Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 17499, for Isaac Hunt, Connecticut
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(3-1776)

SERVICE

Conn.

Hunt, Isaac

NUMBER
S. 17499
                       Carded
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Contents
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State of New York}
County of Oneida} SS    Personally appeared before the Subscriber a Justice of the peace in and for Said County William Hunt of Ansville in Said County aged Forty Seven Years in March last 1844, after being duly Sworn according to law, deposeth and saith that Widow Rebecca Hunt who made application for a pension as the Widow of Isaac Hunt late a pensioner of the United States several years Since is this deponents Mother, and that the Said Isaac Hunt was this deponents father, that this deponents said father and mother, had as the legal fruit of their marriage, several children older than this deponent, all own brothers and sisters to this deponent, and that the eldest of them [illegible word]  to the information that the deponent has [illegible word] for the last thirty years is from his first recollection, is that his eldest brother if now living would be eleven years older than this deponent that this deponents said father died in the year 1836 eighteen hundred and thirty six and that his afforsaid [sic] mother still remains a widow
      [Signed] William Hunt
Subscribed and sworn before me this 3 day of April eighteen hundred & Forty four -
    [Signed] A.H. Hinkly  Justice of the peace
I certify that the above named William Hunt is a respectable person
            [Signed] A.H. Hinkly
                          Justice of the Peace

State of New York
County of Oneida} SS    Personally appeared before the Subscriber a Justice of the peace in and for the Said County, Orrin M. Hunt of Ansville in Said County aged Forty four years. After being duly sworn according to law - deposeth and saith that Widow Rebecca Hunt who made application for a pension as the widow of Isaac Hunt, late a pensioner of the United States several years since, is this deponents mother, and that the said father and mother has as the legal fruit of their marriage Eight children older than this deponent, allown brothers and sisters to this deponent, and that the eldest of them according to the information that  that [sic] thoas deooent has reeived for the last thirty years or from his first recollection is, that his eldest brother if now living would be fourteen years older than this deponent. That this deponent said father died in the year 1836 eighteen hundred & thirty six - And that his afforsaid [sic] mother Still remains a Widow -
         [Signed]  Orrin M. Hunt
Subscribed and sworn before me
this 3 day  of April 1844
          [Signed]  A.H. Hinkly
                         Justice of the Peace
    I certify the above named Orrin M Hunt is a respectable person -
          [Signed] A.H. Hinkly
                        Justice of the Peace
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State of New York
County of Oneida} SS   Personally appeared before the subscriber a Justice of the Peace of the Peace in and for said County Miller Jackson of  herein said County aged fifty five years and upwards, who being first duly sworn according to the law, deposeth and saith that he was personally acquainted with Isaac Hunt late a pensioner of the United States who died in 1838, eighteen hundred thirty six leaving his widow Rebecca Hunt who made application for a pension as his widow several years since, from Oneida County, that this deponent is personally acquainted with the within named Orrin M. and William Hunt, both sons of the said parties and that he has from his first acquaintance for the last Forty five -- years heard, understood, and believed that they were own sons of the above named parties, to wit, Isaac Hunt, and his present widow Rebecca Hunt, who [illegible] made application for a pension as such widow, and that their sons, the said William and Orrin M. Hunt, are forty seven & forty four years of age, as this deponent believes, & that this deponent Knows, that the above named parties and seven children older than either of their sons William & Orrin, above named, own brothers & sisters to them, & own children of both of the said parties, as this deponent has always heard, understood & believed, of which fact he has not the least doubt, and that the adult child now living about fifty eight years of age, knowing from his first acquaintance, that the oldest child of said parties, was about three years older than this deponent & that said Rebecca Hunt Still remains a widow,
                 [Signed]  Miller Jackson
Subscribed & sworn before me
this 9 day of May 1844}
     [Signed]  N.S. Loomis Justice of the Peace
State of New York
County of Oneida} SS       Personally appeared before the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for said County Amos Warner of Verona in said  county aged Thirty nine years & upwards, who being first duly sworn according to law deposeth and saith, that he was personally acquainted with Isaac Hunt late a pensioner of the United States who died in 1836 Eighteen hundred thirty six, leaving as his widow Rebecca Hunt, who made application for a pension as his widow, several years since, from Oneida County, that this deponent is personally acquainted with the within named William & Orrin M. Hunt both sons of the said parties, and that he has from his first acquaintance for the last thirty or more years,
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heard, understood and believed, that they were own sons of the above named parties, to Wit, Isaac Hunt and his present widow Rebecca Hunt who made application for a pension as before stated, and that their sons the said William and Orrin M Hunt, are of the age of forty seven and forty four years [last word inserted] as this deponent believes , and that this deponent has also from his first acquaintances, understood and believed, that the above named parties, has seven children older than either of their sons William and Orrin the above named all own brothers and sisters to them, and own children of both of the said parties, of this fact this deponent has no doubt, and that the eldest child, if now living, would be about fifty eight years of age, knowing from his first acquaintance that the eldest child was about 18 0r 20 years older - than this deponent of which fact he s confident, - further that the above named Rebecca Hunt still remains a widow -
                  [Signed]  Amos Warner
Subscribed & sworn before me
this 9th day of May 1844-}
        [Signed]  N.S. Loomis Justice of the Peace
I certify that the above named Amos Warner is a reputable person.
       [Signed]  N.S. Loomis Justice of the Peace

