Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 44,917, John Hartwell, Continental (Mass.)

SERVICE
NUMBER
Continental (Mass.)
Hartwell, John
S. 44,917
CONTENTS

3619
W. Bacon Sept. 22. 1829
New York
John Hartwell
of Monroe in the State of New York who was a private in the company commanded by Captain Parker of the Regiment commanded by Colonel Little in the Massachusetts line, for the term of One year from the year 1776 to the year 1777.
Died Sept 28, 1832 Agency book.
Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of eight Dollars per month, to commence on the 27 th day of April 1818. and
Certificate of Pension issued the 14 th of October 1818. and sent to P. Phelps Esq. Canandaigua: N.Y.
Continued on the Roll on 12 th day of March 1829 and notification sent to W. Bacon Esq at Rochester. N.Y. Pension commencing on the 3 rd of February 1829.
Amount due on 4th of Sept 1829. }
$ 56.45
{ Rev Act
12 March 29

State of New York } Ontario County } ss
On this 27 th day of April 1818 before me Stephen Phelps a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County Personally appears John Hartwell aged 60 years resident of the town of Rush in said County who being by me first duly sworn according to Law doth make the following declaration in order to obtain the provisions made by the 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 John Hartwell enlisted in the town Limerick in the County of Worcester in the State of Massachusetts in the Company commanded by Captain Parker in the Regiment commanded Colonel Little in the Month of January 1776 for one year that he continued to serve in the service of the United States until the Month January 1777 when he was discharged from service at the high Lands on the North river in the State of New York that he was in no battle and that he is in recent circumstances and stands in need of the assistance of his country for support and that he has no other evidence now in his power of his said services
John Hartwell
Sworn to and declared the day and year aforesaid before me Stephen Phelps

State of New York Ontario County ss
I Stephen Phelps a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County and State do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said John Hartwell did serve in the Revolutionary War as stated in the preceding 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 aforementioned Act of Congress. Canandaigua April 27 th 1818
Stephen Phelps
State of New York Ontario County ss
I Stephen Phelps a Judge of Ontario Common Pleas do certify by satisfactory proof that John Hartwell the above said Applicant is in reduced circumstances and in need of assistance from Government for Support
Stephen Phelps
Canandaigua Sept. 25 th 1818
State of New York Ontario County ss Clerks Office
In testimony that Stephen Phelps, whose name is subscribed to the above certificate was on the day of the date of the same a Judge of Ontario Common Pleas and that the same is his signature I hereunto subscribe my name and affix the seal of said County at Canandaigua this 28 th day of September 1818
Richd. M c Neil Clerk

Dame Hartnett Julius Caesar Will's Clerk Affidavit

State of New York Anderso County
Danick Hartwell being Duly Sworn upon his oaths Doth Depose and say that he is the son of John Hartwell, of the Town of Poughkeepsie that he remembers that his father John Hartwell has not been able to perform labor for fifteen years past to any amount on the account of ill health and that he truly believes that he is subject to fits resembling the apoplexy and also Rheumatic Complaint and has not performed any labor for five years past and part of which time has not even made fire and that the Deponent has lived not to exceed half mile from the said John Hartwell for the space of five years and sees the said John Most Every Day and is particularly acquainted with the state of his health and truly believes that he is not able to perform any labor and the Deponent further deposes and saith that he is now living in the house with the said John Hartwell and knows of the wife of the said John Hartwell being so indisposed & such weak constitution, as not to be able a great part of the time to take care of herself, and the Deponent further deposes and says that the said John Hartwell is in such indigent circumstances as to need relief as he has no person to whom he can look for support neither is any person around that this Deponent knows of to support the said John Hartwell for or on account of any consideration paid them nor any other source from which he can expect support therefrom the benevolent acts of his offspring and the Deponent further deposes and says that the said John Hartwell hath a lease of fifty acres of land on which the said John resides and that in consequence of old age and inferior state of the health of the said John and his

and his wife the said John Hartwell is compelled to let the said Lease Lot and that the Deponent truly believes that the product of said Lease Lot is insufficient to support the said John & his wife and that the Deponent sent the hay in said Lease Lot and that the part belonging living the one half does not exceed one ton of hay and the proportion of Indian Corn raised do not exceed fifty Bushels belonging to the said John and that to harvested in the field by the said John which he was not able to do and no other kind of Grain raised whatever on the premises or pasture on said Lease Lot and that this Deponent further states that the said John Hartwell holds said Lease Lot subject to a Mortgage of Eighty Dollars for which the said John pays the interest yearly at Seven per Cent to the Commissioners of the School Fund of the State of New York and further the Deponent saith Not
February 12 th 1820
Daniel Hartwell
Sworn to and Subscribed this 12 th Day of February in the year of our Lord 1820 before me
Peter Poirier { Justice of the peace for Ontario County State of New York

