Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 5038, Jacob Hinsdale, Conn.

SERVICE
Conn.
Winsdale, Jacob Sarah
NUMBER
R. 5038
CONTENTS
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Declaration In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832
State of Connecticut (S) Norfolk Probate District Tithing County ( ) On this 22 nd day of July 1833
personally appeared in open court before me Michael G.
Mills Judge of the Court of Probate in the District of Norfolk having said court Joseph Hensdale of Canaan in said County who being first duly sworn according to Law Dath on his oath make the following Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832
That in addition to his former Declaration made before this Court on the 14 th day of August 1832 that as to his first term of service in 1776 that in addition to the number of officers his heirs mentioned that Gen Shenear believed near the Major Gen & and that he frequently saw Gen Washington and as to his second term mentioned in the year 1777 that Col. Sheldon took the command and that he believes that they were under Gen. Arnold after they joined the army and that Gen. Lincoln was present.

And as to that part of his former Declaration in which he says he was discharged he did not mean to convey the idea that he had a written discharge as he never had any written discharge and that he has no documentary evidence of any kind
and further that he has no other evidence than the one herewith forward no Does he ever know of any to be obtained sworn and subscribed the Day and Year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty three Jacob Hinsdale me Michael G. Mills Judge of the Circuit of Probate for the District of Norfolk
I Michael G. Mills Clerk of the Circuit of Probate for the District of Norfolk do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Jacob Hinsdale for a license
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 22 nd day of July A 1833
Michael G. Mills Clerk

Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7-1832 State of Connecticut } ss. Joseph Prouty deposes that Litchfield County } on the 14 day of August A.D. 1832 personally appeared in open Court San Siter before me Michael F. Miles Esquire Judge of Probate Rodger Seed Clerk Jacob Hunsdaler aged Seventy Three years last April
Who being first duly sworn according to law deposes in his oath that the following Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7-1832 that in the year 1836 he entered the service of the United States by enlistment into the Company under the command of Capt Thomas Wilson & John Rockwell & Theron Wilson Lieutenants and Chas. Gauduin Ensign that he was in the Regt of Col. Fisher Gay who died in New York in the summer of 1836 that Col Hart took the command after Col. Gay died was in Gen. Wadsworth Brigade that he enlisted for the term of six months that he served the whole term and was discharged at a place then called North Castle in the State of New York that he served at New York on Long Island came from the Island of
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A New York and also when the Army retreats from New York to Harlem and then to White Plains
That in the year 1777 he again entered the Service as a volunteer under Capt Watkins then of Hovey's Batt in New States Connecticut and there Wilson Lieut. was promoted to the rank of Colonel & Senatus Still needler, and near them at the taking of Bergaine and after was Bergaine was taken he was so impressed that he was in the same Six weeks having found about the last of August
That he was born in Haverston in said State of Connecticut and that he resided in said Haverston at the time he performed the Service mentioned one that some the year 1781 he has resided in the Town of Canada where he now resides that he is well acquainted with the Rev. P. Hovey Clergyman of said Canada and also with the Rev. Augustus Pitts Esq. & Joseph Butler the Town of North who can testify as to his character and that he hereby relinquishes every claim to a pension or annuity except

The present and declares that his name is not on the person Roll of the agency of Ames, Shet- Jacob Hingsdale
Sworn and Subscribed this day and year aforesaid before me Michael F. Miller Judge of Probate
And me P. Kim Candler Clergyman of the Town of Canaan
and Augustus Pittsbury Esquire & Joseph Nuttall Esquire of The Town of Norfolk Benchers certify that we are never acquainted with Jacob Hensdale who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration, and he has been to the best of our knowledge of age that he is respected and beloved in the neighborhood where he resides & has been a leader of the Revolution and we concur in that opinion and that he is a credible person and that his statement is entitled to credit
Joseph Nuttall
Sworn and Subscribed this day and year aforesaid before me
Augustus Pittsbury
P. Kim Candler
Michael F. Miller Judge of Probate for Norfolk District
And the said Court doth hereby declare that after the investigation of the matter by the ward and that the above named Jacob Hensdale Applicant never knew having Eden and Service as he states And the Court further certifies that P. Kim Candler who has signed the above certificate is a clergyman resident of the Town of Canaan And that Augustus Pittsbury Esquire and Joseph Nuttall Esquire who have also signed the same are both residents in the Town of Norfolk and credible persons and that their statement is entitled to credit
Michael F. Miller Judge of Probate

