Military Records

Isaac Hoard Pension File

The following documents were retrieved from the pension files on micro film at the Lansing, Michigan library.
Mass. Hoard, Isaac S.10857
Doc #1

29,949Albany N YorkIsaac HoardYates Co in the State of New YorkWho was a private in the company commandedBy Captain Angel of the regt commanded By Col. Brown in the Massachusettstime for 8 monthsInscribed on the Roll of Albany NYIs the rate of 96 Dollars 66 cents per annumTo commence on the 4th day of March, 1831Certificate of Pension issued the 3 day of June1835 and Sent to ChesterLoomis, Rushville, Ont Arrears to the 4th of March 35 $106.64Semi-anl. Allowance ending 4 Sept 13.33 ====== $119.97 ====== Revolutionary Claims, Act June 7, 1832Recorded by Dan Boyd clerk,Book 82 vol. 4 page 30

(Note document is frayed on both the left right hand side and part of the text is missing, transcription is believed to be accurate)

Document #2

War Department,

Pension Office,

183

Sir:

The evidence in support of your claim, under the act of June 7, 1832, has been examined, and the papers are herewith returned. The following is a statement of your case in a tabular form. On comparing these papers with the following rules the subjoined notes, you will readily perceive that objections exist, which must be removed, before a pension can be allowed. The notes and the regulations will show what is necessary to be done. Those points to which your attention is more particularly directed, you will find marked in the margin with a brace ( thus } ). You will, when you return your papers to this Department, send this printed letter with them; and you will, by complying with this request, greatly facilitate the investigation of your claim.

A Statement; showing the Service of Isaac Hoard Yates Co NY

Period When Duration of the Rank of Names and Rank Names and Rank Battles in which Country Places of abode Evidence by
the service claimants service the of the Company of the General the applicant through when he entered the which the
was Years Months Days claimant officers under and Field officers was engaged which he service, and age at declaration is
rendered whom he served marched the present period supported
1775 Priv. Capts Gens None Mass Aged 78 Traditionary
May Enlist 8 Angel Brewer Albany
County
June 1776 5 Sergt. Bentley Graham N.Y. N.Y.
Enlisted

June 1777
Vol Priv. Dennison Bateman Skirmish

Called out on sudden alarms ???? of which he cannot recollect

Bungs certificate.

I am, respectfully,

Your obedient servant,

J. L. Edwards,

Commissioner of Pensions
Document # 3

State of New York
Yates County

On this twenty eighth day of September personally appeared in open court before the Judge of the court of common Pleas, now sitting at Penn Yan in and for the county of Yates aforesaid, Isaac Hoard a resident of the town of Middlesex in the said county and state, aged seventy eight 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 7, 1832.
That he entered the service of the United States and under the following named officer, and served as is hearin stated.
In the month of May of the year 1775 he enlisted to serve as a soldier for the term of eight months under Captain Abiathar Angel in Col. David Brewer regiment of the State Troop, or militia of the State of Massachusetts. The Lieut. Col. Of the said regiment was Rufus Putnam. The said company assembled at Worcester in the said state and within a few day was marched to Roxbury near Boston at which place and at Dorchester Heights deponent was stationed till the expiration of his said term of enlistment, when he was discharged and returned home. No written discharge was received by the deponent.
In the month of June of the following year (1776) he again enlisted, as a Sergeant, in a company of New York State Troop, under Capt. Caleb Bentley, 1st Lieut. Valleck & 2nd Lieut. Peter McGee in a Regiment commanded by Col. Graham, & Major Henry Van Rensselaer, for the term of five months, and marched forthwith from Hoosic in the State of New York to Fort Constitution on the Hudson River where he did duty as a soldier till the expiration of his said term of enlistment when he wag again discharged.
In the month of June of the year 1777 he volunteered to serve as a soldier in a company of New York Militia under Capt. Isaac Dennison, Lieut. Stephen Niles and Ensign James Jones, in a regiment commanded by Col. Bateman and Maj. Van Buren, in General TenBuecks brigade, and immediately marched for Fort Ann in the said State. The said deponent continued to do duty as a soldier in the said company and with the army first under the command of General P Schuyler and subsequently under General Gates, at Fort Edward Stillwater and vicinity, till late in the month of October, and after the surrender of Gen. Burgoyue when he was again dismissed. During said tour of service he was repeatedly engaged in skirmishes with the enemy particularly one near Fort Miller on the opposite side of the Hudson from the place in which deponent recollects to have been an officer, said to have been an aid decamp to General Arnold, wounded in the neck, and Lieut, Staats, shot through the leg. The time of such service of deponent under Capt. Dennison was about four months.
The said deponent further saith that he was subsequently called in actual service as a soldier in the Militia of the State of New York, on short expeditions and on sudden alarm, the particular of which or the order in which they occurred cannot now be recollected and detailed by him.
The said deponent further states

