Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 16,299, Hezekiah Hull, New York
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SERVICE: New York
Hull, Hezekiah (Lucy)
NUMBER: W. 16,299
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Albany 2,056 
Lucy Hull 
widow of Hezekiah Hull 
who died on the year 1818 
of Rensselaer Co. in the State of N. York 
who was a Sergt. & Lieut, in the company commanded 
by Captain Shaw of the Regt commanded 
by Col. Van Rensselaer in the N. Y. mil. 
line for 4 mo & 18 days Sergt. N.Y. 
1 mo & 12 days Lt. 

Inscribed on the Roll of Albany 
at the rate of 41 Dollars 66 Cents, per annum, 
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831. 

Certificate of Pension issued the 25 day of May 1838 
and sent to Hon G. N. Briggs, H. R. 

Arrears to the 4th of March '38  291.66
Semi=annual allowance ending 4 Sep "  20.83
[=] $312.49 

{Revolutionary Claim,} 
{Act July 4, 1836,} 
{Section the 3}
Recorded by D. Brown Clerk, 
Book A. Vol. 2 Page 110
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1444 
In the matter of 
Widow Lucy Hull 
application for
a Pension 
Married 1778
Died 1818 

See Vol 5 p 42 
1777-1777 Sergt Capt Shaws Comp - $25.09 -- 2 mo. 15 days Sergt
1780 Lt. 1 mo 12 dy  "        "             - $30.60 > 1 mo 12 dys Lt
1781 [?] 4 mo 18 dy  "          "           -   $3.35}  
[=] 6 mo $						
3.4
2.3 Sergt
[=] 6.0
Allow 41$ 66/100 pr. ann.
no deduction

