Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 18,033, Jeremiah Hobart, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Hobart, Jeremiah Rebecca
No. 18,033
CONTENTS

1848.
New Hampshire
Jeremiah Hobart
of Bristol in the State of N H who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain [blank] of the Regt commanded by Col Payson in the N H line for 9 Days 12 Days
31325 156.60
Inscribed on the Roll of N H at the rate of $31 Dollars 32 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 12 th day of Nov 1832 and sent to J F Bradley Bristol N H
Arrears to 4th of Sept 1832 $46.98 Semi-annual allowance ending Dec 33 15.66 $62.64
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by J. H. Blair Clerk. Book D - Vol. 1 st Page 160.

Reported
Paid at the Treasury under the Act 6. April 1838 from 4. March to 8. July 1839. Agt Notified 19. Oct 1844
1046 New Hampshire Concord
Rebecca Hobart
widow of Jeremiah Hobart who was a Private N.H. in the Revolution
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 31 Dollars 32 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843.
Certificate of Pension issued the 22 d day of July 1843 and sent to N. M. Taylor
New Hampton, N.H.
[Act of March 3, 1843.]
Recorded in Book A. Vol. 1. Page 17.

Croton March the 29th y r 1776
Jeremiah Hobart Jnr was married to Rebecca Sanders of Billerica the daughter of James Sanders of Billerica; was married March 24 th 1776 Jeremiah Hobart joined the Army of Jeremiah Hobart and Hannah Hobart was aged 20 and 6 months when she was married and my wife was aged 21 years and 1 month she was married to me and was married by Mr. Hodge of Chelmsford, Bury St.
Our June Jeremiah Hobart was here March 24 th 1777 Born among us a daughter Abigail - Clock in the afternoon and after Rebecca Hobart was here again there 23 rd 1779 Born again a daughter Clock in the afternoon a daughter one of
Wife's Life July 25 th 1792
This day Decided with Aunt Betsy Lewis and Fanny was bound out to him a poor ballance. £ 11 11 0
  Sept to mending your boots 0 0 6 0   to mending your Sallay shoes 0 0 9 0   August to mending one shoe for Reas 0 0 4 0   to mending Hairs Cotton 0 0 2 0   to capping taping and taping Mrs Lewis shoe 0 0 10 0   to making Sallay shoes 0 2 5 0   25 to heel taping Mrs Lewis shoe 0 0 3 0   to mending one shoe for Sallay Blanchard 0 0 2 0   28 to making Mrs Hott shoe by your order 0 2 5 0   to mending Reas shoe 0 0 3 0   29 to mending Sallay shoe 0 0 3 0   Sept 5 to making one pair of new shoes 0 2 5 0   Octobr to 3 1/2 yards of stuff 0 10 3 0   to 15 Pounds of stuff 0 15 0 0   to 12 0 12 0 0   to 5 0 5 0 0   to 5 0 5 0 0 

Page 62 Mile Slip October 18 day 1789
Last Year March 1st to the Board
Woods - 82 0 0 10 Dr Bonds 55 0 at 2/ per hundred 10 0 Dr to mending your shoes 0 0 3 Dr 200 & 426/ Bonds 2/ per hundred 0 4 10
15 2 10 2 5 2
5 6 4 6
Duxbury Farm
Nov 22 1789 Benjamin Temple
Dr to making 10 pairs of shoes at 0 17 10 your house December 7 1789 Dr to mending your shoes 0 0 6 (31) Dr to mending William's shoes 0 0 6 Dr to mending your shoes 0 0 8 January 27 90 Dr to 2 pints of cider 0 1 2
January the 22 1790
Then Record and settled with Jeremiah Hobart and there is found due to him five pence 0 0 5
Benjamin Temple
February 1790 Benjamin Temple
Dr to the last ing one pair of shoes 0 0 3
July 12 to one pair 0 0 0
August 20 to mending your shoes 0 0 5
November to mending your shoes 0 0 0
to making a pair of shoes 0 0 0
to mending your shoes 0 0 4

