Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 1,027, James Hull, New Jersey
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(3-1776)

SERVICE
New Jersey

Hull, James

NUMBER
S. 1,027

carded
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CONTENTS
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New Jersey 28.[rest is cut off]
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James Hull        28.441
of Middlesex in the State of N.J.
who was a pr. in the [blank] commanded
by Captain [blank] of the Regt commanded
by Col. Nelson of the N.J.-
line for 13 months--
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Inscribed on the Roll of New Jersey-
at the rate of [something crossed out]3 Dollars 33 Cents per annum
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
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Certificate of Pension issued the 1st day of July 1834 and sent Hon. T.  Frelinghuysen- Newark N.J.
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Arrears to the 4th of Mar 34              130---
Sem-anl. allowance ending 4 Sep.      21.66
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                                                             $151.66
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{Revolutionary Claim,}
{Act June 7, 1832.     }

Recorded by Nath .Rice Clerk
Book E.  Vol. 3.    Page 116

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Let T. Frelinghuysen 25 July [cut off]
Let to Pen Agent April 6, 1837
Dead
Letter to Hon J.F. Randolph
3d Auditor 28 Mar 1840

Paid at the Treasury under the
act of the 6 April 1838
from 4th Sept 1838 to 25 Decr
1838, the day of his death 
Agt notified 17. April 1840
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TREASURY DEPARTMENT.
Second Comptroller's Office
March 31st 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," the child of James Hull, decd. a Pensioner on the Roll of the New Jersey Agency, at the rate of Forty three
Dollars and thirty three cents per annum, under the law of the 7th June 1832, have been paid at this Department, from the 4th of Sept. 1838, 
to the 25th Decr., 1838, the day of his death.

Respectfully, yours,
Albion K. Parris
Comptroller.

To the Commissioner of Pensions,
Present.
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New Jersey
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Application of James
Hull for a Pension
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Act of 1832
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21. 128.

Admit as a private
13 months $43.33

Newark N.J.

Hon. T. Frelinghuysen
['Agent Ja. F. Randolph N. Brunswick N.J.' crossed out]
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Declaration of James Hull, of Middlesex
County, New Jersey, for the benefit of the
act of Congress of June 7, 1832

State of New Jersey
Middlesex County. } SS. On this tenth day of
June Eighteen hundred thirty four, before
the Judge of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for said County, now sitting as a Court, personally appeared James Hull of the
township of South Brunswicke, County & State
aforesaid, aged 82 years & upwards, who being
first duly sworn on his oath makes the following
declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the
act of Congress of the 7th of June 1832.

