Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W 18069, Derrick Hunn, Continental New York
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(8-1776)

SERVICE
Continental
New York

Hunn, Derrick
Anna

NUMBER
W18069

CONTENTS
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Reported 


[seen in page/text(pre-printed form with handwritten text) at right in image:]
3266. Increase. A.
New York.


Anna Hunn dec.[']d. [abbrev. "deceased"; final "d" in superscript]
widow of Derrick Hunn
who died on the 7 March 1795.
 of  Montg[']y. Co [abbrev. "Montgomery County"; "y" in superscript]  in the State of New York who was [handwritten:] Commissary of Hosp[']l Dept [abbrev. "Hospital Department";  "l" in superscript] in the  [blank]    commanded
by Captain  [blank]   of the  [blank]    commanded
by      N. Y.    in the New York
line for  2 years
Inscribed on the Roll of Albany 
at the rate of  600 Dollars 00 Cents
per annum, to commence on the 4 th day of 
March 18[1 & end 11[']th ["th" in superscript] Jan[']y [abbrev. "January"; "y" in superscript] 1845, when she died.


Certificate of Pension issued the  6[']h ["h" in superscript] day of
May 1850 and  sent to 
H. H. Sylvester, Present


Increased from $480.00
Semi annual allowance ending
Payable to surviving children
Gertrude Hunn, Eleanor Cushney
Elsis [sic] Newkirk, Sarah Hunn
&
Cathalina Wendell

[printed (part of form); at right:]
{Revolutionary Claim,    }
{Act July 4, 1836,          }
{Shown [?] the [blank] } [1st word obscured by "Chase" in signature]

[printed (boldface type):] Recorded by 
[signature (?) :] J P Chase [printed (boldface type:] Clerk,
Book [handwritten:]  D  [printed (boldface): ]  Vol. [handwritten:] 2  [printed (boldface):]  Page [handwritten:] 357
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Anna Hunn
NY 36
Alliriu
charged to  Ames
[??] 20 1850
Cathalina Wendell
H.H. Sylvester
Present
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State New York
Kings Co 
                    Be it known that before me the under
signed , a Justice of the Peace on and for the County of
Kings and State of New York, Catalena Wendell
a resident of said County age sixty seven
years, who being first duly sworn according to
law, on her oath doth make the following declaration:
-that she is the daughter of Annatze or Anna Hun
the widow of William Hun who was a pensioner under the Act of July 4 1836
upon the roll of the New York Agency at the rate of four
hundred and eighty dollars per ann:- that her said
Mother- died on the 11th day of Jany 1845 leaving
the following named children, and who are still
living: to wit: Gertrude Hun: Eleanor Cushney
mother of: James Cushney Elsie Nukirk, wife of
C H Nukirk : Sarah  Hun and this declarant.
     She further declares that ^ she believes her said  Mother was
entitled to the sum of six hundred dollars per ann.
instead of four hundred and eighty: and that she now
makes this application to the War Department for the
purpose of receiving for herself and the other heirs of said
du.e. the difference between those live suing ; being the hundred @ twenty dollars per ann from the
4th of March 1831 to the 11 Jany 1845, the day of her death
  Reference being had to the original [p..nce?   papers now on file in the Pension Office in
the name of said deceased
  She hereby relinquishes all other [ pir..cy?]   except the present.  [signed] Cathalina Wendell
Sworn and subscribed before me this twenty third day of April 1850
  Leonard T. Coles    Justice of the Peace
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STATE OF NEW YORK
COUNTY OF KINGS   } SS.
[faded stamp of Kings County]
I, FRANCIS B. STRYKER, Clerk of the County of Kings, DO HEREBY CERTIFY,
that Leonard J. Coles - whose name is subscribed to the
Certificate of Proof, or acknowledgement of the annexed Instrument, and thereon written, was
at the time taking such proof or acknowledgement, a Justice of the Peace, in for and the said County, dwelling in said County, elected and sworn, and duly authorised to take the same. And further, that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of such Justice, and verily believe the Signature to the said Certificate of Proof or acknowlegment is genuine.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of said County, this twenty third day of April [?], 1850.

[signature:] Francis B. Stryker [printed:] CLERK,


[written sideways at bottom] 
Anna Hunn
Cathalina Wendell
H. H. Sylvester
Present
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152 In the matter of
Anna Hunn
widow of Derick
Hunn for a
pension under the
act of 4th July
1836.
Married Dec 8, 1782
Husband died 7 March 1795
E Inglee is allowed for 3 mo
in 79 Cap sparrow & 6 mo in
1780 under Col Wesson
on Vol 22 Field ? Department
As per Washington papers - proof?
of time [comm?] in Hospital Dep?
and from ? ?? in
Sten army
Agent Charles F. Yates
In Balloting Book
Schenectada
N.Y.
Admitted
Apt Company Hospital Department
2 years $480
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State of New York, ss
On this Fifteenth day of April 1839, personally appeared before 
the undersigned, one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas
in & for the County of Montgomery Anna Hunn, 
a resident of the town of Mohawk in the county of Montgomery aforesaid 
and the State of New York, aged nearly seventy seven years, 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 4 1836: That she is the widow of Derrick Hunn 
who was an assistant Commissary to the Hospital , and an issuing Commissary in General
Sullivan's expedition in 1779 & that for the last years of the revolu-
tionary war served in the Department of the Quarter Master 
General as set forth in the annexes & affidavits. She further declares 
that she was married by the Rev M Westerlow of Albany & that Lansing was her 
maiden name. She further declares that she was married to the said Derrick 
Hunn   
on the ninth day of December in the year seventeen hundred 
and eighty two; that her husband, the aforesaid Derrick Hunn died on the seventh day of March 1795 and that she has remained a widow ever since that period, as will fully appear by reference to the proof hereunto annexed.

Sworn to, and subscribed, on the day and year written, before me the said judge & I certify that said Anna Hunn is unable to attend the Court by reason of bodily infirmity.  Note the words "maiden name" written in the margin.

John Hand a Judge of the County Courts of the County of Montgomery,

State of New York
Montgomery County

Clerks Office [ss?]  I do certify that John Hand whose name is subscribed to the [Illegible] of the foregoing affidavit &c  on the day of the date thereof a Judge of the Montgomery County Courts and duly authorized by the Laws of the said state to administer oaths and that  his signature subscribed to the same is genuine. 
 In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal  of my office this 22nd June 1839

AJ Comrie Clerk
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State of New York
City and County of Albany F.

