Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 36604, Salmon Hubbell, Conn.
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(3 - 1776)
SERVICE
Conn.
Hubbell, Salmon
or Hubbel
NUMBER
S. 36604
B.L Wt, 960 200 - Lieut
Issued June 16, 1789.
No papers
CONTENTS-
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letter to S Hubbell Sept. 8. 1829
Notification of discontinuance
opent the 16 March 1821 & sent to
Hon S. W. Dana
Middleton Conn
5196
Connecticut
Salmon Hubbell
Lieutenant  4
Colo Chandler
Connecticut Line
in the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War
Inscribed on the Roll of Connecticut
at the rate of
20 Dollars per month, to commence on
of 23d March 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 6 of Jany 1819
and sent to Hon. Orn Sherwood
House of Representatives M.S.
Arrears to 4th of Sept 1818
$ 193.66
120
Semi-anl, all'ce ending 4 Mar 1819
228.66
{Revolutionary claim,
A
six years
not entitled   port
.
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District of Connecticut

On this 23rd day of March A.D. 1888 Saloman Hubbel of Bridgeport in said District under oath declared before [Sinpoint] Edwards judge of said District in which District he now and for more than thirty  five years last hath resided. That he entered into the service of the United Stated as a private in the month of July 1775 in a company of Connecticut troops Joseph Hoyt Claim in a regiment commanded by Charles Webb Esq. and that in the year of 1776 the declarant serve as a quartermaster Sergeant in a Regiment commanded by Colonel Gould Sellick Sillman and that on the first day of January 1777 The declarant received and Ensign Commission in Captain Samuel Comstock company in the eighth Connecticut Regiment command by John Chandler Esq. on the continental establishment and that on the fifth day of September A.D. 1780 he was granted the commission of a Lieutenant in the Army of the  United States to take rank from he 20th day of April AD [1789] and that he continued in said Army in the Connecticut time on the continental establishment until the last day of December AD 1782 and that during the last two years of his said service the declarant acted as Paymaster in the Regiment to which he belonged under regular appointment to that office and that he then left the service of the United States in the military department under a special resolve of the Continental Congress reducing the number of regiments and that he served the United States in the war of the Revolution in the several capacities aforesaid Month pf July 1775 until the said last day December AD 1782 in the Army against the enemies and he now exhibition to said Judge
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His said Commissions to wit one for an Ensign signed by John Hancock president of Congress dated the first day of January AD 1777–and one as a Lieutenant signed by Samuel Huntington President of Congress, dated the fifth day of September AD 17[unreadable] to take rank from April 20 AD 1779, as aforesaid.  And the declareants further maketh oath that he now is and ever hath been a resident Citizen of the United States, and that his circumstances in life are so reduced that he is in need of assistance from his country for his support.
Salmon Hubbel
District of Connecticut SS
March 23 1818
The afore named Salmon Hubbell came before me & in my prescense [unreadable] the aforesaid declaration & made Oath that the form is true.
Pierpont Edwards—
S. Stephen Betts of Canaan in said District do depose & say that Salmon Hubbel is now and has been for more than forty two years a citizen of the United States
S Stepn Betts
March 23 1818 sworn before me
Pierpont Edwards
District Judge of the District of Connecticut
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District & State of Connecticut Ss:
Be it remembered that in the county court held in and for the county of Fairfield in the District & State aforesaid on this 15th day of June 1820 the same being a court of record and having a seal under the authority of said state personally came & appeared Salmon Hubbel aged sixty six years resident in the Borough of Bridgeport in said county of Fairfield and a Pensioner under the act of Congress of the 18 day of March 1818. Who being duly sworn according to law doth on his oath declare that he served in the revolutionary war as follows, to wit
That he entered into the service of the United States as a private in the month of July 1775 in Capt. Joseph Hoyts company, Col. Charles Webbs Regiment in the Connecticut Troops and that in 1776 he served as a Quarter Master Sergeant in a Regiment commanded by Col. Gould Sellick Silliman and that on the first day of January 1777 he received an Ensigns commission in Capt. Saml. Comstocks company in Col. John Chandlers Regiment the eight in the Connecticut line on the Continental Establishment and that on the fifth day of September 1780 was granted the commission of a Lieutenant in the Army of the United States to take rank from the 20th day of April 1779 and that he continued a Lieutenant in the army of the United States in the Connecticut line on the Continental Establishment until the last day of December 1782 and that during the last two years of his said service he acted as Paymaster in the regiment to which he belonged under a regular appointment to that office and that he then left the military service of the United States under a special resolve of the Continental Congress reducing the number of regiments. And that he served the United States in the War of the Revolution in the several capacities aforesaid from the said month of July 1775 until the said last day of December AD 1782 in the army against their Enemies.
And that he is now on the Pension List under the Act of Congress of the 18th of March 1818 and that his pension certificate is numbered 5196 - And I, the said Salmon Hubbel do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March 1818, and I have not since that time by gift, sale, or in any manner disposed of my property or any part thereof with intent so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provision of an act of Congress entitled an Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land & naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war passed on the 18th day of March 1818. And that I have nor has any person for me any properties or securities contract or debts due to me nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed. And that my occupation ever since the close of the Revolutionary war untill the month of December AD 1813 was that of a small retail dealer in dry good and groceries and that since the said Month of December 1813, I have been unable to pursue any regular business as well for the want
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of capital as for want of personal health having been infirm since the battle of Monmouth in the War of the Revolution when in General Lees division I was over powered with the fatigue of the battle and the extreme heat of the weather from which I have never since recovered and have for about fifteen or sixteen years been afflicted with a scrotal hernia which now in my advanced age renders me altogether unequal to any active business and very frequently unfits me for any thing whatever besides being subject to very frequent bowel sickness which confine me to my roof and bed for several days & weeks at a time. The result of a constitution broken down by the hardship and fatigues suffered in the War of the Revolution and that I have a wife residing with me named Sarah aged sixty three years this month who is infirm as to be wholly unable to support herself by any sort of labour and a small mulatto boy aged seven years born in my house of a servant since dead, who by law will be free at the age of twenty five years, but have no children or child having lost one son aged twenty two years in July 1814 and another aged thirty three years in August 1819, leaving a widow but no property.
And I further on my oath declare that I am indebted to different persons in the sum & manner following, to wit
Note dated Jan 1, 1813 on Intrest [Interest] $302.
[do = ditto]
DO dated June 2, 1806 Do  96.41
Do dated March 31, 1819 Do 401.10
Do dated May 31 1816 Do 25.-
Do dated Jany 1, 1813 Do 386.11
Do dated April 8, 1820 Do 280.-
Do dated Jany 15, 1811 Do 209.50
Do dated Decr 25, 1819 Do 31.21
Do dated April 8, 1819 Do 56.-
__________
1597.93

