Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 14936, William Hodgkins, Continental N.H.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Continental N o 76.
Hodgkins William Ruth
W. 14936
CONTENTS

In Det to 2 d Fleming 19 Sept 1834
Transferred to Vermont from the 4 th Sept. 1834 & Not m sent to I. Douglass Woodward, Plattsburg N.Y. Nov. 22. 1834. - to P. Q. Dec. 16. 1834
Vermont 8396 8896
New York
William Woodkinus
of Plattsburg in the State of N. York who was a Private in the Comp y commanded by Captain _____ of the Regt. commanded by Col. Gilly in the N. Hampshire was for 2 Years " " " "
Enrolled on the Roll of N. York at the rate of 80 Dollars 62 1/2 per annum, to commence on the 14th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 8 th day of Apr., 1831, and due Nov. 3 rd Woodkinus Plattsburg
Arrears to the 14th of Mar '31 $160 Pensional allowance ending 4 th of '31 40 $200
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by E. B. Styles Clerk, Book C. Vol. 4 Page 21

5226.
Vermont - Ben
Ruth Hodgkins Deer widow of William Hodgkins
Not who served in the Revolutionary
war, as a Private
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 80 Dollars
Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1848. Indu July 8 th 1848
Certificate of Pension issued the 30 th day of Nov r 1849 - and sent to
M m Weston Burlington Vermont
Pay d to the Children &c (See Over.)
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act February 2, 1848, Page 54 Vol. D
Surviving Children of Ruth Hodgkins de
Saml Hodgkins, James Hodgkins Polly Hodgkins Carlisle Hodgkins M m Hodgkins John Hodgkins Sally Coonley
Lury Ducker - Abel Brown Reven the estate of an
Or to tr of Deer Letter
to Jesse E. Dow Dec r 13, 1849,

State of Vermont, } I John M c Duffee of Bradford in Caledonia County } the County of Orange in the State, aforesaid aged 77 years, depose testify & say, that I was formerly a resident of Londonderry N.H., that in the summer or fall of the year 1784 I was at the house of William Brown in Chester in the State of New Hampshire - and I then & there understood from the family that Ruth Brown daughter of said William Brown was then courted by one William Hodgkins, who had then recently left the service of the United States, - and some time the next winter I learned that they were married - after marriage they moved & settled in Chester within about 4 miles of my residence, where I frequently saw them living together as man & wife - In the year 1792 said William Hodgkins & his wife the said Ruth removed to Bradford and lived on my farm in Bradford, where they had three children & from Bradford, the said Hodgkins & wife removed on to Grand Isle, Vermont, - since they removed to Grand Isle I have seen them there, once or twice - The said William Brown was my uncle, and I was always well acquainted with him & his family - And further deponent saith not -
John M c Duffee
Sworn to and subscribed this Eleventh day of December A D 1843 before me. And I certify that the said John M c Duffee is a person of truth and Credibility -
Sam. W. Hattori
Justice of the Peace

State of Vermont, } I John M c Duffee of Bradford in Caledonia County, } the County of Orange in the State, afairs aged 77 years, depose testify, I say, that I was formerly a resident of Londonderry N.H., that in the summer or fall of the year 1784 I was at the house of William Brown in Chester in the State of New Hampshire - and I then & there understood from the family that Ruth Brown daughter of said William Brown was then courted by one William Hodgkins, who had then recently left the service of the United States, - and some time the next winter I learned that they were married - after marriage they moved & settled in Chester within about 4 miles of my residence, where I frequently saw them living together as man & wife - In the year 1793 said William Hodgkins & his wife the said Ruth removed to Bradford and lived on my farm in Bradford, where they had three children & from Bradford, the said Hodgkins wife removed on to Grand Isle, Vermont, - since they removed to Grand Isle I have seen them there, once or twice - The said William Brown was my uncle, and I was always well acquainted with him & his family - And further deposition saith not -
John M c Duffee
STATE OF VERMONT, } I, Samuel Pittsstock, Clerk of the County Court of the Coun- Caledonia County, ss. ty of Caledonia in the State of Vermont, do hereby certify that
Sam Pittsstock, of Danville
is an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said county, duly commissioned and qualified; that his commission was dated on the 31 day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty three and will expire the thirtieth day of November next, and that his signature to the annexed Certificate is genuine,
Given under my hand and the seal of said County Court, this Eleventh day of December A. D. 1843
Sam Pittsstock Clerk.

9997
Ruth Hodgkins
7 July 1835
FI
act 7. July 38.
m 84. - adm?
240 pr $80.
Hon G.P. Marsh H.R.
M. Weston Burlington

State of Vermont Grand Isle County ss
On this + 21 st day of October A.D. 1843, personally appeared before the Hon. Probate Court for the
District of Grand Isle in the State of Vermont, Ruth Hodgkins of the town and County of Grand Isle, aged seventy-eight 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 7, 1838, entitled "An act granting half pay and pension to certain widows" and the acts and resolutions in amendment thereof;
That she is the widow of William Hodgkins, late of said Grand Isle, deceased, who was a private in the Army of the Revolution and served in the New Hampshire troops, under General Sullivan, as she believes, but she is unable to state his services particularly. He was a pensioner under the act of Congress passed June 7, 1832, inscribed upon the roll of the Burlington, Vermont, agency at the rate of eighty dollars per annum, and she refers to the documents and proofs in the Pension Office to show the particulars of her late husband's ser- vices. She further declares that she was married to the said William Hodgkins at Chester in the State of New Hampshire by the Rev Mr Colby for the month of October, 1784; that her name previous to her marriage was Ruth Brown; that her marriage took place on Tuesday of the first week in the month of October, seventeen hundred and eighty four, but she cannot state the day of the month; that she had a record of her marriage in a small bible, but that bible and record were burnt by Mr Hodgkins, her late husband, while in a deranged