I, Thomas E. Vermilye certify that the following is a true Copy of the Record of the marriage of Dirck Hunn and Annatje Lansing, as contained in the Register of the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church of the City of Albany: to wit: 
"1782
Decb. 8. Dirck Hunn & Annatje Lansing."

and that the date of said record is expressed in fair legible figures: From which record it appears that said Dirck Hunn and Annatje Lansing were intermarried on the eighth day of December in the Year of our Lord One thousand, seven hundred & eighty two by the Reverend Eliardus [sic] Westerlo D. D. then minister of said Church.

Thomas E Vermilye 

I, Thomas E. Vermilye above named depose and say that I hold the office of minister of the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church of the City of Albany, and that the above is a true extract from the Records of the said Church as above certified by me.

Thomas Vermilye

Subscribed and affirmed
this 16th day
of April 1839 before me
(the word "affirmed" interlined)
William A. Young
Commissioner of Deeds.
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State of New York County of Albany }s8:
  I Henry B. Haswell Clerk of the said County do hereby certify that William H. Young before whom the within affidavit purports to have been Sworn was on the day of the date of the same a Commissioner of deeds in and for said County - and that his name subscribed to the same is his proper hand writing & Signature -
  In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my name and affixed the seal of the said County this 25th day of June 1839.
    H.B. Haswell  Clerk
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State of New York
County of Albany
John Bogart of the City of Albany, in said County aged seventy seven years and upwards, being duly sworn saith, that previous to and during the revolutionary war he was well acquainted with Derrick Hunn, whose widow Ann or Annatie is now an applicant for a pension that he knew said Annatie previous to her intermarriage with said Derrick when she still bore her maiden name of "Lansing" - that he this Deponent was present at the marriage ceremony in said City of Albany, and the ceremony was performed by the Revd- Mr- Westerloo that [crossed out] pastor of the Reformed Dutch Church in said City but the time of its occurrence this Deponent cannot distinctly remember yet thinks, if his memory serves him right, it was in the year 1782 - As to the military services of said Derrick Hunn, he this Deponent remembers that said Derrick Hunn was on duty as a Commissary in the Hospital Department
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in the year 1777, and for at least one year subsequent thereto that he was an issuing commissary in Said Department that the said Derrick continued to serve in said Department as such commissary until the said Department was dissolved when said Derrick was transferred to the Department of the Quarter Master General, and served in the Department, as a Deputy Quarter Master after the marriage of said Derrick and said Annatie but for how long a time this Deponent cannot specify but knows it was to the close of said war ---- and this Deponent further saith, that after the decease of said Derrick which occurred at least forty years ago, the said Annatie had remained single and unmarried and is still unmarried, according to the best of the Knowledge, information and belief of this Deponent
Subscribed and sworn before me 
this 6th April 1839 by John Bogart
to me well known and who is a [illegible]
John Bogart
R.JWilton [or R.J.Hilton]
Judge [illegible] by [illegible]
[illegible] Clerk
State of New York
Albany County 
SS. I Henry B. Haswell Clerk of the said City and County
do hereby certify that Robert J. Hilton before whom the foregoing affidavits purports to have been sworn was on the day of the date thereof one of the Judges of Albany County Courts [illegible] that his name subscribed to the same is his proper hand writing and Signature - Given under my hand and the seal of the Said County this 6th day of April 1839
H.B. Haswell Clerk
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The deposition of Simon Vrooman of Oswego in the State of New York (now in the City of Schenectada) aged seventy nine years who testifieth and saith that he received a pension under the act of 15 June 1932 having been a private soldier and Lieutenant in the Revolutionary War. That during said War the place of his residence when not with the army and the (said City then) township of Schenectada and he then became acquainted with many of the Inhapitants of said township and among the rest with Derick Hunn _____ on behalf of whose widow ____application is now being made for a pension under the act of ___ July 183__ . During the years 1775 and 1776 this Deponent’s father Jacob Vrooman Nicholas (or Clans Veeder, and others were Captains of Companies of Carpenters and did service in the Quarter Master’s Department under General Schuyler and the Deputy Quarter Master General for the time being. In the year 1775 said Companies were engaged in building boats and doing other fatigue duty at Ticonderoga and in that neighborhood preparatory to the then contemplated invasion of Canada, and in the year 1776 at Whitehall and other places performing similar duties. 
In the first or second week of March 1777 he this deponent commenced service under Colonel Christopher Yates, Deputy Quarter Master General and continued so to serve until October in the year last named or for the term of nearly seven months at Fort
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Ann. Stillwater and with Major General Arnolds division up the Mohawk Valley and was during this term of his service all the time all the time actively engaged as assistant to said Colonel Yates and took part in several skirmishes with the enemy.

In the forepart of the summer of the year 1778 he served for two months and more under said Colonel Yates at Saratoga and elsewhere and during these two terms of his service last named, he was under the immediate command of said Colonel Yates.

In the summer of the year 1778 he this deponent engaged in an expedition to the middle fort of Schoharie and performed Garrison duty there for the term of at least four weeks with a detachment of Militia from said township under command of Colonel Abraham Wemple, Captain John Mynderse and Lieutenant James H. Peck.

In the spring of the year 1779 he again performed a tour of duty in the Department of the Quarter Master General at Saratoga under immediate command of said Colonel Yates for the term of at least four weeks. In the summer of the year last named he did the like duty under Colonel Yates at Canajoharie and Lake Otsego for at least four weeks.

In the fall of the year 1778, he served with the Schenectada Militia at Fort Herkimer for the term of four weeks under the immediate command of James H. Peck, Lieutenant.
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In the fall of the same year he this deponent did garrison duty at Fort Paris in Stone Arabia for the term of three months under the immediate command of Captain John Mynderse and Lieutenant James H. Peck of the Schenectada Militia.

In the forepart of the summer of the year 1780 he this Deponent with a detachment of Militia to Beaver dam in pursuit of one Captain Pall and 50 of Butler’s Ranger’s and took two men prisoners. Major Wemple had command of this expedition and the term of this tour was two or three days.

A few days thereafter he marched with a like detachment under command of Lieutenant James H. Peck, Captain John Mynderse, and others to a place southwest of Albany and served in the last named tour two or three days.

In his capacity as a private afterwards as a Lieutenant of the New York levies or State troops he served for the months of June [crossed out] July and [crossed out] August and September 1780 he was then attached to Malcolm’s Regiment and five weeks thereafter to Lewis Dubois’ Regiment. Captain John Burnet. During this term he marched up the Mohawk Valley – to Fort Plain, Albany, West Point. Fishkill and Dobbs Ferry. He was ordered by Colonel Malcolm to remain on duty after three months, the term of his engagement has expired, and he did remain on duty accordingly for one month and two weeks until relieved by Captain Dunscomb and Lieutenant Freligh.

In the year 1781, he this Deponent served as first Lieutenant in the Company of
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Captain Lawrence Gross, Timothy Hutton, second Lieutenant, for the term of nine months in the Counties of Tyron and Herkimer from April to 1st of January 1782.