State of New York
County of Oneida} Js  Personally appeared before the subscriber Justice of the Peace in and for said County Truman Jackson known in said County aged Forty four years, who being first duly sworn according to law deposeth and saith that he was personally acquainted with Isaac Hunt late a pensioner of the United States, who died in 1836 eighteen hundred & thirty six, leaving as his widow Rebecca Hunt, who made application for a pension several years since, as such widow, that this deponent is personally acquainted with William & Orrin M. Hunt, sons of said parties and that he has from his first acquaintances and for the last Thirty five years heard understood and believed that they were own sons of the above named Isaac Hunt and his present widow Rebecca Hunt who made application for a pension as above states, and that their sons. the said William & Orrin M. Hunt are forty seven& forty four years of age as this deponent believes, and that this deponent has also understood and believed that the above named parties had  seven children older than their sons. William & Orrin M. above named, all own brothers & sisters to them, & own children of both of the said parties - of this fact the deponent is confident and that the eldest child of said Isaac & Rebecca Hunt if now living would be some fifty eight years of age, knowing from his personal acquaintance with the eldest child, that there was but about 10 or 15 years difference in the ages of said eldest child of the said parties and this deponent And that from his personal acquaintance with the above named widow, Rebecca Hunt, for the last Thirty five years as above stated, he has the most [illegible] confidence in her statements as being the truth, and nothing but the truth -
                [Signed]  Truman Jackson
 I certify that the above named Truman Jackson is a reputable person -
    [Signed]  N.S. Loomis Justice of the Peace
Subscribed & sworn before me
this 9th Day of May 1844
    [Signed]  N.S. Loomis Justice of the Peace
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                 State of New York
Clerks Office
Oneida County Js   I Delos Dewolf Clerk of the said County certify that A.H. Hinkly, Esquire was on the 3rd day of April AD 1844 a Justice of the Peace, in and for the said County, duly elected and qualified to act as such: - Also that N. S. Loomis Esquire was on the 9th day of May 1844 a Justice of the peace, in and for the said County- duly elected and qualified to act as such, and that the signatures of the said Justices respectively subscribed to the certificates of the proof or authenticity of the foregoing depositions are genuine. -

 In testimony whereof I have hereunto
affixed the Seal of the Court of Common
Pleas of the Said County, (Such Court being by the laws of this State a Court of Record) I subscribe my name this 10th day if May AD 1844
        [Signed]  Delos Dewolf Clerk
                      per James Edgar Dep. Clk
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                        17.940
                   Connecticut          17.940
                Isaac Hunt
of Roxbury in the State of Con
who was a Pri in the Con commanded 
by Captain -__ of the ___ commanded
by Col.  [illegible] in the Con Militia
line for 7 mo. 15 days

{The following information is partially covered by an ink blot]

Note:
Inscribed on the                     Con
at the rate of         Dollars 00 Cents per annum,
to commence on          day of March, 1831.

