Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 5387, Levi Hungerford, New York
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(3 - 1776)  
SERVICE  NUMBER
New York Hungerford, Levi R5387
Ann
CONTENTS
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V No 7657
Ann Hungerford
N.Y. Levi
Act 7 July, 1838
Hon. J. H. Prentiss
H.R.
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This certifies that I have searched the records of the Reformed Dutch Church of Caughnawaga that they are much torn & mutilated and some of the leaves are missing And that after a careful examination I am not able to find the record of the Marriage of Levi Hungerford with of Ann Quackenboss and that I am at present Pastor of the Reformed Dutch Church of Caughnawaga and successor to the Reverend Thomas Romeyn
[signature] Jacob D. Fonda
Pastor of the Reformed Dutch Church of Caughnawaga
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State of New York}
Montgomery County} SS. Catharine Quackenboss of the Town of Glen County & State aforesaid Being Duly Sworn Deposes and says that she was personaly [sic] acquainted with Levi Hongerford [Hungerford] Deceased and his widow An Hongerford [Hungerford] who has applied for a pension or is about to apply for a pension and this Deponant [sic] says further that she was present at the Marrage [sic]of the aforesaid Levi Hongerford [Hungerford]& Ann Hongerford [Hungerford] and that they was Married By the Reverand Minister Thomas Romyne [Romeyn] who then resided at Caughnawaga and that the afore mentioned Levi & Ann was married at the [lined out "Father"] House ^of the aforesaid Minister^ now the town of [lined out 'Glen"] ^Mohawk^ in the year 1748, and this Deponant [sic] further says she has been personally aquainted [sic] with the said Levi & Ann Before mentioned more than Sixty years last past and further saith not
[signature] Cathrine her X mark Quackenboss

Sworn & Subscribed Before me this 15th day of Feb 1841
[signature] John F. Quackenboss J. Peace

I Certify that I have been Personally acquainted with Catharine Quackenboss who made her mark to the above affidavit more than Fifty years last past I lived within half a mile from her During the aforesaid fifty years and she is a member of the Church and that she is a credible Woman and her affidavit above made is entitled to full Credit and the words of the aforesaid Minister & Words Mohawk was interlined before she made her mark and Erasures made
[signature] John Quackenboss J. Peace
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State of New York}
County of Montgomery} Ss:
Cornelius Newkirk of the Town of Glen County and State aforesaid being Duly Sworn - deposes and says that he was personally acquainted with Live [Levi] Hongerford [Hungerford] Deceased who was a Private & Soldier in the War of the Revolution and the said Live [Levi] Hungerford was enroled [sic] and- Belonged in a Company of Malitia [sic] commanded by Captain William Snook in Col Frederick Fishers Regment [sic] of Malitia [sic] and the said Capt William Snook was then stationed at Fort Hunter and that this Deponant [sic] was then at Fort Hunter on the 18th day of October or there about in the year 1780. and the said Levi Hungerford Deceased was on the 18th day of October 1780, a private & Solder & under the command of Capt William Snook of the Malitia [sic] under arms and doing duty at said Fort ^until he was ordered out on duty^ and was takin [sic] a prisoner he the said Levi Hungerford was a bout a mile from the afore said Fort when he the said Levi Hongerford [Hungerford] was taken Prisoner by a party of tories & indians when he the said L. Hongerford [Hungerford]  was taken Prisoner he was on duty and under arms as this deponent was informed and believes to be true and the said Live Hongerford [Hungerford] was taking [sic] to Canada and detained a prisoner for 18 month as this Deponant [sic] alway [sic] has been informed and by one Jacob Newkirk who said he was 18 month in Prison in Canada in company with the said Live [Levi] Hongerford and this Deponant [sic] States that Live [Levi] Hongerford [Hungerford] resided and lived about a half a mile distance from the Deponant through the whole of the Revolutionary ^War^ excepted when he was prisoner in Canada and this deponant [sic] well remembers the aforesaid day he was made a prisoner and the time when he returned from Canada
[signature] Cornelius his X mark Newkirk

Sworn & Subscribed before me This 15th Day of February 1841
[signature] John S. Quackenboss J. Peace

