden name not given). She was seventy-nine years old in 1833 and stated that she was married in her twentieth year.
Two children are referred to, a son and daughter, the son died during the Revolution, their names are not given, and there is no further reference to children.
Owing to lack of a clerical force available for the purpose, only two histories of soldiers of the Revolution are furnished each person.
Respectfully,
WINFIELD SCOTT, Commissioner.

3 William - son of Thomas & Mary (Concarn) West Mr. Henkes. Higgan of Huddam was chosen Sargant in a Company of State Troops! Stationed at Killingworth for the Defense of the State in the year 1779 and that he served with honor in First Batt in Killingworth. September 29 - 1779 with Higgan Josiah Loder in Sargt.

JAMES HALL LONG
CHIROPRACTOR
TELEPHONE HAVEMEYER 3926-3927
163 EIGHTIETH STREET (OLD 23RD) JACKSON HEIGHTS NEW YORK CITY
Dec. 10/27
Commissioner of Pensions, Washington, D.C.
Dear Sir—
Will you please furnish me a copy of the record of Hawes Higgins , and Gideon Higgins revolutionary soldiers from Connecticut?
Gratefully,
James Hall Long.

JAMES HALL LONG
CHIROPRACTOR
TELEPHONE HAVEMEYER 3926-3927
163 EIGHTIETH STREET
(OLD 23RD)
JACKSON HEIGHTS
NEW YORK CITY
Oct 8/27
Commissioner of Pensions, Washington, D.C.
Dear Sir -
Would be grateful for record Revolutionary, or, 1812 Wars;
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Yours Truly James Hall Long

Higgins, Hanes Conn 5/16/93
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John May Life

Chelsea I remember the 27 Day AD 177
Dear friend I take this opportunity to let you that through the goodness of god I am well except I am all most beat out and I would inform you that your letter Son is got better and with thanks I must inform you that our little Captain is She Died the 21 Day of September and was buried the 22 I remember what you often told me you often said that she would not live long hence it is gods will to call her a way to call to us that we may be sanctified by her loss
follow her She Died with the Camp Desteimp and wounds She was taken a Tuesday and I sent for the Doctor the next Day and he could not help her and So no more at present but I remain your loving wife and a affection wife
Dear Mother this is from your loving Sister and I heartily desire that you both and I pray that god would spare your life and be with you in your absence and return you in his Due time to your wife and Son
I remain your loving Sister
Prudence - Jr