Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 23319, Josiah Hodges, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass
Hodges, Josiah Tabitha
W. 23319
CONTENTS

18-112
Name
Josiah Hodges
of Humboldt in the State of Maine who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Hewes — of the Regt. commanded by Col. Thayer in the Mass.  line for ten
Inscribed on the Roll of Maine at the rate of 20 Dollars 00 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 Present.
Arrears to the 4th of March 1833 $ 40.00 Semest. allowance ending April — 20.00
$ 50.00
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by W. L. Williams Clerk, Book E Vol. 1 Page 21

4707 Tabitha Hodges. Widow of Josiah Hodges. late a pensioner under act of June 7. 1832.
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DECLARATION
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress, of the 7th July, 1838, entitled "An Act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows."
STATE OF MAINE.
Somerset County, ss.
On this Twenty fifth day of October A. D., 1838, personally appeared before the Hon. Drummond D. Farnsworth Judge of Probate for said county of Somerset Tabitha Hodge a resident of Pittsfield in the County of Somerset and State of Maine, aged Twenty five years, who, being first duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the Act of Congress, passed July 7th, 1838, entitled "An Act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows;" That she is the widow of Josiah Hodge , who was a pensioner of the United States under Act of Congress of June 7, 1832 that his name was inscribed upon the pension roll of the War Department by virtue of her claim for services in the War of the Revolution in support of her claim.
She further declares, that she was married to the said Josiah Hodge on the _____ day of May in the year seventeen hundred and eighty one ; that her husband, the aforesaid Josiah Hodge died on the sixty fifth day of April in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty five ; that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place previous to the first of January, seventeen hundred and ninety four, viz. at the time above stated, that she has remained a widow ever since that period, as will more fully appear by reference to the proof hereto annexed.
Miss Lucy B. Hodge, Tabitha Hodge mark Miss Mary S. Weeks
Sworn to and subscribed, on the day and year above written, before me (the applicant being from age & infirmity unable to attend Court I waited on her at her residence in said Pittsfield where I found she bore a very good character) D. Farnsworth Judge

STATE OF MAINE.
Sunset
ss.
I the subscriber Registrar of Probate of said County hereby CERTIFY, That Hon. D. Farnsworth before whom the proceedings were had, is Judge of Probate of said County I also CERTIFY, That the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Tabitha Hodges for a pension.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of the said Court, this sixteenth day of October A. D., 183 8
C. Sanborn Registrar

I Ephraim Higgens aged fifty three years being and Phebe Higgens aged fifty four years being first duly sworn according to law doth on their oath make the following declaration That we were well acquainted with Josiah Hodges in his life time and with Tabatha Hodges his wife having lived in the same neighborhood with them until the death of the said Hodges which took place at Pittsfield in Maine on the sixteenth day of April eighteen hundred and thirty five and that Tabatha Hodges has remained his widow and unmarried ever since that. Period said Hodges was awarded a Revolutionary pension of the United States Ephraim Higgens Phebe Higgens
State of Maine
Somerset County ss October sixteenth 1838
Subscribed and sworn to the day & year above written and certify that the deponents appear to be credible witnesses Before me D. Farnsworth Judge
I Drummond Farnsworth Judge of the Court of Probate for the County of Somerset State of Maine certify that I am satisfied that Josiah Hodges was a Revolutionary pensioner of the United States and that Tabatha Hodges who has subscribed the foregoing declaration is the widow of the said Josiah Hodges and that she is a credible and respectable witness. D. Farnsworth Judge

June Sixth One Thousand Seven hundred and Eighty Two Married Each to the other Mr. Josiah Hodges Jr. and Miss Tabitha Smith both of Stoughton Massachusetts by the Rev. Roland Green of Mansfield
I Wm B. Bates certify that the foregoing is a true copy of the Record of said Town of Mansfield with the exception of the Date which is expressed in fair legible figures on the Records as follows June 6 th 1782
Wm B. Bates Town Clerk of Mansfield I Wm B. Bates above named depose and say that I hold the Office of Town Clerk in the Town of Mansfield, County of Bristol, and State of Mass- achusetts, and the above is a true extract from the Records of said Town with the above named exception as certified by me
Wm B. Bates Town Clerk of the Town of Mansfield State of Massachusetts Mansfield Nov 1 st 1838
Bristol ss. Nov 1 st 1838
Then personally appeared the above named Wm B. Bates Clerk of the Town of Mansfield and made oath that the above Certificate by him subscribed is just and true in all its parts
Before me David G. Albert Justice of the Peace

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Winton ss I, James Sprout, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for said County of Bristol, do hereby certify that David Gilbert Esq., whose signature is affixed to the within certificate, is a Justice of the peace in for said County of Bristol, and duly qualified to administer oaths -
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of said Court, at Taunton, this fifth day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty eight.
James Sprout

Joshua Hodge, Private - Mass. troops, Newes Co. 3 monthly $60 80 Barnes Co. } 3 " Hayer's regt. }
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R.C. Vose, Augusta, me.

