Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 19745, Samuel Hayward, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Hayward, Samuel Howard
W 19745
CONTENTS
Bethial or Bethiah

Vermont 18.889
Samuel Hayward Westminster Co. in the State of Vermont who was a Pn in the Company commanded by Captain Rundall of the Regt commanded by Col Marshall in the Mass'ts for Vooops -
2 Yrs Private - $ 80.00
Granted on the Roll of Vermont at the rate of 80 Dollars per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1834.
Certificate of Pension issued the 17th day of Oct 1833 and sent to Samuel Arnold, Londonderry, Vt
Arrears to the 4th of Sept 1833 - 200.00 Semest. allowance ending 4th Mch '34. 40
$ 200.00
Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.
Recorded by J. S. Sprague Clerk, Book 8 Vol. 3 Page 70

Vermont - 2009
Bothial Solaymans widow of Samuel Solaymans Mass who was pensioner under the Act of 7: June 32 and who died on the 16 th day 1824 of Vermont in the State of Vermont who was a P. & C. in the County commanded by Captain Russell of the Regt. commanded by Marshall in the Dept of line for 2 years
Inscribed on the Roll of Pensions at the rate of 84 Dollars - Cents per annum to commence on the 15th day of March, 1836.
Certificate of Pension issued the 11 th day of March 39, and sent to and from H. Solace, Benjamin, Nt
Arrears to the 15th of March 39 - $252.00 Semi-annual allowance ending 42.00 $294.00
{ Act July 7, 1838. }
Recorded by R. Bendire Clerk Be A Vol. 2 - Page 41

State of Vermont Windham County District of Westminster
{ on this 29 day of August A.D. 1832 personally appeared in open court Before the probate court for the district of Westminster in said State and sitting being a court of record having by Law a Seal and Clerk Samuel Hargrave of Londonderry in said District and County and State of Vermont aged Twenty two years who being first Duly sworn according to Law. Doth on his Oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832 that he instead the Service of the Revolutionary war under the following named officers and served as here is stated that
that I was Born and brought up in the Town of Scituate in the County of Bristol and State of Massachusetts that I am 72 years old Last January that in the Spring of the year 1776 I Listed as a Soldier under Capt Martha Brattle in the Militia Service of the Revolutionary War for six months and Marched down to Cambridge near Boston where we were stationed during that campaign and that Col. Mansfield commanded the Regiment to which I belonged and was employed some part of the time in building a fort at said station and that I served my time out for which I enlisted - that soon after my time was

and Marched down to Cranston where Barton where we were stationed during that campaign and that Col. Mansfield commanded the Regiment to which I belonged and was employed some part of the time in building a fort at that station and that I served my time out for which I enlisted - that soon after my time was out at Cranston I left a 2 d time under Capt. Martha Randall for three months and Marched with him to the town of Warwick on the West side of Providence River and on the shore west of Rhode Island where we were stationed until my time was out and when my time was out I left for one month more and we Marched down to Old Point Comfort near point Judith where we were stationed for that month which was on the shore opposite of Rhode Island and in the State of Rhode Island and Col. Thomas Carpenter of Rehoboth comman- ded the Regiment and I returned home Some time in the winter of 1777 that some time in the Spring of 1777 I left for two months under Capt. Simon Ladd of Taunton and marched to Providence in the State of Rhode Island where we were stationed that campaign that soon

After I returned home from Providence I enlisted again under Capt Zephiniah Hodges and Lieut George Woodward for two months and marched to Providence in the State of Rhode Island and we were quartered in Providence called up that after I returned home I volunteered for sixty days under Capt Ichabod Leonard and Lieut George Woodward Batt of Tiverton and marched down to Kingston port of Rhode Island and was there stationed that when my time was out I volunteered for thirty days longer under the same officers and was stationed at the same place that in the spring of 1778 I enlisted under Capt Jacob Hopkins of Tiverton for one year and marched down near Howlands ferry and was there stationed some time we then moved over Howlands ferry onto Rhode Island and was stationed on Bunker Hill so called that I was in Col Greele's Regiment and Genl Cumnells Brigade and Genl Saltonstall commanded the army that I served as a corporal in Capt Hopkins company and was in the Battle fought on Rhode Island when Genl Saltonstall attacked the British army that after the Battle we moved back over Howlands ferry and was stationed at Tiverton until the time of my enlistment expired that after this I volunteered for 20 days under Capt George Dederer and was