state of his mind a few days previously to his death; that her husband, the aforesaid William Hodgkins, died on the twenty third day of January in the year eighteen hundred and forty two; 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, nineteen hundred and ninety four, viz, at the time above stated.
Ruth Hodgkins
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written before me, and I certify that the declarant is a person of truth and credibility, and that the words and figures "in the month of October, 1784," on the first page, were interlined before signing.
X Joel Allen Judge of Probate.
We, Carlise T. Hodgkins and Samuel Hodgkins, both of Grand Isle in the State of Vermont, children of William Hodgkins, deceased and of Ruth Hodgkins, who has made the foregoing declaration, testify and say that the said William Hodgkins died on the twenty third day of January A. D. 1842. We were present when he died.
We further testify that the said William Hodgkins was a pensioner of the United States at the rate of eighty dollars per annum under the act of June 7, 1832, inscribed on the Burlington, Vermont roll.
Sam l Hodgkins
C. T. Hodgkins
Sworn to and subscribed this 21 st day of October, 1843, before me, and I certify that the affiants are men of truth and veracity.
X Joel Allen Judge of Probate.

State of Vermont Grand Isle County ss }
I, Augustus Knight, Register of the Probate Court for the District of Grand Isle, do hereby certify that Joel Allen, before whom the foregoing declaration and affidavits were made and sworn to, was, at the time of taking the same and still is Judge of the Probate Court for said district, and that the signatures to the foregoing certificates purporting to be his, are genuine.
In testimony whereof I do hereunto affix the seal of said court and subscribe my name at North Hero in the County and district of Grand Isle this 21 st day of October 1843.
Augustus Knight Register

William Hodgkins Certified copy of oak + Shenton Rev. Pensioner
1850
Gov- I.L.E.
Hand
R.W. Dalesworth A.R.

1850
At a Court of Common Pleas holden at the Court-House in Plattsburgh, in and for the County of Clinton, and State of New-York, on the third day of October 1821 Present: Eliza Arnold Levi Hale and Caleb Nichols
Judges of the said Court.
COUNTY OF CLINTON ss: On this third day of October 1821 personally appeared in open Court, it being a Court of Record proceeding according to the course of the common law, and having the power of fine and imprisonment, and keeping record of their proceedings in and for the County of Clinton, Stephen Dodge aged sixty three years resident in the town of Plattsburgh in the said County of Clinton, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath de- clare that he served in the revolutionary war as follows: That in the month of September 1775 he enlisted at P'keepsie in Captain John Hales Company Col John Hakes first New Hampshire Regiment for one year served out his said enlistment four weeks longer was discharged at Morristown In March 1777 he again enlisted at P'keepsie in Captain Hutchins Company Col Seeley's first N. Hampshire Regiment for three years and served out his said enlistment and was discharged at Danbury His discharge accompanied his original application for a pension that he was in the battles of Trenton Princeton Fort Ann and at Stillwater and at Monmouth Newtown
that his original declaration to obtain a pension under the Act of Congress of the 18th of March 1818 was made the twenty ninth day of April 1828 that he has received a pension certificate Numbered 7850 and dated the sixteenth day of March 1819 And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th 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 revolutionary war," passed on the 18th 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, other than what is contained in the schedule, hereto annexed, and by me subscribed.
Real Estate none Personal Estate excepting necessary bedding and clothing one Adz one broad ax Rule & compass $10 chalk line 4 chisels & two augers 30 two Cows 1.50 four Chains old iron & iron And Irons 2.50 one Pot and one Kettle & tub 35 years old 1 Agate Cup & Saucer & Knives & Forks 4.00 Dale Knife & two Hags $49.00

I am by occupation a Ship Carpenter but am very much disabled by Rheumatism so as to be incapable of much work My family consists of my wife Ruth aged fifty seven weakly My Samuel aged thirty four stocky and dependent partly on me for support Polly my Daughter aged twenty five weakly and dependent on me for support My Son Carlisle aged nineteen healthy My Daughter Sarah aged fifteen healthy
William Holford Heirs
Sworn to the third day of October 1821 before the above named Judge in open court Chas. Platt Chas. Platt Clerk of the Court Common Pleas held in and for the County of Clinton Do certify that the foregoing oath and the schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the records of the said Court and I do further certify that it is the opinion of the said Court that the total amount in the value of the said property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is forty nine
49.16
Dollars and sixteen cents In testimony Whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of the said Court on the third day of October 1821
Chas. Platt Clerk of the Court of the County of Clinton

William Hodgkins, afft. -
address of Douglas Woodward Almaburg N.Y.
In case this evidence is not satisfactory the Secy of the Treasury is requested to produce from the Pension office the necessary testimony -
on Rolls of Cilly's Regt 29th 3rd
Adm D
2 years pri
804

