Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S 32334, for John Hunter, Pennsylvania
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(3 - 1776 )
SERVICE
Penn.
Hunter, John
CONTENTS
NUMBER
S32334
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30.214
Indiana
John Hunter
 of Martin Co in the State of Indiana who was a private in the company commanded by Captain Culbertson of the Regt commanded by Col Davis in the Pa Mila for six month from 1776

Inscribed on the Roll of Indiana at the rate of 20 dollars - cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March 1831

Certificate of Pension issued the 16 day of Oct 1835 and sent to A Simpson Paoli, Ind

Arrears to the 4th of Sept 1835       $90
Semi-ant allowance ending 4 March 36    $10
Total $100

Revoluntary Claim Act June 7 1832
Recorded by Wm L Hlison, Clerk
Book E. 2 Vol 4  Page ILLEGIBLE
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State of Indiana
Martin County
On this 29th day of September 1835 personally appeared in open Court before the Court of Martin County now setting John Hunter a resident of Davies County State of Indiana aged eighty year nearly who being first 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 7th June 1832.  that he entered the service of the United State under the following named officer and served as herein stated.  That he joined a company of volunteers call the Shippenburg Company commended by Captain Robert Culbertson and march to General Washington head quarters near Philidelphia at which time Major Smith had the command of the battalion to which he belong and soon after a Col Davis took the command.  That he joined their volunteer company about the middle of December 1776.  That when he joined this volunteer company he lived in Pennsylvania about one mile from Shippensburg in the then county of cumberland.  That at the time he arrived at Washington head quarters the Brittish had over run the Jersey's and was marching for Philidelphia.  That he met an ILLEGIBLE requesting them to march with all possible speed which the did.  He states that at this time they could not cross the Delaware river at ILLEGIBLE and was therefore ordered to cross the river lower down and attach a party of Hessions at a placed call Mount Holly.  That having tow field pieces with them the eneny retreated and they followed them to Bordertown.  that at ths place General Thomas Mifflin made a speech to encourage them to Volunteer againts the enemy and make a sally against the light horse of the enemy.  He state that he with other volunteers in this service and pursued their enemy to Cranberry Town in New Jersey a place where some of the enemies light horse were stationed at that time but they escaped.  They then march under the command of Major Mifflin against Col Morris at Monmouth and drove him and his forces killed some and took other Prisoners and also some plunder or baggage.  He states that he was requested by Capt Culbertson at time to go with the Second Lieutenant to guard the prisoners to the River which service he perform under Captain Matthews.  After this service was over he returned and joint the company again at Monmouth.  He state that he then march under Col. Davis to Middleton Height near Sandy Hook  Light horse to guard against the enemy where he staid the remainder of the
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ILLEGIBLE.  He states that in the foregoing companies he volunteer for two month but that he continued for more than four months before he was relieved which was he thinks sometime in April 1777. He states that ILLEGIBLE often he came home a law came out ILLEGIBLE the militia both officers and soldiers and that your declarant was drawn in the first ILLEGIBLE .  He states that his ensign Alexander Peoples was elected to the command of the company who gave him orders to be in readiness to march to head quarters another would be a call directly but this declarant says that he did not march until sometime in the latter part of August of the last mentioned year 1777 on this second ILLEGIBLE.
That he marched under a Capt Thomas Askey. Col James Dunlop commanding.  That he left Shippensburg at this ILLEGIBLE ILLEGIBLE ILLEGIBLE and proceeded to ILLEGIBLE on Delaware River where they were stationed for some time. At this time the Brittish landed in Chesapeake Bay and marched towards Philidelphia.  General Washington met them at Brandywine.  That he at this time was under the command of General Potter as was all the Cumberland Militia. That he ILLEGIBLE during that battle on a reserve not being engaged with enemy except a skirmish in the morning.  That General Potter brigade as at one side not much engaged and when the regulars gave way he ordered a retreat.  Washington was defeated and the Brittish marched to Philidelphia ILLEGIBLE ILLEGIBLE some time after this ILLEGIBLE the next ILLEGIBLE came on.  During this ILLEGIBLE from the time that
declarant was called from home he states he was in actual service five months and upwards
he ILLEGIBLE and doing duty for a long time after his drafted period expired. the next year 1778 this declarant states ILLEGIBLE that the indians had broken out and was doing much mischief to the frontier that in July he was again ordered out and directed to march to the head waters of Juniatta under a Capt Young as a scouting party that Col James Dunlop commanded and that they were stationed for some time at a place called Standing Stone near Huntington that they then marched higher the river to Frankstown
Settlement and continued there for some time .  That during this tour he served four months and some days.  This declarant further states that after he was dismissed he again joint his company at Shippensburg.  He states that his ensign Robert Great resigned to join a company of horse and that this declarant was elect by the company to fill the vacancy but he states he received no commission except Greats whose name was erased and his inserted in ILLEGIBLE there of ILLEGIBLE states that he remained in Shippensburg from that time until the end of the war in said company under
