Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 1291, Abijah Hubbell, New York
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(3-1776)

SERVICE
New York

Hubbell, Abijah
Betsey

NUMBER
W.1291
B.L.W.26300-160-55

CONTENTS
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Ohio / 19.777

Abijah Hubbell
of Meigs Co. in the State of Ohio
who was a Private in the Group comman
by Captain Reed of the Regt. comman
by Col. ___ in the Mass.
line for 7 1/2 mos.

Inscribed on the Roll of Ohio 
at the rate of 25 Dollars -- Cents per annum
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831

Certificate of Pension issued on the 17 day of Sep.
1833 and sent to M. Bosworth
Chester

Arrears to the 4th of Sep. '14 $62"50
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 M. '14 12"50
$75"00

Revolutionary Claim, 
Act Jun 7, 1832

Recorded by Go. C Stiles clerk
Book E. Vol. 8. Page 10.

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Order to pay - 22 Nov. 1837.
Letter to D. Barber 83"00 Auditor

Paid at the Treasury under the 
Act of the 6th April 1838 from
4 Sep 1837 to 4 March 1840. Act
Modified 16 June 1841.

Paid as above from 4 March to 4 Sep 1840. - Agt. notified 9.
July 1841

Letters to 3 a auditor of M. Pome-
roy Esq D Pomeroy Ohio. Septr
24th 1842

Dead

Paid at above from 4th March 
1841 to the 18th July 1841. Agt.
notified Oct
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80345 / Act Mar 3/55
April 18/55
Betsey Hubbell wife of
Abijah Hubbell
Ror'

Betsey wed Abijah Hubbells
Pro'l

No 26300 's Meig 22/56 [running diagonally up to top right of page]

Rev. Pensioner
Ohio Feby 53 -2873

W: [illegible] 56
[illegible]

Rdl [vertically]

R. Downing
Middleport
Ohio
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1854 Oct. 11
Duplicate pension
Certificate issued & sent to
M. Bosworth Pomeroy, O,
18[illegible] Aug. 16 order to pay.

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2873
Ohio. Cincinnati
Bersey Hubbell.
widow of Abijah Hubbell
who served in the Revolutionary
war, as a private
Mass. Line
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 
25 Dollars 00
Cents per annum, to commence on
the 3d February, 1853

Certificate of Pension issued the
12th day of November 1853
and sent to
M. Bosworth
Pomeroy.
Meigs Co.
Ohio.

Records on Roll of Pensions under act
February 3, 1853, Page 163. Vol. a
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No24935
Abijah Hubbell
MeigsCo.
Ohio

Return i mo [crossed out]

Adm. 7. months
& 15 days.

1351
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50
1250
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Marcus Bosworth.
Chester
Meigs Co.
Ohio
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WAR DEPARTMENT,
Pension Office,
27th May - 1833

Sir:
The evidence in support of your claim, under the act of June 7, 1832, has
been examined, and the papers are herewith returned. The following is a 'statement of
your case in a tabular form. On comparing these papers with the following rules, and
the subjoined notes, you will readily perceive that objections exist, which must be removed,
before a pension can be allowed. The notes and the regulations will show what is 
necessary to be done. These points to which your attention is more particularly directed,
you will find marked in the margin with a brace, (thus: }). You will, when
you return your papers to this Department, send this printed letter with them; and
you will, by complaining with this request, greatly facilitate the investigation of your
claim.

A Statement, showing the Service of Abijah Hubbell Meigs Co Ohio

Period when the service was rendered.
[illegible]
1777
R until
20th Oct 
the balance
of [illegible] 77

Duration of the 
claimant's service.

Years.
-
-

Months.
3
4

Days.
[blank next to 3 in months column]
15
Making service
on all 7 mo & 15 days

Rank of the claimant.

Names and rank of the Field of-
ficers under whom he served.
Capt Reed
Genrl Tinbrooke
Genrl Schuyler

Age at present, 
and place of abode
when he entered
the service.
70 years
Allegha-
ny Co
[illegible]

Proof by which the declaration is supported.
Traditional evidence only

I am, respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
J.L. EDWARDS,
Commissioner of Pensions.
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REGULATIONS UNDER THE ACT OF JUNE 7, 1832

The following regulations have been adopted:
This law has been construed to extend, as well to the line, as to every branch of the Staff of the Army,
and to include under the terms "Continental Line," "State troops," "militia," and "volunteers," all
persons enlisted, drafted, or who volunteered and who were bound to military service, but not those who-
were occasionally employed with the army upon civil contracts, such as Clerks to Commissaries and to-
Store Keepers, &c., Teamsters, Boatmen, & c. Persons who served on board of private armed vessels are-
also excluded from the benefits of the law, as well as persons who turned out as patrols, or were engaged
in guarding particular places at night, and were not recognized as being actual military service.
Four general classes of cases are embraced in this law:
1. The Regular Troops.
2. The State Troops, Militia, and Volunteers.
3. Persons employed in the Naval Service.
4. Indian Spies.
As rolls of the regular troops in the Revolutionary War exist in this Department, all persons claim-
ing the benefit of this law as officers, non-commissioned officers, mucicians or privates, will, in the first
instance, make application by transmitting the following declaration, which will be made before a Court of
Record of the County where such applicant resides. And every Court having by law a seal and Clerk is 
considred a Court of Record.

