Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W 18087, Gideon Hulbert, Conn.
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Conn.  Hulbert, Gideon     W18087
or Gilbert
Sarah
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24.140
New York
Gideon Hulburt
of (unintelligible) in the state of New York
who was a private in the (unintelligble) commanded
by Captain Churchill of the (unintelligible) commanded
by the Col. Sage in the New York
line for 14 months.

Inscribed on the roll of New York
at the rate of 46 Dollars 66 cents per annum
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1834.

Certificate of pension issued the 6 day of Nov.
1833 and Seullo J. Blanchard Durham

Arrears to the 4th of (unintelligible) 33 $116.66
Semi-an. allowance ending 4 M. 34 23.33
$139.99
Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7, 1832.
Recorded by G C Stiles Clerk,
Book E Vol. 4 Page 104
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Albany 3160
Sarah Hulburt
widow of Gideon Halbert, who was
a Pensioner under ab. June 1832 Date of death (unintelligible) AB (unintelligible)
who died on the 26 June 1835
of Greene Co. in the State of N. York
who was a Private (unintelligible) in the company commanded
by Captain Churchill of the (unintelligible) commanded
by Col. Sage in the Con.
line for 14 months.

Inscribed on the Roll of Albany
at the rate of 46 Dollars 66 cents per annum
to commence on the 27, June 1835
Certificate of pension issued on the 30th day of Dec.
1839 and sent to (unintelligible) John
Ely H.R.
Arrears to the 4th of September. '39 195.50
Semi-annual allowance ending 6 Mar. '40 23.33
$218.83
Revolutionary Claim,
Act July 4, 1836, 
Section the 3
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Giddeon Hulbert Green County
New York
Adm 1 year V 2 Months
$46.66
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War Department
Pension Office
183
Sir:
The evidence in support of your claim, under the act of June 7, 1832, has been examined, and the papers are herewith returned. The following is a statement of you case in a tabular form. On comparing these papers with the following rules, and the subjoined notes, you will readily perceive that objections exist, which must be removed, before a pension can be allowed. The notes and the regulations will show what is necessary to be done. Those points to which you attention is more particularly directed, you will find marked in the margin with a brace (thus: }). You will, when you return your papers to this Department, send this printed letter with them; and you will, by complying with this request, greatly facilitate the investigation of your claim.

A Statement, showing the Service of Giddeon Hulbert Green County New York
Period when the service was rendered.
Duration of the claimant's service. Years. Months. Days.
Rank of the Claimant
Names and rank of the Field officers under whom he served.
Age at present, and place of abode when he entered the service.
Proof by which the declaration is supported.
Enlisted March 1776 -2-private Cap Blake 77 years Traditionary evidence paper
Enlisted 1777-6- " Cap Churchill, Col Sage Chatham Connecticut correct
Enlisted 1778-4-" Cap Robinson, Col Ely
Draft-2- " Cap Starr