Samuel Hayward.
1896
1890
1892
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hereby relinquishing every claim whatsoever to a portion of estate except the present and defining that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state.
Samuel Hayward
Sworn and subscribed the day and year above said Before
Peter M. Taft - Judge
We Silas Davis & Eliza Cook Both of Londonderry in the County of Windham and State of Vermont hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Samuel Hayward who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be seventy two years old that he is respected and beloved in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a holder of the Constitution and that we concur in that opinion
Sworn and subscribed the day and year above said
Silas Davis Eliza Cook
Peter M. Taft - Judge
And the said Court in hereby concurs in the opinion of the investigation of the matter and after finding the interrogatories required by the name of the respondent, that the above named offe- rant was a Revolutionary soldier and served as he states and the Court further certify that it appears to them that Silas Davis & Eliza Cook who have signed the foregoing certificate are residents of said town of Londonderry and that their attachment is entitled to be paid - with the that there is no settled clergymen in said town -
Peter M. Taft - Judge
I also Mary B. Cook and Register of the Probate Court for the county of Windham in said state hereby certify that the foregoing

Samuel Heyward

2226
Bethiah Howells
Declaration for a pension
Under Act of 7 th July 1838

Declaration
in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed July 7 th 1838 entitled an act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows
State of Vermont District of Westminster ss 3
On this 28 th day of August A D 1838 personally appeared before the Probate Court for said District at a special court in said district Bethiah Howard now residing in Londonderry in said district and in the county of Windham aged seventy four years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declarations in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed July 7 th 1838 entitled an act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows, that she is the widow of Samuel Howard formerly of said Londonderry deceased, who according to her best information and belief was a private soldier in the Revolutionary war of the United States, that at each time of his entering said service he was residing at Taunton Mass that in one term of his service his Captain's name was Haskins and in another term his Captain's name was Matthew Randall and she thinks he served two terms under Haskins upon which that he served several terms making in all more than two years service, that he became a pensioner of the United States under the act of June 7 th 1832 as she supposes, as he was pensioned at eighty dollars per year and for further particulars she refers to the evidence on file in the war office of the United States that she was married to the said Samuel Howard at Taunton Massachusetts in March she believes the thirtieth

day and she believes in the year one thousand seven- hundred and eighty three by the maiden name of Bethiah Cobb and by George Gooding Justice of the Peace, that her husband the said Samuel Howard died at said Londonderry on the sixteenth day of May in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and thirty four, in which town he had resided for about forty years next prior to the time of his death and - she supposes of course that his name was inserted on the pension roll of the Vermont agency - that she was not married to the said Samuel Howard prior to the expiration of the last period of his service aforesaid, but was married to him prior to the first day of January seventeen hundred and ninety four to wit on the day and year before stated as she believes but of the day of the month and year she cannot be be certain but knows it was in seven- teen hundred and eighty three or four - - - that she has never married any other person
Bethiah her Howard
Sworn to and subscribed mark on the day and year above written
Before David L Putnam Judge of Probate
note The word but in the 3 d line from the witnesses sign- ature erased by 3 scrope, and as in the line next above said third line on a blot before signing and oath -
D L Putnam Judge
Three sets of wavy lines representing signatures or marks of witnesses.

State of Vermont } I James Crawford Clerk and District of Westminster } Register of the Probate Court County of Windham } for said District, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the Original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the Application of Bethia Howards for a pension, that the said court is a court of record, and that the said David L Putnam is Judge of said Court, and that the signature annexed is his genuine signature
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at Grafton in said District this twenty eighth day of August Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and thirty eight
James Crawford Clerk & Register

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Bethiah Howells
Declaration for a pension
Under Act of 7 th July 1838

