Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 5,570, for William Hutchison, Delaware
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Del. Hutchison, William S.5,570
Penn.
Carded
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Dead
Paid at the Treasury under the
Act 6 April 1838 from
4 March to 1 Nov 1840
Agt notified 27 Jany 1845

30.847
Pennsylvania
William Hutchison
hereto in the State of Pennsylvania
who was a private in the comp’y commanded 
by Captain Evans  of the reg’t commanded
by Col. Montgomery in the [Pennsylvania]
line for 1 year

Fam Let.   Records of  May 5 ‘[04]

Inscribed on the Roll of Pennsylvania
at the rate of 40 Dollars Cents per annum
commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 26 day of Sept
1836 and sent to John W. Cunningham New London + [illegible]

Arrears to the 4th of Sept 1836  $ 220
Semi-ant. allowance ending 4 Mar ‘[31] 20
$240 [total]
Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7, 1832 

[illegible] by Wm WilsonClerk,
Vol 5 Page 27
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Treasury Department,
Second Comptroller's Office
May 6th, 1844

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 third section of the Act of August 23, 1842, extending the time within which pensioners may receive their pensions from the pension agents, The Adm of William Hutchison, died a pensioner on the Roll of the Philadelphia, PA Agency at the rate of Forty Dollars per annum under the law of the 4th June 1832, has been paid at this Department from the 4th of March to the 1st Nov. 1840.

Respectfully, your,
Albion H. Parris
Comptroller
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Sept 7  1836
Pension Office
pa
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New London X (illegible) pa
Sep 5                             }                  (illegible)
To the Hon Secretary or acting Secretary at War 
 War Department
Washington City
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New London Cross Roads   Chester Co Pa
Septem 5th 1836
Hon Sir
I enclose the narrative of William Hutchison a Revolutionary soldier - prepared agreeably to the instructions of the War Department under the act of June 7 1832 with the design and expectation of obtaining a pension
This applicant is a man who has seen better days and is now wretchedly poor - his sons are worthless and dissolute(.)  His daughters are all unfortunately married to men little better than his sons-
Of the truth of his narrative I have no doubt whatever and his necessities both for comfortable clothing the articles of life are very pressing particularly in view of the approaching season - Allow me therefore to recommend him to your special favour and to ask of you immediate action upon his case
I am sir your most obedient and very noble servant
John (illegible- maybe Cuningham)
To the Hon Secretary at War
or the Acting Secretary at War
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C. 656 [crossed out]
33876
Wm Hutchison
Pennsyl

allow for
one year
$40
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Declaration
In order to obtain the Benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7, 1832

Comm. of Pennsyl
Country of Chester } S.S.

On this 23rd day of August A.D. 1836 personally appeared before me Lesse Sharp Esquire one of the associate Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Chester in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. William Hutchison a resident of the Township of Upper Oxford in the County of Chester aforesaid aged seventy seven years who being first duly sworn according to law both on his oath making the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the act of Congress pass June 7th, 1832.