I am, respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
J.L. Edwards,
Commissioner of Pensions.
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 REGULATIONS UNDER THE ACT OF JUNE 7, 1832. The following regulations have been adopted: This law has been construed to extend, as well to the line, as to every branch of the Staff of the Army and to include under the terms "Continental Line," "State troops," "militia," and "volunteers", all persons enlisted, drafted, or who volunteered and who were bound to military service, but not those who were occasionally employed with the army upon civil contracts, such as Clerks to Commissaries and to Store Keepers, &c., Teamsters, Boatmen, &c. Persons who served on board of private armed vessels are also excluded from the benefits of the law, as well as persons who turned out as patrols, or were engaged in guarding particular places at night, and were not recognized as being in actual military service. Four general classes of cases are embraced in this law: 1.The Regular Troops. 2. The State Troops, Militia, and Volunteers. 3 Persons employed in the Naval Service. 4. Indian Spies. As rolls of the regular troops in the Revolutionary War exist in this Department, all persons claiming the benefit of this law as officers, non-commissioned officers, mucicians or privates, will, in the first instance, make application by transmitting the following declaration, which will be made before a Court of Record of the County where such applicant resides. And every Court having by law a seal and Clerk is considered a Court of Record. DECLARATION, In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th of June, 1832. State, Territory or District of County of On this day of personally appeared (a) before A. B. a resident (b) of in the county of and State, Territory or District of aged (c)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 provision made by the act of Congress, passed June 7th, 1832. That he enlisted in the Army of the United States in the year (d) ,with and served in the (e) regiment of the line, under the following named officers: [Here set forth the names and rank of the Field and Company Officers; the time he left the service; (and if he served under more than one term of enlistment, he must specify the particular period, and rank and names of his officers;) the town or county and State in which he resided when he entered the service; the battles, if any, in which he was engaged, and the country through which he marched. This form is to be varied so as to apply to the cases of officers and persons who belonged to the militia, volunteers, navy, &c.] He hereby relinquishes every claim (f) whatever to a pension or an annuity, except the present, and he declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any Agency in any State, or (if any) only on that of the Agency in the State of Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid. A. B. [And then will follow the certificate of the Court] --- And the said Court do hereby or opinion (g) that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states. I of the Court of do hereby certify (h) that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of for a pension. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office (i) this day of & c. If, on examination of the proper record, the names of applicants, making such declaration, cannot be found, they will produce such proof as the rule given in note (j) points out. Every applicant who claims a pension by virtue of service in the State Troops, Volunteers, or Militia, except those who belonged to the New Hampshire Militia and State Troops of Virginia, will make and subscribe a declaration similar to the foregoing, with the following additions, viz: (k) We, A. B., a Clergyman, residing in the and C. D. residing in (the same) hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with ,who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be 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. Sworn and subscribed the days and year aforesaid. [And then will follow the certificate of the Court.] And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the 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. And the Court further certifies, that it appears to them that A.B. who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman, resident in the and that C. D., who has also signed the same is a resident in the and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit. I, Clerk of the Court of do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the application of for a pension. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office, this day of & c. Every applicant will produce the best proof in his power. This is the original discharge or commission ; but if neither of these can be obtained, the party will so state under oath, and will then procure, if possible, the testimony of at least one credible witness, stating in detail his personal knowledge of the services of the applicant, and such circumstances connected therewith, as may have a tendency to throw light upon the transaction. If such surviving witness cannot be found, the applicant will so state in his declaration, (l) and he will also, whether he produce such evidence or not, proceed to relate all the material facts, which can be useful in the investigation of his claim, and in the comparison of his narrative with the events of the period of his
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will be indispensable to a favorable action upon his case. The facts stated will afford one of the principal means of corroborating the declaration of the applicant, if true, or of detecting the imposition, if one be attempted; and unless, therefore, these are amply and clearly set forth, no favorable decision can be expected. All applicants will appear before some Court of Record in the County in which they reside, and there subscribe and be sworn to, one of the declarations above provided, according to the nature of his case.

The Court will propound the following (m) interrogatories to all applicants for a pension, on account of service in the Militia, State troops, or Volunteers, except the Militia of New Hampshire and the State troops of Virginia.

1. Where and in what year were you born?

2. Have you any record of your age, and if so, where is it?

3. Where were you living when called into service; where have you lived since the Revolutionary war, and where do you now live?

4. How were you called into service; were you drafted, did you volunteer, or were you a substitute? And if a substitute, for whom?

5. State the names of some of the Regular Officers, who were with the troops, where you served; such Continental and Militia Regiments as you can recollect, and the general circumstances of your services.

6. {To a Soldier {Did you ever receive a discharge from the service, and if so, by whom was it given, and what has become of it?

{To an Officer {Did you ever receive a commission, and if so, by whom was it signed, and what has become of it?

7. State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood, and who can testify as to your character for veracity, and their belief of your service as a soldier of the Revolution.

The court will see that the answers to these questions are embodied in the declaration, and they are requested to annex their opinions of the truth of the statement of the applicant.

The applicant will further produce in Court, if the same can be done, in the opinion of the Court, without too much expense and inconvenience to him, two respectable persons - one of whom should be the nearest clergyman, if one lives in the immediate vicinity of such applicant, who can testify, from their acquaintance with him, that they believe he is of the age he represents, and that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood to have been a Revolutionary soldier, and that they concur in that opinion. If one of these persons is a Clergyman, the Court will so certify, and they will also certify to the character and standing of other persons giving such certificates.