I Michael G. Mills Clerk of the Court of Probate for the District of Norfolk do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Jacob Hensdell for a pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 16 th day of August A 1832.
Michael G. Mills Clerk

Yorke Probate District on this 16 th day of August 1882 hereunto annexed in open court no letter before me Michael G. Mills. Judge Joseph Rockwell a Resident of said Yorke who being first duly sworn according to Law doth testify and say, that in the year 1776 he was in the town of the United States or New York Long Island Hitheron and other places in the company of Capt Wilson in Col Fisher's Regt. But he was then well acquainted with Jacob Hensdell now of Concord in said Suffolk County and that he has ever since been acquainted with him and that he well remembers that the said Hensdell was a Soldier in the same Company with him the said Rockwell and that he served six months as then left the army at the time time which was on the 25 th of December 1775.
Joseph Rockwell Sworn and Subscribed this day and year aforesaid before me Michael G. Mills Judge of Probate and I hereby certify that the said Joseph Rockwell is well known to me and that he is a person of credit and that his statement is entitled to credit. Michael G. Mills Judge of Probate

8079 Sarah Hinsdale of No 879 Jatcol Ohio.
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The State of Ohio ss } on this Sixteenth day of January Franklin County } A.D. 1841 personally appeared before me William Dorton one of the asso- ciate judges of the Court of Common Pleas within & for said County of Franklin Sarah Heinsdale a resident of Brancville Township in the County and State aforesaid aged eighty-three years last February who being duly sworn, according to law, doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress, passed July 7th 1838. entitled an act granting half-pay pension to certain widows: That she is the widow of Jacob Heinsdale who was a soldier in the Army of the Revolution That she cannot state at what time her husband (the said Jacob Heinsdale) entered the service of the Rev- olution, but that she is informed & believes that he served under Captain Watson in his Company of Troops & was in Colonel Fay's Regiment. That he was a resident of the State of Connecticut at the time he entered the Service, & for the particulars of his service she refers to his declaration at the War Office, upon which his pension certificate issued bearing date at the War Office October 1st 1833. by which he was entitled to & did receive Twenty Four dollars & forty four cents per month from that date up to the fourth of September 1839. She further declares that she was married to the said Jacob Heinsdale on the Sixteenth day of January 1782 - That her husband the aforesaid Jacob Heinsdale died on the twenty-six day of October in the year eighteen hundred & thirty nine: That she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place previous to the first of January, seven- teen hundred and ninety-four in at the Town above stated. Sworn to & subscribed Sarah H. Heinsdale on the day & year above written before. Me Dorton & associate Judge

The State of Ohio } Preble County } ss } I, William Porter, of Piqua, Ohio, do hereby certify that on this day personally appeared Comfort Starn of said Piqua aged seventy-nine years last June, & being duly sworn according to law deposes & says, that I have been acquainted with the said Jacob Hunsdale for more than fifty years next previous to his death, that I have been with him two or three times to draw his pension money & know that he was a pensioner of the United States, that he further states upon his oath that he was present & saw the said Jacob Hunsdale a few months after his death, & that he died in Piqua on the twenty sixth day of October 1839. He also further states upon his said oath that he is well acquainted with Sarah Hunsdale, the above named applicant, & knows her to be the widow of the said Jacob Hunsdale deceased & the person she represents her self to be in the above declaration.  Sworn to & subscribed before me Comfort Starn this day & year above written Wm Porter Associate Judge
The State of Ohio } Preble County } ss } I, William Porter one of the Associate Judges of the Court of Common Pleas within & for the County of Preble, do hereby certify that the above named Sarah Hunsdale, applicant for a pension from bodily infirmity, cannot attend in Court to make her declaration for a pension, & that it would be unsafe to remove her to Court for any purpose whatever, & I do further certify that I am well acquainted with the above named Comfort Starn & that I believe the above statements by him sworn to, are true; & do also believe the statements made by the above named applicant Sarah Hunsdale are true & entitled to full credence.  Wm Porter Associate Judge

