Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 44,947, for Abijah Hurd, Connecticut

SERVICE
Hurud, Alriyah
NUMBER _____
NUMBER D. 44,947
CONTENTS

From 15.664 Connecticut R to New York.
Abijah Hurd.
of Stratford in the state of Conn who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Webb of the Conn line, for the term of One year.
Inscribed on the Roll of Connecticut at the rate of Eight Dollars per month, to commence on 18 th of August 1819.
of Pension issued the 29 of Octo 1819. and sent to Vincent Edwards Esq Bridgeport, Conn
Arrears to 4th of Sept 1819. 4. 67 Semi-ann. all'ce ending 4 mar 1820 48. 00
14/31 4/30. Dollars 52. 67
{ Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818. }
Continued -
Continued under the law of 1. May 1820, Notification there Sent to David Dorr, Norfield Conn 21 June 1820
Branch

Abijah Hurd Declaration for a Pension

District of Connecticut ss
On this 18 th day of August A.D. 1903 Abijah Hurd of Stratford in said District before me Pierpont Edwards District Judge of the United States for the District of Connecticut that he may obtain a pension under the act of Congress of the 10 th  March 1818  March 1818  and on oath declares that he sometime in the month of December 1775 enlisted as a private in the military service of the United States (then Colonies) of America for the term of one year from the first day of January 1776 in Captain Isaac Postwick's Company Colonel Charles Webb's Regiment in the Connecticut line on the Continental establish- ment of the Army of the United States during the war of the Revolution. And that the declarant faithfully served out said term of one year a part of the time near Boston and a part of the time in General Lee's life guard in Virginia and the residue of said term in New York where he rejoined the Company & Regiment into which he first enlisted from which he was drafted to join said life guard to Virginia where he served and at Peekskill in said State of New York on the last day of December 1776 having so served out said term of his enlistment was regularly discharged from said service and that the Declarant is from the time of his

birth hath been a resident citizen of the United States and most of the time has dwelt in said Stateford where he was born and where for the last seven years or thereabouts he has uninterrupted lived And that he is by reason of his reduced circumstances in life in need of the assistance of his country for his support
Abijah Wood Defiant of Connecticut August 18 th AD 1819 The above named Abijah Wood came before me and made oath to the truth of the foregoing declaration and subscribed the same in my presence.
Richard Edwards
Judge of the defiant of Connecticut
I Richard Edwards defiant Judge of the defiant of Connecticut do certify that Abijah Wood's satisfaction that Abijah Wood who made oath to a full and true the foregoing declaration did swear on the evidence timely was against the common enemy as stated his declaration and I had known that Abijah Wood the proceedings of Attorney General and had before me in his case to the full and true the department of was present to an act of Congress in which case made and provided said proceedings and testimony are contained in the annexed schedule
Sept 24 1819 Richard Edwards

District of Connecticut ss
On this day of Thursday before me Pierpont Edwards District Judge of the United States for said District came
both of Stratford in said District and respect of their residence being duly sworn do depose & say that they are well acquainted with the aforementioned defendant and his circumstances in life and that he is and for more than six years last past has been a resident citizen of the United States dwelling in said Stratford and that by reason of his aforesaid circumstances in life he is in need of assistance from his country for his support
Testify that the said Alvah Aliah Hart Ward who fully subscribed the foregoing declaration of reason of reduced circumstances in life in need of the assistance of his country for his support and further witness that Elisha Rootwood & Samuel May Jr are district clerks and and the witnesses - Sept 24th 1889 Pierpont Edwards District Judge of the District of Connecticut

Abijah Hurd
(Ex d )
29 Oct 1819
Continue

At a County — Court, held in and for the County — of Fairfield — in the District and State of Connecticut, on the 14 th day of June — 1820 the same being a Court of Record, and having a seal, by virtue of the laws of said State.
PERSONALLY APPEARED, in open Court, Abijah Hurd — a resident in the town of Stratford — in the County of Fairfield — in said State, and exhibited and subscribed the following Schedule, and made — oath — that the same is a true and perfect Schedule of all his income and property, (necessary clothing and bedding excepted) viz., 1 coffee pot, 1 Tea pot, 1 Tea gun dish, 1 pitcher, 4 plates, 1 jug, 1 spoon, 1 fork — bottle, 1 Tumbler, 1 Tea cup & saucer, 1 Tin hat — 1 tub & pail 1 candle stick, one broad axe, 1 old chest, 1 set tools worth $15. — & pledge for $12. — Abijah Hurd