The traditionary evidence of service is deemed very important, in the absence of any direct proof, except the declaration of the party. And the Courts are requested to be very particular in the enquiry whether the belief is general, and whether any doubts have ever existed upon the subject.

Applicants unable to appear in Court, by reason of bodily infirmity, may make the declarations before required, and submit to the examination, before a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record of the proper county, and the Judge or Justice will execute the duties, which the Court is herein requested to perform, and will also certify that the applicant cannot, from bodily infirmity, attend the Court.

Whenever any official act is required to be done by a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record, or by a Justice of the Peace, the certificate of the Secretary of state or Territory, or of the proper Clerk of the Court or County, under his seal of office, will be annexed, stating that such person is a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record, or a Justice of the Peace, and that the signature annexed is his genuine signature.

No payments can be made on account of the services of any person, who may have died before the taking effect of the act of June 7, 1832; and in case of death subsequent thereto, and before the declaration herein required is made, the parties interested will transmit such evidence as they can procure, taken and authenticated before a Court of Record, showing the services of the deceased, the period of his death, the opinion of the neighborhood respecting such services, the title of the claimant, and the opinion of the Court upon the whole matter.

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(a) The declarant must appear in open Court, unless prevented from doing so by reason of bodily infirmity; in which case the declarant will follow the rule laid down for his guidance.

(b) The declarant must make his declaration in the county where he resides. If he should fail to do so, he must assign a sufficient reason for not conforming to the rule.

(c) The age of the claimant must invariably be mentioned.

(d) The declarant must mention the period or periods of the war when he served.

(e) Every continental officer or soldier must state, with precision, the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the Department to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words:

"Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. who, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that, by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service; but, according to the best of his recollection, he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades: For _____ year ___ months and _____ days, I served as a ______. For _______ months and ________ days, I served as a ___________; and for such services I claim a pension."

It is important, in all cases, to determine with precision the period for which each applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and length of his service. The use of the phrase about three or four months, is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable. Some persons who apply for pensions merely state that they served two years in the militia, &c. without specifying the years, the names of the officers, and other particulars respecting their service. This form of a declaration is highly objectionable. It must, in every case, be clearly shown under what officers the applicant served; the duration of each term of engagement; the particular place or places where the services was performed; that the applicant served with an embodied corps called into service by competent authority; that he was either in the field or in garrison; and for the time during which the service was performed, he was not emplo9yed in any civil pursuit.

(f) The law makes the relinquishment indispensable.

(g) The opinion of the court is always required.

(h) The Clerk must give his certificate in every case.

(i) The Clerk must affix his seal, and if it has no device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal, or if he has no public seal of office, the certificate of a Member of Congress, proving the official character and signatures of the certifying officer, should accompany the papers.

Mode of authenticating papers.

In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticates the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other papers authenticated, the certificates must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the ends of which must pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate.

Proof of Service

(j) In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimant's entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the regiment, company and line to which he belonged. The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the witnesses, and the official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office.

The notes from (a) to (i) are all equally applicable to the exam of Militia men, Volunteers and state Troops. The proof required by rule in case (j) applies to continental troops only.

(k) This traditionary evidence is indispensable in militia cases.

(l) If a witness cannot be found, the declarant must state the fact.

(m) The answers in the interrogatories must all be written, and sent to the War Department, with the declaration.
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4838 dec .10.183q
Declaration of Sarah Hulbert to obtain Pension under Act of July 4th 1836

Married 30 Sept 1777
Husband died 26 June 1835

Col Luge
Capt Churchil Command.