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Capt Peoples that occasionally they made excursions against the Torris and Indians that they held themselves in readiness at all times if called on that during the time after he was dismissed from the head waters of Juanatta until the end of the war he was in actual service in his company appointed by another company commanded by our John Potter upwards of two months making in all fifteen months and upwards and that from 1776 until the end of the war when not in actual service on ILLEGIBLE was at Shippensburg at all time in readiness to march.  He states that none of the Shippensburg Volunteer Company are alive that he knows of and if they are he does not where to find them.  He state that he needs affirmation but never expected to ILLEGIBLE and suffered his commission to be lost.  That he never received any written discharge and has no documentary evidence of this service and he knows of no person from where testimony he can secure who can testify to his service.  that he lives after peace was declared one year at Shippensburg and the moved to Huntingdon County where he lived about nine year and then moved to Mason County Kentucky where he lived about four years and then moved to Claremont County Ohio where he lived upward of thirty years and then moved to Davies County Indiana where he now resided and has resided for about five years.  He states that he makes this application at Martin Circuit Court because he resides much nearer to the court House in said Martin County that to the Court House in Davies and that he is so old he cannot travel for that he does most of his trading at Martin and that it is much more convenient for him to attend their than at Davies County.  That it is in the same Circuit and that he is as well if not better acquainted in Martin that Davies.
He hereby relinquished every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and ILLEGIBLE that his name is not on the Pension Role of the Agency of any State and that he has no record of his age that he can procure that he was born in New Castle County State of Delaware on the 2nd day of December 1755 as he believe from the information he has received respecting his age.  
John Hunter
Sworn to and subscribe in open court.
S.L. Holbert  Clerk   
We Josiah Hunt and John Hunter Jr residing in the county of Davies do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with John Hunter who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be Eighty years of age that he is respected and believe in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution
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and that we concur in that opinion that John Hunter Jun has been acquainted with the declarant men forty years and Josiah Hunt nineteen.  They further state there is  clergyman in the neighborhood who could certify and that the old man could not ILLEGIBLE to Davies Court that it is much more convenient to come to Martin  
Josiah Hunt
John Hunter Jr
Subscribe and sworn to in open court ILLEGIBLE and year above Walter.  S.L. Halbert Clk
and the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and often putting the ILLEGIBLE ILLEGIBLE by the war department that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary soldier and served as he states.  And the Court further certifies that it appears that Josiah Hunt and John Hunter Jun resident of Davies County are creditable persons and that their statement is entitled to credit and the Court further certify that there is no clergyman near to the said Declarant so that he so that UNKNOWN process him in this case without great trouble and expense and we further certify that the following questions were put to said Hunter and received the following answers in ILLEGIBLE
1st Where and in what year were you born?
Ans In New Castle County State of Delaware in 1755
2nd Have you any record on your age?
Ans  I have not but saw it some few years ago.
3rd Where were you living when called into service where ILLEGIBLE the revolution and where ILLEGIBLE in Shippenburg,
Ans.  In Shippensburg, Penn afterwards one year in Huntington nine years in ILLEGIBLE County Ky 4 years in Claremont Ohio 30 years and now in Daviess County, Indiana
4th How were you called into service
Ans  I volunteers in the first ILLEGIBLE afterwards drafted.
5th  State the names of the officer under which you service.
Ans.  Capt Cubertson, Peoples, Mifflin  Potter ILLEGIBLE  ILLEGIBLE same or mentioned in his body of the declaration
6th Did you receive any discharge?
Ans  I did not in writing nor did any of the rest of the Militia.
7th  State the name of persons which you are aquainted with in your neighborhood.
Ans.  Josiah Hunt and John Hunter Jun
Silas L Hobert            A. Kinney Pres Judge
Clerk of Martin          John  Riley Sacate  Judges
Circuit Court do hereby   David Brown
certify that the foregoing
contains the original proceedings of the said Court in this matter of the application of John Hunter for a revision.  In testimony shown herewith set my hand and seal of office this 29th day of September 1835.
S.L. Halbert  Clerk
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Mr. Frank C. McElvain
1258 Topeka Boulevard
Topeka, Kansas
Dear Sir:
September 19, 1934
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
John Hunter - S.32334
BA-J/AWF
The data furnished herein were obtained from
the papers on file in pension claim, S.32334, based upon the military service of John Hunter during the War of the Revolution.
John Hunter was born December 2, 1755 in New Castle County, Delaware, the names of his parents not given.
John Hunter, while residing about one mile
from Shippensburg, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, served with the Pennsylvania troops, as follows:
From in December, 1776, four months as private in Captain Robert Culbertson's company, under Majors Smith and Mifflin; in 1777 five months as private in Captains Thomas Askey's and Alexander Peoples' companies , under Colonel James Dunlop; from in July, 1778 four months out against the Indians at the head waters of the Juniata, under Captain Young and Colonel
James Dunlop; from the expiration of this service until the close of the war, at various times as ensign in Captain
Alexander Peoples' company, service as ensign amounted to about two months.
He lived in Shippensburg for about one year after the Revolution, then moved to Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania
, where he lived about nine years, then to
Mason or Campbell County, Kentucky and lived four years, then to Clermont County, Ohio, where lived about thirty
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years, and in the fall of 1830, he moved to Daviess County, Indiana.
The soldier, John Hunter, was allowed pension
on his application executed March 24, 1835, then a resident of Daviess County, Indiana.
It is not stated that soldier was married.
John Hunter, Jr. was a resident of Daviess County, Indiana in 1835, and William Hunter in 1835 was in Martin County, Indiana. There is no relationship to each other shown, and it is not stated that they were related to the soldier, John Hunter.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER
Assistant to Administrator
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Suspended