District and State of Connecticut, ss.
BE IT REMEMBERED, That in the County — Court, held in and for the County of Fairfield in the District and State aforesaid, on this 14 th day of June 1820, the same being a Court of Record, and having a Seal, under the Authority of said State, personally came and appeared in open Court, Abijah Hurd — aged 64 years — years, resident in the Town of Stratford — in the County of Fairfield in said State, and being sworn according to Law, doth on his Oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary War, as follows:
that is to say, in the month of December 1775, he enlisted into the Company Commanded by Isaac Postwick , the Regiment under the Com- mand of Col o  Charles Webb in the Connec- -ticut line on the Continental Establishment, to serve for the term of one year , which term he faithfully served and was honorably dischar- -ged, at the close thereof. —
that the original Declaration made by him, for the purpose of obtaining a Pension, under the Act of Congress of the 18th of March, 1818, was dated the 18 th day of August — 1819 — that in pursuance thereof he was entered in the List of Pensioners, and received a Pension Certificate No. 15664 And I do further solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States, on the 18th day of March, 1818, and that I have not since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner, disposed of my property, or any part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an Act of Congress, entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War," passed on the 18th day of March, 1818; and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me any property or securities, contracts or debts due to me; nor have I any income other than what is contained in the Schedule herein annexed, and by me subscribed. And I do further declare that my occupation is a cabinet maker , that I am in as good health and as able to labor, as people in general of my age — and that I have — no — family residing with me but have a child de- -pendent on me whose age is 18, & name Deborah . —
Abijah Hurd
all which is subscribed by me the day and year aforesaid. Abijah Hurd
Sworn to, and declared in the Court aforesaid. Whereupon said Court is, on satisfactory proof exhibited in Court, of opinion that the total amount in value of the property contained in the aforesaid Schedule is six Dollars and — Cents, and doth order these proceedings to be entered in the Records of said Court.
Test David Root (Clerk)

State of Connecticut, ss. Fairfield County
I DAVID BURR, Clerk of the County Court for the County of Fairfield, in the said State, do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the records of the said Court, and I do further certify that it is the opinion of the said Court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is
six
Dollars
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court at Fairfield, this 14 th day of June A. D. — 1820.
David Burr
Clerk of the County Court for said County of Fairfield.
District and State of Connecticut, ss. Fairfield June 14 1820.
I ROBERT FAIRCHILD, Chief Judge of the County Court for the County of Fairfield, in said State, do certify that DAVID BURR, Esq. is the Clerk of said Court, duly appointed and sworn; and that the said Court is a Court of record, made so by the statute laws of said State; that it proceeds according to the course of the common law, has a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount, with the power of fine and imprisonment, and keeps a record of its proceedings.
Robert Fairchild
Chief Judge of the County Court for the County of Fairfield.

44947 INVALID.
Rey
File No. 44947
Abijah Hurd
Pension Rev. War
Act: 18" March 1818
Index:—Vol. 3, Page 244
[Arrangement of 1870.]

FREE
Mr. Elmer for January
Recd 16 Feb 1828
J. C. Calhoun Esq. Secretary of War Washington

New York 10 April 1822
Sir I take the liberty to enclose to you my Affidavit with a view of obtaining a Transfer of my name from the Connecticut to the New York list. information whereof please to convey to me by the President of the Branch Bank at New York
I am very respectfully Sir Your Obedt Servt Abijah Allen
J. C. Calhoun Esq

