Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W 18077, for Daniel Hurlbutt, Connecticut
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Service
Conn.
Hurlbutt, Daniel
Number W 18077
or Hurlbut
Esther
Contents
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Connecticut 2040
Esther Hurlbutt, widow of Daniel Hurlbutt, decd (deceased)
who died on the 11 of February, 1827; of Fairfield Co in the State of Connecticut who was a Capt. Sergt (Sergeant) Private (crossed out) Lieutenant in the company commanded by Captain [illegible] Comstock of the [illegible] commanded by [illegible] J. Mead in the [illegible] line for 29 days [illegible] 3 mos (months) - Sergeant  3 mons (months) - Lieut (Lieutenant)

Transcribed on the Roll of Connecticut  at the rate of 58 dollars 55 cents, per annum, commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 21st day of May 1838 and sent to B. Isaacs, Norwalk Court

Arrears to the 4th of March, 1838 $409.85

Semi-annual allowance ending 4 Sept " (1838) 29.27

Total $439.12

Revolutionary Claim,
Act July 4, 1836,
Section the [illegible]
Recorded by S. A. Elliott Clerk, Book A, Vol 2, Page 69
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V1087
Esther Hurlbutt
widow of Daniel
Conn (Connecticut)

Married in '65
Service as Capt (Captain) in 76 under
Capt Comstock 29 [illegible]

[illegible]
- 29 [illegible] [illegible]
3 mo (months) - Sergt (Sergeant)
3 mo (months) - Lieut (Lieutenant)
__
58.55
no deduction

B. Isaacs
Norwalk [illegible]
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State of Connecticut
County of Fairfield
(1)

On this 12th day of December 1836 personally appeared before this Court of Probate within and for the District of Norwalk in said county and state. Esther Hulburt a resident of Wilton in the county of Fairfield and state of Connecticut aged Ninety years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his death make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed July 4th 1836. That she is the widow of Daniel Hurlburt who was a private in Capt. Samuel Comstock Company of Militia under Col. John Mead and entered the said service according to her best knowledge and belief in August 1776 was marched to the city of New York and on the [illegible] and [illegible] six months that according to her best belief and knowledge his service for the United States as follows that in 
August 1777 entered the service in Capt Nathan Gilbert Company under Col. Abel [illegible] Mead was marched to the north [illegible] and at [illegible] made a [illegible] Sergeant and was in said service three months.

That in May 1778 said Daniel Hurlbut was appointed a [illegible] in Capt Nathan Gilbert company under Col Mead and [illegible] John and was in a number of tours of duty on [illegible] at Norwalk [illegible] in the line at [illegible] until the end or close of the Revolutionary War and was in the service for the United States as of Sept for more than eighteen months has no documentary evidence of her said husband [illegible] he had a commission which is lost. She further declares that she was married to the said Daniel Hurlbut on the Fourteenth day of March in the year Seventeen hundred and sixty five. That her husband the [illegible] Daniel Hurlbut died on the eleventh day of February Eighteen hundred and twenty seven and that she has remained a widow ever since that period as will more fully [illegible] by reference to the proof hereto annexed.

Sworn to and [illegible] on this day and year [illegible] written before this court of probate

Esther (her mark) "X" Hurlbut
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This may certify that the following is a true copy from the record, of this town of Norwalk in the County of Fairfield, State of Connecticut.

Daniel Hurlbutt was married to Naomi Stewart March 9, 1758
Ruth Hurlbutt Daughter of [illegible] Daniel & Naomi born Dec 18 1758
Hannah Hurlbutt Daughter of dec'd (deceased?) Daniel & Naomi born July 25 1761
the said Naomi wife of Daniel Hurlbutt died July 1764
the said Daniel Hurlbut was married to Esther Patrick March 20, 1765
Anna Hurlburtt Daughter of Daniel & Esther born March 8, 1766
the Anna Daughter of Daniel & Esther died June 28, 1767
Betsy Hurlbutt Daughter of Daniel & Esther born June 27, 1769
Daniel Hurlbutt Son of Daniel & Esther born Feb 11, 1772
Anna Hurlbutt Daughter of Daniel & Esther born April 6, 1774
Esther Hurlbutt Daughter of Daniel & Esther born April 3, 1776
John Hurlbutt Son of said Daniel & Esther born Oct 14, 1778
Mary Hurlbutt Daughter of Daniel & Esther born March 27, 1781
Belden Hurlbutt Son of said Daniel & Esther born April 14, 1783
Ginnie Hurlbutt Daughter of Daniel & Esther born March 27, 1786
Sarah Hurlbutt Daughter of Daniel & Esther born Oct 30, 1788
Bethia Hurlbutt Daughter of Daniel & Esther born Jan 15, 1791

