Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 4758, William Havens, New York

SERVICE
NUMBER
New York
Heavens, William Theodosia
R. 4738
CONTENTS

(2,632)
New York Roll
William Havens Col. Courtlandt private
New York Line
in the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War
inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of eight Dollars per month, to commence on the 14 th of April 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 19 th of Sept 1818 and forwarded to Col. Platt Esq. Astor Library Columbia City N.Y.
Arrears to 4th of Sept: 1818. $ 37. 60 semi-ann. all'ce ending 4 Mar 1819 48. 00
Arts. 4 Mos: 21 ds. $ 85: 60.
Van Courtlandt { Revolutionary claim, { Act 18th March, 1818.
Four years 1779. War
Instalment by Columbia Co. N.Y.
1818 1819 1820 1821 1822 1823 1824 1825 1826 1827 1828 1829 1830 1831 1832 1833 1834 1835 1836 1837 1838 1839 1840 1841 1842 1843 1844 1845 1846 1847 1848 1849 1850 1851 1852 1853 1854 1855 1856 1857 1858 1859 1860 1861 1862 1863 1864 1865 1866 1867 1868 1869 1870 1871 1872 1873 1874 1875 1876 1877 1878 1879 1880 1881 1882 1883 1884 1885 1886 1887 1888 1889 1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900

Wm Slavin Maryland No 2.6.32
Aug 19/18
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District of New York
Onego County ss: On the 10 th day of October 1836 personally appeared in Open Court being a Court of Record for the County aforesaid William Havers aged 77 years resident in Maryland in the County of Onego in said District who being first duly sworn according to law sets on his Oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary War in Captain Fowlers Company Colonel Cortlands Regiment belonging to the New York Line and the date of his original declaration was on the 11 th day of April 1810 on which he has received a pension certificate No. 2.638 and I do solemnly swear that I was a resident Citizen of the United States on the 10 th day of March 1810 and that I have not since that time by gift or sale or in any manner disposed of my property or any part thereof with intent thereby to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War" passed on the 10 th day of March 1810 and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property or securities contracts or debts due to me nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed Wm Havers
I have no real estate - Personal property consists of 3 Swine & 2 Cattle - 1 Dish & 1 Table & 1 Spindle - 3 Chairs & 1 Table - By Occupation a Shoemaker - I have a wife and 3 children residing with me - Malissa aged 16 years able to support herself - Harrietta aged 13 years

able to support herself my wife is a cripple in one hand I am infirm and lame and depend upon my pension for support - I now have two small Grand children that I have to support -
From this 12 th Oct.
William Havens
1880. before the Court
2.
Geo. Morell Clk.

STATE OF NEW-YORK. OTSEGO COUNTY CLERK'S OFFICE. } ss.
I, GEORGE MORELL, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Otsego and State of New-York, do hereby certify, that the foregoing oath, and the schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the records of the said Court: and I do further certify, that it is the opinion of the said Court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule, is dollars.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this day of 1820.

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I James Platt one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Columbia in the State of New York do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said William Havers Did serve in the Revolutionary War as stated in the foregoing foregoing affidavits against the Common Enemy and I now transmit the proceedings and testi- mony taken and had before me to the Secretary for the War Department pursuant to the Directions of the aforementioned act of Congress, Dated at Albany April 27 th 1818 Columbia County State of New York
Columbia County ss 3 I the said
James Platt
James Platt do hereby further
certify that the foregoing  affidavit affidavit of William Havers at the time of taking his foregoing  affidavit affidavit and claim was and is now in indigent circumstances and stands in need of the assistance of his Country for his support - Dated at Albany 8 th August 1818 and I again transmit the same to the Secretary for the War Department
James Platt
State of New York
Columbia County
do hereby certify that the above named
James Platt is a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas
in the County of Columbia and that I know the
above signature of the said James Platt
to his own proper hand writing given under my hand and the seal of the said County this 27 th day of April 1818
Col Miller Clerk of Columbia Co.

State of New York } ss William Havens of the town Columbia County } of Austerlitz in said County and State being Duly Sworn Deposeth and saith that in this Deposition I served three years in the Revolutionary War against the Common Enemy of the United States as a private Soldier that this Deposition is true During the War and I served under Capt Daniel Norton in the Brigade of Col. M c Weyersfield this Deposition Duly Believes he enlisted in the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy nine that this Deposition was transferred into the Company of Capt. Dotionus Fowler Phillip Courtlandt Commandant Second Brigade New York Line in which Company and Regiment this Deposition served as a Soldier until Discharged in the month of June in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty three that this Deposition had an Honorable Discharge Signed and Sealed with and in the Name of George Washington Esqr which Discharge this Deposition left in the hands of Benjamin Wallis in Albany — and further this Deposition on his oath declares that this Deposition is is in his fifty fifth year of his age that this Deposition is yet able to work at the making that this Deposition has a wife and three Children in his family that this Deposition does not own any freehold Estate and not more than fifty or sixty Dollars worth in personal Estate which consists in household furniture and Shoemakers tools and that this Deposition has no Child nor parents able to assist him in the least and therefore prays the adoption of his Country of which he is now in need of support taken and sworn this 14 th Day of April 1818 William Havens Before me James Platt one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in said County

