Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 2,636, John Hull, Penn.
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Service
Penn.

Hull, John

Number 
S.2,636

carded
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4097

Tennessee, East

John Hull
of Green Co in the State of Tennessee
who was a private in the Company commanded
by Captain Beddinger of the Reg't commanded
by McAlister in the [illegible]
for militia for one month
from 1776.

Pa. Line Records corrected Feb'y 15 '64
Inscribed on the Roll of Tennessee
at the rate of 30 Dollars [no] Cents per annum
to commence on the 4th day of March 1831

Certificate of Pension issued the 10th day of [illegible]
1833 and for John
Blair  H.R.

Arrears to 4th of Sept 1832.  45.00
Semi=anl allowance ending 4 March 1833  1 5.00

$60.00

Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7, 1832

Recorded by Henry H Sylvester Clerk
Book D Vol. 9 Page 102
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John Hull


Dec 10, 1832

Hon J. Blair H.R. (Ten)
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State of Tennessee
Green County.           September Term 1832

On this 5th day of September 1832
personally appeared in open Court before the 
Honorable Samuel Powel Judge of the Circuit
Court of Law & Equity Mr. John Hull aged
eighty one years, a resident citizen of the 
County of Green of state aforesaid who being
first duly sworn according to Law doth on 
his oath makes the following declaration
in order to obtain the benefit of the act of
Congress passed the 7th [illegible] 1832. That he
entered the services of the United States under
the following named officers and served as herein
stated towit. That being a resident citizen of the
County of York Pennsylvania he in the month
of June 1776 was drafted to perform a Tour
of duty of two months, under Capt Nicholas Beddinger
[illegible] and rendezvoused in Abbotts Town in the
County of York aforesaid, in order to go to Trenton
New Jersey where was the British, and marched
at the rate of thirty miles a day, Col McAllister
being the Col commandant & highest officer
until their arrival at [illegible] where was the 
regular Army under Gen's Mercer & Roberds
that the main army there marched from 
[illegible], where this Lieutenant enlisted into
the flying camp under John Beddinger
for a four months tour (his first two
months having [illegible]) and marched to 
Fort Lee & Washington, where the British
under Cpl Horn captured Fort Washington &
made prisoner of about twenty seven
hundred of the American troops, most of his
Company including John Beddinger being
of the number after which the British took
possession of Fort Lee also, and the American
troops retreated to Trenton, this declarant often
remember under Gen'l Washington Green
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of [illegible].  At Trenton took eight or nine hundred
Hessians, when and where declarant was taken
sick and was carried to Philadelphia to the
hospital where he remained under care
which was more than five months from
the time he entered the service in the 
flying camp and returned home from the
Philadelphia Hospital and obtained no written
discharge.

The next tour he was drafted to go
as a guard to keep the British prisoners taken
at Burgoyne's defeat, after they were transferred
from Albamarle Barracks or stationed to [illegible] York Pennsylvania
where five acres of land were stockaded
to contain therein, and were kept until the
final ratification of [illegible] and they
discharged. Which service he rendered under
Col Gibson, Capt John Wampler, Lieutenant Jonas
Wolf of the Militia and served two months
in the performance of that duty being eight
months according to [illegible] out, that being 
nine months actual service owing to 
his engagement [illegible] for but four 
month in the flying [illegible] where he
in fact was kept in service for five
months. That he has no documentary evidence
of that he knows of no person whose testimony 
he can procure who can testify to his service
[illegible] [illegible] every [illegible]
whatever to a pension or annuity [illegible]
the [illegible] do declares that his name
is not on the roll of pensioners of the
[illegible] of any state nor is there a
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resident minister of the Gospel in his vacinity
where he can establish the facts required
by the Secretary of War.
summary of [illegible] in open court this
day and year from before written.
V. Sevier Clerk   John Hull [signature]

We Vincent Jackson and John Balch residing
in this County Greene state aforesaid do
hereby certify that we are well acquainted 
with John Hull who has subscribed and
sworn to the foregoing declaration that 
we believe him to be eighty one years
of age that he is respected and beloved in
the neighborhood where he resides to
have been a soldier of the Revolution
and that we concur in that opinion
sorn to and described in open court
this 5th September 1832.
V. Sevier Clerk   Vincent Jackson [signature]
John Balch [signature]

And this said Court do hereby declare
their opinion after this investigation
of the matter and after putting the
[illegible] described by the war 
Dept. that the above applicant was a
revolutionary soldier and served as he
states and this court further certifies
that it appears to him Vincent Jackson 
and John Balch who signed this proceeding
certificate are residents of said County
and are credible persons and their certificates
[illegible] to full confidence.
[illegible]
[illegible] county of the state of [illegible]
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I Valantine Sevier Clerk of the Circuit Court
of Law and Equity for the County of Green do hereby
certify that the foregoing contains the original
proceedings in the application of John Hull
for a pension.