1st That he was born in Tiverton in the State of Rhode Island on the 14th day of May in the year 1754 ---

2 Has no record of his age, except a memorandum there as made by his parents

3rd Lives at a place in the State of New York called Little Hoosic, then in the county of Albany when first called into service as aforesaid has lived since the revolutionary war at Cobleskill at Cherry Valley and at Middlesex, all in the State of New York at which latter place he has resided more than twenty years last past and now resides

4 That he went into service by voluntary enlistment and as a volunteer as ---- before stated.

5th That he recollects Gen. Heath, Col. Brewer, Col. Rufus Putnam, Maj. Danelson, Capt. Angel, Capt. Wright, Capt. Walbridge, Capt. Packard and Capt. Hartford in service near Boston in the year 1775. Also Gen. Schuyler, Gen. Gates, and Gen. Arnold, Col. Bateman, Maj. Van Bus---, Capt. Turner, Capt. Shaw, Capt. Darrow, and Capt. Dennison and Capt. Trotter at Saratoga and vicinity.

6th That he never received any written discharge from service but was verbally dismissed by the commanding officer wherever he left such service. That he knows of no person now living by whom he can prove his said services of their personal knowledge.

7 That Edward Craft & Alexander Parkman residing in the town of Middlesex aforesaid who are well acquainted with the said deponent and who can as he believes testify as to his character for truth and veracity, and their belief of his services as a soldier of the Revolution. He hereby relinquishes every claim to a pension or annuity except the present, whatever and declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of the agency of any State.

Isaac Hoard (signed)

Subscribed and sworn the
Day and year aforesaid
Thomas J Norris Deputy Clerk

(Note: this is a hand written document which when copied has another document bleeding through and in some spots is very difficult to transcribe. Some names of officers may be incorrect)

Document #4

State of New York
Ontario County

Simeon Hoard being duly sworn doth on his oath depose and say that he is of the age of eighty one years, that he now resides in the town of Sheldon in the county of Genesee and State aforesaid. That during the War of the Revolution he lived at a place then called Little Hoosic, but which has since been known as Stephentown, now in the County of Renssulaer in the State of New York aforesaid that Isaac Hoard of the town of Potter, late town of Middlesex in the county of Yates and State aforesaid is his brother. That he this deponent distinctly remembers that the said Isaac Hoard who resided with deponent in the house of their father during the said war, left his said residence on or about the 1st of May 1775 for the declared purpose of joining the American troops near Boston. That deponent there understood and verily believes that the said Isaac Hoard enlisted for the term of eight months and deponent knows that he was absent about that period at the expiration of which he the said Isaac returned to his fathers house aforesaid having served as this deponent understood and has ever since verily believed as a soldier in the American Army during the time of his absence.
Deponent further saith that about the first of June in the year 1776 the said Isaac Hoard enlisted as a soldier under Capt. Bentley,. Deponent was present at the said enlistment and knows the fact. The said Isaac Hoard was absent several months, as deponent then understood and has ever since verily believed serving as a soldier of the State Troops of the State of New York on the Highland and along the Hudson River. Deponent also recollects that the said Isaac Hoard early in the season of 1777 departed under the command of Captain James Dennison in a company of militia, to join the army understood to be at or near Fort Edward. Deponent was also called into service as a soldier in the same summer and while at Ford Edward and at various other places deponent saw his said brother Isaac Hoard doing duty as a soldier and as this deponent then understood and now verily believes that said Isaac Hoard was in actual service as a soldier nearly the whole -------- and until the surrender of Gen. Burgoyue.
Deponent further saith that in the following year viz 1778 as he thinks as to the time, he and the said Isaac Hoard was called out also and both deponent and his said brother marched from Little Hoosic aforesaid in a company commanded by Capt. S. Niles in a regiment commanded by Col. Van Rensselaer to Schohanie where a short tour of duty of a week or two was performed. Deponent further saith that from his knowledge and recollection of the various times at which his said brother Isaac Hoard was in actual service as a soldier in the war of the Revolution as he then understood and verily believes he the said Isaac Hoard must have so served in the whole more than one and a half year.
And further the said deponent saith not.

