Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 8722, William Hopkins, N.H.

SERVICE
NUMBER
N. 16.
Hopkins, William
S. 8722
CONTENTS
carded

10.763. New Hampshire
William Hopkins of Hillesboro in the State of N H who was a Private in the company commanded by Captain _____ of the regt commanded by Col Dearborn in the N H line for 6 Mos 15 Days
Inscribed on the Roll of N H at the rate of 21 Dollars 66 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 24 th day of Sept 1833 and sent Sits Brown Farmington N H
Arrears to the 4th of Mar 1833 $43.32 Semi-ant. allowance ending 4 Sept " 10.83 $54.15
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by S H M Blair Clerk, Book 2, Vol. 1, Page 90.

18680
Williams Hopkins
N H
Prate 6 Mo & 15 Days
$21.66
Titus Brown Esq
Inverness
N H

BRIEF in the case of  William Hopkins  County of Hillsborough  in the State of Hampshire  (Act 7th June, 1832.)
 1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? Open Court  2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?  3. How old is he? 69 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.     Duly In 1780 X 6 15 Quartermaster Gen. Lord Howe + per Roll of Service  
 5. In what battles was he engaged? None  6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Fromestown Hampshire  7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditional evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? By old Army witness  8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? None 
I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
Richard Catts Examining Clerk.

No 178.
William Hopkins
18880

STATE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE.
County of Hillsborough, ss.
On this
third
day of October A.D. 1832
personally appeared in open Court before the Court of Probate, now sitting at Frances town within and for the County of Hillsborough, in the State aforesaid, William Hopkins of the town of Frances town in said county aged 69 years
Who being 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 is to say,
About the last of June or the first of July 1780 I enlisted for six months and afterwards served the time out in Capt Ellis' Company in Col. Dearborn's Regiment. The other officers of the company he thinks were Lieut. Cass and Ensign Leavitt. He joined the Army at West Point and went by the way of Kings Ferry into New Jersey and was stationed at Orange town and other places in that State, and then returned and built huts and went into winter quarters a few miles from West Point and remained there till his time was out, about the last of December and was regularly discharged. He resided when he entered the service in Frances town in the State of New Hampshire.

He 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,
William Hopkins
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid,
Edmund Parker, Judge of Probate.
We, Edmund Parker a Clergyman residing in the town of Amherst in the county of Hillsborough aforesaid, and residing in Amherst aforesaid, hereby certify that we are well acquainted with William Hopkins who has subscribed and sworn to the above, and that we believe him to be 80 years of age, that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier in the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid,
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, that after the investigation of the matter, and putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier, and served as he states. And the Court further certifies that it appears to them, that  William Hopkins who has signed the preceding Certificates is a Clergyman resident in the town of Amherst and that William Hopkins who has signed the same, is a resident in the town of Amherst and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
Edmund Parker
Judge of Probate for said County of Hillsborough.
I CHARLES H. ATHERTON, Register and Clerk of the Court of Probate, do hereby certify, that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the application of William Hopkins for a pension.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the court of Probate for said county, at Amherst in said county, this tenth day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two.
C. H. Atherton
Register and Clerk of Probate, for said county of Hillsborough.

STATE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE.
County of Hillsborough, SS.
At the Court aforesaid, On the application aforesaid, the following interrogatories were propounded to the said and the following answers given, on oath, to wit:
1. Where, and in what year were you born ? Answer,
2. Have you any record of your age, and where is it ? Answer,
3. Where were you living, when called into service, where have you lived since the Revolutionary War, and where do you now live ? Answer,
4. How were you called into service, were you drafted, did you volunteer, or were you a substitute, and if a substitute, for whom ? Answer,
5. State the names of some of the regular Officers, who were with the troops, where you served, such Continental and Militia Regiments, as you can recollect, and the general circumstances of your service ? Answer,
6. Did you ever receive a discharge from the service, and if so, by whom was it given, and what has become of it ? Answer,
7. State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood, and who can testify as to your character for veracity, and their belief of your services as a Soldier of the Revolution ? Answer,
Attest,
William Pickering
Register and Clerk.

Rev War
8722 INVALID.
File No. 8722
William Hopkins Rev War
Act: June 7 th 1832.
Index:—Vol. 12 , Page 177
[Arrangement of 1870.]

I. Thomas Brown of Antrim in the state of New Hampshire aged sixty years do hereby certify that about the first of July 1780 I entered the service of the United States in the Revolutionary War, for six months and served the term out in Capt. Ellis's company in Col. Dearborne's regiment. was stationed at Overtown & Hackett's Creek and was at these places in the state of New Jersey I went into winter quarters at a place which was called New Hampshire Village a few miles from West Point. I lived in Francestown, New Hampshire, when I entered the service. William Hopkins then and now of Francestown & also is now present enlisted at the same time & for the same term that I did. We went from Francestown & joined the Army together. He was put into a company in the same regiment in which I served. I saw him often during the service and have no doubt but he did duty faithfully during the whole time. I was discharged about the last of December. The said Hopkins left the army with me, and we travelled most of the way home together. Thomas Brown
State of New Hampshire
Hillsborough ss. August 31. 1832. Then the above named Thomas Brown personally appeared & made solemn oath that the foregoing affidavit by him subscribed is true.
Before me
Peter Brown Justice of the Peace
See the certificate affixed to my official signature sent to the Department with sundry affidavits applications in Sept.

Stephen Galt
Superintendent
W. H. Spence

I Stephen Gould now of Greenfield in the County of Hillsborough and State of New Hampshire Age seventy seven years Depose and say that I have been acquainted with William Hopkins of Franconia in said County for more than fifty years I knew him before the Revolutionary War and ever since and have lived a neighbor to him and within a few miles before and since the said Revolution I was well knowing that said Hopkins enlisted and served in said War six months in 1780. and I think in Dearborns Regiment I was out the same time and place which was in the vicinity of West Point I was in the same Regiment with him and often saw him while there, and know he served out his time faithfully
Stephen Gould
State of New Hampshire
Hillsborough County ss Be it remembered that on the thirteenth day of August A D 1832

before me William Whittier a justice of the Peace in and for the County of Essex personally appeared the before named Stephen Gould and made oath that the foregoing deposition by him subscribed contains the truth and nothing but the truth and that the said Stephen Gould is well known to me and is a credible witness Sworn and subscribed & certified by and before me
William Whittier Justice of Peace