Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 13,103, Peter Fuller, Mass.
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(3-1776)
SERVICE | | NUMBER
Mass. | Fuller, Peter | S.13,103
carded
CONTENTS
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1300
New York
Peter Fuller
of Worcester in the State of New York who was a Private in the Comp'y commanded by Captain King of the Regt commanded by Col. in the Massachusetts line for 13 months 
Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 30 Dollars Cents per mo to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Cerficate of Pension issued the 31st day of Octr: 1832 and Schuller Crippen
Arrears to 4th of Sepr: 1832 $75
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Mar 33 25
$100
Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.
Recorded by Geo. C. Stiles Clerk,
Book D Vol. 5 Page 87
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Rev War
13,103
INVALID.
File No. 13,103
Peter Fuller
Priv: Rev War
Act: June 7th 1832
Index:- Vol. , Page
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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4192
Peter Fuller
admitted
15 mo
50$
Schular Crippen
Worcester
N York
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BRIEF in the case of Peter Fuller
of Worcester in the State of New York.
(Act 7th June, 1832.)
1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? open court.
2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?
3. How old is he? Eighty years
4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed.
Period. | Duration of Service. | | |  Rank. | Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.
| Years, | Months, | Days | As a | Gen. 
minute man In 1774 | | about 1 | | private | Capt Wm King, Lt G Whiting
1775 | | 8 | | private | 8 Regt. Capt John Fellows, 
then a volunteer same Copny for | | 8 | | " | Genl Thomas Brigade
1777 Jan 1 | | 6 | | " | Capt Geo. King, Lt Solomon Downing [illegible] Hays
5. In what battles was he engaged? none stated
6. Where did he reside when he entered the service: Tythingham Mass.
7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? Samuel Fuller a living witness [illegible] 9 mo service as a Volunteer in 1775. & the prove service as a volunteer in 1775. & the 6 mo same in 1777.
8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect?
I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
D Kent Examining Clerk.
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No 4192
In the matter of Peter Fuller, a Soldier of the Revolution
Exemptification
W
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The People of the State of New York by the Grace of God Free & Independent: To all to whom these presents shall come, or may concern, Greeting:
Know ye, that we having inspected the Records & proceedings remaining in the Clerks Office of Our Court of Common Pleas for Our County of Otsego, do find therein the Record of certain evidence and proceedings in the words and figures following to wit:
Otsego Com. Pleas.
Of the Term of June in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two.-
State of New York
Otsego County ss: 
Be it remembered that on this 21st day of June in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two, personally appeared in open Court, being the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Otsego in the State of New York and a Court of Record proceeding according to the principles of the Common Law, with power of fine and imprisonment, Peter Fuller aged eighty years a resident of the Town of Worcester in the County of Otsego aforesaid, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath solemnly declare in order to obtain a pension under the provisions of the act of Congress passed June 7. 1832 entitled "An Act supplementary to the act for the relief of certain surviving Officers & Soldiers of the Revolution" That in the year 1774 he the said Peter Fuller was a resident of Tythingman in the County of Berkshire Massachusetts and enlisted as a minute man in the War of the Revolution into a Company of State Troops or Militia commanded by Capt William King of Great Barrington & Lieutenant Gamaliel Whiting. The said Peter Fuller further states as aforesaid that some time in the month of April 1775. the alarm was given and orders received for the Company to which he belonged to march without any delay to Roxbury. This Deponent and immediately marched with the Company to Roxbury where the troops were stationed, and he this Deponent remained there a private in Capt Kings Company in actual service & on duty for about four weeks under his said enlistment as a minute man, when he the said Peter Fuller enlisted as a Volunteer for the
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period of eight months, and remained in the same Company and under the command of the same officers above stated. The Company commanded by Capt King belonged to the 8th Regiment, commanded by Col John Fellows in Genl Thomas Brigade, And this Deponent further states that he remained in actual service as a private in said Company aforesaid, [illegible] at Roxbury aforsaid , until he served out the full Term of his said enlistment, and in all, about nine months, and at the expiration of the term of his said service [illegible] said Peter Fuller was honorably discharged from service and returned home to Tythingham, the place of his residence. And the said Peter Fuller further declared as aforesaid that he again enlisted as a Volunteer, and marched from Great Barrington on the first of January 1777 in a Company commanded by Capt George King and Lieutenant [illegible] Demming. This Deponent marched with said a Company to Albany in the State of New York, from thence to Lake Champlain, to Ticonderoga, and to Crown Point. This company while at Ticonderoga was under the command of Major Hayes who then had the command of the fort at that place, This Deponent was frequently out with scouting parties during this six months service, and continued in the service until he served out the full period of six months for which he enlisted, and was then honorably discharged at Ticonderoga from service and returned home to Tythingham the place where he then resided. Also this Deponent further states that Capt George King died in the service during the six months campaign above mentioned, after which the Company was commanded by Lieutenant Dowing. And the said Peter Fuller further declared as aforesaid, that he hath not at any time received any annuity or pension under any law of the United States providing for Revolutionary Officers and Soldiers, and that he has never until now made application for any such pension or annuity. And further the said Peter Fuller declares in manner aforesaid that he has no knowledge of any person now living who is knowing to, or recollects the services rendered by him for his Country
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during the War of the Revolution as above stated, except his Brother Samuel Fuller, whose deposition is hereunto annexed; and that it is not in the power of this Deponent to produce any further or other proof to establish his right to in pension for Revolutionary services as above stated. And further the said Peter Fuller saith not.