Simeon Hoard (signed)
Sworn and subscribed to
The 3rd day of December 1833
Before me the subscriber a Judge
Of the Court of Ontario County, NY
And I certify that I know the said

(Note this document is hand written evidently by a Judge but he is not identified)

Document #5 November 17, 1982

Miss Edna Hewson
State Normal School
Mansfield RA-J/ILL
Pennsylvania. Isaac Hoard
S. 10857
Dear Madam:

Reference is made to your letter of November 14, 1932, with the information for the identification of the record of Isaac Hoard, the Revolutionary War soldier in whom you are interested.

The record given below is obtained from the papers on file in pension claim, s. 10857, based upon the service of Isaac Hoard in that way.

Isaac Hoard was born May 14, 1754 in Tiverton, Rhode Island. During the Revolution, his home was with his father, whose name is not given, in the town of Little Hoosick, Albany County, New York.

Isaac Hoard volunteered about May 1, 1775, served as private in Captain Abiather Angels Company, Colonel David Brewers Massachusetts Regiment, which company was later commanded by Lieutenant Warren, and in Captain Wright's Company in that same regiment, and was stationed in the vicinity of Boston until the expiration of a service of eight months. Sometime in June, 1776, he enlisted and served as corporal and sergeant in Captain Caleb Bentleys Company, Colonel Grahams New York Regiment, part of the time on duty at Fort Constitution on the Hudson, length of this service five months, he enlisted late in June, 1777, served as private in Captain James Dennisons Company, Colonel Batemans New York Regiment, was at Fort Ann and Fort Edward and in repeated skirmishes with the enemy, one near Fort Miller, and served until after the surrender of Burgoyue, he served a short tour in 1778 in Captain S. (possibly meant for Stephen) Niles Company, and was on subsequent short tours, no details of these later services given.

Following the war, the soldier lived in Coblskill, Cherry Valley, and after that, in Middlesex, Yates County, New York.

He was allowed pension on his application executed September 28, 1832, while a resident of Middlesex, New York; he had lived there more than twenty years. In 1834, he resided in Potter, Yates County, New York.

The soldier died June 20, 1841.

In 1833, Simeon Hoard, the soldiers brother, resided in Sheldon, Genesee County, New York he was then eighty-one years of age. In 1834, one Samuel Hoard resided in Berlin, Rensselaer County, New York, no relationship to the soldier stated.

It is not shown that the above noted Isaac Hoard was ever married.

Very truly yours

A.D. Hiller
Assistant to Administrator.

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Revolutionary Pension file
Pension Application David Hoard #W16298
Service: New York Lydia

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Albany 5048
Lydia Hoard
Widow of David Hoard

and who died on the 20 June 1805 of Genesee Co. in the State of New York who was a Private N.Y., in the company commanded by Captain Harrison of the Regt. commanded by Col. Willett in the NY Levies line for 6 months and 17 days.

Inscribed on the Roll of Albany at the rate of 21 Dollars 88 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March 1836.

Certificate of Pension issued the 17 day of Feb 1840 and sent to New York
Gates, HR

Arrears to the 4th of Sept. "39 $76.48
Semi-annual allowance ending Oct '41 10.94
$87.42

(Act July 7,)
( 1838 )
Recorded by D Brown Clerk
Book A, Vol 2, Page 82.

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State of New York )
Chautaugua County )SS Samuel Hoard of the town of Ellery in said county being duly sworn does depose and say that he is Eighty one years of age that he now resides in the said town of Ellery and has for about four years resided in the same town. And the deponent further says that he had a brother by the name of David Hoard who died in the year eighteen hundred and five and was when he died forty eight years old, that the said David Hoard at the time of his death lived in the town of Sheldon in the County of Genesee in said state. And the deponent further says that the said David Hoard was a Soldier in the revolution, that he was in the active service during said war, as much as two years or more as this deponent verily believes and according to his best recollection. That the said David entered the service first in the town of Little Hoosack, in the state of New York and at the time of his first enlistment the said David lived in the town of Hoosack in the County of Albany (now Rensselaer). Enlisted first under Col. Wynkoop for nine months in the Continental troops and marched to Tyconderoga. He thinks he entered the service in the month of April, cannot recollect dates but thinks it was one of the first campaigns of the war or soon after the taking of Tyconderoga by Col. Ethan Allen, heard his bro. David say that he went with boats to help bring the army from the Isle of Anx (?) on their retreat from Quebec. This deponent further saith that the said David Hoard afterwards served as a Continental Soldier, thinks under Capt. Harrison.

