Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 16160, Lemuel Hungerford, Conn.
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SERVICE
Conn.

Hungerford, Lemuel

NUMBER
S 16160

Carded
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31902

Ohio
Cincinnati Agency

Lemuel Hungerford
of Butler in the State of Ohio
who was a pri & mat in the Comp commanded by Captain Shapley of the regt commanded by Col. Legard in the Connecticut line for 9 mos as Matross & 8 mos Private of Infantry.

Inscribed on the Roll of Ohio
at the rate of 64 Dollars 16 Cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 11 day of Decr 1841 & sent to A. Spencer Jr. Esq. Unionville Ohio.

Arrears to the 4th of Sept. '41   $673.68
Semi-annual allowance ending 4 Mch '42  32.08
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705.76

{Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.}

Recorded by Theo. L. Moody Clerk
Book E2 Vol. 8 Page 26

Agent notified Dec 11, 41
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33.249

Lemuel Hungerford
a Revolutionary Soldier
Ohio

Admd
9 mo Matross
8 mo Pri Infy
_______
$64.16

Let to Hon Secy 
9 Dec 1841

A. Spencer Jr. Esq.
Unionville Ohio
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The State of Ohio Butter County
Court of Common Pleas July Lem 1835}Ss.
On the Seventh day August in the year of our Lord Eighteen hundred and thirty five personally appeared in open court before the Honorable the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Butter in the State of Ohio, Lemuel Hungerford, aged seventy four, a resident of Butter County aforesaid, who being first duly sworn according to Law doth upon his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June the seventh Eighteen hundred and thirty two.
That in October of the year Seventeen hundred and seventy four he volunteered and served as a regular soldier at New London in the County of New London and State of Connecticut. One year - in the company commanded by Captain Adam Shapley. This company under Captain Adam Shapley belonged to the Regiment commanded by Colonel Legard stationed at New London for the purpose of defending and protecting a large magazine and military stores belonging to the Americans. Deponent was in the service one year at New London from the first of October Seventeen hundred and seventy five. And after being dismissed from New London deponent returned home to East Haddam where his father then lived, twenty miles from New London.
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and remained at home two or three weeks when he again volunteered as a regular soldier in the month of October in the year Seventeen hundred and seventy six in the Company commanded by Captain Isael Spencer in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Campfield stationed at West Point New York, where this deponent remained in the service ten months, until in July seventeen hundred and seventy six after Independence was declared. 
Deponent also states that he had a tour of two months in the fall of the year Seventeen hundred and seventy four at Stamford Harbour in the company commanded by Captain Miles, in the regiment commanded by Colonel Campfield. Making the whole term of service of this deponent two years.
Deponent states that he was born at East Haddam in the State of Connecticut, whence he removed to the State of Ohio. And has been a resident of the County of Butter aforesaid for more than thirty years. That he applied for a pension four years since, but that his papers were lost, or as he understood burned. And from bad health and bodily infirmity has been unable to attend to making this application. Deponent states that he has no written discharge, but that he is well acquainted with Lamberd Shieffer, Enoch Bond & Plinny Shaw by whom he believes he can prove his character for truth and veracity, and that he is reputed and believed in his neighborhood to have been a soldier of the Revolution. He
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hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to 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.
Lemuel Hungerford X his mark

Sworn and subscribed in open court the day and year first above written.
John Reily Clerk

We Lamberd Sheiffer, Enoch Bond, and Plinn Shaw residing in the County of Butter and State of Ohio, do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Lemuel Hungerford who has subscribed and sworn to the above Declaration and believe him to be a man of truth and veracity, and sustains a good moral character. That he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and we concur in that opinion. We have known him for more than fourteen years; and his having been a soldier of the Revolution, we believe has never been doubted in the neighborhood where he lives.
Lamberd Sheiffer X his mark
Enoch Bond
Plinny Shaw X his mark

Sworn and subscribed in open court this seventh day of August AD 1835.
John Reily Clerk

