Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 19827, for William Hunter, Vermont
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SERVICE 

Continental, Green Mt. Boys, Vt. | 

Hunter, William
              Mary      |

NUMBER W. 19827 

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CONTENTS
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Set Hon. H. Everett [illegible] 15 - 1838

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1989 June 3, Hist. to T. Warren Morgan Draper, New York City,  F.S.

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1893 - Aug. 21,  Hist. to  C.H. Cutting, New York City, F.S.

(opposite page)

1702

Windsor Vermont 
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Mary Hunter, widow of Willian Hunter deceased who dies on 13th of November 1827 of Windsor in the State of Vermont, who was a Lt., Sgt. & Priv. in the company commanded by Capt. Hatch of the Regiment commanded by Maj. Hensington of the N.Y. line, for 
8 mos. Lieutenant
3 mos. Sergeant
6 days Private

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Inscribed on the Roll of Windsor, Vermont, at the rate of 122 Dollars 33 cents per annum, to commence on the 4th of March, 1834.

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Certificate of Pension issued the 13th day of January, 1838 and sent to Hon. H. Everett, House of Rep.

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Arrears to the 4th of Sept, 1837.         $ 795.14
Semi-anl allow ending 4 March '38         61.16
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                                                            $ 856.30

{Revolutionary Claim, }
{Act July 4, 1836, }
Section the 3   }

Recorded by D.L. Addison, Clerk
Book 4,   Vol. 2,    Page 37
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Deposition of Mrs. Lucy Churchill

(Mary Hunter's case)
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I, Lucy Churchill, wife of Maj. Sylvester Churchill of the U.S. Army, now temporarily residing at Woodstock, in the County of Windsor and State of Vermont, aged fifty one years and upwards, do depose testify and say, that I am a daughter of William Hunter, formerly of Windsor in said State and of Mary Hunter now of said Windsor who was the wife and is not the widow of said William Hunter. My said father died at said Windsor on the 30th day of November AD one thousand eight hundred and twenty seven, aged seventy three years and nearly eleven months at the time of his death, as I have always understood from the words and common reputation of those facts in the family.  I further say that the common reputation of the fact is, that my father and mother were married at Cornish, New Hampshire, but Reverend W. Willman, a congregational Clergyman then settled there, on the 31st day of January AD 1777. And I know that my said mother has remained a widow ever since the death of my father.

I further testify and say that i have oftentimes in the lifetime of my father, even when I was a child, and subsequently, heard him speak of his campaigns in Canada in the early part of the Revolutionary War. I always understood from his narration of the facts and from hearing others converse with him who served with him, but who are not dead, that he went twice into Canada in the service of the United States.  That i was warm weather when he went away, and that it was late in the fall or beginning of winter when he returned the first time.  I have often heard him speak of being quartered on and boardings in a French family some six or seven weeks, during this campaign or tour.  I have heard him speak very particularly of the peculiar manners, diversions and kind dispositions of that family, the head of whom he represented as having been a physician.  I well remember in my childhood to have often seen my mother have a black ostrich plume or feather
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which it was said by her, and my father, that he brought from Montreal when he returned from that place, and gave to my mother before they were married.  I verily believe from my recollection of my father's [illegible] of his tour of service, that he left his home at Windsor for Canada, some time in the summer of 1775, and that he returned some time in December of the same year. And that when he left home on his service tour into Canada, he left Windsor with his recruits, in January 1776 and returned home some time in the summer of the same year.  I further say that I always understood both from my father and mother that when he returned home from his campaign to Quebec, that he did not come by Montreal, that his baggage was lost or abandoned on the retreat of the Army from Quebec that all his papers were lost with it, and that when he returned home, which was in the summer of 1776, he brought nothing whatever but the clothes which he word.

I further say that I have many times heard my father speak of a tour of military service which he did during the Revolutionary War in the northerly part of this state and of his having been or been stationed at Newbury during this tern of service. This I understood to be a service of some considerable duration.  I should think as much as three months or thereabouts.

I have also heard him speak of other [illegible] shorter periods of military service, which he performed for the State of Vermont, particularly of a tour in capturing a couple of Tories of the name of Buch and Johns, and of conducting them from Windsor to a place of security, I think [illegible] the Green Mountains - But of the particular times places of length of those services, beyond what I have above stated, I cannot depose.
Lucy Churchill

State of Vermont }
County of Windsor s.s. }
At Woodstock in the said County on
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this 11th day of December AD 1837, Mrs. Lucy Churchill before named, personally appeared and made solemn oath that the foregoing deposition by her subscribed, contains the truth and nothing but the truth.
Before me  Alex Aikens, Justice of the Peace

