Oliver Hopkins

Oliver Hopkins
Home Up Families Email List Signup

 

 

 

Oliver Hopkins

can go in the military records section under RI and NY

Oliver Hopkins Pension Application, Declaration
State of New York County of Cortland.
In order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832
 
On this second day of October 1832 in open Court being a court of Common
Pleas now sitting Oliver Hopkins aged 76 years, a resident of the town of
Virgil in the County and State aforesaid being first duly sworn according
to law on his oath makes the following declaration in order to obtain the
benefit of the act of Congress passed on the seventh day of June 1832.

I enlisted at Providence in Rhode Island and joined the army at Boston on
the 25th day of April 1775 under the command of Capt. Stephen Kimball,
Lieut. Jonathan Smith and in Col. Hitchcock's regiment and Served nine
months and ten days.  I was at Roxbury at the time of the Battle of
Bunker's Hill  and was discharged.  About the tenth day of September 1776 I
again entered the service and served three months under Capt. James
Williams,  Lieut. Bacon and in Col. John Cook's Regiment in the town County
and State of Rhode Island.  We were guarding the shore when the British
came in and the troops went to a place called Howland's Ferry and I was
there again discharged.  I again Entered the army about the 20th day of
October 1777 at Providence in Rhode Island and served under Capt. Isaac
Pain and Col. Cornwall.  It was what was called Gen. Spencer's Expedition
and Served forty days.  In the latter part of July 1778 I again entered the
Service under Capt. Gideon Cornwall and Col. Green in the town of
Middletown and Served twenty days in Gen. Sullivan's Expedition and was
discharged.  About the first day of Jan 1779 I entered the Service under
Capt. Edwards, Col. John Caldwell in the town of Warwick State of Rhode
Island, we were guarding the Shore.  This service was done as a Substitute
for Jonah Hopkins my father one month.  I then went right on and served one
month more in Capt. Isaac Hopkins Company and under the said Col. Caldwell
as a Substitute for Oliver Carver.

He Hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except
the present and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the
agency of any State, he further says that he served in the Revolutionary
Army one year four months and a half.

1st   I was born in a town now called Foster in the County of Providence
and State of Rhode Island in the year 1756.
2nd I have no record of my age
3rd Lived in Scituate now called Foster when I entered the service.
4th I went as a volunteer except the two times that I went as a substitute
as Stated in my deposition one month for Jonah Hopkins my father and one
month for Oliver Carver
5th I have Stated under what officers I served in my deposition
6th I received a discharge for my first nine months Service at Boston,
Signed bt Lieut. Col. Cornwall.  I know not where it is now.
Signed,     Oliver Hopkins

On the twenty eighth day of October Eighteen Hundred & Thirty Nine
Personally appeared before the Subscriber William Berry Esq a Judge of the
Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Cortland and State of New
York the same being a Court of record,   Susanna Hopkins resident of Virgil
in the County of Cortland and State of New York aged Eighty four 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 pension made by the act
of Congress passed July 4, 1836 - That She is the Widow of Oliver Hopkins
who was a Pensioner under Act of Congress Passed 7th June 1832.  She
further declares that she was married to the said Oliver Hopkins on the
Sixteenth day of January Seventeen Hundred and seventy seven 1777 in the
Town of Foster in the county of Providence in the State of Rhode Island by
a priest by the name of John Williams - That her Husband the aforesaid
Oliver Hopkins died on the Seventh day of April Eighteen Hundred and Thirty
Nine and that She has remained a Widow  ____  that ___  as Will more fully
appear by reference to the proof hereto

I Josiah Westcott of Scituate in the County of Providence and State of
Rhode Island aged 58 years do say upon oath that I am the town clerk of the
Town of Scituate and have been for twenty five years ______, and that as
such am keeper of the Records of Marriages in Said Town, that I have
carefully examined the Records of marriages in Said Town for the Year 1777,
by which it appears that Oliver Hopkins of Scituate Son of Jonah Hopkins
and Susanna Bennet of Scituate Daughter of Josiah Bennet were lawfully
Joined together in Marriage on the Sixteenth day of January Seventeen
hundred and Seventy Seven, the  ______ is a true copy of the record with
the exception of the state which is _____ on the Record in ______ legable
as follows,
I certify that Oliver Hopkins of Scituate, Son of Jonah Hopkins and Susanna
Bennet of Scituate daughter of Josiah Bennet, were lawfully Joined together
in Marriage on the 16th day of January Anno Domini 1777.  By me
the__________ John Williams

January 21, 1778, John Wescott Town Clerk, I Josiah Westcott above named
depose and say that I hold the Office of Town Clerk in the County town and
State aforesaid & that the above is a true extract from the records of Said
Town, with the exception above named as ___________ by me
John Wescott town Clerk.
Sworn before me, Jonas Titus, Public Notary, February 15th 1840

On the Twenty Eighth day of October Eighteen Hundred and Thirty nine
personally appeared before the Subscriber William Berry Esqr. a Judge of
the Court of Common Pleas in and for Said County of Cortland and State of
New York   Bennet Hopkins Resident of Virgil in Said County of Cortland
aged Fifty Seven Years, Who being first duly sworn according to law doth
depose and say that he is a son of Oliver Hopkins and Susanna Hopkins - the
anxed applicant for a pension, he further says that Oliver Hopkins his
father was the identical person described in the anxed Pension Certificate
No 20403 and that Oliver Hopkins this deponent's father died on the Seventh
day of April Eighteen Hundred & Thirty Nine 1839   and that his mother
Susanna Hopkins has remained a widow ever since his father's death - and
further this deponent sayth not.

Beverly Schonewolf <[email protected]>

 

This Page is Copyrighted by "Hopkins List"

 

Please send broken links to: [email protected] email.GIF (14954 bytes)