Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 21423, for Jubilee A Hurlburt, Connecticut
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SERVICE   Continental (Conn.)
Hurlburt, Jubilee A. 
or Hurlbert
Polly or Molly
NUMBER  W. 21423
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2672. 
New York  Albany 
Polly Hurlburt widow of Jubilee A. Hurlburt Conn who was a Private in the Conn line for 2 years.  
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 80 Dollars Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843. 
Certificate of Pension issued the 6th day of Nov 1843 and sent to H. D. Smith Gouverneur N. York 
[Act of March 3, 1843.] 
Recorded in Book A.  Vol. 1. Page 118.
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17919 
New York
Jubilee A Hurlburt of St Lawrence in the state of New York who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel S Warner of the Connecticut line, for the term of 3 years War 
Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 23. of December 1818.   
Certificate of Pension issued the 11 of Novr 1820 and sent to Joseph York, Ogdensburg New York 
Arrears to 4th of September 1820    $115.38  
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4 March 1821  48.00 
Arr’s 14 ms 9/31 4/30  $163.38 
{Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818.} 
& May 1820 
Suspension taken off Jany 31. 1822 & notice given agent
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State of New York 
St. Lawrence County } ss On this twenty third day of December 1818 before me the subscriber First Judge of the Court of Common Pleas for the County of St Lawrence in the State of New York personally appears Jubilee A. Hurlburt aged fifty six years, resident in the Town of Oswegatchie in the said County of St Lawrence who being by me first duly sworn according to Law doth on his oath, make the following declaration in order to obtain the Provisions made by the late act of Congress entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war”  That he the said Jubilee A. Hurlburt enlisted in the month of May 1780 in the Town of Woodbury in the State of Connecticut in the company commanded by Captain Molton, in Colonel Seth Warners Regiment of the Connecticut line, for during the war. That he continued to serve in the said Corps and in the service of the United States until the Eleventh of October 1780, when he was taken prisoner by the British and Indians under the command of Major Carlton at Fort George in the State of New York, and carried to Montreal in Canada,  that he continued at Montreal as a Prisoner until the month of October 1783 when he got permission to return home. That he this Deponent was dangerously sick in the Hospital and could not be removed, at the time when the other Prisoners who were taken with him, were sent by water to Halifax, which is the reason why he did not accompany them. That he never had any discharge
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from the army.  That he was in the Battle at Fort George.   That he is in reduced circumstances, and not able to labour and stands in need of the assistance of his country for support and that he has no other evidence now in his power of his said services. 
Jubilee A. Hurlburt
Sworn to and declared before me the day and year aforesaid 
Nathan Ford. First Judge of the County of St Lawrence  
I Nathan Ford first Judge &c. as aforesaid do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Jubilee A Hurlburt did serve in the Revolutionary war as stated in the preceding declaration against the common enemy, and that he is in reduced circumstances and needs the assistance of his country for support. And I now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me to the secretary for the Department of war, pursuant to the directions of the aforementioned act of Congress. Witness my hand and the seal of the said Court this 23rd day of December in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen. 
Nathan Ford - First Judge of County of the County of S Lawrence  
I certify that Nathan Ford whose signature appears to the above certificate is first Judge of the County aforesaid Dated Decr 23d 1818 Myrtle B. Hitchcock Clk
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State of New York 
St Lawrence County } ss   On this tenth day of October 1820 personally appeared in open court before the Court of Common Pleas held in and for the County of St Lawrence being a Court of Record for said County Jubilee A. Hurlburt aged fifty eight years resident in the Town of Oswegatchie in said County of St Lawrence, who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on his oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary war as follows.  That he enlisted in the month of May 1780 in the Town of Woodbury in the State of Connecticut in the company commanded by Captain Molton in Colonel Seth Warner's Regiment of the Connecticut line for during the war.  That he served in the said company and Regiment as stated in his original declaration dated the twenty third day of December 1818 and that he has yet no pension certificate nor received any pension.    