I certify that the said Lucy Churchill is to me well know and is a person of credibility. 
Alex Aikens, Justice of the Peace.
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I, Solomon Willman Jr. of Cornish in the County of Sullivan and State of New Hampshire, aged fifty years, do depose testify and say that I am the grandson of the late Reverend James Willman who was settled over the first Congregational Church in Cornish aforesaid from about the year 1768 till about the year 1784. That he died at said Cornish, where he still continued to [illegible], in December 1808.  I further say that I have had ever since his death, and now have in my possession, the almanacks of said James Wellman, my grandfather, from the year 1744 to the year of his death, or nearly all of the time, with the original memoranda of said James Wellman therein contained.  I further say that he was in the habit of interleaving his almanack during all those years of this.  Of this practice I was eye witness at times many years before he died having lived with him from a child to the time of his death, and am perfectly acquainted with his hand writing.  I further say that on those leaves this interposed, he was in the daily habit of making memoranda of such daily events as he deemed worthy of being recorded, and among other things, the marriages he celebrated.  I further say that in his almanack for the year 1777 now in my possession is a blank unfinterfaced between the months of January and February of that year, and on the side facing the page for January there is in the handwriting of my said Grandfather, among other things, a [illegible] in the following words and figures, viz "30 William Hunter and Mary Newell both of Windsor were joined in marriage by W."

I further say that he uniformly headed his blank leaves to [illegible] with the printed pages & that the page on which the above memorandum is made is headed in his hand writing in these words,  "January month 31 days 1777" and further I say not.
Solomon Wellman.

State of New Hampshire
Sullivan County, Cornish December 20th 1837

then the said Solomon Wellman Jr. personally appeared and solemnly affirmed that the above deposition by him subscribed is [illegible] and true. This he did under the pains and functions of perjury.
Before me, Harvey Chase, Justice of the Peace.

I further certify that the above named Solomon Willman Jr. is to me well known and that he is a person of credibility
Harvey Chase, Jus. Peace
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I am well acquainted with the named Harvey Chase and I know him to be a Justices of the Peace for the County of Sullivan in the State of New Hampshire and I know that the within affidavit and the affidavit certificate are in the hand writing of said Chase.
Henry Bubbard
Lewitt Church
January 10, 1898
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Declaration for
Mary Hunter, Widow of late Hon. William Hunter of Windsor, Vt.

-- For a pension --

Married 1777
Died 1827

Private 6 days              .66
Sergt   2 months      15.00
Lieut    8 months    106.66
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                            $ 122.32

Comp. 4 March 1831

H. Everett
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State of Vermont  }
Probate District of Windsor  s.s.  }

On this twenty fifth day of December AD One thousand eight hundred and thirty seven, personally appeared before the Hon. the Probate Court within and for the District of Windsor aforesaid, Mary Hunter, a resident of Windsor in the County of Windsor, and State of Vermont, aged Eight Years and about one month, who, being first duly sworn according to Law, doth on her oath, make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed July fourth, One Thousand Eight Hundred and Thirty Six: That she is the widow of William Hunter, late of said Windsor, who was a Sergeant, and First Lieutenant in Col. Seth Warner's Regiment and the Continental Line, and also, a private and Lieutenant in the Militia of, or raised within the Territory or State of Vermont, during the period of the Revolutionary War.  And she declares that according to her personal knowledge, and best recollection, information and belief, the Militia Services of her said husband in and during the Revolutionary War, were as follows:   That he first enlisted as a Sergeant, under a Captain Grant, into Col. Warner's Regiment, in repeaing time, she believes in the month of August AD Seventeen Hundred and Seventy five, and with other enlisted men, soon proceeded to Crown's Point. She saw him where he marched away
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with the men.  That from there, he proceeded to the siege of W. Johns and from thence marched into Montreal, with General Montgomery.  That for his conduct at the siege of W. John, he was honored with a Lieutenant Commission in the same Regiment.  That he returned from Montreal to Windsor as a Lieutenant, in the fore part of December of the same year for the purpose of raising more men, bringing to this declarant an Ostrich Plume, which she retained many years.  That he re-enlisted several of the men who had returned with hi, and enlisted others at and about the Windsor for a winter campaign among whom this declarant knew and remembers as Ebenezer Hoisington, Joel Butler, Asa Smead and Jonathan Hodgman.  There were a good many others; and with these men, the said Willian set out again for Canada, in the fore part of January Seventeen Hundred & seventy six.  This declarant has often heard the said William say, that they proceeded over the Green Mountains on snow shoes, to Lake Champlain.  That they went on skated a good deal of the way through the Lakes, proceeded again to Montreal, and thence to Quebec.  That he continued with the army under General Sullivan, doing his duty there as a Lieutenant, till it retreated out of Canada to Crown-Point.  That on that retreat, he lost his baggage, and all his papers
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as this declarant was informed and verily believes that the said William returned home from this service, the latter part of June, on the forepart of July, Seventeen Hundred and Seventy-Six; and this declarant, well remembers that she was washing clothes at a brook when he returned.  She further saith that in the latter part of the summer or forepart of the autumn of that same year, the said William volunteered and went as a Lieutenant, with many men from these parts, and did a tour of duty at Newbury, Vermont, in guarding against invasions from Canada, by the Indians.  Major Joab Hoisington went with these men also, but what other officers when, she does not recollect, neither can she state by what Government or authority, this detachment was ordered into service, but she feels very certain from her recollection that the said William was absent on this service three months and upwards;  and she knows that when he returned he came down the Connecticut war with one Ezekiel Hawley in a Park cause.  This declarant further saith that after her intermarriage with the said William (the solemnization of which, have been delayed in consequence of his going into the service which prevented their sooner getting ready to keep house) he was strongly solicited by many to take a Captain's
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Commission, but owing to their very straitened circumstances in point of property, he was inducted to decline it; but he was very soon enrolled in the company of Militia in Windsor, and was several times after that event, called into the actual service of the State, and went out as a soldier in the Militia to serve against the enemy, before the close of the Revolutionary Wars.  That the particular dates and periods of those tours of Militia duty (which were generally short), she cannot now remember so as to specify them;  But she recollects that he turned out and event off with others of the Militia against the Indians, at the time they burnt Royalton.  It was in the month of October and she believed in the year Seventeen Hundred and Eighty.  Her first child, whose name was Guy, was then about three years old, and she fled on foot, leading her child, to Cornish in New Hampshire, as did most of the women with the children of Windsor, and remained at Cornish till the return of the men.  Her said husband returned from that expedition in three or four days.  On another occasion, he turned out with a party of the Militia, in consequence of Mr. Hoisington having been taken a prisoner.  They captured two men of the services of Buel and Johns, and released Mr. Hoisington.  Her said husband kept the said Buel and Johns prisoners, and was ordered and went away with them to some place over the Green Mounts.  This declarant's father made
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the irons with which the prisoners were confined together.  The said William was engaged in this service, according to the best recollection of this declarant, as much as two weeks or upwards.  The said William had the charge and command of the party who went with the prisoners, and there was a Sargeant Hilton among them; but in what capacity her said husband there acted, she does not remember and cannot further State.  This declarant further saith that her said husband during the said War, was called into service on several other occasions of alarm, and was out for short periods, but the particulars thereof she cannot now recall; and she respectfully refers to such muster rolls as she is now able to produce for the evidence thereof.