State of New York } Wells Court being Duly Sworn Ontario County } upon his Oath Dath Depose and
Say that he is acquainted fifteen years or Rising And that he Lived Within Eighty Rods of the land John Hartwell in Osgood in Ontario County for the Space of fifteen Years and that he knows and is well understood in the Neighborhood where the said John Hartwell Resides that he the said John is an Inform Man and Not able to perform here Labor and is knowing of the lot on which the said John Resides is a Lease Lot and that he the said John Hartwell holds said Lease Lot living, as the Deponent truly believes fifty acres subject to a Mortgage of Eighty Dollars for which he pays annual interest at Seven per Cent and that the Deponent never understood during the whole of his acquaintance with the said John that he owned any other lands than the said Lease Lot and that during the whole of his acquaintance he has been informed and truly believes that the product of the fifty acres of the said Lease Lot is all the income the said John has for his his support add the Deponent further Depose and says that he is also knowing the wife of the said John Hartwell to be a weak constitutioned and infirm woman, and that the income of the said John Hartwell of said Lease Lot the last year he truly believes to be insufficient for the support of the said John Hartwell and further the Deponent saith not
Given to and subscribed the 15 th Day of February in the year of our Lord 1820 before me
Wells Clark Mark
Peter Price { am of the } Justice of the } Peace for Ontario } County

State of New York Ontario County
Julius Barnes Sworn Duly sworn upon his oth Dath Depose and say that he is Acquainted Residing of an Grass With John Hartwell of Rush in said County Said that since his acquaintance with the said John Hartwell =ill and from Circumstances Transpiring he truely believes that the said John Hartwell Enjoys at very ill State of health and that he the said Julius Barnes occupies the place and the lease lot on which the said John Hartwell now Resides and all the Grain raised on said lease lot on which the said John Resides did not exceed fifty Bushels of Indian Corn and the Deponent further states that the said lease lot product of the said lease lot as far as he could discover by occupying the said lot is and truely believes insufficient to support the said John Hartwell and his wife and further this Deponent saith not
Julius Barnes
Sworn to and subscribed the 15 th Day of February in the year of our Lord 1820
before me Otto Price { Clerk of the Court of the man for Ontario County
State of New York Ontario County
To Whom it may concern This may Certify that I Otto Price Esq. am of the Court of the man in and for the said County of Ontario and personally acquainted with the above Deponents and from my acquaintance with the said Deponents truely believe them to be persons of truth and and veracity Witness my hand 15 th Day of Feb y 1820
Otto Price

State of New York Ontario County Clerks Office
In testimony that Peter Price whose name appears to the within certificate and which I know to be his proper hand writing was on the fiftieth and twentyfirst days of February 1820 a Justice of Peace in and for said County duly commissioned and sworn I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of said County at Canandaigua this 23 rd day of February 1820.
John Van Lopsin
County

In reply to your request of _____, received _____ for a statement of the military history of John Hartwell 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. 44,917
   DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE.   CAPTAIN. COLONEL.     Jany 1776 1 year Blacksmith attached Artificer Parker Little Mass. (Cony)   ✓ William Bacon   Oct. 1777 ✓ ✓ in Saratoga campaign - Officers not stated   1778 ✓ ✓ Sullivan's R. I. " " "  
Battles engaged in, ✓
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Tauntonburgh, Mass.
Date of application for pension, Apr. 27, 1818. His claim was allowed.
Residence at date of application, Rush, Ontario Co., New York.
Age at date of application, sixty years.
Remarks: soldier had some Daniel & Thomas. In 1828 he referred to his daughters (names not stated) his wife Mary and her son Stephen under 10 yrs. of age, child by a former husband. No reference to marriage or further family data.
Soldier died
Sept. 28, 1832. Agency book.
Respectfully,
Commissioner.

Alameda County ss
Personally appeared before me Uriah Stevens Esquire one of the Justices of the Peace in and for Said County on the nineteenth day of September in the year one thousand eight hundred and eighteen Josiah Hartwell and being by me duly sworn Saith that he knows John Hartwell formerly of Lunenburg in the State of Massachusetts & County of Worcester and that he was an apprentice to him as a Blacksmith previous to the Revolutionary war and that the Said John Hartwell died in the beginning of January in the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy six enlist into the Continental Service under the Continental establishment and joined the army at Cambridge in the State aforesaid and was a Soldier in Capt. Parkers Company in Colonel Little's Regiment and he further Saith that the Said John Hartwell was called out of Said Regiment on Command as a Blacksmith and was holden under Said Command during one year under the Command of William Baron the inspector General of the artificers and the Said Josiah further Saith that he knows that the Said John did Serve during Said year and then returned to his the Said Josiahs house and brought with him his discharge from under the hand of the Said General Baron the inspector aforesaid and he further Saith that he was knowing of his Serving in other campaigns one at the taking of Burgoyne and the other in the State of Rhode Island in General Sullivans expedition.
Josiah Hartwell
Sworn and Subscribed this
19th day of September 1818 before me
Uriah Stevens Justice of the Peace
I do hereby certify that the above named Josiah Hartwell is well known to me to be a man of truth & veracity and character unimpeachable Uriah Stevens J. Peace

Clerk's office Oneida County
I Certify that Uriah Stevens was a Justice of the peace in and for the County of Oneida at the time of making the within affidavit, and that his signature to the same appears to be of his proper hand writing. Witness the seal of Said County this Nineteenth day of September Eighteen hundred and Eighteen. Hann A. Woodgood Clerk
Personally appeared before

John Hartwell
Pensylvania
Nathaniel Bacon agent
Rochester
Monroe Co.
N. Y.