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and marched to Palmerstown(?) And engaged in Indian Scouting as this deponent was informed at that time think that he served six or nine months in said campaign.
This deponent further saith that the said David Hoard took this deponents place as a substitute in the Militia and marched to Stillwater at the time Burgonyne lay at Bemis Heights. Said David Hoard served twelve or fifteen days and was sent home to my fathers house sick. This deponent further saith that he the said deponent and the said David Hoard was called out as Militia men and marched to Schenectady(?) together and served one month under Lieut Hubbs was dismissed and returned home together thinks the said services were ending the summer after Burgonyne surrendered.
This deponent further saith that the said David Hoard afterwards enlisted in the Continental service marched to Fort Stanley. Commanded by Capt. Harrison and thinks that he served eight or nine months and was discharged at Schenectady this deponent was present when he was dismissed and accompanied him home to his fathers house.
This deponent further saith that he was living in the family with the said David Hoard at the time of his marriage, deponent was not present at the marriage ceremony but does know from common report that he was legally married to Lydia Gates who was a sister to deponent's wife in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty three and thinks that the marriage took place in the month of October and that they lived together

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as man and wife until his death and that the said Lydia Hoard (his widow) has not been married since.
his
Sworn to and subscribed Samuel X Hoard
This 12th day of July mark
AD 1839
Before Me
Wm H Trenton(?) J. Peace

I hereby certify that I am well aquatinted with Samuel Hoard (who made the above affidavit) and can say that he is a man of good reputation and fair character and full credence can be given to his statement.
Wm. H Trenton(?) JP

State of New York )
County of Chautaugua ) I George W. Kev Clerk of said county certify that William H Trenton(?) a Justice of the Peace of said county as is above mentioned, and that the signatures Wm H Trenton subscribed to the foregoing proceedings supporting to be his as genuine. In testimony where of I have here unto set my hand & seal of office this 13 day of July 1839.
G.W. Kev, clerk

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North Sheldon, March 16, 1851(?)

Dear Sir

Having seen your notice (in the Genesee Farmer) to widows and heirs of the soldiers of the Revolution I take the liberty to inquire whether heirs are entitled to pensions which widows failed to obtain while living and likewise if the records lately found have any of David Hoard's services who was a soldier of the of the Revolution in different campaigns and whose widow Lydia Hoard applied 1840 under act
granting half pay and pensions to certain widows approved July 7th 1836 for two years service but was not allowed for but 6 months and 17 days. I think positive proof was made of twelve or fifteen months service at different times. I find in the journals of the House of Representatives Sep 21, 1840. On motion of Mr. Gates, Resolved that the committee on Revolutionary Pensions be directed to inquire into the propriety of increasing the pension of widow Lydia Hoard and likewise that the said committee resolved that this commissioner of pensions had wholly disregarded the testimony of two important witnesses and that the pension of Lydia Hoard ought to be increased. My Father David Hoard was a resident of Albany Co. NY and served mostly in NY. I suppose the application and papers can be referred to in the pension office. My mother drew about 21 dollars a year for 9 years only. I believe there was an additional grant of one year due her which she never which she never drew. She died soon after the year expired.
If you find there is something legally ours due, I would be glad of your assistance to obtain it.
Yours Respectfully
Henry Hoard

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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 York)
Genesee County ) ss

On this Twenty third day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and
thirty nine personally appeared before me Allen S Stevens a Judge of Genesee County Courts in the said State of New York Lydia Hoard a resident of the Town of Sheldon in the county of Genesee and State of New York aged Eighty-one 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 pensions to certain widows." That she is the widow of David Hoard who was a private soldier in the Army in the Revolutionary War. That he served as follows that he enlisted as a private at Little Hoosack then in Albany County in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Wynkoop in April in the year