Admitted 
Private 14 months

Hon Jns Ely HR
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Declaration
In order to obtain the benefit of the third section of the act of congress of the 4th of July 1836
State of New York
County of Greene
On this second day of November, personally appeared before me Perkins King Esquire First Judge of Greene County Courts, Sarah Hulbert a resident of Greeneville in the county aforesaid, aged eighty-one years, who first being duly sworn according to law, doth, on her oath, make the following declaration order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the act of Congress passed July 4,1836: That she is the widow of Gideon Hulbert who was a soldier in the revolutionary army and as such soldier drew a pension under the act of June 7 1832 and for evidence of his services this department would respectfully refers to the records and other evidence on file in the war department at the city of Washington. She further declares that she was married to the said Gideon Hulbert on the 30th day of September in the year seventeen hundred and seventy-seven at the Chatherm in the State of Connecticut by the reverend Cyprian Strong a minister of the gospel -that her husband, the aforesaid Gideon Hulbert, died on the twenty sixth day of June 1835; and that she has remarried a widow ever since that period as will more fully appear by reference to the proof here unto annexed- 
Sarah Hulbert X mark
Sworn to and subscribed on this day and year above written before me Perkins King Esquire First Judge of Greene County in the State of New York and I do hereby further certify that said Sarah Hulbert cannot from bodily infirmity attend court to make her declaration.
Perkins King 
and I certify further that the above was subscribed by making her mark as above she being unable to write her name in cursive [illegible] of [illegible] and bodily infirmity
Perkins King Judge aforesaid
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State of New York
Green County's: Asaph Hulburt of the Town of Durham in the county aforesaid being duly sworn says that he is of the age of fifty four Years-that he is the son of Gideon Hulburt lately a resident of the town aforesaid & now deceased- that previous to his death he drew a pension as a Revolutionary pensioner under the act of Congress of June 7th 1832- That said Hulburt died at Durham aforesaid on the twenty sixth day of June 1835- that this (unintelligible) was present during his last sickness on the day of his death. I saw him after his death I was at his funeral at the time aforesaid and this (unintelligible) further says that Sarah Hulburt the mother of this (unintelligible) was the wife of said Gideon Hulburt & now is (unintelligible) the death of said Gideon has remained unmarried & the widow of said Gideon & now resides at Greenville in the county aforesaid, & is the same person who is an applicant for a pension as such widows can further this department says (unintelligible)- Asaph Hulbert
Personally appear before (unintelligible) Deliverance B. Henry a commissioner of Deeds in & for the county of Green  Asaph Hulburt (unintelligible) & who being by me first duly sworn, subscribed & sworn to the truth of M. foregoing affidavit- and to further certify what said Asaph Halbert is a person of credibility & whose statements are entitled to full credit belief- Done this 25th day of October 1839
DB Hervey Com of De
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State of New York County of Greene:
Edmund B. Roe of the Town of Greeneville in the County of Greene being duly sworn says that he was well acquainted with Gideon Hulbert a resident of the Town of Durham in the County aforesaid that he was present at the funeral of the said Gideon Hulbert, saw him after he was dead which was the latter part of the month of June in the year 1835. And this deponent further says that he is also well acquainted with Sarah Hulbert who was the wife of the said Gideon that since the death of said Gideon Hulbert the said Sarah has remained unmarried and the widow of said Gideon and for a considerable portion of that time has remain with or resided with this deponent at the Greeneville aforesaid and further says not.
Edmund B. Roe
Subscribed and sworn to before me Perkins King Esquire First Judge of Greene County the second day of November in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-nine. And I also certify that I am well acquainted with the said Edmund Roe who subscribed and swore to the truth of the above affidavit and that he is a person of credibility and whose statements are entitles to full credit and belief.
Perkins King
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State of New York Greene County ss. I William V. B. Heermance Clerk of the said county do certify that Perkins King Esq before whom the annexed affidavit of Sarah Hulburt and Edmund B. Roe were sworn was at the date of the same First Judge of Greene County courts duly commissioned and qualified and that his signature to said affidavits is his genuine signature. I further certify that Deliverance B. Hervey before whom the annexed affidavit of Asaph Hulburt was sworn was at the date of the same a commissioner of deeds of said county duly appointed and qualified and that his signature to said affidavit is genuine.
Witness my hand and official seal this thirteenth day of November 1839.
William V. B. Heernance Clerk
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[cut off]tified by me.
Hervey Talcott
Pastor of the first congregational church in Chatham Connecticut

State of Connecticut,
Middlesex County,} ss. Chatham
On this 19th day of September 1839 personally appeared before me Erastus Strong Esq one of the Justices of the peace for the County of Middlesex in the State of Connecticut, Rev. Hervey Talcott, who subscribed & made oath to the above deposition before me; & he is a credible person & pastor of the first congregational church in the town of Chatham before mentioned.
Attest Erastus Strong
Justice of the Peace

