Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 21382, Timothy Hodgkins, Continental Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Continental Mass,
Hodgkins, Timothy Eunice
W 21382
CONTENTS

Massachusetts 432
Eunice Hodgkins widow of Simeon Hodgkins Mass who was a pensioner under the Act of 1818 and who died on the 13 October 1830 of Essex Co. in the State of Mass. who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain _____ of the Regt. commanded by Col. Baldwin in the U.S. line for Dyer's
Inscribed on the Roll of U.S. at the rate of $V Dollars _____ Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.
Certificate of Pension issued the 22 day of Sept. 1838 and Serial No. Ferson Gloucester Mass.
Arrears to the 4th of Sept 1838 $200.00 Semi-annual allowance ending March 39, 40.00
$240.00
{ Act July 7, } 1838. }
Recorded by N.H. Edson Clerk, Book 4 Vol. 126 Page 94

copy of Dr Wm Coffin's Depo. sent to Mr S C Phillips Feb 6. 1836
National War Pension Johnathan Dyer Salem Mass.
13.557
Massachusetts.
Timothy Hodgkins
of Gloucester in the state of Massachusetts who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Baldwin of the Massachusetts line, for the term of one year
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 3 of April 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued the 29 of July 1819 and sent to William Wetmore Esq Boston Mass.
Arrears to 4th of March 1819 $ 88.49 Semi-ann. all'ce ending 4 Sept 1819 48. 11 Mo 2 days ans. $136.49
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }

Stem Hodgkins
Enlisted May 1775- Served till 1781
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Master of the
Admiralty Office
1781
Supplementary Evidence of facts, certified 8 June 1819
Admiralty

State of Massachusetts
Timothy Hodgkins a Citizen of the United States, now resident at Gloucester in the County of Essex in the State aforesaid, do on oath testify and declare, that in the War of the Revolution, on or about the month of May, in the year of our Lord Seventeen hundred & seventy five
I entered and was engaged in the land service of the United States on the continental establishment, and served accordingly from that time to the month of January in the year of our Lord Seventeen hundred & eighty
as a private against the common enemy, without any interruption or absence: that I belonged to Captain Dodge's Company in Colonel Jeris's Regiment for eight months, & to Captain Dodge's Company in Colonel Baldwin's Regiment for one year & to the Company of Captain Giles in Colonel Wilson's Regiment for three years - and that I left the service in December of January being then honorably discharged and that by reason of my reduced circumstances in life and poverty, I stand in need of assistance from my country for support, being now of the age of Sixty years My discharge this lapse of time is now lost & I have not any other evidence in my power to offer than what is herewith exhibited
And I hereby relinquish all claims to every pension heretofore allowed me by the laws of the United States, if any may be or hath been so allowed.
Timothy Hodgkins
BE IT REMEMBERED, That on this third day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen Pursuant to a law of the United States, entitled, "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war," made and passed on the 18th of March, A. D. 1818, personally appeareth before me
the Subscriber one of the Associate Judges of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the middle Circuit within the State after & presiding pro hac vice the abovenamed Timothy Hodgkins and after due examination and caution to testify and declare the whole truth, he maketh oath to the declaration aforesaid, and subscribes the same in my presence; and, on examination duly made by me the said Judge, it appeareth to my satisfaction that the said declaration is true. In testimony
Whereunto affix my name & the seal of said Court. Wm Wetmore
June 8. 1819. I now further certify the Supplement - 60

Supplementary evidence of Dr. Wm. Coffin & Ensign Henry White in this case, & that the said Timothy Hodgkins, yet is & for many years, last past hath been in such reduced circumstances in life & so poor as to require the assistance of his country for his support. Witness my hand & the seal of the Court aforesaid as within affixed.
Tom Wetmore

We the subscribers inhabitants of the town of Gloucester do testify & say that we are acquainted with Timothy Hodgkins the declarant within named & believe him to be in his circumstances in life reduced & indigent & in need of assistance from his country for support & that we never read his character for veracity called in question
Isaac Elwell
Charles D. Roberts
} Selectmen
Sworn to before me
Wm. Watson Judge within named

