Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W 8959, Ezra Hull, Conn.
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(3 - 1776)

SERVICE                                            NUMBER
Conn              Hull, Ezra                      W 8959                                   
                               Mary

CONTENTS
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315     #315
Connecticut
Mary Hull
widow of Ezra Hull
who served in the Revolutionary war
as a Private
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of
40 Dollars
Cents per annum, to commence on
the 3 February 1853
Certificate of Pension issued the
4th day of May 1853
and sent to Hon T Smith
Litchfield, Ct
Died Apr 17, 1854
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under
act 3 Feb 1853 Page 60  Vol A
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ecticut [Connecticut] No 28,419.
zra [Ezra] Hull
ding [Redding] in the State of Connecticut
was [illegible] private in the Compy commanded
by Captain Reed of the Regt commanded
by Col Waterbury in the Connecticut
line for 12 months

Inscribed on the Roll of Connecticut
at the rate of 40 Dollars Cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 29th day of May 1834  and
Hon. G. Tomlinson, Senate

Arrears to the 4th of Mar 1834           120.00
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sep. "     20.00
                                                             ------
                                                          $140.00

Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7, 1832.
Recorded by R. Burdine Clerk
Book E2    Vol.     Page 17
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State of Connecticut
County of Fairfield   Ss Redding
On this twenty fourth day of February, Eighteen hundred and fifty three, personally appeared before the Court of Probate within and for the District of Redding in said County and State (the same being a Court of Record)
Mary Hull a resident of said Town of
Redding, aged seventy seven years, who being
first duly sworn according to law, doth on
her oath according to the best of her knowledge
and belief make the following declaration
in order to obtain the benefits of the provisions made by the several Acts of Congress, passed relative to granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the revolutionary War, and all the Laws, Regulations or decisions that have been adopted relative thereto  That she is the widow
of Ezra Hull who was a soldier in the
War of the Revolution and a pensioner
of the United States at the time of his
death at the rate of Forty Eight dollars
per annum, and for proof of the service
of her said husband in said war, and
the amount of pension allowed him, she
refers to his papers in the Department a
Washington City
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And she further declares that she was married
to the said Ezra Hull on the Twentieth day
of June in the year Eighteen hundred and ten
by the Revd Daniel Crocker then Paster of the
Congregational Church in said Redding,
and that her name previous to said marriage
was Mary Bradley, and that her husband
the aforesaid Ezra Hull died in said Town of
Redding on the fifth day of March in the
year Eighteen hundred and thirty seven 
Sworn to and subscribed
before said Court on the
day and year first above written--
Mary Hull

Attest
Lemuel Sanford, Judge of
Probate for the District of Redding

I Lemuel Sanford, Judge of the Court of Probate in and for the District of Redding in the County and State aforesaid, do hereby certify that Mary
Hall above named is a respectable resident
of the Town of Redding in said County and
State, and is the same person she represents
herself to be in the foregoing declaration, as
I believe, and that she is justly entitled to
the fullest credibility, confidence and credit

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my
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hand this 24th day of February 1853.
Lemuel Sanford, Judge
State of Connecticut
Fairfield County ⎬ SS Redding
I Jonathan R Sanford, Jr Clerk of the Court of
Probate for the District of Redding in said
County and State do hereby certify that
Lemuel Sanford before whom the foregoing
proceedings were had was at the time of
the execution of the same and still is Judge
of said Court of Probate duly commissioned
and qualified, and that the foregoing
signatures purporting to be his are genuine
and that the foregoing contains the original
proceedings of the said Court in the matter
of the application of said Mary Hull for
Pension  And I the said Clerk do further
certify that satisfactory evidence has been
exhibited to said Court that Ezra Hull above
named was at the time of his death a
revolutionary pensioner of the United States
that the said Ezra Hull died in said
Redding on the fifth day of March in
the year eighteen Hundred and
thirty seven, and that the said
Mary Hull is now living of the
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widow of said Ezra Hull in said Town of
Redding
In testimony whereof I have here
unto set my hand and affixed
the seal of said Court this
24th day of February A.D. 1853.
Jonathan R Sanford Jr
Clerk of Probate for
the District of Redding
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I Daniel D. Frost of lawful age of the
Town of Redding, Fairfield County, State of
Connecticut Pastor of the Congregational
Church in said Redding do hereby certify
that I hold as Pastor of Said Church the
Records of said Church, and that it appears
by the Records of the said Church during the
time that the Revd Daniel Crocker was Pastor of said Church, that Ezra Hull was married to Mary Bradley in the year Eighteen hundred and ten on the twentieth day of June which Record is in the words and figures following to wit:
June 20th 1810 Ezra Hull, to   Reading
Wd Mary Bradley                    Weston

