Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 10,714, John Fullerton, Penn.
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(3 - 1776)
SERVICE
Penn.
Fullerton, John
NUMBER
S 10714
carded
CONTENTS
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order to pay 13 Nov 1837.
30.832 ['33,034' crossed out]
Connecticut
John Fullerton 
of Litchfield in the State of Connecticut
who was a private in the compy command
by Captain Payton of the regt command
by Col McAllen in the Pennsylvan [Pennsylvania]
for 7 months private
Inscribed on the Roll of Connecticut
at the rate of 23 Dollars 33 Cents per annu.
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 9th day of Sep
1836
and sent to
Fredrick Cluttenden Kent
Arrears to the 4th of March 1836 $116.15
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sept 11. 66
$128.31
Recorded by Danl Boyd Cler
Book E Vol. 3 Page 13 
Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7, 1832.
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State of Connecticut 
Litchfield County
Probate Court
District of Kent
SS at Kent
On this 28th day of August AD 1832 personally
appeared in open Court before Nathaniel
P. Perry Esqr. Judge of the Court of Probate for
said District of Kent holding said Court now sitting John Fullerton a resident of Sharon
in said Litchfield County and said State of Connecticut aged seventy seven 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 act of Congress passed June 7 AD 1832.  That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated.
That about the first of July AD 1776 he enlisted
into the service of the United States at a place called Marsh Creek settlement, County of Little
York, Pennsylvania, about 25 miles from Little
York.
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into a company commanded by Captain John
Paxton, Lieutenant Hugh King. The Sergeants name was John Lay, he had been an old english soldier, and their was Sergeant
Shannon.  The names of some of the
soldiers were as follows, John Crowan, James
Linsdale, Charles Ryan, John Harmon, Richard Cumpton John Ritchie, Richard King. The Company was called the "flying Camp-men" Soon after enlisting as aforesaid he marched through  Little York, Lancaster, to Philadelphia, and joined the Regiment at Amboy after remaining at Philadelphia some 3 or 4 weeks. Commanded by
Colonel McAllester when the company served at Aunboy, the British were on Staten Island. He lay with the Regiment at Amboy for some time, the British lay on the lower end of said Staten Island and used to fire across to Amboy.  "When the British moved up the Island, they left some of the Hessians to guard. In the night he (the applicant)
with the Americans about 1500 in number
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crossed in Boats. A Company of the "Delaware
Greens" so called went over.   At a Little Town
then called Cucklestown, the Americans took
alone 30 Hessians in a meeting House, The
Hessians expressed a fear that the Americans
would eat them.  The prisoners were sent to Philadelphia, when Congress was then in
Session.  From Amboy Marched to Bargain [Bergen] Point, from there a part of the Americans were taken off over to Long Island
& a part remained to watch the "Queens Rangers" a Scotch Regiment, also called the "Highland Regiment" who lay at Powlers [Paulus} Hook.  He remained to Keep Garrison at Bargain [Bergen] Point, while the Regiment moved up to Fort Lee, 12 miles from there.
After several weeks had elapsed the Garrison at Bargain Point received orders to join the Regiment expecting a Battle with the British who were about to take fort Lee, when he got to the fort the British had got possesion and the Americans had retreated to Hackensack, and thus
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they were followed up by the British closely
The British stopped at Kingstown, 3 miles
back, and the Americans were at Trenton
and there took 900 Hessians. That was the reputed number.  the Prisoners were sent up to Reading and they were there Billeted. At the time they were obliged to make the retreat from Fort Lee.  The 4 months men had left, & the Regiments were very small and very much reduced in numbers as well as spirit.  About  New Years day, in 1777 he was discharged at Philadelphia his Captain procured him a written discharge, which he lost soon after and
he cannot recollect by whom was signed. that
he served at this time six months.
