Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 15472, Zalmon Hull, Conn.
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(3 - 1776)
SERVICE                                               NUMBER
Conn.                Hull, Zalmon                S. 15472

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CONTENTS
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29848
Connecticut 29848
Zalmon Hull
of Reading in the State of Connecticut
who was a private in the company comm
by Captain Z. Read of the Regiment comm
by Col Silliman in the Connecticut
line for seven months

Inscribed on the Roll of the Connecticut Agency
at the rate of 23 Dollars 33 1/3 Cents per annum
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 13th day of March 
A.D. 1835.
and sent to Hon. G. Tomlinson
Fairfield Cont

Arrears to the 4th of March 1835    $93.33 1/3
Semi-ant. allowance ending 4th Sept 1835. 
                                                           11.66 2/3
                                                        $105.00
Revolutionary Claim
Act June 7, 1832

Recorded by C. W. Kelso  clerk
Book E. 2. Vol. 3 Page 19.
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State of Connecticut
County of Fairfield  Ss
On this 31st day of May 1834 personally appeared in open Court before
the court of Probate of the District of Danbury
in the said County and state the same being a court of Record
& now sitting, at Danbury in sd District Zalmon Hull a resident of
Reading in the County of Fairfield and State of Connecticut, aged
seventy five years, who being first 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 7, 1832, That he entered the
service of the United States under the following named Officers, and served as herein stated.
I  That in the year 1776 he the said Zalmon
Hull belonged to the militia of the state of  Connecticut
and was a private soldier in the Regiment
commanded 
by Colonel Gold S Silliman in the Company
commanded by  Captain Zalmon Read and that in 
the latter of the winter, or early in the spring of said
year 1776, he was drafted to serve a term of three months 
as such private of militia in the service of the United States and in [illegible] because of said draft he did
serve the term of three months in an embodied corps and as a private soldier under the command 
of said Colonel Silliman and in a militia company 
commanded by Captain Eliphalet Thorp at the 
City of New York at garrison duty During said 
term he was engaged in no battle or skirmishes 
with the enemy but was employed with the corps in 
which he served in guarding and protecting said City 
and constructing fortifications and works of defense 
At the expiration of said term of three months for 
which he was drafted he with the whole of said regiment 
was dismissed and returned to his home in said Reading 
He cannot be particular in specifying the time of the 
commencement and termination of said service but
it commenced as he believes in the month of February 
or March of said year 1776
II  That early in the month of October 1777 [illegible] on 
the 4th day of the said month he was drafted to serve 
on a tour of duty as such private of militia in 
the state of New York and on near the river 
Hudson  he still belonged to said regiment and 
the whole  of said regiment was called out as he 
[illegible]  he is however certain the whole of the 
company to which he belonged was commanded 
by Captain John Gray was called out for the 
purpose of aiding in repelling the [illegible] [illegible] of 
General Burgoyne  Said regiment in this term 
of service was as he believes commanded by 2
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Colonel Silliman  He first marched to Peeksill
where they joined the other troops there collected consisting 
of the militia of the adjacent county and
the continental troops  they then marched up
the river on the left bank to Redhook and 
having heard of the capture of general Burgoyne 
either at Fishkill or Redhook they proceeded 
no further north  After having followed 
the British shipping as far as Redhook the said 
regiment returned to Fishkill where they remained 
in barracks until they were dismissed in the month 
of November having served the full term of
his [illegible]  He the said Zalmon Hull served as such private
the whole of his term
III   That during the Revolutionary war a military 
post or station was maintained at horshead on the shore of Long Island Sound [illegible] coast guard that
one company of said corps there stationed were 
commanded by  Captain Thomas Nash 
That in the month of September 1778 he 
still belonged to said militia company commanded 
by captain John Gray and on or about the 15th 
of said month of September he was drafted to
serve in said company of coast guards commanded 
by said Captain Read the term of two months 
after being [illegible] after he immediately joined
said company and served therein as a private 
soldier for the full term of two months and 
was dismissed about the 15th day of November 
1778 during this term he was engaged in 
no battle But was constantly employed 
in performing the ordinary duty of sd corps 
in protecting and guarding the coast and 
the persons and property of the inhabitants
IV  That about the 10th day of September as 
he believes but certain he is that it was in the month 
of September 1779 he was drafted as a private 
soldier to serve a term of two months at a 
place called New Field now Bridgeport