The State of Ohio } Trumbull County } I John Hutchinson Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of said County of Trumbull, do certify that William Porter Esq before whom the foregoing affidavits were made and by whom the foregoing certificate was made and whose name in his own proper hand writing is thereto subscribed, was at the time of taking such affidavits and making such certificate and still is an acting Associate Judge within and for said County of Trumbull in the said State of Ohio, duly commissioned and sworn, to all whose official acts full faith and credit are due throughout the United States and elsewhere
In testimony whereof I hereto subscribe my hand and affix the seal of said Court at Warren this 16th day of November A.D. 1861. John Hutchinson Clerk By C. Herrington Rep

Let to Penay July 15. 1836. June January 2
Ordered to pay 28. Sept 1837. to Pen Age 22 Nov. 1838.
To Ohio, Pittsburgh from 4 th Sept 1837. 24. Jan 1839. Notification sent to Webb & McConnel from Trumbull County Ohio
Paid at the Treasury under the Act of the 8 th April 1838, from 4 th Sept 1837 to 4 March 1838. age Notified 11. April 1839.
7864 Pittsburgh. Ohio Connecticut
Isaac Winstead enlisted in the State of Conn who was a Pvt in the Conn commanded by Captain Wilson of the _____ commanded by Col c Gay in the Conn Troops time for 7 mo 14 dys
Inscribed on the Roll of Conn at the rate of 24 Dollars 44 Cents per annum commence on the 14th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 10 th day of October 1833 and sent March H. Mills Norfolk Ct
Arrears to the 14th of Sept r 1833 $ 61.10 Semi-ant. allowance ending Mar. _____ 12.22 $ 73.32
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by OTB Clerk, Book E Vol. 3 Page 19

State of Connecticut County of Litchfield } Town of Washington
I Andrew Abernethy town clerk of the town of Washington County of Litchfield and State of Connecticut having the care & custody of the records of said town do certify that the following is a true copy & transcript of the record of marriage of Jacob Hinsdale junr with Sarah Barker from the records of said town
Jacob Hinsdale junr was married to Sarah Barker the tenth of January seventeen hundred & eighty two. And I further certify that it is a true copy of the records with the exception of the date which is copied on the record in fair legible figures as follows "16 th January 1782"
And I the above named Andrew Abernethy depose say that I hold the office of town Clerk in the town County State aforesaid & that the above is a true extract from the records of said Washington with the exception above named as certified by me
Sworn to before me
this 1 st July 1841 } Andrew Abernethy Town Clerk Abijah Gattis Justice Peace

State of Connecticut Litchfield County } ss Housatonic.
I Joshua Williams Clerk of the Court of Probate for the District of Housatonic, do hereby certify that Abijah Carlin Esq. is a Justice of the Peace for the County of Litchfield duly Commissioned & qualified according to Law, to administer oaths, &c. that his Commission will expire on the 20th day of June 1842, & that the signature annexed to the foregoing Certificate, purporting to be his, is genuine.
In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand, & affixed the Public Seal of said Court at the Probate Office in Housatonic, this First day of July A.D. 1841.
Joshua Williams, Clerk.
PROOF

Power of Attorney of Jacob Hinsdale
Isaac N Coffin Washington D.C. Attorney.