Now [?] this deponent has thus given a brief detail of his services for the sake of more ready reference to those of said Derick Hunn and according to the best of his recollections said. Derick Hunn did serve in the expedition last year of the war to the end thereof as a Quarter Master or in some similar capacity and that said Derick Hunn was previous thereto a Commissary in the Hospital Department, but of the particulars of such ______ [?] this Deponent cannot give any specification except that he served at least two years -

Sworn this 11th day of 
July 1839 before me & Simon J. Vrooman [?]
I certify that said Simon
J. Vrooman [?] is a credible _____ [?]
Roswell Perry
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County of Schenectada SS

Margaret Yates Of the City of Schenectada in said county aged seventy-three years, being duly sworn saith, that she has known the within named Anna Hunn for more than fifty-six years – that as this Deponent knew her when she still bore the name of “Lansing” – having then seen her and become acquainted with her in the City of Albany that this Deponent heard at the time thereof that said Anna was joined in wedlock to Derick Hunn aforesaid, who was reported to be a commissary in the revolutionary war – that this deponent’s acquaintance with said Anna Hunn has continued until the present time – and I further testify that said Anna since the decease of said Derick has remained single & unmarried & is still unmarried & continues the widow of said Derick Hunn. Margaret Yates

Subscribed and Sworn this 21st day of Augt 1839, before me & I certify that said Margaret Yates is a credible witness

Roswell Perry G P.
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Montgomery County SS
John A. Putman of the town of Amsterdam in said county aged seventy three years being duly sworn saith that he has been acquainted with the within named Anna Hunn for more than forty years – during which time she the said Anna has remained single & unmarried & is still the widow of the aforesaid Derick Hunn.
John A Putman
Subscribed & Sworn this 28th day of August 1839, before me & I certify that said John A. Putman is a credible witness – 
John S. Quackenbush J. Peace
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Montgomery County ss
Res- Abraham van Horne of the town of Mohawk (formerly Caughnawaga) in said county and seventy-five years being duly sworn, saith, that he came to reside in said town in the year 1795, and then became acquainted with Anna Hunn, the same person within described, she being then a member of the Dutch Reformed Church of Caughnawaga of which church this deponent was then pastor - that said Anna was thus the reported widow of the within named Derick Hunn, that she since the decease of said Derick had remained single and unmarried and is still the widow of the said Derick Hunn.

Subscribed and sworn this 28th dat of August 1839, before me and I certify that said Abraham Van Horne is a credible witness.
John S. Quackenbush, J.Peace
State of New York
Montgomery County
Clerk & Officer, I,  Alexander J. Comrie
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Clerk of said county, do hereby certify that John J. Quackenbush before whom the affidavits preceding of John L. Putman and Abraham Van Horne purported to have been taken was at the time thereof and is now [can't read] of the Justices of the peace in and for said county duly qualified to act as such and that his signatures to the certificates attached to said affidavits are genuine .
Witness my hand and official seal, this 28th day of August 1839-
A.J. Comrie

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152
In the matter of Ann Hunn, widow of Derick Hunn for a [pension?] under the act 7th July 1836
Married Dec. 8 1782
Husband died 7 March 1795
E. Inglee is allowed for 3 mo in 79 Cap Sparrow and 6 mo in 1780 under Col Wesson see Vol 22 [??] Department
Washington [??] 
as comm. in Hospital Department [illegible]

Agent Charles F. Yates
Schenectada, NY
See balloting books
Admitted 
Asst. Commissary Hospital Department
2 years $480
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N. York
Anna Hunn
Let to G.F. Yates 14 Nov. 1839
Let. to W.N. Fonda Jun 18, 1840.
to Hon. P.J. Magner 2. March 1840

Act July 1836
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Albany 3266
Anna Hunn widow of Derrick Hunn
who died on the 7th March 1795
of Montgom. Co. in the State of N. York
who was an asst. commissary Hospital Dept. in the [incomplete] commanded by Captain [incomplete] of the [incomplete] commanded by [incomplete] on the N. York line for 2 years
Inscribed on the Roll of Albany at the rate of 480 Dollars per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1834.
Certificate of Pension issued the 20th day of March 1860 and sent to Hon. P. G Magner, H. R.

Arrears to the 4th of March '40
4320.00
Semi-annual allowance ending to [??] 
240.00
[total amount/double ledger line]
$4560.00

Revolutionary Claim
Act July 4, 1836, Section tho 3.
Recorded by D. Brown
Book A, Vol. 2, Page 209
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Rev Widow, &c.
File No. 18069
Anna hunn
Widow of 
Derick Hunn
Commissary Rev War
Act July 4, 1836
Index Vol. A, Page 358
[Arrangement of 1870]
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Revolutionary War Section, 3-525
A.F. 18069
Department of the Interior
Bureau of Pensions
Washington, D.C., ___19__

In reply to your request of _____, received ____ for a statement of the military history of Derrick or Derick Hunn, a soldier of the Revolutionary War, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau.

Dates of enlistment or appointment, Length of Service, Rank, Officers under whom Served (Captain/Colonel), State
(1) Private 1775-Spring 1777 [to end of war?], Sgt? soldier, "served more than [illegible]
(2) Asst. Commissary in the hospital department, a commissary of [?] in General Sullivan's [expedition?], 
(3) [illegible] in 1779 and as  Deputy Quarter Master
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Telephone
3227 John. 

John E. Miller, 
Attorney and Counselor at Law,
20 Nassau Street,
New York. 

June 18th, 1917. 

Bureau of Pensions,
Washington, D. C. 

Dear Sirs: 
Will you kindly give me the military history of Dirck or Derrick (Richard) Hun in the Revolutionary War. 
Annatse Lansing Hun, widow, filed application for pension Aprin 15, 1856, residence Mohawk, New York, and by so doing, oblige
Yours very respectfully, 
[handwritten] John E. Miller 

Dict.
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John E. Miller
Attorney and Counsellor at Law
20 Nassau Street

New York, June 1st, 1894

Chief Clerk Bureau of
Old Army & Navy Division
Pension Office, Washington, D.C.

Dear Sir:

Will you please examine the records of your office and see if a pension was not granted to Anna Lansing Hun, widow of Dirck (Richard) Hun, of New York State; he died in 1795, she, I understand, around 1840: If she received same, kindly send me a certificate to that effect, &c., with a memorandum of your fees, if any due, and I will remit. If you find no record of any pension please inform me, and oblige

Yours respectfully

John E. Miller
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Record and Pension Office,
War Department,
Washington, September 7, 1894

Respectfully returned to

Anna M. Whitwell,
Fort Plain, N.Y.,
with the information that the records
of the Revolutionary war are filed in
the Pension Office and in the Department 
of State. Applications of this nature should,
therefore, be addressed to the Commissioner of Pensions
and to the Secretary of State, Washington, D.C.

