Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 5089, Samuel Hodges, New York

SERVICE
NUMBER
New York
Hodges, Samuel Rebecca
R. 5089
CONTENTS

Lucius Holton and Lewis Holton was Born December the 10 1811. Fanny Holton was born August the 6 1813. Betsy Holton was born February the 5 1814. Luther Holton was born January the 18 1814. Martha and Mary Holton was born June the 11 1814. Calvin Holton was born October the 11 1811. Cyrus Holton was born July 20 Frederick Holton was born June the 8  was born Samuel Holton was born March 17 Charles Holton was born Jan 10 Lemuel Holton was born February the 21 1822

Mary Dustin was born December the 9 1846
Nancy Hodges was born January the 14 1847
Dancy Hodges was born February the 22 1848
Samuel V Hodges was born March the 8 th 1852
Rosa  Hodges was born June the 28 1854
George Smith Hodges was born June the 30 th 1856
Lucy R Hodges was born September 19 th 1858
Hodges, Samuel NY R5089

Samuel Hodges was born March the 14 1836 Rebecca Smith was born January the 4 1860. Samuel Hodges and Rebecca Smith was were married November the Twenty third 1881.
Sarah Hodges was born August the 26 1888. Seth and Elisabeth Hodges was born February 21 1891. Mary Hodges was born August 13 1894. Smith Hodges was born March the 25 1894.

Royal Sylar was Septm the 15 1821. Rebecca Sylar was born November the 11 1821. Samuel and Mary Sylar was born August 25 1823. Eliza Sylar was born Mar the 15 1826. Nancy Sylar was born June the 15 1827. Jonah Sylar was born October the 3 1829. Daniel Sylar was born August the 1 1830. Sarah Sylar was born April the 15 1832. Patty Sylar was born the 2 June 1833. Smith Sylar was born October the 24 1834.
Hodges, Samuel. NY R 5089

State of New York } Onida County } ss
7 Registered under act of July 4, 1836, which am- ended the act.
On this Eleventh day of July A D 1851 before me Adam Hackley Records of the City of Utica the said Records Court being a Court of Record Rebecca Hodges a resident of Utica in the County of Onida & State of New York aged ninety one years & upwards who being first (by me) 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 29th A D 1848 entitled "An Act for the relief of certain surviving widows of Officers and Soldiers of the revolutionary Army"
That she is the widow of Samuel Hodges (a revolutionary soldier) who was a private in the Company commanded by Captain Elijah Squires but of what regiment deponent cannot state, that the said Samuel Hodges was from sometime in the year seventeen hundred and seventy seven to about the close of the year seventeen hundred & seventy nine a private in the Company com- manded by Captain Cornelius Doty in Col- onel Lewis Van Norts Regiment of Infantry, that the said Samuel Hodges was in the service subsequent to the year seventeen hundred and seventy nine but in what particular Company or Regiment deponent cannot state, that while under the command of Captain Squires the said Samuel Hodges was stationed at Boun- der Brook in the State of New Jersey & was on Long Island at the time New York was

taken by the British & made his escape with the Army from Long Island in the night time, that he entered the service about the beginning of the revolutionary war (as a minute or Militia man as deponent believes) at Hanover in the State of New Jersey & that the claimant has no documentary evidence in support of the claim except what is hereunto attached Marked A, but deponent supposed there is evidence of her husband's services at the Pension Office, or in some of the books from the State of New York or New Jersey which deponent is informed are at the Pension Office at Washington.
She further declares that she was married to the said Samuel Hodges by Esquire Drake at Hanover New Jersey on the twenty third day of November seventeen hundred & seventy seven that her husband the aforesaid Samuel Hodges died on the eighteenth day of September eighteen hundred and twenty six at the Town of Gill Franklin County & State of Massachusetts in a fit of numb palsy, that she was married to him prior to his leaving the service but the marriage took place at the time above stated & that there is no other documentary evidence of her said Marriage as aforesaid other than the family record & that the witnesses to said Marriage are all dead as deponent believes & deponent declares that she is still a widow & that she has never before made application for a pension & that her said husband has never made application for a pension to or received a pension to deponent

knowledge or belief. Sworn to & subscribed on the day & year above written before me Aaron Hackly Recorder of the City of Utica
her Rebecca T Hodges mark.
I certify that the above named Rebecca Hodges is unable to cannot from old age & bodily infirmity appear in open Court, without great difficulty & that in my opinion it would be unsafe for her to do so, hence the foregoing declaration is made before me at chambers and that she is not Dated July 11 th 1837 able to subscribe her name on account of old age only, & that her mind not withstanding her great age, appears to me to be perfectly sound, being a Lady of uncommon intelligence & memory & whose statements of former events are entirely satisfactory and reliable in my judgment.
Aaron Hackly Recorder of the City of Utica

