Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 22,321, for John Hutchinson, Connecticut
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Service
Conn. 
Vt

Hutchinson, John

Number
S.22,321
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Vermont 9303
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John Hutchinson of Windsor Co in the State of Vermont who was a private in the company commanded by Captain Wills of the Regt commanded by Col Wyllys in the Connecticut
line for 14 Months.
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Inscribed on the Roll of Vermont
at the rate of 46 Dollars 66 Cents per annum
commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
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Certificate of Pension issued the 30 day of April 1833 and sent to Oel Billings Esq Royalton Vt
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Arrears to the 4th of March 33.   93.32
Semi-ant. allowance ending 4 Sept. 33.
23.33
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$116.65
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Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7, 1832.

Recorded by Thomas F. Francis, Clerk
Book E. Vol. 3d Page 68
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admit
14 mo Private
46.66
Oel Billing
Royalton
VT
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Statement of John Hutchinson in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of the 7th of June 1832

I John Hutchinson of Royalton in the County of Windsor and State of Vermont of the age of Seventy Seven testify and say. That under the act of Congress of the 18th of March 1818 I drew a pension and was permitted so to do, up to the 4th of March 1826, as per orders on the back of my pension certificate and not after unless a schedule of property was exhibited.

Concluding that I could not in my concious [conscience] make a decliration [declaration] on account of property which would enable me again to draw, I never made any further application, and have therefore been dropt on account of property, and have not drawn since March 4th 1820.   My certificate is Registered EBEN Stout as Clerk in Book B. Vol 4, Page 114.  [illegible]  in Lebanon in the State of Connecticut and resided in said
Lebanon at the commencement of the Revolution. I resided in Royalton aforesaid at the time of my first declaration, and obtaining my certificate, and still reside at the same place. I enlisted in the Continental Line at Colchester in the State of Ct. on the last of Nov or December 1775 for the term of thirteen months in the company commanded by Capt Levi Wills Lieut Henry Champion & Ensign Huntly in Col Willy [Wyllys] Regiment and Genl Spencers Brigade. We marched to Roxbury in Mass, and joined company, and soon after our arrival there, our Captain Wills was appointed Maj. [Major] and Champion served as Captain until Jedediah Hyde took the command as Captain, under whom I finished faithfully the service of my enlistment.

In the year 1777 I volunteered in the company commanded by Capt Eaton of Thetford in Orange County and State of Vermont Sol Cushman Lieut in Col Olivetts Regiment and marched to Saratoga in the State of New York to oppose the progress of Genl Burgoin [Burgoyne] in his march from Canada to New York.
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I was at the Battle betweene Genl. Gates & Burgoyne and his surrender to Genl. Gates in Oct, and served two months at this time faithfully.  I am confident that I made out the same length of time in my first decliration [declaration] on my receiving my [first?] certificate and that evidence being now at the war department will substantiate my present statement.  Service in all fifteen months.

John Hutchinson [signature]

State of Vermont}
Windsor County } Royalton August 1th 1832

Personally appeared John Hutchinson of Royalton aforesaid and made solemn oath to the truth of the foregoing statement by him subscribed.
Before Oel Billings Justice of the Peace [signature]

State of Vermont  Windsor County
Woodstock County Court Clerks Office 
3 August 1832
I Benjamin Swan Clerk of Windsor County Court Do hereby certify that Oel Billings is one of the Justices of the Peace within & for said County, and that the above is his signature.
In Testimony whereof, I have hereto affixed the Seal of said Court & subscribe my name the day and year last above

Benj. Swan [signature]
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Revolution

INVALID.
File No. 22,321
John Hutchinson
Priv. Rev. War
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Act: June 7th 1832
Index:-Vol. B, Page 195
[Arrangement of 1870.]