The stamped envelope enclosed by you is herewith returned.

One enclosure.

By Authority of the Secretary of War:

F.C. Ainsworth
Colonel, U.S. Army, Chief of Office.

Per [illegible]

(800a)
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RECORD & PENSION OFFICE
396740
[side stamp] SEP 7 1894
WAR DEPARTMENT
[stamped] OLD WAR & NAVY
[stamped] SEP 13 1894
FILES
[handwritten] Ft Plain, N.Y.
[handwritten] Sept 4th 94

[below handwritten]
Philip Lansing b. Albany 1729
Josiah Tracy b. Norwich Conn 1730
Dirck (Richard) Hunn b. Albany 1760
Benjamin Dillingham b. Dartmouth Mass 1760
Oliver Whitwell went from Fall River Mass

Anna M. Whitwell
requests military history
of these men in the Revolutionary
War

An addressed stamped [illegible]
enclosed

1 Enc
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[handwritten]
Fort Plain N.Y.
Sept 4th 1894

Military Dept.
I should like
the Revolutionary records
of the following names
that they fought
is a family tradition
and I should like
proof.
I enclose a stamped
envelope if there
is a fee for that
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[handwritten]
research please advise
me-
The names are-
Philip Lansing b. Albany 1729
Josiah Tracy b. Norwich
Conn. 1730
Dirck (Richard) Hun b. Albany
1760
Benjamin Dillingham b. Dartmouth
Mass. - said
to have been militia Captain
Oliver Whitwell went from
Fall River Mass.
There is also a tradition
that Annetje (Anna)
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[handwritten]
Hun wife of Richard received a pension.
Can this be [?].

Most Respectfully
Anna M. Whitwell

addressed stamped envelope
enclosed
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O. W, & N. Div.
Department of the Interior
BUREAU OF PENSIONS
F.S. Washington, D.C. Sept 21, 1894

Respectfully returned to 
Anna M. Whitwell,
Fort Plain, 
New York.

with the information that the courtesy of furnishing the military history of Revolutionary soldiers is extended by this Bureau when the same is desired by descendants for historical and genealogical purposes only, and then only when the soldier or his widow applied for pension, their papers being the principal source from which data is collected for a report. The history of not more than two soldiers can be furnished to each applicant because of the large number of such requests and the time and labor it is necessary to expend upon each report.
For purposes of identification the soldier's full name should be furnished, his place of residence before and after service (town, county, and State, if possible) and the christian name of his widow, if one survived him.
Please return all papers with your reply.

[faded stamp of the Bureau of Pensions]
W[']m ["m" in superscript] Lochren [signature]
Commissioner

13604b-3m
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[below printed] 
REVOLUTIONARY SERVICE
O. W. & N. Div,
MEMORANDA

Please supply as much as possible of the
data called for below.

Full name of soldier:
[handwritten] Dirck (Richard) Hunn
[printed] Place of residence before service:
(Town, county, and State, if possible.)
[handwritten] Albany, New York
[printed] Place of residence after service:
(Town, county, and State, if possible.)
[handwritten] His widow lived [?]
Tribes Hill, Mont. Co. N.Y.
[printed] Date of death (as near as possible):
[handwritten] Date unknown, drown in Hudson
[printed] Christian name of widow:
[handwritten] Annetje (Anna) Lansing
[printed] Did [either he or] [crossed out] his widow receive a pension:
[handwritten] Yes. As early as 1835
[printed] Remarks:
[handwritten] Pension secured by Giles F.
Yates of Schenectady, Hunn was
Asst. Commissary
[printed] Your name and address:
[handwritten] Anna M. Whitwell
Fort Plain
New York

This is for genealogical
use
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[below printed] 
REVOLUTIONARY SERVICE
O. W. & N. Div
MEMORANDA

Please supply as much as possible of the
data called for below.

Full name of soldier:
[handwritten] Philip Lansing
[printed] Place of residence before service:
(Town, county, and State, if possible.)
[handwritten] Albany, New York
[printed] Place of residence after service:
(Town, county, and State, if possible.)
[handwritten] "     "
[printed] Date of death (as near as possible):
[blank]
[printed] Christian name of widow:
[handwritten] Gertrude Schuyler
[printed] Did either he or his widow receive a pension:
[handwritten] I do not know
[printed] Remarks:
[handwritten] It is a family tradition
that he was a commissary
[printed] Your name and address:
[handwritten] Anna M. Whitwell
Fort Plain
New York
This is for genealogical
use
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[below all handwritten]
Pension Office
May 6, 1850

Sir
The pension of Anna Hunn dec.[']d. [abbr. "deceased"; ] late of 
New York, widow of Derrick Hunn, who was 
a Commissary of Hospital Department in the 
Revolution has been increased under act 4 July
1836, from $480- to $600 0/100 per annum, from
4th March 1831, to 11 January 1845 when she
died.
On the production of the paper voucher, you
will please pay the amount due to her only
surviving children, to wit, Gertrude Hunn,
Eleanor Cushney, Elsis Newkirk, Sarah Hunn
+ Cathalina Wendell, after deducting what has
been paid at the rate of $480 0/100 per annum.
I am Respectfully
Your Obed Servant

T. W. Olcott Esqr
Pension Agent
Albany
New York
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[below handwritten]
May 6/50

W Ames

H. H. Sylvester Eqr
Present
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[below all handwritten]

Died 11th January 1845 [Department] of State
[underlined signature] [illegible] 4th May 1850

In compliance with your request, I have to
state, that the following is an exact of a paper,
in this Department enclosed, "Report of the
"Medical Committee on the Hospital, brought
"in 27 July 1777."
"The Medical Committee having taken
"into their consideration a plan for establishing
Military Hospitals agree to report,
#  #  #  #  #  #  #
"//"
"That the pay and rations of the Commissaries
" of the Hospitals be the same as the [?]ty
" Commissaries of the Army."
I am Sir respectfully
your obedient servant,
J. W. Clayton

H. H. Sylvester, Esquire
Washington,
D. C.
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[below all handwritten]
Department of State,
Washington. 4th May, 1850.