to day, and the
time he was called
in said fence rest and deed
the twenty
in is entitled
in and found there unto
in full to drink
on this day
1778. being in
but it was commonly
forming his
in sin and
thereon and thirty cents
That about the 10th day of Septemasbelieves
but within is that it was in the
from 1779 he was hated at
the same term of two months at
thereafter wild how depart
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in said Fairfield County A military
post was then maintained there for the
purpose of guarding and protecting that part  of the coast and being that part He Joined the corps there 
stationed immediately after being drafted
at aforesaid and served as a private soldier
therein the full term of two months
he was dismissed about the 10th of November
following during his said term of service 
the said post was commanded by Captain
Ebenezer Hill of the Connecticut militia 
He was engaged in no battle but served
in performing the duty of a guard. The
said Company was during said term an
embodied corps and actively employed
in protecting & guarding the coast and
there [illegible] no other troops at said point
The said Zalmon Hull  saith that he was
born at said Reading in the year 1759
and on the 22nd day of April in said year
and has all his life time resided there 
he has a record of his age in his family
Bible made by his mother and now in his
possession that in all the terms
of service herein set forth he served as 
a private soldier and at the expiration 
of each was verbally dismissed  having 
never received any written discharge 
Sworn to and subscribed in Open court the day & year aforesaid
Zalmon Hull
Attest  Edward Taylor Clerk
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The said Zalmon Hull 
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.
Sworn to, and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid.
Zalmon Hull

We Lemuel B. Hull a clergyman, residing in the town of Reading
and Hull Goodyear residing in the same, hereby certify, that we are well
acquainted with Zalmon Hull who has subscribed and sworn to the above
declaration; that we believe him to be seventy  five 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, we are not
related to said Zalmon in any degree that we can trace if related at all
very distant
Sworn and subscribed, the day and date aforesaid.
Attest Edward Taylor Clerk Lemuel B. Hull
Hull Goodyear

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories, 
prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier, and served as
he states, andthe Court further certifies, that it appears to them that Lemuel B Hull 
who has signed the preceding certificate, is a clergyman, resident in town of Reading
and that Hull Goodyear who has also signed to same, is a resident of the town of
Reading and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
Attest Edward Taylor Clerk

Edward Taylor Clerk of the Court of Probate Danbury District
do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application
of Zalmon Hull for a Pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of the said probate Office,
this 31st day of May 1834

Attest Edward Taylor Clerk
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31.6.81 (29.84 8) a .26
Zalmon Hull
onginal
Connecticut
Please direct to
Edward Taylor
Danbury Ct

$23:33 1/3 per ann.

Hon G Tomlinson 
Senate U.S.
Fairfield Con

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I hereby certify that Edward Taylor Esq who hath certified the foregoing proceedings of the
Court of Probate for the District of Danbury
is Clerk of said Court duly appointed and
Sworn and was such Clerk when the same
purport to have been certified by him
and that the preceding signatures purporting
to be his are in the genuine hand writing
of the said Edward Tafor 
Given under my hand at Danbury
in the county of Fairfield & the state of Connecticut
this 16th day of July 1834

Reuben Booth Judge of Probate
for the District of Danbury
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I Ezra Hull of Redding in the County of Fairfield and State of
Connecticut aged Seventy Six years being duly sworn depose and say
that in the Spring of the year 1776 Zalmon Hull entered the service
of the United States in the company commanded by Captain
Eliphalet Thorp in the Regiment commanded by Colonel
Goold S. Silliman I beleave and that I served in the same
Company the term of three months at the City of New York
where the said Regiment was stationed at garrison duty
and we were discharged and returned home together
I do not know whether said Regiment was State troops
or Malitia
Ezra Hull

State of Connecticut Fairfield County Ss At Redding
Fairfield County Sworn & Subscribed before me this 28th
day of July 1832 and I certify that the Deponent is a credible
witness and sustains a good character for truth
Ebenr Hill Just of Peace
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P  15472
INVALID.
File No: 15.472
Zalmon Hull
Pri Rev War
Act: June 7" 32
Index: Vol. 1, Page 186
(Arrangement of 1870.)

1909 Apr 3 Hist. to
Mrs J. R. Evans
V. L.M.
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information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension
on file in this Bureau. Zalmon Hull Sur file 13472

DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT.
Feb or March 1776
Oct 4 1777
Sept 15 1778
Sept 10 1779

LENGTH OF SERVICE.
3 mos
6 weeks
2 mos
2 mos

RANK.
Pvt
ditto
ditto
ditto

OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED.

