Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 760, Agrippa Hull, Mass.
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(3-1776)  
SERVICE      NUMBER
Mass. Hull, Agrippa W. 760
Margaret  B.L. Wt 4326-100 issued 1789. no papers}
B.L. Wt 32-60-55
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CONTENTS
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1358
Massachusetts
Margaret Hull
widow of Agrippa Hull
who served in the Revolutionary
war, as a Private
[ ]
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate
of 00 Dollars 00
Cents per annum, to commence
on the 4th day of March, 1848. (crossed out)
30 February 1833
Certificate of Pension issued
the 17th day of Aug/53
and sent to
J. E. Field
Stockbridge Mass
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act 
February 3/53 Page 40 Vol. A
No. 106 -- 1828
original
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[handwritten] 3199. [/handwritten]
Massachusetts Roll
Agrippa Hull, 4
Private
Massachusetts line-1777-6years
In the Army of the United States during the Revolutionary War
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts.
at the rate of Eight Dollars per month, to commence on
the 27th of April 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued the 1st of October 1818
and sent to John Booker [ ] Judge
Springfield Mass.
Arrears to the 4th of September 1818- 34:13
Semi-aul. all'ce ending 4th March 1819- 48:-
M 4 [ ] $ 82.13
Revolutionary claim,
Act 18th March, 1818
Stockbridge Berkshire
[ ] letter to H. Byington 14 Apr. 1829
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23.072 [or 23.672] Act March 3/55, March 29/55
Margaret Hull widow of Agrippa Hull Privat [Private]
[crossed out: Capt. Second Massachusetts Regiment Enl Dis July 1783]
Revolution Pentioner
Private in Mass:
Contl line
Av 60 Acres Aug^t 6/55
Boynton.
J. E. Field, Stockbridge, Mass.
Map Feby 53 - No 1358
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 
County of Berkshire ss.
On this eleventh 
day of May A.D. 1853 personally appeared 
in open court before the Hon. Theron 
Metcalf one of the Justices of the Supreme 
Judicial Court of said Commonwealth 
now presiding at a session of said court 
holden within of said County. 
Margarett Hull a resident of Stockbridge 
in the County of Berkshire aged sixty 
nine years who being duly sworn 
according to law, doth on her oaths 
make the following declaration in 
order to attain the benefit of the provisions 
made by the Act of Congress passed February 
3d. 1853. That she is the widow of 
Agrippa Hull who was a private soldier 
in the army of the Revolution. He served 
six years and two months in the second 
Massachusetts Regiment. He was discharged 
the 24th of July 1783. He was a Pensioner
of the United States. He resided at
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Stockbridge,  Massachusetts, he received 
the sum of eighty dollars per annum 
and the same was paid at Boston. 
The further declares that she was 
married to the said Agrippa Hull 
on the fourth day of February A.D. 
eighteen hundred & thirteen; that 
her husband the aforesaid Agrippa 
Hull died on the twenty first 
day of May A.D. eighteen hundred & forty
eight: that she was married to him 
at the time above stated. She further 
swears that she was a widow at the 
passage of said act and still is a widow 
and that she has never before made 
application for a pension. Margaret X mark Hull 

Sworn to & subscribed the day and year above.

Written before me Theron Metcalf, 
Justice of the 
Supreme Judicial Court of 
Massachusetts
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts Berkshire County Ss.
I hereby certify that Theron Metcalf Esq. before whom the foregoing declaration was made & who has hereunto subscribed his name was at the time of so doing a Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts duly commissioned and sworn. 
In testimony whereof I have hereunto put my hand & affixed my seal of said Court as Clerk of the same in said County of Berkshire this eleventh day of May 1853.
Cha^s Sedgwick Clk
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[left side]
Agrippa Hull's affidavit