Hon. G. N. Briggs
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State of New York} 
Rensselaer County ss.} 
On the 23d day of February in the year of our Lord 1837 personally appeared before me George R Davis one of the Judges of Rensselaer County Courts & Counsellor at Law of the Supreme Court of said State of New York 
Lucy Hull a resident of Berlin in the County of Rensselaer aforesaid and State of New York aged seventy six years old 5 the day of last June [?] who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on or oath makes the following declaration in order to attain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed July 4th 1836. That she is the widow of Hezekiah Hull late of the town of Berlin aforesaid deceased, that she married the said Hezekiah Hull on the 29th day of April in the year of our Lord 1778, that Elder Joshua Maxson performed the marriage ceremony, that the said Maxon has been dead a great many years, that she lived with the said Hezekiah untill his death the 4th day of February 1818 -- and this deponent says she has remained his widow to the present time -- not having since married and this deponent further says she removed with her father from Rhode Island to the town of Little Hosick [Hoosick] now Berlin in June 1777 and this deponent knows that it was reputed & believed, at the time, that said Hezekiah has served the United State as a Militia Soldier, the season of Gen Burgoynes Surrender, and this deponent has no doubt of its truth -- and also that he had been at the Heightland in the service of the United States as a Militia Soldier - of which this deponent has as doubt - and the deponent knows
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that after her Marriage with the said Hezekiah in the year 1778 as aforesaid that he went on a tour of service as a militia soldier in the service of the United States to Schoharie for one month but under what officer this deponent cannot recollect. 
and she also knows that he went on another tour of service as a militia soldier to Fort Edward but what time he was then out she cannot recollect nor the name of the officers -- and she recollects that while the said Hezekiah was out on a tour of service in the United States an order was sent to him to warn [?] out a body of militia, and that she mounted a horse herself and went in her own person & read the order to the men. 
and this deponent knows that after her marriage as aforesaid, that the said Hezekiah was frequently out in the Service of the United States as a militia Soldier on alarms & execursions to repel indian incursions & Tory depredations, besides, those before enumerated, and this deponent has no doubt but that the said Hezekiah was in the service of the United States as a Militia Soldier for more than one year & according to her belief nearly one year & a half-
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[Signed] Lucy Hull
Sworn to and subscribed the day &
year aforesaid
[Signed] Geo R Davis Judge of
Rensselaer County Courts
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State of New York }
Rensselaer County ss } 
On this 23d day of February in the year of our Lord 1837 personally appeared before me George R Davis Judge of Rensselaer County Court 
Benjamin Randall, a resident of Berlin in said County of Rensselaer & State aforesaid aged Seventy years last March, who being first duly sworn according to Law, doth on his oath say he knew Hezekiah Hull late of the said town of Berlin deceased, who departed this life in the month of February Nineteen years since, then a resident of the said town of Berlin, that this deponent first became acquainted with the said Hezekiah Hull in the year 1777, and knew him well from that period to the day of his death as before given, that the said Hezekiah married this deponents sister Lucy in the spring of the year 1778, that Elder Joshua Maxson, a Baptist Minister performed the marriage ceremony, that the said Joshua Maxson has been dead something about fifty years since, that the said Hezekiah & Lucy cohabited together from the period of the marriage aforesaid to the time of the death of the said Hezekiah aforesaid, that this deponent was present at the marriage aforesaid & Witnessed the marriage ceremony, that the said Lucy survived the said Hezekiah, and is still living, and has remained his Widow to the present time that this deponent knows that the said Hezekiah Hull was called out as a Militia man during the year 1777, to aid in driving back the indians & to put down the Tories and when Gen Burgoyne entered the
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Northern frontier the said Hezekiah was called out as a Militia man to aid the repelling the said Army of General Burgoyne that in the service aforesaid Caleb Bently was his Captain, Samuel Shaw was his Lieutenant, and the Colonel of the Regiment was Henry K Van Rensselaer -- that the said Hezekiah Hull was out in that year in the service of the United States as aforesaid in all as much as five months, that the said Hezekiah Hull then resided in the same town where he died, & near the place of his death that is was a disaffected region & the said Hezekiah with many [illegible] of his neighbours friendly to the cause of their Country were compelled to turn out & to remain out pretty much the whole of the season of 1777 - but whether the said Hezekiah was in the battle that resulted in Burgoynes surrender this deponent does not recollect & cannot say. 
That the said Hezekiah Hull in the year 1778 & after her marriage aforesaid was frequently called out as a Militia man in the service of the United States under the same officers as this deponent thinks, and went in such service to Crown Point - Fort Edward, Schoharie & Lake George - and was out in such service that year as much as three months in all.
That the said Hezekiah Hall in 1779 was called out again frequently as a militia man in the service of the United States, under the same officers or Captain Haustead [?]
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and to protect the Northern frontier from indian & Tory incursions & depredations and nearly to the same points as in 1778, and in the opinion of this deponent about the like period of three months in all.
and in 1780 & 1781 the said Hezekiah was frequently called out in like manner & in the like service, but for what length of time this deponent cannot say.
that the said Captain Bently and Lt Shaw & Col Van Rensselaer are all dead.
and this deponent knows that it was reputed at the time, that in some of the services aforesaid that the said Hezekiah was an orderly Sergeant.
[Signed] Benjamin Randall

