Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 43,697, Joseph Hobert, N.H.

SERVICE
NUMBER
H. H.
Hobert, Joseph or Hobart or Hubart or Hubbard
S. 43,697 B. L. Wt. 34-100
CONTENTS

Albany N.Y. 3902
SCAMMELL
Joseph Hobart Private Scamnell's Regt.
Men Hampshire
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.
Inscribed on the Roll of Vermont at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 2 d of April 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 24 th of Oct 1818 and sent to Stephen George Rich Esq Montpelier Vt.
Arrears to 4th of Sep t 1818: 5 mo. 2/30 40.80 Semi-ann. all'ee ending Feb y 1819. 48.00
$88.80
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
six years 1777-
File Sep t 19
Middlesex, Washington City
Continued
Co to Montpelier Agents 15 July 1842.
To Albany N.Y. from H. March 1842. 8. Aug 1842. Notification to J. R. Queeneau Esq. Selina N.Y.

Joseph Hooker's application to have his pension transferred from Vermont to New York

State of New York } County of Onondaga } p.
On this 25 th day of June A.D. 1842
before me the subscriber a justice of the Peace of the Town of Salina in said County of Onondaga personally appeared Joseph Hobert who on his oath declares that he is the same person who formerly belonged to the company commanded by Captain David M c Greggor in the regiment commanded by Colonel
Schaumrin in the service of the United States; That his name was placed on the pension roll of the State of Vermont from whence he has lately removed. That he now resides in the said State of New York where he intends to remain & wishes his pension to be there payable in future - The following are his reasons for removing from the said State of Vermont to the said State of New York viz; His children had removed from the said State of Vermont to reside in the State of New York & he wished to live with them -
Sworn & subscribed to before me the day & year aforesaid -
Joseph Hobert
W.H. Porter Justice of the Peace
State of New York } County of Onondaga } p.
Hiram Barron of Salina
in said County being duly sworn deposes & says that he formerly resided in the State of Vermont & is acquainted with Joseph Hobert that he knows him to be the person in the above affidavit described - That said Hobert now lives in the Town of Salina in the County of Onondaga & State of New York.
Subscribed & sworn to before me this 25 th day of June A.D. 1842
Hiram Barron
W.H. Porter Justice of the Peace

State of New York County of Onondaga } ss. Town of Salina
I Warren H. Porter a Justice of the Peace of said Town do certify that I am acquainted with Hiram Barron who made oath before me to the within affidavit. That I have known said Barron two years or more & that I consider him a respectable man & of strict veracity.
W. H. Porter Justice.
State of New York } Onondaga County } ss:
I Charles T. Hicks Clerk of the said County, do certify that Warren H. Porter before whom the preceding Affidavits purports to have been sworn was at the date of the same one of the Justices of the Peace in and for the said County and that I am acquainted with his hand writing and verily believe his name subscribed to the said Affidavits and to the above certificate to be his proper hand writing and signature —
Witness my hand and seal of Office this 4 th day of July A.D. 1842.
Chas. T. Hicks Clerk

Joseph Hobart
• Robert
3902
Putt Clark 1819
remained
Roll
n. 49

State of Vermont } On this 29 th Day of June 1820 Personally Washington County } appeared in Open Court, being a Court of to wit the Honorable Supreme Court of the State of Vermont holding a Session of said Court within and for the County of Washington aforesaid
Joseph Hobert aged sixty three years resident in Middlesex in the County of Washington who being first duly sworn doth according to law doth on his Oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary war as follows to wit Enlisted about the first of Dec r 1776 for one year into the Company commanded by Col t Stone and the Regiment commanded by Colonel Beebe in the New Hampshire Line and served one year and then enlisted during the war in Col t Seaman's Regiment being the 3 d Regiment in the New Hampshire Line and served until the close of the war in the year 1783 - was then Honorably Discharged - and the Original Declaration by him made was Dated the 2 d day April 1818 and my pension Certificate which issued thereon is numbered 13.902 - and Dated the 24 th Day of October 1818. And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18 th day of March 1818 and that I have not since that time by Gift Sale or in any Manner disposed of my property or any part thereof with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an Act of Congress entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the Land and Naval Service of the United States in the revo- lutionary war" passed on the 18 th Day of March 1818. and that I have not nor has any person in Trust for me any property or securities contracts or Debts Due to me nor have I any income whatever
That I am a Farmer by Occupation, have no wife living - and no other means of supporting myself but what labour I am able to perform - have one boy named Charles of the age of fifteen years. & one girl named Eliza aged nine years depend- ent on me for support.
Joseph Hobert
Sworn to Declaration in open Court, on this 29 th day of June 1820
Attest Geo. Rich, Clerk of said Court

