Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 28753, Abraham Hawley, Conn.

SERVICE
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NUMBER Hawley, Abraham S. 28753
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28.825
New York
Abraham Hawley
of Sidney in the State of N. York who was a Serjt in the Comp y commanded by Captain Parsons of the Regt commanded by Col Webb in the Conn t line for 6 years
Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 120 Dollars — Cents per ann to commence on the 4th day of March, 1834.
Certificate of Pension issued the 5 day of July 1834 and sent to A. H. Beach Esq.
Arrears to the 4th of Mar 34 x Semi-ann. allowance ending 4 Sept 34 60.00
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by John Brown Clerk, Book 8 Vol. 4 Page
ent g what he has rec d since under the Act of 18 ma

Abraham Hawley
adm.
2 yrs lease
120 $.

To the Hon. the — 3 Unadilla Otsego County N. York Commissioner of Pensions 30th June 1832
I the subscriber a Revolutionary pensioner of the United States under the act of Congress of 18 th March 1818 as will appear by the enclosed Certificate - do hereby relinquish my further claim to said pension on the condition of receiving the benefit of the act of Congress of 7 th June 1832 - for I enlisted as a private in the year 1777 for during the war in the company then commanded by Capt Granger in the Regiment then commanded by Col o Sherman and served about three years as a private and then I was transferred to wit 1780 to Captain Parsons Company in Col o Samuel B Webb's Regiment in which I served in the capacity of a sergeant about three years or until the year 1783 when I was discharged with Honor for six years faithful services - about three years of which I served as a sergeant for which I claim a pension at 10 dollars per month and relinquish the other as aforesaid which has been paid up to the 18 th of March last my place of residence is in the town of Sidney in the County of Delaware adjoining Unadilla and I wish my certificate transmitted to Elijah H Beach Esq r at Unadilla Otsego County - Abra m Hawley
I hereby certify that Mr. Hawley signed his name to the above in my presence - that I am well acquainted with him & know him to be a man of good reputation
Most respectfully
Your Obt. Serv t
Elijah H Beach
Hon. J. L. Edwards Comm r of Pensions

State of New York County of Delaware ss. On this twenty seventh day of June one thousand eight hundred and twenty personally appeared in open Court being a Court of Oyer and Terminer and General Goal Delivery which is a Court of record having the power to fine & imprison according to the act in such case made and provided. Abraham Hawley aged sixty four years resident in town of Roxbury in the County aforesaid who being first duly sworn according to law cloth on his oath declare that he served in the revolution- ary war as follows - that he enlisted into a Compa- ny Commanded by Capt. Samuel Granger in a Regimen- t Commanded by Col. Charles Webb in the Conn- ecticut State line in June 1777 for during the war after the expiration of three years of said service he was transferred to a Regiment Commanded by Col. Samuel Webb in which he served until the close of the war and received an Honorable discharge in June 1783 that he made a declaration of his services in the Revolutionary in order to obtain the benefit of the act of the 18 March 1818. in the fifteenth day of April 1818 and that he has received a pension Certificate num- bered 7849.
And I the said Abraham Hawley 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 whatsoever disposed of my property or any part thereof.

with interest thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provision of the act entitled "an act to provide for Certain persons engaged in the land and naval services of the United States in the Revolutionary War" passed the 18 th day of March 1818 and that I have not nor has any person intrust 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. —
Subscribed and sworn —
Abraham Hawley
Schedule of property
I have a lease of a lot of land situated in the town of Roxbury in said County of Delaware it being lot No 2 in the Great or Harlemburgh patent containing 96 acres subject to sixteen dollars and eighty eight cents rent annually There is now due upon said lease about two hundred and fifty dollars back rent subject to re-entry —
Personal property —
1 dung fork 1 two year old heifer 2 tin pails 1 one year old heifer 6 knives and forks 2 swine 6 tea cups & saucers 9 fowls pm. Steele y axes 11 Geese 2 hoes 1 gun 1 grocery axe 2 small pots 3 narrow do 2 kettles 1 tub 1 spicer 2 barrels 1 hr Shove and tongs 1 yoke 1 Cram 1 Chain 4 tin pans 1 plough 1 abrag 1 hitch fork

