Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 8520, for John Pullman, Connecticut
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(3-1776)

SERVICE
Conn Sea Service
R. I.

Pullman, John
Esther

NUMBER
R. 8520

CONTENTS
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[check mark]  2363
Esther Pullman
NY
Act 4 July 36

A. E. Campbell
Jordan
Onondaga Co
NY
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State of New York
Onondaga County}  ss:

On this fourth day of March A. D. 1841 personally appeared before the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Onondaga aforesaid Esther Pullman a resident of the town of Norway in the county of Herhimer in said state aged eighty three years and seven months, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath 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 John Pullman who was a private in the war of Revolution that said John Pullman entered the service at the commencement of the year and was at the battle of Bunker hill, that he was in the battle on Long island and in escaping from said island he lost all of his clothes, that he sailed from Norwich (sometime before 1779) with Captain Hardin (or Harding) who commanded a Privateer, that hey took a prize (the name of the prize was Oliver Cromwell or the name of the Privateer was Oliver Cromwell) and which bringing it in, they were attacked, the prize retaken and said Pullman and the rest taken prisoners and carried to Halifax, from which place said Pullman escaped and after a tedious journey through the woods reached the United
States, that in July 1781 he enlisted and served six months under Colonel Oney on the island of Newport in the state of Rhode Island that on or about the first of April 1782 he enlisted and served nine months under said Colonel Oney, that during the said nine months they marched from Rhode Island to Philadelphia where he had the small pox, that he lived in the town of
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Exeter in the state of Rhode Island when
when he enlisted in 1781 and in 1782, that said Pullman reached home in the fore part of January 1783 which was the last period of his service & she further declares that she was married to the said John Pullman on or about the tenth day of March in the year seventeen hundred and seventy nine, that they moved into the town of Norway in said County of Herkimer on the nineteenth day of February seventeen hundred and ninety nine;  that her husband the aforesaid John Pullman died on the twenty sixth day of April eighteen hundred and eleven in said town of Norway, and that she has remained a widow ever since as will more fully appear by reference to the proof hereunto annexed and that said clergyman at the time of the marriage of said Pullmans resided at Wickford in the State of Rhode Island and that his name was Soloman Sprague  She further declares that she has no documentary evidence in her possession in support of the the aforesaid claim

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Esther X Pullman
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Witness C. T. Hicks
Wm Porter Jr

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion that the above named John Pullman was a Revolutionary soldier and served as above stated


I Charles T Hicks clerk of the court of Common Pleas for the county of Onondaga do hereby certify the the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of Esther Pullman for a pension

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of the office this 4th day of March 1841

Chas. T. Hicks Clerk
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I hereby certify that from old age and bodily infirmity Esther Pullman (the above deponent ) is unable to write her name. 

Chas. T. Hicks, Clerk
of Onondaga county
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State of New York
Herkimer County} ss

Esther Pullman of the town of Norway in said county being duly sworn deposit and saith that she is the widow of John Pullman, a soldier of the Revolution who died on the twenty sixth day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eleven__that she was married to said John Pullman on or about the tenth day of March 1779, by Solomon Sprague a minister of the gospel that at the time of said marriage she lived in the town of North Kingston in the state of Rhode IslandIsland but in a short time thereafter run over to Exeter in said state, in which said last mentioned place she lived while her husband the said John Pullman was in the service in the years 1781 and 1782  And this deponent further says that John Pullman, father to this deponent's husband was in the service during the campaign of 1781 and died at York town in the fall of said year - that this deponent cannot tell whether this deponent's husband wrote his name John Pullman or John Pullman Junior - And this deponent further says that the reason why she made her declaration in the county of Onondaga in said state was, that she has a daughter and other relatives residing in said county of Onondaga, among whom she was there visiting, and who are now as assisting her to obtain her pension

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Esther X Pullman
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Sworn to and subscribed }
this 15th day of March 1841}
Isaac Cort Justice}

I hereby certify that I am well acquainted with Esther Pullman the above deponent & that she is of sound mind and every way worthy of belief
 Isaac Corp Justice
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State of New York Herkimer County SS
Ubdike Pullman of the town of Norway in said County of Herkimer being duly sworn deposeth and saith that he is sixty years of age in June last past and that he is the son of John Pullman dec and Ester his wife (now the widow of said Pullman) and that his Father the said Pullman died the twenty sixth day of April eighteen hundred and eleven and that she the said widow has not since ben married
Updike Pullman

Subscribed and sworn this 9th day of March 1841 before me
Isaac Corp Justice

We hereby certify that Updike Pullman who has subscribed and sworn to the above affidavit is in every respect worthy of belief
Ira Coe Judge of Herkimer County Court

State of New York Herkimer County SS 
I Erwin A. Munson Clerk of said County do hereby certify that Isaac Corp is a Justice of the Peace in said County. that Ira Coe is one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in said county and that the foregoing signatures purporting to be theirs are genuine. In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed my seal of office and subscribed my name this 18th day of March in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty one 
E. A. Munson 
Clerk of the Court of Herkimer County
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State of New York Herkimer County
I Erwin A. Munson Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the county of Herkimer do hereby certify that Ira Coe is a Judge of said Court - that Isaac Corp is a Justice of the peace in said County duly commissioned and qualified and that the signature to the foregoing affidavits purporting to be theirs are genuine. I hereby further certify that David DuBois is a post master in the town of Norway in said County. In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed my seal of office and subscribed my name this 18th day of March AD. 1841
E. A. Munson Clerk
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State of New York
Herkimer County}  s.s. 

