Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 7843, John Hulet, Mass.
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Mass. John, Hulet W. 7843
or Hulett      B.L. Wt.36735-160-55
Hannah
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13.099
Ohio  Pittsburgh
John Hulet
of Medina in the State of Ohio
who was a  (?) & Sergt. in the Company commanded by Captain Chadwick of the Regt commanded by Col. Brewer in the Mass. 
line for two years.

Private 22 months  73.33
Sergeant  2 month  10.00
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                                83.33
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Inscribed on the Roll of Ohio PItts.
at the rate of 83 Dollars 33 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
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Certificate of Pension issued the 13 day of May 1833 and sent to Timothy Hudson (?) Ohio
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Arrears to the 4th of March 1833        166.66
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sept 33   41.66
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                                                            $208.32

{Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832}

Recorded by Wm R Palmer Clerk, 
Book #  Vol. 8  Page 113
an
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Ohio  Pittsburgh  784
Hannah Hulet
widow of John Hulet 
Massachusetts

who served in the Revolutionary 
war as a private & Sergeant
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Inscribed on the Roll a the rate of 
83 Dollars 33 
Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1848.
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Certificate of Pension issued the 22 day of April 1837 
and sent to 
Lewis Elliot Co.
Hampden
(?) Co., Ohio

Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act
July 29, 1848, Page 163  Vol. A
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Declaration of John Hulet a revolutionary soldier, in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7, 1832 entitled "an act supplementary to the act for the relief of the surviving officers and soldiers of the
revolution."

The State of Ohio Supreme Court
Medina County
August
A.D. 1832

On this 4th day of August 1832 personally
appeared in open court, before Joshua Collett and Ebenezer Lane Judges of the Supreme Court of said state and per said county of Medina, now sitting in John Hulet, a resident of the township of 
now sitting in
cents then
John Hiter a resident of the township of Brunswick, County of Medina and State of Ohio aged seventy-six years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his said oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress
passed June 7,1832 entitled, "an act supplementary to an act for the relief of the surviving officers and soldiers of the revolution."