No more bedding and wearing apparel there is necessary for the use of my family. I am a farmer by occupation and am in rather a low state of health but am able to labor a part of the time. —
I have in my family a wife Lucy and five children Phebe, William, Betsy, Abraham T. and Isaac M. My wife is 55 years of age she has a weak and feeble Consti- tution but is able to do something nearly every day. My daughter Phebe is 19 years of age and enjoys good health. My son William is 17 years of age in good health. My daughter Betsy is 13 years of age and possesses a very slender Constitution. My son Abraham T. is 11 years of age in good health and my son Isaac M. is 9 years of age and is quite a sickly boy. —
I now owe over and above the back rent above m- entioned in the aggregate about one hundred and ninety dollars and have no other means of paying and discharging the same than out of the prop- erty above enumerated and the labor of my self and family.
Abraham Hawley

Abraham Hawley Affidavit
Copied finished
not entitled 7849 18 March 1849

I Homer R. Phelps Deputy Clerk of the County of Delaware do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and the schedule thereto annex- ed are truly copies from the record And I do hereby certify that it is the opinion of said Court, of the said Court, that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is one hundred and twelve dollars fifty cents. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this 27 th day of June 1820
H R Phelps Dep Clerk

May 16, 1932
Mrs. Oscar H. Lincoln 2841 23rd Avenue, West Seattle Washington
BA-J/MCS XXXXXXXXXXXX Abraham Hawley S. 28753
Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letter requesting information in regard to Abraham Hawley, a soldier of the Revolution.
The data furnished herein were obtained from papers on file in the pension claim, S. 28753, based upon the service of Abraham Hawley.
He enlisted in Stratford, Fairfield County, Connecticut, in May or June, 1777, served in Captain Samuel Granger's Company in Colonel Charles Webb's Connecticut Regiment for about three years when he was transferred to Colonel Samuel B. Webb's Connecticut Regiment and served as sergeant in that regiment until his discharge in June, 1783. He was in the battle of Whitemarsh and a number of skirmishes.
He was allowed pension on his application executed April 15, 1818, while living in Roxbury, Delaware County, New York, and he stated he was then about sixty-three years of age. The date of his birth was not given.
In 1820 he stated that he had a wife, Lucy, aged fifty-five years, and that he had the following children: Phebe, aged nineteen years, William, aged seventeen years, Betsy, aged thirteen years, Abraham, aged J., aged eleven years, and Isaac M., aged nine years. There are no further data relative to the soldier's family.
In 1834 Abraham Hawley was living in Sidney, Delaware County, New York.
He died April 13, 1839.
Very truly yours,
See Agency Book
A. D. HILLER Assistant to Administrator

28 753
Rev INVALID.
1932 May 14. List to Mrs Oscar H. Lincoln. M.C.
File No. 28 753
Abraham Hawley Sergt Rev War
Act: June 7 th 32 nd
Index:—Vol. 9 , Page 171
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Abraham Hawley, N. York, aged 64 yrs. sewed 6 yrs. family as follows: wife 55- { has a lease of 96 acres, daughter 19- { now due $250 rent son - 17 { subject to re-entry - daughter 13- { the remainder of his property son - 11 { 2 beefers, 2 swine, horse, son - 9 { hold furniture & farm at $112.50/100 - { utensils - all estimated
2 o schedule states that the lessor has re- entered the property Set of Land, and that he has been obliged to sell his last cow to pay the doctor's bill - his property now amounts to $20.

Seattle Wash. Mar 24, 1932
Department of Interior Bureau of Pensions Washington D.C.
Gentlemen, Would it be possible for me to get the Revolutionary War record of only b Abram Hawley, Born April 30, 1756, died April 13, th , 1839. He was born in Conn. and served seven years or during the war. He held the office of Sargent and was at the burning of Danbury by the British and with Com. Washington at Valley Forge. I should like the date of his marriage to Lucy Mersello, where and when it took place also her birth & death if it is given. The old bible does not give the date of the enlistment or the date of discharge of Abram Hawley, this I am trying to find.
Respectfully
Mrs Oscar Hawley Lincoln 2841-23 Ave West
Seattle
Wash.

Payable semi-annually. The first payment on this Certificate will be made on the 4th of September next, in New York at the U States Branch Bank
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War Department.
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.
I CERTIFY that, in conformity with the Law of the United States, of the 18th of March, 1818,
Abraham Hawley late a Sergeant in the Army of the Revolution, is inscribed on the Pension List, Roll of the New York Agency, at the rate of Eight dollars per month, to com- mence on the fifteenth day of April — one thousand eight hundred and eighteen
GIVEN at the War Office of the United States, this eighteenth day of March one thousand eight hundred and nineteen.
J. C. Calhoun
Secretary of War.