State of New York
County of Clinton p William Hodgkins now a resident of Grand Isle in the State of Vermont aged Seventy three years being duly sworn deposeth and saith that he served in the Revolutionary war as follows That in September 1775 he enlisted at Hopkinton N. H. as a private in Captain John Hale's Company Col. John Stark's first New Hampshire Regiment for one year and served out his term and six weeks longer and was discharged at Morristown.
In March 1777 he again enlisted at Hopkinton N. H. as a private in Captain Hutchens Company Col. Seely's first New Hampshire Reg't for three years, and served out his said enlistment and was discharged at Danbury Conn and his discharge accompanied his original application for a pension, that he was in the Battles of Trenton, Princeton, Fort Ann, Stillwater, Saratoga, Monmouth and Newtown. That his original declaration to obtain a pension under the act of 18 th March 1818 was made on the 29 th April 1818. That he received a pension certificate numbered 7850 which accompanies this affidavit.
That Deponent received his pension under said Certificate up to the fourth of March 1822 when he was struck from the the rolls as Deponent has been informed "in consequence of information received at the Department respecting Deponent's property" Since which time Deponent has not received any pension. Deponent refers to his papers & discharge on file in the Pension Office as corroborating the facts by him above set forth. Deponent further says that he was not entitled, and never has received any benefit under the act of May 15. 1828. And in pursuance of the act passed at the present Session of Congress entitled "An act supplementary to the act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the Revolution" I do hereby relinquish my further claim to a pension under the acts of March 18. 1818 & 1 st May 1820. (Saving & reserving to myself the right to a pension from the time I was so struck from the Rolls until the 4 th March 1831. and I do further declare that I am the identical William Hodgkins named in the said Original Pension Certificate. William Hodgkins

Sworn and Subscribed to before me at Plattsburg N.Y. this 12 th day of June 1832 and I certify that Deponent is a credible witness & person she word to "intended before signing & swearing"
Galeb Nichols Supreme Court Commissioner State of New York
County of Clinton ss I the Subscriber a public Notary in the state of New York duly com- -missioned & sworn dwelling in Plattsburg in said County do hereby certify and make known that Caleb Nichols before whom the above affidavit of William Hodgkins was taken and sworn was at the time a Supreme Court Commissioner in & for said County & that the signature of the said Commissioner is in his genuine hand-writing I being ac- -quainted with it. - In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my Notorial Seal at Plattsburg NY this 12 th day of June in the year of our Lord eight hundred and thirty two -
J. Douglas Woodward Notary Public
William Hodgkins. afft. -
advising of the same Plattsburg N.Y.
In case this bond is not satisfied the sum of the said my bond to proceed from the Perjury - affidavit the same being testimony -
On Motion of City's Reps. 29th March
Adm D
2 years Pre
800

Per
WIDOW, &c.
File No. 14936  Keath Hodgkins  Widow of  William Hodgkins  Dis. Rev. War
Act: Feb 29 48 Index—Vol. a , Page 346
[Arrangement of 1870.]
1923 Sept. 5. C.O. Hodgkins inft. of cost of aw Copies. aw 1923 Sept. 27. Copies mailed to C.O. Hodgkins

Rev WIDOW, &c.
14936
Keath Hodgkins
Widow of
William Hodgkins
Pris Rev War
Feb 29 48
Vol. a, Page 346
[Arrangement of 1870.]
1903 Sept. 15: C.O. Hodgkins mft of cost of aw copies: aw 1903 Sept. 27: Copies mailed to C.O. Hodgkins

Hodgkins Wm. Conf. - N.H. W 14936

Will m Hodgkins Soldier of the first N. Hampshire Reg t formerly an inhabitant of Hopkinton County of Hillsborough and state of N. Hampshire having Honourably and faithfully served Three years in the service of the United States being the term of his enlistment is hereby discharged from the army and is permitted to return to the state of N. Hampshire.
To whom it may concern.
Camp Danbury April 5. 1860
J. P. Gilley Col.

7850 New York
William Hodgkins
of Plattsburgh in the state of New York who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Cilley of the N Hampshire line, for the term of 2 years 1777
inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 29 of April 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued the 18 of March 1819 and sent to Hon: J. Palmer Plattsburgh, New York
Arrears to 4th of March 1819. 10 mos \frac{2}{30} \frac{4}{31} . 81.56
Semi-ann. all'ce ending Sep: 4. 1819. 48 —
$ 129.56
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Continued
See letter to W. Hodgkins, Apr. 5. 1832
6 Dec 1821 Information as to the late Mr. Hodgkins and his family sent to the Hon. A. H. Walbridge Sec. of War

5869.
Ref.?
Burlington Vermont
Ruth Hodgkins
widow of William Hodgkins
who was a Private
in the Revolution
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 80 Dollars
Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843.
Certificate of Pension issued the
19 th day of July 1844.
and sent to Wm. Weston
Burlington, Vt
[Act of March 3, 1843.]
Recorded in Book A,
Vol. 1, Page 27.

8788.
Reported
Vermont
Esther Hodgkins
widow of W m Hodgkins
who was a pensioner under the Act of 1832 and who died on the 23 rd  Aug 1842 of Grand Isle in the State of Vt who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain _____ of the Regt commanded by Col. Kelley in the N. Hampshire line for 2 years
Inscribed on the Roll of Starling at the rate of 80 Dollars Cents per annum, to commence on the 14 th day of March, 1836.
Certificate of Pension issued the 13 th day of March , 1844 and Deed to Rev. J. P. Pellash , Wor of Rep.
Total amount, $400.00
[Act July 7, 1838.]
Recorded by J. H. Cummings , Clerk, Book D Vol. 1 Page 129

William Hodgkins - Private Reserve Vermont Agency Request to know if entitled to land - widow & six children living.
Carlisle T. Hodgkins Grand Isle Vermont }

No 6.
Wm Hodgkin, N.Y. get papers
A18396
6 Oct 1854
Recd? from 4 Sept 34 by order of Mr E.
FREE
Jam L. Edwards Esq. Commissioner of Pensions Washington D.C.