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1776 and marched to Tycondaroga and served in said regiment for the term of nine months and was than discharged. That then said David Hoard enlisted as a private soldier at Hoosack as aforesaid in Captain Harrisons company in the year 1777 in the spring of the year and served six months in said company, but she does not know in what regiment he served. That he served 15 days in the fall of the year 1777 as a substitute for Samuel Hoard at Stillwater and there abouts and went home sick.
That this said David Hoard served as a drafted Militia man and a private in the summer of 1778 in the company of Militia commanded by Lieutenant Hubbs for the term of one month.
That the said David Hoard enlisted as a private soldier at Little Hoosack as a -----(?) river ----(?) Berlin in the spring of the year 1780 in Captain Chipmary Company in Colonel Harpers Regiment of Militia for the term of nine months in said company and regiment and served at Fort Edwards, Fort Arns as a scout at Palmira Station and at Schenectady(?) and closed his service at Fort Stanwix and he served in said company and regiment the said term of nine months as a private soldier.
She further declares that she was married to the said Davie Hoard on the Sixth day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty three, in the town of Hoosack than in the county of Albany but now in the county of Rensselaer

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in the state of New York. That her husband the aforesaid soldier David Hoard died on the twentieth day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and five in the Town of Sheldon in the county of Genesee in the state of New York. That she has not been married since but is the widow of the said David Hoard whose services are proved by the affidavit of Samuel Hoard and Ludwick Thomas. That she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place previous to the first of January in the year of our Lord seventeen hundred and ninety four being at the time above stated. That she has no documentary widows to support her claim.

Sworn to and subscribed )
On this day and in the year > Lydia Hoard
Above written before me )
A. S. Stevens
A Judge of Genesee County Courts

State of New York )
Genesee County ) ss

I Allen S Stevens do hereby certify that I am acquainted with the above named Lydia Hoard and that she is feeble in health and is not able to attend any court to make the foregoing declaration for a pension or warrant of her bodily infirmity.

A S Stevens
A Judge of Genesee County Court
dated July 23, 1839

Page 10 of David Hoards Rev. War Pension Papers

March 8 (?), 1937

Mr. Henry H. Hoard
The H. H. Hoard Company
S/S Standard Building
Cleveland, Ohio

David Hoard, W. 14____
Henry Hoard, S. G.24706
HA-J/MD

Dear Sir:

Reference is made to your letter of recent date, in which you request the Revolutionary War record of David Hoard, also, of his son, Henry Hoard, who served in the War of 1812 from Wyoming County, New York.

The records of David Hoard and Henry Hoard are furnished you, as follow:

DAVID HOARD
W. _____

The data herein were obtained from the papers on file in pension slots, W. 18223, based upon service of David Hoard in the Revolutionary War.

The data and place of birth and name of the parents of David Hoard are not shown.

While residing in Little Hoosack, in the ___ ___, in the part of Albany County _____ known as Rensselaer County, New York, David Hoard enlisted in April, 1776, and served nine months as a private in Colonel Wynkoops New York regiment. He again enlisted in the spring of 1777 and served six months as a private in Captain Joseph Harrisons New York company. He served fifteen days in the fall of the same year as a substitute for one Samuel Hoard (relationship not designated) at Stillwater, names of officers not shown. He enlisted in the summer of 1778 and served one month as a private under Lieutenant Hubbs in the New York troops. He enlisted in the spring of 1780 and served as private in Captain Harrisons company, Colonel John Harpers New York regiment, length of tour nine months.

The soldier died June 20, 1805, at the age of forty-eight years, in Sheldon, Genesee County, New York, where he was then living.

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David Hoard married October 6, 1783, in Little Hoosack, New York, Lydia Gates. The date and place of her birth and names of parents are not given.

Soldiers widow, Lydia Hoard, was allowed pension on her application executed July 23, 1839, at which time she was aged eighty-one years and a resident of Sheldon, New York. She died prior to 1851.

The only child of David Hoard and his wife, Lydia, whose name was designed in the claim, was a son, Henry Hoard, who in 18__ was a resident of Sheldon, Genesee County, New York, his age not stated. In 1851, his post-office address was North Sheldon, Wyoming County, New York.

In 1839, David Hoards brother, Samuel Hoard, was aged eighty-one years and living in "Ellery", Chautauqua County, New York, where he had been a resident four years. Samuel and David Hoard married sisters, the name of Samuels wife not given. In 18__, one __ra Gates, aged seventy three years, was living in ____ington, Genesee County, New York, his relationship to soldiers wife, Lydia, not stated.

In 1859 and 1860, one Honorable Seth M. Gates was a member of the United States House of Representatives; his relationship to David Hoards wife, Lydia, not shown.