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and at the same time he produces to the Court here the following Oath, taken and subscribed by him, before the Hon. Wm Wetmore a Judge of said Court as aforesaid, to wit,
I, Timothy Hodgkins do solemnly swear, that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the eighteenth day of March one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and that I have not, since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner whatever, disposed of my property, or any part thereof, with intent thereby so 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 eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, 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. So help me GOD.
Timothy Hodgkins
Essex, ss. C. C. C. P. June, Term, A. D. 1820.
Then the abovenamed Timothy Hodgkins took and subscribed the aforeswritten Oath before me
Wm Wetmore
Judge of said Court.
I, ICHABOD TUCKER, Clerk of the Court aforesaid, do hereby certify that the foregoing Oath, and Schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the record 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 one hundred
fifty one dollars seventy cents
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court, at Salem, in said County of Essex, on this 17 th day of July A. D.
1820
Attr.
Ichabod Tucker, Cler.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
ESSEX, ss.
At the Circuit Court of Common Pleas of the Middle Circuit, begun and holden at Salem, within and for the County of Essex, on the third Monday of June, A. D. 1820.
Present, Hon. SAMUEL DANA, Chief Justice. Hon. WILLIAM WETMORE, and Hon. STEPHEN MINOT, Associate Justices.
In open Court here, being a Court of Record for said Circuit, proceeding according to the course of the common law, with a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount, keeping a record of its proceedings, and having the power of fine and imprisonment, Timothy Hodgkins resident in Gloucester in said Circuit, who is named in Pension Certificate No. 13,557 now in his possession, of which the following is a true copy, to wit,
WAR DEPARTMENT.....REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.
I certify that, in conformity with the Law of the United States, of the 18th March, 1818, Timothy Hodgkins late a private in the Army of the Revolution, is inscribed on the Pension List, Roll of the Massachusetts Agency, at the rate of eight dollars per month, to commence on the third day of April one thousand eight hundred and eighteen
***** L. S. *****
Given at the War Office of the United States, this twenty ninth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen
J. C. CALHOUN, Secretary of War,
appears, and exhibits to the Court here a Schedule, subscribed by him, as follows, to wit,
SCHEDULE,
containing his whole estate and income, his necessary clothing and bedding excepted, to wit,
Table with 2 columns: Description of assets, Value. Assets include: 1 small dwelling house 1 room in pretty good repair ($120.00), 1/4 acre of land used as a garden (15.00), small fish house (8.00). Total: 143.00.
Personal-
Table with 2 columns: Description of personal items, Value. Items include: 1 desk 4.00, 2 tables 1.20 (5.20), 1 doz: plates 1/2 doz: knives forks spoons etc. (1.20), some cooking utensils (2.00). Total: 8.70. Grand Total: $151.70.
The Declarant saith that he was a soldier in the army of the Revolution, and served as a soldier during the whole of the year 1776 in Capt. Barnabas Dodge's Company in the Regiment commanded by Col. Loammi Baldwin in the Massachusetts line: and in

1777 the Declarant enlisted during the war, and under this enlistment he served more than three years and was prevented serving longer by sickness - The Declarant is sixty two years of age, has a wife who is sixty years old - Timothy Hodgkins
Sworn to & declared before Wm Wetmore Judge above named
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186 Eunice Hodyskin Wid of Timothy Mass.
Act 7 June 1838
Marr'd 1793
Died 1830
Allow 27 pr. $80 pr. am. —
Wm. Fess E.B. Gloucester

State of Massachusetts
County of Essex, ss.
In this 31 day of August, 1838, personally appeared before the Hon. Daniel A. White, Judge of the Probate Court for the County of Essex, Eunice Hodgkins, a resident of Gloucester in the County of Essex and State of Massachusetts, aged 78 years, who being first duly sworn according to law,
1838 Pat 1819 ty not ge and
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
ESSEX, ss.
I, JOHN PRINCE, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, within and for the County of Essex, do certify, that
Hon. D. A. White is Judge of Probate
within and for said County, and that his signature hereon is genuine.
WITNESS MY HAND, and the Seal of said Court of Common Pleas,
August 4.
A. D. 1838,
John Prince Clerk.

State of Massachusetts County of Essex, ss.
On this 31 day of August, 1838, personally appeared before the Hon. Daniel A. White, Judge of the Probate Court for the County of Essex Eunice Hodgkins, a resident of Gloucester in the County of Essex and State of Massachusetts, aged 78 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 7, 1838 entitled "An act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows": That she is the widow of Timothy Hodgkins, who was a pensioner under the act of Congress of March 18, 1818; pension certificate dated July 29, 1819 number 13.557
She further declares that she was married to the said Timothy Hodgkins on the twenty ninth day of December in the year seventeen hundred and ninety three; that her husband the aforesaid Timothy Hodgkins died on the 13th day of October, 1830; 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. Vix. at the time above stated.
Eunice her  mark Hodgkins
Sworn to and subscribed, on the day and year above written
before me
D. A. White Judge of Probate

