Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 14329, Abraham Fuller, Conn.
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SERVICE                                         NUMBER
Conn.       Fuller, Abraham            R. 14329
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Abraham Fuller
Heirs of
Petition of the Heir of
Captain Abraham Fuller, an
officer of the Revolutionary War,
in the Connecticut Line of
Troops, asking for a pen-
sion and Bounty Land
Dec 19, 1857 Referred to the
Committee on Revolutionary
Pensions
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State of Connecticut
County of Litchfield
                        Personally appeared before me Rufus Fuller a Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Litchfield in the state of Connecticut. Mrs. Lolly Fuller who being duly sworn say that she is seventy four years old and says that she has been a resident of the town and state aforesaid been forty five years that she personally well knew the late officer Abraham Fuller and had known him from her neighborhood. At the time of his death and spent in his house at the time of his death and saw him die and attended the funeral.
  She says further [illegible] of the [illegible] enlisted to [illegible] of him [illegible] than the said Abraham Fuller was an officer in the Army of the United States during the Revolutionary War soldier and [illegible] she [illegible] of their [several words illegible] that he served as an officer and soldier in the Militia have her say [illegible] with him residing in the [illegible] in this home for more than fifty (50) years for frequently and often and after and was being many officers of historical found and many soldiers have said [illegible-faded seven words]  she [illegible-faded 4 words] that he was a Captain in service in the revolutionary war tan she said that Lieutenant Isaac Putman was a revolutionary officer that Anthony Fuller was a Whig at the same time that tried many souls.
She deposeth further was [illegible] she has [illegible-faded 6 words] she [illegible 3 words] town [illegible] him [illegible] service & duties performed by this event that occurred in the service of [illegible] as often [illegible] this concerns, [illegible] Captain & Officers [illegible] again to events that triumphed in which he said they were jointly participants.
Deponent says that she is the daughter of the late Captain Levi Stone of the same men and they often conversed with the said Captain Abraham Fuller in relation to events that transpired in which both were participants- that she has time and again and often heard her father the said Levi Stone speak of Captain Fuller as an ardent devoted and active Whig officer of the revolution who devoted his time, energies and money to the service of his country
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for he was a man of large means and spent it freely when necessary, and abundantly-and [illegible] [illegible][illegible].
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The State of Connecticut
County of Litchfield} To the Honorable the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States