On book accm
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Schedule of the property of the subscriber. . . . Salmon Hubbel

{1 house 29 feet bu 35. . 16 feet posts covered with pine clabbords & shingles. . one chimney. . also a small kitchen adjoining. 35 years old. standing on 1/2 acre of land. with a water lot of sixty four feet. . . . 1 barn 21 feet square covered with reffuse (sic) pine boards & shingles. .  32 years old. . . .}. 2100

{62 1/2 acres of undivided land with John Strong David Sterling & Ezra Adams. . being wild land. State of New York. County of}. 10

{1 Acre in Wool [???]. . . .} 5

{200 Acres of Military bounty land NW of the river Ohio granted to me for revolutionary services. . . .} 200

{1 small siege musket & bayonet. taken on the night or morning of July 16, 1779 at the morning of Stony Point under the command of General Wayne}  4

1 Looking glass Mahogany frame 30 inches by 16. . . . 10
1 Looking glass Mahogany frame  26 inches by 15. . . .  6
1 Looking glass Mahogany frame 23 inches by 12. . . .  3
1 Looking glass Mahogany frame 20 inches by 12. . . .  2
1 common woolen carpet 2 yd--been in use 24 years. .. . . 2.50
1 common woolen carpet 30 yd--been in use 12 years. . . . 7.50
1 common woolen scotch carpet 20 yd--been in use 18 years. . . . 1
1 Oil painted flower cloth home made 24 yd. been in use 26 years. . . . 2.50
1 India grass carpet. 20 yd. been in use 12 years. . . . 2
1 small mahogany dining table. been in use 32 years. . . . 6
 2 small mahogany tea tables been in use 32 years. . . . 6
2 small mahogany candels (sic) stands. been in use 32 years. . . .2
1 very small candel (sic) cherry stand been in use 32 years.       .50
1 common mahogany beauro (sic) been in use 32 years. . .8
1 common mahogany desk been in use 32 years. . . . 5
10 flag bottom fancy chairs been in use 32 years. . . 5
19 common green winsor (sic) chairs part been in use 38 years. . . 3.25
5 flag bottom rocking chairs part been in use 38 years. . . 1
2 flag bottom kitchen chairs part been in use 38 years.. . . 1.25
3 dimity window curtins (sic) 28 yds been in use 24 years. . . . 4
3 common callico curtins (sic) 28 yds been in use 24 years. . . .  1.50
3 sham coarse tum tum 2 1/2 yds each been in use 24 years.      .50