That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated:
First on the 20th day of October 1776 being not yet 18 years of age I joined a Volunteer Company of Infantry commanded by Captain Samuel Evans of Chester Country, marched in a few days afterward, reorganized in Wilmingtom Delaware marched from Wilmington through Chester and Darby to Philadelphia where our Company was attached to a regiment commanded by Lieut. Colonel Montgomery who was also of Chester Country. Our company was detailed to mount guard and patrol the streets of the city at night, and continued in that service under the command of Captain Evans for two months of which time his tour of service expired and he retired to his home. The tour of a number of men had also expired and they too returned home which was (as well as this declarant can recollect) on or about the 25th of December in the same year. Second, at which time Lieutenant Phelps of Captain Evans Company appeared at Col. Montgomery's quarters bringing wit him 9 or
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or 10 men belonging to Capt. Evans Company who ought to have marched
with us in October but did not and being young & in love with the
cause I again joined the squad brought up by Lieut Hops. & we
were all attached to a company commanded by Captain James
McDowell who with his company had a few days before joined
Col. Montgomery Regiment who still remained in command and
rendezvoused in Philada. I cannot recollect who was the general
in command in Philada. at this time but after we had heard
of the Hessians being taken we were reviewed by Genl. Putman
on foot who addressed us as he walked close along the line, and as
he came opposite to this declarant & a youthful fellow soldier who
stood by his side & who in the struggle for Independence filled the
grave of a brave man. The General observing our youthful
appearance turned to us & laid his hand on the shoulder of each
of us & remarked that he liked to see such young men turn out
& that they would make men when their beards grew he then took
of his hat & shewed us his head which had been scalped by the
Indians. That same evening we were ordered to march from Phila.
our company & the whole regiment were conveyed up the Delaware
in Shallops to Bristol & from thence across the river to Burlington
& from thence we marched to Bordentown & to Crosswicks where
we lay two days & on the night of the 3rd day we were marched to
Trenton where we arrived on the morning of the Battle of that 
place in which this declarant partook with all the patriotic
glow & ardour of a freeman fighting for the liberties of his country
+ aided in the slaughter & defeat of the Body of Hessians which had been
sent from the main body of the enemy to force the Bridge
by which we had made a stand - They were driven back with
great slaughter occasioned to the well directed fire of our
artillery, and In the afterpart of the same day a certain Hugh Coppell & myself
 passed over the ground which they had occupied during the Battle & their attacks upon us their dead bodies lay
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thicker & closer together for a space than I ever beheld
sheaves of wheat lying in a field over which the reapers had just
passed on the next day Capt. McDowells command was ordered
to take charge of the Baggage Train which we did & with it
marched to Burlington thence back through Bordentown to
Trenton again, thence to Princeton & while our company was
travelling about the country with the baggage the Battle at
Princeton was fought. & in consequence of the duty in which we
were engaged we were prevented from participating therein
we then went on through Brunswick to Morristown and done
duty in traversing that section of country from place to place
till we were finally discharged at Morristown previous to
which we were addressed by Genl Mifflin giving us great
applause for our patience & fortitude & anxiously desiring us to 
remain in service untill other troops would arrive to take our place.
Capt. McDowell & his company were discharged by orders of Genl.
Mifflin at Morristown after continuing in the field for two months
and a half.
Third. In the month of July 1777 & near the latter end of the
month I again joined the army as a volunteer in a Company
commanded by Capt. Allen Cunningham of New London Cross
Roads Chester County which was about to take the field, we
marched the first day to Wilmington Delaware and were lodged
that night in the Academy - next morning proceeded to Chester
at which place our company was lodged in the Court House &
continued there untill the main army under the command of
Genl. Washington came from Philada on their march to meet
the enemy who it was understood had made a landing at
Turkey point on the Chesapeake - next day after the main
army passed through Chester, our Captain with his command
agreeably to orders marched back to Wilmington, our
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company were then ordered to work on a hill in the year of the
town in the construction of a Facine Battery at which we continued
to work for either three or four days & were then ordered to
the Banks of Red Clay Creek & were employed in cutting Timber
to create all possible obstructions in the public roads and highways
 for the purpose of preventing the passage of the enemy in
their march to Philadelphia which it was generally understood
was their design & destination, from Red Clay Creek we passed
through Chester County by a circuitous route to a place
then called the Turks Head now know as West Chester the
seat of Justice of this County- from West Chester we marched
to Downingtown where we were joined by several other companies of
volunteers & militia, but cannot now recollect that they were under the
command of any field officer, but distinctly recollects to see
Major Patterson Bell with the troops at that time -  we went
from Downingtown to McClelland Tavern where we lay doing
Camp Duty for several days-- On the morning of the Battle of
Brandywine we were marched down the west side of the Creek
near to Chads Fording & ordered to cross to the east side of the
Creek which we did by wading and marched up the stream
about half a mile where we lay upon a Bottom there clothed
with woods, between the hill & the creek; during the battle.
we were frequently fired upon by the enemy both by artillery &
infantry & with all good will we returned their fire with