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State of Maine.
William Getchell
THE Daniel McManus a Clergyman, residing in the town of Pittsfield in the County of Somerset and Barnabas Myrick residing in the same town, hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with Isiah Hodges who has subscribed and sworn to the annexed declaration; that we believe him to be seventy years of age; that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a Soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion.
William Getchell + Barnabas Myrick +
State of Maine.
Somerset ss.—Sworn and subscribed this 1st day of April 183 5
A. D. 1835
Before me, John W. Patten Justice of the Peace.
John W. Patten Esq. is a Justice of the Peace. The Rev. William Getchell is a Clergyman residing in Pittsfield & Barnabas Myrick residing in the same town is a credible person & their statement is entitled to be believed. — Nathan Weston

I Jesse Smith of Livermore in the County of Oxford & State of Maine aged seventy years do upon oath testify & say; that I well know Josiah Woodges of Pittsfield in the County of Somerset, an applicant for a Pension; that having served with him in the same Company & regiment at the same time I well know that he served three months in the year 1781 at Rhode Island in Capt. Barron's company in a Massachusetts regiment under the command of Col. Thayer of Braintree, that John Judkins
Jesse Smith
State of Maine Penobscot County ss:-
Subscribed & sworn to this the 22 nd day of June A.D. 1833. the deponent being well known to me as a credible & disinterested witness.
Before me,
State of Maine Penobscot ss:
John Judkins 3 d Justice of the Peace I John A. Chandler clerk of all the Judicial Courts, held within the County of Penobscot, hereby certify that John Judkins 3 d , before whom the above proceedings were had is a Magistrate as above & that the above signature purporting to be his is genuine.
Witness my hand & the seal of the Supreme Judicial Court of said State this 22 nd day of June A.D. 1833.
J. A. Chandler

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 27 th day of March A. D. 1833 personally appeared in open court before the Hon. NATHAN WESTON, Judge , a Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court, of said State, Josiah Hodges a resident of Pittsfield in the County of Somerset and State of Maine, aged Seventy 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 provision made by the Act of Congress, passed June 7, 1832. That he was drafted  enlisted in the Army of the United States in the year 1779 or 1780 , with Captain Hewes and served in Col. not recollected regiment of the Massachusetts line or troops, under the following named officers:
3 mo That in June or July 1779 or 1780 he is unable to state positively which, he was drafted for the period of three months into a company commanded by Capt. Hewes of Scarborough; that he served at Swanton Rhode Island, & was employed in guard duty, the British troops being then upon Rhode Island, & after serving the full term of three months was verbally discharged at Swanton in September or October of the same year. 3 mo That the next year, which was either 1780 or 1781, he enlisted for the term of three months, in Capt. Baron's company in Col. Thayer's (of Braintree) regiment of the same troops; that he was stationed on Rhode Island under the command of Lt. Thompson, Capt. Baron being at Gloucester with a part of the company. That he enlisted & went on to the Island early in the summer of that year, soon after the British left there & after serving the full term of three months was verbally discharged there. That May was his Major.
And to the interrogatories propounded under the instructions of the war department, he answers:

of the company. That he enlisted & went on to the Island early in the summer of that year, soon after the British left there & after serving the full term of three months was verbally discharged there. That May was his Major.
And to the interrogatories propounded under the instructions of the war department, he answers:
That he was born at Houghton, Massachusetts, in the year 1752, where he presumes his age was recorded, & where he lived when he entered the service. That about fifty years ago he removed to Maine lived in Wayne many years, & lastly in said Pittsfield where he has lived about twelve years. That he was drafted, enlisted & was discharged as he has stated. That he has named such of his officers as he now recollects. That any of his neighbors will testify to his character for veracity & their belief of his services. That he does not know of any body living who served with him during his first service whose evidence he can procure. That Jesse Smith can testify to his second service.
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.
Said Mr Ward his Josiah his Hlodges Mark
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
Nathan Weston
And the said Judge before whom said Court was held does hereby declare his opinion that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier, and served as he states.
Nathan Weston

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, Junt , before 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 Court Judge, in the matter of the application of Isaiah Hodges for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of the said Court, this 27 th , day of March
A. D. 1833.
J. A. Chandler

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WIDOW, &c.
File No. 233/9
Sabitha Hodges Wid of Josiah Hodges Brn Mass line
Act July 27 th 1838
Index: Vol. A , Page 361
[Arrangement of 1870.]

0 Maine - 3488
Jabitha Hodges widow of Josiah Hodges
who was a pensioner under the Act of 7 th June '32 and who died on the 16 th Ap l 1835 of Somerset in the State of Maine who was a P te . in the Comp y commanded by Captain Hewes of the Reg t commanded by Thayer - in the Mass ts line for 6 mos
Inscribed on the Roll of Maine at the rate of 20 Dollars — Cents per annum, to commence on the 4 th day of March, 1836.
Certificate of Pension issued the 13 th day of July '39, and sent to Gen. W. Morton, Augusta, Me.
Arrears to the 4 th of Mar. — $ 60. 00 Semi-annual allowance ending
10. 00
$ 70. 00
{ Act July 7, } 1838. }
Recorded by R Burdin Clerk, Book A Vol. 15 Page 11 —