Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 23718, Augustus Huling, R.I.
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Service
R.I.

Huling, Augustus 

Number
S23718
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Albany 7273

Augustus Huling of North King Co in the state of R.I. who was a private in the company commanded by Captain Thomas of the Reg.t commanded by Colo Dyer in the RI line for 24 months
Private

Inscribed on the roll of RI at the rate of 80 dollars -- cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March 1831.

Certificate of pension issued the 19th day of March 1834 and sent to Sylvester G. Sherman Esq. Wintford Wash.t

Arrears to the 4th of March 1834 $240
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sept " 40.00
$280

{Revolutionary Claim Act June 7, 1832}
Recorded by George Taylor clerk, 
Book # Vol. 2 Page 112


Due Bis. To. May 31, 1835

Transferred to Albany, from 4 September 1834 - Apl. 8th 1835

Payment subscribed to agents pensioner 11 April 1833

Letter to Hon Jose. Reynolds 22 Jan. '36
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Application of 29633
Augustus Huling
for pension R.I.

to be comanded when granted to Sylvester G. Sherman Wash.

Adm.d
24 m private
Gap. Thomas Colo Dyer
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Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of congress issued June 7th 1832

State of Rhode Island
County of Washington

Court of Probate for the town of North Kingston. On this 13th day of January in the year 1834 personally appeared in open court, before the court of Probate for the town of North Kingstson in the county of Washington the same being a court of record and now sitting Augustus Hurling of said North Kingston aged seventy two years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath made the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June the seventh 1832. That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein state. In December 1776 the enemy took possesions of the fort of Newport and Island of Rhode Island and the militia of the state were called out and stationed different places along the shores of Namagansett Bay to prevent torching and incursions of the enemy and his father Alexander Huling being liable to do military duty as a private sent to him in his stead and he being large of his age and as large as a young men usually are are at sixteen years of age that being the age when they were first enrolled in those days was received as a substitute for him and served in his stead.  He first commenced service in January 1777 in the company of militia of [illegible] Samuel Thomas was captain, John Brown Jr. hereunto attached to the regiment of what Charles Dyer was Colonel. He had to serve for his father every other month in said company and send in the care as a first thoughts
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stationed at the village of Kingston
Months of January & the months of March following. In May 1777 john Brown Jr. was promoted to the rank of Captain in the place of Samuel Thomas and he served under him in said company. Five months as a substitute for his father, in that year, in tours of one month each, stationed most of the times at the Winsor two parts of the time are in Aquidnesol Neck near said Village of Wilford. In 1778 he served six months in said company as a substitute for his father under the same officers in tours of one month each, stationed at or near the village of Wilford. In 1778 he served one month in said company on his own account, he being sixteen years of age in the months of January in this year and are months any substitute for his father, John Brown, being still father of the company stationed at Wilford.  In the month of March 1779 his father with his family removed into another part of the North Kingston called Aguidneset Neck island he became [illegible] to do military duty in another company of [illegible] Peter Wright was Captain, Eldreds Dyre Lieutenant & Samuel Dyre Ensigr & he served one month under said Captain in the Month of April in that year,  stationed at the clerk house so called in said Aquidneset Neck for himself. In the months of May 1779, Samuel Dyre was presented to the rank of Captain in said company, William Davis was stated Lieutenant & Stanley Gill ensigr. And he served in said company under said [illegible] from May 1779 month of December 1779 the time under the enemy declared Newstat the whole time either as a substitute for his father or on his own account eight months in [illegible] stationed the while of the time in Aquidneset Neck except the first months May 1779 when he was stationed with said company in court Judith is the tour of saints - In the fall of the year 1780 he performed one month duty in the same company under the same officers on the island of Rhode Island as a private stationed on the fort at Newport, he being drafted
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for that term of time and was then discharged. Making his whole term of service in the militia twenty five months, eighteen months a a substitute for his father and seven months for himself. In the spring of 1781 he enlisted for three years as a private in the company of continental troops of which Olney Whipple was captain attached to the regiment commanded by Colonel Olney enlisted at Wichford and send in said company one months stationed in Boston Neck in South Kingston when he being under twenty one years of age he was dismissed or discharged in compliance with the wishes of his father he having percured a substitute which was recieved in his stead as his fathers wanted his to labour at home. He never having written discharge he was born in North Kingston on the 14th day of January in the year 1762 lest he has no record of his age. he lived in North Kingston during the revolution and continued to live there until the year 1792 when he moved into the state of New York where he resided some time and the moved into the state of Pennsylvania and has lived in the one at the other of said states [illegible] the year 1799 until the spring of 1832 when he returend to the North Kingston hwere he now resides. William Wall of said NOrth Kingston who is now living is acquainted with some of his services. He is not acquainted with any clergyman in his vicinity who can testify as to the reports & belief in his veracity of his having served in the revolution testify open the court to Benjamin Smith & Gorton W. Nichols.  - Sate of said North Kingston who are acquainted with him and can testify as respects the same & also as reports the goodness of his character for truth. He ahs been absent so long from the native county that he does not know of same age of his depociates or command nor living, they are all either dead , moved away or [illegible] with years & is presented so as
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We Benjamin Smith & Gorton W. Nichols - residing in the Town of North Kingston, hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Augustus Huling, who has subscribed & sworn to the above Declaration, that we believe him to be seventy years of age, that he is (unintelligible) in the neighborhood, where he resides to have been a soldier of the (unintelligible) and that we concur in that service. 
Benjamin Smith
Gorton W. Nichols



