Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 5311, Jared Hoyt, Continental (Conn.)

SERVICE
NUMBER
Continental (Conn.) Hoyt, Jared Mary
R 53/1 B.L.Wt 5991-100 issued 1789
CONTENTS
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The Births & Names of their Children are as Follows, U.V.
  I. Anna, Born  1 st Nov  1780    II. Polly ----  17 Oct  82    III. Jared ----  3 Dec  85    IV. Albin ----  5 March  187    V. David ----  30 Sept  88    VI. AMOS  15 Nov  1798  
Adah Hoyt Born Aug. 19 th 1794 Adah was Married Sept 22 to Benjamin Calkins 1811 Thomas H. Calkins was Born on the 8 th of May - 1812 on Friday
Alta Hoyt Departed this Life 30 th Augt 1802 Aged 15 years 5 months & 25 Days Jared Hoyt Departed this Life 17 th April 1826 Aged 60 years 10 Months

Jonathan Hoyt's Childrens Names
Lanson Hoyt Anna - Hannah
Henry Niram
Mary Diantha
Mary Hoyt Deceased Her Life Oct 14 th 1828 in the 69 years 12 mo 13 th Aged 17 Days
Mr. Jared Hoyt
was Born May 20 th 1762.
Mrs Mary June
was Born Nov. 27 th 1758.
And were Married July 11 th 1780.

David Hoyt Departed this life Sept 21 st 1841 Aged 52 and 11 Mo 21 Day
A Genealogical Account, &c.
Apr. 20 th 1789.
Laus Deo.

David Hoyt was Married to Betsey Frost on the 23 d of November 1811
David Hoyt was Married to Chloe Andrew on the 16 th of December 1816

Received from David Hoyst of Walton in Delaware county, a Trust of William Alexander Surveyor of Military Land Warrants. Acknowledging to have received his Military Land Warrant for one hundred acres of land, in order to endeavor to obtain his Patent for the same from the War Office in the City of Washington next Winter Dated the 11 th April. 1801.
Lucas Glanendorf

In the matter of Mary Noyt
Letter of Administration
Cherry Co. Sur. Offic — Recorded Vol 1 page 2 May 1 st 1837 Abel S. Thurston County Judge

Recorded 28 th April 1826
In the name of God  amen : I Jared Hoyt of the Town of Catharine in the County of Tioga & State of New York Farmer being in sound mind & memory, thanks be to God: Calling to mind the mortality of my body & knowing that it is once appointed for all men to die, do make this my last will & Testament, that is to say, principally & first of all I give & recommend my soul into the hand of Almighty God who  that gave it; & my body I recommend to the earth: to be buried in a decent Christian burial at the discretion of my executors nothing doubting but at the general resurrection I shall receive the same again by the mighty power of God; and as touching such worldly estate wherewith it has pleased God to bless me in this life I give & dispose of the same in the following form: First I give & bequeath to Mary my beloved wife one equal third part of all my real & personal property during the time she remains my widow; & to my children viz: Jared, David, Amos, Anne, Polly, Adah the other two thirds of all my personal & real estate and and to their heirs & assigns forever, after all debts & lawful demands are paid: excepting David C. Hoyt & Adah Calkins is not to have as much into ten dollars each as Jared Amos Anne & Polly is to have: and Jared Hoyt Jun r & Amos Hoyt is to have their land east of the barn

where the fruit-Trees are Standing. I also appoint Jared Hoyt & Amos Hoyt to be my executors to settle this my last will as the Statute may direct after my decease: Ratifying & confirming this & no other to be the last will & Testament . In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal this fifteenth day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & twenty two. Jared Hoyt
Signed Sealed & pronounced by the said Jared Hoyt as his last will & testament in the presence of us who in the presence of each other have hereunto Subscribed our names in the presence of
Phineas Cather Ebenezer B Crofut Nathan Brisco
Jared Hoyt (seal)
Tioga County ss; Be it remembered that on the first day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & twenty six personally appeared before me Caleb Baker Esq Surrogate of the County of Tioga Ebenezer B Crofut & Nathan Brisco two of the subscribing witnesses to the foregoing Instrument - of writing, pur- porting to be the last will & testament of Jared Hoyt late of the town of Catharine deceased; who being by me duly sworn did depose & say that they were present & did see the said Jared Hoyt sign & seal the said instrument of writing & at the same time heard