POWER OF ATTORNEY.
STATE OF Ohio
COUNTY OF Summit } ss:
Be it known that before me, a Justice
of the Peace in and for the county aforesaid, duly authorized by law to administer oaths, personally appeared
* Jacob Hinsdale resident of Torton in the county of Summit in the State aforesaid, who being first duly sworn according
to law, states that he is † Son & lawful Heir of Sarah Hinsdale  former unsuccessful applicant of the county of Trumbull and State of Ohio
who was a revolutionary ‡ Soldier and that he is directly interested as a claimant in the pension for which application was heretofore made by said Sarah Hinsdale
and constitutes and appoints Isaac N. Coffin , of Washington, D. C., his true and lawful attorney, with irrevocable power to examine into, investigate, and establish the claim for said pension, and do all acts necessary thereto.
In witness whereof, he the said Jacob Hinsdale has on this 6th day of November 1852 hereunto signed his name, and affixed his seal.
Witness:
Isaac N. Coffin Robert G. Marshall
Jacob Hinsdale 
Signed, sealed, acknowledged, and sworn to before me, on this Sixth day of November 1852.
R. G. Marshall J. P.
STATE OF Ohio
COUNTY OF Summit } to wit:
I, Nelson A. Stone clerk of the Circuit Court court, of the county and State aforesaid, do hereby certify, That R. G. Marshall before whom the foregoing power of attorney was acknowledged and affidavit made, was at the time of so doing a Justice of the Peace in and for the county aforesaid, duly commissioned and sworn, and that his signature above written is genuine.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of said Court this 8th day of November 1852.
N. A. Stone Clerk.
* Here, if the soldier or officer is living, insert his name; if he is dead, and the widow is living, insert her name; if both dead, insert one of the living children's names; if the children are all dead, and either of them survived the former unsuccessful applicant, insert the name of the administrator of that former applicant.
† Here, if the soldier or officer is living, insert his name again; if the widow is living, insert the words, "widow of," and the name of her husband; if both dead, insert the words, "son or daughter of," and the name of the former LAST unsuccessful applicant.
‡ Here insert the word "soldier," or "officer," whichever he was.
NOTE.—When a female is the person who executes this paper, please put the letter s before the word he in every place where it occurs.

The State of Ohio } Court of Common Pleas Summit County ss } March Term AD 1853.
I, Salem Stone Clerk of the Court of Summit County, holden at Akron in and for said County, do hereby certify that satisfactory evidence has been exhibited to said Court that Jacob Kinsdale was a pensioner of the United States, at the rate of twenty four dollars and forty cents per annum was a resident of the County of Trumbull in the State of Ohio, and died in the County of Trumbull in the State of Ohio, in the year eighteen hundred and thirty nine, on the 26 th day of October, and that he left a widow whose name was Sarah Kinsdale, that she afterwards became a resident of the County of Summit in the State of Ohio, and died in the County of Summit in the State of Ohio in the year 1843, on the 9 th day of March, leaving children whose names are as follows. Jacob Kinsdale Sally Kinsdale Haskell and Betsey Lucey.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office at Akron this 16 th day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty three.
N. B. Stone Clerk of Court

No. 73 H.
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
Wid. Reg. 5038
Bureau of Pensions,
Rev. War.
Washington, D. C., February 24 1906
Madam:
In reply to your request for a statement of the military history of Jacob Hinsdale , a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau.
   DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE.   CAPTAIN. COLONEL.     1776 6 mos. Private Amos Wilson. Fisher Gay Hart. Conn.   Aug. 1777 6 mos. Private Watkins Selden. Conn.          
Battles engaged in, Surrender of Burgoyne.
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Harwinton, Litchfield Co. Conn.
Date of application for pension, August 14 1832: his claim was allowed.
Residence at date of application, Canaan, Conn.
Age at date of application, 80 years in 1832: born apl. 1759 at Harwinton, Conn.
Remarks: He died Oct 26 1839 in Trumbull Co. Ohio. He married Sarah Barber, Jan. 16, 1782 at Harwinton Conn. She died March 9, 1843 at Summit Co Ohio. Her claim was rejected on the ground that she was not a widow at the passage of the Act July 7 1838, under which she appl. Cheshire mining Jacob, Sally Harkell, and Betsey Lacey.
Very respectfully,
apl. 1832 73 apl. 1759
Commissioner.