State of New York } ss } Gadack West of the town of Columbia County } Hillsdale in said County being duly sworn Deposeth and saith that he this Deponent knows the within named William Havens and that the said William Havens served as a soldier in the the Company of Darius Fowler in the Regiment of Philip Courtlandt New York line and this Deponent verily believes that the said William Havens served as a soldier in said Company until discharged in the year 1782 1783 and further this Deponent saith not
Taken and sworn this 14 th day of April 1813 Before me
Gadack West
James Platt one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in said County

12865 Declaration of Eunice Moore of Mansfield, Md. Child of Theodora Havens deceased
Rejected. husband died 1833 Widow died before 23 rd August 1842, by will decreed 1839.
4758

Declaration
In order to obtain the pensions due Theodotia Havens at the time of her death under the Act of July 7. 1838.
State of New York Olney County ss.
(In this Seventeenth day of June 1843, personally appeared before the Court of Common Pleas in & for said County, one of the undersigned) I, Eunice Hoos of the town of Maryland, in said County, and fifty nine years of age, who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth in her own right make the following declaration, in order to obtain the pension due Theodotia Havens at the time of her death under the Act of Congress passed July 7. 1838.
That said Theodotia Havens died in the town of Prattburg, Schoharie County, NY, on the twentieth day of December (1839) Eighteen hundred & thirty nine.
That said Theodotia Havens was at the said day of her death the widow of William Havens who was a pensioner of the United States under the Act of March 18. 1818 and who died at the town of Pownal — County of Lewis — State of New York on the day of September, Eighteen hundred & thirty three (1833).
That Declarant has been informed & believes that said William Havens was duly married to said Theodotia whose maiden name was Theodotia Hunt — in the town of Spencertown — some time in the year 1789 Seventeen Hundred & Eighty nine — That said Theodotia Havens left the following children her surviving who are the only children her surviving children are

Withholding from Hannah H. & Amos J. Pratts- burgh, Steubenville County, W. H. Hovey & Mary Hovey of Springfield, Bradford County, Pa.
Said Theo- dora Hovey was said William Hovey's second wife, and this Declarant is William Hovey's daughter by his first wife, being the only child by said first wife now living.
Subscribed & sworn to day & year aforesaid In Open Court W. B. Wilson Clerk
Lee Eunice Hovey mark
And the said Court do hereby affirm their con- fidence in the above declaration of Eunice Hovey, & certify that it satisfactorily appears to them that Theodora Hovey named in said declaration did in the town of Prattsburg — Steubenville County, W. on the twentieth day of December, Eighteen Hundred & thirty nine that Hannah Hovey, Mary H. Hovey were the only children then existing, and that the above declarant is the only surviving child of William Hovey by a former wife.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the Seal of the said Court this Seventeenth day of June A.D. 1845.
W. B. Wilson Clerk

Rev. and 1812 Wars Section AWP/eel
January 31, 1930
Mr. Dwight C. Haven 40 Carolina Apartments Wilmington, North Carolina
Dear Sir:
I advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, R. 4758, it appears that William Havens enlisted in 1779, and served as a private in Captain Daniel Norton's Company, Colonel Weisenfels' New York Regiment, was transferred to Captain Theodosius Fowler's Company, Colonel Philip Van Cortlandt's Second New York Regiment and was discharged in June, 1783.
He was allowed pension on his application executed April 14, 1818, at which time he was living in Austerlitz, Columbia County, New York, in the fifty-fifth year of his age.
In 1820, he was residing in Maryland, Otsego County, New York.
He died in September, 1833, in Lowville, Lewis County, New York.
The soldier married in 1799, in Spencertown, Theodosia or Theodosia Hunt. She was his second wife, the name of his first wife is not stated.
The widow, Theodosia, died December 20, 1839, in Prattsburg, Steuben County, New York.
In 1820, the soldier referred to the following children: Malissa, aged sixteen years and Henrietta, aged thirteen years and at same time referred to two small grandchildren whose names are not given.

In 1845, the following were the surviving children: Eunice, wife of Matthias Hoos, aged fifty-nine years and living in Maryland, New York, a daughter by the first wife; Hannah H. Ames, of Prattsburg, New York; and Henry H. Havens, of Springfield, Bradford County, Pennsylvania, children by the second wife.
Very truly yours
EARL D. CHURCH Commissioner.

