Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 5317, Hezekiah B Hubbell, New Jersey
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(3 - 1776)

[column headings:] SERVICE, none, NUMBER

New Jersey     Hubbell, Hezekiah B.     R. 5317

CONTENTS
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[Handwriting on unlined paper]

State of Indiana
Cass County

[hand-drawn brackets symbol } drawn just to the right of the above two lines, and 'ss' penned further to the right]

} SS

On this twelfth day of February
AD 1838 appeared in open court by the
Cass County Probate Court now sitting. Hezekiah 
B. Hubell, a resident of Cass County Indiana, aged about
seventy eight years of age who being first duly sworn
according to law doth on his oath make the following 
declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the
act of congress passed June the 7th of 1832. That he
entered service under the following named officers and
served as herein stated; he listed or entered under Natha
niel Randal (Captain) [illegible] attached to General
Dayton's regiment of what was called the [Jersey Line?]
some time in his fourteenth of fifteenth year the day & year he does not recollect. That he was for one
year under Captain Nathaniel Randal and returned

home; where after finding his mother and father dead, he
indentured for two years service and served under the
aforementioned Captain Randal That their company was [illegible]
at the time of entering the service he resided at Wood
-bridge 
[illegible]
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the principle part of his time employed [two words crossed out] in watching the shores and sound.  That he was in a skirmish with the tories and refugees who broke across the sound at Blazing Star ferry and came into Jersey who were repulsed and driven back by Capt Randals company they being a small party that other that his engagements sustained he [illegible] in none of any note or distinction. That he was in service untill the war ceased.  That soon after peace was declared he moved to Wyoming Pennsylvania and from thence to Ohio before it was oganised as a state.  That owing to his advanced life and his leaving the country where his service was performed immediately after peace was declared he has forgotten most of the persons engaged with him in these engagements and the particulars of the same.  And this affiant further states that under the Acts of Congress of 1818 as he was informed he could not secure a pension as he then owned considerable property and he did not think he [illegible] should apply for the benefit of the pension law but owing to his advanced age and infirmity and his present reduced circumstances he concluded to make this application from pressing necessity.  His children having arrived to and having now those families to provide for.  He is now left without the benefit of their services and with old age too feeble to maintain himself by his own labour.  That owing to his leaving his native place as soon after peace he knows of no person by whom he can prove his service that is now alive & that he has no documentary evidence of his service of any kind.  He hereby relinquishes any claim whatever to a
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Mr. John Wright am a presbyterian clergyman residing now in Logansport  Cass County Indiana and [illegible] Wright residing in the same place hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Hezekiah Hubbell who has subscribed to the foregoing declaration
that we believe him to be seventy eight years of age or thereabouts. That he was reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he has resided and where he now resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion.                                             John Wright
Wmson Wright
 Sworn and subscribed to this 12th day 
of   February    1838                   JNDUNET CVR
By Jay Mix DC  
And the said Cass County Probate Court do hereby declare its opinion as Thomas Wilson this judge thereof after the investigation of the  matter and after putting the interrogatories described by the War Department that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary soldier and served as such as he states and the court further certifies that it appears to him that John Wright who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman resident in Logansport county of Cass and that Williamson Wright who has also signed the preceding certificate is a resident in the County of Cass & State of Indiana and is a credible person and that their statements is entitled to credit.
I John B. Durett clerk of the Cass county probate court do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceeding of the said court in the matter of the application
  of Hezekiah B. Hubell for a pension.  In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of said Cass County Probate Court this 12th day of February A. D. 1838   
[seal]
J B Durett Clk
By Jay Mix DC
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Cass County Probate Court February term AD 1838

State of Indiana }
Cass County}   SS

Personally appeared in open Court Revere [sic, 'Reverend' was probably intended, page torn] 
John Wright who being duly sworn upon his oath deposes and says that he has been acquainted with Hezekiah Hubbel [sic] for something like seventeen or twe
=nty years and that he has always been informed by said Hubbell for that space of time and by se
=veral [illegible] that as said Hubbell was a revolut
=ionary soldier and from his general character for truth and veracity and from the fact of his being recognized as a revolutionary soldier in the county in Ohio from whence he came latterly by walking with the revolutionary soldiers in processions on the 4th of July and other public occasions believe his statements to be true and correct and further saith [sayeth]  not.

