Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 39,719, John Hogan, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass
Hogan, John
S. 39719
CONTENTS

3411.
Vermont Roll -
John Hogan 4 Wigglesworth, R t Private.
Massachusetts Line
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary Wars.
Inscribed on the Roll of Vermont at the rate of Eight Dollars per month, to commence on the 9 th of April 1818 -
Certificate of Pension issued the 6 th of October 1818. and sent to James Elliott, Clerk of Windham County Court Brattleborough Vt.
  Arrears to 4th of Sept 1818.  mths 4 \frac{26}{30}  38:93.    Semi-ann. all'ce ending 4 March 1819   48: -  
$ 86:93
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Seven years - 1776
Continued Brattleboro' Vermont
Modification dated October 23 d 1820 James Elliott, Brattleboro' Vt.

John Hogen.
Application for Pension.
Windham Co. Vermont.
[9 April 1818.]
Correct
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State of Vermont Windham County Ss
Brattleboro within Said County April 9 Anno Domine one thousand Eight hundred and Eight
Be it remembered that on the day of the date of these presents came personally before me Gilbert Denson one of our the Assistant Judges of Said Windham County Court John Hogan of Brattleboro in said County and made the following declaration under Oath by me Administered to him in pursuance of the Act of Congress of the United States entitled an act to provide for XXXXXX  claim persons engaged in the Land and Navel Service of the United States in the Revolutionary War passed March 1818 and it appearing to me the said Judge to my satisfaction that the said John Hogan served in the revolutionary War agreeably to the provision of said Act I do hereby certify and transmit to the Honorable Secretary of the Department of War the following testimony in the case and proceedings had thereon under my Official Signature and Seal of Said County Court Gilbert Denson Asst Judge of the County Court
I John Hogan of Brattleborough in the County of Windham and State of Vermont do hereby declare and say. That I served in the war of the Revolution for more than nine months as a private soldier and like

the close of the revolutionary war, on the continental establishment. That is to say and declare that I enlisted at Boston in Massachusetts in the fore part of the war and think it was in the year 1776. and served as such in the Company of Captain Smith in the 13 th Regiment of the Massachusetts Line commanded by Col d Wigginworth and served until the close of the war and was honorably discharged but I have  lost my discharge. I was in the Battle at White Plains and the Battle at Horse neck. All the foregoing I testify and declare to be true according to the best of my recollection knowledge & belief.
I do further declare and say that from my reduced circumstances I need the assistance of my country for Support.
his John X Hogen mark
Sworn to on the day of the first date above entered before me
Gilbert Denison, Asst. Judge of the County Court

To the Honorable Secretary of War of the United States.
I the undersigned Assistant Judge of the Windham County Court State of Vermont - Do further certify That I am personally acquainted with the above named Deponent John Hogen That I am well knowing that said John Hogen is and has been for a number of years in indigent circumstances and that he stands in need of the Assistance of his Country for Support and Maintenance.
Gilbert Denison? Asst. Judge of the County Courts
State of Vermont.
Windham County Court Clerk's Office, Brattleborough, July 30. A.D. 1818.
I certify that the Honorable Gilbert Denison, Esquire, is one of the Assistant Ju- dges of the County Court aforesaid, duly commissioned under the authority of this State, and that the signatures of the preceding and annexed certificates are in the hand writing of the said Judge.
Witness my hand and the Seal of said Court the day and year above written.
James Elliott Clerk.