him publish, pronounce & declare the same to be his last will & testament & that they generally at the same time subscribed their names as witnesses thereto together with the above named Phineas Cattle the other subscribing witness to the same in the presence of each other & the testator: and that at the time of the execution thereof, the said testator appeared to them to be of sound mind & memory
Caleb Baker Surrogate
State of New York To all to whom these presents shall come, I Charles P. Atty County Judge of the said County of Troy do hereby certify that the foregoing copy of the last will & testament of said testator late of the town of Catherine, Columbia County (at the time of the probate thereof, Troy County) declared by the certificate of probate thereof has been compared by me with the original record thereof in the Surrogate Court of said County of Troy in Book of Wills "6" on pages 141 & 142 & is a correct transcript thereof & of the whole of such original record
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of the Surrogate Court of said County this 12 th day of April D 7851
Charles P. Atty County Judge of Troy County
Fees $14

State of New York §
Chemung County ss. On the 1 st day of May 1851 Personally appeared in open Court before the Hon A. S. Thurston County Judge of the County Courts of Chemung County in the State of New York, the same being a Court of Record, having common law jurisdiction and a Clerk & Seal, Benajah A. Hoyt administrator of all & singular the goods, chattels & credits of Mary Hoyt late of Catharine in said County, the widow and relict of Jared Hoyt late of Catharine aforesaid deceased and a soldier of the Revolutionary Army, who being duly sworn according to law makes the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the acts of Congress granting pensions to the officers & soldiers of the Revolutionary Army & their widows & representatives:
That the said Jared Hoyt was a soldier in the Company of Dragoons in Capt. Webb's Company in Col. Sheldon's Regiment in the Connecticut line: that he enlisted for five years & served out his term in the war of the Revolution & was regularly discharged which discharge as he is informed was forwarded to Washington for the purpose of receiving the Bounty Land to which he was entitled for his services.
That the said Jared Hoyt was married to Mary June in the month of July (11 th ) 1780 seventeen hundred eighty. He was wounded at Pound Ridge in Westchester County NY during the war & was a prisoner some three months in the "Sugar Works" in New York.
The said Jared Hoyt died on the 17 th April 1826 and his widow Mary Hoyt who survived him & was married to him previous to the close of his term of service (to wit July 11. 1780) continued his widow until her death which took place on the 18 th of October 1878. That neither of them received or applied for a pension in their life time: and this declaration is made for the purpose of

obtaining the pension to which the said Mary would have been entitled in virtue of her husband's services as a sergeant of Dragoons (as it is believed he bore that rank) from the 4 th of March 1826 to the 18 th of October 1828, the day of her death: she having been married previous to the close of his enlistment.
Sworn before me
In open Court
the 1 st day of May 1851
Ariel S. Thurston
County Judge of Chautauqua County
Benaiah A. Hoyt
It is further certified by the said Court that the said Benaiah Hoyt being sworn & examined testified that the annexed book is the family record of the said Jared Hoyt that the name was variously written Hait , Hoit & Hoyt that the entry of the birth and marriage of Adah Hoyt in the said book is the proper handwriting of the said Jared Hoyt - The previous portion of the record was in the handwriting of a School Teacher employed for the purpose. He further testifies that the same is assented to by the members of the family.

as the family record and always appeared to as such and has been preserved in the family as such record. and was held & preserved by his grandmother the said Mary Hoyt from whom it was obtained. The authenticated copy of the last will & Testament of the said Jared Hoyt is annexed to shew that he admitted the said Mary to be his lawful wife and that he devised property to her as such sworn on the day & year aforesaid before me In open Court A. S. Thurston County Judge of Chemung County,
Bernajah A. Hoyt
State of New York Chemung County } Clerks office ss }
I A. F. Babcock Clerk of said County do hereby certify that the above contains the original proceedings of the County Court of said County in the matter of the application of Bernajah A. Hoyt administrator of Mary Hoyt deceased for arrears of pension. Witness my hand & the Seal of the said Court & County the first day of May 1851
A. F. Babcock Clerk