[Right side of page:]
Oct. 28/98.
Harry C. Davis
Denver Colo
R. 9810
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Sent to Oel Billings
Nov 8 '45

Sent to Hon. Jacob Collamer
29th April 1846
same June 15 1846
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Vermont
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John Hutchinson, of Windsor Co in the State of Vermont, who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Wyllys, of the Connecticut line, for the term of one year.
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Inscribed on the Roll of Vermont, at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on
the 27 of August, 1818.
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Certificate of Pension issued the 12 of Sept. 1820 and sent to Dudley Chase, agt. 
Randolph, Vermont
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Arrears to 4th of Sept. 1820. ------$194.35
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4 March 1821  48.00
----------------------------------- $242.35
24 mo. 5 
31 & 4/30

{ Revolutionary claim,
Act 18th March, 1818.}

[Right side of page:]
Susp. 21 Dec 1832
for [illegible] certificate
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Payable on the 4th March and 4th September of each year by Heman Allen Esq. in Burlington, Vermt.

No pension is payable until the arrival of one or the other of the above dates, after the issue of a Certificate.

Payable up to the 4th March, 1820. No payment thereafter, unless a schedule of property be exh'd.


Registered by Eben Stout
Clerk, in book B, volume 4
Page 116 -
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War Department

REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.

I CERTIFY that, in conformity with the Law of the United States, of the 18th March, 1818 John Hutchinson, of Windsor County, Vermont, late a private in the Army of the Revolution, is inscribed on the Pension List, Roll of the Vermont Agency, at the rate of Eight dollars per month, to commence on the twenty seventh day of August, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.

GIVEN at the War Office of the United States, this twelfth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and twenty
J. C. Calhoun [signature]
Secretary of War.
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Extract of John Hutchinson's application for an increase - "That in in Oct. 16 1780 at Tunbridge Vt while living in that Town which was a frontier
Town and at which he was frequently out scouting the Indians from Canada came early before day light & took him by surprize a prisoner of war with his gun balls & powder flash-burned his house & killed cattle & destroyed his property & proceeded to Royalton 
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a true Copy
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Woodstock Vermont Oct 8. 1845

Sir.
Enclosed with this, is the declaration of
John Hutchinson for arrear and increase of pension. I know from my father and other old inhabitants of Royalton who living in Royalton at the time, that John Hutchinson aforesaid
was then by the Indians and was absent one year in the way and manner he has related and was regularly exchanged as a prisoner of war.

I am Respectfully your Obt sert
Oel Billings


Col. J. L. Edwards
Washington City
D.C.
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House of Representations
June 12, 1846

Sir,
I have been once furnished by you with copies of the declaration and accompanying papers of John Hutchinson of Vermont for the increase of pension, in order to present the same to congress but I have been so unfortunate as to loose or mislay them and have been unable to find these.  I am compelled to apply again to be supplied.  I much regret this, I am willing to pay for the Expense it occasions.  I want the declaration of afficavits and also copies of your letter or letters rejecting the claim.  
 
Respectfully Yours
J. Collamer



Col. J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
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I Nathan Starks of Williamsburgh [Williamsburg] in the County of Hampshire Commonwealth of Massachusetts of lawful age testify and say that I personally know John Hutchinson- that I was brought up in the same parish with said Hutchinson- that said Hutchinson enlisted into the continental service in December AD 1775- in the company of  Captain Levi Wells, Col. [Colonel] Samuel Wyllys [Willis] regiment of the Connecticut line- that I belonged to the said company, & [and] that said Hutchinson continued to serve in [P.?] company from the said month of December AD. 1775 to the first day of January AD. 1777 when he was honorably discharged at Peekskill & [and] further this deponent [saith not?].
Nathan Starks
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Hampshire Ss ["Ss" from Latin: Scilicet: to wit, namely. Use to specify venue information on legal documents. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/scilicet]  August 28.th 1820 Then personally appeared Nathan Starks to me known as a disinterested rendible witness & [and] made oath that the forgoing subscribed is true
Before Jon. [Jonathan] H Lyman
Justice of the Peace.
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Hampshire
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
I Josiah Dwight [,] Clerk of the [illegible]
for & [and]/ County of Hampshire
Judicial Court of Commonwealth certify
that Jona [Jonathan] H Lyman Esq is a Justice of
the Peace in & [and] for said County of Hampshire & [and] that his signature to the within Certificate is his proper hand writing
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In testimony whereof I hereto subscribe my name & [and] affix the seal of said Court this twenty eighth day of August
in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & [and] twenty
Josiah Dwight
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John Starks
Certificate
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I, John Starks of Whately in the County of
Franklin and State of Massachusetts 
of lawfull [lawful] age
do testify and say, that John Hutchinson inlisted [enlisted] in Capt Levi Wells company at Roxbury the latter part of
December 1775 and that he served in said company through the year 1776 in Col Saml [Samuel] Willis Regiment.
and Genl [General] Spencers [Spenser's] Brigade, and was honourably [honorably] 
discharged at Peekskills 
I further state that I did duty; and belonged to the same company with him through the year