I certify that I have known the above Named Cornelius Newkirk More than forty five years last part that he is a Crediable [sic] man and his affidavit whereunto he made his Mark is entitled to full credit the words until he was ordered out on Duty and the words War was enterlined [sic] before Executed
[signature] John S. Quackenboss J. Peace
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State of New York}
Montgomery County ss} William Newyork [Newkirk] of the Town of [illegible "Fonda"?] First being Duly Sworn deposes and says that he was a Private and Soldier in the War of the Revolution and that he was personally acquainted with Levi Hongerford [Hungerford] deceased [lined out "and this"] and his wife Ann Hongerford [Hungerford] and that he was a Private and Soldier in the War of the Revolution and that on or about the 18th day October in the year of 1780, the enimy [sic] and Tories and indian came From Schoharie and Down the Chohorci [Schoharie] Creek to Fort Hunter to the Mohawk River Distroying [sic] and Burning along said Creek and up the Mohaw [sic] river every thing ^in their way^ and the enemy & Tories was commanded by Joseph Brant the indian & Col Butter and that Levi Hungerford with with this Deponant [sic] was taken and made prisoner by the aforesaid mentioned enemy & Tories & indians ^about a mile from Fort Hunter^ and this deponant [sic] further says that they took Levi Hongerford [Hungerford]  a Prisoner with this Deponant [sic] up the Mohawk river and as far as the onida [Oneida] lake where this Deponant [sic] & the said Levi Hongerford [Hungerford]  seperated [sic]at that time and Levi Hongerford [Hungerford]  Went in a boat on the onida [Oneida] lake to Canada & I this Deponant [sic]  - West by land and Boath [sic] went as prisoners to Canada and this the Deponent further says that his uncle Jacob Newkirk & said Levi Hongerford [Hungerford] was put in Prison in Canada and remained in Prison Eighteen Months as this deponant [sic] believes to be true and further saith not
[signature] William his X mark Newkirk
The interlined was done before

Signed & Sworn before me This 13th Day of February 1841}
[signature] John S. Quackenboss J. Peace

I certify that I have known The above William Newkirk who made his mark to the above affidavit forty five years or more last past and That he is a credible man and his affidavit as above made is intitled to full credit the words in their way and the words about a mile from fort Hunter was interlined before Executed
[signature] John S. Quackenboss J. Peace
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State of New York
Montgomery County
Clerks Office ss I [illegible] Cook Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of Montgomery County aforesaid do hereby certify that John S. Quackenboss before whom the foregoing affidavits of Catherine Quackenboss, Cornelius Newkirk & William Newkirk purport to have been sworn was on the date of the date of same a Justice of the Peace in & for said County, and that I am well acquainted with his hand writing & Verily do believe that his name subscribed to said affiants and also to the foregoing certificates of characters of said Deponents is his proper hand writing
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of my Office the 15th day of February 1841
J. Cook Dep. Clerk
the Clerk being absent
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State of New York}
County of Otsego} SS
On the 23rd day of February 1841 personally appeared before Seth Chase a Judge of the Court of Common pleas of [lined out "of"] the County of Otsego (it being a court of record) Ann Hungerford a resident of the town of Milford in the County of Otsego and State of New York aged seventy three years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the act of congress passed July 7th 1838 entitled "An act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows" that she is the widow of Levi Hungerford who was a private in the war of the revolution, that during the whole period of the said war she ^resided^ at Fort Hunter at the junction of the Schoharie Creek with the Mohawk river now in the County of Montgomery in the State of New York that Levi Hungerford her late husband then resided about one mile from said Fort Hunter that she was then well acquainted with him that some time during the said war of the Revolution (she cannot state the particular year) it was said (and which she then believed and still believes true) that said Levi Hungerford was called into the United States served and actually entered such service at Fort Hunter aforesaid as a private soldier in the New York militia and that while so in service as a soldier he was taken prisoner by a party of Indians and torys [sic] under the command of Butler and Brant and from thence taken to Canada as such prisoner and detained and kept as such prisoner for the term of [left margin note "18-"] eighteen months or more that he did not return to the place of his former residence near Fort Hunter until about three years from the time he was taken prisoner as aforesaid. That he the said Live [Levi] Hungerford when in service at Fort Hunter was under the command of Capt Snook she does
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not recollect the names of any of the other officers there in command-- that she has not any documentary evidence in support of her claim to a pension or as proof of services rendered by the said Levi Hungerford she further declares that she was married to the said Levi Hungerford on the 14th day of May but in what year she cannot recollect but it was more than fifty years ago and after the close or termination of the Revolutionary war that they both resided near Fort Hunter aforesaid at the time of their marriage that they were married at Caughnawaga the opposite side of the Mohawk river by the Reverend Wm Romyne [Romeyn] than pastor of the Reformed Dutch Church at that place and were married at the house of said Romyne [Romeyn] that after their marriage they continue to reside near Fort Hunter for several years and ^then^ removed to the county of Otsego in the now town of Milford nearly fifty years ago where they continued to reside until the death of her said husband that he the said Levi Hungerford died on the 15th day of May 1829 at Milford aforesaid that he was about sixty seven years of at the time of his death that she has continued to reside at Milford aforesaid since the death of her said husband-- that she was not married to him prior to his having the service but the marriage took place previous to the first of January seventeen hundred and ninety four Voz - at the time as above stated that her name previous to her marriage with [lined out "with"] the said Levi Hungerford Ann Quackenboss that she has not been married since the death of her husband the said Levi Hungerford but that she still remains and continues his widow. that the nearest any court of record is held is about seventeen miles from the residence of the declarant and by reason of the infirmities of old age she is unable to appear in open court to make her declaration to obtain a pension
[signature] Ann Her + mark Hungerford

Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written before me
[signature] Seth Chase a Judge of Otsego County
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State of New York}
County of Otsego} SS William Hungerford of Milford in the County of Otsego aforesaid being duly sworn before Seth Chase a Judge of the [lined out "County"] Court of Common pleas of said County of Otsego deposeth and saith that he is the son of Levi and Ann Hungerford and resided with them at the time of the death of said Levi Hungerford that he died on the 15th day of May 1929^ in Milford in the County of Otsego^ that the said Ann Hungerford his mother has resided with him the deponent in the town of Milford aforesaid ever since the death of her husband the said Levi Hungerford and that she has not married since the death of her husband the said Levi Hungerford but that she still remains and continues his widow-
[signature] William his + mark Hungerford

Subscribed and sworn Feby 23rd 1841 before me
[signature] Seth Chase Judge of Otsego County

State of New York}
County of Otsego} ss Peter Collier and Denison R. Boyce of Milford in said County of Otsego being both duly sworn before Seth Chase one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of said County of Otsego do severally and each of them separately depose and say that they have for many years past been well acquainted with Ann Hungerford who has made the
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foregoing declaration to obtain a pension both personally and by reputation the said Peter Collier for more than forty years and the said Denison R. Boyer for eight or nine years last past and that they have also been well acquainted with William Hungerford who has made the foregoing declaration and that they do know the said Ann Hungerford and William Hungerford to be persons of good character for truth and veracity and that statement is entitled to Credit
[signature] Peter Callier
[signature] Denison R. Boyce

Sworn to and subscribed February 1841 before me
[signature] Seth Chase a Judge of Otsego County

I the said judge before whom the foregoing declaration and affidavits were taken do certify that I am well acquainted with Peter Collier & Denison R Boyce and and have been for several years last past and do know them to be persons of good character for truth and veracity and that their statement is entitled to credit.
And I further certify that by reason of old age and infirmity I believe that Ann Hungerford who has made the foregoing declaration is unable to appear in open court to make her declaration and that the reason she does not write her name is she never learned to write
[signature] Seth Chase Judge of Otsego County
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State of New York}
Otsego County ss} I Samuel Russell Clerk of said County certify that Seth Chase Esquire before whom the annexed affidavits purport to have been given was on the day of the date of the same a Judge in and for Otsego County commissioned and sworn and duly authorized to take the same: And further that I am well acquainted with the handwriting of said Judge and verily believe his name subscribed to said affidavits and the certificate of credibility to be his genuine hand writing and signature
In Testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand and of office this 25th
day of February 1841
[signature] Samuel Russell
Clerk
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[lined out "Act of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1879."
REJECTED
5387
P.O. Ann Hungerford
Service: [blank]
Enlisted: [blank], 18 [blank].
Discharged: [blank], 18 [blank].
Application filed: [blank], 18 [blank].
Alleges: [blank]
Re-enlisted: [blank]
Attorney: [blank]
P.O. [blank]
[blank] Recognized. [blank] Contract.
[blank] Cert. of Dis. Searched for [blank], 18 [blank].
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V 
Levi - N.Y. 7651
Let to Hon. J. H. Prentiss March 5, 1841
Hon S. S. Bowne Augst 16th 1841
[illegible] Hungerford - Levi 
N.Y.
5387
Act 7 July '38
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[vertical script, left side]
No Mar 3 1841
N,Y.
July 7. 1838
Ann Hungerford

[script on right side]
J.H. Prentiss 
M.G.
JH Prentiss
HR

J. L. Edwards
Com'r of Pensions,
Washington
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House of Reps.
Tuesday, March 1841.
J. L. Edwards, Esq.
Sir:
The enclosed papers came to me by this days mail. They are sent to your office, with a request that you will act upon them at your
earliest convenience, and write on this [illegible] at Cooperstown, N.Y.
Yout obt. svt.
J. H. Prentiss
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[envelope]

[circular stamp on left] 
COOPERSTOWN N.Y.
FEB 26

FREE
Col. John H. Prentiss M.C.
Washington
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Cooperstown Feb 25, 1841
Col Prentiss
Enclosed [illegible] papers upon the application
of Anna Hungerford of Oncasta for a pension
Will you do in the favor to present them at the
proper office and inform me of the result. Direct
your Letter to Anna Hungerford, Collins Ville
Otsego County
I am very Respectfully yours &c
Anna Hungerford
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Sept 19th
Hungerford}
Moonens}
Hon S. S. Bowne
H.R.
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Oneonta August 2d 1841
Dear Sir I wish you would inquire of the Hon J L Edwards and find
out if you can wheather [sic] he Has exam the case of Ann Hungerford and also the Case of Margaret Moonens and if so I would like allso [sic] to know what the objections are to either of the Cases
Mr Mcgunn (sp?) is also very ancecois [sic] to here [sic] Concerning his claim
Yas Truly
[signature] T Sabins

Hon S. S. Bowne

I sent the Above to the Hon J H Prentiss when he was at Washington but Have never Heard from them since
[signature] T Sabins