Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 5393, for Israel Hunt, New Jersey
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Service New Jersey
Hunt, Israel
Number R. 5393

Contents
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5393
Revolutionary
Suspended Claim
Israel Hunt
(Indiana)

Feb 1853
Mr. Hassler
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State of Indiana
Hendricks County }ss.
Be it known that on this fourteenth day of December A.D. 1852 before me Jesse S. Woodard a Justice of the Peace in and for the county and state aforesaid, personally appeared William C. Cline and wife Elander Cline, residents of the Town of Danville in said county and made oath according to law and say that Israel Hunt who was a soldier in the War of the Revolution and who has heretofore made application for the benefit of the Pension  Act of

And who after making said applications and before any decision whatever was granted unto him, departed this life intestate without any widow him surviving on the tenth day of December A.D. 1846.  And who at the time of his death had three daughters him surviving and no sons, Mrs. Elander Cline, wife of William C. Cline Sarah Kirkpatrick wife of John Kirkpatrick and Mary Gooding and husband John Gooding are all directly interested as claimants in said pension as children of Israel Hunt now deceased.  And make this affidavit to be filed with such additional evidence or arguments as our Agent may use in prosecuting said claim, countermanding and revoking all Powers of Attorney, heretofore given we hereby constitute and appoint F. E. Wassler of Washington City our true and
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lawful attorney to prosecute the claim of Israel Hunt deceased for the benefit of the survivors above named as his heirs at law for any Revolutionary Pension that may be due us for the services of the said Israel Hunt deceased.  And we hereby authorize our said Attorney to secure all papers or documents in relation to said claim and issue and of pension now on file in the Department at Washington City  or elsewhere, to file additional evidence or arguments and receive the certificate which may be issued for said claim, which certificate we wish made payable at the Washington City D.C. Agency thereby notifying and confirming all that our said attorney and agent shall lawfully do in the process.
In witness whereof we have hereunto subscribed our names and affixed our seals this 14th day of December 1852 the said Sarah Kirkpatrick and John Kirkpatrick and Mary Gooding & John Gooding by William C. Cline their attorney and agent.
Attest

William C. Cline
Elander Cline
John Kirkpatrick
Sarah Kirkpatrick
John Gooding
Mary Gooding
By attorney

Signed, Sealed Acknowledged and sworn to before me.  And I further certify that Israel Hunt deceased has always been epitomized by this community as a soldier of the Revolution and that Elander Cline wife of William C. Cline
Sarah
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Kirkpatrick wife of John Kirkpatrick and Mary Gooding wife of John Gooding and daughters of the said Israel Hunt decd and that he left no widow or other children him surviving dated this 14th day of December A.D. 1852.

Jesse S. Woodard
Justice of the Peace

State of Indiana
Hendricks County }ss  To wit
I hereby certify that Jesse S. Woodard Esq before whom the foregoing affidavits and acknowledgements were made, and who has thereunto subscribed his name was at the time of so doing a Justice of the Peace in and for the county aforesaid duly elected, commissioned and qualified to act as such, and that his signature above written is genuine  and that full faith and credit are due to all his official acts as such.  
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office as clerk of the Hendricks circuit court in and for said county at Danville this 14th day of December in the year of our Lord Eighteen hundred and fifty two.  
John Irons Clerk H.C.C.
by
G Hadley Deputy
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35,643
Application of Israel Hunt
Mja
Act 7 June 32

Hon J. Albright
1102
Mar 20 44

Hendricks Probate Court
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State of Indiana
Hendrick County
Probate Court of Hendrick County
February four 1844
On this the fourth day of February A.D. 1844 personally appeared in open court, the same being a court of record made so by statute, before the Probate Court of Hendrick County, now sitting Israel Hunt, a resident of the State and county aforesaid aged eighty one years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath makes the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832:
That he entered the service of the United States, and served under the following named officers as herein stated.  That he served under two engagements.
That during the first engagement, the officer under whom he served was Colonel Joseph Phillips, Captain John Hunt, & Lieutenant Ralph Lannings.  That he entered the service as a volunteer at Pennytown, Huntington County, New Jersey, nine miles from Princeton, in the month of September (as he believes, but by reason of old age and loss of memory, he cannot fix the precise time) in the year 1778, and continued in the service for thirteen days, that he was stationed at Princeton, & that he has no
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documentary evidence & knows of no witness who can testify to his service.  
That during the second engagement, the officers under whom he served were Colonel Joab Houghton, (the captain's name he has forgotten) & Lieutenant Ralph Lannings, that he entered the service as a volunteer, at Pennytown, Huntington County in New Jersey in November (as he believes but from loss of memory and old age he cannot tell the exact time) in the year 1788, and continued in the service from that time for three weeks.  That he marched to Newark, New Jersey; & that he has no documentary evidence & knows of no witness by whom he can prove his service.  
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state. 
Israel Hunt