I John Hulet, being of lawful will and duly sworn do on my said oath depose and say that, I have no family record of my age but I suppose from what my parents told me and 
from it being the law or custom of the country in the State of Connecticut that the time
that the time and place of my birth are recorded in what is called the town book kept in the town clerk's office of the town in which I was born, which as I have been informed by my parents and as I believe was on the 31st day of March A.D. 1756 in what was then called the town of Killingly now called the town of Thompson in what was then called the county of Windham in the state of Connecticut.  When I was just called into the Revolutionary service, I lived in the town of Tyvingham, county of Berkshire and state of Massachusetts.  I lived in Tyvingham till after the war, about a year after that period I removed to that place now the city of Hudson on the North River where I found the
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first house built by New England people in that place - I lived in Hudson 4 or 5 years when I removed to the town of Lee, county of Berkshire and state of Massachusetts. I lived in Lee a few years when I removed to the town of Great Barrington in the County of Berkshire where I lived about 4 years when I removed back to Lee. I lived in the whole in Lee about 24 years when I removed to the township of Brunswick, county of Medina and state of Ohio where I have lived ever since except a short time in Liverpool Township in Medina County adjoining for the purpose of building mills. The first time I went into the revolutionary service I was an apprentice to the blacksmith's trade to Ebenezer Rewey in Tyvingham when a recruiting officer importuned me to enlist. I told him I was willing if my master would consent. The officer was recruiting for what was called the eight-month service. This was so called as I understood because those that first turned out at the Battle of Lexington turned out for a month only. After that event concluded to enlist for eight months only as it was thought that the quarrel between Great Britain and the colonies would probably be made up in that time. This was as I understand it. My master gave me liberty to enlist which I accordingly did in Tyvingham. I think sometime in May 1775 as supposed I enlisted by a continental officer. His name was John Chadwick and was my lieutenant. I was the first that enlisted in our company. My Captain was Joseph Stebbins. The names of the other company officers I have forgotten but I think our orderly Seargeant's name as Sheldon and one of the corporal's Catrin. The colonel of our regiment was Jonathan Brewer. I have forgotten the names of our Lieutenant Colonel and Major. Likewise, the number of my regiment or company. It was several days after I enlisted before we marched, the officer being gone - I joined my company and passed muster there by an officer appointment by covenant a regiment in Cambridge and we were soon stationed on Prospect hill near Boston. Col. Morgan with his regiment of [unreadable] arrived in about one and a half months.  Our regiment was attached all summer and fall to the brigade commanded by General Nathaniel Green who commanded the Rhode Island forces. We arrived at Cambridge just after Bunker Hill battle and had no fighting after that during the eight months though we came very near it in this way - General Sullivan undertook to storm Bunker Hill in the night
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This was about the 20th of December as I turned out as a volunteer. The forlorn hope passed by where I stood completely draped in white with their spears and ladders painted of the same color, but after waiting about 2 hours we were given to understand it was not safe to make the attack because the ice was not strong enough to bear us, we being in the whole as it was said about 3,000 in number, though as I understood afterwards three of our own men deserted to the British which I suppose was the real cause of the stop to the enterprise. Our duty while there was fatigue and guard which was very hard as we did a great deal of work and left strong guard. I served out my eight months and was dismissed with the rest of the regiment except some who had enlisted for a year. On Prospect Hill, on or about the 1st day of January 1776. I did not go home until 2 or 3 days after being discharged being sick. I think my time was out around the 1st of January. We had no written discharges but were simply told by our officers that our time was out and we might go home which we soon think it was not till the middle of January that I arrived home. My next service was as a volunteer to go to Ticonderoga. Orders came to Tyringham for volunteers to that place and I volunteered among other to go - we rendezvoused in Tyringham under Capt. Langdon I think his Christian name was Martin. Our Lieutenant was Joseph Wilson. The names of the other officers I have forgotten. We marched from Tyringham as near as I can recollect the for part of October through Stockbridge, Lenox, Pittsfield, Lanesborough, Williamstown, Bennington, Shaftsbury, Ellington, Poulet and so on to Skenesborough as it was then called but now White Hall. Then we took boats and hurried down Lake Champlain, in consequence of an express which was sent to us at White Hall, to Ticonderoga - we went to Fort Independence. When we first started from Tyringham we were on horse back and rode till the roads became so bad that we could ride no further to a [unreadable]. We then sent our horses back and took our provisions on our backs as there was at that time no getting provisions till we got a considerable distance. It was about 150 miles to Skenesborough as it was called and very hard traveling. We staid [stayed] at Fort Independence till the British retreated, which was a considerable time after we arrived there. We did nothing but stand guard while there as there was no fatigue duty to do of any consequence. [unreadable] once we went with boats to Skenesborough after forage. I cannot tell how long we stood at Fort Independence but we calculated when
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we got back that we had been gone just about 2 months. I think it was about a week over. We did not volunteer for any particular period. We understood we were to stay so long as we were wanted. I think Gen. Wayne commanded at Fort Independence while we were there. We were wholly under his control. I do not recollect the names of any of the other general officers except those of Col. Samuel Brewer who being with his regiment on the other side of the lake at a place which I think was called Mount Hope. His Lieutenant Colonel was one Carlton. John Chadwick was a Captain in his regiment. Solomon Heath was our Lieutenant. He died of the smallpox. We got back as near as I can recollect about the fore part of December. These transactions took place if I recollect right in the year 1776. My next service was against Burgoyne and his forces in 1777. An alarm and orders came from whom I know not but suppose from government to our general and from him to his subordinate officers for the whole company to turn out and march to the northward against Burgoyne. Our company rendezvoused in Tyringham. I think the fore part of June and marched from there to Fort Edward. The road was much the same as before. We joined our regiment at Fort Edward. General Schyler was commander in chief at that place. We were wholly under his orders. When we first arrived there, we found but few troops but a great number arrived shortly after. Gen. Nixon and brother Col. Nixon arrived there. Gen. Nixon commanded a brigade at Kip's Mills afterwards. John Ashley of Sheffield was our Colonel. The names of the other field officers I have forgot. Martin Langdon was my Captain. Ezekiel Herrick commanded the other company from Tyringham. Joseph Wilson I think was my Lieutenant. Solomon Garfield was one of our sergeants. We staid several days at Fort Edward. My first active duty was to go to a covering party to guard stores from Lake George to Fort Edward. The distance between those places was about 14 miles. We used to go and return the same day. We had many stores to bring off. Before we had got off all the stores, news came that Ticonderoga was evacuated, that the British had advanced as for as Fort Ann and that a battle had been fought there. The next morning, after the arrival of this news, three scouting parties, five men in a party were called for to go and ascertain whether the British were advancing. I volunteered. These parties started in succession, one hour after the other, so that if one should happen to be cut off it was possible the others might not be. I was in the second party. We went
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so near to Fort Ann that we saw the British and Indians and then returned and made a report. It was, I think, about 14 miles to Fort Ann. Our party was the only one which arrived there. The other two having got scared back. The next thing of importance that I can recollect was we were sent in Gen Nixon's brigade about 9 miles in a northwardly direction to a place called Kip's Mills. There we got boards and made us shanties. We were stationed here a number of days, but I do not know how long. While lying here the whole brigade marched as far as Fort Ann. There were not British at Fort Ann at this time. The British were in a block house within a quarter of a mile of Fort Ann. I was sent in a party to watch this building, while the main body were sent with axes to fell timber into the wood creek and to interrupt the navigation against the British. They filled the creek with trees so that it took the British some time to clear it out which hindered Burgoyne considerably. We returned to our encampment at the Mills the next day after lying out over night. After this we went to [unreadable] with a [unreadable] on the road from Fort Ann to Fort Edward [unreadable] think near a mile and a half long. I however was sent to fall trees in the rear or a covering party one time after this, say a few days, the Indians, who had got in among the trees which we had fell in the river fired upon one of our scouting parties that were coming in and killed several. This was close to our encampment so that the Indians at the same time began to fire upon us and killed several and shot Col Nixon's horse from under him. We immediately retreated back to Fort Edward the same day. After staying at Fort Edward a short time, say 2 or 3 days, we retreated 2 miles down the North River from the fort. After this, I did no other duty for some time except to go out in scouting parties which I did almost every day being part of that service. At the time we lay at this place a guard of about 300 members kept at the fort. Being one day in a scouting party commanded by a lieutenant we heard a heavy firing at the fort and began to return. When we met Gen Learned with a brigade going to relieve the fort and surprise the enemy, but the day being cloudy and rainy he had gotten lost and was going exactly the wrong direction. We piloted him out to the road at his request and helped to bring off the dead. We found several dead men scalped with their hands and feet cut off and one with his genitals cut out and a cannon ball flung into his entrails. The riders M. Ray and her daughter Penny a very handsome girl who kept a sort of put their shop near the fort were both killed and scalped. These
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These atrocities roused our indignation to the highest pitch. Soon after this we retreated down the North River. I was put in the rear guard commanded by Col. Wynkoop, a gentleman. We destroyed a bridge close to our encampment, which stood on a creek which discharged into the North River a few rods below, cutting the string pieces and throwing the planks into the river. We then marched on about a half mile, when we heard a gun fire near our rear, and a man cry out "help, murder". He was one of the inhabitants planning to come away with us. When we got to him, he said he was shot by one of his neighbors painted like an Indian. He was shot and scalped a few rods from his own house. We went on 3 or 4 miles and made a stand again, putting up bush houses to shelter in. Almost every day our scouts were driven in by the Indians and some killed on our retreat. A short time after this, say a week, we retreated again and I did not remember that we made any further stand of any amount till we got to Saratoga. There we lay a number of days, I don't know how long.  While lying there I went out as a scout of 2 days to Ballstown – there were about 50 men in the scout – I do not recollect who commanded - we bought off some cattle. I remember the next day after we got back to camp, we sent a scout off about half a mile from Schyler's house at his Mills. Gen. Schyler's house stood about half a mile from his mills and was afterwards burned together with several barracks as I said together with several other buildings by Burgoyne on his retreat. After this scout was cut off I was called to go in a longer scout to bring off the dead which we did, I think to the number of half a dozen dear ladies, all scalped. When we got back with these dead bodies we found the whole army except the rear guard had moved to Stillwater. After burying the dead, we followed on during the night in a heavy rain. The packs of those of us sent out scouting had been previously sent down the river on a raft. We stayed at Stillwater about a fortnight, and I went out scouting about every day when all those who lived near the parts where I did and had been out as long as I had were dismissed. We were commanded all this time by Gen. Schuyler as commander in chief. Gen Gates not having arrived. We had no written discharges but were simply discharged by our officers. We were sent off in the night and ordered to march for 8 or 9 miles before we halted as soon as we got home in expressed for us to go to Bennington. We started out and that the enemy might not get news of our departure. I staied [stayed] home about 3 or 4 fortnights when were all called out again as soon as Gen Gates arrived and took the command. We then joined the army at Bemis Heights. While lying there I went out in a large scout crossing the river to the east side and taking 24 prisoners. We stayed there a few day, were then ordered to cross the North River and march up the east side above Burgoyne to a place called I think Bottom Kill which we did. Col Samuel Brewer with his regiment went with us, but then took his regiment back immediately to Bemis Heights. I think Gen Fellows commanded us on that side of the river. We had but little fighting to do this trip except some skirmishes with the Indians, who being discharged by Burgoyne were trying to get away in small parties, but we took and killed a good many of them. A heavy battle