DECLARATION,
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th of June, 1832.
State, Territory, or District of } ss. [caption of declaration]
County of }
On this __ day of __ personally appeared(s) before ___
A. B. a resident (b) of __ in the county of __ and State, Territory or District 
of __ aged (c) __ 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 the act of Congress, passed
June 7th, 1832. That he enlisted in the Army of the United States in the year (d) __, with __ and
served in the __ (e) regiment of the __ line, under the following named officers:
[Here set forth the names and rank of the Field and Company officers;: the time he left the service; (and if he serv-
ed under more than one term of enlistment, he must specify the particular period, and rank and names of his officers;) the
town or county and State in which he resided when he entered the service ; the battles, if any, in which he was engaged,.
and the country through which he marched. [manicule] This form is to be varied so as to apply to the cases of officers and per-
sons who belonged to the militia, volunteers, navy, &c.] [outer brackets in original]

He hereby relinquishes every claim (f) whatever to a pension or an annuity, except the present, and he
declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any Agency in any State, or (if any) only on that of
the Agency oin the State of __.
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.  A. B.
[And then will follow the certificate of the Court.] [brackets in original]
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion (g) that the above named applicant was a revolu-
tionary soldier, and served as he states.
I __ of the Court of __
do hereby certify (h) that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of
the application of __ for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office (i) this __
__ day of __ &c.

If, on examination fo the proper record, the names of applicants, making such declaration, cannot be
found, the will produce such proof as the rule given in note (j) points out.
Every applicant who claims a pension by virtue of service in the State Troops, Volunteers or Militia,
except those who belonged to the New Hampshire Militia and State Troops of Virginia, will make and
subscribe a declaration similar to the foregoing, with the following additions, viz:
(k) We, A. B., a Clergyman, residing in the __ and C. D. residing in (the same)
hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with __, who has
subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be __
years of age; that he is reputed and believed, in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier
of the Revoluntion, and that we concur i

n that opinion.
Sworn and subscribed the days and year aforesaid.
[And then will follow the certificate of the Court.] [brackets in original]
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after
putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a Revo-
lutionary Soldier, and served as he states. And the Court further certifies, that it appears to them that A. B.
who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman, resident in the __
and that C. D., who has also signed the same is a resident in the __
and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
I, __ Clerk of the Court of __ do hereby certify that the foregoing
contains the original proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the application of __
for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal
of office this __day of __ &c.

Every applicant will produce the best proof in his power. This is the original discharge or commis- [this line appears to have hand written marks at each end]
sion; but if neither of these can be obtained, the party will so state under oath, and will then procure, if
possible, the testimony of at least one credible witness, stating in detail his personal knowledge of the ser-
vices of the applicant, and such circumstances connected therewith, as may have a tendency to throw light
upon the transaction.
If such surviving witness cannot be found, the applicant will so state in his declaration,(l) and he will
also, whether he produce such evidence or not, proceed to relate all the material facts, which can be useful
in the investigation of his claim, and in the comparison of his narrative with the events of the period of his-
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alleged service, as they are known at the Department. A very full account of the services of each person
will be indispensable to a favorable action upon his case. The facts stated will afford one of the principal
means of corroborating the declaration of the applicant, if true, or of detecting the imposition, if one be at-
tempted ; and unless, therefore, these are amply and clearly set forth, no favorable decision can be expected. All applicants will appear before some Court of Record in the County in which they reside, and
there subscribe and be sworn to, one of the declarations above provided, according to the nature of his case.
The Court will propound the following (m) interrogatories to all applicants for a pension, on account of 
service in the Militia, State troops, or Volunteers, except the Militia of New Hampshire and the State
troops of Virginia.
1. Where and in what year were you born?
2. Have you any record of your age, and if so, where is it?
3. Where were you living when called into service; where have you lived since the Revolutionary
war, and where do you now live?
4.  How were you called into service; were you drafted, did you volunteer, or were you a substitute?
And if a substitute, for whom?
5. State the names of some of the Regular Officers, who were with the troops, where you served; such Continental and Militia Regiments as you can recollect, and the general circumstances of your services.
6. {To a Soldier. {Did you ever receive a discharge from the service, and if so, by whom was it giv-
{en, and what has become of it?
{To an Officer. {Did you ever receive a commission, and if so, by whom was it signed, and what
{has come of it?
7. State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood, and who can tes-
tify as to your character for veracity, and their belief of your services as a soldier of the Revolution.
The Court will see that the answers to these questions are embodied in the declaration, and they are
requested to annex their opinions of the truth of the statement of the applicant.
The applicant will further produce in Court, if the same can be done, in the opinion of the Court,
without too much expense and inconvenience to him, two respectable persons--one of whom should be
the nearest clergyman, if one lives in the immediate vicinity of such applicant, who can testify, from
their acquaintance with him, that they believe he is of the age he represents, and that he is reputed
and believed tin the neighborhood to have been a Revolutionary soldier, and they they concur in that opinion.
If one of these persons is a Clergyman, the Court will so certify, and they will also certify to the character
and standing of other persons giving such certificates.
The traditionary evidence of service is deemed very important, in the absence of any direct
proof, except the declaration of the party. And the Courts are requested to be very particular in the 
enquiry whether the belief is general, and whether any doubts have ever existed upon the subject.
Applicants unable to appear in Court, by reason of bodily infirmity, may make the declaration before
required, and submit to the examination, before a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record of the proper
county, and the Judge or Justice will execute the duties, which the Court is herein requested to perform,
and will also certify that the applicant cannot, from bodily infirmity, attend the Court.
Whenever any official act is required to be done by a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record,
or by a Justice of the Peace, the certificate of the Secretary of State or Territory, or of the proper
Clerk of the Court or County, under his seal of office, will be annexed, stating that such person is a
Judge or Justice of a Court of Record, or a Justice of the Peace, and that the signature annexed is
his genuine signature.
No payments can be made on account of the services of any person, who may have died before
the taking effect of the act of June 7, 1832; and in case of death subsequent thereto, and before the
declaration herein required is made, the parties interested will transmit such evidence as they can pro-
cure, taken and authenticated before a Court of Record, showing the services of the deceased, the period of his death, the opinion of the neighborhood respecting such services, the title of the claimant, and the
opinion of the Court upon the whole matter.