She further declares, that she was married to the said William Hunter, by the Reverent James Wellman, at Cornish in New Hampshire, there being no Clergyman then in Windsor on the thirtieth day of January in the year Seventeen hundred and Seventy Seven; that her husband the said William Hunter, died at said Windsor on the thirtieth day of November Eighteen Hundred and twenty seven, and that she has remained a widow ever since that period, as well more fully appear by [illegible] to the proofs hereto annexed.
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Sworn to and subscribed on the twenty fifth day of December AD one thousand eight hundred and thirty seven above written.
Before -  Thomas Hammond, Judge of said Probate Court.

State of Vermont,  }
District of Windsor s.s. } 
December 25th AD 1837 - I certify that Mary Hunter who has sworn to and subscribed the foregoing declaration, is a person of credibility, and her statements are entitled to belief.
Thomas F. Hammon, Judge of said State Court. }

State of Vermont  }
District of Windsor  s.s.  }
At Cavendish in said District, this twenty sixth day of December AD one thousand eight hundred and thirty seven.

I hereby certify, that Thomas F. Hammond, before when the foregoing Declaration was sworn to and subscribed is Judge of the Probate Court within and in the District of Windsor. County of Windsor, and State of Vermont which Probate Court is a Court of Record, and that the foregoing signature annexed to the respective certificates of oath and the credibility of the said Declarant, purporting to be the signature of him the said Thomas F. Hammond is his own proper and genuine signature.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto annexed the seal of the said Probate Court the day and year above written.
Salmon F. Dutton, Register of the said Probate Court.
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William Hunter  Mary Buckle, married January 30, Anno Domini 1777

Guy Hunter, sone of William Hunter & Mary his wife. Born October 21st Anno Domini 1777
William Hunter.  Son of William Hunter and Mary his wife.  Born February 5th Anno Domini 1781
Mavy Hunter, daughter of William Hunter and Mary his wife. Born August 16th Anno Domini 1782
Guy Hunter, son of William Hunter and Mary his wife, died March 18th Anno Domini 1783
Mary Hunter, daughter of William Hunter and Mary his wife, died December 7th Anno Domini 1783
Jonathan Hunter, son of William Hunter and Mary his wife, born July 16th Anno Domini 1784
William Hunter Junior, sone of William Hunter and Mary his wife, died August 25th Anno Domini 1785
Lucy Hunter, daughter of William Hunter and Mary his wife, born July 17th Anno Domini 1786
Mary Hunter, daughter of William Hunter and Mary his wife, born February 27th Anno Domini 1788
Franklin Hunter, son of William Hunter and Mary his wife, born February 7th Anno Domini 1790
Jonathan Hunter, son of William Hunter and Mary his wife, died June 11th Anno Domini 1790
Sally Hunter, daughter of William Hunter and Mary his wife, born February 7th Anno Domini 1794
Rebekah Hunter, daughter of William Hunter and Mary his wife, born April 30 Anno Domini 1796
William Guy Hunter, son of William Hunter and Mary his wife, born September 27th Anno Domini 1798