State of New York Morris County f. 3
John Hartwell of said County being duly sworn deposes and says that he was placed on the pension roll of the United States on the fourteenth day of October 1818, which is the date of his pension warrant - that he drew the pension for one year only - that he then on applying for the third payment of his pension at New York was informed that his pension was suspended - that on enquiry he ascertained as this deponent believes and has no doubt the true cause why his pension was suspended - and believes it to be this - that this deponent was living with his son on the farm of his son - that when the town assessor was taking an inventory of the property of the whole town, and called at the house of this deponent's son, while this deponent was at home and his son absent - that this deponent informed the said assessor whose name was Carr, that the farm belonged to his son and that he, (the son) would pay the taxes - that the said assessor Mr. Carr, replied that it would make no difference whose name the property was put down in, for the son of this deponent would pay the tax whenever called on - and accordingly put down the said farm in the name of this deponent, which did not belong to, and was not the property of, this deponent - that after the said tax list of the assessor was made out and laid before the Supervisors of the County, and the said property appearing in the name of this deponent

a remonstrance stating that fact was made out and signed by the supervisor of the town where this deponent lived and forwarded to the Secretary of war - and that all the above facts have been repeatedly told this deponent and he verily believes the same - and this deponent further says that the name of the said supervisor was William Markham - that he is now dead - and that he has always understood that he was greatly opposed to the pension law, and that he had declared himself opposed to the same, and would prevent the pensioners from getting the benefits of the same act if he could - and this deponent further says that in the year 1819 - he had no other property than that already set forth in the schedule and forwarded to the Hon. Secretary of war, in this deponents late application to be reinstated to the pension list, and that he has in that paper set forth all the facts touching his circumstances, John Hantrick
Sworn & subscribed before me
the 3 rd day of December 1849
Peter Brinsfield Judge of the County Court for the County of Mason

State of New York Monroe County p.
John Pierce of said County being duly sworn deposes & says that in the year 1819 he lived a very near neighbor to John Hartwell a pensioner as a revolutionary soldier - that he lived within a quarter of a mile of the said John Hart- well and was intimately acquainted with his circumstances that he knew that he lived on a farm belonging to his son and was possessed of and owned but very little property in the whole amounting to not more than about fifty or sixty dollars. and this deponent further says that he has perused carefully the affidavit hereto an- nexed of the said John Hartwell, and that he has frequently been informed and has always believed from common report, that the facts therein set forth are true - that he has long known the said John Hartwell and believes him to be an honest, & industrious man, so far as old age will permit him to be industrious - that his character is & has been good
Sworn & subscribed before
me the 3 d day of December 1829 -
John Pierce
Orde Pierce Judge of the County Cassat for the County of Monroe

State of New York Monroe County
Julius Burns being under oath Say that he has been acquainted with John Hartwell since the year of our Lord 1810. and since the year one thousand Eight hundred and fifteen has been partic- ularly acquainted with his pecuniary circumstances and knows that the said John Hartwell was in possession of but a small amount of property and knows that the said John Hartwell owned no real estate since the year of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred and fifteen and that the said John Hartwell obtained his support for himself and family partly by his labor and partly by the aid of his children that at no time since the year of our Lord 1815 had the said John Hartwell property (excepting household furniture) Exceeding in value sixty or seventy Dollars to the knowledge and belief of this deponent, and the household furniture not sufficient to make the said John Hartwell & his family comfortable & no more.
Sworn and subscribed before me this 5 th day of December
A.D. 1829 Peter Price Judge of the County Court for the County of Monroe
State of New York, Monroe county
I William Groves Clerk of said County of Monroe do certify that Peter Price whose name is subscribed to the first of the foregoing affidavits was at the time of their respective dates a judge of the County courts for the County of Monroe - and that I am acquainted with the hand writing of the said judge and verily believe that the signature of "Peter Price" to be the proper hand wri- ting of said judge. In testimony whereof I have hereto set my name and affixed the seal of said County this 25 th day of December in the year 1829.
Wm Groves Clerk

State of New York Monroe County ss:
On this first day of December in the Year 1828 personally appeared in open Court being the Court of General Sessions having a seal and having the power of fine & imprisonment and keeping a record of its proceedings, John Hartwell resident in said County aged seventy Years who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the act of congress of the 18 th March 1828 & the 1 st of May 1820 that he the said John Hartwell enlisted for the term of one Year early in the month of January in the Year 1776 in the State of Massachusetts in the Company commanded by Captain — Parker in the Regiment commanded by Colonel — Little in the line of the State of Massachusetts on the continental establishment: that he continued to serve in the said corps until the month of January 1777 — when he was discharged from the service at the highlands in the State of New York: that he hereby relinquishes every claim whatsoever to a pension, except the present that his name has been placed on the pension list: that the number of his pension Certificate is three thousand six hundred and nineteen (3619) and that he never before exhibited a schedule of his property because he was discouraged from applying for the pension by reason of the representations made to him concerning the difficulty of procuring the pension — that he was informed that the pension act of congress had been altered, and that in consequence of feeble health & infirmity and the representations as made to him above mentioned prevented his making an earlier application to be continued on the pension list and

