Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 41661, William Hobart, N.H.

SERVICE
NUMBER
W.H.
Hobart, William
S 41661
CONTENTS

14-474 Q Ohio
William Hobart of Sharon in the state of Ohio who was a Private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Dearborn of the V. Hampshire line, for the term of Eighteen Mo
Inscribed on the Roll of Ohio at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 19 of June 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 6 of Sep 1816 and sent to Elias Harmon Esq. Ravenna Ohio
  Arrears to 4th of  Sep 1819  116.25    Semi-ann. all'ce ending  Mar 1820  48.00    14 Mo. \frac{16}{30}   $164.26  
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Aug 22. 1821
Continued
Information sent from the Genl. Post Office at New York Ohio

William Hobart
Private Portage County, Ohio, Col. Dearborn's Regiment, and Col. Read's New Hampshire Line 18 months
19. June, 1818.
Not found on rolls.
Samithea
Elias Harmon, judge Racine, Portage County, Ohio.

State of Ohio } In this nineteenth day of June A D 1818 before me Portage County } the Subscriber one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas for said County Personally appeared William Hobart aged
years resident in Sharon in said County who being by me first duly sworn according to law doth on his Oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provisions made by the late 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,
That he the said William Hobart enlisted as a Soldier for three years towards the close of the Revolutionary War and served in Capt. Carters Co, Col. Dearborns Regt, also in Capt. Ellis Co, And in Capt. Isaac Troy Co, Col. Reed, Regt New Hampshire line continued in service between eighteen and twenty months and until the Army that was raised for three years were dismissed At which time I was regularly discharged which Discharge is lost And that he has no other evidence now in his power of his said services. Also that he is reduced to indigent circumstances and needs the assistance of his Country for Support
Sworn to and declared before me the day and year aforesaid, I Elias Harmon of the County aforesaid do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said W m Hobart did serve in the Revolution- ary War as stated in the foregoing declaration against the common Enemy. And I now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me to the Secretary for the department of War pursuant to the directions of the above mentioned Act of Congress.
Elias Harmon Associate Judge
July 17th 1819. I do further certify the above named W m Hobart when he made the above declaration said that while he was in the army the Officers and Soldiers as frequently called him by the name of Hulbert and Hulberd as by his right Name and thought it was possible that his name might be improperly spelt on the rolls but said that it was right on the Enlistment, ————— Elias Harmon Asst. Judge
State of Ohio } I Winadence Taylor being under Oath Portage County } do testify that William Hobart now living

might be improving upon me now or right on the Enlistment, — Elias Harmon Asst. Judge State of Ohio } Portage County } ss I Prudence Taylor being under oath  solemn  oath do testify that William Hobart now living in Sharon in this County Enlisted in the State of New Hampshire towards the close of the Revolutionary War as a three years Man that he went into the army and continued with it something like a year and a half or two years that he returned home a short time before the war was completely closed with permission to tarry at home until called for which call was never made and further the Deponant saith not, —
Prudence Taylor
On the fifth day of July 1819 before me personally appeared Prudence Taylor under Oath made the foregoing declaration and subscribed her name thereto — I do further certify that I am satisfied that she is a credible disinterested person — Elias Harmon Asst. Judge
State of Ohio } Portage County } ss I Benjamin Hobart under oath  solemn  oath Oath do testify that I was knowing to William Hobart, Enlisting into the Revolutionary Army in June 1782, And that he continued in the said army until some time in the Spring of 1784 at which time he returned home to his family on furlough which furlough specified that he had permission to continue at home until he had further orders from his Officers and further the deponant saith not, Benjamin Hobart
I Elias Harmon of the County aforesaid do certify that Benjamin Hobart under Solemn made and subscribed the foregoing declaration before me And that it appears to my satisfaction he is a credible disinterested person — June 23 rd 1819 Elias Harmon Associate Judge

The State of Ohio Portage County ss
I Doth Day Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County do hereby certify that Elias Harmon Esquire before whom the foregoing deposition was taken was at that time and now is an Associate Judge of the Court of Portage duly Commissioned and sworn and to all whom official acts shall be made and right to be given, and that the signature appears to be genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office at Ravenna this eighteenth day of December in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.
Day Clerk
Hobart

157
William Hobart
14,474.
6. Sept. 1819.
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Mar 20
Seth Day, Clerk. Ravenna, Ohio.