I, Edwin Edgerton, Town Clerk of the Town of Windsor in the County of Windsor and State of Vermont, do hereby certify, that the foregoing is a true Copy of Record from the 71st page of a Volume of Records in the Clerk's office of said town, entitled "Records of the Births, Marriages & Deaths of the families
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persons in the Town of Windsor in the State of Vermont."

Witness my hand at said Windsor, this twenty first day of December AD 1837.
Edwin Edgerton, Town Clerk
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October 23, 1913.

Mrs. Harriet C. Cole
31 Clinton Avenue,
Ossining, N.Y.

Madam: 

In addition to the military history of William Hunter, W. file No. 19,827. Rev. War you are furnished the following family data from the papers in the claim.

William Hunter marriage January 30 or 31, 1777, Mary Newell.
Children.

Guy Hunter - born October 21, 1777, died March 18, 1783
William Hunter - born February 5, 1781, died August 25, 1785.
Mary Hunter -  born August 16, 1782, died December 7, 1783.
Jonathan Hunter - born July 16, 1784, died June 11, 1790.
Lucy Hunter - born July 17, 1786
Mary Hunter - born February 27, 1788.
Franklin Hunter - born February 11, 1790
 Sally Hunter - born February 7, 1794.
Rebekah Hunter - born April 3, 1796
William Guy Hunter - born September 27, 1798

Very respectfully
G.M. Saltzgaber
Commissioner.
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To the 
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington, D.C.

Dear Sir:

Have you in your office any records (revolutionary) of William Hunter who was born in Sharon, Conn, Jan. 3, 1754 went to Windsor, Vermont, when 21 years of age.  Married a Mary Newall in January 1777 and died November 30, 1827.  His wife I understand was granted a pension, though in what year I do not know.  William Hunter undoubtedly enlisted
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from Vermont. I also want to find the military records of Jonas Cutting of Weathersfield, Vermont who probably enlisted from that state.  Any information you may find kindly send to
{Mrs.) Harriet Cutting Cole.

#31 Clinton Ave. 
Ossining, N.Y.
October 18th 1913
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19827

Mary Hunter
W.M.

Payroll with drawn & put on file
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William Hunter  }  March 1777
Mary Hunter      }  Died 1827

1775 Sgt Capt Grant     5 mos
August / July 76 Lieut   3 mos, Newbury

Maj. Hoisington
                                      6 days 1781

Hoisington Rangers raid
N.Y. July 1776
Benj Mart  }  [illegible] Capl.
Gen. Strong  } 
J.P. Haldt  Captain [illegible]

[illegible] of 1777
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I, Rufus Boot of Windsor in the County of Windsor and State of Vermont, aged seventy five years or thereabouts being duly sworn do depose testify and say, that I have for many years been well acquainted with the late William Hunter, usually know as Judges Hunter formerly of this town.  He was the same individual who was a member of the Fifteenth Congress of the United States from this state, and was the husband of the present widow Mary Hunter who is now living in this time.  The first time I now recollect of ever seeing the said William Hunter, was on the occasion of a training for some course, when the Militia Company was assembled over my father's house in the West Parish of Windsor.  The said William Hunter came there, as an officer.  He served a cocakdes & cameo, as they said, to enlist men to go into Canada. He exercised the Company - was a tall, [illegible], handsome figure of a man & his appearance made a strong impression on my mind.  In a few weeks after this, the said Hunter and the men whom he enlisted assembled at my father's house & out from there on their march for Canada.  They were going by the way of Skenesborough New Whitehall, and the Lake. I saw them marching with their packs and march away.  This I know was in the forepart of
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January 1776.  The snow was then deep, and the said Hunter & his men all had snow shoes or rackets on they are sometimes called.  Among the men who marched away with the said Hunter, I recollect Ebenezer Hoisington, Phineas William, John Health, Joel Button, and thus to the number of a dozen or fifteen according to my present recollection.  I know that some of these men [illegible] again the next January or July.  i recollect this appearance from recently having had the small pox.  I remember to have seen the said Hunter, after his return from [illegible] in the course of the summer, but the precise time of his return I do not remember.