Mike Slife Jan 15 y 17 89
2nd Binge Lewis on account
To Jeremiah Hobart
Debit
   months weeks days     June 3 15 all hooing 0 2 0 0   Monday 16 all Hooing 0 2 0 0   Tuesday 17 all Hooing 0 2 0 0   Wednesday 18 all Hooing 0 1 0 0   Tuesday 23 1/2 all the Brag 0 2 0 0   Thursday 25 all Hooing 0 2 0 0   Monday 29 all Hooing 0 2 0 0   July Wednesday 31 all Cutting Brush 0 2 0 0   Monday 1 to hooing 0 2 0 0   Tuesday 2 to hooing 0 2 0 0   Wednesday 3 1/2 hooing 0 1 0 0   Thursday 4 hooing 0 2 0 0   Friday 5 hooing 0 2 2 0   Saturday 6 hooing 0 2 2 0   Sunday 7 hooing 0 2 2 0   Monday 8 hooing 0 1 2 0   Tuesday 9 hooing 0 2 2 0   Wednesday 10 hooing 0 2 2 0   Thursday 11 hooing 0 2 2 0   Friday 12 hooing 0 2 2 0   Saturday 13 hooing 0 2 2 0   Sunday 14 hooing 0 2 2 0   Monday 15 hooing 0 2 2 0   Tuesday 16 hooing 0 2 2 0   Wednesday 17 hooing 0 2 2 0   Thursday 18 hooing 0 2 2 0   Friday 19 hooing 0 2 2 0   Saturday 20 hooing 0 2 2 0   Sunday 21 hooing 0 2 2 0   Monday 22 hooing 0 2 2 0   Tuesday 23 hooing 0 2 2 0   Wednesday 24 hooing 0 2 2 0   Thursday 25 hooing 0 2 2 0   Friday 26 hooing 0 2 2 0   Saturday 27 hooing 0 2 2 0   Sunday 28 hooing 0 2 2 0   Monday 29 hooing 0 1 9 0   August Tuesday 30 hooing 0 3 4 0   Wednesday 31 hooing 0 3 4 0   Thursday 1 hooing 0 3 4 0   Friday 2 hooing 0 3 4 0   Saturday 3 hooing 0 3 4 0   Sunday 4 hooing 0 3 4 0   Monday 5 hooing 0 3 4 0   Tuesday 6 hooing 0 3 4 0   Wednesday 7 hooing 0 3 4 0   Thursday 8 hooing 0 3 4 0   Friday 9 hooing 0 3 4 0   Saturday 10 hooing 0 3 4 0   Sunday 11 hooing 0 3 4 0   Monday 12 hooing 0 3 4 0   Tuesday 13 hooing 0 3 4 0   Wednesday 14 hooing 0 3 4 0   Thursday 15 hooing 0 3 4 0   Friday 16 hooing 0 3 4 0   Saturday 17 hooing 0 3 4 0   Sunday 18 hooing 0 3 4 0   Monday 19 hooing 0 3 4 0   Tuesday 20 hooing 0 3 4 0   Wednesday 21 hooing 0 3 4 0   Thursday 22 hooing 0 3 4 0   Friday 23 hooing 0 3 4 0   Saturday 24 hooing 0 3 4 0   Sunday 25 hooing 0 3 4 0   Monday 26 hooing 0 3 4 0   Tuesday 27 hooing 0 3 4 0   Wednesday 28 hooing 0 3 4 0   Thursday 29 hooing 0 3 4 0   Friday 30 hooing 0 3 4 0  

Groton October 1782 of paper mill To Jeremiah Hobart's account Dr to the sum of one ore att one Pound Pr Dame £2 - 0 - 0 - 0
Postscript Groton March 1783
Capt. Shattuck Blood on account To Jeremiah Hobart James Dr £ 0 2 10 - 0 on anchoring etc Dr to work 2 days at Rhoping 0 3 4 0 April 1783 to 3 days work 0 4 6 0 June 1783 Dr to one loome 1 10 0 0 Dr to one Badd and small wheels 0 6 0 0 Dr to one pair of Blades 0 2 10 0 These articles Belonged to said some that I got to said Blood Came from the day Boock
Groton May 1789
Thomas Blanchard on account to the said To mending your shoes 0 0 9 to fixing your shoes 0 0 9 Sept 1789 to half day 0 1 0 Miles Stipe June 23rd 1792 0 1 4
Nathan Martin Dr to making your Brother Christopher's Book By your order 2 0 9 2 0 one knot thread 0 0 3 0 the holding
Hobart, Jeremiah Mass. W 17033

10,020 Declaration of Rebecca Hobart
N.H. act 7. July 38 m 76 d 39- adm 9 mo. 12 d / pi 31.32
Nicholas M Taylor New Hampton N.H.