exhibition of a schedule of his property - and also that he then had some little property which has since been expended for his support - and that so long as his property lasts out he neglected to apply for his pension - and that necessity has now driven him to make this application.
And in pursuance of the Act of the 1 st May 1820 I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18 th 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 18 th 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:
   5 Sheep & one Lamb $ 5.00   5 old kitchen chairs 1.50   1 Dinner pot .50   1 iron Spide .37   1 broken iron Kettle .50   3 knives & forks .25   1. Trunk 2.00   1 pair Shovel & tongs 1.50   1 pair cast iron and irons .75   4 hives of bees 8.00   A/c against Thomas particular $ 684.32   Wartale of 594.50   A demand against Jonathan 594.50   Blind 694.07  

And this declarant further states that he is by trade a blacksmith but is unable by reason of old age and infirmity and of a rheumatic affection to work at his said trade or to do any other kind of work that he has been thus unable for more than five years last past and for the greater part of that time unable to carry firewood from the door of his house to the fire place and that he has been supported by his son for more than seven years and is now entirely dependent on him for support - that he has a wife named Mary - who is now sick and confined to her bed - that her health is poor - that she is subject to fits and is much disabled thereby - that he has one child living with him the son named Stephen the son of his wife by a former husband - who is under the age of ten years and is unable to work sufficient to maintain himself and that this deponent with his wife & the said boy live together in a room provided for them by this declarants son in the house of his son and are altogether provided for and supported by the said son. And also that he owes to David Fisman $28.43 for merchants goods and to Doctor Sparks Little for medicine & attendance $10.12 - This declarant owes the sum of eighty dollars to the People of the State of New York loaned in 1808. That since the 18 th March 1808 the following changes have been made in my property -

   Description of property Name of the person to whom disposed of Time of Sale Amount of money or description of property received in return     A pair of Horses Stephen Phelps 1820 Payment of a debt of fifty dollars to the said Stephen Phelps  
That this declarant also believes he owned in the Year 1818 two cows. That these cows or their increase he kept until the fall of 1827. That these cows together with a pair of Steers and two other cows with two hogs and four or five shoats and about forty fowls were kept on a farm of about fifty acres of land belonging to his son. The use of which farm was given to this declarant by his said son as a means of support that this declarant being unable to superintend the said farm did by the advice and consent of his son lease the said farm to gitter with the said cows Steers hogs and fowls to one Barney Bush That the said Bush was to support this declarant his wife and son for the use of the said farm and stock - That the said Bush took possession of the farm - made some repairs about the buildings and sold or otherwise disposed of all the stock so leased to the said Bush and then presented this declarant for the amount of the repairs so made and for the support of this declarant his wife and son and did as this declarant believes by the committal of the matter before whom the suit was tried obtain a judgment of about $60 damage & cost the damages being $50 and the remainder costs that this declarant being involved in much difficulty with the said

Bush and being also about to be committed on said judgment to the gaol of the County of Monroe in which County this declarant resides the son of this declarant paid the said judgment and also to prevail on the said Bush to have the said farm gave him $100. in part payment of which judgment of $50 and $100. this declarant gave to his said Son the remainder of his property) being a old one horse waggon and an old mare and colt the whole of which this declarant believes not to be worth more than $80 and this declarant has now no other property than what is enumerated in the schedule hereto annexed
And this declarant on his oath aforesaid further states that the bond mentioned in the schedule was given to him by his son Thomas Hartsock on the 11 th September 1823 and was given on the following consideration (viz) this declarant some time (as he says believes) in the Year 1815 sold a farm that a second purchaser confessed a judgment to him which judgment became a lien upon said lot of land that the said purchaser afterwards sold the said farm to the said Thomas Hartsock the son of this declarant the said judgment still being a lien upon the said lot of land and that the said Thomas Hartsock in order to disencumber the form of the said judgment gave the said bond of $664. 33 1 / 3 payable eight Years after date (viz) 1831 - without interest. And this declarant further says that $150. of the said bond was by agreement not to be paid to this declarant but was to be paid to the daughters of this declarant for their portions

and that the said sum of $150. does not nor did not when said bond was executed belong to this declarant and that the whole of the money of the said bond after deducting the said $150 has been paid to this declarant by the said obligor Thomas Hartwell in food and clothing necessary for his support and his family - And that the said bond would have been given up and cancelled before this time had he not held it in trust for the payment of the said $150 to his daughters as aforesaid. And further that he considers the said Thomas Hartwell wholly discharged from any further pay- ment of said bond John Hartwell Sworn & subscribed in open court this 1 st day of December 1828 before M. Chapin first judge of Monroe Co
I Jeremiah Cutter Clerk of the Monroe County courts do hereby certify that it hereby appears to the satisfaction of this court that the said John Hartwell did serve in the Revolutionary war as stated in the preceding declaration against the common enemy for the term of nine months under one engagement on the continental establishment I also certify that the foregoing oath and the schedule hereto annexed are truly copied from the records 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 said property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is twenty nine dollars and eighty seven cents In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said court, on this sixth day of December 1828. Jeremiah Cutter Clerk