For James L Edwards Esq Comm r of Pensions Washington D. C

Plattsburg Oct 30 1834
J. L. Edwards Esq
Sir,
The Pension of Mr William Hodgkins has been heretofore been paid in New York; he wishes to be paid there in future. If it cannot however be done, under the existing rules, he desires you to transfer him to the Vermont agency. The enclosed Papers are supposed sufficient to authorise the transfer.
Yours respectfully
J. Douglas Woodward

Washington D.C.
P.O.
Aug 16 '32
Pension Office
Old case
Hon. Lewis C. Gale Secretary of War Washington
TRIP
S.S.

William Hodgins
Payable semi-annually. The first payment on this Certificate will be made on the 4th of next, in New York at the U States Branch Bank
Record

War Department.
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.
I CERTIFY that, in conformity with the Law of the United States, of the 18th of March, 1818,
William Hodgkins late a private in the Army of the Revolution, is inscribed on the Pension List, Roll of the New York Agency, at the rate of Eight dollars per month, to com- mence on the twentyninth day of April one thousand eight hundred and eighteen
GIVEN at the War Office of the United States, this eighteenth day of March one thousand eight hundred and nineteen.
H. Calhoun
Secretary of War.

William Hodgins papers
Hon. Herman Allen House of Rep. Washington D. C.

Plattsburg N. Y. June 13. 1832
Hon. Hernand Allen
Sir
At the request of Mr Williams Hodgkins one of your Constituents, I enclose you several papers by which it appears that he served as a private for three years during the Revolutionary war. He was placed on the Pension Roll of the New York agency in March 1819. A schedule of his property was examined under the act of May 1. 1820 and he continued to receive a pension up to March 4. 1822 when he was struck from the rolls in consequence of a letter received at the Department representing that he owned 120 acres of land in the town of Grand Isle Vt. He informs me that until within two months, he never had authentic information of the grounds upon which he was struck off the rolls, and that he can at considerable expense procure explanatory evidence relative to the said real estate.
He wishes you to ascertain at the Pension office
1 st whether in case he produce sufficient evidence to authorise him to be restored to the Roll, he will receive arrearages of pension from 1822 or pay only from the time of completing such testimony.
2 d If the Secy of War decide that under the Acts of March 1818 & 1 st May 1820, Hodgkins is not entitled to arrearages on being restored, he wishes you to insist that under the law passed at the present Session of Congress dispensing with the property qualification, the Secy of War is authorised to restore him to the Rolls from 4 th March 1831 without further evidence.
In Case the Secy will restore him from said time, he wishes the old certificate cancelled & a new one issued. He will then prepare the necessary papers, and submit his claim for arrearages to Congress. If the Secy of War will not restore him to receive from March 4. 1831, he wishes you to present his affidavit to the Secretary of the Treasury who is authorised to pay him from said time under the act of the recent Session - Hodgkins will recite the necessary papers on being furnished with blanks. Your attention to this will confer a favor on Mr Hodgkins and oblige
Yours very Respectfully J Douglas. Woodward

6167 R Hodgkins act 1843 $80 per an
William Weston Burlington Vt.

State of Vermont Grand Isle County ss. }
On this twenty ninth day of May in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty four, personally appeared before the subscriber, a justice of the Peace in and for said County of Grand Isle, Ruth Hodgkins, a resident of Grand Isle in said county of Grand Isle, aged seventy eight 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 d of March, 1843, granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary war. — That she is the widow of William Hodgkins, late of said Grand Isle, deceased, who was a private, as she believes, during the revolutionary war, and also a pensioner under the law of Congress passed June 7, 1832; but she is unable to state the regiment or corps in which he served; that he died on the 23 d day of January, 1842; — that she, the said Ruth Hodgkins has received a pension for five years under the act of July 7, 1838, at the rate of eighty dollars per annum, and she further declares that she is still a widow. Witness Wm Weston Samuel B Gordon Ruth her X Hodgkins mark.
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written, before me; — and I certify that the said Ruth Hodgkins is personally known to me, and is a person of truth and veracity.
Samuel B Gordon Justice of the Peace.

State of Vermont Grand Isle County p }
I, Joel Allen, Clerk of the County Court in and for said County of Grand Isle, do hereby certify that Samuel B. Gordon, Esq., before whom the within affidavit was taken and sworn to, was at the time of taking the same and still is a justice of the peace in and for said county, duly commissioned, and that the signature to this certificate thereto, purporting to be his, is genuine.
In testimony whereof I do hereunto affix the seal of said Court and subscribe my name at North Hero, in said County this 4 th day of June A. D. 1844.
Joel Allen Clerk

State of New Hampshire
Rockingham ss
I, Ira B. Hoitt Clerk of the Judicial Courts within and for said County certify that Henry H. French Esq. who has subscribed his name to the within certificate is an acting justice of the peace duly commissioned and qualified that his commission is dated the fourteenth day of January 1842. and will expire in five years from that date. and that the signature within purporting to be his is genuine
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the Seal of our Court of Common Pleas this 13 th day of September Anno Domini 1843.
I. B. Hoitt Clerk

I Isaac Tompkins of Chester, County of Rockingham and State of New Hampshire, do hereby certify, that I am Clerk of the town of Chester, and the records of said town are in my office, and that I have searched said records to find the marriage of William Hodgkins and Ruth Brown, but after careful examination, cannot find any such records and do not believe that any record of said marriage can be found in this office - as said records are very imperfect.
Chester September 11-1843.
Isaac Tompkins.
Rockingham - Subscribed & sworn to by said Isaac Tompkins whom I certify to be a person of credibility.
Before
Henry H. French Justice of the Peace.