Declaration
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th July 1838 entitled an Act granting half pay and Pensions to certain Widows
State of New-Hampshire
Grafton ss. On this twenty second day of March 1843 personally appeared before the Subscribers a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Grafton and State aforesaid Rebecca Hobert a resident of Bristol in the County of Grafton and State aforesaid Aged Eighty Seven years who being first duly Sworn according to Law doth on her Oath make the following Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the Act of Congress passed July 7th 1838 entitled an Act granting half pay and Pensions to certain Widows. That She is the Widow of Jeremiah Hobert who was a private in the Army of the Revolution that he was a Pensioner under the Act of Congress of June 7th 1832 at the rate of thirty one Dollars and thirty two cents per annum as by his Certificate will appear
She further Declares that She was Married to the said Jeremiah Hobert on the Seventh day of Month in the year Seventeen hundred and Seventy Six by the Rev Mr Bridges in Chebacco Massachusetts that her husband the aforesaid Jeremiah Hobert died on the eighth day of July 1839

That She was not Married to him prior to his leaving the Service, but the Marriage took place previous to the first day of January, Seventeen hundred and ninety four viz at the time above stated that She knows of no record of her Marriage except the family record which has been in her possession for 67 years last past since Witnesses. Levi Bartlett Rebecca Hobert Joseph H. Brown Mark
Sworn to and Subscribed on the day and year above written before me.
H. S. Berry Judge of the Court of Common Pleas for the County of Grafton
I hereby certify that I have been personally acquainted with Rebecca Hobert the person who has signed and sworn to the foregoing Declaration for many years and know that she is the Widow of Jeremiah Hobert who was a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States that she cannot from bodily infirmity attend the Court
H. S. Berry J Judge of the Court of Common Pleas for the County of Grafton

I. Nathaniel Hobart of Brookline in the County of Hillsborough and State of New Hampshire testify and say, that Jeremiah Hobart of Bristol in said State is my brother and I well recollect that in April 1775 he started to go to Concord, Mass. on the alarm that the British had come out to that place. I remained at home being only about thirteen years of age. My brother did not return home until the fall following. Soon after my brother left home in April I was informed that he had enlisted for eight months in Capt. Asa Lawrence company in Col. Prescott's Regiment. In the fall when my said brother came home, as above stated, he told me he had enlisted for eight months, and after remaining at home a few days, he returned to his Regiment to serve out the residue of his time and was absent two months or more, and returned and said his term of service was out. I have not the least doubt of his having enlisted and served as a Private as above stated. It was a subject much talked about in the family and occasioned them much anxiety. I had another brother in the same company, who died in July 1775. These circumstances are now fresh in my recollection. We lived in Groton, Mass. in 1775.
Nath l Hobart

State of New Hampshire
Hillsborough ss. August 11 th 1832.
Then personally appeared before me the subscriber a Justice of the Peace within and for said County, the within named Nathaniel Hobart and made oath that the within affidavit by him subscribed is true.
Benj m M c Farley } Justice of the Peace.
I hereby certify that the said Nathaniel Hobart is a credible witness.
Benjamin M c Farley } Justice of the Peace.
I know Benj m M c Farley to be a justice of the peace within & for the County of Hillsborough & State of New Hamp- shire & believe the above to be his signa- ture
W m Thornton
Nov 12. 1832

Greenwich James Hobart
1109813.
a Month
9 Mo & 12 days
$ 31.32
Mrs. H. Bradley Bristol N.Y.

BRIEF in the case of  Jeremiah Hobart  of  Bristol  in the State of  (Act 7th June, 1832.)
 1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? Court  2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?  3. How old is he? 76 Years  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.     Apl In 17 75 " 8 " " Private Gen. Capt Lawrence & Prescott   Jan  76 " 1 " 12 " Capt Williams "  
 5. In what battles was he engaged? Bunker Hill  6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Concord Mass. Groton Mass.  7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditional evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? Living witnesses, traditional evidence  8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? Surley before whom the oath, were taken are no error as being Justice of Peace 
I certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
L. C. Adison Examining Clerk.