[signature] //John Wright//

Sworn to and subscribed  this 12th day of Feby AD 1838
JB Duret Clk
By Jay Mix D. C.
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Q 1st Where & in what year were you born?
Ans 1 I was born in the State of New Jersey at
Woodbridge Raway in the year AD of
our Lord one thousand seven hundred
and sixty.

Q 2nd Have you any record of your age?
A 2nd My daughter who resides in Illinois has
the Bible once my Fathers, in which the record of my age is, and which marks
me the age I before stated

Q 3rd Where were you living when called into
service; where have you lived since the
Revolutionary war; and where do you
now live?
A 3rd I was living in New Jersey when called
into service, since that time I have
lived in Wyoming Pennsylvania, in
Fairfield County Ohio, in Shelby County
Ohio & am now living in Cass County
Indiana

Q 4th How were you called into service;
were you drafted; did you
volunteer or were you a substitute?
A 4th In the first place I enlisted & the
then volunteered my service the remain-
der of the time, I was not a substitute
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Q 5th State the names of some of the prin[crossed off]
cipal[crossed off] regular officers who were with
troops where you served; such 
continental & militia Regiments as
you can recollect, and the general
circumstance of your service
A5th General Dayton (Christian name not
recollected) Col. Ogden, Col. Spencer
and served under Captain Nathaniel
Randall, Col. Morgan & Col.
Angel were also there. 1st Dayton
Regiment belonging to the Jersey line
2nd Maxwells Regiment belonging to
the Jersey line, and I served in the
battle of Springfield with Angel’s
and Morgan’s troops

Q 6th Did you ever receive a discharge
from the service
A 6th I never did secure a discharge
from service, only for my enlistment
which is lost

Q 7th Did you ever receive a commission?
A 7th I never did.

Q 8th State the names of persons to whom
you are known in your present
neighborhood, and who can testify
as to your character for veracity and
the belief of your services as a sol-
dier of the Revolution
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A 8th Rev. John Wright, & Messers
John W. & Williamson Wright Esqrs.
	Thos J Wilson Judge P. [sig]

State of Indiana}
Cass County}
I John B Durett, Clerk
of the Cass County Probate Court do hereby
certify that the foregoing affidavit or depos-
ition of John Wright [illegible] was made in open
court at the February Term thereof  AD 1838
and that the foregoing interrogatories as above
written were put to Hezekiah B Hubell
and that the foregoing are the answers
to said questions as taken down afore-
said investigation   In testimony whereof
I have hereunto set my hand and seal
of said Cass County probate Court this the
12th day of February AD 1838
		J.B. Duret [sig]
		Clk
[seal affixed]
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[blackened image - possibly binding of a book]
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Hezekiah Hubbell
Indiana
[underlined]

Suspended
[underlined]

See letter 18th 
Jun 1837 office(?) [illegible] W Record (?) do. 27th 
Feb 1838

5317
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Hezekiah B. Hubbell
Indiana

Suspended

See let 8 Nov 38
Messrs Wright &
Patterson

Act 7 June 1832
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[strikeover] //Acts of July 14, 1882, and March 8, 1878.//

REJECTED

5316
P.O.
Hezekiah B. Hubbell
Service:  Consolidated Augt 9, 1882 with ref Soldier file 5317

Enlisted: ____, 18
Discharged: ____, 18
Application Filed: ____, 18
Alleges: ____
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[Act of July 16, 1862, and March 8, 1878./crossed off]