I, Marcy Hunt of Taunton in the County of Bristol and State of Massachusetts widow of Stephen Hunt late of said Taunton, deceased, aged Seventy two years, depose and say, that I was present at the wedding of Samuel Hayward formerly of Taunton in said County of Bristol, and saw the said Samuel Hayward and Bethiah Cobb married by George Cooding Esq. of Dighton, at the house of my father Ebenezer Cobb late of Taunton deceased on the twenty ninth day of March Seventeen hundred and eighty four, which I recollect from the circumstance that I was married about one year after my sister the said Bethiah. The said Samuel Hayward and wife lived in Taunton several years after their marriage and then removed to Londonderry in the State of Vermont where I suppose his widow Bethiah Hayward now resides.
State of Massachusetts County of Bristol } ss.
Marcy Hunt
August 31. 1838. Personally appeared before me the above named Marcy Hunt, who is a credible witness, and made oath that the above declaration by her subscribed is true. Lem. Morse, Justice of the Peace
I, Sally Andrews of Taunton in the County of Bristol and State of Massachusetts aged Seventy seven years, depose and say, that I was present at the wedding of Samuel Hayward formerly of Taunton in said County of Bristol, and saw the said Samuel Hayward and Bethiah Cobb married by George Cooding Esq. of Dighton, at the house of her father Ebenezer Cobb late of Taunton, deceased, I do not recollect the year, but according to my best recollection it was more than fifty years ago. The said Samuel Hayward and wife lived in Taunton several years after their marriage and then removed to Londonderry in the State of Vermont where I suppose his widow Bethiah Hayward now resides.
State of Massachusetts County of Bristol } ss.
Sally Andrews
August 31. 1838. Personally appeared before me the above named Sally Andrews, who is a credible witness, and made oath that the above declaration by her subscribed is true.
Lem. Morse Justice of the Peace.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Bristol ss. I, Lincoln Burnham Register of the Court of Probate in and for said County, do hereby certify that Lemuel Morse whose signature is affixed to the foregoing certificates is a Justice of the Peace in and for said County of Bristol - In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of said Court this first day of September eighteen hundred and thirty eight - J. Burnham

Town Clerk's Office Taunton County of Bristol State of Massachusetts August 30 th 1838.
I hereby certify that the following appears among the Records of Intentions of Marriage in said town of Taunton.
"Samuel Hayward & Bethiah Cobb both of Taunton entered their Intention of Marriage February Fourteenth Seventeen hundred and eighty four."
I further certify that the above is a true copy of the Record with the exception of the date, which is expressed on the Record in fair legible figures as follows,
("February 16 th 1784.") Edmund Anthony } Clerk of the Town of Taunton
I, Edmund Anthony, above named, depose and say, that I holds the Office of Town Clerk in the town aforesaid, and that the above is a true extract from the records of said Taunton, with the exception above named, as certified by me.
I also say that I have not been able to find the record of the marriage of the said Samuel Hayward and Bethiah Cobb in said Town's Books of Records, and am satisfied that the record of their marriage cannot be found in said Town's Books.
Massachusetts Edmund Anthony Clerk of the town of Taunton Bristol Co. ss. Aug. 30. 1838.
Sworn before me, Lem Morse Justice of the Peace

In reply to your request of _____, received _____ for a statement of the military history of Samuel Hayward a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pen- sion on file in this Bureau.
W. 19745
   DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE.   CAPTAIN. COLONEL.     Spring 1776 10 mos. Private Matthew Bandle { Marshall Thomas Carpenter Mass.   Spring 1777 2 " Simeon Cobb ✓   2 " Zephaniah Hodges ✓   3 " Isaac Leonard ✓   Spring 1778 8 " Corporal Isaac Hoskins Jacob   35 days Godfrey Dible ✓  
Battles engaged in, Rhode Island
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Taunton, Mass.
Date of application for pension, Aug. 29, 1832. His claim was allowed.
Residence at date of application, Londonderry, Windham Co., Vt.
Age at date of application, born in Jan'y. 1760 at Taunton, Mass.
Remarks: He married at Taunton, Mass. Mch 19, 1784 Bethiah daughter of Ebenezer Cobb. Soldier died at Londonderry, Vt. May 16, 1824 and she was allowed pension on her application presented Aug. 28, 1832 at which time she was 74 years old. and resided at Londonderry, Vt. with her son Stephen aged 35 yrs. and with her daughter in law Mary wife of Allen Howard. There is no further data on file as to family.
Respectfully,
Commissioner.

1912 Sept. 23. Hict to Mrs. Mattie H. Robertson F
1920 mar. 8 Hict to Mrs. Mary E. Leushman.
Rev WIDOW, &c.
No. 19745
Bethiah Hoagwood Widow of Samuel Hoagwood Corp Rev War.
Act July 7 th 1838
Index: Vol. 21 , Page 314
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Revo 1813 Cushman Oregon.
Feb. 13, 1920.
Bureau of Pensions Washington D. C.
Will you kindly give me information in regard to family of Samuel Howard or Hayward? (Pensioner) How many children were born to him and Bethiah Cobb, his wife and have you on record one daughter named Abigail? Am asking this to establish lineal descent from Rev. ancestry.
Respectfully
Mary E. Cushman
(Mrs. C. C. Cushman.)