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
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was a Revolutionary Soldier and served as he states. And the Court further certifies that Lamberd Sheiffer, Enoch BOnd and Pliny SHow who hae signed the precedding Certificate are residentson the said County of Butler and are credible persons and that ther statemnet is entitled to credit.
I John Reily Clerk of the COrut of Commonpleas of the County of Butler aforesaid do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court with the matter of application of Semuel Hungerford for a pension
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and Seal of Office this seventh day of August, One thousand eight hundred and thirty five.
John Reily
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37.50
26.66
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64.16
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I, Josiah Hungerford of the Township of LeRoy in Lake County in the State of Ohio, being seventy seven years of age, having been born on the 20th day of December 1763, depose & say that in the fall of the year 1779 my brother Lemuel Hungerford, now of Butter County in this state, was in the army of the Revolution at New London Connecticut, as a private soldier, and I also saw him repeatedly during the year of his service. He also, after the expiration of this service enlisted and went with the army to West Point, as I understood at the time, when he served eight months, as near as I can recollect. During his first years service, as above stated, I was, myself in Fort Trumbull. And further this deponent saith not.
Josiah Hungerford {L. S.}

State of Ohio
Lake County Ss}
Personally appeared before me, Garry Bates a Justice of the Peace, within & for Lake County, and after being duly cautioned, make solemn oath to the foregoing deposition & subscribed the same in my presence this 2nd day of March 1841. I also certify that the said Josiah Hungerford has lived within a few rods of me for more than ten years, and he is a man whose character for truth and veracity is unimpeached & unimpeachable & full confidence may be placed in his statements.
Garry Bates Justice of the Peace
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The State of Ohio
Lake County Ss}
I, John W. Howden, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas within and for said county, do hereby certify that Garry Bates before whom the within deposition purports to have been acknowledged is and was at the time of taking the same a justice of the peace within and for the township of Perry in said county duly elected, commissioned and qualified agreeably to Law and the signature thereunto attached purporting to be his I believe to be genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of our said court at Painesville this 15th day of March AD 1841.
John W. Howden Clerk
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FREE

Hon. John Bell
Secy of War
(Pension Office)
Washington City, D. C.

[stamped]
PAINESVILLE OHIO
SEP 7

14 Sep 1841
Mrs. Allison Hungerford
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Painesville, Lake County, Ohio Sept 6/41

Dear Sir,
Enclosed I send you a declaration of Lemuel Hungerford, a revolutionary soldier, for the purpose of obtaining a pension. This declaration is explanatory of a former one now on file in your department, to which I would refer you. I also send the deposition of James Lambert, which together with that of Josiah Hungerford, now on file in your department, fully establishes the service of the applicant. You will also find on file, now in your department, a letter from the comptroller of Connecticut, stating that the records of that state do not furnish any evidence in the case. I presume the evidence of Mr. Lemuel Hungerfords just claim to a pension will be perfectly satisfactory & that a certificate to that effect will be granted, without further delay, as he is in very needy circumstances.
You will please send the certificate to me, as the agent of the applicant & oblige.
Yours &c
Very Respectfully
Horace Stule
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FREE

To the Hon. John Bell
Secy of War
Washington City D. C.
Pension Office

[stamped]
PAINESVILLE OHIO
APR 6

Apl 4 1841
Ohio
appl of Lemuel Hungerford
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Painesville Lake Co. O. 19 March 1841

Dear Sir,
Enclosed, I send you a deposition, in support of the claim of Lemuel Hungerford, for a pension, whose declaration are on file in your office, which was made several years since, but were suspended for want of proof of his services. At that time he did not know, and has recently learned where his brother, who gives this enclosed deposition, resided. This deposition of Josiah Hungerford, places the claim of his brother Lemuel Hungerford, beyond all doubt, as it proves his service one year, most conclusively - and by inference, furnishes presumptive evidence that he also served in the revolutionary army, eight months more, making 20 months in the whole.
If there should be any thing defective in the writings, you will please inform me, and when the pension is granted, you will please direct the certificate to me, as his agent.
I also enclose the letter of the comptroller of the state of Connecticut, which will explain itself.
I am, very respectfully, yours &c
Horace Steele

To the Hon. Secy of War
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Lemuel Hungerford
Ohio
Suspended
See letter 12 Oct '36
N. P. Gaines
Let 7th Sep 1840 H. Steele, let to do: 30 Apl '41
Let to do 20 Sep '41
Let to Secy of War
Dec 9th 1841

Act 7th June 1832

Suspended
See Letter 23d Sep 1835 to John Woods Hamilton
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16.160
INVALID

File No. 16.160
Lemuel Hungerford
Pri & Mat. Rev. War

Act: June 7th 32
Index: - Vol. 1, Page 436

(Arrangement of 1870.)
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Free

Hon. J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D. C.