Jeremiah Roberts Declaration -
9803

Declaration.
In order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress, passed June 7th, 1832.
State of New Hampshire, County of Grafton, ss.
On this twentysecond day of August, eighteen hundred thirty-two, personally appeared in open Court before the Judge of the Probate Court, now sitting, Jeremiah Hobart a resident of Bristol, in the County of Grafton and State of New Hampshire aged seventy-six 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 entered the service of the United States under the following named Officers, and served as herein stated — That he enlisted at Cambridge, State of Massachusetts, in the month of April, A. D. 1775, for Eight months under Captain Asa Lawrence, Lieut. Spaulding, Ensign Williams in Col. Prescott's Regiment, in Massachusetts line; was stationed at Cambridge, from thence to Bunker Hill; was in the battle of Bunker Hill the seventeenth day of June, 1775. — He remembers, among others, Jonathan Woods, Beeben Woods, Daniel Williams, Jacob Williams, Simeon Williams, John Shipley, Samuel Parker, Eger, James Bowers, Obadiah Withers, Sergeant, and Joseph Adams belonged to said Lawrence's Company, and who were in the Battle; as also were Jonathan Stevens and Oliver Patch who were wounded; Stephen Foster and a soldier by the name of Dodge were killed; another soldier by the name of Kemp was killed or missing. Lieut. Spaulding was shot within a few feet of when he, said Hobart, stood in the Battle, and he took his watch and gave it to said Spaulding's wife, who resided at Pepperell. — After the

Battle, said Hobart marched back with the Company to Cambridge, and served there and in the vicinity the full term of Eight Months, being the term of his enlistment; then his, and other companies, were drawn up, and a request was made by Maj. Henry Woods of Pepperell, Massachusetts, from General Washington for what soldiers would turn out for six weeks more service, and he, said Hobart, with four other soldiers belonging to said Lawrence's Company, viz, Jonathan Stevens, Oliver Patch, Abel Cutting and Joseph Holmans enlisted for six weeks more under Capt. Williams and Lieut. Withers in Col. Prescott's Regiment, and served at Cambridge and vicinity the term of his enlistment, and then was honorably dismissed by Capt. Williams in the absence of the Col. — That he has no documentary evidence; and that he knows of no person who can testify to his services; excepting the two persons whose affidavits are enclosed; a greater part of the officers and soldiers belonging to his company having died, and others having removed to parts unknown
A.D. 1755 To him, said Hobart. — That he was born in Groton, Massachusetts but has no record of his age unless it may be on the Town Books there. He resided there until he entered the service of the United States, and since lived in Milford New Hampshire about ten years, thence at Bristol aforesaid where he now resides, and where he has resided for thirty years last past, excepting a few months residence at Danbury in said County of Grayson.
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, and declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of the Agency of any State. Jeremiah Hobart
Sworn to and subscribed the twentysecond day of August A.D. 1832.
We, John S. Winter and Walter Sleeper, clergymen, residing in said

Bristol, and Nathaniel S. Berry, Samuel Smith, Abbot Louijoy and Richard H. Sawyer residing in said Bristol, hereby certify that we are well acquainted with said Jeremiah Hobart, who has subscribed and sworn to the foregoing declaration; that we believe him to be seventy six years of age; that he is respected and believed in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.
John S. Winter Walter Chapman Nathl. S. Berry Samuel Smith R. H. Sawyer Abbot Louijoy
Sworn to and subscribed the twenty second day of August A. D. 1832.
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 certifies, that it appears to them that John S. Winter and Walter Chapman are clergymen, resident in said Town of Bristol who have signed the preceding certificate; and that Col. Nathaniel S. Berry, Dr. Samuel Smith, Capt. R. H. Sawyer and Capt. Abbot Louijoy, who have also signed the same are residents in said Town of Bristol, and are credible persons and that their statement is entitled to credit. —
Edward Wetmore Judge of Probate
I, Moses Dorr, Register of the Court of Probate upon said do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the application of Jeremiah Hobart for a pension. — In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court, this 22 d day of August A. D. 1832.
Moses Dorr

Rev WIDOW, &c.
File No. 18,033
Rebecca Hobart
Widow of
Jeremiah Hobart
Private Rev. War
Act: March 3, 1843
Index:—Vol. A , Page 347
[Arrangement of 1870.]