Cushman, Oregon Feb., 22, 1919.
U. S. Commissioner of Pensions Washington D. C.
Will you kindly give me information in regard to one Samuel Howard (or Hayward) a Revolutionary soldier? Was he a pensioner and did he enlist from Londonderry Vermont, if so at what date? Any and all information you can give in regard to this soldier will be very much appreciated. Am gathering proof in view of becoming a member of the D.A.R. This soldier was my ancestor.
Very truly,
Mrs. Mary E. Cushman
P.S. Would like, if you can give me the information, when and where and to whom was this Samuel Howard married?
M. E. C.

Graton, Massachusetts
September 11 th . 1912
Pension Bureau,
Dear Sir.
Will you please send me a copy of the application for pension made by Samuel Hayward (or Howard) of Londonderry, Vermont, Revolutionary soldier.
He died May 16 th 1834 and his wife Bethia (Cobb) Hayward (or Howard) died January 21, 1843. He drew

a pension of ninety six dollars per year.
Part of this family called themselves Hayward (the original name) and part Howard.
I would also like to obtain a copy of Samuel Hayward's (or Howard's) discharge papers.
He served under General Greene. I should like very much to obtain this information, and will be very much obliged.
Yours respectfully
Mrs. Mattie Hayward Robertson Groton Groton Inn. Massachusetts

Application for position Bethiah Flowerman
Letter

Grafton Vermont 1 st Oct 1838
Sir
In case of the application of Bethiah Howard of Londonderry for a pension you may if you please make return to me
Very Respectfully
Yr Attd Servt
D. L. Putnam
Hon. J. L. Edwards Com te of Pensions

London January Oct 4th 1835
To the Secretary of the War Department
In your communication enclosing the papers in support of the claim of Samuel Hayward for a pension has been found by me and also your letter stating that Hayward's own statement of his services in Quaker Regiment is that he was employed for one year as corporal and that the testimony of the witness does not sustain him in his allegation of the grade and that the certificate of White and Kennard does not support his declaration as to the length of his services - - as to the first of these objections
Mr Hayward does not say that he enlisted as a corporal he says that he served as a corporal in Capt Harkins Company and was in the battle fought on Redbank under Genl Sullivan &c - His explanation is that one of the corporals in Capt Harkins Company was wounded in that battle and came to the Hospital and did not return and that he was appointed to that service by Capt Harkins and that he performed the duty of a corporal until he was discharged but How long he did that duty he cannot say this is all the explanation he is able to make and probably all that can be made in that case after a lapse of more than 50 years Mr Hayward expects no additional wages on account of his service as a corporal
The 2 d objection is that Mr Hayward is not supported in the length of time he served by White and Kennard But he is supported by the affidavit of Willeson who says that the term of service was for one year. Says Kennard statement is that he then had in his possession the original muster roll of Capt Jacob Harkins dated June 1778 in which is enrolled the name of Samuel Hayward for ten days service and on the 11th of June 1778 he is then stated on the same roll to have continued in service eight months &c White says that in the year 1778 he was a corporal in the company of Capt

Haskins comprised of Sanston that he has now the master's role of said company in which the name of Samuel Hayward is inscribed that we marched from said Sanston to fall River that in said master's role the said Samuel Hayward is said to have served eight months &c. While saying nothing about the term of their enlistment or about their crossing over the ferry on to Rhode Island or the Battle fought on Rhode Island or their coming of the Island or how long they remained in service but only refers to the master's role which states that that Hayward had been in service 8 months the 11th of June 1778 where as Wilcox states & says that he became acquainted with Mr. Hayward in July 1778 states the company - Regiment and Brigade to which he belonged and where they were stationed & says that said Hayward with his Regiment crossed over to the Island in the month of August when Genl. Saltonstall made his attack on the British army and he was  was in the Battle that said Hayward was on a picket after the Battle & was stationed at Silver Town
if according to Haskins & White's affidavit Mr. Hayward had been in the service eight months on the 11th of June 1778 according to Wilcox we find Mr. Hayward in August following still in the army and in the Battle on Rhode Island (which according to that Revolution took place the last of August or first of September) and returning back across the ferry to Silver Town after after the Battle and there stationed until discharged
under this view of the case I see no material contradiction in the testimony
It is a matter of very little consequence to Mr. Hayward whether he is credited for his service under Capt. Haskins for 8 months or 12 if you allow him but eight months under Capt. Haskins there will be still 4 months left which will entitles him to a full pension if I have not mistaken the act of Congress which allows