Certificate of P              the 14 day of Octr
                                  C. B.
Phelps                              Con

Arrears to the 4th                     $   62.50
Semi-anl. allowance   Mar 4         12.50   
                                                     ______
                                                  $  75.00
                                     {Revolutionary Claim,
                                       Act June 7, 1832.}
Recorded by ED Bullock Clerk,
Book E   Vol 3   Page 17-

                J-


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A. B -
Died Feb. 22 1836

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To Name Dec 1 1845
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 Isaac Hunt
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[Stamp              State of Connecticut
affixed               Court of Probate} SS         
here]                                 District of Woodbury

On this 28 day of July 1832 personally appeared, in open Court, before the Court of Probate holden at Woodbury, within and for the Probate District of Woodbury in the County of Litchfield now sitting, Isaac Hunt a resident of Roxbury in the said District & County and State of Connecticut, aged seventy six years, who being first 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. 1832.
    That he entered the service of the United States under the following named Officers, and served as herein Stated.
   I was born at Roxbury in Connecticut then Woodbury on 18 Day of March 1756 and remained at Roxbury then a part of Woodbury untill [sic] I entered into the army.  I was a member of Capt David Leavenworths Company of Militia Col Hinman, afterward, Col Montley's Regiment in August 1777. I was drafted to go to Peckhill and the rose Mills and  [illegible] militia in said company with nineteen others from our company [last three words inserted] marched thence under one Lieutenant Capt David Leavenworth was Captain   This Company remained on duty at Rose Mills and placed adjacent & at Pecks Hill about six weeks. we returned within the three or four first days of October 1777.
   In August 1778 I was again drafted for two months I then accompany to Leavenworths company and marched to Horse Neck. I joined then the Washington company Elija Hagen had the command of his Washington company attachment, our Captain was was from one there Capt Dunning & I believe  but am not certain General Mead had the command of the troops at Horse Neck     I performed this tour two months and was dismissed  at Horse Neck on or about 12 of Oct,  I was at Rye in this tour a little while.
   In the fall of 1779 I was again in the army.  My brother William Hunt was drafted/ he got me to go as a substitute for him   I left Roxbury in October 1779, about the first as I [illegible word] and served in Capt Samuel Hurlburts company two months and was discharged in Dec 1779 at [illegible] pitts.  The attachment from Capt Leavenworths company was was around to rendevous [sic] at Fairfield and area.  Lieut John Gibbons of Washington was our Lieutenant. We were guarding    Law [?] Pitts N York
       In May 1780  I was again drafted in said Leavenworths company and went to Horse Neck under Capt  Hendincut [?] and served two months the [illegible] to Capt Leavenworth is enclosed - it was found among his papers - I was not probably
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leave Roxbury and join this company .... the beginning of June 1780.

   In the month of June 1781 I entered into the  Teaming service under Gideon Leavenworth and went with the army from New Jersey to York town.  I commenced carrying baggage at White Plains N York from there to Pecks Hill thence to King's ferry and across into New Jersey   I went with the army all the way to York Town and around [illegible] New York taken about Oct 1781  there a hard service in this Tour.  My oxen died.  [illegible] then [illegible] about 1 Oct and returned to Con
   I never had a discharge.
I have lived in Roxbury ever since my return from the army & now live - I know of no record of my age -
   I was drafted once to go to Norwalk but was sick and excused. I was also drafted once went to Newtown and [illegible] three or four days.
   I know of no person alive by whom I can prove my services except Laid Warner whose deposition is herewith transmitted
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I have made diligent enquire for further proof but van find none

The said Isaac Hunt 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.  
                         [Signed] Isaac Hunt
Sworn to, and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid.
          [Signed] Rt B Phelps  Judge
                   of Probate Dist Woodbury
             
We, Fowler Harrison a clergyman residing in the town of Roxbury and Isaac B. Hawley residing in same, hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with Isaac Hunt who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be 76 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.
   [Signed]  Fowler Harrison
                   Isaac B. Hawley
   Sworn and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid.
  [Signed]  Rt B Phelps Judge of
Probate District of
Woodbury

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 abovenamed applicant was a revolutionary Soldier, and served as he states.  And the Court further certifies, that it appears to them that Foster Harrison who has signed the preceding certificate, s a clergyman, resident in the town of Roxbury and that Isaac B. Hawley who has also signed the same, is a resident of the town of Roxbury and is a credible  [large blot covers this are]  and that their statement is entitled to credit.  
     [Signed] Rt B. Phelps Judge of Probate
                    District of Woodbury
    I,  Nathan Preston Clerk of Probate Court District of Woodbury  do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of said Court in the matter of the application of Isaac Hunt for a Pension.  In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of ..................  Office,
this third day of September 1832.
  [Signed] Nathan Preston Clerk
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                                  February 20, 1939.