State of Connecticut
Middlesex County} I John Fisk, Clerk of the County Court of said County of Middlesex do certify that Erastus Strong Esq was in the 19th district & now is a Justice of the Peace within & for said County of Middlesex as [illegible] on file in my office & that his name subscribed to the preceeding certificate is his proper hand writing & signature. In testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand & affixed the seal of said court, this 20 day of September AD 1839.
Jno Fisk Clk
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I Hervey Talcott, a resident of Chatham in the County of Middlesex in Connecticut, hereby depose & say, that in the Records of marriages solemnized & recorded in this place by the Rev. Cyprian Strong, who was pastor of the first Congregational Church in said town from the year seventeen hundred & sixty nine to the year eighteen hundred & eleven, I find the following entry:
"The following were joined in marriage A. Dom. Seventeen Hundred and Seventy Seven, viz. Sept Thirtieth Gideon Hulburt Jr. & Sarah Stocking, both of Chatham."
This is a true copy of record except the date, which is expressed on the record in fair legible figures as follows:
"A. Dom. 1777 Sept 30th Gideon Hulburt Jr. & Sarah Stocking, both of Chatham."
I, Hervey Talcott depose & say, that I hold the office of Pastor of the first Congregational Church in Chatham before named, which was under the pastoral care of the said Rev. Cyprian Strong, in the town, county & state aforesaid, & that the above is a true extract from the records kept by the said Rev. Cyprian Strong with the exception above named as
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State of New York
Greene County}Ss.
On the 27th day of May 1833 appeared in open court, before the Court of Oyer and Terminer & General Jail, or livery now sitting Giddeon Hulburt a resident of the town of Dunham in Greene County & State of New York aged seventy seven years and upwards, 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. 
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated.
That in 1776 in March he enlisted under Capt Joseph Blake and entered the service of the United States, at the time he enlisted he resided in Chatham in the state of Connecticut, was marched from Chatham to Roxbury and Dorchester, was there when the enemy evacuated Boston, enlisted for two months & stayed in the service of the United States two months.
In 1777 again enlisted under Joseph Churchill as Captain resided at the time in Chatham and was marched from thence to New York, enlisted this time for six months & served that time, thinks Col Sage commanded at New York, but may be he is mistaken, thinks he did at Dorchester or New York. Enlisted in June and was discharged in the December following.
In 1778 again enlisted under Capt Robinson in Col. Ely's Regiment & was marched from Chatham where he resided to New London & from thence to Rhode Island, thence to White Plains. Enlisted for four months and served out the time, enlisted & went into the service September was discharged in December, or January, cannot recollect which.
That he was drafted and again entered the service of the United States as a soldier in the Revolutionary Army and was marched from Chatham where he resided to West Point under the command of Capt. Starr. Stayed two months. Entered the service this time in September don't now recollect the day of the month of any time & entered the service.
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That he has no documentary evidence to prove he's serious but is well acquainted with Asaph Hulbert and Jonathan Cone of his neighborhood.
That he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever for a pension except the present and acclaim that his name is not on the pension Roll of the agency of any state.
In the Several Interrogations as (unreadable) by the War Department he answers, that he was born in Middletown in Connecticut in 1755, August 20th.
He has no account of his age, since when he entered the Service of the United States in Chatham in Connecticut, since which he (unreadable) them and in Denham Greene  Co New Yorke, that he enlisted there (unreadable) and was drafted once never was a substitute for any person, that he recollects Col Sage, Col Ely never had any written discharge, Asaph Hulbert who lived in my neighborhood and Jonathan Cone a clergyman residing in Laid Town of Dunham with whom I am well aquainted (unreadable) testify to my character be truth and veracity.
Gideon Hulbert
Subscribed and sworn in open court the day and year aforesaid.
William V.B. Heermance Clerk

We Jonathan Cone a clergyman residing in the town of Dunham and Asaph Hulbert residing in the same town hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Gideon Hulbert who has (unreadable) and sworn to the above declaration, that we believe him to be Seventy seven years of Age; and that he is (unreadable) and (unreadable) in the neighborhood when he (unreadable) to have been a Soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion.
Jonathan Cone
Asaph Hulbert
Sworn and subscribed this day (unreadable) aforesaid in open court
William V.B. Heermance Clerk