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was fought on the west side of the river in the meantime at Stillwater and one Nathan Hale, a regular soldier from Tyringham killed there. I think I did not see this battle but did one fought a few days after. We could see the smoke and blaze of the cannon where we were distinctly. The general officers I recollect seeing at the east side of the river was Gen Gates and several others among whom I have no doubt were Morgan, Arnold, Learned, Lincoln or though I did not particularly distinguish any except the commander in chief Gates. We stood at Bottom Kill till Burgoyne surrendered. When we were dismissed as before and went home. There were a great many regular troops at Bemis Heights but I do not know how many. I do not remember the names of any of the colonels except Colonel Samuel Brewer who commanded a continental regiment pretty much through the war. The reason of me remembering him so well was that I was acquainted with him, he being from Tyringham. His Lieutenant Col. was Carlton. My whole service this summer amounted to nearly 4 months.
A part of the militia were dismissed at Stillwater a considerable time before I was as I volunteered to stay till the general was willing I should go --- I next enlisted for six months, I expect in the Continental service. The men were called for of our company to enlist and I enlisted for one-- I enlisted in Lieut. Barrington according to orders and passed muster under one Esq. Leheeter, but whether he enlisted me or not I do not remember-- this was I think in 1778, I went to Albany the place of relieving about 50 miles in there joined my company at the day appointed. I cannot recollect the day enlistment there it was at the last of May or summer time - I think my Captain's name was Kingsley from Becket in the Massachusetts my lieutenant was Hull from West Stockbridge -- I have forgotten the ensign’s name.  The orderly sergeant was one Wright-- Caleb Chadwick was another of the Sergeants – He and I and another man by the name of think Carter were all from Tyringham I think there were two company of us stationed at Albany – The [unreadable] colonel – We were all under the immediate command of Gen. Stark the same General who commanded at Bennington battle, [unreadable crossed out ] [unreadable] name was Baker – We staid [stayed] all summer at Albany guarding the arsenal stores, city hall, prisons, commissary stores, [unreadable] house a little out of the town, ^the hospital containing sick prisoners was a little out of the city itself there being still fears ^and alarms of the Tories, British, and Indians, we staid [stayed] till we were dismissed at Albany, the exact time I cannot be remember but it was very cold weather and it was concluded that British had gone into winter quarters so that the city was safe.  We were ^dismissed by an officer by word of mouth ^about 2 months after we got home and were paid off in continental money at the rate of 7 dollars per month I think at this time continental money had fell to about 80 to 1 so I calculated my [expenses crossed out] pay would not have covered my expenses home and back – I was out I suppose just about 6 months [that crossed out] being the time for which I enlisted  - As I expect to the remainder of my revolution services I shall be more possible to remember
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her from the nature and frequency of them, I was  ready to turn out at a minute’s warning  during the whole war with my accoutrements ammunition &c except when I enlisted when I was furnished with ammunition, furnishing my own accoutrements myself— After my tenure at Albany as stated, I lived in Tyringham, and my next service of any amount that I recollect was in the year 1782 when an alarm came that the British, Indians and tories had come down and were distressing the inhabitants about Ballstown, Stillwater and that part of the frontier and as I understood it was stated by the spies sent out, there was quite a body of them some people were killed all Ballstown– Orders were for half of our company to go— I volunteered to go – I always volunteered on such [unreadable] events, as my situation was such, having no family that I could go better than those who had families— we met together in Tyringham and marched to stillwater – As many as 500 or more I should think assembled at Stillwater under the command of a colonel whose name I have forgot, but it was not the colonel of the regiment I belonged to or I should have known him,– We staid [stayed] there about a month when a part of the company were dismissed – Some of the company volunteered to stay longer among whom I was one, and the rest of the company had to then sort who should go home– Our commissioned officers all went home either they [unreadable] Lingdon – our lieutenant was Bird– I have forgot the names of the officers I was then a sergeant myself and had been for a considerable time before, and after the [unreadable] I took command of the remainder of the company that were left,–Then we were put into another company the name of the captain or lieutenant which was Moses Hubbard — We had no duty to do here unless to stand guard, except once when I was ordered to go with my command to get wood for the colonel – I think that from the time we went away till we got home we were gone about 2 mos though the experience on my mind is about [illegible] over — The [unreadable] and it were sent out last brought information that the enemy had retreated when we were dismissed verbally, by our officers — We had no written discharges – Some time after the beginning of the revolutionary war I do not  remember more [illegible] I was chosen a serjeant [sergeant] and remained in that roll till the war closed and afterwards till I removed to Hudson as stated,– During the time that I was serjeant  [sergeant] it was my duty to note anyone that of the company, I think one quarter of the company was under my charge for that purpose to scout and exercise and also on alarms, when I had to [unreadable] my charge frequently in the dead of the night which duty I always attended to faithfully being never failed in a single instance – These alarms were frequently started as
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we supposed by British agents for the purpose of harrassing and searching us out. They even to sometimes be made by men on horseback on the full gallop, one messenger follow-ed by another; that the enemy were coming on to alarming some town or some garrison. These messengers came and went how and to where we know not. I always turned out and did my duty on these alarms whether true or false never failing in a [right?] instance. On one of these alarms I went to Old Stockbridge to take care of tories, I think this was in the year 1776. In another alarm I was called upon to go to Great Barrington to quell tories who had committed a riot there and abused and slained a man. we were gone 2 or 3 days at this time. I remember we planted sentries out this time as we were afraid of the tories they were being pretty nasty in York state near where we were, and a good many in the town of Great Barrington. At the time during the war, I do not recollect previously when there was a [illegible] for three years [illegible]. Every town had to [illegible] with its quarter. The town of Tyringham was lapsed thrown into 3 lapses and [illegible] [illegible] to around [illegible] These were also ^ subdivided into a grade of 4 or 5 [miles?] each and the first of each square [illegible] The notes to the [substitute?]. He says that, fell into disagreement with a man whose name I do not certainly recollect but I think it was Elijah Sperry or Hezekiah Hubbard [to go?]. [crossed out text] he gave one note to him to pay him 30 cows and three cows and when he returned at the 3 years end. This - did - that is he found [illegible] the 30 cows he [illegible] returned about the time the war was over. The man up and enlisted during the last war with Great Britain and died in the service as I understood and [illegible]. Towards the last of the war Congress passed a resolution as I understood recording to the militia of the United States to upset often for the purpose of leaving art of war. In [illegible] to this resolution I [illegible] out my charge is often as required to [illegible] [illegible]. We used to meet once a fort night for as much as six months unless the weather was stormy. My duty was to seize the men under my command as a [illegible] to with duty I performed [illegible] with [illegible] never failing to perform it unless it was stormy weather which was one or two [illegible] as I recollect. This was kept us till [rearm?] took place. After [illegible] cause this was all [illegible]. Our commissioned officers gave up this duty to the sergeants, [illegible] duty was performed by me and I [illegible] the other sergeants belonging to another army [illegible]. Our commissioned officers told us as near as I can recollect, that we were to [redacted text] meet and [illegible] a certain time, the length of time I do not remember and then when we come to meet [illegible] at
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general militia to see [unreadable] and guard and exercise the [unreadable]. We met once in two weeks regularly in the afternoon as much as six months as I should think when the war closed before we ever met in general muster.  My revolutionary service amounts I should say to more than two years. My share of the pay to the substitute Sperry or Hubbard as I have stated was a heifer valued at 15 dollars good money - The persons by whom I can prove a part of my revolutionary services are Seth Morse of the township of Brownhellen, Lorain Co, Ohio who can swear to my first period of service of 8 months and Capt. John Stevens of the township of [illegible] Medina Co, Ohio [unreadable]  Portege Co Ohio whose [unreadable] in this case who can prove my services when I went to Ticonderoga Except these persons I know of nobody else by whom I can name – [unreadable] all the other who served with me being dead or gone to parts unknown away - The persons to whom I am known in my present neighborhood but who can testify to my character for veracity and the 
belief of my service as a soldier of the revolution are Jacob Ward methodist preacher, Col. John Freese, Capt John Stevens,  Bill W Freese Abraham Freese, Solomon Dening Rufus Ferris and Peter Berdan – And I hereby relinquish every claim whatever to any pension or annuity except the present and also declare that I am not on the roll of any agency of any state or country [unreadable]     John Hulet his mark
In testimony whereof I have herein to set my hand under the seal of the Supreme Court of the state and sitting in and for the county of Medina in said state affixed to this declaration in open court this 31st day of August A.D. -     
Sworn and subscribed to before me this 31st day of August A.D. 1832 J J Hudson Clk Deposition of John Hearns a revolutionary soldier touching the matter of [unreadable]  and declaration above mentioned of John Hulet a revolutionary soldier in order to obtain the benefit of the Congress passed
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June 7th 1832 entitled "an Act Supplementary to an act for the relief of the surviving officers and soldiers of the revolution. I John Stearns a revolutionary soldier being of lawful age and duly sworn due on my said oath depose and say, that witt [with] respect to my personal knowledge of the facts stated in the aforesaid declaration of John Hulet, I will state that he and I both lived in Tyringham Massachusetts during the revolution here except when out on service, that we both belonged to the same company which marched to the northward against Burgoyne in the year 1777 and that he served witt me and others in that campaign during that campaign in the war as he has stated in his first declaration and that the facts therein stated by him with respect to his services in that campaign I know in general to be true though we were not together & quite all the time well it be as one [unreadable] a more particular accounting and Knowledge of the events of that campaign I refer to my own declaration filed to obtain the benefit of the act aforesaid all the statements in which are strictly true as far as my memory serves - I was not with Mr. Hulet either at Boston or Albany or on all his other expeditions that he has stated, but know at the time [unreadable[ out from home his being [unreadable] and other circumstances that that in the service at the time it was as he has stated and have no doubt that he performed all those services in the manner he has stated I know of his being a sergeant and performing service in the office as he has stated I will furthermore state that I have been well acquainted witt him for more than Sixty years - that even since the revolutionary war he has been generally reported and believed among his acquaintance wherever he has lived as has come to my knowledge to have been a revolutionary soldier and to have performed the services he has stated - I never heard it
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denied or disputed, that he is a man of good char acter in all respects, and that I have no doubt what ever but that all the facts he has stated in his said declaration are true and that he is of the age he represents  -   
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand under the seal of the Supreme Court of the state of Ohio sitting in and for the county of Medina in said State, prefixed to said declaration in open court this 81 day August A.D. 1832 Johnston Subscribed to before me this 11th August 18 A. D. 1832   John Stearns  
Sworn and subscribed to before me this 11st day of August 1832  [unreadable]

