Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 5454, for Thomas Hutcheson, Maryland
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(3-1776)

SERVICE   Md
NAME      Hutcheson, Thomas or Hutchinson
NUMBER   R.5454

CONTENTS
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Suspended Claim
Act of June 7, 1832

Thomas Hutchinson
Indiana

Power of Attorney to examine claim
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Power of Attorney

Know all men by these presents, that I Maria Lee wife of Charles
G. Lee and daughter of Thomas Hutchinson do hereby constitute and appoint CHAS. C. TUCKER, of Washington City, DC my true and
lawful Agent and Attorney to prosecute the Claim of Thomas Hutchinson
for any amount of Revolutionary Pension or increase of Pension that may be due under the provisions of the Act of June 7, 1832 or
any other Act or Resolution of Congress, and I hereby authorize my said
Attorney to examine all papers and documents in relation to said Claim on file in the Departments at Washington City, or elsewhere, to file additional evidence or arguments, and to receive the Certificate which may be issued for said Claim, and to appoint one or more substitutes under him for the purposes herein expressed: and to do all things that I might or could do, were I personally present. Hereby ratifying and confirming all that my said Attorney may lawfully do in the premises.

Witness my hand and seal this Sixteenth day of December 1854
In presence of A. M. Lockridge
Erathlee Reed

Maria Lee X [her mark]

STATE OF Ind.
Putnam COUNTY cc.

On this 16th day of December 1854, before me a Justice of the Peace
in and for the County and State above mentioned personally appeared
Maria Lee and acknowledged the foregoing power of
Attorney to be her act and deed for the purposes therein mentioned.
John S Jennings J P [seal]
Power of Attorney,

STATE OF Indiana
Putnam COUNTY. ss.

On this 16th day of December 1854, before me the undersigned a Justice
of the Peace in and for the County and State aforesaid, personally appeared Maria Lee a resident of said County, and made oath according to law that she is the identical Maria Lee who executed the foregoing power of Attorney, and that she is directly interested in said Claim, and makes this affidavit to be filed with such additional evidence or arguments as my said Attorney may use in prosecuting said Claim.

Maria Lee X [her mark]

Sworn to and subscribed before me the day and year above written.
John Jennings J P Seal

STATE OF Indiana,-
COUNTY of Putnam

I Jacob McGinnis Clerk of the Putnam Circuit Court do
hereby certify that John S. Jennings Esq., before whom the foregoing affidavit and acknowledgment were made and who has thereunto signed his name, was at the time of so doing a Justice of the Peace, in and for the County and State aforesaid, duly commissioned and sworn, and that all his official acts as such are entitled to full faith and credit.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto signed
my name and affixed my official seal this
16th day of December 1854
Jacob McGinnis Clk
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State of Indiana
County of Putnam & SS.

In the Probate Court of the County of Putnam
at the February Term thereof, in the year 1845.
Present the Honorable William Lee Sole Judge of said Court:
When the following proceedings were had to wit:

On this fourteenth day of February Anno Domini one thou-
sand eight hundred and forty five, personally appeared in open Court,
before the said Probate Court of the County of Putnam, now sitting,
Thomas Hutcheson of Madison Township, in said County, aged
Eighty seven years on the 26th day of July last past, who being
first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the
following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of
Congress, passed June 7, 1832.

That he entered the service of the United States under the
following named officers and served as herein stated: That previous
to his entering the service aforesaid, in person, he was draughted at
two several times, for three months, and that for these two tours he hired
paid and sent into service substitutes; That he does not now recollect
under what officers these substitutes served; That he was afterwards
draughted again, and entered the service himself in proper person un-
der the command of Captain Robert Beaty, but all of Captain Beaty's
company deserted him, except this applicant and some five or six
others, after which some new arrangement was made, the particulars
of which have escaped his memory save that himself and one other of
Captain Beaty's, men, were attached to, and entered into service again
under Captain Jacob Good where they continued until they were
regularly discharged.  One of the officers in command was called
Major Shields; He does not now recollect the names of any of the other
officers, as his memory is not very good in consequence of extreme old
Age,
That it was towards the close of the Revolutionary War, when
he entered the service in person, he cannot now state the day, but thinks
it was in the month of June, in the year 1781, and that he continued
in the service except at the time Captain Beaty's men left him as above
stated until peace was made; He was in the service seven months
and about a half.  He resided in Frederick County, Maryland
about two miles distant from Tauneytown, when he entered the service;
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That he was regularly draughted and was in an engagement at
Boston Massachusetts, and thinks the engagement was afterwards called the "Boston Skirmish;" That he was marched through the states of Maryland, Pennsylvania, and on to Boston; that he served in the
Continental line; That when he entered the service he was in the 26th
year of his age; that he has no record of his age. That a company
from Virginia, accompanied the company he belonged to, but he cannot state the name; That the Captain Beayy he first started out with, was a cousin to the Captain Beaty that was killed near Camden or Hobkirk's Hill.