UNKNOWN letter 13 Apr" 35
to A. Simpson, Paoli
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September 19, 1934

BA-J/EEL

Mr. Frank C. McElvain
1258 Topeka Boulevard
Topeka, Kansas

Dear Sir:

Reference is made to your letter in which you request information in regard to Samuel McElvain, variously spelled, Joseph Hunter and John Hunter, all of who served from Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, in the Revolutionary War.

A careful search of the Revolutionary War records has been made and no record found of a claim for pension or bounty land have been nade to the United States based upon the military service in that war of a Joseph Hunter, who served with the Pennsylvania Troops or a Samuel McElvain; all spellings of this name were used in the search.  Such claims are the source of the data furnished by this office.


The record of a John Hunter, who enlisted in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, and moved to Ohio after the Revolution, has been found and is furnished you herewith.  It is hoped that this record may aid you in your research.

Very truly yours

A.D. Hiller
Assistant to Administrator
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May 19, 1933

John Hunter - S32334
BA-J/AWF

Jennie W. Hart
101 S.E. 7th
Washington, Indiana

Dear Madam:

Reference is made to your letter in which you request information in regard to John Hunter, a soldier of the War of the Revolution.
The date furnished herein were obtained from the papers on file in pension claim S.32334, based upon the Revolutionary Was service of John Hunter.
He was born December 2, 1755 in New Castle County, Delaware, the names of his parents not given.
John Hunter, while residing about one mile from Shippensburg, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, served with the Pennsylvania Troops, as follows-
From in December, 1776 four months as private in Captain Robert Culbertson's company, under Majors Smith and Mifflin; in 1777, five months as private in Captains Thomas Askey's and Alexander Peoples' comannies, under Colonel James Dunlop; from in July, 1778 four month, out against the Indians at the headwaters of the Juniata, under Captain Young and Colonel James Dunlop; from the expiration of his service until the close of the war, at various times as ensign in Captain Alexander Peoples' company, service as ensign amounting to about two months.
John Hunter lived in Shippensburg for about one year after the Revolution, then move to Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania and lived about nine years, then to Mason or Campbell 
county, lived four                Kentucky
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years, then to Clermont County, Ohio, where he lived about thirty years, then to Daviess County, Indiana in the fall of 1830.
The soldier, John Hunter, was allowed pension on his application executed March 24, 1835, then a resident of Daviess County, Indiana.
It is not stated that soldier was married.
John Hunter, Jr. was as resident of Daviess County, Indiana in 1835; and William Hunter in 1835 was in Martin County, Indiana.  There is no relationship to each other shown, and it is not stated that they were related to the soldier, John Hunter.
Very truly yours