[footnotes]
[a] The declarant must appear in open Court, unless prevented from doing so by reason of bodily infirmity ; in which case the declarant will fol-
low the rule laid down for his guidance.
[b] The declarant must make his declaration in the county where he resides. If he should fail to do so, he must assign a sufficient reason for not
conforming to the rule.
[c] The age of the claimant must invariably be mentioned.
[d] The declarant must mention the period or periods of the war when he served.
[e] Every continental officer or soldier must give the name of the Colonel under whom he served; otherwise a satisfactory examination of the 
claim cannot be had. Every claimant must state, 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. 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
recollective, he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades:-For___year__months, and __
days, I served as a __. For __ months and __ days, I served as a __; and for such service I claim a pension."
It is important, in all cases, to determine with precision the period for which each 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,
is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable. Some persons who apply for pensions merely state that they served two years
in the militia, &c. without specifying the tours, the names of the officers, and other particulars respecting their service. This form of a declaration is
highly objectionable. It must, in every case, be clearly shown undr what officers the  applicant served ; the duration of each term of engagement ;
the particular place or places where the service was performed; that the applicant served with an embodied corps called into service by a competent au-
thority; that he was either in the field or in garrison ; and for the time during which the service was performed, he was not employed in any civil
pursuit.
[f] The law makes the relinquishment indispensable.
[g] The opinion of the Court is always required.
[h] The Clerk must give his certificate in every case.
[i] The Clerk must affix his seal, and if it has no device or inscription by which it can be 
The seal of office, the certificate of a Member of Congress, proving the official character
papers.
Mode of authenticating papers. [this section is bracketed by handwritten marks]
In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticates the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which con-
tains the affidavit, or other papers authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the ends [handwritten underline] 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.
Proof of Service.
[j] 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 claimant's entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well
as the regiment, company, and line to which he belonged. The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the wit-
nesses, and the official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office.
[manicule] The notes from [a] to [i] are all equally applicable to the cases of Militia men, Volunteers and State Troops. The proof required by rule in
note [j] applies to continental troops only.
[k] This traditionary evidence is indispensable in militia cases.
[l] If a witness cannot be found, the declarant must state the fact.
[m] The answers to the Interrogatories must all be written, and sent to the War Department, with the declaration. [this footnote [m] is bracketed by handwritten marks] 5&7 [handwritten]

John N. Ashton [signature]
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State of Ohio }
County of Meigs }

On this 29 day of March AD 1853
Personally appeared before me a Justice of the Peace within and for the
County and State aforesaid. Betsy Hubbell aged 80 years
a resident of Rutland Meigs County Ohio, who being duly sworn
according to  law declares that she is the widow of Abijah
Hubbell deceased, who was a Pensioner of the United States, for
Military Service in the Revolutionary war, that she is in receipt 
of a pension of 25 dollars per Annum as the widow of the said
Abijah Hubbell, under Act of[struck out] of the 3rd of February 1853, that
her pension Certificate bears date 12th November 1853 which Certificate
was lost by her Agent M. Bosworth and another one obtained
in lieu thereof bearing date 11th Oct 1854.
She makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the Bounty-
Land to which she may be entitled under act of March 3d 1855
granting Bounty Land to widows of officers & soldiers who served in the Revolutionary war.
She makes reference to the proof on file now in the Pension Office
furnished when she made application for a Pension as evidence of
her marriage to the Said Abijah Hubbell and of his death
which was in July 1841 in Rutland Meigs County Ohio
She further declares She is now a widow that she was married 
to the Said Abijah Hubbell in Rutland about the year 1811
Attest x
V C Smith [signature] xBetsey Hubbell [signature]
E Jones [signature]

