Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 17478, Luther Hilliard, N.H.
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(3-1776)
SERVICE|[blank]|NUMBER
N.H.|Hilliard, Luther|S.17478
Carded
CONTENTS
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32815
New Hampshire Concord
Luther Hilliard dec'd of Sullivan Co. in the State of New Hamp who was a private in the compy commanded by Captain Chase of the Regt commanded by Col. Chase in the NH line for 9 months
Inscribed on the Roll of Concord at the rate of 30 Dollars 00 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831. 
& End'g 2d Decr 1850, when he died 
Certificate of Pension issued the 11th day of February 1831 and sent to H. H. Sylvester Present
Arrears to the 4th of [blank] [blank]
Semi=anl. allowance ending [blank] [blank]
{Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.}
Recorded by H. H. Weightman Clerk,
Book E Vol. 1. Page 22
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Luther Hilliard a NH Claimant to a Pension Act 7th June 1832
certified proof of his death
John Bryant Agent
Meriden N.H.
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State of New Hampshire
Sullivan County ss}
At a Court of Probate holden at Newport within and for said County on the 4th day of January 1851 it was in evidence that Luther Hilliard of Cornish in said County, died on the second day of December A.D. 1850. That he was a New Hampshire Soldier in the War of the Revolution and had at the time of his death a pending claim to a Pension under the Act of the 7th June 1832 - And that he left a widow by the name of Abigail Hilliard
The testimony to the above points was satisfactory to the Court. 
[court seal] In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at Newport aforesaid this 4th day of January A.D. 1851.
/s/Henry E. Baldwin, Register of Probate.
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35544
Luther Hilliard's Declaration
N.H. 
Act 7. June '32
32,815
[illegible]
[illegible] $30 per annum com'g March 1 '31 & ending 2 December 1830 when he died 
[illegible] to his widow Abigail Hilliard 
Concord
['Mr. Bryant, Meriden N.H.' crossed out]
H. H. Sylvester
Present
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DECLARATION.
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th of June, 1832
State of New-Hampshire
County of Sullivan}s.
On this 17th day of January 1843 personally appeared before the Judge of the Court of Probate now sitting Luther Hilliard a resident of Cornish in the County of Sullivan and State of New-Hampshire, aged 83 years, who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of  Congress, passed June 7th, 1832. That he enlisted in the army of the United States in the year [blank] with [blank] and served in the [blank] regiment of the [blank] line, under the following named officers:
He served the country as follows as near as he can now recollect, thinks he first engaged about the middle of the winter of 1779 at which time he was a private in Captain Chase Company of Col. Chase N.H. Regiment and was stationed at Cornish on the Connecticut River doing guard and alarm duty from said time till the Summer of the next year that is the summer of 1780 when he, Alpheus Deming and Joseph Bartlett were detached and ordered to West Point, where he served upwards of three and an half months in Capt. Stevens company till discharged in October 1780, AS to his first service however he would not represent that he was actually engaged for the whole time from the middle of the winter 1779 to  the middle of the Summer of 1780, but in his turn, and as he believes to the amount of four and half months including all alarm services and hindrances. to which may be added two days after his return from West Point in October 1780 when upon an alarm he turned out and went as far as Lebanon and returned the next day being the last service that he now recollects doing. The last mentioned service was on the occasion of the burning of the town of Royalton in Vermont by the Indians
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or an annuity, except the present, and he declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any agency in any State
/s/X his mark Luther Hilliard
Witness /s/Alpheus Deming
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
/s/John L. Putnam Judge of Probate
And the said Court do hereby  declare their opinion, that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states.
/s/John  L. Putnam Judge of Probate
I, Uriel Dean Register of the Court of Probate do hereby certify, that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the application of Luther Hilliard for a pension. 
[court seal] In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of said Court, this seventeenth day of January AD 1843 - 
/s/Uriel Dean Register
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State of New-hampshire.
Office of Secretary of State.