Monroe County ss: William Roberts of Rush in the county of Monroe and State of New York being duly sworn deposes and says: that he has been acquainted with John Hartwell of Rush aforesaid the applicant for a pension for Revolutionary services. for about twenty years.
State of New York
Monroe County ss:
Nathaniel Bacon of the village of Rochester in said county being duly sworn deposes and says: that he is personally acquainted with William Roberts who has subscribed and sworn to the annexed affidavit, and believes him to be a person worthy of having full credit given to his statements.
Nathaniel Bacon
Sworn & subscribed before me the 3 rd day of February 1829.
M. Chapin First Judge of Monroe Co. N.Y.
I certify that I am acquainted with the above named Nathaniel Bacon and believe him to be worthy of credit & belief -
M. Chapin First Judge of Monroe Co. N.Y.
The said John Hartwell was unable to maintain himself and that he has been supported chiefly if not entirely by his said son Thomas Hartwell - and further this deponent further says that he has frequently heard mention made of the bond from Thomas Hartwell to the said John Hartwell - that he has no doubt from his knowledge of the matter that the said bond was given in good faith and was a bona fide transaction - and also that he believes the payments in food, clothing and necessaries, on the said bond were made in good faith and without any fraudulent intent or collusion and this deponent further says that from actual knowledge of the matter he thinks and verily believes, from an estimate which he has made that the said Thomas Hartwell has furnished the said John Hartwell with articles of food, clothing and necessaries to the amount of at least five hundred dollars. - and further that the said John Hartwell is altogether unable to support himself by reason of infirmity and old age -
Sworn & subscribed before me this 2 nd day of February 1829
M. Chapin
First Judge of Monroe Co.
Wm Roberts

Morrison County ss: William Roberts of Rush in the county of Monroe and State of New York being duly sworn deposes and says: That he has been acquainted with John Hartwell of Rush aforesaid the applicant for a pension for Revolutionary services, for about twenty years - that he has lived in the immediate neighborhood of the said John Hartwell for about two years last past - and that he has been intimately acquainted during the said last two years, with the said John Hartwell, and has also been intimately acquainted with the circumstances of the said John Hartwell and his means of support and manner of living - that he has known that the said John Hartwell was furnished from time to time with food, clothing, and necessaries of living, by his said son Thomas - that he has known of his being supplied, with beef, pork, milk, apples, cloth, potatoes, & other articles necessarily used & consumed by a plain & frugal housekeeper - that he knows that the said John Hartwell has been chiefly if not altogether maintained by his said son Thomas Hartwell - and further that it has been understood, and well known in his neighborhood that the said John Hartwell was unable to maintain himself and that he has been supported chiefly if not entirely by his said son Thomas Hartwell - and further this deponent further says that he has frequently heard mention made of the bond from Thomas Hartwell to the said John Hartwell - that he has no doubt from his knowledge of the matter that the said bond was given in good faith and was a bona fide transaction - and also that he believes the payments in food, clothing and necessaries, on the said bond were made in good faith and without any fraudulent intent or collusion and this deponent further says that from actual knowledge of the matter he thinks and verily believes, from an estimate which he has made that the said Thomas Hartwell has furnished the said John Hartwell with articles of food, clothing and necessaries to the amount of at least five hundred dollars, - and further that the said John Hartwell is altogether unable to support himself by reason of infirmity and old age -
Sworn & subscribed before me This 2 day of February 1829 M. Chapin
Wm Roberts
First Judge of Monroe Co

Monroe County ss: Alonzo Ferris of the Town of Rush of the said County being duly sworn deposes and says that he has been acquainted with John Hartwell of Rush in said County for five years preceding the date hereof and has also been acquainted with Thomas Hartwell the son of the said John Hartwell and that he has known that the said John Hartwell was furnished with a house to live in and with other articles of food and clothing during or at times during the said five years acquaintance and that it was generally reported in the neighbourhood and this deponent so believes the fact to be, that the said Thomas Hartwell did chiefly if not entirely support the said John Hartwell, and this deponent further states that he has known for the last five years that the said John Hartwell has had his living out of the rent of a farm of the said Thomas Hartwell, and that the said farm contains about fifty four acres and is worth about and has been about one hundred dollars annually and this deponent further states that he heard John Hartwell agree with Thomas Hartwell that his living should be allowed on a certain Bond that he held against the said Thomas Hartwell and that he hires the farm of Thomas Hartwell and that he furnishes John Hartwell with wood meat saw and milk and that Thomas Hartwell allows me for the same towards the rent of said farm and the deponent states that he knowing that the Wife of the said John Hartwell was on the 19th Jan'y 1829 put to bed and delivered of a son which bids fair for a good soldier if lives to a suitable age and the said John Hart- well has no way for the maintenance of his young son no more than he has for himself and further that he knows
# same rented for

the said John Murtwell is old and infirm and unable to earn his support from labor or any other manner Subscribed and subscribed before me Alonzo Ferris This 2 d day of February AD 1824
Peter Price { son of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas for Monroe County
I Peter Price certify that I am personally acquainted with the above Alonzo Ferris and know him to be a person of good character and entitled to full credit Peter Price, Judge
Monroe County Clerks Office
ss. I William Gross, Clerk of said County do certify that Moses Chapin & Peter Price, before whom the foregoing affidavits were taken were at the respective dates of the said affidavits Judges of the Monroe County courts, in and for the said County of Monroe: and further that I am acquainted with the hand writing of the said Moses Chapin & the said Peter Price and verily believe the said signatures to be each in his proper hand.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said County the second day of February 1829 -
Wm Gross

