Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 5271, Samuel Hovey, Mass. Navy

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass. Navy
Hovey, Samuel Mercy
R. 5 271
CONTENTS
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Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873.
REJECTED
5271.
P. O. _____
Meercy Keovey
Service: _____
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract.
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18

✓ 8521
Mercy Hovey M rs act 7. July '38
5271

Eden Nov. 18 th 1842
Dear Sir.
I have taken her affidavit as to the enlistment of her husband Samuel Hovey and likewise sent to Old Plymouth at her request and took the deposition of John Blackmer, both of which I herewith send you, after examining the same will you do me the favor (if not inconsistent with the duties of your Office) to inform me if said Samuel Hovey's name is born on the Roll, and if so for what length of time as said Hovey formerly belonged to Plymouth Mass, and said Mercy to Paco that unless the above should prove to be a plain case as I presume it will, it would cost her more to obtain a small pension than it would be worth, but by information from you I can then determine for her what would be the most prudent path for her to pursue. Very Respectfully Yours
Nicholas Thomas V. L. Edwards Esquire

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Mr. Reuben Baldwin Boston Mass.

I John Blackmer of the town & County of Plymouth, in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, aged Seventy nine years On Oath do testify & say that for nearly the whole period of my life I have resided in that part of said Plymouth called Manomet Ponds, that I knew and was well acquainted with Samuel Hovey who formerly resided in the same Parish. He lived a near neighbor to me. He was the son of Rev. Ivory Hovey who was the Minister of our Parish. I have often heard the said Samuel Hovey relate to my father Branch Blackmer now deceased & to others the particulars of his service in the Revolutionary Army & particularly of the Battle of Trenton when the Hessians were taken & of the suffering of the Troops on that occasion, the most of which particulars are now obliterated from my mind. I always understood from him that he served all the Year 1776 under Capt. Isaac Pape of Rochester. I think said Samuel was born in Rochester his father having been Minister in that town prior to his settlement in our Parish.
Said Samuel Hovey married for his second Wife Mercy Jordan of Saco, in the State of Maine, after their marriage they resided in said Plymouth for several years & subsequently removed to the State of Maine where it is reported he died many years since. He left the said Mercy his Widow who it is also said is now living.
John Blackmer

Plymouth Jf. On this seventeenth day of September 1842 personally appeared Deacon John Blackman well known to me as a person of undoubted veracity & subscribed & made oath to the truth of the within affidavit
Before me
Jacob H Lord Jus. Peace
Committee of Ministers.
See y s Min. Sept. 17. 1842
I hereby certify that the above Jacob H. Lord is a justice of the Peace within the line of the First John D. Dyer clerk of the Committee

I Mercy, born Widow of Samuel Hovey, aged eighty four years do testify and say that I was married to said Samuel Hovey in Saco State of Maine, he was from Old Plymouth in Massachusetts to which place we removed after our marriage, he always informed me that he had served in the Revolutionary War both in the Land and Naval Service, that he first enlisted under Capt. Isaac Pope or Frederick Pope of Plymouth or Rochester and with him served one year or more in the Land service, he was in the Battle of Trenton New Jersey when the Hessians were taken and in many smaller skirmishes. After he was discharged from the Army he said he enlisted in the United States Sea Service in a vessel called the Alliance etc. I further testify that I was married to said Samuel Hovey According to the best of my remembrance in seventeen hundred and Ninety one or two, but having within a few years past had my family Records destroyed by Fire I cannot tell exactly now, but presume I can when wanted prove the time of my marriage in Saco, I now reside in the town of Ellsworth Maine with my children etc. Mercy Hovey

Hancock So November 18 th 1842 ) Personally appeared the within named Mary Bovey and made solemn Oath to the truth of the within deposition by her subscribed. Before me Nicholas Thomas Justice of the Peace