5038
P. O.
Sarah Lindahl
Service: widow of Jacob
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: REJECTED , 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract.

Oct. 17, 1904 History to Bertha K. Foreman, Lafayette, Ind.
1906 Feb 24. History to Mrs. Jasper Gurnis
M. B. H.
1907 Jan. 10. History to Miss Jannette Burlingham

Knab Dec 20. Mr Evans
my d.
Admiral Coghlan R.N. Farnborough Hampshire
Yr servt

Ansatz Dec 20. Mr Evans
Free
Dear Governor Pugh Commissioner of Division Washington D.C.

That of Chicago on the 12th day of Decr 1858 I hereby certify before me the publication & practice of the oath of office for said County. You are also informed that Jacob Kinsdale who on his oath declared that he is the same person who for nearly belonged to the Company commanded by Captain James Wilson, in the regiment commanded by Colonel Fisher Griffin, in the service of the United States; that his name was placed on the pension Roll of the State of Connecticut from 1810 to 1815 because he had fully evidenced that he was a soldier in the War of 1812 in the State of Ohio, where he intends to reside and wishes his pension, and to have his pension to be payable at Pittsburgh in the State of Pennsylvania in future.
The following are his reasons for removing from the State of Connecticut to the State of Ohio. I have but one son living, who removed from the State of Connecticut to the State of Ohio about four years ago. I followed him about a year afterwards, and was about fifty years of age, and am helpless to a certain extent & need the assistance of my son, in addition to the above & I prefer by removing to the State of Ohio a easier better new situation.
I hereby certify & subscribe to before me Jacob Kinsdale On the day and year first above Notary Public. George Austin Justice of the Peace
The State of Ohio I do hereby certify that the above is a true copy of the original now on file in my office here for the said Jacob Kinsdale a resident in Brunsburg in the County of Stark aforesaid, and on his solemn oath says that Jacob Kinsdale who has taken the above oath is the same person described in the affidavit. I do hereby certify before me George Austin Justice of the Peace Given this 13th day of Decr 1858 George Austin Justice of the Peace

I George Austin a Justice of the Peace within said County the County of Warren & State of Ohio do hereby certify that I have been acquainted with George Austin who has held up as to the identity of Jacob Poinsett, for eighteen years past, and I believe him to be a prisoner of Great Britain and enemy George Austin Justice of the Peace Decr 11 1815
The State of Ohio } Warren County } ss
I John Hutchinson Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for said County, do hereby certify that George Austin Esq. whose proper signature is subscribed to the foregoing certificate, was at the time of subscribing the same and now is an
acting justice of the Peace within said County, duly com- missioned and sworn, and that full faith & credit are due to his official acts.
In testimony whereof I hereto subscribe my name and affix the seal of said Court, at Warren, in said County, this fourteenth day of December Anno Domini eighteen hundred and thirty eight, John Hutchinson Clerk

Warren Penn 16 1822
Dear Sir
Indio
Inclosed you will find from the application of David Hunsicker for a transfer of his jurisdiction from Connecticut to Pittsburgh Pa
We are Respectfully
Yours Affectionately
William Wilson
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Lafayette Ind
Oct. 2, 1904
To the Commissioner of Pensions Pension Bureau
Washington D.C.
Can you give me the name of the wife of Jacob Hunsdale, who was a soldier of the War of the American Revolution, and was a pensioner. I thought his wife's name might be on his pension certificate.
I am anxious to get this name, to insert in my papers for my application to admission to the Daughters of the American Revolution. Shall be greatly obliged if the name can be sent me.
Yours truly
Esther Trebley Foreman
6110 South 7th St.