our small arms which was all we had at command during the
battle. we saw no field officers except such as came in
battle haste to our captain with orders and the declarant
does not recollect to have ever heard the names of any
of them & saw no general officer during the battle. our captain
was a gallant man & we had full confidence both in his
skill & courage - after the battle we continued wither
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on the ground for some time & for several
days kept near the same spot, but every day in
motion & every night encamping in a different
place sometimes in a house or barn & sometimes
in the woods, during this time the sad and
heart rending massacre committed by the infamous
Genl. De Grey upon our troops which lay near
the Genl. Paoli under the command of the
gallant Wayne took place - during our perambulations at this time, through Chester County.
we took up I think about 150 deserters (Ameri
cans) who had fled from their colours and were
making for home-- most of them were Marylanders - 
Gent Smallwood had given Captain Allen
Cuningham information that a great many
of the Maryland men had fled & particularly
desired him to keep a sharp look out for them
with orders to bring every one he could take up
to Head Quarters - Our company at this
time were stationed at McClellans Tavern
in the great valley where we had before laid for
a few days at the commencement of our tour.
The second morning after the Paoli massacre
& whilst we were at McClelland a circumstance
took place which the declarant asks
permission to relate - as it has not yet formed
any part of the history of the period to which he is alluding - A Quaker - a stranger  stranger came to
our quarters & brought with him & man
which he said he had found lying in the
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the woods whose clothes coat vest & trowsers
were stiff with gore & declarant believes they would
have stood alone when taken off him. he was a
Virginian and had shared in the consequences of the
massacre. had been singled out of the
close thereof as a special subject for the exercise
of the savage cruelty of the British soldiers. he
told us that more than a dozen soldiers had with
fixed bayonets formed a cordon round him & that
every one of them in sport had indulged their
brutal ferocity by stabbing him in different parts of
his body & limbs, & that by a last & desperate effort
he got without their circle & fled. & as he rushed
out one of the soldiers struck at him to knock
him down as the Finis to the catastrophe he in
which only the point of the bayonet reached his
head & laid it open with a gash as if it had been
cut with a knife-- he made however his
escape & when brought to our captain he had laid
in the woods twenty four hours. he had neither had
shoes nor stockings, and his legs & feet were covered with
mud and sand which had been fastened to his skin
by mixing with his own blood as it ran down his limbs.
our Captain immediately dispatched his Lietenant for a
Physician who when he returned was so fortunate as
to bring two with him. we then proceed the means
of washing & cleansing the wounded man & upon examining him, 
there was found as our captain afterwards
announced to the men forty six distinct bayonet 
wounds in different parts of his body, either of which were
deep & sufficiently large to have been fatal if they had been
in vital parts, but they were mostly flesh wounds
& every one of them had bled profusely & many of them
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commenced bleeding again upon being washed. his
wounds were dressed his bloody garments were burned
and by the orders of our captain he was waited upon with
strict attention untill he was able to walk & then was
by Lieut. Corry (our Lieut.) taken somewhere not distant
to an hospital & declarant heard no more of him, in a
short time we received orders to march & join the army in
the county of Philada. by which time the enemy had got
possession of that city. we joined the army under the 
Commander in Chief near Germantown.  was in that battle & I
had the honor of firing many rounds at the enemy entrenched
 in Chews house at which time declarant was
wounded in the right arm by a musquet ball from
the enemy while his arm was elevated in ramming
down a charge in his own gun, the mark of which
yet distinctly remain to be seen, after the battle of
Germantown the declarant had occasion to enter the
apartment called the Hospital in which the wounded
were dressing & where the necessary surgical operations
were performing & there beheld a most horrid sight - the
floor was covered with human blood, amputated arms
& legs lay in different places in appaling array. the mournful
memorial of an unfortunate fatal battle
which indeed it truly was, from Germantown we were
marched to White Marsh to Chesnut Hill & in eight
or ten days afterwards were discharged after having
served two months & one week.
Fourth. In the month of October on the same year (1777) this
declarant after having been but a few days at home again
entered the service, in a company commanded by Captain
John McKee of Chester County as a substitute for his
father who had been drafted to perform a tour of
service, rendezvoused at New London Cross Roads
where we mustered for 3 or 4 days from which place
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we were marched to Cochrans Tavern at a place now
known to the name of Cochranville, stayed one night
& from thence to McClelland Tavern in the great
valley encamped there about one week - thence marched
by the Swedes Ford on Schuylkill to Grahames Parke
in Montgomery or Philada County,  lay there two weeks, then
marched to Neshamony in Bucks County thence to
Smithfield in Philada County, & there our company was
placed under the command of Genl. John Lacy of Jersey
from there we were dispatched to Pennypack Mills
and ordered to destroy them so far as to prevent the enemy from
having any use of them, which orders were punctually &
effectually obeyed, from thence we marched back to
Smithfield about which time the enemy made prisoners
of a body of Sailors who were peaceably engaged at New
Town Bucks County in providing clothing to a great
amount for the American Army & with them captured
the whole of their work & materials -  the
time for which my father was drafted soon after expired
& Capt. McKee & his men were marched to White
Marsh & were discharged. in this tour I served two
