Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 18460, for John Hunt, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER
Continental Mass.
Hunt, John
S.18460
CONTENTS
carded

Maine 6269
John Hunt
of Elizabeth in the State of Maine who was a private in the Company by Captain Dacey of the First by in the present State Troops 15 mo Mass. and Continental
Date of death 1832
Entered on the Roll of Maine at the rate of 50 Dollars 00 Cents per annum to commence on the 15th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 27 day of Feb. 1833 and sent to Hon. J. Anderson House of Reps.
Arrears to the 1st of Sept 1832 $ 75.00 Pension allowance ending Sept 1833 - 250.00 $ 325.00
{ Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by E.D. Bullock Clerk Book 4 Vol. 1 Page 64

United States of America
Albany District N.Y. At a Special Court of the United States began and held at P'keepsie within and for said District on the twenty three day of October A.D. 1878 before me Judge of said Court. On the twenty three day of October aforesaid personally appeared in open Court before said District Judge John Hunt a resident of Cooperstown in the County of Co'umbland in said Albany District aged seventy four 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 7 th 1832. That he was a soldier in the Army of the Revolution. that he enlisted at P'keepsie in Massachusetts in the latter part of 1778 under Capt. Fisher of said P'keepsie for nine months. Eliza Hunt his wife marched to Fish kills in New York in parties. at Fish kills the company was inspected & organized by Genl. M c Dougald. he said duty in said Company about three months at Fish kills & knew of no other field officer there except said Genl. M c Dougald After about three months service as before stated at Fish kill an officer came from White Plains to recruit for the Artillery. that he enlisted with seventeen others for twelve months. was marched to White Plains & there the whole eighteen were brigaded out there in a Brigade & sent to drive the enemy. that he & his brother William & Libalod were put to Capt. Dorsey's company & drove the three British regiments of that company. The Capt. Genl. of Dorsey's company was named Phiney & the 2 d Genl named Wilmoth both of whom he believes were Virginians. that late in the fall just before mentioned in the war detailed with part of the company & two of the pieces of Artillery to go to Goshen & marched under Col. Stearns & a thousand men. the party Blues marched with into Goshen. that he was two days in marching to Goshen when they reached Goshen Col. Braxton of Philadelphia came with a Regiment took out pieces of Cannon joined the party Blues & marched to the interior of Pennsylvania after which as I was informed Sunderland they marched to a place called Green Swamp where they had a hard battle & most of them were killed. As soon as Col Braxton took charge of the pieces our company went

Back to White Plains then remained a short time & then marched to Lancaster in Pennsylvania & went into winter quarters. when I remained doing duty until the spring of 1779 when part of us, some one Elisha Schaback King, and brother William, George Thompson & myself were ordered to join Col Baldwin. They at Middle Brook in Jersey & were attached to the forage Magazines. where I remained until the year for which I enlisted expired & was honorably discharged in writing by Col. Baldwin at said Middle Brook in the summer of 1779. which discharge he has long since lost & does not know that he has given it for forty years.
He recollects perfectly well that they wintered in Brick barracks.
He was born in Free town in Massachusetts about twenty miles from said Holy Mount, in Cape Cod. On the 13th of April 1758. & his birth is recorded in a Bible of his father's which Bible his sister Mary had who, if alive is now near ninety years old. she moved many years ago to Henry Island below Eastport in the coast of Maine. That he has resided at said Cape Elizabeth twenty eight years & moved from said Cape Cod to said Cape Elizabeth. He does not know of any person living who knows of his service. Mr. Joshua Boffe, whose property in he believes he is informed is now deceased. That he served in the whole fifteen months.
He hereby relinquishes any claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present & he declares that his name is not on any pension roll of any agency in any State.
John Thurn
Sworn & subscribed to the day & year aforesaid before me.
Arthur Wane
Judge of the United States for the District of Maine

Number A.D. one thousand eight hundred and two.
John Nussay Clerk U.S. Court Meriden District
John Nussay Clerk
John Nussay