Sir,
In compliance with your request, I have to
state, that the following is an exact of a paper,
in this Department enclosed, "Report of the
"Medical Committee on the Hospital, brought
"in 27 July 1777."
"The Medical Committee having taken
"into their consideration a plan for establishing
Military Hospitals agree to report,
#  #  #  #  #  #  #
"//"
"That the pay and rations of the Commissaries
" of the Hospitals be the same as the [?]ty
" Commissaries of the Army."
I am Sir respectfully
your obedient servant,
J. W. Clayton

H. H. Sylvester, Esquire
Washington,
D. C.
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[below all handwritten]
Increase
Anna Hunn dec.[']d. [abbr. "deceased"]
wd [widow] of Derick Hunn
[illegible]
as 4 July 1836
[illegible] Quarter Comms
of Hospital Dept
[illegible] $600/00 pan [per annum
[illegible] 4 March 1831 to 11 Jnry
the day of the death
1845. Payable to Gertrude
Hunn, Eleanor Cushney
Elsis Newkirk, Sarah
Hunn, and Cathaina
Wendell, only surviving
children of Anna Hunn
are - deducting what
has been paid as this date
of $480 pan - is the same
[illegible]
H. H. Sylvester
House
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[below all handwritten]
Washington Apr 22 1850

Sir

I had the honor a few days since to present
again an application for the [illegible] of the pension of 
Margaret Denniston dec.[']d. [abbr. "deceased"] widow of Geo J Denniston on 
behalf of Jn Denniston, her son (New York Role act July 4 1886)
Geo J Denniston, was on the [illegible] of his County a
[illegible] capacity from Oct 1775 until 1783 - as adjuctant
in 1775. Se [illegible] Vol 3 p 1178: - as E[illegible] in
1776. Se New York [illegible] and a Leut in the 3rd New York Bat. in
place of Leut Tapp who [illegible] 20 March 1780.
In 1781 he was transferred to the Quarter Master General
Department, and in which he [illegible], as appears from
original paper now on file with [illegible] until the year 1784.
[illegible] Act a claim [?] set up for an
[illegible] of the pension.
 He was in that [?] under Hugh Hughes,
Qtr Master General, a clerk, as by name of [illegible]
the [?] of Col Hughes now a Penna Officer, with a
monthly pay of $40 at one [illegible] per day.
By [illegible] under
date of Nov 30 1780 it will be [illegible] that clerks in the
[illegible] Quartermaster Gnrl Depart [illegible] conduct a
[illegible] Military [illegible]
Military law, [?] a monthly pay of $40, with rations.
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[all handwritten]
All the facts have [?] both as to his service and the
amount of pay are as matter of second and may
be found now on file all Mr. Dennistons papers.
I will add, that it appears from a [?] Bank
a Request of certified pr[?] Jonathon Burrell 
for [illegible] Comm pay and Quarter Master accounts from 
Apr 22 1782, that, Geo J. Denniston was paid $73 p/mo
in a certified of that amount for pay due July 1 1782
There is but one p[?] [?] can. Was
the service of Mr Denniston under Col Hughes, military
a [illegible] employment. If it was military, then
[?] of pension should be the pay of Capt, that being
the pay [?] Mr Denniston [?] for an
amount [illegible] a Leut. pay. That it was military service,
the papers [?] furnish the [?] ample proof
[illegible]
H H. Sylvester

Hon J L Edwards
[illegible]
P S  The deed ^ for [?] was filed apr 17  50
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[all handwritten]
[upper right corner] Jn

[left side verticle]
Ap 20/50
Anna Hunn
N Y act 1836

[written bottom]
J. L. Edwards Esq
Comm Pensions

[upside down bottom]
W Ames
alt[?]
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[all handwritten]

Washington City Apr 19  50

Sir,

I called upon you a few days since on
some business as relates to a claim for an increase
of funds for the benefit of the children of Mrs Anna 
Hun dec[']d [abbr. "deceased"] a pension on the role of the NY Agency at
the rate of $480 per anum under the Act of July 4 1836.
My call upon you was at the instance of Mr Wendell
of this City. [illegible], and who is the son of one
of Mrs Huns heirs, and with a letter from him to you.
There are five heirs, all daughters, and who
has [?] from each other, Mr Wendell [?] of
[?] will on a day or less file her declaration on behalf
of [?] and her sisters. In the mean time it[']s the
wish of Mr Wendell and his son that no pension
certified [illegible] be [?] in this case [?] it be [?]
[illegible] her son; should an application be presented
by any [illegible] fee and on behalf of any one of Mrs Hun
heirs.  Not ^being [inserted] to be fleeced of one third or one half of
Huns dues un[?]anily. The object of this is [?] agreed you to
plan this letter all Mrs Huns papers for the pension of
[illegible] which may be done
the heirs.  In a few days Mr Wendell will
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present the claim [illegible]
a pension agent.

I am very Respectfully
H H. Sylvester
on behalf of B. [?]cher Esq
Son of one of the heirs

The foregoing concurs entirely with my
views and wishes, as also with those of
my mother, one of the heirs alluded
to. 
A. Wendell
Washington, Apr. 19, 1850

[bottom signature]
Col. Edwards
Comm Pensions
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[handwritten left side vertically]

Mar 13 1847
Record
Hunn
for increase

[written bottom]
James L. Edwards Es.
Comm of Pensions
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Washington
  March 12, 1847

Sir
  I herewith enclose you a letter from G. F. Yates Esq in the case of Ann Hunn widow of Derick Hunn a pension under act 1836 as to rate of $480.
  Mr Yates as you will perceive, claims an [?] this case on the ground that others holding like rank and been pensioned at the rate of $600 per annum. The evidence referred to being in my posesion [sic]  [unclear    found in an original paper filed in the care of David Wolfe a 1832 [?ork] York City Agency. The evidence, however is only referred to, to establish more fully service after marriage.
  I shall be happy, if upon a review of the case, you will find the widow is entitled to a pension at the rate of pension now claimed.
  I remain your most respectful     Alex Ray

J.L. Edwards Esq
  Comms of Pensions
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Anna Hunn 
Claim pending
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[all handwritten]

Albany June 28 1846

Col J L. Edwards
Comm Of Pensions

Sir
I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of
your favor of the 25th [?] which you
represent that Mrs Anna Hunn widow
of Derick Hunn has already received the 
highest grade of pension which the law
allows for an assistant Commissary in the 
Hospital. 
I beg leave with permission in
reply to state that it is in proof that Hunn
served not only as a Hospital Commissary
but also as an army commissary at
Schoharie, [underlined] and in Genl. Sullivan's expedition
against the Indians in 1779. So that
his claim is not as a Hospital Commissary
only, but as a field or army commissary.
Perhaps this view of the claim may induce
a different decision. 
I am very respectfully
your mo [most]  obt [obedient] servant
G F. Yates
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Anna Hunn widow of Derick Hunn
Pending claim for increase of pay

 G.F. Yates
 [Sole?] Atty
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[all handwritten]

Albany April 14 1846

Col J L. Edwards
Comm of Pensions

Sir
You have on file
a detailed statement of the proofs in the
matter of the application of the children of 
Anna Hunn widow of Derick Hunn
under the act of 4th July 1836, for full pay
as a Commissary Hospital only case on the
Books in this state in so far as I know else
when, in which the pension for 2 years being
[?], the stipend is not fixed at $600.
And as I [illegible], then never heard again
any reason why Mrs Hunn's case should be
an exception to all others, I now reurge
my application previously made in this behalf.