On W
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Shellsburg, Wisconsin.
Dec. 28th 06.
Dept of Pensions.
Will you kindly give me what information you possess regarding a Revolutionary Pensioner named Jacob Hinsdale of Hartford or Harrington or Lebanon Conn.
I do not know which place. I want the time and place of his death and his wife's name if possible in fact all that you have regarding him: are there two Jacob Hinsdale's mentioned as pensioners?
I wish this information for D.A.R. purposes. Yours very truly.
(Miss) Janet H. Burlingame.

Sarah Hinsdale of Jacob Ohio
Rejected
See let: 25 th Nov 1841 to Mess rs M c Con- nell & Ingersoll.
L t Col. N. Coffin 20 Apr 33
Act 7 July 1838.

was not a widow until after passage of the act of 7 th July 1838

To the Bureau of Pensions, Washington. D. C.
Sir:-
In the Res. Records of the State of Conn, one Jacob Hinsdale is given as a Pensioner from Litchfield Co. Conn. In your office are there any records of the said Jacob which give his birth , marriage , name of wife , death , etc. If so, I will be greatly pleased.

to receive a copy and if there is a fee for the transcription will willingly remit the same,
Very truly yours.
E. E. R. Cairns.
(Mrs. Jasper Cairns)
Address: 264 West 57 th St.
New-York City.
January seventeenth, 1906.

No 8079
Seneca - Ohio
Ohio July 7. 1838
Sarah Annidale
J. T. Callender Esqr. Washington City D. C.
FREE

Warren Stone 17th 1841
Dr Sir
Inclosed we send for your inspection the declaration of Sarah Hensdale for a pension under the Act of Congress 7th July 1838.
We send you the affidavit of Abernethy, Iowa Clerk to us to the original, also the original pension certificate of Jacob Hensdale, & certificate of marriage from the Roll of Connecticut to Spitznagle.
The relatives of Jacob Hensdale are anxious to retain the certificates, if they do not properly belong to the files of the Department, they would be glad to have them returned.
J. L. Edwards Esq. Commission of Pensions
Respectfully yours M c Connell & Ferguson

U. S. Pension Agency Hartford 11 th June 1886
Sir
Enclosed I transmit the application of Jacob Hinsdale for the payment of his pension. Mr. Hinsdale having neglected to claim his pension for four successive periods of payment, residing out of the state and the certificate of his additional proof of identity not being in the form prescribed by the instructions from the 2 d Comptroller. I have thought proper to submit them for your decision as to payment.
Very respectfully I am your obedient servant
J. May D. Hall
D. L. Edwards Esq. Commissioner of Pensions Washington

Washington April 16 th 1853.
Sir:
I herewith transmit Certificate of Court of the date of the death of Sarah Hinsdale widow of Jacob and the names of her children - said Sarah Hinsdale having been an applicant for Revolutionary pension under Act July 7. 1838.
As her husband was a pensioner - and the marriage is proven by the Certificate of the Town Clerk of the town of Garwinton and the evidence being now complete - I request that the Certificate of pension may be issued as soon as practicable and transmitted to me through the Sam Post Office.
Very Respectfully
Your Obed t Serv t Isaac N Coffin
Hon ble Loren P Waldo Commissioner of Pensions Washington D.C.

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Mr Rodap
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Michael Miles Norfolk Co

BRIEF objections to the admission of Pension Claims, of which those answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of
Jacob Hornsdale further proof or explanation.
I. Does the declaration show where the applicant resides? yes II. Did the declarant make the declaration in the county where he resides? yes III. If the applicant did not make the declaration in the county where he resides, is there any reason assigned for his not doing so? _____ IV. Has the declarant mentioned the period or periods of the war when he served? yes V. * Has he mentioned with precision the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the department to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled? yes VI. Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with the regulations? No VII. Has he made a relinquishment of every claim to any other pension than the one under the Act of June 7, 1832? yes VIII. Has the Court given their opinion? yes IX. Has the Clerk given his certificate? yes X. Is the Clerk's seal affixed? And if so, has it a device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal? yes

