Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 18463, for Adam Hurd, Connecticut
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Conn.
Vt.
Hurd, Adam
S.18463
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No 18538
Vermont
Adam Hard
of Benngn. Co. in the State of Vermont 
who was a Private in the company commanded
by Captain Levensworth of the Reg commanded
by Col. Judson in the Cont. Troops
line for 14 months & Vermont

Inscribed on the Roll of Vermont
at the rate of 46 Dollars 66 Cents per annum
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 12 day of Sept.
1833 and sent to E. Bradley
Bennington Vt

Arrears to the 4th of Sep. 1833 116.66 
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 March 1833 23.33
$140.00
Revolutionary Claim, 
Act June 7, 1832.
Recorded by D. Brown Clerk
Book E .Vol. 3 Page 69
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atm
14 months
$46.66
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State of Vermont
Bennington County
On this 13th day of June in the year 1833 personally 
appeared in open Court before the Hon. the Probate Court for
the Probate district of Manchester in the County of Bennington and State of Vermont
now sitting, Adam Hurd a resident of Sandgate in said County of Bennington
aged seventy six years, who first being 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 7th 1832 That he was born at Woodbury in the County of Litchfield
and State of Connecticut on the 24th day March in the year 1757 
that he knows of no record of his age except a record
kept in the family - " --- --
That he entered the service of the United States under the following of named officers
and served as herein stated in the forepart of April in the year 1776 at said
Woodbury he enlisted for the term of one year in the Company of Grenaders, commanded by Capt
David Levensworth, Lieut Ebenezer Levinsworth & the Regiment command
by Col David Judson, & in the Brigade Commanded by Genl Wooster of
Militia of the State of Connecticut. that he soon after marched to Danbury where he arrived
when the Houses and Buildings were then on fire, from thence he
with his Company, & others pursued the enemy & Engaged him, at Ridgefield 
& one other battle on the same day at Ridgebury one of the aforesaid Gen. Wooster was
killed. [illegible] on the day following they engaged the Enemy at
at a place Called Compo in Said State from there the Enemy retreated 
& were driven aboard of their shipping. in June following was ordered
& Marched in the same Company same Regiment Same Officers, to the ┃
City of New York where he arrived at the time the American Army was 
generally on Long Island was stationed on York Island that he was
generally occupied in garrison guard & fatigue duty on or about said Island
some time he thinks the fore part of September he was taken sick was [illegible]
& Returned to his said Home at Woodberry in October following he
Joined his said Company & Regiment at Kingsbridge Marched to a
place called the Sawpits, both places in State of New York at which last 
place he was stationed some time that he marched from thence to Peekskill 
and from thence to a place called Crompton in said State where
he was generally stationed except at times marching up & down
near the Hudson River & in garrison duty & where he was regularly dismissed or discharged by [illegible] 1777
That he never had a written discharge but faithfully served the whole of said term 
of one year except whilst sick & at home on furlough.
in the month of June in the year 1778 he removed with
his family from said Woodbury to the Town of Arlington in the
County of Bennington & State of Vermont. where he resided until
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untill the month of April 1779 when he removed to Sandgate in said County 
where he has ever since lived. that in the same year he volunteered
at said Sandgate in the Company commanded by Captain Richard Hand,
and in the Regiment commanded by Col Stephen Pearl in the Vermont 
Militia, & Marched from thence to Castleton, when he was station
at the Fort one month, when he was paroled returned to his home in
said Sandgate in the latter part of November or first of December of the same
year he marched in the same Company to Castleton under the command 
of Lieut Abner Hurd in the same regiment & the same line of 
Vermont militia under the same officers when he was again dismissed
by parole & returned home to said Sandgate that he has no documentary
evidence to substantiate his above statements but will be able to show
by Mr Elijah Hurd & Capt Lewis Hurd both residents of said Town of Sandgate a general
knowledge of his Revolutionary services having often seen him in actual
service of the United States in the year 1776 on York Island & the said Elijah was
Also knowing that the said Adam Hurd served at Castleton as
herein stated in the Vermont Militia that he at present knows of no
other living Witnesses whom he can procure, to prove any part of his said service
but expect that he shall be able to this by the Revd Abraham Brownson a respectable 
Episcopal Clergyman resident in the Town of Manchester in said County of
Bennington adjoining to said Town of Sandgate, & also by Capt [illegible] resident 
in said Town of Sandgate, a general understanding of his said service & a 
confidence in his said statements. He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever
to a pension or annuity except the present & declares that his name is not on
the Pension Roll of the Agency of any State. And he further deposeth & saith that
by reason of old age & the consequent loss of memory he cannot swear positively
to the precise length, & all other particulars of his service, but according to the best of
his recollection, he served not less than fourteen months in the whole, as a Private
for such services he claims a pension
Adam Hurd
Sworn to & subscribed the day & year aforesaid by before

We Abraham Brownson a Clergyman resident in the Town of Manchester in the
County of Bennington & State of Vermont, & [illegible] resident of Sandgate in said county
hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with Adam Hurd who has subscribed &
sworn to the above declaration, that we believe him to be seventy six years of age that
he is reputed & believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier
of the revolution & that we concur in that opinion
Sworn & Subscribed in open Court the day
& date above - Attest Henry Robinson Register -
Abm Branson
Hall Curtis
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We Lewis Hurd aged seventy five years, & Elijah Hurd aged seventy eight years
of Sandgate in the County of Bennington & State of Vermont
do testify, declare & say that we have been well acquainted with Adam Hurd of
said Sandgate who has subscribed & sworn to the preceding declaration from
early life - that the said Elijah knew that the said Adam belong to Capt David Levenworth 
Company of Grenadiers to Col. David Judson, Regiment & gen'l Wooster's 
Brigade, in the revolutionary war, & that we understood & believe that he
enlisted in said Company at Woodbury in Connecticut for the term of one year
in the spring of the year 1776, that he served through said year - that we both saw 
him in said service in York Island several times in the latter part of the Summer & fall of said  year 1776 & the said Elijah was with him & served in the same Company in the Vermont
Militia at Castleton in the fall of the year 1779 as I believe, according to our
understanding & belief he performed the services as by him stated in his preceding
Declaration
Elijah Hurd
Lewis Hurd
Sworn to & subscribed the day & year aforesaid, before me, & I further certify that the
said Lewis Hurd & Elijah Hurd an both credible Witnesses & their statements
entitled to credit. Attest Myron Clark Judge of Probate Court

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the Investigation
of the matter & after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the war department
that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier and
as he states & the Court further certify that it appears to them that Lewis Hurd 
& Elijah Hurd who have signed the above certificate are residents of the town 
of Sandgate & are credible persons & that their statement is Entitled to credit
Myron Clark Judge of Probate Court

I Henry Robinson Register of the Probate
Court do certify that the foregoing contains 
the original proceedings of sd Court
in the matter of the application of Adam
Hurd for a Pension-
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my name & affixed the
seal of our said Court at Manchester this 13th day of June AD 1833.
Henry Robinson
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18463
INVALID.

File No. 18463
Adam Hurd
Pri Rev War

Act: June 7th 32
Index:-- Vol. 1, Page 436
[Arrangement of 1870.]