Attest Benj. Isaccs town clerk of Norwalk
Norwalk Dec 17, 1836
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State of Connecticut
Fairfield County
December 12, 1836

Personally approved before the [illegible] Benj. Isaacs Justice of Peace within and for said Fairfax County Nathan Gilbert of Wilton in said county who being duly sworn according to law and says that he is Eighty Seven years of age. That he was well acquainted with Daniel Hurlbutt family of said Wilton [illegible] and well remembers that on the last of July or the first of August 1776 said Hurlbutt entered the service of the United States in Capt. Samuel Comstock company in said Wilton as a private soldier under Colonel John Mead was marched to the city of New York and from there back to Norwalk and was then on guard and in said [illegible] for six months. The [illegible] was in the same  [illegible] at the same time. 

That in August 1777 said Daniel Hurlbutt entered the service of the United States as Orderly Sergeant in this company under said Gilbert command and was marched to the Northwest under Colonel Abel to Red Hook and was then informed that [illegible] (note: perhaps the city of Binghamton) was taken then marched to Hornbeck and was in said town of duty for more than three months part of said service was under Colonel Whiting and Colonel John Mead.

That in May 1778 said Daniel Hurlbut was appointed Sergeant in the company under said Gilbert command and was in the service of the United States and the company of Colonel John Mead and Colonel Stephen St John, General Sullivan and on a number of tours of duty on guard at Norwalk, Stamford, and Hornbeck until the close of the Revolutionary War for more than eighteen months.

Signed by Nathan Gilbert

Sworn and submitted this day and year [illegible] and that I am will acquainted with Nathan Gilbert and that he is a respectable & gradable witness

Benj. Isaacs Justice of Peace
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State of Connecticut
Fairfield County
December 12th 1836

Personally appeared before this chamber Benj (Benjamin) Isaacs a Justice of Peace within and for said county Isaiah Betts of Wilton in said Fairfield County who being just duly sworn according to said (illegible] says that he is seventy five years of age and [illegible] remembers that in the spring of the year 1779 (1774?) that Sergeant Daniel Hurlbutt was a Sergeant of Capt Nathan Gilbert company and was in the service of the United States when Norwalk was burnt and was in the service in Capt Gilbert company under Col. Mead and S. John (note: Stephen St John) with the said Sergeant Hurlbutt on a great number of tours of duty from said 1779 (1774?) to the close of this war and not now [intelligible] time and the number of said times that said Hurlbutt was on duty but fully believes it was more than Eighteen months.

Sworn and submitted on this day and year of [intelligible] that I am well acquainted with said Isaiah Betts and that he is a credible and reputable witness.

Benj. Isaacs Justice of Peace

Personally appeared before this chamber this [illegible] Nathan Gilbert and further testifies that he was well acquainted with the said Daniel Hurlbutt and Esther Patrick before they were married and well remembers that they were married in the Spring of the year 1765 by a [illegible] of a boy being drowned in the river the day after the marriage they were present at this time and then saw them.

(signed Nathan Gilbert)

(written separately in document the name Isaiah Betts)

Sworn and submitted this day and year of [intelligible] and that said Nathan Gilbert is the same [intelligible] before [intelligible] and is a credible person

Isaacs Justice of Peace
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State of Connecticut
County of Fairfield
December 12, 1836

Personally appeared before the ___ a Justice of Peace with and for said Fairfield County ___ Raymond of Wilton ___ County who being first duly sworn according to law ___ and says that he was well acquainted with _______ formerly  of said Wilton ___ and well remembers he was a Sergeant  in Capt. Nathan Gilbert Company and was on a number of tours of duty at Norwalk and ___ from the Spring of the year 1780? in the service of the United States until the close of the Revolutionary War and was in the said service for more than one year ___ belonged to the same Company at the same time.