no man for more than two years service he has 6 months on contract paid by Haskins 3 months at Warrenton paid by White gave him — 8 months under Capt Haskins 1 month at Old Church under Col Carpenter 2 months under Capt Cobb 2 months under Capt Haskins 2 months under Capt Leonard 1 month under Capt Godfrey & Gisdale  25 months
Mr. Hayward is now 43 years old entirely destitute of property is now supported by two of his sons who are dependent on their daily labour for the support of their own families he is unable to labour very much broken down and in grand both in mind and body by the weight of time has been affected by his weight bear in defraying the expenses of the testimony which has all ready been procured for him from a great distance - he has a great desire to know that his government has acknowledged his services in that glorious struggle which gave Liberty and Independence to his country
I therefore sincerely desire that the representation here given may be a satisfactory one and that he may be placed on the pension list for the time yet in your wisdom think just and proper according to the testimony he has rendered  I can simply and sincerely that being born and brought up in Massachusetts and living near the scene of action on Richmond in the time of the Revolutionary war I know of no military officer now living that has a stronger claim on his government for service in the Revolutionary war than General Hayward
except in the high estimation and confidence of your friend and humble servant General Amos

Affidavit of Eliza Wilson
Vol 2, B
2

State of Vermont Washington County ss
I Joshua Wail Clerk of the County Court within and for the county of Washington do hereby certify that John L. Buck Esquire before whom the within affidavit was taken is a Justice of the Peace duly appointed & acting under the authority of this State and that his name to the same as such is his own proper hand writing — In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of my office this 7 th day of August A.D. 1832 Attest J. Wail Clerk

Elisha Wilcox of Northfield County of Washington State of Vermont aged 69 years do the testify & say that he is well acquainted with Samuel Hayward now residing in the town of South Berne in the County of Windham State of Vermont that in the month of July 1778 he became acquainted with said Samuel Hayward who was a Soldier in Capt. Jacob Hopkins Company & Col. Jacobs Regiment belonging to Genl. Cornell's Brigade - that said Hayward was stationed at Tiverton State of Rhode Island - That he was a soldier in Capt. Hopkins Company at the same time & was there on duty - that said Hayward with his Regiment crossed over onto the Island in the month of August when Genl. Sullivan made his attack on the British Army & he was in the Battle - that said Hayward crossed over back again after the battle & was stationed at said Tiverton again, & the witness says he was also stationed there at the same time - The term of their Enlistment was for one year - and said Hayward served out the full term of his Enlistment, as he understood at the time, and was discharged - and put in South  not - Elisha Wilcox
Sworn to & subscribed before me this 7 th day of August A.D. 1832 -
John L. Buck Justice of the Peace
I also certify that I am well acquainted with said Wilcox who is a man of reputation & esteemed a man of truth & veracity -
John L. Buck Justice of Peace

Samuel L. Smith Affidavit

I Samuel Arnold of Londonderry in the county of Windham and State of Vermont  aged 67 years do testify and say that I was Born and Brought up in the town of Weston in the county of Bristol and State of Massachusetts and lived in the neighborhood of Samuel Hayward of Londonderry in the county of Windham and State of Vermont who was also Brought up in the town of Saunton an adjoining town in the county of Bristol and State of Massachusetts that some time in the Spring of the year 1776 I was Brought to the said Samuel Hayward Sisting as a Father under Capt Mathew Prindle for the month and served as a writer to Lieut. Jeremiah Haskins in said company that I see him when he had a part of the company marched off of Saunton green that I understood at the time that they were stationed at New Bedford near Boston that I was Brought to him being Brought home sick with the camp dist- emper and after getting well returning to his duty and coming home when his time was out that soon after he returned home he went out a Father short campaign under Capt Prindle for three or four months and I understood at the time by those that were with him that the company was stationed on the shore West of Rhode Island that some time after the said Hayward Retired from his Left tender under Capt Prindle I think it must be in the Spring of the year 1777 he Sisted under Capt Jeremiah Haskins of Saunton and went down on the shore near Rhode Island this information according to my best recollection was for one year and I understood by others that was with him that that he was over the ferry with the other Troops and was in the Battle fought with the British army under Genl Sullivan and thereby he stood at the time of his