I, Thomas P. Treadwell, Secretary of State aforesaid, do hereby certify, that Thomas J. Harris is an acting Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Sullivan duly Commissioned and qualified. His Commission was dated on the 29th day of June 1843 and will expire on the 29th day of June 1848 and his signature to the annexed instrument is genuine 
[state seal] Given under my hand and the seal of the State, this 30th day of Jan'y 1846. 
/s/Thomas P. Treadwell Secretary of State
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Certificate of James Wilson M.C. relating to the application of Luther Hilliard for a pension to be filed with the papers in that case -
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I James Wilson do hereby certify that I am and for many years have been well acquainted with the  Hon. John L. Putnam and the Hon. Eleazer Jackson both of Cornish in the State of New Hampshire. I can truly say in regard to those gentlemen that two more worthy, truthful, trust-worthy excellent men cannot be found any where in the country - The utmost confidence and reliance may be placed in any statement made by the said John L. Putnam and Eleazer Jackson or either of them - I further say that I should place implicit confidence in the testimony of a witness whose good character for truth & veracity was vouched for by John L. Putnam & Eleazer Jackson aforesaid. 
I further certify that I have examined the evidence on file in the pension office for the application of Luther Hilliard for services during the Revolutionary War on Guard duty at Cornish in N.H. and after the most thorough examination of the evidence aforesaid and my knowledge of the character of the witnesses as above stated I can safely say that I have not one particle of doubt that there was a guard established and maintained at Cornish by competent authority and that the said Luther Hilliard performed the services as set forth in his declaration and is justly entitled to the pension prayed for under the  Laws of the United States.
Given under my hand at Washington City Feby 13 1849 
/s/James Wilson Member of Congress from New Hampshire
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[handwritten letter]
Cornish N.H. September 16, 1830
To the Hon. J. S. Edwards Commissioner of Pensions
The subscribers would respectfully represent that they together with Alpheus Deming deceased were engaged in the N.H. service of the Revolution from the 15th day of January 1779 till the 8th day of July 1780 in doing guard service in Col. Jonathan Chase's Reg't NH Militia for the space of one year five months and twenty three days and from the 8th day of July 1780 to the 23d of October 1780 under Capt. Abel Stevens of Col. Moses Nichols Reg't at West Point, three months & eighteen days in all 1 yr. 9 mo. & 11 days as private soldiers for which they have had for some time past before the Pension Office, pending claims to pensions under the Act of the 7th June 1832 - in relation to which John Bryant Esq of Meriden has heretofore kindly acted as our Agent & who informed on his return from Washington in May last that he had left the further prosecution of our said pending claims with the Hon. Jas. Wilson M.C. from N.H. who had examined our papers and was of the most confident opinion that the  same would be admitted by the Commissioner of Pensions - Since which time no report has been made to us by said Wilson, who we learn has left for California and we are pained with fear that no attention was paid by him to our supposed rights - We have therefore to request a further consideration of our said claims under the Agency of the Hon. Harry Hibbard a Representative in Congress from the District in which we reside and in the hope that previous to his leaving for N.H. he will obtain for us the admission of our claims and the relief of which we stand in the most distressing need. 
We are Sir very respectfully your Obt Serv'ts.
/s/X his mark Joseph Bartlett
/s/X his mark Luther Hilliard
Witness /s/Leonard Hearst
/s/Pelatiah Martindale
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Copy
Hon Isaac Hill's Letter to the Commissioner of Pensions in reference to the claims of Alpheus Deming Joseph Bartlett & Luther Hilliard - 
Sept. 19, 1846
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[handwritten letter]
Copy
Concord N.H. Sept 19 1846.