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HENRY HOARD
S.C. 26704

You are furnished herein the record of Henry Hoard as found in claim for pension, S. C. 26704, based upon his service in the War of 1812.

Henry Hoard was born in Stephentown, Rensselaer County, New York; the date of his birth and name of parents are not stated.

Henry Hoard volunteered at Buffalo, or at Sheldon, New York, and served from the last of August or first of September, 1814, fifteen days as private in Captains Gordon __rl_urts and Lemuel Castles companies, in the New York troops, stationed on the Niagara Frontier.

On account of his service in the War of 1812, Henry Hoard applied May 1, ____, for bounty land, while residing in Sheldon, Wyoming County, New York. On this application, warrant No. __255, for one hundred sixty acres of bounty land was issued to him, under the 1st of March 3, 1853 (?). In 18__, he was still living in Sheldon, New York.

This document copyright 1-16-2001 by S. Hoard, Shirley Pratt
Transcribed by Shirley Pratt & S. Hoard
Proofread by S. Hoard

Revolutionary War Pension application Samuel Hoard

Declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of July 7, 1832
Form for State Troops, etc.

State of New York )
> ss
County of Rensselaer )
On this third day of October 1832 personally appeared in open court, before the Judges of the Court of Common pleas of said county now sitting Samuel Hoard a resident of Berlin, County of Rensselaer and state of New York aged Seventy four 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 7, 1832.
_________ the service of the United States under the following named officers, and served as herein stated.

That in the year 1776 he resided in the town of Berlin, (then known as Little Hoosack) in the state of New York and what is now the county of Rensselaer, that in that year he entered the service as a militia man in the fall, he thinks in October in a general all-arms under Captain James Denison in Colonel Van Rensselaers regiment and went to Fort George on Lake George in the said State of New York, that he thinks he was engaged in this service about one month. That from this time to the end of the war he was more or less in the service under different officers as a militia man and served in all he verily believes a year more but what precise time he cannot now recollect. That during the period above mentioned he served under the said Capt. Denison two tours, in one of which they retreated before General Burgoine from Fort Edward to Stillwater in four different retreats this was in the year of 1777. That he also served under Captain Turner one or more tour under Captain Woodworth one tour at Schohavry under Captain David Schivmuhorn, one tour at Schohavry under Lieutenant Hobbs one tour at the same place under Captain Niles one or more tours at Schohavry and also under the said Captain Niles upon the Mohawk River when the enemy burnt the buildings of the inhabitants. And also under Captain Niles at Sarratoga. That he has at sometimes been called out under a new commissioned officer and for a commissioned officer who were then strangers to him and whose names he does not recollect. That he has no documentary evidence of his services and that he knows of no person whose testimony he can procure who can testify to his services except what is here unto annexed
To this prescribed interrogation put by the Court he answers

1st He was born in the town of Situate in the State of Rhode Island in the year 1758.
2. Has no record of his age except on a paper in his possession.
3. He lived when he entered the service where he has ever since lived in the said town of Berlin, County of Rensselaer & State of N.Y.
4& 5 For answers to these interrogations he refers to his statement above.
6. He never received a written discharge.
7. He is known in his present neighborhood to Jeffery W Thomas and John Reeve who can certify as to his character for voracity and their belief of his services as a soldier of the revolution.

He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to the pension or an annuity, except the present and he declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State.
his
Sworn to and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid. Samuel X Hoard
Mark

Archibald Bull, clerk

We William Satterler, a Clergyman, residing in the town of Berlin Edward Whitford residing in Berlin aforesaid hereby certify that we are acquainted with Samuel Hoard who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration, that we believe him to be seventy four years of age, that he is reputed and believed, in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a Soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion.

Wm Satterler
Edward Whitford

Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
Archibald Bull, clerk

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 further certifies, that it appears to them that William Satterler who has signed the preceding certificate, is a Clergyman, resident in the town of Berlin and that Edward Whitford who has also signed the same, is a resident in the same town and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
Archibald Bull, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Rensselaer do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of Samuel Hoard for a pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office; this second day of October 1832
Archibald Bull, clerk

Transcribed by Shirley Pratt, January 15, 2001.
Proofread by S. Hoard, January 16, 2001.