Sworn and submitted on this day and year of ___ that I am well acquainted with said ___ Raymond and that he is _____

Benj. Isaacs Justice of Peace
State of Connecticut 
Fairfield County

Personally appeared before the ___ Benj. Isaacs Justice of Peace within and for said Fairfield County Michael Abbott of Fairfield County who being sworn according to law says that he is sixty one years of age and was well acquainted with Daniel Hurlbutt formerly of said Wilton and well acquainted with his widow Esther Hurlbutt and has always lived a __ neighbor to them and knows that said Daniel Hurlbutt died in said Wilton on the 11 day of February 1824 (maybe 1829) and that said Esther Hurlbutt has remained his widow since that period.
Michael Abbott

Sworn and submitted this day and year of ___ that I am well acquainted with said Michael Abbott that he is a satisfactory witness.
Benj. Isaacs Justice of Peace
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State of Connecticut
Fairfield County
December 12th 1836
Personally appeared before the [illegible] Benjn. Isaacs, Justice of the Peace within and for said County. Esther Betts of Wilton in said County who being first sworn according to law [illegible] and says that she is sixty seven years of age and was well acquainted with Daniel Hurlbut late of said Wilton [illegible] and was well acquainted with his Widow Esther Hurlbut and will remember that said Daniel Hurlbut died in said Wilton on the 11 day of February 1827 and was [illegible] when he died and know that said Esther Hurlbut but has remained his Widow since that period.
Esther Betts
Sworn and subscribed this day and year one that I am well acquainted with said Esther Betts and that she is a reputable Witness
Benjn Isaacs Justice of Peace

State of Connecticut
County of Fairfield
I George Taylor Clerk of the Court of Probate within and for the District of Norwalk in said County and State being a Court of Record do hereby certify that Benj Isaacs whose name is subscribed to this Certificate of Proof to the foregoing depositions was on the day and date thereof and for more than one year before a Justice of Peace within and for said
Farfield County Commissioned and sworn duly authoritzed [to] administer oaths to take depositions and [illegible] arguments on with  the hand writing of said Benjn. Isaacs and
know the same to be [illegible] [illegible] whereof I have set my hand and affixed the seal of said Probate Court this 30 day of December 1836
G Taylor
Clerk
[black smudge in lower left hand corner]
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I George Taylor Clerk of this said Probate Court being a Court of Record do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the [illegible] proceeding of this said Court in the Matter of the application of Esther Hurlbut for a Pension in testimony whom of I hear [illegible] set my hand and seal of said Probate Court this 30th of December 1836.
G Taylor Clerk
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Revolutionary War Records Section
3-525
(9)
Department of the Interior
Bureau of Pensions
Washington, D.C.

In reply to your request of [intelligible], received [intelligible] for a statement of the military history of Daniel Hurlbut or Hurlbutt a soldier of the Revolutionary War, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau.

Dates of Enlistment or Appointment.
Aug 1776
Aug 1777
May 1778

Length of Service.
6 mos
3 mos
18 mos

Rank.
1st.
Orderly Sgt
Lieut (Lieutenant)

Officers Under Whom Service Was Rendered.
Captain.
Samuel Comstock
Nathan Gilbert
Nathan Gilbert

Colonel.
John Mead
Able & John Meal
Whiting
John Mead
Stephen St John

State.
Conn (Connecticut)

Battles engaged in, (check marked)
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Wilton County
Date of application for pension, Dec 12, 18? [intelligible]
Residence at date of application, Wilton Fairfield Co Conn.
Age at date of application 90
Remarks: Sol mar (soldier married) Mar 9, 1758, Naomi Stuart she died in July 1764. The children were Ruth b. Dec 18, 1748 & Hannah b. July 25, 1761. Sol mar (soldier married) Mar 20, 1765 Esther Patrick. He died Feb 11, 1827. The children were Anna b. Mar 8, 1766, [intelligible] 1767, Betsey b. June 27, 1769, Daniel b. Feb 11, 1772, Anna b. Apr 6, 1774, Esther b. Apr 3, 1776, John b. Oct 14, 1778, Mary b. Mar 27, 1781, Belden b. Nov 14, 1783, Ginnie b. Mar 27, 1786, Sarah b. Dec 30, 1788, Bertie b. Jun 15, 1791

Respectfully, 

Commissioner
6-2856
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Rev 18077
Widow, &c.