Hon. J. L. Edwards, Com of Pensions
Dear Sir
In reference to the application for Pensions of Alpheus Deming, Joseph Bartlett and Luther Hilliard now all living in the town of Cornish in addition to my letter to you in February last, I have now to say that I have seen and perused the renewed declarations of these persons made before the Hon. John L. Putnam on the 21st day of August last, from which and other circumstances all doubt has been eradicated (if any could exist) that the said persons performed duty as guards in the public service in the Revolutionary War - 
And further in reference to the same claims I am satisfied that this guard service was a public service in the time of the Revolution such as was recognized by the United States in the settlement of Revolutionary services and expenditures; and of which fact the Secretary of War may satisfy himself by the printed documents found in the same town of Cornish with the remnant of its records still left in existence - 
I remain, respectfully Your obedient servant, 
/s/Isaac Hill
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Feb 21, 1846
Add'l tes cases Alpheus Deming, &c
J. L. Edwards, Esq. 
Commissioner of Pensions,
Washington
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[handwritten letter]
Washington, Feb 19, 1846

J. L. Edwards, Esq.
Dear Sir:
In regard to the cases of Alpheus Deming, Joseph Bartlett and Luther Hilliard, soldiers of the revolution belonging to New Hampshire, which have been some time pending in your office under the act of June 7 1832, I would state that from a more full examination of the evidence, I have no doubt there was a public guard service kept up at Cornish from 1777 to 1781, and that each and all of these applicants serve, according to their several declarations, in that guard. With some of the witnesses, especially with the Hon. Mssrs. Jackson and Putnam, I am well acquainted, as I am with the general character of the citizens composing that community: they are among the most intelligent and reputable of the state as I have known them. The guard service of the three applicants I consider to be well established. The original paper herewith enclosed, will convince you that there was such guard service 
The absence of testimony in relation to that service in the NH Secretary of State's office may be dismissed, for in the fact that the strip of land on Connecticut river of which Cornish was then a part then claimed to be within the New Hampshire jurisdiction and the Chase's of Cornish were at that period among the leading men who resisted that jurisdiction. 
The
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[handwritten letter continued]
The discrepancy as to the time claimed for the guard service, is a matter entirely for your judgment on the precedents in your office. It would seem reasonable that the whole time should be allowed them. The explanatory depositions will show you why more time was claimed: I think the differenc4 cannot go to the discredit of their veracity. I do not doubt them to be men of truth. The testimony of other individuals, (to wit) John Chase, Samuel Putnam, Caleb Chase, John L. Putnam and Eleazer Jackson, establish beyond controversy, the existence of the guard. 
I have no interest whatever in these claims other than the sympathy I feel for the living remnants of the revolution who are [illegible]; and can only express the hope that you may take up and decide the cases as they may deserve the first open opportunity. 
I am, respectfully, sir, Your obedient servant, 
/s/Isaac Hill
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Eleazar Jackson Deposition
In relation to the Cornish Guard
additional Proof in the case of Luther Hilliard
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I Eleazar Jackson of Cornish in the County of Sullivan and State of New Hampshire depose and say that upon application to me for this purpose, I have lately examined the Records of the town of Cornish in order to find proof of the fact that a Military guard or guards from time to time were raised and stationed at the residence of Colonel Jonathan Chase in said Cornish under the command of Capt. Solomon Chase during several of the years of the war of the Revolution 
The first and only Records that I have been able to discover on the Records of this town relative to guard duty are as follows
"Sept 13th 1780
The inhabitants of the town being assembled upon a [illegible] and the military Company to [illegible] together under an Apprehension that the Enemy in small scouts are seeking opportunities to destroy Public Stores and do other damages
voted 3d to raise a number of men for a Guard and put them under pay
4 called to Raise 12 men for the purpose aforesaid
5 voted to choose ['5 men from' crossed out] Committee to see that the men are raised properly officers and to give them  directions from time to time 
6 voted to choose 5 men for the aforesaid Committee.
7 voted that Sam'l Chase Esq'r Cap't Dan Spalding, Moses Chase Esq. Col'l Jon'th Chase and Lieut. Elias Brady Be a Committee for the above Purpose 
8 voted that the Committee [illegible] upon the business imediately that the men be Raised for 2 months unless sooner Discharged By s'd Committee that one officer Be put in of the Rank of Lieut. under officers as the Committee think proper." But no Roll or names within of Officers
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or soldiers who were raised in conformity to said votes are to be joined
But still I am of the confident belief that guard duty was performed at the place aforesaid previous to the dates of the foregoing votes and as early as the autumn of 1778 for I have a paper before and containing evidence of such service of which the following is a copy. 
