Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 21422, Thomas Hulburt, Conn.
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(3-1776)

SERVICE                                               NUMBER
Conn.               Hulburt, Thomas          W. 21422
                    or Hurlburt
                                         Eunice
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Connecticut 1,117

Eunice Hurlburt
widow of Thomas Hurlburt
Conn.
who died on the 10 October 1814
of Litchfield Co. in the State of Connt.
who was a Sergeant in the     commanded by captain      of the Regt. commanded by Col Durkee   in the Cont. line for 2 years

Inscribed on the Roll of Connecticut at the rate of 120 Dollars     Cents ["Cents" is lined out] per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 8th day of July 1837 and sent to Jesse Charlton, E. Windsor, Conn.

Arrears to the 4th of March '37          720.00
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4. Sep...     60.00
[double underline beneath numbers]

                                                          $780.00
[double underline beneath total]

{Revolutionary Claim, Act July 4, 1836, Section the 3 — }

Recorded by D. Brown   Clerk,
Book A.  Vol. / —   Page 94

Paid at the Treasury under the Act of the 6th April 1838 to 1 of the 7 Children from 4 March 1838 to 23 Aug 1838, the day of her death.  Age notified 24 April 1840
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TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
Second Comptroller's Office,
April 13th, 1840,

Sir:

Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled "An act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States," Sally Hills, 1 of 7 childn... [children] of Eunice Hurlburt, a Pensioner on the Roll of the Connecticut Agency, at the rate of one hundred & twenty Dollars [and  Cents, lined out] per annum, under the law of the 4th July 1836, has been paid at this Department, from the 4th of March 1838 to the 23d August 1838, the day of her death. 

Respectfully, yours,
Albion K. Parris
Comptroller

To the Commissioner of Pensions, 
Present.
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The Births of the Children of Thos. Hurlbut
His Wife Unice [Eunice] who where [were] Married on [illegible] 17 of Jane 1775

Naoma there [their] Daughtr [daughter] Born Octr [October] 25: 1776
Mable there [their] Daughter Born Novr [November] - 1778
Erastus there [their] Son Born  Decr [December] 26 1780 - 1780
Eunice there [their] Daughtr [daughter] Born June 19 -- 1783
Sally Born Sept [September] - 12 -- 1785
Erastus Born March 20 -- 1787
Betsey  Born feby [February] 21  - 1790
Anna Born June 2 [illegible] 1792
Thomas Born Septr [September] 1st 1794
Erastus there [their] first Son Dyed [died] Sep 18 1783


25 [illegible]  1774
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Thos Hurlburt
Certificate
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State of Connecticut
Hartford County  March 7th 1837

Comptroller's Office

On application of the Attorney for Widow Eunice Hurlbut or Hurlburt for evidence of the Service of Thomas Hurlburt   I hereby certify that in the public Books remaining in this office I find, and in the files I find the following proof of the Services of Thomas Hurlburt  viz  In the pay Roll of the company Commanded by Lt Colonel George Pitkin the name of Thomas Hurlburt is found & he is there credited for Services performed as a private in said company from the 19th day of May, 1775 to the 20th day of January 1776 a period of Eight months & one day

And I further find that Thomas Hurlburt is credited for Services performed in the 4th Regiment commanded by Col John Durkee from the 20th day of April 1777 to the 1st day of January 1780 in the capacity of Sergant [Sergeant]
Wm Field  Comptroller
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State of Connecticut
Hartford County     }  Ss.  East Windsor

On this 8th day of March 1837 Personally appeard [appeared] be [before] me one of the Justices of the peace for said Hartford County, Epaphrus Grant a resident of said East Windsor who being first duly sworn according to law doth on Oath Declare [letter lined out] he is a credible person Aged 70 years  That he is the Brother of the Widow Eunice Hurlburt or Hurlbut now a resident of Torrington in the County of Litchfield in Connecticut
That his said sister, Eunice intermarried with Thomas Hurlburt aforesaid immediately after his return from the army in the first year of the Revolution, but whether it was the last of December 1775, or forepart of [December is lined out] January 1776, he does not exactly remember, as it is not recorded to his knowledge any where:
But he remembers it was very soon after his return from his first campaine [campaign], as before Stated.  The said Thomas Hurlbut has been dead several years, & the said Eunice Hurlbut remains a widow, & has never again intermarried.
Epaphrus Grant

