Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 20,804, for David Hurd, Connecticut

SERVICE
NUMBER
Conn.
Hurd David
S. 20,804
carded
CONTENTS

Connecticut
David Hurd, Private,
Captain Walker's company of the Col. S. B. Webb's Conn regiment.
Rating Disability - Total.
Date of discharge
Inscribed on the roll of Connecticut, at 5 dollars per month, to commence on the and increased to $8. p r month, by Law 24 April 1816.
Certificate of pension issued the 31 st of Augt. 1824, and sent to Levi Edwards, at Stepney, Connecticut.
Appears to 14th
Semi annual

Rec d July 31. 1824
L. L.
Stepney & Co. July 28 th
For formal certificates.
K th Genl J. R. Edwards Esq. Pension Office War Department Washington

Monroe July 28 th 1824
Dear Sir I once more send the demand for obtaining formal certificates of Pensions & hope they will be right. —
your Obedient servant J. L. Edwards Esq. — J. Levi Edwards

Civil Authority
# Dec. 5 th 1810 Approved a Bill signed for paying Invalid Pensions
General Hinds Pension Certificate

I, the Undersigned, do hereby certify and make known to all whom it may concern, that being duly authorized and commissioned for that purpose, I took the evidence rendered by David Hurd of the Town of Huntington, County of Fairfield and State of Connecticut, in support of his claim to be placed on the Pension list of the United States, under the act of Congress passed the 10 th day of April 1806; that I transmitted said evidence with my report thereon to the Secretary, for the Depart- ment of War of the United States, that a person by the name of David Hurd appears to be placed on the Pension list, by the act of Congress relating to Invalid Pensions passed the 27 th day of April 1810, at the same rate, at which said Hurd was placed by said evidence; & that said Hurd is in my opinion the same person who by said last mentioned act of Congress is placed upon the Pension with the allowance of five Dollars per month  for each per month, and whose documents were transmitted by me to the Secretary of War. Witness my hand in Fairfield this 28 th day of June A.D. 1810
Gov. Solomon Root
Huntington July 2 nd 1810, I certify to all whom it may concern, that the Person of the above certificate is David Hurd of this Town, I am well acquainted with the man & have no doubt but that he is the same.

lately has - as has been placed on the pension List, by the Congress of the United States.
Certified for me
Abraham DeForest one of the Civil Authorities
Act 5 th 1810 approved on Bill Agents for
Paying Invalid Pensions
David Hanks Pension Certificate
was a private in the 3 d Conn. Reg t at Yorktown a time he was disabled - who now resides in Fairfield county and has resided there from his nativity. Placed on Pension List by an act of Second Session 11 th Congress

County of Fairfield ss. Monroe. — on this 4 th day of June 1824; before me, the Subscribed a Justice of the Peace for the said — county of Fairfield personally appeared David Hurd of Monroe in said county who on his — Oath, declares that he is the same person — who formerly belonged to the company commanded by captain Joseph Walker in the regiment — commanded by colonel Samuel B Webb in the service of the United States, that his name was placed on the pension roll of the state of — Connecticut but has never received a formal certificate and now wishes to obtain one —
David Hurd
Sworn and subscribed to before me the day and year aforesaid }
Levi Edwards Justice of Peace
State of Connecticut Fairfield County — }
ss; I David Burr of Fairfield in the county of Fairfield, Clerk of the County Court, for the County of Fairfield. Do certify that Levi Edwards Esquire is a Justice of the Peace, within & for the county of Fairfield, duly commissioned
with full power and authority, to administer Oaths, & do all other matters and things, appertaining to the Office of a Justice of the Peace in said County — And that the signature above written, which purports to be the signature of Levi Edwards Justice of Peace, is in truth his hand writing; And that full faith and credit is, and ought to be given to his official acts & proceedings
In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my Hand and the Seal of said Court, in said Fairfield this 26 th day of July A.D. 1824
David Burr

Promotions 2080H INVALID.
File No. 20,804
David Hurd
Br Rev War Conn Regt
Act: Invalid
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 125
[Arrangement of 1870.]