Sworn to and subscribed the day & year aforesaid 
[Signed] Geo R Davis 
Judge of Rensselaer County Courts
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State of New York} 
Rensselaer County ss.} 
On the 23d day of February in the year of our Lord 1837 personally appeared before me George R Davis Judge of the Court of County Courts of Rensselaer County aforesaid Peter Hull a resident of the town of Berlin aforesaid aged Seventy Six years last June who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on his oath say - that he knew Hezekiah Hull late of the town of Berlin aforesaid deceased, that the said Hezekiah Hull departed this life about Nineteen years since, the day of the year this deponent cannot precisely recollect & at the time of his death the said Hezekiah resided in the town of Berlin aforesaid, that this deponent was the brother of the said Hezekiah, and this deponent knows that the said Hezekiah married Lucy Randall the next year after the Surrender of Gen Burgoyne & cohabited with her to the time of his death aforesaid but this deponent was not present at the time of marriage aforesaid. 
That in the year 1777 this deponent lived in the same family with the said Hezekiah, and knows that nearly the whole season of the year of Gen Burgoynes Surrender, the said Hezekiah was out as a militia man in the service of the United States under Captain Caleb Bently, & that he was out at the time of the Surrender aforesaid, that the said Hezekiah lived in a disaffected region & the whole County in the Northern vicinity was in a constant
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State of alarm, from Indian & Tory incursions & depredations - and this deponent has no doubt but that the said Hezekiah was in the Service of the United States that season as much as five months in all. 
and this deponent further says, that he knows that after the Surrender of Gen Burgoyne, that the said Hezekiah was out as a Milita Man in the Service of the United States under Lt Samuel Shaw, at Fort Edward for about one month - and the deponent also knows that the said Hezekiah at another time after the Surrender aforesaid, was out as a militia man under Lt Samuel Shaw to Schoharie for one month - that in the former Service Henry K Van Rensselaer was the Colonel & in the latter Col Vrooman that in both of these services, this deponent was with the said Hezekiah in both of these services as a militia soldier.
and this deponent knows that the said Hezekiah before Gen Burgoyne entered the Northern frontier, enlisted under an officer from the Territory of Vermont, whose name this deponent has forgotton, and the deponent knows that the said Hezekiah left home in that service & remained from home the time of the enlistment & on his return said he had been to Ticonderoga, but the time of the enlistment this deponent has forgotten.
and the deponent knows that at another time the said Hezekiah went
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as a militia Soldier to the Highlands, but under what officer the deponent has forgotten but this deponent knows that the said Hezekiah went & was absent the term of the service, two months, when he returned to his home.
And this deponent knows that the said Hezekiah was at other times after the Surrender of Gen. Burgoyne, frequently called out as a militia soldier in the service of the United States under Captain Bently & Lt. Shaw to go to the North, & to Stone Arabia to repel indian incursions & Tory depredations and the deponent has no doubt, but that the said Hezekiah, was in the service of the United States as a militia soldier in all the before mentioned services as [illegible] at least than One year. 
And the deponent further says that the said Hezekiah died leaving his wife the said Lucy survivor, who is now living (aged about seventy six) and his widow, she not having remarried since. 
And this deponent further knows, that the said Hezekiah was an orderly Sergeant at [illegible] of the services at Fort Edward & Schoharie where the deponent was with him.
[Signed] Peter Hull
Sworn to and subscribed the day & year aforesaid 
[Signed] Geo R Davis Judge of Rensselaer County Courts
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State of New York}
Rensselaer County ss} 
On the 23d day of February in the year of our Lord 1837 personally appeared before me George R Davis Judge of Rensselaer County Courts Daniel Hull aged Sixty Nine years, who being  by me first duly sworn according to Law doth on his oath say he Knew Colonel Hezekiah Hull late of the said town of Berlin deceased, who departed this life in the winter of 1818, then residing in Berlin aforesaid, that the deponent was his brother and lived in the same family with him during the Revolutionary war, that this deponent Knows that the said Hezekiah went as a militia soldier in the Service of the United States for about two months to the Highlands & as this deponent believes before the season of Gen Bergoynes surrender but under what officer this deponent does not recollect, that this deponent Knows that the said Hezekiah was gone from home in the militia service of the United States, for about one month to Schoharie -- and at another time for about a month to the North, & as it was said at the time to Fort Edward, and the season of Gen Burgoynes Surrender Knows he was frequently out as a militia Soldier in the Service of the United States & was with Gen Gates before & after the surrender of Gen Burgoyne and has frequently heard him Say about the period
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of the event that while in the ervice of the United States, that he saw the body of the murdered Miss McCrea -- 
And this deponent has no doubt, but that the said Hezekiah Hull was in the United States service as a Militia Soldier for at least Nine months & probably for a longer period during the Revolutionary War.
[Signd] Daniel Hull 
Sworn to and subscribed the day & year aforesaid
[Signed]  Geo R Davis Judge of Renss. County Courts 