I have often heard the said Hunter & others who come with him speak of his companions into Canada.  The [illegible] amount of all his war been and my believe is, that he first [illegible] out as a Sergeant in Grant's Company of Col. Warner's Regiment, in the summary of 1775.  That he returned in December of that year, with a commission as Lieutenant. Again marched for Canada as I have above stated, in January 1776, and returned the same time in June or July of the latter years.

I further testify and say that in the summer of fall of that year, after the said Lieutenant Hunter returned from  Quebec.  There was a call for a body of Troops, to go to Newbury and about to defend the frontier from the Indians.
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That a number of men whom I know, and among them the said Lieutenant Hunter volunteered and went. Those who went out from this quarter, went under Capt. Benjamin Wait.  Major Joab Hoisington then of Woodstock commanded them.  I have no means of ascertaining the previous time when Lieut. Hunter went away on this service or when he returned. My information has always been & belief is that he was absent on this last mentioned service three months, and some over that period.

I further testify and say that after the performance of these services, and after his marriage with Mary Newell, he was enrolled and said duty in the Militia company in this town, which was at one time commanded by Capt. Samuel Stowe Savage - that he subsequently became the Captain of said Company and commanded it several years.  I also belonged to said Company while Captain Sawyer commanded it, and I know that there was no other William Hunter in or belong to said Company but the same William Hunter of whom I have herein before spoken.  I further say that I know that between the said year 1776 and the close of the Revolutionary War, there were reputed called by drafts & for volunteers, upon said Company to go into the public service, generally known for short periods, and that the said Hunter was a prompt and [illegible] member of the Company, but the particular services in which he was so engaged, it is not now in my power to
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recollect, or specify.  I well recollect to have heard, while I was on duty at Bethel, Vermont, that the said Hunter with a part of Militia had succeeded in capturing two men of the name of Buel and Johns, and releasing one Elias Hoisington, whom they had captured. These men, he caused to be ironed & marched with them for Bennington, but they escaped from him at Manchester in the night, as was always said, thru the tracking of one Sargeant Hilton, who was of the party & was guarding them.  Hence forth was afterwards confirmed to me by the said William Hunter and also by Captain Levi Bishop, who was of the party but who is now deceased.

This last service in my opinion would not have been performed in [illegible] time them a week, and it probably occupied him a longer time.  And further, I say not.
Rufus Root.

State of Vermont  }
County of Windsor  s.s.  }
Windsor, December 19th 1837
I am Rufus Root, Esq. the signer of the foregoing deposition formally appeared, and made solemn oath, that the same contains the truth and nothing but the truth.
Alex Aikens, Justice of the Peace

I certify that the said Rufus Book is personally well known to me, and that he is a person of credibility.
Alex Aikens, Justice of the Peace

[Deposition of Rufus Root, Esq. 
Mary Hunter's case]
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In reply to your request of ________, received ________ for a statement of the military history of William Hunter, a soldier in the Revolutionary War, you will find below the desired information as contained in his widow's application for pension on file in this Bureau .  W.F. 19827

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[table]

Dates of Enlistment or Appointment | Length of Service. | Rank. | Officers Under Whom Service Was Rendered. | Captain | Colonel. | State

[First line]
Aug. 1775  to Dec. 1775 |   | Sergt. | John Grant | Seth Warner | Green Mt. Boys

[Second entry] 
January 1776 to July 1776 |  |  Lieut. | 

[Third entry}
Summer 1776 | 3 mos | Sgt | Benjamin Wait | Maj. Joab Hoisington | Vt.

[Fourth Entry]
Oct. 1780 to Mch 1781 |   | Priv |  Samuel Stow Savage | Blank | Blank |
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Battles engaged in, siege of St. Johnson
Residence of soldier at enlistment, (check mark)
Date of application for pension, [illegible], Dec. 25, 1837
Residence at date of application, Windsor, Vt.
Age at date of application, eighty years

Remarks: 
Soldier at Cornish, Vt. January 31, 1831; 1777, Mary Newell; he died at Windsor, Vt. Nov. 30, 1827 age 73 years & [illegible].
In 1837, their daughter Lucy Churchill at 51 years [illegible] wife of [illegible] justified the claim. 

Very respectfully,

Commissioner
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Letter from Mrs. Cole
Oct. 13, 1913
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List of papers transmitted concerning the application for the widow Mary Hunter, for a pension.