William Hodgkins 29 April
Supposed to be N. H. Pills
Caught by mistake
The things which were lost in his reduced circumstances

STATE OF New York } Clinton COUNTY, ss. }
On this twenty ninth day of April 1810, before me the sub- scriber, one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of the county and state aforesaid: Personally appears William Hodgkins aged fifty eight years, resident in Plattsburgh in the said county and state, who being by me first duly sworn, according to law, doth, on his oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the provision made by the late 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:" That the said William Hodgkins enlisted in Portington in the state of New Hampshire in the company commanded by Captain Nathaniel Hutchins of the first New Hampshire Regiment ; that he continued to serve in the said corps, or in the service of the United States until the fifth Day of June 1780 when he was discharged from service in Danbury state of Connecticut ; that he was in the battles of Stillwater at Fort Ann, Nonnawh Newtown, Trenton & Princeton and that he is in reduced circumstances, and stands in need of the assistance of his country for support; and that he has no other evidence now in his power of his said services.
Sworn to and declared before me, the day and year aforesaid.
Caleb Nichols as Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of Clinton County
STATE OF NEW-YORK, } Clinton COUNTY, ss. }
David George
of Plattsburgh in the county of Clinton aged sixty seven years, being duly sworn, says that he is acquainted with William Hodgkins in the preceding declaration named and described, and know that he served in the army of the United States in the war of the Revolution, as is mentioned in the preceding declaration, that his regiment belonged to the second New Hampshire Regiment & that three years in the same brigade with said Hodgkins
David George
Served 2 years
Caleb Nichols
Judge of the court of
Common Pleas of the county of Clinton and state aforesaid, DO CERTIFY, that it appears to my satisfaction, that the said William Hodgkins 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 aforementioned act of Congress.
Plattsburgh 29th Day of April 1810
Caleb Nichols
[L. S.]
And I the said Judge do further certify that I have obtained satisfactory evidences and it is my opinion that the above named William Hodgkins is in indigent circumstances and stands in need of the assistance of his country for support and that that was the case 29th Day of April last. Dated the 16th Day of February 1810
Caleb Nichols

I Reuben Walworth a notary Public for the State of New York certify that Celeb. Nichols whose signature in his own hand writing is affixed to the annexed certificate of affidavit was at the time thereof a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Clinton State aforesaid, in witness whereof I have subscribed my name & affixed the seal of my office. This 8 th day of May 188-
Reuben Walworth Notary Public

State of Vermont ) Caledonia County ss. )
I, Mary Abbott, of Cabot, in the County of Caledonia and State of Vermont, aged eighty five years, do testify and say that I am a daughter of William Brown, deceased, formerly of Chester in the County of Rockingham and State of New Hampshire and that Ruth Hodgkins of Grand Isle, Vermont, widow of William Hodgkins, is my sister; that in the year 1784, and previously thereto, the said Ruth and myself resided in the family of the said William Brown at said Chester and that in the month of October, in the year seventeen hundred and eighty four, at the house of the said William Brown, in said Chester, the said Ruth was married to the said William Hodgkins by the Rev. Zacharias Colby. I was present at the time of the marriage, but I cannot recollect the day of the month when it took place, but I am positive that it took place in the month of October, 1784, as above stated.
Witness, John Damon
Mary hr Abbott spink
Sworn to and subscribed this Eleventh day of December 1843 before me; and I certify that the said Mary Abbott is a person of truth and credibility, and that in consequence of being blind she is unable to write her name.
John Damon Justice of the Peace.
Given under my hand and the seal of said County Court, this Eleventh day of December A. D. 1843. Sam. R. Nutter Clerk.

State of Vermont } Caledonia County ss. }
I, Mary Abbott, of Cabot, in the County of Caledonia and State of Vermont, aged eighty five years, do testify and say that I am a daughter of William Brown, deceased, formerly of Chester in the County of Rockingham and State of New Hampshire and that Ruth Hodgkins of Grand Isle, Vermont, widow of William Hodgkins, is my sister; that in the year 1784, and previously thereto, the said Ruth and myself resided in the family of the said William Brown at said Chester and that in the month of October, in the year seventeen hundred and eighty four, at the house of the said William Brown, in said Chester, the said Ruth was married to the said William Hodgkins by the Rev. Zacharias Colby. I was present at the time of the marriage, but I cannot recollect the day of the month when it took place, but I am positive that it took place in the month of October, 1784, as above stated.
Witness, John Damon
Mary h Abbott h
Sworn to and subscribed this Eleventh day of December 1843 before me; and I certify that the said Mary Abbott is a person of truth and credibility, and that in consequence of
STATE OF VERMONT, ) ss. I, Saml. R. Nuttall, Clerk of the County Court of the County of Caledonia in the State of Vermont, do hereby certify that
John Damon Esq of Cabot
is an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said county, duly commissioned and qualified; that his commission was dated on the 31 st day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty three and will expire the thirtieth day of November next, and that his signature to the annexed certificate, is genuine,
Given under my hand and the seal of said County Court, this Eleventh day of December A. D. 1843.
Saml. R. Nuttall
Clerk.