Mrs. Minnie C. Coleman                 BA-J/ILL
1710 South State Street                 Isaac Hunt
Syracuse. New York.                       S. 17499

Dear Madam:

  Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revolutionary War record of Isaac Hunt, a pensioner of Litchfield County, Connecticut, in 1832.

   The data which follow are found in the papers on file in pension claim, S. 17499, based upon service in the Revolutionary War of Isaac Hunt.

    Isaac Hunt was born March 18, 1756 in Woodbury (the part later called Roxbury), Connecticut; the names of his parents were not given. At the time of the Revolutionary War, he was designated Isaac Hunt, Jr., and resided in Woodbury, in Litchfield County, Connecticut.

    He entered service in 1776, in Captain David Leavenworth's company of militia, was called out in August 1777, served in that company and in Captain Elijah Hinman's Connecticut company, in all three months; he was called out in August 1778, and served two months in Captain David Leavenworth's company; in the fall of 1779, he served two months as a private in Captain Samuel Hurlbut's Connecticut company. which service was rendered as substitute for his brother, William Hunt; he enlisted in May or June 1780, and served two months in Captain Sturdivant's Connecticut company.  In July 1781, he entered service as a teamster under Gideon Leavenworth, drove through Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Maryland and on to Yorktown, during which period his horses and an ox died.  Isaac Hunt returned home on foot, arriving there January 2, 1782.

    Isaac Hunt was allowed pension on his application executed July 28, 1832, at which time he resided in Roxbury, Connecticut. He died
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February 22, 1836.  The soldier's widow, Rebecca, survived him; her maiden name and the date of their marriage are not shown. She was living in 1844;   a part of the time following her husband's death, her residence was Oneida County, New York.

   Isaac Hunt and his wife, Rebecca, had nine children; it was stated in 1844 that their eldest child, a son, would have been about fifty-eight years, his name not given.  In 1844, two sons, William and Orrin M. Hunt, aged forty-seven years and forty four years, respectively, resided in Ansville, Oneida County, New York. There are no further data in regard to the family of this soldier.

                           Very truly yours,


                           A.D. Hiller
                           Executive Assistant
                           to the administrator.

                                  2.
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                 17499
                INVALID

File No              91
   Isaac Hunt
Pri  Rev War

Act:  June 7, 1832

Index:-  Vol. 1   Page 436
    [Arrangement of 1870.]


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1926 June 11 Hist to Minnie C. Coleman [illeg.]
1939 - Feb 20  Hist to Mrs Minnie C. Coleman  
                                                          ILL
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[illegible]  in margin of
Cicular Apr 29, 1846, that no other [illegible] had been nod
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                                            Rose  New York
                                              April 25 1845
Sir, 
              Your letter of the 28th ult addressed
[first and last name illegible] Esq informs me that the name of Rebecca Hunt does not appear upon your Books as an applicant for a pension under act of 1838, from the State of Connecticut.
    In reply permit me respectfully to state, that a letter from her son informed me that application was made from Woodbury, Ct in the month of Jany (probably in 1839   Mr  ...... Phelps agent - papers executed before Jesse B Lewis or B Lewis - Judge-
           It may be possible that the
declaration was made under Act of the 4th July
183[?].
                         I have the honor to be
                         Very respectfully 
                           Your Obliged  Sevt
                           [Signed]   W.G. Wade
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    Nov 8, 1848

Recd
Rebecca Hunt
Mary Meyers


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                                                              10
Hon J. L. Edwards
    Comr. of Pensions
         Washington
                    D.C.
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                                    Ovid  Oct 30th 1845

Sir
   Yours of the 29th in the case of Rebecca Hunt, filing her papers with those of Isaac Hunt of Connecticut,  a pensioner, was correct, as her husband lived & died in Conc -please now to inform me what further is wanted in the case as you will now understand it - Respectfully your
                                                Obt Sevt
                                                  Arad Joy
Hon J. L. Edwards
     Comr. of Pensions
             Washington
                             D.C.
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(J) L. Edwards
     Comr of Pensions
            Washington
                     D.C.
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                                 Ovid Dec 18th 1844