The State of Ohio On this 12 day of August 1820 before me the subscriber one of the Portage County's Judges of the Court of Common Pleas for the County aforesaid Personally appeared William Hobart aged seventy seven years resident in Windham in said County who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows - that he served in the said War Hobart enlisted for the term of three years towards the close of the Revolutionary War in the company commanded by Captain Center of the Regiment commanded by Colonel Derbourn - also served in the company commanded by Captain Ellis of the Regiment commanded by Colonel Root in the line of the state of New Hampshire on the continental establishment - served between eighteen and twenty months and was regularly discharged from service - This declaration has heretofore to wit on the nineteenth day of June 1818 under the provisions of an act of Congress of the 18 th of March 1818 made declaration of his said services before one of the Judges of the County aforesaid and in pursuance whereof he has been inscribed of the pension list of the United States as by his pension certificate No. 14,484 now in his possession will appear - And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the eighteenth day of March 1818 and that I have not since that time by gift sale or in any manner 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 1818, and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property or securities contracts or debts due to me which are not mentioned in the schedule hereto

the land and moral service of the passed on the eighteenth day of March 1818, 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, viz,    1 Cow with  $ 10, 00  Debts owing by declaration  To Dillingham Clark  $ 35, 00    1 Swine  2, 00  Jeremiah Lyman  1, 89    1 Bible  1, 75  Ebenezer Snow  1, 00    1 Psalm Book  1, 30  Isaac Clark  1, 50     13, 15   38, 39  
No Dues
13 15 25, 52
This declaration further states that his family consists of himself and a wife that his age is 77 years a farmer by occupation but of no ability to perform labour of any description. — That his wife is 63 years of age and unable to perform but little labour, This declaration further states that it was not possible for him to have made the foregoing declaration in court as required by law on account of his decrepit situation, and that he has not been able to dress or undress himself the year past, That his family had been obliged to depend on the charity of their neighbours for four years last past for a considerable part of their support, and prays that his country may consider his helpless situation and continue his pension until the close of his life.
William Hobart
Sworn and Subscribed before me this 12 th day of August 1820.
Elias Harkness one of the Associate Judges of Portage County

The State of Ohio Portage County ss
Be it Remembered that at a Term of the Court of common Pleas of the county of Portage in the state of Ohio being a court of Record of said State specially constituted by law herein agreeably to adjournment at the court house in Ravenna on the fifteenth day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty, Present Elias Harmon, Abel Day and Augustus Baldwin Esquires Associate Judges of said county holding said court in William Hobart a Revolutionary Pensioner having on the twelfth day of August of this present year made declaration before Elias Harmon Esquire one of the Associate Judges of said court and taken the oath prescribed by the act of Congress of the first of May eighteen hundred and twenty, the same being exhibited in court, and it appearing from satisfactory evidence here rendered that that the said William Hobart by reason of age and infirmity is wholly unable to appear in Open court. The court here having the said declaration oath and other proceedings so taken and had before the said Elias Harmon in form aforesaid under consideration are of opinion that there is due and owing by the said William Hobart over and above the amount of property contained in the said Schedule twenty five dollars and thirty two cents.
I Seth Day Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of said County do hereby certify that the foregoing declaration and oath of the said William Hobart and the Schedule thereto annexed together with the opinion of the court thereon are faithfully copied from the Records of the said court now remaining in this Office.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said court at Ravenna this eighteenth day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty.
Clerk.

Rev. and 1812 Wars Section. Ans
October 22, 1927
Mrs. G. C. Parks 505 Main St Anna, Ill
Madam:
I have to advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim S. 41661, it appears that William Hobart enlisted in June 1782 and served as a private in Captains Senter's, Ellis' and Isaac Frye's Companies, in Colonels Dearborn's and Reid's New Hampshire Regiments, until in the spring of 1784.
He was allowed pension on his application executed June 19, 1818, while a resident of Sharon, Portage County, Ohio.
In 1820, soldier stated that he was seventy-seven years old and that his wife was sixty-three years old, but did not give her name. He died July 28, 1821.
There are no further data as to family.
Respectfully,
WINFIELD SCOTT Commissioner.

To t ds, Mich
H 1 6 61
Rev INVALID.
Nov 28 96
Jno S Hoban
Grand Rapids
1909 Mar. 23. Hirt. to
Miss Dona Seibert. P.E.P.
1913 Mch. 12. History to Mrs. E. H. Claire Snyder. P.
1913 Oct. 21 Mrs. E. H. C. Snyder referring her to rad for Sub. Dept.
1927 Oct. 22. Hirt. to Mrs. A. C. Parkhurst.
File No. H 1 6 61
William Hoban
Rev Rev Grad
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 8 , Page 232
[Arrangement of 1870.]

RECORD DIVISION.
Department of the Interior, BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
Briefed by L. D. L.
Claim No. _____
Certificate No. _____
Claimant _____
Soldier Wm Hobart
Service N. H.
Additional Service Post-War
No. _____ claim, State records _____, 190____
No claim, combination records _____, 190____
REMARKS:
No claim, except S. # H 1661

O. W. & N. Div.
Department of the Interior, BUREAU OF PENSIONS,
Washington, D. C. Nov-9, 1896.
Respectfully returned to the writer, who is requested to furnish, for purposes of identification, as much as possible of the information called for below.
H. Lockhorn
Commissioner.
Full name of soldier:
William Hobart
Place of residence before service:
(Town, county, and State, if possible.)
I think New Hampshire, and now one of the New England States
Place of residence after service:
(Town, county, and State, if possible.)
Windom Portage Co. Ohio.
Date of death (as near as possible):
July 28 1821
Christian name of widow:
2nd Wife, Sarah Taylor
Did either he or his widow receive a pension?
Do not know
Remarks:
We think he came from Coos Co. N.H. in 1814 the same time his son & family came to Ohio.
Your name and address:
Jno. S. Hobart Grand Rapids, Mich.
2838b2m
L. W. B.