Peter Fuller [his X mark]
Sworn to & subscribed in open Court, in the Court of Common Pleas of Otsego County this 21st day of June 1832.
Horace Lathrop, Clerk.
State of New York
Otsego County ss.
Samuel Fuller of the Town of Worcester in said County, aged eighty two years, being duly sworn in open Court in the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County doth depose & say that he is the Brother of Peter Fuller who has signed & made the above declaration and oath. This Deponent further saith, that the said Peter Fuller resided with him this Deponent in the Town of Tythingham in the County of Berkshire, Massachusetts, at the commencement of the War of the Revolution and that he the said Peter Fuller marched from Tythingham for Roxbury in the month of April 1775 as a volunteer in a Company of Militia commanded by Capt William King of Great Barrington. And this Deponent further saith that he the said Peter Fuller continued in the service [illegible] War of the Revolution at that time, stationed at Roxbury aforesaid until January 1776, at which time he was discharged & returned home to the house of this Deponent in Tythingham aforesaid.- This Deponent further saith that he well recollects, that the said Peter Fuller afterwards again enlisted or volunteered for the period of six months in a Company of Militia commanded by Capt George King and on or about the first of January 1777 marched for Ticonderoga in the State of New York and that he the said Peter Fuller remained and continued in the service for the full period of six months from the first of January 1777 in the Company commanded by Capt George King. And at the
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expiration of the said six months service he the said Peter Fuller again returned home to the house of this Deponent in Tythingham aforesaid. And further this Deponent saith not.
Samuel Fuller [his X mark]
Sworn to and subscribed in open Court in the Court of Common Pleas of Otsego County this 21st day of June 1832
Horace Lathrop, Clerk.
Otsego County ss. Seth Chase a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of said County, being duly sworn in open Court in the Court of Common Pleas in & for the County of Otsego, doth depose and say that he is well acquainted with Peter Fuller the person who has made the above declaration & oath and that he the said Peter Fuller is a man of fair character, and entitled to full credit on oath or otherwise, and further oath not.-
Seth Chase.
Sworn to & subscribed in open Court in the Court of Common Pleas or Otsego County June 21st 1832.
Horace Lathrop, Clerk
Otsego Com. Pleas.
Of the Term of June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two.-
State of New York
Otsego County ss.
We the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the said County of Otsego, do certify, that Peter Fuller appeared before us in open Court, at the present June Term of said Court, and made his declaration and oath in manner and form above specified for the purpose of obtaining a pension under the provisions of the act of Congress of June 7th 1832 and at the same time produced before the said Court as Witnesses to support his said declaration the above named
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Seth Chase,
Court in the Court of Common Pleas of Otsego County June 21st 1832
Horace Lathrop, Clerk
Otsego Com. Pleas.
Of the Term of June in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two.-
State of New York
Otsego County ss.
We the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the said County of Otsego, do certify, That Peter Fuller appeared before us in open Court, at the present June Term of said Court, and made his declaration and oath in manner and form above specified for the purpose of obtaining a pension under the provisions of the act of Congress of June 7th 1832 and at the same time produced before the said Court as Witnesses to support his said declaration the above named Samuel Fuller and Seth Chase Esquire, who then & there in open Court, respectively made oath to the depositions by them above subscribed, which is satisfactory evidence to us of the truth of the facts set forth in the declaration & oath of the said Peter Fuller. In witness whereof we the said Judges have hereunto subscribed Our names in open Court at the Court House in Cooperstown in said County this 22nd day of June A.D. 1832
Elisha Foot
J. O. Morse
Seth Chase
Judges &c
Filed June 22, 1832
All which we have caused by these presents to be exemplified and the Seal of our said Court of Common Pleas to be hereunto affixed. Witness George Morell Esquire First Judge of our said Court, at Cooperstown in the County aforesaid the 23rd day of June A.D. 1832
Horace Lathrop, Clerk.
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THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES
Form VAM-51
12-5-41
BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
Division of Veterans' Administration Archives
NAME Fuller, Peter GRADE Private LINE New York
WARRANT NUMBER 7138 ACREAGE 100 ISSUED Feb. 21, 1792 to Moses Wells, assignee
*The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800. Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.