I George R Davis one of the Judges of Rensselaer County Courts do hereby Certify that after the investigation of the matter and from my knowledge of the high character of applicant and the Witnesses for integrity & truth I do declare it as my opinion that the said Hezekiah Hull was a revolutionary soldier and served as stated by the applicant & her Witnesses and I do further Certify, that I know the Reverend William Satterlee and Charles M Davis & that they reside at the places stated in their Certificate below & are both men of high character & credible persons and that their statement is entitled to Credit. And I do further Certify that the said Lucy Hull resides about Twenty miles from the place of holding our Courts of record, and from bodily infirmity, is not able to attend said Court, and I do further Certify that I am well acquainted with Peter Hull, Daniel Hull and Benjamin Randall and have
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been so acquainted for many years, and that they are credible persons and their statements entitled to full credit.
[Signed] Geo R Davis Judge of Rensselaer County Courts 

We William Satterlee a Clergyman residing in Bertin County of Rensselaer State of New York and Charles M Davis residing in the City of Troy County & State aforesaid hereby Certify that are well acquainted with Lucy Hull who has subscribed & subscribed to above declaration, that we believe her to be seventy six years of age, and is a woman of fair irreproachable character & we fully credit her declaration hereto attached
[Signed] Wm. Satterlee
[Signed] Ch. M. Davis 
Sworn to and subscribed this 23d day of February 1837 
[Signed] Geo R Davis Judge of Rensselaer County Courts 

State of New York}
Rensselaer County} ss: I Henry R Bristol Clerk of the said County do hereby Certify that George R. Davis Esquire before whom the foregoing Declaration and Affidavits appear to have been Sworn & who has also subscribed the forgoing Certificates as Judge &c was at the time of the making of such Affidavits & Declaration & is a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of the County aforesaid of the degree of Counsellor at Law &c 
And that his signature to foregoing Certificates is Genuine.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of the said County this 25th day of February 1837 
[SEAL]
[Signed] Henry R Bristol Clerk
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May 29 Hezekiah Hull Born in the year 1753 
June 5th  Lucy Hull Born in the year -- 1760 
April 29 Married  [in the year] -- Do 1778 
January 1st Hezekiah Hull Jun. -- Do 1783
June 24th Justus Hull -- Do 1787 
January 18th Polly Hull -- Do 1790 
November 10th Stephen Hull -- Do 1795 
June 6th Harry Hull -- Do 1802 
January 15th Palmira -- Do 1805
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In the matter of } [SEAL]
Lucy Hull an applicant} 
for a pension as widow of} 
Hezekiah Hull deceased} 
Rensselaer County ss.
Lucy Hull the above applicant being duly Sworn deposeth & Says that the annexed record is a leaf from the family bible of her late Husband Hezekiah Hull deceased and herself. that the bible has been Such family bible for more than forty years last past -- that the Entries of the births & her own Marraige [sic] on the Said leaf was made by her late Husband in his life time & truly made, and that her late Husband has been dead more than twenty years -- & that the leaf hereto attached was taken by herself out of the said bible for the purpose of attaching to this her Said Affidavit.
[Signed] Lucy Hull
Sworn and Subscribed before me this 3rd day of May 1838 
[Signed] R. A. Lottridge Com of Deeds Rensselaer Co
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State of New York}
Rensselaer County} ss:  I Henry R. Bristol Clerk of the said county do hereby Certify that Robert A Lottridge before whom the the within affidavit appears to have been Sworn was at the time of taking the same & [s/b a] Commissioner of Deeds in & for the said County of Rensselaer duly appointed Sworn & authorized to take said affidavits. Also that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of the said Commissioner and verily believe his Signature within written to be Genuine 
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the Seal of the said County this 8th day of May AD. 1838 
[SEAL]
[Signed] Henry R. Bristol Clerk 

Crosswise:
In the Matter of Widow Lucy Hull
an applicant for a Pension 
An additional Deposition - with record evidence
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Rev. WIDOW, &c.
File No. 16,299
Lucy Hull
widow of
Hezekiah Hull
Lieut. Rev War
Act July 4th 36
Index: Vol. A, Page 358
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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J.L. Edwards Esq
Comsr of Pensions
Present