[stamped] REJECTED
5317

Hezekiah Hubbell
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34,646
In the matter of H. B. Hubbell, an applicant for a pension from the U. States
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State of Indiana}
Cass County} SS:
On this Thirtieth day of August
in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty
eight, personally appeared in open Court before the
Hon. [named crossed out] Judges of the Cass [Circuit/crossed out or overwritten] Court
of the State of Indiana, Hezekiah B. Hubbell, a
resident of the County of Cass & State of Indiana,
aged nearly seventy seven years, who being first
duly sworn according to Law, doth on his oath
make the following declaration, in order to obtain
the benefit of the provision made by act of Con-
gress passed June 7th 1832.  That he en-
listed in the army of the United States in the year
- 1775 – with Captain Nathaniel Randell, and
served in the [blank] Regiment under the command
of General Dayton, of New Jersey; and that ac-
cording to the best of his recollection a true statement
of the time of his service is contained in the
following tabular statement,
[the following is in a table format on original document]
Period when service was near done – From 1775 to 1780
Duration of claimant’s service/years – 1
Rank of claimant – Enlisted Private
Names & Rank of the general & filed officers – Gen. Dayton, Capt. Randell, Adjutant Piatt
Battles in which the applicant was engaged – Battles of Springfield & Monmouth
Country through which he marched – New Jersey
Place of abode when he entered the service & age of applicant – Woodbridge Rockaway, nearly 77 years old
Evidence by which the declaration is supported – [blank]

Duration of claimant’s service/years –
Rank of claimant – volunteer

The declarant further states that he first enlisted
for one year; at the expiration of which time he received
a certificate of service from the proper officer, which
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he has since lost; and then returned home but finding
that his surviving parent had died in his absence, he
returned to the army, after an absence of two months,
and joined the same company to which he for-
merly belonged, commanded by Capt. Randell, to
which he remained attached until the war ceased,
and that during this latter period he was in the
two battles referred to in his tabular statement.
The declarant further states, that, never expecting
to apply for renumeration for his services until
lately when necessity has driven him to it, he has 
not preserved the only documentary evidence he had,
of his service, viz. his certificate of service from Capt.
Randell, and that he knows of no persons now
living whose testimony he can procure, or who
can testify to his service; and that during his time
of service he was not employed in any civil pursuit.
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatsoever to any
pension or annuity, except the present, & declares that
his name is not on the pension Roll of the agency
of any State.

Sworn to & subscribed the day & year afore-
said. J B Duret [sig] Clk	Hezekiah B Hubbel [sig]
By Jay Mix [sig] D Clk
[Reporters illegible] Judges of the Cass Circuit Court
of the State of Indiana

We the undersigned John Wright, a clergyman, residing
in Logansport, Indiana, and Williamson Wright, residing
in the same place do hereby certify, that we are well ac-
quainted with Hezekiah B. Hubbell who has subscribed
& sworn to the above declaration; and that we believe
him to be of the age he represents himself to be, that he
has been previously known to the said John Wright for
about seventeen years in Fairfield County, Ohio, and
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that he was generally reputed and believed to have been
a soldier of the Revolution, & upon all celebrations of
our national anniversary he was treated as a Revolu-
tionary soldier, & that we believe him to have been one.
Sworn & subscribed the day & year aforesaid.
Sworn to & subscribed in open Court	John Wright [sig]
August 30 AD 1838	J B Durett [sig] Clk	Wm Wright [sig]
			By Jay Mix [sig] D Clk