"Mr Timothy Hodgkins, and Miss Eunice Haraden were married by the Revered Eli Forbes. December twenty ninth One thousand seven hundred and ninety three."
I William Saville, Town Clerk of Gloucester, in the County of Essex and State of Massachusetts, certify that the above is a true copy of the Record, with exception of the date, which is expressed in the Record, in fair legible figures as follows "December 29 th 1793"
Will m Saville Town Clerk of Gloucester
I William Saville above named, depose and say, that I hold the office of Clerk, in the County, Town, and State aforesaid, and that the above is a true extract from the Records of said Town as certified by me, with the exception above named
Will m Saville Clerk of the Town of Gloucester
We Nathaniel Duley and Eunice Haraden both of Gloucester in the State of Massachusetts of lawful age on oath testify, that to our knowledge Timothy Hodgkins before named died on the thirteenth of October, Eighteen hundred and thirty, leaving a widow named Eunice, who has remained a widow since the death of her said husband, Timothy Hodgkins and that she has not intermarried since that period
Nath l Duley Eunice Haraden
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Essex, ss. On this 26th day of July, 1838, before me William Terson, Notary Public, by legal authority admitted and sworn and dwelling in Gloucester in said County, personally came Nathaniel Duley and Eunice Haraden, well known to me as credible witnesses, and William Saville, who severally made oath to the truth of the above deposition and certificate of marriage by them subscribed
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my Notarial Seal on the day and year above written
William Terson, Noty Public

Rev
WIDOW, &c.
File No. 21382
Emmie Hodgkins Widow of Timothy Hodgkins (Brn Rev. War)
Act: July 7 th 1838
Index:—Vol. 64 , Page 350
[Arrangement of 1870.]

James L. Edwards, Esq.
Commissioner of Pensions, Washington

Gloucester, Me. 11 January, 1836.
James L. Edwards, Esquire, Commissioner of Pensions, Sir,
I request a copy, for legal purposes, of the deposition of Doct. William Coffin, given to prove the claim of Timothy Hodgkins for a pension, by the act of 18th March, 1818. Sd. Hodgkins is marked, deserted ; the Doctor's testimony proves that by reason of sickness he did not return to the army. Dr. Coffin is deceased, is the reason of this application to the Pension Office. Mr. Hodgkins pension certificate was dated July 29, 1819, N o 13587. This will be handed you by the Hon. Stephen C. Phillips, member of Congress, to whom please to deliver the copy.
I am respectfully Your obedt. servt.
William Ferson

Gloucester June 4 th 1819
This certifies that I the Subscriber did visit & administer medicines to Mr Timothy Hodgekins for a complaint in his lungs & stomach in the year 1780 immediately after his return from the continental Army to sometime in 1781 during which time he was not able to endure the fatigues of the camp or perform Military duty at which time I gave to Mr Hodgekins a certificate to be presented to his Colonel in evidence of the above fact.
Don Coffin Physician
Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Essex Gloucester ss
Be it known, that on this seventh day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and nineteen, Before me John Rogers, Notary Public, by legal authority, admitted and sworn, and dwelling in Gloucester in the County and Commonwealth aforesaid - Personally appeared William Coffin above named, and made solemn oath to the truth of the above declaration by him subscribed - I also certify that I am, and have been personally acquainted with Doctor Coffin, as a Respectable Practitioner in this Town for and in my own family for more than thirty years - That he is a Gentleman of respectability, and veracity, and to whom declarations full faith and credit, ought to be giving.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my Notarial Seal the day and year, last have mentioned.
John Rogers. N.Y. Public

I Henry White of Gloucester in the County of Essex and State of Massachusetts do on oath testify and say, That I held the Commission of a Lieutenant in Col o James Wesson's Regiment in the Revolutionary war from 1st January 1777 and was in actual service until some time in the year 1781, when I was discharged by virtue of the Act of Congress & borne on the Rolls as a supernumerary: That I was well acquainted with Timothy Hodgkins who was a brave and faithful soldier in the service and a friend to the liberty and independence of his country; that after a long sickness he had in 1780 I went with him to his Colonel, James Wesson, at his house in Brookline in the month of September 1780, when said Hodgkins delivered a certificate from Dr. William Coffin to said Colonel, stating his sickness. The Colonel said in my presence, "that he was satisfied with the statement in Dr. Coffin's certificate, that he did not think s d Hodgkins was then able to do military duty, gave him liberty to return to his home in Gloucester and stay there till further orders, for it was useless for a sick man to be in the service;" and in my opinion, he would have returned at any time if required. That Col o Wesson went to Boston the next day and assisted s d Hodgkins to get his wages. That I have no knowledge of his being requested to return; or of his absconding for fear of being apprehended; that by order of the Br. General I apprehended several deserters and could have taken s d Hodgkins at any time if I had been so requested.
Henry White L.T.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Essex ss. June 7 th 1819 Personally appeared before me the above named Henry White and made solemn oath to the truth of the foregoing deposition by him subscribed; and I do hereby certify, that the said Henry White is well known to me, as a man of the strictest veracity, and that his deposition is entitled to perfect credit.
James Goss. Just. Peace