7849 P
New York
Abraham Hawley
of Roxbury in the state of N York who was a Sergeant in the regiment commanded by Colonel S. B Webb of the Connecticut line, for the term of 6 years
Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 15 of April 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 18 of March 1819 and sent to Judge Hotchkiss Roxbury, Delaware Co N York
Arrears to 4th of March 1819. 10 Mos \frac{16}{30} + \frac{4}{31} . 85.29
Semi-ann. all'ce ending 4 Sep r . 1819. 48 -
$ 133.29
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Discontinued

Received July 21. 1821 for A. B. Phelps
Notes sent to H. A. Phelps Esq. Dec. 11. New York July 1821

State of New York Delaware County ss: on this 28 th day of February
1821 personally appeared in open Court being the Court of Common Pleas for the County of Delaware and made a Court of records by the act of the Legislature of the State of New York in such case made and provided, Abraham Hawley aged 64 years resident in the town of Roxbury in the County aforesaid who being first duly sworn according to law first on his oath declare that he did on the 27 th day of June 1820 make the necessary oath and Schedule required by the act of Congress of the first of May 1820 before the court aforesaid a certified copy of which said oath and Schedule was as he is informed by his attorney transmitted to the War Department in the City of Washington, that since that time he has received from the said Department a letter which is in words and figures following to wit
"War Department Pension office July 14 1820. - 1849."
Sir
You are hereby informed that the Secretary of War does not on account of the amount of your property consider you entitled to the pension under the act of the 18 th of March 1818 and 1 st May 1820 and has therefore ordered your name to be struck from the Pension List
To Mr Abraham Hawley I am respectfully your obedient servant Roxbury New York J. L. Edwards

that since the making of the above mentioned oath and Schedule The Lessor of the deponent has according to a certain condition contained in the Lease reentered and taken possession of the Lot of Land mentioned in the above mentioned Schedule for back rent due him upon said lot of Land. it being rising of 260.00 - 250.00 of which said rent was due at the time of the making of the above mentioned oath and Schedule that he has been compelled to turn out his last and only Cow in part payment of his Physicians bill
And I the said Abraham Hawly 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 any property or any part thereof with an Intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provision 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 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
Abra m Hawly

Schedule
  1 pitchfork 1 dungfork 1.50 1 small pot } 2.50   1 Small Chain 1 plow share 3.00 1 tea kettle   2 axes 1 hoe 1 drag tooth 6 2.00   3 shup 2 rigs 5.00 Shovel & tongs 1.50   1 Table 7 Chairs old 1.75   2 Chests — 1.00 
I have still in my family my wife and five children the same that were mentioned in my above said oath, my wife and three of my children have been for several months past confined to their beds by severe illness they are now however recovering — —
I now owe as near as we are able to estimate to different persons in the whole the sum of 152 Dollars besides rent, and have no means whatever of paying the same than what appears from the above Schedule —
I have no more bedding and wearing apparel than is necessary for myself and family — —
Sworn in open court this 28 th February 1821
Abram Hawley
H. R. Phelps Clerk

I, HARRIS R. LEE, Clerk of the County of Delaware do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and the schedule thereto annexed are true copies from the record of said court, And I further certify that it is the opinion of said court that the total amount in value of the proper- ty contained in said schedule is twenty dollars. —
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said court this 6 th April
1891.
H. R. Phelps ak
The case of Abraham Hensley Reor Pensioner
22 Lake drive francisco, calif.