And the said Judge of said Court I do hereby declare their opinion, after in-
vestigating the matter, & after putting the interrogatories
prescribed by the War Department, that the above named
applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier, & served as he
states. And the Court further certifies, that it appears
that John Wright, [& Williamson Wright/crossed out] who has
signed the preceding certificate, is a clergyman resi-
dent in Logansport Indiana, & that Williamson Wright
who has also signed the same is a resident of the
same place & is a credible person, & that their state-
ment is entitled to credit
			C.W. Ewing [sig] Pres. Judge
I John B Duret clerk of the Cass County Circuit Court
of the State of Indiana, do hereby certify that the fore-
going contains the original proceedings of the said
Court, in the matter of the application of Hezekiah
B. Hubbell for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have
hereto set my hand & the seal of said Court, this
30th day of August A.D. 1838.
		J.B. Duret Clk
		By Jay Mix [sig] D Clk
[seal affixed]
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34,300
Hezekiah Hubbell
Indiana

Hon. W. Herod 
HR
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State of Indiana}       Cass circuit court
Cass County      }       August Term AD 1837

Be it remembered that on this the tenth Term date and day of the court aforesaid before the Hon Charles W Ewing President Judge & George L Bostwick associate Judges the said court then & there being a court of record personally appeared in open court Hesekiah Hubbell who represents that he was born in the East Jersey in the county of Middlesex & this the year of our Lord seventeen hundred & sixty one - that he enlisted in the year seventeen hundred and seventy five as a soldier in the continental troops under Captain Nathaniel Randel who was kept on the lines between Staten Island & New Jersey to watch the movements of the enemy & what was called the moving traiders & refugees & that he served one year & received his certificate of discharge but not expecting that it would be or any service to him the same is long since lost or destroyed & that immediately on his last enlistment expiring he again enlisted under the same Captain as a volunteer & continued until the end of the war during the last services he was in a skermage at Springfield in which Captain Randall was wounded  & afterwards died at which battle Springfield was commander of the British troops & Col Angle of the American.  That he does not know of that his name was registered as a soldier & that he has long since lost his discharge & knows of no person now living by whom he can prove his service. And further he states
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he states that shortly after the war he moved to Wyomising in Pennsylvania & in AD 1803 to Ohio & in AD 1835 to the state of Indiana.
Sworn to & subscribed 
H.B. Hubbell in open court this
2nd of Sept AD 1837
W B Durett Clk

State of Indiana
Cass county
    Personally appeared in open court John Wright a minister of the Presbyterian church who being duly sworn on his oath says that he has been acquainted with the above Hezekiah Hubbell for the last twenty years & for the most of said time resided in the same neighbourhood with him.  That it was reputed that he was a soldier of the revolution so as such he was always considered.
And further he says not.
Sworn to on the 1st of           [s] John Wright
Sept AD 1837
W B Durret clk

State of Indiana
Cass County  The undersigned 
                       citizens of the county 
& state aforesaid do hereby certify that the above Hezekiah Hubbell is a man of good moral character
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& that full credit can be given to any & all of his statements.
Geo B Walker
Wmson Wright