New Hampshire.
Refd 10 July
Rebecca Hobart widow of Jeremiah Hobart who was a pensioner under the Act of 1832 and who died on the 8 th : July, 1839 of Grafton Co in the State of N. H. who was a private in the commanded by Captain Rept commanded by Col Prescott of the in the N. H. line for 9-12 days
Inscribed on the Roll of Concord at the rate of 31 — Dollars 32 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.
Certificate of Pension issued the 13 th : — day of July 1843 — and sent to N. M. Taylor — lor. New Hampton, N. H. —
Whole amount due . . . . . $156.60
[Act July 7, 1838.]
Recorded by Kellogg Clerk. Book A Vol. 1 — Page 52.

I, Samuel Lovejoy of Milford in the County of Hillsborough in the State of New Hampshire, now in my seventy sixth year, testify and say that I was acquainted with Jeremiah Hobart, now of Bristol in the County of Grafton in the State of New Hampshire, as a soldier in the revolutionary army of the United States; that I was stationed at Cambridge in 1775 in Capt. John Nutting's company in Col. William Prescott's Regiment; that said Hobart was in the same Regiment at the same time and place, in Capt. Asa Lawrence's company. I knew said Hobart before the battle at Bunker hill. I was in that battle, and recollect that I saw said Hobart soon after my return therefrom to Cambridge, and understood that he had been in the battle, but have no recollection that I saw him on the hill. I understood that said Lawrence was a Captain under said Prescott for eight months and that said Hobart performed duty in his company for the same term. — Samuel Lovejoy
State of New Hampshire
Hillsborough ss. 3 On the tenth day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two personally appeared before me, the subscriber, a justice of the Peace within and for said County of Hillsborough, the above named Samuel Lovejoy, and made solemn oath that the above affidavit by him subscribed is true
Solomon K. Livermore
I certify that the abovenamed Samuel Lovejoy is a credible witness Solomon K. Livermore Justice of the Peace

I know Solomon K. Linnemon to be a justice of the Peace within & for the County of Hillsborough and the state of New Hampshire & believe the signature of his name within to be genuine
Nov - 12, 1832
MB Phelan

1402 Declaration Rebecca Hobert
$31.32 per am
N. M. Taylor

Declaration
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 3 rd of March 1843 granting pensions for one year to certain Widows who have received pensions under the Act of July 7 th 1838
State of New Hampshire
Grafton ss
On this thirtieth day of March 1843 personally appeared before the Subscriber a Magistrate in and for Said County of Grafton and State aforesaid Rebecca Hobart a resident of Bristol in the County of Grafton and State aforesaid aged eighty seven 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 3 rd day of March 1843 granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War That she is the Widow of Jeremiah Hobart who was a private during the Revolution
That she is entitled to a pension under the Act of 7 th July 1838 at the rate of thirty one Dollars and thirty two cents per annum which she has not received
She further declares that she is still a widow
Rebecca he F. Hobart mark
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written before me
Nicholas M Taylor Justice Peace throughout the State aforesaid

I hereby certify that I am personally acquainted with Rebecca Hobert the person who has signed and sworn to the foregoing Declaration and know that she is still the Widow of Jeremiah Hobert
Nicholas M Taylor Justice Peace Throughout the State

State of New Hampshire.
Office of Secretary of State.
I, Josiah Stevens Jr Secretary of the State aforesaid, do hereby certify that Nicholas M. Sayler is an acting Justice of the Peace, in and for the County of said State duly Commissioned and qualified; that his Commission was dated on the twenty first day of December 1842 and will expire on the twenty first day of December 1847 and that his signature to the annexed instrument is genuine.
Given under my hand and the seal of said State this eighteenth day of May 1843.
Josiah Stevens Jr Secretary of State.