The Verger C Smith and Eliza Smith residents of 
Rutland Meigs County Ohio upon our oaths declare that the foregoing
declaration was signed and acknowledged by Betsey Hubbell in our
presence, that we are personally acquainted with her, and know that she
is the identical person she represents herself to be, and that she 
is now a widow.
x V C Smith [signature]
x Eliza Smiht [signature, sic]
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The foregoing declaration and affidavit were sworn
to and subscribed before me on the day and year above
written and I certify that I know the affiants to be credible 
persons that the claimant is the person she represents herself 
to be and that I have no interest in this claim.
E Jones [signature] J.oP.
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State of Ohio } I Rodney Downing Clerk of the Court of Common
County of Meigs} Pleas in aforesaid County, certify that Elijah Jones
Esq. before whom the foregoing Declaration and 
Affidavit were taken, and who has thereunto subscribed his
name, was at the time of so doing, an Acting Justice of the
Peace in & for the County aforesaid, duly commissioned & qualified
that confidence is & ought to be given to his official acts as
such and that his signature above written is genuine.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto
set my hand and affixed the
Seal of Said Court at Pomeroy
this 9th day of April, one thousand eight hundred and fifty five.
Rodney Downing Clerk [signature]
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Abijah Hubbell and Betsey Case
I hereby certify that on the 18th day of October 1810, Abijah
Hubbell, and Elizabeth Case, were by virtue of a License lawf=
=ully joined in the Holy Bonds of Matrimony by me.
Eli Stedman, Preacher of the Gospel.

The State of Ohio, Gallia Couty, ss:
I, Samuel B. Rathburn, Judge of the Probate Court, within
and for the county aforesaid, do hereby certify, that the above
is a true and correct copy of the record of the Marriage of
Abijah Hubbell and Elizabeth Case, as recorded in Book
B, page 28, of the record of Marriages in said county of Gallia.
[paper with raised seal affixed] In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my 
name, and affixed the seal of said court, at
Gallipolis, this 28th day of June in the year A.D.
1853. Samuel B. Rathburn. [signature]
Probate Judge G.C.
Fees 50 cts
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Page 1st
The State of Ohio}
Meigs County ss}
On this thirtieth day of
April AD1833 personally appeared before
the Court of Common Pleas now sitting
Abijah Hubbell a resident of Rutland Meigs
County- State of Ohio aged 70 years who being first duly sworn according to law doth
on his oath make the the [sic] following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832 That he entered the service of the United States under the following named Officers, served as herein stated ^sometime in March 1777 he believes about the 1st of March his Father Jabez Hubbell was drafted
3) at Ballstown (then) Albany Co. N York (the place of our [their struck out] residence at that time) to serve a tour of three months. It being inconvenient for him to leave home he endeavored, but in vain, to procure a  substitute, this deponent offered to go 
4) provided he would be accepted it being doubtful on act. of his age but being
{large & pretty stout for that age was accepted
{& joined the Company commanded by Capt 
5) Weed & Lieu’ Thornton he marched first
{to Fort’s Plank on the Mohawk River about
20 miles below this Fort some time in May
following (1777). We had an engagement
with a party of the enemy but owing to
a party of men under Governor Clinton not
joining us (as it was said) the party to which
he belonged under Genl Tinbrook was near
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2d
[Numbers 4, 5 indicted on left of page]
being taken many were killed while crossing
the Mohawk River but he escaped & joined the main body that he continued at Fort Plank
& a Fort called Johnstown & one in a small village called Stone Robby (or Roby) [during struck out] alternately during the three months. the two latter Forts were about 8 miles from the river & about 4 apart. when my three months tour expired I with 5 or 6 others attempted to return when about halfway to the river from Stone Robby We were attacked by Indians & returned to the Fort. Most of the Company enlisted into the Continental service [but struck out] as, they could not return in safety but he staid [stayed] & served as a Volunteer he was nominally attached to the same Company after this period but until he joined the army under General Schuyler ^& Gates he was almost constantly engaged in scouting parties & as he was pretty successful was generally entrusted with the  command of small parties.
Sometime the early part of September this
deponent left Stone Robby & returned house to {Ballstown [Ballston] the enemy having left the vicinity
4) {where he had served. he stayed at house two days & joined Genl Gates army near Stillwater two days before the engagement I went as a volunteer at this time & joined no Company until I arrived on the field. I do not recollect the names of the Officers of my Company or Regt
5) I well recollect serving Genl Gates on the morning preceding the engagement or the [previous struck out] morn
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[Numbers run down left side of page continuing from prior page: 5, 1, 2,3,4 inserted into text at approximate location]
3d
morning previous to that encouraging the troops he rode near where I was. The engagement was principally on the left Wing of our Army where I understood Genl Arnold commanded I was on the right where I had nothing to do. I continued with the army until three or four days after Genl Burgoyne surrendered portions of the army were ^almost [end insertion] constantly engaged 
from the time I joined the army until the 
surrender of Burgoyne on the 16th of October
{I recollect seeing General Gates & Arnold & 
5  other officers whose names I do not distinctly recollect I recollect frequently seeing Genl Schuyler ^ but I don’t recollect his having any command after I joined that portion of the army  I have [no documentary eviden- struck out] I served between the 1st of March & the 20th October 1777, not less than 7 [1/2 struck out] months I have no documentary evidence & know of no person whose testimony I can procure who can testify to my 
1  service I was born 27th April 1763 at Bridgport [Bridgeport] Fairfield County Connecticut (Pooquonuck [Pequannock] parish). I have no record of my age but suppose it is recorded 
2b   on the Town Clerk’s books. I never recd. a written discharge. I removed from Ballstown 
3   Ballston] to Cooperstown Orsego County N York in the year 1785 or about that date from thence to Rutland Meigs County (then Washington Co) Ohio about 30 years since where I have ever since resided being one 
4  among the {oldest citizens I am known to most of the inhabitants I will however particularly refer to Mr John Miles & Mr Samuel Halliday These
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I relinquish every claim whatever to a pension or an annuity except
the present & declare that my name is not on the
Pension roll of the Agency of any State. The said De
ponent further states that there is no clergyman whose
attendance he could procure at the present term
of this Court who would be able to testify as to his 
services The one who would be most likely to have 
heard anything respecting their being absent from
house. Abijah Hubbell [signature]
Sworn to & subscribed the day % }
Year aforesaid}
M Bosworth Clk [signature]}