The People of the State of New York
To Benajah A. Hoyt
Send Greeting
Whereas, Mary Hoyt as is alleged, lately died intestate, having whilst living, and at the time of her death, goods, chattels and credits; within this State; by means whereof, the ordering and granting administration of all and singular the said goods; chattels, and credits; and also the auditing, allowing, and finally discharging the account thereof, doth appertain unto us; and we, being desirous, that the goods, chattels, and credits of the said deceased may be well and faithfully administered, applied, and disposed of, do grant unto you the said,
Benajah A. Hoyt : full power, by these presents, to administer, and faithfully dispose of all and singular the said goods, chattels, and credits; to ask, demand, recover, and receive the debts which unto the said deceased, whilst living, and at the time of his death did belong; and to pay the debts, which the said deceased did owe, so far as such goods, chattels, and credits will thereto extend, and the law require: Thereby requiring you to make, or cause to be made, a true and perfect inventory of all and singular the goods, chattels, and credits of the said deceased, which have, or shall come into your hands, possession or knowledge. Also to make or cause to be made duplicates of such inventory, and cause the same to be signed by the appraisers, and the same so made and signed, that you make return thereof, to the County Judge of the county of Chemung, within three months from the date thereof; and further, to render a just and true account of your administration, when thereunto required. And we do by these presents, depude, constitute, and appoint you Administrator of all and singular the goods, chattels and credits, which were of the deceased.
In Testimony Whereof, we have caused the Seal of office of our said County Judge to be hereunto affixed,
Witness Asa S. Thurston County Judge of the said county of Chemung, the 12 th day of May in the — year one thousand eight hundred and fifty one
Asa S. Thurston County Judge of Chemung County.

No 7. 731
Application of Penajah Hoyt admr of Mary Hoyt widow of Israel Hoyt dec d for a Pension
N. Y.
Act 4 July 1836
J. H. Maxwell agent Elmira N.Y.

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
NAME Hoyt, Jared GRADE Private LINE Sheldon's Dragoons (Connecticut)
WARRANT NUMBER 5991 ACREAGE 100 ISSUED July 27, 1789
{ To Jared Hoyt said pt. returned by William Alexander; rtd. to the Hon. Vincent Mathews — Feb. 28, 1811
*The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800. Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.

Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873.
5311. REJECTED
P. O. _____ Mary Hoyt Service: _____
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: _____ _____
Re-enlisted: _____ _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____ _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contra
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18
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No. 731
Mary Hoyt decd widow of Iarea
N.Y.
Act of July 4 th 1830.
To Thos Maxwell July 29. 51
B. A. Hoyt January 29/52
" " " Aug. 3 d 1857.
5511

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Shepherd.
This is short, though not so sweet. Surely the bet- ter part of the Solemnity here will be dancing.
Fencer.
Enough: They shall be met with instantly in their own Sphere, the Sphere of their own Activity, a Dance. it by whom, expect: No Cynatheian , nor Satyr ; it (as I said) Boys of Boetia , Things of Thebes , (the own is ours, Shepherd ) mad merry Greeks , Lads of fe, that have no Gall in us, but all Air and Sweet- s. A Tooth-drawer is our Foreman, that if there be t a bitter Tooth in the Company, it may be called at a twitch. He doth command and order Teeth kies them forth with his Riding Rod: He draws ath a Horse-back in full speed, yet he will dance a ot, he hath given his word: He is Yeoman of the outh to the whole Brotherhood, and is charged to their Gums be clean, and their Breath sweet, at a nutes warning. Then comes my Learned Theban , e Tinker, I told you of, with his Kettle-Drum (be- re and after) a Master of Mufick, and a Man of etal, He beats the March to the Tune of Tickle-foot , m, Pam, Pam, brave Epam with a Nondas . That's e Strain.
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Shepherd.
A high one.
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Fencer.
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Nov 4/1857
Rel. to Apple of Mary Hoyt Weed wid: of Gard -
Staten Island Nov 12/57
W. H. Hays Barton New York
J. H. Richards Esq.
Congressional Union Washington D.C.
Miss