and I do hereby certify that the above extract
is a true copy of the original Record of said
Church, and that the page of marriages
from which said extract is taken is headed
as follows to wit 

Marriages
Date  Persons married  Places of abode
and that the above is the usual form in
which marriages were entered or said
Records during the said Pastorate of Mr
Crocker And I do further depose and
say that I am acquainted with said
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Mary Hull and that she is now living or
the accredited widow of said Ezra Hull
in said Town of Red and is a member of
my church in good and regular standing
Daniel D Frost

State of Connecticut
Fairfield County SS Redding Feby 24th 1853
I Jonathan R. Sanford Jr of Redding in the County of Fairfield and State of Connecticut Clerk of the Court of Probate within and for the District of Redding in said County and State duly appointed and sworn, do hereby certify that on the 24th day of February 1853, Daniel D. Frost aforesaid personally appeared and subscribed and made oath to the truth of the above certificate and deposition before said Court and I further certify that I am well
acquainted with said Daniel D. Fost, that he is Pastor of the Congregational Church in said Redding, and a credible Witness
In testimony whereof I have hereunto
set my hand and affixed the seal
of said Court on the day and year
above written
Jonathan R Sanford Jr Clerk
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29.531
Admit as private
12 months $40
Hon G Tomlinson
U S.S.
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State of Connecticut SS
County of Fairfield
on this 7th day of January 1834 personally
appeared in open Court before the Court of Probate for the District of Fairfield within said County and State
Ezra Hull a resident of the town of Redding in
the said County and State aged Seventy Seven years who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832 - that he entered the service of the United States under the following named Officers and served as herein stated
The declarant says that as early as the 1st day of November 1775 he enlisted for four months under Capt Zalmon Reed of Redding to go to New York, William Hawley of Redding was Lieutenant of the Company. The Company to which he belonged joined the Regiment commanded by Col Waterbury of Hartford in Connecticut. They went down to New York and were stationed during the winter at the Barracks so called he stood and did military duty as a private soldier for four months or until the 1st of March 1776. when the time for which he had enlisted having expired he was discharged but had no written discharge
the troops somewhat he believes were called state troops Sometime in the fore part of March 1776 immediately after his return home the applicant says that he enlisted to go down to New York again Capt Eliphalet Thorp of Fairfield was Capt of the Company and Col Goold S Silliman of Fairfield  commanded the Regiment to which he belonged he enlisted at this time for three months to serve as a Fifer in the company he
says he served out the three months, or until sometime in the month of June of that year when he was discharged but he had a written discharge. The troops he thinks were state troops In the early part of August 1776
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the applicant says that he with the militia Company to which he at that time belonged under the command Lieutenant John Davis of Redding Capt Zalmon Reed of Redding the Capt of the Company being absent on other
Service, were ordered to New York. then [illegible] by the British under sir William and Lord Howe Col Chandler of New Town in Connecticut commanded the Regiment to which the Company belonged. he [illegible] and did duty as fifer to the Company in New York for the time of one month when he was taken sick with the dysentery in camp Washington as it was then called and had a furlew given him to return have being unable to do duty and he did return home where he was sick six weeks before he became able to get about or do any thing The Company
having returned by this time he did not go back to New York  The Battle between the Americans and the British on Long Island tuk place while he was at New York at this time The Americans were commanded by General Washington, as it was a pretty general muster
the troops he believes were what are called militia and as he thinks were caled out for no definite term but to meet the emergency  The declarant also says that on the 20 of March 1777 according to the best of his recollection