1. Her declaration
2. Certificate of Town Clerk of Cornish
3. Certificate of Town Clerk of Windsor (office copy of records)
4. Deposition of Solomon Wellman, Jr.
5. Deposition of Asahel Smith
6. Deposition of Elias Hall
7. Deposition of Rufus Book
8. Deposition of Lucy Churchill
9. Pay roll for August, Sept, Oct 1780 (Office copy)
10. Pay roll for 16th March 1781 (Office Copy)
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Deposition of Lieut. Elias Hall
(Mary Hunter's case)
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I, Elias Hall of Castleton in the County of Rutland and State of Vermont, aged Eighty three years in the month of October last, do depose, testify and say that in the early part of the Revolutionary War, I was a soldier in Col. Seth Warner's Regiment in the service of the United States, and afterwards a Lieutenant in the same service. That while in said service as a soldier, I became acquainted and served with and under William Hunter, then of Windsor in said State, afterwards known as Judge William Hunter, for many years, and who died as I understood, at said Windsor about ten or eleven years ago.  
I further testify and say that my personal knowledge of the Military rank and services of the said Hunter, is as follows:  Immediately after the defeat of General Montgomery and the fore part of January in the year Seventeen hundred and seventy six, Capt. John Grant of Col. Warner's Regiment came to Castleton, and I enlisted under him, to go and reinforce the American Army then near Quebec:   that as early as about the 20th of the same January, according to the best of my recollection, we arrived at Montreal, where we formed and were joined by the said William Hunter.  He was the First Lieutenant in said Grant's Company of Col. Warner's Regiment.  Josiah Grant, a brother of the Captain, was the second Lieutenant.  The said Hunter had then already arrived at Montreal, with a number of men, whom he had enlisted at Windsor and int hat vicinity, among whom I recollect Ebenezer Hoisington, Asa Smead, Phineas Killam, an elderly man of the name of Emmons, and another man of the name of Butler, but whose Christian names I cannot now recollect.  I further say that I do not know when the said Hunter commenced that tour of service, but it is my opinion and believe, that he must have commenced his march from said Windsor, as early as the fifteenth of said January or before that time. After joining him at Montreal, I was with him almost daily and served under him, until I parted with him on my return home from that town, which was on the twenty sixth day of May.
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seventeen hundred and seventy six.  After joining him at Montreal we very soon proceeded to Quebec, where we remained till the retreat of the Army in the May following, laying first on the or near the Plains of Abraham, and afterwards at a placed called Beauport, a few miles northwardly of the city, where a great many of us men sickened of the small pox.  Lieutenant Hunter had fortunately had that disease before.  He was a large, athletic young may of great good humor and was of great service to the men during that distressing winter.
I further say that on our retreat from Quebec, Col. Warner's Regiment was the last that left the grounds we had been occupying.  that all the baggage of said Captain Grant's Company, was put on to a train, owned and driven by a Frenchman; and the said Lieut. Hunter and myself had the immediate charge and care of it.  That after proceeding a dozen miles or so, the Frenchman became exceedingly alarmed for his own safety, frequently drawing his fingers across his throat and saying "L'Anglaise. L'Anglaise" signifying to use, that the English would cut his throat if they caught him in our service. At length we could not persuade him to proceed further, and policy did not warrant our forcing him.  We were therefore compelled to place the baggage in a French house, by the way, which we did, and released the train and driver.  After overtaking the Troops, Lieut. Grant and myself, at the earnest request of the Captain, went back and obtained the captain's papers & some small articles but the baggage, and among it, that of Lieut. Hunter's we were obliged to abandon, and it was never afterwards recovered, to my knowledge. I last saw Lieutenant Hunter in the service, when I parted with him, on the 26th day of May 1776, as I have before stated.  The retreating army being then making their way towards Crown Point on Lake Champlain, when, my term of service having expired, I returned to my home in Castleton.
I further testify and say that while out with Lieut. Hunter, I understood from him and others with him
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that he had been in the said service, in Canada, during the campaign of General Montgomery there, the Fall immediately preceding; and it is my impression and belief that he had on that occasion, served in the same capacity; but of this I had no personal knowledge, nor do I know the length of time he had so served.  He had been home, and had lately marched from Windsor at the time I first joined him in Montreal, as above stated.  And further I say not.
Elias Hall.

State of Vermont  }
Rutland County, s.s.  }
Castleton, 7th December 1837
Then personally appeared Elias Hall who signed the foregoing deposition and made solemn oath that the said deposition contains the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
Before me S.H. Merrill, Justice Peace

I further certify that I have long been acquainted with the said Hall, and that he is a credible person.
S.H. Merrill, Justice Peace

State of Vermont  }
Rutland County s.s.  }
I, Robert Pierpoint, Clerk of the County Court for the County of Rutland, certify that Selah H. Merrill is a Justice of the Peace for said County and that his signature above are genuine.  In testimony whereof&lt; i have hereunto set my hand and cause affixed the seal of said Court of Rutland, this 7th day of December AD 1837.
R. Pierpoint
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Master Roll
Capt. S.S. Sawyer's Company
1781

Office Copy
(Mary Hunter's case)
(10)

3 day 1781
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A Pay Roll of Capt. Savages Company of Militia that Marched the 16th of March last by orders from Gen. Baley, Esqr.
Windsor, March 16th 1781