Judges certificate incomplete
otherwise correct
Adm^n

[right side]
M John Hooker within named do hereby certify that from evidence exhibited to me I am satisfied that the within applicant Agrippa Hull is in reduced circumstances in life & stands in need of assistance from his Country for support.
Sept^r 15 1818
John Hooker
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District of Massachusetts.
BERKSHIRE COUNTY, ss.
On this 27th day of April in the year of our LORD 1818 before the subscriber Chief Justice of the Circuit Court in [above] State including [above] County, personally appeared Agrippa Hull aged Fifty seven years, resident in the Town of Stockbridge in the County of Berkshire aforesaid, in the said District - who being by me first duly sworn according to law, doth, in his oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the provisions made by the late act of Congress, entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war:" That he the said Agrippa enlisted in May 1777 Stockbridge in the State of Massachusetts in the company commanded by Captain John Chadwick, Colonel Brewers Regiment of the Brigade of General Paterson of the Massachusetts line for & during the war - 
That he continued to serve in the said corps, in the service of the United States [the following hand-written] close after even two years as Servant to General Patterson - and the remaining four years & 2 months as Servant to General Thaddeus Kosciuszko when he was discharged from service in New Berg on the River Hudson, State of New York as will fully appear by the annexed discharge signed by General Washington - 24 July 1783 [end hand-written segment]
That he was in the battle of [blank space] so called;- and that he is in reduced circumstances, and stands in need of the assistance of his Country for support; 
And that he has no other evidence now in his power of his said services. 
Sworn and declared before me the day and year aforesaid. 
John Hooker     Agrippa Hull

I John Hooker Chief Justice as afore^d
do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Agrippa Hull did serve in the revolutionary war, as stated in the preceding declaration, against the common enemy, and I now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me, to the Secretary for the Department of War, pursuant to the directions of the aforementioned act of Congress.
John Hooker

[patched over seal on left side of page] I JOSEPH WOODBRIDGE, Clerk of the s^d Court for s^d County do certify and attest, that the abovenamed John Hooker is Chief Justice of s^d Court and that the foregoing is his signature. 
IN testimony whereof, I have hereto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said Court, the day and year first above written. 
Jos. Woodbridge ClK
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts -
County of Berkshire
    I Jonathan E. Field do certify
that the following is a transcript
from the records of the Town of
Stockbridge
"Agrippa Hull and Margaret 
Timbucks of Stockbridge were
lawfully married by the Rev. E. G.
Swift."
  That this transcript is all of
the record & a true copy thereof
except the date which is expressed
on the record in fair legible figures
as follows - "Feb'y the 4th. 1813" (underlined)
   I Jonathan E. Field above 
named declare & say that I hold
the office of Town Clerk of the
Town of Stockbridge in the County
of Berkshire & state aforesaid 
and that the above is a true
extract from the record of said
Stockbridge with the exception
above named as certified by me.
         Jonathan E. Field
Sworn before me
May 11. 1853 -
H. L. Davies
Justice of the Peace
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts, County of Berkshire 
Daniel N. Williams of Stockbridge aged forty years & upwards being duly sworn upon his oath saith that he has always been a resident of said Stockbridge. That he has ever since his recollection and until the time of the death of Agrippa Hull hereinafter named been acquainted with Agrippa Hull of said Stockbridge, a pensioner of the United States. That said Agrippa Hull was a member of the same parish and church with this deponent. That he saw said Agrippa Hull during his last sickness. That he knew of the death of the said Agrippa Hull. That the same occurred in 1848, according to witnesses best recollection and that said Agrippa Hull's body was buried in the grave yard at Stockbridge. And this deponent further says that he well knows Margarete Hull the widow of said Agrippa Hull. That they lived together the said Agrippa and Margarete as man and wife in said Stockbridge ever since the recollection of this Deponent until the time of the
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death of said Agrippa Hull. 
That said Margerete has not married since the death of said Agrippa Hull - but has been since the time of his death and still is the widow of said Agrippa Hull - 
Daniel R. Williams

Sworn & subscribed 
before me 
May 11, 1853
H.L. Dawes
Justice of the Peace

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Berkshire ss. I, Charles Sedgwick
of [illegible] Clerk of the Supreme Judicial Court being duly sworn depose & say - that I was well acquainted with Agrippa Hull of Stockbridge during his life time - That I had known him for many years - I knew  of his death the same occurred in1848. I believe that I have known said Agrippa Hull ever since my recollection - that I have known said Agrippa Hull as the husband of Margerete Hull & that said Agrippa & Margerete Hull lived together as man & wife from the time of their marriage [next parenthetical word in margin] (say) in 1813 untill the death of said Agrippa Hull. That said Margerete
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Hull now is & ever since the death of Agrippa has been the widow of said Agrippa Hull. 
Cha^s Sedgwick