John Stark
Hampshire Ss [Ss from Latin: Scilicet: to wit, namely. Use to specify venue information on legal documents. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/scilicet] Williamsburgh [Williamsburg] 28th August 1820

Then personally appeared the above named John Starks and made oath that the above instrument by him subscribed contains the truth and nothing but the truth before me-
Elisha Hubbard Justice of Peace

I also certify that the above named John Starks is considered a man of truth and verasity [veracity] and a disinterested person-
Attest. [Attestation] Elisha Hubbard
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Hampshire Ss. [“Ss” from Latin: Scilicet: to wit, namely. Use to specify venue information on legal documents. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/scilicet] 
I Josiah Dwight Clerk of Supreme
Judicial Court of said Commonwealth for
the County of Hampshire certify that Elisha
Hubbard is a Justice of the peace in & [and] for
said County & [and] that his signature to the written Certificate is his proper hand writing. 
In testimony whereof I hereto subscribe my name & [and] affix the seal
of said Court this twenty eighth day of August in the
year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & [and] twenty [1820]
Josiah Dwight
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Deposition of 
Solomon Strong
relative to John Hutchinson 
Decree

[illegible] the service of JH: [John Hutchinson]
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I Solomon Strong of Thetford in the County of Orange and State of Vermont of Lawfull [Lawful] age do testify and say that I well recollect that John Hutchinson now resident in Royalton, County of Windsor and State of Vermont belonged to Capt [Captain] Levi Wells Company 
Col [Colonel] Samuel Willis regiment & [and] Genl [General] [Illegible] Brigade in the 
revolutionary army in the Connecticut line and 
that [P?] Hutchinson did duty in said Company the whole of the year of 1776 to the best of my   recollection
I further state that I did duty and belonged to  the same Company at the same time [illegible]. 
Solomon Strong

State of Vermont, Orange County Thetford June 23 1819 personally appeared 
the above named Solomon Strong and made 
Sollemn [Solemn] Oath that the above deposition by him subscribed contained the truth and nothing but the truth. 
I also certify that the above named Solomon 
Strong is a credible witness-- taken before me 

Joseph Reed Judge Orange County Court and  Justice of the Peace & [and] [illegible]

State of Vermont Orange County 
Clerk's Office June 23d AD 1819 
I hereby certify that Joseph Reed 
ever of Thetford in the County of 
Orange before whom the foregoing 
Deposition was taken is a Judge of Orange 
County Court acting under the authority 
State of Vermont and that his name subscribed 
to the foregoing certificate is in his own hand  writing
Attest [Attested] HEG McLaughlin Clerk of Orange County Court.
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John Hutchinson Decl [Declaration or Declerant] 
of 
Royalton Windsor Co [County] 
Vermont. 
John Hutchinson, Private, 
Colonel Willis Regt [Regiment] Connect [Connecticut] line 1775 for one year 
Admitted [underlined].
August 27th 1818 
[flourish under date] 

and Testimony required to 
Col. Wylly's [Willis's] regt [regiment] 
Connecticut line Dec [December], 1775, to Jan'y [January] 1st. 1777. 
[double underline] 
Service proved by several Credible Witnesses.
[double underline] 
Dudley Chase, agent
Randolph, Vermont
9th Sept [September] 1820.
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State of Vermont
Orange County Ss [“Ss” from Latin: Scilicet: to wit, namely. Use to specify venue information on legal documents. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/scilicet] 