Deposition of Jacob Ward Methodist preacher touching the aforesaid matter --- 
I Jacob Heard a preacher of the - Gove of the Methodist connexion readings in Brunswick, Medina Co. Ohio and in the immediate vicinity of the aforesaid declaration of John Hulet being of lawful age and duly sworn I do on my said oath depose and say that I have been well acquainted with said applicant about 15 years - that I believe he is of the age he represents in his aforesaid declaration. That he has always been reputed in this neighborhood to have been a revolutionary soldier I never heard it denied or questioned and fully concur in that opinion. That he is a man of good character in all respects, and that I have no doubt but that the facts he has stated in said declaration are strictly true   - 
In testimony whereof I here unto set my hand and the seal of the
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Supreme Court of the State of Ohio sitting in and for the county of Medina in said State subscribed to said declaration, in open court, this 31st day of August A.D. 1832.     
Jacob Ward    
Sworn & subscribed before me the 31sr day 1832   T. Hadden  Clerk     
Deposition of Bill W. Freese touching the aforesaid matter    
Bill W. Freese a resident of Brunswick Medina Co. Ohio and living in the immediate vicinity of the aforesaid applicant John Hulet. being of lawful age and duly sworn on my said oath depose and say, that I have been well acquainted with said applicant more than 60 years that I have no doubt but that he is of the age he [unreadable] aforesaid declaration that during all the time of my acquaintance with him he was been reputed and believed to have been a revolutionary soldier and to have performed the service he has stated in his said declaration I never heard it denied or disputed and fully concur myself in that he that he is a man of good character in all respects and I have no doubt whatever but the facts he has stated in his declaration are strictly true.     
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand under the seal of the Supreme court of the state of Ohio sitting in and for the county of Medina in said state prefixed to said declaration in open court this 31st day August A.D. 1832       Bill W. Freese 
Sworn & subscribed to before me this 31st day 1832     T. Hudson Clerk
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and the said court do hereby declare their opinion after a full investigation of the matter aforesaid, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the war department that the above named applicant John Hulet was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states. And the court further certifies, that it appears to them that he said viz. - Hulet who has signed said declaration is a resident of Brunswick Medina Co. Ohio and that the aforesaid Jacob Ward who has signed his deposition aforesaid is a preacher as he states and then he and the other aforesaid deponents who have signed their respective depositions are all resident of said Brunswick, are all credible persons, that their statements are entitled to credit and that we concur with them in opinion
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Official certificate of the Clerk of said Court