We John Miles & Samuel Halliday [name struck out] resident in Rut
land Meigs County & Samuel Halliday residing in
Chester Meigs County Ohio hereby certify that We
are well acquainted with Abijah Hubbell who 
has subscribed & sworn to the above declaration; that
We believe him to be seventy years of age; that he
is reputed & believed in the neighborhood where he re
sides to have been a Soldier of the Revolution & that We
concur in that opinion & this said John Miles in addit
ion to the above says that he has been acquainted 
with the said Abijah Hubbell 40 years
that he also has been acquainted with several who said they
were personally knowing to the sd Abijah’s serving in the
Army of the revolution
John Miles, [signature]
Sworn & subscribed the day & year  Samuel Halliday [signature]
Aforesaid M. Bosworth Clk. [signature]
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after
the investigation of 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 to them
that John Miles who has signed the preceding certificate
is a resident of Rutland & that Samuel Halliday who has
also signed the same is a resident of Chester Meigs Co. O. &
are credible persons & that their statement is entitled to
credit. & further [karat] the Court are satisfied [end insertion] that the said Abijah Hubbell could not
procure the attendance of a Clergyman at this term as he [illegible]
Attest M. Bosworth Clerk [signature]
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The State of Ohio}
Meigs County ss} On this 10th day of
May AD1853 Personally
Appeared before me Marcus Bosworth a Notary
Public in and for said County duly author
ized by law to administer oaths, Betsy Hubbell
a resident of Rutland Township, Meigs County
Ohio, aged 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 __ AD1853: That
she was married to Abijah Hubbell, who was
a Revoluntary Soldier and obtained a Pen
sion as such of twenty five dollars per an
num (she believes under the Act of June 7th 1832)
that she has no personal knowledge of her said
Husband’s service or of the names of the Officers
under whom he served. She further declares
that she was married to the said Abijah Hubbell
on the 18th day of October AD(1810) one
thousand eight hundred and ten
that her said Husband, the aforesaid Abijah
Hubbell died on the 18th day of July A.D.
1841 that she has since remained and still
remains a widow.
Betsey Hubbell [signature]
Sworn to and subscribed 
before me this 19th day of May AD 1853
[illegible stamped seal] In testimony whereof I hereunto
set my hand and affix my Notarial
seal at Pomeroy, the day and
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[verso of prior page]
year aforesaid
M Bosworth [signature] Notary Public
Meigs County Ohio
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Rev. and 1812
War Section. [illegible handwriting or signature]

February 3, 1925

Mrs. T. U. Troth
634 S. Lincoln
Casper, Wyo.

Madam:
I have to advise you from the papers in the
Revoluntary War pension claim, W. 1291, it ap-
pears that Abijah Hubbell was born April 27, 1763
at Bridgeport, Connecticut (Pooquonock Parish).
While residing at Ballston, Albany County,
New York, he served as a substitute for his father,
Jabez Hubbell, from March 1, 1777 as a private in
Captain Weed’s New York Company, he was in several
skirmishes and in scouting parties around Fort[struck out] forts
on the Mohawk River, was at the battle of Stillwater
and served until October 20, 1777.
He was allowed pension on his application exe-
April 30, 1833, while a resident of RUtland, Meigs
County, Ohio. He died there July 18, 1841.
Soldier married October 18, 1810 in Gallia
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County, Ohio, Betsey (Elizabeth) Case. She was
allowed pension on her application executed
May 18, 1853, while a resident of Rutland, Ohio,
aged seventy-seven years.
There is no further data on file as to family.
Respectfully,

