Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 32788, Eliphalet Hastings, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Hastings, Eliphalet
S. 32788
CONTENTS

7788.
Massachusetts.
Eliphalet Hastings
of Watertown in the state of Massachusetts who was a Ensign in the regiment commanded by Colonel Brewster of the Massachusetts Militia, for the term of Six Years War
scribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 30 Dollars per month, to commence on the 31 of March 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 17 of March 1819 and paid to William Melmore Esq. Salem Mass.
arrears to 4th of March 1819 $225.23 semi-annual all'ce ending 4 Sept. 1819 120.
$343.23
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Continued
Notication sent to Abraham Higgin Esq. 22 d September, 1820. Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Eliph Hastings
Enlisted July 1775
6 years
Admittea

State of Massachusetts
Clifford Hastings a Citizen of the United States, now resident at Natucket in the County of Nedlesex in the State aforesaid, do on oath testify and declare, that in the War of the Revolution, on the first day of July seventeen hundred & seventy five
I entered and was engaged in the Land service of the United States on the continental establishment, and served accordingly from that time to the month of November Seventeen hundred & eighty one
as an Ensign against the common enemy, without any interruption or absence: that I belonged to Cap! Harvey's Company in the seventh Reg! commanded by Col. J. Brown
and that I left the service in the month of November seventeen hundred & eighty one
and that by reason of my reduced circumstances in life and poverty, I stand in need of assistance from my country for support, being now of the age of eighty three years - I received a Captain's Commission in the month of November seventeen hundred & seventy eight, which I have lost & therefore cannot particularize describe it.
And I hereby relinquish all claims to every pension heretofore allowed me by the laws of the United States, if any may be or hath been so allowed.
Clifford Hastings
BE IT REMEMBERED, That on this thirty first day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen Pursuant to a law of the United States, entitled, "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war," made and passed on the 18th of March, A. D. 1818. personally appeareth before me
The subscriber one of the Special judges of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas within the State aforesaid
seeing Clifford Hastings the abovenamed and after due examination and caution to testify and declare the whole truth, he maketh oath to the declaration aforesaid, and subscribes the same in my presence; and, on examination duly made by me the said Judge, it appeareth to my satisfaction that the said declaration is true. In testimony
Whereof I hereunto affix my name & the seal of Court, the attests being credible and disinterested Wm. Wetmore

Middlesex ss. March 31. 1818
We the subscribers Inhabitants of the Town of Waltham & Citizens of the United States do certify & say that we are well acquainted with Eliphaleth Hasting, subscriber to the within written declaration & know him to be a Man of truth & veracity, and we have no doubt of the truth of the facts there stated by him & from our knowledge of his reduced circumstances in life, he stands in need of Assistance from his Country for support
Isaac Beman
Eliphaleth Hasting, Jr.
Sworn to before me
W m Wetmore the Judge within named

Eliphalet Hastings
7788
March 1819
Bond 22/4
1820
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John
1820
Eliphalet Hastings
Eliphalet Hastings

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
MIDDLESEX, ss.
At the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the Middle Circuit, begun and holden at Concord, within and for the County of Middlesex, on the second Monday of June A. D. 1820
Before the Hon. SAMUEL DANA, Esquire, Chief Justice, and
WILLIAM WETMORE, and } Associate Justices STEPHEN MINOT, Esquires, } of said Court.
In open Court here, being a Court of Record for said Circuit, proceeding according to the course of the common law, with a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount, keeping a record of its proceedings, and having the power of fine and imprisonment, Eliphalet Hastings resident in said Circuit, who is named in Pension Certificate No. 77885 now in his possession, of which the following is a true copy, to wit,
“ WAR DEPARTMENT.....REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM. ”
“ I certify that, in conformity with the Law of the United States, of the 18th March, 1818, Eliphalet Hastings late an Ensign in the army of the Revolution, is inscribed on the Pension List, Roll of the Massachusetts Agency, at the rate of twenty dollars per month, to commence on the thirty first day of March one thousand eight hundred and eighteen. Given at the War Office of the United States, this 17th day of March one thousand eight hundred and eighteen ”
J. C. CALHOUN, Secretary of War,”
appears, and exhibits to the Court here a Schedule, subscribed by him, as follows, to wit,
SCHEDULE,
containing his whole estate and income, his necessary clothing and bedding excepted, to wit,
“ He has no estate real nor personal, nor income except his pension, lives with one of his sons, was in the battle of Bunker Hill, commanded a company in Col Jonathan Brown's Regt in the Massachusetts line, had twenty nine killed and eleven wounded beside, myself out of seventy nine in that action, had my right arm and collar bone shot to pieces, remained in the Continental army continuing constantly in service till the year 1781 was in all the principal actions, during the war except the last at York town where Lt Cornwallis and his army was taken and at ways endeavoured to do my duty to God & my Country. When General Washington took the command ”

at Cambridge I rec d my commission as Ensign, am now eighty six years old.
Eliphalet Hastings
Sworn to & declared before W m Wetmore judges

and at the same time he produces to the Court here the following Oath, taken and subscribed by him, before the Hon. Wm Wetmore a Judge of said Court as aforesaid, to wit,
// I, Elephalet Hastings , do solemnly swear, that I was a resident citizen of the United States, on the eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and that I have not, since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner whatever, 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 eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, 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. So help me God.
Elephalet Hastings
Middlesex ss. C. C. C. P. June Term, A. D. 1820
Then the abovenamed Elephalet Hastings took and subscribed the aforewritten Oath before me,
Wm Wetmore
Judge of said Court. //
I, ABRAHAM BIGLOW, Clerk of the Court aforesaid, do hereby certify that the foregoing Oath, and Schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the record 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 property exhibited in the aforesaid Schedule is
nothing
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court, at Cambridge, in said County of Middlesex, on this 20 th day of July 1820
Attr.
Abraham Biglow