Sworn & subscribed this day and year aforesaid
Hon. Raymond Roth 


In said Court, do hereby declare these (unintelligible) after the investigations of the matter & after further interrogatories subscribe, by the Ware Department, that the above-named Applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier and served as he states.  And the Court further states that it appears to them, that Benjamin Smith and Gorton W. Nichols who have signed the proceeding certificate are credible persons and their statement entitles to credit.   I Jonathan Reynolds, Clerk of said Court of Probate, do hereby certify that the foregoing (unintelligible) be original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of that application of Augustus Huling for a pension. 

In testimony hereof, I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of said Court, this 15th day of January, in the year 1834. 
Hon. Reynolds, Clerk
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State of New York   ss
County of Cortland

On this fourth day of March 1835, before me, the subscriber, a justice of the peace for the said county of Corland, personally appeared Augustus Huling, who, on his oath, declares that he is the same person who formerly belonged to the Company commanded by Captain John Brown - in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Dyer - in the service of the United States; that his name was placed on the Pension Roll of the State of Rhode Island; that he has received a Certificate of that fact under the signature and seal of the Secretary of War; which certificate he has now in his possession, bearing date the 19th day of March, 1834, signed by Lew (Lewis) Cass Secretary of War, and which entitles him to received eighty dollars per annum, during his natural life; and which certificate is numbered 27273 - That the said Augustus Huling has lately removed from the State of Rhode Island, to Willet, in the county of Cortland, in the State of New York, with a view to reside with his son, Daniel Huling, for the remainder of his life; and he therefore wishes to have the payment of his pension transfered (transferred) from the Agency of Rhode Island, to that of New York - He therefore respectfully requests the War Department to make such transfer and send notice of the same to Barak Niles his agent in this (unintelligible), and thereby confer a renewed obligation on this declarant - 
Augustus Huling 
X his mark 

Sworn and subscribed before me, the day and year aforesaid, find above written; and I further certify the reason of said Augustus Huling signing the foregoing by making his mark is inability to write on account of want of learning - and I further certify that I believe his above statement to be true. 