I George Rich, Clerk of the Supreme Court for the County of Washington, do certify that the foregoing oath (the applicant being entirely destitute of property, as heretofore no schedule) is truly copied from the Record of the said Court. -
And I do further certify that it is the opinion of the said Court, that the applicant is destitute of property of any kind, necessary clothing excepted.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand affixed the seal of the said Court on the 14 th day of July A. D. 1820.
George Rich, Clerk of Sup. Court Washington County

State of Vermont, ss. We James Hobart, and James Hobart Washington Jr. - 3, Juniors, both of Berlin in the County of Washington State of Vermont, do
testify and say that we and each of us are per- sonally acquainted with Joseph Hobart who is mentioned and intended in the annexed documents, and well know he is the same person who enlisted into the army of the Uni- ted States for during the war, about 1777 1777 and that he served in the Revolutionary war from that time to the end thereof in 1783 when he returned home
We further say that the said Joseph Hobart is in reduced circumstances in life and stands in need of assistance for support.
James Hobart James Hobart Jr.
Sworn to before
George Rich Justice of Peace

Joseph Hobart
2 Apr.
Mrs. Sarah H. Rolls
Concord Friend on Col.
Lebanon Pa.
Concord Pa.
Concord Pa.
Shepherdstown
West Va.
For Geo: Rich Esq d Montpelier, Vermont.

STATE OF VERMONT,
COUNTY OF Washington ss.
Joseph Hobart of Middlesex in the County of Washington and State of Vermont being
duly sworn, doth declare, depose and say, that, on or about the first day of January A. D. 1766, he was duly enlisted into the service of the United States, for the term of one year, and that he belonged to Captain Everett's Company, and Colonel Bicknell's Regiment, of the New Hampshire line,
and that served therein, against the common enemy, for the term of one year, as a private, and until honorably discharged at Saratoga in January 1777. - In January 1777 he was again enlisted in the Continental Army for the term of one year, and that he belonged to Captain Stone's Company of Colonel Alexander's Continental Regiment, of the New Hampshire line, and that he served therein against the common enemy until about the 19th day of June 1780 when he was honorably discharged at Red Bank, Pennsylvania, at which time he was very young.
He further deposes and says, that he is now, and ever since has been a citizen of the United States, that he by reason of his reduced circumstances in life, he is in need of assistance from his country for support.
Joseph Hobart
Declared, sworn, and subscribed, by the above named Joseph Hobart before me at Montpelier in the County aforesaid, this second day of March A. D. 1818. Stephen D. Perkins Judge of County Court

STATE OF VERMONT, } Washington County, to wit. }
Stephen Pitkin I, One of the Judges of the County
Court, within and for the County aforesaid, Joseph Hobart Do certify, That it appears to my satisfaction, that the said Joseph Hobart did serve in the Revolutionary War, as stated in the preceding Declaration, against the common enemy ; 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 Act of Congress, passed the 18th March, 1818, entitled, " An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War."
Given under my hand, at Montpelier this 2 o day of April A. D. 1818.
Stephen Pitkin
STATE OF VERMONT, } Washington, ss. }
I, GEORGE RICH, Clerk of the County of Washington, aforesaid, Do certify, That the Honorable STEPHEN PITKIN, who made the above Certificate, and before whom the annexed Declaration was taken, was a Judge of the County Court within and for the County aforesaid, at the respective dates thereof, acting under the authority of this State, and duly qualified for that purpose ; and that his name subscribed thereto, is his own proper signature.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the Seal of said County, at Montpelier in said County, this 2 o day of April in the Year One Thousand Eight hundred and Eighteen.
George Rich Clerk. 3

Rev. and 1812 Wars Section
MCS/HMM
March 29, 1930.
Mabel W. Chandler 174 S. Main Street Barre Vermont.
Dear Madam:
I advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim S. 43697, it appears that Joseph Hobart enlisted January 1, 1776, place not stated, and served one year as a private in Captain Everett's Company, Colonel Bedel's New Hampshire Regiment.
He enlisted in January 1777, served in Captains Stone's and David Mc Gregore's Companies, Colonel Alexander Scammell's New Hampshire Regiment and was discharged June 6, 1783.
He was allowed pension on his application executed April 2, 1818, while residing at Middlesex, Washington County, Vermont.
In 1820 he was sixty-three years of age, and stated that his wife, her name not given, was living. He also referred to his children, Charles, aged seven, and Eliza, aged nine years.
In 1842 he moved to New York State to live with his children, but he did not state their names.
There are no further data relative to family.
Very truly yours,
E. W. MORGAN Acting Commissioner.