That in the year following he volunteered
into the service of the United States for two months. (The English then lay in Philadelphia & came to Germantown.)  Volunteered at Huntington in the sd County of Little York,
Pennsylvania, into the company commanded
by Capt. Wim Gilleland, Major Chamberlin
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marched down to Germantown, and at sd
Germantown in a skirmish with the British he received a musket ball though
his thigh (which he shows in Court and has
the appearance of the tear of a musket Ball)
that he served in this last term two
months, was discharged at a place called
white Marsh near Germantown, had no written discharge then.  That In the year 1754, Decr 25th he was born, in the South part of Pennsylvania, was taken into Virginia by Parents and left when quite Young and cannot tell the name of the place in which he was born, has no record of his age in
existence. After the Revolutionary war he went into Little York Pennsylvania, and then worked at his trade as a Saddle Harness maker. from then to Redding [Reading], & then went into
Elzabeth Town, [Elizabethtown] New Jersey then went resided at Levingston Manor,
then to Canaan Connecticut, then went to
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to Massachusetts, Stockbridge, Richmond &
them to Bennington Vt. then back to sd
Kent, Litchfield County and in sd
State of Connecticut, and have lived in sd
Kent and sd Sharon (attached to
said Kent) for the term of 40 years, has lived in in said Sharon 22 years and lives and resides there now. that he has made diligent enquiry & search & that there is no documentary evidence or testimony that he can procure that he knows of.  That he served faithfully for Eight months in all in the same of the United States
in the army of the Revolution.
That Samuel E Everitts, Revd Frederick Gindley, Charles F. Ledgink, John J Hollister, Joshua Lovell of sd Sharon
are persons to whom he is known in
his present neighborhood and Medad Goodsell, Nathan Slossen Esqr, Ira Eaton Lewis Mills, Zebedee Sturtevant of Kent are also persons to whom the applicant is well known, and who,
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can testify to his character for veracity
and their belief of his services as a soldier
of the Revolution.
that he hereby relinquishes 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.
Sworn to and subscribed the day & year aforesaid.
X his mark
John Fullerton
Sworn and subscribed to the day & year 
aforesaid. Frederick Chittenden
Clerk of sd Court
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And the said Court does hereby declare its opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department that the above named & foregoing
applicant was a Revolutionary
Soldier & that he served as he states, and is known to the Court to sustain a good reputation for truth and honesty. And the Court further certifies that it appears to the Court and is known by the Court that the Rev Frederick Gridley who signed the preceding certificate is a Clergyman and now officiate as such & has for 10 years past in said Sharon and is now a resident there and in good standing. And that Moses Skiff who has also signed the same is a resident in the town of Kent living near to the applicant and is a
credible person and known to the Court
as such and their statement is entitled to credit.  And that the persons whose names an attached to the statement
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herewith sent, are men of respectability
and sustains fair characters for veracity
And the Court further certifies that
Samuel E Everitt before whom the sd
Revd Frederick Gridley & Moses Luft
have made oath, was on the 8th day of
Sept 1832 and before & ever since has
been a justice of the Peace in & for the County of Litchfield and known to the
Court as such and that the name to
the certificate purporting to be his, is in
the opinion of the Court true + genuine
and that full faith & credit is due
to his acts as Justice of the Peace.
I Frederick Chittenden Clerk
of the sd Court of Probate for the District
of Kent, Litchfield County & State of
Connecticut aforesaid do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court
in the matter of the application of
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John Fullerton for a pension
In testimony
whereof I have
hereunto set my hand and
seal of said Court this 21st
day of September
AD 1832
Frederick Chittenden
Clerk of sd Court
I Nathaniel P Perry Judge of the Court
of Probate for the sd District of Kent, County
of Litchfield and State of Connecticut do
hereby certify that Frederick Chittenden
is Clerk of said Court duly appointed
Sworn and empowered, and that the names
purporting to be his attached to this or any
of these papers are genuine and his own hand writing & signature. and full faith & credit is due & ought to be given to them. And the seal attached which is the genuine Seal of said Court.
Nathaniel P. Perry Judge
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We Frederick Gridley a clergyman of
the Town of and residing in said Sharon
and Moses Skiff of said Kent residing
near to John Fullerton, hereby certify
that we are well acquainted with
John Fullerton now residing in said
Sharon, Litchfield County and State of
Connecticut, who has made application
for a pension, under act of Congress June
7, 1832, that we believe him to be
seventy seven years of age that he
is reputed and believed in the neighbourhood when he resides to have been
a soldier of the Revolution, and that
we concur in that
that opinion, and that he
has the reputation of being on
honest
poor man
Frederick Gridley
Moses Skiff
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Litchfield County SS at Sharon the 8th day of Sept AD 1832.