WINFIELD SCOTT
Commissioner
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[outside of folded paper]
MIDDLEPORT
APR
13
OHIO [stamped in ink, appears to be postal stamp]

Free

80,345 [written sideways, may e after delivery]

L P Waldo
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington
DC

Hubbell.
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Ohio
Betsey Hubbell
Act 1853
Duplicate to
M [illegible]
[appears to be filing notes written across short end of envelop after delivery]

Free 

H [written vertically in center of envelope, perhaps for filing]

POMEROY
OCT 
4
OHIO 
[stamped, apparently by post office]

Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City
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[envelope with slit at short end] 
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Pension Office, Official Business 

[illegible writing at slit end]

Appl. of Betsey
Hubbell, widow
of Abijah Hubbell
Meigs Co.,
Ohio.

$25
19777
Act 3d Feby. 1853

Rev.
Allowed $25 per annum [line struck out]
Comm. Feb. 3 1853 [line struck out]

Allowed $25 per ann
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[torn paper or envelope]

in
26,300
[scribble]
Mos Amos [best guess at signature]
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No 2771

Mrs Betsey Hubbell
Widow of Abijah
Let to Claimant
Oct 3/58
Gray
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[on folded paper]

Pension Office
Sept 22/53

Sir
Please report time of
last payment to or death
of within named pension
Respectfull be
Frances Butler - S. Maluo [guess at signature of latter]
& Aud 
Recent Commission

Abijah Hubbell
Act 1832 $25.00 p. an.
Died 18th July 1841. Paid
to his death.

F. Burt[guess at signature
Auditor
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GIDSON, PRINTER

TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
SECOND COMPTROLLER’S OFFICE
Sept. 28th, 1842
Sir:
Under the act of the 6th of April 1838, entitled “An Act
directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners,
and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United
States,” and the 3d section of the Act of August 23, 1842, extending
the time within which pensioners may receive their pensions from the pen-
sion agents, The widow of Abijah Hubbell, dec.d.
a Pensioner on the Roll of the Cincinnati, Ohio.
Agency, at the rate of Twenty five Dollars
and __ Cents per annum under the law of the 7th June
1832, has been paid at this Depository [obscured by fold in paper]
4th of March 1841, to the 18th July 1841.
Respectfully yours,
Albion K. Parris [signature]
Comptroller.

To the COMMISSIONER OF PENSIONS,
Present.
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The State of Ohio }
Meigs County ss. } Personally appeared before
me Samuel S. Paine
a Justice of the Peace in and for said County
Marcus Bosworth who being duly sworn
deposeth and saith that about the middle
of March last he prepared the papers of
Mrs Betsey Hubbell widow of Abijah Hub
bell to draw her pension which on ac
count of some supposed defect was not
paid. That Mrs Hubbell left her Pension
certificate in deponent’s possession for
safe keeping concluding to have this
deponent prepare her papers to draw
her regular semianual payment, that
deponent is wholly unable to find said
Pension certificate although he has made
diligent search & supposes it to be lost
That said certificate was dated on the 12th
November 1853 with an allowance of
twenty five dollars per annum com
mencing on the 3d of February 1853 That
deponent moved to his present residence
last spring & supposes that this paper [struck out]
Pension certificate must have got
among some refuse papers which
were thrown aside & destroyed by his fam
ily as he can account for its loss in no
other way Further saith not
Sworn to & subscribed. M. Bosworth
before me this
day of September AD
1854
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 22d day of 
September AD. 1854
S. S. Paine N.P.
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The State of Ohio }
Meigs County ss } Personally appeared
Betsy Hubbell before me Seneca
Haight a Justice of the Peace in & for said
County. [struck out] Marcus Bosworth who being duly
sworn [/struck out] Betsey Hubbell who being duly 
sworn deposeth & saith that she left her
Pension certificate with Marcus Bosworth
to take care of [struck out] until [/struck out] for her as stated in
his affidavit that she knows nothing
further respecting it than is represented
by him in his affidavit & further saith
not
Sworn to & subscribed Betsey Hubbell [signature]
before me this 39th day
of September AD 1854
Seneca Haight J.P. [signature]

The State of Ohio }
Meigs County ss } I Marcus Bosworth
Clerk of the Court of
Common Please in and for said
County of Meigs do hereby certify
that Samuel S. Paine [struck out] Esq. [/struck out]
and Seneca Haight Esquires
before whom the foregoing affidavits were
made & who have subscribed their names
thereto (each to the affidavit made before him) were
at the time the affidavits were so made &
now are acting Justices of the in & for said
County duly commissioned & qualified & that
full faith & confidence are sought to be given
to their official acts as such. That the com
mission of Seneca Haight was dated on
the 24th day of April 1852 & will expire on
the 24th day of April 1853, that the Commission
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of Samuel Paine was dated on the 27th
day of April 1854 & will expire on the 27th 
day of April 1857 & that their respective
signatures are genuine In testimony
— whereof I hereunto set my hand
& affix the seal of said Court at Pomeroy
this 3d day of October AD 1854
M Bosworth Clerk p.t. [signature]
Meigs Com Pleas
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Abijah Hubbell
No24935
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The State of Ohio }
Meigs County ss }
I Marcus Bosworth Clerk of
the Court of Common Pleas for said County do
hereby certify that the foregoing contains the orig
inal proceedings of the said Court, in the mat
ter of the application of Abijah Hubbell for a 
pension. In testimony whereof I hereunto 
[raised seal and ribbons] set my hand & affix the seal of the 
Court of Common Pleas for said
County, at Chester this nineteenth
day of July AD 1833 & of our State the thirty first.
M. Bosworth Clerk [signature]