The State of Ohio
Medina County ss,

Supreme Court
August seven A.D. 1832

Be it remembered that I Timothy Hudson Clerk of said court certify that on this 31st day of August A.D. 1832

Personally appeared in open court (?) Collett and Ebenezer
Judges of said court (?) being a true account of record and generally signed their names to the aforesaid (?) certificates and that the signatures are (?) thereto are thei genuine signatures and I do further certify that the aforesaid applicant  John Hulet and the aforesaid deponents when Stearns Jacob heard

appeared in said court and then and there were in due (?) of laws by said court, in open court
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Medina Sup. Court
10.052
Aug )?_ 1832

Declaration of 
John Hulet a revolutionary soldier

Filed 31. (Sep?) 1832The State of Ohio
Medina County ss. 

I Timothy Hudson Clerk of the Superior Court of said State, when held within and for said County do hereby Certify that the foregoing contains the
original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of John Hulet for a Pension  In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of said Court at Medina this 12th day of April A.D. 1833

Signature  Timothy Hudson  Clerk

The State of Ohio
Medina County ss

I Timothy Hudson Clerk of the Superior Court of Law state who (?) and in said County, certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of John Hulet for a Pension
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of said Court, at Medina this 5th day of September, A.D. 1832. 

Signature of Timothy Hudson   Clerk
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13.099

100 52
Joh Hulet
Ohio

Return 5,. 16
Retuned Amended
And nom Adm for 2 
years. 2 months the (?)
as Sergeant.

73.33
10
_____
83.33

Signature of Timothy Hudson
Clerk of the County Medina
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Brief in the case of John Hulet in the County of Medina in the State of Ohio
Act 7th June, 1832.)

1.  Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge?  Court

2.  If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?

3.  How old is he?  Seventy six

4.  State his service, as directed in the form annexed.

Service will be each line (Period, Duration of Service, Rank, Names of Genera & Field Officers under whom he served.

Enlisted in May in 1775, 8 months, Private in the Continentals,  Green, Col. Jonathan Brewer

Enlisted in 1776  Time no specified, John Chadwick

Volunteered  1777, about 4 m. 15 days. Gen. Wayne afterwards Capt M. Landon, Lieut Joseph Wilson

Enlisted 1778, 6 m. Wilson

Volunteered 1782  about 2 m., 1 m. 15 days, Gen Schuyler, Genl Nixon, Col. Wynkoop, Capt. Kingsley, Lieut Hull  Capt. Moses Hubbard, 

5. In what battles was he engaged?  Skirmishes only

6.  Where did he reside when he entered the service?  Berkshire, Mass.

7.  Is his statement supported by living witnesses by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls?  A living witness

8.  Are the papers defective as to form or authentication?  and if so, in what respect? 


Certify that the foregoing state and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.  

Signature of J M Duncan 
Examining Clerk
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Published after March 1797

Parker Underwood of Litchfield & Dolly Johnson of Lyningham

Pain Clark & Jemime Shepard both of Lyningham Published & Certified

John Porthrop of Lyningham & Sally Miller of Granvill  Certified

Mainnisy Cap & Lucy Hall of Lyningham 
Published & Certified

Dr. Israel Root of Gt. Barrington & Wd Thanful

Wadsworth Lyningham  Published & Certified

Reynolds Millson & Lentia Clark both of Lyningham  Certified

John Hulet ( remainder of text unreadable)

Thomas Hicox & (?) posted 20th of November 1797  Certified

A tru copy attest

Signature of Riley Judd  Town Clerk of Lyningham

Lyningham (?( 14 1850 then the above names
viz. Riley Judd personally appeared and made oath the above is a true copy of (?)

Signature of John W Sweet  Justice of Peace
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
(Berks?)

I Charles Sedgwick Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for saw County do certify that John W. Sweet Esq before whom the within certificate of Riley Judd was sworn as Justice of the Peace within aforesaid County only (?) & qualified as the within Signature purporting to be his is genuine. 

In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of said Court this 14th day of December 1850

Signature of Chas Sedgwick  Clk
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Vernon Clerks Office Au 16th 1850     
Mr. Elliott Dear     
Dr. Sir I received a letter from you some months since desiring information in relation to John Hulet & Hannah Walker I saw by the letter that you had wrote to the Clerk of Tyringham before he showed the letter to Mr. Fayo the former Clerk He said he had received a letter from you I think in 1848. He said you had made inquiry & had examined the records & to save time & expense I gave the letter to him desiring him to do the business which he agreed to do but by yours of the 2nd Dec I am that he did not give you the desired information Yours of the 2d was duly well containing a letter which you recall from Mr. Fayo & five Dollars to pay the expence of [unreadable] the business you stated in your letter that on [unreadable] a copy of the Publishment of John Hulett & Hannah Walker accordingly, I can examine the records & found the publishment & make a copy of the same as you will in the early records of the town are very imperfect as you will see by the copy their being no date to the publishment I have made a copy of the record from the
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first date before the publishment of John or Hanah to the fiirst date after in order to make it as intelligible as I could which shows they were published some time between March 1797 & Nov of the same year  Here wish you will receive
the copy which I hope will be satisfactory.

Your obt Servt
Riley Judd
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Medina Sup. Court
Aug, Jan 1832

Interogatories put to John Hulet a (?) soldier
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The State of Ohio
Medina County ss. 

Supreme Court
August Seven 1832

Interrogatories first by said (?) to John Hulet a revolutionary soldier making his declaration (?) to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7 1832 entitled "an act supplementary to an act for the relief of the surviving officers and soldiers of the revolution" 

Interrogatory 1st when and if what year were you born? Aug 15 in Killingly, Windham Co. Connecticut March 31st 1756

Int 2 - Have you any record of your of your age: and if so where is it? Ans - I suppose there is a record in the town book at the town clerks office in Connecticut. 

Int 3 - Where were you living when called into service; when have you lived since the revolution, and when do you (?)  - Ans - when called into service I lived in Tryingham, Massachusetts  Since the war I have lived in Tyringham, in Hudson on the North (?) and since that time in Brunswick Medina Co. Ohio where i now live

Int 4th - How were you called into service, were you drafted, did you volunteer, or were you a substitute ? and a substitute (?) ?  Ans.  I was called into service by orders I supposed from government but I always turned out as a volunteer, or enlisted. 