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[Persons making application at the Comptroller's or Secretary of State's Office, for searches, or certificates of service of any person, in the army of the U. S. during the revolutionary war, should give the name and ranks held by such person; the nature of the service; whether in the Infantry, Cavalry, or Artillery, &c.; in the regular army or militia; the names of the officers commanding the regiments and companies at the time of enlistment, service and discharge, as near as can be given. The names should be given with care, and in a legible hand.]
In pursuance of a law passed the 27th of April, 1784, entitled "An act for the settlement of the pay of the Levies and Militia, for their service in the late War, and for other purposes therein mentioned," the following certificates have been issued, bearing interest at five per cent per annum, viz:
1779 September 15 Sam l Hodges - Private No. of Cert'e issued, 25208 £ 1. 12. 2
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State of New-York,
COMPTROLLER'S OFFICE, Albany, March 15 1851
I hereby certify the above to be true extracts from Books No. 5 7 now remaining in this office, and that the service for which the certificates above named were issued, were performed under the following officers, viz:
  1st under Capt. Col. Doty in Col. Lewis Van Woert Regiment.   2d " " " " "   3d " " " " "   4th " " " " "   5th " " " " "   6th " " " " "   7th " " " " "   8th " " " " "   9th " " " " "   10th " " " " "   11th " " " " " 

State of New York } Onida County } ss
On this fourteenth day of July one thousand eight hundred & fifty one personally appeared before me Smith Hodges aged sixty three years & upwards who being first by me duly sworn did depose & say that he resided at Utica New York & that he is a son of Samuel & Rebecca Hodges that the family record of his said father Samuel Hodges has been kept in deponent's possession since the death of his said father on the eighteenth day of September eighteen hundred & twenty six at the town of Hill Franklin County Massachusetts, that the said Original Record consisting of two leaves is herunto attached, & that the said Record is all in the handwriting of his father the said Samuel Hodges, that deponent was well acquainted with the handwriting of his said father & knows the entries to be in his own proper hand, And deponent further says that the Record herunto attached is all & the only record of the family of said Samuel Hodges.
And deponent says he was present at the death of said Samuel Hodges, & that the same took place at the time & place above mentioned.
Smith Hodges
Subscribed & sworn to this 14 th day of July A D 1851
Sam H. Harkness Recorder of the City of Utica

7754
Rebecca Hodges,
ma d Samuel
N. York
Les. S. butte, 6 at. 28/51
" Hon O. B. Ballantine 18 Jan 1833
5089
July 4, 1886,

REJECTED
P. O.
5089 Robert Hodges
Service: _____
Enlisted: _____, 18 .
Discharged: _____, 18 .
Application filed: _____, 18 .
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract.
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18 .

Natick July 14. 1857
Dear Sir
Enclosed please find application of Mrs Rebecca Hodges for a pension under act of 1848, if incorrect or insufficient please advise me of the error & if practicable I will have it remedied -
Yrs truly
Seth Butler

7754.
Rebecca Hodges - wife of Samuel
July 4, 1836
New Jersey New York.
S. Cutter, New York

State of New York } Oneida County } ss
Morris M. Jones Clerk of the Records Court of the City of Utica (which said Records Court is a Court of Record) do certify that the Aaron Backley Esq is the Re- corder of the City of Utica & that the foregoing signa- ture to the Declaration of Rebecca Bodger & also to the Affidavit of Smith Bodger purporting to be the signature of said Backley are genuine & that the same are in the handwriting of said Back- ley with which I am well acquainted.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed my seal of Office & subscribed my name at Utica this fourteenth day of July A D 1851
M. M. Jones Clerk