State of Vermont Windham County ss
Brattleboro April 23. 1818 Brattleboro of Warren Estabrook of lawful
age do testify depose and say that I was acquainted with the Family of John Hogen and understood from his Mother that her son John had enlisted into the United States Service and afterwards for a number of years I frequently heard her express her concern for her son John who was in the Service. a part of the time she was living in the house with me therein Brattleboro in the State of Vermont. and saw John Hogen when he came home out of the Service with his gun and equipments and he said he was from Westpoint in the State of New York and had obtained his discharge. I think it was in June 1783 further the deponent says not
Warren Estabrook
State of Vermont Windham County ss
Brattleboro April 23. 1818
Then Warren Estabrook personally appeared and after being carefully examined and duly cautioned made solemn oath that the foregoing deposition by him subscribed contains the whole truth and nothing but the truth, before me
Gilbert Denison, Asst Judge of the County Court

State of Vermont } Brattleboro April 23. 1818 Windham County } I Hezekiah Salisbury of lawful age do testify depose and say that I was brought up in the neighborhood with John Hogen and he left his home and I understood went to Boston and enlisted into the United States Service and afterwards I saw him at Providence where the Regiment he belonged to lay at that place. and after wards I removed to Brattleboro in the State of Vermont as did the Mother of the said Hogen and at or near the close of the War which according to the best of my recollection was in June 1783 the said John Hogen came home to his Mother with his gun & equipments and said he was from the Army at West point in New York and had obtained his discharge
Hezekiah Salisbury
State of Vermont } Brattleboro April 23, 1818 Windham County } ss
Then Hezekiah Salisbury personally appeared and after being carefully examined and duly cautioned made solemn oath that the foregoing deposition by him subscribed contains the whole truth and nothing but the truth, before me
Gilbert Denson, Aft Judge of the County Court

State of Vermont Windham County ss
Brattleboro April 23. 1818
I Jonathan Patterson of Brattleboro lawful age do testify and say that I was acquainted with John Hogan and did duty with him when he was a soldier and belonged to the United States service when the Army lay at West point in the month of November in the year 1781 and also did duty with him again at the same place in the year of 1782 further the deponent say not Jonathan Patterson
State of Vermont Windham County ss
Brattleboro April 23. 1818
Then Jonathan Patterson of Brattleboro personally appeared and after being carefully examined and duly cautioned made solemn oath that the foregoing deposition by him sub- scribed contains the whole truth and nothing but the truth, before me
Gilbert Simison, Ass. Judge of the County Court

1881
John Hogan, in Hagan - Application for Pension. Windham County, Vermont. [Copy]
B411 C. M. March 1879
James Elliot. Brattleboro Vermont Oct. 23. 1876

STATE OF VERMONT.
COUNTY OF WINDHAM ss.
At the County Court, begun and held at New-Fane, within and for the County of Windham, on the second Monday of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty.....
PRESENT—Hon. PHINEHAS WHITE, Esq. Chief Judge. Hon. JOHN ROBERTS, } Assistant Judges. Hon. GILBERT DENISON, Esqrs. }
ON this 20 th day of June, A. D. 1820, personally appeared in open court, being a court of record for the said county, proceeding according to the course of the common law, with a civil jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount, keeping a record of their proceedings, and having, in certain cases, the power of fine and imprisonment, Jonathan Sedgwick, Guardian of John  aged  supposed to be aged 60 Hogan, years, resident in Brattleboro' in said county, who, being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on his oath, declare that he said John Hogan served in the Revolutionary War as follows: This Guardian is unable to declare the service of the said Hogan. It has been transmitted to the War Department, and was under the g th of April 1818.
That he has received a pension under the act of the Congress of the United States of the 18th March, 1818, that the number of his pension certificate is 3411- and the date of his original declaration is April 9. 1818.
AND I DO SOLEMNLY SWEAR, said John Hogan That I was a resident citizen of the United States on the eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen: and that I have not, since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner whatever, disposed of my property, or any part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it, as to bring myself  himself 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 Revolutionary War," passed on the eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen: 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