Cornish December 15th 1778
A return of the guard raised in Cornish and put under the Directions of the Committee and the term of time that Each man Served as a guard for that purpose
[column headings: Names|Days|Weeks|Fortnigts|Months|]
Will'm Richardson Lt|[blank]|[blank]|[blank]|2|
Simeon Chase Sergt|[blank]|[blank]|[blank]|2|
Abel Spaulding|[blank]|[blank]|[blank]|1|
Thomas Chase|[blank]|[blank]|[blank]|2|
Joseph Vinson|1|[blank]|[blank]|[blank]|
Sam'l Chase jun|[blank]|[blank]|[blank]|1|
Solomon Williams|[blank]|[blank]|[blank]|2|
Jonath'n Currier|[blank]|[blank]|[blank]|2|
Caleb Chase|[blank]|[blank]|1|[blank]|
Joseph Chamberlin|[blank]|[blank]|[blank]|2|
Salmon Chase|1|[blank]|[blank]|[blank]|
Baruch Chase|[blank]|[blank]|[blank]|2|
Timothy Spaulding|[blank]|[blank]|[blank]|1|
Sol. N. Chase|[blank]|[blank]|[blank]|2|
[end of columns]
William Richardson Lieut."
I further depose and say  that I was present at the house of Mrs. Anne
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Morse when the foregoing paper was found, on a search among the papers of her late husband John Morse for evidence of Revolutionary service - The said John Morse was as I believe one of the Committee of safety at the date of said original papers which is directed to the Committee"
/s/Eleazar Jackson
State of New Hampshire
Sullivan ss
Sworn and subscribed to this 21st day of January 1846
Before me /s/T. J. Harris, Justice of the Peace
I further certify that Eleazer Jackson, the  Deponent, is an acting Justice of the Peace in & for said County and throughout the State and also an Associate Justice of the Court of Common Pleas,
/s/T. J. Harris, Justice of the Peace
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John Chase Dep'o
Add'l proof - pending case of L. Hilliard
John Bryant Agent
Meriden NH
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I John Chase of Cornish in the County of Sullivan and State of New Hampshire a soldier of the Revolutionary War, depose and say that I was a resident of this town at the time of the commencement of the war, and that I have ever since lived here, and that I have long been acquainted with Luther Hilliard an applicant for a pension and whose declaration made before the Hon. John L. Putnam on the 17th of January 1843, was soon after shown me where in he asserted that a part of the services he rendered to the Country were in guarding the Army stores then kept by Colonel Jonathan Chase on the Connecticut River in said town of Cornish, the truth of which declaration I have no reason to doubt, knowing that an arsenal or depository of Arms and Army stores was kept in the buildings of said Chase for several years in the time of the War, about which guards were kept - To which guard I belonged myself and took my turn in doing duty there when not otherwise engaged, but  did not happen to serve there with the said Hilliard my tour being in the year 1777 I well recollect that a quantity of arms were there kept, and that when I was called upon to go to Ticonderoga in the spring of the year 1777 
I carried my Gun and other necessaries from that place by the hands of Col. Chase and that on my return from that tour of service I there returned the same, Others I relieved did in like manner. And my impression and belief is that said Arms and other Army stores were
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public property or the property of the Country there kept and guarded for distribution as occasion may be required
The Powder I well recollect or a portion of it was at one time removed to an other place in the vicinity for more safe keeping it being feared that the tories might attempt to destroy the same and thereby endanger the other public property.
/s/John Chase
State of New Hampshire
Sullivan ss} Sworn to and subscribed this 14th day of August 1843 
before me /s/John Bryant Justice of the Peace
I further certify that the Deponent is a credible witness
/s/John Bryant Justice of the Peace 
State of New Hampshire
Sullivan ss.} I Uriel Dean Register of the Court of Probate in and for the County and State aforesaid, do hereby certify that John Bryant is an acting Justice of the peace in and for said County, duly commissioned and qualified, that his commission was dated on the 21st ay of June 1839 and will expire on the 20th day of June 1844 and that his signature above written is genuine. 
