Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 16144, Samuel Hayden, Conn.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Conn.
Hayden, Samuel
S 16144
CONTENTS
Carded

Filled up
Ohio 119.176
Samuel Wayde
Resided in the State of Ohio who was a Sergeant in the Comp. commanded by Captain Ledgewick of the Regt. commanded by Col. Hemenway in the Cont. line for 9 Mos.
19776
Was placed in the Ohio Book by mistake
Paid at the Treasury under the Act of the 6 th April 1838 from 4 th March to 22 nd June 1838. - Agt notified 10. Oct 1841.
Inscribed on the Roll of Ohio at the rate of 30 Dollars. Cents per annum, to commence on the 4 th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 17 th day of Sep. 1833 and dated N.S. Perkins Painesville
Arrears to the 4 th of Sep '33 $ 7 50 Semi-ant. allowance ending 4 th Ma '34 1 50
$9 00
Revolutionary Claim, Not June 7, 1832.
Recorded by J. Stiles Clerk Book E. Vol. 8. Page 101

State of Ohio Seneca County } S.S.
Personally appeared in open court before the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas now sitting Samuel Hayden a resident of the Town of Seneca in said county of Seneca and State as aforesaid aged eighty four years old 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 7 th 1832.
This deponent therefore states as follows, that he was born in Windsor Hartford County and State of Connecticut the seventeenth of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty eighth And that he enlisted as a volunteer in the State troops of Connec- ticut in the town of Goshen in said State the year before General Montgomery was killed at Quebec (1775) with Lieutenant James Thompson for the term of nine months and that under this enlistment he was chosen sergeant of said company, And further that he served in the Army of the United States and in said State troops under the following named officers - General Schuyler had the command of the Army, and the Col's name this deponent thinks was Heriman. Captain Sedgwick of Cornwall, Connecticut commanded the company in which he served the first lieutenant of Sedgwick's company was named Gibbs and his first name was Wauham as this deponent believes and states according to the best of his recollection 2 d Lieutenant James Thompson one Patterson from Cornwall Ct - was the Ensign of said company and the major was called Welch - and from Litchfield Ct - - Soon after enlisting the company in which this deponent belonged commenced marching with no other troops Westward towards the state of New York, passing through the county of Litchfield Ct - That the company had proceeded more than half way to the state of New York when they received counter orders to wheel about & go up to Fort Ticonderago - situate on Lake Champlain, and there to remain and

and the fort which had just been taken from the enemy May 10, 1775 by Col. Ethan Allen of Vermont with the assistance of Arnold who had been sent out by the State of Massachusetts for the same purpose.
That in compliance with such counter orders they marched North to Fort Ticonderoga, passing through the city of Albany in the state of New York - crossing Lake George - &c until they arrived at their place of destination - That when the company halted here - they found Allen & Arnold with their troops - and that he acted as orderly sergeant of his company the whole of this time.
General Schuyler soon came and took the command of the troops at this place, that while here Schuyler was commenced building water crafts to go down the Lake on, and that this deponent assisted in doing the same - That he assisted in taking a gunboat from the enemy at St. John's port, finished and brought to the Lake at  that - That after this he was taken sick at Ticonderoga and carried to a place twelve miles south of Lake George - but what the name of the place was this deponent does not recollect and therefore cannot state the same with any degree of certainty; that he remained sick at this place some that time when some

of his friends came to his assistance and carried him home to Goshen Ct - That he was sick all the way home - and very much enfeebled for a long length of time afterwards -
That in the course of three or four years after this - the enemy landed at New Haven Ct - and commenced robbing and plundering the inhabitants of that town, That a company was called out from the town of Winsted under the command of one mean person but in particular that he was among the or what their name he does not recollect number - That they marched to New Haven but the enemy had received notice of their approach and left the town - by taking to their boats -
That for the services received in his said campaign of nine months he received little or nothing pay - and that interested money and this Department further says that he has no documentary evidence, and that he knows of no person whose testimony he can produce who can testify to his said service and further that he relinquishes whatever claim to a pension or annuity except the present, and hereby declares that his name is not on the pension rolls of the agency of any state
Samuel Hayden
Sworn and Subscribed the day and year aforesaid - in open Court
Before me J. D. Aiken, Clerk.