CAPTAIN.
Eliphalet Thorp
John Gray
Thomas Nash 
Ebenezer Hill 

COLONEL.
Gold S Silliman
ditto
in coast guard
in militia

STATE.
Conn
ditto
ditto
ditto

S 15472

Battles engaged in, none stated
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Reading, Conn
Date of application for pension, May 31 1834 his el was at
Residence at date of application, Reading, Fairfield Co, Conn
Age at date of application, born at Reading Apr 22, 1759
Remarks: No data as to family
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3-871.
RECORD DIVISION.
Department of the Interior,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
Briefed by L.D. L.
Claim No.
Certificate No.
Claimant
Soldier Zalmon Hull
Service Conn
Additional Service Rev. War
No claim, State records  190
No claim, combination records , 190
REMARKS:
No claim
Try I. #15472
Chief Division
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there is no record here that will determine how long they
were in service the wages were paid probably by the continental
Paymaster and I presume the rolls are at Washington with the
rolls of the continental army
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[stamped - U.S. Pension Office, Mar 11 1909]
[stamped - Record Division, Mar 17, 1909]
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Rev

Bethel Conn
Mch 9th 1909
The Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D.C.

Dear Sir
Can you give me any
information in regard to
Zalmon Hull who served as a
private in Captain John Gray's
company in Col Samuel
Whitings regiment of Militia
(Connecticut) His grand
daughter Mrs Martha A
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Sellick of Danbury Conn,
says he died at her mothers
home and drew a pension
until the day of his death
the Adjutant General of
W.D.C.  tells me he was 
a deserter but that the
records are far from being
complete could draw a
pension unless he had an
honorable discharge Mrs
Sellick tells me she had
his discharge papers in her
possession but is moving
from Washington State to
Conn  they became lost
I am refering to the war of
the Revolution
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I shall be very grateful
to you for any assistance
you can render me in this
matter, awaiting an early
reply I remain
Sincerely yours
Mrs J. R. Evans

[stamped- U.S. Washington Office, Mar 11 1909]
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Sept 12
29848

J L Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
City of Washington
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Pension Agency
Hartford Ct
9 Sept 1835
Sir
I have been informed this day
by a Gentlemen of
Redding in this state that no persons in the neighborhood know
in what way Zalmon Hull of Redding obtained his pension
of 23.83 pd per annum, that he made application to two Clergyman
of that Town who refused to certify in his case and
that all who are acquainted with Hull in his immediate
neighborhood, consider that he must have obtained the
depositions and evidence improperly the person who gave
me this information has for years acted as agent for collecting
the amount due the pensioners in his vicinity and I believe
him to be a man of good character and highly respectable
Very Respectfully
I remain your
Obdt Servant
{illegible] Dodd

J. L. Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
City of Washington
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Reuben Booth Esq
Danbury
Connt
Single

Roger Huntington
Dec 15th 1834
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Comptroller's office
Hartford
15 December 1874
Reuben Booth Esq
Sir
I find that on the 18th day of March 1776, an order
was issued to the colonels of the militia to detach who
from their regiments to march to New York from the 4th
9th & 16th Regiments were to be detached 10 Companies of
90  men each, to be formed into one regiment, to be commanded
by Gold Sellick Silliman Colonel John Mead Lieutenant
Colonel & John Chandler Major, and such Captains
as the field officers of the regiments shall appoint
to march to New York and be under the command
of the commander in chief there
There is no evidence here of the appointment of the
Captains etc. no payment made here to said troops.
no evidence of the time they served; said troops were
paid by the United States and the evidence is to be had at
Washington undoubtedly
the letter from the Pension
office states that there is no proof that Capt Thorps company
were in service 3 months neither do I suppose they were and
that fact I presume the commissioner has ascertained from the rolls at
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Washington, by writing to some member of Congress and requesting him
to examine the rolls of Colonel G. S. Silliman's regt (detached militia
in service in New York in March, April etc 1776) you will be able
to ascertain precisely the facts
Your most obt
Roger Huntington
Comptroller of Public Accounts
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War Department
Pension Office
August 15 1834
Sir
The papers of Zalmon Hall are returned
the certificate of the comptroller shews that
Col Silliman commanded a regiment of
State troops from June to Dec 1776 in
which the claimant does not appear to
have served. but it is not shewn that
Cap Thorps company of Militia was in
actual service 3 months the spring of
that year which is necessary establish
this claim

I am respectfully
your ob serv
J L Edwards

Edward Tayler Esq
Danbury
Connt
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10
Reuben Booth Esq
Danbury
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State of Connecticut
Comptroller's office
July 21st 1834