And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March 1818 and that I have not since that time by gift sale or in any manner disposed of my property or any part thereof with intent there so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of congress entitled “An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the Land and Naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary war" passed on the 18th day of March 1818 and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property or securities contracts or debts due to me nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed 
Schedule of Property
[unreadable]
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Personal property –  One cow and two pigs. 
Household stuff- 3 or 4 cups and saucers,  not half a dozen knives and Forks,  one bake pan,  One Tea Kittle,   a few plates,  six old chains 
Jubilee A. Hurlburt    
And the said Jubillee A. Hurlburt doth on his oath further declare that he is by occupation a farmer, but is wholly unable to support himself by labour being afflicted with a burst breach in his body.  That he has a wife who is in bad health and one son, Augustus, only living with him who is in his fifteenth year.   That he is of a feeble constitution and not able to labour hard that he has no other son,  has four daughters who are married but none of them are in a situation to afford any assistance to this declarant, nor are living with him.   
(signed) Jubilee A. Hurlburt
Sworn to and declared in open Court on the 10th day of October 1820
( Signed) Joseph York Clk}
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St Lawrence County Clerks Office } ss    I Joseph York Clerk of the County of St Lawrence and Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County, Do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and the schedule are truly copied from the records of the said Court, and I do further certify that it is the opinion of the said Court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the annexed schedule is Twenty dollars.  
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court this 18th October 1820 
Joseph York Clk. 
by Wm. Strachan  Dep Clk
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6543
In case of Widow Polly Hurlburt application for a pension under the act of July 7. 1838 
Mch 23 Oct. 1738 
Husbd d’d [died] 14 Sept 1827  
Col Seth Warner
Capt Moulton  
Admitted 
Private 2 years 
 Hon Jno Fine HR
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Declaration 
In order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of 7th July 1838 entitled “An act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows.” 
State of New York 
St. Lawrence County } SS On this eighteenth day of December in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty eight personally appeared before the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County, at the Court House in Canton in said County, Polly (otherwise called Molly) Hurlbert a resident of the town of Governor in said County of St. Lawrence and State of New York aged sixty nine years last August on the 15th day 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 7th 1838 intitled “An act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows" 
That she is the widow of Jubilee Hurlbert who was a private in the Revolutionary army and who drew a pension for his services therein of ninety six dollars per annum under the act of March 1818 and May 1820.  That she is unacquainted with the particulars of his said service and with the names of his officers or with the length of time he served but begs leave to refer the Department to the proof on file on which the said pension of her said husband was allowed.  This Deponent further saith that she has now in her possession the pension certificate of her said husband and
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which is in the words & figures following to wit 
“War Department 
Revolutionary Claim 
I certify that in conformity with the Law of the United States of the 18th March 1818 & 1 May 1820 Jubilee Hurlburt late a private in the army of the Revolution is inscribed on the Pension List Roll of the New York Agency at the rate of eight dollars per month, to commence on the twenty third day of December one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.  
L. S. Given at the War Office of the United States this eleventh day of November one thousand eight hundred and twenty.   
J. C. Calhoun, Secretary of War” 
She further declares that she was married to the said Jubilee Hurlbert on the 23rd day of October in the year 1788 or 1789 and which she is not certain, but believes it to have been one of those years that her husband, the aforesaid Jubilee Hurlburt died on the fourteenth day of September 1827.  That she was not named to him prior to his leaving the service but the marriage took place previous to the first of January 1794 viz at the time above stated.  
She further declares that she was born on the 18th day of August 1769 at Woodbury in the state of Connecticut, that his fathers name was Nathan Osborne that when she was married she lived in Woodbury in the State of
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of Connecticut, that her fathers name was Nathan Osborne, that when she was married she lived in Woodbury in the State of Connecticut, her husband the said Jubilee living in Roxbury, the town adjoining that they both went to the town of Watertown adjoining Woodbury and were married by one Matthews a justice of the Peace above given name she does not recollect that about the year after she was married she removed with her said husband to the town of Underhill in the State of Vermont and lived in differ at towns in Vermont and two years in Lower Canada until 1809 as she moved to Windham Green County New York and lived there about six years and then removed to Morristown St Lawrence County NY. and lived there until her said husband died and in 1828 she moved to Gouverneur  aforesaid where she has ever since resided.  She has no record of her age or marriage and may not be perfectly accurate in above statement but  believes it to be true.  She believes her name was called Molly when she was first listed.  She further saith that the following are the names of her children 
Sally wife of David Burns of Jericho Vt. 