Hamilton O. 
15 Sept.

Ohio
Sept 21
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Hamilton Ohio, Sept. 11th 1835
Sirs,
I enclose the declaration of L. Hungerford for  pension under the act of June 1832.
I learn from Mr. Hungerford that in '30 he forwarded an application from Columbus O. where he then resided, but he supposes it never reached the department as he never received an answer
Forward your answer to me when the case of Mr. Hungerford is acted on.
Respectfully
J. L. Edwards
John Woods
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Free

Col. Jas. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D. C.

Oct 10
Ohio
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Cincinnati Ohio Oct 4th 1836

Sir/
I send you enclosed, the proofs of services, during the Revolutionary War, of Lemuel Hungerford, an applicant for a pension, for 30 months services. All that I can state in addition to what the Court of Common Pleas have certified, is, that, from the appearance of L. Hungerford, the applicant, he is 77 years of age, and seems to be recognized as a man of respectable standing, by the sheriff of our county and others, in whose company I saw him. Please answer me as soon as your convenience will permit. I am very respectfully, your obedt svt.
H. P. Gaines
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Comptrollers Office
Warford County Oct 30 1841

On application for evidence of Lemuel Hungerford, during the Revolutionary War, as a private soldier in Capt Adam Shaply Company Militia, at New London, for one year commencing in May 1778, Subsequently I say for days after! Volunteered to serve Two months in place of another man, at Horse Neck under Capt Miles Col Canfields Regt. that I have examined the Books & papers remaining in this office, And that no pay roll can be found for the above officers, that on Pay Table Books and the following entry
Captain Adam Shapely [illegible]
1778 April 14 To order on Trust in [illegible] his mate of Co at New London $330.00
Aug 6 " ditto" " ([illegible]
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"At a meeting of the Gov & Council of Safety holden at Lebanon March 5, 1779. Voted
That Capt Adam Shapely Captain of the Matross Company at New London have an order on Pay Table to liquidate his account for men fixed to keep guard at Fort Trumball, and for them to give an order on the Treasury accordingly."

That nothing further is found on the books or papers in this office either to confirm or discredit the above application.
Henry Kilbourn Comp.
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FREE

Hon Joel. R. Poinsett
Secy of War
Washington City D. C.

[stamped]
PAINESVILLE OHIO
AUG 30

S416 2 Sept 
5 September 1840
Pension Office
Ohio

Lemuel Hungerford
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Painesville, Lake County, Ohio
Aug 29, 1840

Hon. J. R. Poinsett
Secy of War,
Dear Sir, Will you have the goodness to inform me whether any application for a pension has ever reached your office, of the Pension Office, in behalf of Lemuel Hungerford, now of Butter County, but formerly of Franklin County, & then of Hamilton County, in this state. He formerly resided in Franklin County & moved from there to Hamilton County & thence to Butter County, where he now resides. I am told that he first made application at Columbus and not hearing anything from it - again applied at Cincinnati - and for the same reason, made a third application at Hamilton in Butter County. As he has not had any answer, he wishes to be informed whether any or all of these applications have ever reached the proper office - and if so, what is the reason why a pension has not been granted to him for her service in the Revolutionary war. I understand he has never furnished any proof of his services - but is now able to do so, by the testimony of a brother, who was supposed by him to be dead, till within a year or two. If his application is in the proper office, I will procure the testimony and forward it to you, but, in case the applications have neither of them reached the department, first step will be for him to make his application.
Please
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Please inform me as soon as possible, as justice to a revolutionary patriot, who, I am happy to say, is now a warm supporter of the present administration, has been too long delayed - not, however, I presume, through any neglect of the department - but on account of the want of the proper testimony to authorize his name to be enrolled as a pensioner.
I am, very respectfully,
Your obedient servant.
Horace Steele