[table]
Name | Days | Miles | Whole amount L . S .  D.
Capt. Samuel Stow Savage | 3 | 42 | 1 . 10 . 0.
Lt. Jerath'l Comingo | 3 | 42 | 1. 4 . 9 .
Lt. Smith | 3 | 42 | 0. 18. 9.
Srgt. James Fletcher |  3 | 42 | 0. 18. 9.
Srgt. Worcester  | 3 | 42 | 0. 18. 9.
Srgt. Hunter | 3 | 42 | 0. 18. 9.
Srgt. Woods | 3 | 42 | 0. 18. 9.
Corporal Bishop | 3 | 42 | 0. 18. 6.
Corporal Adams  | 3 | 42 | 0. 18. 9.
William Hunter | 3 | 42 | 0. 18. 0.
Elnathan Habara | 3 | 42 | 0. 18. 0.
Jeremiah Bishop | 3 | 42 | 0. 18. 0.
Elijah Allen | 3 | 42 | 0. 18. 0.
Edward Allen  | 3 | 42 | 0. 18. 0.
Joseph Palminty | 3 | 42 | 0. 18. 0.
John Woods | 3 | 42 | 0. 18. 0.
Jonathan Caday | 3 | 42 | 0. 18. 0.
John Caday | 3 | 42 | 0. 18. 0.
Benjamin Caday | 3 | 42 | 0. 18. 0.
Nathan Fish  | 3 | 42 | 0. 18. 0.
Total  L. 19.9.6

List Samuel Stow Savage Capt.
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Windsor County, Windsor  April 13th 1781
Sworn before John Fasset, [illegible]

State of Vermont, Pay Table office
The within Pay Roll examined and approved and the Treasurer is directed to pay the same to Capt. Samuel Stow Savage or bearer being the sum of nineteen pounds, nine shillings and six pence lawful money
Given at Windsor, April 13th 1781
Thomas Chittenden }
John Fasset } Committee
June 14th 1781

Received of J. Allen, Treasurer, the contents of the above order for from Captain Savage, 199.6   Ebenezer Curtis

State of Vermont
I, Allen Wardner, Treasurer of said State do hereby certify that the above is a true copy of an original Pay Roll with the certificate of allowance, order transfer thereon, now on file in the Treasurer's Office.
Given under my hand at said office in Windsor, the 22nd day of December 1837.
Allen Wardner, Treasurer
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Deposition of Capt. Asahel Smith
(Mary Hunter's case)
(5)
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I, Asahel Smith, of Windsor in the County of Windsor and State of Vermont, aged Eighty One years on the fifth day of October last, being duly sworn
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-sand seven hundred and seventy six.  The said Hunter returned to Windsor again in the month of June. I think about the middle of the month, in the year 1776.
I further say that the said William Hunter of whom I am testifying, is the same William Hunter who was the husband of the present widow Mary Hunter, now of Windsor aforesaid. And further I say not.
Isaiah Smith

I, the said Asahel Smith, being asked to testify my knowledge of further military services of the said William Hunter, do further depose and say that in the latter part of the summer and fall of the said year One Thousand Seven Hundred and Seventy Six, there was a body of troops called into the public service to protect our Northern Frontier from an expected or apprehended invasion from Canada by the enemy & the Indians in particular.  There were two or three companies, of them and a part of them were assembled at and marched from Windsor.  A Major Joab Hoisington went out as a Major. Capt. Benjamin Wait sent as one of the Captains and the said William Hunter, went and served during that town, in his capacity as a Lieutenant. The party were stationed at Newbury, Vermont, and employed in scouting across the county, to guard against surprised by the Indians. The said Lieutenant Hunter was absent on this last mentioned service, a period of three months and I think came over that
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time. My impression is that the party was out about three months and a half.  I was not ones of that party myself. I saw them assembling at Parmele's in Windsor, know of their marching [illegible], and know where they returned.  And further I saw not.
Asahel Smith

State of Vermont }
County of Windsor s.s. }
Windsor, December 18th 1837.
Then Asahel Smith, the Deponents to the foregoing deposition by him subscribed in two places, personally appeared, and made solemn oath, that the said Deposition in both its parts contains the truth and nothing but the truth.
Before me, D.H. Aikens, Justice of the Peace

I certify that the said Asahel Smith is to me personally known and that he is a credible person.
Alex Aikens, Justice of the Peace

I certify that Asa Aikens whose above depositions & also Nos. 7 & 8, were taken is a Justice of the Peace for the County of Windsor & State of Vermont.
H. Everett
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Town Clerks Office  }
Cornish, December 20th, 1837}

I, John T. Freeman, Clerk of the town of Cornish in the County of Sullivan and State of New Hampshire do certify that I have carefully examined all the records of marriages of this town and do not find the record of any marriage solemnized by any magistrate and duly certified and recorded previous to April 20th 1788, and but few memorandums in any form previous to that date.
The final record purporting to be of a certificate from Rev. James Wellman is dated Feb. 27, 1800 and I hereby certify that there is no record or memorandum of the marriage of William Hunter and Mary Newell on the records of this town.
John. T. Freeman { Town Clerk of Cornish
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C - H
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No record of Jonas Cuttring
July 15, '73
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[letterhead}

PATTERSON & GREENOUGH.
Albert Patterson, William Greenough

WATERLOO WOOLEN MAN'F'G CO
Woolen Department
Churchill H. Cutting
P.O. Bos 3484
44 Worth Street
New York, July 10th, 1894

Dictated

Department of the Interior
Bureau of Pensions,
Washington, D.C.