Mary wife of William Perry of Hammond NY. 
Betsey wife of Thomas now deceased.   
Harriet Mariah wife of Alva Hill of Ohio 
Augustus O living in Gouverneur  N.Y 
Her oldest child, the said Sarah or Sally was born in December the year after this deponent was married, and is either 48 or 49 years old this present month, she is not certain which.  She further says she has no documentary or other evidence of the service of her said
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and can give no further particular in relation to her right to obtain a pension than the above.  
Polley Hurlbert 
Sworn and subscribed in open Court on the day & year first above mentioned before me  
A C Low Clk
State of New York 
St. Lawrence County} ss I Alvin C Low Clerk of the County Court of said County of St. Lawrence  do hereby certify that the foregoing declaration of Polly Hurlburt was this day made and subscribed by her upon Oath in open Court before the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of said County at the Court House in the town of Canton in said County and that the said declaration and the proof of the facts therein contained were satisfactory to the said Court. 
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said County this eighteenth day of Decem be in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty eight
A C Low Clk
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State of Connecticut 
Litchfield County } SS Holbrook Curtiss Clerk of the town of Watertown County and State aforesaid being duly sworn saith that he has searched the Register of Marriage of town, and cannot find therein record  the marriage of Jubilee A Hurlburt and to Polly or Molly Osborn now the widow of the said Jubilee A Hurlburt and further he verily believes that the marriage of the Jubilee A Hurlburt & Polly or Molly is not recorded in a town, 
Holbrook Curtis Town Clerk 
Subscribed and sworn this Seventeenth day of June AD 1839 before me Merit Heminway Justice of Peace  
I certify that the above named Holbrook Curtis is a person of veracity 
Watertown June 17th 1838 Merit Heminway Justice of Peace 
husband and wife and brought up a family of children, and that they lived together until the said Jubilee died in Morristown aforesaid in 1827 as he understands and believes. He further saith that he understood that
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State of Connecticut 
Litchfield County } SS Holbrook Curtiss Clerk of the town of Watertown County and State aforesaid being duly sworn saith that he has searched the Register of Marriages of town and cannot find therein record the marriage of Jubilee A Hurlburt and to [unreadable] Polly Osborn now the widow of the 
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STATE OF CONNECTICUT,
LITCHFIELD COUNTY, } SS.  Litchfield. 
I Origen S. Seymour of the County Court of the County and State aforesaid, do hereby certify that Clerk Merrit Hemminway Esquire is a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, duly commissioned and qualified, and by law authorized to administer Oaths and to take the acknowledgment of Deeds. And that his commission was dated on the 29th day of May A. D. 1838 and will expire on the 20th day of June, A.D. 1839. and that the foregoing is the genuine signature of said Justice 
Given under my hand and the Seal of said Court this 19th day of June A.D. 1839 
Origin S. Seymour Clerk 
[unreadable]
where they [unreadable] 
this deponent has occasionally heard of them since then and has always understood and verily believes that they resided together as husband and wife and brought up a family of children that they lived together until the said Jubilee died in Morristown aforesaid in 1827 as he understands and believes. He further saith that he understood that
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State of New York 
Greene County } SS Benjamin Osborne of the town of Windham in the said County of Green being duly sworn deposeth and saith that he is well acquainted with Polly Hurlburt widow of Jubilee A. Hurlburt late of Morristown in the County of St. Lawrence and State aforesaid deceased, that the said Polly lived in Woodbury, Connecticut when she was married to the said Jubilee A. Hurlburt that this deponent is a brother of the said Polly and well remembers when she was married to the said Jubilee, that they went into the town of Watertown Connecticut adjoining the said Town of Woodbury and were married there by one Mathews a Justice of the Peace on or about the 23d day of October in the year 1788. This deponent was present at the wedding and well remembers the circumstances but cannot be positive as to the precise day but thinks it not far from the time above mentioned, he is sure that it was in the year above mentioned the said Jubilee and Polly lived together as husband and wife until they moved from the County where they and this deponent resided, and this deponent has occasionally heard of them since then and has always understood and verily believes that they resided together as husband and wife and brought up a family of Children, and that they lived together until the said Jubilee died in Morristown aforesaid in 1827 as he understands and believes.  He further saith that he understood that
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the said Jubilee A. Hurlburt drew a pension before his death for services rendered in the Revolutionary War.   
