Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 1285, Braddock Hoar, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Hoar, Braddock charity
No. 1285
CONTENTS

13.995 R Massachusetts Dradock Hoar
of Middleboro' in the state of Mass ts who was a Private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Mankew of the Mass ts line, for the term of 9 months
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 8. of April 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 8. of July 1819 and sent to N. Mitchell Esq r Bridgewater, Mass ts
  Arrears to 4th of March 1819  87.16    Semi-ann. all'ce ending Sept 1819,  48    10 23/30 4/31  $ 135.16  
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }

Levi S. Gregory 2 Aug 157
He was a Braddock Regt. who served in the Revolutionary war, as a Private in Capt. [blank] Comy Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 8 Dollars Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1845. Certificate of Pension issued on the [blank] day of February 1845 and sent to Mrs. A. [blank] [blank]
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under February 4. 1845. Page 75 Vol. 3 July [blank] Book 11

Braddock Shoar.
Middleboro
(1779)
The foregoing declaration was made on oath & sworn to before me April 8. 1878. —
Nahum Mitchell Judge

The foregoing declaration was made on oath & sworn to before me April 8. 1878. —
Nahum Mitchell Judge
(Signature)
Brestock Stone Middlesex (1779)

J Braddock Hoar of Middleborough in the County of Plymouth and Commonwealth of Massachusetts do hereby declare that I was a Colonel in late Revolutionary war in the Massachusetts line & Continental Estab- lishment. I enlisted in the month of July AD 1779 into Capt Soper's Company. I think that was the Capt's name, but am not certain as he was absent from the company all the time, the reg t  was  by Smith and the name was commanded by Col Marshall, I served my time out until February following. I was then called out with others and sent to Phillips Manor or White Plains to guard the lines. There were five companies sent, commanded by Col. Thompson. Three companies were nearly all killed or taken, in an engagement then & there with the Enemy. I was taken and carried to the City of New York; having been wounded in the head by the butt of a gun from one of the Enemy. I laid in prison two months and ten days, and was then exchanged. I went back to West Point to my Regiment immediately and was honorably discharged, but my certificate of discharge I formerly sent to Boston in order to draw the pay for my equipments but could never after obtain it again. I am a citizen of the United States and do hereby relinquish all claim to any pension which may

have been allowed me by the laws of said State of any then be. I further depose and say that I am reduced in my circumstances and stand in need of my country's assistance for support. I further depose and say that Benjamin Pierce of Bridgewater in the County of Plymouth was a fellow prisoner with me as above. Brook H. Hovey

No 92
Charity Hoar, widow of Braddock Hoar.
Act 29 th July 1848
Married 1799 husband died 1831
Adm o 9 months per, $30 per annum, From 4 March 1848
Wm A. Hale, Wof R,

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Plymouth ss. On this first Tuesday of November in the Year One thousand eight hundred & forty eight, before the Court of Probate now holden at Middleborough within & for said County, Hon. Sam Hobart Judge presiding personally came Charity Hoar a resident of said town of Middleborough, Widow, aged Eighty two years, who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the Act of Congress passed on the twenty ninth day of July in the Year Eighteen hundred & forty eight entitled an Act for the relief of certain surviving Widows of Officers & Soldiers of the Revolutionary Army; And of a joint Resolution passed July 1. 1848 relative to evidence in application for Pensions. That she is the Widow of Braddock Hoar formerly of said Middleborough deceased who was a Soldier in the War of the Revolution & served in the manner set forth in his application for a Pension. That the said Braddock Hoar was placed on the Pension Roll of the Massachusetts Agency under the Act of March 18. 1818, at the rate of eight Dollars a month. His Certificate was numbered 13,995.
That she was married to the said Braddock Hoar at the dwelling house of her father

Mark Snow in Rochester in said County by the Rev. Calvin Chaddock who was then a Minister of the Gospel in said town but deceased many years ago. The said marriage was solemnised on the nineteenth day of March in the Year Seventeen hundred & ninety nine; the said Braddock Hoar her said husband died on the thirteenth day of April in the Year Eighteen hundred & thirty one in the town of Caroline County of Tompkins & State of New York, and that she has not been married since the decease of her said husband but still remaining his Widow, that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but that her marriage with him was prior to the first day of January in the Year Eighteen hundred, to wit, on the day above mentioned.
Charity Hoar
I room to & subscribed by the said Charity Hoar on the day & year herein first before named in open Probate Court before the Hon. Aaron Hobart presiding Judge
Attest
Jacob H. Lord
Register of Probate
Plymouth Co. I Jacob H. Lord Register of Probate for said County do hereby certify that the foregoing is the Original declaration made & subscribed to room to in open Probate as above certified in the matter of Charity Hoar Widow of Braddock Hoar decd.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & the seal of the Court of Probate for said County this seventh day of Febru- ary in the Year One thousand eight hundred & forty nine.
Jacob H. Lord Register of Probate