he was drafted for one month to serve on guard on the sea Coast of Fairfield. He says that he was stationed at Campo on long Island sound and in the term of Fairfield with others composing a sergeants Guard under Sergeant
John Olmstead of Northfield then so called and at that time a part of the Town of Fairfield, now a part of the Town of Weston He says he served as a private soldier one month the
time for which he was drafted or until the 20th of of that year when he was discharged, but had no written discharge the troops he thinks were state Troops
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Sometime in the early part of the month of June 1780 he also says that he was drafted for one month to serve on guard on the sea coast in the Town of Fairfield. The guard was a
Sergeant guard and was commanded by Sergeant Justice Bates of Redding The guard was stationed as the upper wharf at Black Rock in the Town of Fairfield. He says that he served as a private soldier one month the time for which he was drafted when he was discharged but he had no written discharge the guard he believes was what are called state troops The declarant who says that on the 15th of
February 1781 he according to the Book of  [illegible] enlisted for nine months to serve on guard on the sea coast of the Town of Fairfield Capt Thomas Aorch of Fairfield had the general superintendance of the guards
Daniel Duncan of Northfield then a part of the Town of Fairf [Fairfield] was Lieutenant, he says they were stationed in the first Society of the Town of Fairfield, on the margin of long island
sound. Here he did the duty of a private soldier for nine months, until the 15th of November of the same year when he says that he was regularly discharged but that he had no written discharge and he would also state that the business of the soldier in all of the foregoing cases was his only business during the time of the several preceeding engagements of his the applicant further says that on the 5th of October 1777 according to
the best of his recollection he and the militia Company to which he belonged under Capt John Gray of Redding volunteered their services and went to the Red Neck in the State
of New York, to aid in repelling on incursion of the British up the Hudson under General Vaughan  Nehemiah Hull of Redding was Lieutenant, and Aaron Barlow of Redding
was Ensign of the Company  Jonathan Dimen of Fairfield
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was Col. and Goold S Silliman of Fairfield was General. He was there when the British burnt [illegible] and he says that he there six weeks and did the duty of a private soldier before he was discharged with the rest of the Militia, and the discharge was  a verbal and not a written discharge. The duty was continuous and the Troops he thinks were Militia this tour of duty in the [illegible] of time ought to have been
pland before the two last preceding ones in the declaration but was omited through mistake  He says that he was born in the Town of Redding in the State of Connecticut on the 5th day of April AD 1756 and that he has
resided in the said Town of Redding ever since except when occasionally absent for short periods. And that he resided there when called into the service of his Country in the time of the Revolution. He says that he has a record
of his age in the Family Bible at home. He says that he is acquainted with the Revd William L Strong, Ebenezer Hill Esqr Walker Bates Samuel Mallery and Gershom Hill of Redding & the Hon Gideon Tomlinson of the united States Senate who can [illegible] reporting his
character and  he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension rol of  the agency of any State
Ezra Hull

Sworn to and subscribed on the
day and year aforesaid by me
David Hill Judge of the
Court of Probate for the district aforesaid
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State of Connecticut District of Fairfield 
County of Fairfield January the 7th 1834
We William L. Strong a Clergyman residing in
the Town of Redding in said County and State and Ebenezer Hill residing in said Town and State do hereby certify that we are well
acquainted with Ezra Hull who has subscribed and Sworn to the foregoing declaration that we believe him to be seventy seven years of age that he is reputed & believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have
been a Soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion and we also believe him to be a man of truth and that his statements in his character are entitled to full credit

Sworn to and subscribed in the day &
year aforesaid before David Hill Judge of Probate for the District aforesaid