[court seal] Given under my hand and the seal of said Court this 15th day of August AD 1843. 
/s/Uriel Dean Register of Probate.
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State of New Hampshire
Sullivan County ss.} I T. M. Gilmore Clerk of the Superior Court of Judicature of the County and State aforesaid do hereby certify that John Bryant is an acting Justice of the Peace within and for said County duly commissioned and qualified; that his commission was dated on the 21st day of June 1839 and will expire on the 20th day of June 1844 and that his signatures herewith are genuine.
[county seal] Given under my hand and the Seal of said County this 17th day of Oct'r AD 1843
/s/T. M. Gilmore Clerk

John Chase Dep'o
Add'l proof - pending case of L. Hilliard
John Bryant Agent
Meriden NH
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Add'l proof in the pending Case of Luther Hilliard
John Bryant Agent
Meriden NH
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I Samuel Putnam of Cornish in the County of Sullivan and State of New Hampshire depose and say that soon after the date of the declaration of Luther Hilliard made before the Hon John L. Putnam Judge of the Court of Probate for said County on the 7th day of January 1843 in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th June 1832 wherein he stated that a part of his services that he performed and for which he claims a pension and that of guard duty about the Army Stores left in the buildings of Colonel Chase in the town of Cornish in said County which is situated upon the Connecticut river The truth of which I have no reason to doubt having known the said declarant from the days of youth and having known also That army stores were there kept and guarded for several years in the time of the War. I was myself called upon to take my turn in doing such service in the month of September 1781 and engaged and served accordingly for the space of six or seven weeks being the only service I happened to be called upon to render in the time of the War. I well recollect hearing said at the time and which I then believed and do still believe to have been true that there were many tories in the vicinity and that fears were entertained for the personal safety of Said Colonel Chase as well as the destruction of said Army Stores in his possession and under his care a reward being offered for the taking and delivery of said Colonel Chase And hence as I suppose the necessity of a continual guard in said Cornish. I further recollect being informed that two tories by the names of John & [illegible] were taken on the opposite that is the Vermont side of the Connecticut
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river with arms in their hands and that in several instances people fled from the Vermont to the New Hampshire side of said Connecticut river for protection ours being the only station guard for some distance on either side of said River
/s/Samuel Putnam
State of New Hampshire
Sullivan SS} Sworn and subscribed to this 14th day of August 1843
Before me /s/John Bryant Justice of the Peace
I further certify that Samuel Putnam the deponent is a credible witness
/s/John Bryant Justice of the Peace
State of New Hampshire
Sullivan SS.} I Uriel Dean Register of the Court of Probate in and for the County and State aforesaid do hereby certify that John Bryant is an acting Justice of the peace in and for said County duly commissioned and qualified, that his commission was dated on the 21st day of June 1839 and will expire on the 20th day of June 1844 and that his signiture above written is genuine. 
[court seal] Given under my hand the seal of said Court this 15th day of August AD 1843. 
/s/Uriel Dean Register of Probate
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State of New Hampshire
Sullivan County ss. 
I, T. M. Gilmore Clerk of the Superior Court of Judicature of the County and State aforesaid do hereby certify that John Bryant is an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said County duly commissioned and  qualified that his commission was dated on the 21st day of June 1839 and will expire on the 20th day of June 1844 and that his signature herewith is genuine. 
[county seal] Given under my hand and the Seal of said County this 17th day of October Ad 1843
/s/T. M. Gilmore Clerk
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Luther Hilliard's Renewed Declaration. NH Act 7 June 1832
John Bryant Agent
Meriden N.H.
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Renewed Declaration
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th June 1832
State of New Hampshire
County of Sullivan ss} On this second day of July 1843 personally appeared before me Orlando Powers a Justice of the Peace within and for said County of Sullivan Luther Hilliard a resident of Cornish in said County of Sullivan aged 86 years who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on his Oath make the following renewed declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the act of Congress passed June the 7th 1832
That, on or about the the 17th day of January 1843 before the Hon. John L. Putnam Judge of the Court of Probate within and for said County he made an original declaration in order to obtain the benefit of said Act wherein according to his present best recollection he set forth his services that he rendered the Country and for which he now claims as follows or substantially so. 