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
County of Plymouth
Clerk's Office Feb 12 1899
I John B. Thomas Clerk of the Supreme Judicial Court of the County & State aforesaid do hereby certify that the signatures of the Justices hereunto annexed to the foregoing decree in & for said County duly confirmed & multiplied stand true to the best of the deposition hereto annexed are genuine.
Given under my hand & the seal of said Court on the day & year aforesaid
John B. Thomas Clerk

Rochester February 6 th 1849
I Isaac Briggs of Rochester in the County of Plymouth Gentlemen on oath declare and say that I am a Minister of the Gospel in the Town of Rochester & County of Plymouth and at the place where Calvin Chadock formerly lived & preached and have in my custody the Church Records kept by him. And I further certify on oath that in a book containing the Records of Marriages Solemnised by him the said Chadock I find the following under the head of Marriages Celebrated by C. Chadock Brodock Hoar of Middleborough and Charity Snow of Rochester were Married March Nineteen in the Seventeen hundred and ninety nine
I further certify that the above is a true copy of Record except the dates which are expressed on the Record in fair legible figures as follows "a Bachelors Hoar of Middleborough and Charity Snow of Rochester were married March 19 th 1799"
Dear Briggs,

I Nathaniel King of Rochester in the County of Plymouth Esquire on oath declare and say that I held the office of Town Clerk of said Town of Rochester and have in my custody the Books of Record of said Town I further certify on oath that in a Book containing the record of the Entry and publication of intentions of Marriage in said Town being one of the Books of Record of said Town I find the following
"Mr Braddock Hoar of Middleborough and "and Miss Charity Snow of Rochester entered "February tenth and published February twenty "fifth Seventeen hundred and ninety nine"
Nathan Willis Town Clerk
I further certify that the above is a true Copy of Record except the dates which are expressed on the Record in fair legible figures as follows "Mr Braddock Hoar of Middleborough and "Miss Charity Snow of Rochester entered "February 10 th and published February 25 th 1799 Nathan Willis Town Clerk
I further certify that I have examined the Records of Marriages of said town and cannot find any record of the marriage of the persons above named. I further certify that at the date of said Rev. Calvin Chadlock was a regularly ordained Minister of the Gospel in said Town of Rochester

ance had the pastoral care of a religious Society and Church in said town. The said Chaddock died many years ago. I further certify that said Chaddock omitted to make returns to the Town Clerk of Marriages Solemnised by him as I have had occasion to search the Records and know that many marriages Solemnised by him are not Recorded
I further certify that at the date aforesaid Nathan Willis was Town Clerk of said town and that the entry aforesaid is in his hand writing
Thosheles King
Plymouth 1st February 5 th 1849 Then Thosheles King above named well known to me to be the Town Clerk of the town of Rochester and a credible person subscribed and made oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavit
Before me
D James Rugg Justice of the Peace

I Rhoda Mendell of Rochester in the County of Plymouth aged Sixty Three years on oath declare and say that I was present at the Marriage of Mr Braddock Hoar of Middleborough and Miss Charity Snow of Rochester. They were married by Rev. Calvin Chadwick at the house of Mr. Mose Snow in Rochester on the nineteenth day of March in the Year Seventeen hundred and ninety nine. The said Braddock Hoar died somewhere in the State of New York as I was always informed in the Year Eighteen hundred and thirty one. The said Charity is still living and has not been married since his death but is still a Widow Rhoda Mendell
Plymouth ss. February 5 th 1849 Then Rhoda Mendell well known to me to be a credible person appeared and made oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavit by her subscribed Before me Thomas King Justice of the Peace

I Mattiah Clark of Rochester in the County of Plymouth & Commonwealth of Massachusetts aged eighty seven years on oath depose and say that I was present & witnessed the Marriage of Mr Brodack Hoar of Middleborough and Miss Charity Snow of Rochester. The said Marriage was solemn- -ised by the Rev. Calvin Chace who then a Minister of the Gospel in said Town but now deceased at the house of Mr Mark Snow in Rochester on the nineteenth day of March in the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety nine. The said Brodack Hoar was a soldier in the Revolutionary War and a Pensioner of the United States. He died in the State of New York in the year Eight -een hundred and thirty one leaving the said Charity his Widow who is still living and has never been married since his decease
Metropolitan Church