And the said court do hereby declare their opinion after the 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 - and the court further certifies that it appears to them that Jonathan Cone who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman resident in the town of Durham and that Asaph
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Hurlbert who has also signed the same is a resident in the said town of
Durham, and is a credible person, and that their statement
is entitled to credit.
Dorrance Kirtland
presiding Judge of said Court
I, William V. B. Heermance, Clerk of the Court of Common
Pleas aforesaid do hereby certify that the foregoing contains
the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of
the application of Gideon Hurlbert for a Pension
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand
and seal of office this twenty seventh day
of May in the year 1833.
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William V. B. Heermance Clerk
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State of New York
Greene County} ss. On the 20th day of August 1833 before me Joseph
Blanchard a justice of the peace of said County personally came
Gideon Hulbut to me well known, (and I certify that he is a 
person of truth and that his statements an entitled to credit)
who being by me duly sworn doth further depose and say
that it was in the year 1782 that he was drafted as a soldier
in the Revolutionary war and served two months at and near West
Point, was marched from Chatham to West point under Capt Starr
thinks about first of October, after he got to West point was placed under
other officers, was under the command of Reed & whether he
was a Col or Capt, dont [don't] now recollect, he was a continental
office as he understood, was most of the time on fatigue duty
repairing and erecting redoubts, after remaining at West point
some time was sent to Polypus Island above west point where he
was engaged in getting out timber for the purpose of erecting a fort or
some work of defence. Some of the time was under one officer then another
thinks Lieut Party commanded a part of the time, thinks Gen Gates
was in command at West Point after Arnold left but may be is
mistaken, dont [don't] now recollect of being under the command of a [illegible]
any of the time while out on this tour. After he had been at work
at or near Polypus Island some week or more was ordered
back to West Point and was from that time engaged in a
building nearby in what was then called gallows hollow until
his term had expired and he was discharged having served out
his time of two months
That at the time he enlisted in the
year 1776 and marched to Dorchester he was under the command
of Capt Blake,  Joseph Churchill was Lieut and Troup was Major
Col Reed was there, but whether he commanded the regiment
to which he belonged he cannot now recollect. That he was
near the battle when the enemy burnt it the night before the enemy
left Boston, that his term expired soon after the enemy left
Boston and he was discharged having served out the term
of two months for which he enlisted.
That in 1777 while he was
in the Army of the revolution at New York he thinks Col Sage
commanded the regiment to which he belonged, that Capt
Churchill commanded the regimental hospital, that he had a
Brother in the same company who was taken sick and died and
that he was employed in the said hospital to take care of him
and others for the most of the time, that when he was discharged
he was discharged from the hospital where he had been
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employed as cook and assistant.
That he did not know untill [until] this day of any person by whom he could prove any of his Services in the Army, but in Conversation with Dan Cornwall who was a neighbor of his from his birth untill [until] he removed from Chatham Some years Since the war closed he was informed by the said Cornwall that he well recollected the times and circumstances of his Services and whose affidavit is hereunto annexed.
That to to the several Interrogations as presented by the war department I answer (as I did before the Court) in my first application for a pension.
To the first.  I answer that I was born in Middletown in the State of Connecticut in 1755 Aug 20th.
To the Second.  That I have no record of my age.
To the third  that when I entered the Service of the United States I resided in Chatham in the State of Connecticut.  Since which time I have remaned [remained] there untill [until] 1788 then removed to Durham Green County N. York where I have Since remaned [remained] and where I now reside.  
To the fourth.  I answer that I enlisted three times and was drafted once, never was a substitute for any person
To the fifth.  that I well recollect Col Sage Col Ely.
to the Sixth.  That I never had a written discharge
to the Seventh.  I am well acquainted with Asaph Hulbut who [illegible] in my neighborhood and Jonathan Cone a clergyman in residing in the Town of Durham with whom I am well acquainted and who can testify to my character [illegible] truth & honesty.
Gideon Hulburt
Sworn & subscribed before me
August 20 1833  J. Blanchard Just.
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State of New York
Greene County } Ss.