That from sometime in the winter of 1779 till the middle of the summer of 1780 he was engaged as a private under Captain Solomon chase of Colonel Jonathan Chase's Regiment of New Hampshire Militia doing guard duty, about the military stores collected and kept at the residence of Colonel Jonathan Chase in said town of Cornish. That on or about the fifteenth day of July 1780 he enlisted to serve in the Continental Army at West Point and
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accordingly went and rendered further actual service for the space of three and a half months or more in Captain Stevens' Company of Colonel Nichols' Regiment being the last service that he rendered, with the exception of a short tour at the time of the alarm at Royalton Vt. He did not in his former declaration represent that he was continually engaged in the guard service under Captain Chase nor does he now so represent but as he was during the whole time in actual readiness and considered himself under the command of his Captain the said Solomon Chase, and under arms much of the time but both days not excepted he never claims for service as a private from the fifteenth day of January 1779 to the fifteenth day of Jany 1780 under said Capt Solomon Chase And under said Captain Stevens three and a half months ending in October 1780 in all twenty one and a half months 
He further states in reference to the above named guard service that he considered it as much military as the service he rendered at West Point under Captain Stevens 
/s/X his mark Luther Sullivan
Sworn and Subscribed to this 2d day of July 1845 
Before me /s/Orlando Powers, Justice of the Peace
I further certify that the declarent is in my belief a credible witness
/s/Orlando Powers Justice of the Peace
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State of New-hampshire. 
Office of Secretary of State.
[state seal] I, Thomas P. Treadwell, Secretary of State aforesaid, do hereby certify, that Orlando Powers is an acting Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Sullivan duly Commissioned and qualified. His Commission was dated on the 14th day of June 1842 and will expire on the 14th day of June 1847 and his signature to the annexed instrument is genuine. 
Given under my hand and the Seal of the State, this 19th day of Sept. 1843. 
/s/Thomas P. Treadwell Secretary of State.
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Luther Hilliard Renewed Declaration
Feb. 17, 1846.
John Bryant Agent
Meriden NH
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State of New-hampshire.
Office of Secretary of State.
[state seal] I, Thomas P. Treadwell, Secretary of State aforesaid, do hereby certify, that Elias F. Smith is an acting Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Sullivan duly Commissioned and qualified. His Commission was dated on the 20th day of June 1844 and will expire on the 20th day of June 1849 and his signature to the annexed instrument is genuine.
Given under my hand and the Seal of the State, this 30th day of Jan'y 1846.
/s/Thomas P. Treadwell Secretary of State.
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[handwritten letter]
Pension Office
November 11 1845

Sir
In the case of Alpheus Deming it is very clear that he has no claim whatever. He originally declared in 1843 that he service in a Guard at Cornish under Capt. Chase of Col. Chase's Regt. alternating from the 13th January 1779 to October 1781 and estimated his actual service at one fourth. The silence of the Pay and Muster rolls of that Company and Regiment is conclusive of the fallacy of that statement, and this is also confirmed by the Town records of Cornish which afford a detailed account of all charges against the State for Military service, Counting Guards, supplies, &c. The only charge for guarding public stores is one without date for one Sergeant and eleven privates for two months, organized, paid and subsisted by the town. Even if it were Military and the Town had no authority to create a military Corps, it would be insufficient to entitle him to a pension. Luther Hilliard and Joseph Bartlett also discovered and set forth at the same time in 1843 the same claim for service in the Guard at Cornish. Now it would most extraordinary if three of an organized Guard of eleven privates in the Revolutionary war were still living and equally so that they neither should have asserted a claim until 1843 when they put forth one in the same language 
They are not entitled
I am very respectfully your Obt Serv't
/s/J. L. Edwards 
John Bryant Esqr Meriden N.H.