A.D. Hiller
Assistant to Administrator
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Mrs R. O. Whitaker
199 North Main St.
London, Ohio

Madam:
I have to advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S. 32334, it appears that John Hunter was born December 2, 1755 in New Castle County, Delaware.
While residing near Shippensburgh, Pennsylvania, he served in the Pennsylvania Troops, as follows-
From in December 1776, four months as a private in Captain Robert Culbertson's Company, Under Majors Smith and Mifflin.
In 1777, five months in Captain Alexander Peoples' and Thomas Askey's Companies, Colonel James Dunlops's Regiment.
From in July 1778, four moths, and was out against the Indians under Captain Young in Colonel
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James Dunlop's Regiment
From the expiration of this service, until the close of the War, at various times as Ensign in Captain Alexander Peoples' Company, amounting in all to two months.
He was allowed pension of his application executed March 24, 1835, while a resident of Davies County, Indiana, where he moved in 1830.
Solder stated that after the Revolution, he moved to Kentucky, where he lived four years, then moved to Clermont County, Ohio, where he lived thirty years.
It is not stated that soldier was married.
Respectfully,

Winfield Scott
Commissioner
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Frank C McElvain
12258 Topeka Blvd
Topeka, Kan   September 1, 1934

Bureau of Pensions
War Department
Washington, D.C.

Gentlemen
Please advise me if you have any records of application for pensions of 

Samuel McElvain, Cumberland County, Pa. troops 1776-81 (this name spelled several ways on the redords-McIlvain, McElwayne, McIlwain, etc)  Was an ensign in McAllister's Co, Col. James Purcy's Bn, Cumberland Co.  later was a member of Lucas Sullivant's surveying part to survey Military Lands as the Forks of the Scioto, now Franklin County, O., 1796.  Died Columbus, O., 1806.

Joseph Hunter, died Columbus, O., 1834.
Pvt. Capt James Howell's Co, Col. Purdy's 7th Bn., Cumberland Co., Pa. 1782.

John Hunter, colonist at Columbus, Franklin Co., O. also from Cumberland Co., I think, d. Columbus, O.

Frank C. McElvain


STAMPED  Received  3:45
Sep 5, 1934
UNKNOWN
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3-049
Ex. AWF    Div. Rev & 1812

Department of the Interior
Bureau of Pensions
Washington, DC  Dec 9, 1924
The attached letter is respectfully returned with the information that the data furnished is not sufficient to enable this bureau to make intelligent answer to the queries therein contained.
Please fill out such of the blank spaces below as the information in you possession will permit and return to this Bureau.
No.of Claim:  Cross Out
Name of Soldier:  John Hunter
Address of Soldier at enlistment and after 
Service:  Served in Pa and lived in Highland Co Ohio near Hillston after war.
State where enlisted:  Pennsylvania
Date of Birth:
Date of Death:
If unable to furnish company and regiment give names of commanding officer.
Return attached letter with reply.
Hays Haymaker
Acting Commissioner
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Mrs. R. O. Whitaker
199 North Main St.
London, Ohio  

Oct 26 1925
Department of Interior
Washington DC

I am sending you the information concerning John Hunter who served in the 
Revolution from Pennsylvania.  He married Margaret Watt and they lived in Highland Co Ohio after the war.  
their children were Elizabeth, Robert, Mary, 
Thomas and Margaret.
Please send Revolutionary record.
Sincerely Yours
Mrs R O Whitaker
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32 334
Rev INVALID
File No 32.334
John Hunter
Pri Rev War

Act:  June 7th 32
Index: Vol. 2 Page 198
[Arrangement of 1870]

1925 Nov 21 Hist to Mrs R. O. Whitaker 
aux
1933 May 19  Hist to Jennie W Hart aux
1934 Sept 19 Hist to Frank C McElvain aux
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 101 S E 7th
Washington Ind
May 9th  33
Commissioner of Pensions;
I am writing for the military record of a Rev. Soldier John Hunter from Maryland.  His will dated Nov 1 1835 and filed Aug 1836 at Davis Co Court House regarding his money he expects to recieve due him at the date of the will Nov 1 1835 as a Revolutionary Soldier, his
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Application already in to the Goverment. will dated Nov 1 1835 assums the money would be paid  he left money to seven sons.  soldiers buried in Davies Co.