The State of Ohio }
Meigs County ss} Personally appeared before me
Abijah Hubbell who being duly
sworn makes the following amendment to his 
declaration, to wit, (in answer to quest. “1st White
& in what year were you born”), I was born at Bridge
Port Fairfield Co. Connecticut 27th April 1763 as
I answered on the 3d page of my declaration (Quest 2 Have
you any record of your age & c.) None but suppose it is recorded
in the Town Clerk’s books where I was born as I have set forth on 3d
page of my declaration (Quest 3d Where were you living when
called into service &c.), at Ballstown New York as set
forth on 1st page of my declaration, removed from thence
to Cooperstown Otsego Co. New York [struck out] as set for [/struck out] from thence
to Rutland Meigs Co Ohio where I now reside as is more
fully set forth on the 3d page of my declaration
(Quest 4th How were you called into service &c.) 1st as a 
substitute for my Father as stated on the 1st page 2d as
a volunteer as stated on 2d page
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Quest 5th State the names of some
of the regular Officers &c.) In addition
to those Officers I named when I 
made my declaration I recollect
Major Andrew Cannow, Colonel’s 
name not recollected. I probably do not recollect
the names of the Officers so well as I should if
I had done duty constantly in the ranks, I know
my Company Officers as a matter of course but
as I was the most of the time engaged as a scout
I had more intercourse with Genl Tinbrook than
with any other Officer always going out un
der his particular orders indeed I was so con
stantly employed as a scout that I was not
required to do camp duty or stand sentry. I went
to Genl Tinbrook’s quarters to receive orders & returned
there to give account of what I had seen & done
I also recollect seeing Col. Warner when on my last
tour near Still Water &c.
(6th Did you ever receive a discharge from the service
&c.) I never did.  (3d page
(Questn 7th State the names & c.) This I have already done
on 3d page (at bottom) & would most cheerfully do so
now fully if I supposed the department would
like to receive a more full list of names
Sworn to & subscribed before }
me this 20th day of July 1833 }
before me }
Benj. Stout (signature) Justice Peace of }
Rutland Township Meigs Co Ohio }
Elijah Hubbell [signature]
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The State of Ohio }
Meigs County ss } I Marcus Bosworth Clerk of the Court
of Common Pleas for said County do here
by certify that Benjamin Stout Esquire before whom the
foregoing amendment was made to the declaration 
of Abijah Hubbell is a Justice of the Peace in & for the said
County duly commissioned [fold obscures rest of line]
& credit are & ought to be given to his official acts as such
In testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand & affix
[wax seal] the seal of said Court at Chester this 26th
day of July AD 1833 & of our State the
31st M. Bosworth Clerk [signature]
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The State of Ohio
Meigs County
On this Second day of November AD 1853 Personally appeared before the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County of Meigs Betsey Hubbell a resident of Rutland Township in the County of Meigs + State of Ohio, aged 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 on the 3d February 1853 granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary war: that she is the widow of Abijah Hubbell who was a private in the revolutionary War. She is unable to state when her said husband entered or left the service the names rank of the officers under whom the service was performed or the place in which he resided when he entered the service. Her said husband Abijah Hubbell was a pensioner of the United States (she believes) under the law of 1832 at the rate of Twenty five dollars per annum. And she refers to testimony
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exhibited by her late husband Abijah Hubbell filed in the office of Commissioner of Pensions to enable him to procure a Pension- That her said Husband received his annual payment of pension at the Cincinnati agency. She further declares that she was married to the said Abijah Hubbell on the 18th day of October AD 1810, that her said Husband died on the 18th day of July AD 1841. That she was not married to the said Abijah Hubbell prior to the 2d day of January eighteen hundred but at the time above stated. That her said Husband died on the 18th day of July AD 1841 + that she is now a Widow.
Betsey Hubbell
Sworn + subscribed in open Court on the day + year above written In testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand + affix the seal. ofsaid Court at Pomeroy, this 2d day of November AD 1853
A Donnally Clerk
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The State of Ohio
Meigs County
Meigs Common Pleas
October Term AD 1841
Barsley Hubbell this day appeared in Court and made oath that Abijah Hubbell late a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States at the rate of $25 per annum died on the 18th day of July last that he resided in Meigs County that Betsy Hubbell now residing in Rutland Meigs County is the Widow of said Abijah Hubbell and with which testimony the Court is satisfied + order that the same be entered of record "
The State of Ohio
Meigs County
I certify the foregoing to be duly taken + copied from the records of said Court that the same was entered of record on the 27th day of October, to writ, at the October term AD 1844. In testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand + affix the seal of said Court this 2d day of November AD 1853
A Donnally Clerk
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Revy WIDOW, &c.
File No. 1291
Betsey Hubbell
Widow
Abijah Hubbell
Pension Rev. War.
Act. Feb. 3. 1853
Index: - Vol. A, Page 354
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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Casper, Wyoming, Dec. 30th, 1925
Box 795

Bureau of Pensions
Washington, D.C.