I am very respectfully
your mo [most] obt [obedient] servant
G. F. Yates
sole atty for appt
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Anna Hunn widow of Derick Hunn
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[all handwritten]

Albany, Sept. 6th 1845

Sir.
Having recently seen the children
of Mrs Anna Hunn [underlined] widow of Derick Hunn deceased,
late a commissary in the revolution, I 
am reminded of my duty to inquire whether a 
decision in that case has yet been made. It was
last presented to your office in February last or before.
Mr Hunn served more than two years as a
Commissary in the Hospital Department, and also
in the field, to wit during Sullivan's expedition
in 1779 + with the army at Schoharie.
The surrogate's certificate as to time of
her death, and names of children [?] were filed
with the application. She was allowed only $480
per annum at a time when the now fixed allowance
of $600 per annum had not been fully determined
on. The widow was several times informed of her
right to have her stipend equal to that of others
of the same grade by sundry pension agents, but
she desired me (the only [underlined] agent she would recognize.)
to use my discretion in the promises. About a year
previous to her death she urged me to prosecute the
claim, + since her decease those entrusted have urged
me, and I am now found fault with for neglecting
[?] I have done the trust reposed in me

Your respectfully
G. F. Yates.

Col. J. L. Edwards
Comm of Pensions
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Anna Hunn widow of Derick Hunn
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In the matter of Anna Hunn widow of Derick Hunn - Application for increase -
  [underline] Derick Hunn [/underline] as will be seen by the proofs on file in the case was a field Commissary during a portion of his service which extended to several years &... to the close of the revolution. He was also a [underline] Hospital [/underline] Commissary, and is put down as such on the New York "Balloting Book" (as it is termed) among those who served to the end of the war, and as having received [underline] depreciation [/underline] &c
  All that is asked is, that Mrs. Hunn may have her pay increased  the same amount all others received whose husbands served in the same capacity her husband did; to wit, from $480 to $600 per annum. My authority to [set?] in the premises & the required Surrogate Certificate showing time of her death & the names of their children are on  file with the application -
 Washington City, D.C. May 29th 1845.   G.F. Yates
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Anna Hunn
widow of Derick Hunn -
4 July '36
appn for increase
  G.F. Yates     Solicitor &c
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Albany N.Y. Feby 9th 1845
Col. J.L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
  Sir,
  There is a claim pending before you, & has been since last spring, (on which an action has yet been had) of [underline] Anna Hunn [/underline] widow of Derick Hunn under the act of 4 July 1835 for increased pay.
  The widow is now dead & a Surrogate's certificate of the day of her death, names of children &c is on file with the papers.
  It is in proof that Derick Hunn served as [underline] Commissary [/underline] in the Hospital Department in 1777, & at Schoharie in 1778,  In the year 1779, it is testified that he served in "Sullivan's expedition" against the Indians and in the year 1781 also, that he continued to serve as a Commissary of Issues.  "The Balloting Book" shows moreover that he was an Assistant Commissary in the Hospital Department.
  John Bogart swears that Derick Hunn continued in the service of the United
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States in the Army of the revolution till the end of the war in Novr 1783, but whether as Commissary or Quarter Master Deponent cannot certainly say. so much however is certain, that he served ]underline] more [/underline] than [underline] two years [underline] as a Commissary of Issues,  & that he served in some military Capacity after the marriage.
  I think it will be found that Derick Hunn's widow is the only case in which the stipend remained fixed at $4 80 instead of $6 00 per annum. At the time her claim was first allowed, it was the rule of the office to award only $40 per month to Commissaries. Since that time $6 00 has been the allowance for which Mrs Hunn did not apply until a short time before her decease. We ask for her no more than you have granted to others.
  respectfully  your obt Servt    G.F. Yates   Solicitor for appts
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P.S. It may not be amiss to allude more in detail to the testimony
  Mr Bogert testified that Derick Hunn commenced his service as Commissary in the Albany Hospital in 1777 - Mr Ryckman that he saw him on duty as a Commissary at Whiteplains in 1778 - Joseph Van Ingen in Sullivan's expedition in 1779 & Henry Vosburgh in 1787 - in all for 4 years.  All this is confirmed by the record proof which the said Balloting Book furnished   Hunn was allowed depreciation as an assistant Commissary in the Hospital Department as appears from said Book. Capt. Bogart & Lieut. Ryckman both testify that Hunn served till the end of the war in '83  The former remembers this fact from the circumstance that he was present at his marriage & saw him [underline] afterwards [/underline] on duty.
  G.F.Y.
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Comr. James L. Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
[on side] Aug 27 1842
Page 59

Sir/
  The name of Ann Hunn widow of Derick is inscribed on the books as the Albany Agency, as assistant commissary Hospital at the rate of $4 80 per annum.
  (On the New York printed Labor book the same name and capacity is to be found.) This is a case to which I alluded in my letter to the Secretary of War in the case of Hospital Commissary Davidsons widow,
  I am your most respectfully     Alex Ray   Washington Augt 27 1842
J.L. Edwards Es[q]  Comt of Pensions
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James L. Edwards Esqr
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Washington April 13 1840
Dr. Sir
  Have you sent on Mrs. Hunn's name (whose certificate I lately [?] ) to Albany? If not do me the favor & Mr. Yates the favor to do it immediately, if not inconsistent - advise me Sir - The agent tells Yates he cannot [?ray] untill [sic] her name is inscribed on his Books - & he, poor fellow, has paid in advance! but [?ves] cannot get the "ready rhino"! Sad fix! Do help him immediately - Send to me or to Albany - today, so that I can mail you answer this eveng.
  Cant you write me & send to me this afternoon
   Yours &c  P.J. Wagner
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Hon: J.L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D.C.
[on side] Mar 13 1840   NY
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Schenectada [sic] Mar 9 1840
J.L. Edwards Esq 
Commissioner of Pensions
  Sir.   I have the honor  to acknowledge the receipt of your favor of the 2d inst in the matter of the application of Mrs Anna Hunn widow of Derick Hunn for a pension under the act of 4 July 1836. The Hon. P.J. wagner of the House of Representatives has the charge of this claim, but in as much as he is absent, I take the liberty to make a direct reply to your letter.
  The Ballotting Book contains the only documentary evidence relative to Mr Hunn's receiving Bounty Land. On the same page where his name is reported, allusion is made to "the Depreciation accounts." These if found, would perhaps throw light on the fact now not so certain, whether Derick Hunn served as a Hospital Commissary to the end of the war or not. That he did serve to the end of the war in some similar capacity appears
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to be the case, but it doth not clearly appear that he was an assistant commissary to the Hospital at Albany during the whole of his service.
  By a law of the Legislature of this State, the Comptroller was authorized last Spring to employ a suitable person to collect & arrange all the revolutionary papers found in the offices of the Treasurer,  Comptroller, & Secretary of State of this State with a view to afford suitable facilities to applicants for pensions. John F. Jenkins Esq was appointed to that station, & commenced his labours last June, and has but just completed them. He has repeatedly, as well as myself, made most diligent search for these same Depreciation accounts, but nothing can be found of them, save a few loose sheets which however don't contain the names of John Fish, William Adams, Col. Koop, Col. Varick & the others [apointed?] with said Derick Hunn on said Ballotting Book. I have moreover examined all the statements on file in ^all the public offices in Albany, on several occasions, but can find no "Statement or any other documentary evidence relating to Hunn's claim." A certificate of these facts can be furnished if required.
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I have already adduced the best evidence in this case, that can be provided -There being no documentary evidence, if [parole?] testimony is admissible, the widow will swear as stated in a previous letter
  I am very truly   your obt Servt
  Giles F. Yates
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[on side]  Anna Hunn  Jan 14 1840