Wm L. Strong minister of the Gospel
Ebenr Hill

And the said Court hereby declare its opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogations prescribed by the
War department that the above named applicant was a revolutionary Soldier and served as he states and the Court further certifies that it appears to the said Court that William L Strong who has signed the preceding certificate is a Clergyman resident in the
Town of Redding in Connecticut. and that Ebenezer Hill who has also signed the same is a resident of the said Town of Redding
and that they are credible persons and that their statement entitled to credit
David Hill Judge of Probate for said Fairfield District
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I David Hill Jun Clerk of the Court of Probate for the District of Fairfield aforesaid do hereby certify that the within and forgoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Ezra Hull of Redding for a pension. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the of Official Fairfield aforesaid this 7th day of January AD 1834
David Hill Jr Clerk
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We the undersigned Inhabitants of the Town of Redding in Fairfield County and State of Connecticut hereby certify and declare that we have for many years been acquainted with
Ezra Hull who has applied for a pension for Revolutionary services and that he is a man of good character for truth and veracity, and
that we fully believe that he served in the Revolutionary War
Walker Bates
Samuel Mallery
Gershom Hill

Sworn and subscribed before me this 16th day of Decemeb 1833
and I do hereby certify that I am personally acquainted with the subscribers of the foregoing declaration and that they are all persons of good character and respectable for truth and veracity
Ebenr Hill Just of Peace
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I Aaron Morehouse of Newtown in the County
of Fairfield & State of Connecticut, aged
seventy three years, being duly sworn, depose & say that Ezra Hull of Redding in sd County
served with me in the Revolutionary War in
the latter part of the year 1775 & beginning of the year 1776, We enlisted in Capt Read's Company & Col Waterbury's Regt State Troops, said Hull enlisted in Novr We served in the City of New York till the first of April & were discharged
I served the whole time with sd Hull
Said Hall served with me in the year 1777
in a Company of Militia commanded by Capt
Gray which marched to Redhook, we marched
from Redding the first of October this tour of
service was not less than six weeks it was
at the time Fort Montgomery was taken and
Burgoine was captured Said Hull served
in the Militia with me, on Guard at Gregory's
Parish in the State of New York under the
Command of Capt Gray, which term of service
was not less than three weeks and was in June
& July of 1778
Said Hull served with me on Guard at
Middlesex under Capt Gray in Sept 1781
our term of service was three weeks
Aaron Morehouse

State of Connecticut Fairfield County ss.
April 22d 1833. Sworn & subscribed before me
& I further certify that the Deponent sustains a
good character for truth & is a credible Witness
Jonathan R. Sanford Jus of Peace
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I Aaron Morehouse of Newtown [Reading crossed out] in the County of Fairfield & State of Connecticut of the age of seventy three years, depose & say that Ezra Hull of Reading in sd County enlisted in Novemr 1775 in the
Connecticut State Troops, in Col. Waterburys
Regiment and Capt Zalmon Read's Compy.
and that he served in New York five months
that at the taking of Burgoine's Army he
served in the Militia about six weeks
that he also served in the Militia at
Middlesex under Capt Gray about three
weeks. that he served at Grgory's parish
in State of New York about three weeks
Aaron Morehouse

State of Connecticut Fairfield County ss
on the 17th day of July 1832 The above named
Aaron Morehouse made oath to the
foregoing Deposition, by him subscribed
before me Jonathan R. Sanford Jus of Peace

Time of entering and leaving the service not specified
means of knowledge of the witness not stated
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I Asahel Salmons of the Town of Redding County of Fairfield and State of Connecticut of the age of seventy five years, depose and say that I am well acquainted with Eza Hull of said Redding and have been from childhood, and I went with said Hull from said town of 
Redding in an expedition in the Revolutionary war of volunteer on to the North River in the State of New York where we served the term of six weeks, we left said Redding the 5th day of October 1777 and went on to Peekskill joined the troops commanded by General
Silliman, from thence pursued the British troops to Redneck was at said place a while, from there went to Fishkill on said River where we were discharged verbally by the said General Silliman at the experation of the said term of six weeks and further say not
Asahel Salmon