Barton Oct 30 th 1857.
To the Secretary of the Interior.
Dear Sir, I sent some papers to the Pension Office for the application of a pension in the case of Mary Hoyt Deceased, late of the Town of Catharine Chemung County, wife of Jared Hoyt a revolutionary soldier, who served in the Connecticut Troop and was wounded in an action with the british. I sent the papers as Administrator of the estate of the said Mary Hoyt by way of Thomas Maxwell Esq. Chemung Co. attorney, and I have not heard any thing from them since they were sent and I did not know but they had been miscarried in some way as they were sent about the first of May last. and I thought I would address this letter of Inquiry. If you can give me any information in regard to the above please direct to the undersigned at Barton Tioga Co. N.Y. I remain yours with respect
J. T. Edwards Esq Commissioner
B. A. Hoyt Administrator Mary Hoyt Deceased

George. C. Whiting, Esq. Washington D C }
Horseheads Chemung Co. N.Y. June 29 th 1857.
Sir,
The application of Daniel Coe was sent to Mr. S. M. Knight, on the 4 th day of April 1856. And was read by him on the 10 th of April 1856, as he acknowledged in his letter to me of the date of April 10 th 1856.
Enclosed in the same letter was the application of Amos Hoyt of Catharine Chemung Co. N.Y. only surviving child of Jared & Mary Hoyt deceased, for a Revolutionary Pension to which he thought he was entitled. The result of which he has not been informed, by Mr. Knight. will you please inform me of the result, of the same.
Yours truly, Daniel Coe & Amos Hoyt by B. A. Hoyt

Elmira May 1. 1881
Sir
I forward the declaration of Benajah A. Hoyt adm of Mary Hoyt dec d the widow of Jared Hoyt who was a sergeant in Capt Webb's Compy Col Sheldon's Regt Dragoons Conn line.
The time which has passed since the death of Jared Hoyt has also carried off most of his comrades. I knew him well as also several who were in the same Compy. He obtained bounty land many years ago for his services & have conversed with Maj r Talmadge who was his commandant at part of the time in Sheldon's Regt. who knew him well I have seen Talmadge's will, now in the Pension Office. The name of Jared Hoyt will be found upon it.
Yours Respectfully, Th Maxwell
Hon J E Heath

Honr d Sir
Catherine 25 th Nov. 1809.
Inclosed is a receipt; requesting your attention to the same, on or about the year 1786 or seven I obtained a warrant from the war office for one hundred acres of land and delivered it to William Alexander surveyor for the united States and took his receipt for the same. Congress being removed from Philadelphia to the place where now in session. I handed my receipt of Alexanders to Mr r Elmendorf the one enclosed is one that I rec d of Mr r Elmendorf in order to obtain my patent. Mr r Elmendorf living a distance from this place have not seen him I have sent several times to him respecting my patent and cannot get any more satisfaction than that my receipt of Alexanders together with his papers was destroyed by fire at the time when the united States papers was destroyed in Washington. it is my wish for you to take care of this receipt of Elmendorfs and enquire in and about the business and do every thing for me that can be done, in so doing I will cheerfully compensate compensate you on your return
Vincent Mathews Esqr.
I am sir
with respect
yours &c.
Jane D. Hoyt

War Department, 28.
War Office, 28 th Feb y 1811.
Received the Warrant N o 5991 originally issued to Jared Mayt and returned unlocated to this Office
Vincent Matthews
Letter Jared Mayt to Vincent Matthews Esq r relative to a Land Warr t formerly issued, &c. — Receipt of Mr Matthews for said Warrant.

Warrant
War Office, 28 th Feb y 1811.
Letter Jared Mayt to Vincent Mathews Esq r relative to a Land Warr t formerly issued, &c. - w th Receipt of Mr. Matthews for said Warrant.
Received the Warrant N o 5991 originally issued to Jared Mayt and returned unlocated to this Office
Vincent Matthews