Mrs Hunn
by Commissioner of Pensions
War Department
Washington D.C.
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Albany January 9th 1840
Dr Sir
 Will you have the goodness to inform me on behalf of Mrs Hunn widow of Derick Hunn decd
1st. If her application for pension money due on account of Revolutionary Services  [undend] by her husband has been granted during the past year. & if so
2d If any pension monies have been paid on such application & when, how much, and to whom.
Mr. Giles F. Yates was her agent in making the application.
  Yours Respectfully  Wm Hunn [finding?] for Mrs Hunn

To  The Commissioner of Pensions
War Department
Washington
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[all handwritten]

Anna Hunn

[bottom upside down]

Edwards J. Esq
Commissions of Pensions
War Dept
Washington
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J.L. Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
War Dept
Washington DC
[on side]  152  Sept 7
Original Act 4 July 36
NY
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[handwritten]
Schenectady Aug. 31st 1839

J. L. Edwards Esq
Commissary of Pensions

Sir,
I present
enclosed for [illegible] papers [illegible]
of the claim of [Anna Hunn [underlined]], widow of
[Derick [underlined]] (Richard) [Hunn[underlined]], for a pension
 in the act of 4th July 1836.
The claims that her husband was a Commissary 
to the Hospital + subsequently in the
Quarter Master Department from 1777 to 1783
[illegible] of John Bogart, Joseph Van Ingen
+ Henry Vosburgh takes [?] connection within 
documentary evidence whilst can be furnished
in this case. I flatter myself with [?]
[?] [?] [?] this claim
I am very truly
your obt servant
G. F. Yates
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Anna Hunn
Widow of Derick Hunn -
application for [increase?] & Surrogate's certificate
[upside down] ?B Yates Esq
Washington DC
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[all handwritten]

State of New York
Montgomery County
Surrogate's Court

Sir-
I Giles F Vanvechten
Surrogate of said County hereby certify that as a Surrogate's
Court held on the 16th day of January 1845 before me 
at the Surrogate's office in Fultonville in and for paid
County of Montgomery, it was satisfactorily proved to me
that Anna Hunn late of the Town of Mohawk in said 
County, died a natural death in said Town of Mohawk
on the Eleventh day of January 1845 that at the time
of her death she was a pensioner of the United States-
that she left her surviving the following named children 
all of whom are of full age -to wit- Gertrude Hunn and 
Eleanor Cushney widow, both of the said Town of Mohawk-
Elsie Nukerck wife of Charles Nukerck of the Town of
Palastine in said County of Montgomery. Sarah Hunn
and Catalina Wendell widow both of the city and 
County of Albany.
And I further certify that on the [?] day of 
February 1845 Richard H. Cushney was by me
duly constituted and appointed sole executer of the
last will and testament of the said Anna Hunn
deceased and that he then duly gratified as such before
me, and that the Letters Testamentary issued by me
to the said Richard remain in full force, unrevoked
and unannulled.
In witness where of I [?] hereunto
set my hand and affixed the seal of 
my office at Fultonville aforesaid this
twenty ninth day of April Eighteen
hundred and forty five
Giles F. Vanvechten Surrogate
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State of New York
Montgomery County} We Richard H Cushney executor &c of and Gertrude Hunn & Eleanor Cushney children of Anna Hunn late of the town of Mohawk in the County of Montgomery deceased do hereby authorize and empower Giles F. Yates for us and in our names to apply to the War Department of the United States for an increase of the pension or back pay due to us as the Representative or children of said Anna Hunn deceased
April 29th 1845   [signed]   RH Cushney   G Hunn  Elenor Cushney
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In the Matter &c of [underline] Anna Hunn [/underline]
widow of Derick Hunn
under act of 4th July 1836

Hm
[underline] P.J. Wagner [/underline]   HR

[crossed out - Agent Giles F. Yates Schenectada [sic] ] NY]
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Schenectada [sic] Feby 19th 1840.
J.L. Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
  Sir:
   Since the receipt of your favor of the 14th November ult in the matter of the claim of [underline] Anna Hunn [/underline] widow of [underline] Derick Hunn [/underline] for a pension under the act of 4th July 1836, I have obtained an affidavit from Wilhelmus Ryckman, who testifies that Hunn served as a Commissary of Issues at Whiteplains in 1778, Mr Ryckman himself being at the time a Lieutenant under Col. Van Schaick in the New York line - Capt. Bogart swore in his first affidavit in a supplemental Deposition now herewith sent, that Hunn [underline] entered [/underline] the service of the U.S. as a Commissary to the Hospital at Albany in the Spring of 1777. This proved by the affidavits of Lieut. Joseph Van Ingen & of Henry Vosburgh that Hunn served in Gen. Clinton's Brigade as a Commissary from June to Dec 1779, and also as a Commissary at Albany
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in 1781 - & Mr. Ryckman & Capt. Bogart in both his affidavits speaks positively as to the fact, that Hunn served till 1783, or after his marriage & Bogart testified that he officiated as groomsman at the wedding & knows that Hunn served after his marriage, but is not clear that he was then attached to the Hospital - but that he [underline] did
[/underline] serve he has no question.
  From the Balloting Book, to which I alluded in my last letter, it appears, that Derick Hunn was allowed Depreciation as assistan[t] Commissary in the [underline] Hospital [/underline] Department, & thinks he must have [saved?] in that grade & been attached to said Department after 1780, a circumstance the witnesses only seeing him on duty could not be presumed to know. His claim to Bounty Land in New York seems also from the entry in said Ballotting Book, referred to, to have been under consideration as Commissary in the Hospital Department, which circumstance affords evidence that he must have served till near the close of the war - a fact fully made out by the witnesses - Mrs Hunn will testify if required that her husband [underline] did [/underline] receive his Bounty Land.
  Very respectfully  your obt Servt    Giles F Yates
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To J.L. Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
War Department
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[handwritten]
State of New York 
Albany County [[?]]