That he has received a pension under the act of the Congress of the United States of the 18th March, 1818, that the number of his pension certificate is 3411- and the date of his original declaration is April 9. 1818-
said John Hagan AND I DO SOLEMNLY SWEAR, That I was a resident citizen of the United States on the eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen: and that I have not since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner whatever, disposed of my property, or any part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it, as to bring myself  himself 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 Revolutionary War," passed on the eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen: And that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me , any property or securities, contracts, or debts, due to me ; him nor have has he any income other than what is contained in the Schedule hereto annexed, and by me subscribed, to the best of my knowledge and belief.
SCHEDULE of real and personal estate, necessary clothing and bedding excepted.
Jonathan Stoddard-
No real or personal belonging to said Hagan Estate of any kind to my knowledge- Jonathan Stoddard.
AND I do also swear that his occupation was that of a laborer, and has no family-
SWORN to and DECLARED in open court on the
20th
day of June, A. D. 1820,
Before
Gilbert Denison
JUDGE.
I
James Elliot
Clerk of the County Court for
the County of Windham, in the State of Vermont, do hereby certify, that the foregoing oath, and the Schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the files and records of the said Court: And I do further certify, that it is the opinion of the said Court, that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is so real or personal dollars, and 10 cents.
IN testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court, in open Court , on this seventeenth day of June 1820.
James Elliot
CLERK OF THE COURT FOR THE COUNTY OF WINDHAM.

Jonathan Stoddard, Guardian of John Hogg.
Copy from the Probate Office.

ES
State of Vermont
Marlboro' Probate District ss.
By the Honorable Samuel Whitney Esquire Judge of the Probate of Wills &c within and for said District.
To Jonathan Stoddard of Brattleboro' in said District.
Greeting.
Whereas by Inquisition duly made & returned into the Registry of said District by a major part of the Selectmen & civil Authority of the Town of Brattleboro' aforesaid, in pursuance of the Law in such Cases made and provided, it has been made Legally apparent, that John Hogan of said Brattleboro', is by the visitation of God become non compos mentis, and wholly incapable of taking care of himself and his Estate, and the appointing Guardians in such cases, and the hearing, Examining & allowing the accounts of such Guardianship by virtue of the Law of this State in such Cases made and provided, appertaining unto me.
Trusting therefore in your care & ability I Do by these Presents appoint & allow you the said Jon- athan Stoddard to be Guardian unto the said John Hogan well & faithfully to perform and

discharge that Trust & office unto the said John Hogan in and by all things according to Law, and to render a true account of your Guar- -dianship upon oath, and all and singular such Estate as shall come to your hands & possession by virtue thereof and of the profits and im- -provements of the same, so far as the Law will charge you therewith when you shall be thereunto Lawfully required, and an Inventory thereof make and return the same into the Registry of the Court of Probate for said District in a reasonable time or times, and pay & deliver what and so much of said Estate as shall be found remain- -ing upon your accounts, the same being first ex- -amined & allowed by the Judge, or Judges, of the Pro- -bate of Wills &c for said District for the time being unto the said John Hogan when he shall be restored to his right mind or otherwise the said Judge or Judges by his or their Decree or Sentence pursuant to Law shall limit & appoint.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & caused the Seal of said Court of Probate to be hereunto affixed.
Dated at Brattleboro aforesaid this seventh day of April Anno Domini one thousand Eight hundred & Nineteen—
Samuel Whitney Judge— By order of the Judge
Attest
Royall Tyler— Probate Registrar

State of Vermont
Marlboro' Probate District ss.
Register of Probate's office, June 28 th 1820
To all whom it may concern
Greeting.
These may Certify that the annexed transcript is a true copy of the original Letter of Guardianship, issued by the Court of Probate for the District aforesaid, to Jonathan Stoddard,
That said Letter of Guardianship has never been annulled or vacated, and is now in full force, & that full faith and credit may and ought to be given to the said Jonathan Stoddard as Guardian of John Hogan the Ward mentioned therein.
In Exemplification & attestation whereof I the undersigned Register have hereunto affixed the Seal of said Court of Probate, and placed my official Signature to these presents the day and year first above written.
Attest Noyall Tyler Prob. Register.

39719 INVALID. Rev
File No. 39719
John Hogan Rev Rev War
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 8 , Page 281
[Arrangement of 1870.]

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
NAME Hogan, John GRADE Private LINE New York
WARRANT NUMBER 7208 ACREAGE 100 ISSUED Oct. 7, 1790 To Noadiah Crammer, assignee
*The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800. Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.