Sworn & subscribed before}
me May 11, 1853}
H.L. Dawes Justice of the Peace 

Commonwealth of Massachusetts Berkshire ss. I, Charles Sedgwick Clerk of the Supreme Judicial Court of the Commonwealth for the County of Berkshire, do Certify that Henry L. Dawes Esq before whom the foregoing Deposition of Jonathan E. Field Daniel R. Williams & Charles Sedgwick were taken was at the time of taking the same a Justice of the Peace in afor said County duly commissioned & qualified. and that the signatures of the said Mr Henry L. Dawes are genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand & affixed the Seal of said Court this eleventh day of May 1853. 
Cha^s Sedgwick Clk

[seal patch on left side with ribbon beneath]
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23.572
Margarett Hull

Send Warrant to 
J.E. Field
Stockbridge
[underlined] Mass.
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts 
Berkshire ss.

On this twenty third day of March AD one thousand eight hundred & fifty five personally appeared before me a Justice of the Peace within and for the county and State aforesaid Margaret Hull aged seventy two years a resident of Stockbridge in the State of Massachusetts who being duly sworn according to law declared that she is the widow of Agrippa Hull deceased who was a private in the second Massachusetts regiment - Commanded by Jacob Townheir the company she is unable to give that he served in the Revolutionary War the term of six years & two months that he was regularly discharged on the twenty fourth day of July seventeen hundred and eighty three That he was a pensioner of the United States - She further stated that she had a pension certificate as the widow of said Agrippa Hull bearing date the seventeenth day of August eighteen hundred & fifty three to the papers on file in the Pension Office at Washington he begs leave to refer as furnishing evidence of her husbands decease and of her marriage - she further  states that she was married to the said Agrippa Hull in Stockbridge on the fifth day of February A.D. eighteen hundred and thirteen by one Ephraim Swift a Clergyman and that her name before her said Marriage was Margaret Tenbrooks. That her husband died at Stockbridge on the twenty first day of May AD eighteen hundred & fifty eight - 
She further declares that she has never
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heretofore made any application for Bounty land under any act of Congress nor has she ever received any Bounty land. That her husband the said Agrippa received a Warrant for one hundred acres of land which was issued in seventeen hundred and eighty nine which Warrant was by him legally disposed of and it cannot now be returned she makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the Bountyland to which she may be entitled under the act approved March 5 1855.
her [above the below X]
Margarete X Hull
mark [below the above X}

Mr Charles M. Owen and Daniel B Fenn Jr residents of Stockbridge in the State of Massachusetts upon our oaths declare that the foregoing declaration was signed and acknowledged by Margaret Hull in our presence and that we believe from the appearance and statement of the Applicant that she is the identical person she represents herself to be- We knew the said Agrippa in his life time and knew the said Margaret as his wife. We have been well acquainted with her and have known her ever since as his widow which she now is
C.M. Owen
D.B. Fenn Jr

The foregoing declaration & affidavit here sworn to & subscribed before me on the day & year above written. and I certify that I know the affiants to be credible persons - that the claimant is the person
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[hand written at the top of the following printed form]
she represents herself to be & that I have no interest in their claim
J.E. Field
Justice of the Peace.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
-------
Berkshire, ss.
I, CHARLES SEDGWICK, Clerk of the Judicial Court of the Commonwealth for the County of Berkshire, do certify that J.E. Field
Esquire, whose signature is affixed to the certificate on the paper hereto annexed, was, at the date thereof, one of the Justices of the Peace within and for said County, duly commissioned and acting under the authority of this Commonwealth
and that full faith and cadit are and ought to be given to his acts and attestations done in that capacity, and that I am acquainted with the hand-writing of the said J.E. Field and believe his signature to said certificate is genuine. 
[seal affixed to left side overlying fancy ribbon]
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of the Court of Common Pleas for said Commonwealth, this twenty-fourth day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty five -
Charles Sedgwick Clerk.
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THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES 
Form VAM-51
12-5-41
BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
Division of Veterans' Administration Archives