J.L. Edwards
    Comr of Pensions -
                                        Dear Sir
                                            I beg leave to ask
for the proof in the case of Rebecca Hunt, whose application was made from the  State of Connecticut, I enclose the proof on good faith
[next several words are faded. illegible] and Supplies as to be in part and  [illegible] & if I should not establish case, to be pleased to State the objection, and what further proof will clean up and establish this case -
                      I am Respectfully
                           Obt Servt -
                                    Arad Joy
I heard a report the 
Old lady has died]
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Arad Joy
     March 29, '45
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                                              Pension Office
                                                 Mar.29 '45.
Sir
    The name of Rebecca Hunt does not appear in this Office as that of an applicant for a Widow's pension.  The papers forwarded by you under date of Decr 18th 44 have been filed with those of a Jsaac Hunt Who was a  pensioner under the act of June 7th 32, to await the Act of June 7the 32 to await such action in the case as deemed proper.



Arad Joy, Esq
          Ovid                        17.9 40
             N.Y.                  Act  January 7th 32
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                                                June 11, 1926

Minnie C. Coleman
1710 S. State St
Syracuse, N.Y.

Madam:
    I have to advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary Was pension claim S. 17499, it appears that Isaac Hunt was born March 18, 1756 at Roxbury, Litchfield County, Connecticut.
    While residing at said Roxbury, he served as a private in the Connecticut Troops, as follows-
    In 1776, he belonged to a company of militia under Captain David Leavenworth, and, in 1777, served three months under Captain Leavenworth and Elijah Hinman in Colonel Dimon's Regiment.
    from August 1778, two months in Captain Leavenworth's Company.
   In the fall of 1779. two months (as a substitute for his brother, William) in Captain Samuel Hurlbut's Company.
   From May or June 1780, two months under Captain
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Sturdivant.
    From July 1781, he was a teamster under Gideon Leavenworth, and went to Yorktown, on the way there his horses and ox died, and he had to return to Roxbury on foot, reaching here January 2, 1782.
   He was allowed pension on his application executed July 28, 1838, while a resident of Roxbury, Connecticut.
    He died in 1836, leaving a widow, Rebecca. her maiden name is not stated.
    Sons, William and Irvin M., in 1844, were living in Oneida County, New York, aged respectively - forty-seven and forty-four years.  There were seven children older than they, the oldest one [illegible] if living at that time would be eleven years older than William. 

            Respectfully,

                        WINFIELD SCOTT
                           Commissioner.
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          MINNESOTA DAUGHTERS OF THE
                   AMERICAN REVOLUTION

  MRS. HUGH VICTOR MERCER, CONSULTING 
                                                                   REGISTRAR
            3800 ZENITH AVENUE SOUTH
                  MINNEAPOLIS, MINN.

                                  January 18, 1939

Veterans Administration
  Washington, D.C.
               Gentlemen: 
                      Will you please send me, when 
convenient, the Pension record of one Isaac Hunt, born about 1755, serving in Captain Mills Comapny [sic[, Bradley's Battalion. Wadsworth's Brigade. He served and was taken prisoner at the fall of Fort Washington, N.Y. ("Conn. Men in the Revolution")  He is mentioned on the Conn. Pension List, page 109, from Litchfield County, Conn, on which list his name was placed Oct. 14, 1833.
                 Thanking you in advance,
                            I am sincerely yours,
                                 Edith C. Mercer

Mrs. H.V. Mercer
  3800 Zenith Ave S.
Minneapolis, Minn.

                                       [A stamp dated Jan 20 1939
                                         appears here]
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                                           1719 So. State St.,
                                               Syracuse, N. Y.
                                              April 2nd., 1926.

Commissioner of Pensions,
                           Washington, D.C.
Dear Sir:-

     Isaac Hunt is mentioned on page 653 conn. Men in the Revolution as a Pensioner living in Litchfield Co., Conn. in 1832.

      Can you advise me what the service s were for which he was pensioned?

               Yours very truly.
                   Minnie C. Coleman
                    (Mrs.)  Minnie C. Coleman.

Revolutionary War.
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                                    1710 South State St.,
                                      Syracuse, N. Y.
                                      June 2nd., 1926.
War 1776

Commissioner of Pensions,
                         Washington, D.C.
Dear Sir:-
     Connecticut Men in the Revolution give an Isaac Hunt as a Pensioner living in Litchfield Co. Ct. in 1832.