Williamstown Maryland In N.Y.

War Department,
PENSION OFFICE,
Dec r 19 1820.
2632
SIR:
You are hereby informed that the Schedule of your property has been examined; and the Secretary of War has directed your name to be continued on the Pension Roll.
You will be paid at the next semi-annual payment in March next. Funds for that purpose will be transmitted at that time; but no arrearages will be paid previous thereto.
I am, respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
J. L. Edwards
To Mr. William Havens
Maryland
Otsego County
N. York
Mr

WAR DEPARTMENT.
Revolutionary Claim
I CERTIFY, That in conformity with the Law of the United States
of the 18 th of March 1818
W m Havens late a private in the army of the Revolution
is inscribed on the Pension List, Roll of the New York Agency, at the rate of eight dollars cents per month, to commence on the fourteenth day of April one thousand eight hundred and eighteen
GIVEN at the WAR OFFICE of the UNITED STATES, this nineteenth day of September one thousand eight hundred and eighteen
J. C. Calhoun Secy of War.

V No 2965 Theodora Haven, N 7/10
Rejected
Letter to the Hon. J. S. Pillsbury Aug 11 '46 by Henry H. Haven 5 th Feb y 1850
ad 7 July 1835

up? cl. has July 14/49 Mrs. Davis, dead.
FREE
Commissioner of Pensions Military Pension Office Washington D.C.

Springfield July 6 1849
Dear Sir I wish to obtain Some Information from you if possible in relation to a pension for the widow of William Havers who was a pensioner for many years and during the pension he died some fourteen years last since his widow lived rising of six years after his death but never drew a pension Since five years ago a man by the name of Hattburn obtained the pension papers and we know nothing further of him I wish you to favour me thus far and say wheather any such claims have been presented or not wheather any person has made any claims in behalf of the widow of Mr. Havers or any of their heirs at any time within the last five years if there has been any thing done pleas confer the favour and give me an answer Soon if there has not been any claims pleas give me any answer at any rate pleas attend Soon Direct to North Smithfield post office Bradford County Penn.
Yours
Harry H. Havers

259
Spencer town August 12.
J. C. Calhoun Esq r
Secretary of the Department of War
Washington
Connect
12 45 to Mr. Calhoun Esq r 14 ap. 1842 from Plate 100 and City. N.Y.

State of New York Otsego County 3d
Levi Boardman
of the town of Maryland in said County aged sixty nine years being duly sworn deposes & states that forty nine years ago, he first became ac- quainted with William Haines & Theodosia his wife who were then living together as hus- band & wife in the town of (then called) Hillsdale N.Y. That Defendant remembers that his acquaintance thus commenced forty nine years ago from the following circumstances viz. that the defendant has a record showing that the defendant mar- -ried forty eight years ago and that the defen- -dant was acquainted with them one year previous thereto That at the time Defendant's acquaintance thus commenced the said William & Theodosia had two children, said to be their children & whom he believed by Defendant was afterwards the said children. That they then also had a child living which Defendant believes to be a daughter of William Ha- -ines by a former wife, whom Defendant had known ever since & who is now living & the wife of Matthias Hoos of Maryland.
Levi Boardman
Subscribed & sworn this
14 th day of June
1845
Levi Boardman
Geo W Chase Justice of the peace

State of New York County of Otsego ss I George S. Wilson clerk of said County do hereby certify that George W. Chase Esq. before whom the foregoing affidavit purports to have been sworn was on the date of the same a justice of the peace in and for said County duly authorized by law to take the same and do further that I am well acquainted with the handwriting of said Justice and verily believe his signature subscribed to the within affidavit to be genuine In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal at office this 17 th day of June 1845
Geo. S. Wilson CLK

ATLANTIC COAST LINE RAILROAD
DWIGHT C. HAVEN, VALUATION ATTORNEY JAMES STEPHENSON, ENGINEER OF VALUATION
VALUATION DEPARTMENT
WILMINGTON, N. C. November 29, 1929-ht
Bureau of Pensions, Department of Interior, Washington, D. C.
Gentlemen:
Will you kindly give me what your records show as to William Hevens or Haven, a Revolutionary Soldier? His service was, I understand, in the Massachusetts Militia. He was residing in Ostego County, N. Y. in 1818 where he made affidavit he was then 70 years of age. I would like to obtain record of date and place of birth and death and such other data as you may have as to his service and children.
Yours very truly,
Dwight C. Haven
ADDRESS:
40 Carolina Apartments, Wilmington, N. C.

Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873.
REJECTED
4758
P. O. Theodosia Harsch
Service: under of Hilleman
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____ 18 The printed list of 1852 shows reasons for rejection Alleges: _____
"Died before August 16-23, 1842" Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract.
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18