months, this was near the latter end of the year 1777.
Fifth, after the expiration of my tour as a substitute for
my father under the command of Capt. McKee I did not
return home but remained at Doylestown where the
public armoury was kept & in a few days Capt Samuel
Evand (the same Capt under whom my first tour of duty 
served) appeared at Doylestown with his company
to draw their arms for another campaign. this was
near the commencement of the year 1778, I again joined
his company from Doylestown we were marched to
Graham Parke to Pennypack to Bustletown to
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Smithfield, & may other places frequently over the same ground.
The enemy were at this time in possession of the city of
Philada & our service was to watch & harass and them on every
occasion that might offer - we were at this time under the
command of Genl. Potter and acting always on the alert &
appearing suddenly everywhere, as our commander kept
us & himself almost constantly in motion every where almost
night & day so that the direction in which we were marching
one day gave no evidence of the course we might be persuing
the next, we continued in this kind of service for the
period of two months & were marched to Doylestown where
Capt Evans and his company gave up their arms to the
Military Store keeper & were discharged & the next day on
their march home upwards of twenty of the command & part of
our company and all the Baggage fell into the hands of
the enemy & some of them afterwards died in prison &
some of them died soon after their return to their families
in consequence of the hardships they had to endure from
cold & hunger while in the enemies prisons.
Sixth. In the month of February 1778 I again entered
the service as a volunteer in a company commanded
Capt. John Taylor who with his command came from
some place up the Juniata River & rendezvoused as
Doyletown for the equipment of his men. at that place
I entered his command & from thence we were ordered
to a place called the Crooked Billet now known as
Hatborough & from thence to & through the various
towns & places in Philada. Montgomery & Buck Counties,
constantly performing the same kind of service in which
I had been engaged (in my tour preceding this with
Capt Evans) for the purpose I preventing the enemy
from foraging in that district of country and also
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of preventing the disaffected of the vicinity from having any
intercourse with the enemy in which we were very industrious
& successful at, we were still under the command of General
Potter, I think there was a Colonel with or near us but his
name had escaped the memory of the declarant. recollects
however that Major Bell of Kennett Square (not the same
Major Bell before mentioned) was occasionally with us, also
recollects that Gen. Wayne was frequently at Genl. Potter’s
quarters & that he & Genl Bolter & Major Bell had on these
time many jovial nights. In this way the services of Capt
Taylor & all his volunteer of which the declarant was one
continued for the term of four months, altho the drafted
men he brought out with him returned to their homes
at the end of two months, we were at the end of the four
months discharged. the British having evacuated
the city we were marched from Pennypack into
Philada. where we found & received from 100 to 150
deserters from the ranks of the enemy, finding them
concealed in cellars & in hogsheads & in various other
places.
And further this deponent declares that he enlisted
in the army of the United States at Newport, Del. in the latter end of
the month of July 1780 with Capt. Robinson & served
in the second Delaware Regiment of the line under the
following named officers, declarant & four others his companions
all from Chester County were at the same time
enlisted by the said Capt William Robinson at New Port
in the State of Delaware & engaged to serve for the term of one 
year unless sooner discharged. That he & his companions
each received four silver Dollars & with them some
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continental money, the amount not now recollected.
Bounty - that he & his comrades under the command of
Capt William McClyments of Dover were marched from 
Newport to Wilmington & were there registered
& sized & in Wilmington was appointed orderly Sergeant.
from thence were transported by water to Philadelphia where
we drew our arms & whole military clothing & equipments.
joined a Regiment - & under the command of Capt McClyments
we were transported by water to Trenton, our Regine
was commanded by Colonel Henry Neale & we had one Major
viz Maj. James Mitchell of Daggsborough Sussex, Del.
From Trenton we were marched to Princeton & rested in the academy
one night - to Brunswick to Graytown - To Morriston
to Hackensack & lay there some days - afterwards to several
other towns and finally to a place called Dobbs Ferry, 
30 miles east of New York at which place the different
companies composing our Regiment were collected and
encamped but had no increase of Field officers. Then at Dobbs
Ferry was detailed to aid the Surgeon of the Regiment.
Our main army at this time lay at Tappan - while we
day there the enemy were in possession of the city of New York
& their Gun Boats almost daily came up the river and
fired upon us but the men never ventured to come on shore.
lay at Dobbs Ferry all the fall season & untill Christmas
doing nothing the camp duty - we were then ordered to
Morristown & from thence to Princeton, thence to Trenton
& from thence we were transported by water to Philada.
thence by water to Wilmington Del at Wilmington we
lay about three weeks, about this time news of the 
cessation of hostilities between America & her enemy
was spoken of & probably proclaimed - and also we
heard of a part of the army having been disbanded &
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our Regiment were dismissed upon parole or furlough
with orders for every man to hold himself in readiness to
march at a minute warning & about the same time we
heard of the enemy having vacated New York this was
in the year 1781. after this we were never called upon &
received no
discharge
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To the First Interrogatory- "Where & in what year
were you born? this declarant answers. I was born in
the Township of London Britain, Chester County, Pennsyl.
upon the 22d day of August 1759.