O. W. & N. Division.
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
M.E.C.
Bureau of Pensions,
Washington, D. C., July 12, 1895.
Sir:
In reply to your request for a statement of the military history of --- Braddock Hoar --- 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. July 1779 7 mos. Pvt. Soper Marshall Mass. Feb. 1780 10 mos. 10 days. Pvt. Not stated. Thompson Mass.
Battles engaged in, None mentioned.
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Not stated.
Date of application for pension, April 8, 181.
Residence at date of application, Middleboro, Mass.
Age at date of application, Not stated.
Remarks: Married Charity Snow March 19, 1799, and died Apr. 13, 1831.
Mr. S. C. Wrightington, Very respectfully, Supt., in-door poor, State House, Boston, Mass. E. P. Settlement.
Acting Commissioner.

Inst. to H. C. Wrightington for poor, State House, Mass. M. E. C.
March 4, 1896.
is that Widow's to can be ascer- d from Auditor Dept. Treasury, Edmund F. White Boston, Mass.
14 "99.
E. F. White, Boston, Mass.
Rev. Has Cert. 69 WIDOW, &c.
File No. 1285
Charity Hoar, Widow.
Braddock Hoar. Pvt. Rev. War.
Act: July 29, 1848.
Index:—Vol. A, Page 341
[Arrangement of 1870.]
July 12/99 Supt. in Boston.
Info reath taine July. to E.
Jany.

I Josiah Smith of Wareham in the County of Plymouth and Commonwealth of Massachusetts a Lieutenant in the army of the United States during the revolutionary war do hereby certify that Braddock Hoar enlisted for nine months service in Capt. Amasa Soper's company Col. Thomas Marshall's Regiment. Brig. Gen. John Patterson's Brigade and joined the army while the Brigade lay at West Point very soon after the action at Stony Point and continued therein for seven or eight months until detached to perform a tour of service of twenty days upon the lines under the command of Lieut. Col. Thompson when the detachment to which he belonged was taken prisoners and marched to the city of New York and was there detained for about ten months before an exchange of prisoners took place. He then came back to West Point with other prisoners and was there regularly discharged. At the time of the capture of the detachment aforesaid it was reported that the said Hoar was among the slain, and a report of our forces being at that time called for. I made at the request of our Captain the return of our company and in consequence of information then in camp returned said Hoar as dead and most likely it so appears on the records now in the Department of War. Josiah Smith Lt.
Plymouth Is Wareham May 27 th 1819
Then personally appeared Josiah Smith and made solemn oath to the above statement by him subscribed - before me -
Ward H. Crocker Just. Peace

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
The within named Jonah Smith is a credible Witness and the within named Wadsworth Crocker is the a Magistrate in the County of Plymouth authorised to take Depositions and the within is his genuine signature
Nahum Mitchell: Judge Jus.

REVOLUTIONARY SERVICE.
O. W. & N. Div.
MEMORANDA.
Please supply as much as possible of the data called for below.
Full name of soldier:
Braddock Hoar or Hoard
Place of residence before service: (Town, county, and State, if possible.)
Soldier from Mass.
Place of residence after service: (Town, county, and State, if possible.)
Broome Co., N.Y.
Date of death (as near as possible):
Dead (?) date not given
Christian name of widow:
Charity Hoar or Hoard
Did either he or his widow receive a pension?
He did, & she after his death
Remarks: How long did he serve? & in what Regt? When pension was granted & how long paid? When & how long paid to his widow? Please furnish date of his and also of her death.
Your name and address: See enclose.
S. C. Wightington,
Capt. of in-door poor,
State House,
Settlement C. S.W.
Boston, Mass.