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Service: New York
Hoard, Simeon
Number: S16156
Carded

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Ohio Pittsburgh
Simeon Hoard
Geauga Co. in the State of Ohio
who was a Private in the company commanded
by Captain Dennison of the Regt commanded
by _____________ in the New York
for 6 months
Inscribed on the Roll of Pittsburgh
at the rate of 20 Dollars ________ Cents per annum,
commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 12th day of July
1838 and Leut A. Phelps , Chardon Ohio
Asseals to the 4th of March 1838 $140.00
Semi=anl. Allowance ending 4 Sept. " 10.00
======
$150.00
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(Revolutionary Claim
(Act June 7, 1832
Recorded by D.D. Addison Clerk
book O Vol. 5 Page 146

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State of Ohio ) p:-
County of Geauga ) On this Twenty seventh day of December A.D. 1837, before John Hubbard an associate Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in & for the County of Geauga State of Ohio aforesaid, personally appeared Simeon Hoard a resident of Thompson in said County of Geauga & State of Ohio, aged eighty five years the twenty ninth day of August last who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision 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: - In the month of September 1775 he resided at the place called Little Hoosook in the State of New York, and in that month volunteered to serve as a private in a Company of Volunteers commanded by Captain James Dennison, the Lieutenant of which was Stephen Niles and the Ensign Oliver Bentley, to serve in Fort George on Lake George on garrison duty, and immediately marched from Little Hoosook to Fort George, and continued employed in garrison duty there for one month when he together with the said Company were dismissed, and he returned home: That afterwards in the month of July 1776, the militia of Little Hoosook & vicinity being classed and it having then become the tour of duty of the class to which he belonged, he was thus again called into service, and marched with a Company commanded by Captain Cole, whose Christian name is not now remembered, from Little Hoosook to Schohairic where a meeting - house was picketed in & converted into a fort, and they were employed in doing garrison duty in the same in which service he was employed as a private for one month, when his tour of service expired, he was dismissed & returned home. - In the month of July 1777, an order was made calling for one half of the militia in Little Hoosook & its vicinity to march onto Ticonderoga(?), and he was one of the one half thus ordered into service; - They marched from Little Hoosook to Albany, from thence to Fort Edward, where he remained for a time doing duty in keeping guard at the Fort, but was soon ordered to march on to Lake George and he accordingly marched with the other troops as far as to Bloody Pond, where they met the waggons which had been previously

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sent forward with provision to supply Ticonderoga(?), and which were returning in consequence of learning that Ticonderoga(?) had been taken, upon this he & the Troops with which he marched returned to Fort Edward, where he remained doing duty as aforesaid until the time they were called out for had espired when he was dismissed and he returned home, having served this tour one month, during this tour. James Dennison was his Captain, Stephen Niles Lieutenant, & Jacob Scheureshorn(?) Major of the Regiment in which he served - General Schursler was at Fort Edward at the time, and he believes in command at the time of the battle of Baunington in the same year he was again called into service & marched from Little Hoosook to Beuwright, under the same Captain Dennison, and was employed after the battle in gathering & securing the plunder. He served this tour one month & was then dismissed. - After this in the same year he again was called out, & served one month at the time Burgoyne was taken, under the same Captain & marched to Still-water to guard waggons with ammunition & supplies of provisions for the army acting against Burgoyne. He served one month on this tour.-
In the month of October 1778, news was brought that Butler & Brandt with their Indians stories had burnt Schohaui & committed many depredations in that part of the country, whereupon the whole militia where he lived were ordered out and he went in a company commanded by Captain Stephen Isles - They marched first to Albany where they halted & remained two days, from thence to Fort Hunter, then up to Fort Plain. Governor George Clinton was with them & commanded. He was engaged in this service for twelve days, as near as he recollects, when he returned back and was dismissed. Prior to this last mentioned tour & in the month of August 1778, he served a tour of one month, being the tour of duty of the class to which he belonged, and was stationed at the upper Fort in Schohonrie under the Command of Lieutenant Stubbs who comman-

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ded that Fort. He served one month & was dismissed. He was born at Tiverton in the State of Rhode Island, the 29th day of August 1752. He has a record of his age in his bible. Before the commencement of the Revolutionary War he moved to the State of New York, Little Hoosook where he resided until 1806, when moved into Genessee County State of New York where he lived until he removed to Thompson aforesaid the fore part of November last. That he received as written discharges, & has no documentary evidence of his said service & knows of no person whose testimony he can procure to prove the saws. He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, and declares that his name is not on the pension role of the Agency of any State
Sworn to & Subscribed the day)
& year aforesaid, before me- ) Simeon Hoard
John Hubbard Associate Judge