State of New Hampshire.
Office of Secretary of State.
I, Josiah Stevens Jr. Secretary of the State aforesaid, do hereby certify that Nicholas M. Sayle is an acting Justice of the Peace, in and for the County of said State duly Commissioned and qualified; that his Commission was dated on the twentyfirst day of December 1842 and will expire on the twentyfirst day of December 1847 and that his signature to the annexed instrument is genuine.
Given under my hand and the seal of said State this eighteenth day of May 1843.
Josiah Stevens Secretary of State.

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE.
OFFICE OF SECRETARY OF STATE.
I JOSIAH STEVENS, JR. Secretary of the State aforesaid, do hereby certify that H. S. Berry is an acting Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the county of Grafton, duly Commissioned and qualified; that his Commission was dated on the second day of July 1841 and will expire on the  when he shall have attained the age of seventy years  day of  18 and that his signature to the annexed instrument is genuine.
Given under my hand and the Seal of said State this Eighteenth day of
May 1843 Josiah Stevens Secretary of State.

TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
SECOND COMPROLLER'S OFFICE,
Oct. 10 th 1843.
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," and the third section of the Act of August 23, 1842, extending the time within which pensioners may receive their pensions from the pension agents, The widow of Severiah Hobart, dec d a Pensioner on the Roll of the Concord, N.H. Agency, at the rate of Thirty one Dollars and 32 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 8 th July 1839.
Respectfully, yours,
Comptroller.
To the COMMISSIONER OF PENSIONS, Present.

I Rebecca Danforth a resident of Bristol in the County of Grafton and State of Massachusetts aged Sixty four years before and say that I am the Daughter of Jeremiah and Rebecca Hobart that the record of the Marriage of Jeremiah Hobart Junr and Rebecca Danforth herewith annexed has been in the possession of my Mother Rebecca Hobart from my childhood she resides in the same house with me and has for many years that Jeremiah Hobart was a revolutionary Pioneer and died on the eighth day of July 1839
Rebecca Danforth
State of Massachusetts Grafton ss May 10th 1843 Sworn to and subscribed before me
Scholar M Taylor } Justice Peace Throughout the State aforesaid
I hereby certify that the above named Rebecca Danforth is a reputable person that her testimony is entitled to credit
Scholar M Taylor } Justice Peace Throughout the State aforesaid

Bristol NH Aug 31
Free
Leh - 25 9803 A. H. K.
Hon. Lewis Cass
Secretary of the War Department Washington City

Bristol NH Aug 31
Free
Hon. Lewis Cass
Secretary of the War Department Washington City
Feb - 25
9803
Blank

Bristol, New Hampshire August 29 th 1832. —
Hon. Lewis Cags
Sir — Enclosed is the declaration of Mr Jeremiah Hobart of this town lately made before the Court of Probate held in Bristol. — He has lately taken a journey to Massachusetts, in order to get the tes- =timony of some old men who were with him in the Service with, but they are principally dead, with the exception of some two or three who have removed to parts unknown. —
In addition to the testimony of the several Witnesses who appeared before the Judge of Probate, Mr Hobart has obtained the certificate of Col. John McLane and Col. Cyrus Cags late officers in the Militia who fully concur in the opinion of the other persons as to the old gentleman's Revolutionary services; their Certificate is on the opposite page. — Enclosed also are the Affidavits of Samuel Lanijay and Nathaniel Hobart; I was about sending them to the Secretary of this State to procure his Certificate, that Salomon R Liver- more and Benjamin M Hanley were Justices of the Peace; but recollecting that the Hon. Mr Woodbury Secretary of the Navy, and Mr Thornton of the Treasury Department were acquainted with them, — would supersede the necessity of proving that they were Mag- =istrates, if a reference to them for information should

be deemed necessary. — Mr Hobart is a respectable, worthy old man, and could be placed on the Pension list consistently with the rules and regulations of the War Department, he would feel grateful to yourself and to his country. —
Yours respectfully
Mason H. Bradley

We the Subscribers having read the declaration of Mr Jeremiah Hobart of Bristol made before the Probate Court, and the Affidavits of the Rev. John S. Winter, Rev. Walter and others, fully concur in the opinion expressed by them. —
Bristol N. H.
August 25th 1832.
John McElroy Cyrus Gage