   Can you give me the services for which he claimed his pension?  Was he a prisoner at Fort Washington?
        Thanking you for your reply,
                      Yours very truly,
  [Signed] (Mrs.) Minnie C Coleman
                           (Minnie C. Coleman)
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July 20   I Entered
Service July 23                           A
Nathan Bacor
Jedediah
Jacob      E Derkin
             Thomas
Samuel Sutton
Isaac Hunt

Entered Service
August the 3
Robert Warner
Gorge Norton
Elijah Nortrop
Calep Nicols
the above Names
Entered Service
Simon Curtis        Entered Service August 8 as a Cook
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[Each of the following have an 'X' on them]

Samuel Lutonton Lt
16/3 hand for [illegible]                      B

Isaac hunt Dt 1  L 4 3/4 Dt 
1/0 for  Same  0-19-10 for Iron [?]
and 2/3 for expense at [illegible]

Nathan Bacor Dt 1/11 at [illegible]

Isaac hunt Dt 3/6 for
a lantern
Dt 7/0 hand         3

Elijah Northrop Dt  2/5
Lent money

Nathan Bacor Dt 3/0     [?]
at Olde Whipamy

Isaac hunt Dt   5.8     [?]

Calp Nicols   Dt   3/5  [?]

Calep Nicols   Dt  3.0   [?]

Walham Bacor  Dt
five Crowns

Gorge Norton Dt
Nine Crowns

Samuel Lutonton
Nine Crowns

Jacob Thomas Dt Nine
Crowns

Elijah Northrop  Dt Nine
Crowns

Calep Nicols  Dt by Corps
Norton two Crowns

Isaac hunt Dt  4-12-8
hard cash

Robert Wornor  Dt  12/8

Jedediah Elderkin Dt 20/0

Calep Nicols Dt 6/8 hard

Simon Curtis Dt 20/0 hard
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Isaac Hunt Dt 3/4.
X Isaac Hunt Dt 26/8
X Caleb Nicols Dt five
        Crowns
X Simon Curtis Dt 6/0
    Simon Curtis and 
    Nicols was with
    Capt Cleveland  Sept. 27
______________ 
Isaac Hunt  LA 9/0 
Capt Lydiah Cleveland 
took command of two of
my teams which was 
Calen, Nicols, Simon , Curtis
  Sept 21 AD 1781
__________________________
at Canterbury in
Connecticut
__________________________
X Robert Warnon Dt  1810
X Sergt Lacy H. Gimalet 1/0
X Elijah Northrop Dt
       1 lb of Led 10/0
X Isaac hunt   DT 0/6 for Shot                                                                                                                             X Isaac hunt Dt 1 Comb 0/9



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Noah Woodward
Isaac hunt
Franc thomas
Bijah Mitchel
the above named was
six Days on the march
to Camp Before they
Drawed Rations
Robard Horner
Ebenezor Lacys
Enoch Northrop
the above Names was
five Days on the march
to Camp before they
Drawd Rations    Simon
Curtis   six Days Before he 
Drawd Ration
Nathan Bacon was 21 
Days Before he Drawd
Rations
Ashbel Wels is the 
man to Settle all
(Accounts at harford   [sic]
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lng of Febry  August 22
Received 2 months one pint of 
Rum
[illegible line]   2 h
Recd 2 Quarts of Rum
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paid 2/0 for [illegible]  my
one horse Belonging to the teams
___________________________
paid 4/0 for shewing 
my hors 
Samuel Lutton and
Isaac Hunt
was fiv  Days in
the Rear. At the
hed of  [illegible] to Bring
on the Last Oxon
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State of Connecticut
                                Js  Court of Probate
                                  District of Woodbury
                                        August 7, 1832