indifference that the said Hayward was was caught a number of Short Corns prairie While the British Army was in Rhode Island but I cannot say how long he lasted for that I have heard Capt. John Allen Linnard of Seamen say that the said Hayward was caught with him in his boat party two short Corns prairie and I have heard Capt. Simon Babb of Seamen say that the said Hayward was was out with him one Corns prairie and that they were stationed at Providence in the State of Rhode Island, it is impossible for me to say at this time the number of Corns prairie the said Hayward went out on the time he served as a soldier in the army but this I am confident of that from the time that the British Army left Boston which I think was in the Spring of the year 1776 to the time the British Army left Rhode Island which I think must have been late in the year 1779 the said Hayward was out in the army much the greatest part of the time and I have no doubt that he was caught in the army as a soldier as much as two years and more. Where I speak more particular the transactions of that day in my Father collected provisions for the army and Hay for the army some was carried to Providence and some was carried down Seamen River and I went with my Father to assist him and was often down on the shore where our army was stationed and further south not
Londonderry August the 10th 1782
James Arnot
State of Vermont Windham County
Subscribed & sworn to this 29th day of August AD 1782
Before me Andrew Jackson Justice of the Peace

I certify that Samuel Arnold who has subscribed and sworn to the within affidavit, is a man of truth and veracity to whom testimony full faith and credit ought to be given.
Asa Keyes 2 d Justice of the Peace
For county Clerk's certificate see Abiah Fuller cases —
State of Vermont.
Windham County Court Clerk's Office,
New Haven, June 19. A.D. 1833 —
I certify that Asa Keyes 2 d Esquire, is one of the Justices of the Peace for the County of Windham aforesaid, and that the preceding are his signatures. Witness my hand and the Seal of said Court — James Colliot, Clerk.
James Colliot Clerk

I Lydia Simmons of Londonderry in the County of Windham and State of Vermont aged 63, Do certify and say that I was Born and brought up in the town of Scituate in the County of Bristol and State of Massachusetts; and in the neighborhood - had of Samuel Hayward now of Londonderry in the County of Windham and State of Vermont that I well recollect that soon after the Revolutionary war broke out of the said Samuel Hayward going out as a soldier in said war several times and according to my best recollection the said Hayward went down to or near Boston one time and after the British took possession of Rhode Island then the soldiers used to go down on the shore near Rhode Island and the said Samuel Hayward went with them several times some times I should think he was gone six months or more and sometimes he would come back in two or three months and sometimes when he went out a soldier he would be back in a month or two I do not recollect the number of times he went out in to the army on the height of the several times he was out on the officers he served under but according to my best recollection I think he was out in the army a very considerable part of his time while the British army was on Rhode Island
Lydia Simmons
State of Vermont Windham County, ss. Subscribed and sworn to this 1 st day of Sept. A.D. 1832 before me Samuel Arnold Justice of the peace

I certify that Lydia Simmons who has submitted and sworn to the within affidavit is a person of truth and veracity to whom testimony full faith and credit ought to be given Samuel Arnold Justice of the peace
State of Vermont.
Windham County Court Clerk's Office, New Haven, September 13 th 1832.
I certify that Samuel Arnold Es- quire, is a Justice of the Peace for the County of Windham aforesaid, and that the above is his signature.
In testimony whereof I have here- unto set my hand and affixed the Seal of the said County Court on the day and year above written.
James Elliot, Clerk.

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State of Vermont Windham County 12 th Sept 1838 at Lowell  Newfane Personally appeared Stephen Howard and made oath that the next proceeding affidavit by him subscribed is true Before me David L Putnam Justice Peace
State of Vermont Windham County Clerks - Office - Newfane Septm 12 th 1838 - I Marshall Miller Clerk of the County Court for the County and State aforesaid do hereby certify that Samuel Arnold and David L Putnam are Justices of the Peace within and for said County and that their seven preceding signatures are genuine - In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said County Court the day and year above written Attest - Marshall Miller, Clerk