Be it Remembered that on the day
& year aforesaid the Rev'd Frederick
Gridley and Moses Skiff who
subscribed the foregoing certificate
each personally appeared & made solemn oath to the truth of the same before me.
Saml E Everitt Justice of the Peace in and
for the County of Litchfield.
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12040
Jno Fullerton
Connecticut
[illegible writing]
Adm'd
.
Frederick Chittedan
Clk Litchfield Coly Court
Count
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WAR DEPARTMENT,
Pension Office,
May 27 1833
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 your 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 shew what is necessary to be done. These points to which your 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, shewing the Service of John Fullerton Litchfield County Connt.
Period when the service was rendered. Enl 1776
Duration of the claimant's service. 6 months.
Rank of the claimant. Flying Camp
Names and rank of the Field officers under whom he served. Capt. Paxton Col McAlister
Age at present, and place of abode when he entered the service. 77 yrs Pennsylvania
Proof by which the declaration is supported. Traditionary evidence

Period when the service was rendered.  Vol 1777
Duration of the claimant's service. 2 months.
Rank of the claimant. 
Names and rank of the Field officers under whom he served. Capt Gilleland, Mjr Chamberlain
Age at present, and place of abode when he entered the service. 77 yrs Pennsylvania
Proof by which the declaration is supported. Traditionary Evidence
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 declare their 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 beena 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.
[rest of page bracketed]
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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alleged service, as they are known at the Department. 
[next sentence bracketed]
A very full account of the services of each person 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; 
[remainder of sentence underlined and bracketed]
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 services 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 inquiry 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 declaration 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.
(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 give the name of the Colonel under whom he served; otherwise a satisfactory examination of the claim cannot be had. Every clamant 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. A. B. 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 service 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 the 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 tours, 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 service 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 employed 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 signature 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 certificate 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.
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 cases of Militia men, Volunteers and State Troops. The proof required by rule in note (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 to the interrogatories must all be written, and went to the War Department, with the declaration.
The applicant is required to give the names of the officers under who he served according to the regulations.
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INVALID.
10714
RevWar
owr
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File No. 10,714
John Fullerton
Priv. Rev. War
Act: June 7th 1832
Index: -- Vol. A, Page 134
{Arrangement of 1870.}
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Connecticut
Revol
John Fullerton
Suspended
See letter to
N. B. Perry
17. Octr 1833.
Act 7 June 1832
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12,040
Jno Fullerton
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We the undersigned, being personally acquainted with Mr John Fulerton of Sharon, consider his character for truth and veracity to be good.
S. E. Everitt
Frederick Gridley
Medad S. Goodsell
Nathan Skiff Esq
Mr. Moses Skiff
Henry Skiff
Nathan [illegible]
Luther Skiff
Zebedee Sturtevant
Lewis Mills
I hereby certify that I have been acquainted with John Fullerton now residing in Sharon
Litchfield County & State of Connecticut for more than twenty years that he lived a near neighbor to me for more than fifteen years and uniformly said he came from the State of Pensylvania, [Pennsylvania] I have often
heard him state that he had been a soldier in the army of the Revolution and have always found him a man of truth and veracity fully intitled to the Character of an honest poor man and I think him fully entitled to a Pension by the law of the last Session
of Congress
Nathan Slosson a Justice of the Peace
for the County of Litchfield & State of Connecticut
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John Fulerton
Ct. Sept 5
Sent Cert Sept 1st
LRec
Suite
Hon J. L Edwards
Commr of Pensions
City of Washington
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Kent, Augt 31, 1836
Dear Sir:
with the firmest and fullest conviction
of the righteousness and certain justice of the claim of John Fullerton to a pension I
enclose the within to you. the certificates
you will see are written with the simplicity
of Farmers whose education is trifling, but 
whose Honesty and standing in society
are above reproach, I know them well and
no men are of better standing for truth.
You will find the Papers of Mr. Fullerton on file, and yet the pension dissallowed.