Wilhelmus Ryckman
of the City of Albany in said County, 
aged eighty years [^this year] being duly sworn 
saith, that he was during the war of
the Revolution was acquainted with 
Derick Hunn, in behalf of whose widow
application is now made for a pension -
That while he this Deponent was on 
duty at Whiteplains as a Lieutenant
in the Regiment of New York Continental
troops under command of Col.
Van Schaick. he saw said Derick Hunn
performing the duties of a commissary 
at said post to wit in the year 1778.
This is the only part of the service
of said Derick Hunn which he this
Deponent is able particularly to spe-
b[?] that said

[printed]
State of New=York,
City and County of Albany, Clerk's Office. [parenthetical] ss.

[left side of page [seal of the City of Albany]]

I, Henry B. Haswell, Clerk of the said city
and county, do hereby Certify, that [handwritten] Robert
J. Hilton - [printed] whose name is subscribed
to the Certificate of proof [or acknowledgement [crossed out]] of
the annexed instrument in writing and endorsed thereon, 
was at the time of taking such proof [or acknowledgement [crossed out]]
a [handwritten] Judge of Albany County Courts -
[printed] in and for the county aforesaid, dwelling in the said county, and duly authorized to take the same : And that I am well acquainted with the hand-writing
of the said [handwritten] Judge [printed] and verily believe that the signature to 
the said certificate of proof [or acknowledgement [crossed out]] is genuine. 
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed my official
seal, the [handwritten] twentieth [printed] day of [handwritten] February
[printed] 18 [handwritten] 40
[handwritten] H.B. Haswell [printed[ Clerk

[bottom of page]
[illegible signature]
[?] Albany county [?] clerk
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State of New York
Albany County} ss
   Wilhelmus Ryckman of the City of Albany in said county, aged eighty years ^ & upwards being duly sworn saith that he was during the war of the Revolution well acquainted with Derick Hunn, in behalf of whose widow application is now made for a pension - that while he this Deponent was on duty at White plains as a Lieutenant in the Regiment of New York Continental troops under Command of Col: Van Schaick, he saw said Derick Hunn performing the duties of a commissary at said post to wit in the year 1778 -  This is the only part of the service of said Derick Hunn, which he this Deponent is able particularly to specify - yet this Deponent knows that said Derick Hunn continued to serve after said year 1778, until the full end & close of the revolutionary war in the year 1783 in the Commissary or Quarter Master Department, and often saw said Derick Hunn at Albany on duty as such Commissary.     [signed] Wil Ryckman
Sworn & Subscribed this 12th day of February 1840 , before me; and I certify that said Wilhelmus Ryckman is a credible witness    [signed] R J Wilton    [Judge A..ing] County [unclear]
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 John Bogart of the City of Albany in the County of Albany & State of New York, aged seventy eight years & upwards, and a pensioner of the United States, being further duly examined and sworn, Deposeth and saith, that Derick Hunn, the same person  in behalf of whose widow he made an affidavit on a former occasion, served in the war of the revolution as a Sergeant in the militia of the county of Albany aforesaid previous to the year 1777, he this Deponent remembers well, that he was on the occasion of the surrender of Sir John Johnson & his dependants [sic], on
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duty with said Derick Hunn at Johnstown, with the militia from said County of Albany -  And the Deponent further saith, that in the spring of the year 1777, he knows that the said Derick Hunn went into the service of the United States as an issuing Commissary to the Hospital Department, had charge of the Hospital stores at Albany aforesaid - but how long said Derick Hunn served as Commissary to said Hospital Department, he this Deponent cannot certainly say; that said Derick
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[handwritten part is duplicate of previous image]

STATE OF NEW YORK
CITY AND COUNTY OF ALBANY, CLERK'S OFFICE } ss.
 I, HENRY B. HASWELL, Clerk of the s aid city and county, do hereby Certify that [h/w] Calvin Pepper Esq. [/h/w]
whose name is subscribed to the certificate of proof of the annexed instrument in writing and endorsed thereon, was at the time of taking such proof, a Commissioner in and for the city aforesaid, dwelling in the said city, and duly authorized to take the same: And that I am well acquainted with the hand-writing of the said Commissioner, and verily believe that the signature to the said certificate of proof is genuine.
In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my official seal, the 20th day of February 1840
[signed] H.B. Haswell  Clerk
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Commissary to said Hospital Department, be this Deponent cannot certainly say; that said [Derick?] Hunn served in said Department until the same was dissolved, (if it was dissolved) this Deponent however is 
a [?..rn]] for the impussion this Deponent is as stated in his form affidavit, that during the last years of the war said Hunn served in the Quarter Master Department yet deponent knows that he did serve in some capacity or other in the fall end of said war in 1783, and  after his marriage in December 1782, which Deponent attended as groomsman & that he served unremittingly from the Spring of 1777 till November 1783. [signed] John Bogart
Subscribed & Sworn this 29 day of February 1840 before me I certify that said Derick Hunn is a  [unclear]
Calvin Pepper Justice of the Justices Court of the City of Albany & Commissioner of Deeds &c.
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Mrs Hunn
Henry Geen Engr
[upside down]  Doctor McCre[??]
[
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Dr. Sir
I have sent Mr. Hun [Compy?] to the General Hospital with the Median
stores &c &c and have directed Him to apply to you for a store to put them in
untill [sic] the Troops shall move forward shall send them up as fast as we shall procure
Teams pray let them be put as much by themselves as possible. 
 I am Sir with great Respect your [se..]  [R. McCrea?]

Albany 10 June
Henry [Gean?]  Engrs
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D. Hunn
State of New York
Clarksville  Lewis County
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Henry Vos[burgh?]
State of New York
[Clarksville, Lewis County,
I Carlos P Scovil, Clerk of said County hereby certify that Zila Knox Esq. before a him  the foregoing appelants [own?] taken was on the day of the date of  [unclear]     Justice of the Peace in & for said County Commis...duly Sworn and further that I am well acquainted with the handwriting of said Justice and [??ly] believe that   this signature  Subscribed to said affadavit
[on?] [goniener?] Given under My hand and Seal of Said County this 21st day of February 1839
   Carlos P. Scovil  Clerk