Abraham Hawley of the Town of Rehoboth County of Delaware and State of Delaware do hereby certify that In the month of May in June One thousand Seven hundred and Seventy Seven he Enlisted as a Soldier in the Continental Service in the Town of Rehoboth County of Delaware and State of Connecticut Under the Command of Captain Samuel Granger of the State aforesaid in a Regiment commanded by Colonel Charles Webb & Col. Isaac Sherman and at the expiration of about three years he was transferred to the Third Connecticut Regiment commanded by Colonel Samuel B. Webb and that he served in that Regiment as a Commissioned officer until the close of the War and had an honorable Discharge in the Month of June One thousand Seven hundred & Eighty three and at which time one year ago he suffered his Discharge with his Serjeants. Warrant to be destroyed and that he knows of no person in the County of Delaware that could attest to the above but if required could get further testimony at considerable expense and further that he is a man of about sixty three years of age has a wife and about fifty four has five children the eldest about seventeen the youngest about five and that he has been sick for two years not able to do any work in a field or house and some part of the time unable to dress himself and expenses himself and his family have not more than property enough at a fair value to pay his debts and further saith not I sign Abraham Hawley
Sworn and subscribed before me this fifteenth Day of April 1818 Governor Gibbs one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas for the County of Delaware State of Delaware
Seth Sealy I hereby certify that this is a true copy with the original present circumstances and the one correct as above stated and that he is a man of good moral character Seth Sealy Sworn and subscribed before me this 15 Day of April 1818 Governor Gibbs one of the Judges of Delaware Common Pleas
Seth Sealy

Cyrenus Gibbs Deposed and saith that on the Fifteenth Day of April one thousand Eight hundred and Eighteen. he was one of the Judges of Delaware County and the Northern District. Cyrenus Gibbs then did swear that he had read the foregoing Declaration In Order to obtain the Benefits of the Act of Congress Entitled an Act to Provide for Certain Persons Engaged In the Land and Naval Services In the Revolutionary War and that he verily Believes the within a True Copy.
Taken and subscribed before me this 10 th Day of Feb y 1819
Cyrenus Gibbs
ROSWELL HATHKIS Judge Deposed and saith that on the 15 th Day of April 1818 he made a Declaration on Oath Before Cyrenus Gibbs one of the Judges of Delaware County of which the within is a Correct Copy. In Order to obtain the Provisions of the Act of Congress to Provide for Certain Persons Engaged In the Land and Naval Services In the Revolutionary War and that he handed the same to the Post master for Prospectus and has had no Return and Believes It has miscarried. He is now an invalid and he would further state as an affidavit that he was in the Battle of White Marsh and in A Number of Skirmishes and he was Discharged at West Point In the State of New York.
Taken and subscribed before me this 10 th Day of Feb y 1819
Abra m Hartley
ROSWELL HATHKIS Judge
I Roswell Hathkis one of the Judges of Delaware County Common. Plea do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Abraham Hartley did serve in the Revolutionary War as stated in the Pounding Declaration against the Common Enemy. and that he is in Indigent circumstances and and stand in need of the Assistance of his Country for support and I now transmit the Pounding and the Testimony taken before me to the Secretary of the Department of War -
ROSWELL HATHKIS

In testimony that Roswell Hotchkiss is an Esquire as mentioned in the annexed affidavits and that the signature to the certificate & affidavits appears to be his I have affixed the seal of the courts of common pleas of the County of Delaware this 12 th day of February 1819.
H. R. Phelps Dep. Clerk

Una Willie Wgt June 30
Free
July 5
St. Louis
James L. Edwards
Payng Pensions
Washington City
St. Louis

old case
March 3. 1819
Adm.
Humphrey Hays free
Secretary of the Department of War
Washington City

Defiant of Connecticut Sheriff Duer 17 th 1818
I have all of Hampshire in the county of Fairfield in said State & district after having duly sworn do depose and say that I am well acquainted with Abraham Hambley now of Roxbury township in the county of Delaware in the State of New Jersey, that I have known him for more than forty years, that I know in when he resided in the town of Stamford aforesaid, in the year 1777, that sometime in the spring of that year Richard Hambley being certain knowledge instructed with Leah Samuel Granger company in Capt Charles Hobb's regiment in the Connecticut Line in the unbrotherly establishment, that said Hambley enlisted for the service, that said Hambley fired the whole time that I was under fire for, honest for the lives of the year

and I only believe that said Stanley voted for me until the end of the war as I was very intimate with him and constantly heard of him as belonging to the army. Isaac Odell
I James Downey the second, I have been afraid to have been due by some de- ceit and say that I am well acquainted with Abraham Stanley and named in the discharge of said Isaac Odell, and have known from his infancy that his father enlisted in the month of May in the year 1861 into said Grange company in said Charles Wilder's regiment in the Connecticut State on the continental line before crossing the river, I also enlisted into said company and regiment for the same term, said Stanley and I started in the same company but about three years until a new arrangement of the army took place, when Stanley and I were turned over to Col. Samuel B. Noble

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