On examination of the books in this office
it appears that Eliphalet Thorp was established as
Captain of the 4th Company in the 4th regiment of
militia in this State; said regiment at that time under
Gold Sellick Silliman Colonel, Ichabod Lewis Lieutenant Colonel. 
That in June 1776. Gold Sellick Silliman
was appointed Colonel of a battalion these
he raised to reinforce the continental army in
New York, to serve untill the 25th day of December
then next. That August 11th 1776 orders were
issued to the 1, 2, 4, 6, 9, 10, 13, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 22 & 23rd
regiments of militia immediately to repair to New York
and put themselves under the command of general
Washington  a bounty of twenty shillings to be paid
each man in advance  That on the 21st of August
1776.  Cash was advanced to Lieutenant Colonel
Lewis to pay the bounty to his men  That the wages
and rations were paid by the United States as per
William Thompson's certificate. That the bounty etc
was paid by Lieutenant Colonel Lewis
That in October 1776, Samuel Whiting Esq was
appointed 
Colonel of the 4th Regiment of militia in the
place of Colonel Gold S. Silliman promoted
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That in November 1776  Four battalions were ordered
to be raised by inlistment to serve untill the 15th day of
March then next and to join the continental army
then near New York and each man to receive a premium
of forty shillings. That Samuel Whiting
was appointed Colonel, Samuel Canfield Lieutenant
Colonel Stephen St John Major of the first battalion 
That Eliphalet Thorp was appointed Captain
in the first Battalion, That on the 31st December 1776
the committee of paytable advanced capt Thorp
money to pay the bounties or premiums to the men
he raised. That the accounts for bounties or premiums
was settled with the committee of pay table and
charged to the United States. That their is no entries
for the wages and rations as having been paid by this
State. That Captain John Gray commanded a company
in Colonel Samuel Whiting's regiment militia
in service in Westchester County State of New York in
1777 & 1778, the accounts settled with committee of pay
table 21 Septr 1779 That Captain Ebenezer Hill
commanded a company of Coast guards at Fairfield
settled his accounts with committee of pay table
March 6, 1780. That Captain Thomas Nash
commanded a company of Coast guards at Fairfield, settled
his accounts with committee of pay table 
April 6.
1781 - That there are no pay rolls of any of the above
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mentioned services in this office
Certified by 
Roger Huntington Comptroller of Public
Accounts
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the service stated in the Declaration
of the Applicant was in the spring of
the year 1776, in Col Sillimans
Regiment. Capt Thorps Company
commencing in February or March
Were no services performed by that
Regiment at that season?
As the Capt was not established until
May it seams to throw some doubt
upon the correctness of the applicants
Statement as to dates, but Thorp might
have served in that capacity, though not
commissioned until afterwards
Will the comptroller have the records
to examine, as to the regiment being
served in the spring of 1776  and
write me the results?  

R Booth
Wrote 13 Decr
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State of Connecticut
Comptrollers office
Hartford
September 8th 1834
On examination of the books of this office it
appears, that in May 1776 Eliphalet Thorp, was
established as captain of the 4th Company in the 4th
regiment of militia in this State. That on the
11th day of August 1776 said 4th Regiment (with others)
were ordered to march to New York  That said
regiment did march to New York under the
command of Lieutenant Colonel Ichabod Lewis
That on the 7th March 1777. Colonel Lewis exhibited
his account for bounties hospital expence & losses paid
to & for the 4th Regiment of Militia to New York. August &
September 1776 amounting to 773.19.2 which was paid
by this State and charged to the United States
Certified by
Roger Huntington
Comptroller of Public Accounts
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I Joel Burr of Galway in the County of Saratoga 
and State of New York aged Seventy five years
and apeared & being duly sworn do depose
and say, that I formerly resided in Reading
in the County of Fairfield and State of Connecticut
and was born there that during the
Revolutionary War I was well acquainted
with Zalmon Hull of Said Reading and have
well known him ever since  that in the
fall of the year 1778, and believe in the
month of September of that year the said
Zalmon Hull belonged to the militia of said
State of Connecticut and was drafted to
serve two months as a private Soldier
in a small corps of coast guards then
stationed at Fairfield in said State. He
immediately proceeded to said Fairfield
and there served the said term of two months
under the command of Captain Thomas S 
Nash the commanding officer of the said
post and was honorably dismissed at
the expiration of said term
I served the said term in the same
Company with said Zalmon Hull
We were drafted & entered the service
to go then and came home in Company
Joel Burr
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State of New york
Saratoga County   SS
Town of Galway

On this Eighth day of
May 1834 before the [illegible] a Justice of
the Peace for said County, personally appeared
Joel Burr and subscribed the foregoing Deposition
and being duly sworn made solemn oath to the truth
of the same. And I certify that the Deponent
is well known to me and is a man of good 
character as truth and a credible witness