We Stephen Howard Joshua D. Parker and Mary Howard of Londonderry in the County of Windham and State of Vermont of lawful age being duly sworn depose testify and say that Samuel Howard formerly of said Londonderry deceased who was a Revolutionary pensioner of the United States died at said Londonderry where he was then residing on the sixteenth day of May eighteen hundred and thirty four, that we were present and saw him expire
Stephen Howard Joshua D. Parker Mary Howard
State of Vermont } Windham County ss } At Londonderry in said County the 25 th August 1838 Then personally appeared Stephen Howard Joshua D. Parker and Mary Howard and made oath that the above affidavit by them subscribed is true - Before me
Jurnal Arnold Justice Peace
I hereby certify that Stephen Howard who is the son and Mary Howard who is the wife of another son of said Samuel Howard deceased and Joshua D. Parker - before named are credible witnesses with whom I am well acquainted - -
Jurnal Arnold Justice Peace
I Stephen Howard aforesaid aforesaid being duly sworn depose and further say that I am of the age of thirty five years, and am the son of the aforesaid Samuel Howard and Bethiah Howard that from my early recollection to the time of his death I have known them living together and by common reputation as husband and wife and by common reputation in the family as to the

ages of their children and otherwise I believe they had been married more than thirty fifty years, before his death that from the time of his death to this day I have lived in the same house with said Bethiah Howard whom I have seen this day living and I have never known or heard and do not believe that she has ever been married to any other person but the said Samuel Howard that he had resided within my recollection in said Londonderry twenty-five years none- before his death during which she was ever reputed his lawful wife
Stephen Howard
State of Vermont Windham County ss Londonderry Sept 7 th 1838 Then personally appeared the aforesaid Stephen Howard - whom I certify to be a credible witness and made oath that the next above affidavit by him subscribed is true
Before me Samuel Arnold Justice Peace
Joshua D Parker aforesaid being duly sworn further depose and say that I am of the age of thirty three years that for twenty years next before the death of the aforesaid Samuel Howard I resided in the same town - with him and the said Bethiah Howard during that time knowing them to be living together and by common reputation were husband and wife, that I have this day seen her - living, that from the time of his death to the present time I have not known or heard and do not - believe that she has been married to any other person, that she now resides in said Londonderry
Joshua D. Parker
State of Vermont Windham County ss -
Londonderry Sept 10 th 1838 Then personally appeared Joshua D Parker whom I certify to be a credible witness and made oath that the next above affidavit by him sub- scribed is true Before me Samuel Arnold Justice Peace

I Mary Howard affirmed the wife of Allen  Stephen Howard (affairs) being duly sworn depose and further say that the said Samuel Howard deceased and Bethiah Howard whom I have this day seen living were at the time of his death and long before by common reputation husband and wife that from the time of his death to the present I have lived in the same house with her and have not during that time known or heard and do not believe that she has been married since his death. Mary Howard
State of Vermont Windham County ss Londonderry 10 Sept 1838 Then personally appeared Mary Howard whom I certify to be a credible witness and made oath that the next above affidavit by her subscribed is true ~
Before me Samuel Arnold Justice Peace
Note in the second affidavit the words "before his death" interlined before signing also the words "within my recollection" also the words "know them" in the third affidavit interlined and the word "wife" blotted and the word "were" interlined next before husband and a blot before with and him —
Samuel Arnold Justice Peace
I Stephen Howard affirmed further depose that my second affidavit affidavit had an erasure before signing between the words three and fifty before signing as well as the interlinings above notice, I also saw the second affidavit of Mary Howard I interlined the word Allen before signing, and the words thirty five fifty and twenty five in my and thirty three and twenty in said Parker's affidavit are in different hand writing before signing — Stephen Howard

Washington City
Quartermaster's War Department

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Bristol ss.
I James Spratt, clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for said County of Bristol, do hereby certify that Ephraim Raymond Esq., whose signature is affixed to the within & annexed certificate, is a Justice of the Peace in & for said County of Bristol, and duly qualified to administer oaths.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court, this nineteenth day of July, in the year, Eighteen hundred & thirty three J. Spratt