Oliver Kingman, Justice Peace
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State of New York
County of Cortland  ss

Daniel Huling of Willet in the County of Cortland, in the said State of New York, personally appeared before me, the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace in & for said County of Cortland, and made oath, in due form of care, that he is well acquainted with Augustus Huling, who has subscribed and sworn to the written affidavit, and well knows him to be the same person described in the written affidavit and knows him to be the same pensioner of the United States as therein is set forth - and further saith not. 
Daniel Huling

Sworn and subscribed to before me this 4th day of March 1835 - and I further certify that I am well acquainted with said Daniel Huling and that he is a person of truth and veracity - 
Oliver Kingman Justice Peace

State of New York
Cortland County 
Clarks Office ss

I Oren Stimson Clerk of said County do hereby certify that Oliver Kingman Esq. before whom the affidavit of Augustus Huling & Daniel Huling purports to char. (character) been sworn was at the time the above certificates were taken and the said affidavit of belief to a Justice of the Peace in & for the town of Cincinnatus in said County.  That his turn of office commenced on the first day of January A.D. 1832 & will expire on the last day of December A.D. 1833. That I am acquainted with his handwriting & believe his signature thereto annexed to be genuine (unintelligible) my hand & seal of office this 4th day of March A.D. 1833. 
Oren Stimson Clerk
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I James Huling of North Kingston, in the County of Washington, on solemn oath, do testify and say, that I am forty-nine years of age.  Augustus Huling of said North Kingston, who is now an Applicant for a Pension, is my uncle.   My father Andew Huling, who is now dead, was the brother of said Augustus and older than he, and I heard him say whilst he was living, that the said Augustus served as a soldier during the Revolutionary War, in the Militia but never heard any particulars of his service stated.   i have also heard other people, also speak of his services. 
James Huling

Washington ss - In North Kingston
January 11, 1833
Personally appeared, before me, the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace for said North Kingston, the above subscriber James Huling, who after being by me duly examined, certified and sworn gave the above Deposition, which was by me, reduce to writing, in his presence and by him (unintelligible) in my presence, and I further certify that the said James Huling, is well known to me & that his character for truth is good and said Deposition, is entitled to full and complete credit. 
Sylvester G. Shearman
Justice of the Peace
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(copied)

March 13, 1931

Mr. F. C. Bissell
11009 West Boulevard
Hartford, Connecticut

Rev. & 1812 Wars Section 
MMHF: MLB

Dear Sir:

You are advised it appears from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S. 23718, that Augustus Huling, the son of Alexander Huling, was born January 14, 1762, in North Kingston, Washington County, Rhode Island. 

While a resident of said town, he enlisted in January 1777 and served at various times in yours of one month each, alternating, until the fall of 1780, twenty-five months in all, (eighteen months as a substitute for his father) under Captains Samuel Thomas, John Brown, Jer., Peter Wright and Samuel Dyer in Colonel Charles Dyer's Rhode Island regiment. 

In the spring of 1781, he enlisted and served one month in Caption Olney Whipple's company, Colonel Olney's Rhode Island regiment. 

He was allowed a pension on his application executed January 13, 1834, while a resident of North Kingston, Rhode Island. 

In 1835 he was living with his son, Daniel, in Willet, Cortland County, New York.  No other children are mentioned, and the name of his wife is not stated. 

The above noted is the history of the only Augustus Huling that is found on the Revolutionary War records of this bureau. 

Very truly yours

E.W. MORGAN
Acting Commissioner
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23718
INVALID
23718
Augustus Huling
Rev. War
Act : June 7 (year illegible)
Vol. 2, Page 196
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STAMP:
U.S. Pension Office
Sept. 20, 1923


Wheaton, Minn. 
Sept. 13, '23

Commissioner of Pensions
Washington, D.C. 

Dear Sir: - 

      Will you kindly give me the military record of Augustus Huling a soldier in the Rev. War serving as a private from Washington Co. Rhode Island, and also whatever the records may have of personal and family history.  He is an ancestor of mine and I am needing this information to qualify for membership in the D.A.R. 
     With many thanks for your kind assistance, 

Very sincerely, 
Mrs. Guy Kuhn

Ans. (answered) Oct 6, '23
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Wheaton, Minn. 
August 17 - 1923

Pension Commissioner
Washington D.C.