We the Rev Robert Harrison residing in the town of Concord in the County of Linnun and Simeon Winchel of the same town do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Samuel Hayden who has subscribed his sworn to the above declaration and that we believe him to be eighty years old and that he is respected and believed in the neighbourhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution and that we concur in that opinion Robert Harrison Simeon Winchel Subscribed and sworn to in open Court, the day & year above written J. D. Aiken, Clerk.
And the said court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the Interrogatories prescribed by the war department that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier, and served as he states And the court further certifies that it appears to them that Robert Harrison who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman resident in the town of Concord in said county and that Simeon Winchel who has also signed the same is a resident of the same town and is a credible person and that their statement is entitled to credit

12/1/55 Samuel Hayden
Return
Adon G. Moulton as Sergeant —
Mr. L. Pockins Painesville Ohio

BRIEF in the case of Samuel Hayden of Concord  County of Franklin in the State of Ohio  (Act 7th June, 1832.)
 1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? Open Court  2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?  3. How old is he? 84  4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed. 
   Period. Duration of Service. Rank. Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.   Years, Months, Days.     Enlisted at his year before In 17 th Dec. 1811. Mount Gormley was killed at Lundy June 1812. { 9 { Sergeant Gen. Wayne Scout Capt Seaynick Dragoons  
 5. In what battles was he engaged? Not any  6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Goshen County  7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditional evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? Traditional evidence  8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? Not formally attached 
I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
Chas. S. Wilson Examining Clerk.  18. July 1833

In 12165 The Matter of Samuel Hayden An Applicant for the Pension Act of June 1832
10.
This may be certified

I, D. D. Aiken Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas now sitting do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Samuel Hayden for a Pension.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this twenty fifth day of September A.D. 1832.
D. D. Aiken Clerk.

Fairfield O. May 13. 1833
J. L. Edwards Esq. Sir,
Herewith I enclose you the several papers of Saba French, Boatholman / roomman Sarah Hayden & Joshua Enmons with further proofs, certificates and corrections agreeable to the memoranda heretofore sent to me along with them. I hope they are now correct.
In the matter of Joshua Enmons one objection noted is that the applicant witness (Elizabeth Smith I presume) does not appear to have been in a situation of such age as to have personal knowledge of the applicant's services." Permit me to suggest that the witness applicant states that he knows of no person whose testimony he can prove who knows of such services, and this witness is not called for that purpose, but only as to reputation - and that the proof, in such case in regard, is made by the citizens & clergymen , so that her testimony is merely cumulative.
Many of our towns are wholly destitute of clergy. And when there are clergy they are most usually transient men, that are here called Missionaries, Evangelists, etc. Elders &c.
I am most Respectfully Yours Wm. L. Perkins

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16144 INVALID.
June 30-1902 Asahel G. Smith Painesville Ohio
File No. 16144
Samuel Hazden
Serg Pre-war
Act: June 7 th 32
Index:—Vol. 1 , Page 164
[Arrangement of 1870.]

O. W. AND N. DIVISION.
Department of the Interior, BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
Searched by _____
Claim No. _____
Certificate No. 19776 - 32
Claimant _____
Soldier Samuel Hayden
Service Rev. Conn.
Additional service _____
Remarks Res + died in Concord Ohio
Chief of Division.

Painesville O June 10 1902
Commissioner of Pensions Washington D. C.
Kindly inform me of the war-record of Samuel Hayden -
He was my maternal grandfather - Lived in Ot- severed in American Revolution - at Scudderoga & elsewhere - Died in Concord. (then) Younga Co (now) Lake Co - Ohio
Yours Very Respectfully Ashbel G. Smith

TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
Second Comptroller's Office,
October 5 th 1841.
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," The widow of Samuel Hayden, Ac d a Pensioner on the Roll of the Pittsburgh, Pa Agency, at the rate of Thirty — Dollars and — Cents per annum, under the law of the 7 th June 1832, has been paid at this Department, from the 4 th of March, to the 22 nd June 1838.
Respectfully yours,
William Lawrence
Comptroller.
To the Commissioner of Pensions,
Present.