To the second viz. Have you any record of your age?
The declarant answers I have not but have often seen
the record of my birth & that of my only sister upon a blank
leaf in my fathers family bible both before & since my
Father’s decease - this bible never became mine.

To the Third viz Where were you living when called
into service, where have you lived since the Revolutionary War
& where do you now live? - The declarant answers
when I joined the army my father lived in London Britain
Township Chester County aforesaid and I lived with
him being not then eighteen years of age - have since
lived part of the time in the same township - part of
the time also in Harford County Maryland part in
Cecil County Same State, part of the time in New London
Township Chester County Penns then in New Castle
County Delaware again into Cecil County Md. again
in New Castle County & now live in upper Oxford
Township Chester County Pa.

To the Fourth Interrogatory viz: How were you called
into service, were you drafted, did you volunteer or
were you a substitute & of a substitute for whom?
Declarant answers. I entered the army as a volunteer -
never was drafted. that was too slow & formal a process
for me - my services were with the exception of one
tour all volunteered & in that one tour I served as a
substitute for my father who had been enrolled
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and drafted & who at that time was fifty two years
of age.

To the fifth interrogatory viz State the names of some of
the Regular officers who were with the troops where
you served. Such continental & Militia Regiment
as you can recollect & the general circumstances of your
services?
Declarant answer. I frequently saw the Commander in
Chief particularly at Chester before the battle of
Brandywine. Genl Putnam as before stated- 
Also the Marquis de LaFayette & by him we
had the honour of being reviewed on Quaker Hil at
Wilmington Delaware while we were at work erecting the
battery I have before spoken of & were there addressed by him.
he was with us both on horseback & on foot - saw Genl
Armstrong frequently at different places. before I knew his
name saw Genl Armstrong as before stated, 
 also Genl Wayne frequently while we lay both at
Whitemarsh & at Chesnut Hill - also Genl. Potter -
also Genl Lacy. our Col. Montgomery was frequently with
us. also Col Evans who as well as Col Montgomery
were of Chester County. Major Reed.  Two Majors named Bell at different
Places -  we very seldom lay with any other troops & were
kept so frequently in motion had very little oportunity
of knowing anything about other Regiments & the
general circumstances of the declarants services have
already been herein related.