XI. Has the applicant obtained the evidence of a clergyman and another respectable citizen as to their belief respecting his age and the general belief in his neighborhood relative to his revolutionary service? yes XII. If the clergyman's affidavit has not been produced, is there any reason assigned for not obtaining it? XIII. If the applicant has no documentary evidence, and has not obtained the testimony of at least one living witness, has he stated in his declaration that such proof cannot be had? XIV. †If the applicant's name is not found on the rolls of military service, has he produced a witness or witnesses as to his service? If he has produced direct proof as to service, has the magistrate who administered the oath, certified to the credibility of the witness or witnesses? yes Has the proper officer certified to the official character and signature of the magistrate as the regulations direct? no XV. Does it appear from any of the papers that the witness was in such a situation, or of such an age, as to have a personal knowledge of the applicant's service? yes XVI. †Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct? yes XVII. Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily? And, if not, which of them is not so answered?
EXPLANATORY NOTES.
* QUERE V. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words: "Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A. B. who, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that, by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service, but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades; For _____ year _____ months, and _____ days, I served as a _____ For _____ months and _____ days, I served as a _____; and for such service I claim a pension."

It is important in all cases to determine with precision the period for which each applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service. The use of the phrase about three or four months is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable. Some persons who apply for pensions merely state they served two years in the militia, &c. without specifying the tours; the names of the officers, and other particulars respecting their service. This form of a declaration is highly objectionable. It must in every case be clearly shown under what officers the applicant served; the duration of each term of engagement; the particular place or places where the service was performed; that the applicant served with an embodied corps called into service by competent authority; that he was either in the field or in garrison; and for the time during which the service was performed, he was not employed in any civil pursuit.
†QUERE XIV. Proof of Service.
In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses, who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimants entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the regiment, company, and line to which he belonged. The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the witnesses, and the official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office.
†QUERE XVI. Mode of authenticating papers.
In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticates the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other paper authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the ends of which must pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate.
In every case where the clerk of the court, or other certifying officer, has no public seal of office, the certificate of a member of congress, proving the official character and signature of the certifying officer, should accompany the papers.

Sennon Agency Newbern 25 Dec 1838
Sir
In answer to your enquiry as to what time Jacob Heins due a pensioner on the roll of this Agency under the Act of 7 June 1832 at $24 44 / 100 dollars per annum was last paid. I have to inform you that he has been paid to the 4 th day of September 1837.
I am very Respectfully Your obedient Servt. Sam l L. Pitkin. Agent.
J. S. Edwards Esq. Commissioner of Pensions Washington

Norfolk Connecticut July 22. 1833
Mr Edwards Sir
I herewith forward the Declaration of Jacob Hensdale he has made upon their Declaration & he should his claim be allowed he wishes you to forward his papers to me Yours &c
Michael F. Miles

Braceville March 28 th 1853
W m Coffin
Dear Sir
Enclosed please find the certificate of clerk of court relating to the pension of Mrs. Sarah Hinsdale — which I believe is all you ask at present. I have no further information now.
Respectfully Yours
Isaac H. Ingraham
P.S.

Letter of Isaac H. Ingraham Esq. in relation to the Pension claim of his mother in law Sarah H. Hinsdale widow of Jacob of Ohio.

TREASURY DEPARTMENT.
Second Comptroller's Office,
April 2 d , 1839.
Sir:
Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838 entitled "An act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States," Jacob Hinsdale, _____ a Pensioner on the Roll of the Pittsburgh, Pa., Agency, at the rate of Twenty four Dollars and forty four Cents per annum, under the law of the 7 th June, 1832, has been paid at this Department, from the 4 th of Sept., 1837, to the 4 th March, 1838.
Respectfully, yours,
William B. Parsons Comptroller.
To the Commissioner of Pensions,
Present.