On this 20th day of August 1833 personally came before me Joseph Blanchard a Justice of the peace of the County of Greene  Dan Cornwall to me well known (and I certify that his statements are entitled to credit and belief.) who being duly sworn saith that he was born near and continued to visit a neighbor to Gideon Hulbut untill [until] some years after the close of the Revolutionary War, that they resided about two miles apart in Chatham in the state of Connecticut well recollects that he the said Hulbut was in the Service of the United States under Capt. Joseph Blake that he understood that he was on duty at or near Boston in the year 1776, recollects his return from his tour of duty.  Knows the time he went away & the time of his return.  Should think he was gone at least two months [two words lined out].
Recollects that in 1777 Capt Joseph Churchill was called into Service of the United States and went to New [illegible] that the said Gideon Hulbut went with him as a soldier.  Well recollects the time they marched from Chatham to go to New [illegible] and also the time of there [their] return  Should they were gone Six months.  That in 1778 he knows that the said Hulbut was in the Service of the United States for that he the said Deponent Served in the same company with him under Capt Robinson in Col Ely's regiment for the Space of Five months.  That when Deponent entered the Service found the said Hulbut there.  That they were all discharged on the first day of January  has no doubt but he the said Hulbut was gone from home at least Four months.  Recollects that the said Gideon Hulbut was [illegible] as a Soldier in the war of the revolution in the year 1782 and was marched under Capt Starr from Chatham to the North River or [illegible] point  should think the said Hulbut was gone from home two months at the time—
during all the above [illegible] the deponent resided a neighbor about two miles from the Said Gideon Hulbut was will [well] acquainted with him, and well recollects the times and circumstances of his leaving home had a brother who was in the [illegible] Army with him a part of the time
Dan Cornwall
Sworn before me Aug 20th 1833
J. Blanchard
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State of New York
Greene County Ss. }

I William V. B. Heermance Clerk of the said county do certify that Joseph Blanchard Esquire before whom the written affidavit of Gideon Hulbert and Dan Cornwall were sworn, was at the date of the same a Justice of the Peace of the said county and that his signature thereto is genuine
Witness my hand & seal of office this sixth day of September 1833.
William V. B. Heermance Clerk
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August 16, 1932

BA-J/ILL
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Gideon Hulbert
W. 18087

William V. Hannay
136 South Pearl Street
Albany,
New York

Dear Sir:

Reference is made to your letter in which you request information relative to the husband of Sarah Hulbert, whose name appears on the list of pensioners residing in Westerlo. Albany County, New York, Census of 1840.

You are furnished herewith the record of Gideon Hulbert, whose widow, Sarah, received a pension on account of his service in the Revolutionary War. The data contained herein are obtained from the papers on file in pension claim, W. 18087 based upon the service of said Gideon Hulbert in that war.

Gideon Hulbert, as his signature appears, was born August 20, 1755 in Middletown, Connecticut. He was pensioned Gideon Hulbert.

While a resident of Chatham, Connecticut, he enlisted in March, 1776 and served two months as private in Captain Joseph Blake's (possibly meant for Captain Joseph Blague), Connecticut Company; he enlisted in June 1777 and served six months as private in Captain Joseph Churchill's Company, Colonel Sage's Connecticut Regiment; he enlisted in the fall of 1778 and served four months as private in Captain Robinson's Company, Colonel Ely's Connecticut Regiment; he enlisted in the fall of 1782 and served two months as private under Captain Starr.

The soldier stated that during his service in Captain Churchill's Company, his brother, who was in that same company, was taken sick and died at the regimental hospital but he did not give the name of this brother.

After the war, the soldier lived in Chatham, Connecticut,
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until 1788, when he moved to Durham, Greene County, New York.

He was allowed pension on his application executed May 27, 1833, at which time he resided in Durham, New York.

He died June 26, 1835 in Durham, New Yor.

The soldier married on September 30, 1777 in Chatham, Connecticut, Sarah Stocking, both of said Chatham; his name appears Gideon Hulbert, Jr. on the marriage record.

The soldier's widow, Sarah Hulbert, was allowed pension on her application executed November 2, 1839, at which time she resided in Greeneville, Greene County, New York. She was then eighty-one years of age.

In 1839, Asaph Hulbert, son of the soldier and his wife, Sarah, was a resident of Durham, Greene County, New York, then aged fifty-four years.

Very truly yours,

[no written signature - is this a carbon copy?]