Gentlemen:
Will you kindly inform me if Abijah Hubbell, who died in Meigs County, Ohio, 1841, was a Revolutionary Pensioner, and if so, what data is given of himself and family. Will be most grateful for this information. I do not know where he served.

Very truly,
Eleanor F. Troth
Mrs. T.U. Troth
634 So. Lincoln.
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Brief in the case of Betsey Hubbell widow of Abijah
Meigs County and State of Ohio
act of February 3-1853-

Claim, ("original," or "for increase.")

Proof exhibited, (if original.)

Is it documentary, traditionary, or supported by rolls? If either, state the substance. 

Husband a private in Massachusetts line 7 1/2 mos. + pensioner of he U. States under act of June 7 1832 at $25 per annum

Allowed $25 per annum to commence Feb. 3- 1853

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

Marriage proved by public record
Death proved by credible witnesses
Identity & widowhood by credible witnesses

Name and residence of Agent
M. Bosworth
Pomeroy, Meigs Co. Ohio

Examining Clerk.
J.L. Gray
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Brief in the case of Betsey Hubbell widow of Abijah
County and State of Ohio
2d Sect act 3d February 1853

Claim, ("original," or "for increase.")
Proof exhibited, (if original.)
Is it documentary, traditionary, or supported by rolls? If either, state the substance. 

(If for increase.)
Has additional evidence been filed since the admission of the claim? If so, what?
Duplicate certificate- loss of the original proved by affidavit of the pensioner + her attorney

Name and residence of Agent
M. Bosworth
Pomeroy O.

R. McRae Examining Clerk.
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Middleport Meigs County
Ohio April 12th 1855

Sir
The Claim of Betsy Hubbell widow of Abijah Hubbell deceased for Bounty & and under act of March 3d 1855, who is the widow of a revolutionary soldier and in receipt of a pension is herewith presented. Not having any form for an application of this kind, this may not contain all the matter requisite but presume it may prove satisfying.
I am yours Respectfully,
R Downing
Agent for Claimant

L P Waldo
Comr of Pensions
Washington DC
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Treasury Department
Second Comptroller's Office
June 26th, 1841

Sir:
Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled "An act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States," Abijah Hubbell a Pensioner on the Roll of the Ohio Agency, at the rate of Twenty five Dollars per annum, under the law of the 7th June 1832, has been paid at this Department, from the 4th of March to the 4th Sept. 1840.
Respectfully yours,
Albion K. Parris
Comptroller.

To the Commissioner of Pensions,
Present.
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Mr Evans
Nov 21

[illegible]
J. L. Edwards Esq.
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington
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Franklin Bank of Cincinnati
15 Nov 1837

Sir,
The included pension voucher of Abijah Hubbell a pensioner under the act of 7th June 1832 is for your examination which if found correct you will please return to this Agency with an order for payment.
I am yours
very respectfully
John H. Groeslich P Agt.
By R.W. Lawrence

J. L. Edwards Esqr.
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington
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Treasury Department
Second Comptroller's Office
June 10th 1841
Sir:
nder the act of 6th of April, 1838, entitled "An act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorising the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States," Abijah Hubbell, a Pensioner on the Roll of the Ohio Agency, at the rate of Twenty Five Dollars per annum, under the law of the 7th June 1832, has been paid at this Department, from the 4th of Sept. 1837 to the 4th March 1840.
Respectfully yours,
Albion K Parris
Comptroller.
To the Commissioner of Pensions,
Present.
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Pomeroy Meigs Co. Ohio
Nov 3d AD 1853
Commissioner of Pensions
Sir, Enclosed you will find the Declaratio of Mrs Hubbell under the Act of 3d February 1853- that part of clause of the Act which gives the pension to those married after the year 1800. You seemed to suppose by your letter of Oct 3d that she intended in her former application a renewal of a former allowance of Pension. 
I thought it unnecessary to renew proof of the death of Abijah Hubbell as the proof had been made satsfactory to the Court soon after his death + is found certified. There is no difficulty in obtaining other proof but this must be sufficient. Mr. Hubbell's proof of service is on your files. The service was performed long before Mrs. Hubbell knew him + she merely refers to it. The Certificates of the Clerk +c are in my hand writing except his signatures. I was for more than 20 years the Clerk. The present Clerk has feeble health + I do his writing as a matter of convenience to him. You will find proof of marriage with
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former declaration (the one forwarded a few months since). I trust all will be satsfactory. You can forward to my case.
M Bosworth