NAME: Hull, Agrippa GRADE: Private LINE: Massachusetts


WARRANT NUMBER: 4326 Acreage: 100 Issued: July 1, 1789
Nt. 32-60-55                                                to____not shown_____

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*The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subse-quent dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of 
November 9, 1800. Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in the National Archives.
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No of orig Pay 106    4
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIMS.
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TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
5 July 1828
Agrippa Hull of Stockbridge in the County of Berkshire in the State of Massachusetts has applied to the Secretary of the Treasury for the benefits of the act, entitled "An Act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the Revolution," approved the 15th of May, 1828. He states that he enlisted in the Continental line of the army of the Revolution, for and during the war, and continued until its termination, at which period he was a Private in captain John Chadwick's company, in the [inserted number] 2 regiment of the Massachusetts line; and that he received a certificate for the reward of eighty dollars, provided by the resolve of the 15th of May, 1778; and further, that he was not on the 15th day of May, 1828, on the pension list of the United States, and that he has received as a pensioner since the 3d of March 1826, Nothing.

The Third Auditor is requested to report how far the several statements are corroborated by the records in his office. 

By order of the Secretary,
A. Dickins.

TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
THIRD AUDITOR'S OFFICE,
July 7 1828
It appears by the records in this office, that a certificate for the reward of eighty dollars has been issued to Agrippa Hull in the Mass^s Line. It further appears that Agrippa Hull is [inserted next word] not now on the pension list of any  agency, and has [next word inserted] not been so since the 3d March 1826.
Peter Hagner Aud
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Agrippa Hull - private in Capt. Chadwick's Compy. 
Col. Saml. Bremer, Regt.
2nd Regt. Mass. Line
Pension Applicant
June 1828.-

Act 1828
Settled at
Treasury
Cons^d with
[illegible]
File #760.
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I Agrippa Hull of Stockbridge in the county of Berkshire in the State of Massachusetts do hereby declare that I enlisted in the Continental line of the Army of the Revolution for + during the war + continued in its service until the termination at which period I was a private in Capt. John Chadwick's Company in the second Massachusetts Regiment of the Massachusetts line. And I also declare that I afterward received certificates for the reward of Eighty Dollars to which I was entitled under a resolve of Congress passed the  15th day of May 1778.

And I further declare that I was not on the 15th day of May AD 1828 on the pension list of the United States.

Witness my hand this twelfth day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred + twenty eight
Agrippa Hull

Before me Charles Sedgwick a Justice of the Peace duly impowered to administer oaths in the County of Berkshire + State of Massachusetts personally appeared this Day Joseph Tucker Esq. + Daniel Williams Esq. of Lenox in said County respectable persons to me well known who did severally make oath that Agrippa Hull by whom the foregoing declaration was subscribed is generally reputed + believed to have been a soldier in the army of the Revolution in manner as therein stated.

Witness my hand this 12th day of June  AD one thousand eight hundred + twenty eight
Chas. Sedgwick J. Peace

I Charles Sedgwick Clerk of the Supreme Judicial Court of the Commonwealth of massachusetts within for the County of Berkshire do certify that the said Sedgwick before whom the said Joseph Tucker + Danl. Williams Esqs. were sworn was at the time a Justice of the Peace within + for said County + duly empowered to administer oaths.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand + affixed the seal of said Court this 12th day of June AD 1828.
Chas. Sedgwick Clk
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Sir   I perceive by an advertiseme^t of yours in Niles Register that the Pensioners of the U.S. claiming under the Law of 1828 can (if allowed) have their money transmitted to them at the place of their residence. I am reluctant to impose any unnecessary burden upon your department, but am induced by the wish to serve one of the most respectable survivors of the Rev.y Army, a colored man to avail myself of the privilege there offered + to request that his money may be transmitted to him at Stockbridge by mail (an order if convenient on some Bank in Boston or N. York) -- I enclose his discharge + take the liberty to request that it may be returned - and also to mention as an interesting fact in regard to this man that I have obtained his permission to send it with great difficulty. he declaring that he had rather forego the pension than lose the discharge.
Lenox June 1., 1828.
I am Sir, with great respect
Yr Obt Sevt
Cha^s. Sedgwick