Dear Sir. 

Please send me the military record of Augustus Huling who served as a private from Washington County, Rhode Island. Any information as to his family history as to his birth death and names of children will be appreciated. 

Address to 
Mrs. Guy Kuhn
Wheaton, Minn. 

(STAMP)
U.S. Pension Office 
Aug 20, 1923
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Rev. and 1812 Wars Section                 MMS & F

October 6, 1923

Mrs. Guy Kuhn
Wheaton, Minn. 

Madam:

     I have to advise you that from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim S. 23718 it appears that Augustus Huling, the son of Alexander Huling, was born January 14, 1762, in North Kingston, Washington County, Rhode Island. 
     While a resident of said town he enlisted in January 1777 and served at various times in tours of one month each, alternating, until the fall of 1780 -- twenty-five months in all --, (eighteen months as a substitute for his father) under Captains Samuel Thomas, John Brown, Jr. Peter Wright and Samuel Dyer, in Colonel Charges Dyer's Rhode Island regiment. 
     In the spring of 1781 he enlisted and served one month in Captain Olney Whipple's Company, Colonel Olney's Rhode Island Regiment. 
     He was allowed pension on his application execut-
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-ed January 13, 1834, while a resident of North Kingston, Rhode Island.  In 1835 he was living with his son Daniel in Willet, Cortland County, New York.  No other children are mentioned, and the name of his wife is not stated. 

Respectfully, 

Commissioner

Miss Wilsen said use the exact date of birth, not the one 16 yrs of age in 1779-
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had a bro. Andrew, whose son was James.
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1779 to 1832 res. of New York & (unintelligible)
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THE CONNECTICUT SOCIETY OF THE SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION

(not transcribing all the names in the letterhead)

F. Clarence Bissell, Registrar
1009 West Boulevard, Hartford

Feb. 18, 1930

U.S. Pension Bureau
 Please give me Pension Record of Augustus Huling in Roll of 1835 as given in Vital Records of Rhode Island - said to have been born in No. Kingston, R.I. Mar. 2nd 1762. 

Respectfully, 

F. C. Bissell, Registrar
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I William Wall of North Kingston, in the County of Washington, on solemn oath, do testify and say, that I am Eighty four years of age, during the Revolutionary War, I knew Augustus Huling of said North Kingston. I was soldier in the Militia, during the War, and lived near the said Augustus Huling, soldier [illegible] belong, to the same Company of Militia, that he did, nor [illegible] at the same time and place, that he did, [illegible] I often saw him during the war, with the Militia, doing duty as a Private, at [illegible] and in Aqidneact Neck, and I   heard during the War, that he served and have heard so since the War from people, that served with him; that one [illegible] [illegible] [illegible], when I have been conversing with them, upon the events of the War.
William Wall. [signature]

Washington ss - In North Kingston - 
January 11th 1854 - 
Personally appeared before me, the above subscribed William Wall, who being by me, duly examined, cautioned and sworn, gave the above Deposition, which was by me reduced to writing in his presence, and by him subscribed in his presence - That I further certify that the said William Wall is well known & that his character for truth & veracity is good and said Deposition entitled to credit -
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I Benjamin Smith of North Kingston, in the
County Washington, am Sixty eight year of Age
I have known Augustus Huling of North Kingston
many years and I well
remember that in 1781 in the spring, he listed into Colonel
Olneys Regiment Continental troops, and remained in the
service some little time, when he was discharged, by his Fathers
procuring a substitute to serve in his stead. I live in the
same Neighborhood, then with the said Augustus Huling,
and his Father, and the affair was much talked of.
Benjamin Smith
Washington Ss - In North Kingston - 
-
January 11th 1834, - Personally appeared
before me, the above subscribed Benjamin Smith, who
being by me, duly examined, cautioned and sworn, gave the
above deposition, to which his name is subscribed, which
deposition was by me, reduced to writing in his presence &
by him unbaibed in my presence, and I further certify, that
the said Benjamin Smith is well known to me,
that his character of truth & veracity is good and said
Deposition, entitled to full & implicit credit.
Sylvester G Shearman
Justice of the Peace
-
I John Spink of North Kingston, in the County of
Washington, on solemn oath, do testify and say, that I
am Eighty one years of Age, during the Revolutionary war, I
knew Augustus Huling of said North Kingston. In 1777 I saw him
on duty as a solider in the Company of Militia commanded by
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Captain John Brown, in Aquidneact Neck in said  North Kingston, but cannot state how
long he served. In 1779 I served with him, in the Company of Militia of [illegible] Peter Wright said Captain, and in the same year, I served him with in the same Company, under Captain Samuel Dyre, over in Aquidneack Neck, he served steadily through the year after Dyre came in Captain. He has been absent from this State, most of the time since the war.
John Spink