On this 27th day of August 1818 before me the 
subscriber Chief Judge Sup. [Supreme] Ct  [Court] State of Vermont personally appeared 
John Hutchinson aged 63 years resident Royalton Windsor County and
State of Vermont, who being by me first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the  provision made by the late act of Congress  entitled "An act to provide for certain persons 
engaged in the land and naval service of the  United States in the revolutionary War." 
That in AD 1775 he lived in Lebanon Windham  County & [and] State of Connecticut 
& [and] that in December of AD 1775 he enlisted into the Army of the United States 
for one year; that about the 1st of January 1776 he joined Captain Wells' Company, Regt [Regiment] commanded by George Wyllys [Willis] being the 22d [22nd] Connecticut Regt [Regiment] & [and] of the Brigade commanded  by Genl  [General] Spencer, at Roxbury  Massachusetts.
That soon after he joined sd [said] company Captain Wells was appointed Major. 
Sometime after was succeeded by Captain Jedediah Hyde; that the Lieuts [Lieutenants] 
of said company were Henry Champion and Mr Huntley & [and] the Ensign was a 
Mr Duff; that in the battle on Long Island Maj. [Major] Wells was made prisoner; 
That he served his time faithfully out and was  paid off & [and] discharged about 
the first of January AD 1777 at Peekskill N.Y.  [New York] by whom he does not recollect; 
That no written discharges were given that he  knows of; That he was at the 
evacuation of Boston by the British, That he  was in the hospital at the time 
of the battle on Long Island; That he was in the  Retreat out of New York; 
That he was a volunteer in the Militia at the taking of Burgoyne; That he has 
no other evidence, and that by reason of his  reduced circumstances in life he is 
in need of the assistance of this County for support[.]

Sworn to & [and] declared before me the 27th of Augt [August] 1818[.]
Dudley Chase Chf [Chief] Judge Sup [Supreme] Court[.]
I, Dudley Chase Chf [Chief] Judge of the Sup. [Supreme.] Ct [Court] of the State of Vermont do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the sd [said] John Hutchinson did serve 
in the Revolutionary War as stated in the preceding declaration, against the 
common enemy for the term of nine months  and more, on the Continental establishment &  [and] I now transmit the proceedings & [and]  testimony taken & [and] had before me 
to the Secretary for the Department of War pursuant to the directions of the aforementioned Act of Congress[.]
Dudley Chace Chief Judge Sup. [Supreme] Court

Seal [illegible] 
I hereby Certify that John Hutchinson is in 
reduced circumstances & [and] stands in need  of the apertance of his country for support 
Dudley Chase Chf [Chief] Judge Sup. [Supreme] Court
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Ebeneze [Ebenezer] D. Metcalf
Deposition
proves the enlistment of
the claimant
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I Ebenezer Metcalf of Washington in the County of Orange and State of Vermont of Lawfull [Lawful] age do testify and say that in the month of December in the year of 
our Lord Christ 1775, I was well acquainted with John Hutchinson in Lebanon in the State of Connecticut, and was well knowing that he enlisted as a soldier in the Army of the United States in Captain Levi Wells Company and  Colonel Willis Regiment and was knowing to his being absent one year and always understood and verily believe that he 
served the whole year as a soldier[.]
The said John Hutchinson now resides in Royalton in the County of Windsor and State of Vermont, the said Ebenezer D. Metcalf further testifies that he is not in any way 
interested in the rest of said Hutchinson  application for a pension and further your deponent saith not[.]
Ebenezer D Metcalf
State of Vermont
Orange County Ss [“Ss” from Latin: Scilicet: to wit, namely. Use to specify venue information on legal documents. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/scilicet] 
Chelsea, January 24, 1820 personally appeared Ebenezer D. Metcalf who is a disinterested and  credible Witness and made oath that the foregoing deposition by him subscribed contains the truth the whole truth 
and nothing but the truth 
Before me Josiah Dana Chief Judge 
of Orange County Court
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State of Vermont Orange County Ss [“Ss” from Latin: Scilicet: to wit, namely. Use to specify venue information on legal documents. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/scilicet]
[illegible] January 24th 1820 - I hereby Certify  that Josiah Dana Esqr [Esquire] of Chelsea in the County of Orange before whom the forgoing Deposition was taken in Chief Judge Orange County Court and that his name subscribed to the foregoing Certificate is in his own handwriting
Attest [Attested] H E G McLaughlin [illegilbe]