To the Sixth Interrogatory viz. Did you ever receive a
discharge from the service & if so what has become
of it? Declarant answers I never did receive a
written discharge at the expiration of any tour nor did
any of the men on any occasion that the declarant
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knew of being merely informed by our Captain that
we were dismissed from services or had leave to go home

To the Seventh Interrogatory viz. State the names of persons
to whom you are known in your present neighbourhood
& who can testify to your character for veracity & their belief
of your services as a soldier of the Revolution. Declarant
answers. That he is known to General John W Cuningham
of New London Township Chester County under the command
of whose father the claimant served. one tour of duty
To Mr William Carlile of Upper Oxford Township
same County who knew declarant in the army &
with whom (in the same company) declarant served a
tour of duty to which fact the deposition of the said
William Carlile is hereunto annexed. To George
Russel Esq of Newark New Castle County Delaware
who also know declarant in the army & with whom
(in the same company) declarant served a tour of duty
to which & other facts the said George Russell has
deposed & whose deposition will be found hereunto
annexed.
Declarant further states that he never was a member of any
religious society that he is not acquainted with any clergyman
whose testimony he could possibly procure on the present
occasion. & has no reason to believe that there is any clergyman 
within his reach or in the vicinity of where the
declarant resides who has sufficient knowledge of his
reputed services as a soldier of the Revolution, or of his
character for veracity to enable him to testify as to either
in his behalf in any degree-- That his straightened
circumstances particularly during the latter part of his
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life compelled him to deny himself the privilege of
contributing to the support of the Gospel anywhere, and
compelled him to change his residence often sometimes
as he before stated living in Pennsylvania - Delaware
Maryland again in Pennsa. & his companions in
arms have now with few exceptions descended to the tomb.
that of all those Gallant men who remain in life
who knew him in the army & whose testimony it is in his
power to procure is the Depositions of William Carlile &
George Russell Esq. which are hereunto annexed
& both of them unable or unwilling to
travel the necessary distance which is so great to enable
them to testify in open Court - 
that the declarant
is from the infirmities consequent & attendant the age
to which he has arrived (77 year) & great weakness of
body having no mode of conveyance whatever under his
controul & being obliged to travel on foot together with ┃
his barreness of the means of defraying the consequent
expences - is entirely unable to attend in open Court
to make this deposition, his residence being more than
twenty miles from the seat of Justice.
And this declarant in conclusion states that his
whole services as a Revolutionary soldier were as
follows to wit
under 
Captain Samuel Evans, Two months
Captain McDowell Two & a half months
Captain Cuningham Two months
Captain McKee Two months
Captain Evans again Two months
Captain Taylor four months
and as an enlisted soldier under Captain Clyment
one year, which several periods of service as a
private & Sergeant make together two years two months
& a half
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And finally that he hereby relinquishes every claim
whatever 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.
William Hutchison

Sworn & Subscribed
before me
Jesse Sharps

Chester County ss
August 23d AD 1836
Before me Jesse Sharp Esquire one of the
associate Judges of the Court of Common Pleas &c
in and for the said County personally came Genl
John W. Cunningham who on his solemn oath by me duly
administered doth depose and say that he has known
William Hutchison the foregoing declarant reputed to be a
soldier of the Revolution for above thirty years. That
from the relation he the said declarant has given of certain
circumstances therein related as having occurred in the army
of that day, the same having been touched upon in the brief
memoranda of Captain Allen Cunningham who was his (this
deponents) father as having occurred in the field during the Revolutionary War.
That he this deponent is well satisfied & firmly believes
that William Hutchinson the said declarant was in the army
and under the command of this deponent's father during the
period which he the declarant has mentioned.
Of the personal belief in the neighbourhood in which the declarant resides this
deponent knows nothing - to the declarant never except for a
short period having lived in the neighborhood of this deponent-
This deponent is consequently unable to speak thereof except as to
his own individual belief & from the information he has [and]
which with the exception of the information received by this
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deponent from Mr William Carlile & George Russell Esq
has been mostly received from the declarant himself
and further this deponent saith not.
John Cunningham