3619
New York Roll
John Hartwell, 4 private.
Massachusetts Line in the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War
scribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence the 27 of April 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 14 of Oct r 1818 and sent to Stephen Phelps Esqr Canandaigua, N. York
Arrears to 4th of Sept r 1818 34.13 Semi-ann. all'ce ending 4 th Mar. 1819 48.00
Arrears 4 Mo 8/30 $82.13
Little Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818.
One year see endorsement on opposite side March 1819.
Push. Culario
Subscribed to Nathaniel Brown 22 nd October 1828
22 nd Oct r 1828
Dec d 28. 1828 L. H. P. Eng. Int. 28. 1824
Letter was written to the Agent Aug 19. 1819 to express payment the proof of families the Department of the Applicant reduced account

Dec. 20 th 1918.
Bureau of Pensions.
Rec. Sec.
Gentlemen:-
Was a pension granted Lieut. John Hartwell of the 11 th Co. 2 d Brigade, Ver- mont Militia?
He was born Apr. 2 d 1758, (in Vermont I think) and died Sept 8 th 1832 at Rush New York.
Thanking you for your courtesy, I remain,
yours truly
(Mrs Geo. E.) Edith Hartwell Wright
515 W. Clinton St.
Almira
N.Y.

Jan. 6. History to Mrs. George E. Wright p.
44917
Rev
INVALID.
File No. 44917
John Hartwell
Priv. Rev. War.
Act: 18 th March 1818
& 1 st May 1820.
Index:—Vol. 3, Page 213
[Arrangement of 1870.]

John H.
N.Y.
Placid in 1830
Dropt & restored.
D r See letter to N. Bacon
Jan. 14. 1830.

Rochester 25 Decr. 1829
Sir,
The accompanying papers of John Hartwell are forwarded to you in pursuance of an answer to a former letter of mine making enquiries touching the matter of John Hartwell, obtaining his pension as a revolutionary soldier, for the year 1819 - and to March 4-1820 - in your letter you say "If he can prove to the satisfaction of this Department that there was no foundation for any charge against him in 1819 he may perhaps get paid to March 4-1820" - I trust that the accompanying affidavits will be found satisfactory - I am not aware that any other method of showing the insolvency and true condition of John Hartwell in 1819, could be taken different from the one now sent you - I have forwarded his own affidavit and the affidavit of two of his highly respectable neighbors.
I am very respectfully your obedt. Servt.
Nathaniel Bacon
Hon. James L. Edwards Esqr. War Department Pension Office -

Hon. James L. Edwards Esq. War department Pension office

Rochester Monroe Co. N. Y. 31 Feb y . 1829
Hon. James L. Edwards, Esq.
Sir
On account of the distance which John Hartwell resides from me, I have not been able to procure an affidavit at an earlier day - I have just received the enclosed and forward the same to the War Department - In compliance with your instruction of the 20 th Inst. last, I have procured affidavits of the facts that Thomas Hartwell has been furnishing for years past, the necessaries of life to John Hartwell the applicant for the pension - I have not been able to procure an affidavit from a person acquainted intimately with the member of Congress The Hon. D. D. Barnard Esq. from this district - but have taken the precaution to find a person acquainted with the Hon Judge Price before whom the affidavit of Almon Ferris was taken, and of whose credibility Judge Price gives a certificate - The Hon. D. D. Barnard is personally and intimately acquainted with Judge Price also with Judge Chapin - he will I trust call on you, as I have this day written him - I beg leave Sir to call your attention to the fact set forth in the conclusion of W m . Roberts affidavit, that from an estimate made by him, Thomas Hartwell had furnished in necessaries to John Hartwell was at least $500 - this sum more than overpays the balance of the bond after deducting $150 - let me also state that the fact mentioned in the above of the affidavit of Ferris was made without my knowledge - and is the boast of a revolutionary soldier in his dotage - I presume it was mentioned (very unpleasingly) in perfect respect to the Department - I again sir, express my desire that Mr. Hartwell may be fortunate enough

to satisfy the requirements of the law and obtain that apittance for a very few years, at the most, which his generous country has designed for the poor, and infirm soldier of the Revolution.
I am very respectfully your obt. Servt.
Nathaniel Bacon

John Hartwell Pensioner
Nathaniel Baron agent
Rochester Monroe Co. N.Y.