Gentlement,

Will you have the kindness to send me a transcript of your Revolutionary War record of my ancestor,

WILLIAM HUNTER,

Same as you sent to Mr. T. Wain Morgan Draper, #12 West 31st St., New York City, under date June 3rd, 1893, and if you have it, also of

JONAS CUTTING

Private in Capt. John Moore's Company of Bedford New Hampshire, Col. John Stark's Regiment, enlisted April 24th, 1775.
Private in Capt. Ebenezer Frye's Company, Col. Joseph Cillley's Regiment, mustered in February 1777, raise by the State of New Hampshire for the Continental Service. 

Corporal of Sixth Company, First Regiment, commanded by Col. Joseph Cilley as above.
Brigadier-General, of the state of Vermont Oct. 23rd, 1810.

Respectfully yours,
Churchill Hunter Cutting.
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Vergenes Vermont February 6, 1907

Department of the Interior
Bureau of Pensions, Washington, D.C.
V. Warner Commission

Dear Sir

Desiring to find a record of William Hunter of Windsor Vt. who was a Revolutionary solder, and family history [illegible] a Pensioner.  I desire to satisfy this and ask you to find his name in this hist. and I will gladly pay for this favor. He served in scouts and alarms
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I know was he a solider who received a pension.  "William Hunter, Windsor Vermont"

Most cordially
Lucy C.C. Hindes
(Mrs. J.G. Hindes)
Vergenens, Vermont

[stamp]
Pension Office, U.S.
Feb. 8, 1907
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Revy Widow, &c.

File No. 19827
Mary Hunter
Widow of
William Hunter
Lt. Reg. War

Act:  July 4th, 1836
Index : -- Vol. A, Page 349

[Arrangement of 1870]
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T. WAIN-MORGAN DRAPER,
12 West 31st St.,
New York

New York, May 13, 1893.

Adj. Gen. of the U.S War Dept.
Washington, D.C.

Dear Sir:

William HUNTER, born Sharon Conn., Jan 3, 1764. Died Windsor, Vt. Nov. 16, 1827, - is said to have enlisted as Sergeant in 1775. Was promoted to a Lieutenancy under Ge. Montgomery for his good conduct at the siege of St. Johns. - recruited a company at Windsor, Vt. in Jan. 1776. Was with the army in the futile attempt on Quebec.  Was commissioned Captain for distinguished services in this event, but did not accept the commission. Served as Lieutenant in the Rangers organized by Major Hoisington under the authority of the Provincial Congress of New York.
Will you kindly furnish me with the records relating to William Hunter, in possession of your office, or refer the same to the proper department, and greatly oblige,

Yours respectfully,
T. Wain Morgan Draper

No record of Revy. Service for Jonas Cutting found
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No. 12 West 31st Street,
New York City, N.Y.
May 13, 1893.

T. Wain-Morgan Draper,

Requests the records of Lt. Colonel Lucas Cutting, 25th Infantry., war of 1812, and als his record in the Revolutionary War; also record of  William Hunter of the Revolutionary War.  If record of persons named are not in War Department, requests reference to the proper Department.
[stamp]
Pension Office, U.S. 
May 19, 1893

Adjutant General's Office
Washington, May 18, 1893.
Respectfully referred to the Commissioner of Pension, Washington, D.C., inviting attention to so much of the within requests as relates to the service of the persons named in the Revolutionary War. The writer of these letters has been informed of this reference, and has been given the record of Colonel Jonas Cutting of the 25th Infantry in the War of 1812.
Geo. Ruggles
Assistant Adjutant General.

No record, May 24, 98
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T. WAIN MORGAN DRAPER,
12 West 31st. St., New York

New York, May 13, 1893.
Adjutant General of the United States War Dept.
Washington, D.C.

Dear Sir:

Will you kindly send me the record of Lieutenant Col. Jonas Cutting of the 25th, U.S. Infantry, - War of 1812.  He was born in Bolton, Mass. January 24, 1765, died at Woodstock, Vt. April 5, 1834.  I would also be obliged for his record in the Revolutionary War, in which he is said to have served.  If these records are not in your department, will you kindly refer them to the department where they belong, and oblige,

Yours respectfully
T. Wain-Morgan Draper


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