Int 5th State the names of the regular troops when you served; such continental and militia regiments as you can recollect and the general circumstances & your service  Ans, I cannot recollect the names of men of the regular troop, I remember the names as Gen Washington, Gen Green, Gen Sullivan and the regiments I have stated in my declaration to which I refer

Int 6th - Did you ever receive a discharge from the service; and if so by whom was it given and what has become of it  Ans - I never received a written discharge

Int. 7 - Note the names of persons to  whom you are known in your present neighborhood and who can testify to your character for (veracity?) and behalf of your services as a soldier of the revolution   Ans - (?) John Freese, John Stearns. Bill W. Freese, Abraham Freese, Peter (?) 

Sworn & subscribed to before me, this 31st day of August 1832  J. Hudson Clerk
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The State of Ohio Cuyhoga County ss. The first day of June AD 1849 Personally appeared before me Q.F. Atkins, associate Judge in and for said County Hannah Hulett a resident of Strongsville in said county aforesaid aged 72 years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her said oath make the following Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed on the 29th of July AD 1848 granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary war That she is the widow of John Hulett who was a Revolutionary pensioner of the U.S. at rate of about ______dollars per annum That she was married to the said John Hulett in the year 1796 as she verily believes on the the 5th of October or November which she is not certain but knows that it was one of the two months mentioned in Tyringham Berkshire county Mass. by the Rev. Mr Avory That she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service but the marriage took place previous to the 2nd of January 1800. Viz at the time stated above that her maiden name was Hannah Walker - that she has not intermarried but continues the widow of the said John Hulett who died on the 26th of August AD 1842 in Brunswick Medina County Ohio. She further declares that she has never made any application for a pension before - that after the decease of her said husband she made proof of his death and obtained the arears due him at this decease
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She refers to her said husbands application and proofs on file in the Pension Office and other proofs hereunto annexed and prays that the same amount may be allowed her that was allowed her husband 
Q.F. Atkins      
S. Hulett       
Hannah Hulett her mark     
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year fist above mentioned before me and I certify from common report the above Declarant is a person of truth and probidity and from bodily infirmity and old age unable to attend court.    
Q.F. Atkins, Associate Judge, C.C.
The State of Ohio, Cuyahoga County SS: I Aaron Clark Clerk Pro tem of the Court of Common Pleas in & for said County hereby certify that the Hon. Quintus F. Atkins is one of the associate Judges of the Court of Common Pleas within & for the said County of Cuyahoga & State of Ohio duly commissioned & qualified according to law that the aforesaid affidavits were duly made before said Judge that his signatures thereto subscribed are genuine --- 
Witness my signature & the seal of said Court at the City of Cleveland this 2d day of June A.D. 1849.
Aa. Clark Clerk P. J.
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A0567
Hannah Hulet, 
widow of John 
Ohio

Act 29 July 1848
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The State of Ohio Cuyhoga County ss.

I Betsey Foster a resident of Strongsville in said county aged 37 years who being first duly sworn according to law do on my said oath depose and say that I was acquainted with John Hulet late of Brunswick Medina Co Ohio decease who was a Revolutionary pensioner of the U.S.at about the rate of ____dollars per annum and who died on the 26th of August A D 1842 in Brunswick aforesaid leaving Hannah Hulett his widow who now resides in Strongsville as aforesaid & still remains a widow of the said John Hulett & that I am well acquainted with the family of John and Hannah Hulett & that the oldest son is fifty years or more of age. I have often heard the said persons state that they were married in Tyringham Mass.  & furthermore this deponent said not. 
Signature of Betsey Foster

Sworn to and subscribed this first day of June AD 1849 before me & I certify from (?) report that the above named (?) is a perso of truth and veracity

A.F. Atkins  Associate Judge C. Co.
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State of Ohio
Medina County ss. 

On this nineteenth day of December A D one thousand eight hundred and fifty five, personally appeared before me Abram Berdan a Justice of the Peace within and for the County and State aforesaid Hannah Hulet, aged Seventy nine years, a resident of Brunswick in the State of Ohio who beig sworn according to law, declares, that she is the widow of John Hulet deceased who was a private  and Sergeant in the Army of the Revolution, and that her said husband served as private in Capt Joseph Stebbins Company of Massachusetts Militia, in the Regt. commanded by Col. Brown, and as Sergeant in the company under Lieut. Hall and commanded by Genl. Starks, and continued in said war over fourteen days, and that she is now in rect. of a pension as his widow, of Eighty three dollars and thirty three cents per annum, which pension is recorded in the Pension Office on the Roll of Pensioners under Act February 2 1848  Page 163  Vol A. She further states that she was married to the said John Hulet on the 5th day of November A D 1796 by one Joseph Avery a Preacher of the Gospel, and that her name before her said marriage was Hannah Walker, that her said husband died at Brunswick in the State of Oho, on the 26th day of August 1842 and that she is now a Widow.  She further states that she has not, and never had, any record of her said marriage, and that there are living witnesses of the same to her knowledge 

She makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the bounty land to which she may be entitled. 

Signature of Hannah (her X mark) Hulet

Mr. Norman D Meacham and Horace Root residents of Brunswick in the State of Ohio, upon our oaths declare that the foregoing declaration was signed and acknowledged by Hann Hulet in our presence, and from an acquaintance of many years standing with the said Hannah Julet and John Hulet during all which time they cohabited together as husband and wife, we do believe that they were lawfully married as above stated, and we believe, from the appearance and statements of the applicant, that she is the identical person she represents herself to be, and that she is no a widow

Signature of N.D. Meacham

The foregoing declaration and affidavit were sworn to and subscribed before me on the day and year above written and I certify that I know the (?) to be credible persons, that the claimamt is the person she represents herself to be, and that I have no interest in this claim

Signature of Abram Berdan Justice of the Peace
Please forward the warrant to Abram Berdan. Brunswick Medina Co. Ohio

Signature of Hannah (her X mark) Hulet
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The State of Ohio
Medina County ss

I OScar S. Codding Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the County and State aforesaid hereby certify that Abram Berdan whose genuine signature before appears is and was at the time of signing the same as\ Justice of the Peace in afor said county duly commissioned and qualified & authorized by the Laws of the State of Ohio to administer oaths for general purposes & that full faith and credit are due and should be given to all his official acts and the aforesaid Court is a court of Records having general Jurisdiction. I also certify that I have no interest in this case and am not concerned in its prosecution.

Given under my hand and the Seal of said Court at Medina this 25 day of December AD 1833

Signature of Oscar S Codding  Clerk of 
Medina Court Pleas
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January 9, 1929.