Benjamin Osborne  
Sworn and subscribed before me this 19th day of October 1839 
Howland Macomber Justice Peace 
I certify that I am well acquainted with the above named Benjamin Osborne and believe him to be a person of good character for truth and veracity.  
Howland Macomber J. Peace 
State of New York  
Greene County}  ss   I William V.B. Heermance Clerk of said County do certify that Howland Macomber Esq. before whom the foregoing affidavit of Benjamin Osborn was sworn to was at the date of the same a Justice of the Peace of the said County duly elected and qualified and that his signature to the said affidavit is his genuine signature In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said County this 23d day of October 
William J. B. Heermance Clk
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Rev WIDOW, &c. 
File No. 21423 
Polly Hurlburt 
Widow of 
Jubilee A. Hurlburt
Pri Rev War 
Act March 3d 43  
Index: Vol. A. Page 369 
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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Albany 4868 
Polly Hurlburt 
widow of Jubilee A Hurlburt who was a pensioner under the Act of March 1818 died on the 14 Sep. 1827  of St. Lawrence Co. in the State of N. York who was a private in the company commanded by Captain  Moulton of the regt commanded by Col Warner in the Conn line for  2 years 
Inscribed on the Roll of Albany the rate of 80 Dollars Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.  
Certificate of Pension issued the 13 day of January 1840 and sent to Hon. John Fine HR. 
Arrears to the 4th of Sep 39 – 280.00  
Semi-annual allowance ending 4 March ’40  40.00 
$320.00 
{Act July 7, 1838.}
Recorded by D. Brown Clerk 
Book A. Vol. 2 Page 82 
Let to H. D. Smith 4 Oct 1843
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Albany or New York City 
Jubilee A. Hurlburt act 1818 to what time paid 
V.L.
1827 
Pd to 4 Sep 1827 24 1827
LH
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[stamp] GOUVERNEUR N.Y. 31
Nov 4 1843
NY
[unreadable]
Polly Hurlburt
P. Hurlburt
$80 per 
H. D. Smith
Gouverneur N York
FREE
J L. Edwards Esqr  Commissioner of Pensions  Washington City D.C.
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Gouverneur St Lawrence County N.Y 30 Oct 1843
Hon J. L. Edwards Comr of Pensions 
I encose the Declaration of Oliver Edwards & of Polly Hurlbut executed in conformity with your Letter of 26th inst. 
Respty Yours 
H. D. Smith
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Mr. Edwards
Caveat
Recd 25 Sept 1821
Free
the Honourable the Secretary at War 
Washington City
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Sir [unreadable] hope you will think of Strange that I should wright to you upon this subject but I am a friend to my government and with that right should take place sir I ask was at the desine of government to suport Allmen that were not Soldiers in the service of the younited [united] states or has property supplement to suport them selves J. A. Hurlbert of Morristown does not own the rite of file the [unreadable] his of a lot of land suficient suport a small family and he has a yoke of oxen but he put them in his Brothers Land on [unreadable] Conduct of a Judication should take place mony might be paid I think
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Im your Humble Servant
Levi Woodworth
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Jubilee A Hurlburt private 
Colonel Seth Warners Regt 
Connecticut line 1780 war 
[unreadable]
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Ontario County
State of New York } ss On the 2d day of October personally appeared before me Asa Hewit of State and County aforesaid  and made oath to the following Statement that he was acquainted with Jubilee A. Hurlburt in the Revolutionary war that he commenced his acquaintance in June 1780 and that the said Hurlbert was then in the actual service of the United States as a private  soldier in Captain William Molton Company and Colonel Seth Warners Rigment [regiment] and deponent further saith that he was knowing to his actual service during the war and was taken prisoner at Fourt Gorge [Fort George] and was carried to Montreal and remained a prisoner thill the year 1783 and saw him when he came home.