I Charles Staples of Lake Elizabeth in the County of Cumberland Essex aged fifty two years on oath testify & say that I have been acquainted with the within named John Heick for more than thirty years since when he came to reside in said Lake Elizabeth. I believe him to be upwards of seventy years of age. I say that it has been commonly reported of him & believed in the neigh- borhood where he resides that he was a soldier in the Revolutionary war. I have so understood as long as I have been acquainted with said Heick & have heard it so reported more than twenty years. I believe in the belief that he was a soldier in said Revolution as he has stated.
Charles Staples
Cumberland ss Oct 26 th 1882 Subscribed & sworn to before me John Brattleworth I certify that said Staples is a legally qualified just Recv.
I James Davis of said Lake Elizabeth aged Fifty two on oath declare that I have been acquainted with the above named John Heick from my youth to this time. that I believe him upwards of seventy years old & I further say it is generally reported & believed of him in his neighborhood that he was a Revolutionary soldier & I concur in this opinion & belief. I have heard this often stated while I was but a boy & am sure. I have often seen him take arms & go through the continental exercise as it was called. This I remember he often did when I was young & in the town behind & it has been the general belief in his neighborhood as long as I have remembered that he a soldier as he has stated - James Davis
Cumberland ss Oct 26 th 1882 Subscribed & sworn to before me. I certify that said Davis is a credible witness John Brattleworth just Recv

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.
John Muzzey Clerk of the District Court of the United States for Maine do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of John Hunt for a pension, and that John Anderson Ely, who took the proceedings, depositions of Charles Staples & James Davis is a Justice of the Peace duly qualified at his official attestations are entitled to full faith & credit. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of the said Court on this ninth day of November A.D. one thousand eight hundred & thirty two.
John Muzzey Clerk U.S. Court Maine District
John Hunt
The foregoing is a true copy of the original
I John Anderson Ely do hereby certify that I am well acquainted with the matter in hand John Hunt & have been so acquainted for twenty years that he has the reputation of an honest man & I have no hesitation in subscribing my entire belief in the truth of his statements. John Anderson

April 3, 1935
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John Hunt-S.18460 BA-J/AWF
The Quartermaster General Memorial Branch War Department Washington, D. C.
Dear Sir:
Reference is made to your request for information in regard to John Hunt, private, War of the Revolution, died October 25, 1845 in Cape Elizabeth, Maine.
The data furnished herein were obtained from the papers on file in pension claim, S.18460, based upon the service of John Hunt in the Revolutionary War.
John Hunt was born April 13, 1758 in Freetown about twenty miles from Plymouth, Massachusetts on Cape Cod, names of his parents not given.
He enlisted in Plymouth, Massachusetts, in April or May, 1778, served three months as private in Captain Finley's Massachusetts company; he reenlisted and served in Captain Dorsey's company of artillery and in Colonel Stevens' regiment and in Colonel Baldwin's regiment, and was discharged in July, 1779.
He was allowed pension on his application executed October 23, 1832, at which time he was living in Cape Elizabeth, Cumberland County, Maine, where he had lived about thirty-eight years, having moved from Cape Cod.
It is not stated that the soldier was married. Reference was made to his brother, William, and to his sister, Molly. There are no further data in this claim relative to his family.
The application for headstone for John Hunt is

returned herewith, as is also a short record of the Revolutionary War service of John Hunt, which was enclosed with the application for headstone.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER Executive Assistant to the Administrator

WAR DEPARTMENT OFFICE OF THE QUARTERMASTER GENERAL WASHINGTON
3 27-35 1955
Memorandum for
The Surgeon General, Bureau of Navigation, Navy Department, Commandant, United States Coast Guard, Treasury Department, ✓ The Commissioner of Pensions, Interior Building, General Accounting Office, F Street, between 4th & 5th, N. W.
1. The attached application has been submitted to this office for Government headstone to be erected at the grave of the decedent named thereon. In order that the proper inscription may be placed on the stone it would be appreciated if your office would verify the name and service on the application, checking and making such corrections in red ink as may be necessary to show the correct spelling of the name and complete designation of the organizations.
2. In addition, please advise State from which decedent came.

Request for Rev War record of John Hinch served with Mass troops landed Oct 25- 1845 in Cape Elizabeth - Maine - History Dept April 2- '35 - application for headstone returned also application record of his Rev service
See F
April 2- 1935

This Bureau can furnish the military record of only such Revolutionary soldiers as were pensioned or whose widows were pensioned for their services.
Such of the original muster and pay rolls of the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812 as are now in the possession of the Government are on file in the Record and Pension Office, War Department. Original rolls and other records pertaining to service in the Revolutionary War may also be found on file in the archives of many of the original States.
D. T. B. I. 10400.
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS,
WASHINGTON, D. C.,
O. W. & N. DIV.
REVOLUTIONARY.
April 25, 1895.
Sir:-
Replying to your recent communication you are advised that one John Hunt made an application for pension on October 9, 1818, at which time he was 82 years of age and residing at Cape Elizabeth, Mass., and his pension was allowed for fifteen months' actual service as a private in the Conn. troops, Revolutionary war; a part of the time he served under Capt. Dorsey. He enlisted at Plymouth, Mass.
Very respectfully,
Commissioner.
Miss Mary L. Hunt,
The Sentinel Building,
Milwaukee, Wis.