William Popple of the town of Russid in said county of Kerkimer being duly sworn deposit and saith that he is (71) Seventy one years old the eighteenth day of May last past (1840) that he was weak acquainted with John Pullman Jr and is also well acquainted with Ester Pullman and knows her to be the widow of John Pullman Jr who died the twenty six day of April eighteen hundred and eleven and that I have ben acquainted with the said John Pullman Jr and Ester his wife from about seventeen hundred and seventy seven or eight up to the time of said Pullmans death and with his widow up to this time and that she the said Ester is now the widow of said Pullman and that he the said John Pullman Jr was an enlisted soldier and served in the Continentle service for about two years of which one year and three months was after the marriage of said John Pullman Jr and Ester his wife
William Popple X his mark

Isaac Corp  Justice

We hereby Certif that William Popple who has Subscribed and Sworn to the above affidavit is in every respect worthy of Credit
Isaac Corp Justice
Ira Coe Judge of 
Herkimer County Court
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state of New York}
Herkimer County}  ss.  Thankful Halsey of the town of Norway in said County of Herkimer being duly sworn deposit and saith that she is Seventy seven years old in February last past and that she is a Sister of and well acquainted with (widow) Ester Pullman and that she the said Ester was married to John Pullman Jr in the spring of Seventeen hundred and seventy-nine (1779) and that they lived in the town of North Kingston County of Washington in the State of Rhode Island at the time that they was married and that she the said Thankful did live with the said John and Ester two or three years after they were married and the she has lived near by and ben well acquainted with them ever since till the Death of the said John Pullman Jr which was the twenty sixth day of April in the year Eighteen hundred and Eleven and that she is now and has ben acquainted with the said Ester since that time and that she knows her to be the widow of the said John Pullman Jr and that she knows that he went away in the spring of seventeen hundred and eighty two and was gone from home nine months and it was said at that time that he had enlisted in the Continentle service and that she has heard him the said Pullman say that he was in the service during that time which she confidently believes to be true
Thankful Halsey X her mark

Sworn to and Subscribed this 8th day of March 1841 
Isaac Corp Justice

We hereby Certify that Thankful Halsey who has subscribed and sworn to the above affidavit is in every respect worthy of Credit
Isaac Corp Justice 
David DuBois Post Master Norway
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was a revolutionary soldier of the United Sates. That he is directly interested as a claimant in said pension and makes this affidavit to be filed with such additional evidence as my said attorney above mentioned may use in the prosecution of said claim.
Elisha B Pullman

Sworn and subscribed before me the day and year last above written
David (illegible) Justice of the Peace
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BA-J/CC
John Pullman
R. 8520

Mr. Wilbur D. Brown 
113 Pembroke Street
Boston, Massachusetts.

Dear Sir:
Reference is made to our letter in which you request the Revolutionary War record of John Pullman as shown in pension claim R.8520.

The data which follow were obtained from the papers in the claim for pension cited above, based upon service in the Revolutionary War of John Pullman.

John Pullman was the sone of John Pullman, Date and place of his birth and name of his mother are not shown.

John Pullman, Senior, was in service in the campaign of 1781, and died in Yorktown in the fall of the year.

John Pullman, Junior, married about March 10. 1779, in North Kingston, Washington County, Rhode Island, Esther (surname not shown), both then residents of that place.

John Pullman died April 26, 1811, in Norway, Herkimer County, New York.

On March 4, 1941, soldier's widow, Esther, then aged eighty-three years, seven months, and a resident of Norway, Herkimer County, New York, applied for pension.  It was alleged that John Pullman enlisted at the beginning of the Revolutionary War and during the year 1776, served under Captain Jeremiah Olney and Colonel Hitchcock, tht he was in the battles of Bunker Hill and Long Island; that he sailed from Norwich sometime before 1779, with Captain Hardin who commanded a privateer, that they captured a vessel and while bringing it in they were attacked and the prize retaken and all on board taken prisoners and carried to Halifax, from which place John Pullman escaped through the woods and returned
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to the United States, that while a resident of Exeter, Rhode Island, he enlisted in 1781, served sic months under Colonel "Oney" in Newport, Rhode Island, that about April 1, 1782, he enlisted and served nine months under the same Colonel and returned home January 1783.

Esther Pullman's claim for pension was not allowed as she railed to furnish proof of service of six months as required by the pension law.  She died July 17, 1843, in Norway, New York.

Updike Pullman, son of John Pullman and his wife, Esther, was aged sixty years in June 1840, and in 1841 was a resident of Norway, Herkimer County, New York, and in 1852, another son, Elias B. Pullman was a resident of the same place.  In 1841, soldier's widow stated that she has a daughter and other relatives in Onondaga County, New York, but did not state any names.

In 1841, Thankful Halsey, a sister of the soldier's widow was aged seventy-seven and a resident of Norway, Herkimer County, New York.

There are no other family data shown.

Very truly yours
A.D. HILLER,
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator.
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State of New York Onondaga County SS
Ebenezer Moore of the town of Onondaga in said county being duly sworn deposeth and saith that he was a soldier in the war of the revolution, and now receives a pension under an act of Congress, for such services that he was well acquainted with Jon Pullman Junior who was in the service of the United States during said war - that said Pullman was a private in the same regiment with this deponent during the whole of the year 1776 that said regiment was stationed at Brooklin on Long Island in said year when General Howe entered New York Harbor with his army that said Pullman was in the battle on said Island, and retreated therefrom, with this deponent, on the night of the 28th of August in said year - that said regiment was under the command of Colonel Hitchcock during a part of said year, (who died before the close of said year) and that the name of the major in said regiment was Israel Angel. And this deponent further saith that, he thinks, said Pullman was in the company under the command of Captain Jeremiah Oney (as he was called) or Onley, but he cannot tell how the name was written and further this deponent saith not
Signed in presence of Enos Cook 

Sworn to and subscribed before me this (blank) day of (blank) A.D. 1841
(faded-illegible) Justice of the Peace