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I Luther Hilliard of Cornish in the County of Sullivan, and State of New Hampshire aged 86 years depose and say that an original letter of which the foregoing is a copy, has this day been shown me by my Agent, John Bryant Esq of Meriden N.H. and that I am one of the individuals therein named and that I now [illegible] & make this renewed declaration before Elias F. Smith a Justice of the peace within and for the County of Sullivan and for the purpose of assisting that I am one of the surviving individuals who comprised the guard whgich was from time to time stationed near the residence of the last Colonel Jonathan Chase in said Cornish, during several years of the War of the Revolution and to say taht in my declaration mde on the 7th day of January 1843, I stated as near as I can recollect as follows: to wit: That I first engaged about the middled of the Wint. 1779 as a private in doing guard service at said Cornish under the command of Captain Solomon Chase of whose Company I was a member, and that I was alternately engaged in that service and in service on alarm occasions till the summer of 1780 as I now think, till some time in the months of July in that year, when I together with Joseph Bartlett and Alpheus Deming both of whom are sill living was detached to go and ordered tour of service at West Point which I did accordingly and there served under the command of Captain Abel Stevens for the space of three and an half months till discharged in October 1780 that after my return from West Point I turned out at the time of the Royalton alarm and went as far as Lebanon and returned the second day. That I then estimated the services I had rendered exclusive of the tour to West Point, at four and an half months. that in a renewed declaration made before Orlando Powers Esq. on the second day of July 1843, I stated my service to have been as above stated or substantially so and I claim for the whole of the time that I service from the Winter of 1779 to the Summer of 1780 for the reason that we were regarded as "Minute Men" and were in constant readiness and all the while under the command and subject to the order of our Captain Solomon Chase and were under Arms much of the time during said period of time both week and
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Sabbath days I have this day since the renewed declaration made by Alpheus Deming before El's Smith Esq in reference to his former declarations and pending claim and agree with him as to my particulars, which may be applicable to my new case. 
/s/X his mark Luther Hilliard
State of New Hampshire
Sullivan SS. 
Sworn and subscribed to the 16th day of January 1846
Before me /s/Chas. S. Smith, Justice of the Peace
I further certify that the deponent is a credible witness
/s/Chas. S. Smith Justice of the Peace
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Bartlett & Deming's Affidavit
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We Joseph Bartlett and Alpheus Deming of Cornish in the County of Sullivan and State of New Hampshire depose and say we were present and heard the declaration made by Luther Hilliard before the Hon. J. L. Putnam Judge of the Court of Probate for said County on the 17 day of Jan'y 1843 in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th of June 1832, which declaration we believe to be true as we for the most part of the time therein stated were actors and soldiers with him - 
/s/X his mark Joseph Bartlett
/s/Alpheus Deming
Witness /s/Eleazar Jackson
State of New Hampshire
Sullivan ss. 
Sworn and subscribed to this 18th day  of January 1843
Before me /s/Eleazar Jackson Associate Justice of the Court of Common Pleas
I further certify that a long acquaintance with Joseph Bartlett and Alpheus Deming the above deponents I am able to say with confidence that they are credible witnesses 
I also further certify that I have read the original declaration of the Said Bartlett made before J. L. Putnam on the 17 instant in order to obtain the benefit of the act of June 7 1832 and I have no doubt of the correctness of that Declaration believing as I do that
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military stores were kept in the buildings [illegible] in Cornish for several years serving the Revolutionary war and that guards were kept over the stores.
/s/Eleazar Jackson} Associate Justice of the Court of Common Pleas
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The State of New Hampshire
Sullivan County SS.
I T. M. Gilmore Clerk of the Superior Court of Judicature of the State & County aforesaid do hereby certify that Eleazer Jackson is an acting Associate Justice of the Court of Common Pleas within and for said County of Sullivan duly commissioned and qualified and that his Signatures herewith are genuine. 
[county seal] Given under my hand and the Seal of Said County this 21st day of Jany. AD 1843.
/s/T. M. Gilmore Clerk
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Index: Vol. 1, Page 175
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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To J. Bryant Nov. 11 '45
let to J. Bryant Aug 3. 1843
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