P. S. Since writing the above a nephew of said Hungerford has called on me and says he thinks, I have not stated the order of making the three several applications as they occurred. He thinks the first application was made at Columbus - the second in Butter Co. and the third in Hamilton County. But thinks he resided in Butter County at the time of his application in Cincinnati.
Yours &c
H. Steele
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Pension Office
December 9, 1841
Commissioner of Pensions
Report in the case of
Lemuel Hungerford, who
claims a pension for
Revolutionary service
S556. Recd Dec. 9. 1841.
Pension Office
Let a certificate be issued
working to these principles
may be transferred to
A. Spence priv  Unionville
Ohio. J.O. S.
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Pension Office
December 9th 1841

Sir,
In obedience to your order I have the honor to make the following report upon the claim of Lemuel Hungerford of Ohio.
The claimant has made three declarations under the act of June 7th 1832, in which the discrepancies particularly as to dates afforded grounds of services difficulty in this adjustment of his claim. This is and has been imputed to his illiteracy and impaired memory and not to a want of truth and honesty. Another difficulty was the failure to adduce the certificate of the Comptroller of Connecticut which has heretofore been required. The certificate of that officer enclosed in Mr. Spencer's letter of the 27th [illegible] corroborates the alleged service under Capt Shapley at New London in 1778 '9 by showing
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that £3479.18.1 1/2 was paid on account of the services of that company at New London at that time. The first payment was the 14th of April 1778 (probably for bounties) the order on the Treasurer for payment of the last and principal account is dated February 12th 1779. This is conclusive that his service was less than 12 months for which he claims. As the pension is a pro rata one the length of the service must be ascertained with satisfactory precision before it can be adjusted. If the amount of service is to be estimated by the foregoing exhibits it would appear that 9 months is a liberal allowance for this term. Another term claimed to have been rendered at West Point under Capt Spencer of Col Canfields regiment which claimant estimated at 12 months in his first declaration, at 10 in his second and at 8 in his last is not alluded to in the application to the Comptroller nor embraced in the Comptrollers certificate. But as
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it is known that Canfields regiment served about 8 months in 1779 '80 at West Point and the claimant has furnished a witness to his service therein at that place, he may be allowed for that term.
The other term of 2 months under Capt Miles as a substitute for another whose name is not given is not sustained by the Comptroller's certificate nor by any satisfactory parol testimony.
If the claim should be adjusted upon the foregoing views it would afford him a stipend for life of $64.16 per annum, from the 4th of March 1831.
I have the honor to be 
Very respectfully
Your Most obt Svt
J. L. Edwards
Comm of Pensions

Hon. J. C. Spencer
Secretary of War
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33.897 33.249
Lemuel Hungerford
Ohio
[right side]
2
Lemuel Hungerford
to the United States 
Declaration & c. to obtain 
a pension
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State of Ohio
Hamilton County Ss
On this 4th day of October 1836, personally appeared in open court, before the Court of Common Pleas of Hamilton County now sitting, Lemuel Hungerford, a resident of Hamilton County aforesaid, aged seventy seven years [smudged] 14th day of May last, 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 7th 1832.
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers, and served as herein stated; - 
In the fall of the year 1775 (he does not recollect the month) he entered said service at New London in the State of Connecticut, as a volunteer for twelve months, in Capt Adam Shapley's company in the regiment commanded by Col. Ledged, and served out the said twelve months according to his agreement
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and was then discharged by the said Colonel. That the said services were performed in Fort Trumbull, near the light house, and the troops to which he belonged were stationed there during the whole of said term; that the number of militia, including said Hungerford, stationed at Fort Trumbull, was about one hundred; - that the officers in said Capt. Shapley's company, were Lieut Howe and Ensign Chapman; - that after said term of service had expired, he was discharged as aforesaid, or rather permitted verbally to return home, to East Haddam (the residence of his father) and remained there for two or three weeks, and then volunteered for a second term of eight months at said town of Haddam, in Capt Israel Spencer's company, and marched to West Point in New York, and was then attached to the regiment commanded by Col. Canfield, where he rendered at West Point during said term of eight months, and was then discharged
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and returned home, that during his stay at West Point, Genl McDougal had the chief command of the troops stationed at that place and its vicinity; that during the whole period of his service, twelve months at Fort Trumbull and eight months at West Point, he was not in any battle or skirmish; that he has no documentary evidence, and knows of no person whose testimony he can procure who can testify to his service.
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.
Lemuel Hungerford X his mark