Sworn to & subscribed the day & year first named 
Before me Joshua Risley Justice of Peace
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State of Connecticut
Hartford County,    }  Ss  East Windsor

On this sixth day of March 1837 Personally appeared before the subscribing authority, one of the Justices of the Peace for said Hartford County; Hezekiah Munsell, a resident of said East Windsor aged 84 — years; a man of veracity, a credible person, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on Oath declare, 
That we [he] was well acquainted with Thomas Hurlburt, formerly of East Windsor in Hartford County & late of Torrington in Litchfield County,  That he served with him in the revolutionary War, in a Company commanded by Capt or Col George Pitkin of East Hartford in Con—
That on or about the 20 of May 1775, They marched from said East Hartford & went through Woodstock, Dudley, & Oxford to Dedham, near Boston, we were employd [employed] in various places in the vicinity of Boston was in Brookline the day Charlestown was burned by the army in Brookline near Boston.  We served in this tour from said 20th of May, until about Christmas a little more than seven months, and the said Hurlburt served his time out faithfully, according to my best recollection.
Hezekiah Munsell

Sworn & Subscribed the day & year first namd [named]

Before me Josiah Ellsworth Justice of Peace
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State of Connecticut
Hartford County     }, Ss  East Windsor

On this 7 day of March 1837 Personally appeared before me the subscribing authority Mrs Mary Skinner a resident of said town of East Windsor Aged years  a person of veracity Born in the year 1763    who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath declare  That she was acquainted with Eunice Grant a resident of said East Windsor before the revolutionary War,  She the deponent lived in her immediate neighborhood, & was well acquainted with her:  That she well remembers the fact that the said Eunice Grant intermarried with Thomas Hurlburt immediately after his return from the army at Roxbury, either the latter part of December 1775 or in January 1776,  She has no record of the day but remembers that it was a very Short time after his return from the army, she should think but a few days.  
Mary Skinner

Sworn & Subscribed the day & year first named

Before me  Horace Newberry Justice of Peace
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State of Connecticut
Litchfield County    } Ss. Litchfield.

On this 23d day of February 1837  Personally appeared before the Court of Probate for the District of Litchfield in the County of Litchfield aforesaid Widow Eunice Hurlburt a resident of Torrington in said County of Litchfield aged Eighty years, a credible person who being first duly Sworn according to law doth on oath declare.
That she is the surviving Widow of Thomas Hurlburt, late of the town of Torrington in Litchfield County who served in the army of the Revolution in two distinct periods; first in a Company Commanded by Col George Pitkin of East Hartford which served in Roxbury, near Boston from the month of May, to the month of December 1775, in this tour as a private Soldier.
And again, he enlisted into a Regiment of State troops or three years men, and was attached to Col John Durkees [Durkee's] Regiment  She thinks the company was commanded by Capt Erastus Wolcott from East W[illegible] [Windsor] in Hartford County but does not by reason of decay of memory feel fully certain, but that is her prevailing impression.
He enlisted in the Spring of the year 1777, and was engaged in the service in various places for a period of more than two years, & did not get home to stay until the cold winter of 1780  a period well remembered by old people in New England   She does not know of a single surviving witness of this period of his services
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her friends will cause seach [search] to be made in the Comptrollers [Comptroller's] Office for evidence of his services at this period in which he served as a Sergeant   She understands there is one man living at East Windsor who was with him in his first tour in the year 1775, If so, she will obtain his testimony if possible.
She further declares that she was married to her said husband, Thomas Hurlburt, now deceased, at her fathers [father's] house in East Windsor by the Rev Joseph Perry at that time Pastor of the Congregational Church & Society of said East Windsor on or about the 1st of January AD [18 is lined out] 1776   That she lived with him until the sixth day of October 1814 when he died at the town of Torrington— in said Litchfield County & She has never again intermarried but still remains the Widow of the Said Thomas Hurlburt  all which may more fully appear by reference to the proof hereunto annexed  she would further state that before her husband left the service he returned home occasionally on a short furlough and before the termination of his services in the betinning of the year 1780 two or three of her children were born   She does not know that there is any record of her marriage in any place if her husband ever made a record if it it is now lost by time & accident.
Eunice Hurlburt