State of Indiana
Cass County   At the term of 
                      the Cass Circuit 
Court as aforesaid the said court ordered that the Clerk of this court do certify that the said Hezekiah Hubbell appeared in open court & made the foregoing statement under oath to procure the benefit of the laws of the United States for the relief of revolutionary soldiers & that John Wright George B Walker Wmson Wright are men of good moral character & that the seal of the court be hereto attached
In Testimony Whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the Seal of said Court at Logansport this 5th day of September AD 1837
J B Duret Clk
by Jay Mize D C
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The state of Ohio, Shelby County:  sz (?) on this 17th day of December Ad. 1851 personally appeared in open court before the court of Common Pleas and for said Shelby County deacon (?) sitting Hezekiah B. Hubbell who resides a part of his time in Shelby County and a part of his time in Lagore, Allen and Putnams county Ohio.  Among his children with whom he lives, changing from one to this other as it may be convenient or necessary but who considering in and Shelby County as much or more his proper place of residence and family his which county than any other. Aged ninety-seven years on this 14th day of October last (Ad. 1851) who being first duly sworn according to law states on his oath, make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the act of Congress passed June 7th, 1832.  That he entered the service of the United States under the following officers and served as necessity states.  That he entered said service as a volunteer in Capt. Nathaniel Fetch Randall's company of volunteers, in Col. Craig's regiment of the New Jersey line.  That he entered said service as above stated in the month of September in the fall of the second year of this revolutionary war being this being fall of the year 1776 this day of the month [illegible] as such volunteer (?) after the Battle of Springfield in the state of New Jersey. In this statement of the commencement of his service in September of the second year of the war of this revolutionary affiant means the 2nd year  after this first city of open hostility at Lexington in 1775 Ad. the date of the battle of Springfield affiant cannot recollect but thinks it was in June 1780 serving his term of volunteer service affiant was in the following battles (?) the battles of Brandywine the battle of Massachusetts and the battle of Springfield.  This seasonal duty he cannot now recollect for all these battles and during this whole term of volunteer service he was under the same field and company officers as above stated.  Viz in Capt. Randall's company of the volunteers and Col. Craig's regiment
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At the battle of Springfield his Capt Randall was mortally wounded & died after of his wounds. he have [illegible] after this battle
was discharged received no written discharge. which he no documentary evidence of this time of service and he knows of no person by whom this time of service can be proven, or who can testify to it. Affiant says in answer to this question proposed that he was born in Middlesex county in the state of New Jersey. He has a record of his age in his family bible, which was transcribed from his father's family bible) which is now at his daughters in Allen county Ohio. Where he entered into the term of Volunteers service he was living in Middlesex county New Jersey and continued  [illegible] in said county for Eight or nine years after the close of the war.
He then married and removed to Pennsylvania in Luzerne county where he resided some 16 sixteen years from there he removed to the state of Ohio- before it was organized with a state government, first to Lancaster co. then
 to Sidney Shelby county, in 1827 & resided in said Shelby county & the greater part of the time in the town of Sidney until 1839- when he removed to Indiana was there about ten years & [illegible] in his Captains to this application
& he is [illegible] in said Shelby county, and [illegible] his residence since [illegible] any others [illegible] states that he [illegible] term of service as a volunteer.
As to his acquaintances [illegible] Regular Officers who were with this troops where he served he cannot state any - his company was most of the time [illegible]
except when called for interactions they were [illegible] among other places at Elizabeth Town Points,? Patrick?, and Wooden Bridge? 
31st line: ? [illegible] a good part of the times. by loss of memory, old age & lapse of time he cannot  [illegible] state the names of those his
 did there known. he recollects Capt Bratz company which was with [illegible] of the Jersey Line -  [illegible] the battles of Springfield [illegible] of the service for one year. Of this term of volunteer service. There were two tours  [illegible] He volunteered twice but he cannot recollect the length of each tour [illegible]
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lapse of time and loss of memory - but his time in the second tour had expired before the battle of Springfield and immediately after that battle he was discharged and as [illegible] and remained out of the service one year. Deponent further states [ink smears] the army of the United States [ink smears] battle of Springfield NY in June he thinks 1781 for during this [illegible] He was enlisted in Elizabethtown New Jersey by a Sergeant Stott Clue [?} - a recruiting officer & [illegible] in a Capt. Jonathan Daytory company in Col. Williamson's Regiments [illegible] recollected) under Genl Daytons (he thinks a brigadier Gen) of the Nuveen Holy army.  This term of service was from the times above around one year after the battles of Springfield (June 1781) as he thinks [illegible] the surrender of Cornwallis at Little York.  During this time of service he was in no battles except north of Little York & [illegible] under [illegible] officers as already stated.  Affiant battle of Little York or at the end of this tour he was discharged.  Received a written discharge which way by [illegible] in his dwelling house which took fire about ten years ago & burned partly up with a great part of his household goods & papers and among this was his discharge.  In consequence of which he cannot produce it.  This was while he was living in Indiana.  He hereby relinquishes any claim whatsoever to a pension or annuity except the present, and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state.  And he here stated the reasons why he has not made application to this department for a pension sooner is that he was formerly in good & independent circumstances & determined never to ask the government any thing for his services but he by misfortunes is now reduced in old age to poverty & is driven to ask for this pension to which he knows he is entitled.  From loss of memory & [illegible] affiant cannot state by whom his discharge above mentioned was signed.  He added the names of the following persons in his present neighborhood in Hilly County to whom he is & long
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as in said declaration states  That he is reputed & believed in this neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the revolution and that he concurs in that opinion.
L. Bulle
James Wells