Sworn & subscribed the day and year aforesaid before me in open court.
Wm H. Harrison Clk
by Jas Snider Dpy

We Lambert Shafer residing in the county of Hamilton and state of Ohio, and Saml Adams, residing in the same county and state, hereby certify that
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We are well acquainted with Lemuel Hungerford who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; and that we believe him to be seventy seven years of age; that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.
Samuel Adams
Lambert Shieffer X his mark

Sworn to and subscribed the day & year aforesaid.
Wm. H. Harrison Clk
by Jas Snider Dpy

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 said Adams & Shieffer who have signed the preceding certificate, are residents in the County of Hamilton & State of Ohio; and that they
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are credible persons, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
The same time the following interrogatories were propounded by the Court to the above named applicant, whose answers to the same follow in order;
1st Where and in what year were you born?
Answer: I was born in East Haddam in the State of Connecticut May 14th in the year 1759.

2nd Have you any record of your age, and if so, where is it?
Answer: I have no record of my age; but was often told by my father & mother that I was born on the 14th of May 1759.

3rd Where were you living when called into service; where have you lived since the Revolutionary War, and where do you now live?
I was living in East Haddam Connecticut when called into the U. S. service & remained there until about thirty seven years ago when I removed to Hamilton County Ohio, where I now live.
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4th How were you called into service, were you drafted, did you volunteer, or were you a substitute? And if a substitute for whom?
Answer: I was a volunteer, first for twelve months, & then for eight months; but was never drafted, enlisted or a substitute.

5th State the names 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 service.
Answer: I cannot recollect any regular officers being where I served. Genl McDougals however, was the commander in chief, during the time I was at West Point; Col. Canfield commanded the militia regiment to which the company of Capt Spencer, my captain belonged.

6th Did you ever receive a discharge from the service, and if so, by whom was it given and what has become of it?
Answer: I never received a written discharge when my respective terms of service, we were merely dismissed.
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7th 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.
Answer: I am known to Jeremiah Butterfield, Richard Shaw, & Plinn Shaw, besides Major Chas Coue, and number of others, who would if called on, testify as to my character for truth & veracity, as well as to their belief of my having been a soldier of the Revolution.
Lemuel Hungerford
William Henry Harrison Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of Hamilton County & State of Ohio, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the application of Lemuel Hungerford for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office, this 4th day of October 1836.
Wm. H. Harrison Clk
by Jas S Snider Dpy
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The State of Ohio
Butter County Ss. 
On this 10th day of August AD 1841 personally appeared before me Enoch Larison a Justice of the Peace in and for said county and state aforesaid, Lemuel Hungerford, a resident of Fairfield township county and state aforesaid aged seventy nine years on the 14th day of May last, having been born in East Haddam Connecticut on the 14th day of May AD 1762. 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 7th 1832. That he entered the service when a resident of East Haddam in the State of Connecticut in the month of May 1778 a few days passed his sixteenth year by volunteering into the militia line for one year and served at New London under Captain Adam Shapley, his regiment was commanded by Col. Ledgged or Ledget. At the expiration of this years service at New London he was dismissed without any written discharge. When in three or four days after his dismissal as aforesaid he again volunteered to fill another mans place for two months and served at Horse Neck under Captain Miles and Colonel Canfield at the end of this two months service he volunteered for two months longer and served at Black Hall on the sea shore but does not recollect his Col or Captains name, his lieutenants name was Asa Harvey a resident of East Haddam, Connecticut at the time. Where again at the expiration of this last mentioned two months service in the militia there was a draught made for eight [illegible] tho sure he volunteered and served his time out at West Point under Captain Israel Spencer and Colonel Canfield
(over)
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his memory has become so Broken by old age and infirmity that he is not able to tell the number of any one of the Regts or Companies.  It so happens that he never was called into action against the enemy.  His Last tour of service at West Point expired early in the spring of the year 1780 and that his service was pretty much one continued routine of service from his first entering the militia or army at New London until he was dismissed at West Point with the exception of some three or four days between the different Towns.  As I have made some two or three to the department before this, on Comparing should there be any discrepancy as to age or dates [unsure] must be attributed to loss of memory from old age & infirmity or an error in the one who penned it down for me as I am not able to read writing for myself.  He hereby relinquishes every Claim [unsure] over to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on any pension roll of the agency of any state.  This declaration being considered an amendment to my declarations heretofore made to the department as to my age dates [unsure] as I since have ascertained more correctly from a Statement sent [unsure] of my age taken from the family record by my Brother Josiah Hungerford in the Township of Leroy now Lake County Ohio and whom I did not know was living at the time of making my former declaration.  I therefore [unsure] the department for Credibility of Character and all further rules [unsure] of the department to my former declaration and further saith not
           his
Lemuel X Hungerford
         mark
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid before --
The State of Ohio            Enoch Larison J Pence
Butler County    August 10th 1841 I Enoch Larison a justice of the peace in x for said County [unsure] further testify that the aforesaid Lemuel Hungerford's character for truth and veracity from his acquainted generally stands good and unpeckable __
Enoch Larison Justice of the Peace
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STATE OF OHIO,    )
Hamilton County,  ) ss.