SW 2
This Bureau can furnish the military record of only such Revolutionary soldiers as were pensioned or whose widows were pensioned for their service. Such of the original muster and pay rolls of the Revolutionary war and the war of 1812 as are now in the possession of the Government are on file in the Record and Pension Office, War Department. Original rolls and other records pertaining to service in the Revolutionary war may also be found on file in the archives of many of the original States.
Department of the Interior
BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
Washington, D. C. MAR 13 1898
Mar 4 1898
U. S. W. & N. DIV. REVOLUTIONARY WAR. Sir:
In reply to your communication of a recent date, you are informed that the courtesy of furnishing information relative to Revolutionary war soldiers on account of whose service pensions were granted, is extended by this Bureau only to their descendants, and to them only when it is desired for historical or genealogical purposes.
In view of the large number of such inquiries now being made, and of the length of time required to make a proper search of the records in each case, information will not be given to any applicant concerning more than two soldiers.
In order that the claim of the soldier concerning whom you desire information may be identified, it is requested that you furnish as much as possible of the data called for below.
There are several John Hunts from Conn. (Windham Co.).
Very respectfully, Mr M. L. Hunt.
The Secluded Bldg Milwaukee, Wis
Commissioner.
Full name of soldier. John Hunt also John Hunt Jr
Place of residence before service, Chaplin State Connecticut
Place of residence after service, Chaplin, Windham County - Conn
Approximate date of death, Dec 12, 1816 April 17 - 1925
Given name of widow, unable to say Agnes Hunt
Did either the soldier or his widow receive a pension? Can't tell positively but think - die
Additional information, Both held commissions Colonel & Captain I think John Hunt & John Hunt Jr were father & son, & both were in the Revolutionary War.
Signature, Miss Mary L. Hunt
Post-office address, including street and number, town, county, and State. The Secluded Bldg. Milwaukee, Wis.

J. T. Quarles. J. W. Spence. Chas. Quarles. W. C. Quarles.
Quarles, Spence & Quarles, Attorneys & Counsellors, The Sentinel Building,
Milwaukee March 4, 1898.
Commissioner of Pensions, Washington, D. C.
Dear Sir:-
Your kind favor of March 4th was rec'd duly, and I herewith enclose data relative to my great-grandfather, John Hunt, Jr., and his father, John Hunt, as far as I am able to find the facts. I want their Revolutionary records for the purpose of joining the Daughters of the Revolution.
Hoping you may be able to give me the desired information regarding these two ancestors, I remain,
Respectfully yours,
(Miss) Mary L. Hunt.
Sentinel Bldg., Milwaukee.

18466 INVALID.
File No. 18466
John Hunt P. O. Box 100
Act: June 7 th 1872
Index:—Vol. 1 , Page 436
[Arrangement of 1870.]
Apr. 28/98 Miss M L. Hunt, Milwa.
935: Apr. 2. list to mem- orial Branch avgs

War Department Pension Office 8th January 1853.
Sir,
See cert y to post us
The official character and signature of the Magistrate, before whom the declaration of William Farrington was taken, is not certified. Nor is the rank of Mr. Farrington as adjutant sufficiently proved. Mr. Dunn states in his affidavit that the whole orderly book, which has been transmitted as proof of his rank, is in the hand writing of Mr. Farrington. A very cursory examination will satisfy any one experienced in such matters that two, if not three different persons, copied the orders contained in it. It has been

been examined with a view of seeing if the name of Mr. Fannington could be found in it as adjutant but this discovery has not been made. His period of service on the staff of Col. Fogg's Regiment may be probably shown by reference to the rolls in the office of the Secretary of the State of Massachusetts. The papers are returned.
There are no rolls Fogg's Reg't under Dore
The case of James Frank is again returned; the services in 1776 and 1777 not being stated in sufficient detail to enable a verification of his statement to be made by the Rolls. A Captain Ellis belonged to the Massachusetts line, and another to the Connecticut line; but no person by the name of Frank served in either company in the 1777. Unless the Regiment is given a satisfactory search of the Rolls in this Office, cannot be made. The objection
I will notice there seems no one who has then he has,