William Hodgkins Certificate of Continnance.

N o 7850
War Department,
PENSION OFFICE,
December 6 th 1821.
SIR:
You are hereby informed that the Schedule of your property has been examined, and the Secretary of War has directed your name to be continued on the Pension Roll.
You will be paid, at the ensuing semi-annual payment in March next, the sum that may be then due from the time of suspending your pension. Funds for the purpose will be transmitted at that time; but no arrearages will be paid previous thereto.
I am, respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
J. G. Edwards
To Mr.
William Hodgkins.
U. S. Pensioner.
of Clinton County, New York.
Care of the Honorable R. H. Walworth.
House of Representatives.

Plattsburg Feb 17
old case Feb 24 1877
Department of Pensions
FREE
Hon John C. Calhoun Secretary of War Washington #D

Plattsburgh Feb 10 1819
Dear Sir Enclosed is returned the papers of W m Dodge King application for a pen- sion. With the new  new  his  his  his  his indigent circumstances will you have the goodness to enclose the Pension but up to the Hon. S. Palmer member of Congress Plattsburgh yours &c R. H. Walcutt
Chief Clerk of the Pension Office War Department
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James L. Edwards Esq. Pension Office Washington D.C.

Plattsburg Aug. 9. 1832
James L Edwards Esq
Sir
I am informed by Hon Heman Allen a Member of Congress from Vermont that he left my old Pension Certificate together with a letter written to him by J. Douglas Woodward Esq my attorney dated June 13. 1832 with you for consideration, and that you thought the proof in my case sufficient to authorise me to be restored to the Roll, except the proof of my identity , which I now enclose. I wish you to answer Mr Woodwards letter to Mr Allen, and send me a new Certificate, so that I can receive my pension on the 4 th of September next.
Direct to William Hodgkins Care of J Douglas Woodward Esq Plattsburg. Clinton County New York
Yours respectfully William Hodgkins
W. T. Mason J. L. Mason

application for a transfer
State of New York
County of Clinton On this 30 th day of September 1834 before me the subscriber a notary public for said County of Clinton personally appeared William Hodgkins to me well known who on his oath declares that he is the same Person who formerly belonged to the Company, commanded by Captain Nathaniel Hutchinson in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Joseph Suly P.M. Regt. in the service of the United States; that he was placed on the pension roll of the State of New York. That he resided in the town of South Hero Vermont at the time he was placed on the Pension Roll, has resided there thirty years past and resides there, that South Hero is directly opposite Plattsburg where it is most convenient for him to transact his business. That he has always drawn his Pension money in New York State - That Deponent resides in South Hero on an Island & his residence is about eight miles distant from Plattsburg, & about twenty five miles from Burlington - That his declaration to obtain a Pension was made at Plattsburg where he still wishes to draw his Pension That if he cannot by the Rules of the Pension office be paid in New York - he consents to be transferred to the Vermont agency.
Sworn and subscribed to before me the day and year aforesaid J Douglas Woodward Notary Public
William Hodgkins
State of New York
County of Clinton Joseph Durkee a resident of Plattsburg in said County being duly sworn says that William Hodgkins who has taken the above oath is the person described in the above affidavit. Deponent is well acquainted with said Hodgkins,
Sworn and subscribed to this 3 rd day of October 1834
Joseph Durkee
Certify that Deponent is a free and competent
Nathaniel Nichols Supreme Court Commissioner

State of New York
County of Clinton
I the Subscriber Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of said County Certify that J Douglas Woodward before whom the within affidavit of William Hodgkins was taken & sworn on the 30 th September 1834 was at the time a Notary Public in & for said County & that his signature to the jurat of said affidavit is genuine I being well acquainted with it. I also Certify that Caleb Nichols before whom the foregoing & within affidavit of Joseph Durkee was taken & sworn on the third day of October 1834 was at the time a Supreme Court Commissioner in & for said County & that his signature to the jurat of said affidavit is genuine I being well acquainted with his hand writing. Witness my hand & official seal at Plattsburg this 27 th day of October 1834. —
Nathan Taylor Clerk
William Hodgkins

Grand 24th 26th Jan. 1823
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Caveat.
Recd. 10 Feb. 1823.
L. Edwards Esq.
Pension Office
Washington D.C.

State of Vermont } Grand Isle Jan. 26 th 1823 Grand Isle County p }
W m Edward Esq. Sir/ in compliance with your former request and in addition to my last respecting the property of William Hodgkins I have examined the record of Grand Isle and find nothing on them to show that the property has ever passed from Hodgkins - - The Town Clerk, however who is broker in law to Hodgkins gave me to understand that in the year 1812 he signed an obligation for the payment of a sum of money with Hodgkins and for his security took a deed of one half of his farm which obligation has been cancelled by Hodgkins altho' the deed has never been given up and the Town Clerk now says that he shall not give it up until he and Hodgkins settle their book accounts - As neither of them pretend to know which way the balance would fall, I think there can be nothing serious in the claim.
Since my last Hodgkins himself has called on me and says that he has no prop- erty as he gave his son a deed of it some years ago - I find by enquiry that his son is still a minor, that the deed has never been acknowledged or recorded, and the title must still remain in Hodgkins. - He undertakes to justify him- self in this manner, that he thought he had a better right to a pension than a number of his acquaintance that he says have got on to the list belonging to the same regiment in the year service and deserted before their times were out, to wit, Jonathan Wood of Milton V t , Ephraim Moore of Bukmantown N.Y. and John Bean of Plattsburgh South New V t . he also states that Bean went to the Britts and served in their service against his country during the war and after the close of the Revolutionary war returned on to Lake Champlain where he now resides - This is merely the statement