A. D. Hiller
Assistant to Administrator
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[Written vertically along the left edge of the document: 
1932 - Aug. 16 - Hist to Wm V. Hannay - I L L. ]

Rev WIDOW, &c
No 18087
Sarah Hulburt
Widow of Gideon Hulbert
Pri Rev War
Act: July 4th 36
ex: - Vol A, Page 35 - 8

[Arrangement of 1870]
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Hannay's 
"Always Reliable"
CLOTHING and HATS
For MEN and BOYS
132-34-36 SOUTH PEARL STREET
ALBANY, NY

AUG. , 1932

Veterans Administration
Washington, D.C.

Dear Sirs: - 

In the "Census of Pensioners residing in the Town of Westerlo, Albany Co., N.Y. for Revolutionary Services in 1840" I find the name of SARAH HULBERT, aged 83 years, who resided with a Simeon Lobdell at that time. 

Can you from your records, tell me whose widows she was? Also the military record of her husband. 

Yours very truly, 

William V. Hannay,
136 So. Pearl St., 
Albany, N.Y.
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War Department
Pension Office
 Dec. 12, 1839

Sir,
The papers of Mrs. Sarah Hulburt, widow of Gideon Hulburt, an applicant for a pension under the act of July 4, 1836, are herewith returned.  The claimant is required to make her declaration in a Court of Record, unless prevented by bodily infirmity.  See the 9th Section of the regulations of the Department, a printed copy of which is enclosed.  She is also required to give her name before marriage, the name of the clergyman who officiated on that occasion, and the name of the Town in which she then resided.
I have the honor to be
Very respectfully
Your Obt. Servt. [Obedient Servant]
Geo Wm Crump

Hon John Ely
House of Representatives
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To Pension Department
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To Geo. Wm. Crump Esqr
Acting Comr [Commissioner] of Pensions

Sir
Yours of Decr. 12th to the Hon. John Ely, M. C. accompanying papers returned which I had provided to him in support of Sarah Hulburts [Hurlburt's] claim to a pension has been provided to me.  The letter states first that "the claimant is required to make her declaration in a court of Record unless prevented by bodily infirmity"
Her declaration was made before a Judge by reason of bodily infirmity as certified to by the Judge- that is the first Judge of our County & in addition to such certificate the Judge certifies that she had to make her mark by reason of "blindness & bodily infirmity"-  The old lady is not only enfeebled by old age, being 80 years old, but is a cripple & nearly blind & could not attend court by reason of bodily infirmity-  The second objection stated was that the widow "is also required to give her name before marriage, the name "of the clergyman who officiated on that occasion and the "name of the Town in which she then resided"  I very much regret that the rules & forms prescribed under the Act should not have specified that it was necessary to state her name before marriage & her place of residence, as she could have done it without trouble.  Her declaration contains all the particulars prescribed in the form given which was furnished by the department.  The "name of the clergyman who officiated at her marriage is stated in her declaration as required
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by the rules & I can find nothing in the instructions that require her maiden name, or then place of residence to be stated-
Still if such statement is now required I would respectfully ask if it is necessary that she should make a new declaration or can she supply it by an amendatory [sic] declaration or affidavit & if by affidavit can she be allowed to make it before any other officer (them a Judge authorised [authorized] to administer oaths-
Her statement to me that her maiden name was Sarah Stocking and that she then resided at Chathem [Chatham] Connecticut, was the means by which I was enabled to [illegible] a search for the record of her marriage a certificate of which accompanied her papers.  As I do not wish to put her to the expense of making a new set of papers, unless the same is necessary I herewith return the papers to [illegible] Ely, together with your letter, with a request that he submit them to your re-examination, so as to be enabled to inform me what or how much additional Testimony or Statements are necessary to supply the defects suggested, & that you might re-examine the certificate of Judge King & see if it is not amply sufficient to show her inability to attend Court-
For the proverbial & peculiar character of the certifying Judge for honesty & integrity I might refer you to the Hon. J. Ely & Hon. A. Vanderpoel if I supposed it necessary-  If the omissions are necessary to be supplied, or any part of them please return the papers & defects will be filled up as far as facts will admit in such manner as the department direct-
Very Respectfully
Your Obt. Servant
A. Marks