Fairfield County Redding 26th August 1833
State of Connecticut
On the above day and date personally appeared Asahel Salmons and made solemn oath to the truth of the above deposition unto which he has hereunto subscribed & I hereby certify that I am well acquainted with said Asahel Salmons & that he is a man of truth & veracity
before me Thoms B. Fanton Justice of Peace
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I Zalmon Hull of Redding in the County of Fairfield and State of Connecticut aged Seventy four years being duly sworn depose
& say that in the first of March in the year 1776 Ezra shall entered the service of the United States in the Company commanded by Captain Eliphalet Thorp in the Regiment
commanded by Col. Goold S. Silliman at N York City where the Regiment was stationed at Garrison duty where he remained three months as a private soldier then was discharged I was with him belonged to same company & was discharged when he was came home together I do not know whether sd Regt was State Troops or Malitia
Zalmon Hall

State of Connecticut Fairfield County SS At Redding Fairfield County Sworn & Subscribed this 19th day of Decr. 1833 before me
And I certify that the Deponant is a credible witness and sustains a good character for truth
Ebenr Hill Justice of Peace
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State of New York SS
Delaware County
This day came before me Samuel Stevens Justice of the Peace of the Town of Harpersfield in said County Daniel Thorp of said town of Harpersfield aged seventy one years he being by me first duly sworn oath on his oath depose and say that Ezra Hull of the town of Redding in the State of Connecticut
was an enlisted soldier in the line of Connecticut State troops in a Regiment commanded by Colonel Jonathan Dimon under Captain Thomas Nash and did serve the term of nine months that he the said Thorp was a corporal in the same company and Regiment that he enlisted some time in
the spring of the year 1781 and were discharged in the winter following and further this deponent saith not
Daniel Thorp

Sworn and subscribed this 31st day of August 1832 before me and I certify that the said Daniel Thorp is a credible witness
Samuel Stevens Justice of the Peace

[illegible] it is not stated where the
service was performed, nor are any
particulars relative to said Service specified.
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State of New York
County of Delauare [Delaware] SS
I Crawford B Sheldon Clerk of the said County do certify that Samuel Stevens Esquire before whom the within affidavit purports to have been sworn was at the date of the same, one of the Justices of the peace in and for the said County, and further that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of the said Justice and verily believe his name subscribed to the said affidavit to be his proper hand writing and Signature In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of the said County this Eighth day of September 1832
C B Sheldon Clerk
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I Saml Mallery of Redding of County of Fairfield and State of Connecticut aged Eighty one year being duly sworn depose and say in August from first to last in 1776 Ezra Hull
Volenteared a private Soldier in the Malitia Served under Lieutenant John Davice of sd Redding in the Regt of Col. Chandler at N York was there when the Americans left Long Island and came into N York I was there with him in the service of the United States
Samuel Mallery

State of Connecticut Fairfield County ss at Redding in sd County Sworn and subscribed before me this 16th day of Decr 1833 and I certify that the Deponent is a credible witness and sustains a good character
Ebenr Hill Just of Peace
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I Samuel Mallery of Redding in the County of Fairfield and State of Connecticut aged Eighty one years being duly sworn depose and
say that on the first of March 1776 Ezra Hull entered the service of the United States in the Company commanded by Capt. Eliphalet Thorp in the Regt commanded by Col. Goold S. Silliman I served with him in the same company the full term of three months at Garrison duty and was discharged and we returned home together I do not know whether sd Regiment was State Troops or Militia sd duty was performed at N York
Samuel Mallery 

State of Connecticut Fairfield County SS At Redding in sd County Sworn & subscribed before me this 16th day of Decr 1833 and I further certify that the Deponant is a credible witness and sustains a good chaaracter
Ebenr Hill Just of Peace
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State of Connecticut  Ss District of Fairfield June 7th 1834

I David Hill Judge of the Court of Probate for the District aforesaid, do hereby certify that Ebenezer Hill and Jonathan R Sanford of the town of Redding and County of Fairfield in Connecticut are Justices of the Peace
within and for said County and have been for several years last past, and also that the foregoing Signatures of their names as Justices are their genuine signatures
David Hill
Judge Probate for the
District aforesaid