Washington Sc. In North Kingston January 11th 1894 - Personally appeared, before me, the above subscribed John Spink, who after being by me, duly examined, cautioned and sworn, gave the above Deposition, which was by me, reduced to writing in his presence, and by him subscribed in my presence. And further certify, that the said John Spink is well known to me, that his character for truth and veracity is good, and said Depositions, entitled to full and implicit credit -
Sylvester C Shumper 
Justice of the Peace

State of Rhode Island & Providence Plantations - Washington Sc - Clerks Office - Court of Probate, Town of North Kingston - I Jonathan Reynolds, Clerk of the Court of Probate, for the Town of North Kingston - Hereby certify that Sylvester J. Shear, before whom the annexed Depositions were taken and sworn to is a Justice of the Peace in said Town of North Kingston, legally chosen, commissioned, qualified and engaged, at the [illegible] - and that the signatures, thereto annexed, are his proper signatures, in his own hand writing, and that full faith and credence, ought to be given [illegible], and to all his official Acts [several illegible words] testimony whereof, have hereunto set my hand and the seal of said Court, and said North Kingston this 19th day of January, in the year 1894 - 
Jon. Reynolds P. Clk.
[swirling lines]
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107
Augustus Huling
R.I.
to
Albany
In transfer
--
War Department
Washington
Office of applications for transfer
of Payt. of Pensions from R. Island to N. Y.
Agency.
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Albany, New York, March
9th 1835. - Assembly
Chamber

Hon. L. Cass,
Levy at War,
Dr. Sir
I herein enclose the
application of Augustus Huling for a transfer
of the payt. of his pension from the Agency of Rhode
Island, to that of N. York.
I will remark that I lately enclose an applica
tion for the same object, and said in reply that it was
informal; and a form was kindly sent me adapted
to the occasion from which I have drawn the enclosed.
In transmitting said form, (in blk.) Mr. Edward remarked
to me that no order had then been made by the War
Department for such transfers, and also, that, until
such order was made, the transfer could not be made.
Allow me most respectfully to hope that your
Dept will have the kindness in this case to admit
said transfer as soon as may be, as the old pensioner
is in real need of payt. for his necessary subsistance.
Mr. Edward, in his communication to me, remarked that the
reason that no order adapted to such cases had there been
made, was, that fraud had been practiced. 
I can only say there is none in this case as I know Mr.
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Daniel Huling, son of sd Augustus Huling, and who is
the deponent, and have known him for many years -
and knew of his going to Rhode Island after his father
last fall, and of their return, and have since known
the old gentleman. Both, I believe are honest, good
citizens-
I hope it may be unnecessary to send further proof
than the enclosed. But if it is, please inform, and
it will be done -
I will only add that I have just returned to that
place from Cincinnatus, Cort Co., my residence,
where I have lately been on a visit to my family,
during which I obtained the enclosed. I shall be
here during the session of our Legislature -
your Dept. will therefore please direct to me,
at this place
I am most respectfully
Your Obt Servt.
Darah Niles of
Cincinnatus
Cort. Co.
Now at Albany