And that he has no documentary evidence, nor does he know
any person or persons, whose testimony he can procure, who can testify to the services rendered by him.  He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever of any pension or annuity, except the present one, and declares that his name is not that he knows of, on any pension Roll of the agency of any State or Territory.

Thomas Hutcheson

Sworn to and subscribed in open Court on the day and year afore
said

Attest Will. S. Townend Clerk,

We Levi Wright a clergyman residing in the
County and State aforesaid, and Nathan Wright a clergy-
man residing in the same place, both residing in the neighborhood
of the above named Thomas Hutcheson, do hereby certify, that we are
well acquainted with the said Thomas Hutcheson, who has subscribed
and sworn to the foregoing declaration; that we believe him to be
Eighty seven years of age; that he is reputed and believed, in the
neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that we fully concur in that opinion.
Levi Wright
Nathan Wright

Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid in open Court
Attest Will S. Townsend Clerk

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed the war department, hereto attached, that the above named
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applicant Thomas Hutcheson, was a Revolutionary soldier, and served as he states.  And the court further certifies, that it appears to them that Levi Wright and Nathan Wright who have signed the preceding certificate, are Clergymen, resident in the county and state aforesaid, are creditable persons, and that their statement is entitled to credit.

William Lee
Probate Judge

I William S. Townsend Clerk of the Probate Court of the County of Putnam, in the State of Indiana, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the application of Thomas Hutcheson for a pension.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office
this fourteenth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and forty-five.

Will. S Townsend Clerk
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first two draughts, I was draughted three times.

5.  State the names of some of the Regular officers who were with the
troops where you served; such continental and militia regiment
as you can recollect, and the general circumstances of your service?
Ans.
I can recollect the names of no officers under whom I served except
Capt. Beaty, Captain Good and Major Shields, I was unacquainted
with all the officers except the above and my memory having so failed
that I can recollect no more names.

6.  Did you ever receive a discharge from the service; and if so, by
whom was it given, and what has become of it?
Ans. 
I received a certificate of discharge from Captain Good
but I do not recollect by whom it was signed - I do not know what
has become of it, unless it was destroyed by fire with some other papers.

7.  State the names of persons to whom you are known in your
present neighborhood, and who can testify as to your character for
veracity, and their belief of your services as a soldier of the Revolution?
Ans.
Jonathan Lee, Levi Wright, Claybourn Wight, Charles G. Lee, John Swinton,
Amos Tucker, Benjamin Jones, David Bucher, James Butcher, James
Sigler, Daniel Adams, Abram Woolery, Benjamin Wright, William Swin-
ford, Frazin Swinford, John Owens, Jeremiah Devore & Nathan Wright.

The foregoing questions and answers were taken in open Court
on the day and year aforesaid,
William Lee
Probate Judge
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Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873.

5454

P.O. ____________
Thomas Hutchinson
Service:  __________
Enlisted:  __________, 18  .
Discharged:  __________, 18  .
Application field:  __________, 18  .
Alleges:  __________
Re-enlisted:  __________

Attorney:  __________
P.O. __________

__________ Recognized.  __________ Contract.
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No. 35965

Thomas Hutchinson

Letter to Hon. J. A. Wright 5th Ward 1845.

Let to Hon [illegible] McGaughey
March 25 1846

R. S Ragan June 25 1855

Act 7 June 1832
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No. 35965

Thomas Hutchinson

Act 7 June 1832


5454
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                         Washington City
                                July 27th 1845

James L Edwards

        Sir
             I find you enclosed the application of Thomas Hutcheson for a pension of Peterson in Indiana.  Mr. Hutcheson is a very old and frail man, so no doubt is serious is much impaired, but he is a man that the whole community has given confidence in, then James who have certified to his character, I am personally acquainted with, and they are all entitled to credit.
Please advise me in the cause of a week from to day the conclusion you come to in this case, if possible, advise me in Washington City.

                                   Yours truly
                                       Q M Wright
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House of Rep
Washington 21 March 1846.

Court of Pensions

Sir

I desire to be informed whether the application of Edward Daugherty and Th Hutcheson of my State for pensions have been acted upon by the pension department.  If you have papers upon either or both please inform me what your determination has been.  If you have no papers upon then, suffer me to recommend them to your early and careful attention; as I have every reason to believe that both applications are meritorious.

Your Obt. Servt.
E McGaughey