O. W. & N. Div.
REVOLUTIONARY SERVICE
MEMORANDA
Please supply as much as possible of the data called for below.
Full name of soldier:
Braddock Hoar
Place of residence before service: (Town, county, and State, if possible.)
Middleboro Plymouth Co Mass
Place of residence after service: (Town, county, and State, if possible.)
Middleboro Plymouth Co Mass & Little or Lynde Brook Co NY
Date of death (as near as possible):
About 1842-45
Christian name of widow:
Charity
Did either he or his widow receive a pension?
Both (I think)
Remarks:
Your name and address:
Edward J White 28 Hancock St. Boston Mass

Braddock Hoar
Middleboro
Payable semi-annually. The first payment on this Certificate will be made on the 4th of Sep r next, in Boston at the U.S. Branch Bank;

War Department.
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.
I CERTIFY that, in conformity with the Law of the United States, of the 18th of March, 1818,
Braddock Hoar late a Private in the Army of the Revolution, is inscribed on the Pension List, Roll of the Massachusetts Agency, at the rate of Eight dollars per month, to com- mence on the Eight day of April one thousand eight hundred and Eighteen
GIVEN at the War Office of the United States, this Eight day of July one thousand eight hundred and Nineteen
J. C. Calhoun Secretary of War.

Marblehead, July 14 th 1851.
Honored Sir, —
I have the honor to forward herewith the declaration of Charity Hoar, widow of Braddock Hoar, Revolutionary Pensioner, who is now in the receipt of $30 per annum, but now claiming $96 per annum, under the Act of July 1 st , 1848, the same amount which her husband received.
I am, with very great respect, Your Honor's humble servt.
James E. Heath Esq. Commissioner of Pensions, Washington D.C.
James Gregory

Feb 17 th 1849
M c Edwards will please have this applica- tion attended to as early as possible & oblige His friend.
Antony Hale
W. Cole

Hon. Artemas Hale My dear Sir
Plymouth Feb 10. 1849
I send you herewith the application of Mrs. Charity Hoar of Middleborough the Widow of Braddock Hoar dec d . I am anxious to obtain a decision after as soon as you leave Washington. I find there is no use in attempting any claim for a Pension excepting through the mediation of a Member of Congress. This Case is one admitting of no doubt I believe whatever.
The following brief will state the points of the Case & the proof to each point.
1 st Braddock Hoar the husband was a Pensioner under the Act of March 18. 1818 Proof - His pension Certificate is forwarded. 2 nd Death of Braddock Hoar at Caroline in the State of New York April 13. 1831 Proof - Depositions of Abiather Briggs & William Hoard 3 rd Marriage of Charity Hoar the Applicant to said Braddock March 19. 1799

Proof- The proof on this point is very full.
Affidavit of Dr. King town Clerk of Rochester after publications of intention of Marriage between Braddock Hoar & Charity Snow in February 1799 as appears of Record in his Office.
Affidavit of Rev Isaac Briggs Pastor of the North Church in Rochester of the Record of the Marriage March 19. 1799.
Affidavits of Mattiah Clark & Rhoda Mendell who were present at the Marriage.
4 th . Identity of applicant & that she has not been married since the death of her husband Braddock Hoar.
Affidavits of Mattiah Clark, Rhoda Mendell, Abiathar Briggs & W m Hoar
5 th . Amount of Pension to which she is entitled.
I suppose she is entitled to the same her husband rec d .
When you call at the Pension Office will you enquire after Mrs. Sarah Sampson's pension which I sent you some two or three weeks ago
Yours very truly, J. H. Lord

Sarah Sampson's Certificate has been forwarded A. H. Lee

Commonwealth of Mass ts Secretary's Office May 29. 1819-
By this, I certify that Bradrick (or Braddock) Hoar was a private in Col. Marshall's Bragg's Regt. & in the Major's Comp y - one of the Mass ts Line & on the Continental establishment, a nine months man, in the war of the revolution; that he enlisted July 20 1779 for the term of nine months; & is recorded as having died Feb. 2 d 1780 - when it is said he was taken by the enemy. Alden Bradford Secy. of Commonwealth
P.S. The Claimant having been taken and detained for a long time gave rise probably to the report of his being dead and which was so recorded as appears by the above certificate. Pincin whose testimony is in the case is a neighbour of mine & is now an invalid pensioner for wounds rec d at the same time; so that I have no doubt of the truth of the Claimant's story & the legality of his claim. Nathan Mitchell - Judge

Braddock Hoar Middleborough Ms
79
Marshall Map to Reg t
apt. 8. 1878
Prof. of Service wanted -
This man is on the Roll
July 1879

COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
On this ss. eighth day of April A. D. 1818, before me the subscriber, one of the Judges of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, for the Southern Circuit, personally appeared Braddock Hoar of Middleborough aged  years, resident in the said Circuit, who being by me first duly cautioned according to law, on his oath made the following  enclosed declaration, by him signed, in order to obtain the provision made by the late 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."
/ See his said Declaration of his services enclosed /