Asa Hewit
Taken and subscribed before me this 2d Day of Oct 1820
Byram Green
Justice of the Peace
I believe that the said Asa Hewitt is a man of truth when under oath
Byram Green J. P.
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Ontario County Clerks Office ss}  
In testimony have that Byram Green whose is subscribed to the within certificate was on the day of the date thereof a Justice of the peace in and for said County duly commissioned and sworn & that I am acquainted with the hand writing of the said Green & believe the within to be his signature.   I have hereunto affixed the seal of said County and subscribed my name 4th day of Octr 1820 
John Van Fossen Clk
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State of New York 
St. Lawrence County } ss  Moses Hurlburt now of the Town of Oswegatchie in the County of St. Lawrence being duly sworn doth depose & say that he is brother of Jubilee A Hurlburt and perfectly remembers that he the said Jubilee enlisted in Colonel Seth Warners Regiment as a soldier about the year 1780. that he well remembers that he that the said Jubilee A Hurlburt went into actual service immediately after his enlistment, and that some months afterwards the said Colonel Warner came to his fathers house & informed them that Jubilee was taken prisoner by the British.  That at the conclusion of the war this deponents father went to Canada, and brought his son Jubilee from there, and understood and believes that the said Jubilee had been a prisoner in Canada from the time of Capture until he returned with his father from thence. - further saith not. 
Moses B. Hurlburt
Sworn and subscribed before me this 13th day of October 1820  
Roswell Ryan Justice of the Peace and do further certify that the said Masses Hurlburt is a Credable witness
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St. Lawrence Co. Clerks Office } ss - I certify that Arnold Smith before whom the within affidavit was taken was a Justice of the Peace in and for said County on the day of the date thereof and that I am acquainted with his hand writing and verily believe the signature to the same to be his proper hand writing 
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said County this 16th day of October 1820 
Wm Strachan Dep Clk
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State of New York
County of St Lawrence } ss   Be it remembered that Personally appeared before me William Ward Esqr one of the Justices of the Peace for said County David Ford who being duly sworn on the Holy evangelist of Almighty God deposeth and saith That he is acquainted with Jubilee A Hulbert (who resides in Morristown in said County of Lawrence), and has been for upwards of four years last past that the said Jubilee has during that time resided upon a peice of Land belonging to the Estate of the late Gouverneur Morris Esq  for which he the said Jubilee made a verbal agreement with this deponent as attorney to the said Gouverneur Morris, but for which he has never paid either Principle or Interest to the knowledge of this deponent.   And this deponent further saith that he has and does, consider the said Jubilee A Hulbert a poor man.   
David Ford
Sworn before me this 27th Nov. 1821 a
Wm R. Ward Justice of the Peace
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State of New York
St. Lawrence County} ss John Hooker of the Town of Morristown in said County being duly sworn says that he has seen read and pursued a Letter or instrument in writing in the words and figures following to wit
War department Pension Office Sept 1th 1821 Sir Information having been rec’d at this office that your own Land Sufficient to support a small family. The payment of your pension will be Suspended untill you shall have exhibited satisfactory evidence to this Department that this information is false.