Sworn and Subscribed
August 23d 1836
Before
Jesse Sharp

Chester County Ss
Before me Jesse Sharp Esq one of the
Associate Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for
the County aforesaid personally came William Carlile of
Lower Oxford Township in said County who on his solemn
oath by me duly administered doth depose and say
that he is well acquainted with William Hutchison
a soldier of the Revolution now applying for a pension.
that he believes him to be seventy seven years of age -.
That he this deponent first became acquainted with him
in the Revolutionary army & in the City of Philadelphia in
the month of November AD 1776 - he the said William Hutchison
was at that time a volunteer in a company of Infantry
commanded by Captain Samuel Evans of this (Chester)
County and that he this deponent was at the same time
a member of a company commanded by Captain James
McDowell, both companies belonging to the Regiment
commanded by Col William Montgomery of this County -
That the said William Hutchison was transferred to Captain
McDowells company and that he and this deponent continued
to do duty in Captain McDowell's company until they
served out the campaign which continued two months
an an half and that he and this deponent were both
discharged with the whole company at Morristown
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and further the deponent saith not.
Wm Carlile

Sworn and Subscribed
August 23d 1836
Before
Jesse Sharp

Chester
County ss
Before me Jesse Sharp Esquire one of the
associate Judges of the Court of Common Pleas
in and for the County aforesaid Personally came
George Russell Esquire of the Village of Newark in the
County of New Castle & State of Delaware who on
his solemn oath by me duly administered according to
law doth depose and say that he is well acquainted with
William Hutchison a Revolutionary soldier
now applying for a pension that he believes the said
applicant to be seventy seven years of age - That
he the said applicant did serve with this deponent
in the army of the Revolution in a militia company
commanded by Captain Samuel Evans of which company
 this deponent was orderly sergeant & that
this service was performed in the year 1776 or 7. & that the
said Term or tour of service was of the usual
length for drafted men-- Two months & perhaps a little
More. And further this deponent saith that he
that the said William Hutchison was in the
service of the United States at other times, but how long,
this deponent is not able to state with precision or accuracy
and also, this deponent further says that as a good
and faithful soldier the said William Hutchison saved
out his tour of duty and was legally discharged from
service
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Service. and this deponent further saith that during the
time he the said applicant was under the command
of Captain Evans he conducted and behaved himself as a
Sober obedient & good soldier and was always ready &
willing when called, to do his duty
and further saith not.
George Russell

Sworn and subscribed
August 23d 1836
Before me
Jesse Sharp

And I the said Judge do hereby declare
my opinion after the investigation of the matter and
after putting the Interrogatories prescribed by the War
department that William Hutchison the aforesaid
applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier and served
as he states and I further certify that it appears
to me that Gen. John W Cuningham who has signed the
foregoing deposition is a resident of New London Township
in the County of Chester and that in William Carlile
who has signed the foregoing deposition is a resident
of Lower Oxford Township in the same County - also
that George Russell Esquire who has signed the foregoing
deposition is a resident of the Village of Newark in
the County of Newcastle in the State of Delaware, and that
they are personally and by character well known
to me and are all not only creditable persons but
Gentlemen of the best standing in society, and that
their statements on this and every other occasion
are entitled to the fullest credit.
And further
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I certify that from the age and infirmity - and the
poverty of the Declarant - and the existing unwillingness
 of his vouchers to travel to the seat of Justice
and the fatigue and expence consequent upon
his travelling twenty two miles to appear in open
Court - is more than he is able to bear, and do
hereby recommend the declarant to the special
favour of the Honourable Secretary at War
Jesse Sharp

Pennsylvania
Chester County
I Benjamin I Miller Prothonotary of
the Court of Common Pleas in & for said County
do certify that Jesse Sharp Esquire before whom the
foregoing depositions were taken and who has certified to
the service of William Hutchison the aforesaid applicant,
is one of the associate Judges of the said Court
the same being a Court of record duly commissioned
and qualified, to all whose official acts as such
full faith & credit are ought to be given and
that the signature annexed to the said affidavits and
also to the above certificate, is his, the said Jesse
Sharps genuine Signature
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto
set my hand & affixed the Seal of said
Court at West Chester the twenty seventh
day of August A.D. One thousand eight
hundred & thirty six
[Levy P] Miller-Prothy
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5570
Rev War
INVALID.