D.A.R society are seeking to mark this grave with Gov. marker.

Jennie W Hart
Registrar White River
chapter
101 SE 7th 
Washington
Indiana

STAMPED 
2:12 Received May 10 1933
Reader #24
Mail sub Div
U S V B
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Paoli In            Free
Mar 31

War Department
City of Washington
DC
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UNKNOWN

April 8 1835
Pension Office
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Recd 8 Apr
Paoli Indiana March 30th 1835
To the War Department
The papers herewith sent is the Declaration of John Humter for a pension is his agent in this business if you have any communication to make please direct to me at Paoli as above or if you write to him you can direct to Paoli or to Mount Pleasant Martin County Indiana as you see fit.
A. Limsseron
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Paoli Ia
Oct 7


Secratary of War
Pension Office
Washington City
D.C.
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Paoli    October 6th 1835
Dear Sir
Your letter containing directions for those Revolutionary soldiers who are entitled to a pension from the provisions of the Act of Congress of the 7th of June 1832 was duly received but nothing could be done until the meeting of the Court which did not take place till last week.  When the old man was questioned respecting his actual services as directed, it appears that he had consider that he was entitled to pay for all the time he held himself in readiness for service and we were unable to give him the proper instructions.  From the Declaration as now made out, if he is entitled at all, he wished you to make the certificate.  He has mentioned his service as Ensign not because he expects pay as such but because he wished to give the particulars of his services.  He claimed in his first paper for several years in that claim he included not only his actual services but the time he was at Shippenburg expecting marching orders.  I have made this explanation at the old mans particular reguest and hope it will not prejudice his claim.  I would say if my statement could have any weight that I have frequently talks with the old man Hunter and am thoroughly convinced of his actual service as Stated and the claim for year was a misdirection which he received from them who advised him in relation thereto not know the provisions of the law.  You will please forward to me at Paoli Indiana your doing in relation to Hunters Declaration.
Your must obt humble servant
A Simpson
P.S. I would observe that the reason why the declaration is ILLEGIBLE is because he wished to put it upon one sheet of paper but I think every request of the law is complied with if not at is a mistake all the necessary oath ever take and certification made.   A.S.
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32.921
John Humber
Indiana