29.531
Hon G. Tomlinson

State of Connecticut Ss District of Fairfield January the 7th 1834
I David Hill Junr Clerk of the Court of probate for the District aforesaid do hereby certify that David Hill who has submited the foregoing certificate is Judge of Probate for the District of Fairfield in Connecticut and that the
foregoing signature of his name is his genuine signature

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of office
the seal office-
David Hill Jr Clk
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State of Connecticut
County of Fairfield

on this 4th day of April 1834
personally appeared in open Court before the Court of Probate for the District of Fairfield in the County and State aforesaid Ezra Hull of Redding in the County and State aforesaid aged about seventy eight years who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on his oath make the following declaration in addition to and explanatory of the declaration he made the 7th day of January 1834 in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed
June 7th 1832 the declarant says that his memory is very [illegible] and if he shoud happen to be mistaken in terms 
of his declaration is mild not [illegible] changed, but he says
is confident upon the most mature consideration & reflection in the subjects that he went and served as he stated in his former declaration in 1775-76  The Depositions of the
Mssr Jacksons annexes go to prove that Col Waterbury was there though it is possible he might not have been there the whole time that the applicant was in 1775 -1776

It will also be [illegible] [illegible] thats the reason of his not having had a discharges from his term of duty to New York in 1776. when he was sick and returned home on furlew was because the Company to which he belonged
returned home and was discharged before he 

recovered so as  to be able to them. The certificate of the Comptroler of Connecticut is also [illegible] and if it adds any weight to the former pension papers of the applicant it will afford him much satisfaction
Ezra Hull

Sworn to and subscribed on the
day & year aforesaid before
David Hill Judge of
Probate for the district aforesaid
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And the said Court hereby declares its opinion
after the investigation of the matter that the
above named applicant was a revolutionary
soldier and served as he states in the Courts
mind also certify that Ezra Hull who has
signed and sworn to this second declaration is
the same personal who submited the first declaration in this collection of papers
 David Hill Judge of Probate

 I David Hill Jnr Clerk of the Court of  probate for the District of Fairfield do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Ezra Hull for a Pension. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of Office this 4th day April AD 1832--
David Hill Jr Clerk
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I Joseph Jackson of the Town of Arcadia County of Wayne and State of New York aged Seventy six year being duly sworn, do depose and say that Ezra Hull of Redding Fairfield County and State of Connecticut enlisted the last of December 1775 in the State troops for three months in Captain Zalmon Reads company joined Colonel Waterberrys
Regiment at New York kept gard and lived
in Baracks served the term of his enlistment
I served with him in the same Company and
at the same time the sd term of three months
in the the Revolutionary war I at that time
when he enlisted was an inhabitant of sd Town of Redding and he was verbally discharged
Joseph Jackson
State of Connecticut
Fairfield County
S.S. At Redding in sd County Sworn and subscribed before me this 27th day of August 1832 and as for as I know the deponent is a credible witness
Ebenr Hill Just of Peace
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State of Connecticut, District of
Fairfield April 4th 1834 I  David Hill Judge of the Court of probate for the district aforesaid do hereby certify that Ebenezer Hill of Redding before whom the two immediably Imending
depositions were taken is a Justice of the
peace within and for the County of Fairfield in the State of Connecticut and that the forgoing signature of his name is his genuine signature
David Hill Judge 