Hon Mr Rush.-


Hon. Mr Rush: If it is agreeable to the rules of your department I should esteem it a favr. if the amt. of my pension (provided it be obtained ) could be remitted to me now + hereafter as it may fall due at Stockbridge thro the P. office + by means of a draft on Boston or N York --
Lenox --
Jun. 12. 1828

I have the honor to be with great respect yr Obt Sevt
Agrippa Hull
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Berkshire County do.---
     Ralph Deming of Stockbridge, aged sixty seven years being duly sworn upon his oath saith that in his life time he well knew Agrippa Hull of Stockbridge a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States. That he was with said Agrippa Hull during his last sickness That said Agrippa Hull died at Stockbridge, Massachusetts on the 31st day of May A.D. 1848.  That he saw the body of said Agrippa Hull after his death + was present at the funeral. That the body of said Agrippa was buried at Stockbridge on the day but one following his death. Said Deponent further saith that he well knew Margarett Hull the widow of said Agrippa Hull. That he has known said Margarett + Agrippa for forty years.  That they lived together as man + wife from the time of their marriage untill the death paid Agrippa a period of about thirty five years. That said Margarett Hull now is + since the death of said Agrippa Hull has been Agrippa Hull has been the widow of said Agrippa Hull.

Ralph Deming
Subscribed + sworn to before me this 11 day of May 1853. J.E. Field  Justice of the Peace
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts Berkshire Co.
     I Charles Sedgwick Clerk of the Supreme Judicial Court of the Commonwealth for the County of Berkshire do certify that Jonathan E. Field Esq before whom the foregoing Deposition of Rallph Deming was taken was [  ] time of taking the Same a Justice of the Peace in forsaid County duly commissioned + qualified, and that the Signature of said J.E. Field is genuine.

In testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court this twelfth day of May 1853.
Chas. Sedgwick Clerk

[sideways] Send the 
certificate to 
J.E. Field 
Stockbridge 
[underlined] Mass
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Received of James L. Edward the Discharge of Agrippa Hull, upon which a pension has been granted--Said Discharged signed by Geo. Washington + dated in June 1783 --

C. Vandewinter [?]
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Pension Office
Aug 10/53

Sir,
     Please certify the time to which within pensioner was last paid or (if in your power) the date of his Death

Very respectfully
Your Ob't Sv't
S. Cole
For the Commis.n

Hon F Burt
Present

(see other side)

Agrippa Hull, act 1818. $8 p. month. Paid to 11th March 1820, then dropped from the Roll.
F. Burt
Auditor
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Pension Office,
Aug 13 1853

Sir
     The within named Pensioner appears to have been also pensioned under the Act of 15th May 1828    Please certify the date of his death

Very respectfully
Your Ob't Serv't
S. Cole
For the Commission

F Burt Esq
Present

(see other side)

Agrippa Hull Act 15th May 1828, $80 p. an. -- Died 21st May 1848. Paid to his death. -- The papers in this case is not with the application for information under this act, else, you would have been promptly answered.

F. Burt
Auditor
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Stockbridge Aug 4 1853
My Dear Sir,
I enclose you 2 add'l affts. in the case of Mrs. Margarett Hull    I can furnish any amount guidance you desire.
     If this is sufficient please send me Pensioner Certificates -- the widow needs it -
     I sent some 6 or 8 months an application for a land warrant for Elisha or Elijah Cumming. Beyond the acknowledgments I have not heard from it --
     I am truly Yr M H Svt
JE Field
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Hull
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Brief in the case of Margaret Hull, widow of Agrippa Hull, Berkshire County and State of Massachusetts
act 3d February 1853

Claim, ("original," [or "for increase.") crossed out]

Proof exhibited, (if original,)
Is it documentary, traditionary, or supported by rolls? If either, state the substance.
Husband was a pensioner under the Act of May 15, 1828--
Marriage proved by duly certified copy of Town Records

(If for increase.) Has additional evidence been filed since the admission of the claim? If so, what? [area blank]

J.E. Field, Esqr
Stockbridge,
Name and residence of Agent    Mass

R. Geddes
Examining Clerk.
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P[illegible]act 53. Map:

[illegible]
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1631

Margaret Hull, widow of
Agrippa Hull
Let. JE Field July 3 of 53
(? )
Massa.