And I the said Judge am satisfied the said Braddock Hoar needs the assistance of this country for support —
also And I, the said Judge, do certify, that it appears to my satisfaction, that the said Braddock Hoar did serve in the revolutionary war, as stated in the preceding declaration, against the com- mon enemy, for the term of nine months, on the continental establishment; 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.
Nahum Mitchell
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
ss.
1818.
I HEREBY CERTIFY, That is one of the Judges of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the Southern Circuit, consisting of the Counties of Plymouth, Norfolk, Bristol, Barnstable, Dukes and Nantucket in said Commonwealth—that the same Circuit Court of Common Pleas is a Court of record—that the signature to the above cer- tificate is the true signature of the said Judge, and that the seal thereunto affixed is the seal of the said Court.
} Clerk of the Judicial Court for the County of

State of Massachusetts } ss. County of Plymouth }
On this thirteenth day of June, A.D. 1851. Before me the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Plymouth, personally appeared Charity Hoar, and made oath in due form of law that she is the widow of Braddock Hoar who was a Private in the war of the Revolution; that she herself is now receiving a pension from the United States, at the rate of thirty dollars and — cents per annum, under the Act of July 29 th 1838;
that her husband aforesaid drew a pension at the rate of ninety-six dollars per annum under the Act of March 18, 1818, — and she makes this declaration with the view of obtaining an increase of her present pension, for any amount to which she may be be found entitled under any and all the Acts and Resolutions of Congress applicable to her case.
She further declares that she is now a resident of Middleborough, in the County of Plymouth; and is still a widow; and is in the eighty fifth year of her age.
Charity her X Hoar mark
Witnessed by George W Hoar
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year first above written
Before me, Apollo Haskins Justice of the Peace.
I certify from what knowledge I have of the above named Charity Hoar that I believe her to be the same person she represents herself to be in the foregoing affidavit.
Attest, Apollo Haskins Justice of the Peace.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Boston, July 12 th 1851
I hereby Certify, That at the date of the annexed attestation Apollo Haskins was a justice of the Peace for the County of Plymouth,
in the said Commonwealth, duly commissioned and qualified; and that to his acts and attestations, as such, full faith and credit are and ought to be given, in and out of Court.
In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written.
Nathaniel Walker Secretary of the Commonwealth.

MISSING OR WARDEN
Mr George S. Hemen
Merick's Villa Post Office Railroad Depot South Newton Massachusetts
Centre Lisle 9 Oct 2 3/4
Centre Lisle Dec 21/48

State of New York } County of Broome } ss. and Town of Lisle }
Heathair Briggs of the town of Harford County of Cortland state of New York being duly sworn says that he knew Braddock Hoard of the town of Middleborough in the County of Plymouth and state of Massachusetts who was the husband of Charity Hoard and in the year 1802 he removed to the western part of the state of New York and lived there until the year 1808 and then he removed back to the town of Middleborough and he came to the state of New York on a visit and he died at the house of Sylvester Roundsells in the town of Carlisle County of Tompkins state of New York April 13 - 1831 and was brought from there to the town of Lisle and I attended his funeral at Lisle in the County of Broome state of New York and saw him buried April 15 - 1831 and knew him to be the same person the husband of Charity Hoard
Subscribed and sworn } this 26 th day of October } one thousand eight hundred } and forty Eight before me }
Heathair Briggs
Joseph Cook Justice of the Peace
And I further certify that I have...
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STATE OF NEW-YORK, BROOME COUNTY CLERK'S OFFICE,
} s.s.
I, William B. Doubleday, Deputy Clerk of the County of Broome, DO HEREBY CERTIFY, That Joseph Cook Esqr. whose name is subscribed to the Certificate of the proof or acknowledgment of the annexed Instrument, and thereon written, was, at the time of taking such proof or acknowledgment, a Justice of the Peace in and for said County of Broome, duly elected and sworn, and authorized to take the same. And further, that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of such Justice, and verily believe that his signature to the said Certificate of proof or acknowledgment, is genuine.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said County, the 12 th day of December
A. D. 1848.
William B. Doubleday, Deputy Clerk. (Clerk absent)