The Petition of Jeremiah Fuller of Kent, in the County of Litchfield, & State of Connecticut respectfully showeth that your Petitioner is the only child, and the only heir at law, of Captain Abraham Fuller, deceased, late of the said County of Litchfield, in the State of Connecticut.
That his father, the said Captain Abraham Fuller, was a Captain in the Connecticut Line of troops, on Continental establishment, in the time of the revolutionary war, and was one of the most active and efficient officers in the service.
That before the revolution he was a lieutenant in the militia of the Colonial service, but when the difficulty occurred between the Colonies and Great Britain, he promptly took the side of his country, and upon the news of the battle of Lexington having been fought in April 1775, at his own expense he raised a company of volunteers, and enlisted in the service of his State & Country. that he soon after joined the Army in the neighborhood of Boston, then the seat of war, and was with the army when the command of it, was taken by General George Washington in June following, and remained with it, until the British were driven from the City in March 1776. That after this event he was ordered to Danbury, Connecticut to guard the Government Stores, there deposited. That
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he served, and was at the battle of Long Island in August 1776. That he was at the battle of White Plains in October of the same year. That subsequently he was a volunteer, as part of the quota of troops, assigned to be furnished by the State of Connecticut, & with his company was ordered to, and went to he army then in garrison at Pecks Hill, New York. That with a few intermissioned he did actual service in field and in garrison in various parts of the country attached to the Northern Army until the end of the War, all which facts are amply proved by the testimony herewith filed, part of the same being a transcript from the army files of records in the office of the Comptroller of the State of Connecticut.
Your Petitioner would further show that all this service was performed to the entire approval of all his superior officers, under whom he served as is shown by the numerous letters written to the said Capt. Fuller in his lifetime, & now in the possession of his family, kept by them as an imperishable legacy, to be transmitted by your petitioner as evidence of the honor and integrity, of a soldier of that day, "the day that tried mens' souls."
Your petitioner would further show that at the time he rendered these services, he was a man of ample pecuniary means, young, zealous, and impetuous, and he lived to see the efforts he contributed, crowned with full success, and never asked or was paid any compensation for the money he expended, and sacrifices he incurred. That he never asked any remuneration of his country assigning as his reason that it had no treasury to pay out of, except the seanty means that every days succession wants required, He often stated to his friends that he would wait and ask
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some compensation when his country was able to pay him. He never even asked or received the bounty land promised by Congress. That for the last two years of his service he did not receive even the poor depreciation pay proper, dur him as a soldier.
your Petitioner would further show, that for many years prior to the death of the said Captain Abraham Fuller, by reason of his great age, & bodily infirmities, he lost altogether his memory though in good physical health otherwise & he was incapacitated to attend properly to his business affairs, and in this state of mental prostration he died. That by reason of this mental prostration he was not able to apply to the Government for the benefit of the Pension Law, passed for the benefit of soldiers of the revolution. But your Petitioner, in the name and behalf of his father, on the twelfth day of March A.D. 1854 made application to the Pension Office for the pension, to which he was entitled as a Captain but having departed this life before the proceedings necessary in such case were consumated, he did not receive the pension to which he was entitled. That not having received said pension, nor the bounty land promised by the Continental Congress, in his lifetime, as aforesaid, the amount of said pension, that the said Captain Abraham Fuller would have received had he survived a little longer, ought of right, and is now due to your Petitioner as his son and only heir at law, wherefore, your Petitioner , himself an old man of eighty years, prays your Honorable Bodies to pass an ACT authorizing the proper accounting officers of the Treasury of the United State, to place the name of the said Captain Abraham Fuller on
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the Pension Roll, and to pay to your Petitioner as such amount of Pension as the said Captain Abraham Fuller was entitled to, & would have received at the time of his death, to wit, the sixth day of June A. D. 1854, and also that your Honorable Bodies would grant him the Bounty Land promised by Congress, under its resolutions solemnly passed, which your Petitioner conceives is a vested right, descendible to him as heir at law.
And your Petitioner as in duty bound will ever pray, and so forth.
Jeremiah Fuller, for A. Fuller his son and Atty a fact
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14329

P.O.
Capt. Abraham Fuller
Service:

Enlisted:                                        , 18
Discharged:                                  , 18
REJECTED

Application filed:                         , 18

Alleges:

Re-enlisted:

Attorney:
P.O.


--------Recognized. ------------- Contract
-----Cert. of Dis.  Searched for                , 18
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Abraham Fuller
Conn. R. 14329

a broadside containing
instructions to the officers
of the Conn. troops, signed
Jonathan Trumbull, dated
Lebanon, Dec. 14, 1776,
has been removed from
this case and is locked
up in the Record Div.

AW
Dec 6,
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No. 39175
Capt. Abraham Fuller
Connecticut


Let. J. H. Peters March 17 '62

Act 7th June 1832
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Depositions of
1. E. Maxwell
2. James Stuart
3. Miles Bordwell
4. D. Fuller



The testimony comprizes
Four Depositions above named
certificate of State Comptroller
of 3 years service
original commission as Lt.
printed circular of Gov. Trumbull
extended order of Gov. Trumbull
to Col. Increase Mosely then to
Capt. Fuller in 1775
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The State of Connecticut
[illegible] [illegible] 