of Nodgkins whether true or untrue he also states that Wood & Bean made an agreement to swear for each other knowing each to be deserters. -
In all my enquiry I can find none except the Town Clerk and Nodgkins that had even any idea but that Nodgkins still owned the property on which he now lives and that the value was about three thousand dollars. I am further informed by one of the magistrates in the town in which he lives that he one day told Nodgkins that he had no idea of his being so poor as to get on the pension list - and Nodgkins retorted and said he was worth more money than he was and could sell his property at any time for three thousand dollars. It is the opinion of people here that government can do no less than oblige him to refund the pension money he has received should they see fit to pass over the rest part of his conduct.
Yours respectfully
Isidiah Nyde Clerk of Grand Isle County Court Vermont

State of New York
County of Clinton ss. William Hodgkins a resident of Grand Isle in the County of Grand Isle and State of Vermont (the said town of Grand Isle being directly opposite Plattsburg N.Y. at which latter place it is more convenient for Deponent to attend to his pension business) being duly sworn says that he is now seventy three years of age. That he has previously been on the Pension Roll of the New York agency and that he was struck from the same. That Deponent served in Captain John Hale's Col. John Stark's West New Hampshire Regt for one year Enlisted in Sept 1775. and discharged in September 1776. as a private. That Deponent served three years as a private in Capt. Hutchinson's Co. Col. Seeley's first New Hampshire Regt. Continental establishment Enlisted in March 1777 and was discharged in April 1780. at Danbury Conn. and his discharge accompanied his original declaration to obtain a pension under the act of March 18. 1818. Deponent now resides on Grand Isle Vt. directly opposite Plattsburg New York. That he resided where he now does, when he made his application for a pension in 1818. His first declaration was made April 29 th 1818. His pension Certificate was numbered 7850. Deponent has now made any application under the act of 15 th May 1828. Deponent solemnly swears that on or about the thirteenth day of June last he caused his said Pension Certificate to be sent to the Hon. Herman Allen Member of Congress from Vt. together with a letter from J. D. D. Esq. which letter and Certificate Deponent understands and believes is now on the files of the Pension Office & were left with Mr. Edwards the principal of that Department by Mr. Allen just before he left Washington. Deponent solemnly swears that he is the identical William Hodgkins named in the said Pension Certificate and who served as above stated (in the Revolutionary war) and as more particularly stated in Deponent's declarations before the Court of Common Pleas of Clinton County N.Y. on 29 th April 1818. and the third day of October 1821. That Deponent is the same person who formerly belonged to and served in the said above named companies and Regiments. that his name was formerly on the Pension Roll of the New York agency and Deponent wishes to be again restored to the same agency.
Sworn and subscribed to before me this ninth day of August 1832 and I certify that Deponent is a credible person. Valeb Nichols
William Hodgkins
Supreme Court Commissioner
State of New York
County of Clinton ss. Sheldon Duerkee of Plattsburg in said County being duly sworn says that William Hodgkins the person who had taken the above oath is the person described in the above affidavit and that he is the identical William Hodgkins described in said affidavit and not other or different or a credible person.
Sworn and subscribed to before me this ninth day of August 1832 and I certify that Deponent is a person of integrity. Valeb Nichols Supreme Court Commissioner
Sheldon Duerkee

State of New York
County of Clinton I the Subscribed Deputy Clerk of said County (the Clerk being sick and unable to attend to business) do hereby certify that Caleb Nichols before whom the within affidavit of William Hodgkins and Sheldon Durokee were respectively taken and sworn to on the ninth day of August 1832, was at the time a Supreme Court Commissioner in said State residing in the town of Plattsburg in said County duly commissioned and sworn and authorized to administer oaths and take affidavits and that the signature of the said Commissioner to each of the depts of said affidavit is in the genuine and proper hand writing of the said Commissioner & being well acquainted with it In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my official seal at Plattsburg N.Y. this Ninth day of August 1832.
Geo. M. Beckwith
Deputy Clerk

Grand Island Dec. 31 st — }
Postmark
1883
From Frederick W. Hays relation to War Department party
L. Edwards Esq.
Jan. 13 th
War Department Pension Office
Washington District C. O.

State of Vermont
Grand Isle County Clerks Office
Dec. 31 st 1822
Sir
In pursuance of your request of the 13 th inst respecting the situation and character of William Huggins a person placed on the New York roll of Revolutionary pensioners.
We have a man by that name in this State living in the town and county of Grand Isle who says that he is on the pension roll in the State of New York, and that he has drawn nearly four hundred dollars of the public's money and that he has so conducted his business as to defy any person to get him struck from the roll. After the Act of Congress March 1818 he was boasting that he meant to get on the pension list, but in some indirect way he got information, that persons of his property would not be admissible before our court for certificates, and has therefore (if he is the man) in some clandestine manner deceived the court in the State of New York as to his property & residence.
He has lived on this Island to my knowledge rising twenty five years and the greater part of that time on the farm where he now resides which ever has been and still continues since our first settlements in the eyes of the world to be his, and nothing on our records to the contrary. His farm contains by estimate one hundred & twenty eight acres of land of an excellent quality with a comfortable dwelling house, a large barn and much land under cultivation as is profitable and a large apple orchard on the premises.
I find by the returns of the apportionment of taxes made to me in 1815 & 1816 that his landed property for the direct tax of said years was assessed at twelve hundred & fifty dollars.