1930, Mar. 29 hist. to Mabel W. Chandler N.C.
43697 INVALID.
Ref
File No. 43697
Joseph Hobart P.W. Rev. Ind
Act: 18 March 18
Index:—Vol. 8, Page 232
[Arrangement of 1870.]

July 11. 1842 Mr Evans
Rev. Mr. Evans Washington D. C.

Salina July 7. 1842
Dear Sir,
I enclose your affidavits &c. to procure a transfer of Joseph Roberts pension from the Agency in Vermont to that of New York - Please say whether it will be done & direct to Salina.
Very Respectfully
Yours
J. R. Queene

July 26. 42
Maryland
J. J. Edwards Esq.
Comd of prisoners
Washington City D.C.

In office Moultan 17 th July 20 th /42
J. L. Edwards Esq. Court of Prov. —
Sir
Respectfully Robert a/s/w under the act of the 18 th Mch 1818. Was here at this office last on the 24 th Mch /42 —
Yours &c
H. Reed Esq. for Deane

Joseph Habbart Prin Nth
Issued Wt N o 34.

K NOW all men by these presents, that I Joseph Hubbard of Middlesex in the County of Chittenden and State of Vermont for the Consideration of ten Dollars
received to my full satisfaction of Abijah Holbrook of Torrington - Litchfield County and State of
Connecticut -- Do give, grant, bargain, sell, assign, and confirm, unto Abijah Holbrook or to his heirs, or assigns forever, all my right, title, interest and demand, which I have to the bounty land, which was granted to me, by the United States, for my services as a Soldier during the late war with Great-Britain: And I do hereby appoint the said Abijah Holbrook my true and lawful attorney for me, with power of substitution, and in my name to demand, ask and receive, from the war-office of the United States, for his use and benefit, whatever land I am entitled to for my services as a Soldier in the Second New Hampshire Regiment hereby irrevocably ratifying and confirming whatever my said attorney or his substitutes shall lawfully do, by virtue of these presents. In testimony whereof, I hereunto set my hand and seal, this sixteenth day of October one thousand eight hundred
In presence of
Jos. Haseltine Seth Munroe
Joseph Hubbard
PERSONALLY appeared before me, Joseph Haseltine a justice of the peace, for the County of Chittenden and State of Vermont  Joseph Hubbard of the town of Middlesex County of Chittenden and State of Vermont and acknowledged the above instrument, to be his voluntary act and deed, for the purposes therein mentioned. Given under my hand, this sixteenth day of October one thousand eight hundred Joseph Haseltine justice of peace
I HEREBY certify, that Joseph Hubbard -- who signed the above deed and power of attorney, has been personally known to me, for five years and that I verily believe him to be the soldier he represents himself to be. and he is a Farmer by Occupation Dated this sixteenth Day of October one thousand eight hundred Joseph Haseltine justice of peace

State of Vermont
Chittenden County blks off in this 22 d day of Oct r A.D. 1800 - Thereby certify that Joseph Hassetine Eng n is and for a long time has been duly commissioned and sworn as a Justice of the Peace within and for said County of Chittenden and that due faith and credence is and ought to be given to his attestation as such
Given under my hand this day and year above written
Solomon Miller blks
I Certify that the within named Joseph Hobart was a Soldier in the New Hampshire line in the Late American war and was enlisted for during the same
Saml. Cherry Capt in the 2 d N.H. Reg t
I Certify that the within signed Joseph Hobart was a Soldier in the New Hampshire line in the Late American war and was enlisted for during the same time
Saml Cherry Capt d New Hampshire Reg t
Joseph Hubbard Pres N.H.
Issued W th N o 34.

Jan. 27, 1930
Bureau of Pensions Dept. of the Interior Washington, D. C.
Messrs:
Will you please send me the Pension Record with all the family information it contains of Joseph Hobart who was born in 1756/7 and served from Plymouth, N. H. in Capt. Everett's Company.
Yours sincerely, Mabel H. Chandler 174 S. Main St. Barre, Vermont

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, Bureau of Pensions, Washington, D. C., _____, 190__
In reply to your request of _____, received for a statement of the military history of Joseph Hobart 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. S.F. 43,697
   DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE.   CAPTAIN. COLONEL.     Jany. 1. 76 1 yr. Priv. Everett Bedel N.H.   Jany. 77 X By Stone Alex Scammel "   dis. June 6. 1783 David Mcgregore  
Battles engaged in, Residence of soldier at enlistment, Date of application for pension, Apr. 2. 1818- Residence at date of application, Middlesex, Washington Co. Vt. Age at date of application, 61 Remarks: 1820 no wife living ch. Charles 7 + Eliza 9 yrs-  1842 removed to N.H. state of Plymouth, N.H.
Very respectfully,
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Commissioner.
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