That he was born on the 24th day of December
1751, as appears by a record in a family bible
now in his possession, in the township of South
Brunswick, County of Middlesex, and State of
New Jersey, and has continued to reside in said township from the day of his birth to the present time.  At the commencement of the
Revolutionary contest at Boston and that neighborhood, he belonged to the company of Capt Wetherill / afterwards Capt Longstreet & Col Neilsons regiment. His first tour of duty was
under Capt Longstreet & this was in the fall
or winter of 1775, to Long Island after  the tour lasted not less than the month he thinks it was longer.  Gen Heard was in command of the
expedition. His next tour was in the springs of 1776, at the time the British appeared off the Hook, on their way to Charleston. It was supposed they were coming to New York, and the militia were all
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out, and was kept out for some time. He was
stationed at Amboy, as that was one of the points at which it was known they might land. This tour was, as he believes, under Capt Chambers, and lasted more than a month, not less, he believes, than six weeks. ['1 1/2' written in margin] He was very soon afterwards, in the same year, called out to go to Paulus Hook, to
defend that place from an apprehended march. 
This tour lasted not less than a month -he believes it was exactly a month, ['1 mo' written in margin]as that was the usual term of service and was done under Capt Longstreet.  He did another tour soon after in the same year, at a
place called the Blazing Star, on the river dividing New Jersey from Staten Island. This tour was, as he believes under Capt Chambers, and was spent in keeping guard both night & day, & lasted one month. ['1 mo' written in margin] During the remainder of the year for his service this year, from alarms & from actual danger & invasion, was almost incessant, he did not less than three other tours of a month each, ['3 mo' written in margin] and all, as he verily believes, under Capt Longstreet. Two of these tours was on the lines between Amboy & Newark, keeping guard against the British & tories on Staten Island, and the last he was on the retreat of Washington through New Jersey. He continued with the army until it reached the Delaware, & then left it for home. This was the only time he ever was with continental troops of any kind, so far as he recollects, and in this case there was no fighting in which he was engaged, & the militia & continental were only, for the time he was with them, companions in disaster.  The battles of Trenton & Princeton speedily succeeded, but this declarant was then sick a bed, and continued unable to do duty for several months
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and during most of the time the British were quartered in New Brunswick.   The Middlesex Militia was stationed at Cranberry in the winter of '76 '77, said had a most laborious & fatiguing campaign of it, many a time did your declarant wish for the opportunity to join his companions & friends in army.  His complete recovery did not, as he thinks, take place until after the British left New Brunswick, or about that time. He then entered actively upon duty again and during the remainder of the year 1777 did at least three tours of duty of a month each, ['3 mo' written in margin] and all, as he thinks, under Capt Longstreet, and in the service of guarding the shore from Amboy to Newark. Col Neilson was his Colonel. In the early part of 1778, ['2 mo' written in margin] he performed not less than two tours of a month each under Cap Longstreet, on the same station last mentioned, & in the service of guarding the lines, a toilsome, health-breaking and hazardous service, little or no fighting to do, no laurels to gain, but a constant & painful experience  to be kept up to prevent plundering & rapine, the other ferocious assaults of the worse than British enemies & savage Hessians, the perfidious tories. His health gave way again, & Providence having blessed him at that time, tho he is miserably poor now- with means, he united with another, and hired a substitute to perform all his regular tours during the war. He therefore was called upon afterwards, only in cases of alarms  These were frequent. He was often out, but generally for short periods, which cannot in all cases, be recollected with
sufficient precision to answer the requirements of the War Department. He will mention only one other tour that he performed, and that he shall never
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forget.  It was on occasion of the hidden and destructive incursion made by Simcoe in 1779 up to Somerset Court House, much he burned, and also the adjacent country, which he ravaged. Simcoe was captured, having his horse shot under him, and barely escaped with his life from the fury of the soldiers who took him.  A Capt Voorhees had been killed & his friends & relations were greatly exasperated & would have torn Simcoe to pieces. Declarant served at this time not less than two weeks, he thinks it was nearly a month.  ['1/2 mo' written in margin] In all his services he acted in the capacity of a private.  He next that he recollects received a written discharge. In looking around for the eye witnesses of his services he finds but very few of his old companions.  Some have removed he knows not where, others have
gone to that home whence no traveller returns.
Among the survivors he is glad to name one of his captains, Chambers, and he also refers to the testimony of Samuel Combs & Lewis Johnson Bender. There he knows of no others upon whom he can call for their belief as to his services & in maintenance of his general reputation, he gives the affidavits of Aaron Dean & Wm Mount of his vicinity.  There is no clergyman in his neighborhood to whom he is known-- the present one being a young man and a new comer.

He concludes with relinquishing every claim whatever to a pension or annuity, except the present, and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state.
James Hull

Sworn & Subscribed the day & year
aforesaid
Peter P. Runyon
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We AaronDean, of South Brunswick, and William Mount  of South Brunswick, in the County of Midlx. do hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with James Hull, who has subscribed & sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be 82 years of age as he has stated; that he is reputed believed, in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been
a revolutionary soldier, and that we concur in 
that opinion
Aaron Dean
William H Mount

Subscribed & sworn on the day
& year aforesaid.
Peter P. Runyon

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 said Court
further certifies that Aaron Dean & Wm. H. Mount, who have signed the preceding certificate, are credible persons, and that their statement is entitled to credit.

Jos. Ford   }
Peter P. Runyon } Judges
Thos Hance  }

I Nicholas Booraem Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Midlx. N. J. do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of said Court in the matter of the application of James Hull for a pension.