Crosswise:
Jurat May 24
[illegible]
Hon G.N. Briggs
HR
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Washington 22 May 38

Dr Sir
In the case of Lucy Hull of Berlin NY I send you the Bible record
Resply Yours [Signed] G N Briggs
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N. York 
Lucy Hull 
Letter to Hon G. N. Briggs 13 Apl 1838 
6.66 23=
1.39 13.33
5.33
[=] 41.66
Admitted
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In the Matter of 
Lucy Hull Widow 
of Hezekiah Hull 
decd. application for 
a Pension 
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additional affidavits
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State of New York}
Rensselaer County ss.}
On the Twenty third day of February in the year of our Lord 1838 personally appeared before me George R Davis Judge of Rensselaer County Courts, Hezekiah Hull Junior a resident of Berlin in the said County of Rensselaer aforesaid & State aforesaid aged fifty four years last January who being first duly sworn according law doth to on his oath say that he the son of the applicant, and knows the family bible of his late Father & now in the possession of the applicant & which was printed in Edinburgh in 1793 and in that bible is the records of the family of his late father & in his said Father's hand writing & of which the following is a copy to wit
"Hezekiah Hull born in the year 1753 
"June 5 Lucy Hull Born in the year 1760
"April 29 married do 1778 
"January 1st Hezekiah Hull Jun do 1783 
"June 24th Justus Hull do 1787 
"January 18th Polly Hull do 1790 
"November 10th Stephen Hull do 1795 
"June 6th Harry Hull do 1802
"January 15th Palmira do 1805" 
that the above entries the deponent well recollects seeing in the said bible, as far back as his
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memory reaches, with the exception of those since this deponents birth -- the latter which he beleives [sic] were entered nearly at the periods of the birth of the children therein named -- and this deponent is positive that since he was first able to read & comprehends, that the entries of his own birth & those preceding were in the said Bible -- and further this deponent says not
[Signed] Hezekiah Hull Jun.
Sworn to & subscribed this 23d day of February 1838 
[Signed] Geo R Davis Judge of Rensselaer County Court & Counsellor of Sup Court

