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LYDIA Declaration

In order to obtain the benefits of the third act of Congress of the 4th July 1836

State of New York, County of Seneca, on this 12th day of May 1848 personally appeared before the Court holding at Ovid in and for the said county, Leonard Hobart at present a resident of said county, after being duly sworn according to law, deposes and says that he was born in 1777 during the war of the Revolution, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the act of Congress passed July 4 1836, that this declaration is made in the name of the widow Lydia Hoar, or as she was called at the time of her death Lydia Hobart, widow of the late Leonard Hoar, and on behalf of all her surviving children.

That this deponents said mother Lydia Hoar, or Hobart, was the widow of Leonard Hoar, who was as this deponent understands and believes a soldier in the war of the Revolution, that he was a resident of Brimfield and Leichester, Worchester County, Massachusetts during the whole war of the Revolution, that he resided part of the time in one and part of the time in the other of these two towns, that as this deponent understands and believes his said father Leonard Hoar served in the early part of the war of the Revolution and went to Boston in 1775, was in the Northern army, or Fort Stanwick, was at Fort Stanwick all of one Season, was at White Plains, was in service from 1775 to 1783 as this Deponent believes, that he was under various officers and stationed at various places, that he returned home from the service in October 1783 as this deponent believes, and strange as it may seem, this deponent depons and says, that he can well recollect seeing his said father return home from the army, of his arrival at home and where this deponent first saw him at the door, that he had been absent a long time, and that he was much of the time absent during the war of the Revolution, that this deponents said father and mother were married as this deponent believes in 1765 and at any rate before the commencement of the war of the Revolution, that this deponent has one brother now living who was born in 1773 or before the Revolution, that this deponents father died in 1813 leaving his widow Lydia Hoar above named and who remained his widow at his death and that she died on the 11th day of February 1840. Surviving at her death, the following named children survived her and who still survive, being her only children and that each of them is over twenty one years of age, Dix Hobart of Courtland NY, Leonard Hobart now of (???) NY, Lydia Gillett of Onondaga Co. NY and Benjamin B. Hobart of Michigan. The original name was Hoar but by a law of the State of New York it was changed to Hobart which is the present name. That said Leonard Hobart is a respected person.

Sworn before the Court in open Court at the date above written.
J.K. Richardson (Signed) Leonard Hoar
County Judge of Seneca County Leonard Hobart

Part two of the Deposition

Application for certificate of Revolutionary Services made by a son of the party who rendered the service.

State of New York
County of Seneca, Town of Ovid

The Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts is hereby requested to furnish evidence from the Rolls in his office, of the service of my late father Leonard Hoar in the war of the Revolution. He was probably a native of the town of Brimfield where he was married in 1765. During a part of the revolution he resided there, also he resided in Leichester during the revolution, Worchester County, Massachusetts. He enlisted from the town of Brimfield, or Leichester in the County of Worchester, State of Massachusetts. In the first part of the war, probably spring of '75 went to Boston, can not name his officers in the Regiment.

The most that is recollected is that he went to Boston in the early part of the war, probably Spring of 1775-was called to the North Ticonderoga and Crown Point, was in the battle of White Plains, had one tour up the Mohawk in the State of New York, was stationed some time at Fort Stanwick, was at West Point and New Jersey, and in service four or five years, and probably the years from 1780 to Oct. 1783. The son recollects of his father returning in Oct. 1783 after an absence of two or three years, probably as a private or it may be as a non commissioned officer.

Signed by said agent Witness my hand this 29th day of
Arad Jay in my presence April 1848 - Leonard Hobart
Julius Foster-Justice By Arad Jay-his agent
I certify that the said Arad Joy appears from a written authority and he is a lawful agent.

Note: Written on the margin, the following; The name has been changed by the law of the State of New York from Hoar-to Hobart, by which last name the family are now known.

Transcribed from microfilm record, Series: M805, Roll: 431, Image: 384, File: R5067, by Richard Allen Brownell Sr. on this 29th day of June, 2006, for genealogical use by the descendants of the Hoar Family.

Lydia married Leonard Hoar 25 Apr 1765, Brimfield, Hampden, Massachusetts. Leonard (son of Leonard Hoar and Marcy Morgan) was born 10 Aug 1742, Brimfield, Hampden, Massachusetts; died 1814, Onondaga County, New York. [Group Sheet]

1. Jacob Hoar was born 1765; died 9 Oct 1846, Pompey, Onondaga, New York.
2. Edward Hoar was born 5 Nov 1769, Brimfield, Hampden, Massachusetts; died 1810, Onondaga County, NY.
3. Dix Hobart was born 1773, Brimfield, Hampden, Massachusetts; died Mar 1860, Preble, Cortland, New York; was buried , Preble, Cortland County, New York, USA.
4. Jonathan Hoar was born Abt 1775; died 1828, Onondaga County, NY.
5. Leonard Hoar was born 1777, Mass; died Aft 1848.
6. Lydia Hoar was born 1780, Massachusetts, United States; died 13 May 1862, Pompey, Onondaga, New York.
7. Aaron C. Hobart was born Abt 1781; died 1838, Fabius, Onondaga, New York.
8. Benjamin B Hoar was born Abt 1781; died Aft 1840.

Edward married Experience Stone. [Group Sheet]