Sworn to and subscribed in open court on the day and year aforesaid.
J. M. Gregg
Clerk of the Probate Court of Hendrick County

We, Henry Scammel a clergyman residing in Hendrick County Indiana and Alexander McVey residing in said county and state, hereby certify that we are well acquainted with
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Israel Hunt who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration, that we believe him to be eighty one years of age, that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion.
Henry Scammel
A. McVey

Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
J. M. Gregg
Clerk of the Probate Court of Hendrick County

And the said court after putting to the said Israel Hunt the following interrogatories which the applicant [illegible]
Question 1.  Where and in what year were you born?
One mile from Flemington in New Jersey in the year seventeen hundred and sixty two.  

Quest. 2.  Have you any record of your age, and if so, where is it? 
I have none.

Quest. 3  Where were you living when called into service; where have you lived since the Revolutionary war and where do you now live?
When called into service I lived at Pennytown, in Huntington County, in the state of New Jersey.  After I left the service, I lived
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in New Jersey until I was about twenty five years of age, from there I moved to Pennsylvania where I lived three years, from there to Kentucky where I lived [illegible] years, from there to Cincinatti Ohio where I resided six years, then back to Trenton and remained there eight years, from there to Indiana  [illegible] in the same state.

Quest. 4. How were you called into service; were you drafted, did you volunteer, or were you a substitute?  If a substitute, for whom?
Ans. I volunteered both times.

Quest 5.  State the names of some of the Regular Officers, who were with the troops, where you served; such Continental and Militia Regiments as you can recollect, and the general circumstances of your services.
Ans. I remember the names of none but my own immediate officers, these were when I was first out Colonel Joseph Phillips, Captain John Hunt & Lieut. Ralph Lannings.  The second time Colonel Joab Houghton, the captains name I have forgotten, Lieut Ralph Lanning.  I remember the names of none of the regiments or companies.

Quest. 6  Did you ever receive a discharge from the service, and if so, by whom was it given and what has become of it?
Ans.  I received none.

Quest. 7.  State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood, and who can testify as to your character for veracity, and their belief of your services as a soldier of the
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Revolution?
Ans:  William C. Cline, Alexander McVey, Henry Scammel & William [illegible].  I have lived but a short time in my present neighborhood & there are but few persons here with whom I have become acquainted.

The said court do hereby declare their opinion that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and service as he states. And the court further certifies that it appears to them that Henry Scammel who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman & resident in Hendrick County, Indiana and that Alexander McVey is a credible person and that their statements are entitled to credit. 
A. B. Land
Judge of the Probate Cout of Hendrick County

I, James M. Gregg, Clerk of the Probate Court of Hendrick County, do hereby certify that the forgoing contains the original proceedings & doings of the said court in the matter of the application of Israel Hunt for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this thirteenth day of February A.D. 1844
J. M. Gregg
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Let to Hon. J.A. Wright
4th April 1844
C. C. Nove 30th Aug 1853

Act 7th June  1832
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5393
P.O.
Israel Hunt
Service:
REJECTED
Service:
Enlisted: _________,18  .
Discharged: _________,18  .
Application filed: _________,18  .
Alleges:
Re-Enlisted:
Attorney:
P.O.
Recognized.
Contract.
Cert of Dis.
Searched for  _________,18  .
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June 20 / 53
Rel to case of Israel Hunt

C.C. Nove
Danville
Hendricks Co
Indiana

Department of the Interiors
Pension Office, Official Business
Commissioner
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Free

Official Business
Application of Isarel Hunt 
for a Pension &c.

J. E. Heath Esq.
of the now acting Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City, D. C. 

Danville Ia
June 15
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Danville June 14th A.D. 1853
J.E. Heath Esq.

Sir
I have been requested to require of you to learn if possible what disposition has been made by the Commissioner of Pensions at Washington of the application of Israel Hunt (a soldier of the Revolution) for a pension.  Please give me the information.
I am
Your humble servant
C. C. Nove

N.B. Direct your answer to C.C. Nove
Danville, Indiana
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James L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City

Hon J.A. Wright

Mar 17 44
Col. Nile
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Washington City
March 26, 1844
Hon James L. Edwards
Sir:
Mr. Sylvester has laid before you the case of  Isr. Hunt of Hendricks County, Indiana, who claims a pensions for services under the act of 1832.  I ask you to send me the letter that decides the case, as they have written to me on the subject and are curious to know the result.  I have no idea this same can succeed for he does not allege six months service according to my recollection of his case, be full and explicit in your letter that I may send the same to his family in Indiana.  I have not seen Mr. Sylvester for a few days or I would have told him to have your letter deciding the case sent to me.  It will all be right however,
Yours respectfully.
Jos. A Wright of
Indiana