In testimony whereof, have hereunto
set my hand & seal of office the Nineteenth day of June Eighteen hundred & thirty four
N Booraem Clk
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State of New Jersey
Middlesex County SS }. Be it remembered that on the twenty fourth day of June one thousand eight [hundred]  and thirty four personally appeared before me the subscriber one of the justices of the Peace in and for said County
David Chambers who being duly sworn upon his oath saith that he is in the eighty sixth year of his age that he was a soldier of the revolution that he is now receiving a pension as Captain that he is well acquainted with James Hull the person named in the foregoing application that he knew him during the revolutionary war
remembers well of his being out with and under him in that long and desperate struggle for independence knows him to have served his country in the capacity of private has never known anything disreputable of him since That the services of the said James Hull were done in the State of New Jersey on the Amboy
and Elizabeth Town Station Deponent further says that the statement of the said applicant may be relied on as he believes him to be a man of truth and veracity
David Chambers

Sworn and Subscribed the
day and year aforesaid
before me Peter P. Runyon
Justice of the Peace

I hereby certify that Capt David Chambers the deponent named in the foregoing affidavit is a credible person and his statements are entitled to credit
Peter P. Runyon
Justice of the Peace
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State of New Jersey
Middlesex County SS }  Be it remembered that on the twenty fifth day of June one thousand eight hundred and thirty four before me the subscriber one of the justices of the Peace in and for said County personally appeared Lewis Johnson known to me to be a man of veracity and truth who being duly sworn upon his oath saith that he is in the seventy fourth year of his age that he is a soldier of the revolution and in the receipt of a pension as such that he is well
acquainted with James Hull the applicant for a
pension named in the foregoing declaration that
he knew him in the revolutionary war and knows
that he was out in the service of his Country in that momentous struggle Remembers well of being out with him in the State of New Jersey although not in the same company  From what the deponent heard of the applicant in the time that tried mens souls he has no doubt but that he served as he has stated has known him ever since the war ended and believes him to be a man of truth and veracity and that his statements are entitled to the fullest credit and belief
Lewis Johnston

Sworn and subscribed
the day and year aforesaid
before me Peter P. Runyon
Justice of the Peace
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State of New Jersey }
Middlesex County SS} Be it remembered that on the twenty fourth day of June one thousand
eight hundred and thirty four personally appeared before me the subscriber one of the Justices of the Peace in and for said County Samuel Combs who being duly sworn upon his oath saith that he is in the seventy third year of his age that is and has been well acquainted with James Hull the person who ['has' crossed out] signed the foregoing application for a pension has known him from his boyhood knew him in the revolutionary war believes him to have been in the service having seen him going
with his musket and equipments to the place of ['under which' crossed out] danger not living in the same neighbourhood he cannot from his own knowledge testify to the actual service of the said James Hull in the revolutionary war but he believes from the reputation of the applicant at that time that he was a good soldier and that he served his regular tours from the year 1775 to '78 when he hired a substitute. Deponent further says that he has full confidence
and belief that the said applicant served as he has stated as he thinks he is incapable of making a false statement knows him to be a man of truth and veracity and that his statements may be fully relied upon
Samuel Combs

Sworn & subscribed the
day and year aforesaid
before me Peter P. Runyon
Justice of the Peace

I hereby certify that Samuel Combs the deponent named in the foregoing affidavit is a credible person and entitled to credit
Peter R Runyon
Justice of the Peace
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I Nicholas Booraem Clerk of the County of 
Middlesex New Jersey, do hereby certify that
Peter P. Runyon before whom the foregoing
affidavits of Captain David Chambers, Saml.
Combs & Lewis Johnson were made, is a Justice of the Peace, duly commissioned & authorized that his signature thereto is genuine

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of office this twenty fifth day of June Eighteen hundred thirty four
N Booraem Clk
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Rev War            INVALID.
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File No. ___1027 _____
____ ['Francis' crossed out] James Hull ____
___ Priv. N.J. Line. _____
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Act: ___ June 7, 1832. _____
Index:-- __ Vol. A ___, Page 183

[Arrangement of 1870.]


James.