File No. 5570
William Hutchison
Pri Rev War
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Act: June 7th, 1832
Index: -- Vol. M, Page 184
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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[News] & Road
Sept 19

Free

Hon. Geo. Wm Crump
Acting Commiss Pensions
Pension Office
Washington City

Sept. 21
Pa.
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New London Cross Roads Sept 19. 1836
Hon Sir
Yours of 13th Inst relative to the papers of William Hutchison
in support of his claim for a pension - informing me of the State
in which his application lies before you has been received and I hasten to
reply.
When his papers were executed before the Judge he left
them in my hand with the request that I would do the best [Scout] for him
saying that he could now offer no more proof than those papers contained
as all that now lived who knew him in the army were removed entirely out
of his reach or knowledge.
I therefore feel at liberty to say to you on
his behalf that his case is altogether left to your decision under the full
assurance that whatever you may do, in his case will be done under the
conviction that you are right & that your decision is just.
That he has brought himself within the embrace of the act of June 7, 1832 seems
reasonable to me on the first relation of his services and from expressions in your
letter I cannot but infer that such is your opinion too,
and to be particular, permit
me to suggest that the 4 months tour mentioned be reduced to two months in
the estimation of his services.
then with respect to his year enlistment
under Capt McClyment & Col Neale, it may be that the Regiment was
raised by the State of Delaware on her own account & that they never were
on the Continental establishment, but that he performed the service I have not
the smallest doubt.
With respect to the interrogation “why the applicant did not make earlier
application” it is in my power in a great measure to answer that -
a short time after the passage of the act of 1832. it appeared from the papers I had before
Me that he did make application in open Court in Cecil County
Maryland & his papers prepared (as was supposed) in due form were given
into the hands of Col George Mitchel who at that time was a member of Congress
for that County - by whom they were forwarded to the war department this application
as it also appears was after examinator in the department returned to Col Mitchel as 
Informal & incomplete with a [tabular] description of its deficiencies & the amendments
Or additions required - and by some means as I understand found its way into
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Clerk’s office at [Sexton] where, after the death of Col Mitchell the applicant
received - those papers I have had in my hand and they are now in the possession
of the applicant.
When he spoke to me to aid him in obtaining his object he handed the
returned declaration & the list of alterations & additions or amendments required
-the Tabular list mentioned - but on examination I found the proceeding had been so
clumsily & so briefly done on the deficiencies so numerous & difficult to supply,
I told him I thought the best and least difficult [route] would be to throw away
the first and make a new application  - he was [passive] and at one adopted
my recommendation.  Accordingly the papers now before you were drawn
up by me (and afterward transcribed by another person) with most scrupulous care
and particular pains in testing his recollection & correctness - read to him several
times and amended or altered as his recollection suggests that alterations were
necessary.
And I feel at liberty to say that I have the fullest confidence
that whatever discrepancy there may appear between his recollections of the
event & circumstances related & the historical record of the time & events mentioned,
that he honestly believed he was right & that whatever errors there may
have occurred or appears in the narrative are only as to the date of the
occurrences to which he alludes and not as to the fact of their existence or
occurrence.
This old man is in my estimation an object of charity and altogether
worthy of a pension and is now a sober man. The amount of Pension is left
wholly to your Judgment & opinion of the papers now before you  I am firmly
convinced that you are conscientiously desirous, that, should you at all [embrace]
the case you would rather allow him too much than too little -  he is
destitute of house and home of his own - staying a little while with one Son in law &
then a brief space with another -  none of them able to sustain him, being poor or
having family of their own to provide for - his clothing is not such as will  protect
him from the inclemency of the coming season and whatever amount of pension
you may consider him entitled too will be worthily bestowed and very thankfully
received.

I am very respectfully
Your most obedient
and very humble srvnt
John Cunningham

Hon G. W. Crump
Act’g Com. Pensions
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PS.
I would again solicit your speedy decision of this case. I am
strongly prompted to do so by feelings of humanity
N B. Just as I had finished the foregoing the applicant very unexpectedly called
to enquire if I had forwarded his papers and if I knew the fate of the application
I read to him your letter and my answer-- he expressed very thankful appreciation for what
I had written & desired me to pray you for an immediate decision on
his application-