Be it remembered that in the day and year aforesaid before the Court of Probate aforesaid in session personally appeared Laut Warner of Roxbury in said District whom the Court certify to be a credible witness and being first duly cautioned and sworn on oath declares and says that he was born in said Roxbury  and has been acquainted with Isaac Hunt of said Roxbury since boyhood - and was a private in the Roxbury Militia company (then a company of militia in Woodbury) with said Hunt in the years 1776, 7 and 8, 9 & 1780
That this Deponent well remembers said company of militia under Capt David Leavenworth was called together at the parade ground in Roxbury then a part of Woodbury in the month of February 1777 [illegible] said Capt Leavenworth informed the company he had orders to Draft from said company a certain number of privates   this Deponent [two illegible words] to perform a tour of duty on the sea coast about Horse Neck for three months and proposed not to make a draft if enough  soldiers could be found to volunteer and go and that it should count the same as if drafted -
This Deponent knows that Isaac Hunt then
[illegible] Hunt [illegible] was a private in said company  & present and said person [last five words inserted] and that said Hunt and this Deponent and Amos Leavenworth then of Roxbury and Austin Norton of said Roxbury both privates in said
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company and some others whom the Deponent cannot now recolect [sic] volunteered to go and not have a draft and signed a paper to that effect. Since soon after marched with said Capt Leavenworth to Horse Neck and Rye [illegible] when arrived there it was found that three more more [sic] officers than was mention and Capt Leavenworth [illegible] have to return home and the soldiers from his company were put under the command of Capt Elijah Hinman  The Lieutenant this Deponent does not remember   Luke Welch was a Sergeant   That this Deponent continued to do duty in said company at Rye  [illegible word] & Horse Neck for about two months and a half and was then permitted about the middle of May to return home by Capt Hinman who then belonged to said Woodbury part called South Britain, to assess the Deponent further who was then an old man
  This Deponent knows said Hunt performed his duty in said company at the time this Deponent was with said company and that this Deponent left him there and reflects [sic] he returned to Roxbury with the rest of the remains of Leavenworth company at the expiration of the three months
Capt Hinmans company belonged to Col Deming or Col Dimons Regiment
                           [Signed] Saul Dorner

Subscribed & sworn
as aforesaid in open Court
{signed] D.B. Phelps    Judge of Probate
District of Woodbury

[Written vertically, lower left corner of page] 
I. Hunt
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State of Connecticut
Probate Court} District of Woodbury
  On this 24 day of June 1833 personally appeared before said Court holden at Woodbury now in session Isaac Hunt resident in Roxbury in said District aged seventy four who being first duly sworn on his oath makes the following declaration in [illegible]  to & supplementary to his original declaration made in said Court on the 28 day of July 1832 in  order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passes June 7 1832
    The time of entering service in 1777 I have [illegible]  since making my original declaration to be 17th or 18th of August.
 I served untill the 4' or 5 of Octr 1777.
Thaddeous Hurd was Lieutenant, Ens Sullivan commander   I marched through the Town of [illegible] Milford Rose Mills Fishkill & Crownpoint
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           In 1778 I have [illegible] my entering 
           the hour to be in August. I have after 
1778   ascertained [?] that this draft was for 
           two months and that I returned the 12 
2 mo   Oct   I therefore put the day of 
           commencing at or on the 12 August.  I 
           certainly served two months [last two 
           words underlined] or the whole of the 
           Tour [word underlined] or Draft   I 
           marched through Newtown Danbury,
           Redding, Bedford  Horse Neck & was at 
           Stamford
 
1779
            I cannot now undertake to fix an exact 
            day of August the Tour of 1779, it was 
             two months is all I can say and was in 
             fall of 1779 - no memory by reason of 2. mo    old age is unable to be more accurate 
             - I went by March to Stamford when
             the attachment was marched to Horse 
             Neck. the army lay off North Mnt.  I do 
             not remember any higher officer than 
             Capt Hurlbutt  our detachment was a 
             coast guard & I think no higher officer 
             than a Capt was detailed in the Service 
             at this time
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                               2
           I put my commencing service a this tour 
           1780 on the first of June   I cannot say any 1780    thing more than I have before said.   
2 mo    J. Fauxcal - two months.

            In relation to the service of 1781, I cannot 
            state fully in regard to it as I was then 
            advised no teamster could be allowed  
1781       I stated that the enlistment was  
            [illegible] in June. I am incorrect it was 
            [illegible] on 2d July 1781. I enlisted 
5.m. 8 dys   under Gideon Leavenworth of 
            Roxbury Capt. Ward of Danbury & Capt 
            Lymour of Hartford proposed to said 
            Leavenworth to enlist & raise ten 
            Teams and he should be a Conductor 
            of Teams in the continental army over 
            the Teaming Line raised   Said 
            Leavenworth enlisted the men & Teams 
            in and about Roxbury on the 2d July. I 
            enlisted into Continental Corps of 
            Teamsters under said Leavenworth  
             Zacariah Elouken Robert Weiner and 
             four others enlisted about the same 
             time.  my wages commenced on the 
             2d July & I spent the time from that 
             date to the 23 July in getting ready my 
             team & cart   On the 23d of July I         
             entered the service and took a Load of 
             Beef at the Deputy Commissioners in 
             Southbury & carried it to Col Chandler 
             at Newtown Con from there & uncut 
             to White Plains.  The other nine teams
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from Roxbury and some others were in company with me  We joined the French Army at White Plains it was commanded by Gen Rochambeau & American army commanded by Gen Washington