State of New York
Monroe County ss. I certify that Moses Chapin Esquire before whom the above affidavit was taken, was at the time of taking said affidavit, first Judge of the county courts of said county, that I am acquainted with his hand writing and verily believe the above signature to be his proper hand writing - In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said county this eighth day of December 1828.
J. Butler acting clerk

Livingston
Monroe County p. Charles Little being duly sworn deponeth & saith: that he is a practicing Surgeon & Physician - and that he has for at least the space of nine years last past attended professionally in the family of John Hartwell of Rush in the County of Monroe - and that the said John Hartwell is now indebted to this deponent in the sum of ten dollars & twelve cents for medical services - that the said debt is due to me for various contracts at different periods for nine years last past. and that the said
Sworn & subscribed to } deponent has personally known the said J. Hartwell for twentyfive years last past and that during that period believe he has sustained the character of an Honest Moral upright Man before me 21 st November 1828 Wm B Horner justice of the peace
Charles Little
Livingston County p - David Furman being duly sworn says that John Hartwell of Rush in the County of Monroe being duly sworn says that the  is indebted to this deponent in the sum of twenty-eight dollars & forty three cents - that the said debt was contracted for merchants goods at my store: for sugar, tea, coffee, cloth, &c - and for such articles only as this deponent thinks were suitable for his family's use - that the said debt was contracted in the years 1827 & 1828 - and that no part of the said debt has been paid. and that the said deponent has personally known the said J Hartwell and has dealt with him for twelve years and has ever found him to be a sober & temperate man and honest in his deal.
Sworn & subscribed before me this 18 th - day of November 1828 - William B Horner justice of the peace
David Furman

Livingston County ss: Asahel Warner being duly sworn says - that John Hartwell of Rush in the county of Monroe. loaned of the commissioners for losing money of the county of Ontario & State of New York the sum of eighty dollars on the sixteenth day of June - in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eight - that the said sum of eighty dollars was paid to the said John Hartwell and that the said sum is still due and unpaid - and that said deponent hath known the said John Hartwell for twenty years past & believes he is & always has been an honest sober & temperate man and upright in his dealings
Sworn & subscribed before me this 25 th day of November 1828 Wm G Hosmer justice of the peace
Asahel Warner
State of New York Livingston County ss. I Levi Hovey Clerk of the county of Livingston and Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the said county do hereby certify that William T. Hosmer before whom the foregoing affidavits were sworn is a justice of the Peace in and for the said county duly authorized to administer oaths
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my official seal this 28 th day of November 1828
Levi Hovey Clerk

State of New York Cortland County
Thomas Cartwright being Duly sworn upon oath doth Depose and say that he hath been
been acquainted with John Cartwright of Rush in Ontario County and State aforesaid Rising of Twenty Years and has lived within Two Miles and half of the said John for fifteen years a part of which time in the house with the said John and knows of the John Cartwright Ever Complainant knows that the said John is seriously affected with Rheumat- =ic Complaints and as this Deponent truly believes Subjects to fits resembling the Apoplexy and and knows the said John to be an infirm man and that the said John now is and has been for one year past been in a lame and crippled situation and the deponent further deposeth and saith that the said John Cartwright resides on a Lease Lot of fifty acres of Land and partly only under Improvement and the said Lease Subject to a Mortgage of Eighty Dollars for which the Deponent knows the said John a few times for eight or ten years past pays five Dollars and Sixty Cents Interest yearly and that he the said depon- =ent is acquainted with the said Lease Lot and products of the same Lot and truly believes it to be insufficient to support the said John Cartwright and his wife and that the wife of the said John Cartwright is also an infirm

Woman and unable to labour and that the wife of the said John has been subject to bleeding to her stomach and such unable to help herself for for Twenty five years or upwards which this deponent truly believes was caused by a severe fit of sickness which is very expensive to the said John Eastwood and further the deponent saith not.
State of New York
Ontario County
Subscribed and sworn to this 5th day of January twenty first day of February in the year of our Lord 1820
Ottis Orr { Justice of the peace for Ontario County
Ontario County
To whom it may concern this may certify that I Ottis Orr the justice above mentioned am acquainted with the said Thomas Eastwood and believe him to be a person entitled to full credit
Ottis Orr { Justice of the peace for Ontario County

James L. Edwards Esq.

Rochester Dec. 10 th 1828 -
James L. Edwards Esqr.
Sir,
I enclose the papers of John Hartwell - pursuant to your letter I have endeavored to make the papers correspond with the forms sent me - should they not be satisfactory - please be good enough to point out the defect - I could have cancelled the bond and the parties were anxious to do so as they have wholly settled the same - the bond has in fact been paid - and the reason why it is placed in the schedule, is because in your letter it was recommended to do so -
Let me beg of you, your favorable consideration of this matter - the applicant, Hartwell, is very poor and has long been a burden on the hands of his son - he is a poor but respectable man - and I think worthy of his country's charity -
Should you deem it proper the bond can be wholly omitted in the schedule - as it now stands you will perceive that it is no more than blank paper -
very respectfully yours &c.
Nathaniel Bacon -

78
Ontario County
Feby 20 - 1820
John Hartwell
estimation of property
Honorable
J. C. Calhoun
Secretary of War
Washington City