Silas L. Halbert, Clerk
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Declaration
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June 7th 1832
State of Indiana
Martin County
On this 24th day of March 1835 personally appeared in open Court before the Circuit Court of Martin County setting John Hunter of Davis County State of Indiana aged nearly eighty years who being first 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.  He states in the first place that he applies to the aid Martin Circuit because the Court House was much nearer to him than Davies that the two counties Martin and Davies join are in the same judicial circuit the Judge presiding in Martin and preside in Davies.  He states that his bodily weakness and infirmities were such as to disable him from traveling so far as his own county court house.  that he live near the line of Martin County and within a few mile of said Court of Martin and that it was a much greater distance to Davies Court. He states that he needs the aid of a pension that he entered the service of the United State under the following named officers and served on herein states that in the latter part of the year 1776 he joined a Volunteer company in Shippenburgh, State of Pennsylvania called the Shippenburgh Company commanded by Captain Robert Culburtson and march for General Marlingtons headquarters near Philadelphia. at this the brittish had overran the Jersey's and war marching for Philadelphia.  He states that the Shippenburgh company on their way to join Washington met an Captain who informed them that every militia man who ILLEGIBLE equiped in camp in a certain time should receive ten dollars bounty that his information prompted them to an active movement and they received the promised bounty.  He states that they could not cross the river at Trenton and they were therefore order to cross the Delaware lower down and attach a party of Hessions at a place called Mount Holly he says that having two field pieces with them the enemy retreated and
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they followed them to Bordentown.  He states that at this place General Thomas Mifflin made a speech and informed them that if Volunteer would turn out against the enemy and make a sally against the light horse of the enemy and succeed in securing any of the the enemy's houses that they should receive for each horse the token $100.  He state that he with other volunteers in the service and ILLEGIBLE their way to Cranbury a town in New Jersey a place where some of the enemy's horse were stationed but they escaped and they got none that they were then under the command of Major Mifflin (he believes a brother of General Mifflin) that they then marched against Colonel Morris of Monmouth and drove him and his forces. that they killed some and took them prisoners and they they took plunder from the enemy in that encounter to amount to ten dollar per man when sold.  He states that after this fight that he went with the Second Leiutenant in guard to take the prisoners to the ILLEGIBLE under a Captain Matthews.  That often he was dismissed from their service he went and joined the company at Monmouth a Colonel Davis then commander from Monmouth they marched to Middleton Heights to watch the enemy when he continued until the end of the campaign. He states that the militia were all ILLEGIBLE early in the season of 1777 and the officers advanced.  He states that he was drawn in the first class that his Ensign Alexander Peoples as soon as the classing was over directed him to be in readiness to march to headquarters as there would be a draft shortly.  He state that about this time Ensign Peoples was elected Captain.  He states that soon after this classing he was order to march under a Captain Askey that at this time one Colonel James Dunlop commanded the troops in which he was station at a place called Marcushook on the Delaware river for some time.  About this time the first of the fall 1777 the British forces landed on the shores of the Chesapeak Bay and marched Philidelphia General Washington met them at Brandywine
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but was defeated  the British then moved to Philadelphia  not long after this time they were relieved and returned home other drafts having supplied their places.  He further state that the Indians at this time had commence hostilities and were doing great mischief and that he was ordered out against them and directed to mark to the head waters of Juniata River a Captain Young and other scouting parties were in this expedition.  Colonel James Dunlop commander at the place call the Standing Stone when his your declarant time expired and he was UNKNOWN.  He further states that when he joined his own company again the Ensign Robert Great had resigned to join a company of horse which time an election was held to supply the company and that he your declarant was selected Ensign in his stead or place.  The aforementioned Captain Peoples erasing the name of the said Robert Great from the commisson and placed his your declarant in said commission and gave the commission to him.  He state further that he served under said Captain Peoples in said company the remainder of the war in the capacity of ensign as afore said and until peace was concluded it being about two year.  He states that he served in the Army of the Revolution during the revolutionary war in the capacity of a Private four years and six months  and the capacity of ensign two years making  the term of six year and six months in the whole. He state he never received any written discharge and that it was snot customary to give them in that part of the army in which was was stationed.  He states that long since his commission as Ensign was lost or destroyed he not thinking it would even be of any service to him.  He states he knows of us person or persons  living by who he can prove is actual service
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All of the said company of Shippenburgh volunteers as he believes are dead if they are not he does not know where they reside.  
He states that he lived in Huntington county Pennsylvania where he moved soon after the war ended for upwards of seven years from which place he moved to Newport Campbell County Kentucky where he resides upwards of four years he moved to Clermont County State of Ohio when he ILLEGIBLE rising of thirty years he then moved to the place when he now reside to Davies County State of Indiana to which place he moved in the face of 1830.  He states he was about twenty two years of age when he first joined the Army of the Revolution and that he is now nearly eighty years of age.  He state that he has never received any pension and that it has not been long since he ascertained that he was entitled to any.  He renounce all claim to any other pension or annuity except the one now applies for.  He states that he learned his age from the family record which in now in the possession of some member of the family which he does not recollect and that it is not in his power to produce it in Court.  He declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any State.
John Hunter

Sworn to in open court March the 24th 1835
S.L. Halbert, Clerk
State of Indiana
Martin County
Personally appear in open court John Hunter Junior and William Hunter and state that they have for a long time been acquainted with the above name John Hunter to wit for the space of fifteen years and that it has always been respected and believe that said John Hunter was a revolutionary soldier and that they concur in that belief and opinion and neither saith not.  they state as a reason why the applicant above applied to the Martin Circuit court that is was near than Davies and a place where the old gentleman generally does his trading and further saith not.
John Hunter Jr
William Hunter     his mark
State of Indiana
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opinion and they state as a reason why the applicant above applied to the Martin Circuit Court that is was nearer than Davies and a ILLEGIBLE when the old gentleman generally done his trading and further saith not.
John Hunter Jr
William Hunter

State of Indiana
Martin County ILLEGIBLE sworn to in open court March 24th 1833   S L Holbert Ck
Personally appeared in open court Lewis Brooks James Alford and James Mallingby and James Breaist and certify under oath that they are personally acquainted with the said applicant John Hunter and also with John Hunter Junior and William Hunter the above witnesses and that they are also men of good moral character and believe they are men in whom great confidence can be placed or regard their truth and veracity and further saith not.
Lewis Brooks
James Mattingby
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Application of John Hunter for a pension
In testimoney whereof I have hereunto 
set my hand and seal of office this 
27th day of March 1835

Silas L. Halbert, Clerk

32.921
John Hunter
Indiana