Pvt. Isaiah Hoskinson
State of Ohio
Licking County
On this 3rd day of November year 1832 personally appeared in open Court of Common Pleas now sitting within and for the County of Licking and state of Ohio Isaiah Hoskinson a resident of Franklin Township in said Licking County will be eighty two years of age on the 17th day of December next (if he so long lives) was born on the 27th December 1749 was born in Prince George’s County state of Maryland (his age is recorded in his fathers bible now in the possession of his sister). Who being first duly sworn in open Court doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provisions made by the act of Congress of the 7th of June 1832. That he entered the services of the United States at Martinsburgh [sic] Virginia as a volunteer for six months under Captain John Baldwin about the last of August or the first of Sept. 1777-or 1778 is not positive as to the year, and marched to Pittsburgh and joined the forces under Genl. Hand who was Commander of all the forces in western country we were then marched to Wheeling on the Ohio (then called Fort Henry) and remained there and at the BeachBottom fort until some time in the spring when he was discharged having served out his full term (was in no battles) does not recollect whether his discharge was in writing or not if it was it has been long since lost or destroyed.
In the following fall, in about the same time of year he again volunteered for another four months tour at the same place under Henry Ambrose (Captain) Lieutenant Henry Beavers—Col. John Morrow [Berkeley County, VA militia] & Major George Scott [Berkeley County, VA militia] were the officers who had the command of the Rgt. we then marched a Rgt. of us out to the mouth of Big Beaver Creek on the Ohio where we built Fort McIntosh. There we came under the command of Genl. McIntosh we then marched about one hundred miles into the Indian Country and built Fort Lawrence [Laurens] on the Tuscarawas River remained there some time when we went back to Fort McIntosh the Genl. There dismissed the Regt. to which he belonged and he returned with his[?] Regt. home where he was finally discharged having been out in this campaign about four months-he did not again enter the services of the Department. states he has resided in this state (Ohio) since the year 1805 previous thereto he resided more or less in the states of Maryland and Virginia and Pennsylvania. He states that he has no documentary evidence of his afore mentioned services nor does he know of any person now living at least in this section of the country by whom he can establish said services except his Brother Basil Hoskinson (now living in Erie Pennsylvania) who was out and served with him during the whole tour of four months under Capt. Baldwin.
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatsoever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any Agency in any state.
Isaiah Hoskinson (X)
Sworn and Subscribed in open Court
A. H. Caffee
We, Samuel McKelvey and Elijah Nichols both residing in the Township of Franklin, Licking County Ohio do certify that we are well acquainted with Isaiah Hoskinson who has subscribed and sworn to the above Declaration that we believe him to be about eighty-two years of age, that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution and served as he states and we concur in that opinion.
Samuel McKelvey
Elijah Nichols
Sworn to and subscribed in open court the day first matter mentioned
A. H. Caffee
And the Court do here by declare their opinion after an investigation of the matter, and after passing the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant Isaiah Hoskinson was a Revolutionary Soldier, and served as he states[?] and entitled to a pension for ten months service.
The Court state that Samuel McKelvey and Elijah Nichols who have signed and sworn to the foregoing _____ [there being no clergyman in the neighborhood of Mr. Hoskinson] are residents of said county known to the Court as credible persons and ____ their statement is entitled to belief.
I, Amos H. Caffee Clerk of the said Court do hereby certify the foregoing are the original proceedings of said Court in the matter of the application of Isaiah Hoskinson for a pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of said Court this 3rd day of Nov. 1832
A. H Caffee
Isaiah Hoskinson was inscribed on the roll of Ohio at the rate of $33.33 per annum that commenced on 4 March 1831. Ohio pension number 19.846.
His federal pension, S. 16157, was issued 21 September 1833 in the amount of $100.
Isaiah Hoskinson’s pension application was obtained from the National Archives in Washington, D.C. The pension was sent by Hoskinson, James of Greer, SC. Letter to the Friends of Ft. Laurens Foundation. 10 September 2006. The pension was transcribed by Fisher, Scott; Friends of Ft. Laurens Foundation. 07 April 2007.
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