Personally appeared before me  Rufus Fuller
a justice of the peace in and for said county of Litchfield in the state of Connecticut Mills Bordwell a resident of Kent in the county and state [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] and says that he is ninety two years of age and has been a resident of that town of Kent for the past Eighty two years.
Deponent further states that he well knew personally the late Captain Abraham Fuller and knew him from childhood to the time of his death that he the said Abraham Fuller was a Captain in the war of the revolution and [illegible]  knows in those [illegible] one of the most
ardent [illegible]  Whigs and a man of note in his day. Previous to the revolution he was Captain under Colonial government and upon the commencement of hostilities between the colonies [illegible]  he promptly took up arms  for the colonies and was immediately commissioned as captain. He marched immediately to Boston in the summer of 1775 
in command of his company. Deponent says that he is personally acquainted with Jeremiah Fuller the son and heir of Captain Abraham Fuller and has known him from his childhood. He now resides in the town of Kent and being the son and [illegible]  [illegible]  and  [illegible] heir of the said Abraham Fuller is living in the district upon this farm which his father occupied before, at the time of and where [illegible]  to the revolutionary war and where he died.
Deponent says that all these facts hereinbefore stated are not stated from [illegible] but from his own personal knowledge. He further says  that he has no interest [illegible]  in any [illegible]  of a claim that may have been due Captain Fuller in his [illegible] -that is now due
his son and heir the said Abraham Fuller and has not been promised or expects any interest hereafter
Mills Bordwell
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 1st day of September 1857
Rufus Fuller Justice of the Peace
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State of Connecticut
County of Litchfield Ss.
Personally appeared before me Rufus Fuller a justice of the peace in and for said county
of Litchfield in the state of Connecticut James Stuart who being duly sworn says that he is ninety five years of age and resides in the town of Kent in the county and state aforesaid. That he was personally acquainted with the said Abraham Fuller as his captain. That the said Abraham was a captain in the American army during the revolutionary war-[illegible] was known in his right as one of the most ardent and [illegible] Whigs and of high standing and responsibility in that community; at the 
commencement of hostilities in 1775 Captain Fuller raised a company and marched to Boston after news of battle of Bunker Hill. Deponent knew that he was [illegible] [illegible] knew said Abraham Fuller  [illegible} son of said [illegible] Abraham Fuller who [illegible] [illegible] residing in the [illegible] town to whom Captain Fuller [illegible] [illegible] father died. Deponent [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] life [illegible] [illegible] being a large boy often he was seen and [illegible] therefore that mentioned in his identity. and that his only son and child and heir in law of aforesaid Captain Abraham Fuller.  he was born during the war while his father was at Danbury guarding the American stores stored there. Deponent 
carried him the news of his sons birth while Captain Fuller was in camp. Deponent further says that from his own personal recollection of the said Abraham Fuller and his son Jeremiah is  that the said Captain Abraham Fuller the father of the said Jeremiah was the [illegible] papers were sent [illegible] [illegible]  in his previous army service during the revolutionary war. Deponent has seen him on duty in camp frequently at Danbury at a place called "Sawpits" and at White Plains. Deponent has no interest whatever-and not as contingent in any claim the said Jeremiah may set up against the United States
for services rendered or other money. Deponent knew  that Captain Fuller
served from the year 1775 to 1778 and heard of him all the war.
James Stuart
Sworn and subscribed before me this 1st day of September 1857
Rufus Fuller, Justice of the Peace
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State of Connecticut
County of Litchfield
Personally appeared before me Rufus Fuller a justice of the peace in and for the county and state aforesaid Eunice Maxwell a resident of the town of Kent in the county aforementioned and state of Connecticut who being 
duly sworn according to law and saith that she is nearly one hundred and two years of age 
has been a resident of said town of Kent ever since  the termination of the war of the revolution in that place.
The deponent also saith that she has distinct  recollection of many of the [illegible] [illegible] of the revolutionary war and personal acquaintance with many of the officers and soldiers who served in that [illegible] [illegible]