{1 plain silver tea pot & two plain silver tumblers 28 oz. a present to Wm Gilbert from Brooks & Sherman. Wm W Gilbert}. . . . 28

{Table & tea spoons 22 & - a present from Capt Ezekiel Hubbel to Wm Gilbert}. . .  22

{2 doz. of china cups and saucers. 2 doz. of coffee cups & sauces. 2 tea pots. 1 coffee pot. 2 sugar dishes. 3 slop bowls. 1 doz. of small plates. all white. a present to Mrs. Gilbert from  Ezekiel Hubbel. been in use 18 years.} . . . 10

 3 . . 2* plain glasses. a present from Capt. Sal Hubbel.   .50



3454.4
2460--00
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At a County Court held in & for the County of Fairfield in the District & State of Connecticut on the 15th day of June AD 1820 the same being a court of record and haveing [having] a Seal by virtue of the laros of said State..
Personally appeared in open Court Salmon Hubbell a resident in the Borough of Bridgeport in said County of Fairfield in said State and exhibited & subscribed the foregoing schedule of all his income & property necessary clothing & beding excepted
Attest David Burr Clerk
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State of Connecticut, ss.
I David Burr Clerk of the County Court for the County of Fairfield, in the said State,
do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from
the records of the said court and I do further certify that it is the opinion of the said Court
that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule of Salmon Hubbell is
three thousand eight hundred & twenty five Dollars and sixty cents

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court at
Fairfield, this 15th day of June 1820.

David Burt
Clerk of the County Court for said
County of Fairfield,
---
District and State of Connecticut, ss.
ROBERT FAIRCHILD, Chief Judge of the County Court for the County of Fairfield, in
said State, do certify that DAVID BURR, Esq. in the Clerk of said Court, duly appointed and sworn;
and that the said Court is a Court of record, made so by the statute laws of said State; that it
proceeds according to the course of the common law, has a jurisdiction unlimited in point of
amount, with the power of fine and imprisonment, and keeps a record of its proceedings
Robert Fairchild
Chief Judge of the County Court for
the County of Fairfield.
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36604
Revy INVALID
File No. 36604
Salmon Hubbell
Lieut Rev War

Act: 18 March 18th
Index-- Vol. 2, Page 199
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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David Daggett
to secy of war 1820

Case of S. Hubbell
March 1819 

The Hon
John C. Calhoun
Secretary of War
Washington

not entitled

presented by [illegible]
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NewHaven 8th October 1820
Sir,
W. Salmon Hubbell has long been well known
to me, and a more upright & deserving man does
not to my knowledge exist. The gentlemen whose  
signatures appear  to a certificate herewith transmitted
are all personally known to me. They are among 
the most respectable of the people of this community
At the request of the friends of Mr. 
Hubbell I have taken the liberty of saying this
much to you on his behalf
Accept the assurance of the high consideration
& respect with which I am your
obdt servt
David Daggett