Feb. 25 th 1913.
The Honorable Commissioner of Pensions.
Washington, D. C.
Will you kindly inform me if William Habart Woo Hampshire , who served as private in Capt. John Hance's Company, Col. Baldwin's Reg. had a pension, his name

appears on a company payroll dated at Peter March 27" 1777 = Rev. War.
Also:
neither only one One William Hobart, rank not stated, served in the Shropshire Troops. Rev. War. Enlisted June 16" 1788. Tacon as. Crompton.
Thanking you for any information you may give me, I am,
Sincerely,

(TTTs) E. St. Claire Snyder. 617 2 nd St. N.W. Watertown, So. Dak.
MS.A. MS.W. MS.H.

Anna Illinois Oct- 17, 1927
Mr. Winfield Scott:
My dear Sir:
Your communication received in regard to William Hobart of Ohio, only then from Ohio Rev. Soldier. Will be more than pleased if you will send me all data concerning him, as you have suggested-

Especially any family data -
Thanking you again & again -
Very Sincerely
Mrs. G. C. Parks
500 - main st.
Anna Ills.

Fremont, O., Feb. 22 nd '89. Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Pensions, Dear Sir:-
I wish to get into the D. A. R. Society here. Will you kindly send me a record of William Hobart, who was a pensioner in the Revolutionary War. I know this that he enlisted June 16, 1782, for a term of three years, from Crompton, N. Hampshire. Will you kindly give me wife's name, and his children if you have such records? Very Respectfully, Iona Seibert. Seibert.

Watertown, S. Dak.
October 14 th 1913.
The, Commissioner of Pensions Washington. D. C.
Sir:-
I have from your office a copy of application for Pension for Rev. War Service of one William Hobart, who served from W. H. under Capt. Senter, Col. Dearborn " Ellis, Col. Reid " Isaac True, Col. Reid. in 1787.
In 1818, June 19 th while living at Sharon, Portage

Circleville, Ohio. He applied for a pension & his claim was allowed.
I wish to know the date his last pension was paid, and if his wife drew the pension after his death, the records must contain her name.
I am trying to find out when William Hobart died and where and what his wife's name was.

If you can give me any of the desired information I will greatly appreciate same.
Sincerely,
(Mrs.) E. St. Claire Snider, State Vice-Regent. D.A.R.

In reply to your request of _____, received _____ for a statement of the military history of William Hobart a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pen- sion on file in this Bureau. S. file 41661.
   DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE.   CAPTAIN. COLONEL.     June 1782 Terminated close of war Spn 184 1st 18th 20th Regs Pri Smiter Dearborn A.H.   Ellis Reid   Isaac Toye Reid  
Battles engaged in, not stated
Residence of soldier at enlistment, not stated
Date of application for pension, June 19, 1818. His clm was allowed.
Residence at date of application, Sharon, Portage Co, Ohio
Age at date of application, 75 years. Died July 21, 1821.
Remarks: In 1820 Soldier's wife, name not stated was 63 years of age. No further data as to family.

O. W. & N. Div. I 41,661 L. W. B.
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, BUREAU OF PENSIONS, WASHINGTON, D. C.,
November 23, 1896.
Sir:
Replying to your request for information concerning the military record of William Hobart, a soldier of the Revolutionary War, you are advised that he made application for pension June 19, 1818, at which time he was residing in Sharon, Ohio, (age not stated), and his pension was allowed for eighteen months' actual service as a private in the New Hampshire troops, Revolutionary War; a part of the time he served under Capt. Ellis and Col. Dearbourne, (place of enlistment not stated).
Very respectfully,
Commissioner.
Mr John S. Hobart, Grand Rapids, Michigan.

7/2 M Rev. War Section.
October 21, 1913.
Mrs. E. St. Claire Snyder, Watertown, So. Dakota.
Madam:
In reply to your letter dated the 14" and received the 17" instant, you are advised that application should be made to the Auditor for the Interior Department, U. S. Treasury Department, for date of last payment of pension, to whom paid and probable date of death of William Hobart, Sur. File No. 41,661, Rev. War, citing the following data:
"William Hobart. Certificate No. 14,474. issued September 6, 1819, under Act of March 18, 1818. at the Ohio Agency."
Very respectfully,
Commissioner.