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From: Jeanne Muse <>
Subject: HOAR = WHITNEY
Date: 12 Jan 97 14:17:50 EST

Hello everyone!

Back in June, Joan Hicks found something on one of her trips to the National
Archives about a HOAR who CHANGED HIS NAME to WHITNEY! Her source was the
Revolutionary War Pension Files with attached court documents. It didn't help
me, but I'm passing it along to everyone just in case. This is the type of
thing that drives us genealogists nuts!

Here is a brief outline from her e-mail message dated 6/26/96:

Benjamin Hoar/Whitney
b. abt 1758?

5/l5/1777 Enlisted from Old York, Maine (still part of Mass. at that time) for 3
yrs. in a company commanded by Capt. Samuel Darby, 2nd Reg. Inf., Mass. line.
Honorably discharged at West Point (bad copy of discharge papers in file)

Changed his name & that of all his family members to WHITNEY via petitions thru
NY State Legislature - no reason given.

Included on the petition were:
Benjamin Hoar, himself
Abigail Hoar, his wife
His minor children:
Oliver Hoar
Polly Hoar
Abigail Hoar
His "adult" children:
Abel Hoar
Silence Hoar
(no ages or birth dates were included in file)

Places referenced on his petitions:
3/3/1815 - Cambridge, Washington County, New York
4/6/1818 - "of Washington County, New York" - age "upwards of 60"
8/16/1820 - "of Salem, Washington County, New York - age 62

In 1820 he says he is a shoemaker by trade but is unable to work due to
something wrong with his right arm and reduced vision.

Love to all!
:-) Jeanne (Whitney) Muse

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