State of Connecticut: Litchfield County ss.
On the 28 th day of Aug t 1819. before me the Sub- scribed a Justice of Peace for said County personal- ly appeared Eliphaz Bostwick Esq. of New Mil- ford in said County, to me well known by me deemed worthy of full credit, & being duly sworn according to Law saith, that he served as a Lieut. in the Reg t of Continental troops, under the command of Col. Charles Webb, in the Company commanded by Capt. Isaac Bos- twick, during the Campaign of the year 1776; that said Reg t of Inf try was raised for the period of one year, to wit. from the 1 st of June 1776, to the first of June 1777; that Elijah Hurd then of said New Milford, but now of Shafterd in said State, & who is now personally present, was a Sol- dier in said Company, & as this depon t believes served out the full period of his enlistment. That this depon t remembers that the said Hurd join- ed said Company at Temple's Farm near Boston in June 1776 that he remained sometime there, when he was drafted into a detach t un- der Gen d Charles Lee, & sent to the Southward, when that Officer was detached to superintend the

The fortification defence of the Seacoast; from which service the s d Herd returned to said Company, while the same lay at New York & remained with said Compa- ny untill towards the close of the Campaign has the Dep t believes, about the first of Nov. 1776, when the said Herd was again detached into another service; & did not after rejoin the Reg t , untill during the Campaign; but this Dep t was informed & believes continued to serve untill the expiration of said period of for which s d Reg t was enlisted.
Elisha Bostwick
Sworn the day & year first above written
Before me David S. Boardman W.P. Clerk Testify that the above named David S. Boardman at the time of taking the said Deposition of Elisha Bostwick was and my a justice of the peace for the County of ... that I am well acquainted with his hand writing and that the name David S. Boardman above subscribed to the foregoing said deposition is

The following handwriting is of Richard D. Broadman and Richard Edward DeKraa Connecticut Dept. of

Alzah Hard

State of Connecticut } At Stamford Sept. 16 th Fairfield County } 1819
Personally appeared before me Simon H. Minor Judge of the Court Probate for Stamford District, Samuel Hait of said Stamford & made oath That in the month of Jan'y 1776 he enlisted as a Soldier into Capt. Harts Comp y & Col. Chas. Webb Regt. That in the same month whilst said Regt. was lying at Bos- -ton he knows that Thijah Hurd of Strat- -ford was a Soldier in Capt. Bostwick's Comp y belonging to the same Regt. - That in the same month this Deponent the said Hurd & others were drafted as a life guard to Genl. Lee & marched with him to New York Thence to Philadelphia Thence to Little York where they had the Small Pox after which they joined their Regt. at New York which was in the month of June of the same year & continued with the Regt. until the month of Sept r when this Deponent was taken sick & removed & did join the Regt. until nearly the close of the year - That he now understood & believes that said Hurd was enlisted for one year & served his time out faithfully
Certified by
Sam Hait
I certify that Samuel Hait signor of the foregoing Disposition is a credible witness In testimony of which I have subscribed the same & affixed the seal of said Court at the day & date above written S. H. Minor

I Richard Edwards district judge of the Connecticut district do certify that the section named Ionia, W. Monroe before known as within department was taken was at the time of labeling the form before the court of probate for the district of Mansfield, No. 11 are well acquainted with her name and and that the name Ionia W. Monroe published to the caption of John Samuel Hays deposition in her probate case written June 24 1889 Richard Edwards

Abijah Hurd's application for transfer from Connecticut to New York.
Transferred 18 th Apl. 1822.

APPLICATION FOR A TRANSFER.
City & County of New York ss.
On this 10th day of April 1822, before me, the subscriber, a Notary Public for the said State of New York personally appeared Abijah Hurd who, on his oath, declares that he is the same person who formerly belonged to the company commanded by Captain Isaac Bostwick in the regiment commanded by Colonel Charles Webb in the service of the United States; that his name was placed on the pension roll of the state of Connecticut from whence he has lately removed; that he now resides in the state (district, or territory) of New York on Long Island where he intends to remain, and wishes his pension to be there payable, in future. That he at present receives Eight dollars per month.
Abijah Hurd
Sworn and subscribed to, before me, the day and year aforesaid.
Wm Ormiston N.P.