Sworn to & Subscribed the day & year first mentioned 
before me Frederick Wolcott Justice of Probate
And the Court hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter & after putting all the appropriate interrogations that
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the applicant is the surviving Widow of Thomas Hurlburt decd [deceased], who was a Soldier of the revolution & married to him before the last period of his services in said army of the Revolution & that the said Thomas Hurlburt died at Torrington in the County of Litchfield on the sixth day of October 1814.  And that the said applicant still remains the Widow of the said Thomas Hurlburt and that she never again Married,
 by me  Frederick Wolcott, Justice of Probate
for the District of Litchfield in the State of Connecticut

I Phinehas Miner --- Clerk of the Probate Court for the District of Litchfield in the County of Litchfield hereby certify That the foregoing contains the original proceedings before said Court in the matter of the application of Widow Eunice Hurlburt of Torrington in sd [said] Litchfield County for a Pension under the 3rd Section of the act of July 4th 1836 

In testimony whereof, I hereunto subscribe my name & affix the Seal of said probate Court at said Probate office this 23d day of February AD 1837
Attest.    Phinehas Miner  Clerk
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State of Connecticut
Litchfield County    }  S.s.  Litchfield

On this 23d day of February AD. 1837

Personally appeared before the Court of Probate for the District of Litchfield in the County aforesaid Thomas Hurlburt a resident of Torrington in said County aged forty two years a credible person who being first duly sworn according to law doth on Oath declare   That he believes himself the ninth child of Thomas Hurlburt deceased   That his eldest sister if living would be as much as 61 years old
That his said Father Thomas Hurlburt died at Torrington in the County of Litchfield on the sixth day of October AD. 1814.   And That the said Widow Eunice Hurlburt is the Surviving Widow of the said Thomas Hurlburt deceased & has never again intermarried
Thomas Hurlburt
Sworn & Subscribed the day & year aforesaid Before Said Probate Court
Frederick Wolcott Judge of Probate
[illegible] Litchfield in Court.
In testimony whereof I Phinehas Miner [word lined out] Clerk of said Probate Court hereunto Subscribe my name and affix the Seal of said Court this 23d of February 1837
[illegible] Phinehas Miner Clerk
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In reply to your request of........, received......... for a statement of the military history of Thomas Hulburt or Hurlburt a soldier in the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired as contained in his widow's application for a pension on file in this Bureau. [original text: "his (or his widow's) application...; words "his" and "or" and the parentheses are lined out]  W. F. 21,422

DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT.
May, 1775
Apr. 20, 1777 to

LENGTH OF SERVICE.
8 mos.
Jan 1, 1780

RANK.
Pri
Sgt

OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED
CAPTAIN.                    COLONEL.
Lt. Col. Geo. Pitkin       [check mark]
Erastus Wolcott            John Durkee

STATE.
Conn.

Battles engaged in, .....[check mark].......
Residence of soldier at enlistment, not stated
Date of application for pension, Feb. 23, 1837 Her cl. was al.
Residence at date of application, Torrington, Litchfield Co. Conn
Age at date of application,  80 yrs.  She died Aug. 23, 1838.
Remarks:  Soldier mar. Jan 17, 1776 at East Windsor, Conn, Eunice Grant; he died at Torrington, Litchfield Co. Conn., Oct 6, 1814   Children:  Naoma, b. Oct. 25, 1776; Mable, b. Nov 25, 1778; Erastus, b. Dec 26 1780, died Sept. 18, 1783; Eunice, b. June 19 1783; Sally, b. Sept. 12, 1785; Erastus, b. Mch. 20, 1787; Betsey, b. Feb 21, 1790; Anna, b. June 20, 1792  Thomas, B. Sept. 1, 1794.

Respectfully,
Commissioner.
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1636

V [check mark] 1636

Eunice Hurlburt
widow of Thomas.