File No. 18077
Esther Hurlbutt
Wid. of Daniel Hurlbutt
Lieut Rev. War

Act: July 4, 1836
Index: - Vol. [intelligible], Page 858

Arrangement of 1870

Oct. 22, 1900
W. H. Davis. Nevada, Iowa

June 26, 1902
Miss Mabel C. Craft
San Francisco, Cal

1921 Jan 20
[intelligible] to Lillian A. Heanford, AU
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Suspended (1)
Sig let to Benjn Isaacs Apr 21. 37

dr Jan 20. '38

[intelligible]

No. 1573
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Danl Hurlbut  
Esther his wife 
Mar ? 1765
Died 1827 (6)

Aug '76 Capt Sam. Comstock  6 [illegible] 6 mo.
Aug '77 " Nath Gilbert  3 mo. Sergt
May '78 # [illegible] Lieut in my Co for [illegible] of the war.. more than 18 mo.

# 6 mo? Lt. Major '78
Nath Gilbert - wit.

- 40.  Lt
   15.  Sargt
     - 2 [illegible] [crossout] Corpl
     3.55 [.55 is written over previous amount]
(total line)
   58.55
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(5)

State of Connecticut
Fairfield County
Wilton
Feb 20, 1832

Personally appeared before me Benj Isaacs a Justice of the Peace within and for the county, [intelligible] Seth Bouton of Wilton in this county who being duly sworn according to law depose and says that he is Eighty Three years of age and was well acquainted with Daniel Hurlbut late of Wilton does and well remembers that in year 1776 Lieut Hurlbut was in the service of the United States and was marched to the city of New York in Capt Samuel Comstock company the deponent was a private in said company and we was in said [intelligible] three months that in the spring of the year 1778 said Hurlbut was appointed a Lieut in Capt Nathan Gilbert company was we was in this service of the United States from the [intelligible] Spring until the Fall of the same year according to his best recollection he must have [intelligible] six months that in the Spring of this year 1779 we entered the services of the United States under Capt Gilbert and were on guard at Norwalk and at Hornbeck and according to his best recollection said Daniel Hurlbut was in the service of the United States as a Lieut for more than six months the deponent belonged to this same company and was in Norwalk at the same time at Hornbeck and said Daniel Hurlbut served the United States as a Lieut for more than six months. The deponent was in the same company and in the same service of the United States at the same time the deponent well remembers that the said Daniel
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State of Connecticut
Fairfield County

I, Reuben A Williams, Clerk of Court of Probate within and for the District of  Norwalk and said County & State being a court of record do hereby certify that Benj Isaacs whom in-so-far [intelligible] known to me to be [intelligible] as [intelligible] to the [intelligible] of proof of the ongoing depositions  was on this day and date thereof and ever since has been a Justice of the Peace for said Fairfield County duly commissioned and authorized to administer oaths & take depositions  to give under my hand and seal of said Probate Court this 22 day of February AD 1838.

Signed R. A. Williams, Clerk
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State of Connecticut
Fairfield County
So Wilton
Feb 20, 1838

Personally appeared before me Benj Isaacs Justice of Peace written and for the county of said Samuel Stuart of Wilton in said county who being duly sworn according to law depose and says that he is ninety one years of age and was well acquainted with Daniel Hurlbutt late of said Wilton did and will remember that he was a private soldier under the command of Daniel Hurlbut as a Lieut of the company under the command of Capt Nathan Gilbert and will remember that said Lieut Hurlbut was on a number of tours of duty at Hornbeck and Norwalk from the year 1778 until the close of the war that the usual time of service was nine months each year and he fully believes and knows that said Hurlburt must have been on this tour of duty for more than Eighteen months from the time he was appointed a Lieut to the close of the war but owning to his great age and infirmities can not specify the exact time when those tours of duty took place but is confident they would amount to the times above mentioned.

Sworn and submitted this day and year of record that I am well acquainted with said Samuel Stuart that he is a credible & respectable persona and witness.