Mrs. Hugh Victor Mercer, 
3800 Zenith Avenue, South, 
Minneapolis, Minnesota. 

Madam: 
I advise you that from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, w. 7843, it appears that John Hulet, or Hulett was born March 31, 1756 at Killingly (later called Thompson). Windham County, Connecticut. 

While a resident of Tyringham, Berkshire County, Massachusetts he enlisted and served in the Massachusetts Troops as follows: 

From May 1775, for eight months as private in Captain Joseph Stebbins' Company,  Colonel Jonathan Brewer's Regiment. 

From October 1776, two months as private in Captain Lankton's Company.

From June 1777, four months as private in Captain Lankton's Company, Colonel John Ashley's Regiment. 

From May or June 1778, six months as private in Captain Kingsley's Company. 

In 1782, two months as sergeant under Captains Herrick or Lankton, and Moses Hubbard.
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He was also out at various other times on alarms. 

He allowed pension on his application executed August 31, 1832 while living in Brunswick, Medina County, Ohio. 

He died August 26, 1842 in Brunswick, Medina County, Ohio. 

While living in Lee, Massachusetts he married on October or November 5, 1796 at Tyringham, Massachusetts, Hannah Walker, of that place. She was allowed pension on her application executed June 1,1849 while living in Strongsville, Cuyahoga County, Ohio, aged seventy-two years. 

They had sons, but their names are not stated.  

The Revolutionary War records of this bureau fail to afford any information in regard to Joshua Chapin, Joseph Bosworth or John Harker. 

Respectfully

WINFIELD SCOTT, 
Commissioner.
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Medina Com. Pleas
Amendment to the declaration of John Hulet a revolutionary soldier
April Jan?  1833

John Hulet a 
Revolutionary Soldier 
Application for a Pension 

This day comes the said John Hulet and present his amendment to his Declaration for a Pension, and the said Court having heard the aforesaid's amendment to said declaration of the said John Hulet, and he being sworn to the truth thereof, as certified by the Clerk, do hereby declare, their opinion that the on that the said John Hulet who presented his declaration fora Pension from the United States, to the Supreme County of this State sitting within and for said County of Medina at the request from of said Court AD 1832 and that the aforesaid amendment is to that Declaration, and that the facts in said amendment are true. And the Court accordingly order said amendment together with Said declaration to be certified by the Clerk to the war department of the United States.

The State of Ohio
Medina County ss

I Timothy Hudson Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas within and for said Country do hereby certify that the foregoing is a true copy of the proceedings from the journal entry of said Court at the April time thereof 1833, is the matter of the aforesaid amendment & that the said Joh n Hulet appeared is said Court and was sworn to the truth of said amendment as above stated, and that I have Sealed up said declaration as required y the War Department.

In testimony whereof I hereunto Sign my name and affix the Sear of said Court this 12 th Apl 1833 -   Timothy Hudson  Clk.
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An Amendment to the "Declaration of John Hulet a revolutionary soldier in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7 1832 entitled an act supplemetary to an act - on the relief of the surviving officers and soldiers of the revolutionary war"       
The State of Ohio Medina County } ss. Court of Common Pleas April Seven A.D. 1833     
On this 11th day of April 1833 personally appeared in open court, being a court of record before the Hon Matthew Birchard resident judge and Reuben Smith John Newton and Allen Pardee Esqr. associate judges of said court now sitting in said court, John Hulet a resident of the township of Brunswick, county of Medina and state of Ohio aged 77 years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his said oath make the following amendment to his said declaration, agreeably to the requisition and directions of the war department of the United States;       
I John Hulet a revolutionary soldier being of lawful age and duly sworn don on my said oath declare and say in addition to the statement in my said declaration that during the first period of my military service in the revolutionary war from May 1775 to the middle of January 1776 as state in my said declaration I served as a private soldier not less than eight months     I will state in addition to what I have stated in my said declaration [unreadable]  this period and which I forgot to state that after my enlistment was out, I volunteered for another fortnight till the recruits would arrive.       
- During my second record of service from the fore part of October 1776 to the fore part of December of said year as therein stated I served as a private soldier not less than 2 months      
 - During my third period of service from the fore part of June 1777 until my discharge after the surrender of Burgoyne in the fall of that year as therein stated I served as a private soldier not less than 4 1/2 months     
- During my fourth period of service from the last of May or first of June 1778 till my discharge at Albany in cold weather as therein stated I served as a private soldier no less than 6 months      
- During my fifth period of service in the year 1782 as a volunteer at Ballstown, Stillwater & therein state I served
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as a sergeant as therein stated not less then 2 months. My other services as a volunteer on various occasions and as a drill sergeant as therin stated thought it is impossible for me to state amount of them with precision as I am so old and my memory somewhat impaired was certainly not less t  1 as a sergeant. And me whole1/2 months military services though certainly not less than 2 years and I have no doubt was more. I was employed in no civil ursuit while in the service whatever. 

In testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand in said court, now sitting in and for said country this 11th day of April A.D. 1833. 

Signature of John Hulet
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Note: Data from the document is in 3 columns. Columns will be transcribed from left to right. 

Soldier pensioned 
M.J. Seymour
M. E.L. 

97 - To Miss Julia 
Duluth - Minn - 

1927 Apr 4 Hist - to D.H. Morris
1929 Jan 9 Hist to Mrs. 
Hugh Victor Mercer
________________________________________________
Revolutionaryb War 
WIDOW, &c,. 

File No. 7843
Hannah Hulet
Widow
John Hulet
Sergt. Rev War

Act: July 29 .48
Index: - Vol. A, Page 356

[Arrangement of 1870.]
_______________________________________________

Mch 31/96
Mrs. 
City
Dec. 11
Barber
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H 

1701 Est First St
Duluth, Minn
Nov 28 97

Pension Department

Sirs: 
I wish to get a record of the military service of John Hulet a Revolutionary soldier from Mass I should like & knew anything and everything that you have on reorod - his age, town 0 date of death &
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He moved from Lee, Mass to Ohio about 1816 and drew a pension till the time of his death and his wife Hannah received on after him. 

Your, 
(Miss) Julia Barber

Received stamps can be seen.
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THE FARMERS STATE BANK
RUSSELL, KANSAS

Feb. 9, 1927

U.S. Pension Bureau, 
Washington, D.C. 

Gentlemen: - 
Please give me service record of one JOHN HULET from Mass. who served in the Revolutionary War and later was granted a pension for such service by the government. 