In testimony where of I have hereunto
set my hand and offixed my seal
of office this 11 day of September 1832

V. Sevier [illegible]
By. M. Payne [illegible]
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Revolutionary War Records Section
3-525
Department of the Interior
Bureau of Pensions
Washington, D.D., Dec 9, 1921

In reply to your request of [blank], received [blank]
for a statement of the military history of Jno Hull [handwritten]
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. S.2636 [handwritten]

Table with following Headers:
Dates of Enlistment or Appointment
Length of Service
Rank
Office under whom Service was Rendered Captin/Colonel
State

June 1776 - 2 mos - Pvt - Nicholas Beddinger - McAllister - PA
Immediately after - 5 mos - Pvt - Nicholas Beddinger - McAllister - blank
1777 - 2 mos - Pvt - Jno Wampler - Gibson - blank

Battles engaged in,  Fort Lee
Residence of soldier at enlistment, York Co., PA
Date of application for pension, Sept 5, 1832 [illegible]
Residence at date of application, Green Co., Tenn.
Age at date of application, 81 years
Remarks: No fam. data

Respectfully, 
Commissioner.
6-2856
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RevWar        2636        

   INVALID       

File No. 2636               
John Hull
Pvt. PA, Line


Act: June 7, 1832
Index: Vol. A,   page 183

[Arrangement of 1870]

Pa. Line Records corrected. Feb'y 15, 1904

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1921 Dec. 9 list for R.C. Howard.Ev
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John Hall [centered in middle of page]
Ached [illegible]
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BRIEF objections to the admission of Pension Claims, of which those
answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of
John Hall [handwritten] which require
further proof or explanation.
I. Does the declaration show where the applicant resides? It does [handwritten]
II. Did the declarant make the declaration in the county where he resides? He did [handwritten]
III. If the applicant did not make the declaration in the county where he resides, is there any reason
assigned for his not doing so?
IV. Has the declarant mentioned the period or periods of the war when he served? He has [handwritten]
V. Has he mentioned with precision the length of his service, and the different grades in which he
served, in language so definite as to enable the department to determine to what amount of pension
he is entitled? He has [handwritten]
VI. Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with the regulations?
He has [handwritten]
VII. Has he made a relinquishment of every claim to any other pension than the one under the Act of
June 7, 1832? He has [handwritten]
VIII. Has the Court given their opinion? Has [handwritten]
IX. Has the Clerk given his certificate? He has [handwritten]
X. Is the Clerk's seal affixed? And if so, has it a device or inscription by which it can be distinguished
from any other seal? It is, is so distinguishable [handwritten]
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XI. Has the applicant obtained the evidence of a clergyman and another respectable citizen as to their belief respecting his age and the general belief in his neighborhood relative to his revolutionary service? {[handwritten info too light to decipher]

XII. If the clergyman's affidavit has not been produced, is there any reason assigned for not obtaining it? There is [handwritten]

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

XIV. If the applicant has produced a witness or witnesses as to his service, has the magistrate who administered the oath certified that he, she, or they are persons of creditability? [blank] Has the official character and signature of the magistrate been certified by the proper officer under his seal of office? [blank]

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

XVI. Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct? They are {handwritten]

XVII. Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily? And, if not, which of them is not so answered? No, [handwritten and rest of info too light to decipher]

EXPLANATORY NOTES.
QUERE V. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words:
"Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A.B. who, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service, but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades:  For [blank] year [blank] months and [blank] days, I served as a [blank]. For [blank] months and [blank] days, I served as a [blank]; and for such service I claim a pension."
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It is important in all cases to determine with precision the period for which the applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service. The use of the phrase about three or four months [italics] is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable.

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

QUERE XVI. Mode of authenticating papers. [italics]
In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticated the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other paper authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the end of which must
pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly
attached to the certificate.
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3--871
_______
RECORD DIVISION
Department of the Interior,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS
________________________

Briefed by S. D. L. [handwritten]
Claim No. [blank]
Certificate No. [blank]
Claimant [blank]
Soldier John Hull [handwritten]
Service  Va [handwritten]
Additional Service  Rev War
_____________________________
No______claim, State records______, 190____
No claim, combination records______, 190____

REMARKS:
No claim as above, except
Iwd # 2636
Wid # 3822

D-8    Chief Division
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[STAMPED]
RECORD DIVISION
NOV 29 1921

{Faint markings on page too light to decipher]
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John R. Bland, President ________________        Capital Paid in Cash $4,500,000.

WE WILL BOND YOU________United Stats Fidelity and Guaranty Company
Contract Fidelity
 Judicial Casualty

N. T. Howard & Co.
General Agents
117 South Main Street
New Phone 125
Shoun & Trim
Attorneys

Greenville, Tenn.
November 26th, 1921

Commissioner of Pensions,
Washington, D. C.

Dear Sir:

Please send me the information you have on file regarding
John Hull, a Revolutionary Soldier.  In the report of the Secretary
of War for 1835, his name is given as a Virginia Soldier; he was at
time residing in Greene County, Tennessee, and was 83 years of age.

Very truly yours,
R. C. Howard

U. S.  Pension Office [Stamp]
Nov 28, 1921