We Joel Stetson and Richard Sprague both residing in the township of Thompson Geauga County, Ohio, do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Simeon Hoard, who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration, that we believe him to be eighty five years of age; that he is reputed & believed, in the neighborhood where he now resides, and was reputed & believed in Genesee County, New York State, where he formerly resided where we personally knew him many years, to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.
Sworn & subscribed the day & year ) Joel Sillson
aforesaid - before me x ) Richard Sprague
John Hubbard Associate Judge
And I the said Judge, do hereby declare my opinion, after the investigation of the matter, & after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department; that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary soldier & served as he states. And I certify that Joel Tilson & Richard Sprague who signed the preceding certificate are residents of Thompson in said County, & are credible persons and that their statement is entitled to credit: Also that B.B. Drake

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State of New York )
Chantaugue(?) County )
Samuel Hoard of the town of Albany County of Chantaugue & State of New York, being duly sworn dothe depose & say that he is a Revolutionary Soldier that in the month of September - A.D. 1775 he resided at Little Hoosick in the State of New York that in said month he volunteered to serve in Fort George that at the same time his brother Simeon Hoard volunteered for the same service in the same company commanded by Captain James Dennison of which Stephen Niles was Lieutenant & Oliver Bentley was Ensign that they marched together in said company from Little Hoosick to Fort George & both did Garrison duty in said Fort for one month & were both dismissed & returned back to Little Hoosick together.
What they decided together that this day present was knowing to the said Simeons having been drafted to serve in a Fort at Schohanic in July 1776 & that he marched from Little Hoosick on that service & was gone about one month.
In the month of July 1777 a call was made for one half the militia at Little Hoosick, that this deponent & his brother Simeon were among those called out. That they both marched together in a company commanded by the said Capt. James Dennison first to Albany thence to Fort Edward & were employed in the Fort doing Garrison duty for near one month: that the said Simeon served in the same company for the same period & they

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returned home together. Immediately after the battle of Burrington this deponent was called out under the same Captain & served four of four weeks & was employed a part of the time collecting grain from the fields which had been cut & secured by the town inhabitants for the sake of the British army - that the said Simeon Hard served with this deponent in the same company during said tour.
That in the same season, & in the month of October 1777 at the time Burgoyne was taken this deponent well recollects that the said Simeon Hoard was called out to serve & marched from Little Hoosick for Stillwater under Captain Dennison & this deponent marched with said Simeon a part of the way & knows that said Simeon was absent about one month.
In the month of August 1778, this deponent served at the Tower Fort at Lihoharis(?) under Lieut. Hubbs & was employed in maintaining the Fort & doing Garrison duty therein & that according to the best knowledge & belief of this deponent said Simeon Hoard was there & did duty at the same time. But for this fact this deponent cannot state positively that the time of service of this deponent as near as he recollects was one month.
In the month of October 1778 the whole militia of Little Hoosick were called out in consequence of hearing that Butler & Brandt with Indians & Tories had burned Schohanic(?) & committed other discreditious - that said Simeon Hoard & this deponent marched together under Captain Stephen Isles first to Albany then to Fort Hunter therein to Fort Plain.

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Governor George Clinton commanded on this expedition. They were out about twelve days when they were dismissed & returned home the said Simeon served with this deponent during the whole time.
That the said Simeon Hoard lived at Little Hoosick where this deponent resided until 1806 at which time he moved to Genesee County New York where this deponent visited him several times & he continued to reside there as this deponent is informed until the fall of 1837 - that as he is also informed & believes this said Simeon now resides at Thompson Geauga County & State of Ohio.
Subscribed & Sworn ) his
before me this 21st ) Samuel X Hoard
day of April 1838 ) mark
E.F. Warren
Justice of the Peace of T County

State of New York )
Chantaugue County ) S. I George W. Tern, Clerk of said County do certify that Emory F. Warren Esg. whose name is subscribed to the foregoing pension power was a Justice of the said County at the date therein mentioned and first has that I am acquainted with the hand writing of the said Justice and verily believe the signature ".F. Warren" subscribed hereto is genuine.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said County, this 23 day of April 1838.
J.G. Tern Clerk

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This document was transcribed this 10th day of January of the year 2001 by S. Hoard.
This transcribed document copyright 1-16-2001 by S. Hoard