Revy
Act 3d Feb 1853
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Appl of Margaret 
Hull widow of 
Agrippa
Berkshire Co.
 Mass.
Act 3d Feby. 1853

Revy
(bond $80 per Annum 
Commencing 3 Feb 1853
(see papers No 10h act '28)
J.E. Field
Stockbridge
Mass.
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32

60 acres
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[diagonal at top] Revy.

WIDOW, &c.
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File No. 760
Margaret Hull, 
Widow
Agrippa Hull
Priv. Rev. War
Act: Feb 3, 1853.
Index -  Vol. A, Page 354

[Arrangement of 1870.]
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Discharge in favor of Agrippa Hull
dated 24 July 1783.
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Free

Commissioner of Pensions
Washington, D.C.

[sideways in left margin] 23.572
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
County of Berkshire   Ralph Deming of Stockbridge in said County being duly sworn upon his oath, saith - that he now resides + has resided in said Stockbridge for the past fifty eight years. That during all that period to the time of his death he well knew Agrippa Hull late of Stockbridge deceased a Revolutionary Pensioner -  that he who with said Agrippa Hull during his last sickness - + was at his funeral + saw his body buried - that he well knows Margarete Hull the widow of said Agrippa Hull -  that he has known her well for the past forty five years - That said Margarete Hull is the widow of said Agrippa Hull - that she is the same individual who under the name of Margarete Timbrook was married to Agrippa Hull in February 1813 - That he knew the said Margarete Timbrook before her marriage + has ever since known her - and Margaret Timbrook who was married by the Rev. Mr. Swift to Agrippa Hull in 1813 is the same individual who faithfully discharged all the duties of a wife of Agrippa Hull from the [continued on page 3 above]
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[Pages 3 and 4 have been switched. This is a continuation from page 4]

time of said marriage untill the death of said Agrippa Hull, + is the same individual who has since his death remained his widow - and is the same individual who is now making application for a Pension is the widow of said Agrippa Hull as Margarete Hull - Ralph Deming

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
County of Berkshire. Be it known that on this 4th day of August A.D. 1853 personally appeared before me the undersigned  Notary Public Ralph Deming who made solemn oath that the foregoing deposition by him subscribed is true. And I do certify that I well know said Ralph Deming -  that he now so far a long period past has resided in Stockbridge in said county -  that he is in all respects a credible + reliable witness
     In witness whereof I have hereto set my hand + official seal this day + year a true witness - 
Jona. E. Field
Notary Public
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Berkshire ss. - Seth Seymour of Stockbridge in said County being duly sworn saith, that he has resided in said Stockbridge for the past fifty one years - that he well knew during that period Agrippa Hull + the time of the death of said Hull, that said Agrippa Hull was the husband of Margarete Hull - that he has known them as man + wife from the period of the marriage of said Margarete + Agrippa in February 1813 to the time of the death of said Agrippa - - that Margarete Hull was an Applicant for a Pension as the widow of Agrippa Hull  is the identical person who under the name of Margarete Timbrook was in February 1813 by the Rev - Ephraim Swift married to Agrippa Hull - She is the same person who faithfully survived the said Agrippa Hull from the time of the said marriage to the deed paid agreeably as his wife, - and is the same individual who under the name of Margarete Hull is now making application for a Pension as the widow of Agrippa Hull
Seth Seymour
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
County of Berkshire
Be it known that this 4th day of August A.D. 1853 personally appeared before me the undersigned Notary Public - Seth Seymour who made solemn oath that the foregoing deposition by him, subscribed is his. And I do further certify that I well know said Seth Seymour that he now over + for a long period past has resided in Stockbridge in said County, and that he is in all respects an accurate + reliable witness.
     In witness whereof I have hereto set my hand + official seal at Stockbridge this day + year above written.

Jona. E Field
Notary Public