To the Honorable Secretary of War In the payment of my Pension for Revolutionary Services under the late act of Congress has been suspended as I have heard on account of my circumstances in life if that is the case & the enclosed affidavits are or are not sufficient please to inform me of the result by writing to the Care of Stephen Phelps Esq. of Concord in Mass John Hartwell Feb. 23. 1820-

This certifies that I have been acquainted with John Hartwell of the Town of Rush and County of Ontario for Fourteen or Fifteen Years and have been principally for that time his Family Physician and during my acquaintance with him he has been infirm and unable to perform but little labor in consequence of a species of it resembling Epilepsy and likewise a Rheumatism affecting his Wife likewise is a very feeble constitutioned Woman and has been for many Years and at this time is unable to wait upon herself
Charles Little
Acree Jan'y 28. 1820-

said declarant to be substantially correct - and this deponent further states that the said John Hartwell is now & has been for more than seven - years wholly dependent for support upon public or private charity - that he has had but very few articles of property in his possession for more than seven years - and that the few articles of property which he did own have been used and for the support of the said John Hartwell - and further this deponent has had perfect knowledge of the said John Hartwell's circumstances & of his property for more than ten years - and that he knows that he has become reduced to extreme poverty by reason of old age & misfortune - and that he is now and has been supported for more than seven years at the expense of this deponent - and that this deponent does now support him, and that he does not receive any remuneration for the same nor does he expect to receive any - and further that he knows the said John Hartwell is unable to work at his trade or to do any other kind of work - that he is thus unable on account of old age, and a rheumatic affection with - which he has long been afflicted
Thomas Hartwell
Sworn & subscribed before me this 1 day of December 1828 M. Chapin First Judge of Monroe
Monroe County p: William Roberts being duly sworn says that he has known John Hartwell named in the foregoing declaration & affidavits - that he has known him for twenty years - and that his property has for many years been very small - and that he never knows him to be very poor having as he believes no other property than that named in the schedule - and that he has always been reputed an honest, worthy, & industrious man -
Sworn & subscribed before me this 1 st day of December 1828 M. Chapin First Judge of Monroe Co
Wm Roberts

Obligor, Thomas Hartwell in food & clothing necessary for this declarant and his family - and that the said bond would have been given up and cancelled before this time, had he not held it in trust for the payment of the said $150 to his daughters as aforesaid - and further that he considered the said Thomas Hartwell wholly discharged from any further the payment of said bond
Morrow County vs. Thomas Hartwell being duly sworn says: That he he is the obligor in the above named bond & that the statement made in the foregoing declaration of John Hartwell concerning the bond in the schedule named, is substantially correct - that he this deponent did give the bond in order to disencumber the said bond farm - and that $150 of said bond was to be paid to the daughters of the said John Hartwell - and this deponent further saith that he has paid off and fully satisfied the said bond the support in food & clothing for the said John Hartwell and his family - having paid the same since the date of the said bond - and this deponent further states that he has read examined the contents of the affidavits & statements of the said declarant John Hartwell and that, he knows the said statements so far as they relate to the property of the

Stephen Phelps, Esq; Judge, Canandaigua, Ontario County, New-York.
John Hartwell, Massachusetts line, Revolutionary claim.
There is no evidence in the pension office, to shew, that this ap- -plicant served on the Continental establish- ment. Satisfactory testimony is required to prove his claim to revolutionary pension.

Claims of John Wartwell April 27 th 1818
Admitted — The Honorable Secy of War

Bethany Sept 9 th 1818
Personally appeared Obadiah Walker before me Henry Ramsey one of the Justices of the peace of the County of Genesee, — being duly sworn says, that John Bartwell of Lennenburg State of Massachusetts Blacksmith enlisted into the Regular Army as a mechanic for one year in January 1796 joined the Army at Cambridge in the State from thence Marched for New York was absent better than a year then returned to Lennenburg where he Resided until Oct. following then Marched in Company with him to Saratoga at the taking of Burgoyne and in service at other times, says he does not doubt from the information he had but that Bartwell faithfully served his time, although he never saw the discharge
Obadiah Walker
taken and subscribed this 10 th day of Sept r 1818 before me Henry Ramsey
I do certify the above named Witness to be a man of truth & veracity and character unimpeachable
Henry Ramsey

State of New York Genesee County ss
I Simon Cummings Clerk of said County of Genesee do hereby certify that Henry Rumsey before whom the within affidavit was taken was at the dates of the said affidavit & certifi- cate a Justice of the Peace acting under the authority of this State and that the within is his signature.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said County this 11 th day of September 1818
S. Cummings

The Honorable Secretary of War if My claim are allowed will please to forward a balance thereof to Stephen Phelps Esq. of Canandaigua who is My agent
April 27 th 1818
John Hartwell

State of New York } Ontario County }/s Clerks office
In Testimony that Stephen Phelps whose name is subscribed to the foregoing certificate was on the day of the date of the same one of the Judges of the court of common pleas in and for the county of Ontario and that the same is his signature I hereunto subscribe my name and affix the county seal at Canandaigua this 7 th day of May A D 1818
Wm. McCracken