I was six days in going from Roxbury to White Plains and remember there about three weeks
The army then commenced their march across the Hudson River. I was [illegible] with utensils for cutting & gathering forage until after we crossed the Hudson . I was then [illegible] with Bar iron for the supply of the Blacksmiths forges   I went with the army with many other teams through Princeton  Trenton to Philadelphia    [Next two lines are crossed out]
We went to Baltimore Annapolis crossed the Potomac, and through [illegible word] to Carolina when at Baltimore we [illegible word] four Days & there heard of the burning of New London    I arrived at York Town  about 25 Sept as I now think   I left home with four oxen & a horse  they all died on the [illegible word]    I remained at York Town four Days & was then ordered home and allowed two months pay for returning   I was on foot & was sick on the Route & reached Roxbury on the 2d January 1782.
                                  The annexed Book
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of Entries & changes contains the changes and entries of Lollon Leavenworth under whom I enlisted and into action as Captain or Conductor over the Ten Teams by him raised

           I remember Nathan Baker (spelled Bacor) on the memorandum Zachariah Elacken [?] and the  others mentioned in the annexed entries of P Leavenworth under date: July 20  I entered  they constituted Leavenworth/Ten Teams  they are all dead but me

This memorandum a entry of Leavenworths was found by his son among his deceased fathers papers
      
                                           The contract of
enlistment was for the particular period but it was said we were to transport the French Baggage to Elizabeth Town and that Staten Island was to be taken.

   I have procured thorough [illegible] to be [illegible] of Lollon Leavenworths papers and cannot find any other relating to the army
            [Signed]   Isaac Hunt

Sworn in Court
   [Signed] D.B. Phelps Judge of Probate
                   Dist - Woodbury
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I Nathan Preston Clerk of the Court of Probate for the District of Woodbury do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original and supplementing proceedings of the said Court on the matter of the application of Isaac Hunt for a Pension           In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & the seal of said Court this 9 day of July 1833
       [Signed] Nathan Preston Clerk

[A Seal is affixed to the left of the above paragraph]
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                     26.620
                  Isaac Hunt
                    Con Militia
Service as teamster under
civil contract and not
military service
no American man attached to
French army  [illegible] under
bargain [?] to that effect 


   1 mo 15 day  [illegible]
     $25

Reply to
M B Phelps
   Woodbury
       Con
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State of Connecticut
   Probate Court} District of Woodbury
Be it remembered that on this 29 Day of June 1833 before the Court of Probate now in session at Woodbury [illegible] and in said District of Woodbury personally appeared Sheldon Leavenworth of Roxbury in said District to the Court personally know whom the Court certify to be a credible witness and being first duly cautioned and sworn on oath deposes and says that he is the son of Lollon [?] Leavenworth late of Roxbury Dist  that said Lollon [?] died in the year 1827 and this Deponent resides in the house where said Lollon [?] [next  word illegible] for the last thirty years of his life and that on the application of Isaac Hunt of Roxbury this Deponent [next two words illegible] among the papers and writing of his said father and found the annexed Book marked .B. among the old papers of said Lollon [?] and that the hand writing in said Book is the hand writing of said Lollon Leavenworth especially that Page containing the names of Nathan Bacor  & other names [illegible] of 23 July marked A. a
   and that this Deponent after
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              26.620
    Isaac Hunt
    Con Militia

Servin as teamster under
civil contract and not
military service
   no American man attached to
French army [illegible] under
6  [illegible] to that affect


1 mo 15 day [illegible word]
$25
Reply to
D B Phelps Esq
      Woodbury
                Con


[WRITTEN VERTICALLY ON RIGHT PAGE]

A close examination of the said papers on [?]
further could find no other which appeared
to have reference to Isaac Hunt
   [Signed] Sheldon Leavenworth