Conn.

Original - died in 1814
no deduction

asmd.
[illegible]
120$


Jesse Charlton
E. Windsor
Conn:
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Register's Office East Windsor March 7th 1837

I James Moore, Clerk and Register [Registrar] of the town of East Windsor hereby certify that on examining the Town records of marriages in this office, I do not find the marriage of Thomas Hurlburt (or Hurlbut) and Eunice Grant recorded under any date.  And I further certify that the entries of marriages on said records previous to the time of 1820, were so irregular and so few in proportion to the whole number solemnized that it should create no prejudice against the claims of any partys [parties] that they were married at a given time— that it not found on said records— and in proof of their deficiency, I may state, one marriage only is entered under the letter H. for more than forty years.
Attest  James Moore, Town Clerk.

State of Connecticut
Hartford County   }  Ss.  East Windsor
On this 10th day of March 1837  Personally appeared before me the subscribing authority James Moore who signed the above certificate & who is Town Clerk & Register of said town of East Windsor and a Credible person who made Solemn Oath to the truth of the same, before me [illegible] Justice of Peace
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Sec of State
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State of Connecticut
Hartford County,     }  Ss. Hartford

Office of Secretary of State,

I Royal R. Hinman Secretary of State for the Stte of Connecticut do hereby Certify That Josiah Ellsworth Esq, before whom the certificate of Hezekiah Munsell was taken, and that Horace Newberry before whom the Certificate of Mary Skinner was taken, & that Joshua Risley before whom the Certificate of Epaphrus Grant was taken, and that Joshua Risley before whom the certificate of the town Clerk was taken, are at this time and have been for more than Six months last past, lawful Justices of the Peace for said Hartford County and that the Signatures to the annexed Certificates purporting be their Several Signatures are their genuine Signatures.

In testimony whereof, I hereunto subscribe my name, and affix the Seal of said State at Hartford aforesaid, on the 25th day of March AD 1837.

Attest  Royal R. Hinman Secretary
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State of Connecticut
Litchfield  County  S.s.  Torrington June 13 1837

On this 13th day of June 1837 personally appeared before me the subscribing authority, Widow Eunice Hurlbut widow of Thomas Hurlbut deceased and made Solemn oath that the within record is Their oldest family record the possessor knows of - of the Marriage of herself to her late husband Thomas Hurlbut or Hurlburt and of the birth of their Children

Eunice Hurlburt
Before Me James Beebe Justice of Peace

[illegible] Beebe is a Justice of the Peace in Winchester
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I, ROYAL R. HINMAN, Secretary of the State of Connecticut, and keeper of the Seal thereof, do hereby certify and make known to whom it doth or may concern, 
THAT James Beebe — — Esquire, is, and for more than ten months last past, has been a Justice of the Peace within and for the County of Litchfield in said State, duly appointed, commissioned and qualified, having full power and authority, by the laws of said State, to take the acknowledgement of Deeds and to certify the same; also to administer oaths to witnesses and to take Affidavits and Depositions out of Court, and to give certificates thereof; and that full faith and credit may and ought to be given to the official acts and attestations of the said J Beebe - in Court and Country.
In testimony whereof, I have, in my capacity of Secretary as aforesaid, hereunto set my Hand, and affixed the Seal of said State, at the city of Hartford, in said State, the 17th day of June— in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and thirty seven

Royal R. Hinman Secretary
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Rev 21,422
 WIDOW, &c.

File NO  21422
Eunice Hurlburt
widow of
Thomas Hurlburt
Sergt Rev War

Act: July 4th  36 [1836]

Index: —  Vol.  Ct,  Page 389

[Arrangement of 1870.]


Decr. [December] 21 - 1900  Histy
Mrs. Fannie L. Ives — C.
1915, Jan 23, History to J. H. Gist.  [illegible]

1922, May 20, Hist. to Mrs. W. W. Gist. [illegible]
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21422 [illegible]

Thos. Hurlburt
Feby 23, 1837   80
Torrington Con.