Thanking you for this information, I am, 
Very truly yours, 

(Miss?) Dora Hulet Morrison
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Mrs. Hugh Victor Mercer
3800 Zenith Avenue, South 
Minneapolis, Minnesota

Pension Department.  U.S.A.

I should like sent to me, please the pension records of the following persons with a view to tracing genenalogical records. These were all in Rev. War. 

1. Joshua Chapin. Enlisted from Tyringhan I thin. 

2.  John Hulet p the older one listed in Mass Soldiers and Sailors). Tyringhan. 

3.  Joseph Bosworth enlisted from Wareham in 1775. 

4. John Harker. 2nd Regiment Monmouth Co N.J. 

Very sincerely yours, 

(Mrs H.V.) Edith C. Mercer
3800 Zenith Ave S. 
Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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Refer to Rev. & 1812 Wars Section    3-1865   
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR     
BUREAU OF PENSIONS     
WASHINGTON     April 4, 1927.     
Miss Dora Hulet Morrison    
Care of Farmers State Bank,     
Russell, Kans. Madam: I have to advise you, that from the papers in the pension claim, W. 7843, it appears that John Hulet or Hulett was born March 31, 1756, at Killingly, (later called Thompson) Windham County, Conn., and resided at Tyringham, Berkshire County, Mass., when he enlisted and served in the Massachusetts Troops as follows:     
From May 1775, for eight months as private in Captain Joseph Stebbins' Company, Colonel Jonathan Brewer's Regiment.     
From October 1776, for two months as private in Captain Lankton's Company.     
From June 1777. for four months, as private in Captain Lankton's Company, Colonel John Ashley's Regiment.      
From May, or June 1778, for six months, as private in Captain Kingsley's Company.     
In 1782, for two months, as Sergeant, under Captains Herrick, or Lankton, and Moses Hubbard.     
He was also out at various other times on alarms.      
He was allowed pension on his application executed August 31, 1832, while living at Brunswick, Medina County, Ohio, where he died August 26, 1842.     
While at Lee, Massachusetts, he married on October, or November 5, 1796, at Tyringham, Massachusetts, Hannah Walker of that place. She was allowed pension on her application executed June 1, 1849, while living at Strongsville, Cuyahoga County, Ohio, aged seventy-two years. They had sons, but their names are not stated. 
J. Arultad Martin from the name of Lankton for the Capt was Noah Martin Lankton was only a sergeant under “
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36.735

(?)
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Letter to Mrs Hannah Hulet Jan 21 1850,


Act - 29 - July - 1848
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Case Exam
this 10 March 
by

L.B. True
Present
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Hon J Minot
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington 
D.C. 


Postage stamp can be seen to the left.
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Brief objections to the admission of Pension Claims, of which these are answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of John Hulet which require further proof or explanation. 

I.  Does the declaration show where the applicant resides?  Court

II.  Did the declarant make the declaration in the county where he resides? Yes

III.  If the applicant did not make the declaration in the county where he resides, is there any reason assigned for his not doing so?

IV.  Has the declarant mentioned the period or periods of the war when he served?  Yes

V.  *Has he mentioned with precision the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, is language so definite as to enable the department to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled?

VI.  He he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with the regulations?   Yes

VII.  Has he made a relinquishment of every claim to any other pension than the one under the Act of June 7, 1832?  Yes

VIII.  Has the Court given their opinion?  Yes

IX.  Has the Clerk given his certificate?   Yes

X.  Is the Clerk's seal affixed?  And if so, has it a device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal?   Yes
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XI.  Has the applicant obtained the evidence of a clergyman and another respectable citizen as to their belief respecting his age and the general belief in his neighborhood relative to his revolutionary service?  Yes

XII.  If the clergyman's affidavit has not been produce, is there any reason assigned for no obtaining it? 

XIII.  If the applicant has no documentary evidence, and has not obtained the testimony of at lease one living witness, has he stated in his declaration that such proof cannot be had? 

XIV.  + If the applicant's name is not found on the rolls of military service, has he produced a witness or witnesses as to his service?  one witness

XV.  Does it appear from any of the papers that the witness was in such a situation, or of such an age, as to have a personal  knowledge of the applicant's service?  Yes.

XVI.  ++ Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct?  No

XVII.  Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily? And, if no, which of them is not so answered? 

________________________________

EXPLANATORY NOTES. 

QUERE V.  In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words:
"Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A.H. who, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that, by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service, but according to the best of his recollection he served not less that the periods mentioned below, and in the following grafes;  For _____year ____months, and ____days, I served as a ____ For _____months and _____ days, I served as a _____; and for such service I claim a pension.
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  It is important in all cases to determine with precision the period for which each applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service.. The use of the phrase - three or four months - is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable. Some persons who apply for pensions merely state they served two years in the militia, &c. without specifying the tours; the names of the officers, and other particulars respecting their service. This form of a declaration is highly objectionable. It must in every case be clearly shown under what officers the applicant served; the duration of each term of engagement; the particular place or places where the service was performed. that the applicant served with an embodied corps called into service by competent authority; that he was either in the field or in garrison; and for the time during which the service was performed, he was not employed in any civil pursuit. 

+QUERE XIV.  Proof of Service. 
  In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses, who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimants entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the regiment, company, and line to which he belonged. The magistrate who mat administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the witnesses, and the official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office. 

++QUERE XVI.  Mode of authenticating papers. 
  In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticates the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other paper authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the ends of which must pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate. 

(Hand pointing to right)  In every case where the clerk of the court, or other certifying officer, has no public seal of office, the certificate of a member of congress, proving the official character and signature of the certifying officer, should accompany the papers.
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(?) not Hulet
wid of John 
O.

Act 29 July 1848
Ad (?)  22 mos  $73.33
Sgt  2 mos  $10. 
Total of 83.33

(?) 4 Decb 1848
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Hampden (Cayahuga?) County Ohio
December 26  1850

Hon James E. Heath  Commissioner of Pensions

Sir
I have the honor of transmititng you a certificate of Riley Judd town clerk of Tyringham Berkshire County Mass in support of the claim of widow Hannah Hulett to a pension under the act of Congress of July 29 1848   The said Hannah Hulett made application while a resident of Cayahuga County Ohio some eighteen months ago   She is very poor and (?) want of her pension and she hopes that this proof will satisfy the department that she and her husband John Hulett were married before the year 1800 her husband the said John Hulett was a pensioner under the act of Congress of 1832  I have also transmited a letter written by said Town Clerk to me giving an explanation retaking to the records of said (?) 
Please make return to me to the above place

Respectfully  yours    Lewis Elliott 

Hon James E. Heath
Commissioner of Pensions