Benj Isaacs
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State of Connecticut
Fairfield County
Wilton Feb 20 1838

Personally appeared before me Benj Isaacs Justice of the Peace within and for the county of Fairfield found Joseph Burchard of Wilton in said county who being duly sworn according to law depose and says that he is seventy seven years of age and was well acquainted with Daniel Hurlbut late of said Wilton did and will remember that in the year 1778 said Daniel Hurlbut was appointed a Lieut in the company under the command of Capt Nathan Gilbert and that the deponent was a private in said company and was on a number of tours of duty under said Lieut Hurlburt at Hornbeck &  Norwalk on guard for more than twenty tours but owing to great age and infirmities can not specify the exact time but is confident said tours was for more Eighteen months the usual time of service was nine months each year.

Sworn and submitted this day and year of accord that I am acquainted with said Joseph Buchard that he is a credible person & witness

Benj Isaacs
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N. Gilbert
D. Hurlbutt
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State of Connecticut (2)
Office of the Secretary of State
Nov 30th 1836

I hereby certify that it appears [intelligible] in this office of the [intelligible] of the Gen assembly D1778 that Daniel Hurlbutt was appointed Lieutenant of the seventh company [intelligible] in the 9th regiment in this state.

I further certify that it appears from the record of the [intelligible] of the gen assembly to 1777 that Nathan Gilbert was appointed Captain of the seventh company [intelligible] in the 9th regiment in this state.

Attest Royal R Hinman and Secretary of this state.

Fees time to search certificates $1-00
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Editorial Department
San Francisco Chronicle
M.H. de Young Proprietor 

San Francisco
May 21, 1902

Bureau of Pensions, Dept of the Interior, Wash. D.C.

Dear [intelligible]:

I am writing to you for a copy of the military record or anything pertaining to Daniel Hurlbut, who enlisted at Wilton, Connecticut, in August, 1776, in August 1777, in May 1778, serving in Captain Nathan Gilbert's Company, Col. John Mead's regiment, and holding the rank of lieutenant at the date of his discharge. I wish a copy of these records sufficient to present to the Daughters of the American Revolution. If there is a fee kindly advise me of the fact and I will send it at once.

Very truly yours, 
Mabel Clare Craft

Stamped May 28, 1902 Files
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The Miami Valley Hospital
School for Nurses

Lillian A Hanford, B.S.R.N.
Principal

Dayton, O. Dec 13, 1920

Dept of Interior
Bureau of Pensions
Washington D.C.

Gentlemen:

I am looking up the record of Daniel Hurlbutt. His services were Conn Men of Rev.

P 458 Corporal - Capt Samil Comstock's Co of Wilton, 9th Reg Militia Discharged Sept 11, 1776

P 522 Lieut - Capt Nathan Gilbert's Co of Wilton Ct, Marched Oct 5, Discharged Oct 30, 1777

Captain - Kindly help me complete records.

Let me know if there is any expense connected with this.

Respectfully Lillian A Hanford
(address other side)
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Address

Lillian A. Hanford
Miami Valley Hosp.
Dayton, Ohio
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Joseph Gafford, President
T.P. Baker, Vice President
H.C. Boardman, Sec'y and Treas

Egg Shippers' Strawboard & Filler Co
Incorporated
Office of Secretary and Treasurer
Nevada, Iowa

Directors
Joseph Gafford, Burlington, Iowa
T. P. Baker, Ottumwa, Iowa
Geo. W. Nicholson, Grand Jct., Iowa
W. M. Verhey, Des Moines, Iowa
H. C. Boardman, Nevada, Iowa

Stamped [intelligible] Division
Oct 18, 1900
Received

Oct 13th, 1900

Commissioner of Pensions,
Pension Commissioners Office, Washington, D.C.

Dear Sir:

Will you kindly place on your records and send me at your earliest possible convenience certificate of service or military history of the Revolutionary Soldier Daniel Hurlbut, or Hurlburt. The name as handed down to us is Hurlbut, but I find it given in some of the records as Hurlburt, and think it may be the same man. The person refered to enlisted from Conn.

Thanking you in advance for complying with this request, I am, WHD

Yours respectfully,

(signed) W H Davis