Hon. Mr. Calhoun
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 [afernmin] entered
In the capt
Salmon Hubbel
Piepoint Edwards \
Deposed Judge of Connecticut Dept
-
Admitted
Hon
M. Sherwood
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District of Connecticut SS,
On this 3rd day of December AD 1818
Before me Pierpont Edwards for District said
of the United Stated for the District of  Connecticut came Ezra Gregory Esq. Warden of the Borough of Bridgeport in said District and Joseph Backus esq. Attorney & Counsellor at law 
in said Bridgeport who being both duly sworn do depose & say that they are (with acquainted) and  for many years past. They have been  well acquainted with Capt. Salmon Hubbell of said Bridgeport a Lieutenant in the Continental Army in the Revolutionary war and that from his reduced circumstances in life well known to the depondants that are of opinion that he is in real need of assistance from his country for his support . 
Ezra Gregory
Joseph Backus
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District of Connecticut SS Hartford [m sd] (said) District this Decr 3rd 1818. I Pierpoint Edwards
District Judge of said district do certify that I am not acquainted with the property of the other  Salmon Hubbel of any he has said that my behoof  of him being  by raport of his reduced [assistance?] [] wife to stand in need of the  aforementioned for  country for support must be and in the within is neglected by the oath of the within named Joseph Backus Esq & Ezra Gregory, who are [ovymar] mybound to law Salmoan Hubbel and an person well known to me who of testimony Thare Respectfully confidence and of [theyr'd] 
Salmon Hubble
Pierpoint Edwards
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Act 1828
Settled at
Treasury
Consd with
Invalid file
#36.604
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405.
No of orig Pay 340
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIMS.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT.
July 28. 1828
Salmon Hubbell of Bridgeport in the County of
Fairfield in the State of Connecticut has applied to the Secretary
of the Treasury for the benefits of the act, entitled ""An Act for the relief of certain surviving
officers and soldiers of the army of the Revolution,” approved on the 15th of May, 1828.
He states that he was as an officer on the Continental line, and served as such until when 
under the auspices of Congress for a new arrangement of the army
at which period he was a lieutenant in the regiment of the Connecticut
line; and that he received commutation certificates for the five years full pay granted by the resolve
of 22 March, 1783; and, further, that he has received as a pensioner since the 3d of March,
1826, nothing He adds that when reduced he was part of 3d Connecticut Regt
The Third Auditor is requested to report how far these several statements are corroborated
by the records in his office.
By order of the Secretary
A. Dickins

TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
THIRD AUDITOR'S OFFICE,
31th July 1828
It appears by the records in this office, that final settlement certificates have been issued for
commutation of five years full pay to Salmon Hubbell in
the Connecticut line, amounting to Sixteen Hundred dollars.
It further appears that Salmon Hubbell is not now on the pension
list of any agency, and has not been since the 3 March 1826

There is no such name as Lieutenant
Samuel Hubbel found in the Connecticut line
Salmon Hubble appears by the Books to have
been Paymaster to the 5th Connecticut Regiment
John Hagner Aud
[illegible]
No 352
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For the purpose of obtaining the benefits of an Act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the Army of the Revolution approved on the 5th of May  1828.... I, Salmon Hubbel of Bridgeport in the County of Fairfield & State of Connecticut do hereby declare that I was on the first day of January AD 1777 commissioned as an Ensign in the Continental Time of the Army of the Revolution and continued to serve as an Ensign in said time of said Army until I was on the 5th day of September AD 1780 commissioned as Lieutenant in said time of said Army. To take rank from the 20th day of April 1779 and that I continued  to serve in said time of said Army as a Lieutenant until some time in the year of 1781 When I was appointed Paymaster in the 5th Connecticut Regiment in said time of said Army....... and that I continued to serve in said offices of a Lieutenant and Paymaster in said Regiment in said time of said Army until the last of December 1782.. until which time i received the pay of Lieutenant & Paymaster both amountinf to the suhttps://catalog.archives.gov/images/misc/drag.pngm of fifty six dollars and ninety ninetieths of a dollar per month and than retired from said Army & service on a special resolve of Congress for reducing the number of Regiments in said Army by which I was intitled to all the privileges and benefits to which such officers were intitled who continued with the Army until the end of said war... and that I do abo declare that I afterwards received certificate commonly called [illegible] & fined settlement certificate for a sum equal to five years full pay which sum was offered by the resolve of congress of this 22 March 1783 instead of the half pay for life & soon intitled under the resolve of Congress October 28 1780....
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and that my said commissions were transmitted the the war
office accompanying my application for a pension under the
act of March 18, 1818. where I suppose they both remain, and
which I shall wish to have returned
---
Witness my hand this 23 day of June 1828
Salmon Hubbel

Before me Isaac Sherman a Justice of the Peace for the
County of Fairfield in the State of Connecticut. personally appeared 
Ezra Gregory & Thaddeus Hubbell, both of Bridgeport in
said County who did severally make oath that Salmon Hubbel
by whom the foregoing declaration was subscribed is
generally reported & believed to have been an officer in the Army 
of the revolution in manner as therein dated -- -- Witness
my hand this 28 day of June in the year 188 at Bridgeport
in said County of Fairfield
Ezra Gregory
Thaddeus Hubbell
Isaac Sherman Justice of the Peace