Among all of the papers sent into the
Pension office by myself as Clerk of the Probate Court of the District (now Judge) I say without hesitation no man is or can be more
justly entitled to a pension. Could you but see him, with his eye sight almost gone, 
crippled in one hand, and trembling
on his staff as he gets about with. a
character in life as unexceptionable as any other man, not a relation or a Dollar 
to help him, and witnessing others, less
worthy, drawing their little government salary
you would feel as every thing spoke for him-- I have no more doubt of the fact of his service than that he and I now live.
Not one man who knows him doubt it, and I hope that Government of which I am proud to Judicate will not deny the old man his allowance
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at this time.
Amidst the hurry and stress of business, I hope you will not lay aside the claim of old Mr. Fullerton - I do consider it a privilege of Government to pay such worthy men, who have spent their fortunes & the best of their lives, in a war, the subject of which will soon be gone.
I am sir very Respecfully
Your obd Svt
Frederick Chittenden
in
At the request of Mr Fulerton [illegible]
their Certificate not supposing them admissable in the usual manner, but as serving to convince you of his strident integrity.
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Admitted
Private 7 months
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and the Court, in addition to the former certificate feels bound to state (on account of the peculiar situation of Mr John Fullerton as to the procurement of any further testimony
that no man from reputation into a better character for truth, that has appearance and relation of fact are fully indicative of entire truth and could the old man appear in person before the commissioner the Hon. Commissioner could not feel otherwise then 
the [illegible] conviction of the truth in his foregoing declaration.
I Frederick Chittenden Clerk of the Court of Probate for the District of Kent aforesaid do hereby certify that the foregoing contain the original proceedings in connection with the properly attested in the [illegible] of the application of John Fullerton for a pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of said Court this 31st day
of July AD 1833.
Frederick Chittenden
Clerk of sd Court
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[three affidavits.  First is very faded, refer to original for meaningful transcription]
I Luther Skiff being [acquainted with?] ... Mr. John Fullerton forty years and he ... my Father's  farm 20 years and I know ... to be a man of the best for truth and veracity and ... Luther Skiff

Kent August the 9 1836
Moses Skiff has been acquainted with John Fullerton nearly forty years & [always] found him a man of truth & veracity & often heard him tell of his [revolution services] and his retreat across the [Jerseys] & taken the [Hessians] at Trenton.  Moses Skiff

I have been acquainted with John Fulton
since the year 1807 and have heard him tell the story that he has to Mr. Skiffs. 
Medad Godsell

State of New York Duchess SS
Personally appeared Luther Skiff Moses Skiff 
and Medad Goodsell Signers to the 
foregoing affidavits and made oath in due form of Law to the truth of the facts set forth in said affidavits
Sworn and subscribed  
before me August 23 1836 
Columbus Reed
Justice of the Peace
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State of Connecticut
County of Litchfield
Probate Court
District of Kent
SS at Kent

On this 31st day of July AD 1833, Personally
appeared before Nathaniel P Perry Esquire
Judge of the Court of Probate aforesaid
holding said Court now sitting, John
Fullerton of Sharon in sd County and is the same identical John Fullerton who made the declaration heretofore sent into the Pension Office and is hereunto attached and returned and now in open court being first duly sworn
according to Law doth say that old age and decrepitude and the absence of means
must ever put it out of his power to travel into that section of Country which was the scene of his service in the war of the Revolution he has in his former declaration made mention of some of the names of the soldiers of his company as well as officers none of whom he can ascertain is living but if such should be known to the War Department, he would if notified refer to them and endeavor to procure their testimony
His statement of his service
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are made in detail as well as his memory
after the elapse of so many years, will
honestly permit him, he states that in our
younger days we make a correct estimate of length of time by their campaign dates, the amount is remembered but frequently the dates are lost, and which fifty or more years have rolled away precise dates are difficult to be stated.
he cannot state any nearer to the time of his service than he has done, he knows he was in active and suffering service of the United States in the War of the Revolution eight months.  He has ever been poor, and
worked hard for a living; and hopes in the
few days of his declining life, he may
have the benefit of that law which he
is a subject.
John Fullerton X his mark
Sworn to and subscribed the day and
year aforesaid.
Frederick Chittenden 
Clerk of Court.