State of New York} 
Rensselaer County ss.} On the twenty third day of February in the year of our Lord 1838 personally appeared before me George R Davis one of the Judges of Rensselaer County Court, Charles M Davis Attorney & Counsellor of the Supreme Court of the State of New York aged forty three years, who being first duly sworn according of law doth on his oath say that untill the Revised Statutes of the State of New York passed in the year 1830
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there was no law requiring records of marriages in the State of New York nor was it usual to keep any record of marriages except in the family Bible & then not generally
[SIgned] Ch. M Davis
Sworn to & subscribed before me this 23d day of February 1838. 
[Signed] Geo R Davis Judge of Rensselaer County Court & Counsellor of Sup Court
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State of New York} 
Rensselaer County ss.}	
On the twenty third day of February in the year 1838 personally appeared before me the applicant Lucy Hull who being again first duly sworn by me according to Law doth on her oath says in addition to her former statement that the copy of the record set forth in the annexed deposition [of] her son Hezekiah Hull Junior, is a true copy the record written in the hand writing of her late Husband, in the family bible of her late Husband & now in her possession, & has been in the family for more than forty-years -- that the records of the births & marriage as set forth in the same bible are true & were made the last entry over thirty years ago 
That this deponent has a vague recollection of her late Husband's having after her marriage with him & as she thinks in 1880 & 1881performed some service as a Lieutenant of the Militia in the service of the United States, but she has no recollection of his having had a commission as such Lieutenant. 
And this deponent after a lapse of so many years, worn out as she is with age & infirmity, cannot state with particularity, the officers names under whom, her late Husband served, the places where, or the precise periods when with any more particularity than in
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her former examination; but she has no hesitancy in stating, that the whole period her said Husband was in the Service of the United States was at least one year 
This applicant further states, that she first became acquainted with the said Hezekiah Hull in the year 1777 and remained at her house at one time in that year one month during which time the said Hezekiah was absent on Militia service of the United States at the North & was home but once in that time & then remained only one day & returned to service -- that she knows that he was absent that year in the like service frequently & indeed pretty much the whole Season at least three months of the time at the North --that he was in the retreat before Gen Burgoyne & remained in that service after his defeat -- that he was the same year at least two months of the time on the Little Hosick [sic] watching Tories & Indians -- & she believes mostly under Lieutenant Samuel Shaw that year garrison was kept at his House then Little Hosick now Berlin - where the inhabitants relocated in times on alarm - for
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safety - which were frequent that Season 
[Signed] Lucy Hull
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 24th day of February 1839 
[Signed] Geo R. Davis Judge of Renss. County Court & Counsellor of Sup Court
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State of New York }
Rensselaer County ss. 
On the 23d day of February 1838 personally appeared before me George R Davis Judge of Rensselaer County Courts the same Peter Hull who was examined by me on a former occasion on the application of Lucy Hull Widow of the late Hezekiah Hull, deceased who being again first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath say that, the said Hezekiah Hull was in the service of the United States as a Militia man during the revolutionary War.
In the year preceding of the surrender of Gen Burgoyne, he is confident the term of service rendered the United States by the said Hezekiah and as refered [sic] to by this deponent in his former examination was at least two months, but it is imposible [sic] for the deponent to give the name of the officer under whom he enlisted or rendered the service any more particular than in that examination 
In 1777 this deponent knows that the said service mentioned in his former examination as in that year were at Little Hosick, Fort Edward, at & in the vicinity of the Battle ground at Saratoga -- and these tours of service were some of them longer some shorter periods varying from two weeks to over a month, and occupied pretty much the whole season of that year, but to state the precise time of each tour, the precise places where rendered
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is what no person who has only his recollection to depend upon after a lapse of over half a Century, and has a regard to truth can be expected to do -- but the deponent living in the same family with the said Hezekiah, and being with him in a portion of that service does not hesitate to say, that in his opinion the services thus rendered in that year was at least five months & most of it was rendered in Captain Caleb Bently's Company but generally under the command of Lieutenant Samuel Shaw of that Company 
In 1778 the next year after the surrender of Gen Burgoyne he knows that the said Hezekiah went as a sergeant in the said Company of Captain Bently but under the Command of the said Lieutenant Shaw to Fort Edward & in the service of the United States, but while there the command of the said Lt Shaw was attached to another Command, but the name of the officer of that Command this deponent cannot now recollect & in that service the said Hezekiah was out about one month. 
In 1779 he knows the said Hezekiah was out as a sergeant under the said Lt Samuel Shaw at Schoharie
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in the Militia & in the service of the United States, and this deponent served with him, and that service was over one month.
And this deponent further says that the said Hezekiah Hull performed a short tour of service in 1780 and as this deponent thinks as a Lieutenant, but without a Commission & with the same Lt Samuel Shaw -- and in the year 1781, the said Hezekiah performed another tour of service & he thinks in the like character of Lieutenant & under the same Lt Shaw for a period of about a month -- but whether at the North or Stone Arabia or both this deponent cannot state with certainty or particularity -- but this deponents recollection & belief is that the said Hezekiah never had a Commission as Lieutenant but only did the duty in the absence of some office in Commission.
And this deponent repeats what he stated in his former examination as to the Services of the said Hezekiah at the Highlands & his belief as to the time of that service as given in that examination -- which was at least Two months 
And this deponent further says the name of Captain Hustead was David & this deponent believes he was
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in the militia service of the United States but can not state with any Certainty.
[Signed] Peter Hull 
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 24 February 1838
[Signed] Geo R Davis Judge of Renss County Courts & Counsellor of Sup Court 

Crosswise:
In the Matter of 
Lucy Hull Widow
of Hezekiah Hull
decd. application for 
a Pension
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additional affidavits