May [letters or numbers lined out] 19, 75
[letters or numbers lined out]
Jay [January] 20 - 76  Cpl—
St. Col. Geo. Pitkin
Pvt

Spg 77 [lined out] Apl [April] 20, 77
to 
Jay [January] 1, 80  Capt Erastus Wolcott
Col. Jms. Durkee
3 yrs [lined out]  Sgt

Married Eunice Grant
Jany [January] 1, 1776
Died Oct. 6, 1814 at Torrington Ct
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Suspended
see let [letter] to Jesse Charlton June 7 1837
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The University of Minnesota
Department of Agriculture
Univeristy Farm, St. Paul

DIVISION OF ENGLISH

January 18, 1915.

Department of the Interior,
Washington, D. C.

Gentlemen:-
I write to inquire whether there are any records showing that one Thomas Hurlbut, of Torrington, Connecticut, was given a grant of land by the government for his services as a soldier in the War of the Revolution.  I desire this information for the purpose of supporting the claim of a relative to eligibility as a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution.
In case I am making my request of the wrong department, would you kindly refer my letter, or else direct me, to the proper sources for the information I desire.  

Yours truly,
J. H. Gist.

[oval stamp at the top of the letter:]  DEPT OF THE INTERIOR RECEIVED JAN 20  1915 TO BUR. PENSIONS. SECY'S [illegible] FILES.

[circular stamp at bottom of page:]  U.S. PENSION OFFICE. E  JAN 20 1915
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Rev [underlined, upper right hand corner]

Pension Bureau
Washington  D. C.

I am looking up the record of my great grandfather as a Revolutionary soldier.  His name was Thomas Hurlbut.  He was a native of Torrington Conn. [Connecticut] enlisted Apr. 26, 1777, served as corporal and sergeant in Jedediah Hyde's Company 4th Regiment of Conn. troops.
From my genealogical records I find that his widow Eunice Grant Hurlbut was granted a pension.
Please give me the date of the granting of said pension, if it is on your records and also tell me if above facts are correct.
Sincerely,
(Mrs. W. W. ) Lillian Hurlburt [illegible]
1721 Walnut St,
Cedar Falls. Iowa
Apr. 11, 1922

[circular stamp] U.S. Pension Office F APR 14 1922
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Letter [illegible]
Eunice Hurlburt
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East Windsor Connt [Connecticut] March 8 1837

Sir
I herewith transmit the application of Widow Eunice Hurlbut or Hurlburt of Torrington in the County of Litchfield for a Pension under the 3rd Section of the Act of July 4th AD 1836
The name of the family is sometimes written Hurlburt & sometimes Hurlbut & some of the letters I have received from them have the name spelt [spelled] in each of these modes
Again I present to you evidence of the meagerness of our Marriage Records.
That the Clergyman who Married Thomas & Eunice Hurlburt left no records you will see certified by the Clerk of the Church & keeper of its records sent on by me with the application of Catharine Bower Widow of John Bower for a Pension under the 3rd Section of the act of July 4th AD 1836
To which I beg leave to refer you Sir, 
Your Obdt. [Obedient] Servt [Servant]
Jesse Charlton

P.S.  I am assured by those acquainted with the facts that Thos [Thomas] Hurlburt, the witness, is correct in the age of the oldest child that her friends sent for [illegible] to return & Marry, & that the first child was born before he got home.

J. L. Edwards Esq.
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D. C.
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[illegible, round postmark or stamp]

James L Edwards Esq.
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington  D. C. 

1636
20 June  E Windsor Hill Ct

Jesse Charleton
Add [illegible]
[illegible] Eunice
Hurlburt
[illegible]
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East Windsor Hill  Hartford Co
Connecticut

Sir.
I herewith forward you the Family Record, of Thomas & Eunice Hurlbut, or Hurlburt, (for the family some of of them spell their name Hurlbut & some Hurlburt)
I am well persuaded that in entering the marriage it should have been 17 Jany [January] 1776, instead of 1775, but many people are blundering in dates.  I send it as I received it.

I am Sir, very respectfully
your Obdt [obedient] Servt. [Servant.]
Jesse Charlton

Jas [James] L Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D.C.

P.S.  The Post office is East Windsor Hill, a new office near me.