I Timothy White of Taunton in the County of Bristol and Commonwealth of Massachusetts do testify & say, that I am seventy one years of age. That I well remember Samuel Howard, formerly of said Taunton now of London Derry in the County of Windsor and State of Vermont, that said Samuel Howard that was a soldier in the company of Colt. Nathan Randall of Easton in said County of Bristol in the year 1777. that I was a soldier in and served in the same com- pany with said Howard, that we were marched to Warwick, was stationed at that place about two months and then we were marched to Providence and stationed there one month (both in the State of Rhode Island) served in the whole three months and were then discharged. I further testify and say that in the year 1778. that I was a Corporal in the company of Capt. Jacob Hoskins of said Taunton, that I have now the muster roll of said company in which the name of said Samuel Howard is inscribed. that we marched from said Taunton to Fort Reunion that in said muster roll the said Samuel Howard is said to have served eight months, said muster roll was found in possession of the grand Daughter of the said Capt. Jacob Hoskins.
Timothy White

Reside at Bristol on August 28 1892 Personally appeared before me Ephraim Raymond one of the Justices of the Peace for said County of Bristol. Timothy White who made Oath to the truth of the facts contained in the above dep- -osition which was then and there reduced to writing by me and by him signed in my presence -
In Witness whereof I have set my hand and Seal at Bristol the day and year above mentioned Ephraim Raymond Justice of the Peace

I Preserved Haskins of Taunton in the County of Bristol and Commonwealth of Massachusetts do testify & say that I am seventy years of age, that I well remember Samuel Howard formerly of said Taunton now of London Derry in the State of Vermont, that Samuel Howard enlisted as a soldier under Capt. Martha Randell of Easton in the spring of 1775. Nehemiah Haskins of Taunton was Lieut. that I was a soldier and served in the same Company with him, that we were ordered on to Nantasket in Boston Bay where he was station for some time, and from thence we were ordered to the Castle in Boston Harbour, and served six months at those stations, and were then discharged, by a verbal discharge, from Capt. Randell. I further recollect that said Samuel Howard was a soldier in Capt. Jacob Haskins Company, that he was in Sullivan expedition on Rhode Island, in 1778. but do not recollect how long he served. Preserved X Haskins mark
Witness my hand at Taunton August 28. 1832. Personally appeared before me Ephraim Raymond one of the Justices of the Peace for the said County of Bristol, Preserved Haskins who made oath to the truth of the facts contained in the above deposition which was then & there reduced to writing by me, and by him signed in my presence — In Witness whereof I have set my hand & Seal at P. Taunton the day and year above mentioned Eph ra Raymond Justice of the Peace

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Y.B. v. C. U. I, James Sprout, clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for said County of Bristol, do hereby certify that Ephraim Raymond Esq., whom oaths are offered to the within & annexed certificates, is a Justice of the said Court for said County of Bristol, and duly qualified to administer oaths.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of said Court this Eighth day of September, in the year of our Lord Eighteen hundred and thirty two.
J. Sprout

Bristol So. Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
This may certify to all who it may concern that Ephraim Raymond of Norton in said County of Bristol that I have now in my possession a Muster Roll of Capt. Jacob Haskins, Jacob French Lieut. in Col. Jacob's Regiment dated June 1778 in which is enrolled the name of Samuel Hayward for ten days service, and on the 11 June 1778. he is there stated on the same roll, to have continued in service eight months. This is an ancient paper and there can be no doubt, but it is the Original Muster Roll of said Capt. Jacob Haskins company, as it was found in possession of his grand Daughter with all his other Military Papers. It is further stated on said Muster Roll that he was enlisted for the service on Rhode Island. I further certify that said Hayward was at the time above stated an Inhabitant of Norton in said County of Bristol, and that he now lives in Londonderry in the State of Vermont. In Witness whereof I have unto set my hand this 7 day of Sept. A.D 1832
Ephraim Raymond Justice of the Peace and of the Inferior

Dist. Ct. Norton July 9. 1833. I Ephraim Raymond a Justice of the Peace for said County of Bristol do certify that I am the Magistrate before whom the deposition of Timothy White, and preserved Haskins was taken on the 28 th day of August 1832. for the purpose of being used in Samuel Howard application for a pension, and I certify that the above named deponents are each of them credible persons, and that their state- ments are entitled to credit. — Ephraim Raymond Justice of the Peace

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Bristol ss. I James Spratt, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for said County of Bristol, do hereby certify that Ephraim Raymond Esq., whose signature is affixed to the within Voucher certificate, is a Justice of the peace in & for said County of Bristol, and duly qualified to administer oaths.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court, this nineteenth day of July, in the year, Eighteen hundred & thirty three - J. Spratt