State of New York } County of Broome } ss. and town of Lisle }
Heathair Briggs of the town of Harford county of Cortland state of New York being duly sworn says that he knew Braddock Howard of the town of Middleborough in the county of Plymouth and state of Massachusetts who was the husband of Charity Howard and in the year 1802 he removed to the western part of the state of New York and lived there until the year 1808 and then he removed back to the town of Middleborough and he came to the state of New York on a visit and he died at the house of Sylvester Mounseells in the town of Caroline county of Tompkins state of New York April 13 - 1831 and was brought from there to the town of Lisle and attended his funeral at Lisle in the county of Broome state of New York and saw him buried April 15 - 1831 and knew him to be the same person the husband of Charity Howard
Subscribed and sworn } this 26 th day of October } one thousand eight hundred } and forty eight before me }
Heathair Briggs
Joseph Cook Justice of the Peace
And I further certify that I know him to be the same person who signed the above affidavit and he is a person of truth and veracity before me 14/11/48
Joseph Cook Justice of the Peace

State of New York } County of Broome } Aff. and Town of Lisle }
William Hoard of the town of Lisle County of Broome state of New York being duly sworn says that he knew Braddock Hoard of the town of Middleborough County of Plymouth and state of Massachusetts who was the husband of Charity Hoard and in the year 1802 he removed to the western part of the state of New York and lived until the year 1808 and then he removed back to the said town of Middleborough and he came to the state of New York on a visit and I was present at the house of Sylvester Roosevelt in the town of Caroline in the County of Tompkins - in state of New York when he died April 13 th 1831 and he was brought from there to Lisle and I attended his funeral and saw him buried at Lisle April 15 th 1831 and I knew him to be the same person the husband of Charity Hoard.
Subscribed and sworn this 3 rd William Hoard 26 th day of October 1848 } before me }
Joseph Cook } Justice of the Peace
and I further certify that I know him to be the same person who signed the above affidavit and he is a person of truth and veracity October 26 th 1848
Joseph Cook } Justice of the Peace

Nov. 9 th 1848
Dear Brother I have received yours of the last and am sorry to trouble you again my Mother has been before the Judge of Probate and found all right as far as you have gone But Pronounced it not sufficient until the Clerk of the County Court certifies that Joseph Cook is a regular Justice of the Peace of said towns. I want you to do the Business as soon as you can. And forward the same to me again. I hope to pay you for your trouble. Yours with true Love Geo. S. Haur

I Benjamin Pircin of Bridgewater in the County of Plymouth and Commonwealth of Massachusetts do hereby testify and say That I was a Soldier in the Service of the United States in the late Revolutionary war with Great Britain. I was on the detached party to guard the line at Phillips Manor, so called, under the Lieut Colonel Thompson and in the battle which there took place, where I was wounded in the arm and taken on which account I am now on the Invalid Pension List. At said Phillips Manor, which is near White Plains, I first became acquainted with Braddock Hoar, now of Middleborough in the above County and State. He belonged to the same Service and was on Col. Thompson's station Guard - I saw him on the same day of the engagement - He was taken prisoner with me and we were carried together to New York by the British troops - As I was wounded, very severely, I was taken to the hospital, but said Hoar was put into the Sugar house, so called, with other prisoners. I remained a prisoner in New York ten months & ten days, during all which time said Hoar was also a prisoner with me - after which we were both exchanged, and I never saw said Hoar afterwards until very lately - His term of service except while a prisoner I know not, as my first knowledge of him was at the above engagement which happened in the month of February A D 1780.
Benjamin Pircin
Plymouth ss. May 31 st 1819. Then personally appeared Benjamin Pircin and made to the truth of the above deposition by him signed before me -
Barth W Brown Justice of the Peace I also certify that the said Benjamin Pircin is a man of good reputation, steady habits & acknowledged veracity - Barth W Brown J. P.

The within named Bartholomew Brown is a respectable Magistrate in the County of Plymouth and the within is his genuine hand writing and signature.
Nahum Mitchell Esq.
Bartholomew Brown

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, BUREAU OF PENSIONS, WASHINGTON, D. C.,
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January 14th, 1899.
Sir:-
In response to your recent communication you are advised that Braddock Hoar made an application for pension on April 8th, 1818, at which time he was residing at Middleborough, Mass., (age not stated) and his pension was allowed for seventeen months and ten days' actual service as a private in the Mass. troops, Revolutionary war. Place of his enlistment not stated. He served under Capt. Soper and Col. Marshall. His widow, Charity, made application and received a pension for the service of her husband as above set forth.
Very respectfully,
Commissioner.
Mr. Edward I. White, 28 Hancock Street, Boston, Mass.

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
NAME Hoar, Edmund GRADE Sergeant LINE Massachusetts
WARRANT NUMBER 4354 ACREAGE 100 ISSUED July 20, 1789 to Reuben Lilley
*The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800. Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.