Hugh Alexander Justice

State of New York
Saratoga County  SS  I Alpheus Goodrich Clerk of the County
of Saratoga do Certify that Hugh Alexander before whom the
within affidavit purports to have been sworn, and who have
subscribed the above certificate was at the date of the same
one of the Justice of the peace in and for the said County
and that I am acquainted with his hand writing and verily
believe his name subscribed to the above certificate to be his
proper hand writing and Signature

Witness my hand and seal of office
the thirteenth day of May 1834
A Goodrich Clerk
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I Asahel Salmons of Redding, Fairfield County
and State of Connecticut of the age of Seventy
six years being duly sworn, depose and
say that I am well acquainted with
Zalmon Hull of Redding aforesaid and
have been ever since, and during the Revolutionary 
War and that on the 4th or 5th day of October
1777 the said Hull went from said Redding
a private soldier in the Company commanded
by Capt John Gray of said Redding and
marched to Peekskill in the State of New York
from thence followed the British troops to
Redhook, from there went down the Hudson
river to Fishkill, where we were dismissed
from services which was in the month of
November making ten weeks time
I was a soldier in the same Company of said
Hull during the whole time until dismissed
Asahel Salmon

State of Connecticut
Fairfield County   Redding 21 April 1834.
Be it remembered that on the day and date aforesaid 
personally appeared the above named Asahel Salmons 
and made oath to the truth of the above deposition by
him subscribed and I hereby certify that I am well
acquainted with him and that he is intitled full
credit and of good character
Before me Thos B Fanton  Justice of Peace
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I Isaac Godfrey of Weston Fairfield County
and State of Connecticut being eighty five years
of age deposeth and say that I was drafted
some time in the month of September in the year
of 1779 for the period of two months under Capt
Ebenenr Hill we was stashoned at a place then
called Newfeld (now Bridgeport, and I was knowing
to Zalmon Hull of Redding being drafted at
the same time and that the said Hull served
with me in the Malitia at said Newfield
for the time of two months and was dissmithed
further the deponent says not 
Isaac Godfry

Subscribed and sworn to for this 25th day
of August 1832
Before me
Oliver C. Sanford Justice of Peace

and I hereby certify that I am well
acquanted with the deponent that
he is a credable witness

Oliver C Sanford Justice of Peac
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I Samuel Mallery of Redding in the County of Fairfield and State 
of Connecticut aged Eighty years being duly sworn depose and say
that in the spring of the year 1776 Zalmon Hull entered the service
of the United States in the Company commanded by Captain
Eliphalet Thorp in the Regiment commanded by Colonel
Goold S. Silliman and that I served in the same Company
the term of three months at the City of N York when the said
Regiment was stationed at garrison duty and we were discharged 
and returned home together  I do not know whether
said Regiment was State Troops or Malitia and I would
not be certain whether sd Goold S. Silliman was Colonel
at that time but think he was 

Samuel Mallery

State of Connecticut Fairfield County Ss At Redding
in said County Sworn and Subscribed before me this 28th
day of July 1832  and I certify that the Deponant is 
a credible witness and sustains a good character for truth
Ebenr Hill Just. of Peace
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State of Connecticut
Fairfield County
ss. I Thomas B Osborne Clerk of the County Court
within & for the County of Fairfield in the State of Connecticut do hereby certify that Thomas B. Fanton Esq is now & was on the
21st day of April 1834 a Justice of the Peace in & for sd County duly commissioned &
duly authorized to administer oaths & take Depositions & that I am acquainted with the handwriting
of the sd Tho B. Fanton Esq & that I verily believe the signature to the Certificate on the foregoing Deposition
of Asahel Salmon, purporting to be his genuine & in the proper handwriting of the sd Tho B Fanton Esq
I further certify that Oliver C Sanford Esq is a Justice of the Peace in & for sd County duly
commissioned & duly authorized to administer oaths & take depositions etc & that sd Sanford was
such Justice of the Peace on the 25th day of August AD 1832 & that I am acquainted  
with the handwriting of the sd Oliver C Sanford Esq & verily believe that the signatures to
the Certificates on the foregoing Deposition of Isaac Godfrey, purporting to be his are genuine
I further certify that Ebenezer Hill Esq is now & was on the 28th day of July AD 1832 a
Justice of the Peace in & for said County duly commissioned & duly authorized to administer
oaths & take Depositions etc & that I am acquainted with the handwriting of the said
Ebenezer Hill Esq & verily believe that the signatures to the Certificates on the foregoing
Depositions of Ezra Hull & Samuel Mallory, purporting to be his are genuine
In testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand and
affixed the seal of sd County Court in Fairfield this
2d day of July AD 1834

Thomas B Osborne  Clerk