I, JACOB W. PLATT, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas within and for said county of Hamilton, do hereby certify that John Ashby before whom the within or foregoing Deposition appears to have been acknowledged was at the time of subscribing the same, an ACTING JUSTICE OF THE PEACE in and for said county, duly commissioned and qualified, and that full faith and credit are due to all his official acts as such.
    In testimony whereof, I, the Clerk aforesaid, have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of the said Court, at Cincinnati, in the said county, this 27th day of July, A.D. 1841.

[signed] Jac. W. Platt     Clerk H. C. C. P.
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James Lamberts
Deposition
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I, James Lambert, formerly of Cedar Jaronship County of Dearborn and State of Indiana but now being in Hamilton County Ohio and being eighty five years of age on this 25th day of March last having first been duly sworn according to law, depose and say that I was a draughted militia soldier under Captain Miller in the late revolutionary war of the United States with Great Britain in years 1779 and 1780 at West Point and Horse Neck and Black Hall as they were then termed and that I then and there saw Lemuel Hungerford who is now a resident in Butler County State of Ohio whom I have this day seen and conversed with serving as a militia soldier at each and all of those points above mentioned at West Point according to the best of my recollection some nine or ten months under Captain Spencer, I think his name was, and at Horse Neck some two months or more under Captain Cary if I mistake not and at Black Hall as it was called.  I do not recollect what was his Captain's name.  I heard his name frequently called at all the above named places but as he did not belong to the same company which I belong to I was not so well acquainted with him as I was with those who belonged to my own company and further this [] saith not

James Lambert Mark

Personally appeared before John Ashby, a Justice of the Peace within and for the county aforesaid and after being conditioned made John oath to the foregoing deposition and subscribed the same in my presence this 13th day of July AD 1841. I also further certify that from information all appearances he is a man whose character stands good for truth and veracity.  

John Ashby, Justice of the Peace. SEAL.
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State of Ohio, Hamilton County,

I, Jacob W, Platt, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas within and for said county of Hamilton, do hereby certify that John Ashby before whom the within or foregoing Deposition appears to have been acknowledging was at the time of subscribing the same, an Acting Justice of the Peace in and for said county, duly commissioned and qualified, and that full faith and credit are due to all his official acts as such. 

In Testimony Whereof, I, the Clerk aforesaid, have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of the said Court, at Cincinnati, in the said county, this 27th day of July A.D. 1841

Jac. W. Platt Clerk H.C.C.P.