I David Hill Jr Clerk of the Court of  Probate for the District of Fairfield aforesaid do hereby certify that David Hill who has subscribed the foregoing certificate is Judge of Probate for the District of Fairfield in Connecticut and that the foregoing signature of his name is his genuine signature
In testimony wherof I have hereto set my hand and the seal of office at Fairfield aforesaid April 4th 1834
David Hill Jr Clerk
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ev. and 1812
Wars Section
EEL
March 15, 1930
Mrs. Julia Noyes Lamb
931 East 143rd Street
Cleveland, Ohio
Dear Madam:
I advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War
pension claim, W.8959, it appears that Ezra Hull was born April 5, 1756, in Redding, Connecticut.
He enlisted, place not stated, and served in the
Connecticut Troops as follows:
From November 1, 1775, four months as a private in Captain Zalmon Read's Company, Colonel Waterbury's Regiment
From early in March, 1776, three months as a fifer in Captain Eliphalet Thorp's Company, Colonel Gold S. Silliman's Regiment.
From early in August, 1776, one month as a fifer under Lieutenant John Davis, Colonel Chandler's Regiment.
From March 20, 1777, one month as a private in a Sergeant's Guard, and guarded the sea coast of Connecticut.
From October 5, 1777, six weeks as a private in Captain John Gray's, Company, Colonel Jonathan Dimon's Regiment
In June and July, 1778, three weeks in Captain Gray's Company.
From early in June, 1780, one month as a private and guarded the sea coast.
From February 15, 1781, nine months as a fifer in
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in Captain Thomas Nash's Company
He was allowed pension on his application executed January 7, 1834, while residing in Redding, Fairfield County, Connecticut.
He died March 5, 1837, at Redding, Connecticut.
The soldier married June 20, 1810, at Redding, Connecticut , Mary Bradley. The marriage was recorded on the records of the Congregational Church of said Redding.
She was allowed pension on her application executed February 24, 1853, at which time she was aged seventy seven years and resided in Redding, Connecticut.
She died April 17, 1854.
There is no reference to children.
Very truly yours
EARL D. CHURCH
Commissioner.
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May 23 1904
Jas A Martin
E Hartford Conn
1930 Mar 15 Hist to
Mrs Julia Noyes Lamb
EE
Revolution
Connecticut
WIDOW, &c.
File No. 8959
Mary Hull
Wid
Ezra Hull
Privt Rev War
Act: Febry 3d 1853
Index Vol. A, Page 356
Arrangement of 1870
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Pension Bureau
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Revolutionary Rolls
Gentlemen:
Will you please send me copy of data covering service etc. of pensioner Ezra Hull Private, service Conn Cont placed on roll May 29, 1834 Pension began March 4, 1831, Age 74
This as per entry on page 87 Vol I, Statement Fairfield Co. Conn publication 1835 Senate Documents 1st session 23rd Congress Report from Secy War Revolutionary Pension
Rolls, 1833 1834 This Entry shows payment of $40 per year
Very truly yours
(Mrs) Julia Noyes Lamb
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JOB PRINTING
1904

Pension Bureau
Gentlemen Will you kindl send me as soon as convenient the Pension Records of 
Jacob Patchen, a Conn pensioner under the Acts of 1818, also that of Ezra Hull both
Revolutionary Soldiers, and oblije Yous
Jas A Matin
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8959
3 - 068.
(Old No. 3 -- 649.)
Bureau of Pensions.

Ezra Hall

Jany 7 1834-77
Redding Conn
Born Apr. 5, 1756
Redding 

Nov. 1, 75  Redding Conn
Capt Zamon Real
Col Waterbury
pvt. 4 m

Mch 76 Capt Sharp
Col Silliman 
Fifer 3 m

Aug 76
Sharp
Col Chandler
Fifer 1 m

Mch 77 Sergt Olmsted
Col
pvt 1 m

80 June Sergt Bates
pvt 1 m

Feby 81 Capt Nash
p 9 m

Mar Mary Bradley
June 20 1816
D mrch 5 18, 1837

No Bat
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Brief in the case of
Mary Hull
County and State of Connecticut
act 3 February 1853
Claim, (original)
Proof exhibited, (if original.)
Is it documentary, traditionary, or supported by rolls? If either, state the substance.