[illegible] times-Among the American officers who served in the war she recollects and knew the late Captain Abraham Fuller of the town of Kent and the county of [illegible]-that she was personally acquainted with him and his family several years prior to the American Revolution.
Deponent [illegible]- [illegible] that soon after peace was made between the United States and Great Britain-England she became a resident in the family of Captain Fuller and resided in his family several years and when she removed away from their family she resided in his neighborhood less than a mile and a half of his house and resides in the same place at the present time.
Deponent further avers that by reason of her position she was familiar and acquainted with not only the captain Abraham Fuller but also with his entire family and personally knew most if not all of the activity of any importance that transpired within its circle.
Deponent personally knew that that the said Captain Abraham Fuller was a captain in the colonial service before the war and performed the duties of the service up to the commencement of hostilities between England and the colonies when he took sides with the colonies and became well known as one of the most ardent Whigs of his day. He raised his own Company and equipped them for service, and remained in service till peace was made in  the
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1783. His was one of the first companies raised after the battle of Lexington in
1775. Deponent further avers that she personally knows that said Captain Abraham
Fuller at the commencement of said War served in the American Army as
Captain after the news of the affair at Concord Captain Fuller and his company
marched to Boston and remained there until General Washington took command of the [illegible]
Deponent furthersays that she is personally acquainted with Jeremiah
Fuller since the time of his birth and has therefore known him all his life.
[illegible] [illegible] [illegible] weeks in [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] that she has not seen him since-
She therefore is unable to state with certainty that he is the child, and
the only child of the aforesaid Captain Abraham Fuller in that he is
his lineal descendant, and only lineal descendant and heir.
Deponent visited Captain Fuller at White Plains in the Autumn of 1776. He was on
duty. Deponent has been informed recently that the [illegible]  named Jeremiah Fuller
had applied or is about to apply to Congress for pay for services performed 
[illegible][illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] his father the late Captain Abraham Fuller, and  he [illegible] to deponent for [illegible] statement of fact as may be within her
knowledge, and deponent has no hesitation in saying that she knows he is the
lawful child and only child of the said Captain Fuller. He was born in the
early part of 1777 while his father Captain Fuller was at Danbury in the Army, guarding
the stores belonging to the regiment. Deponent [illegible] avers that she is not related to or  connected with th e family
of said Captain Abraham Fuller, his the said Jeremiah Fuller his son
and that she has no interest whatever in the result of his intended
application to Congress for payment of money due the late Captain Fuller
nor does she expect any interest, or been promised any, and that all the
facts she has above set forth are true on every [illegible] and only set forth
by her as such personally known to her and not derived from information of other persons.              
 Eunice  Maxwell X her mark                      
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 22d day of                                     
June 1857
Rufus Fuller Justice of
the Peace
I, the aforesaid Rufus Fuller
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I the aforesaid Rufus Fuller Justice of the Peace as aforesaid do certify, that I personally know the said Mrs. Eunice Mauwee that she is very aged and recognized in the county of Litchfield or one of the oldest inhabitants therein and immemorially believed to be about one hundred years of age. That she still retains her mental faculties and is highly esteemed in the community of Kent, and I further certify that for veracity and integrity she is unimpeachable. 
And I also further certify that I am personally acquainted with the aforesaid Milles Bordwell & James Stuart and Mrs Dolly Fuller, the persons who have deposed to the foregoing affidavits & know them to be highly respectable citizens, whose veracity & integrity are beyond [unk] or impeachment and I have no doubt of the entire truth of all the statements made by each & all of them in their several depositions acknowledged before me. And I further testify that- I am not related too [illegible] with the aforesaid Jeremiah Fuller & have no interest in the subject matter herein testified to.