Sworn to & subscribed in open court the day & year first above written.
L. B. Walker Clerk 
by D. E. Baily Depy

And I the said [illegible court] do hereby declare their opinions, after this [illegible investigation] of the matters, and after putting this [illegible interrogatories] presented by the war department that this [illegible] and applicant was a Revolutionary soldier, and served as he states.

i
And the [illegible court fees] thus certifies that  it appears to them that David Bulle who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman resident the Town of Sidney, Shelby Co. Ohio & in this immediate vicinity of the applicant as he has stated it. and that Cal Jones Wells Wim signed this [illegible same] is a resident in the same place & that he id a credible person & that this statement is entitled to credit.

I, L. B. Walker, clerk of the court of Common  Pleas for said Shelby County, Ohio, do hereby certify, that this foregoing containing this original proceedings of said Court in this matter of the application of Hezekiah B. Hubbell for a pension.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the Court aforesaid at Sidney the seventeenth day of December A. D. 1857
J. B. Walker clerk
 D. E. Baily depy
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as in said declaration states  That he is reputed & believed in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the revolution and that he concurs in that opinion.
D. Bulle
James Wells
Sworn to & subscribed in open court the day & year first above written.
L. B. Walker clerk 
by D. E. Baily Dpy

And I the said court do hereby declare their opinions, after this investigation of the matters, and after putting this interrogatories presented by the war department that this above names applicant was a Revolutionary soldier, and served as he states.

And the [illegible court of pleas]  thus certifies that it appears to them that David Bulle who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman resident this Town of Sidney, Shelby Co. Ohio & in this immediate vicinity of the applicant as he has stated it. and that Cal Jones Wells Wim signed this, same is a resident in the same place & that he is a credible person, & that these statements is entitled to credit.

I, L. B. Walker, clerk of the court of Common  Pleas for said Shelby County, Ohio, do hereby certify, that this foregoing containing this original proceedings of said Court in this matter of the application of Hezekiah B. Hubbell for a pension.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the Court aforesaid at Sidney this seventeenth day of December A. D. 1851
J. B. Walker clerk
by D. E. Baily depy
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Hon. J. E. Heath
Com. of Pensions
Sir the department will please direct any communications on subject of this application to P. G. Goodes Sidney Shelby co. OhIo.
Dee is attending to this business for the applicant & will receive for him the [illegible[ & further directions of the department if given & attended to them
P. G. Goode

38,320
Hezekiah B. Hubbell
Ohio
Act 7 June 1832.
let 17 Aprl 1852
P. G. Goode
Sidney
Ohio
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[letter is missing words on the right side]
Inda
House of Repts 26th Feb
J L Edwards Esqr.

Sir

I enclo of hr [illegible] Mr Wright of Logunsport to the case of Hezekiah Hubble 

[pages taped at seam]

for a pension will you be so go[illegible, page torn] me of your decision at as early a[illegible, page torn] be convenient. 

I am wr   [illegible] 
respec  [illegible]
William
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Logansport, Sep 7th, 1838

J. L. Edwards Esq

Sir

Enclosed is a statement of services rendered by an old gentleman of this county in the revolutionary war, which he has again requested us to file in your office for the benefit of the Pension Laws.

It may not be as explicit as the Law requires, but his memory is very imperfect & he has no written evidence of his services nor does he know of any person now living who can testify thereto.

Very respectfully &tc
Wright & Patterson