(If for increase.)
Has additional evidence been filed since the admission of the claim? If so, what?
Husband a pensioner under Act of
7 June 1832, at $40 per annum
Marriage proved by an extract
from the Church record, sworn to by
the Pastor
Name and residence of Agent
Hon T Smith
R. McRae Examining Clerk
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No. 355

Connecticut
Mary Hull
widow of Ezra Hull
Act 3 Feb 1853
Revolution
$40 per annum
Comm 7
3 February 1853
Hon J. Smith
U.S.S.
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Washington Cty Feb 18th 1853
For the Commr of Pensions
Sir I Enclose papers for Mrs Mary Hull of Redding Fairfield to Connecticut in support of her application for a Pension as the widow of Ezra Hull deceased
Early attention to the subject will greatly oblige
Your obt sent
Herman Smith
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Feb 28th 1853
-
Appl of Mary
Hull widow of
Ezra Hull
Connecticut '32
Act 3d Feby 1853.
Revolutionary


Hon Truman Smith
US Senate
[illegible]
Connors/ Pensions
Washington DC
Hon Truman Smith
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Sie
I said you all the evedence I can
and regarding Capt. Sterling & Capt Nashs companies I find no mention made of
John Olmstead It is probable that his guard
was a portion of some company & the pay roll
of the whole company charged in the name of
the Capt or Comdt of the company
Fee $2
Jane & Ben E Phelps
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War Department
Pension Office
April 19 1834
Sir Whenever Ezra Hall shall state
under oath, whether he ever made a declaration of his service previous to that made in January last, as he has but heretofore required, and if so accounts for it and if not explain the occasion of his delay, and the statements shall prove satisfactory he may be allowed for two months services in Waterberys Regiment in the spring of 1776, and ten months services in the guard at Fairfield. These are all the services that appear to be reconcileable with the course of actual services in the field or garrison which are set forth
in the papers of the claimant unless further
explanation and proof be adduced. The
papers are placed on file awaiting this
statement
I
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I have the honor to be [illegible] J. L. Edwards

Hon. G. Tomlinson  Senate U States
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Stephen Jackson
Deposition
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I Stephen Jackson of Redding Fairfield County and State of Connecticut aged Eighty three years being duly sworn depose and say that about the 1st of June 1775 Col. Waterzery then belonged to the Town of Stamford in sd County was in New York belonged to to the Army from thence he went to the northward and continued through the season or till December following then he returned to New York where he continued three months to my knowlege for I was their with him at that time
Stephen Jackson
State of Connecticut Fairfield County ss. At Redding Fairfield County Sworn and subscribed in said County before me
this 3rd day of April 1834 and I certify that he the deponant is a credible witness witness and sustains a good Character for truth
Ebenr Hill Just of Peace
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War Department
Pension Office
February 19. 1834
Sir The papers of Ezra Hall are herewith returned, unless further explanation
and proof is furnished his service in Waterburys Regiment which was raised in February 1776 for two months cannot be recognised. It does not appear that he was regurally discharged from Col Chandlers Regiment if that corps was in actual service for the period stated which is doubtful It should appear from the Archives of the state that the several corps in which the claimant alleges he served were ordered into actual service at the periods stated
I have the honor to be
Your obed Servant
J. L. Edwards
Hon G Tomlinson Senate US
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Joel Burr for
Ezra Hull
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Joel Burr of the Town of Galway County of Saratoga and State of New York aged Seventy four years the 23d of this month being duly sworn do depose and say Ezra Hull of Redding in Fairfield County in the month of March 1777 entered and served on gard at Com
in Fairfield County One month ending five days before the Store was burnt at Danbury in Connecticut by the Brittish then was discharged at sd Compo with by the Officer commanding the gard was Liut John Olmst of Weston in sd County
Joel Burr

State of Connecticut SS 
Fairfield County
At Redding in sd County Sworn and subscribed before me this 16th day of August 1832 and I am full in the opinion that the Deponant is a credible witness
Ebenr. Hill Just of Peace
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THE NATIONAL ARCHIVED
Form VAM-51
12-5-41

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*

Division of Veterans’ Administration

NAME Hull, Fleet	GRADE Private	LINE Massachusetts

WARRANT NUMBER 4357	ACREAGE 100	ISSUED Jan. 28, 1790 
To__ not shown__

*The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800. Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.