Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 32,874, for Isaiah Hunt, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Hunt, Isaiah
S 32,874
CONTENTS

1,214
Massachusetts.
Isaiah Hunt, Capt Greenleaf } private Massachusetts line - 4 1777. 3 years
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts, at the rate of eight Dollars per month, to commence the 1 st of April, 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued the 17 th of July, 1818, and sent to the care of Daniel A. White, Esq; Salem, Mass ts
Arrears to 4th of Sept r 1818. $: 36 -
Semi-annual allowance $: 41.03
4 months \frac{15}{30} --- $: 36 -
5 months \frac{4}{31} $: 41.03
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Continued
Isaiah Hunt, Capt Greenleaf, private, Mass line 4, 1777-1818, Revolutionary War

Daniel A: White, Esq; Judge Essex county, Massachus ts
Isaiah Hunt, Massachusetts line, Revolutionary claim.
found on the rolls.
Correct.

I sail to Hirt
I defer the Service that when I left the army I had a regular discharge had several years ago I lost it - also that by reason of my bedridden circumstances I am in need of the assistance of my Country for support. I saiah Hunt

Abraham Dodge of Newton grew in the County of Essex Commonwealth of Massachusetts do hereby say that I know Isaac Dodge of Newton who is now making application to the Government of the United States for a pension (and the law or has been a Soldier in the Army of the United States in the war of the revolution and has been in Colonel Dugay's Regiment there year and I think served in 1778 1779. April 4. 1818.
Abraham Dodge

Alfred Dodge att. for Sarah Hunt

Isaiah Hunt

We the Subscribers, Do hereby Certify that Isaiah Hunt who is now making application to the Secretary of War for a pension, allowed by an act of Congress of the United States to provide for certain persons, engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war, is known to us as a Citizen of the said United States residing in New Hampshire and in need of assistance from his Country for support.
Given under our hands at Newburyport this first day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen
Steph Hoeward A. Merrill John South Prescott Spalding
Aaron Parlee Nathl. Marsh Nicholas Johnson

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Exrs: I Daniel White Judge of the Court of Probate of the said County of Essex do certify that Iza- ah Hunt of Newbury in said County person- ally appeared on the first day of April A.D. 1818, and made the declaration afore- said by him first signed under oath before me, & Thereafterwards his additional declaration a- foresaid under oath. That Abraham Dodge also personally appeared & made oath to the truth of the affidavit annexed, by him signed & reduced to writing from his statement in my presence; & that it appears to my satisfac- tion that the said Isaiah Hunt served in the revolutionary war as set forth in his said declaration.
Given under my hand & the Seal of the said Court the twentieth day of April in the year aforesaid.
D. White.

Isaiah Hunt 1214
July 1818
July 1818
Low 2/6
1820
C C C

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
ESSEX, ss.
At the Circuit Court of Common Pleas of the Middle Circuit, begun and holden at Salem, within and for the County of Essex, on the third Monday of June, A. D. 1820.
Present, Hon. SAMUEL DANA, Chief Justice.
Hon. WILLIAM WETMORE, and
Hon. STEPHEN MINOT, Associate Justices.
In open Court here, being a Court of Record for said Circuit, proceeding according to the course of the common law, with a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount, keeping a record of its proceedings, and having the power of fine and imprisonment, Isaiah Hunt resident in Newbury in said Circuit, who is named in Pension Certificate No. 1214 now in his possession, of which the following is a true copy, to wit,
"WAR DEPARTMENT.....REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM."
"I certify that, in conformity with the Law of the United States, of the 18th March, 1818,
Isaiah Hunt late a private
"in the Army of the Revolution, is inscribed on the Pension List, Roll of the Massachusetts Agency, at the rate of eight dollars  cont.  per month , to commence on the first day of April one thousand eight hundred and eighteen ."
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"Given at the War Office of the United States, this Seventeenth day of July , one thousand eight hundred and eighteen ." J. C. CALHOUN, Secretary of War,"
appears, and exhibits to the Court here a Schedule, subscribed by him, as follows, to wit,
SCHEDULE,
containing his whole estate and income, his necessary clothing and bedding excepted, to wit,
  1 birch desk $4 - 3 chairs $1 20 - 3 chairs $1 25 .... $5.45   1 birch table 20 ct 1 spinning wheel 65 ct ..... 85   1 chest with one drawer 75 ct 1 trunk $1. 1 pot 25 ct .... 2   1 Tea kettle 75 ct 1 Skillet 10 ct 1 Coffee pot 12 ct .... 97   Crockery ware $1 25 - Tin ware 75 ct Spider 25 ct 2.25   1 wash tub 25 ct 2 bed lines 33 ct ..... 58   linens and sundry small articles ..... ..... 1.25   $13.35 
he has in his house a pair of iron dogs - a pair of tongs, and a shovel - and a few other small articles which he does not own, they are only loaned to him
That he is sixty two years of age, and in a great measure a cripple, and at times scarcely able to walk, occasioned by a fever sore - that occasionally when his health will permit,

he follows the business of a fisherman, on which labour he is wholly dependent for support of his family which consists of a wife 62 years old, and one daughter living with them.
That he served in the army of the United States, in the war of the revolution as he stated in his declaration on application to Hon Daniel A White for a pension April 1 st 1818.
Isaiah Hunt
Essex ss July 10. 1820 Then the above named Isaiah Hunt made oath that the above Schedule & declaration by him subscribed are true before me
Stephen Minot, Judge of said Court.

and at the same time he produces to the Court here the following Oath, taken and subscribed by him, before the Hon. Stephen Minot a Judge of said Court as aforesaid, to wit,
1. Isaiah Hunt do solemnly swear, that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the eighteenth day of March one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and that I have not, since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner whatever, 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 eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, 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 hereto annexed and by me subscribed. So help me GOD.
Isaiah Hunt
Essex, ss. C. C. C. P. June, Term, A. D. 1820.
Then the abovenamed Isaiah Hunt took and subscribed the aforesaid Oath before me
Stephen Minot Judge of said Court.
I, ICHABOD TUCKER, Clerk of the Court aforesaid, do hereby certify that the foregoing Oath, and Schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the record 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
thirteen dollars thirty five cents
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court, at Salem, in said County of Essex, on this 17 th day of July , A. D.
1820
Attr.
Ichabod Tucker, Clerk

32874 Ray INVALID.
File No. 89,874
Isiah Hunt
Dis Rev War
Act: 18 th March 1818 th
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 198
[Arrangement of 1870.]