objection stated in my former reference to this case has not, therefore, been in any degree obviated. The name of John Hunt is not upon the Virginia rolls in this office. A Captain Dorsey served in the Maryland Troops - but the only proof that Mr Hunt served is the affidavit of Joshua Debepre who is not certified to be a credible wit- ness. The papers are herewith returned.
of in class says
just no proof how other got
The claims of Thomas Sylvester John Lumberd, Samuel Andrews, John Yates Aaron Dresser, David Groff, Joseph Leighton and Aaron Parker, are admitted. Their pension certificates, together with those referred to in the letter from this office of the 7 th inst. are herewith enclosed.
I have the honor to be your ob st S er v t L. Edwards
The Hon ble John Anderson, House of Representatives

21 991 John Hunt. Private Col: Scotts. Regt Virginia Line 1778-1 year, dec: 9th October 1818
Hon J. Anderson A.D. Da. 2/4. 1531

Joshua Dobepe an inhabitant of Paris in the County of Oxford in the State of Maine do hereby certify that I am of the lawful age of
John Hunt a resident citizen of the United States and an inhabitant of Cape Elizabeth in the county of Cumberland & Commonwealth of Massachusetts aged fifty nine years being duly sworn do depose and say that I enlisted as a private soldier about the last of May in the year Seventeen hundred and seventy eight for the period of nine months and marched to Fishkill in the State of New York where we were mustered: that I remained there about three months when I re-enlisted for the period of twelve months as a private & joined Captain Doyen's company of Artillery in General Scott's Brigade of the Virginia Line Continental Establishment at White Plains: that I faithfully served that period and was honorably discharged at a place called Middlebrook in the western side of North River: that I have long since lost my discharge: that I served the principal part of my enlistment at White Plains and barracks at Lancaster during the winter: that by reason of my reduced circumstances in life I am in need of the assistance of my country for support: that I do not receive nor am entitled to receive any pension from the United States except by virtue of the Act of Congress passed the 18th of March 1818 making provision in revolutionary services
John Hunt
Subscribed and sworn to this ninth day of October in the year Eighteen hundred and eighteen
Before me
Abner L. Parsons Judge of the United States and for the District of Maine

1 Joshua Dabbs an inhabitant of Paris in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts lawful age do hereby certify and say that John Hunt who subscribed the annexed deposition was a private soldier during the Revolutionary War and enlisted in (Plymouth) in the State aforesaid at the same time which said in the same service which was nine months that we marched to Fishkill in the State of New York where we remained three months when a recruiting officer came from White Plains and we were re-enlisted in the period of twelve months and joined at White Plains Captain Dorr's company of Artillery in General Scott's Brigade of the Virginia Line Continental Troops and continued to Hunt faithfully served the time enlisted and were honorably discharged at a place called Middlebrook on the Western side of North River. That we served the principal part of our enlistment at White Plains and barracks at New Utrecht during the winter. Here we were both discharged about the middle of July in the year seventeen hundred & seventy nine - Joshua D. Dabbs
Subscribed and sworn to this ninth day of October in the year Eighteen hundred and eighteen
Believe me
Albion P. Parker Judge of the United States in and for the District of Maine

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
MAINE DISTRICT, ss.
BE IT REMEMBERED, That on the ninth day of October in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, personally came John Hunt the applicant named in the papers hereunto annexed, and after being duly cautioned and examined, made oath that the several statements by him made in the annexed application, signed in my presence, are wholly true.
And the said applicant further offered in evidence the declaration under oath of John Hunt before me, Paris in the District of Maine, stating that of the time the said John Hunt served as a private soldier in the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War for the period of nine months, and upwards in continuation.
And it appearing to me in the examination here had, that the several persons above named are credible witnesses, I do hereby admit the annexed declarations as evidence, and certify the same as being satisfactory proof to me that the said John Hunt the applicant, served as a private soldier in the revolutionary war, against the common enemy, for the term of nine months and upwards in continuation on the continental establishment. And I do further certify, that from the declaration of the applicant made before me, under oath as aforesaid, it does appear that in consequence of his reduced circumstances in life, he is in need of assistance from his country for support; all which I do hereby certify and transmit to the Secretary of the Department of War, agreeably to the provisions of an Act of Congress, passed March 18, 1818, entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war."
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused my official Seal to be affixed the day and year first mentioned.
Albion H. Paris
Judge of the United States in and for the District of Maine.