Given under my hand at the Town of Kent this 8th day of October A.D. 1857.
Rufus Fuller, Justice of the Peace
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STATE OF CONECTICUT
COUNTY OF LITCHFIELD
Office of the Clerk of the Superior court} ss.
I, FREDERICK D. BEEMAN, Clerk of said court, within and for said Litchfield County, and keeper of the Seal thereof, and of the Commission of Justices of the Peace for said County, hereby certify that Rufus Fuller Esquire, was, on the 22d day of June 1857, ever since has been and now is a Justice of the Peace within and for said County, duly appointed, commissioned and sworn, having full power and authority by the laws of this State, to take the acknowledgements of Deeds and other Instruments, and to certify that same: also to administer Oaths, to take Affidavits and Depositions out of court, and to give Certificates thereof: that full faith and credit may, and ought to be given to his official acts and attestations; that I am acquainted with his hand-writing, and believe that the signature to the instrument hereto annexed, purporting to be his, is his genuine official signature: and that said instrument is executed, acknowledged, and duly authenticated, according to the laws of this State.
In testimony whereof, I hereunto set my hand, and affix the seal of said Court, at Litchfield, in said County and State, on the 8th day of October A.D. 1857.
Frederick D. Beeman Clerk
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Certificate of Service, from
Comptroller of Connecticut
in the case of 
Capt Abram Fuller
2 years 8 mos.
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State of Connecticut
Comptrollers Office
Hartford Aug. 14th 1854
I certify that on application for evidence of the service of Abram Fuller, as a captain, in the war of the Revolution, I have examined the documents remaining in this office, and do not find any Pay Roll for the service of Capt. Fuller, or his company, now in this office. On the Book called "Haskells Receipts" I find evidence of the service of Capt Abram Fuller in said war of the Revolution as follows viz.
1st, In an account under the following heading viz. "The United States Dv. to the State of Connecticut, for sundry expenditures for Counties, extra allowances, wages, &c. of Militia from said State, wo served with the main army, at and near Pecks hill in the State of New York," where is the following entry viz, "Capt. Abm Fuller, Col Increase Moselys Regt billeting & milage L12.12/ wages L35.12.2, Amount paid in nominal money L48.4.2. Special Value L 30.4.3."
The above account is under sate of Jany 30th 1778. In the same Book & under the same heading is another entry as follows under date of Sep. 10th 1779.
Capt. Abm Fuller, Col. J. P. Cooks Regt Billeting & milage L147.12/ Wages L189.12/ commissions L8.8.7/ Amount paid in nominal money L345.12.7/ Special Value L18.10.1/
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also, under the following heading, viz, "The United States Dr To the State of Connecticut, for the service of State Troops & Militia raised for the defence of the State & allowed by Act of Congress December 28th 1779, computed according to the continental establishment of Pay," is an entry dated "Sept. 9th 1779" as follows, "Capt Abraham Fuller/ Amount paid in nominal money L2.137.0.2/ computed value of services from April 1st to Nov. 1st 1779 L147.16.9." Also under the following heading viz, "The United States Dr to the State of Connecticut for sundry expenditures for the service and expenses of militia called out for the defence of sad Sate," is an entry dated Jany 12th 1778, Capt. Abm Fuller/ Fairfield Alarm/ Amt. paid L12.5.11 Special value L 8.3/ For Pay Rolls for the service shown in the foregoing certificates are lost or damaged.
Joseph G Lamb Comptroller
by Geo. Robinson Clerk
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Jeremiah Fuller
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Hon. the Comr. of Pensions
Washington City
D. C.
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Washington City D. C. 5 March '62
Hon the Comr of Pensions
Sir,
In consequence of the decision rendered some time since by the late Atty Gen: Black, as the attorney of Jeremiah Fuller, son & heir of Capt: Abraham Fuller, deceased, an officer in the revolutionary War, I applied directly to Congress for the pension due the said Captain Fuller to the time of his death, no action was had upon the application by Congress, & having by leave, had the papers withdrawn from the files of the Ho: of Representatives, I respectfully present them to you bureau, & ask that the payment of the pension due Capt: Fuller may be paid to his son & only heir, to wit Jeremiah Fuller.
Very respectfully your obt servt
J H Peters
Atty of Jer. Fuller