State of Connecticut
Fairfield County
I, Thomas B Osborne Clerk of the County Court within & for the
County of Fairfield in the State of Connecticut do hereby certify
Isaac Sherman Esq before whom the foregoing
affidavit was sworn, was at the time a Justice of
the Peace in & for sd Fairfield County & duly empowered 
to administer oaths. In testimony whereof I have
hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of County 
Court in Fairfield this 3d day of July AD 1828
Thomas B Osborne Clerk
Sd County Court
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Salmon
Hubbell
Lieutenant
Connecticut line,
23d March 1818
-
If The Judges will certify that the applicant
is in indigent circumstances and a pension
will be granted: [crossed out]  the claim will be 
admitted
Pierpont Edwards, Esq.
Judge,
Bridgeport, Fairfield Co.
Connecticut,
Recd. 27. May, 1818
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I Pierpont Edwards District Judge of the District of
Connecticut do certify that it appears to my satisfaction
that Salmon Hubbell who made & subscribed the declaration
contained in the annexed Schedule did serve in the
revolutionary war against the common Enemy
stated in his said declaration & I now transmit
the proceedings & testimony taken & had before
in his case to the Secretary of the department
of war pursuant to Act of Congress in such case made
& provided said proceedings & testimony are contained
in the annexed Schedule May 20 1818
Pierpont Edwards
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IN CONGRESS
The DELEGATES of the UNITED COLONIES of New-Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay,
Rhode Island, Connecticut, New-York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, the Counties of New Castle, Kent,
and Sussex on Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia, to
Salmon Hubbell Cont Greeting
We reposing especial Trust and Confidence in your Patriotism, Valour, Conduct and Fidelity,
do by these Presents, constitute and appoint you to be Ensign of a Company in a 
Regiment commanded by Col John Chandler
in the Army of the United Colonies raised for the defence of American Liberty, and for repelling every
hostile Invasion thereof. You are therefore carefully and diligently to discharge the Duty of Ensign
by doing and performing all Manner of Things thereunto belonging. And we do strictly
charge and require all Officers and Soldiers under your Command, to be obedient to your Orders as
their Ensign  And you are to observe and follow such Orders and Directions from
Time to Time, as you shall receive from this or a future Congress of the United Colonies, or Committee
of Congress, for that purpose appointed, or Commander in Chief for the Time being of the Army of
the United Colonies, or any other your superior Officer, according to the Rules and Discipline of War,
in Pursuance of the Trust reposed in you. This Commission to continue in Force until revoked by this
or a future Congress. Dated at Hartford in the State of Connecticut the first day of January 1777
By Order of the Congress
John Hancock PRESIDENT

Attest Chas Thimon Secy
.
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THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
To Salmon Hubbel Gent Greeting we Reposing especial [illegible] 
and confidence in your Patriotism Valour, Conduct and Fidelity, Do by these presents constitute and appoint you to be a Lieutenant in the eighth Connecticut Regimen
in the Army of the United State, to take rank as such from the 20th day
of April 1779. You are therefore carefully and diligently to discharge the duty of a
Lieutenant by doing and performing all manner of things thereunto belonging. And
do strictly charge and require all Officers and Soldiers, under your command to be obedient to your order as
Lieutenant And you are to observe and follow orders and directions
from time to time, as you shall receive from this, or a future Congress of the United States, & Committee of Congress for that purpose appointed, a Committee of the States or Commander in chief for the time being of the Army of the United States, or any other your superior Officer, according to the rules and discipline of War, in pursuance of the trust reposed in you. This Commission to continue inforce until revoked by this, or a future Congress, the committee of Congress before mentioned, or a Committee of the States

Witness his Excellency Saml Huntington Esqr President of
the Congress of the United States of America, at Philadelphia the fifth
day of September 1780 and in the fifth
year of our Independence.
-