I am respectfully
Yr Obt Svt
J. L. Edwards
Mr. Jubilee. A. Hurlburt
care of Joseph Zack Esqr
Ogdensburg N Yk and that this Deponent is well acquainted with the said Jubilee A Hurlburt the person named in the aforesaid Letter who resides in the said Town of Morristown in said County and this Deponent knows that the said Jubilee A Hulbert is a poor man and resides on Land belonging to the Estate of Gouverneur Morris Esq but has not any title to
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Deponent knows that the said Jubilee A Hulbert is a poor man and resides on Land belonging to the Estate of Gouverneur  Morris Esq but has not any title to the said Land either in Law or Equity  and that this Deponent believes the statement made in the aforesaid Letter to be false  
John Hooker
Sworn before me this 27 November 1821
Wm. R. Ward
Justice of the Peace
State  of New York 
St. Lawrence County} ss  Thomas Hill of the Town of Morristown in said County being duly sworn says that he is well acquainted with Jubilee A. Hulbert, and knows him to be a poor and indigent person and that this Deponent has examined the above affidavit signed by the said John Hooker and has examined the letter in the said affidavit mentioned and does believe the statements in the Sade affidavit made to be in all respects true.  
Thomas Hill
Sworn before me this 27 November 1821
Wm. R. Ward
Justice of the Peace
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I the said Wm R. Ward  do hereby certify that the within named David Ford and John Hooker
& Thomas Hill whose names are Subscribed to the within affidavits and sworn to before me are persons well known to me as men of Truth and veracity.
Given under my hand
at Morristown this 27 day of Nov 1821-
Wm R. Ward, J.P.
State of New York
Lawrence County }  I Myrtle B. Hitchcock Clerk of this County aforesaid do hereby certify that William R. Ward whose signature appears to the within affidavits is a Justice of the peace in and
for the County aforesaid duly commissioned & Sworn, and acting under the authority of this State & that the same is his Signature
Given under my hand & the Seal of the County January the 18th 1822
Myrtle B. Hitchcock
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State of New York 
St Lawrence County  } ss on the Twelfth day of June in the year one Thousand Eight Hundred and forty three personally appeared before Harvey D. Smith a Justice of the peace in and for said County Mrs Polly Hurlburt resident of Gouverneur  in said County of St. Lawrence aged Seventy five years who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provisions made by the act of Congress passed on the 3 of March 1843 granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the revolutionary war; that she is the widow of Jubilee A. Hurlburt who was a private in the Connecticut Line of the Continental army in which as this deponent has always heard & verily believes he served seven years or thereabouts, a part of the time in Col Seth Warners Regiment Capt Moultons Company as this Deponent thinks but she is not sure as to what State Line her said husband lived & enlisted in Connecticut as she always understood. That her said husband received a pension of ninety six Dollars a year from the year 1819 or there abouts as long as he lived - that her so husband died at Morristown in this County in 1827. That this Deponent received a pension of Eighty Dollars per annum for five years as the widow of said Jubilee A. Hurlburt under the act of July 7. 1838. That when she received her former pension she resided most of the time in Gouverneur aforesaid part of the time in Russell in the same County that she has since removed back to Gouverneur that she is still the widow of said Jubilee A Hulburt.  
& I certify that said Deponent is personally known to me is of good repute.   
Polly Hurlburt
Sworn & Subscribed on the day & year above written before me Harvey D. Smith Justice 
I the said Justice certify that the above Deponent is personally known to me that she is a person of truth & veracity, that I am knowing to the fact that she drew a pension of 80 dollars per annum under the act of 1838 
Harvey D. Smith Justice
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State of New York 
St. Lawrence County } ss  Alvin C. Low Clerk of the County of St. Lawrence hereby certify that Harvey D. Smith Esquire before whom the foregoing declaration of Polly Hurlburt purports to have been subscribed and sworn was at the time of taking said declaration a Justice of the Peace in and for the said County sworn and qualified and further that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of the said Justice of the Peace and verily believe that the signature to the certificate of the said declaration is genuine 
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of the said County the 13th day of June 1843 
A C Low Clk 
By G. B. Eastman
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Gouverneur St. Lawrence County N.Y. 21 June 1843 
J. L. Edward Commr Pensions Wash City 
Sir   If the annexed declaration is sufficient please send to me or to Mrs Hurlburt at this place a Ctf to enable her to draw her pension at the proper time.  
Resptly Yrs
H.D. Smith