I have also examined his list of property given in by himself to the listers of the town for the year 1822 on which our town & state taxes are made up and equalized which is as follows, to wit, fifty eight acres of improved land, one house, two Oxen, Eight Cows & three year old, two two year old, & two horses, which list excludes all his wood land, yearling cattle, calves, swine, & sheep from the list.
As to the Valuation of his property I have made some inquiry since the receipt of your letter, and by the estimation of some of the civil authority in the town in which he lives it is valued at twenty five hundred dollars.
Mr. Hodgkins and his wife enjoy good health for persons of their age and are not encumbered with any extraordinary expenses in support of their family, nor are they supposed to be embarrassed with debts.
As to his emigration, Hodgkins never emigrated from Vermont since his first settlement on the Island, he and his family now reside and have resided for twenty years past on the same premises. It is true that in the war of 1813 & 1814 he occasionally crossed the lake to Plattsburgh which is about eight miles from his house in the town of Grand Isle, and I believe that he labored some time in the watermasters department he being by trade a boat builder & shipcarpenter. Which is all the time of any note that has come to my knowledge of his being absent from his family.
As to his general character it will appear better than I can describe in his ap. conduct as above related.
If it would be consistent would request a copy of Hodgkins vouchers & claims for a pension as it might lead to the discovery of some other fraud.
Yours respectfully Isaac D. Hyde Clerk of Grand Isle County Court
Honble
J. L. Coward Esq.

Should it prove necessary these facts generally speaking may be established by the affidavits of the Judges of this County Court and by the Revend Asa Lyon (one former of Congress) who live in the vicinity and with whom there has been some consultation.
J. Hyde

Established 1882
The Plymouth Clothing House Hennepin at Sixth
Minneapolis, Minn. SEP 27 1923
Mr. Hayes Haymaker Pension Bureau, Washington, D.C.
Dear Sir:- I would appreciate very much having you hurry forward the Revolutionary War record of my ancestor William Hodgkins, about which I wrote you and sent the necessary fee some time ago. My father who is 84 is anxious to have it sent as soon as possible, and since he is not well we are naturally anxious also to get these matters attended to with as much dispatch as

as possible
Thanking you in advance for the favor
I am Yours Truly
C.O. Hodgkins
3137 Park Av.
Minneapolis Minn

M 233
BUREAU OF PENSIONS
Finance Division
SEP 15 1923 192 ..
Chief of Section  Finance Division
Sir:
I have this day received from C.O. Hodgkins  M.O. No. 157,371 for $ 1.60 requesting post-office address as per letter herewith.
Copies mailed and Finance Div. not. Sept. 27, 23. J.W. Wilson REV. WAR SECTION
Respectfully,
O. J. RANDALL
Chief Finance Div.
M.O. $1.60 recd W
money order for the sum of one dollar and d photo-stat copy of the pension papers of my and his widow Ruth (W.File 14936) 9 pages same in the near future,
OK
very truly yours
C.O. Hodgkins 3137 Park Ave Minneapolis Minn
Sept. 24. 23. W 14936
ccs.
REV. WAR SECTION.
New Clerk.
Serial 14936 No. 14936
132 5/16

M.O. $1.60 recd W
Mr Hayes Haymaker, Bureau of Pensions, Dear Sir:-
I am enclosing a money order for the sum of one dollar and sixty cents, for a certified photo-stat copy of the pension papers of my ancestors William Hodgkins and his widow Ruth (W.File 14936) 9 pages OK
Hoping to receive the same in the near future,
very truly yours
W. Hodgkins 3137 Park Ave Minneapolis Minne
September 11, 1923.
(MF 42)  Name Wm Hodgkins Date Sept. 24. 23. No. W 14936 Rev.  Photographic copies wanted of 7 pieces, consisting of 9 pages.  Remarks: Exp. W. Wilson REV: eFAR SECTION.  Serial 1846 Low Clerk. No. 1846
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AUG 22 1923
Commissioner of Pensions, Washington, D. C.,
Dear Sir:-
I should like very much to obtain a copy of the pension papers of my great grandfather, William Hodgkins, a Revolutionary soldier, who died in Grand Isle county, Vermont, in 1842.
He enlisted in New Hampshire. After his death the pension was paid to his wife, Ruth(Brown)Hodgkins, who died in 1848. A letter recently received from her grand-daughter, says that the widow was obliged to go to Plattsburgh to receive her money.
Please let me know of how many pages the papers consist, and what it would cost to have a photo-stat copy made of it.
Thanking you in advance for this courtesy
very truly yours
Charles O. Hodgkins 3137 Park Ave.
Minneapolis Minn.
9 pgs

Ref. War Section.
aw Sept. 5, 1923.
C. O. Hodgkins, 3137 Park Ave. Minneapolis, Minn.
Sir:
I have to advise you that if you desire photo-stat copies of the original papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, W. File 14936, of William Hodgkins and his widow Ruth, the same will be furnished you under the provisions of the Act of Aug. 24, 1923, at the rate of fifteen cents a page, with twenty-five cents extra for certification, if that is desired.
The number of pages to be copied is nine.
The proper amount should be forwarded to this Bureau by money order, drawn to the order of the Secretary of the Interior.
Respectfully,
Hayo Haymaker
Acting Commissioner.
If copies are paid for send these except pages marked omit And count the discharge as one page & remove it from declaration