Sam Huntington President
Secretary of the Board of War

Entered in the War Office
and examined by the Board

Attest
Ben Stewart
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To all People whom it doth or may
concern. I Nathan Tisdale of the
Borough of Bridgeport in the State of
Connecticut formerly of the Navy of the
United States and now a practicing physician
and Surgeon, do hereby certify that ever
in the year 1803 I have resided a
neighbour to Mr Salmon Hubbell an officer 
in the Army of the U.S. in the war of Revolution, 
and now a pensioner of the U. S under
the act of Congress of March 18th AD 1818 and
that ever since my acquaintance with
him he has been a man singularly temperate
in his habits never drinking
any ardent spirits whatever, but possessing 
a constitution infirm and debilitated
to a great degree afflicted by a frequent
recurrence of a species of head ache which
is produced by moderate bodily exertion
and accompanied for several days and 
sometimes for weeks with severe
sickness, and in the interval by reason
of such his general debility and the
additional affliction of a Seratal Herma
he is wholly unable to support himself
by Labour
Nathan Tisdale
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United  States of America
State of Connecticut---

Be it known that on this 16th day of June 1820
before me Joseph Backus Notary Public for said State came
Col Nathan Tisdale signer of the within Certificate a 
Gentleman well known to me and in whom the fullest confidence
as a Physician Surgeon and as a [illegible] man
may be placed who being duly sworn made oath to the
truth of said certificate. In testimony whereof I have
hereunto set my hand & seal of Office at the borough
of Bridgeport in said State
Joseph Backus Notary Public
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Salmon Hubbell
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Salmon Hubbell
copy.- (compared)
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Case of Salman Hubbell
Deposition of E. Gregory & to  Secry of War 1820
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Bridgeport 20th June 1820 -
Sir, 
The undersigned Citizens of this Borough and for
many years neighbors of, and well acquainted with
Mr Salmon Hubbell a Revolutionary officer now on
the pension list of the United States under the act
of Congress of the 18th of March 1818 having seen the
schedule of his property and his accompanying
application and affidavit for a continuance of his
pension voluntarily and wholly unsolicited but induced 
by respect and good will towards one whom
we consider a very meritorious yet unfortunate fellow
citizen beg leave respectfully to suggest that we have
the fullest confidence in the accuracy and fidelity of
his statement having ourselves perfect knowledge of the
most prominent parts of it and fully believe that by
reason of his reduced circumstances in life, but for
the pension he has already received he now would be
dependent on the benevolence of friends for a comfortable subsistence
as, were his creditors, to enforce their respective claims it is
evident that he would have left to him but a part of his
Dwelling house & lot and then stripped of every article of
furniture. That he is wholly unable by bodily exertion
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to obtain a comfortable livelihood is beyond a question
He has indeed hitherto supported a decent and respectable
style of living for a gentleman in the simple and plain
manner of Connecticut but for a number of years
past has been living on his former moderate acquisitions
which and now as you will readily perceive reduced to
a very small amount
It will be noticed that in the schedule of his property
then is a musket taken at the storming of Stoney point
It may not be amiss for us to mention that he also
at the same time took a sword which he had fondly
kept with the musket as trophies of his valour but
which wounding as it really was to his feelings just
before the obtaining his pension he found it necessary
to dismount of its silver about six dollars in value
to supply himself with fuel. This we believe speaks
language stronger than any words can express
That he has ever since he left the army been
feeble and wholly unable to endure any considerable
bodily exertion is well known to his acquaintance and to
many of them that it originated in his being wounded in the
battle of Monmouth from which he was conveyed by his
Captain Comstock & Sergeant (since Lieutenant) Hoyt
laid across a horse like a sack with little more of life in
appearance excepting his breath
That he has ever sustained the character of a Gentleman
a Soldier a Patriot & Philanthropist is so well known as never
to have been questioned
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But a Holy Providence has deprived him of all
his children. two beloved sons on whom he once fondly
hoped he might lean in his declining years
It surely Sir could never have been the intention
of an American Congress that such a man so circumstanced 
should sell his small plain house & lot furnished 
in part with the avails of his final settlements received
for wages in the war sold at two shillings & sixpence
on the pound before he should enjoy the benefit of
the pension law; but a denial to him now will be
nothing better & thus bring down his grey hairs
with increased sorrow to the grave,
permit us sir to hope better things and
subscribe ourselves with the highest respect
& esteem your most obedient servants-
Ezra Gregory
Lambert Lockwood
David Sterling
Danl Sterling
Ezekial Hobbell
Echiel Hullelly
Joseph Backus
William Deforest
Jehor Burr of Fanfield
Ebenr Dimon of Fairfield
David Judson of Fairfield

The Hon. the Secretary of War