Rev. and 1813 War Section.
Decembar 2, 1925
Mrs. W. O. Stearns 20 Melrose St. Framingham, Mass.
Madam:
I have to advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S. 32788, it appears that Eliphalet Hastings was appointed, July 1, 1775, Ensign and served in Captain Harvey's Company, Colonel Jonathan Brewer's Massachusetts Regiment, in November 1778, he was appointed captain and served in Colonel Jonathan Brewer's Regiment until November 1781.
He had his right arm and collar bone shot to pieces at the battle of Bunker Hill. He stated that he was in all the principal actions during the War, except Yorktown.
He was allowed pension on his application executed March 31, 1818, while a resident of Waltham,

Middlesex County, Massachusetts, aged eighty-three years.
In 1830, soldier referred to his sons, and stated that he was living with one of them, but did not give any names. The name of soldier's wife is not on file.
Soldier died November 16, 1834.
The above noted Eliphalet Hastings is the only soldier of that name found on the Revolutionary War records of this Bureau.
Respectfully,
WHITFIELD S SCOTT Commissioner.

Hastings, Elizabeth Mass 532788

32788
IN CONGRESS
The DELEGATES of the UNITED COLONIES of New-Hampshire, Massachusetts-Bay, Connecticut, New-York, New-Jersey, Pennsylvania, the Counties of New-Castle, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North-Carolina, and South-Carolina, to
W E reposing especial Trust and Confidence in your Patriotism, Valour, DO by these Presents, constitute and appoint you to be Ensign Company, in the 7th Regiment, commanded by
in the Army of the United Colonies, raised for the Defence of American Liberty hostile Invasion thereof. You are therefore carefully and diligently to discharge the Duty of Ensign by doing and performing all Manner of Things thereunto belonging. And we do strictly charge and require all Officers and Soldiers under your Command, to be obedient to your Orders as Ensign And you are to observe and follow such Orders and Directions from Time to Time, as you shall receive from this or a future Congress of the United Colonies, or Committee of Congress, for that Purpose appointed, or Commander in Chief for the Time being of the Army of the United Colonies, or any other your superior Officer, according to the Rules and Discipline of War, in Pursuance of the Trust reposed in you, and to continue in Force until revoked by this or a future Congress.
July 15. 1775.
Attest. Chas Thomson
PRESIDENT.
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32 788 Rev INVALID.
1908 Dec 5 - List to Jessie H. Little B.M. Later in Vol. File 18303 1925 Dec 2 - Her. Mrs. V. O. Stearns cont.
File No. 32,788
Eliphalet Hastings
Ensign Rev War
Act: 18 th March 1818 9
Index:—Vol. 9 , Page 194
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Flamingham Mass. Oct. 27, 1925.
Pension Office dept of Rev. Soldiers.
In trying to establish the Rev. War service of an ancestor - Eliphalet Hastings of Waltham Mass. I find recorded in the Mass. Soldiers & Sailors of the Rev. War by the name of Eliphalet Hastings who enlisted from Waltham. My Eliphalet married Susannah Fiske

Is there an Eliphalet Hastings on the pewee list of Rev. Soldine? I thought if there was, the name of the wife might possibly be recorded as well as the service of said Eliphalet. If not how can one find which of the four men is the ancestor. Have all necessary data back to Eliphalet Hastings, but which one? Will be very grateful for an early reply.

Address
Mr. H. A. Stearns, 20 Melrose Street, Framingham Mass.
Framingham

information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau. Eliphalet Hastings Ser. File 32788
   DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE.   CAPTAIN. COLONEL.     July 1. 1775 Ensign Harney Jonathan Brewer 7 th Mass.   Nov. 1778 Capt Jonathan Brewer   discharged in Nov. 1781  
Battles engaged in, Bunker Hill where he was wounded in right arm & collar bone  alleged he was in all principal actions during the war except Yorktown
Residence of soldier at enlistment, ✓
Date of application for pension, Feb. 31. 1810. His el. was al.
Residence at date of application, Waltham, Middlesex Co. Mass.
Age at date of application, 89 yrs. died Nov. 16. 1824*
Remarks: In 1820 Soldier referred to his sons names not stated.
* from Agency book.

RECORD DIVISION.
Department of the Interior, BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
Briefed by Adm. Apr. 2, 1910
Claim No. _____
Certificate No. _____
Claimant _____
Soldier Eliphalet Hastings
Service Rev. War
Additional Service _____
No _____ claim, State records _____, 190_____
No claim, combination records _____, 190_____
REMARKS:
O.W. Inv. 7. 32788 to other Inv. No wid or Ref.

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Friday March, 23
Charlestown, N.H.
War Office,
Pension Department,
MAR 28 1910
Would you kindly inform me concerning a soldier named Eliphalet Hastings who was born in 1734 and served in the French and Indian War was taken prisoner at Fort William Henry, Lake George in 1757
He served also in the War of the Revolution was commissioned as Captain, I believe,

I would like to know when he served in the last War (Revolution) and how long and when he became Cap- tain (if he did) and all the facts which you are willing to give concerning him in both Wars.
Yours respectfully
Mrs. Edward L. Osgood,
Charlestown,
N.H.
Box 199.